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And I'm pretty sure that, uh, Kamiya gave me

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pink eye. Five, four, three, two, one, zero.

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Welcome to the show, people. Welcome to the show.

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Eat my shorts. So here is to conversation. Tranquility

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Base here. Vehicle has landed. Alright, welcome

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to the Cash Exchange. Welcome. Three things for...

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this week. What do you got? What do spending,

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waiting, and chafing have in common? Spending,

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waiting, and chafing? And chafing. My first thought

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was a Black Friday sale. One of the worst maladies

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a heavyset person could endure. Not even heavyset.

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You have to be like rail thin in order not to

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chafe. To never run the risk of chafing. I work

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outside and I work in shorts and One thing that

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I thought was... Must be nice. It's not. It's

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genuinely miserable. But one thing that I thought

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was common knowledge that I didn't realize wasn't

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until this job was that you can use cornstarch

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to prevent chub rub. Yeah, to cake it all up.

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And then at the end of the day, you can make

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some cornbread muffins. I rescind that fun fact

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of the podcast. That is horrifying. Spending,

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waiting, chafing. I still want to go with a Black

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Friday sale. You know when you're waiting outside?

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You can chafe in the cold, right? Is that the

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same terminology? I don't know. Maybe. I guess

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if it's so dry and frozen. That they start rubbing

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together and get irritated. I guess that would

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be a form of chafing, yeah. I guess because you

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can chafe from not enough moisture and then you

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can chafe from too much moisture. But I definitely

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think heat chafing is worse than anything you

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would deal with in the cold. Oh, for sure. I

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say that like I've ever really spent time in

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the cold. Black Friday used to be my thing. And

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then they kept moving it earlier and earlier.

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I remember there was one time we... I left dinner

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at like 5 p .m. to go get in line at Best Buy,

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and I was there until 6 o 'clock the next morning.

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Don't suggest it. Very cold. You make some weird

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friends. This year was the first year I did it

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again, but I just Lowe's opened at 5, and I got

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there at 1, 1 or 2, and there wasn't even...

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that many people there so i i would have been

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fine just getting there right but you know i

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uh met some people that i'll never talk to again

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and i'll always have the memories so i i think

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there was a sweet spot for black friday when

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it was between the like people that were getting

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trampled over razor scooters and like where we're

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at now where it's just generally depressing like

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the last time that i went to walmart or like

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a group like a retail store On Black Friday,

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I did not realize it was Black Friday. They just

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had a bunch of things in the aisles and stuff

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that were celebrating. There was the amount of

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people that were generally in that retail store.

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In a Walmart. Yeah. Yeah, it's pretty sad that

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it's not an epidemic, but that's something that'll

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come into play later during this episode. Which

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brings me back to the topic of this episode.

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And this week, it is theme parks. Okay. What

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is your most recent experience with a theme park?

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So I was thinking about this earlier when I was

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trying to get my skeleton for this episode, and

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I don't really know the last time I was at a

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theme park. I would guess that my last one was

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Scarborough Fair, and I don't know if those count

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as theme parks. They're themed. There's activities

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and stuff, but I don't know if I would consider

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that one. Because I think the cutoff for me would

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be like something with rides. I don't know if

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that's like an actual designation for a theme

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park, but I think the Renaissance Fair is where

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my last theme park visit would be. So in that

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case, would a fair, a county fair, state fair

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be a theme park? I don't think so, but I couldn't

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tell you why. I think that I would think that

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a theme park has to be a place with. Bigger rides

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and possibly shows, but also a permanent place.

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Okay, yeah. So, like, it's a location that is

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just used for this theme park, even if it's not

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open year -round. I think, in that case, then,

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like, Scarborough Fair would be sort of a theme

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park, because it is most of the time that. And

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then it gets, like, Spirit Halloweened in October

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for screams. I've never been. I've never been

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to a Renaissance. It was a lot of fun and also

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really disgusting when we went because we went

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in May, I believe. And it was 102 degrees, I

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believe, outside. I went with a group of friends

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and we got a picture like as we walked in. And

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that was the last time we could take a picture

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because we were all just. sweating through very

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thin polyester clothes. Did you get a flagon

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of mead? Nate was deciding whether or not he

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wanted to buy one of those big horns, which would

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be very fun for our neighbors. It would be great.

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What was the thing that Mosby had? The spiky

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ball on the chain? Mace. Mace, yeah. Was it that

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or was it the one on the stick? That he ran through

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the wall. A flail? It was a mace. Because he

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had the stick and then the ball went through

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the ceiling. Yeah. Oh, wait. Is the flail the

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one on the chain or is it the mace? I don't know

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my medieval weaponry. I think the mace is on

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the chain. Okay. I don't know. But anyway, my

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final answer is the Renaissance Fair. Yeah. I'll

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have to try it out. It has a reputation. that

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I don't think I've been willing to overcome.

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But if you've got relatively high praise for

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just not the weather, then I'd give it a try.

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If you go to the Renaissance Festival, I recommend

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doing the one in Houston instead. I've never

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been, but I did watch the documentary about it.

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It's like an entire city, essentially, unto itself.

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It's in November, so you get to completely sidestep

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the disgusting weather. It's probably like 80

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degrees outside. Hmm. Okay. And it is enormous.

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Yeah. Growing up, I mean, we always had a huge

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theme park not too far. Do you remember? Do you

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have any memories from Six Flags? Not a ton of

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them. I know we always had the season passes,

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and I, like, remember. bits and pieces of, like,

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Holiday in the Park, and I almost said Boo with

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the Zoo. That's definitely wrong. Fright Fest.

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Fright Fest, yeah. Like, I remember more of the

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events and stuff that they did more so than the

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rides. I was only really a fan of one of the,

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like, bigger rides anyway. Which one? The Batman.

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Batman? Oh, the Dangler? You know the story about

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the ride like that? It was at a different Six

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Flags? But a kid lost his head. He climbed over

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two fences to go get it back and got his head

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kicked off. Yeah. That's... It's not funny, but

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it's a little funny. No. Anyway, the reason that

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I like the Batman ride... If it was like a knee

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-high sign saying, hey, don't go over this. Like,

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don't be an idiot. Come on. And then it's not.

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It's an eight -foot -high fence. And then...

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You're immediately met with another fence that

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said, hey, come on, seriously, don't do this.

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This is dumb. And then you jump that one. That's

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where you start to get into the realm of it being

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funny. It is both tragic and natural selection

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at work. I wrote that with a friend in high school,

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middle school, and he lost his phone out of his

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pocket. But he wasn't dumb enough to climb over

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the fences to get it. We just had to wait there

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until the end of the night when they did their

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checks, and then he was able to get it back.

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No, I remember Six Flags. I spent a lot of time

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there. Over the summer, our mom worked, and then

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our dad was off Tuesdays and Thursdays. So usually

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every Tuesday, he would take me and some friends

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up to Six Flags, and we'd just hang out there

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the whole day, cause some mischief, and then

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get picked back up later on. Yeah. And, uh, no,

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I got a lot of good memories from Six Flags,

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but I think the last time that I've been there,

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the last time we went was for Fright Fest and

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we didn't really ride any of the big stuff. And

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it just, it had a different aura about it. I

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don't know if I was just different because I

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was older and a lot of that stuff just made me

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nauseous now. But, uh, it just. It just didn't

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have the same vibe to it. And I didn't feel like

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the crowd was the same that it used to be either.

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I could see that. I think the kind of downfall

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of a lot of theme parks is just that they like

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they're obviously capitalist pits. But at a certain

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point, I think the the fun to money ratio is

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off. And so, like, it's harder for, like, teenagers

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and stuff to go have fun at Six Flags because

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it's very, very expensive to exist there. Yeah,

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I don't even know what a season pass would be

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now. It's north of $100. Yeah. There used to

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be a trick where if you went in, and I'm pretty

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sure the statute of limitations is up on this,

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so they can't do anything to me. But if you went

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in for, like... If you went in with like your

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school and so you got a free ticket through them

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or if it was like bring a friend day for someone

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with a season pass, then you could just go up

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to like any register and say, hey, can I upgrade

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to a season pass? Can I upgrade my ticket to

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a season pass? Sometimes they would ask you for,

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OK, well, can I see your ticket from today? And

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then you would just have to say, oh, I lost it

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and then move on. Go ask someone for their ticket

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stub and then go. Or they wouldn't even ask you

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at all. And then you'd pay like, it was like

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maybe 20, 30 more dollars for the season pass.

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So you get a season pass for 30 bucks. But I

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highly doubt that works anymore. I don't think

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it works. No, not when everything's on your phone.

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Yeah. Show me someone with the ticket stub. But

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it's not just the fact that I'm older. It's also,

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I just think that this experience as a whole

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is just crappier. I can see that. When we were

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at Fright Fest, they... had a they have a big

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theater building and I remember we went to multiple

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shows throughout the years that and it was a

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4d theater like there was a dinosaur one there

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was a spongebob one there was uh I thought of

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it earlier today but I can't remember what it

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is now but now all that's taken out and it's

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just like a one of those rides like they have

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at Disney World with Buzz Lightyear where you

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just shoot stuff Oh, okay. Yeah. And so they

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don't have the 4D theater anymore. Yeah. And

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the ride kept breaking down. It broke down like

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two or three times while we were in line. They

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used to have this elevator ride that would take

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you up and then drop you down and then you'd

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land like on your back. And that was cool. But

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they took that one out. Which one was that one?

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It was right there by the 4D theater. And right

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next to that big raft ride. Okay. Yeah, I don't

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know if you would have ever ridden that, because

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they took that out probably, I don't know, when

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I was maybe a freshman, sophomore. Okay. Then

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yeah, I definitely didn't ride that. Yeah, and

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then around that time, they also had this big

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push for taking out the stuff that had been there

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a while and replacing it with these smaller,

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crappy... vomit comet rides like it seems like

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the judge roy scream has stayed yeah the judge

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roy scream has stood the test of time but that

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thing will snap your neck if you're not careful

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they recently took out the toboggan ride and

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they're replacing it with something else and

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it hasn't been built yet but they put in like

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five of these things that just whip you around

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And scramble up your brains in lieu of one of

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the bigger rides. I don't even remember which

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one it was. Oh, Flashback. Flashback. It was

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the one that pulled you back. You went through

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it. You went up a hill and then it sent you back

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down backwards. Flashback got rebranded, right?

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As like the Joker or the Riddler or something?

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No, they took it out completely. Oh. And then

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replaced it with all the Batman themed stuff.

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That just wants you to just throw up. Yeah. That's

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the entire goal of those rides. They're not fun.

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That's really lame. Yeah. I know that one of

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the problems that they're having is being able

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to, Six Flags in particular, I mean, this is

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the one that's closest to me, so this is the

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one I get the news about, but they're constantly

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trying to hire people. They can't keep people

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employed there because no one wants to work there.

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I mean, that's mostly like a teen job anyway,

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right? I don't feel like that's usually a thing

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with a lot of tenure. But before, it was never

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an issue of, oh, well, we can't operate this

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ride because we literally don't have anyone to

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operate it, which is something that's all over

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TikTok, and it's not just Six Flags. It's a lot

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of the theme parks. But they'll go and they'll

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complain that all this stuff is closed, and they

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said that the reason is that there's no one to

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operate it. And so you go there, you pay the

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full ticket price, and then you only are able

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to ride like half the stuff. It's like going

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into one of those decrepit old malls where the

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chains are down on half of the stores. Yeah.

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Yeah, there's an actual person in the store like

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every five slots. Okay. And it's just, it's a

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ghost town. Like, don't get me wrong. Before,

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some of those lines were god -awful. And waiting

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there for... An hour and 45 minutes for a three

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-minute ride doesn't sound like the best, but

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now you can just walk up and be on the ride,

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and then this long queue to get in, you get on

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the ride, and then this long queue to get out

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because they're expecting there to just be hundreds

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of people, and it does take away from the experience.

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There should be a happy medium to where maybe

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you wait 30 minutes for a ride and then get on

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and then get off. go about your day, go find

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something else to do. But it just, I think it

00:16:21.330 --> 00:16:25.090
just takes away a lot of the magic. Yeah. I personally

00:16:25.090 --> 00:16:27.049
think it's a little bit dumb that a lot of these

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theme parks and stuff like Disney has their magic

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pass. Six Flags has like the flash pass and stuff

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where you can just pay like an exorbitant amount

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of money to skip the lines. Like that's part

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of the experience. It's not a great part of the

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experience, but you're supposed to wait on those

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lines. Disney now is the genie pass. Genie pass,

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yeah. And it used to be. You could just walk

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up to a ride and there would be a kiosk there.

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They would say the wait is this amount of time.

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You ask for a voucher. It gives you a time to

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come back. And then you still have to wait like

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30 minutes. Yeah. But now you pay per person.

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And then I think there's a limit on how many

00:17:01.769 --> 00:17:04.410
rides you can do with the Genie Pass. And it's

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like crazy expensive. I got a breakdown. I got

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a breakdown of Disney World prize and updated

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because I know we've gone there before, but this

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is an updated Disney World. Trip. Breakdown.

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Later. What about SeaWorld? What do you remember

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from SeaWorld? I remember going to SeaWorld,

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I think, more than, or probably as much as I

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remember going to Six Flags, even though we went

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fewer times. Because that was our yearly vacation

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was to San Antonio for SeaWorld. And I do remember

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a lot of the Orca shows and stuff, which thankfully

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are no longer a thing. Are they? Are they still

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a thing? Oh, well, I got a story to tell you.

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That's nuts. I thought after Blackfish, they

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stopped doing all of the shows. I mean, I know

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they can't really release them back into captivity,

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but, or into the wild. Into the wild. From captivity.

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Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember our first encounter

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with Shamu? Maybe. I do. I remember it was you,

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me, mom, dad, and we whined like hell to get

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in the splash zone. And I think we eventually

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got them to agree to sit like in like one of

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like the topper quarter of the splash zone. Yeah.

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But that wasn't good enough for us. So we wanted

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to, we really wanted to make sure we got the

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full experience and into the show comes and we

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get hit. And we were both just so pissed that

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this giant whale had the audacity to give us

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the exact thing that we moved into that section

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to receive. And I think, I remember. I know I

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was pissed. I think you might have started crying.

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That sounds right. I think I remember what you're

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talking about. And then the whole time mom and

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dad are just saying, well, we told you. You knew

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what was going to happen. But you're our parents.

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You're supposed to guide us. If we're making

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a stupid decision, you're supposed to say, hey,

00:19:03.819 --> 00:19:07.079
maybe don't. No. As long as it's not going to

00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:09.880
actively hurt you, let your kid do the dumb thing.

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Okay. Well, that's how they learn. That's another

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thing. I also have. a story to tell you about,

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and I'll go ahead and get into it. So we just

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came back from SeaWorld. We spent some time in

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San Antonio, and pretty much I had some work

00:19:23.809 --> 00:19:25.650
to do, but the rest of it was surrounded around

00:19:25.650 --> 00:19:29.069
taking the kids to SeaWorld. And so we get there,

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we park, and first off, it's easy to get tickets

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cheap now because of Blackfish and because of

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all the negative press they have. And Blackfish

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has definitely taken a heavy toll. on the attendance

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at SeaWorld. And so you don't deal with crowds

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anywhere. If you're going to wait in line for

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something, it's maybe two or three people. And

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so the tickets were listed at like $90 a piece

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on their website for one day for one adult. Groupon

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to the rescue, and we ended up paying, what was

00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.349
it, $30 a ticket? Oh, wow. Okay. But then you

00:20:12.349 --> 00:20:16.950
pay for parking, which was $26. And so, I mean,

00:20:16.970 --> 00:20:19.890
the whole thing, it was cheap for an entire day

00:20:19.890 --> 00:20:22.890
at a theme park just getting in the park. And

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so that was good. We went to where they have

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the dolphins. Do you remember the dolphins in

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San Antonio? The, like, touch tank kind of thing?

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Uh -huh. That doesn't exist anymore. Now it's

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this whole built -out area. I can see why. This

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whole, like, cove where these dolphins are. But

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if you want to feed them or if you want to pet

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them, if you want to interact with them, $170

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a person. Oh, my God. What? With a wetsuit and

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a trainer and all that. And I don't know how

00:20:51.579 --> 00:20:54.700
long the experience is, but $170. And that part

00:20:54.700 --> 00:20:57.019
you can do without a ticket to SeaWorld. So if

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for whatever reason you just want to go see dolphins,

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you can pay for the $26 in parking, walk in,

00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:07.039
go to the left instead of going to the gate entrance

00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:10.519
for SeaWorld. and you can just walk right in

00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:12.900
go see the dolphins uh they got a really big

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aquarium there with sharks and stuff in it too

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that you can also do okay so that part that part

00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:20.980
was cool it was a bummer that the the tank's

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gone because you'd pay like five dollars they'd

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give you a tray of fish you'd just feed them

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to the dolphins you could pet them and it wasn't

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an issue but now they have like this whole giant

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tank and you can there's a part where you can

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go under you can see them under the water and

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all that i mean it's I guess it's a nicer experience

00:21:38.690 --> 00:21:41.109
if you didn't know what was there before. Okay.

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And then we walk in and we get our tickets scanned

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and there is a family there with like a puppy

00:21:51.150 --> 00:21:56.710
Labradoodle on a leash. No shoes on the dog,

00:21:56.769 --> 00:21:58.750
no vest or anything saying that, hey, this is

00:21:58.750 --> 00:22:01.349
a service animal or anything. So they're just

00:22:01.349 --> 00:22:03.569
walking in with this Labradoodle with a thick

00:22:03.569 --> 00:22:08.440
ass coat. on hot concrete all day and we thought

00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:11.359
that was weird i don't know why that would be

00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.299
allowed in the park but there is just a there's

00:22:15.299 --> 00:22:18.099
an aura throughout the entire place of just no

00:22:18.099 --> 00:22:22.880
one giving a shit just like just like yeah you

00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:26.220
take what you get and then you're doing something

00:22:26.220 --> 00:22:28.660
we're not going to say anything so we we went

00:22:28.660 --> 00:22:31.000
about our day uh we made it to all the shows

00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:36.420
none of them were heavily populated at all uh

00:22:36.420 --> 00:22:39.740
plenty of plenty of seating there was a cool

00:22:39.740 --> 00:22:42.839
acrobat show that they had uh almost watched

00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:45.619
a guy fall to his death twice on like this spinning

00:22:45.619 --> 00:22:47.980
wheel kind of like a hamster wheel but it had

00:22:47.980 --> 00:22:50.259
a it was one of those those wheels but it had

00:22:50.259 --> 00:22:52.779
the counter weight on the bottom of it so it

00:22:52.779 --> 00:22:55.539
spun around in a circle yeah he was on top of

00:22:55.539 --> 00:22:58.839
it and was jump roping and then his foot caught

00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:01.920
on one of them on the rope and then almost fell

00:23:02.490 --> 00:23:07.029
And then he was skipping on it and then almost

00:23:07.029 --> 00:23:10.690
fell. So the kids almost witnessed a death. But

00:23:10.690 --> 00:23:17.589
luckily, nothing happened. We went to the SeaWorld

00:23:17.589 --> 00:23:19.829
show, or not the SeaWorld show, the Orca show.

00:23:20.490 --> 00:23:24.289
And what it is now is it is a heavy, heavy pivot

00:23:24.289 --> 00:23:26.920
from what it used to be. What it used to be is

00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:29.140
like, hey, look at what we've trained these whales

00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:31.819
to do, and we can do all this stuff with them.

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And it's like shooting people up in the air like

00:23:34.460 --> 00:23:36.640
20 feet, and they're diving back into the water.

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They're like riding on the backs, holding on

00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.720
to the dorsal fins and all this stuff. All that's

00:23:42.720 --> 00:23:47.339
gone. Now it's SeaWorld cares. We care. The orcas

00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:50.319
are the number one predator in the ocean, except

00:23:50.319 --> 00:23:54.619
for, can you guess who? Humans. Humans have to

00:23:54.619 --> 00:23:59.140
save the orcas. And it's just a gigantic PR pivot.

00:23:59.299 --> 00:24:03.339
And it's so blatant and so just on the nose.

00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:05.759
And then they're like, ooh, this is what they

00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:09.039
do in the wild. And then Cooper asked me, why

00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.740
are their fins flipped over? And I had to explain

00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:14.980
to her, hey, well, that's just what happens whenever

00:24:14.980 --> 00:24:17.400
they're in prison. That's what happens to orcas

00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.720
in prison. She's like, are all orcas like that?

00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:24.079
I said, no. No, just the ones that are in the

00:24:24.079 --> 00:24:28.680
ocean. Just the ones here. And so we kind of

00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:30.160
did the same thing. The kids really wanted to

00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:34.160
get Splash. We, not so much. So we sat in the

00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:38.779
top section. Now, I guess, I get it. I get what

00:24:38.779 --> 00:24:43.119
good old John and Karen were trying to do. And

00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:45.420
they just wanted their children to have the experience

00:24:45.420 --> 00:24:47.940
that they wanted, but they didn't want to partake

00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:51.789
in it that much. And so... They do the whole,

00:24:51.950 --> 00:24:55.950
and this is how orcas hunt. And they slap the

00:24:55.950 --> 00:24:59.269
water and all this other stuff. And so the trainers

00:24:59.269 --> 00:25:01.450
go to each section and they're like, come over

00:25:01.450 --> 00:25:06.470
here so that you can really get all this poop

00:25:06.470 --> 00:25:10.829
water in your face. And so we sent the kids over

00:25:10.829 --> 00:25:13.289
there. It was like two sections over. And they

00:25:13.289 --> 00:25:16.750
get there right after all the water hits. We're

00:25:16.750 --> 00:25:19.200
like, dang, all right, well. Sorry, it's probably

00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:22.599
for the best anyways. And then they're going

00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:24.720
to the section on our right, and then they're

00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:27.680
going to the section across the stadium. And

00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:30.759
then just out of nowhere, it pops up right in

00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:33.500
front of us, completely drenches me and Emily,

00:25:33.700 --> 00:25:40.740
and then just, like, barely skims the kids. Like,

00:25:40.819 --> 00:25:45.890
what the hell? And so we're soaked. The kids

00:25:45.890 --> 00:25:47.930
aren't soaked, but they're laughing because we

00:25:47.930 --> 00:25:50.369
didn't want to get soaked. And now it's going

00:25:50.369 --> 00:25:52.990
to be chafe city for the rest of the day. And

00:25:52.990 --> 00:25:56.289
I remember... Corn search. A little snack afterwards.

00:25:56.509 --> 00:26:00.849
I remember they kept talking about the whale

00:26:00.849 --> 00:26:05.430
that is like the mom of the pod. And let me get

00:26:05.430 --> 00:26:09.990
her name. Where is it? Kamiya. And they kept

00:26:09.990 --> 00:26:12.609
saying this name over and over again. Like, this

00:26:12.609 --> 00:26:15.960
is Kamiya. This is... She's going to show you

00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:18.119
how we weigh her and all this other stuff. We

00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:20.420
put her on a whale -sized scale. Oh, but her

00:26:20.420 --> 00:26:22.220
tail is still in the water. How do we fix that?

00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:24.819
And then she lifts up her head and her tail and

00:26:24.819 --> 00:26:26.779
all this stuff, and that's nice. And it's like,

00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:31.940
all right, thanks, Kamiya. And she goes on her

00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:34.920
way and goes back to wherever the hell she hangs

00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:38.599
out when she's not performing. And show's over.

00:26:39.279 --> 00:26:41.779
Everything's fine. We're leaving. We're going

00:26:41.779 --> 00:26:44.319
to, I think after that we went to the raft ride.

00:26:45.689 --> 00:26:49.029
And, yeah, I mean, it was, for what it was, without

00:26:49.029 --> 00:26:51.789
all the pomp and circumstance that it used to

00:26:51.789 --> 00:26:54.890
have, it was a good show. We'd seen it before

00:26:54.890 --> 00:26:58.289
spring break, either last year or the year before,

00:26:58.430 --> 00:27:02.630
and it was fine. It was decent. It was still,

00:27:02.750 --> 00:27:05.990
the kids were awestruck by it, and that's kind

00:27:05.990 --> 00:27:08.930
of what you're going there for anyways. Yeah.

00:27:09.349 --> 00:27:14.519
And so everything's... peachy keen uh we go to

00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:16.799
the raft ride that's the only one that we had

00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:19.299
to actually wait for i think we waited maybe

00:27:19.299 --> 00:27:22.759
about 25 minutes for that one uh but guess who

00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:27.700
was in front of us like four families ahead of

00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:32.200
us it was labradoodle no in line for the raft

00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:39.079
ride where um the dog going on the ride uh we

00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:43.210
didn't we weren't sure but we Uh, waited there

00:27:43.210 --> 00:27:45.009
and we were discussing it like there's, there's

00:27:45.009 --> 00:27:47.190
no possible way this is going to happen. Like

00:27:47.190 --> 00:27:49.730
bringing the dog into the park is one thing,

00:27:49.750 --> 00:27:51.869
but actively putting them on a ride is a completely

00:27:51.869 --> 00:27:55.150
different thing. Uh, they get up and they're

00:27:55.150 --> 00:27:57.170
in the, like the little waiting area to get on

00:27:57.170 --> 00:27:59.650
the next raft. And sure enough, no one says a

00:27:59.650 --> 00:28:03.089
damn word about them holding this dog on the

00:28:03.089 --> 00:28:06.170
leash and putting them in the raft. Oh my God.

00:28:06.269 --> 00:28:08.549
And then not just that, but there's a dude there

00:28:08.549 --> 00:28:12.279
in this group. that has a child with him that

00:28:12.279 --> 00:28:14.220
was that they turned away that was too small

00:28:14.220 --> 00:28:16.799
to ride and he's waiting in the exit line for

00:28:16.799 --> 00:28:19.079
them to be done so there was someone there that

00:28:19.079 --> 00:28:23.579
could have taken this dog and held on to it while

00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:25.480
they were on this raft ride but instead this

00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:28.359
family took the dog on the raft ride get off

00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:31.279
and then the dogs like as soon as it jumped off

00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:33.079
the raft it just starts shaking the water off

00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.180
and i mean it didn't seem too phased but i still

00:28:36.180 --> 00:28:40.279
think that that was a definite uh It's a sign

00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:43.660
of just like, hey, that's not my job with them.

00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:48.240
Because there was one person overseeing everything

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:51.180
and then two people that were actively unloading

00:28:51.180 --> 00:28:53.220
and loading people. Plenty of people that could

00:28:53.220 --> 00:28:57.240
have said, hey, yeah, your dog can't ride. But

00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:02.319
it happened. Abusing your dog at SeaWorld is

00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:06.599
kind of like putting a hat on a hat. Oh, my God.

00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.079
How did no one stop them? I have no clue. Service

00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:13.880
animal or not, I feel like that's a dicey area.

00:29:14.059 --> 00:29:15.960
I feel like if you have a service animal, then

00:29:15.960 --> 00:29:17.759
there's just stuff that you can't do because

00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:19.680
you have a service animal with you, and you just

00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:23.099
have to accept that. Right. Roller coasters seem

00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:27.599
to be number one on that list. And then after

00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.000
that, there's another one that I have vivid memories

00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:34.799
of going to a 4D theater and remembering the

00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:38.740
show well and it just being gone. They replaced

00:29:38.740 --> 00:29:41.660
it with like this puppet show that's in Blacklight,

00:29:41.700 --> 00:29:43.220
which is pretty cool. I mean, it's a pretty cool

00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:46.779
show, but it's still, it's not the same thing.

00:29:46.900 --> 00:29:50.480
And my member berries were going crazy while

00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:53.819
we were sitting in there about all the times

00:29:53.819 --> 00:29:56.920
that... Back in your old days. Yeah. We went

00:29:56.920 --> 00:29:59.259
and checked in on the sea turtles because Max

00:29:59.259 --> 00:30:01.940
is a huge fan of sea turtles and just turtles

00:30:01.940 --> 00:30:06.950
in general. There was one that was just... In

00:30:06.950 --> 00:30:08.589
the corner of the tank right against the glass,

00:30:08.769 --> 00:30:15.190
not moving. Just a boulder there just in the

00:30:15.190 --> 00:30:19.069
water. And then the kids were like, that one's

00:30:19.069 --> 00:30:21.789
not real, is it? And I said, I don't know why

00:30:21.789 --> 00:30:24.650
they would use a fake sea turtle as a decoration

00:30:24.650 --> 00:30:26.910
to just put it in the bottom of the tank with

00:30:26.910 --> 00:30:29.230
real sea turtles. I was like, no, that one's

00:30:29.230 --> 00:30:33.650
definitely, definitely not a fake sea turtle.

00:30:33.930 --> 00:30:37.069
But whether it's living or not. That's a completely

00:30:37.069 --> 00:30:41.630
different story. Do sea turtles float? I looked

00:30:41.630 --> 00:30:44.569
it up. Because maybe, I don't think they have

00:30:44.569 --> 00:30:46.450
gills, but maybe they have some way of breathing

00:30:46.450 --> 00:30:49.690
underwater. No, they breathe air. And there was

00:30:49.690 --> 00:30:52.670
no air bubbles coming out of the sea turtle.

00:30:52.750 --> 00:30:54.609
There was no movement at all. Eyes were closed.

00:30:54.930 --> 00:30:58.410
Nothing. No REM eye twitches. I don't know if

00:30:58.410 --> 00:31:00.890
turtles get that. I'm assuming they do. I'm assuming

00:31:00.890 --> 00:31:09.009
that's just all animals. Yikes. Yeah. So we tried

00:31:09.009 --> 00:31:11.789
to shoo the kids away from there as quickly as

00:31:11.789 --> 00:31:13.990
possible. They went and did a ride. Me and Emily

00:31:13.990 --> 00:31:16.269
were sitting down and we were talking about it.

00:31:16.289 --> 00:31:18.309
And I was looking it up because I was like, I

00:31:18.309 --> 00:31:21.029
mean, they definitely breathe air. So there's

00:31:21.029 --> 00:31:23.890
no way that they can just lay there at the bottom

00:31:23.890 --> 00:31:28.410
just indefinitely and still be alive. Emily got

00:31:28.410 --> 00:31:31.190
concerned enough that she asked someone. The

00:31:31.190 --> 00:31:33.589
guy just kind of like laughed it off and was

00:31:33.589 --> 00:31:36.579
like, oh. Yeah, that was Big Mama. She does that

00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:42.180
sometimes. What? Oh, okay. And apparently, I

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:44.119
had to look this up. This wasn't something that

00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:46.779
came from a SeaWorld trainer, which if you're

00:31:46.779 --> 00:31:49.619
going to be hanging around this tank where this

00:31:49.619 --> 00:31:52.579
sea turtle looks definitely dead, then maybe

00:31:52.579 --> 00:31:54.359
this is a little factoid you should throw out.

00:31:54.420 --> 00:31:57.299
And now everyone who listens to this will know

00:31:57.299 --> 00:32:03.380
that when sea turtles decide to take a nap, they

00:32:03.380 --> 00:32:07.700
can do some process to where they can hold their

00:32:07.700 --> 00:32:12.400
breath for up to four hours. Okay. And so apparently

00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:14.839
that's what this one was doing. We thought maybe

00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:16.680
he was just lying and just trying to cover it

00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:18.099
up, and they were just going to get that turtle

00:32:18.099 --> 00:32:21.680
out of there before anyone else made a statement,

00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.940
a stink about it. But we went back and checked

00:32:24.940 --> 00:32:28.680
on her, and she was starting to wake up. So not

00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:30.920
dead, but definitely looked dead. Big Mama is

00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:35.190
still alive. Big Mama is still with us. Yeah,

00:32:35.309 --> 00:32:38.650
I think I already mentioned it, but it's a ghost

00:32:38.650 --> 00:32:43.710
town. It was like the shows were empty, and especially

00:32:43.710 --> 00:32:48.150
for the shows where they have like the acrobats

00:32:48.150 --> 00:32:50.869
and stuff, and there's no other animals, so all

00:32:50.869 --> 00:32:52.869
the attention is on these people, and you're

00:32:52.869 --> 00:32:56.869
performing for like maybe 40 people. It's just

00:32:56.869 --> 00:33:00.490
I don't think that that is... Where are you expected

00:33:00.490 --> 00:33:03.390
to land when you flunked out of Disney World

00:33:03.390 --> 00:33:05.970
School or University, whatever it's called? What?

00:33:06.269 --> 00:33:08.509
Performers were good? They had so much potential.

00:33:08.910 --> 00:33:11.890
They did. Unfortunately, it was built on a very

00:33:11.890 --> 00:33:15.109
awful premise. I didn't get the chance to ask

00:33:15.109 --> 00:33:17.490
anyone about Blackfish. I don't know if that's

00:33:17.490 --> 00:33:20.809
taboo to bring up to an employee of SeaWorld,

00:33:20.990 --> 00:33:22.829
but I'd be interested to know what their take

00:33:22.829 --> 00:33:24.789
was. There's no way that they're not trained

00:33:24.789 --> 00:33:27.730
when they get hired on how to respond to questions

00:33:27.730 --> 00:33:30.369
like that. Yeah. Because they can't they can't

00:33:30.369 --> 00:33:33.750
risk any hourly employee getting asked that question

00:33:33.750 --> 00:33:36.150
and then actually responding in a way that is

00:33:36.150 --> 00:33:40.529
not sanctioned by SeaWorld. Yeah. Yeah. So I

00:33:40.529 --> 00:33:44.049
didn't I didn't get around to that. But rest

00:33:44.049 --> 00:33:47.230
of the day was pretty cool. The end. The last

00:33:47.230 --> 00:33:51.390
show of the night was a show with jet skis and

00:33:51.390 --> 00:33:54.890
a rock band and pyrotechnics and fireworks. Definitely

00:33:54.890 --> 00:33:57.809
seemed like it was above the budget. of what

00:33:57.809 --> 00:34:00.630
SeaWorld is working with these days, but it was

00:34:00.630 --> 00:34:03.569
real cool. They even had one of those water jetpacks

00:34:03.569 --> 00:34:07.890
that a guy was using and doing flips and stuff

00:34:07.890 --> 00:34:12.469
in it. I had no idea that those worked off of

00:34:12.469 --> 00:34:14.809
jet ski engines, because the whole time he's

00:34:14.809 --> 00:34:16.550
up there, there's these tubes that are connected

00:34:16.550 --> 00:34:18.489
to a jet ski, and the jet ski's just following

00:34:18.489 --> 00:34:21.289
him around, just idling in the water. Oh, yeah.

00:34:21.389 --> 00:34:24.989
Okay. So that was pretty neat. Yeah. Afterwards,

00:34:25.190 --> 00:34:30.070
my eye got super duper red and I'm pretty sure

00:34:30.070 --> 00:34:34.750
that Kamiya gave me pink eye. Oh. So that was

00:34:34.750 --> 00:34:39.030
real fun. But then, but then I inadvertently

00:34:39.030 --> 00:34:43.070
got my revenge because two days later. What did

00:34:43.070 --> 00:34:46.889
you do to the whale? Two days later, it was announced

00:34:46.889 --> 00:34:51.869
that Kamiya had been battling a disease and succumbed

00:34:51.869 --> 00:34:55.070
to that disease. Oh my gosh. Two days after we

00:34:55.070 --> 00:34:58.969
were there. Good lord. That place is having a

00:34:58.969 --> 00:35:02.309
rough time. They can't get any more orcas, right?

00:35:02.489 --> 00:35:04.989
They can't get any more, no. I don't think they

00:35:04.989 --> 00:35:10.050
were able to breed either. I mean, it would be

00:35:10.050 --> 00:35:12.250
inbreeding that can't be good for them. Because

00:35:12.250 --> 00:35:13.909
I'm pretty sure most of those orcas are related.

00:35:14.670 --> 00:35:19.190
So, I don't know. But, I mean, SeaWorld definitely

00:35:19.190 --> 00:35:23.610
won't be around for... My kids' kids, my grandkids.

00:35:23.889 --> 00:35:27.570
Yeah. And a little quick fact, a little DFW fun

00:35:27.570 --> 00:35:29.849
fact. Did you know that we had a SeaWorld -type

00:35:29.849 --> 00:35:34.050
place in Arlington? I did not. Yeah, it's across

00:35:34.050 --> 00:35:37.090
from where Hurricane Harbor is now. When was

00:35:37.090 --> 00:35:42.469
this? That whole area was like 80s. Interesting.

00:35:44.050 --> 00:35:47.889
I want to say like late 70s, early 80s. It didn't

00:35:47.889 --> 00:35:49.409
last very long. There's a hotel there now and

00:35:49.409 --> 00:35:51.840
a whole bunch of parking lots. That are slowly

00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:54.739
getting taken over by e -sports arenas and new

00:35:54.739 --> 00:35:58.579
ballparks and all that jazz. But yeah, we used

00:35:58.579 --> 00:36:02.000
to have dolphins and whales and all that kind

00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.440
of stuff right in our backyard. Interesting.

00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:08.420
Would you ever go back to SeaWorld? I would,

00:36:08.619 --> 00:36:11.579
but I think my case with a lot of the theme parks

00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:14.000
and stuff is that I probably wouldn't go back

00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.920
unless I had kids with me. Because I don't really

00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:22.300
see as much of a draw. anymore I think it'd be

00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:23.840
cool to see a lot of that stuff as like a one

00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:27.440
-off but it's always tough to to reconcile what

00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:29.719
a lot of those places are these days versus what

00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:34.619
they exist as nostalgically yeah which granted

00:36:34.619 --> 00:36:37.760
I don't have the clearest memories of them anyway

00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:42.440
but like I think that it would be probably better

00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:45.000
to leave them them as is in the same way that

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:50.329
like I I got um zebra cakes which were, like,

00:36:50.349 --> 00:36:53.590
my absolute favorite of the, like, snack cake,

00:36:53.650 --> 00:36:57.809
snack foods growing up. I got one of them sometime

00:36:57.809 --> 00:37:00.309
last year, and I was just like, it's been forever.

00:37:00.389 --> 00:37:03.050
I want to try it. I got one bite in and got immediately

00:37:03.050 --> 00:37:05.190
nauseous. I don't know if the recipe's changed,

00:37:05.309 --> 00:37:09.849
if I've changed. It was so sickeningly sweet.

00:37:10.409 --> 00:37:16.230
Yeah. Yeah, who knows, man? Who knows? Last one

00:37:16.230 --> 00:37:20.010
I got here is the Mecca. Of all theme parks.

00:37:20.889 --> 00:37:23.250
Disney World. The House of Mouse. Have you been?

00:37:23.710 --> 00:37:27.389
I have not. I went to, when I was in California,

00:37:27.590 --> 00:37:32.090
I went to the Anaheim Disney tour. The City Walk

00:37:32.090 --> 00:37:34.989
thing. There's a name for it, I don't remember.

00:37:35.989 --> 00:37:37.809
It used to be Pleasure Pier, but I think they

00:37:37.809 --> 00:37:40.530
changed that. Downtown Disney. Yeah, I don't

00:37:40.530 --> 00:37:43.050
think that's what it's called. Downtown Disney,

00:37:43.150 --> 00:37:46.289
yeah. I went to that. City Walk is universal.

00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:50.119
Isn't that the Chinese restaurant in South Park?

00:37:51.659 --> 00:37:56.380
Shiwak? Almost. Shiwak. I've only been there

00:37:56.380 --> 00:38:00.960
once. I went there in 2010 with the band. The

00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:03.599
marching band. You went to Disney World, right?

00:38:03.639 --> 00:38:07.139
Not Land? Yes, I went to Disney World. 16 hours

00:38:07.139 --> 00:38:10.780
on a charter bus. Sounds like fun. Got there

00:38:10.780 --> 00:38:14.980
late. Almost missed the bus. And then, I guess

00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:17.809
mom would have to like... drive me to wherever

00:38:17.809 --> 00:38:20.969
they decided to stop the first time so I could

00:38:20.969 --> 00:38:25.989
get on. Yeah, that'd be insane. I made it. And

00:38:25.989 --> 00:38:30.449
I didn't get to sit next to my boo thing. No?

00:38:30.510 --> 00:38:33.809
Which, probably for the best. That seems like

00:38:33.809 --> 00:38:37.070
a good idea on the teacher's behalf. There had

00:38:37.070 --> 00:38:42.090
been incidents before I got there that led to

00:38:42.090 --> 00:38:45.940
that being a non -starter. Shh. Sure, a bus full

00:38:45.940 --> 00:38:48.800
of 17 -year -olds aren't known to behave. And

00:38:48.800 --> 00:38:52.699
I made it very clear that I was only riding this

00:38:52.699 --> 00:38:55.199
ride until I got to go to Disney World and then

00:38:55.199 --> 00:39:00.679
I was out. And then so was she. And so we weren't

00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:08.599
the golden children. Sure. So we didn't get much

00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:12.500
leeway given to us. But it was fun from what

00:39:12.500 --> 00:39:18.190
I remember of it. The bus ride seemed to fly

00:39:18.190 --> 00:39:22.849
by. This was before good internet on our phones,

00:39:22.969 --> 00:39:27.889
so it was a lot of portable DVD players and Game

00:39:27.889 --> 00:39:31.550
Boy and PSP stuff. But as far as the park itself,

00:39:31.989 --> 00:39:37.909
I don't remember much about it. I know that the

00:39:37.909 --> 00:39:43.170
fireworks shows were pretty spectacular. I remember...

00:39:43.980 --> 00:39:46.960
I remember some of the stuff from Animal Kingdom.

00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.940
Don't remember much from Magic Kingdom. But all

00:39:50.940 --> 00:39:54.559
together, I mean, it was a pretty, it was a good

00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:56.860
trip from what I remember. I got a whole bunch

00:39:56.860 --> 00:40:01.880
of super blurry, super crappy pictures that I

00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:04.800
took on a BlackBerry while I was there. Oh, nice.

00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:09.920
Okay. A BlackBerry Pearl. So I have those, but

00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:13.030
like I said, I don't. Maybe I can run them through

00:40:13.030 --> 00:40:16.829
some software and get them touched up. Get AI

00:40:16.829 --> 00:40:19.570
to generate a scenario for you like it does with

00:40:19.570 --> 00:40:23.849
everyone on TikTok these days. Yeah. Yeah, speaking

00:40:23.849 --> 00:40:27.449
of, I tried to get, because I see these baby

00:40:27.449 --> 00:40:32.289
TikTok things everywhere. And so I tried to do,

00:40:32.610 --> 00:40:37.190
can I have your number? Yeah. And I got still

00:40:37.190 --> 00:40:40.489
images. of the, I'll send them to you right now.

00:40:40.590 --> 00:40:48.010
I got still images of Darrell and Yvonne and

00:40:48.010 --> 00:40:52.210
they turned out great, but I couldn't get it

00:40:52.210 --> 00:40:55.349
to make the video. And then I looked it up and

00:40:55.349 --> 00:40:57.710
apparently there's like all this extra stuff

00:40:57.710 --> 00:41:03.150
you have to do through all these other like generative

00:41:03.150 --> 00:41:07.889
video AI software nonsense, silliness. Okay.

00:41:08.329 --> 00:41:10.429
So I didn't go through with it. But look how

00:41:10.429 --> 00:41:13.630
good these pictures turned out. I just sent them

00:41:13.630 --> 00:41:17.849
to your phone. Really the only issue. Oh, she

00:41:17.849 --> 00:41:22.429
is. She is not working that up to you. No, I

00:41:22.429 --> 00:41:26.230
tried to do one. I said, give her a high ponytail.

00:41:26.869 --> 00:41:32.369
And yeah, it didn't pan out. But overall, those

00:41:32.369 --> 00:41:35.809
are real good. I don't like that they have the

00:41:35.809 --> 00:41:39.409
right number of fingers. I mean, that's AI now,

00:41:39.530 --> 00:41:42.690
man. You can't even tell if Will Smith is actually

00:41:42.690 --> 00:41:45.690
eating that spaghetti. But I'm going to post

00:41:45.690 --> 00:41:47.710
these on Instagram and see if someone can give

00:41:47.710 --> 00:41:49.710
me some guidance on how I can turn that whole

00:41:49.710 --> 00:41:57.389
skit into baby AI. I feel like we could incorporate

00:41:57.389 --> 00:42:00.889
that into our Instagram posts for the three lines.

00:42:01.110 --> 00:42:03.750
I don't know how, but I think there's a way.

00:42:05.250 --> 00:42:10.050
Hmm. Well... You think on it. You give me your

00:42:10.050 --> 00:42:16.449
ideas. So one thing I wish I had done at Disney

00:42:16.449 --> 00:42:18.829
World that I know I didn't was the Hall of Presidents.

00:42:19.530 --> 00:42:21.489
Do you have any interest in going and seeing

00:42:21.489 --> 00:42:25.610
the Hall of Presidents? I think it would be cool

00:42:25.610 --> 00:42:27.769
to see, but it wouldn't be high on my priority

00:42:27.769 --> 00:42:30.610
list. Okay, if you were going to Disney World,

00:42:30.670 --> 00:42:32.889
what would be your number one thing you have

00:42:32.889 --> 00:42:35.429
to do first? I think Space Mountain would be

00:42:35.429 --> 00:42:39.360
really cool. I think that like doing the food

00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:43.199
tours of Disney would be really fun. Yeah. Because

00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.440
a lot of what I've seen of the parks, that's

00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:50.559
not necessarily as like child centric is the

00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:53.199
food. Yeah. And so I think it would be really

00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:55.940
cool to do like the, like drinks around Epcot

00:42:55.940 --> 00:42:59.260
kind of thing, or like a food tour of all of

00:42:59.260 --> 00:43:02.119
the, like the gray stuff from beauty and the

00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:04.400
beast, which is supposed to be foie gras. And

00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.360
it's definitely not at the Disney parks. Cause

00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.559
that would be monumentally problematic. The gray

00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:17.380
stuff. Yeah. What was that? So, uh, the gray

00:43:17.380 --> 00:43:20.059
stuff it's in, it's part of the lyrics of be

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:23.699
our guest. It's essentially like, it looks kind

00:43:23.699 --> 00:43:26.599
of gross. Um, but it's one of those like things

00:43:26.599 --> 00:43:29.960
that, uh, it's technically foie gras. And so

00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:32.360
it's supposed to be like the, the delicacy in

00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:36.440
bell's feast in be our guest. But the Disney

00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:40.719
parks, because... Duck liver. Huh? No, duck liver.

00:43:41.400 --> 00:43:46.400
Yeah. And it is abusive. Like, it shouldn't.

00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:51.079
It's not ethically okay. But what Disney World

00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:53.539
and Disneyland did instead was they made it like

00:43:53.539 --> 00:43:56.440
a Oreo whipped mousse. And it looks really good.

00:43:56.760 --> 00:44:00.099
Or like the beignets from Princess and the Frog,

00:44:00.179 --> 00:44:02.119
which is, for the record, my favorite Disney

00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:05.010
movie. So you're a fan of the Splash Mountain

00:44:05.010 --> 00:44:07.929
overlay? I would like to do Splash Mountain and

00:44:07.929 --> 00:44:09.829
like a couple of the rides and stuff like Tower

00:44:09.829 --> 00:44:11.889
of Terror would be cool. Would you have done

00:44:11.889 --> 00:44:15.070
it if it was still Br 'er Rabbit and all the

00:44:15.070 --> 00:44:17.369
Song of the South stuff? Would you still do Splash

00:44:17.369 --> 00:44:19.550
Mountain? I'm glad they've gotten with the times.

00:44:19.610 --> 00:44:22.670
I don't think that I would if it were racism

00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:25.710
themed. Yeah. A lot of people were up in arms

00:44:25.710 --> 00:44:28.469
about it. I don't really care. I liked Princess

00:44:28.469 --> 00:44:30.860
and the Frog, so I'm fine with it, but... Oh

00:44:30.860 --> 00:44:34.159
boy, was it a talking point for lots of a certain

00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:38.280
side of TikTok and Instagram and Twitter? I think

00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:41.480
I would really like going on the rides where

00:44:41.480 --> 00:44:44.860
it's more like animatronics focused than like

00:44:44.860 --> 00:44:48.260
big drops and scary things. Like a lot of the

00:44:48.260 --> 00:44:51.320
whiplashy kind of stuff. Like the animatronic

00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:55.000
that they use in like the OG Expedition Everest

00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:57.360
would have been really cool before they had to

00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:00.639
like cement the Yeti to... the thing so that

00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:03.420
he didn't fall because he was literally crumbling

00:45:03.420 --> 00:45:07.500
the foundation yeah or the um they have like

00:45:07.500 --> 00:45:10.900
an avatar ride in one of them where they have

00:45:10.900 --> 00:45:13.840
like a knobby shaman that looks creepily real

00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.920
it's so cool to see i did watch it break down

00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:20.860
on camera like on a tiktok video once yeah and

00:45:20.860 --> 00:45:23.760
it made me like it gave me goosebumps did not

00:45:23.760 --> 00:45:27.550
like that there's a uh channel on youtube called

00:45:27.550 --> 00:45:31.610
tpm vids and they do a lot of disney breakdowns

00:45:31.610 --> 00:45:34.909
ride breakdowns and like turning on the house

00:45:34.909 --> 00:45:37.710
lights and you get to see everything behind the

00:45:37.710 --> 00:45:40.369
scenes yeah so you should check some of those

00:45:40.369 --> 00:45:44.389
out if uh if you want to have trouble sleeping

00:45:44.389 --> 00:45:47.050
if you have a problem with broken down animatronics

00:45:47.050 --> 00:45:52.590
do you prefer the the like original like maybe

00:45:52.590 --> 00:45:57.090
like uncanny face movements or do you do you

00:45:57.090 --> 00:45:59.889
like the ones that just have the faces projected

00:45:59.889 --> 00:46:04.849
onto them i i don't know that i've seen enough

00:46:04.849 --> 00:46:07.050
of both sides to have a good like frame of reference

00:46:07.050 --> 00:46:12.110
for the the difference but i think i would opt

00:46:12.110 --> 00:46:13.869
for the projected ones where it's a little bit

00:46:13.869 --> 00:46:16.650
more like realistic yeah a little bit more of

00:46:16.650 --> 00:46:19.150
that like uncanny valley kind of thing yeah i

00:46:19.150 --> 00:46:21.949
haven't seen the project uh i saw mr potato head

00:46:21.949 --> 00:46:26.460
he was a projected face But I haven't seen, like,

00:46:26.579 --> 00:46:29.539
while you're in the rides, because the Mr. Potato

00:46:29.539 --> 00:46:31.719
ride was at the end of the ride. It was, like,

00:46:31.800 --> 00:46:36.139
when you're exiting into the gift shop. I haven't

00:46:36.139 --> 00:46:40.179
seen the actual, like, during the ride ones that

00:46:40.179 --> 00:46:45.760
have the face projections. Okay. I think the

00:46:45.760 --> 00:46:49.019
only, like, downside with doing the animatronic

00:46:49.019 --> 00:46:50.800
rides is that a lot of them are water -based.

00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:53.610
And when they're water -based... they tend to

00:46:53.610 --> 00:46:56.150
be for some reason the ones that people decide

00:46:56.150 --> 00:46:59.469
to spread their loved ones into. That is correct.

00:46:59.809 --> 00:47:04.110
That is genuinely horrifying. I don't know what

00:47:04.110 --> 00:47:06.730
the thought process is behind I'm going to spread

00:47:06.730 --> 00:47:10.289
my loved ones ashes at Disneyland or Disney World.

00:47:11.690 --> 00:47:14.369
Is it just because of Walt Disney being frozen

00:47:14.369 --> 00:47:17.590
on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride? Maybe.

00:47:18.130 --> 00:47:21.429
Maybe. I don't know. Or maybe it's just... Conspiracy!

00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:26.900
It's an easy way to just do it without... You

00:47:26.900 --> 00:47:29.559
think that there are less eyes on you because

00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:35.179
you're in the dark. That is 100 % not true. Yeah.

00:47:38.519 --> 00:47:51.760
Ooh. Which, I mean... It's not a bad theory.

00:47:52.360 --> 00:47:58.099
Whether you believe that it is true or not, whether

00:47:58.099 --> 00:48:03.239
you believe that they did it because Walt's head

00:48:03.239 --> 00:48:08.000
is in there, people do search Walt Disney and

00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:13.400
Frozen together. So this would be a way to deter

00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:17.920
just even just to get the rumor to go away. So

00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:25.599
it could, it could, I don't think that it was,

00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:28.260
if there's any truth to it, and there might be

00:48:28.260 --> 00:48:30.420
a sliver, and it might just be a happy coincidence

00:48:30.420 --> 00:48:33.659
afterwards that it happened this way, but I don't

00:48:33.659 --> 00:48:36.059
think it was because, oh, they're on to us, we

00:48:36.059 --> 00:48:38.920
gotta divert the attention. I think it was like,

00:48:39.000 --> 00:48:42.019
hey, I'm sick of hearing this rumor. So maybe

00:48:42.019 --> 00:48:44.639
instead of calling this movie Ice Princesses,

00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:54.079
we can just call it Frozen. I don't know. Yeah.

00:48:55.059 --> 00:49:07.619
Brave up. I'm sure that did. Yeah. Oh, don't

00:49:07.619 --> 00:49:09.980
even get me started on adjectives. You're going

00:49:09.980 --> 00:49:13.460
to get me all riled up again. All right, you

00:49:13.460 --> 00:49:18.300
ready for the cost breakdown? Okay, so I looked

00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:24.619
up for five days. Yeah. For three children. I

00:49:24.619 --> 00:49:27.920
mean, they did adopt a pretty common naming practice

00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:28.679
for a minute there. How much do you think it

00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:32.659
is per child? Frozen, there was brave, there

00:49:32.659 --> 00:49:35.010
was tangled, there was... other ones that I'm

00:49:35.010 --> 00:49:37.190
sure I can't think of right now where it was

00:49:37.190 --> 00:49:40.690
just like the one adjective you don't want to

00:49:40.690 --> 00:49:44.050
spend all day at Epcot which who does you could

00:49:44.050 --> 00:49:46.230
just shoot over to Magic Kingdom Animal Kingdom

00:49:46.230 --> 00:49:50.230
whatever how much is that for one day for one

00:49:50.230 --> 00:49:59.730
or for five days for one child no 368 it's 1104

00:49:59.730 --> 00:50:05.519
for three children though For two adults, it

00:50:05.519 --> 00:50:13.500
is $1 ,520. So for three kids, two adults, five

00:50:13.500 --> 00:50:16.739
days, just to get into these parks, just to have

00:50:16.739 --> 00:50:18.940
the ability to leave one park and go to another

00:50:18.940 --> 00:50:25.800
one in the same day, you are spending $2 ,624.

00:50:27.039 --> 00:50:30.039
Before food, before souvenirs, before hotel,

00:50:30.260 --> 00:50:34.559
before gas, before anything else, flights. So

00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:53.840
$26 ,000 plus $100. What's the discount for in

00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:56.639
-state? Do you know? I know they get a pretty

00:50:56.639 --> 00:51:03.099
hefty discount on season passes. I wonder what

00:51:03.099 --> 00:51:07.000
the discount is for tickets. I remember when

00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:09.619
I went for training for somewhere, this guy was

00:51:09.619 --> 00:51:15.179
from Ocala, which is outside of Orlando. Theoretically

00:51:15.179 --> 00:51:17.460
speaking, if you just had Florida Project kids,

00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:19.760
you could just let them loose in the Disney World

00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:21.380
for only a couple hundred bucks. That's dope.

00:51:21.539 --> 00:51:25.179
Free your children in the park. And it blew my

00:51:25.179 --> 00:51:28.119
mind that someone could have Disney World season

00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:33.139
passes. But I know people here in Texas that

00:51:33.139 --> 00:51:37.420
have Disney season passes. And I just, I don't

00:51:37.420 --> 00:51:41.880
understand how a corporation can have that much

00:51:41.880 --> 00:51:45.519
of a hold on you. That you have to, that you're

00:51:45.519 --> 00:51:47.900
willing to spend that, and then not just that,

00:51:47.940 --> 00:51:49.760
but then all the travel to get there and back

00:51:49.760 --> 00:52:00.730
every time to make it worth your while. Can you

00:52:00.730 --> 00:52:13.050
give us a little tease? That's nuts. Yeah. What?

00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:30.139
I will say I do have a lot of thoughts when it

00:52:30.139 --> 00:52:32.539
comes to Disney adults, which I think we had

00:52:32.539 --> 00:52:36.139
as set as a separate episode. I do have a lot

00:52:36.139 --> 00:52:38.420
of thoughts when it comes to that. Okay, this

00:52:38.420 --> 00:52:40.139
might be narrowing it down a little bit too much.

00:52:40.219 --> 00:52:43.960
I think if you base your entire personality and

00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:47.539
every one of your hobbies and things off of you

00:52:47.539 --> 00:52:50.519
liking one specific set of IP, if you have just

00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:52.900
like drank the Kool -Aid like that. It's a problem.

00:52:53.019 --> 00:52:56.539
I think that you should address it. And maybe

00:52:56.539 --> 00:52:58.800
that's me being small -minded because these people

00:52:58.800 --> 00:53:04.320
are in it for the artistry of Disney. Or they're

00:53:04.320 --> 00:53:06.780
in it for the nostalgia of all the movies that

00:53:06.780 --> 00:53:09.340
they grew up with. I'm sure there's logic behind

00:53:09.340 --> 00:53:13.539
it. But I think it's insane if you are basing

00:53:13.539 --> 00:53:20.239
your entire existence to some extent on something.

00:53:21.099 --> 00:53:27.659
Some specific set of characters. Absolutely.

00:53:28.340 --> 00:53:32.559
Yes. And it's all the, ooh, look how dark and

00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:35.860
brooding and gothy I am. This is my favorite

00:53:35.860 --> 00:53:49.860
movie. Absolutely. Yeah. absolutely using that

00:53:49.860 --> 00:53:51.780
as a catch -all for people who have that kind

00:53:51.780 --> 00:53:55.000
of like I think it feels like a like kind of

00:53:55.000 --> 00:53:57.760
addictive personality situation because there

00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:00.760
are people that are just so head over heels for

00:54:00.760 --> 00:54:05.940
like Nightmare Before Christmas I just grow up

00:54:05.940 --> 00:54:08.380
or there's like broaden your horizons a little

00:54:08.380 --> 00:54:13.840
bit yeah but overall it's a good movie but the

00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:18.619
people who refuse to just like, like a thing

00:54:18.619 --> 00:54:21.820
so much so that they have to obsess over it instead.

00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:25.940
It's like, I don't understand. We try to keep

00:54:25.940 --> 00:54:28.199
this at a PG 13. How we get from point A to point

00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:45.860
B. You tell him. Yeah. Ah. Well, overall, I think

00:54:45.860 --> 00:54:49.679
that... Maybe that's the episode Nate and I will

00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:51.440
tackle. I think that they're on their way out,

00:54:51.519 --> 00:54:54.059
and I don't know what's going to replace them.

00:54:54.059 --> 00:54:55.619
And other one -trick ponies. Maybe it's just

00:54:55.619 --> 00:55:00.760
a bunch of dummies in virtual reality goggles

00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:06.420
just bumping into each other. Who knows? I mean,

00:55:06.480 --> 00:55:09.079
they're Disney adults. I think the IP itself

00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:13.159
is pretty mild. I think the discussion around

00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:18.780
them can be equally as mild. Doesn't seem like

00:55:18.780 --> 00:55:22.340
there's going to be any bright lights on their

00:55:22.340 --> 00:55:27.260
horizon. Because the food's expensive and it's

00:55:27.260 --> 00:55:32.909
garbage. The tickets are expensive when... You

00:55:32.909 --> 00:55:35.030
don't know day to day what you're actually going

00:55:35.030 --> 00:55:36.789
to get if you're going to get the full experience

00:55:36.789 --> 00:55:39.809
or if you're going you're planning all this stuff

00:55:39.809 --> 00:55:42.230
out and then ends up that half the stuff you

00:55:42.230 --> 00:55:44.570
can't even do because of this, that or the other.

00:55:47.750 --> 00:55:53.650
The rides are gradually just becoming these like

00:55:53.650 --> 00:55:58.170
carnival style. Seems like they're about to be

00:55:58.170 --> 00:56:01.010
dismantled and driven down the highway to the

00:56:01.010 --> 00:56:05.920
next place. and uh yeah just the amount of stuff

00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.179
that you used to get before for way cheaper but

00:56:09.179 --> 00:56:11.460
now you're paying way more to to get there and

00:56:11.460 --> 00:56:13.260
then once you get in you have to pay all this

00:56:13.260 --> 00:56:18.679
extra stuff like the like the genie pass or the

00:56:18.679 --> 00:56:21.780
flash pass whatever you want to call it the give

00:56:21.780 --> 00:56:25.099
me a rsvp so i don't have to wait here and i

00:56:25.099 --> 00:56:27.139
can actually enjoy this time that i have here

00:56:27.690 --> 00:56:31.409
Or the dolphin experience, which, sure, I get

00:56:31.409 --> 00:56:33.909
that that's problematic, but it's still a thing.

00:56:33.989 --> 00:56:41.489
Giving someone, going from $5 to the same experience

00:56:41.489 --> 00:56:45.030
except standing in the water with them, with

00:56:45.030 --> 00:56:48.030
one of the most, besides humans, one of the most

00:56:48.030 --> 00:56:52.030
rapey mammals in the entire animal kingdom. Like,

00:56:52.030 --> 00:56:55.340
maybe that barrier was a good thing before. but

00:56:55.340 --> 00:56:59.079
now having to pay 170 dollars per person in order

00:56:59.079 --> 00:57:03.420
to feed the fish and potentially be assaulted

00:57:03.420 --> 00:57:10.039
like that just it it just ruins it and so like

00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:12.559
i said i don't i don't know what the future for

00:57:12.559 --> 00:57:35.880
theme parks is but it does not look good Yeah.

00:57:35.880 --> 00:57:52.340
Tokyo. Yeah. I... Yeah. This is gonna be entirely

00:57:52.340 --> 00:57:56.170
speculative because I've not been to... a theme

00:57:56.170 --> 00:57:58.489
park in another country but i think american

00:57:58.489 --> 00:58:00.110
theme parks are on their way out i don't think

00:58:00.110 --> 00:58:03.190
theme parks as a general are because if you see

00:58:03.190 --> 00:58:05.750
the things that are happening with like disney

00:58:05.750 --> 00:58:10.250
and paris or um i think there's one in hong kong

00:58:10.250 --> 00:58:15.010
maybe um or like the universal land or the hello

00:58:15.010 --> 00:58:16.730
kitty land and things that are in japan like

00:58:16.730 --> 00:58:20.800
those things are they look incredible They look

00:58:20.800 --> 00:58:24.219
like they have so much just like artistry and

00:58:24.219 --> 00:58:26.880
craft behind them in a way that I think Americans

00:58:26.880 --> 00:58:32.480
don't necessarily have anymore. And like the,

00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:38.719
I've been looking at, there's one in Dubai, I

00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:41.940
think. I don't think it's universe. I think it's

00:58:41.940 --> 00:58:45.000
like Lionsgate, which is a super weird choice.

00:58:45.300 --> 00:58:48.849
But they have like Hunger Games and stuff. And

00:58:48.849 --> 00:58:52.130
a bunch of other Lionsgate IPs. And that all

00:58:52.130 --> 00:58:57.389
ties back into nostalgia and just remakes. I

00:58:57.389 --> 00:59:00.110
would go on. Now the rides are remakes too. The

00:59:00.110 --> 00:59:03.150
rides are just rehashings of what came before

00:59:03.150 --> 00:59:07.190
it. But I think that it's just American consumers

00:59:07.190 --> 00:59:12.710
are stretched pretty thin. And more is being

00:59:12.710 --> 00:59:15.590
asked of them without more being given to them.

00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:19.960
And so I think that the future of the theme parks,

00:59:20.039 --> 00:59:22.679
the future of theme parks is international. It

00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:24.719
all seems so dated. Even the new stuff just seems

00:59:24.719 --> 00:59:27.280
like, OK, well, this is already like this has

00:59:27.280 --> 00:59:29.380
been around forever. And now you're just now

00:59:29.380 --> 00:59:32.059
getting it. Like, why wouldn't you just try to

00:59:32.059 --> 01:00:10.739
innovate something new? Yeah. I think that's

01:00:10.739 --> 01:00:15.039
kind of a cynical way to look at it. I don't

01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:19.860
think the point of it, from my perspective, is

01:00:19.860 --> 01:00:23.179
to be the latest and greatest necessarily because

01:00:23.179 --> 01:00:25.139
I think you can still create that kind of magic.

01:00:26.099 --> 01:00:27.820
Don't get me wrong, I have no idea what technology

01:00:27.820 --> 01:00:30.679
goes behind the Na 'vi shaman and the avatar

01:00:30.679 --> 01:00:33.380
ride. But I think being able to do something

01:00:33.380 --> 01:00:34.980
that's a little bit more analog and a little

01:00:34.980 --> 01:00:38.440
bit less... Amazing things that you'll see on

01:00:38.440 --> 01:00:41.159
your phone all of the time. If you see it in

01:00:41.159 --> 01:00:56.199
person, I think it's still different. Yeah. Yeah.

01:01:00.019 --> 01:01:17.969
Uh -huh. I could see that. I think that the issue

01:01:17.969 --> 01:01:21.349
with Six Flags specifically is that their IP

01:01:21.349 --> 01:01:28.150
is also a little overplayed. Because most of,

01:01:28.269 --> 01:01:32.230
not to dig on DC or Looney Tunes or any of that

01:01:32.230 --> 01:01:35.989
kind of stuff, but it's also everywhere. Like

01:01:35.989 --> 01:01:40.750
it's been licensed out to people. and like theme

01:01:40.750 --> 01:01:43.809
parks companies whatever it was just uh we have

01:01:43.809 --> 01:01:46.050
a very very long time we want to put in a water

01:01:46.050 --> 01:01:48.190
right and it's hard for it to not seem a little

01:01:48.190 --> 01:01:51.630
bit stale yeah when they're using things that

01:01:51.630 --> 01:01:54.889
are not even a part of necessarily the the zeitgeist

01:01:54.889 --> 01:01:57.409
anymore like they have an aquaman ride the how

01:01:57.409 --> 01:02:00.070
long was the period before jason momoa becoming

01:02:00.070 --> 01:02:04.150
aquaman show where that right is justice league

01:02:04.639 --> 01:02:07.679
And it was still a pretty crappy movie. Two pretty

01:02:07.679 --> 01:02:12.619
crappy movies. So like, he doesn't seem having

01:02:12.619 --> 01:02:15.000
his own ride worthy, if I'm being honest. But

01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:20.420
the rest of the rides are just screens. So, yeah.

01:02:23.500 --> 01:02:27.139
Right. That's what Six Flags has kind of always

01:02:27.139 --> 01:02:56.510
felt like. Okay. Yeah. That sucks. That was a

01:02:56.510 --> 01:02:57.849
lot of the problem that I had with Universal.

01:02:58.150 --> 01:03:03.409
Because I went back in 2018, I think. And the

01:03:03.409 --> 01:03:05.550
problem with Universal was that all of the rides

01:03:05.550 --> 01:03:11.710
were the 4D rides. I think we went on one actual

01:03:11.710 --> 01:03:13.730
roller coaster and that was for Jurassic Park.

01:03:15.500 --> 01:03:17.280
But the rest of them, like the Simpsons ride

01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:19.119
was cool, but it was just a 4D. I've never been

01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:21.920
to Universal. Like you were in a roller coaster

01:03:21.920 --> 01:03:25.079
cart, but you weren't doing an actual roller

01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:29.980
coaster thing. Same with like the Despicable

01:03:29.980 --> 01:03:34.219
Me one. Very into it. Honestly, I don't remember

01:03:34.219 --> 01:03:37.880
what all is a part of the... I think the Indiana

01:03:37.880 --> 01:03:40.059
Jones and the Harry Potter stuff were different.

01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:43.539
But the Harry Potter line was absolutely insane.

01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:46.760
It was not worth going into the line for that

01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:50.659
one. Heading out the door, too. Yeah. Which wasn't

01:03:50.659 --> 01:03:52.039
actually really interesting. You got anything

01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:58.280
else to add? It was cool. The Simpsons area was

01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:02.119
awesome. I don't know if that is a thing that's

01:04:02.119 --> 01:04:04.960
awesome in the sense that it was just really

01:04:04.960 --> 01:04:07.260
well built or if it was just a thing I was super

01:04:07.260 --> 01:04:11.619
nostalgic for. You guessed right. Yeah. So, I

01:04:11.619 --> 01:04:30.039
don't know. But I really liked it. Yeah. I do.

01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:33.920
So when I was looking at stuff for this episode,

01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:35.340
I kind of figured that you would take the...

01:04:37.320 --> 01:04:42.199
Six Flags, Disneyland, and SeaWorld route. It's

01:04:42.199 --> 01:04:46.420
gross, but it's not grosser. I picked a couple

01:04:46.420 --> 01:04:50.980
of different ones. First up is water parks. Water

01:04:50.980 --> 01:04:54.820
parks are theme parks that gross me out. I don't

01:04:54.820 --> 01:04:58.460
want to be in person soup with the general public.

01:04:59.500 --> 01:05:02.519
I know that a good amount of this is just my

01:05:02.519 --> 01:05:05.719
own inability to swim, which makes these places

01:05:05.719 --> 01:05:09.039
decidedly less fun. Water parks are disgusting.

01:05:28.199 --> 01:05:30.280
I mean, I guess there's probably more cleaning

01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:31.820
staff, but if they don't have enough people to

01:05:31.820 --> 01:05:34.519
operate the rides at Six Flags, I'm not trusting

01:05:34.519 --> 01:05:36.920
them to not cut corners where it counts at the

01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:40.420
Hurricane Harbor. It's pretty crazy. Can't do

01:05:40.420 --> 01:05:45.539
it. Won't do it. The other thing, so I have gone

01:05:45.539 --> 01:05:47.159
down this rabbit hole a time or two over the

01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:50.559
years of abandoned theme parks. I think it's

01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:53.409
fascinating in the same way that like. In apocalypse

01:05:53.409 --> 01:05:56.409
movies and stuff, you see like nature take back

01:05:56.409 --> 01:05:58.289
over all of these man -made structures. And I

01:05:58.289 --> 01:06:00.789
always think that's really cool because the time

01:06:00.789 --> 01:06:06.590
frame for like the time frame between skyscrapers

01:06:06.590 --> 01:06:08.889
to everything getting reclaimed by nature is

01:06:08.889 --> 01:06:11.869
shockingly short if there aren't people to maintain

01:06:11.869 --> 01:06:17.000
them. And one of the things, one of the most

01:06:17.000 --> 01:06:22.019
infamous abandoned theme parks is the Six Flags

01:06:22.019 --> 01:06:26.820
in New Orleans. Because they built it, they finished

01:06:26.820 --> 01:06:29.039
it in, I want to say, 2004, and they were trying

01:06:29.039 --> 01:06:32.380
to open it in 2005. But unfortunately, because

01:06:32.380 --> 01:06:35.820
of what happened to New Orleans in 2005, it just

01:06:35.820 --> 01:06:39.340
laid completely abandoned for almost 20 years.

01:06:39.980 --> 01:06:43.559
Yeah, almost 20 years. because they are in the

01:06:43.559 --> 01:06:45.820
process of demolishing it right now so that they

01:06:45.820 --> 01:06:52.860
can build an entertainment complex. It's worth

01:06:52.860 --> 01:06:55.260
checking out. It's maybe an hour or 20 long.

01:06:58.280 --> 01:07:01.039
Oh. I thought that that was... I might be thinking

01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:14.760
of a different one. There's a lot of, a lot of

01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:16.599
movies that have been shot there. One of the

01:07:16.599 --> 01:07:19.539
Percy Jackson's was shot there. Uh, one of the

01:07:19.539 --> 01:07:22.059
Jurassic worlds, maybe multiple Jurassic worlds

01:07:22.059 --> 01:07:26.500
were shot there. Uh, yeah. Anytime they needed

01:07:26.500 --> 01:07:30.559
a, uh, yeah, like a desolate rundown area. That's

01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:33.420
where they would, they would shoot. Yep. Okay.

01:07:34.099 --> 01:07:36.480
Okay. Yeah. I'll definitely, definitely check

01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:39.960
that out. I remember reading that story on, I

01:07:39.960 --> 01:07:44.400
assume Reddit like a very long time ago. But

01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:46.719
yeah, they're finally demolishing it so that

01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:51.639
they can build something over it this year. It's

01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:54.460
funny because when they show Chernobyl, that's

01:07:54.460 --> 01:07:56.099
usually the vantage point they show it from.

01:07:56.219 --> 01:07:59.900
Like you have the rides or like the Ferris wheel

01:07:59.900 --> 01:08:03.599
or merry -go -round in the foreground. And then

01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:07.139
behind it is just this sea of trees and just

01:08:07.139 --> 01:08:10.420
decay. Interesting. I'll have to look into that.

01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:14.940
Also, the Pripyat amusement park that's in Chernobyl

01:08:14.940 --> 01:08:19.880
is in... Or that they lost to Chernobyl was an

01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:22.260
interesting... It's interesting to look at. I

01:08:22.260 --> 01:08:24.579
spent a little time digging on Atlas Obscura

01:08:24.579 --> 01:08:27.840
this morning. Yeah. Is Gulliver still there?

01:08:34.420 --> 01:08:48.640
He was like 40 feet long. I also had a couple

01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:51.539
of weird choices for amusement parks in general

01:08:51.539 --> 01:08:54.979
listed out. Do you remember, I don't know if

01:08:54.979 --> 01:08:56.899
you were on the site of the internet, the Gulliver's

01:08:56.899 --> 01:09:01.319
Travels theme park that they did in Japan? That

01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:07.239
was a... I don't think so. I think he's been

01:09:07.239 --> 01:09:09.539
completely overtaken or fully demolished at this

01:09:09.539 --> 01:09:13.979
point. Because the... The theme park itself ran

01:09:13.979 --> 01:09:20.939
from 97 to 2001. And it hit a pretty steady downhill

01:09:20.939 --> 01:09:24.920
slide because, shockingly, not a lot of people

01:09:24.920 --> 01:09:28.420
have read that book. There's not a lot of intersection

01:09:28.420 --> 01:09:31.239
in the Venn diagram of people who have read Gulliver's

01:09:31.239 --> 01:09:33.039
Travels and the people who go to theme parks

01:09:33.039 --> 01:09:38.000
and would be willing to... God, that was not

01:09:38.000 --> 01:09:43.039
a good movie. It was... Yeah, I don't think that

01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:56.579
Gulliver is still standing. Or the gayest thing

01:09:56.579 --> 01:10:00.960
you could do. It was demolished in 07. I said,

01:10:00.979 --> 01:10:04.079
or the gayest thing you could do. There are still

01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:05.479
active... You'll never catch me at Dickens World.

01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:07.319
There are still active theme parks for Gulliver's

01:10:07.319 --> 01:10:09.720
travels in the UK. Why do people keep trying

01:10:09.720 --> 01:10:19.159
to make this happen? Stop it. On top of that,

01:10:19.260 --> 01:10:23.880
I have Dickens World in Kent. Which sounds like

01:10:23.880 --> 01:10:26.739
the most British thing that you could possibly

01:10:26.739 --> 01:10:31.640
do is open a theme park that includes a boat

01:10:31.640 --> 01:10:36.779
ride through a Victorian sewer. Huh? Do they

01:10:36.779 --> 01:10:39.899
have Tiny Tim hobbling around? Sure. With his

01:10:39.899 --> 01:10:43.399
Christmas ham? No one's 100 % straight, Caden.

01:10:43.680 --> 01:10:48.659
Anyway. It contains a boat ride through a Victorian

01:10:48.659 --> 01:10:51.939
sewer, a haunted house, and a Victorian school

01:10:51.939 --> 01:10:56.000
room. To which, who would pay for that? Who is

01:10:56.000 --> 01:10:59.640
this for? It included other things, but those

01:10:59.640 --> 01:11:02.119
are just the most haunted things I could think

01:11:02.119 --> 01:11:05.439
of that you would add to a theme park. It's ridiculous.

01:11:06.039 --> 01:11:10.529
I believe that one closed in 2016? I didn't write

01:11:10.529 --> 01:11:17.770
that down. It's just Peter Dinklage because he

01:11:17.770 --> 01:11:20.949
doesn't support any other little people doing

01:11:20.949 --> 01:11:32.069
things like that. There's a name for the love

01:11:32.069 --> 01:11:34.949
of abandoned places or the study of abandoned

01:11:34.949 --> 01:11:37.850
places and I could not for the life of me figure

01:11:37.850 --> 01:11:40.489
out what it is. I know that word exists. If any

01:11:40.489 --> 01:11:43.069
of our listeners can tell me, I would be greatly

01:11:43.069 --> 01:11:45.930
appreciated. I would crash pretty hard early

01:11:45.930 --> 01:11:49.409
on. I think so, but there's... I don't know.

01:11:49.430 --> 01:11:51.310
I looked around for a little bit and could not

01:11:51.310 --> 01:11:53.710
for the life of me find it. What I did find,

01:11:53.770 --> 01:11:57.670
though, is there's a word called canopsia. Canopsia?

01:11:58.069 --> 01:12:00.430
One of the two. And it is the eerie atmosphere

01:12:00.430 --> 01:12:02.409
of a place that should be bustling with people

01:12:02.409 --> 01:12:06.229
that is now abandoned, which accurately describes

01:12:06.229 --> 01:12:11.920
liminal spaces. Which I also find, yeah, I like

01:12:11.920 --> 01:12:15.659
liminal spaces as a rabbit hole thing. I don't

01:12:15.659 --> 01:12:17.380
want to be in one, but I think they're interesting

01:12:17.380 --> 01:12:20.880
to look at. Oh, yeah, I've heard about that.

01:12:25.039 --> 01:12:29.159
Yeah. That's fair. I think it would be really

01:12:29.159 --> 01:12:34.350
cool to see any of those things. But I don't

01:12:34.350 --> 01:12:36.430
think that I would want to be in one of them

01:12:36.430 --> 01:12:41.909
for very long. There's also a mountaintop amusement

01:12:41.909 --> 01:12:44.369
park in North Carolina that Disney is trying

01:12:44.369 --> 01:12:47.689
to buy. It's been around since the 60s, I think.

01:12:48.970 --> 01:12:51.890
And they've changed hands a half dozen times.

01:12:51.989 --> 01:12:56.850
It's called Ghost Town in the Sky. And it looks

01:12:56.850 --> 01:12:58.750
really cool. They have like a ski lift thing

01:12:58.750 --> 01:13:01.930
that takes people up to it. But they're about

01:13:01.930 --> 01:13:06.029
to... They closed in 2021, and Disney's trying

01:13:06.029 --> 01:13:08.430
to buy them to start something else, maybe in

01:13:08.430 --> 01:13:09.369
the next couple of years. I'm pretty sure it

01:13:09.369 --> 01:13:18.189
was somewhere in Appalachia. There we go. Yeah,

01:13:18.270 --> 01:13:21.090
because people were like, you're going to do

01:13:21.090 --> 01:13:24.970
what now? And there was depictions of slavery

01:13:24.970 --> 01:13:38.050
and all that kind of stuff. What? Great America.

01:13:45.850 --> 01:13:50.289
Disney's America was proposed in Haymarket, Virginia

01:13:50.289 --> 01:13:58.489
and never built. Yeah, I think the Civil War

01:13:58.489 --> 01:14:02.859
Fort. They were getting backlash because they

01:14:02.859 --> 01:14:04.020
said it would be fair to both sides. You know,

01:14:04.020 --> 01:14:05.779
there's a lot of reasons I don't think this would

01:14:05.779 --> 01:14:09.840
work, but they included nine distinct themed

01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:12.560
areas, including President Square, Indigenous

01:14:12.560 --> 01:14:16.039
Village, Ellis Island, Factory Town, Civil War

01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:20.220
Fort, County Fair, Early 19th Century Fort, World

01:14:20.220 --> 01:14:22.720
War II Battlefield, and Depression Era Town.

01:14:22.979 --> 01:14:25.739
I don't think those were the most happy -go -lucky

01:14:25.739 --> 01:14:31.109
family time kind of themes. to live the great

01:14:31.109 --> 01:14:43.909
depression at a theme park yeah huh interesting

01:14:43.909 --> 01:14:53.449
did you see that badass eagle that i took a picture

01:14:53.449 --> 01:15:00.800
of you didn't see it yeah It was on my we're

01:15:00.800 --> 01:15:05.720
on summer vacation post. Especially today. It

01:15:05.720 --> 01:15:07.880
sounds absolutely insane that someone would want

01:15:07.880 --> 01:15:11.300
to build an American themed theme park. And happy

01:15:11.300 --> 01:15:14.619
early 4th of July. No matter what your general

01:15:14.619 --> 01:15:19.439
beliefs are about the country. I don't imagine

01:15:19.439 --> 01:15:23.340
that there would be a lot of people enjoying

01:15:23.340 --> 01:15:26.119
themselves at Disney's America. It weighed nine

01:15:26.119 --> 01:15:29.460
pounds, but it can lift. Up to three times its

01:15:29.460 --> 01:15:31.279
body weight. What now? It's a good thing that

01:15:31.279 --> 01:15:32.880
Labradoodle didn't show its face. Is it on Instagram?

01:15:33.539 --> 01:15:40.760
It got snatched away. Yeah. So ridiculous. Oh,

01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:47.680
wow. It's both majestic and looks a little goofy.

01:15:48.319 --> 01:15:51.380
Well, do you have any closing words? Which feels

01:15:51.380 --> 01:15:56.100
on brand for America. God, look at those claws.

01:15:57.770 --> 01:16:07.090
Those talons are no joke. That is a great...

01:16:07.090 --> 01:16:11.729
Yeah. No, it was too busy getting on the log

01:16:11.729 --> 01:16:12.949
flume again. I'm sorry to buy two pairs, but

01:16:12.949 --> 01:16:15.409
you're the one that wants to be a dick and bring

01:16:15.409 --> 01:16:19.409
your dog. All right. That is all I had for theme

01:16:19.409 --> 01:16:24.029
parks. So think of others. Think of your pets.

01:16:25.270 --> 01:16:30.829
Spay and neuter. I can't believe that anybody

01:16:30.829 --> 01:16:35.609
would have to say this out loud. I don't want

01:16:35.609 --> 01:16:38.170
theme parks to go away. Don't take your dog to

01:16:38.170 --> 01:16:42.210
theme parks. And also, if they're going to be

01:16:42.210 --> 01:16:45.470
outside, put them in shoes. It's fun for the

01:16:45.470 --> 01:16:51.189
whole family. So, enjoy them while you can. And

01:16:51.189 --> 01:16:54.210
take that into all other aspects of your life.

01:16:54.250 --> 01:16:55.890
Time with your kids. Enjoy them while you can.

01:16:57.739 --> 01:16:59.880
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