Was Epic Universe EPIC? Scuba’s Kids Are In Their New School

Scuba Steve shares how his kids (and him) are adjusting to the new school. Then they get into a full review of EPIC Universe after Scuba blocked Morgan’s trip on social media because he didn’t want any spoilers. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Best Bits of the Week with Morgan.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Part one.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
I hang a scene with a member of the show's.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Anybody Welcome to the weegad.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
By trying to mimick you, and I couldn't.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I broke character? All right, go ahead? Sorry? Do you
think no?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I hate everybody? Welcome Scooba the show.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
They know what's going on, they heard the intro, they
got it. Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I know. So, how are kids liking their new school?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
You were mentioning the reason you were talking about coming
in a little late because kids are in their new school.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
How's it going.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Yeah, school, definitely. The traffic is changes everything, as everyone knows.
But they are loving their new school. I think it's
a different environment and less kids for one teacher, so
there's a little bit more attention put on everyone and they,
I mean, their energy is completely different from where they
were last year to now. So it's awesome. Okay, so excited.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
How are you feeling of the fact that your kids
are liking private school a little bit more than public school.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean, it's one of those things where I grew
up in public school system, but even growing up in it,
I had moments as I got older. I'm like, wow,
this is especially in Florida. I don't know what they
had in Kansas, but in Florida when I was growing
up in the eighties and nineties, we had this thing
called the FCAT, which basically was a standardized test that
everyone in the state took, and then depending on how
your students did, would reflect your budget for the school year,

(01:28):
I think for the next school year or later whatever
whenever they did budgets. So all we did all year
long was was learned this test, So we didn't really
actually learn what we should have learned. I mean, there
was a little bit that sprinkled in there, but the teachers,
unfortunate to them, they were so focused on making sure
we memorized and knew this test because at the end
of the year, we're going to take it, and it

(01:49):
reflected them as teachers, and maybe there was a bonus
structure tied.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
To it all that.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Something similar in Kansas. I think that used to be
kind of a thing all over. Yeah, at least you know,
way before now, but that sounds very familiar. I know
we had standardized testing, sure, I just don't know what
it was called.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Maybe they were all CAT. They just had some sort
of cat ca.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Ca cat yeah sea cat wait see see.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
Yeah, but it's like kind of like I understand, you
have to take a standardized test to see how the
kids did at the end of the year, but then
you put this pressure on the teachers where they're only
focused on that test, and then they're not they're not
looking at other things they should be teaching you. Some
teachers kind of like I had some teachers that are
like f that test and they would teach us whatever
they wanted because they were just the out of the
norm that but those are very few far in between,

(02:33):
and everyone was very much following the regimen because they
knew it affected them, which is unfair to not only
the teacher, but it's also unfair to us as kids,
learning up learning and growing through that system, and so
we didn't get to learn as much as we should
have in public spoation.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Sure. That's also the reason why I have testing anxiety.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, because we always had comprehensive tests. I hated comprehensive
tests because I would study for a test and I
would just learn that and then as soon as I
took the test out.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Of my brain.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
Yeah, yeah, Like I was not good at keeping information
in my brain for the entire year.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
It's like memorizing a script, like if you're an actor
or whatever, you memorize it for that film, and then
you ask them ten years later, hey do you remember,
And they're like, they don't even don't remember any of
it because they've moved on completely and it was just
for that moment in time, which sucks because you should
we should be absorbing the information, whereas I feel like
the private school, because they're funded by us, there isn't
this whole need to make sure we pass a stupid test.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah, so it's a little different, interesting perspective.

Speaker 4 (03:29):
I never really thought about that part either, just the
difference between private and public.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Well, I'm glad they're liking their new school. I'm assuming
you guys didn't go anywhere for vacation since they are
back in school.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Yeah, we didn't do anything because we did our vacation
in the early part of the summer.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
We went to Kawhi and all that.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, so this was more like just I was at
work every day, so I came in here and got
ahead on some stuff, and then they.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Feel weird that you were here by yourself and we
weren't here.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
It was awesome because no one was bothering me or
buggering me or ask me for questions or anything.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Like actually got to get all you stuff dah exactly.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
I didn't have to stop or anything, or if there
wasn't anything railroading me, and my main focus was was
me and what I was working on and then getting
ahead on some stuff.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
So it was actually I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
How does it feel being the one person because like,
you have that trip and that's kind of the reason
why you always take vacation different than us, is because
you have that specific trip and it's based on your
family's timeline instead of our timeline. Yeah, how does it
feel like doing that every year? And then like you're
kind of always off? Are you like I love this
or I don't like it?

Speaker 3 (04:31):
When I first started doing it, because my whole radio
career has always been followed whatever the.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Host takes for vacation.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
And then now that I've been doing this for almost
twenty years and I'm married with three kids, and my
wife has become more of the priority. Yeah, and just
kind of like this just is what it is and
making her happy, and she wanted to go on a
vacation when her family goes. So I had to just
kind of when I got this job. We had that
conversation of, like, my vacation schedule may be different, and
Bobby was very understanding and got it, and he's like, look,

(04:58):
you know.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I want you to be happy.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
You go through a lot to keep me happy. So
who cares if you're gone a week that we're still here.
It doesn't really matter as long as your mental health
is good. So whatever, dude, you gotta do, I'm like, all.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Right, cool. Sweet.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
So we're in the same playing field, which is which
is nice, but it is weird because for such a
long time we all we all would look look forward
to it together and be out and gone and come
back and have the same kind of like timeline. So
it is really weird to be gone and you guys
are still here because I'll still get emails and texts
and then phone call, especially from sales or whatever about stuff,

(05:29):
and they they don't, Oh, it's crap, it's right, you're gone. Yes,
my out of office says that I'm gone. That means
I'm gone. The yeah, we talked about a weeks in
advance that you knew I was going to be gone,
but they're just so used to coming to me with stuff.
And so even though I go on vacation, I still
find myself. I still find myself answering emails are working
in the evening every night. I'm on vacation, so I'm

(05:50):
on vacation, but yeah, I'm actually not. So to answer
your question, it's it's great, but it also is annoying
because they don't leave me alone.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yes, because you're not, because the rest of us are
still there, so it feels like you should be there.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yes, And they're like, oh, you know, we won't bother you.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
And then when they do, like I'm so sorry, I'm like, no,
you're not, because if you were, you wouldn't bother me.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
You just wouldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
You just tell whoever it is to f off and
that this guy needs a vacation and we'll get to
it when we get back.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
I feel like that's also more outsider, because I feel
like for all of us in we don't message you.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
No, it's more of like this affiliate of sales other
people exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Yeah, the internal group. You guys will only reach out
to me.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I'm like, hey, if there is a massifier or a
big problem or there's something that's whatever, then let me
know otherwise I'll deal with when you get back. And
I would say that our inner circle nine to nine
point nine percent of the time is kind of like
leave them alone, which is great. It's everyone on the
outside who doesn't get it or whatever, which is great
because I not great. But I always look I envy
other people in other jobs when they have two things. One,

(06:47):
when their job is done, they can literally walk away
from it off, turn it all off, and they don't
have to worry about it at all until they get
back the next day at nine o'clock. And then when
they go on vacation, they're legitimately on vacation and they
have somebody else filling in for them where everything just
gets put on hold until they return, Like.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
What is that?

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Like? I know, and the first one I've never been
able to have.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
The second one I'm really trying to instill in my
brain and be like, no, I'm putting my foot down.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
You guys have to like let me have time.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
Off because it's a week out of the entire year.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Literally, it wants not much for me to ask. And
you know, for both of us, we don't have fill in,
so that's.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, exactly what it is.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, And I'm like, you guys can literally live without
this for one week.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
We will be fine.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, nothing can happen, even like social posts. That's such
a big part of the thing is advertisers love to
schedule stuff. I'm like, there are four weeks out of
the entire year that are off the table, and you
know what, they always want.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Those more courts.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
And then if you do want it, let us know
in advance and we can preschedule it or something or
get it figure it out. And then the best part
is that I bet if you went to the client
and said, hey, they're executive producers on vacation for a week,
you know, I bet every client will go, oh, yeah,
of course whatever, We'll deal with this on Monday when
he gets back. But they put this precedent of like, oh,
we got to know right now. It's like, no, you don't,
you do not, no exactly. And your vacation, though your

(08:04):
vacation was sick, is almost like you got to go
to a place I haven't been yet, epic universe.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yes, oh my.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
God, to talk to you about.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
It, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
With through a couple of stories, and then I stopped
looking at it because I didn't want to, Like, for me,
it was a spoiler alert. I didn't want to be
spoiled because I want to go into it completely. Just
I mean, I know exactly what to expect, but I
don't want to see it all, you know.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yeah, oh my gosh. But it was so awesome. Was
Nintendo World was as cool as they made it see.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Okay, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Like you see videos and you're like, there's no way
it looks as cool. It was.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Okay, you walked in just very much felt like you're
part of the video game.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
That's so cool.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
Now, I will say, like Donkey Kong Ride, we had
to wait like a total of five hours.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
My god, five hours combined.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Like we didn't stay in the whole line for that long.
It was like one day we tried, it was two
and a half hours.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
We had a weather.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Delay, and it just kind of kept getting pushed back.
So we were like, okay, give up for today, we
come back tomorrow. We ended up getting They're right, rope
dropped it. We got their ride all time. Huh. We
were towards the front of the line, They're like, we're
on a temporary delay.

Speaker 2 (09:08):
We're not sure how long this is gonna last.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I always hate that when that would happen.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh yeah, And they were like, we would talk to
some of the employees so like this is something they
haven't seen before. I'm like, that doesn't sound good.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
So yeah, cool.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
We ended up waiting out and being on it. It
wasn't worth a five hour waight.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
No, nothing's worth a five hour weight.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
No a fine total.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yeah, but it was.

Speaker 4 (09:26):
And I'm sad because I feel like it was a
cool ride and it was overshadowed by the fact of
how long we had to wait.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
Yeah, so that one was a bummer. But Mario Kart
was awesome. We rode that twice, Okay, cool. We rode
the new Harry Potter one twice, the whole Ministry of Magic.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
The only thing I am bummed about too is a
little but they didn't include are you a har Potter
fan at all?

Speaker 1 (09:45):
Of course?

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah, they didn't do news Commander.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh they have in there for the Fantastic Beast.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
I thought he would be part of the ride.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Apparently he was part of like a circus show, which
we didn't go and see because I only I don't
really go and see the shows.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
That's just not yeah either.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
Now I do more because I have kids and their
interest into it. Yeah, But me, whenever I go you know, Universal,
back in the day, I'd skip all shows unless it
was Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure a Halloween Horn Nights.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
That was cool, okay, and it was obviously it wasn't
Halloween Nights, Halloween.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Horror, Halloween Horn. It's called h Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
So apparently he was in like the circus tent. So'm bumms.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
We didn't go in and see that, but yeah, he
wasn't in part of the ride. It was more Harry
Potter based.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Okay, which was so cool.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
And they that Q was lined up so so awesome,
Like the Q was almost as cool as the ride.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Okay, that's what.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
That's the cool thing about Disney and Universal is they
make the lines enjoyable, whereas if you go to like
a six Flags, it's just a frickin line. Oh yeah,
there's nothing cool. Yeah, there's nothing cool at all the
entire time. It's miserable, it's awful, terrible.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
The Harry Potter Ministry Imagic one was insane. It's probably
the most detailed and like just insanely something I could
never imagine.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
That they put together. Yeah, it's like it's the top one. Okay,
they did the best.

Speaker 4 (11:03):
They really put the time and effort into it, and
it is so cool. Along that Hagrids for me like
the ride wise, but.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
Hagrids is the coaster or the ride.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
The bikes and the coaster, which I did ride for
the first time this time, okay, because I was scared
of coasters.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
So you did all the all three theme parks then?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh yeah, we did all of them.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Oh did you do Hollywood Ripe Ride Rocket at Universal?

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I didn't do it. My boyfriend died it.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Because it closed down. I saw it's gone. I was like,
what do you Why would they take that away?

Speaker 2 (11:29):
I wonder if they're rethming it would be my guess.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, because that track. I love the track.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
How you literally go straight You have to you have
to go to the lockers to empty your pockets because
if you don't, everything is going to fall out of
your pocket. Yeah, because you go straight up and then
straight down. It's so cool.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
No, Actually, I think my boyfriend wrote that one twice.
He loves coasters, so he was like all about it.
And I was like, gallied ice cream.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
Right, you can eat food and hang out. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Literally, that's what I did because I rode all. I
rode every single coaster and ride with him.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
Besides Velostitos s I couldn't do, okay, Rip Ride Rocket,
and then Hulk Coaster. Those were the three that I
was like, you new, Hulk, they have two significant of drops,
and the drops is.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
What gets me, like, aren't that bad?

Speaker 4 (12:10):
No, that the stomach drop feeling is what I can't handle, Okay,
So like I can do them if they're turning and
moving really fast. So I did the new like Stardust
one okay, which apparently is like same level of ve
Lost coaster.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
My sister was shocked that I didn't. Yeah, but it
didn't have any.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
Like major major drop at least that I felt, So
I was fine. And we did it early in the morning,
so I couldn't sack myself out of it, like we
just went straight to it. It was the first one we
rode the entire epic.

Speaker 1 (12:35):
I just do it, Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
I didn't realize that how intensive a coaster it was.
I think I kind of uh, I didn't put two together.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, and then you got it on it. You ever
get on a ride and you're like and you're like,
internally you're like, oh my god, should I ask? Like
can I get all? What do I do?

Speaker 4 (12:50):
And that was me on startup. I was like I
was already there and this is gonna happen. We had
rope dropped it, so I was like, I can't waste this.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
There was so many complication is in my head.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
But and he rode that start us oh gosh, like
three times through.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
He alo was the line.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
So we had fast passes which really helped.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Okay, that's great.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
There's three of them at the new Epic that right
now aren't on the fast pass, but they kept changing
it around, so some we'll be on it and some won't,
and then the next day it'll change. But I think
you can get all of Epic Universe in one day
if you have a fast pass and if you have
early entry.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Okay, I think you could do it all.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Did you stay what hotel? Did you say?

Speaker 4 (13:28):
We stayed at Tara Luna, Okay, and it was really
cool and it was it was the cheaper one out
of all of them, and it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
I would say, because if you stay at the three
Low's Hotels, which is Royal Pacific hard Rock or Portofino.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Your room key is the front of the line passed
for all the rides.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Interesting also was built in I think that's because those
I think I looked at those, but those.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Were they're expensive.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Yeah, like it's between like at minimum like five hundred
to one thousand plus a night.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Yeah, which is a lot because it's included. That part is.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
Included at all of everyone that stays in there that
has a room key, which is awesome, but.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Something in my brain it yeah, yeah, adjusted to it.
You know. The Arrelenial was awesome.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
I think it was built with the new Epic because
it's right by Epic Universe, okay, and it.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Looks really cool.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
It's very futuristic, very like uh kind of fantastic four
okay vibes.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
Yeah, yeah, you will the new one.

Speaker 4 (14:17):
So that was very much a fun spot for like
our universe soul whole days.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
So how do you get to Epic Universe because I
know the bridge, you know, the Island's Adventure in Universe,
but they're right there and you walk to it, So
how do you get to Epic from wherever?

Speaker 4 (14:31):
It's separate? So we shuttle bus to there. We shuttle
bus from there to Universal Studios and all. So they
have shuttle bus is running. You don't have like the
Hogwarts Express like you do.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Connect to got Okay, so it's completely separate stand alone.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
But and honestly, though, I have to tell you one
of the most underrated parks that I didn't see coming.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
We're gonna take a quick break. We'll be our back.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
Got them with the t's look at that. I love it.
I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
After the break, I realized needed a break and I
was like, I really need to tell you this. So
you have five universes there, you have the Celestial, you
have Harry Potter, how to train your dragon super Martin
into any of monsters. Yeah, I did not anticipate to
love monsters as much as I did.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Like, I'm not a huge dark, scary person.

Speaker 4 (15:20):
You might like that one because you love the Halloween
stuff and it's definitely more.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
On that vibe.

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Okay, I didn't anticipate loving it as much as I did.
But Monsters unchained it's called the Frankenstein Experiment was one
of my favorite.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
Rights or a themed ride or.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
It's emotion you're on like you're in a cart and
you're kind of getting twisted and turned around.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Definitely more.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Like the Harry Potter ride where it's not a roller
coaster but more of a visual cool experience. It's like
you're on a track because Harry Potter was so cool,
the original one, the Castle, where you're you're essentially on
a journey. Yeah, yes, you're on a track, but yeah,
you're on a track with almost like imagine like an
arm moving where your arm moves like down, left and
right and all over.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
It's like cool visual experience.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
That's exactly where it is. But it's all monsters. It's
about Frankenstein and Dragon cool.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
Yeah, yeah, and the just the visuals in the things
that they created in there were I wanted to ride
it like five times over.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Because it's so cool.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Yeah, in the line the Waifer it was only ever
fifteen minutes or so. It was awesome, And I'm just
that's the most underrated ride I think at Epcot or
Epic Universe, whereas I think all the others were just
as cool, but that one just kind of goes on
the radar because everybody's so focused on Nintendo World and
how to train your Dragon and Harry Potter, which so

(16:33):
was I yeah, but that one like came at top
for me for the rides, okay, so I.

Speaker 1 (16:38):
Think there was just the one or.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
No, there's so there's at least that we rode.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure because there's some kid rides there too,
but we didn't write any of those. So that we
rode two at Monsters, we rode two at Mario kar
I know there's at least three at Mario Kart. One
of them is like Yoshi where you go around, but
that's like the kid ride, and then and there's one
at Harry Potter. There's I think three.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I had to train your Dragon. We only rode two.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Three rides are okay.

Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah, one of them's like a water ride I think
more for the kiddos. And then Celestial has one the
Stardust tracers.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
So that's why I say, I think if you.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Have early entry and you have fast passed, I think
you can accomplish it all in one day, as long as.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Like you do all the things you want to do
right at the very beginning.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
Yeah, instead of like trying to go University Universe.

Speaker 1 (17:26):
What star dusts? What is that? Was that? Based on that.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Coaster I think wasn't somebody one of the workers told
us it was inspired by something else that they got
rid of because it's a dual coaster.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Oh, Dueling Dragons.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
Dueling Dragons was the coolest ride that used to be
an Isleans of Adventure and and they it was like, yeah,
it was two things where it was two dragons. They
had fire and ice, and so you would each one
of them was different, but there there be this moment
but that was so cool that the two tracks would
come together and just envision two roller coasters, like almost
going head to head, like playing chicken and ride at
the very last moment they both shoot up like you're

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about to hit each other. It was the coolest thing ever.
And they had a hidden entrance to get in to
skip all the lines. So what we would do is
you would ride it and then you would get off,
and then when and then when everyone's going out the exit,
there was this door that said like a child I
think it was child swap or like employee entrance. But
if you open that door, if you had the balls

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that open it, it brought you right to the front
of the line, and then you would basically skip everyone
and just walk right up in there. And so we
used to ride.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
That ride over and over and over and over.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
And I would wear sandals, so I'd sit on my
sandals and so I would like have bare feet ride
in the ride. It was this whole experience and we
were on like we were we took like stuff. So
it was so awesome. And then they got rid of
it and they trained it. They turned it into like
a Harry Potter ride. And I think now that you
completely got rid of it.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Oh yeah, I don't know that. I know.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Win Dragons is gone.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Gone, Hippogriff one.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Maybe I don't.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Hippogriff doesn't have two coasters.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
No, that was it's next to that. It was always
next to like a little small kid Dragon roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Yeah, no, I don't think they have it anymore.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
We just removed it completely.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Wow, not that I'm aware of. And maybe they turned
it like they got rid of it and put something
on it. Okay, because that's where at least where Hippogriff is.
It's also Forbidden Journey. That's where Hogwarts is something further back.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Maybe we're the coaster, maybe that the kid or whatever it.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Is HIPI griff, Yeah, I like that one.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Yeah, hippogriff. And what's the one with the freaking who's
the guy Hagrid?

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Maybe it's either where Haggrid is or a velociraptor because
it's pretty close to that area.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
Oh it makes possible too, So yeah, Stardus Racers is cool.
So when when I went on it, they didn't have
both running, but one of the times my boyfriend went
on it, they were both running and he thought it
was the coolest thing ever.

Speaker 2 (19:39):
He was fascinated.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
He was like, I want to ride that coaster a
million times over because they were.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
Doing that, so they have that moment of the chicken
moment there.

Speaker 4 (19:46):
He's like, you're going next to them pretty much all
the time, and you like innerweave between them, and it's
he was like, oh.

Speaker 3 (19:52):
Yeah in the very beginning when you climb up and
then you get to the top, and then it's like
you could just because your feet are dangling.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Is a dangling feet thing.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
I don't think my feet ever dangled, or I definitely
would have cried.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Okay, yeah, because this is one of those ones where
you sit down and they strap you in over the
shoulders and then they remove the bottom the bottom goes.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
You know, maybe they did do that and I just
blacked out. I closed my eyes. Yeah yeah, yeah, what
was happening, But they definitely strap you in. It's over.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Okay, it's like an uh he put that Veloca Cooster
was number one.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Stardust was number two for him.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Okay, that makes sense because Dueling Dragons was my favorite
of all the rides of all time ever and when
they got rid of.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
It, I was so but hurt. I was so sad
about it.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, and that's what an employee told us.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
We were drinking out one of the Harry Potter bars
and she was like, yeah, they actually kind of mimicked
it because people were sad that Dueling Dragons went away. Yeah,
they did it with Stardust Racers, but like an improved version.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
So cool. I'm so excited to go rite it.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
It was was awesome.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Would you call it epic?

Speaker 2 (20:48):
It was epic?

Speaker 4 (20:50):
It was. And I hope they add on to it,
like I hope to see them like keep adding more
to it, like they do with all of them, because
I think they have the best base to just build
that entire thing off of, especially for all the Halloween
horror nights with monsters.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh my god, well to see what they do there.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Like I in order of my favorite, Harry Potter is
always going to come number one because I just love.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
The worlds of Harry Potter. I think the way they
create them is just.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
You feel you're there.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yes, they put so much detail into it.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
And then Super Mario is really close next to it
because it's so fascinating. Monsters would be free for me.
I don't really have a connection to how to Tread
in Your Dragon. I love the movies, but I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Like, yeah, my kids would love that. I think the
school thing ever, yes, yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
And like the Hiccups wing Gliders I think is what
it's called, which was their coaster.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
It was really good. You go over the water and
it was fun. But then Celestial's just number five just
because you only have the one coaster. It's like the
whole thing's kind of celestial. Yeah, you will is a
way that I saw it, and maybe we didn't go
explore over there enough. That's really where a lot of
the restaurants and stuff are.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
That's my next question because usually Disney always superseded Universal
when it came to food and actually in general, Universal
was called always kind of like the number two, like
the pepsi to the coke, and Disney always ruled. Now
it's like a Now it's a race. It's like a
space race of the seventies in the sixties and seventies,
So who can be the best and the greatest? So universal,
what was your favorite food item or top three food

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items at epic or even just all three in general,
because maybe they changed all their.

Speaker 1 (22:18):
Food because I went there.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah, they didn't change all the food, and I'm still
not majorly Okay, there wasn't anything that was like so
so major. I had like my three favorite things that
I had were like this garlic stick.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
That was insane. It was fuck with garlic and cheese.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
And then a confetti cookie that we found at like
this cute little cookie stand or ice cream stand.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
And then, uh, what was the third one? I wrote
them all down because there was like three, but I
this is what's funny is this is what my boyfriend
and I were having, this conversation of the comparison of
the two oh butter beer crep crepes.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Okay, cool, they had those at a cafe.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
And Harry Potter and they're pricey, but they were yummy.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
I love so. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
But where we put the comparison is Universal has definitely
out edged Disney in the rides now okay for sure,
there's no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
But Disney still holds that food.

Speaker 1 (23:11):
Okay. Cool.

Speaker 4 (23:11):
So that's where they're like at for both of us,
is like we go back to Universal just for the
sake of riding all the rides where it is especially
for adults. I know that's different with kids, but I
would go just to walk around and eat true and
a lot.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Of good food there. Can you tell me this? At Universal?
They still have men in black? Did you ride that? Yep?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
We rode that, okay, always push the red button when
he says, don't becau then you get one hundred thousand points.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
I did that, okay?

Speaker 1 (23:35):
Cool?

Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
And then.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Yeah yeah, and then when you're riding through, if you
ever see the people's cars and they have a red
circle lighting up, if you hit their car, you get
in their car, do you notice the car spins around
in three sixty? And then you get extra points for
that too, Yeah? And then et is that still there?

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (23:53):
Okay, so this is so funny because I have when
I went to Universal last time, we really only did
like the major ones because.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
We weren't there for very long. Yeah, so this time
we had enough time.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
We walked to every world and we were just checking
everything out.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
So we rode every single ride that we could. Heck,
we even had i ate and had a pretzel at
like the Simpsons bar. Yeah, yeah, sitting her hanging out.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's cool what she used to be back back to
the future back in the day.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Really.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, when I was a kid to Simpsons.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
Simpsons is a cool land if you're a big fan
of that. It's definitely definitely decked out for that. But yeah,
he my boyfriend loved ET growing up. I was like, well,
let's just ride the ride, like we don't have anything
to lose, and the.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Line is so cool, right.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
We walk in there and even smells like the eighties exactly.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
And they got that little thing where they'll speak spit,
sell whatever it is where it's like typing things in
or whatever.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
And he was so fascinated because they wrote they put
take your name down at the very yes.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Yeah, and at the.

Speaker 2 (24:41):
End he was like, did you just say my name?
I was like, yes, they told.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
You say go goodbye. Steve and Margan.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
The best part is is we would go there and
you know, people from all over the world come to travel,
and people would come over from Asia and their names
are different, and so it was always fun to watch
the employees because this a ride from literally the eighties
where the names are very basic. It's like it's all
of our names. And so someone would pop up like,
what's one of the guys from BTS.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
I think his name is Jingu? Yeah, or so let's
say your name is Jingu and you walk up and like, hey,
what's your name? My name is Gingu.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
He goes, well, you're Jeremy today, and they would just
type in the inn. They wouldn't say anything they were
So you get to the end, it'd be a car
full of people from like Asia and you're like, like
Jeremy Karen and you're like, nah, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
So you're like, okay, those sound like names, but none
of ours are.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
And then the cards they give you where they scan
it and they have to give to the right attendant.
Are they still the crappy like for when I was
a kid, it was a piece of paper and they
would just it was elaminated piece of paper.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
Is it still that car okay, cool.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well I don't I'm not gonna say I did this,
but I know somebody who has taken those cards and
brought them home, the old ones, has a whole stack
of them at their house.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Really.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
That is called the name got called early on. Then
once you figured out that you could just take that
card with you. Then he took a couple of.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Them a couple of times, and like, I just don't
have one.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
I don't have one.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah, and like I didn't get one, but he has
a few of them at his house though. It's pretty cool.
I mean every time I go to his house, I
always check him out.

Speaker 1 (26:09):
They're really cool.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
That tracks that et is your favorite?

Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I love that.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I mean I love DT as a kid too.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
But that movie there, that whole ride kind of set
me back in time.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
It is.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
It smells straight from the eighties, like cafe totally exactly.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah. And that friend, by the way that has a
card is me. I have those.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I wasn't gonna call you out. That's like stealing, so
I was just gonna.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Yeah, I think it's okay, We're fine. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
Yeah, So yeah, that was That was the entire trip.
That's cool, and then uh, we'll take another break. We'll
come back and we'll talk about whatever else you want
to talk about. I just realized we need to take
another break. This isn't the DT. Yeah, so I'm now obsessed,
like I just want to live there and go to

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Epic all the time.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
My sister lives in Orlando and she does the whole
Disney thing because she's a nanny business through the whole
Disney thing. But Universal, I was looking back, like when
I used to go there, I had an annual pass
and it cost me ten dollars a month, ten dollars
ten dollars a month, and when I moved from Orlando
to San Francisco, I canceled it. But part of me
was like, because I was broken, I had no money
and no extra income. Part of me was like, man,

(27:18):
I should have kept that ten dollars a month, because
I don't know if you get grandfathered in at some
point where they take it away from you, or almost
like rank control, where it goes up a little bit
over time. I could be sitting here right now with
twenty dollars a month Disney or Universal annual passes because
it was to.

Speaker 2 (27:32):
Keep even though you didn't live there anymore.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
Like ten dollars a month, and that included I had.
I had the no blackout dates, and I had free parking.
I got think a ten percent discount on merch and food,
and I also paid the extra I think it was
fifty dollars initially to get the frequent Fear Pass, which
meant during Halloween Hornites, I could do the daytime and
then stay and do the night thing with no blackout

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dates either from with my Frequent Fear Pass.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
Yeah, you totally should have kept to that. Yeah, I'm
assuming you canceled it when you move.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Move.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
I was broke. I didn't have any money.

Speaker 3 (28:01):
I was movingm Orlando to San Francisco, where everything was
super expensive, so I was like, well, I don't need
that anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
I don't, But man, in hindsight, I should have kept
that crab.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Well, hindsight's always twenty twenty h of course. Yeah, yeah,
especially when it blows up like that, because back in
the day too, I don't I don't know that you
had near as many people traveling to go to those
like it's now a thing. It's such a destination for
people to go and travel, and.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
Back then it was mostly Disney. Everyone went to Disney.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Universal was more of a locals but there was some
international travel, but strictly local.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
Loved Universal, you know.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
And speaking of Disney, we did go to we spent
we got to Park Hopper, so we went to Epcot
and we did Magic Kingdom, we did Animal Kingdom really
just for all the rides.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
This time this trip.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, you went to Disney too, Oh.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh, because I blocked you on vacation.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
I didn't look at you because I didn't want any
spoilers of epic, so I stopped looking at your stories
and all your posts actually blocked, blocked whenever whenever your
face would pop up like that, f that somebody else
go to the next person.

Speaker 4 (28:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah, it wasn't against you. It was just like I
didn't want to see anything and ruin it for me.
And once I saw a couple of them come through,
I was like, no, I can't do it, you know, yeah,
I don't want to ruin it for me.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
I was like I was really tempted. It was like
a drug.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
I was like, Oh, I really want to see it,
but I was like, no, but I don't want to
see it. I've seen it not if I'm good. Yeah,
I hate movie trailers because it gives everything away. Like
if within ten seconds I'm hooked, then I stop it
and I don't watch any more of it.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
No.

Speaker 4 (29:17):
I totally get that. I mean, especially because you're so
attached to that place too, that, Yeah, you don't want
to see that firsthand from videos.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, I want to see what I want to experience it.
But he was a Disney too.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Oh my god, you had the world's awesome MISSI vacation.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Oh yeah, we did, and we did it all one
day and we wrote all the rights. I rode Tron.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Oh my god, I've never ridden that. Oh cool.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
It was insane.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
I bet it looks insane.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
I wish it was longer.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Okay, it's short.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, I mean you know it's short. In general, they're
all short. You always want them to be longer, of course.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
Yeah, except Avatar Avatars the other one where you're like,
oh this is actually.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Worth I'm good. Yeah, I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, but yeah, Tron was insane. It's like Guardians of
the Galaxy but on bikes.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Oh cool, because Guardians of the Galaxy is really cool.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
So cool?

Speaker 1 (29:58):
Oh man, okay, cool.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah, and I got we rope dropped that one because
I really wanted my boyfriend to ride that because that's
one of the one coasters that I can ride without
knowing because I have no idea what actually happened.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
My brain's tricked. And he loved that one.

Speaker 4 (30:11):
So Guardians and Hagrids were tied for him. Okay, but
I mean universal. This is where I'm saying, like the
rides come in Velosit Coaster and start us number one
and two spots, all books, everything we rode, and he
wrote every coaster there was to ride.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Did you write Expedition Everest at Animal Kingdom?

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Yes? He did.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
That one's fun too because the whole backwards thing where
you go backwards.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
The whole time, and he loved it. But hey, let
me see if I can pull it up. He put
together like his little his roller coaster list.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Okay, cool, so that'll help, you know. I kind of
want to go with him like him and I should
just go. Yeah, and my kids.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
You can also go with my mom and sister who
loved them, so okay, my sister and him were totally
geeking out.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
And brother in law. It's my dad and I we
just like to.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
Yeah, so Tier one Velosa Coaster, start Us Racer, Okay,
that's it. In tier one, Tier two you gots Guardians,
Tron Hulk Wing Gliders, which is the how to train
your Dragon one okay, Hollywood, rip and ride okay, and
then you've got uh And I don't know that he
ever put Everest in there, just because that was one
of the last ones he wrote. But Tier three with

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Space Mountain, Flight of the Hippogriff Curse of the Werewolf,
which was the other one in Monsters okay.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
The two rides.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Tier four was Donkey gumb and I think because the
experience of it, Yeah, it just really overshadowed the entire coaster,
and it wasn't an insane coaster. It's definitely more geared
towards kids, for sure.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
So that's also why we're like, dang, we waited in
line for He's like, if I would have rated that
for like Stardus Racer Velosic Coaster, totally would have been
like worth the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
But yeah, but that long away, you're like, this isn't
worth it.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Yeah, So and I just think the wait so long
because there's so many kids that want to ride it.

Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, because it is kid Base, and anything kid Base
is going to have a longer wait, like even Small World.
Sometimes you're like, there's an hour weight at Small World.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
This ride sucks. But because there's kids, there's more of
them and less of us, So exactly, I get it.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah, yeah, if I had to get that, the Everest
one is in tier two or tier three.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
So okay, that was a good one. Yeah, and so
you went to which ones you went? Animal Kingdom, Magic Kingdom.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Yeah, that was one. We ate and brank around the
world that Epcot.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Okay, cool. I love Epcot. That's such a fun experience.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
I was so exhausted by the end of it, and
I was definitely drunk.

Speaker 1 (32:17):
Okay, did you ride test Track because they recently redid that.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I didn't because the wait was so long all the time,
and they also changed all their which this made me
so angry. Lightning Lane used to be so accessible.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Yeah, and now you have to pay Lightning Lane for
three rides at one park or another park.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
They're all totally separate, or you can pay.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
Like an unlimited for one park, and the unlimited for
one park is like anywhere from two fifty to five
hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Holy crap.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
It's insane.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Oh my god. And then summertime too, so it's costing more.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Oh yeah, but this is they're now all individual so like,
oh my god, I don't know what it costs to
have Lightning Lane.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
For all four parks. Yeah, no idea. I didn't even
get that.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, I wouldn't even look at it yet.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
We bought one Lightning Lane the entire time, and it
was for Avatar, just because we were going there later.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
I wanted to like parkop, make it and leave. And
besides that, I was like, I'm not buying Lightning Lane.
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Is the Genie Plus still a thing? And then Lightning
Lane is the additional or is it now only Lightning Lane?
Only Lightning Oh, because there was member it was Genie
Plus and it was like it was like one step
up or like the mid and then then there were
always like one or two and it's usually the most
popular rides. It's like an additional seventeen dollars if you
want to go ride whatever, they're like, I'll do it
for that one.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Now it's only Lightning Lane, man are Yeah they are
going for the throat oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
And so it's either you can buy a single one.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
You can buy a multi which is three, but they
also dictate which three, so it's not like you can
get three popular ones. Yeah, one popular one and two others. Oh,
or you can get unlimited, but that unlimited is only
for one park.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
I missed Disney in the nineties, that was when that
was in my opinion, and I don't need all the
new rides that they've that they've accrued all over the years.
F those rides, I would I would trade all the
new rides in to go back to what it was
when I was a kid. Did you ever go there
when you were when you were younger, you never got
the experience that it was so awesome. The longest line
was like thirty minutes, and everything was so affordable. I

(34:08):
think for a ticket it was like thirty forty bucks
to get in for a kid, in fifty bucks for
an adult. It was a it was a thing families
could go and the whole reason Walt started this crap.
And I feel like ever since Walt passed away, they
got greedy. They got extremely greedy. It became more about
the greed and the money versus the experience. Because the
experience was a family thing that it was like, hey,
you bring your family out. I mean, and it was

(34:30):
back then it was even like even cheaper. It was
like the whole family can get in for twenty bucks
and then the foods No, no, it was like it
was an enhanced fair. That's where the whole idea came from.
If you ever go to La Griffith Park, they have
like a whole or Walt got his idea for Disney World,
it's in Griffith Park.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
I think Eddie went there his last vacation.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
But yes, if you ever go to La Griffith Park
where the Griffith Observatory is, Walt conceptualized his ideas from
this area, in that hiking area where there's like a
little Marya around all this stuff. But his idea was
like a place where families can go and have a
good time and enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
And now it's just straight, it's just oozing with greed.
It's gross, very commercialized, so commercialized. It sucks.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
I still want to go, I know, but it also
sucks because now it's costing thousands of dollars for a
family to go. Like me with a family of five,
it's going to cost us because we're thinking about going
next summer after our kids get out of school, and
going right when school's over at the end of May,
because it's not as busy end of May versus like.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
June, July and August.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
And it's not as hot either.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Not as hot.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
But I was looking at the budget for it, for
hotels and for tickets and not even thinking about expending,
no spending money yet, not food, not the lightning lane,
it's just the base We're looking at between five to
seven thousand dollars for a family of five a base price,
so all in all, probably close to ten thousand dollars
just for the Disney experience.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
And it's soft that's going to happen, And I like,
I get it.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
They're competing probably with Universal and what's happening, But I
that alone also makes me be like, I'm going to
go to Universal and pay for a fast pass because
that fast pass is worth ten times more now in
Universal then, And if.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Universal keeps that and they don't get greedy, that's how
they can combat Disney. So if you're listening Universal, that's
how you can beat them is stick with what we
are used to and what we should be paying for.
And that alone even if the rides are okay or
even if they're the greatest. That's how you can beat
them is offer something that people can afford and get
their money's worth, versus Disney being so f and greedy.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, oh it was crazy. I remember opening up the
app that day and I was like, are you kidding me?
I don't want to write anything this bad.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yeah, And then you wonder why you see these videos
on World Star of Moms and stuff going off, and
you're like, yeah, because they spend ten thousand dollars and
if anything goes wrong, they're so pissed and they're so stressed.
It's like, I totally get it now because those problems
didn't exist twenty years ago, because there wasn't any stress,
because it was fun, a much more fun environment.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, you wouldn't mind waiting in lines because the lines
weren't very long.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
They were thirty forty minutes.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
That track the entire day was over one hundred and
thirty minutes one hundred nine hundred an hour and thirty
minute weight.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's gross.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
The entire time, I was like, I don't care enough
to be in that line. I don't care enough to
buy buy a pass for it, and I don't care
enough to wait that long, Like I just want to
ride the ride and enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
So, and I like the whole experience of rope dropping
and I think that part's fun.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
That's funn yet is we would do that a lot.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
Yeah, that's that's how you ride the fun rides. We
did it at Universal, we did it at Epcot. It
was just that's part of the experience. You're supposed to
like be excited to ride these rides.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
And you have to do that.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
The mall fast walk where you're going as fast as
you can to where like your shins are like bleeding
because you're walking so fast. It's like burning because you
want to get to what, you know, whatever. You always like, Okay,
what's going to be the longest line that you've seen?
That's the one you got to go do first. Yeah,
because even if it's a thirty minute way, like thirty
minutes is way better than four hours.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Well, and that's exactly why it's talking car Okay.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
But you still got aft because of technology.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
That's the thing too, because whenever a new park opens,
it's so technology based that there's always gonna be problems
and they haven't worked it out.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
Yet that's always the worst part.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
Remember when Ian's Adventure first opened up back in the
early two thousands, it was constant problems.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
You got used to go dueing in Dragon's like, oh, sorry,
it's not working. We don't know.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
We've never seen this before because they've never seen any
of it, because it's all brand new, and so everyone
always be like, f Founds Adventure. We're just going to
go to the standard Universal and do whatever.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, now like Ales of Adventure is like all worked
out and.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Yeah they're fine.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah, we're just in the beginning phases of it. Yes,
I'd love to go back in a year.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Oh, very different in a year, the two years even
more different. Did you ride Mummy?

Speaker 3 (38:26):
When you're at Universal, it's the indoor roller coaster. Like
when you walk in the Universal. You walk in and
you go past what used to be Jimmy Neutron or
Hanna Barbera, which probably isn't there anymore. You keep going
into your left is like the sound stages and I
think Jimmy Fallons rides over there, and you make that
right and then right there in the corner it used
to be King Kong and it's now the Revenge of

(38:48):
the Mummy or Return of the Mummy. It's an indoor
one where you go through and it's.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Like there is no escape and you get a little wet.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
I think, yeah, yeah, could they spit out you? It's
like this the death is only the beginning. We hit
a wall. Wait it's a curse.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Yeah, that one's awesome, and then like the little bugs
fall out of the thing and you go backwards a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Yeah. I was a little worried.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
I was like, what's happening on this ride because I
didn't know, right, I thought it was like one of
the three d ones.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Yeah, I got tricked. Yes, but it's like a it's
like a mid roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
It wasn't near as bad as that.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Yeah, even when you stop and there's like that whole
thing where the guy comes out and it's on fire,
and then like you that little drop, even that drop
isn't even that big.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Of a deal.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
No, it really wasn't as bad. It's definitely one of
the more baby roller coaster.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
It is, but it's so much fun though. I love
my mom.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Yeah, we did all of them, Okay, well he did
all most like three. I did as many as I
could possibly do.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
I'm proudy, it's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
I'm proud of myself. I rode Haggards three times.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
That's pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
And I didn't even want to ride it the last
time at all.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
So was it pressure from the boyfriend or like, I
guess I should probably do this although I should do this,
or we just wanted to do it.

Speaker 4 (39:48):
No, I mean, heck, I sat there while he rode
Velozo Coaster five times and I did not feel pressure.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
He was like, are you sure it's okay? I keep going.
I was like, please keep going. I'm not going to
ride this ride. Like if you want to ride it
a million times over, I will it here and eat
ice cream.

Speaker 1 (40:01):
Hell yeah, go.

Speaker 4 (40:02):
And I just know Haggards. I loved Harry Potter so much, okay.
And my sister is like, I really think you'll be okay.
It has one drop and beyond that you're fine.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
I was like, okay, So I did it one time
and I was like, okay, I like it enough to
drop is like one foot, it's nothing. It's just like
a straight down is why.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Okay, guys, And now it gets me.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
So each time that drop came, I definitely like too much.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Because you knew it was coming there. Yes, but you
get through it.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
You're fine, exactly. So besides that, though, I yeah, I
love Taggards. I just love Harry Potter.

Speaker 4 (40:32):
I'm such a Harry Potter nerve, and I could I
could sit in the Harry Potter world and go back
and forth on hot on the train all over.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
And over and over.

Speaker 3 (40:40):
Is Drastic Park? Is it still Drastic Park? Or do
they make a Drastic World now? Like when you you know,
when you walk up like deadly do rights is to
your leaf? It's that water ride with pop Eye? Did
you ride that one?

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Should we ever did any water rides?

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Okay? We avoided kind of kind of uncomfortable after a while.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
Yeah, yeah, just because it would be soaking wet.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
But I think it's I hope it's still a Jurassic Park.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
I don't think that they haven't necessarily a There's one sign,
but I can't remember what it said, yeah right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Because right when you walk in, it's that it's that
from the movie where it's that big like stone hedge
looking thing and at the top it's like the gate
to the inside and.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
See Jurassic Park.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
I think that one is still the same. I think
the one on the other one that connects to kind
of Harry Potter World. Okay, says Jurassic World.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Oh so they just kind of one park. One's the world. Okay. Cool.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
I could be wrong on that.

Speaker 4 (41:25):
But okay, because I don't know that we ever went
on the other side, but I saw what you're talking
about from the backside.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, so I don't know necessarily what the riding was
on it.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Okay, because my son really wants to because every time
I go to Orlando, it's always in the fricking winter
and it's so busy because it's holiday time, and he
really wants to go see Jurassic Park because this is
his favorite favorite thing in the whole world is dinosaurs.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah, so I'm hoping, okay, would you totally take him?
Does he like coasters?

Speaker 3 (41:47):
I tricked him onto a coaster one time back when
he was like four or five. I took him on
that mine with the Snowhite mine chaft ride.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Oh yeah, Snowine the Seven Dwarfs.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
And he's like, this is like a ride, It's gonna
get a little fast, what's fine. He's like, all right, cool,
And then the whole time he's on, he's like and
he got off, was like, Dad, you tricked me. I'm
so mad. And he was so pissed me the whole time.
And now he like, won't touch it. But my middle child,
she's like wild and crazy and she would. She would
definitely ride roller coasters, I believe.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
Okay, yeah, don't put them on Veloci coaster.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
Then no, I won't do that. No, now he wouldn't.
I wouldn't put theim on that now.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Heck. I mean my boyfriend was like, yeah, there was
a few kids sitting next to me. I'm like, that's
really cool for them.

Speaker 1 (42:24):
That's cool. That's not me.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
You're not gonna get me, not on this way. I
watch you guys drop enough times from that.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Yeah, I'm out. I just watching. Not sure I'm gonna
do it.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
So all right, we're gonna jump out of here. And
thanks for talking about Universal and Disney with me.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
I knew I could nerd out with you.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
Oh yeah, this is strictly a podcast only about theme parks.
Today had nothing to do with best bits it was.
It was only a theme park show. And I'm okay
about that.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
I know, and we love it, but that's Steve and
I we both love those things. Oh yeah, I think
if if the show would be by theme parks, I
don't think you'd never see one.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Oh, we'd have any passes and as soon as what
we were done with the day, we'd go. Even if
that's the best thing about an annual passes you would leave.
You could go there and there was no pressure to
ride everything. Like we were in La we had Disneyland passes,
and if we were to go on a weekend, it
was just like, hey, let's ride whatever, one or two
rides and grab some food and walk around and we'd
be out by noon because there was no pressure to
do it all. That's the best thing about Naniel Pass.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah, it's like me where I'm like, okay, we have
to hit everything five times over.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
Forget that.

Speaker 3 (43:24):
That was the best thing about Nanial Pass. That's why
I'm saying, why is there not a theme park here
in Nashville?

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Why?

Speaker 2 (43:30):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
Why is there not one? This is a place that
needs one.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Yes, technically we have Dollywood.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
That's too damn far away. That's not a day trip.
There should be a theme park within the thirty to
forty five minute range of the city. Dollywood is great,
but it's too e f and far away.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
You can't drive World.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
I think also three four hours away. There needs to
be one here in Nashville. There's plenty of grass to
rip something up and put a.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Theme park in.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Come on, even if it's like a country theme. Like
you know, there are those dumb bars on Broadway where
everyone gets a bar, everyone gets a ride. Tim McGraw,
you can ride the food Man chew, you ride a
bull a rollercoaster. Speaking of all kinds of country themed whatever.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Imagin a country music themed.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
I can.

Speaker 2 (44:11):
That would be awesome.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
I can just imagine a theme park and then we'll
figure the rest of it out. But I can't believe
with all these families and all the tourism here, we
don't want to go just a Broadway tourism when they
come here. Give them something else to do. We're done
with Broadway. I don't want to hike, and that is it.
There is nothing else around here but hiking and a
freaking Broadway.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
You're not wrong.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
Tell me I was gonna say. Tell me I'm wrong,
because I'm not.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
No, I'm giggling because you're right.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Give me a theme park National Chamber of Commerce. So
I'm passionately asking you for a theme park. Please. I
will help you out.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
You heard it here first Steve's but what do they
call that political? Uh? His campaign?

Speaker 1 (44:48):
My campaign is the theme park. Ye yeah, predy O'Connell.
You hear me.

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Bye, everybody.

Speaker 1 (44:55):
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