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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park Capital of the.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
World, Orlando, Florida. This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait
the podcast? Is this all radio?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
There and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here,
there is Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hi, Hello, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Jimmy D on assignment in Chicago today. We have sent
him there, Scott, to get eyes on the eventual permanent
location of the Halloween Hornight's attraction coming to that area
of the world.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, and uh, thank you Jimmy for reminding us that
you weren't here this week.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Scott and air like, I guess it's just us this week.
Because Jimmy's in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Jimmy keeps sending us pictures from Lake you know, Wrigley
and other stuff around Chicago. I don't think he's here.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We do usually do a better job of telling each
other when we're I'm not going to be there next week.
He's one just kind of slipped slipped by.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He did tell us in July he was going to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This is true, This is true. He's there. For the
fourth I don't know what else he's doing there besides,
you know, doing the scouting of that location, which he
did send us a picture of.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I mean the new season season three of the
Bears out. Maybe he is there season four of the
Bears out. He's gonna go check out those things, getting
an Italian beef sandwich.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That could be sure. I think he was going to
a Cubs game playing was it Guardians? I've never even
heard of the Guardians. Is that a professional baseball team
or it's just like the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
There there was a Cleveland baseball team that had a
different name, and recently, in the last like five or
six years, that's the Indians. They have changed it to
the Guardian name.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, oh, I did not know that. It says how
long ago does this happen? Because this is brand new
news to me.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Six years ago?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh wow, sound of a gun. I had no idea. Wow. Okay,
well that's when he went to see the former Indians
slash now Guardian.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Twenty twenty two is when they became the Guardians.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, so I have three years huh.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, before that, they were the Indians. Before that, they
were the Cleveland Naps.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What's a nap napkin? It's a weird name. Then more
do they changed it?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't know. I like I like na I like naps.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, I like a nap too, but it doesn't give
a very intimidating baseball name if you're a nap.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, the the full was the Cleveland Napoleons. Oh, okay
or Naps after a newspaper conducted a write end contest.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, all right, Well it's no wonder that name didn't
last long.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Named after Napoleon nap Lejoy.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
They didn't put as much effort into naming teams back then,
and I'll think.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, it went from it went from the Cleveland Long Show,
the Grand Rapids Prodigals in eighteen ninety nine, the Cleveland
Long Shores in nineteen hundred, the Cleveland Bluebirds in nineteen
oh one, the Cleveland Broncos in nineteen oh two, and
then the Cleveland Naps in nineteen oh three.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Gosh, these guys could not pick a nade. Then they
finally get the Indians. They stick to it for a
while and they're like, oh, gotta change it again.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, they had that one.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Do it again? Yep.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
They were the Naps for eleven years.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, and then they were in the Indians for a
long time, yes, many years. Yeah, cal Ripken, right, he
was an Indian.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, he was a Baltimore Oriel.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't know who played the Indians in.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Jim Tomay, Albert bell Manny Ramirez for a while. Paul
Bird never heard of those agains.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Out of any of those guys, My knowledge of baseball
exists somewhere in the eighties, and that's it a very
short window.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh no, you know, Okay, these guys played for the
in the then Indians, Rick Vaughan, Willie Mays, Hayes, m
Pedro Serrano.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I don't know any of these guys.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm now naming characters from the movie Major League.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay. I never saw a Major League either, but I
liked the New York Mets. Okay, that's who I liked
when I was a kid. Eryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Lenny Dykstra.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, they beat my team. They beat my team in
the eighty six World Series.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How was that Game six?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You were really? Were you really?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah? I was there. But the most famous baseball game
in your generation and you were there.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I was there, and that should have like changed, that
should have like changed your life, like it major like
a baseball fan for eternity.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well I was. I was a longtime baseball fan. I
just you know, turned into a teenager and you know,
oh my god, like anything anymore? Yeah, Game six right through?
Uh Roger, no hold on Bill Bellot, Bill Buckner, yep,
I almost called him Belichick Bill Buckner, right.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Different different Boston guys.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Mookie Wilson, yes, Mookie Wilson, yep. All right. How about
the world of theme parks? I went to one last week.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You did. You went to SeaWorld and it was went
to SeaWorld, If I remember correctly, it was a gorgeous day.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It was not. I wanted to bring one of my
coworkers because SeaWorld, as they often do, gave us like
free tickets, and I had like tickets in abundance, so
I met them out there so they could park for free.
And as soon as we parked the car, it the
skies opened up. It was almost like hurricane level winds
out there. I've never seen rain at this level. And
then all of a sudden, it just was an immediate
(05:44):
stop and went from like full force to stop and
we didn't end up having a pretty good day at
the park. We got to ride a lot of rides.
I think I had like sixty dollars and SeaWorld Bucks
to spend. I tell you the SeaWorld Pass. If you
enjoyed that park, it is the best deal going because
you get free tickets for friends and they give you
money sometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, it's it's it's a it's a very good deal.
It's it's such an incentive to go. And if you
like roller coasters and animals, you can't really get that
anywhere in town.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, in one place, they just and they pop up
rides all the time, like they built that Penguin ride,
the roller coaster. Then all of a sudden they got
the new room, which is like which is like Soorn,
which I did get to ride this expedition something or other. Uh,
it was a lot like Sorn.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It was it. Oh yeah, yeah, we haven't talked to
because it just it just opened like last week.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, it just opened the last few weeks. They did
the pass little previews. I got to ride it. It
was literally the only ride you could ride when we
first got there because it was raining, and we still
only waited about forty minutes, okay, because the entire park
was there, because there's nowhere else to go. Yeah, if
it rains, you're out of luck except this one uh,
(06:57):
this one single ride. Yeah, it was cool. It's a
lot like Soorin, except for they spray water on you
a few timesh okay. Expedition Odyssey, Expedition Odyssey. Yeah, they
do have some like new like improvements. Like I will say,
the seats are so very reminiscent to Soorin. But when
this ride takes off, when it goes to lift you up,
(07:18):
your seats like spin and turn you into the screen.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Woh, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like yeah, so there is there is some different mechanics
to it. But once the ride gets going, very similar
to Soorn I just say, probably just a bit smaller
just because of the space they're working in.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do you go do you exit then into like the
polar Arctic.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, you go right into that Arctic zone. They have
some penguins in there now too, the penguins who were
only exclusive to like the penguin area before, but now
they tossed a couple of penguins in there. M M,
So those guys are hanging out.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I always liked when you would go, like when you
would do Wild Arctic and then you come up to
there's like an exhibit where you put your hand on
a thing and it's like you can test your holding
your breath till like a blue whale or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes, yes, I think they still have some of that.
I'm not sure all of it works. I thought you
were gonna say, you like the thing where you put
your hand in that block of ice in the Wild
Arctic area because you can hold your hand there and
see how long you can keep your hand there and
make a handprint before having to pull it awa because
your hand is frozen.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I mean that's kind of fun that. That's still kind
of fun as well. The thing I like doing is
less painful.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, in a way, yeah, it's less painful. But yeah,
it's another new ride at Sea World. So all in all,
you know, when the rain was done, it was good.
We did make a mistake. We made a rookie mistake
and we rode. We rode Mako first, which is the biggest,
the fastest, and everything we rode after that. We're like,
I kind of felt small. That was little.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, it's not don't.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Ride the biggest ride first. You gotta you gotta build
up to it. You go that first, everything's a letdown afterwards.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So I'm looking at the timeline for SeaWorld and it's
literally Expedition Odyssey twenty twenty five, Penguin Trek twenty twenty four, YEP,
Pipeline twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They are just raging out there.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Icebreaker twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow, I it's a ridy year. That's wild.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And then it was Mako in twenty sixteen, Manta in
two thousand and nine, and Cracking in two thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So they just be going crazy because they know, you
know that the animal shows are more limited than they
used to be, so they're doing things. They're making it
more of a coaster parking boy, they're just cranking them out.
I don't know if they have anything else to build
anytime soon, but what can you complain about with all
those new rides.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm like, I would have to look at a map
and see if they have I would be like, oh,
do they have room for any of this? But like
when you look at the footprint of the rides that
they're building, it's like, we'll just figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, we'll just put it in there, or it's like we'll.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Put it to go through another ride, like the Penguin one.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah. I think they are having a big sale for
pass holders now too, So you thought about it. Definitely
worth looking into.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, everyone is doing sales right now, Like at the time,
Disney is doing sales. Universal announced yesterday by two days
get one free on a nice two park, two day
ticket during the summer.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, that's that's a nice deal.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, it's like every and it's like we've talked about
in the past, like Universal is doing Universal is doing deals.
Disney's doing a bunch of deals throughout the summer on
like a lot of the hotels and like kids tickets.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah. I did see something too, and this isn't really
related to deals, but I saw something that somebody mentioned
something about a certain situation with the way tickets are
for Epic Universe, where it led them to believe that
it's very likely in twenty twenty six you'll be able
to buy any you'll pass it includes Epic Universe.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It'll either be a strict pass or if you're a
current pass. Hoole an add on to the past that
you have.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, so that likes create a mad scramble for people
to get passes so they can get in on that
and make sure they're able to get the annual pass
for Epic Universal. Yeah, I mean that does make it
a great deal.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It hasn't sold out like the days of selling out.
I'm gonna be very curious to see, you know, how
holiday weekend will be because this will be the second
holiday weekend that they have had since they since they
opened up. And I know they were sold out the
first time. Granted it was you know, the first week
that the park was open. So it'll it'll be very interesting.
(11:35):
I mean, it's such an it's such an interesting park.
Like I look at the wait times and it's like
there's some rides that can just churn through people. I've
talked about the Universal Monsters and chain, like ten fifteen
minutes is like what I see most of the time.
And I walked onto that ride when I did it,
you know, two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So I think what's going to be unique about this
weekend is and we covered this last year. Last fourth,
the parks were dead from whatever reON We don't know why.
It was an anomaly, but the parks were dead. Now
this fourth of July, we're gonna have atrocious weather throughout
the weekend. It's just gonna rain and rain and rain
some more. So. I mean that's gonna make you if
you're buying a single day ticket, you're not gonna want
(12:15):
to use it in a day or it's gonna have
eighty percent chance of rain.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I will say, though, I am going to Universal this weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You're a passolder, you can go and leave. Who exactly,
it's off your back.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's a yearly tradition. I go every July fourth, so
I will be going just as I do every year.
I'm usually there for three hours before I leave when
it starts to get too busy or the rain comes in,
or it's ninety nine degrees in the shade.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, well you can give us a crowd report. Yeah,
I'm real curious this weekend because it's just it's been
it's been raining a lot this week, but this weekend
it's just gonna be.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
A wash out of feels like it's it's and you know,
it feels like it's happening earlier in the year than
it has in the past.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah. Yeah, And like, well, today we're recording this as
we record this, it is July third, traditionally Red Hot
and Boom day. I want if that's happening tonight, like,
I mean, it's probably soon. Well, got event every year
when we worked at the radio station with Excel, I
was get involved anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We at least know what happens when it rains.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, we run and hide and nearly die every time.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, no, no, no, I I didn't have to run anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You were inside because you always booked the best gig
inside the hotel, just you know, helping to escort guests
in and out.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, exactly. I never knew what was going on in
the outside world until I see people walk in and
they're drenched and from rain.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, or they have the look of fear in their
eyes because they almost got blown into the lake by lightning.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Nothing like holding down a tent when those seven hundred
mile an hour wind guests comes through.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Or hiding under a stage.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, that's another furnitures flying off the stage. We never
had a Red Hot and Boom where there wasn't near
disaster goes something.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
The last one that I worked in twenty twenty three,
I think.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I doesn't count. I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's yeah, it was my last one. Uh I think
it became the last one that Xcel was involved in.
Uh I don't because that was the last thing I
worked for. iHeart Orlando.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So yeah, yeah, no, it's yeah. Did they have a
did they have an artist? Still? Do you know? There's
just fine work?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Last I saw it was like it just said live music.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, all right, somebody somebody will be there with music.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, well you want me to segue into music?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah? Well sure, yeah, I was about to say that
because you're you're you've got it. Eat to the Beat, right,
It got announced.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Twenty twenty five Eat to the Beat Concert Series. The
lineup is out.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Okay, let's uh, let's talk about this. Last week we're
Anniversity World's lineup. The highlights were, uh, docin or iHeart
engineer Frank Lower. He will definitely be at the show
to see Don Dacin and George Lynch both there, legendary lineup.
Then a bunch of country artists and lit and fuel.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Right yes they were the same day, yeah, same.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So if you want to get that nineties rocking like
Earthday Birthday six, that's the way to go, all.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Right, So Uh, kicking it off, Joey Fotonin Friends.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, Big Big Act, Joy, Fotone he was in and
Street Boys and Dang.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And he still lives here. You could see him at
the park. Uh somewhat regularly just in general. Yeah. Uh
uh mercy Me.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Pop ba pop band? Is that? I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I feel like I've seen them on the list before.
They're not labeled under new Okay, then Katie Tunstall.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm I'm at a loss on that one.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Toby Mack.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I've heard of Toby Mack. I don't know what he does,
but I've heard of him.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Starship featuring Mickey Thomas.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Okay, there we go Starship. Now we're throwing it back
to the early days.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Uh. Basilos I have not heard of before.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Imagine probably a Latino band.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Probably Sheila E.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay, Sheila. She was an eighties star.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
M M M. Ben Rector be No no no. This
is a solo act that played Earth Red, Hot and
Boom one year. Because I remember our former co worker,
longtime supporters show Glory, wanted to get a picture of
(16:30):
Ben Rector standing next to longtime supporter of the show
Derek Okay, because they looked the same.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wow, in my in my own stupidity, Ben Folds five
is actually his name is Ben Folds.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So oh, I didn't know. I didn't know that the
sexual name.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I'm pretty sure his last name is Folt, so that
doesn't work at all.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Then we have Tiffany, Okay, Tiffany's back, yep, yep, yep.
I think we're alone now mm hmm uh. Then Jesse
and Joe never heard of them. I don't know the
Baha men.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Who who let the dogs out?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Who let the dogs out?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That place is gonna go crazy when they play that.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's right before. That's the weekend before my Birthday's like,
maybe we'll go then because.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
They're like, I don't even care if you just can
see who let the dogs out in person? Who doesn't
want to see that exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
No, that's they will be full of energy for the
forty five minutes that they're on stage. Absolutely uh then
tbd the weekend after.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That, okay. Always always a favorite.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The Wanted two point zero first year for them.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's a pop band.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
They were so remember when there was like n Sync
and Backstreet Boys mm hm, so you know, generation later
it was one direction in the Wanted. They were the
other one.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
They said they didn't quite cut the mustard like one direction,
because that band really.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
They did not. Yeah, did we have the fray?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, that's a pretty decent one.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The yearly appearance of Hanson Hanson.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Oh, people love Hanson, though Mike Bartch's wife Katie loves Hanson.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, I just I love that they sell their beer
hops when they're there, So I will be going for that.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, and you know you're gonna see a ton of
you know, women, probably mid to late thirties. I just
love Hanson. Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
After that, Uba Stink Uba.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Sanc Okay, I just found a picture of Fritz and
I on the bus with Huba Stink when they played
House of Blues and opened for Incubis.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Remember a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I remember seeing them before a competing radio station's secret show.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Oh so an O rock secret show? Yes? Yeah, what
were you doing there?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Was?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What was happening there?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I had one ticket, it's before I worked it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I heard fair.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That we have smash Mouth Okay, good good, Big Bad
Voodoo Daddy.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Another pretty big name.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Boys to men.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They always play there. Those guys must love the perks.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, they're usually there and they usually do summer there
in spring at Universal for Marty Girl. Good for them.
David Archiletta, who was a American Idol contestant.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
American Illy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard of him.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Jordan's Sparks another American Idol was another, I believe, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I think she was a lot of bands.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And uh first year for her bowling for soup.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh nice, bowling for soup. That that big fella, the
big guy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I think they just did, Like are they warp for
this year?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah? I think they. I think you're right. I think
they were on Warpedo. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, they just did the DC because DC just happened
for Warped tour and then rounding out the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Who's left, Like the main guy just died, right.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He just passed away. I don't know how much he
had been involved.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Mm hmm. True. I saw them a number of years
ago at SeaWorld.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
When I saw them once, the drummer was John Stamos.
That's fun because he's a big Beach Boys fan.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's cool, it's a good it's a fun experience that
John Stamos as your drummer when you go to see
the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Ut who's left in the band, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, well Mike Love's one of the original members.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, and the other guy had been in the band
nineteen sixty five, so right around the start.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, okay, so decent, decent. All right, Well let's go
see the Beach Boys. You'll know every single song they play.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Rate facts.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, you can't. You can't go to that show like
that and not not no songs for sure. All right.
So that's the Eat the Beat concert lineup. When does
that start? That starts pretty soon, right.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That starts August twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right, that's like the same that's like the same
time they start the Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know. Well, you got to have something at every park,
I guess you do. Well, it's it's a busy time
there because right now they're doing previews for Test Track
three point zero.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh okay, did was there an issue there? Did we
see that there was an issue with one of ride vehicles?
They had to stop the previews, right.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
There have been reports that a test track ride vehicle
impacted the foam sliding doors during the Grand Finale scene
as the car accelerated towards the outdoor portion of the ride.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I always worry about that because you always say, oh,
we're gonna hit the doors, and then you never hit
the doors. But I guess they hit the doors. Yeah,
but their phone. Yes, it seems safe.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's as pham. The incident took place during cast member preview.
Four guests were treated on site for injuries. No guests
were transported to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Okay, well, good thing it was cast members. That's that's good.
You got workmen's comp on that situation. They'll take care
of anything that you might have to get situated, so
you're good to go. They'll figure that out. Get the
sensor's working right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, so they're doing cast member previews. Annual pass holder
previews will start on July thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, all right, well they'll get they'll get it worked
out before totally.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm sure they had it worked out like the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, they're like, oh, we just had to turn this screw.
They just needed one little turn. And we talked about yeah,
go ahead, go ahead. Sorry nope, nope, I was gonna say,
can we talk about the most ridiculous story that we
saw this week about the lawsuit that's been filed. We
always see crazy lawsuits at Disney, but this one might
be the crazy. The lady suing because a stormtroopers scared
a child.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, I don't understand this at all either.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
How can anybody read the headline and not go wait what?
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's it's a very odd one. I'm not I think
people forget where they are at these parks.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I mean, you're in Batu, there's stormtroopers roaming around. One
might stop by and talk to your child.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
But it's a great It's a theme park. It's themed
lands that you were in. Yeah, and it's like if you, yeah,
if you notice that your kid is scared, leave, No
one's forcing you to stay there.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't know if
people sue Disney just to hope they will just settle
out of court and just be done with it. I
don't know. I don't. I don't see this one going forward.
I can't imagine. But stranger things are from happened.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Oh totally. There's the amount of like weird lawsuits. I
think Disney gets on like a regular basis. Could we
could do like a year's worth of shows about that, dag,
no doubt?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All Right, well, we are just about out of time
for news, so Scott, if people want to get the
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Speaker 2 (24:09):
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Speaker 2 (24:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
World, Orlando, Florida. This is the Theme Park Podcast. Wait
the podcast? Is this all radio?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your hosts, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
There and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here,
there is Scott Harris.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hi, Hello, what's going on?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Jimmy D on assignment in Chicago today. We have sent
him there, Scott, to get eyes on the eventual permanent
location of the Halloween Hornight's attraction coming to that area
of the world.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, and uh, thank you Jimmy for reminding us that
you weren't here this week.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Scott and air like, I guess it's just us this week.
Because Jimmy's in Chicago.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Jimmy keeps sending us pictures from Lake you know, Wrigley
and other stuff around Chicago. I don't think he's here.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We do usually do a better job of telling each
other when we're I'm not going to be there next week.
He's one just kind of slipped slipped by.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
He did tell us in July he was going to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
This is true, This is true. He's there. For the
fourth I don't know what else he's doing there besides,
you know, doing the scouting of that location, which he
did send us a picture of.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
So I mean the new season season three of the
Bears out. Maybe he is there season four of the
Bears out. He's gonna go check out those things, getting
an Italian beef sandwich.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
That could be sure. I think he was going to
a Cubs game playing was it Guardians? I've never even
heard of the Guardians. Is that a professional baseball team
or it's just like the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
There there was a Cleveland baseball team that had a
different name, and recently, in the last like five or
six years, that's the Indians. They have changed it to
the Guardian name.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yes, oh, I did not know that. It says how
long ago does this happen? Because this is brand new
news to me.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Six years ago?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Oh wow, sound of a gun. I had no idea. Wow. Okay,
well that's when he went to see the former Indians
slash now Guardian.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Twenty twenty two is when they became the Guardians.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Okay, so I have three years huh.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, before that, they were the Indians. Before that, they
were the Cleveland Naps.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
What's a nap napkin? It's a weird name. Then more
do they changed it?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I don't know. I like I like na I like naps.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Well, I like a nap too, but it doesn't give
a very intimidating baseball name if you're a nap.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Well, the the full was the Cleveland Napoleons. Oh, okay
or Naps after a newspaper conducted a write end contest.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Okay, all right, Well it's no wonder that name didn't
last long.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Named after Napoleon nap Lejoy.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
They didn't put as much effort into naming teams back then,
and I'll think.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, it went from it went from the Cleveland Long Show,
the Grand Rapids Prodigals in eighteen ninety nine, the Cleveland
Long Shores in nineteen hundred, the Cleveland Bluebirds in nineteen
oh one, the Cleveland Broncos in nineteen oh two, and
then the Cleveland Naps in nineteen oh three.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Gosh, these guys could not pick a nade. Then they
finally get the Indians. They stick to it for a
while and they're like, oh, gotta change it again.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, they had that one.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Do it again? Yep.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
They were the Naps for eleven years.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Okay, and then they were in the Indians for a
long time, yes, many years. Yeah, cal Ripken, right, he
was an Indian.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, he was a Baltimore Oriel.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
I don't know who played the Indians in.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Jim Tomay, Albert bell Manny Ramirez for a while. Paul
Bird never heard of those agains.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Out of any of those guys, My knowledge of baseball
exists somewhere in the eighties, and that's it a very
short window.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh no, you know, Okay, these guys played for the
in the then Indians, Rick Vaughan, Willie Mays, Hayes, m
Pedro Serrano.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
I don't know any of these guys.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I'm now naming characters from the movie Major League.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Okay. I never saw a Major League either, but I
liked the New York Mets. Okay, that's who I liked
when I was a kid. Eryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Lenny Dykstra.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, they beat my team. They beat my team in
the eighty six World Series.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
How was that Game six?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
You were really? Were you really?
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah? I was there. But the most famous baseball game
in your generation and you were there.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I was there, and that should have like changed, that
should have like changed your life, like it major like
a baseball fan for eternity.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Well I was. I was a longtime baseball fan. I
just you know, turned into a teenager and you know,
oh my god, like anything anymore? Yeah, Game six right through?
Uh Roger, no hold on Bill Bellot, Bill Buckner, yep,
I almost called him Belichick Bill Buckner, right.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Different different Boston guys.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Mookie Wilson, yes, Mookie Wilson, yep. All right. How about
the world of theme parks? I went to one last week.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You did. You went to SeaWorld and it was went
to SeaWorld, If I remember correctly, it was a gorgeous day.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It was not. I wanted to bring one of my
coworkers because SeaWorld, as they often do, gave us like
free tickets, and I had like tickets in abundance, so
I met them out there so they could park for free.
And as soon as we parked the car, it the
skies opened up. It was almost like hurricane level winds
out there. I've never seen rain at this level. And
then all of a sudden, it just was an immediate
(05:44):
stop and went from like full force to stop and
we didn't end up having a pretty good day at
the park. We got to ride a lot of rides.
I think I had like sixty dollars and SeaWorld Bucks
to spend. I tell you the SeaWorld Pass. If you
enjoyed that park, it is the best deal going because
you get free tickets for friends and they give you
money sometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, it's it's it's a it's a very good deal.
It's it's such an incentive to go. And if you
like roller coasters and animals, you can't really get that
anywhere in town.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, in one place, they just and they pop up
rides all the time, like they built that Penguin ride,
the roller coaster. Then all of a sudden they got
the new room, which is like which is like Soorn,
which I did get to ride this expedition something or other. Uh,
it was a lot like Sorn.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It was it. Oh yeah, yeah, we haven't talked to
because it just it just opened like last week.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, it just opened the last few weeks. They did
the pass little previews. I got to ride it. It
was literally the only ride you could ride when we
first got there because it was raining, and we still
only waited about forty minutes, okay, because the entire park
was there, because there's nowhere else to go. Yeah, if
it rains, you're out of luck except this one uh,
(06:57):
this one single ride. Yeah, it was cool. It's a
lot like Soorin, except for they spray water on you
a few timesh okay. Expedition Odyssey, Expedition Odyssey. Yeah, they
do have some like new like improvements. Like I will say,
the seats are so very reminiscent to Soorin. But when
this ride takes off, when it goes to lift you up,
(07:18):
your seats like spin and turn you into the screen.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Woh, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Like yeah, so there is there is some different mechanics
to it. But once the ride gets going, very similar
to Soorn I just say, probably just a bit smaller
just because of the space they're working in.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Do you go do you exit then into like the
polar Arctic.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, you go right into that Arctic zone. They have
some penguins in there now too, the penguins who were
only exclusive to like the penguin area before, but now
they tossed a couple of penguins in there. M M,
So those guys are hanging out.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
I always liked when you would go, like when you
would do Wild Arctic and then you come up to
there's like an exhibit where you put your hand on
a thing and it's like you can test your holding
your breath till like a blue whale or whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Yes, yes, I think they still have some of that.
I'm not sure all of it works. I thought you
were gonna say, you like the thing where you put
your hand in that block of ice in the Wild
Arctic area because you can hold your hand there and
see how long you can keep your hand there and
make a handprint before having to pull it awa because
your hand is frozen.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I mean that's kind of fun that. That's still kind
of fun as well. The thing I like doing is
less painful.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Yeah, in a way, yeah, it's less painful. But yeah,
it's another new ride at Sea World. So all in all,
you know, when the rain was done, it was good.
We did make a mistake. We made a rookie mistake
and we rode. We rode Mako first, which is the biggest,
the fastest, and everything we rode after that. We're like,
I kind of felt small. That was little.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yeah, it's not don't.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Ride the biggest ride first. You gotta you gotta build
up to it. You go that first, everything's a letdown afterwards.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So I'm looking at the timeline for SeaWorld and it's
literally Expedition Odyssey twenty twenty five, Penguin Trek twenty twenty four, YEP,
Pipeline twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They are just raging out there.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Icebreaker twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Wow, I it's a ridy year. That's wild.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
And then it was Mako in twenty sixteen, Manta in
two thousand and nine, and Cracking in two thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
So they just be going crazy because they know, you
know that the animal shows are more limited than they
used to be, so they're doing things. They're making it
more of a coaster parking boy, they're just cranking them out.
I don't know if they have anything else to build
anytime soon, but what can you complain about with all
those new rides.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm like, I would have to look at a map
and see if they have I would be like, oh,
do they have room for any of this? But like
when you look at the footprint of the rides that
they're building, it's like, we'll just figure it out.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, we'll just put it in there, or it's like we'll.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Put it to go through another ride, like the Penguin one.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Yeah. I think they are having a big sale for
pass holders now too, So you thought about it. Definitely
worth looking into.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Well, everyone is doing sales right now, Like at the time,
Disney is doing sales. Universal announced yesterday by two days
get one free on a nice two park, two day
ticket during the summer.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Okay, that's that's a nice deal.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, it's like every and it's like we've talked about
in the past, like Universal is doing Universal is doing deals.
Disney's doing a bunch of deals throughout the summer on
like a lot of the hotels and like kids tickets.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah. I did see something too, and this isn't really
related to deals, but I saw something that somebody mentioned
something about a certain situation with the way tickets are
for Epic Universe, where it led them to believe that
it's very likely in twenty twenty six you'll be able
to buy any you'll pass it includes Epic Universe.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
It'll either be a strict pass or if you're a
current pass. Hoole an add on to the past that
you have.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, so that likes create a mad scramble for people
to get passes so they can get in on that
and make sure they're able to get the annual pass
for Epic Universal. Yeah, I mean that does make it
a great deal.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
It hasn't sold out like the days of selling out.
I'm gonna be very curious to see, you know, how
holiday weekend will be because this will be the second
holiday weekend that they have had since they since they
opened up. And I know they were sold out the
first time. Granted it was you know, the first week
that the park was open. So it'll it'll be very interesting.
(11:35):
I mean, it's such an it's such an interesting park.
Like I look at the wait times and it's like
there's some rides that can just churn through people. I've
talked about the Universal Monsters and chain, like ten fifteen
minutes is like what I see most of the time.
And I walked onto that ride when I did it,
you know, two weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
So I think what's going to be unique about this
weekend is and we covered this last year. Last fourth,
the parks were dead from whatever reON We don't know why.
It was an anomaly, but the parks were dead. Now
this fourth of July, we're gonna have atrocious weather throughout
the weekend. It's just gonna rain and rain and rain
some more. So. I mean that's gonna make you if
you're buying a single day ticket, you're not gonna want
(12:15):
to use it in a day or it's gonna have
eighty percent chance of rain.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
I will say, though, I am going to Universal this weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You're a passolder, you can go and leave. Who exactly,
it's off your back.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
It's a yearly tradition. I go every July fourth, so
I will be going just as I do every year.
I'm usually there for three hours before I leave when
it starts to get too busy or the rain comes in,
or it's ninety nine degrees in the shade.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Yeah, well you can give us a crowd report. Yeah,
I'm real curious this weekend because it's just it's been
it's been raining a lot this week, but this weekend
it's just gonna be.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
A wash out of feels like it's it's and you know,
it feels like it's happening earlier in the year than
it has in the past.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Yeah. Yeah, And like, well, today we're recording this as
we record this, it is July third, traditionally Red Hot
and Boom day. I want if that's happening tonight, like,
I mean, it's probably soon. Well, got event every year
when we worked at the radio station with Excel, I
was get involved anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We at least know what happens when it rains.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Yeah, we run and hide and nearly die every time.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Well, no, no, no, I I didn't have to run anywhere.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
You were inside because you always booked the best gig
inside the hotel, just you know, helping to escort guests
in and out.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Yeah, exactly. I never knew what was going on in
the outside world until I see people walk in and
they're drenched and from rain.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, or they have the look of fear in their
eyes because they almost got blown into the lake by lightning.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Nothing like holding down a tent when those seven hundred
mile an hour wind guests comes through.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Or hiding under a stage.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Yeah, that's another furnitures flying off the stage. We never
had a Red Hot and Boom where there wasn't near
disaster goes something.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
The last one that I worked in twenty twenty three,
I think.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I doesn't count. I wasn't there.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
That's yeah, it was my last one. Uh I think
it became the last one that Xcel was involved in.
Uh I don't because that was the last thing I
worked for. iHeart Orlando.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
So yeah, yeah, no, it's yeah. Did they have a
did they have an artist? Still? Do you know? There's
just fine work?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Last I saw it was like it just said live music.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Okay, all right, somebody somebody will be there with music.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Yes, well you want me to segue into music?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Yeah? Well sure, yeah, I was about to say that
because you're you're you've got it. Eat to the Beat, right,
It got announced.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Twenty twenty five Eat to the Beat Concert Series. The
lineup is out.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Okay, let's uh, let's talk about this. Last week we're
Anniversity World's lineup. The highlights were, uh, docin or iHeart
engineer Frank Lower. He will definitely be at the show
to see Don Dacin and George Lynch both there, legendary lineup.
Then a bunch of country artists and lit and fuel.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Right yes they were the same day, yeah, same.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So if you want to get that nineties rocking like
Earthday Birthday six, that's the way to go, all.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Right, So Uh, kicking it off, Joey Fotonin Friends.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Okay, Big Big Act, Joy, Fotone he was in and
Street Boys and Dang.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And he still lives here. You could see him at
the park. Uh somewhat regularly just in general. Yeah. Uh
uh mercy Me.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Pop ba pop band? Is that? I don't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
I feel like I've seen them on the list before.
They're not labeled under new Okay, then Katie Tunstall.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I'm I'm at a loss on that one.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Toby Mack.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I've heard of Toby Mack. I don't know what he does,
but I've heard of him.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Starship featuring Mickey Thomas.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Okay, there we go Starship. Now we're throwing it back
to the early days.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Uh. Basilos I have not heard of before.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Imagine probably a Latino band.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Probably Sheila E.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Okay, Sheila. She was an eighties star.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
M M M. Ben Rector be No no no. This
is a solo act that played Earth Red, Hot and
Boom one year. Because I remember our former co worker,
longtime supporters show Glory, wanted to get a picture of
(16:30):
Ben Rector standing next to longtime supporter of the show
Derek Okay, because they looked the same.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Wow, in my in my own stupidity, Ben Folds five
is actually his name is Ben Folds.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
So oh, I didn't know. I didn't know that the
sexual name.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
I'm pretty sure his last name is Folt, so that
doesn't work at all.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Then we have Tiffany, Okay, Tiffany's back, yep, yep, yep.
I think we're alone now mm hmm uh. Then Jesse
and Joe never heard of them. I don't know the
Baha men.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Who who let the dogs out?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Who let the dogs out?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
That place is gonna go crazy when they play that.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
That's right before. That's the weekend before my Birthday's like,
maybe we'll go then because.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
They're like, I don't even care if you just can
see who let the dogs out in person? Who doesn't
want to see that exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:22):
No, that's they will be full of energy for the
forty five minutes that they're on stage. Absolutely uh then
tbd the weekend after.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
That, okay. Always always a favorite.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
The Wanted two point zero first year for them.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's a pop band.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
They were so remember when there was like n Sync
and Backstreet Boys mm hm, so you know, generation later
it was one direction in the Wanted. They were the
other one.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
They said they didn't quite cut the mustard like one direction,
because that band really.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
They did not. Yeah, did we have the fray?
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Okay, that's a pretty decent one.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
The yearly appearance of Hanson Hanson.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Oh, people love Hanson, though Mike Bartch's wife Katie loves Hanson.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Well, I just I love that they sell their beer
hops when they're there, So I will be going for that.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Yeah, and you know you're gonna see a ton of
you know, women, probably mid to late thirties. I just
love Hanson. Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
After that, Uba Stink Uba.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Sanc Okay, I just found a picture of Fritz and
I on the bus with Huba Stink when they played
House of Blues and opened for Incubis.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Oh wow, I.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Remember a long time ago.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I remember seeing them before a competing radio station's secret show.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Oh so an O rock secret show? Yes? Yeah, what
were you doing there?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Was?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
What was happening there?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I had one ticket, it's before I worked it.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I heard fair.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That we have smash Mouth Okay, good good, Big Bad
Voodoo Daddy.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Another pretty big name.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Boys to men.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
They always play there. Those guys must love the perks.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Yeah, they're usually there and they usually do summer there
in spring at Universal for Marty Girl. Good for them.
David Archiletta, who was a American Idol contestant.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
American Illy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard of him.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Jordan's Sparks another American Idol was another, I believe, so yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
I think she was a lot of bands.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
And uh first year for her bowling for soup.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Oh nice, bowling for soup. That that big fella, the
big guy.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
I think they just did, Like are they warp for
this year?
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah? I think they. I think you're right. I think
they were on Warpedo. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, they just did the DC because DC just happened
for Warped tour and then rounding out the Beach Boys.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Who's left, Like the main guy just died, right.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
He just passed away. I don't know how much he
had been involved.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Mm hmm. True. I saw them a number of years
ago at SeaWorld.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
When I saw them once, the drummer was John Stamos.
That's fun because he's a big Beach Boys fan.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It's cool, it's a good it's a fun experience that
John Stamos as your drummer when you go to see
the Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Ut who's left in the band, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Okay, well Mike Love's one of the original members.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Yeah, and the other guy had been in the band
nineteen sixty five, so right around the start.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yeah, okay, so decent, decent. All right, Well let's go
see the Beach Boys. You'll know every single song they play.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Rate facts.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Yeah, you can't. You can't go to that show like
that and not not no songs for sure. All right.
So that's the Eat the Beat concert lineup. When does
that start? That starts pretty soon, right.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That starts August twenty ninth.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
All right, that's like the same that's like the same
time they start the Halloween stuff.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know. Well, you got to have something at every park,
I guess you do. Well, it's it's a busy time
there because right now they're doing previews for Test Track
three point zero.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Oh okay, did was there an issue there? Did we
see that there was an issue with one of ride vehicles?
They had to stop the previews, right.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
There have been reports that a test track ride vehicle
impacted the foam sliding doors during the Grand Finale scene
as the car accelerated towards the outdoor portion of the ride.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I always worry about that because you always say, oh,
we're gonna hit the doors, and then you never hit
the doors. But I guess they hit the doors. Yeah,
but their phone. Yes, it seems safe.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
That's as pham. The incident took place during cast member preview.
Four guests were treated on site for injuries. No guests
were transported to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Okay, well, good thing it was cast members. That's that's good.
You got workmen's comp on that situation. They'll take care
of anything that you might have to get situated, so
you're good to go. They'll figure that out. Get the
sensor's working right.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, so they're doing cast member previews. Annual pass holder
previews will start on July thirteenth.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Okay, all right, well they'll get they'll get it worked
out before totally.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm sure they had it worked out like the next day.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Yeah, they're like, oh, we just had to turn this screw.
They just needed one little turn. And we talked about yeah,
go ahead, go ahead. Sorry nope, nope, I was gonna say,
can we talk about the most ridiculous story that we
saw this week about the lawsuit that's been filed. We
always see crazy lawsuits at Disney, but this one might
be the crazy. The lady suing because a stormtroopers scared
a child.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Yeah, I don't understand this at all either.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
How can anybody read the headline and not go wait what?
Mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
It's it's a very odd one. I'm not I think
people forget where they are at these parks.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I mean, you're in Batu, there's stormtroopers roaming around. One
might stop by and talk to your child.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
But it's a great It's a theme park. It's themed
lands that you were in. Yeah, and it's like if you, yeah,
if you notice that your kid is scared, leave, No
one's forcing you to stay there.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
Yeah, I don't. I don't know. I don't know if
people sue Disney just to hope they will just settle
out of court and just be done with it. I
don't know. I don't. I don't see this one going forward.
I can't imagine. But stranger things are from happened.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Oh totally. There's the amount of like weird lawsuits. I
think Disney gets on like a regular basis. Could we
could do like a year's worth of shows about that, dag,
no doubt?
Speaker 1 (24:01):
All Right, well, we are just about out of time
for news, so Scott, if people want to get the
latest breaking lawsuit news, where can they go?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
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Speaker 1 (24:15):
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