April 3, 2026 • 24 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, Jimmy recaps his trip to Kennedy Space Center to catch the Artemis 2 launch! Plus he talks about some of the upcoming festivities happening at KSC. Then the guys talk about the changes with the Disney Springs buses, new food at Sci-Fi Dine-In and much more.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Is this radio?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here,
there's Jimmy D Space the Final Frontier and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What's going on? Happy spooky times.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Jimmy just got back from space, so I think that's
space you park?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
You back to the space you park.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You know what, You're closer to space than either Scott
or I got okay because you were sniffing rocket fumes.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh oh, is that is that a short joke?
Speaker 6 (00:52):
No, he's talking about how that this dopey guy was
had his head.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
In the washing machine while the rocket was being launched.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I know we have a we had a like a
text thing going off. My shut up, quit texting me
people the rocket was going off.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Yeah, Dickerman, you missed a piece of American history because
you got to clean up the linch tree.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I had to replace a pump, which I did in
under an hour. I'll have you know, I'm pretty proud.
Of myself.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Do you know how many times Artemis two will launch
for the first time? A world first, never been done before,
will never happen again. This four person Artemis two crew
will never launch on April first ever again.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
To make it worse, I was there like a while
back with Jimmy and we saw the Artemis two out
there on the on the launch pad ready to go.
So I was there with it, and then I still
missed it when it finally went off, Like.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
That's all right.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Artemis four will come up, go up next year, and
then Artemis five, which will actually have people on it,
goes up.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Uh twenty eight. He won't remember landing on the moon round.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I haven't been three years. He won't.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He We're lucky if he remembers the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'll be fixing the watching machine in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Probably we're not gonna have washing machines in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I'm going to write it on his hand when I
see him next.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
No, we needed, no, we need to start Guy Pierce
in mementoing him.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yes, tattooing it. Yep. Oh my god, this is Scott.
This is the best idea you have ever had. I
don't have any tattoos. I have virgin skin over it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well exactly.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Yeah, yeah, we need you to start remembering things.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Oh my god, and then he could become a villain
called Sticky note. Yeah, because he's just got all these
messages and things he's got to remember tattooed Oliver him.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh my god, this is great.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
There was a there was a TV show with the
with the girl that played Gosh, I can't remember what
she played.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
She was, she's lady No. Well, there was a prison break.
It's the Lady Siff character. It was an NBC show
called Blind sp Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And she was They found her in a bag and
they pulled her out and she's her whole body was
covered with tattoos and it was a mystery. Never watched
the show.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Or you could just go with the Christopher Nolan movie
Memento because because you like Christopher Nolan.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah, she was prettier than the guy and Christopher
Nolan's movie. So that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Let me guess that's one of the Nolan movies you
haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I have seen them.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Oh wow, I'm impressed because that's part of that movies
in black and White.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I've seen all the Nolan movies. But we're getting off track.
Because Jimmy did actually go. He joined four hundred thousand
people on the Space Coast.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
This is what the news says.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
They say that that, you know, Titusville was expecting a
crowd of four hundred thousand people.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Why do you predict that? Like, like.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I want to see the data. Let's all two lane
roads going into there. How do you fit four hundred
thousand people in Titusville? Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Like I got an email from Megaicon earliest week and
it was like one hundred and ninety five thousand.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
People attended MegaCon. I believe that.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Because like they have entry scan data, yes, and everything
is very very meticulously done with Mega con so they
have accurate data.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
How do you.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Predict like people standing on your shoreline?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Like Channel two flies a chopper over there and it's
like one, two, three and just counts everybody out, or.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Like or like how do you know somebody's not just
driving home from work, but they're like they're like this
is just their daily commute.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They just want to go home.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I know people that work over on the Space Coast
and their works that just stay home. Guys just work
from home today because it is not worth trying to
get here or trying to leave here. It's going to
be impossible, all right, So it's not built to handle
that number of people, the people that go like it
didn't used to be like this, Like Jimmy, when you
would go for a launch, like back in the day,
it wasn't this insane. I mean there was a lot
of people, but not like it is now.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
This is this is uh just like every other uh,
like the last couple of show launches, program same for
for same level of like traffic and stuff. Actually, it
wasn't bad getting back. I've also been I've I've had
a PTSD from coming home from a Shuttle launch one
time because we were stuck on the five twenty eight,
(05:10):
like in that long stretch of just green.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And we were stuck there.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
I want to say it was two hours, maybe four hours,
because there was a car accident ahead of us and
they had to do just a helicopter evac.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Come on, guys, don't wreck your car when there's this
much traffic. Well, that's very simple. That's the thing. To
go to the car in front of you.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
No matter when I have ever left the Space Coast.
Always on the way back at some point. My ways
is the brightest red you have ever seen it.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Like, if you own a tow truck company, do me
a favor and just park on the shoulder of the
five twenty eight because it's gonna come. Every single launch
is always a wreck there. If you got a record company,
be ready pull them off the road.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Just have one on each side of one on each side,
like one in the middle, and just one on the
other the other side of the road, just for it
was Just be ready, just whatever side of would you
ever lane?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know what we need for this, for this place
is we need a bullet train. We need a bullet
train from Orlando to the Space Ghost, like a real
long one and can get on and get off.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
The bright Line goes right along to us.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
They've already stop there.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
They are trying to build. They are trying to build
a thing there. Though they are they're looking to I mean,
bright Line is like financially in a terrible place, but
they're still trying to get like a few hundred million
dollars in grants to try and build a station there
in Bavard.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You should give them that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I'll think about it. I'll think about it. They're a
little pricey though, all right, but let's hear it. Jimmy,
so Artemis, I knew, I know you were very excited
for this launch. It's the first time in a long
time that we have people heading out into space to
uh to go near the moon.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Like if you saw the little kid on c He's like,
why are you so excited about the space program? He's like,
because we're sending people back to their frigging moon.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Man called freaking I called that kid, young, Jimmy, No,
he's I don't think he did.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't think he did either.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I think he's the word that's not allowed on CNN.
Well maybe it's allowed.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
No, no, no, no, I saw it.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
He doesn't swear, like really like kid to that age
swearing on seeing it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
No, they ain't gonna have I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
He's kind of excited about space.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Scott, pull up the audio. Let's find out. It's fight
out live.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Let's just find out live anyway, So so dot Com.
I drove out there firstly in the morning and then
worked from a coffee shop because I work remotely, and
then the coffee shop was like a block from uh
what's called Space View Park. And if you go to
Spaceview Park, there's stuff to see there any day of
the week because they have a bunch of monuments from
(07:43):
like the Apollo program, from the Shuttle program, for the
Mercury program, and there's all these little like exhibit things
to see there. And then it just gives you a
straight on view to the launch pad over the Indian River.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So that's that's the spot. Now. Was that spot you
went to just completely goop? And it's like where do you?
Where do you park? Like, so you're going out there
and I know there's not infrastructure to hold all those people,
So where are you parking? How how's it? How's it
all work out there?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Okay, so if you get there early enough, you can
actually get one of the very few parking spots in
uh space space you park If you didn't, what I
did was like you know, I said, like one block
over there was like I want to say, it was
like an old fast food restaurant and I can't really wreck.
They had a giant lot of land behind them. The
(08:28):
restaurant is like completely vacant and empty, and I just
parked up in this lot. There was nobody else in
the parking lot, and I was like, I'm nervous about this.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, So I go to the coffee shop for like.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
An hour, and the whole hour all I'm thinking about
is like, oh my god, my car is getting to
yet I went out. I went out there like two
hours later because it started raining and I made of
sugar and I'm not gonna get wet. I go check
my car. The lots got forty cars right by the
time Launch started. It was just like being on campus
at on a football day. People were parking anywhere that
(09:02):
there was half the room the driveway into uh Space
View Park. People were just sticking cars in there. It
looked like the road out of Atlanta in UH The
Walking Dead. Just cars just like mashed in anywhere a
car could fit.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like even if to stop it, it'd be like the
time we went to Disney and they're like, we lost control.
We don't know what to do. That's exactly it. That
is exactly it.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Can I just quickly say, I will freely admit I
would be horrible at helping park cars in a lot.
I can't gauge the distance on these things exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, got one good eye, No it's just like knowing
how like to leave enough room for a car to
back out, like that whole thing, like organizing cars in
a lot.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I swear rich people kill me because as I was
trying to get out of that parking lot, I was
blocked in by a a Corvette, a BMW Mercedes Benz. Yeah,
and I was just like you guys, just you got
so much money and you just still got to be
a jerk.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Jimmy, you did give me an idea, though, So this
restaurant's abandoned. Why don't we go in and we make
a Space restaurant and we'll just we'll not only make
money at the restaurant by selling Space themed foods, we'll
also charge people to park there, like twenty bucks. During launchtime,
we will make a mint. Okay, So Kennedy, well you
(10:33):
don't want to do this this is a great idea,
or you don't want to give it away in the radio.
I see you don't want to give away.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Okay, I got it. I got it.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Idea.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We call it Space two twenty.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I like it, and we have screens that show like
Space inside.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
What if we called it Space for twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm gonna buy this place in charge. You guys forty
bucks to park and poop poo in my idea.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Okay, then you know what I'll do. I'll pay forty
dollars to park. I just paid. I just paid for
a day at Mega Con to park.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
So that's a crazy thing is there was no place.
There was no place to pay to park. It was
everything was free parking.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
M Yeah, well that's that's why I'm going to revolutionize
the Space Coast with my giant parking lot and my
Space themed restaurant. Hamburgers go up to fifty seven dollars
on Space days.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Nope, nope, nope, nope nope. You are not allowed to
own a paid parking lot.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Never. I will not let that happen.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The I hate because I hate paying for parking, and
I'll do anything like if somebody snuck in my lot
and stole a parking spot, I would say, mad, respect bro,
I like which I like the way you're.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In and then you toe them.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Then I'd have me towed.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
The only thing we sell this restaurant is Adam.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Off for two hundred bucks, and we'd split the money.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Read all these little astra ice cream in freeze dride skittles.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Anything that doesn't go bad, anything that doesn't go bad.
We'll have it in the space restaurant.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
MRIs.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
He was given away Murray's a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah. So, anyhow, how was the How was the launch
experience for you?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I'd always wanted to see it from uh that park.
Everything said that they they would normally pump in like
the the audio from the launch site did not have that. Luckily,
there was a senior citizen behind me who had a
two A radio and he could actually hear NASA talking
to themselves live, which everybody else was like a couple
(12:27):
of seconds delayed through their phones.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know what. So I leave it to the seniors
to come up with some people.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Not something, come up with something cool. He did what
he knew how to do.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That technology worked for him. That technology was won the
day it did.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
And because of him, we had the countdown and I
got to watch it and I got to feel the
rocket on my chest, I got to hear the sounds
of the crackling. It's it's very like emotional and it's
a very fun second, but it's it is such a
waiting in line for hours to go on rising the
(13:05):
resistance and then that's sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's over. It's over. Yeah, could you smell the rocket fuel?
Can you smell like any of the smells of the launch?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
No, smells at a fireworks show.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I don't know that that vandage point.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
You're fifteen miles away, so you're not going to smell
any and you actually this the rocket is pretty high
up before you actually get the first like rumbles hitting
your chest. And even when I've seen a shot a
launch at the press site, you still don't smell anything.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah. When you and I went where we at the
press site years and years ago. Do you remember you
went to a launch with you. We had cameras and
my camera didn't work right when the things take it off,
I'm like, son of a gun, this camera will work.
But I couldn't ask you because you were running another camera.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, that's the press.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
And that was three miles out and fire was mad.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Just wouldn't start Jim yet, right, Yeah, Kennedy, this is
something else I wanted to get went into with you guys.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor complex coming up on April twelfth,
which is the anniversary for both the first shuttle launch
and the first human in space, which is Yuri Gagory.
(14:12):
And they're having some Russian guy, Dickerman. Yes, Kennedy under this,
Kennedy under the Stars. So it's like you know, Ny
you know, every theme park likes to do like a
night time version, and this is URI's night edition for
the twelfth and it's just you know, live entertainment, cosmic glow,
mini golf in the Rocket Garden, live street and entertainment.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
There'll be astronaut meet and greets.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
They're going to have the Ortega Obs Observatory telescopes and
if you've never seen a close up image of the
Moon in a telescope, it is the coolest thing. Here's
the interesting part too that I found that was pretty awesome.
This is a separate ticketed events, not free for annual passolders,
but their annual passolders normally only get ten percent off
(14:59):
of merchandise. If you come to a separate ticket event,
we'll give you ten dollars off the ticket and then
thirty percent off of merchandise.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Interesting, Jimmy, do you want to go ahead and put
on your Kennedy Space Center hat? Because I've seen this
bit before. Were Scott Harris, mister Universal over there.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I have a NASA hat. I can go run and
put on.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Promo code Save now, Jimmy Grigory, Yes, put it in there.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Cosmon love that place.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You just adore Kennedy Space Center.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It's like I just like space Well.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
It's it's it's learning in fun like it's the perfect
combination of things.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
And the food is good.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
They still have good food there. We talked about this,
but they.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Have the best food, very good food.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
And then the candy is you know my favorite candy
in the world, Astrona ice cream and like freeze dried Skittles.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Like I'm good to go.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, it's a good time out there.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
But my question for you, though, is do you think
that that's something that like Disney should take like into
account out when having a passolder or even Universal, like
should annual pass holders get like a little extra something
for going to Halloween Horronites or going to you know
something else.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know me, I'm an I'm always an advocate for
giving passolders more. I'll say it till I'm blue in
the face. SeaWorld treats their passolders better than any other
theme park they always give them perks. Disney gives absolutely
the least, and Universal falls somewhere in between.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Well, the thing is like it depends on what you
what what you pay into it. Like I have paid
into an annual pass that gets me better parking, it
gets me a Halloween Horrorites ticket, it gets.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Like it it just it.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
It depends on like what you put into it. But
also with that, like you do get the ability to
stay at the hotels cheaper than like a regular guest
with it would be able to Like I remember like
they're constantly doing deals now with Disney where it's like, oh,
you're an annual passolder, you could stay at you know,
these resorts cheaper if you stay at the resorts cheaper.
(17:01):
Last year it was like you can also get the
day that you check in, you can go to one
of the water parks for free.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Well, my question though, is do you do they do
anything special for passolders at Halloween her Knights.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Like it's like, say, you, I'm a pass holder, I'm
not at the top tier level and I don't get
a free ticket. Do I get like, you know, twenty
five percent off Halloween hornited tickets or fifty percent off
Halloween hornited tickets on certain nights.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
As a pass holder, you get multiplied, you get something,
but it usually requires you having to call.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There's a little bit of more work involved in it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'll never call. Well that I'd rather pay the fee.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Then that's on you. If you don't want to do
the work, then.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I hate talking on the I hate calling people. I
don't like to do that. Can I text them? Can
I just send them a text?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
All right, Dickerman, You can get free parking at Disney World,
but you have to call and be on hold for
fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
No, probably not. I mean you you know, if I
could get free parky, it probably would, you know, because
parking is my that's my one thing. I don't like
to pay the park And that's why if and they
closed the loophole up Magic Kingdom, you can't sneak in anymore.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Oh my god, No, have you seen, like what the
newest thing is that that has changed?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What? Oh? Wait, the resort buses. That's right, we should
cover that.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Yeah, Like you can't just take a bus from Disney
Springs to one of the resorts.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Now. They say that's temporary, but it could become permanent
at any point, Like we have definitely used that that
that h taken you know, the Disney springs bus to
a resort to get over places for sure. So that's
a big knock to a lot of people's plants. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Yeah, Like like you specifically, if you wanted to go
to ever Glazed and get a bunch of donuts and
then wash them down with Beignet's, you would not be
able to No.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Wait, you can't take the you can't take the boat
from you.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Have to have a resort reservation.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
They scan your magic band. Now this is only supposedly
for spring break.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Correct because of the easter you know rush.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
But now you know, you never know what they're gonna
throw at you. Disney is like in this mode where
like the other side all of a sudden one day,
but oh yeah, we decided that's permanent. Now we're always
gonna do that. Nobody's riding our buses unless you're paid
resort guests.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Which is just like it seems like, you know, I'm
sure there's a business reason behind it, but it seems
very short sighted because it's just like you have people
that want to spend more money with you, potentially mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And we're not trying to sneak into the pools, I swear.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Yeah, but it's just like no, but it's just like
it's very like that is not a thing that I'm
like condoning. But it's like if you wanted to go
see the Easter egg displays this weekend, oh.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah you can't, that's the thing. Like, And to be fair,
you can't sneak into the pools. My wife would never
let me. And they also check your magic band. Yes,
yeah see yeah, I'm not about especially that big I
wrote one. That one looks so cool, but everybody's got
a wristband for that bad boy.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh you mean the the one at Beach and Yacht Club,
the one that you have to leave like it and
sleek right like right there, like right outside of Epcot.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
You've never done you've never done that slide?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, I want to do that slide more than anything.
When my daughter was little, we actually wanted up there
on accident and we're like, oh my gosh, everybody's a wristband.
We better get out of here before they catch us.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh I've done that things like so many times. It
like bores me.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It's ruts. That's really rude of you to say, you know,
it's been a dream of my whole life.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Your whole life, your entire life about it. You've known
about it for like an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I disagree. At least ten years I've known about that slide,
And honestly, I could just go book a room at
Beach and Yacht Club and do it, but it's very expensive.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, go eat a kitchen sink and then.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Try and get down the slide and sucking it like Homer.
So then they got to take that section out of
the slide, of the slide out by crane and get you,
get you down and ruin everybody's day. It was an
episode of The Simpsons.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
No, but that just sounds so wonderful. I really hope
you just manifest that into.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
The That would be the let's be honest, that would
be your perfect.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Day to get crane out of the slide, out of
the middle, to eat, to eat a kitchen sink from
Beaches and Cream and then get go down a water slide.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
That's your That is like you're that's the best day
you could ever imagine.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There would definitely if you ate a Beaches and Cream
kitchen sink and went down a water slide, they'd definitely
be uh what do they call it a plasma spill?
What do they call it pro spill? Yeah, it's guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Maybe reverse the order then.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Whatever you do, order your dialing one ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yes, if your fingers are too fat to dial this
phoneh to mash the keyboard, order a dialing one.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Why don't you just tell me the movie you want
to see?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The Simpsons used to be great.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
This is since it's just is just good.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Like I'm like, like new old it's just good.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Man. I still enjoy the New Ones, but those old ones, man,
they are classics. They like you go back, You're like, man,
this was like top level TV.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Very very okay, very quickly. If we need to make
some money so I get a third season of Ted,
can we just sell some Ted merchandise in the Universal
Parks to help fund this? Because that is like the
best show in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Do they not sell Ted? Like, do they not sell
Ted's in the park? They should absolutely sell Ted's in
the park. And when you squeeze me.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He says, I love you, I don't think that they do.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
They should.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
They should help just and specifically take that money to
give to Seth MacFarlane to make season three.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It was very funny. I fear the way they ended
season two that they won't bring us a season three
because he's about to go to the gym intern in
mock Worldborg.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's why I won't watch the movies.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Maybes are good, well, the first one's good.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Guess Jimmy, I forgot where it was. It's like you
had your hand raised.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is there any news we need to hit on it
at all? Besides the whole Disney bus situation for a
for Easter and spring break, mind you, the parks this
weekend are going to be absolutely madhouses no matter where
you go.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
The Disney just announced a summer after two o'clock ticket.
Oh oh, so for a majority of the summer from
May into May to the end of July, you can
go after two.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
O'clock to the parks.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
And they just announced a bunch of new food items
for the Sci Fi Dinner dining in restaurant.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh I love Sni Fi. I love that's a great
place to eat. One of my favorites in the parks.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
She's ravioli, fried chicken sandwich, grilled pork chop and more.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, I mean The food there was pretty good, but
the the aesthetics and then the whole setup is what
makes that place.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I have never been in there.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I recommend it highly. I recommend I.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Would love to go one day.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I am such an idiot.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The first time I went there, I was like, so, what, like,
is it in the middle of the movie and she's
like She's like, no, Sweete.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Like I just didn't get it.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Yeah, And it was like fifteen minutes and I was like,
is this freaking movie gonna start?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
How many trailers are on this thing? All of them?
All of them? All right? Scott. Well, if people want
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
From the theme park Capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast?
Speaker 4 (00:11):
Is this radio?
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Why does everything gotta be so messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Hey there, and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast. Dickerman. Here,
there's Jimmy D Space the Final Frontier and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
What's going on? Happy spooky times.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Jimmy just got back from space, so I think that's
space you park?
Speaker 5 (00:40):
You back to the space you park.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
You know what, You're closer to space than either Scott
or I got okay because you were sniffing rocket fumes.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Oh oh, is that is that a short joke?
Speaker 6 (00:52):
No, he's talking about how that this dopey guy was
had his head.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
In the washing machine while the rocket was being launched.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I know we have a we had a like a
text thing going off. My shut up, quit texting me
people the rocket was going off.
Speaker 6 (01:08):
Yeah, Dickerman, you missed a piece of American history because
you got to clean up the linch tree.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I had to replace a pump, which I did in
under an hour. I'll have you know, I'm pretty proud.
Of myself.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
Do you know how many times Artemis two will launch
for the first time? A world first, never been done before,
will never happen again. This four person Artemis two crew
will never launch on April first ever again.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
To make it worse, I was there like a while
back with Jimmy and we saw the Artemis two out
there on the on the launch pad ready to go.
So I was there with it, and then I still
missed it when it finally went off, Like.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
That's all right.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Artemis four will come up, go up next year, and
then Artemis five, which will actually have people on it,
goes up.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Uh twenty eight. He won't remember landing on the moon round.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I haven't been three years. He won't.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
He We're lucky if he remembers the end of the show.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
I'll be fixing the watching machine in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Probably we're not gonna have washing machines in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I'm going to write it on his hand when I
see him next.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
No, we needed, no, we need to start Guy Pierce
in mementoing him.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yes, tattooing it. Yep. Oh my god, this is Scott.
This is the best idea you have ever had. I
don't have any tattoos. I have virgin skin over it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Well exactly.
Speaker 7 (02:32):
Yeah, yeah, we need you to start remembering things.
Speaker 6 (02:36):
Oh my god, and then he could become a villain
called Sticky note. Yeah, because he's just got all these
messages and things he's got to remember tattooed Oliver him.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Oh my god, this is great.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
There was a there was a TV show with the
with the girl that played Gosh, I can't remember what
she played.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
She was, she's lady No. Well, there was a prison break.
It's the Lady Siff character. It was an NBC show
called Blind sp Yes.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And she was They found her in a bag and
they pulled her out and she's her whole body was
covered with tattoos and it was a mystery. Never watched
the show.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Or you could just go with the Christopher Nolan movie
Memento because because you like Christopher Nolan.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, yeah, she was prettier than the guy and Christopher
Nolan's movie. So that's all I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Let me guess that's one of the Nolan movies you
haven't seen.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
I have seen them.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
Oh wow, I'm impressed because that's part of that movies
in black and White.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
I've seen all the Nolan movies. But we're getting off track.
Because Jimmy did actually go. He joined four hundred thousand
people on the Space Coast.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
This is what the news says.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
They say that that, you know, Titusville was expecting a
crowd of four hundred thousand people.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Why do you predict that? Like, like.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I want to see the data. Let's all two lane
roads going into there. How do you fit four hundred
thousand people in Titusville? Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 7 (03:53):
Like I got an email from Megaicon earliest week and
it was like one hundred and ninety five thousand.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
People attended MegaCon. I believe that.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Because like they have entry scan data, yes, and everything
is very very meticulously done with Mega con so they
have accurate data.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
How do you.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Predict like people standing on your shoreline?
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Like Channel two flies a chopper over there and it's
like one, two, three and just counts everybody out, or.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
Like or like how do you know somebody's not just
driving home from work, but they're like they're like this
is just their daily commute.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
They just want to go home.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I know people that work over on the Space Coast
and their works that just stay home. Guys just work
from home today because it is not worth trying to
get here or trying to leave here. It's going to
be impossible, all right, So it's not built to handle
that number of people, the people that go like it
didn't used to be like this, Like Jimmy, when you
would go for a launch, like back in the day,
it wasn't this insane. I mean there was a lot
of people, but not like it is now.
Speaker 6 (04:50):
This is this is uh just like every other uh,
like the last couple of show launches, program same for
for same level of like traffic and stuff. Actually, it
wasn't bad getting back. I've also been I've I've had
a PTSD from coming home from a Shuttle launch one
time because we were stuck on the five twenty eight,
(05:10):
like in that long stretch of just green.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And we were stuck there.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
I want to say it was two hours, maybe four hours,
because there was a car accident ahead of us and
they had to do just a helicopter evac.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Come on, guys, don't wreck your car when there's this
much traffic. Well, that's very simple. That's the thing. To
go to the car in front of you.
Speaker 7 (05:29):
No matter when I have ever left the Space Coast.
Always on the way back at some point. My ways
is the brightest red you have ever seen it.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Like, if you own a tow truck company, do me
a favor and just park on the shoulder of the
five twenty eight because it's gonna come. Every single launch
is always a wreck there. If you got a record company,
be ready pull them off the road.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
Just have one on each side of one on each side,
like one in the middle, and just one on the
other the other side of the road, just for it
was Just be ready, just whatever side of would you
ever lane?
Speaker 1 (06:03):
You know what we need for this, for this place
is we need a bullet train. We need a bullet
train from Orlando to the Space Ghost, like a real
long one and can get on and get off.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
The bright Line goes right along to us.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
They've already stop there.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
They are trying to build. They are trying to build
a thing there. Though they are they're looking to I mean,
bright Line is like financially in a terrible place, but
they're still trying to get like a few hundred million
dollars in grants to try and build a station there
in Bavard.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
You should give them that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I'll think about it. I'll think about it. They're a
little pricey though, all right, but let's hear it. Jimmy,
so Artemis, I knew, I know you were very excited
for this launch. It's the first time in a long
time that we have people heading out into space to
uh to go near the moon.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Like if you saw the little kid on c He's like,
why are you so excited about the space program? He's like,
because we're sending people back to their frigging moon.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Man called freaking I called that kid, young, Jimmy, No,
he's I don't think he did.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't think he did either.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
I think he's the word that's not allowed on CNN.
Well maybe it's allowed.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
No, no, no, no, I saw it.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
He doesn't swear, like really like kid to that age
swearing on seeing it.
Speaker 5 (07:16):
No, they ain't gonna have I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
He's kind of excited about space.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Scott, pull up the audio. Let's find out. It's fight
out live.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Let's just find out live anyway, So so dot Com.
I drove out there firstly in the morning and then
worked from a coffee shop because I work remotely, and
then the coffee shop was like a block from uh
what's called Space View Park. And if you go to
Spaceview Park, there's stuff to see there any day of
the week because they have a bunch of monuments from
(07:43):
like the Apollo program, from the Shuttle program, for the
Mercury program, and there's all these little like exhibit things
to see there. And then it just gives you a
straight on view to the launch pad over the Indian River.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
So that's that's the spot. Now. Was that spot you
went to just completely goop? And it's like where do you?
Where do you park? Like, so you're going out there
and I know there's not infrastructure to hold all those people,
So where are you parking? How how's it? How's it
all work out there?
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Okay, so if you get there early enough, you can
actually get one of the very few parking spots in
uh space space you park If you didn't, what I
did was like you know, I said, like one block
over there was like I want to say, it was
like an old fast food restaurant and I can't really wreck.
They had a giant lot of land behind them. The
(08:28):
restaurant is like completely vacant and empty, and I just
parked up in this lot. There was nobody else in
the parking lot, and I was like, I'm nervous about this.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Yeah, So I go to the coffee shop for like.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
An hour, and the whole hour all I'm thinking about
is like, oh my god, my car is getting to
yet I went out. I went out there like two
hours later because it started raining and I made of
sugar and I'm not gonna get wet. I go check
my car. The lots got forty cars right by the
time Launch started. It was just like being on campus
at on a football day. People were parking anywhere that
(09:02):
there was half the room the driveway into uh Space
View Park. People were just sticking cars in there. It
looked like the road out of Atlanta in UH The
Walking Dead. Just cars just like mashed in anywhere a
car could fit.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Like even if to stop it, it'd be like the
time we went to Disney and they're like, we lost control.
We don't know what to do. That's exactly it. That
is exactly it.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Can I just quickly say, I will freely admit I
would be horrible at helping park cars in a lot.
I can't gauge the distance on these things exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah, got one good eye, No it's just like knowing
how like to leave enough room for a car to
back out, like that whole thing, like organizing cars in
a lot.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
I swear rich people kill me because as I was
trying to get out of that parking lot, I was
blocked in by a a Corvette, a BMW Mercedes Benz. Yeah,
and I was just like you guys, just you got
so much money and you just still got to be
a jerk.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Jimmy, you did give me an idea, though, So this
restaurant's abandoned. Why don't we go in and we make
a Space restaurant and we'll just we'll not only make
money at the restaurant by selling Space themed foods, we'll
also charge people to park there, like twenty bucks. During launchtime,
we will make a mint. Okay, So Kennedy, well you
(10:33):
don't want to do this this is a great idea,
or you don't want to give it away in the radio.
I see you don't want to give away.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Okay, I got it. I got it.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Idea.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We call it Space two twenty.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
I like it, and we have screens that show like
Space inside.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
What if we called it Space for twenty.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I'm gonna buy this place in charge. You guys forty
bucks to park and poop poo in my idea.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Okay, then you know what I'll do. I'll pay forty
dollars to park. I just paid. I just paid for
a day at Mega Con to park.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
So that's a crazy thing is there was no place.
There was no place to pay to park. It was
everything was free parking.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
M Yeah, well that's that's why I'm going to revolutionize
the Space Coast with my giant parking lot and my
Space themed restaurant. Hamburgers go up to fifty seven dollars
on Space days.
Speaker 6 (11:22):
Nope, nope, nope, nope nope. You are not allowed to
own a paid parking lot.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Never. I will not let that happen.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The I hate because I hate paying for parking, and
I'll do anything like if somebody snuck in my lot
and stole a parking spot, I would say, mad, respect bro,
I like which I like the way you're.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
In and then you toe them.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Then I'd have me towed.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
The only thing we sell this restaurant is Adam.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Off for two hundred bucks, and we'd split the money.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Read all these little astra ice cream in freeze dride skittles.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Anything that doesn't go bad, anything that doesn't go bad.
We'll have it in the space restaurant.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
MRIs.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
He was given away Murray's a couple of months ago.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Yeah. So, anyhow, how was the How was the launch
experience for you?
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I'd always wanted to see it from uh that park.
Everything said that they they would normally pump in like
the the audio from the launch site did not have that. Luckily,
there was a senior citizen behind me who had a
two A radio and he could actually hear NASA talking
to themselves live, which everybody else was like a couple
(12:27):
of seconds delayed through their phones.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
You know what. So I leave it to the seniors
to come up with some people.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Not something, come up with something cool. He did what
he knew how to do.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
That technology worked for him. That technology was won the
day it did.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
And because of him, we had the countdown and I
got to watch it and I got to feel the
rocket on my chest, I got to hear the sounds
of the crackling. It's it's very like emotional and it's
a very fun second, but it's it is such a
waiting in line for hours to go on rising the
(13:05):
resistance and then that's sixty seconds.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's over. It's over. Yeah, could you smell the rocket fuel?
Can you smell like any of the smells of the launch?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
No, smells at a fireworks show.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
I don't know that that vandage point.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
You're fifteen miles away, so you're not going to smell
any and you actually this the rocket is pretty high
up before you actually get the first like rumbles hitting
your chest. And even when I've seen a shot a
launch at the press site, you still don't smell anything.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Yeah. When you and I went where we at the
press site years and years ago. Do you remember you
went to a launch with you. We had cameras and
my camera didn't work right when the things take it off,
I'm like, son of a gun, this camera will work.
But I couldn't ask you because you were running another camera.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, that's the press.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
And that was three miles out and fire was mad.
Speaker 6 (13:52):
Just wouldn't start Jim yet, right, Yeah, Kennedy, this is
something else I wanted to get went into with you guys.
Kennedy Space Center Visitor complex coming up on April twelfth,
which is the anniversary for both the first shuttle launch
and the first human in space, which is Yuri Gagory.
(14:12):
And they're having some Russian guy, Dickerman. Yes, Kennedy under this,
Kennedy under the Stars. So it's like you know, Ny
you know, every theme park likes to do like a
night time version, and this is URI's night edition for
the twelfth and it's just you know, live entertainment, cosmic glow,
mini golf in the Rocket Garden, live street and entertainment.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
There'll be astronaut meet and greets.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
They're going to have the Ortega Obs Observatory telescopes and
if you've never seen a close up image of the
Moon in a telescope, it is the coolest thing. Here's
the interesting part too that I found that was pretty awesome.
This is a separate ticketed events, not free for annual passolders,
but their annual passolders normally only get ten percent off
(14:59):
of merchandise. If you come to a separate ticket event,
we'll give you ten dollars off the ticket and then
thirty percent off of merchandise.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Interesting, Jimmy, do you want to go ahead and put
on your Kennedy Space Center hat? Because I've seen this
bit before. Were Scott Harris, mister Universal over there.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
I have a NASA hat. I can go run and
put on.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Promo code Save now, Jimmy Grigory, Yes, put it in there.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Cosmon love that place.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
You just adore Kennedy Space Center.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It's like I just like space Well.
Speaker 7 (15:30):
It's it's it's learning in fun like it's the perfect
combination of things.
Speaker 5 (15:36):
And the food is good.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
They still have good food there. We talked about this,
but they.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Have the best food, very good food.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
And then the candy is you know my favorite candy
in the world, Astrona ice cream and like freeze dried Skittles.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Like I'm good to go.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, it's a good time out there.
Speaker 6 (15:55):
But my question for you, though, is do you think
that that's something that like Disney should take like into
account out when having a passolder or even Universal, like
should annual pass holders get like a little extra something
for going to Halloween Horronites or going to you know
something else.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know me, I'm an I'm always an advocate for
giving passolders more. I'll say it till I'm blue in
the face. SeaWorld treats their passolders better than any other
theme park they always give them perks. Disney gives absolutely
the least, and Universal falls somewhere in between.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Well, the thing is like it depends on what you
what what you pay into it. Like I have paid
into an annual pass that gets me better parking, it
gets me a Halloween Horrorites ticket, it gets.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Like it it just it.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
It depends on like what you put into it. But
also with that, like you do get the ability to
stay at the hotels cheaper than like a regular guest
with it would be able to Like I remember like
they're constantly doing deals now with Disney where it's like, oh,
you're an annual passolder, you could stay at you know,
these resorts cheaper if you stay at the resorts cheaper.
(17:01):
Last year it was like you can also get the
day that you check in, you can go to one
of the water parks for free.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Well, my question though, is do you do they do
anything special for passolders at Halloween her Knights.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Like it's like, say, you, I'm a pass holder, I'm
not at the top tier level and I don't get
a free ticket. Do I get like, you know, twenty
five percent off Halloween hornited tickets or fifty percent off
Halloween hornited tickets on certain nights.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
As a pass holder, you get multiplied, you get something,
but it usually requires you having to call.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There's a little bit of more work involved in it.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I'll never call. Well that I'd rather pay the fee.
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Then that's on you. If you don't want to do
the work, then.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I hate talking on the I hate calling people. I
don't like to do that. Can I text them? Can
I just send them a text?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
All right, Dickerman, You can get free parking at Disney World,
but you have to call and be on hold for
fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
No, probably not. I mean you you know, if I
could get free parky, it probably would, you know, because
parking is my that's my one thing. I don't like
to pay the park And that's why if and they
closed the loophole up Magic Kingdom, you can't sneak in anymore.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Oh my god, No, have you seen, like what the
newest thing is that that has changed?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What? Oh? Wait, the resort buses. That's right, we should
cover that.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Yeah, Like you can't just take a bus from Disney
Springs to one of the resorts.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Now. They say that's temporary, but it could become permanent
at any point, Like we have definitely used that that
that h taken you know, the Disney springs bus to
a resort to get over places for sure. So that's
a big knock to a lot of people's plants. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
Yeah, Like like you specifically, if you wanted to go
to ever Glazed and get a bunch of donuts and
then wash them down with Beignet's, you would not be
able to No.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Wait, you can't take the you can't take the boat
from you.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Have to have a resort reservation.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
They scan your magic band. Now this is only supposedly
for spring break.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Correct because of the easter you know rush.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
But now you know, you never know what they're gonna
throw at you. Disney is like in this mode where
like the other side all of a sudden one day,
but oh yeah, we decided that's permanent. Now we're always
gonna do that. Nobody's riding our buses unless you're paid
resort guests.
Speaker 7 (19:23):
Which is just like it seems like, you know, I'm
sure there's a business reason behind it, but it seems
very short sighted because it's just like you have people
that want to spend more money with you, potentially mm hmm.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And we're not trying to sneak into the pools, I swear.
Speaker 7 (19:35):
Yeah, but it's just like no, but it's just like
it's very like that is not a thing that I'm
like condoning. But it's like if you wanted to go
see the Easter egg displays this weekend, oh.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Yeah you can't, that's the thing. Like, And to be fair,
you can't sneak into the pools. My wife would never
let me. And they also check your magic band. Yes,
yeah see yeah, I'm not about especially that big I
wrote one. That one looks so cool, but everybody's got
a wristband for that bad boy.
Speaker 7 (20:03):
Oh you mean the the one at Beach and Yacht Club,
the one that you have to leave like it and
sleek right like right there, like right outside of Epcot.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
You've never done you've never done that slide?
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, I want to do that slide more than anything.
When my daughter was little, we actually wanted up there
on accident and we're like, oh my gosh, everybody's a wristband.
We better get out of here before they catch us.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh I've done that things like so many times. It
like bores me.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It's ruts. That's really rude of you to say, you know,
it's been a dream of my whole life.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Your whole life, your entire life about it. You've known
about it for like an hour.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I disagree. At least ten years I've known about that slide,
And honestly, I could just go book a room at
Beach and Yacht Club and do it, but it's very expensive.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, go eat a kitchen sink and then.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Try and get down the slide and sucking it like Homer.
So then they got to take that section out of
the slide, of the slide out by crane and get you,
get you down and ruin everybody's day. It was an
episode of The Simpsons.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
No, but that just sounds so wonderful. I really hope
you just manifest that into.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
The That would be the let's be honest, that would
be your perfect.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Day to get crane out of the slide, out of
the middle, to eat, to eat a kitchen sink from
Beaches and Cream and then get go down a water slide.
Speaker 7 (21:18):
That's your That is like you're that's the best day
you could ever imagine.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There would definitely if you ate a Beaches and Cream
kitchen sink and went down a water slide, they'd definitely
be uh what do they call it a plasma spill?
What do they call it pro spill? Yeah, it's guaranteed.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Maybe reverse the order then.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Whatever you do, order your dialing one ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yes, if your fingers are too fat to dial this
phoneh to mash the keyboard, order a dialing one.
Speaker 7 (21:48):
Why don't you just tell me the movie you want
to see?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
The Simpsons used to be great.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
This is since it's just is just good.
Speaker 7 (22:00):
Like I'm like, like new old it's just good.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Man. I still enjoy the New Ones, but those old ones, man,
they are classics. They like you go back, You're like, man,
this was like top level TV.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
Very very okay, very quickly. If we need to make
some money so I get a third season of Ted,
can we just sell some Ted merchandise in the Universal
Parks to help fund this? Because that is like the
best show in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Do they not sell Ted? Like, do they not sell
Ted's in the park? They should absolutely sell Ted's in
the park. And when you squeeze me.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
He says, I love you, I don't think that they do.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
They should.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
They should help just and specifically take that money to
give to Seth MacFarlane to make season three.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
It was very funny. I fear the way they ended
season two that they won't bring us a season three
because he's about to go to the gym intern in
mock Worldborg.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's why I won't watch the movies.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Maybes are good, well, the first one's good.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Guess Jimmy, I forgot where it was. It's like you
had your hand raised.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Is there any news we need to hit on it
at all? Besides the whole Disney bus situation for a
for Easter and spring break, mind you, the parks this
weekend are going to be absolutely madhouses no matter where
you go.
Speaker 7 (23:06):
The Disney just announced a summer after two o'clock ticket.
Oh oh, so for a majority of the summer from
May into May to the end of July, you can
go after two.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
O'clock to the parks.
Speaker 7 (23:21):
And they just announced a bunch of new food items
for the Sci Fi Dinner dining in restaurant.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Oh I love Sni Fi. I love that's a great
place to eat. One of my favorites in the parks.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
She's ravioli, fried chicken sandwich, grilled pork chop and more.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Okay, I mean The food there was pretty good, but
the the aesthetics and then the whole setup is what
makes that place.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
I have never been in there.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I recommend it highly. I recommend I.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Would love to go one day.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
I am such an idiot.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
The first time I went there, I was like, so, what, like,
is it in the middle of the movie and she's
like She's like, no, Sweete.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Like I just didn't get it.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Yeah, And it was like fifteen minutes and I was like,
is this freaking movie gonna start?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Like?
Speaker 1 (24:05):
How many trailers are on this thing? All of them?
All of them? All right? Scott. Well, if people want
to find us on social media get the latest breaking
news and all space news, where can they go?
Speaker 7 (24:15):
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TikTok at the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
You could watch at Themepark YouTube dot com, and the.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Show traditionally comes to you live from the laurencampbellreltor dot com,
t bow Ga Zebo Studios for jimmyd For Scott Harris,
I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out at the parks.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
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