The Lore of | Typhoon Lagoon | Ep. 66

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Episode Transcript

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Flight course set for the lore of Typhoon Lagoon.
Greetings from the Disney Verse Starship This is episode 66 of
Into the Disney Verse, the show where we dive into the world of
Disney's past, present, and future.
Sometimes the future. This voice is not a
prerecording. This voice is not AII Am back
after my three-week. Who?

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Is this man I? Recharged.
I am back. You know, the only reason I came
back was because Ryan texted me and said that.
Didn't happen. It was like. 3:00 in the morning
and he's like, I cannot stop thinking about how badly I need
to see you on a weekly basis. That's all true.
I was like, we talk and stuff and he's like, no, but like, I
need to see your face for an hour to an hour and a half a

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week. And I was like, you know what,
I'll do it. So I'm back.
I'm back. I would say better than ever,
but. No.
No, not that, definitely. Worse than ever, to be honest
with you. He didn't just start this dream.
I'm just back, that's all. I'm back.
He's present. I'm present.
But anyway, I am your variant host, Chris.

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Along with me are my other fellow variants, Alex and Ryan.
Guys, missed you guys. Hello there guys.
I didn't notice you were gone. I thought you were a guest the
the text say otherwise. Dude.
The text say otherwise. You sent me a picture of
yourself crying I think. No, I thought it was a chat
cheap. It's because.
I heard you were coming back. I thought it was a chat cheap

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tea thing. Wow, we've been keeping busy
without you. I know I've been, I've been
listening, keeping up. I was going to take some notes
and stuff. But I'll tell you what, the
episode that I've been working on for this week as little as a
bit of an undertaking, a bit more of an undertaking than I
thought it would be. Not only did I like for the for
the one that I did not. Used to do work.
Well, for the for the one that Ihosted before where I pre

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recorded with all the sound effects and everything, that's
all I did. Then I was like, how would you
do a slideshow too? And I was so then I was like, I,
I think it'd be weird if I did aPowerPoint.
So I mean like a little film. Just go.
Ahead and do a full documentary.Of all copyright free videos, of
course none of them were taken to YouTube to MP4 download and

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and uploaded onto Canva. That was not something that I
would do I. Thought that'll be AI.
Actually, there's a lot of AI for pictures because believe it
or not, the topic we're doing today today is not real.
But we'll get into that in a second here.
What? What?
Listen, stay with me here, Alex.What'd you do this week in
Disney, man? Not much, not much.

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So you know, if you guys listen,you know that we record this
kind of ahead of schedule. This episode comes out on the
15th and we're recording on the 3rd.
So we're like really ahead of schedule.
So by the next episode I will have watched Lilo, Stitch and
the New Avengers but I have not watched them yet.

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The New Avengers from like 2022.No hashtag New Avengers.
Oh. It's Asterisk.
New Avengers. I haven't waxed them yet so but
they're on Disney Plus and I. Wanted stitches right now.
It just came up today, yeah. Tears today, yeah.
I was on there today checking the top ten just in case you

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pulled a fast one. I know I keep on checking it.
Myself. No, that's not that the game
works. You cannot be checking top 10.
And I didn't see it on there. Well, it just came out.
I was like, hey, we should just watch it tonight and my wifes
like we're going to watch it just to stop it.
That's not new movies that came out.

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We do that for old movies. So we're going to watch.
We're going to watch. It make any difference?
Because Friday, we're going to have it with dinner and we're
going to watch the whole thing through, yeah.
You start dinner at 3:00, so there's all plenty.
Of time and then hopefully Thunderbolts will be this
weekend. Hopefully.
Thunderbolts is a very fun movieI really like.
I'm going to. Watch it.
Can't wait to watch it. Other than that, nothing else.

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So what you're doing so your week in Disney consistent of
planning for your next week in Disney.
We could just. Say I'm not going to say what
I'm going to do. Thinking about what I'm doing
next week in Disney. A lot of preparation.
Yeah, Ryan, what'd she do this week at Disney?
Nothing in the future that I. Know.
But I watch when I watch it. Man I watched Thor Ragnarok the
other day just cause fun. So you're wait, so you're a Thor

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Ragnarok fan? Oh, it's one of my top. 30 I'm
thinking of Love and Thunder. People were controversial, I
think. It was one of the best villains
we've ever seen in a Marvel movie.
No. Well, it was.
Maybe besides, maybe hell, it might have been a little bit
better, but I watched that. I watched half of Guardians.
I watched the trailer. A lot of Marvel, I guess for the

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Marvel Zombies. I watched that this morning and
got very, very excited about that.
Yeah, that the animation for that looks great.
Just I think it might be the first rated N for mature show on
Disney plus. Like actually Disney Plus
series. Daredevil.
I guess Daredevil was was Daredevil.

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I don't know. Daredevil might have been it's.
Probably like TV 17 or something. 17.
NC 17. No TV 7, it's.
Weird how things change, isn't it?
Yes, anyways, that's what I did.I really want to watch more of
the Alien show. Oh, I got to start watching.
I want to watch that. The first episode is so good but

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my child has been around and that is not a show.
Yeah, neither is that you. Got to get him, got to get rid
of him for an hour or so. Yeah, yeah, I get that.
Well, I'm not at that stage yet.I'm not at that stage yet.
She's still There's no other story.
Of Disney stuff since you've been We did.
This last three weeks in Disney.So it's going to take about 45

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minutes. That's how we got that.
Matter. That's how every time you talk
it. Let me see, you know, you know
what, I've been doing a lot of Disney adjacent stuff.
Oh boy. I went to Sesame Place, which is
Disney adjacent because it they were designed the originals.
Well, I just ChatGPT today because I was like, are they
Muppets? And they're like, yeah, they're
Muppets. So the original characters were

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designed by the Jim Henson. Yes, that's true.
So they are considered Muppets, but they're not legal Muppets,
right? That's why I say it's Disney
adjacent. They're not legally Muppets.
So I was going to. Not on their driver's licenses.
So I was going to play a game since I did a lot of Sesame
Place and Sesame Street stuff the past three weeks.
My daughter's very deceptive Sesame Street.

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Now I was going to play a game. What's more expensive, Disney or
Sesame Place? And I was going to do, you know,
parking, this type of meal, character dining and have you
guys guess. But I, I couldn't find enough.
I just had to do a base off of memory.
And so I'll just name a couple things right now instead of
playing a whole game. Oh, we're doing a game, OK.

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This is a quick, quick game. Surprise.
So, so, so for all my, for all my, for all my Northeast people
who who have Sesame Place Philadelphia near them.
And there's a lot of Sesame places around the country too.
There's one in Orlando, in SeaWorld, I think.
I've been to that one. Let let's see if you guys can
guess which is more expensive. Maybe you guys can guess the
amount as well. What's more expensive, a double

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cheeseburger at Disney World on average, or a double
cheeseburger at Sesame Place? Which one do you think is more
expensive and how much do you think it is?
Alex, go ahead. We're doing though.
It's not it's not like a time thing you.
Feel good? See where a Sesame Place is more
expensive. OK, how much you think they
charge for a double cheeseburger?

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I don't know that much. I'd say probably like 750.
OK, Ryan. You got it right.
I was going to say the same thing.
I'm going to say 751. All right, so at Big Bird's
Bites, my wife and I and our daughter walk into their look at
the menu and see the double cheeseburger for $22.00 and

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walked right out. Wow, would you give?
Us a French drink. And meal, just fries.
Just fries, no drink. And the drinks aren't free
refills. You have to scan AQR code on the
on the cups like yeah babe, so how?
Do you wow, do I sell chicken Nuggets at Big Birds?
Whatever Big Birds, Big Bites orwhatever that is.

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I don't think they do. Which that'd be hilarious.
That would be really funny. I even think about that.
So, OK, here, parking. Who's more expensive for parking
and not preferred parking, just general parking?
Disney or Sesame Place and how much?
Go ahead, Alex. Sesame Place.
OK. How much do you think?

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I have no idea. I'd say that's part of the
phone, $11. $11.00 Ryan, I'm gonna.
I'm gonna swerve and say Disney.OK so you so you think Sesame
Place is more expensive for $11.00?
How much you think parking at Disney is Alex?
$9. OK, Ryan says.
Disney. I think Disney's somewhere
around $30 to park. Well, why?

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You parked there before. I don't pay for parking, it's in
the past. Sesame Place charges with fees
and their new 5% fee for the raise of cost which is every
receipt it. Sounds like a New Jersey.
Thing charges in Pennsylvania charges $3038 to park.
Jesus. So I now I spoiler alert, what's

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cheaper? I mean, what's worse friends, is
Sesame Place or Disney for a daily pass?
Well, it's it's Disney by a lot.But Sesame Place is $100 to go
around $100, right? Parking is $40.
You're talking $140 just to get into the park, right?
So I pay $16.00 a month. My, my, my, my wife has a
teacher's pass, she gets in for free.
My daughter Garcia, she gets in for free.

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I pay $16.00 a month and I get free parking and free entry.
So great. The end 10% off my $22.00
burner. We are going to be smuggling the
food for the. First week, yeah, I would.
They do. They're going to do a Halloween
thing like they do at SeaWorld. Yes, we will be going on in 10
days, September 13th, we're going to be on.
It's the first day, yeah, but. If they're like, if they're

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going to be like a SeaWorld, geta ton of candy.
All the receipts say SeaWorld and all the prices say SeaWorld.
I'm hoping it's SeaWorld, Yeah. So let's take some pictures for
next. Week You've been mistaken for a
character yet? Three different occasions.
OK, I. I figured it happened at least
once. By now, yeah, yeah, They thought

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I was the I guess. Isn't that that that that that
homeless? One in the trash.
Can yeah, that, but anyway, yeah, so yeah, really fun.
It's it's the best I can get around, you know, within an hour
of me for a theme park for for achild.
So and having a lot of fun goingthere.
We went a couple times. That's really what I've been

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doing. Disney adjacent.
I'm going to, I'm going to call it.
I'm going to declare Disney. Adjacent.
You know what? Adjacent means you know what
adjacent means. Yeah, but it's not adjacent
because. It means that it's not Disney,
but it's adjacent to it. I would feel like a Disney.
Jason. I feel like adjacent would be
something that's affiliated withDisney somehow.
No. Oh, it is because Kermit the
Frog was on it. No, but he was on.

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And Michael B Jordan was on it, and he's Killmonger.
That doesn't. A lot of adjacency.
Any sense? But anyway, that's our that's
our week in Disney. I have a couple more weeks to
get that. Am I?
Recording. Yeah, I am.
Oh my. Consensus meeting is being
recorded. We have a few more weeks to get
to so Week 2 I, we're, we're. Going through the OK.

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Yeah, I'm just kidding. I did go to Spirit Halloween and
the. Not Disney at.
All and the Disney costumes thisyear are are.
And I do have some Haunted Mansion stuff too.
That's so I always go there to look for the Haunted Mansion.
They they have a Haunted Mansionsection.
I don't love hocus Pocus, but they do have a nice hocus pocus
section. Haunted Mansion stuff pretty
good this year. I'm going to wait for it to go

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on clearance at the end of the season to buy because it's
ridiculously priced. Well, those places open the day
after Halloween. How?
How fast do they? Close.
Yeah. Now that's when you go to get
the deals. Do they close relatively
quickly? No, because they need.
To sell afterwards until there'snothing left for them to sell.
Yeah I'm looking at my 1 candle holder thing from Haunted

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Mansion and then I have a Haunted Mansion like badge
somewhere. Candelabra.
Yeah, I guess so. It looks like a little bat
thing, some sort of rodent, I guess.
Oh, it's a gargoyle, I think. I don't know.
It's like a little gargoyle. I think you've seen what's not
enough I. Don't know what you're talking.
I'm trying to figure out what this thing is anyway.

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It's a bat. It's the from the.
Hand. Rails.
It's got from the hand. Oh, maybe the hand rails or bats
in the. Rails.
If only you could show us on camera.
I I have to I. Don't think I'm that tall.
I don't think it's on a top show.
You can't really. Get the step stool out.
Ain't no. Way it's it's on a it's on a top
show he's. Gonna just put his camera at it

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so. It's so dark I can't.
See that? It's so dark as.
You stole it's. I don't know what you're talking
about. It's.
It's up there. I know I I can make it the light
bulbs and that's it. It's.
Too dark. So anyway, maybe next screen
guys, I got to get a step store or something.
I don't even know how I got thatup there.
Probably asked my my brother-in-law to put it up

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there for me out of there that that shelf's never been dusted.
I can tell you that much. Top shelf.
Anyway guys, today we will be doing the history of something
that isn't even real. It's the that's next week.

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We are doing the history on the back story of everybody's
favorite Disney park, Typhoon Lagoon that.
Is nobody's favorite. I'll tell you what, after you
hear this and and and see some of the pictures in the videos
and my my narrating, I think youmight think otherwise.
It definitely needs. To make it my favorite park.
No, I think it might. I think it might.

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Yeah, I think it might. OK, so definitely.
High I share then you can reach.So it's not very high.
So without any further ado, actually it's going to be a
little bit further ado because. We don't rate this right because
it's just a back story. I've never been, so I can't.
Yeah, no. We're not going to rate it.
We're not even going to really talk about much of the park.
We're going to talk about the ideas that go that went into the
park, which you'll see how we can do that after we listen to

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this. Yeah, I, I think a lot of the
back stories of these parts of the parks are very
underappreciated and they put upso much time and effort into
them. And that's why I like to give
them a little bit of love once every couple years.
It took me 3 years to record this.
For as long as anyone could remember, a quaint Thatcher

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nestled along the shores of a sparkling lagoon in the shadow
of a great volcanic peak. This peaceful corner of the
world was known as Placid Palms,A tiny resort community on the
tranquil waters of Blustery Bay.The 20th century had brought a
few modern touches. A Little Key West style resort
called the Placid Palms Resort cater to lucky vacationers, and

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a modest shrimping industry and fruit exporter kept the local
economy humming. By day, fishermen cast their
Nets and fruit farmers packed crates of bananas and coconuts.
By evening, tourists sipped rum cocktails under swaying palms as
the sun dipped. Well, it was the picture of
island paradise, sunny, serene and safe.

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But all of that was about to change in the most traumatic way
imaginable. One summer day, seemingly out of
nowhere, the sky darkened over Placid palms.
The breeze died to an ominous calm, and the animals grew

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quiet. Villagers peered out to the sea
and saw a wall of black clouds racing toward them.
Hurricane hurricane warnings crocked over tinny radios.
But it was too late. The rogue typhoon was nearly
upon them in local lore. Some even gave this monstrous
storm a name, Hurricane Connie said to have struck in 1955.

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Whether named or not, what everyone agrees on is that it
was unlike any storm before. The typhoon roared across the
Bay and slammed into the island with a vengeance.
For a full hour, the cyclone battered Placid palms with
relentless, furious force, catching a small fleet of ships

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by surprise and tossing them about like toy boats.
Palm trees bent and snapped. Waves taller than buildings
crashed ashore, flooding the streets.
Whole fishing boats were lifted into the air by the Howley
winds. Villagers huddled in basements
and behind whatever shelter theycould find as debris whistled

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through the air. It felt like the very world was
ending in wind and water. Then, as suddenly as it began,
the Great Storm passed. The wind stilled.
The rain seized. Those who endured that
terrifying hour emerged to an eerie silence, broken only by
dripping water and the sound of birds chirping.

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The people of Placid palms looked around and their breath
caught in their throats. The village they knew had been
utterly transformed forever. In the storm's wake, astonishing
sights greeted the survivors. Nature had done some
redecorating, to put it mildly. All around were the remnants of
the storm's fury, frozen in place.

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A surfboard had been driven straight through the trunk of a
tower in palm tree, piercing it like an arrow.
A small fishing boat was lodged through the roof of what used to
be the village bait and tackle shop.
A gigantic buoy, probably from some far off harbor, had crashed
through the wall of the town store, coming to rest half
inside the building. An oil tanker ship had been

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carried inland and completely overturned and newly formed
inlet, it's whole, cracked open.Incredibly, that wreck would
later become a reef teeming withtropical fish.
More on that soon. Nearly every structure still
standing was tilted or damaged. The elegant Placid Palms Resort
Hotel, now renamed by necessity as the Leaning Palms, cropped at

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a precarious angle and looking as if it might topple over any
moment. The storm had literally tilted
the entire building. The beautiful Emerald Bay itself
was forever changed. The typhoon's chaos caused part
of a shoreline to collapse and asmall harbor Cove was cut off
from the sea, trapping an overturned boat in the lagoon
along with thousands of colorfulfish and even a few sharks that

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have been swept in from the distant seas.
Those exotic fish would happily make this their new home,
creating a curious tropical reefand a place no reef should be.
And presiding over the scene of Havoc was the single most iconic
and unbelievable sight of all the ship on the mountain
Hyattsop, the island central volcano, a mighty peak known as

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Mount Mayday, set a 56 foot shrimp boat named Miss Tilley
and paled clean through its holeon the jagged mountain top.
The locals soon noticed that Mount Mayday had become restless
ever since that boat got wedged in its crater by some island
magic. The volcano now tries to vent
its frustration at having its unexpected plug.

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Roughly every 30 minutes, the mountain rumbles and a huge
geyser of water erupts from MissTilly's smokestack, shooting
nearly 50 feet into the air. Island Lure claims the
geothermal pressure under Mount Mayday is desperately trying to
dislodge the ship, but Miss Tilly isn't budging.
Surveying the wrecked homeland, the Islanders realized that

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nothing would ever be the same. The paradise of Placid Palms was
gone, but in its place was something oddly beautiful.
An almost whimsical tropical bone yard of ships and
surfboards, of waterfalls and Rapids where there hadn't been
before. Where destruction had struck,
new natural features emerged. The storm had carved out new
streams, holes and waterfalls all over the island.

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It's as if Mother Nature decidedto refashion the island into a
giant water playground. The biggest change, however, was
the villagers renaming their home Typhoon Lagoon, embracing
the very force that upended their lives.
Wow, that was really good. And and just so you know,
listeners on podcast, there was a whole video to go with this

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audio. And if you want to see that,
just go over to Disney Verse on YouTube and we'll have the live
on there for you to look at. Yeah, it's fun.
A lot of it. So a lot of it, obviously I had
like a lot of the pictures I hadto do AI generation.
I had to just kind of imagine. I love the.
Flying ships. The flying ships was so bad and
that was the best one that I could I could copy and paste.

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I was kind of funny. I got to keep this, but just I
was able to put all the descriptions of all what the
Imagineers kind of envisioned itto be and pretty to life with
AI, which was kind of cool with the because they described the
village. They described the people that
described the different stuff and the postcard was AI
generated too, which was really neat.

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Greetings from Placid Placid palms and then the Placid palms
restaurant or Placid palms resort.
I sent it a picture and I said recreate this as like an open
resort. This is class at Palms resort
and it still does have the tilting tower a little bit
because it was a picture of the the resort today, which is now
the leaning palms, but it's still kind of cool to to kind of

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bring that stuff to life. But so first impressions,
assuming that you guys have never heard that back story
before. I even to that extent I've never
heard. That not to that extent.
I have a little bit, I mean, obviously you know what
happened. Yeah, I mean, you see a ship on
a on a mountain, it's like, OK, something.
Definitely. Happened.
Yeah, obviously something happened.
I hate to, I hate to compliment you, Chris, but that was

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actually really good and. Thank you.
You're, I mean, Chad's saying isreally you're going to have to
do that more. I hate to say that we have to
make you do more work. I'd love to do that every once
in a while. I.
Love the lore, like when you do it with the lore, because this
there's a lot of things even with the pictures and stuff.
So if you if you didn't, you need to go watch video that
there's a lot of things that I would have missed.
Even going to the park that you you mentioned and showed a

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picture of like the leaning, like everything was leaning in
that one building. That was pretty cool.
Yeah, and like when I do history, try to touch the lore
that much 'cause it's so like I'm already doing a lot on the
history, so I'm not trying to dive into the lore.
So having its own thing would beperfect.
It's also not real, so it's likehard to do the history on
something and get too into detail about what's not even

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real about it. Yeah, well.
It's real to me. But that's The thing is to these
Imagineers, it was very much real and everything was modeled
around what they pretended was real.
And Typhoon Lagoon is not a place that I would ever want to
go until I really did a lot of research on like the back story.
And now it's like I. Think it's my favorite part the

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the. Detail and.
I told. You the detail and theming is
just insane. Like the a surfboard through a
tree. I think it's just kind of like
maybe something tropical when you're right.
Oh my God, that was from the storm Storm.
Yeah. And there's so much and we'll
get, we'll get into this a little later.
They're they also tried to intertwine some of the other

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places in Disney. One of the scrapped ideas, I
believe, was tying it to Pleasure Island, that the storm
was supposed supposed to have hit Pleasure Island as well
after it hit Pleasant Palms, Pleasant Park, Pleasant Palms.
Placid. Placid palm, Placid palms.
I don't even remember it and it was supposed to have hit that

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too. But there's a when we have
something in the quick fire, quick facts about an Easter egg
from this park in a different location on Disney property,
too. But just to get a little bit
into the Imagineers that were behind this.
So the story of Typhoon Lagoon came to life largely thanks to
two Imagineers, Randy Bright andChris Runko.
Are you familiar with either oneof these guys?

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No. No, actually.
Because Randy Bright, I thought sounded familiar, but maybe not.
If you don't know who he is, then I don't.
I probably. Don't I barely remember your
name that time? So during the during the early
design phase in the mid 1880s, Imagineering explored everything
from Lost. Temple 1880s cruise ships.
Did I say 1880s? He did that was that was way
before a little. Bit newer than that.

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Yeah, that's that was the long term plan for this one.
They explored everything from lost temples to beach cruise
ships as possible themes for theme parks.
A beach cruise ship would have been that would have.
Been really cool for like a hotel.
Yeah, that would have been a really neat idea.
Oh, that wasn't great for a hotel, Yeah.
Lost Temple. I feel like it's something right

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up their alley too. Like it, it is kind of they.
Can do both of those on their island and then like a.
Beach cruise ship on Castaway King.
So scary. Yeah, maybe that's not the best.
We crashed one over here. The it's kind of crazy that
those two were the frying. It is.
I think the cruise ship idea is a little far fetched, but the

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Lost Temple is right up Disney'salley, I feel like.
And the fact that it resorted inthis I think is pretty cool.
So the pretty pretty big leap offaith, I feel like, because it's
kind of a crazy pitch. Like how about we create a theme
park that just got hit by a hurricane?
Like it's, it's kind of like youjust want everything destroyed.
Yeah, OK. So like, there's National Guard

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everywhere. Yeah, it's like, it's kind of
kind of crazy concept. So it was Randy Bright, then
vice president of creative development, who championed the
idea of a massive storm scattering wreckage across the
tropical resort. Bright was a storyteller at
heart. He'd stated at Disneyland in the
1950s I'm sorry. He started Disneyland in the

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1950s as a ride operator on Jungle Cruise before working his
way into Imagineer. So many people started there.
Kind of, yeah, kind of a lot of.Them did.
Who else? Who was?
It didn't Josh. Josh Gad started there, right?
Yeah, yeah. Not calling him Steve Martin
and. I don't know if he worked on
Jungle Cruise, I forgot where heworked, but yeah, Steve Martin
worked for Disney too. So over the years, Bright

(26:35):
contributed to Pirates of the Caribbean, Carousel of Progress,
America Sings, and then played acentral role in shaping Epcot.
Now, I did not look too much into what his hand is was in all
of these. I just saw he was.
It was. It was attributed to him.
I think it was attributed to working on this stuff.
I'd love to dig more into him, especially the fact that you
haven't really heard of this guybefore this episode.

(26:57):
So to kind of see what he's donemight be an interesting topic if
we ever dig into Imagineers. For Typhoon Lagoon, he went up
more than just slides and pools.He wanted a myth.
He even penned the whimsical entrance poem about a furious
storm that sets the stage for the entire back story.
Now, Ryan, I saw you nodding. Do you know this poem?
No, it's not into Dane. OK, I don't know poems.

(27:20):
So I do have the poem and he made this poem as a scent, like
as a starting point for this whole theme park like this.
This poem was what inspired him for the whole thing.
So here's the poem. OK, we're a snap at the end of
it. A furious storm once roared
across the sea, catching ships in its path, helpless to flee.

(27:43):
Instead of a certain and watery doom, the wind swept them here
to Typhoon Lagoon. That's cool.
And that was it. That was the inspiration for the
whole park. Like 4 lines. 4 lines. 4 lines.
I think it's kind of over exaggerated story but that's
what they said. I feel like it was done after,

(28:04):
but you can see this poem somewhere in the park.
I think it's like a hidden like these are all things that they
don't advertise very well. That was my problem with
Dinoland USA and that's why I felt compelled to do an episode
on the lore behind Dinoland USA is because it's also under
appreciated and under utilized. I need.
To check if that's on Patreon. If that's not on Patreon, we

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will put it on Patreon. That vision was carried forward
by Chris Runko, a younger Imagineer and show designer who
would later go on to work on projects like Disney Quest and
Hong Kong Disneyland. Runko has explained.
That bright short poem became the backbone of the story,
anchoring all the little detailswoven into the park.
The shrimp boat, Miss Tilly stuck on mountain a day, the

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Leaning Palms Resort tilting after the storm.
And the nautical flags, that cheekily worn piranha in Pool,
which what they're talking about.
There's people who don't know what nautical flags are.
Every flag is assigned to a letter of the alphabet, so you
can spell things out with flags so they have like spellings of
things in the park that you'd never know if they're just

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flagged I. Wouldn't know if there were
letters. That is true.
Together, bright, color-coded. Too.
They are. So that's why Ryan came.
Which also doesn't help Ryan. Again, I'm color blind.
Hey, you're color blind and dyslexic.
That's crazy. Thanks, let's just air out all
my problems. Bad news, knees.
Bad ankles? Anything else you want to know?

(29:31):
Yeah, One comment I would have made on the the episode that
just aired this week about hotter on the Collar, the
watering hole episode was Ryan made a comment saying I've
jumped from things higher than that.
I was good. I would have said, yeah, that's
why your ankles are shattered. There's water there.

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Together, Brighton Runko turned Typhoon Lagoon from a water park
into an immersive legend of disaster turn paradise, a place
where storytelling lives in every palm tree prop and
crashing wave. Literally every single prop you
see here was washed away from somewhere.
Shit like everything you see here shouldn't be there, and
that's what's so cool about thispark.
It is cool. They place things here that

(30:14):
shouldn't be where they are. A ship on a mountain or volcano,
A buoy inside of a store. A ship on a shop, an overturned
tanker. So that was like the original
inception of the story. Let's talk a little bit about
the the overturned tanker that turned into a reef.

(30:36):
They said in the in the in the lore.
So this was the IT was open until 2000.
Oh man. See, I want to say 2016, but I'm
not sure. Don't quote me on that.
I'm pretty sure it closed in 2016.
There was a part of the park where you could swim the sharks
and fish and that was this fake reef where the tanker was.

(31:00):
So again, that part of the park had a reason why it was there.
It's a shame they got rid of that.
I thought they got rid of that. Yeah, I used to go swim with
sharks. There.
Oh wow, that's awesome. Almost 10 years ago, Yeah, I
think I talked about what filledit up later, but the it's just
sand now. Stick with the theme.
Is it just sand? Yeah, it's just sand.

(31:20):
The what I love about Typhoon Lagoon is the exact opposite of
what they're doing with Hollywood Studios.
So MGM Studios opened as a park that you can experience movie
making and everything they opened was themed towards that.
Now it's everything and anythingDisney, right?

(31:42):
Typhoon Lagoon opened as this inIt opened as this shipwrecked
island, not shipwrecked island, Island of shipwrecks.
All this stuff and everything they added to it fits the theme
perfectly. Like they never strayed away.
So in 2005, Disney expanded Typhoon Lagoon with the Crush

(32:03):
and Gusher, which is a which wasthemed to a storm wrecked fruit
packing plant called Tropical Amity.
So the typhoon tore open its flumes and conveyor belts and
Islanders repurposed them into thrilling water coasters.
Each slide name, banana blaster,coconut crusher, pineapple

(32:25):
plunger ties back to that fruit export theme.
So that was one of like the anchors of the original island
was fruit exports. So when they added that rot that
that part in 2005, like let's, let's keep it fruity here.
So some interesting names. And.
I watched I watched a video on Typhoon Mcgoon today and those

(32:47):
looks like some fun. They call in the video I watch
they call them water coasters. I've never heard that term
before. They look really.
Fun water coaster. No, no, they look really fun.
So in 2017 came Misadventure Falls centered on treasure
hunter Captain Mary Ocean Ear, which this is the interesting

(33:07):
part about her, a member of Disney Society of Explorers and
Adventures, which also ties intoI want you to tell me because I
forget what it's called. The the.
Pleasure. Island, right?
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
The eventually the that, that, that place that are.
It's what I was. Talking about or what is it

(33:28):
called? Like that it was.
Explorers it. Was a pleasure island.
Oh God, this is terrible. It's one, it's the one thing
I've been wanting to do an episode.
I know, I know. I mean, it's about the the
Disease Society of Explorers, but there was this restaurant,
I'm pretty sure at Pleasure Island that was themed about
that chat. Am I?

(33:49):
Am I crazy? Don't, don't, don't tell us
right now. Don't worry, on YouTube as a
toy. So the storms, the storm swept
her ship, the Ms. Salty the 4th,into the lagoon along with her
treasures guest ride. Side of the floors, yeah.
So but but there was a restaurant themed around that
I'm pretty sure in Pleasure Island wasn't there?

(34:11):
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right.
Adventures Club. Oh, my gosh, that's exactly what
I just said. And we didn't even know it.
It was Oh, no, it was not. It did not say Adventurers Club
Adventurers. So is the Adventurers Club OK
Adventurers. So that So that was in Pleasure
Island, correct? Yeah.
Oh, it was a it was a nightclub.Yeah. 1930s.

(34:33):
It closed in 2008. Yeah, they liked the rave party.
The crazy part about that, that closed in 2008 and they're still
talking about stuff connected tothat in 2017, which I think is
so cool because we always complain about that, that Disney
has these original ideas and just gets rid of them and puts
IP in the parks. They don't.

(34:54):
They just put them into the water parks, you know?
Just wasting it on the water park.
I still think that Disney shoulddo a movie series about the
Society of Explorers. ATV series they have Disney plus
or like a. Movie for each one and.
Make it like Avengers. Where they come together at the
end and. It would be awesome.
And then just explore or then they just go, just go to the

(35:15):
nightclub. That's all they.
Do OK so here's the so Disney occasionally linked typhoon
Lagoons floor to other places like Pleasure Island intrigue or
Sam's and they even gave it a mascot.
So they gave this park a mascot later on after Gator.
It's the Gator. It is Laguna Gator.
Laguna Gator, Yeah. Gator, Gator.

(35:36):
And Captain Mario, who we just talked about and obviously this
will probably keep on growing. OK, so that's really, that's
really the back story of TyphoonLagoon.
What I love about this is that this they never abandoned the
the initial, the initial vision of this.
When they add new stuff they just continue like it's crazy to

(35:58):
me in an awesome way that they need a water slide based around
a fruit packing plant the way it.
Looks it's very cool. I think the water smell like
fruit. That's how in the weeds they are
with their theming at this park.It's it's insane to me now we

(36:19):
would we would have to do the back story on Blizzard beach one
day too, because Blizzard beach I'm sure has a really cool back
story as well. It's just cold.
It's just cold. But after hearing about this and
after hearing the back story andseeing some of the the pictures
of, of it there, we didn't even get get into the restaurants.

(36:39):
They have a couple of restaurants to, to eat out
there. If you had an extra day, I'm not
saying if you were planning a Disney vacation, would you add a
day for this, But if you had an extra day.
Well, it's free. Right.
So say your flight gets in earlyand you and you got in like 9:00
AM. What do you mean by it's free?
If you are staying in a Disney resort to give you the a a day
at the water park for free. Yeah.

(37:00):
But the day you check in. But for passes you have to have
the water park option added on. OK, Yeah.
So if this didn't cost you any extra money, yeah.
That's you had an extra. You had an extra day to do it.
What would you rather do? Would you do a pool day at the
resort? The convenience of just going
out of your hotel and just goingto the pool.
And they got cool pool too, likea nice pool.

(37:21):
Or would you? Would you check out Typhoon
Lagoon? After watching a video I want to
go to typhoon. My wife does not like water
parks, but I think next time we get passes I might try to
convince her to add on the waterparks to it because I imagine
it's not that much more expensive to add on the water
parks. They're begging people to go to
them. And, and then, and then we can

(37:43):
go to two major water parks. And I think that would be
especially because our kids willbe a little older.
It would be definitely ideal. And I can't wait.
Now, Ryan, you're a notorious water park.
Yeah, so as I stated, I do not do water parks, but if my son
wanted to do a water park, I would say I'd go to Typhoon

(38:07):
Lagoon. It's pretty massive.
I would like if you look at the map.
Out of the two that is water park, I would probably trust a
Disney water park more than surethe one I worked at.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of water parks either, Ryan, so I am.
I am right there with you. But yeah, you do what you do
crazy things for your kids, likeSesame Places half a water park.
Yeah, I don't do anything with my kid.

(38:28):
I don't care. It's the it's the floating band
aids for me in the lazy river. As long as I can wear my jeans,
I've never. Seen that?
If you if you grew up in the water parks I grew up at, it's a
you'd understand, But I this is like I would make it a point.
Listen, the whole oh you know, on your trekking day, go to go
to the water park never was appealing to me.

(38:50):
But after seeing like doing someresearch on this park.
I kind of would like to walk around it to be honest with you.
Maybe not get in the water but like walk?
Around that's so that's that's so weird as a man walk around in
jeans at a water park that's. OK, I can do what I want.
I am a sucker for wave pools andthis place has a really nice
wave, so it's the. Worst.

(39:10):
I love it. I love waiting in the water.
The video I saw, they said it's the biggest wave pool in North
America. It is a huge one and.
I'm looking it up right now, just confirming it just.
We're not factual. We're we're we are semi factual.
The biggest wave pool in Americain the world is in Asia.
I know that. Yes, Disney Typhoon Lagoon in
Orlando has the largest wave pool in North America, a 2.5

(39:33):
acre surf pool that can produce 6 foot waves and if you pay
extra you can get in early and go surfing.
Yes, I've seen that. That looks cool.
I can't do it because my ankles but if I was.
I can't do it because I can't. Surf.
If I was 10 years younger, I would do it.
I would never surf. But I used to be a skateboarder.
I will take that out of the quick fire.

(39:53):
I did. I did.
I tried skateboarding for like probably a couple of years.
Never could do an Ollie. I did it for a good Oh my God.
Never could do an Ollie, I just rode around and film people.
Might be why I have such bad ankles.
Any closing thoughts on Typhoon Lagoon before we get into our

(40:14):
game? I.
Didn't realize I didn't realize it was quite so themed.
I mean, I knew it was themed pretty heavily, but not as much
as it actually is. I don't think I cared.
Like, I, I don't think I care. Yeah, that's like, yeah, I
don't, I didn't care about this.I was like, there's got to be,
there's got to be a story behindthis, like.
So like, I knew there was a story about a storm that hit and
all that stuff, but I. Didn't even know that much like

(40:34):
I didn't know about the ship on the volcano it.
Was really bad at driving a boatand then jump on top.
No, I don't care if you're active listening.
I said I didn't even know about the boat on the volcano.
I know nothing. I knew nothing about this park
today. I as new as Typhoon Lagoon and
it's in Blizzard beach. I all that's all I know.
I know more about Blizzard beachbecause I've seen pictures of
it. Never seen pictures of typhoon
Lagoon. So I knew nothing and watching a

(40:57):
video today about it, getting the history, the lore behind it.
I'm very pumped about going to this park in the future and
probably within a year, probablynext, maybe next summer, we'll
do the history on it. Yeah, that would be.
Inspired him, didn't you? I.
Seemed just excited a long time.I honestly thought it was just a
tropical water park. I had no idea that like a

(41:18):
hurricane hit. I thought typhoon was just
because it was tropical and the hurricane hits in the Tropic.
The hurricane did hit it a couple years a couple years ago
I. Mean every year almost, yeah.
That's theming. I have heard that the the
volcano used to erupt every hourand it doesn't really do it at
all anymore. It used to be every half hour,
yeah. Slowly gotten less and less.

(41:39):
What did you do when interrupted?
It just gushed water or. What?
Wait, did you not see? The video.
Is it water? Well, not.
Like. Alex, I had like 30 seconds of
the video. Was the water shooting at his?
House So for a while I was searching for the episode but my
eyes were not on the video. That was like the longest part.
Of the video because you're supposed to pay attention.
Because it was the one episode I'm missing In this whole list

(42:00):
of episodes I'm missing 211, which is type Let's just date on
Donald Land USA. So anyway, we're going to play
Shipwreck for sure. SHORE.
Right. Sure means true, Shipwreck means
false. You have to play.
Oh, OK, All right. So shipwreck for sure.

(42:24):
The wave machine and surf pool was so powerful that Disney once
used it for testing small scale surfing competitions before the
park opened. It's true, yeah.
I didn't say it's true. Sure.
Sure. Sure, why not?
Are you are you letting us take turns going first or how it's
working? No, I mean, we'll just just go

(42:47):
with your gut. It's.
One gut. It's just, it's just A or B,
dude. It's not like it's come on.
So we're not. Competing.
You're no, you're competing, butlike think.
About who's going to get the point right or me?
Both of you, you guys are going to get stuff wrong.
It gets harder. It gets harder.
The surf pool was one of the longest.
In the correct you'd never confirmed.
Yeah, well, I'm going to tell you.

(43:07):
Oh, you're continuing. Usually don't cut off the person
to see the game. You're up Alex, the surf is
really exciting. I know you can't contain.
Themselves. I'm just over here trying to.
I did. I did have a whole thing of
coffee, because that's it. Surf pool is one of the largest
in the world and produces 6 footswells.

(43:28):
Disney has hosted surfing lessons and even small
competitions there. Imagineers joke during testing
and could double as a surfing simulator so that is sure true.
One point Alex, one point ride. Good, take that point away from
him from interrupting you. I know half point Alex one point
around. If I lose my half point I'll be
so bad. #2 Miss Tilly The shrimpboat stranded on mountain Mayday

(43:53):
was built from a real decommissioned fishing vessel
hauled in from the Gulf Coast. Is that shore or shipwreck?
Shipwreck. Shipwreck.
You guys are both correct. That is totally false.
I've worked that was, I know, very.
Convinced a boat? What'd you say, Ryan?
I know a boat when I see a boat.I mean, it looks like a boat.

(44:15):
I just know that made a real boat.
Chris, what'd you say? You guys were both correct.
You said you crafted that thing.What?
I said I that was worded very convincingly, hauled in from the
Gulf Coast. Too much detail man.
Did you haul the haul? Susan hurled in from the did
the. Hole.
Did the hole get hauled? Three, it was 15.

(44:39):
Three the surf. Pool.
The surf pool can be switched between surf mode and Bob mode.
Alex, you go first this time. You keep on copying me.
Sure. Ron, it's sure.
Yeah, that's a pretty easy one. I promise you it gets harder.
So the way that she alternates between huge rolling waves and

(45:00):
constant general, the switch keeps throwing through the
Staley's Abbey. While also.
Expecting infrastructure from constant heavy surf because that
will break down the heavy waves.Yeah.
All right #4 Shark Reef salt water was filtered through a
custom system imported from Epcot's Living Seeds Pavilion
Shore or Shipwreck. Shipwrecked I'm.

(45:23):
Going to say shore. That sounds just crazy enough to
be true. It's enough to work.
Shark Reef, which lets guests snorkel with real sharks, Raisin
fish, relied on filtration and life support technology adapted
from Epcot's Living Seeds. That's pretty crazy.
That's kind of a that's kind of a crazy little fact there.
I didn't think you'd make that up.

(45:43):
I didn't think you were smart enough to make that up.
Hold. On he has Jack CBD on his side,
so watch. Out the lean and palms quick
service restaurant was originally going to be called
the Typhoon Tavern before Disneytoned down the feet.
Shore Shipwrecked. Shipwrecked.
I'm gonna say shipwrecked. It was always going to be that,

(46:06):
yeah. You guys are both correct.
It was never going to be that. Yeah, the lazy river Castaway
Creek has hidden caves where sound effects simulate the
ongoing storm with Thunder and lightning.
Oh Dang, that'd be pretty cool. So I'm going to say shore.
I want to say shore, I'm just not sure if it's actually sounds
of the storm. You're not what you're not.

(46:26):
Sure. If it's not, I'm not sure.
I'm sure it's sure. Alex, you just helped Ryan get a
point. I convinced him to say shore.
I was wanting to say shore again, yeah.
Once you said sure enough, I just decided to go with it.
Castaway Creek runs more than 2000 feet and passes through
caves and tunnels with storm effects.
The design reminds geth that thetyphoon's chaos still leaders.

(46:49):
Kind of unrealistic if you ask me.
Yeah, that's unrealistic. Oh yeah, that's unrealistic.
Wow, that's where you call it. Not that the boat landed
perfectly on top of a volcano. Bad theming in my opinion.
While Typhoon Looking opened in 1989 had the tallest water slide
in the world, Humonga Cowabunga.Cowabunga.

(47:11):
Humonga Cowabunga, the tallest water slide in the world.
Yeah, I was going to say shipwrecked as well.
At opening, Humonga Cowabunga was the tallest and fastest
slide in the world. The five story drop launches
riders at up to 30 mph, cementing Typhoon Lagoon as a
destination. Yeah, there's been some some

(47:32):
lawsuits over that one. All right, there is a Hidden
Mickey on Mount Mayday that is only visible from a specific
spot in the surf pool when the geyser erupts.
Sure, Shipwreck. That's pretty.
Listen only a certain spot in the pool when it erupts.

(47:54):
There's one that you can only see one time a year.
That's good. Point Imagineers originally
designed a character named Captain Typhoon to serve with a
mascot, but he was scrapped before the opening.
Captain Typhoon. Sure, I know Disney's bad at
naming things. That just sounds made-up to me.
Right. I'm sorry, but no matter if it

(48:16):
was real, it still was made-up. Good point, Good point.
Ryan, you underestimate how bad they are naming it is all.
Kind. Of a sailor like Mascot named
Captain Typhoon and very insensitive by the way, who was

(48:38):
meant to narrate the back story.Imagine he has cut him, deciding
the environment and crops told the story well enough.
Could you imagine? They're like they don't they
don't they don't get it. Bring in Captain Typhoon.
Bring in Captain Typhoon. Castaway, Castaway Creek.
Castaway Creek. I thought you were going.
To say something else. Castaway Creek flows clockwise

(49:01):
around the park, while Blizzard Beach's lazy River follows
counter clockwise. Around there.
Oh man, that's just crazy enoughto work.
Dang, I'm going to say shore. I'm.
Going to say shipwreck. Alex takes the lead.
Trying to go opposite to get a lead typhoon.

(49:21):
Lagoons river flows clockwise, blows are beach flows counter.
His subtle design choice was intentional to give each park a
slightly different. To keep the world rotating on
the right end, that's. Probably what it was.
That's to keep the. Dome You know how they have
roundabouts, and roundabouts arehousing tornadoes.
Look that up tonight. That sounds.

(49:42):
Interesting, it's there's actually a phone call of a guy
saying that all. Right.
This is what I'm not going to say, everybody.
Gets a point. She's so weird.
OK, Shark Reef closed in 2016 because Disney was planning to
expand the area into a Finding Nemo themed snorkeling

(50:04):
adventure, but the idea was scrapped.
Shore or shipwrecked? Sure.
Shipwrecked. Ryan ties it up.
That is the reason why they should have never.
Underestimate Disney using IP. I know so Finding Nemo was
considered but never built. The area eventually gave way to

(50:24):
other expansions like Misadventure.
It was kind of cool because theywere like as screw fighting
Nemo, let's bring in this made-up character from the
Adventures world. They should make a fishing pond.
That's even after Finding Nemo. The sand on Typhoon Lagoon's
beaches was trucked in from the same Florida supplier that

(50:45):
provides sand for professional MLB ballparks.
What? Shipwrecked.
Yeah, sure. Shipwreck.
I should have known. Sands way different.
Yeah. We got 2 left guys and Allison

(51:05):
lead by one. A small sign near the entrance
references Placid Palms Resort, the fictional tropical getaway
destroyed by the typhoons. That's it, that's it.
Is there a sign that says PlacidPalms Resort there?
Which was the original, the fictional droppable getaway?

(51:28):
He said. That was the original name in
the in the lore. Sure.
Yes, it is true. I knew it.
Was true. I know it was so easy that I was
hoping you. Guys would have it there I.
Got impatient and answered. I said why do they not have it
there? So obviously it's the key in
detail on the parks back story, scientists flames the once

(51:48):
tranquil resort dropped by the storm given the context of
chaotic beaming. I'll answer this last one first.
Ryan, give you a chance to tie it up.
No, it's half a point. You would lose by half a point
because you interrupted Chris. All right, let's see.

(52:08):
The original blueprints for Typhoon Lagoon included a second
mountain a day style theme on the opposite side of the park,
which would have housed a volcano themed night show with
fire effects. Shipwrecked.
Sure, sounds cool. Alex wins.
Let's go. 7:50 That's kind of fun.

(52:31):
Let's pull up the Epcot map and put my face on me.
Listen. I'm not sure.
We can do that anymore. Yeah, that.
We don't have that anymore. Alex, congratulations, you are.
He's a winner or something. Yeah, you have to do community
service of helping to clean up the aisle.
Oh man. Yeah, but.

(52:51):
It's a new community service because you won.
But you get community service. Oh, you get the pleasure of it.
That gets gratifying. Yeah, it's pretty gratifying.
I'm glad I lost. So that's the lure on Typhoon
Lagoon guys. I'm excited if this if, if the
listeners enjoy episodes like this, I would be glad to do more
of them every couple of years. And no, I, I, I would love to do

(53:15):
them on even like Adventureland,like I'm sure that they're,
well, you. Could do it on rye.
It's like you'd do it on Tower Terror.
Yeah, I mean. You could really put history.
On it you could do it on the waron.
It And if there isn't enough history, I can combine a couple
too, because if there wasn't enough tonight I was just going
to combine Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach and I started
making a whole short film out ofit.
So yeah, OK, I think this is good.

(53:36):
Enough mini doc here. Yeah, a little mini documentary
inspired by Dane over the beautiful days, of course.
Way Who? Did who did release his
documentary on Hershey Park? Yeah, which please check out at
that big beautiful Diz on YouTube, The sweetest place on
Earth, the Hershey Park story. He also five out of five Hershey

(53:57):
kisses for me. He also paid a woman to have her
child jump up on the monorail. Yes, for great press.
That was it. Worked out well for him.
It was insane. So her back story?
Dane releases documentary a day later.
Hershey Park makes national newsbecause the kids started running
on top of like a monorail track.We can have that left all right,

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like a typhoon will hit somewhere when this one
releases. So Sierra says that was super
fun, definitely make more. Thank you so much.
I really appreciate that. I really enjoy doing the the.
I don't like doing the voice over.
I don't like my voice, but I love doing all the sound, yeah.
I don't like your voice. Either and how did the voice
over for you we. Can do that for sure.
Give me a line. Oh, we can do that for sure.
You want to test? You want to tie it or try it out

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right now? Give me a line.
Let's see, say I can't thank you.
Say it out loud. It was going to be what Stella
thought she heard. That's right Chris.

(55:02):
Chris shared a sneak peek of this video before he even came
out live on YouTube in a Discordchannel.
So if you want to get those sneak peeks early or watch us
lot record live when we're not on YouTube, just join our
Discord via Patreon or. Our website speaking.
Of Discord, we're at 97 members in.
There wow when I was gone, I guess we.

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And when we get 100, I will be doing a giveaway for the Discord
and for our Patreon. Nice.
I'm already in talks with somebody who I know that has
some stuff that people might want.
That sounds very shady and I'm very.
Excited. Yeah, it's like watches and it's
stuck in my jacket. But yeah, so join the Discord,

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you'll you'll be entered into it.
I'm just going to have people. I'm going to do a post, let
people react to it. Whoever reacts to it could send
it in. The giveaway can be that easy.
I'm not going to put 100 names on a on a wheel.
I'm not doing that. No.
No, no, no, no. You have to be an active member.
Also, we're laughing a lot in our YouTube chat.

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We go live the first Wednesday of every month on YouTube for
absolutely free and you can chatalong with us.
And if you love doing that, you can do on our Patreon and watch
us every week record live where there's a really active chat
going on during the episodes. You get shout outs during the
episodes. You can make it.
Hilarious. You'll get you'll get yelled at

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during the live episodes if you make us mad.
It's a it's a lot of fun, but you can join our discord for
absolutely free. Like we said by going over.
We hate it when people share AI generated images about things
we're talking about. It's the worst, I'll tell you
what. Like me last episode, by the
way. I was gone for three weeks and
the first week that I was gone, I listened to the end of the

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episode. I chimed in during the live
episode and I started sending some AI pictures and I got
scolded. Well, yeah, because you can't do
it. You.
You were either here or not. I would show up in the chat.
I could show up to the episode. I said I was halfway.
Everyone was asleep. I was like, let me check out my
friends over at Disney Verse andI got kicked out.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. We didn't kick you out.
There were good AI pictures too.Never kicked away.

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Did you like the AI picture of the of the of the villagers?
Good. On the AI one of the I went to
ships flying on AT shirt. My my my favorite part about it
was I said generate a photographtaken in 1950 to so on every
single one it said 1950 outside to crop that out because it
looks so stupid 19. 50. 5 Whatever.

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They hold the newspaper. It looks in 1955.
If you look at the newspaper picture that was generated, the
bottom is just all gibberish. That's just how I see things.
But the images did turn out goodbecause I'm like, I can't pull,
I can't Google fake, I mean, pictures of fake stories.
The postcard I might want to puton a shirt.
The postcard is pretty cool, yeah.

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Yeah, actually, that's actually a good idea.
They haven't offered that. I know the postcard is pretty
cool, but anyway, I really enjoyed recording this for you
guys. If you have any requests
actually for for episodes like this, please please please shoot
it to me on the discord make youforce you to join the discord,

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because I would love to listen. I just it takes me a couple of
years to come up with ideas for this stuff.
So if you guys want to accelerate the process and you
guys like it. If you guys don't like this
episode, then don't do then don't join our discord and tell
me. But if you did join our.
Just join it and tell me. Yeah, no, just join.
Me, it's fine, I'll. Make sure Chris never does this
ever again. If you can tell him, yeah, they

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can just tell him I can take it.I could say I listen if I ever
got some. Planes.
If I could save five hours of myof my week not doing this,
actually it probably took me a combined, I don't know, 3 or 400
hours to make that 3. Or 400?
Hours. I had to fight to fly to the
Caribbean to get to his videos. Wow.
We're all copyrighted. That where all our money went.

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But anyway, guys, we hear the Disney verse would like to
remind you to duck so you don't get decapitated by a flying
surfboard. Next week's flight course set to
Sleeping Beauty's castle.