March 6, 2026 • 24 mins
On this weeks episode of The Theme Park Podcast, farewell Rock n' Roller Coaster, why doesn't Epic Universe have annual passes and Flower & Garden food options.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From the theme park capital of the World, Orlando, Florida.
This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast, this radio? Why does everything gotta be so
messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Dickerman. Here there is Jimmy D.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good evening, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Shall we play a game?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
James is fresh off a boat. He is literally fresh
off the boat. When did you get back to me?
You just got back from a cruise I did. I
got back yesterday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We took the Bride Line from Miami and actually, I
have to say the transition was pretty.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Smooth really, so you liked it, Like I've done the
Brightline for a cruise before, I like to do it.
My wallet disagrees with me when I see it's like
two hundred and sixty bucks to ride the Bright Line
round trip to Miami and back.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But it is better than driving in my opinion. It's
not even the driving there that's so bad. It's like,
after all the fun has been had and you have
to travel back to Orlando, that drive is just brutal.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, it is. It is a rough drive. So
the bride line is nice too, if you can take
it home. The cruise was good though, no no issues there.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I have no complaints. I had a I mean, it
was just fun from the second I got on to
this second I got off.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And this was another one with your your artist Jack
and Andrew McMahon.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yes, yes, Andrew McMann something Yes, Jack's Manik and something
corporate in the wilderness. It's the holiday from real.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Cruise, okay, and as I as I understand it's Scott
Laurencampbell Riilter dot Com told Jimmy this is the last
one of these he's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You know, actually actually things have her again. I may
have secured a room for next year. Well you know
what they they did me as solid and they're going
to the Star Wars celebration cadence of every other year. Okay,
(02:14):
so the next one is not un till twenty twenty eight,
So I guess it's an opportunity to have a year
without a Andrew McMahon specific vacation.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The thing that you need, though is those two to
not be on the same wavelength.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
They're not.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
That's okay, then you're good.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Twenty twenty seven is fiftieth, the anniversary of a New Hope.
They're going to go all out for that celebration. And
then think they're here, You're where they gonna do it? Anaheim?
They've already Oh no, I'm sorry, Los Angeles, not Anaheim.
They're actually going to do it in the city proper.
And I mean it only makes sense. All the stuff
is in a Los Angeles, all the people are in
Los Angeles. You know, you know you're gonna get these
(02:54):
folks together. That's the you know, the hub. You got
to do it there.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
By the way, By the way, Dickerman, you talking about
how much the bright Line cost. If you were in
Japan and you took the Bullet train and you could
spend that much money to get from Tokyo to Osaka.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
See that? And how quick do you get there? How
quick is that trip?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Two ish hours?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And I imagine I don't know. I don't know the
distance from Tokyo to Osaka.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I couldn't pick it out on a map, but I
imagine it's a significant distance.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Well, you're the next one up. We've talked about this.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You've got to go to Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Now you have to go to Japan this year. This year,
I don't have money for that. Hey. Hey, the two
of us already wanted.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes you do.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, well I'm poor.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
You haven't bought You haven't bought your annual passes yet.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Dickerman, The cruise I just went on was more expensive
than are two weeks in Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, I'm going on a cruise soon, and it was
much less than the flight to Japan for my seven
day cruise, considerably for both of us.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Don't you get like airline miles or your career card
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Uh? Yeah, I have the Sapphire or whatever I get
on that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I don't know I got the I got like, I
don't know, I got seven hundred fifty bucks on it
for by getting it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
You should look at you should look at your rewards.
That's how I did so much of my trip.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, well, I'll use them for Disney tickets. Boys, you
never know because you.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Can't country for free because of my Southwest credit card.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Okay, Well, I mean you just.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Get one of these cards that has airline miles and
then you push all of your bowl bills through the
credit card. I do.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's a travel card for sure, and they gave me
a nice signing bonus. I'm not sure how many how
many points I have on there, and now it's.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Probably least a thousand bucks that I probably should use it.
I don't. I don't think they expire, thankfully, use use
them for loot, use use them or give them to
to give them to us? Will you mine?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You can't have them, well, then get your butts to Japan.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's either Japan or Walt Disney World. Boys, it's one
or the other. I can't do both.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Okay, here's the thing. In Japan, there.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Is a Disney that's true, and it's dicker In priced.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It is very Dickerman priced. I told you you can
get a meal at Tokyo Disney for like nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Here's the problem I have that you guys don't have.
See my wife and I we could, We could pull
it off, but then the kid's gonna want to come,
and I gotta pay for her whole nother flight, food,
all the things. You know.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
She doesn't have to say, yeah, she's a grown ass.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Adults seemed to have to say. They seem to have
a say. Still No, he still runs his house.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Can we talk about theme parks?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, we should probably talk about theme parks because we
are a theme park show.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So let's let's jump into that. Well, it's a good job,
it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
We talked about the great weekend that that James had
because he let us down again.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
What happened? Sorry? How did I do that?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Rock and Roller Coaster gone?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You were supposed to change yourself to the front of
that thing to save it, James.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yep, No, I could and push Stephn Tyler out fast enough.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yould.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You were supposed to lock lock hips with him and
chain yourself to his body so you could keep it alive.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
First locked hips with him, it would shatter from ostrioporosis. Okay, look,
that man is fragile.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Look wrong, Like we lost Star Tours because you took
your eye off the ball. Now we've lost Rock and
Roller Coaster because you took your eye off the ball.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
We didn't lose Star Tours.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I mean that Star Toars we lost.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We lost launch Bay launch Bay.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yes, the great launch Ba launch Bay was not long
for this world. It was never intended to be what
It was, a temporary set up just to calm the masses,
just give him a little taste of what was to come.
And now what to come was.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Courtyard, not.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
For now. Now we have the animation courtyard coming back,
and it's going to be wonderful. What's going to be
in the animation courtyard like Meet and Greats Shows, animation, animation, animation, domination.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay, so yeah, Rock and Roller Coaster. How many years?
It was like twenty something years, right, Yeah. I just
wanted to broadcast, Like when I worked at the rock station,
I just wanted to broadcast from there because I felt
like it was a perfect fit. They had a goofy
like fake radio station outside there. I'm like, why have
we never broadcasted from here?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
They did?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, by the way, you know why, I think, yeah
you do. I think the changeover is gonna happen like
very quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You think they're just gonna but put paint Stephen Tyler
green and say he's kermit.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They've already they've already started painting the car that's like
in the archway.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, it's painted like all psychedelic cos Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
And it's like I'm like the Q area where they're
like in the sound booth, like I'm sure, they've already
like had pre built so much of that.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
That's true. You can build all that off site and
to just have like an install overnight.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
And it's like and it's like I've always said it,
with all of these changeovers, the ride itself isn't changing.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, that's true. The ride itself is not changing, just
like the look.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But like you guys.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Remember when they turned the the Norway ride into Frozen
and like that wasn't a big change, but somehow it
took like eighty years to get done.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Well that because that was that was a big change.
You're adding like a dozen animatronics into a ride that
did not.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Have any You're also enclosing like an opening front. You know,
they took a window out especially. M Okay, I mean
structural changes this. I mean, I don't know how much
you're really going to change. It's literally a new code
of pain.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah, I mean it's that like maybe like the stuff
that's around like when you do the ride, like you know,
like the Hollywood sign and the Doughnut, Like maybe all
of those landmarks change or they fit the theme to that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Steven Tyler, he was problematic you know he yeah, he's he's.
His baggage has only increased over the years. It was
time for him to go.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
It's indent.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I mean, who doesn't love the Muppets.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I hate the Muppets, love them? Why why do you
hate the Muppets?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
What do you have against the Huppets?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's never cared for the Muppets. Not a Muppets fan. Why,
I don't know, never liked him. You know what?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
That says a lot about you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It does. Don't care for the Muppets.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You're a terrible person.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Why the Muppets are great.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
They're wholesome, very wholesome. You know who's not in the
Epstein files?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Kermit, Kermit the Frock Well, I mean you got you
got me there?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, he's not. Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
How how about this? If you watch all of the
Muppet movies, we'll do a trade.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We'll do a trade.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
We're we're notorious for trades that work out. That that
we that both work out. If you watch like the
first five Muppet.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Movies, Muppets, Meat, Manhattan, something like that, right.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yep, Muppet Muppets Take Manhattan, the Muppet Movie, The Great
Muppet Caper, The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If you watch those, how do you How did you
just rattle those off?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Because last year I watched every Muppet movie that was
released in theaters.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, fair enough?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
If you got the one with Jason Siegel? Was there
one with Jason?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Well, that's that's a later on one. And I and
I have talked. That's like the I think it's just
called the Muppets, okay, And I've talked about my thoughts
on that movie. It's actually a good movie, but it
also started a trend of what's happened to Hollywood these days.
But if you watch those first five, then I in
(10:51):
return will watch Arrival, Blade Runner twenty forty nine, Secario,
Dune Part one, and Dune Part two.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
This is not a good deal for me. You just
named off five of the greatest movies of all time.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
I think it's a very fair trade.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You've seen those movies too, you know they're great movies.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Okay, Okay, if you watch the first five Muppet movies,
then I will watch all of the Jackass movies and
the point fives.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You do that yourself anyhow. On a regular Saturday.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Scott narrowed down to one Muppet movie. Oh, quintessential Muppet
sake Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
That's none, right, No, no, no, the quintessential like really,
the quintessential ones are the Muppet Movie, which is the
first one, which kind of like establishes a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, he's not gonna get past the rainbow connection. So
what's the other one?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I would say, either Treasure Island or Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I like Christmas. I mean, I'm gonna suffer through one.
It might as well be a Christmas one.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
It's got my Michael Kane.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's got Michael Kaine. Yeah, he's He's fantastic. And if
you like the thing is, if you like Tim Curry,
then I would say chursh r Island. Not a big
Tim Curry fan, then you should go with Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Oh my god, what is wrong with this guy?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah? I know what.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He doesn't like good things?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I know, not liking Tim Curry.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Did you recently stuff for a head injury?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I think the answer, I think we know the answer
that question is yes.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Okay, God, So the Muppets are coming to Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yes, they lost their stupid show they had before, but
now they get the new roll.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
What you would say this, that's blasphemy, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The provision three D was awesome. Yeah, what a boring thing.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And then you had to sit in that room with
the carpet and you're tired, so you had to sit
in that filthy carpet with everybody else and everybody's stunk.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No, thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
You don't have to say I wish you were right now.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
No one made you.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, I would throw my sneak or is that you
like George Bush style if you were here right now.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
God made me sit because I'm tired and my bone's hurt.
That's who made me sit. Okay, you don't have to
You don't have to say who hit the guitar? I
hit the spring on my mic.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
My okay, okay, how about this? How about some some
Dickerman news new new free dining offer for Walt Disney World.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Okay, what do you? What do you? What do we
have to do to get this free dining?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
You have to be a Disney Visa card holder?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well I'm that okay, all right, next step, what's next?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
You have to stay at one of the hotels.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Okay, I can I've done that. Do I have to
buy park tickets.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, because it's for in the park.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Breaker, that's the deal breaker. I want to be an
annual passholder and do this.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Well, how are you supposed to get the park food
if you're not going into the park.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Because I'd be an annual passolder, then I going can
I can? I can?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I buy the tickets and then sell the tickets legally
not not not nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
No, that is no. That is illegal to do the
fact that you resell them. Yes, that is literally the
core thing. Do not do that. You can't resell the
tickets and no legal weight. It's not like stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Hup, No, there is no legal way to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh well, I guess I'm out on this then, And.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I think even doing it gets you like banned.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I've always dreamed of doing the the the dining at
Disney because then you just don't have to worry about
the prices. You just go get what you want. I mean,
that's what I did. Job.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I kind of did that in Japan.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
With a vacation package that I did.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's true, that's right. You you did that smart. You
bought that vacation package and made it easy.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
For yourself, which is what you should do. On vacation.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah, exactly, don't don't worry about anything.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Forget the money issue. Just just go and do it
and enjoy it, which you did.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
But there's two plans. There's the Disney Dining Plan, which
is one quick serve menu or one quick serve meal
per night, one table service meal per night, one snack
or beverage in one resort refillable drink mug.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That sounds like a plan for me, or the other plan.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Or there's the Disney Quick Service dining plan two quick
service meals per night, one snack or non alcoholic beverage
in one resort drink mug.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Absolutely not, I'm doing the first one. I need a
nice sit down, a steak somewhere. Take advantage of that plan, Okay.
Who wants to just quick service? Quick service is what
I do normally because I'm poor.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Okay. If I'm doing this, I'm going, I'm going all in.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
So okay. In order for you to do that, you
would have to stay at a Disney Deluxe or Disney
Deluxe Villa hotel. Okay, all right, and purchase launch and
purchase tickets.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
All right, all right, talk to us again about the
two uh service?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, does the price line hot deals count. No, I
buy it there and save like a bunch of money.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now, oh god, that's how I got some good deals
in hotels at Disney before.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Though.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Nope, you gotta you gotta do it through them.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Never mind, I'm out. I'm out.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I can't afford this, you know, when I start doing
the math on my head, I can't justify because I'm like, Okay,
one weekend is literally an annual pass. I go for
two days, or I could go for an entire year.
Gotta go for the year.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You could go for two days to the max. I'm
just like, do a year's worth of Disney in two days.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I did again, did that in Japan? I did two days.
I did everything. Yeah, granted there's only two parks, so
it's a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And you're in Japan to a year, You're not at home,
you're not within driving distance, you're in another country.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Obviously, you go all out. You made the trip, do it.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
No, but I would like to attempt one day to
like stay out at a Disney property and try to
do everything over a weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I've seen those people. I've seen those people on the monorails.
I've seen them on the buses that thousand yards stare
in their eyes, dead to the world, children screaming, thinking,
my god, I just spent fifteen thousand dollars and I
feel like this.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean, I've done that for Hornites where it's like
I've done every house in one night.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Oh yeah, last year. Unless your Hornites took it out
of me. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know how
much I did, but it was too much for me.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Speak speaking of annual passes, yes, we've kind of learned
why Epic Universe doesn't have an annual pass.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Oh okay, because then this is what inquiring minds want
to know.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
What what is the deal? When are we going to
get one? Why don't we have one?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The answer will not surprise you.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
The ride reliability is likely to blame for the lack
of annual passes.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Stuff's always broke.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh really, how much stuff is? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You know, anytime you get new rides, like remember when
Rise of the Resistance open, that thing was broken all
the time, like every single day it was broken.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Yeah, but they still have a number of the rides there,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, So your point about Epic Universe I get because
if you know if if the rides are all broken,
or multiple rides are broken, then it is a problem
because they're still figuring them out.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Well, it's it's a combination of things. Like I learned
this like because I've been. I've been four times now.
And the thing is, if it rains, which in the
state of Florida is a thing that happens, you've lost
a vast majority of rides.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh yeah, this is true.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
So and then that really puts the onus on the
ministry Magic Ride, which it has taken some time to
dial in. Uh, monsters unchained is just a beast and
we'll just churned through peoples. That's quickly as possible. Like
but then it's like but then it's Mario Kart and
that's really about it. Yeah, you're down to like three
(18:55):
rides and two shows.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That is that is that's the bush Gardens and SeaWorld.
You know, those parks are great. Unless you get rain,
you are you're out of luck because there ain't much
to do if if it if it's raining out there.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
The crazy thing is is they have enough restaurants to
handle that, but they did. You can't you can't predict everything.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, No, like there's my concern, like the Taking Back
Sunday show coming to Bush Gardens. What if it rains
the one day I'm gonna go. Well, I've already all
the way on to Tampa. Scott's got his VIP for
this situation. Mm hmmm mmm hmm.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Yeah, I'm excited though. It'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I want to go. I want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I just need to figure out how I'm gonna get tickets.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You go to Bushgardens dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know this doesn't work like this with me. You
know this is not how I operate. I still got
the old radio mindset. I can there's a will, there
is a way.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I already tried it.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
By the way, there's no way.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, we haven't talked about this. The flower and garden menu.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh at Epcot? Yeah? What are we eating? Flowers and
garden things?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Like you want some you want some scallops?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yes? Yeah, okay, we got some scallops like SAPs?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
You like scallops?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Gross?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Disgusting?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Grilled beef sirloin strip loin?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, I would eat that actually, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Poke bowls.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't think I like pok bowls, but I might.
I mean, if I smelled it. If I smelled it,
it was okay.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Maybe I have.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
About this grilled street corn on the cob.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That's lame. I mean, it's just corn on the cob.
You just grilled a big deal.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I can turn on my grill right now and throw
some corn on the cob on there not impressed.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Uh you in the face when an old school wouldn't ruler.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Okay, okay, okay, I got I got, I got.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I found. I found that.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I found the Dickerman stand.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Avocado toast, no crow. She hate avocado too.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Shrimp and I hate it because I used to love
it and I would eat it all the time, and
now I am you know my body does not process
it correctly.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Shrimp and shrimp and grits gross. How about okay, okay, okay,
French toast.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, all right, we're good so far with.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Cinnamon cereal cream and a caramel sauce.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yes, I'm in to get it from me right now.
And she delivered Uber eats.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
And you can wash it down with a fruit cereal
fruit cereal shake.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So it's a pebbles. It's like a fruity pebble shake.
I'm yessing yes, yeah, yeah, I mean I like fruity
I like frdudy pebbles. You know what I like? I
like fruity pebbles with marshmallows. Because they didn't have enough
sugar to start with, we needed to add more.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
You want to combine your fruity pebbles with or your
fruit loves with like at Charms.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I mean he wants to take his sugar cereal and
then dump more sugar on top.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Anytime you can add marshmallows to a cereal, it makes
it better. But nothing angers me more than when you
get that marshmallow cereal and the marshmallows are soft. They're
supposed to be that freeze dried and crunchy, and I've
had it be soft so many times recently it it
angers me. I should just take it back and throw
it at the grocery store.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
So, because you're old, you will remember this.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Excuse me, sir? How dare you? Hey?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You just turned like sixty buddy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Hey, nah, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Do you remember that they used to have a breakfast
cereal that was just chocolate chip cookies?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Do you remember what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You can still get that? Do they really? Yeah? Cookie
cris but's in the store. You'll get some today.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It used to have a dog, and you used to
have like a dog and like a copy and would go.
Now it's like a little like wolf looking guy.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
I wrote a letter to Little Debbie a few weeks
ago about a little to be Christmas Tree breakfast cereal.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Okay, I still want the ice cream.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I still want the Christmas tree ice cream, but I
forgot wet ways.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
This year there was a lot of Christmas tree cake stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
They should just be year round. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
They do this.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
They do. It's called the zebra cake.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
No it's not the same. No, it doesn't have the
crunches on top.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, you need the crunches. You need the crunches sprinkles.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
No, no, the thing is adding them doesn't count. I
want just make it year round, just like girls selling
year round.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I need to come from the factor. He's right, He's
absolutely right. Okay.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
One other item, hot honey chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I don't love honey chicken hot honey. I don't like
it that much. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Sorry, Sorry, One last item, cinnamon cinnamon Vignet's.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
There we go. Now we're talking. That's what I like
to hear. All right, We are just about ot of
time on this show this week, So Scott, if people
want to find us on social media to get all
the latest food news, where can they go?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You follw us on Twitter at Theme Parks Show, Facebook, Instagram,
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Speaker 3 (24:10):
The show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbell
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I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
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This is the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Wait podcast, this radio? Why does everything gotta be so
messy on this station? Anyway?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Here's your host, Dickerman, Jimmy D and Scott Harris.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Hey there and welcome to the Theme Park Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Dickerman. Here there is Jimmy D.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good evening, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And Scott Harris.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Shall we play a game?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
James is fresh off a boat. He is literally fresh
off the boat. When did you get back to me?
You just got back from a cruise I did. I
got back yesterday morning.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
We took the Bride Line from Miami and actually, I
have to say the transition was pretty.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Smooth really, so you liked it, Like I've done the
Brightline for a cruise before, I like to do it.
My wallet disagrees with me when I see it's like
two hundred and sixty bucks to ride the Bright Line
round trip to Miami and back.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
But it is better than driving in my opinion. It's
not even the driving there that's so bad. It's like,
after all the fun has been had and you have
to travel back to Orlando, that drive is just brutal.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, it is. It is a rough drive. So
the bride line is nice too, if you can take
it home. The cruise was good though, no no issues there.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
I have no complaints. I had a I mean, it
was just fun from the second I got on to
this second I got off.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
And this was another one with your your artist Jack
and Andrew McMahon.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yes, yes, Andrew McMann something Yes, Jack's Manik and something
corporate in the wilderness. It's the holiday from real.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Cruise, okay, and as I as I understand it's Scott
Laurencampbell Riilter dot Com told Jimmy this is the last
one of these he's going on.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You know, actually actually things have her again. I may
have secured a room for next year. Well you know
what they they did me as solid and they're going
to the Star Wars celebration cadence of every other year. Okay,
(02:14):
so the next one is not un till twenty twenty eight,
So I guess it's an opportunity to have a year
without a Andrew McMahon specific vacation.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
The thing that you need, though is those two to
not be on the same wavelength.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
They're not.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
That's okay, then you're good.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Twenty twenty seven is fiftieth, the anniversary of a New Hope.
They're going to go all out for that celebration. And
then think they're here, You're where they gonna do it? Anaheim?
They've already Oh no, I'm sorry, Los Angeles, not Anaheim.
They're actually going to do it in the city proper.
And I mean it only makes sense. All the stuff
is in a Los Angeles, all the people are in
Los Angeles. You know, you know you're gonna get these
(02:54):
folks together. That's the you know, the hub. You got
to do it there.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
By the way, By the way, Dickerman, you talking about
how much the bright Line cost. If you were in
Japan and you took the Bullet train and you could
spend that much money to get from Tokyo to Osaka.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
See that? And how quick do you get there? How
quick is that trip?
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Two ish hours?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And I imagine I don't know. I don't know the
distance from Tokyo to Osaka.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
I couldn't pick it out on a map, but I
imagine it's a significant distance.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Well, you're the next one up. We've talked about this.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
You've got to go to Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Now you have to go to Japan this year. This year,
I don't have money for that. Hey. Hey, the two
of us already wanted.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes you do.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, well I'm poor.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
You haven't bought You haven't bought your annual passes yet.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Dickerman, The cruise I just went on was more expensive
than are two weeks in Japan.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Well, I'm going on a cruise soon, and it was
much less than the flight to Japan for my seven
day cruise, considerably for both of us.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Don't you get like airline miles or your career card
or something.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Uh? Yeah, I have the Sapphire or whatever I get
on that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
I don't know I got the I got like, I
don't know, I got seven hundred fifty bucks on it
for by getting it.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
You should look at you should look at your rewards.
That's how I did so much of my trip.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Yeah, well, I'll use them for Disney tickets. Boys, you
never know because you.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Can't country for free because of my Southwest credit card.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Okay, Well, I mean you just.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Get one of these cards that has airline miles and
then you push all of your bowl bills through the
credit card. I do.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's a travel card for sure, and they gave me
a nice signing bonus. I'm not sure how many how
many points I have on there, and now it's.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Probably least a thousand bucks that I probably should use it.
I don't. I don't think they expire, thankfully, use use
them for loot, use use them or give them to
to give them to us? Will you mine?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
You can't have them, well, then get your butts to Japan.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
It's either Japan or Walt Disney World. Boys, it's one
or the other. I can't do both.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
Okay, here's the thing. In Japan, there.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Is a Disney that's true, and it's dicker In priced.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It is very Dickerman priced. I told you you can
get a meal at Tokyo Disney for like nine dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Here's the problem I have that you guys don't have.
See my wife and I we could, We could pull
it off, but then the kid's gonna want to come,
and I gotta pay for her whole nother flight, food,
all the things. You know.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
She doesn't have to say, yeah, she's a grown ass.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Adults seemed to have to say. They seem to have
a say. Still No, he still runs his house.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Can we talk about theme parks?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, we should probably talk about theme parks because we
are a theme park show.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So let's let's jump into that. Well, it's a good job,
it's a good thing.
Speaker 5 (05:42):
We talked about the great weekend that that James had
because he let us down again.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
What happened? Sorry? How did I do that?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Rock and Roller Coaster gone?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
You were supposed to change yourself to the front of
that thing to save it, James.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yep, No, I could and push Stephn Tyler out fast enough.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yould.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
You were supposed to lock lock hips with him and
chain yourself to his body so you could keep it alive.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
First locked hips with him, it would shatter from ostrioporosis. Okay, look,
that man is fragile.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Look wrong, Like we lost Star Tours because you took
your eye off the ball. Now we've lost Rock and
Roller Coaster because you took your eye off the ball.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
We didn't lose Star Tours.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I mean that Star Toars we lost.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
We lost launch Bay launch Bay.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Yes, the great launch Ba launch Bay was not long
for this world. It was never intended to be what
It was, a temporary set up just to calm the masses,
just give him a little taste of what was to come.
And now what to come was.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Courtyard, not.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
For now. Now we have the animation courtyard coming back,
and it's going to be wonderful. What's going to be
in the animation courtyard like Meet and Greats Shows, animation, animation, animation, domination.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Okay, so yeah, Rock and Roller Coaster. How many years?
It was like twenty something years, right, Yeah. I just
wanted to broadcast, Like when I worked at the rock station,
I just wanted to broadcast from there because I felt
like it was a perfect fit. They had a goofy
like fake radio station outside there. I'm like, why have
we never broadcasted from here?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
They did?
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, by the way, you know why, I think, yeah
you do. I think the changeover is gonna happen like
very quickly.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
You think they're just gonna but put paint Stephen Tyler
green and say he's kermit.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
They've already they've already started painting the car that's like
in the archway.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Yeah, it's painted like all psychedelic cos Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
And it's like I'm like the Q area where they're
like in the sound booth, like I'm sure, they've already
like had pre built so much of that.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
That's true. You can build all that off site and
to just have like an install overnight.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
And it's like and it's like I've always said it,
with all of these changeovers, the ride itself isn't changing.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, that's true. The ride itself is not changing, just
like the look.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
But like you guys.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Remember when they turned the the Norway ride into Frozen
and like that wasn't a big change, but somehow it
took like eighty years to get done.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
Well that because that was that was a big change.
You're adding like a dozen animatronics into a ride that
did not.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Have any You're also enclosing like an opening front. You know,
they took a window out especially. M Okay, I mean
structural changes this. I mean, I don't know how much
you're really going to change. It's literally a new code
of pain.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Yeah, I mean it's that like maybe like the stuff
that's around like when you do the ride, like you know,
like the Hollywood sign and the Doughnut, Like maybe all
of those landmarks change or they fit the theme to that.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Steven Tyler, he was problematic you know he yeah, he's he's.
His baggage has only increased over the years. It was
time for him to go.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
It's indent.
Speaker 5 (09:11):
I mean, who doesn't love the Muppets.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I hate the Muppets, love them? Why why do you
hate the Muppets?
Speaker 5 (09:16):
What do you have against the Huppets?
Speaker 2 (09:17):
It's never cared for the Muppets. Not a Muppets fan. Why,
I don't know, never liked him. You know what?
Speaker 5 (09:23):
That says a lot about you.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It does. Don't care for the Muppets.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
You're a terrible person.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Why the Muppets are great.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
They're wholesome, very wholesome. You know who's not in the
Epstein files?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Kermit, Kermit the Frock Well, I mean you got you
got me there?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Okay, he's not. Okay.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
How how about this? If you watch all of the
Muppet movies, we'll do a trade.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
We'll do a trade.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
We're we're notorious for trades that work out. That that
we that both work out. If you watch like the
first five Muppet.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Movies, Muppets, Meat, Manhattan, something like that, right.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Yep, Muppet Muppets Take Manhattan, the Muppet Movie, The Great
Muppet Caper, The Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
If you watch those, how do you How did you
just rattle those off?
Speaker 5 (10:20):
Because last year I watched every Muppet movie that was
released in theaters.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
All right, fair enough?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
If you got the one with Jason Siegel? Was there
one with Jason?
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Well, that's that's a later on one. And I and
I have talked. That's like the I think it's just
called the Muppets, okay, And I've talked about my thoughts
on that movie. It's actually a good movie, but it
also started a trend of what's happened to Hollywood these days.
But if you watch those first five, then I in
(10:51):
return will watch Arrival, Blade Runner twenty forty nine, Secario,
Dune Part one, and Dune Part two.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
This is not a good deal for me. You just
named off five of the greatest movies of all time.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
I think it's a very fair trade.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
You've seen those movies too, you know they're great movies.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
Okay, Okay, if you watch the first five Muppet movies,
then I will watch all of the Jackass movies and
the point fives.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
You do that yourself anyhow. On a regular Saturday.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Scott narrowed down to one Muppet movie. Oh, quintessential Muppet
sake Manhattan.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
That's none, right, No, no, no, the quintessential like really,
the quintessential ones are the Muppet Movie, which is the
first one, which kind of like establishes a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, he's not gonna get past the rainbow connection. So
what's the other one?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I would say, either Treasure Island or Christmas Carol.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I like Christmas. I mean, I'm gonna suffer through one.
It might as well be a Christmas one.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
It's got my Michael Kane.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
It's got Michael Kaine. Yeah, he's He's fantastic. And if
you like the thing is, if you like Tim Curry,
then I would say chursh r Island. Not a big
Tim Curry fan, then you should go with Christmas Carol.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Oh my god, what is wrong with this guy?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Yeah? I know what.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He doesn't like good things?
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I know, not liking Tim Curry.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Did you recently stuff for a head injury?
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (12:27):
I think the answer, I think we know the answer
that question is yes.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Okay, God, So the Muppets are coming to Hollywood Studios.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Yes, they lost their stupid show they had before, but
now they get the new roll.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
What you would say this, that's blasphemy, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
The provision three D was awesome. Yeah, what a boring thing.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And then you had to sit in that room with
the carpet and you're tired, so you had to sit
in that filthy carpet with everybody else and everybody's stunk.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
No, thank you.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
You don't have to say I wish you were right now.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
No one made you.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah, I would throw my sneak or is that you
like George Bush style if you were here right now.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
God made me sit because I'm tired and my bone's hurt.
That's who made me sit. Okay, you don't have to
You don't have to say who hit the guitar? I
hit the spring on my mic.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
My okay, okay, how about this? How about some some
Dickerman news new new free dining offer for Walt Disney World.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Okay, what do you? What do you? What do we
have to do to get this free dining?
Speaker 5 (13:28):
You have to be a Disney Visa card holder?
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Well I'm that okay, all right, next step, what's next?
Speaker 5 (13:34):
You have to stay at one of the hotels.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Okay, I can I've done that. Do I have to
buy park tickets.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yes, because it's for in the park.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Breaker, that's the deal breaker. I want to be an
annual passholder and do this.
Speaker 5 (13:48):
Well, how are you supposed to get the park food
if you're not going into the park.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Because I'd be an annual passolder, then I going can
I can? I can?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I buy the tickets and then sell the tickets legally
not not not nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
No, that is no. That is illegal to do the
fact that you resell them. Yes, that is literally the
core thing. Do not do that. You can't resell the
tickets and no legal weight. It's not like stuff.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Hup, No, there is no legal way to do it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Oh well, I guess I'm out on this then, And.
Speaker 5 (14:16):
I think even doing it gets you like banned.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I've always dreamed of doing the the the dining at
Disney because then you just don't have to worry about
the prices. You just go get what you want. I mean,
that's what I did. Job.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
I kind of did that in Japan.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
With a vacation package that I did.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
That's true, that's right. You you did that smart. You
bought that vacation package and made it easy.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
For yourself, which is what you should do. On vacation.
Speaker 5 (14:43):
Yeah, exactly, don't don't worry about anything.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Forget the money issue. Just just go and do it
and enjoy it, which you did.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
But there's two plans. There's the Disney Dining Plan, which
is one quick serve menu or one quick serve meal
per night, one table service meal per night, one snack
or beverage in one resort refillable drink mug.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That sounds like a plan for me, or the other plan.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Or there's the Disney Quick Service dining plan two quick
service meals per night, one snack or non alcoholic beverage
in one resort drink mug.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Absolutely not, I'm doing the first one. I need a
nice sit down, a steak somewhere. Take advantage of that plan, Okay.
Who wants to just quick service? Quick service is what
I do normally because I'm poor.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Okay. If I'm doing this, I'm going, I'm going all in.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
So okay. In order for you to do that, you
would have to stay at a Disney Deluxe or Disney
Deluxe Villa hotel. Okay, all right, and purchase launch and
purchase tickets.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
All right, all right, talk to us again about the
two uh service?
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Yeah, does the price line hot deals count. No, I
buy it there and save like a bunch of money.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Now, oh god, that's how I got some good deals
in hotels at Disney before.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
Though.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
Nope, you gotta you gotta do it through them.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Never mind, I'm out. I'm out.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I can't afford this, you know, when I start doing
the math on my head, I can't justify because I'm like, Okay,
one weekend is literally an annual pass. I go for
two days, or I could go for an entire year.
Gotta go for the year.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
You could go for two days to the max. I'm
just like, do a year's worth of Disney in two days.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
I did again, did that in Japan? I did two days.
I did everything. Yeah, granted there's only two parks, so
it's a little bit easier.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
And you're in Japan to a year, You're not at home,
you're not within driving distance, you're in another country.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Obviously, you go all out. You made the trip, do it.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
No, but I would like to attempt one day to
like stay out at a Disney property and try to
do everything over a weekend.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I've seen those people. I've seen those people on the monorails.
I've seen them on the buses that thousand yards stare
in their eyes, dead to the world, children screaming, thinking,
my god, I just spent fifteen thousand dollars and I
feel like this.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
I mean, I've done that for Hornites where it's like
I've done every house in one night.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Oh yeah, last year. Unless your Hornites took it out
of me. I'm not gonna lie. I don't know how
much I did, but it was too much for me.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Speak speaking of annual passes, yes, we've kind of learned
why Epic Universe doesn't have an annual pass.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Oh okay, because then this is what inquiring minds want
to know.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
What what is the deal? When are we going to
get one? Why don't we have one?
Speaker 4 (17:36):
The answer will not surprise you.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
The ride reliability is likely to blame for the lack
of annual passes.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Stuff's always broke.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Oh really, how much stuff is? Well?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
You know, anytime you get new rides, like remember when
Rise of the Resistance open, that thing was broken all
the time, like every single day it was broken.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Yeah, but they still have a number of the rides there,
that's true.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Yeah, So your point about Epic Universe I get because
if you know if if the rides are all broken,
or multiple rides are broken, then it is a problem
because they're still figuring them out.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Well, it's it's a combination of things. Like I learned
this like because I've been. I've been four times now.
And the thing is, if it rains, which in the
state of Florida is a thing that happens, you've lost
a vast majority of rides.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
Oh yeah, this is true.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
So and then that really puts the onus on the
ministry Magic Ride, which it has taken some time to
dial in. Uh, monsters unchained is just a beast and
we'll just churned through peoples. That's quickly as possible. Like
but then it's like but then it's Mario Kart and
that's really about it. Yeah, you're down to like three
(18:55):
rides and two shows.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
That is that is that's the bush Gardens and SeaWorld.
You know, those parks are great. Unless you get rain,
you are you're out of luck because there ain't much
to do if if it if it's raining out there.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
The crazy thing is is they have enough restaurants to
handle that, but they did. You can't you can't predict everything.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
No, No, like there's my concern, like the Taking Back
Sunday show coming to Bush Gardens. What if it rains
the one day I'm gonna go. Well, I've already all
the way on to Tampa. Scott's got his VIP for
this situation. Mm hmmm mmm hmm.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Yeah, I'm excited though. It'll be fun.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
I want to go. I want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I just need to figure out how I'm gonna get tickets.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
You go to Bushgardens dot com.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
You know this doesn't work like this with me. You
know this is not how I operate. I still got
the old radio mindset. I can there's a will, there
is a way.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
I already tried it.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
By the way, there's no way.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, we haven't talked about this. The flower and garden menu.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Oh at Epcot? Yeah? What are we eating? Flowers and
garden things?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Like you want some you want some scallops?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yes? Yeah, okay, we got some scallops like SAPs?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
You like scallops?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Gross?
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Disgusting?
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Grilled beef sirloin strip loin?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Yes, I would eat that actually, okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Poke bowls.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I don't think I like pok bowls, but I might.
I mean, if I smelled it. If I smelled it,
it was okay.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Maybe I have.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
About this grilled street corn on the cob.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
That's lame. I mean, it's just corn on the cob.
You just grilled a big deal.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
It's really good.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I can turn on my grill right now and throw
some corn on the cob on there not impressed.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Uh you in the face when an old school wouldn't ruler.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Okay, okay, okay, I got I got, I got.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
I found. I found that.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
I found the Dickerman stand.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Avocado toast, no crow. She hate avocado too.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
Shrimp and I hate it because I used to love
it and I would eat it all the time, and
now I am you know my body does not process
it correctly.
Speaker 5 (21:15):
Shrimp and shrimp and grits gross. How about okay, okay, okay,
French toast.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Okay, all right, we're good so far with.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Cinnamon cereal cream and a caramel sauce.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yes, I'm in to get it from me right now.
And she delivered Uber eats.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
And you can wash it down with a fruit cereal
fruit cereal shake.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
So it's a pebbles. It's like a fruity pebble shake.
I'm yessing yes, yeah, yeah, I mean I like fruity
I like frdudy pebbles. You know what I like? I
like fruity pebbles with marshmallows. Because they didn't have enough
sugar to start with, we needed to add more.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
You want to combine your fruity pebbles with or your
fruit loves with like at Charms.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I mean he wants to take his sugar cereal and
then dump more sugar on top.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Anytime you can add marshmallows to a cereal, it makes
it better. But nothing angers me more than when you
get that marshmallow cereal and the marshmallows are soft. They're
supposed to be that freeze dried and crunchy, and I've
had it be soft so many times recently it it
angers me. I should just take it back and throw
it at the grocery store.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
So, because you're old, you will remember this.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Excuse me, sir? How dare you? Hey?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
You just turned like sixty buddy.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Hey, nah, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
Do you remember that they used to have a breakfast
cereal that was just chocolate chip cookies?
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Do you remember what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (22:39):
You can still get that? Do they really? Yeah? Cookie
cris but's in the store. You'll get some today.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
It used to have a dog, and you used to
have like a dog and like a copy and would go.
Now it's like a little like wolf looking guy.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
I wrote a letter to Little Debbie a few weeks
ago about a little to be Christmas Tree breakfast cereal.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Okay, I still want the ice cream.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
I still want the Christmas tree ice cream, but I
forgot wet ways.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
This year there was a lot of Christmas tree cake stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
They should just be year round. I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
They do this.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
They do. It's called the zebra cake.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
No it's not the same. No, it doesn't have the
crunches on top.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, you need the crunches. You need the crunches sprinkles.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
No, no, the thing is adding them doesn't count. I
want just make it year round, just like girls selling
year round.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
I need to come from the factor. He's right, He's
absolutely right. Okay.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
One other item, hot honey chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
I don't love honey chicken hot honey. I don't like
it that much. Oh, here we go.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Sorry, Sorry, One last item, cinnamon cinnamon Vignet's.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
There we go. Now we're talking. That's what I like
to hear. All right, We are just about ot of
time on this show this week, So Scott, if people
want to find us on social media to get all
the latest food news, where can they go?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
You follw us on Twitter at Theme Parks Show, Facebook, Instagram,
and TikTok at the Theme Park Podcast. You can watch
a themepark YouTube dot com, and.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
The show traditionally comes to you live from the Laurencampbell
Realtor dot com, t Bogazebo studios for Jimmy, for Scott Harris,
I am Dickerman. Until next week, we will see you
out at the parks.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
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