EarzUp! | Erik Talks Ralph Brennan's and More Disney News!

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[00:00:42] What's going on everybody?

[00:00:45] EarzUp Podcast. We are back in the studio and we are back into your ears.

[00:00:50] And that's really where we belong. Just fighting with the wax.

[00:00:54] And let me ask you a question, Eric. Are you a Q-tip to the ear guy?

[00:00:58] Or do you believe big ear wax that it just pushes ear wax into your canal?

[00:01:04] I kind of buy it.

[00:01:06] I kind of buy it but every once in a while it's nice to just twirl on around on there and scratch it.

[00:01:10] You know, scratch that itch.

[00:01:12] Yeah.

[00:01:13] It feels good.

[00:01:15] It feels so great.

[00:01:17] And Asylum Echo is right. That is the best Scott Punk band.

[00:01:20] And I'm not deaf yet.

[00:01:22] What?

[00:01:23] I'm not deaf yet.

[00:01:25] What?

[00:01:26] I'm not deaf yet.

[00:01:28] Yeah, I'm a big ear wax or ear cleaner guy.

[00:01:34] It feels good. My ears are squeaky clean but then every once in a while I can't hear very well

[00:01:38] or my ear hurts so I'm like, well maybe there's something to this.

[00:01:41] Maybe I'm kicking the can down the road a little bit too far.

[00:01:44] Just get your extra long fingernail that you grow out specifically for that purpose

[00:01:49] and start twirling that around in there.

[00:01:51] Right. Absolutely not.

[00:01:53] No other purpose. I wasn't going to bring up anything else.

[00:01:56] I want you to grow a super long pinky and then next time you, you know, you're filling up prescription

[00:02:03] you just use it to like move the pills into the bottle and just freak everybody else out.

[00:02:09] Patients don't like that.

[00:02:11] Hand it to them all.

[00:02:13] They don't like you touching the pills.

[00:02:15] Here's another one.

[00:02:17] What's going on everybody?

[00:02:19] Another cool show for you today.

[00:02:21] We have Eric talking about food that is eating again specifically about Ralph Brennan's

[00:02:26] and I have a lot of questions about Ralph Brennan's for Eric

[00:02:29] and then we're going to do news when take a break and we're going to do a bunch of news.

[00:02:32] There's a ton of news and again, leave it up to Jeremy to go ahead and leave

[00:02:38] and stop doing our news show when now there's suddenly a ton of stuff to talk about.

[00:02:42] So we have several stories to get through

[00:02:44] and they're all going to be cool and funny and not at all boring.

[00:02:49] What do you think of that?

[00:02:51] Yes.

[00:02:52] Yeah, but first if you are planning on going to the parks anytime soon with the next three months

[00:02:57] and you should I mean why wouldn't you plan through concy ears.

[00:03:01] You go to concy ears.com.

[00:03:03] They will help you navigate all the parks.

[00:03:05] I see on the Reddit thread during the subreddit Disneyland specific subreddit

[00:03:09] that everyone's just confused still about genie plus and people really like it.

[00:03:13] People don't even understand it.

[00:03:15] I don't pretend to understand it either.

[00:03:17] I just say look go to concierge they will and you this is what you do.

[00:03:20] You go, hey guys, here's all my information.

[00:03:22] I'm going to the parks such such date.

[00:03:24] This is what we're looking for.

[00:03:25] This is where we want to stay but you know, you're my parameters

[00:03:28] and they just do everything for you.

[00:03:30] They clear it with you of course, but they do everything for you

[00:03:32] and then you go, okay cool now that I got you now that I'm in how do I how do I live?

[00:03:38] How do I exist in the parks in a proper fashion?

[00:03:42] And then we'll tell you they'll tell you how to navigate genie plus lightning lane.

[00:03:45] What all that means?

[00:03:46] What's the best time to go?

[00:03:47] What's what to do?

[00:03:48] What do you got to do?

[00:03:49] What's going on?

[00:03:50] Especially if you haven't been to the parks in a long time.

[00:03:53] That's the way to do it is have somebody and you can message them

[00:03:57] while you're even at the park.

[00:03:58] If you heard about hear about Carthage lounge or Carthage restaurant.

[00:04:02] Can I can I go there?

[00:04:03] Carthage circle, but I don't want to get a reservation.

[00:04:05] I'm bored.

[00:04:06] I'm standing in line.

[00:04:07] I'm not bored.

[00:04:08] I'm not that bored, but I'm bored.

[00:04:09] I'm as concierge the book for you if they can't, you know what I mean?

[00:04:11] They'll do all that.

[00:04:12] Yeah.

[00:04:13] If you want to be the secret, the secret trip, I love secrets.

[00:04:18] Oh, we'll do the secret trip.

[00:04:19] What's the secret?

[00:04:20] Oh, we're like, you don't know anything.

[00:04:22] You show up and they say, here's what you're doing today.

[00:04:26] Do you do that really?

[00:04:27] We have done that.

[00:04:28] Yeah, that is awesome.

[00:04:29] That's I don't know about an entire trip, but let's certain like date nights and stuff.

[00:04:32] That should be a service like to advertise.

[00:04:36] I think that'd be awesome.

[00:04:37] Just be like, yeah, you know, especially if you go a lot, you don't care where, right?

[00:04:41] You know, it's like, oh, it's another weekend, whatever.

[00:04:44] Who knows?

[00:04:45] Yeah, I love it.

[00:04:46] So yeah, concierge.com.

[00:04:47] Thank you very much.

[00:04:48] They're official travel partner of ears up podcast network.

[00:04:52] Hi, Taryn.

[00:04:54] Hi.

[00:04:55] Hi.

[00:04:56] I don't hear anything about now.

[00:04:59] Now I do.

[00:05:00] Yeah.

[00:05:01] Volume controls tricky thing.

[00:05:02] Yeah, I've basically torn apart the studio.

[00:05:07] I finally got my streaming computer that I've been waiting for forever and finally

[00:05:12] Terrence like, look, we're already in credit card debt.

[00:05:14] So just do it.

[00:05:16] I put it together.

[00:05:17] That was a whole thing that is that is, I thought I could do it.

[00:05:20] You know what I mean?

[00:05:21] You look at something and you, you, my personalities, I look at someone doing

[00:05:26] something or that looks easy.

[00:05:28] I can do that.

[00:05:29] I can easily put that computer together and I've done it before, but I've had,

[00:05:34] I've had someone helping me.

[00:05:36] Right?

[00:05:37] Cause for me, it's just, you just plug stuff in and you go, okay, whatever.

[00:05:41] It is not, it is not like that.

[00:05:43] It's a little more.

[00:05:44] Yeah.

[00:05:45] It's a lot.

[00:05:46] Yeah.

[00:05:47] And yeah.

[00:05:48] So I plugged everything in, flipped the switch on the power supply and like

[00:05:54] nothing happened.

[00:05:55] That's the worst feeling.

[00:05:56] Yeah.

[00:05:57] It really is.

[00:05:58] And so I'm online.

[00:05:59] I'm Googling, I'm looking stuff up and just nothing, no fan movement, no hum,

[00:06:05] no lights, just, just goose eggs everywhere.

[00:06:09] I'm like, oh man.

[00:06:11] So I'm like, you know what?

[00:06:12] Mr. P blesses heart.

[00:06:13] He's trying to like help me through it.

[00:06:15] And finally I'm like, dude, I'm just going to find a computer nerd locally.

[00:06:20] I can't, I can't do it otherwise.

[00:06:23] And it's like, ah, we could do it.

[00:06:26] I'm like, no man.

[00:06:28] No, we can't.

[00:06:29] So I find computer nerd and he was like, he comes back and he's like,

[00:06:33] number one, just because you flip the power supply on doesn't mean you turn

[00:06:36] the computer on.

[00:06:37] And that's where my mind goes.

[00:06:39] Any tower ever had you just there's a one switch in the back and you

[00:06:42] go and it turns the whole boots the whole system up.

[00:06:44] This is not that.

[00:06:45] You missed the button.

[00:06:47] There's a switch on the top.

[00:06:48] Yeah.

[00:06:49] There's a switch on the top.

[00:06:50] There's a button on the top.

[00:06:51] And I had that plugged in, but I had it plugged in the wrong place.

[00:06:54] So it wasn't getting power.

[00:06:55] And that was it.

[00:06:56] But he was nice enough.

[00:06:57] You know, he's like, I'll just put it in windows for you and I'll update

[00:07:01] all your drivers and do all that kind of stuff.

[00:07:03] So he's probably like being nice because he knew he was going to charge

[00:07:06] you when he just had to like do one thing.

[00:07:08] Yeah.

[00:07:09] Well, I asked him, like, can you just do that?

[00:07:11] He's like, yeah, man, I got you.

[00:07:12] It's fine.

[00:07:13] Okay.

[00:07:14] Yeah.

[00:07:15] But I do understand the like looking at something and being like,

[00:07:18] I can do that.

[00:07:19] It's literally the reason like I've, I haven't got,

[00:07:22] I don't get my nails done by somebody.

[00:07:24] Um, I haven't had somebody cut my hair in 20 years because I feel

[00:07:30] like if you could be a hairdresser, so can I.

[00:07:33] Yeah, I can do that.

[00:07:34] Now I do my own eyelash lifts.

[00:07:36] I mean, who cares?

[00:07:37] I don't need, I don't need anyone.

[00:07:39] You don't need anyone.

[00:07:40] You're a free young independent woman to do it all myself.

[00:07:44] Yeah.

[00:07:45] Whereas I got a haircut tonight.

[00:07:47] Oh yeah.

[00:07:48] Which one?

[00:07:49] Which one?

[00:07:50] Which hair?

[00:07:51] Yeah.

[00:07:52] Yeah.

[00:07:53] Yeah.

[00:07:54] I mean, anyway, streaming is weird.

[00:07:55] So if you're a, you know, if you're into the sort of

[00:07:58] watching live kind of thing, I booted up the Twitch stream again.

[00:08:02] So it's twitch.tv slash ears up and uh, go ahead and please sub

[00:08:08] please subscribe even if you're not going to watch anything.

[00:08:10] But be nice to just get us up there for me, please.

[00:08:14] And um, what I've been doing lately is just doing a lot

[00:08:16] of gaming, but like testing the stream and like figuring it out.

[00:08:19] And uh, so you can go and watch, you know, some of that dumb stuff.

[00:08:22] Um, but what I think I'm going to be doing is, is like doing

[00:08:26] some like show research on streams too.

[00:08:29] And eventually what I want to do is push this stream to

[00:08:32] Twitch and YouTube.

[00:08:33] So if you guys are watching on YouTube, you don't need

[00:08:35] to do anything else.

[00:08:36] You can just stay here and everything can be fine.

[00:08:38] Um, but I'd like to put it out to Twitch again because

[00:08:41] now that we have a good internet connection,

[00:08:43] now that we have a good streaming computer, I think I can do that.

[00:08:46] And it would look good and it just get more people, you know,

[00:08:49] into the community, right?

[00:08:51] Into the listening community.

[00:08:53] So look forward to that.

[00:08:54] But yeah, follow us on, on, on Twitch and you can see me,

[00:08:57] uh, beat my brains out on video games or like I said,

[00:09:01] I'm going to be doing some of, uh, you know, doing like

[00:09:04] show research.

[00:09:05] You're sitting down for a couple hours.

[00:09:06] I'll just share my screen and we'll just look there and

[00:09:08] I'll be writing notes and just like just chatting, just hanging out.

[00:09:10] So it could be fun.

[00:09:11] It could be a nice little addition to the, uh, the old community there.

[00:09:14] That's an interesting idea of, of live streaming doing research

[00:09:21] for these shows.

[00:09:22] Yeah.

[00:09:23] I don't, I'm trying to think if I, if I could do that,

[00:09:26] like if I, like if you could watch.

[00:09:29] No, if I could actually like, like if I could do that,

[00:09:33] I'm not, I'm not saying like you're allowing me to or whatever,

[00:09:36] but like, I mean, that's, that's what you're, that's,

[00:09:38] that's it.

[00:09:39] That is it.

[00:09:40] I haven't told you, but yeah, you need to ask permission.

[00:09:42] I'm looking for a trad wise please.

[00:09:45] Yeah.

[00:09:46] I don't even know what that is.

[00:09:47] No.

[00:09:48] I'm not that cool, but um, yeah, I don't know.

[00:09:51] That would be really hard for me.

[00:09:53] I think.

[00:09:54] To sit and like what beyond stream and do stuff.

[00:09:58] The way that I think I do research for this show is so

[00:10:02] boring.

[00:10:03] I mean, it's not, it's not interesting.

[00:10:08] I mean, there's a whole category of just chatting where people

[00:10:11] are just, they'll be sitting here.

[00:10:13] Yeah.

[00:10:14] Just waiting for someone to chat and then you just cat and

[00:10:16] either they're like folding laundry or yeah dude,

[00:10:20] laundry folding and just like hanging out chatting with

[00:10:22] the chat is, is a lot.

[00:10:24] It's a big thing.

[00:10:25] Interesting.

[00:10:26] Yeah.

[00:10:27] And so like since I'm going to be doing this stuff anyways,

[00:10:29] I might as well.

[00:10:30] And honestly, I think it would keep me focused more

[00:10:33] because my ADHD is just everywhere.

[00:10:36] Yeah.

[00:10:37] You know, I'll be sitting down for like 10 minutes and then

[00:10:39] I'll go, Oh, you know what I got to do?

[00:10:41] I haven't talked to Bev in forever.

[00:10:43] I'm going to call her and I'll get up and I'll go do that

[00:10:46] or like, Oh man, I actually really do this thing.

[00:10:48] I wonder what the backyard.

[00:10:49] I wonder if I could put that tomato plant over there

[00:10:51] and I'll get up and go look at it and then I'll go to

[00:10:53] something else and then it's like, Oh yeah, I got to do

[00:10:55] the thing.

[00:10:56] But this way if I can sit down, I got a screen share

[00:10:58] up, I do all that kind of stuff.

[00:11:00] Um, I can sit for like an hour and just, you know,

[00:11:03] check it out, especially if people then join in and then

[00:11:05] it's like more of a collaborative thing.

[00:11:07] I'm like, Hey, what do you guys think about that?

[00:11:09] Is that interesting?

[00:11:10] Is it not or whatever?

[00:11:11] I mean, it's, it's an interesting concept.

[00:11:14] Yeah.

[00:11:15] I fear I would just sit there quietly clicking on things

[00:11:18] and forget that people are just looking at me.

[00:11:21] I'm not looking at the chat and I'm not displaying anything.

[00:11:24] I would just have a lot of weird looks on my face

[00:11:26] like irritated looks and like, Oh seriously,

[00:11:29] that's a good article.

[00:11:30] Like that would be my whole thing.

[00:11:32] Yeah.

[00:11:33] And what I've realized is, you know,

[00:11:36] in doing this gaming streams and testing everything

[00:11:39] and putting everything up,

[00:11:40] I do much better when there's a microphone in front of me.

[00:11:44] That's just sort of like been my last 20 years.

[00:11:46] So I feel, I feel more comfortable.

[00:11:51] Maybe not comfortable is that's not the right word,

[00:11:54] but I feel more focused or more, I could do it.

[00:11:58] Yeah.

[00:11:59] You know, if the stream, even like today,

[00:12:01] I'm playing Marvel Snap online and there's nobody there.

[00:12:04] I mean, you were maybe there.

[00:12:05] And so I'm still like talking, doing the same things

[00:12:07] I'm thinking in my head, but if the microphone is here

[00:12:09] and I know I'm on, I'm saying the things that are just

[00:12:11] in my head, but it's easier for me to do it.

[00:12:13] Yeah.

[00:12:14] It's more natural.

[00:12:15] But I think I could sit there and go, Oh, what the,

[00:12:17] does that even mean?

[00:12:18] I don't know if I should do this or what?

[00:12:19] Where can I find this or whatever?

[00:12:21] Yeah.

[00:12:22] So it's not just, you're not just watching a guy blink.

[00:12:24] Yeah.

[00:12:25] For me, yeah.

[00:12:26] For me, and I think for Eric,

[00:12:27] it would just be watching people blink.

[00:12:29] But I can see that with you because you do,

[00:12:31] you talk things out a lot.

[00:12:33] Yeah.

[00:12:34] I'm, I talk to myself.

[00:12:36] And I don't because again, I can do it all myself.

[00:12:39] So I just keep it all here and then it goes on paper.

[00:12:42] Strong woman.

[00:12:43] Okay.

[00:12:44] Strong woman.

[00:12:45] And you're strong woman.

[00:12:48] Yeah, that's it.

[00:12:49] That's what's going on in our lives right now.

[00:12:51] I thought that was the show.

[00:12:52] I was like, that was easy.

[00:12:53] Great.

[00:12:54] Well, thanks for joining us.

[00:12:55] No, I actually had a hard time.

[00:12:56] Oh, I guess that's what I was saying is starting

[00:12:58] the show late because the audio was all wonky.

[00:13:01] And because I was on the streaming PC and the audio

[00:13:04] cables, there's like virtual cables.

[00:13:06] It's all kind of screwy.

[00:13:07] So I'm like, you know what?

[00:13:09] Let's go back to the old computer for this and see if

[00:13:11] I can't keep them separate or whatever.

[00:13:13] I'm trying to figure out a whole bunch of stuff, but,

[00:13:15] you know, what are you going to do?

[00:13:17] But we have a lot of time to get some news together.

[00:13:20] And I'm excited about it because we have a lot

[00:13:22] to talk about.

[00:13:23] But first Eric.

[00:13:26] What are you eating, buddy?

[00:13:28] Oh, what, what am I not eating?

[00:13:30] I mean, look, I didn't want to say it, but well,

[00:13:32] there was a lot on the menu.

[00:13:33] I only went there three times on the trip.

[00:13:35] So I didn't eat everything three times.

[00:13:37] Okay.

[00:13:38] How long was your trip?

[00:13:40] Uh, uh, it was four nights or five nights.

[00:13:42] You went to Ralph Brennan's five, three times in five

[00:13:45] nights, bro.

[00:13:46] Wow.

[00:13:47] My life is so long.

[00:13:48] I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

[00:13:50] I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

[00:13:52] I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

[00:13:54] I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, wow, I'm like,

[00:13:56] I'm just like, man!

[00:13:57] My whole life has gone to Ralph Brennan's.

[00:13:59] There was one trip where we went to Ralph Brennan's

[00:14:01] at least once every single day.

[00:14:03] Wow.

[00:14:04] Good gravy.

[00:14:05] We didn't even do that.

[00:14:06] And we were getting free apps for little.

[00:14:10] So our buddy,

[00:14:12] I wanted to try the new menu.

[00:14:14] I wanted to this is one of our favorite places.

[00:14:16] That's good.

[00:14:17] Can I just say one thing really quick before you

[00:14:19] start?

[00:14:20] No.

[00:14:21] Yeah.

[00:14:21] Um, I think it's amazing that Eric is sent like, like literally replaced Bev and Terrence.

[00:14:29] He's like, he's like both of them combined.

[00:14:31] Oh, no.

[00:14:31] What does that mean?

[00:14:32] Because you're like, you're like history of Disneyland and like nine old men, like, you know all that stuff, but then you also are food guy.

[00:14:41] Food guy.

[00:14:42] Just like Bev.

[00:14:43] Hmm.

[00:14:43] Your food guy just like Bev.

[00:14:44] Because Bev, Bev was like our resident foodie.

[00:14:48] I mean, not that she liked good food, but she liked food.

[00:14:52] Yeah.

[00:14:53] Bev just lacked the analytical viewpoint.

[00:14:56] Yeah.

[00:14:57] She's like, yeah, it was good.

[00:14:59] Yeah.

[00:14:59] Or that would I need all of it.

[00:15:01] Yeah.

[00:15:02] So I just I thinking about this segment and like the histories that you do, I'm like, wow, you really replaced both of them very nicely.

[00:15:10] There we go.

[00:15:11] Thank you.

[00:15:11] Yeah.

[00:15:12] I like that.

[00:15:13] I really did like Bev's some of Bev's best stuff or the budget trips.

[00:15:18] Good.

[00:15:18] I'm glad because I wasn't sure I love those episodes.

[00:15:21] Okay.

[00:15:22] Oh, and I've recommended them to a lot of people like you don't hear you want to kind of introduce yourself to the show.

[00:15:26] Listen to this.

[00:15:27] It's informative and it was fun.

[00:15:29] Wow.

[00:15:29] Okay.

[00:15:30] I would never have thought that I have such a weird.

[00:15:33] That's why I can't do my own social media or like do my own like clips really editing or whatever.

[00:15:38] It's why we I pay for an AI site service to like cut them up because like and even then it's the terrible but like I can't I have a very tough time.

[00:15:49] Putting a value on my work.

[00:15:53] It's weird.

[00:15:54] Like I would never I would never go.

[00:15:55] Oh yeah, like if someone goes, hey, what shows should I listen to to like get started?

[00:15:59] I don't know.

[00:16:01] I have no idea dude just like search your favorite ride and we've probably done a history of like my therapist was like, oh, I should really probably like

[00:16:07] listen to your show or you are two of yours to see what like what it is that you do.

[00:16:13] And I'm like, yeah, you know what?

[00:16:14] I'll send you some and then you know, I know I'm going to text her.

[00:16:17] I was like, what's your favorite ride because I was like no idea what's going on.

[00:16:21] And then of course she sent me five different things like you can't have a you can't have five favorite favorite.

[00:16:27] Not what are your favorites plural?

[00:16:28] What's your favorite singular?

[00:16:30] So we have a reading comprehension problem.

[00:16:33] Does the guy who refuses to play like would you rather?

[00:16:37] Oh yeah.

[00:16:38] He absolutely rather have a million dollars or eat 12 badgers like come on.

[00:16:45] It's obviously the Badgers.

[00:16:47] Badger, terrific.

[00:16:48] Yeah.

[00:16:49] Anyway, it used to be easier to do that because that was when I was listening to the show instead of being on every episode.

[00:16:55] So I think that was part of it.

[00:16:58] But at least on Supreme Resort like we've got episodes where I say, hey, if you want to get really angry.

[00:17:02] I recommend.

[00:17:05] I recommend the haunted mansion.

[00:17:07] Okay.

[00:17:08] And then there's some early episodes where Dan, Jimmy and I really start to click once I get onto the show where I feel like.

[00:17:14] Yeah, we really, we really knew what we were doing like Kelly River Rapids versus Grizzly River Run.

[00:17:19] We have, I still think of that episode because it was it was so much fun.

[00:17:23] Nice.

[00:17:23] Putting that together.

[00:17:24] You know, we have so many episodes across all the shows.

[00:17:29] I wonder if it's worth putting together like just one core episode.

[00:17:33] Maybe we push it on all the feeds.

[00:17:34] Who knows?

[00:17:35] That might be too much, but get everybody to give us their their ultimate shows or whatever.

[00:17:43] Yeah.

[00:17:43] Or like Supreme Resort, you guys are getting people.

[00:17:46] How do you get people into your show?

[00:17:47] You know what shows would you recommend listening to?

[00:17:50] Bands of milk, what shows, you know, that kind of stuff.

[00:17:52] And then so that way it's like, here's just a primer for the ears up network.

[00:17:57] Here's all the shows.

[00:17:57] So then you can, if someone wants to listen to the network, they go, okay, then they go

[00:18:02] to this show and you give them one show instead of all the other ones.

[00:18:05] I don't know how I understand that.

[00:18:06] That's a great idea because like, I mean, we've been on since 2013 or 14.

[00:18:12] Now, like 13.

[00:18:13] Yeah.

[00:18:13] That's wild.

[00:18:15] And I would not recommend anyone go back to that first episode.

[00:18:19] But oh my God, I mean, it's the thing.

[00:18:22] They're all terrible.

[00:18:24] Everybody's first episode is always terrible.

[00:18:26] It is.

[00:18:27] Absolutely.

[00:18:28] But yeah, where would you begin?

[00:18:29] I would that with that.

[00:18:30] I think I like that idea.

[00:18:31] Okay.

[00:18:32] Well, maybe we'll figure it out.

[00:18:34] I'm looking right now to see how many episodes we have.

[00:18:36] Bus.

[00:18:36] I need to click on what things are buses now.

[00:18:39] Cashes are weird, dude.

[00:18:40] I don't like them.

[00:18:41] I feel like they're old school.

[00:18:44] You know what I mean?

[00:18:44] Okay.

[00:18:45] So we have podcasts.

[00:18:48] Does it tell me how many?

[00:18:49] Okay.

[00:18:50] What is 131 plus 348 plus 33?

[00:18:57] Plus 42 plus 119.

[00:19:02] I wasn't writing any of that down.

[00:19:03] Yeah, I need you to say those numbers again.

[00:19:05] 131 348 33.

[00:19:10] 42 119.

[00:19:15] 673.

[00:19:16] And those are just the episodes on the feeds.

[00:19:18] Now that's not even all the secret shows.

[00:19:21] That's a lot.

[00:19:22] That's a lot of content.

[00:19:23] That's a lot of hours of us talking.

[00:19:24] The secret shows probably have three fours.

[00:19:27] It's probably 150 secret shows and then you have all the other nonsense we do.

[00:19:32] I'm like pushing 800.

[00:19:33] It's wild to me.

[00:19:34] All right.

[00:19:35] Yeah, anyway, we've got about 50 anyway.

[00:19:37] That's about me, Eric.

[00:19:39] What about you?

[00:19:40] How was Ralph Brennan's?

[00:19:41] So you went after the after the the heinousness, right?

[00:19:47] The really cool redo.

[00:19:49] Yeah.

[00:19:50] I won't say really cool redo, but I'm not going to channel

[00:19:54] Jeremy here.

[00:19:56] I just don't Barbara boozer.

[00:20:03] But first off, we have to stop calling it Ralph Brennan's because

[00:20:07] it is now the jazz kitchen, coastal grill and patio.

[00:20:10] No, it's not really.

[00:20:12] It is which I learned today.

[00:20:16] There's no real today.

[00:20:18] Ralph Brennan is not a Mital.

[00:20:21] Now, interestingly enough, Ralph Brennan still exists.

[00:20:25] Let me tell you about Ralph Brennan.

[00:20:27] I'd love to hear it.

[00:20:29] The real story of Ralph Brennan, but of you know, of course, he is

[00:20:33] what you would expect.

[00:20:34] He is a very wealthy white man named Ralph Brennan who owns a bunch

[00:20:39] of restaurants in New Orleans and one in Anaheim.

[00:20:43] He's a third generation restaurant tour, but he was the first to go

[00:20:47] to school and learn about business.

[00:20:49] So the first and second generation said essentially first generation

[00:20:54] said we like running this old restaurant called Brennan's on Royal Street.

[00:20:59] And then the second generation said we want restaurants too.

[00:21:03] And so they started branching off and doing their own restaurants

[00:21:06] and that's when the fuss and in the feud and started.

[00:21:10] There you go.

[00:21:11] And Ralph being a third generation guy got back from school

[00:21:15] and said, I'm going to be a CPA.

[00:21:19] And when I went off and worked on Wall Street for a while, but he

[00:21:25] grew up working in Brennan's as as a kid who worked who grew up

[00:21:29] in a family restaurant sort of environment.

[00:21:32] And he wanted to get back into the family business.

[00:21:35] So years, years and years later lawsuits and all sorts of things

[00:21:38] going on people suing over the name to use the word Brennan's.

[00:21:42] The original Brennan's restaurant closes in 2013.

[00:21:47] Ralph gets together with some investors and buys the property.

[00:21:51] Then he successfully sued to get the rights to the name Brennan's.

[00:21:55] A year later, a brand new restaurant opens up in the same place

[00:22:00] and they kind of corrals all of the other in all of the other

[00:22:08] people involved and starts getting their restaurants going

[00:22:10] and picking up the business and combining things.

[00:22:13] And now he is in charge of seven restaurants, six of which

[00:22:16] are in New Orleans and the seventh is Jazz Kitchen, Coastal Grill

[00:22:21] and patio Coastal Grill.

[00:22:23] So he so he is still in charge of it even though it doesn't have

[00:22:27] the name.

[00:22:28] He's still in charge of the company.

[00:22:29] His company still owns Jazz Kitchen.

[00:22:32] He's the president of the company.

[00:22:33] Okay.

[00:22:35] It seems like a pretty good company to work for if you

[00:22:38] like look for Ralph Brennan's controversies.

[00:22:41] All you find is the junk from the 70s all of his aunts and

[00:22:44] uncles.

[00:22:45] Ralph Brennan's controversies.

[00:22:47] I like that.

[00:22:48] That's what I love your research style.

[00:22:50] Like that's what you looked up.

[00:22:51] I've never thought to do that.

[00:22:52] I think that's like that's an amazing Google.

[00:22:55] I'm curious.

[00:22:56] Is he a jerk or is he a good guy to work for it?

[00:22:58] It seems like he's a good guy.

[00:23:00] All right.

[00:23:00] There's a lot of people that have worked at, I mean, I

[00:23:03] haven't been to any of his restaurants in New Orleans

[00:23:07] and I've only been going to Ralph Brennan's in

[00:23:10] it's been like 10-ish years that I've been going

[00:23:11] to Disneyland, but I've seen the same employees.

[00:23:15] They're the entire time they all have badges similar to

[00:23:19] to Disney badges that tell you how long they've been working

[00:23:21] there whenever they hit a five year anniversary.

[00:23:24] They get a bonus check for the year.

[00:23:26] They have big celebrations for employees.

[00:23:30] They went out for some big.

[00:23:31] They were supposed to win a James beer.

[00:23:33] They were up for a James Beard award a few years ago.

[00:23:36] He flew a ton of employees out to the ceremony.

[00:23:39] They lost and they still partied for two days after

[00:23:42] work. Nice.

[00:23:44] Yeah, from New Orleans.

[00:23:45] I mean, in their chefs like that's also the restaurant industry.

[00:23:49] That's what they do.

[00:23:49] Right.

[00:23:50] Yeah.

[00:23:50] So it seems like a good place to work.

[00:23:53] Yeah.

[00:23:54] That's yeah.

[00:23:56] Our friend.

[00:23:58] I don't know what I should say, but he worked at Ralph

[00:24:01] Brennan's and he was miserable, but it was like a staffing issue.

[00:24:05] Okay.

[00:24:05] He just like refused to hire more people.

[00:24:08] So kitchen staff would just slam like 14 hours, 16 hour days

[00:24:13] just in it.

[00:24:14] Just oh gosh.

[00:24:16] Yeah.

[00:24:16] And you know,

[00:24:18] well, and that's the thing.

[00:24:19] So what struck me the most about what you said was

[00:24:22] people's tenure of being there.

[00:24:23] Like yeah, the amount of time people stay at a company says

[00:24:28] I think more than anything.

[00:24:30] You know, like my company is kind of the same way.

[00:24:33] People stay there for a really long time.

[00:24:35] Do we get paid?

[00:24:36] The most could I go get more money somewhere else?

[00:24:39] Absolutely.

[00:24:39] Absolutely.

[00:24:40] And should I probably, but I don't and I haven't and I don't

[00:24:45] have that drive because I actually like the company.

[00:24:48] And so like it does say a lot when like when you see those

[00:24:51] badges and you see that they've been there for 13 years

[00:24:54] or since opening and you're like, wow, because people

[00:24:57] don't do that.

[00:24:58] Then they shouldn't.

[00:24:59] Well, they shouldn't, but they do and some people like

[00:25:03] to be comfortable.

[00:25:04] Yeah, I think restaurant business is different.

[00:25:07] You know, yeah, it is.

[00:25:08] But anyway, sorry Eric, go ahead please.

[00:25:10] Oh no, that's no, that's great to hear.

[00:25:11] I mean, it's great to hear they're understaffed in the

[00:25:14] kitchen.

[00:25:15] Yeah, everything's great in front of house, back of house

[00:25:17] and miserable.

[00:25:18] Yeah, I know that that's the way things go sometimes

[00:25:20] in kitchen.

[00:25:21] So that's it's rough but but yeah, so gone are the

[00:25:26] dank woods with colorful beads paintings and a bedazzled

[00:25:29] grand piano following the big renovation.

[00:25:33] It's still a great place to eat.

[00:25:36] It's still it's very different and you have to prepare

[00:25:39] yourself to go blind when you walk by it.

[00:25:45] Yeah, I'm choking on my own saliva.

[00:25:47] Oh, okay.

[00:25:48] That's what I imagine it's it's like your favorite dive

[00:25:51] bar gets a renovation.

[00:25:52] Nobody wants that you yeah saying that you have to

[00:25:55] prepare yourself is a very good way of explaining it.

[00:25:58] Yeah, because you want to go back.

[00:25:59] It's like an old friend.

[00:26:00] Everything is sort of worn in, you know, you've been

[00:26:03] there a bunch of times and you know where everything

[00:26:05] is and you know what to expect or on the corner and

[00:26:07] it's like you can choose what kind of looks you want

[00:26:10] to get but now it's just weird.

[00:26:12] Yeah, and maybe maybe these large corporations that

[00:26:17] operate multiple restaurants in multiple places have have

[00:26:21] a decent idea about what the average consumer wants

[00:26:23] instead of a dank bar with you know, a bunch of

[00:26:27] good 90s crazy crap on the walls and I don't know

[00:26:30] they were having they weren't having a hard time

[00:26:32] filling seats.

[00:26:34] No, I mean you could you could usually get there

[00:26:36] around lunchtime and not have to wait but dinner

[00:26:38] time was usually packed.

[00:26:40] Yeah.

[00:26:41] But anyway, it is part of the entire update of Disney

[00:26:48] downtown Disney.

[00:26:49] I wonder how much of it was Disney coming around

[00:26:51] and saying all right anybody with with a

[00:26:53] logo that looks vaguely 90s you're out to tall

[00:26:56] yeah, get out now Ralph.

[00:27:00] What do you think buddy?

[00:27:01] Yeah, we're gonna need a lot of work here.

[00:27:04] So I had only seen the drawings of what they were

[00:27:08] going to do right so just the outside and the new

[00:27:13] the new logo or whatever and I hated it and whatever.

[00:27:16] So I just googled it so I can get an image of

[00:27:18] what I should be prepared for and oh my God.

[00:27:21] What is this?

[00:27:22] What are these orange chairs yet like what what

[00:27:26] even is this style like people think we're you

[00:27:29] know Jeremy and I were being pedantic is the word.

[00:27:32] I don't know pandemic.

[00:27:33] I have no idea but it by saying it looks like the

[00:27:36] lobby of a four seasons but it really does actually

[00:27:40] like it looks like a Starbucks or something because

[00:27:42] of those weird like you have that splashes of

[00:27:44] of those weird burnt orange.

[00:27:46] Yeah, a lot of creams and it's like why is an umbrella

[00:27:49] inside just odd.

[00:27:51] I guess thinking that's their little court area.

[00:27:54] Okay, they removed the fountain.

[00:27:56] So that's like right in the front.

[00:27:57] Oh wow, the fountain.

[00:27:59] Oh it's so I'm sorry but it is awful.

[00:28:03] We are taking all the charm out of it and sterilizing

[00:28:06] it as much as possible and I for the life of me can't

[00:28:08] figure out why I mean the found one of the fountain

[00:28:10] never do what does this company have against

[00:28:12] fountains?

[00:28:13] I mean look what they did in Epcot.

[00:28:15] Maybe it's a liability thing.

[00:28:16] What's the liability of a child falls in and drowns.

[00:28:20] No stop it that kid.

[00:28:22] I like it.

[00:28:23] It's fresh and clean.

[00:28:24] No you don't and I can't wait to do what else they do.

[00:28:27] Like let's be honest.

[00:28:29] Do you like it?

[00:28:30] Am I being contrary for the sake of it?

[00:28:31] I don't know.

[00:28:32] I don't mind it.

[00:28:33] It really I was very shocked when I first walked by.

[00:28:38] That's kind of why I'm like I got to try this place out a

[00:28:40] few times.

[00:28:41] I got to spend some time in there.

[00:28:42] Okay, let's go.

[00:28:43] We've already talked about how boring it is.

[00:28:45] Well yeah, so let's see after much hand wringing

[00:28:50] and complaining online.

[00:28:52] The restaurant closed on January 9th 2023 despite everyone's

[00:28:57] opinion the logo with the giant saxophone and the very 90s

[00:29:03] thoughts was removed in April.

[00:29:05] A new sign appeared in May.

[00:29:08] That's the kind of coolish font that you know we'll see

[00:29:11] how it ages in a few years.

[00:29:13] Same with the colors.

[00:29:14] Sure man.

[00:29:15] I will they fade.

[00:29:17] While it was under construction, the restaurant opened back

[00:29:20] up and I visited during one of those times and it was weird

[00:29:25] because they had just started on the stuff downstairs.

[00:29:28] You could go upstairs but they didn't have any decorations

[00:29:31] up.

[00:29:31] It was just white.

[00:29:32] Wow.

[00:29:32] That's weird.

[00:29:34] And they they kind of like well how about we put a painting

[00:29:37] on that wall over there.

[00:29:39] It's a tone to picture of a parade.

[00:29:42] Yay.

[00:29:43] I'm like that.

[00:29:44] Whoa.

[00:29:45] This is weird.

[00:29:47] But they but the food was good.

[00:29:49] We you know it was just it was like a quarter of the dining

[00:29:53] room upstairs.

[00:29:54] It was nothing.

[00:29:54] It was just kind of like hey we can start putting people

[00:29:57] here.

[00:29:57] Okay.

[00:29:58] Yeah and for whatever day of the week it was that we were

[00:30:02] there it was it was full so that was something but it

[00:30:07] definitely got better over time when they expanded the menu

[00:30:10] once they fully reopened.

[00:30:13] Yeah, they got rid of the dank.

[00:30:15] They got rid of all that.

[00:30:16] Damn the new the new space is very bright and airy depending

[00:30:20] on where you're sitting.

[00:30:21] It's either an assault on the senses or pleasant.

[00:30:25] Okay.

[00:30:26] New seats and tables throughout.

[00:30:28] Yes downstairs.

[00:30:30] The area that's so bright and pink and orange mirrors

[00:30:34] the mural that's on one side of the building when

[00:30:36] you're coming from the Lego store that that side of

[00:30:38] the building has a mural that has the same kind of

[00:30:41] design.

[00:30:42] Okay, but the logo the the mural that you're seeing on

[00:30:47] the inside and all the orange tables I think are designed

[00:30:50] to blend into the Benye's place which is now called

[00:30:53] Benye's expressed.

[00:30:55] Expressed as in past tense.

[00:31:00] The first thing I think about is breast milk.

[00:31:03] Yeah for sure dude or like a weird word pressing anal

[00:31:06] glands on an animal.

[00:31:07] Like that is not a good word to use.

[00:31:10] Okay, great.

[00:31:11] Yeah.

[00:31:12] I'm not trying to like find things wrong with this.

[00:31:16] I think there are things wrong.

[00:31:18] Right.

[00:31:18] Yes.

[00:31:19] I agree.

[00:31:19] You don't have to look very hard.

[00:31:23] Is to make you actually try to go inside the Benye's

[00:31:26] place is still super popular but I think they kind of

[00:31:28] use that area is a little bit more of an overflow

[00:31:30] for seating from there.

[00:31:31] Okay.

[00:31:31] They never really had too much and it it matches the

[00:31:34] tone of the other side of the building.

[00:31:36] If you're in the main dining room or if you're on

[00:31:38] the front patio downstairs there is a mural that's

[00:31:42] kind of pastel kind of 90s palm fronds and things

[00:31:46] which is a little weird but the art around the room

[00:31:50] just keeps it keeps it bright.

[00:31:53] It's not the ceiling doesn't feel low because there's

[00:31:56] no like foot tall stage with a giant piano on it.

[00:32:00] They still do live music there.

[00:32:03] That's all throughout the week.

[00:32:04] They've got to rotate his music like did they

[00:32:07] change that to I think they're calling it just these

[00:32:10] days.

[00:32:10] Oh, yes.

[00:32:11] Yes with a soft J.

[00:32:14] All right.

[00:32:14] I got that's cool at the back of the main dining room

[00:32:19] downstairs.

[00:32:19] The original wood bar is still there.

[00:32:23] Okay.

[00:32:23] They changed the countertop to a white granite.

[00:32:26] Of course.

[00:32:26] Instead of course they did they had to look you

[00:32:30] have to complain about it.

[00:32:31] Yes.

[00:32:32] The bar is still there is a hotel lobby at that point.

[00:32:35] That's why I'm that's why I moaned like that because it

[00:32:37] is it is it's just a hotel lobby.

[00:32:40] It is nothing special.

[00:32:42] There's nothing special in this place anymore except the

[00:32:43] food but you know what in five years we're all going to

[00:32:46] forget about this us old heads who have been there.

[00:32:50] And it's just what it is and it's just right.

[00:32:52] Well yeah, so let's finish up with the upstairs upstairs.

[00:32:56] They've got a kind of a sunset painted on the wall

[00:32:58] different gradients of of oranges and pinks kind of

[00:33:04] you know descending downward that sounds beautiful.

[00:33:08] Thanks.

[00:33:09] You're welcome.

[00:33:11] There's the tables have all been updated up there.

[00:33:14] The art isn't too much better but the whole the whole

[00:33:17] place does feel brighter everywhere the railings instead

[00:33:22] of being completely wrought iron the railing itself

[00:33:24] is wrought iron with glass underneath you know they

[00:33:27] have kind of the pegs and there's it's just glass

[00:33:29] panels.

[00:33:30] Okay.

[00:33:31] Probably plexi so your child doesn't smash through it.

[00:33:33] I don't know.

[00:33:35] But it feels it's what if what they're going for is a

[00:33:39] brighter look they got it.

[00:33:41] I don't know what that style is they're saying it's a mix

[00:33:45] of modern Gulf and Pacific Coast.

[00:33:47] I don't know if that's a style.

[00:33:49] That's what they're saying doesn't feel off and Pacific

[00:33:53] Coast.

[00:33:53] Yeah, the Gulf Coast LA Pacific Coast.

[00:33:58] Between those two coasts.

[00:34:00] Yeah.

[00:34:01] I guess the Pacific Coast is famously very small and has

[00:34:04] a very distinct style and only one spot.

[00:34:09] That is not true I believe but I'm not from California so

[00:34:13] you know what we are and I don't know.

[00:34:16] I'm going to interrupt you again because I just had

[00:34:20] a theory about like why would they do this?

[00:34:23] Why would they take this really cool looking restaurant

[00:34:27] and make it a hotel restaurant?

[00:34:29] And I wonder if it's because kitschy doesn't feel like

[00:34:35] it should be as expensive.

[00:34:38] So maybe their food prices were too high for the kitschy

[00:34:42] atmosphere so then you have to actually so for like tourists

[00:34:47] let's say since that's everybody coming essentially

[00:34:51] you quote unquote elevate right the design to be something

[00:34:57] more familiar to people so that they feel like now this is

[00:35:01] this is actually a very expensive restaurant that we're

[00:35:04] going to.

[00:35:04] So the pricing matches your expectation.

[00:35:07] Yeah, they have been increasing the pricing when we were

[00:35:10] going I could see that I could also see it being like

[00:35:13] they want more of a separation between the parks especially

[00:35:16] with Disneyland forward going where you know the outside

[00:35:19] of Ralph's is a little gaudy but it's a little

[00:35:23] celebratory and maybe they don't want that transition.

[00:35:26] Yeah, maybe who knows.

[00:35:27] Yeah, I mean there's a funny there's a funny chef who's

[00:35:30] throwing smiling animals into a pot and you're going to eat

[00:35:33] him whether you like it or not brother right you know that's

[00:35:37] all that stuff has changed.

[00:35:38] It is a more up-to-date look.

[00:35:40] I would imagine everything else in that area is going to look

[00:35:43] very similar.

[00:35:44] Yeah, or the next few years and they're not going for

[00:35:47] New Orleans Jazz Club anymore.

[00:35:49] Right going for let's tell her for like up coastal grill

[00:35:53] and patio which isn't the thing by the way coastal

[00:35:56] grill and it just says that first of all when I think of the

[00:35:59] coast I don't think of Anaheim you know why it's not on the

[00:36:02] coast.

[00:36:02] It's not on the coast.

[00:36:03] Yeah, it's not a beach town so there's that in itself but

[00:36:08] yeah, I don't know not to I don't want to spend any more

[00:36:11] time on the outside.

[00:36:13] Let's talk about the food.

[00:36:14] Yes, okay.

[00:36:14] The love of God.

[00:36:15] That's good because I'm out of things to say about the

[00:36:18] outside good timing.

[00:36:20] I'm not but you know it's fine.

[00:36:21] Okay.

[00:36:23] Yeah, well drinks.

[00:36:26] It's a it's a New Orleans drink menu.

[00:36:29] They've got your Sazer X year old fashions.

[00:36:31] They have brought in some more quote modern mixology sort of

[00:36:36] drinks things with mezcal different fruit blends in

[00:36:40] there.

[00:36:40] Okay and you can still get a big old pour of 20 ounce

[00:36:44] pour of a beta amber.

[00:36:45] There you go.

[00:36:46] A beta not a beta beta amber you so beta and beta.

[00:36:52] Yeah, nothing wrong there.

[00:36:53] Yeah, turbo dog.

[00:36:55] Turbo dog.

[00:36:55] That's the best brown ale.

[00:36:57] That's my Disneyland beer.

[00:36:58] Mm hmm.

[00:36:59] So good rail did I mean actually the area is probably

[00:37:02] fine but turbo dog turbo dog of it.

[00:37:05] Well you're going to love the name of the menu.

[00:37:08] It's la to see a signature dishes.

[00:37:16] I don't I took my headphones off.

[00:37:18] I'm not listening to I can't do it la to see what is that

[00:37:22] Canada is a Canada you can't la to California.

[00:37:26] What does that even mean?

[00:37:27] Does it mean anything?

[00:37:28] These are the things that don't mean anything.

[00:37:31] Stop making it stop making up things just to put words

[00:37:35] there.

[00:37:36] It's not a frigging placeholder.

[00:37:38] This should mean something and you can't say la to

[00:37:42] California and have that mean anything to anybody

[00:37:45] because it doesn't because it just doesn't.

[00:37:48] So it means like Louisiana to California.

[00:37:51] Oh yeah.

[00:37:54] Oh, okay.

[00:37:54] He missed that part.

[00:37:55] Yeah, well because LA because no one says come on.

[00:37:59] You're true.

[00:38:00] True.

[00:38:01] My I get why he's no la to California or something.

[00:38:05] Cola New Orleans.

[00:38:07] No, yes.

[00:38:08] I mean there you go or Louisiana to California.

[00:38:12] This is the thing I'm telling you this is the thing.

[00:38:16] Locals.

[00:38:17] Anybody from California will make the same mistake.

[00:38:20] I just did William because that's what we know because we

[00:38:24] see LA and we think LA correct.

[00:38:27] Yeah, also that's the nearest largest city to frigging

[00:38:30] put this is the thing man passed us by me.

[00:38:33] Let me let me poke holes in these is what I do.

[00:38:38] Continue please.

[00:38:39] All right.

[00:38:40] I saw us texting Eric earlier.

[00:38:42] I was like, hey, how long is the segment?

[00:38:44] He goes, I don't know short and I go like like 10 minutes.

[00:38:47] And he's like, yeah, maybe it's been 38 minutes depends on

[00:38:52] how many interruptions there's a lot of opinions.

[00:38:55] I should have thought more about the opinion.

[00:38:58] It is not your fault.

[00:38:59] Stop it.

[00:38:59] You didn't do anything wrong.

[00:39:01] Stop it.

[00:39:01] Stop it.

[00:39:03] Continue taking the blame.

[00:39:04] I'm blaming you.

[00:39:05] No.

[00:39:07] The appetizers were fantastic to be so the LA to to see if

[00:39:12] there's not a lot of California on here.

[00:39:14] It's still mostly Louisiana stuff.

[00:39:17] Good fried crawfish lettuce wraps were great.

[00:39:21] The calamari calamari calamari has always been good.

[00:39:24] I didn't try it.

[00:39:25] It's it's the same as always gumbo.

[00:39:27] Yeah, yeah.

[00:39:28] I'm not I'm not I'm not going to say it the gumbo.

[00:39:31] Yeah, yeah, they used to have that so that that was there.

[00:39:34] It's still good.

[00:39:35] Good.

[00:39:36] Now I'm going to anger precisely one person.

[00:39:39] His name is RGH by saying Gulf Coast Poutine fries.

[00:39:44] It's fries.

[00:39:45] It's cheese curds.

[00:39:46] It's gumbo.

[00:39:47] I'm all in.

[00:39:48] I am all in it was it was fantastic.

[00:39:51] That was the entire meal.

[00:39:53] So it's not gravy.

[00:39:54] It's gumbo.

[00:39:55] Yeah, that's not a set of gravy.

[00:39:57] No, it's golf.

[00:39:58] Not poutine.

[00:39:58] It's golf coast poutine.

[00:40:01] That's not poutine though, but it's golf coast poutine.

[00:40:03] Golf the Gulf Coast does not replace gravy with gumbo.

[00:40:07] They obviously do.

[00:40:09] No, Californians obviously do.

[00:40:12] Well, some intelligent person figured it out.

[00:40:15] They cracked the code and know what to name it.

[00:40:17] Some alchemist was like I can transform this gravy into gumbo

[00:40:23] and the world will never know.

[00:40:26] Yes, as Joey Tribbiani would say french fries good white

[00:40:31] cheddar cheese curds good gumbo good.

[00:40:34] You put it all together of course is going to be good.

[00:40:36] I love this.

[00:40:37] I want it right now.

[00:40:39] Those would be appetizers.

[00:40:43] I don't know.

[00:40:44] Sleep is good.

[00:40:45] Driving is also good.

[00:40:46] Those things don't go together.

[00:40:47] Mmm.

[00:40:48] Someday they will.

[00:40:49] And maybe my God.

[00:40:50] Sorry.

[00:40:51] Sounds fine.

[00:40:52] Look, whatever you order, I would eat it, but I wouldn't.

[00:40:54] I would know that this is not this is not the thing.

[00:40:57] That's that's my mental disease.

[00:41:00] Okay.

[00:41:00] I could never enjoy it because it's not.

[00:41:02] It's not what it says on the menu.

[00:41:04] It's not poutine.

[00:41:06] Ryan cheese gumbo fries doesn't ever ring to it moving on.

[00:41:10] There are two types of jambalaya that sounds great.

[00:41:14] That always works out well at a New Orleans themed restaurant.

[00:41:17] Shrimp and grits sea bass lobster.

[00:41:21] No, sorry lobster roll the California stuff a cob salad

[00:41:26] or fancy mac and cheese.

[00:41:28] What is what?

[00:41:30] No, we could do a whole frigging episode.

[00:41:32] I swear to God because what is California and about mac and

[00:41:35] cheese?

[00:41:36] No fancy mac and cheese.

[00:41:37] Yeah.

[00:41:38] Fancy mac and cheese.

[00:41:39] We don't have fancy mac and cheese in other states.

[00:41:42] Sure you do.

[00:41:42] Everybody does.

[00:41:43] It's just Mac and cheese.

[00:41:44] Can be that fancy.

[00:41:46] Bet it was invented by governor California himself.

[00:41:49] Oh, that guy is such a jerk.

[00:41:51] Desserts.

[00:41:52] Benyez of course, multiple kinds order the double chocolate

[00:41:56] bread pudding ahead of time and get it all a mode.

[00:41:58] It takes 25 minutes to to bake.

[00:42:01] That's always been the case.

[00:42:02] I think yeah, yeah, but it's on the menu if you're interested

[00:42:06] in it.

[00:42:06] They will almost always bring it up while they're taking

[00:42:08] your order.

[00:42:09] You can get regular stuff or a flamin young.

[00:42:13] Oh, okay.

[00:42:15] Hello, Phillip Mignon little tiny Phillip Mignon and that

[00:42:19] is that is Ralph Brennan's jazz kitchen, coastal grill

[00:42:24] and piano and gumbo and place team thing.

[00:42:29] And you can stay upstairs in the third story.

[00:42:31] I so I was I was looking at this menu.

[00:42:35] I don't know if you had this.

[00:42:37] I'm curious to know if you did but the grilled open face

[00:42:39] lobster BLT po boy.

[00:42:41] Oh, I didn't put that one on the list because it was

[00:42:44] too many words.

[00:42:45] Oh, I did not.

[00:42:46] That's amazing big for an appetizer.

[00:42:50] That's that's a very big sandwich.

[00:42:52] Yeah, I'm not like not a big lobster person.

[00:42:54] Like I kind of wish that was crab not lobster, but like

[00:42:56] after BLT is my favorite sandwich po boy.

[00:43:00] Yes.

[00:43:01] Open face fine with me.

[00:43:03] Um, lobster sure.

[00:43:05] I don't know that I would get that.

[00:43:06] That's that's what I'm getting at.

[00:43:08] Here's what I understand a lot of things of what you said.

[00:43:10] Uh-huh.

[00:43:11] See, this is my problem.

[00:43:12] Okay.

[00:43:12] This is people wonder why I am the way I am open face.

[00:43:15] It's not a sandwich agreed.

[00:43:17] It's a bread plate.

[00:43:18] But that's okay with me because that's fine.

[00:43:20] That's the best part of saying it's fine.

[00:43:22] Okay.

[00:43:23] Lobster doesn't taste like anything.

[00:43:26] It's a butter delivery device that's overly expensive that used

[00:43:29] to be that used to be poor people food.

[00:43:33] It used to be so abundant that it was not expensive.

[00:43:37] It was not considered like a lobster dinner is like the

[00:43:40] height of the thing.

[00:43:41] It was not that way, but somehow it just was marketed

[00:43:44] that way and now that it is doesn't taste like anything.

[00:43:46] Lobster is inherently not good.

[00:43:50] The textures off.

[00:43:52] It's weird.

[00:43:52] It's like eating cooked gum.

[00:43:54] But you don't like crab either.

[00:43:56] And crab is the way crab has flavor.

[00:43:59] Lobster does not lobster is flavored by the butter and the

[00:44:01] garlic and then you might as well eat butter and garlic

[00:44:04] and let us find with me for me.

[00:44:07] Sorry, I had to say it for me.

[00:44:09] I want to eat butter and garlic.

[00:44:11] I want to eat those things, but you have to have a

[00:44:14] delivery advice because it's a delivery device because

[00:44:16] it's inappropriate just butter and garlic.

[00:44:19] I don't know whatever anyway Eric.

[00:44:20] That's it.

[00:44:21] That's it.

[00:44:22] Did we feel like we just pooped all over your parade?

[00:44:27] I did not.

[00:44:28] I know that sounded great.

[00:44:29] Yeah, go there.

[00:44:30] It's good.

[00:44:31] No, this is the thing about Ralph Brennan's or excuse me

[00:44:34] the coastal coastal Brennan's is the food was always great.

[00:44:38] I mean and I don't say that about many restaurants

[00:44:41] I go to because it's frequently not the case.

[00:44:43] Like I will if you don't know me by now,

[00:44:44] I will definitely tell you back to Julie if a thing

[00:44:48] is good or not.

[00:44:49] Ralph Brennan's food has always been great.

[00:44:52] The price sort of started to get out of hand there for a

[00:44:56] little bit, but it was still really, really good.

[00:44:59] So I expected nothing different from that at all.

[00:45:03] So kudos to them.

[00:45:05] It sounds like it sounds like it's still a good place to go

[00:45:07] to if you don't have a brain disease like me.

[00:45:11] You'll be fine and comfortable there,

[00:45:13] but I think I would be on edge and itchy every time I

[00:45:15] would go in because it's different for me after my

[00:45:18] haircut.

[00:45:19] There you go.

[00:45:21] All right, we're going to take a quick break.

[00:45:23] We're gonna come back.

[00:45:24] We're doing some news.

[00:45:25] So hang on everybody's ears up will be I'm going to go calm

[00:45:27] down.

[00:45:28] We'll be right back.

[00:45:34] Back to ears up where the opinions never stop ever.

[00:45:40] All right, welcome back everybody.

[00:45:43] All right, I think it is time for a little bit of this

[00:45:48] March in the past present and future with all the news

[00:45:52] that's fit to cover.

[00:45:53] It's the ears up Disney News.

[00:45:59] I'm just read Ryan's last comment in the chat and I

[00:46:02] don't it makes me uncomfortable.

[00:46:05] That's all I'm going to say.

[00:46:08] Okay, we got a fair amount of fair amount of news to

[00:46:12] cover and it's a lot of opinion stuff which you know

[00:46:15] you know me.

[00:46:16] I love it.

[00:46:18] That's my time to shine anyway.

[00:46:22] Disneyland closes for attractions during its busy spring

[00:46:26] season, which I feel like is just now.

[00:46:30] Yeah, yeah.

[00:46:32] Yeah.

[00:46:34] Uh, Disneyland will close for attractions for seasonal

[00:46:37] refurbishments during the season of the force and

[00:46:39] Pixar Fest events just as the spring break crowds

[00:46:43] begin to dwindle at the Anheim theme parks, the

[00:46:46] credit coaster, batter horn bobsleds.

[00:46:49] We need the poo and great moments with Mr Lincoln will

[00:46:53] temporarily close in mid April or early May as part of

[00:46:56] Disneyland's standard refurbishment schedule.

[00:47:00] The four new attraction closer closures joined the

[00:47:02] haunted mansion, Splash Mountain, Redwood Creek

[00:47:06] Challenge Trail and Phantasmic that were closed.

[00:47:10] The timing of the attraction closures coincide with the

[00:47:13] two month long Star Wars event that started Friday, April

[00:47:15] 5th at Disney and Pixar Fest that kicks off April 26th at

[00:47:19] Disney California Adventure.

[00:47:22] Um, so it's not too long.

[00:47:25] The credit coaster is going to be down April 8th, which

[00:47:28] just a couple days ago through the 18th and that's

[00:47:30] just for seasonal refurbishment days.

[00:47:32] That's not bad.

[00:47:33] No matter when Bob sleds will close three times on

[00:47:37] slower weekdays.

[00:47:39] I don't know understand what this means April 15th through

[00:47:42] the 18th, then it'll open and it'll close again on the

[00:47:45] 22nd through 25th and then close again or open again and

[00:47:48] then close April 29th through May 2nd.

[00:47:51] So it sounds like just normal refurb but they can

[00:47:54] space it out.

[00:47:55] And what I hear is go on those days because they

[00:47:59] think that's going to be less people.

[00:48:02] Yeah, probably.

[00:48:04] We need the poo will close on May 1st.

[00:48:08] And there's no reopening date because that's part of

[00:48:10] Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

[00:48:12] But like opening so.

[00:48:15] But they're not getting rid of it or anything.

[00:48:18] We need the poo.

[00:48:18] No, no, no, they're just closing it because they're

[00:48:20] doing all those changes to.

[00:48:21] Oh, just like that land.

[00:48:23] So they're just shutting down the hole.

[00:48:24] Yeah.

[00:48:24] And then also the line for Tiana's Bayou Adventure is

[00:48:29] like, you know past there basically.

[00:48:31] So I think they have to.

[00:48:33] Yeah, that sounds right.

[00:48:34] And then great moments with Mr.

[00:48:36] Lincoln will close on April 16th with no reopening date set.

[00:48:41] Well, at least through May 20th.

[00:48:44] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:48:45] I mean, you know, I still think that Hall of Presidents

[00:48:48] in Disney World is going and I wonder if if they're

[00:48:52] doing something like that with Mr.

[00:48:53] Lincoln.

[00:48:54] But to be honest with you, man, that Mr.

[00:48:55] Lincoln ride can just go or that attraction can go.

[00:48:58] It can and I do boring.

[00:49:00] Nobody cares.

[00:49:01] Nobody cares anymore.

[00:49:02] I've always I've.

[00:49:06] I've gone that that ride has a significant place in my

[00:49:09] in my life because I was terrified of it for a very long time.

[00:49:13] I think I had a bad dream one time about that about that

[00:49:17] ride and I didn't know if it was a dream or not.

[00:49:19] And so I've just always been really scared of that ride

[00:49:23] that attraction.

[00:49:25] Coward and then I did it as an adult and I was like,

[00:49:29] Oh, this is just like where you go to take a nap

[00:49:33] in the nice cold air.

[00:49:35] 15 minutes.

[00:49:37] It is pretty good.

[00:49:38] And like I really want to I don't want it to go away

[00:49:41] because I feel like it's one of the only things that's still

[00:49:44] there, but also like.

[00:49:47] I don't know who's who's going to watch it?

[00:49:51] Who is who's who's interested in that and is it relevant

[00:49:55] or is it controversial?

[00:49:56] Is it what do you do with that area?

[00:49:59] I tell you, I have never seen that place even remotely

[00:50:03] half full.

[00:50:05] No, no goodness.

[00:50:07] There's always been maybe one other couple in there, but

[00:50:09] it's that like venerable staple like you I do the fandom

[00:50:14] would have a heart attack a collective heart attack.

[00:50:17] Uh-huh.

[00:50:18] The rapture would come but that's why half of them

[00:50:21] because if you try to get rid of that but also a lot

[00:50:24] of those same people are calling for a topia just be

[00:50:26] pulled entirely.

[00:50:27] So who knows anymore at this point like I sort of

[00:50:31] feel for the higher the upper echelons of Disney Management

[00:50:35] because it's like what do you do?

[00:50:36] No, you can't win Lincoln that that place is so well themed

[00:50:40] and so well designed and everything looks nice with

[00:50:42] the velvet curtains and heavy.

[00:50:45] What a beautiful.

[00:50:45] Yeah, it's great, but you're right.

[00:50:47] What do you do there?

[00:50:48] I think you may make a stage show.

[00:50:49] Walt instead of Abraham Lincoln make it.

[00:50:53] Walt I mean enough time has passed.

[00:50:56] He has sort of like gone, you know, an amatronic of

[00:50:58] Walt that would be kind of amazing.

[00:51:01] You know what they need to do?

[00:51:02] Hologram.

[00:51:03] Oh my God, hologram.

[00:51:05] We're just a little too like Captain EO.

[00:51:10] I don't know.

[00:51:10] They've tried to do this before they did replace it.

[00:51:13] But didn't they replace it for a while with the Steve

[00:51:15] Martin movie about Main Street?

[00:51:17] That's just the the intro.

[00:51:20] That's like the thing that you watch while you're

[00:51:23] waiting.

[00:51:24] Okay.

[00:51:24] And then you still go in and an old man stands up

[00:51:28] and then sits back down for score and seven years ago.

[00:51:34] Brandy was not expecting him to stand up.

[00:51:37] So when he stood up, she grabbed my arm and went,

[00:51:40] he's coming for me.

[00:51:42] I'm like, wow, the magic still there.

[00:51:44] Sure is.

[00:51:45] Yeah.

[00:51:45] Yeah.

[00:51:45] I'm not animal magnetism.

[00:51:49] That kind of magic you're talking about.

[00:51:51] Yes, that was the one this one is interesting.

[00:51:54] Eric sent this to me goes.

[00:51:55] I don't know if anybody cares or whatever he said.

[00:51:58] I don't know, but is news.

[00:52:00] Yeah.

[00:52:00] Disneyland diners hungry for the legendary Shanghai style

[00:52:03] soup dumplings won't have to wait much longer for Din

[00:52:07] Ty Fung to open at downtown Disney.

[00:52:10] The Michelin awarded restaurant from Taiwan will open

[00:52:13] this summer.

[00:52:15] First of all, Taiwan.

[00:52:16] Oh, I guess Taiwan is controlled by China because I'm

[00:52:19] going to be like Shanghai.

[00:52:20] Why is it?

[00:52:21] Why is a Taiwanese company doing Chinese anymore?

[00:52:24] Well, open this summer at the outdoor shopping mall next

[00:52:27] to next door to Disneyland and Disney California venture.

[00:52:29] The new time frame means the new the restaurant should

[00:52:31] open between mid June and mid September.

[00:52:35] The internationally acclaimed Xiao Long Bao soup dumplings

[00:52:38] chain is among a host of new restaurants and shops

[00:52:41] replacing the former AMC theaters Starbucks West Earl

[00:52:44] of sandwich and sugar boo and company that were demolished

[00:52:47] in 2023.

[00:52:49] The new downtown Disney outpost for Din Ty Fung expands

[00:52:52] on the family's family run chains growing portfolio

[00:52:56] that includes location.

[00:52:56] I don't care guys.

[00:52:57] They're all of them.

[00:52:58] The Orange County Register named Din Ty Fung to its annual

[00:53:01] list of the 75 best places to eat in Orange County

[00:53:05] and called the chains famous Xiao Long Bao soup dumplings

[00:53:08] that have spawned countless imitators still the ones

[00:53:11] to beat now.

[00:53:12] I've said this before and I will say it again

[00:53:15] because it bears repeating.

[00:53:17] Dumpling houses are becoming the next fall places.

[00:53:22] Oh, absolutely dumplings in general are fantastic.

[00:53:27] And they're having their day in the sun, but it's because

[00:53:29] of these frigging soup dumplings.

[00:53:30] If you've never had a soup dumpling, it's Eric.

[00:53:33] Have you had a soup dumpling?

[00:53:35] Yes, you've taken a soup dumpling.

[00:53:37] They're great, right?

[00:53:39] Yeah, and I learned how to make them.

[00:53:40] Okay.

[00:53:41] I mean, I didn't make them, but it's like they take

[00:53:42] it like congealed soup.

[00:53:43] It cool cool it down and then they put it in the dumpling.

[00:53:45] So then that's how they get the soup in there.

[00:53:47] Right?

[00:53:47] Oh, yeah.

[00:53:48] Um, I like it better than far.

[00:53:51] I like it better than I like it better to the problem is

[00:53:55] expensive.

[00:53:56] Oh, yeah.

[00:53:57] Okay.

[00:53:57] And dumplings for me dumplings.

[00:54:00] You know, it's like it's like Mexican food.

[00:54:02] It's like tacos.

[00:54:03] It's street food.

[00:54:05] It should be not that expensive.

[00:54:08] We don't need to class up every everything just to

[00:54:13] charge more money for it.

[00:54:14] You don't need to be doing it.

[00:54:16] Can I can I counter that with there is no such thing as

[00:54:20] street food anymore?

[00:54:21] Everything is classed up in America, but you go to these

[00:54:25] other countries.

[00:54:26] They're absolutely.

[00:54:26] Oh, well, yeah, that's where they're from though, but

[00:54:28] we're in America.

[00:54:29] So I will say I have trust me.

[00:54:34] I noticed I will ask everyone in Arizona.

[00:54:36] They know too.

[00:54:38] I will.

[00:54:41] I don't know what I'm trying to say.

[00:54:44] I want to go to a restaurant if Michelin is involved and

[00:54:48] I it 100% the tire company.

[00:54:52] Yeah, like the Michelin stars.

[00:54:54] You said it was a Michelin rated restaurant and I'm like

[00:54:56] I'm in I don't even care what the cuisine is like I'm

[00:54:59] in.

[00:54:59] I don't know if I've ever been to a Michelin star

[00:55:02] restaurant and I wonder what I wonder this is my

[00:55:04] problem.

[00:55:06] Why am I opening up on the show?

[00:55:07] This is my problem is that I don't think it Matt

[00:55:12] I can't.

[00:55:13] I would I would love that.

[00:55:15] I would love to go to one of these because I would love

[00:55:16] to see what the difference is.

[00:55:19] What elevates it from just like really good from five

[00:55:22] stars on Yelp to a Michelin star?

[00:55:25] What where is that leap?

[00:55:26] Is it presentation because I friggin hate the upscale

[00:55:29] presentation stuff or like here's a swipe of sauce

[00:55:32] and then a little dollop of foam and then a thing.

[00:55:35] I hate it could taste great, but I just just give

[00:55:37] just don't just don't just don't because you're

[00:55:41] charging me for this.

[00:55:42] Yeah.

[00:55:42] You're charging me more because you swipe the dollop.

[00:55:45] Don't swipe the dollop, but there's an art to that

[00:55:48] who cares because I like care about that.

[00:55:50] I do.

[00:55:51] I don't like the tiny dishes like that bothers me

[00:55:54] because I want to eat food like I like a lot of food.

[00:55:58] So my problem too.

[00:55:59] Yeah, so I want a chicken tender and a cup of sauce.

[00:56:03] Yes, I want a cup.

[00:56:04] I don't want to swipe.

[00:56:05] I agree with that, but I like want the cup on

[00:56:08] the side because I do like the swipe like I really

[00:56:11] like food presented in a certain way.

[00:56:13] Like I'm to me it's very visual and I'm like, oh, that is

[00:56:16] so pretty.

[00:56:17] Like I want to almost not even want to break it.

[00:56:21] You know, to eat it to break the food.

[00:56:23] Yeah.

[00:56:24] Yeah.

[00:56:24] Like if you're in Petros, I look at it and I go

[00:56:27] and I want to take a picture of the food before I

[00:56:29] want to eat the food.

[00:56:31] Yeah.

[00:56:31] That means it's really good food because generally

[00:56:34] like I want to just stuff my face.

[00:56:37] But if I want to even stop and take a picture,

[00:56:39] then I'm like, oh, this is going to be great.

[00:56:42] Sobbing gently.

[00:56:43] Unless it's not though.

[00:56:44] You know what I mean?

[00:56:44] You don't know.

[00:56:45] You don't know, but I don't know whatever.

[00:56:48] I don't know Michelin.

[00:56:49] It gets me all excited.

[00:56:50] I'm like, oh, it gets me excited.

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[00:58:04] Mm hmm.

[00:58:05] Oh, excuse me.

[00:58:08] I'm the night of choking on one saliva apparently.

[00:58:12] Okay, talking about more changes to Disneyland.

[00:58:14] This is what I mean.

[00:58:15] We had a lot to talk about.

[00:58:18] Autopia is changing from gas cars to electric cars.

[00:58:24] They're replacing all the gas engines and they're

[00:58:27] moving to electric cars and it's something that

[00:58:30] we've talked about forever.

[00:58:31] And I'm very excited that they listen to the show

[00:58:35] because obviously no one else had this idea before

[00:58:38] we did.

[00:58:38] No, I really do think it's a great thing.

[00:58:41] It really moves tomorrow land forward.

[00:58:45] It moves tomorrow land into the present, which is

[00:58:47] better than into the past and in some respects.

[00:58:52] Fully electric cars are still in the future because

[00:58:55] the the adoption is very low even though it's in

[00:58:57] the new cycle and there's a lot of charging

[00:58:59] stations and you know Tesla is a big thing,

[00:59:00] whatever.

[00:59:02] A lot of car companies still don't really know what

[00:59:04] to do anymore.

[00:59:05] I think Honda or maybe it's Toyota pulled back and

[00:59:07] like, oh, we're just going to go hybrid.

[00:59:09] That's going to be our thing or whatever.

[00:59:12] Nobody really knows what to do yet.

[00:59:14] So I think this is a pretty big move and I'm

[00:59:18] excited about it.

[00:59:19] You know, I don't know where or when it's

[00:59:22] going to happen, but even Bob Ger apparently said

[00:59:27] today get rid of those God awful gasoline fumes.

[00:59:31] Yeah, get out of here in news shared exclusively with

[00:59:35] the Los Angeles Times ahead of this column's publication

[00:59:38] after several weeks, a product in the company for

[00:59:40] answers in the future of Autopia Disney officials

[00:59:42] revealed that pure gasoline engines are on their way

[00:59:46] out.

[00:59:47] Quote since opening with Disneyland Park in 1955

[00:59:50] Autopia has remained a guest favorite most popular

[00:59:54] with young kids experiencing driving for the first

[00:59:56] time.

[00:59:57] That is such a weird phrase.

[00:59:59] Experiencing driving young kids experiencing driving

[01:00:04] for the first time.

[01:00:05] That is an awkward turn of phrase, but also that's

[01:00:09] probably where I experienced driving for the first

[01:00:11] time.

[01:00:12] I would never call.

[01:00:14] I would never say I'm getting to know somebody.

[01:00:17] Hey, what was your first time experiencing driving?

[01:00:20] You would look at me like I'm an alien.

[01:00:23] Probably Alaskan Boulder.

[01:00:25] I'm kind of into it.

[01:00:27] Okay.

[01:00:28] That's spokesperson Jessica Good who said in an email as

[01:00:32] the industry moves towards alternative fuel sources.

[01:00:35] We have developed a roadmap to electrify this attraction

[01:00:37] and are evaluating technology that will enable us to

[01:00:41] that will enable us to convert from gas engines in

[01:00:43] the next few years.

[01:00:45] Good wouldn't confirm whether that means electric

[01:00:47] vehicles or if hybrids are possibility EVs would

[01:00:49] obviously be better.

[01:00:51] Okay.

[01:00:52] Well, I don't understand developed a roadmap to electrify

[01:00:55] this attraction.

[01:00:56] Oh, so they're not saying 100% that it's electric cars.

[01:01:01] They will electrify the attraction so it could be

[01:01:04] a hybrid thing or not.

[01:01:06] Okay.

[01:01:06] It's okay.

[01:01:08] Not as exciting but still cool.

[01:01:10] That's nice.

[01:01:10] You know, I like it.

[01:01:11] I like these are the kind of things right?

[01:01:13] I don't bother me at all.

[01:01:15] Which is good.

[01:01:17] Yeah.

[01:01:17] Brian in the chat says that it takes up so much real estate.

[01:01:21] I'd prefer it to go completely and he brings up a good

[01:01:25] point because

[01:01:27] but what about all the kids want to experience driving

[01:01:30] for the first time?

[01:01:31] At the fair.

[01:01:32] So, so this is this ride's never going away then

[01:01:36] because now they're just they're gonna say never was

[01:01:39] but it should it takes up so much space.

[01:01:42] They could they could potentially reduce the amount of

[01:01:46] they could they could potentially reduce it out slightly

[01:01:49] and that would be okay.

[01:01:51] We'll never go away.

[01:01:54] We're saying this member when Star Wars land things got leaked

[01:01:57] by WNT or whatever the whoever there was

[01:02:01] and I was like there's literally no way that they will

[01:02:04] kill Autopia and I stand by that.

[01:02:05] I was like 10 years ago.

[01:02:06] I stand by they will never get rid of this ride.

[01:02:08] They won't and you know, thinking about it.

[01:02:10] I'm kind of retracting because it does take up a lot

[01:02:12] of real estate but it takes up a lot of space in the park

[01:02:16] that can't actually be used for anything else.

[01:02:19] I think a bit of small ride there, but it goes like like

[01:02:26] sorry you move my camera.

[01:02:27] Sorry how dare you know I have to move it back.

[01:02:31] It goes like next to it goes like under things and like

[01:02:35] over by small world.

[01:02:37] So like a lot of like what it's where it actually goes

[01:02:40] isn't usable space anyway.

[01:02:42] So I guess I will be fine with it staying forever, which it will.

[01:02:47] Yeah, the question is are they going to have the same engine

[01:02:53] noises because that sound of the two little two stroke engines

[01:02:57] is sort of part of that experience right?

[01:03:00] Well, it depends if they change the car.

[01:03:02] Yeah, then they can change the sound if they don't change

[01:03:05] the car they have to figure out a way to keep the sound

[01:03:07] in there, which wouldn't be hard.

[01:03:08] But I know right?

[01:03:10] It's just going to be odd.

[01:03:11] Yeah, I mean, yeah, a lot of cars have this eerie like all

[01:03:16] the Toyotas have this.

[01:03:18] Yeah, like ethereal hum Tesla as I'm in the back up to Ryan's

[01:03:23] in the chat lying saying that he loves it and goes on it

[01:03:25] every time he goes to the park.

[01:03:27] I don't believe that.

[01:03:28] Yeah, because sometimes it's like an hour and a half

[01:03:30] long and like who's sitting in that line?

[01:03:34] No, I went on it once.

[01:03:35] It was kind of fun.

[01:03:36] Yeah, we didn't wait too long.

[01:03:38] It's the traffic simulator.

[01:03:39] The last time I went on it, I waited longer.

[01:03:41] I'm not even exaggerating.

[01:03:43] I literally waited longer to get out of my car than I did

[01:03:47] to experience driving in the car.

[01:03:50] I took it took longer to get out because there was

[01:03:52] such a backlog.

[01:03:54] Yeah.

[01:03:54] No, never in any like you're breathing in the sun.

[01:04:01] Oh man.

[01:04:01] I'm not doing it.

[01:04:02] Apparently it's Ryan's favorite ride.

[01:04:03] It is not his favorite ride.

[01:04:04] Stop it.

[01:04:05] Ryan, if it's your favorite ride, how many tattoos

[01:04:07] do you have of the cars?

[01:04:08] None.

[01:04:08] That's right because it's not your favorite ride.

[01:04:11] You'll listen to Blink 182 or whatever.

[01:04:15] All right, speaking of more things coming to the parks.

[01:04:17] See told you a lot of stuff going on.

[01:04:19] This is from the Disney Parks blog and I hate it.

[01:04:23] I just, you know, whatever I hate it.

[01:04:25] The title is continuing to turbocharge Disney experiences.

[01:04:30] Oh my gosh from it, but it's from Josh himself.

[01:04:34] What does that mean?

[01:04:36] I did this is the these are the these are the things these are

[01:04:40] the things you guys.

[01:04:42] They don't mean anything turbocharge turbocharge Disney

[01:04:47] experiences.

[01:04:49] What does that mean?

[01:04:50] Let's find out nothing earlier today during the Walt

[01:04:54] Disney Company annual meeting of shareholders, our CEO Bob

[01:04:57] Eiger shared some incredible updates from across the company,

[01:05:00] including an update at Disney experiences that I'm very

[01:05:03] excited about.

[01:05:04] We were thrilled to unveil a piece of inspirational artwork

[01:05:08] developed for a potential new avatar experience at the

[01:05:11] Disneyland resort.

[01:05:12] We are excited about the stories our guests could experience

[01:05:15] at Walt's original theme park destination after approval

[01:05:18] of Disneyland forward, including the chance to experience

[01:05:21] all new avatar adventures with a visit to Pandora.

[01:05:25] Avatar is the latest example of how we are looking to

[01:05:27] create new and innovative ways to bring our powerful

[01:05:30] stories to life.

[01:05:31] Over the past decade, we've delivered massive immersive

[01:05:34] experiences at our destinations around the world.

[01:05:37] Josh, let's pull it back buddy.

[01:05:39] Okay, this paragraph could could be gone because it's not

[01:05:42] about what you've done already.

[01:05:44] It's about what's coming to the parks.

[01:05:46] So let's pull this all out.

[01:05:48] Okay, we don't need to talk about Star Wars land.

[01:05:49] We don't need to talk about Pixar.

[01:05:51] We don't need to talk about Avengers.

[01:05:52] It's not about.

[01:05:53] Let's continue.

[01:05:55] This was evident late last year when he opened World of

[01:05:57] Frozen.

[01:05:58] Okay, again, once more.

[01:05:59] Well, I guess the it is about turbo charging experiences.

[01:06:02] So whatever who cares dude?

[01:06:04] That's a big you.

[01:06:05] It's a big turbo charge.

[01:06:06] It's just not in America.

[01:06:08] Yeah, right.

[01:06:08] Right.

[01:06:09] Disneyland hotel.

[01:06:10] They was I was in Paris last week and met with the

[01:06:12] teams who just completed the transformation of the

[01:06:15] Disneyland hotel.

[01:06:16] Our expansion is as active on C as it is on land.

[01:06:20] In and in and in and then and then and then

[01:06:23] and all of this is just the beginning.

[01:06:24] There are so many stories in our library yet to be

[01:06:27] explored like my daughter the foot and million dollar duck

[01:06:33] and computer head.

[01:06:34] Okay, go.

[01:06:36] As we turbo charge Disney experiences over the next

[01:06:39] 10 years, we're investing aggressively and thoughtfully

[01:06:43] to give you more of what you love.

[01:06:46] There has never been a more exciting time at Disney

[01:06:49] experiences.

[01:06:50] I'm looking forward to having you on this journey with

[01:06:54] us.

[01:06:55] Nobody.

[01:06:57] And I want to just make it very clear.

[01:07:00] Nobody is asking for an avatar experience in Disneyland.

[01:07:07] Nobody is asking for it.

[01:07:08] You know what?

[01:07:09] As you're reading that, I realized I am because it

[01:07:14] will be something new away from the it's like a third

[01:07:18] door, right?

[01:07:20] And that's what they call and that's the industry

[01:07:22] term is door.

[01:07:23] What is it?

[01:07:24] Third gate?

[01:07:24] Third gate.

[01:07:25] No, I'm going to suck people out of the parks and they

[01:07:33] can go there.

[01:07:34] I'm not going to go there.

[01:07:35] I literally couldn't even finish the first one.

[01:07:39] It was boring.

[01:07:39] No, it's not.

[01:07:40] I'll tell you why because with a third door.

[01:07:45] They they're going to increase the capacity.

[01:07:49] So all this extra space is not going to eat people

[01:07:51] and take people from the parks.

[01:07:52] It's going to be the same amount of people in the

[01:07:54] parks.

[01:07:55] In fact, the demand for stuff will be more because

[01:07:57] people will go through the third door and then go

[01:08:00] this sucks.

[01:08:02] I want to go get a churro or I want to go reservation.

[01:08:06] Well, I don't know if that's going to be the case,

[01:08:07] right?

[01:08:07] But I could see that.

[01:08:10] I think something needs to give you the Disney and

[01:08:13] Ford needs to be the precursor to get rid of

[01:08:16] reservations or there needs to be some sort of

[01:08:18] limitation on on.

[01:08:20] I don't know what but yeah, I don't know.

[01:08:22] I don't I'm not that positive about it.

[01:08:25] I think that it's going to be.

[01:08:27] It's just extra people you expand the thing then

[01:08:30] you can increase the amount of people that just

[01:08:32] same amount of people are going to be there.

[01:08:33] I am just so I am uninterested in that at all and

[01:08:40] any of it like I don't even need to see it for

[01:08:42] the purposes of the show like I don't care at

[01:08:45] all.

[01:08:45] Well, and here's the thing.

[01:08:47] It's like they don't know what it is.

[01:08:49] So a lot of the news has been saying avatar

[01:08:52] land.

[01:08:53] It's a whole new land, but they specifically say

[01:08:56] experience or whatever he says.

[01:08:59] They would do better at being a frozen experience

[01:09:01] frozen land.

[01:09:04] They probably will too.

[01:09:05] But I don't know.

[01:09:06] I guess they're it's hard to it's hard to say right

[01:09:10] like they already have one in Animal Kingdom

[01:09:12] and Disney World by all measures.

[01:09:16] It's doing really well.

[01:09:17] People really think it's beautiful, but I just

[01:09:19] I don't know.

[01:09:20] I feel like that's what you're doing is avatar.

[01:09:23] I know could do so much other stuff at the point

[01:09:26] to like doing like yeah, they probably will too.

[01:09:30] I don't know.

[01:09:32] That's for that too.

[01:09:32] That's coming at some point.

[01:09:34] We don't know when we don't know where everyone is.

[01:09:36] It's funny.

[01:09:37] I was on the Disneyland sub and everyone's like,

[01:09:40] Oh my God.

[01:09:41] They a lot of people are thinking it was going in

[01:09:43] DCA.

[01:09:43] So they're like they're just complaining about like

[01:09:46] Oh, but not the grizzly bear peak man or the Hollywood

[01:09:52] back lot or whatever.

[01:09:53] It's like it there's we get what are you guys talking

[01:09:55] about clearly for Disney and for what's going on?

[01:09:58] Everyone relax.

[01:09:59] It's like across the street right?

[01:10:02] It's like you know what I'm asking a lot thing.

[01:10:05] I have no idea.

[01:10:06] It's a whole thing.

[01:10:07] Yeah, I have a look at the map different land.

[01:10:10] Yeah, sure.

[01:10:12] Just are you going to the next article?

[01:10:14] Yeah, I just want to say really quick.

[01:10:15] I this past two weeks.

[01:10:18] I've had an odd amount of friends go to Disneyland Japan and

[01:10:25] Tokyo Disney.

[01:10:26] Yep.

[01:10:27] Tokyo Disney and I just want to go there so badly because

[01:10:33] one it is so much cheaper like even with like your

[01:10:36] plane flight going there.

[01:10:37] I think it's like talking about this because I feel like

[01:10:40] it okay.

[01:10:41] I everything that they sell is so cute and I just want to go

[01:10:47] there so badly watching seeing all these Instagram like

[01:10:50] things.

[01:10:51] Also, the other thing I wanted to say, we're going to cut

[01:10:53] all this out by the way.

[01:10:54] Great.

[01:10:55] Do it.

[01:10:55] I don't care.

[01:10:56] The other thing I wanted to say is my co-worker went

[01:10:59] to Disneyland this a couple days ago and she said that

[01:11:05] she didn't think that the parks felt very busy.

[01:11:10] She said that she said that she felt like they were doing

[01:11:14] a good job of make of the way that they've redone things

[01:11:17] that it made it feel like it wasn't super crowded.

[01:11:21] Yeah, she she came out and she said, no wait, hold on.

[01:11:25] She came out and she said, oh my gosh, I was just in

[01:11:28] there the lights were low and we were like, whoa,

[01:11:30] that's crazy Christina.

[01:11:32] That's what I will also say.

[01:11:34] She went with a VIP like she her family purchased a VIP.

[01:11:40] So I don't actually take what she said for reality.

[01:11:45] Yeah, but she also saw Bob Iger though.

[01:11:48] Great.

[01:11:50] I thought you were going to say Barker for some reason.

[01:11:52] I really don't know why that would be weird because he's

[01:11:55] not alive.

[01:11:56] He is quite dead.

[01:11:57] Yes.

[01:11:57] It was kind of interesting that Bob Iger was at the

[01:12:00] parks on a Saturday in the middle of the day.

[01:12:05] What else is he going to do?

[01:12:06] Checking out the flow.

[01:12:07] He was probably he's probably didn't get you didn't get

[01:12:10] enough name recognition that weeks or Saturday, you know,

[01:12:12] walkie probably had the fake glasses with the fake nose

[01:12:15] on it and the fake mustache.

[01:12:17] No, I'm job biber.

[01:12:20] It's just doesn't it seem like an interesting choice

[01:12:22] to go on a set like on your busiest day.

[01:12:25] I don't know man in the middle of spring break on

[01:12:27] a Saturday like is that for a reason or is that like are

[01:12:31] you trying to really do a job and see the parks on its

[01:12:35] busiest day?

[01:12:36] Like I don't know.

[01:12:37] I want to analyze that choice because for me like you

[01:12:41] just did for me if I was the president of Disney, I would

[01:12:45] go on a Tuesday at 5 a.m.

[01:12:47] Like check out the park and be like looks good.

[01:12:51] Everyone's here.

[01:12:51] See y'all later.

[01:12:52] Yeah.

[01:12:53] I don't know.

[01:12:54] All right.

[01:12:55] Whatever.

[01:12:55] I have I have valid things to say.

[01:12:57] Shut up.

[01:12:58] You do.

[01:12:58] Absolutely.

[01:13:00] Cut it all out if you want.

[01:13:02] I just waiting for you to be done so I can continue with

[01:13:04] the segment.

[01:13:06] Anything else you want to?

[01:13:08] Isn't this just a talking show?

[01:13:10] Sure, man.

[01:13:10] You're doing great.

[01:13:13] Continue.

[01:13:13] All right.

[01:13:14] Thank you.

[01:13:14] Speaking of Terence of work friend's best friend, Disney

[01:13:19] releases official vote tallies from 2024 shareholder's

[01:13:22] meeting which shows nine of its 12 board candidates each

[01:13:27] received more than 90% shares cast in their favor.

[01:13:30] This disappoints me greatly.

[01:13:31] I'm disappointed all the shareholders at Disney stock.

[01:13:33] Honestly, I really do.

[01:13:35] I feel like this is like this was our moment.

[01:13:37] This was our January 6th right?

[01:13:39] This is our moment to take control and to send a message

[01:13:43] shuttering up the spine of those in control saying we

[01:13:46] are not going to take it anymore.

[01:13:48] But instead a lot like January 6 we got a vote.

[01:13:53] We went in and then we just took pictures and took a dump on

[01:13:56] the floor like it didn't really do anything.

[01:13:59] I don't know.

[01:13:59] Okay, so we're doing this bit again today.

[01:14:01] I guess I don't know who knows man.

[01:14:03] Nelson Peltz received 31% of shares that voted for him.

[01:14:08] I was one of them which you know, I digress from that

[01:14:10] anyway, but I think that's a pretty big people look at

[01:14:14] this and say Iger, Iger one, Iger fended off the takeover

[01:14:18] and I guess technically he did but 31% of the third of the

[01:14:22] votes went to Nelson Peltz.

[01:14:24] Like that's I think that's a pretty big wake up call to be

[01:14:27] honest with you.

[01:14:28] That's because they didn't know that Nelson Peltz is

[01:14:30] a complete racist.

[01:14:32] Well, yes, of course, but I'm just saying a court.

[01:14:35] Yeah, right.

[01:14:36] But to go against Bob.

[01:14:38] I yeah, that's the angle that I'm going for.

[01:14:41] Okay, I see not everybody is happy with Iger.

[01:14:44] You know, so not not you know, not for nothing nine out of

[01:14:48] 12 of people got over 90% you know shares vote, you know,

[01:14:52] in voted for Iger did it.

[01:14:55] Yeah.

[01:14:55] And I think that's to me, that's the notable thing and

[01:14:58] I'm glad they released these numbers.

[01:15:00] Um, and that's basically you know it according to the vote

[01:15:04] totals disclosed in an SEC filing on Tuesday, nine of the

[01:15:08] 12 Disney back director candidates received more

[01:15:10] than 90% of the shares voted in their favor.

[01:15:13] The highest totals were received by Disney's two newest

[01:15:16] directors, which is a Morgan Stanley executive chairman

[01:15:20] and a former Sky CEO and a former Cisco and Google

[01:15:23] exec, which is Amy Chang.

[01:15:27] Which is like I don't know.

[01:15:28] I feel like you got Google, Morgan Stanley.

[01:15:31] These people are not theme park people.

[01:15:33] I think it's very funny who's who's on the board of

[01:15:35] different things.

[01:15:37] Very odd.

[01:15:39] Disney CEO Bob Iger has previously reported received

[01:15:42] 94 shares of shares voted in favor of his reelection

[01:15:46] to broke.

[01:15:46] Okay, so I got that wrong.

[01:15:47] So 94% still pretty good.

[01:15:50] But then how did Nelson Peltz get 31% I guess there's

[01:15:53] other people.

[01:15:54] That's why it's not them head to head.

[01:15:56] Yeah, and that's what it was in my mind right?

[01:15:58] So yeah, I digress.

[01:16:00] So they actually have the number of votes for and

[01:16:03] against for everybody.

[01:16:05] Um, it's pretty good man.

[01:16:06] Yeah.

[01:16:07] The lowest person I think on the totem pole was

[01:16:09] Marina Maria, Maria Elena Lago Massano.

[01:16:15] She got 63% of the votes.

[01:16:18] Nelson Peltz got 31 James A.

[01:16:20] Rizzolo got 12%.

[01:16:22] Those are the two try and nominees and then black

[01:16:24] Wells nominees each got 2%.

[01:16:27] But I don't know man.

[01:16:28] I still if I'm on the board and I'm looking at these

[01:16:33] numbers against so you got Bob Iger you still have

[01:16:38] 72 million people voting against you a lot.

[01:16:48] That's a ton right 72, 002, 225.

[01:16:52] I'm stupid.

[01:16:53] That's a 72 million right?

[01:16:57] It's not 72,000 that's 720,000 for the numbers.

[01:17:02] 72,000 72 million, 2,0255 or something like that.

[01:17:07] Right?

[01:17:08] Anyway, that's a lot of people.

[01:17:09] Yes.

[01:17:10] A lot of people who don't think you're doing the right thing.

[01:17:12] Right?

[01:17:12] It's not necessarily a lot of people.

[01:17:14] It's a lot of shares.

[01:17:16] Oh, because some of the big the big wigs they own many,

[01:17:19] many, many shares.

[01:17:21] Yeah, you're right.

[01:17:22] You're right.

[01:17:23] I only voted voted for him what 10 times.

[01:17:26] I don't know how many shares I have at this point.

[01:17:28] Yeah.

[01:17:29] For Iger that is not pelts.

[01:17:32] Is it times or is it because like I only voted once and I have

[01:17:35] five share?

[01:17:36] Well, yeah, but you generally I don't know if you can split

[01:17:39] your vote, but the more shares that you own.

[01:17:42] That's how much more say you have.

[01:17:44] Oh, yeah.

[01:17:45] Yeah.

[01:17:45] The future of the company.

[01:17:47] Yeah.

[01:17:47] So I don't know whatever who cares.

[01:17:53] And then let's see what's our time looking like.

[01:17:57] We should probably be wrapping it up here soon.

[01:18:04] Animal Kingdom is expanding.

[01:18:07] There you go.

[01:18:07] Oh, that was a good one.

[01:18:09] Yeah.

[01:18:10] Yeah.

[01:18:13] Okay.

[01:18:13] This is a good one.

[01:18:14] This is our friend.

[01:18:14] Gina.

[01:18:15] Gina Carano.

[01:18:16] Oh, no.

[01:18:17] Disney argued on Tuesday that it had a first amendment

[01:18:19] right to fire Gina Carano.

[01:18:21] The actor who played a bounty hunter on the Mandalorian.

[01:18:24] Terribly, by the way.

[01:18:25] After she allegedly trivialized the Holocaust in an Instagram

[01:18:29] post.

[01:18:29] Now this is a good article because I sort of forgot what

[01:18:32] she did.

[01:18:33] Sort of forgot that was like a lot of like what happened

[01:18:37] that you specifically the Holocaust stuff.

[01:18:41] Carano sued in February arguing that the company

[01:18:44] unlawfully retaliated against her for expressing her

[01:18:46] personal political views, which were at odds with

[01:18:49] Disney's preferred ideology.

[01:18:51] Disney's lawyers filed a motion on Tuesday to throw

[01:18:54] out the lawsuit arguing that it has a quote constitutional

[01:18:57] right not to associate its artistic expression with

[01:19:01] Carano's speech.

[01:19:03] The case touches on a hot button controversy over

[01:19:05] speech rights on social media.

[01:19:07] Elon Musk announced last August that he would pay

[01:19:10] the legal bills of employees who had been fired

[01:19:13] for their posts on his platform.

[01:19:15] Carano was fired in February 2021 after she

[01:19:17] after she analogized the treatment of modern

[01:19:21] day conservatives to the persecution of Jews in Nazi

[01:19:24] Germany.

[01:19:26] Quote because history is edited.

[01:19:29] Most people today don't realize that to get to the point

[01:19:32] where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of

[01:19:35] Jews, the government first made their own neighbors

[01:19:38] hate them simply for being Jews.

[01:19:40] She wrote how is that any different from hating

[01:19:43] someone for their political views?

[01:19:48] That's a she's a nightmare.

[01:19:50] That's a heavy statement man.

[01:19:51] That takes that's some there's some heft.

[01:19:53] There's some some leaping going on.

[01:19:56] Yeah, I mean, you know, tell me you didn't stay awake

[01:20:01] in history class, I guess.

[01:20:04] Carano had faced significant pushback for earlier

[01:20:06] social media posts in which she strongly objected

[01:20:08] to COVID restrictions questioned the legitimacy

[01:20:10] of the 2020 election and refused to show support

[01:20:13] for trans rights.

[01:20:14] According to her lawsuit, Disney forced her to have

[01:20:17] a 90 minute zoom meeting with glad the LGBTQ rights

[01:20:21] organization after she posted that her pronouns are

[01:20:23] boop bop beep.

[01:20:26] She is such an awful person.

[01:20:29] But like the biggest boomer in the universe like come on

[01:20:32] dog get over yourself.

[01:20:34] Disney the Nazi post was quote the final straw

[01:20:36] according to the company's motion.

[01:20:38] The company argued that the post trivialized the

[01:20:40] Holocaust by referring to thousands of Jews not millions

[01:20:44] and by likening their experience to those of contemporary

[01:20:46] conservatives who faced scorn on social media.

[01:20:49] Disney had enough the motion states the company put out

[01:20:52] a statement on the same day saying it had no plans to hire

[01:20:55] her in the future and that our comments were abhorrent

[01:20:58] and unacceptable.

[01:20:59] So it's interesting because I thought in my head

[01:21:02] it's like they just weren't going to hire her again,

[01:21:04] but they weren't going to do that.

[01:21:06] I think because of that and they're like we're not

[01:21:08] we're not doing it at all ever.

[01:21:11] I didn't know that she was like fired.

[01:21:15] I don't know.

[01:21:15] It seems like it seems like less of a we're just not hiring

[01:21:19] her back and more of a she was fired by the way Disney is

[01:21:23] responding to this to me my response if that was the case

[01:21:26] my response like she was never hired in the first place.

[01:21:28] We just chose not to move forward with her character,

[01:21:31] but the contract signed.

[01:21:33] That's what my response would be.

[01:21:34] Well, so it's interesting that you say that because

[01:21:37] I was watching a documentary.

[01:21:38] I forget which one, but when when a contract is not

[01:21:42] renewed.

[01:21:44] By for an actor that's considered firing.

[01:21:47] Oh, that's considerate being fired.

[01:21:50] Okay.

[01:21:51] So same with radio.

[01:21:53] If if your contract is not renewed you were fired.

[01:21:55] That's that's like the general terminology.

[01:21:58] It's stupid.

[01:21:58] I don't like it.

[01:21:59] Yeah, I mean, but that's what it is because you have

[01:22:01] a contract and then you renew your contract and

[01:22:04] if they don't renew it.

[01:22:05] That's their easy way of firing you without without firing

[01:22:08] you got it.

[01:22:10] Carano sued under a California law that prohibits

[01:22:12] employers from retaliating against employees for

[01:22:15] political activity.

[01:22:16] Yeah, what she said isn't political activity.

[01:22:17] There's a difference between a lot of a lot of I think

[01:22:21] in in in acting and public, you know, service, I guess

[01:22:25] or whatever there's a lot of a I'm bliking on the term,

[01:22:29] but it's a like a behavior clause where you can't

[01:22:34] go do something that looks bad on the company.

[01:22:39] And that's all this.

[01:22:40] I mean, that's essentially what they're saying that she's

[01:22:43] she dead.

[01:22:43] We're not going to align with her views.

[01:22:45] Yeah, she's not being censored.

[01:22:47] She can say whatever she wants.

[01:22:48] Yeah, you just can't work here.

[01:22:50] Right.

[01:22:51] It's a motion to dismiss Disney argue that there's

[01:22:53] a broad exception for companies who business whose

[01:22:56] business is to engage in speech such as newspapers

[01:22:58] and entertainment companies to support its argument.

[01:23:01] The company invoked a law review article and commentary

[01:23:05] written by one of Carano's attorneys.

[01:23:08] UCLA law professor Eugene Volok quote employers that speak

[01:23:13] must necessarily speak through their employees and when

[01:23:16] an employee or prospective employees says things even

[01:23:19] off the job that would undermine the employer's message.

[01:23:22] The employer must be able to distance itself from the

[01:23:25] employee Volok wrote in 2022.

[01:23:29] So Disney this is brilliant Disney uses the summary

[01:23:34] written by Carano's lawyer.

[01:23:36] Yeah, to throw out the case brought upon.

[01:23:38] Yeah, Disney by Carano lawyer.

[01:23:40] She picked a bad lawyer.

[01:23:41] God, it's so good for this particular case.

[01:23:43] Sounds like Elon Musk picked a bar.

[01:23:46] Disney also cited two Supreme Court cases blah blah blah

[01:23:49] quote Disney thus was entitled to protect its creative

[01:23:52] speech in the Star Wars series from association with

[01:23:55] views Disney and many viewers and potential viewers

[01:23:57] considered offensive and contrary to Disney's values.

[01:24:00] The company's lawyers wrote Carano's presence as a

[01:24:03] prominent actor on the Mandalorian interfered

[01:24:06] with Disney's choice not to produce a show associated

[01:24:09] with her beliefs.

[01:24:13] Yeah, blah blah blah goes on and on.

[01:24:15] Yeah, good.

[01:24:16] Hmm.

[01:24:18] Hmm.

[01:24:18] Yeah, that's a lot more in depth than I anticipated.

[01:24:20] Me too.

[01:24:21] Yeah.

[01:24:21] Um, I hope it gets thrown out.

[01:24:23] I love that.

[01:24:24] I would love that mainly because I mean Carano's nuts.

[01:24:27] I haven't thought about her forever, but mainly because

[01:24:28] but Musk is backing her.

[01:24:30] Musk is spending money on him or on her and I I I

[01:24:35] would love this.

[01:24:35] I just would love this.

[01:24:36] It'd be so good.

[01:24:37] And then last but not least, Disneyland is threatening a

[01:24:39] lifetime ban for those who lie during disability access

[01:24:44] service registration.

[01:24:45] So all the service registration stuff is changing at

[01:24:49] the D.A.

[01:24:50] The D.A.S.

[01:24:50] stuff is changing at the parks and all that tells me

[01:24:53] is that people were really overusing it.

[01:24:56] Oh my God, of course they were.

[01:24:57] Of course they were.

[01:24:58] They've been doing it forever.

[01:24:59] Disneyland guests who lie during the registration process

[01:25:03] for the parks updated disability access service program

[01:25:06] will be permanently banned.

[01:25:09] Both parks unveiled changes coming to their D.A.S.

[01:25:12] programs on Tuesday, which aimed to curb the misuse

[01:25:14] riddled in the widely used program, which results in

[01:25:17] longer attraction queues and backed up genie plus

[01:25:20] lanes for guests.

[01:25:22] Officials hope the change which go into effect on

[01:25:24] June 18th at Disneyland and May 20th at Disney

[01:25:27] World will allow guests who need the service to

[01:25:29] use it under the FAQ section on

[01:25:32] Disneyland website.

[01:25:33] Officials warn those thinking if they can cheat the new

[01:25:36] system quote, if it is determined that any of the

[01:25:39] statements a guest made in the process of obtaining D.A.S.

[01:25:42] are not true.

[01:25:44] The guest will be permanently barred from entering the

[01:25:46] Walt Disney World Resort and the Disney Resort in any

[01:25:49] previously purchased annual passes, Magic Key Passes,

[01:25:52] tickets and other park products and services will

[01:25:55] be forfeited and not refunded.

[01:25:59] The website did not state how those abusing the

[01:26:01] system will be caught but it's likely cast members

[01:26:03] across the parks will be the first line of defense.

[01:26:07] Yeah, yeah, basically yeah.

[01:26:09] That's rough.

[01:26:10] No, what he's going to snitch.

[01:26:11] Yeah, Eric have you heard about the new changes

[01:26:14] to the D.A.S.?

[01:26:15] But no, no, like this was a this was the new one

[01:26:17] that I saw today as well.

[01:26:20] I mean it's a constant complaint because I mean

[01:26:24] I have family members and close friends who have

[01:26:27] gone through the D.A.S. system.

[01:26:30] Sometimes it's gone well.

[01:26:31] Sometimes it's a giant pain.

[01:26:34] Yeah, and it kind of seems to come and go and

[01:26:39] I wrote in the chat to see if Ryan remembers

[01:26:42] what the numbers are but I heard on

[01:26:46] Len Testos Disney Dish

[01:26:48] the a few weeks ago that in some cases there are

[01:26:52] more people in line with a D.A.S.

[01:26:56] pass than with Genie Plus.

[01:26:59] Oh wow.

[01:26:59] Interesting.

[01:27:00] So the reason your your main line is being held up

[01:27:04] is more due to D.A.S.

[01:27:06] passes than people who are paying for Genie Plus

[01:27:08] which isn't necessarily a comment.

[01:27:11] It's just a observation.

[01:27:12] That's what we are seeing.

[01:27:14] The data point.

[01:27:15] Right.

[01:27:16] And yeah, that's the gosh right.

[01:27:19] RGH says 75 to 80% D.A.S.

[01:27:21] That's crazy.

[01:27:22] That's wild to me.

[01:27:23] That's so if there's I mean it's great

[01:27:26] that these things exist but yeah,

[01:27:28] somebody's always going to find a way to scam it

[01:27:30] and every once in a while,

[01:27:32] Disney has to put their foot down and say

[01:27:35] we're going to try to

[01:27:38] we're going to try to do something

[01:27:39] and we're going to try to do it

[01:27:41] in the least offensive way possible

[01:27:43] and really hope that we're not going to insult

[01:27:45] or hurt anybody in the process.

[01:27:47] Right.

[01:27:48] But we know that we're probably going to

[01:27:51] hurt some people in the process.

[01:27:52] Yeah, of course,

[01:27:53] but you know whatever.

[01:27:55] Here's the new changes.

[01:27:56] D.A.S.

[01:27:56] Advanced pre-arrival attraction selection

[01:27:59] will no longer be the default or offering

[01:28:01] for all D.A.S.

[01:28:02] guests unless it's a family

[01:28:05] D.A.S.

[01:28:06] parties can only have a maximum of four people.

[01:28:09] Okay.

[01:28:12] I don't know enough about like the usage rates

[01:28:14] to think if that's weird or not,

[01:28:15] but it sounds fair.

[01:28:17] I think it was five before because there

[01:28:19] have been some times where my sister is like

[01:28:21] oh my husband's not going on.

[01:28:22] You want to hop on the ride with us?

[01:28:24] Now it's not as easy as just giving me a fast pass.

[01:28:27] You do have to set those reservations up

[01:28:30] in the app.

[01:28:31] Mmm.

[01:28:32] You have to have people registered with the party,

[01:28:34] but you can have a bigger party.

[01:28:36] It's only five people that can get in.

[01:28:38] Yeah.

[01:28:40] D.A.S.

[01:28:40] enrollment eligibility will increase from 60 to 120 days.

[01:28:46] Okay.

[01:28:47] Current D.A.S.

[01:28:48] guests will need to reapply.

[01:28:51] That's something I can't pay in the bud,

[01:28:52] but it's reasonable

[01:28:54] because of the screening processes.

[01:28:56] That's the thing.

[01:28:57] It's like all of this is reasonable,

[01:28:58] but only because people were using it that shouldn't be using

[01:29:02] it.

[01:29:02] It like all all this does is suck for people who really need

[01:29:05] it.

[01:29:05] Yeah.

[01:29:05] Well, Dan in the chat's like that's a huge percentage

[01:29:08] which is not aligned with the stats on disability.

[01:29:12] So yeah, there's not 70 to 80.

[01:29:13] I mean, can you imagine 75 to 80% of guests in the park

[01:29:16] are disabled?

[01:29:17] No.

[01:29:18] Everybody has some, you know, whatever,

[01:29:19] but like, you know,

[01:29:21] Disneyland recently updated its D.A.S.

[01:29:22] website and noted that guests planning to use the program

[01:29:25] and will be visiting the resort between April 9th and June

[01:29:28] 17th should note that pre-arrival conversations to

[01:29:31] determine eligibility will be available two to 30 days

[01:29:35] prior to your visit.

[01:29:37] In-person conversations to determine eligibility for D.A.S.

[01:29:40] will be at guest relations locations.

[01:29:42] Guests will be able to book up to two one hour return

[01:29:46] windows for select experiences using the D.A.S.

[01:29:49] advanced planning option.

[01:29:51] Okay.

[01:29:52] So it sounds like I think what's going to happen is

[01:29:55] they're like training.

[01:29:57] Either they're training cast members to screen or they're

[01:30:00] hiring healthcare professionals to ask these screening

[01:30:04] questions to kind of weed out the people who are who are

[01:30:08] trying to abuse it like, you know, YouTubers and stuff.

[01:30:11] It this is a tricky situation.

[01:30:14] I will say that and it's only tricky because of

[01:30:18] people abusing it.

[01:30:19] People abusing it.

[01:30:20] Yeah.

[01:30:20] But it is it's tricky like.

[01:30:23] Yeah.

[01:30:23] It's not like rocking a rhyme that's right on time.

[01:30:25] That's tricky.

[01:30:26] That's tricky.

[01:30:27] This is also tricky.

[01:30:28] Agreed.

[01:30:30] Two things real fast.

[01:30:30] Then we're going to we're going to wrap up.

[01:30:32] Apparently there's a monopoly movie in the works starring

[01:30:34] Margot Robbie though just so you know, like, you know,

[01:30:37] there's no if you thought Barbie was good watch out for

[01:30:41] I did think Barbie was good.

[01:30:43] Yeah, I haven't seen it yet but and also OJ Simpson

[01:30:47] passed away today everybody.

[01:30:48] He did yesterday.

[01:30:50] Yesterday.

[01:30:51] There you go.

[01:30:51] Yesterday.

[01:30:52] Prostate cancer apparently my man by man God.

[01:30:58] My man with a prostate.

[01:31:00] Yeah.

[01:31:01] No one will ever convince me he did it.

[01:31:03] He did you ever make you read?

[01:31:06] Yeah, I have it.

[01:31:07] I still have it.

[01:31:08] Yeah.

[01:31:08] It's in my good old drive.

[01:31:09] Yeah.

[01:31:10] You read it.

[01:31:10] You read the chapter where he basically a silly guy.

[01:31:14] My God.

[01:31:16] I don't know who you are man.

[01:31:19] That is wild to me.

[01:31:22] No one will ever I mean in civil court he was convicted

[01:31:25] so like you know what are you going to do?

[01:31:28] No, no in civil court.

[01:31:30] He was not he was he was held.

[01:31:31] He was held liable for the money because he had money

[01:31:37] for the deaths of the two people monetarily because

[01:31:41] he was a star football player who had money to give to

[01:31:44] the families saying okay.

[01:31:47] Look I'm not a conspiracy theorist until it comes to

[01:31:50] OJ Simpson and then I am okay.

[01:31:53] All right.

[01:31:55] Sayonara.

[01:31:56] Okay.

[01:31:56] I'm going to go bye bye.

[01:31:59] She's gonna take a little nap arena you guys.

[01:32:01] She's been feeling out of sorts.

[01:32:03] I apologize.

[01:32:04] Like I know I know I'm on my own island on this one

[01:32:06] but I'm not on an island.

[01:32:08] You're you have your you have cement shoes on the bottom

[01:32:11] of the Mariana trench like this happened when I was

[01:32:13] like 10 and 11 and it did it's it's in it's in my soul.

[01:32:18] I just I just know just know you think about facts like

[01:32:21] love didn't fit the ice cream wasn't melted.

[01:32:25] I mean it just doesn't it doesn't add up dude look

[01:32:29] I read a lot of crime thrillers and when you read that

[01:32:33] chapter twist that we just haven't got to you know

[01:32:36] of if I did it yeah where he outlines how he did it

[01:32:42] that didn't that didn't make you go you know what this

[01:32:44] actually works too well for a football player to have to

[01:32:48] have made up on is that too and you know what I thought

[01:32:51] I thought wow his his lawyer is really good and and thought

[01:32:55] you know what you know how we can make some money to pay

[01:32:58] off this this but he never but he didn't pay anybody.

[01:33:04] I know and you know what happened is Mark Ferman's

[01:33:07] family got the rights to the book and they published

[01:33:10] the book to get all the money for it.

[01:33:12] He never trust the cop.

[01:33:15] Hi guys I appreciate it.

[01:33:16] Thank you very much for listening.

[01:33:18] I'll probably cut all this out this whole show be cut out

[01:33:20] except Eric's parts and then only the parts where you're

[01:33:23] interrupting me yeah well look no no only the parts

[01:33:26] where I'm talking leave in the interruptions out of

[01:33:29] context do that as you see all breaths we're going to

[01:33:32] cut out everything all the words but just breathing.

[01:33:37] I appreciate it guys.

[01:33:37] Thank you very much and until next time we'll see in the parks.

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