EarzUp! In-Depth | Episode #93: Streaking Through The Quad, Drugs on Credit, and More!

[00:00:00] Hey, what's going on everybody ears up in depth.

[00:00:09] I tell you Jeremy, we got news.

[00:00:11] I got news for you.

[00:00:13] Um, just just to spoil it right now.

[00:00:15] We're talking about the naked guy.

[00:00:16] We're talking about the naked guy.

[00:00:18] We're talking about the naked guy.

[00:00:19] Yeah, I'm surprised they caught you.

[00:00:21] Honestly, I thought you were faster than that.

[00:00:23] I don't have abs like that.

[00:00:24] Are you kidding me?

[00:00:26] I saw that.

[00:00:27] I saw this dude.

[00:00:28] I don't know if he's posing or. Yes, that's normal. I couldn't, the hair, the worst was the combo powder blow dry guy, cause that's everywhere. Oh God. It's just going. No, I wonder if it's an age thing,

[00:01:40] because as you get older, you care less.

[00:01:42] And it's almost like a rite of passage

[00:01:44] for every new guy in the locker room.

[00:01:46] Like I'm 68, you you need to trim me up? Do I need, you know what's going on? Are my pants too tight? Right, what's going on? Yeah. So yeah. Well, anyway, I saw that. I was happy that at least he was in somewhat good shape,

[00:03:01] but I debated.

[00:03:03] I was like, you know, I don't want to talk about this

[00:03:05] because I don't want to amplify this guy.

[00:03:07] Like he's already, it's awful. It is always clickbaity or whatever,

[00:04:20] but this has made it seem like,

[00:04:22] and I don't have the headline up

[00:04:23] because I just don't care anymore.

[00:04:25] It's made it seem like this one park like mid January to mid Feb weather. January gets this cold, yeah, and early Feb. But because the story that always happens and evidently every year is the lizards freeze in the trees and fall out and everyone thinks that it's raining dead lizards. That's right. Because they can't, yeah. I forgot about that. So it does, yeah.

[00:05:40] That is wild to me.

[00:05:41] I guess, yeah, it just blew my mind.

[00:05:43] And it's also weird that low 50s,

[00:05:46] I mean, I would imagine that it's sort of chilly there coming out though with the numbers of this kind of stuff. But the heat index hit 113 degrees and more. So one person passed out in Toy Story Land, another fainted at Liberty Square, while someone else collapsed at the Disney Springs Rainforest Cafe. Others complained of not feeling well and being dizzy. Disney paramedics rushed to nearly 40 medical calls

[00:07:01] across the property for overheated Disney guests

[00:07:04] and took six people to the hospital

[00:07:06] during these four cool in there. And then you step out into the blazing July sun. You're dehydrated. You haven't set up in four hours cause you're drinking and then you can't see you're blinded. You see spots cause you looked at the sun going, what is that fiery ball in the sky?

[00:08:23] Still there. And you put your hands through and it makes no way, you know, like you, you conduct the water so you will, you can get wet. Oh, okay. That's interesting. Have you done it yet? Have you done that Moana thing? You said you're going to. I know, but I haven't been back to that. I saw a video of it. It looks it honestly, it was like one part you have, you know, to feed you there and

[00:09:43] you know, it's a little pond or whatever.

[00:09:46] And it just looks like a rich person's pool. Uh, go ahead, please. A Pittsburgh PA woman was visiting Walt Disney World recently with her baby daughter and others in her family when she was caught mid ride breastfeeding the one year old child. She was on the frozen ever after ride at Epcot when the baby began to tug at her shirt, indicating

[00:11:02] that she wanted to like eat, eat, eat.

[00:11:04] I don't know. I thought that. So she was concerned that the Disney people had a picture of her breast

[00:12:21] with a baby attached to it.

[00:12:23] So, you know, well, the Disney people and every other person in that ride car.

[00:12:27] Okay. I've seen other women breastfeed with more discretion, but still do it in public than that. But there was no nippage if that's what you're saying. No, of course not. Well, because the baby's on there. I just wonder if there was like a cup. And I get it from the standpoint of the mother having a kid myself and being around that, it's like the kid's hungry. What are you gonna do? Either the kid's gonna eat now

[00:13:42] and you risk seeing a majority of breast

[00:13:45] or the kid's gonna start crying on the ride.

[00:13:47] Which would you rather have?

[00:13:48] You know what I mean, I don't know. Yeah. I wonder if mothers specifically have a feeling that they need to have motherhood be empowering more than it is, or if it's just like, I don't know.

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

[00:15:01] I don't understand that side of things.

[00:15:02] I just kind of let it go, but it seems very odd

[00:15:05] that you feel like you have to be empowered about it. It's just, to me, it's like a point of fact. Like you need to feed your kid. Yeah, do it. You're in a dark ride. Of course you didn't expect the camera. Cool. You were going to be done by the time the thing was over. It doesn't like, it doesn't bother me. So I just, I think that, that kind of attitude about like

[00:16:21] absolute bomb a bear or whatever,

[00:16:24] seems a little like, okay, just calm down.

[00:16:27] Okay. Just relax. were worried about this being seen, why did you then go send it to a public, like you didn't even just post it on your own Instagram profile, which may or may not be private, but you sent it to a lifestyle profile. Like you wanted this out there. I feel like it's a little bit maybe of main character syndrome where it's like, oh my gosh, people are going to take this picture and then repost it. And then I'm going to

[00:17:42] be famous on the internet. So I need to get ahead of it. I need to literally breastfeeding a kid. The firefighters who marched up the stairs of World Trade Center on 9-11 absolute heroes. They are not in the same class as someone who's feeding a kid. I don't know how many of them were also breastfeeding at the time. We don't know that would have been really difficult though. Yeah, exactly.

[00:19:00] Breastfeeding is hard.

[00:19:02] She defended herself saying, I guess if you look at this picture, it might look like it

[00:19:05] is an intense ride, but it's a boat ride.

[00:19:08] There are no seatbelts. I think she could wait. I think she can wait. There's breastfeeding stations, which by the way, at least in Disneyland are awesome. Go to the breastfeeding stations. You know, those are great. They're themed, or at least they're like stylized a little bit, and it's not just like an office room or whatever. And it was a lot of fun. I like to go in there and feed out. I mean, yeah, I'll feed her.

[00:20:20] I'll feed her the thing, you know?

[00:20:21] It's a nice quiet place.

[00:20:22] That's where you go.

[00:20:24] But if you're on the right, I don't know.

[00:20:25] I just don't care.

[00:20:26] Who cares? to get off the ride, then you can be more comfortable as a mom as well. You should talk to my mom. I wasn't breastfed. Oh. Well. You learned new things on this show every day. But yeah, I, you know, it. Back then I think it wasn't done in the early, early 80s. It was like, my mom's studies. She's like, it's not a thing. It's not, it wasn't a thing. My sister was born three years later

[00:21:40] and she was breastfed.

[00:21:41] Of course.

[00:21:41] No, things changed.

[00:21:43] But yeah, it is weird that people are, regardless,

[00:21:46] saying you shouldn't be breastfeeding.

[00:21:48] I don't know, own reviews, Jeremy. Don't worry, I've got it covered. I've decided you are no longer a Reddit pro, you are a TikTok pro. Oh, hell yeah. I love that. All right, Jared, let's talk about the, not the Disney Wish, but the movie Wish from Disney that released last week.

[00:23:01] And, you know, the lead up to it in the press,

[00:23:03] people are like, oh yeah, Wish is gonna be great.

[00:23:05] And there was a big push from the Disney company, five days of release. So you're short by what, 20 million or something like that. Ticket sales weren't as catastrophic as 2022's Strange World, which is only 12 million over the weekend, but it didn't come anywhere close to Encanto, which opened to 40.3 million over its first five days.

[00:24:20] And that was during the peak of,

[00:24:22] or not the peak, because there's always a new peak now,

[00:24:24] but the first five is when COVID

[00:24:26] was keeping families at home.

[00:25:26] sense of the place you're taking me, you know, with that movie, I see everyone's, there's a mermaid, there's the sea, which you can see that in the, in the trailer, the lion

[00:25:30] king got it. Beauty and the beast got it. Pocahontas got it. I know what you're going

[00:25:35] to tell me. I have a general gist of what I might be seeing. Right. What is wish? Well,

[00:25:42] you know what? I'm glad you asked Jeremy, so it's like everything exists in one universe and they're pulling from other movies

[00:27:00] to kind of bind this rubber band ball of things

[00:27:05] that don't need to be getting it soon. But also it's because I don't think it's interesting. No one cares. This is from the directors. They say, we talk about making an original story with original songs, making sure that was solid before we added all these layers. But now there's over a hundred nods to other films.

[00:28:23] So they say that they have an original story that was solid.

[00:29:24] multiverse has come up so many times from people, just all the little hints like Rapunzel and Frozen and things like that. That's our quote. So what they did,

[00:29:27] admittedly, they took the small tiny little details that people like to look

[00:29:32] for the Easter eggs and films and they said let's just combine all those

[00:29:36] together and really hit everybody over the head with these. Then they'll love it

[00:29:39] even more. The article goes on, the point is that wish is not subtle at all and few

[00:29:43] critics who saw the film were not wild about that concept. While this may not be I will say that on Rotten Tomatoes, while it is not getting very good reviews from critics at 49%, it does have an 81% audience score. So the people who are going to see it, I guess, seem to generally be liking it. Interesting. Well, good for them. I'm glad that they enjoy things.

[00:31:02] It's had a pretty severe...

[00:31:03] Apparently, it's people who are willing to reign, you know, his tenure. This is what we're getting. I don't know. Yeah, well, this was probably put together. I mean, this didn't come together in the last year. This is Chepek. You don't know that. No, stop it. It was probably an Iger project. And then Chepek was going to be the hero and fix it. And then Iger said, don't touch my baby. And then I

[00:32:23] have got fired again. I have no idea what the the story. The story was fine on its own. And I really, really respect that because not everybody's gonna turn down a fat check. I mean, with all of the merch that Disney is, all the money Disney's making off the merch, the super interest in that movie,

[00:33:41] it feels a lot like Star Wars kind of did,

[00:33:45] where it was like, it's obviously not that big,

[00:33:47] but it's a very culturally important thing I'm talking about the what if Tim Burton changes his mind or when he dies can we say that he changed his mind? I don't know. Can we? Should we? Let's take a break. Jeremy, we're going to come right back. We're gonna do a little bit more Disney news. We're going to cover the naked man. We're going to do some other stuff. It'll be fun time. Whatever Jeremy has up his sleeve. So hangbed completely. That's when Anaheim police arrested him. He was immediately removed from the park and taken to a local hospital to be checked out. Police say he was arrested for indecent exposure and being under the influence of a controlled substance.

[00:36:21] Okay, I knew it.

[00:36:22] Exactly, I think this man was high

[00:36:25] on a mixture of chemicals.

[00:36:26] He was probably on LSD or and that's kind of it.

[00:37:41] And I bet these people on the boat were like, what is this dude doing?

[00:37:44] And he just looks, no, there he's just disappearing into India just investigating it's almost like he's just looking like the side and just kicking back man, just loving life. Doesn't seem particularly bother. Absolutely not. He's not trying to run away. He's not trying to hide. He's sort of lumbering weird. Yeah, this is not the walk of sober gentlemen. No, he can barely, he can barely move.

[00:40:21] Like people are just looking at him.

[00:40:23] I don't know least think they are going to have a nice, normal visit at Disneyland, but a man strips naked on it's a small world is what the caption says. And it's just a picture of him. He's just completely naked and he's holding his underwear over his area. And yeah, he's built. I'm jealous. Anyway, that is what happened.

[00:41:41] We don't know too much about it other than it happened.

[00:41:43] And this is probably the most exciting thing

[00:41:46] that has happened in the parks, probably ever, if that even ends up happening. I mean, maybe the judge might be leaning at me like, okay, you were on shrooms, you had no idea what was going on, or whatever. Yeah, that's it. I don't know, but he doesn't, first of all, this guy is a safety issue. Yes. He put other people at risk.

[00:43:00] He put Disney employees at risk, put himself at risk.

[00:43:04] And what I really don't like is the way he was,

[00:44:01] He caused that. So I don't like this guy.

[00:44:03] I say throw the book at him.

[00:44:04] I mean, look, he should go to jail for sure.

[00:44:07] I don't know.

[00:44:08] You know what?

[00:44:08] Maybe just drug rehab.

[00:44:09] What do you think of that?

[00:44:10] Maybe you should get him a job.

[00:44:11] He should be employed at Disney parks.

[00:44:13] He should be the new Mickey Mouse figure.

[00:44:15] That's what I think.

[00:44:16] Oh, I don't know.

[00:44:17] I think it's really funny.

[00:44:18] I don't know.

[00:44:19] I think it's pretty funny because it's,

[00:44:21] but it's also very sad at the same time

[00:44:23] because he didn't do it on purpose.

[00:44:25] I don't know that.

[00:45:22] Don't. I don't deserve sympathy. I deserve shame.

[00:45:25] All right. I'll throw Mickey ears at you and yell shame as you walk by me.

[00:45:30] Yeah.

[00:45:31] All right. That's all I got on the naked guy, man. That's it. Yeah.

[00:45:34] I banned for life. No question.

[00:45:38] I have a story that sounds not so good in the beginning, but it's actually a story of gratitude and redemption.

[00:45:46] Just the story I mean, 2004. No, I mean 2014. Did I say 2024? I'm reading the future. 2014.

[00:47:00] Check your company card.

[00:47:02] Almost 10 years ago, Sargassian is he says quote as my addiction deep and my finances didn't reflect the near six-figure salary. I earned at Disney

[00:48:26] Which I thought it was an intern but yeah

[00:49:24] All that on the corporate card enabled him to use the other money directly from his paycheck to buy drugs.

[00:49:25] He did also add that he was using payday loans.

[00:49:29] Do you know what a payday loan is?

[00:49:31] Oh, I mean, it's like an advance on your check, right?

[00:49:34] It's well, it's they're very, they're short term, very high interest loans.

[00:49:39] Okay.

[00:49:40] They're predatory.

[00:49:42] But they can you if you have terrible credit, but you can get them.

[00:49:47] It's so weird. point in my life. He did not admit to his drug problem to his manager. He just said, listen, I've messed up and I've been using this for personal expenses. So I guys in his family gave him a loan to pay it all back. And he said he worked to pay the company back that year. The experience reminded him of his own humanity and the humanity of his

[00:51:01] employer. He said explaining that his relationship with his family improved as. So. Wow. That's incredible. Hopefully we wish him all the best and hopefully all of that is behind him now, but that was his feel good story from Disney. I like that. I think that's very cool. What I did notice in that article was it's funny because like whenever people are gonna, I don't know, tell a story about how they're in a funk

[00:52:22] or they're helping themselves

[00:52:25] or they're doing something for their family. I just thought it was a weird observation. Just trying to stay up with the air. Yeah, that's all right, man. It's a beautiful story. Good on the Disney company, man. We don't really hear a lot of feel good stories about Disney. I'm sure there's a lot of people who can be like, oh, he should have been fired and, you know, whatever. Although I wonder if Disney is, I wonder if that was like a managerial decision or if

[00:53:42] they give that same sort of leniency to people who do smaller crimes like Steele.

[00:53:48] You know, I wonder Three was even like, I don't know, better be good. And it was good. Then four was like, oh, this is wearing thin, man.

[00:55:00] The window test on this dough is about to snap.

[00:55:02] And then so I think five is gonna be too many.

[00:55:07] That's my opinion on it. and products and the profitability of any of our businesses. And I thought that was a pretty, I don't know, a pretty self-aware thing to say. Because I think it's true. They do miss the mark on what a lot of people are okay with,

[00:56:20] but the cool thing about Disney fans for the company,

[00:56:23] the cool thing for the company is that people

[00:56:24] are still going to go to the parks.

[00:56:26] People are still going to market this and tell us how great it is and gaslight me into thinking that it's great. I think they're misaligned in Moana. I think they're misaligned with what they're about to do the care about it at all? Not really. I like Mr. Lincoln. Yeah. Well, cause I think these things, the hall of presidents, Mr. Lincoln, I think this is, it's one of the things, one of the attractions that people often point to as sort of taking up space. Like no one really truly cares about them too much. It's sort of like Autopia. Like, yeah, it'll eat people,

[00:59:01] but no one would miss it if it was gone.

[00:59:04] And I sort of feel like those areas need

[00:59:06] a little bit more of Liberty Square. Disney seems to not really care about that kind of thing anymore, but let's assume that they're going to keep it something along the lines of history of America, colonial times, Liberty Square. Fine. I think the really resonate with that whole vibe. It's not really interesting to me. Yeah. I don't know. I like it because I did an episode of Spectrotime on it and I loved how they made the music and the techniques that they used to make it sound like you're surrounded by the chorus.

[01:01:43] Anyway, this is why I do these shows because I like how things are made. maybe like certain key presidents who were president during pivotal times like Roosevelt, Lincoln, you know, obviously Washington and a few more and and have them tell the story of the country or you know Values or something like that. But then again that also just becomes the American Adventure Show. So

[01:03:03] I'm not sure it's got to be different

[01:04:05] You know what I mean? You guys have a whole Muppet areas. I don't know. I don't know if you guys would be too open to it to more Muppets. Well, I

[01:04:08] Was over at Hollywood Studios back in May

[01:04:12] Early May so it wasn't crowded May yet, and we went into the Muppets 3d

[01:04:17] Attraction yeah, and there was hardly a seat

[01:04:21] I love that. I love that show so much and it hasn't changed in 30 years. So that's great. You know, I don not that. Disney does not have any sort of cerebral quality to it. It's very simplistic and sweet and overly saccharine. It's not intelligent. And the Muppets was always really clever and intelligent on two levels. Adults could watch it and laugh. Kids could watch it and laugh.

[01:05:40] Disney does not have the ability to write on both those levels.

[01:05:43] They just played down to the lowest common denominator. they do something in there that is along those lines slash Walt Disney Family Museum kind of feeling like is that, you know, something along that concept, because he is sort of like an American idealist and you can easily story there. Yeah, you have animatronics of him at different ages. Yeah, you know, when he's in his 60s,

[01:07:02] he's coughing through his speech. Pizza Pat I think it'd be fun. And it's just I don't know, it's a cool thing. So I enjoy. I don't know. I enjoy that kind of stuff. Thanks. Oops. Yeah. Well, you know what? You're welcome, Jeremy. Thanks for joining us, everybody on Ears Up In Depth.

[01:08:22] I will say we are live.

[01:08:24] You're listening live right now.

[01:08:25] We're going to be live on Thursday.

[01:08:26] We're talking about the history of the Mr. I appreciate it. Jeremy, thank you very much. You did a wonderful job as always. And to you, I say, Mazel. Thank you. I'm looking forward to joining the Christmas show. Me too. I'm excited. Terrence will be there. Terrence, you better show up. I know you will. I'm sure he already has his letter written and typed up and sent to Santa Iger. That's what we really should do. We should really type these up

[01:09:40] and literally mail these to this man.

[01:09:41] Well, mine is mostly making fun of us.

[01:09:44] So...

[01:09:45] Oh.

[01:09:46] That'd be fine too.

[01:09:48] I don't know. Just like deliver it like something