UNLOCKED! The Case of the Country Bears: The Harrison Comparison Compares the Country Bears

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[00:00:27] Welcome Comparisonists to another archival expedition through the behavioral and physical anomalies of Harrison Ford.

[00:01:01] As always, I'm Langston Ryder, Nexpot Investor, Cultural Futurist, and increasingly youthful human being. Joining me as always is my co-host, Hal. Yes, hey, this is Hal. I just wanted to say that... What are you guys doing in here? What? Who are you? We also... Who... Excuse me. Excuse me. What? Why are you in my studio?

[00:01:32] Uh, this is our studio. You clearly came in to my living room and sat down and started recording. Well, you said... What are you recording? This is the Harrison Comparison. Harrison Comparison. We're the podcast that you asked us to be here. Excuse me. Yes. This is Crazy for Swayze. And I'm, of course, Wade Cooler. Um... Uh... This is un-

[00:01:59] Crazy for Swayze is the perfect mix of nostalgia, passion, and potential for shirtless ghost references. God. And you are encroaching on my territory, Harrison Comparison. Did the folks over at Gearheads send you to do this? As a matter of fact, yes. Yes. Okay. Listener... So, we didn't want to bring... And by the way, that's G-E-R-E heads. Yes. No, I get it. It's clever.

[00:02:30] Um... Yeah. But, I mean, our bigger rivals. Yeah. Yeah. I mean... Okay, listener, we didn't want to bring drama over from our feed to the Supreme Resort because if they asked us to... They asked us to fill in for them for June because they were taking June off, but we were taking June off as well. It's a long story. Um... We have... We've had rivals with... We have rivalry with a few other podcasts. Um...

[00:02:57] We have, of course, the Costner Dossier, um... The Claude Squad. Costner Dossier. Let's do it right. Costner Dossier. Okay. And they all seem to team up with us, against us. There's the Claude Squad, of course, fans of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Uh... And, of course, there's another one that I'm trying to scroll to get to.

[00:03:24] We do clearly more superior names than what? The Harrison comparison? Where you... That's what we... We're trying to share things to Harrison Ford and we... Like an example? Well, for an... As an example, this episode that we were hoping to unlock, but we... Uh... Well, okay. Listeners send in pictures of things that look like Harrison Ford. How about my...

[00:03:47] How about my... Uh... Harrison Monthly? I... I... I also... I know... That's no moon. Spatial repression in the 14 heroes journey. I also... I'm sorry. I know if I don't mention these people, they're insufferable.

[00:04:16] They will never hear the end of it. There's also, of course, the Dudikoff Doctrine, which is a podcast devoted to exploring the philosophical legacy of 1980s star Michael Dudikoff of American Ninja fame. Sorry. And that's our network, including the Gearheads and Crazy for Swayze, far superior than Harrison Comparison and what, Boys and Boys? A boy... Well, yes.

[00:04:45] The Boys and Boys are a niche podcast. Okay. And what else? What else is on your network? Well, as a matter of fact, we have a... We have... The Six Flags Show. Yeah. And we were going to get... So, we were going to unlock our episode from our Patreon that we can't log into. It was going to be our two hour and 45 minute episode, The Ford Zone Craftsmanship,

[00:05:11] Lacanian Absence, and The Cowboy as Hinge Point, that featured our guest, Dr. Slavo Zizek. In it, we attempted to figure out whether Harrison Ford's Every Man Mystique is the last genuine anchor of American masculinity or just a shared hallucination we've collectively refused to audit. Zizek, of course, went into the conversation no fewer than five... I'm sorry. Langston? Langston? Yes.

[00:05:40] I've been meaning to address this for quite some time. Yes. Um... NextPod? Mm-hmm. Is... Is seeking to become a nation state? A digital nation state? Well, that's the future we're all headed to. It's just a matter of who gets there first. But, Langston, I'm sorry. I invited our guest today because I think it's time. No, I think we established...

[00:06:10] I think it's high time. I think we established that you came into my house while I was recording. That's true. Well, physically, yes. Wade Cooler is my name again. Wade. I'm sorry, Wade. I don't... Register names. I don't... Yes, yes. Name blindness. I'm sorry. It's a condition. It's well documented on our show. And frankly, Wade, I think you're engaging in ableism by not respecting...

[00:06:39] The only name I know is Langston. Name blindness. I'm sorry. I don't even know mine anymore. Well, my name clearly reflects the smooth, dramatic, and slightly rebellious energy of Patrick Swayze himself. Well, Wade and I have been discussing things, and it's high time I left the Harrison comparison.

[00:07:02] I took my renowned Brown University course load and re-engineered it towards Patrick Swayze's career. I'm sorry. This is the official end of my time on the Harrison comparison. Well, while you're still here, I want to announce that, speaking of universities, NextPod is opening its own university.

[00:07:30] It's an entirely online university in which you will be taught entirely by AI hallucinations, which, when combined, are actually true. Anyway, if you would like to join the NextPod community, please do. I'm apparently going to be looking for a new podcast host. Yes. Wade, are you interested in joining?

[00:08:01] Wait, I'm still... Some other names that I go by, some AKAs. Oh, thank you. Yes. In case you're involved in the Reddit community. Johnny Castle Jr., which is a clear homage to Dirty Dancing's iconic heartthrob. Ghost Host, which also kind of lends itself to your Disney podcast you're talking about. We don't actually acknowledge them very much. My favorite.

[00:08:30] Swayzed and confused. Or P. Swizzle. P. Swizzle. All right. I considered some of those other names, but... I also have a picture of a baby from a listener. The name is Leia. And it's because of... Her scowl looks like she is saying, I know. According to the listener. Okay. Well, glad you're leaving, Cal. Ray, what's your name again?

[00:09:00] Langston Ryder. I'm sorry, I have names. How's leaving? Oh, you both have name blindness. I only know because it's on the Zoom. I have names, I don't give a rat. Tootie. That's what I have. Okay. Langston. Glad you're leaving. What else you got, Cal? Or Hal? Hal. Yes. You know what? We're going to skip an ad read because I'm not going to give more money to this podcast. We're going to play a classic episode of the Six Flags show. Mm-hmm. Because... How is there anything else you want to add?

[00:09:30] Very appropriately named podcast. I'm sorry, I forgot the password. Very appropriately named podcast. What's it about? It's about the Country Bear Jamboree. I'm sorry. Our listeners are probably really looking forward to finding out what this episode is about. The Country Bear Jamboree is at Six Flags? No, it's at Walt Disney World. Oh, it's at Universal. It's an odd episode. I've listened to it multiple times. I still don't quite get it.

[00:09:58] Um, so I suggest you all listen to it at least three times. Hello again. We recently received feedback that NextPod, I'm just doing it without you, felt too smart, too exclusive, or in one case, like a soft launch for an AI cult. That's fair. But if you're here... I muted him. Um, all right. So, uh, uh, yes. Wow. Yeah. That's, uh... It's mutiny. Yes, it's mutiny. It's mutiny.

[00:10:25] Um, I am sitting several feet away from Langston. He will stab me under the table soon. So, uh, signing off for the last time. This is Hal. Uh... On NextPod, we don't just store a podcast. Oh, no. It protects continuity of thought. So even if your voice... He just came over to your microphone. Your logic... Pushed you out of the way. ...every unfinished sentence, every glitch, every pause that meant more than words... Listen to this classic episode of the Six Flags show. We're holding it for later.

[00:10:54] ...where they talk about a Disney thing. We're not building the future. We're tuning it.

[00:11:49] What up, Thrill fans? It's that time. What time is that? It's time to strap in your ear buckles, check your funny restraints, and head up that old lift hill for another sweet zesty ride on the first and longest running podcast about Six Flags. The Six Flags Show! Yeah! Each episode, we will discuss and explore each ride, park by park, area by area, flag by flag, and hypnotist show by hypnotist show to determine which is better.

[00:12:15] I'm Steve Hilters III, and joining me for episode 764 on this journey are my good friends... Yeah! ...Hey! I'm Samuel Milton-Gutton Jr. And joining us for the very first time, he's a little gun shy, it's Nick Spencer. Nick, welcome. Hey guys, this is great.

[00:12:43] Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm sorry. This is my first podcast, so... Nick, welcome to the party, buddy! Six Flags Show! Yeah! I am so stoked to be here. Yeah! Episode 764! Longest running Six Flags Show of all time. First and longest running. First and longest. So, hey, Nick, tell us why you're joining the crew.

[00:13:11] Uh, well, because my dad died. Ooh! Whoops, sorry. Hold on. Sorry. Nick, hi guys. I assume... Nick, I assume your dad died at Six Flags. Ah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he did. Um, uh, yeah, he, uh, he had a heart attack at, uh, at Six Flags Grand America, our home park.

[00:13:37] We, uh, well, he, uh, he ordered a hot dog and, um, uh, they put ketchup on it and, and, uh, yeah, he, he just, he couldn't handle the strain and that, that was that. Ooh, I assume you got some sweet, sweet lawsuit money though. Oh man, I can only imagine the people who died from like falling off a coaster, like they gotta be raking it in cause I am set. Yeah.

[00:14:05] I mean, I miss my old man, but I mean, whoa. Oh! Ha ha ha! You're always up to your old antics, Steve. Yeah. Well, you know, it's... What is, what is that? You know, this, this is, uh, this podcast has been in the family for a very long time. As, as, as you know, my, uh, my father, Gary Hilter, he, uh, you know, he had a, uh, tilt-a-whirl mishap.

[00:14:32] It was still, I'm still investigating, so I can't really talk much about it, but... Hmm. Yeah, it's sensitive stuff, uh, Samuel Milton Guyton Sr., my, my old man, uh, of course a previous host on this podcast until he unfortunately had a heart attack on Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia, which brings us to... Oh my God! I love you! Ha ha ha! That brings us to tonight's sponsor, that's Six Flags Over Georgia accident and injury lawyer, John Foy. Call...

[00:15:01] John's a great guy. Give him a call. Ha ha ha! He helps a lot of people. Uh, so today, for you, you, you've been listening, this is episode 764, you've been listening for quite some time. Uh, today we're gonna do a little bit of departure, as you learned on episode 763, we've kind of run out of topics at the old Six Flags, we've, we've covered everything from over Georgia to over Texas to great America.

[00:15:26] Well, and speaking of our previous episode, I got a fan letter, it's, uh... Ooh. It's from, uh, it was from, uh, Russia and I had to run it through several translators, but basically the gist of it was this listener was upset that when we compared Goliath at Magic Mountain to Titan at Six Flags Over Texas, that we decided that Titan was actually the supreme roller coaster. Yes.

[00:15:53] And basically they were saying, you know, we should take into account, you know, the graphics for the, the giant lettering outside of, outside of Goliath and the placement and how you can see the optimal view of the parking lot from Goliath as opposed to the suboptimal view of the parking lot at Titan. Yeah. Um, you know, basically it was, it was followed by a number of threats, but I just, you know, I just wanted to put it out there since I am the mail guy. Yeah.

[00:16:23] And also the, the, the color hue of the orange of Goliath versus the color orange hue of Titan. That, that was a big sticking point. Right. Yeah, guys, I gotta tell you that, I mean, the forums were just going crazy after that episode. I, I don't know about that Russia guy, but, uh, the rest of us coaster heads were, we're kind of, we thought you were kind of crazy after that one. I mean, I know it was like my dad's last episode, but right. Yeah. But yeah, God bless him. Right. Right. Yeah.

[00:16:53] God, God bless him. I, you know, miss him. But, uh, I mean, he made the wrong choice. Uh, yeah, I got it. I got a, I got a, I got to agree with Russia guy. Yeah. And I also, uh, want to remind everybody since we have our a hundred thousandth subscriber, we're doing that whole, uh, Warner Brothers Batman box set giveaway. So you just need to go on and like, and subscribe for your chance to win since we've got a hundred thousand subscribers. Thank you very much for all your support.

[00:17:22] Episode 764 underway. Now what we decided since we've covered all of six flags, all 35 parks in North America, and we've compared and contrasted. And we have finally decided that six flags over mid America or six flags, St. Louis, it reigns supreme as the best six flags theme park. So we have to change it up a little bit. So we're looking at, you know what I, we know, you know what I have to say about that.

[00:17:52] Yeah. Yeah. We've heard it. We heard it. Too many speed ramps. You got it. Yeah. Oh God. Oh God. So we have decided to look at other theme parks and one theme park in particular, we looked at universal. There's, there are parks by a Disney.

[00:18:17] And so we collectively looked around to try to find the best attraction that we could talk about. That was the closest thing to a six flags attraction. And we found country bear jamboree. Yeah. Yeah. So wait, wait, we're not, we're not going to talk about Fright Fest. I mean, well, I mean, we've covered it before. I mean, 20 years. It's Halloween. It's Halloween. Yeah. But yeah, people can't do it right now.

[00:18:46] Well, I mean, you can reminisce about when you could go to the Fright Fest and, you know, teens would, would yell at you and stuff. I mean, I love that. Yeah. I mean, we did have that, that episode a couple of years ago, the top 10 Halloween stabbings and, uh, you know, also there's, we, we, we have a rich history. I was, I'm thinking of it as like, we're dressing up the show, you know, we're, we're like doing it. We're doing a different thing. It's kind of fun for Halloween. Yeah. Fancy clothes. Yeah.

[00:19:16] I mean, we don't have to, I mean, do you want to be on the show? No, no, no. Bears sound pretty wicked. I mean, I'm, I'm, I'm stoked. Let's talk about bears. Yeah. Well, we're dressing up. We're, we're, I've got my new year's diaper on and we're going all in for the country bear jamboree. Do you guys know about this attraction?

[00:19:38] I believe I, so I went to Disney's California adventure when it first opened and I remember that there was a bear ride and I don't remember if it was country, but I remember it looked like a bear and you rode in it. I'm pretty sure it's road in the bear. Yeah. It's a country. It's a, it's California. It's a bear. I'm pretty sure that may be right. Right. But that would be the California bear ride.

[00:20:08] Oh, the California bears. That's what it is. California. And then they did raisins too. Oh my gosh. The California bears. Well, the California raisin bears. Yeah. Yeah. They're raisin shaped like bears. I remember that campaign. It was great. Yeah. So are they real bears? Yeah. Are there bears in the, well, so that's what I thought. It's a panda zoo. That sounds cool. It, it, it, it, part of it was, yes, there was a petting do. I did a little research. I've never been.

[00:20:38] So living here in Georgia, the closest I've ever made it to Disney world is the Holy Land experience. Of course. A little bit more respect for our Lord and savior. Oh, okay. Steve. I know your last name is Hiltor, but yeah, little respect. Well, I don't, what are you implying? Well, uh, so, uh, guys, I, I did a fair amount of research on this attraction, this country

[00:21:07] bears and looking at my notes, it turns out it's not the ride at California adventure. Hmm. It is a ride at Disney world. Huh? Okay. I've been there. Yeah. Yeah. You've been to Disney world. Yeah. Yeah. We, uh, when, when I was in a high school, uh, my show choir went down there. Uh, we, uh, we did a couple of shows.

[00:21:32] Um, we, uh, we, we did eat with the ET ride, um, back to the future. It was, it was really, it was, it was, it was great. It was super, super great. Disney world rides. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, I've never been a Disney world, but I, you know, I, I looked through, I found some notes and some sound clips in a Google doc that I think will help me get through this experience. Yeah. Whatever works.

[00:21:59] And, uh, I don't know why I keep going between, uh, like a New York thing and, uh, just normal talk. I don't know. Uh, Uh, yeah. Thank you, Steve. Uh, so I, I found out about this attraction that is at Disney world. Now used to be at Disneyland and it's not there anymore. It's now a Winnie the Pooh ride.

[00:22:26] What, what is, uh, what is that noise? Not into star Wars? No, no, just keep going. I thought I heard something. It just, yeah, don't worry about it. All right. So I want to tell you guys, first of all, about the history of the country bear jamboree. Okay. Now it turns out that the country bears find their origins at the 1960 winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California. Now stick with me, Steve. Stick with me, Nick. Okay. Olympics.

[00:22:56] Yeah. All right. So the Olympic committee reached out to Walt Disney as they felt that the 1960 Olympics needed the Disney touch from using air quotes. Uh, the, he was the chairman of pageantry and opening and closing ceremonies and all kinds of other stuff. So he was responsible for, ready, ready for this, Steve? Yeah. 5,000 live performers. Ooh. Mm. 2,000 live pigeons.

[00:23:28] 75, 75 film screenings. Yay! And 32 statues as tall as 40 feet. Yay! And there were military tributes where eight shots were fired celebrating the previous Olympic events in the past. So this is the eight. Wait, wait, wait. They got that many pigeons and they only shot eight shots? Well, there were eight Olympic James, winter Olympic games previous to this.

[00:23:58] So this was the eighth winter Olympic games. Cause they come every four years. Do the math. 1960. It's like hardly a 21 gun salute, but okay. Yeah. I mean, eight gun salute. Yeah. And they shot 2,000 live pigeons. So this Walt character was so struck with the alpine majesty of the resort that he decided

[00:24:24] to build a year round resort with Disney quality standards. So many, so many know and admire. Now these mountain peaks were crazy. They were like tall as Goliath type mountain peaks. Whoa. Yeah. I'm telling you. So after the end of the Olympics in 1960, there were, uh, this is by the way, just eight months before the first six flags was established in Texas. Wow. Okay.

[00:24:54] Totally. It was, it, it took a date we all know. Yeah. It took five more years for Walt to find this resort at mineral King in Sequoia national park. Now this was in 1965, only a year before the original park, six flags over Texas was acquired by the Pennsylvania railroad, which we've talked about many times in the past. They're looking to diversify. So the Pennsylvania railroad buys the six flags organization.

[00:25:24] Anyway, of course. Yeah. So this area was perfect for year round entertainment. Yeah. Nick, you remember this? You've heard that show. Oh, I go. Yeah. I mean, long time listener. I mean, come on. Yeah. So Disney was given a three year permit to develop the land now. So from 1965 that put it 1968, right? The Walt was fixated on having an evening show to keep guests entertained on the resort.

[00:25:51] This show was to be about bears and that would tie into the surroundings of the resort, right? California, California bears, right? So a bear show. Okay. Yep. So he assigned the project to a guy named Mark Davis and an animator. I'm Alicia. Yep. An animated. Oh, cause he died. I get it. That's clever, Steve. Oh, he died? Okay. I don't know. Maybe. And an animator named Al Bertino.

[00:26:19] So Davis created several concepts for the show. There was a bear. There was a one bear band. There was a bear marching band. There was a mariachi band featuring bears and a Dixieland bears band. Now, how are they going to train the bears to do this? This is a lot of bears. Yeah, it is. And see, that's what my, that was my question too. And then I started looking into it. But it turns out these are robots. What? What? Robots. Robots. Robot bears. You know what?

[00:26:49] I know you're new to this, but robots. That's, that's pretty, that's pretty radical. I think they should have just not, you said it's mineral, mineral king. Mineral king is the resort. It should be robot bear king. So the bears operate the robots or. Probably. Okay. Yeah. I couldn't, I didn't find any research about that. I just know they're robots. Okay. They're called animal the tronics. Oh, that's a good. That's.

[00:27:19] That's auto animal. Metronics is the official full name. Okay. So they were in cars. Yes. Cause it's a play on auto, which is like a car that runs itself and then animal. Cause that's what they are. And then the tronics like electronics. So it's like car animal electronics. That's where they came up with the name. Okay. Okay. That's clever. That makes sense. I got that. Right. Yeah.

[00:27:45] So in late 1966, Walt Disney melt with met with Mark Davis, where he found the final concept of what they called the country bear band. Walt really enjoyed looking through the various sketches with Davis. So after a while when they're doing the sketches and they're looking at them, Walt told Davis he needed to drive back to the studio because he was feeling really tired. Right. And he left Mark's office and he turned to Mark and said, goodbye, Mark, which, you know,

[00:28:16] one says when you leave somebody. Right. So, but that Walt Disney, he died right after this. And Mark Davis said he knew that that was the last time he was going to see Walt because Walt, Jesus, because Walt never said goodbye. It was always see you next week or see you later. Now keep in mind, this was in late 1966.

[00:28:45] This was less than a year before Six Flags over Georgia opened in 1967. Wow. Mm hmm. I just want to keep it in context with everybody. Well, yeah, it makes you think. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just before Six Flags over Texas open or over Georgia opens this Walt Disney guy died. Man. I wonder how many other people died that year. Hmm. It's that's that's an easy thing to find out. Uh, okay.

[00:29:15] So despite the devastating loss of Walt Disney and the opening of Six Flags over Georgia, the Country Bear project continued. Now, at this point, the band was almost completely different. I'm going to Steve get ready for this audio clip. All right. There was little. Oh, so so it's totally different than what we know today. So there was little lemonade bear. There was big Fred, old Zeke, cousin Ted and brother. Zeb.

[00:29:44] And around this time, a demo was released for the mineral King, mineral King resort of this experience. Steve, go ahead and play it. The bear band bears are ready. They're set to serenade. Zeke and Zeb and Ted and Fred and the bear name lemonade. So clap your hands and stomp your feet to the bear toe tapping rhythm. Chuck your worries out the door and try to keep right with them. Yep.

[00:30:14] I don't like sand. So unfortunately, while this project for the country bears was progressing, the plans for the resort with the reside with where the where it would reside crumbled in 1969. This is just two years before 1969 when it crumbled just two years before a major new theme park opened in 1971. And that was, of course, say it with me.

[00:30:42] Six Flags over Mid-America. Mid-America. Yeah, exactly. That opened in 1971 in Eureka, Missouri. Now, of course, is called Six Flags St. Louis renamed in 1996. Now, the Sierra Club protested with the U.S. government blocking the permits that Disney would need to build the resort in Mineral King. Many say that if Walt was still alive, it would have happened, but he was gone.

[00:31:07] So while the development of the resort came to a halt, the team developing the country bears had no intention of stopping the development of this audio animatronic show. So they decided that the soon to open Matt, Magic, Magic, Mag, Mag, Matt, Mattress out. Spell it out. Mattress out. M-A-G-I-C. Magic the Gathering. That's magic. Magic.

[00:31:32] Oh, Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida would be the perfect location to house this show. They worked. Yep. Totally. Because it's a swamp. Steve, you're good with the audio. I'm telling you. Who knew? 20 years in. Oh, that's Steve. That's Steve. Yeah. That's Steve. Oh. I would. Podcasting gods. Man, I've never asked my dad.

[00:32:00] Like, how did all those sounds happen? Yeah. Yeah. 20 years into this podcast. Wow, behind the curtains. Yeah. Oh. Well, he's got a Seinfeld one. That's cool. Yeah. Is that what that is? I never saw it. Yeah. So it's a little bit, you know, it's a little bit racy for me. They worked tirelessly to complete this attraction for the opening day of the Magic Kingdom.

[00:32:27] And they brought on X-Atencio. Now, X, I believe, is short for X-Ray. X-Ray Atencio. Oh, I thought it was Professor X. It might be. It might be. Both of those are red. Anyway, this X-Ray Atencio and George Bruns. George Burns. George Burns. Oh, oh God, you devil. He's a comedian. Yeah, totally. He's got the cigar. He's the one with the cigar. Yeah. Yeah. So what did George Burns do with this?

[00:32:55] He and X-Ray Atencio were responsible for the music, which I would love to hear about. Oh, yeah. Well, it takes place in a show, right? Yeah. It's a 350-seat theater called Grizzly Hall, and it was built to house the attraction. It's a 16-minute show, and there are 18 bears. All robots, by the way. So do they skin the bears and then put the...

[00:33:22] They take the bear skin off of actual bears, and they wrap them around robots. And there's... Spoiler alert, there's more on that later. Oh, okay. So... Oh, man. Nick, you... I'm on the edge of my seat here. Nick, you got into like the characters and stuff, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean, I know all about the characters. What? And I do know that... And the way the show goes. And I do know that the show opens with a piece of music called Pianjo.

[00:33:53] Pianjo, yeah. Yeah, I have a recording of it recorded, actually performed by a YouTuber named Josh Freilich? Freilich? I don't know. Anyway, here it is. So... He's... He's, uh...

[00:34:18] So this piece of music was written by Don Robertson, who wrote numerous classic country and pop songs. Pop songs? Okay. Including hits for Eddie Arnold, Hank Snow, and the Shornettes, along with Hank Lachlan and Elvis Presley. He developed a slip note technique, later extended on by Floyd Kramer, and used by a lot of pianists to simulate a steel guitar bend by hitting a note a half tone away from

[00:34:46] the intended note and quickly recovering to the intended note. And I don't know if this piece of music was written specifically for the Country Bear Jamboree, but it appears that it might have been. I don't believe it was. I think you mean slip knot. Right, slip knot. Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's what they called it. That's why the band was the band. Um, but no, the song was written separately.

[00:35:13] Most of the music in the show was actually sourced from elsewhere, but they adapted it for the show. And they re-performed it. This band called the Stonemans, they did a lot of the re-recording of the music and they were the voices for a lot of the bears. Um, because- Oh, the Stonemans actually did some of the- I- that's interesting.

[00:35:35] Because in, uh, finding this research already done for me, um, it's almost like referring to notes that we can't refer to. Um, I have seen a lot of things referring to the Stonemans and they're kind of a, a mystery slash, I mean- Not mystery to me. You mean stoned men, right? Because who else would write songs for bears?

[00:36:03] Hold on, I got the perfect thing though. Hey man, let's write some songs for some bears, man. Smoke weed every day. Exactly. Six Slag Show, 764. Anyway, uh, the Stone, the Stonemans, Stonemans, it's spelled Stonemans, it's not the Stoneman- I guess it's when it's your last name, you just put an S at the end. Uh, they were, so they were, they were a specific band.

[00:36:31] So, uh, uh, Steve, do you have any, I mean, have you, are you prepared to talk about some of the style of music that's in this show or, uh? I am. And, uh, because, um, well, you, you might not be familiar with the interface that I'm, I'm using to do this, but, uh, I have things loaded kind of chronologically in the show order. Oh, the show order. Which means that there's, which means that there are some things that I haven't gotten to yet.

[00:37:00] Oh, a podcast thing. Okay. Yeah. Well, should we finish up with the, the history and then, then move on to the, the music part? Oh, we got the history down. The only other thing I would say is that, so first of all, the biggest takeaway I want to, is this attraction at Disney World had its origin at a mountain ski resort that Walt Disney was trying to develop in California and they opened it at Disney World. And this was the first attraction that Disneyland borrowed from Disney World.

[00:37:30] Before that, it was the other way around. It was always Disney World getting attractions from Disneyland. This is the first one that was copied at Disneyland from Disney World. Pepsi Cola was the original sponsor. And that's the history. Pepsi and Pepsi. Well, Pepsi and Frito-Lay. Well, in Wonder Bread at some point came in. One and the same. At Disneyland. Yeah. Hi, welcome to Chili's. Yeah. They also sponsored the Hungry Bear restaurant, but you know. Oh, Hungry Bear. I mean, I've never been.

[00:38:01] It sounds good. It does. It sounds like you, you, it sounds like the kind of place that you might be able to enjoy a meal while also watching some sort of, I don't know, water traffic go by. I'm just, I'm just, I'm just. Just went into a fugue state for a second. Yeah. That's, that's pretty nice. Yeah. Thank God I'm a Hungry Bear. Oh, you should, you should trade my flight. So, Watercraft, you mean like a flume ride? Like, uh. Possibly a flume ride. Yeah. Good old splash waterfalls.

[00:38:31] Uh. I was thinking like, maybe, maybe they have a canoe. Huh. Okay. Can you. Huh. Weird. Okay. That's real weird. Uh, thinking about, uh, moving your own boat at a, uh, at a theme park. I mean, come on. Uh, anyway. Uh, so the, yes, the, the stone, the stone, stone men's stone man's, uh, they were a, uh, they were a band in the, the started. Wait, wait, wait. Sorry.

[00:39:00] Were you talking about a flume ride like Thunder River? Which is an Intamin's River Rapids ride at Six Flags Over Georgia? Yeah. Intamin's? Yeah, exactly. The people who make breakfast. The breakfast pastry guys who also make water rides. Uh, I mean, my goodness. What, what, that's God's profession right there. Yeah. It's in the screen. And rides. Yeah. It's in the scream punk district of Six Flags Over Georgia. We need to build a wall. Yeah.

[00:39:29] I mean, log, everybody knows log is run, logger's, logger's run. Uh, the, uh, the original log, log flume at, uh, great America. I mean, yeah, it's still there. It's, it's great. Everybody loves it. It's, it's fantastic. Yep. Sorry. Sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to make sure I knew what you're talking about. Okay.

[00:39:46] And those of you who enjoy listening about, uh, comparisons of water rights, you might want to check out episode 598, where we, we compare a tidal wave at magic mountain to splash water falls at Six Flags Over Georgia. Yeah. Spoilers. Sorry. Uh, where.

[00:40:16] That's grammatically correct. I live in the South, but I even, I know that. Oh man. Okay. They were a group. They, they played kind of a really for the time they played old timey music. Um, they had a specific sound. It was very much, um, kind of what we would consider to be a bluegrass sort of band today. But, uh, but they were, they, they weren't huge, but they kept putting out albums.

[00:40:41] They had some, some hits in the, uh, the sixties as they kind of went into a little bit of the hippie, the hippie territory. And, uh, we, listen, we are, we got it. Listen, I live in South. Weed is not legal. You're talking about bluegrass and hippies. What are we talking about? We're talking about, about mountain music. I mean, go, go up to the Appalachians. Come on. Um, blue Ridge. Got it. Yeah. So we'll, we'll talk, we'll talk more about the, uh, the stone, the stone men's when we, they, they were pretty involved in this.

[00:41:10] They played some of the bears that, like I said, uh, well, let's just, let's just start talking about the show. Um, let's do it. Yeah. I mean, we, we talked about the sponsors of the show. I mean, let's talk about the show. Yeah. Shout out to Pepsi and wonder bread and Frito-Lay. So Pianjo. Yeah. That piano, the, the, the show starts out with Pianjo, which is nice. It's a piano. That sounds like a, like a banjo. I like that. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:41:37] And then it has, uh, you know, I w I w I w they open with the, the opening song though. That's kind of, uh, uh, it's a take on the, the demo that, uh, Sam gave us. So you can imagine that. Uh, do you have any, anything about the characters that show up there? Cause the next. Do you mean traders name? Yeah. Oh, sorry. I know you don't like when you get called Sam, Samuel. Um, sorry. Yes. Samuel. Right.

[00:42:07] So the next song that I have is, uh, uh, don't bear bands, serenade, or do you have the one after that? If you don't bite, if you can't, don't growl. Yep. Oh, okay. Well, let's, yeah, let's talk about the, the bear band serenade. Cause that's the, uh, the, the intro with, uh, so the Henry is the, the master of the master of ceremonies. He's a big bear. He's got two hats on. What's that MC MC? Well, yeah. A master of ceremonies. Yeah. That's what that means. Okay. That's what that means. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[00:42:36] He's, he's got, uh, he's got a top hat, you know, that's, that's pretty great. Um, and he's played by, uh, Pete Renaday who, um, can I ask you a question? Yeah. Uh, what's a bottom hat? Like, is that like underwear? Shoes? No, no. Well, bottom hat is when you have two hats on. Oh, so you have a top and a bottom. Got it. MC. Yeah.

[00:43:03] Um, so, so he introduces the show and there used to be a, uh, he used to sing a song with, um, another, what show does he introduce? The, uh, country bear jamboree. Oh yes. Yeah. That's the one we're talking about. Oh, CBJ. I like it. I like it. That's really good. Uh huh. So, uh, Henry, Henry introduces the show. He used to do, um, he used to do, um, he used to do a, uh,

[00:43:31] he used to do a song with, with a bear called Wendell who plays the mandolin. And, uh, that's not in the show anymore. Oh, you're talking about fractured folks on fractured folks song. Yeah. Well, I happen to have in this pile of notes that I was handed that fractured folks song was, uh, performed by Homer and Jethro. Uh, they were satirists. They did like hillbilly parody. Uh, they were, they considered themselves like thinking men's, uh, hillbillies.

[00:44:00] And here is them performing that song. And, um, just giving away the pretense here. I think anyone who's familiar with the origin, with the song from the show will find this very familiar. And we so dedicate. Ain't you gonna help me out over there, Henry?

[00:44:27] Goodness gracious, what do you think we got you on the record for? Boys. Boys, boys, please. If you can't cut it, just lay out. Boys, let's not fight now because we've got work to do here. Now here's a fractured folk song butchered by two birds. Yeah, we wrote these lousy lyrics. And we also wrote the birds. The chords are very simple. In fact, there's only three.

[00:44:55] First it's G, then C and D, and then go back to G. But you gotta be quick. That's from the show. No, it's good intro. It is, but it's not. What? Right. It was cut in 2012. Right. But I mean, like the recording sounds like it's a recording of the show, but it's not. It's different. It's the other guy. That didn't sound like Homer. Sure.

[00:45:22] So this is the fun thing where a lot of these, some of them are direct track lifts, especially the text ridder ones. But some of them are like so close that you're sure it's the same thing, but it's not. And it's really cool because in doing the music, they, it appears, and I'm guessing the two

[00:45:47] of you might have more information on this, but it, they were very, very, very respectful to the source material, to the point that like, they were finding musicians to lift from that were very respected or had, but they weren't like obvious ones. They weren't obvious choices. Like an obvious choice. If you're doing a rock show would be like Elvis.

[00:46:10] Well, they went with like a couple steps below that to show that they actually knew what they were dealing with, with country music. And when they couldn't get the original artists, what they would do is they would get like a voice actor or somebody who would take on the vocal qualities or characteristics of the original musician. And you're going to hear a lot of that as we go forward. Yeah. Let's go forward. All right, let's do it.

[00:46:38] Actually, we do have to jump back because I was wrong. The first two steps forward, one step back. Yeah. The first, the first song after P and Joe was, is actually the bear band serenade. The fractured folks on came after that, but bear band serenade is one of the original songs for the show.

[00:47:00] And Henry, the MC, he introduces the five bear rugs who are Zeke, Zeb, Ted, Fred, and Tennessee. And a bear named Tennessee. It's a, yeah. So they're, they're a little, they're a little group that pop up and they sing a song that kind of sets the stage. And now, now that it, what's interesting is when I, when I was looking at the origins,

[00:47:29] there was lemonade, Fred, Zeke, Ted, and Zeb. So is the only difference, was the only difference Tennessee? Oh, that's hot. That's hot. That's hot. Zeke and Zed and Ted and Fred and a bear named Tennessee. It's just lemonade is the only thing that changed. Sounds like it. Um, yeah, I guess, well, they don't sing. Um, Henry sings the song about them. They play music and, uh, it's, it's nice. It's a nice intro. It's fun.

[00:47:55] You get to see the, the, the kind of tone of the show and how things are going to go. It's a little, little, not too serious, but there's good music and we're good. Um, well, and they, I, I, like I said, I don't have that song. Cause I, I pulled only things that were like original outside of Disney, but to give an example of the source material that they were drawing from, here's a clip from hee-haw, which

[00:48:21] is an old TV show featuring a ton of these very well-respected country luminaries. Uh, Steve Martin and, uh, Goldie Hawn. Yes. Playing in that, that style. And there's a string being grandpa Jones, Roy Clark, Bobby Thompson, and Ronnie Stoneman.

[00:48:51] Oh, Ronnie Stoneman singing. Stop that tickling. Oh, the Stoneman. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. So you can hear the influence. And what was the name of that song? Not, not the real one. The one from country bears, uh, the bear band serenade, serenade. They don't find a bear band. Good old key of G. No, that's the other one. Nevermind. Go ahead. All right.

[00:49:21] Sorry. All right. Yep. So then we, we, we skip over a song that was, that was cut. Uh, then we get to, if you can't bite, don't growl. We, uh, we bring the, we've got the five bear rugs still out there and, um, and we bring out a new bear who plays the fiddle named Ernest. One night I left the wife. And this is the original song, uh, sung by Tommy Collins.

[00:49:49] Tommy was active primarily during the 1950s through the 1970s. Uh, he was instrumental in helping create the Bakersfield sound of the country music genre. Now, the Bakersfield sound is a subgenre of country music developed in the mid to late fifties and, and around Bakersfield, California. It was influenced by rock music. Uh, so therefore you have electric, uh, instrumentation and a defined backbeat.

[00:50:18] It was a reaction against the slickly produced orchestra laden Nashville sound and became one of the, it became one of the most popular and influential strains of country music initiated a revival of honky tonk music. And that led to country rock and outlaw country musicians. And this guy wrote some songs for Merle Haggard's band, the stranger. So again, this is, these are legit people.

[00:50:44] And in 1954, he had like a number two hit number four hit number nine in 19, in 1955. He's up in the number fives. And then sixties come around. People aren't as interested in country, but as the country revival comes around at this time, of course, he's there to be like, Hey, I'm a guy. Yeah. I'm a guy. Guy who does things guys. I'm a guy. Hey, hey, hey, hey guys, guys.

[00:51:15] All right. That's really cool. Um, now in the show, in the, the country bear show in, in the CBJ, uh, originally this, uh, song was sung by van Stoneman. Uh, but he was rerecorded over by Randy sparks later, but the original record that came out for the show and the CD that came out in 2003 still had van Stoneman on there, the original recording. So more stone. Very cool. More stone.

[00:51:44] I didn't know that they were so, so the stone men are, I may as well get into this. Um, taking over. Um, so Ernest Stoneman, uh, is kind of seen as like one of the, there's just so much information on him. He's seen is kind of like one of the founders of modern country music.

[00:52:13] Uh, he's just this dude who grew up in the mountains and did a bunch of odd jobs and like kind of just got around somehow, uh, had a big family and they all learned how to play. You know, this traditional music and kind of stumbled. I mean, I'm really, really paraphrasing here. He kind of just stumbled into this wild success. And by wild success, I mean, like he was wildly.

[00:52:44] Respected. Um, but as I would imagine someone doing the research into like, you can't even find some of their music on a digital medium. Um, so they're kind of a lost, you know, treasure of this genre of music. And I understand that not everybody's into it, but it's, it's still a legitimate genre, you know? Well, yeah.

[00:53:09] And I guess that that's, that's the point that I have come across is that like me being not necessarily a huge fan of country, but like, I can kind of appreciate it, especially like this older stuff. Um, they're really, they're really, really sticking to the roots as closely as they can, when they can. Now, do they, do they cover country and Western or just the one? Oh, they, they cover country and Western during the show. Yeah.

[00:53:36] Well, really the, I guess, Dan, would you agree? I think the, the, the stone men, the stone man's I'm sorry, Steve, Steve, I'm sorry. I'm new to the show. That's uh, Steve, Steve, um, would you agree that, uh, the, the stone men's, um, are probably more country cause Western like country was like Southeastern music and Western was Southwestern music.

[00:54:03] Because he said, he said, California that's country that's Western. Yeah. Yeah. For me living in Georgia, it's California is about as Western as you can get. Well, I think the, the distinction is that Western is more like, uh, more about cowboy kind of stuff and country is more about like hillbilly kind of stuff, but I don't really know. You watch your mouth. So country and Western.

[00:54:32] No, they, I mean, the show really does cover country and Western. Uh, the stone men were probably more country sound, even though they were, uh, you know, they, they kind of hit it big out, out West. So they were the old, the old style of music. All right. So moving on my woman ain't pretty, but she don't swear. None liver lips McGrawl. Um, he, uh, pretty, but she don't swear. None. Yeah. Um, he, I live in the South.

[00:55:01] Oh, that's right. And it's a real song. I forgot. Yeah. It's an actual song. Uh, however, it is voiced by another stone man, Jimmy stone men. That's a good name. Really? Jimmy. Cause it sounds, he sounds a lot like text writer from the original recording, which sounds like this. I've got a woman.

[00:55:31] She's got me, whatever we do. We both agree. She ain't pretty, but I ain't too. The things we like are the things we do. A woman ain't pretty, but she don't swear. None. She's kind of heavy, but don't weigh a ton. She's my woman through and through. I love her only cause her heart is true.

[00:56:00] So yeah, but, but Jimmy did a good impression. You're right. Who? Jimmy. Stoneman. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's been like a minute. You forgot. Okay. I mean, Samuel did a pretty good rendition as well, but no, Jimmy, Jimmy Stoneman. That's it. Cause the Stoneman recorded most of this music, right? Like for the show. That that's interesting. Cause it really does the vocals. I I'm not disputing you at all.

[00:56:30] Cause you, I think you've done way more research than I have. Um, but it really does sound like Tex Ritter's voice, which again goes to where they're really trying to pay tribute to these people. Tex Ritter, by the way, it's father of John Ritter. Yep. He's company worked in radio movies, TV and musical recordings. Um, he was instrumental in starring the country music association and opening the country music hall of fame.

[00:56:55] He was one of a few singing cowboys from the era, which if you're thinking about that, it's Gene Autry, Roy Rogers. It's this good humor dude dressed in all white, kind of a little too on the right side of the law. And it sounds to me like Tex Ritter.

[00:57:16] I, there's not a lot that I found about his musical or that someone found about his musical output, but it seems like he played a lot with archetypes, you know, being an actor and everything. And this will come into play later when we get to another song. Can we agree that Gene Autry's Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is the all time best? All time best Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer or the all time best Gene Autry or the all time best? All time best Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer rendition.

[00:57:47] Okay. Um, it's not. It's a pretty good rendition. It's not coming to me. I'm not as into Christmas as. It's better than Burl Ives. Oh, how dare you? I said it. That was already gone. Anyway. I mean, it's, it's no, uh, it's not a good idea. I mean that. Yeah, it's good, but it's no Superman ultimate flight. Okay. It's true. That's true. That's fair. That's fair. Okay. All right.

[00:58:17] Moving on. Uh, so we got through, through a couple things. We got a little slower song. We'll, we'll keep it slow. We'll keep it funny. We got mama. Don't whoop. Little Buford, uh, from Henry and little. Little Buford. And this is again, uh, Homer and Jethro, who were Henry Haynes, who was Homer and Kenneth Byrnes, who was Jethro.

[00:58:47] Imagine if Homer. Kenneth Byrnes went on to make a lot of documentaries for PBS. Um, I'm gonna do it. Buford. Buford. Buford was proud as could be. At last he had passed to the third grade. They liked reverb a lot of these guys. And Buford is just 23. 23.

[00:59:12] I imagine if this attraction was still open in Florida, which I suspect it is that, that, uh, song about beating your children or shooting them instead. In this PC time with cancel culture. Probably goes over really well. Yeah, possibly. I mean, the song gets, the song gets, uh, well, they, they keep explaining why she should just shoot him. Right.

[00:59:41] I mean, yeah. Yeah. The original song, not in the show and the show, it just ends at that. And, uh, Dan, if you got something to say, I love the end of the song. Who? Steve. Steve. Yes. Nick, I know you're new to the show, but, uh, if you look, I'm, I'm used to people calling me Steve Hitler and you know, I've just gotten kind of gotten over it.

[01:00:06] Cause like, it's just a name and, uh, you know, it's sorry, Steve, but like, I'll learn your name. Just making up another name for me is not cool. It's a little offensive, Nick. I know you're new and you're welcome to the show. Cause your dad, it's a little bit of nepotism, but. Well, it's, it's totally, it's legacy. You know, it's, I mean, this is, this has been the structure of the show for years. If we're going to be really honest about it. I mean. Yeah. His, his dad, Jeremy Spencer.

[01:00:40] Nick has replaced him. Welcome change, but we miss Jeremy sometimes. Don't we all. I mean, you know, when I just kick back and listen to Jeremy talk all day. Look guys, when our great grandfather started this podcast, I don't think that they imagined. First of all, I don't think that they imagined that they so quickly go through so many hosts. I mean, we don't really talk about it.

[01:01:09] It's so very often on the show. How, you know, we've. Mostly the hosts of the show are descendants of people who've died at six flags. That's. That were. That were once hosts of the show. That's how we get new hosts. That's how it works. That's how often it happens. That's how it works. So anyway. All right. So Buford's dead. Now what? Yeah. Buford gets shot and, and, and, and, and, and Henry goes. What?

[01:01:39] He, he apologizes for the, the tone of the show and moves quickly on to another song. I think in the original recording, he goes bang. Yes. He just says bang. Yeah. Do we want to hear a, a take on Mr. Sandman from our two new friends, uh, Homer and Jeff?

[01:02:15] Mr. Sandman. That's what I've ever seen. It's like. Cracker. I'm not. We're not. We're not. We're by a radio. Yeah. It's kind of. I like a lot. One on the bottom and two on the top. I don't. You gave her a pretty face.

[01:02:43] One on the bottom, two on the top. Yeah. Let's not get further into that. All right. Novelty recordings from the sixties. That's great. It's a good time for everybody. Mm hmm. Everybody had a really good time in the sixties. Everybody. We slow it down a little bit here for a little ballad, little, little forlorn love. Uh, tears will be the chaser for your wine. Mm hmm. They sure will.

[01:03:12] By Trixie, who is a, uh, very large bear. Uh, she has a little blue bow and a blue tooth. Fat shaming. I feel like, uh, she's, she, I mean, she's got a little wine. She's okay. Homer and Jethro could have written a song about her at some point. Um, so she's not voiced by a stone man. She's voiced by Cheryl pool. Right.

[01:03:37] And Cheryl pool is, um, recreating a song by Wanda Jackson. Um, and if you listen closely, she's really, really closely recreating certain aspects of Jackson's singing style. Uh, now the, uh, Wanda Jackson's career was, uh, kind of went back and forth between rock and rockabilly. She's known to many as the queen of rockabilly or the first lady of rockabilly.

[01:04:07] She makes country music with fast moving rockabilly. How many more times can I say rockabilly? We'll find out. Um, so she would often record each style on, uh, opposite sides of a record. And then as rockabilly declined in popularity in the sixties, she moved into a successful career in mainstream country music. Uh, she's got a string of hits from 1961 and 1973, right or wrong tears would be the chaser for your wine.

[01:04:34] A woman lives for love and fancy satin pillows. Uh, she had a resurgence in popularity in the eighties with rockabilly revivalists in Europe and America. Um, and she was working up until, uh, March of 2019. So she's really kind of bad-ass. And, um, if you listen to the production on this, sorry, I know.

[01:05:02] Uh, if you listen to the production on this, you will hear there's some stereo manipulation in here. So like there's the, the different channels are doing different things, which takes this song further away from folk and country, which is more of like a documentarian sort of recording process to more into like the rock area. And it sounds something like this.

[01:05:30] And for a lot of these, I'm pulling parts of the songs that aren't in the show, by the way. If you hear like that, like kind of crying sound or that like the way she's moving around the vowel sounds, it's very similar to what, uh, Cheryl Poole did in the recording.

[01:06:00] Oh, very nice. Mm-hmm. Now she also did a song called Fujiyama Mama and it went something like this. I'm sorry, Sam. I can get behind this. No, I, I, I should have told you we're going to include not only a fake other language, but references to drumming.

[01:06:38] So she's, she's an interesting person that, uh, there you go. Yeah. What happens next? Next. The song picks up or the, the, the show picks up a little bit, uh, with a very fast song. That's still, still sad. Um, how long will my baby be gone? Sung by, uh, by Terrence. Uh, he, um, he shakes around, he plays the guitar and he is also voiced by Van Stoneman.

[01:07:05] And we also have, did you have anything, did you want to do anything about pretty devilish Mary? I skipped over devilish Mary. The song was also cut in 2012. Yeah. Sorry. But, uh, but yeah, that was a Zeke song. It is definitely something to skip over. We don't want to talk about. Okay. Okay. Well, yeah. Yeah. You put your Ouija board away, sir.

[01:07:29] So for people who are into this history, uh, this was performed by grandpa Jones who, uh, developed the claw hammer, the claw hammer style of banjo playing. Uh, did a bunch of stuff, went to world war two and did some flogel stuff, which was a great show to television. He became a charter cast member on the long running television show. He hot. He hot.

[01:07:59] And this is a song. And this is a song that used to be in the show. But then we have how long has this been? Uh, how long will my baby be gone? Right. And this was sung by what was the, what's the fake bears name? Uh, this was Terrence the bear by van van Stoneman, but Terrence the bear. Right.

[01:08:29] And this song was originally performed by Buck Owens, who was also a pioneer of the Bakersfield sound cohost of hee haw. And again, you'll hear the vocal style is being imitated. Those of you who are familiar with the song from the show, the vocal style is very much being imitated without being a caricature of this well-respected country musician.

[01:09:05] You know, those like drawn out O's and A's. Yeah. I can get behind all this. Yeah. I love that. It's drumming. It's a notion. And yeah, they turn, they, they turn this guy's singing style into the style. Like they adapted it.

[01:09:32] So it does sound like an animated bear, but it also, you can still kind of hear the DNA of this person's performing technique. Hmm. Yeah. And then. Now, now for some comedy, all the guys who turn me on, turn me down. Yeah. Or are you going to go into your 20 minute set, your 20 minute standup set? Cause I mean, we don't have a lot of time for that. No, no. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:10:01] I know you guys told me, you guys told me not to do that. So it's fine. No, it's fine. I'll just keep talking about the bear songs. I like the joke about just some feedback from the last set. I feel like the Pope is an easy target and you're better than that. So. Okay. I mean, yeah, fine. Okay. That's all. I'm just, I wouldn't, I wouldn't share if I wasn't trying to be helpful. Okay. No, no, no.

[01:10:31] I should, I shouldn't have such thin skin. You know, you're, you're, you're trying to, you're trying to get into comedy. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. Yeah. So what next three, three, three, three. Doing fright fest this year. No, not a great America. I tell you, I mean, you look at the site and like, they got, they got lots of ads for like, Hey, look at spooky. Oh, but no, there's, there's, they're not doing that. Huh? Hmm. Yeah. I know.

[01:11:00] I'm thinking of just sitting around and scaring myself with a can of beans. I hired some teens to hide behind the garbage. Can. It looks like they're doing a hollow fest. Looks like, looks like what? They're doing a hollow fest. Sam. Hollow fest. Yeah. I'm looking at it right now. It's some September 18th to November 1st. They're doing hollow fest at six flags. Well, you know, public health. Yeah.

[01:11:29] This is Georgia. That's how it is. Well, you know, it's really that it's, it's that, that, uh, kind of carefree. Uh, the view on human life that we have come to love about six flags. And there's an intense desire for us. Spooky night. When there's now their day thrills.

[01:11:52] However, when the clock strikes six, the creatures of nightmares are unleashed for the daily haunting rituals, hunting rituals that you may find yourself in fine spine tingling scare zones without warning. There's scarecrows square where fall is in the air and scarecrows are everywhere. Pirate point featuring silly stories from the sea of for scallywags of any size. This is real. Jesus. Ah, you know, every, every year.

[01:12:19] I am upset that they don't have fright fest at my, uh, home park of magic mountain. Because as you know, that's how I get my, uh, season pass every year. Cause they have, have a contest and this is real where whoever can stay in a coffin, the longest gets a free season pass. Again, that's a real thing. Oh, here are the ghoul rules.

[01:12:42] Well, first of all, I want to tell you about some of the exclusive eats, the Takis zombie nachos, the Snickers funnel cream cake, the monster chocolate cotton candy dip and dot. I have my soundboard for this. Scare, scare, scare atcha wings. See, scare atcha. The candy monster. Peachtree dip and dots. Here are the ghoul rules. We invite you to, we invite you to Halloween safety and mask up this fall.

[01:13:11] Mask must be worn by all guests three years of age and older. And masks must cover both nose and mouth. No full facial masks and or coverings would be permitted. Cannot cover your eyes. Guests 12 and under may wear a costume, but no masks associated with the costume are allowed. No park reentry will be permitted and social distancing protocols must be maintained at all times. Yep. That's six flags over Georgia hollow fest. Suck it.

[01:13:41] Rest of the country. Yeah, I miss it. Yep. Let's continue with the rest of this delightful show you guys are talking about. You guys, do you guys have like a, like a sponsor or something? Uh, well, just keep going. Listen, I was doing some research for this, right?

[01:14:02] I was researching this show and I came across a company called concierge, which is a Disney travel planning website. Now I've only ever been the closest I've been at Disney world is the Holy land experience. Right. Oh, wait, wait. So it's like there are a concierge. Yeah. Concierge. Okay. But they, they can also hear. So they're concierge. They listen to you about your trip to Disney.

[01:14:30] Concierges being traditionally deaf. Yes, exactly. Yeah. Concierges are sign only the sign language only, but these can hear these particular ones. I guess they, they use their ears. They don't use the sign language. And so they can hear what you want to do to travel to Disney world or Disney. It's called Disney. And so, yeah, they, they, I guess they, what they'll do is they'll, they'll plan your entire trip for you.

[01:14:59] Like you talk to them and they, you say, I want to go see country bear jamboree. And then I want to get a fast pass for country bear jamboree. And then I, whatever else there is to do, I don't know, but they'll do it for you. And you won't have to pay extra for it. Like they'll do the whole thing. They'll plan your entire trip where you want to stay, the country bear jamboree hotel. And then they'll, they'll do it all.

[01:15:27] And you won't have to like pay extra money. You just, they'll just do everything. Right. Will they, will they like get on? Yeah, exactly. No, you think they're high, but they do it for free, man. So they'll, they'll like sit on the phone to get me a reservation at that hungry bear place. Right. Exactly. The hunger bear jamboree restaurant. Right. They'll do that. And they'll, they'll just, they'll book the whole thing for you. So you won't have to actually like do anything. You just make a phone call and they'll do everything else. That's what I understand.

[01:15:56] This place is, it's still all about bears. I mean, it's, it's, it's still, it's, that's what I read. Like robot bear ski resort. Yeah. It's, it's now in Florida. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So I think it's a good idea. I think it's something that should be modified for the six flags. Oh, Conti flags, Conti flags. Oh, Conti flags guys. Uh, I don't, I mean, I think this could work. I got, I got a lot of money.

[01:16:24] Would that from the Jeremy Spencer incident, right from the Jeremy Spencer incident. Um, dear old dad would have wanted me to own a travel planners. Oh, absolutely. I remember in the break room, he used to talk about that a lot. Oh yeah. So we can back at, back at the mill. Uh, it would be so great if I could own this, this company and say, let's, uh, let's play some, some trips. Let's make some magic happen.

[01:16:53] Get some families to, uh, their, their favorite six flags park and, uh, put them up in the, the six flags, official best Western down the street. The local best Western. Yeah. And it comes with a life insurance policy. Oh, oh man. Oh yeah. That's, that's an add on that's, that's travel and life insurance, but you don't have to pay extra for that life insurance. You're just paying for the policy.

[01:17:18] There's no like commission for the consie flags organization. Right, right. Yeah. No, we got to keep the main, the main model there. No, no more than if you took out another insurance policy, a standard six flags, uh, season pass holder insurance, life insurance policy. Well, those things are like there's pages long. So much arbitration. Oh no. They'll tell you all about it.

[01:17:45] So consie flags would do all that reading for you and just give you the breakdown. Oh guys, this is a, this is a fantastic idea. You should use some of that, uh, insurance money. Oh man. Buy the consie ears and make it consie flags. Do it. I was, I don't have enough to buy a six flags, so I might as well buy a company that helps bring people to it. Is it flags, flags of years? Oh, cause they're still using their ears. Yeah.

[01:18:14] But they hear the flag. Ear flag. Hmm. Okay. Well, we'll, we'll, we'll work it out once I get the, uh, the, uh, the contract done. Earsy flags. Oh yeah. All right. Anyway. So what else is, what else happened to the show? I've never seen it. The Holy Land experience is the closest I've been. Yeah. So then three, uh, three little adorable bears come up. Uh, they're, they're, they're triplets.

[01:18:39] Are they, uh, oddly attractive and talk about, uh, getting dumped a lot? Uh, yeah, they, they, they don't, they don't do so well with the, uh, the guys. Um, but yeah, they're, they're triplets. Uh, they, they, they're a little horny though. Well, they're not like extremely goofy movie. Oh, nevermind. I'm checking out. They're, they're all right. Uh, they're, they're voiced by, uh, so the, the sun bonnet trio is their name. It's bunny bubbles and beulah.

[01:19:09] Uh, Jackie Ward. It plays bunny. Uh, she's one of the actual partridge family singers heads up. The partridge family did not sing their own songs. Uh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Wait. Oh yeah. Yeah. We're blowing the lid off this one. Um, the six flags show. You heard it here. You know, I had my doubts, Nick about you. Just, just being really honest. I w really wasn't sure.

[01:19:36] I feel like you approached the, I feel like he gave a little bit of attitude at the beginning. And, uh, you know, I was really kind of worried about who's, who's this guy. And, you know, like, I mean, I know he's legacy and you know, there's not much we can do again when our great guy. The parents got together. They put it in their will that this is how the podcast is going to operate. We've stuck to it.

[01:20:00] Oh, but this, this hard hitting, uh, research is, uh, I just gotta say, welcome to the show. Yeah. We are official. You passed it. You've replaced Samuel. I appreciate that so much. I mean, we're still looking for a fourth. We're going, we're going through the bloodline of, uh, of Floyd's third dozens, but we'll find one. I feel like, I feel like dear old Jeremy, dear old dad is looking down from above.

[01:20:30] Oh, he is right now. Judging hard. Every time I meet a guy who gets me shook. Now this is the Stoneman family. All I ever get from him is a dirty look. And, uh, never, never, never. This is from their album, Dawn of the Stoneman's age, which is only available. Clever.

[01:20:57] There's one vinyl copy available on Amazon. And you bought it? Which is, I don't, of course, which I'm not laughing at them for that. I'm laughing at the fact that here's this family. That's like the Earnhardt family for NASCAR. They're there. Right? And like, they made so many albums. Yeah.

[01:21:22] And it's like, I need, I had to scour the internet for any trace of these people. Which is appropriate because Dale Earnhardt Sr. died on the track and Jr. followed in his footsteps just like our podcast family. Well, you know they're fans, right? You know that that's kind of... Yeah, of course. That's how you got, uh, that's how you got up to 20,000, right? 100,000. We just got our 100,000th subscriber. No, it wasn't the first 20,000th. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:21:52] Now if you want to hear more of the Stoneman's, we have, uh, Mama Don't Allow. Now see, this song, they're saying Mama Don't Allow a Certain Thing. Yeah, I can get behind this. Ooh, the thing. What is the thing that they don't allow?

[01:22:18] Right now it's Mama Don't Allow No Dobro playing around here. And that Dobro's getting played. Ooh. Next up they're gonna see, see? Now that's... That's 60s counterculture. Now they're saying Mama Don't Allow no auto harp playing around here. Now they're saying Mama Don't Allow no auto harp playing around here. Guess what they're gonna do? Mom don't allow no auto harp playing around here. Now play the auto harp. Those. Right.

[01:22:45] Now the auto harp is a harp that you play with your car. Yes. Yeah. Of course. And here's, uh, something from them, uh, called Proud to Be Together, Happy to Be What We Are. And this is when they're getting into more of that, like, hippie counterculture stuff. Mm-hmm.

[01:23:17] Like, I think they were, the whole thing was that they were groovy hillbillies. It's not too far from, uh, the Bravies. That's very nice. It's a nice message. Yeah. Yeah. How do we end up, how do we end this show? What else is going on? There's plenty more.

[01:23:47] Don't worry. There's this, we don't have to end the show. There's a lot more information to be had. Yeah. Great. More stone people, I assume. Samuel, you're, you're in, you're in for several. There are more stone people. Uh, so Jackie Ward played Bunny. Um, Bubbles, the second bear, uh, she was played by, uh, uh, Julie Lee, Julie Jean Norman. Louis, Louie Jean? Wait, hang on.

[01:24:14] My, my, my brain, my brain's mixing it up. Louie Jean. Okay. Yeah. That's her name. Louie. Louie Jean Norman. Uh, she sang with Mel Torme, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra. And she was also the wailing voice in the background of the original Star Trek, uh, show. You know, that didn't have words, but there was the, the lady was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was Louie. That's fun.

[01:24:41] And, um, she was cut out of her royalties in the third season because they cut her voice out of the recording. So they didn't have to pair. So that's Louie Jean. Then Bula was played by someone named Peggy Clark. That's all I have on Peggy Clark. Uh, but they are all identical and they sing a song about how, um, they don't, uh, they don't do well with the guys. Hmm. Yeah. It's tough. I know.

[01:25:07] Uh, there's a, there's a nice background during that whole thing that, that shows all the, uh, the, the words of the song. It's, it's an old tactic from before there were, there were movie films, um, that evokes an earlier time. Movie films. Those are the best. In theaters. My favorite one. You know, the movie film. Speaking of movie films, any star Wars episode will make me cry. Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

[01:25:36] Did you, did you know, uh, you hear that, uh, Disney did a star Trek land? What? Yeah, they did play that all the time. Yeah. So that theme. So you're saying that, that they opened up a star Trek land and that theme song is on a loop. Yep. All day. Yeah. That sounds awesome. And like the true original version that has like, like, like bongos in it and stuff. Right. Yeah. Real trippy. I, we should do it. We should do a podcast about that.

[01:26:04] Well, I mean, since we're out of the star Trek land show things, I mean, yeah, as well. Totally. All right. We got to keep this thing rolling. And we do heart. We did all that we could by Teddy bear. Uh, Teddy bear descends from the ceiling. She's large bear on a swing. Um, everybody seems to like her. We, uh, we're led to believe that, uh, she's, she's quite the catch. Um, yeah.

[01:26:30] And that the host really wants to get, uh, he's got a thing for her. He wants to, he wants to do biblical with her. Yeah. Yes. But she is voiced in the show by another Stoneman, Patsy Stoneman. And the song was originally sung by Jean Shepard and it was written by Ned Miller. Now Jean Shepard was an American family. Yes.

[01:26:56] Uh, and she was an American honky talk singer songwriter who pioneered, uh, for women in country music. She had 73 singles to the hot countries songs chart, uh, had a total of 24 studio albums between 1956 and 81. Her first hit was a dear John letter. That's the name of the song. And it was a duet with Ferlin Husky. And there was the first post world war two, uh, record by a woman country artists to sell

[01:27:25] more than a million copies. And again, listening for the similarities in the vocal stylings here, we're having one of the features of the singing is like this wailing, this, this sort of wailing sound that she has. Well here, by the way, the combination of harmonica with guitar right there is awesome. Yeah.

[01:28:03] Oh, get it. So Eeyore's in the show. So I'm guessing Eeyore crawls out during this song and cat calls this poor woman. Thanks for knowing. I didn't expect to get a date. Bring it gal.

[01:28:40] And then she raises up into the ceiling and like tells Henry to come meet her later. Yeah. Soon as I get a ladder, I'm coming up there. Yeah. Again, not as horny as, uh, extremely goofy movie, but it's up there. Hmm. Following this, we move on to blood on the saddle by big Al. Oops. Sorry. I thought it was different.

[01:29:10] No, that's good. That's fine. Uh, big Al is the, uh, is the bear who sings this. And, um, I mean, it's, I'm sure you're going to talk about this, Steve, but, uh, it's, uh, actually a song by Tex Ritter. Um, yeah. And it's sung by Tex Ritter for the show and it introduces even more hilarity into the show. Well, now before you play it, that Albertino is the animator. Oh yeah.

[01:29:40] Helping Mark Davis. And this, this animatronic was literally modeled after Albertino's face is big Al. Yeah. And, uh, this, so it sounds like this is the only song that the track is a direct lift from the original material, which is insane to me because I, so many of these sound like the same thing. But, uh, those of you who familiar with the show sounds like a joke, right? Yeah.

[01:30:08] And this one sounds like a joke and it's completely real. And those of you familiar with the original show, probably not listening to us talk about this for this long without being familiar with it. So I've lifted the part of the song that you have not heard. It's very similar. It's still. I mean, that's the same. Yeah. It's, it's the, it is this recording.

[01:30:38] With the car, strum, chord. And it's, it's the word. Just wait until we get to the reviews. It is this. I got something to say about this.

[01:31:03] Oh, what's interesting though, is that this song, I don't think we need to stick with this much longer, but it eventually does get slightly a beat. It's not like, but like the, the music changes a little bit to be, I mean, it's no, you know, Vanga bus. But yeah, it's, it's nothing like that. But it does. It does. The instrumentation in the background does get a little, a little more rhythmic. Speaking of rhythmic.

[01:31:34] Unless Nick, did you have anything you wanted to get into there? No, Steve, Steve, go for it. Okay. Well, speaking of rhythmic, here's a cover by a YouTuber named Blitzbop of Blood on the Saddle. Oh God. Oh, geez. Oh, stop it. Stop it now. I went to high school with that guy.

[01:32:02] And he also has a cover of Californication by Red Hot Chili. Oh no. No. No. Ah. Stop it. Of the devil. Oh no. No. The, the, the, the, the, the show moves on. They interrupt blood on the saddle because it's so bad.

[01:32:30] The Henry and Henry comes back out and start seeing the ballad of Davy Crockett. You find out that his top hat, which is covered with another coon skin cap. The coon skin cap is actually a raccoon. Sammy. What about his bottom hat? Well, technically now his top hat is the bottom hat. Got it. Yeah. Yep. I was surprised when it was an actual raccoon. Right. It's a, it's a good joke. It's a good joke.

[01:32:58] And, uh, they sit, start seeing the ballad of Davy Crockett, uh, which is a classic tune, a classic, uh, Disney tune from the show. I don't have it, but I do have old slew foot, which they get into. Yeah. Right. Uh, old slew foot comes next and it's a song about a bear. Uh, so pretty much everybody comes back out, uh, to sing old slew foot because big Al comes back up and tries to sing blood on the saddle and everybody overcomes him with

[01:33:26] their singing of old slew foot, which is a song about a bear. Yep. There was blood on the saddle. Yep. There was blood on the saddle.

[01:33:55] Another one of those people who turns out to be a pretty big deal. Um, and he had a dog and he was, uh, American country music, honky tonk and rock, rock, be gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay singer and musician. Uh, he's best known for his saga songs that became international hits. Uh, one of those was the battle of new Orleans. It was awarded the 1960 Grammy award for best country and Western recording and

[01:34:23] Grammys, you know, it's just a bunch of old ladies who get together and they would say, this is the nice. Yeah. It's just Grammys. Uh, so not always the best judgment. His first number one country song was in 1959, which was when it's springtime in Alaska. It's 40 below. Uh, he did a lot of folk ballads based on American historic themes and legend. Um, you can look them up if you want to. He died in November 19.

[01:34:50] I don't usually cover deaths in this kind of stuff. I mean, we talk about it all the time because we go through so many hosts on this show, but, um, six, five podcast, right. It's just kind of par for the course. Uh, but he died in November, 1960 at the peak of fame in a traffic collision less than two years after his breakthrough, which traffic with the Batman, right? Right. Yeah. Um, that's, that's scary.

[01:35:15] Well, and a bunch of people were like really, really shook by this, including Johnny Cash, who said that he basically just locked himself in his bathroom and cried all weekend and then recorded his, a, his own version of when it's springtime in Alaska. It's 40 below. Um, and here's old slew foot. I take me some bees and they started making honey.

[01:35:42] We up in the trees, cut down the tree, but my honey's all gone. Oh, slew foot. So done. Made himself at home. He's big around the middle. That sounds like the last song from the show. Yeah, it is. Strangely enough. And I gotta say, I really find it charming that a bunch of bears are singing about, they're singing a song about a bear potentially killing people.

[01:36:08] And, and the particularly the line, some, some folks say he looks a lot like me. Yeah. No, it's, it's really clever. It's a great choice. Ow! Well, shoot him in the bottom just to listen to him yell.

[01:36:38] Yeah. Sorry. I should have told you that this had the B word in it. Oh, yikes. Let's, uh, break out, break out the old six flags bleep sound. Thank you. You'll hear right there. Baba boy. Yep. So then we move on to, we got one, we got one final song. Unless you want to talk more about old slew foot. No, Nick, go ahead. Okay. Uh, yeah. Cut that out.

[01:37:09] Cut that Baba Bowie out. Uh, come again is the final song and it's a, another George burnt Bruns. You see, I misspelled it too. Uh, Burns, George Burns. George songs. Yeah. Yeah. It's normal. Always with the cigar. That guy. Always with the cigar. But they sing a song and it's, it's kind of like the Tiki, the Tiki. Tiki room song where they're like, Hey, it's been great. Get out of here. That's a, well, he's so funny too. I mean, it's, you can get away with it. Yeah. Right.

[01:37:38] So here's, here's, here's come again. Hmm. Country bears right here. Mm hmm. They take a turn, which I think is really a strong move on their part. Ahead of it. Yeah. Yeah. Now consider that this is also being sung by a, uh, by, uh, by a, a moose and a buck and a bison mounted on the wall.

[01:38:08] Yeah. I had some research on that. Hold on. I'm going to get my DJ hat on here. This is, this is the country and Western, uh, United. Yeah. So those animals on the wall, Max buff and Melvin. That's what they're named for. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, now you're talking. Oh yeah. Now we're, now we're rocking. Oh, it's our theme song. Yeah.

[01:38:38] Everyone at home, you know, you know, you know the dance, you do it. Sam, I see you on your webcam. You're doing the dance. Yeah. I'm doing it. You haven't learned it yet. That's good. You're trying, uh, in the chat, uh, big boy 93, uh, says yeah, my jam. Yeah. Nice. Right. That's our fans. They, they dig it. Oh man.

[01:39:04] So those animals on the wall were Max buff and Melvin and they're still at Disneyland, even though that attraction is closed. They're on the back wall of the wind of the poo ride. There's a poo ride. I don't know if you guys knew that. I did not. What would you, do you have to like turn around to look at them? You got to turn around. You got to be in a specific spot in the car, but you can still see them. They're still there. What kind of a weirdo would do that? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, put a, put a reference to an old ride. No, I don't understand it. That's weird.

[01:39:33] When, when you tear down, when you tear down a ride to put in the Viper, I mean, who cares what the old ride was? Nobody. It's gone. Yeah. There are, there are plaques on the attraction walls and the, in the switchbacks of those rides that show that the names of the deceased from that ride. But yeah. Yeah. I mean, I just don't understand why you would want to hold on to anything of like nostalgic value. Yeah. It's not there anymore. Shouldn't exist.

[01:40:04] Exactly. So, uh, Nick, what there's a last song in there. That was the last song. That was it. Yeah. Yeah. Steve played it in full. Uh, but I, you know, we've got, we've got some other versions here. Okay. These, these bears, they got up to some other stuff. Uh, bears. That is, uh, that is, uh, a hurtful characterization of my, uh, my city of origin. Dark country bears.

[01:40:36] Dark location. Hold on. Country bear Christmas special. Dark Christmas. I'm going to keep going. I'm going to keep going here. George went is spinning in his grave. He's not there. In the winter of 1984. Uh, Disney theme parks. So it's gone too long.

[01:41:09] They got their first Disney theme parks, got their first ever seasonal overlay. How great is that? It's like their first freight fest. They, uh, they got a, they got a, they got a, they got a, they got a, they got a, they a new version of country bears. It's the Christmas special. Um, they put everybody in Christmas, uh, outfits, all the same bears and they have them sing some Christmas songs. Like. Oh yeah. Jesus.

[01:41:40] The reason for the season. The war on Christmas. They did this at Disneyland and in, in, in Tokyo as well. You guys, I didn't. Oh man. Well, I think, I think we've come to the end of our, our line here. Less than. There's more. There's more. There's another show.

[01:42:09] There's another show. Hey, hey, hey. I know that music. Okay. Well, I'll go real quick. Country bear, bear vacation. Hoedown. It was a summer overlay. It's, it's great. They did. They didn't know what to call it. Sometimes they called it country bear vacation. Hoedown. Sometimes they called it country bear theater vacation. Jamboree. That was Japan. No, this is all at Disneyland.

[01:42:35] Oh, uh, country bear playhouse and country bear vacation. Hoedown. Hoedown. With a hyphen in the middle. Ho slash, ho hyphen down. Uh, it was started in 1986 and then it became permanent at Disneyland. They liked it so much. Disneyland, which had two theaters instead of one. But, uh, you all know that. Yeah. It was so popular at Disney world that they built it Disneyland. They built two theaters instead of one. Cause it's so popular.

[01:43:05] And then when it closed, they took one of the big owl named after Albertino. Uh, and they, they took, so they put that robot into the haunted mansion, which I think is a copy of the monster mansion at six fog. Six fog. Of course for you news listeners is the six flags over Georgia.

[01:43:30] And they, they took it skin off and they put it on something called the, uh, Uger booger, the, the, the. The Uger booger man. Yeah. Yeah. I know that guy. The gooey booger man is what they put. They took the skin off and they put the skin on the gooey booger man in the haunted mansion, which is a copy of the monster mansion at six fog. That's great.

[01:44:00] Um, yeah, that, that, that is really pretty great. Um, that, that they put it on the, the gooer man. Um, Um, Louie booger man. Yeah. So, uh, there you go. The, the, the, the summer show wasn't as good. They had some songs that were different. It, it lost some of its magic. Was there any John Denver at all in that one? Uh, I think there was, I think, uh, Thank God I'm a country bear.

[01:44:30] Yes. Yeah. The song is then got him a country boy. No, they, they said bear. Oh, John Denver was a bunch of bears. Was there bears? Samuel John Denver was also a bear. Yeah. He was a bear. Oh yeah. That's a bull hair tracks. That tracks shaved himself every day. Okay. What else? Steve? No, Nick.

[01:44:59] Does Steve have any more to say about the music? Cause, uh, yeah, I mean the, the, the, the summer show was good. Everybody. I mean, some of those bears, uh, were now wearing, uh, bikinis and, uh, I gotta say little, uh, was, uh, the host, little unnerving little, uh, learned a lot about myself that summer. Yeah. I was right. Yeah. Hopefully it wasn't those sexy triplets. That's it. You know, it was, oh, you know, it was, that's why they don't have it in Florida.

[01:45:31] Yeah. You don't want to inflame the, uh, the populace. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, country bears there, uh, you know, I've, I've gained an appreciation today. I'm, I'm really happy. You guys didn't have me talk about, um, freight best again. Mm. Yeah. 20 times is enough. 21. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and we'll get around to it again. I mean, once we get our, we, this is just like a, uh, it's like a, it's a palate cleanser, so to speak.

[01:45:57] I mean, I'm thinking maybe next time, next episode, maybe we could hit some, uh, Cedar fair. Maybe. Ooh, that's a good idea. The Cedar cast. Ah, that's good, man. So are we done ever since we, ever since we, we, we, we sent that cease and desist letter years ago. It's the lady, the lady who had this podcast. Uh, oh, that's right. Oh, that's summer lady, summer roses.

[01:46:27] You've got a six flags podcast episode trying to help women find their voices. And they had a two minute episode with a six flags engineer talking about it. We still in litigation for that. Baba boy. Yeah, exactly. But I, I'm working with, uh, I'm working with our sponsor accident lawyer, John Foy, but, uh, we're still in litigation. Uh, are we, are we done? Cause I want to close out the show.

[01:46:56] I, can I just make one request now that I'm, uh, now that I'm apparently on the show. Yeah. You're official. Oh, excellent. I'm now that yeah. Legacy. Yeah. Um, uh, can we, uh, I mean, you guys know, I live in, in Denver now. Uh, you should I, uh, can we, you know, maybe take a look at, uh, Elitch gardens. I know it's not owned by six flags, but it was for a while. We already did it. We did it. We've done that. Oh, that's right.

[01:47:26] That was, uh, uh, that was the, uh, the 30 episode arc in, uh, two, 2002. That's right. Yeah. You should know. Um, Jeremy was a part of that. Mm. Some would say it's his finest moment as a podcaster. How could I forget? Well, if, if there's nothing else, uh, I want to close the show like we always do and tell you that six flags has 35 parks and water parks in the North America region versus a measly

[01:47:54] six that Disney has in North America. It reminds you that only three of those parks were actually built by six flags. All of those were acquisitions. This is how we close every show. This is unfortunately the shortest episode we've ever had. So hopefully, uh, hopefully you're not feeling robbed. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. We, we forgot. We forgot one thing. Hmm. Uh, how would we rate, how would we rate country bear? Oh, that's right.

[01:48:19] On our normal rating system out of six flags from a scale of zero to six. I vote country bear jamboree four out of six flags. Yeah. I'm going to go four flags, but then like another flag at half mass for an ad flags. Yeah. Okay. Uh, I, I go with a solid five because, uh, noob. I mean, you gotta, you gotta respect some, uh, some air conditioning.

[01:48:48] Uh, six flags doesn't have a lot of air conditioning and these guys, they got it together. That's true. It's a 60, 16 minute air conditioned episode with 18 bears. Is that what I said? Yeah. Yeah. Uh, also when doing research for this episode, uh, I came across some other shows. I was wondering how this is going to happen. Yep. I came across the way it always ends. Some other shows that might interest Disney fans.

[01:49:17] That's, uh, there's one called ears up. That's with the Z there's ears up with the Z in depth, just as it sounds. Uh, there's a band her best car and bantha milk. There's one called scraping the vault, which I really enjoyed. It's a reviewing straight to Disney video sequels. Uh, and there's a show called, uh, the Supreme resort where they, these morons, really, morons.

[01:49:48] They go and they do all this research on these things and they compare it like gay holes. It's not, it's no six flags. It's just a ride. It's just a ride. Like what are they doing? It's just such a waste of time. And they just do this painstaking research and they just talk about history and these people that talk about, and they go through like music and they talk about the origins of stuff. And it's just, it's tedious to do and to listen to. I know.

[01:50:16] It's painful just to talk about. Right. But, uh, as we end every episode, be safe. Be safe. Don't forget to check those safety restraints. Try not to die. Try not to die. Nick, any, any last thoughts? No, thanks. Thanks a lot for having me here, Samuel and Steve. This has been a great experience. Yeah.

[01:50:46] It's a good first run for you. I, I just, I just think about your old dad, Jeremy, looking at me from, uh, close to heaven. From below. From, from, from deep below the earth in close to heaven. Every time I ride to Texas cliffhanger, I'll think of him. And dad, thanks for taking me on the wizard.

[01:51:14] When I was 10, I wasn't tall enough. Very short child. Thanks dad for taking me on the sky bucket. Developed by Von Roll from the screen punk district in Peachtree square. Thanks to the Joker cast corner. Coaster.

[01:52:34] More about cowboy kind of stuff. And country is more about like hillbilly kind of stuff, but I don't really know. You watch your mouth. Keep going racist. Go ahead, bro. Baba boy.

[01:53:04] Woman ain't pretty, but she ain't clear none. In God, you ain't way a tongue. She's got a fruit, fruit, fruit, and a chaser for your little, little, little, little, bum, bum. What? What?

[01:53:33] With blood on the... Blood on the... Greenest state in the land of the free world. Blood on the...

[01:54:08] Yeah, I'm doing it. Yeah. Well, and I think... I mean, the goal isn't to trick people. It's... You know, if it all falls apart, that's kind of... I wouldn't say it's a goal, but it's also fine.