A Surprise New York Detour Turns Into A Full Geek Vacation

You ever get home from a trip and realize the thing you missed most wasn’t a landmark, a restaurant, or even your own bed, it was your bidet? That’s where we start, and somehow it turns into a full travel saga that jumps from Florida to a Disney Cruise Line sailing, then veers into a surprise New York City side quest before dropping us back into Disney World mode.

We dig into the real nuts and bolts of cruising, like why Disney transportation can beat renting a car, how Castaway Club status perks actually change your booking window and boarding group, and what stands out on the Disney Cruise Line Destiny with its heroes and villains vibe. Then we get dangerously competitive with a Marvel Superfan trivia showdown that goes from clickers to the stage, ends in a tiebreaker, and proves that family vacations can be wholesome and ruthless at the same time.

NYC becomes the fast-paced pivot: LaGuardia, midtown hotel life, bagels, Joe’s Pizza, Times Square, and the moment you learn New Yorkers treat crosswalk signs like gentle suggestions. The highlight is Broadway, with our reactions to Stranger Things: The First Shadow and why it’s worth seeing for the effects and story payoff. We close with full spoilers on Mandalorian And Grogu, what works, what drags, and the bigger question hanging over it all: is Star Wars better as a Disney Plus series or as a theatrical movie?

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Lou Is Missing And Bidet Dreams

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What would Lou be doing right now? He'd be doing this. Yeah. Or making his Bill Cosby face. The chet of pudding pups. So uh unlike two weeks ago, I'm here and Lou is not. So have you and Lou ever been in the same room at the same time? Not not in the last month. Maybe he'll wake up and join us. We'll see. Yeah. Whatever. I might just drop in. Which we just like him. How are you? It's been a minute. Tired. Yeah, but my feet hurt. Yeah, I bet. All the things hurt, I'm sure. My feet hurt. I miss my bidet. When I get home, I'm just gonna go sit on the toilet for like five minutes and just wait till the water turns cold. Because it has a little heated reservoir in there. Yeah. You know, maybe even after it turns cold, I'll still sit there for a minute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You won't even have a dirty butthole, but you'll just be like, Nope. It don't matter. You're gonna be one of those motherfuckers that's gonna have like the portable bidet, like in your luggage, just everywhere you go, you're just like battery powered, so you still get that heated water. Let me just unscrew this here. And go to the one the one hotel that they've like taken the knob off, and you're like, no. Uh can I get a different room, please? I'm checking out. Fuck this place, one star. One star. You get no yellow view. Um so yeah, so right now you're in Florida. Yep. And you've been uh the most magical place on earth. You've been straight busy for uh the last almost two weeks. Two weeks, right? Uh let me see. Let me check my calendar, sir. We're creeping up on two weeks, I think. Um it's been a week and two days. We left on last Friday, the 22nd. And you still got another two days, three days ahead of you. Yeah, we'll be home Wednesday. Oh, stop it. I know it's midnight. God damn. Podcast's gonna just chain it, change it's over there. The yawning. It's gonna be one of those like just listen to this and you'll fall asleep immediately. It's our new ASMR channel, yawning. Yeah. Um, yeah, so we left, like I said, the 22nd. Okay. We had our plane left for for Fort Lauderdale, not Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, uh, like midnight. I think 1159 was the flight or something like that. Um let me see. Yeah, that's what it is on the calendar. 1159 was the flight. So flew, I guess, all night. It's only like a four-hour

Flying To Florida And Cruise Logistics

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flight. It's not a horrible flight. Um flight to Japan. Yeah, yeah. After you go to Japan, like everything seems shorter. Like that's the weird thing, is like you take a you take one international flight, and then you're just kind of like, oh, like I can go. I'll barely even be able to sit down and get comfortable by then. Yeah, yeah. I won't even make it through one TV show. You mean we're not crossing the international dateline? Weird. Yeah. It's the same day? I don't understand how this works. So weird. Um, so we landed. Um we chilled at the airport for a little bit, got some breakfast, and then um we got Disney transportation, cruise line transportation to the bus or to the terminal. Um, it's just better than renting a car and paying for parking that we're not gonna have, right? Like why pay for the car? So it's the first time we've done that. I yeah, I think it's I mean, you've you've made the statement before that uh your significant other prefers to have the ability to have options. But since you were literally going from the airport to the terminal, literally, yeah. And not and like when you were getting back, you were immediately like so like renting a car for a week plus and never even really sitting in it for more than an hour. Exactly. Um, but another prick of it is um they bump you up to boarding group three. Like, no matter what your boarding group was, if you take Disney transport, you get bumped to group three. So you get on the show. That's right behind all the people who spent $25,000 for the behind the concierge people and like the the people that are like higher reward status. Yeah. So which I don't understand how that's not you considering how many fucking cruises and timeshare shits you guys do every year. Like you ain't lying. Um I don't understand how you're not like diamond plus plus, right? Like we are actually about to level up again, actually. And I think the next level up is at 10, so we're almost at 10. This was number eight. Okay. And what I mean is what is that worth doing the 10? Because you know, sometimes you have that conversation of like, oh, I only need to spend $75,000 to get to the next tier. And you're like, am I gonna do that or not? Like, right. Let me see if I can pull up the reward system. Um but yeah, let's go on. It's the castaway status or something. Yeah. No, nobody's saying six seven. I did get to say that today at softball because the score was six seven. And everybody was just like, shut up. If it wasn't buried before, you have now buried it, sir. And I went, did I? Did I? Did I? Or did that happen six or seven months ago? Yeah. Okay, so after your first sailing on a Disney cruise line, um, you're a

Disney Castaway Status And Perks

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silver member. So your first trip, you're just regular Joe Schmoe. Yeah. Got to plague and shit, so you don't get to do anything. Um, but your second sailing, you get to book your itineraries one day before the general public, a whole day. Um, you can add cruise activities 90 days prior to sailing, select your port arrival line time and complete online check-in 33 days before sailing. Um, and then you start getting um gifts in your in your stateroom. So then after five sailings, so on your sixth sailing, um, you can start booking two days before the general public. So watch out. You can add cruise activities 105 days prior to sailing. Uh, you can select your port arrival time and online check-in 35 days, um, private onboard reception and on eight-night and longer voyages. So I've never received that part. Right. That's a lot. And then uh you start getting like discounts and stuff. Yeah. Um let's see, does it say what the discounts are? Special discounts. It does not say. Um, so then platinum. So that's after you complete 10 sailings. So on your 11th sailing, you can book three days earlier, 100 check-in or cruise activities 120 days, check-in 38 days, but then they start giving you uh complimentary dinner at uh they have a restaurant on all of the Disney ships called Palo. It's like five-star Michelin chefs and all this fan. It's super fancy, it's super nice. Um it's like seven. You guys did that once a hundred bucks. No, we've done it on every cruise except this one we were just on. Okay. Wife is very sad about it. It's probably why she's so cranky lately. Yes, I'm sure that's it. It has nothing to do with being stuck with us for two weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So then we're going to be stuck at that level for a little bit. Because the Pearl member is after 25 sailings. And this is lifetime. This isn't like in a year or anything else, right? No, yeah. But then afterwards, I think you have to sail like every it like iterations. Once every two years or something before it resets again. But as long as you keep doing that, you will keep your status. Yeah. So that's it. As long as you cruise like every two years, you're good. Yeah. It resets to zero, and then you got two more years. Okay. So then the Pearl, um, you get to book the itineraries four days, cruise activities 123 days, automatic group two for your boarding assignment, um, and then they add on the photo package too, which is like 70-ish bucks, I think. But that's like all the different photos. I was just corrected. It's $200. Dang, I shouldn't have made them take more pictures than while we were on the chip. Shit. Wasting my money. It's good that we get the in-time in time. Yeah, I feel like you're Alex Stripet going like, judges? Yes. Hold on. Nope, $200. New York is checking in with me. They're updating us. We're standing line from Mickey Mouse right now. Let's go. $200, please pictures. We're gonna go up once. I'm gonna stand on this side, you're gonna stand on this side. We're gonna get back in line, then you're gonna be on this side, and I'm gonna be on this side. Oh, and Minnie Mouse is on the other side of the ship? Yeah, we're running, we're going. You know what? Everybody split up. We're taking pictures with everybody. Um, so we were sailing on the Destiny. It's their newest American ship. So it's just at the tail end of their inaugural year. Um, this one is they have a Black Panther statue in the atrium. Um, and then on the back of the ship is Spider-Man webbing up Spidey Bots from uh the DCA rides, so that's kind of cool. Yeah. Um, but overall, it's like heroes and villains themed. Um like the big

The Destiny Ship Theme And Dining

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thing is uh Cruella de Ville has a bar. There's like meet and greets and like shows with um Loki and Cruella Maleficent. Um it's a wish class ship, so we know like the layout. We've done the layout and stuff. Right. You know where the bars are, you know, where the restaurants are, that type of thing. Yeah, exactly. Um, and this one, it also has we talked about it last time was uh the 1923, which is like old school fancy um dinner. Animation, but it's like animation. Exactly, yeah. They have like the sketches and stuff, and then they also had Marvel. Um, but the big restaurant um on The Wish is Frozen, the treasure has uh Cocoa, this one has Lion King, so it was actually pretty good. Like they had it was the Broadway shows. You ever heard like the Broadway soundtrack or seen The Lion King Broadway? Yeah, it's those versions of the Lion King songs, yeah. Not Disney, not the Disney version necessarily. Right. So they have but it's like yeah, the dudes are up there playing drums and guitars and all that stuff, yeah. So it was pr it's actually pretty good. Um then obviously we just do trivia mostly. I did watch Mandalorian and Grogu again. Um the big screen by the pool? Or were they showing you in the theater? Yeah, it was inside of the the big theater. Because I think one of the cruises you said you were you'd like watched one of the pirates' movies like on the screen. No, Empire. Yeah. I was like, hell yeah. The pizza bar is still open. It was right by the drink machines. I was gonna save like Manduan Grogu conversation for when our third shows back up. Probably. I want to see his hating. No shit. Yeah. Right. Um, I'll just say I liked it. I mean, like I I I think I texted earlier. Um, I liked it enough to fall for their marketing. Like, had I. You fall for their marketing a fucking month and a half ago, son. Let's be real. That's true. That's true. Guys, have you seen this theater is gonna have this? Did you see that? There's four of these guys. Can we this is true? I'm whatever. I enjoy Star Wars still. Okay. I uh real quick, I will I agree a hundred percent with what the Star Wars Explain guy said. He said the first half, if all the way through kind of the Rot of the Hut rescue was like a super tight, just bam, and then it kind of like goes off the rails a little bit in the second half. I definitely think there was about 20 minutes that they could have cut out of it. I I again it goes back to feeling like it was a maybe a couple episodes, like I felt like this was like a three, a three-episode arc that they had to like stretch some things out to um, you know, I appreciated uh sorry, we'll save the rest for later. But yeah, that was I feel like but I enjoyed it. Like I came out feeling better about like I felt I came out feeling good about it, but also going like where do we go from here? Like, you know, everyone's going, oh, we want Mando season four, and it's just like well like where part of the appeal of the Mandalorian stuff was I can't oh I can't wake him up because I'm not at home. Oh all right, or she's at home getting ready for Disney. Yeah, so oh well. Whatever. Yep. So um, yeah, so yeah, we can have a bigger conversation about that later. But yeah, when I watched the Star Wars Explains video, like I was like, yeah, and that guy, like, he's he loves Star Wars, like he is like one of the most fucking knowledgeable people on the planet about Star Wars, like and he but he's also like not a shill, right? Like he's not some of those guys, oh it's the best thing ever. Like, right. So I appreciate the fact that he can be like it and still explain it. He can be honest, right? Like he can give his honest opinion without feeling like he has to be Mr. Positivity about it. So uh but yeah, sorry. So you got to see Mandu Gogo again on the ship, which was cool. Yeah, I I enjoyed it. Um they're also playing Devil Wars Prada 2, but I haven't seen the first one recently enough to go super out of my way to try to watch that. Yeah. Um, but then trivia, like always. Um, but my oldest and I, they had uh a thing called uh Marvel Super Fan. Yeah. So it's different than regular trivia. Like the regular trivia, you sit down in a little lounge, um stand, or sit on the floor. Exactly. Depending on how early or elite you are. Um pictures come up on the screen, you answer them. Help Olivia is beating me like Michael

Marvel Superfan Trivia Father Daughter Finals

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Jackson's dad. Jesus, I wonder where I wonder where that sense of humor came from. Jesus. Speaking of my oldest, okay. And it's weird because since I'm on my Mac, the text messages all come through iMessage, so I just get like a little pop-up on my Chromebook while I'm reading. Um so yeah, so the regular trivia, you're sitting around, you have a little piece of paper, pencil, yeah. They ask questions, you fill them out, you tally it up. So this one was actually in one of the bigger, I guess it's a lounge. It's like a showroom almost, like a Vegas style showrooms, two floors. There's a big stage in the middle. Um, so it's called the Marvel Superfan. I think that might have been all it was, just Marvel Superfan trivia or something, right? So you come in, they give you a little uh a clicker. Uh you remember seeing it on Xbox when we had those weird controllers and you buzz in. You had the button, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So they give everybody those. Um, and then they put questions on the screen. You buzz in, whoever buzzes in fastest, you get more points like a regular like B dubs trivia or whatever, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Counts down from 30 seconds or something, or counts at zero and goes to 30 seconds. Yeah. Yeah. So fast answer, correct answer, you get more points. Um, so however many people were in there, um, and then they cut it down to 10. So the top 10 people got to go up to stage. Um, so the two of us got up there. But you were playing as individuals. Oh, we were solen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um so we got to walk up to the stage, then they were like, hey, who are you? Blah, blah, right? A little more interactive, because there's only 10 of you now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They gave us whiteboards and markers, um, more questions, right? You write it on your whiteboard, flip it around. Um there it was top four. Both of us made it to the top four. Look at you. Right? Nerd. Nerd. Um, I actually have a video of it, and I will share it. I mean to the pod, but you guys will see it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someday you'll be smart enough to add it to the pod. Right. At least clips of it. Right. Maybe. Actually, that might not be a bad idea. Um, so top four. It was me, my oldest, and some dude, you could totally tell he was autistic. I remember him because his name was Luke. Luke from Jacksonville, Florida. Luke from Jacksonville, Bordles. Right. And then this other dude, they're like, Well, what would your superpower be? He's like, uh, introversy. I'm like, be an introvert is not a superpower, bruh. Being introvert is called you haven't gotten over COVID yet. Go away. At least she wasn't there. So um, so yes, we're top four. They gave us um glad these mirrors behind you aren't angled lower, because then we would just have to Yeah. Blur. So they gave us these uh lightsaber sticks. What did they call them? Um oh wands of vision. Wands of vision. Oh, Christina. Jesus. And Luke's like, I get that joke. I understand that reference. So now they're asking questions. Whoever raises their lightsaber first um answers the question if they get it right. Um, first one to three. Well, the first two to three um go to the final final round. So guess who the first two to three were? This guy and his daughter. Yeah. You're like, get the fuck out, Luke, from Jacksonville, Florida. Yeah. And Mr. Introvert. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. Go be introvert L somewhere. And I just raised my hand. I'm like, fuck it. July 4th. And they're like, yes, yes, it was. I was like, oh. And Luke's like, bro, I would have never guessed that. I'm like, all right. So um did you look it up afterwards just to make sure? No. I was like, you know what? Disney Cruise Line said it was January July 4th, so F it, I'm out. At least they didn't ask the year or something, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 19, I don't know. Oh, I guess in 2024, they oh. Wait, hang on. Uh Captain America's birthday depends on the continuity with the most prominent dates being July 4th, 1918 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and September 28, 1922 in modern Marvel Comics canon. So that's what you should have asked. Been like, um, excuse me, are we talking about the movies or uh the comics? All right, well, so okay, so you and your oldest win. So she got three first. Um and then I followed her shortly after. Um so then the final round is they have us look at a screen. We send it to the microphone, we look at a screen, and they just flash um characters up there, right? Uh-huh. So you just name them off, right? Um first. She made me go first, she got three points first, so she got to choose. Yeah. And then she's like, you go first. I'm like, why do you hate me? She's like, because then I can baseline is. Right. So I went to the case. Was it the same pictures? Okay, good. Different. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be cheating. Yeah. We both made stupid mistakes. But so it was over. They rounded, they tallied it all up. And um they said for the first time ever they had to do a tiebreaker because we both got the same amount. Yeah. So I feel like I've never had to do a tiebreaker in this little show before. Much less between a father and daughter. And then and at this point, she's she just wants to rip your throat out. Probably. Why are you making me stand up here longer, Dad? I'm so embarrassed. She's like, oh, I want to go do this. And I'm like, you know, you got to get up on stage and talk into microphones into a room floor. She's like, whatever. I'm like, all right, cool. Well, good for you. I'm proud of you for doing that. Um and then you're just like, now you're going down. Right? All right. Tiebreaker. So tiebreaker. Uh they gave us our whiteboards back, and the question was, um, Avengers Endgame is the longest. No, no, no. Um, Black Panther Wakanda Forever is the second longest movie in MCU. How long is it? So we were both like, well, Avengers is the longest at three hours something. Um, I think I put down 174 or something. Like 174 minutes or an hour. Okay, so 174 minutes. Yeah, they're supposed to be in minutes. And she put down I forget, but she was closer, so she won. So she got a medal, and I got a keychain. And she's like, I don't want the medal. We have a ton of these medals from all the other stupid trivia you make me do. I want the keychain. I've never seen that before. And you're like, too bad. Guess who's putting it on a keychain right now? You don't even have keys, sucker. Yeah. So yeah, so my daughter is the Marvel Super fan trivia super fan. I guess proud dad moment, I guess. Yeah. If you're gonna lose to anybody, if you're gonna lose to anybody, it would be somebody that you raised right. Right, exactly. Right? Yeah, yeah, exactly. You obviously raised them right. Yeah. And uh how did your medal count go otherwise? Um, let's see. Um, so the first couple trivias we did was um Haunted Mansion trivia. Um so the first Haunted Mansion trivia, yeah, it was. Um we did okay. I was sitting next to this uh couple of dudes. You could tell. I asked my oldest if she

More Trivia Wins Shows And Port Stops

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thought they were bears. I think they were. They look like bears to me. Big burly gay dudes look bears. And then she was like, Have you looked in the mirror lately, Dad? Right. Takes one to know one. It's good you're finally embracing your beard persona. So then um the next trivia we did was Haunted Mansion, and we sat next to the same dudes. Um they wanted good or were they okay, so they did they did well enough to win. Because some of the questions were the same. Yeah. Um, but they're like, just come up with us. You're part of our team. I'm like, okay, cool. So I guess I'm an ally now. An ally and accepted me into the full. Yeah. So I'm down with the gays. It's cool, whatever. Yeah, yeah. They love me. Um, let's see. And then uh, what other trivia did we do? I mean, we did a bunch. I uh I know I lost the first Star Wars trivia. Embarrassing. Oh, gee, what? Come on. I know. It was uh the typewriter question was how tall is an ATST? I read it as how tall is an adat. My dad was like, no, no, no, that's not what it says. I'm like, yes, it is. I know everything about Star Wars. It was an ATST. That's why I wrote down the. So you're so you're off by like 15 feet. Exactly. At least. Um that was a little embarrassing. I won the second Star Wars trivia. Good night. I won the second Star Wars trivia. Um, and then the advanced Star Wars trivia. I think I got 18, the winner got 19. Damn. Then I helped you with that one. Yes. I don't even remember what that was, but it was a long time ago. Lots happened. It was a lot happened. Same thing actually happened to me at the uh Kentucky Derby party. There was uh, so it was a Kentucky Derby fourth of or uh Cinco de Mayo Star Wars, may the fourth be with you party. And the lady hosting, we'll have to do this in a couple weeks because she sent me the PDFs with all the questions. So we'll have to do that. But one of the questions was um uh who were the what who what was the species responsible for creating the clone army? And in my head, I was I read it as droid army, so I'm like uh the Geon Oceans, and she's like no, no, it is, and then I looked again and I was like, oh no, who's an idiot? Who's got two thumbs is an idiot. And it's funny because not too long before I was saw something through my scrolling, and it was um you know the the opening fortune cookies of Clone Wars? Yeah, it says overconfidence is the first step to failure or something. I'm like, god damn it, Clone Wars. Damn you, Dave Falone. Um I don't know. I we did win another one. I don't remember what it was, though. I don't know. But these are the same medals you've gotten it on all the other ones. Yeah. At this point, it's just to crush other people's dreams. Yeah, just to take the little piece of metal away from them. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. Did your cruise suck because you lost a trivia? Yeah. To me. By the way, I'm duped to some fucking Portland Oregon. Some bear and his pink haired daughter with pronouns. Yeah. And our black friend who hates him. Um but then other than that, uh, they do the the Broadway show. So on this ship, um, same as the other Wish class ships, it's uh Sees the Adventure, Goofy Takes Over, um, Captaining the Ship, and then Tinkerbell does her thing, and we go through other movies, Moana and Frozen and all this other stuff. It's a cute show. And then they had Hercules, which was actually pretty good. It made me want to watch the movie because I don't think I've ever watched that movie. Really? Yeah, the Disney one. So like I know about it. Yeah. But and then the last show was Frozen, which is the same as one of the other ships. So it wasn't like anything new or anything. Yeah, but I mean Broadway. So what are you gonna do? Yeah. And then since it was a longer cruise, they had um two Broadway stars. Um, it's just a couple of kids that have been in Broadway plays. They came out and sang some Disney songs and stuff. Um, so that was pretty entertaining. Since I'm cultured like that. Yeah. Did you guys get off the boat much or um our first port was in Cozumel, and we did that in January, so I was like, eh. Why? Yeah. And then um the second was at Casa Key, their private island. So we got off there. We went swimming in the ocean a little bit. Um, got some food. Sending the loo. Yeah. Yeah. Oh wait, did I I don't think I did send those pictures yet. Oh man, I'm gonna have to get them. But he said he's gonna join us in a couple minutes, so I don't wanna I don't want to ruin the podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, I'll just keep it quiet for now then. Um He's gonna come on and be all fucking wild hair and shit like that. Actually, that might be the other trivia we won. Because my oldest wanted to get off the beach, get back on the ship and shower and everything, uh huh. So we could go to the Marvel trivia. Okay. Maybe we won that one. Maybe. I don't know. You know, when you win so much, it just it's all a blank. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, it all just merges together after a while. Whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's no big deal. Yeah. Um and then also in this one, instead of uh like the treasure, instead of the hyperspace lounge that the Wish has, uh they have the Haunted Mansion bar. Which is um always it's a cool little I mean I love Star Wars, but the Haunted Mansion Bar is just so well done that it's hard to hate it. What maybe? Hey I can't pick a long I Lou. He doesn't look sleepy at all. Holy shit. Jack, I think your beard's longer. I think your beard's longer than Lou's right now. What the hell? It sure the hell is. God damn, son. Give it a couple weeks, and all of a sudden he becomes a true beard. You're making my 50-year-old ass look like I'm 12. Look at that. We're not talking about.

Lou Joins And Vacation Sleep Deprivation

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Oh, that was going on. We got ourselves a lucky beard. Yep. Man. Don't jump on Sunday next week and let me see that shit cut. Knocked down. I do have my Boba Fett Golden Knight shirt, so I'm wearing that tomorrow. Alright. Tomorrow. I don't play till Tuesday. Like I know what day it is. Shit. No, for you that is tomorrow, son. Yeah, for you who it is tomorrow. After midnight. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're gonna let it all hang out after midnight. Yeah, in the future. Usually you lose the one that's whining about how late it is. Right? Now you'd be like, shut the fuck up, dude. Right? Future living ass. Uh-huh. Man, I'll watch the pu I'll watch that first 30 minutes later. What I missed, just in general, what I missed. Uh, cruise talk. Just talking about me. It's all about me later. Cruise talk. All right. Oh, wait. Did you get to New York already? No, not yet. No, we were just we're getting off the boat right now, so you came at a good time. Yeah. Man, look at that shit. Man, I tell I tell all y'all, man, I'm I'm too old for this. I feel like I leaked the weapon. I'm Danny Glover leaked the weapon right now, y'all. I had four days of con, uh two to three hours, two to four hours sleep, not on purpose. It's just I couldn't, I woke up at two in the morning, couldn't go back to sleep. And it was like, all right, I guess I'm up. And that happened three days in a row. Um last time I got like six hours, so at least the first night it wasn't even con like the night before con, bruh. I got two hours. It was there wasn't like like, oh, excited for con. Two hours sleep. And then four hours, four hours. So it was like six hours. But yeah, all right. We'll get to that later. I want to hear about I want to hear about New York. Um, so yeah, so we got off the ship um someday. Thursday? Thursday. Thursday. Um so we come to our Disney timeshare where we're at now. Alright, here let me let me show you the the bed under the TV though. What? I like here. Hold up. There's a TV. There's a bed. See Stitches sleeping on the bed under the TV. Yeah. And then that's a Murphy bed right there. Yeah, you can see the handles. Right. Then they give us our own Alexa. There's a cool Mickey Golf statue out there. Not for long. It's bolted down, I tried. Jack, did you see, speaking of your shirt real quick, did you see the trailer for season two yet? That dropped. That dropped late last week, mid 97th. Thursday? Yeah. Thursday or Friday, I thought. Maybe Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe Wednesday. Yeah, I dropped. I mean it looks good. I don't know how they did. Yeah. So. Alright, please go on. So you get off the boat and you get the head fake. You do the head fake to Saratoga Springs, like we're going to Sarat Springs. Bam, we're done. Well, it actually worked out really well because my wife doesn't know how the shower works. So my wife. So she flooded the bathroom because she didn't close the door or something properly. Like we in Japan or some shit. Right? No, we would have been fine in Japan because those tubs were like three foot deep, dude. Like oh no, no. No, oh, you didn't go with us to the Disney hotel. It was a whole closet, bruh. Yeah? Yeah, it was a closet. You open the door and you just walk in, and that's a shower. Or you just take a shower up there. Oh, okay. You can splash all you want. It was pretty amazing. Yeah. And then they gave us these really cool sponges. It was a good time with the Disney Tokyo Hotel. But back to the Saratoga Springs DVC. I still got two of those sponges. I've been trying to find them. I'm like, why doesn't Dyso have these? Drinking your regular ass water, Jack? What the hell? Right. I know. You didn't bring you away. It used to be the Sani until the little one ripped the label off and I just refilled it with the side. You didn't spike a couple bottles of uh Star Wars Dasani? No. That one's actually in the other room. Oh, so okay. So back to flooding the bathroom. Yes. Yes. So I'm like, oh, well, we need to change hotel rooms, but they can't do anything for us because, you know, cheerleading or whatever. There's always stupid shit going on in Disney, right? So they're going to put us up at the airport for a couple of nights. They're going to give us shuttle service and everything, but it's just a couple nights. So whatever. So we get to the airport. And um it's not the regular terminal. You know, like we don't it's the new terminal. It wasn't the Orlando carpet terminal, right? World famous. There's a Roosevelt of it that you can only sometimes get because they sued Roosevelt over it. Um obviously

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we had to tell her before we checked in, right? Because our tickets are going to pop out and say, New York, there's no hotel here, obviously. And she wasn't like thrilled about it. She was like surprised, but like cautiously surprised. Like, uh, okay, that's weird. We went to the whole like YouTube thing, and everybody's crying, like, oh my god, you're the best parents ever. But obviously that's not how my child works. Lou would have cried. She's too much like her mother. Lou've been crying like a baby. Right? Who the hell would have? Lou's like, yes, I'll go to New York with you. Wait, we're doing what? Right now? I've been like, yeah, why did I bring my green shirt? It would have blended in better. Using your ticket to just No, don't use the ticket. Oh god. Never cut on my nose because I used my ticket. Um, so we flew out there. Uh, we flew to LaGuardia, which was actually a pretty nice airport. I think we're in like the newer terminal. I think you're literally probably the first person to ever say that LaGuardia is a pretty nice airport. It must be the new terminal. For real, dude. I'm over here thinking to say they're like this dude right here.

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Um, yes, I don't know. Maybe it's a newer terminal. I don't know. But it was clean, it was pretty. Um, so we took an Uber on purpose. That was the first two. Um wasn't horrible. It was like 72. Who had the app if you if it was your first time? You you know what? I'm wife. Lou, I stand we we should we stand corrected. According to the the internets, LaGuardia currently holds the top ranking in the United States for airport quality, having been named the best U.S. airport by Forbes Travel for the second consecutive year. So there you go. I'm telling you, it's pretty. I guess JFK is the one that's the pain in the ass. Yeah, right. I don't know. I don't know. It's my first time in New York, so I don't know nothing about nothing. Going to that airport's like getting shot in the neck. Fuck that. So um, so that was kind of cool. Like seeing New York is really cool because like I said, we'd never been. So like to see it in person after just seeing it in like movies and TV and stuff, uh, it was kind of cool. Um we stayed downtown. Sorry, midtown. We were on East 45th and something. Yeah. That's the second time. We have we have a live-in, we have a live-in. Uh uh I'm getting this from upstairs. Yeah. Yep. Just holding up a whiteboard, just like, no, it was this. Boo, like New York TV show. Yeah. Right. We were up on the 31st floor, so that was kind of cool. I just love the fact he can't say anything, so we're all talking shit, and he's just like, yeah, ha ha. I said, I said, beef. So, all right. So you're staying in a nice hotel, midtown. Yeah, uh it was again one of our timeshare kinda, it was club windham. Um one bedroom, yeah. Yeah, it was one bedroom. The girls had a sofa bed. Um and we did get upgraded. Originally, we were supposed to have uh a studio, something got lost in the sauce or something when it got reserved. Now the producer's talking too damn much. Um, so originally a studio was booked. Um so but when we got there, they had no hot water, so they upgraded us to a one-bedroom. So that was a second bathroom, second bathroom issue. Second hotel, second bathroom issue. Yep. So I'm like, oh darn. So now we don't all have to, I don't have to sleep on the floor. Darn. Um, but it was nice. I mean, you know, there's probably worse places to stay in New York. Probably. Probably, right? New York, why not? Um, yeah. Um, but it wasn't horrible. I mean, I didn't like feel unsafe or anything, like where we were. Um here on the street. How far away were like when from where you uh from where the theater and stuff was? We were uh 45th and third, if you know about that though. Yeah. So it's too bougie for the last specifics. Plus, I left the I last time I was in New York was 1992. I just uh we were we were around the corner from Grand Central Terminal. Nice. Oh, okay. Where Avengers was. Yes. Um right next to the Chrysler building. Yeah. We were right next to the Chrysler building. Right. Um that was when we learned that um that it was not the uh Empire City building. But also it was the it was a better building, according to some people in the chat. Yes. Somebody thought it was a prettier building, so whatever, I guess it was going. It's good uh you took a picture of it. It is. Um, so we got up in the morning and we just walked our asses off. Um again, they're New York blocks, so they're not like super long. It wasn't a super long walk. We went up to um Rockefeller Center, um uh Central Park a little bit 30 rocks? There's no way you did all of Central Park. No, no, no, no. And I wasn't paying them, dude, 70 bucks for

Midtown Walks Bagels Pizza And Times Square

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a forcing carriage ride either. I bet you could have knocked them to 60. Probably. They didn't speak English, I probably could have. So, do you want horse carriage ride? No. Stop talking to me. I just told that guy five feet from you. No. Why would I say yes to you, stupid? Freaking pay attention. Because you've had time to think about it. 70 yen. 70 yen we can talk. Yeah, there you go. Um, but we saw St. Patrick's Cathedral, um Radio City Music Hall, um, did all the cool stuff at the end of the day. The Ghostbusters firehouse? No, that wasn't close enough. Unfortunately. Uh, went to FAO Schwartz from big, got to walk on the piano. And not by the Funkos? Not by the Funkos because they didn't have the cool new one. Um, but it was cool to go to FAO Schwartz again. Right? Exactly. Um it was cool to be in an FAO Schwartz again because you you know they're not around anymore. Vegas. Missed those days. Vegas used to have the ad atts and the cantina band. Yeah, second floor, right? Second floor? It was like three or four floors total, right? Wasn't it third floor? Was it the third? I thought it was the ad was like his legs like went down like a floor, right? Like it was I will tell you. So we went to Rockefeller Center, right? Like where they put the Christmas tree and shit. That shows disappointing. There was no ice skating rink, it wasn't there. I think they like put a cover on it or something for the winter. Yeah, they only do that for the winter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But otherwise it's a big hole in the ground. Uh-huh. So it was hard to tell that you were actually at Rockefeller Center. Yeah, you just turn it in. Where's the Christmas area? I don't care that it's May. Where's the Christmas thing? Bullshit. Right? July's coming up. Christmas July. Ain't you ever heard of it? For real. Fricking New York. Um. So once that was done, we went back to the room for a little bit to chill before our big Broadway play. Um, but we did get bagels. We found a bagel shop. They're delicious. And pizza. Uh, we did find pizza. We went to Joe's Pizza as seen in Spider-Man. Uh that was also good. Plates with them plates were synthesized in pizza. Somebody gave me two plates next to each other. Oh no, they might have slice hanging off the edge, man. I got a pizza box, so it was fine. That was the job. That was the job that Toby McGuire's Spider-Man had, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was a delivery guy, right? Yeah. I think the second movie. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah, so we did that. Um, and then we went to our play. Um, we weren't far from Broadway. It was right up 45th. Um like a 20-minute walk. It wasn't bad. Is this an on-Broadway or off-Broadway play? So, like, there's Broadway, right? Yeah. And you go up to Times Square, and then like it was around the corner, so it wasn't technically on Broadway. So I guess

Stranger Things The First Shadow On Broadway

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it's off Broadway. I don't know. I don't think that I mean, I don't think that's officially how like how it works anymore. Like it used to be. Yeah, it used to be that way, yeah. But I don't know if that's still the case today. Like, yeah. Yes. So you were you were close to Broadway. Yes. But I mean, you're listening at the map right now. Um it was kind of like Shiboya, disappointing. Just but also overwhelming. Like, no, I mean, I'm from Vegas, dude. Like, oh yeah. Yeah. Even like we ended up in the Pandora store, obviously. Wow. I know. Surprise. She has like a bloodhound. You're like, you're like, hey, we're in Times Square, and she's like, three blocks over and three blocks down. We're going. Fuck me with maps. I got this. Yeah, exactly. But the uh the girl in Pandora, she's like, uh, it's where you guys visiting from, blah, blah, blah. Because she wanted to get some New York charms, right? Just they're nice, small souvenirs, you put them on your wrist, then take up suitcase space, right? No, she got like an I Love New York one, the iHeart New York, and one with the skyline on it. They're pretty cool. No, we did not go to the Statue of Liberty, so we did not get a Statue of Liberty charm. Pizza Rap the back, and we got to do it. No, I was just kidding. All the I love New York ones usually have iHeart and then the NY with the Statue of Liberty behind the NY. Yeah, no, not this one. No, not this one. I like the commitment that you didn't go to there, so we're not gonna get that. I like that. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. I told her, I'm like, and then it's like we have to come back if you want that charm. So darn. Right? Darn. That would have been amazing if the Pandora store would have had a pizza rat charm, though. Oh, I agree. That's funny. Or like a pigeon or something. No, so pigeons. So when we were leaving the pizza, no, we were in line for the pizza place, right? Um it's very like pedestrian, right where the pizza place was. So the pigeons are out there, they're eating like pizza crust and stuff that people left on the floor. This seagull rolls up and takes the whole slice of pizza from the pigeons and just flies off. I was like, dang, that was very New York. The white pigeon just coming in and taking it away from the big white seagull just taking it from the little black pigeons. That's not what I'm saying. Um, but yeah, so the Pandora lady is like, oh, so you guys are from Vegas, like, what do you think? We're like, meh. She's like, I agree. Because I work and live out here. It's not that overwhelming, and it's not like the coolest thing I've ever seen. Because, like, even like Vegas, they have like these street performers, there's these creeps dressed up as like King Kong and Mario and Sonic and stuff, wanting to take pictures. These one dudes just like take candid pictures of you as you're walking down the street, and they're like, Hey, you want to buy this? I'm like, No. He like took our picture and then showed it to me on his iPad. He's like, Do you want to buy this? I'm like, No. I don't want to buy that shit from you. Oh, I look like a tourist to you. Yes, but still. We adapted to walking down the street, you definitely look like tourists. You look like George Vegas. We uh we adapted well. Um, New Yorkers don't give a fuck about the crosswalk sign. So after a few blocks, you're like, okay, cool, so you can just cross the street when you want here. So we sure did. And Jack used to have three kids. Right? New York solved that problem. It's funny. So so we we we stopped. Um we we slowed down on that a little bit because wife almost got hit by a traffic cop when we were jaywalking. That story almost got amazing. So she went uh she went neast the chest and uh hurt her her mist again. Funny times. Um yeah, so the so yeah, so we were at Times Square, and the theater is just like right around the corner. From Times Square. Um I liked it though. It was good, it was a good show. Which show was it again? It was Stranger Things, The First Shadow. It's a prequel series about um how Vecna becomes Vecna. Eh, not so much. How he ends up in a position to become Vecna if you watch season five or four or whatever. Is this officially kind of sanctioned, licensed type thing? Um yes, it was written by the dudes that do the show. Okay, and they're like, yeah, no, it's canon, it'll help you understand season five better. And then since season five sucks so bad, they just kind of ignored a lot of stuff that happened in the play. Which was weird. Because in the play, like Joyce and Hopper and Bob, they all know each other, right? They're like they know each other, they're doing this play at school together, right? I get that Hawkins is a small town, but fast forward, and all these people act like they don't know each other, like come season five and everything. It was all very weird. The show itself was good apart from yeah. Uh I mean, but it was really well done. The effects were cool. Um they had the mind flare, like actually came out, the big spider monster, like he came out. Um they invested some money in it. Somebody invested money into it. Um they did a uh recording of it late last year, and they're gonna put it on Netflix probably when the Broadway run is over. I would recommend watching it. It was very it's a very good play. I liked it. Nice. Um the girl playing. Did the person for whom this was purchased like it? Yes, yeah, she loved it. She was on the edge of her seat the whole time. We bought the whole seat, but she only needed the edge. And then we bought like we didn't buy all the merch. She got all the pins. You got a dead cat. Two dead cats. Uh which is actually kind of cool because again, depending on how well you know stranger things, uh, when Vecna kills people, he like twists them, like their body parts and stuff. I don't know if that was in season four or season five. I don't remember. But um the cat can do that because that was like one of his first victims in the show. And it was cool in the show too, is they had like this cat like raise up, like he was telekinesing it, and he twisted the cat. So you can do that with the plushie, it has like pipes in its arms and legs, and you can like twist it. That's kind of cool. Um, and I just got a magnet because that's my jam. That'll be me. Magnet was here. All about that magnet life. Um, so then we the next morning, um just came back to Orlando, and we went to Hollywood Studios last night. Uh, we didn't do a whole lot just with waiting for the shuttle from the airport, um, getting back here, getting ready, um, getting to the park. Um, we had time for ogs. That was about it. Uh, little one didn't have her dash activated, so we couldn't like jump on any rides or anything. And Muppet shut down. So that was a bummer.

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It just like expires sometimes. Oh, okay. And you just gotta go to like City Hall and re-up it. Yeah, so we went and they're like, yeah, no, they closed 10 minutes ago. I'm like, but there's still like two hours of the park left open. So when we went back today, they're like, oh, we don't do that here. You have to actually call. I'm like, you know how did you tell me that last night? Told us that last night? Because this morning I was running around getting um prescriptions that somebody forgot to tell us to refill before we left. And then that same someone also broke their cell phone. So I had to go get a new cell phone and prescriptions. And you're like, we should have rented a car. Well, we did have a car. We did rent a car after this. Yes. We do have a car. It's like a Mazda something, Mazda SUV. I don't hate it. It has a HUD, which is kind of cool. CRX or whatever that shit is. Something like that, yeah. But it has a HUD, that's kind of cool. I've never driven a car with that before. Um but yeah, so do you guys so for Disney World, yeah. Uh you just have tickets for right now, or no, sir. Let me tell you, we are bougie. All right? Yes, we I think we've established that in the three of us here. Wow. They at least present as bougie. Right. Um, no, so um right. No, so with our um DVC membership, we can use our points instead of using it for a timeshare, we can make season passes. So because we were here last summer, we bought them then, and then we were able to use them again in January, and we're using them again now. So we are so yes, we have season passes for Disney World and Disneyland right now. Rich motherfuckers. And I only I got it all for one million dollars. Okay, look, a long time ago, not in a galaxy far, far away, um wife and I decided that if we ever had money, we would use it for traveling. So that's why we have the Wyndham timeshare and the DVC timeshare. Because we want to I Because you know, but that's exactly that saves the cost. But that's the whole run, that's the whole rub, right? Is the the proposition of a timeshare is that you're not gonna use it and that they'll just take money from you, right? Because that's how that's what most people do is they say, Oh yeah, timeshare, we're gonna use it, and then they never fucking use it, right? Or they use it sparingly, right? They don't maximize what they have met, they've never met your wife before. So like your wife probably actually costs Wyndham and DVC money every because she maximizes the points to where you I mean, I would imagine year to year you guys probably don't have that much carryover that you know, or at least if you're having carryover, there's a reason for carryover, right? Like everything's accounted for. It's not like you're just like, oh, we forgot to use our points for this time, you know. Yeah, and you also revolve all of your trips around using the points. So you're going to places and staying in places that have like so you're actually using the timeshare for what the definition is, as opposed to just using it as a money sink, which is what I think a lot, which is what they they hope, right? Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that is how it is. They want you to spend all that money and then you're locked in the contract and you never use it. Um, but yeah, no, I mean, even when we go to Disneyland this week, Lou, I mean we're staying to timeshare. So yeah. Even if it's just for trips like that. But I mean, our girls have grown up with it at this point. Like, I always like telling the story. They even tell us the story when we go to the timeshare updates. Um, one time we had to stay in a super eight, and my little one walks in, she's like, uh, where's the other bedroom? Because that this is all she knows, right? Like slummon at Motel 6 isn't her style, it's just not how she's grown up. Well, it's good that uh the yeah, Motel 6 in San Diego priced this out after two years, or else things might be a lot different. I'm over here a lot. Oh, dude, this room has a bathroom. This is sweet. I don't have to piss outside. It's amazing. There's two beds. We don't have to sleep together. Me on top of the covers, you under the covers. Yep. Should be lucky if the room has covers. Shit. Bring in the emergency blanket from your car, uh, your car breakdown kit. Sleep on that tenfold blanket. Dude, they straight ran out of those at EDC on Sunday. That's like, because it was sorry, sorry, you mentioning that I just had that flashback because we went like part of the group went into went into the first day, because it was like 60 mile an hour winds on Sunday night, and people like a couple of our people weren't properly prepared. To be honest, I wasn't either. I had my my Pashmina, and that's usually that's worked for me every other time it's been windy, but for whatever reason, I think it was because it was so cold, like it was way colder than it normally is. Um and the 60 mile an hour winds, like so. We had a couple people go to the first aid uh tent to try to see if they could get some emergency blankets, and they're like, We're out of them, and I was like, You ain't sending no motherfuckers to fucking Walmart right now to pick like you need to go and clean up them, clean off them shelves. Like, you need to give somebody the company credit card and because but sorry, sorry, that was a tangent. So back to you, Jack. Yes, it's all about me. Uh so today, so after all that running around, um, we went back to Hollywood Studios uh because the only reason we went to Hollywood Studios was to read the new Muppet roller coaster that used to be Aerosmith. Um but Muppets are better than Aerosmith, so you had a better for the band? Yeah, it was Aerosmith Rock and Roller Coaster. That was like oh that was like OG, right? Like when I think it's always been the Aerosmith roller coaster. I mean, I'm sure it's all playing Aerosmith music the whole time, but I still wouldn't breathe. But we never roller coaster. I I but you don't but it's also like way in the back. So unless you're committed to going like it's like the last ride at the end of the kind of the walkways, right, Jack? When you go that way, you're most likely going to Tower of Terror. Yeah. But even then, you still have to at Tower of Terror. You have to turn left at Tower of Terror, and then the rock and roller coaster is there. So yeah, it's something like a little tiny cul de sac. Um, but no, it was a good re-theme. Um, obviously, you know, they can only do so much just because physical buildings are there, physical tracks. Um they keep the the same basic story. Uh, when it was Aerosmith, everybody was they were recording music, but they were late to a concert, so it's like, oh, we'll just take our limo and blah blah and we'll go, we'll make it to the show. Um so it's the same thing with the Muppets, but they muppify it. So you're hanging out with um Dr. Teeth and Electric Mayhem, and then Beaker shows up in this L-I-M-O, it's called lengthy something that it spells out limo. And Scooter's like, oh, so it's a limo. And Hunday Doo's like, no, it's pronounced Limo. So it's very Muppety. And then at the end, um, Statler and Waldorf are there talking smack about uh electric mayhem. They're like, oh, these guys know a lot about rock. Rock bottom. Blue joke. Blue joke. I'm sure they have different jokes. Uh they play different cover songs on the ride, too, so every time you go on it, it should, in theory, be a different song. Unless you go on the side. No, they have um just different um cover songs. This one was uh I already forgot. I already forgot. But no, it's Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem doing covers of other rock and roll songs. Popular. Yeah, no, Aerosmith is all gone. Yeah. I figure they would have kind of tried to keep some of it tiding. There's enough in the catalog they could have used it. Yeah. Every time. Um, but no, it was cool. And then the other reason to go on that is because they won't let you in the gift shop unless you go on the ride. Which is bullshit. Um, so I had to go through it to get the the Rock and Roller Coaster Roosevelt. Which I guess I can trade for my Masters of the Universe Roosevelt when you guys come out next week. Oh yeah, because old girl wanted that one, right? Yeah. Um and then so after that was done, we jumped over to um Epcot. Um it was late. Just everything just life, right? Like Disney, Disney life. Everything's a time sink. You're like, oh, it's been six hours? Um over to Epcot to eat at the the beer garden buffet sausages and beer and cheese soup and sauerkraut and pretzel rolls and beer. Um all the good stuff. So fat. Have you done the new smuggler's run or are you waiting for Lou on that? No. I it it was on the list to do while we were at Hollywood Studios, but it just didn't work out. Again, Disney Life, you know. Um we went to go watch the Indiana Jones show too. No boulder. Very sad. Um Well, they fixed all that, right? From the from when it broke and like on the No. Little One, um, being little one, she was harassing one of the workers there, and she asked about it. And they're like, no, they said we'll get it back soon, but not right now. That's because it almost killed someone, right? Like one of the mechanisms or something like that didn't. Yeah, I mean they've done the show a million times, and yeah, and it's never happened in what 30 years, I think that show's been there. Yeah. And the one time the boulder comes off, so obviously they gotta go back and figure something out. But yeah, it's just one in a million chance that it bounced off and smacked that guy. Yeah. And then they couldn't do the whole show because there was lightning in the area, so they couldn't open it up and do the plane and the gas truck and all the fun explosions. It's a little disappointing, but still a good time. Even if it's just for the indie theme plane. Mm-hmm. And then tomorrow we're gonna go to Animal Kingdom. Uh Oldest wants to go at 7.30 when they let us in, and that's six and a half hours from now, so that'll be fun. We'll see. There there's always grand plans of going rope dropping and stuff. They never happen though. But it never happens until after I get up early. And then I lose sleep while everybody else just sleeps. Uh yeah. But that's because I'm busting my ass. We'll see. We'll be home a whole day, so we're coming home Wednesday. We'll be home all day Thursday, so you'll be a hundred percent recovered by Friday. Yeah. Yeah. He he'll he'll be asleepy because he has a grave shift, so like he works Wednesday night. Nice. BDX droids. Wait till she sees this in the pod. Right. I couldn't find him at Disneyland. Um, I just off-shot, I'm like, let's see if they have it at the Droid Depot here. And they show nothing. And then I was thinking they should have had a different BDX popcorn droid here. But they have the blue one here, too, so they should have had a different one here. The green one or orange. Hire your boy, Disney. Hire your boy. I'll make you money. I know how collectors think. They want it all. He's not talking about himself. Everything. Yeah, exactly. Collectors, not jackers. I know. I know how collectors' brains work. Yeah. Those people. Jeez. Those people. Disgusting. Um, so tomorrow's Animal Kingdom. Like I said, she wants to go at 7:30. We have a breakfast resie for their breakfast buffet at like 8.30. So really it's not that big a deal. Um but they close at like 7 p.m. Like super early. So maybe we'll go to um our favorite uh melting pot for dinner then, since we have to leave Disney sort of. But that's where they have the avatar rides and stuff. So those are always a bunch of extra money in stay. Not always at Animal Kingdom, because they gotta feed the animals and stuff. Yeah, because a lot of yeah, a lot of that stuff kind of shuts down naturally after like the sun goes down, right? Yeah, I don't know if they ever do late hours for um Animal Kingdom, honestly. I'm sure they do. Yeah, yeah, they got like four animals. You can do like a safari and stuff, and I take it, I hope, the animals are like animals that have been in their shows and movies. Not just some random. Uh, some of them, but like they have like lions and tigers and bears and jaguars and cheetahs and stuff. I watched a few videos. Uh there's a guy that I watch on YouTube that does like abandoned, where he talks about like places like parks and buildings and stuff like that, businesses that have closed. And he's talked to he's put up a couple ones about the different they used like Florida before Animal Kingdom used to have like all sorts of like Gatorland and type of things that were like in Orlando proper, but then like Animal Kingdom opened, which was so above and beyond anything any of these other little parks could do, like they all basically closed up because the people would be like, I'm just gonna go to Animal Kingdom because I'm already at Disneyland, like or Disney World. So why do I want to go off here and see the see your guys in these little tiny cages when I can get in a Jeep and see them in their, you know, similar to what their real life environment is. Um and then we have another Epcot day on Tuesday. And then we're home. And Wednesday is a travel day. Yep. On Thursday we're home all day. Sit on my my bidet for like 20 minutes. Look, going on vacation is great, but you gotta make your house just better enough that it's not just being home, that it's better than being on vacation, right? So that you're not like, ah, this vacation life is the best. No, you need to make it so that home life is the best. Mm-hmm. Usually the shower is the first thing that I miss. I don't like I could be in like the nicest shower, but it's like not my shower. Like, so then the bed is usually the second thing where I'm just kind of like eh, like I usually sleep fine in like the hotel beds, but after a while you're just kind of like and for me personally, I mean, especially after Japan and stuff, I can only live out of a suitcase for so long that you just kind of go, okay, like that's why we stay in bougie times with laundry. There you go. You know those like you go to a restaurant and you have the ketchup and mustard and the typical cylinder with little pointy hands, spray whatever you do your shit. I'm I'm gonna need one of those for just water, just so I could travel, have my own little travel bidet. That'd be cool. There you go. I'm sure they make travel bidets, though. They probably do, actually. I wouldn't be surprised. You like you screw it to the faucet or a tub or something, you know, the ones that have the threads in them, the screw, the hose, you know, plug something in. That that was those are those are for anniversaries and birthdays, man. I want her to be able to enjoy the flavor a little better this time. Happy Fourth of July. It's like, oh, it's great jelly again. Some people like their salads. Strawberries in season. Um, do you have a list, Jack, for this week? Uh, dude, I got so much. Um I mean, we don't even I mean, we're at an hour 15 right now. We can either have Lou go over Denver Comic-Con or we could talk about Mando and Grogu. Yeah, we'll do Denver Comic Con next week. Okay. Well, that might be a good thing. Not that there's a whole lot. Not that there's a whole lot, but there's enough that I'd rather not just rush to 15 minutes, although it'll probably take 15 minutes. I don't want to film. I haven't talked about EDC yet either, so we can talk about it. Oh, let's do that then.

Mandalorian And Grogu Spoiler Reviews

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Shit. Yeah. It's either that or something. No, we can do that next week. Let's do Mandarin Grogu now. We'll do that for the next 15 minutes. That'll be a good, you know. Uh because Jack happens to do that on the cruise again. Yeah. It's fresh. And then we're we're still in with Starbucks. I saw it twice also. Then we fit it into a Star Wars month. So because we're still technically in Star Wars month, right? So there we go. See, we'll end with uh where Jack is, it's over. Yeah, for real though. By the time it posts, it'll be June. So whatever. Uh so Jack's uh oh, so I guess spoilers. Hashtag spoilers. Um, if you haven't seen it. If you haven't seen it, you probably aren't gonna see it until it's on Disney. Yeah. Alright, I was like, it's been nine days and ten days. If you ain't seen it yet, you're waiting for Disney Plus. Uh so Jack, your one sentence review was it was good. I liked it. Yeah. My one sentence review was I agree with the Star Wars Explained guy. I thought the first half was really good, and then the second half got a little stretchy. Like there was definitely some parts that they could have uh cleaned up and shrunk. Uh that's a one sentence. I know. No, semicolon. Semicolon. It doesn't count then. So then, Lou, what about you? What's your kind of one sentence? Then we can go into it deeper. What's your one-sentence uh review of the city? It's exactly what I said it was gonna be from the beginning. Mm-hmm. But was it bad? Nope. Not at all. It was it was it was good enough that I was actually because again, I saw it Thursday, 3:30 in the afternoon my time. Uh I could have seen it at 2, but I decided to go have lunch with old girl instead. Um and I enjoyed it enough that I was looking forward to seeing it when I had an opportunity to watch it with her. Because I knew obviously she couldn't watch it so because of work. So I was like, Yeah, alright. I I yeah, I I was like, that's I'm expect like I told you, I was expecting an F, thought I was gonna get a D, and I got a C plus B minus. So it was not bad at all. I I was pleasantly surprised. Again, I think part of it because I already knew leading up to it that it was gonna be a long episode, and I got the long episode that I was expecting, but it was a really well done long episode, like or Spark I think. Was the cuteness overdone for you? I know you were worried about that. Was the cuteness too much? Not really, no. No, it had its moments, but I didn't ever feel like, oh, it's another cute moment. And that did not hit me at all. So even that, even that one scene that I bitched about that they showed on Conan, uh, that didn't even bother me. And watching it in context, that didn't even bother me the way I thought watching it just in that little clip, that was like a cringe. But watching it when it happened in the movie, it was like, oh, okay, all right, this fits. So yeah, overall though, yeah, I really I I can't see I I don't know, man. You because usually I'm so crazy, don't be wrong, I had it had its issues here and there, but not enough where I was like, oh oh my god, I can't believe this. I can't believe no, I didn't really have any of those moments. Like I'm still looking forward to seeing it in IMAX eventually. So one of the things that I've seen in a few of the reviews that I watched for people who had seen it multiple times, is that each time they watched it, they got something more out of it, but that it also kind of reaffirmed how they felt about it, like

What Works What Drags On Rewatch

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it solidified their things they liked and things they didn't like each time they watched it. Did you guys find that same type of thing that when you watched it the second and third time that you were like, I really like this and I like it more, and I really hate this and I hate it. Like, you know what I'm saying? It's like no, I wouldn't go for me. It was I really like this and I still like it. And it was I really hated this and I still hate it. But it wasn't really, oh, that's better this time, that's worse this time. I didn't really have that. It was still the same, even though I had critical hat on first time and fan hat on second time. Um I might I might a little bit have liked Embo more the second time. Yeah, yeah. And I'm glad they didn't bitch him out like they did CAD. For real, dude. For real. I think I think that they knew that because of how they did CAD, that they were like, oh, we cannot do this. I think they like they knew that. Um I liked Rada. I did not know that he was gonna have that big of a role in the show. Dude. Sorry, the movie. Um but it wasn't horrible. It was a little weird hearing the Huts use English. Basic. Yeah. Um I liked it though. But I didn't hate it. Yeah, because it made sense because because the Huts were basically trying to kiss ass, you know, like, hey, we want you to begin. It's like they switched to basic for Mando's sake, to it's like it was a strategic use of basic. Other than that, I don't see them ever using basic either. And Rada didn't want to be associated with the Huts or anything, so why would he speak Hutes? Exactly. As well as everybody around him all spoke Galactic Basic, so why would he speak Hatees? You know, so I like it. I mean, I can't even yeah, like but it was weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For real, for real. For real. There was somebody who posited it was like um what I think it was like K-19 The Widowmaker, the one with Sean Connery and uh Harrison Ford, where like in the very beginning of the movie they're speaking Russian, but then they do like a thing where like they give you the they give you the translator words. Uh yeah, the universal translator, so then all of a sudden you can understand them and then they translate, then they move to just regular English. But I was like, I know I think it was more of like Lou was saying that they were trying to just appeal to to Mando. Right. Um but no, you did the I I like the I like the amount of physical effects they used. Like when I saw some stuff afterwards and they were like, oh no, that was puppets. Oh no, that was puppets too. Like I was that was motion now, yeah. Yeah, how much was stop motion, and I was like, Oh puppets, yeah. That was cool. I think with the ad-a-s were too, right? To one degree or another. The parts that weren't yeah, they were embellished with VFX, but I think they originally, like when they came on the screen, were were dude. They they had they had uh Phil Tippett from the original on this movie doing the stop motion. It was pretty badass to see that they had uh they had Phil from the original movies, the original series trilogy doing that. I was like, and I saw the credits and I was like, because you know for me, and don't get me wrong, I'm not a name dropper, I don't know a lot of the directors and all this, like you know, I don't know a lot of that, but we had just seen um uh Return of the Jedi uh for the symphony, the you know, a few days before that, and and then and then you notice, you know, I was like, oh, Phil Tippett, blah, blah, blah. And then to see his name pop up again for Mando like a day later, I was like, holy hell, how is he still doing this? That was 45 years ago. And I still pop a little bit when they went that Doug Chang's still so involved too. Like, yeah, because I remember Jack, I remember when they started releasing the the concept art. Oh, there it is. Look at that. Hell yeah. That set of badges was hard for me to figure out like who do I get to autograph these? I'm like, behind the scene concept guys, if they come around then. Good call. But Jack, I remember Hold on, hold on, hold on. Where did you get Phil? Yeah. Uh Star Wars Autograph Universe. Okay. He was doing a limited signing or whatever. The milling thing. Uh I re I remember like 9 98, 99, the concept art coming out, and that was all like associated with him, and we were all like, that's super cool. And the fact that 27 years later, he's still like that involved and that excited. Like, I every interview that I see with him, he's always like Yeah, he's very happy. He likes his job. I'm I'm I'm glad he got a cameo in in the movie. So that part was overdone. I we don't need it anymore. They need to stop that, honestly. If I had an only complaint about it, it would be that. My complain-I didn't mind them in the bar. I minded them cutting to them during the fight at the end. That part, like in the bar, I was like, oh, cool. It's it's the directors again, all of them, and sitting around. It's like, okay, cool, there's Doug, and there's okay, okay, okay, cool. And then when the fight came, I was like, they can be there. The only one you need to show is the Asian dude. Uh because he was actually properly in the series, you know, on a regular versus the other ones who just oh, in one episode that they directed, they were, you know, the three of them were X. It's like, okay, great. You know, you don't need to do more than that. Yeah. Especially the black dude. The black dude, he did not have any kind of emotion at all during his scenes. It was like, oh, okay, I got it. It was like, all right, bro. Trapper Wolf needs to be uh promoted and fine X-Wings. Um what I wanna so again, I'm thinking about the reviews that I've read or watched. Uh one of the other things that I noticed that came up a couple times was they they felt like Zeb was way underused. Like he just was kind of there. Look, who doesn't want more Zeb? All right. I no, but that's my point, right? Like he was the the way like he could have been a way more involved character in the movie, but he just seemed like he was just there out of con like it could have been

Zeb Problems And Movie Versus TV Logic

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anybody else, and it would have there wouldn't have been a difference, right? Like there it could have been any other kind of thing. I I don't think he should have been in it at all. If they're gonna use that, if we're gonna have that role for him, don't use him. It's like what's the point other than oh, we're gonna throw a bone to Rebels fans again, because they did it obviously with the which again, if you haven't seen Rebels, you're like, who is this guy? I don't know who like Yeah, it was like to me, I don't know. He he's so he's such he's such a big character uh on Rebels that I don't unless you're gonna give me some of his story that happened after Rebels and into unless you're gonna fill that gap. I don't need to see him in this like it made sense for with Ahsoka and Sabine and bringing them back for obvious reasons because it's mostly Rebels season five for the Ahsoka show. It made sense to have to have that interaction because those people belonged there. It was like, okay, this is what the show's about. Zeb showing up when he showed up, when he showed up in season three, it was like, alright, cool. Um, you know, he's a pilot now, he's doing we don't he's not the main focus, so we don't need his real story. But then they're gonna bring him in in the very first act, like in the first 10 minutes of the movie, and it's like, alright, then he just shows up uh again and then again. It's like if he's gonna be, you know, basically Mando's uh rebel handler, that's how I took it. That's how I took it, it's like, okay, that's fine, but they need to establish that. You know, it's like, you know, like even a quick scene, quick one-liner when when when he was talking to uh Sigorny Weaver's character when Mando's talking to her, that if he would, she would have just said something like, like, talk Zeb will talk to Zeb for the details. You know, something like that, where it's passed on, um, like somebody like a colonel would delegate that role to Zeb, for example. And then Zeb is the one who's really uh holding his hand, and now we understand why he's there versus just okay, you just pick some random relevant pilot. Why why is it Zeb? Like the um like the Colonel uh in Rogue One and or his handler, right? Like he was in he was he was in it just enough, and you esta he established what his role was, and then that was what his you know. But I think that was how but I think going back to kind of the argument about the movie versus the TV show, I think when you have characters like Zeb in there the way that they had him, that Makes the argument against or the argument for it being just an extended episode long better stronger because again, you don't really introduce him in the in the movie. And so if you don't know who he is before the movies, like if you just go in blind and I'm just gonna go see Manu Grogu because I look like I like the little green baby, and this purple thing shows up, and you have no context on who he is at all, to me that's but yet you're also kind of making him important, right? Like you can tell, oh, he's yeah, he's different than everybody else. So they're obviously, but I don't understand who he is, and you do no legwork at all to give me an introduction. For as much padding as some of the scenes had, especially in the second half, the fact that they couldn't have a scene with him and Mando interacting to one degree or another, or Zeb ruffling Grogu's head, or whatever, you know, like they they didn't really have like any interaction to establish their relationship, you know, except for that Zeb flew a U-wing, right? Like so that that was one of the things I was like uh and then in hindsight, I was like, yeah, that's right. They kind of they kind of didn't did him dirty a little bit, I think. Um you could have intro I think there was a good opportunity for them to have introduced a new character if they wanted to and not be tied to the throw you a bone. Don't get me wrong, they tried to throw you a bone by giving him his hallway scene, and it was like, oh, this dude's pretty badass. Okay, that's all I know about him, but he did have that scene when they when they could capture coins, so but it could work two different ways. I'm like, oh, let's go find out more about this guy. So then you start watching Rebels. Or come Ahsoka season two, they can bring Zeb in and be like, oh, it's that guy from the Mandalorian Grogu movie. And he will get more into it with the Rebels crew when he meets up with them. Okay, and that would be fine if it it but that it shouldn't be that way. You know what I mean? That's like that's that's Marvel shit. You need to watch WandaVision so you understand what's going on in this movie. I I I that's I mean you would have thought they would have learned their lesson. Not yeah, not having like you almost have uh to me, if you want it to be a movie, you need to have establishing reasons of why all of these people are in this movie, right? And there were a few characters that that didn't really happen a whole lot. Like it just kind of they were there. Even if they were wasn't fleshed out. Yeah. Yeah. But yet we have a fit a 15-minute thing of Grogu building uh a Yoda hut to hide Mando in, right? Like that's the type of stuff where I'm like you could have used it. We're gonna get to the negative. Well, no, I'm just saying you can use that 15 minutes to do character development for other people in the universe. That uh not to get into the negative. I'm just saying, like No, no, no, no, no. We already thought it was a joke because we already started talking about the negative. So um it's it's but but you're not wrong. It's funny, the the whole the things that I didn't like, uh Stelle didn't like the things I liked, like I said 20 minutes ago. Uh that was one of them. That scene was long and it felt longer the second time. Uh I was like, oh god, here we go again with this. I thought it was shorter, actually. But did you okay? But but here's my thing. I didn't like it, but I understood it. Like, you know, it's like, okay, now we're showing the connection, how he stayed like the whole the whole old take care of the young, young take care of it. It was like they're getting to that, and he's having his mom, he's meditating. It's like they're showing him a little bit independent. So I get the scene, and I thought it was fine. But for me, it's like second time, like, oh, I can go refill my IC during this scene. I can, you know, and I almost just about waited for that when I went when I went to the second time I went with uh O Girl and her and her son. So it was like, oh, okay. If I there's a certain part of the movie where if your ICs are empty, let me know. I'm gonna go fill them up. And that was the scene I was waiting for. I was waiting for that particular 15 minutes. What is it? The website When Can I Go Pee? And it tells you like for real, bro. That was it. It was so funny because I I was literally waiting, and then I went and did it basically during that scene, and I came back and I was like, Oh, I wasn't gone long enough. This is still going. Well, and that was my thought when I got that. That whole segment with even the guy with the the fishing guy and all that kind of stuff who we who we don't know anything about. And like, so yeah, to me, I I had some bigger problems with the second half than I did with the first half. I thought the first half did a really good job of uh moving, keeping things moving, all that kind of stuff, like having the kind of you know, the the the ri this the race scene similar to the uh French connection and that type of thing. I I thought was enjoyable. I thought Rot of the Hutt he is so going back to the character motivations, like they gave Rot of the Hutt like seven minutes to explain his motivations and why he didn't want to go with Mando and why he didn't want to go back to the Huts. And so his his character was very established on what his end goals were, right? Like this is this is why I'm here and this is what I want to do. But I don't feel like any other character throughout that movie got the same respect, I guess, or the same space to do that, right? Um I'm with you on that, and I'll tell you also, just kind of side note, but but connected, I didn't need to know he was Jabba's son four times. Right. How many times are you gonna go? Maybe I don't want to be known as Jabba's son, but I'm gonna tell you that I'm Jabba's son, even though I don't want to be related to Jabba in any way shortly. It was a bad list already with the twins. It's like we know he's it's like, oh my god, they're doing it again. They don't even have to tell me nothing as I watched Clone Wars, so whatever. By the way, the the real the the real life photo, the real life photo of him as the baby. I gotta laugh. You know what's funny? What's funny? I was thinking, I'm like, damn, this is just like Jack called it. When I was when I watched it that first, I was like, man, it's like, damn, he nailed he nailed the description of this one. Way better than my description of those Roosevelt shirts. Also, did we need two montage scenes? Like we got the one montage scene with Grogu like doing like getting his stuff prepped, and then we had the other one later when Mando was getting it. Like the mon it's a montage. We're doing a montage. 15 Americans. But I know it sounds like I didn't like it. I did like it, but I did have there were definitely some But it's a Star Wars movie. There's only one perfect Star Wars movie. Some problems. Yeah, and that has a 15th anniversary in three years. And I mean again, do you guys I mean, do you guys think there'll be a season four? Or do you think we're done with the Mando stuff, right? No, it was season four. The first half. But I'm saying the official, right? Like the official Yeah, the official season four, no. I don't think it did. I don't it's 'cause it's because it's gonna lose them money, so no. Just because it was good doesn't mean it made money, so yeah. I think it had a 65% drop-off

Box Office Reality And Star Wars Futures

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this week, which I think they said was the biggest was the biggest drop-off for any Star Wars movie. I didn't really I figured it would be a little less of that because word of mouth, like I said, critics had fans got it in the high eighties. I I uh I would recommend it to a Star Wars fan for sure. Especially because it only had one uh it only had one movie. Uh Backrooms was the only movie that uh let's see. Uh Obsession that went up against it? Oh, this week? I don't know what came up this weekend. Backrooms. This weekrooms was the only one that came out. That drop-off should have been a lot smaller if only backrooms were this competition. Yeah, but obsession is word of mouth came around and obsession. I believe that, because every even people at uh DenverCon were talking about obsession. So yeah, I believe that it had a 69.4% drop from the previous week. I mean, again, they need to they need to make five to six hundred million and they're not gonna do it. So because of that, they're gonna lose money, and because of that, they won't do Mantle Season 4. That's why I see it again. Uh and internationally, it has made you know what funny thing is? Uh if they didn't make this into a movie and made it season four, it might have gave its legs back. You know what I mean? It's like, okay, we're getting away from the Bo Katan story, we're getting away from all the bullshit, we're going, we're going back to Mando being a bounty hunter, um, and and we're gonna carry it that way. I'm like, uh okay then. Then we're we're gonna be good. But because they pulled it out, I I have a feeling that they're done with with TV shows in this world after Ahsoka, and they're just gonna do movies, uh, to fill in, whatever. And they're again they're gonna try to either connect shit or move past it the way uh Starfighter. Like, like Grogu needs to be in Starfighter um timeline. You know, we need to move past all the bullshit. It's like, come on now. Uh that would be interesting to see Grogu there. Like, like even like if they want to do a cameo with if they decide to go back, obviously it's kind of dead in the water of the Ray movie, um, and they have some action going on there, and you have Talon or uh Devin who becomes Talon, uh, who has her own apprentice, and then you've got, you know, or she's just super powerful. You've got Grogu and Ray against up against them too, or even Finn, because in in the what the Lego movies or whatever it was, whatever that show was where they had Finn learning to use the force properly. So you basically a two-on question is what I'm getting at. And and and now with Sabine, you've now established that anybody can learn the force. So why not give it to Finn? Also, uh Mando and Gorgu has made $246 million so far. So Oh, but they're well, they're half they're almost halfway to what they need to need to be profitable to break even. So and again, because of the way the scale is, they're not gonna get there. If they get to $450, I'd be surprised. And they need to get to $550, $600 based off of budget and marketing. So Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me to see Disney completely pivot away from TV shows, not just for Star Wars, but also for Marvel as well. Or at least do limited. The TV shows will be limited for Marvel. It won't be their established, it'll be the side, it'll be the Daredevils and that type of thing. Daredevil's never gonna get its own movie. I think you're either you're gonna see what's gonna happen is that you're gonna have um you're gonna have superheroes who are either in the TV universe or in the movie universe, and they'll be in the same universe. But if you're a TV guy, you're always gonna be a TV guy. And if you're a movie guy, you're always you may cross over when they're doing like the large scale stuff. So you might see like Daredevil as like a cameo in Doomsday, right? But he will never be a movie character, right? Uh that that's my just from the stuff that I've read and kind of uh reading the tea leaves. And I think you're right, Lou. I think Star Wars is not gonna the the TV uh the animated stuff will be the stuff that they keep doing, but I think the live action after Ahsoka's done is is they're they're not gonna go in ahead with any stuff, especially because the the animation has been so for them has been so much more successful than the live action by far. You got Visions, Mall, you know, all the the recent stuff um that that has done way better as far as uh views and critic opinion and I think audience opinion than than the live action TV shows. So but yeah. But Jack's gotta be up in like six hours, so we should probably wrap this up. Even my late ass has been here over an hour. Jack, I'm glad you had a good cruise. I'm glad you got a good trip, sir. And uh so far, so good. Um did I miss the metal count for trivia? Or why Cash won't go? No, no, no. You have to go back and watch it. You'll have to listen to the story. The only story, the big story he told was the Marvel Superfan story. So all right. Where his oldest

Final Laughs And The Wake Up Story

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is cool. I only got 30 minutes. I mean, I got three minutes. Destroyed him. Um but uh the follow-up to that is they had a second um episode of that, the Marvel Superfan. So the dude that lost to us, he won. But it was funny because um the second round, uh, when we all had whiteboards, uh during the second, um, the question was um Valentina was doing what project um to create the next superhero. Only two out of eight people got it, and that was too many people dropping out to go to the next round. So, like, we're gonna forget that question. Wow. And it pissed my daughter off because Sentry's her favorite. So the answer was Project Sentry, right? Right, right. And I think they had like two sentry questions during the second round when she wasn't playing. And the fact that, you know, three-fourths of the contestants to the Marvel Superfan trivia didn't know that pissed her off. I thought she was about to jump over the second because we were watching from the balcony. I thought she was about to jump down there and start whooping ass. She was over the X23. I'm not I'm the X-23, that's funny. I'm not even a Marvel Super fan, and I got that. Yeah, I do that. You know what I mean? It's like that that you should not have to be all you need to do is find the. That we beat the day before won the Super Marvel fan trivia the next day. Wait, so you guys didn't play? Is that what happened? No, we didn't play the second time. You know. Okay. Let the other people go. Well, you give other people a chance to get a medal. But you notice you notice he was in the balcony, though. Because he still wanted to look down on them. Yes. Naturally. In his appropriate position. Yeah, he's like holding up the keychain. Look at what I won. Look at what I already own. Well, because if I had watched from down below, they would have handed me a remote, then I would have had to play. So naturally. And then you would have had to win again. What was there just the one Star Wars trivia? No, there were three. Oh, okay. Only won one of them. Sad. I know. Is it because you don't know the trial? The advanced trivia cheated though. Um there was one question. It was true or false. Or some I forget what it the exact wording was. But it was Andor and a group of rebels broke into a vault to steal Imperial credits. And it was just it was weird and funny that everybody thought the answer was Rogue One, but it was really like an episode of Andor. Yeah, the season one. Yeah. The payroll for season one. Yeah. It was just worded weird. I don't think anybody got that one right. Just because of the way they worded it. Oh, I mean, I guess, yeah, if they like they like were vague and were just like they broke into a vault to steal Imperial credits, like you're you would naturally think because they refer to the tape vault. Exactly. That type of thing. Like, yeah. Yeah. No, no, you cannot make that connect. They clearly said credits, the tape vault wasn't credits, the show episode was credits. But you know what? They might not have mentioned the credits. I think that that's what they broke into to steal. Oh, no, no, that's what it was. Andor and a group of rebels broke in to a vault to steal what? So we all said Death Star plans, but the answer they were looking for was credits. Right, because it was a group of rebels. No, we're not talking about like the group. Well, I you could argue, I suppose, that the rest of their flight crew was a group. But I could see how that's how dare you besmirch Melchi's name that way, Lou. He was part of the crew. And that black guy that I don't ever remember his name, but I think he actually had one in the movie. Token. And on that note. On that note, I think we're done. Lou, glad you joined us. Glad you woke up. Yeah, thank you, bladder. I went, I was still asleep with knocking my bladder. I'll tell you that much right now. Man, I had to do it. You got phone calls. We called old girl. We like. I saw that. I saw that. I was like, I was like, I was like, first of all, she ain't. I'm like, first of all, she ain't here. Second of all, she knew I would have fucking been a dragon if she tried to wake me up. The one Sunday night that she wasn't there, and we're like, no, we we need you to wake him up. Yeah, because of because of Disney coming up, she and the con, she didn't have a lot of time to do her prep, you know, to get her clothes washed. So she's like, let me get back, stay here tonight, do do all my errands and all that. And so she wasn't around. Um last thing I remember was probably, I don't know, 7:45 tonight. And then next you know, I'm waking up to hex app. You're waking up to the side. But I but I knew. I knew. I was like, I set my alarm for 9 o'clock, you know, bruh. I slept right through it. I was so worn out this last weekend, this last four days. Woke up to 15 text messages, two missed calls. Like, you're like, it's the world ending? What's happening right now? And they're like, oh no, it's just Jack. No, no, no. I woke up when I was in the bathroom checking all that shit. I knew exactly what it was. I'm like, ah, shit. Like, I was like, oh. I just missed it. Yeah, it was just like, ah it was. Yeah, Jack's soundboard happened. And then when Jack's like, hey, we're still going, jump on. I'm like, do I comb my hair? Do I like let me clean up a little bit? I'm gonna tell you right now. I got no I ain't got no bottoms on. I got a shirt, and that's it, and my socks. I ain't gonna stand up. But I was like, let me hurry up. I I did tell Jack I said Lou's gonna come on, his hair's gonna be all wild and shit, because you're gonna be like, I'm sorry, guys, I was late. It's actually Winnie Lou. You have a red shirt on. So it's Winnie the Pooh. Yeah, you are Winnie the Pooh. Yeah, you are literally Winnie the Pooh. Oh man, you're not even kidding, Duke, bro. I I got out of the bathroom, I looked in the mirror and was like, do I want to just say FA? No, let me spray this down real quick. Coming on like Clarence Williams. Coming on like Clarence Williams from Tales from the Hood and shit. And you're just like, man. When I said I'll be on in three minutes and it was four, that extra minute was me coming my hair because I wasn't going to at first when I saw it and I was like, whoa, this is rough. We don't know. Sprit, spritz, spritz, spritz, spritz, sprint, spritz. I was like, oh, I gotta put on some drawers and some pants or some shorts. I'm like, no, I think I'm just gonna not move. Uh I'm gonna grab my water bottle now and just sit it next to me and just kind of stay still, uh, you know, and not do anything. Okay, we're curl, though. I gotta go to bed. Yeah, yeah. Gotta go. All right, kids. Have a good week. We'll uh see you next Sunday. Yeah, we'll catch you on chat.