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The A-List
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We take listeners along for a theme park adventure as Allison and Alex share stories about rollercoasters, gym anxiety, and Tony Award predictions, culminating with a special segment recorded throughout Disneyland!
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Alex Hinsky
Welcome and Pre-Recording Announcement
Speaker 1welcome back to the alice podcast with allison and alex she's I'm allison I am.
Speaker 3It's june 2nd I can't believe we're in June already.
Speaker 1That's wild.
Speaker 3It is crazy bananas, crazy Cookie bananas June 2nd. This is Monday, june 2nd. So I want you guys to know we are pre-recording. We love to tell you that because we're both going to be in Indiana and on June 2nd, as of today, I'm at the top of the Millennium Force in Cedar Point.
Speaker 1And I am on my way home, here, back. Yep, the millennium force is good. I won't.
Speaker 3Well, now would I not enjoy it because I'm old and everything hurts me now I mean, I went on it last summer and it was just as enjoyable as it was when I was 10 wasn't it at one point like the tallest, the biggest drop ever, correct?
Speaker 1and now it's not anymore, or is it still?
Speaker 3No, I don't think it is anymore. But it is. No, it's definitely not anymore. But it is a giga coaster with an elevator lift hill. That is.
Speaker 1What. What does that mean?
Speaker 3Okay, so it's an elevator lift system, it's not a chain. So you know, a chain is a typical roller coaster, yes, the cranking sound yes. This is an elevator lift system. So basically this mechanism comes down and goes into the train and you go. Guys, look at the screen, you go out of the station and like this, like this steep Vertical If you're listening and not watching. Pretty much vertical Vertical Very quickly to the all the way to the top.
Speaker 1I do remember that part. I remember that part. I feel like get the hair. I feel like I probably like high school or right after was the last time?
Speaker 3I've been there. Well, millennium force opened in the millennium, so we were 10, so that you definitely would have written that, do you?
Speaker 1oh, it had just opened, so maybe it was right before high school, middle school because you are in fourth grade when you're 10 Going into fifth. The year 2000, but I went to school in 2004, high school in 2004. So I'm saying like before, at some point before high school.
Speaker 3Oh, got you, I understand.
Speaker 1I think. I feel it might not have just opened when I went, but it like wasn't that old.
Speaker 3Sure, well, I am excited because there is a new roller coaster that just opened this year called Siren's Curse.
Speaker 1That's the one where it detaches from yes the track Sure the track, and then you flip forward. Not flip, but you rotate.
Speaker 3Yeah, gravity pushes the coaster forward.
Speaker 1And then it clicks in and then you go.
Speaker 3And you drop.
Speaker 1I don't know, that might be the line for me.
Speaker 3I'm going.
Speaker 1Gonna do it because I see I get too many videos now of things going wrong on roller coasters you are being served a lot of that content, which is aren't they closing one of the cedar points? There is only one cedar point sure six flags, are they closing one?
Speaker 3are they they?
Speaker 1I think so.
Speaker 3Well, cedar Fair now owns Six Flags, so maybe they're rebranding it. Stanley, you're going to hurt your back, buddy, can you lay this way? Thank you.
Speaker 1Six Flags okay, hold on is closing two of its parks permanently. Six Flags America and Hurricane Harbor in Maryland will close at the end of the 2025 season. Oh have you been there?
Speaker 3No, oh well, I get to see a theme park close, though, but you know what A bunch of people who make movies are going to get excited about that, because soon it will be an abandoned theme park.
Speaker 1And they love that. Yeah, they do. What theme park did they shoot Zombieland Uh?
Speaker 3do you know? I don't. I wonder if it was jazzland in new orleans, because that was a six flags park that closed because of the hurricane and then never reopened, which is a great documentary. You guys closed for the storm on hbo is a great documentary about this park, how it came to be and and then when it closed for Hurricane Katrina, and how it's never been reopened.
Speaker 1I haven't watched it, but I have seen videos about it. Yeah, the 2009 film Zombieland was filmed at Wild Adventures theme park in Valdosta Georgia.
Speaker 3I feel like that is an active park, so they just made it look desolate.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was going to say maybe they made Knott's Berry look desolate. Yeah, I was going to say maybe they made Knott's Berry look desolate.
Speaker 3but that would have been cool.
Speaker 1Guess not. Anyway, I hope that you're having a good time on your rollercoaster right now, I'm sure I am.
Speaker 3I do love a rollercoaster.
Speaker 1I think that it would. I would have to have some time in between going to a Six Flags or a Cedar, Like what do you? Mean, we went how long ago? A couple months.
Speaker 3Four months Six flags.
Cedar Point and Rollercoaster Talk
Speaker 1December, december. I'm not ready to go back. My neck and head hurt so bad and I was very nauseous.
Speaker 3We are different people.
Speaker 1I for cause I hadn't been on a roller coasters like that, back to back to back, in a long time, cause even knots?
Speaker 3Probably, since knots.
Speaker 1But knots isn't even like that, I feel. They time Cause even not since knots. But knots isn't even like that. I feel they're better taken care of. Maybe that's it Cause I, but I feel like when we've been to knots like we don't go on those kinds of roller coasters back to back.
Speaker 3Sure, the difference is you went with your boyfriend and you guys wrote everything Like I do not ride the two of the rides you, you ride. I would never ride, yeah, and I didn't really know that.
Speaker 1And he's like no, I'm writing them, but it was because he was leaving early and so it was like we got there early and he tried to get on as many things as we could before. So sure, I guess, if I had just gone at a normal time and leisurely walked through, maybe it was. But yeah and crazy.
Speaker 3That makes sense, though, because, yeah, I would also not be able to go if I didn't curate my experience to be the rides that I know won't.
Speaker 1F me, and now I don't remember what were they.
Speaker 3X2.
Speaker 1X2.
Speaker 3Did you do Tatsu the flying one? No, it was closed.
Speaker 1But the very first one is like the one with the oldest loop Revolution. I feel like that gave me a headache, yeah. That one is like a million years old it's so old. Yeah, I think it was X two in that one.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Honestly, I really enjoyed, uh, the Ninja one. Oh yeah, that one was great.
Speaker 3Now, if you're at Cedar point, ninja is the exact same as what iron dragon, for sure. That was my niece and nephew's first roller coaster. It was so cute to watch them ride it, oh my gosh, last year yeah, and they rode millennium, for they rode everything.
Speaker 1They're ride warriors were they just the height, or were they?
Speaker 3they're a little taller than required and like we think it was partially just them, so unaware of what was going on, yeah, and then partially because they also are like, are just like excited that we were all excited yeah because it truly. Every time we got them on a new coaster it was like not till we were going up the hill that they would be like oh wait, what yeah?
Speaker 1um, the first one that my niece and nephew went on was the slinky dog oh at disney world that's a good one they both, I'm gonna. I think that arlen liked it and Daphne was very excited, excited. I think Arlen was like nervous and then ended up liking it.
Speaker 3Is that a magic kingdom? Yeah, it is Right. Or is it an animal kingdom?
Speaker 1No magic, yeah. And then Daphne was pumped and then Midway was like I don't know if I like this type thing. But then she, I think, changed her mind, mind because she really enjoyed the other rides or maybe I'm thinking of a later time, but Arlen. Then he went on Rock and Roller Coaster. And so I think it was like the very first one was like a little scary Because honestly it is marketed as a kid's coaster, but it's pretty yeah it's a rocket coaster.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like a pretty good coaster. Anyway, I hope that you're having a good time.
Speaker 3Thank, you, I'm sure I am I won't be going for a while.
Speaker 1That's fine, that's it. Well, since we're pre-recording, we don't have much banter for this one, but we do want to tell you that at the end of this episode, we're going to talk for a while, and then we're going to talk for a while, and then we are going to insert speaking of theme parks. Yeah, we are going to insert our footage, um and audio. Yeah, footage and audio of our on the scene podcast slash, just like you know outing uh at disneyland.
Speaker 3Yes, if you recall, we went to disney for ali's birthday yes, a few. Right, yeah, I guess a month ago at this point.
Speaker 1Yeah, wild you. Alex has a disclaimer on the audio. I just made that up for you. But thank you.
Speaker 3Yeah, I am. I don't love the audio. It's not amazing. It clips a little bit, it's a little, it's a little flangey, which is a technical term, um, but I but it's usable, like it's good enough, you guys will get the gist. It's fun, it's us at the theme park and if you're, it's definitely more of a visual. So if you're listening, I mean it's still enjoyable, you can still listen, but you should go to the video and watch it just for the full effect.
Speaker 1It was something we tried. Maybe it didn't work. No, I think that will be at the end of the episode. So if you're gonna stay and watch and listen to the whole thing, then amazing. If you're gonna tap out when we're done with the, you know normal things pure podcast form. That's okay and we'll see you next week, but we just wanted to let you know that that will be at the end of the episode. Yes, yes. So our friend Heather, who we've spoken about many times, hi, heather.
Speaker 3Hey Heather.
Speaker 1She sent us a video message. You won't see the video. I'll just play the audio. Yeah.
Speaker 3She doesn't speak pipe, but she does Marco.
Speaker 1Yeah, and she had a question for us.
Speaker 5Hey guys, it's Heather Just dropping in to see what your predictions for the 2025 Tony Awards might be. I don't know how up to date you are, but, as a theater girly, this is obviously very important to the theatrical pop culture community. So, yeah, do you have any predictions? Any shows that are on the season that you have seen? Um, any that you're looking forward to seeing sometime? Let me know. Let me know.
Speaker 3Okay, cute. Okay. Cute.
Speaker 1So do you have any thoughts?
Speaker 3I'm. You know I haven't watched the Tonys for the last couple of years.
Speaker 1I haven't either, not on purpose. I just think I wasn't sitting down at the time to have them on. Right, I'm sure that they went up to stream afterwards, but I don't. I'm not someone who like really stays up on all the new broadway shows. I feel like from word of mouth.
Speaker 1Or if I were to just like turn on the tony's and I saw a performance, I would be like, oh, that interests me, I'm gonna go, yes if I'm in new york, I want to see it or like putting it on my list to go, but I'm not someone who really keeps up and then, you know, listens to the soundtrack or whatever. I feel like you do sometimes right, yeah because, like the titanic one, what titan, not titanic, what?
Speaker 3was it? Oh yeah, titanic, but what?
Speaker 1that's not good. Right, though, right I love the titanic I saw yeah, I saw it was it bored me? How do they build Titanic? I feel like there was a new show, like in the last handful of years that you really liked.
Speaker 3Oh, the notebook the notebook the notebook for sure Got me dear Evan Hansen. These are all like yeah, but the notebook most recently, I think that was last year.
Speaker 1So sadly, Heather, I don't have many thoughts, but I can go through and tell you the nominees for like the best, and then we can just blindly take, make a guess, and then I have a, but I do have a game for us that has to do with it. So the nominees of for best play and best musical, that's what I'll tell you. So best play, we have English, the Hills of California. John Proctor is the villainain, o'mary and Purpose.
Speaker 3I am so excited that O'Mary is nominated.
Speaker 1Oh, you know this one, yes, okay.
Speaker 3So this is the play, the comedy play that was written, directed and starred that gay. If you saw him you would know Okay, and he plays Mary Todd Lincoln.
Speaker 1Oh, so I've heard people talk about Mary Todd Lincoln, but I had no context. I knew there was a show that yeah.
Speaker 3And right now Todd, todd, titus, titus.
Speaker 2Titus, titus.
Speaker 3Titus From Kimmy Schmidt.
Speaker 1Oh, I don't know him. Oh, he's playing mary right now, so it's a. It's a man that plays.
Speaker 3Yes, well, a woman has played him, has played her as well okay, but it is but a man in drag yes, dressed as funny, mary todd lincoln funny yeah so that one can be our vote love that but it's a play, not a musical vote for him. I really want him to win.
Theme Park Stories and Updates
Speaker 1Amazing. So the nominees for best musical are the Buena Vista Social Club Dead Outlaw Death. Becomes Her, which I've heard people talk about I've been watching a lot of that Maybe Happy Ending and Operation Mincemeat a new musical.
Speaker 3Wow, heard of. Only Death Becomes Her. Yeah, same mints me a new musical wow, heard of only yeah, same, that same. So my I guess, though, is for death becomes her. I mean, it's culturally like kind of taking over.
Speaker 1I'm stoked for that I'm glad that I didn't pick it to be a part of our game I hope that what's death becomes her about you don't know no, tell me so the move?
Speaker 3it's based on a movie with meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, okay, and one is like a famous actress and one is something else. They take a potion from like a woo-woo person that like prevents them from dying, but they're arch enemies, so like they keep trying to kill the other one but they can't die. So literally they'll get like a hole punched through their stomach and they're just alive.
Speaker 1Do they know that they both have? Yeah took the potion yes so why are they even trying?
Speaker 3it's like comedy. It's very campy, okay, and megan hilty is in the musical. Got it that tiktok sound?
Speaker 1that was rude oh, that's from that. That was really funny, that's from that um megan hilty's on it right now yeah, cute.
Speaker 3And also, ernest, tell me, what have you seen of me cinematically? The roms, the calms, the rom from the movie or the drama the movie is not a musical, so it's original music so these sounds are coming from the show.
Speaker 1Where are they getting the audio? It's on broadway it has a recording oh sorry.
Speaker 3Yeah, it has a cast recording.
Speaker 1Okay, I was like was like someone illegally did that. Okay, well, that sounds good. I think, honestly, most shows that you know make it to Broadway. They've been through so many iterations and testing that I think by the time it gets there, I think I would like most shows. I agree, Like I don't think that there's a show unless it's Titanic. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1It's just long and it's kind of boring, I don't know. And for me to love the movie Titanic and all the lore about Titanic, it just like saddens me that I wasn't excited by it. Okay, anyway, I think that most shows like I'm going to enjoy, but at that time, so any of these I'd be happy to see. Yeah, so the game that I have brought to you is because I thought that we didn't know anything about these. I went to the website and I took the description and then I made a fake description and I'm going to read them both to you and you're going to tell me which one you think.
Speaker 1I love this game Is the real description. Okay, okay.
Speaker 3Ready.
Speaker 1So we're going to start with. John Proctor is the villain.
Speaker 3This is a play.
Speaker 1This is a play.
Speaker 3Okay, I'm ready.
Speaker 1Okay. So description number one I feel like I'm going to be saying so many words, so let me take a big. Yeah, yeah, get a big inhale, okay. At a high school in a rural town in georgia, an english class is setting the crucible, but the students are more preoccupied with navigating young love, sex, ed and a few school scandals. As they delve into the american classic, the students begin to question the play's perspective and the validity of naming john proctor the show's hero. With deep wells of passion and biting humor, kimberly bellflower's john proctor is the what it gave it away.
Speaker 3Yeah, oh, that's the one.
Speaker 1Dang it. Sorry, good thing I did three more. Okay, okay, dang it. Why did I do that?
Speaker 3It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 1But this sounds so good.
Speaker 3The fake one.
Speaker 1No, like the whole show. Well, both of them.
Speaker 3Oh, okay.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3John Proctor must die On to the next. Okay, the show is.
Speaker 1John Proctor must die onto the next, okay, the. The show is dead outlaw. You do not know this, correct, correct? Okay? Dead outlaw is a gritty historical drama that follows the fallout after a notorious gunslinger is gunned down in broad daylight and his body becomes a macabre tourist attraction set in a lawless frontier town where, hungry for fame and fortune, fortune, the play gosh, I can't speak. The play explores how truth gets twisted when legacy becomes a commodity. As journalists, family members and opportunists converge, the question shifts from who killed the outlaw to who really owns his story. It's a tale of morality, myth-making and the price of a good headline. Okay, description number two dead outlaw is the darkly hilarious and widely inventive musical about the bizarre true story of outlaw turned corpse, turned celebrity, elmer McCurdy. As Elmer's body finds even more outlandish adventures in death than it could have ever hoped for in life, the show explores fame, failure and the meaning or utter meaninglessness of legacy. Dying is no reason to stop living life to its fullest.
Speaker 3I think.
Speaker 1description two that is the real one.
Speaker 3Fun, that sounds fun, I would love to see that it does sound fun Okay.
Speaker 1Next Operation Mincemeat. This is a musical.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay. Operation Mincemeat is a fast ppaced spy thriller set in the Cold War. People who definitely lied on their resumes Packed with mistaken identities, high stakes, blunders and musical numbers that probably weren't approved. It's espionage like you've never seen it. Description number two it's 1943 and the Allied forces are on the ropes. Luckily they've got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stolen corpse. Equal parts farce, the thriller and caper. This new musical tells the wildly improbable and hilarious true story of the covert operation that turned the tide of world war two.
Speaker 1Description to that is true.
Tony Awards Predictions Game
Speaker 3That sounds fun Also. Yeah, it does See the name makes me, yeah, be like what is this about?
Speaker 1yeah, yeah, okay, next show maybe happy ending musical this is musical, yes, okay.
Speaker 1Inside a one-room apartment in the heart of soul, oliver lives a happy, happily quiet life, listening to jazz records and caring for his favorite plant. But what else is there to do when you're a helper bot three, a robot that has long been retired and considered obsolete? When his fellow helper bot neighbor, claire, asks to borrow his charger, what starts as an awkward encounter leads to a unique friendship, surprising adventure and maybe even love. Number two maybe happy ending follows a recently widowed jazz musician who inherits his grandfather's dusty apartment and stumbles upon a box of forgotten cassette tapes labeled only with the initials and dates. As he listens to each one, he uncovers a decades longlong secret romance and begins to reflect on the relationships he sabotaged in his own life. Blending nostalgia, humor and heartache, the play explores how he can carry other people's stories and whether it's ever too late to rewrite our own.
Speaker 3Well, that's beautiful. I hope it's number two.
Speaker 1It's not, it's number one.
Speaker 3Well, I would like number two to be made into a musical it does sound nice.
Speaker 1This one, uh, is the one that stars darren chris oh, okay, cute and now that I was reading these, then ads are popping up for him and it's like he is. He is a robot and it's weird and I am interested okay, how does he move? Like a robot, I believe. I believe, I think, yeah, okay, which?
Speaker 3it would be hard to do. Yeah, okay, cute.
Speaker 1Okay. Last we have Buena Vista Social Club Okay, which I also think this is a musical. It is, yeah. Buena Vista Social Club is a vibrant ensemble piece set in 1950s Havana, centering around a group of aging musicians who reunite to save their beloved neighborhood club from being torn down. As they rehearse one of their last performance, memories resurface, tensions flare and old rhythms find new life. With a backdrop of political change and personal redemption, the play is a soulful celebration of music's power to preserve identity, community and hope. One song at a time. Number two two step into the heart of Cuba, beyond the glitz of the Tropicana, to a place where blazing trumpets and sizzling guitars set the dance floor on fire. Inspired by true events, this new musical tells the story of the legends who lived it, and a world-class Afro-Cuban band is joined by a sensational cast in this unforgettable tale of survival, second chances and the extraordinary power of music.
Speaker 3I'm going to say two again.
Speaker 1That is true, that was the real one. Cute, they all sound great.
Speaker 3They all sound great. Yeah, I would love maybe we'll watch the Tonys this year.
Speaker 1Maybe we will.
Speaker 3And then cause they're all going to probably perform Do they do plays. Yeah.
Speaker 1On the Tonys, do they?
Speaker 3do like act out a scene? I don't think so.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, all of those I would like to see, and if I lived in New York I would go see them.
Speaker 3Love that.
Speaker 1But yeah, I thought that was a little fun way to learn about them, since we didn't know You're right, okay, okay, sorry, I have to switch places. Okay, we have a speak pipe. We haven't had one in a while keep it up well, we haven't. We have another submission. I guess we just did others, but this is on speakpipecom. Hello, take me there. Oh wait. I'm muted Okay.
Speaker 4Hey, this is Victoria. Again. I have something I'd like some advice on. Actually, I thought maybe y'all would be the right people to ask about this, because I know y'all go to gyms and workout classes a lot.
Speaker 4I haven't been to a gym or to a workout class where other people are there since before COVID. I've done everything at home yes, the fitness marshal, thank you and I'm actually more active now, but I do everything at home where I go for walks or with a friend. I'm not going to a gym where people see me, and so I'm feeling a lot of insecurity about going to a workout class where other people can see me or watching me. My body has changed a good bit since before COVID. I have a larger body now. I don't look like your typical Pilates yoga girly, I guess, but I want to try the Pilates class where they have the machines. I think it looks so fun and a really good workout.
Speaker 4But all the videos I see, or the pictures I see of these gyms, all the girls they don't look like me and, yeah, I'm feeling insecure and I thought maybe y'all could give me some like tips on trying to psych myself up or like what to ask when I go to these gyms or what to look for so that I can find the right fit. Sorry, this is so long. Thank you so much. Love y'all Bye.
Speaker 3Thanks, Victoria.
Speaker 1Yeah, thank you so much.
Speaker 3Okay, it's interesting because I've been dealing with that, oh really you know, yeah, I have extreme gym intimidation. Yeah, now different. I think. First of all, good for you for wanting to do reformer pilates.
Speaker 1That intimidates him oh yeah, I've never.
Speaker 1I've never done either, because I I like I'm scared to go, because it will have been my first time and they will have to tell me how to use it and I feel like, especially here, like the pilates girlies are pretentious and they're like and that might be generalization on my part, but like people who are that is their thing, like they don't want to be slowed down by someone in the class needing extra help, which I'm sure places probably have like an intro class you can go to Like. Even I signed up for um bar, pure pure bar, and I had to go to a 30 minute class before I was even allowed to sign up, where they showed you how they do everything. So they probably would do that Sorry.
Speaker 3No, I was just gonna say like I get the whole being intimidated thing. I have hated going to the gym for so many years for that exact reason. I only recently found a gym that I don't feel intimidated to go to when it comes to classes.
Speaker 3Before I got into boxing, I would never step foot into a class because I was same thing you were saying, victoria, it's just like I'm not fit in the same way, like going into a class where it's you know there's at least a good number of the people in there have been doing it already and you're like, oh, is it very intimidating the way that I would suggest getting around that? A I went with a friend.
Speaker 3I was like someone who in this case this friend had already done it, so she was like able to talk me through it. But then also just going with someone who hasn't done it is also fun because you're both like they're whatever laughing together to your point about like, specifically like for former pilates, it is such a specific kind of workout. Yeah, I would literally just call them and be like, hey, I've never taken before. Is it okay if I come in a little early to like?
Speaker 1yeah, or do you have an intro class?
Speaker 3yeah, because when I at the boxing studio that I take from many times there will be people there early because they don't know what's going on. They're like can? You just show and then, like I would cannot imagine that the people running these places wouldn't immediately be like yeah, we'll show you it's a their job and be like they want you to be comfortable.
Speaker 1So speaking of this particular subject, pilates, did you see that girl that went viral on tiktok last week? She was this. It was insane. This girl made this video that was like this might be a hot take, and if it, when it starts like that yeah you know it's the hottest take that's ever been like.
Speaker 1Yes, it's a hot take yeah she was like I think that people, if you're over 200 pounds, you shouldn't be allowed to do pilates and she, just like, goes on this rant about how, if you are not a skinny person like you have no business being in pilates and you shouldn't be there. It's like it's insane, it's long, she is being dead serious and she that is awful.
Speaker 1So she obviously got like very canceled and dragged and then she made this fake. It wasn't fake, but she made this video apologizing because she obviously was like people really came for her and so many people were like pilates was literally, literally created as a low impact workout for people with mobility issues. Like it's low impact, it is based on your body weight and it is made for that.
Speaker 1So what are you even talking about? One and two so many people were commenting and they were like this is why, like bigger people, don't go to the gym, because of bitches like you.
Speaker 1Because we either go to the gym and people are judging being there, or, if you're bigger, they're like you need to go to the gym, like you need to lose weight, and it's like people can't win, like it's so annoying. Yeah, so she obviously got dragged, but it was like things like that, like make people yeah, of course, be victoria. I hope that that me telling you that story does not make you not want to go. Yeah, because, but people, there are people who would be their mind would be, they could have been like, oh, I've always wanted to try pilates, and then they saw a video like that and they're like well, I'm not gonna go, going to go now. This is what people think. So, anyway, that was a side note.
Speaker 1I couldn't believe my ears and eyes when I heard that, but I guess for me one. I think I might have a little bit of a different perspective because I need a class rather than just going to the gym and working out by myself. So I think I have a little bit of a different mindset. But even going to a new one like is always scary.
Speaker 4The first time when I went to pure bar.
Speaker 1I went alone and I was kind of just like keep to myself, whatever, I have gone with other people and it is obviously nice. So that is like a very good suggestion and I think that's probably the number one thing If you have a friend, ask them to go with you. And if that's not possible, then I do think calling ahead, like he said also, but I think trying to shift your mindset, to remind yourself that truly no one everyone is worried about themselves Like we're so narcissistic, worried about themselves.
Speaker 1Like we're so narcissistic. We're a narcissistic world and not in like a super negative way. It's just like there are other people who are going to that class that are worried about the exact same thing that you're worried about, or they're feeling insecure about something. Or even if they're not feeling insecure, they're just like this is my workout. I'm here for me, like I.
Speaker 1The one thing I can equate to this is I recently started to going to Pilates over the past couple or not Pilates yoga over the past couple of months, and I had been to a yoga class before, but I've been going more often now Cause I'm trying to get my lower back sorted and I've never been someone who works out and like a workout set like a bra and leggings solely. Like I'm always someone who wants to wear a big t-shirt and just like I don't want to have to worry about my body when I'm at the gym. So like throwing on a t-shirt is easy way to do that, but in yoga, like it's not really conducive for like a big t-shirt because you're upside down, it's like falling off, it's whatever. And then if you do hot yoga, like you're actually dying and that's what happened to me. I went to hot yoga I had a t-shirt on and I intentionally wore like a bra and biker shorts that I was like if I need to take this off like I'll do it but I don't want to.
Speaker 1Right and I got so hot I was dying and I had to, and I, like, took my shirt off reluctantly, and then I was like, oh, no one's looking at me.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1And no one cares. Like we're all just here and everyone has a different body. Like no one looks exactly the same. Obviously there's like stick thin girls there, but like there's a bad apple everywhere. But most people like, even if they're thin, whatever, they're not looking at you, but everyone has a different body, everyone. There's people with big boobs, there's people with like you know, I don't know, I don't. You know what I'm trying to get at. Like everyone is different and everyone has their own things, but also we're all.
Speaker 1I think as you get older, you're kind of just like bodies are bodies and it's not about that. And I think like just trying to change your mindset I'm a long winded way of me to say I think trying to change your mindset, to be like my body is the least interesting thing about me and I'm going somewhere to better myself for however long the class is like I'm doing, I'm moving my body, whether that's for mental reasons, emotional reasons, physical reasons, and that's the number one thing that matters. And I think if you shift it to that, then then you just like stop worrying about what other people are thinking and you're just like I'm not like really important enough for everyone to really be looking at me and judging me.
Speaker 3And the first class is just a bandaid. Yeah, just rip it. I think, too, like I do this thing for myself. When I need to cite, when I'm psyching myself out about going to something, I will. I do this thing. That's so weird, but I will look at the clock and, whatever I'll be like 24 hours from now, this thing that I'm scared of doing is going to be done.
Speaker 1Yeah, like it will be over.
Speaker 3I used to have a test and stuff. Yeah, I'm literally like in 24 hours, you're going to be doing something totally different. It will be in the past.
Speaker 1Yeah.
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Speaker 3Another thing that I suggest that I do for myself, sometimes not in, not in necessarily in reference to like a workout class, but like if I have to go do something that I'm very like anxious or nervous to do, I will give myself a reward. I will say if you complete this, you are allowed to go to the mall and spend $40.
Speaker 1I love that.
Speaker 3And I do that, and if I don't go, if I chicken out, no, not doing hard things you got to find out what your reward is. Is it if I go to this Pilates class, if I rip the band and I do this thing that I'm scared to do? I get to, you know.
Speaker 1Go to the movies. Go to the movies. I will say one more thing that may just like help you and help you find the right place is one I don't know where you live, but ask around, like do you, does anyone in the area like have you been to a pilates studio here? And then ask them like what's the vibe there? Like is it super inclusive? Do you feel like it's hardcore? And maybe you're not ready for that? Yeah, go on the yelp reviews, the google reviews, call them, and honestly, you could be honest and be like look, I'm nervous, it's my first time, like I would really what's the best class to attend?
Speaker 1yeah, what's the best class to go to? Yeah, I don't know. I feel like asking around and doing a little bit of research so that you at least know going into what you might be getting yourself into, so you don't feel so overwhelmed by the atmosphere when you are in, and, I think, no matter what size you are. I do think this this is so like counterproductive to anything normally that I am, but I do think that if you do wear something that you feel cute in, totally you, you walk in with a little more pop in your step.
Speaker 1Yeah, and that could be active booty. No, you walk in with a a little, a little bit in your step.
Speaker 3Yeah, and that could be active booty. No, I'm just kidding, promo code, I'm so just kidding. I'm so just kidding, I'm not. But I will say, like I do Matt Pilates, I haven't done reformer Pilates, I do Matt Pilates and it is.
Speaker 1It is such a good workout yeah, so I think you will enjoy it. Yeah, victoria again.
Speaker 3I'm not done reformer, but pilates yeah, what a workout I haven't either, maybe we should go together reformer. Yeah, okay, my gym does offer it I can get a day pass you could get a day pass and they let you take classes. You know what? Victoria, you go and we'll go let us know and we will go. Thank you for yeah, thank you so much. Okay, do you have?
Speaker 1an a-list of the week. Do you have an A-list of the week?
Speaker 3I do have an A-list of the week, guys. My A-list of the week is Cedar Point, america's Rock and Roller Coast. So, as you guys know, I love a roller coaster, I love a theme park, I'm a coaster kid, I'm a ride warrior, I'm a thrill seeker, I'm all of those things. And right now I'm at Cedar Point. Right now, right now, I'm at Cedar Point. What's the best thing to eat there? Oh, my God, you go to Cedar Point. They have three. Okay, okay, okay. First of all, they have two dessert items that you cannot leave Cedar Point without. One is an elephant ear.
Speaker 1Ah, very Midwest.
Speaker 3Very Midwest, but there's nothing like a Cedar Point elephant ear. It's perfectly crisp, it's perfectly doughy, it is the exact ratio you want for an elephant ear. Second thing is their frozen custard.
Speaker 4No, one knows where it's from.
Speaker 3It is a cedar point recipe. It's a different. It's not. It is different than any frozen custard you'll ever have. It is the best frozen custard yeah cheese on a stick, which a lot of theme parks have, but not like cedar points on a stick. It's deep fried cheese a big mozzarella stick it's deep fried cheese. No, no, no.
Speaker 1A cheese curd.
Speaker 3Yeah, more like a cheese curd. I guess it's like a corn dog, but it's a cheese stick.
Speaker 1Oh, that's giving Korean hot dog that they stole. Okay, but Cedar Point's been around since before Korea. No, I'm just kidding, that sounds good.
Speaker 3It is good, but of course they have a lot of good food there, a lot of good restaurants, but you do not leave without having those three things.
Speaker 1Okay, can you bring it back?
Speaker 3No, I won't keep, but I will absolutely have them. I mean, last year we shared all those things because they're big and a lot.
Speaker 1Yeah, but man Sharing an elephant ear at the state fair or like the county fair is like peak.
Speaker 3Never done it, but I have done it at Cedar Point.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 3So, guys, I don't know if you can get yourselves to Sandusky, ohio and have a time there on Lake Erie, at Cedar Point, but if you can, you will not regret it. It is honestly that just a great time. Yeah, I believe I'm 35 sometimes.
Speaker 1That's pretty crazy the way I talk about Cedar.
Speaker 3Point. Well. And I will be writing Siren's Curse. I'm scared. And Steel, vengeance and Maverick and Millennium Force. It's America's rollercoaster, you guys, the most rollercoasters of any theme park in the world.
Speaker 1Speaking of food. This is not my AOS of the week, but while I'm in Indiana, I hope that I have gotten Superman ice cream.
Speaker 3Here we go.
Speaker 1There's nothing like it.
Speaker 3There's nothing like it, because the Superman ice cream that you remember doesn't exist.
Speaker 1That's not true. Doesn't it exist there?
Speaker 3No, we determined that it doesn't right.
Speaker 1I just think you can't get it anywhere but here, oh you can't get it there.
Speaker 3You can't get it anywhere, but here, oh, you can't get it there, you can't get it here.
Speaker 1Yeah, like it's not Soul's National Superman ice cream. Here is just vanilla, it's not the same yeah.
Speaker 3It's just vanilla colored vanilla ice cream yes. Superman ice cream in Marion Indiana.
Speaker 1It's like fruity Correct, but it's a fruit that you can't explain. It's so good. If anyone is from an area that has had Superman ice cream, please tell me. So my A-list of the week is something that I saw someone tell me to do on TikTok.
Speaker 3Oh God, jump off a bridge.
Speaker 1And I started doing it.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 1And it's actually great. And this is probably like not new to anyone but when you get out of the shower and you put your lotion on, if you just mix a little perfume oil into your lotion, wow, you smell great. Is this something you've done?
Speaker 3Wow, you smell great. No, no, I've never done it.
Speaker 1Well.
Speaker 3What's a perfume oil?
Speaker 1So you know, like the roller one that you have, or the one that, like the one that you gave me, yeah, yeah, yeah, so that, but in perfume, but not a roller, just like in a like pot that you would like.
Speaker 3The one you gave me is in a squirter, like that Could be that. Yes, yes.
Speaker 1The one I got is the one from Ulta that everyone has the umbrella there, cause I'm almost out of the one, that I the one that we both have, so we now have the same. Yes, you have the roller, though, too, right?
Speaker 3I have both yeah.
Speaker 1So at Ulta they sell it in like a little jar.
Speaker 3They do.
Speaker 1So with that, if you just like, put a little on your palm and then you put, squirt the lotion and then put it on your legs, your arms, whatever. It smells delicious.
Speaker 3I bet it permeates. Yeah, that's delicious.
Speaker 1So that is a great hack and I've been smelling great.
Speaker 3I love that.
Speaker 1So that's my A-list of the week Love it and hack of the week Perf. Okay, so we are. We've gone over the time that we were going to go, but I'll just like quickly tell you the birthdays for today, june 2nd. Ethan Slater 33. Justin Long 47. Wayne Brady 53. Zachary Quinto I saw him in New York City. He's very tall and he didn't say anything to me 48. Andy Cohen 57. And I was so pick me. When I was younger, this movie, the Dead Poets Society, I made my personality for like one summer.
Speaker 3Oh.
Speaker 1That came out in 1989.
Speaker 3Oh, my God.
Speaker 1Wow, yeah, cute, that was fast. Okay, everyone, we hope that you enjoy the next segment, which is our Disneyland excursion. And again, if you want to click out, we understand. We'll see you next time, but we do hope that you listen. You stick around and listen.
Speaker 3Yeah, and if you are watching you'll notice a little Easter egg.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3In Allison's outfit.
Speaker 1Thank you so much, and we will.
Speaker 3Happy June. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1See you next time.
Speaker 3Bye, is this cute, yeah, wow, welcome back.
Speaker 2Welcome back to the A-List podcast with Allison and Alex. I'm Allison. I'm.
Speaker 3Alex, whoa, we're in a car.
Speaker 1We are On location, on location in a car.
Speaker 3We are on location, on location.
Speaker 1We're really hollywood here yeah, what are we doing today?
Speaker 3well, we thought it would be fun to try to do an episode at disneyland, since we talk about it so much yeah, so we're taking you along with us this is a very long overdue birthday trip for allison but yeah, we're gonna we're gonna post up throughout the park and talk a little.
Speaker 1Yeah, we'll show you what snacks we're having We'll talk about. Actually, I don't really know what we're going to talk about.
Speaker 3We're going to. We'll still talk. It's the A-list, so we're still going to talk pop. We're still going to talk pop culture, for sure. Yeah, and we're going to compile this all together and it's going to be some sort of a vlog, but also the audio will be available as an episode.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3So let's start our day with getting a Starbucks. Hello, hello, hello, hello Hello.
Speaker 2We're going to try not to peek here and talk a little something.
Speaker 3Yeah, we realized the first clip was a little loud. We were a little excited in the car. So, guys, excited we've made it into disneyland.
Speaker 2We're currently he's doing his thing.
Speaker 3We've told you about where I booked the lighting lane hell yeah, oh, would you get it too? I got it 20 minutes earlier. We're up to 140. Nope, wasn't fast enough.
Speaker 1Anyway, allison has pre-ordered us some chocolate chip cookies and with the hazelnut whip thing that you can dip it in.
Speaker 3Sure didn't know that. That's news to me.
Speaker 1Yes, it is pretty chilly it is we put our sweatshirts on. Yeah, but it will warm up a little bit. I had my eye on a sweatshirt I saw on the Disneyland website.
Speaker 2It's.
Speaker 1Lightning McQueen. Oh right right, it's Lightning McQueen themed, racing themed, and I don't have anything like that. And I have a gift card from two years ago for my birthday From mom right that my mom sent me that I kept forgetting to bring here. Yeah, and today I finally remembered.
Speaker 3And I have my eye on a sweatshirt that Megan the Magical Millennial barely posted about. Just a quick flash of the back of it and it looks cool. It's a black sweatshirt.
Speaker 2Another black sweatshirt. You need to diversify.
Speaker 3This is the 2024. I can't diversify. I can't, I don't know who I think I am the 2024 I can't diversify.
Speaker 1I can't, but I don't know who I am, who I think I am, you're you're trying, I am trying that new comfort set that you're saying a new color and tan. Well, the thing is is josh wears is like wears a lot of colorful things, and we first started dating he was like you wear all black and I was like, yeah, but it's, you know, I feel like Josh is always in black.
Speaker 2He has colorful shoes.
Speaker 1He has colorful shoes but he does like a colorful outfit, and so I have tried to incorporate. I'm never going to not be wearing all black mostly, but every once in a while, I throw in something colorful, for you know a little pizzazz, so I am looking for something different this time.
Speaker 3Yeah, Okay, and I'm looking for the exact same Also. Just to recap our sports corner, Allison has completed dodgeball.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, we lost in the first round of the playoff. It was a tough game. I was actually pretty hard on myself you know, oh, I didn't play as well as I wanted to. We were playing the number three seed and we were the number eight seed.
Speaker 2It was tough.
Speaker 3Do you remember the score?
Speaker 2I think it was five or six to two. We won two games.
Speaker 1I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 3You were saying it wasn't a shutout.
Speaker 1It was one of the games we won. It was down to two of our women players against one male player on the other team and they crushed it and I was like, yes, girl power, you better work.
Speaker 3Love that.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3I am still in my regular season of dodgeball. You guys and we we won four to two. It was very close game and I did it with only 12 players like I had, so, and my team is 18 that's how many people dropped out.
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Speaker 2He's such a coach, like he was telling me, his in the huddle, like he was telling everyone I was kind of getting aggressive. I was getting a little aggressive um, it is, oh I got I got a little self-conscious because people looked at us I'm still never, I will never be comfortable comfortable doing it with someone it is yes but when I try to vlog in public, regularly it is.
Speaker 1I would pull it away a little bit. Sorry, it is um always nerve-wracking and I'll never get over it.
Speaker 3And it's funny too that, like when we do the podcast, we're usually looking at each other, but in this we're looking directly at the camera.
Speaker 2So I'm looking at you.
Speaker 3Also um. I've been whitening my teeth.
Speaker 2Nice. So brand, shout them out.
Speaker 3Crest 3d white. Um, I do. I do it twice a year oh, okay are you too sensitive? So I do it four days on, two days off, and yes, because right now my gums hurt.
Speaker 1But I have a whitening solution that goes in my invisalign tray and I just wear it overnight but it does make are you still doing? Invisalign. No, I just have my retainer right, right, the retainer, yeah. I forget a lot of the days and then I remember and it sure is tight, but then it still fits. So I know I'm good. Yeah, I'll wear it for a few nights and then I'll be like take a few off.
Speaker 3I think that yeah, that's fine, thank you, I am another life.
Speaker 2I think you might have been a dentist.
Speaker 1I don't know why you give dentists energy really is that mean it's not meant to be mean here we are talking about our past lives again I feel like you could have been a dentist um because you're you know, a dentist needs to be nice and caring, but also meticulous and um detail oriented, and I think you have those qualities and I think that you people will be comforted if you were those qualities and I think that you people will be comforted if you were their dentist and they'd be like man, I have a hot dentist.
Speaker 3You know, I could see that, but also I need braces again.
Speaker 1Well, as someone who has had braces and Invisalign, I get it.
Speaker 3Inbrace did reach out to do a collab, but I don't think I want Inbrace, I think I and Invisalign I get it. Inbrace did reach out to do a collab, but I don't think I want Inbrace, I think I want Invisalign. Cause like Inbrace for those that don't know is the braces behind your teeth.
Speaker 2Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3On the backs of your teeth. It is quicker than Invisalign, but I just don't know, like as a gay, man who gives God. As someone who needs his mouth.
Speaker 2Don't we all?
Speaker 3For a lot of things I don't know that I could handle, like the way that that would make me sound different.
Speaker 1You would have a lisp, and then you would just be.
Speaker 3Which is when I had braces, when I was 18.
Speaker 1Oh 18.
Speaker 3I'm in sixth grade I had them in fourth grade, and then I had them in after I graduated high school.
Speaker 2Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 3Because my parents bless them didn't want me to come out to California, which was my. I knew I was going to move out here when I was 18, but I didn't move out here until I was 20. They were like, well, let's get your teeth fixed before you go. How nice, I'd just been in a movie and my teeth really bothered me Bringing up. Bobby, bringing up Bobby, and they were like well, we'll get your teeth fixed while you're still on our insurance.
Speaker 3It's like thank you that's really nice of them, and then I forgot to wear my retainers for the last four years and I got that this gap going, guys I think that would be very.
Speaker 1The reason I did it last year was my teeth were not that bad, but I did have a little bit of movement, yeah, and I was like I need to do it now so it goes faster rather than if I let it go longer and then do it.
Speaker 3Right, no, that tracks.
Speaker 1So it only took me what like nine months, eight months yeah that was pretty fast, like Emily, I think, is still doing it.
Speaker 3She's been doing it for like two years.
Speaker 2I don't know.
Speaker 3Romero's was like a year and a half.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3When I got the Invisalign scan to see it was like going to be 4k, it's fine, I think it's just always. They were like it's going to be a year and they would have to shave down multiple teeth. I was like, no, I don't want my teeth shaved, just easy. You want some light? Hi, we have a little friend anyway.
Speaker 2Well, maybe you need to go to different um dentists. Well, I, do.
Speaker 3I have new insurance starting may 1st, so I gotta find a new dentist because I mean mine's available. He's the dentist to the influencer stars to the jojo siwa. Speaking of jojo siwa, did you see she's come out as queer by no, no, she came out as queer. She thought she was a lesbian and then she said, being on big brother celebrity, she realized she's not a fles, she's queer but but not by her pen.
Speaker 1What not to be ignorant?
Speaker 3can you explain this to me. I think in her definition of it she means like because she had that like she's not defining herself. She's not defining herself because she felt some emotion, some feelings towards that dude.
Speaker 2Yeah, wait, is she gone? Is it over? I? Don't know if it's over, but this is what she posted okay, she can't post her mom is posting for her maybe she came out as queer on the show and maybe jessa jessa, jesse, jessa jessa her mom um, let me see, I'm gonna check while allison talks yes, she um.
Speaker 1Before she went, she posted on tiktok and she was like this is my last post that I'm posting.
Speaker 3From now on, my mom will be posting for me, but there will still be content coming out, so Jojo Siwa came out as queer in a recent episode of Celebrity Big Brother. Uk saying she no longer identifies as a lesbian.
Speaker 1So she did it on air normalize changing your mind you know, life, not just sexuality, but life is a spectrum and you can always change your mind on whatever.
Speaker 2You heard it here first, folks on the A but life is a spectrum, yeah, and you can always change your mind on whatever You're first folks on the A-list.
Speaker 3Life is a spectrum.
Speaker 1Imagine we're the first people to ever say that.
Speaker 3Coined.
Speaker 1We're not. But some people forget that if you say one thing, you have to be that forever. And she's still young. I know she just turned 21, right Is?
Speaker 2there a McDonald's in here? There, and she's still young, I know she. She just turned 21, right? Is there a mcdonald's in here? There's not a mcdonald's in here, they probably just brought it in right, let's have a bag of mcdonald's.
Speaker 3I'm jealous is there? No, definitely not no, they definitely brought it in.
Speaker 1I guess you can bring it in which is kind of weird, I feel like that's something they wouldn't allow the pirate ship's going by and I've never been on the pirate ship.
Speaker 2Should we do it?
Speaker 3maybe we've done. Have you done the other one?
Speaker 2yeah, we did it together oh yeah, you got seasick, didn't you?
Speaker 1no, I had to really go to the bathroom.
Disneyland Adventure Begins
Speaker 2If you know, and it does go slowly and I was like get me off there the jolly john why you just made that up jolly john no that's definitely not it. I don't know what it's called, but it's not there's a downstairs.
Speaker 3What do you think's down there?
Speaker 1the the hole, no yeah, down there is the hole oh are cookies ready no, we have a few minutes, okay, this baby wants to be featured on this podcast.
Speaker 3We're not going to show a child on here, but this baby is reaching for alison's microphone.
Speaker 1I can do it, I'm here, I'm, I'm ready.
Speaker 3Huh, oh great.
Speaker 1Yes, we'll do a taste test, maybe, and then we will end this clip. Yeah, we'll come back on, okay.
Speaker 3Well, do you want to end this clip now?
Speaker 2And we'll come right back when we have cookies, sure.
Speaker 3Okay, guys, we're going to get our cookies and we'll report back to the site.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1And we're back.
Speaker 3We moved locations Well kind of, you can't really tell at this angle. I jumped to a different seat so that if a boat goes by we can show you and we have the cookies.
Speaker 1We have the cookies and first of all, before we get into this, I want to say the amount of people that will stand in the line that they don't have to stand in for no reason. Instead of just pre-ordering on their phone? Do they not know that they can, that there's an app.
Speaker 1I understand if you're coming here for the first time, if you're like just visiting in town, you're like, oh, let's go to disneyland you might not know that there's an app, but I feel like there's signs the app is the only way to like utilize lightning lane your tickets I feel like there's signs that they're do you think some of it could be like people that are like I want a break from my effing family.
Speaker 3I'm going to wait in this line. Like her in the back with the ears, she's probably like no I hate everyone.
Speaker 1No, I know, it's just like it's a long line and you can mobile, order and sit somewhere and wait, rather than standing in the line line in a way I don't understand it, but whatever, okay, so here we have the hazelnut spread hazelnut is like what nutella yeah?
Speaker 2this is what she looks like, if you're just listening she looks like a moose.
Speaker 3She looks like a moose she does, or like a melted ice cream. Yeah, what's wrong?
Speaker 1there's a gnat or something. Only you would see that. And then here is a warm chocolate chip cookie. They're very small.
Speaker 3Hey guys remember, so it's like nice. I can't say no to a chocolate chip cookie.
Speaker 2You really can't. Oh my God, they're hot.
Speaker 1Should we We've had this before? Cheers, I want a dip we are influencers.
Speaker 3What's this called A?
Speaker 2mukbang Sure Whoa.
Speaker 3Not trying to chew in the mic y'all, but it is good.
Speaker 1It kind of did. I'm sorry. The chocolate chip cookies are so good and I just saw online that someone saw um, the brand that they buy for, so these are not homemade here. They purchase from someone where you can buy from their site. You can either buy the like dough that you can bake yourself or you can buy pre-made and they send it to you I'll have to find the tiktok, but someone found the company find it, let me know, share that shit I will delicious
Speaker 2pretty good did you? Are you already done?
Speaker 3yeah, you were talking, I was eating. This is good, the hazelnut spread.
Speaker 1It is whipped, it's whipped yeah, wow, what a good cookie. Oh, I heard, I saw when I walked by. The ship is called the columbia columbian.
Speaker 3No, columbia, I think now you have me confused, oh you're right, it's the columbia um I walk by.
Speaker 1The ship is called the Columbia Columbian, no Columbia. Now you have me confused.
Speaker 3No, you're right, it's the Columbia.
Speaker 1If you want to know where we're sitting for future reference, this is a nice little tucked away place. If you're across from the Haunted Mansion, there is a food place called Harbor Galley right across the way from the Haunted Mansion, if you go behind Harbor Galley, right across the way from the Haunted Mansion, and then if you go behind Harbor Galley, there's two ways you can get to it. There's a little seating area that is like away from other people and it's very chill and nice over here and I feel like it's like a little. I didn't know about this. Someone I saw online was like oh, if you need to sit down in a more secluded spot, maybe if you're doing, if you're working, say we'll come here and bring their laptop and work. This is a nice spot to sit. And so then I discovered it and I was like what a good spot. But I feel like you don't see it if you're not looking for it.
Speaker 2So yeah, the more you know, the more you know. Cute people are staring at us again who cares? I know I'm I'm not good at it.
Speaker 3I don't care at all, and if they're thinking anything negative it's just because they're jealous what happened?
Speaker 2I almost dropped it?
Speaker 3How many do they give you? Is it six, six? We get to have three each.
Speaker 2Noelle Allison. I had two, did they short?
Speaker 3us. This is your second one right?
Speaker 2No, this is my first one.
Speaker 3Oh, you're still on your first one. Yeah, I'm a monster. We're going to finish these cookies and we'll be back in a bit, yep.
Speaker 2Bye.
Speaker 3What's up? What's up, guys?
Speaker 1you get a real visual of the height difference between me and Allison OOTD now.
Speaker 3Oh yeah, let's do it. So I'm in my 2024 Disney hoodie. I'm also wearing a Mickey Mouse crop and shorts. I have on a skirt cute and a sweatshirt tucked in and my base bag oh yeah, I don't have my base today because I'm I'm theme park papa, so I always bring a backpack yeah, which is actually really nice so so far we have we just we did haunted Mansion and the Train.
Speaker 2The Train was fun. It was Because I got to see the dinosaurs that I've never got to see before.
Speaker 3Yes, so I was telling Allison that the Train is cool because it has the original animatronics from the World's Fair, where Walt Disney put the first animatronics, which were dinosaurs.
Speaker 2Was that 1969?
Speaker 3No, no, he died in 1960.
Speaker 21950, something it was in the 50s?
Speaker 3Yeah, the World's Fair in Chicago hey, sir. So obviously we're set up in the public. So if you're watching this, there's people around us but they can't hear what we're saying because we have microphones.
Speaker 2Yeah, thank God I imagine. Hey guys, Welcome to my lab.
Speaker 3We are about to go on Big Thunder Mountain.
Speaker 1Alex still doesn't know where anything is in the park.
Speaker 3Not a clue. She's literally asking us how many years have we had these passes, and the answer is three years. I think it might be longer than that 2021. March of 2022. Three years 2022 yeah, three years yeah, three years, um, and you know what? That's okay, I'm never gonna know, but because my brain is my capacity for knowing how to get around, a theme park is being completely used up by six flags I mean that's fair.
Speaker 1But at some point it's like you just like have some sort of what's it called with cats like know how to get back to their house.
Speaker 3Cats, isn't it any animal?
Speaker 1I thought it was cats. Object permanence.
Speaker 3Oh, I have none of that, really, I have none of that.
Speaker 2You would be like oh, I've been here before, I know where to go yeah, no, not me, I could never. Yeah. Oh wait you said we didn't have a mansion. We um guessed how many times it would stop. Yeah, and you guessed two. I guess one, just to have like an opposition.
Speaker 3It was three. It was three. These dark rides tend to like stop a lot.
Speaker 1Not all the dark rides, the ones that are on tracks like little mermaid and haunt the mansion yeah yeah we're gonna try to get into the blue bayou, which is really hard if you guys are not um disney enthusiasts the blue bayou is like the hardest restaurant to get into. It's inside of Pirates of the Caribbean and it's very vibey and cute and cool. I've never been, alex has been. I went.
Speaker 3One time Karina and I went on Valentine's Day Just chants stand by, and they were like it'll be 45 minutes and I was like, well, let's wait. And we actually got it in 20 minutes. Yeah, we're going to try to do that.
Speaker 2And if not, it's okay, but that's all. We'll see Anything else. What were we going to say?
Speaker 3I was going to. I talked about the animatronics, oh yes, you did. It's getting crowded around us now it is. Alright, well, we'll check in again in a bit Then we'll see you now. Okay, wow guys, tell melly we are waiting for the blue bayou. We got in said what 20? To 30, no 30 to 40, but could be sooner which is what happened to me.
Speaker 1Yeah, for just the two of us.
Speaker 2It is very exciting and there is a nice seating area that we're in, which is exciting.
Speaker 3I'm going to give a little quick yes.
Speaker 2It's actually very chill right here. So I don't feel anxious.
Speaker 3The weather is nice in here. The weather is nice in here, the weather is nice in here, there's a little breeze coming in, we're about to have a Monte. Cristo sandwich.
Speaker 1If you guys have never had a Monte Cristo sandwich, not us, philip R.
Speaker 2Party of two.
Speaker 1Congratulations.
Speaker 3Philip.
Speaker 1R A.
Speaker 2Monte Cristo is a like a turkey and it's like turkey and ham and like Swiss cheese.
Speaker 3Yes, swiss cheese.
Speaker 2Yes, and then all of that is deep fried with powdered sugar on top, and then they usually serve it with like a jam, like a red berry jam.
Speaker 3They also serve adult beverages at this one Fun. So we can have a fun little adult Beffy moment.
Speaker 1We can. And if you guys have never been on the, Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 2Yeah, caribbean, caribbean, caribbean. I feel like I say Caribbean when I'm like oh we're traveling to the Caribbean. We're on a cruise to the Caribbean, but if I'm talking about the movie, it's pirates of the Caribbean. And that's just what it is. Yes, but inside the ride that you drive, you float by on your boat and there is like this very beautiful scene and it's like the stars in the sky and they're shooting stars and it's like very cute and pretty, cute and pretty pretty and um. You can see the people dining.
Speaker 1So, it is and I've never been. You have said that before Um.
Speaker 2I don't know what else to set up in there and we'll give a little.
Speaker 3We'll give a little chat in there once we get our food yeah, oh yeah, we can totally do that.
Speaker 2Yeah, all right, here we go welcome back. Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me? M-i-c-k-e-y, m-o-u-s-e oh my god, we like we're up to no good.
Speaker 3Back here we're in a corner that we found we tucked away to a corner here at the fantasyland theater where, once upon a time, tell them Allison.
Speaker 1We happened upon a production of the Lion King. That was incredible.
Speaker 2And.
Speaker 1I've told everyone I've ever met since then.
Speaker 2Wow, but it's no longer happening. We were just trying to kill some time because we had Lightning Lane to the opening of Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railroad.
Speaker 3Iconic, but we had to wait a little bit. So we were like what the hell's over here? I guess we'll check it out. And it was just the most life-changing performance.
Speaker 2It was so good. All the vocalists were incredible, so update.
Speaker 3We went to the Blue Bayou.
Speaker 1We were going to film, but it was so dark in there that you literally couldn't see us but we shared a monte cristo and a fig and prosciutto salad, both delish, had a couple we got we got. Each got the same. We had the same drink because there's only two to choose from.
Speaker 2It was a iced tea with like rum and a peach iced tea with rum. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't my favorite thing I've ever had. I feel like it needed um more depth of flavor agreed.
Speaker 3I will say, though I was glad I was happy to to like discover that it wasn't super sweet, which does tend to happen here yeah like when we go to pims.
Speaker 2It's like sometimes we are cursed we do have an espresso martini that I might need.
Speaker 3Oh wait, that's because I might need an adventure. Yeah, an espresso martini, yes, at pims I might need a pic, yeah, an espresso martini.
Speaker 2Yes, at Pim's.
Speaker 3I might need to get the what's that cold brew I love over there. Isn't that here the one with the cocoa puffs?
Speaker 2That's at Star Wars, that's here. You got to get it before we go.
Speaker 3Well, that's okay, maybe I'll also get an espresso martini Anyway.
Speaker 2What else, what else, what else. We went on.
Speaker 3Roger Rabbit. We ran to Roger Rabbit.
Speaker 1We were one minute late to our lightning lane, but it still worked, so life hack.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2I think they might give you a five-minute grace before and five minutes after you can sign in, or you can scan in five minutes before your time and also you can scan in five minutes after, I believe.
Speaker 3And I used my magical powers and got us Literally right now we can get on Matterhorn.
Speaker 2Yeah, before we go. Do you have any more? Not go for the day, just go for this segment. Do you have any more Disney fags that you've learned from Behind the Attraction?
Speaker 3Yeah Well, first I will say, like, if you guys haven't watched Behind the Attraction on Disney+, it is just like a very good feel good show that gives you some insider things at disney. Yeah, even if, like like I, you guys know I'm on the dating apps oh, we went, we were going through his uh tender one person. Everyone else doesn't know one of my photos is me with my mickey ears when I had shorter hair, because it's one of my favorite pictures of myself, if I do say so myself cute, yeah, so.
Speaker 3I didn't think about it, but a lot of guys are like, oh so you're a Disney gay in a derogatory way.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, yeah. What does that mean?
Speaker 3I mean a Disney adult is a Disney gay is like a Disney adult, but it's like gay on top of it, which is get even gayer yeah um, but the thing is like I don't identify as that I do love disney, but we're like we come what four or five times a year yeah, that's a lot first of all, second of all, you identify as a theme park I am a theme park gay and I will wear that badge proudly, but so I do as much as I know.
Speaker 3I'm not like slit my wrist for disney. Do you know what I mean to? Put it quite graphically, that's a bad name so slit my wrist for disney. So I will say, though I love disney plus, because disney plus brings me shows like behind the attraction. I just watched the new. Have you seen the new dot? No, you definitely haven't. They just released a documentary docu-series, season two of elm industrial, light and magic ilm. Sorry, industrial light magic is. Who did star wars? Oh, it's george lucas's special effects company.
Speaker 2Season two, finale had me crying, you guys so good nice um and also dr oakley you come back, it's on shut up. I do hope they do another season of Behind the Attraction.
Speaker 3There's way more attractions to talk about, I know, and it's like they're made so well and they've only done two seasons of it and it's been two years since the last season. I'm like, come on, guys, it was two years ago. It was two years ago and I Googled it because I started watching it again just because it's a feel-good show and they have not announced whether or not they're going to do a season three.
Speaker 2Yeah, because they also talk about Disneyland Paris and Disneyland Tokyo and Disneyland Sea and all those. So there's lots of things to do. I feel like we've told them to watch it before.
Speaker 3Yeah, sorry, it's just we're here, so you're getting it, you're getting it. In pop culture news stuff that's going on that refers that Wow, did you just have a stroke. Let me try that again. In pop culture news Katy Perry has a new game out. Have you seen this?
Speaker 2No, go to her Instagram right now. Get out of here.
Speaker 3You're going to die. It's your nightmare. Oh, you don't follow her Weird.
Speaker 1So sorry, I don't Look at that. It's like the Kardashian one, yeah, it's called Katy Perry Universe.
Speaker 3I'm sorry, but that is not what she looks like.
Speaker 1Yeah, right, she wishes the face doesn't even look like her. I'm just kidding. She has a great body, I'm sure, but the faces don't look like her. They're like, um, even more yassified.
Speaker 2Honestly, this clown is kind of a serve.
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Speaker 3Oh wow, also her tour just opened. By the way, share a first night in mexico city how did it go? Before we cut this segment though, I was gonna try to look for um, oh go ahead oh, what I was gonna say. The theater is like this is a legit theater. It may not sit as much as like your standard theater, but the stage is large and look at the like the upstairs part, the upstairs, like the, the rigs, yeah, the beams holding this building up crazy the catwalk my god and they have.
Speaker 1Do you guys know about the go away green? I'm sorry the go away green I don't even know about that, that's in order for them to hide the things that they don't want you to notice, they paint them green and the shade is called go away green.
Speaker 3I'm pretty sure, I'm 90 sure a lot of that is going on in here yeah.
Speaker 1So it's like um, they want to hide, like buildings and stuff that hold some of the rides.
Speaker 3Um go away green.
Speaker 2That's clever, and they want you to see the facade in the front, but then they don't want you to really notice like the back of the building they painted this shade of green that um is called go away green.
Speaker 1I was pulling up page six, you guys. This is what I've been doing on my phone, so don't worry don't. I was trying to see if there's any uh headlines that we needed to talk about.
Speaker 2Billy ray cyrus is dating elizabeth hurley oh and billy ray is like remember when he sent that voice note or voicemail to miley and called her like a slut or something, or it was crazy. So we're I don't know that we like billy ray. Right now, not reading that headline, I'm not really seeing anything not much going on, right that?
Speaker 1is like exciting to talk about. That doesn't seem sad.
Speaker 2Oh, there's a something about glenn stefani, and one time we saw her at disneyland we did.
Speaker 3We saw her one time while we were her, her and.
Speaker 2Blake, we were also eating at Monte Cristo. At the time we were at a different restaurant.
Speaker 1Cafe.
Speaker 2Orleans, whatever they're like, gwen.
Speaker 1Stefani is here, and then there they walk by with their little crew. What's it?
Speaker 2called the VIP. Oh the private train.
Speaker 3The train is passing Choo choo, you guys want to see? No, it's private train. Choo-choo you guys want to see.
Speaker 2It's the train. All right, we're going to end this segment. There's the theater. We're ending this segment. We love you so much and we'll be back again in a cool one second.
Speaker 3For you. Yeah, Do you guys hear that music?
Speaker 2It's not copyright free. Well, it probably is.
Speaker 3It probably is. Well, hey guys.
Speaker 2We're coming to maybe be our second to last clip. Yeah, I look kind of crazy.
Speaker 3I kind of look crazy, look at me.
Speaker 2Look how long my hair is getting.
Speaker 3Yeah, the Incredible Coaster rocked our. We went on the Incredible Coaster, although guys look how long my hair is getting.
Speaker 2Yeah the Incredible Coaster rocked our world. It's the Incredible Coaster. We are currently in the forest.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 2This is the Grizzly Bear Park. I don't know what's this called.
Speaker 1Grizzly, I'm sure it's not called the Grizzly. And Soarin' which is my favorite ride, is over there, but well, how long was the wait?
Speaker 3The wait is 60 minutes, but they don't have Lightning Lane right now. We have Lightning Lane booked for Monsters Inc.
Speaker 2Yeah. So here's the thing Once you have been doing Lightning Lane, you're spoiled and I become unwilling to wait in lines hey.
Speaker 3We've talked about this. I become unwilling to wait in lines.
Speaker 1We've talked about this. I become unwilling to wait in lines. Oh, we have.
Speaker 3Yeah, because we can't.
Speaker 2Yeah, so if it's, I can't do 60 Minutes. Even though it's my favorite ride, I can't do it and we'll be back on May 9th and I'm sure that we will make it a point to be on it.
Speaker 3So I'm not really.
Speaker 2Yeah, I keep saying that you do. Cause May 9th is um my anniversary, um so you're going to be busy. My head at the seventh, eighth and ninth are a lot.
Speaker 3You're packed, you're stacked.
Speaker 2I am booked in busy. I got a new sweatshirt.
Speaker 3Yes, she found the sweatshirt. I you found the new sweatshirt. Yes, she found the sweatshirt. You all stand up back here here, hold this Gorgeous, gorgeous girl. Show the back, Show the back. She's a Lightning McQueen queen. Oh Allie, after this we should go there so we can get a picture of you in Cars Land with it. Yeah, I need a pic, yeah.
Speaker 3So I saw this online on their website and I almost bought it and I was like I'm gonna wait and see if I can find it at the um park and just so you guys know, sidebar, we never are successful in that, like anytime we see something online and try to locate it, which we've been looking for, something all day yeah, I don't think it's been released yet.
Speaker 2The one that you want is the 70, one of the 70th anniversary um pieces and I don't think that they've released it yet, because they're doing in waves.
Speaker 1I think there's only a few 70th pieces so but yes, I saw this online and I was like I'm gonna order it, but I'm gonna wait to see.
Speaker 2and then I was looking and I couldn't find it, and then a man said it's over there.
Speaker 3He knew right away. He was like yeah we have it, it's over there.
Speaker 2Yeah, he was on it. I bet they work both places, maybe you know.
Speaker 3Yeah, probably.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 3And we did the little mermaid. So we're in California. Adventure, now adventure. We rode a little mermaid, we rode incredible coaster and it rocked our world.
Speaker 2Uh, he's made a declaration that the chocolate chip cookies that we had this morning are better than the chocolate chip cookie that you get outside of the incredible coaster, the um num num yeah, the nom nom nom, nom chocolate chip.
Speaker 3It's a big chocolate what's the kid's name?
Speaker 2jack?
Speaker 3jack, it's jack jack nom nom cookie. Yeah, it's a big like deep dish chocolate chip. Chocolate chip, it's a big chocolate chip cookie. What's the kid's name? Jack.
Speaker 2Jack, it's Jack, jack, nom nom cookie. Yeah, it's a big like deep dish.
Speaker 3Chocolate chipper.
Speaker 1Chocolate chip and the ones that we had earlier.
Speaker 2I think they're better because they're smaller and I think the ratio of like chocolate chips and everything is a better ratio.
Speaker 3I agree, and they have that nice Nutella dip, hazelnut dip. Nice Nutella dip, hazelnut dip, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, Not branded. You know, Ooh a yawn.
Speaker 3Yeah, well.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm also tired.
Speaker 3We're going to I'm going to give it like five minutes to see if we can get an earlier time for Monsters Inc. And then, if not, we're going to go get a photo of Allison in Cars Land. Yeah.
Speaker 1And then go shopping.
Speaker 2We're going to maybe walk around World of we never really hang out in downtown Disney.
Speaker 3No, we don't.
Speaker 2But like what's the point?
Speaker 3you know, yeah, for pretzels. Sometimes we do pretzels.
Speaker 2Ooh yum.
Speaker 3Or coffee at Starbucks.
Speaker 2Yeah, do we need one last treat? Like a pretzel how are you feeling?
Speaker 3I'm so full. We had a martini.
Speaker 2We did.
Speaker 3We did have like a cereal foam, martini.
Speaker 1Yeah, I might be hungry before I wouldn't say that I'm hungry it's just like when you're here it's like you want to try new things. You're not wrong, but anyway. Anyway, I feel like we're fading. Yeah, we are, but um, I hope that whatever we have, you guys have enjoyed yeah we will have a sign, we'll have a sign off, we'll maybe have some ending thoughts and maybe we'll come to you with another fact before we leave you know, maybe no, we will.
Speaker 2Oh, I'm declaring you're making declaration of disneyland that maybe you and I don't know, maybe the listeners don't know, and we'll leave you with that so you and I don't know it, but we're gonna tell them I'm gonna look it up. Oh, got it. Okay, I'm gonna find one, and up I'm going to find one.
Speaker 3And then I'm going to tell.
Speaker 2Alright, till then I can show you the world. Not great Well, as you can see, we're back in the car.
Speaker 3To quote one of my favorite movies. Well, we're back in the car again.
Speaker 2What movie is that? Bring it Bobby Jurassic Park.
Speaker 3One of my favorite movies is not.
Speaker 1This is exciting TBH. My feet hurt, my knees hurt and the way that it's just like they're aching you know.
Speaker 3Yeah, I'm sore, you're fine. I'm sore for reasons other than Disney, but we got our steps in we did what was your final? Did you look up a fact that you said you were going to tell everyone? I'm going to right now so I don't know how to tell you. How do you tell your final facts or final steps? Can you do it on your watch? Yeah, click on the fitness well, it's so hard to touch this thing, okay and then click your rings whoa, whoa, whoa girl.
Speaker 110 hours of standing there 11 614 and minus 13 938, and you know why.
Speaker 3You can tell them while I look at the fact so we just determined that for every one step I take it's one and a half steps. Well, almost two full steps for ally. So I've been taking long strides, and that is why, yeah, it was a successful day. The sweatshirt that I was looking for has not dropped yet.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3You became so excited. I found a fact.
Speaker 1It's an interesting tidbit. I suppose the oldest thing in Disneyland is the petrified tree Belong, believed to be between 55 and 70 million years old. It's located in frontier land near the rivers of america. While the tree is a geological marvel, it's worth noting that the plaque about its origin has inaccurate information. Oh, what is that inaccurate? I?
Speaker 3definitely have seen this tree. We have seen this tree oh pause.
Speaker 1Oh, this is a youtube video.
Speaker 3You guys, I don't know no, there's a petrified tree, in case you didn't know yeah, I have seen it. We have seen it. It's pretty crazy. What makes something petrified? It's caught on fire, it's been flash frozen. I sound like an idiot.
Speaker 1I don't know, but when I was in like 6th grade, my science teacher, mr Gonzer, he had petrified poop that he would show every year and show, and then he would be like it's.
Speaker 3I think it is turns into rock, like maybe it's encased, I don't know he's gonna look that my hands are kind of chilly so it's hard to type something becomes, becomes petrified through the process called mineralization, where the original organic material is replaced by minerals, often silica. This typically happens when an organism like a tree is buried in sediment and exposed to groundwater containing dissolved minerals. The minerals gradually fill the pores in spaces, but the original material within the original material, and eventually the organic material, is replaced with rock-like structures. So yeah, it becomes almost like a rock yeah so buried your science professor.
Speaker 3There was some buried poop that became petrified and he was like fun yeah, another fact is that disneyland was almost built in burbank, california probably near the burbank studios yeah, would have been way more convenient for us truly. That would have been great although I wonder if that would have affected, like the like economic structure of the valley probably yeah big time actually the park is built on 160 acres of orange grove.
Speaker 1Maybe that's why there's so many oranges. They sell it's gotta be, it's a nod they feel bad for tearing down all the trees I also wonder why they don't have sound stages here, like universal has sound stages at their theme park. You know, yeah, let's get one more, and then I'll be done. Walt's brother purchased the first admission ticket.
Speaker 3Oh Roy.
Speaker 1And it was $1. A mere bargain compared to today's prices, charging more than $ hundred more than 200 well, there you go also you it should.
Speaker 3If you guys just saw that cloaked human cross behind us, it's because it's star wars night and the fans are here decked out. They bought their lightsaber swords honestly that cape is kind of dope yeah, they.
Speaker 1We didn't go to star wars land at all today, but they do have some cool cloaks and is that?
Speaker 3what it's called robe, robe, it's a robe. They've also got delicious treats over there.
Speaker 1Oh, the rontola's wrap would have been good well, we'll be back on a day that we're unsure of right well, I'm sure she's unsure. Well, um, we hope that you have enjoyed this. On location podcast, uh, it's something we tried and we thought would be fun and if you like it, let us know. Maybe we can do other on location podcasts yes um and until then stay classy and sassy and I don't know what else to add to that. Love you so much. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.