Ep 2 - Why Did You Grab The Helicopter Like That? Sahm Sprains His Ankle First Day At Universal Studios Florida

Josh’s First Universal Trip + Six Flags America Rides For Sale!?

Ace is sick and disappointed in Sahm for not watching the Epic Universe documentary. We react live to Six Flags America rides hitting the resale market. Ragin’ Cajun, Harley Quinn Spinsanity & more. Then we dive deep into Sahm’s very first time at Universal Studios Florida. Why did we rope-drop Minions? How did Sahm feel about Rip Ride Rocket’s (rip) vertical lift? How much did Vin really have us covered on Fast & Furious Supercharged? Did Ace really sneak a second ride in on Mummy while Sahm ate? Why is E.T. one of the most goated dark rides? How insane was Diagon Alley actually? Find out all of this on today’s episode!

We also had some fun side tangents about the 600ft+ giga coaster, Falcons Flight, Beverly Coca Cola horror stories, (if you know, you know), Sahm almost holding us up with a hurt ankle, and Ace utilizing his expertise to find the medical center.

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Back At It Again, Ace Is Already Disappointed

Sahm 0:38

And we are back here with Lap Bar Lessons. Yo, what is going on?

Ace 0:48

I hate you. Um, there's a reason. I need to call him out.

Sahm 0:54

Why?

Ace 0:54

I gave, I, I gave you a very specific, a very easy task this week. It wasn't very hard. What was it? Go ahead, tell, tell them. What, what, what was it? You don't remember?

Sahm 1:07

Uh, I believe my silence is the , is a louder answer than what I can say.

Ace 1:11

So, remember how I told you we were gonna watch the epic ride documentary, guys? Well, I did.

Sahm 1:18

I didn't. I didn't.

Ace 1:23

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

Sahm 1:25

That's fine. That's fine. That's fine. I'm used to disappointment. Hi, Dad.

Ace 1:30

I'm not your

Six Flags America Rides For Sale

Ace 1:32

dad. So what's going on with the Six Flags stuff you were telling, you were trying to show me?

Sahm 1:38

Oh, um, I saw -

Ace 1:40

Six Flags America, right? Yeah, In Bowie? -

Sahm 1:41

Six Flags America -

Ace 1:42

The one that closed? Okay.

Sahm 1:44

The one that closed in Maryland. Um, uh, I saw a TikTok about a couple, a few rides that are being sold on, um, the website, I think, that were, like, where rides can be bought and relocated. Um, -

Ace 1:55

They're not just giving them to other Cedar Fair places?

Sahm 1:58

I mean, I think they're going, I think they would go to other Cedar Fair places. I'm not too entirely sure. Um, -

Ace 2:03

Lets see it. Let's take a look. Here.

Sahm 2:05

But yeah, it's -

Ace 2:06

Let me see.

Sahm 2:06

Go ahead.

Ace 2:07

Al right, this is what we got. We got, it's official. Rides aren't being relocated from Six Flags America. Oh.

Sahm 2:16

Oh wait, they're not?

Ace 2:18

Yeah, the rides were rumored to be moved, are listed for sale online. Oh, the, okay. I'm gonna read the whole thing.

Sahm 2:26

Okay.

Ace 2:26

It would help us both. We, before we started filming, just so you know, we, we, just, we just saw this. So this is kind of a live reaction. Normally we dig a little into it and then we talk about it. But so we're kind of just looking at it right now and seeing, uh, it says, it's official rides aren't being relocated from Six Flags America. The rides that were removed, that were, that were rumored to be moved, aren't, are listed for sale online. Jeez, this is giving me a stroke reading this thing, Josh.

Sahm 3:00

Basically, basically, basically to paraphrase, these are rides that are not being relocated to any of the other Cedar Fair locations, but they're just, you good?

Ace 3:10

No, don't ask if I'm good. I've been fussing at you all freaking day. You already know I'm not good.

Sahm 3:17

Okay, well -

Ace 3:17

I'm sick.

Sahm 3:18

I'm sorry for asking.

Ace 3:19

Yeah, come on.

Sahm 3:19

Anyways, um, these are three rides that are not being relocated within the Cedar Fair, um company, I guess is what you would call that. Um, these are rides that are just being sold, so any theme park can purchase these rides and have them for themselves. Um, so the rides in questions are, you know, if, if you've been to these parks before, or you've been to this park before, um, then you should know that, this is Ragin' Cajun, the Harley Quinn Spinsanity, and the SteamWhirler, those are not being relocated to any of the, uh, Cedar Fair, like, theme parks. These are just being sold to anybody that wants to buy them. So, you know, if you're just a lucky viewer out there, you can go buy a roller coaster. You can go buy Ragin' Cajun. If you really wanted to. Um, there's also, was, a rumor speculation that the Superman riot from, uh, like the hyper coaster was like, bought. No idea where it's going, but that's just like a speculation rumor that I saw.

Ace 4:11

This, the Superman. You know how old that thing is?

Sahm 4:15

Old.

Ace 4:16

It's done. I, I would bet money on it.

Sahm 4:19

Well, I, it's probably, it's not gonna be a -

Ace 4:21

Okay, actually, hold on. I actually do need to re fute, retract that.

Sahm 4:24

Okay.

Ace 4:25

You're right, you're right. Let me, let me catch myself live in 4K here. What I'm thinking is, I, I'm thinking they're kind of looking at that ride as a liability, truthfully.

Sahm 4:37

I mean, I don't think it was that bad.

Ace 4:39

In repairs. Dude, yes, it was. It was awful.

Sahm 4:43

I mean, I think what they would do is they, if, if it's being, if it's being bought or being relocated, um, that they would like, when they rebuild, they're going to do a lot of maintenance work on it.

Ace 4:52

They'd have to.

Sahm 4:53

Of course, you know. It's a, it's a, it's, it's an old ride.

Ace 4:56

They'd probably have to rip out the, they'd probably have to rip out the whole thing and redo it.

Sahm 5:01

I mean, they did, they did, do that with, um,

Ace 5:04

What the hell was that? Do you hear that?

Sahm 5:07

What, what are you doing over there? So, uh, spoiler, I'm gonna be doing most of the talking for the rest of this episode.

Ace 5:26

No.

Sahm 5:26

Um,

Ace 5:27

I want to talk too.

Sahm 5:28

I know.

Ace 5:29

I just might have to go, I just might have to turn away for a little and cough every now and then.

Sahm 5:34

I know. Um, but yeah, I think, uh, they'll probably just like retrack it or anything like that. Kind of like how similar to what they did with 305 at, um, King's Dominion when it got pretty much retracked and re-themed to Pantherian, which, uh,

Ace 5:46

I keep forgetting that it's even called that.

Sahm 5:48

Yeah, new theming and everything, no more start your, start your engines or anything like that. Um, which speaking of, you have no -

Ace 5:55

No more blackout drops.

Sahm 5:56

No, no, nope, that's not real. I, I grayed out on that ride.

Ace 6:00

Grayed is fine.

Sahm 6:01

Grayed out. Um, but uh, it was like after the second go, like after the first time I did it, which uh, that's a scary experience. But it was fantastic.

Ace 6:12

Can't relate.

Sahm 6:13

Yeah, because you haven't ridden it yet.

Ace 6:15

I, I have not, but that's okay. For, for the pod, and for the content, we're gonna get me live reacting to that ride. We're gonna do it, I promise.

Sahm 6:25

Yep.

Ace 6:26

We're, we're gonna, we are gonna go, okay. Like, hold us accountable to this too, okay? If, if you are, if you are becoming a fan of this and you're enjoying what we're doing here, if we go like the next like eight or ten episodes and it's like, hey, you guys didn't go over ride 305 yet. You said you were going to.

Sahm 6:43

Well, we have the way for the new season because, um, Kings Dominion is about to close for the season. We have to wait until like next year.

Ace 6:48

Are you squandering me?

Sahm 6:49

I'm not squandering you.

Ace 6:50

Alright then.

Sahm 6:50

I'm just being, I'm just speaking logistics. We won't be able to ride it for a while.

Ace 6:55

We can't, it's December. Yeah, we're not riding that s*** for a minute.

Sahm 6:58

I know. That's what I'm saying.

Giga Coaster Horror; Falcons Flight Is 639ft?

Sahm 7:00

But man, that ride is fantastic. It's scary. That, that it's scary in the drop.

Ace 7:06

It's so tall, Ethan. Ethan, listen to me. Remember how you felt when you looked at Sky Rush, how that made you stick to your stomach, the yellow one at Hershey? That thing is 200 feet, okay? This ride he's talking about is 305 feet tall.

Sahm 7:23

It's yeah, yeah, it definitely lived up to the name Intimidator.

Ace 7:27

I wouldn't do it either.

Ethan 7:28

It would take so much liquid courage for me to get on t hat.

Sahm 7:31

I, I rode it twice, and the first time I rode it, it was cold and it was at night. It was dark. I couldn't see the top of it whenever I was, -

Ace 7:42

Oh hell no!

Sahm 7:43

Whenever I was walking up to it. I could not see the top.

Ace 7:46

Hell no.

Sahm 7:47

And I rode back seat, left, I rode left back seat on it on my first ride. I don't even know how, I don't even know how I did that to be honest.

Ace 7:55

You're insane. No.

Sahm 7:56

I literally, I literally, I literally, like locked in. And as I was going up, I was questioning everything because I literally could not see the top. And because it was night out, when we did the drop, I literally couldn't see the bottom. And that drop went like two seconds longer than I thought it did, but I could not see the drop. I couldn't see the drop whenever I went down. I was just, I plummeted into darkness. But that was my first experience with a giga coaster, and it's the only one that I have currently. Um, for those, you know, not to sound like mansplainy enough, but um, to those who don't know or are getting into

Ace 8:26

No mansplain it to them right now.

Sahm 8:27

Um, a giga coaster refers to a coaster that is about at least 300, minimum 300 feet or more uh, in terms of height. There's only, I believe, there's eight of them in the world. Um, there's one, there's a new one being built in um, in Six Flags Over Texas called, oh, what was it called? I don't know, I'm blanking on the name of it, but it's like the, it's like a record-breaking dive coaster. Um, there's also the one in Qiddiya being opened up and that's opening up literally, I think, at the end of this month, and um, in um, the Six Flags Qiddiya in Saudi Arabia. Falcons Flight, 600 feet. 600 feet.

Ace 9:04

Boo. Absolutely not.

Sahm 9:08

Yeah, that one would uh,

Ace 9:10

I don't -

Sahm 9:11

That one would take a lot.

Ace 9:12

Imagine traveling that far just to s*** yourself.

Sahm 9:16

Yeah, yeah, I wish, yeah, I definitely would s*** myself on that one.

Ace 9:19

Ethan, this ride here, this one, okay, 600 feet tall. No big deal.

Sahm 9:25

600.

Ace 9:26

They have a windshield in front of the, in front of the coaster.

Sahm 9:29

On the trains, yeah.

Ace 9:30

Yeah, there's a windshield.

Sahm 9:31

So yeah, so, so, imagine -

Ace 9:33

Y eah, and you have to put goggles on.

Sahm 9:35

No, you don't have to. That's, that, that was, -

Ace 9:36

That's for the, that's for Ferrari World.

Sahm 9:39

Yeah, that's for, that's for, Ferrari World. Uh, but yeah, imagine Sky Rush, but uh, literally three times taller.

Ethan 9:46

For me it's the goggles. No way, no thank you.

Sahm 9:54

Oh my goodness gracious,

Ace 9:56

Dude, by the way, I've, I've seen videos of that thing launching. Okay,

Sahm 10:00

it goes -

Ace 10:00

First of all, that, that hydraulic actuator that they're using to launch that thing is insane, and it sounds like a train.

Sahm 10:08

Dude, to literally to have the momentum to do that's like 600, the 600 foot drop, the drop, the first drop literally goes off a cliff. It's built onto a mountain. It's insane. It's really insane.

Ace 10:19

And when you're on that thing, it's going *high pitch engine revving*

Sahm 10:22

I, I can't remember what the top speed.

Ace 10:24

F*** that dude.

Sahm 10:26

I can't remember. I can't remember what the top speed of it was when I was looking to it.

Ace 10:29

Cut that out Ethan I'm not supposed to cuss.

Sahm 10:31

It's uh, I don't know what the top speed of that thing is supposed to be. It's, it's, it's faster than um, Top Thrill 2 over in uh, it's called Falcon's Flight.

Ace 10:39

Yeah, dude, pull up a video, watch this s*** watch that one, watch that real quick.

Sahm 10:43

It's so crazy.

Ace 10:45

Yeah,

Sahm 10:46

Dude, it's so crazy. Uh, like insane.

Ace 10:51

That's a, that's a very expensive trip, very scary coaster. But mad, mad props to anybody that even wants to travel to ride that thing. That's insane.

Sahm 11:02

Very much Falcon's Flight.

Ace 11:05

So it's, I'll, I think I'll stick to my, I think I'll stick to my , my, my beautiful little guys in Orlando.

Sahm 11:11

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Look at that thing, man. Like he jol. Yeah, look at that.

Ace 11:16

He's seeing how big this thing is, and I encourage any listener to also look this up if you're not yeah, like six flags what yeah, six six hundred and thirty-nine feet, bro.

Sahm 11:30

Imagine looking up at that thing in person. That's that's diabolical. It is 100%. Oh, yeah, 1000%. Absolutely.

Ace 11:39

There's nothing like it.

Sahm 11:40

The current tallest right now is Top Thrill 2 in Cedar Point.

Ace 11:44

That's 400.

Sahm 11:44

That's a little over 400 feet.

Ethan 11:46

How tall is it?

Sahm 11:47

639 feet. That is insane. Like

Ace 11:54

I'm gonna try to cough in this blanket. Oh, yeah, that's a ride vehicle, I think, right there. The uh, it's opening, it opens at the end of this month.

Ethan 12:05

Okay, like a volley concept.

Sahm 12:07

Yeah, it's opening up at the end of this month. Um, the whole park, the whole park is, so we're definitely going to see. We're definitely gonna see POVs of it. Like, it's in Qiddiya City in Saudi Arabia.

Ace 12:18

Yeah.

Sahm 12:19

Yeah.

Ace 12:20

I know who's not riding that coaster. Shane Gillis.

Sahm 12:26

Dude, I yeah, look, you see you see the cliff right there? You see the cliff, bro? You go, that's

Ace 12:31

Oh no!

Sahm 12:32

Dude, that thing's insane. Look at that thing. That's, that's how you start. That's how you start. That's how you have to build the momentum.

Ace 12:40

He's looking at, we're, we're, we are currently looking at the the first drop on that ride.

Sahm 12:44

Yeah, but look, that's the that's the cart right there. Hold up. It's just yeah, right there. Uh scroll up, Ethan.

Ace 12:48

Coaster enthusiasts know it has a dive.

Sahm 12:50

Yeah, you see that where you see the train right there? There, yeah, that's the train. So cool. And there's like the windshield and everything. World's tallest, fastest, and longest. What's the top speed on that thing? Can you Google that? Like, just be like speed, it's top speed. Uh oh. 155 miles an hour.

Ace 13:11

Okay. Uh hey, hear me out. It's probably it's probably not gonna actually be that fast. They're probably gonna say it's that fast. It's probably not going to be that fast.

Sahm 13:23

Uh I think it might actually be that fast.

Ace 13:25

No I'm telling you.

Sahm 13:26

Well, no, because um,

Ace 13:28

Kingda Ka wasn't actually 130. It only it it only ever reached about 80 or 90.

Sahm 13:34

Yeah, but Top Thrill Dragon.

Ace 13:36

Maybe 100.

Sahm 13:36

Top thrill, Top Thrill 2 hits 120. Yes, it does.

Ace 13:41

How do you know? You don't operate the train. You're not in you're not in the backboard. How do you know?

Sahm 13:46

I've done my research.

Ace 13:47

You're not in the actual so this King da Ka thing that I learned about came from El Toro Ryan, who worked on the ride. That's why he knows about it. Dude, El Toro Ryan, if you're listening to this, come on the pod, man. Let's talk. Love his content. Shout out El Toro Ryan. Anyways, um, Yeah, I think I'll, think I'll, I think I'll stick to my little Orlando boys for the, for the time being, because these things are nuts.

Sahm 14:15

Yeah, bro, it's 13,000 feet of track, brother. That's insane.

Ace 14:22

Absolutely nuts.

Sahm 14:36

Jesus Christ. That what a crazy, what a crazy, crazy like achievement in the coaster world. Um, a custom wheel manufactured by them too for the like oh my god.

Ace 14:49

Yeah, I guess I guess you do need to make the best coaster in the world if you want people to come to your country.

Sahm 14:55

Yeah, I mean, yeah. Um, Intamin is the company that I would trust to do something like that. I don't know exactly what that is, but I have no idea. But all I know is that like a documentary of this thing's like construction would be so fascinating to watch. Which is funny, which is funny coming for me because I didn't watch the epic universe ride thing. Yeah, I'm gonna get to that.

Ace 15:20

You wouldn't even watch it if they spent all that time to make it for you.

Sahm 15:24

Don't call me out. Anyways,

Sahm Goes From Zero To Hype Fixated; He Walks Us Through His First Time At Universal

Sahm 15:25 Sahm 15:25

since we're on the topic of universal, let's talk, let's let's talk, let's talk, Alex. You wanna talk about my you want to talk about my first time going there? It's been almost a year now.

Ace 15:39

Yeah, it has. Wow. Yeah, oh my goodness, this is this is insane.

Sahm 15:43

Dude, we went on exactly your birthday, right? No. Or was it the day after? It was the 11th, I think.

Ace 15:51

I think it was too. I could really find out if we need to.

Sahm 15:55

It's not that important. It's not super important.

Ace 15:57

What do you mean it's not that important?

Sahm 15:58

Okay, I'm sorry.

Ace 15:59

What's your problem?

Sahm 16:00

What's your problem? Yeah, you're sick.

Ace 16:03

God, stop asking me. You know, you know I'm fussy.

Sahm 16:06

Yeah, he's fussy.

Ace 16:08

Hey, you're just lucky I don't have the sunglasses on anymore. That means I'm feeling a little better.

Sahm 16:20

Duly noted. Oh, did we go the week prior? Hold up.

Ace 16:23

If I had one. Yeah.

Sahm 16:30

Yeah. So the 10th. We were yeah, 10.

Ace 16:32

Yeah, that that was December December 11th of 2024.

Sahm 16:38

Is when I went to Universal for the first time. And my new I don't want to say obsession, but there's really not another appropriate word I can use. Um, I'll say hyperfixation. That's a good word. Um, where my new hyperfixation came to be. I was not a theme park enthusiast, not even a roller coaster enthusiast prior to the trip. And then I left one. I left as one.

Ace 17:08

But anyways, um Yeah, clap.

Sahm 17:19

Um, but yeah. Yeah, I was saying that um, you know, around this around this time last year is when I went to Universal for the first time, and prior to going, I was not a roller coaster theme park enthusiast, but I left as one.

Ace 17:33

Okay, yeah, let's let's go over that. So what what were your thoughts? What what what was the expectation going and kind of take me through that?

Sahm 17:42

Um, I didn't really have much of expectations really because my only real theme park experience was Six Flags New Orleans when I was a kid in -

Ace 17:51

the one that's like underwater?

Sahm 17:53

The one that the one that Katrina destroyed, yes.

Ace 17:56

Sorry didn't mean to say underwater.

Sahm 17:58

Oh, it's okay.

Ace 17:59

Bad taste.

Sahm 18:00

But yeah, that it was that one which um was like when I was a child, when I was like a kid back in like 2004 or five, which when whenever the park was open, it wasn't open for very long before Katrina destroyed it. And the Six Flags America that just closed recently. So I had some pretty uh, low standards for theme parks or anything like that. I didn't really have any knowledge or expectations of it. Like I kind of vaguely knew what Disneyland, Disney World was.

Ace 18:26

So you thought these were just some little cotton candy little things.

Sahm 18:30

Yeah, I thought I wasn't I wasn't necessarily thrilled to go. Um, you just really wanted me to go, and you know, you're a very good friend of mine. So I was like, I'm gonna just go for it. Um, and you were kind of hyping me up the entire time, and like I remember you were going through going through your itinerary, just being like, what do you think IP is tied to this ride based by the title? And some of them I couldn't tell, some of them were pretty obvious. Um, but then when I got there, yeah, I started to get it. Um, I prior to that I've never I didn't know what a dark ride was, I didn't know what a simulation ride was, I didn't know really anything about parks or roller coasters or anything like that. And now I know a bunch of them. Now I know a lot of them.

We Rope Dropped... Minion Mayhem

Sahm 19:18 Sahm 19:18

And I believe the first one we did was minions. Actually, before that, um, we actually did stop by Voodoo Donut, took some pictures, and that was also really fun. Um, but then when we got to Rope Drop, I think we stood, we stood at Rope Drop for like at least 20 to 30 minutes before going in, and then we just rushed, we rushed to minions because it was just like the first one right there. And that ride has like always like a 30 to 40 minute wait time plus. And as much as I loved the ride, I'm not waiting 30 minutes for it, to be honest. I'm not attached to that franchise enough to do to do that. But that that was a very good first impression of Furley Studios because that is the simulation ride like park, like there's a lot of screen rides, you know, it's a fad, it was a fad in the early 2010s, right? Um, but it did lead it did it did give me a good first impression of what I was getting into for the day because you know you had the pre-show, which I didn't even know pre-shows were a thing, again, not knowing anything. They had a cool pre-show, and then we got into it and we got into the seats, and then it was just a fun little like simulation ride. You know, I'm pretty sure the more experienced people don't really care for it because you know, screen ride. But as a good first as a you know, the first one, real good first impression for me, and it set me up for the rest of the day and uh, kind of help other rides stand out more because they're just better than minions.

Ace 20:41

Wasn't it so cute what he did for the girls?

Sahm 20:45

Yeah, I like the story of that ride.

Ace 20:47

It's very cute.

Sahm 20:48

I like the story of that ride. Um, -

Ace 20:50

Well, it's Agnes, right? The little one, the littlest one with the fluffy unicorn.

Sahm 20:54

Brother, I'm gonna keep it a buck. I don't know their names outside of Gru.

Ace 20:57

You you better start doing more research, Josh.

Sahm 21:00

I'm sorry.

Ace 21:02

God, do you even care about the product? Or is this just a joke to you?

Sahm 21:05

I mean, I love the parks. I love the parks, what can I say? Um, -

Ace 21:09

I think it was Agnes, but yeah.

Sahm 21:11

Yeah.

Ace 21:12

Do you do you remember the um I'm doing a hand gesture for him because I can't remember the the they were about to close it was about to close on him, the compactor?

Sahm 21:22

Yeah.

Ace 21:23

Is about to close on the little owner.

Sahm 21:25

Yeah, I remember that. I remember that.

Ace 21:27

Every time you get on that, there's always some little girl that screams.

Sahm 21:32

It's also it's also pretty like um funny that we're talking about the minions being the first ride because um that that was the old building for the Hannah Barbera stuff, you know. If you know, if if you know, you know, you know.

Ace 21:44

OG's no.

Sahm 21:46

OG's no, OG Gips No. Or OGs of the show who caught the first episode. No spoilers. But um what do we do after minions? Was it the blaster or was it Hollywood? I think.

Ace 22:02

It's so funny, because like you're you're probably just wondering what are these what are these like grown adult men doing running immediately to the to the minion ride, right?

Sahm 22:12

I guess.

Ace 22:12

I well I'm you guess? What we did when when me and Kelsey were walking in front of the um the um minions ride, I just remember her seeing all the strollers and being like, what is happening over here?

Sahm 22:48

Family simulation ride, what can you say?

Ace 22:52

So for those that don't know, because this is an entertaining medium for people that are trying to learn and discover about it too. Ugly ass Ethan. What was that? Beautiful people that are trying to learn things.

Sahm 23:09

Yeah.

Ace 23:10

Not Ethan. I'm just kidding. Love you. He's gonna cut that out and he's gonna raise my voice up high because I said that. He's gonna make me sound like a chipmunk. Dude, I don't even you didn't even see it yet. They edited your voice to make you sound like you were in a church. We were and I had a nor I had a normal voice, and you just kept this.

Sahm 23:33

I'm Freddie Fazbear.

Ace 23:42

Shout out Halloween Horror Nights. So what was I what was I gonna say?

Sahm 23:48

Um, it's technically on topic because of Halloween Horror Nights.

Ace 23:50

Yeah, it is. It is so you said that you saw the pre-show and that the pre-show was your first time seeing. So you just thought that was impressive. The fact that it's like, oh, it's the guys, they're they're here, they're talking to us.

Sahm 24:04

Yeah, I I -

Ace 24:05

it's kind of messed up. Group group pointed the camera at Josh and said, Oh, this guy keeps farting, by the way. Watch out for this guy.

Sahm 24:12

Yeah, yeah, that was that was rude.

Ace 24:14

Oh no, he said you didn't shower that.

Sahm 24:16

Something along those, something along those lines.

Ace 24:18

This guy didn't shower.

Sahm 24:20

But but it was a good first impression because um I I was understanding the immersion, the immersion of everything, which um

Ace 24:30

The banana smell,

Sahm 24:32

everything. Like that's one of the big that's one of the greatest things about the Universal Parks. I've come to I've come to like love and appreciate is just the amount of immersion you get when you're ever you're in the queues themselves. Um, but you know, uh, what do we do after that? I think we did uh, we did uh,

Ace 24:47

so minion mayhem. Oh, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. I got you. I just I just want to dive a little more on at least on this part.

Sahm 24:54

Yeah, we're gonna spend like a whole episode talking about minions.

Ace 24:56

No, one day, not right now. There's actually a lot, there's actually a lot that the minions is doing for the park, which is just insane. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's the underground lair that they're operating. I think they're the ones building the rides, honestly.

Sahm 25:11

Yeah, probably

Ace 25:12

imagine so cool. No what Despicable Me Minion Mayhem. Very cute, fun family ride. Um, definitely good if you're a fan of the IP. If you're a Despicable Me fan, you're just a or a minions fan, whatever it's it's perfect ride for that. Um, I'm a little indifferent on the ride because there's a lot of other 3D simulations in the park. So, you know, if you're not crazy about the IP, I don't think it's a problem if you miss it, as long as you at least hit a 3D sim or two. But you know, when I was bringing Josh, I really wanted to make it my mission to make sure he understood that we're riding everything. We're making sure you hit everything, dog. That's what I that's what I cared about. Oh man. At the end of the episode, we'll go over the itinerary, that'll be fun. We'll have Ethan guess uh, what the what the rides are associated with.

Sahm 26:10

You still have the itinerary?

Ace 26:11

Yeah, you kidding me?

Sahm 26:12

Oh yeah, I forget who I'm talking to.

Ace 26:14

Yeah, I'm no note master.

Sahm 26:16

Yeah, very much so.

Ace 26:18

But so we get there and we rope dropped minions because for the rest of that day, that ride was a two-hour wait.

Sahm 26:26

Insane, dude.

Ace 26:28

And again, it's a cute ride, but I'm not waiting two hours for me.

Sahm 26:32

I don't know if it was two hours. It definitely had a high wait time, but I was always an hour or two. I will say the wait times for pretty much every ride that day was really good. We practically walked on like 80% of all the rides.

Ace 26:45

I did that on purpose. I specifically booked us a day with low crowds.

Sahm 26:50

Good man. Yeah, I was able to experience everything. Um, but -

Ace 26:55

Ethan didn't get to ride minions, but

Sahm 26:57

He ain't missing out.

Ace 26:58

He didn't care. He's

Let's Go Girls, R.I.P. The Vertical Lift; Rip Ride Rocket

Ace 27:00

fine.

Sahm 27:00

That's fine.

Ace 27:01

Um, he did everything, he didn't ride rip ride rocket either. No, just kidding, he did. He knows he got on it. He got on it.

Sahm 27:07

I was about to say.

Ace 27:08

I bullied him into it.

Sahm 27:09

Speaking of speaking of rip ride rocket, that was the one when I looked when I walked in the parking, I saw it and I was intimidated by it because of the vertical lift till I'm not a ver vertical lift till kind of guy. I don't like I'm not the biggest fan of them. They spooked the hell out of me.

Ace 27:23

You weren't even really a roller coaster guy yet.

Sahm 27:25

Yeah, I wasn't super like into it, but like even now with with uh, with more credits under my belt, I still don't like vertical Do you remember? I was literally I literally said to you, hey you like coasters right? Yeah, I like coasters. I like coasters. Yeah, he sees Rip Ride rocket and goes, Oh, yeah. It's literally, it was literally just a let's go, man. I I'm

Ace 27:47

Ethan had the same reaction. He looked at that and he went, I'm not getting on that. You're crazy. That's literally what he said to me.

Sahm 27:54

Well, um, I've that we well, I got convinced to get on that one.

Ace 27:58

Garrett just straight went, absolutely not.

Sahm 28:01

Yeah, yeah.

Ace 28:03

But yeah, we went on there and foreshadowing one day, one day we're gonna talk about the friend I took that was insufferable the entire time. That that's gonna be a fun. Sorry, Garrett. Sorry, you're getting called out that episode.

Sahm 28:17

But yeah, we got on it, and I didn't know the gimmick of the ride immediately. Which one? Uh the gimmick of the ride of Rip Ride.

Ace 28:24

Which uh, Did we do that next?

Sahm 28:27

We it was either that or the or the the blaster, but true, but truth be told, the blaster's really nothing to write home about.

Ace 28:34

Like I villain con minion blaster. Let's talk about it. I don't want to we just spent 20 minutes talking about minion mayhem now we're gonna be able to do that.

Sahm 28:42

There's a lot of context of it in the first ride, it being in like the good first impression and context of the rest of the park.

Ace 28:49

Are you mansplaining to me?

Sahm 28:51

Yes, I am. And I'm not sorry. But we can but but just to keep it brief, um this I mean, it's a it's a fun game. It's a fun like point-and-shoot game on a conveyor belt. Great for the kids, you know, it's a good time waster to get out of the sun if it was being hot. Like you want to get out of the sun for like at least like how long is that thing? Like seven minutes or something like that.

Ace 29:15

You know what I did think was cool about it?

Sahm 29:17

What's up?

Ace 29:17

It was a good way for them, especially when that Rise of Gru movie came out. I think I'll be transparent, I have not seen any of the minions movies, only the Despicable Me movies.

Sahm 29:28

Same.

Ace 29:28

But Rise of Grew is like supposed to be a prequel, from what I understand, I think, right? But you're in the Villain Con ride and you see all these uh, you you see all these very interesting characters. I do like the crocodile in the tank. I like that guy just staring at you like I'm gonna bite you.

Sahm 29:47

Yeah, the cool the queue is pretty cool.

Ace 29:49

I it feels like a convention center.

Sahm 29:53

Yeah, because it is a convention center for the villains. Villain con. Oh, I guess con's just short for convention, right? Anyways. Rip a ride rocket. Didn't know the gimmick ahead of time, and then you let me know that there is you could pick from six songs of it. And, and, you told me -

Ace 30:21

Let's go, girls.

Sahm 30:22

That is the one you, that is the one I picked.

Ace 30:24

I, I took -

Sahm 30:25

That is the, yeah, that is the one I picked.

Ace 30:31

Ethan is air, he's air guitar ing the song. The best part about being a woman.

Sahm 30:45

That was a, that's, that's a good ride. It was, it was, a fun ride. I don't regret, I don't regret getting on it. I don't regret riding it. Um, I'm sad that it's gone. Um, I do know that when we wrote it the last time, uh, I was able to pick a secret song for those who don't know at the time. Um, there was a feature on the ride, which um, Alex actually didn't know this, so it was fun on the at least the second time I went to have you know know something that he didn't, you know, issue.

Ace 31:11

I knew it. I didn't know how to do it.

Sahm 31:13

Okay.

Ace 31:14

Correction.

Sahm 31:15

Clarification.

Ace 31:16

I have to clarify that. I knew about it.

Sahm 31:18

Okay.

Ace 31:18

Go ahead.

Sahm 31:19

But I showed him how to. Um, and I was able to see it.

Ace 31:21

Definitely showed me how to. I was very confused trying it. I didn't know I didn't do it every time I tried.

Sahm 31:26

But yeah, it was um, but yeah, uh, we did, I did Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin. That was a great last send-off for the ride. Um, that was definitely the good uh, my favorite ride so far, but you know, only one of two of them comparing to minions, yeah.

The Tonight Show's Museum Queue We Go For The A/C & Stay For The Roots; Race Through New York Starring Jimmy Fallon

Sahm 31:39

Um, and then did we do Fallon or Mummy Next?

Ace 31:44

I'm trying to find the itinerary as I could tell you.

Sahm 31:48

Yeah cuz -

Ace 31:48

I'm pretty sure I took you to Mummy Next because usually when I bring people to this park, I usually feel like we need to set the bar with the mummy. I just think that's a great, great one to really just show them what they're in for, for the day. Now, I do think it sucks at studios if you show them mummy, because then everything else is kind of not that a little bit, but you know, you get to Island on the next episode, heh heh heh heh. And you see the real you see the real children.

Sahm 32:17

I can probably figure it out.

Ace 32:18

No, Josh, I got it.

Sahm 32:20

Okay,

Ace 32:21

I got it.

Sahm 32:22

I got you, brother. We'll just both look and just kind of go from there.

Ace 32:25

You don't got no d-, you don't got the dang itinerary.

Sahm 32:29

No, but I have pictures of uh, pictures of things I took and placed in order. That's how I did things.

Ace 32:34

Oh.

Sahm 32:34

Mhhm. Uh. I want to say, Damn it, I can't, I don't know.

Ace 32:46

I found it.

Sahm 32:47

Okay.

Ace 32:55

Alright. Alright. The next one we did was Jimmy Fallon.

Sahm 33:01

Okay, yeah, that makes sense.

Ace 33:05

Yeah.

Sahm 33:06

Uh which,

Ace 33:08

Um, this is, a couple of things we could talk about with Jimmy Fallon. First of all, you just, if you don't like the ride you're sleeping on it, dude. It's the best ride at the park. It's literally the greatest thing that exists. And I'm gonna tell you one thing and it's gonna sell you on it after you hear this, because um, if you're not tied to the tonight show at all, it is still cool walking in that very cool NBC looking building and seeing all the, all the murals and all the displays, almost like a, what is it, like a museum,

Sahm 33:41

it's -

Ace 33:42

Exhibit.

Sahm 33:42

Exhibit. Exhibit. Exhibit.

Ace 33:42

That's what it is. It feels like an exhibit of the tonight show. And oh, it's so funny seeing all those guys with all those long ears, and then there's just Conan with the with the like year, I think, two years.

Sahm 33:55

Oh, yeah.

Ace 33:56

That was a messy thing. Uh we'll dive into that one day, maybe. Maybe we'll do a whole episode about just that stuff.

Sahm 34:02

The queue, honestly, was really cool. Um, we pretty much walked onto it. Um, when we did it the second time on the second trip that we went, you know, we'll talk about that.

Ace 34:13

Oh yeah, we got to we got to actually see

Sahm 34:15

The whole, -

Ace 34:16

How the queue works. Because I've always gone. I've never waited more than 30 minutes for Jimmy Fallon ever. I don't even think I would wait that long to meet him in real life.

Sahm 34:29

Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Fallon, if you're listening, we're sorry.

Ace 34:32

I'm not. I don't need you, I don't need you laughing at me and lying to me.

Sahm 34:36

Yeah.

Ace 34:36

You don't think anything is funny, Jimmy. We all know you're just pretending.

Sahm 34:41

The cue is great.

Ace 34:42

Go ahead. Go ahead, Josh. Tell tell tell me something you like about the ride.

Sahm 34:46

Um, I think, I think the I want to say there's like 40 effects on it.

Ace 34:53

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Sahm 34:53

Like there's like, -

Ace 34:58

Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Yeah, and?

Sahm 35:01

Alright, buddy. Is there 40 effects on the ride?

Ace 35:05

Like there is. There's 40 to 50. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. See, no one wants to talk to that guy because of that. Anyway, I'm joking. Anyways. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's not how he laughs either. No, so you didn't, you didn't get to let me say the thing. The biggest reason this ride actually is the best ride, and I'm, I'm serious, guys. Two letters. AC.

Sahm 35:38

Yeah.

Ace 35:39

Yeah. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.

Sahm 35:41

Yeah.

Ace 35:42

It's hot out there. You go in that place, it is nice and cool. And it, it you really get that New York windy vibe, especially during the ride.

Sahm 35:53

Yeah, -

Ace 35:53

It's a cool simulator.

Sahm 35:56

Yeah, it definitely makes you feel like you're in New York. You know, it is called the Race Through New York, so I hope so.

Ace 36:02

Oh. You know how every, I don't, okay. You know what? We're we're gonna count the, um, This guy didn't shower as the uh, official quote for the minion movie or the minion ride, excuse me. Um, and I guess there's not really too many things to quotes. There's not really too much to quote for the uh, villain con either.

Sahm 36:23

Tonight, we steal 'za moon.

Ace 36:26

Did they say that in the ride? Is that the movie?

Sahm 36:29

Oh, that's just in the movie.

Ace 36:31

Villain Con is technically Minions Rise of Gru. That's not Despicable Me, you just quoted Despicable Me.

Sahm 36:38

Sorry.

Ace 36:38

Good.

Sahm 36:39

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Ace 36:39

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Okay. Sorry.

Sahm 36:48

Anyways, Jimmy Fallon, the six out of ten ride. Queue is amazing. Now we're getting into the nitty-gritty of it. We're talking about a top, top of the line ride next.

Ace 37:02

The actual , well. Josh, hold on a minute.

Sahm 37:07

I'm sorry.

Ace 37:08

He keeps trying to move things forward. I still want I want to drag them out. Maybe that's a good thing. I don't know. But my favorite quote for, I wanted, I wanna, I wanted to say, I wanted to, I wanna, I want to say what your favorite memorable quote from the ride is if you have one, because every universal ride has one. Is that still recording, Ethan? Okay, sorry. I see him doing stuff on the monitor. I'm like, what are you doing?

Sahm 37:40

Stop.

Ace 37:42

So

Sahm 37:46

this is a very professional setting.

Ace 37:49

We have fun, that's all that matters. So my favorite line for me.

Sahm 37:53

Don't say that to me.

Ace 37:54

My favorite line, -

Sahm 37:56

I tried fun once.

Ace 38:00

That's amazing. So we. my favorite quote from Jimmy Fallon is when it goes, they're talking about Yep, the world's first uh, sky roller coaster.

Sahm 38:19

Oh, like the moon or something?

Ace 38:21

Y eah, yeah, first moon coaster. And once it's complete, it's gonna be the most, wait, once it's complete? And then it shoots off. I'm gonna find it.

Sahm 38:31

That's such a fun, that's such a fun uh, fun part of the ride.

Ace 38:35

Took you guys long enough. Hey, want some pizza?

Sahm 38:38

Right.

Ace 38:38

T-shirt cannon.

Sahm 38:39

I could go for, I can go for some pizza right now, to be honest.

Ace 38:43

Let me see if I can find the quote.

Sahm 38:47

Speaking of pizza, the pizza I had at like the Marvel cafe was so bad.

Ace 38:53

Once completed? That's what he said.

Sahm 38:57

That's so fun. Um, -

Ace 38:59

T here it is. First roller coaster on the moon, once completed. Once completed? Anyway, that's fun. It's not a terrible ride, it's a good simulator. I just think it's a product of a bad time, it's a product of the screen renaissance.

Sahm 39:16

You're gonna hear us say that a lot.

Ace 39:18

Get

Our Favorite Family Ride, Fast & Furious Supercharged

Ace 39:19

over it.

Ace 39:19

But nothing compares to the most beautiful screen renaissance attraction that was ever created. It's quite literally what I would consider, because I took Josh on this one next, and I set expectation with him on this one. I , I looked at him and said, I'm not gonna say anything. I just want you to know this one's normally not very fond of. People aren't normally stoked on this one. We went to, what I would consider, a very amazing family ride.

Sahm 39:55

Why'd you say family?

Ace 39:57

You know exactly why I said it.

Sahm 39:59

I know why.

Ace 40:01

You want to tell them about Fast and Furious?

Sahm 40:05

Oh, Fast and Furious Supercharge. Where do I even meet?

Ace 40:09

That's Ethan's favorite ride. No, that that was Garret's favorite. He's, he's attached to the IP, though. He likes the movies.

Sahm 40:17

I, I no longer feel bad for the roasting he's getting on a future episode. Anyways, Fast and Furious Supercharge. Where do I even begin with you, man?

Ace 40:27

Vin Diesel. Why did you grab that helicopter? Why should you grab the helicopter like that, dude?

Sahm 40:33

Vin Diesel, why are you?

Ace 40:34

Don't worry, I got you! That's the quote for this one.

Sahm 40:37

Why why did you grab that? Why are you like bigger than the helicopter? That's the funniest part about that whole ride.

Ace 40:48

Go ahead.

Sahm 40:49

That when Vin Diesel

Ace 40:53

I'm sorry, I'm sick. Go ahead.

Sahm 40:57

When Vin Diesel grabs that, grabs that helicopter.

Ace 41:01

Don't worry, I got you.

Sahm 41:03

It's almost so bad. It's good.

Ace 41:06

He's as big as the helicopter.

Sahm 41:08

And it's the funniest s*** I've ever seen in my life.

Ace 41:12

Dude, I remember Ethan seeing that going, he just he pointed right at that and went, what the f***. He couldn't believe it. Bleep it out. It's fine. It was funny. It was funny. That's what he said.

Sahm 41:28

Also, like honestly, the pre-show kind of sucks. I think the actors, I'm not knocking the actors um, that do it.

Ace 41:37

I would love that job. I'd have a lot of fun doing it.

Sahm 41:39

I, I, I, um, applaud what they do, and I don't knock them for it. It just wasn't, I wasn't feeling it. It wasn't for me. All that buildup for a like, such a, such a, such a terrible ride. But it's almost so bad it's good. Like you have to ride, like, if you go to these parks, you have to ride that ride to understand how bad it is. Like it's almost, it's like mandatory to do it.

Ace 42:06

When I took Felix, we went for two days. Felix rode it day one. Day two, he's like, no, dude. I'm not getting back on that.

Sahm 42:15

Understandable. Based.

Imhotep Cursed Us For Entering The Set; Revenge of the Mummy

Sahm 42:17 Sahm 42:17

Alri ght, palette cleansing. Let's get some, let's get some good, good uh, content in on the tongue. Revenge of the Mummy. Oh boy!

Ace 42:31

Did we not mention that already? Okay, no, you're right. We didn't yet.

Sahm 42:34

That's okay. That's okay. After talking Fast and Furious, I'm now more excited and happy to talk about Revenge of the Mummy.

Ace 42:40

I think all I really said, and yeah, I I usually like to take the Oh, that's all it was. I just was talking about how I like for it to set the bar.

Sahm 42:49

Yeah, it's, it's, oh it's, -

Ace 42:52

Was this when your foot got messed up or not yet?

Sahm 42:55

No, that's, that's a little bit later.

Ace 42:57

Um,- I take responsibility.

Sahm 43:00

It's after mummy, I want to say. We'll get to that. But well, let's talk about Mummy, man. What an actual fantastic ride. Like, I wasn't expecting much when I, when I walked into it when I was like approaching the building. There was the actor on the stilts legs and the pharaoh guys. I thought that was very cool and immersive. And then we get into the ride, and the queue is low, is like underrated, I think. I don't think I see a lot of people talking about it. Like the giant, I believe it's the Anubis statue in the middle of the queue, is so it's awesome. And then I believe you have the pre-show where um, where uh, oh my god, um, Brandon Fraser's character is just like trying to get you to go away. Just really setting up the expectation, the vibes.

Ace 43:43

Wait, who's trying to get you to go away? Brandon Fraser?

Sahm 43:45

Brandon Fraser, yeah.

Ace 43:46

He's not trying to get you to go away.

Sahm 43:48

I'm trying to remember. Oh it's, I'm tired. I'm kind of like, -

Ace 43:51

So the production, the production assistant, right? You see him you you see him like kind Helping everybody, and they're kind of going, all right, what are you doing? Go go over there, go get the coffee.

Sahm 44:03

Right, right, right, right. I forgot.

Ace 44:05

And he's like, okay, yeah, no problem. And oh, sorry. And then at some point he gets into the room, and then you just see him go, and then Anubis gets him. So he he's that

Sahm 44:21

Is it Anubis? Or is it?

Ace 44:24

Emotep, excuse me?

Sahm 44:25

Emotep, yeah.

Ace 44:26

You said Anubis. That's why I was saying that.

Sahm 44:27

Yeah, because there's the I think it's the Anubis statue in the um

Ace 44:31

the dog.

Sahm 44:32

The dog.

Ace 44:33

The doggy.

Sahm 44:34

The doggy dog.

Ace 44:35

The dog head man.

Sahm 44:37

Dead dog. Um, but yeah, and then you, -

Ace 44:40

Why'd they cut the dog's head off and put it on the man's head?

Sahm 44:45

I don't know, man. But then we get on the ride, and man, what an experience that ride is to us.

Ace 44:53

Are you insane? Get out of here. The curse is real.

Sahm 44:56

And the curse around to be real.

Ace 44:58

Silence with your souls. I shall rule.

Sahm 45:02

The pyro, the pyro the pyro effects in there. Like all the effects in that ride are so good.

Ace 45:08

You got a very good version, too, by the way. That was like updated that year.

Sahm 45:12

Fantastic.

Ace 45:13

Yeah.

Sahm 45:15

Fantastic ride. And then the second, and then the second launch, whenever the whenever um he's like, Your souls are mine, and then you just get launched into the second half of the coaster, man. Just fantastic.

Ace 45:27

I still get tripped out by that effect because it's a big screen around the around it. Yeah, you still see his mouth.

Sahm 45:36

Yeah, you basically get launched into his mouth and the fog effects and stuff. It's oh man, it's just so good. Um, spoiler alert.

Ace 45:42

I prefer that way better than Krusty going, enjoy this journey in my mouth.

Sahm 45:46

Yeah. We'll get yeah. Um, but yeah, spoiler spoiler alert, Mummy is my favorite ride at studios. Um.

Ace 45:53

It should be. It's so good.

Welcome Back Freedom Fighters; Transformers: The Ride-3D

Sahm 45:56

Yeah.

Sahm 45:56

But I believe after Mummy, we we we you know, we go and fight for the all spark.

Ace 46:03

We had to have, right?

Sahm 46:04

We did, yeah.

Ace 46:05

Yeah, we okay, yeah. We hit the all spark. That's right, because I wasn't trying to show him Diagon Alley till the end.

Sahm 46:11

Yeah, that'll that's a good finale, by the way. Um, yeah, yeah, we can we went to the all spark we went to the all spark. Um, another simulation ride. Um, nothing too crazy stand out to me. I think it's just a very good simulation ride, you know. Better than minions. And I'm not the most super attached to the Transformers IP. So, like, you know, it didn't like blow me away, but it was good. Like, I will anytime that I go to Universal, I always hit that ride. I'll go, I'll go single rider on it, go hit that. It's just, it's, it's a lot of fun. And then after that, that's when my foot started hurting. So at that point, um, prior to us going, prior to us going, um, we hit City Walk for like four or five hours the night before. Like, we didn't go to the park, we just hit City Walk for four to five hours, and then we impulsively like Ubered over to Disney Springs and hit that for a few hours too. Like, we were just walking around all freaking day.

Ace 47:13

Mine.

Sahm 47:17

And when we were at Disney Springs, we just had a bit where we just kept saying mine really loudly, and at some point I yelled it out the top of my lungs, and it was the funniest s*** ever.

Ace 47:25

Like 20 people turned around. It was so, dude, we didn't care. We were just laughing like hyenas.

Sahm 47:30

I mean, to be fair, I mean, to be fair, we, -

Ace 47:32

We're never seeing those people again.

Sahm 47:34

I know

Ace 47:35

If you're one of those people that came across this video, that was us.

Sahm 47:38

Yep. Uh side tangent, side tangent. We also went to the Coca-Cola bar in that area.

Ace 47:44

Oh, I forgot about that.

Sahm 47:48

Oh my god.

Ace 47:49

Oh my goodness.

Sahm 47:51

So, for those who don't know, in Disney Springs, which uh, is funny that we're talking about Disney Springs when we're we're talking about Universal, but this has to be talked about because it's such an insane experience. Um, at the Coca-Cola bar, you can spend about 18, 20 bucks to get what is called the Coke Sampler. Where it is how many drinks was it? It was like at least like there it is. Yep, there it is.

Ace 48:16

20?

Sahm 48:17

It was, it was 16.

Ace 48:20

He pulled up the picture of it.

Sahm 48:22

16 different Cokes, international flavor, at least under the Coke brand and everything like that. So there's like Fanta and stuff in it. And when I say that this is some of the worst things I've ever like put into my body in my life, yeah, I, I genuinely mean that.

Ace 48:38

Only like that last one, dude. Beverly.

Sahm 48:39

No they all were terrible.

Ace 48:40

It was only Beverly.

Sahm 48:42

Like 80% of them were terrible. They were just out-of-the-world flavors that just like I don't even know what the heck they were thinking. Um, and I'm gonna be mean here. Italy, what are you drinking out there? What is, what is Beverly?

Ace 48:59

Digiorno.

Sahm 49:02

Like, when I say that Beverly has to be literally the worst thing I've ever drank in my life, that is lit, that's no exaggeration. It's quite literally the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth.

Ace 49:13

We both almost like vomited when we drank it.

Sahm 49:16

It was awful.

Ace 49:17

We ran around just like *gag*

Sahm 49:19

if you look at a bottle

Ace 49:22

We had an absolute spaz attack over that drink.

Sahm 49:24

It's a Coke.

Ace 49:25

Awful.

Sahm 49:26

It's a Coke flavor.

Ace 49:27

It's Coke in Italy.

Sahm 49:29

Anybody, anybody, -

Ace 49:30

It's an Italian, it's, it's a drink they, it's a drink Coca-Cola makes in Italy called Beverly.

Sahm 49:37

Brother, like?

Ace 49:38

It's just single-handedly the most horrendous thing we ever drank, dude.

Sahm 49:42

Anybody, anybody, that anybody that is listening, if you're able to look at a bottle of hand sanitizer right now, imagine what that tastes like. And that's exactly what it tastes like.

Ace 49:55

That's what it was. It was that hand sanitizer taste.

Sahm 49:58

I'm traumatized. Like, -

Ace 50:00

We hated it. It was awful.

Sahm 50:01

It was terrible. And it's so bad.

Ace 50:04

This is when his foot started hurting.

Sahm 50:07

No, no. That's probably what started. That's probably what poisoned my foot for the next day. But I just needed the, I, I just needed to rant about Beverly. Yeah, that's exactly how I felt. Exactly like that. But yes, after Transformers, um, my foot, my right foot started hurting. Like I was pretty much limping, and it was horrific. It was a horrific experience. Um, like it was kind of ruining the park for me.

Ace 50:36

Um, next time we go, we're gonna film ourselves drinking all of them. Oh, including Beverly. We got to do it for the camera, dude.

Sahm 50:45

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm avoiding cursing on this, but,

Ace 50:50

We'll bleep it out. It's fine.

Sahm 50:52

Oh man.

Ace 50:53

We, we are going to curse on this podcast, but just to keep it more PG air leaning, we, we're gonna, if, if we do end up cursing, we're just gonna bleep it out.

Sahm 51:03

Yeah, Beverly, Beverly deserves, deserves, the bleep.

Ace 51:06

F*** Beverly.

Sahm 51:08

F*** Beverly. F*** you.

Ace 51:11

I ain't even know her.

Sahm 51:15

Oh man. Anyways, my foot was, my, al right, wow, crazy. We were my foot was hurting, and we had made it over to Simpsons, and that was,

Ace 51:27

No we didn't talk about Transformers yet.

Sahm 51:30

I mean, we did briefly. There's really nothing that stands out enough for me to talk about it. It's just another simulation ride.

Ace 51:37

Ethan loved it.

Sahm 51:39

Andrew also loved it too.

Ace 51:40

It's a good ride.

Sahm 51:41

It is a good ride. It is a good ride.

Ace 51:43

It's spide, it's the newer Spider-Man.

Sahm 51:45

Yeah, but Spider-Man's better.

Ace 51:47

Duh, it's the perfect ride, but we, we're not an island yet.

Sahm 51:50

Yeah, we're not there it.

Ace 51:51

We're not there yet.

Sahm 51:51

We're not there yet. Um,

Ace 51:53

It's the All Spark raid. Yeah. So if, if you don't know this yet, okay. Sorry to mansplain like Josh has been all day. In the Hollywood location where Transformers is. If you're a recent goer, that used to be Spider-Man. That's because it's the same exact ride, same building, same timing, same mechanics, same rhythm, same show scenes. They just change it to Transformers. It's it's really cool. You want to know another ride that has the same exact ride system for no reason? Cat in the hat and men in black.

Sahm 52:39

They do both spin. They do both spin, don't they?

Ace 52:45

Isn't that insane?

Sahm 52:46

Yeah, but we can't talk about cat in the hat. We're not on island.

Ace 52:49

Okay. I did just do that to you. That's fair. Can you image Yeah, that light's been bugging that whole time. It's been funny. Um, if if you hear us just kind of both just uh, it's because we have our little monitor lights here that are kind of twick twickering on us sometimes. Is Twickering a word?

Sahm 53:06

What's no, you're trying you're you're thinking of tweaking.

Ace 53:09

Tweaky.

Sahm 53:10

Tweak.

Ace 53:10

Bro, is this dude twickering?

Sahm 53:12

Twickering. Alright, new new new phrase, guys, new lingo, twickering.

Ace 53:18

Am I twickering, bro?

Sahm 53:19

Am I tweaking? Anyways.

Ace 53:23

You know how on the Shane and Matt show, it always the wild, wild, West. He could be that he could be am I twickering? No, don't do that. I hate it. I changed my mind.

Sahm 53:35

But yeah, back we my foot was like hurting, I was limping. And um, for those who don't know, Alex is a fast walker. Like.

Ace 53:45

I don't mean to, I just do.

Sahm 53:47

He just is. He's a he's

Ace 53:48

I 'm just a trot-trot-trot-trot-trot-trot-trot-trot

Sahm 53:50

I'm sure you can tell, he's a little, he's a little, he has a little bit of a hyper personality, and that goes with his body.

Ace 53:56

What? Me? No.

Sahm 53:59

Ethan. Is Alex a hyper person?

Ace 54:02

No.

Sahm 54:06

Thank you.

Ace 54:08

He did the little the shifty hand thing, ehh so so. It's kinda

The Simpsons Ride

Ace 54:13

sort of just a little.

Sahm 54:14

So I had to keep up with that, and then we hit probably, my, probably least favorite experience of the park. And that was the Simpsons ride.

Ace 54:24

Did we ride at first or did we eat? Because I remember us specifically really debating that.

Sahm 54:30

We rode it first.

Ace 54:32

We did.

Sahm 54:33

We wrote it first.

Ace 54:35

Because I think I, I, I had, we have, it's only the Simpsons. I, I specifically will take somebody on Minions or Jimmy Fallon first if it's their first time, and I say, Hey, how do you feel after that ride? And then I always get people that are either like, Oh, I feel like crap. Um, where they're like, Oh, I feel like crap. And you know, after that, I'm kind of like, hmm, maybe we shouldn't do the Simpsons. But you see, Josh here, Josh was being a trooper.

Sahm 55:07

Yeah, I was fine.

Ace 55:08

I thought he was gonna be good, but I did think about I was like, hey, you know what, dude? We did just do two simulators.

Sahm 55:15

Three.

Ace 55:15

We did a coaster.

Sahm 55:16

We did three.

Ace 55:17

We didn't do Simpsons yet. What simulator? Transformers?

Sahm 55:22

Minions.

Ace 55:23

I don't consider Transformers a sim. The only reason I don't is because it's not a sit, sit, sitting still theater.

Sahm 55:29

Okay, I guess. Uh I guess because I was considering fast, I was considering faster. Okay, we'll, we'll, -

Ace 55:34

Okay, no, you're right. Fine.

Sahm 55:35

How about we just. how about we refer to them as screen rides?

Ace 55:38

Screen rides?

Sahm 55:38

We'll just call them screen rides.

Ace 55:40

Transformers is a little more than screen ride.

Sahm 55:43

It's a screen ride, it's a dynamic screen ride.

Ace 55:46

There's a Megatron statue at the end.

Sahm 55:49

But I didn't even know this until the second time we went.

Ace 55:53

Both times I pointed up too. I, I, I'm, I'm kind, I have my own rhythm with people. I always point up just so they don't miss it because I also missed it my first time. Most people do. And so if you're ever if you ever come with me, don't worry, I'm gonna give you the point, but he's right there.

Sahm 56:09

Man.

Ace 56:10

But the second time you you don't miss him because after that you look up, you're going, Whoa, it's Megatron. Did you see him, Ethan, when it happened? Megatron at the end, he's just there like dead in the wall.

Sahm 56:22

That's so cool. Yeah it's a sick detail. Um, but yeah, so we had done a few, we have done pretty much all this, all the screen rides at the time. So and I wasn't feeling any like nausea or any emotions or any emotions.

Ace 56:34

That's what it was. I just didn't want you to. I was like, hey, shh, let's hop on the Simpsons now, and then we can kind of chill out and eat.

Sahm 56:42

Yeah, because I was getting a bit hungry. But we did the Simpsons ride, and for some reason that was the only ride that made me feel like any nauseous. I did not feel good coming out of that ride. I think like the effects and everything about the ride was as great. It's just man, it's just a lot. It's a very overwhelming ride. Um, it's almost it's kind of almost overstimulating, even with like the pre the the pre-show and everything. It was just an overstimulating ride for me, and it just made me nauseous. I didn't feel good after that one. And my foot was still hurting.

Ace 57:07

It sucks for me. I'm I'm very, very loyal and tied to the IP. Huge, huge Simpsons fan. Huge Simpsons fan. And I I used to love that ride. I I've gone to this park almost 20 times now, though, so it's just after the 20th time, dude, it gets old. It's the same show every time, right? And I guess you could say that about Jimmy Fallon too, right? But honestly, I think Minions and The Simpsons are the only ones that lose that charm in the sense of ah, I'm over it. I already did it. I've done this already. Yeah. Because at least with Fast and Furious, dude, you it you can like hate watch it. You can, you can honestly, you know, you know, you know you're gonna be in for a bad time, but it's entertaining, it's funny.

Sahm 57:55

Yeah,

Ace 57:55

Dude, just real quick, remember when they they go back up or they start rising up on the platform?

Sahm 58:02

Yeah, it I don't even remember what he says. He's rising up going, yeah, well, you're gonna need a bigger army then. It's so it's so it's so bad.

Ace 58:16

Why are you guys not listening to me? I'm the one with the gun. Yeah, well, mine's a lot bigger. Little the rock.

Sahm 58:26

Well then.

Ace 58:27

So yeah.

Krusty Burger Break, Ace's Awkward Medical Tent Interaction & Mummy Side Quest

Ace 58:28

Anyways, as we went ahead and we got on the Simpsons ride, we started eating, we're enjoying some Krusty Burger, enjoying some moes.

Sahm 58:40

Ahh dude that burger was so good. The chili dog was good, but the burger was fantastic. And then um, at that point, my foot was at an all-time hot pain high.

Ace 58:46

Yeah, I want to I want to tell this part.

Sahm 58:47

Okay, you got it.

Ace 58:48

We're eating, we're having a great time, and then he just looks at me and he. I could tell that he felt bad even telling me this. He just was like, dude, my, my foot's really starting to hurt. And I was like, dude, we're, we're only halfway through on the first part. We got a lot of walking today. And he's like, So, so what do we do? And I had, I had to think on my feet, and I was like, Well, I know where the medical tent is.

Sahm 59:17

Yep.

Ace 59:18

I'm like, it's it's right by over where um Diagon Alley mommy is, kind of. Little, there's a little entrance there.

Sahm 59:26

This is where your experience of the parks came in, because I had no idea.

Ace 59:30

And he was still eating, he was enjoying his food. I I punished my food, I just *chomp* *chomp* *chomp* *chomp* *chomp* I was done. So I looked in and I was like, hey, since you're still eating, since you're vibing, and I genuinely just wanted him to enjoy what I felt like was a break for him because I'm, I'm taking him through just the entire course that day, you know. He's, he's getting a minute to actually just hang out and be on his phone and relax. So I, I, I went on over to the medical tent and go on in, and this guy's like, Alright, what's going on? And I was just like, Hi, I have a friend. Oh no, this is gonna sound so bad. I was like, so I have a friend, and my friend, he's just his foot's really, really hurting him, and we just want, we want to get through the day. Do you guys have Tylenol, Advil, ibuprofen, at all? And he's like, Yes, but you said this is for your, your friend? I'm like, yes, and he's like, Okay, what's his name? So I wrote down your name, I checked you in, they gave me the thing, they're like, here you go. And I guess the only reason it wasn't weird because it was like, yeah, it's just ibuprofen, whatever.

Sahm 1:00:43

Yeah,

Ace 1:00:44

But can you imagine him thinking, why is this guy just not telling me it's his foot hurting?

Sahm 1:00:52

I mean y ou were telling the truth.

Ace 1:00:54

Yeah, I know, but I'm just.

Sahm 1:00:57

but man.

Ace 1:00:57

No it's just funny to me. So, but here's the best part, Ethan. After I got him that ibuprofen, dude, I put it in my pocket and I hopped on mummy and rode it real quick.

Sahm 1:01:13

Yeah, yeah, you're, you're, you're a piece of work for that one, buddy.

Ace 1:01:15

Yeah, I mean, come on. I hopped right in single rider, got that thing done in literally six minutes, went right back over. Josh was still eating his food.

Sahm 1:01:24

Yeah, I did order a lot of food. I was very hungry.

Ace 1:01:26

And that's he came to the theme park to enjoy the freaking theme park. Enjoy the food too. I'm cool with that. I'm not gonna knock on my dude for enjoying his food.

Sahm 1:01:35

Very good burger. Would recommend everything. If you're going there, bro, Krusty Burger is so good.

Ace 1:01:39

I'm not a foodie at all.

Sahm 1:01:40

I'm a, I'm a foodie.

Ace 1:01:42

But and that's the beautiful part about this dynamic. If you guys want the foodie content, the food stuff, Josh got you, okay? He will be that guy. It's not gonna be me though. I just I I don't like food. I'll eat, right? Yeah, but only because I have to. Not because I want to.

Sahm 1:01:58

Yeah. Um, but yeah, yeah.

Ace 1:02:00

I think go ahead, Josh. What were you gonna say?

Sahm 1:02:02

Oh yeah, I was gonna oh man, the smell, the smell in here is fantastic.

Ace 1:02:12

Yeah, and um, oh my goodness. I'm pausing, I'm not trying to pause. Um, this is okay. We we're gonna take a quick break. We're um, you know, as Josh likes to point out, it's not gonna feel like a break for you guys. We're just gonna bloop bloop, come right back here, but -

Sahm 1:02:30

The magic of editing!

Ace 1:02:32

I'm gonna let you keep cooking with that one. I think you're having fun with it.

Sahm 1:02:35

Yep, time for time to monologue, son.

Ace 1:02:38

Don't worry, guys. I'm gonna loosen up a little more. I'm gonna let Josh do his thing eventually. I'm just, I'm, I'm getting used to this like he is. We will

The Pine Scent That Never Fails, E.T. Adventure

Ace 1:02:45

be right back. We're back.

Sahm 1:02:51

You smell that? It smells like pine in here. But not just any pine, my friend. Not just any pine. A very specific patent incented pine.

Ace 1:03:03

Oh, we can't plug them, but uh, we, we bought, I bought online. If they'll sponsor us, I'll plug them. But I bought I went online. You guys are probably familiar with it already, so it's fine. But I, I got a, I got a, I got a, oil diffuser that makes the room smell like the forest in the E.T. ride.

Sahm 1:03:27

E.T. Adventure.

Ace 1:03:28

Which was our next ride. That was the next one we went over to. Uh real quickly, because I remembered while we were on our commercial break, if we can even call Ethan, cut that out. It's not a commercial break. Don't actually cut it out. I'm kidding. He's about to put in a flag in there. Don't put a flag, I'm kidding. Um, the ET ride was the next thing we did.

Sahm 1:03:51

Yep.

Ace 1:03:52

I wanted to say during our break that I remembered that I didn't do my favorite ride from the AllSpark ride. The All Spark ride, that's what it's written as the itinerary. -

Sahm 1:04:09

Oh for Transformers.

Ace 1:04:10

I think I wrote raiding, I wrote Raiding the All Spark, and he went, is that Transformers? I went, No, no, hold on. Because remember, I was trying to surprise him with the itinerary that we're gonna share with you guys later. What's your favorite quote from uh, Transformers the ride? I have a personal favorite story of this one, it's really good. You want me to start? You want me to tell you you want me to tell mine first?

Sahm 1:04:36

You can tell yours first.

Ace 1:04:37

Okay. So I, I was by myself, I was having a good time. Anytime, anytime you get off the ride, right? Sorry, I was watching Ethan. He's doing some stuff with his vapes, it was funny. Anytime, any, anytime you get off of the anytime you get off the ride at the loading bay, the riders are supposed to say, "welcome back, freedom fighters" right? And I look forward to that, genuinely. I that's probably my quote for the ride. "Welcome back, freedom fighters." It's just so f****** adorable. Oh, potty mouth, potty mouth I cursed, potty mouth flag.

Sahm 1:05:18

You don't have to say it every time you do it.

Ace 1:05:19

I'm just, I'm not trying. I'm trying to help him. I know. He said the last episode was hard to edit, so I'm trying to make this one easier for him.

Sahm 1:05:27

Yeah.

Ace 1:05:28

So yeah, my, the story behind it. I was by myself. I was having a good time. Okay. Long story. We will tell you that story one day. Messed up flight, ended up having to go by myself. Anyways, we get off the ride. Alright, guys. Lift the, lift the terminal. Alright, exit to the right. I got a little peeved. I again, I, I promise on everything. I was not being a Karen. I was just, hey, you didn't say the thing. So then this big jacked dude goes, "Welcome back, Freedom Fighters!"

Sahm 1:06:03

Jesus Christ.

Ace 1:06:05

He did that for me. It was it was hilarious. I'm walking away going, Yeah, you didn't say the thing. And then he turned around and just went, "Welcome back, Freedom Fighters. Thank you for finishing the mission." Yeah, I was like, let's go.

Sahm 1:06:17

That's awesome. That's awesome.

Ace 1:06:18

So that's the quote for Transformers. Go ahead, Josh. What's your favorite quote for Transformers? And then let's dive into ET, baby. Boy, do we love E.T. Ethan? We might have you another hour for over E.T.

Sahm 1:06:31

I, I really love the part in Transformers where he goes, Hey, I'm Optimus Prime, I'm a Transformer. Hey yo autobots let's roll out.

Ace 1:06:51

He's training, my, I don't think he said that.

Sahm 1:07:03

He did.

Ace 1:07:04

Hey, I'm optimus prime. Alright, you don't get to share your favorite quote now. That's his quote. Hey, protect me all spark.

Sahm 1:07:19

Isn't it crazy, isn't it crazy that Shia Love was waiting outside, waiting outside of the ride to say hi to fans?

Ace 1:07:27

What? What even are you what what even is the joke here? What?

Sahm 1:07:37

E.T.

Ace 1:07:40

I love E.T.

Sahm 1:07:42

So do I.

Ace 1:07:42

I love Drew Berry more in E.T. Love, Love Little Drunk E.T. scene.

Sahm 1:07:50

Oh my god, that scene is so funny.

Ace 1:07:52

Ethan, Josh, and I just watched E.T. What felt like the first time, because again, that movie came out in the 80s, dude. You probably haven't seen that movie since you were a kid, right?

Ethan 1:08:02

It's been a while.

Ace 1:08:03

It's, it has, so you probably don't remember much. Dude, there's a scene where E.T. gets in the fridge. He drinks all the mom's beer.

Sahm 1:08:11

He's drunk.

Ace 1:08:11

So funny. He's running around falling and hitting his head.

Sahm 1:08:14

It's kind of like how you are right now.

Ace 1:08:16

He's you.

Sahm 1:08:16

He's you.

Ace 1:08:22

I almost did the impression. No, stop. You have to cut that out. You can't put that in the pod. No, put the bloop loop over it. Then you can put the Stop saying the T word. People are gonna go, what is the T-word?

Sahm 1:08:45

Dude, I want to go in so bad with it, bro.

Ace 1:08:48

No, we can't. We can't.

Sahm 1:08:50

Can't we just cut it?

Ace 1:08:51

No, no. I have to draw a line. We can, we can do it all once we're done recording.

Sahm 1:08:59

We can, we can just pause for a sec.

Ace 1:08:59

No, no,

Broadcast Interrupted; Please Stand By

Ace 1:09:03

no. We're back again because we had to have a laughing episode. Idiots. They they, if all

Sahm 1:09:13

What does ET stand for?

Ace 1:09:16

Are you, are you about to do a, a joke on me?

Ethan 1:09:19

Ethan *****

Ethan 1:09:19 Ace 1:09:19

It has to stop. Stop. Stop. You're hurting my throat, dude. I'm losing my voice. Oh, my chest can't take it anymore, please. But off the camera is so freaking funny, dude. He said, "Ethan *****" Guys, we are, we're gonna be hearing this later. Dude, it hurts to cough. I can't keep laughing and coughing like this, dude. It really ******* hurts. Um, potty mouth. Listen, there uh, during our break, there was a point where I said to Josh, "oh yeah, you're you're gonna be the CEO." And Ethan goes, "and I'm gonna be the ********* " It's. it's okay, I'm sorry. Inside joke, we, oh my god. Josh is still on the floor since we've been laughing this whole time. He's not even by the mic here, it's just me here, trying to keep. trying to keep everything moving here. Ethan's about to fall out of the damn chair. Josh is not working, he took his glasses off. He's on the floor fully, fully having a meltdown. He's getting up. Alright. Oh, let's gather ourselves, boys. That's so good. I, I, I'm so mad we were not filming that.

Sahm 1:12:21

Yeah that's what I'm saying.

Ace 1:12:21

I'm so mad that was not filmed, dude. That's so good. I think extra. We're back.

Sahm 1:12:34

Yep.

Ace 1:12:36

What, Ethan? He just oh, cause he coughed. Oh my goodness, these bloopers are gonna be so fun. We already talked to Ethan, he's not he's not cutting out that that moment. That was hilarious. It was so good. Oh my god. We, we, we actually had to spend the last like 10 minutes gathering ourselves to even come back here and hit record. So we're sorry about that. Actually, no, I'm not sorry. That was amazing. Why should I be sorry for having a good time? Yeah, honestly. Uh you know what? God forbid Josh catches a vibe.

Sahm 1:13:08

Yeah, god forbid, god forbid I catch a vibe, you know what I mean? And you know, people are like, oh, you go to theme parks, you're like, you're still a child, blah blah blah. Let people have fun, al- right?

Steven Spielberg's Alleged Drama

Sahm 1:13:17

Like, if I want to go on a on a ride that's called E.T. Adventure, which is the only original ride that's left from the park that's 35 years old, that Steven Spielberg has been like, bro, if you take out this ride, I'm done with you. If I want to get on a ride like that and have a beautiful pre-show with a beautiful patented scent that I am smelling right now as I am sitting in this room, and I want to sit on the same motorcycle, not motorcycle, bicycle as the movie, and play out the scene and weep tears of joy because of the experience I'm having, then I should be allowed to.

Ace 1:13:53

Absolutely. I'm with that.

Sahm 1:13:55

Which uh, you know, spoiler alert, I enjoyed the E.T. ride. I thought it was very very well done, and I think it aged well. I think it holds up its age. It's fantastic. The, the practical effects, you know, so it's, it's a little aged in certain places, but as an overall experience, especially with the with the additional story at the end, and then E.T. says all your names at the end.

Ace 1:14:19

The charm is just still there.

Sahm 1:14:20

It's so good.

Ace 1:14:21

It's so good,

Sahm 1:14:22

It's just fantastic, and I hope it never goes away.

Ace 1:14:24

My favorite thing about the E.T. ride is the fact that everybody I've brought to Universal that has ridden that ride, they all come out with the same reaction. The charm and the magic has not left that ride at all. And oh my god, I cannot wait to do an actual content piece about the drama surrounding the E.T. ride. Guys, if you don't know, you're going to know and you're gonna love it.

Sahm 1:14:49

Absolutely.

Ace 1:14:50

There's a very, I'll give you this. And if you want to go in under the rabbit hole, I encourage it because I love when people discover things. Steven Spielberg apparently threatened Universal, said he would never make a movie with them again if they took the E.T. ride down. Apparently, apparently it's true. Apparently, it , it's, it's his most beloved creation, and you know, dude.

Sahm 1:15:18

After recently watching it, I get it.

Ace 1:15:20

Well, we after watching the movie ourselves, riding it as many times as we have, seeing the cultural significance that it has to the universal parks these days is kind of the important thing. God damn. A lot of E.T. does not really have a cultural impact today, but it absolutely has its presence, it's made its presence known in the universal community.

Sahm 1:15:53

Absolutely.

Ace 1:15:54

But I will say on the, on the contrary, that nobody understands just how popular that movie was when it came out. That movie was huge when it came out. It was at one point a very, very prominent icon to pop culture, and this is why Universal still celebrates that ride.

Sahm 1:16:32

It is just kind of crazy to think about just how long that ride has been there. Because it's the same exact ride that someone that's like in their 40s and 50s rode like when they were kids, like any adult that's uh, any adult that you know, um, like they were a kid when that ride like opened, and it's still there, and it's the exact same ride that we rode. So it's like a cool like

The LeGrand Finale Diagon Alley, Hey That Rhymed!

Sahm 1:16:47

think about. But yeah, and now after E.T. we hit the the LeGrand finale of, of um, the first park. If you know, you know. Let's talk about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Ace 1:17:11

Oh real quick before we do that, we just have to at least acknowledge cough break. Nice Josh joined in too. Oh, I'm really losing my voice, so we really gotta wrap this up soon. It's okay. Josh did not get to ride Men in Black that day.

Sahm 1:17:37

Oh yeah, I didn't.

Ace 1:17:38

It was under refurbishment.

Sahm 1:17:41

That is true. That is true.

Ace 1:17:44

So what I want you to do, Josh, and please, you, you can like seriously, you can take over with this for a sec if you need to. Okay. Just walk, walk Ethan and I through how you felt being in the park, not even knowing if Diagon Alley was there yet.

Sahm 1:18:04

Man. Uh, when, and when Alex was telling me about it, just like oh, as we were just like in the park, um he was kind of underselling it or just not basically telling me anything. And when we approached it, when we approached it, um, at the time, um, the Tylenol, the whatever, pain medication type was like starting to kick in, and, I, my foot was like starting to like, work again, and it was like, really great. If you've ever seen that random scene um, scene in Spy Kids 3 where, where the, where you give the pill to the grandpa and then he gets up from his chair and then he just like does s***. Um, oops. Um, that's pretty much how it felt like. I was like back in the groove, I was happy again, and then we talked with the um, the like, the hanging head from the bus and the um prisoner of azkaban. I think this is in the movie that that that thing debuted.

Ace 1:18:56

The night bus.

Sahm 1:18:56

And he had the funniest joke.

Ace 1:19:00

Do you remember it?

Sahm 1:19:01

I do remember it.

Ace 1:19:02

Okay, good. Yeah,

Sahm 1:19:03

And it wasn't, it wasn't one when we talked to him, we overheard it because he was talking to another guest, and you know, they always asked, like, hey, where are you from and stuff like that? And the guy was like, 'I'm from Massachusetts', and then I think the talk, the talking head said something along the lines that was like, "Oh, I heard what they did to witches and wizards a few hundred years ago. I'm not a real big fan." Something along those lines, and it was the funniest thing I've heard in a long time. It was such a meta joke.

Ace 1:19:26

I think he was like, "Oh, Massachusetts," and he was like, "I don't think they treat witches good there."

Sahm 1:19:31

That's what he, that's what he said.

Ace 1:19:33

"I heard they don't treat witches very well there."

Sahm 1:19:35

That's what he said.

Ace 1:19:36

Something along we're both paraphrasing, but it was, it was hilarious.

Sahm 1:19:39

Yeah.

Ace 1:19:41

That's probably immediately the go-to.

Sahm 1:19:43

It's it's

Ace 1:19:43

It 's gotta be, right?

Sahm 1:19:44

It was so funny. And then, and then, we walk up, we walk up to the to Diagon Alley and like the hole, and the hole, in the brick wall and everything like that, and you just, the, you know, it's Diagon Alley. It's like you just, straight from the movie, and the first thing you're, the first thing your eyes like pander to is the dragon on top of the building that breathes fire. And then you're just looking around and you're it's like you're actually there. Man, it's it's so cool. Um, a lot of work went into it, and you could just be, you can just literally just take in that entire area. It's so impressive.

Ace 1:20:19

Yeah, really. Um, to call myself a fan.

Sahm 1:20:26

Frozen butter beer. Fantastic.

Ace 1:20:28

Oh, yeah, the best. Ethan is a fan too, Ethan loved it.

Sahm 1:20:32

Gotta get it every time. I don't care how much I gotta pay.

Ace 1:20:35

You know who else really liked it? I'm just kidding.

Sahm 1:20:38

Yep.

Ace 1:20:40

No, don't pause it. Don't pause it. Don't pause it.

Sahm 1:20:42

Yeah, you're good, you're good. Don 't pause it. We're good. Um, but yeah.

Ace 1:20:46

Is it because he wanted to go on another ramp? Probably. That's why he was gonna pause it. No, we gotta wrap this up, dude.

Sahm 1:20:53

Al right, so uh,

Ace 1:20:54

I wanted to say I'm such a clutch friend. I made sure that he saw the little peeping tom in the window.

Sahm 1:21:02

That is also true. He made sure I saw that.

Ace 1:21:04

Who's the what's his uncle's name? Why can't I?

Sahm 1:21:07

I don't remember.

Ace 1:21:08

In Prisoner of Azkaban.

Sahm 1:21:10

I don't, I don't remember.

Ace 1:21:12

Snape?

Sahm 1:21:12

No

Ace 1:21:12

Not Snape.

Sahm 1:21:13

No, serious.

Ace 1:21:13

Serious,

Sahm 1:21:15

Y eah, which we need to be right now.

Ace 1:21:17

Seriously.

Sahm 1:21:19

Yeah.

Ace 1:21:20

Serious I, I was doing that to get him to react, I'm sorry. That was my fault. You go to the, you go to the door of serious Snapes. I made sure -

Sahm 1:21:34

Serious Black, not serious Snapes. Snape. Serious. You know, it's gonna be really funny for people that's gonna listen. They, they, they can't, they'll go back

Ace 1:21:51

Stop.

Ethan 1:21:53

I'm just flagging it

Sahm 1:21:53

No, you're good.

Ace 1:21:55

I'm sorry, I keep thinking every time every time he's putting in a flag, I think he's pausing.

Sahm 1:22:00

It's really funny for people who are listening to it. You can go back and you can probably pinpoint exactly where this where this just went off the rails. Don't say it.

Ace 1:22:12

I'm not

Sahm 1:22:12

Okay.

Ace 1:22:13

I was just gonna say that it just, it got s o,

Sahm 1:22:17

Off the rails.

Ace 1:22:18

We were so professional when we started. Um, you get it? I was a clutch friend, though. I made sure that we took Josh to serious black's door house.

Sahm 1:22:33

Yeah.

Ace 1:22:35

And you see his you see creature peering through the window.

Sahm 1:22:39

Yeah, that is -

Ace 1:22:40

I made sure to be like, what is that? And Josh went, ugh, what? I think he knew some Harry Potter stuff was coming at this point, no?

Sahm 1:22:52

Yeah, I knew Harry Potter was at the park. You you didn't mention it.

Ace 1:22:54

But did you know it was coming at that point when I when you saw Creature?

Sahm 1:22:57

Uh yeah, I, I, I was able to tell, like, it's uh, because I saw you see the big bus.

Ace 1:23:01

Well you see the night bus, that's fair.

Sahm 1:23:01

Y eah,

Ace 1:23:03

What's really cool, also, if you have never been to the park and you well, man, you made it really far in this podcast. That's amazing. Hopefully, we taught you some amazing awesome stuff. Uh, like and subscribe. I haven't said that yet. We're gonna start saying that a little more. And I'm losing my throat.

Sahm 1:23:21

Well, then let me do the talking.

Ace 1:23:22

No, uh, I wanted to say let me say something.

Sahm 1:23:25

Okay.

Ace 1:23:26

Um, if you've never been and you don't look at the map or the app, you just walk in this park because I'm sure 60-year-old people are still doing that, right?

Sahm 1:23:38

Of course.

Ace 1:23:39

What is cool is you can't see Hogwarts. Oh my god. You can't see Diagon Alley when you first walk in. It's really cool, it's actually hidden behind everything. And for those that are interested in the universal history, just know that Diagon Alley might exist, but it came at a very, very horrible sacrifice. And I would be remiss if I did not mention right now that we lost our beautiful Jaws ride to get Diagon Alley and this Escape from Gringott' s ride. Escape from Gringott's was the next ride.

Sahm 1:24:17

And that is the last ride that we did at um studio. We did have to go through the single uh, rider simply because the queue was really long and we had to fit it within the schedule that we had set for ourselves to hit everything across both parks that day.

Ace 1:24:31

Oh, yeah, I probably um

Sahm 1:24:32

I did experience I did eventually experience the queue on my second trip, and I could talk about that at a different time. Um, but Escape from Gringotts is a very good ride. It's probably my second or third favorite. Probably is just my second favorite, actually. Um, because I just like roller coasters more than uh, the simulator rides.

Ace 1:24:52

It's good,

Sahm 1:24:52

It's very good. Um, the beginning of it is just very the beginning of it is just unexpected. You're not expecting a tilt track like that. It's uh, like 85 degrees, probably.

Ace 1:25:03

Oh yeah, walk me through that. The the first just tilt.

Sahm 1:25:08

Yeah, I well, I went on it and then it tilted out and I was like, ah yeah, I was like, all right, I'm in it. And then you drop.

Ace 1:25:16

You went, oh whoop whoop.

Sahm 1:25:17

Oh bloop.

Ace 1:25:18

Oh, uh, bloop.

Sahm 1:25:20

Yeah. And then, you know, um, it's very similar to mummy in terms of it's being like, you know, like like screening effects plus a roller coaster indoor. Yeah,

Ace 1:25:33

Remember the music?

Sahm 1:25:34

Yeah, I do. It's very good. Out of the two, I will say mummy is is definitely the better of the two. Um, but Gringotts is also just also just a fantastic ride.

Ace 1:25:45

I mean, come on. Uh you I can either serve my soul to Imhotep or I can be in the safest bank in the world. That sounds boring. I don't, I don't need to be anywhere safe. The place is so safe too, by the way. That ride is probably a very that ride's safest, safest ride ever.

Sahm 1:26:06

Yeah, all the rides are safe.

Ace 1:26:09

And remember, safest bank ever. I don't remember what he said. And then Escape from Gringotts. Bank was so good. So I'm glad to hear that you had a good time at Gringotts. I'm glad that that was a very good first time there with that ride. And I'm I hope I gave you the experience with Gringotts that you needed.

Sahm 1:26:34

It was fantastic.

Kings Crossing, Encountering A Combative Kid, It's Ace, He's The Combative Kid

Sahm 1:26:35 Ace 1:26:35

Right after we did Gringotts, we finally went on to King's Crossing. Let's talk about King's Crossing. Yep, we escaped technically our final ride of that park.

Sahm 1:26:44

We, we escaped Gringotts and we headed to King's Crossing to board the Hogs Meade Station, um, which actually just didn't have a wait time. It was fantastic. And we we traveled to Island.

Ace 1:26:56

Oh my I have to say this. I really, really, really tried to get Josh to do the walking through the pillar illusion, you know, the platform nine and three quarters thing. He he just went right on ahead. He just kept walking. He didn't even look at the effect. It was so funny to me.

Sahm 1:27:15

We did get the the pretty much universal experience of being paired with a family that just kind of just stares at you weirdly the entire time. That was uncomfortable.

Ace 1:27:26

I forgot about that weird family we sat with.

Sahm 1:27:30

Yeah.

Ace 1:27:30

Yeah, there's just some little chubby redhead girl right across me looking at me, and she was like

Sahm 1:27:36

Mean mugging you.

Ace 1:27:38

No, no, I she said something to me. She said one thing. She looked at me and she said, You probably aren't gonna eat a chocolate frog.

Sahm 1:27:47

I mean,

Ace 1:27:48

and I was like, I'm not going to.

Sahm 1:27:51

Got defensive.

Ace 1:27:52

And then Josh was like, Yo, what are you doing? Why are you arguing with a kid?

Sahm 1:27:55

Yeah, just look at just look at the yeah, worry about the dementor attacking our train right now.

Ace 1:28:00

Oh, and I just wanted to tell for the fans, the first time I ever went on that train, it was really funny because I was so excited to experience it and see what was going on. Meanwhile, there was this dad and daughter in front of me, dude. They just sat on their phones that whole time, complete zero stone wall reaction to the entire thing.

Sahm 1:28:24

Yeah, it's like why are you at the park?

Ace 1:28:25

Oh, whatever. That's their loss. But it was just so funny to me how they didn't even think, oh, maybe something's happening during the ride during this, right? You don't think that's a ride, but it very much is a ride.

Sahm 1:28:38

Yeah.

Ace 1:28:38

Ah well?

Sahm 1:28:40

Yes and no.

Ace 1:28:42

They did a lot of incredible engineering for for the for the King's Crossing station. They did. Ethan, did we ride the train when you went or did we just walk to the parks? I don't think we had time. Well so, here's the thing with the King's Crossing is awesome. Hogs Meade Station is awesome. The problem, if you genuinely want to ride everything, and here that's the goal. That's generally the thing when I bring people to these things, is I want them to ride everything. Sometimes the that everything does not include the King's Crossing trains. And that's only because I don't know about you guys, but if I had to give anybody any advice on this thing, unless you're a true Harry Potter fan, or just absolutely for some reason need to get on this train, you're not missing much. It's cool, it's interactive. It's great if you're a Harry Potter fan. But I'm telling you right now, if you wait 30 to an hour, just anything over 30 minutes for that train ride that just takes you to the other park. You just wasted time. Don't do it.

Sahm 1:29:48

Don't do it.

Ace 1:29:49

This is why we didn't ride that train, Ethan, by the way. Because I'm pretty sure that's I'm pretty sure it said 50 minutes. And I was like, Ethan, I'm sorry, dude, we're not getting on that train. Because we walked and then, like, in 10 minutes, we were at islands, you know. So Josh and I got on to King's Crossing, and then we arrived to Hogs Meade station.

Sahm 1:30:13

We arrived to Islands of Adventure.

Ace 1:30:17

Islands of Adventure. Which the second half of the trip, which is going to be in our next episode. Couple of things I want to cover real quickly before we wrap this up here. First things first. We owed you a discussion about the Epic Ride documentary. That's on us.

Sahm 1:30:37

Yep.

Ace 1:30:39

Josh is gonna do better.

Sahm 1:30:40

I'll do better.

Ace 1:30:41

He's gonna watch this thing.

Sahm 1:30:43

I will.

Ace 1:30:43

We are gonna I don't know how long we'll talk about it, but I'm you know, I'm sure

Sahm 1:30:47

I'll watch it tomorrow.

Ace 1:30:49

O h, that'll be perfect. Um, I'm thinking by the time this is uploaded, it will be okay to say it by

Final Thoughts & Announcements

Ace 1:30:57

then. We have a very, very cool project we're doing. It's it's insane. I'm very excited about this. It's probably gonna be our first legit major content piece we put out. I am going to the Orlando Informer event this Saturday, December 13th. This will probably upload it by the time I already went. So this isn't one of those things where I can be like, hey, if you're there, let me know, right? We'll probably have some events like some opportunities like that at some point, but this isn't so much about the Orlando Informer event. I'm actually going for a much bigger reason. I, Ace LeGrand, am going to go to Orlando, Florida this weekend. I'm gonna go to Epic Universe, I'm gonna go to Island of Adventure, I'm gonna go to Universal Studios, Florida, I'm going to all three of those parks, and I'm going to ride every single ride in one day. That's right. You heard me. The reason this is going to be done, and I am confident it's gonna be done, is because I'm going to the Orlando Informer event afterwards. I basically have enough of a day to go to Epic Universe, and then around 5, 6, 7-ish, whichever, you know, I'll we'll I know I will clear everything. I'll get to the Orlando Informer event. The park stays open until 1 a.m. for specific ticketed holders for this event. So I will get there around 7 o'clock probably, and then from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. It'll be me and maybe 200 people in both of those parks. Very, very, very low number. There won't be wait times. It's probably gonna feel like a ghost town. And I am gonna ride every single ride in that park. That whole property, I'm gonna own that. And I'm gonna be the first person to go on YouTube and film it and claim it. And hey, if we don't, if we don't knock the challenge out, which is very unlikely because this is me we're talking about here. I I'm just built different. This will at least be a fun attempt. But again, I'm very confident I'm gonna pull this off. What what do you think, Josh? You think I can pull it off?

Sahm 1:33:29

Um, you are going on around the same time we did last year, and we pretty much walked onto everything. So really kind of it's all really gonna depend on how quick you get through Epic Universe, I think is gonna dictate whether you're able to do it or not.

Ace 1:33:41

That's the thing, too. Apparently, when we went, it was half capacity, they just didn't publicize it.

Sahm 1:33:47

Yeah.

Ace 1:33:47

Now they're at full capacity, and this is why everyone's mad. Because it actually apparently it's kind of hard to do it now. By the way, Nick and Miranda gave me a magic band to take.

Sahm 1:34:01

Oh, that's nice, dude.

Ace 1:34:02

I'm so excited.

Sahm 1:34:03

That's awesome. Al right, but you know, next next episode we're gonna talk about we're gonna talk about islands, and boy, do I have some feelings about islands, some very great ones, and I cannot wait to gush about it.

Ace 1:34:16

It's gonna be so fun. Uh, last episode we said that we were gonna talk about the Stardust Racers controversy. That's probably gonna be in our we're probably gonna throw that one in with the Epic Ride documentary. I just think that'd be a good subject piece to keep all together there. So that's just to build some anticipation for next week, guys. Um, I'm pretty stoked. Hey, dude, great episode. I think we had a lot of fun talking about your first time here.

Sahm 1:34:47

Yeah, and we're not even done talking about my first time because we still have a whole other park to talk about.

Ace 1:34:51

And then we gotta talk about our first time at Epic at some point. We got a lot, we got a lot of stuff. And again, this and this is the this whole entire thing started all because I took my boy to a park. I took my friend somewhere, he fell in love with it, changed everything.

Sahm 1:35:13

And now I'm here.

Ace 1:35:14

Here we are making content about it. Sometimes sometimes you just take your friends out to have fun and then you create something beautiful out of it.

Sahm 1:35:22

Yep.

Ace 1:35:22

And I think it's important to like kind of close up and bring that up every time because it's it's just we can't forget that.

Sahm 1:35:30

Of course.

Ace 1:35:32

We're gonna be hitting a lot of parks eventually. It's gonna be really cool. We're , we have big, big plans for this. Thank you for listening. We will see you guys next week.

Sahm 1:35:42

See you next week.