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Today's episode is sponsored by DraftKings. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. It's been a long week, yeah? Because the weekend, I think, felt especially long given all the other events that, you know, this week it's kind of felt like a month. But it's Friday and I still think everything's so fresh that I'm not necessarily feeling Friday vibes. But I am excited today.

for the weekend to come because we got a good old-fashioned disaster movie, tentpole franchise, box office, hopefully smash hit because we want the movies to do well coming out this weekend. Twisters. I know some people have already saw it in the audience. They tell me 40X experience, not as bad as Dune, not as bad as Mission Impossible, only it really gets going towards the end and had a lot of people thanking me for the bunch of crunch tip.

That is just an elite pairing. What's the tip? Bunch O' Crunch paired with red wine. Elite combo. It's like wine and cheese. No, chocolate and people will tell you chocolate and red wine do go together. But Bunch O' Crunch specifically because you have the texture of it. Camel.

Well, no, it's not caramel. But a toffee? No, no, no. It's like Nestle Crunch, but they made these little bunch of crunch balls. Wait, Roy's never had bunch of crunch? You've never had bunch of crunch? No, it's the popcorn that has like little calm on it. It's not popcorn. No, no, no. That's Cracker Jacks. Has Roy ever been to the movies?

Yes, I've been to it. You just described Cracker Jacks. You remember Nestle Crunch bars, right? The big bars? I think in the 90s they had an NBA tie-in where it was like a mystery. Ooh, I get an NBA team if I open up my Nestle Crunch. They made smaller, bite-sized versions of the Nestle Crunch. But I guess, what is it? Oh, you know, Crunch and Crunch. How does it...

Crunch and munch is what I was thinking of. That's what I was going to say. That's bunch of crunch. It literally says it. What is the thing that makes it crunchy? The little Rice Krispie thing. Is it a Rice Krispie? Close to it. Probably not Rice Krispie, but a crispy rice piece. Let's get down to the bottom of what actually makes a bunch of crunch crunch.

But everybody's excited for the weekend, some more than others because they've got this movie to look forward to. Are we going to get Glenn Powell fatigue at some point? Yes. You think so? You're there? He's in everything. Well, he's going to start being in everything. He's in a lot right now. You found your Kevin Hart.

Ooh, no. He's white people Kevin Hart? Yes, he's going to be in everything. Every single thing. I don't think he's there yet. Well, let's check the IMDB. What does he have cooking?

Because now we're starting to see all those guys that made their name in Top Gun Maverick. They were working on a bunch of projects, and so they're all starting to stack up. But I think this is just the start of the Glenn Powell experience. If you're sick already of Glenn Powell, this spells bad news because that dude's going to be around for a long time, especially if this movie hits the way that most people are forecasting. And I use that word on purpose. Hey.

But this is all a way to get into the 1996 original, which is just Twister. Even though there were multiple Twisters in that film, as part of the ramp up for Twisters, I, like many, have revisited the 1996 film.

Now, I remember, this is a core memory of mine, is going to the movie theater and watching Twister. And it was a great movie, way better than it had any right to be. Or at least that's how I remembered it. Great performances. Oh, incredible. And I also realized that a lot of my emotional connection to the franchise wasn't just the movie. Billy, it was the ride at Universal Studios. Yeah.

Which wasn't really a ride. Like walkthrough. It was a lot like the original Ghostbusters. Now, I am really dating myself because maybe Billy, maybe Roy experienced the original early 90s attraction that was at that spot. So I think it went...

Ghostbusters, Twister, and now it's the Jimmy Fallon experience. Was I the only person that actually remembers the Ghostbusters experience there? I remember going and taking pictures with the Ghostbusters. They have the Ghostbuster car drive-thru. You take pictures with them. You're like, oh my god, the Ghostbusters. Then you buy a Ghostbusters costume. I like the Ghostbusters.

Is that what Earthquake used to be? No, Earthquake is now Fast and Furious. Right. Which I've read reportedly might already be on its way out. Fast and Furious is a terrible ride. Awful ride. I'm just imagining the old Twister ride where you walk through and you kind of experience a Twister in front of you. You see like wind coming. I'm like now imagining you do that same thing, but instead it's like some shmarmy like, hey man, good to see you. Yeah.

It's just like an over laughing of like, that is the funniest thing I have ever heard. And you just keep walking through and it's just someone overreacting to whatever you're saying. So I did that Jimmy Fallon attraction for the first time ever just a couple weeks ago. I had always avoided it for reasons I like to keep to myself.

But so I'm waiting in this line. Number one, I had an express pass and it took me still like 50 minutes to get through this line. Oh, I hate that that happened to you, man. You do actually a pretty good Jimmy Fallon. That's good. Why does he have a ride? NBC. Why wouldn't I? Let's be careful with the parent company.

company. So the parent company put Jimmy Fallon on this really cool marquee spot. It's a fun attraction. Yeah, well, it caught me by surprise because I was like, over the wait, I'm like, there's nothing express about this wait. But then the actual ride was pretty cool. But I still missed...

Like, if Universal announced right now that they're going to open up the park as it was in 1991, I'd sign up for that. I'd much rather that because of all the nostalgia. So I was sad to see Ghostbusters go, but it was replaced by Twisters. And core memories of mine are walking through that line. And I think we actually have sound. Chris, just search in our J drive, Paxton.

Because I think in the club one time, I just had Bill Paxton introducing himself in that Twister's attraction, actually. So I remember Bill Paxton introducing himself. I'm Bill Paxton. Of course you are. We've seen the movie. He should have introduced himself as the extreme...

The extreme, which is a character he also plays in that. Yeah, it was so much of a core memory that I thought, I'm just going to shoehorn this into the club one day. But it also Mandela affected me a little bit because I could have sworn that the cow scene in Twister was...

was at the drive-in movie theater that they're showing The Shining just because the attraction had the cow. No, it was nighttime. You wouldn't be able to see the cow, right? So the cow actually, like he's driving through like this one road that's going between two bodies of water where two twisters converge and it's the cow. And I remember- There's two cows, by the way. No, no, no, no. Oh, it was the same cow that I went by twice. Same cow. The girl from Lost Boys. I should have called the movie Cows. Same cow. The girl from Lost Boys, which I think-

She owns like a WNBA team or owned a WNBA team at one point. She says it might be the same cow. So I remember being transported in the movie theater. This is the most amazing thing, the special effects. Where does the future go? And then I watched it again last night.

And I learned that Tony also watched it last night. Only you had the experience of watching it for the first time. So you didn't have any of the nostalgia boxes checked the way that I did. You're just experiencing this thing as like a big budget Hollywood blockbuster that has spawned this sequel. Is it a sequel or a reboot or reimagining? I would assume it's a sequel because they added an S to it.

And that typically means it's a sequel. But is this a direct sequel? Do they harken back to the first one? - I believe they called it a sequel. - So it's a sequel, like several years later. So hopefully that means the old characters are canon. Now a lot of them have departed.

which is sad. But I watched it last night, Tony, and I was like, wow, these effects do not hold up. You know, I mean, it's 1995 or 96 or whatever it was. Dude, that scene when they show the satellite in outer space. Yeah, it was like I drew it on Word, on paint or whatever. It's like on MS Paint. It's so bad. Were you talking about Jamie Girtz? Yeah, no, sir. So she owns part, her and her husband own part of the Brewers and the Atlanta Hawks.

Damn. So, but do they also own the spirit? They're rich. So I think that they, did they have to sell the spirit? Because I think there was a big WNBA controversy because of like some things that they've said and some, some things that they donated to. Oh, no, no, no. Yeah. So the former Senator had this show, sell her part of the team. So I remember there was like an NBA draft where she was a representative for the Atlanta Hawks. I was like,

Like, where's this girl that dated Michael in Lost Boys is all of a sudden representing the Atlanta Hawks. So she's like a billionaire now. But Tony, I'm really interested to hear your perspective on your first ever viewing of the Twister movie that came out in 1996. Again, I went in with a clear head. I was like, I'm not going to let people say, because I've heard, hey, it's kind of cheesy, whatever, from different people. I've heard it's great from you. So it's like, I need to go in and make my own movie.

Thoughts on it, so I was watching and I was like yeah movie about tornadoes from 1996 cool All right the first scene where the dad Joe's dad is getting spoiler getting into their storm shelter within the first four minutes of the movie gotta hold those doors and he's holding the door and you can see the things shaking your mother the dog looking like Toto from the wizard Toby yeah, we needed Toby inside so we were like come on Toby get in there get in there and then all of a sudden a

As he can't hold it anymore, he gets flung kind of like a boomerang into the tornado. It's like, oh! He gets sucked out. He could have just stood back. Just stay back. Yeah. Just stay back. So there was no door. They were fine. They were totally fine. Just hang back. Yeah. Did we ever find him or no? No, no, no. He died. You got to protect the perimeter. You know, that guy was keeping a perimeter. Was it as bad as Kevin Costner's scene in Superman? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, how did he die again? He just stood there and looked back at Clark and was like, see ya. Now, have we gotten an answer on whether or not this is a direct sequel? Yes, this is what's being referred to as a standalone sequel. So essentially, you can see this without having seen the first one. They'll have its own plot, but it will carry over some of the elements and narratives from the first one. So those people, seemingly, those people would still exist. Does that... Alright, so that...

would mean that people from the first film... I don't know if there are cameos. I don't know anything like that, but I assume that that means you're right. Canon, at least. What's the connection between Powell and Paxton? I need to know. The tornado. Yeah, well, the storm. Cousins. Well, maybe he's as extreme because remember the lore when they go to...

Joe's house and they explain how Bill Paxton got the nickname the extreme is because one day he went out naked totally naked with a bottle of Jack Daniels as a twister was coming at him and he said hey have a drink and he tossed the bottle of Jack Daniels into the twister and the bottle never came down that's the legend as to why so naturally he's extreme yeah but but he he Bill Paxton

tragically died very shortly after he

Came on our show which is remember when our show was cursed tornado got him. No not a tornado. Oh So he's gone Philip Seymour Hoffman is also gone. You really saw his range Given that Oklahoma Sooners cap all right, so it's a great character quotable in the film character depth of a puddle All he is just there for vibes he spends

90% of his lines in that film are, whoo! Who's got it better? You also said food. Yeah. Food. Food. Food. He loves Mae. Is it Mae? Is it Mae or Joe? No, it's Mae. Old lady. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I thought someone was, you're right. Joe is, all right. So Joe was making, Joe is Helen Hunt, right? Yes. All right. Back to Tony. Your experience with this film. Because-

Disaster movies are interesting in that it's not conventional action. It's not your hero socking a baddie in the face. The baddie is something that you cannot control to force of nature. So the action is you basically... A baddie? The villain. Okay. Yeah, your big baddie. Different. Your final boss in this film is the dreaded F5 tornado, the finger of God.

as it's been described. So is it a file or phobe from you? On first watch, I think it's a file. I might watch it again before I watch the next one because my wife hasn't seen it, so I'll probably watch it again with her. Rewatchable, certainly. So I'm going to give it another eye with a more discerning look now, obviously looking for character development, obviously looking for more intense scenes. Really sees on Philip Seymour Hoffman's character depth in this one.

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summertime, go outside. I record a lot from my office with you and you've noticed it's sitting there yet. It hasn't been used. Well, now's the time. Summer's the best time to start that push. Right. Can we do it together? Not on the same bike, but we could join a class together. I used to do that. We used to have Guillermo Tan. I'd invite people. We'd all take a class together. Okay. So I think you're starting to get concerned about my health and my age, Billy. I,

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She was on it once and an instructor who was playing Grateful Dead 2. So let's do that. Okay. Why don't we go for a run? Outside. Guided run. Peloton. Me and you. That's something we can do together. Okay. Turn on the app. Me and you. Go outside. Enjoy the summer. Call yourself a runner with Peloton at onepeloton.com slash running. All right. Don Levitard. I went in the margins. I'm like, I'm like your money ball of sex. I'm basically Scott Hatterberg. A lot of walks. Stugatz. A lot of walks. But I'm on base. When it comes to sex, I'm Scott Hatterberg. A lot of foul tips.

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I found a pamphlet with Universal Studios opening day attractions. If you'd like to go over that at some point. Run through that. Yeah, this was like 1991. I took Juliet, my daughter, to Universal Studios for the first time in her life. And it was a bit nostalgic because I was looking for all the connection points. Now, apparently...

I just missed this brand new parade that they have, Billy, where they harken back to all the original attractions. There's a Back to the Future float. There's some weird ones on here that I'm sure they left out. All right, so let's go through it. So June 7th, 1990, I believe, was opening day. So I'm going to read you, I guess, the different areas of the park at the time and what they had there. So there's the front lot. That's where you walk in, presumably. And then they have Production Central. And here are the attractions at Production Central.

Murder, She Wrote. Mystery Theater. I opened a theme park with Murder, She Wrote, Mystery Theater. I have a memory of that. You do not. A core memory. A core memory. A core memory in that I went to that attraction. They asked the crowd. I must have been like six years old. How many core memories are people allowed to have? Well, it's a core memory in that it was a part of who I am. You know how I know useless trivia and how I can pull like...

actors names that so like in this Murder, She Wrote attraction, they would ask the audience, hey, we can put any celebrity in this scene that you want. And they thought it would be like really cool. And so they asked the audience, who would you like to be in the scene? And without hesitation, I was a lone voice that answered Tom Selleck.

And so they put Tom Selleck into that scene. But I remember the reaction to me saying Tom Selleck is, how the hell does a seven-year-old know who Tom Selleck is? He was big in the 1990s. And it was like, he might lose his ranch. Are you guys worried about him? He's going to lose his ranch? Well, he was thinking because his show Blue Bloods got canceled, I think. And he's like, you know, I very much made it seem like he's working paycheck to paycheck. He's like, this is a big ranch. I may lose my ranch. So he's looking for another gig.

Also, you could just sell your ranch and retire. Or he can just follow Buster Olney's advice, and if he ever wants to bet the ranch on something, he can do it. But then what do you do with two ranches? If he can't afford one, how does he afford two? You just flip one. You rent one. I guess that's true. All right, so Murder, She Wrote. Murder, She Wrote. That's a bang. Mystery Theater. Then also in Production Central, Alfred Hitchcock, The Art of Making Movies, which was great. Oh, I remember that. My dad would always make me go to that. I have another core memory there.

my dad played Norman Bates as one big great reveal at the end. Yeah, remember when they turn around and they reveal it's an audience member the entire time? The Alfred Hitchcock one is where Shrek is now.

That used to be the Alfred Chase. Shrek isn't there anymore. Shrek isn't there. Whatever. What's there now? They got rid of Shrek? They have another Despicable Me ride. They have two of them. On the other side? It's literally on the same side right when you walk in at your studio. Despicable Me? Despicable Me villains. You can never have too much. The left Despicable Me used to be Jetsons, correct? No, no, no.

No. It used to be the Fantastic World of Hanna-Barbera. You'll get one of those on the right. Which is their opening day. The Fantastic World of Hanna-Barbera. Hanna-Barbera, which became Jimmy Neutron. But Jetsons were part of that. Jimmy Neutron's was, I remember. Jetsons were part of it. Yeah, all right. So I'm visualizing this. Then there's production tour Nickelodeon Studios, which was a dream of every child to attend. When you toured it, what were they in active production on?

Clarissa explains it all. Whoa, you got lucky. Yeah, we walked around in the rafters and we saw the set of Clarissa Explains It All. I got lucky.

I got Roundhouse, which was a short-lived variety show. And then when I went back, I got Kenan and Kel. Oh, Kenan and Kel is a banger, though. I'm jealous. My cousins went when they were doing a shooting of All That. They didn't get to see it, but oh, my God, it's what dreams are made of, All That. Yeah, kind of changes the core memory a little bit now in retrospect. Or what would you do? Oh, imagine what would you do. Dude, Mark Summers. Mark Summers is great.

Mark Summers. The Lion Fountain out front. All right, so we're just walking in. Now we're headed over to New York. In New York, they had Kongfrontation, which was incredible. It smelled amazing. Better than the present King Kong, right? Oh, it smelled great. Hit pausing, backtracking just a little bit to Nickelodeon Studios. Do you remember the television special in which they...

put together the time capsule, which is still there. Have they not dug it up yet? No, I think they dig it up in like 2040 or something. I got to be honest with you. When you go there now and you see that they turn Nickelodeon Studios into Blue Man Group, but it still has like the Nickelodeon Studios look to it. It was just painted over to be for Blue Man Group. Very sad. Even though Blue Man Group, I'm a fan. Yeah. Blue Man Group is a fun time. It's fun. Can we look up if Blue Man Group is still there? Because I don't think it is anymore. What?

What's going on in Orlando? Because I was looking for the pain scheme and I just saw a gray studio there. All right, confrontation. Great attraction to wait in line in. It smelled great. It looked like dirty early 80s. You had big King Kong at the end that you'd stand inside of, take a picture. It is now the mummy. Classic, yeah. The mummy's great, though. Underrated roller coaster. Did they change it? I think the mummy's now a Lester Holt ride. It is not.

Mummy in Universal Studios Hollywood is very different from Mummy in Universal Studios. Is it the new Mummy? No, it's not the Tom Cruise Mummy. That would be awesome, but that movie flopped. It was supposed to be the center of the Dark Universe, which has now respawned in Epic Universe, but won't have any others. What is the Dark Universe? Dark Universe is all the classic Universal monsters. Sounds scary.

Which I'm sure you're going to get around to as we continue this tour of the early 90s. All right, so next is Ghostbusters, and then there's Screen Test Home Video Adventure, coming soon. I don't know what that was. Did it ever come? I don't know. It never came. Coming soon. Don't come. All right, so now we're headed over to Hollywood, where we have the gory, gruesome, and grotesque horror makeup show. That's still around.

If you say so, I don't know. No, it is. It's still like in that corner across from the old 1950s diner where there's all those cars there. That corner, still the same. All right. And then finally in Hollywood, there's how to make a mega movie deal, which sounds like

I was talking about podcasts. I don't... That says coming soon, so I don't know if they ever... I don't think it ever came. They ever did that, yeah. Don't come. So then we head off to San Francisco slash Amity, and you have Earthquake, the big one, Dynamite Night, Stunt Spectacular. I love a Stunt Spectacular.

Big fan of Stunt Spectacular. You look like a guy that likes the Indiana Jones show. Oh, I love the Indiana Jones. Like, watch out for that ball! Yeah, you gotta go every time you're there. He always gets crushed at first, and you're like, oh, they actually really got hurt here, and they always fool me. Like, wait, wait, wait! And then Steve one time was Indiana Jones on an episode of Full House, but it wasn't really Steve. So she thought, like, they went to a sad commercial break. It was DJ, and she was missing Steve because they broke up, and she was just missing Steve, and then she looks up and is like, whoa, Steve!

Indiana Jones, but it wasn't really Steve's. Those Disney episodes of Full House, it was really the apex of that show for me. So did the Dynamite Night stunt spectacular briefly become Miami Vice stunt spectacular? I have no idea. Jeremy looked that up. Now it's like a drone show. Isn't it, like, is that where Fear Factor is? Do they still have Fear Factor? No, Fear Factor, so like that, like, Fear Factor stage? Mm-hmm.

is just seasonal it just basically exists with the bill and ted show on halloween horror nights there's nothing going on right now well there was indeed a miami vice stunt show at universal studios that's why you're good dude dude fall guy actually reminded me because there's a gq article that says the miami vice stunt show fall guy is real that's the headline so look at you man all

All right. So then we have the Expo Center where there's E.T. Adventure, which contractually has to be there forever. Still smells the same. I love it. And I still get freaked out when now you put your name in and then E.T. says your name on the way out. Thank you, friend Michael. No idea how they do that. It's amazing.

Amazing science. Just great technology. When you say that area of the park, you want to talk about core memories? It just popped into my head. A random, me and my family, to this day we still talk about this, a random British little kid walking by and our family overhearing, Woody Woodpecker, he's the best.

That's a core memory for me. Is that like who won? It's kind of like who won. I'm telling you, to this day, anytime anyone in my family says Woody Woodpecker, our whole family, he's the best. It was just some random five-year-old 20 years ago just walking by our family. It's a fun little coaster. So it wasn't part of the original. Woody is now Trolls.

And Fiefeld Goes West, that play area wasn't a part of the original park. No, it's not. But it is now like a DreamWorks world. And I have a new core memory that was unlocked a couple of weeks ago in which I was just sitting down minding my own business while my family rode the Trolls coaster because I had actually pinched a nerve in my neck earlier just lifting my daughter up in the air because I'm old now.

And I was just chilling, minding my own business, waiting for my family to get off a coaster. And some lady who, to me, appeared high on meth said, mind your own effing business. That's just like my memory. To you? Yeah. Well, I couldn't tell. Like, there were three guys walking.

It didn't make me feel great about them because the other two were in wheelchairs and I was just sitting nursing a pinched neck and she walked past. She walked like 15 yards and then she turned back and she barked at the three of us. Mind your own effing business. And it was shocking.

So I was you look over the other guys like I was trying to figure out like but the other guys They were like Trump at the RNC like they it must have been me She must have thought I was looking at her when I was just like looking off in the distance wondering what happened to FIFO Alright, so then there was the animal actor stage, which I think is still there. There's like a similar thing It's just like you know an animal show and then there's Back to the Future the Ride Coming Soon Which is now the Simpsons ride which I think they're closing and making something else right are they oh

I thought I heard that. They can't close Springfield. So I think elements of the Back to the Future ride are now in CityWalk because they have an escape room adventure. Billy, I think you'd actually like this. Have you seen the escape rooms at Universal now? I haven't been to Universal in a very long time. So they have...

a huge building that is dedicated escape rooms and one is like a Back to the Future themed escape room and the other is a Jurassic Park themed escape room. - I think that The Simpsons is going to go away in part because Disney owns The Simpsons now. Same thing with like Spider-Man at Universal, at Islands of Adventure.

I think when Disney bought Fox, they ran into issues where they had contracts at these theme parks, but they would expire at some point. All right. And is that the end of it? That was it. That's all that was there opening day. I've never been to Universal. Can we talk about anything else? Like anything else?

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So I think I actually happened to Universal one time. But it was, I think I was like 10 or 11 years old. And I went to the University of Iowa, so most of my childhood memories are gone. I kind of drank those all away at school. So I don't, this has really been an unenjoyable. Were you a theme park girly at any point in time? I like roller coasters, but like not like...

Sure. I don't know the last time I've been on one. Do you throw your hands up? Yeah, it's fun. Do you get into it? Carowinds is like the North Carolina amusement park and it's great, but it's not like super theme-y, the roller coasters are just fast. Really,

Roller coasters have become less of an enjoyable experience. Not for me, but as my dad has gotten older, he's just turned progressively more into an asshole in a nice way. He will sit next to people on roller coasters every single time. Like if there's a three group of us, he's like, let me sit with the stranger so he can look at them before the ride and go, I only threw up once the last time I rode this to make the experience miserable for them. But they don't get it. And he's like,

He is very sharp with his delivery in a way that it's very hard to tell that he's joking. So it's the whole time of us just having fun and looking back at someone just being terrified to be sitting next to my dad. But yeah, Universal, don't particularly care. - Not a core memory for you. - No. - What's the better joke? I only threw up once last time or I think it's loose.

- 'Cause I see Chris Cody as a hot- - I think it's loose, buddy. - Chris, you're a- - I would be, but I kinda get terrified. - That it might actually be loose? - I'm the guy, I need that last click up against the wall. - Yes. - If there's any sort of thing, I am freaking out. I need that thing, I'll put it uncomfortable on me, but if I get that last click,

Or it's like, I can't even move. Or you can't breathe. I feel I'm in heaven. So the metabolism has slowed down in the late 30s to now, like, I'm sitting in roller coaster seats, and I'm like, is it that tight for everybody else? Like, rocket roller coasters. Looking around like. The rip-ride rocket. It was just like, this is how tight we decided to make everything? Carowinds looks awesome. It's awesome.

There's so many rides. It's a great amusement park. You would really like it, Mike, because a lot of it is NASCAR themed. Oh, maze. I'm in. They have like a Dale Earnhardt roller coaster. It's called the, it's called the, someone look it up. It's called the something. The Intimidator? Yeah, that's what it's called. Yeah. The Intimidator? It's really good. They have like a, they have like a Hornets one, which like, but it's really, really fast. They always like,

on the commercials, I think they're making up the stacks, but they're like, it's the fastest giga coaster on the East Coast. I don't know. No clue. No clue. But it's a great amusement park, not in the sense of like what I imagine Disney and Universal are like, where like it's very themed there and there's like, you know, more like kiddish stuff where Carol wins is like, you're going to get the fastest ride possible. Wait a second. Isn't Carol? They changed the name. It used to be Intimidator. Now it's called Thunder Striker. They couldn't get the licensing.

They had one called the Nighthawk. That was really cool. Isn't Richard Childress the... Childress didn't want to give it up? Well, I mean, that's a whole thing with...

With the family anyways. Isn't Carowinds where these two people broke up on Love is Blind? Does anybody else remember that? Yes. It is. What are the names of the people? Yes. Where they were like in the theme park having dinner. Is that Jimmy and... Jimmy, what's her name? The girl that... Yeah, they got back together. Megan Fox. Yeah, Megan Fox and Jimmy. So she's like... They were back together after all that? I'm pretty sure they are. They went to Carowinds?

She's like, why did you break up with me before Carowinds? He's like, I wanted to ride the rides. And I get it. Those roller coasters are amazing. No disrespect to him. And they shut down the park for them. So Matt, the wait times were nothing. It was also the end of the show, the end of the night. So he's like, yeah, her name was Chelsea. Chelsea, I think we're going to break up. She's like, you.

You just rode all the rides. It was just the naming rights deal coming up. They had a deal and it ran through, so they renamed it. Just retire the three. Just retire the three. So how does Carowinds work? Because there's a lot of water slides, too. You pay them money and then they give you a ticket. No, but is it separate tickets for the water park and then the roller coaster park? I believe so. So I think you have to get a separate ticket.

ticket for the water part of it, but we never really did that that often. There's a separate water park in Greensboro, which is about an hour plus away, so a lot of people would go to that. That's Wet and Wild. Carowinds was more for the roller coasters, and it was a really great amusement park to go to growing up because it really is just about fast roller coasters. Video team, if we can find what the...

the Intimidator looked like back in its day, back before they ruined everything. It was a really great ride. Did it have, like, Good Wrench stickers everywhere? I don't know. It was red. Red? The car's probably black. The cart kind of looks like... Yeah, the car looks like... It was so fun. No, it was a really, like... They do a good job with making the roller coasters, like, really, really fast and more, like, thrill-seeker. You seem to have some sort of what feels like a steering wheel. Like, you're sitting, but you have something here. Oh, that's dope.

That's dope because the new Harry Potter ride where you can pick the motorcycle or the sidecar. The Hagrid ride, it's spectacular. Yeah, I picked the... Being on the motorcycle is the best part. You don't want to be in the sidecar. Yeah, pick the big hog. I have a dumb question for you, Lucy. So I...

- Down here, the theme parks are open year round, but I know like nationally there's like seasonal parks. Is Carol Windsor's seasonal park, is it year round? 'Cause like I went one time to Gatlinburg and Dollywood was close to Gatlinburg, but Dollywood was seasonal, so it was closed. - Yeah.

I think it's year round, but I'm not 100% positive. North Carolina, like the weather is like, it's good for a good chunk of the year. Like it'll be not fun from November to February. But even then, like North Carolina, you get so many random days where it's like, oh man, it snowed seven inches in the next day. It's 70 degrees. So I think it's, I don't, I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know why I even tried to answer that question. I don't know the answer. November to February that you say is like the bad time is like the good time to go to theme parks here because it's so hot the rest of the year around where you don't want to go. Like after March, like mid-March, April until almost like

mid-November, you don't really want to go to theme parks very long down here. I'll be there in two weeks, and I'm dreading how hot it's going to be. It's going to be incredibly hot. So they've thrown up a photo of the Intimidator, and I guess they didn't want to give Good Wrench the free pub. So it's the black paint scheme. They gave Chevy some love. You get Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s signature on it, but no Good Wrench paint scheme on that. Was there a second car that had the Wrangler scheme on it?

No. No, but it is an intimidating ride. And speaking of it being very hot at amusement parks, one time we went there in July and it was really, really hot. And this was just as the Intimidator opened. So the lines were super long and I got right up to the front and I passed out and they wouldn't let me on the ride. And it wasn't...

It wasn't because I was nervous or anything. It was just because it was so hot and it was so embarrassing because they opened the gates for us to get on the ride. And I'm like, hell yeah. And immediately I hit the ground. You passed out? I passed out. I'm not going to lie. I probably wouldn't let you ride either. I'd just be afraid. Seems like a liability. They shouldn't have let me on. But I went to the nurse and they were like, yeah, girl, you were just, it's really hot. And so they gave me food and then I went on the ride. It was so embarrassing. Eight years ago, I have a cousin-in-law, John. He's very cheap.

And I made a deal with him. We went to Busch Gardens. And I said, "Tell you what, I'll pay for your ticket if when you get inside, they can paint your face and I choose what they paint your face with." He's like, "Deal." He didn't hesitate. He took the deal. So we get inside. I get his face painted like a cheetah.

He passes out because the son and has to has to get medical attention. Let me see if I can find the photo of like all the pain on his face. He was like 34 at the time and he just had all this cheetah pain. It was like when we were stopping for lunch. It was like it was a scary thing at first. Whenever somebody passes out, you're always like fearing the worst. But he popped right back up. Like what happened? And he had to receive medical treatment. Why am I sweating?

He had to keep it the entire day. And because he was so dehydrated, he had to go into a CVS with all that smeared cheetah. Now that is a core memory. Glenn Powell, are we just at the beginning of the Intimidator ride or

Are we at the middle? Yeah, I think I'm not sure exactly where we're at. I know we have four upcoming projects, according to IMDb, and the descriptions of each of them are very different. So I'm going to bring these to you with whatever co-stars are apparently linked to them. So one is called Huntington. A young man hatches a murderous plot to inherit his family's wealth, starring Glenn Powell and Margaret Qualley. Be great if that's like if that's like Paddington for.

where she was like a nemesis. Then we have Monsanto. Young attorney, Brent Weisner, played by Powell, takes on a case against Monsanto on behalf of groundskeeper Dwayne Lee Johnson. Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?

There's only one way this movie goes well. Who used the company's weed killer Roundup and developed cancer, despite Monsanto's toxicologist testifying to Roundup's safety, that Dwayne Lee Johnson is played by Anthony Mackie. Laura Dern will also be in this movie. Oh, love Laura Dern. So that's like male Aaron Brockovich. Yeah, you guys are really going to like this one. This one's called Chad Powers. A disgraced college quarterback named Russ Holiday disguises himself as Chad Powers. Oh, that's an Eli thing!

And walks onto a struggling Southern football team to revive his football career. This is a TV show. Starring Glenn Powell and Steve Zahn. That's a TV show. Steve Zahn! TV show, you're right. That is a TV series. So, Lucy, that's the Eli Manning character, right? It was the Eli Manning character. It was like a sports center thing, I think, where he was like,

Chad Powers dressed up in a disguise and went and tried out for the Penn State football team. And so it was just Eli Manning. And God, they need a quarterback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so I actually remember seeing the tweet that they were making a movie out of this or TV show, whatever they're doing with Glenn Powell. But it's based off a funny little sketch. Is this like the Sudeikis thing? It was just like, yeah, he did a thing for NBC and now we're going to make a show out of it. That's a good point. You went to the very top of the heap. That worked out. Oh, I know. I'm just saying that's funny.

Crazy that that's how that came to be. The last one is written by Stephen King and Edgar Wright, directed by Edgar Wright. The Running Man, the futuristic United States of 2025. What? The world has become a dystopia. What? They're making a Running Man movie. But it's in 2025. Yeah, for real. This is like two years away. It's the futuristic world, but there's no release date. It's already 2024. You gotta go 2055. We gotta imagine they're gonna push it a little bit.

No, I like that they wouldn't push it. I hate that. Like, let's clean up the mess. Like, Running Man was this dystopian future. Let's acknowledge the fact that, no, you're wrong. In just 12 months' time, everything is going to become Running Man. It is funny how movies from, like, the 90s, when they talk about 2022, it looks like the Jetsons. Yeah.

Monsanto, we can agree, is them. He's trying to grab some trophies with that one, right? I love a good courtroom drama. For sure. Who's going to play the Richard Dawson character in this new Running Man? No one cast as of yet. Ryan Seacrest? The only person linked is Gunpow. How about Matt Gaetz from two days ago?

Yeah. So we got – that was a lot of movie segments really. And we're going to take a break from that in the next segment with David Sampson. I'm sorry. Look, man, like I said, it's been a week. I'm just trying to keep this one light. It's been exhausting. Hey, let's have a timeline cleanser. Does video have – I want to do too quickly with the time that we have left. Show this video of Matthew Kachuk taking the Stanley Cup around St. Louis and

And also I want to show this photo so I could blow your minds with the stat of the day quickly if I can. So Matthew Kachuk, I found out in Tahoe, it was very important to him to take this Stanley Cup to his hometown in St. Louis. And there were all these adorable videos. He went to his elementary school. He went to his local fire department. He went to his local police department. He actually went to –

brewery as well. Do we have the video of Matthew Kachuk and the student? This is just wholesome content. Do we have that? We do not. All right. Do we have the photo of Matthew Kachuk with the Heisman Trophy? Do we have that? Maybe. We have a photo right here of him in a school. All right. Thank you. I'm, you know, the frustrations do get amplified when you're in front of this microphone. So I kind of, I kind of feel Dan a little bit there.

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