стве 7.11.11加油 systemda120EC Vill reduction deren晚上 Welcome to Sound Sations. Please pick up a pair of headphones and be seated. What the headphones on with the yellow band? Over your right ear. Now sit back and relax. Close your eyes and come with me on an entry three dimensional sound. Welcome to the 3028 a show about theme park history and pop culture history. I am Matt Parish. And I am Kevin Quigley. Kevin, it is FRIY! Yay! Friday! Gotta get down.
Nobody cares what day we record the show. However, we are very excited because it is Friday and we are not going to be back together here for a couple weeks. Both of us are traveling and so this is the last time we are going to do a show here for just a tad. You won't notice the difference but we are excited to be together before we get into the very early summer month of June.
It is so funny that we record this. We think of the listeners, we like to bank shows, saving Mr. Bank shows and we like to do this so you never notice it. But when Matt and I know that we are not going to hang out for weeks, let's stack some shows up. We are stacking bills. I like it. We are stacking fat stacks, bro. We are getting together here. I feel like this is an unofficial series and we didn't mean for it to be.
It just so happened that we needed a show. We wanted to do a little bit of a shorter show so we could squeeze it in here before June. It just happens to be a subject we have never talked about. I am really excited and it ties in to the 35th anniversary of the Disney MGM Disney Hollywood Studios. We had no idea. Matt and I were casting, we were like, what smaller show can we do? We have been doing these deep dives and stuff.
Let's do a medium dive into something. Matt said something and I was like, oh my god, we could do that because it is our Friars Nook show. Taking one tiny thing that is sort of unimportant that no one cares about and doing a whole deep dive into it. Matt was fully unbored immediately. These are my favorite kind of shows. The unloved, the unremarkable. Although I remember this attraction really well in several of its iterations.
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When Michael Eisner introduced Disney's MGM Studios, he said it was a celebration of the Hollywood that never was and always would be. And part of what made Hollywood so great, especially in the early days, was radio and the sound effects and the fully artists that made radio come to life.
And one of the early pavilions at Disney's MGM Studios was focused specifically on those sound effects and how they make movies, radio, TV even better using practical effects that you can't get out of an electronic box. So on today's episode of the 3028, we're going to talk about the ABC. First it was the sound effects studio. Then it was the ABC sound studio and then it was other things.
So Matt, do you like that off the cuff intro? You were there at the beginning, right? You saw this when it was when it was, I don't know what people would consider the classic version of this. Yeah, I saw the very first version of this, including the pre-show in the line. I saw the monster sound show. I remember being so excited because we are a national ampune's vacation family.
Not a Christmas vacation family because that was like, you know, that didn't come out until I was like nine or 10, but we were very much in the heart of the Chevy Chase Martin Short Error. So seeing them on screen inside the theme park was a lot like seeing Robin Williams in the 90s or even Bett Middler in the late 80s. All of these stars that you knew well from film or even TV like David Letterman all coming to life here and like talking to you while you were walking about the theme park again.
I can't say this enough. There was no other theme park that did movies TV, etc. like this particular theme park. It was a very interesting time. You know, we talk a lot about Michael Eisner in his celebrity obsession. And this is kind of a snapshot of where Michael Eisner's like,
thoughts were in the 80s. You know, the late 80s and early 90s. Like, who are, what's his idea of a big celebrity or not necessarily a big celebrity, but a mid-less celebrity that feels big when it comes to when they come to a theme park. And Chevy Chase was in Martin Short. We're big enough, but they were really big in the mid 80s. And by the late 80s, they were like still bankable, but like Chevy Chase had funny farm and you know, all that stuff. And he was on the downslope there.
And Martin Short has always existed in this very weird realm of everyone loves him. People love what he does, but I don't think he was considered an A-list star until actually very recently. Yeah, he's kind of like the Rick Moranis of the time here, right? Like there's a very, there's a lot of similarity. They're always the co-star, even in his most recent show.
Right? With Steve Martin, he's the other guy in the scenario. And that was always true of him, even in, you know, father of the bride, right? He's the wedding planner and this kind of thing. And so yeah, Martin Short is, he's very recognizable. Everybody knows his name, but it's hard to think of like, there's a film that guy carried. That's pretty rare. Like that didn't really happen for him.
Chevy Chase though was kind of a bankable star in the 80s. And you're right. This was like on the downslope for him. And it didn't really recover until he goes to what community. Yeah, much later. And even then, I mean, people did not like working with him. One thing that I want to point out is that so Chevy Chase originally comes from SNL, Saturday Night Live, way back in the day. And Martin Short comes from SCTV, which is basically the Canadian equivalent of that.
And so these are people that are coming from sketch comedy. And that kind of has a through line as we're going to be talking about this like pavilion. So I mentioned the weirdly changing name of this pavilion. This is a small pavilion in MGM studios. And I don't know. It used to be the first iteration of it was called the Sound Effects Studio. And it was right near that bus garden called.
Yeah, the television, the Academy Arts Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. It was a bus garden with busts of a lot of like TV celebrities. Yeah, you had like Andy Griffith, Mary Teller, more Betty White, Oprah Winfrey, like a lot of classic people and Oprah Winfrey. And then some other people that were taken out later on and Bob Newhart and Lucille Ball.
So these are people that were big into TV. So it made sense that you had this like little garden of busts near this this sound effects studio where you know, classic TV stars that had eventually gone on to movies are doing their show.
This whole pavilion here starts with superstar television moves into Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame and then over to the monster sound show. So this was real connectivity here. It's like like you mentioned, it's a pavilion with several different attractions, one being a walk through the other being interactive and like a show. And then this one being really kind of something like we've never seen before in terms of a sound effects show.
You know, one of the things that MGM series is trying to do was to beat Universal at its own game. And one of the things that Universal was known for was, you know, they did the tram tour, which happened here. And they did these interactive shows with audiences.
So they would come up and they would have people come up and and like do scenes in a movie or whatever and MGM had that too. But here it was, you know, they're going to have the sound show and they're going to bring some audience members up and have them help do sound effects for this movie that's playing. So Matt, can you set up what exactly happened in this theater?
Yeah, so you walked into the theater, you sat down and then they told you that they were going to take on the task of creating sync sound for this particular movie that you're about to watch. Then they showed you the movie, right? It's a very short film, like one minute Chevy Chase is like an insurance agent. He walks into an old haunted house where Martin Short is like Igor who's trying to kill him.
He pops out of the fireplace. He's standing on a tree branch and tries to like drop an anvil on him. The library explodes and all these things are trying to kill Chevy Chase. Chevy Chase doesn't really notice what's happening because all of these things that Martin Short is trying to achieve continue to fail. So like he falls out of the tree or like the tree branch breaks or you know, these different things happen where Martin Short is not able to conquer Chevy Chase.
Yeah, Chevy Chase is in a final destination movie and he doesn't know it. Right, right. And like what's kind of weird too is that you know this is the sort of thing that you wouldn't have seen in sort of a wholesome, like a magic kingdom or even Epcot where one character is trying to kill the other character.
It is presented as slapstick like a Bugs Bunny sort of thing like that Shoot-A-Mut movie with Paul G. Amadi and Clive Owen. But so this so what they do is they you know they're showing the short film and what they need is audience volunteers to help make the sound effects for their show and that so they brought up they did this was on a kid thing right they brought up actual grown ups right they would they would ask for members of the audience.
And see that or pulled you out of line. But you know the audience members would be on stage and then they had these like tools and they were like okay this is the thing that makes the sound of the wind blowing this is the thing that makes the sound of an explosion like all of these different like practical effects on stage.
And then they would ask the audience members to record those sound effects as the scenes in the film were taking place and they said basically the host your MC on stage would be like now I need you to time these perfectly and of course that never happened.
And then the whole bit was they played back the show with the guest audience members sound effects like you know trying to line them up and they were always out of sync with the sound effects that were happening on screen and that was the whole bit it was like funny because you know the audience members couldn't do this in the same way that a professional sound crew could.
Yeah like the Anvil falls on the ground or whatever and then two seconds later you know the sound and then the dialogue is happening at the same time.
It was really really like this is people crack up at this every time and I want to tell you if you don't think this sounds funny and you don't think you'll laugh at this I went to a taping of the big bang theory once a show I do not like I never find funny and I was in the audience howling with laughter because when you're there it's like this is the funniest thing in the world it's so weird.
So yeah so this is this is the whole sound up and set up and so this is like you know you're there you're cracking up but you know what the folly of man how silly of untrained person trying to do this. But also you got sort of an instructional thing this was another thing with early MGM studios is you got like edutainment so they show you this how hilarious is that but the pre show showed you how these things were done.
I remember this vividly okay so David Letterman basically hosts his own show but it's on these like micro TVs as you're in line and the line is very short the queue is very short it's the same queue essentially that sits right there in front of the Indiana Jones epic stunt spectacular another audience interactive show by the way and so you watch this letterman show essentially he's recorded for the studios he does a top 10 reasons why you know sound effects are important and the
then he has Jimmy McDonald famed like Disney legend Jimmy McDonald as the studio guest to show him how he has made sound effects for Disney films over time in the they actually perform the effects so you got like 10 minutes there where Jimmy McDonald is doing these different characters that came from different films including like birds from Cinderella and he uses a whistle to sort of mimic what that sounds like and then they show you
the Cinderella clip to connect it Evan rude the the is it the not the firefly yeah to call blue bottle one of those from the rescuers you know using air to that was a bad sound effect wait let me do that yeah like that and you know tire burnouts are using a balloon and that was like her be the love bug you know stuff like that so this is really like they're showing you how they are working on the
real time and really really fun how long was the show that was it like a was it like a 20 minutes show no like five 10 minutes I think you can watch it back I think retro wdw has a version you can watch on YouTube it's actually really really good and Jimmy McDonald is like absolutely not in his prime is like the end of his career here he's
already been re yeah he's already been replaced by Wayne all wine as as Mickey Mouse and he does Mickey's voice which is like perfect on cue for him and using his own voice box and then another thing I really loved is that I could buy crane the horse hoos okay so this was the part I
remembered as a kid in fact I had a false memory when I went back to do the research I was thinking this was Carson in my head but it was actually letterman so I had a real memory of the wood blocks using wood blocks to make the horse hoos sound from many Disney
films including Ike about crane and of course we have the famous horse chasing scene with the headless horsemen and Ike Baud and Jimmy McDonald acts that out but yeah I had this weird false memory that this whole thing was Carson he's playing golf
you can hear the golf ball hit you know that's you know when he did his monologue yes yes yes yes I wish I had seen this I like I had no idea they had it like a David Letterman bit it's wild Disney it's so strange at the time that was a weird time 80s and early 90s were so weird for
Disney but Rob you loved it so did I guess who did you said everyone everyone remembers the monster sound show very fondly they also had a post show which was kind of neat so they it was called sound works and I mentioned this and I was like off the show like before the show I was going to say to Matt hey is this like how they did image works with Epcot before I could say it Matt's like just like image works with Epcot it's so was it was sound works and you could basically you could go record
V.O. that would play over a short film I think I told you this like years and years ago but one of the funny things that we did in sound works was we recorded V.O. for the flight of the navigator and we did it all like badly and then watched it back on the little screen and these were like you know think of like almost like arcade game cabinets that's how big these little sound machines were that you could record on that a microphone record button and then a play back
button and this was a really interactive fun little space that you could do that in they also had these sound booths that you could go in and listen to different sound shows in yeah you can listen sound shows sort of in the dark if you if you can imagine I don't know if you've ever been to like a county fair or like an amusement park where they've had karaoke booths where you can record and have it like on a tape for you it was a lot like that I remember when I went to
Cedar Point back when I was going to Cedar Point I recorded myself singing one week by bear naked ladies oh my god did the smash mouth street team crew get mad at you they were so furious they wrote to me they're like hey bro you were supposed to be singing all star you're cheating on us you're cheating on us and if you remember like you don't even have to but like Rafiki's planet watch actually had booths like this where you would go in and you would
listen well this Rafiki's planet watch I mean you listen to grandmother willow from Pocahontas tell you about deforestation oh what was that not as fun as trying to do Roger Rabbit's voice you know over the thing but that's the
best so this was the first era of this so that lasted from 1989 to 1997 pretty long and then and then something came into sort of replace it called the one Saturday morning sound show and that ran from July early July 97 to early February or late February 99 and this was a very different thing right
man this was I don't remember the show that this is based on this is like no this was like exclusive for this particular theater right like so they made up essentially a little a little animation sequence with Jasper from 101 Dalmatians and Cruella de Ville plays the villain and
the one Saturday morning sound show in the ABC studio basically connected to the point in which Disney bought Cap City's ABC so all these things are renamed ABC this ABC commissary ABC sound studio and what they did is they capitalized on the Disney afternoon and the one Saturday morning
cartoon block that Disney launched on ABC once the purchase was made so to sort of tie that in synergistically they had this attraction here with a unique animation sequence where kids would now provide the practical sound effects and it mirrored what happened in the
Mount monster sound show except you know basically the the show itself was different this is so weird I need to I need to point out that no one remembers in 1997 that 101 Dalmatians had a series oh my god there was a team on a Pumba show and this is the same block as like Doug
and and all that's we started on Nickelodeon and then kicked over to to ABC you're right and the Doug live show was horrifying yeah yeah why so weird patty mayonnaise I love Doug the show the TV the cartoon don't bring those cartoons to life please but yeah it lasted for a year it lasted for
less than a year the 101 Dalmatians show but synergy was trying to happen and so they're like okay this thing's gonna be huge forever we're gonna bring this into the monster sound show studio and so I've mentioned 1997 to 1999 the one Saturday morning sound show the show lasted in MDM studios
longer than the show lasted on television oh that's weird that's super weird that kind of reminds me when they did the Disney junior playhouse and Disney junior live on stage and like those that that set of shows lasted longer than the shows did on Disney junior oh yeah oh yeah I don't think I
mean vampirolo is still pretty big but bear the big blue house was like over long before it was over on the sound show right or the same stage okay so this ends in 1999 because people are like why 100 by the way I want to once again point out 101 Dalmatians is one of Disney's most profitable
things yes especially in the 90s especially in the nights kept coming back live action the old movie kept coming back they're making TV shows they were doing like one off you know direct to DVDs it was 101 Dalmatians is like the unsung hero of Disney movies but then it goes away and what
replaces it is one of the most beloved attractions in MGM studios history sounds dangerous is it one of the most scary I don't know if it is the Drew Carrey show was very popular though okay the Drew Carrey show I will tell you all I don't think it's any surprise was one of my favorite shows and
still is one of my favorite shows of all time Oswald Oswald Mimi why do I know the characters my mom loved this show by the way this is one of my absolute favorite shows I still you know they used to do all those musical sequences I loved all of them you can there's a there's an archive
somewhere online it's not in the dark web but you have to like search for it and there's somebody who's gone in and found all the old episodes because it's not available on DVD or anything oh weird gone and found all the old episodes and then cleaned it up and made it like sort of remastered it
himself and so you can watch full episodes so last time I was in San Francisco for work I would like wake up early and just like watch episodes of the Drew Carrey show one of my absolute favorite shows of all time and you know I somebody might have had a crush on Drew Carrey was it me maybe
so but then well who wouldn't so then so this is the whole situation where Michael Eisner is tapping in so he's been tapping into old classic celebrities like Martin Short and Chauvin Chase but now he's like okay we've got this ABC lineup we're part of ABC now ABC is part of us we're
gonna push those people so this is where you get Ellen's energy adventure and this is where you get sounds dangerous stirring Drew Carrey now this I don't want to ever say that there's a lack of ambition but I will say that this is a show that you sit in a theater listen to headphones that
had been touched and not watched by many other people you put them on in a pitch black room and you try not to fall asleep it's fine it's fine everyone it's fine don't question it Drew Carrey please so there's a you said you go into the theater go to the theater Drew Carrey plays an
undercover cop who's dressed like a cop um he has a body camera I guess and he because somebody sees him he puts it in his mouth short circuits the video but not the audio so you put on the headphones then or you you have the headphones everything is completely dark and you are treated to quote
unquote a binaural sound experience wherein you listen to this whole scene and like there's cars going by room and the people are walking and you know doors are slamming and all that stuff you see are all these like sound effects that you would expect and and you don't see Drew Carrey you
don't really see no movie you're just you're literally in a pitch black theater where you can't see anything even if you open your eyes I did this I opened my eyes and put my hand in front of my face at one point I'm like I can't see is this dangerous it sounds dangerous I yeah this is
really weird when you brought up that this was like the inexpensive way to go about this they don't do like a full studio production I was like oh yeah they didn't they actually did more work on the monster sound show that they did for now but the way that they executed it made this very
memorable in the same way that like the unique nature of monster sound show made it memorable this was like I'd never done that before I'd never been in a theater and focused solely on sound and allowed that medium to like tell the story I think that that was an interesting way to do it I just
don't know that it executed as well in a big theater so in the 90s there was this new thing called the Kuntzkopf binaural sound it came from Germany and there were some audiobooks and audio plays that would come out and the cool thing and the this happened in the late 80s but the the pink
Floyd album the final cut utilized this technology and basically if you're wearing headphones you can hear stuff behind you above you all around you used a 3d binaural sound it's so funny when and I'll put this in the show notes the headphones look like a pair of human ears when they're
testing it it's very creepy and very strange I wrote an essay about it for a Stephen King thing it was very cool but yeah so they're using this technology it is a really cool technology but I don't know like you said I don't know if this was the best use of it I mean you're you're
you're promoting like here's a picture of Drew Carrey everyone loves Drew Carrey's on TV you know here's a movie of Drew Carrey look I think you know and then you're not gonna see Drew Carrey for most of this it's it was a little strange so I'm not sure and I remember when I was first
going people were like you don't want to do on that and I was I was hesitant because people said that about the dark rides and fantasy land and I was like I love those dark rides what are you talking about I you know so I did it and I was like huh do I like this I don't know if I do
was he a cop is that what he was he was like he was like undercover cop right rest like a not undercover cop I don't get it it was it was foster yeah it was not Australian for beer he uh he he was he walked through a lot of wood doors and on wood floors I can tell you that much
it lots of cars whizzed by him yeah he was it was uh it was you know funny it was slapstick in the same way that the monster sound show was slapstick but all audio and I remember here's a little fun fact for everyone I don't do a lot of armchair engineering but the one time I ever did
was the first time I ever met Matt uh on virtually and he said hey do you want to write for my blog and I said sure I'll write for your blog can I do armchair imaginary he said sure um and uh this is literally the first time that our first interaction and uh and I did something
like a roller coaster about going through sound effects it was like oh yeah it was fun it was it was a silly little I thought it would be neat because one of the things that MGM studios I didn't think had very much of was celebrating radio days um they had tv movies all this other stuff
stage shows and music but not really radio and so I thought this was a really cool way to talk to show whole time your radio but the way they went about it was saying oh no it's because the the video cut out and it's a mistake it's not celebrating radio I think it would would have what
think it would have been much better if they had done like a classic radio show like the adventure hour happened later on yeah that would have been interesting yeah I try not to do too much armchair imagine here but now that you like brought this one up like again like at the time I
didn't really question this one but just today I'm just like yeah that is rather peculiar and it lasted quite a long time I remember the first time I went to studios with my wife I'm pretty sure we did this I don't know that it was very memorable for her I uh I don't know I don't quite know
well you're in the dark yeah so so uh this this show was technically in the dark for a while and then went really in the dark after 2009 lasts for 10 years playing constantly and then in 2009 it becomes a seasonal attraction and you know what that means it means that you know thing it's
gonna open sometimes only if the park is really crowded but the thing is is that what was happening was the parks started getting really really busy and it wouldn't open so what they did was they you know and they they brought in think in 2011 they brought in people from the comedy warehouse
that used to be a downtown Disney in now Disney Springs Maryweather Adam Pleasure opened up the comedy warehouse way back in the 40s or whatever and and so the people the players from there came and performed at the ABC sound studio and what's cool about that is that they did sort of
improv games and the interesting tie-in to that is that Drew Carrey used to host the American version of whose line is it anyway the sketch thing all comes together it all comes it's a sketch and improv stand up everything all the live comedy stuff all works together you know Martin Short
and Chevy Chase come sketch comedy Drew Carrey comes from improv he used to this is where Wayne Brady first became famous yes very much so yeah so this is a whole thing so the people that so this this this is in in a very generous read you can say oh they're just carrying on their tradition started
at the beginning but basically it was a stopgap they were I don't know if these were the same people as the anachomical players Matt no no no I don't I think these were like real comedians yeah real funny people so so then even that goes away and the the studio lies follow for a long time
until 2015 it reopens again and there's no name on the theater it's not the sound studio no ABC sound studio it's just no name theater and it is presenting something new called pass with the Jedi what is it we don't know Kevin this debuted right after Disney acquires
Star Wars Lucas film and this is when we begin to get things like Star Wars launch bay and the intergalactic spectacular night time celebration I don't even know if it's called that but I'm just calling it that Star Wars fireworks about that and then this was a small theater that they
basically showed you a bunch of Jedi clips the evolution of Anakin Skywalker Obi-Wan Kenobi Luke Skywalker and basically introduced you to the path of the Jedi what makes a Jedi a Jedi what kind of sorcery is this is basically what they showed you it was not a meet and greet this was
just a way of introducing you to the Star Wars universe if maybe you hadn't before so this is basically a preview for the Force Awakens right Force Awakens is gonna come out in 2015 this is when the path of the Jedi opens and so it's showing you like here all the the prequels and the first
movies and now what's gonna be happening like a like a preview of what's gonna be happening at the Force Awakens Force Awakens was huge and this was not a bad thing to do but I will say and we're gonna we're gonna talk about what what comes next in this this is basically a sizzle reel for
what's for Star Wars it's a trailer essentially 10 minutes of watching Star Wars trailer right I do like that they included my most favorite quote ever which is Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin my allegiance is to the Republic to democracy I love it I love it that's the most brilliant line of the prequels this is how democracy falls not with the oh what is it not with with the to the sound of rousing applause sundering applause sundering applause that was my only and that's in the third movie
their movies pretty good it's not bad both of those quotes are in it by the way yeah that's why the third movie is the best of them and let's not think about the others but basically it was it was uh hey kids remember Star Wars and what's funny is that I the picture that I have that I'm gonna put
on the Instagram is just an empty theater I love it with the host who's like introducing the show and there's no one in there it is this is classic I did I want you to know I watched this and I did I liked it like you this is the thing is that you're you're captive and so you get into a
theater you know there people say oh you know I went into the American adventure and I took a nap and I and I feel bad about it but I don't feel bad about it you're you're out it's hot all day you're in an air conditioned theater and here especially here why not go in and just enjoy
looking at stuff that you already like of course right I loved you and McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi so any bit of that I could get I was you know I was all in for hello there so this lasts the entire length of the sequels so the the Force Awakens the last Jedi and the Rise of Skywalker so that happens
and so they keep adding to the real here's the path of the the the Jedi when you're a little kid and you want to leave the slave planet and your mother says no my place is here as a slave you can just leave nope I'm gonna stay here and then you know then the prequels and then the regular
movies happen and see three people keep saying thank the maker when the maker is Darth Vader then we're gonna go through to the Force Awakens which is a reboot and a retread of the original and then the last Jedi which broke everyone's brain and then the Rise of Skywalker which doesn't
show a path of anything we don't know what happened she buried a lightsaber that's what happens somehow Palpatine returned we don't know the Rise of Skywalker is one of the worst things that's happened to movies anyway um so hey kids remember Star Wars ends because Galax's edge opens
and now you can go live in the world of Star Wars which is fun but that theater now has oh what are we gonna do what are we gonna do in 2020 and what happens is they're going to re-chrisen the theater the Mickey shorts theater yes yes this is a connector now back to Hollywood Boulevard just like
the monster sound show was a connector to the early days of the theme park and you know what path of the Jedi was a connector you know an ancillary piece to what they were doing with Disney's Hollywood studios before Toy Story Land opens and then even after that and then before Galax's edge open so
I like the idea that we have this connective thread between Mickey and Minnie run away railway because I know it sounds like everyone has seen those Mickey and Minnie shorts but this is not the days of network TV where these have debuted on a Saturday morning or in a Disney afternoon not everyone has seen these so this is an interesting way to sort of tie those two properties together you know what's interesting is that when a when a land comes out when they debut a new land like
Pandora or Galax's edge there's usually like a big e-ticket and then like a c-ticket something that will support it yes this theater basically functions as a c-ticket for what also is happening in the theme park like you had the television area so we're gonna have some TV you have the Star Wars area
here's here's a reminder of Star Wars now you have run away railway here's some Mickey shorts for you it good it points it has always worked in this in this way which is kind of amazing and I want to point out so I made a lot of fun about Path of the Jedi being just like hey kids from
her Star Wars this is sort of like hey kids remember Mickey shorts right but it has a connective tissue it has an all new outside thing it has like a new cartoon with like clips inside it's like a bottle show yeah I really I really don't hate this uh I love potato land I don't I don't
know why I love that so much turkey leg Jeff friend of the show came back like raving about potato land and I was like why do we both love this I don't it seems so ridiculous that the Mickey and Minnie characters would go to a place called potato land I don't know why that's funny it just
is it so is and like so so the new the new short is called vacation fun and basically a lot of it is Mickey like Minnie's waiting to be picked up and this lasts a long time like how long is Minnie waiting um and Mickey's remembering all of his vacations in the past and one of the
your memories is potato land where goofy wants to go see potato land and this is one of those things where you know Mickey is manic and Donald is just putting up with everybody and goofy is completely bonkers um and so they remember all this stuff my favorite part though is the couple
sweater yes they're couple sweaters uh I just try to scratch his face off I love all of this and uh you know so they they do clips but it's still around about show Pluto once again leaves the day as usual and then you leave the theater and in the place where the sound works used to be are like
stand up little vignettes you could go stand like to be part of the the Mickey shorts right right right so this this this uh echoes back to Mickey's birthday land in a way which is kind of funny these big not cardboard standups but wooden standups where you can take a picture with the potato land
sign the potato land sign in the background and just a potato on a stool looking at you like why why and everyone this is the most Instagrammable place it is humongously popular and point yes it's so funny like we laugh about it we're like this is so silly why would it do this
by the way we've all done yes I have a picture like in my phone currently like the first time I saw it was like that's so weird that I actually like it I don't know why I said to picture of me and Jeff stating in front of the potato to my husband when I was away and he's
like I want to I want to go to potato land like why is it so he'd never even seen the short because it's so mundane like what what is the theme park that you would never want to go to it's potato it's the most common vegetable that you can find it grows in abundance um it's just a
crazy thing that like anybody would go to a potato theme park the eyes have it so uh so yeah so currently that is what's happening so what what'll happen is you go see runaway railway uh it's amazing and then you'll go see this little short which is like it supports that you'll have an
entire afternoon you'll have a Mickey afternoon oh um and and so yeah it continues that whole theme the the basically the new theme of mgm studios or what Hollywood studios is now is you know the big thing is Mickey Mouse and bringing you back into that classic Disney thing and that's the whole
thing you know Disney has always with this tiny little pavilion that nobody really thinks about too much has always been about you know what makes Disney Disney whether it's sound effects whether it's uh ABC TV whether it's Star Wars and whether it's a re-dedication to Mickey Mouse it's always
been there and it always will be well Kevin I have to tell you throughout the show I remember a few things Martin Short has been a part of two big films in Disney history that's interesting right Drew Kerry has been a part of of course sounds dangerous but also win sounds dangerous
debuted who wants to be a millionaire play it was also at the Disney studios and he was the host of that show after Regis Filben so that's kind of weird there's a lot of weird connections here through the years that like it's almost like you had to have experienced it to kind of remember it
because these are like experiences that don't really jump out of your memory well yes yes so uh to jog your memory uh Martin Short was in probably the best of the O Canada films and he was also in the making of me yes yes he was in the making of me I totally forgot about that see it's so bizarre
it's just like Ellen's by the book oh yeah huge everywhere too energy right yeah like this whole ABC thing really did take over studios and Epcot for several years Matt you remember the other thing that Drew Kerry was a part of the other attraction that we have discussed and made a whole show about
at one point uh what what was he super star limo buddy see it never ends it never sees this to be amazing it's uh it's really interesting Drew Kerry is pretty cool and of course now he's the price is right yeah he's always he's gonna be the host forever I remember reading I read his book
he's still relevant is what's crazy it's still relevant he's still like he always wanted to be he did a game show he did the Drew Kerry show he uh he did a couple movies but they weren't like big and then he went back to TV and now he you know he's like the Ken Jennings of the price is right
he won't go away it's that he like he took over and is as it not necessarily as beloved but from from a new audience perspective he really has connected with you know with the current people I know that college kids love Drew Kerry because in the same way they used to love Bob Barker
yeah and he's got that great beard you know what I mean like it's it's people don't like him like ironically like they just like him yeah I I've seen Drew Kerry's beard um so uh so that uh that has been uh the AB's what do we call it is it the sound effects the sound studio the
Academy of Arts and Sciences and television I don't know I don't know what we call it um but it is uh it is like Friars Nook we wanted to do a Friars Nook type show by the way your reaction listeners to the Friars Nook show took us a little bit by surprise yes yes yes why are people obsessed with
the Friars I didn't even know it was different than Mrs. Potts like I've been doing a Disney podcast since I was 28 years old oh boy I couldn't like different differentiate that in my mind and now Matt you're 62 and looking great um oh anyway so everyone thank you so much for uh
listening to the show as we said uh we can use your five star reviews Matt do we have any more five star reviews yeah Kev I've got a really old one here actually sent that old I think this is like 18 months ago I'm just gonna bring these out because they're just haven't been enough recently so
I'm gonna keep reading old ones until we get new ones this one says awesome podcast on Disney Synology so many was really into that show it says you guys had the best Disney podcast your in-depth research on every topic and fun presentation keep me coming back your hard work is very much
appreciated just listen to 237 Disney Parks directional Synology it was so much fun hearing your descriptions of the unique and creative signs I wish I had a guide so I could follow along and see them oh check out the Instagram by the way uh as as a longtime Disney fan I've been to the park so
many times but failed to notice these cool unique treasures thanks for bringing them to life keep up the great work that was from dis mic in fl thanks dis mic from florida we also I have one here for two years ago from uh gtme 94 I guess it's get me 94 what a stupidly named show from a
couple of smart guys this is a great show with both types of podcasts Disney and western I love the energy between mat and kevin and it shows and they're sometimes unusual show some subjects I love that it's not the same topics you'll hear elsewhere that's right we are the only show brave
enough to talk about friars no yes that's exactly right um okay one more you want one more this one okay I'm gonna be fair here this one's 4.5 stars oh boy I love the variety of topics discussed and the passion of the hosts they have good banter and make the show very fun I think the
beginning and end of each episode are always a little too long I'm literally making it longer as we speak once they finish actually talking about or introducing the topic but I would absolutely recommend for all Disney people hey we got it we want you to know that we're people right that's
part of the show we're humans where humans we love talking we love doing this uh and I will say this is now ironic because this letter has made the show longer I know I talked about the topic whoops whoops the daisy so I mean look we we I want to blame this on us but in this case I cannot
sir I cannot we love doing this we want to hang out with ourselves each other and with you and so this is why you know sometimes we talk a little bit more at at the end of the show um and if you uh if you don't like the banter at the end if that's cool you don't have to listen um but a lot of
people are really into it they want to hear us sing in our song and talk about yacht rock all the ridiculous stuff that comes out of the end of the show and it's the one time when we're off script a little bit there's no outline for the beginning and end so we just kind of roll with
what's going on in the world and I like that it's fun we uh we did we tried to have a script for the beginning in the end of the show and it didn't work because we're we always kept breaking and be like oh hey you know uh we'll talk about this we'll talk about this hey let's let's make
another save by the bell reference oh I love those okay I'm gonna read one more do it okay this is from two years ago I we may have read this before I have no idea it says two dope wokes yo from rms ml what can I say about this show that's right Kevin I love it so much I think I did read
this before that's a good read this these fine gentlemen with the best supporting character agent of chaos and mischief turkey leg Jeff yes our masters of the Disney history narrative and can make fascinating what may seem like minutia or trivial like like friars nook this guy was just
ahead of his time or gal weather veins anyone thank you so much for this fantastic show I look forward to every episode and revisit many I've heard before you're the bomb yo we are the bomb not rob you but he's not the bomb also he is the bomb Memphis design uh I'm standing
I loved it that's like a sub thread of this show Memphis design group and how much you hate it and I love it it's a funny thing so much it's so we by the bell like intro uh is the Memphis design group anyway yeah all right that's it that's it so thank you so much for listening to our
ABC soundstage sound show it's show uh and dropping those five star views like you said we're gonna keep diving back we're gonna go back to our first year uh when people are complaining about how I only talk through my air pods and it's gonna be great uh so uh and drop those five star views drop those uh those donations in our Venmo and PayPal uh or send us gold bars we like those two uh so from all of us here at the 3028 to all of you out there thanks so much for listening and sounds dangerous
by the way I just read this and I thought it was really funny because it connected to another show the ABC sound studio for a second during Star Wars weekend was the carbon frees me area oh it all comes full circle your favorite thing that you you never did didn't do I didn't even
do it I was just like that's so awesome but I'm not gonna do I probably have like six dollars to my name Kevin I who knows was it oh yeah that's right it was an upcharge wasn't it yeah yeah well I don't think it was a free thing I don't think it was free but was I probably a thing it was a
freeze thing this isn't the error where they like have no idea what to do with like interventions they have no idea what to do with these theaters there's like what do I do I kind of think it's funny that they had this theater and like they kept renaming it and they they had to take out the
letters those little silver letters and re-put them up those art deco letters yes I love this theater and I love going into I love this this short so much hey there are couples with it it's really funny like I know that like you know I try not to like make a whole thing about kids but like my
kids went into an old classic art deco theater in town and they were like this looks like Disney I was like I think Disney is supposed to look like this buddy well that's the thing with Disney right you know like it it gets people it because it's all like pop culture you go there and you're like
here's a similacrum of this thing and then you go out into the world and you're like oh this is what it really was that I mean that's why Disney got me into Tiki got me into Googie yeah if you're 12 years old that's a really cool connective thing that Disney has done for you that's a really
neat thing yeah so I I thought that was really funny that happened over the weekend I was like yes this is what studios is supposed to look like exactly are they gonna go in and like do deep dives now and like I don't I don't think so I don't know I tried to get my son to be an architect just for
my own personal benefit but I don't think that's what he wants to do I'm like can you please be like a theme park designer and then we can just like hang out and talk here are some protractors for your birthday yes I don't know what here's a drafting table you're gonna move your Xbox out of
your room and give you this I'm building you a den like Mike Brady had me you're gonna be an Apple market with the drop stairs the sunken floor oh man I love a sunken I love a sunken parlors so much oh it's the greatest thing ever parlors why parlors went out I don't know I freaking love
parlors they need to come to the dens and parlors need to come back and there need to be like squishy couches buddy like that is a dream that's like a fever dream for me it's that's so I would make a hole we should just make a show about dens and parlors there's no reason why we can't we we have the keys man yeah we do we want the key