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Disney vs. Universal: Food Fights and Park Adventures

In this lively episode of the DANK Pod, the hosts embark on a chaotic journey into the world of theme park foods, comparing the offerings of Disney and Universal Studios. The conversation kicks off humorously with anecdotes about passing gas and quickly transitions into a discussion about the various dining experiences at the parks. They recount their favorite meals, wishlist items, and unique treats from both Disney and Universal, touching on locations like Boma, Minions Cafe, and the upcoming Epic Universe. Amidst the food talk, there are scattered jokes, side stories about personal preferences, and a peek behind the scenes into their personal lives. The episode wraps up with reminders for listeners to like, follow, and send in feedback or questions.

00:00 Introduction and Casual Banter
00:28 Welcome to the DANK Pod!
00:41 Disney Food vs Universal Food
04:46 Disney Springs vs CityWalk
12:39 Unique Dining Experiences
30:57 Nostalgic Food Memories
33:19 Choosing a Restaurant
33:28 Disney Springs Dining Options
34:15 Park Food Opinions
35:23 Dining Experiences at Disney Parks
38:18 Universal Studios Dining
45:34 Favorite and Desired Dining Spots
01:02:52 Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up

JP:

Did you just pass gas? Ashley?

Nat:

Don't you hate when it happens and you can't recreate it and then you're like, fuck. You know the truth. Fuck it. It doesn't matter.

JR:

very slippery There's nothing wrong with passing gas.

Nat:

I know, baby.

Ash:

Jonathan.

JR:

This sounds like,

Ash:

like quacks

Nat:

sometimes he's blowing it up while she's on calls and he thinks nobody can hear. Really?

JR:

Really?

JP:

Wait, are you serious? You can hear

Nat:

him.

JP:

Is that, is that legit? Are you being Can you hear it? When on the calls? Does it come out

Nat:

I I have now.

JR:

concerned.

Nat:

I have Oh my God.

Nancy:

Welcome to the DANK Pod! Join us on our chaotic adventure of what it means to be Disney Adults. Like, follow, comment, and share wherever you listen. Send any questions or feedback to us at the dank pod at gmail.com This week we're chatting about Disney food vs Universal Food. It's also the first time we're all in the same room to record! Buckle up for a studio full of DANKs. Let's get DANK!

JP:

Shall we begin?

Ash:

Let's get Dan. Date

Nat:

dank time.

JR:

Think.

JP:

Do we remember our guideposts?

JR:

Don't yuck someone. See Yu

Nat:

ah,

JP:

Oh,

JR:

real.

Nat:

be, be real. Be real. Stay real.

JP:

I love that. I love that. Ashley, what do you got?

Ash:

Have fun.

JP:

Yeah, you guys were all worried

Nat:

but like, you were so scared about it. It was like, God, please have fun. Oh

Ash:

It's always a fucking pop quiz in here. You guys, you have no

JP:

same, it's the same pop quiz all the time.

Ash:

you give me other pop quizzes.

JP:

What are we talking about tonight?

Nat:

Food

JR:

universal versus Disney food.

Nat:

Universal versus Disney in the house. Excited. Are you,

JP:

excited are you? I'm really

Nat:

I'm really excited to hear what you guys is feedback is. I hope you did your homework. I actually wrote down dishes that I expect you have tasted. Okay.

JP:

okay.

Ash:

Oh,

Nat:

just kidding.

Ash:

That would've been really cool though. Like, what do you wanna

JR:

Like her, what dishes?

JP:

On our morning walk, I reminded her

Ash:

of all the,

JP:

about and then I was like, the one thing that she does to me is she'll be like, we haven't eaten anything. And I'm like, we've been going to

Ash:

that's not what I said.

JP:

and we eat at the parks every time we go.

Ash:

Yeah, but we keep going to boma.

Nat:

Oh

JP:

No, no, no. But we go, we eat at

JR:

no

Nat:

I see.

JP:

go to like, we go to Animal Kingdom. We eat an animal

Ash:

what have you eaten in Animal kingdom?

JP:

We had,

JR:

what have you had?

JP:

there's Mickey flavored ice cream

Nat:

I Ice cream. That's cute. You're so cute. What else? What else do we have? Are these the,

Ash:

doesn't count as

JP:

We had what was that little quick service in Africa?

JR:

What'd you order there?

JP:

Chicken strips and stuff.

JR:

Chicken strips,

Ash:

was

Nat:

I'm understanding more why you are

JP:

remember that time you and I got dull whips?

Nat:

I do remember you pushed me around in the

JP:

I push you in that wheelchair. Mm-hmm. Yeah. We, we've eaten there. We, and then they, what's the, what's the big, what's the main restaurant there? Animal Kingdom.

Ash:

Jack

Nat:

and Jetty

JR:

or

JP:

Rainforest Cafe.

Nat:

Oh, that one. That's cute. Yeah. But that's

JP:

that's a, I am At the,

Nat:

bootleg Disney, AKA Disney Springs. So

JP:

I love you

JR:

much.

JP:

much for that. Yeah, absolutely. I've never seen so much fear in eyes

Nat:

when she

JR:

went to Rainforest.

Ash:

was

Nat:

terrible.

JP:

The gorilla. There was a gorilla and a Elron gorilla, and she was like shivering, like shaking. And she,

Nat:

you should have been like, don't move and it won't see you.

JP:

Oh, bro. No, she was, she was concerned for my

JR:

Yeah.

Ash:

two and a

JP:

said, she was like, and then she like reached out to me like, Hey, get over.

Ash:

or just shy of

JP:

here,

Nat:

That's so cute. It's

Ash:

pretty terrifying in there.

JP:

Yeah. Wait.

Ash:

two, 3-year-old that's

Nat:

that's a big beast. Yeah.

JP:

That's a big beast. Yeah, so there's like, so there's that kind of, there's, there's, we've secretly, I feel like we've low-key eaten at all these restaurants or all these parks at some, at one point or another, we went on a whole food quest together as a group at Epcot.

Nat:

oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember the nachos,

Ash:

the

JR:

nachos?

JP:

fucked

JR:

do you say it with a question? mark?

Nat:

I couldn't, like, I wanted to say ravioli's so hard, but

Ash:

I wanted to say Ra Lee so hard.

Nat:

I'm like, they weren't ravioli. Yeah.

Ash:

this time.

JP:

Oh.

Nat:

that was, that was good. The thing is that we could also try more foods, like different festivals if you will, but, you know, somebody,

JP:

could definitely try more festivals at other, at other lands. You know what, you know what we did? We, we did book,

JR:

oh.

Ash:

oh. You guys don't know this. Do they know?

JP:

I don't, I have no idea. We booked one of the discount nights at the, at where we, where were we going?

Ash:

The French Quarter.

JP:

The French Quarter. So I feel like we should

Nat:

I know. We kind of like

Ash:

Yeah. We were talking about it and then we hung up and I was like, are we doing this? And he was like, yeah, when is it? And I was just looking at like, like a random weekend in July. You thinking we

Nat:

What's the, do you know the date?

Ash:

The 19th?

Nat:

Mm.

JP:

Are you in town?

Nat:

I'll get back to you.

JP:

Yeah. Let's know, because it could be,

Nat:

I know. July 26th for sure we're booked. July 19th. Off the top. Maybe tentative, but I feel like I'm clear. I can double check.

Ash:

Let us

JP:

Yeah. I was thinking

Ash:

It was a good

JP:

day.'cause then if

Ash:

Oh, that he's calling your name now

Nat:

I know. The thing is that birthday's also in July, so sometimes she'll do it the weekend. Bef

JP:

would you use a government name

Nat:

Sorry. Bless. Rewind.

Ash:

Kudos to you for like remembering her birthday off the top of your head.

JP:

yeah.

Nat:

Yeah.

Ash:

No

JP:

Yeah. Good stuff. Good stuff.

JR:

So does food outside the park count as park

JP:

like in your car?

Nat:

No, like Disney Springs and

JP:

think we have to count Disney Springs and City Walk.

JR:

right?

Nat:

Oh,

JP:

Let's, let's, let's do that. Let's compare those two places real quick. Well, whether they've been the City Walk or not, a lot of the stuff is pretty mainstream.

Nat:

I mean, it's the same thing for Disney Springs. Remember that? They only own like one thing,

JP:

Yeah.

JR:

The Hanger

Ash:

We looked through that

Nat:

Universal homes

JP:

owns more

Ash:

Sure.

JP:

the Chocolate Factory.

Nat:

Cute.

JP:

May he rest in

Nat:

it's not, it's not a competition.

JP:

He got

Nat:

who died?

JP:

r Kelly didn't kill, didn't, didn't r Kelly. He's dead to me.

Nat:

Oh. I mean, yeah, but no,

JP:

he did all that

JR:

they got him. he

JP:

all that

Nat:

He like,

JR:

I was like, they got him.

JP:

Yeah. Got him. He was busy doing all that market research

Nat:

I hate him so much for ruining my music. That was the first time around. I don't even know how we got here. Why are you doing this?

Ash:

It's so a vicious cycle.

JP:

Yeah. Yeah, so let's, let's, let's compare Disney Springs to City

Nat:

Okay. Okay. Okay. So Disney Springs. We have restaurants, shops like Fasty, like rest, like what? What we call'em, like,

JP:

Quick service.

Nat:

Quick service, and then sit

JR:

and then sit down.

Nat:

Oh yeah. That, that was the restaurants.

JR:

Okay. Yeah. I'm Sorry. It's okay.

Nat:

Hmm.

JP:

You've got, so you've got, so hold on. You've got maybe like some, some like. Quicker than quick service. So you got some fast food joints and then you've got quick service and then you've got sit downs.

Nat:

right. So let's go. So we have, I do, is Emerald still at City Walk? No.

JR:

No. Wolfgang Puck is,

Nat:

Oh my God. Emerald's not there anymore. What happened? Can we Google it?

JR:

Yeah. because

JP:

cause I don't know if we,

Ash:

that's why

JR:

they trade one chef for another chef.

Nat:

Damn Emerald.

Ash:

not been to either.

JP:

don't

Nat:

You see this

Ash:

That might be upstairs. We never go

Nat:

So I'm gonna tell you when I, my, my first experiences at City Walk, where back in the day,

JR:

What was there?

Nat:

Like 2002.

Ash:

That's basically what I said.

Nat:

You were in the 19 hundreds. Thank you very much. I just know that I wasn't 18 yet. However, I was able to enter the clubs anyway, minor details.

Ash:

Nobody's counting.

Nat:

and there used to be a, a, a restaurant called Latin Quarter,

Ash:

No.

Nat:

and at night it became a club.

JR:

Oh,

Ash:

they still have clubs.

JP:

They still

Nat:

have clubs. Like I know they have Bob. Do they still have Bob Marley? Is that still

JP:

Bob Marley's still there? The Red Coconut Club is there.

Nat:

I I feel like the Red Coconut Club might previously be known as Latin Quarter. Okay.

JP:

Okay. Okay. But

Nat:

I've never eaten at the restaurant. I've only partied there. Oh yes.

JR:

parties?

Nat:

are the parties? The, it was very, very fun. And you, there'd be times where you can like hop from. Club to club. Oh man. Good times.

JR:

Do

Ash:

She's going back. You see her looking at the brain lobes like, oh,

JR:

oh,

JP:

So do you have do you have a, there are no clubs at like Disney Springs

Nat:

never got to, did they

JR:

really call it Pleasure

Nat:

They used, they used

JP:

that. Was that California though?

Nat:

No, they're downtown. Downtown Disney had, is it Planet Hollywood?

JR:

Yeah, they have a

Nat:

but at one point, like it kind of Latin, quartered it up. I just was too, I never got to experience that. I was

JR:

They

JP:

have pleasure on, but I, for some reason I thought that was like California. It wasn't California that was

Nat:

We, let's Google it.

JR:

I I thought it was Florida.

JP:

it. That was a that was a Michael Eisner.

JR:

So Pleasure Island was before downtown Disney. Then it was downtown Disney and then, and then Disney Springs.

Nat:

It was hard for me to accept Disney Springs.

JR:

I re You love it. I remember, I'm still not, when I first learned about Disney Springs,

Nat:

I'm like, what the fuck are you talking

JR:

about? My parents told me to meet them at downtown Disney, so I left from the resort and the bus showed up and it said Disney Springs. I was like, that's not where I'm going. so I missed the bus. Oh, no. and when the second bus came, I said, where's the bus for downtown Disney? He's like, oh, it's called Disney Springs now. Damn,

Ash:

Spring.

JP:

Oh.

Ash:

Because that was recent memory, right? Like

Nat:

Yeah.

JR:

Yeah. Within a few years. Yeah.

Nat:

And I'll still call it downtown Disney to certain people. Yeah. Yeah.

JP:

I, I think, yeah.

Nat:

They didn't even ask us. No.

JP:

No. Yeah.

Nat:

They just

Ash:

put them in

Nat:

They just think they can do whatever they want.

JP:

Yeah. The

JR:

make it more like family. No. I feel

Nat:

they said the,

JR:

regal

Nat:

the, it is the, because it's not downtown Disney is what makes it more like, you know,'cause the downtown, I guess is not family orientated.

JP:

they had a wash off the stink of Eisner. Right. So Eisner came in and tried to adult some stuff up With like, so

Nat:

have you been hanging out with Josh again?

JP:

I, he was, yeah, actually today is, today was it today or yesterday is the Make A Wish day. And Josh went on and he was like, we've given so much so we've made so many wishes come true. It's like one wish is true comes true every eight minutes because of them or something like that. It's like

Nat:

that's actually pretty nice.

JP:

just had like,

Nat:

Thank you for that Josh

JP:

definitely takes care of those kids.

JR:

I'm happy that A lot of wishes. are

Nat:

Good. I'm glad'cause they're making,'cause you and I'll

JR:

am I, am I too far?

Nat:

Don't make me don't don't make me do it.

JR:

do it I'm just gonna do this.

JP:

That's perfectly fine.

JR:

It's like I'm on stage. Yeah.

Nat:

It's'cause you're tall

Ash:

That's hard.

JP:

so, alright, so we've got the club experience, the club experience like went away for for Pleasure Island, but it still ex, it still extends over to Red Coconut. You were saying

Nat:

I

JR:

I wish I could have gone.

JP:

she didn't love you enough to take you.

Nat:

Oh, that

JR:

I was too young.

Nat:

Can we not?

JR:

Pleasure Island was from what years to what years? I

JP:

pleasure. Island was available from a year to a year from opened May 1st, 1989. Closed September 27th, 2008.

JR:

Oh, okay. that's a

JP:

of a run.

Nat:

Yeah. Wow. So I could have gone,

JP:

you could have

Nat:

I'm

JR:

didn't move up. I I wasn't in central Florida until 2011, so. I missed Pleasure island.

JP:

yeah. Oh, and it's a, it's said to have originated from the fictional location in Pinocchio where he

JR:

Where the boys go

JP:

to do all the bad shit.

JR:

Mm.

JP:

Right. And become donkeys. Yeah,

Ash:

cra that's not creepy at all. No.

JP:

yeah. Yeah, I guess so. Like Michael Eisner was trying to attract a, a medium to older crowd, like a teenage crowd kind of thing.

Nat:

Disney adults

JP:

pre adults and I think it led to some drama after a while. Like

JR:

It ran what, like 10 years? Yeah.

Nat:

Oh, I mean

JP:

more, more.

Nat:

80 You said 89 to,

JP:

oh eight. Is that like 20?

Nat:

That's

JR:

Not my math.

JP:

It's okay. It's, you're not, that's why you are not in charge of accounting. One for me. One for you. One, two for me. Two for you

JR:

You know, I actually did work at the bank.

Nat:

Oh, that's true. She did. And she did a good job.

JP:

But, but

Ash:

you know what you did. You don't have to do a good job here. That's, you're using your brain

JP:

accept, we accept subpar here. Shows promise. That's all we

Ash:

not been to

JR:

Coconut Club.

JP:

No, we're not clubbers like it's not our, that's not our jam. We,

Nat:

you know, I hear you.

JP:

to bed when the sun's up. I don't know if you know that about me.

Nat:

So the Red Coconut, you said that's at City Walk? Mm-hmm.

Ash:

Mm-hmm.

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

Oh, have you guys done?

JP:

No, we haven't. Not at all.

Nat:

The karaoke, I don't know what it's called.

JR:

Karaoke on City Walk. Yes. I didn't. It's a really big, It's, a big

Nat:

it's something with the stars or something. Yeah, I've, I've done that because I did that with a friend of mine and we, we went out on stage.

JR:

They have a big screen.

Nat:

she wanted to do Taylor. She's a swifty. Okay.

JP:

Okay. We love Taylor. Mother's, mother's. So kind. I

Nat:

I have, I have a, I don't know if you guys know, but I have a, I have a beat problem. I can't stay in the rhythm. It's embarrassing. Really? But yeah, we went up, we went up'cause I supported her. I support her.

JP:

Oh, what?

Nat:

Oh, what? It was a good time. I've, I had some shots. Several.

JR:

Sounds

Ash:

a fun

Nat:

Oh, it was great. I don't care.

JP:

care.

Ash:

I know that the Red

JP:

I support it.

Nat:

like

Ash:

theming, you know, for certain holidays and stuff, and usually around Halloween horror nights it gets really popular'cause they'll do fun things inside and

JP:

they change the name.

Ash:

stuff. The dead coconut club. Yeah.

Nat:

Oh.

Ash:

So

Nat:

I don't believe so. No. No. Unless again,

Ash:

but the

Nat:

like if I

JR:

Latin, like she's

Nat:

saying it's the big one. Mm-hmm. In my mind it's upstairs, downstairs, in my mind it's where Latin Quarter used to be.

JR:

Latin Quarter.

Nat:

You

JP:

it's probably my, I should look up Latin Quarter. So I think one thing that CityWalk does that Disney doesn't do is, or that Disney Springs doesn't do, is Disney. Disney Springs has more unique dining experiences. There are some of the chains, right? So like, planet Hollywood's there, right? Yeah.

JR:

Yeah. And

JP:

And what was that other one we went, went to a couple weeks ago?

JR:

The

Ash:

the blues, house of

JP:

House of Blues is there. Right. And the Rainforest Cafe is there. But like for the most part, you can go and eat there at a restaurant and not know if it's, if we have to, we would have to look it up. We know that to one, it's only Disney on, but like, you wouldn't Right. You know,

Nat:

I mean, we, we've had like, you know, they have like the Japanese Maori Moto.

JR:

Mm-hmm. Marto.

Nat:

I like that. We liked Lara, it's the Mexican, this is also Disney Springs. So like I like that you can have those two different dining experiences at the same location.

Ash:

Do you remember what it was?

JR:

Did you guys go to

Nat:

two

JR:

Hale? yes, Hale.

Nat:

yes. That was, yes, that was

JR:

Liz. it was

Ash:

Jonathan didn't

JP:

that's not my, every time they wanna ring the fucking bell, just give people the food. I don't need to hear it. I don't need a fucking red alarm.

JR:

wanna validate the people who spent a hundred dollars on. Baap.

JP:

Yeah. We spent, did we spend a hundred dollars? How much that shit cost us?

Ash:

don't remember. I think we at least split the bill,

JR:

We did the experience so we could have a little bit of everything. Because I was like, do you really want all that pa

Nat:

Yeah. Like,

JR:

I mean, I think for four it's good, right? But it was just two of us.

JP:

don't, I don't like taps,

Nat:

You

JR:

do you ever get full?

Nat:

taps? Or do you want

JP:

No, no. I like my DAAs. I don't like

Nat:

sharing. You wanted to make it

JP:

It's,

Ash:

But also, no, he doesn't. He'll reach a tolerance for whatever he's eating and then want something different. But I don't think I've ever heard him say he's full.

JP:

Oh, full. No, I don't

JR:

top us. Yeah,

JP:

get full.

JR:

isn't it? I

JP:

I don't get full off of anything. I don't know if you know that about

Ash:

Never.

JP:

I may, I may just get tired

JR:

tapas. I seen

Ash:

eject something because what he, like I said, he just reached a tolerance for it and Nope. Too much of that.

JP:

But then I'll just put something else in. Just

Ash:

put something literally like,

JP:

Yeah. It could be like, I could just eat like three pounds of like, I, before you came over, I ate a pound of red meat.

JR:

Wow.

JP:

Yeah. For lunch I had a pound of shrimp, and then I just eat entire heads If iceberg lettuce in between and Oh, snowball cheese.

JR:

Snowball

JP:

Actually tell her

Ash:

the mozzarella balls. The pearls. He calls them snowballs.

Nat:

They're

JP:

like built like a snowball. I

Nat:

I thought in my mind,

JR:

buy slices

Ash:

mozzarella. He wants the pearls. He calls'em snowballs.

Nat:

my mind, it was like, in my mind it was like a ball of cheese that was like

JR:

shredded.

Nat:

It was dusted in Parmesan dust.

JP:

Oh. I like to eat chicken like

JR:

oh, like a snowball. Like a snowball.

Ash:

Like a

Nat:

Yeah.

JP:

like that. Yeah. But it's not that I don't like, it's not that I'm not like a sharing kind of person. It's that I don't wanna share food.

Nat:

Joey doesn't share food.

JR:

Who? Joey.

Nat:

Joey Tri.

JR:

Ani.

JP:

Oh yeah. I don't wanna, yeah. I'll be like Joey,

Ash:

but Jonathan's like Jeremy about it. Like. Even

JP:

Oh, oh yeah. Ashley can't touch, Ashley can't drink outta my cup. She can't touch my food like that. She'll be like, but you have sex with me. And I'm like, that's different. I don't actually swallow that. You know what I mean?

JR:

but

Nat:

Know why we're here, but I please Jesus

JP:

like the counselor, like,

Ash:

have to ask permission only in states of emergency. Can I like drink from his cup or his bottle

JP:

Yeah. She should definitely ask permission. She should not help herself if she helps herself. She now owns that.

Nat:

Wow.

JP:

But like the entire family knows it about, it's a, it's aism. The entire family knows that now. Our sister will we, if we're at the parks and we get something, she'll be like.

Nat:

do you wanna

JP:

Do you want to remove what you want first?

Ash:

be

Nat:

Just get it.

JR:

you wanna touch it first.

JP:

Hey, you wanna touch this first? Get in here. The only, there's an exception to that. The, the people who can just take what they want from me are the savage and goose.

JR:

Oh, oh,

Nat:

really? Is that, that the exception?

JP:

don't know why

Ash:

why kids are the exception.

JR:

have innocence. Yeah, that's cute. But

Ash:

But all the germs,

JR:

Oh

Nat:

for

Ash:

make any

JR:

they're germaphobe.

Nat:

I, I, am, I'm not, when I was a kid, more about the cup thing. Not, not even really, it's somebody else, a friend of mine, but like, I kind of like, mm. Wasn't sure as an adult, I'm like, fuck it. But like kid, adult growing up then now, later, forever. I cannot like, actually you, you're the fucking exception. I don't know how that happened. I don't maybe'cause we, maybe'cause we sleep

Ash:

but

Nat:

don't know. But like,

JP:

but do you sleep together or do you sleep

Nat:

together? Like, I need you to understand like somebody going like this. Ah,

JP:

Oh yeah, that would do me. And don't lick me. Don't lick me. I don't even, like she tries to come to bed and she tries to like hold toes with me and not, you know, like when I say Ima like the interlocking of like, like their hands, bitch, don't touch me like that.

Nat:

That's

JP:

not how we

Ash:

he loves me the most, he touches my feet.

Nat:

Aw, That's gross. That's so

JR:

funny. I wonder what happened to you as a child with feet.

JP:

Yeah, probably. It's probably the church.

JR:

The church. What was going on there.

Ash:

but when that 4-year-old comes over with her stinky feet,

JP:

she'll put'em right in my face. She'll be like, how are my feet? Are they stinky K on? Are they stinky? Cold Nani, I don't have to eat our stinky feet. Aw,

Nat:

Aw,

Ash:

for four years we've been eating those stinky

JP:

bro. She came over,

Nat:

Yeah, soon they, soon they're really gonna be like, you're gonna be like, no. Get'em,

JP:

Yeah. Get away. So at some point it becomes inappropriate. You gotta stop eating her feet when they're 16, 17 years old. Yeah. What's the age where I'm not, where she can't go for piggyback rides anymore?

Ash:

I mean, I feel like you're reaching it'cause you threw your back out last

JP:

Oh

Nat:

Oh, I don't think it's hers. I think it's your age. Yeah.

Ash:

Yeah.

JP:

Yeah.

JR:

Oh

JP:

be rough. Well, her and her brothers. Yeah, her. Oh, it was big time.'cause she was, she was like, let's play hide and seek. She hides terribly. She's like hiding underneath the blanket and she's sitting up. It's like a fucking human.

JR:

know,

Nat:

you know how it works for, I don't know what at what age it stops, but if you can't see them, you can't see you. You know what I'm saying? If they can't see you, you can't see them. So she's thinking she's good.

JP:

Fucking goose,

JR:

she told

Ash:

you where she is. I'm under the blanket.

Nat:

this

JP:

Well, goose is a snitch dude.'cause I'm like, oh, where's And Goose is like. You don't see this. She's not, she's not the best hide call. She's right fucking here. And I'll, I'll be like

Nat:

up. He's gonna be like my uncle Don can never

JP:

My uncle was, yeah, she's the best hide. And then she's right in front of him. So then like, so then I would be like, I was like, oh, the first go round I was like, pull the blanket. And she's like, no, how dare you find me? And I was like, shit. So I came back and did it again. And

Nat:

Yeah. So you, and not only that, you're supposed to search for them. You have to like fail several times before you're such

JP:

no. I knew I failed Intentional failure. So I was, but I had to contend with Goose, the snitch. So every time Goose,

Ash:

Got his bink in his

JP:

is big. He's pointing at her. He's got a, yeah. And he's like, I don't understand this. So then I would have to go over and pick up the blanket. But I would pick her up as if she was the blanket, like I'm looking underneath the blanket, but pick her up as a whole package. And like she's not under here, goose. I dunno what the hell you're talking about. I set it back

Nat:

Oh my gosh, I wish I could, I wish I could be in this little boy's brain. And because his, what the fuck

JP:

You're clearly you're picking her up. What do you mean

Ash:

Yeah, he wasn't even laughing. He was just like, I don't, I don't get it guys.

JP:

yeah.

Nat:

is like, you guys are ridiculous. Yeah. All right. I don't know how we got here

JP:

Yeah. Lift with your legs, not with your back. But anyway, so

JR:

So

Ash:

yummy feet. We

JP:

yeah. Okay. So cool. So there were some, so we're talking about how the unique restaurants, you know, when I edit this will not make sense, but we'll just jump cut right to it and it'll just be

Nat:

you can, you, I know you can do it. Don't make it. I'll make it

JP:

I'll make it real choppy. Don't worry. We'll go from singing karaoke right over to this.

Ash:

Did

JR:

Did we find out if it's Wolfgang versus Emerald? at,

JP:

at where at City Walk is, is they're both gone. Neither of them are

Nat:

What? Oh my God. So we don't, we

JR:

Wolfgang isn't there. No, Is he in Disney Springs?

Nat:

I wanted to try

JP:

He might be in Disney Springs.

Nat:

Emeral.

JR:

That's what I was thinking. I thought you were

JP:

were saying City Walk.

JR:

Emerald was at CityWalk.

Nat:

Yeah. Emeril was

JR:

Oh wow. I was talking about Disney Springs the whole

Nat:

the whole time. No, I thought you were on the

Ash:

She's doing a

JP:

Okay.

Nat:

Yeah, no, I was talking about very much about City Walk.

JR:

Wasn't there another chef restaurant at Disney Springville?

Nat:

Oh, oh

JP:

probably, probably Disney Springs has a lot of Disney Springs. Definitely has a lot to offer. At there that is more unique if we put the two side by side And you were looking for a more unique experience, I would say

Nat:

for food.

JP:

Yeah. That goes to Disney Springs. If you want something more familiar that goes to CityWalk. So,

JR:

Logs.

JP:

yeah.

JR:

I

Nat:

tried Bubba Gump. That's still there,

JP:

That's a tourist fucking trap. We don't go there intentionally. I

JR:

everything's fried. Seriously. Have

JP:

you done Voodoo Donut?

JR:

No. I've heard mixed reviews. Ooh,

JP:

I've

Nat:

I know somebody who's a donut bitch.

JP:

Ooh. I had voodoo donuts, but like in Portland, so not are you a donut? Are you a donut? I have

JR:

I love donuts.

JP:

Have you had'em that

JR:

I will pay$5 for one donut.

JP:

Have you?

Nat:

That's not her, max. Don't let her fool you.

JP:

you know what we have to do now? We have to

JR:

most people won't pay that.

JP:

We gotta bring you the Simpson's donut

Nat:

There's

JR:

donut. Yeah, yeah. It

Nat:

we go, we go to, is there a salty around here? Oh, see

JP:

Uh uh No, but there is a better donut place around here. I forget

Nat:

better than the salty.

JP:

I have no idea.

Nat:

we're gonna

JR:

try all. No, you should try All donut chops.

Nat:

I know. I'm down.

JP:

Give them all

JR:

Don't dismiss.

Nat:

I know.

Ash:

concerned that we're missing out.

JP:

We m Yeah. We don't want

Ash:

better donut place?

JP:

forget what it's called, but it,

Nat:

it, is that what it's called? The Better

JP:

No, no, no. It's just

Nat:

We should open one called The Better Donut

JP:

No,

Ash:

it already.

Nat:

Yeah.

JP:

food related

Ash:

You know what though? That

JP:

about stopping

Nat:

that's a setup. It's a, it better fucking be better.

Ash:

Well, but like, no, then we gotta wake up wicked ass early.

Nat:

no, no, no, no. We

JR:

wouldn't You gotta work at like two, 3:00 AM We get,

Nat:

We'll be like, okay. And then we'll be like, Jonathan's up. You got it.

JP:

We're all

JR:

Have you ever made donuts at home?

JP:

No. Have you? Are You sound like the person who

JR:

bat. so our friend, she takes like the Pillsbury biscuit batter.

Ash:

Oh yeah.

JR:

And she rolls them into donuts and she just fries them in the pot and then sugars them.

Ash:

You can't have that. Stay down.

Nat:

Sh. It can be your reward when you get back. We'll have to celebrate.

JP:

Oh yeah. We're gonna celebrate. I'm gonna celebrate

Nat:

you can't

JR:

with Boma

Nat:

until we get together. I'll

JP:

sheet cake

JR:

Oh a whole. she a whole, she.

Nat:

And then,

JP:

Well, I mean,

Nat:

then he

JP:

it'll be like,

Nat:

I just like

JP:

it'll be like a, it'll probably be like a quarter sheet. Like it won't be like a whole full sheet

Ash:

Is that why you wanna go to Disney? When we come back,

Nat:

for

JP:

I just wanna fucking eat.

JR:

Mm. yeah,

JP:

It's like. I don't

Ash:

issue is we're going to Epic right before we leave.

JP:

right now.

Nat:

Yeah.

Ash:

we're going to Disney two we're, so we're going to Disney two times this month and then Epic again.

JP:

Yeah. We gotta go to

JR:

I'm so excited for

JP:

Saturday and then we're gonna go to Magic on Saturday. And then Hollywood on the 17th. And then on the 22nd we have opening day of Epic.

JR:

Oh, I'm so excited.

Nat:

I mean, at least like that is, that doesn't help you with like your walking and

JP:

Yeah. No, I mean, we're, they're, we're taking the kids,

Nat:

and then, I mean, I feel like for your food, I mean you just,

Ash:

just

Nat:

bring, just bring what you're going to eat,

JP:

bringing a sack of bacon.

Nat:

like, my friend he's building now, like he used to be heavy, like we've been friends since middle school and he's always like gone up and down. Like when I met him, he was vegetarian. And then again, he's fluctuated up and down At one point, like we were of the same size. He's been bigger. I've been bigger. And for these last like maybe two, three years, he's really been on it and. He's like, I asked him the other day, I'm like, do you have a six pack under there? And he was like, yeah, I wanted to punch him in the face anyway. But he brings his backpack because he is gotta eat like every two hours. And he's got, and like even so, like his treat or whatever is obviously we're doing, you know, we're at Epcot doing the festival and he's like ready to have like all the shit he can't have,'cause he has like a, his strict diet, but he'll have like, for what he looks forward to is like the desserts are here and there, but he still has his white rice and chicken breasts like that. He just

Ash:

Mm.

Nat:

like on, on the dot. But I'm

Ash:

I'm saying, do you, do you wanna bring a backpack of food to

JP:

I always wanna bring it back. No. So what'll happen there, the food that we had at Epic, so I'm, I'm arguably, I'm a bigger fan of universal food than I am of Disney food

Nat:

Can you compare to that? You would say this is better than that?

JP:

Yeah, a hundred percent. Disney pizza compared to the Epic pizza

JR:

I would never order pizza. at Disney.

Nat:

I've never had

JP:

It's a puffy crust pizza. It's just meant to, to fill, fill you up. So you like And it's

JR:

no good sauce, no good cheese.

JP:

about the pizza at Epic. So,

Ash:

So, oh, at Epic.

Nat:

oh wow. I saw, I saw your eyes miss it.

Ash:

It was pretty life changing, although we were starving. Not for nothing.

Nat:

of makes a difference. I just wanna say that

Ash:

It. I hadn't really eaten that day, but you had eaten that day. And I'm a very base, I have the palette of a five yearold, right. Like I want to order off the kids' menu. So it was just a pepperoni pizza for me.

JP:

Didn't, it side, it didn't look like it was gonna be as good as it tasted. I'm gonna be honest. It looked

Ash:

It looked, it looked like basic pizza, basic pepperoni. Yeah.

JP:

there were better quality pizzas to have had there. But go ahead.

Ash:

So we went to Epic and it was the end of our day, which was day two, which was supposed to be day one. It ended up being day two. And so it was what, like eight 15 when we walked

JP:

Yep. Eight 15. They were like, we don't have any to-go boxes. You're gonna have to eat here.

Ash:

Yeah,

JP:

And I was like, you're not gonna stop me from if I have extra slices, I'll just palm those sons of bitches. You have, has she seen me leave like a cow cowfish on city Walk with a pocket burger?

Ash:

A pocket burger,

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

Yeah.

Ash:

And so the, the restaurant, the new pizza restaurant at Epic is called Pizza Moon. And Theming inside

Nat:

is interesting,

Ash:

by the way.

Nat:

Pizza Moon.

Ash:

Yeah. And then, so it was cool. We sat down, they were like, you know, you pull up the menu on your phone, you place basically a mobile order and you give them your table number, they bring it to you. So we did all that. We didn't have to talk to anybody. We paid on our phones. It took our AP discount, everything.

Nat:

Ooh, that looks

Ash:

you're looking

JR:

was the end. That's the pizza.

Ash:

Yeah. So they have very fancy pizzas there and like super like, you know, catchy ones even.

JR:

the meatballs look good.

Ash:

I I do want

JP:

Def Yeah.

Ash:

And I just had a pepperoni pizza and so again, we were hungry, but there was a distinct taste difference compared to Disney. And I thought you weren't going to like it because it did have like a little bit of zing, like a little bit of zest in the sauce. He enjoys sauce, but he doesn't enjoy an overabundance of flavor. But it was so good. I was mad that I had to share it with him, actually.

JP:

it was, it was delightful. So, yeah. So like, yeah, absolutely. And then put the chicken strips up against Ashley for Disney versus Universal.

Ash:

Oh, apparently Disney's is so bad that I didn't even remember them.

JP:

they, so

JR:

Wow. You blocked out the trauma. Yeah.

JP:

clear up where we had them last, which was Adventure Land in magic, I think for Animal

Ash:

Animal Kingdom.

JR:

No.

JP:

No. Animal Kingdom was. Forgetful for sure. The benefit of animal kingdom's quick service food is that you can get the kids' meal and be fine and keep on trucking kind of thing. So if you quick service, they, if you're looking to just snack and go, you get the quick service. And I'm gonna be honest, I would rather have a Mickey pretzel than the than the universal pretzels.

JR:

Okay.

Nat:

Okay. I hear you. I

JP:

even know if it's the Mickey head that does it for me.

Ash:

That was a particularly good pretzel that day at ak.

JP:

Yeah.

Ash:

It was

JR:

fresh. So

Nat:

pretzel,

Ash:

Disney.

JR:

Disney

JP:

Disney Pizza.

Nat:

Pizza. Universal

JP:

Chicken.

Nat:

Universal. Yeah,

JP:

Is that it? Okay.

Ash:

Especially at Wimpy's.

JP:

Oh,

Ash:

yeah.

JP:

Veggie. Veggie Wimpy has better fries. Yes. Wimpy's has better. You remember Pop well, let's hold on. You remember Popeye? The

Nat:

the sailor man?

JP:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. I appreciate that. Do you remember his friend Wimpy, the guy who was like, I'll gladly pay you tomorrow for a hamburger today. They have a burger joint and Universal Wimpy is next to like the build wrap barge from Popeye. Right. And so,

Nat:

so the burgers are fire. I love burgers.

JP:

they're, they're really great burgers. It's they do a a vegetarian version, which is like a black bean burger, which is like phenomenal. And then they do like the Angus burger there, which is great. With like the, like the seasoned curly fries. We go there on, we don't, I think we've only bought it like twice, but on nights where we're at, the informer events where the food's included, that's like a stop. That is a must go to.

Ash:

bring your Ziploc. Yeah,

JR:

Mm-hmm.

JP:

Because they're, they're definitely a more expensive meal at the park for when it comes to like burgers. It could be like, if you get a couple burgers and fries, you're looking at it easy. Like 40 bucks.

JR:

But it's quality though.

Ash:

That's actually like top tier. We the, we were literally so

JR:

so excited. You don't, you don't feel good when you eat a bad

Ash:

No, Well, and or a disappointing burger even, right? Like, I hate paying for food that doesn't taste great. And so Wimpy's had actually opened up for the first time in memory a few years ago, and it was at the informer event, and the four of us, like took off running. We were like, oh my God, it's open. Right? And it was literally like the best meal we had ever had there. Everybody was just delighted with what they had gotten, and they kept it open after that. So we've been a few times since

JR:

they

JP:

do some really unique stylish, stylish dishes. Like some almost feeling like highbrow, like the the breaded cauliflower with the seasoned coleslaw at the

JR:

I love a breaded

Nat:

Ooh, that sounds interesting.

JP:

like some, some cilantro rice. It, it's like really good. How about the the color changing noodles at the Seuss Cafe? The circus McGurky? Yeah. Or the spiral. Cut

Ash:

food is really

JP:

it. It's, yeah. Impressive.

Ash:

At least to look at. Like they'll, they'll do a really good job like naming shit and like presenting it. Sometimes the taste can be kind of soso. But from like a, an entertainment perspective, universal, I think takes the cake on that one.

JP:

I love Burke At Epic had this wonderful grain bowl with a, with like a, a, a chicken breasts on top and some Brussels sprouts. And it

Ash:

That is not what I went to a park

JP:

No, but that was good. So if you're trying to eat healthy, it's there. The options are there. Yeah. Yeah.

Ash:

I skipped that one. And

Nat:

It is, it is. Make it easier. There's times where like, and I, I noticed like even in our, in our convo, like I think like we don't eat that often at the park, but we do. And we do. And like, and like I'm thinking different places that we've eaten from like,

JR:

I

Nat:

don't know, something rocket at, I.

JR:

at

Nat:

Tomorrow land, like their, their fa their burger spot. And then we've done the Castle and we've done, I forgot what it's called, but it's over by Frontier, the tacos. We've, we actually, we've done them on our own. Yeah. And then we've done them on our own, but we also did'em when we did the tour and sadness.'cause after, did we do the tour pre Covid or after Covid? I think, I don't remember. But I think it was pre only because

Ash:

there

Nat:

used to be like a salad bar ish. Like you could put your own toppings on your nachos and away. Right. So that's why

Ash:

first thing to go.

Nat:

Right. So that's, that's my only, and like, I don't know. I could be wrong on it.

Ash:

loves the salad bar.

Nat:

Oh yeah. And it wasn't like a full on. I know. Oh no. Ruby too. It's

JR:

I Ms. Sweet Tomatoes. Oh,

JP:

yeah. They sweet. So that was one of our, like in Orlando, it was one of our

JR:

about, is it Mika or, Jima?

Nat:

ika?

JR:

The, the ingredient.

JP:

Oh, I thought it was, you were talking about the wait staff.

Ash:

it's kind of like a plantain, right?

JR:

I don't know.

Ash:

Oh, I thought it

JR:

I was asking how to pronounce it, but that's where I learned about that

JP:

you apparently you didn't

Nat:

I learned about

JR:

JI

Ash:

right now.

JP:

though. Yeah.

JR:

J-I-C-A-M-A?

Ash:

no. I've seen it at the grocery store. I know exactly what You

JP:

learn how to spell it while you were there and say it. Dang. But yeah, no, you're a hundred percent correct though. That is the that was one of my favorite places to eat. Go to the park and then if you were like, if you weren't staying the whole day at the park and you were gonna bolt home, we used to like, to go to eat. Especially if we weren't,

Ash:

turnip,

JR:

especially

JP:

if we weren't staying like at a resort. If we were staying off property, then Oh, that's very delightful. I like the way it

Ash:

liar. You

JR:

turnips?

JP:

No.

JR:

It's Mexican,

Ash:

But I thought it was like a plantain that somebody had to

JR:

plantain, It's like it's very neutral taste. and it's just crunchy.

JP:

Yeah. They had it closed because of the tariffs.

JR:

sweet tomatoes,

Nat:

man. That's It's been closed. It's been closed. Girl, stop. I

JR:

like, no.

JP:

It was closed.

Nat:

Tuesday still exist? What's

JP:

What's that?

Ash:

there's one down the

JR:

Yeah, yeah.

JP:

Oh

Ash:

There's

JR:

They're still open.

JP:

is one of

Nat:

we're, we'll go there. We'll hit that up.

JP:

is one of my favorite. That is one of my favorite

Nat:

it, it's nostalgic for

Ash:

me. That's how I get him out of the house. Like to

Nat:

really? Is that your spot or? When? When I was a kid and like

JR:

my

Nat:

would either splurge or she was with my dad at the time. Like we'd go to like Ruby Tuesday. That was her thing. We loved their wings and the salad bar. And I remember my dad would get this steak and I felt like it had like,

JP:

like

Nat:

like some kind of melted cheese or something on top. Like it was like a small, it was some, I just butter. I don't know. It could have

Ash:

It could have

JP:

could have been a

Nat:

have been. I was a child. What the fuck do I know

Ash:

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nat:

But I remember like always being curious about it later, never being able to order it.'cause I don't know what it was. Yeah.

JP:

Yeah. It's yeah. So that's a, that's a, I like that.

Ash:

Is there anywhere you haven't eaten at Disney that you want to

JP:

at Disney.

Nat:

yes.

Ash:

Disney. Because that's what they know, sir.

Nat:

Yeah, exactly. There's no, there's no

Ash:

don't have aps at the other

Nat:

Right, right, right. Like,

JP:

don't rub it in

JR:

It's not everybody's

Nat:

able, you know what I'm saying? No. Okay. Babe,

JR:

I, I swear Wolfgang Puck. has a, a restaurant at

JP:

on Wolfgang Pucks

JR:

he, ha he has a place at Disney

JP:

I mean, I don't deny that I, it just wasn't at, it wasn't at City

JR:

go there.

Nat:

Okay. Even if he's not there, we can go there. Okay. Where else? Edison's

JR:

right? That's a place, yeah.

Ash:

Isn't it Italian or No,

JR:

she will

Nat:

never choose Italian.

Ash:

Oh,

JR:

I am choosing Italian. I would like to go to Edison's.

Ash:

maybe it was American. I could be.

JP:

there. There is a Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill in Disney Springs. It has, it currently has a Trivago rating of 3.8 out of five.

JR:

Ooh, very close to four

Nat:

almost. Yeah.

JP:

shooting at

Nat:

you would choose. Okay. Okay. Okay. And

JP:

Yelp. It's 3.8 out of five as well. And on Facebook it's 4.1 out of five. I feel like if we average those out, you got a solid

Ash:

is California cuisine?

JR:

It's like salads, avocado,

Ash:

Okay.

JR:

flatbreads. I like

Nat:

when, when it's like, what is like perfect example? California and it's like Mediterranean every, everywhere. But there is what it is. Yeah. Okay.

JR:

Maybe an Asian spin on it.

Nat:

Okay. So we, Wolfgang

JR:

Edison's.

Nat:

Edison's and where I

Ash:

feel like we looked at that

Nat:

What is Edison's?

JR:

think they've been, I think you've

JP:

where's, where's that?

JR:

Disney

Ash:

in Disney

JP:

Oh, you got anything at the park?

Nat:

know,

JR:

Oh,

Nat:

Thank

JP:

she's like turning her, she doesn't even ca She's like, the food at the parks is hot garbage.

Nat:

No. Well, the thing is like, like we were saying, she she anything that's like on the go, like we're more like she wants to sit down always.

JP:

I get that. I get that.

Ash:

outside.

Nat:

yeah. Right, right, right, right. You

JP:

not wanna sit at the garbage cans. Can you actually, can you get the Petri dishes for them so they can see what

JR:

don't know why people do that? And I don dunno why people take their drinks into the the public bathrooms.

JP:

Have I saw something the other day on like poop cools flying when you flush the toilet and it

JR:

And they'll take their open cup. with like their straw. in.

Nat:

Yeah. We'll,

JP:

because they think

Nat:

wait for each other outside. We let you gotta

JP:

you hold it.

JR:

Yeah.

Nat:

Absolutely. No, absolutely no

JP:

I tell you about the last time I went to to a gay bar and I was dancing. I was like, I was hammer drunk. And I was just like, I'm just gonna dance and get out here. And this was before I learned to put my thumb over the top of the beer bottle, bro. Did I start a fight with two, with two lesbians? They were like, why would you throw your beer, your drink on me? And she was like, what are you talking about? And they threw down and I was like, I'm not saying nothing. I was keep

Ash:

remember when I told you he didn't have those hips? Yeah. They'd be

JP:

Oh yeah. I was having, I was having a blast. Anyway, so,

JR:

So in the park, is there anywhere in Magic Kingdom

Nat:

we we wanna try, well, I want to try the harbor.

JR:

Is that a magic?

Nat:

Where The

JP:

that with the lobster roll? Yes. I wanted to go do that this weekend too. I wanna go to get, I wanna get a lobster roll. I have not had a lobster roll. I can't eat the lobster roll. Fuck. You're gonna have to eat the roll. I'll eat the lobster.

JR:

not,

Nat:

you just wanna torment me and it's failing. Yeah.

JR:

Over by Pirates of the Caribbean?

JP:

Over by

Ash:

building one.

JR:

one.

Nat:

ones,

JP:

They're building a whole like club thing. Yeah,

Ash:

The

Nat:

about the club.

JP:

I thought

JR:

what's the one by the doll whip place. There

Nat:

is one there. I've never tried it. It's on my

JR:

It's, Oh, I'm sorry. It's over by the, the boat ride. What's the boat ride called?

Nat:

The jungle cruise.

JR:

The jungle cruise. that restaurant across from it.

Ash:

Oh, I don't know.

JP:

Is that where like, hold on. The tiki room across from that?

JR:

Yes. The tiki room is across from that restaurant.

Ash:

I dunno,

JR:

That restaurant intrigues me. I don't know what it's called. And I don't know what, they serve.

JP:

lemme see if we can take a

Nat:

like, when, when I, when I think back and I think about like magic, we've hit up like most, a lot of their

Ash:

have you had the Mickey Waffle churros?

JR:

No, no.

Nat:

No, the thing is that I also all, it's not that I'm, I don't like them. It's just that, like, just thinking about a churro, I probably just gained two pounds. So

Ash:

hear you.

Nat:

it's a very, it's rare. Like some, like if she gets one, maybe I'll take a bite, but I'll, it's rare that I order one for myself.

Ash:

That's fair.

JP:

The spring roll snack car, no, that's not it. Although I will say

JR:

the spring world snack cart sounds good. Well, that's in front of the,

Ash:

had the

JP:

You gotta have the

JR:

that's a magic. that's

JP:

in Magic Kingdom at the bridge just before Adventure Land.

Nat:

It's just a

JR:

they, do they sell spring rolls?

JP:

They sell

Nat:

they're like, no,

JR:

And it's just ice cream

JP:

Pizza. and pizza. Spring rolls

Ash:

a hamburger.

JP:

ham and a cheeseburger. Spring roll. Get

Ash:

Mind

JP:

Get it. If

Nat:

sounds like this gives you joy.

Ash:

can

JP:

this is an item that gives us

Ash:

rolls

Nat:

see that$9?

JP:

If you've ever

Ash:

get one of each. They let you have one of each and the two.

Nat:

this is the passion that I like. See, so, so they can do it. They can do it. They can do it. They can, they'll, they'll

Ash:

tell, I don't know if they'll advertise it, but they'll say, what two do you want? And you can pick one

JR:

of

Nat:

each. Interesting.

JP:

know what Universal does?

Ash:

And they each come with their own sauce.

JP:

pass Passholder meals that non pass holders can't purchase. So during Passholder appreciation week, this is, and so I had this one cauliflower

Nat:

wanna have a sit down with the leaders of Universal and the leaders of Disney and just be like,

Ash:

so nervous at the new AP cost when

Nat:

are you guys doing?

Ash:

Epic. I'm

JR:

think, I think Disney's just very confident that you're gonna get it no matter what

Nat:

are.

JP:

I mean, I do some good stuff, so I'll, I, I'll give desserts, I'll give dessert. The pretzel, the desserts that's gonna go to Disney.

Ash:

Dessert?

JP:

The Dole Whip. I know that, I know that Doll Whips are available in many places. Whips, but Disney is where I had the first one, and Disney's World, I'll have my last one, you know, so like, I'll, I'll

Ash:

I want one of the lava doll Whips.

JR:

They have lava Do whip? Yeah.

Ash:

It's like a, maybe like a strawberry tropical concoction.

Nat:

fancy.

JP:

Yeah.

Ash:

I want it,

JP:

I'm going to,

Ash:

always

JR:

ridiculous.

JP:

I'm giving sushi to universal though.

JR:

I'm

Ash:

Oh, cowfish is

JR:

sushi.

JP:

Yeah. Cowfish is a much better sushi, sushi solution than oh, is it Ohana At at the Poly.

Nat:

Okay. Well, what about Morimoto?

JR:

where's that?

Nat:

That's their Japanese

JP:

at the Springs. You're taking me to Springs?

JR:

Yeah. Springs. He, does, he's looking for park food

JP:

But at the two places I named were just not Park food. Yeah. One was, one was City Walks, which is the Springs equivalent. The other one

Nat:

So that's why I'm matching

JP:

you know, I would, I'm, I'm open to, I'm, I love sushi. I'm open for, to ta to taste more sushi. I've just been really, I like, I've been really impressed with Cowfish and and then having oh, we had dinner at Ohana at the Poly, and the sushi was, sushi was good. They're just, it was just like, it was, I could have had Publix, I could have got Publix$5 sushi on Wednesdays and been sad.

Nat:

Oh, that was today. I, I thought I about that as a snack if you wanted it. Okay.

JP:

You know what else is good? Sam's Club sushi,

Nat:

it's not bad

JP:

but you gotta get like the, you gotta get a little racist and get the Japanese guy making it for you. You can't go in there and have like, you can't get the white guy doing

Ash:

Can't have Kevin

Nat:

Oh my

JP:

fuck, Kevin. You

Nat:

Sometimes Kevin, you don't know. He, maybe he wasn't, he lived in Japan for 20 years. No,

JR:

no

Nat:

You know what it

JP:

I want somebody who looks at

Nat:

sound like the guy who discriminated against the white guy who was just trying to learn Bonsai. A

JP:

A hundred percent. A hundred

JR:

there's a whole documentary about it. Oh,

JP:

Miyagi not Daniels Sun.

Nat:

there is.

Ash:

Say it again. Say it.

JR:

again.

JP:

I want Mr. Miyagi not Daniel's son.

JR:

Aw,

JP:

That's what I

JR:

Daniel son.

JP:

I want a translation When you're done with the translate. When he's done giving me my food and he says some shit and like Japanese and whatnot, and then somebody next to him will be like, oh, you remind him of his own horse trainer from the old land. Here you go. Once so, so

Nat:

my God.

JR:

Too bad.

JP:

That's what I want. Yeah. I'm open to

Nat:

I, I don't know how we're here though. So,

Ash:

sushi.

Nat:

but

JR:

but

Nat:

you were thinking about where you want Eat a Magic.

JR:

Yeah. What's the name of the restaurant? Did we find it? Figured

JP:

Oh yeah. Okay. Sorry. Yeah. I was on like, I was on

JR:

from the

JP:

Across. I've got all the restaurants in Adventure

Ash:

Pirates. No, across from Jungle

JP:

Sunshine Tree Terrace, which I think is where the doll

Nat:

not it.

JP:

is housed. Jungle Navigation Company. LTD. Skipper Canteen.

JR:

I see it?

Nat:

it on the map?

JR:

the Skipper Canteen. Yeah, I

Nat:

think it's,

JP:

then Aloha Aisle, which Oh, Aloha Aisle is the thing. And then Tortuga Tavern.

Ash:

Oh, maybe Tortuga

JR:

And I think. it's the new one that they're making.

Ash:

thought so too. Tortuga.

JR:

You know what I'm talking about? It's right next

Nat:

to Dolan right here. You're talking about this over. This is, what

JP:

number is it?

Nat:

Lemme see. What are, where are the foods

JR:

that we're looking 20? Number 20.

Nat:

We're number 20. Okay.'cause I thought it was 23. Okay. 20 Check out. 20.

JP:

out 20. Check out 20. Go to 20. Going to 20. Oh

Ash:

Oh no. Tortuga Tavern

JP:

Jungle Navigation Company, LTD, skipper Canteen.

JR:

What's in there? Food.

JP:

Food.

JR:

Tell me.

JP:

I don't need not an interactive map, ma'am. You gotta tell me. You're the one who wants to eat there.

JR:

Let me get my phone.

Ash:

Tortuga Tavern.

JP:

no, we're not there. Actually, we're looking at jungle navigation company, LTD.

Ash:

Don't make her get up and get her

JP:

Now I'm trying to,

Ash:

Jungle. What is it called? Jungle Navigation.

JP:

Yes.

Ash:

Skipper

Nat:

Skip. Well I want to eat.

Ash:

Ooh.

Nat:

So we're looking that up. The, the spot that you told me about the lobster roll. I look forward to that.

JP:

That's in that's in Colonial America. Oh, this food does look good.

Ash:

African, Asian, Latin casual dining. A la carte

JP:

Lunch menu is 15 to$35. Same with dinner. This, I'm not mad at this at all. So far the picture, I didn't even know what I was looking at in the picture. It looked like a.

Ash:

Delight your big and little explorers with premium table service dining in three curiously quirky rooms.

Nat:

Ooh,

JR:

at this place they have, Quirky rooms. Yeah. Three of them we're missing out.

JP:

Cola braised barbecue beef,

Nat:

just gonna

JP:

Congo, Connie coconut curry concoction. That's alliteration. Junior skips macaroni cheese. They got you two. Grilled chicken. Grilled chicken for gluten. For gluten and wheat free. Egg, fish, shellfish, milk, milk, peanut tree nut, sesame and soy allergies. So like you can just get like they have you covered.

JR:

And

JP:

and then steak

Ash:

steak, crispy

JP:

chicken up in that piece. Safari snack.

Ash:

curried vegetable crew stew.

JP:

this is cool. I can get down on that. It doesn't even look that expensive. Why haven't you taken her there?

Nat:

I didn't know she wanted to go there until today.

Ash:

We're

JP:

you gotta, you have to

JR:

know, it's funny, we always walk by and I'm like, I've never been in there.

JP:

man.

Nat:

You not out loud.

JR:

Correct.

JP:

I would, I would do this.

Ash:

You

JR:

were supposed to

Ash:

her mind. Natalie

Nat:

The thing is, I've, I've always been curious about it myself, but again, not out loud, like I didn't think anybody else was interested. How do

JR:

do you pronounce?

Nat:

Do you see what happens when we don't communicate? We could have been here years ago. Yeah. What if it's her new favorite restaurant

JP:

work on your communication. She's trying to communicate with you now and you just keep ignoring her. That's why she's probably said this a million times,

Nat:

ka choppas,

JR:

choppas. What is a ka choppa?

Nat:

don't know. I say

JP:

Mm-hmm. Joe's not even here. He's off today.

JR:

I like how they have a dish called tastes like chicken because it is,

Ash:

Mm.

JP:

why are you looking at me with that evil eye? She looks, she like,

Ash:

it's like you wrote the

Nat:

it felt like if

JR:

you know it's funny that idea, you look at my looks. But you don't label them right?

JP:

What do I label

JR:

like earlier? he said I had side eye. I am like, I don't do side eye.

JP:

you just did side eye to, okay, so hold on. Yeah. So give me, gimme side eye, gimme a little bit of side

JR:

eye. Now that you're putting me. on the spot.

JP:

somebody do side eye? Because maybe, I think it's, I don't know what side eye. That's side eye. That's what you did. That's what you did. I don't

JR:

what I did.

JP:

is.

Ash:

eye

JR:

eye

Nat:

No,

JP:

Is it? Is it because she what it is? You know what I'm getting confused.

JR:

means like, I feel like it has a connotation like I'm annoyed with you.

JP:

oh,

JR:

and I wasn't feeling that

JP:

what I'm get, what I'm getting is when you say side eye, it means that your eyes are tilted to the side and you're looking in that

Ash:

he

JR:

Say literally.

JP:

you're looking at,

Nat:

You're, you're meaning it in the emotional

JR:

way We have different definitions.

JP:

I got, I'm wearing my

JR:

we have different LA labels.

JP:

Oh, did I tell you? RF K's put me in Camp Red. Oh

JR:

Oh yeah.

Nat:

Oh yeah. I

JP:

We're gonna organize ourselves by height and weight first. Just try to see if we can fit more people in

Nat:

Have you, have you seen the accountant side quest?

JP:

Oh yes. This is my, that's my spirit animal. Is it? Yeah.

JR:

like it

JP:

yeah. I can't wait. I can't wait. He was on. He was on a competing podcast. Our, it's the only podcast that competes with us. Yeah.

Nat:

Ale. Yeah.

JP:

yeah. New Heights

Ash:

with,

JP:

With Jason and, and Travis and Ben Affleck

Nat:

was like, I was wondering, I'm like, I wonder if Jonathan will be down for this movie.

JP:

I love that movie. That's my, that's my spirit animal. Okay. Are you kidding me? I know a guy who, he, he, he's a freak in the sheets,

Nat:

don't like actors who pretend to have theism. Remember? Those are your words.

JP:

Yeah. But he stems really well. Number one, he's not, he's an in and

JR:

seems authentic.

JP:

and he, what does he do with his, his spare time? He works in, yeah, he, he, he's good in spreadsheets. He can look at, he can look at numbers and, and move everything around with enough dry erase

Nat:

Are you, are you

JP:

and he kills people.

Nat:

you talking

JP:

I love that

JR:

you're

Nat:

about his character again?

JR:

Yeah. yeah, The character. I

Nat:

wanna make

JP:

I love

JR:

I think it's, it's a good story. I,

JP:

I,

JR:

You know, it,

Nat:

wait for you to second one,

JR:

it changes people's Perceptions like,'cause a lot, I think a lot of people have misconceptions.

Nat:

the thing is that the, the world was very uneducated before. It was, it was only negative.

JR:

I think

Nat:

not, it wasn't thought of as what it is, is, you know,

JP:

Yeah. Now that you

JR:

if you're a kid.

Ash:

everything,

JR:

If you, if you're a kid, you have somebody to look up to, like you see yourself. I love that. as,

JP:

You gotta

Nat:

see. I can't wait. We'll talk about it

JP:

Yeah. We're going to

Ash:

The skipper

JP:

Scott, the Skipper

Nat:

the Skipper Canteen. We're gonna make a, that's a note. Ashley, where, where do you, is there a spot that you wanna try? Yeah, I wanna ask a matter of fact. Wait, pause. Even though I see you're very ready for the first question. I

Ash:

I was ready.

Nat:

I Okay. I wanna know where you want to eat at Disney. And I wanna know where you wanna eat at. Universal. Ooh.

Ash:

Ooh. Oh,

Nat:

Okay. Go. Okay. Before you answered those questions, answer the question you thought was gonna happen.'cause you already had that answer.

Ash:

Oh, I thought you were gonna ask me where I wanted to eat like you did to Bay. And then, so I was thinking about the giant, there's a, there's somewhere in Magic Kingdom where there's a giant mozzarella

JR:

stick

Nat:

in Magic Kingdom. Yeah. I, I hear that there's a foot long one at

Ash:

at Beach

JP:

in heavily.

Ash:

yeah, yeah, yeah. That one. I, I for sure. But we

Nat:

we have you had it? No, together.

Ash:

I've seen the TikTok. So

JR:

though. Can you eat the whole thing though, it's

Nat:

only, it's only a foot.

JR:

Yeah.

Ash:

Natalie's measuring.

JP:

Yeah,

Ash:

girl, I've been to the fair. They have'em there too. I just wanna try a Disney

Nat:

wanna try Disney. Ooh. Yeah.

JP:

I didn't like the ones at the fair.

Nat:

I mean, it was the fair. I'm just kidding. I don't

JP:

Yeah. It's

Nat:

No,

JR:

I mean you have to change out the oil, right? Yeah.

Nat:

That's important's

JP:

not at the fair. Right. Was that side eye or what was that? I just,

JR:

That was acknowledgement.

JP:

oh, okay. Thank you. You have to label your

JR:

every Do I have, Every time she side

Nat:

she's just gonna be like,

JR:

do I have to turn my head completely?

JP:

won't, I won't be able to interpret.

JR:

But an, okay, so here Boardwalk has the giant, mod stick. Oh, boardwalk. stick on a stick.

Ash:

Okay. Okay, Yeah, it's giant there, but I think it's

JR:

I

Ash:

I think it's the restaurant that's at the front of That has another sizable mozzarella stick and it, they like stack

JR:

Oh,

Ash:

It's like a cabin.

JR:

A cabin.

JP:

Let's see if it opens up for me.

Ash:

I forget how many pieces. It's like

JR:

three four Is it the Crystal palace?

Ash:

'cause that's more in the back, isn't it? What's There's like township, what's it? The one in the front

JR:

Let me see.

Ash:

magic.

JR:

you guys? I had the gray stuff at be our guest. Was it good? I was not impressed. that's sad. I was like this. Is really cool. But I didn't like it.

Nat:

And I just wanna say that they told us it'd be delicious

Ash:

They lied. I'm trying to find a picture. Oh, nope. This is Boardwalk one be looking extra crispy.

JR:

Is it sketchy. Is it the plaza. restaurant? Okay. The plaza. restaurant.

Ash:

the one. And then they stack them. Time.

Nat:

So I think they

Ash:

I think they put Alfredo sauce on it, which is not

Nat:

the footlong mozzarella stick, is that the only thing on your list? Is that your only go-to wish at what

Ash:

garlic bread? No, I thought it was mozzarella sticks

JP:

We're gonna move past her.

Nat:

No,

Ash:

Rude. It's

Nat:

my turn. No, she's not, she's not done. Just show me more emojis. Show me more emojis.

JR:

you. Just, you Just cut it. and then it's

Ash:

I feel like we've eaten everywhere at Universal. But not everywhere at

JP:

Like we skip the Whopper bar.

Ash:

Well, yeah, that doesn't count.

JP:

we haven't eaten everywhere at Epic, that's for sure.

Nat:

okay, so, okay. At Universal, either what's your favorite or which one you want to try that maybe you haven't because you've tried'em all. Oh, that was good.

Ash:

I'm not as familiar with all of the epic options, but we have talked about going to DS Steakhouse in a dark universe.

JR:

Oh,

JP:

you know what? I didn't, I'm a little nervous about the dark universe food because they keep dying their buns black and then it messes with your poop

Ash:

No, that's not it.

JR:

it. No, I was just showing you the picture of the pizza and it doesn't even look as good. as the pizza you guys showed us. This looks like

Ash:

Do better

JR:

at school Cafeteria.

Nat:

Dang. That. It just looks like it needs a little color and

JR:

flavor. I wonder if they don't do well on those foods because they think children are eating them

Ash:

and they don't try as hard.

JP:

I think,

Nat:

children

JR:

can't complain as

JP:

well, no, I think like,'cause other like Universal does stuff with their, with their food at the children eat like, so, green Eggs and ham. The who?

Nat:

had green eggs and ham.

JP:

Ham? Yeah.

Ash:

have?

Nat:

But at school,

JP:

Oh yeah.

Nat:

I was talking how to read, they made it for us.

Ash:

That's

JP:

just spoiled. You went to public

Nat:

We were in 10th grade.

JP:

sorry. You had to read all those books to get 12 books to get that pizza.

Nat:

Man. Remember the Reading Club? Stop

JR:

There was a reading club

JP:

The, you never had like, what was it book? It was that, it was called Book It where

Nat:

don't know. I remember the, I don't remember the, what it was called. It might be

JP:

if you would read like 12 books or something like that in a quarter like a book a week and a quarter, you could get you would get a free personal Pan Pizza. Pizza Hut.

JR:

Hut.

JP:

Yeah.

JR:

my school Did that.

Nat:

You wouldn't even get early out, early on Wednesdays. I don't even know what, what

JP:

yeah. How did anybody go to, how did anybody go to church at your school?

JR:

Oh, they didn't.

JP:

Yeah, I know. Because that's why everyone else got out of Did you get outta school early on Wednesdays, Ashley, for

Ash:

or? Our early release days were on Thursdays.

JP:

Oh. Oh,

Nat:

That's

JP:

Yeah. We

JR:

I never had early release. We went to school. The whole, all the hours. I

JP:

I

Ash:

I went to year round school

JP:

Did you go to,

Nat:

me

JP:

go to Catholic school?

Nat:

It was weird.

JR:

No, I went to public

JP:

I went to Catholic school for until they kicked me out and they were like yeah, I got their stories. I, I said, no, father O'Malley, I'm not sitting on your lap anymore. They were like, you're outta

Ash:

Why do you have to take it there?

JP:

No, I'm not the only one I'm sure.

JR:

There

JP:

lots of altar boys. Anyway, so when they kick you out you don't like, you don't know that other kids get out early on Wednesdays to come to your school.

JR:

So

JP:

like, I would, I would leave school on

Nat:

that why they get out early? To go to church?

JR:

Yeah.

JP:

To, to for catechism classes. So then you would go to,

Ash:

Oh, ours was a legit like early release day for like teacher planning and stuff.

JP:

Yeah, they

Nat:

yeah. No, I thought it was just like, I thought the whole world got early released on Wednesday until I found out

JR:

January. night

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

Delinquent ass. I was, didn't

JR:

know, my high school also got out 10 minutes later than all other schools.

Ash:

That's

Nat:

It sounds like you were with Hooligans.

Ash:

Did you go, like, what time did school start for you? Was it like nine?

JR:

It was like seven and we got out, was it two 30 or three 30?

Nat:

You started high school at seven

Ash:

a whole business day.

Nat:

I

JR:

I don't. Dang. No, high school, You know what? I just remember we got out at like 40 and all the other schools got out at 30.

JP:

Dang

Nat:

shade side, eyeing them.

JP:

You're side eyeing. Yeah. Dang. We, we did,

Nat:

when when you give me the side eye that Jonathan means it, like when you're mad at me, I'm be like, that's what he's talking about. That's

Ash:

the one, that's

JR:

one that

Nat:

thought he was

JP:

Hold that pose. Hold that pose.

Nat:

I'm gonna be like, Jonathan, this is the side eye you wanna avoid.

JR:

you're gonna be able to snap a pig.

Nat:

I'm be like, don't move me so mad.

Ash:

What

JP:

when, when we go back to Epic, I wanna go back to is Burke. I enjoyed the food in Is Burke.

Nat:

Okay. Wait, pause.

JP:

Oh my bad. I didn't realize that It wasn't my turn yet. I was still waiting for her to finish.

Nat:

no,

Ash:

think it was his turn because, no,'cause I brought up, so I brought up Doss Steakhouse, which is in, so that's the

Nat:

list. Yeah, that's your

Ash:

I think that's probably the one big place out there that we didn't really

JR:

get to try. Okay.

Nat:

Okay. Okay. And, and what's your fave?

Ash:

that's

Nat:

when you think universal. Okay. Think about that. We'll go

Ash:

Oh, universal.

JR:

Mm-hmm.

Ash:

I mean, so that pizza was top tier pizza. If they change that, it's gonna be very sad, but then like, close second is

JR:

wimpy. Wimpy.

Nat:

Oof. 10. Okay. Jonathan, are you ready?

Ash:

It's your turn husband.

Nat:

Okay. I need to hear, I need to hear your first year. Your favorite spot at Disney Inso.

JP:

Favorite spot at Disney is Boma. I

JR:

I

Nat:

that. I knew that.

JR:

should, have known that.

Nat:

I knew. I knew that.

JR:

that. That

Ash:

not even a

JP:

Beaumont breakfast.

Nat:

Let me, let me favorite. Okay.

JR:

Second

Nat:

favorite. And also in the park, not a resort or the springs.

JP:

Okay. Um hmm. I would say anywhere that sells the a dull whip. So that can be had at in at Animal Kingdom. Magic Kingdom. Yeah. What's up Ash? Bullet point we

Ash:

point, we went to Maria and Enzos in Springs, and that was delightful. But it's Italian, so if that's not your jam,

JP:

It's, it's every Italian's, like everybody's jam

Nat:

enzo's on the list.

JP:

Yeah. Yeah. That was better.

Ash:

'cause I think there's an Enzos and then a Maria in Enzos. Oh. Or an Enzos

Nat:

Maybe they got divorced.

Ash:

I don't know. I think one's more like cocktail related.

Nat:

the one I'm familiar with. You know, that's my

Ash:

That's not, we went to the restaurant and we had a, a good meal That was a pleasant, a pleasant meal.

JP:

And then

Nat:

That sounds good. Maria and Itsa My

JP:

My favorite at Universal, I would say I like the Minions Cafe their, their, their rice and and cauliflower is great. But I also like at what's the, what where we have the Grinch breakfast?

JR:

Oh.

Ash:

I can see it. Ville.

JP:

no close. It's very, it's

Nat:

why didn't they call it that? What the connecting with the

JP:

I wanna keep saying like Calypso or something

Ash:

Nope, that's not it. Islands, I,

JP:

I like, I like eating there on the second floor and I like the their cauliflower steak which is has, there's no meat in it, but it's really good.

Nat:

Thank you. Thank you for that clarification.

JR:

You know, it's funny, we have a vegetarian friend who had to ask the waiter about the vegetarian. steak. If it had meat in it.

Nat:

Do you want it to be safe?

Ash:

I mean, you can

JR:

no.

Ash:

too safe.

JR:

I

Nat:

mean, I, I feel like

JP:

Conco

Ash:

Confis Canfisco

Nat:

so funny. Okay.

JP:

And then I have one more.

Nat:

Okay. Okay. I love

JP:

Okay. I love that. I know.

Nat:

Halloween Horror

JP:

Halloween Horror Nights. Ooh, the walking Taco.

Nat:

Ooh,

JR:

the walking taco. okay. done all.

Nat:

All,

Ash:

in a row.

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

I love all of your answers for the faves. Now what do you want to try that you haven't,

JR:

I

JP:

that I haven't tried? I, I want to eat more at at Epic. I don't know what I haven't had there that I would really enjoy. Probably Atlantic Atlantica or Atlantic.

Ash:

The Atlantic is like their bougie, fancy restaurant in the park. I'm not sure what its comparison

JP:

no, nevermind. Strike that. Reverse it. Meteor Burgers.

JR:

Oh, meteor Burger. Ooh.

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

Oh,

Ash:

The

JR:

tried that yet?

JP:

I haven't tried that yet. That's

JR:

I wanna look at their menu.

Nat:

Okay. I

Ash:

it was more like pub

JP:

Mm-hmm.

Ash:

But that

JP:

it. It's quick service for sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Ash:

it was in Celestial Park. And so there were only so many meals in a day. Right.

JP:

Sure. I think we should do that when the, when we go back at Disney. I want to eat more at Hollywood Studios. But

Nat:

like Uhhuh.

JP:

Uhhuh? Yeah. Yeah. Not at the, at the place that looks like a cafeteria. Like where all the quick service things are in a row. Like bum bum, bum bubu. Like where we had the ice cream last time we were there after the hotel took you out. Yeah. Your poor

Ash:

I wanted to try the sci-fi place.

JP:

oh yeah. Is there like a fifties place there too?

JR:

Yes. Yeah.

JP:

One of those. I think I wanna go there. I don't even care if the food's shitty. I wanna go for the atmosphere. Or

Ash:

dining or something like

JP:

what about Woody's Rodeo? Roundup Barbecue? Have you been there? Oh, you know, we

Nat:

yeah. Actually I have. We've actually, yeah, yeah, yeah. We,

JP:

What about you guys eat at in Be Too

Nat:

We Is that in Star Wars? Yeah. Yeah. We recently just

JP:

there. Was it good?

Nat:

Is it good? It was good. We went with a friend and she, she's a pro because like, like we weren't hungry. The kids were hungry and like she knows to like get one meal and split it between the two, and they're still leftover, so we kind of snacked

JP:

she's like, Jesus with fish.

Nat:

she's, she's a mom. She knows what she's doing. But it was actually really good and I was surprised because I was looking at their menu and they had like, like, I don't know, like a, a meal with like rice and veggies and chicken and I was like, oh, that usually you don't see that. Like, so I was really impressed. Right, right, right. And, and and the food that, that we all shared and snacked on, it was, it was, it was good. I was, yeah. I enjoyed it. I'll do it again.

JP:

Yeah. Nice, nice. How about you? Is there, what do you want to eat? What want

Nat:

do you want eat? What do I wanna

JR:

Yeah,

JP:

Yeah, what's your favorite and where do you want to eat? The lobster roll.

JR:

I

Nat:

yeah, I want to eat there. That's on my list. January has tried to get me to stop, but we've been on the move and I was like, no, no, no. We're on a mission. But secretly I wanted her to be like, let's go put her

Ash:

put her foot down.

Nat:

I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Anyway yeah, I wanna try their favorite. I really enjoy the Brown Derby

JR:

in the

Nat:

That's in Hollywood.

Ash:

a fancy one,

Nat:

Yeah,

JP:

It's in Hollywood. Yeah.

Nat:

It's delicious. We've been there a few times now and we've enjoyed it every time. I didn't know Wolf Puck was at the Springs.

Ash:

I feeling

Nat:

down to try and,

JR:

like the fomo?

Nat:

okay. Oh no, it's a, what's it what's it called? And, and the, the, the Michelin rose? No. Bert, no, it

Ash:

many individual words.

JR:

Are you talking about the one at the Grand Floridian? Are they Michelin star?

Nat:

a mic. There's, yeah, there's the one with the Are you on it?

JP:

I'm looking, I'm looking.

JR:

think It's

Nat:

I need you to be

JR:

And Victoria,

Ash:

Victoria

Nat:

Victoria. There's that. I wanna do that one too. Yeah, for sure. But no, there's, then there's another one I'm talking about. Then there's probably two

Ash:

you pulling it up.

JP:

Disney has several restaurants recognized in the Michelin guide. These include Kappa. Which is a one Michelin star Citrico, which is a Michelin plate, Revelo, a Michelin plate, Morimoto Asia, a

Nat:

Yeah. Victoria and Alberts is on there.

JP:

California grill Michelin plate, the polite pig, Michelin Plate, Victoria, and Albert's Michelin plate. However, only one restaurant in Walt Disney World holds the distinction of having a Michelin star. And that is Kappa, apparently, I'm assuming.'cause that's the only

JR:

We gotta go to Kappa

Ash:

Never heard of her.

JP:

Kappa

JR:

Where is Kappa

JP:

Disney World.

Ash:

Disney.

JR:

Disney. Disney World's pretty large, sir.

JP:

It's the whole world.

Nat:

Ask him to, to give you the coordinate. It,

JP:

It's a steakhouse nestled on the 17th floor of the Four Seasons Orlando

Nat:

Four seasons of Orlando.

JP:

be a, like a, a, a

Nat:

a hug. Yeah, you can

JP:

that's just inside of the, inside the bubble.

JR:

Okay.

Nat:

And that's cute. Yeah. I didn't even know that existed. So, yeah. Victoria and Alberts, I wanted to try, we love Nacu as at the, at the Grand Floridian. Did.

JR:

Moto Have a plate or a star, A plate.

JP:

What's the difference,

JR:

I'm assuming you, you're recognized for one dish. Versus the

Ash:

the entire

JR:

getting Yes. restaurant a star for The restaurant

Nat:

all your dishes get it versus all just the what,

JR:

right. I

Ash:

Step your

JP:

You don't just

JR:

are we right? or Are we wrong?

JP:

I have no idea. I'm gonna look at it here. I assume you're right. Ooh, the page that Michelin's, like on the Michelin, like if you showed me I'm not listen, I'm not clean enough to eat this food.

Ash:

You, you're not clean

JP:

Do you see how like, it's just like a, it's a, it's a slice of fish and like one, one regular baby tomato and then like one drained tomato and then like some sauce. I don't even know what that, if you gave me that sauce and you're like, what is that? I don't know. I need

JR:

Have you ever had a sense of tomato

Nat:

essence.

Ash:

Like just the

JP:

I, I've, I've been that hungry where I was like, I wish I had a tomato. I even just a, a sense of

Ash:

I'd love a tomatoes

JP:

just like a,

JR:

of

JP:

a, a sense. Yeah. I wish I had a sense of one, I'll even take a nickel. I don't give a shit. Give me, gimme a dime of one a quarter. I don't give a fuck. I like, no, I'm never had essence of tomato. I,

JR:

to you in a shot class.

Ash:

Oh,

JP:

the, have you ever, like, how do you get the tomato out then? Doesn't it get stuck?

Nat:

It's, it wasn't a tomato. It was the essence,

JP:

the idea of a tomato.

JR:

was liquid.

JP:

It was liquid. Oh, oh V eight.

JR:

No, No,

Nat:

no, it wasn't red.

JP:

What did they do?

Ash:

It wasn't

JR:

of air in it. There's a lot of air. It is very,

JP:

Let me,

Nat:

it's

JP:

Be only because a fool and their money are soon parted. How much did this essence shot Gloss cost

Nat:

You, it was actually complimentary from the

JR:

Yes.

JP:

better become when you're in the back. When you're in the back. Like, what can I give these assholes that doesn't cost us anything.

JR:

Right. That some of the juice and they just like whip air

JP:

it. Whip that up, whip that up, whip that up. Let's give them that. You get like a whole like can of V eight in the back that

Nat:

It, it was surprisingly good. The

JP:

dishwasher's just drinking out of the VA eight and he is like, I know what to do.

JR:

It's the V eight without pre preservatives.

Nat:

I wanna go to Earl of Sandwich

Ash:

a clear

JP:

Oh, that's in Springs too. I know.

JR:

I know.

JP:

What makes you wanna go to, I'm curious.

Nat:

I like sandwiches.

JP:

like sandwiches too.

JR:

that essence of tomato. Oh wow.

JP:

Can I see it?

JR:

it?

Ash:

it

JP:

Oh, that doesn't look at all like what we talked about. All right. Does anyone have any final thoughts on

JR:

do we learn about the plate versus the star? Yeah. Do we care?

JP:

we, I, I don't

JR:

Oh, oh, okay.

Nat:

I thought we knew

JR:

It's been struck from the record.

Ash:

no, I'm,

JP:

that's going in there. We're taking your answers what I'm saying?

JR:

Oh.

JP:

Yeah. You won, you won the plate versus the star. I'm,

Ash:

She,

JR:

Googling

Nat:

It's not good enough for her.

Ash:

we need closure.

JR:

I'm curious.

Nat:

Let me think. Like, I like a good burger. Oh, I want to try the, the Italian restaurant in Epcot, and I want to try the French restaurant. We've been to the Japanese restaurant.

Ash:

Oh. So we went to the Italian one

Nat:

I want to go to the one in Mexico and I wanna do the tequila tasting, and I wanna go to the one in the pyramid, and I wanna go to the one in Morocco. There's a lot of places I wanna go. I'm a fatty.

JP:

you're gonna be,

Ash:

The tequila

JP:

you're you're healthy, ma'am. We

Nat:

We should

Ash:

No, but we went to the, to the

JP:

We're going on on the 19th. We went to the Italian one when we went to go see.

Ash:

Neil Patrick Harris. It was good.

Nat:

I, that's what I hear.

Ash:

a cocktail.

JR:

You see,

Nat:

look at you guys. You know when you

Ash:

didn't, I forgot all about it, but that was a good meal.

JR:

see,

JP:

it was a good

Nat:

I think that when we, when we, when we stumble upon, like leave the kids' menu and explore new things,

JR:

you can

Ash:

get me to explore Italian.

Nat:

I like it.

Ash:

My level of autism will, will explore there. That's probably,

Nat:

that's where it stops.

Ash:

and the alcohol is fine as long as I can see through it.

Nat:

Okay. All right. And also, like, we can set it up where like the tall one can drive one way and then you can drive the other. I mean that, wait, that's not, that's not the, we did the wrong way. You drive there and then he said drive.

JP:

that's

Ash:

That's usually how it works. Anyway,

JP:

But we're we're up on the 19th

Ash:

Have you been two? Is it the Scat Cat? Something like that in the French corner.

Nat:

No, the restaurant. That's

Ash:

that's there.

Nat:

No, I'm down for that.

JP:

Well,

Ash:

Well, let us know what your schedule looks like. Yeah, we'll make appropriate

Nat:

We'll, we'll, we'll check with the

JR:

too. What, what day is

Ash:

the 19th.

Nat:

the 19th of July.

Ash:

If anybody's listening, you're welcome to join us on the 19th as

Nat:

Alright, we'll, we'll, we'll let'em know.

Ash:

shirts.

Nat:

Oh my gosh.

JP:

are we, are we ready to check the mail?

Nat:

We have mail,

JR:

that

Ash:

Fuck yeah. S

JR:

slot time. slot to

Nat:

be confused with s slot time, but go

JP:

slut.

Ash:

That's fair. Actually,

JP:

That's a whole different, it happens in about 30 minutes. Good job. So no, there's no mail.

Nat:

Wow.

JP:

It's good, good times. Good, good times. I would say but I do have something we're gonna reverse check the mail since, since y'all are here and live and in, in color. Yeah. You remember when? You remember when they won the the Christmas ornament

Nat:

ornament? Yes. Are we gonna deliver?

JP:

took a Yeah. Remember you're gonna be, you're gonna be like Santa,

Nat:

We're gonna be deliver. Oh my

JP:

Yes. We're gonna have you

Ash:

with so much more than you came with

JP:

Pony. We'll have you pony express it up there to'em.'cause I'm terrible at putting things in the mail.

Nat:

It's okay. I, we literally just shipped something on Sunday that basically we've had stuff since July. Okay. So don't, it's

JP:

we've had your birthday presents here since October.

Ash:

October.

Nat:

I love it. You guys, you're

Ash:

also Sask? Sca Lula

JP:

what are you, lemme pause. Ashley. What are you doing?

Ash:

for the

JR:

Cola.

JP:

you're on the restaurant. Okay. We've, we are, we're checking the mail. Oh.

Ash:

There's nothing to check,

Nat:

but it's empty. The slot is empty. Well,

JP:

do people will send us to fill our slots?

JR:

Oh, where the dink po? At gmail.com.

Ash:

Is it Gmail?

JP:

thank you. January. I appreciate that. The only, if anyone's notices, January is the only one who remembered this email address after I say it three times a day

Nat:

I need you, everybody to just calm down. You said you had an issue with the domain, so I thought like

JP:

I Oh no, it was something else. No, no, no, no. We're still there. The dang pot@gmail.com

JR:

Is

Ash:

that the only one?

JR:

you French Quarter or Riverside?

Nat:

You guys are gonna have

JR:

p

Ash:

We're

JR:

yo have the beignets

JP:

yeah.

JR:

So you can get two options also. You can order like an order of six or like, I think individual for Benet. Yeah, you definitely wanna get the order of six. Okay.

Nat:

Are we, are we done? Okay, are we, we didn't Dan out? Dan

JR:

out. Dan out.

Nancy:

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