Parker, from Adventures With Parker finds out if he is 'the map,' and former Walt Disney World cast member Jen Diaz tells us why she thinks Jungle Cruise is racist! - To support our work, and hear Patreon exclusive series like "The Doomscroll" and "Assemble: A Marvel Podcast" - click here. - AUTO TRANSCRIPTION (contains errors) Kory: [00:00:00] Four years ago on February 25th, 2017, my friends and I launched the no midnight podcast that would become no midnight media, a production company, producing theme park pulse, the game Adam's theme park time, machine unpacked, assemble the doom scroll and more over the last four years we've grown and you've grown with us. We owe our growth to you. Thank you very much for telling your friends how much you love the show and for your iTunes reviews and your emails and your tweets. Most importantly, just thanks for listening. I'm Christopher Biel. You might know me as Corey, the host and producer of theme park, post the game. And I just want to say thank you. Kory: [00:00:52] We're presenting this week's Theme Park Pulse: The Game. Ad-free welcome to theme park pulse, the game, the game show for theme park fans. I'm your host Corey in San Francisco, and I'll introduce you to the rest of the panel and just a second. Theme park, post the game as a completely fan supported podcast. And if you would consider supporting our work for as little as a dollar a month, you'll get cool series like the doom scroll every Thursday morning. It's a Patrion exclusive more info at the link in the show notes. Thanks in advance this week. Parker from adventures by Parker on YouTube finds out if he is in fact, the map and former Walt Disney world cast member gin Diaz. Tells us why she thinks the jungle cruise is racist. That's all in the next half hour on theme park pulse, the game up first, it's the Park's pop culture pop quiz. If you'd like to play theme park, post the game, call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message. Let's welcome. Our first contestant on theme park, post the game this week from Orlando, Florida. It's Jen Diaz. Hey Corey. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for joining us this week 10 in just a minute, I'm going to test your parks knowledge with the Park's pop culture pop quiz. But first I want to introduce you to are mentally and physically scattered. Panel. You'll see what I mean in a minute, first in Sacramento, California, he is the co-host of assemble a Marvel podcast on our Patrion. He is a one-time so far Mandalorian cast member, Tik TOK Liberty, and the person on this cast most victimized by Mercury's current road trip through retrograde. It's our scorekeeper Alby. Sean: [00:02:48] Oh, I Josh: [00:02:48] just can't with her. Can I just pull a Mariah? I don't know Josh: [00:02:51] her. Kory: [00:02:51] Sure. Cool. Also in Sacramento, practically, within shouting distance of Alby. Which is in fact why we had to separate them in the first place. It's our pal, Adam. Adam: [00:03:02] Come over and pick up that thing you left, or Josh: [00:03:05] you can keep it. I don't want it. How Adam: [00:03:08] come Alby gets all these accomplishments and I'm just the guy who lives close to Alby Josh: [00:03:14] as I'm the Kory: [00:03:15] famous one. Sorry. There's only room for Al B's eco on this show. Adam, fresh off of his family's fourth mandatory vacation this quarter so far. Somewhere in some place. Maybe it's Jack. Hey Jack. Hey, mom runs a tight ship and just be happy. I'm here to mess everything up cause I don't have a segment. So that's what I'm here to do. Hello? Kory: [00:03:37] How accurate that is on our flight East. Now we'll have an inexplicable three hour layover in Denver where we can visit the host of the modern mouse and assemble podcasts at some local coffee shop, giving the people in line at the Starbucks across the street. The stinkiest of looks it's Josh Taylor. I only Josh: [00:03:55] give stanky, looks to hosts there on this podcast that refuse to give up their Starbucks. Even though they have horrible experiences at them on a consistent basis. When I've told them almost weekly, they should go somewhere else. Adam: [00:04:13] But you're not going to name names or anything. I mean, Josh: [00:04:16] No, I would never say Corey's name out Kory: [00:04:18] loud. He hasn't had a conversation with anyone, but his wife off of zoom. And about two years, one was the pandemic. The rest is just a general dislike of the human race. Of course, via zoom in Greenville, South Carolina. It's Sean. Hey Sean. Sean: [00:04:32] I feel like I legally have to point out that I am not just mentally scattered, but I'm scattered smothered covered and chunked. Yes. As is the waffle Kory: [00:04:40] house way. Hungry now spoken Adam: [00:04:42] like a true southerner. Kory: [00:04:43] And finally she co-hosts mornings on WVA Q in Morgantown, West Virginia, which means that if you can't hear her, it's not the microphone. It's not your headphones. It's regional blackouts. It's Nicki Drake. Hi, Nikki. Hi, I'm Jen: [00:04:57] here today. I'm glad to be here. Welcome Kory: [00:04:59] Corey. I hope we get a poem out of you at some point during the show. No pressure. I can, I can get some Jen: [00:05:05] haiku's written while Kory: [00:05:06] we sit here. Jack's family's yacht. It Nikki: [00:05:10] can be Jen: [00:05:11] about Jack. It can be about Al B's, ego it's whatever. Kory: [00:05:15] Just let the muse. Speak, Jen. Thanks again for joining us on theme park, post the game. You're a former Walt Disney world cast member at what roles do Jen: [00:05:22] I was attractions in the star Wars launch Bay and a character attendant or a blueberry. And that was at any park on any Kory: [00:05:30] given day from Walt Disney world in 2020 during the pandemic. It's important to us at the Merkel's the game to talk to the actual cast members. What have these layoffs and losing your dream job, how has that affected your life in the time center? I Jen: [00:05:44] think, at least for me, it was something that was on the horizon. It was something that you saw the boat getting bigger and bigger. So I'm glad that Disney kept us on for as long as they could and took care of us for as long as they could. Before these layoffs inevitably came, I survived most of 2020 with Disney helping me out. I've wanted to work at Disney world since I. Could remember, and I had two really great years with them and the story's not over yet. So I don't know if I could come back in some other role in some other capacity. It was just bittersweet, but I was glad that, like I had that chapter of my story. Do you Kory: [00:06:22] have a favorite memory from your time as a cast member, Jesse? Jen: [00:06:25] People's faces light up, seeing these characters in real life and holding a lightsaber and like using the forest, it was just like, I've seen people cry, any range of emotions. Like I've experienced them at Nikki: [00:06:37] Disney world. I'm crying right now. Kory: [00:06:43] emails with you. You revealed to us a couple of hot takes that I wanted to go through one that the jungle cruise is racist and too. But the trace Caballeros ride is cringy. Yeah. Has that opinion changed now that it also has no animatronics? Nikki: [00:07:03] It's just Jen: [00:07:03] outdated. We feel your sister, like, you know, a theme park isn't supposed to be a, a time capsule. Walt really intended it to keep changing, to keep growing. First couple of times I wrote jungle cruise. I was just like, Oh, that, you know the jokes they're, they're cool. And. And everything and they're cheesy and like, yeah, I get it. But it just felt very like through the lens of like colonization and you know, it just, it just felt weird and icky to me, especially like, I dunno, the shrunken head jokes, the getting back to civilization jokes is like, Oh, well the natives ooga booga it just felt very like, Uh, like this, but I get it. People love the jingle cruise. So Kory: [00:07:47] it's what happens when you wrap some tensile around right. Brian, Jen, we're going to play the parks, pop culture, pop quiz. I'm going to ask you three questions about some recent news and parks, pop culture. If you get too correct, you're going to win a glow in the dark theme park pulse wristband. Are you ready to play? Okay, I'm ready. You sound nervous. That's her secret? The orange County register reports that a new bill proposed by California state assembly members would speed the reopening of Disneyland and universal studios, Hollywood and override the governor's guidelines that have left the state's theme, parks and amusement parks closed for more than 10 months. Who is the governor of California? Nikki: [00:08:29] She lives in Florida. What are you doing to Jen: [00:08:32] her? Kory: [00:08:35] Yeah, that's right. Depending on the day of the pandemic, you're in, he's either the next president. Or is going to be immediately recalled an exile to the fair lawns by raft. But these businesses that run the parks and the assembly members that represent them, say it's time for a framework for reopening safely reached for a comment. A Disney rep says, quote, M I C K E Y, where a freaking mess. He did not in fact say that they should have though. Question to Disney on ice is for many of us, a little glimpse of Disney. When you can't get to the parks, it rolls through town. And once you get over being the only inebriated solo adult in the arena, your blurred vision from the booze or your age makes it almost sort of feel like you're at Disney. You know, well, Disney on ice was in Kansas city. Recently when the health department shut down their production of dream, big due to repeated violations of what. Nikki: [00:09:32] Not Jen: [00:09:32] wearing their masks. Kory: [00:09:35] We're going to take it. It's more severe though. It's repeated violations of COVID-19 restrictions, including. A COVID-19 outbreak among the staff that Disney on ice is parent compan
