I've been giving you the worst I've been giving you the worst Please tell me we have audio I'm beautiful What, only three weeks to get it right? No, I can hear us, I heard that Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're good Yeah, look at this person here Time out Time out, I agree I just want to take a moment to tell What, we had to do a lot of programming on that angle He refute, the reason we're like, what, a minute, two minutes late with our intro is because, no, the makeup team we had to get them in here for you Look at this, not look Oh my goodness I do have a shiny for it, we tried to fix that I'm white, what are we gonna do? All right What have you been up to? I know that you've been to Wonderland five times this week You know what? I have been to Wonderland I've been driving past it, there's been a lot of snow so it's been hard to look at the track or even just do my normal walk, I always go walk along the road to Rutherford, touch the gate and come back off Wonderland property, of course You know me, I I hurt my hand a little bit I did some car surgery on my car with duct tape Holy It's been a pretty eventful week to be honest I feel like we need to have a few more details on that Yeah, so, okay I hurt my hand, I was donating blood and to make a long story short the nurse who was administering the needles not to gross you out but it's quite a anyways she was actually a student, I learned a medical student, second year and I guess she couldn't quite find the vein properly and she poked my nerve it's called a remedial nerve and it controls these three fingers my thumb is still numb but things are getting better I'm gonna turn the mic a little bit towards you, see if that helps a little bit Oh and then my car, a piece of plastic on the underside of my car came loose when I was driving in the snow and I got stuck, I got stuck and I guess it ripped it out so I used glue and duct tape to hold it back up the duct tape is all falling away but the glue is working and it's on the underside of the car so what kind of glue? like some cement glue I got it from a construction site one of my construction sites oh my god, I had an uneventful week nothing compared to yours I just started out my new store and that's it that seems pretty exciting I've had a lot of days off to recover I had a lot, so yeah it's been a very boring week I didn't fly it Wonderland once this week either, did I? oh no, we met up at Monday Tuesday to fly it I'm a little overdue for a flight I was in discord a lot so for those of you that don't know join us in discord I think the link is in under the videos but it's fun, we play a lot of roblox lately PL Premium that's what it was it was PL Premium oh my goodness yeah that's it oh my goodness we really need Wonderland to open what are you looking at? nothing, I'm not comparing beverage levels at all that was full 30 seconds ago it was not okay okay, you know what I thought it would be fun to start off the stream with a little therapy for Surya oh good more therapy so Surya, why don't you explain to the audience a little bit about your obsession your coping mechanism well, you know what there's this place you guys may have heard of it called Canada's Wonderland and it is currently closed yeah, I know oh, I'm literally dying I wake up, I go to work and I cry but you know what, it's okay because I go there, five days a week I go to the Starbucks I order my latte you know what I've been ordering? I've been ordering the pistachio cream latte very nice I sit in my car I put all my nice bundle up, get nice and warm and then I go for my walk I send my streaks you know, I take a little video every now and then it's quiet, it's very beautiful it's very relaxing you're such an old man I go to Starbucks I have a routine I have a routine and if anyone asks, I take the long way home from work oh yeah?  I feel like a lot of people in here can relate to you this is why I wanted to talk about it, not to embarrass you I actually feel like most of the people in the comment section right now can relate so, okay, real talk I will admit that what I do in the winter is quite weird this podcast has really been helping by the way, but I I guess I go to Wonderland so much because I associate that with positive like, memories, positive vibes and just a positive feeling and even though the park is closed I'm going there and I'm trying to emulate that still even though it's quite weird now that I say it out loud I'm like, what about this season was positive? I don't know you're like, oh it was so positive, it was so great and I'm like flashbacks just running away from teen girls people calling us bad names you're like, it was so great this season I missed it so, okay, not this season, not this season but just Wonderland as a whole for the whole past 10 years I've been going as a whole, this season was very traumatic but I think we've come up with a good way to deal with that I still love it this season it was very traumatic trauma it was definitely an experience, it was a learning experience but anyways, so yeah, I go to Wonderland I guess like that so much is because I just miss it I miss the idea of just being at the park I miss the rides I just enjoy looking at it I miss having a place every day to go meet up with a few guys, with my friends so that's why I go there it reminds me of those times and that is definitely a coping mechanism because for one it's January, right, so you got the winter blues and I know it's not just me and branding I'm sure can relate that mental health is deteriorating it seems to be amongst our generation whether it's the economy or whatever it is, I don't want to get too much into that but it's a fact that there are more people today, more than ever going through mental health not even crisis, it's just struggling guys there's a lot of people struggling and this is a way that I am trying to cope with it I have to be honest, it doesn't work 100% of the time because when I leave I just get sad again so it's a band-aid but that is why I go because I am trying to find a way to deal with my mental health issues now therapy does help and you know Brendan, my friends, my therapist has really been helping me so I'm trying to wean it off, I'm trying to come up with better coping mechanisms but overall that's why I go to Wonderland, even in the winter translation he needs a girlfriend starting our next segment welcome to The Bachelor oh god, I'm so attractive okay, I have no order that I really wanted to go through things so I think we'll just like literally click, I built this two days ago so I low key forget Brendan actually, he always says this guys, he always downplays it but he works hard at this he'll sit down for like 2-3 hours and actually get everything together so don't he downplays it but he works hard at it oh my goodness, okay so hopefully you guys like it today I put a little bit more work into it we're gonna start with Marine Land Talk you're almost out I have 5 cans I'm good are you good, you have one drink you better make that loud alright, we do have Google reviews, we have Karen reviews I have a whole set for it now because you guys liked it so much we have a lot, guys we're gonna start doing skits too we're gonna start filming some skits for the podcast and we're really hoping Wonderland gets involved with some of the skits fingers crossed, fingers crossed but yeah Marine Land, oh I did put a camera in here is it working, the audio working it should, it's a copycat oh my goodness, look at all those tall rides oh yeah, I see an RMC back there yeah, that's real nice it's a RMC alright, okay so Marine Land I already gave my opinions in a video so I'll kind of be the background actor in this and you do a lot of the talking so have you read the CP241 there's variations of what's happening actually I got very upset today specifically a couple of days ago and now I'm not excusing at all, nobody here is dismissing what Marine Land did or even just whatever is going on but I think the media has done such a great job of demonizing the park that this might even go for buyers there's this stigma, there's a black flag associated with Marine Land and it's like, no we can't touch that that's a failing business, that's a dying business I really don't think it is there's so much opportunity there and hopefully people start to see it but some included that's a planet coaster RMC not even a real RMC so yeah, so they're trying to sell it but there's so much stigma behind it that I don't know like Brendan obviously knows a lot more about buyers and stuff but I think when buyers even look at Marine Land like other amusement park operators or anything to do in the entertainment business that stigma is attached to it which it's really unfortunate because I do believe Marine Land is drastically changing their ways there's so much potential at Marine Land they have so much land where even whatever CP24 said if they're going to come and build houses they have so much land they could build like 500-600 acres of houses and still have enough for a full still have enough to fit two Candas Wonderlands and the rest of their life think about that guys, that's over a thousand acres so I really don't think it's the end of Marine Land I think it's just CP24 the Toronto Star, they're all trying to paint this narrative doomed to Marine Land because that's what's selling right now so there was an actual Niagara news outlet that reached out to Marine Land and got the full story I feel like I thought you didn't know about that so basically they're not selling the land for houses it's selling just as a theme park as it has always and they're seeking a tax break to build more attractions so they're applying or lobbying for a tax break to build more attractions which is, that's pretty huge news there's several things that could mean they already have a buyer and now they're just finalizing a few details that the buyer has requested so the buyer could have been like well we want this, this and that and it's up to you to get that that could be one, or number two looking for extra incentives for the buyers, but the good news is regardless if they do get these tax breaks that the money in those tax breaks could be used for attractions that's pretty iconic for a park like Marine Land yeah, that would be fantastic and you know, I think investing in attractions now is the most important time for Marine Land because that would further show that, hey you know what we want to get away from the animals and we are an amusement park just come here, come ride the rides look at, I don't know, walk around come ride the rides and Marine Land has so much space that they could literally add whatever they want they could add anything you know, they're not pressed for space they're in a great tourist area so, they are so there's more tourists around Marine Land than there are around Wonderland so it's crazy to me that Marine Land isn't more successful obviously for several reasons it's image, which I agree with you they are over-hated now I know people who work with these animals who have reached out to me and have literally said they would never let Marine Land even if Marine Land wanted to which they don't want to they would never let Marine Land treat the animals horribly these animals are well fed I can vouch for this, like I will literally put my image behind that vouch just because I have talked to these people that work with the animals I've seen them, they play with these animals more than you think so I wanted to do this, I was going to do it for next podcast but I'll explain it because I'm still going to do it but I'll explain it to you guys I could literally film Surya walking through the woods okay, like just Surya walking through the woods and insert the same song these news outlets showed Kiska the Whale and it would look like he's being abused it would look like he's living a miserable life I mean, you are, but I go to Wonderland every day and you get the same reaction like oh my god I feel so bad for him like anyone getting a drone shot like drone shots already have like a dark vibe to them, like I don't know it's just the angles and all that like you insert the right song and like anyone's going to eat that up and they already have the bad image so no matter what, they're going to keep flying that drone over Marine Land the whale is going to be swimming in its small enclosure I'm not saying that whales belong in enclosures too late, the whale is too old, it cannot be transported without there being a great chance of it dying so I think actually with what I know about Marine Land and how they're treating the animals now the whale is much better off at Marine Land for the time being 100% agree and I think what you just said about, you know, you can show the shirt a certain angle, you play the sad song that goes back to like, you know certain people painting a narrative right and I've always been a firm believer that you know, it's okay to believe a little bit what you read, but at the end of the day you should do your own research, get multiple sources and if you can, experience it for yourself ask questions don't just take what you see on CP24 what you see anywhere at face value 100% and we're not I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise and I trust me, I do know Marine Land is not innocent, they definitely mistreated their animals before and I strongly disagree with the bear enclosure I've seen the bear enclosure, I do not like it and there's no way that's sanitary it's disgusting so there are definitely flaws about Marine Land but you can't fix everything I mean, every single human has flaws too and they've made strides, like they have made strides but it is time for Marine Land to sell and honestly like not who you think who would you love to see by Marine Land who would I love, like I can pick anyone yes, anyone Bushgard and SeaWorld I think they would because they already have the experience especially even with the animals and I think they're going in a really good direction and they invest, invest, invest heavily on attractions, on theming, on landscaping on entertainment they know how to run a park if you think of Six Flags the bottom tier, you know now Cedar Fair is, you know, middle to upper tier but SeaWorld, I would put above Cedar Fair like they just do it right mine's harshened it's hard to... I'm sorry I'm sorry the audacity to bring the poverty back here I had a conversation about this I need to go fund me I need an iPhone there's that new TikTok trend going around where 10,000 people give me a dollar if 2,000 people give you a dollar you can get an iPhone I need an iPhone, apparently what was that? do do do do do turn that off right now oh my goodness it's off it's off this happened last time too it just goes off at the weirdest time oh my goodness sir, you need an iPhone I'm getting bullied okay so harshened everyone would love harshened Hershey Park next I'm really hoping these new rumors about Hershey Park end up being right but I have a feeling they're not I have a feeling they're not it would be cool now the good thing is with tax breaks and the Canadian dollar being so weak if an American buyer was to be looking for land in Canada in the Toronto-ish area this is the perfect opportunity and it's insane to me that Marine Land doesn't have a lineup of American buyers right now because you look at Canada's Wonderland's attendance it's the highest seasonal attended amusement park in North America it's first year of Winterfest broke records it definitely was the highest attended seasonal event in winter for sure too the first year even just hearing like sales numbers this is going to be a common theme with our discussions because we were accidentally leaked information about Gold Pass numbers and it's insane like Wonderland season next year and when we were told this this was still back in 2022 so there's nobody like no one even I've heard from so many people that people got Gold Passes for Christmas presents and stuff like this that's not included in the number we were told so you know I wouldn't be surprised if it's upwards by May of 850-900,000 Gold Passes which is insane just Gold Passes not platinum or not the regular pass yeah it's a really big monopoly that Wonderland has and it's time that someone kind of comes in and takes a little bit of that pie and I'm surprised stunning business and all that that an American company right now with the right time the Canadian dollar it's perfect it would only benefit us because that would stimulate competition so that would force Wonderland to really you know be on their game not saying that they're not but that would stimulate healthy competition alright I think you see the title of the next wait the therapy wasn't the surprise I'm about to trigger a rant oh no I had something else but I'll say that for next episode there's a really big rant in you I'm riled up I am riled up so this is going to be good here comes the rant guys I'm about to trigger oh would you look at this look what I found no it's not happening it isn't happening yes I had never said I never said that it was fake I never said that it was fake I said it would never happen I would put my life savings on this hotel never being built it's never going to be built it is not going to be built there are so many problems first of all I believe that you know maybe whenever these permits were made four or five years ago was okay but I think with what's going on with the MTO and highway expansion it might be too close now to the highway and look at this no no no there are so many other hotels in the area no one is this is no no this would never happen because in the construction industry they can literally go they can start breaking ground but projects just end and we got a traffic nightmare Wonderland does not have the infrastructure for this we wouldn't need a second entrance we would like like no you know what's crazy Covid is the only reason this hotel didn't happen though I've been saying from day one this hotel wouldn't happen oh well the park has I found you're brave this doesn't excuse this doesn't excuse if y'all didn't hear that poverty just went off again trying to alert everyone we can't afford these expensive things so my whole thing was and okay my opinion has changed a bit but especially you know back in like when this hotel was really coming to fruition I believe that this would be a waste of money for Wonderland to invest in now my opinions are changing but I still don't think it's necessary I really don't think it's necessary I think it's beyond necessary and I you look at Caroline's hotel and Caroline's is a crap park woohoo I'm sorry hey guys do you know people were riding Fury today oh Wonderland's you know are hibernating right now it's like a power bar it reached zero percent the trains are on the ground charging alright rusting I think it would honestly like I thought they missed the mark full honesty I was kind of like what the hell is that like that is like every other hotel in the area and I know cedar fair it's going to be more expensive than every other hotel in the area I really thought Kingswood should have been a great wolf lodge indoor water park in Vaughn owned by cedar fair open all year round near Toronto an indoor water park hotel they like to me they missed the mark they were thinking because cedar fair does do outside revenue outside parks now they have a lot of projects that are outside park revenue that's true that is true especially like cedar points been opening up they opened up sports complex now is a good point with that in mind Wonderland now is officially on the city of Vaughn's board of tourism interesting almost chess move by cedar fair so Wonderland is actually sitting on the board of tourism a representative from Wonderland it's actually one of the guys in marketing a guy who works closely with grace and there's an indoor water park being proposed eight years out for Vaughn and I find that interesting I feel like cedar fair is going to have like that would be smart like now the thing is the thing is I really hope it does now I hope it happens but I hope it doesn't go to Kingswood I don't know where else in Vaughn though there is and why don't you want it in Kingswood because that's a good place to put roller coasters or or even no no even if they wanted to do like and you're the one who brought this idea like a music to my ear like a city walk or something oh I'll say it again city wall oh my god oh yeah nothing big nothing fancy maybe like two nice all year round reservation restaurants you know a few shops some you know Canadian theming Wonderland theming some rides obviously there would still have to be a big roller coaster you could just build above that maybe a couple flat rides maybe like a small entertainment venue something like that I think would be really cool but to use that whole space for an entire water park I think cedar fair if they want to go that route they should do what they do with castaway bay is build it under the cedar fair name but just build it off-site like have it affiliated with Wonderland but build it somewhere else maybe 5 10 kilometers out maybe north yeah that's an option like there are there are options and cedar fair even says that in their conference calls actually this could be a conference call in like five six days February 4th for the fourth quarter yeah so that'll be interesting they always think every every conference call they're still looking to develop adjacent land to their theme parks and especially in the Toronto market because Mr. Sandwich is coming this is outrageously ambitious let's get hot water in the bathroom first oh my god it's not fire true true oh that's so embarrassing um what I was saying though is I think this would be a perfect time to invest in something like you know some kind of indoor facility maybe even off-site or whatever because there's nothing else to do in Toronto and by you know look already half a million gold past sales before 2023 the numbers show that people want something to do like if you build it people will come but the problem is all Toronto is building is condos there's no more entertainment you know movie theaters are closing the roller rink in mississauga is closing all these you know family friendly entertainment sections are closing even night clubs and stuff were closing people are gonna not have anything to do and people want something to do so if they were to build another entertainment venue I think that could be very profitable sirya how do you even scan your season pass with that phone oh man that works quite nicely is that why you get a physical card don't even get me don't get me started on that they got rid of the physical cards oh that should have been my rant they got rid of the physical card all the other cedar fair parks have a physical card I lost mine again so now I have to get it from another park guys having a physical card is great because the battery doesn't die you always have it with you it's always there unless you're like me and always lose them or put them in the washing machine but you know what no no physical card is the way to go wonderland has no more I don't know the last time I wanted to reach into my wallet grab a physical plastic card and scan it at a front gate anywhere I love having it on my phone convenient I'm not going to lose my phone trust me I'm too poor to buy a $4,000 iPhone because they're out boy I bet you I haven't even looked at what inflation has done to an iPhone oh it's probably over $2,000 so I ain't losing that iPhone but yeah what's so wrong with the hotel it's a waste of money you know what's a waste of money buying plastic to print physical cards on well what else are they going to spend that money on the hot water and do you miss the maps I do miss the maps what purpose do you have getting a map do you need to find your way to Tundra Twister yes I will I don't know that part of the park is only boring stuff are we getting old where you forgot where Leviathan is it is hard to spot in the park you know well you know it is the tallest thing you console underground I was thinking about getting more drawings I was going to really try really hard but I just wanted to do I'm trying to trigger rants at Assyria every stream I'm going to try and trigger one I have a really good one next week guys a really good one I was about to insert it in this one it's actually saved so I have to make sure Assyria doesn't see it ooh this is such a good topic it has to do with the 500,600,700,800,000 one million gold cards yeah yeah oh my god wait you see what I did for this I think if it works if the PNG works hahahaha what is this look look look it's reaching in my nose I feel like Lady Gaga it's the bear they're all going here they're all here for the bear oh they hit it oh my god that's awesome oh my god alright overcrowding yeah guys it is going to be a busy one this season I like it's going to be busier than last season 100% that's 100% here can you say someone has a god complex I just realized they're facing us I could have had them like at least walking away somebody needs to cheer for us oh my goodness so we just discussed it I discussed it in a video we're estimating probably 750,000 gold passes this is what I would guess it's at right now because they do simmer off that's a huge number that's gold passes guys I'm going to bet almost a million total passes sold which Cedarfarer sells about 3.2 million passes that's previous years though so we don't know if other parks are experiencing the same trends that wonderland is sorry yeah I keep forgetting to breathe I feel like Trisha Paytas I stopped myself I stopped you should be happy that is progress I was Trisha Paytas I was progress I stopped myself people are already starting yelling at me we can't just turn it on I have a moment where I'm staring at us with all these that's what they can do to make fun of me we need to we're derailed we're not even at the Karen reviews yet we pulled a train too that helps that does help I'm so sorry guys we are professional this is overcrowding overcrowding seriously seriously I'm too fat to laugh when I start laughing you start suffocating it's a lot of energy and then you need a recovery time so what were we talking about overcrowding expect this season if I had to guess would be the busiest season in wonderland history I know last year last year was interesting because there was 2021 passes and stuff from covid that carried over but this is the first proper proper operating season since covid where everyone's passes have been he's laughing you need to stop go go go go so as I was saying there's going to be very busy so this is going to be the first proper season you know with just 2022 passes and based off the numbers we were accidentally told and just using common sense to how many more passes are going to get purchased and those are just passes you have all the events and stuff guys it's going to be busy there's probably going to be days the park is going to experience 65-70 thousand people and that's pushing it for ride wait times I'm sorry you know expect especially in the summer expect two hours for the big three and everything else is probably going to be over an hour an hour and a half on weekends, on Saturdays guys expect the two plus hour waits that's the new normal just expect that now this is the new normal having to wait two plus hours having to wait an hour even flight deck this is going to become normal and you know even like you can go on a rain day and stuff but if that many people are getting passes even those days you can still expect to wait 20-30 minutes the days of 2012-2013-2014 where you could just sit on the ride because there was no one there is gone don't look at me in response to what you just said professionally because that's what we do here we're professionals professional podcast I can tell you I frankly I am worried the only saving grace Wonderland has for this season is Lazy Bear Lodge so we went through summer we have to remember that Lazy Bear Lodge opened in fall very end of September second weekend of September so it wasn't open during their busy times if it was max line still about 30 minutes to get food which is impressive so with it this season it might help a lot which I hope I just burped which I hope which I hope sends a signal to Cedar Fair that they need one or two more of those one of those in Kidsville and another one kind of either in action or med because I don't think the one in med fair is developed how they kind of wanted it to like real talk I think Kings Feast is probably the worst eating establishment in the park it's appalling and that's the only place too in med fair to get food I wouldn't even mind the go kart track in the future turning into a restaurant I think that would be pretty cool I had a vision that almost they re-themed to drop tower to look like those giant like the towers just my hand gestures the towers that archers shoot out of that medieval like films I don't know what they're called and then they had like a a med fair kind of themed restaurant like medieval times in the go kart section I thought that would be great it doesn't need to be meal plan it could be an up charge restaurant no it needs to be on the meal plan it needs to be on the meal plan we're going to talk about wild beast guys don't worry this is a good stream we need to be together this is a good stream that's what the audience here says what are we talking about again crowds so infrastructure I made a video we were going to talk about this this is such a good topic I have to make a video on it wonderland infrastructure is not ready for those of you that don't know I'm going to go film a video on it like I'm working on really professional content professional for me it's probably like but I'm going to go like to a housing development just north of wonderland in the farm fields and I'm actually going to like film this new housing division that's going in it's going to be a lot of homes if any of you know that farming field north of wonderland the Walmart manufacturing or distribution thing it's all becoming homes more people are moving to the area more condos are going to get built it's crazy wonderland is not ready and with no competition like they need to start removing these attractions that have two trains one train or horrible we need these BNMs these mocks these intimans BNMs you have all people wanting more BNMs we're not getting intimate and everyone here thinks I'm the GP I don't want another BNM in this park we're at max capacity we have enough of the berthas we need some slim girls that know how to move fast yeah but they can't move people we have enough of me built we need some rides where I need to lose some weight to go on I kind of like this because of the hides or stomachs yeah I like this too I'm going to start inputting things here we're skinny okay back on topic so it's really time that everyone starts removing some of these attractions that are really bad capacity and start we talk about this all the time we're so overdue for a ride removal let me see if I put it in here we do have a ride removal subject so we'll leave that but we're so overdue for some ride removals 100% I think to go back to that capacity though and I've really thought about this some of the problem is you look at rides like leviathan behemoth, ucon, even vortex maybe mind buster cyclone win seeker they get super long lines and then you look at rides like you know flight deck dragonfire they can get a long line but only when it's busy now imagine if those attractions were imagine if dragonfire was mock multi launch that would get a longer line and that would take away from other areas of the park so I think having better quality attractions can also help with over crowding because that will better distribute the crowds throughout the park there's a reason everyone when the park opens they run to leviathan, they run to behemoth and ucon there's a reason for that and that's because nobody wants to run to dragonfire but imagine if we had two or three more really good attractions then the crowds would be better distributed and I think that would actually improve wait times overall and just improve the flow of traffic you got that samson voice right now do do do do do like it I'm really kind of excited not going to lie about how busy wonderland is going to be I mean we're okay we're going to talk about this on our next episode but we're going to talk about wonderland raising minimum wage in all the positions without time I'm hearing good news about this too I'm hearing they have triple the applications they normally would right now okay for rides department triple the applications they did last year so the new minimum wage that wonderland set is very competitive and it's working we're going to talk about that on next episode Karen review okay so what I've been waiting for oh my god that's literally you if you lose 30 pounds book me in for a therapy appointment please I don't have Syria I have samson how do you even summon her I don't sir um how do you summon anyways okay I have to get close to the screen I'm blind after receiving some legal advice I have decided to blank out the names and the profile pictures of the people we are reviewing smart okay so sadly it had continually gone downhill since paramount sold it it's so americanized americanized now with the different fast passes and such everything is such long lineups everything is majorly overpriced a great way to waste your day and money sad this place has gone so downhill the last few years I'm definitely in no rush to go back it's really unfortunate I think wonderland is going to suffer without their business americanized so she feels that paramount was less americanized than cedar fair yeah you had no no no this back lot used to be this beautiful beautiful restaurant and then paramount the unamericanized american company came in and turned it into some gross movie stage oh my god so literally this girl is complaining or he whoever they are is complaining that cedar fair building frontier canada versus top gun italian job stunk coaster what were some of the risks cliffhanger less americanized than cedar fair I was like are you dumb no it's a McDonald's is not americanized at all probably goes there all the time and you know what I really have to defend wonderland here they get harped on so bad for being overpriced and the only thing overpriced about wonderland are the vending machines and there are even ways around that we just buy a drink plan I know you go through drive-thrus on the day to day basis about two to three times a day you look at me okay and how much does your average meal cost now about $20 about $20 if you want something actually half decent then yeah you're spending $20 so then when you go to wonderland the most expensive restaurant is $19.95 and you're getting like pork chops and stuff like that and then the pizza piece is probably one of the more expensive restaurants for a full family size pizza but you know what I don't even think this is a valid argument because you are at an amusement park you know when you go to a Leafs game how much are you paying for a beer and a hot dog when you go to a Jays game how much are you paying for nachos or whatever when you go to the movie theater how much do you pay for a bag of popcorn everyone's so triggered by the next one okay I have to get really close guys I'll do some ASMR reading I just did that directly into the mic I bought season passes for my four kids plus me and wife $98 x 6 equals $588 is that math correct guys alright okay already super expensive in the park everyone going in the fast lane others waiting for hours to go to one ride so I decided to buy us fast lane passes which is $107 x 6 which by the way equals $642 for those of you that were wondering at the booth I asked the sales guy if the fast lane passes are for the whole season and he gave me false information by telling yes I purchased them and after I found out it's for one day I called customer care they said we can't do anything about it thank you for your horrible experience I have four kids thank you for the reminder I didn't get that in your math equation it's hard he works hard just so you know and try to take my kids to wonderland a few times a year sounds like he should have bought passes did he get passes I bought season passes he did get passes okay I stand corrected a few times a year but after this experience that's it I will tell all others about this experience and shame on this big corporation to rip people off and don't do nothing about it I wanted a discount on his all season fast lane so I'm pretty sure it even says when you go to the fast lane booth all day all day all day that's not all year is it that's all day so maybe he has problems with like literature or English or something I don't know but day does not mean year I don't know in what world I'm blown away because everything is getting expensive and you know what yeah that might be an expensive day but you look at a family afford to go to Mexico or something on a vacation that's over $5,000 you know what you bought the passes you can go anytime as for the crowds I really hate to say it but you are going to a major amusement park so that's something you just have to expect or plan for there are days to go that aren't as busy as other days so if you take 10 minutes and look at the schedule maybe look at the weather predictions you can plan around that so this is this own person's fault no one forced them to buy fast lane either I know every single one of these one star reviews one on a Saturday too and I can promise you the park the park would never say something like it's good for all season you might screw up on something fine print fine but that is not fine print that is general knowledge they have signs on it so you can't screw up on that alright thank you for the horrible experience I haven't been here in years the park is very dirty and smells like sewage and vomit very young staff members with no supervision recommend to power wash the entire park down that means get her out get them out oh my goodness I had to put that one in there I don't really have any funny commentary for that one just like well okay I kind of do very young staff does she expect like wonderland targets you know high school students and college students university students for a reason you know what I mean like does she expect 40-50 year old people well into their careers to go be working at wonderland like ride operators and stuff I don't I don't know and for the sewage part I think I know what she's talking about well okay wonderland is trying to power wash the park y'all learn about those what about those clouds from the airplanes called again oh the chemtrails the chemtrails I bet you wonderlands behind those chemtrails you know what the funny thing is on the daily every day before the park opens wonderland actually does wash the pots they do in fact I think wonderlands cleanliness is one of the best in the industry you never see garbage anywhere I like this comment from mr. sandwich that's not fair it smells like foot not sewage oh you just need more chlorine I thought it smelled like like burn let the old people run the goddamn lights oh my oh my good I need another drink not much left there is there all right care and reviews part 2 oh this one has a picture all the pictures I wanted to insert a bigger picture of it but you guys can tell it's not sunny there right don't read it don't read ahead don't read ahead where's the camera don't read ahead shameless management the management and employee abuse the people with coordination of police cops guys wonderland has police and cops they're together they're one unit police me when I have to write an essay in an hour before class very bad experience of wonderland with family I am very understanding of what's going on here the employee on the rides had very bad and rubbish insulting attitude employee misbehaving and threat to the people with police cops and forced to kick out even there is no respect of the client in wonderland I actually can translate this for you guys a guy has been working on it hold on hold on I need to touch an idiot to understand an idiot there we go I'm going to translate this comment for you guys this person was probably in the Leviathan queue line and line jump someone and was told that line jumping is against the policy translation is working Google translate and so the park employees tried to stop him but he didn't have it he put up a fight a verbal fight he was calling the little 16 year old employee an idiot and that's probably where the police police came the police cops they came and he was escorted out of the park and then instead of realizing he was in the wrong here he went to google because google appears to allow anyone to just submit a review that is true and clearly he went through his own google translate and typed out this it's a decoded message it is it is it's 100% and my translation is working beautifully it is working beautifully I think there's also some part why can't I film on a ride oh that might be it too I'm trying to figure out you know there's a lot of idiots at wonderland there are there are but that was 100% it translating it it looks like he did something against park rules and got kicked out of the park and now he's upset that he didn't get a refund from being kicked out of the park and this happens so much we like we see it on the daily you know the stupidest things will escalate into something big and the funny thing is the person knows they're in the wrong they're just blowing it out of proportion pretty much to try and save their own face and and it's it's amazing like we always say you know sometimes you know kids or teenagers can be bad but you know what adults can be the worst two-year-olds they're worse than two-year-olds oh 100% and the entitlement review number two it has 13 reviews oh no they've done 13 reviews oh they're an expert no refund or transfer policy a multi-million dollar I'm offended it's like actually billion it's like literally like a billion hello you forgot a hundred in front of that a million oh my god the audacity of some people what is this I think they were reviewing a Samsung store a multi-million dollar business like what the Starbucks is that what you're talking about because that's something like that Tim Hortons but no refund policy I well okay I'll touch on that I have to read this I purchased over $700 in tickets and products but can't use it the first the park is crowded can't use it as first the park is crowded second we leave the country for the summer season it's a scam the guys they're scamming they're scam artists they're going back to like the entitlement of some people the entitlement how is it wonderland's fault that they're leaving the country oh my goodness it's a scam for a business like this to not refund people's money we'll never visit there anymore very disappointed in them I can picture wonderland right now they're like no our multi-million dollar business we actually need you the poutine sales the lift motor I believe wonderland just made $700 about one minute ago are they from Ohio does it say it oh no I get the joke it's the tiktok only in Ohio oh my god the audacity people think that because they're going to leave the country they committed to they it's just bad plan wonderland shouldn't have to account for someone else's stupidity no other business dies furthermore it's not even about a bad business practice it's about you made a mistake and you can't own up to that mistake so you have to take it out on the business and be like no you know what last minute we're leaving the country you owe us a refund where does it say that in wonderland's policy no refund or transfer policy everyone knows that like a lot of businesses have this this is not common knowledge yeah I agree with jasmine people literally do not read wonderland has had a no refund policy or rain check policy forever and wonderland says they don't have a rain check policy but wonderland's actually been really good about bad weather wonderland actually give people a ticket for another day in bad rainfall or storms if they close early but wonderland's very clear about a no refund no rain check policy but you see something like this and then blaming the park that it's crowded like you said this is probably they're going in the summer on a saturday or on a holiday or something guys wonderland is going to be crowded expect like we said two hour waits for the big rides to be shoulder to shoulder in the midways this is not new this might be the new normal but it's happened all the last season this is you're going to a major amusement park especially when there's nothing else to do in the city with 50,000 other people of course it's going to be busy that's just something you have to account for if you don't like it then simply as cruel as to say don't go find something else to do but it's up to you it's your responsibility to do research before purchasing something if a person's dropping $700 then maybe they should have actually taken a few minutes to really be like you know what do we need all this are we going to go that much yeah stop going on a saturday people stop going on a saturday I am really upset oh oh I am a tourist and I checked weather conditions before visiting online water park is open till 7pm but to our surprise they closed it at 5pm although it was bright sunny day guys look at the photo she attached guys I really should have put a bigger image of the photo because it's literally so cloudy and windy like the flag is like it's a bright summer day it's a bright summer day reason given was it's windy and on other hand they opened two rides has anyone ever opened just two rides because of airflow because of airflow we were a group of 7 people who wanted to enjoy but due to mismanagement we really felt bad oh that kind of turned my opinion I think we should sympathize with this person I'm so sorry that you were mismanaged and I'm sorry that you're not capable of being able to detect weather they need that mean girls the front of 7 is it front 7 they're missing that girl in the front group who can detect weather with her boobs I have one of those I have one too we can both do it after paying for all we don't get to enjoy for what we paid that is ridiculous well whatever your name is it looks like the water park only closed at 5pm not 7pm so you only lost out 2 hours but let's be dramatic oh no let's be real you guys were just lounging by the pool doing nothing anyway what are you missing out on what's wrong with that nothing you know if some people aren't big enough are too big to go on a slide speaking of too big to ride how was your attempt of getting on cycle in this winterfest that was going to be your attempt getting on tundra twist we don't talk about that we are starting to panic I ordered some rice cakes with some peanut butter to get me through the next two months you're not going to eat that one it's disgusting oh my goodness we don't want to get started on how we have some weight loss to do before tundra twister opens it's only 10 pounds to about guys we were sponsored by a skinny legend this person is super skinny and they're really cute and everything they do is right thank you for talking to me like that I'm so frickin pissed right now I am so frickin pissed right now I don't know what's going on guys we're so sorry we're going to change up sponsors it's going to be better next time I am a whore what's that white chicks movie I am a white woman in America I was doing a whole funny segment about having our first sponsor and it being me there's no sound there's no sound terrible terrible okay wow join me on patreon we have new merch it's down below all of our videos it's really good there's no masks they won't suffocate you like I tried in 2021 very nice designs to all those masks but yeah what's next on the podcast ride removals oh my god we're done after ride removals oh that's about right yeah and then we're going to do the same thing we did last week because you guys really enjoyed it we're going to end the stream and then we'll make a new stream where we literally just engage with you that's the whole principle of it um I do want to touch there's a funny story about my merch so you know my old merch how I've had it under my videos for up until what a week ago yeah yeah yeah so it's ugly like my old logo was so ugly I never thought anyone was buying things but I guess people on youtube they buy when I went to go put the new merch on it said you need to update your paypal because you have a pending payout and then when I went to go check it was like $480 holy shit I was like what that's awesome but that's obviously like over the last like 2-3 years because I haven't checked ever but yeah don't worry you don't have to buy again like join me on patreon if you like even just want to support the channel drop a lot of tea on patreon now like I want to do newsletters um I do the monthly newsletters that drops any information I have in them sometimes I'll drop some photos um and some information um but yeah let's talk ride removals biggest flaw it's us it's us oh no um I feel like we've talked about this what do you think wonderland's biggest flaw is I made a whole video on this so it's your turn is this mine out of like rides or just anything wonderland's biggest flaw oh god you know what let's start it what do you guys think wonderland's biggest flaw is debate each other in the comments section I think okay I know this isn't current wonderland's fault but the amount of mediocre attractions that they have I think it's starting to hinder them um you know maintenance costs are rising you know real estate's becoming a premium just keeping these rides around for the sake of keeping them around is what it almost seems like is not I don't know that it's not very productive anymore you know we have a lot of rides with dwindling ridership and it's almost time that some of these need to go make way for newer attractions um obviously their infrastructure that needs to be well good broodians they're not getting rid of us I think they realize that every single day every single day we're going to be there they're not getting rid of us and their infrastructure like the park hasn't grown you know the infrastructure hasn't expanded with the park now I guess this falls under the umbrella of category I'm going to say their wash rooms they need to renovate majority of their washrooms they need to modernize them I think we need more washrooms we need at least two more washrooms somewhere throughout the park on those really busy days guys you know when you have a lineup for the bathroom now it's different you know like when it's super busy and if there's a five minute wait but sometimes we've seen like you know 20 25 30 minute waits for a washroom I think that starts becoming unacceptable for something like a washroom um we need more dining we need more indoor dining areas now lazy bear fantastic I don't think there's a thing wrong with it like they hit the nail on the head they need to do that one or two more times though we need proper indoor dining for winter fast for a rain day anything like that our water park I think our water park could use some work um I want lines painted in the parking lot I would love lines painted in the parking that's a parking lot I think the parking lot needs to update their security too I think there needs to be more patrols and they need to be a little bit more stricter you know our slash tires yeah yeah I still haven't there's so many now and because I've been going through google reviews for the entertainment of you guys honestly like I have a better understanding of wonderland's flaws and I hope wonderland is actually reading these reviews because front gate is listed every comment how what the minute Halloween hot started um front gate you saw the videos from this season like those weights at the front gate 45 minutes to an hour just to get in the park is also fairly unacceptable now you can't just expect to walk right in no you're probably gonna have to wait 20 even 30 minutes is fine but when you're waiting over an hour to get in that's a sign that you know what we need to update we need to change something we need more we need a better system we need more manpower we need more staffing all of the above are some of those things but a change needs to be made yeah because wonderland can't coast by anymore and this all reflects to growing attendance yeah so I have some exciting news um I have I have paid someone 200 American dollars and all the adsense revenue um to design a new front gate for wonderland for a video so they're going they're working right now on a front gate renovation uh an actual engineer to so AutoCAD everything with a wing coaster so that's a that's a surprise for you guys there's gonna be a video it's probably still gonna take another two months because it's a it's a you're an engineer yeah so using real programs you need like six months probably yeah so they've worked on it for a while now rendering um I've seen some teaser images you've seen some it's good like it's good like it's very universal universal studios I know I think it's very Canadian from what I saw but even the access and then Disney it's got the Disney security checks that's another thing I want I would love pre-screening for security like they do at the other cedar fair parks I would love that so by the time you get up to the turnstiles or the scanners now you just walk in yeah um 100% agreed they need the security checks where those flower pots are yeah yeah yeah and they need no bag lines you know there's okay maybe they don't need that but there's a lot of things I think they could do that would really help mitigate these problems that for whatever reason they're not doing them at the moment I'm sure there are talks though like as the tendons keeps growing I'm sure that they're thinking about well yeah I one of the same source I think it was the same source someone had told us that front gate rena was in the works yeah so it's there now in the works for wonderland the hemats paint is also in the works yeah vortexes maintenance to keep it going is also in the works now because a certain ride decided to have a little temper tantrum it's not my fault leviathan is the biggest draw for the park biggest draw for what budget sorry sorry can't hear you over the sound of really good rides I can't wait for 2025 I think it'll be a forgotten little unless unless it's a bnm wing or a bnm invert it won't be forgotten or a launch wing I hope it's okay so I'm still on the mock double launch honestly though I'm starting to sway to a GCI that is our 2025 coaster because even if they were thinking of getting a mock double launch what's they see to fear is like COVID really did us bad we streamline our budget we'll get a really awesome GCI coaster for almost half the price of the mock double launch 15 20 million yeah for our amazing GCI you'll probably have one of the best in the world knocking on wood I would love a GCI yeah but you know what I'd love more than that thank you Akko a coaster enthusiast why did I struggle to read his name so much yes Kings Island does run mystic timbers during their winter fast but they are also six hours south of us keep that in mind and actually mystic timbers did valley one year yeah and you know what Jim Jackson that scares me because I 100% could see cedar fair not giving wonderland an extensive front gate reno giving it just the reno it needs to help increase capacity without spending too much money without money or anything like they would just terrifying I would be like just scraping the bottom of the barrel doing the bare minimum yeah uh what ride removals are we're still talking about wonderland's biggest flaws right yeah guardian guardian sledgehammer I wouldn't call sledgehammer their biggest flaw I think after you spend and I don't I don't know I'm just making this up essentially but if I had to guess I would say they spent more on maintenance than what the ride was worth and I know there is a formula that they calculate that anything calculates like even on a car or just any even a building when you have to do general maintenance on a building there is a formula to calculate because there is going to be a time in place where you do spend more on maintenance than the building is worth but that has to be an extensive time in the future and since sledgehammer is under 20 years old I think that maintenance wise that ride is a failure and if it keeps breaking like we'll see this season how it runs but if it keeps running unreliably I think eventually you just have to say you know what we have to cut our losses I'm debating if I should tell everyone this tea about sledgehammer so I learned a lot about sledgehammer recently I'll say it you know what her doesn't sat down and talk to me yet so did any of you go to winterfest did anyone notice that all the gondolas were spinning and that sledgehammer was running the best it's ever run because it was to start and all the gondolas were spinning everything was working so there's tea behind that so with covid and everything wonderland had basically found a solution to fix sledgehammer permanently and they did their part they rewired everything they put weatherproofed almost like electrical work that was a lot of the problem they just changed a lot of the like it was almost like the protective wear around the electrical which was a lot of the problems and then the air seatbelt something along that I don't know the tea the exact names and all that but it centered around a lot of the pneumatics and stuff and wonderland had done their part and fixed it well wonderland then needed who makes it mondial huss they needed huss to come in and update the ride almost like a program hardware they needed them to come in and program it for everything to work properly it needed to be reprogrammed huss because it was covid didn't want to come to canada to do it and they wanted to do it over almost like skype or phone call and all that and wonderland was not having it they're like no no no you need to come here and you need to actually do we're not like we spent the money to fix the ride we need to this is hearsay by the way this is wonder what if you're in here this is hearsay this is hearsay grain of salt, grain of salt, rumblings take this with a grain of salt so there was a bit of back and forth and then finally huss caved in and just right before winter fest they had come in and they reprogrammed the ride thus you saw it worked and everything was working and then something happened like it always does yes but from what I understand it was just the cold weather and sledgehammer even in spring will be back up and run in you'll see it spinning all the gondolas it'll be running perfectly so there's some really cool tea for you guys and like my tea's good we've been hearing from wonderland workers they're like holy crap they know their shit so like take that speculation with a grain of salt so I hope I hope that it does work because it is a great ride and it is one of a kind when it works but you know I think I think even though with older rides like dragon fire and flight deck I know everyone says to get new trains for flight deck and that's only half the problem the problem is actually with the track the design of the track is inferior and the track bends too much with the weight and the forces so you can never fix that without completely retracking it and if you're gonna go to that point just get rid of it and get something new in I think wonderland keeping these older attractions is each year they delay getting rid of it I think it becomes more detrimental to the park's success because that's very valuable real estate and maintenance costs are rising now I know you can't just get rid of everything at once because we'd be out a lot of stuff would be looking like marine land but you know I don't know I think it's time the last real ride removal was what orbiter five years ago yes four years ago yes yes no I don't know but I think it's time to get rid of something else it is for a lot of things now a lot of people over hate on windseeker do you find I know I think windseeker is a fantastic investment for many reasons amazing you've seen the line up slightly it almost seems to be becoming the date ride it is yeah it is a little I need more therapy um I'm single for life I've accepted that can you shut up already you've literally like no guys let me milk it that's not a violin sound sounds like you no and you know when windseeker runs like they did the cable hoist overhaul and ever since then it seemed to be going really good it can fit a lot of people on one ride cycle so the capacity isn't bad it's a beautiful observation wonderland doesn't have any proper observation tower so it doubles as that you know it is a freaky ride like it's just a lap bar 300 feet up dangling it looks beautiful at night oh thank you can I add that to the lap bar oh yeah looks beautiful at night less light that's visible looks really nice with a paper bag oh man um honestly there are so many flaws to talk about wonderland and it's not cedar fair's fault like I know that wonderland and cedar fair like not cedar fair seem to have time for us but I know there are people at wonderland probably watching this right now and they're going wow so negative blah blah blah I'm not sitting here saying wonderland is the worst park ever I love wonderland he knows this like I literally would take wonderland over like I love kings island but if I was presented with replacing wonderland with kings island on the same plot of land I would not take it I would not I love everything about it one for core memories to the mountain mountain like wonderlands got a lot of really good things about it so when I ever whenever you guys hear me um talk about like biggest flaw or I'm literally tearing wonderland apart in one video it does not mean I hate wonderland trust me I love wonderland I love a lot of the people that work at wonderland which literally is proven by me not leaking a lot of things and I hope they see that I hope they really see that that we keep our mouth shut about some very serious things for reason out of respect for some of these people that we truly love and respect for wonderland and the park but that being said there are some really big flaws the coaster lineup is like a really big flaw because it's like embarrassing almost yes it's like and the coaster lineup I almost like it's gone to a point where it could be filed under infrastructure like when I'm talking about the coaster lineup now it's gotten so bad it's joined the infrastructure part of the park because when you look at all these homes and these condos being built around the park and the growing numbers of gold passes you look at our coaster lineup and you're like wow beast right now is like um 600,000 what I only do 500 people an hour and this goes back to what we were saying earlier you know Leviathan behemoth and Yukon they can't handle the entire park like you need more high capacity attractions you're just overloading the attractions you have right now and do not get me started oh child take a breath there big Betty Snoopy's racing railway having one drain ops I know what happened you want one more tea do you have some tea? you drank all your tea I have some tea for you guys I know what happened. Snoopy's racing railway was not meant to be a roller coaster this year was 2023 was not meant to be a roller coaster and Peter deserves some credit for this so for those of you that don't know and I know you know this basically how theme parks operate is each park is given a year and a budget for that year to spend on it's several categories you have maintenance as a separate category you have actual investments as another category a lot of park projects are a complete separate category a lot of people don't know this but investments we're just going to focus on investments in this topic right here this is good this is a good topic so basically what will happen and this is just going to be these numbers are not anything I'm just using an example so let's say it's 2020 okay or it's 2019 and wonderland approaches cedar fair okay we're trying to plan our 2023 additions what's our budget and cedar fair will be like okay you have $15 million this is kind of what we're thinking blah blah blah what can you find us or what can you present to us so then the team at wonderland mostly Peter and then you know the general manager of wonderland and then probably Heather hill they sit down and they come up with a plan I have the sneaky suspicion that and honestly love Peter for this because I think snoopy's racing railway is both amazing and a flaw but I'm going to I'm going to view it as more amazing because of my prediction and this is there's no certainty behind this I do not know that this is exactly what happened this is just me we were supposed to get normally wonderland gets two flat rides so when we get a flat ride wonderland gets two and a water park addition and this looks like it was that year and Peter instead was like can we take that $3 million that $4 $5 million that we would have spent on another flat ride and a water slide because we normally get two flats in a water slide right and can we take that and implement it into our kids area with a family launch coaster I can get us a cheap family launch coaster without any modifications even though they did do some modifications and make it work and I think that's exactly what happened Peter presented this hey we have this plug and play coaster there's already one it's great I've heard really good things about it too by the way and we can theme it really well it's super easy to build it's super easy to think it's only like $4 million $5 million whatever it costs and it's manufactured right here in Canada so it saves us on shipping it saves us it's perfect so I think that's how he worked that in that's that's my I should make that a whole video I'm gonna just plug this into a video I think Snoopy's Racing Railway was a really good idea because you are adding additions to the kids park I always thought we had the best kids park you know one of the least one of the best in the industry but with how busy things have been I think this is gonna be much needed and I know there are some mostly enthusiasts concerned about well you know maybe what if we can't ride it I don't know if it's that good well at the end of the day this isn't built for us this isn't built for you you know built for the families and the kids who are under you know 36 inches or whatever this is built for the kids who can't ride Leviathan Behemoth Yukon Vortex Mindbuster so in that aspect like you know now when kids go to the kids park and parents bring them there it's not just taxi jam it's not just ghost or coaster it's not just whirly birds you know there's actually something somewhat exciting that even the parents can be like okay you know what this is pretty cool yeah let's go back to the kids park so I think in that aspect it's good maybe the capacity might be a bit of an issue but overall I think it's a really good investment what is that 5 5 with the one I had before you came yeah I think it's a good investment yeah I'm worried about the one train ops and the lineups I am worried about that I really was hoping Wonderland was heading down this route focusing on that infrastructure as a problem and again I've now decided me personally that I am funneling the roller coasters under infrastructure now it's gotten so bad 5 years out if we don't see 2 new coasters in the next 5 years excluding STB's racing railway they're not ready they're not ready for what's about to hit them that's music you've never said anything more reasonable than that that's music to my ears we need so we're going to get a launch wing and a B&M that would solve capacity issues so I figured out the flavor it's half lemonade half iced tea oh how that makes sense um yeah so a giga woo giga wing my next thumbnail giga wing giga GCI giga mac launch giga mountain that's you when I'm really out of context we already have a giga swing oh my goodness but yeah I think we're at an hour and a half this is what we wanted to get it down to anyone got anything you want to ask us in this podcast I'm only going to answer super important things here we're going to cut it in about 3 minutes and then we're going to go to a new live where we're just interacting with you guys so if you guys once this ends there's 92 of you in here right now holy crap once this ends we're going to start a new live so wait for that and then we're literally just going to be answering your guys' questions I know we avoid a lot of questions during the podcast so it stays fresh I'm going to start uploading them I'm going to start uploading them on spotify once I figure out how I still have not sat down and learned how that's my bad but yeah so join the next live because we're going to just answer your guys' questions so we look for anything important 10 minutes or I guess we could go right away yeah I know we'll take a little break because we didn't even do intermission today I didn't give you your pee break actually I'm a little and you don't have your Nanaimo bars here anymore I have snacks for you don't I yeah question why do you hate Sirius Android so much yes thank you it's a budget friendly option budget friendly aren't they just as expensive as iPhones now yeah the Ultras are like 2,000 bucks it's more like a joke it's like a brand it's the ringtone I will say though I do need to update my current phone my Android does need to be updated especially since you're the biggest TikToker you need a good camera and your camera right now is like what are we looking at that's my error that's my tremor most new phones have stabilization that's what I need you're the big boys now you need the equipment I can't run around with my potato Karen reviews please they will be here permanently guys can I please beg you guys one thing honestly I know this is totally passing on the work to you guys as viewers I'm so sorry I'm embarrassed by that but this podcast takes so much effort I realize that my two days off I spent on this I was on Discord and working on this at the same time I know what you guys see it looks so simple but I literally have to build everything for each stream and everything's new I'm trying to keep it fresh we didn't play the game the headphones pass the headphones so I could show them I missed something it's crazy how quickly time goes we were going to play the whisper challenge next one next one so next podcast we'll play the whisper challenge um thanks Jim Jackson um so we'll play the whisper challenge on the next I know Mr um excellent gave us that idea so we'll do that serious item go thank you thank you Jake Jake thank you thank you so I have something I like it I like it but I know Brendan is probably pretty special to him so I have this big piece of metal and I know it looks really weird and you're all probably trying to think what part of a roller coaster does this belong to it's an among us character it's as round as you what bad um Brendan do you want to show them the DMG while I explain what it is so this actually this goes back to what started Brendan like DMG and stuff there's some backstory to this right there guys you see the DMG oh right where's the camera right and there we go it's hard it's barely stamped on there so anyways what this is at Claremont steel when they manufacture the track the rails are exposed and to protect the rails during shipping and even track installation they put these hard and steel plates on the end of it to protect any chips or any warping of the rails so this is called an end cap and that's all it is it's just pretty much for shipping but they usually market with like important information so it's not directly on the track um they market with like what location what track segment it is and actually I don't know if you can see because when I was given this they actually had to rub that out there used to be writing somewhere here it's kind of rubbed out oh yeah I can see where it was and that was actually the segment number the segment marker the angle the track needed to be positioned on and the weight of the track piece was written there so they use these as like you know almost like a map type of thing so not only does it protect it but it also has important information on it these are just meant to be scrapped when the part is done when the track is installed they either send them back to Claremont or they just scrap it but I was able to get my hands on a couple of these and I think it's kind of cool a couple yeah I have two this one now I was something really cool as soon as the track is manufactured at Claremont Steel that's the fabrication plant they put it on and then it actually goes into the paint shop with these on you can see some Yukon paint there so it actually goes into the paint shop with these on so these literally go on minutes after the track is finished fabrication so that's pretty cool it's really cool they're heavy they are really heavy it's about how does it not damage the chat track well okay this is actually really cool too so to get an idea of how thick the rails are the rails are about that thick that's about three quarter inch thick so some people actually think it's full steel but it's not and if you think about how big Yukon Strikers vehicles are like that's pretty thin yeah and that's more than strong enough to support the weight of the train so yeah it's pretty cool these are only used in the shipping process awesome okay so like I said Siri's gonna go pee it's gonna grab a quick snack Marge Marge we're gonna start drinking some water because it's hitting me really hard it's hitting me really hard and we'll come back and answer your guys questions and literally just hang out for like an hour and a bit last time we did it for two hours you remember that it was longer than the stream I just repeated what you said cause he needs to drink water I need water but yeah so give us five ten minutes max look for the notification for the new stream and join us because honestly like let's just hang out yeah we'll say like probably 9.45 yeah 9.45 so we'll see you guys do you guys like this? do you guys like this screen by the way the technology do you like that? that is genius hydrate hydrate but yeah okay so thank you so much guys this podcast has like been so healing for both of us it's something to look forward to during the long week I don't know if you guys have noticed but it's helped with my regular content yeah yeah I've been uploading more which is something a lot of people wanted and well you also needed time to get ready though I needed that time and now you know that this has given you the confidence and the ideas now you're like back at a more regular stream not only that it's more professional than it's ever been too yeah no it's good because we both have 2023 goals so I don't know should we talk like we're going into 2023 working as a team that's our goal we're going to work as a team and we want to be like more influential and like a positive way for both our viewers and wonderland and again we're hoping we're supposed to be sitting down with wonderland sometime soon it's like you know I'm I'm pretty new to but it's like now it's time for the next step the next evolution right and and you said it the best why don't we just work together and like almost combined forces or resources or whatever and just you know be more one and I think it benefits everybody it benefits me mentally it benefits you it benefits the viewers it benefits the park I think I was so afraid of you and like your success if you remember I was always so afraid to go to wonderland because of it and now it's almost like it's helped like I've looked back at it I'm like I have to be honest I and you know it was all very new to me and I put my friend group through a lot and I will fully admit that I'll fully own up to it I put them through a lot and it wasn't fair on them it wasn't fair for me to put them through that but you know what I've really I've really learned and I'm trying to grow I still have to do but I'm trying to grow personally I'm trying to come up with better ideas more professional content as well and I really want to start working with everybody like you know what I mean like I want to I really want to I want to turn a new leaf and you know we've come up with strategies and stuff and plans for the new year like Brendan said and we're really going to bring you the best we can bring yeah that's our goal that's like our commitment we're literally elevating ourselves and it's working like this is crazy what we've created and just like I used to get so I get used to have like my people that loved my content and my people that hated my content and now it's like the people who hated my content have slowly like and it's all positive and it's been so helpful to my mental health because yeah you saw I was deteriorating like I try every influencer and every YouTuber and anyone who makes content will be like oh you just got to ignore the hate comments you can't let it get to you that's BS it gets to you it really gets to you like especially me and you can't turn it off like you can't and one I'm a Pisces so I'm super sensitive two I have mental health problems I was bullied my whole life so I'm super sensitive and three I'm super sensitive so it gets to me but yeah it's been great it's all it's been like 100% positive which is crazy I know my biggest flaw was when I went into it last year like the TikTok and stuff I didn't have a plan I didn't know what I was doing but now that you know everyone to think but really Brendan who's talked to me so much and shared with me everything that he has and with his help you know we've come up with this solution this cohesive thing together yeah so I'm excited for it yeah go pee no I'm gonna end the stream thank you so much oh we gotta read the random view he sent us super chat glad to see you both thriving and having such fun thank you so much really does especially you've he's been a viewer since like day one I always see his comments but yeah thanks so much see you guys in five ten minutes alright bye


relationship with your basic workshop clamps. When you come out to your workshop, what you're looking for is probably an escape from the house, get away from the spouse, get away from the kids if you have them, just get out into the quiet and the solitude of your workshop. Well the last thing you want to do then is start having any kind of disagreement or dysfunctional relationship with your clamps. So let's let's solve that. I'll be the psychiatrist here today about clamp relationship. I definitely cannot tell you about how to have a better relationship inside the house because if you follow my mode you'll be in deep doo-doo. The two basic clamps and they can certainly come in different sizes as you can see here. I've got a little four-inch wood clamp. This one's from Bessie. Has no clutch on it or anything. Simply slides up and down the bar. To have a good relationship with that clamp, don't grab the handle and try to pull it up and down. It's short enough and if it's clean enough that will certainly work. But the best way is to grab it here near the shaft and make sure you've got it at 90 degrees and you'll find it slides really easily. Okay now the larger that style of clamp with just the bar with no clutch, the worse you'll trouble you'll have if you grab the handle and try to pull it apart. Yeah it'll work but in all likelihood what you're going to do is tilt that in or tilt that out and that's what all these grooves are here to engage. So don't tilt it. Don't grab it on the bar, keep it at 90 degrees and I think you'll find it will slide without getting caught up. So that's for those types of clamps. You can step up and have clamps with clutches on them and I certainly prefer those over that style. Again don't grab the bar even if you release the clutch. It can still be difficult to use. If you grab the bar area and you're likely to tilt it with your hand, same problem as before. If you tilt it it's designed to engage. So my recommendation is to have a good relationship with this clamp. You see the little short end instead of the longer end? Keep your hand away from this area. Just always grab the little short end and you and this clamp will get along famously. Same thing is true even if it's a bigger clamp. The larger they are the more grabbing the handle is a problem because there's more room to do tilting. So grab the short piece even if it's 24 inches long. Grab the short piece. So there's how to have a good relationship with those.  So here's what I've discovered. First of all keep them clean. Before I use them for glue up I grab my can of car polish and I just quickly polish my bars. That's to try to keep glue from getting down into the grooves and if glue does get on it it can come off fairly quickly. So keep it tuned up. Keep this with beeswax on it and silicones so it twists easily. Alright step number one to have a relationship with your big Bessie panel clamp is to when you want to use it for something turn it counterclockwise as far as you can. In other words what happens when I turn it counterclockwise is I'm putting this silver part of the brake here further into the head and there I have more capability. If I want to make them wider make this area right here wider. In other words if you want to make it wide pull up and move. If you want to close it back up it's just the opposite. Don't pull up and try to move it won't push down. In other words if you want it to become more narrow then make this more narrow and there you have how to have a decent relationship with your basic workshop clamps. A little more detailed video about all sorts of things that are possible with these Bessie panel clamps so look for that. Small workshop guy signing off.