Welcome to Four Year Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Brian Bergara. I'm Brian Marin. And for this episode's featured attraction, we enter the Cave of Wonders to discuss the now defunct Aladdin, a musical spectacular, formerly in Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, California.

However, a version of this show still plays on the Disney Cruise Liner's Wish and Fantasy, for those of you who are into that.

And joining us in the Hyperion Theater is none other than Mike Carlson, who you probably already know if you listen to this podcast,

because he hosts another theme park podcast, the OG, the incredible podcast, The Ride.

What an honor.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

I don't know, we're not the OGs.

I want to shout out your Doug Barnes's of the world.

The Len Testes and Jim Hills of the world.

Okay, Jim Hill does, he was, he's been around.

Yeah. But I would say when it comes to discussing rides, at least how in the, in the way that

we discussed them, I think you guys were the OG pioneers. Oh, thank you so much. I like, I

appreciate hearing that. Maybe we, maybe we are the OGs when it comes to like, we were going to

like make fun of things on Mike. Maybe that's where we are the OGs when it comes to like we were going to like make fun of things on Mike.

Maybe that's where we were the OGs.

I'm not sure if there was any snarky theme park podcast before us.

That's fair.

I know, I think it comes off, though, how genuine you guys are in terms of liking all of this, though.

Okay.

Well, that's good because like, well, sometimes commenters

don't see that. Yeah, I think that sometimes a little nuance is lost. In order for you to be

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