Flightless Bird: EPCOT vs Universal

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This week on Flightless Bird, David continues his Florida series by going to EPCOT, Disney’s “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.” Joined by two Disney Adults, Elizabeth and Patrick, David eats his way around the world, and discovers why many also choose to drink their way around the world. Along the way, Farrier discovers Figment, a Disney character that only exists in EPCOT. After finding out why no one is allowed to die in Disney World, Farrier heads back to LA to compare Disney World with Universal Studios. He meets up with theme park YouTubers Peter Sciretta and Kitra Remick of “Ordinary Adventures” to talk Super Nintendo Land and gets a tour from Jon Corfino, Vice President of Creative at Universal Studios. Why is Mario so popular and what do the kids think about the Super Nintendo Land?

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0:00.0	I'm David Varrier, a New Zealander accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure
0:05.0	out what makes this country tick.
0:07.0	Now, as you'll be aware, I've been exploring the vast expanse of Florida, and it was inevitable
0:12.2	that when I was in Orlando, I'd end up here.
0:23.2	Much like the giggling child in that commercial from 1995, it was time for me to visit Disney
0:28.3	World.
0:29.3	Home of Mickey Mouse and the place where the NBA hid during the pandemic.
0:33.5	Now I'd done Disneyland with Moniker and Dax and Rob, but it was time to go all in,
0:38.5	to the place that's visited by about 58 million people each year.
0:43.2	Opening just over 50 years ago, Disney World is made up of four parks that sprawl over
0:48.6	25,000 acres.
0:50.8	That's Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, and Epcot.
0:55.1	Ah yes, Epcot.
0:57.2	Walt Disney's vision of the perfect community.
1:00.1	A Disney town that he imagined people would work and sleep and eat and have sex in.
1:05.6	But it was a vision of the future that humanity just wasn't ready for.
1:09.6	So today it sits as a weird theme park that's a tribute to all of humanity, a tribute
1:15.0	that I'm desperate to visit.
1:16.4	It was Epcot that had caught my eye, and it was to Epcot that I would go.
1:21.4	So prepare to put your Mickey Mouse ears on and walk around in a mini version of the
1:25.7	entire planet, because this is the Epcot episode.
1:48.4	I feel bad leaving you all behind on this one.
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