Universal Fan Fest Nights with Paul Scheer
Podcast: The Ride
Forever Dog
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Paul Scheer returns to discuss the first ever Universal Studios "Fan Fest Nights," a non scary Halloween Horror Nights-type event.
Fan Fest Nights offers immersive experiences like walking on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise or getting yelled at by any number of Back to the Future characters (even obscure ones)!
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| 0:00.0 | Forever! |
| 0:02.0 | Dog! |
| 0:05.0 | Warning, the following podcast may contain combative principles, |
| 0:10.8 | immersive barrels, and an oppressive amount of Billy Joel. |
| 0:15.8 | Mike and Scott hit Hill Valley and the Enterprise at Universal Hollywood's new fan fest nights with special guests |
| 0:22.8 | Paul Shear on today's podcast The Ride, a podcast about theme parks that you guys aren't ready for yet, but your kids are going to love it. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm Scott Gardner, joined by Mike Carlson. Are they your kids are going to love it. I'm Scott Gardner, |
| 0:54.2 | turned by Mike Carlson. Are they? Are they going to love it? Oh, I think so. Oh, I think all of the, uh, you know, the references to, to William Frawley and, uh, we're pushing it with people our age is what I'm saying when it comes to old TV references. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, and, you know, the recurring specter of the puppet madam that, like, increasingly, I think. Whalen flowers and madam. Soon you will be the oldest living person who remembers this reference. Yeah. And then we're, but I don't know, but also maybe it'll all be so foreign 30 years down the line that there'll be a novelty to that. |
| 1:29.4 | That's a good point. |
| 1:30.0 | That'll be the appeal of the whole thing. |
| 1:31.4 | So the young people will look up to me in a lot of ways. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:34.8 | Well, you know, if we get into the nostalgia neck of the woods, which is certainly what we're |
| 1:39.4 | dealing with today with this thing that we got to go to. |
| 1:42.9 | Jason Sheridan is not with us, unfortunately. |
| 1:46.7 | However, we're going to have a good time here because we're going to talk about a really |
| 1:50.3 | fun thing that we got to go to. |
| 1:51.4 | The Universal Studios Hollywood has been doing it. |
| 1:53.9 | They're trying out that we were the guinea pigs for, the first ever test subjects for. |
| 1:59.7 | Basically, yeah. |
| 2:00.5 | We're prepared for danger and brain damage and anything that could have got. |
| 2:05.0 | I assume the shit was going to go down at this thing. |
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