Welcome to For Your 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 Ryan Bergara.

I'm Brian Morin.

And for this episode's featured attraction, we grapple with the idea of a great big, beautiful tomorrow in this cold, scary world of today to discuss the Carousel of Progress in the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida. And joining us in Walt's Carousel of Dreams is everyone's pal on YouTube, Mike from the party. Thank you for joining us in the taking room. Yeah, I'm super excited to be here. And as always, go ahead and like and subscribe if you're watching this over on YouTube.com slash watch your podcast, or if you're listening to the audio version, subscribe and rate this bad boy five stars. It'll keep this disaster going. You know what I mean? If that's what you're into. Just getting this out of the way up top, I had like a severe allergic reaction before this, apparently. I have no idea how it happened. I happened. I guess, actually I do know how it happened. I just ate something that has something that I'm allergic to. But I had been a drill, but my voice sounds even more nasly than usual, which is fun for everybody that's listening. My face was pretty swollen too. But you know what? When it comes to the carousel of progress, nothing stops the progress. I'm here.

It's just the wheel keeps turning.

We do have our guests choose the topic for these episodes.

So why carousel of progress?

Okay. So to start off, I adore this attraction. I want to lay that on the ground,

because I know you're trying to create like an objective metric. I just want to make my biases really clear. I love this. But more importantly, my family love it. So I'm one of four. And my two younger brothers, this is both their favorite attraction. So I need to be able to go back home and look them in the eye that I, you know, defended the carousel progress as much as I could.

You fought with honor. Yeah, exactly. Like, it's genuinely, it's quite weird, the level of obsession because I guess, you know, as you can probably tell by the accent, British. So don't go on that that often. That's what that accent is, huh? Yeah, yeah, actually. It's a country called Great Britain. Yeah. That's awesome. Google it. I think it's in Epcot.

That's that place that is Alton Towers, right?

Yeah, Alton Towers. Blackpool Pleasure Beach is a lawless land. What was your home park, by the way? I would say Thought Park. Yeah. So, which is quite a weird park to have as your home park because they massively were investing it throughout the 2000s. So when I was a kid, it was a kiddie park. And when I was a teen, it was like a teen park. Is that when it got the saw ride? Oh, that was, yeah, I was probably about 16 when he added the saw ride. So probably the kind of exact right age for it. That ride sucks ass, right? It's supposed to be, No, no. I thought it was supposed to be very, very uncomfortable and...

Oh, yes.

So from a coaster perspective, super rough, but from a, like, a theming perspective, it's pure camp. Is it like Gershauer? Do you know who... Is it Gershlauerzlauer the manufacturer? Yes. I know Coasters. Yeah, I think it's Gershlau.

Yeah.

He's a psychopath, so you don't really need to...

Yeah.

I'm just very much like Coaster Govroom when it comes to that stuff. I know Coasters. Yeah, I think it's Gershlau. He's a psychopath, so you don't really need to...

Yeah.

I'm just very much like Coaster Gove Room when it comes to that stuff, but I'm pretty sure it's a Gerslau, yeah. I was gonna say you could be making up manufacturer names this entire time, and I would never be able to... There's no checks and balances on this show. It's not as good as a Vlucuma. Yeah, the hokey-pokey construction company.

Yeah, oh, that's my favorite.

What the fuck?

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