1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,638 How about some lighter content today? 2 00:00:02,638 --> 00:00:03,937 I want to talk to you about the reason 3 00:00:03,937 --> 00:00:06,339 I have this poster in my office. 4 00:00:06,740 --> 00:00:11,177 This poster is for the Universe of Energy, an attraction at EPCOT, 5 00:00:11,378 --> 00:00:13,780 originally EPCOT Center, which, 6 00:00:14,547 --> 00:00:16,916 you know, I would like to talk about 7 00:00:16,916 --> 00:00:19,452 because that attraction is a big reason 8 00:00:19,452 --> 00:00:23,656 why my head understands energy the way it does. 9 00:00:24,758 --> 00:00:28,261 The Universe of Energy, and specifically the the version that replaced it, 10 00:00:28,261 --> 00:00:35,068 Ellen's Energy Adventure is often maligned because it's it's a weird, weird attraction. 11 00:00:35,502 --> 00:00:38,071 I... for those of you 12 00:00:38,071 --> 00:00:40,940 that don't know anything about EPCOT, I'm going to highly, 13 00:00:40,974 --> 00:00:45,412 highly recommend Defunctland’s amazing video - 14 00:00:45,945 --> 00:00:48,681 Video doesn't even describe it well, it is a masterpiece. 15 00:00:48,681 --> 00:00:50,116 Journey to EPCOT Center. 16 00:00:50,850 --> 00:00:54,354 If you want to understand the story of EPCOT 17 00:00:54,354 --> 00:00:57,457 and why it fascinates me so much, just watch that video. 18 00:00:58,058 --> 00:01:02,462 It is so weird that the Disney Corporation was like, 19 00:01:02,462 --> 00:01:04,130 we're going to build a theme park, 20 00:01:04,130 --> 00:01:08,168 and the theme is going to be international cooperation and innovation. 21 00:01:09,002 --> 00:01:11,071 And like, heck yes, 22 00:01:12,005 --> 00:01:13,206 that's so cool. 23 00:01:13,706 --> 00:01:17,010 EPCOT, unfortunately, has lost a lot of that spirit. 24 00:01:17,477 --> 00:01:19,779 World Showcase remains virtually untouched. 25 00:01:19,779 --> 00:01:23,850 So the international cooperation part is still very much alive. 26 00:01:24,918 --> 00:01:29,089 But the Future World is nothing like it used to be. 27 00:01:29,622 --> 00:01:33,093 And that makes me sad, but I understand it. 28 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:36,796 But anyway, please, I would, if you have some time to spend, 29 00:01:36,796 --> 00:01:38,798 that video is so amazing. 30 00:01:38,798 --> 00:01:41,634 When Kevin released it, I was just like, oh my gosh, 31 00:01:41,734 --> 00:01:44,571 this is such a love letter to EPCOT. 32 00:01:44,571 --> 00:01:46,406 And it's perfect. 33 00:01:47,207 --> 00:01:48,808 So please watch that 34 00:01:48,808 --> 00:01:51,678 if you want to understand why I have such a soft spot for EPCOT. 35 00:01:51,678 --> 00:01:54,647 But anyway, I want to talk about the Universe of Energy. 36 00:01:56,683 --> 00:01:59,652 It is much maligned these days because, 37 00:02:00,286 --> 00:02:01,488 well, okay, 38 00:02:02,088 --> 00:02:04,257 let me start by talking about the weird... 39 00:02:04,257 --> 00:02:06,759 the weird way that EPCOT even happened. 40 00:02:06,759 --> 00:02:09,462 So in back in the day, Disney was - 41 00:02:09,662 --> 00:02:13,066 and when I'm talking about Disney, I do mean Disney parks. 42 00:02:13,066 --> 00:02:15,869 I have never been a huge fan of the Disney Corporation, 43 00:02:16,569 --> 00:02:22,775 but Disney parks back in the day when they were creating a lot.... 44 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:24,477 Well, even going back to Disneyland, 45 00:02:24,477 --> 00:02:28,748 a lot of their attractions operated on the sponsorship model. 46 00:02:28,982 --> 00:02:32,385 Basically, Disney would say, “Hey, Goodyear. 47 00:02:32,385 --> 00:02:36,556 Would you like to put your name on this attraction we’re building called the Peoplemover? 48 00:02:36,923 --> 00:02:40,727 We'll take some money from you and help build that attraction. 49 00:02:40,727 --> 00:02:42,829 And in exchange, you can have your name on it.” 50 00:02:43,296 --> 00:02:46,866 And Disney doesn't really do that anymore. 51 00:02:46,866 --> 00:02:48,334 They... they kind of do. 52 00:02:48,334 --> 00:02:49,569 There's a couple things that hold on. 53 00:02:49,569 --> 00:02:52,605 And in fact, one of the original EPCOT attractions 54 00:02:52,605 --> 00:02:54,507 still has its original sponsor. 55 00:02:55,041 --> 00:03:01,147 But in 1982, when EPCOT opened and we're looking at that, older 56 00:03:01,147 --> 00:03:03,116 photo of Google Maps here, and you'll understand why 57 00:03:03,783 --> 00:03:06,352 it was basically the titans of American industry 58 00:03:06,419 --> 00:03:08,755 that were sponsoring these attractions. 59 00:03:08,755 --> 00:03:12,725 So you had the Seas Pavilion, which was sponsored by United Technologies. 60 00:03:12,725 --> 00:03:18,431 You had the Land Pavilion, which was sponsored by Kraft General Foods, I'm pretty sure when it first opened. 61 00:03:19,232 --> 00:03:22,202 The Imagination Pavilion, which was sponsored by Kodak, 62 00:03:22,702 --> 00:03:25,705 then you had originally World of Motion over here, 63 00:03:25,705 --> 00:03:27,307 which was sponsored by General Motors. 64 00:03:27,774 --> 00:03:32,245 This used to be Horizons (Rest in Peace) which was sponsored by General Electric. 65 00:03:32,812 --> 00:03:36,082 This pavilion here was actually shoehorned in in the late 80s. 66 00:03:36,082 --> 00:03:39,085 It did not open with the park and it is currently shuttered. 67 00:03:39,085 --> 00:03:40,753 Nobody knows what's going on with this. 68 00:03:40,987 --> 00:03:44,123 It was the Wonders of Life Pavilion sponsored by MetLife. 69 00:03:44,390 --> 00:03:46,993 And then this right here is the subject of our video, 70 00:03:47,460 --> 00:03:49,028 The Universe of Energy. 71 00:03:50,063 --> 00:03:53,199 Now, the reason I said it's much maligned 72 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:55,735 is because there are a lot of people 73 00:03:55,969 --> 00:03:59,205 who know just enough about Disney 74 00:03:59,205 --> 00:04:03,309 and EPCOT to know this attraction was sponsored by Exxon, 75 00:04:03,676 --> 00:04:08,114 and so they view this as a pro-oil attraction. 76 00:04:09,082 --> 00:04:12,485 And like I see posts going around 77 00:04:12,485 --> 00:04:14,787 and I even just saw one in searching for some videos 78 00:04:14,887 --> 00:04:16,256 where people are like, “do you remember that time 79 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:20,326 that Bill Nye and Ellen DeGeneres made oil industry propaganda for the Disney Corporation?” 80 00:04:20,793 --> 00:04:23,196 And like that is such a dishonest 81 00:04:23,196 --> 00:04:25,965 framing of what the attraction actually was. 82 00:04:26,633 --> 00:04:31,437 One of the reasons I'm looking at this satellite image from 2014 83 00:04:31,471 --> 00:04:34,674 is because you see what's on top of that building there. 84 00:04:36,576 --> 00:04:38,645 Those are photovoltaic solar panels, 85 00:04:38,645 --> 00:04:41,514 and they were put there in 1982. 86 00:04:41,948 --> 00:04:44,250 They were there the whole time. 87 00:04:44,784 --> 00:04:48,621 And in fact, supposedly the energy that these solar panels 88 00:04:48,621 --> 00:04:52,825 collected was used to charge the ride vehicles in this ride. 89 00:04:53,259 --> 00:04:55,261 And calling this a ride is... 90 00:04:57,230 --> 00:04:59,098 like really a large part I want to talk about 91 00:04:59,098 --> 00:05:01,968 this is because this attraction is just fascinating. 92 00:05:02,335 --> 00:05:06,205 The... whoever came up with this idea, it was just a fever dream. 93 00:05:06,739 --> 00:05:08,875 And I'm going to show you some clips of it. 94 00:05:08,875 --> 00:05:10,043 And also, 95 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:11,744 really, we're just we're just talking 96 00:05:11,744 --> 00:05:13,579 about the original attraction experience. 97 00:05:13,579 --> 00:05:15,815 This is no longer there. 98 00:05:15,815 --> 00:05:17,016 The building is still there. 99 00:05:17,016 --> 00:05:20,553 If we if we zoom ahead to today, the building is still there. 100 00:05:20,553 --> 00:05:24,691 I am not sure if they put new panels on or what's going on, 101 00:05:24,691 --> 00:05:27,960 but this this building is now the queue 102 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,165 and I think the trains actually are loaded and unloaded in here 103 00:05:32,465 --> 00:05:37,537 for the Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction, which is quite amazing. 104 00:05:37,537 --> 00:05:39,939 I will say it's very, very cool. 105 00:05:40,606 --> 00:05:43,576 It bums me out because Guardians of the Galaxy 106 00:05:43,576 --> 00:05:47,046 doesn't fit with the original theme of EPCOT at all, 107 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:49,515 but they tried to make it work a little bit, 108 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:59,759 and the original theme of EPCOT is just... Future World especially is just it's kind of barely together at this point. 109 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:07,500 It's - it saddens me, but anywhere we go back to this picture from 2014, I have pulled up. 110 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,837 Now I'm doing this on my Mac mini because that's where my microphone is. 111 00:06:10,837 --> 00:06:13,239 So forgive me, I'm really not good at using Mac OS, 112 00:06:13,406 --> 00:06:15,174 so we're just going to minimize this window here. 113 00:06:15,408 --> 00:06:19,212 This attraction is what was called a traveling theater. 114 00:06:19,379 --> 00:06:26,352 And Disney used this kind of again with the Great Movie Ride and Hollywood studios - back then, MGM Studios. 115 00:06:26,352 --> 00:06:28,821 But that attraction doesn't exist anymore either. 116 00:06:28,821 --> 00:06:30,723 So this is the only version... 117 00:06:31,224 --> 00:06:33,259 well, I mean, we're just going to talk about this one. 118 00:06:34,727 --> 00:06:40,099 These things here are what they call - I think they call them the traveling theater cars. 119 00:06:40,099 --> 00:06:42,802 I'm not sure if they really had a dedicated name for them, 120 00:06:42,802 --> 00:06:45,872 but these are enormous ride vehicles. 121 00:06:46,372 --> 00:06:49,375 Each one of these probably seats about 100 people. 122 00:06:49,842 --> 00:06:56,115 And when you are waiting to board this attraction, there is a pre-show. 123 00:06:56,182 --> 00:07:00,920 So you would come in through here and there's this pre-show theater which has five screens, 124 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:02,188 and we're going to look at some of this in a bit. 125 00:07:02,488 --> 00:07:05,391 Part of what I want to show with this video is the scale. 126 00:07:05,391 --> 00:07:09,829 The scale of this attraction was so immense, like it was so - 127 00:07:09,829 --> 00:07:13,299 it's really hard to convey how enormous this building was 128 00:07:13,299 --> 00:07:15,268 and how enormous the theaters were. 129 00:07:16,903 --> 00:07:20,072 And, well, let's just let's just watch some clips here. 130 00:07:20,573 --> 00:07:25,478 This is the exterior of the building and some of the signage that was originally there. 131 00:07:25,478 --> 00:07:29,282 You can see the solar panels up top. 132 00:07:30,116 --> 00:07:33,085 [ambient music plays] 133 00:07:38,458 --> 00:07:40,493 This mural here is, 134 00:07:40,493 --> 00:07:43,062 original to the original EPCOT Center. 135 00:07:43,196 --> 00:07:45,164 So this was not touched at all. 136 00:07:45,164 --> 00:07:46,732 We had this cool display built 137 00:07:46,732 --> 00:07:48,734 into the tile work for minutes to the next show. 138 00:07:49,168 --> 00:07:50,369 And the way that this would work, 139 00:07:50,369 --> 00:07:53,306 there were two concurrent shows happening all the time. 140 00:07:53,706 --> 00:07:56,609 And this clock, if I remember right, was counting down 141 00:07:56,609 --> 00:08:00,646 to when the pre-show started and the pre-show.... 142 00:08:00,646 --> 00:08:02,682 Let's see if there's a good clip of it here. 143 00:08:05,051 --> 00:08:06,252 Gosh, there really isn't. 144 00:08:06,419 --> 00:08:10,156 So in - I think this version came out in 1996. 145 00:08:10,156 --> 00:08:13,926 I mean, if I remember right, it wasn't completely ready for some time, 146 00:08:13,926 --> 00:08:16,896 and they ran the old version of the attraction 147 00:08:17,697 --> 00:08:19,365 for a brief period of time, 148 00:08:19,966 --> 00:08:21,067 even though they had already done 149 00:08:21,067 --> 00:08:23,135 a lot of changes to accommodate this new version. 150 00:08:23,703 --> 00:08:26,339 But this is the pre-show area. Again, 151 00:08:26,339 --> 00:08:28,741 just this one room is enormous 152 00:08:28,741 --> 00:08:30,843 and there are five screens. 153 00:08:31,277 --> 00:08:32,245 I got off track here. 154 00:08:32,245 --> 00:08:34,647 So obviously we're looking at Ellen DeGeneres right now 155 00:08:35,014 --> 00:08:37,483 in her very 90s outfit. 156 00:08:38,084 --> 00:08:39,085 There's another one, too, 157 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,089 but the original version of this attraction, 158 00:08:43,089 --> 00:08:46,192 these five screens had these tiles, 159 00:08:46,192 --> 00:08:48,794 these kinetic tiles that could, I think they were five 160 00:08:48,794 --> 00:08:50,897 by five grids, and each 161 00:08:51,297 --> 00:08:54,033 tile was a triangle, and it could spin. 162 00:08:54,267 --> 00:08:58,871 So, so it was either a normal theater surface or, a normal screen surface, 163 00:08:59,171 --> 00:09:02,775 or it could turn and stick out as a triangle 164 00:09:02,942 --> 00:09:05,378 and have this three dimensional shape to it. 165 00:09:05,378 --> 00:09:08,214 Or it could even I think it had a black surface as well. 166 00:09:08,648 --> 00:09:11,884 So the original pre-show, all five of these screens 167 00:09:11,884 --> 00:09:14,687 were doing this really cool undulation, 168 00:09:15,655 --> 00:09:17,323 and I don't know how to describe it. 169 00:09:17,657 --> 00:09:21,060 I'm not focused on the original version of this attraction in this video. 170 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,764 I am too young to have experienced it. 171 00:09:25,064 --> 00:09:26,732 I might have ridden it 172 00:09:26,732 --> 00:09:28,901 as a very little kid, but I have no memory of it. 173 00:09:28,901 --> 00:09:32,505 The only memory of this attraction I have is Ellen's Energy Adventure. 174 00:09:32,972 --> 00:09:36,309 And when they did the reboot for this, 175 00:09:36,309 --> 00:09:38,044 they removed the dynamic screen 176 00:09:38,044 --> 00:09:41,213 and they turned it into this kind of comedic pre-show. 177 00:09:41,914 --> 00:09:45,885 And they were making good use of these five screens. 178 00:09:45,885 --> 00:09:47,553 Let me, just play a little bit here. 179 00:09:47,887 --> 00:09:50,590 Welcome to the Universe of Energy. 180 00:09:50,590 --> 00:09:51,791 How are you? 181 00:09:52,792 --> 00:09:53,993 No need to answer. 182 00:09:54,260 --> 00:09:56,329 You know, you're probably surprised to see me here, aren't you? 183 00:09:57,129 --> 00:09:58,764 But then there's probably a lot of places 184 00:09:58,764 --> 00:10:00,633 you'd be surprised to see me when you think about it. 185 00:10:01,033 --> 00:10:02,868 If you were driving in your car, for instance. 186 00:10:02,868 --> 00:10:04,170 Okay. Close your eyes. 187 00:10:04,203 --> 00:10:04,971 You're in your car- 188 00:10:04,971 --> 00:10:07,073 Don’t close your eyes in the car but right now, think about it. 189 00:10:07,106 --> 00:10:08,374 You're in your car, you’re driving 190 00:10:08,507 --> 00:10:11,143 and then all of a sudden, in the backseat, I just pop up and go 191 00:10:11,277 --> 00:10:12,545 Hey! 192 00:10:12,545 --> 00:10:14,580 You’d just whack me in the head, wouldn’t ya? 193 00:10:14,580 --> 00:10:15,114 So, you know, 194 00:10:15,114 --> 00:10:17,783 they're just doing kind of fun, playful things with jump cuts. 195 00:10:17,783 --> 00:10:20,720 And, if you can't tell from the audio in the video, 196 00:10:20,886 --> 00:10:23,422 the sound is coming from behind each screen. 197 00:10:23,422 --> 00:10:26,258 So depending on where she is, you hear, you hear different places. 198 00:10:26,292 --> 00:10:29,328 So the conceit of this ride, and again, 199 00:10:29,328 --> 00:10:32,098 it's a fever dream. 200 00:10:32,098 --> 00:10:34,500 Ellen ...and literally it is a dream. 201 00:10:34,767 --> 00:10:37,269 Ellen is a huge fan of Jeopardy! 202 00:10:37,269 --> 00:10:38,838 And she's watching Jeopardy! 203 00:10:39,305 --> 00:10:41,240 Big CRT television 204 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,243 in this New York apartment, which is frankly amazing. 205 00:10:44,243 --> 00:10:45,011 But who does... 206 00:10:45,011 --> 00:10:49,615 I mean, it's a movie set, of course, and Bill Nye is her friend for some reason. 207 00:10:50,016 --> 00:10:52,051 And so here's Bill Nye. 208 00:10:52,852 --> 00:10:54,153 I had the best nickname for her, though. 209 00:10:54,453 --> 00:10:56,656 -What was that? -Stupid Judy. 210 00:10:57,056 --> 00:10:58,391 -Ellen, that makes no sense! 211 00:10:58,391 --> 00:10:59,792 She has a. Ph.D.. 212 00:10:59,859 --> 00:11:01,661 -I know, but it made me feel better. 213 00:11:01,827 --> 00:11:02,928 So now - 214 00:11:02,928 --> 00:11:05,297 Judy was played by Jamie Lee Curtis, by the way. 215 00:11:05,297 --> 00:11:07,099 And that is, in fact, Alex Trebek. 216 00:11:07,433 --> 00:11:10,336 One of the worst things about this attraction 217 00:11:10,536 --> 00:11:16,876 is that they filmed it in 1996, and then the Jeopardy! set changed dramatically after that. 218 00:11:16,876 --> 00:11:19,278 So the ride was, like, immediately dated. 219 00:11:19,578 --> 00:11:22,581 And they kept... they never updated the films. 220 00:11:23,015 --> 00:11:26,552 So this attraction kept running like this until 2017. 221 00:11:26,919 --> 00:11:30,890 It was hilariously dated by the time it closed. 222 00:11:31,190 --> 00:11:34,360 But anyway, the conceit is she's watching Jeopardy! 223 00:11:35,294 --> 00:11:38,097 Her college roommate is on Jeopardy! 224 00:11:38,097 --> 00:11:39,298 She's jealous of that. 225 00:11:39,498 --> 00:11:43,002 And then she falls asleep while watching Jeopardy! 226 00:11:43,002 --> 00:11:45,438 And so she has a dream sequence. 227 00:11:45,438 --> 00:11:47,673 And then we go later into, 228 00:11:48,708 --> 00:11:50,009 start the dream sequence here. 229 00:11:51,577 --> 00:11:55,047 [Johnny Gilbert announcing] Doctor Judy Peterson, Doctor Albert Einstein. 230 00:11:55,481 --> 00:11:56,682 And finally... 231 00:11:56,882 --> 00:11:58,084 just Ellen. 232 00:11:58,617 --> 00:12:01,287 And now, here is the host of Jeopardy! 233 00:12:01,587 --> 00:12:03,222 Alex Trebek. 234 00:12:03,489 --> 00:12:04,790 -Thank you, Johnny Gilbert. 235 00:12:04,790 --> 00:12:06,859 Hello contestants, welcome to our program. 236 00:12:07,226 --> 00:12:08,661 And good luck to you in the game. 237 00:12:09,295 --> 00:12:11,597 Here are the categories for the first round of play. 238 00:12:12,298 --> 00:12:13,499 Solar energy. 239 00:12:14,500 --> 00:12:15,701 Wind power. 240 00:12:16,368 --> 00:12:17,937 Energy from water. 241 00:12:18,838 --> 00:12:20,039 Fossil fuels. 242 00:12:21,173 --> 00:12:23,008 Fusion. 243 00:12:23,008 --> 00:12:24,844 And finally, gas. 244 00:12:25,344 --> 00:12:26,712 I just want to point out here 245 00:12:27,413 --> 00:12:30,649 the first categories were all renewables, right. 246 00:12:30,683 --> 00:12:34,353 So all the people that are like, “oh, this is oil industry propaganda.” 247 00:12:34,353 --> 00:12:39,391 It's like - a huge amount of this attraction is talking about renewable energy. 248 00:12:39,592 --> 00:12:42,862 We have been talking about this for 30 years. 249 00:12:43,129 --> 00:12:45,865 And I'll play some other clips later where, 250 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:49,635 when we're talking about fossil sources, 251 00:12:49,635 --> 00:12:53,305 they're even saying, like, we only have enough for 50 years. 252 00:12:53,305 --> 00:12:55,174 Llike this... 253 00:12:56,142 --> 00:12:58,978 Again, I don't want to sound like I'm defending the Disney corporation, 254 00:12:58,978 --> 00:13:01,814 but I am defending reality because I don't really like it 255 00:13:01,814 --> 00:13:04,250 when people are like, oh, remember that time they made oil propaganda? 256 00:13:04,250 --> 00:13:07,219 It's like, yes, the attraction was sponsored by Exxon. 257 00:13:07,686 --> 00:13:10,289 It was not saying oil is fantastic. 258 00:13:11,023 --> 00:13:14,160 There's freaking solar panels on the roof or the attraction - anyway. 259 00:13:14,426 --> 00:13:17,163 Anyway, so she's having a dream 260 00:13:17,963 --> 00:13:22,201 and she's losing to Judy because Judy knows everything about [energy]. 261 00:13:22,668 --> 00:13:24,603 And let me just skip forward a little bit here. 262 00:13:32,011 --> 00:13:33,112 What is hydroelectric? 263 00:13:33,979 --> 00:13:35,314 What is helium? 264 00:13:35,481 --> 00:13:37,783 And so as we come to the end of the first round, 265 00:13:37,783 --> 00:13:39,351 ladies and gentlemen, 266 00:13:39,351 --> 00:13:41,387 Judy has a commanding lead. 267 00:13:41,387 --> 00:13:42,855 Ellen has her work cut out for her, 268 00:13:43,088 --> 00:13:46,625 And Doctor Einstein is nowhere (relatively speaking). 269 00:13:46,992 --> 00:13:48,894 Is this a nightmare, or what? 270 00:13:48,894 --> 00:13:50,963 Oh, Ellen, your first correct response! 271 00:13:53,432 --> 00:13:54,400 Wait a minute. 272 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:58,204 - So, then we kind of get to the end of the pre-show, and again this, 273 00:13:58,204 --> 00:13:59,438 this is the pre-show. 274 00:13:59,471 --> 00:14:02,241 So this attraction was incredibly long, 275 00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:05,778 and that's one of the reasons why it's not fondly remembered. 276 00:14:05,778 --> 00:14:09,481 I thought it was a great excuse to take a break into some air conditioning 277 00:14:09,481 --> 00:14:13,919 from the Florida heat, but it was an incredibly long experience. 278 00:14:13,953 --> 00:14:15,321 This we are, we are... 279 00:14:15,554 --> 00:14:17,556 The pre-show itself is like seven minutes. 280 00:14:17,890 --> 00:14:21,460 And, you know, also, this is the kind of fun thing that Disney would do. 281 00:14:21,460 --> 00:14:23,028 I just want to point out this clip hopefully. 282 00:14:24,296 --> 00:14:25,431 Wait, it's not even over. 283 00:14:25,431 --> 00:14:26,799 It gets really weird from here. 284 00:14:26,932 --> 00:14:29,869 Now some person I don't even know reminds me there's no eating, drinking, 285 00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:32,371 smoking, or flash photography allowed in my dream. 286 00:14:33,372 --> 00:14:39,211 That’s right, there’s no eating, drinking, smoking, or flash photography allowed in Ellen’s dream, thank you. 287 00:14:39,411 --> 00:14:41,647 They did that the whole time it ran. 288 00:14:41,647 --> 00:14:43,616 It was just a charming little thing that they did. 289 00:14:44,016 --> 00:14:47,620 And then they did a quick little recap here 290 00:14:48,153 --> 00:14:49,622 for those that were just walking in 291 00:14:49,622 --> 00:14:52,758 because you could walk into the pre-show at any time. 292 00:14:53,058 --> 00:14:57,062 This attraction had an enormous capacity, as you will soon see. 293 00:14:57,396 --> 00:14:59,298 And then, at the very end, 294 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:02,501 I'm sure I have used this line at one point in my videos. 295 00:15:02,668 --> 00:15:03,669 You’re late. 296 00:15:03,669 --> 00:15:05,304 And you think about that next time! 297 00:15:07,973 --> 00:15:09,341 And that's how the pre-show ends. 298 00:15:09,608 --> 00:15:11,076 So... oops! 299 00:15:13,112 --> 00:15:14,380 I did not mean to go full screen. 300 00:15:14,780 --> 00:15:17,449 So you can now see when the room lights are back on 301 00:15:17,616 --> 00:15:19,685 there are two doors here that you're about to walk through. 302 00:15:19,685 --> 00:15:20,719 I have to change clips. 303 00:15:20,719 --> 00:15:23,389 This is a this is a pretty good video of the attraction. 304 00:15:23,389 --> 00:15:25,591 You can watch the whole thing if you want, but this 305 00:15:26,025 --> 00:15:28,060 this doesn't really show the ride vehicles. 306 00:15:28,060 --> 00:15:28,928 So let me go over here. 307 00:15:32,097 --> 00:15:34,633 Doopy doopy doo badup badoo. 308 00:15:39,171 --> 00:15:41,240 Okay. So this - this video actually shows 309 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,008 what it's like to walk into the theater. 310 00:15:43,008 --> 00:15:44,877 -allllright, ladies and gentlemen, 311 00:15:44,877 --> 00:15:48,514 in just a moment the doors in front of you will be opening up, so come on up this way. 312 00:15:48,514 --> 00:15:51,750 Just remain behind the yellow line until the doors open 313 00:15:51,750 --> 00:15:54,820 as those doors will be opening towards you. 314 00:15:56,388 --> 00:16:00,793 [Ellen’s Energy Adventure theme plays which is a really cool piece of music] 315 00:16:05,264 --> 00:16:07,666 So we're walking into theater one, 316 00:16:07,666 --> 00:16:11,003 and these are the enormous vehicles I was talking about. 317 00:16:11,003 --> 00:16:13,305 These are called the traveling theater cars. 318 00:16:13,939 --> 00:16:16,308 Each one, I think they had ten rows. 319 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:18,877 You could easily fit ten people on each bench. 320 00:16:19,278 --> 00:16:22,648 These are just enormous, enormous vehicles. 321 00:16:23,082 --> 00:16:25,851 And one of the things that Disney is really doing here 322 00:16:25,851 --> 00:16:28,654 is they're kind of doing a bit of a fake out, because this room 323 00:16:29,321 --> 00:16:32,291 looks like there's black curtains. 324 00:16:32,291 --> 00:16:34,760 And again, it is going to be impossible to convey... 325 00:16:34,994 --> 00:16:38,430 to convey the scale of how big everything was here. 326 00:16:38,864 --> 00:16:41,000 But we're doing a bit of a fake out 327 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,436 because the vehicles are facing the wrong way. 328 00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,439 It looks like you're facing towards 329 00:16:47,439 --> 00:16:49,908 some sort of a presentation and the curtains are going to open up. 330 00:16:49,908 --> 00:16:53,779 But what actually happens is, as soon as the ride starts, the doors close. 331 00:16:54,179 --> 00:16:56,682 [cast member announcing over PA] And now we return to Ellen’s Energy Adventure. 332 00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:58,951 [ride audio, Ellen speaking] -million years so you could show me... nothing? 333 00:16:58,951 --> 00:17:00,552 [Alec] And at this time, 334 00:17:00,552 --> 00:17:03,822 You discover you're sitting on a turntable 335 00:17:04,156 --> 00:17:06,625 and the entire turntable is turning around. 336 00:17:06,825 --> 00:17:08,027 [Ellen] Must’ve been a big delivery room, huh? 337 00:17:08,227 --> 00:17:11,897 So I'm going to go back to the, the blueprint here. 338 00:17:12,031 --> 00:17:14,533 So we walked - here was the pre-show room. 339 00:17:14,533 --> 00:17:15,501 We walked in. 340 00:17:15,501 --> 00:17:16,969 That was this enormous room. 341 00:17:16,969 --> 00:17:18,837 And it looks like we're facing forward. 342 00:17:18,837 --> 00:17:19,872 There's a curtain here. 343 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:21,440 We're going to be looking at some kind of a show, 344 00:17:21,907 --> 00:17:24,143 but you're actually sitting on a turntable, 345 00:17:24,143 --> 00:17:26,578 and the entire thing turns around 346 00:17:26,578 --> 00:17:28,547 and you discover that behind you, 347 00:17:28,547 --> 00:17:31,750 the whole time were three enormous movie screens. 348 00:17:32,084 --> 00:17:34,253 Each one had a 70 millimeter projector, 349 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:39,758 and you were watching just a huge, huge widescreen experience. 350 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:42,861 Now you'll notice this thing here and all that. 351 00:17:42,861 --> 00:17:44,730 Well, so what happens is... 352 00:17:47,666 --> 00:17:50,803 After this show, after this beginning. 353 00:17:52,237 --> 00:17:55,207 [music] 354 00:17:58,010 --> 00:18:01,713 And, uh, all footage of this is very flickery that you can find. 355 00:18:01,713 --> 00:18:03,148 Because these were film projectors, 356 00:18:03,148 --> 00:18:05,551 they never updated it to digital projection, which, 357 00:18:06,051 --> 00:18:07,653 of course, you know, of course they didn't. 358 00:18:07,986 --> 00:18:10,222 So these were all 70mm film projectors. 359 00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:12,758 And this part of the ride is basically 360 00:18:12,758 --> 00:18:15,894 just exploring the Big Bang and the creation of Earth. 361 00:18:16,295 --> 00:18:19,498 And then we skip forward to when the dinosaurs are alive. 362 00:18:19,565 --> 00:18:22,067 [Ellen] I kind of hoping that you'd show me a slideshow. 363 00:18:22,668 --> 00:18:23,535 [Bill] Slideshow? 364 00:18:23,535 --> 00:18:27,372 I guess that would be easier, but this is way more fun! 365 00:18:28,373 --> 00:18:29,641 [Ellen, sarcastically] Yeah, this is fun. 366 00:18:30,776 --> 00:18:31,877 Where's the energy? 367 00:18:31,877 --> 00:18:33,745 [Bill] Oh, it's all around you! 368 00:18:33,745 --> 00:18:35,647 See, these plants and animals 369 00:18:35,647 --> 00:18:38,517 are soaking up energy from the sun. 370 00:18:38,784 --> 00:18:41,854 When they die and get buried, time pressure and heat 371 00:18:42,054 --> 00:18:44,957 will cook them into the fossil fuels we rely on today. 372 00:18:44,990 --> 00:18:47,493 Like, coal, natural gas and oil. 373 00:18:48,694 --> 00:18:51,096 [Alec] So that is the conceit of the 374 00:18:51,497 --> 00:18:54,500 fossil fuel part where we've traveled back in time. 375 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:57,669 We're looking at ancient plant and animal material, 376 00:18:57,669 --> 00:18:59,538 which turned into fossil fuels. 377 00:18:59,838 --> 00:19:01,573 And we explain that. 378 00:19:01,773 --> 00:19:03,909 But then what happens is at the end of this sequence. 379 00:19:06,478 --> 00:19:08,947 Suddenly the turntable starts moving to the left. 380 00:19:12,951 --> 00:19:14,153 [Ellen] Maybe I’ll go. 381 00:19:16,455 --> 00:19:18,624 What am I so scared of? It's just a dinosaur. 382 00:19:18,957 --> 00:19:21,193 What’s the big deal about dinosaurs, they’re not so tough. 383 00:19:21,193 --> 00:19:22,861 Probably have a brain the size of a pea. 384 00:19:22,861 --> 00:19:26,665 [dinosaur roars] 385 00:19:29,301 --> 00:19:31,270 [Ellen] Ahhhh... 386 00:19:31,737 --> 00:19:34,206 I hope you’re not upset about that pea brain crack. 387 00:19:34,206 --> 00:19:35,874 Because, y’know now that I think of it 388 00:19:35,874 --> 00:19:39,244 I'm sure peas are much larger in this time period. 389 00:19:39,511 --> 00:19:41,413 I happen to love peas, don't you? 390 00:19:41,413 --> 00:19:43,148 [another loud roar] 391 00:19:43,582 --> 00:19:44,783 I'll take that as a maybe. 392 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:47,219 I should get going because I'm supposed to be dinner. 393 00:19:47,419 --> 00:19:48,720 I mean, have dinner with friends. 394 00:19:49,154 --> 00:19:50,889 So I should go. 395 00:19:51,590 --> 00:19:52,324 Hey, what’s over there? 396 00:19:53,192 --> 00:19:57,062 [very loud roar] 397 00:19:57,462 --> 00:19:58,997 [stomping footsteps] 398 00:19:58,997 --> 00:19:59,765 Right at this moment, 399 00:19:59,765 --> 00:20:02,434 when you hear the footsteps of dinosaurs, the vehicle 400 00:20:02,434 --> 00:20:04,836 you are sitting in starts moving forward. 401 00:20:05,437 --> 00:20:08,273 And so this is the traveling theater concept. 402 00:20:08,674 --> 00:20:10,876 This door, which you had no idea was there 403 00:20:10,876 --> 00:20:13,645 because it was behind curtains, has opened up and we are now 404 00:20:13,679 --> 00:20:17,115 moving into the prehistoric diorama. 405 00:20:18,350 --> 00:20:21,320 [more footsteps and dramatic music] 406 00:20:23,956 --> 00:20:26,925 [various jungle sounds, too] 407 00:20:30,395 --> 00:20:31,797 And I'm going to skip forward 408 00:20:31,797 --> 00:20:33,899 a little bit again, if you want to watch the whole thing, 409 00:20:33,899 --> 00:20:36,735 there's... I'll link these two in the description. 410 00:20:36,735 --> 00:20:39,137 There's several different ride-throughs, but I'm, you know, 411 00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:41,240 some are better than others at conveying the scale. 412 00:20:42,975 --> 00:20:46,478 This, by the way, this is an infrared emitter for the cameras. 413 00:20:46,478 --> 00:20:48,947 That way, the cast members operating the ride can actually keep 414 00:20:48,947 --> 00:20:50,148 track of what people are doing. 415 00:20:50,148 --> 00:20:53,185 But this is an interesting scene where we're sitting here 416 00:20:53,585 --> 00:20:55,520 and this diorama. 417 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:56,688 I did it again. 418 00:20:56,688 --> 00:20:59,358 This diorama slowly has a sunrise effect. 419 00:20:59,358 --> 00:21:02,494 And so you see the the light get brighter. 420 00:21:02,494 --> 00:21:05,797 You can actually - as you're moving in, these just look like silhouettes. 421 00:21:05,797 --> 00:21:09,635 You don't realize these are actually enormous animatronic figures of dinosaurs. 422 00:21:11,670 --> 00:21:14,273 And I think you'll be able to see... 423 00:21:14,806 --> 00:21:17,643 Yeah. So those cars over there are moving. 424 00:21:17,909 --> 00:21:19,878 Here's the car in front of you, moving away. 425 00:21:27,619 --> 00:21:29,821 And now the car that the person is filming 426 00:21:29,821 --> 00:21:31,223 from is moving forward as well. 427 00:21:32,991 --> 00:21:36,328 So if you go back to that, to this schematic here, 428 00:21:36,995 --> 00:21:39,898 when you boarded all the ride vehicles are facing here, 429 00:21:39,898 --> 00:21:42,034 then that was the first fake out. 430 00:21:42,034 --> 00:21:44,770 So you turn around and then you watch about seven minutes of film 431 00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:46,004 on these enormous screens. 432 00:21:46,338 --> 00:21:49,207 Then you turn and point that direction. 433 00:21:49,207 --> 00:21:53,912 As a group, all six vehicles move into this section and then stop. 434 00:21:54,980 --> 00:21:58,617 And the sunrise scene is happening. 435 00:21:59,351 --> 00:22:01,219 Now, you'll notice there's another theater over here. 436 00:22:01,219 --> 00:22:02,087 We'll get back to that. 437 00:22:02,087 --> 00:22:06,224 But after, after they've stopped here and the door behind you 438 00:22:06,224 --> 00:22:09,561 closes, these two vehicles start moving forward. 439 00:22:10,329 --> 00:22:12,464 Then these two vehicles start moving forward, 440 00:22:12,798 --> 00:22:14,599 and then these two vehicles start moving forward. 441 00:22:14,599 --> 00:22:16,835 So suddenly, we go from a group of six 442 00:22:17,269 --> 00:22:20,839 in a three by two configuration to six individual 443 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,744 theater cars, all following each other through the diorama scene. 444 00:22:26,745 --> 00:22:27,946 And, 445 00:22:28,447 --> 00:22:31,216 if you saw that Ellen DeGeneres had an animatronic 446 00:22:31,216 --> 00:22:33,952 figure made of her, it was about right here. 447 00:22:33,952 --> 00:22:35,887 It was right near the end of this section. 448 00:22:35,887 --> 00:22:37,756 Before you move into theater two. 449 00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,193 Now you'll see 450 00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:45,163 the part of what fascinates me about this attraction is that theater - 451 00:22:45,163 --> 00:22:48,233 There were two shows concurrently all of the time. 452 00:22:48,667 --> 00:22:53,638 So when these six vehicles moved into here and stopped 453 00:22:54,406 --> 00:22:55,674 and this door shut, 454 00:22:56,141 --> 00:22:58,210 the six vehicles in theater two 455 00:22:58,243 --> 00:23:00,879 were about to move back into theater one. 456 00:23:01,146 --> 00:23:02,414 And so the turntable 457 00:23:03,482 --> 00:23:05,450 probably needed to turn a little bit to align. 458 00:23:05,650 --> 00:23:08,120 And by the way, you can you can see in the ride 459 00:23:08,487 --> 00:23:10,155 what looks like a track. 460 00:23:10,589 --> 00:23:11,790 It's not really a track. 461 00:23:11,790 --> 00:23:13,825 The vehicles are following a guide wire 462 00:23:13,825 --> 00:23:17,095 and those are just metal plates, so the wheels have better traction. 463 00:23:17,329 --> 00:23:19,998 I read a story that originally I don't know if this is true, 464 00:23:19,998 --> 00:23:23,769 but originally the ride vehicles were moving directly on carpet. 465 00:23:23,935 --> 00:23:27,506 These were trackless ride vehicles in 1982 466 00:23:27,806 --> 00:23:30,876 and the vehicles were moving along carpet, 467 00:23:30,876 --> 00:23:34,246 but they were having problems with static discharge and that was resetting 468 00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:38,016 the computers that actually, you know, drove the ride vehicles. 469 00:23:38,016 --> 00:23:41,286 I don't know if that's true or not, but you'll see these plates, 470 00:23:42,287 --> 00:23:43,488 you can see them right here at 471 00:23:43,722 --> 00:23:46,658 these are really just a dedicated surface 472 00:23:46,658 --> 00:23:50,395 for the wheels of these things to travel on without digging into the, 473 00:23:51,730 --> 00:23:52,931 into the flooring. 474 00:23:53,465 --> 00:23:55,100 But that's what's happening here, is 475 00:23:55,100 --> 00:23:57,469 these ride vehicles are all moving forward, 476 00:23:57,869 --> 00:23:59,871 progressing through the diorama scene, 477 00:24:00,739 --> 00:24:01,973 all of this stuff, 478 00:24:03,475 --> 00:24:05,577 is original from 1982. 479 00:24:06,478 --> 00:24:11,149 It wasn't - I think the colors were updated like the dinosaurs were made more vibrant. 480 00:24:13,118 --> 00:24:15,320 But mostly this is this is original. 481 00:24:18,390 --> 00:24:21,026 Does this does this have the Ellen figure in it? 482 00:24:21,026 --> 00:24:22,561 I'm going to guess no. 483 00:24:22,928 --> 00:24:28,433 They removed that figure towards the end of the attraction’s [life]. 484 00:24:41,847 --> 00:24:43,348 The audio of her 485 00:24:43,748 --> 00:24:46,218 voice is playing in this, but I think the figure is gone. 486 00:24:46,218 --> 00:24:49,488 Fun fact when I was, one of the times I went on this attraction, 487 00:24:49,821 --> 00:24:51,289 when I was maybe 12 or 14, 488 00:24:51,590 --> 00:24:55,760 the one of the hands of the Ellen figure had fallen off. 489 00:24:56,027 --> 00:24:57,229 That was a bit disturbing. 490 00:24:57,362 --> 00:25:01,199 But anyway, so as we are approaching the end of the diorama scene, 491 00:25:01,199 --> 00:25:04,102 the vehicles are moving into theater two. 492 00:25:05,604 --> 00:25:07,072 There's some flashing lights here. 493 00:25:09,708 --> 00:25:11,209 We're going underneath a tunnel. 494 00:25:19,618 --> 00:25:22,220 And they are now reassembling themselves. 495 00:25:22,220 --> 00:25:24,623 The turntable is shown the wrong way in this drawing, 496 00:25:24,623 --> 00:25:26,224 but they are now reassembling themselves 497 00:25:26,224 --> 00:25:28,460 in the same original configuration, 498 00:25:28,793 --> 00:25:32,264 although this drawing is a little incorrect, because in theater two, 499 00:25:32,998 --> 00:25:36,368 they did not have the platforms to get on and oops, 500 00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:37,869 over here they did not have the platforms 501 00:25:37,869 --> 00:25:39,971 to get on and off of the ride vehicles 502 00:25:40,372 --> 00:25:41,806 that they do in theater one, 503 00:25:41,806 --> 00:25:44,543 so the ride vehicles are actually closer together in theater two; 504 00:25:45,644 --> 00:25:47,245 a small issue with this drawing. 505 00:25:47,245 --> 00:25:50,081 But anyway, we're moving back into theater two 506 00:25:50,448 --> 00:25:52,517 and we're going back into this original formation. 507 00:25:53,985 --> 00:25:57,923 [Bill Nye’s voice] Let’s get a move on! There’s some way cool stuff just ahead. 508 00:26:01,493 --> 00:26:03,328 Because it takes so much time 509 00:26:03,328 --> 00:26:06,498 for these vehicles to reconfigure, before the film 510 00:26:06,498 --> 00:26:09,901 in theater two starts, there's a cute radio bit 511 00:26:09,935 --> 00:26:13,305 going on from KNRG. And KNRG, 512 00:26:13,338 --> 00:26:15,707 they're doing news reports over the years, 513 00:26:15,707 --> 00:26:17,742 from like 900,000 BC. 514 00:26:19,110 --> 00:26:20,779 This is one of those things where it would depend 515 00:26:20,779 --> 00:26:23,081 on which vehicle you boarded. 516 00:26:23,114 --> 00:26:27,018 When I, when I was little, we would try to be in this vehicle here 517 00:26:27,018 --> 00:26:29,321 because this would be the first one to leave, 518 00:26:29,321 --> 00:26:32,223 and that meant it was the first one to enter theater two. 519 00:26:32,524 --> 00:26:35,760 And you got to hear the entire KNRG radio bit. 520 00:26:36,328 --> 00:26:38,430 If you were this vehicle here, 521 00:26:38,430 --> 00:26:40,932 you would enter theater two last 522 00:26:40,932 --> 00:26:42,334 and you wouldn't hear much of that at all. 523 00:26:43,668 --> 00:26:46,037 [fashion reporter’s voice] Mammals are getting hairier. 524 00:26:46,237 --> 00:26:47,439 That's right. 525 00:26:47,439 --> 00:26:49,307 Woolly is definitely in! 526 00:26:49,674 --> 00:26:52,077 Whether you’re a mammoth or a rhino. 527 00:26:52,077 --> 00:26:55,780 And saber teeth seem to be a growing fad in the cat world. 528 00:26:55,947 --> 00:27:00,385 Also, look for antlers to be very big this year. 529 00:27:00,385 --> 00:27:04,689 As big as 10 feet on creatures like the megaloceros. 530 00:27:04,689 --> 00:27:05,957 Wow! 531 00:27:05,957 --> 00:27:09,060 And that's the latest in the fashion world. 532 00:27:09,361 --> 00:27:12,330 That is the end of the well, it's essentially the end of the radio bit. 533 00:27:12,731 --> 00:27:14,232 Uh, if I remember right, 534 00:27:14,232 --> 00:27:18,770 that is when the last vehicles have stopped and now this turntable starts 535 00:27:18,770 --> 00:27:22,507 moving to reposition you to face the screens, 536 00:27:22,507 --> 00:27:23,708 which are... 537 00:27:28,380 --> 00:27:30,048 Yeah, they're directly in front- 538 00:27:30,048 --> 00:27:31,149 They're here. 539 00:27:31,149 --> 00:27:32,717 So these are where the screens are in theater two, 540 00:27:32,717 --> 00:27:34,853 and that will be obvious at the end of the ride. 541 00:27:36,121 --> 00:27:38,023 [Bill Nye’s voice] Is it ever gonna warm up? 542 00:27:38,023 --> 00:27:39,658 Let's find out with a look at the weather. 543 00:27:40,291 --> 00:27:40,859 Willard? 544 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,161 [weather reporter] You know those giant glaciers - 545 00:27:43,561 --> 00:27:46,297 Oh, and by the way, if, if you, if you're the kind of weird 546 00:27:46,698 --> 00:27:48,566 kind of on the spectrum nerd that I am, 547 00:27:48,566 --> 00:27:51,236 you would notice at this point, after the vehicles stop, 548 00:27:51,736 --> 00:27:54,406 they start humming because they're being charged. 549 00:27:54,406 --> 00:27:57,909 The, uh, AC power is being fed to the vehicles 550 00:27:57,909 --> 00:28:00,345 when they're stopped on the charging paddles to charge them up 551 00:28:00,345 --> 00:28:02,714 because they're big electric vehicles with 552 00:28:03,014 --> 00:28:05,083 probably a ton of lead acid batteries in them. 553 00:28:05,417 --> 00:28:09,888 And at this point, you could actually hear and feel... 554 00:28:09,888 --> 00:28:11,322 more just feel a kind of like click 555 00:28:11,322 --> 00:28:14,859 and then the humming of 60Hz when the vehicles are being charged. 556 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:17,362 [weather reporter] ...glaciers we've all gotten so used to? 557 00:28:17,362 --> 00:28:19,998 Well, they're going to be receding to the north and south poles. 558 00:28:20,498 --> 00:28:23,268 Conditions are looking very favorable 559 00:28:23,268 --> 00:28:24,969 for a whole new kind of mammal. 560 00:28:25,403 --> 00:28:26,971 KNRG News Time [GONG] 561 00:28:26,971 --> 00:28:29,140 750,000 BC 562 00:28:29,774 --> 00:28:31,543 So again, we're in that we're in the pitch dark. 563 00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:33,878 You can't really tell what's happening, but the turntable is moving. 564 00:28:34,079 --> 00:28:36,848 [Bill Nye] And that's our KNRG up to the minute news report. 565 00:28:37,082 --> 00:28:40,151 Now back to our regularly scheduled program. 566 00:28:40,919 --> 00:28:43,621 [teletype noises fade out] 567 00:28:43,621 --> 00:28:46,591 [jungle noises fade in] 568 00:28:49,928 --> 00:28:52,130 Now we're exactly where we need to be. 569 00:28:52,664 --> 00:28:56,868 Quick note the entire time I have - I remember this attraction, 570 00:28:56,868 --> 00:29:00,772 the audio in theater two was significantly tinnier 571 00:29:00,772 --> 00:29:02,741 and worse than in theater one. 572 00:29:03,675 --> 00:29:05,143 I have no idea why. 573 00:29:05,143 --> 00:29:07,912 I suspect it's because of sound proofing concerns. 574 00:29:07,912 --> 00:29:09,347 ‘cause there [stumbles over words] 575 00:29:09,347 --> 00:29:09,981 I'll throw it up. 576 00:29:09,981 --> 00:29:12,584 There's actually a time when I have to find this footage, 577 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:16,154 but there was a time when, it was in 2007, if I remember right 578 00:29:16,688 --> 00:29:18,723 where we were there, and I had a camcorder 579 00:29:18,723 --> 00:29:20,992 and we were actually in a break down on this ride. 580 00:29:21,659 --> 00:29:23,628 Slash attraction, whatever you call this! 581 00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:26,364 And the turntable in theater one, 582 00:29:26,364 --> 00:29:30,101 after we had come to the end of the ride, did not... uh it broke. 583 00:29:30,101 --> 00:29:32,403 So we were just kind of... it didn't move. 584 00:29:32,403 --> 00:29:35,573 So something happened and the coordination got threw off. 585 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,243 So they turned on the work lights and I could actually see 586 00:29:39,310 --> 00:29:40,445 the door 587 00:29:40,445 --> 00:29:43,314 that separates theater one and two, and it comes out of the floor. 588 00:29:43,581 --> 00:29:46,317 It was very much a surprise to me. 589 00:29:46,317 --> 00:29:48,853 But there's a huge door 590 00:29:48,887 --> 00:29:51,256 that comes out of the floor which separates theater one and two. 591 00:29:52,157 --> 00:29:53,358 It's right. 592 00:29:53,658 --> 00:29:56,528 Presumably there's two of them, but what I'm talking about is right here. 593 00:29:56,528 --> 00:29:59,731 There's an enormous door that moves... 594 00:30:00,498 --> 00:30:02,000 (there was, this is all gone). 595 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,169 But on both sides there were these enormous doors. 596 00:30:04,502 --> 00:30:07,205 And I've always kind of thought that probably 597 00:30:07,205 --> 00:30:09,874 because the, the speakers for this screen 598 00:30:09,874 --> 00:30:12,844 were right behind that door. 599 00:30:13,044 --> 00:30:15,947 Maybe if they had the audio a little too boomy, 600 00:30:15,947 --> 00:30:17,415 you could hear it in theater one. 601 00:30:17,415 --> 00:30:18,583 I, I don't know, but 602 00:30:19,184 --> 00:30:21,553 regardless, theater two the audio was always worse. 603 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:26,457 And they do a quick rundown of the discovery of fire. 604 00:30:26,658 --> 00:30:30,528 Fun fact, that's Michael Richards. Weird cameo that he has in here. 605 00:30:30,929 --> 00:30:32,130 Very playful. 606 00:30:33,531 --> 00:30:36,501 [Ellen’s Energy Adventure theme plays] 607 00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:51,783 [goat bleats, horse neighs, and chickens cluck] 608 00:30:52,483 --> 00:30:54,219 [horn honks twice] 609 00:31:00,391 --> 00:31:01,926 [Ellen] ...big story. 610 00:31:02,493 --> 00:31:04,762 This is also another fake out they did where 611 00:31:05,597 --> 00:31:08,967 there are actually two screens just as big as this one on either side. 612 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,769 [Ellen] From now on we're dreaming in wide screen. 613 00:31:12,737 --> 00:31:15,240 Wider, wider! 614 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,875 I sound like a dentist, don’t I? 615 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:18,610 Okay, everybody rinse and spit! 616 00:31:19,377 --> 00:31:20,812 Just kidding, not you, sir. 617 00:31:21,913 --> 00:31:22,647 Thank you. 618 00:31:23,948 --> 00:31:26,918 [music swells with a heavenly choir] 619 00:31:27,118 --> 00:31:27,819 And by the way, 620 00:31:27,819 --> 00:31:30,288 I'm playing this part in its entirety on purpose 621 00:31:30,288 --> 00:31:32,924 because, there's some notable things about this. 622 00:31:38,029 --> 00:31:40,098 [Bill Nye] We'll start with the sun. 623 00:31:40,298 --> 00:31:42,500 It's where most of our energy comes from, 624 00:31:42,500 --> 00:31:45,470 and it's at the heart of some bright ideas for tomorrow. 625 00:31:45,837 --> 00:31:47,605 [Ellen] Like what, Bill Nye the Science Guy? 626 00:31:47,972 --> 00:31:50,174 [Bill] Like solar energy! 627 00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:05,390 Solar mirrors are one way to convert the sun's energy into electricity. 628 00:32:05,990 --> 00:32:08,793 Now, quick note, this is not a photovoltaic array. 629 00:32:08,793 --> 00:32:09,327 These are, 630 00:32:10,395 --> 00:32:11,562 concentrated solar? 631 00:32:11,562 --> 00:32:12,597 Is that what it's called? 632 00:32:12,597 --> 00:32:16,301 Where these mirrors are directing the sun's energy up to a tower. 633 00:32:16,301 --> 00:32:18,970 And then that tower is getting extremely hot. 634 00:32:19,337 --> 00:32:21,506 I think it's usually melting salt. 635 00:32:21,839 --> 00:32:25,610 And then that hot salt is generating electricity via a turbine. 636 00:32:25,843 --> 00:32:28,980 These still exist, they’re in the deserts of California. 637 00:32:29,314 --> 00:32:32,116 It was cheaper to do before photovoltaics, 638 00:32:32,116 --> 00:32:35,920 but now that photovoltaics exists, these aren't really happening anymore. 639 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:37,956 [Ellen] Cool. 640 00:32:37,956 --> 00:32:39,691 I mean, hot. 641 00:32:39,691 --> 00:32:42,060 I mean, cooly hot. Or hotly cool. 642 00:32:42,393 --> 00:32:43,962 So why don't we just make everything solar? 643 00:32:44,696 --> 00:32:46,097 Not so fast. 644 00:32:46,864 --> 00:32:48,066 Now, a big - 645 00:32:48,232 --> 00:32:49,867 a big thing about this attraction 646 00:32:50,068 --> 00:32:52,904 and a big message that they were saying the whole time was all of these 647 00:32:52,904 --> 00:32:55,039 sources of energy have pros and cons, 648 00:32:55,406 --> 00:32:58,543 but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be using them. 649 00:32:59,143 --> 00:33:00,511 There's a line here which, like, 650 00:33:00,945 --> 00:33:03,414 you know, 30 years in the future is now true. 651 00:33:03,715 --> 00:33:05,850 [Bill Nye] For one thing, it's not sunny enough everywhere. 652 00:33:06,718 --> 00:33:08,086 [thunder clap] 653 00:33:08,086 --> 00:33:10,054 And although the sunshine is free, 654 00:33:11,656 --> 00:33:14,792 solar electricity still isn't that cheap, but it's gettin’ there. 655 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:16,661 That was the line. 656 00:33:16,661 --> 00:33:19,597 Solar electricity isn't that cheap, but it's getting there. 657 00:33:20,631 --> 00:33:21,799 It got there! 658 00:33:21,799 --> 00:33:22,900 Look at that, progress. 659 00:33:22,900 --> 00:33:24,469 Then we have a diversion into wind. 660 00:33:25,503 --> 00:33:27,638 [Ellen] Well, then why don't we just get a bunch of wind farmers 661 00:33:27,638 --> 00:33:29,207 to harvest a big ol’ crop of wind? 662 00:33:29,974 --> 00:33:32,410 [Bill] We're starting to where it's windy. 663 00:33:32,410 --> 00:33:34,445 But remember, to power a whole city 664 00:33:34,445 --> 00:33:35,980 you need a whole lot of windmills. 665 00:33:36,314 --> 00:33:40,218 [Ellen] And when the wind stops blowing, we'd be left in the dark, wouldn't we? 666 00:33:40,818 --> 00:33:41,652 [Bill] No way! 667 00:33:41,652 --> 00:33:43,388 We just switch to another source of energy. 668 00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:52,764 Then we talk about hydroelectric power 669 00:33:52,997 --> 00:33:55,066 and the consequences of that. 670 00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:58,836 [Alec’s skipping around a bit] 671 00:33:59,670 --> 00:34:02,673 [Ellen] I'm guessing this big red rock isn’t gonna give us energy when we need it. 672 00:34:03,074 --> 00:34:05,109 [Bill] No, but this big grey wall might. 673 00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:07,078 It's clean and efficient. 674 00:34:07,678 --> 00:34:08,880 [Ellen] I know this one! 675 00:34:09,147 --> 00:34:10,348 Come on, quiz me. 676 00:34:10,681 --> 00:34:11,883 [Bill] Okay. 677 00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:20,224 Hydroelectric power plants convert the energy of falling water into electricity and are renewed by this natural resource. 678 00:34:20,658 --> 00:34:21,859 [thunderclap] 679 00:34:25,963 --> 00:34:27,165 What is rain? 680 00:34:27,698 --> 00:34:28,900 Correct. 681 00:34:30,134 --> 00:34:33,971 So it talks about the fact that building a dam is very hard on ecosystems. 682 00:34:33,971 --> 00:34:37,075 We've already had most of the best sites have been built, so 683 00:34:38,876 --> 00:34:40,378 we can't just build dams everywhere. 684 00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:43,848 Like the whole ride is basically teaching everyone 685 00:34:43,848 --> 00:34:45,450 about all the different sources of energy 686 00:34:45,450 --> 00:34:47,151 we use and all their pros and cons. 687 00:34:47,151 --> 00:34:48,453 And here's the thing, right? 688 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,157 [Bill Nye] Now, these renewables provide about 10% of the world's energy, 689 00:34:53,558 --> 00:34:57,728 but we can expect them to be playing an even bigger role in the decades ahead. 690 00:34:58,362 --> 00:35:00,331 So again, that's why I'm like, 691 00:35:00,331 --> 00:35:02,733 was this really just oil industry propaganda? 692 00:35:02,767 --> 00:35:04,068 Because I don't really think it was. 693 00:35:04,368 --> 00:35:06,104 But now we do talk about fossil fuels. 694 00:35:06,104 --> 00:35:08,873 [Ellen] That's great, Bill, but we still need a heck of a lot more energy. 695 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:10,341 Where's it coming from? 696 00:35:10,341 --> 00:35:11,542 And you have a curling iron? 697 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:13,277 [Bill] Come on, I'll show you. 698 00:35:20,685 --> 00:35:23,588 Let's hitch a ride with the solid fossil fuel. 699 00:35:23,588 --> 00:35:24,522 [Ellen] Oh, I know this one. 700 00:35:24,522 --> 00:35:26,057 What is coal? 701 00:35:26,057 --> 00:35:26,824 [Bill] Correct! 702 00:35:26,824 --> 00:35:29,327 And we discovered two centuries’ worth. 703 00:35:29,327 --> 00:35:31,429 [Train horn blares, Ellen says woah] 704 00:35:31,429 --> 00:35:33,064 [Ellen] What about global warming? 705 00:35:33,064 --> 00:35:35,399 [Bill] It's a hot topic with lots of questions. 706 00:35:35,399 --> 00:35:40,872 But it’s one of the big reasons scientists are working on ways to burn fuels like coal more efficiently than ever. 707 00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,609 That is the worst thing about this ride that aged quite poorly. 708 00:35:44,609 --> 00:35:46,577 That is the only mention of climate change. 709 00:35:46,577 --> 00:35:48,112 And of course, it's called global warming, 710 00:35:48,112 --> 00:35:50,948 because back in 1996 we were calling it global warming. 711 00:35:51,282 --> 00:35:52,783 But then we discovered enough... 712 00:35:53,351 --> 00:35:57,655 far too many people simply cannot understand that it's the average 713 00:35:57,655 --> 00:35:59,090 global temperature which is going up. 714 00:35:59,090 --> 00:36:01,159 And that doesn't mean cold weather doesn't happen. 715 00:36:01,759 --> 00:36:03,728 That's why we started calling it climate change. 716 00:36:04,428 --> 00:36:06,797 But that's the worst thing about this attraction 717 00:36:06,797 --> 00:36:08,266 is that it's like, what about global warming? 718 00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:10,301 It's a hot topic with lots of questions. 719 00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:12,537 That's the only mention of it. 720 00:36:12,537 --> 00:36:14,872 But it is important that they acknowledge 721 00:36:14,872 --> 00:36:16,440 that's one of the reasons we're trying to use 722 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,808 fossil fuels more efficiently. 723 00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:22,847 This is a diversion on natural gas, talks 724 00:36:22,847 --> 00:36:25,316 about how many years of gas we have left. 725 00:36:25,850 --> 00:36:27,518 [Ellen] You mean natural gas? 726 00:36:27,518 --> 00:36:28,719 [Bill] It's clean burning! 727 00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,756 And the rate we're going, we're set for about 60 years. 728 00:36:32,924 --> 00:36:35,259 So again, I'm just pointing out that like this attraction 729 00:36:35,259 --> 00:36:37,662 kept saying with all these fossil fuels, 730 00:36:37,828 --> 00:36:39,931 there is a time where they're going to run out. 731 00:36:39,931 --> 00:36:42,066 They were not hiding that. 732 00:36:45,169 --> 00:36:47,405 [Ellen] Oh, oh! What is... black gold? 733 00:36:47,672 --> 00:36:50,274 Texas tea. Swimmin’ pools, movie stars! 734 00:36:50,808 --> 00:36:52,243 What is The Beverly Hillbillies? 735 00:36:52,243 --> 00:36:53,911 I mean what is oil? 736 00:36:53,911 --> 00:36:56,013 [Bill] Right! It's our main source of energy, 737 00:36:56,314 --> 00:36:58,983 And we’ve found enough to last at least 50 years. 738 00:36:58,983 --> 00:37:00,051 [Ellen] That's all? 739 00:37:00,051 --> 00:37:01,686 [Bill] We're far from running on empty. 740 00:37:02,019 --> 00:37:04,956 And we've got some pretty far out ways of finding more. 741 00:37:06,624 --> 00:37:08,159 This is the part of the attraction 742 00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:10,194 I'm like, okay, this is this is the closest, 743 00:37:10,194 --> 00:37:13,164 I'll call it to oil industry propaganda because they basically just like, 744 00:37:13,164 --> 00:37:15,466 “oh, we could use satellites to find more oil!” 745 00:37:18,369 --> 00:37:19,870 So yeah, I'm just gonna skip this part. 746 00:37:19,870 --> 00:37:21,806 It's it's a bit silly. 747 00:37:21,806 --> 00:37:23,941 Then we talk about offshore drilling platforms 748 00:37:24,508 --> 00:37:26,477 and the fact that how big they are. 749 00:37:27,144 --> 00:37:28,946 And then we go to nuclear power. 750 00:37:31,849 --> 00:37:33,050 [Ellen] Where are we now? 751 00:37:33,317 --> 00:37:35,119 [Bill] The world of atomic power! 752 00:37:35,586 --> 00:37:39,323 See, today we take atoms like these and split them apart to release energy. 753 00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:41,058 It's called fission. 754 00:37:46,964 --> 00:37:48,666 [Bill] Hold on! 755 00:37:48,666 --> 00:37:52,470 Nuclear energy is expensive and highly controversial. 756 00:37:54,872 --> 00:37:56,374 [music swells] 757 00:37:59,010 --> 00:38:00,211 [explosion] 758 00:38:00,211 --> 00:38:02,179 [Ellen] So I guess there's never going to be just one answer. 759 00:38:02,446 --> 00:38:05,349 [Bill] But if we keep using our brain power, 760 00:38:06,851 --> 00:38:08,819 we’ll have lots of choices for the future. 761 00:38:08,819 --> 00:38:11,322 Maybe even unlock the power of the stars: 762 00:38:11,789 --> 00:38:12,990 Fusion power! 763 00:38:13,824 --> 00:38:15,226 [Ellen] I'm beginning to see the light! 764 00:38:15,926 --> 00:38:18,829 [Bill] Actually, I think it's Double Jeopardy, Ellen. 765 00:38:18,829 --> 00:38:21,532 Okay, so now we're at basically the finale of the ride, 766 00:38:21,532 --> 00:38:23,734 and this is where we have the last fake out. 767 00:38:23,734 --> 00:38:25,569 So we are, 768 00:38:26,904 --> 00:38:30,007 we are back into Jeopardy! 769 00:38:30,441 --> 00:38:31,876 I’m just gonna move forward here. 770 00:38:34,245 --> 00:38:36,480 All right, players, we’re ready to begin the second round. 771 00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:39,050 And, the operator, the filmer. 772 00:38:39,884 --> 00:38:41,085 Props to whoever filmed this. 773 00:38:41,085 --> 00:38:43,688 There's not many views on this version, but this is probably the best one. 774 00:38:43,954 --> 00:38:47,692 Did a good job of conveying just how enormous this room is. 775 00:38:47,692 --> 00:38:49,794 This is such an enormous room that you're sitting 776 00:38:49,794 --> 00:38:52,129 in, and these screens are filling the entire. 777 00:38:52,496 --> 00:38:55,066 This is such just so impressive anyway. 778 00:38:55,533 --> 00:38:58,302 And, Ellen, would you start us off by making a selection, please? 779 00:38:58,336 --> 00:38:59,270 I sure will, Alex. 780 00:38:59,270 --> 00:39:01,372 I will take Dinosaurs for $800. 781 00:39:01,372 --> 00:39:04,408 [Judy] Uh, Ellen, you do know that the more expensive the question, the harder it is? 782 00:39:04,642 --> 00:39:07,144 Oh, no, I didn’t let me rethink that, then. 783 00:39:07,578 --> 00:39:10,081 Uh, Dinosaurs for $1000, Alex. 784 00:39:10,247 --> 00:39:11,549 [Alex] Okay, the answer is: 785 00:39:12,216 --> 00:39:15,853 This is when scientists believe dinosaurs first appeared on the Earth. 786 00:39:17,021 --> 00:39:19,156 What is 220 million years ago? 787 00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:19,990 Give or take a day. 788 00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:22,059 [Alex] You're absolutely right. 789 00:39:22,093 --> 00:39:25,162 [Jeopardy! clue sound with every flash] What is the sun? 790 00:39:25,963 --> 00:39:27,531 What is hydrogen, Alex? 791 00:39:28,866 --> 00:39:30,301 What are photovoltaics? 792 00:39:30,835 --> 00:39:32,036 I just wanted to call that out. 793 00:39:32,036 --> 00:39:33,170 What are photovoltaics? 794 00:39:33,170 --> 00:39:34,038 You cannot see, 795 00:39:34,038 --> 00:39:38,342 The left screen is the blue classic Jeopardy! with the actual clue. 796 00:39:38,576 --> 00:39:40,144 But this version doesn't show that. 797 00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:42,246 What is fire? 798 00:39:42,279 --> 00:39:45,916 Which, by the way, is what sparked the progress of human civilization. 799 00:39:45,916 --> 00:39:47,418 Alex, I don’t know if you knew that or not. 800 00:39:48,152 --> 00:39:49,620 [Alex] Correct again, Ellen, 801 00:39:49,620 --> 00:39:52,256 and amazingly enough, at the end of this Double Jeopardy round 802 00:39:52,256 --> 00:39:56,460 you have managed to come from way behind to tie Judy for the lead. 803 00:39:57,094 --> 00:40:00,097 Okay, so I'm just going to skip forward to where we move back into theater two. 804 00:40:00,097 --> 00:40:03,334 And what happens is this screen, the bottom of it lifts up. 805 00:40:06,437 --> 00:40:09,407 [Jeopardy Think! theme] 806 00:40:10,608 --> 00:40:11,809 It's actually all the screens. 807 00:40:11,842 --> 00:40:15,579 So now you're moving forward into theater one back where you started. 808 00:40:21,519 --> 00:40:29,894 [this is a very extended version of the Think! theme because of how long it takes for the ride vehicles to move back into theater 1] 809 00:40:43,073 --> 00:40:45,876 [Johnny Gilbert] If you’d like to have your own energy nightmare, 810 00:40:45,876 --> 00:40:48,379 place a self-addressed stamped envelope [under your pillow] 811 00:40:48,546 --> 00:40:49,580 Ooh, that's really flickery. 812 00:40:49,847 --> 00:40:51,215 I'm going to skip forward to... 813 00:40:51,582 --> 00:40:55,252 There is one more fake out here, which is there actually was a screen 814 00:40:55,419 --> 00:40:57,421 where you thought you were going to be starting. 815 00:40:58,622 --> 00:40:59,790 [Alex] Judy, we'll start with you. 816 00:40:59,790 --> 00:41:00,991 You wrote down... 817 00:41:01,625 --> 00:41:02,359 nothing. 818 00:41:02,359 --> 00:41:05,262 That's correct, Alex, because there is no answer. 819 00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:07,231 Well, actually you're wrong. 820 00:41:07,665 --> 00:41:08,866 Let's take a look at your wager. 821 00:41:09,934 --> 00:41:11,101 Oh, that's too bad. 822 00:41:11,101 --> 00:41:12,636 You risked everything you had. 823 00:41:12,636 --> 00:41:15,840 And that means you lose $17,800 824 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,275 and you wind up with nothing. 825 00:41:18,709 --> 00:41:20,811 Let's go down to Ellen now and see what she came up 826 00:41:20,811 --> 00:41:23,380 with as a response to our Final Jeopardy clue. Ellen? 827 00:41:23,414 --> 00:41:25,115 What is brain power? Alex. 828 00:41:25,716 --> 00:41:27,718 You are correct and your wager? 829 00:41:28,285 --> 00:41:32,089 You, too, risked everything, but you double your score to $35,600. 830 00:41:32,389 --> 00:41:35,125 And that makes you, Ellen, our new Jeopardy! champion. 831 00:41:35,125 --> 00:41:36,327 Congratulations. 832 00:41:36,827 --> 00:41:38,929 All right, so that's basically the end of the ride. 833 00:41:38,963 --> 00:41:41,866 I am going to point out the original version of the attraction, 834 00:41:41,866 --> 00:41:44,134 and this is something that I really wish I could have seen. 835 00:41:44,568 --> 00:41:45,436 The final 836 00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:47,705 this section of the ride was 837 00:41:48,205 --> 00:41:52,576 amazing because behind all these curtains were originally mirrors, 838 00:41:52,910 --> 00:41:55,246 and there was this really cool laser... 839 00:41:55,746 --> 00:41:58,716 it wasn't really a laser light show, but they had a very like, 840 00:41:59,283 --> 00:42:02,987 line drawing, very colorful line drawings on black film being shown, 841 00:42:02,987 --> 00:42:06,056 both on the three screens behind you and this screen here. 842 00:42:06,056 --> 00:42:08,792 And because all the walls were mirrors, it was like, 843 00:42:08,792 --> 00:42:12,363 you're moving into this space that's just surrounded by energy. 844 00:42:12,630 --> 00:42:14,598 And it had an amazing song. 845 00:42:14,999 --> 00:42:17,735 I know I cannot play that because of copyright, 846 00:42:17,935 --> 00:42:19,637 but I would really highly recommend 847 00:42:19,637 --> 00:42:22,540 looking for some of the original clips of, you know what? 848 00:42:22,606 --> 00:42:23,207 Here. Hold on. 849 00:42:23,207 --> 00:42:25,175 I'm going to just show you a little bit of it. 850 00:42:25,209 --> 00:42:27,945 Okay, Martin Smith, he does wonderful videos of the 851 00:42:27,978 --> 00:42:29,547 of the different Disney attractions, they’re so- 852 00:42:29,547 --> 00:42:32,483 like basically he's like a documentarian of them. 853 00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:35,920 So I'm going to go ahead and use some clips from him. 854 00:42:36,754 --> 00:42:39,156 This is great if you want to see the original version of the ride. 855 00:42:39,156 --> 00:42:41,725 But none of the quality is very good because it's all, 856 00:42:41,859 --> 00:42:44,028 you know, camcorders from the 90s and earlier. 857 00:42:44,028 --> 00:42:46,664 But this is what was originally in theater two. 858 00:42:46,697 --> 00:42:48,098 You see the space shuttle launch. 859 00:42:49,667 --> 00:42:53,137 as the shuttle launches the bottom of the screen lifts up. 860 00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:03,380 And this is when you would start moving back into theater one. 861 00:43:03,380 --> 00:43:05,049 And this is what it looked like in there. 862 00:43:16,493 --> 00:43:19,063 That's all I play because I don't want to get demonetized. 863 00:43:19,063 --> 00:43:22,266 But like, the whole room was covered in mirrors. 864 00:43:22,633 --> 00:43:23,834 I thought that was gonna... 865 00:43:25,202 --> 00:43:26,570 You can see the curtains coming back down. 866 00:43:26,570 --> 00:43:28,038 All the walls were mirrors. 867 00:43:28,038 --> 00:43:29,006 So you'd come into here. 868 00:43:29,006 --> 00:43:30,908 There's just like you're surrounded by laser light. 869 00:43:30,908 --> 00:43:32,109 It's so cool. 870 00:43:32,309 --> 00:43:33,777 The song’s really catchy. 871 00:43:34,178 --> 00:43:35,045 Ah, man. 872 00:43:35,045 --> 00:43:37,581 You know, as dry as original EPCOT was, 873 00:43:37,581 --> 00:43:40,484 I do wish I had seen this version, because the end is just 874 00:43:41,619 --> 00:43:42,419 frickin amazing. 875 00:43:44,188 --> 00:43:44,989 So. Yeah, 876 00:43:44,989 --> 00:43:47,992 I really just wanted to show you. 877 00:43:47,992 --> 00:43:49,893 Right. Let me go back to the other window. 878 00:43:50,661 --> 00:43:53,464 Geez, I'm such a such a frickin noob for macOS. 879 00:43:53,464 --> 00:43:57,101 Okay, so again, this is so the original building. 880 00:43:57,801 --> 00:43:58,669 You know what I'm trying to say, 881 00:43:58,669 --> 00:44:00,571 Like, it's so hard to get a sense of the scale. 882 00:44:00,571 --> 00:44:02,773 This whole thing was just for that attraction. 883 00:44:03,007 --> 00:44:07,244 Spaceship Earth, which is already enormous, is not. 884 00:44:07,778 --> 00:44:09,246 I mean, it's obviously a lot taller, 885 00:44:09,246 --> 00:44:10,614 but the circumference of Spaceship Earth 886 00:44:10,614 --> 00:44:12,683 has got nothing on this building's footprint. 887 00:44:12,683 --> 00:44:15,386 This building was just gigantic. 888 00:44:16,186 --> 00:44:19,790 And so, this was just such a cool concept. 889 00:44:19,790 --> 00:44:21,091 The traveling theater, 890 00:44:22,926 --> 00:44:25,396 having you be able to see both a show 891 00:44:25,396 --> 00:44:28,298 and actually go through the primeval diorama is. 892 00:44:28,932 --> 00:44:30,134 It's just really cool. 893 00:44:30,134 --> 00:44:32,870 And and I hope you see, 894 00:44:35,172 --> 00:44:37,007 Honestly, a big part of why I make the videos 895 00:44:37,007 --> 00:44:39,109 I do is because of the inspiration from EPCOT, 896 00:44:39,743 --> 00:44:42,079 and that you can make learning 897 00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:44,815 about things entertaining, but you have to, 898 00:44:44,848 --> 00:44:46,050 you know, you kind of just 899 00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:48,285 kind of gotta trick people into learning stuff 900 00:44:48,619 --> 00:44:50,254 and the Universe of Energy, 901 00:44:52,089 --> 00:44:52,956 the later, like, 902 00:44:52,956 --> 00:44:55,426 it really does show when EPCOT was really learning 903 00:44:55,426 --> 00:44:58,962 how to become an edutainment place. 904 00:45:00,197 --> 00:45:01,632 And, you know, 905 00:45:01,632 --> 00:45:04,234 I would say the Wonders of Life is kind of where that started. 906 00:45:04,234 --> 00:45:05,769 The Wonders of Life was the first project 907 00:45:05,769 --> 00:45:10,374 that moved EPCOT away from its very dry beginnings. 908 00:45:10,841 --> 00:45:13,610 And then also Spaceship Earth. 909 00:45:13,677 --> 00:45:16,280 I'm going to put a link to the Martins vids. 910 00:45:16,647 --> 00:45:18,849 I actually have a comment on there, 911 00:45:18,849 --> 00:45:22,019 because the Jeremy Irons version of Spaceship Earth, 912 00:45:22,019 --> 00:45:24,722 which was originally sponsored by, well, 913 00:45:24,722 --> 00:45:27,424 originally by Bell System and then AT&T, 914 00:45:28,959 --> 00:45:30,894 and it tells the story of human communication. 915 00:45:31,361 --> 00:45:34,531 So, anyway, that's that's another great. 916 00:45:34,565 --> 00:45:37,167 It really shows how the how EPCOT 917 00:45:37,167 --> 00:45:40,237 started to move away from its very dry roots 918 00:45:40,237 --> 00:45:42,139 to something a little more playful and fun. 919 00:45:42,873 --> 00:45:44,808 But of course, now, 920 00:45:45,843 --> 00:45:49,480 there's very little of original EPCOT that's left. 921 00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:50,647 There are. 922 00:45:50,714 --> 00:45:51,915 There's Living with the Land, 923 00:45:51,915 --> 00:45:54,952 which is basically exactly the same. Living with the Land, 924 00:45:54,952 --> 00:45:58,856 the only thing that has changed is the very beginning section 925 00:45:58,856 --> 00:46:01,692 got a few tweaks, and the narration on the boats 926 00:46:01,692 --> 00:46:03,494 is now automated where it used to be 927 00:46:03,527 --> 00:46:05,729 a cast member was actually riding the boat with you, 928 00:46:06,597 --> 00:46:07,898 but Living with the Land is still here. 929 00:46:07,898 --> 00:46:09,800 All these all these greenhouses. 930 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,870 Your boat travels through these greenhouses you get to, 931 00:46:12,903 --> 00:46:14,104 you get to see all of them. 932 00:46:14,805 --> 00:46:20,611 And again, this like the Land, it's... the line is... 933 00:46:21,612 --> 00:46:27,050 It's called Living with the Land because it's about environmental stewardship. 934 00:46:27,050 --> 00:46:32,222 So at the end, it's like, “only then will we truly be living with the land” 935 00:46:33,957 --> 00:46:38,462 You know, it's kind of just like EPCOT is basically... (it was) 936 00:46:38,462 --> 00:46:42,199 it was basically like, “what if we made hope into a theme park? 937 00:46:42,499 --> 00:46:44,768 and knowledge into a theme park?” 938 00:46:45,235 --> 00:46:47,471 and it's still there. 939 00:46:47,471 --> 00:46:49,106 It is still a monument to 940 00:46:50,107 --> 00:46:52,042 the original spirit of the park. 941 00:46:52,042 --> 00:46:53,243 But now 942 00:46:54,211 --> 00:46:55,379 so much has changed. 943 00:46:55,379 --> 00:46:57,548 Let's go to the to the newest photos. 944 00:46:57,548 --> 00:47:00,317 So this was originally the Communicore. 945 00:47:00,350 --> 00:47:02,519 This is the dumbest thing Disney ever did. 946 00:47:03,220 --> 00:47:04,955 It was the Communicore originally. 947 00:47:04,955 --> 00:47:07,291 Then it became Innoventions and there was always 948 00:47:07,291 --> 00:47:08,926 Innoventions East and Innoventions West. 949 00:47:08,926 --> 00:47:10,227 And by the way I wanna - 950 00:47:10,294 --> 00:47:13,497 I should have pointed this out if we go back to 2014, 951 00:47:13,897 --> 00:47:17,534 the reason why Innoventions East has this bump out is because this is, 952 00:47:17,534 --> 00:47:20,237 this is the exit to the Universe of Energy. 953 00:47:20,470 --> 00:47:22,239 So when the ride was over, 954 00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:23,574 you would walk behind you 955 00:47:23,574 --> 00:47:25,008 and then rather than go through the doors 956 00:47:25,008 --> 00:47:28,212 you came in which were like, here, there were doors over here. 957 00:47:28,212 --> 00:47:29,847 You'd walk through a hallway and then come out here. 958 00:47:31,114 --> 00:47:32,649 And if you walked directly across, 959 00:47:32,649 --> 00:47:36,053 then there was an energy exhibit inside of the Communicore, 960 00:47:36,453 --> 00:47:37,487 and that's what this was. 961 00:47:37,487 --> 00:47:40,057 So the Communicore East had this weird bump out 962 00:47:40,057 --> 00:47:42,059 specifically for the Universe of Energy. 963 00:47:42,759 --> 00:47:43,961 But now 964 00:47:45,095 --> 00:47:47,431 they decided to tear down Communicore West 965 00:47:47,431 --> 00:47:50,434 and then they realized, oh, that was a mistake. 966 00:47:50,434 --> 00:47:52,002 So they rebuilt half of it. 967 00:47:52,002 --> 00:47:53,503 It's so sad. 968 00:47:53,503 --> 00:47:55,405 And the Fountain of Nations is gone. 969 00:47:56,073 --> 00:47:57,641 That's going back to 2014. 970 00:47:57,641 --> 00:48:01,411 This, this was a, animated fountain, 971 00:48:01,478 --> 00:48:04,248 kind of like the Bellagio in Las Vegas. 972 00:48:04,748 --> 00:48:08,619 And it would do shows every 15 minutes, maybe every half hour. 973 00:48:08,986 --> 00:48:11,855 And one of the really cool things when EPCOT opened, because, again, it 974 00:48:12,289 --> 00:48:15,058 it was open in the spirit of international cooperation, 975 00:48:15,859 --> 00:48:17,995 there were diplomats from all different countries 976 00:48:17,995 --> 00:48:20,163 that brought vials of water 977 00:48:20,397 --> 00:48:23,767 from the rivers of those countries and added them to this fountain. 978 00:48:24,368 --> 00:48:26,236 And it’s such a cool symbolic thing. 979 00:48:27,537 --> 00:48:28,739 And now it's gone. 980 00:48:28,839 --> 00:48:31,808 So it's just like, I don't know what the heck 981 00:48:31,808 --> 00:48:34,311 Disney's been thinking with what they're doing with EPCOT. 982 00:48:34,344 --> 00:48:38,815 It does need to be modernized quite a lot because it 983 00:48:39,349 --> 00:48:42,920 you know, I read something that, really had 984 00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,156 I hadn't really thought of it this way, but like the aesthetic of EPCOT 985 00:48:46,390 --> 00:48:50,360 of Future World anyway, was very much like a corporate office 986 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:53,563 park of the early 80s, like a very modern 987 00:48:53,563 --> 00:48:55,966 looking corporate office park of the early 80s. 988 00:48:55,966 --> 00:48:58,302 And that's an aesthetic that I love a lot! 989 00:48:58,669 --> 00:49:01,104 But it aged quite poorly. 990 00:49:01,672 --> 00:49:04,474 And, the only things 991 00:49:05,575 --> 00:49:07,110 I’m just try to think of like what, 992 00:49:07,377 --> 00:49:09,947 you know, Test Track hasn't aged poorly because literally 993 00:49:09,947 --> 00:49:12,516 the building is just a giant wheel. 994 00:49:13,617 --> 00:49:16,753 But the Land has aged okay. 995 00:49:16,753 --> 00:49:19,389 But so much of EPCOT is just... 996 00:49:19,389 --> 00:49:21,058 It started to get dated really bad. 997 00:49:21,058 --> 00:49:24,728 So the renovations they did on now Communicore 998 00:49:26,229 --> 00:49:27,464 or what are they calling this now? 999 00:49:28,065 --> 00:49:30,400 Because this is the gift shop and the restaurant which is called, 1000 00:49:31,468 --> 00:49:34,237 it's got connections in the name, which I find very funny. 1001 00:49:34,237 --> 00:49:35,439 What is it called again? 1002 00:49:36,340 --> 00:49:37,808 You can tell I'm really keeping up 1003 00:49:37,808 --> 00:49:39,810 with what they're doing these days. 1004 00:49:40,777 --> 00:49:42,179 What is the name of the cafe? 1005 00:49:44,214 --> 00:49:46,850 Connections eatery, I think, is what it's called. 1006 00:49:47,317 --> 00:49:49,786 That's in here now. 1007 00:49:50,253 --> 00:49:53,290 Same with, the little tiny mini 1008 00:49:53,290 --> 00:49:56,326 world of Coke they have, which always get your friends to try the Beverly. 1009 00:49:56,326 --> 00:49:57,527 Tell them it's amazing. 1010 00:49:58,095 --> 00:49:59,096 But, yeah, it's 1011 00:50:00,397 --> 00:50:02,532 it's not even called Future World anymore. 1012 00:50:02,532 --> 00:50:06,670 It's World Celebration, World Nature, and World Discovery. 1013 00:50:07,604 --> 00:50:09,573 It's broken up into three, and I couldn't even really. 1014 00:50:09,639 --> 00:50:11,141 I'm sure this is world nature. 1015 00:50:12,075 --> 00:50:13,443 And that kind of makes sense 1016 00:50:13,443 --> 00:50:15,612 because they have the Seas Pavilion and Journey... 1017 00:50:16,213 --> 00:50:19,816 The Seas, the Land, and the Moana thing, which is kind of cool. 1018 00:50:20,350 --> 00:50:22,519 So this is like World Nature. 1019 00:50:22,519 --> 00:50:25,222 And then you have World Discovery, 1020 00:50:25,222 --> 00:50:28,825 which I think is this side, which is more like the science side 1021 00:50:28,925 --> 00:50:30,260 Mission Space, by the way... 1022 00:50:30,260 --> 00:50:34,631 terrible ride. It's it's not good. 1023 00:50:34,898 --> 00:50:36,266 I don't know why they keep 1024 00:50:36,466 --> 00:50:39,936 they - it's technologically interesting because it's a centrifuge. 1025 00:50:39,936 --> 00:50:43,540 It's a combination motion simulator and centrifuge, but it's... 1026 00:50:44,908 --> 00:50:46,643 Yeah, it's not very good. 1027 00:50:46,843 --> 00:50:48,678 I, it's not very good. 1028 00:50:48,678 --> 00:50:51,748 They could totally put something else there and they should. 1029 00:50:52,149 --> 00:50:53,517 It was sponsored by HP. 1030 00:50:53,517 --> 00:50:56,019 This is one of the they actually did get a sponsor for it back in 1031 00:50:56,153 --> 00:50:57,721 I think ‘04 is when it opened. 1032 00:50:58,989 --> 00:50:59,890 But yeah I just 1033 00:50:59,890 --> 00:51:02,092 I'm just kind of rambling but World Showcase 1034 00:51:02,092 --> 00:51:04,227 this basically is all original. 1035 00:51:04,594 --> 00:51:08,698 So all of the country pavilions are still there. 1036 00:51:08,999 --> 00:51:11,168 The only thing that the only weird thing they did was 1037 00:51:11,168 --> 00:51:17,107 they've made the Norway boat ride into a Frozen themed thing, which 1038 00:51:18,208 --> 00:51:19,409 I mean, 1039 00:51:20,010 --> 00:51:22,012 fine, although that was such a weird - 1040 00:51:22,012 --> 00:51:27,584 I was working my college program when that opened, or maybe when it... 1041 00:51:27,751 --> 00:51:28,919 Oh no, no, it closed. 1042 00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:30,454 It closed as Maelstrom. 1043 00:51:30,454 --> 00:51:33,423 So I got to ride Maelstrom on my college program before it closed. 1044 00:51:33,690 --> 00:51:35,125 And the fact that they turned that ride 1045 00:51:35,125 --> 00:51:37,594 into a Frozen ride is so weird because the 1046 00:51:37,828 --> 00:51:40,697 the capacity of Maelstrom was terrible. 1047 00:51:41,198 --> 00:51:44,101 The boats only hold like 12 people 1048 00:51:44,301 --> 00:51:46,336 and they don't get dispatched that frequently. 1049 00:51:46,570 --> 00:51:49,639 So they were like, “let's take our most popular property 1050 00:51:49,639 --> 00:51:53,143 we've come out with since The Lion King and cram it into a ride 1051 00:51:53,143 --> 00:51:56,012 that does not have a meaningful capacity at all.” 1052 00:51:56,580 --> 00:52:00,951 So the queues for that were just horrendous and they still are. 1053 00:52:00,951 --> 00:52:04,221 It's a fun attraction, but like it's not it's not for me. 1054 00:52:04,688 --> 00:52:05,889 It's for little kids mainly. 1055 00:52:06,723 --> 00:52:09,659 I really wish they'd build some more attractions in World Showcase 1056 00:52:09,659 --> 00:52:11,027 and you can see they still have, 1057 00:52:11,595 --> 00:52:13,830 you know, when they opened the park, it only had nine. 1058 00:52:14,097 --> 00:52:16,333 And then the Norway Pavilion opened later, 1059 00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:18,635 as well as the Morocco Pavilion. 1060 00:52:18,635 --> 00:52:20,804 Those were two... Morocco's over here I think. 1061 00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:22,172 Yeah, those two were added later 1062 00:52:22,539 --> 00:52:25,509 and they still have plots of land to add more pavilions. 1063 00:52:25,509 --> 00:52:26,776 There's there could be one here. 1064 00:52:26,776 --> 00:52:27,978 There could be one here. 1065 00:52:28,178 --> 00:52:29,746 That could be a huge one here. 1066 00:52:31,148 --> 00:52:32,649 But you know, they just haven't done it. 1067 00:52:32,649 --> 00:52:35,519 The biggest thing they did was they did the Remy's Ratatouille Adventure 1068 00:52:35,685 --> 00:52:37,754 expansion behind the France Pavilion. 1069 00:52:38,121 --> 00:52:39,322 This is a fun ride. 1070 00:52:39,589 --> 00:52:41,258 But, you know, 1071 00:52:41,658 --> 00:52:43,493 it's it's a it's a [trackless] 1072 00:52:44,060 --> 00:52:45,996 theater, actually... 1073 00:52:45,996 --> 00:52:47,330 You know, in some ways, it's 1074 00:52:47,330 --> 00:52:49,566 kind of like a spiritual successor to the Universe of Energy. 1075 00:52:49,566 --> 00:52:52,836 It's just a lot more fast paced and much more physical sets 1076 00:52:52,836 --> 00:52:55,238 combined with screens rather than just two theaters. 1077 00:52:55,238 --> 00:52:57,474 And then the and the screens. 1078 00:52:57,474 --> 00:53:00,177 But anyway, just wanted to 1079 00:53:00,644 --> 00:53:03,280 I just wanted to make this quick video about the Universe of Energy. 1080 00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:04,781 And I really hope, 1081 00:53:05,615 --> 00:53:08,318 well, I'm going to post this even if it gets demonetized, 1082 00:53:08,318 --> 00:53:09,719 because I really want to show that, like, 1083 00:53:11,288 --> 00:53:15,425 I'm the way that I am because back in 1996, 1084 00:53:16,259 --> 00:53:18,061 Disney, of all people, 1085 00:53:18,094 --> 00:53:21,498 (”all people”) of all corporations, put together this amazing attraction, 1086 00:53:21,498 --> 00:53:24,067 which was basically just trying to get you to think about energy 1087 00:53:24,067 --> 00:53:25,502 and all the different sources of energy 1088 00:53:25,502 --> 00:53:27,070 and all the different options we have, 1089 00:53:28,238 --> 00:53:29,906 and it was a really cool attraction 1090 00:53:31,007 --> 00:53:32,342 and I, I miss it, 1091 00:53:32,342 --> 00:53:35,312 but I understand why it's gone. What they really needed to do, 1092 00:53:35,345 --> 00:53:39,749 They needed to update the films in like 2007. 1093 00:53:40,317 --> 00:53:42,185 I've been rambling for a long time, 1094 00:53:42,185 --> 00:53:43,687 but one of the tragedies of EPCOT 1095 00:53:43,687 --> 00:53:46,823 is that every single time, every single time 1096 00:53:46,823 --> 00:53:48,325 they have decided we're going to put more money 1097 00:53:48,325 --> 00:53:50,527 into it, some world calamity happens. 1098 00:53:50,827 --> 00:53:54,998 So like the Millennium Celebration is when it was really coming into its own 1099 00:53:54,998 --> 00:53:57,133 and I remembered the Millennium Celebration dearly. 1100 00:53:57,133 --> 00:54:00,470 It was so, so fun, so hopeful. 1101 00:54:00,470 --> 00:54:02,706 Just, it was so nice. 1102 00:54:03,340 --> 00:54:05,542 And then 9/11 happened and, 1103 00:54:06,743 --> 00:54:08,345 you know, tourism just cratered 1104 00:54:08,345 --> 00:54:10,113 and there was no money left to put into EPCOT. 1105 00:54:10,113 --> 00:54:12,549 And then, you know, tourism is recovering. 1106 00:54:12,983 --> 00:54:14,951 We're going to start putting more money into EPCOT... 1107 00:54:14,951 --> 00:54:17,454 And then the Great Recession happens, and then EPCOT 1108 00:54:17,454 --> 00:54:19,623 just withers on the vine even more so that, 1109 00:54:19,956 --> 00:54:24,861 like Exxon, they only sponsored this pavilion for like ten years. 1110 00:54:25,228 --> 00:54:28,965 And then in 2006, something like that, it no longer had a sponsor 1111 00:54:29,332 --> 00:54:30,934 and at EPCOT that's basically just like, 1112 00:54:30,934 --> 00:54:36,039 well, we'll keep running the ride until it's so old nobody cares. 1113 00:54:36,773 --> 00:54:39,676 And that's what they did with Ellen's Energy Adventure. In 2006, 1114 00:54:39,676 --> 00:54:41,878 they really should have redone the films. 1115 00:54:41,878 --> 00:54:45,048 They could have kept the attraction, but they just they kept running it 1116 00:54:45,048 --> 00:54:46,983 exactly like that until 2017. 1117 00:54:47,751 --> 00:54:49,486 And then, of course, they announced a whole bunch 1118 00:54:49,486 --> 00:54:51,221 of new investment into EPCOT... 1119 00:54:52,055 --> 00:54:53,590 right before COVID. 1120 00:54:53,790 --> 00:54:59,562 So it's basically just been like... this poor park, this poor misunderstood park 1121 00:54:59,796 --> 00:55:03,700 that Disney built because of a promise that Walt Disney himself 1122 00:55:03,700 --> 00:55:07,070 made about building the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow. 1123 00:55:07,404 --> 00:55:11,041 And they just never have figured out what they need to do with it. 1124 00:55:11,775 --> 00:55:15,478 So it's still a very special place to me. 1125 00:55:15,478 --> 00:55:19,649 And, you know, it's always going to have a special place in my heart. 1126 00:55:19,649 --> 00:55:22,485 And I still visit from time to time, but it really 1127 00:55:22,485 --> 00:55:25,088 it is almost kind of sad at this point 1128 00:55:25,088 --> 00:55:27,257 when I visit EPCOT and I see, like 1129 00:55:28,458 --> 00:55:31,594 so much of its original spirit is just gone, 1130 00:55:31,795 --> 00:55:33,196 it's it's hardly left 1131 00:55:34,464 --> 00:55:36,166 World Showcase is still a lot of fun. 1132 00:55:36,166 --> 00:55:40,537 And if you want to experience a lot of different international cuisines 1133 00:55:41,004 --> 00:55:44,441 without having to travel internationally, it's really it's really fun. 1134 00:55:44,441 --> 00:55:46,209 It's going to be expensive because it's Disney. 1135 00:55:46,209 --> 00:55:49,479 Everything's expensive, but it's a very cool, curated experience. 1136 00:55:50,013 --> 00:55:52,349 And, by the way, you know, 1137 00:55:52,582 --> 00:55:53,950 when I mentioned the college program, 1138 00:55:53,950 --> 00:55:55,719 there's an international college program, 1139 00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:58,188 and most of the cast members that work in these pavilions 1140 00:55:58,188 --> 00:56:00,490 are from the countries of those pavilions. 1141 00:56:02,459 --> 00:56:04,928 Which is a cool thing they've always been doing since the beginning. 1142 00:56:04,928 --> 00:56:06,563 So when you visit the Japan Pavilion, 1143 00:56:06,730 --> 00:56:08,865 the people working there are from Japan. 1144 00:56:09,165 --> 00:56:11,201 When you visit the Germany Pavilion, they're from Germany. 1145 00:56:11,201 --> 00:56:12,369 It's very cool. 1146 00:56:12,369 --> 00:56:15,972 I do wonder how they're doing getting recruits these days, but 1147 00:56:17,340 --> 00:56:19,609 regardless, I've been talking long enough. 1148 00:56:19,609 --> 00:56:22,746 Oh, and I meant to point out, yeah, there aren't any solar panels 1149 00:56:22,746 --> 00:56:24,013 on the Universe of Energy anymore, 1150 00:56:24,013 --> 00:56:25,715 but they've built a solar farm over here. 1151 00:56:25,715 --> 00:56:28,017 And of COURSE it's - of COURSE it's Mickey shaped. 1152 00:56:28,017 --> 00:56:29,219 Of course it's Mickey shaped. 1153 00:56:29,886 --> 00:56:33,723 There are more, though, where there's a much larger one. Now. 1154 00:56:33,723 --> 00:56:34,924 I can't 1155 00:56:35,825 --> 00:56:37,026 remember offhand where it is. 1156 00:56:37,026 --> 00:56:38,762 I thought it was by Animal Kingdom. 1157 00:56:44,701 --> 00:56:45,902 No. Where is it? 1158 00:56:46,536 --> 00:56:48,338 Oh, there's a but this isn't what I was talking about. 1159 00:56:48,338 --> 00:56:50,407 But there's more photovoltaics over here, 1160 00:56:50,774 --> 00:56:52,675 whereas there's another one on Disney property 1161 00:56:52,675 --> 00:56:54,277 that's a lot bigger than that Mickey one. 1162 00:56:54,277 --> 00:56:55,478 I thought it was. 1163 00:56:56,946 --> 00:56:58,214 I thought it was by EPCOT. 1164 00:57:01,918 --> 00:57:05,422 Oh, fun fact, this Lake Bryan and Little Lake Bryan? 1165 00:57:05,422 --> 00:57:08,124 This is where college program housing used to be. 1166 00:57:08,124 --> 00:57:09,325 This Mickey's retreat. 1167 00:57:10,026 --> 00:57:12,162 As far as I know, Disney still owns this, 1168 00:57:12,162 --> 00:57:13,563 but this Chatham Square, 1169 00:57:13,563 --> 00:57:15,799 this is where I lived when I did my college program. 1170 00:57:16,199 --> 00:57:17,734 This up here is The Commons, 1171 00:57:18,201 --> 00:57:21,638 and that's where most of the international CPs lived. And 1172 00:57:23,139 --> 00:57:24,774 Patterson Court is one of these two. 1173 00:57:24,774 --> 00:57:27,577 I have the labels off, which was a third one. 1174 00:57:27,577 --> 00:57:30,146 And then the original CP housing was Vista Way, 1175 00:57:30,146 --> 00:57:32,048 which was right off of I-4. 1176 00:57:33,983 --> 00:57:34,751 Yeah. Down here. 1177 00:57:34,751 --> 00:57:36,052 This is the original CP housing. 1178 00:57:36,052 --> 00:57:37,687 Disney doesn't use any of this anymore. 1179 00:57:38,121 --> 00:57:40,423 These are now just rental apartments. 1180 00:57:40,423 --> 00:57:41,858 They built new housing 1181 00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:44,527 somewhere by Animal Kingdom. 1182 00:57:44,861 --> 00:57:47,697 I don't know the details of that, but, yeah. 1183 00:57:48,231 --> 00:57:49,432 If any of you were wondering, 1184 00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:52,168 CPs used to live over here, 1185 00:57:52,569 --> 00:57:54,904 mostly around this Little Lake Bryan. 1186 00:57:55,505 --> 00:57:58,374 And then the rest were at Vista Way down here. 1187 00:57:59,375 --> 00:58:02,512 And now they're at, like, it's like Flamingo Crossing or something. 1188 00:58:02,512 --> 00:58:05,181 It's over here by Animal Kingdom somewhere. 1189 00:58:05,715 --> 00:58:08,852 I’m still looking for that solar farm... is it by Magic Kingdom? 1190 00:58:14,624 --> 00:58:15,825 Am I just 1191 00:58:16,626 --> 00:58:18,728 I'm not I'm not just seen this thing. 1192 00:58:18,728 --> 00:58:19,429 I've seen. 1193 00:58:19,429 --> 00:58:20,964 I thought I saw a bigger solar farm. 1194 00:58:22,532 --> 00:58:23,600 Well, regardless, there's a 1195 00:58:23,600 --> 00:58:27,637 there's a lot of land, at, Disney's property 1196 00:58:27,637 --> 00:58:31,074 that, like, they will never develop because they need it for, 1197 00:58:32,275 --> 00:58:35,211 frankly, they just need it for infrastructure and like, water retention. 1198 00:58:35,211 --> 00:58:36,880 But a lot of it is protected as well. 1199 00:58:39,115 --> 00:58:39,582 So they're always, 1200 00:58:39,582 --> 00:58:42,051 you know, people always talking about will they ever build a fifth park? 1201 00:58:42,051 --> 00:58:44,020 And the answer is probably not. 1202 00:58:44,020 --> 00:58:49,058 But anywho, hope you enjoyed this little video into the Universe of Energy. 1203 00:58:50,260 --> 00:58:53,530 I will always have a soft spot for that attraction and 1204 00:58:54,531 --> 00:58:57,367 you know, I'm glad EPCOT still exists. 1205 00:58:57,367 --> 00:58:59,102 I'm glad they're still doing something for it. 1206 00:58:59,302 --> 00:59:03,873 With it, but man, it could be so much more than it is. 1207 00:59:03,873 --> 00:59:05,508 And again, please, please do. 1208 00:59:05,508 --> 00:59:06,976 If you don't know anything about EPCOT 1209 00:59:06,976 --> 00:59:09,412 and you want to understand why it fascinates me so much, 1210 00:59:09,445 --> 00:59:11,881 watch that video from Defunctland. 1211 00:59:12,315 --> 00:59:14,417 It's so, so good. 1212 00:59:14,417 --> 00:59:15,518 It's so good. 1213 00:59:15,518 --> 00:59:18,288 He, ah man, Kevin, if you watch this, just... 1214 00:59:18,288 --> 00:59:19,689 Thank you so much for that video. 1215 00:59:19,689 --> 00:59:20,790 It's it's tremendous. 1216 00:59:22,358 --> 00:59:23,059 Okay. Bye.