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How about some lighter content today?

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I want to talk to you about the reason

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I have this poster in my office.

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This poster is for the Universe of Energy, an attraction at EPCOT,

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originally EPCOT Center, which,

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you know, I would like to talk about

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because that attraction is a big reason

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why my head understands energy the way it does.

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The Universe of Energy,
and specifically the the version that replaced it,

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Ellen's Energy Adventure is often maligned because it's it's a weird, weird attraction.

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I... for those of you

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that don't know anything about EPCOT, I'm going to highly,

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highly recommend Defunctland’s amazing video -

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Video doesn't even describe it well, it is a masterpiece.

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Journey to EPCOT Center.

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If you want to understand the story of EPCOT

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and why it fascinates me so much, just watch that video.

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It is so weird that the Disney Corporation was like,

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we're going to build a theme park,

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and the theme is going to be international cooperation and innovation.

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And like, heck yes,

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that's so cool.

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EPCOT, unfortunately, has lost a lot of that spirit.

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World Showcase remains virtually untouched.

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So the international cooperation part is still very much alive.

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But the Future World is nothing like it used to be.

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And that makes me sad, but I understand it.

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But anyway, please, I would, if you have some time to spend,

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that video is so amazing.

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When Kevin released it, I was just like, oh my gosh,

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this is such a love letter to EPCOT.

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And it's perfect.

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So please watch that

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if you want to understand why I have such a soft spot for EPCOT.

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But anyway, I want to talk about the Universe of Energy.

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It is much maligned these days because,

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well, okay,

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let me start by talking about the weird...

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the weird way that EPCOT even happened.

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So in back in the day, Disney was -

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and when I'm talking about Disney, I do mean Disney parks.

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I have never been a huge fan of the Disney Corporation,

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but Disney parks back in the day when they were creating a lot....

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Well, even going back to Disneyland,

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a lot of their attractions operated on the sponsorship model.

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Basically, Disney would say, “Hey, Goodyear.

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Would you like to put your name on this attraction we’re building called the Peoplemover?

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We'll take some money from you and help build that attraction.

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And in exchange, you can have your name on it.”

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And Disney doesn't really do that anymore.

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They... they kind of do.

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There's a couple things that hold on.

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And in fact, one of the original EPCOT attractions

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still has its original sponsor.

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But in 1982, when EPCOT opened and we're looking at that, older

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photo of Google Maps here, and you'll understand why

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it was basically the titans of American industry

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that were sponsoring these attractions.

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So you had the Seas Pavilion,
which was sponsored by United Technologies.

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You had the Land Pavilion, which was sponsored by 
Kraft General Foods, I'm pretty sure when it first opened.

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The Imagination Pavilion, which was sponsored by Kodak,

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then you had originally World of Motion over here,

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which was sponsored by General Motors.

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This used to be Horizons (Rest in Peace)
which was sponsored by General Electric.

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This pavilion here was actually shoehorned in in the late 80s.

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It did not open with the park and it is currently shuttered.

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Nobody knows what's going on with this.

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It was the Wonders of Life Pavilion sponsored by MetLife.

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And then this right here is the subject of our video,

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The Universe of Energy.

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Now, the reason I said it's much maligned

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is because there are a lot of people

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who know just enough about Disney

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and EPCOT to know this attraction was sponsored by Exxon,

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and so they view this as a pro-oil attraction.

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And like I see posts going around

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and I even just saw one in searching for some videos

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where people are like, “do you remember that time

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that Bill Nye and Ellen DeGeneres made oil industry propaganda for the Disney Corporation?”

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And like that is such a dishonest

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framing of what the attraction actually was.

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One of the reasons I'm looking at this satellite image from 2014

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is because you see what's on top of that building there.

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Those are photovoltaic solar panels,

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and they were put there in 1982.

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They were there the whole time.

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And in fact, supposedly the energy that these solar panels

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collected was used to charge the ride vehicles in this ride.

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And calling this a ride is...

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like really a large part I want to talk about

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this is because this attraction is just fascinating.

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The... whoever came up with this idea, it was just a fever dream.

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And I'm going to show you some clips of it.

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And also,

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really, we're just we're just talking

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about the original attraction experience.

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This is no longer there.

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The building is still there.

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If we if we zoom ahead to today, the building is still there.

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I am not sure if they put new panels on or what's going on,

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but this this building is now the queue

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and I think the trains actually are loaded and unloaded in here

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for the Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind attraction, which is quite amazing.

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I will say it's very, very cool.

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It bums me out because Guardians of the Galaxy

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doesn't fit with the original theme of EPCOT at all,

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but they tried to make it work a little bit,

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and the original theme of EPCOT is just... 
Future World especially is just it's kind of barely together at this point.

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It's - it saddens me, but anywhere we go back to this picture from 2014, I have pulled up.

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Now I'm doing this on my Mac mini because that's where my microphone is.

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So forgive me, I'm really not good at using Mac OS,

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so we're just going to minimize this window here.

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This attraction is what was called a traveling theater.

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And Disney used this kind of again with the 
Great Movie Ride and Hollywood studios - back then, MGM Studios.

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But that attraction doesn't exist anymore either.

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So this is the only version...

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well, I mean, we're just going to talk about this one.

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These things here are what they call - I think they call them the traveling theater cars.

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I'm not sure if they really had a dedicated name for them,

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but these are enormous ride vehicles.

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Each one of these probably seats about 100 people.

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And when you are waiting to board this attraction, there is a pre-show.

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So you would come in through here and there's this pre-show theater which has five screens,

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and we're going to look at some of this in a bit.

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Part of what I want to show with this video is the scale.

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The scale of this attraction was so immense, like it was so -

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it's really hard to convey how enormous this building was

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and how enormous the theaters were.

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And, well, let's just let's just watch some clips here.

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This is the exterior of the building and some of the signage that was originally there.

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You can see the solar panels up top.

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[ambient music plays]

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This mural here is,

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original to the original EPCOT Center.

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So this was not touched at all.

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We had this cool display built

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into the tile work for minutes to the next show.

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And the way that this would work,

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there were two concurrent shows happening all the time.

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And this clock, if I remember right, was counting down

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to when the pre-show started and the pre-show....

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Let's see if there's a good clip of it here.

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Gosh, there really isn't.

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So in - I think this version came out in 1996.

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I mean, if I remember right, it wasn't completely ready for some time,

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and they ran the old version of the attraction

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for a brief period of time,

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even though they had already done

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a lot of changes to accommodate this new version.

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But this is the pre-show area. Again,

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just this one room is enormous

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and there are five screens.

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I got off track here.

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So obviously we're looking at Ellen DeGeneres right now

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in her very 90s outfit.

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There's another one, too,

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but the original version of this attraction,

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these five screens had these tiles,

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these kinetic tiles that could, I think they were five

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by five grids, and each

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tile was a triangle, and it could spin.

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So, so it was either a normal theater surface or, a normal screen surface,

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or it could turn and stick out as a triangle

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and have this three dimensional shape to it.

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Or it could even I think it had a black surface as well.

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So the original pre-show, all five of these screens

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were doing this really cool undulation,

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and I don't know how to describe it.

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I'm not focused on the original version
of this attraction in this video.

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I am too young to have experienced it.

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I might have ridden it

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as a very little kid, but I have no memory of it.

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The only memory of this attraction I have is Ellen's Energy Adventure.

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And when they did the reboot for this,

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they removed the dynamic screen

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and they turned it into this kind of comedic pre-show.

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And they were making good use of these five screens.

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Let me, just play a little bit here.

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Welcome to the Universe of Energy.

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How are you?

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No need to answer.

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You know, you're probably surprised to see me here, aren't you?

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But then there's probably a lot of places

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you'd be surprised to see me when you think about it.

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If you were driving in your car, for instance.

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Okay. Close your eyes.

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You're in your car-

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Don’t close your eyes in the car but right now, think about it.

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You're in your car, you’re driving

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and then all of a sudden, in the backseat, I just pop up and go

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Hey!

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You’d just whack me in the head, wouldn’t ya?

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So, you know,

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they're just doing kind of fun, playful things with jump cuts.

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And, if you can't tell from the audio in the video,

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the sound is coming from behind each screen.

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So depending on where she is, you hear, you hear different places.

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So the conceit of this ride, and again,

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it's a fever dream.

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Ellen ...and literally it is a dream.

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Ellen is a huge fan of Jeopardy!

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And she's watching Jeopardy!

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Big CRT television

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in this New York apartment, which is frankly amazing.

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But who does...

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I mean, it's a movie set, of course, and Bill Nye is her friend for some reason.

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And so here's Bill Nye.

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I had the best nickname for her, though.

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-What was that?
-Stupid Judy.

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-Ellen, that makes no sense!

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She has a. Ph.D..

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-I know, but it made me feel better.

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So now -

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Judy was played by Jamie Lee Curtis, by the way.

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And that is, in fact, Alex Trebek.

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One of the worst things about this attraction

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is that they filmed it in 1996, and then the Jeopardy! set changed dramatically after that.

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So the ride was, like, immediately dated.

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And they kept... they never updated the films.

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So this attraction kept running like this until 2017.

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It was hilariously dated by the time it closed.

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But anyway, the conceit is she's watching Jeopardy!

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Her college roommate is on Jeopardy!

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She's jealous of that.

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And then she falls asleep while watching Jeopardy!

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And so she has a dream sequence.

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And then we go later into,

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start the dream sequence here.

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[Johnny Gilbert announcing]
Doctor Judy Peterson, Doctor Albert Einstein.

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And finally...

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just Ellen.

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And now, here is the host of Jeopardy!

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Alex Trebek.

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-Thank you, Johnny Gilbert.

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Hello contestants, welcome to our program.

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And good luck to you in the game.

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Here are the categories for the first round of play.

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Solar energy.

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Wind power.

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Energy from water.

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Fossil fuels.

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Fusion.

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And finally, gas.

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I just want to point out here

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the first categories were all renewables, right.

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So all the people that are like, “oh, this is oil industry propaganda.”

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It's like - a huge amount of this attraction is talking about renewable energy.

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We have been talking about this for 30 years.

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And I'll play some other clips later where,

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when we're talking about fossil sources,

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they're even saying, like, we only have enough for 50 years.

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Llike this...

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Again, I don't want to sound like I'm defending the Disney corporation,

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but I am defending reality because I don't really like it

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when people are like, oh, remember that time they made oil propaganda?

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It's like, yes, the attraction was sponsored by Exxon.

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It was not saying oil is fantastic.

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There's freaking solar panels on the roof or the attraction - anyway.

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Anyway, so she's having a dream

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and she's losing to Judy
because Judy knows everything about [energy].

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And let me just skip forward a little bit here.

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What is hydroelectric?

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What is helium?

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And so as we come to the end of the first round,

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ladies and gentlemen,

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Judy has a commanding lead.

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Ellen has her work cut out for her,

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And Doctor Einstein is nowhere (relatively speaking).

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Is this a nightmare, or what?

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Oh, Ellen, your first correct response!

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Wait a minute.

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- So, then we kind of get to the end of the pre-show, and again this,

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this is the pre-show.

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So this attraction was incredibly long,

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and that's one of the reasons why it's not fondly remembered.

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I thought it was a great excuse to take a break into some air
conditioning

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from the Florida heat, but it was an incredibly long experience.

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This we are, we are...

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The pre-show itself is like seven minutes.

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And, you know, also, this is the kind of fun thing that Disney would do.

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I just want to point out this clip hopefully.

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Wait, it's not even over.

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It gets really weird from here.

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Now some person I don't even know reminds me
there's no eating, drinking,

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smoking, or flash photography allowed in my dream.

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That’s right, there’s no eating, drinking, smoking, 
or flash photography allowed in Ellen’s dream, thank you.

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They did that the whole time it ran.

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It was just a charming little thing that they did.

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And then they did a quick little recap here

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for those that were just walking in

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because you could walk into the pre-show at any time.

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This attraction had an enormous capacity, as you will soon see.

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And then, at the very end,

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I'm sure I have used this line at one point in my videos.

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You’re late.

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And you think about that next time!

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And that's how the pre-show ends.

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So... oops!

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I did not mean to go full screen.

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So you can now see when the room lights are back on

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there are two doors here that you're about to walk through.

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I have to change clips.

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This is a this is a pretty good video of the attraction.

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You can watch the whole thing if you want, but this

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this doesn't really show the ride vehicles.

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So let me go over here.

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Doopy doopy doo badup badoo.

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Okay.
So this - this video actually shows

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what it's like to walk into the theater.

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-allllright, ladies and gentlemen,

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in just a moment the doors in front of you will be opening up, so come on up this way.

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Just remain behind the yellow line until the doors open

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as those doors will be opening towards you.

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[Ellen’s Energy Adventure theme plays which is a really cool piece of music]

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So we're walking into theater one,

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and these are the enormous vehicles I was talking about.

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These are called the traveling theater cars.

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Each one, I think they had ten rows.

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You could easily fit ten people on each bench.

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These are just enormous, enormous vehicles.

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And one of the things that Disney is really doing here

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is they're kind of doing a bit of a fake out, because this room

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looks like there's black curtains.

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And again, it is going to be impossible to convey...

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to convey the scale of how big everything was here.

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But we're doing a bit of a fake out

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because the vehicles are facing the wrong way.

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It looks like you're facing towards

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some sort of a presentation and the curtains are going to open up.

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But what actually happens is, as soon as the ride
starts, the doors close.

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[cast member announcing over PA]
And now we return to Ellen’s Energy Adventure.

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[ride audio, Ellen speaking]
-million years so you could show me... nothing?

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[Alec]
And at this time,

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You discover you're sitting on a turntable

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and the entire turntable is turning around.

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[Ellen]
Must’ve been a big delivery room, huh?

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So I'm going to go back to the, the blueprint here.

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So we walked - here was the pre-show room.

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We walked in.

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That was this enormous room.

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And it looks like we're facing forward.

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There's a curtain here.

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We're going to be looking at some kind of a show,

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but you're actually sitting on a turntable,

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and the entire thing turns around

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and you discover that behind you,

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the whole time were three enormous movie screens.

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Each one had a 70 millimeter projector,

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and you were watching just a huge, huge widescreen experience.

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Now you'll notice this thing here and all that.

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Well, so what happens is...

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After this show, after this beginning.

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[music]

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And, uh, all footage of this is very flickery that you can find.

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Because these were film projectors,

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they never updated it to digital projection, which,

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of course, you know, of course they didn't.

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So these were all 70mm film projectors.

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And this part of the ride is basically

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just exploring the Big Bang and the creation of Earth.

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And then we skip forward to when the dinosaurs are alive.

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[Ellen]
I kind of hoping that you'd show me a slideshow.

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[Bill]
Slideshow?

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I guess that would be easier, but this is way more fun!

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[Ellen, sarcastically]
Yeah, this is fun.

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Where's the energy?

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[Bill]
Oh, it's all around you!

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See, these plants and animals

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are soaking up energy from the sun.

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When they die and get buried, time pressure and heat

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will cook them into the fossil fuels we rely on today.

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Like, coal, natural gas and oil.

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[Alec]
So that is the conceit of the

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fossil fuel part where we've traveled back in time.

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We're looking at ancient plant and animal material,

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which turned into fossil fuels.

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And we explain that.

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But then what happens is at the end of this sequence.

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Suddenly the turntable starts moving to the left.

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[Ellen]
Maybe I’ll go.

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What am I so scared of? It's just a dinosaur.

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What’s the big deal about dinosaurs, they’re not so tough.

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Probably have a brain the size of a pea.

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[dinosaur roars]

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[Ellen]
Ahhhh...

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I hope you’re not upset about that pea brain crack.

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Because, y’know now that I think of it

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I'm sure peas are much larger in this time period.

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I happen to love peas, don't you?

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[another loud roar]

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I'll take that as a maybe.

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I should get going because I'm supposed to be dinner.

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I mean, have dinner with friends.

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So I should go.

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Hey, what’s over there?

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[very loud roar]

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[stomping footsteps]

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Right at this moment,

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when you hear the footsteps of dinosaurs, the vehicle

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you are sitting in starts moving forward.

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And so this is the traveling theater concept.

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This door, which you had no idea was there

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because it was behind curtains, has opened up and we are now

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moving into the prehistoric diorama.

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[more footsteps and dramatic music]

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[various jungle sounds, too]

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And I'm going to skip forward

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a little bit again, if you want to watch the whole thing,

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there's... I'll link these two in the description.

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There's several different ride-throughs, but I'm, you know,

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some are better than others at conveying the scale.

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This, by the way, this is an infrared emitter for the cameras.

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That way, the cast members operating the ride can actually keep

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track of what people are doing.

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But this is an interesting scene where we're sitting here

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and this diorama.

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I did it again.

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This diorama slowly has a sunrise effect.

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And so you see the the light get brighter.

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You can actually - as you're moving in, these just look like silhouettes.

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You don't realize these are actually enormous animatronic figures of dinosaurs.

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And I think you'll be able to see...

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Yeah.
So those cars over there are moving.

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Here's the car in front of you, moving away.

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And now the car that the person is filming

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from is moving forward as well.

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So if you go back to that, to this schematic here,

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when you boarded all the ride vehicles are facing here,

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then that was the first fake out.

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So you turn around and then you watch about seven minutes of film

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on these enormous screens.

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Then you turn and point that direction.

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As a group, all six vehicles move into this section and then stop.

00:21:54.980 --> 00:21:58.617
And the sunrise scene is happening.

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Now, you'll notice there's another theater over here.

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We'll get back to that.

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But after, after they've stopped here and the door behind you

00:22:06.224 --> 00:22:09.561
closes, these two vehicles start moving forward.

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Then these two vehicles start moving forward,

00:22:12.798 --> 00:22:14.599
and then these two vehicles start moving forward.

00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:16.835
So suddenly, we go from a group of six

00:22:17.269 --> 00:22:20.839
in a three by two configuration to six individual

00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:25.744
theater cars, all following each other through the diorama scene.

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And,

00:22:28.447 --> 00:22:31.216
if you saw that Ellen DeGeneres had an animatronic

00:22:31.216 --> 00:22:33.952
figure made of her, it was about right here.

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It was right near the end of this section.

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Before you move into theater two.

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Now you'll see

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the part of what fascinates me about this attraction is that theater -

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There were two shows concurrently all of the time.

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So when these six vehicles moved into here and stopped

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and this door shut,

00:22:56.141 --> 00:22:58.210
the six vehicles in theater two

00:22:58.243 --> 00:23:00.879
were about to move back into theater one.

00:23:01.146 --> 00:23:02.414
And so the turntable

00:23:03.482 --> 00:23:05.450
probably needed to turn a little bit to align.

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And by the way, you can you can see in the ride

00:23:08.487 --> 00:23:10.155
what looks like a track.

00:23:10.589 --> 00:23:11.790
It's not really a track.

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The vehicles are following a guide wire

00:23:13.825 --> 00:23:17.095
and those are just metal plates, so the wheels have better traction.

00:23:17.329 --> 00:23:19.998
I read a story that originally I don't know if this is true,

00:23:19.998 --> 00:23:23.769
but originally the ride vehicles were moving directly on carpet.

00:23:23.935 --> 00:23:27.506
These were trackless ride vehicles in 1982

00:23:27.806 --> 00:23:30.876
and the vehicles were moving along carpet,

00:23:30.876 --> 00:23:34.246
but they were having problems with static discharge
and that was resetting

00:23:34.246 --> 00:23:38.016
the computers that actually, you know, drove the ride vehicles.

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I don't know if that's true or not, but you'll see these plates,

00:23:42.287 --> 00:23:43.488
you can see them right here at

00:23:43.722 --> 00:23:46.658
these are really just a dedicated surface

00:23:46.658 --> 00:23:50.395
for the wheels of these things to travel on without digging into the,

00:23:51.730 --> 00:23:52.931
into the flooring.

00:23:53.465 --> 00:23:55.100
But that's what's happening here, is

00:23:55.100 --> 00:23:57.469
these ride vehicles are all moving forward,

00:23:57.869 --> 00:23:59.871
progressing through the diorama scene,

00:24:00.739 --> 00:24:01.973
all of this stuff,

00:24:03.475 --> 00:24:05.577
is original from 1982.

00:24:06.478 --> 00:24:11.149
It wasn't - I think the colors were updated
like the dinosaurs were made more vibrant.

00:24:13.118 --> 00:24:15.320
But mostly this is this is original.

00:24:18.390 --> 00:24:21.026
Does this does this have the Ellen figure in it?

00:24:21.026 --> 00:24:22.561
I'm going to guess no.

00:24:22.928 --> 00:24:28.433
They removed that figure towards the end of the attraction’s [life].

00:24:41.847 --> 00:24:43.348
The audio of her

00:24:43.748 --> 00:24:46.218
voice is playing in this, but I think the figure is gone.

00:24:46.218 --> 00:24:49.488
Fun fact when I was, one of the times I went on this attraction,

00:24:49.821 --> 00:24:51.289
when I was maybe 12 or 14,

00:24:51.590 --> 00:24:55.760
the one of the hands of the Ellen figure had fallen off.

00:24:56.027 --> 00:24:57.229
That was a bit disturbing.

00:24:57.362 --> 00:25:01.199
But anyway, so as we are approaching the end of the diorama scene,

00:25:01.199 --> 00:25:04.102
the vehicles are moving into theater two.

00:25:05.604 --> 00:25:07.072
There's some flashing lights here.

00:25:09.708 --> 00:25:11.209
We're going underneath a tunnel.

00:25:19.618 --> 00:25:22.220
And they are now reassembling themselves.

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The turntable is shown the wrong way in this drawing,

00:25:24.623 --> 00:25:26.224
but they are now reassembling themselves

00:25:26.224 --> 00:25:28.460
in the same original configuration,

00:25:28.793 --> 00:25:32.264
although this drawing is a little incorrect, because in theater two,

00:25:32.998 --> 00:25:36.368
they did not have the platforms to get on and oops,

00:25:36.368 --> 00:25:37.869
over here they did not have the platforms

00:25:37.869 --> 00:25:39.971
to get on and off of the ride vehicles

00:25:40.372 --> 00:25:41.806
that they do in theater one,

00:25:41.806 --> 00:25:44.543
so the ride vehicles are actually closer together in theater two;

00:25:45.644 --> 00:25:47.245
a small issue with this drawing.

00:25:47.245 --> 00:25:50.081
But anyway, we're moving back into theater two

00:25:50.448 --> 00:25:52.517
and we're going back into this original formation.

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.

00:26:01.493 --> 00:26:03.328
Because it takes so much time

00:26:03.328 --> 00:26:06.498
for these vehicles to reconfigure, before the film

00:26:06.498 --> 00:26:09.901
in theater two starts, there's a cute radio bit

00:26:09.935 --> 00:26:13.305
going on from KNRG. And KNRG,

00:26:13.338 --> 00:26:15.707
they're doing news reports over the years,

00:26:15.707 --> 00:26:17.742
from like 900,000 BC.

00:26:19.110 --> 00:26:20.779
This is one of those things where it would depend

00:26:20.779 --> 00:26:23.081
on which vehicle you boarded.

00:26:23.114 --> 00:26:27.018
When I, when I was little, we would try to be in this vehicle here

00:26:27.018 --> 00:26:29.321
because this would be the first one to leave,

00:26:29.321 --> 00:26:32.223
and that meant it was the first one to enter theater two.

00:26:32.524 --> 00:26:35.760
And you got to hear the entire KNRG radio bit.

00:26:36.328 --> 00:26:38.430
If you were this vehicle here,

00:26:38.430 --> 00:26:40.932
you would enter theater two last

00:26:40.932 --> 00:26:42.334
and you wouldn't hear much of that at all.

00:26:43.668 --> 00:26:46.037
[fashion reporter’s voice]
Mammals are getting hairier.

00:26:46.237 --> 00:26:47.439
That's right.

00:26:47.439 --> 00:26:49.307
Woolly is definitely in!

00:26:49.674 --> 00:26:52.077
Whether you’re a mammoth or a rhino.

00:26:52.077 --> 00:26:55.780
And saber teeth seem to be a growing fad in the cat world.

00:26:55.947 --> 00:27:00.385
Also, look for antlers to be very big this year.

00:27:00.385 --> 00:27:04.689
As big as 10 feet on creatures like the megaloceros.

00:27:04.689 --> 00:27:05.957
Wow!

00:27:05.957 --> 00:27:09.060
And that's the latest in the fashion world.

00:27:09.361 --> 00:27:12.330
That is the end of the well, it's essentially the end of the radio bit.

00:27:12.731 --> 00:27:14.232
Uh, if I remember right,

00:27:14.232 --> 00:27:18.770
that is when the last vehicles have stopped
and now this turntable starts

00:27:18.770 --> 00:27:22.507
moving to reposition you to face the screens,

00:27:22.507 --> 00:27:23.708
which are...

00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:30.048
Yeah, they're directly in front-

00:27:30.048 --> 00:27:31.149
They're here.

00:27:31.149 --> 00:27:32.717
So these are where the screens are in theater two,

00:27:32.717 --> 00:27:34.853
and that will be obvious at the end of the ride.

00:27:36.121 --> 00:27:38.023
[Bill Nye’s voice]
Is it ever gonna warm up?

00:27:38.023 --> 00:27:39.658
Let's find out with a look at the weather.

00:27:40.291 --> 00:27:40.859
Willard?

00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:43.161
[weather reporter]
You know those giant glaciers -

00:27:43.561 --> 00:27:46.297
Oh, and by the way, if, if you, if you're the kind of weird

00:27:46.698 --> 00:27:48.566
kind of on the spectrum nerd that I am,

00:27:48.566 --> 00:27:51.236
you would notice at this point, after the vehicles stop,

00:27:51.736 --> 00:27:54.406
they start humming because they're being charged.

00:27:54.406 --> 00:27:57.909
The, uh, AC power is being fed to the vehicles

00:27:57.909 --> 00:28:00.345
when they're stopped on the charging paddles to charge them up

00:28:00.345 --> 00:28:02.714
because they're big electric vehicles with

00:28:03.014 --> 00:28:05.083
probably a ton of lead acid batteries in them.

00:28:05.417 --> 00:28:09.888
And at this point, you could actually hear and feel...

00:28:09.888 --> 00:28:11.322
more just feel a kind of like click

00:28:11.322 --> 00:28:14.859
and then the humming of 60Hz when the vehicles are being charged.

00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:17.362
[weather reporter]
...glaciers we've all gotten so used to?

00:28:17.362 --> 00:28:19.998
Well, they're going to be receding to the north and south poles.

00:28:20.498 --> 00:28:23.268
Conditions are looking very favorable

00:28:23.268 --> 00:28:24.969
for a whole new kind of mammal.

00:28:25.403 --> 00:28:26.971
KNRG News Time [GONG]

00:28:26.971 --> 00:28:29.140
750,000 BC

00:28:29.774 --> 00:28:31.543
So again, we're in that we're in the pitch dark.

00:28:31.543 --> 00:28:33.878
You can't really tell what's happening, but the turntable is moving.

00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:36.848
[Bill Nye]
And that's our KNRG up to the minute news report.

00:28:37.082 --> 00:28:40.151
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.

00:28:40.919 --> 00:28:43.621
[teletype noises fade out]

00:28:43.621 --> 00:28:46.591
[jungle noises fade in]

00:28:49.928 --> 00:28:52.130
Now we're exactly where we need to be.

00:28:52.664 --> 00:28:56.868
Quick note the entire time I have - I remember this attraction,

00:28:56.868 --> 00:29:00.772
the audio in theater two was significantly tinnier

00:29:00.772 --> 00:29:02.741
and worse than in theater one.

00:29:03.675 --> 00:29:05.143
I have no idea why.

00:29:05.143 --> 00:29:07.912
I suspect it's because of sound proofing concerns.

00:29:07.912 --> 00:29:09.347
‘cause there [stumbles over words]

00:29:09.347 --> 00:29:09.981
I'll throw it up.

00:29:09.981 --> 00:29:12.584
There's actually a time when I have to find this footage,

00:29:12.584 --> 00:29:16.154
but there was a time when, it was in 2007, if I remember right

00:29:16.688 --> 00:29:18.723
where we were there, and I had a camcorder

00:29:18.723 --> 00:29:20.992
and we were actually in a break down on this ride.

00:29:21.659 --> 00:29:23.628
Slash attraction, whatever you call this!

00:29:23.928 --> 00:29:26.364
And the turntable in theater one,

00:29:26.364 --> 00:29:30.101
after we had come to the end of the ride, did not... uh it broke.

00:29:30.101 --> 00:29:32.403
So we were just kind of... it didn't move.

00:29:32.403 --> 00:29:35.573
So something happened and the coordination got threw off.

00:29:36.040 --> 00:29:38.243
So they turned on the work lights and I could actually see

00:29:39.310 --> 00:29:40.445
the door

00:29:40.445 --> 00:29:43.314
that separates theater one and two, and it comes out of the floor.

00:29:43.581 --> 00:29:46.317
It was very much a surprise to me.

00:29:46.317 --> 00:29:48.853
But there's a huge door

00:29:48.887 --> 00:29:51.256
that comes out of the floor which separates theater one and two.

00:29:52.157 --> 00:29:53.358
It's right.

00:29:53.658 --> 00:29:56.528
Presumably there's two of them, but what I'm talking about is right here.

00:29:56.528 --> 00:29:59.731
There's an enormous door that moves...

00:30:00.498 --> 00:30:02.000
(there was, this is all gone).

00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.169
But on both sides there were these enormous doors.

00:30:04.502 --> 00:30:07.205
And I've always kind of thought that probably

00:30:07.205 --> 00:30:09.874
because the, the speakers for this screen

00:30:09.874 --> 00:30:12.844
were right behind that door.

00:30:13.044 --> 00:30:15.947
Maybe if they had the audio a little too boomy,

00:30:15.947 --> 00:30:17.415
you could hear it in theater one.

00:30:17.415 --> 00:30:18.583
I, I don't know, but

00:30:19.184 --> 00:30:21.553
regardless, theater two the audio was always worse.

00:30:22.620 --> 00:30:26.457
And they do a quick rundown of the discovery of fire.

00:30:26.658 --> 00:30:30.528
Fun fact, that's Michael Richards. Weird cameo that he has in here.

00:30:30.929 --> 00:30:32.130
Very playful.

00:30:33.531 --> 00:30:36.501
[Ellen’s Energy Adventure theme plays]

00:30:49.247 --> 00:30:51.783
[goat bleats, horse neighs, and chickens cluck]

00:30:52.483 --> 00:30:54.219
[horn honks twice]

00:31:00.391 --> 00:31:01.926
[Ellen]
...big story.

00:31:02.493 --> 00:31:04.762
This is also another fake out they did where

00:31:05.597 --> 00:31:08.967
there are actually two screens just as big as this one on either side.

00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:11.769
[Ellen]
From now on we're dreaming in wide screen.

00:31:12.737 --> 00:31:15.240
Wider, wider!

00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:16.875
I sound like a dentist, don’t I?

00:31:16.875 --> 00:31:18.610
Okay, everybody rinse and spit!

00:31:19.377 --> 00:31:20.812
Just kidding, not you, sir.

00:31:21.913 --> 00:31:22.647
Thank you.

00:31:23.948 --> 00:31:26.918
[music swells with a heavenly choir]

00:31:27.118 --> 00:31:27.819
And by the way,

00:31:27.819 --> 00:31:30.288
I'm playing this part in its entirety on purpose

00:31:30.288 --> 00:31:32.924
because, there's some notable things about this.

00:31:38.029 --> 00:31:40.098
[Bill Nye]
We'll start with the sun.

00:31:40.298 --> 00:31:42.500
It's where most of our energy comes from,

00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:45.470
and it's at the heart of some bright ideas for tomorrow.

00:31:45.837 --> 00:31:47.605
[Ellen]
Like what, Bill Nye the Science Guy?

00:31:47.972 --> 00:31:50.174
[Bill]
Like solar energy!

00:32:00.919 --> 00:32:05.390
Solar mirrors are one way to convert the sun's energy into electricity.

00:32:05.990 --> 00:32:08.793
Now, quick note, this is not a photovoltaic array.

00:32:08.793 --> 00:32:09.327
These are,

00:32:10.395 --> 00:32:11.562
concentrated solar?

00:32:11.562 --> 00:32:12.597
Is that what it's called?

00:32:12.597 --> 00:32:16.301
Where these mirrors are directing the sun's energy up to a tower.

00:32:16.301 --> 00:32:18.970
And then that tower is getting extremely hot.

00:32:19.337 --> 00:32:21.506
I think it's usually melting salt.

00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:25.610
And then that hot salt is generating electricity via a turbine.

00:32:25.843 --> 00:32:28.980
These still exist, they’re in the deserts of California.

00:32:29.314 --> 00:32:32.116
It was cheaper to do before photovoltaics,

00:32:32.116 --> 00:32:35.920
but now that photovoltaics exists,
these aren't really happening anymore.

00:32:36.955 --> 00:32:37.956
[Ellen]
Cool.

00:32:37.956 --> 00:32:39.691
I mean, hot.

00:32:39.691 --> 00:32:42.060
I mean, cooly hot. Or hotly cool.

00:32:42.393 --> 00:32:43.962
So why don't we just make everything solar?

00:32:44.696 --> 00:32:46.097
Not so fast.

00:32:46.864 --> 00:32:48.066
Now, a big -

00:32:48.232 --> 00:32:49.867
a big thing about this attraction

00:32:50.068 --> 00:32:52.904
and a big message that they were saying the whole time was all of these

00:32:52.904 --> 00:32:55.039
sources of energy have pros and cons,

00:32:55.406 --> 00:32:58.543
but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be using them.

00:32:59.143 --> 00:33:00.511
There's a line here which, like,

00:33:00.945 --> 00:33:03.414
you know, 30 years in the future is now true.

00:33:03.715 --> 00:33:05.850
[Bill Nye]
For one thing, it's not sunny enough everywhere.

00:33:06.718 --> 00:33:08.086
[thunder clap]

00:33:08.086 --> 00:33:10.054
And although the sunshine is free,

00:33:11.656 --> 00:33:14.792
solar electricity still isn't that cheap, but it's gettin’ there.

00:33:15.360 --> 00:33:16.661
That was the line.

00:33:16.661 --> 00:33:19.597
Solar electricity isn't that cheap, but it's getting there.

00:33:20.631 --> 00:33:21.799
It got there!

00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:22.900
Look at that, progress.

00:33:22.900 --> 00:33:24.469
Then we have a diversion into wind.

00:33:25.503 --> 00:33:27.638
[Ellen]
Well, then why don't we just get a bunch of wind farmers

00:33:27.638 --> 00:33:29.207
to harvest a big ol’ crop of wind?

00:33:29.974 --> 00:33:32.410
[Bill]
We're starting to where it's windy.

00:33:32.410 --> 00:33:34.445
But remember, to power a whole city

00:33:34.445 --> 00:33:35.980
you need a whole lot of windmills.

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?

00:33:40.818 --> 00:33:41.652
[Bill]
No way!

00:33:41.652 --> 00:33:43.388
We just switch to another source of energy.

00:33:50.695 --> 00:33:52.764
Then we talk about hydroelectric power

00:33:52.997 --> 00:33:55.066
and the consequences of that.

00:33:55.867 --> 00:33:58.836
[Alec’s skipping around a bit]

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.

00:34:03.074 --> 00:34:05.109
[Bill]
No, but this big grey wall might.

00:34:05.543 --> 00:34:07.078
It's clean and efficient.

00:34:07.678 --> 00:34:08.880
[Ellen]
I know this one!

00:34:09.147 --> 00:34:10.348
Come on, quiz me.

00:34:10.681 --> 00:34:11.883
[Bill]
Okay.

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.

00:34:20.658 --> 00:34:21.859
[thunderclap]

00:34:25.963 --> 00:34:27.165
What is rain?

00:34:27.698 --> 00:34:28.900
Correct.

00:34:30.134 --> 00:34:33.971
So it talks about the fact that building a dam is very hard on ecosystems.

00:34:33.971 --> 00:34:37.075
We've already had most of the best sites have been built, so

00:34:38.876 --> 00:34:40.378
we can't just build dams everywhere.

00:34:40.411 --> 00:34:43.848
Like the whole ride is basically teaching everyone

00:34:43.848 --> 00:34:45.450
about all the different sources of energy

00:34:45.450 --> 00:34:47.151
we use and all their pros and cons.

00:34:47.151 --> 00:34:48.453
And here's the thing, right?

00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:53.157
[Bill Nye]
Now, these renewables provide about 10% of the world's energy,

00:34:53.558 --> 00:34:57.728
but we can expect them to be playing an even bigger role in the decades ahead.

00:34:58.362 --> 00:35:00.331
So again, that's why I'm like,

00:35:00.331 --> 00:35:02.733
was this really just oil industry propaganda?

00:35:02.767 --> 00:35:04.068
Because I don't really think it was.

00:35:04.368 --> 00:35:06.104
But now we do talk about fossil fuels.

00:35:06.104 --> 00:35:08.873
[Ellen]
That's great, Bill, but we still need a heck of a lot more energy.

00:35:09.040 --> 00:35:10.341
Where's it coming from?

00:35:10.341 --> 00:35:11.542
And you have a curling iron?

00:35:12.110 --> 00:35:13.277
[Bill]
Come on, I'll show you.

00:35:20.685 --> 00:35:23.588
Let's hitch a ride with the solid fossil fuel.

00:35:23.588 --> 00:35:24.522
[Ellen]
Oh, I know this one.

00:35:24.522 --> 00:35:26.057
What is coal?

00:35:26.057 --> 00:35:26.824
[Bill]
Correct!

00:35:26.824 --> 00:35:29.327
And we discovered two centuries’ worth.

00:35:29.327 --> 00:35:31.429
[Train horn blares, Ellen says woah]

00:35:31.429 --> 00:35:33.064
[Ellen] 
What about global warming?

00:35:33.064 --> 00:35:35.399
[Bill]
It's a hot topic with lots of questions.

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.

00:35:41.339 --> 00:35:44.609
That is the worst thing about this ride that aged quite poorly.

00:35:44.609 --> 00:35:46.577
That is the only mention of climate change.

00:35:46.577 --> 00:35:48.112
And of course, it's called global warming,

00:35:48.112 --> 00:35:50.948
because back in 1996 we were calling it global warming.

00:35:51.282 --> 00:35:52.783
But then we discovered enough...

00:35:53.351 --> 00:35:57.655
far too many people simply cannot understand that it's the average

00:35:57.655 --> 00:35:59.090
global temperature which is going up.

00:35:59.090 --> 00:36:01.159
And that doesn't mean cold weather doesn't happen.

00:36:01.759 --> 00:36:03.728
That's why we started calling it climate change.

00:36:04.428 --> 00:36:06.797
But that's the worst thing about this attraction

00:36:06.797 --> 00:36:08.266
is that it's like, what about global warming?

00:36:08.266 --> 00:36:10.301
It's a hot topic with lots of questions.

00:36:10.768 --> 00:36:12.537
That's the only mention of it.

00:36:12.537 --> 00:36:14.872
But it is important that they acknowledge

00:36:14.872 --> 00:36:16.440
that's one of the reasons we're trying to use

00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:17.808
fossil fuels more efficiently.

00:36:20.211 --> 00:36:22.847
This is a diversion on natural gas, talks

00:36:22.847 --> 00:36:25.316
about how many years of gas we have left.

00:36:25.850 --> 00:36:27.518
[Ellen]
You mean natural gas?

00:36:27.518 --> 00:36:28.719
[Bill]
It's clean burning!

00:36:29.120 --> 00:36:31.756
And the rate we're going, we're set for about 60 years.

00:36:32.924 --> 00:36:35.259
So again, I'm just pointing out that like this attraction

00:36:35.259 --> 00:36:37.662
kept saying with all these fossil fuels,

00:36:37.828 --> 00:36:39.931
there is a time where they're going to run out.

00:36:39.931 --> 00:36:42.066
They were not hiding that.

00:36:45.169 --> 00:36:47.405
[Ellen]
Oh, oh! What is... black gold?

00:36:47.672 --> 00:36:50.274
Texas tea. Swimmin’ pools, movie stars!

00:36:50.808 --> 00:36:52.243
What is The Beverly Hillbillies?

00:36:52.243 --> 00:36:53.911
I mean what is oil?

00:36:53.911 --> 00:36:56.013
[Bill]
Right! It's our main source of energy,

00:36:56.314 --> 00:36:58.983
And we’ve found enough to last at least 50 years.

00:36:58.983 --> 00:37:00.051
[Ellen]
That's all?

00:37:00.051 --> 00:37:01.686
[Bill]
We're far from running on empty.

00:37:02.019 --> 00:37:04.956
And we've got some pretty far out ways of finding more.

00:37:06.624 --> 00:37:08.159
This is the part of the attraction

00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:10.194
I'm like, okay, this is this is the closest,

00:37:10.194 --> 00:37:13.164
I'll call it to oil industry propaganda
because they basically just like,

00:37:13.164 --> 00:37:15.466
“oh, we could use satellites to find more oil!”

00:37:18.369 --> 00:37:19.870
So yeah, I'm just gonna skip this part.

00:37:19.870 --> 00:37:21.806
It's it's a bit silly.

00:37:21.806 --> 00:37:23.941
Then we talk about offshore drilling platforms

00:37:24.508 --> 00:37:26.477
and the fact that how big they are.

00:37:27.144 --> 00:37:28.946
And then we go to nuclear power.

00:37:31.849 --> 00:37:33.050
[Ellen]
Where are we now?

00:37:33.317 --> 00:37:35.119
[Bill]
The world of atomic power!

00:37:35.586 --> 00:37:39.323
See, today we take atoms like these and split them apart to release energy.

00:37:39.757 --> 00:37:41.058
It's called fission.

00:37:46.964 --> 00:37:48.666
[Bill]
Hold on!

00:37:48.666 --> 00:37:52.470
Nuclear energy is expensive and highly controversial.

00:37:54.872 --> 00:37:56.374
[music swells]

00:37:59.010 --> 00:38:00.211
[explosion]

00:38:00.211 --> 00:38:02.179
[Ellen]
So I guess there's never going to be just one answer.

00:38:02.446 --> 00:38:05.349
[Bill]
But if we keep using our brain power,

00:38:06.851 --> 00:38:08.819
we’ll have lots of choices for the future.

00:38:08.819 --> 00:38:11.322
Maybe even unlock the power of the stars:

00:38:11.789 --> 00:38:12.990
Fusion power!

00:38:13.824 --> 00:38:15.226
[Ellen]
I'm beginning to see the light!

00:38:15.926 --> 00:38:18.829
[Bill]
Actually, I think it's Double Jeopardy, Ellen.

00:38:18.829 --> 00:38:21.532
Okay, so now we're at basically the finale of the ride,

00:38:21.532 --> 00:38:23.734
and this is where we have the last fake out.

00:38:23.734 --> 00:38:25.569
So we are,

00:38:26.904 --> 00:38:30.007
we are back into Jeopardy!

00:38:30.441 --> 00:38:31.876
I’m just gonna move forward here.

00:38:34.245 --> 00:38:36.480
All right, players, we’re ready to begin the second round.

00:38:36.981 --> 00:38:39.050
And, the operator, the filmer.

00:38:39.884 --> 00:38:41.085
Props to whoever filmed this.

00:38:41.085 --> 00:38:43.688
There's not many views on this version,
but this is probably the best one.

00:38:43.954 --> 00:38:47.692
Did a good job of conveying just how enormous this room is.

00:38:47.692 --> 00:38:49.794
This is such an enormous room that you're sitting

00:38:49.794 --> 00:38:52.129
in, and these screens are filling the entire.

00:38:52.496 --> 00:38:55.066
This is such just so impressive anyway.

00:38:55.533 --> 00:38:58.302
And, Ellen, would you start us off by making a selection, please?

00:38:58.336 --> 00:38:59.270
I sure will, Alex.

00:38:59.270 --> 00:39:01.372
I will take Dinosaurs for $800.

00:39:01.372 --> 00:39:04.408
[Judy]
Uh, Ellen, you do know that the more expensive the question, the harder it is?

00:39:04.642 --> 00:39:07.144
Oh, no, I didn’t let me rethink that, then.

00:39:07.578 --> 00:39:10.081
Uh, Dinosaurs for $1000, Alex.

00:39:10.247 --> 00:39:11.549
[Alex]
Okay, the answer is:

00:39:12.216 --> 00:39:15.853
This is when scientists believe dinosaurs first appeared on the Earth.

00:39:17.021 --> 00:39:19.156
What is 220 million years ago?

00:39:19.190 --> 00:39:19.990
Give or take a day.

00:39:20.858 --> 00:39:22.059
[Alex]
You're absolutely right.

00:39:22.093 --> 00:39:25.162
[Jeopardy! clue sound with every flash]
What is the sun?

00:39:25.963 --> 00:39:27.531
What is hydrogen, Alex?

00:39:28.866 --> 00:39:30.301
What are photovoltaics?

00:39:30.835 --> 00:39:32.036
I just wanted to call that out.

00:39:32.036 --> 00:39:33.170
What are photovoltaics?

00:39:33.170 --> 00:39:34.038
You cannot see,

00:39:34.038 --> 00:39:38.342
The left screen is the blue classic Jeopardy! with the actual clue.

00:39:38.576 --> 00:39:40.144
But this version doesn't show that.

00:39:41.045 --> 00:39:42.246
What is fire?

00:39:42.279 --> 00:39:45.916
Which, by the way, is what sparked the progress of human civilization.

00:39:45.916 --> 00:39:47.418
Alex, I don’t know if you knew that or not.

00:39:48.152 --> 00:39:49.620
[Alex]
Correct again, Ellen,

00:39:49.620 --> 00:39:52.256
and amazingly enough, at the end of this Double Jeopardy round

00:39:52.256 --> 00:39:56.460
you have managed to come from way behind to tie Judy for the lead.

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.

00:40:00.097 --> 00:40:03.334
And what happens is this screen, the bottom of it lifts up.

00:40:06.437 --> 00:40:09.407
[Jeopardy Think! theme]

00:40:10.608 --> 00:40:11.809
It's actually all the screens.

00:40:11.842 --> 00:40:15.579
So now you're moving forward into theater one back where you started.

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]

00:40:43.073 --> 00:40:45.876
[Johnny Gilbert]
If you’d like to have your own energy nightmare,

00:40:45.876 --> 00:40:48.379
place a self-addressed stamped envelope [under your pillow]

00:40:48.546 --> 00:40:49.580
Ooh, that's really flickery.

00:40:49.847 --> 00:40:51.215
I'm going to skip forward to...

00:40:51.582 --> 00:40:55.252
There is one more fake out here, which is there actually was a screen

00:40:55.419 --> 00:40:57.421
where you thought you were going to be starting.

00:40:58.622 --> 00:40:59.790
[Alex]
Judy, we'll start with you.

00:40:59.790 --> 00:41:00.991
You wrote down...

00:41:01.625 --> 00:41:02.359
nothing.

00:41:02.359 --> 00:41:05.262
That's correct, Alex, because there is no answer.

00:41:05.930 --> 00:41:07.231
Well, actually you're wrong.

00:41:07.665 --> 00:41:08.866
Let's take a look at your wager.

00:41:09.934 --> 00:41:11.101
Oh, that's too bad.

00:41:11.101 --> 00:41:12.636
You risked everything you had.

00:41:12.636 --> 00:41:15.840
And that means you lose $17,800

00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:18.275
and you wind up with nothing.

00:41:18.709 --> 00:41:20.811
Let's go down to Ellen now and see what she came up

00:41:20.811 --> 00:41:23.380
with as a response to our Final Jeopardy clue. Ellen?

00:41:23.414 --> 00:41:25.115
What is brain power? Alex.

00:41:25.716 --> 00:41:27.718
You are correct and your wager?

00:41:28.285 --> 00:41:32.089
You, too, risked everything, but you double your score to $35,600.

00:41:32.389 --> 00:41:35.125
And that makes you, Ellen, our new Jeopardy! champion.

00:41:35.125 --> 00:41:36.327
Congratulations.

00:41:36.827 --> 00:41:38.929
All right, so that's basically the end of the ride.

00:41:38.963 --> 00:41:41.866
I am going to point out the original version of the attraction,

00:41:41.866 --> 00:41:44.134
and this is something that I really wish I could have seen.

00:41:44.568 --> 00:41:45.436
The final

00:41:46.504 --> 00:41:47.705
this section of the ride was

00:41:48.205 --> 00:41:52.576
amazing because behind all these curtains were originally mirrors,

00:41:52.910 --> 00:41:55.246
and there was this really cool laser...

00:41:55.746 --> 00:41:58.716
it wasn't really a laser light show, but they had a very like,

00:41:59.283 --> 00:42:02.987
line drawing, very colorful line drawings on black film being shown,

00:42:02.987 --> 00:42:06.056
both on the three screens behind you and this screen here.

00:42:06.056 --> 00:42:08.792
And because all the walls were mirrors, it was like,

00:42:08.792 --> 00:42:12.363
you're moving into this space that's just surrounded by energy.

00:42:12.630 --> 00:42:14.598
And it had an amazing song.

00:42:14.999 --> 00:42:17.735
I know I cannot play that because of copyright,

00:42:17.935 --> 00:42:19.637
but I would really highly recommend

00:42:19.637 --> 00:42:22.540
looking for some of the original clips of, you know what?

00:42:22.606 --> 00:42:23.207
Here. Hold on.

00:42:23.207 --> 00:42:25.175
I'm going to just show you a little bit of it.

00:42:25.209 --> 00:42:27.945
Okay, Martin Smith, he does wonderful videos of the

00:42:27.978 --> 00:42:29.547
of the different Disney attractions, they’re so-

00:42:29.547 --> 00:42:32.483
like basically he's like a documentarian of them.

00:42:32.483 --> 00:42:35.920
So I'm going to go ahead and use some clips from him.

00:42:36.754 --> 00:42:39.156
This is great if you want to see the original version of the ride.

00:42:39.156 --> 00:42:41.725
But none of the quality is very good because it's all,

00:42:41.859 --> 00:42:44.028
you know, camcorders from the 90s and earlier.

00:42:44.028 --> 00:42:46.664
But this is what was originally in theater two.

00:42:46.697 --> 00:42:48.098
You see the space shuttle launch.

00:42:49.667 --> 00:42:53.137
as the shuttle launches the bottom of the screen lifts up.

00:43:01.111 --> 00:43:03.380
And this is when you would start moving back into theater one.

00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:05.049
And this is what it looked like in there.

00:43:16.493 --> 00:43:19.063
That's all I play because I don't want to get demonetized.

00:43:19.063 --> 00:43:22.266
But like, the whole room was covered in mirrors.

00:43:22.633 --> 00:43:23.834
I thought that was gonna...

00:43:25.202 --> 00:43:26.570
You can see the curtains coming back down.

00:43:26.570 --> 00:43:28.038
All the walls were mirrors.

00:43:28.038 --> 00:43:29.006
So you'd come into here.

00:43:29.006 --> 00:43:30.908
There's just like you're surrounded by laser light.

00:43:30.908 --> 00:43:32.109
It's so cool.

00:43:32.309 --> 00:43:33.777
The song’s really catchy.

00:43:34.178 --> 00:43:35.045
Ah, man.

00:43:35.045 --> 00:43:37.581
You know, as dry as original EPCOT was,

00:43:37.581 --> 00:43:40.484
I do wish I had seen this version, because the end is just

00:43:41.619 --> 00:43:42.419
frickin amazing.

00:43:44.188 --> 00:43:44.989
So. Yeah,

00:43:44.989 --> 00:43:47.992
I really just wanted to show you.

00:43:47.992 --> 00:43:49.893
Right. Let me go back to the other window.

00:43:50.661 --> 00:43:53.464
Geez, I'm such a such a frickin noob for macOS.

00:43:53.464 --> 00:43:57.101
Okay, so again, this is so the original building.

00:43:57.801 --> 00:43:58.669
You know what I'm trying to say,

00:43:58.669 --> 00:44:00.571
Like, it's so hard to get a sense of the scale.

00:44:00.571 --> 00:44:02.773
This whole thing was just for that attraction.

00:44:03.007 --> 00:44:07.244
Spaceship Earth, which is already enormous, is not.

00:44:07.778 --> 00:44:09.246
I mean, it's obviously a lot taller,

00:44:09.246 --> 00:44:10.614
but the circumference of Spaceship Earth

00:44:10.614 --> 00:44:12.683
has got nothing on this building's footprint.

00:44:12.683 --> 00:44:15.386
This building was just gigantic.

00:44:16.186 --> 00:44:19.790
And so, this was just such a cool concept.

00:44:19.790 --> 00:44:21.091
The traveling theater,

00:44:22.926 --> 00:44:25.396
having you be able to see both a show

00:44:25.396 --> 00:44:28.298
and actually go through the primeval diorama is.

00:44:28.932 --> 00:44:30.134
It's just really cool.

00:44:30.134 --> 00:44:32.870
And and I hope you see,

00:44:35.172 --> 00:44:37.007
Honestly, a big part of why I make the videos

00:44:37.007 --> 00:44:39.109
I do is because of the inspiration from EPCOT,

00:44:39.743 --> 00:44:42.079
and that you can make learning

00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:44.815
about things entertaining, but you have to,

00:44:44.848 --> 00:44:46.050
you know, you kind of just

00:44:46.450 --> 00:44:48.285
kind of gotta trick people into learning stuff

00:44:48.619 --> 00:44:50.254
and the Universe of Energy,

00:44:52.089 --> 00:44:52.956
the later, like,

00:44:52.956 --> 00:44:55.426
it really does show when EPCOT was really learning

00:44:55.426 --> 00:44:58.962
how to become an edutainment place.

00:45:00.197 --> 00:45:01.632
And, you know,

00:45:01.632 --> 00:45:04.234
I would say the Wonders of Life is kind of where that started.

00:45:04.234 --> 00:45:05.769
The Wonders of Life was the first project

00:45:05.769 --> 00:45:10.374
that moved EPCOT away from its very dry beginnings.

00:45:10.841 --> 00:45:13.610
And then also Spaceship Earth.

00:45:13.677 --> 00:45:16.280
I'm going to put a link to the Martins vids.

00:45:16.647 --> 00:45:18.849
I actually have a comment on there,

00:45:18.849 --> 00:45:22.019
because the Jeremy Irons version of Spaceship Earth,

00:45:22.019 --> 00:45:24.722
which was originally sponsored by, well,

00:45:24.722 --> 00:45:27.424
originally by Bell System and then AT&T,

00:45:28.959 --> 00:45:30.894
and it tells the story of human communication.

00:45:31.361 --> 00:45:34.531
So, anyway, that's that's another great.

00:45:34.565 --> 00:45:37.167
It really shows how the how EPCOT

00:45:37.167 --> 00:45:40.237
started to move away from its very dry roots

00:45:40.237 --> 00:45:42.139
to something a little more playful and fun.

00:45:42.873 --> 00:45:44.808
But of course, now,

00:45:45.843 --> 00:45:49.480
there's very little of original EPCOT that's left.

00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:50.647
There are.

00:45:50.714 --> 00:45:51.915
There's Living with the Land,

00:45:51.915 --> 00:45:54.952
which is basically exactly the same. Living with the Land,

00:45:54.952 --> 00:45:58.856
the only thing that has changed is the very beginning section

00:45:58.856 --> 00:46:01.692
got a few tweaks, and the narration on the boats

00:46:01.692 --> 00:46:03.494
is now automated where it used to be

00:46:03.527 --> 00:46:05.729
a cast member was actually riding the boat with you,

00:46:06.597 --> 00:46:07.898
but Living with the Land is still here.

00:46:07.898 --> 00:46:09.800
All these all these greenhouses.

00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:12.870
Your boat travels through these greenhouses you get to,

00:46:12.903 --> 00:46:14.104
you get to see all of them.

00:46:14.805 --> 00:46:20.611
And again, this like the Land, it's... the line is...

00:46:21.612 --> 00:46:27.050
It's called Living with the Land because it's about environmental stewardship.

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”

00:46:33.957 --> 00:46:38.462
You know, it's kind of just like EPCOT is basically... (it was)

00:46:38.462 --> 00:46:42.199
it was basically like, “what if we made hope into a theme park?

00:46:42.499 --> 00:46:44.768
and knowledge into a theme park?”

00:46:45.235 --> 00:46:47.471
and it's still there.

00:46:47.471 --> 00:46:49.106
It is still a monument to

00:46:50.107 --> 00:46:52.042
the original spirit of the park.

00:46:52.042 --> 00:46:53.243
But now

00:46:54.211 --> 00:46:55.379
so much has changed.

00:46:55.379 --> 00:46:57.548
Let's go to the to the newest photos.

00:46:57.548 --> 00:47:00.317
So this was originally the Communicore.

00:47:00.350 --> 00:47:02.519
This is the dumbest thing Disney ever did.

00:47:03.220 --> 00:47:04.955
It was the Communicore originally.

00:47:04.955 --> 00:47:07.291
Then it became Innoventions and there was always

00:47:07.291 --> 00:47:08.926
Innoventions East and Innoventions West.

00:47:08.926 --> 00:47:10.227
And by the way I wanna -

00:47:10.294 --> 00:47:13.497
I should have pointed this out if we go back to 2014,

00:47:13.897 --> 00:47:17.534
the reason why Innoventions East has this bump out is because this is,

00:47:17.534 --> 00:47:20.237
this is the exit to the Universe of Energy.

00:47:20.470 --> 00:47:22.239
So when the ride was over,

00:47:22.239 --> 00:47:23.574
you would walk behind you

00:47:23.574 --> 00:47:25.008
and then rather than go through the doors

00:47:25.008 --> 00:47:28.212
you came in which were like, here, there were doors over here.

00:47:28.212 --> 00:47:29.847
You'd walk through a hallway and then come out here.

00:47:31.114 --> 00:47:32.649
And if you walked directly across,

00:47:32.649 --> 00:47:36.053
then there was an energy exhibit inside of the Communicore,

00:47:36.453 --> 00:47:37.487
and that's what this was.

00:47:37.487 --> 00:47:40.057
So the Communicore East had this weird bump out

00:47:40.057 --> 00:47:42.059
specifically for the Universe of Energy.

00:47:42.759 --> 00:47:43.961
But now

00:47:45.095 --> 00:47:47.431
they decided to tear down Communicore West

00:47:47.431 --> 00:47:50.434
and then they realized, oh, that was a mistake.

00:47:50.434 --> 00:47:52.002
So they rebuilt half of it.

00:47:52.002 --> 00:47:53.503
It's so sad.

00:47:53.503 --> 00:47:55.405
And the Fountain of Nations is gone.

00:47:56.073 --> 00:47:57.641
That's going back to 2014.

00:47:57.641 --> 00:48:01.411
This, this was a, animated fountain,

00:48:01.478 --> 00:48:04.248
kind of like the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

00:48:04.748 --> 00:48:08.619
And it would do shows every 15 minutes, maybe every half hour.

00:48:08.986 --> 00:48:11.855
And one of the really cool things when EPCOT opened, because, again, it

00:48:12.289 --> 00:48:15.058
it was open in the spirit of international cooperation,

00:48:15.859 --> 00:48:17.995
there were diplomats from all different countries

00:48:17.995 --> 00:48:20.163
that brought vials of water

00:48:20.397 --> 00:48:23.767
from the rivers of those countries and added them to this fountain.

00:48:24.368 --> 00:48:26.236
And it’s such a cool symbolic thing.

00:48:27.537 --> 00:48:28.739
And now it's gone.

00:48:28.839 --> 00:48:31.808
So it's just like, I don't know what the heck

00:48:31.808 --> 00:48:34.311
Disney's been thinking with what they're doing with EPCOT.

00:48:34.344 --> 00:48:38.815
It does need to be modernized quite a lot because it

00:48:39.349 --> 00:48:42.920
you know, I read something that, really had

00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:46.156
I hadn't really thought of it this way, but like the aesthetic of EPCOT

00:48:46.390 --> 00:48:50.360
of Future World anyway, was very much like a corporate office

00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.563
park of the early 80s, like a very modern

00:48:53.563 --> 00:48:55.966
looking corporate office park of the early 80s.

00:48:55.966 --> 00:48:58.302
And that's an aesthetic that I love a lot!

00:48:58.669 --> 00:49:01.104
But it aged quite poorly.

00:49:01.672 --> 00:49:04.474
And, the only things

00:49:05.575 --> 00:49:07.110
I’m just try to think of like what,

00:49:07.377 --> 00:49:09.947
you know, Test Track hasn't aged poorly because literally

00:49:09.947 --> 00:49:12.516
the building is just a giant wheel.

00:49:13.617 --> 00:49:16.753
But the Land has aged okay.

00:49:16.753 --> 00:49:19.389
But so much of EPCOT is just...

00:49:19.389 --> 00:49:21.058
It started to get dated really bad.

00:49:21.058 --> 00:49:24.728
So the renovations they did on now Communicore

00:49:26.229 --> 00:49:27.464
or what are they calling this now?

00:49:28.065 --> 00:49:30.400
Because this is the gift shop and the restaurant which is called,

00:49:31.468 --> 00:49:34.237
it's got connections in the name, which I find very funny.

00:49:34.237 --> 00:49:35.439
What is it called again?

00:49:36.340 --> 00:49:37.808
You can tell I'm really keeping up

00:49:37.808 --> 00:49:39.810
with what they're doing these days.

00:49:40.777 --> 00:49:42.179
What is the name of the cafe?

00:49:44.214 --> 00:49:46.850
Connections eatery, I think, is what it's called.

00:49:47.317 --> 00:49:49.786
That's in here now.

00:49:50.253 --> 00:49:53.290
Same with, the little tiny mini

00:49:53.290 --> 00:49:56.326
world of Coke
they have, which always get your friends to try the Beverly.

00:49:56.326 --> 00:49:57.527
Tell them it's amazing.

00:49:58.095 --> 00:49:59.096
But, yeah, it's

00:50:00.397 --> 00:50:02.532
it's not even called Future World anymore.

00:50:02.532 --> 00:50:06.670
It's World Celebration, World Nature, and World Discovery.

00:50:07.604 --> 00:50:09.573
It's broken up into three, and I couldn't even really.

00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:11.141
I'm sure this is world nature.

00:50:12.075 --> 00:50:13.443
And that kind of makes sense

00:50:13.443 --> 00:50:15.612
because they have the Seas Pavilion and Journey...

00:50:16.213 --> 00:50:19.816
The Seas, the Land, and the Moana thing, which is kind of cool.

00:50:20.350 --> 00:50:22.519
So this is like World Nature.

00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:25.222
And then you have World Discovery,

00:50:25.222 --> 00:50:28.825
which I think is this side, which is more like the science side

00:50:28.925 --> 00:50:30.260
Mission Space, by the way...

00:50:30.260 --> 00:50:34.631
terrible ride. It's it's not good.

00:50:34.898 --> 00:50:36.266
I don't know why they keep

00:50:36.466 --> 00:50:39.936
they - it's technologically interesting because it's a centrifuge.

00:50:39.936 --> 00:50:43.540
It's a combination motion simulator and centrifuge, but it's...

00:50:44.908 --> 00:50:46.643
Yeah, it's not very good.

00:50:46.843 --> 00:50:48.678
I, it's not very good.

00:50:48.678 --> 00:50:51.748
They could totally put something else there and they should.

00:50:52.149 --> 00:50:53.517
It was sponsored by HP.

00:50:53.517 --> 00:50:56.019
This is one of the they actually did get a sponsor for it back in

00:50:56.153 --> 00:50:57.721
I think ‘04 is when it opened.

00:50:58.989 --> 00:50:59.890
But yeah I just

00:50:59.890 --> 00:51:02.092
I'm just kind of rambling but World Showcase

00:51:02.092 --> 00:51:04.227
this basically is all original.

00:51:04.594 --> 00:51:08.698
So all of the country pavilions are still there.

00:51:08.999 --> 00:51:11.168
The only thing that the only weird thing they did was

00:51:11.168 --> 00:51:17.107
they've made the Norway boat ride into a Frozen themed thing, which

00:51:18.208 --> 00:51:19.409
I mean,

00:51:20.010 --> 00:51:22.012
fine, although that was such a weird -

00:51:22.012 --> 00:51:27.584
I was working my college program when that opened, or maybe when it...

00:51:27.751 --> 00:51:28.919
Oh no, no, it closed.

00:51:28.919 --> 00:51:30.454
It closed as Maelstrom.

00:51:30.454 --> 00:51:33.423
So I got to ride Maelstrom on my college program before it closed.

00:51:33.690 --> 00:51:35.125
And the fact that they turned that ride

00:51:35.125 --> 00:51:37.594
into a Frozen ride is so weird because the

00:51:37.828 --> 00:51:40.697
the capacity of Maelstrom was terrible.

00:51:41.198 --> 00:51:44.101
The boats only hold like 12 people

00:51:44.301 --> 00:51:46.336
and they don't get dispatched that frequently.

00:51:46.570 --> 00:51:49.639
So they were like, “let's take our most popular property

00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.143
we've come out with since The Lion King and cram it into a ride

00:51:53.143 --> 00:51:56.012
that does not have a meaningful capacity at all.”

00:51:56.580 --> 00:52:00.951
So the queues for that were just horrendous and they still are.

00:52:00.951 --> 00:52:04.221
It's a fun attraction, but like it's not it's not for me.

00:52:04.688 --> 00:52:05.889
It's for little kids mainly.

00:52:06.723 --> 00:52:09.659
I really wish they'd build some more attractions in World Showcase

00:52:09.659 --> 00:52:11.027
and you can see they still have,

00:52:11.595 --> 00:52:13.830
you know, when they opened the park, it only had nine.

00:52:14.097 --> 00:52:16.333
And then the Norway Pavilion opened later,

00:52:16.533 --> 00:52:18.635
as well as the Morocco Pavilion.

00:52:18.635 --> 00:52:20.804
Those were two... Morocco's over here I think.

00:52:20.804 --> 00:52:22.172
Yeah, those two were added later

00:52:22.539 --> 00:52:25.509
and they still have plots of land to add more pavilions.

00:52:25.509 --> 00:52:26.776
There's there could be one here.

00:52:26.776 --> 00:52:27.978
There could be one here.

00:52:28.178 --> 00:52:29.746
That could be a huge one here.

00:52:31.148 --> 00:52:32.649
But you know, they just haven't done it.

00:52:32.649 --> 00:52:35.519
The biggest thing they did was they did the Remy's Ratatouille Adventure

00:52:35.685 --> 00:52:37.754
expansion behind the France Pavilion.

00:52:38.121 --> 00:52:39.322
This is a fun ride.

00:52:39.589 --> 00:52:41.258
But, you know,

00:52:41.658 --> 00:52:43.493
it's it's a it's a [trackless]

00:52:44.060 --> 00:52:45.996
theater, actually...

00:52:45.996 --> 00:52:47.330
You know, in some ways, it's

00:52:47.330 --> 00:52:49.566
kind of like a spiritual successor to the Universe of Energy.

00:52:49.566 --> 00:52:52.836
It's just a lot more fast paced and much more physical sets

00:52:52.836 --> 00:52:55.238
combined with screens rather than just two theaters.

00:52:55.238 --> 00:52:57.474
And then the and the screens.

00:52:57.474 --> 00:53:00.177
But anyway, just wanted to

00:53:00.644 --> 00:53:03.280
I just wanted to make this quick video about the Universe of Energy.

00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:04.781
And I really hope,

00:53:05.615 --> 00:53:08.318
well, I'm going to post this even if it gets demonetized,

00:53:08.318 --> 00:53:09.719
because I really want to show that, like,

00:53:11.288 --> 00:53:15.425
I'm the way that I am because back in 1996,

00:53:16.259 --> 00:53:18.061
Disney, of all people,

00:53:18.094 --> 00:53:21.498
(”all people”) of all corporations, put together this amazing attraction,

00:53:21.498 --> 00:53:24.067
which was basically just trying to get you to think about energy

00:53:24.067 --> 00:53:25.502
and all the different sources of energy

00:53:25.502 --> 00:53:27.070
and all the different options we have,

00:53:28.238 --> 00:53:29.906
and it was a really cool attraction

00:53:31.007 --> 00:53:32.342
and I, I miss it,

00:53:32.342 --> 00:53:35.312
but I understand why it's gone. What they really needed to do,

00:53:35.345 --> 00:53:39.749
They needed to update the films in like 2007.

00:53:40.317 --> 00:53:42.185
I've been rambling for a long time,

00:53:42.185 --> 00:53:43.687
but one of the tragedies of EPCOT

00:53:43.687 --> 00:53:46.823
is that every single time, every single time

00:53:46.823 --> 00:53:48.325
they have decided we're going to put more money

00:53:48.325 --> 00:53:50.527
into it, some world calamity happens.

00:53:50.827 --> 00:53:54.998
So like the Millennium Celebration is when it was really coming into its own

00:53:54.998 --> 00:53:57.133
and I remembered the Millennium Celebration dearly.

00:53:57.133 --> 00:54:00.470
It was so, so fun, so hopeful.

00:54:00.470 --> 00:54:02.706
Just, it was so nice.

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And then 9/11 happened and,

00:54:06.743 --> 00:54:08.345
you know, tourism just cratered

00:54:08.345 --> 00:54:10.113
and there was no money left to put into EPCOT.

00:54:10.113 --> 00:54:12.549
And then, you know, tourism is recovering.

00:54:12.983 --> 00:54:14.951
We're going to start putting more money into EPCOT...

00:54:14.951 --> 00:54:17.454
And then the Great Recession happens, and then EPCOT

00:54:17.454 --> 00:54:19.623
just withers on the vine even more so that,

00:54:19.956 --> 00:54:24.861
like Exxon, they only sponsored this pavilion for like ten years.

00:54:25.228 --> 00:54:28.965
And then in 2006, something like that, it no longer had a sponsor

00:54:29.332 --> 00:54:30.934
and at EPCOT that's basically just like,

00:54:30.934 --> 00:54:36.039
well, we'll keep running the ride until it's so old nobody cares.

00:54:36.773 --> 00:54:39.676
And that's what they did with Ellen's Energy Adventure. In 2006,

00:54:39.676 --> 00:54:41.878
they really should have redone the films.

00:54:41.878 --> 00:54:45.048
They could have kept the attraction, but they just they kept running it

00:54:45.048 --> 00:54:46.983
exactly like that until 2017.

00:54:47.751 --> 00:54:49.486
And then, of course, they announced a whole bunch

00:54:49.486 --> 00:54:51.221
of new investment into EPCOT...

00:54:52.055 --> 00:54:53.590
right before COVID.

00:54:53.790 --> 00:54:59.562
So it's basically just been like... this poor park, this poor misunderstood park

00:54:59.796 --> 00:55:03.700
that Disney built because of a promise that Walt Disney himself

00:55:03.700 --> 00:55:07.070
made about building the Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow.

00:55:07.404 --> 00:55:11.041
And they just never have figured out what they need to do with it.

00:55:11.775 --> 00:55:15.478
So it's still a very special place to me.

00:55:15.478 --> 00:55:19.649
And, you know, it's always going to have a special place in my heart.

00:55:19.649 --> 00:55:22.485
And I still visit from time to time, but it really

00:55:22.485 --> 00:55:25.088
it is almost kind of sad at this point

00:55:25.088 --> 00:55:27.257
when I visit EPCOT and I see, like

00:55:28.458 --> 00:55:31.594
so much of its original spirit is just gone,

00:55:31.795 --> 00:55:33.196
it's it's hardly left

00:55:34.464 --> 00:55:36.166
World Showcase is still a lot of fun.

00:55:36.166 --> 00:55:40.537
And if you want to experience a lot of different international cuisines

00:55:41.004 --> 00:55:44.441
without having to travel internationally, it's really it's really fun.

00:55:44.441 --> 00:55:46.209
It's going to be expensive because it's Disney.

00:55:46.209 --> 00:55:49.479
Everything's expensive, but it's a very cool, curated experience.

00:55:50.013 --> 00:55:52.349
And, by the way, you know,

00:55:52.582 --> 00:55:53.950
when I mentioned the college program,

00:55:53.950 --> 00:55:55.719
there's an international college program,

00:55:55.719 --> 00:55:58.188
and most of the cast members that work in these pavilions

00:55:58.188 --> 00:56:00.490
are from the countries of those pavilions.

00:56:02.459 --> 00:56:04.928
Which is a cool thing they've always been doing since the beginning.

00:56:04.928 --> 00:56:06.563
So when you visit the Japan Pavilion,

00:56:06.730 --> 00:56:08.865
the people working there are from Japan.

00:56:09.165 --> 00:56:11.201
When you visit the Germany Pavilion, they're from Germany.

00:56:11.201 --> 00:56:12.369
It's very cool.

00:56:12.369 --> 00:56:15.972
I do wonder how they're doing getting recruits these days, but

00:56:17.340 --> 00:56:19.609
regardless, I've been talking long enough.

00:56:19.609 --> 00:56:22.746
Oh, and I meant to point out, yeah, there aren't any solar panels

00:56:22.746 --> 00:56:24.013
on the Universe of Energy anymore,

00:56:24.013 --> 00:56:25.715
but they've built a solar farm over here.

00:56:25.715 --> 00:56:28.017
And of COURSE it's - of COURSE it's Mickey shaped.

00:56:28.017 --> 00:56:29.219
Of course it's Mickey shaped.

00:56:29.886 --> 00:56:33.723
There are more, though, where there's a much larger one. Now.

00:56:33.723 --> 00:56:34.924
I can't

00:56:35.825 --> 00:56:37.026
remember offhand where it is.

00:56:37.026 --> 00:56:38.762
I thought it was by Animal Kingdom.

00:56:44.701 --> 00:56:45.902
No. Where is it?

00:56:46.536 --> 00:56:48.338
Oh, there's a but this isn't what I was talking about.

00:56:48.338 --> 00:56:50.407
But there's more photovoltaics over here,

00:56:50.774 --> 00:56:52.675
whereas there's another one on Disney property

00:56:52.675 --> 00:56:54.277
that's a lot bigger than that Mickey one.

00:56:54.277 --> 00:56:55.478
I thought it was.

00:56:56.946 --> 00:56:58.214
I thought it was by EPCOT.

00:57:01.918 --> 00:57:05.422
Oh, fun fact, this Lake Bryan and Little Lake Bryan?

00:57:05.422 --> 00:57:08.124
This is where college program housing used to be.

00:57:08.124 --> 00:57:09.325
This Mickey's retreat.

00:57:10.026 --> 00:57:12.162
As far as I know, Disney still owns this,

00:57:12.162 --> 00:57:13.563
but this Chatham Square,

00:57:13.563 --> 00:57:15.799
this is where I lived when I did my college program.

00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:17.734
This up here is The Commons,

00:57:18.201 --> 00:57:21.638
and that's where most of the international CPs lived. And

00:57:23.139 --> 00:57:24.774
Patterson Court is one of these two.

00:57:24.774 --> 00:57:27.577
I have the labels off, which was a third one.

00:57:27.577 --> 00:57:30.146
And then the original CP housing was Vista Way,

00:57:30.146 --> 00:57:32.048
which was right off of I-4.

00:57:33.983 --> 00:57:34.751
Yeah.
Down here.

00:57:34.751 --> 00:57:36.052
This is the original CP housing.

00:57:36.052 --> 00:57:37.687
Disney doesn't use any of this anymore.

00:57:38.121 --> 00:57:40.423
These are now just rental apartments.

00:57:40.423 --> 00:57:41.858
They built new housing

00:57:43.126 --> 00:57:44.527
somewhere by Animal Kingdom.

00:57:44.861 --> 00:57:47.697
I don't know the details of that, but, yeah.

00:57:48.231 --> 00:57:49.432
If any of you were wondering,

00:57:50.133 --> 00:57:52.168
CPs used to live over here,

00:57:52.569 --> 00:57:54.904
mostly around this Little Lake Bryan.

00:57:55.505 --> 00:57:58.374
And then the rest were at Vista Way down here.

00:57:59.375 --> 00:58:02.512
And now they're at, like, it's like Flamingo Crossing or something.

00:58:02.512 --> 00:58:05.181
It's over here by Animal Kingdom somewhere.

00:58:05.715 --> 00:58:08.852
I’m still looking for that solar farm... is it by Magic Kingdom?

00:58:14.624 --> 00:58:15.825
Am I just

00:58:16.626 --> 00:58:18.728
I'm not I'm not just seen this thing.

00:58:18.728 --> 00:58:19.429
I've seen.

00:58:19.429 --> 00:58:20.964
I thought I saw a bigger solar farm.

00:58:22.532 --> 00:58:23.600
Well, regardless, there's a

00:58:23.600 --> 00:58:27.637
there's a lot of land, at, Disney's property

00:58:27.637 --> 00:58:31.074
that, like, they will never develop because they need it for,

00:58:32.275 --> 00:58:35.211
frankly, they just need it for infrastructure and like, water retention.

00:58:35.211 --> 00:58:36.880
But a lot of it is protected as well.

00:58:39.115 --> 00:58:39.582
So they're always,

00:58:39.582 --> 00:58:42.051
you know, people always talking about will they ever build a fifth park?

00:58:42.051 --> 00:58:44.020
And the answer is probably not.

00:58:44.020 --> 00:58:49.058
But anywho, hope you enjoyed this little video into the Universe of Energy.

00:58:50.260 --> 00:58:53.530
I will always have a soft spot for that attraction and

00:58:54.531 --> 00:58:57.367
you know, I'm glad EPCOT still exists.

00:58:57.367 --> 00:58:59.102
I'm glad they're still doing something for it.

00:58:59.302 --> 00:59:03.873
With it, but man, it could be so much more than it is.

00:59:03.873 --> 00:59:05.508
And again, please, please do.

00:59:05.508 --> 00:59:06.976
If you don't know anything about EPCOT

00:59:06.976 --> 00:59:09.412
and you want to understand why it fascinates me so much,

00:59:09.445 --> 00:59:11.881
watch that video from Defunctland.

00:59:12.315 --> 00:59:14.417
It's so, so good.

00:59:14.417 --> 00:59:15.518
It's so good.

00:59:15.518 --> 00:59:18.288
He, ah man, Kevin, if you watch this, just...

00:59:18.288 --> 00:59:19.689
Thank you so much for that video.

00:59:19.689 --> 00:59:20.790
It's it's tremendous.

00:59:22.358 --> 00:59:23.059
Okay. Bye.