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Hakuna Ma-NOT-a: The Disney Roommates Hall of Shame with a High Brow Batanga
What happens when the magic of Disney collides with the reality of shared living spaces? Grab your favorite drink (we're sipping on a highbrow batanga from Epcot's Geo 82) and join us for a hilarious journey through the ultimate roommate nightmares – Disney edition!
Ever wondered if Donald Duck's temper tantrums would shake your apartment walls? Or if Cruella de Vil would turn your living room into her personal runway, complete with suspicious "dog visitors"? We've imagined it all so you don't have to experience it firsthand. From Oaken's perpetually wet floors to Simba's descent into "Hakuna Matata" irresponsibility after falling in with the wrong crowd, we explore the good, the bad, and the downright impossible living situations.
Some roommate disasters are predictable – like Hades cranking the thermostat to a literal 200 degrees for his "mini hell parties" – while others surprise you, like Ariel's kleptomania for "thingamajigs" or Captain Hook's 2 AM shadow-fighting sessions. Whether it's Genie's constant impressions making work-from-home impossible or Buzz Lightyear's chronic late rent payments, these beloved characters would likely have you changing the locks or sneaking out in the middle of the night.
Not all Disney roommates would be nightmares though! We also highlight the few characters who might actually make decent housemates – at least until their quirks inevitably drive you to seek new accommodations. After listening, you'll never look at your favorite Disney characters the same way again, and you might just appreciate your real-life roommates a little more!
Share your thoughts on which Disney character would make your nightmare roommate list, and don't forget to subscribe for more imaginative Disney discussions that blend fantasy with our everyday reality!
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Hello and welcome to Cheers to Ears where today we're sipping on a highbrow batanga. It's made with Tapatio, reposado, tequila, ramazzotti, amaro Kola, nut, lime, cordial, salt and Bubbles and it's $25 at the Geo 82 at.
Speaker 2:Epcot. Yeah, wanted to try a new a drink at the new lounge. That's Disney expensive.
Speaker 1:I thought I had one where you didn't mess me up. I think there's one coming up here where I'm not going to mess up a word, but so not disney expensive 25 but everything at geo 82 is expensive.
Speaker 2:So with ours we did two ounces of kirkland reposado tequila, a half ounce of sweetened lime juice. So that's all. Lime cordial, is it's sweetened lime juice? So that's all. Lime cordial, is it's sweetened lime juice? Thank you, chet GPT. We did a half ounce of Campari and a quarter ounce of Aperol. So to buy the Ramazato Amari, I either don't think I could find it or I would have had to buy a whole bottle of it and it would have been expensive.
Speaker 2:So again, chet GPT, what can I do to mix this up? And it was just Campari and Aperol, it was a mix, although those are a little bit sweeter than the Ramazano. And then we did three ounces of Fevertree Cola. Basically you could use Coke. Fevertree is a little more nutty but it does taste like Coke. But it's just a regular cola drink and typically a Batango is made with cola. So they zhuzhed it up there, didn't add the salt, because with going with the Campari and Aperol it was going to be a little sweeter and salt pulls out. It basically deadens bitterness, which is why they put it on everything. So that's what we ended up with.
Speaker 1:Unusual drink I'm trying to decide. I'm sitting here trying to decide what I would eat with this Maybe a light pasta.
Speaker 2:See, now I have to take a drink and figure that out.
Speaker 1:While you were talking just now, I was trying to think what would I order? What food would go well with this drink that has that little bite at the end? I think I like a pasta with a light sauce.
Speaker 2:A light sauce pasta with seafood in it Clams or shrimp, yeah could be like it. Yeah, like a seafood linguine.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that. That sounds good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we should look at their menu and see what they got, and clam sauce.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and clam sauce A light.
Speaker 2:Not heavy, so not bad, not so not bad, not bad. Pretty good. You get the cola taste at first and kind of the sweetness, and it ends with the bitterness of the, because Campari and Aperol do have a bit of bitterness to it. There's a lot of herbiness to it.
Speaker 1:And a bit of that tequila, I think, at the end. So we just had no idea how much this drink compares to our episode today until just now, because it starts sweet and ends bitter, wow so good just now because it starts sweet and ends bitter. Wow, so good.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 1:Because today we're talking about Disney characters who would be the worst roommates? Oh, I was just Disney characters as roommates, although some of them Our prompt was why we're not roommates anymore.
Speaker 2:Yes, it's not necessarily a bad thing. Okay, mine are probably all bad things. Okay, and that's okay, because some of mine are bad for bad reasons. So why don't you kick us off? So we're doing. Okay, are we eight, apiece Eight?
Speaker 1:apiece. We'll go back and forth. Yeah, I mixed up heroes, villains and classic Disney characters.
Speaker 2:I have heroes, sidekicks, obscure characters that are in two minutes of a movie, Right, and we have one that's the same One.
Speaker 1:That's the same, but we don't know who she lived with first, yeah, or after We'll figure that out later.
Speaker 2:And let's just say this was a strictly platonic relationship. We just needed a roommate at a time, and so that's why we had the female as our roommate. So my first one's Donald Duck.
Speaker 1:Okay, because he's hilarious in any situation. Mm-hmm. I met Donald Duck at a comic convention in Orlando, ah, and he convinced me to share a place with him to save money on rent, yeah. But his temper tantrum shook the whole apartment. He left dishes everywhere and his endless quacky made peaceful mornings impossible. Plus, he somehow managed to lose the TV remote every single day. So that was enough of that. That's annoying, right? So we just couldn't be roommates anymore, so I had to move on to my next one.
Speaker 2:Okay, my first one was Oaken from Frozen. I met him on a snowshoeing trip, okay, and we live up in a mountain town where he runs his small general store in a spa. So the best part about getting to know him and having him as a roommate is he actually knew how to make school bread.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yes, it's been a while since we had a good school bread reference. Yes. So we kind of went away from that and I was missing it a while. I was thinking of it last week.
Speaker 2:So thank you. We had school bread. He was providing me with school bread, but he was a great guy. Me was school bread, but he's a great guy. He was always happy. He gave me free use of the spa hot tubs and I also got to meet some interesting characters while knowing him, just because of the random people that just would pass through. Yeah, overall it was really really good but life happened and eventually I had to move away.
Speaker 2:The only downside to knowing him and having him as a roommate is there were always puddles by the front door where he tracked snow into the house First couple times. You just don't notice and you kick your shoes off and you step in a puddle and then your socks are all wet. Yeah, a little annoying, but just worked around and had a towel waiting there and would mop stuff up and hung it by the front door. Just knew it was to happen and you worked around it. But yeah, that was the only thing about this guy that was annoying. Every morning it was great hello, that was his greeting. You did it with some freshly baked school bread.
Speaker 1:That wasn't a bad impression because I was scared. I'm scared to impressions or anything because of how our voice acting was on our few episodes ago.
Speaker 2:Hey, that telethon was awesome and that wasn't us. Oh, okay At all. Yeah, because you couldn't even tell we had. No, we had a real juggler ventriloquist in our yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the feedback I got from the people that I know that listen said that sounded a little bit too much. Like you guys, I said yeah, but we didn't even practice, we just threw it out there. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision. So who was your next one? Okay, my second one's, cruella de Vil, oh, okay, okay, so I bump into Cruella at a fashion pop-up in New York, okay, and you go to those a lot and you go to those a lot, and the last I do. That's my thing. I mean, if you know me, I'm all about fashion. And the last minute lease deal had a sharing a chic Soho loft. Ooh, I know. She turned the apartment into her personal runway, left fur and fabric scraps everywhere and had a suspicious number of mysterious dog visitors. Oh, also, the smell of leather and paint fumes was unbearable, so I had to finally move out. So you're going to have these amicable. No, actually my next one isn't Good because I was like this is going to be all my fault these roommates because, I just keep complaining about them.
Speaker 2:No, this one didn't end well.
Speaker 1:Okay, what was your second one? It?
Speaker 2:was LeFou. Oh yeah, he was the worst roommate ever Really. He was the worst roommate ever Really. We lived in a small rural town and he knew everyone but nobody really liked him. It was just anyway. Nobody liked him.
Speaker 2:But he was always just hanging around. He drank this frozen apple juice drink all the time and was constantly spilling it everywhere and just making sticky messes. If you don't clean up a sticky mess, you start getting ants. All that Guy would not clean up after himself. Ever Bit of an idiot, just a messy. So he hung out the town tavern a lot, but he didn't drink. It was just like I don't even think he ate a whole lot. It was just frozen apple juice.
Speaker 2:So he was very clingy, never left you alone. But he had this one friend who was just a complete jerk, and this friend would occasionally come over to the house and he acted like he lived there, just started ordering people around and you had to obey him. Yeah, just one of those bully, jerk type guys. He was the only person who would even remotely give him time of day and I think it was because he was so clingy and so much of a suck up. Yeah, still bitter after all. This time. I couldn't take him for longer than a couple of months and I kicked him out. I was just like I and literally he couldn't just take the hint of, yeah, you need to find another place to live. So really I just moved all of his stuff out on the lawn.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And just changed the locks. Changed the locks, that's how I had to get rid of them. But yeah, worst roommate ever, wow.
Speaker 1:So after I finally got rid of Cruella, I decided to go party in Vegas for a weekend. Oh, just to, it's over, let's just get out of here, get out of New York for a bit. So I went to Vegas and I met Genie in Vegas. Just after a wild night in Vegas, he magically appeared. We have two. Oh, genie, you had.
Speaker 2:Genie.
Speaker 1:No, I messed that up. I had Genie and Jafar.
Speaker 1:So we'll see. Oh, genie and Jafar I thought you had Aladdin and Jafar for some reason. Oh well, oh, we got the same roommates. We're friends, we know each other. Well, you know, things ended Right, things ended. They got to move somewhere else. Yeah, and maybe you're a better roommate for him. Maybe you like this. Oh, like constantly.
Speaker 1:It was a different character every time I woke up. It was crazy. Yeah, there's enough characters in Vegas. There are, you, don't need more. And so I never knew what. The non-stop jokes and impressions all the time. Yeah, that's all he did was different people. All of a sudden, he's Ed Sullivan one minute, jack Nicholson, jerry Seinfeld the next minute. Who knows who he's going to be. I just wanted to get some peace and I was working from home at the time, uh-huh. So it was really hard because he kept on just walking on a different person every time. Yeah, it was crazy. And then the neighbors always complained because it was constant, like loud bangs and noises and music coming from nowhere. Uh-huh, yeah, I just couldn't take it anymore because it was during COVID.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, so I had to work from home and he was just too loud.
Speaker 1:After COVID ended, I had to go.
Speaker 2:That makes sense. Okay, simba, he was my next roommate Because I've always kind of been a cat guy. I grew up we always had cats, so I thought, okay, what the heck, I'll try living with Simba, that's no problem. I was a roommate. We lived in a small college town and at first things were great Always paid his rent on time, very polite, and you could just really tell that he had a good upbringing. Fantastic roommate to begin with. Things kind of went a little south, though, because he fell into the wrong crowd, oh really. And then he just sat around all day with a couple friends and pretty sure that they were just smoking weed all day or something. I don't know these friends were, they were just goofy. It just seemed like the type of guys who just did that type of thing, Pretty useless. After that, after he started hanging out with these guys, it was like the whole Hakuna Matata thing, yeah.
Speaker 1:I thought in a college town he'd be like Saturday game day. No, because of these friends.
Speaker 2:A former frat guy, show me your friends, I'll show you your future. Yeah, he just went downhill from that. So after a couple months of him and it'd been a little while but after a couple months of him hanging out with these guys, they, just because they were hanging out in our apartment and I just couldn't deal with the friends and stuff I couldn't take it any longer. I kicked him out. Interesting though I've since heard that they've gotten their lives all straightened out, especially Simba Eventually got married and he became the head of something, some organization or something. I don't know. It was like he got put in charge. Yeah, so good on him for straightening out his life as a roommate. It just fell apart, wow that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I totally picture simba and like a high school musical letterman's jacket.
Speaker 2:Yeah you would think that's what you probably thought when you moved in with him, yeah, and then he was. At first he was that guy, yeah, and then just met, met the wrong guy met a couple of doofuses Bummer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bummer. So after my trip to Vegas, I moved to Chicago, okay, but I accidentally. So I was going to get an apartment by myself, right? Mm-hmm, I was just going to live by myself in Chicago, but then I accidentally was trying to light a candle and summon Hades. Oh, it was an accident, and he appeared, and he stuck around. I couldn't get rid of the guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think he just stayed. He seems like one who couldn't take a hint.
Speaker 1:He wouldn't. Let me not take his offer up on infernal roommate services. Oh yeah, I had to have him as a roommate. Yeah, so it lasted for a while, mm-hmm. But we didn't sign a contract or anything.
Speaker 1:No, like souls and such didn't exchange hands, yeah so the constant fire and brimstone of the place, though, and his sarcastic attitude, and he had his parties. He called them mini hell parties really. Yeah, that was just for me. And the electric bill was huge. Yeah, he had had a place so hot all the time, yeah, and that's hard to, I know. I mean, I didn't know a thermostat went up 200 degrees, yeah, but it went up there in our apartment. You can't sleep through that. No, it was tough. So I snuck out one night and left and I had to get out. I just got out of Chicago all of a sudden.
Speaker 2:You just left your gear. I went to.
Speaker 1:The next place I go is where there's Hades everywhere. Ah, okay, so your next one.
Speaker 2:So my next one. It was Ariel. So you moved in with Ariel first. Yeah, we were living near Seattle, met on a fishing trip. She was needing a place to stay. When she moved into town and, as she put it, until she could stand on her own two feet, she moved in and it was okay. But things ultimately didn't pan out because she kept stealing my stuff. It was just small things like what's it? And thingamajigs. Right, you had gadgets and gizmos aplenty.
Speaker 1:Yeah. I did, but you don't want them stolen. I know when I walked in your place that one time I said who's in some Wests that you have? Yeah, it's like a galore of them.
Speaker 2:Wall of a thingamajig, and then everyone said a thingamajig would be gone. But it was a lot of them and you cannot have a roommate who's stealing from you at all. So, yeah, I just basically had to say it's time for you to be on your own and gave her the boot, right? Wow, yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:Gave her the hook, oh, good one. So that was a couple of puns in that one. I don't know if I'll have any puns in mine, but so I cruised Chicago and went to where there's lots of hell going on, went down to New Orleans.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:New Orleans has some stuff going down, yeah, but it's crazy. There was a guy in the paper that said my house flooded, I could use someone's help as a roommate, and it was Goofy oh.
Speaker 2:He was living there. Yeah, he was in New Orleans at the time. See, I thought this was going with a Dr Facilier direction. Nope, okay, goofy's, in New Orleans, you learn from Hades not to go that direction, right, he's totally opposite of Hades.
Speaker 1:Yes, he's goofy, right, yeah? So I said let's share a place, let's do this, Uh-huh, and until you get back on your feet, yeah Right. But I mean I could tell why his place is flooded. It probably was not because of something just happened. It wasn't a natural occurrence. It wasn't because Because of Goofy Goofy being clumsy. Clumsiness was a constant danger to the place. Like I came home every day to broken lamps, spilled cereal and once my whole bathroom was flooded. I still don't know why.
Speaker 2:I bet it flooded and the door was closed. And when you opened the door, like all the water came out. Yeah, that's what happened Like a big wall, a tsunami.
Speaker 1:So it happened all the time with him, yeah, so I just couldn't take anymore, and I did let him get back on his feet first, though, and I helped him find another place first.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That was nice of you, but then we were gone and I just moved. I moved across the country for a while. Yeah, he's goofy, yep, good president bad roommate he still lived in New Orleans for a while.
Speaker 2:Last.
Speaker 1:I heard he he had a trip to the Grand Canyon or something with his kid.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, good for him. Yeah, fishing trip. So my next roommate was Buzz Lightyear. So we met in Houston. We have a problem. Buzz had problems.
Speaker 2:We moved in and I knew he had problems but we moved in together because he had a positive outlook. He really did oh, he does, yeah, and he didn't think failure was an option. He does not. He really did oh, he does, yeah, and he didn't think failure was an option. He does not. So I was like, okay, he's got problems, but as a positive guy, I want to be around him. This is the type of guy you want to hang out with.
Speaker 2:He was a decent roommate but he was late on the rent like 50% of the time, because he was always chasing these fantasies of his and you've got to pay the rent on time because I would have to cover it to avoid the late fee and then he'd pay me later. He was never like months and months behind. It was only a week or two. But it was just the way it went and it was one of those things where he might be a week late but still a good guy and I still really liked him.
Speaker 2:So we stayed roommates but ultimately he actually had to move out. We lived on the top floor apartment and he never took off his spacesuit ever, and so he had those big metal boots on and he's walking around and the downstairs neighbors constantly complaining, and I couldn't blame them. So finally the landlord came to us and said look, the spacesuit comes off and you stop doing these noise complaints, or we're kicking you both out. And I'm like dude, I'm not leaving. So see you. And that was the end of it. Nice guy, I'm not losing my home over some rando, right? So what about you? What's your next one?
Speaker 1:So after I left New Orleans, I came home and visited my parents for a while, just hanging out with them and, as we talked before, how I like the high fashion scene, I also am known to go to art exhibits.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's my other thing. Everyone knows about me, you're very artsy, very.
Speaker 1:Everyone knows about me You're very artsy, very artsy. See you around the room, I know. Look around. Yeah, I am.
Speaker 2:I'm looking and your posters and pennants yeah, I have a Yankees pennant. This is a sportsman. Pretty artsy, Basque soccer-friendly poster.
Speaker 1:Artsy, that's me. I'm in a mystical art exhibit in Portland Oregon. Uh-huh, I met this lady with a creative vibe and she said her name was Maleficent. Oh, and she needed a roommate.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:And I asked if she could just stay a while and be roommates for a while. I needed a place to stay. We started talking about us not having a place to live, yeah, so we decided to be a good roommate situation just downtown Portland for a while hanging out.
Speaker 1:So we moved in there, went to a couple concerts, we hung out for a while, but then she started turning different. She heard this, she had this. I think it was dark magic, that's what it seemed like, because my plants, my plants started to overgrow wildly and then occasionally a thunderstorm would knock out the power of our apartment. Just your apartment or just our apartment. Yeah, it was weird, and she's this pet raven. She said it was from the local bird store, but I, I don't think it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the neighbors weren't liking it, I was going to stay. I mean, it wasn't too bad, I could live with it, it wasn't too annoying. But the bad part was, outside our apartment were all these Portland protesters all the time protesting our dark magic. It just got too much. See, I would think that they wouldn't. You know. Well, they have to protest something. It's a Tuesday, yeah. Well, they have to protest something. It's a Tuesday, yeah. So we just couldn't understand the protesters all the time, yeah, and that's just was Portland in general. So I just got out of Portland for a while and had to go somewhere else.
Speaker 2:That makes sense.
Speaker 1:It was an okay situation. One of my best roommates I ever had I mean Maleficent, she probably listens to this show.
Speaker 2:She probably does. Yeah, I can see her as being Big Cheers to Ears fan. Yeah, so you're going to do the next one. So my next one Genie.
Speaker 2:By the time I met Genie, he'd moved back to he was in Morocco, oh, wow. So I was just on a trip in Morocco and he was working a hawker stall selling carpets, okay, and so I was looking to stay in country a while. Since I work remotely and you can stay 90 days on a tourist visa and that's what I was on. You can extend it for another 90 days. So I was there for gonna be there for three to six months. If I could extend, I could have extended my visa. And yeah, I was like I'm gonna, I think I'm gonna stay here because I really enjoyed it working remotely. I could do that on the tourist visa, right, because I'm not working in the country, I'm working just from my laptop and whatnot. So he wanted a roommate because just started talking about the carpets and everything and he eventually got talking about living situation. He wanted a roommate because previously to me, probably after you, he had lived alone in a long time in a really small space.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, just cramped and so he mentioned something about that when we were roommates. Okay, yeah, and so he just wanted find a bigger place, roommate, someone to hang out with and all of that. So I'm like, yeah, sure, I wanted to stay in the country and work for a little while. So it started, started out fine, but it was weird Because on occasion I would say, boy, I really wish I had a pizza and all of a sudden there'd be pizza there. Oh, wow, or you can't find the normal toothpaste in Morocco that you would normally get. I really wish I could find Tom's toothpaste, because that's what I like. Using All of a sudden, sudden stuff like that, you know, happened a few times. I just, boy, I really wish this happened and it did. It was really weird, like three times, yeah, then it was three times some of the stuff.
Speaker 1:It was weird, I just took it as just a happenstance, like he was just a kind person, but that was weird. After the third time he got really pissed off. Oh, and he was saying a kind person.
Speaker 2:But that was weird Three times with me, too weird. After the third time he got really pissed off. Oh, and he was saying something about not being set free with the final wish and I'm like what are you talking about? No idea what he was talking about. He kicked me out oh.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't get that far with him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't get to the rage part. I was roommates after. Maybe he had something, maybe it was something. I did Something about multiple roommates. I think he was just angry by that.
Speaker 1:I feel like he lived in a small space, for a long time, and then he had a larger apartment or something and then he lived in a small space again, probably.
Speaker 2:And then he had a large.
Speaker 1:He seemed to have these Ups and downs.
Speaker 2:Ups and downs of his life.
Speaker 1:When we we were talking.
Speaker 2:And yeah, but it was like after that third time he was just angry. Wow, I wasn't set free and I'm like if you want to go do something, go ahead, dude, that's fine, you don't have to ask me. But I don't know, he flipped out, he kicked me out. Jeez, that sucks. I'm sorry man. So then I moved back.
Speaker 1:But you know, it is what it it was on this isn't out of spite, because the same time you were living with Jeannie, that's when I moved in with Ariel.
Speaker 2:Oh, it wasn't out of spite or anything. No, no, no it's just happenstance. I lost contact with her.
Speaker 1:We're all kind of in the same group of friends too. Yeah, we had a group chat yeah. We all had back when we were right when I added Jeannie and stuff the group chat we had.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's how we connected, yeah, she still had my number from it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and she needed a place, but she moved to san francisco, okay, and then when I was up in portland she was in san francisco to chase her dream of becoming a singer in the san francisco club scene yeah right and so I saw her. She was down there and a portland like on a tour thing. Someone said they heard Ariel down in San Francisco and she was real good, so I cruised down there to check her out one time just to see how she's doing yeah well, you're a concert guy.
Speaker 1:Right, and it's just down the coast. Yeah, and I started the weekend off, cruised down there Local music scene. We started talking and we became roommates. She said why don't you just stay in here a while place? Let's not go great up in portland. Yeah, so I moved down to san francisco, but she brought half the ocean with her to the room.
Speaker 2:Oh, like it might have been your stuff, it might have been.
Speaker 1:It might have been stuff.
Speaker 2:I didn't know that at the time she might have still had some of my thingamajigs, right, she has so much stuff she brought.
Speaker 1:She does right if it probably the stuff from your apartment, yeah, and, and she kept playing. I thought she had a whole music career but she just she had one song was called under the sea that she said she wrote yeah, she played it all the time. Really, yeah, that's all she played. Oh, it was weird. She never got the quite the concept of having dry clothes. Oh, like, she didn't use the dryer, she used a washing machine. They were clean, but they were always soggy, wet.
Speaker 2:She just put them on out of the washer, put them on out of the washer.
Speaker 1:That's okay it was weird Again like Maleficent, not horrible things, Just annoying things Just odd yeah. Annoying things. Plus, she was always late with her rent. She never had enough money to pay her rent, so it just didn't work out. Yeah, I just couldn't afford it. I just went all around the country all the time and San Francisco's expensive, right? So I just left. I went to somewhere a lot cheaper after that for my next place Good for you.
Speaker 2:Okay, after Genie, I actually ran into Jafar and by then we were living by the beach. He had an affinity for sand and it was the sand that ended things. It was the ultimate problem, because he kept tracking sand back into the apartment and making a big mess. He also had this annoying pet parrot and you know how annoying an adult man with a pet parrot can be. Right, just totally annoying. Yeah, we hate all of them. I'm just kidding. Thank you, taz. Aaron has a pet parrot.
Speaker 2:That's one to sneak that in there plus jafar the jerk never paid the rent, always had an excuse. Very sly, but he was very haughty when I'd question him about it. Very haughty. It's like how dare you question me? You're still better. Oh, yeah, he was a horrible roommate. Yeah, it ended. Kicked him out, don't know where he went, lost track, didn't care. Didn't care, he's just gone.
Speaker 1:Yeah he's gone. So I went across the country after that, back across, okay, charleston, south carolina, hanging out there. But then, as I'm walking around the beach, one day I saw like part of a ship in the water, oh, like it was just partially there, right, partially sunken. It looked like it was sunken, but so far I couldn't tell. Okay, I couldn't tell what kind of boat it was. Yeah, so that's strange. When walking on the beach and all of a sudden the guy washed the shore, oh, and he said his name was hook. That's weird. And he had a hook for a hand, I said, was that your name?
Speaker 2:That's convenient.
Speaker 1:Was that the name of your board? Did you just happen to have this? Or you called this? Is that a nickname? Yeah, so I don't know if it's I mean.
Speaker 1:I think his name might have been Greg or something, yeah, maybe I don't know, but I felt sorry for him. He said his ship sank. Oh, okay in. So I felt sorry for him and he needed a place to stay. So we roomed together for a while, just while he was rebuilding the ship. That was all. It was just a few months, yeah, but he was obsessed with this clock. I had had this ticking to it and he was obsessed with it. Oh, it was crazy and he was just a normal. I thought he was a normal southern dude, but he had this pirate talk he tried to do all the time that. That's not even a real thing. That's like some disney ride thing yeah right, very pirate, right, yeah and what's he even doing?
Speaker 1:I don't understand he'd wake up at 2 am and sword fight with a shadow. Oh weird, he'd have his shadow and he's like trying to fight a shadow on the wall. Oh, that's odd. You know, tried his own shadow and said I'll get you, so he might schizophrenic I don't know something weird was going on, it might have been from the shipwreck like ptsd.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know that could be there could be lots of reasons. I mean I give him lots of leeway because of what he's obviously been through yeah, but mental illness it can't go unchecked.
Speaker 2:If it's gone unchecked it's really hard to room with someone with unchecked mental illness.
Speaker 1:And he had all this stuff in every corner of the apartment. Oh, when I tried to pick it up, he said don't touch my treasures. And he had a weird map that went to all the X's in the corners of the apartment.
Speaker 2:He couldn't just find it Because look in that corner. He needed a map to find it. He needed maps.
Speaker 1:Oh wow, I have no idea he was just drawing maps. So then there was something I mean I didn't see it at the time because we were so close, yeah, Looking back, yeah, kind of crazy yeah and he had this constant thing where he always thought there were crocodiles lurking outside and I said we're right by the Atlantic Ocean.
Speaker 2:Are there alligators up there?
Speaker 1:But not right on the ocean.
Speaker 2:No In a beach apartment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about worry about some sharks or something, yeah, so I totally don't know what happened to him. Oh, don't know what happened to hook. After that he got his ship fixed, oh good, yeah, he was pretty quick with it too. He was efficient, so that was probably a good thing. It was a good thing for me, maybe because I don't know, I'm looking back on it now maybe I dodged a bullet, yeah that might have been a tough one.
Speaker 2:You encourage him to finish. Hey, how'd you working on the ship go today, right? Yeah, maybe you should go work on it all night, that type of strange yeah weird.
Speaker 2:So my last roommate was disco yeti from expedition everest. It was so living near disney world and the wages aren't great there, and so he needed a roommate and me, being from the pacific northwest, I wasn't worried too much about being around a yeti. I think I knew his friend squatch. I think they knew each other, but maybe not. You're a yeti bigfoot, I can roll with this. So he was an okay roommate, but at times it was hard to understand him. He had quite an accent so it was like what are you okay where you nod?
Speaker 2:yeah yeah, uh-huh, you just do that through the whole conversation. I had to do that a lot with him. Eventually I left, life, moved me along again and we don't talk anymore. But we are friends on facebook oh good yeah, does he post a lot on facebook? Not a lot because he's seven days a week, 10, 11-hour days, yeah, but the quick picture while he's working.
Speaker 1:that's why I think more of the Instagram. Yeah, and like quick shot of him. I'm surprised he doesn't get paid more, because it's tough to find a Yeti for that ride.
Speaker 2:Interesting though Disco Yeti was his name nickname Because he can't dance. It was a work nickname. I'm not sure why they gave it to him, but it was Disco Yeti, Probably something that happened at the Christmas party one year, Probably. But the guy he was like an 80s metal band fan. He didn't like disco at all oh Weird, but he loved the nickname Disco Yeti. So there you go. So that's my history of Disney roommates yeah, Also mine. So there you go.
Speaker 1:Drinks all done, drinks about gone. Yep, cheers, cheers.
