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Podcast: The Ride is a podcast about Theme Parks (plus Amusement Parks and other themed entertainment) from the Forever Dog Network. The show was started in 2017 by Mike Carlson, Jason Sheridan, and Scott Gairdner, three self-professed "childless men in their thirties" who unapologetically adore most themed experiences, from major parks like Disney or Universal to resorts, malls, restaurants, and electronics stores. Each episode features the three comedians, often joined by a guest, diving deep into discussion of a park, ride, or themed experience, usually tying it in with personal stories and abundant tangents.

The show has notably deviated from the standard podcast format a few times in order to experiment with loose, highly improvised Story Arcs, most notably in the marathon 19-part "CityWalk Saga" in which the hosts explored every store in Universal Studios Hollywood's external "CityWalk" shopping complex in order to free the spirit of the mysterious Sector Keeper.

Episodes are released weekly, with additional "Second Gate" bonus episodes on more esoteric topics and "Club 3" bonuses on fan-voted topics released on their Patreon. Additional content is occasionally posted on their YouTube.

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Podcast: The Ride provides examples of:

• Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Jason is frequently mocked by his cohosts for his unique pronunciations of words, some of which are the result of his upbringing near Philadelphia but many of which are inexplicable even to him. These moments have become such a frequent Running Gag that he now often accepts his cohosts' mispronunciations as accurate without question, defaulting to believe he is incorrect (best seen in the "Astro Orbito(e)rs" episode).
• Aerith and Bob: Referred to as "The Helen Test", as the hosts dislike when characters in fiction (frequently women) have less fun or interesting names than the rest of the cast.
• The Alcoholic: Scott frequently mentions how his favorite part of going to theme parks is enjoying a nice glass of wine and that he usually prefers a quiet night at home that has wine than a visit to a park without alcohol. This gets warped by his co-hosts whenever they need a reason to tease him.
  Jason: Careful, Scott, you're going down the path of Jackson Maine.
• Artifact Title:
  • While the podcast is still mainly about "themed entertainment", the Patreon episodes usually have little to do with theme parks themselves, focusing on different aspects of pop cultural ephemera or whatever the hosts happen to find interesting. This has leaked somewhat into the main show, with the podcast dedicating a whole month of episodes to themed restaurants and often diving into other one-off topics, such as the cheesiest skits and performances at the Academy Awards Ceremonies.
  • Also, the show has an Artifact Tagline, as it is no longer hosted by "three childless men in their thirties" after Scott and his wife Erin welcomed their first child in April 2020. The humor in this is, of course, discussed in-depth in the "Papa Scott" episode. Mike and his partner Lindsay likewise had a child in August 2022.
• Ascended Fanboy:
  • Perhaps the most low-stakes example of this trope ever; Scott, a die-hard fan of the strangely elaborate theming of Fry's Electronics stores, filmed an HD Shot-for-Shot Remake of a space shuttle launch video unique to the Anaheim store. After several months of campaigning on Twitter, Scott managed to replace the store's video with his own and was invited to host a fan event there... two days before the store permanently closed, and just a few weeks before the COVID-19 Pandemic wound up shutting down the entire chain.
  • A similar possible example: Shortly before starting the podcast, the hosts and frequent guest Anthony Gioe sent a list of 100 potential street names into a contest for Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Resort, half as a joke and half because Mike is a huge Buffett fan. Several years later, one of their steet names (Dreamsicle Drive) did end up being used in the resort. While they never received any confirmation if their entry had anything to do with the name, that didn't stop them from claiming it and traveling to the resort in 2019 to visit the site.
• Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: In the opening discussion of the troubled Fox World Malaysia in the The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera episode, the hosts joke that the park would benefit from the leadership of Hard Rock Park's founder Jon Binkowski. They speculate they would probably find him already meditating on the top of the mountain that the park was built on, having reached an enlightened state that transformed him into a being of pure light.
• Bait-and-Switch: At the start of their 100th episode on Superstar Limo.
  Scott: The opening of Disney's second gate was met by the worst reviews and poorest word-of-mouth the company had ever received, and most of the ire was reserved for one particular attraction...
  Jason: That's right. Get ready, Seasons of the Vine, you’re in the fucking scope. Jeremy Irons, taking him down a peg.
  Scott: No! Not my precious wine movie!
• Beam Me Up, Scotty!: In-Universe; Mike always refers to the ikran from Avatar as "The Mighty Ikran", initially because he thought that was how it was referred to on Flight of Passage. Many episodes later, they discovered that is not how the creature is described in the ride and that the phrase was purely a Mike invention.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: After hearing the news that Taylor Swift was suing Evermore Park for the unlicensed use of her evermore (2020) album, Scott jokes that her next step would be to sue Edgar Allan Poe for presumably using a steampunk time machine to steal her title for The Raven.
• Bittersweet Ending: The end of Malltiverse of Madness surprisingly serves as one for the story of the Sector Keeper, as the hosts go back in time to prevent his death as a child and give him a full and happy life... at the cost of all his memories of them.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: A Phrase Catcher variant; the hosts regularly appropriate quirky dialogue from certain rides like Rocket's declaration that "My hands won't scan!" from Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: BREAKOUT! and Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's "We sure have!" from The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.
• Brick Joke: Sector 16 of the first CityWalk Saga was just five minutes long, with the hosts dismissing the idea of talking about a fairly standard food court. Six years later, during the Orlando follow-up, the hosts determine that this was such an oversight that it threatens the space-time continuum and traveled back in time to re-record it with their past selves, even replacing the original episode.
• Butt-Monkey: Jason is mercilessly teased for everything from his stature to his love of treats. Mike has stated multiple times that he has "never forgotten a single thing about Jason" that could be used for the purpose of mocking him.
• The Cameo: The Grand Finale to the Downtown Disney Ordeal features numerous podcasters and former guests cameoing as Keepers of other lightly-themed malls and shopping districts from around the world.
• Capitalism Is Bad: Despite running a show ostensibly about the joyful wonders of theme parks, right down to devoting many episodes to businesses and shopping malls, the hosts are often highly critical of the corporations that operate them. Jason especially is prone to the occasional Author Tract about the need for stronger workers' unions, and the villains of the Downtown Disney Ordeal are all wealthy business owners.
• Catchphrase:
  • Jason, when he inevitably disagrees with the other two hosts, will respond with "Counterpoint: You are wrong."
  • The Sector Keeper has "Boys, boys, you give me strength."
• Cerebus Call-Back: After the Malltiverse of Madness ends on an unexpectedly serious note with the erasure of the Sector Keeper and his memories from existence to give young Stevie Kepner a full life, the hosts are at a loss of what to do next until Mike suggests, "Let's go take a walk", calling back to the refrain of the Sagas' theme song. Later in The Stinger, Scott remarks that Kepner reminds him of a "fallen brother", the joking term they gave to closed shops and restaurants.
• Cerebus Retcon: The original version of Sector 16 of the CityWalk Saga was a joke episode, in which the hosts justifiably point out that it would be silly to dedicate a full hour of conversation about a mundane food court after over two weeks of daily episodes; they end the episode after five minutes, with the Sector Keeper offhandedly picking "a napkin or something" as the day's Sector Stone. Six years later, during the Orlando Saga, the Sector Keeper panickedly reveals that they never finished the saga by not devoting a real episode to the sector, forcing them to go back in time to re-record the episode with their original selves.
• Christmas Special: Three so far, "The Christmas Special Christmas Special", "An Intimate Christmas Evening LIVE", and "A Very Covid-Safe Christmas". The first two episodes have the hosts sharing "gifts" of unintentionally funny televised Christmas specials and promotional videos with each other, while the third has each of the hosts share their experiences at a themed experience under COVID-19 lockdown conditions. The Live special also features the hosts staging a parody of Christmas specials as a framing device.
• Colon Cancer: The hosts love to mock the common overuse of colons and dashes in the titles of new attractions and occasionally parody the practice in their own episode titles (ex. "Matt Gourley Presents: The Adventures of Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular & The Wild West Stunt Show").
• Content Warning: Every episode opens with one of these, usually played for laughs and hinting at some of the topics and tangents lying ahead.
• Continuity Cavalcade: The finale of the Downtown Disney Ordeal features the boys struggling to defeat the five bosses using all of the items collected in previous stages. You can hear the hosts rifling through their notes to make sure not to forget any details.
• Damned by Faint Praise:
  • In "Failed Theme Parks, Part 2", Jason claims that his family always enjoyed eating at Hard Rock Cafe because its food was so much better... than Planet Hollywood.
  • The group describes viewing Mickeys Philhar Magic at the California Adventure Theater as "being better than seeing trailers for upcoming movies"; Jason later describes their tone as sounding like they just came from a funeral.
• Disneyland Dad: A frequently discussed trope. In "Chuck E. Cheese 2", the hosts react to a serious newscast from Australia that refers to this as a "psychological condition of the American male", "Young Executive Guilt" or "YEG" for short.
• Formula-Breaking Episode:
  • The finale of the "Country Bear Jamborweek" isn't a normal discussion of a topic, but rather an audio drama where the boys (paired with the hosts of the improv/musical Off Book Podcast attend an off-brand Country Bear Jamboree concert that goes dramatically off the rails.
  • While many of the "Saga" episodes deviate from the usual formula to incorporate the Sector Keeper story, the "Malltiverse of Madness" goes the most out of formula, including an installment where all of the hosts briefly get their own very weird individual podcasts (Mike with a True Crime series about an old Universal restaurant, Jason with a dedicated show about every aspect of Buca di Peppo, and Scott and Bug Mane focusing on Cirque du Soleil's Downtown Disney show "La Nouba" through their own gonzo lens). The time-travel episode escalates things even further out of formula, with the hosts all having to play past and present versions of themselves.
• Framing Device: The whole Sector Keeper storyline is regularly addressed as such; its flimsiness in justifying why anyone would spend over 24 hours discussing a glorified mall is played for laughs.
• Friendly Ghost: The Sector Keeper is a parody of this trope, particularly the OG, though the longer he spends interacting with the modern human world the more bitter and bratty he becomes.
• Gag Censor: An audio version. Details of the Sesame Place bathroom Noodle Incident (described below) were obscured by Bert from Sesame Street singing a Maroon 5 parody song, "Moves Like Bert". The show brought it back for Matt Klinman's manatee story in the "Sea World San Diego" episode, with the upbeat children's song standing in sharp contrast to what Jason described as "a story of David Cronenberg level horror".
• Gotta Catch 'Em All: Each of the show's daily-episode "sagas" have been loosely justified in-story as needing to talk about every given topic of the selected theme park mall in order to collect "Sector Stones", whose nature and purpose are decidedly flexible.
• The Heart: Jason has often been referred to as the heart and soul of the podcast due to his deep concern for social issues and persistent joy and wonder. After his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, Scott and Mike both affirm this as his official title, though not without hanging a lampshade on how the description could come across as verging on Inspirationally Disadvantaged.
• Hurricane of Puns: The "DCA 1.0" episode opens with a ton of groan-worthy California puns, parodying the general atmosphere of Disneyland's California Adventure at opening.
  Scott: "Welcome to P:TR, the show where we love to San Die-go to theme parks and spill the Yosemi-tea about our favorite rides. I’m Scott Golden Gate-ner, and here’s a guy who Fres-knows his stuff about theme parks, and you can take that to the Bur-bank! It’s Mike Carlsbad-son! And I Holly-would like to introduce the other host. It’s Jason San Luis Obisbo-don."
• Intrepid Reporter: Jason majored in journalism in college and briefly worked for a newspaper, earning him the official title of P:TR Cub Reporter who is frequently (jokingly) tasked with researching and reporting on current events.
• Live Episode: The show has had about a dozen, usually for a Milestone Celebration, a capstone to a major series, or coinciding with an event. Their first was an interview with famed Imagineer Tony Baxter.
• Lovable Coward: Early episodes played this up as a major shared traits of the hosts, who generally were against riding extreme thrill rides or attending Halloweentime haunts despite hosting a show about theme parks. The need for content for the podcast has pushed them out of their comfort zone and towards Character Development: Mike has flipped to actually loving haunts, and even "No Launch Queen" Scott has loosened up and gone on more thrilling rides.
• Man of a Thousand Voices: Most of "Looney Tunes at Six Flags" is spent showcasing the talents of guest Eric Bauza, current VO for most of the Tunes.
• Manchild: The oft-repeated premise of the show is the ridiculousness of three childless men in their thirties who have no qualms about discussing theme parks made for children for several hours each week. The hosts play this for laughs, especially Jason.
• Monster Clown: Scott is unnerved by clowns in general but has particular animosity for Chucko, a very popular L.A. performer in the mid-20th century who was featured in early Disneyland. Jason and Mike respond to this by crafting a mythology of him as a ghost who attempts to possess Scott, eventually becoming a recurring "character".
• The Multiverse: The CityWalk Orlando Saga: Malltiverse of Madness leans into this, with the hosts at one point being yanked into other universes where they host different podcasts.
• Mundane Made Awesome: Often played for laughs, such as when Jason describes buying the last of a limited edition sundae and just barely making it onto the last trip of the Mark Twain Riverboat like "Indiana Jones sliding under the wall and grabbing his hat last second."
• Musical Episode: The finale of the "Country Bear Jamborweek" is a Crossover with the improv/musical Off Book Podcast in which the hosts of the two shows attend an off-brand Country Bear Jamboree concert that goes dramatically off the rails.
• My Future Self and Me: The 2024 versions of the hosts (and the Sector Keeper) travel back to the original 2018 CityWalk Saga after originally skipping discussion of the Hollywood food court. They interact with their past selves throughout the full re-recorded episodes and (mostly) get along just fine without any space-time continuum issues: The Jasons get along so well that they begin to share a consciousness; 2024 Jason also offers his past self advice for how to get laid and tells him to ignore the cane. Past Mike is disgusted with his future self no longer being able to handle sweets but is delighted by the prospect of new Ninja Turtle toys and intrigued with the idea of having a child. The Scotts are both annoyed by having to deal with double the co-hosts and start to bicker amongst themselves.
• Noodle Incident: In the Sesame Place episode, guest Evan Susser describes something he saw in the children's theme park bathroom that he believed was too disturbing to describe in good taste. The hosts still want to hear the story, so they edited it out of the episode (replacing it with Bert singing a Maroon 5 parody song, "Moves Like Bert"). References to the incident occasionally pops back up in later episodes, but details are always replaced with snippets of the same song. Susser confirms in the outro to CityWalk Orlando Saga: Malltiverse of Madness 1-2 that it was a man masturbating in a stall.
• Obviously Evil: The five bosses of the Downtown Disney Ordeal are essentially demons, but that doesn't make them nearly as evil as their occupations as wealthy corporate owners of chintzy restaurants.
• Odd Name Out: In "Margaritaville Resort Orlando", the crew is very amused to discover that all of the slides at the water park, Island H2O Live, are all themed to social media (i.e. "Hashtag Heights", "Profile Plunge", "Reply Rapids")... save for one, kids' area "Pelican's Paradise".
• Old Shame: In-universe; Mike "starred" in a segment of Manswers as one of his first gigs as a young actor in Hollywood, which answered the question, "Why shouldn't you get a handjob from a British chick?" That appearance not only was an uncomfortable and unprofessional experience for all parties involved, but also turned out to be one of the first times his parents saw him on TV.
• Orwellian Retcon: The original version of Sector 16 of the CityWalk Saga, released in 2018, was a five-minute gag episode where the crew quickly skipped over the mundane CityWalk food court. In 2024, the episode was replaced with a full newly recorded episode in which the 2024 version of the cast travels back in time and completes the full 90-minute episode alongside their former selves, ensuring that anyone listening through the podcast in order for the first time will now experience this asynchronous interruption
• Parental Issues: In the "GarfieldEATS" Club 3 episode, the hosts speculate that Nathen Mazri's obsession with Garfield is derived from being a failson to his much more successful father and him latching onto Garfield creator Jim Davis for approval.
• Perfectly Cromulent Word: In the "GarfieldEATS" Club 3 episode, the hosts get a lot of laughs out of Nathen Mazri's pointless entrepreneur-speak jargon like "entergaging" (entertaining and engaging, two words that already are almost synonymous).
• Poe's Law: The boys struggle mightily to figure out whether Nathen Mazri's The Office-style presentation of his GarfieldEATS restaurant, "Love me, feed me, don't leave me", is meant to be funny and self-deprecating, tremendously un-self-aware, or somehow both.
• Ret-Gone: The Sector Keeper, at least as we know him, is erased from existence at the end of the Malltiverse of Madness, as the hosts travel back in time to prevent the death of a young Stevie Kepner, allowing him to grow up and have a normal life.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: After the hosts undo the Sector Keeper's death, they still remember all of their experiences with him as a ghost child. When they go to visit him as a grown adult man, he has no conscious memory of them... but has named his three boys Michael, Scott, and Jason.
• Scandalgate:
  • In what frequent guest Griffin Newman refers to as "the podcast's only true conflict", Mike's false memory of seeing film producer Frank Marshall give a speech at the reopening of the Jurassic Park River Adventure became known as "Marshallgate" after the debate over it extended over multiple episodes.
  • The guests discuss how GarfieldEATS creator Nathen Mazri attempted to continue to remain relevant after his rights to Garfield were revoked by starting his own "controversies", including "Staplegate", a failed effort to kickstart a "food safety" company by accusing Wendy's of leaving a staple in his burger.
• Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Frequent guest Nick Mundy is often described by the hosts as a somewhat positive version of this that is Played for Laughs. On the one hand, he is very aggressive, frequently dismisses their love of theme parks despite his own nerdy interests, and loves sports; on the other, his own descriptions of his childhood show that he was more of a class clown who pranked popular kids than an outright bully.
• Self-Deprecation: A major part of the hosts' humor, with the show's original tagline making fun of the very idea that three adult men could talk so much about theme parks made for children.
  • Following the content warning, most episodes begin with the hosts introducing themselves in the least flattering terms possible.
  • The time-travel Sector 16 episode of CityWalk Saga gives the hosts a chance to interact with versions of themselves from 2018 and 2024; much of the episode is spent ruthlessly mocking themselves.
• Sequel Escalation:
  • The hosts attempt to avert this between the CityWalk Saga and the Downtown Disney Ordeal by trimming back the number and length of episodes... only for all the added "plot" elements, which includes a trip into hell for three Patreon-exclusive episodes and the introduction of a whole host of other Sector Keepers, to leave the two series at roughly equal length.
  • The CityWalk Orlando Saga—Malltiverse of Madness, leans fully into this; not only does it last for more days than both of its predecessors, it also included several days with multiple episodes, including one retroactively added to the first saga and a surprisingly emotional conclusion.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong:
  • At the end of the CityWalk Orlando Saga: Malltiverse of Madness 7-1, the Sector Keeper informs the hosts that they made a grave error in the first Saga when they skipped all discussion of the Hollywood food court. Because of this, the hosts have to travel back in time and re-do that episode to prevent an interdimensional rift from destroying the world.
  • In the following episode, the hosts once again travel back to prevent the Sector Keeper's death.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis:
  • Bug Mane hops over from the Doughboys podcast to antagonize the Good Boys. Here he takes the identity of a gangster from The Great Movie Ride, Bugsy Malone, who mostly just annoys the group with his obnoxious Prohibition-era accent and fixation on "sucking jewels".
  • The Sector Keeper and frequent guest Nick Mundy do not get along, and the ghost boy will refer to him (and anyone who allies with him) to be a "bad man".
  • The show has one with the (fictitious) Bumper Car Boys podcast.
• The Smurfette Principle: Of course played straight whenever the all-male group has a single female guest. They discuss this trope and The Bechdel Test in several episodes and develop their own version, "The Helen Test", regarding whether the sole woman character in a ride or work has a name that's more ordinary then those of the male cast, with the Trope Namer being Helen Henny from Chuck E. Cheese.
• Snake Oil Salesman: In the "Ark Experience" episode, Jason refers to religious theme park owners (and all wealthy evangelicals) as being this. However, while he genuinely despises how these people use religion as a means of discriminating against others and promoting misinformation, he still somewhat respects selling useless goods to dumb people as a "proud American tradition".
• So Bad, It's Good: In-Universe, Mike declares multiple times that "Six Flags sucks and I love it."
• Song Parody: Mike and Scott are musicians (Mike actually composes most of the show's themes and cues), and they occasionally put their musical talents to use in song parodies (some in podcast episodes proper, others on their YouTube and Twitter pages).
  • After Mike half-jokingly called Buena Park, the small and bizarre Orange County town that's home to Knott's Berry Farm and numerous tacky tourist traps, "one of the greatest cities in the world", the hosts joked that it deserved the same treatment New York City gets in "Empire State of Mind" by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. "Buena State of Mind" was the result.
  • After discovering McGruff the Crime Dog's album SMART KIDS and being rather impressed by some of its '80s synth compositions, Mike created a whole SMART TEENS EP to pass the time during the pandemic lockdown.
  • During the "Feliz Na'vidad" mini-series focusing on Avatar and Pandora – The World of Avatar, each episode ends with one of the hosts presenting a "Metkayina Carol" parodying a Christmas classic (or, in Mike's case, "Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse).
• The Stinger: The Malltiverse of Madness ends with the hosts tracking down and visiting present-day home of the Sector Keeper after undoing his death. The adult Steven Kepner doesn't remember them, but does have a full and happy life with his three children, who all share names and attributes with the hosts.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Mike and Scott recreate a hypothetical interaction between a preteen Jason and Nick Mundy equipped with a basketball in the AstroWorld episode.
  Mike as Jason: "Excuse me, mister, I’m trying to get past your rolling balls to go admire this modern marvel of machinery."
  Scott as Mundy: "Eat ball, bitch."
• Time Travel: Actually takes place in this theme park podcast (at least, in-universe) during Malltiverse of Madness, first with the 2024 version of the hosts going back to re-do a 2018 CityWalk episode, then with the hosts going back to prevent the death of the Sector Keeper in the finale.
• To Hell and Back: The Downtown Disney Ordeal involves the hosts briefly being cast down into Disney's "Underworld" (a.k.a. behind their Patreon paywall), which is home to all of the mall's now-closed establishments. They return to a similar realm in the Malltiverse of Madness a few years later.
• Tournament Arc: Every year, around the time of NCAA March Madness, the crew will form a bracket based around some inane theme park topic and try to narrow down a winner. Past topics have included "Fake Rocks", "Fake Smells", "Fake Theme Parks", "Fake Rock (Music)", and "Vehicle Vengeance" (ride vehicles).
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Jason is a self-professed "Treat Boy" who is rarely seen without some sugary treat or a hot dog.
  • Scott is routinely mocked for his love of wine.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: In the AstroWorld episode, guest Nick Mundy describes how being into sports as a kid hardened him, to the point where he would curse out and threaten to beat up the fathers of kids he fought with at just nine years old.
  Mundy: “This guy’s dad asked me why I pushed his son, and I said, ‘Because he’s a dick.’ He said, ‘You shouldn’t use that language,’ and I said, ‘You shouldn’t have a fucking stupid son.’”
  Jason: “I think you’re the hero of this story, but the way you’re telling it you sound like the villain.”
• True Crime:
  • Parodied in their episode on the "Fabio Goose Incident". The hosts mock the "somber marimba music" and self-important tone of true crime podcasts while trying to determine what really happened at Busch Gardens when Fabio was bloodied while debuting the roller coaster "Apollo's Chariot".
  • Mike's individual episode during the Malltiverse of Madness, "Womphopper's Dusty Trail", is a true crime podcast abut the fictional Universal restauranteur.
• Tunnel of Love:
  • In the Second Gate episode on Gilroy Gardens, Scott goes off on a tangent questioning whether this trope ever existed, as he has never experienced one in-person (it did, but they largely went extinct a half-century ago). The hosts then proceed to joke about how various pairings of theme park figures (including Michael Eisner) would have navigated this scenario.
  • Later, they dedicate a whole Second Gate episode to the topic—and use the TV Tropes page as a reference for examples!
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Scott speculates that the Sector Keeper died because each of them were in line in front of one of his parents at CityWalk, holding them up and preventing them from getting back to their son.
• Very Special Episode: The hosts namedrop the trope prior to their first public discussion of Jason's multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
  Jason: “Tonight, on a very special "Podcast: The Ride"...”
• Viva Las Vegas!: The show frequently covers the many themed experiences of Las Vegas and eventually dedicated a full month of episodes called "P:TR Sin City Nights" to the city, capped with a live "Big Vegas Groove Blender" episode in the city celebrating the "best" the town has to offer.
• Waxing Lyrical: After relentlessly bashing "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Green Day during Sector 18 of the CityWalk Saga, Scott signs out on the episode by speaking some of its lyrics.