all right everybody bro who they say they're gonna be damn safe well my friends i probably just had
to censor that but uh that's the circle of life for you don't stand on your head it's gonna be
easier for you and for the kangaroo hi my friends we are at Busch Gardens Tampa bay it is Mardi Gras
season now mardi gras goes on from January 8th until march 6. now this is a smaller festival
compared to their other festivals that they have here i'm getting so excited we're two months away
right now for iron glossy opening march 20 22. i don't think they've given an official date
but i feel like they should start testing the ride vehicles any day now it's a windy day they
got the mardi gras little flags out they got the mardi gras purple and green lights ready for the
night time you could win like a luchador pepper is very odd so this is what is happening this
year real music series mardi gras is happening right now and then food and wine happens in
march they're gonna have something for cinco de mayo viva la music cow summer night beer fest
my favorite time to visit hollow screams and then the spooktacular and then christmas town
so they've added cinco de mayo this year viva la musical and the real music series
to give kind of more variety for all the annual passovers but i thought that mardi gras was going
to be happening over here in this area because normally they put the festivals but i guess it's
just kind of throughout the park though instead of over here nice we think they're all cover bands
maybe so the diamonds i feel like it's a neil diamond cover band yeah the eagles you think eagle
mania is the eagles let's hang on who's who's doing that beach boys all 4-1 high school musical
man there we go hollywood night let's go adele she was just sitting hollywood observatory yeah
the hollywood sign and everything it's a dell that's a dell's cover band right
that's avicii clearly abarossa ambrosia ambrosia i don't know what ambrosia is it's abba again
clearly so what out ambrosia sounds like some sort of disease you get and then simple queen
is definitely cover band for queen all right here we go we're entering in to the mardi gras area if
you forgot any of your mardi gras merch you could buy hat sears they wrote hi all right now they do
have live music here i think the bands are from louisiana if i remember correctly from last year
by the first stop of the day we're going to jackson square we're going to get some jambalaya
start off the mardi gras season so the first thing we're getting today we're in creole style
jambalaya chicken and dooley sausage tomatoes with green onions in there all right let's see whoa
surprisingly very good all right honestly kato is going in with low expectations very good and jelly
cooked had a great pop to it i liked the tomato to like the spices that were in there it kind
of like cooled it down a little bit the rice was very flavorful 8.5 honestly i thought i
was looking at i was like i'll probably be like a five or six eight point five pretty decent jumbo
this is the one i've been waiting for man the esplanade street bites oh they got the po boys
we're about to go ham here y'all this looks like a full-on meal uh they always go really hard here
at this stand so first off we're gonna have the shrimp po boy crispy shrimp creole ramelod crisp
cabbage pickles all right now it's time for the shrimp po boy i feel about cabbage though
i like last year's a lot better the shrimp po boy did not like that
at all i thought last year's was a lot better i think i'll do like a 3.5 on that's from poboy i
don't like cabbage with shrimp i'm sorry then we also got these smoked peppered
briskets this could be brisket chipotle cream green onions the top new orleans kettle chip
whoa brisket's super tender and juicy and flavorful nice and fatty the chips are good
the sauce is like it's hot but then it's cool it's kind of like there's certain aspects that i like
of the brisket i think i'll do like 6.5 on the brisket and then we got the smoked chicken po boy
so it's gonna be bourbon barbecue crisp lettuce now it's time to try the chicken it's almost like
an oven roasted like pulled chicken with the sauce on it i just finished the chicken chicken's tender
it's fine right we had the jambalaya that was great this one is six out of ten such a hit in
the mids between these stands sometimes it'll run into stuff that's just incredible so kind of like
last year's recipe for the po boy is better than this years they have another like a bead garden
over here flamingos of beads on them i'm kind of bead deal mardi gras state of mind now these
are the only flamingos that i like because they don't smell beignet wild all right we're gonna go
visit some little kangaroos right now for the kangaroo loom interactive kangaroo experience
because it just rained that they're all awake right now and they're feeding oh look at the
mop around we have an albino kangaroo or it's just a giant rat i think that's what it might be yeah
he's soaked they were saying they have multiple albino these are wallabies uh they said the trait
is recessive so i asked what's the difference between a wallaby and a kangaroo and they were
saying that kangaroos like to be kind of like in families and packs and wallabies just kind of like
to be on their own i don't see like the big big ones i've seen videos like the giant kangaroo
this is where they're just like so muscular and terrifying these are like nice and calm and like
i would go pet i'm not terrified to be around them all right here are the best ways in which
you can feed a kangaroo number one you should put the food in front of the kangaroo obviously if you
don't put it in front of it you might not see it number two try feeding the kangaroo that is facing
you because that'll work better or you should just like move around that you're facing number three
don't stand on your head it's gonna be easier for you and for the kangaroo to know what's going on
and finally find a kangaroo if you see something like this that's an emu and then you should not
feed that animal you will lose a finger not a kangaroo if you're feeding a wallaby just bend
down a little bit more because wallabies are a little smaller these are all the
kids eating and this is the father who is working so hard to put food on the tables
it's just insane how close we are to the animals right here what did you just say well first of all
kevin wants to talk about eating the kangaroos which is just wrong mardi gras sir some people
do in australia they have kangaroo burgers yeah that's just wrong first off don't talk about
eating these poor wonderful creatures ian said you were like i bet you there's a lot of fat on
them you can't eat their muscle you can only eat their meat what did we learn today i think it's
i think it's time to go get some more food if you didn't know meat is a mussel you know you
thought those vista whey ducks were terrifying this thing is creepy it's like a mutant goose or
something thanks for hopping by i get to hop out if you're scared of birds this is not the place
it's like alfred hitchcock's the birds right now now they added something new
here towards the entrance they have a build-a-bear workshop at busch gardens
they have special little busch garden shirt and safari boots i feel like they should have
a little rocco that goes with elmo now they said it opened up in november so i guess i
missed that we were here for christmas but it's kind of fun if you want to build a bear
okay now they got a true new orleans band out here we got people dancing right there
that's some good stuff i need to figure out how to purchase all of their pants
i hope just for the color not just you're into jazz pants cool that's your kink
all right the next stop of the day is gonna be sweet beignets you can get three different
types of toppings you can get woodford reserved chocolate drizzle powdered sugar or banana foster
beignets all right so i got the beignets with the woodford bourbon chocolate glaze on top so there's
powdered sugar if you don't know what a beignet is just kind of like fried dough this looks like
the new recipe that they uh introduced last year now their beignets really aren't beignets they're
just kind of like like a flaky croissant but like it was a chocolate flaky croissant i like
the bourbon chocolate on top it just gave a little bit of a bourbon aftertaste not too overwhelming
not missing but just like that right amount of like a little bit of bourbon cooked out so it's
not alcohol but you get that bourbon flavoring i think we'll do an eight out of ten on the beignets
all right let's see what mardi gras merchandise that they have they have mardi gras t-shirt
they have the little mask that you can wear they have big beads they have little beef and they even
have less a little montana roll so then over here they have asian elephants i think they're eating
it's crazy how like powerful their trunks are oh my gosh i think a lion escaped
oh it's right there i didn't even see him they have a lion it's a fake one right there hidden
creeping on everyone see i didn't see it at first so i thought that he was lying
oh is he about though yep welcome to the animal planet
coming soon in just a few months symbol will be raised at the top of that rock
well my friends i probably just had to censor that but that's the circle of life for you
yeah never see a lion do that before welcome to tampa all right we're gonna
try to ride bumper cars right now it's named after the lions actually
ubanga banga all right these are the ones that you and i are going with thank you
going down
we're coming for you we're on a mission to go get it in right now this is like
fast and furious i don't see this bumper cars is more exciting than fast furious
come on buddy
well they added a chick-fil-a here at the park it looks like but it's a sunday
so of course it's closed all right this is a game changer so they have the all-day
dining deal right which is actually a very good deal chick-fil-a is included with the
dining deal so you could eat chick-fil-a every 90 minutes so we were completely right they are
cover bands so hollywood knight is bob seger let it hang is frankie valley and this is who
is here today the eagle mania the world's greatest eagle tribute band and all for one is still a high
school musical cover band well looks like they have two shows a day we missed them about 11 30
and 1 30. well let's watch the drop for sheikra right now oh here it goes arrestor momentum
gonna swish
now peter one day i'm getting you on chic run you're gonna ride chica front row with me one day
now it looks like the jungle gym over the sesame street area has reopened so if your kids want to
come and play in the ball pit and everything elmo elmo how's rocco what's going on with him
i know if we remember last time we got the ice cream and it tasted like potpourri all right so
then for dessert guys from the nola creamery i got the french quarter chocolate amaretto
cheesecake waffle cone chocolate drizzle with mardi gras sprinkles let's try the cheesecake
that's good okay i'm digging this ice cream okay i just finished that is one
of the best ice creams i've ever had at a theme park 10 out of 10.
it almost had like a bourbon tang to it wonderful little bit of cheesecake on top the soft serve
was nice and cold and not melty great little ice cream all right let's try the impossible jambalaya
not fairly impossible to meet this version if you only eat impossible meat
right that's your form of meat it's decent but compared to the standard and dooley
sausage it's kind of like night and day this i'd do like a seven out of ten all
right the next booth we're going to is the hurricane booth they have a frozen version
they have a frozen or they have an iced hurricane a hurricane we'll do like a seven out of ten
pretty good the one thing we're noticing is really slow which is nice if you've been at
disney apparently it's just still a mad house it's kind of nice and refreshing to go to a theme park
that's not shoulder to shoulder and just stressful here you just kind of like walk and enjoy and
explore drink and eat see live bands having kind of a more enjoyable experience here than i did or
at festival of the arts because that's the arts you wait in line for half an hour just get some
overpriced food but we're waiting for the parade now to come out while we're waiting for the parade
ian would like to tell you about the who dat the doodad chad if you go to new orleans you need to
know how to say it the who dad oh who dat yeah so so repeat after me who dat uh it's that guy
dancing over there who dat who does say they're going to beat them saints who dad who dat who
oh they chanted all the time you've never been in new orleans no but in new orleans square in
disneyland that's how close to new orleans i've ever been no we say feet don't family now at
university did i say they're gonna beat them saints if you know what who dat is who dad out
there knows what ian is talking please don't make me look like an idiot this is a real thing muscle
write down the comments if uh you know what who dad is
wow
mardi gras monaco
kids are waiting all day to get his beads give me my beads
i have to catch one
no no he did not we're gonna play this clip in slow-mo that you just watched
watch the man fully catch and grasp the beads and then ian yank them out of his hands
oh and i didn't have to steal it from anyone it's more fun out of all the
festivals right this is like the smallest so i don't think the mardi gras festival is like a
destination visit but i think if you're already coming busch gardens or if you're like a look
or an annual pass holder it's a fun thing to come and do try some foods hear the live music but it's
not like a destination festival like kind of how the other ones are it's very smaller scale okay
look at the lighting package they have on iron guazing look how menacing those eyes are
and then the green and purple lighting on the track now the main gift shop
almost feels like a pride merch but it's not pride month we got like a rainbow checkered
print right there forty dollars you got rainbow pens and pencils the rainbow busch gardens water
bottle 20 bush gardens t-shirt 25 then they have a tie-dye long-sleeve shirt 40. i feel like you know
all the shipping problems i feel like busch gardens probably just got their
pride shipment in from like last year and that's what they put out because it's not like rainbow
time but they do have a light up sloth bubble wand all right guys we've made it back home i hope you
enjoyed the behind the scenes look of how the lion king was made you know i had a blast as always
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