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- 0:17Hello and welcome to the next edition of the Disney Pod.
- 0:23Lawrence, you want to know what my favorite episode is of the
- 0:26Disney Pod? Which one?
- 0:28The next one. Here we are, March 10th,
- 0:31Tuesday, March 10th, 2026. It just keeps going on and on.
- 0:37Every seven days there's another Dis pod, there's another
- 0:40Tuesdays. Yes, any day that ends in Dis is
- 0:43a good day. There you go.
- 0:45Hey, that sounds like a T-shirt. Welcome everyone listening and
- 0:48watching live. We do this live because we do it
- 0:50for you. We also do it later on for
- 0:53iHeartRadio, Amazon, Apple and Spotify.
- 0:59Nailed it. Nailed it.
- 1:01I mean, one day, one of these days, I feel like I just, I need
- 1:03to put something up. Little little cheater card.
- 1:06Right on your. Yeah, right on your monitor.
- 1:08Yeah, exactly, exactly. You know, I found out that's
- 1:11that's what these because right now things are heating up in the
- 1:14NFL for the free agent frenzy stuff and all that stuff.
- 1:17So I I kind of keep keep tuned into that.
- 1:20And you have all the reporters, you know, reporting in as news
- 1:23comes in. And I learned that the other day
- 1:25that, you know, they're all sitting home on their webcams,
- 1:30you know, on and if you know, on the NFL shows and they have
- 1:35cards too. They have cards too sometimes
- 1:38that so they can just kind of spit that information out.
- 1:41You want to be smooth. So the time change is here.
- 1:45And do we welcome it? Do we like it?
- 1:48Do we hate it? I just hate the fact that you
- 1:50got to get up earlier, but it is what it is.
- 1:52So we have to embrace it. Like right now I'm starting,
- 1:54this is the first disc pod in a long time that I have to shut
- 1:58The the, what do you call those? Those the the blinds the dark,
- 2:03the darker, the darker curtains there.
- 2:06Oh, the drapes. Yeah, yeah, I have to.
- 2:08I have to pull those closed because it's still very much
- 2:11sunny and beautiful out here in the Sunshine State.
- 2:16Yeah, same thing here. I mean, you guys, your sun, your
- 2:20son, because it's different than my son.
- 2:22Your son stays out longer than than mine does here in North
- 2:26Carolina. But yes, I was finishing up my
- 2:30work day a little bit ago and had to close the drapes because
- 2:34it was coming right in. Set the set time of year again.
- 2:39Yes, yes, yes, yes. We do like more sunlight on the
- 2:42back end though. So little give and take, yes.
- 2:46Like we had, we went to to see Starlight and like we're getting
- 2:52a position for Starlight and it was not dark.
- 2:56It was really weird but it did finally get dark.
- 2:58I think it was 815 for Starlight and then 9:30 for half labor
- 3:04after and there was only 1 Starlight on Sunday.
- 3:09But we went on Main Street. Funny enough, we went on Main
- 3:13St. Catherine, got some Starbucks
- 3:16and I was like well I'll find a spot.
- 3:18And I walked a little bit further down towards Sound
- 3:20Square, found a spot in front of the Pandora store and I was
- 3:27there maybe 2 minutes and the announcement came over.
- 3:31And I was actually worried because it was different than
- 3:34the normal pre show announcement.
- 3:37And it said that Main Street and Town Square were closed for any
- 3:43more guests, that if you wanted to see the parade, you have to
- 3:45go to Liberty Square or Frontier Land.
- 3:49And I look to my right and there was the, you know, they have it
- 3:52taped off on on the ground. I could have fit another 10
- 3:56people next to me. So I was like, that's fine.
- 3:59You can get people going over there.
- 4:01I had I had a great spot straight shot of the the parade
- 4:05so. You did and we were watching it
- 4:07too. And I don't know why, but I was
- 4:08a little bit surprised when I made that announcement that the
- 4:11hub and and all that was to capacity.
- 4:13Yeah. It was it.
- 4:15It did not feel that way, not at all.
- 4:19So. Call out my brother there in the
- 4:22chat who's having fun in the chat.
- 4:24Always appreciate the support. He says you guys are a perfect
- 4:27team. Appreciate that.
- 4:29Because he likes you. Because I like you.
- 4:32He trusts. He trusts me.
- 4:34He trusts me. But yeah, so yeah, you came.
- 4:40You came down, you had a, you're doing like a quick little recap
- 4:44of that or anything. Sure.
- 4:45How was your time? So the time was teach.
- 4:48Me something that you can do 2 scavenger hunts at once.
- 4:53Oh yeah. Oh yeah, you.
- 4:54Can watch Lawrence do this in person?
- 4:56It's it's masterful. He he rides through.
- 5:00It's one pass. If we didn't see that egg or we
- 5:03didn't see Spike the bee, we're moving on.
- 5:06We're well. Get it next time.
- 5:07I also didn't have the better half helping, but so, you know,
- 5:12if she's there, she's much better at remembering because a
- 5:15lot of times folks that the the stuff is going to be very close
- 5:19to where it was the last time, you know, and she wasn't there.
- 5:23So I'm like, well, I'm not wasting any more time.
- 5:25And you had the stream. So I was trying to help move
- 5:27that along. So we just, we just ran through
- 5:30it. But yeah, we got there late
- 5:33Friday night, early Saturday morning.
- 5:36I used my Frontier pass so I got down there for $15.41 it it cost
- 5:44me more to get to the resort than to get from North Carolina
- 5:50to Orlando. Crazy stuff, right?
- 5:55Yeah, so then we we got a a Saturday.
- 5:57We went to Epcot, did a little bit of a scavenger hunt.
- 6:01We caught some rides, really get in.
- 6:05We got in soaring, living with the land, spaceship, earth,
- 6:12imagination and something else. But, you know, it was good
- 6:17because the girls haven't been there since September.
- 6:21You know, I went in December and I went again in January, but
- 6:24those were solo trips, so they hadn't been since September.
- 6:27So I kind of let them choose what they wanted to do, you
- 6:31know, mostly. And Catherine's pretty much, you
- 6:34know, I'll, I'll go along with whatever.
- 6:36So it was really Finley who got to choose what we wanted to do.
- 6:40And she wanted to start with Spaceship Earth, but it was
- 6:43down. So we went over to Soren.
- 6:46When we got there, it said 35 minutes.
- 6:50I think we waited 25. We come out of Soren and it says
- 6:55110. I saw that I was walking away
- 6:58from the computer, and then I turned back quick.
- 7:00I was like, what? What, Tammy, What happened?
- 7:03110 I that was that was crazy, but we had we had a good time.
- 7:09Then we met up met up with with you.
- 7:11We enjoyed first weekend of Flower and Garden Festival, so a
- 7:15lot of the topiaries. So the new display in
- 7:20Communicoral Hall in Sunday, we did Magic Kingdom already
- 7:29mentioned seeing the the parade and fireworks.
- 7:34But Finley wanted to do mine trains.
- 7:36She normally she does not want to do coasters, but she wanted
- 7:40to do mine train. And we looked and it was like at
- 7:46one point it was 45 in the afternoon.
- 7:48That wasn't, that's not bad, you know, about mine train.
- 7:52In fact, that might come up on our on our game tonight.
- 7:55So thought about it, 45, it went up to 55.
- 7:59At one point it was 65. And I said, Finley, we're going
- 8:01to have to wait. I said I got it.
- 8:05What if we watch the fireworks from behind the castle and as
- 8:09soon as the last fireworks goes off, we go right over to mine
- 8:12train? Because you're right there.
- 8:15So she was a little hesitant. And then finally she she was OK
- 8:19with it. And that's exactly what we did.
- 8:21When we got to the line, it said 25 minutes and we waited 1515
- 8:27minutes for mine train. So because fireworks for 9:30
- 8:33park closes at 10 fireworks or what, 16 minutes if I remember
- 8:37correctly. So we got over there at like 955
- 8:42and walked on and we were, we were on in 10 minutes and she
- 8:46had a, she had a great time. So trust your instincts and
- 8:51maximize your time. Yeah, you, you can really learn
- 8:55a lot. You can learn a lot from the
- 8:57Disney Streamer Network. We've been teaching people for
- 9:01going on 8 years I think now on how to make their, their way
- 9:05around the parks and manage the parks.
- 9:06That was that was the main thing that this channel was based on.
- 9:10Let's show people how to do Disney better.
- 9:13And I think we do that. And you did say a comment about
- 9:17me maybe on Sunday when we were watching that, you said that I
- 9:24know how to manage the parks very, very well.
- 9:26And I took that to heart. That meant a lot to me.
- 9:30I take pride in that. Well, you know, it's it just
- 9:35there's so many people that think you can't do Disney
- 9:37without a Lightning Lane or paying for the premier pass or
- 9:42doing the single rider lightning Lane.
- 9:44And there's ways to, I get it, if that's what you want to do,
- 9:46that's fine. But Corey's in the park every
- 9:50Wednesday and Saturday. Other folks that you know, like
- 9:53theme park Giant, I don't, I don't know of another streamer
- 9:57that uses Lightning Lane that I can think of.
- 10:03Most of us don't, you know, because we go often and we just
- 10:08say, OK, well, we'll you know, we'll flip and instead of
- 10:11waiting for mine train, we'll do it at the end of the night or
- 10:15we'll rope drop Tron or we'll, you know, we'll do something to
- 10:17maximize that time. And so I just think there are
- 10:20ways to do that without spending that kind of money on Premiere
- 10:24Pass. There was somebody that said
- 10:25they did Epcot and Magic Kingdom Premiere Pass in one trip that
- 10:31had to have been at least $600 a person extra.
- 10:39That's crazy. Just don't I I just don't see
- 10:43that. I think there's so much to do in
- 10:45those parks without having to pay that kind of money, so.
- 10:49Yeah, I agree. You can really work it.
- 10:53Yeah, yeah. So and then Monday we went to
- 10:56Animal Kingdom, we picked up our annual pass holder magnet, we
- 11:02saw the new Zootopia show cause Finley and Catherine hadn't seen
- 11:07that. And then we caught winged
- 11:11encounters. The macaws at the tree of life
- 11:14happened to be starting as we were starting to walk away.
- 11:17I was like oh wait, we got to go see that.
- 11:18So got to see that and then headed over to Hollywood
- 11:22Studios, caught Frozen sing along, which is always great.
- 11:26Did the villain show. I did Star Tours and was asked
- 11:30to leave, which was the first time that I've been streaming
- 11:35and been told I couldn't stream something.
- 11:37And oh, this news came to me by text and so how?
- 11:42Did you react to it? I said I I looked at Catherine
- 11:47and I said, I said I can't film because the guy said three go to
- 11:54whatever lane, you know, he's putting us in the front.
- 11:56There was nobody in the thing and he was putting us in the
- 11:58front row and he said, he said, oh, just so you know, you can't
- 12:02film on the ride. Why do you think I'm here?
- 12:06Like what do you think I'm going to do?
- 12:09So I was like, wait, I can't film it because it's not.
- 12:13He didn't say you can have the gimbal or he said you couldn't
- 12:16film it. That which was different for me.
- 12:19First of all, I don't have film. It's not 1987, but whatever.
- 12:23So I said, oh, OK, that's that's new Catherine's like, yeah,
- 12:28that's that's a first. And so I said, OK, I'll, I'll,
- 12:33I'll go. He's like, you can take the
- 12:34bypass hallway, OK. And I left and went and what
- 12:41waited in the store for the girls to come out.
- 12:43And then I guess about the time the ride was ending, Catherine
- 12:48text me and said, do you want to, Do you want me to ask?
- 12:51I was like, yeah, sure. So she asked a coordinator and a
- 12:56coordinator said, Nope, that's incorrect.
- 12:58We apologize. And they sent Catherine to go
- 13:03get me, came back through the bypass hallway and they they let
- 13:09us ride again or they let the girls ride again and they let me
- 13:12me ride. So she said, no, that's that's
- 13:15just a new cast member who was mistaken, you know?
- 13:20And so I was like, OK, great, no worries.
- 13:23And that and that proves my point right, that, you know,
- 13:26whenever that happens, it's a new cast member and all I can
- 13:30imagine is they are the freshest out-of-the-box.
- 13:34So they are just trying to do the best they can about their
- 13:38job. Oh yeah.
- 13:40You know, and it's not, it's not that they're misinterpreting the
- 13:43rules. I mean, it's kind of in there, I
- 13:45think. But once you've been doing it a
- 13:47bit, it's a it's assumed, you know, you let everybody slide.
- 13:51And that's why I asked for a manager right away.
- 13:53I'm like, I'll mute. I tried to mute, you know, can I
- 13:56see, just see talk to a manager, you know, then if the manager's
- 13:58like, no, you can't, then it's like, OK, but a manager has
- 14:01never said that. Matter of fact, when we did
- 14:03smugglers run couple weeks back, they were yelling at me on the
- 14:08ride. It was nuts.
- 14:11That was crazy. And and then as soon as the door
- 14:13opened, when the ride was done, they were standing there ready
- 14:17to comp everybody a lightning lane without even discussion.
- 14:20Hey, we're so sorry about that. So again, I said it before, you
- 14:23know what? What happened behind the scenes
- 14:26between them telling us no and the ride ending, you know, so
- 14:30matter of fact, that ride took a little while to for us to come
- 14:33out. They probably held us there so
- 14:35that they could get there and make things right.
- 14:38Yeah, real quick now that I think that's true.
- 14:40That's true. So it's it's always just a a
- 14:43cast member that's new. Yeah.
- 14:44And I say that all the time. I'm like, it's, it's got to be a
- 14:46rookie, you know? And it turns out.
- 14:48That's the way it is. I've seen that that's had that
- 14:50happen on Star Tours. He was said to me that he
- 14:54couldn't. They wanted him to take his
- 14:56gimbal or take the phone or in his case, the camera off the
- 15:00gimbal and on his, he's got the pocket 3 and it is screwed into
- 15:05the tripod. Like it is much less safe if I
- 15:09take it off than if it's on the tripod.
- 15:13And so he, you know, kind of like me, just said OK and walked
- 15:16away, started to go through the bypass and they kind of asked
- 15:20him where you going? And they said he said, well,
- 15:24they told me I can't ride. And the coordinator stopped and
- 15:27said, wait, that's, that's incorrect.
- 15:29You, you're fine. So, you know, good on good on
- 15:33them. And if anybody wants to give her
- 15:36a cast member compliment, her name is Patricia from
- 15:41Jacksonville, FL at Star Tours. She was very, very nice.
- 15:45Handled thing very professionally and got us right
- 15:49back on the ride. So yeah.
- 15:54And then, you know, we finished our day, headed off to back to
- 15:58the resort, picked up our luggage and headed back home.
- 16:04Got home about midnight and went to work this morning and school
- 16:09this morning so some of us are a little tired.
- 16:13Oh, I was going to text you around 9:00 because Tammy was
- 16:15like, they must be home. So I guess you weren't home yet
- 16:18at 90? No, no, no, no.
- 16:21Our flight was at 8:00, so we were still in the air.
- 16:25Yeah. So we got back to the airport
- 16:28here at like 10:30 and then we had to stop and get lunch for
- 16:32Finley in the morning. So.
- 16:34But yeah, it was good Disney Mickey super fans talking about
- 16:38the the the car at rock and roller coaster.
- 16:44I did see that. I showed that on the stream on
- 16:47Monday that it's now painted. So it's.
- 16:50Oh, so you got to see it in person?
- 16:52Yeah, kind of a matte Gray with red flames on it.
- 16:55So and that may just be the start of the paint and they had
- 16:59the full guitar behind scrim there.
- 17:05So they're they're working on the on the exterior for sure.
- 17:07So excited. You know what surprised me,
- 17:11though? Nothing at Launch Bay, like
- 17:16other than the sign coming down, the exterior of the building
- 17:20still looks the same, like I'm waiting to see something happen
- 17:23there and I know that they're working on like the ground.
- 17:26You can't really see that because the walls.
- 17:27Yeah, they're tearing that up. Yeah.
- 17:29But other than that, I don't see much really happening over
- 17:32there. So I said, I said there must be
- 17:34a ton of work going on inside the building.
- 17:38Yeah, because they don't have many more months to go.
- 17:41No, no, no. That's going to be Fever,
- 17:45getting that, getting that ready, but we'll see.
- 17:48I'm excited. There's some good stuff
- 17:50happening over there. Hey, anything different you
- 17:53know, to do to just, you know, I always say you can go, you can
- 17:57go to Hollywood Studios 10 times and each day is going to be
- 18:00different. It takes one thing to make it a
- 18:01different day. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 18:06And I talked about the, the, the, the street performers,
- 18:10right? You have the Jugglers, you have
- 18:12that new band Holly Grove, although they don't perform on
- 18:16Mondays and Tuesdays, so I didn't get to hear them in
- 18:18person. And I really they have a mash up
- 18:21of oh man, it's some pop pop song and and Star Wars that they
- 18:29do really, really well. So yeah, yeah, that one's good.
- 18:34So. We need to bring back the
- 18:36actors. We need to bring back the street
- 18:37actors. I, I'm, I'm hoping this is the
- 18:42start of it. You know, I think they're kind
- 18:44of testing the jugglers and holly groove.
- 18:46And we saw Mary Poppins, Bert the Penguin, Pinocchio and
- 18:55Jiminy Cricket all out there meeting people right in the
- 18:59right in front of the the. Wow, Pinocchio, huh?
- 19:01Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, Jiminy Cricket is
- 19:04starting to become a common character.
- 19:06Yeah, I feel exactly, Exactly. Yeah, so I'm, I'm hoping, you
- 19:11know, well, especially when Animation Courtyard reopens, I
- 19:16think we're going to see some some really cool stuff there.
- 19:19I really hope so. If Disney's doing it, it it it's
- 19:26at least acceptable. You know they don't do anything
- 19:30bad. Yeah, yeah.
- 19:32That's what I say. Yeah, you never walk away and
- 19:36go, well, that was that was terrible.
- 19:39They are working on Bluey. They are working on Bluey now.
- 19:43Yep, I got inside. Word on that.
- 19:46I've got, I've got, I've got an inside track on, on Animal
- 19:49Kingdom, a big time one now. So yes, they are working on
- 19:54that. And I did peek at, since we were
- 19:57right there, and you can kind of just go down that corridor and
- 20:01see Tropical Americas. I did see the La Casita being
- 20:07built and that thing is huge. Man, that thing is.
- 20:10Oh yeah, it is. We are in for a fun time.
- 20:13You know what I realized on Saturday when we went by Animal
- 20:16Kingdom from the parking lot? That Tropical Americas is right
- 20:19there. That is the closest.
- 20:21Attraction. To the parking lot.
- 20:25Oh, OK. We didn't.
- 20:26We came in on the bus so I didn't notice it but OK.
- 20:29I wouldn't have noticed it, but the crane is right there.
- 20:32And then it drew my attention down lower and you can see a lot
- 20:36through those trees. And it made me wonder, could you
- 20:38always see a lot through those trees and see what's going on in
- 20:41that land a little bit? But or, or did they have
- 20:44something blocking it and, you know, and it came down in the
- 20:48course of construction? Yeah, that could be.
- 20:50Interesting to pay attention to that once it opens.
- 20:54Yeah. So what do we have on tap today?
- 20:59So I thought today we'd have a little fun, play a little game
- 21:03called Is It Worth It? So Corey's wearing a Star Wars
- 21:10shirt. Actually I worked today with
- 21:16this. Oh, good for you.
- 21:18And then I was like, you know what?
- 21:20I don't even know if I've worn my ET shirt yet.
- 21:24So I'm, I'm, I'm a little bit universal today.
- 21:27All right, all right. I like that.
- 21:30So. So you have a shirt for a ride
- 21:35that takes a while to get on Super Mario or anything over
- 21:39there right at Epic? Well, I mean the the right
- 21:43person to bring in for, for parkology, I don't know what
- 21:48we'd call it, but Jacob has studied epic very closely and he
- 21:51can tell you what every ride typically runs at what time of
- 21:55day. But yeah, Super Nintendo World
- 21:58is one of the heavy, heavy ones. Yeah, yeah.
- 22:00And ET typically is is not, you know, it's one of the it's, it's
- 22:04classic it and it's no thrill ride.
- 22:07So people have if choosing Hagrid's over ET typically.
- 22:12And then on my side, I have a Peter Pan shirt on and Lord
- 22:17knows Peter Pan. That was another ride friendly
- 22:21wanted to do on on Sunday. I was like, yeah, I can't figure
- 22:26that one out 'cause we, I can't do mine train and Peter Pan on
- 22:32the same day cause one of them you either got a rope drop one
- 22:35of them and and close out the park with the other.
- 22:38And we, we could only do 1. So I was like, I'm not waiting
- 22:4240 minutes for Peter Pan. Yeah, Peter, hardly, hardly.
- 22:46Let's up. Yeah.
- 22:48Yeah, exactly. Part of that is because of the
- 22:51loading. It's just, it's a very slow
- 22:53loader. It's no pirates, you know,
- 22:55Pirates fits I think something over 3000 people in an hour.
- 23:01Peter Pan's not going to be anywhere near that.
- 23:03And so that's what really is the problem.
- 23:05So the game tonight we have on on my other monitor said you
- 23:13guys can't see it. All right, So the first ride
- 23:15that comes up, ah, it's a biggie, Tron.
- 23:21OK. To 120 minutes, but I also threw
- 23:26in virtual queue. Would you rather have it on
- 23:29virtual queue? So, and that's what came up.
- 23:31So Tron for virtual queue. Would you rather wait for Tron
- 23:35on a virtual queue? Oh, I think that's an easy one.
- 23:38Yes, I think, I think I like now that they're all gone, I want to
- 23:44say that I loved virtual queues because I was really good at
- 23:47getting them. I mean, since since virtual Q
- 23:51has gone away with Cosmic Rewind, for example, have I done
- 23:56Cosmic Rewind more than three times?
- 23:58I might say no, it's hard. It's hard.
- 24:03I mean, every time you look at that, you know, Guardians is
- 24:051/10/90 minutes and I just won't wait 90, you know, even off
- 24:11stream, you know, I'll, I'll, I'll consider 60 for something
- 24:15like that. So we were on Haunted Mansion
- 24:20and virtual queue came up. So is that necessary?
- 24:24Would you rather be on virtual queue or or what do you say?
- 24:28No, I don't think it's necessary.
- 24:30There are plenty of times that I can think of that Haunted
- 24:33Mansion frees up enough, like between 15 minutes, maybe 20,
- 24:39which is rope drop. Also leading up to happily ever
- 24:46after, just after happily ever after, like immediately after
- 24:48happily ever after. And I would also say towards the
- 24:53end of the night is when you can catch that.
- 24:56So just be aware of the the app. And there's, there's a handful
- 25:01of times where Haunted Mansion will drop no matter how how high
- 25:04you see it, it will drop. So I don't think a virtual queue
- 25:07is necessary. I couldn't see a virtual queue
- 25:12being necessary for haunted and sometimes I don't know if you
- 25:15know those of you know, but you may see a 13 minute wait time on
- 25:20it. If you see that you just go
- 25:23running right over because it's not 13 minutes.
- 25:25That's their little Easter egg. That means it's actually a walk
- 25:29on. There are there are three rides
- 25:32in the parks that do that. Do you know the?
- 25:33Do you know the other two? Oh, wow, I didn't know this boy.
- 25:39What we what we what we even put that on Jungle Cruise is kind of
- 25:44funny. I'll say Jungle Cruise.
- 25:46Oh, that would be good. But no, I could see them doing
- 25:50that because it, you know, they're tongue in cheek.
- 25:52Yeah. Yeah, yeah, man, mine train.
- 25:58So mine train is one of them. Yeah, but it doesn't do 13, it
- 26:03does 7. I've never seen that.
- 26:08How cool. Once it happened once it was a,
- 26:12there was a crazy downpour but no lightning.
- 26:17So they were still running mine train and it was 7 minutes and
- 26:22it was very late at night also. So yeah, it was, it was 7
- 26:26minutes. The other one is Tower of
- 26:27Terror. So Tower of Terror will do, will
- 26:33do 13 as well. But how often does that happen?
- 26:39So yeah, no virtual Q needed for for Haunted Mansion, though,
- 26:44don't don't think that's necessary.
- 26:49All right, so the next one is going to be Remy's at 3535
- 26:56minute. Wait for Remy's standby.
- 27:01That's worth it. That's worth it.
- 27:04That's worth it, I believe. So I could see 35 especially
- 27:09like Finley wanted to do Remy's Saturday when we were there and
- 27:16we can't do single rider. I mean, technically we could at
- 27:20this point because she's 7, but I'm not going to do that, you
- 27:25know? No, she's too young.
- 27:27She's, you know, she's too young by their rules.
- 27:30That's OK, but no, we're not going to do that.
- 27:32So, you know, we would have to do it as a family.
- 27:36And so 35 minutes for me would would be fine for Yeah, I would
- 27:41agree. And and you folks can certainly
- 27:45chime in. Roderick says he would wait 35
- 27:47minutes. Absolutely.
- 27:53Yeah. And 35 is kind of our baseline
- 27:58number for, you know, if it's a busy day, 35, you just kind of
- 28:02grab something, anything higher than that.
- 28:07We're trying to plan around that possibly.
- 28:10So uh oh, what did you spend? OK, Tomorrowland Speedway, 75
- 28:21minutes. No, absolutely not.
- 28:30I don't think anyone in their right mind would sign off on
- 28:32that one. I want to know when was the last
- 28:35time Tomorrowland Speedway was 75 minutes like dude.
- 28:40I thought I saw an outrageous number the other day, but I
- 28:44can't remember exactly. I mean, it was.
- 28:47Never. It was 15 Sunday when Finley
- 28:52wanted to do it and that was tough to wait the 15 so.
- 28:56Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you, so you can beg the
- 28:59question, what, what number does it have to be for you to get in
- 29:02line for that? 20 is pushing it for me. 15 not
- 29:07a problem. 20 We're we're thinking about it, yeah.
- 29:11Yeah, I we're. Like Tammy's T-shirts, we're
- 29:136040 on that, 6060 on the no side.
- 29:17Yeah, I, I would agree. I would agree.
- 29:19And we were standing there and I was, I was streaming it and I'm
- 29:22trying to talk, you know, to people.
- 29:25And I'm like, oh, it is so loud. Can you imagine if they did go
- 29:31to electric engines? Like, what would we do with
- 29:34that? You'd actually be able to hear
- 29:36the ambient music being in Tomorrowland, but you know that
- 29:41they have a fake sound that they can use.
- 29:45Mustangs do that. They have AI, forget what it's
- 29:48called, a Eco EcoBoost I think it's called.
- 29:52So it's a Mustang, but it doesn't really have that
- 29:54powerful of an engine. So they pump in the engine noise
- 29:58inside the cabin so that it feels like you're driving a more
- 30:04muscular. Car.
- 30:04Really. I didn't know that.
- 30:06Yeah, it's very weird. It's not the model I would get
- 30:12all right. We have frozen sing along. 60
- 30:21minute wait. No, not worth it.
- 30:28Not worth it. It used to be that much of A
- 30:32wait, like everything would fill up, every seat would fill up.
- 30:36You had to be there a show ahead of time in order to get in.
- 30:42You know, lightning. Like that's another one people
- 30:44always like. Should I get lightning for that?
- 30:46No, Don't waste the lightning lane on that.
- 30:49Absolutely not. We walked in maybe maybe 15
- 30:58minutes before the show started on Monday and got a great seat
- 31:04couple rows back. So yeah, no, don't, don't, don't
- 31:07waste your time or your Lightning lane on that one.
- 31:10It's a great show, totally worth doing every time because the
- 31:13show changes every time. But no, don't waste, don't waste
- 31:18time on that one. Yeah, it's like Miss Mel said,
- 31:21check the show times on that. You can find one that may be
- 31:24time it where they're just starting to go in or they've
- 31:26they're just about ready to start and you can you can find a
- 31:29seat. Since we've been, since we've
- 31:31made our return back to it and doing it live, we have had no
- 31:35problems at all sitting even right in the back row where we'd
- 31:38like to be. Yeah, yeah, I did 1 sitting
- 31:40right up against the the booth and that was that was real nice
- 31:45because I don't have to worry about anybody being behind me or
- 31:48anything like that. How cool was it for you and
- 31:51others for the seats that we sat in for Beauty and the Beast?
- 31:55I mean, we were right behind the control boards and all that
- 31:59stuff and something went wrong that.
- 32:02Was also too, yeah. And all of that, you know, and I
- 32:06tried to show a quick close up of the different screens and all
- 32:08that. I'd spend more time on that, but
- 32:11I don't know if Disney wants you doing that.
- 32:13So I'd get it. But yeah, it was cool to watch
- 32:17them. Like they all looked at each
- 32:18other. They stopped and they just
- 32:20looked at each other and they're like, I don't know, you know?
- 32:23And then who is probably a supervisor came up into the
- 32:25booth and looked at some screens, gave some direction and
- 32:30it the the the show came back to life for anybody.
- 32:33They didn't know they were singing.
- 32:35It was one of the beginner beginning songs and the audio
- 32:39just went out. And kudos to the cast members.
- 32:41The show went on like they didn't miss a beat.
- 32:43They finished and even though they weren't miked and they went
- 32:46off stage and that's when I don't know if they were going to
- 32:49cancel the show from there or or not, but they did a good job.
- 32:54Yeah, they did. They did a good job.
- 32:56You know, the, the show must go on as they say, and things
- 33:01happen, right? They, they happen to us, they
- 33:03happen to them. It, it, it happens.
- 33:05But no, it is cool, especially, you know, for a techie guy with
- 33:09all the stuff on my desk to be able to see the production.
- 33:15And actually for Frozen, they made us walk past the booth to
- 33:19the left side and then go down. So we were able to see, see the,
- 33:25the board there. I would like to see backstage
- 33:27too. That was my the other area that
- 33:30I controlled when I was in high school.
- 33:33The sound room and the and the lights which were all backstage
- 33:38and and the curtain guys were under my department also.
- 33:47Oh yeah, yeah, hey, yeah, yeah. And Jacob's done some theater
- 33:51backstage and all that stuff too.
- 33:54All the prepping, building of the sets and stuff like that.
- 33:58He enjoyed it for a while. I thought that's what I was
- 34:01going to do in, you know, for work, but didn't happen.
- 34:07Navi River Journey 45. That's that's a, that's a tough
- 34:16one. I mean, we can't, we, we can't
- 34:19like give quick, obvious answers for everything, right?
- 34:22So if you in a vacuum, you'd say no.
- 34:25But if that's 45, you have to consider the, the entire park is
- 34:29busy, right? How about that, that the park is
- 34:34busy. If if anybody doesn't realize
- 34:37this, first of all, when I open up the the Disney Experience
- 34:41app, do you do what I do? How many people do this?
- 34:44You open it up for ride times. Do you start at the top and work
- 34:47your way down? No, I flip it right to the
- 34:49bottom. I want to see the worst of the
- 34:51worst and then I'll work my way from the highest wait time to
- 34:55the lower and some rides will tell it all OK.
- 35:01Is the park busy? If Small World is 20 minutes,
- 35:08no. No, it's kind of right in the
- 35:13middle. OK, Dumbo is 30.
- 35:17That's a busy day. See.
- 35:19So there, there are, there are. You can figure out how the park
- 35:23is doing sometimes just by one ride.
- 35:25Yeah. It's that reaction you have.
- 35:26You go, oh, Dumbo's 35. Yeah, OK.
- 35:30People are filtering to other things because everything else
- 35:33is much higher, right? So not Navi River Journey 45,
- 35:38we've done that quite recently I thought.
- 35:42And it was just because, you know, it's probably towards the
- 35:45end of the night, there really wasn't much way to go.
- 35:50So, you know, you just sit back, relax and kind of just enjoy
- 35:54your time in the queue and all that.
- 35:56So I think we did it and it was fine.
- 35:58And you know, believe it or not, that time goes by faster than
- 36:01you think. Never feels like that, right?
- 36:06It does. You know, you're playing, you're
- 36:08talking with your family or you're playing, excuse me,
- 36:11You're playing games. A lot of people do the heads up
- 36:13game, you know, with their family and stuff like that.
- 36:17You're recapping your day, you know, stuff like that.
- 36:22Yeah, especially we know when we're live, it's like, OK, let
- 36:25me let me interact with the chat, you know, a little bit
- 36:28more. Let's let's keep everyone's
- 36:30interest, but when say we're just hanging out on a non
- 36:33streaming day, it's a chance for me to just kind of kick back,
- 36:36lean against the wall of the railing, relax, talk with you,
- 36:39talk with Catherine, talk with Tammy Jacob, whoever's with us
- 36:42and just kind of it's a relaxing moment.
- 36:44Actually, I think sometimes sometimes I felt like the last
- 36:48few times we have been to the park without streaming that in a
- 36:53way it's almost welcomed a little bit like, OK, we've been
- 36:55we've been moving from ride to ride.
- 36:57We've been on the move for a few hours.
- 36:58All right, let's just kind of chill here for 30 minutes and
- 37:02and kind of relax for a moment. So it's not always bad.
- 37:05It's not always a bad thing. So yeah, if if circumstances
- 37:08presented themselves in those ways, I think 45 minutes no more
- 37:12is fine for Navi River journey. Yeah, yeah.
- 37:15And you know, like you said, use that time, you know, to
- 37:21decompress almost, you know, because you, you probably didn't
- 37:25rope drop it and it's 45. So it's probably the end of the
- 37:28day and you can kind of recap and.
- 37:31Yeah, you've kind of satisfied with what you've done for the
- 37:34day. Yeah, it probably wouldn't be a
- 37:39midday thing. 45 minutes for that has to be end of day like
- 37:43this is our final ride. Yeah, yeah, All right.
- 37:50Slinky Dog Dash at 35. Oh, all day, all day long.
- 37:57Give me that. Can I please?
- 37:59Have slinky dog at 30. 5 minutes.
- 38:00We will welcome Slinky Dog at 35 minutes.
- 38:04So here's my question because I was thinking about this Monday
- 38:10when I was at Hollywood Studios. The next attraction to open at
- 38:15Hollywood Studios is going to be the Magic of Disney Animation.
- 38:21Well, it might be rock and roller coaster, but let's let's
- 38:25say it's it's a world of Disney animation or the magic of Disney
- 38:29animation. What ride does that ease up wait
- 38:35times on the most when that opens?
- 38:39What a great question. It's not going to be Slinky Dog
- 38:42that is such a staple. I don't think that's going to
- 38:45get relief from those attractions, but something has
- 38:50to right. You know, Star Tours maybe
- 38:54saying that 5 or 10 minutes. Oh no, wait, that already
- 38:56happens. Good old reliable Star Tours,
- 39:01which we love and and it's always our go to, but there has
- 39:05to be something right, Wait times.
- 39:09I don't know, I kind of point to it's tough because you think of
- 39:16the dynamics of the the area, right?
- 39:20I think that Mania is great on its own for our family, for the
- 39:25competition aspect. But you're, you know, you go
- 39:28over, you check in on Slinky or you, you're going to go on
- 39:31Slinky. I don't think anybody leaves
- 39:34Slinky and bypasses Mania because it's just there.
- 39:39Yeah, I think it gets the traffic, you know.
- 39:41So man, what do you think? I'm thinking kind of in Galaxy's
- 39:46Edge maybe smugglers run you shave about 10 minutes on
- 39:50average throughout the day on that for a little while.
- 39:53I think my thought was Mania. I thought because it's because
- 39:57of what it is, right? You know, it's kind of that
- 40:01family. It's certainly going to be
- 40:02geared towards families. That whole area really is.
- 40:06So I think I was thinking mania. But Mike might have the answer.
- 40:10He says Mickey and Minnie's because it's right there, yeah.
- 40:16And. It's family.
- 40:19I wonder if that I I bet that might be the one, but it.
- 40:23Might have a little dip in wait time.
- 40:25Yeah, Frozen might be a little less busy, maybe Indie might be
- 40:32a little less full. I don't know.
- 40:36Orange Grove, good to see you. Now what about when the Doors
- 40:40coaster opens up? Because I, I, you know, you, it
- 40:46could be rock and roller coaster, it could be slinky dog,
- 40:49it could be both. I, I think, I think the The
- 40:54Monsters Inc door coaster probably becomes the longest
- 41:00wait in the park. However, they're going to do it
- 41:04on virtual cue for a while. How could they not?
- 41:08Right? The doors coaster when that
- 41:09opens has to go to, has to go to virtual queue.
- 41:15They would be crazy not to. You can't do that at standby.
- 41:21Which one again? The doors coaster.
- 41:23But monsters, but I was managing all of this.
- 41:26Oh yeah, that's good. That's automatic, right?
- 41:28That's going to go virtual queue.
- 41:29Yeah. And when?
- 41:30So when, when that, when that happens, I think you'll see
- 41:35more, you'll see a difference in on more attractions.
- 41:40You think I think that that'll have the biggest impact on the
- 41:43problem. And also think about this.
- 41:45It's not a replacement of a ride.
- 41:48It's a brand new ride, right? Which let's be honest, Hollywood
- 41:53Studios is needed another addition to, you know, when they
- 41:58open Galaxy's Edge, they took stuff away.
- 42:00When they open Toy Story Land, they took stuff away.
- 42:04You know, Magic of a Disney Animation is a replacement of of
- 42:08another attraction. So Monsters Coaster is the first
- 42:12one that's really a new ride that isn't replacing anything.
- 42:16So I think it's going to absorb a lot of people.
- 42:20Yes, yes, for sure. You know, for distance wise you
- 42:24may get a little bit of a dip in Tower of Terror maybe.
- 42:31Because it's so far away from the rest of it.
- 42:33Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, the newer stuff, yeah,
- 42:37it's really tucked away, you know?
- 42:38That's a good point. It may, it may have a a big
- 42:42effect on that. I'd be OK with that.
- 42:44I'm OK with that. Yeah.
- 42:49And and you know, I was looking at the artist rendering of of
- 42:53that whole area monsters there. That coaster is so far back
- 42:58there like it's way back there. The artist rendering, of course,
- 43:04doesn't show where the where the queue is going to be.
- 43:11I wonder where, you know, are they going to do it in front of
- 43:13the building itself? Are you going to come all the
- 43:16way back to where the the Glob Theatre is?
- 43:20It was nice to see the the work going on in the Glob Theatre
- 43:23because you could tell where they chiseled away the brick.
- 43:28I don't think, I don't think that building's real brick on
- 43:31the outside either. But where they took away the
- 43:34brick, you could see they're starting to to make the form for
- 43:40the new marquee and, and everything that's going to be
- 43:42there. So they're working really hard.
- 43:46They're working really hard. August, I was telling people on
- 43:49a Monday that I'm excited for D-23 because Corey and I will do
- 43:57a show before D-23 kind of giving our speculation, maybe
- 44:01what we think, what we think we're going to hear.
- 44:04Maybe we're inventive enough to come up with some names for some
- 44:09of the the attractions or the restaurants or something like
- 44:13that. And then the week after we'll do
- 44:19a recap of everything. But what we'll do Saturday of
- 44:25D-23 weekend is still up in the air.
- 44:28I was telling them that maybe I do live cut insurance.
- 44:32Like if you were waiting for an attraction and we get a big
- 44:34announcement, excuse me, I'll do a big splash with a, with a
- 44:40Stinger and cut in and, and give the update right there.
- 44:44Live while living in business at a park or at Disney Springs or
- 44:48whatever. Yeah, that's perfect.
- 44:51That's a must do. Yeah, yeah, So should be, should
- 44:56be a lot of fun. All right.
- 44:59Guardians of the Galaxy at 120 minutes.
- 45:04No, because I haven't even at 110.
- 45:08Excuse me, 110 and 90. I won't do that now where I
- 45:11haven't seen Guardians in a long time.
- 45:18I just can't do 90, man. I know it's only 10 minute
- 45:21difference, 80. I would probably do it if we
- 45:24showed up at the park a little previously to go to streaming.
- 45:29I'd be willing to jump in that at this moment and then maybe go
- 45:33live when we're like 20 minutes out.
- 45:35That was going to be my question is, is because I'm I know your
- 45:38head will go straight to I can't wait 80 minutes, you know, with
- 45:44the stream. So good to good to know.
- 45:46OK, All right. Yeah, I have waited that long
- 45:51only because it was posted at 65.
- 45:56And then it just kind of started to crawl once we were in there.
- 46:00And it's like, well, I, you know, I think it was the last
- 46:03ride, if I'm not mistaken, I think it was the last ride we
- 46:05were doing that day. And I was like, I just got to go
- 46:09for it. So we'd ended up being about 90
- 46:12minutes. But dude, that was that was
- 46:14tough. Should kind of preface it
- 46:17though, too, right? Because because I'm here all the
- 46:19time, I, I can have very different opinions to those who
- 46:23are here on vacation. So that's true if you're on
- 46:25vacation. If I if I was on vacation and I
- 46:27wasn't coming back for a year or two or even 6 months, I would
- 46:31wait two hours for guardians or that's where I'd probably
- 46:35purchase a Lightning lane so that I could get that one.
- 46:40And that, you know, that's that's a good point.
- 46:41We probably should have said that at the beginning.
- 46:43Like, you know, it is different for those of us that are annual
- 46:46pass holders that work the park a little bit differently that
- 46:49once a week or once a year trip or once in a lifetime trip can
- 46:54be very different. And maybe that's where you do
- 46:58get Lightning Lane. But, and I made this suggestion
- 47:03to someone who asks in chat on Monday about that.
- 47:07And my suggestion was get lightning lane, get, you know,
- 47:10the right don't get the premier pass.
- 47:12I just I guess if you got that money, go for it.
- 47:15But do lightning lane the multi pass, but then also maximize it
- 47:22right with some of the tips that Corey and I and others that are
- 47:25in the the network can give you. Wait until after fireworks to go
- 47:30do mind train and then don't use the lightning lane on mine
- 47:35train. You've got, you know, you can do
- 47:36other stuff. So for example, we didn't do
- 47:38Tron, we didn't do space mountain on on a Sunday.
- 47:42And so you can do those other rides and be able to to really
- 47:48maximize your full day. And I think that's really the,
- 47:54the, the, the, the biggest tip for someone that's out that's
- 47:58going that doesn't always go like Corey and I and others that
- 48:01that are lucky enough to go that that many times.
- 48:04So yeah, you can do both, but maximize your your time by
- 48:09adding in a lot of these tips. Two shows of Fantasmic.
- 48:15What's the tip there? Don't do the first one point
- 48:20Blake, period. I, I overheard a family planning
- 48:25and I don't know if you heard any of this on stream, can't
- 48:28remember what it was. Obviously it was a Hollywood
- 48:29studio stream maybe at least a couple ago, two or three.
- 48:33And I heard a family planning for the next day and they were
- 48:39talking about Hollywood. So maybe I wasn't even at
- 48:40Hollywood, but they were talking about, oh, we're going to be at
- 48:42Hollywood tomorrow or it was the that actual afternoon.
- 48:46Whatever it was, I didn't like what I heard and I felt like I
- 48:49had to advise them at least give them an option.
- 48:53And I think it was about that. I think they were talking about,
- 48:56well, we got to get over to, you know, Fantasmic where?
- 49:00Or maybe it was like, oh, we're going to miss an attraction
- 49:01because we got to get over to Fantasmic the first show.
- 49:05And I was like, you know, and then we got to get back to the
- 49:07resort or something. I was like, no, I said no, do
- 49:10what you got to do and then just go see the second show.
- 49:14You're going to save part time and you're just going to walk
- 49:16right in that show. We literally walk in now lately,
- 49:20what, 2-3 minutes to go, like we're pushing the envelope and
- 49:23there's a half a stadium open. Yeah, Mickey's standing on,
- 49:27standing on the stage like this one.
- 49:29Where's Cara? Where's Cara?
- 49:30Just waiting for us and then as soon as he sees us sit.
- 49:33Soon as my cheeks hit the seat. And and not you're not sitting
- 49:39in the cheap seats in the back. You're not sitting on the
- 49:42extreme corners either. I'm getting the exact seat that
- 49:46I want a lot of times. Front, not front, but center.
- 49:50Yeah. So yeah, don't do the first
- 49:53show, use that. And and here's the other thing,
- 49:56that second show is normally after the park closes, which
- 50:01means what are you missing out on?
- 50:03Nothing. So if your family can stand it,
- 50:07do the second show and use that time.
- 50:12And I, I tell you, this is what happened to us.
- 50:14So Fantasmic was about to start. People line up for that show.
- 50:19I saw a tip in one of the groups I'm in.
- 50:22Somebody said, you know, how long before Fantasmic do I have
- 50:25to get there? And that's all they said.
- 50:27They didn't say what day, they didn't say if there were two
- 50:29shows or whatever. And somebody said at least you
- 50:32want to be there at least 90 minutes before the show starts,
- 50:3690 minutes. Did you fall over and hit your
- 50:40head and get a concussion? I would like 90 minutes, folks,
- 50:43do not wait 90 minutes to go see Fantastic.
- 50:46That show happens. That show happens every day.
- 50:50There's no reason for it. And what we did during during, I
- 50:55guess it was when we were there in September, we were able to do
- 51:00Ryze Tower. Well, Ryze, Mickey and Minnie's
- 51:05Runaway Railway and Tower, all in the time before Fantasmic.
- 51:11Because we had, we bypassed the first show, went and started at
- 51:16Ryze. Ryze was a walk on.
- 51:18The only time it took to wait for Ryze was the time that it
- 51:22takes to get through the long click queue.
- 51:25Then we went to Mickey and Minnie's, which was maybe 15
- 51:29minutes because everybody was still in Fantasmic.
- 51:34And then we were right up, went right over the Tower of Terror
- 51:36right at Park close and then got out of there at 9:20 and went up
- 51:42to a walked right there to Fantasmic.
- 51:48And then, you know, there's there's those weird times when
- 51:50you have one show of Fantasmic. So when that happens, I would
- 51:54say, first of all, I go, oh, so say it starts at 8:30.
- 51:59I'm kind of getting in line about 8:10 at the latest 8810
- 52:05and you're still, you may sit at the very end of the main stadium
- 52:09seats, but you'll still get it. Yeah.
- 52:12Yeah. So there's no need to do 60
- 52:13minutes before or anything like that?
- 52:16No. You can do the same thing with
- 52:19Starlight. There's two showings of
- 52:20Starlight so you can skip one and and make the other.
- 52:26I I'm a fan of Starlight so I probably would not skip one.
- 52:30I might watch both, trying to think if there's any other.
- 52:36Well, you can't do that with Luminous, but Luminous is at
- 52:40park closed, so typically you don't have to worry about that.
- 52:44Yeah, I heard that. I don't even know where I heard
- 52:48this from. I heard that they were permits
- 52:50filed to demolition the LIDVIP box viewing box.
- 52:55Do we know anything about this? Am I making it up?
- 52:58Because that would be detrimental.
- 53:01I have not heard that. Yeah, let's hope not, because
- 53:04that's my spot. No, I haven't.
- 53:06I haven't heard that. I mean the boardwalk is staying
- 53:12that whole area behind that air that that stand and the others
- 53:18that are on that side, that whole areas thing.
- 53:20So I don't if the areas thing I don't there.
- 53:22Would be no reason to get rid of that.
- 53:23Yeah, I don't think they would. Yeah, and you wouldn't do that
- 53:26just to gain, you know, another 70 people or something, Max.
- 53:33I wouldn't even think. I wouldn't even think it was
- 53:35they'd be doing it for for any of that reason.
- 53:39I think just logistically, if they are reconfiguring that
- 53:44boardwalk area, then maybe they might do that.
- 53:49But I, I don't know. I don't know.
- 53:52I'll try and find out. Go with Dave.
- 53:54Hello. Yeah, you got me thinking now.
- 54:00I'm going to have to do some research on that.
- 54:02Yeah, I don't know if it's something Jacob brought to my
- 54:04attention or or what. I don't think I made it up.
- 54:10I just realized that I did not have any Dole Whip this past
- 54:14weekend. Oh no.
- 54:17And I walked right by. I walked right by both of them.
- 54:21Hope Dave's sitting down. It has been a while since we've
- 54:24had an upside down Dole Whip, which is the only way to go.
- 54:28The swirl. Well, it's also just starting to
- 54:31get warmer. You know, we're coming out of
- 54:34out of the winter. I have said maybe on a Saturdays
- 54:38or something when there's nothing new to try, I gotta get
- 54:41back. I gotta, I gotta just grab a
- 54:43Mickey bar. It's been so long.
- 54:45Wow, it's been so long. Yeah, Mickey bars, Mickey bars,
- 54:50which we're going to get Mickey bars every night on the cruise
- 54:55just because we can. You got to try the ice cream
- 54:58though too. The soft serve is great.
- 55:02Oh, there's like a banana something.
- 55:03Yeah, it's banana. Yeah, it's a banana swirl and Oh
- 55:06yeah, over. Those are you joining?
- 55:08Are you joining the morning walking group?
- 55:10That's what I want to know. Jacob and I were talking about
- 55:12if they have a track, we we got to walk it got to walk in the
- 55:15morning so you can prepare. You want me to do what all day?
- 55:18You got to put 1 foot in front of the.
- 55:21Other folks, it's time to go say goodnight because Corey wants me
- 55:23to go walking every morning. I know, Steve.
- 55:26I. Won't even walk on land.
- 55:28He wants me to walk on the water.
- 55:31Like, no, no, I don't know. I might.
- 55:35We'll see. We'll see.
- 55:37We'll see. Yeah, we'll see if I do it too.
- 55:39I've got to do it. I got to hit the gym.
- 55:41They got to counteract the food I'm going to eat if.
- 55:44If I'm going to wake up that early too, now the food is the
- 55:49food is good. You will.
- 55:50You will definitely enjoy the food.
- 55:53Oh, yeah, we're going to go to town.
- 55:56How about this? I have a quick question about
- 55:57this. What is the earliest that they
- 56:00let you off the ship to hit the island?
- 56:02Because we were talking about that as a family the other day
- 56:05because we want to maximize our time because our dinner is at
- 56:085:30. So you need to.
- 56:10You need to get there. Well, the dinner wouldn't really
- 56:14have any any you have to be back on the ship by whatever time it
- 56:19is 444430 Yeah, so but you but you still, you know, trying to
- 56:24maximize the time on the island. But it's.
- 56:26Yeah, I just have to get ready. I think I saw people out there
- 56:31as early as nine. Really depends on what time you
- 56:35dock. But but I think I saw people out
- 56:39there about about as early as nine.
- 56:41Yeah. OK.
- 56:43Very good. Yeah, we are 147 days, 4 hours
- 56:48and 8 minutes away from our cruise.
- 56:53What's? Going to happen.
- 56:54Dole Whip. Dave is surprised that you're
- 56:55going. I don't know where he's been.
- 56:57Where have you been? Don't you talked about this?
- 57:00He yeah, he has Dole Whip in his ears, which wouldn't be
- 57:05surprising, right? He he might come out of your
- 57:07ears. We we love, we love Dole Whip,
- 57:10Dave, but yeah, there's a lot of us going.
- 57:13There's like 20 people going. So it's an LID Disney Cruise.
- 57:17Yeah, it's going to be. We may, We may.
- 57:18Do more of those in the future. Going to be a lot of.
- 57:21Fun all goes well. Yes, I have a 5K on the ship,
- 57:25why not Steve? We've done 5 KS together.
- 57:27Steve and I did the Turkey Trot. That's right.
- 57:29That's right, without. Trying without trying.
- 57:33So we talked about, you know, is it worth it and you guys doing?
- 57:36Early dinner. We're all doing early dinner.
- 57:39Yeah, we're, we're booked. Yes, Catherine, we're we're
- 57:41booked for the early dinner this time.
- 57:45Because then you can go enjoy the show after that.
- 57:49Why? Why can't I enjoy the show
- 57:50before then? Don't.
- 57:52You like to just eat and then sit back and watch a show?
- 57:55I don't know. You don't do movie and a dinner,
- 57:58right? You do dinner and a movie.
- 58:00Oh, Catherine will. She'll she'll put it in chat in
- 58:03a second. She will disagree with you that
- 58:06you do movie and a dinner if if it's a date.
- 58:10Do you know why? Let's see.
- 58:17No, I don't know why it must have to do with like getting
- 58:19getting food on yourself or. Something.
- 58:21No, no. It's so that you have something
- 58:24to talk about at dinner. So if you, if you have nothing
- 58:29to talk, you know if it's like a first date or something like
- 58:30that, you're not. Good at conversation.
- 58:32Right, right. You have something to to talk
- 58:34about? Yeah, she told, she told me
- 58:39that. Oh, gosh, in 2007.
- 58:44How about that? So we talked about the the wait
- 58:49times tonight. And so this is the Disney
- 58:52Streamer network app that we that David Pyle created for wait
- 58:58times. And the great thing is that it
- 59:00shows you not only the wait times, but it shows you the
- 59:06trend as well. So you can see that ride there
- 59:12is at Oh. That's what the arrow means.
- 59:14Yeah, smugglers is 25 minutes and it's going up OK, so the
- 59:18wait times are rising. If it has a down arrow then it
- 59:22means it's trending down and the cool thing is that if.
- 59:26Let me pick a big one here. So if Rise is currently 50
- 59:31minutes and it's hard to see that.
- 59:33So Rise is currently a. Little bit right there.
- 59:36Rise is currently 50 minutes. I can set an alert and say I
- 59:40want to know when it hits 30 minutes and now it's going to
- 59:46tell me when it hits 30 minutes and I use that over the weekend
- 59:49while I was in the parks. Work great.
- 59:52If a ride is down and you want to know when it comes back up it
- 59:57will do the same thing. You can set alert and it will
- 59:59tell you when the ride comes back up so.
- 1:00:02It works really well and I tried it over the weekend when we were
- 1:00:05watching your stream on Sunday. I downloaded it with the family,
- 1:00:10so we all have it now and it gives me a little more Peace of
- 1:00:13Mind when I'm streaming. I can be like, OK, let's keep an
- 1:00:15eye on a few of these things and I'll tag them and now I'll know
- 1:00:19without really trying. And I don't know if you knew
- 1:00:24this, but it will carry you over to the next day.
- 1:00:26Now, once that alert hits, does it die?
- 1:00:28Does it kind of reset? Yes, so.
- 1:00:32I, I got an alert on Monday that Space Mountain went down or
- 1:00:36something went down. It's now down to 30 minutes and
- 1:00:39I'm like, I'm working. I'm like, oh, I saw that
- 1:00:41yesterday. Right, same thing happened to
- 1:00:44us. I set it for test track.
- 1:00:45I was just testing it and I set it to test track for for 20
- 1:00:50minutes. And finally Monday night, we're
- 1:00:52on the plane. No, no, we had already arrived
- 1:00:57here in Raleigh. And it gives me the alert.
- 1:01:00Test track is now 20 minutes. And Catherine and I looked at
- 1:01:03each other like, it's 1044, why would I be getting this?
- 1:01:08The parks closed. And then we realized, oh, it's
- 1:01:11extended evening hours. So it's from Saturday till
- 1:01:15Sunday till Monday at extended evening hours to finally tell
- 1:01:19us, OK, test track is is 20 minutes.
- 1:01:21So that's how long test track was busy.
- 1:01:23Yeah. So that is people are asking.
- 1:01:26That is part of the Disney Streamer Network.
- 1:01:28So if you go to dsn.disneystreams.com, you can
- 1:01:31download that app. That's the wait times app.
- 1:01:34You can download the Disney Streamer Network app.
- 1:01:37You can download the wait times app.
- 1:01:40That's what that looks like there.
- 1:01:42It's a white app. Yep.
- 1:01:44And I'm telling you, it's, it's phenomenal.
- 1:01:48I love it, game changer. Yep, Yep.
- 1:01:50So make sure to use that for whether you're in the park,
- 1:01:53whether you're at home, you just want to see.
- 1:01:56He also has it where it's the map as well.
- 1:01:59So if you don't want the list, if you don't want the list.
- 1:02:03I like the map over the list. You can also do.
- 1:02:05That I like that. Yeah.
- 1:02:07Show them that. So that's Magic Kingdom and the
- 1:02:09same thing can happen, right? You see that one is red there,
- 1:02:12so that's probably Space Mountain up.
- 1:02:17Space Mountain is down, so I could set an alert and and know
- 1:02:21when it comes back up. But here I've got Tron at like
- 1:02:24105 minutes. I can set the alert right from
- 1:02:28right from the end, from there, right from the map.
- 1:02:30Choice there. So you know you got yellow,
- 1:02:32which is pretty good, and then you have green, which is even
- 1:02:34better for wait time. So they're color-coded.
- 1:02:37That's right. Exactly right.
- 1:02:39So, yeah, very cool app. I will continue to talk about
- 1:02:42that because I think that's a great resource for all of you.
- 1:02:46Oh, I have to do some testing tomorrow night.
- 1:02:48Remind me. Steve had a great idea, he said.
- 1:02:51Can you set an alert on your meta glasses?
- 1:02:54OK, so if they're on and running I would guess that if the alert
- 1:02:59came up that it would tell me, so maybe I'll set 1.
- 1:03:04Do the glasses? Yeah, test it.
- 1:03:06Do the glasses give you random notifications or does does it
- 1:03:11give you just text? You know, it's likely that it
- 1:03:15won't. It gives me text, it'll give me
- 1:03:17like Instagram messages, things like that.
- 1:03:20So it might not give that one, but I just.
- 1:03:22Wonder like your Ring doorbell, If it gives you that then.
- 1:03:25I would say OK, it does. OK, so it might give you.
- 1:03:28It does chime in my ear if if someone's at the door.
- 1:03:32It might do that. That's probably pretty handy.
- 1:03:35You don't even have to get up. You don't even have to look at
- 1:03:36your phone down. No smiley's at your door.
- 1:03:38What about? That and and something nobody
- 1:03:40would know when Lawrence text me when we're live, if we need to
- 1:03:43communicate, I'm not missing a text from you anymore because
- 1:03:47I'm getting it in my ear. It's like Lawrence is speaking
- 1:03:50in my ear because it will speak the text.
- 1:03:52It's pretty cool. And I get a little flashing
- 1:03:53light on the inside of the lens. So that's what alerts me that
- 1:03:57something's coming through. No one's doing that in the park.
- 1:04:02You know, Corey and I, because we, the way we produce the live
- 1:04:05streams, we had talked about like looking at radios, walkie
- 1:04:12talkies, that we would be able to do that, but then he would
- 1:04:14have to have an earpiece, you know, and this is pretty close
- 1:04:20to what we were thinking, you know?
- 1:04:22Yeah, it's pretty much there. It's, it's just, he's just not
- 1:04:26hearing it in my voice, which is fine, although my voice is now
- 1:04:32I, I became the voice of my company's phone system.
- 1:04:35So when people call our phones nationwide, they hear my, they
- 1:04:39hear my voice. That started today.
- 1:04:41And I had to call to see it, to hear it.
- 1:04:43I was like, it's weird. Probably like when you were on
- 1:04:49Park World's radio, you know, like, hey, that's me.
- 1:04:51You know I'm back, right? I'm back.
- 1:04:53I've heard that, yeah, it's like the other day.
- 1:04:55Stronger than ever. So and it's so funny that the
- 1:05:00family is so used to it, but I I'm still pumping fists and
- 1:05:02everything like even today it can't I, I heard it ramping up
- 1:05:05coming on. I'm like, it's an honor.
- 1:05:09It's fun. It's fun to hear it.
- 1:05:11Yeah, yeah, Murray, that's the Disney Streamer Network app.
- 1:05:15So you can go there and go to park Companion.
- 1:05:18It's called when you go to dsn.disneystreams.com, go to
- 1:05:21Park Companion and that's what that that app is called.
- 1:05:25Very, very handy. If you wanted to do a full park
- 1:05:28challenge, you can make your log in there.
- 1:05:30Those rest that are annual pass holders that are like how many
- 1:05:33times have I been to the park? You can log your park visits
- 1:05:36there. If you want to log your wait
- 1:05:38times, like sometimes Corey and I will compare, you know what it
- 1:05:42says 45 minutes standby, let's track it.
- 1:05:45You can track that in there as well.
- 1:05:47And David also has the history of the park wait times for like
- 1:05:52I think it's up for like 2 days. So you can look and see, you
- 1:05:56know, where has the park or go back and go, OK, if I wait until
- 1:06:019:00, maybe that's the best time to ride test track because look
- 1:06:05at the last couple days, it's gone down to 30 minutes right at
- 1:06:099:00 or whatever time. So yeah, that's some cool stuff
- 1:06:13in there. And as always, if you have ideas
- 1:06:17about that app, something you want to see in it, let us know
- 1:06:20disneystreamernetwork@gmail.com and I'll get that over to Pyle
- 1:06:25and and he'll look at it. Let's see, I wanted to address
- 1:06:29something in chat. Everybody wants to get meta
- 1:06:33glasses now. I see that you got to get it
- 1:06:35now. Magical Mike wanted to know how
- 1:06:37much the meta glasses are. Go to raybanmeta.com and check
- 1:06:40it out. I want to say 3/25, 3:50 and
- 1:06:43they have payment plans so they really aren't that bad.
- 1:06:48Mine are much more because mine are prescription and I have one
- 1:06:51of the more expensive prescriptions so so the lenses.
- 1:06:54The lenses cost way more than than the entire system.
- 1:06:59Yeah, Yeah, that's, that's typical even with, you know,
- 1:07:02regular glasses that tends to happen.
- 1:07:05I tend to get, you know, frames that aren't that expensive and
- 1:07:09then the lens was always. Yeah, the lens knocks you out,
- 1:07:12man. So we have to get bifocal and
- 1:07:14non. You know where you don't get?
- 1:07:17Glare protect and all that. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:07:22Yeah, that's what happens when you when you get to be 30.
- 1:07:25What's up, Josh, Ari says the gentleman with the best shirts.
- 1:07:28Oh, thank you, Thank you. I got my ET on.
- 1:07:31Now I, I mean, I'm all listen, I'm, I'm hearing things, I'm
- 1:07:35hearing that ET is closing for good.
- 1:07:37No. No, I didn't think so.
- 1:07:41It's just refurbishment. Right.
- 1:07:42It's a refurb, yeah. Because OK, I mean, I had a guy,
- 1:07:47I had a guy tell me that the guy that I told you that I know now
- 1:07:50that had a a lot to do with design of epic and everything.
- 1:07:54He tells me the other day he's like, oh, ETETS done, it's done.
- 1:07:58It's closing a good. I'm like, I don't think so.
- 1:08:02I don't. I don't think so.
- 1:08:04I. Don't think so either.
- 1:08:05They've said it's a refurb. I I don't know why they would
- 1:08:07say that. And I mean, look, they when they
- 1:08:10tore down RIP ride rocket, it was like, OK, it's gone.
- 1:08:12OK, what's coming up? We're not telling you like, you
- 1:08:15know, I so I get the worry there, but I think it'll be OK.
- 1:08:22I've definitely enjoyed the Meta glasses and for everybody you
- 1:08:25know, the Meta glasses have a lot of different features and I
- 1:08:28think for each personal person they will have a percentage of
- 1:08:32how they use them. I'm actually using the video and
- 1:08:35the right now I'm using the video and the photos the least
- 1:08:39for me. They they, yeah, they, they help
- 1:08:42out a lot for work. If I need to make a note or a
- 1:08:45reminder for work, do it. I'm finding that just personal
- 1:08:49reminders are happening that I totally would have forgotten
- 1:08:54before we went on. It went beep, beep.
- 1:08:55And it gave me a reminder of something that I totally would
- 1:08:57have forgotten. So and those reminders are
- 1:09:01stored on the app too, so you can always look back at them.
- 1:09:03Oh good. Yeah, so I'm using it for
- 1:09:06reminders. I'm using it for music.
- 1:09:07I'm listening to way more music than I ever have.
- 1:09:09I'm listening to music right now.
- 1:09:10You don't even know it. No, I'm just kidding.
- 1:09:11I'm not. But but I do throughout the work
- 1:09:14day and everything, just put it on as low as possible before he
- 1:09:17can't hear it at all. And yeah, you know, no one, no
- 1:09:19one else knows I'm listening. So it's pretty.
- 1:09:21That's pretty cool. So that's what, But, you know,
- 1:09:24throughout the day now, when I'm going throughout the day, if
- 1:09:26there's something I see that I want Tammy to see, for example,
- 1:09:29they do in construction up the road and she is only driven by
- 1:09:32at night, so she can't see it. So as I was going by, I hit the
- 1:09:38video and just kind of looked at it for a little bit so I can
- 1:09:40bring it back and she could see it.
- 1:09:42So there's things I see during the day and I'm like, I wish
- 1:09:44someone you know, I know could see this.
- 1:09:46I can, I can just snap a quick picture or a quick video.
- 1:09:50So very cool. I'd like to use it more.
- 1:09:52I don't know, I have to play with it or look at tutorials.
- 1:09:54I'm not satisfied with the photos.
- 1:09:56OK, all right. There there's and maybe there's
- 1:09:59some tweaking you could do. Yeah.
- 1:10:03Are we done spinning the wheel or?
- 1:10:04Yeah, yeah, we're, we're, we're done with that.
- 1:10:07We've given our tips, which was really where I wanted to go with
- 1:10:09that was, you know, have a little fun, but also, you know,
- 1:10:15educate, entertain, edutain, all of you a little bit.
- 1:10:19I do want to mention that I gave out five gifted memberships on
- 1:10:24my channel. Those went to Amy Otrasinka.
- 1:10:30Wow, I remember her from I remember that name from your
- 1:10:33channel. I haven't seen her in a while.
- 1:10:36Disney with Matthew, Goofy guy, WDW keeping it thrills.
- 1:10:40Oh, I wonder how they're doing. And Life with Roxanna.
- 1:10:44So congratulations there. There you go.
- 1:10:47Congratulations y'all. Yeah, I remember that name.
- 1:10:50Amy, I don't know how she is. So tomorrow we are at Magic.
- 1:10:58Tomorrow we're at magic and we're doing a double shot of
- 1:11:00magic. We're doing magic tomorrow
- 1:11:03because what are they? I think they moved it to 10 now,
- 1:11:08so that's good. OK, yeah.
- 1:11:11And then we'll follow that up. We have to do magic on Saturday
- 1:11:16because we're going to ET in concert at 2:30.
- 1:11:20Oh, that's right. OK.
- 1:11:21You know, 2333430, probably safe to set, to set the stream for
- 1:11:26like 530 or or 5:45 and then we can maximize our time.
- 1:11:30And you know, yeah, leave Main Street at 11:30 at night or
- 1:11:34something like that 'cause it does close at 11 on Saturdays,
- 1:11:39tomorrow, on Wednesdays it's 10. So OK, that works, that works.
- 1:11:44And look for an earlier start time.
- 1:11:46Again, I know, I know it seemed like we should have started in
- 1:11:49at like 53545 last time, but I have the same plan.
- 1:11:52I'm finishing up my last patient close to Disney, so OK, sure.
- 1:12:00And we can start earlier. So look for an earlier start
- 1:12:02time everybody, whether it's 615-6545 and then do my best.
- 1:12:07So make sure to go to Living in Days on Look, go to the YouTube
- 1:12:11page for living and Diz and for tomorrow's stream, make sure to
- 1:12:17hit notify me underneath the thumbnail for tomorrow's stream.
- 1:12:23That will make sure that you get the alert.
- 1:12:25Most people get the alert, the notification in the YouTube app
- 1:12:28as well as an e-mail. So anytime you have one of your
- 1:12:32creators that has their live stream scheduled, go ahead and
- 1:12:37do that. So tomorrow for Corey, Saturday
- 1:12:41for Corey. I don't think I have Tuesday's
- 1:12:45next Tuesday's podcast scheduled yet because I don't have a
- 1:12:48subject yet. So, but yeah, make sure to
- 1:12:51schedule, make sure to hit notify me for those, those that
- 1:12:55are already scheduled. That will guarantee that you get
- 1:12:57the notification unless when it comes to them, you close your
- 1:13:00eyes. But other than that you should
- 1:13:01get the notification. Appreciate you all that watch us
- 1:13:04live, we do. This live because we do it for
- 1:13:06you. We love the park Bros community,
- 1:13:08we love the LID community. You mean you do mean the world
- 1:13:11to us? We can't do this without you
- 1:13:12all, and we really enjoy sharing this information with you all
- 1:13:15sharing the parks with you and all of that So and we appreciate
- 1:13:20everyone that listens to us on Amazon, Spotify, iHeartRadio and
- 1:13:24Apple. So yes, it's all good.
- 1:13:28Absolutely so. Thank you very much for
- 1:13:32listening. Oh, great, great show, guys,
- 1:13:35says Steve and Tony. Thank you very much.
- 1:13:37Thank you, Steve. We appreciate that.
- 1:13:41We'll figure out a topic. For that week next.
- 1:13:43Week make it we. Sure will make it.
- 1:13:45Another fun one. I have a couple guests that want
- 1:13:47to. Come on the show other.
- 1:13:48Creators I know I talked to Scooter Adventures who Mike who
- 1:13:53wants to come on the show and talk about getting around the
- 1:13:55parks and the resort and an ECV. He has got some great tips about
- 1:14:00Ecvs themselves, which ones to get that kind of thing and then
- 1:14:05navigating the parks. And so he'll he'll come on the
- 1:14:09show soon and do that. I got to talk to Baker about
- 1:14:13coming on and talking pins. Yes, that'll be an episode where
- 1:14:18I just, you know, go sit on the couch.
- 1:14:20And just let him and. And Corey go at it with, with
- 1:14:23pins. But yeah, we're going to we're
- 1:14:26going to do some fun stuff. And of course we got D-23 coming
- 1:14:29up. I got to decide if I'm going to
- 1:14:31do May 4th. And that's, that's a, that's a
- 1:14:35thought May the fourth coming up.
- 1:14:38So we'll figure that out. I've got my reservation ready to
- 1:14:42go. I don't think I've reserved
- 1:14:45mine. I did get us.
- 1:14:46Reservations. For July 4th, yes.
- 1:14:52And does that fall on a Friday or?
- 1:14:54What is that falling on? Or is it Saturday?
- 1:14:56I think that's the one this year.
- 1:14:57That's a Saturday. May the 4th is is a Monday.
- 1:15:00But July the 4th is a Saturday, so May the fourth you should
- 1:15:05have Tammy and I in the park. Jacob has a big test that day.
- 1:15:09He if, if he's driving by, then he may join us later.
- 1:15:14Wow. Yeah.
- 1:15:17I'll never, I'll never forget. Sending or sending Jay out?
- 1:15:20He had a job interview, which he got the job.
- 1:15:24He's still there now, but he had a job interview at the Lego
- 1:15:29store and I was working, Catherine was working, and we
- 1:15:36couldn't get back to take him. And he was already licensed.
- 1:15:39But it was the first time that he had to go out on his own.
- 1:15:42And you got to take, well, you don't have to, but he took the
- 1:15:45highway to get there. And I'm telling you, I was just
- 1:15:48to, you know, I already know the feeling.
- 1:15:53Yeah. I I.
- 1:15:55Like I I'm pushing for it and rooting for him, but in in a way
- 1:15:57I don't want him to have it. Yeah, yeah.
- 1:16:00So. And now the kid drives.
- 1:16:02He drove to. Florida, one of the one of the
- 1:16:05New Year's trips, he drove, he drove to Florida, drove my mom
- 1:16:08to Florida. And so I'm like, OK, well,
- 1:16:10there's two drivers. Nope.
- 1:16:11He drove the whole way, drove the whole way there, whole way
- 1:16:13back. So wow, very nice.
- 1:16:17Yep. So.
- 1:16:19Before you know it, it'll be it'll be fine.
- 1:16:21An hour. Drive will be like nothing to
- 1:16:22Jacob. No, no sweat.
- 1:16:25No sweat. Yep, for sure.
- 1:16:28All right, everyone have a wonderful rest of.
- 1:16:30Your evening. Hope you enjoyed tonight's
- 1:16:32subject. We'll have another great subject
- 1:16:34for you and next week on the Dyspod.
- 1:16:37Until then, we're just a couple of Bros talking Disney.
- 1:16:42Good night everyone. Good night everybody, see you
- 1:16:44tomorrow.