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Celebrating 100 Years of Dick Van Dyke: A Disney Legend · DIZPod | For the Disney Parks Fans

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  those other platforms like Spotify, Apple.
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  Ah, see, I why did I think that then?
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  So yeah, so Spotify has videos you can watch or listen, you
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  know, iHeartRadio, Apple and I do this all the time, but I
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  sometimes I forget, usually get on a good role.
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  Amazon, iHeartRadio, Spotify. And.
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  Apple and maybe I got them all. OK, cool.
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  All right. So you did not wear that shirt
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  last time. So there you go.
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  I don't know. You had it.
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  Yeah, that's right. You didn't you?
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  I don't know. I don't even know if I've ever
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  seen that one. I like that button down.
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  I went with my Baymax, but also have the Walt Disney T-shirt
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  with the Walt Disney font, Disney World font with the
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  Mickey Christmas lights, which is one of my favorites.
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  And yeah, there it is. How's everything going?
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  Good, good, good, good. Yes, I this one Catherine made.
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  So this is this is an original. Very nice.
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  I like it. Thanks.
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  I like it. I like how it has an ugly
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  Christmas sweater in the pattern.
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  Yes, very nice. I mean, we can't wear ugly
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  sweaters here much in Florida unless we get some, you know,
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  chilly night. Although tonight Tammy is
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  wearing long pants because there's a slight chill in the
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  air outside, just enough to get your attention.
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  I know it'll be like tomorrow on the parks, but I'll have to
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  look. I think it's going to be OK, but
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  I don't know. Those lower 60s have been
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  getting our getting our attention.
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  We were out there Saturday night, and I don't know if it
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  dipped into the high 50s, I can't remember, but it was rainy
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  and miserable. Yeah.
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  And it certainly caught our attention.
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  Yeah. What a miserable, what a
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  miserable day. Listen, we had fun.
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  Besides the fun we had, we had a lot of fun on Saturday, don't
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  get that wrong. But just weather wise, it was
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  like it rained from start to finish and it was chilly.
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  Yeah, those. But we make the best those.
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  Are not fun. In fact, the other night there
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  was a Christmas party and it rained like Thunder and
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  lightning. So much so that people opened up
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  their Disney app and they had been issued A1 day park hopper
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  ticket if they had bought a ticket to the party automatic.
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  Oh wow, yeah, kudos to Disney for doing that.
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  Yeah, you can't. You can't please everybody.
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  Though I guess if you're a pass holder that doesn't help you at
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  all. Yeah, so for a lot of them they
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  were just getting refunded that the ticket because of that
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  essentially they couldn't do anything with the party.
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  The parade was cancelled, the show was cancelled, fires were
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  cancelled. So you know the majority of the
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  show or the the party was non existent so they issued refunds
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  so it was good. Do you think, do you think they
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  just didn't give people another chance to go to another party
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  because the other parties are sold out or?
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  Yeah, I mean they're they are slammed up against it.
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  Now you've got the 14th and the 16th and I think two more after
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  that if I'm if I remember correctly.
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  But they're all sold out. So you weren't going to take an
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  entire parties worth of guests and put them into what was left.
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  It just wasn't wasn't enough tickets available.
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  Makes sense then. I was reading on another or not
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  reading. I was watching another show and
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  they said that there are less people going to Epic than there
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  are at A at a Christmas party right now at Magic per day.
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  Whoa, how about that? You know, I, I didn't, I
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  couldn't verify that, but that's what they're saying like the,
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  the attendance is being throttled so much at Epic that
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  it's, it's that far down. So that's kind of interesting.
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  When are they going to give in and just give us annual passes?
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  I don't know if that fixes their problem, but they'll have more
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  attendance, will spend money on food and merchandise.
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  But I know they say tourists spend more money than annual
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  pass holders do. So I yeah, I don't know if
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  that's the issue. I don't know if, if I think
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  they're doing it to themselves, they're they're throttling their
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  own attendance, they're just not allowing but so many to be sold.
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  So I think opening up an annual pass would counteract what
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  they're trying to do, whatever that is, so.
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  Now is that why do you do that to your own park?
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  Is it that you realize that, wait a minute, our park is a
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  little bit small and wait times are high with a limited amount
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  of people, Do they know exactly what they're doing or are they
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  kind of realizing, maybe I don't know, some shortcomings and
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  things like that? I said this from day one when we
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  went to Epic for a preview that this part, people were saying,
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  oh, this park is so big. Where did you get that from?
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  This part? That park is small.
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  And if they're not at capacity now, it's going to be a
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  nightmare for wait times beyond what it already is for certain
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  attractions. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I mean, you look at what the
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  wait times are right now and they're keeping it that low.
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  That's I could only imagine. I've, I've told Jacob this a few
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  times. I said when we get annual
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  passes, it's really going to be the mindset of, OK, what are you
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  happy with doing today? OK, if we get Mario World done
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  and, you know, maybe Harry Potter, we're good.
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  You know, I don't think it's going to be like, let's try to
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  attack, you know, as much of the park as possible, which you
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  always try to do, but let's try to get it all done.
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  I don't even think we'll come close to that if capacity
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  increases. And what are there 11
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  attractions? I think it's 11.
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  Is it 11? Yeah.
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  If it if it's not 11, it's it's a little less than that.
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  What do you have? You like you?
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  Yeah, you have. Mario World has what has Mario
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  Kart has Yoshi and am I going blank on another one or is that
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  it? Mario Kart?
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  Oh, and Donkey Kong, so it's three.
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  I mean we could just Google it fast rather than like count
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  Everything but Monsters has two. Harry Potter has one, right?
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  Just one. Says there are 1111 attractions.
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  There are 50 experiences, they say, but that is that is you are
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  taking you. See my face?
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  That there's no way that you're not counting every bit of every
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  little experience as an overall attraction.
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  So they're saying, you know, there's 50 plus attractions,
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  last experiences, that's rides, shows, shops, OK dining and
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  immersive zones. So they're even counting the the
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  lands. That's reaching like dining,
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  dining and shopping. There's no way.
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  Oh, there's, there's 17 stores. Great.
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  Congratulations, that doesn't count.
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  That's not an attraction. Honey, what do you want to do
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  now? Let's go to the fourth store in
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  a row, because that's what we like to do when we hear.
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  Yeah, Excuse me. And I love Epic.
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  Love it, love it. I just, I don't know, It's got
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  to be bigger. They need more attractions.
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  Do you think, do you think that, sorry everybody, we're going
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  down this rabbit hole, but do you think that they're still
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  throttling attendance? And they knew this all along?
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  Like we'll just throttle it. We're going to open quick with
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  what we've got, and then we'll start building more attractions
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  and then we'll expand attendance.
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  They need more, they need more stuff.
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  They need more people eaters. Maybe they need another show or
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  something like that. You know, Disney doesn't let
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  certain things go. Universal doesn't let certain
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  things go. A big people eater for them,
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  especially when it's hot out, is Popeye and Bluto's Believe it or
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  not, Dudley Do writes those eat a lot of people when it's on
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  those hot summer days and take takes away from ride times.
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  You know takes keeps the ride times down.
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  There's, there, there's, I don't know what the answer is.
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  I don't know what the answer is. I do.
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  I find it so funny. Like, I can't wait to see the
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  2026 numbers come out because there were so many people online
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  and they were mainly Disney haters probably that were like,
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  Oh yeah, Magic's going down. Disney World's going to be a
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  ghost town. You can look back on the show
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  every episode where we talked about epic.
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  And I say it so I'm blue in the face.
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  If you have the most visited park, Magic Kingdom in the
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  entire world, some new park, unless it's called Magic Kingdom
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  2, is not going to take any bit of maybe maybe attendance was
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  hurting this year at Animal Kingdom, right?
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  Especially with as much as Animal Kingdom has going on.
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  OK, so maybe that's the park that suffered.
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  Maybe it was SeaWorld. It was not Magic Kingdom.
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  Magic, you are not going to put a hurting on Magic Kingdom with
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  Epic Universe opening. Sorry, just not going to happen.
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  It's two totally different places.
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  So yeah, can't wait to see those numbers, especially when you
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  find out that more people go to a Christmas party at Magic
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  Kingdom than Epic Universe on a on a full day.
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  That's crazy. Yeah, yeah.
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  So, yeah. All right.
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  So this has been our epic universe that show.
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  That was the that was the epic segment.
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  Now we're ready for the next thing.
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  So today is December 9th, December 13th I will be in the
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  parks. Be glad to be in the parks.
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  Hanging out that weekend doing the Pete Mcdevitt meet up in the
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  morning, then going to the parks.
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  That night will be magical night of hope, and that's a great
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  event that goes towards a great charity.
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  You can watch that event on the multiviewdsn.excusemedsn.disneystreams.com
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  and be able to donate there. So you'll be able to watch there
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  while everything else is happening.
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  So while we're in the parks, you'll be able to check in on
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  that right on the multi view. So be sure to check that out.
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  This. How did you get that?
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  Who's broadcasting it? So Resort TV One will have it,
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  so he's simulcasting it on his channel, so it'll be on the
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  multi view. Oh, OK, 'cause Corey is showing
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  it as well. So.
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  Right. So, yeah.
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  Yeah, I think Corey, Corey Meets World, Steve's World and Resort
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  TV One are broadcasting it all at the same time.
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  So since Josh is in the network, it'll be on the multi view.
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  So be sure to check that out and you can donate right there.
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  So very good cause a lot of us in the Disney community
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  obviously support it and one of our friends of this channel and
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  living Indies and member of the DSN is performing that night.
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  So be sure to to check out Josh Plain as saxophone.
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  So this weekend also, we will be celebrating Dick Van Dyke's
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  100th birthday, which is just incredible.
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  And he was performing, you know, I was watching a podcast with
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  him the other day, and he was saying he's still looking for
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  work. Like he does not want to stop.
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  And that's probably what's kept him as young as it has.
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  You know, he's just done so much.
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  And there's so many, as I was doing research for this, so many
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  little things that I did not know about Dick Van Dyke.
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  I mean, we all know him from Mary Poppins.
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  Do you, do you know of any other movies that you saw, movies or
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  shows or anything that you saw that stick out to you that he's
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  just that he's been in? Just Mary Poppins more than
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  anything. But when I hear the name Dick
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  Van Dyke, I immediately my brain just goes to his classic show,
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  you know, him coming home, tripping over the, you know, the
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  furniture and all that stuff. That's kind of where I go
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  because I'm older, you know, So it was in reruns by the time,
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  you know, when I was born. But I just kind of remember
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  that, you know, when the music, I mean, is that the right music?
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  That's the right music. Yeah, that's it.
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  Yeah. So I was watching the podcast
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  and it was actually being hosted by Ted Danson and married
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  Steenburgen, his wife. And he told the story.
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  Ted told the story that he did not have ATV growing up.
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  He didn't have ATV until he went to college.
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  And he found ATV on the street, took it inside, plugged it in,
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  got some antenna from a teacher or something like that.
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  And the very first thing that he saw was Dick Van Dyke tripping
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  over the Ottoman. So that was his introduction to
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  TV. And here he is, you know, now as
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  as big as star as, you know, Ted Danson is.
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  So it's just so funny to think Ted Danson was in college when
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  Dick Van Dyke was tripping over the furniture on The Dick Van
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  Dyke Show. And you know, we look at Ted
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  Danton and he's, he's, he's older, but Dick Van Dyke is
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  turning 100. Like there's so many people
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  that, you know, I, I'm trying to think of some of the older,
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  older, like Norman Lee or, you know, who did all the, all the
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  great shows, all in the family and all that.
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  He, he lived to be very, very old.
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  Betty White, George Burns, probably the oldest that we know
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  of in, in comedy. But you know, it's nice to see
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  some of them around. And still Carol Burnett, she's
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  she's up there in, in age. But how much joy have they been
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  laughter have they brought to us all these years?
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  It's just just amazing what they what they've done now.
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  He is a Disney legend and that is well deserved because that
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  movie, even Walt Disney said that it was his it, it was his
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  top movie that he's ever done was Mary Poppins.
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  Yeah, I have. I have heard that.
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  I have heard that what now he's done more What's, what are we
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  going to get to that? What is what is his resume for
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  Disney? So let's talk about, and I don't
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  remember this movie like I want to, I really should go and watch
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  it now, but Chitty Chitty Bang Bang a lot of people talk about
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  and I remember watching that all the time as a kid.
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  Think the dreams in the chat. She might be able to help me on
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  this. On the podcast, they were saying
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  that it's a holiday movie and I don't remember that being a
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  movie that we watched the holidays.
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  So I'm not sure, but that's probably his his number 2 movie.
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  He also did Bye Bye Birdie, the movie, which he did not like and
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  that wasn't Disney, but he did not like the movie because he
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  had done it on Broadway. And when they went to do it on
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  film, he said it was terrible. And it it took out so much of
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  the essence of the play that he really didn't like it.
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  And yet there's so many people that love that movie, so many
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  people that love that movie. So yeah, if I go back to Disney,
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  he did a ton of live action movies, obviously.
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  And you know, one of them was Robinson Caruso.
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  He did the Robinson Caruso movie.
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  Never a dull moment. He did Dick Van Dyke and the
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  Fantasticks. That was ATV special and then a
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  ton of Disney events and celebrations.
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  But it, you know, the one big movie obviously was Mary
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  Poppins. And you know, it wasn't like he
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  was in 30 Disney movies, right? It, it was, it was really Mary
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  Poppins, but it stuck out and it was so.
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  Memorable that he ends up becoming a, you know, Disney
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  Legend because of it. So then he goes on and he does
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  Mary Poppins 2 at the age of 93. And so I'm going to show a
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  little clip on that here, all right?
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  Now, how incredible that he was so generous and just jumped,
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  jumped at the chance to be in it.
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  And, and he is such a joy and I mean, so charismatic and I think
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  people were very emotional that entire day that he was on.
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  There was sort of like a lot of ugly crying that went on.
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  But when he started tap dancing on the desk, I was like, forget
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  it, forget it. That was the joy of my life.
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  I mean, he means so much to me personally.
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  You know, he was my hero. Watching him and Chitty Bang
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  Bang and Bye Bye Birdie and the Dick Van Dyke show, everything,
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  you know, I just, he just was extraordinary.
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  He's just magical. And, you know, he grabbed my
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  hand as we walked onto the set first time, and he turned to me
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  and he said, literally, I feel the same spirit here as I did on
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  the first film, which was such a beautiful moment for me
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  personally to hear that because that was the goal, you know,
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  that was the goal, to sort of find that again.
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  And he certainly brings that to our film.
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  Oh. It's awfully dark and gloomy up
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  there. There, now you see how wrong
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  people can be, that there is what you might call a doorway to
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  a place of enchantment. He's the sort of essence of the
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  message of the movie, it turns out, because he's, if ever there
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  was somebody that's retained his childish spirit, it's him.
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  And yeah, our jewels were all on the floor when he when he walked
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  into the room and then got up onto a table and did a dance and
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  then sat down behind the table and delivered this impeccable
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  monologue and made everybody cry.
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  And, and Rob Marshall was crying so much he couldn't cut.
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  He couldn't call cut. Someone else had to call cut
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  from behind the camera. So, yeah, it was at one of those
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  moments on a set where you just want to pinch yourself.
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  You can't believe how lucky you are to be there.
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  Everything is possible, even the impossible off.
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  We go. So that that really was a, you
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  know, kind of a preview of Mary Poppins Returns, which, you
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  know, didn't do great, but when you're putting it up against the
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  original, how well was it going to do?
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  People have to be careful to not compare.
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  We always want to compare, right?
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  But they have to be careful to not compare movies that are so
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  legendary. You know, you just, you make a
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  mistake by doing that. Yeah, so, but man, how about,
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  you know, imagine being that that person with so much.
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  It's the word just legendary status and everybody.
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  It's it's just so eye opening and such a thrill for everyone
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  on set when you're there and just to just to watch you in
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  awe. I kid.
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  I got the chills when when she said, you know, to see him tap
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  dancing. Can you imagine?
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  You know, and, and Emily Blunt is a is a huge Hollywood star
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  and for her to be blown away by like, Oh my gosh, here's this
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  legend doing what he is known for for decades in front of me
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  right now. That's just this is something.
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  Yeah, yeah. So he, you know, he didn't start
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  out as as a movie star. He did TV.
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  He did Broadway. He but he was actually the
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  anchor on the CBS Morning News before all of that.
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  Whoa, yeah. How about that?
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  And obviously his desire was to become what he did and not a
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  news guy. And his partner on that show,
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  Walter Cronkite. Fun fact, my dad did plumbing
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  for Walter Cronkite. Get out.
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  Yes, on Martha's Vineyard, he had a home.
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  He had a home on Martha's Vineyard and he did some work.
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  Cool, right? And the one of the reporters was
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  Barb Barbara Walters. So you had Walter Cronkite,
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  Barbara Walters and Dick Van Dyke doing the Morning News.
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  Wow. And then obviously Walter
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  Cronkite went to evening and that's where he took off.
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  And then Barbara Walters continued to obviously go on to
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  what she did, and then he moved on.
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  Now I'll tell you another weird fact that I found out because
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  they didn't know what to do with him.
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  That's why Walter Cronkite went to nights like it was the show
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  wasn't doing well. They're up against the Today
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  show, which was the hit in the mornings.
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  So they tried them out of different things.
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  One of the things they tried them out for was this new game
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  show where people were going to guess the prices of things
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  called The Price Is Right. He was going to be the original
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  host of The Price is Right. And he did it, shot the pilot
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  and then he was like, I don't get it.
• 26:27
  This doesn't make sense to me. Why would?
• 26:29
  Why would this be a thing? This will never make it.
• 26:34
  This will never make it so he so obviously the show did go on it
• 26:39
  and did very well and it's still doing well and he went on to do
• 26:44
  a ton of other things. So it's just weird how you know,
• 26:48
  sometimes you you think one thing is going to happen and you
• 26:52
  take this other turn and then it just, it just blossoms into
• 26:56
  something really cool. Back then, who was the vice
• 27:00
  president? Jerry Lewis.
• 27:07
  You know, I that that makes me think of how many presidencies,
• 27:10
  you know, voted for or seen, you know, in 100 years.
• 27:15
  It's crazy. You know he's getting near the
• 27:21
  last of, of the of, of people, right?
• 27:26
  That saw major changes in the world.
• 27:30
  When you're 100, you saw a a lot of changes.
• 27:35
  And, and I feel like I don't know, when we look back on
• 27:38
  ourselves who were born in the 60s or 70s, if we were to live
• 27:44
  90 years or whatever, I don't think we're, we could say we saw
• 27:49
  as much change in the world and technology as as someone like
• 27:54
  him, unless I'm mistaken. We'd have to sit down and really
• 27:58
  dissect that. But I don't know.
• 28:01
  I mean, TV's and phones existed when we were born.
• 28:06
  We were already flying rockets. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:11
  He had stage fright, chronic stage fright, and that's
• 28:17
  interesting. Just got over it and continued
• 28:21
  to just develop because he loved, you know, bringing joy to
• 28:27
  people. So it was, it was really cool.
• 28:30
  Yeah. He met Stan Laurel.
• 28:35
  I mean, there, like you said, there's not that many people
• 28:38
  that can say that they knew Stan Laurel.
• 28:44
  So to bring it back to Disney World, in the podcast that I was
• 28:52
  watching, there's, I don't know, this thing looked huge.
• 28:57
  I'm going to say it might have been 7 or 8 feet mannequin of
• 29:05
  him as a chimney sweep. And so Ted Denton asked about
• 29:11
  it, and they said it was from the Great Movie Ride because
• 29:17
  that was in the scene, one of the scenes, but it was in the
• 29:21
  scene where Bert is on a fireplace.
• 29:28
  And so when they were getting ready to close the ride, they
• 29:33
  asked Dick Van Dyke if he wanted it.
• 29:36
  And he's like, yeah. So he took it.
• 29:39
  They shipped it to him with the fireplace and everything.
• 29:42
  And they're like, well, we don't have any room for this.
• 29:44
  So they took it off the fireplace and made it into a
• 29:48
  standing mannequin. And so that stands in his house
• 29:51
  now. Wow, how about that?
• 29:56
  So that then that makes me really wonder what happened to
• 29:58
  the rest of those props. It just makes me think like, we
• 30:02
  need a Disney World museum, right?
• 30:07
  Yeah. Couldn't Disney open that on
• 30:10
  property somewhere and you can put things like that in there?
• 30:15
  People would go to that, People would go to that.
• 30:19
  Side note, but. People, they can charge money
• 30:21
  for it. People would go to it.
• 30:23
  They could charge money, you know, you'd be like, oh, what
• 30:25
  are you doing today? Non park day?
• 30:26
  We're going to Springs and then we're going over to the Disney
• 30:28
  World museum. Yeah, we're going to look at all
• 30:30
  kinds of cool things, you know, that have, you know, taken part
• 30:33
  in in in in in Disney or just not even just Disney World.
• 30:36
  Disney, Disney museum. Yeah, I like that idea.
• 30:39
  I. Like that too, so you know, it.
• 30:45
  It's, it's just fun to think about, you know, there's certain
• 30:52
  scenes. Do you have a favorite scene
• 30:55
  from Mary Poppins? I'm just going to go with some
• 31:03
  of the more popular stuff because I really haven't seen it
• 31:08
  in quite some time and hadn't haven't seen it very much.
• 31:12
  We did see it. We did see it.
• 31:15
  We saw it. We saw it locally as a play as
• 31:16
  well when the kids were younger, which was very enjoyable.
• 31:21
  But probably the step in time scene.
• 31:25
  MSF. I'm saying if I'm saying that
• 31:26
  right with Dick Van Dyke. Yeah, is is probably my
• 31:31
  favorite. And then of course, when is, I'm
• 31:36
  not sure the title of the song, but Jim the Jim Jiminy, Jim
• 31:38
  Jiminy, Jim Jim Drew that. And that's kind of what you see
• 31:42
  in the Great Movie Ride as well. So I like more some of the more
• 31:47
  popular scenes. But whenever I like have to take
• 31:51
  some medicine by a spoon, I'm always thinking about a
• 31:53
  spoonful. Of sugar, one that always it's I
• 32:02
  don't. Maybe it's because I've I've,
• 32:04
  you know, I'm a dad and, and you get dad jokes now.
• 32:09
  But the scene where they go to Uncle Aubert's house and they're
• 32:13
  trying to get him down and he's laughing hysterically.
• 32:17
  And the more that they laugh, the more they float up to the to
• 32:19
  the sky and he's got all these dad jokes.
• 32:23
  So I always remember the one where you go, I once met met a
• 32:27
  man with a wooden like named Smith.
• 32:29
  And then the other one says, what's the name of his other
• 32:33
  like? So just silly stuff like that,
• 32:40
  you know, it's just just a fun, fun movie.
• 32:43
  You can't help but but laugh at that movie and they're awesome.
• 32:47
  I was going to say, there are some slower moments, right?
• 32:51
  Like Feed the Birds, even Let's Go Fly a Kite is not a funny
• 32:58
  song. It's a fun song, but it's not a
• 33:00
  funny song. But it just ties the whole movie
• 33:04
  together. So and then in that scene, you
• 33:07
  see him, you know, kind of wave off to Mary Poppins.
• 33:11
  And while she clearly was the star of the of the movie, that
• 33:18
  movie would not have been what it was without him.
• 33:22
  Right, I agree. Just just nowhere near it.
• 33:26
  So I was glad that that happened.
• 33:30
  And I also found out that the where he plays the the elder
• 33:38
  banker in that 'cause he plays two parts.
• 33:42
  So where he plays the elder banker, Disney wanted somebody
• 33:46
  else to play that. And Dick Van Dyke was like, no,
• 33:50
  I think I can play that. And Disney was like, no.
• 33:55
  And he's like, look, I'll do it for free.
• 33:58
  He's like, no, not, no, we need to get somebody else and then.
• 34:04
  That won't fly with the union. The story that that Dick Van
• 34:08
  Dyke tells is that he then said, I'll give you $7000, so let me
• 34:15
  do the part. I don't know if that's true or
• 34:19
  not. That's what he says.
• 34:22
  Wow. But I think that tied it that,
• 34:26
  you know, that tied it together. And then, you know, obviously,
• 34:29
  so many years later in Mary Poppins return, you see him play
• 34:32
  a similar role as the junior, but now he's the the elder
• 34:38
  banker. And so it just tied it together.
• 34:41
  So I thought that was cool. Cool story.
• 34:45
  Yeah, yeah. But now he's a he's.
• 34:48
  He was great. And it's funny as a kid, right,
• 34:53
  I knew Mary Poppins and then I would see Dick Van Dyke show in
• 34:56
  return in reruns. And as a very young kid, it was
• 35:03
  hard for me to correlate the two like, hey, but he's he's Mary.
• 35:08
  He's in Mary Poppins. How could he be?
• 35:10
  Yeah, I just remember that very young.
• 35:15
  I finally did get it. Yeah.
• 35:17
  Understand people can play two different roles.
• 35:21
  Yeah. I was just trying to think if I
• 35:22
  ever thought that about anybody, but I I can't really think that
• 35:24
  I've done that. Larry Hagman, I want to say the
• 35:31
  same thing happened there because you had I Dream of
• 35:34
  Jeannie and then Dallas. I just remember who who killed
• 35:40
  Jr. Back then, that was a big deal,
• 35:43
  who killed Jr. Tonight, we're going to find out
• 35:45
  who killed Jr. Did we ever find out who killed
• 35:49
  Jr. That's what I want to know.
• 35:51
  Yes, there's some some. We had some good moments in 80s
• 35:56
  TV, I'll tell you that. That Friday night lineup, man,
• 36:00
  that Friday night lineup, by my memory anyway.
• 36:02
  I feel like the Friday night lineup on CBS, and not quite in
• 36:06
  this order maybe, but I feel like it was like Buck Rogers and
• 36:14
  Dukes of Hazzard and the Hulk. I just remember wanting to come
• 36:16
  home. We'd go out to dinner and for
• 36:18
  fish and chips, my mom's watching.
• 36:20
  She's like, oh, yeah. And then come home and watch
• 36:23
  those shows. That was our thing, that Friday
• 36:27
  night lineup. Remember when TV controlled your
• 36:31
  life? Do you remember that it
• 36:33
  controlled your life? Oh, I got to go.
• 36:35
  It would be like, oh, Lawrence, I got to get off this podcast
• 36:37
  because my show's on at 9. And I'm like, oh, I'm just going
• 36:41
  to DVR it. DVR was a big revolution in the
• 36:45
  world. Saturdays I would go when I was
• 36:48
  in high school, I would go out to, I was in a bowling league,
• 36:53
  so we would go bowling in the morning and I would go hang out
• 36:55
  with my friend and I had to leave his house by, I don't
• 37:01
  know, 6:30 maybe because I had to be home.
• 37:06
  I'd take the bus all the way back to Long Island because I
• 37:09
  had to be home for cops. Bad boys, bad boys.
• 37:18
  Or you could set the DV or you could set the VCR, not the DVR.
• 37:22
  You could set the VCR, but you had to hope that a couple things
• 37:26
  happened right, A that you set the time right because plenty of
• 37:33
  times we missed shows because of because you didn't do that.
• 37:38
  If you were home and recording an an episode.
• 37:43
  I hated commercials. Did you hate commercials?
• 37:46
  Oh, still do. So I would pause the recording
• 37:51
  when the commercial started and then forgot.
• 37:56
  Yes. Forgot to hit the pause button
• 38:01
  after the commercials are over. You're like oh crap I missed 5
• 38:05
  minutes of the show. I hate these first world
• 38:08
  problems. I hate them.
• 38:10
  It was a revelation with the DVR too, when you were like, wait,
• 38:13
  because I thought you were going to say when you start recording
• 38:16
  it, you know, say, say you got home 15 minutes after it started
• 38:20
  recording. You're going to wait till it's
• 38:24
  done. It has to be done before you can
• 38:26
  watch it. Before you can watch DVR.
• 38:28
  You can just jump in. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:30
  You know, and start watching, even though it's midway through
• 38:33
  recording. Yeah, now you can just, you can
• 38:35
  play with stuff. You'll play with stuff like
• 38:37
  start some like you're available, but you're like, I'm
• 38:39
  going to wait about 20 minutes for this program to get into it.
• 38:42
  Then I'm going to start watching so I can bypass the commercials.
• 38:47
  And if I time it right, it'll be I'll be done when the show is
• 38:50
  done. Yeah, yeah, 100% right there.
• 38:53
  We have done that so many times. I remember when TiVo came out,
• 38:58
  we had a TiVo. We actually.
• 39:00
  Yeah, that's what I thought of. TiVo was the leader, the first
• 39:03
  DVR ever I believe. Yeah, yeah, we still, we still
• 39:06
  have them upstairs. Why?
• 39:08
  Because we paid for a lifetime subscription.
• 39:12
  Really. And do they honor it and it
• 39:14
  still work? I have no idea.
• 39:17
  I would assume so 'cause they're still they're still around, but
• 39:22
  I would have to take them as the size of a VCR, take it out and
• 39:26
  put it somewhere. Now I might have to do that.
• 39:31
  Steve used to watch Chips and BJ in the Bear.
• 39:35
  Wow, wow. Yeah, they're just not, you
• 39:41
  know, TV was an event, right? The Dick Van Dyke Show was an
• 39:45
  event. The family sat around and
• 39:47
  watched that. They don't really get that as
• 39:50
  much now, you know. It comes down to technology
• 39:54
  again. Yeah, right.
• 39:56
  Social media, Internet. If we didn't have that, we'd
• 39:59
  still be right back there where TV would be a big event.
• 40:03
  MTV is shutting down all their auxiliary channels, all their
• 40:09
  music, all the MTV music channels.
• 40:11
  They're all going away, I think the end of the year.
• 40:15
  Technology killed the video star is pretty much what it was.
• 40:19
  That's right. Because we all remember, a lot
• 40:22
  of us remember anyway, certain age that you waited, you waited
• 40:27
  for like Thriller to come on again or I don't know, Madonna
• 40:32
  crazy for you, something you waited.
• 40:34
  You just waited. And it was, like, so rewarding
• 40:36
  when it finally came on, you know?
• 40:39
  Well, we sat around. I can remember watching Michael
• 40:44
  Jackson's Remember the Time as the world premiere on MTV and
• 40:53
  Black or White, which was massive and it had the secondary
• 41:00
  scene and all that kind of stuff.
• 41:01
  So you you sat around and watched those premieres because
• 41:07
  you didn't want to miss them. Yeah, same mom says Remember the
• 41:10
  Time. Yeah, that was that was a big
• 41:12
  one for us. So Sharon Hecker asks, you know,
• 41:15
  does anyone make music videos anymore?
• 41:17
  And I, I'm going to say yes because I think you, they, they
• 41:21
  do still make them and you can watch them.
• 41:23
  You just have to search it, I believe.
• 41:26
  I don't know if every band is doing it as as much as they
• 41:31
  needed to for MTV. I'm going to assume yes, but I'm
• 41:35
  not positive. You know, with every single
• 41:36
  comes a video. Probably not because I think it
• 41:42
  was really a vehicle to push the the music.
• 41:46
  So for example, when we first moved to North Carolina in the
• 41:50
  90s, music had to catch up. Like if if it was, if it was a
• 41:59
  band from New York or, or the music started in New York, it
• 42:04
  had to work its way down the coast to North Carolina.
• 42:09
  Same thing like Florida. So 95 S And what's the other
• 42:17
  band? It was Woomp, there it is.
• 42:19
  And, and the other one there was like a twin Woot, woot, there it
• 42:23
  is. And Woomp, there it is, if I
• 42:26
  remember that correctly. So they started in Miami.
• 42:29
  So any of the Miami sound had to travel up through the East Coast
• 42:34
  and the New York sound had to travel down South in North
• 42:37
  Carolina. I would get it after all my
• 42:40
  friends in New York. And then vice versa, if it was a
• 42:45
  song that started in Miami. And so MTV was really that way
• 42:50
  to push it out nationally. And now with YouTube and
• 42:56
  streaming and social media, it's it's hitting the world at the
• 43:00
  same time, whereas before it used to be timed.
• 43:05
  I think you nailed it. I think you nailed it because
• 43:08
  radio was local. Right.
• 43:11
  To every state, every region. And so MTV became that
• 43:17
  nationwide radio station with video.
• 43:21
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, what was what was
• 43:24
  national Casey Kasem, American America's Top 40 out of that you
• 43:32
  didn't like? You said everything was local.
• 43:35
  It was, and I don't believe it was.
• 43:37
  It was done live. I was in when I was in radio.
• 43:41
  It was not done live. I did Rick DS in the morning on
• 43:45
  Sunday mornings, the Sunday morning countdown.
• 43:47
  And that was actually we that was delivered by mail on like 4
• 43:52
  CDs, 4 CDs. And you, you queue it up and you
• 43:55
  play the first track and when the track is done, you go to
• 43:58
  commercial and then you just hit play on the next track.
• 44:02
  And so it always came in recorded.
• 44:05
  Yeah. Rick DS.
• 44:08
  I do remember that. Yeah.
• 44:11
  See, we'll we'll take you on a whole.
• 44:14
  I know at one point we were talking about Dick Van Dyke.
• 44:19
  It's probably my fault. But you know what?
• 44:22
  It does make sense because we've talked about movies, we've
• 44:25
  talked about TV, we've talked about music, and you know, Dick
• 44:29
  Van Dyke has done it all. He, he's, he's, he, he is, he's
• 44:36
  gone through everything. I mean, he was he, he wants to
• 44:42
  do a even at almost 100 now he wants to get his barbershop
• 44:50
  quartet back together. He says.
• 44:52
  The problem is he can't find anybody that sings barbershop
• 44:56
  quartet like. Have him give me a call.
• 45:00
  Go to Disneyland. I know, right?
• 45:05
  They would jump at the chance. Can you imagine if he just
• 45:07
  surprised guests one day and just became part of part of that
• 45:12
  on Main Street? That would be crazy.
• 45:14
  I'd pass out. Did you know that in 2024 that
• 45:22
  Dick Van Dyke appeared in Coldplay's song All My Love,
• 45:28
  where he sings and dances and reflects on his life and career
• 45:30
  alongside Chris Martin? Yeah.
• 45:33
  So he's been on MTV before. He's done, he's done.
• 45:36
  He's done a music video. Yeah, it's he's.
• 45:41
  Done more than that too. At 99, folks, at 99, it it's
• 45:51
  crazy to think about that though, like even we've been
• 45:54
  pretty lucky. Like, you know, Betty White was
• 45:58
  still, I mean, how, how old was she when she was on SNL And the
• 46:06
  oh, man, the show that she was on recently, again, it was for
• 46:15
  women, I think. I think it was kind of playing
• 46:18
  on the The Golden Girls idea. I cannot think of the name of
• 46:22
  that move, that show. Somebody in chat will tell us.
• 46:27
  And then she even had a did you see the prank show that she was
• 46:34
  in? It was, it was, yeah.
• 46:37
  It was all senior citizens and they would go around doing
• 46:40
  pranks. Oh yeah.
• 46:43
  That's funny. That's funny.
• 46:45
  Yeah. Yeah, she she was a character.
• 46:48
  She lived life to the fullest. Imagine living life that long
• 46:51
  and having a great time. Yeah, seriously, I was just
• 46:57
  looking because I know that he won a Tony.
• 47:03
  Oh, Sharon Hecker says hot, Hot in Cleveland.
• 47:06
  Hot in Cleveland. There you go.
• 47:07
  Thank you, Sharon. That was it.
• 47:11
  He did not win an Oscar, so he doesn't have the EGOT, but he
• 47:17
  did win a Tony, a Grammy and several Emmys.
• 47:25
  Wow. Yeah, just just missing him the
• 47:28
  the Oscar for the EGOT, Yeah. He he needs to go do a film so
• 47:34
  that they can just do this honorary Oscar for him.
• 47:38
  He should have got one for night at the museum.
• 47:45
  Well, you know, they don't award Oscars for comedy.
• 47:49
  No, that's a whole nother thing. They need to revamp everything
• 47:54
  they do for the Oscars and how they determine the winners.
• 47:58
  I got a good formula for that. So, yeah, so happy birthday,
• 48:04
  Dick Van Dyke. You have brought many of us many
• 48:10
  laughs. I could put on Mary Poppins
• 48:12
  right now and absolutely just love it.
• 48:16
  The the the great accent and all.
• 48:24
  Did you know that? Did you know that his vocal
• 48:27
  coach for that? And, and This is why he
• 48:32
  attributes the accent being so bad.
• 48:36
  His vocal coach was Irish. Oh.
• 48:41
  So he says. That's why, That's why my
• 48:44
  English accent was so bad. Oh, that's funny, Disney, you
• 48:49
  got to be better than that. They couldn't find an English
• 48:54
  vocal code? It's.
• 48:54
  Funny the stuff that that, you know, that stuff wouldn't pass
• 48:57
  now people would be like, they'd laugh that out.
• 49:01
  No way. All the haters on Instagram
• 49:03
  would be all over that. Yeah, be like, no way.
• 49:07
  No, he knew. That was the other thing.
• 49:11
  He knew Walt Disney. It's only so many people alive
• 49:15
  that knew Walt Disney. You know Julie Andrews, Him.
• 49:23
  Excuse me, Bob Gur. Tony Baxter worked for him.
• 49:29
  Right. Yes.
• 49:31
  Oh, yes, he did. Yeah.
• 49:33
  Tony Baxter. Tony Baxter, if anybody doesn't
• 49:36
  know, he is basically the Imagineer behind Big Thunder
• 49:40
  Mountain, the original figment. And I've been in the same room
• 49:45
  with Tony Baxter where he says he hates the figment we've got
• 49:50
  now. He hates it.
• 49:53
  And he goes, what? I can say that what's Disney
• 49:55
  going to do, fire me? He he does not like the current
• 49:59
  iteration or the second one. Yeah, like you know how I on the
• 50:07
  on the post show I try to find old attractions.
• 50:11
  I don't think I maybe I didn't look hard enough for on purpose,
• 50:14
  but I don't think I have found the second version of Figment.
• 50:21
  I don't think I've. I don't know if I got to
• 50:24
  experience the second version. I don't know how I would know.
• 50:28
  I don't know how I would know this, but he first met Walt.
• 50:34
  He was selling popcorn. Walt just comes on over, grabs
• 50:40
  a, you know, he serves Walt a popcorn.
• 50:43
  They do a quick little, you know, chitchat, you know, Walt
• 50:46
  tells him to, you know, keep it the good work, son, you know,
• 50:50
  and moves on his way. And can you even just imagine
• 50:53
  that kind of interaction like that?
• 50:55
  Like that's imagine if you just be in transport back in time and
• 51:00
  just beat Tony Baxter for a second and just Walt comes by
• 51:03
  and grabs a popcorn. Crazy.
• 51:07
  I could all. I would also think that I would
• 51:10
  probably treat Walt like I treat, oh, now I just went
• 51:17
  blank. Josh tomorrow, who will be the
• 51:19
  next Walt? We think, right?
• 51:23
  I've seen him enough in Disney. It's what's up, what's up, Josh,
• 51:26
  you know, and we chit chat for a bit.
• 51:29
  Walt would, Walt would be that way too.
• 51:30
  I'm sure Walt was. I'm sure Walt was the same way
• 51:34
  as Josh. Tomorrow is Josh is a people
• 51:37
  person. You can approach Josh.
• 51:40
  You can have a conversation with Josh.
• 51:41
  Josh and I have a connection with our local ties with each
• 51:45
  other and talk sports. That gives me the chills every
• 51:49
  time I say that, you know, it's just pretty cool.
• 51:52
  And I'm sure, I'm sure he's just good at identifying people,
• 51:56
  right? People he's interacted with
• 51:57
  before and talked to because at least when he sees me, it's it's
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  not a hello to a stranger. It's kind of like, oh, hey,
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  what's going on, man? You know, So I think that's
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  really cool, really special to me.
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  But yeah, I think I think Walt was probably that way.
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  Why? Why, why, why would he walk
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  through the parks in, in right, which is his baby.
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  And these guests, you know, are enjoying his creation.
• 52:22
  You know, why wouldn't he interact with people?
• 52:24
  It would be cool to hear stories from people who just interacted
• 52:29
  like Walt. You know, I was standing on Main
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  Street waiting for the parade, and Walt came over and started
• 52:34
  talking to me. You know, I'm sure.
• 52:37
  I'm sure those things, those things occurred.
• 52:41
  What year did you first go to Disney?
• 52:46
  I'm not good with stuff like this.
• 52:48
  I would say, let's see, Jill was born in O6, Tammy.
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  So Tammy, we went, we went, we went in O6 when Tammy was very
• 53:04
  much pregnant. If I backtrack from that I'm
• 53:07
  just going to guess and maybe say O 4 was the first time.
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  The second one. Because the first.
• 53:14
  One opened in O2. Oh oh, OK, so we missed it.
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  Yeah. So I would have seen the first
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  one, probably the second one because I was there in February
• 53:31
  of 2001 and you know, my oldest John Des, he was 7 at that
• 53:42
  point, so or six at that point. So we probably would have done
• 53:46
  figment. So I'm going to say I was on the
• 53:49
  second one, but I have no recollection of that ride.
• 53:53
  And then obviously the third one, yes.
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  And maybe at someday we'll be able to say the 4th.
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  Maybe someday soon. Yeah, I think what Disney should
• 54:05
  do with that ride is just let let's go.
• 54:08
  Let's let's really don't just remake the original, but put so
• 54:16
  much nostalgia in it that it would make people love it, if
• 54:23
  that makes sense. Yeah, bring bring back Dream
• 54:25
  Finder in some way and that kind of thing.
• 54:29
  Old mouse gear, which people some people might not know, but
• 54:32
  I think all most of you do know that old mouse gear became
• 54:37
  creations that has no character at all.
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  But I don't mind. I don't mind creations, but they
• 54:47
  had some old stuff in there from the original.
• 54:51
  They had the dream finders. I don't you call it his dream
• 54:54
  machine. Yeah, that that that was up on
• 54:57
  the wall, which is pretty neat. I had no idea what I was looking
• 55:00
  at, though, to be honest. I was new to Disney World, newer
• 55:06
  back then. Even when we first moved here,
• 55:07
  when we first started going, it was a little bit new.
• 55:10
  I didn't know the history like that.
• 55:13
  Yeah. Now if I did, I would have been
• 55:14
  like, whoa, look at that. Speaking of that, you know that
• 55:20
  Disney Springs, we checked out Disney Springs the other day and
• 55:24
  we went to the pop up shop. That pop up shop is cute, that
• 55:29
  pop up shop is cute, but boy does that reek of spending
• 55:35
  money. Let me tell you.
• 55:38
  I mean, it's all mystery boxes and to me I could be great.
• 55:46
  Call me a naive, but I don't I don't know if there's a way to
• 55:49
  trade those things. Like I don't mind mystery boxes
• 55:53
  with Disney pins because there's a possibility I can trade the
• 55:57
  dupes. I don't know.
• 56:00
  If anybody knows in the comments, you can comment later
• 56:03
  comment now if I buy these figurines and I get some some
• 56:07
  dupes, am I stuck with them? It I don't know if there's this
• 56:14
  whole other culture we don't know about just like I didn't
• 56:17
  know this whole culture with with pin with pins.
• 56:20
  Anyway, I know we pin trade, but now that we've we've, we've dove
• 56:25
  into it that, you know, there's Facebook groups and this and
• 56:28
  that where you can, you can, you can trade with people and this
• 56:31
  and that. But the pop up shop is is cute,
• 56:33
  very cute. Love the Star Wars collection.
• 56:35
  There's a ton of stitch collections and things like
• 56:38
  that. But what we did notice, I'm
• 56:41
  going to say we I'm going to give Jacob all the credit
• 56:43
  because I probably wouldn't even it wouldn't have dawned on me,
• 56:45
  but the Mr. Toad ride vehicle is gone.
• 56:51
  Do you remember that used that used to be there?
• 56:52
  The pop up shop is to the right when you first walk into the
• 56:55
  Co-op. I thought it took over the the D
• 56:59
  tech area, but it didn't. They took the shop that was on
• 57:03
  the right and put it in the D tech area and now the pop up
• 57:08
  shop is on your right. OK, so what's the pop up shop
• 57:14
  going to be? Is it is it going to be
• 57:17
  temporary and flip to different things or is it does it look
• 57:22
  permanent? I mean, it looks permanent.
• 57:27
  It looks permanent. They've taken, they've put new
• 57:31
  shelves in there all around the walls, as opposed to where you
• 57:34
  had a lot of T-shirts and jerseys hanging up before on
• 57:38
  those walls. Now they're all shelves.
• 57:41
  I think they're all white shelves, good lighting.
• 57:44
  And it's like every section has a different collection that you
• 57:48
  can collect. And in the middle, it's like
• 57:51
  this display table that has a ton of Star Wars characters
• 57:57
  there. And then there's this tiny, tiny
• 57:59
  table where they encourage you to go over there and unbox what
• 58:03
  you've bought and, and post it on social media, which is a nice
• 58:09
  listen that that's that's a nod for two things, right?
• 58:11
  That's Disney saying, we love social media.
• 58:14
  For all of you that have a problem with social media
• 58:16
  people, that's Disney saying, Hey, I want you to post this on
• 58:19
  social media. And it's also, you know, again,
• 58:23
  it's free advertising for Disney and creates the hype.
• 58:25
  And maybe it'll get more people to go and, and buy, buy some
• 58:31
  more, more figures. Yeah.
• 58:34
  But I I love the figures and I think they're decently priced
• 58:37
  1699 for the most part. I was tempted to buy some Star
• 58:44
  Wars ones, but once you get that dupe, it's like, oh, what do I
• 58:48
  do? So I don't know if there's a way
• 58:50
  to trade your dupes. I suppose if you're there and
• 58:53
  nobody was there, of course we got there late.
• 58:56
  We were the only ones in the shop.
• 58:59
  But maybe there's times you get lucky, right?
• 59:01
  There's probably times you get lucky where if you're opening up
• 59:03
  a few and someone else's and you're like, oh, hey, I don't
• 59:06
  have this one, but I see we can make a trade here.
• 59:09
  So, you know, because we have dupes on something.
• 59:11
  We did that on May the fourth. Remember, we were trying were we
• 59:15
  both was it was it that we were both trying to get all the
• 59:17
  wishables, the Star Wars wishables?
• 59:20
  Yeah. And we we all, we both came out
• 59:22
  with all of them, I think. Right.
• 59:24
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 59:25
  And I, you guys didn't do bad, I don't think he, I think maybe 1
• 59:29
  dupe each. Yeah.
• 59:31
  And then you were able to trade it right after that.
• 59:34
  So it worked well. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:39
  So, boy, we covered a lot of things along with Dick Van Dyke.
• 59:43
  Did we finish Dick Van Dyke? Yeah, yeah.
• 59:47
  So there's actually, let me show this.
• 59:51
  I did pull this in. I guess there is going to be a
• 59:56
  event for Fathom this this weekend.
• 1:00:01
  So I'll show that and then then we'll head out.
• 1:00:04
  All right. I mean, Simply put, he's an
• 1:00:13
  icon. He is somebody who innovative
• 1:00:18
  film and TV. I consider myself one of his
• 1:00:25
  first leading ladies. What I never really thought of
• 1:00:28
  myself as a comedian, really an entertainer and a song and dance
• 1:00:35
  man. Why look so awfully tragic?
• 1:00:38
  Put on a happy face. I mean, he's in a class by
• 1:00:42
  himself, Mr. Creative. Dick Van Dyke loved it.
• 1:00:48
  I just loved the still of it. Sorry, Dick Van Dyke.
• 1:00:51
  He missed the Ottoman sometimes and sometimes he tripped over
• 1:00:54
  the Ottoman. When we started filming, we
• 1:01:01
  just, it just felt right, everything about.
• 1:01:06
  It. He's a great human being and one
• 1:01:10
  of the most generous performers that I've ever worked with.
• 1:01:14
  My birthday. If you hadn't mentioned that, I
• 1:01:17
  would have completely forgotten it.
• 1:01:19
  He's the most incredible human being in terms of his
• 1:01:24
  likability, and he's a mammoth talent like nothing else.
• 1:01:30
  Van Dyke, this is just so well timed and so deserved.
• 1:01:35
  I look better than the house. He's the most gifted physical
• 1:01:38
  comedian that ever lived. And I'm talking about Chaplain
• 1:01:41
  Keaton. Anybody else?
• 1:01:43
  Seriously though, no fooling around in here.
• 1:01:46
  Stuff's really old. Everything is distinctive about
• 1:01:51
  him. There's nobody else but Dick.
• 1:01:56
  Dick Van Dyke, I think I'm in love.
• 1:01:59
  You blew me away. Out of my seat.
• 1:02:01
  Sensational. Keep it up.
• 1:02:06
  Thank you. Happy birthday, Joe.
• 1:02:07
  Honey. Thanks.
• 1:02:15
  So there you go. Make sure to check that out if
• 1:02:18
  you're interested. Yeah, that'll that'll be a great
• 1:02:21
  documentary right there. That'd be that'd be cool if
• 1:02:26
  Disney Plus put that up. It would, it would.
• 1:02:30
  I wonder if they have. I have to search and see if they
• 1:02:32
  have anything on Dick Van Dyke on Disney Plus.
• 1:02:36
  Yeah, incredible man. I'm glad we had a chance to
• 1:02:40
  celebrate his life while he's still with us.
• 1:02:44
  We tend to, we tend to do these things when people are gone.
• 1:02:46
  But good. Good to do it now.
• 1:02:49
  It it's an amazing feat to reach 100.
• 1:02:53
  Even reaching 90s is just amazing.
• 1:02:56
  You know, if if if I was asked, you know, what are you looking
• 1:02:59
  for? I'm like, get me to my 90s.
• 1:03:01
  You know, you can't complain. You can't complain when you when
• 1:03:05
  you get that far. What a life.
• 1:03:08
  Well, you know, unbelievable and truly talented man.
• 1:03:16
  Yeah. So I, I think, I think we might
• 1:03:21
  want to look at focusing a little bit more on doing more of
• 1:03:26
  these feature pieces. OK.
• 1:03:31
  Let us know in the comments if you like this.
• 1:03:33
  We, you know, we can do a lot of different features on people
• 1:03:35
  and, and yeah, I just, I like it.
• 1:03:38
  We'll have to talk more about that.
• 1:03:40
  All right, very cool. I'd like to do one on Cara
• 1:03:42
  Burnett. I know she's not really Disney,
• 1:03:44
  but she's fun. By the way, I wanted to, I
• 1:03:48
  wanted to point out, did anyone watch the football game last
• 1:03:52
  night, the Eagles and Chargers, but not the real game, the
• 1:03:56
  monsters version? I think that I've watched all of
• 1:04:01
  them and I just, I just feel like Disney did an amazing job
• 1:04:07
  this year. I think it was the best that
• 1:04:11
  they've done. It was pretty incredible.
• 1:04:13
  I, I alerted you and some of my other friends, just in case you
• 1:04:17
  all didn't know or didn't realize it was going on.
• 1:04:19
  Disney Springs had a big poster up on Saturday, which alerted us
• 1:04:24
  again, like, oh, it's this Monday night.
• 1:04:28
  They did a great job and they even, you know, Jalen Hurts from
• 1:04:31
  the Eagles through 4 interceptions.
• 1:04:33
  And if you were watching the monsters version, Sully
• 1:04:37
  intercepted him four times. I.
• 1:04:40
  Did so that's pretty cool. That was pretty cool and the
• 1:04:43
  halftime show was great with Mike Wazowski competing with
• 1:04:47
  Sully and Mike won and it was pretty cool.
• 1:04:54
  Disney is a great job, so I hope they get good ratings for that
• 1:04:57
  and we see more of those in the future.
• 1:04:59
  Now. Being such a great football fan,
• 1:05:02
  I don't like to miss any games. Tammy liked the setup I had.
• 1:05:06
  I just set my iPad up on the couch and I synced it.
• 1:05:09
  I synced it with the Disney version so at any time we could
• 1:05:13
  look down and see the real play as opposed to what was happening
• 1:05:18
  on the field with monsters. And if anybody doesn't know,
• 1:05:21
  every NFL player has technology now on them, on their bodies, in
• 1:05:25
  their helmets, and they must be connected to their bodies, too.
• 1:05:29
  But he can tell how fast they run there.
• 1:05:33
  It's AGPS locator. So somehow technology wise, they
• 1:05:37
  connect that to the characters on the field and you're able to
• 1:05:41
  see an actual football game with it.
• 1:05:43
  So it was a lot of fun. So if you if you missed it, I'm
• 1:05:47
  guessing Disney Plus has this right now stored I.
• 1:05:51
  Would think so for a bit. The other games were on there
• 1:05:55
  too, I think. I think the Toy Story game was
• 1:05:57
  there after after it was over, if I if I'm not mistaken.
• 1:06:01
  I don't know if it's still there, but I thought it was on
• 1:06:03
  after it. So yeah, check it out.
• 1:06:05
  And I we watched the first half. OK, and I wonder how they how
• 1:06:10
  they do some things because I'm listening closely to the
• 1:06:12
  announcers in the monsters version and it's like they're so
• 1:06:17
  they were so quick with certain lines and.
• 1:06:19
  I. Don't you know?
• 1:06:22
  It's really impressive. It's very impressive, very
• 1:06:27
  impressive. I was like, that's the one thing
• 1:06:29
  I said to her was like, I don't get how they're processing this
• 1:06:33
  that quickly. Like it.
• 1:06:35
  It's just she was like, it's Disney.
• 1:06:38
  I said, I know, but you know, there's a lot.
• 1:06:41
  I mean, just to do a live game is one thing, but then you've
• 1:06:48
  got to take it and convert it to the monsters get it is amazing.
• 1:06:55
  Yeah, it's very impressive. It would be, it would nice to
• 1:06:57
  be, it would be nice to see it behind the scenes.
• 1:06:59
  Even if they did something on Instagram for a real for a one
• 1:07:04
  minute or something like show us a little bit of like, how are
• 1:07:07
  you so witty? Like they'd make a call on a
• 1:07:09
  play and then they'd have they tie in some monsters funny line
• 1:07:15
  or history or something you might relate to if you know,
• 1:07:17
  monsters. It was like, whoa, how did they?
• 1:07:20
  How did they? Wow.
• 1:07:21
  Yeah. Very good.
• 1:07:22
  Very, very well done. Yes.
• 1:07:24
  Yeah, I think they'll do more of that.
• 1:07:26
  I of course would not hate if they did a baseball game, but
• 1:07:30
  we'll see. Right, that would be kind of
• 1:07:35
  neat. They should.
• 1:07:35
  Maybe they should try different sports.
• 1:07:38
  Try different sports. And you had a great idea.
• 1:07:41
  Let's come back with Star Wars next year.
• 1:07:43
  Yeah, yeah. Oh, that was that was why I
• 1:07:47
  mentioned it. February of 2027 as the 50th
• 1:07:53
  anniversary of Star Wars and they're going to be re releasing
• 1:07:57
  the original in the theaters. So I don't remember what day it
• 1:08:01
  is, but I know where Corey will be that day.
• 1:08:06
  Yeah. And then it's going to be, and I
• 1:08:09
  am sure this is going to happen, it's got to be coming out in
• 1:08:12
  IMAX as well. Like, I don't think we need to
• 1:08:16
  go see this at the local theater with the smaller screens.
• 1:08:20
  I think we need to go find the best theater experience we can
• 1:08:22
  find. And that'll that'll probably be
• 1:08:25
  in Disney Springs. You know, that would be
• 1:08:29
  unbelievable because I sat in theaters in 1977 at five years
• 1:08:34
  old and had no idea what I was watching.
• 1:08:36
  But boy, did I like it. Never seen anything like that
• 1:08:40
  before. Just just just a massive thing.
• 1:08:44
  I love that these movies are celebrating their anniversaries
• 1:08:50
  and they're they're coming back out on the big screen to sit in
• 1:08:52
  the theater and watch Jaws last year or the year before in IMAX,
• 1:08:56
  where Jacob and Jill had never seen a stitch of it, and to
• 1:09:00
  watch their reactions and jump scares and things like that.
• 1:09:04
  They have a true appreciation for movies like that.
• 1:09:06
  I saw that The Shining was hitting theaters this weekend in
• 1:09:12
  Orlando in the Regal Theater to celebrate the 45th.
• 1:09:17
  Yeah. That'd be something I'd love to
• 1:09:19
  take Jacob to to see as well. Oh, God.
• 1:09:22
  Yeah. 4 DX, Star Wars. Yes, please.
• 1:09:25
  Give me some, give me some. You know what?
• 1:09:28
  When Star Wars comes out next year, that is 4 DX for sure,
• 1:09:31
  because it star fighters coming out.
• 1:09:33
  What is it next year or the year after?
• 1:09:35
  That's going to be a must, a must see.
• 1:09:39
  Tammy's afraid that too much shaking around will make her
• 1:09:42
  sick because we did a mild version which was back to the
• 1:09:46
  future in four DX and you shake around.
• 1:09:49
  It's no joke. So and our butts were.
• 1:09:52
  Hurting. Can you not adjust the movement?
• 1:09:55
  No, you can. You can only adjust the water
• 1:09:59
  level. Do you want water or not water?
• 1:10:04
  OK. I don't.
• 1:10:05
  I don't think you can adjust it. Do you think you can because
• 1:10:08
  you've been before? Yeah, but it was so long ago.
• 1:10:13
  Let me do some research on that. Yeah, we'll have to find out.
• 1:10:16
  I feel like you can because that would make that would, I think
• 1:10:20
  that would enhance the whole family experience, right?
• 1:10:22
  Because you want to go, she's a little concerned with it.
• 1:10:26
  You can all still go and really enjoy it.
• 1:10:29
  I'm going to look into that. That's a great idea because I
• 1:10:31
  said to her, you know, do you want to do you?
• 1:10:34
  I asked her multiple times because I know she's not 100% in
• 1:10:38
  on it. Especially for a movie that's
• 1:10:39
  over 3 hours in Avatar, Fire and Ash.
• 1:10:42
  I was like this would be an amazing movie to see and it's in
• 1:10:45
  three. I didn't think they did this but
• 1:10:47
  it's in 3D as well. 3D. Can you imagine 3D and 4DX?
• 1:10:52
  And four. So does that make it 7D?
• 1:10:55
  Yes, it does. OK.
• 1:10:56
  All right, it it. I can imagine those seats get
• 1:11:00
  loose, too, right. So you see me moving that I
• 1:11:03
  could imagine when they're flying on the Ecrons.
• 1:11:05
  Yeah. That you're going to feel like
• 1:11:07
  flight of passage without being in that position, just kind of
• 1:11:10
  floating. Because they told me at the
• 1:11:12
  theater when they saw Jaws, you you could probably get seasick
• 1:11:17
  because as the boat moved, so did your chair.
• 1:11:20
  So kind of slow and free flowing.
• 1:11:24
  And you know, Tammy's the type. She's like, guys go, you don't
• 1:11:27
  need me for everything. I'm like, but I want you to come
• 1:11:29
  with us, you know, so I'll miss it in 40 X my choice, but but
• 1:11:36
  I'll I'll say this last thing. Our butts hurt.
• 1:11:39
  All four, all three of us, our butts hurt.
• 1:11:41
  If you go to a four DX movie, everybody, and I'm not even
• 1:11:43
  trying to be funny, your butt will hurt because what's
• 1:11:46
  happening is you're clenching your cheeks to stay stable in
• 1:11:49
  the seat. It moves so much.
• 1:11:51
  Can you imagine moving around for two hours?
• 1:11:53
  For two hours, yeah. Like there was a point where I
• 1:11:55
  was like, I don't know, I might have to stand up and like go for
• 1:11:59
  a walk or something. And when when we we were walking
• 1:12:02
  out to the car, I mentioned it and Tammy and Jacob are like,
• 1:12:05
  oh, yeah, Dad. Yeah, our butts are getting
• 1:12:06
  pretty sore because of all the movement.
• 1:12:10
  Yeah, but but what an experience.
• 1:12:12
  I encourage everybody to try it. Very cool.
• 1:12:19
  So tomorrow, not tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow we
• 1:12:23
  have Magic Epcot. No Epcot.
• 1:12:29
  We are at Epcot because of the rain.
• 1:12:31
  I don't know what would have, I don't know how much of our
• 1:12:36
  schedule was affected by the rain, but I feel like we
• 1:12:41
  probably wouldn't have done Regal Eagle and hit a couple of
• 1:12:44
  food booths if it wasn't for the rain.
• 1:12:47
  But the cookie stroll took longer than we expected.
• 1:12:49
  And when we when we've made our first stop in in Communicore, I
• 1:12:55
  was like, oh, there's 4 cookies here.
• 1:12:57
  We're going to be done in no time.
• 1:13:00
  We got our 4th, but that line was long.
• 1:13:03
  Yeah. What do you think about Disney
• 1:13:06
  incorporating 4 cookies in one spot?
• 1:13:10
  You you could say, well, you can knock out a bunch of once, but
• 1:13:13
  the I feel at the time you waited for those cookies, you
• 1:13:16
  could have gone to four food booths for cookies and then out
• 1:13:19
  at the same time. I mean, I think with it being
• 1:13:25
  there, it's OK. Had it just been a random
• 1:13:31
  country that had 4I, I don't think I would have gotten it.
• 1:13:35
  But I think, you know, if you think about like the festival
• 1:13:38
  favorites and the whole idea behind Communicore Plaza or
• 1:13:44
  Communicore Hall is that it's supposed to be about the
• 1:13:48
  festivals, you know? And so I'm I'm good with it
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  there. But yeah, that line was long,
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  that line. Was it was long?
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  Yeah, it was long. So I took you all on Nemo and
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  didn't want to make you all way in in a food line that long.
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  So yeah, Tammy was good about it.
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  I felt like, I think I can do that and come back in time when
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  you guys get done. And it was perfect timing
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  because they just got outside when I was, I had come outside
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  of Nemo. So.
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  So that worked. We made the best of it.
• 1:14:18
  It was rainy, but we get to see Ratatouille and they thought it
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  was pretty good as well. I know I was.
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  I threw a fit when you told me it was going to 2D, But
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  ultimately it's better. It's sharper, it's clearer, it's
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  more colorful, so. My other thought is is having it
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  in three DI think detracted from the props around like when
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  you're going through the pantry and all of that because you have
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  the 3D glasses on, I think it detracts from the actual props
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  in the in the ride. So I'm and, and you know, I
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  talked to Murray Murray's adventures, who's our Disneyland
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  Paris streamer, and he was saying that, you know, they
• 1:15:02
  haven't been using glasses over there in a long time and people
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  love it, absolutely loved it. So we didn't get the extra scene
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  in the queue that they got because they got some sort of
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  scene. And I don't know if maybe it's
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  where the the glasses used to be.
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  Maybe instead of just putting the wall up like they did for
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  us, maybe they got some other scene there.
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  But still works, still works. And then, so we're doing that
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  tomorrow night. And then Thursday I will be at
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  Trans-siberian Orchestra doing. All right.
• 1:15:43
  Are you going to see Zach? And they have the signing line
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  back so you can meet the band and have them sign stuff.
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  So we'll get a program that has all their pictures in it and
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  then they'll all sign the the program.
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  So yeah, I'll get to see I'll get to see Zach and up close and
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  and shake his hand. He did wave at us last year from
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  the stage, which was pretty cool, but.
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  Nicely. See him this time so.
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  He's a great guy and Saturdays will be with you.
• 1:16:18
  Yes, we've got a jam packed Saturdays before the stream even
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  starts, we'll be doing the the live meet up, Pete's meet up in
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  Disney Springs from 11:00 to 1:00 and from there we're going
• 1:16:30
  to grab some some brunch. I don't know how we're fitting
• 1:16:33
  that in. In two hours there, there could
• 1:16:36
  be over 100 people there. This meet up will actually.
• 1:16:41
  Just put us up a table. I think Pete's going to put you
• 1:16:43
  and I at a table and just have people come over the signing
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  line, the signing line. He this meet up is probably
• 1:16:52
  bigger than the actual meet up that he does in August.
• 1:16:55
  That's three days. He'll, he'll have more people at
• 1:16:59
  this meet up then he will the one in, in Maryland.
• 1:17:02
  So looking forward to it. I've got new business cards that
• 1:17:10
  I'll be handing out. So that'll be nice.
• 1:17:14
  So the the DSN may grow, you know, this week, who knows?
• 1:17:20
  Yeah, there you go. That's the.
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  Be there. I'll fly in Friday night, then
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  we'll be hanging out Saturday and then Sunday.
• 1:17:29
  Monday I'll be at the parks also and then fly home Monday
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  evening. Nice.
• 1:17:35
  And if you're good at Magic Kingdom, we'll be live at Magic
• 1:17:40
  Kingdom on Saturdays. Everyone, I will get you into
• 1:17:44
  the LID superbox for Starlight. I'll get you in the VIP box.
• 1:17:51
  Probably for the second, probably not for the 1st.
• 1:17:55
  I'll probably follow the parade for the first.
• 1:17:58
  Oh. So you're going to start on Main
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  Street and just kind of follow it, OK.
• 1:18:06
  Yeah. So what's OK?
• 1:18:07
  OK, OK. Wait a minute.
• 1:18:09
  How can you produce the stream if you're doing that if you're
• 1:18:12
  not with me? Produce the stream from
• 1:18:13
  wherever. OK.
• 1:18:15
  I have to stand next to you to produce the train.
• 1:18:17
  I'm doing it from 600 miles away right now.
• 1:18:22
  That is true. That is true.
• 1:18:24
  That is, that is going to be a test, folks.
• 1:18:26
  On Saturday. I am remote producing.
• 1:18:31
  So Corey's signal comes back here to North Carolina from
• 1:18:37
  Florida standing next to Corey, I am telling the North Carolina
• 1:18:41
  studios what to do and running the show remotely from there.
• 1:18:48
  This is absolutely crazy, but our friends have done it.
• 1:18:52
  Sierra's done it that does it every single day.
• 1:18:56
  So I'm sure it will work out with with no problem.
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  So we'll. See.
• 1:19:01
  Love it. Love it.
• 1:19:02
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:19:04
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• 1:19:20
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• 1:19:25
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• 1:19:27
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• 1:19:30
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• 1:19:35
  Being that it's Christmas episode, it's the last episode
• 1:19:37
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• 1:19:43
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• 1:19:49
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• 1:19:53
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• 1:19:57
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• 1:20:00
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• 1:20:03
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• 1:20:07
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• 1:20:18
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• 1:20:20
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