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41. One Year Celebration! · Mom Street USA

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  Welcome everybody to Mom St. USA.
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  My name is Jackie aka Wishes Mama, and joining me is my
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  wonderful cohost Kate aka the Disney Sis Cerone and together
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  we are Mom St. USA.
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  We are celebrating a milestone on our podcast and that is our
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  one year anniversary of Mom St. USA which is so exciting.
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  It is. I am so thrilled that it's, it
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  doesn't feel like a year. It feels like it's been way
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  shorter than that. But you know, that usually is
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  how it how it goes when you're having fun, right?
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  It's so true. So child wise, yes.
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  And we are excited that tonight also marks the official
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  partnership that Mom St. USA has now with the Chip and Co
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  podcast network. So we are excited to be a part
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  of that family going forward and looking forward to connecting
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  with the creators there and joining that group and having
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  our information available to people over there as well.
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  Yeah, it's such an exciting time to get to join that podcast
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  network, which has some really wonderful podcasts on it
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  already. So we're kind of going to do
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  some reintroducing and some reexplanation of who we are and
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  how we ended up here. So very, very excited about
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  that. So we thought for tonight's
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  show, we thought we'd do a little a couple of things to
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  celebrate. Do you want to lay out how we're
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  going to go through this, Jackie?
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  For those of you that maybe new listening to us or those of you
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  who have been here with us for the last year can reminisce with
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  us on our last year of Mom St. USA.
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  But we're going to kind of, you know, chat a little bit about
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  ourselves and then chat a little bit about Mom St. and talk about
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  some of our favorite moments and tips and tricks and all of that.
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  So it's going to be still a lot of really good info for you
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  guys, but also a little bit of fun with just some more info
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  about us and who we are. Yeah, I'm really looking forward
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  to this one just because I feel like we it's good to look back,
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  you know and and think about where you've been, how far
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  you've come and some of your favorite moments.
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  I think we don't pause enough to reflect on things that are were
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  important and meaningful to us and to take that time.
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  I think it's so important when you hit these milestones to just
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  take a moment, you know, I think that's important.
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  So, yeah, absolutely. Well, Kate, let's hear some
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  about you, OK, And let's hear about all of the aspects of your
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  life. Let's get some reintroductions
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  to get ready. Is the Disney.
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  Sissar, I know. Well I actually I get this
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  question a lot because I realize I haven't shared a lot of my
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  journey and I won't get too deep in the weeds on it cuz that's
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  probably something for my own kind of diseases world, but.
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  Just let's start off with my mom life, because this is a Disney
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  parent show where we help parents plan more magical
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  vacations for their family. So I am a mom of three beautiful
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  children. They are ages 810 and 13.
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  I have two girls and a boy. So they're starting to get into
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  those teenage years. So, you know, pray for me and
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  send good times and all of that, because who it's already a
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  little bit soft at times. I was a stay at home mom for
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  about 10 years, so I spent a lot of time with my kids and I was a
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  homeschooling mom up until this year and my kids are going to
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  school for the very first time. So yeah, more prayers for that.
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  But it is very exciting to have, you know, seasons change with
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  your families and whatnot. So that's what's happening with
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  us. I also have been married to my
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  husband for 17 wonderful years. I've known him for 19.
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  And his name is Elliott. He is a professor of music and a
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  VP at a college. He's also a professional
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  musician, so he plays the Elin pipes, the Irish bagpipe.
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  For those of you who don't know, Elin means elbow.
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  So you play it with your elbows. You don't blow into it.
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  And it's a, it's a. Instrument that is meant for
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  dance music, so it's played indoors, so it's not as loud as
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  like the Scottish pipes to get played outside.
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  So everybody's like, how do you tolerate that?
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  And I was like, they're not that bad, very different, very.
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  He's really good at it, so that's always helpful.
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  Yeah, sometimes he has students over.
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  They're not as good. They're learning and we applaud
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  that. So it's great.
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  In so that's kind of a little bit of my mom life my home life
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  and I am based in Oregon. A lot of people ask where I'm
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  from. So I'll just mention that I'm I
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  am not I don't live near any of the Disney parks.
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  Everybody assumes like oh I thought you were in Lai thought
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  you lived in Florida. I was like no, I just I just go
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  there a lot. So in my creative life as a
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  Disney creator, actually started back in 2020 when, you know,
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  everything changed in the world and I was like everybody was
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  reevaluating everything and. I was like, this is something I
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  would really love to do. And I just started with a blog
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  because I'm a writer by trade. And I I just started writing
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  about Disney. And then I just posted on
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  Instagram, you know, once in a while and it like, went nowhere
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  for like, you know, a few years. It didn't go anywhere for like 2
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  years. And I finally was at this place
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  where I told my husband I was like, is this even worth doing?
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  I feel like I'm just wasting my time.
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  Like nobody cares that I write any of this.
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  Nobody cares what I'm saying. I don't.
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  I don't even like my mom reads it and my dad, they read it and
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  they answered every week on my blog.
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  They're so sweet, but I'm like, we love supportive parents.
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  I know, like, they're wonderful. But nobody else was reading it.
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  I was like, this doesn't seem worth it anymore, you know?
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  And I really got close to giving up.
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  And that is when I had a post go super viral on TikTok.
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  I had a 20 million views. It was crazy and everything kind
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  of just blew up overnight. And since then, it's all just
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  kind of been growing and whatnot.
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  And then I since then I have published 2 books.
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  So I've published where the Firefly Stance, which is a I
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  won't get into these too much, but I have where the Firefly
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  Stance, which is a a fiction story of romantic suspense that
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  stars Disney Live streamers who are historians in the Disney
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  Parks. And then I also have a glimpse
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  of the magic, which is a nonfiction.
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  It's called Finding ourselves a Glimpse of the magic, Finding
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  ourselves in the Disney Story. So I've written two books there
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  on Amazon. I also have two podcasts, one
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  that's called District with Kate and Kirk and then of course Mom
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  St. USA with my good friend Jackie
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  here. So I'm posting on multi
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  platforms. I have books and podcasts and I
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  am a busy lady, I will say that. So that's a little bit of my
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  creator life. And it's been such a joy because
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  I really get to dig into obscure Disney history that nobody's
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  ever heard about. And it's such a joy.
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  And also I'll get to write about the Disney parks, which I love
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  so, And then just a little bit of my Disney life.
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  So to give you context about why we do this show, which is more
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  about Disney planning than Disney history.
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  My mom was in Disneyland on opening year of 1955, so I have
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  here. I'll play it for you guys.
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  I can hear it. This is a little Tinker Bell
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  that my mom got from Disneyland and it says 1955 by Walt Disney
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  Productions on the bottom. So my mother went to Disneyland
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  and then I went for the first time when I was two, which was
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  in the 80s because I'm super old.
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  And then stop it. And then we went every few years
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  growing up and my parents, you know, my parents got divorced
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  and we did kind of like the Disney dad thing.
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  So my dad took us to Disney. So I have a lot of really
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  wonderful memories with my dad and my brother at Disney.
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  I started research, researching kind of obscure Disney history,
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  kind of just going down rabbit holes and reading like every
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  book I could possibly get my hands on.
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  About 2005. Six is when I started doing
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  that, so quite a few years ago now.
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  And then I went to Disneyland Paris in 2006, which I'm also
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  going to again this month, so I'm excited to see how it's
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  changed since I went there. I also have been on 2 Disney
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  cruises. One I went to three day cruise
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  in the Caribbean and I got that like stomach virus that's
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  sometimes on cruise ships, no. And so I got quarantined in my
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  cabin and never got to go to their private island.
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  So I went to the balcony and looked at it and then I went
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  back to bed cuz I was like really sick.
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  That sounds so sad. It was very sad.
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  So someday I'm going to get back there and actually go on the
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  island. But then I made-up for it.
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  We did a seven day cruise on the Disney Wonder in Alaska so that
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  I was just looking through my pictures of that the other day,
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  which was so sweet. I think I sent a few to Jackie
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  cuz I had my kids in these like ridiculously cute costumes.
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  I was like, those are the days. And then I'm going on a Disney
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  cruise this next month to Northern Europe.
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  So that'll be my a new cruise ship for me because I've always
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  been on the Wonder. For whatever reason, I'm always
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  end up on the same boat. So this time I get to go in the
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  Disney Dream, which I'm very excited about.
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  Other than that, in my Disney Life, I've been a pass holder at
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  Disney World and Disneyland, both since 19, sorry, not
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  nineteen. Since 2019, I've been a pass
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  holder at both. So I like to say I commute to
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  the Disney park. So I go.
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  One month I usually go to one and then the other month I go to
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  the other and that's because I am a creator and so I go really
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  often, which helps me be able to give you guys the best advice
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  possible for how to tour the parks.
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  So really grateful to get to do that.
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  I realize I'm very it's a privilege to get to do that, but
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  it is it is a lot of work because I am working when I go
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  there most of the time, but I still enjoy it quite a lot, so
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  it's fun work. It is fun work now.
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  I I love it. I've I've worked really hard to
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  get there where it can become my work and I'm grateful for it but
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  recognize that it was work to get there.
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  So but anyway that's a little bit about me.
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  Probably more than you needed to know but that's that's me and I
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  have a lot of people saying like 80s is not old.
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  So yeah, you know, sure, You're as young as you feel.
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  Some days I feel older than others.
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  Let's just say that. And for those of you listening
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  to the audio version of our podcast, we will reference our
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  chat from time to time because we do record these live on our
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  different things that our friends are saying.
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  That is where that information is coming from.
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  Just to give you a little look at the way that we run things
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  here at Mom St. Yes, I do have a question from
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  Amy. It says Kate, are your kids
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  Disney lovers? And I would say.
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  Two out of three of my kids are Disney lovers.
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  My oldest, my 13 year old. I I think he likes the thrills,
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  thrill rides, but I think he rebels against liking Disney
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  because I like it and he's 13, so he enjoys it when he goes
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  most of the time. He doesn't like heat though, and
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  it's always hot in most of the Disney park, so maybe Disneyland
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  Paris will convince him to like it because it's not as hot
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  there. Hopefully, hopefully.
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  I don't know. In my research I have been
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  looking at weather and it's been a little warm over there, so.
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  I gotta go check that again. Maybe by the time you get there
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  cuz you got a little while before you get to Disneyland
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  Paris. Hopefully it will.
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  That is true. Not be so bad.
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  Yes. That's true.
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  All righty. Well, that's enough about me,
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  Jackie. How about you?
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  Yeah, a little bit about you. So I'm not nearly as interesting
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  as Kate is. Whatever.
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  They're all different. That's the beautiful thing.
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  But I am a mom to two kiddos. I have a boy and a girl.
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  They are. Oh gosh, my oldest turns 7 on
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  Saturday and my youngest will be 5 in a few short weeks.
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  So they are getting old and I'm just not here for it, but you
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  know. Such as.
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  That's tough. Such a transition time during
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  those ages. Yeah, so and almost seven and
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  almost five year old. I also have two dogs that will
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  from time to time show up when I do my personal content and live
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  streams. They like to bug me while I'm
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  doing work and all of that type of thing.
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  But, and I live in Ohio, so I am not local to any of the Disney
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  parks either. I am much more of a Walt Disney
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  World girl as I have not made it out to Disneyland yet and my
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  husband and I have been married for nine years.
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  Kate and I have a lot in common when it comes to what our
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  husbands do because my husband also teaches music, but he does
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  it at more of a high school, middle school level.
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  So lots of marching band and indoor wins and all sorts of fun
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  things. But Kate and I bonded very
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  quickly over being involved in music, as we both were also
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  involved in music in our college years.
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  I am a former music teacher. I taught elementary music and
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  also a former preschool teacher. So you know all of the good
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  things with the kids. Yeah, and.
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  I have my Bachelor of Arts and music.
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  That's my connection for college.
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  I don't think I mentioned that. Yes, yes.
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  And I have a music education degree, so there you go.
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  You know, it works. It works.
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  As far as my creator life goes, I really just started doing
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  content creation for fun. I have been a stay at home mom
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  since May of 2021 and a few months later I kind of stumbled
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  upon TikTok and just started posting.
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  I just started posting things for fun on there and then
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  shortly after that found our good friend Kirk at Walrus Carp
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  and just kind of started posting Disney stuff for fun.
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  You know with. After finding this group of
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  Disney lovers and Disney friends that I could chat with online
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  about things, I have recently started doing more kind of
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  informative content, mostly about Genie.
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  Plus, I do consider myself pretty much a pro when it comes
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  to Genie. Plus, not to shoot my own horn,
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  but. You are, you are a pro.
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  I do a lot of thing. You don't know the time.
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  Like I think you're the go to for Genie Plus.
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  So I do a lot with Genie Plus. I help friends with trips and I
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  love helping people plan and my content creating kind of has
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  shifted towards that a little bit more.
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  I just do it for fun cuz I like, I like talking about Disney and
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  I have found a lovely community in our pocket, fam community
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  online that I just like to chat about Disney things with.
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  So it's good. And as far as my Disney life, I
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  have visited Walt Disney World countless times.
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  My first trip was in 1996 and I have visited as a kid.
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  I have visited as an adult, I have visited with my kids.
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  So I've got a little bit of all of those stages kind of
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  experience when it comes to Walt Disney World.
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  And yeah, my last trip was in May and my next upcoming trip is
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  in November. So exciting.
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  We definitely get to the parks when we can.
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  We're not pass holders, so it is a little bit more pricey for us
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  to go multiple times a year, but we try our best to spoil our
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  kids and take them as soon as and as often as we can.
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  I know you got the question if your kids were Disney lovers.
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  My kids are still little, so they're very much in the middle
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  of the magic, so it's always super fun to be able to take
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  them. And you should.
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  Well, they still are loved like that, and hopefully they stay
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  that way. Yes.
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  So my oldest has loved Lion King and Mickey Mouse for as long as
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  he's been able to recognize what they are.
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  And my daughter is a Frozen fanatic, as most girls her age
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  and a little bit older are. She also loves Little Mermaid,
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  so I get a little bit of everything when it comes to
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  that. My husband is a big Star Wars
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  and Marvel guy, so between the four of us, we've got all of the
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  bases covered when it comes to all the little corners of the
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  Disney parks down in Florida, so.
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  Yeah, well, I love that. Both of us, between the two of
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  us we have like I've had kids that were younger obviously and
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  taking them to Disney, but now my kids are a little bit older,
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  but I'm kind of like more in the older children to teen year.
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  So I love that between the two of us, we have that spread of
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  experience for taking kids to Disney, which helps a lot.
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  I think with this podcast. Yeah, I agree.
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  I mean, I can remember taking my son on his first trip when he
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  was under two, you know, all the way up to our last trip.
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  My kids rode Tower of Terror for the first time.
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  So like I have a lot of kind of that in between and then from
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  where I kind of stopped you pick up and and can fill in the gaps
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  all the way up through your oldest which is I agree is very
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  helpful. Yeah, I mean I I'm, I remember
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  doing things like changing diapers in the parks, but it's
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  been a long time. It's been a fair amount of
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  years. So you know that's good that you
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  would have more of a little bit fresher experience with that
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  than I do. That's true.
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  That is true. So talking about that, maybe we
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  should let you know go into how Mom St. started.
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  Like, what is this all about? How did we, how did we start?
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  I feel like, do you want to answer that one?
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  Yeah, sure. So the very beginning origins,
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  so to speak, of Mom St. came from over a year ago.
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  Kate was live in the parks. I don't remember if you were in
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  Disney World or Disneyland at the time.
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  I was an animal Kingdom. I remember Walking Sitting
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  Animal Kingdom and Walking out and there was a comment in the
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  chat that basically requested for Kate to somehow share more
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  information about like being a mom and going to the parks and
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  being a female and going to the parks.
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  Because it's really interesting. A lot of the live streaming and
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  content creating that we see a lot in both Disneyland and
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  Disney World is heavily male dominated, just for whatever
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  reason, which like I'm all for that guys.
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  It's all good. Yeah.
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  But it was one of those things where those requests started
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  coming in specifically just because like Kate was live in
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  the parks and everyone was loving hearing the female mom
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  perspective. And so it was like that that was
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  the little, the little seed that planted what is now the Mom St.
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  flower Bush. I don't know.
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  Oh my gosh. Yeah.
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  And I think then I I don't remember if I contacted you or
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  you contacted me or we contacted each other.
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  Yeah, I think it was one of those things that you contacted
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  me and I was like, I was thinking a similar thing.
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  That's right. That sounds right.
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  And let's do something together. And then we're like, well, if
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  we're gonna do this show all about kind of like.
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  For Disney families and and planning and thinking about your
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  Disney vacations and helping people are like, we should
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  probably podcast this because we are moms who know that you can't
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  often catch a live show on TikTok because you're busy,
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  You're putting your kids to bed, you're making dinner, you're
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  prepping lunches. You're like, you know you're at
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  activity is you're at sports, right?
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  Like you are moms are busy, busy people and so are dads.
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  Like like parents aren't busy people.
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  And you really just need to be able to get that information
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  when it's convenient for you. So we are like, let's podcast,
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  let's put it on YouTube so that people can access it whenever
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  they need to. So that was our vision for Mom
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  St. which is what we've done. Yeah, I think we've been fairly
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  successful at that. So you know, we, like Kate said,
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  we want to make sure that the information is accessible to you
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  all and that you can find it whenever you need it.
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  And Kate and I are both very organized people.
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  So we try to keep everything as organized as we possibly can and
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  catalogued and all of that. So if you are new to our channel
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  and new to our podcast, you can find all forty of our previous
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  podcasted episodes on our You Tube and also on our podcasts
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  where you find podcasts, you know, kind of all sorts of
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  places. So you can always find our stuff
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  there. And we do, you know, reference
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  some of those episodes from time to time just because there are
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  lots of topics in those forty episodes.
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  But we did. We made.
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  We made a lot of good, good episodes in our first year, I
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  feel like. Yeah, and I know that we did
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  one, that was just, everybody loved it.
• 20:20
  That was how to save money at Disney and how to budget for
• 20:22
  Disney. And so that one I believe is
• 20:24
  going to show up for our Chip and Co audience as well because
• 20:27
  we want to make sure that information is so valuable and
• 20:31
  so timely right now with everybody trying to save money.
• 20:34
  I mean, like I think I said my groceries are rival my mortgage
• 20:38
  at this point with three kids, so crazy, we understand that
• 20:42
  everybody's kind of feeling the pinch of that.
• 20:44
  So we want to help you guys as much as possible, still be able
• 20:47
  to take your families on these magical vacations, even if
• 20:50
  you're on a budget, so. That's important to us,
• 20:52
  absolutely. And I will say that over this
• 20:54
  last year we have seen our little Mom St. community grow
• 20:57
  little by little, which has been very exciting.
• 20:59
  And we will always say and continue to say that we are
• 21:03
  nothing without our Mom St. community.
• 21:05
  You know this? This podcast truly exists
• 21:08
  because you guys wanted the information and Kate and I are
• 21:11
  just here to help guide you and give you as much information and
• 21:14
  as much guidance as we possibly can.
• 21:17
  And when we can't, we will research things thoroughly and
• 21:20
  give you as much information as we can possibly find.
• 21:24
  But our podcast truly exists for you guys, so we are always
• 21:28
  looking for feedback and always looking for.
• 21:31
  You know, chatting with you guys, whether it be in the live
• 21:33
  chat or on Discord. We are part of the Walrus Car
• 21:37
  Pocket Fam Discord. You know lots of different ways
• 21:39
  you can find us. All of those links can be found
• 21:41
  in our social media BIOS. If that is something that you're
• 21:44
  like, I have this question that I can't find the answer to.
• 21:47
  We got you. We'll help you 100%.
• 21:52
  Well, I think that's how Mom St. So this was hard. started.
• 21:54
  Should we move on to maybe some of our top tips from this past
• 21:58
  year? I feel like I was like we
• 22:02
  covered so many good things. Honestly, there's we could talk
• 22:07
  for hours on some of our top tips for this past year, but I
• 22:10
  think we just, we picked a few. Do you want to go first?
• 22:12
  Yeah, sure. A few.
• 22:13
  Yeah. So no surprise to anybody, My
• 22:16
  top tips from this last year have been all of the Genie Plus
• 22:19
  information that I've given. Not too long ago we did an
• 22:23
  entire episode about the the nitty gritty details of Genie
• 22:26
  Plus and how it works in both Disneyland and in Disney World.
• 22:32
  So that that's just like my home base.
• 22:34
  That's what I just know really, really well and can answer 90%
• 22:38
  of questions about South. Like, that's my comfort zone.
• 22:41
  And I feel like it was really helpful because I know that we
• 22:44
  had a lot of interaction that episode in the chat and we had a
• 22:47
  lot of people getting their questions answered, which is
• 22:49
  always what I'm here for. So you know how to book and when
• 22:52
  to book and you know the click clack method and how to modify
• 22:57
  and all of that. All of those types of things
• 23:00
  were kind of my top tips that I feel like I contributed to the
• 23:05
  most when it came to this past year of Mom Street.
• 23:08
  Do you want to tell them at least one of them?
• 23:11
  Explain what the tip is for people here in Newton on street.
• 23:14
  Yeah. OK.
• 23:15
  So G+ is the Fastpass system. It is the way to get your lines
• 23:22
  to be shorter when you go to the parks for anybody who doesn't
• 23:25
  know. And it is a complicated system
• 23:30
  that you run through either the My Disney Experience app if
• 23:33
  you're on the Disney World side, or the Disneyland app if you're
• 23:37
  out on the West Coast. And basically my biggest tip
• 23:42
  when it comes to Genie Plus is now that we have the ability to
• 23:46
  modify, which was not always a thing that we had when Genie
• 23:49
  Plus has been out. But now that we have the ability
• 23:51
  to modify, you got a book when you're eligible and then go back
• 23:55
  in and modify later because there is something that they
• 23:58
  call the the two hour window that Disney allows.
• 24:02
  Two hours after you booked your last one, you'll be eligible
• 24:04
  again. So you always want to make sure
• 24:06
  you're getting that clock to start.
• 24:08
  Your two hour countdown as quick as you possibly can, even if the
• 24:11
  time frame that the the app is giving you is not what you want,
• 24:16
  you got to book it anyway and then go back in and modify.
• 24:18
  So that is always my biggest my biggest tip whenever I'm
• 24:21
  starting to give people advice on Genie Plus.
• 24:24
  And modifying doesn't can't automatically cancel that your
• 24:28
  spot unless you actually like choose to modify it right?
• 24:31
  Like you can go in and check it to see if there's a different
• 24:33
  time you like, but then this leave it alone if you don't,
• 24:36
  right? Yeah.
• 24:37
  If it doesn't, if there's no time that pops up that's better
• 24:40
  than the one that you already booked, you're not out of luck.
• 24:42
  You still reserve that time. It's still yours until you
• 24:45
  actively choose to modify. So it's a really great aspect of
• 24:51
  Genie plus that Disney gave us when they gave us the ability to
• 24:54
  modify, which really hasn't been around that long, I think only
• 24:57
  since early spring, so not even a year yet.
• 25:02
  That we've had the ability to do this, but it's such a game
• 25:05
  changer when it comes to Genie. Plus.
• 25:07
  I feel like it's a super tip to be able to get the most out of
• 25:12
  your money, and I know that's a hot topic when it comes to
• 25:15
  Genie. Plus, you know a lot of people
• 25:18
  complaining about price points and is it really worth it?
• 25:21
  And will I get my money's worth? I can help you.
• 25:25
  I can help you get your money's worth.
• 25:27
  I can help you make sure that you know what you're doing.
• 25:30
  And you know, that's like I said, that's kind of my passion
• 25:33
  through Mom St. and also just outside in my general content
• 25:37
  creating Disney Life. You know, I work close hand in
• 25:41
  hand with our good friend tour guide Barbie and we do a lot
• 25:43
  for, you know, Genie Plus and booking in the parks.
• 25:47
  And I have a lot of experience with a lot of different
• 25:50
  situations, which I think is very helpful for me to be able
• 25:53
  to give you all of that information.
• 25:55
  Because I will never gatekeep it.
• 25:57
  I will always tell you everything I possibly can.
• 25:59
  I I feel like you can also modify dining reservations too,
• 26:03
  because I feel like I did that a couple of weeks ago and not only
• 26:06
  did I modify, I could modify how many people were in my party.
• 26:10
  And you can also choose if you hit modify to see if there's a
• 26:12
  better time that you would want to go if there's anything
• 26:14
  available. Sometimes it's not with advanced
• 26:17
  dining reservations, which are those table service restaurant
• 26:19
  reservations. Sometimes there isn't anything
• 26:23
  better available, especially if you're getting closer your trip.
• 26:25
  But once in a while people cancel close to the the trip and
• 26:28
  you're able to actually go in and modify it.
• 26:31
  And it doesn't automatically delete your reservation.
• 26:34
  You can just kind of see if there's anything available and
• 26:36
  then this cancel out of it if there's nothing, so.
• 26:39
  Yeah, I know a lot of people that will also just try to do a
• 26:42
  brand new reservation, but like they try both.
• 26:44
  So like sometimes they'll try to modify to see if something pops
• 26:47
  up there, because sometimes the system.
• 26:49
  Doesn't load everything or it gets overwhelmed if there's too
• 26:52
  many people checking things. So doing it multiple different
• 26:54
  ways is always helpful when it comes to dining.
• 26:56
  I feel like because too if you've got overlapping
• 26:59
  reservations, the system will automatically say like, hey,
• 27:02
  these are overlapping, which one do you want to keep kind of deal
• 27:06
  And then you can go from there. So it is at least a little bit
• 27:08
  intuitive that way when you're going to try to find those
• 27:12
  specific times in specific restaurants.
• 27:15
  Yeah, I've always had the problem that if I try to book a
• 27:18
  reservation at the same time, it'll say like you can't book
• 27:21
  anything because you already have a reservation.
• 27:23
  I don't know if that's a Disneyland thing.
• 27:25
  Maybe, but it. Probably has to be so far away,
• 27:28
  like it can't be the exact same time, but if it's like 1/2 hour
• 27:31
  different or something 20 minutes to half hour different,
• 27:34
  I think then it will let you do that.
• 27:36
  So, but you know, I feel like they're constantly.
• 27:39
  Adjusting and improving and all of that with, I mean the new
• 27:44
  dining, the most recent dining update.
• 27:46
  They finally give you the ability to see all of the
• 27:48
  available times. Amazing page.
• 27:51
  Yay. Waited.
• 27:53
  For that for years. Right.
• 27:55
  Right. So, yeah.
• 27:56
  So I feel like, you know, slowly but surely the little baby step
• 27:59
  improvements that all help. So that's super helpful that
• 28:03
  with that, you know, with that new change, you can see kind of
• 28:06
  all of your options all in one spot rather than having to click
• 28:09
  through each individual time to figure out what's available and
• 28:12
  what's, yes, 100% agree. And one way I did get around the
• 28:15
  fact that if it says like, oh, you already have a dining
• 28:17
  reservation and you can't make another one.
• 28:19
  If you have another adult in your party that has a Disney
• 28:22
  account, you can and make a reservation with theirs.
• 28:24
  And just don't put your name as another person that's on
• 28:27
  there's. Just leave it blank and say
• 28:28
  they'll have their name. And then it'll just be like
• 28:30
  guest 1-2 and three or whatever. You can make one with theirs.
• 28:33
  And then that way, you know you have one booked before you
• 28:36
  canceled this one. And that's how I've gotten
• 28:38
  around that in the past because that otherwise, like you might
• 28:41
  just be stuck if it's at a similar time or nearby and it
• 28:44
  won't let you book. It's just finicky sometimes.
• 28:46
  These are just, that's just one of the ways around it, so.
• 28:50
  Yeah. So whether you're looking at
• 28:51
  Genie Plus system or the ADR doing dining reservation system,
• 28:56
  lots of little quirks when it comes to those.
• 29:00
  It's unnecessarily complicated at times.
• 29:02
  I will say that. And I think Disney knows and
• 29:05
  they're trying to fix things about it, which we really do
• 29:07
  appreciate because I think that it can only get better from
• 29:10
  there, so. Like I said, it's those little
• 29:13
  tiny updates, you know, just this week they released the new
• 29:17
  update to. The Genie Plus tip board where
• 29:20
  you've got that little toggle switch at the top.
• 29:22
  So if any of you saw, I actually posted a video about it today,
• 29:26
  but they have this little toggle switch at the top now where you
• 29:29
  can swipe it and when you do, it will show you only the rides
• 29:32
  that are eligible for lightning lanes for your Genie Plus.
• 29:36
  Great, great. So especially at Magic Kingdom
• 29:39
  that is massive. Because and and I would say
• 29:43
  Epcot, because Epcot puts a lot of their shows on the tip board,
• 29:45
  which is great because the shows are fantastic.
• 29:48
  All the the performers are phenomenal.
• 29:51
  But if you're just trying to narrow down here Genie Plus and
• 29:54
  trying to figure out what rides you've done and haven't done.
• 29:57
  It's nice to kind of filter out the.
• 30:00
  Extra. So they gave us the ability to
• 30:02
  do that just this week, which is really, really helpful.
• 30:05
  I feel like especially for someone who may be feeling
• 30:08
  overwhelmed by that Genie Plus system, having the ability to
• 30:12
  just clear it all out and just bare bones look at what is
• 30:16
  available to you is super helpful.
• 30:18
  Yes, 100% agree. That was a great change.
• 30:21
  Yeah, and that happened for Disney World and Disneyland.
• 30:24
  So both. East Coast and West Coast, Yeah,
• 30:26
  I change. Disneyland doesn't always get
• 30:29
  all the things. So, you know, like, I mean they
• 30:32
  kind of they're quirky that way where one will have one way and
• 30:34
  one will have the other. And so we try to talk about that
• 30:37
  throughout Mom St. whatever. We we run into some weird thing
• 30:40
  where it's different. At Disneyland, we try to let you
• 30:42
  guys know because it's a especially if you're Disney
• 30:45
  World, they're going to Disneyland, you'll be like, wait
• 30:47
  a minute, this is what I do over there.
• 30:49
  This is different. Like you blew my mind the other
• 30:51
  night when you told me that at Disneyland you cannot select
• 30:54
  times for. Individual lightning lanes,
• 30:56
  right? That's only a Disney World
• 30:58
  thing. At Disneyland.
• 31:00
  They auto give you the next available time for your
• 31:03
  individual lightning lane. And that blew my mind.
• 31:06
  Wild. You're paying for it but yet you
• 31:09
  can't pick a time. So I don't know maybe they'll.
• 31:11
  I bet they'll change that. I think it's only I think so too
• 31:14
  and I think it's hard because Disneyland right now I I almost
• 31:17
  feel like to an extent with some of that technology they're
• 31:20
  playing a little bit of catch up because they just got the magic
• 31:23
  bands and they're not even really still fully implemented
• 31:25
  into the part can't pay with them because.
• 31:28
  Right. So like they're they're getting
• 31:30
  there and they're taking those steps, but with some of that
• 31:33
  they're playing catch up. But then in other aspects it's
• 31:35
  like Disney World. Super far behind.
• 31:38
  You know like food is the big one that I think of like
• 31:40
  Disneyland food is far superior to Disney World food South.
• 31:45
  It's like you know you gotta way, way the pros and cons of
• 31:50
  each park. I guess if you're if you're
• 31:51
  someone who's looking at like which one do I want to go to.
• 31:54
  There's lots of differences and lots of similarities and you
• 31:57
  know what both places the magic is there.
• 31:59
  So either way, so I have you a couple tips too that I thought I
• 32:06
  would highlight if that's if that's OK for the top tips from
• 32:11
  this past year. And I have to say, since we kind
• 32:12
  of mentioned magic bands, I want to mention that one of my top
• 32:16
  tips was something that I learned that I didn't realize I
• 32:19
  didn't know and I felt silly that I didn't know it
• 32:21
  considering that I I've had the magic band.
• 32:24
  Plus is the magic bands that like light up on your wrist.
• 32:27
  OK, it's like they do a few more things, additional things.
• 32:30
  They glow with the show and all those kinds of stuff.
• 32:32
  But I didn't realize that you could pair them with your phone.
• 32:38
  I don't know why. Like it's right on the box like
• 32:40
  I just like didn't even And then you can go in and I think you
• 32:43
  taught me this between you and Lem.
• 32:45
  Our friend Lem will mention him from time to time his magic
• 32:48
  bands and trash cans. He's a good friend of our pocket
• 32:50
  Pam family of creators here. But he.
• 32:55
  I think you actually taught me this though, to sync it with my
• 32:57
  phone and then you can have different colors for it that you
• 33:00
  can choose on your phone and turn the sensitivity up or down
• 33:03
  for. Like if you're interacting with
• 33:04
  statues or at Disney, they have the 100 like medallions that you
• 33:09
  can make do things and whatnot. So there's like all kinds of
• 33:12
  things you can do in your phone if you pair it with your phone.
• 33:16
  Yeah, and I felt silly that I didn't know that.
• 33:19
  So don't feel silly. It's OK.
• 33:21
  Well, I will say that that Lem taught me about the sensitivity,
• 33:26
  which was a major game changer because then when we went with
• 33:29
  my kids for the first time after the 50th stat.
• 33:32
  Choosing after the Magic Band Plus came up, I was like, OK, I
• 33:34
  got to make sure their sensitivity is on that way any
• 33:37
  statue that they want, they can go by and activate it, and that
• 33:40
  they had so much fun running up to the statues being able to do
• 33:44
  that. So shout out to Lem for that
• 33:45
  one. But I did find the color
• 33:47
  changing on my own because I was just playing around in the
• 33:49
  settings and I was like, what's this do?
• 33:51
  What's this do? What's this do?
• 33:53
  Use the colors for it. And I may change my colors
• 33:56
  depending on my outfit, so you know.
• 34:00
  Why not? It's fun, yeah, that you can use
• 34:03
  your Magic Band Plus for both Disneyland and Disney World.
• 34:06
  So if you happen to go to both, you can use them at both places.
• 34:09
  Not the earlier Magic bands, only the ones that light up
• 34:11
  Magic Band Plus and. But you do have to pair it with
• 34:14
  your other like account or your other ticket.
• 34:17
  So you actively have to change. So when I take my Magic Band
• 34:21
  Plus and I hop from Disney World, when I go to Disneyland,
• 34:24
  like a couple weeks later I have to go into my app and I have to
• 34:28
  like switch over. I have to go into my Disneyland
• 34:30
  app. I have to switch over and assign
• 34:32
  my Magic band to that ticket. So just a little tip there that
• 34:35
  if you're going to be using them for both parks, just be aware
• 34:38
  that that's something you'll need to do or you will get
• 34:40
  turned away at the gate and they're like there's no ticket
• 34:42
  associated with this cuz they don't recognize your Disney
• 34:44
  World one, go figure. So that's.
• 34:46
  Good to know. I hadn't thought about it.
• 34:47
  Yeah, if there were like steps you had to take when you
• 34:50
  flip-flopped between coasts. So that's good to know for.
• 34:53
  My future, hopefully future Disneyland trip someday.
• 34:56
  Yeah, now I'm just having a designated one for Disney World
• 34:59
  and Disneyland. I just don't want to deal with
• 35:00
  it. I'm like this is too much work
• 35:02
  so. Well, and you don't want to be
• 35:03
  that person that's like standing outside the gate, like, right.
• 35:07
  Yeah, and everybody behind you is like rolling their eyes like
• 35:10
  they weren't prepared. I don't want to be that person.
• 35:12
  No, no. Do not be that person, Colleen
• 35:17
  asked. Can you have one attached to
• 35:19
  both at the same time? I mine was not able to be
• 35:22
  attached to both at the same time.
• 35:23
  You have to pick one. So essentially you're assigning
• 35:26
  it to only 1 ticket because it can only be on one person and 1
• 35:29
  ticket at a time. So it doesn't mean that.
• 35:31
  However, you can assign it to your other one any at a time.
• 35:34
  So you can easily like go into whatever park you're going to
• 35:38
  Disney World's My Disney Experience app and assign it to
• 35:42
  the one there. If you go Disneyland, go in the
• 35:44
  Disneyland app and assign it there.
• 35:46
  It'll be under magic bands on kind of like the main home
• 35:49
  screen and that is how you assign it there.
• 35:51
  It's really not that big a deal to reassign it.
• 35:54
  It's just it's one of those things, so.
• 35:56
  Well, and either way, it's still assigned just to you.
• 35:59
  But either way, when you log into those two apps, you use the
• 36:02
  same login, so it's the same e-mail and the same password.
• 36:05
  So it's still going to be linked to you as a person.
• 36:08
  You just have to reassign it to whichever ticket you're using
• 36:11
  for whichever book. Yes.
• 36:14
  Which is actually a little bit revolutionary because we don't
• 36:17
  often see things that work at Disney World that also work at
• 36:19
  Disneyland. Like that's not.
• 36:21
  There's not usually. They're like different
• 36:22
  operations, different ticketing systems, different everything.
• 36:25
  So the fact that they finally linked something together gives
• 36:28
  me some hope for the future. Maybe it'll bring the annual
• 36:30
  pass back that was for both parks.
• 36:33
  We can cross all of our fingers and all of our toes and hope
• 36:36
  that it will happen. Cuz I know of several people
• 36:38
  that are hoping that that will come back someday because they
• 36:41
  feel like they've had to choose between world or land.
• 36:44
  Because doing both is not always feasible.
• 36:46
  I mean doing one is barely feasible for a lot of people.
• 36:49
  Like it's a lot. I'm not to the point in my life
• 36:52
  where I can afford an annual past, yet I will slowly get
• 36:55
  there someday. I don't know if I can afford it,
• 36:58
  but I just need it because I can't afford not to have it
• 37:01
  right. It's so much more expensive to
• 37:02
  buy tickets, so that's where I I don't want to at this point
• 37:06
  because they don't sell them as often.
• 37:08
  I don't want to let go of it and then not be able to get it back.
• 37:11
  Right, right. You never know what happened in
• 37:13
  the world. Well, and once we saw, you know,
• 37:16
  like you said in 2020 when the world changed and we saw so many
• 37:20
  new changes that had to happen from not only Disney, but every
• 37:24
  company pretty much across the United States.
• 37:27
  You never know what could happen again and when those sales go
• 37:30
  away. So yeah, if you got it, hang on
• 37:31
  to it. Don't give it up.
• 37:33
  Yes, you might have a hard time getting it back.
• 37:36
  That's all. A few of my other kind of like
• 37:38
  top tips from this past year we did.
• 37:41
  I have a couple fur that are like specifically in the hotel
• 37:44
  room. One was called a drop zone.
• 37:46
  So if you're traveling with your family, designate a shelf, a
• 37:50
  desk, a box. Designate an area where
• 37:53
  everybody puts all of their stuff right when they walk in
• 37:56
  the door coming back from the parks so that they drop all
• 37:59
  their things in the same place. Because if you, I can't even
• 38:03
  tell you how many times I've had to like hunt around my kids room
• 38:06
  for their, you know, bag or ears or water bottle or stuff.
• 38:09
  Like anything like, it's just like if you don't kind of like
• 38:13
  make that contain space, it just goes everywhere.
• 38:15
  And then it the next day when you're trying to get out the
• 38:17
  door, it's almost impossible because everybody like I can't.
• 38:20
  And the same thing goes with their shoes, Put their shoes
• 38:22
  nearby so like he can find their shoes.
• 38:23
  The shoes go by the door. We've got the box in the drop
• 38:26
  zone and that has saved me so much time.
• 38:29
  Also, if you have like a stroller, you know, in your
• 38:32
  room, sometimes you can make your drop zone like the stroller
• 38:34
  around the stroller. That will help too.
• 38:35
  But drop zones really are so important.
• 38:38
  And I get that language for my kids, like, let's make our drop
• 38:41
  zone, put your stuff in the drop zone and I'm like, out there.
• 38:43
  They're like running. I'm like drops.
• 38:45
  Come back, come back. But yeah, it's it's really
• 38:50
  helpful to be able to just stay organized and get out the door
• 38:55
  quickly in the morning, which is so important at Disney because
• 38:57
  those morning hours are golden and you do not want to miss
• 39:00
  going to them. Other thing is for the in the
• 39:04
  hotel room, I did share this one that you can use your ironing
• 39:07
  board as kind of an extra table or space.
• 39:12
  Yeah. And I mean, I've used this, I
• 39:13
  travel a lot, obviously. So I use it for like a desk if I
• 39:17
  need to like, you know, use my laptop or something.
• 39:20
  But you can also, if you if you're going to eat on top of it
• 39:23
  all, make sure you put down some towels or something just to
• 39:25
  protect the ironing board to respect whoever's coming after
• 39:27
  you. Because we don't want to make
• 39:29
  the ironing board gross for someone, but you can even make
• 39:33
  it lower down and whatnot. So if your kids are sitting on
• 39:35
  the floor but you want them to have an elevated place to eat,
• 39:37
  like, there's, it's so versatile as an extra space in your hotel
• 39:40
  room. So use your ironing board.
• 39:46
  Another thing is, oh, just my other top tip is scheduling time
• 39:50
  for rest and breaks. Yeah, if you're not going to go
• 39:53
  back to the hotel, which we do kind of recommend, especially
• 39:55
  with smaller children. If you're not going to go back
• 39:57
  to the hotel, find a time in your day to at least put your
• 39:59
  feet up for a little while, get out of the heat.
• 40:01
  If it's summer and it's warm, make sure that you're taking
• 40:04
  that time to rest. Because going nonstop,
• 40:07
  especially at Disney, especially at Disney World, you're going to
• 40:10
  burn out and your vacation will feel like work rather than fun.
• 40:14
  So. Make sure you take time to just
• 40:17
  rest and plan those breaks out and and make it part of your
• 40:21
  routine for the day. I think it's important.
• 40:23
  Yeah, absolutely. I think so too.
• 40:25
  I hope says Carousel progress six times in a row.
• 40:29
  Yes, if you could, if you could. Or people mover, you know, maybe
• 40:31
  twice. If you ask the cast member
• 40:33
  really nicely, can I go twice? Yeah, I don't know that I could
• 40:36
  tolerate Carousel Progress that many times in a row.
• 40:40
  Yeah, that would be a lot. You could go from show to show
• 40:43
  though. You could go from there to Phil
• 40:44
  Hart Magic. You could plan like a couple
• 40:46
  shows in a row. That would help.
• 40:48
  Sometimes they just find a nice air conditioned spot to just
• 40:50
  just be for a little bit and just yeah, you know, it's
• 40:53
  harder. Think about your meals too.
• 40:56
  And we've talked about this countless times and episodes in
• 40:58
  the past that. Having an indoor air conditioned
• 41:02
  spot for meals can be so crucial to your success later on in the
• 41:07
  day. With your kids, with yourself,
• 41:09
  with all all people included, being able to eat inside where
• 41:15
  it's air conditioned. Get that break while you can.
• 41:19
  Everybody's saying you can tolerate carousel progress.
• 41:22
  If you're asleep, that's what you take a nap.
• 41:26
  I still have people doing what, Hall of Presidents.
• 41:27
  They do that as well. I don't.
• 41:29
  I don't nap because I'm afraid I won't wake up and I don't want
• 41:31
  to be that person for like the cast members who's like ma'am
• 41:35
  like. It would say friend, friend,
• 41:38
  it's time to go friend, Show's over, friend.
• 41:41
  I'd be like, so I don't. Yeah, but no, you're right.
• 41:45
  There's a lot of people that do that for American Adventure.
• 41:48
  I think an Epcot is another one where people will take a siesta,
• 41:51
  yeah? Anywhere that you have a seat
• 41:53
  and it's indoors and a theater, you run the risk of people
• 41:56
  taking naps. It just it's true.
• 41:58
  It is. It is what it is.
• 42:02
  It is what it is. So yeah, but scheduling that
• 42:05
  time, whether it be in the parks away from the parks and also
• 42:09
  giving yourself time to like if you've got kiddos that that need
• 42:12
  to truly nap and you're trying to plan for them to nap, give
• 42:15
  yourself enough travel time. So that way you can get back to
• 42:18
  your room for the time that you want them to lay down.
• 42:23
  You may or may not end up having them sleeping on you if you're
• 42:26
  taking a bus. So just all of those things,
• 42:30
  yes, all those things Yes. Keep in mind, depending on your
• 42:34
  situation and your children or yourself, if you are the one
• 42:37
  that needs the break because like Kate says, we all need
• 42:40
  breaks when it comes to doing the parks for multiple days in a
• 42:44
  row. That's so true and I would
• 42:46
  always say day three is one of the hardest days for your
• 42:50
  family, especially Disney World. Day three, it starts like hits.
• 42:54
  All the excitement is kind of trickled down a little bit and
• 42:58
  now the fatigue really sets in and a couple days of walking.
• 43:02
  I always say day three is one of the hardest.
• 43:03
  So if you can plan a rest day or a really light day or a day to
• 43:07
  sleep in on day three, that will really change your vacation for
• 43:11
  the better. That's what I recommend.
• 43:13
  Yes. Yeah, absolutely.
• 43:15
  Absolutely. All right.
• 43:16
  Did we hit all of your top tips? I know.
• 43:18
  I yes, I'm good. We have.
• 43:21
  We have plenty of other things to talk about, so I could go on
• 43:23
  for hours, but we'll move on. All good.
• 43:28
  So we wanted to just chat briefly about favorite events or
• 43:32
  favorite topics that we've covered in the last year.
• 43:35
  We've covered things from resorts.
• 43:38
  We've covered snacks we've covered.
• 43:40
  How to save money we've covered. We just did one day plans in the
• 43:44
  in the parks. We've done so many different
• 43:47
  topics. We've covered tons of events.
• 43:50
  We wanted to yeah resorts all sorts of.
• 43:53
  So we just wanted to kind of chat about some of our favorite
• 43:56
  topics that we have covered in the last year.
• 43:59
  Yeah, I think I thought it was funny because I will just say
• 44:05
  this is a little behind the scenes for those of you who want
• 44:08
  to see your actual creator life, is that Jackie and I work a lot
• 44:11
  on Google Docs. We just do.
• 44:13
  We're not sponsored by them, but we use them a lot.
• 44:16
  We're not sponsored yet, but so Jackie kind of did hers.
• 44:22
  First. Some of the answers to this just
• 44:23
  to kind of make sure that we had an outline for the show and she
• 44:26
  put down Epcot festivals and I was like, I liked that too.
• 44:30
  Those were some of my favorite ones.
• 44:32
  So it sounds like we have the same one for that.
• 44:35
  I feel like we did some really fun episodes where I was live in
• 44:39
  the parks and Jackie was basically like telling you all
• 44:42
  the information while I was walking in the chaos that is
• 44:46
  Epcot. It was so much fun and I always
• 44:49
  felt so bad because we were like, OK, we've got an hour
• 44:52
  before the fireworks because we knew that we wanted to make sure
• 44:55
  that Kate was done before, you know, the 9:00 PM fireworks in
• 44:59
  Epcot. So it's like, OK, we've got an
• 45:01
  hour, can we talk fast enough? And can Kate walk fast enough to
• 45:06
  get all the way around World Showcase within and the purpose?
• 45:10
  Yeah. And there were a couple of times
• 45:11
  where I was like, OK, and this and this and this and this and
• 45:14
  this and OK, I'm done. But we did it.
• 45:18
  We made it. We did, just barely.
• 45:19
  We did it multiple times and I was like, poor Kate, I got my
• 45:23
  steps in those days. So it was fun.
• 45:26
  It was fun to be able to bring kind of a unique episode because
• 45:30
  you don't see a lot of people who are doing kind of a helpful
• 45:32
  planning episode while so kind of like live in the park.
• 45:34
  So it was fun to do something unique that way, and I'm sure
• 45:37
  that we'll have more of those in the future as they are special
• 45:40
  events and and festivals and whatnot.
• 45:42
  But it was fun to be able to try some foods with and really focus
• 45:46
  on foods that maybe kids would be more interested in eating.
• 45:49
  It's fun. A lot of those creators will
• 45:51
  make content about food that is geared towards adults and like
• 45:54
  what adults really love to eat. And that is not necessarily what
• 45:57
  kids would want to eat at those festivals.
• 46:00
  Absolutely. Yeah.
• 46:01
  I mean, my kids are one of them's adventurous, but the
• 46:04
  other two are like, no, I'm not. That food's touching that food
• 46:07
  and that one's green. And we're not eating that.
• 46:09
  You know, so. There's this, there's like,
• 46:12
  flakes of something on top of my food.
• 46:14
  I don't sauce. I'm like the spicy, the spices
• 46:18
  or spicy. Yeah, so that's real life when I
• 46:21
  think. It was so fun because we did
• 46:22
  several episodes on the Epcot festivals and what, you know
• 46:26
  what Epcot has to offer different times of year, but we
• 46:29
  also did. A full episode on doing Epcot
• 46:32
  with your kids, because I feel like it's such a stigma of Epcot
• 46:39
  that people are like, oh, it's not a kid friendly park at all.
• 46:43
  And you and I were both like, we're gonna show you.
• 46:45
  Yeah, yeah. And it is super kid friendly.
• 46:48
  So I think that was fun, just to be able to bring that aspect.
• 46:52
  Of it, Like you said, you know, we see so many great things from
• 46:54
  the adult perspective about Epcot, and it is a great park
• 46:57
  for adults too. But being able to focus on, you
• 47:01
  know, all of the scavenger hunts that they have and all of the
• 47:04
  Kid Cot stations and the playgrounds and the performances
• 47:08
  and the food and all of that, that's all kidfriendly.
• 47:12
  I think was truly missing from the Epcot narrative.
• 47:16
  When you go to Google and look at Chip and Co or Disney Food
• 47:20
  Blog or any of those big Disney news that they're reporting, all
• 47:25
  of this information, they're not focused on the kids.
• 47:28
  That's where we come in. Yeah, exactly.
• 47:31
  It's family, family content. So and I will say we'll have to
• 47:35
  do something that updates a little bit of Epcot as they
• 47:39
  finish some of these things. Cuz I know Moana Journey of
• 47:42
  Water is coming out and I will post a video of it.
• 47:45
  For those of you who don't mind spoilers, you can go and watch
• 47:48
  that, but it's I will say I'm not going to give you any
• 47:52
  spoilers on it because I don't want to ruin it for anybody that
• 47:54
  wants to experience for the first time.
• 47:56
  But I will say I think that that is a very, is a very kid
• 47:59
  friendly exhibit. So that's gonna be a really
• 48:02
  great one for families as well. So yeah.
• 48:05
  I'm just excited for those walls to be.
• 48:07
  I know, just get rid of the walls.
• 48:09
  I want the ones down the center to discuss, yes.
• 48:12
  Well, and I so you inspired me. You were looking at those
• 48:15
  previous pictures of like your kids and stuff and I went back
• 48:18
  and was just looking at pictures from my previous.
• 48:21
  Trips and I found a box of old photos from my parents house
• 48:24
  that had photos of my senior year in high school.
• 48:27
  I did a Disney trip with the band that, you know, my high
• 48:30
  school marching band went. We did the whole like, parade in
• 48:32
  Magic Kingdom and that whole thing, which was super fun.
• 48:35
  But I found this photo of me sitting at the big fountain that
• 48:38
  used to be right in the middle of like, right, you know, the
• 48:42
  middle of literally everything right behind Spaceship Earth.
• 48:45
  And I was like, oh, I missed that area because it was just
• 48:47
  such a nice big open Plaza and it was so pretty.
• 48:51
  And I'm just excited for the international fountain in the
• 48:54
  middle to like bummed that that's gone.
• 48:57
  Yeah. So I'm just excited to see what
• 48:59
  they've done with it. I'm excited to see all of the
• 49:01
  additions I feel like I have. It's been so long since we heard
• 49:05
  about South, much of it at like D 23 two years ago that I'm
• 49:08
  like, I don't even remember what all they're doing and I'm not
• 49:10
  going to relook it up. I'm just going to let myself be
• 49:12
  surprised. I know they are building a new
• 49:15
  character a meet and greet home for.
• 49:19
  Mickey and Minnie, because they're moving them from their
• 49:22
  current location to a different location, I believe.
• 49:27
  And then we're getting Figment where Vanellope used to be in
• 49:31
  that space. I don't think Dream Finder was
• 49:33
  coming back too. Did you hear that?
• 49:34
  Rumor I haven't. But you know, who knows?
• 49:39
  It might just be a rumor. So I don't take it for, you
• 49:41
  know, but I've just heard. Rumble Well, because I think no
• 49:44
  one truly knows what version of Figment we're getting for this
• 49:48
  meet and greet yet. Do you know what I mean?
• 49:49
  We've seen several different over the years and you're, you
• 49:53
  know, Kate the historian can tell us more I'm sure if she
• 49:56
  knows it. But we've seen like the big like
• 50:00
  full size figment, but then we've also seen like little one
• 50:04
  the like handheld figment with like screenfinder like hanging
• 50:07
  on to yes. Yeah.
• 50:08
  So I think no one truly knows. From what I've seen, unless I
• 50:11
  missed it, what version of Figment we're getting other than
• 50:15
  the fact that like this past week they closed the Vanellope
• 50:18
  meet and greet and like put like big curtains up to start to re
• 50:23
  theme it. So yeah, so maybe.
• 50:25
  I mean, it makes sense then in that space that it could be
• 50:28
  Dream Finder and Figment. People miss Dream Finder a lot,
• 50:31
  so. I'm concerned about that space.
• 50:35
  Being able to handle potential crowds for that meet and greet.
• 50:39
  Yeah, that's fair. There's only like a little
• 50:41
  stanch. It's not, yeah.
• 50:42
  It's not a big area. So for those of you who maybe
• 50:46
  can't picture where we're talking about, it's literally
• 50:50
  the exit of the figment attraction.
• 50:53
  And then as you come towards the store, there are, there were two
• 50:57
  character meet and greets that existed in that space.
• 50:59
  There was one for Vanellope from Wreckit Ralph, and then there's
• 51:02
  one from Joy. Are one of joy from inside out,
• 51:05
  so the vanellope one is the one that has been closed off for
• 51:10
  what they're saying is the figment meet and greet, but it
• 51:13
  is not a very big space. So I'm concerned about where
• 51:17
  those cues are going to end up because anybody who's leaving
• 51:20
  the ride, like that's the perfect place to put him.
• 51:22
  If they don't put him there, I think it's kind of silly because
• 51:26
  like. He should be right there.
• 51:28
  So I'm just a little concerned and interested to see how that
• 51:32
  all pans out. Maybe they're betting on the
• 51:34
  fact that like, not that many people go on Figment.
• 51:37
  You know, like we got like the fans of Figment go on Figment
• 51:39
  and like the nostalgic people go on Figment.
• 51:42
  But some people like to a they even may not even know they're
• 51:44
  gonna ride in there and be like, people are like, what is this?
• 51:47
  I don't want to go on that. Like, if you're muted Disney,
• 51:49
  you might you might not know Figment.
• 51:50
  So, right. Maybe that's what they're
• 51:52
  betting on. I don't know.
• 51:53
  I don't know. I I can imagine they're being
• 51:56
  quite a good crowd that I know, like a popcorn bucket fiasco.
• 51:59
  That's what I'm saying. Like think about how many people
• 52:02
  showed up for that. Now of course, some of those
• 52:06
  were unfortunately resellers, but yes.
• 52:10
  A lot of those were just diehard Figment fans and people who were
• 52:13
  fans of that era of Epcot. And yeah, animate a good point,
• 52:18
  she said. Yeah, but if he comes back, the
• 52:20
  ride might get more popular. And you're absolutely right,
• 52:22
  because the other thing is, are they going to, how are they
• 52:25
  going to handle the fact that they're going to be people
• 52:27
  coming from two different directions to go into that queue
• 52:29
  for that meet and greet, people exiting the ride?
• 52:32
  And then possibly also people coming in through the exit of
• 52:35
  that gift shop to get in line? There's going to be some serious
• 52:39
  traffic flow adjustments in that area.
• 52:43
  The DVC Lounge as well has a line a lot of the time there, so
• 52:47
  it'll be interesting to see how it shakes out.
• 52:49
  You know, who knows, Who knows? I'm interested to see and I'm
• 52:54
  excited to see Figment in the parks again because I feel like,
• 52:58
  you know, despite him being such a park specific character, I
• 53:02
  feel like he's such a fun character to have, you know, as
• 53:06
  a meet and greet and have around and yes, grace.
• 53:08
  It does sound a little chaotic, but you know.
• 53:12
  It'll it'll work out. They'll figure it out, I'm sure.
• 53:15
  Pigment first and then orange bird.
• 53:16
  We gotta get orange bird beat and greet, so.
• 53:19
  Did Orange Bird ever do like, appearances?
• 53:22
  Yeah, back back when they had the Orange Growers Association
• 53:26
  partnership when like the tiki room and whatnot was sponsored
• 53:30
  by that Orange gross Association.
• 53:32
  We have orange Bird and whatnot. So I.
• 53:34
  Would love to see Orange Bird. That would be so fun to see, you
• 53:39
  know, just to have those characters back.
• 53:41
  I feel like, you know, it's it's that little bit of history that
• 53:46
  can be current again that is fun for everyone to experience, even
• 53:50
  if they only brought it back for like the Flower and Garden
• 53:53
  festival or whatever. Yeah, like that would be perfect
• 53:55
  for for that meet and greet. Oh, for sure, For sure.
• 53:58
  Maybe someday. Can we get Duffy back?
• 54:01
  While we're at it, please? Duffy.
• 54:07
  That's what happened at Disney World too.
• 54:03
  Duffy was at Disneyland for a long time and like, not that
• 54:05
  popular. So like that's.
• 54:09
  But OK, total side note, I have to say, I was just reading that
• 54:12
  Disney like the the TV aspect of Disney, they're rebooting Mickey
• 54:17
  Mouse clubhouse again. And so they're doing like a
• 54:20
  whole thing. And Duffy the Disney bear is
• 54:22
  going to appear in episodes. And I the Scream.
• 54:26
  And it came out of my mouth when I read that.
• 54:28
  I was so excited. Oh my gosh, I didn't know you
• 54:31
  were such a like Duffy stamp. I love Duffy.
• 54:34
  I have so like I purchased a Duffy Okay this is total total
• 54:39
  side tangent. Apologies, but so I.
• 54:43
  So my now husband purchased a Duffy for me the year that I
• 54:47
  moved away. And so like my little Duffy bear
• 54:50
  went with me when I moved down to this side of Ohio, when the
• 54:53
  rest of my family and everyone was on the other side of Ohio.
• 54:56
  And it was very like parallel to the fact that in the origin of
• 55:00
  the Duffy the Disney bear, if you don't know it is a teddy
• 55:02
  bear that Minnie gets for Mickey that he can take with him on all
• 55:07
  of his worldly adventures to have like a little companion
• 55:11
  with him and so like. My husband, you know, my
• 55:14
  boyfriend now husband at the time, bought me one and it was
• 55:17
  just like, I just love him and I've met him several times when
• 55:20
  he used to do a character meet and greet in Epcot, my best
• 55:23
  friend who was a cast member, she and I both had Duffy Bears
• 55:26
  because she got one too, because she moved to Florida, you know,
• 55:29
  right around the same time. So it was like one of those
• 55:32
  things that we were just like our Duffy Bears and I have.
• 55:35
  Photos of her and I like hugging our Duffy bears in front of
• 55:38
  Spaceship Earth, like at Epcot. Like, yay, Because we used to
• 55:41
  take them with us in our bags to go meet Duffy with our Duffy's.
• 55:44
  So, OK, well, now I hope Duffy comes back just for you, nothing
• 55:47
  else. Because that's the most
• 55:49
  admipable story. Even if it's just a limited time
• 55:51
  run like you said, like I just want.
• 55:53
  I just want to be able to hug him again because I never did
• 55:56
  Duffy. He just like.
• 55:57
  Vanished. I didn't get.
• 56:00
  I didn't get a chance to say goodbye.
• 56:06
  He just like stopped meeting and I was like, well OK, I was just
• 56:11
  I remember walking by Duffy in DCA cuz it was at Disney's
• 56:15
  California Adventure, cuz it was like in back when it was still
• 56:18
  paradise Fear before it was Pixar Pier and they had this
• 56:21
  kind of like little circle veranda and then Duffy would
• 56:23
  always meet right there. My kids always ask, like who is
• 56:25
  that moms? They're like, I've never seen
• 56:27
  this anywhere and so putting it in some well known series, is it
• 56:32
  a good call for Disney? So long Long story short, I want
• 56:36
  Duffy back in Epcot. Even just if it's just in
• 56:40
  celebration of the premiere of the reboot, I will make a trip
• 56:45
  to see him. Yeah, let's let's get back on
• 56:48
  track just a little bit, OK? He talked about our favorite
• 56:51
  event and favorite topics we've covered.
• 56:53
  We said obviously the festivals. I also I'll just mention I
• 56:57
  really loved the State How to Save Money episode, which I
• 57:00
  talked about earlier and also our Disney resort series I feel
• 57:03
  like was really helpful. For those who are really
• 57:07
  undecided or don't know much about the resorts at all, I
• 57:09
  think it's a really helpful one to compare price ranges to
• 57:13
  amenities. You know, square footage almost,
• 57:17
  you know, like how how big versus how small you can fit
• 57:21
  pack and plays and not those kinds of decisions for your
• 57:25
  family. It's tough to decide which
• 57:27
  resort to go to. So yeah.
• 57:29
  And I'm I'm so glad that that it just exists on our page now,
• 57:33
  because I feel like that is one of the episodes that we, like
• 57:36
  refer people back to. Because we did so much research
• 57:41
  for all of that, looking up prices and we you looked up for
• 57:45
  all of the deluxe stuff, we looked up all the DVC stuff,
• 57:47
  like we looked up so much. But I have even used it because
• 57:50
  I've been starting to think about, you know, and I've talked
• 57:53
  about this a little bit, but I'm starting to think about like a
• 57:55
  year and a half probably from now.
• 57:56
  We'll look at going to Disneyland.
• 57:58
  And I literally the other day, they were like 02024 packages
• 58:01
  are available. And so I was like, well, let me
• 58:03
  like hop on and see. And I was like, wait, I don't
• 58:05
  want a Disneyland Resort because those are deluxe.
• 58:07
  Because Kate taught me that they're really when we did this.
• 58:10
  Yeah. So I like hopped on our doc
• 58:12
  because Kate, like Kate said, Kate and I do a lot on Google
• 58:15
  Docs and it all just exists and lives on our Google Drive
• 58:17
  because it's really good information.
• 58:20
  So I like, hopped on, it was like scrolling through our notes
• 58:22
  and I was like, ah, there we go. Those are the ones that I was
• 58:25
  looking for. So it gave me even like.
• 58:28
  Refreshing my own memory about like, what resorts are even
• 58:32
  there, I don't even remember. Yeah, and for those of you,
• 58:35
  well, we won't recap the whole series right now, but I will say
• 58:38
  that if you're going to Disneyland and you can't afford
• 58:41
  the three pretty expensive resorts that are on Disney
• 58:44
  property, there's lots of great ones that are off property and I
• 58:47
  usually recommend staying on Harbor Blvd. as close to the
• 58:50
  like. Middle center entrance date of
• 58:53
  Disneyland as possible is usually my recommendation for
• 58:56
  families. Also, the Hojo is also a solid
• 58:58
  bet. It's a little bit farther of a
• 59:00
  walk, but it's it's worth it for their like pool and area.
• 59:04
  They have like a water area. That's pretty amazing for kids.
• 59:06
  So yeah, absolutely. Grace says that she liked the
• 59:09
  Beating the Heat episode. She said it was the best and
• 59:11
  super helpful tips and hacks. Yeah, that was a good one too.
• 59:14
  So just, you know, lots of fun things that we've talked about
• 59:17
  and so many of these ideas have just come from the live stream
• 59:21
  chats. You just asking questions about
• 59:23
  like, hey, I need tips for this. What can you guys tell me?
• 59:27
  And we're like, we can tell you a whole episodes worth of
• 59:30
  information on that. We've got you covered.
• 59:33
  Yes, exactly, exactly. Oh, and I will just mention that
• 59:37
  all of these topics and all the previous things that we're
• 59:40
  talking about, as we mentioned before, do all exist in what I'm
• 59:42
  going to refer to as our archives now that we're a year
• 59:45
  in. I feel like that's accurate.
• 59:47
  We have archives now. Look at that.
• 59:49
  Look at us. Go us.
• 59:52
  So they do exist on our podcast and on our YouTube as well.
• 59:56
  The only episode that you unfortunately will not find
• 59:59
  there is our whole episode on Epcot Snacks, because for
• 1:00:02
  whatever reason, TikTok decided that they didn't want to let us
• 1:00:06
  download that episode after we did it.
• 1:00:09
  But you can find the information for all of our snack episodes
• 1:00:13
  also on our Instagram. So if you're like I need help
• 1:00:16
  with Epcot, you can find it there.
• 1:00:19
  Yeah, it's in our and our Instagram highlights.
• 1:00:21
  We have all of the best snacks for each park as well.
• 1:00:24
  And we also have some Speaking of our Instagram highlights, we
• 1:00:26
  have the the places where you can find free water in all of
• 1:00:30
  the Disney parks that are in the US So those are easy to save on
• 1:00:33
  your phone take with you parks. I actually reference them all
• 1:00:36
  the time when I'm like, I'm like, I can't remember which one
• 1:00:38
  is nearby, where I'm at at any given time because there's
• 1:00:41
  actually maps on them that will show you where to go.
• 1:00:43
  So I've kind of made them for myself a little bit, if I'm not
• 1:00:47
  gonna lie, And then I shared with all of you.
• 1:00:48
  So it was. Great.
• 1:00:50
  It was a joint project and it was much needed because I feel
• 1:00:53
  like I have also sent people that direction to be like if
• 1:00:57
  they're looking for water or they're asking, you know, and if
• 1:01:00
  our friends Kirk or Lam are live and they're asking about water
• 1:01:03
  places, it's like, oh, I know where you can find a map.
• 1:01:06
  I did that. I did a thing.
• 1:01:08
  We did it. We did it together.
• 1:01:11
  I'll just read a couple. There's comments on my side.
• 1:01:13
  Kristen says that her favorite was the wide planning one where
• 1:01:16
  we started six month out, three months out and 60 days out.
• 1:01:19
  That was a really early episode that we did, but we highlighted,
• 1:01:23
  you know, what to do in each kind of step of that planning
• 1:01:28
  process. And there is a guide available
• 1:01:30
  for that too. So if you would like access to
• 1:01:32
  that, just let us know and we can.
• 1:01:34
  Get you the link for that guide as well.
• 1:01:35
  It exists somewhere in our notes.
• 1:01:39
  It's around. We need to make it more
• 1:01:41
  accessible. We'll figure that out.
• 1:01:44
  We should put a link in our bio for that, I feel.
• 1:01:46
  There might be a link in our bio for that.
• 1:01:50
  I feel like that's something I probably did.
• 1:01:52
  And it probably still lives there.
• 1:01:53
  So it probably is. We're usually pretty organized.
• 1:01:55
  As soon as we can't forget how organized we forget how
• 1:01:58
  organized we were. Thank you, Blair, Blair says.
• 1:02:00
  It's on our link tree. Blair.
• 1:02:01
  MVP. Thank you.
• 1:02:03
  I appreciate that. And we did put it on discord.
• 1:02:05
  Yes, Kristen, you're right. And then we're so organized, we
• 1:02:07
  surprise ourselves by what we've already done.
• 1:02:11
  And then our friend Becca said that she loves the Mickey's Not
• 1:02:14
  So Scary Halloween Tips. Yeah, and we did that a whole
• 1:02:16
  year ago on Mickey's Not So Scary.
• 1:02:18
  So if you are someone that is getting ready.
• 1:02:20
  We go there. We did an episode last year on
• 1:02:24
  it and really not much has changed.
• 1:02:25
  So that information is still fairly accurate when it comes to
• 1:02:28
  that as well. Yeah, every once in a while
• 1:02:31
  those get a couple of new characters, but beyond that it's
• 1:02:33
  really or the food will slightly change, but most of the other
• 1:02:36
  information mostly the same. So so should we relive a few of
• 1:02:42
  our favorite moments on the street?
• 1:02:44
  Can we please do your first, I think we have to and we lived
• 1:02:51
  the Donald plant fiasco as I'm going to call it.
• 1:02:55
  Those of you who have maybe been around the Disney World for a
• 1:02:58
  little while or remember that there was a time in the Three
• 1:03:03
  Caballero's ride in Epcot in Mexico when you know, they have
• 1:03:07
  three audio animatronics of the Three Caballero's at the end.
• 1:03:10
  And one day Donald just like kind of disappeared and was
• 1:03:16
  replaced by a plant. Come on.
• 1:03:21
  And so he he was. This is the normal I'm already
• 1:03:29
  laughing cuz I can't. What is that?
• 1:03:35
  It's a plant with a giant sombrero on it is what we're
• 1:03:38
  looking at. So it's just like a fake plant
• 1:03:41
  that they stuck a sombrero on. And it does not look at all like
• 1:03:45
  Donald, like I mean and we just. Like who?
• 1:03:48
  Who decided this was OK? I will continue to ask who and
• 1:03:53
  we I think we talked about the fact that it was probably.
• 1:03:58
  A poor cast member that was told, hey we're taking the
• 1:04:01
  Donald animatronic out for refurb.
• 1:04:06
  Can you find a replacement? And he went, what do you want me
• 1:04:09
  to do? And they went, I don't know,
• 1:04:11
  figure it out, it's like, and he went and look, a plant.
• 1:04:15
  In the hat. Perfect.
• 1:04:17
  And then the Internet broke because it was hysterical.
• 1:04:23
  And we talked about this, gosh, what maybe two months ago on the
• 1:04:27
  end of an episode. It was like a random Q&A
• 1:04:29
  episode, and I don't even know how it got brought up, but we
• 1:04:32
  were talking about 3 Cabbieros and how we like that ride and we
• 1:04:36
  just segued into Plant. Donald and I have never laughed
• 1:04:40
  so hard on a Mom St. episode. As I did on that one, and it was
• 1:04:45
  ridiculous. It's absolutely.
• 1:04:47
  Ridiculous and hysterical and all of the above.
• 1:04:50
  It's great. Now that we have that memory and
• 1:04:53
  we have been working on a shirt, maybe even a sticker for you
• 1:04:57
  guys that has this never forget kind of theme of Donald's.
• 1:05:02
  It's so close to being done. We just have to kind of tweak it
• 1:05:05
  a little bit and then we'll get it out to you guys in case
• 1:05:08
  that's something you would like for your Next up caught journey,
• 1:05:11
  but. Coming soon to a
• 1:05:14
  disneycicero.com near you, which is also plug where you can find
• 1:05:19
  our mom St. Merch if you are interested in.
• 1:05:21
  We've got T-shirts and hoodies and stickers and all sorts of
• 1:05:24
  fun things. So and long sleeve shirts.
• 1:05:26
  We're heading into the fall. Yeah, I know we've got long
• 1:05:28
  sleeve shirts. So if you're sitting in the
• 1:05:29
  school pickup line, should I have never done before, but I'm
• 1:05:32
  going to be doing now again, Pray for me.
• 1:05:36
  I think great. I.
• 1:05:37
  Think I need my I need a long sleeve for for this fall.
• 1:05:40
  My next trip is in November, which like no guarantee that
• 1:05:43
  it'll be long sleeve weather because I went in October last
• 1:05:46
  year and it was supposed to be cool and I melted like I was on
• 1:05:49
  the surface of the sun. So no, you just never know with
• 1:05:53
  Florida. Florida's that way.
• 1:05:55
  Yes, but that moment was. It was great.
• 1:06:00
  That amazing. And I think one of my other
• 1:06:02
  favorite moments of Mom's Street from the last year is we did
• 1:06:04
  kind of an episode. I don't know if it's an episode.
• 1:06:07
  It was just a live where we did some crafting together and we
• 1:06:10
  made these really pretty like Mickey Reeves for Christmas.
• 1:06:13
  That light up and they were they're like fuzzy.
• 1:06:16
  I don't I should have gotten a picture I wasn't prepared but
• 1:06:19
  they're like fuzzy Mickey Reeves and they were really fun to
• 1:06:23
  craft together. Although we made like a huge
• 1:06:25
  mess with the fuzz everywhere. And then we did.
• 1:06:29
  We did turn it into a tutorial though on YouTube, So it's out
• 1:06:32
  there. Casey how to make it.
• 1:06:34
  But that was just fun to do some crafting and we also did some
• 1:06:37
  food together as well. We planned a lot in that episode
• 1:06:40
  that was. Yeah, our Christmas episodes
• 1:06:42
  were super fun. We did some trivia, we did some
• 1:06:44
  songs, we did some baking, we did all sorts of fun things, so
• 1:06:48
  it was good. Jackie, what were some of your
• 1:06:51
  favorite moments from us? So I don't know if I would
• 1:06:53
  consider this my favorite, but I just felt like I had to mention
• 1:06:56
  the fact that in all of our episodes we did about food and
• 1:07:01
  wine or flower and garden or all of these things where we
• 1:07:04
  mentioned food somehow. I was always the one attempting
• 1:07:08
  to pronounce these, yes. Foreign names of all of this
• 1:07:13
  food, I think I only did it once.
• 1:07:15
  I think it was always you that it fell on.
• 1:07:17
  For whatever reason, there was one point, and I think it was
• 1:07:21
  our DCA food and wine episode, that I was just like, you know
• 1:07:24
  what, I give up. Like I don't know.
• 1:07:28
  I. Can't.
• 1:07:29
  I can't. I can't.
• 1:07:30
  So that's just like, when I think back to some of the
• 1:07:33
  beginnings of Mom Street, I think back to all of the.
• 1:07:37
  Work and research we did for those resort episodes and then
• 1:07:40
  me attempting to use Google pronunciations to try and do my
• 1:07:46
  best to say the names of these foods that we're all.
• 1:07:49
  Amazing and wonderful. And I'm sure we're delicious.
• 1:07:52
  But I was like, I never want to see these again because I had
• 1:07:56
  nightmares over trying to pronounce them.
• 1:07:58
  I think one of the Brazilian ones is one of the ones I
• 1:08:00
  couldn't pronounce and I just gave up.
• 1:08:02
  I'm like, I don't, I took French, I don't, I don't like
• 1:08:05
  Spanish. I got nothing.
• 1:08:06
  I don't know. To pronounce that like noodle,
• 1:08:10
  German noodle dish that they just had for food in mind.
• 1:08:14
  It's like. So that I think, I'm pretty sure
• 1:08:20
  that's in our Food and wine. Like what's new for Food and
• 1:08:22
  Wine this year episode And that one just like lives rent free.
• 1:08:26
  In my head, whenever I think about pronouncing all of these,
• 1:08:30
  I'm just like, I can't. I can't.
• 1:08:32
  So I hereby give up on any future episodes where we're
• 1:08:37
  pronouncing food. I'm just gonna show.
• 1:08:41
  I'm just gonna show what it's called and go, this is what it's
• 1:08:43
  called. And then just move on with my
• 1:08:45
  life podcast. We'll have to spell it.
• 1:08:46
  We're gonna have to spell it so people can know.
• 1:08:50
  Get out your pencils, write down these letters, down, and you go
• 1:08:53
  ahead and try to. Oh, gosh, Kristen, no, Kristen
• 1:08:56
  said. We need a compilation of these
• 1:08:59
  pronunciations. Oh, that would be actually
• 1:09:01
  pretty hilarious. It's not gonna wash.
• 1:09:03
  It's a little like a bloopers reel there's there's.
• 1:09:08
  So I got nothing and I'm like, well, how did this happen?
• 1:09:11
  How did this happen? That Kate is over here being
• 1:09:13
  Vanna White, just showing the photos.
• 1:09:15
  And I'm over here sweating, trying to pronounce these.
• 1:09:18
  To be fair, you asked me to show the photos, so.
• 1:09:21
  I don't think I asked you. I think you volunteered very You
• 1:09:25
  were like, you have your iPad. I was like, OK, sure, I can do
• 1:09:27
  the photos no problem. Mistakes were made, OK?
• 1:09:32
  We just gotta tell. We gotta tell the accurate part
• 1:09:34
  of the story here. I know that's true.
• 1:09:36
  That's true. We are nothing if not truthful
• 1:09:39
  and accurate. So you know, you did a good job
• 1:09:42
  trying though I. Applaud you.
• 1:09:43
  I gave it. I gave it an A forever.
• 1:09:46
  I guess so, yeah. That's like one of my moments
• 1:09:50
  that I like, look back somewhat fondly but somewhat resentfully
• 1:09:54
  on. Well, I think it's funny, yes,
• 1:10:00
  if we can't laugh at ourselves. What do we That's so true?
• 1:10:03
  That is so true. We did have a few.
• 1:10:07
  So we've mentioned this Discord. Tonight we are.
• 1:10:09
  We do have a channel on our friend Kirk at Walrus Carp.
• 1:10:12
  His Discord for our Pocket Fam, which is just our community of
• 1:10:15
  friends that we have found on TikTok and we did ask for anyone
• 1:10:21
  that had. Favorite moments from Mom St.
• 1:10:24
  that they could recall. And several of you put stuff in
• 1:10:26
  the chat tonight, which we love reading.
• 1:10:27
  So if you've got a favorite moment that you want to throw in
• 1:10:30
  either side of our chat, we will be happy to read them.
• 1:10:32
  But our friend Rhonda said my absolute favorite Mom St.
• 1:10:35
  USA moment was when Jackie and Kate actually got to meet in
• 1:10:37
  person at Epcot in May. So that was a super fun moment
• 1:10:41
  that was not technically part of the show, but.
• 1:10:44
  No, we both. A lot of you got to see it
• 1:10:46
  though. Yes, yes.
• 1:10:47
  So Kate and I had not met prior to May 10th.
• 1:10:52
  I think it was of this year. So we had been doing our podcast
• 1:10:57
  from opposite ends of the. Country, I know, like Oregon and
• 1:11:03
  Ohio. We're in, yeah.
• 1:11:05
  And those of you who have been here with us for the last year,
• 1:11:07
  you know how much Kate and I are alike.
• 1:11:09
  And you were always, you know, saying that you thought we had
• 1:11:12
  been friends for years when? Truly we had.
• 1:11:14
  We've only known each other for a short amount of time, but it
• 1:11:18
  was super fun to be able to connect in person and get to
• 1:11:22
  meet up in Epcot with so many of our friends that were there.
• 1:11:25
  And you know, we so fun. We had so much fun hanging out
• 1:11:28
  in Epcot and then the next day we hung out for a little bit in
• 1:11:31
  Magic Kingdom. But we we look forward to
• 1:11:35
  hopefully future longer meetups. Unfortunately, our trips in
• 1:11:38
  November, we literally miss each other by like 2 days.
• 1:11:42
  Yep, ships passing in the night. It's fine.
• 1:11:44
  It's fine. We will.
• 1:11:45
  We'll be there again someday. But yes, we will figure it out
• 1:11:51
  again soon. So that was what Rhonda had
• 1:11:54
  thrown up on there on our Discord.
• 1:11:57
  So thank you Rhonda for your input.
• 1:11:58
  We appreciate. We appreciate you any more
• 1:12:03
  discord. That was the only one that I saw
• 1:12:06
  on the Discord. Oh, Kelly said.
• 1:12:10
  My favorite is when I received to be before my trip.
• 1:12:13
  So that happened on a Mom St. episode.
• 1:12:15
  That pocket fam gifted me my to be little crossbody bag and my
• 1:12:21
  little plushy, who then came with me to Disney on my last
• 1:12:25
  trip and took several vlogs of his own while we visited Disney.
• 1:12:29
  So that was a fun moment. I felt very, very loved and
• 1:12:33
  special with that one. That was great.
• 1:12:36
  We got to make Jackie cry. Always a good time.
• 1:12:41
  I feel like that's happened a couple times.
• 1:12:43
  We're just, you know, we, we are a part of such a wonderful,
• 1:12:47
  amazing, very generous community online.
• 1:12:51
  And so I feel like these are always happy tears.
• 1:12:54
  Yeah, that's like beautiful group of people that we get to
• 1:12:57
  interact with. And I feel very grateful for
• 1:13:00
  that because I will say that there are Disney, Disney
• 1:13:03
  communities out there that are not necessarily wonderful places
• 1:13:08
  to be, but ours is such a great, great group of people that
• 1:13:11
  really just care about each other and love Disney.
• 1:13:14
  Love the Disney nerds, my people.
• 1:13:16
  Yeah. My people, Christina says.
• 1:13:21
  I think anytime we can all have chat nights is such a good time
• 1:13:24
  on Mom Street. I agree.
• 1:13:25
  So we do these podcast episodes for Mom St. about twice a month,
• 1:13:30
  but we also have some. We go live on TikTok with me and
• 1:13:34
  Jackie. We do a little combined chat and
• 1:13:36
  then we all get to chat together with you guys and just answer.
• 1:13:39
  We answer questions, but we also just kind of free chat about
• 1:13:41
  Disney and life and whatnot. And it is really fun to just
• 1:13:45
  hang out with you guys that way. That's something that we really
• 1:13:47
  enjoy, and that's why we decided that some weeks we will do
• 1:13:50
  podcasts, some weeks we're just going to do chats.
• 1:13:53
  And we try to also make it. Honestly, those chat episodes
• 1:13:55
  are really great for us too, as busy moms, because we've got a
• 1:13:58
  lot going on in our lives, so sometimes we don't have time to
• 1:14:01
  necessarily prep for an episode, but we still want to connect
• 1:14:03
  with you guys and hang out. So yeah, they're really helpful
• 1:14:06
  for us as well. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:14:08
  And I feel like too it. A lot of those chat episodes is
• 1:14:11
  where we will get. Some of the content that we want
• 1:14:16
  to then expand on for you guys for future episodes or content
• 1:14:20
  that we then take and post still on our TikTok channel or on our
• 1:14:23
  You Tube. Because there's so much good
• 1:14:25
  content that happens in those chats.
• 1:14:26
  And there's a lot of fun and a lot of, like Kate said, we talk
• 1:14:29
  about life and we talked about talk about, you know, all sorts
• 1:14:31
  of other things. But I feel like there's still so
• 1:14:33
  much good content there that we love being able to share that
• 1:14:36
  with you guys too and just. Answer open-ended questions.
• 1:14:40
  That's better about Disney things or questions you can't
• 1:14:44
  find answers to or want advice with.
• 1:14:46
  So that is fun with those chat episodes and just very low key
• 1:14:51
  and we get to connect with you guys and get to know each other
• 1:14:53
  better, which is fun. Yes, absolutely.
• 1:14:57
  All right, let's get a little deep here for a moment.
• 1:15:01
  What we Kate and I, have learned and maybe you guys can chime in
• 1:15:05
  in the chat as well. But what we've learned from Mom
• 1:15:08
  St. in the last year, yeah, this was a really interesting one for
• 1:15:13
  me to think about because it's been the last year has been
• 1:15:17
  absolutely crazy for me with the way that, you know, Dizzy
• 1:15:19
  Cicerone has grown and life changes for me personally.
• 1:15:24
  And I really learned about how our community really is Better
• 1:15:29
  Together. You know, Jackie and I know a
• 1:15:32
  lot about the parks and you know, I go pretty often.
• 1:15:35
  Jackie goes when she can, but we don't, We don't know everything.
• 1:15:38
  And having all of us together, you know, it's like it takes a
• 1:15:42
  village, right? It takes a village to raise a
• 1:15:43
  child. It takes a village to plan A to
• 1:15:45
  see vacation, I think is an accurate thing to say.
• 1:15:49
  And so having that Mom St. community involved has also like
• 1:15:52
  taken a lot of pressure off of us from like we have to know
• 1:15:56
  every single thing about this topic.
• 1:15:59
  We we do research as well as we possibly can and draw from our
• 1:16:03
  own experience and whatnot. But we know that there's going
• 1:16:06
  to be stuff that comes up that we don't know how to answer.
• 1:16:09
  And we inevitably, there's always somebody in in our chat
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  or whatnot or in our Mom St. community that knows the answer
• 1:16:16
  to something. And that has been so helpful as
• 1:16:19
  a resource. But a little personal note, I'll
• 1:16:21
  just say as a community, this has been so valuable to me as a
• 1:16:25
  human this past year. I'm not going to cry, but I
• 1:16:33
  found some really, really close friends that are really mean so
• 1:16:38
  much to me, especially because of some stuff I went through in
• 1:16:40
  my own life where I didn't. I've lost, lost some some people
• 1:16:45
  in my life in the past, a little over a year.
• 1:16:47
  So to have y'all be here and be people that can help me plan
• 1:16:53
  outfits and chat about Disney and chat about life and hear
• 1:16:56
  about some of the stuff that's happened with my family and
• 1:16:58
  sympathize and me at the same way and and you know, encourage
• 1:17:02
  you when you're feeling down. And I'm just so grateful for
• 1:17:07
  this community. So that's what it's meant to me
• 1:17:10
  in the past year. I love that, and you're getting
• 1:17:13
  all of the love on my side of the chat to everyone is putting
• 1:17:16
  heart bogies and all of the above.
• 1:17:18
  So OK, like, deep breath. So kind of piggybacking along
• 1:17:26
  that I mean, Mom St. doesn't exist without our community, but
• 1:17:30
  I feel like for myself, because I was so new in the content
• 1:17:36
  creator space and the public eye, so to speak, of the Disney
• 1:17:42
  community. And I'm still, you know, I'm
• 1:17:44
  this little itty bitty thing when it comes to all of that.
• 1:17:47
  But I feel like I learned. A lot about myself and I had a
• 1:17:52
  lot of personal growth that I feel like happened because I was
• 1:17:56
  in a very comfortable space with all of that.
• 1:18:01
  Prior to MOM, St. USAI was in a very comfortable
• 1:18:05
  space at where I fit in inside the community and just kind of
• 1:18:09
  being a member of the community and helping, you know, helping
• 1:18:13
  out with different things and stuff like that, but.
• 1:18:16
  Jumping into Mom St. was something I never imagined I
• 1:18:19
  would ever do. But as soon as I know, he really
• 1:18:23
  stepped in the spotlight. As as soon as the the the idea
• 1:18:29
  arose, I was like what the hey, sure, let's like let's do it and
• 1:18:34
  we'll see what happens. And you know, so I was super
• 1:18:38
  nervous and I I can hear it going back to listen to her old
• 1:18:43
  episodes. I was super nervous and just not
• 1:18:46
  comfortable and just I fumbled a lot and now I feel like I'm, you
• 1:18:52
  know, a step at a time. I'm getting much better and I'm
• 1:18:54
  much more comfortable and I'm more comfortable just being in
• 1:18:58
  this space and existing in the space.
• 1:19:02
  I have worked with Space, Kate and I both have, along with
• 1:19:07
  everything else that we have going on.
• 1:19:09
  You know, I was nervous. I wouldn't know the answers to
• 1:19:11
  questions or that I wouldn't know what to say or that I we'd
• 1:19:15
  have all this like dead air and I'd be like panicking inside my
• 1:19:18
  head, like what do I do? You know, all of those those
• 1:19:23
  types of things. And I just feel like I I really
• 1:19:26
  learned again in a in a new way how to to be brave and how to
• 1:19:32
  tackle things that were not comfortable and how to also then
• 1:19:37
  surround myself with people. That were there to support me
• 1:19:41
  with it from you know members of our community like you mentioned
• 1:19:45
  that are there to support and encourage because that's
• 1:19:50
  literally what we get from every member of this community is just
• 1:19:54
  encouragement and support and love and I've just also.
• 1:19:59
  Just learned that this community will show up regardless and will
• 1:20:03
  always be here for us, which I just think is huge.
• 1:20:05
  And I'm so excited to see what this next year brings and where
• 1:20:11
  we end up a year from now. And I feel like forever and
• 1:20:14
  ever, as long as Mom St. exists, we will do these year recap
• 1:20:18
  episodes because they're just. Yes, it's just like.
• 1:20:22
  The warm and fuzzy, you know? And it's funny and it's just
• 1:20:25
  brings me so much joy. I like opening up the photo
• 1:20:29
  album and looking through it and just reminiscing and such
• 1:20:34
  wonderful moments that we've had together.
• 1:20:36
  But I think it's you really touched on something that we're
• 1:20:41
  just real people. We're moms.
• 1:20:43
  We're we happen to be wives. We're we're not with each other
• 1:20:46
  but with our to clarify and we are we are balancing all of our
• 1:20:54
  work and mom life and cooking dinner and like all those things
• 1:20:58
  like we're doing all those things just like you guys are.
• 1:21:00
  We're just really just real people.
• 1:21:03
  But the reality is that you guys give us so much grace in this
• 1:21:06
  space and have given us so much support that even when it's hard
• 1:21:10
  to do what we're doing, you're still like cheering us on.
• 1:21:13
  And I think I feel like for me that really like keeps me going
• 1:21:16
  is knowing that there's going to be people that show up when we
• 1:21:20
  do because they're excited to to chat with us and see us and and
• 1:21:23
  we're excited to see them. And it's like we get to hang out
• 1:21:26
  with each other. That to me is like even if I'm
• 1:21:29
  not perfect or I haven't figured everything out for the week, I
• 1:21:32
  know if I show up, that's the hardest step and then it's great
• 1:21:36
  after that. Does that make sense, you know?
• 1:21:38
  Like hitting. Again, like behind the scenes,
• 1:21:41
  hitting that button to start the live is like the worst part.
• 1:21:44
  It is because you're just like scary red button.
• 1:21:47
  OK, OK. And it's like, you take a couple
• 1:21:50
  of breaths and it's like, OK, here we go.
• 1:21:52
  And then once people start popping in, it's like, all my
• 1:21:54
  friends are here. Yay.
• 1:21:57
  And we never doubt it. We know you guys are gonna be
• 1:21:59
  here regardless of everything that's going on.
• 1:22:01
  And we so appreciate that. I don't think we can say enough
• 1:22:05
  how much we appreciate. All of the support and I know
• 1:22:08
  there are a ton of you who have been here with us since episode
• 1:22:12
  one. There are also so many of you
• 1:22:14
  who we have found along the way, who are now part of our
• 1:22:16
  community, that we are just so grateful for every single one of
• 1:22:18
  you and we just just can't say it enough.
• 1:22:22
  Yeah, 100%, I agree. OK, let.
• 1:22:29
  OK, last thing on our list. Last thing on our list is
• 1:22:32
  something new, you guys. Something new to celebrate.
• 1:22:36
  Moving forward into our second year of Mom St.
• 1:22:40
  USA, and this idea kind of came from our chat with our good
• 1:22:46
  friend Mark Valentine, who is kind of the mastermind behind
• 1:22:50
  our partnership with Chip and Co does life Mark.
• 1:22:53
  So starting in future episodes, but we're going to have a new
• 1:22:59
  segment that we're going to use to kind of wrap up.
• 1:23:01
  Every episode going forward and the segment is just gonna be
• 1:23:06
  simple. Ask the moms, ask the moms.
• 1:23:10
  So that will be essentially questions that you guys ask.
• 1:23:15
  All right, either on our Discord or you can just e-mail us at
• 1:23:18
  momstreetusa@gmail.com. If with any questions you have
• 1:23:24
  about your Disney trip, traveling with your family,
• 1:23:26
  going to Disneyland or Disney World.
• 1:23:29
  Anything that revolves around Disney planning would be happy
• 1:23:32
  to answer for you in this new segment called Ask the Moms.
• 1:23:36
  So this will be a fun. So and it'll just be, you know,
• 1:23:39
  we still do QA episodes and those types of things as well.
• 1:23:42
  But this will just be kind of a quick one or two question.
• 1:23:46
  End segment to our episodes where if you've got a time
• 1:23:51
  restraint question that like you're getting ready to leave on
• 1:23:55
  your trip in three days and you can't find the answer to
• 1:23:58
  something, that's what we're here for in those moments, cuz
• 1:24:01
  we don't get to Q&A's as often as we would like.
• 1:24:04
  We do our best to answer questions throughout all of our
• 1:24:06
  lives. But if we're doing podcasting,
• 1:24:09
  it's tricky to kind of get back and answer everything.
• 1:24:12
  So we're hoping this will be a good way for you guys to feel
• 1:24:15
  like you have that space to ask those questions.
• 1:24:18
  Yes, So very excited for that music.
• 1:24:20
  Now we'll also have, you know, every episode we'll have some
• 1:24:23
  tips that are unrelated necessarily to that topic.
• 1:24:26
  Just what you guys wanted here, yeah?
• 1:24:29
  Yeah, absolutely. So let's talk about moving
• 1:24:32
  forward what we've kind of got going on.
• 1:24:35
  Kate leaves. In like days?
• 1:24:37
  Yeah, for her trip. Four days.
• 1:24:41
  I don't know Monday. So exciting.
• 1:24:43
  So Kate is off to Europe and a Disney cruise and Disneyland
• 1:24:48
  Paris and all sorts of other fun places in between and all
• 1:24:51
  around. So she is gone for the next
• 1:24:54
  several weeks. So you're stuck with me, You get
• 1:24:58
  to hang out with Jackie, and then I'll be back in October is
• 1:25:03
  when I'll be back from on street.
• 1:25:05
  Yes. Then in September I'll be
• 1:25:08
  touching a couple different topics and you might see some
• 1:25:11
  special guests that joined me on some episodes.
• 1:25:15
  So we'll we'll kind of go from there and see who we may find
• 1:25:19
  and who may find their way on to Mom St.
• 1:25:23
  USA probably some familiar faces for those of you who have been
• 1:25:26
  around. And then, yeah, once Kate gets
• 1:25:28
  back, we will I'm sure, do some episodes on Disneyland Paris.
• 1:25:33
  Along with, you know, we'll just continue on our little list of
• 1:25:37
  topics that if you've got topic suggestions, if you've got
• 1:25:44
  things you'd love to hear us talk about.
• 1:25:45
  We do have a short list that we're still working working off
• 1:25:49
  of, but we always are looking to add to that list.
• 1:25:53
  So you can reach out to us in any of the ways we've mentioned
• 1:25:55
  in this episode, Discord, Instagram, e-mail, all of the
• 1:25:59
  above, send us a message and we will be happy to either if it's
• 1:26:03
  a quick answer, we can just answer you via message or if
• 1:26:06
  it's something that we can do a full episode on, we will add
• 1:26:08
  that to our list. So September's going to be a
• 1:26:11
  little bit of a different month and you will hear some different
• 1:26:15
  things from Mom Street, but then starting back in October, we'll
• 1:26:18
  be back on hopefully a more normal.
• 1:26:21
  Schedule. We'll see.
• 1:26:22
  Yeah, we'll settle into the fall like we all do, right?
• 1:26:25
  All the schedules kind of settle in and you figure out your new
• 1:26:28
  life cuz it changes every year as a mom.
• 1:26:32
  So true. So, so, so true.
• 1:26:34
  And yes, Blair, we have been doing a ton of Disneyland Paris
• 1:26:38
  research. So I have been helping Kate plan
• 1:26:42
  her trip to Disneyland Paris very well.
• 1:26:45
  So we are. I'm excited to see if the
• 1:26:48
  itineraries that I came up with work the way that we hope they
• 1:26:51
  do. So I'm.
• 1:26:53
  Hopeful. I am also hopeful too.
• 1:26:56
  So it's a completely different world.
• 1:26:59
  And I, Kate and I were just texting about this this week.
• 1:27:01
  It's a completely different world when you're planning for a
• 1:27:03
  park that you've never been to before.
• 1:27:06
  Even looking at, you know me, planning for Disneyland even
• 1:27:09
  though I've never been there is even easier than actually
• 1:27:11
  thinking about planning for Disneyland Paris.
• 1:27:13
  So I did tons of reading and watching and researching and all
• 1:27:17
  of that. So we will report back once Kate
• 1:27:19
  has experienced it all and she can give us the behind the
• 1:27:23
  scenes look at what actually worked and what didn't work and
• 1:27:29
  what we missed and. All of the above, yeah.
• 1:27:32
  I've never been there with children before.
• 1:27:34
  When I was there, it was the. So my husband and I lived in
• 1:27:37
  Europe. We didn't have any money though,
• 1:27:39
  because we were, he was in college and I was unemployed
• 1:27:41
  because I couldn't work in Ireland.
• 1:27:42
  So we did a lot of like shoestring traveling, so, but we
• 1:27:46
  did go to Disney. We went to Paris around
• 1:27:48
  Christmas time and then we went Disneyland Paris at Christmas.
• 1:27:51
  And I just remember that making it snow on Main Street was like
• 1:27:54
  so magical with the Christmas parade and stuff.
• 1:27:56
  Those are kind of my vivid memories from that.
• 1:27:58
  It was cold, it snowed one of the days we were there, but it
• 1:28:02
  was really quite a magical place.
• 1:28:04
  But they hadn't built their second park yet.
• 1:28:05
  That's how early that was in its timeline.
• 1:28:08
  So now they have their second Walt Disney Studios park.
• 1:28:12
  So I've never been there. So I'm very excited to see that.
• 1:28:15
  And I do remember their like Disney kind of village area, and
• 1:28:19
  I've done a lot of Disney history research about it.
• 1:28:21
  So we should be able to share a lot of really fun facts about
• 1:28:24
  the park that almost didn't make it cuz they almost went
• 1:28:28
  bankrupt. So, but the most beautiful
• 1:28:30
  Disney park is what they call it so very.
• 1:28:32
  Excited to see it there. Said their castle is very
• 1:28:34
  pretty. I agree.
• 1:28:35
  Their castle is very pretty. So that's what Michael Eisner
• 1:28:38
  wanted. He said, I he's like, we've got
• 1:28:41
  all these parks that have all these different things.
• 1:28:42
  He's like, you know, like Disney World was like the biggest park
• 1:28:45
  at Disneyland was the original. He's like, I'm going to make the
• 1:28:47
  first one that's outside of the US and I'm going to make it the
• 1:28:50
  most beautiful Disney park. So he got a lot of artisans that
• 1:28:55
  they hired. They were outside of Wed,
• 1:28:56
  outside of Imagineering, and they hired people in Europe and
• 1:29:00
  famous architects and whatnot to just make it like the most
• 1:29:03
  gorgeous park they possibly could.
• 1:29:05
  It's also partially why it almost went bankrupt, because
• 1:29:07
  they really overspent on a lot of it.
• 1:29:08
  But it is beautiful. It's a beautiful, beautiful
• 1:29:11
  park. And it sort of worked out OK.
• 1:29:14
  In the end, it did. It changed it to Disneyland
• 1:29:17
  Paris. They adapted to the culture.
• 1:29:20
  They made a lot of changes to make it work.
• 1:29:22
  And now it's it's a it's a pretty lovely park.
• 1:29:24
  I think they're still recovering Walt Disney Studios park, but
• 1:29:27
  they're getting there. Is it Paris or all of France is
• 1:29:30
  prepping to host the Olympics in a couple years?
• 1:29:33
  So yeah, so I know that they're preparing a lot for that.
• 1:29:36
  They have some new areas opening up and new lands and things that
• 1:29:39
  they're in the works with. So we'll see what's to come.
• 1:29:42
  And now that we'll have a base of it, we can like actually
• 1:29:45
  cover some Disneyland Paris stuff.
• 1:29:47
  Yeah, I know. Isn't that exciting?
• 1:29:49
  That's Disney Cruise Lines. So we have more things, and
• 1:29:53
  eventually I'll get to Tokyo and all those other places too.
• 1:29:56
  One of these days we'll get there.
• 1:29:57
  So yeah, exactly. And I will also just mention
• 1:30:00
  that we, you guys may have heard us talking about.
• 1:30:02
  We do have several giveaways that we're going to be doing for
• 1:30:04
  our year anniversary, but we will be doing those.
• 1:30:08
  Right. When Kate comes back, just so we
• 1:30:10
  didn't have to rush and try to squeeze them in before she left
• 1:30:13
  on her trip. So those are still coming.
• 1:30:16
  We've got at least four sets of ears to give away.
• 1:30:19
  I think some of those will probably be subscriber gifts and
• 1:30:22
  some will be gifts that everybody is eligible to win.
• 1:30:24
  So stay tuned for that. That will be coming probably
• 1:30:27
  about three or four weeks from now.
• 1:30:29
  So I know it's a little ways away, but just wanted to throw
• 1:30:32
  that out there because I know you guys heard us talking about
• 1:30:34
  that previously. Yeah, I'm really excited for the
• 1:30:37
  giveaways. They're always really fun to get
• 1:30:39
  to. Just kind of give back to our
• 1:30:40
  community, so it'll be fun. Yeah, always fun.
• 1:30:43
  So yeah, I think that's it. I think we did it.
• 1:30:48
  We made it. We did it.
• 1:30:50
  One year, One year Bomb St. All right, this is so much fun
• 1:30:57
  to be with you guys. To celebrate this milestone of
• 1:31:01
  our one year anniversary of Mom St.
• 1:31:03
  USA and doing this podcast. We really appreciate you guys
• 1:31:06
  hanging out with us, celebrating with us and and being here for
• 1:31:11
  our very first ever podcast episode for our partnership with
• 1:31:15
  the Chip and Co podcast network. So very excited for that as
• 1:31:20
  well. Any final thoughts, Jackie,
• 1:31:22
  before we wrap up? I'm just so.
• 1:31:26
  Happy and grateful and and looking forward to see what we
• 1:31:31
  can do in the next year and where we are a year from now.
• 1:31:36
  And just, yeah, I think that's it.
• 1:31:41
  Yeah, just grateful. Grateful, I think is my word for
• 1:31:43
  the day. So thank you everybody for being
• 1:31:45
  with us tonight as we are hanging out, and we'll see you
• 1:31:48
  next time on Mom St. USA Bye everyone.
• 1:31:52
  Bye.