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From Sea to Disneyland: Cierra’s Cruise Adventures & First-Time Disneyland Magic · DIZPod | For the Disney Parks Fans

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  Hello and welcome to yet another Diz Pod on this February 24th
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  already 2026 record snow falls. Lawrence.
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  Listen, ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper, it's
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  always been the talk of the legendary Blizzard of 76.
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  Tammy and I have both talked about this this past few days,
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  these past few days, because it's very relevant because we're
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  we're from in Massachusetts, 38 inches.
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  I think it was in our hometown. So that is a record.
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  So now they'll be talking about the Blizzard of 26.
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  And. Not the Blizzard of 76.
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  Do you recall any of that? Did the Blizzard of 76 affect
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  you where you lived? You didn't live that far from
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  me. Sir, I wouldn't have been born.
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  I missed it. I will be 50 this October so I I
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  would have missed that. However, I.
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  Didn't I? I didn't calculate that.
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  But listen, I only made it by 4 years.
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  I was 4, right? And Tammy and I remember like we
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  had to be dugout, like we couldn't walk outside.
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  It was over our heads. It was up halfway to the doors
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  and all that good stuff. Yeah, in.
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  So in 2003, I was getting ready to move to Maryland, Baltimore,
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  and we went for a weekend to look at apartments and stuff
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  like that. And the snow was supposed to
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  start Sunday afternoon. And I was like, well, do we
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  leave and go back home to New York or do we stick it out?
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  And I was like, well, we've got time off from work, let's just
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  stick it out. So it started.
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  It's supposed to start Sunday about 2:00.
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  By the time I got up to go to the grocery store at 11, there
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  was already about 8 inches of snow on the ground.
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  Ended up snowing 48 inches in 2 days.
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  Yeah, so, but, and then when we did go home to New York, it had
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  snowed there, too, another 18 inches of snow or, or or so.
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  So then when I got home, I then had I lived in a basement
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  apartment and of course the shovel is inside the house.
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  So I had to like slide down the stairs to go into the house to
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  get the shovel and then shovel my way out of the of the
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  basement. So yeah, crazy, some crazy
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  stories. I saw my mom and dad sent me
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  pictures from up there. My sister and my brother who are
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  on long on Long Island sent me pictures of what they were
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  dealing with. Just some crazy stuff.
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  How about your mom and and brother?
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  They were hunkered down. I think he finally shoveled out
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  a little bit and left the house this afternoon.
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  But of course, my mom won't go anywhere.
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  She lives in a more of a, you know, an elderly community where
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  not many people, nobody's really touched their cars and all that
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  they were dealing with not only a ton of snow being dumped, but
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  60 mile an hour gusts of. Yes, yeah, crazy.
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  And it just looked unbearable over there.
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  Yeah, absolutely nuts. But you know, it's it's one for
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  the record books and hopefully this is the last snowfall.
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  I say that, but I did look at their weather and I think
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  they're supposed to get another couple days of little bit of
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  snow, some sleet or something like that.
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  So. Oh, yeah.
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  You know, you, you got to top it off, you know, you got to get a
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  little ice, ice coating on top of all of that.
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  That's right. That was the way of the world
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  where where where we lived previously to this, the way of
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  the world where the snow would turn to ice.
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  Yeah, so. I mean, I, I lived in Hoff.
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  I lived in Hoff before I moved here.
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  You know, trenches. Tammy walked, you know, through
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  trenches to get to the car and stuff like that.
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  I mean, there was one time we, the snow had gotten so high.
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  My snow thrower almost couldn't go over any higher.
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  The arch of throwing the snow. I mean it was probably 5 feet
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  high on a 50 foot driveway, you know, so.
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  Yeah, Catherine's parents came to visit for the weekend for
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  Finley's birthday party. They were supposed to fly home
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  Sunday, so their flights have been cancelled.
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  I think they might be flights on Thursday, if I remember
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  correctly. So of course Catherine and
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  Findlay are totally happy because they get to see family
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  they haven't seen in, you know, a long time and only when they
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  come to visit it's only a couple days and now they have almost a
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  week, so very cool. Yes, Yeah.
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  Well, they, the world is crazy stuff going on all over the
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  place, crazy weather. You can't vacation in Mexico
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  right now where we honeymooned and then did a did a did a
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  repeat after that. God, I don't know if I'll go to
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  Mexico again. It's just so unsettled over
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  there. But hopefully everybody will
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  will come out of that. OK, You settle things down there
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  and just all kind of stuff. But the, you know, I know this
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  is a Disney podcast. We'll I'll touch on this too.
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  Just Speaking of a positive thing in the world as well is I
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  don't know if anybody's watching or listening from Canada, but
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  you, you can't beat us in hockey.
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  At least you know for another four years.
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  For four years. Women bring the women bring the
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  men, bring the cats, bring the dog team, whatever.
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  You can't beat us. Yeah, that was, that was pretty,
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  pretty exciting. Yeah, it's, it's it's nice.
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  I didn't see much of the Olympics, but did certainly.
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  You want, you want to know what I saw the most of and I
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  consciously wanted to do it was curling.
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  I got I got the family into curling.
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  Curling is so much fun. Curling is my favorite Winter
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  Olympics sport. I wanted more.
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  I love the strategy, the thinking, the competition.
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  I did some homework. You can go do a curling class
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  One O 1 in Orlando. There's a club. 30 in Orlando.
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  There you go. You would not have thought that.
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  No. And then you can, then you can
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  pay for the second class where I guess they get more into the
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  actual getting down and and really applying strategies.
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  So kind of fun, kind of fun. We were, we came home from the
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  live stream on Saturday night and we watched the women, the
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  women's curling and we're really pulling for them.
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  It's like 2:30 in the morning before we got finished with it,
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  but they came up a little short to Canada on that one.
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  But it was fun to watch. Very cool.
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  So you know we're here for Disney though, no matter what's
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  happening in anywhere in the world.
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  Yep. And Disney always sets things
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  right and good and positive. I did touch on a little bit of
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  news yesterday that was announced.
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  I feel like it was announced late, but I'm sure it was
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  earlier in the day. But we have another new Disney
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  ship, the Adventure. The Adventure.
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  Yeah, the largest Disney ship. So is massive.
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  I mean, I, I thought going on the dream was massive.
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  This thing is just it's enormous.
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  I believe it set the record for largest cruise ship to pass
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  through the Panama Canal and and with with good reason.
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  That thing is massive. It was actually A and a a ship
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  that belonged to another company.
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  That company went bankrupt and so Disney finished the project.
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  So if you ever get the chance to go on it, you'll notice it
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  doesn't look like the rest of the Disney ships for the most
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  part, but there is, you know, they've kind of retrofitted it.
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  I wonder how it will compare to some of the royal ships that
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  have become the biggest ones. Yeah, out there, because the
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  first Disney ship I ever saw in person was when we did our Royal
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  cruise couple summers ago, and that ship looked really small
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  compared to the Royal ship. I was like, wow, Disney cruise
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  ships are small. So good to see that they're
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  going bigger because bigger. Bigger might not always be
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  better, but some people like the smaller ships because it means
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  less people. But to me it just means more
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  condensed. Less people, Less people, but
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  more condensed, which equals a big ship with more people.
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  And so funny enough, you bring up cruising because we are going
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  to talk to Sierra from Cruise and Theme Park guide.
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  If you don't know her, check her out.
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  She's on YouTube. She's part of the Disney
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  Streamer network. She live streams from primarily
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  Disney World, but she did do her first trip to Disneyland
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  recently. In fact, she had last month
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  where she went to all 6 Disney parks within a very short amount
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  of time. So we are going to to chat with
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  her about her her trip to Disneyland and after she went to
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  Disneyland, she went on a cruise.
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  So we'll talk about that as well.
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  Doing it, Disney. Well, let's go.
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  That's the night. That was a nice segue.
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  All right, well, without a further ado, here is Sierra from
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  Cruise and Theme Park Guide. Hello.
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  And welcome Sierra. Welcome, thanks for having me.
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  Thank you. Thanks for joining us.
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  So it just in case some of our viewers do not know you and by
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  the way, we are on horizontal today and vertical.
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  So if you and on livingness and Park Rose.
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  So if you're watching on either of those platforms, welcome.
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  Stay right where you're at. If you're comfortable there,
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  stay there. If you want to go to horizontal,
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  absolutely go to horizontal. So we may have some new viewers
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  in tonight and of course we are also then broadcasting this on
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  to Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon, excuse me, and iTunes.
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  So you may have some people that don't know your channel.
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  For those that don't tell us a little bit about your channel.
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  What what's it about? When did you get started?
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  So I started this channel in 2023.
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  I kind of always wanted to move to Florida and start a YouTube
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  channel. It's kind of my, you know, want
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  to come down here at theme parks, oceans, cruise ships, all
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  that stuff. And I started making videos in
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  SeaWorld Orlando. And then I took a cruise like
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  right after I made my first video.
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  So I made a theme park video and I made a cruise video and I'm
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  like, I don't really know what I want to make my channel about.
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  So I'm going to do both. You know, it's kind of a
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  vacation travel kind of thing, but with the parks being so
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  close, it's just so convenient to go in there.
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  And then I was a third party cast member at Disney Springs
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  for about a year. When we moved down here.
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  I worked at the Starbucks, the huge Starbucks over at Disney
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  Springs and it really connected me to the Disney community and
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  everybody, I mean between cast members and and I just noticed
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  everybody came in really happy and it was just really fun.
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  And then, you know, I was pursuing grad school at the
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  time. I just finished my undergrads
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  third grad school and I realized that I didn't have time to edit.
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  So I started doing a little bit more live streaming because he
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  has time to edit, and that's kind of what brought me here.
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  And I know I always love technology.
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  So yeah, cruising is fun. Love going into the parks,
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  seeing both of you in the parks. It's always a good time.
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  It doesn't really matter which theme park.
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  I worked through high school at Six Flags Over Georgia, that's
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  my Home Park. I love that park.
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  It's one of the better Six Flags parks.
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  But that kind of started the theme park life for me.
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  And of course, Disney trips as a child, you know, you know, you
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  want to come back and see more magic as an adult.
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  And was was that job at Six Flags just to like, I just need
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  a job and I know that they're hiring and I'm young, so I'll go
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  work there. Or do you really want to work at
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  a theme park at that point? I had there, they called them
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  season passes because there was an open 12 months a year.
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  I had a season pass like growing up all the way from like
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  probably like 10 years old. And there was this laser tag
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  game inside of Six Flags, and I became really good at playing
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  that game. And I went to Six Flags so much
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  that I was like, yeah, I just want to work here.
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  It was just a part of like working there because I'm
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  already there. I might as well make money in
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  the theme park because I go there so much.
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  So it wasn't, it was like I have to have a job, so I might as
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  well go do something that I enjoy doing and somewhere we're
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  on a beat and spend a lot of time.
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  I like that. I like that.
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  I mean, somebody offered me a job at Disney.
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  I I would I would definitely think about it.
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  You know, not that I don't enjoy what I do for work now, but I
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  mean getting to be in the place that you love.
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  That's that's pretty amazing. That's pretty cool.
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  And so how much now Six Flags obviously is different park
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  than, you know, the Disney parks.
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  You know, it's more amusement than theme per SE.
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  So how much of A theme park enthusiast are you?
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  I mean, none of us will compare to like theme park giant and
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  there's 580 roller coasters. But like, where do you fit in
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  with with your love of of theme parks and rides?
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  I mean, I've been going to theme parks since I was like two or
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  three years old. My family brought me to theme
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  parks. I visited Disney as a child and
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  Six Flags Over Georgia actually opened four years before Magic
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  Kingdom did, and they had some similarities.
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  They have a big train going around and a few dark rides and
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  some pretty decent themes. I think they lost Six Flags,
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  lost their way over time. Of course they, we know the
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  story of them, but I'm not somebody who's traveled around
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  the world and ridden tons and tons of roller coasters.
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  But I've worked at multiple theme parks and I'm pretty,
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  pretty 1st and what a theme park supposed to be.
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  I would like to consider myself an expert, not necessarily like
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  an expert to one or the other, but I definitely know behind the
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  the scenes operations and and I know the things that I like to
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  do. And you know what, what matters
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  and what stands out. Yeah.
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  Is there something that you learned at Six Flags that they
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  do better than Disney? Well, it's been quite a few
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  years since I worked there. It's a question, right?
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  It's it's it's a good question. Yeah, I would, you know, off the
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  cuff you'd say, no, it's Disney. But you know, I just wondered if
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  maybe there was something that maybe, hey, I really like the
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  way they handled this over maybe what something Disney might do.
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  Back when I worked there, I didn't work in rides.
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  I worked more in the games aspect.
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  But I've seen I've as friends of some people and I've seen those
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  ride turnarounds be 30 seconds to 3 minutes and they were
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  trying to eat people as like as as much as they could, trying to
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  get people turned over and turned out.
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  And that was kind of how you kept the crowds happy in the
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  parks is those quick ride turnarounds because you don't
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  want those four and five hour wait times.
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  But I don't really see that anymore like I used to.
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  Maybe it's not just Disney, but you know, I've seen some huge
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  coasters where, you know, you've got some A-Team member on each
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  side checking harnesses. You got one guy at the controls
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  and you know, they, they turn those, they turn those trains
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  over really quick. Yeah, kind of like Guardians,
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  right, Because Guardians you have, you know, 22 cast members,
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  one on each side checking and coming down.
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  And I think that does help the right.
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  And plus, you know, Guardians has dual loading zone.
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  So yeah, I think had this been, had Guardians been made, you
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  know, 15 years ago, I don't know that we would have had that, you
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  know, and then they have the odds and even loading as well.
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  So they are they are doing a lot of of things officially.
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  But I know Corey always mentions how security at Universal is
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  very different, you know, than it is at Disney.
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  You know, so there, you know, there are some things I hear
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  that they're testing some stuff at Disneyland.
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  So maybe maybe we've got something new coming soon.
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  So, so Speaking of Disneyland, you went to Disneyland for the
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  first time and what made you decide to go this this year and
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  finally take that plunge? And I ask that because neither
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  Corey nor I have been to Disneyland and we keep hinting
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  it may be going soon, but just haven't haven't bit the bullet
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  yet. So the the trip from Disneyland
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  kind of sparked as I've been wanting to go there for a few
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  years. Actually, I've been wanting to
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  go there for a long time, but I've been really serious about
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  it for a couple years. And we had booked a cruise on to
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  the West Coast for January. For those that do not know, the
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  Gray whales, they migrate down to the California Gulf of
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  California and the Baja Peninsula in Mexico.
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  And that's where they breed in the winter.
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  And it's a beautiful sight. I mean, you could see the whales
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  right off the cruise ship. You don't even have to take like
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  an expedition or an excursion. But that was a trip.
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  And I was like, there's no way I'm going to go to Southern
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  California and not go to Disneyland.
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  I was like that just. Wouldn't have felt right.
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  So I mean Disneyland trip it was.
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  And how did it, how did it feel? It's Corey and I have talked
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  about about this because we talked about if we went this
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  year and we went together, we would live stream and would we
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  live stream? Would we go to the parks 1st and
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  then live stream? And I'm like, yeah, but if we go
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  and we live stream the first day, we'll capture our emotion
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  of first walking into the park. So for you, how did it feel?
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  You know, going as much of A historian about Disney as you
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  are, what did it feel like entering through the gates and
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  under the train station and seeing Main Street and and the
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  castle for the first time? It was absolutely phenomenal.
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  And people told me, Disney World, people told me I would be
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  underwhelmed because of the castle thing.
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  And really it, it's, it was the opposite.
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  I was overwhelmed like it's everything was like so much
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  detail. I mean, it's smaller, but it's,
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  it's kind of engineered that way.
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  It's supposed to be smaller and everything, every, everything
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  was just in it, in the right place, the right size.
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  I came into Main Street and the first thing I saw was Pluto
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  right there at the flagpole meeting people.
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  And yeah, I stopped and I said the words of Walt.
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  I said to all those who come to this happy place, welcome.
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  Yeah, it is everybody. Wants to go and say the words
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  that Walt did in the place he did.
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  It was right on my magic band. Well said, Well said.
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  I love that. I, I, I, you know, I told Corey
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  that, you know, I could just imagine myself walking in and
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  seeing Walt's apartment, the Firehouse, you know, yes, the
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  castle's, you know, smaller. But Walt never walked in Disney
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  World, but he walked in Disneyland.
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  His, his, his, his DNA is all over that park.
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  You know he hit the the if you watch the Disney, did you watch
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  that Disneyland handcrafted special a document?
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  I had not finished it, but I've I've been I've I've watched the
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  very beginning. It's just something to see how
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  they put that park together and you know these two days that
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  there there were no blueprints, right?
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  They would just really kind of winging it and the, for example,
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  the bricks on some of those buildings on Main Street are not
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  brick. Like they're really just, you
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  know, cement or, or some sort of fiber and they're etching the
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  brick lines into it to make it look like brick.
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  And you just see like, I would think because, you know, I'm in
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  new homes construction, I would think just putting the brick
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  would have been easier. But they didn't go that route
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  because they knew that they would, you know, you would have
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  the different coloring and stuff like that with the brick and the
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  mortar. So I for me, I think that they
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  went above and beyond with that park.
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  And while Roy did a good job in Disney World, I think that, you
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  know, that's Waltz Park. So and you got to ride some of
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  the rides that you didn't, that we don't get to ride here or
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  that we don't have any more here.
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  So tell us about the first ride that you went and did in
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  Disneyland. So glad you talked about this
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  'cause you know, it was it. It was a choice, a predetermined
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  choice that probably have been sparked for a couple years.
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  But I went straight to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.
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  I was like, I used to ride this as a kid, and it was my favorite
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  ride at Magic Kingdom. Yeah.
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  And I went straight to Mr. Toad's and I wrote it and it
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  was, you know, from what I remember of Magic Kingdoms, it
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  was a little bigger and there was two different like, like
• 23:42
  lanes for two different, like they could load two different
• 23:46
  cars at once. But still, still still the best
• 23:52
  ride, still an amazing ride. And it did it.
• 23:56
  I'm sure it was enough to bring. Even though it wasn't the the
• 23:59
  same exact ride that you had rode as a kid, I'm sure it still
• 24:03
  had enough nostalgia to bring back that that that feeling of
• 24:08
  being a kid. So much nostalgia.
• 24:11
  I love that ride. What other rides did you do over
• 24:15
  there that you're like, oh, I wish we had that well.
• 24:19
  I, I kind of was on a mission. I went and did Mr. Toads and
• 24:25
  then I went over and rode to Mark Twain because the Liberty
• 24:28
  Bell is, is was my heart and soul.
• 24:31
  I love that boat. So my number 2 was the Mark
• 24:35
  Twain and it was great. The Mark Twain is now my
• 24:40
  favorite boat now that the Liberty Bell's out of
• 24:42
  Commission. But.
• 24:43
  And then Haunted Mansion wasn't open, wasn't gonna open for two
• 24:49
  more days at that point. So I did pirates.
• 24:52
  I did pirates like 3 times because it was so good.
• 24:56
  Just kept riding Pirates because their ride capacity is kind of
• 25:00
  really good. Kind of like Magic Kingdom
• 25:02
  Pirates. You can get on and off of it
• 25:05
  pretty much anytime when it's really busy.
• 25:08
  And yeah, the Pirates is certainly on the top of my list
• 25:14
  of the rides in that park. And you know, I did you find
• 25:23
  yourself doing a lot of comparison when you're there.
• 25:28
  Like I worry that those of us that are in Disney World a lot
• 25:31
  and focus on Disney World, if we go to Disneyland, like we're
• 25:34
  always going to focus on, well, that's better over here or
• 25:36
  that's better over there. You know, did you find yourself
• 25:39
  doing a lot of that or were you able to just take in the two
• 25:42
  parks? I think I did a lot of that and
• 25:46
  I think I'm doing a lot of it now, even in the parks here.
• 25:50
  But I'm actually noticing here, I'm trying to have an open mind
• 25:56
  because obviously Disney World is bigger and much less detailed
• 26:01
  and it was built by someone else in charge.
• 26:04
  But if you really look, Disney World has a lot of detail too.
• 26:09
  It's just less noticeable because everything's bigger and
• 26:12
  more spread out. OK, alright.
• 26:16
  But yeah, I, I certainly was there.
• 26:20
  I mean, it's really not good to compare each of the Disney
• 26:25
  parks, but you will. It's just human nature, right?
• 26:30
  But it's kind of awesome that you get to ride these rides out
• 26:33
  here, and then you get to go to Disneyland and you get to ride a
• 26:36
  different version and you get to feel that same feeling you did
• 26:39
  when you were the other ride the first time.
• 26:42
  Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true.
• 26:44
  It's like riding the the the ride again for the first time.
• 26:48
  Yeah, I bet I would feel that way on Pirates and Space
• 26:52
  Mountain Tiana's, because even though Tiana's is the same, it's
• 26:56
  different because they're single, single file there.
• 27:02
  And is there space there? Space is double rider, isn't it?
• 27:08
  Space mountain is double rider and they do have a single rider
• 27:11
  line. OK, I do like our space mountain
• 27:15
  better just because I fit in the vehicle much better.
• 27:19
  Are they? Oh, so they're a little bit
• 27:21
  different. A little tight there.
• 27:23
  Yeah, well, there's. Ours is ours is no picnic to get
• 27:28
  out of like you can. Nobody gets out of a Space
• 27:31
  Mountain vehicle gracefully. Yes, Space Mountain Florida is
• 27:36
  kind of like Matterhorn as far as the vehicle.
• 27:40
  OK, it's it's a little hard to get up and out of and it's a
• 27:44
  little jerky, but still a Space Mountain or the Matterhorn.
• 27:50
  Got it, got it. And So what about park hopping
• 27:56
  there? Because there you can, you know,
• 27:59
  it's kind of like at Universal Studios here where you just kind
• 28:02
  of walk out of one and into the other.
• 28:04
  How? How did that feel?
• 28:07
  I think I wasted my money park hopping, honestly, because I got
• 28:10
  three day park hopper and I went over one day because I was just
• 28:16
  so loving Disneyland. Yeah, I was loving Disneyland so
• 28:20
  much that I didn't go over there that much.
• 28:22
  But I did go to DCA and I rode Mission Breakout.
• 28:26
  Course. I want to know it.
• 28:30
  I wanted to kind of have my own answer of the Mission Breakout
• 28:33
  Tower of Terror conversation. Yeah.
• 28:36
  And honestly, I'm team Mission Breakout because I if you Tower
• 28:41
  of Terror here and Mission Breakout have two different ride
• 28:44
  systems. The Tower of Terror here has two
• 28:48
  elevators there. There's only one.
• 28:51
  So it kind of makes sense the way the ride set up for it to be
• 28:55
  a mission Breakout kind of deal. It's it's a good ride.
• 28:58
  It was, it was fun. And then I rode cars racers.
• 29:04
  Oh, yeah. I didn't realize that that ride
• 29:06
  system was kind of like test track.
• 29:09
  Yeah, yeah. Very similar ride system.
• 29:13
  That's why I'm excited for our cars because it's going to be
• 29:16
  different. So you know, even though we're
• 29:20
  getting the cars ride, it's also supposed to be more off road.
• 29:26
  And so. So you've been on at least two
• 29:29
  versions of Test Track. Did you ride the the original
• 29:31
  version of Test Track? I never rode the original test
• 29:36
  track one point O and I did ride 2 point O and I ride 3 point O
• 29:40
  quite a bit, yeah. And what?
• 29:43
  So what do you think of the cars ride there compared to test
• 29:47
  track? I'm I'm team cars that that ride
• 29:51
  was amazing. The, the cars were a little less
• 29:54
  jerky, OK, and then the cars race at the very end.
• 29:59
  So it's super cool. Like sometimes you're in the
• 30:01
  winning car. I was in the winning car.
• 30:03
  Yeah, I do like that aspect. Is it random?
• 30:06
  So it's random. You don't know who's going to
• 30:08
  win. I'm not sure.
• 30:10
  I just know my car won. I you know, I but yeah, we were
• 30:16
  walking around and you could see tow Mater and yeah, like Queen
• 30:21
  driving around cars land. It was super.
• 30:23
  Cool, yeah, I, I, you know, there's, there's people that
• 30:28
  say, you know, why isn't, why don't we have this over here and
• 30:33
  they're so lucky, that kind of thing.
• 30:35
  But did you feel like it was good that they're somewhat of a
• 30:42
  different park over there? Absolutely, because you know,
• 30:47
  the, the true fans, the locals here are going to spend money to
• 30:51
  go to that park and you know, in the, in the West Coast, the
• 30:58
  people I met and know, they come here for Epcot.
• 31:04
  So of the, so you think of the of the parks that we have here,
• 31:09
  it's Epcot that draws them, the folks that are on the West
• 31:12
  Coast. 100% it's it's Epcot because they've got just about
• 31:17
  everything else. They don't have Epcot.
• 31:19
  You know, DCA at the very beginning of the park.
• 31:24
  Connor gives off Hollywood Studios vibes because it it is
• 31:28
  kind of California themed, kind of like Hollywood Studios.
• 31:34
  They don't, they don't have Epcot and I don't think they
• 31:37
  have anything super close. Yeah.
• 31:40
  I mean, they do have their food festivals there, but that's
• 31:42
  that's it. Yeah, so they so.
• 31:46
  Epcot is definitely one-of-a-kind.
• 31:47
  Epcot is one-of-a-kind of the world, right?
• 31:49
  I don't even know if there's anything that even comes close
• 31:51
  that we're just unaware of in some other country.
• 31:54
  You know, I just, I feel like it's one-of-a-kind.
• 31:57
  Walt Disney said that Epcot was going to be the center of
• 32:00
  everything happening in Florida, and to me, that kind of makes
• 32:04
  Spaceship Earth the centerpiece of Walt Disney World.
• 32:08
  Not, not, not Cinderella Castle. Breaking news hot take.
• 32:14
  Strong opinions. Here, I like that I like that.
• 32:18
  Well, listen, Epcot is my favorite park, so I, I can, I
• 32:22
  can go along with that. And I, you know, I, I've watched
• 32:25
  a lot of the, the history of Epcot and what it was really
• 32:29
  supposed to be even before what Walt announced with, you know,
• 32:37
  where the people were going to live there, but they weren't
• 32:39
  going to own there. They were really just leasing
• 32:41
  it. And if he felt it was time to
• 32:46
  upgrade their appliances, he was going to upgrade their
• 32:51
  appliances and they really wouldn't have had any say on it.
• 32:55
  And apparently there was a point where people, it was going to be
• 32:59
  kind of like Carousel of Progress or Horizons where
• 33:03
  people come through and see your house in your apartment and
• 33:07
  stuff like that. So I don't think that would have
• 33:10
  really flown over pretty well with, with folks.
• 33:15
  And I think that's why, why it didn't happen.
• 33:16
  But I'm still very happy with what we got of, of Epcot.
• 33:22
  What, where, where are you with the four parks?
• 33:25
  How, how do you rank them? How How do the four parks rank
• 33:29
  for you? What You're talking about Walt
• 33:32
  Disney World? Disney World, Yeah.
• 33:34
  Yeah, I mean, Epcot's certainly number one, and this may be a
• 33:38
  controversial #2 but Animal Kingdom is my #2 Magic is number
• 33:44
  3. And then Hollywood Studios is #4
• 33:48
  and, and it kind of entwines in my own story, though, because
• 33:52
  when I did the cast member thing, Walt Disney World, it was
• 34:01
  the pandemic. And sometimes things got slow
• 34:03
  and, you know, we got sent home because labor cost.
• 34:09
  And that's what I did. We're blocked out of Magic
• 34:12
  Kingdom. We're blocked out of Studios.
• 34:14
  So I spent a lot of time at Epcot and I spent a lot of time
• 34:17
  at Animal Kingdom. I was so blessed to have been
• 34:20
  able to spend so much time at Animal Kingdom.
• 34:24
  And that park has just as much detail as the West Coast parks.
• 34:32
  Yeah, Joe, Joe, Joe Roddy's all over that park.
• 34:35
  We saw, I saw a report that he was in Animal Kingdom today, so
• 34:42
  supposedly training some of the Imagineers that are doing
• 34:45
  Tropical America. So I think, I think his
• 34:50
  fingerprints are going to be on Tropical America's as well.
• 34:54
  Because I'm sorry if Joe Roddy says something, I think you're
• 34:57
  going to listen. Yeah, Disney needs to keep him
• 35:01
  on as a retainer. I don't care what it costs.
• 35:04
  You know, they're paying him a pretty penny to to show up and
• 35:07
  give his opinion, I'm sure. Yeah, So what's your favorite
• 35:11
  part of of Animal Kingdom, 'cause you're right, I think
• 35:14
  that is a little controversial #2 most people would have it at
• 35:18
  4. It's a four for me, but it's not
• 35:22
  a distant fourth, you know, it's just, hey, you got to,
• 35:26
  somebody's got to be 4th, right? So what?
• 35:29
  So, so tell us a little a little bit about your love for animal
• 35:33
  Kingdom and why it ends up #2. Well, it's definitely not a
• 35:36
  distance for it took me about four years to even say that I
• 35:39
  had a favorite park 'cause I was like, I like them all evenly.
• 35:43
  And it depends on what mood I'm in that day or what I want to go
• 35:47
  see. But I mean, I just spent a lot
• 35:50
  of time. Animal Kingdom had moved here
• 35:53
  from another state and I just kind of grew love for the place
• 35:56
  because I spent so much time there.
• 36:00
  Festival The Lion King is the absolute best show.
• 36:02
  Walt Disney World, and I'm not the only one who says that.
• 36:05
  I've heard a lot of people say that.
• 36:11
  I don't know. I just I just like being there.
• 36:14
  It and is it go and have like a leisure walk around park day
• 36:20
  instead of a we got to do this ride.
• 36:22
  We got to do that. We got to do that.
• 36:24
  Yeah, as locals. We do at the parks a little
• 36:26
  differently. Yeah, and I think Animal Kingdom
• 36:29
  too. You take these little off beat
• 36:32
  paths and you see all the animals.
• 36:34
  You know, a lot of people, obviously you have, you know,
• 36:37
  Gorilla falls there, but you know, there's so many spots.
• 36:41
  People don't even know that there's Kangaroos in Animal
• 36:44
  Kingdom. And if when you first walk in
• 36:48
  and you're going to Discovery Island, you can go left, you can
• 36:50
  go right. Sometimes we'll go right both
• 36:54
  ways, so we'll go right coming in and then the other to the
• 36:57
  left side as you're coming out, which is your right so that you
• 37:01
  do get to catch both. But you know, there's so much
• 37:05
  there. I just, I, I think you're right.
• 37:07
  I think if people really slowed down and took their time, they
• 37:10
  would not think it was 1/2 day park.
• 37:12
  A lot of people think it's 1/2 day park.
• 37:15
  I, I don't, I think you can get a full day out of out of Animal
• 37:19
  Kingdom. So Speaking of animal Kingdom,
• 37:22
  what do you think of tropical Americas and everything that's
• 37:25
  I'm? Really, really, really excited.
• 37:27
  I think Miss Dinoland was misunderstoodable, that I don't
• 37:31
  think it was as bad as people thought.
• 37:33
  If Disney would have probably just reimagined a few things and
• 37:38
  kept making it happen, it would have it.
• 37:42
  I just don't think they did it justice.
• 37:45
  So if they're not going to do it justice, it's time to move on.
• 37:48
  So. Yeah, I mean, they'll have a hit
• 37:52
  in Tropical Americas, but I definitely see what you're what
• 37:55
  you're saying. I mean, we had gone to the
• 37:59
  Carnival side of Dinoland once. Finley never, even though we
• 38:04
  went a bunch of times, Finley never played in the Boneyard,
• 38:09
  you know, because there was always something else to do.
• 38:11
  So that won't be the case when Tropical Americas opens.
• 38:15
  I'm sure we will spend a lot of time there.
• 38:17
  Did you ever ride Primeval World?
• 38:20
  Nope, I never wrote it. I saw it closed down when I
• 38:25
  first moved here and it closed down and never reopened with a
• 38:28
  pandemic. And that ride was just
• 38:30
  interesting looking. I never wrote it, but I would
• 38:36
  think that ride has struck a lot of interest in future
• 38:39
  technologies. But it I don't think it was the
• 38:42
  best of rides. It, you know, I think it, it had
• 38:48
  its ups and downs, no pun intended.
• 38:51
  One thing was it was like a free coaster in terms of its spawn
• 38:59
  and you didn't know how many times, how many spins you were
• 39:01
  going to get. And sometimes it was a really
• 39:04
  bad ride for me with the amount of spins and sometimes not so
• 39:08
  bad, but it is. It gives me the chill saying it,
• 39:12
  but it is a ride or was a ride that or still is is near and
• 39:17
  dear to our heart here at Living in Dizz.
• 39:19
  It was our close out ride every time we went to Animal Kingdom
• 39:24
  on a Saturday night. And you have to probably rewind
• 39:27
  to back when we were just a vlogging channel and not live
• 39:30
  because I don't think we ever got to live stream that ride.
• 39:34
  But it was kind of like that. It opened up at the end of the
• 39:38
  night where not a lot of people sometimes had interest in it.
• 39:42
  So it became a game for Jill and Jacob and I like, all right,
• 39:46
  it's whatever, it's 815. Let's see how many times in a
• 39:49
  row we can ride, ride it. So we did it and sometimes it
• 39:56
  was, I don't even know, once, twice, three times, I don't know
• 39:58
  if we ever got 4, but it was, it was a, it was a fun ride for us
• 40:02
  to do. It was our close out ride.
• 40:04
  So we were sad to see that go. I think it became a danger
• 40:07
  actually. I think it became dangerous.
• 40:09
  I think there was some unsafe things to do with with it.
• 40:13
  And so they finally shut that down.
• 40:15
  Going back to Dinoland though, you know.
• 40:20
  The I think they probably just like some other projects, right?
• 40:23
  I think that they may have had other plans for it to make it
• 40:26
  better than it was, but the the Imagineers were only giving
• 40:30
  given a certain budget. So I always say you have to
• 40:33
  applaud the Imagineers for doing with doing what they did.
• 40:38
  I think they did a great job with what they had to work with.
• 40:41
  But if you would have opened the pocketbook for them, I think we
• 40:44
  would have seen a very different dinoland And our kids did get to
• 40:48
  play in the boneyard and the and the bone or the boneyard is
• 40:53
  considered yeah, yeah, yeah. The boneyard was the the, the
• 40:56
  stuff you could climb and all that, right.
• 40:58
  And then across the way you could dig, dig Dino bones.
• 41:00
  So yeah, they got to do all that.
• 41:04
  So you were, you were a third party cast member.
• 41:07
  So you had, as you, you were mentioning you had the, the kind
• 41:12
  of blackout passes where you could go and spend more time at,
• 41:15
  at Animal and Hollywood. When did you become an annual
• 41:20
  pass holder? I actually bought a Pixie Pass
• 41:26
  when I was still a cast member because we were blocked out so
• 41:29
  much. So it's like, you know, I'll
• 41:31
  just go to the other parks whenever I can't go to this.
• 41:36
  So I bought it towards the end of when I left.
• 41:39
  I had finished my undergrad and got the job with the company I
• 41:43
  am net with now. So it wasn't a a huge amount of
• 41:47
  time. But yeah, I had an annual pass
• 41:51
  and a green ID there at the end because I just got tired of
• 41:55
  being blocked out so much. Yeah, a lot of people I know had
• 42:00
  done that as well. Yeah, I think, I think that's
• 42:04
  pretty common that, you know, because the Pixie pass obviously
• 42:08
  isn't as much as the pass that Corey has or certainly the one
• 42:11
  that I have. And so cast members are like,
• 42:14
  yeah, that I can use that to to supplement that.
• 42:19
  And so so your favorite park is Epcot.
• 42:25
  What about for streaming? Does it change is do you have a
• 42:30
  favorite part to stream at differently in Europe?
• 42:32
  My favorite part to stream in and it it's the layout, it's the
• 42:37
  rides, it's the vibe. There's a lot to do when the
• 42:44
  crowds get crazy. You've got the fireworks show, I
• 42:49
  mean, and not once, well, there's only, you know, of
• 42:55
  course, Space Mountain and Tron, but not once I've ever told to
• 42:59
  put my phone away or put my gimbal away on the ride.
• 43:03
  So it's it's pretty easy to get all your content or all your
• 43:07
  streaming down in Magic Kingdom. Nobody tends to bother you about
• 43:13
  streaming. You just you just do it.
• 43:17
  And you know, the other parks are might, you know, I've had on
• 43:21
  Smugglers run one time and I think Corey had a situation as
• 43:27
  well. Let's open up that can.
• 43:31
  Let's open up that can right now.
• 43:34
  And I'm thinking that that was more dangerous than just holding
• 43:38
  the phone on the gimbal. Yeah, we've, we've talked about
• 43:43
  that last night on on the DSN Zoom call, how there's some
• 43:47
  rides where it's like they they tell you to, to, to do they had
• 43:53
  fat had it on guardians. They told him to take it off the
• 43:56
  gimbal. And I'm like, you just want me
• 43:58
  holding my phone like this now rather than my gimbal that I
• 44:02
  haven't. Made.
• 44:03
  That's the rule for. That's the rule for flight of
• 44:05
  passage as well. They would rather you hold that
• 44:08
  in your hand, which is super, super more dangerous.
• 44:11
  How about that? And, and the same thing for
• 44:13
  Tower of Terror. I've been told it's got to come
• 44:15
  off the gimbal. I'm like, but it's so much safer
• 44:18
  holding it with a gimbal. Oh, you know, doesn't make
• 44:21
  sense. And I have an action for now I
• 44:24
  just switch scenes basically and run the action for.
• 44:28
  I did Space Mountain at Disneyland.
• 44:31
  I did Space Mountain here as well.
• 44:34
  And and so, yeah, you mentioned smugglers run.
• 44:37
  Corey's had that too. What what other ones are?
• 44:39
  You had me thinking, I'm like, yeah, I guess that's never.
• 44:42
  Yeah, I was thinking too Magic Kingdom.
• 44:44
  I don't know if I've ever been told either anything over there.
• 44:48
  Yeah, but you know, to circle back, what were you thinking
• 44:53
  when you were producing the show 2 weeks ago?
• 44:55
  When we're on Smugglers Run, this is the second time it's
• 44:58
  happened to us and we get told to put that selfie stick away.
• 45:02
  OK, we're in the middle of a ride.
• 45:04
  I'm strapped in. Before we started you, you told
• 45:07
  me that I can't get up and I can't maneuver.
• 45:10
  I can't do anything and put my bag on the floor.
• 45:13
  I am strapped in. I can't get to my bag.
• 45:17
  I it's a full set up. I can't just put it in a bag.
• 45:21
  And for the first time ever, she said it twice and she wasn't as
• 45:24
  nice the second time. I literally stuck it between my
• 45:28
  legs. I'm like, fine, I'll just hold
• 45:31
  it right here. So for a little bit, you guys
• 45:33
  didn't see anything? Yeah.
• 45:35
  And I'm like, fine, whatever. And then she still yelled at me
• 45:37
  to put it away when I had it down out of sight, sitting on my
• 45:40
  lap. Yeah, I, I can tell you in
• 45:44
  producing I would, I had brought up the the audio in Obi Sierra
• 45:50
  know what I'm talking about the audio in OBS getting ready to
• 45:55
  mute your your feed because I, you know, I, I can only imagine,
• 46:01
  I know how frustrated I was getting.
• 46:03
  So I could only imagine how frustrated you know you were
• 46:06
  getting. But and they can't hear you.
• 46:09
  Don't you think it should be a two way?
• 46:11
  Like they cannot hear you in there and I you.
• 46:14
  Know 'cause the last time I streamed Smugglers Run I saw
• 46:19
  someone who kind of looked like a supervisor.
• 46:21
  He looked like he knew he was doing and I went and asked him
• 46:24
  and I got his name on his name tag just in case I had any
• 46:27
  issues. Yeah.
• 46:30
  My plan was like so and so at the front and said it was said
• 46:36
  it was fine. I've already cleared it with
• 46:37
  him. Yeah.
• 46:39
  It it, it's a good idea, right? And as of an as a network, we
• 46:42
  always want to be, you know, as courteous and kind as we can.
• 46:45
  Even though we know what the rules are.
• 46:49
  Sometimes it's always the newer cast members that are, you know,
• 46:52
  they may, it's not like they don't know the rules, but they
• 46:55
  may just be enforcing to a, to a degree where other cast members
• 47:00
  who were seasoned are good to go with it or just recognize
• 47:03
  gimbals compared to to selfie sticks.
• 47:06
  And this time the happy ending was when we got off the
• 47:09
  attraction right away. They were right there.
• 47:12
  Like we got you where you can go right back on.
• 47:15
  We're going to give you a, a, a lightning lane to go right back
• 47:18
  on. Like I didn't even have to
• 47:21
  discuss it with anybody. So apparently something happened
• 47:24
  within the control room where they were like, hey, hey, hey,
• 47:27
  that is not that is not a a selfie stick.
• 47:30
  He should be good to go. And I apologize to everyone in
• 47:33
  there in the ride. I'm like, I'm so sorry.
• 47:35
  We've been through this before. I said we'll just make sure we
• 47:39
  ask that you guys can go again. Even if we don't get to go
• 47:41
  again, I want to make sure you guys get to go again.
• 47:44
  And they were fine with it, too. So yeah, it happens to us.
• 47:48
  I usually just, whatever the cast member says, I just set
• 47:52
  that and just move on and keep going on.
• 47:55
  You know there's no need to. No, I would never argue.
• 47:59
  No, no, I just asked for a manager, you know, can I speak
• 48:03
  to a manager? And most of the time they'll
• 48:05
  just say you're good, you know, or they'll go get somebody quick
• 48:08
  and they'll say, yeah, you're good.
• 48:10
  So, and we're lucky. We're always lucky.
• 48:12
  Disney allows us to do what we get, what we do.
• 48:14
  Very grateful for that. Well, since we're talking about
• 48:19
  odd moments while streaming, we might as well talk about one
• 48:22
  that the three of us were involved in during the first
• 48:26
  weekend. The first weekend of Starlight.
• 48:29
  If any of you don't know, go back and either watch Corey's or
• 48:33
  Sierra's. You'll get different
• 48:35
  perspectives there. So we were streaming Starlight,
• 48:42
  and then we went and walked up Main Street to see Happily Ever
• 48:47
  After. We were maybe about halfway
• 48:51
  right. We weren't we, We weren't in the
• 48:53
  beginning. We.
• 48:53
  Were we were like halfway back one of my favorite spots and we
• 48:58
  encountered thousands of clones, but go ahead.
• 49:01
  It's so, so Sierra comes out one, I think before she got
• 49:05
  there, Corey and I were were chatting, waiting for happily
• 49:09
  ever after. And all of a sudden it starts
• 49:10
  getting loud. And I look behind me and there's
• 49:13
  a sea of teal blue shirts, you know, from one of the groups,
• 49:21
  the international groups, just a bunch of young ladies behind us.
• 49:26
  And I'm like, oh, OK. And then all of a sudden we were
• 49:29
  being like. We are being swallowed up by
• 49:32
  them. Yeah, it was like a like a bad,
• 49:36
  a bad night of Call of Duty, and they just kind of overtook us.
• 49:42
  And so then we walked up and then I think that's about when
• 49:45
  Sierra joined. And, you know, we're, we're
• 49:48
  just, they've got their gimbals. I'm not holding anything.
• 49:51
  I got my bag. And all of a sudden again, they
• 49:55
  just move up. I mean, we move 50 feet away
• 49:58
  from them and they just moved up again.
• 50:00
  And then at one point, Sierra's on my right, Corey's on my left,
• 50:05
  and I'm maybe 2 feet, if that, but you know, away from both of
• 50:11
  them. And the girls are trying to come
• 50:14
  in between the two of us. Finally, I just put my arms up
• 50:19
  and I'm like, no, no, you got to go around.
• 50:23
  That was the craziest weekend that I've ever experienced in
• 50:29
  the parks. I just, I think it kind of ties
• 50:33
  the three of us together forever.
• 50:36
  Guests were unhinged. You know, if I would have told
• 50:39
  you that the day before, Lawrence, tomorrow night, you
• 50:41
  were going to be surrounded by thousands of Brazilian women,
• 50:44
  you'd be like, all right now. No, no.
• 50:48
  This is the wrong. Version No, not like that at
• 50:51
  all. It was it was it was crazy.
• 50:54
  And how much? And then some of the girls
• 50:56
  started to pose. So I'm like, OK, this is free
• 50:59
  for all. There's no supervision.
• 51:01
  I'm usually really careful with youngsters if they want to be on
• 51:04
  camera. But I just point, I, I let them
• 51:06
  have a second of screen time right there.
• 51:08
  And then that's when one of the the leaders who didn't speak
• 51:12
  English wanted to say something to us instead.
• 51:15
  We'll let them run wild all over you.
• 51:17
  But yeah, no problem with that camera at them.
• 51:19
  I'm like, excuse me? And so that was the same
• 51:22
  weekend. That was Starlight, right?
• 51:23
  That was Starlight. That was, yeah.
• 51:26
  Did you hear a little bit? Did you get a flashback on
• 51:28
  Saturdays when we were at Universal for Mardi Gras pre
• 51:31
  parade? No, because Tammy was sitting
• 51:37
  and Jacob was sitting and then they put our backpacks to the
• 51:42
  right of Jacob and there was a trash can.
• 51:45
  It was to save my spot because I didn't want our audience.
• 51:48
  I don't want to go live and have our audience hang for an hour
• 51:50
  and 45 or whatever. So our our plan was let me tour
• 51:55
  the park, let I know that there is stilt walkers walking around.
• 51:58
  There's some interaction I can do with some of the Mardi Gras
• 52:01
  players and we can grab some food and then I'll circle back
• 52:05
  and it'll be, you know, the parade will start in no time.
• 52:07
  Got back with about 15 minutes to spare.
• 52:09
  And I'm sitting there and all of a sudden a dude with like a
• 52:13
  stroller, I swear as a double stroller is trying to stick it
• 52:16
  between Tammy and another guest. Excuse me, excuse me.
• 52:20
  Can I just get up here? Can I just get up here?
• 52:22
  And, and Tammy is like, excuse me, you know, there's not really
• 52:26
  any room over here. And then he had somewhere, he
• 52:28
  said something to her. He's don't say stuff to my wife.
• 52:33
  And and so I just observed and he said something to her.
• 52:35
  And I said, you know what? There is a ramp right over
• 52:37
  there. He goes where?
• 52:39
  The ramp is. Flashbacks, Flashbacks.
• 52:44
  Have you, have you experienced anything like that in, in the
• 52:48
  time you've been streaming Me, Yeah.
• 52:53
  Yeah, OK. I thought you guys were still
• 52:55
  talking. I experience it all the time.
• 52:59
  I feel like this holiday season and there's been sometimes
• 53:02
  you've got the people who pro Disney tip it, don't think
• 53:08
  you're going to get like an amazing spot 5 minutes before a
• 53:11
  parade. It's just not happening.
• 53:14
  People are already set up and established.
• 53:16
  So if you and then I just see a bunch of people stepping up on
• 53:21
  and trying to push you out of the way and they think they have
• 53:24
  a good spot, but that spots already occupied and that's
• 53:30
  streaming or not. Like regardless, it's just like
• 53:34
  you got to give her. I mean, you don't have to give
• 53:37
  everybody 5 feet all around, but you know, give everybody a
• 53:41
  little bit of space and give them a little bit of courtesy to
• 53:44
  see, you know, we're all in one space.
• 53:47
  We've got to, we got to share it.
• 53:48
  And it's just those people who step right up on the curb
• 53:54
  thinking that they got a good spot 5 minutes before that.
• 53:58
  It just doesn't work like that. Not in Disney World, no.
• 54:02
  Disney World America could never institute the behavior that the
• 54:10
  beautiful behavior they have at Disney Tokyo Disneyland.
• 54:13
  Because if anybody doesn't know, for parades there, you can show
• 54:18
  up any time of the day and you can put your blanket, your
• 54:21
  little mat in the spot you want to watch that parade.
• 54:24
  And you can come back at night and it's still there.
• 54:28
  And everyone respects it and will not take your spot.
• 54:32
  That would never happen here. Isn't it crazy?
• 54:34
  It's all about culture. Yeah, But how crazy is that that
• 54:38
  you can do that? It's nuts.
• 54:40
  I want somebody to go try that in Magic Kingdom, see if see if
• 54:43
  your blank. Never mind your spot, your
• 54:44
  blanket's going to be gone. Excuse me Sir, I put my mat
• 54:48
  there at 9:00 AM today. That does remind.
• 54:52
  Me, you can put your blanket down and people will start
• 54:55
  sitting and standing on your blanket.
• 54:56
  Yeah, yeah, I have seen it. I have seen it.
• 55:00
  That does remind me of the chair hogging on cruises.
• 55:02
  It's it's kind of frowned upon on a cruise.
• 55:05
  You put your blanket over there on on a chair.
• 55:09
  And walk away for hours. Walk away for hours.
• 55:12
  They're supposed to come around and pick them up.
• 55:14
  If you're not, if it they don't see anybody come over after a
• 55:17
  little bit. I don't know how much they
• 55:18
  follow up on that. So you have not done a Disney
• 55:23
  cruise, right? Sierra.
• 55:26
  I have never been on a Disney cruise.
• 55:28
  I'm, you know, I, I'm a huge entertainment person.
• 55:32
  One of the things I love about creating content is covering
• 55:36
  entertainment. And I know Disney's like #1 I do
• 55:41
  get do a lot of Royal Caribbean, but not I've been on the Disney
• 55:47
  Cruise and like, I'm not a big casino person either.
• 55:49
  So Disney Cruise Lines probably down my alley.
• 55:54
  So do you. Think that you have not quite
• 55:58
  yet done a Disney Cruise, but you've done plenty of others or
• 56:02
  especially Royal because you feel like you get enough fill of
• 56:07
  characters and Disney experiences on a daily basis.
• 56:12
  Because if I speak for our channel over here, that's a
• 56:15
  little bit of, we feel, you know, love seeing the
• 56:17
  characters. We can see the characters
• 56:21
  anytime. So it's not a selling point for
• 56:24
  us to to go on a Disney cruise for characters because it's we
• 56:27
  kind of live that. So how do you feel about all
• 56:30
  that? You know, I probably will do a
• 56:34
  Disney cruise at some point coming up, but it's mostly price
• 56:38
  for me. I can do 2-3 cruises for what a
• 56:42
  Disney cruise cost. Yeah.
• 56:45
  I'm always getting the cheap budget stuff.
• 56:47
  I don't mind. I don't mind an interior room on
• 56:52
  a on Carnival or MSC which it's only a few $100 a cruise.
• 56:58
  Wow, that's a good deal. Yeah.
• 57:01
  And then with with Disney, you're gonna pay like 1000 to
• 57:04
  1500 for the short cruises. Yeah, each.
• 57:07
  Yeah, yeah. There's a big difference in
• 57:09
  price and we just feel like for the fix we get at Disney, we're
• 57:13
  OK doing more cruises on other cruise lines because we get our
• 57:19
  Disney fix on a weekly basis. So it's kind of a nice little
• 57:23
  advantage for us. I feel like too Tammy from
• 57:26
  Living in Diz, she sounds familiar.
• 57:28
  She may be a new listener, but she says on Saturday a guy asked
• 57:32
  whose bags were on the ground. I think he was about to move
• 57:36
  them, which was my bag. So, so on your cruises, Sierra,
• 57:42
  do you prefer shorter cruises, longer cruises?
• 57:46
  What? What's your average night that
• 57:49
  you go on a cruise? You know, I kind of feel like at
• 57:53
  least five days. Sometimes seven days can feel a
• 57:56
  little long, but I think 5 days, five to seven days is the sweet
• 58:01
  spot. Those three and four day cruises
• 58:03
  like just getting started and. Then it's over.
• 58:08
  Yeah. Do you have a a preference on
• 58:13
  where the cruise goes? Not really.
• 58:17
  I've learned well. I'm not a huge fan of someone
• 58:21
  who fly has to fly to go to your cruise.
• 58:24
  But when I went to Disneyland, it's a different story because I
• 58:28
  flew to Disneyland and I was there for four days before I
• 58:31
  even made it to the cruise ship. OK.
• 58:36
  So it wasn't like I flew in and it was more like flying out.
• 58:39
  Yeah. Do someone coming from Orlando
• 58:43
  like us to go to Disneyland? Do you have any money saving
• 58:48
  tips to do that? So they have good neighbor
• 58:51
  hotels and packages. So where you can stay at like
• 58:57
  the Sonesta or somewhere like that, it's pretty.
• 59:01
  The the room is, you know, it's, it's not luxury, but it's clean
• 59:06
  and it's, it's, you're not there that much anyway.
• 59:11
  Exactly that's. What I would do is do a do a
• 59:13
  lower price like good neighbor Hotel.
• 59:17
  I mean, you're going to get like basically All Star kind of.
• 59:22
  Benefits there. Yeah, I mean, it was the hotel
• 59:27
  was super clean. The the customer service was
• 59:30
  really nice. The price was good.
• 59:33
  But you know, I did open to close three days in a row at
• 59:37
  Disneyland. I was that was just my place to
• 59:40
  sleep. Right.
• 59:42
  Gotcha, gotcha. You're just laying in your head
• 59:44
  there and. Especially there.
• 59:47
  You probably need to go on on to a good neighbor hotel and save
• 59:52
  save some money if you're not going to be there a lot so.
• 59:55
  Especially because Pixar, Disneyland Hotel and.
• 1:00:00
  Grand Californian. That's that's a chunk.
• 1:00:02
  That's a that's a little bit more than the Disney Cruise
• 1:00:05
  there. Yeah, it is.
• 1:00:08
  Is there a certain airline that you would recommend to people
• 1:00:12
  flying out of Florida? So if you fly into, I think it's
• 1:00:17
  John Wayne through Southwest Airlines, they will bring your
• 1:00:22
  bags to the like to Disney for you.
• 1:00:25
  I don't know all the details. I flew to LAX because I have a
• 1:00:30
  friend who lives, works close by.
• 1:00:33
  I flew to LAX. He just grabbed me and we went
• 1:00:37
  and hung out at Downtown Disney that evening.
• 1:00:42
  It's my first time seeing the Disneyland Hotel.
• 1:00:44
  That was like, you know, that's that's the the original resort.
• 1:00:50
  That's the original hotel. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:56
  And are those those three hotels as as we know them here value
• 1:01:01
  moderate deluxe, the three hotels over there, are they all
• 1:01:05
  deluxe feeling or yeah. I mean, if you look at the
• 1:01:11
  prices, you can definitely tell their deluxe prices, but they're
• 1:01:16
  right there in town. Disney, it's like you're already
• 1:01:20
  at Disney. Like you don't need a shuttle or
• 1:01:23
  a bus to get there. Yeah, I mean, there's a tram
• 1:01:26
  that takes you from Pixar Place, but.
• 1:01:30
  Other than that, it's right there.
• 1:01:32
  What was your travel like to and from the park?
• 1:01:34
  Did you walk or what'd you do? So there's this thing called
• 1:01:38
  Anaheim Regional Transportation, and they're getting rid of it.
• 1:01:42
  I think it's going away in April or something like that, but it's
• 1:01:45
  like. Is Bob Capek involved over
• 1:01:47
  there? I paid like 10 or 15 bucks and I
• 1:01:52
  got to ride that bus for the whole week.
• 1:01:55
  Oh. And it's about a $10 Uber or you
• 1:02:00
  can stay close. I mean, there's good neighbor
• 1:02:02
  hotels right across the street. They're going to be a little bit
• 1:02:04
  more pricey, but obviously the convenience is worth it.
• 1:02:07
  It's worth it. Interesting.
• 1:02:11
  So our our viewers have some some questions.
• 1:02:15
  So I'm going to throw those up for you.
• 1:02:18
  You answered Rod's question already.
• 1:02:19
  He he asked what was your favorite park?
• 1:02:21
  That was Epcot. But your favorite park to stream
• 1:02:25
  is Magic. Absolutely.
• 1:02:28
  All right, All Aboard with Blake asks what's going to be your
• 1:02:33
  first ride? And I think he was really asking
• 1:02:35
  us when we talked about Disneyland because she said her
• 1:02:38
  first ride was Mr. Toad. I don't know.
• 1:02:42
  Wow, that's a question I've ever been asked.
• 1:02:44
  Yeah, well, let's let's assume that everything's availability
• 1:02:48
  is on a 5 minute wait. So that's out of the that's
• 1:02:51
  that's on the table. Let me tell you this while we
• 1:02:56
  think about answering this question.
• 1:02:57
  I was watching a vlog from Disneyland yesterday and I
• 1:03:01
  looked at Tammy and I go I didn't even realize that they
• 1:03:04
  had Buzz Lightyear and I watched enough Disneyland.
• 1:03:08
  I didn't know that they had Buzz Lightyear.
• 1:03:11
  They do. Our little should be better.
• 1:03:13
  It's a little different, right, Sierra?
• 1:03:16
  Yeah, I think it's going to be more like what we're getting.
• 1:03:18
  And I went on it multiple times and you know, ours.
• 1:03:22
  I can just get Galactic Hero super easy there.
• 1:03:24
  I got 500,000. That was my highest score.
• 1:03:28
  I got 500,000 in two years. Count it all up.
• 1:03:34
  But yeah, their Buzz Lightyear, it's it's kind of cool.
• 1:03:39
  I mean, it's, I think I like ours a little better, but it's
• 1:03:45
  not called Space Ranger Spin. I forget what it's called, but
• 1:03:49
  it's right there at the entrance of Tomorrowland.
• 1:03:54
  Oh, let me ask you about that. How's it feel having Star Tours
• 1:03:57
  in Tomorrowland did that? Because to me, looking at it on
• 1:04:01
  on on live streams, I it feels weird to me to have Star Tours
• 1:04:05
  in Tomorrowland. Does it OK?
• 1:04:08
  But it fits like it it it fits right into Tomorrowland.
• 1:04:11
  It looks good there. OK, All right, it.
• 1:04:14
  Does it does? I think it fits a lot better
• 1:04:17
  than Hollywood studios where it's at there.
• 1:04:20
  Yeah, I will agree 100% with that.
• 1:04:23
  It's. It's definitely out of place.
• 1:04:25
  Right. Yeah, but now it feels.
• 1:04:26
  It's always been out of place. It's always been out of place.
• 1:04:29
  Well, we say that now, right? It wasn't out of place until
• 1:04:32
  Galaxy's Edge showed up. Yeah, yeah, really.
• 1:04:36
  And what about where their galaxy's edge is?
• 1:04:38
  Did did that feel odd to have it?
• 1:04:41
  Now that feels odd 'cause you're, you're riding the Mark
• 1:04:44
  Twain or you're riding the train and you can see the Blue
• 1:04:49
  Mountains behind the Red Mountains kind of.
• 1:04:52
  And that's, and, and that just doesn't feel right to me.
• 1:04:57
  It, it looked out of place. It's outside the berm.
• 1:05:02
  And I went over there for a minute, but I was like, we have
• 1:05:05
  this Hollywood studios and rise of the distance was down.
• 1:05:09
  And I was like, this is not quite what I'm here for, right?
• 1:05:12
  Right. Yeah, that's funny.
• 1:05:16
  I want to welcome Palm Bay Jags Fan 1265 to the LIDVIP Club at
• 1:05:26
  the median level. Thank you so much for for
• 1:05:30
  becoming part of the family. We appreciate that.
• 1:05:35
  Now if Ryze was running, would you have gone on it?
• 1:05:40
  No, because. Everything I know it's it's it's
• 1:05:43
  a cutting image of what we have. Yeah.
• 1:05:46
  And I know that there there's a lot more fan culture of Star
• 1:05:50
  Wars in Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland.
• 1:05:53
  And but I wasn't really there for that.
• 1:05:56
  I was like, I'm there for the haunted mansions and the and
• 1:06:00
  the, you know, space mountains and the matterhorns, like the
• 1:06:04
  classics or something we don't have right.
• 1:06:09
  I would do you know if I would answer that question too, like I
• 1:06:13
  would only do rides like Ryze if I had time, you know what I
• 1:06:18
  mean? Because we have it and it's
• 1:06:20
  pretty much the same. So I we would have to feel like,
• 1:06:23
  all right, we've been here for two days.
• 1:06:24
  We've kind of done everything once or twice to walk on
• 1:06:28
  whatever, let's go do it just to say we did it kind of thing.
• 1:06:31
  So back to that question, I really like Sierra's answer of
• 1:06:35
  going to Mr. Toad because I never had the chance to ride Mr.
• 1:06:39
  Toad. Yeah, I do like that one.
• 1:06:43
  But Speaking of that, like, and Walt said it himself,
• 1:06:45
  Fantasyland's his was his favorite part of Disneyland.
• 1:06:50
  Like they're the Fantasyland out in Disneyland is incredible.
• 1:06:52
  There's all these little small dark rides and they're pretty
• 1:06:56
  similar to each other. But you know, and then KC
• 1:07:00
  Junior, the little trains over there and like the Alice in
• 1:07:05
  Wonderland is on top of Mr. Toads kind of in the back on the
• 1:07:08
  top. And then there's a Snow White
• 1:07:12
  ride and then there's a Pinocchio ride that are very
• 1:07:15
  similar. And it's just like all these
• 1:07:17
  cool little awesome rides. That would be better than what
• 1:07:23
  we have. Like I wouldn't mind an overhaul
• 1:07:25
  of our some of our fantasyland. You know, we can just wipe out
• 1:07:30
  that whole area when villains is done.
• 1:07:33
  You know, we we we could wipe out the Speedway and continue on
• 1:07:36
  to to you. Just you just have to put Dumbo
• 1:07:39
  somewhere else. You can't get rid of Dumbo, but
• 1:07:41
  we can get we can get rid of goofies and we can get rid of
• 1:07:44
  the spray area and the big top. Like it's time to do something
• 1:07:48
  different over there. But but as a kid, Dumbo was
• 1:07:52
  right there by the carousel where all the.
• 1:07:54
  Yes, it was. Kingdom I remember that was.
• 1:07:58
  Yep, and Toontown. I just remember that where
• 1:08:00
  circus was. Yes, exactly.
• 1:08:03
  Yeah. Exactly, Bombay says.
• 1:08:06
  When is the best? Oh, go ahead.
• 1:08:09
  Right. Roger Rabbit at 22. 2 the.
• 1:08:12
  Best the little Binny cab rides and it's hard to turn the car
• 1:08:16
  and it's it's it's great. Yeah, that, that would be a must
• 1:08:20
  do for me over there. I wonder if that would maybe
• 1:08:24
  see, I'd like to do that one because I feel like it's, it's
• 1:08:27
  really different. You know, it's a different
• 1:08:29
  character than we we have, you know, we had Rodger Rabbit for a
• 1:08:33
  little bit in Hollywood Studios in the very beginning, but we
• 1:08:36
  didn't have a ride. Maybe that would be my first
• 1:08:40
  ride, something totally different.
• 1:08:44
  Palm Bay had a question, when is the best time to Disney Cruise
• 1:08:48
  as far as pricing? When they throw out some
• 1:08:53
  discounts like for me, I would tell you that, you know, look at
• 1:09:02
  when they're throwing out discounts and I think it's
• 1:09:04
  pretty much early in the years when you see that and I could I
• 1:09:09
  could be wrong. Sierra can answer if.
• 1:09:12
  Isn't it usually the same with all theme with all cruise lines
• 1:09:15
  to where the as soon as it comes out is normally the cheapest
• 1:09:18
  price? I always find 90 days before the
• 1:09:23
  sailing or when it first comes out is the cheapest price.
• 1:09:28
  And then September and like early December before school
• 1:09:34
  lets out is good. And then, but you go in the
• 1:09:43
  summer, you're going to pay summer prices from like March
• 1:09:47
  all the way to early August. You're going to pay those
• 1:09:51
  prices. But you can find some pretty
• 1:09:54
  offseason deals usually, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I think if you're
• 1:09:59
  not a slave to the school schedule, anytime school is is
• 1:10:04
  is in is probably the cheapest times to go.
• 1:10:09
  Tony Otara wants to know, did you get stomach butterflies when
• 1:10:13
  riding cars? I did not get stomach
• 1:10:17
  butterflies, but I was just so amazed like I when you when you
• 1:10:24
  get it out before you go racing, you get to see Doc Hudson and
• 1:10:28
  Tomator and Lightning McQueen and it's just super cool.
• 1:10:32
  Yeah. Park World Radio has added that
• 1:10:37
  ride on their in their rotation. Oh wow.
• 1:10:41
  OK. Yeah, I was like, what am I
• 1:10:42
  listening to the other day? I was like OK I get it now.
• 1:10:46
  Very cool and Anne wants to know what's your favorite ride or
• 1:10:51
  show in each of the Disney World parks?
• 1:10:57
  So Magic Kingdom favorite ride? Haunted Mansion?
• 1:11:01
  That's always been my favorite ride.
• 1:11:05
  It's. Been why I love Haunted Mansion
• 1:11:08
  and you know I'm getting a little old so Carousel Progress
• 1:11:13
  would be my show. Epcot, my favorite ride.
• 1:11:17
  So I have this. I don't know, I just love
• 1:11:20
  Spaceship Earth. I know there's better rides, but
• 1:11:24
  you know, nothing feels better. And like you're at Epcot then
• 1:11:30
  just taking a nice little ride on Spaceship Earth.
• 1:11:32
  When you come right into the park, you know you're going to
• 1:11:36
  have a good day. You've already thanked the
• 1:11:37
  Phoenicians and it's just time to get started.
• 1:11:41
  And Hollywood Studios used to love The Muppets the most, but
• 1:11:50
  now it's probably probably Tower of Terror.
• 1:11:53
  I think Tower of Terror is the absolute 100% best themed ride
• 1:11:57
  that Disney's ever made. While it's not the most
• 1:12:01
  enjoyable ride Disney's ever made, it's it's definitely the
• 1:12:04
  most well themed. Yeah, yeah, I do like that
• 1:12:09
  animal Kingdom. Probably Expedition Everest
• 1:12:14
  because it's a nice little small coaster that has a ton of G
• 1:12:17
  force. Yes it does.
• 1:12:22
  Yes, it. Double grip on the gimbal after
• 1:12:26
  you, after you hit that exit, that drop coming out of the
• 1:12:29
  mountain right that that couple spins, that those couple of
• 1:12:32
  circles, you make, you feel those G's, don't you?
• 1:12:36
  Yeah, even the ones when you're going backwards, you're you're,
• 1:12:38
  you're filling them. I try not to be like a dog with
• 1:12:42
  the tongue hanging out and then like that saliva hitting the
• 1:12:45
  people that sit right behind you.
• 1:12:49
  So. So what's next for for your
• 1:12:53
  channels? You know, coming back I'm just
• 1:12:57
  trying to get caught up on the back end of things.
• 1:13:01
  Work is a little crazy and right now I'm just trying to get
• 1:13:05
  prepared for a good spring and summer cause the good weather is
• 1:13:09
  amongst us. I think today is probably going
• 1:13:11
  to be our last super cool day of the year and we're going to
• 1:13:15
  start complaining about our our phones overheating in a few
• 1:13:18
  months and so it's just time to go make it happen.
• 1:13:24
  Not really doing any travel and it's going to be a lot of theme
• 1:13:27
  park content. Flower and garden is coming up
• 1:13:31
  next week and I'm pretty sure actually I'm not going to give
• 1:13:35
  it away. I'll let you guys say what cuz
• 1:13:37
  sometimes you guys talk about that kind of stuff.
• 1:13:41
  That's next week's. Show but.
• 1:13:43
  Yeah, that's kind of kind of where I was going with that is
• 1:13:48
  you guys are always rolling out the menus.
• 1:13:51
  We love that. It's my favorite week.
• 1:13:54
  It's my favorite week of the channel.
• 1:13:56
  Whenever we get to preview, I don't, you know, I don't, I
• 1:13:59
  don't know. Well, I guess there's I feel
• 1:14:04
  like we're the only channel that does it the way we do it where
• 1:14:07
  we do, we have a podcast, we preview it and then we live
• 1:14:10
  stream it within days and we we talk about day one foods and
• 1:14:14
  things like that. So it's a nice carryover.
• 1:14:16
  I love it for the people that watch the podcast and then they
• 1:14:19
  get to come over on Saturdays and kind of see it all unfold.
• 1:14:23
  It's my do you get excited about that too, Sierra, where I just
• 1:14:27
  love hitting a brand new festival day one for us and it's
• 1:14:31
  it's all new it's all new merch, it's all new shows.
• 1:14:33
  It's all new food. It's so much fun I.
• 1:14:37
  Love it. And you know, being down here
• 1:14:38
  for song and you probably the same way, you get to see all
• 1:14:40
  your friends, 'cause everybody comes out, yeah.
• 1:14:43
  And. Yeah, anybody's who's anybody is
• 1:14:46
  there. Pretty much and that and that's
• 1:14:49
  what I'm going to do. I took a day off work.
• 1:14:51
  I'm not going to build your I'm going to make your like
• 1:14:54
  traditional video. I'm going to go out and I'm
• 1:14:56
  going to make like a documentary about what happens on the first
• 1:14:59
  day of Epcot festivals. And I'm not going to worry about
• 1:15:04
  which food tastes more spicy or which one's hot or which one's
• 1:15:08
  worth the money. Just going to go out and
• 1:15:10
  document like how much fun it is and all the things that you can
• 1:15:14
  be excited about for a festival at Epcot on the first day.
• 1:15:20
  I like that alternative way of thinking.
• 1:15:22
  Yeah, there because there's a definite energy, right when you
• 1:15:25
  have a new festival, whether it's arts or flower and garden
• 1:15:31
  or food and wine, there's a there's an energy there for the
• 1:15:34
  first day. So yeah, I, I like the idea of
• 1:15:36
  of capturing that. Good for you.
• 1:15:38
  That'll be that'll be exciting to see.
• 1:15:40
  And I think that's a side people don't.
• 1:15:42
  You know, a lot of us focus on the food or the merch or, you
• 1:15:47
  know, the art or the entertainment, but that's it.
• 1:15:50
  That's a totally different angle.
• 1:15:51
  Yeah, I'd like to see that. Very cool.
• 1:15:54
  And for those of you that don't know, Sierra has one of the most
• 1:15:57
  technical setups around of any Disney live streamer.
• 1:16:04
  Of course she streams somewhat the way that that we do on Park
• 1:16:08
  Bros and Living in Days. And I think there's only two
• 1:16:13
  others that I know of that are doing it that way.
• 1:16:15
  A theme park giant and and all aboard with Blake that are in
• 1:16:18
  the network. Do you do you?
• 1:16:26
  I know that you push yourself right and you push your your
• 1:16:29
  tech. Do you ever think I should I
• 1:16:34
  should just slow down or you always like what's next?
• 1:16:38
  How do I how do I reinvent myself?
• 1:16:40
  How do I keep pushing the envelope?
• 1:16:43
  Pushing the envelope is part of my ecosystem.
• 1:16:45
  That's something I'm always going to do.
• 1:16:47
  I work in IT and that's what we do.
• 1:16:49
  I'm always testing something new.
• 1:16:53
  I'm always trying new things and technology evolves so quick.
• 1:16:58
  But something just dawned on me this week that I I think I'm
• 1:17:01
  pushing it too hard. You need to simplify it a little
• 1:17:05
  bit and and that was kind of why I created a second channel so I
• 1:17:12
  can do all that weird tech stuff all over there and talk 100%
• 1:17:16
  about tech. So I don't, you know, we're all
• 1:17:21
  here for Disney. We're not necessarily here to
• 1:17:23
  understand what an IP address or what kind of routing we're doing
• 1:17:29
  or all these camera video specs were.
• 1:17:32
  We're all brought together over Disney and try to keep it more
• 1:17:36
  more on track with Disney. I like that.
• 1:17:40
  I like that. Well, I'm going to add, I don't
• 1:17:46
  know if you answered this, but we have Flower and Garden
• 1:17:49
  starting. What's your favorite festival?
• 1:17:53
  And Festival of the Arts, you know, I missed a lot of it this
• 1:17:57
  year because of Disneyland. I'm not angry.
• 1:18:01
  I spent a lot of time with Disney on Broadway.
• 1:18:04
  That's one of my favorite aspects of Festival of the Arts
• 1:18:07
  because you basically get to go and it's never busy except for
• 1:18:12
  Saturday night. It was slammed.
• 1:18:16
  Happened to know a cast member who helped us get some upfront
• 1:18:20
  seats. Or I forget her name, but she
• 1:18:24
  was the original Bell. Was that was that Susan Egan
• 1:18:27
  that night? Susan Egan and the guy who
• 1:18:32
  played and also the guy who played the first Genie, they
• 1:18:36
  that was the absolute best performance I've ever seen.
• 1:18:41
  He got up there with so much confidence and he had the
• 1:18:44
  perfect moves. And you're like these guys, they
• 1:18:47
  don't do this anymore for years. They still have every move like
• 1:18:52
  they did in the in the production.
• 1:18:55
  Yeah, it's ingrained in them. And Festival of the Arts became
• 1:18:57
  my favorite this year. Like, it's hands down.
• 1:19:01
  It's just so much fun to eat food and just you probably don't
• 1:19:05
  even cover every every. I feel like you can't cover
• 1:19:10
  every art booth in one or two visits without really taking
• 1:19:16
  your time and appreciating the art there.
• 1:19:19
  I did get a chance to know, get to know some of the artists.
• 1:19:22
  I put them on the stream and kind of gave them some free
• 1:19:26
  promotion out there for my audience.
• 1:19:28
  Tell. Us how they can find you, let
• 1:19:31
  these people call you on Instagram or social media and
• 1:19:33
  they were all super happy and excited about it.
• 1:19:37
  That's a great idea. I don't know if this will show
• 1:19:39
  up little unprofessional style, but the some of you wanted to
• 1:19:43
  know how our art wall turned out.
• 1:19:46
  I don't know how good that looks, Lawrence, but yeah, it
• 1:19:49
  probably doesn't look great, but maybe I can give you a slide to
• 1:19:53
  show when we're live tomorrow night or something.
• 1:19:56
  But that's our art wall. We that's that almost everything
• 1:20:00
  there we bought at this festival.
• 1:20:02
  Wow. And I and I threw in the R2D2
• 1:20:06
  metal frame, which is new over at Droid Depot, which is
• 1:20:10
  amazing. But yeah, most, a lot of that is
• 1:20:14
  from this year, so. Very nice.
• 1:20:17
  And I just, I want to thank my friend Art by Nemad for making
• 1:20:20
  me my art over here. Oh, nice.
• 1:20:24
  He's really good. He is really good, yeah.
• 1:20:27
  Check him out on on Instagram. Yeah.
• 1:20:31
  And he's very supportive of the Disney live streaming community
• 1:20:35
  for sure. So that's always.
• 1:20:36
  Good, this Simone and Simone's one of my favorite characters.
• 1:20:40
  What's the matter with you? I love it well, I want to thank
• 1:20:48
  Sierra for coming on tonight talking about her Disneyland
• 1:20:52
  trip cruising streaming. It's it was great to have you
• 1:20:58
  on. She is a great member of the
• 1:21:00
  Disney streamer network, great friend and she is always there,
• 1:21:06
  you know, to help newer creators, people that are
• 1:21:09
  starting to get into want to stream the way we do.
• 1:21:13
  She's very helpful. So I, I thank you for everything
• 1:21:17
  that you do for, for the live stream community, for.
• 1:21:21
  Sure. Yeah.
• 1:21:22
  Thank you so much for giving us your time.
• 1:21:23
  We appreciate it. And keep on doing what you're
• 1:21:25
  doing. And you're part of the Disney
• 1:21:27
  Streamer Network, and we're all one and we're all here for each
• 1:21:31
  other. So yeah, it was a pleasure
• 1:21:35
  having you on. Really enjoyed it.
• 1:21:36
  Yeah, this is a lot of fun. Thanks.
• 1:21:38
  And I met you in the parks many times, Corey.
• 1:21:41
  And then I met Lawrence a little bit and he started this or you
• 1:21:45
  guys started this network. I've learned about the network
• 1:21:47
  through him. So.
• 1:21:50
  But it's been a real success. There's a lot of good channels
• 1:21:54
  out there. Everybody's.
• 1:21:59
  I mean, it's just I could never imagine that it would became
• 1:22:04
  what it is today. I mean, it's not even that old
• 1:22:07
  yet, but yeah, it's really, it's really, it's really happening.
• 1:22:11
  Yeah, and it's and it's, it's because everyone in the in the
• 1:22:15
  network is different. The way we stream, our
• 1:22:18
  personalities, where we're at, you know, in life, what we do,
• 1:22:23
  how many days we go to the parks.
• 1:22:26
  And so everybody kind of brings their own flair to and I think
• 1:22:29
  that's what makes what makes a community, any community great.
• 1:22:33
  So, yeah, I, I appreciate that. And I'm a mod on cruise and
• 1:22:38
  theme park guide. And it's the same way that
• 1:22:40
  community, you know, you see it whether it's whether it's living
• 1:22:45
  in days or cruise and theme park guide or any of the other
• 1:22:47
  channels, that community, they just gel well together.
• 1:22:52
  And so then when you start putting multiple channels
• 1:22:56
  together, you see, you see what happens, It grows even more.
• 1:22:59
  So thank you again for everything that you do for for
• 1:23:05
  the network and for your, your community as well.
• 1:23:11
  Well, thank you guys so much and I will see you guys in the park
• 1:23:14
  soon. Yes, yes, Sierra, everybody,
• 1:23:18
  thank you very much. We will see you in the parks for
• 1:23:21
  sure. That's a good phrase.
• 1:23:23
  Maybe I should end my live streams like that.
• 1:23:26
  Thank you so much. We'll see.
• 1:23:27
  Well, I'm sure I'll see you soon in the parks.
• 1:23:30
  Right. Well, you kind of do.
• 1:23:33
  You do you do. We'll see you in the parks.
• 1:23:37
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not kind of.
• 1:23:38
  It's every time, yes, You know, for seven years.
• 1:23:41
  Yeah, yeah, a little bit. No, it's a little bit.
• 1:23:43
  It's good. It's our tackling, you know.
• 1:23:46
  You know, that could be a good Disney Streamers Network
• 1:23:49
  T-shirt. Everyone has a closing line,
• 1:23:51
  don't they? I mean, you just, you just kind
• 1:23:54
  of put those on there with the channel name, channel channel
• 1:23:56
  logos, that kind of thing. That's some that's a good idea
• 1:23:59
  for some Disney Streamer merch. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:24:02
  All right. All right, we're gonna work on
• 1:24:03
  some. Merch I have another idea too.
• 1:24:05
  I have another idea to add I I have I have a good challenge
• 1:24:09
  that we could add to the network.
• 1:24:11
  All right, All right. I like it.
• 1:24:13
  Yeah. So as we mentioned earlier, next
• 1:24:17
  week's show is going to be the flower and garden preview.
• 1:24:22
  I better start working on that now because there's a lot to
• 1:24:25
  cover. So we we will we'll get working
• 1:24:28
  on that soon. So that'll be that'll be next
• 1:24:32
  week and then the week after that is going to be a fun show
• 1:24:36
  we are going to do. Are we going on location?
• 1:24:41
  Oh, no, not yet. Not yet, not yet, not yet.
• 1:24:44
  That was fun that time, though. That was a good time.
• 1:24:49
  So the week after that's going to be is it worth it?
• 1:24:53
  We're going to play is it worth it?
• 1:24:55
  We're going to have a bunch of different rides and a bunch of
• 1:24:58
  different wait times and we're going to spin the wheel and, you
• 1:25:03
  know, do I? Do.
• 1:25:05
  Some random, yeah, we're going to do some random ones and see,
• 1:25:09
  you know, is this ride or show worth whatever the wait time is
• 1:25:13
  that it comes up. So I'll have a little fun with
• 1:25:15
  that. I love that.
• 1:25:17
  I love that. I don't know if anybody's on
• 1:25:19
  that one. Yeah, I don't.
• 1:25:21
  I don't think so. But we're gonna, we're gonna try
• 1:25:22
  it. We'll see what happens.
• 1:25:24
  Yeah, for sure. Tomorrow night we are live at
• 1:25:26
  Magic Kingdom. Saturday is also live at Magic
• 1:25:29
  Kingdom. I don't do that often, but I had
• 1:25:31
  some reason and I'm just gonna stick with it.
• 1:25:33
  Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom is what we're
• 1:25:36
  doing. I put a lot of thought to
• 1:25:37
  scheduling and that's what I came up with last week.
• 1:25:40
  I can't remember. I can't remember why.
• 1:25:43
  The only possible reason I can think of at the moment is if if
• 1:25:48
  Disney pulled a fast one on us again where they're gonna close
• 1:25:52
  at 9. Let me look.
• 1:25:55
  I'm looking right now. Yeah.
• 1:25:56
  No, Nope. They they moved it.
• 1:25:59
  They did OK, good. They did.
• 1:26:01
  They did move it again. Wait a minute.
• 1:26:03
  No, no, no, I lied. Nope.
• 1:26:04
  It's 9. So we've got a short night at
• 1:26:06
  Magic Kingdom, so I will. So I feel like we can get more
• 1:26:10
  out of Magic Kingdom on Saturdays, and they actually
• 1:26:14
  close at 11. So let's go.
• 1:26:16
  Let's go on that. You know, in the following week,
• 1:26:21
  I'll decide what I have to do. I can only do so not so many
• 1:26:24
  9:00 Magic Kingdoms, you know. I know I wish they would change
• 1:26:29
  that, but and, and why did you get, I guess because of crowds?
• 1:26:33
  I was going to say, why did you get lucky last weekend?
• 1:26:35
  It was 11, but that was probably to do with the crowds.
• 1:26:40
  Who told me? Did I figure that out?
• 1:26:42
  My I figured it out myself. I think so, yeah.
• 1:26:45
  I texted you, I don't, I don't, I don't know if you knew or I or
• 1:26:47
  it was news to you when I said it.
• 1:26:49
  I might even have just been on the monorail and I was just
• 1:26:51
  looking and I was like, oh shoot, it's 11 so.
• 1:26:54
  I think you told me. Yeah, cuz I, I, I, yeah, cuz
• 1:26:57
  leading up to that I was like, oh, I don't know, I'll walk,
• 1:27:00
  I'll just walk back to the TTC or something like that.
• 1:27:03
  And wouldn't you know when we left on Wednesdays after like
• 1:27:08
  11:30 at night, the monorail was a walk on.
• 1:27:13
  Wow, that's a rare. So Disney.
• 1:27:18
  Was 11 probably. Yeah, Disney would rather corral
• 1:27:23
  thousands of people squeezing out of Magic Kingdom and and
• 1:27:29
  squeezing every morsel of skin of people in both directions of
• 1:27:33
  both monorails, the buses and the boat, the ferries, like
• 1:27:39
  corral them. It's it's nuts how busy it is
• 1:27:42
  out there rather than even if you close at 10, it's still,
• 1:27:46
  it's going to cut that crowd in probably half.
• 1:27:49
  Yeah. And people can leave sooner.
• 1:27:51
  To me it's just been much easier to just take a nice relaxing
• 1:27:54
  walk back to. The TTC, yeah, I've enjoyed
• 1:27:59
  that. I think most of the most of the
• 1:28:01
  viewers have enjoyed that as well.
• 1:28:04
  Yeah. So we'll do it again tomorrow.
• 1:28:05
  We'll do it again tomorrow. We'll we'll peruse our way
• 1:28:07
  around the resorts a little bit as we work our way back to the
• 1:28:11
  TTC. So we'll do that and I'll be out
• 1:28:14
  there on Saturdays again with Tammy and Jacob and yeah, we'll
• 1:28:20
  take what the park gives us and you know, we'll probably sign
• 1:28:22
  off somewhere close to midnight. We'll do all the shopping and
• 1:28:26
  blah, blah, blah and have a good time with that.
• 1:28:28
  So that's what's upcoming on the channel.
• 1:28:32
  I like it. So tomorrow night I'll mention
• 1:28:36
  that Lily's life, our friend Lily's life is doing her deep
• 1:28:42
  dive or Let's Go Ride series, continuing that with Pirates of
• 1:28:48
  the Caribbean tomorrow night. So you can watch on Disney
• 1:28:53
  streams on dsn.disneystreams.com.
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  You could be watching us and watch Lily's life.
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  Then they're going to put out a POV of pirates and then at the
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  end they're going to redirect everybody over to living in Diz
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  anyway. So yeah, make sure to watch to
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  watch both of us at the same time on dsn.disneystreams.com.
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  And then, you know, you'd be able to support Lily and her
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  efforts with her with her new show.
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  And then come on, come on back and watch us.
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  Yeah. Listen to Lily.
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  Let me know. Yeah, listen to Lily.
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  You know, you can watch me at the same time, listen to Lily,
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  because she probably has more important things to say than I
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  do. So do that, and then just come
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  back to me. Yeah, do that.
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  So thank you all for joining us. I think that was great.
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  Great episode with Cruise and theme park guide.
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  If you're not watching her, she normally goes live on Saturdays.
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  Make sure to check out her channel, subscribe if you like,
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  and normally she's Saturday morning.
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  So you might be able to watch her and then come over and watch
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  us, or again watch on the multi view and watch multiple Disney
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  Streamer Network channels at one time.
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  Sounds fantastic. I like that he just created a
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  new word. Oh yes.
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  You know, it goes way back to when I first started doing it
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  and Jacob was like, dad, everything you had DIZ, you
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  know, on the back of everything. And then you Fast forward a year
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  or two later, you know, I'm talking to Pete one night on the
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  phone and he's like, he's like, you got something here, man.
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  He's like you created. What's the word?
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  I'm looking for you. You created a brand, right?
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  You know, and I, and I knew it, it really stuck when just one,
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  one day I, I went live at Magic Kingdom, I'm going up Main
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  Street, I believe, and people start coming in happy
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  Wednesdays, happy Wednesdays. I'm like, oh, it's caught on.
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  That's right. That's right.
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  So good stuff. I'm going to redirect all of you
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  to ear to Ear Magic, another Disney streamer network.
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  He is out at Magic Kingdom site. Normally he doesn't do
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  weeknights, so redirect you over to him, go and check him out and
• 1:31:11
  see see what he has going on there.
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  So we will see you tomorrow night from Magic Kingdom.
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