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Disney Trends, Hot Takes & Exposing the Fake News Flood — The DIZPod · DIZPod | For the Disney Parks Fans

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  holidays. Hello and welcome everyone to
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  the day's Pod. Here is Theme Park Giant.
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  Our friend Thad from Theme Park Giant had another fantastic
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  stream earlier today just doing a bang up job in the morning
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  streaming from all the parks including Busch Gardens and
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  SeaWorld, He says, hey, Corey, Larry and chat.
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  You know, I tell the guy one time that people call me Larry
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  and all of a sudden Fatador wants to call me Larry all the
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  time. I don't I don't understand.
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  Wow, I've never called you Larry before.
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  Yeah, from 2nd grade till the year 2000 when I had to get
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  business cards, I went by Larry and then I needed business cards
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  and they asked me what I wanted on the card and I went back to
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  Lawrence. It's me, David T, another member
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  of the Disney Streamer Network. Hello, Good to see you.
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  He is now back home. He just had a great stream or a
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  couple streams over the weekend hanging out at the two parties
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  over there. So very, very cool.
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  Yes, theme park giant. We have bots in the chat.
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  Absolutely. Two of them.
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  Two, we're working really hard. Oh no.
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  Gomeni, good to see you all. Right.
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  So hey, hey everyone, we do this live because we do it for you.
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  Thank you for your patience. And if you are listening any
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  Music, and did I say Amazon? Why if you didn't, you did now.
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  Perfect. So we got all that going for us
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  and so welcome everyone to see you all in chat.
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  Thanks for being here on this Tuesdays.
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  So, you know, we missed last Tuesday and we'll miss a couple
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  more late in December here on the holiday weeks because I just
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  have to work and make up some time to be able to have the
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  second-half of the week off. So that's why we're doing that.
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  But then after that, we should be on our pretty sick,
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  consistent regular schedule. Yep.
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  To go into 2026, Can you believe it's going to be 2026?
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  I can't believe it. In fact, I just received my
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  YouTube 2025 recap which was pretty cool.
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  They sent me a notification about it.
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  So if you open up your app it should be essentially right
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  there. I think you can also go to
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  youtube.com/recap and it'll show you your entire recap, the
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  channels you watched, what type of shows you watched, or what
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  type of channels you watched. Pretty cool, get an idea of what
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  I watch. Is living in Diz right there?
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  I didn't. I didn't get one of those yet.
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  Maybe it's on its way. Should be on its way.
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  Should be on its way. As I was upstairs getting ready,
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  it came through. So is.
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  That in your studio? Or is that on regular?
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  YouTube. No, the regular YouTube app.
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  Yeah, regular YouTube app. I'm going to try and Fast
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  forward to see where it is. So my top channels that I watch
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  are Kit Voga which is scam baiting, living in dizz #2 and
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  Theme Park giant #3. So, well, how about that very
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  much. Can you hear me fine?
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  I can hear you fine. Yeah, OK, perfect.
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  The headphones, it's weird. So let's see, we covered all of
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  that, you know, all the channels you can or ways you can listen
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  to us and we appreciate all of that.
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  So how was your Thanksgiving? Thank you so much for Facetiming
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  us. As you guys sat down to eat, you
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  Facetimed us as we were just about getting the plates on the
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  table. So how'd it go?
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  It was good. Yeah, we were.
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  We had just sat down. Actually, that was probably
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  earlier than we've probably ever had Thanksgiving dinner.
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  Normally we are very late eaters.
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  I don't know that I feel like it was like 530 that we ate.
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  Well, we sat down, Nick was here, Christina was here, went
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  to call my sister, his twin. She did not answer.
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  So mom was, I think I was going to text you.
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  And I think mom was like, you should FaceTime.
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  I'm like, OK, so we Facetimed you guys.
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  So that was cool. Thank you Purple Pleasure.
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  That meant the world to me and get to make the make our way
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  around the room so everyone could wish everyone a happy
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  Thanksgiving. So that was really good.
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  You know, since we've lived here in Florida, we haven't had any
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  family down for Thanksgiving. So it was really great to hang
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  out with, not only hang out with Steve and Tony and and their
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  family, our family and their family got to spend a few nights
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  over at the club, Wyndham Bonnet Creek, which is really close to
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  Typhoon Lagoon and just had a fantastic time.
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  It was so much fun and it was great to have, you know, like
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  family there. So we really enjoyed that.
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  So we'll probably, yeah, we may do it again.
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  And if we do, it would be great if maybe the Lawrence family
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  made their way down and got a room right next to us.
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  How cool would that be? Maybe we'll see.
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  We'll see. Yeah.
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  We, I'm trying to think we, we did 4th of July at Disney.
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  That was really the last. I'm not going to count Labor
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  Day, but I think we did Labor Day too.
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  But 4th of July was the last one we did over there.
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  So yeah. Oh, Catherine says she's glad
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  that I didn't wear that crazy Turkey shirt.
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  Yeah, you missed out on that one 'cause we didn't have, we didn't
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  have a podcast on Thanksgiving week, so you missed it.
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  My, my world famous Turkey shirt, DT Doreen says.
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  I saw the Disney Christmas special yesterday on ABC.
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  We did not watch it, and I meant to record it, but I knew it was
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  going to be out on Hulu. So we do need to watch that
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  though. So I don't know anything about
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  it. I do want to see like where the
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  villains played a part in that, so we'll see soon.
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  Yeah, that caught me by surprise.
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  What? What is this Christmas special?
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  Is it the one that they filmed a couple weeks ago already?
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  Yeah. Oh, OK.
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  All right. I'll have to.
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  I'll have to buzz through that and see what's what they did
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  with that, because we were definitely there to cover some
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  of that on that Saturdays. So we'll have to take a peek,
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  see what we missed for sure. So, yeah, yeah.
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  So Tammy and I are battling through some kind of sickness in
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  the sinuses or something. Tammy's still trying to kick her
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  cough. Yeah, she's just still trying to
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  kick her cough. I seem to be rallying today and
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  feel better than yesterday, so I'm not chasing my nose, you
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  know what I mean? So just a little nasally.
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  So trying to get over that. And that's nothing more than
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  annoying. So yeah.
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  But I have to say the the Club Wyndham is the most underrated
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  resort, I think, on Disney property.
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  It's, it's, it's so great. There's so many amenities.
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  The staff is very Disney like. The rooms are just big and
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  beautiful. It's there's they listen, I was
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  thinking this, I was looking over the balcony the other day
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  when we were there and from our view you can see all the pools
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  that are there. Can you name can you name me
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  another resort on Disney property that has?
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  I'm just going to throw out a number 5 or 6 pools that are
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  decent sizes. Now, cuz most time you might
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  have one big blonde and then you have some kind of satellite
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  pools, but yeah, nothing, nothing significant.
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  Yeah, they have mini golf on property, shuffleboard, cornhole
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  and playground for the kids, lazy river, a few restaurants.
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  And I was just thinking, I got to say this to Lawrence when
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  we're on the podcast. Because if if you just took if
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  Disney, you know, painted it magic, you know, made it look
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  like magic and called it the Fantasia Hotel and put a Mickey
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  hat on top. Dude, that thing would be sold
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  out at all times and they'd be selling it at like $1000 a night
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  or more. I'm telling you, it's just
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  because it doesn't have an official Disney tag to IT.
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  People don't know about it and you need to know about it.
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  Look it up because and give it a try.
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  It's it's an amazing spot. I just and it's right there near
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  Disney Springs. It's it's really close to
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  Hollywood Studios. Matter of fact, when we we want
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  to just get on the sky liner and ride around for a little while
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  and go to boardwalk and check out the gingerbread displays,
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  which we did. And when you leave Hollywood on
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  the sky liner, you're looking dead ahead to tower number six,
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  which is where we stayed on the 13th floor.
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  So you can't even, you can't even miss it.
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  A funny story quickly, Steve mentioned the 5K.
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  So most mornings I went out for a brisk walk for exercise and
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  they have in the center, they have a walkway, A sidewalk that
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  circles the whole inside of the property and a huge lake in a
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  huge lake in the middle. And so I'm just out there
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  walking and Steve and I are walking together and we're
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  getting laps in without really knowing that they have an
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  official Turkey Trot 5K going on.
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  So people are running by us and, and I, I eventually, I
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  eventually caught on to it like, oh, they're doing it.
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  They're doing some kind of race and we come up to the finish
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  line and they start. I I put my hand up like, because
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  everybody was looking and anticipating, like Steve and I
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  were finishing. So I put my hand up like, yeah.
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  And they were like, the crowd erupted.
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  You know, all like 10 of them erupted.
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  Yay. I was like, Nope, we're just
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  walking. We we made another loop again.
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  And when we came around, the girl had medals in her hand.
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  At that point, she's like, can I just give you guys a medal
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  because you've clearly done the Turkey Trot.
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  So I was like, yeah, we probably did close to two of them.
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  So we took, we took the, we took the Turkey Trot medal.
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  And actually I have it right here.
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  Here's the Turkey Trot medal right there.
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  Very nice. Yeah, so I wore it all morning.
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  I came back to the room and Tammy's like, where did you get
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  that? I'm like, oh Steve and I did a
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  5K Turkey Trot without even trying.
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  She thought she went to the gift shop and picked it up. 9 I ran a
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  5K while I was out there. I know that.
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  That's funny. That's funny.
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  So are you going to get your AMC Popcorn pass?
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  I just love the name of it, the AMC Popcorn Pass and you know
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  when you go see all your Disney movies this year, everyone, if
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  you have the ace AMC popcorn pass, it's 29 bucks for the year
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  and and so it's 13 months. It's good for and after six
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  trips, it pays for itself. You you'll only pay $5.50 for
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  your large popcorn and you get a refill.
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  Oh OK, if I had an AMC closer than 30 something minutes away
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  maybe. OK.
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  Yeah, we're close to Regal, or Regal is close to us.
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  Oh, OK. So yeah, Lawrence Kibler, while
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  we were live at Universal Studios this past Saturdays, he
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  had mentioned that. So I looked into it and thank
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  you to Lawrence Kibler for that. We went out and bought that last
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  night. So we now have it so we'll have
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  cheaper popcorn on a weekly weekly basis.
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  Nice, nice. We got AGM pack show for you all
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  tonight because we have our Zoom call coming up in a bit.
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  So I'll let you get to the news and all that stuff.
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  But I want to say one more piece of news that you will not cover
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  tonight, I guarantee out of Walt Disney World while we were
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  there. I'm guessing I don't even know
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  what night. I don't even know what night it
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  was, but Sydney Sweeney was in Magic Kingdom this past weekend.
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  My fingers really tapping hard on the table right now.
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  Big fan. I'm a huge fan of hers and
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  that's the second time in like a year or so that she has been
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  there. So she's not shy about going
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  there. So one of these days I'll get to
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  say hello to Sydney Sweeney in Magic Kingdom.
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  Last time she she posts on social media.
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  So she was at Epcot last time. She's just dancing her way down
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  Main Street having a good time. So I just wanted to mention that
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  as well. For all those.
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  Sippy. Sweeney like I don't know who.
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  She is what, what what I. Don't know who she is.
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  She has a new movie called The Housemaid coming out in just a
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  couple of weeks, which should be really good.
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  And she also, just recently, I think she's winning awards for
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  the the Christie movie, The boxing movie.
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  As well. Oh, OK.
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  But she was in a really smash, real big smash hit comedy like
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  2-2 years ago or whatever, which she was hilarious in.
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  I can't remember the name of it at the moment, but yeah, so I'm
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  a big fan. And I was like, darn, missed her
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  again. One of these days.
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  It's going to happen. It's going to happen.
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  So yeah, as Corey said tonight, we're just going to cover some
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  news. We had some news dropped today
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  over the weekend and so we're just going to cover some of
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  that. Tiffany Smith wants to know how
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  many Disney resorts I've stayed in.
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  Pretty much all of them. I think there might be two that
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  I have not. No, OK.
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  Right. We've gone out with those.
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  I'm nowhere. Yeah.
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  I'm nowhere near that number. Wow.
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  It might be The funny thing is it it might be old Key West
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  might be one of them. And if you want to really get
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  nitpicky on the All Star resorts, we've never stayed on
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  the sports side, but we've done music and movies and I've never
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  stayed at Coronado. So those are those are three
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  that jump off the top of my head.
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  This is really interesting right here.
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  Yeah, so rock and roller coaster pre show where they go.
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  How about some backstage passes? Yeah, there's no more.
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  That's it. It closed now.
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  Theme park giant that he was there Thursday maybe and they
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  weren't doing the pre show where they were just having you walk
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  through. I've seen that before.
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  No big deal. But it is officially closed.
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  Like there are walls up around it.
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  It's like a yeah, it's supposed to look like a like a recording
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  studio, but the front of it. So very interesting that they
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  did this. I have my idea, but so it's
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  boarded up. The attraction queue work is
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  already beginning and Rock and Roller coaster will be switching
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  over to The Muppets. Doctor Disney says in the
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  summer. I don't know that that's true
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  but or that they're going to hold to that date.
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  It just says 2026. I know they said summer, but a
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  Disney summer is very long. So what?
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  What say you on this one? I think that they put that up so
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  that they could work on the what's going to happen behind
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  that glass and allow rock and roller coaster to continue.
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  So they limit the amount of time that it's down so they're able
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  to work on that entire piece of the queue.
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  They could probably even complete it and that'll stay up
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  of course until it opens. So they'll probably finish that
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  up and then at that point when they have no choice and they
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  have to shut the ride down so they can do the retheming on the
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  inside and around the track, that's when they'll they'll
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  close it down. So kind of a genius idea to do
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  that. You know, they could have just
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  shut the whole thing down and then you're without the
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  attraction for, who knows, a few more weeks and or months.
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  So yeah, it would be nice to know what's going on behind that
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  wall. I think it's a great idea to do
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  this. You know, the pre show is the
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  pre show. We know pre show is really there
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  to forward the story of the ride.
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  However, it's also there to slow you down, right?
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  It makes you feel like you're not waiting in line, although
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  you are. So I think that losing the pre
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  show here, not really a big deal, especially if it gets us
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  the new ride quicker and you don't have rock and roller
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  coaster down for this long. Because they can take this crew
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  that's working on the pre show, they can finish the pre show and
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  then go start working on the exterior of the building or the
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  ride or what have you. So again, I think we are seeing
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  some escalated timelines this year and next year and hopefully
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  for the next 2-3 years. I like the way they're doing
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  this. Just got to be honest, it's
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  weird to see this. It's weird to see the arch be
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  taken down and you got excavators back there where
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  Launch Bay was. You've got earth moving
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  equipment over there where Muppets was during the daytime
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  while the park is open. But that's what Disney wants
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  right now and that's going to get us our new ride sooner.
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  So I'm all for it. Same Speaking of which, here is
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  your look at monsters. So that is the roller coaster
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  building. That whole thing will be the
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  building. So on the right hand side of the
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  picture, they're putting in the footings for the building.
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  This building is massive. This coaster is going to be
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  really, really cool, so I'm looking forward to that.
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  But this is this is the work that we've already got this far,
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  and doesn't it feel like Muppets just closed the other day?
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  And yet we have this far. Yeah, I'm really happy to see a
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  site like this. I mean, it is laid out, it is
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  flattened. I'm not a construction guy, but
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  it looks like they've, you know what that is?
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  Those are the, would you call those the footings?
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  So they're laying down the concrete right now is what we're
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  seeing, right? So they'll continue with that
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  along the framing down there. And it's, you do say that this,
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  this, this building is massive. And you can tell because look at
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  the look at the equipment next to it, it looks so tiny.
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  Yeah, we've got, we've got a lot of stuff coming up and and I'm
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  telling you they are working quickly to get this stuff done.
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  But yeah, you've got at the top of the picture, you have what
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  looks to be trailers back there and look at the size of the
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  trailer compared to the size of that building.
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  So I think we're in for a very cool ride back there.
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  Now this they could have they, they had started working on this
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  because this is in the parking lot.
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  So they weren't really affecting the park at all.
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  By the way, with construction, it's always easier to do this
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  stuff where you're just tearing up flat asphalt or dirt than to
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  demo something and have to RIP out all the infrastructure and
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  do something new. All right, we just did festival
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  the holidays preview. We're going to go back and do
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  more food previews. Here you have a new for Fire and
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  Ice. You've got over at Cetula
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  Canteen a Maguan mousse, cinnamon milk chocolate mousse,
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  caramelized banana cake, banana sesame caramel, excuse me, and
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  chocolate sesame crumble. So first I've heard of this.
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  Sounds good, yeah. Looks good I.
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  Think this was just announced today so you have 3 new items
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  over there in Pandora to celebrate the opening of fire
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  and ice. Over at Pangu Pangu, you have
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  the night Wraith blaze, which is blood orange lychee, wild Berry
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  slushy with glow cube passion few passion fruit pearls, and
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  you can also get it with vodka or with that.
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  And lastly, you have a Captain Morgan spiced rum with triple
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  sack mango puree, orange juice, chamoy and ginger beer.
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  And that's over at traders Law win.
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  So they are celebrating the opening of the new movie.
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  So this I can't reach it, but it's back there.
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  Final issue of the D-23 magazine.
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  So if you're AD 23 member or a gold member, you get this
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  magazine quarterly. This is the final edition.
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  They will not be producing the magazine going forward.
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  It started in 2009, spring of 2009.
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  But you know, it's print. Print media is not where it used
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  to be. So they are wrapping up on D-23,
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  the magazine. Everything else will really stay
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  the same, but they want to focus their efforts instead of print
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  media into other genres there. And we have not seen this, but
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  Zootopia has. We've already made $556 million
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  over the five day weekend, making it the biggest global
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  opening for an animated film ever and the fourth biggest
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  worldwide opening of all time. Zootopia 2, folks.
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  Wow, and it's getting very good ratings on Rotten Tomatoes.
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  I think it's in the 90s. That would be why 556.
• 25:36
  That's a half billion dollars in five days.
• 25:43
  That's not a bad rake, is it? No.
• 25:45
  So I'm guessing it's going to end up passing Inside Out too.
• 25:51
  So what will Toy Story 5 do? I don't know.
• 25:57
  We'll see. But if we've said it before, if
• 26:01
  people continue to go and see these movies, the sequels, at
• 26:05
  this rate, they're going to keep bringing you sequels.
• 26:10
  Just saying. And they will.
• 26:12
  And that's how that works, right in Hollywood.
• 26:15
  They are putting see, it's fine and they are working in some
• 26:20
  originals, but we've got to go see these originals at the same
• 26:25
  rate. Yep, we got to go see them
• 26:28
  everybody. I mean, I don't understand it it
• 26:30
  when I was younger if if there was a animated movie that was
• 26:35
  labeled Disney, you just went. Oh yeah, you went there's.
• 26:39
  No question about it, you went, so why are we picking and
• 26:42
  choosing now? Who knows, maybe it's maybe it's
• 26:45
  the the fact that we have Disney Plus and you can rent movies and
• 26:48
  things like that. So I'll just wait for that, you
• 26:52
  know, but but then again, they can just wait for this too, and
• 26:55
  they're going out for it, so. Yeah, hey.
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  Every movie had an original once.
• 27:01
  I don't know. That's true.
• 27:03
  That's true. All right, so there was other
• 27:06
  big news that dropped today. I don't I don't think Corey's
• 27:13
  ever seen an episode of it. And we watch a lot of this in
• 27:16
  our house. So it is called Disney
• 27:20
  Experiences. Bingo and Bluey are coming to
• 27:37
  the parks. This was announced or this was
• 27:41
  teased very early on this year and now we finally have details
• 27:47
  on it. So you've got a new Bluey
• 27:49
  experience coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom.
• 27:54
  So beginning in the summer of 2026 over at WDW, you'll be able
• 28:00
  to take a fun excursion to Conservation Station in Animal
• 28:04
  Kingdom where you will play and dance with Bluey and bingo play
• 28:10
  some of your favorite games with Bluey from Bluey episodes.
• 28:14
  That means they're going to have yeah.
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  So play some of your favorite games from a Bluey from Bluey
• 28:18
  episodes with a fun animal twist like Butterfly Keep Yuppie.
• 28:24
  Grab the whole family and snap some pictures alongside your
• 28:29
  Blue Heeler pals to remember this one-of-a-kind adventure.
• 28:33
  Plus, as part of your wild excursion, step outside to
• 28:36
  discover an experience with animals native to Bluey's home
• 28:40
  country of Australia. So not only are you getting what
• 28:47
  would appear to be a meet and greet, I guess it's also going
• 28:50
  to be kind of like the Disney Junior dance party to some
• 28:53
  effect. And then you're also going to
• 28:55
  have animals from Australia, from Australia outside.
• 28:59
  So this tells me that the animation experiences probably
• 29:07
  going to go away, which I kind of figured it would because
• 29:11
  you're going to get the new animation experience over at
• 29:14
  Hollywood and I think bingo and blue, you're going to be
• 29:17
  replacing that. And then is the petting zoo
• 29:20
  going away to well, I it'll still be there, but it'll be
• 29:26
  animals from Australia maybe. What?
• 29:29
  What do you think? It's interesting, right?
• 29:35
  It's a little, it's kind of a surprising move by Disney, I
• 29:39
  think to do something like this. And you know, it's animal
• 29:44
  related. So I guess that's why they they
• 29:46
  put that in Animal Kingdom. Again, we don't watch Bluey, but
• 29:52
  I know how big it is with the younger, younger, younger
• 29:56
  generation. I think it's I think it's cool.
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  I think it's cool and exciting for families and the youngsters
• 30:04
  too. So you'd have to jump on the
• 30:05
  train and go over. So take it, take it, you know,
• 30:08
  take the ride to go see Bluey and the and, and the orange
• 30:12
  guy's name. What's the orange guy's name?
• 30:15
  Bingo. Yeah.
• 30:18
  And to have some, you know, and and they'll feature Australia.
• 30:21
  So nice little tie in. You know, it sounds, it sounds
• 30:27
  like such a minor thing, right. This, this sounds like something
• 30:30
  like, I don't know, SeaWorld would do or something like that,
• 30:34
  but I don't know. Do do you think this is, this is
• 30:37
  a huge thing, just a, just a, a minor, a minor thing to put in
• 30:41
  there and see what it does? Do you think Disney is testing
• 30:46
  the idea of other bluey or maybe a bluey attraction down the
• 30:52
  line, paying attention to see how popular that is?
• 30:55
  And, and Disney knows the numbers, right?
• 30:57
  So they're probably looking at the train ride and all that and
• 31:00
  maybe numbers have been down in that area and they need to
• 31:02
  refresh it. And why not do a a a newer IP
• 31:06
  and stick it in there? So I think couple things.
• 31:10
  One, I can't imagine what the you're going to see the wait
• 31:15
  times for the train, like it's going to be like Everest wait
• 31:19
  times to get over there to the train.
• 31:23
  You, you people are going to walk.
• 31:24
  They're like, how do we walk there?
• 31:26
  Like you have to take the train. So I think it's going to be
• 31:31
  crazy. Bluey is huge.
• 31:33
  We went to see them at the Durham, Durham Performing Arts
• 31:36
  Center and the place was packed, absolutely packed.
• 31:42
  People wearing shirts, people wearing bluey ears.
• 31:46
  And that was just me and Finley and Catherine.
• 31:50
  No, it was it was the lines from merch were out the door.
• 31:53
  There was a meet and greet beforehand.
• 31:54
  So in the parks, this is going to be very big, very big indeed.
• 32:01
  So I'm excited to see it now. Disney does not own Bluey.
• 32:07
  It's an Australian company that owns Bluey.
• 32:11
  Disney only had the streaming rights to it to show it on
• 32:13
  Disney Plus. But a lot of people think that
• 32:17
  Bluey is a, is a Disney character, doesn't it?
• 32:20
  She is not. And by the way, they're she's
• 32:22
  both, they're they're sisters. The Bluey and Bingo are girls.
• 32:27
  So yeah, a lot of people think that they're Disney characters,
• 32:31
  but they're not. So I wonder if that will slow
• 32:35
  down what Disney can do with it. You know, will you have an
• 32:41
  entire line of merch? I'm sure Disney would love that.
• 32:45
  But can they do it at the same to the same level that they do
• 32:49
  their own merch because it's not theirs?
• 32:53
  Yeah, probably not. But but why not dip into the
• 32:55
  market a little bit, right? Why not?
• 32:58
  You know, if it's a split that you got to do with them, you're
• 33:00
  you're still making more money than you would have.
• 33:02
  I would I'd go for a split. You know, 3070% of of of
• 33:10
  something is better than 0% of nothing.
• 33:13
  I've said that before. So not only is it Disney World,
• 33:18
  but Disneyland. We'll be getting into the action
• 33:21
  on March 22nd of 2026 at the Fantasyland Theatre in
• 33:28
  Disneyland. You're going to get that area.
• 33:30
  It's going to transform into Bluey School where you can join
• 33:36
  the fun of Bluey's best day ever during the fair at Bluey School
• 33:41
  where you can see the grannies, dance with the chatter, Max, eat
• 33:46
  fav foods inspired by the animated series at Troubadour
• 33:51
  Tavern and lots more. So they will get into the action
• 33:55
  on the West Coast as well. And not to be left out, Bingo
• 34:02
  and Bluey will be hitting the Disney Cruise Line as well.
• 34:08
  Not the ship that leaves out of Australia though out of Florida.
• 34:13
  So they will be heading to the Wish and the Dream starting in
• 34:23
  2026. Well there you go.
• 34:27
  I mean if you have a family that's trying to decide between
• 34:30
  1 ship or the other and the the the decision is really close,
• 34:36
  maybe Bluey pushes them over the edge and it gets them to choose
• 34:39
  a different ship. Yeah, and I'll tell you what the
• 34:44
  the meet and greets for a lot of those characters on the ships
• 34:49
  are can be crazy. I can't imagine.
• 34:56
  I can't imagine what this is going to be like.
• 34:58
  I think that they will end up doing what you have to sign up
• 35:03
  for them like you do with the Royal Princess court.
• 35:10
  So if you want to meet the four princesses, you have to sign up
• 35:12
  for that. I'm sure they would do that with
• 35:14
  Bingo and Bluey because they are going to be way too popular, way
• 35:18
  too popular. So, but I don't I think it's
• 35:21
  cool. It's something brand new.
• 35:24
  You know, when was the last time you saw new characters
• 35:26
  introduced to Disney parks and and Disney Cruise Line, Marvel,
• 35:32
  I guess, and we don't get that over here.
• 35:34
  So. Yeah, probably.
• 35:38
  So yeah, so we got some got some good stuff coming to the parks.
• 35:43
  I'm like, I'm excited to see it. And so, you know, we we do real
• 35:58
  news, obviously protest by Doctor Disney and on the
• 36:03
  monorail report, I like to do the fake news.
• 36:09
  And I just happened to scroll and see our well, I was going to
• 36:15
  call them friends. They're not friends.
• 36:16
  But over at Disney fanatic, Disney World's castle officially
• 36:21
  for sale leaving Orlando that that's your headline?
• 36:26
  Yeah. I can.
• 36:31
  I can never figure out those headlines, what they really
• 36:34
  mean. I, I, I don't even know what to
• 36:37
  think. I don't even know what to think.
• 36:38
  I, I, why, why not just give us a real, you know, just give us a
• 36:45
  real story. I'm just scrolling through some
• 36:50
  of these. So there's four.
• 36:53
  We don't really talk about who they are, but I'm going to do
• 36:57
  that now. Disney dining, Disney Tips,
• 37:02
  Disney Fanatic and Inside the Magic, which you, you, you know,
• 37:07
  Inside the Magic. So all four of those are all
• 37:13
  owned by the same company. They're all part of Inside the
• 37:16
  Magic. Are they?
• 37:18
  Yeah, and and one is worse than the other.
• 37:24
  They talked about Sauron. They said Sauron is closing
• 37:26
  forever next next year. How do you work around these
• 37:32
  things? Like, no, Soren's not closing
• 37:37
  forever. They're changing it and it's
• 37:39
  only temporary, but they're giving us Soren across America,
• 37:42
  which is going to be really cool.
• 37:44
  But of course, they, you know, write it with this click bait
• 37:47
  headline it It's just it's just terrible, just terrible.
• 37:55
  Police move in on Magic Kingdom after violence spree.
• 37:58
  Emergency alert issued for resort area.
• 38:02
  You were on property this weekend.
• 38:04
  Were you evacuated? No.
• 38:07
  Did SWAT show up at the Wyndham? Nope, not at all.
• 38:13
  Yeah, that's, that's what they do.
• 38:15
  They drive me crazy. So that drives me nuts.
• 38:18
  Just pay attention to where you get your news from Disney,
• 38:24
  certainly Disney World, you'll see it with a little blue.
• 38:27
  If you look on Facebook, a little blue check mark, that's
• 38:30
  the official site. Disney World or Walt Disney
• 38:34
  World, Disney Parks, those are the official ones.
• 38:36
  You can certainly follow the Disney Streamer Network.
• 38:40
  We will post our own news when we find it.
• 38:44
  If not, we will repost news from Doctor Disney, who is a third
• 38:49
  party but trustworthy. Do not follow those other sites
• 38:54
  unless you want to follow them for Saxe or laughs, right?
• 39:01
  Or play the game that I do. Look at the headline and try and
• 39:05
  figure out what's the actual story.
• 39:09
  Yeah. You know what I think?
• 39:10
  I just I think I just thought of a new segment for the live
• 39:14
  stream. You know, we have the side
• 39:16
  panels. Yeah.
• 39:18
  You're in a queue. I'm going to put a side panel up
• 39:21
  with that headline. I'm going to let the chat try
• 39:23
  and figure out what the actual story is.
• 39:27
  I like it. We're.
• 39:28
  Going to have some fun with that.
• 39:30
  I like it. I like it a lot.
• 39:33
  So there you have it, we are live from magic tomorrow on
• 39:39
  living in Diz. Live from Magic Kingdom on
• 39:42
  Living in Diz so make sure you go over there.
• 39:44
  Living in Diz is finishing up the strongest year ever on the
• 39:48
  channel with everything views, just just just everything that
• 39:55
  makes up a channel and behind the scenes numbers and people
• 39:59
  watching here and there. And it's been really fun to
• 40:02
  watch behind the scenes and I think we got great momentum
• 40:06
  going into 2026, so we're very, very excited.
• 40:09
  We probably had that record numbers over there at Universal
• 40:13
  2. I mean, I would think so.
• 40:18
  You know, Corey and I were were looking at the numbers for the
• 40:21
  Saturday stream, watching Grinch Miss, watching the parade, which
• 40:24
  didn't have balloons because of the weather.
• 40:28
  You know, we're like, it is what it is.
• 40:31
  It's going to be what it is, you know, can't do anything about
• 40:34
  it. And then the next morning, I
• 40:36
  compare it to last year's Grinch Miss and it was like double.
• 40:43
  It was double. So you know the the growth on
• 40:47
  the channel right now is crazy. It had the highest live stream
• 40:51
  ever for the Christmas parade, the Christmas parade, the
• 40:56
  Christmas taping. All of that was the highest
• 41:01
  viewed live stream on Living and IS.
• 41:04
  We then posted a video of the parade on its own and it is
• 41:10
  still climbing and IS has over 125,000 views right now.
• 41:16
  And the next what? What was the record?
• 41:18
  Was it 44,000 I think? Probably.
• 41:23
  I think 44,000 was the was the highest viewed and that was that
• 41:28
  was a a trailer that we play before the stream starts.
• 41:34
  So it's kind of forced views in in that regard.
• 41:37
  But 125,000 so the channels got some great growth in it.
• 41:43
  I'm just happy I get to sit back and and watch it.
• 41:47
  It's awesome and you're a big part of it.
• 41:48
  And I, I, I love giving you the credit that we're credits due.
• 41:53
  So we're having a lot of fun. We're having a lot of fun out
• 41:55
  there. It's it's nice to just go out
• 41:57
  and have fun and enjoy the parks.
• 42:00
  And I don't have to worry about as much tech either, because our
• 42:03
  signal and picture and all that stuff has been out of this
• 42:08
  world. So in the 60 frames per second,
• 42:11
  I just gawk at it all the time. I'm like, look at this.
• 42:14
  This is so smooth. Yeah, wow.
• 42:18
  Yeah, pretty, pretty amazing. Yeah, surely.
• 42:21
  So definitely Magic Kingdom tomorrow night and then we will
• 42:26
  be over at Epcot for our first trip over there for a festival
• 42:30
  of the holidays and the cookie stroll.
• 42:32
  Like we it reviewed last podcast, so if you haven't
• 42:37
  checked that out yet, go back and review that and then come
• 42:39
  back and join us on Saturdays for Epcot Festival of the
• 42:45
  Holidays. And we will be trying some
• 42:47
  foods, doing the cookie stroll. And yeah, I can't guarantee a
• 42:55
  World Showcase walkthrough that night, though we're thinking
• 42:58
  about it because it's a new month of flavours over at Salt
• 43:02
  and Straw, and we might have to, we might have to go over there
• 43:06
  and try some of those wonderful flavours.
• 43:10
  All right, very cool. I will.
• 43:13
  I'll be ready. We'll be ready.
• 43:16
  Sounds good. Whatever we decide to do there
• 43:17
  at the last minute, we'll check out the new merch I haven't even
• 43:20
  seen a stitch of. Well, if I did, I don't even
• 43:22
  remember it. So we'll check out the merch for
• 43:24
  the first time in person as well for Festival of the Holidays
• 43:29
  and. I don't think we showed any
• 43:31
  merch on the week. On our previews.
• 43:33
  We tend not to do merch. We we deep dive into the food
• 43:37
  and stuff. So I don't think we did.
• 43:39
  We did merch so. That's OK.
• 43:40
  We can take care of that in the parks.
• 43:42
  Sharon Hecker says we're growing like a weed.
• 43:44
  Let's keep the momentum going. That's what I say.
• 43:46
  And I think it's going to keep going.
• 43:48
  Thanks to all of you. So yeah, if we're good, we're
• 43:53
  heading to the Zoom call. All right, folks, if you're a
• 43:56
  member of Skyline and above, we will see you over there.
• 44:01
  All right, everyone, until then, we are a couple of Bros just
• 44:04
  talking Disney. We'll see you next Tuesdays here
• 44:07
  on the DIS pod. Good night.
• 44:08
  Everyone.