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137. Bringing the Theme Parks Home (Hub Episode) · Mom Street USA

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Welcome everybody to another episode of Mom St.
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USAI am your host Jackie, and you've got a hub episode today.
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So we are joined by our good friends Duck and Jess for
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today's topic. And today we're going to be
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talking about recreating the parks at home.
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So different tips and tricks of things that you can do at home
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if you're missing Disney or Universal.
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That is our topic for today. But before we jump in, Duck and
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Jess, how are you doing on this lovely summer evening?
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Do you want to grow any good? Yeah, can't complain.
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Very excited to talk about some of this stuff because you know,
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as much as we would love to literally live at various theme
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parks, it is unfortunately not realistic.
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Yeah, and we are, you know, fairly far away, you know.
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You consider locals. No, considering I am in Ohio,
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you all are in the New Jersey area, we're we're just not
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close. So this list is truly things
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that we do like realistic. It's not just like a list of
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things that we have come up with.
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No, this is like legitimately what we do.
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So we're excited to share it with you to hopefully give you
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guys some ideas. I'm fairly certain a lot of our
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listening audience probably does one or two of the things that
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are on our list, given that we're all, you know, theme park
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people. It's it's like the hive mind
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situation, you know, like I think eventually everyone has
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the same Google search of how to feel like Disney at home, how to
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universal at home or whatever you are, you know, various
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searches off of that maybe for sure for the other.
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Well, and I feel like this truly, and I've got some stories
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later that kind of tie into this, but I feel like truly,
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this started a lot more when everybody went through the
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pandemic together and the parks were closed and we couldn't do
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anything with the parks. Like, we literally didn't even
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have an option to go. Yeah, You know, people were
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just, and we were all just so desperate for a little tiny
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taste of the parks at home. And it has now kind of blossomed
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into this really accessible thing that you can do various
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different ways. So I'm excited to hear what you
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guys have to share and to bring my $0.02 into today's topic.
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So Duck, are you starting us off today?
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Are. You up first, I'm up first.
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I mean, it's a kind of different part.
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So yeah, we can. Just jump right in.
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I love it. Let's go.
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All right, so one super easy way to bring the theme parks home is
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through scented candles and room sprays.
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They are there are entire companies that are dedicated to
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recreating the iconic sense of Walt Disney World and Universal
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right at home. So we've been recreating our
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Sapphire Falls vacations by spraying Royal Sapphire.
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Not sponsored, no hash hash not sponsored.
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Listen, we wouldn't be upset. Nope, we would not be upset.
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We would love to be sponsored. Listen, our room, this was
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purchased with our own money because I, we were, we were
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chomping at the bin. I was, I was like scratching at
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the walls. I was like, I need a little
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something. And I was like, cuz we were also
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trying to figure out, you know, like a home signature scent, if
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you will, right. Like, I really like that idea.
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It feels very bougie, but still within my tax bracket, you know
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what I mean? Yeah, I really like the smell of
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Sapphire Falls. I bet you there is someone out
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there, like, I bet you, I could either like buy the scent
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directly or somebody has been able to recreate it.
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And lo and behold, we found, quite literally, they have the
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exact scent that is both Royal Pacific and Sapphire Falls.
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So it it it scratched. The edge.
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Very accurate, Photorealistic. Yeah.
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Sapphire. I don't think I said the name of
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the company. The company is Parksense.
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And they have, you know, a whole line of candles and fragrance
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oils and all kinds of things, and from everything from
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Universal hotels and parks to Disney parks, hotels, Disney
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snacks. So they are easily our favorite
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at the moment. They also have one for the HHN
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fog which I'm desperate to try. I find and yeah, yeah, if it's
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still the same does does the. Fog have a distinct scent.
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It absolutely does. And I will say so it is, it is
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even slightly different than like your traditional theme park
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haunt fog sense, right? Like 'cause I think everybody
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can picture that, right? Like even if you never, if
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you've been to like a concert, right?
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Like if they have the fog machines, like guy has a very
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distinct scent. Universals is is it's in that
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same vein but it is slightly different.
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I think because they need so much they might have like their
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own basically like in house formulation at those fall in
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24/7. Once once September hits it's
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over. Those things don't one.
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So yeah, I'm really, I think that's the next one that we want
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to try just to say yeah, yeah. Well.
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It'll be good because you'll go on your trip and then you can
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really truly compare like, and you're not relying just on your
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like memory of last year's fog to try to compare.
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You know, it's going to be like a whole science experiment.
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That's it. Nailed it.
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Where can you do this? We're going to do this
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scientifically. There's going to be a
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methodology to this. We're going to brainstorm it.
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I'm going to figure it out. We will make this a full
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experiment. Yeah, exactly that.
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That is exactly what I was picturing in my head was just
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like the little beakers and things from The Nightmare Before
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Christmas that it's perfect. Yeah, what could it mean?
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I love this. Well, aside from Parksense,
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there's some other companies that have similar things that
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products that they offer. So what?
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What else do we what? What other companies can we go
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to to look for our favorite scents?
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So there is magic handle company, which I'm sure a lot of
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you have heard of a lot of Youtubers and stuff promote them
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as well. And there's also Bose signature
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candles. So they actually have a spot in
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the marketplace Co-op in Disney Springs and they actually
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partner with Disney to create scents that are inspired by the
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resort. So that is like, if you want
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like official, like sponsored by Disney Sense, that is the place
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to get them. They also do have an online shop
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too, so you can get them shipped to home.
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But it's definitely like a fun souvenir, functional souvenir,
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right? You go pick out the scent for
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maybe the resort you're staying at or whatever, and then you get
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to bring it home and then kind of have that magic with you when
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you get back from a trip. So that is another fun option
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too. And Bath and Body Works has been
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coming out with a bunch of really fun Disney inspired lines
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and every once in a while too, like I think they had like a
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Fiji candle at one point that smelled like Fiji and Sauron.
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Like was definitely not purposefully inspired by, but
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just happened to smell just like it.
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So sometimes you can find dupes and places like Bath and Body
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Works and Yankee Candle and stuff like that.
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But the Bath and Body Works line is definitely not like parks
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inspired, but Disney character inspired and things like that.
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So it's a lot of fun. You definitely have a bunch of
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scents from the collection. So I think I'm currently using
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the Like Tangled scent. I think I've got Tiana right now
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that that I have been because I like the Tiana and the Moana
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were like my two favorite from the princesses that came out.
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And then the second collection that bath and Body Works had,
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they had just like a generic Princess candle.
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I loved it. It smelled so good.
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It smelled so good that we had a bunch of like, you know, Bath
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and Body Works has a pretty good decent like rewards program and
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we had a bunch of the single Wick candles for free and we
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used them all on that Princess candle because I was like it.
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Smells so good. Yeah, and it's always like they
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always run promotions where? It's like giving.
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Things Buy hair candles, get 47 hand sanitizers for free or for
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a year. Bath and body works.
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OK, so I'm I'm sure folks are familiar with this term, but
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like the treat economy, right, like you can, you can maybe
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can't afford your to like do a huge and like maybe you can't
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afford to take a theme park vacation at this very moment.
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But what you can do is get yourself a little treat that
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reminds you of the parks. And so like IA bath and body
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work is like the foundation of the little tree economy with
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especially with this Disney line and some of the other sense,
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like you said, that are very similar to other things.
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So those Princess candles and that was, that's like a pillar
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of the little treat situation. And then I rationed them so that
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I so that so that I don't, you know, you can't leave them
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burning all day. You have to find another cheaper
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candle that the scent compliments it.
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It's a whole thing to talk about science experiment.
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This is my science experiment. It becomes a hobby 100.
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Percent. Yeah.
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Well, and then Andrew bought me, they had a Castle little plug in
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for the car like that you can put on the vent.
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So he bought me that and with a bunch of the little sense too.
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So like every time I get in my car, I have a little castle.
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It's just I know that's what you have to do.
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Like literally, I live in Ohio. Come on people, give me
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something. I need this castle.
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I need this in my life for my mental health.
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OK, It's fine. It's fine.
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I'm fine. We're fine.
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Don't worry about it. This is.
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Fine. Yeah, we're great.
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OK. So aside from sense, I think our
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next topic that we want to talk about is food, which I'm, I'm
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guessing we're turning this over to duck because this is this is
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their their bread and butter, if you will get it.
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It's funny. It's not funny, but I'll, I'll
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humor me and pretend like it's funny.
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So duck, what can we do with food all?
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Right. So we're saying, I think we've
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established, right, Like my favorite thing about theme parks
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is trying their miscellaneous snaps.
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If we can sneak a signature dinner situation in there, we're
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going to do it, right? I think that people think that
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these special treats are often more difficult to make than they
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necessarily are. So there are some things that
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you can do that you don't like fully need a cookbook for,
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right? Like my favorite breakfast to
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get one where Magic Kingdom is the fruit and Nutella waffle
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over in Soopy Hollow, right? And so that is a perfect
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breakfast in my personal opinion.
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It's chocolate, it's fruit, it's carbs.
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Like we're good. And so easy to do at home.
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It's so good. And so at home when I'm like
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really just like in my fields about not being able to go to
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the parks, I'm like, I can have my perfect breakfast.
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There's nothing stopping me. You know, I'm an adult.
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I can have them tell for breakfast.
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There is no rules. Here, absolutely.
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Especially when you're in the theme parks.
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Yeah, 100%. So that is like a good easy one
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to recreate at home. You don't necessarily need any
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guidance or instructions, but for some of the more complex
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things, or maybe it's like a full meal that you're trying to
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recreate. There are about 110 trillion
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theme park cookbooks, right? It's like anything and
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everything that you can think of.
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We have a ton of them actually. So we have the Unofficial Disney
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Parks Cookbook, Delicious Disney, Walt Disney World
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Recipes and Stories from the Most Magical place on Earth, the
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Black Spire Outpost Cookbook, and we actually there was one
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more that we had. We have a couple of them.
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I just looked at me on pic and it's like whatever, I could buy
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it to see a cookbooks like shoved everywhere.
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Yeah. Cookbook problem.
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If this is what you're accusing me of public, I'm certainly not
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accusing you of a problem. I my problem is I buy them and
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then I forget that I bought them and then I forget that I should
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use them. It's a collection I.
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Know I know this this this this episode right here is going to
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get me to actually find my cookbooks that I have perfect
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because I know I have two or three that are Disney related.
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Yeah. And, and they have done, I have
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to say with pretty much all of those, they've done a good job
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of making the recipe of scaling it down.
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Of course, you're not cooking enough food for a theme park.
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So it's scaled down. And for a lot of these, there
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are, it is like reasonable suggestions of substitutions if
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maybe you don't have access to every single ingredient, right,
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to get it that recipe close enough to whatever may be your
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favorite themed Brock lunches or your favorite snack or something
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like that. So I've actually, I've I've
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we've made many recipes out of these books and most of them are
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pretty close. The one that I think we've made
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the most often though, is the Ronzo wraps from Galaxy's Edge,
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because that is feels very specific, right?
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It's like very unique. It feels very Galaxy's edge and
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they're really easy to make, like shockingly easy.
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So that is, that's a recipe that's also a lot of these
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recipes are also available online, especially like you were
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saying, during the pandemic, Disney put up a lot of them
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themselves. So the Pronto Wrap is a really
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good one because it's very unique to the theme parks and
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it's fairly approachable. Even if you weren't like a
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super, super chef, you know, if the cooking's not necessarily
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your hobby. Yeah, I, I stick more with the
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baking side of things. So I'll do more of that kind of,
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I know that I've done like churros and things like that
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before where it's like I just wanted, just wanted a little
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bit, a little bit of something. And Kate and I have done a
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couple cooking episodes way back when, you know it when in the
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first year or so of Mom St. we did a couple where we did some
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copycat recipes and things, but always super fun.
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Disney food blog has a bunch that are online too that you can
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go to where they have like the copycat recipes.
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Lots of places you can find them online if you don't have access
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to a cookbook. But the other thing is a lot of
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these cookbooks are like at your local library.
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So like. Library kids?
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Absolutely. Yes.
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So support your libraries. Go check out what they've got.
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Because of a lot of these cookbooks, none of them are like
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put out by some weird indie distributor, like they're all
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put out by Disney. So like your, your libraries are
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going to have them. So that's another place that you
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can grab them from and keep them for a couple weeks and make a
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bunch of recipes and have fun with it.
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Yeah, 100%. If you can't, maybe if you are
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not that handy in the kitchen or maybe if that just does not, you
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are not interested in dirtying that many pots and pan, that is
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a OK, there's no judgement here. What you can also do is there
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are in some grocery stores they will sell essentially like mass
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produced versions, like localized versions of different
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Disney treats. So of course there's the
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premium, the Mickey premium bars and the Dole Whip.
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You have a very strong opinion the.
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Same. It has like a banana Y taste to
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me, like I don't know what it is.
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So it's definitely not the same. But like if you're looking for
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that fix and you're like, I don't care.
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I just want like a Dole Whip adjacent treat.
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Totally passable, right? Also a lot of like local ice
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cream places by us anyway. I don't know if like everywhere
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does it, but like have their own versions of Dole Whip.
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So I've never actually tried those near us though.
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But a lot of people do order it. So almost I think it's good, but
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part of me is just like, I don't know.
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If it's not the same, I'll be disappointed.
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Right. I think part of the difference
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is, though, that like the one you buy at the store doesn't
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come out of a soft serve machine.
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It's like it's like, well, it's like canned or bottled Coke
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versus fountain Coke. Yeah, You know what I mean?
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Like there's a difference between 100%, yeah.
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Yeah, the syrup ratios and then like also like for transit,
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right, Like, yeah, being made in the soft serve machine versus
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having to be shelf stable for some undetermined period of
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time. Exactly.
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I mean like it's, it's just different circumstances.
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So like you said, I think they're extremely popular.
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Every time we're getting them in our local place, there's always.
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Some we have found the Mickey ice cream sandwiches too.
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Yeah, yeah, Class X goodbye. Yeah.
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The other thing that you can do as like an at home, it is a
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little bit of an investment, but you, you wanted to throw this in
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here, There's the, there's the Mickey waffle maker that they
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sell so you can have your Mickey waffles at home.
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There's nothing stopping you except $100.
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If you can get that $100 together, you too can have.
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Mickey waffles. I've priced them out before.
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I'm like these are expensive but.
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If you wait till Black Friday, sometimes Kohl's will have the
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little small ones on sale too. Yeah, I have Mickey shape, but
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like they do Disney Cheyette. Yeah, don't.
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You have best *1. No, that's not Panini Press.
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That's the. Molten cheese.
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It does press the dust stickers out because I.
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Tried to use it once and burn the holy heck out of my hand and
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I was like that's this is getting a blunt and.
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She'll probably come from like box lunch or something.
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It's just not a very legitimate, you know, depending.
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On how it's made, you may be able to make like a really thin
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waffle on that. Just saying.
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Like a crate. Yeah.
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Roll thin, Jackie. Jackie, you're on this though.
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I'm about. To go get this head job back in
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the cover. Coming to you soon on the next
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Chaos live stream, Duck and Jess attempts to make Death Star
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crepes. From the Burn War, I'm going to
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come on. It didn't.
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Work. And then I'm going to feel real,
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real responsible for that. Jess, I'm so sorry.
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No one can be responsible for me.
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There's no, there's no controlling this.
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Oh my. Gosh, one of my favorite things
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that we started doing on Christmas morning after we open
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gifts with my kids, we turn on the Disney parade, of course.
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And I have a Mickey waffle maker from 1992 that my mom used to
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make us Mickey waffles on. The handle on it is totally
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broken because I think I dropped it at one point in time and the
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plastic just shattered. But there's enough of like a
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little handle that I can open and close it without burning
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myself. But I make Mickey waffles and we
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do like a Christmas morning brunch and it's the old school
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they, they come out about as big as my face and they are the
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Mickey shape. They're not like the some of the
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newer ones have like the circular where they just like
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imprint the character. You know what I mean?
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This is like true Mickey waffle. And the best part is that the
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ears are like little syrup buckets and you can like, it's
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the best part. That's a proper picture.
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I know and like they don't make. I have scoured the Internet and
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they do not make waffle makers like this anymore.
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And so this is like my prize Mickey Possession is this waffle
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maker. I'm going to tell you.
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Scour yard sales. That's the other place I need to
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look. That's going to be the place
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because people are going to be like, well, I don't this thing
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is from when I was a kid in 1992 or whatever, and they're just
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going to throw it out for a dollar and then you'll have a
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backup. That and that's what that's what
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I was looking for because I was like, I need to make sure that
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this Mickey waffle maker never dies.
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I need to go to like flea markets and stuff near me too.
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That's a good call. Now I know what I'm doing with
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every weekend from now until it's too cold to be outside.
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That's the game. Yes, but yeah, any of those
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kinds of things. And you can buy the same waffle
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mix that Disney uses. I don't remember off the top of
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my head what it's called. It's in like a golden bag.
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But it's like you can buy, you can Google it and find out, but
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you can literally buy the same waffle mix that Disney uses.
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That's actually a really good point.
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There are more things that you can buy that commercial kitchens
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use than most people think. So if there's a particular sauce
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or like something that you really like that you that you
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normally get at a theme park and you've never really seen it
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anywhere else, just Google it, you can find it.
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This is how I learned how to make movie theater popcorn at
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home using It's a thing called flavour call.
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It's like the, it's like the, the salts that that movie
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theaters use, right? And so like, I couldn't quite
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get it. And finally I, I caved and I
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googled it and it turns out that they sell it just like to
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regular people. You don't have to be yeah,
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right. Like perfect example is like if
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you really, if you really are going for the the little tree
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economy, right, like you're going for the Mickey Waffle
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experience, you can absolutely get that that same mix.
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Or if there's again like sauces or anything like that, those are
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pretty widely available too. Yes, it's it's, it's becoming
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more and more be as like people have posted online, like, hey,
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I'm a cast member in this kitchen.
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This is what we use. Like that part, like it's,
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they're not sharing Disney secrets, you know, it's just,
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it's. Hellman's mayonnaise is our
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secret. Right.
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Like, it's just, it's just not that way anymore.
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So I feel like the more, you know, the, the, the more in
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Internet culture we have become since, you know, when we were
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kids, nobody knew what Disney was using.
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Like, there was no way to find out unless you literally worked
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there. But now it's, it's pretty
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widespread information for a lot of things.
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Yeah. No.
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Absolutely, and shout out to the Internet what are the only good
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things you did? So true, so true.
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OK, what else food wise can we plan to do to bring the parks up
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to our homes? So this.
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Is, if you are correct, like me and love Epcot and their
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festivals, what we really like to do is basically try to create
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our own little like eating around the world flight at home,
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right? So we'll look up the menus or if
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there's like things that have been there in the past that we
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know, you know, food or drink or whatever.
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Most of these things are pretty easy to do at home and you can
22:30
have as much or as little of the portion as you want, right?
22:33
Like sometimes you get you get a little cheaped out at some of
22:35
these food booths. I'm willing to admit it.
22:37
You friend a lot of it, it works out fine because you are going
22:40
around in sampling, but you know, maybe you wanted more of,
22:45
you know, the this one particular dish then the other.
22:47
You know, at home you can have a little bit more control over
22:50
that. And what I really like about
22:52
this sort of creating your own like eating around the world at
22:56
home is that this can involve everybody, right?
22:59
If you want to have your whole family, your your kids can pick
23:03
snacks, then they can help with the prep or maybe not.
23:06
Depending on how your kids are, they may need you need to be
23:09
doing a Disney themed craft in the other room.
23:12
Well, why did you wear preparing the sacks for the safety ball
23:15
involved? Just depend on where your kiddos
23:17
are at and how destructive they are in the kitchen, you know,
23:20
but it really can be like a very fun, you know, Family Day
23:23
because they can pick out the snacks and then you can get them
23:26
hyped as they're going shopping and they're picking out their
23:28
own things, right? Like it just really could be a
23:30
fun bonding experience. And then you can just end it by,
23:34
you know, eating snacks and watching a movie together or
23:36
what have. You so yeah, we love a good
23:39
themed snack themed Disney movie night, right?
23:43
Like that is so much fun to be able to theme and you don't have
23:46
to go all out. Like you don't have to plan this
23:49
five course dinner that's all themed.
23:51
Like you can literally just pick your favorite park snack and
23:55
watch a Disney movie or, you know, find a way to theme it or
23:59
what we like to do things like you know how I get the
24:02
confectionery at Magic Kingdom. You can do like the create your
24:05
own popcorn. We'll do that where you just
24:07
like we throw some chocolate syrup, some M&M's, some
24:09
marshmallows, like whatever the kids want.
24:12
Like we just throw it all out there and they make their own
24:15
popcorn. Whatever I want, because now I'm
24:18
doing that popcorn. Yeah.
24:20
So I this never occurred to me. I don't know how so.
24:25
'Cause you always like the classic like movie theater
24:27
buttered pop I. Just established with the
24:30
flavor. Call guys our guys a great
24:32
length semester, my favorite and like considered branching out.
24:37
My favorite though is like you can make it like a trail mix
24:41
style, so you can do like popcorn, pretzels, M&M's, like
24:45
any of that, like like peanuts, any of that kind of stuff too.
24:49
And sweet, yeah. Yeah.
24:51
And then you put, you do like chocolate syrup on it.
24:53
You can get because you got to think it's like ice cream
24:55
topping. So it's like peanut butter
24:56
syrup. You can do marshmallow fluff
24:58
with it. You can do white chocolate.
25:00
Like you have so many options. I can have more popcorn.
25:04
Yes, I got I got to go make some Smurf popcorn.
25:07
This has been a great populator. Bye.
25:11
That's it. Right, but like any of that is
25:14
super fun and especially like if you want to go the extra mile,
25:18
jump on Amazon, buy a cute little container or little sets
25:22
of reusable popcorn tins that you can put it in because part
25:25
of the fun with, especially if you get into the confectionery
25:27
is having that lid on it so you can shake it up and really mix
25:30
it up in there, right. So you want to give yourself,
25:33
you know, or buy cute little Mickey Mouse reusable popcorn
25:36
containers or anything like that if you really want to go the
25:39
extra mile. But like, also just grab your
25:42
favorite popcorn bowl or cereal bowl out of the cabinet and just
25:45
make your make your popcorn that way.
25:47
Like, you don't have to be take it.
25:49
Yeah, yeah. And like, your kids don't care.
25:52
They just want to eat the popcorn.
25:53
They don't care what it what it looks like or what it the
25:55
container looks like. Like that's more for your
25:57
aesthetic as the adult in the situation.
26:00
But like, your kids don't care. I'm telling you right now, they
26:03
don't care. Your kids aren't scrolling on
26:05
Pinterest. Sewing mother dearest.
26:08
I need the most aesthetic popcorn bucket or I they'll be
26:11
mopped, you know? Like it's not.
26:14
It's just simply. They're just like.
26:15
Oh sick, I get popcorn with chocolate syrup so.
26:19
Right. Oh, like.
26:20
I think there is, especially with like, you know, we were
26:23
talking about the event of social media and everything.
26:25
You think there's a lot of pressure that people put on
26:27
themselves to make like the perfect Pinterest Disney night.
26:30
Like, yeah, you don't have to do that parents.
26:32
You can your kids are so stoked if you tell them that you are
26:36
recreating the confectionery popcorn.
26:38
They're they are, they will. Doesn't matter what bullets in
26:40
you know what I mean? Yeah, I think I think there's a
26:42
lot of pressure to you know, like you could do those things,
26:46
right? There's no one if you want to go
26:48
the extra mile if you yourself are feeling like I want to have
26:52
the popcorn out of the legit containers, totally fine.
26:56
But also don't put too much pressure on yourself, right?
26:59
Some of these things are they're really just to bring you joy and
27:03
the moment it's putting more pressure on you, it becomes not
27:05
fun, right? And that's what really the theme
27:07
parks in Disney are about is fun.
27:09
So, you know, just make sure that as you're doing these
27:11
things, you're having a good time and eating your body weight
27:15
in chocolate covered powder. Yes, well, and it's about
27:18
bringing the magic home, right? So like if it's not magical
27:21
because you're stressed out about it, like what are, what
27:23
are we doing here? Friends?
27:25
What are we doing here? Friends, what are we doing?
27:28
Not magical, Tragical. It's all around us and it's not
27:31
magical. Yeah.
27:33
So, OK, so while we're creating our create your own
27:36
confectionery popcorn, there may be some some other ambiance
27:42
theming things we could, you know, add to to the the vibe.
27:46
What do you got for us, Jess? Yes, you've got your Disney
27:49
sense, you've got your snack. Now we're going to recreate the
27:52
vibes of Disney, right? So one of our favorite ways to
27:55
do this is through various like Disney parks soundtracks and
27:58
playlists on streaming services. There are definitely like high
28:04
def walkthroughs of the parks and attractions and things like
28:07
that. So it definitely creates that,
28:09
you know, walking down Main Street or walking through
28:11
Adventureland or what have you there were.
28:13
Islands of adventure I listen to the ions of adventure port, the
28:16
port of entry noises very often, so it's so soothing.
28:20
I really a good one. I listen to the old Epcot Plaza
28:27
like interventions. I love new Epcot too, don't get
28:31
me wrong. Epcot, all of that just like
28:33
slaps at the entrance area. But the old interventions,
28:37
that's what I listen to a lot. 100% and.
28:41
It's a pretty good to like remember like that nostalgic
28:44
like feeling like being a kid going to the parks and things
28:46
like that. Things that no longer exist in
28:48
the parks, you can probably find those as well.
28:51
So Kate has a Spotify playlist for Big Fender Mountain, Jungle
28:54
Cruise, Adventureland and more on her profiles.
28:56
If you search Disney Sister on on Spotify you can find those
29:00
and then Party and Lyme both have great YouTube videos to
29:03
relive the different aspects of the parks as well.
29:06
Thanks Perk and Lyme. Yeah, I and I will Link.
29:08
Oh, you made hearts on your screen.
29:10
That was fancy. You do it again.
29:14
How fun. I can't do it, but I'm going to.
29:17
It's still cute. I will link the all of those
29:21
profiles and playlists down in our our show notes.
29:25
For those of you that are listening afterwards to
29:27
apparently you guys just get the fun little screen hearts.
29:29
Yeah, FYI, if you're not watching us and you're only
29:32
listening to us, you're missing out on the cute little screen
29:34
heart that have just appeared on Duck and Justice screen.
29:38
So find us on YouTube anyway. What?
29:40
What else can we find on YouTube or other places to increase our
29:45
Disney ambience? So.
29:47
If you're looking for a fun Disney log, there are YouTube
29:51
videos that have different like theme park inspired seasonal
29:54
soundtracks. So I have a bunch of these saved
29:57
on my computer at work for just like those days when it's like a
30:00
struggle blast to get there and I just like pull it up.
30:02
Like you're looking out a window at Main Street and there's like
30:05
snowflakes and a fireplace turning.
30:08
And then just like Christmas music, that sounds like the
30:11
music on Main Street, right? There's a Halloween themed one.
30:14
There's all kinds like they're definitely like a on generator
30:16
and I feel kind of bad about it sometimes.
30:18
But so you just need the magic sometimes.
30:21
So there's a whole bunch of those that you can find on
30:23
YouTube. And then Disney Plus does also
30:26
have like official Disney logs. So there is a Simpsons one, the
30:30
Grand Californian, the Jonas Christmas movie and then an
30:33
Arendelle Yule log so you have those as well.
30:37
To give you some Disney. Magic we we watch those a lot.
30:41
The Yule logs at Christmas time. It's easy to go on in the
30:44
background, like Christmas activities, just have something
30:48
on the TV in the background. The Arendelle 1 is super fun for
30:52
Frozen because Olaf will just like occasionally scamper across
30:55
the scene. I love those kinds where it's
30:59
like broken up by a little activity in the background or.
31:01
Whatnot And then Disney Parks also has a parks collection on
31:06
there. Or did I say Disney Parks?
31:07
Disney Plus has a cuz Alex. Too many P words.
31:14
Too many. Disney Plus has a parks
31:16
collection that includes a lot of behind the scenes
31:19
documentaries and movies inspired by the Disney parks.
31:22
There are also ride throughs of a bunch of attractions like the
31:25
Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean.
31:27
And then there's also the Imagineering series that kind of
31:30
goes behind the scenes of the making of some of the rides and
31:32
like the whole history and everything.
31:35
So that's a lot of fun. You get to like see interviews
31:36
with like the Imagineers and stuff like that.
31:39
Yeah, a lot of that is new. I love that they added, they
31:42
added a lot of the point of view videos in like honor of
31:46
Disneyland's 70th over the last year, which like I love that
31:49
they're doing that. Like, don't get me wrong, a lot
31:51
of this exists on YouTube also that you can go and find
31:54
different point of views and things.
31:56
But it's so fun to see Disney kind of jumping on that
32:00
bandwagon because Disney's going to have access to other
32:03
attractions that live streamers and Youtubers are not supposed
32:08
to be recording, you know? So it's fun to see Disney
32:12
putting out their own version of that to an extent.
32:15
And then real quick, if we just plug our friends over at this
32:19
story with Kirk and Kate, they also have the perfect podcast to
32:23
listen to if oh. You make fireworks go off on
32:27
your side. What is happening?
32:28
I mean what? Did you just do, I guess the
32:30
double thumbs up in it? What?
32:33
Hi, how did you do that? There it goes again, guys.
32:39
What's happening? I don't know.
32:41
Can I make it happen on mine? Why is this?
32:45
Oh. Yeah.
32:47
Why is it only you? On the phone.
32:52
Oh, maybe, I don't know. Mobile, yeah.
32:56
It probably can. It like has like the the virtual
33:00
like it can like that You can see what you're doing.
33:02
Anyway, we're offering you back, guy.
33:04
Yeah, literally. Oh my gosh.
33:07
Literally. Anyway.
33:11
I'm listening to some theme park history, some ride attraction
33:14
history. Kurt and Kate are wonderful, so
33:17
definitely go support them, yeah.
33:19
They are in the middle of a Pirates of the Caribbean series
33:21
as we're recording this right now, but they've done Jungle
33:24
Cruise, they've done Big Thunder Mountain, they've done Haunted
33:26
Mansion. Any if you are like a person
33:29
that wants the details, that's where you can find them.
33:34
So highly recommend that. And now ducks just making
33:38
fireworks go off in their background.
33:41
We're doing great over here. I'm locked in.
33:44
We're. Doing great.
33:46
Disney Plus also has some other kind of ambiance style videos as
33:50
well. They have a whole category on
33:53
Disney Plus that scenescapes and ambiance and it's got just these
33:57
really great videos that you can get.
33:59
They've got a Hopper themed one, they've got an Ahsoka one that's
34:02
got little low cats walking around.
34:04
They've got a hot different Haunted Mansion ones, they've
34:06
got Galaxy sounds, they've got a ton of Star Wars ones over
34:09
there. The Disney Sunrise series, 10
34:13
out of 10 recommend. It is so magical and calming.
34:17
And Cassie and our live chat is shouting that one out too.
34:20
I love, I love that one, especially for me because of the
34:26
way my schedule works. I like get up and take my kids
34:28
to school and then I come home and like drink my coffee and eat
34:30
my breakfast. I'll throw one of those on while
34:33
I'm doing that. It's such a nice way to wake up
34:36
in the morning and they have them for all four of the Disney
34:39
World parks. Highly recommend that one.
34:42
Another one that we love is Dory's Reef Cam.
34:45
And this is another one of those where it's just like an aquarium
34:49
ambiance. But then every once in a while
34:52
there is a character from Finding Dory that'll just like
34:55
swim across the screen. And it's like so cute, so much
34:59
fun. And a lot of these are like
35:01
several hours long. The sunrise ones are a little
35:03
bit shorter, but like the Dory's Reef Cam, I think it's like a
35:06
three hour cycle. So it's fantastic.
35:11
So they have tons of those that are super, super fun to do.
35:15
If you are a Disney Plus subscriber, obviously that does
35:19
come with a fee, unfortunately, but a lot of these similar style
35:22
ones are also available just like on YouTube also.
35:26
And Speaking of YouTube, something that my family really
35:29
likes to do is we will do like a plan our perfect park day and
35:33
then we go and watch it on YouTube.
35:35
So like we will plan what park we want to go to.
35:38
We'll pick a show or like a fireworks and then we'll pick
35:41
like four or five different attractions that we can find,
35:43
like ride point of view videos for.
35:46
And then we grab our snack or whatever, you know, and we, we
35:51
come together and we sit and watch, watch them as a family.
35:54
And we either chat about like our previous like trip that we
35:58
went on and we're like, oh, remember when we did this?
36:00
Or we talked about like, oh, on our next trip, I really want to
36:02
do this. Like we didn't get to do this or
36:04
like, Oh, I did this the first time on my last trip.
36:06
I want to do it again. So like we, you know, when we're
36:09
in between trips, that's a really fun way to kind of bridge
36:11
the gap because my kiddos are old enough and they've been a
36:14
couple times. So they like they're very aware
36:17
of what is in the parks and what is like available to them.
36:20
So that is a really fun way for them to be able to do that.
36:23
And sometimes we'll branch out and they'll want to pick like a
36:26
Disneyland stuff. Like I cannot tell you how many
36:28
times we have watched the magic happens per 1000 times probably.
36:34
The choice, at least. To work right so like sometimes
36:38
they're like well we know that you know Disney World has these
36:41
what does Disneyland have what does Tokyo have and a lot of
36:45
that stuff again is all available on YouTube.
36:47
We've watched Disney Cruise Line videos of like different shows
36:52
that they have we've watched fireworks shows we watch a lot
36:56
of Disneyland Paris. They have the cutest fall parade
37:00
at Disneyland Paris. It is one of my all time
37:02
favorites. It's got poo and friends in
37:04
these adorable little outfits and it's all like, Oh my gosh,
37:07
duck, you need to look it up. It is it is their equivalent of
37:11
like their Halloween parade, but it's very like Harvesty fall
37:14
themed. But they also have a really
37:16
great they're like Haunted Mansion Section 2 where Mickey
37:20
comes out of their Haunted Mansion float like top tier.
37:23
I love it. It's so much fun.
37:27
Oh no, I'm, I'm just going to have to go to Disneyland.
37:29
Paris for my. Salt the other option here,
37:34
obviously. Obviously, and during the fall
37:37
when this is all happening, you just you have to how it goes.
37:41
You have to. So yes, Needless to say, there
37:43
are tons of different ways that you can use and utilize YouTube
37:47
to plan a trip for fun, do some imaginary park exploring.
37:52
Sometimes we even go back and just watch, you know, different
37:55
live streamers that will repost. They're like walking around the
37:57
parks. And my oldest really likes to do
38:00
that because he is my map kiddo, which you've heard me talk about
38:03
out on mom St. before. He loves to know the maps and
38:07
know where everything is. And so he likes to like quiz
38:10
himself as he's watching these different like videos on YouTube
38:14
where he's like, OK, if we're going this way, then this ride
38:18
is over here and you know those types of things.
38:20
So he likes to to do those also. So lots of different ways you
38:23
can utilize YouTube for bringing some magic home.
38:26
I was got a. Better sense of direction I ever
38:28
will. But you know what, I am here for
38:31
it as a mom because when he is old enough and I am comfortable
38:36
enough to let him navigate things in the park by himself, I
38:39
have 0 concern that he is going to get lost.
38:43
Absolutely. He's got a damn pet.
38:45
Yeah. And like, yes, obviously we have
38:47
phones that can navigate us, you know, but he's he's not even
38:51
going to need them by the time he gets there.
38:53
And that like I love that as a parent who is a helicopter
38:57
parent and gets a lot of anxiety over not being able to
39:00
physically touch my children at all times because I need them
39:03
close enough to me. Especially in the Disney parks.
39:05
I am here for him being obsessed with maps and knowing where
39:09
everything is on property. So extremely fair.
39:13
Great skill to have in an emergency.
39:14
Absolutely. Yes, for sure.
39:17
OK. I think that is kind of our
39:19
little ambiance suggestions. I think we've got one more
39:23
section. You talk about if you are handy.
39:29
Or crafty. We're terrible at crafts and
39:33
just like to do that. Or just like a little activity
39:39
you can, there's tons of crafts and park activities that you can
39:43
do at home, right? A lot of these things are
39:45
thankfully very recreatable. And it's definitely a good
39:49
jumping off point for if you are really missing park things.
39:53
All things Disney or even all things Universal.
39:56
You know, I think we focus a lot on Disney here, but there are
39:59
even things that you can think of, you know, to sort of bring
40:01
the craft world into or Universal into the craft world.
40:06
So again, we're just going to pivot back to Disney because
40:08
that's where most of these like family friendly crafts and
40:11
things, things that will translate back to, you know, to
40:15
being able to do at home really come from.
40:17
But you can't adopt this for Universal or any other theme
40:20
park, you know, Hershey or Six Flags or whatever is your Home
40:23
Park. You can absolutely do it for
40:25
this too. So one of the things that I
40:30
think is a super cute idea is bringing home a a park scavenger
40:35
hunt, right? So Remy's Hide and Squeak is the
40:38
first one that came to mind because I also love to do Remy's
40:41
Squeak. Fame.
40:43
An activity and I love a trinket, as we've established.
40:46
Right, you love Ratatouille. I love Ratatouille.
40:48
Ratatouille is I think my favorite Pixar movie.
40:50
Love Ratatouille and so hide and squeak.
40:53
It's pretty easy to recreate something like that at home, you
40:57
know, for your kiddos or if Jess wants to do it for me.
41:00
It will not be upset. That might be a hint, Jess.
41:04
That might be might be a hint. Our wedding anniversary is
41:08
coming up in a couple days. I'm just throwing it out there
41:12
all all. Duck Needs is a build your own
41:15
popcorn bar, Ratatouille on the TV and a scavenger hunt.
41:20
Sold. Really true that.
41:22
Yeah, like I know you're saying it as a joke, but I am very
41:26
simple. I truly would be thrilled.
41:31
But but yeah, so hide and squeak is a pretty easy one.
41:34
Or any offshoot of that, right? If there's a particular
41:36
character that your kiddo loves or that you love, you know that
41:40
really you'd think would be good to incorporate it, right?
41:42
You can just make it a fun little scavenger hunt.
41:44
Bonus points if you dress up the toys that you're hiding around
41:47
the house in Little Chef outfits or get in like little food
41:50
activities, right? Like give the power Ranger a
41:53
little plastic eggplant to pretend like he's chopping it up
41:56
for whatever, you know, so you can really lean into or not into
42:01
this theming as much as you'd like, you know.
42:04
And then of course, at the end of completing the scavenger hunt
42:06
it, you can give a nice little Disney themed treat to your
42:09
kiddo. Or if you are just and you want
42:12
to, that's my pop. My popcorn bar is the treat that
42:15
I get at the end of the scavenger hunt.
42:16
However you want to work that into your routine.
42:18
That's a very at home doable activity.
42:21
Now I need to know if I can go on Amazon and buy tiny Little
42:25
Chef hats for all of my kids. Like stuffed animals.
42:29
I'm sure you can. They're I'm 100.
42:30
Percent positive of that and I have.
42:34
We have so many figurines and toy little collectible toys
42:38
around here. Yep, and think that Lego Darth
42:41
Maul would look really cute. I was thinking like Funko pop
42:49
size. Oh my gosh.
42:51
Oh he is like Funko pop size. OK he's one of those like big
42:53
head. Yep perfect.
42:55
I love this. You need like AI don't know 4
42:58
inch chef hat to stick on top of his head.
43:02
The possibilities are endless. Endless you have such a lovely
43:06
collection of characters that just need chef hats we have.
43:10
Trinkets. I think they're the the trinkets
43:13
yearn to be. Chefs.
43:16
It want to be leave of money. They want to be little chefs.
43:20
This, this, this is an excellent plan.
43:23
I, I'm, I'm here for this. Oh, Anna says.
43:25
A black chef's hat For Dark Maul, that is.
43:29
Yes. The on scene 100% the Sith Lord
43:32
took. I'm now just like envisioning
43:38
him in an apron cooking in his kitchen, and we've taken this
43:41
too far. OK, what else do you have for
43:46
us? So it is perhaps dressing up
43:49
Darth Maul as the executive chef at your book restaurant is not
43:54
what you want to do. You can do.
43:56
There's many, I think we've talked about this before that
43:59
there are, you know, like little paint and sip type classes that
44:03
they offer at different Disney resorts and things like that.
44:07
I think that's going to be our next like little Disney craft.
44:10
There's like 100,000 painting tutorials online.
44:13
So you can have like a little family activity.
44:15
That's a pretty low bar of entry for, you know, you know, like a
44:19
perhaps a more budget conscious situation.
44:21
You know, you got a couple canvases, a couple brushes.
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There's lots and lots of pretty easy Disney painting tutorials
44:28
that you can, you know, Emily or even just like a for like a
44:30
kiddo's birthday party that you can get together and do right.
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So they also sell 100,000 Disney themed craft kits.
44:37
So if you want to spray your, your grand Floridian room spray
44:43
and have your sunrise at Epcot going in the background and then
44:47
you're, and then you're going to do your little Disney feeding
44:50
bracelet situation craft kit that I saw at Barnes and Noble.
44:55
You know what I mean? There's I think crafts are a
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fairly accessible way to get yourself into the Disney theme,
45:02
the Disney spirit and I'm all of also the universal properties
45:07
I'm sure have equal and equal counterparts, especially how to
45:10
train your dragon in Harry Potter for sure and.
45:14
That sounds like heaven. That sounds just such a lovely
45:19
way. Well and Disney also has so many
45:21
of their like animation Academy videos are available on YouTube.
45:25
Like I have found whole playlists of those depending on
45:29
how difficult or easy you want to make them, like how to draw
45:32
the different Disney characters. I bet you you can find Universal
45:36
and other IP ones online as well.
45:39
So tons of different options with that.
45:41
I actually did something really similar to what you were talking
45:44
about with Remy's hide and squeak with my kids during the
45:47
pandemic. We talked about that a little
45:48
bit earlier where a lot of this stuff really kind of amped up
45:52
during that time. But I printed out little
45:55
pictures of Mickey and I am a nerd and I have a laminator.
45:58
So I laminated them and then I would take them and I would just
46:02
like like masking tape or painters tape, stick them all
46:05
around my house. And my kids were younger than,
46:07
you know, that was, gosh, over six years ago, which is like,
46:11
wild to think about. I know I don't want to talk
46:13
about it, but they were tiny at the time.
46:17
So I would make some of them easier for my, you know, my
46:19
youngest was not even 2 yet. And so it was like putting them.
46:23
I know, I know. That the factory was a little
46:26
jar to me. Yeah, anyway, But I would take
46:30
the whole point of this story is not to make me feel sad and in
46:34
my feels about how old my children are, but I would, I
46:38
would take the Mickey's and I would stick them around the
46:42
house. And then it was like a scavenger
46:44
hunt. And so we called it the head
46:46
Mickey game. And then I would just like keep
46:47
them in a Ziploc bag and they would bring them to me anytime
46:49
they wanted me to do it. And we just like, OK, Yep, let's
46:51
go. And sometimes we would do it
46:53
outside, like it was nice enough outside in the backyard.
46:56
We would do it out there. You know, they were.
46:57
And they were just little tiny laminated Mickey's that I just
47:00
found online and printed and laminated for them.
47:03
And it was like a super fun little way for them to get some
47:06
energy out and for it to be like fun in Disney themed.
47:09
So yeah. No, that's a good one.
47:12
Yeah, which is crazy because that was also before her first
47:16
trip, Like she had not been to Disney yet when this was all
47:19
when we were doing this, because we were supposed to go in like
47:26
April of 2020. Obviously that didn't happen.
47:31
And then we pushed it to November and we were still kind
47:35
of like. Maybe not.
47:38
A2 week lockdown that then turned into right seven years.
47:43
Right. And so then we eventually
47:44
finally took her April of 2021. So it's like almost a whole year
47:50
after we were supposed to go with her.
47:53
So yeah, luckily she was still under 3, so that that worked out
47:58
in our favor. But yeah, so hidden Mickeys or
48:02
hidden whoever's you want to to do.
48:05
Oh chef, that's whatever. Or tiny chef huts or you know,
48:09
whatever fun little things you can come up with if you're and a
48:14
lot of these I feel like because again, Ohio, I live in Ohio, it
48:18
is cold here and where you guys love it also is cold.
48:21
A lot of these are fabulous during the winter.
48:24
If you have like you just need something to break up the
48:28
monotony of being stuck inside because it's below 0 outside and
48:31
you like physically can't be outside because it's just like
48:33
not safe. These are fantastic different
48:37
things that you can do with your kiddos, the crafts, the drawing,
48:40
the paint by number or whatever different Disney or Universal
48:45
craft activity event you can come up with fabulous for winter
48:51
activities in the cold. If I may also recommend I I
48:55
meant spoke this in the notes so that's my fault.
48:57
But there is also if you have a kiddo who's a little bit older
49:02
or you yourself are interested in like model building, they
49:07
sell a lot of theme parks. I haven't really seen it for
49:11
Disney, but but a lot of like other theme parks like Hershey
49:15
and Dorney and Six Flags, they sell these things called nano
49:18
coasters, which are really great.
49:23
They're like scale replica recreations that are like
49:26
tabletop size. So they're usually no longer
49:29
than like 6 inches. And you can basically it's like
49:33
a metal recreation of like a tabletop metal recreation of, of
49:37
whatever the coaster is that you've purchased.
49:39
I really like to do them. That's like our tradition where
49:42
it Whenever we go to a new theme park, I will pick one to several
49:46
of my. Favorite.
49:48
Of my favorite coasters at that park and then I will buy the the
49:52
nano coaster models and I'll take them home to be able to
49:55
like recreate them. I have a little shot may shock
49:58
you. I have a shelf full of things,
50:01
but we have, I actually just got the most recent one from our,
50:04
our home local park, the Jersey double Coaster.
50:08
And so I, I completely forgot to mention that in our notes here,
50:11
but that's a really good, you know, activity if you're looking
50:14
for something to even just like Stow away for a rainy day for
50:17
yourself or for your kiddos. To let in like ride vehicles
50:21
that you can build, you don't really do them but like it's in
50:23
the same. Session of the Labra theme park.
50:25
I have to pull my oldest away from those at Hershey because he
50:29
wanted all of them and I was just like, child.
50:32
These are like $40 a piece. That is why we do our pass
50:36
holder discount at yeah and also now that Cedar Fair.
50:41
Right. So it extends almost everywhere
50:44
except for Hershey. Except for Hershey.
50:46
Yep, Yep, Yep. It sure doesn't count at
50:50
Hershey. Nope.
50:52
But yeah, see, he he we geared him to pick something else
50:56
because I said this is not in our budget currently.
51:00
I'm so sorry to break it to you, but he was like desperate for
51:05
coasters. And then we went to Carowinds
51:07
and the same thing happened. Because he is a building kiddo.
51:11
He loves to build sets and Legos and see how things are put
51:17
together. And he wanted the little replica
51:19
and he did really great. He's like, well, this is my
51:21
favorite coaster here, so this is the one I want.
51:23
And I was like, dude, I hear you, but I'm so sorry.
51:27
Good try I commend argument say listen, they always do like end
51:32
of season sales for these like you can find them online.
51:35
You know obviously that's you're not negotiating with a child
51:38
right in my that's not going to happen.
51:40
It just doesn't be a because the kiddo does not understand wait
51:43
for Black Friday sale. Fully understand that I as an
51:46
adult don't understand wait for a Black Friday sale.
51:48
So fully understand, but you have you know, of of interest to
51:53
you specifically because I know I know you kiddo loves a Lego
51:57
set and this sure is us a metal Lego set.
52:01
They are, if I can just go off on a side tension here, they're
52:04
kind of tricky. They are not as you think they
52:07
are. Those directions are horrendous.
52:09
If I could give one piece of feedback to Nano coasters, your
52:13
directions are horrendous. They are all.
52:16
Right, sorry, then I then I have I have no chance of being able
52:20
to help him do that so well and you.
52:22
Have to FaceTime me and we'll work through it.
52:25
And he's like not quite in the state where he will be OK with
52:30
putting something together to display it.
52:33
So we have had to weed through his Legos and we really only
52:39
have their three in one sets anymore because he can build,
52:44
take apart, rebuild something different, take apart, rebuild
52:46
something different, take apart, look online because they have a
52:49
fourth secret one that you can look up online that you can
52:52
build too. So like I know Yep.
52:55
And so. So it's it's not necessarily
52:58
directly from Lego, but they also have like the Mocs, the
53:02
people who will put together efforts from the kits if you're
53:06
really so impressive. My favorite is the guy who tries
53:09
to figure out how to make a money and Falcon out of every
53:11
set. Yeah, so funny.
53:13
It's so I knew it. He can always.
53:16
It's the most impressive thing I've ever seen.
53:18
It's so. Yeah, yeah.
53:20
But so right now he's really like the three in one sets are
53:22
what he pretty much does those and he's gotten recently into
53:26
like the Mario interactive Lego sets that have like the little
53:30
battery powder powder battery powered little.
53:33
Hopefully not the powder. The little battery powered
53:38
figures that go with them. So building a little coaster to
53:42
then display. We're not, we're not quite there
53:45
yet. We need another like year maybe.
53:47
And then I think we'll be OK with that, which gives me a year
53:50
to give him way more shelving in his room.
53:55
Because once that, let me tell you from experience, once that
53:58
starts, it's not stopping. It's not stopping.
54:00
But thankfully Anna posters and even the little wooden ride
54:05
vehicles pretty small as as collectibles and their required
54:09
space go, those are pretty small.
54:10
So I. Wonder if there are coasters at
54:13
Disney that have those. I don't feel like I've ever seen
54:16
a nano coaster, and maybe Disney doesn't because they don't want
54:19
to partner with an outside company to do it, you know what
54:21
I mean? No, I think Coaster Dynamics,
54:24
which is the company that makes and they also make the same the
54:27
wooden ones. That's why they're displayed
54:28
together. I think they partner basically
54:31
with everybody who is not Disney because they've been they do
54:35
they do Busch Gardens. I know that I got Pantheon from
54:39
Busch Gardens. Oh my God, dude, Pantheon such a
54:41
big coaster that it that might be my favorite coaster of all
54:44
time. It's so good.
54:46
We've gotten them from Six Flags.
54:48
We've gotten them from Dorney. So they they have them at pretty
54:52
much everywhere. I think it's only Disney and
54:54
Universal they don't partner with.
54:55
That makes sense, honestly. Like that's kind of what I was
54:57
anticipating. So you know, so it goes, you
55:01
know, anyway, thank you guys all so much for being here for this
55:06
episode. We hope that some of the things
55:08
that we suggested to you help you to recreate that theme park
55:12
magic at home. Obviously nothing beats being
55:17
able to go to the parks, but sometimes our bank accounts and
55:22
timing prohibit us from being able to do that.
55:25
So if you guys have other things that you like to do at home or
55:29
tips on how you like to bring the magic home, we would love to
55:32
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USA, we are revisiting rope drop strategy and Lightning Lane
55:55
strategy for the Disney parks. So that will be what is on the
56:00
agenda for next time. But before we officially
56:03
finished today, Duck and Jess any last minute thoughts before
56:07
we wrap up? No, I think we've covered pretty
56:10
much everything. I hope that these tips help make
56:14
you feel like even when you can't go to the go to whatever
56:17
your favorite theme park may be, that you can take a little bit
56:20
of it home with you and it can kind of tide you over until your
56:23
next trip. And I'm also really curious to
56:26
hear what other people do, right?
56:27
I mean, this is just like what we personally do.
56:30
So I'm, I'm sure there's like 110 things that other people do
56:33
that we just didn't come up with.
56:35
So I'm really curious and I would love to incorporate your
56:38
ideas into my likes, but please share them.
56:42
Yes, please. We would love to hear from you.
56:45
But for now, thank you guys so much for being here.
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57:01
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