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Disney Mom Mode: Strollers, Snacks & Disney World Meltdowns · The Worst: Beyond the Magic

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_00: Pete abandoned us this week.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_02: He went on vacation.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's what I said.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I brought somebody who probably knows more about what it's like to actually travel with me more than anybody else.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_00: My wife Ani.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_02: Hello, I'm regretting this already.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: And unlike Pete, uh Ani has actually survived many Disney vacations with me.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: How many years now, honey?
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh first one was May of 20.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_01: What year did we get married?
• 0:31
  SPEAKER_01: Pop quiz?
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_00: 2012.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_01: All right, you pass.
• 0:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good guess.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, so tonight I'm gonna mostly shut up and I'm gonna ask your questions and uh we're gonna see how this goes.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome back to The Worst Beyond the Magic.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so before you met me, you had actually never been to Walt Disney World.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: But uh obviously Disney was still a big part of your life when you grew up.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: What's the first Disney movie you remember seeing?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_02: I saw The Little Mermaid in theaters when I was four.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: You were four years old then.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: What year was that?
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: Just for the record.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_02: You can do the math or you can't.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_00: And uh and what do you remember about that experience other than you thought Eric was hot?
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't think Eric was hot at four.
• 1:21
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_02: Um I remember all I really remember is that the movie theater was huge and the Sea Witch scared me.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Ursula scared you.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_02: Very much so.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's understandable.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Did you have a favorite Disney movie growing up?
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_02: Uh 101 Dalmatians.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: Why was that?
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know, but I watched it every weekend until uh my I was told not to anymore, basically.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um who was your favorite Disney character growing up?
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_02: I like Cinderella because of her Animal Friends and the Dress for Transformation.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good that's a good memory.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_00: Did uh did you ever think much about going to Walt Disney World when you were a kid?
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we had a trip planned when I was in the eighth grade, but uh we had to cancel it because I was in show choir and uh the choir director made me pick show choir or going on vacation, and I would be kicked out if I did not show up.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: Mmm, I see.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: I see.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: So you never went, never got to go.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_01: Never went as a child.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Your first time was when actually after you and I got married.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: That was probably like two or three months after you got married.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Now, for the record, it wasn't our honeymoon.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we still have it.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: I owe her honeymoon, by the way.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we have still haven't got that done, but that was her first like big trip that we took together, right?
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, and we used a group on for it.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: We did.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: We did use a group on.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: Man, we've come a long way.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um when did you realize how into Disney that I actually was?
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh when you forced me to do four parks in three days and wouldn't let me ride the devil ride.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_00: There it is.
• 3:02
  SPEAKER_00: There it is.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: And you thought to yourself, what the hell did I get mistaken?
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_02: We're going to get divorced.
• 3:07
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: And we've been married now almost 15 years.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_02: Almost 15 years.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: It worked out.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: Remember, kids, uh, in the end, the band geek gets the street leader, just so you know.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: It works out.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: Did uh did you think I made you more of a Disney person?
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like, don't think about the awful trip I took you on when we were first married.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Think about where we've come from then until now.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I I think so.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it was really you.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_02: I think it was more the kids we kept having that made me more of a Disney person.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: And how many kids do we have?
• 3:44
  SPEAKER_02: We have three.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_00: Three children.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: And uh we're uh we're slowly going nuts, but it's okay, we're gonna get through it together.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we have an eighth grader, we have a sixth grader, and we have now one in kindergarten.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: So uh we have our days for ourselves again.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of nice, not gonna lie.
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_02: First time in 13 years.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so we had that before, and then we found out, then we've what did we find out?
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_02: We had a baby two weeks after our first anniversary.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 4:09
  SPEAKER_02: We yeah, we celebrated our anniversary of the steakhouse where I could barely fit behind the booth table.
• 4:15
  unknown: Yeah.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, was there one trip or was there a specific moment where you went, okay, this isn't so bad.
• 4:23
  SPEAKER_00: I could get used to this.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I think when the first trip we went on, uh, our older two were very little.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_02: Evelyn was was still in diapers, and it was the Halloween party, and just how much fun they were having.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_02: She was dressed in a tinkerbell outfit that I made her, and they just just a joy watching her literally bounce from the first time she had refined sugar at the Halloween party.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think we uh we just talked about that on the Halloween episode that we just released last week, and I I I recall that exact memory to Pete.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_00: That was a defining moment, and because she had never had sugar before and watching Tink just bounce like Tigger from spot to spot to spot because the first time she she had never had it before.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, it was uh it was a pretty big It was a big moment, big moment for her and a good memory for the two of us.
• 5:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um what was your favorite Disney memory that has absolutely nothing to do with Rive?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Is that it?
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: Or was there another is there another one?
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_02: Same trip.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um we were waiting to see characters.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and our son, who's four at the time, we went to see Cinderella, but we saw Alina of Avalor first.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_02: It's a two for one.
• 5:30
  SPEAKER_02: And it was our turn to see her before Cinderella, and he went up to her and straight up told her, We're not here to see you.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: We're here to see her, and pointed Cinderella.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_02: The princess, I think, broke character a little bit.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_02: She really didn't know what to do.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_02: It was it was pretty funny.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Aiden's like, yeah, we don't care about you.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: We're not here to see you, lady.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: We want to see Cinderella.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: That's who we want to see.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: She pointed right to her.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: And how old was he then?
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_03: He was four.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was four.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: He, you know, just told her straight up, this is this is who we're here to see.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_02: We're not here to see you.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_02: No, I don't want you.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want your picture.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I want Cinderella's picture.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's cute.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: He was pretty happy he got to hold a girl's hand.
• 6:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, he's 13 now, so maybe he'll be holding that's the last time he's held a hand, I think, in a while.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: It might be for a while.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_00: It is, yeah.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think so.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_02: Girls are scary.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_02: They are scary.
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  SPEAKER_02: So that's fine.
• 6:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's fine.
• 6:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um What do you think Disney does better than any other vacations that we've been on?
• 6:24
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, they're not all inclusive.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's on a beach in Mexico.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, they really try to go above and beyond to make things magical for your family.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_02: So I I one time I went up to a cast member, I had a pair of broken sunglasses, and I just I took them off because we're in the shade and I want to look at her.
• 6:43
  SPEAKER_02: And I because I had a question about a ride, and she said, How can I help you?
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I took my sunglasses off.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: She said, Well, let's start with getting you new sunglasses, and I got a voucher for new sunglasses, even though I had a ride question.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that was pretty magical for me, and nice.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's yeah, that's a magical moment that you don't even think about.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you don't even think about um that one of those things that that happens on a regular basis.
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Like uh but she didn't have to do that.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: No, and uh not at all.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't ask her.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: She she did it anyway, just to make it just to make your day a little bit better.
• 7:15
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so we're gonna flip it now.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: So the namesake of the show, as you know, be well, maybe you don't know because you don't listen.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_02: I listened to half of one.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_02: I got mad because you didn't like Peter Pan.
• 7:23
  SPEAKER_00: I the one part in the episode when I mentioned Peter Pan, and then you stopped listening.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_00: I was offended.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: There's we have like 17 episodes now, so you have a whole catalog to listen to.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, what does Disney do worse than any other vacations that we've we've taken?
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_02: Price gouge.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_00: Price gouge.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_02: It was cheaper to go to France.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was cheaper to fly across the pond and go to Disneyland Paris than it is to go to Florida every year.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_00: Is that what you're saying?
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you mentioned price gouging.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, the price goes up every single year, uh, which we don't love to talk about.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: What what with those changes?
• 8:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's not the same trip that I took you on 14 and a half years ago and I ruined for you when I took you to four parks in three days, which is ironic because that's what I teach people not to do nowadays.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: I did the exact same Why is that?
• 8:15
  SPEAKER_00: Because it ruins the magic.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna talk about what it's actually like uh to go on vacation with me now.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_00: Um, people listen to me every single week and I tell them how to plan Disney and I do it for a living.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_00: We Pete and I talk about it all the time.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um he's in Disneyland Paris, by the way.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I mentioned that.
• 8:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's where he is right now.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: So don't feel too bad for him that he's not here this week.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just know that when he gets back, we're gonna have our own episode and uh our trip report on Disneyland Paris, all right?
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so what is it actually like going to Walt Disney World with me?
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it's exhausting.
• 8:53
  SPEAKER_02: Um being that I am married to someone who plans trips for living, I can just let you do that, take care of it, and I don't have to worry about it.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_02: And that's one less thing I need to to care about.
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_02: So that's nice.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: Do I overplan at all?
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: No, I don't.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: I don't overplan.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I plan I've planten better.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: I've gotten a lot better.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_00: I've gotten a lot better.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's not four parks in three days anymore.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: And I've gotten a lot better.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: And you let me on Dumble ride now.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I let you on a dumbbell ride.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um what's the most ridiculous thing that you've ever seen me plan?
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_02: What do you mean, most ridiculous?
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Was there something you thought, oh my god, I can't believe we're doing this right now?
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: Or like it was it a happy moment, or Disney specific?
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_01: I have to think about that one.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_00: We'll come back to it.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's all right.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: Do you care about rope drop strategy at all?
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um what is rope drop strategy?
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_02: Rope drop is when you get three children out of bed at the crack of dawn and you don't look into the parks.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: Because there are we've done it for when the new lands have come out, you know.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um Toy Story.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_02: You know, our kids were our oldest is 13, so we obviously went when they when it had come out, they were younger, and when there's a new park, there's a lot of you know, people waiting to get there.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_02: And so being there early, the kids are able to get on the rides and s and see the characters that they get to see.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_02: Um, same with Star Wars.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: That was probably the newest one, right?
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: When they opened up into Yeah, but we did rope drop for um Toy Story Land or whatever it is as well.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: We did.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: We did.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we yeah, we we went into Hollywood Studios, and I remember that we we went right and we went right to Hollywood Studios to try and catch Slinky Dog right away.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: And that's when we had to do the little cue on the phone.
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, the the guy that you are, you got me a coffee while I had we had to wait in line, so that was appreciated show.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: She's talking about the virtual cue to rise the resistance.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_00: That was a long time ago.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: That's no longer a thing, but um right now, as of recording in September 2026, there aren't any virtual cues.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_00: But I remember standing in a crowd of thousands of people in the Hollywood studios, and we had to be in the park when that happened, and I don't remember when it dropped, but 8:30.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_00: It was 8:30 in the morning?
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine a million people staring down at their phones and then a loud roar across the giant crowd, and mostly Well, they were shouting out numbers, and they were shouting all these numbers, and we had a really pretty good number.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: It was pretty low.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: It was like in the 60s.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: I remember that.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: I remember that, yeah.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like 61 or something.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: Those days are gone, and I'm glad that they're gone, and they no longer do that.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: But that's what we had to go through back then.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_02: And that's when I was very grateful to have you because I get lost in the app half the time.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: Get lost in the sauce.
• 12:02
  SPEAKER_00: So am I always on the phone checking my Disney Experience app?
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: I am.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: But I do that for a reason though.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_02: It's because uh you're you're always on the phone checking whatever.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_02: It doesn't matter.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: It happens, it happens sometimes.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: So I try and preach not to be on the phone and check your My Disney Expands app all the time.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: But when you're in the parks and you're trying to get lightning lane after lightning lane, you kind of have to one have a charger, and two, you kind of have to be Johnny on the spot when you're trying to get the lightning lanes back to back to back.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm kind of guilty of that.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: I understand that.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_00: Is there uh is there something I obsess over or are you secretly glad that I handle?
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, all the planning not to this.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like you just say, is there something that you would like to do or see?
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_02: And my response is, you remember that one time we went to that one place and we did the one thing, and you you figure it out, and then we do that thing.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_02: Very vague.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: That's why we work.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then we do, and then we do it, and then we do the thing.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: We saw the guy with the hair, yeah.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: We saw him.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_01: With the dog.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, with the dog, right?
• 13:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: And uh, I try and make that happen every single time we go.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_00: I try and make it different every single time we go.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: I know we've been a lot, and now that we experience it through our kids' eyes, uh it's we it's hard to try and like entertain a 13-year-old sometimes, especially since he's the only boy out of all of them.
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but it's it's still I think it's still fun.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you agree.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, maybe you don't agree.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: No comment?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, it it it's it evolves.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_00: It changes.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's the term or what I'm looking for is is as we evolve, your sp your park strategy evolves, your your time in the park changes, your priorities change as a family.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and now what do we like to do?
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: We'd like to try and ditch the kids with the babysitter and go to the World Showcase.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_00: So it's a whole different atmosphere.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh all right.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I have one big question for you.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: Does having the Disney expert in the family actually make vacations better?
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: For Disney or vacations all in general.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_00: Disney specific.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: I say s I would think so just because I probably wouldn't get up early enough to make some of the rides.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_02: I don't have to worry about I don't know how fast passes work.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_02: I just I can't.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_02: Lenny Lane's I I you know what, Brianna and I got pretty good last year getting the trader sands when you guys are running late.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_02: We figured it out and we were able to get that and keep refreshing it.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_02: But it's it's it is nice because you are familiar, you're comfortable, I don't have to worry about making reservations or dining or any of that.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's all taken care of for me.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_02: And if you're a passenger princess, it's great.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: You would definitely fit the role of passenger princess.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: I am not the control freak here.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: I just I'm not I'm not either.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: I've gotten better.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: I've gotten better.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: I heard you I heard you say it.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_00: We can even go back and listen to it.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: I want to hear it over and over again.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: Any anyway, uh so this morning, actually today of the day of recording in September, uh, 60 days from today is gonna be our trip over our near over the week before Thanksgiving with our friends uh the Wilsons in South Carolina.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's a huge trip.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, there are 11 people going on this one.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_00: So there's a lot of planning that goes into it.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: So at quarter to six this morning, what was I doing?
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_01: Cursing in long senses.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't think you were gonna say that.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, that's exact that's exactly what I was doing.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_00: I I didn't realize I was that loud.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_00: You could hear me through the walls.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, I was taking care of our dining uh this morning at quarter to six and six a.m.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: this morning, as I would for anybody that uh would like to book a trip of me.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that's something I take care of.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Um I was trying to do it this morning for 11 people, and it's very difficult to do.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so um I had a little bit of help about 6:30.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: I texted the other member, um, our friends at Wilson's that are going with us, and I said, Hey, I need your help.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: Can you help me out?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: Can you take a look at reservations?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: Because it would only allow me to book a certain amount of people per the reserv.
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: I it would only allow me to book a certain amount of people for certain restaurants, and uh, we had to split up the tables a little bit, and it wouldn't allow me to book more as many as I'd like, we'll put it that way.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: So I had a little help.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: That's where we kind of take teamed it a little bit, and it took me to about 6:30 in the morning to ask for that help after I got fed up and apparently cursed a whole lot.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh so yeah, good news is we got everything we wanted, um, and we're good, we're good to go.
• 16:43
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, so it's not all uh sunshines and rainbows all the time, but uh it works out, and this is why it helps to have a planner in the par or in the mix or hire a planner uh to to take care of these type of things with you.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna transition from you being my wife early on, 14 and a half years later, to you being the mom.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: You want to be the mom?
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well, as Evelyn would say, why do I always have to be the mother?
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: Why I always have to be the mother she was four.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_00: We talk constantly about Disney from an adult perspective on the podcast and what Disney's actually like.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we're getting a whole new perspective right now.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_00: So let's talk about the mom perspective of getting a family through the parks.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: Wanna go ahead and take that?
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: Um, strollers are great, even if your kid thinks that they've outgrown them.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_02: Get a stroller, rent a stroller, have a stroller.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and then if you're not familiar with anami hook, we have three.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um they're amazing.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: I have one on my backpack.
• 17:46
  SPEAKER_02: One of them is actually shaped like Mickey Mouse.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: They're basically carabiners that you hang on your stroller.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_02: Nobody messes with them.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_02: And you can put all of your Disney stuff there.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_02: Also marry somebody who likes to gear carry a giant backpack no matter where you go.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Be the pack meal.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_00: All the dads out there are saying, yep, so yep, that's that's me.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm I'm definitely the pac meal.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: 100% I am the pac-mill.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: And Pete, uh choice.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_00: Would you have a magical time if I gave you that backpack and made you carry it around?
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think you get a smaller backpack.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think you would.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um what's harder than most people realize?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_02: Um the days can be very long, and if you don't schedule breaks, you're gonna have or feed the children, you know, especially if you've got little kids, you have to make sure there are snacks and you have to make sure there are breaks, potty breaks.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, because if you've got a tired hungry cred, it's it's not gonna be a good time.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: It's all over.
• 18:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's all over.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: We'll talk about that in just a second.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what's easier than what people make it out to be?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think?
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_00: Are you you've seen Instagram, you've seen you know I don't think you have TikTok, but uh um, I know we're tool for TikTok.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: You see it on Instagram all the time.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: People um you know complain a lot and they make things harder than they seem or they need to be.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: What's one thing that you could think of about the parks or planning or taking a family that's easier than what you people need to be?
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_02: It's actually so we stay on property now.
• 19:17
  SPEAKER_02: Um well, we've always really stayed on property, whether it was one of the budget resorts, and though we we stay um at Old Q West or whatever, the tr the transportation is really not as bad as people make it out to be.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_02: We've had pretty good luck with it.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think so.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: I think so.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: And it's just it's part of the experience.
• 19:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you have to wait for a bus, you have to wait for a bus, and don't get cranky about it.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: You have to if you have to order a minivan.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: We have done that on a occasion.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_00: We we have done that, and I don't mind taking the bus in the morning and then in the evening when we're all tired and exhausted, and we want to get back to our hotel room in a relatively quick manner, that's when I'll go ahead and splurge for the minivan.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, if you stay until park close, then you might want to stay or get a minivan because if you are trying to get a bus, then you'll you can get one.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_02: But at that point, park close, it's gonna take so much longer.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_00: I think those are good tips.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: What uh what did we do wrong when the kids were younger?
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: Can you think of anything that you could um that we did when they were younger that we don't do now besides snap time?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we take time with us now.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_02: Uh we had we do we had a child who uh we did thought it was maybe heat exhaust exhaustion or something, and she wasn't feeling well.
• 20:35
  SPEAKER_02: And we that's the first uh how many trips were we in where we found out where I found out anyway that there were nurses on staff and and sick rooms.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_02: So I took a kid there who had 104 fever, so we got Tylenol and we went home.
• 20:47
  unknown: Yeah.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_00: She was completely fine the next day, but she could she gets through sicknesses, I mean Amazingly fast.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like uh the next day she's completely better.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: But that's yeah.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_02: And change of clothes because there are splash places that my kids love to go through, and it's fun when they're doing it, but it can get cold at night, and if they're damp, they are not happy.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Same.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: Same.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, how important is the resort?
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: Do you think you you touched on it a little bit and we started to talk about what we do differently now.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: Um you talked about on property versus off property.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_02: Um when you have younger kids, I think you can get away with with more of the budget places.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um we stayed at the cars a lot because our art of animation.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the cars portion of it, huh?
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_02: Um, because our son liked that and it was easier on our budget, and they were smaller and they were willing to share a bed.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but now with our growing family and having a teenager, it's nice to be at one of the resorts because there is more to do at that resort.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: I think this year they're finally big enough.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_02: We can Run to Surrey.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, that's right.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_00: They have Surrey at Hulk West.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: I forgot all about that.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um we is we keep bringing up Hull Q West because we are DVC members and we do own it at Disney's Holyq West.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: So for those who have never been there before, the resort itself is huge, it's very uh sprawling.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we prefer the hospitality house area that's close to the main pool and the main restaurant and the main bar there.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Um that's where we like to stay.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um we have stayed at a number of different other DVC resorts, but we continue to go back to Old Q West because the rooms are giant.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was the first resort that they built, and because of that, they built the the biggest rooms that they could.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: And then they realized after the fact that, hey, we can charge more people money and then build rooms smaller.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_00: Um so yeah, that's why that's why we like Old Q West, because rooms are so big and it's kind of uh it's a family resort, and it's cool to watch your kids grow up there.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um the the one thing I don't care about Old QS is how how big it is.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_00: And if you don't get a room that's nearby the hospitality house, you could be on the the sixth or seventh bus stop in going through that resort because there are bus stops.
• 23:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and it does stop, the bus does stop at every single one of those to get people to where they need to go, and you could be at the very last stop.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: So um it it uh it pays to pay attention as to where your room is uh and those types of resorts.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_00: Other ones like Saratoga Springs um are is another one that where it's very large, very sprawling.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, uh staying on property is I think it's it's worth its weight in gold.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_00: Would you agree?
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think so.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um so how much should parents actually plan?
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it really depends on your family size, how many kids you have, and what their tolerance is.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, but you should always plan if you're gonna do a park day all day, the next day should be a rest day or with lunch at Disney Springs or something, but a much more low-key day.
• 23:56
  SPEAKER_00: I've taught you well.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: Well, no.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_02: It's not exactly what happened.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: I got better.
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: I got better.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you think nowadays parents try to accomplish too much?
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_02: I think a lot of a lot of times they do.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think they do too.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: I think they do it, they try to go too hard too fast.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: They tried to do exactly what I did to her 14 and a half years ago.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and too go way too hard on the paint, and that makes it even worse if you have little kids in tow because they are not here for, and they're gonna let you know.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, they start that meltdown, and then once that happens, it's all over.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um so you gotta go and you gotta you gotta plan to your your your kids' content.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um, really.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and you you know your child best uh if you're going with kids and you know when they need breaks.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um don't be afraid to take them.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to see everything all in one day.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um you can split up your days, you can take breaks like she's saying, go back to the resort, take a nap, head back in the evening.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's all kinds of different things that you can do to experience that magic in those parks.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_02: Um go if you go to Disneyland in California, they have a great sitter base on Care.com.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_00: They they do.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: They do.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: We we did use that, didn't we?
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um and then we do offer that through Travelmation.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: We have our own sitter that we can hire through Travelmation, and we can have them come either with you to the park itself and kind of be the nanny inside the park, or they will watch your kid back at the resort for you.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_00: So if you ever want any information, um what is the moment when you know that your family needs to leave the park?
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, when they're no it's no longer fun.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_02: You're when you're just we have to do this, we have to get in this line, we have to go see whomever or get on whatever ride, then it's then it's time to go.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_02: If you feel like I have to do this because we're here, then it's time to go.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I think that I think that's exactly the attitude.
• 25:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um we've spent all this money, we need to be here, we need to do it.
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_00: We need to get our money's worth.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Right.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_00: I I think that's exactly what goes through people's heads most of the time is that we we spent all this money to be here, we need to do this, and that's that's not the answer.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's not the answer at all.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_00: The answer is what can we handle?
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what can we come back and do later?
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_00: What are must-dos versus what things we'd like to do?
• 26:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's that's a conversation you gotta have ahead of time.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so I want to talk to the dads out there listening.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_00: We have any.
• 26:19
  SPEAKER_00: I know we have several there listening.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what's something dads need to understand about Disney Disney World with kids?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_00: What do they need to understand?
• 26:28
  SPEAKER_02: That all of the restrooms have beautiful changing tables, whether it's male or female, and they can do at least 50% of the diaper changes.
• 26:36
  SPEAKER_02: I don't have an issue there.
• 26:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I was never afraid of that.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't bother me at all.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_02: Nope.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_02: Except Cinderella's castle.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_00: Do you want to tell the Cinderella's castle story real fast?
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_02: We had an 11-month-old who had the most beautiful mini mouse outfit.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_00: She did.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_02: And it was so bad we had to throw it away in Cinderella's castle, and I was using baby wipes to clean it off the walls.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_00: In the restroom.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_00: There was poo on the walls.
• 27:04
  SPEAKER_00: And luckily, luckily, she is a good mom and she brought a change of clothes for her, and we just did an outfit change and enjoyed the rest of Cinderella's castle.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_01: Best we could.
• 27:15
  SPEAKER_00: Because that that was one of those moments where we're here, we're gonna get our money's worth out of this thing, and you had to pivot and a disaster happened, and we came out.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't say we came out smelling like roses.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_02: We certainly not.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_02: No.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_00: No, no, we didn't.
• 27:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but you made the best of it and we got through it, right?
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_02: You can get your money's worth, but you could have a miserable trip.
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_02: But if you do things and everyone is having a good time and you're exhausted, they're gonna remember how tired they were and how they made you go to four parks in three days and you know not sit by the pool 15 years later.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um I love that too.
• 27:51
  SPEAKER_00: You bring you continue to bring that up.
• 27:53
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for that.
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_02: So I think it that's good to know.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_00: So if a mom came up to you, you know, you you're obviously wearing Walt Disney World uh sweatshirt.
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: And by the way, for the record, I didn't tell her to wear that, she just had it on today.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: So I decided, you know, how about you maybe want to be on a podcast with me today?
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is date night.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_00: Here it is.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_00: We're looking, you're looking at it, you're listening to it.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um if another mom came up to you, because I saw you wear the t-shirt or that sweatshirt, and it said, you know, we're gonna take our kids to Disney World for the first time, give me one piece of advice.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_02: Don't go and think we'll wing it when we get there.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_02: That is the worst thing you could do.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_02: This is not one of those trips where you can just show up and be like, oh, well, let's just see what happens.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_02: You have to plan, you have to make reservations, you have to really research it.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_02: You this is not a trip where you can just I think uh you're 100% right.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and hiring a Disney planner, whether it's Peter I to take care of it for you or somebody, as long as that as long as you reach out to somebody, whether it's online groups or listen to a cool podcast like this one to get a little bit of help.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's all kinds of media out there to try and help you.
• 29:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, of course, we'd prefer it if you hire Peter I to take care of it.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_00: But if you don't, that's okay.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_00: There are a lot of us out there.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_00: And uh just know that you're not alone.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_00: And uh it's super easy to get lost in the sauce.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_00: And um just reach out for help with it.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_00: Just reach out.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of information.
• 29:17
  SPEAKER_00: There's a there is a lot of information, there's a lot to take in.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, I know Pete and I have talked about it a bunch in the past.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_00: What's right, what's wrong, um, how much is too much.
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and there's just yeah, there's a lot out there.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um Pete and I are happy to help you see through that.
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so forget what I like, forget what Pete likes, forget what Disney TikTok or Disney Instagram says.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is Ani's Disney.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna ask you some rapid fire questions.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, you ready?
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: Your favorite attraction.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_01: My favorite attraction.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um I really like um I really like Peter Pan.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: You like Peter Pan?
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: I really like Peter Pan.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: I really hurt your feelings last year.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: You really did.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_02: But I mean, that was always my my answer.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_02: And I think you knew that.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_02: I like going through I that's one of the rides I don't mind going through um the queue because you get to go in the nursery and you see all the I really like Peter Pan.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, for the record, the only reason why I I mentioned Peter Pan in the last episode is because sometimes if you don't have a lightning lane for it and you're in that you didn't rope trap it, that line can get super ridiculous.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_02: And I won't even stand in line for that, and that's my favorite ride.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: There you go.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_02: Don't do it.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_02: There it is.
• 30:35
  SPEAKER_00: That is my favorite favorite attraction.
• 30:37
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, good.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm not a bad guy, right?
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not captain the hook here trying to capture Peter Pan and saying he sucks and we're never doing that again.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: No, that's not it.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: I was just trying to explain to the good people out there that it's important to have a lightning lane for it.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_00: If not, it's important to try and rope drop that because the line can become It's because it's one of the original attractions from Land.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it is.
• 31:00
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 31:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's original opening from 1971, also at Walt Disney World.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_00: So I I like it too.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: I never said I didn't like it.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: Never say I never said didn't like it.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so don't don't come for me in the comments or the hate mail.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: Um attraction, you don't understand the hype around.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, most things at Animal Kingdom.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_02: I don't really care for that park.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_02: It's brown.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's brown.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_02: It's just it's just it is.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's very, I don't know.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_02: It's it's not my favorite.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_02: It's one of the if we didn't do Animal Kingdom, it's not gonna hurt my feelings.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_00: How about if it's somebody's first trip?
• 31:41
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you think they have to do it?
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_02: Um I like the um avatar ride there.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: Flight of passage.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_02: It's a good one.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: The yak and yeti restaurant, and that's really all that I And you don't you sh but you know, she's not a roller coaster person like I am.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: So she's not getting on Everest, right?
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_00: She's not doing that.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but you do like uh the flight of passage, which is funny because you don't it's not a roller coaster, but it's very much involved and you feel like you're flying, and yeah, you some people could compare it to a roller coaster, I guess.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh do you have a favorite Disney restaurant?
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: I know you just mentioned Yakinity at at uh Animal Kingdom, but do you have any any others?
• 32:25
  SPEAKER_02: I really like the French pavilion, the restaurant there.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_02: I'm really bad with names.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's just Take Me to France.
• 32:33
  SPEAKER_02: Take me to France.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_00: Buy me champagne.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's all she wants.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I really like the 50s primetime diner.
• 32:42
  SPEAKER_02: If you haven't been there, we had this rage waitress who was really rude, in character rude.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_02: She was absolutely hilarious.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_02: We saw her a couple years in a row.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember her name.
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_00: No, but that's but I loved her.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what makes it.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's what makes the cast members make the magic happen.
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_00: And that's that's just an example of it.
• 33:01
  SPEAKER_00: Plus, champagne helps.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_02: Well, not at the 50s diner.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_00: No, um, you could get it there, I think, if you wanted to, but that's where you get the malts.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_00: They do have chocolate malts, you're really good.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: Um, now I want to go 50s prime time.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_00: I hope we do that on our next trip.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: I hope that comes through.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you have a favorite Disney resort that we've stayed at?
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_02: Well, family friendly or just overall.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: Overall.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_02: Oh overall, I really liked it when we stayed at the Riviera um in that very large suite.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_00: Love the room.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_02: The huge bathtub.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_02: It was great after a long day in the park.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_02: It was beautiful.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_00: It is beautiful.
• 33:39
  SPEAKER_00: That is.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_02: And I took myself to Topolino's.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we've also stayed, although we haven't stayed the Grand Florian.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_00: We have visited you and I together.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: What did we do?
• 33:51
  SPEAKER_02: We went to um, well, we always go to the character breakfast, caricature breakfast there.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_00: 1900 Park Fair, yeah.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_02: And then there is this is why I am not a travel agent.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um You're married to one.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't have to be.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_02: You can retain this.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_02: The um Beauty and the Beast, what is it, the Enchanted Rose?
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 34:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh huh.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: That's what one of my favorite favorite bars, yeah.
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but we've also been to the spa.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_00: You're forgetting the spa.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I am forgetting the spa, yes.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_00: I remember um I didn't have a great experience.
• 34:25
  SPEAKER_00: You had a great experience there.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_00: It was wonderful.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the experience itself was wonderful.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_00: My masseuse was in She kept dropping the rocks.
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_00: I got a hot stone massage, and she was a bit older, and I don't know if she had difficulty holding on to things, but she continued like to drop the rocks more than once during my massage.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_02: Which is not that ex uh It was a couple's massage, so you hear she kept dropping the rocks.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_02: That's right.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: Um I remember that.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_00: Would I go back to there again?
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I would.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_00: It was fun.
• 34:54
  SPEAKER_00: It that's one of those splurge things uh to take into mind if you're looking for an adult day uh together to go somewhere and enjoy each other's company.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_02: Quick tip if you go there, because I didn't learn this until I got there, bring your bathing suit, because there is like a sauna room and a hot jacuzzi tub there that you can enjoy for up to half an hour before you have your and after too, right?
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: After probably.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_02: Um, but before you have your um massage or facial or whatever it is.
• 35:23
  SPEAKER_02: So I didn't know that the first time, so I couldn't partake.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_02: But the second time, you bet I brought my suit and enjoyed every minute of that.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_00: We're paying for this, we're gonna enjoy it, right?
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you have a favorite Disney snack that you can think of?
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, um I know mine is.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_02: With well, you like the Dol Whip.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_02: I think that's terrible.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's delicious.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Pete and I talk about uh that this is America and you're entitled to your wrong opinion.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 35:52
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to agree.
• 35:53
  SPEAKER_02: All right, well, you're wrong.
• 35:54
  SPEAKER_02: I really like the champagne, that the pink champagne that I got in France.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know if that counts as a snack.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_00: Sure.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have they had a Nutella crepe too that was amazing.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: They did.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: They did.
• 36:05
  SPEAKER_00: Do you have a favorite nighttime experience?
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Is there a fireworks show that you really like or see I'm not really into that?
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: It's not that exciting for me, the fireworks.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_02: So no.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um I could I could pass.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_02: I went we went one time to where you're sitting on Witcher's Hollywood Studios.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, fantastic.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we went to see that.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 36:29
  SPEAKER_02: I've done it.
• 36:30
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 36:31
  unknown: Okay.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: Move on with my life.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_00: All right, now I know to not make that happen this next trip.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_00: I may or may not have booked that this morning.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
• 36:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, but everyone else would like to go.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: I will be at the bar.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: Reasons I married her.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, is there one thing you personally have to do every trip?
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_02: That I personally have to do every every trip.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_02: Um, I really like the haunted mansion.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_02: I l Although I I don't know.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_02: I think every time I've been on there it's broken down and we get stuck in the graveyard.
• 37:02
  SPEAKER_00: It does.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_02: It's a little creepy.
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_00: Ever almost every single time.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_02: I heard somewhere, and I don't know if this is true, a lot of times it's because they're catching people spreading ashes and they're trying to stop that and clean it up.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: Lifetime ban.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_00: Lifetime ban.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do it.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, don't do that.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_02: And then, you know, everyone else is stuck while they're trying to clean up uh loved one.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, that definitely does happen.
• 37:23
  SPEAKER_00: Or they try and dump them in the the graveyard that's outside there, like the queue going into the ride.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
• 37:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yep, that's a real thing.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_00: It happens.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um as much as your fall, your loved one uh who passed Love Disney, please don't do that.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um all right, so I'm gonna flip the script a little bit here.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_00: Tomorrow morning, wake up, World Disney World, you control the entire day.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_00: What does our day look like?
• 37:47
  SPEAKER_02: Um here, Jamie, here's the phone.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_02: You book everything.
• 37:51
  SPEAKER_00: I no no no no no.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's not what this is.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: You control the entire okay, fine.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'll take care of the lightning lanes.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_00: What's what's our first park?
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: What's our first attraction?
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: Go ahead.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_02: Well, if we're gonna do more than one park, then you're gonna want to do Hollywood and um Epcot or Hollywood and um Animal Kingdom because those I feel like you could each do, you know, half a day.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: You think you do Hollywood studios in one day?
• 38:22
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, half a day because we go on some of the rides and then we're done.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 38:26
  SPEAKER_02: We don't need to see the Elsa show again.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: I love the Elsa show.
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_02: I know you do.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: That's good.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_00: Every single day.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: But it changes every time, and it's good.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: I'd agree with you that Hollywood, I'm sorry, Animal Kingdom is a half-day parking.
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: You especially right now, it's half of it's gone.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: Half of it is torn down, half of it's under go-away green signs and construction walls, and they're building um Indiana Jones and they're building all kinds of things that Pete and I talked about in the past.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, we're excited to see when that opens.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, it's not going to be open by the time that we get there uh and a couple months from now.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: But uh yeah, I even when it's uh it's fully open, like it has been in the past, I still think it's a half day park.
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: All right, what else?
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_00: Breakfast or snack?
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: What are we doing?
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_01: I don't love this.
• 39:14
  SPEAKER_00: I'm putting you in charge.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_00: You don't like being in charge.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_02: Not of this, no.
• 39:19
  SPEAKER_00: No.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um I'm I'm not a breakfast person, so I would grab a coffee and a snack, and there we go.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: See, I have to have something to eat.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_00: I have to have some sort of breakfast.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_00: I can I can eat it on the go.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have to stop and sit down and and enjoy breakfast that way with Cinderella or any other princesses.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I'd have a chocolate dip croissant and be on my way.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that sounds good.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds good.
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna get that in France with the mimosa.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_02: It's recorded.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_02: You have to do this now.
• 39:46
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, this is the part where you plan, not me.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: So you you keep going.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_00: Are we doing a resort break or are we keeping it keeping going or what do we do?
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_02: Well, it depends on the part.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_02: Because if you're at the Magic Kingdom, there's a lot more rides there.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_02: There you have to there's a lot more to see.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: How about what at nighttime?
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_00: You got anything to plan for nighttime?
• 40:03
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I really don't love this.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_00: I have more questions.
• 40:08
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_00: All right, so what time are we actually gonna get back to the room after we've planned this perfect day?
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_00: Is it uh uh park open or park closed kind of day, or is it well if I'm planning the day, uh we're gonna go there later in the day and save for a party.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: I like that.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: See, look at you.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, look at you.
• 40:26
  SPEAKER_00: We talked about uh after after hours episode or uh after hours parties and the Christmas party and the Halloween party.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_00: If you had to pick the Christmas party or Halloween party, which one would you rather do?
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_02: Halloween.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_00: All right, well, we're gonna miss that one this year, but we're gonna do the Christmas party.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_00: Is that good?
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_02: That's just fine.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_02: You asked me to pick.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: I did.
• 40:43
  SPEAKER_00: You're right.
• 40:44
  SPEAKER_00: For the record, I also like the Halloween party better than the Christmas party.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_02: I like to put the kids in costumes.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_02: It's fun.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: And we learned that Pete likes to dress up in costumes too.
• 40:53
  SPEAKER_00: Would you dress up in a costume?
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I've been asking you for years.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, don't want to do it.
• 40:57
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want to do it.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's okay.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_02: Um go as Ariel if you go with it as Eric.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 41:08
  SPEAKER_00: So we've been a lot over the years.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_00: We've spent a lot of money there.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_00: We've dealt with the crowds, the heat, the rain, tired kids, the construction that's going on, and we've tried to, I mean, I've tried to optimize everything just about every time we go.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_00: Do you still want to go back?
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, but I think after this trip I could go a a while without you know, I'd like to see other parts of the world more like Tokyo, Disney.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, see Disney.
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_00: We've been to uh Disneyland, Paris.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_00: We've been to Disneyland on the West Coast.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you want to go to the Tokyo?
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_02: Mm-hmm.
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_02: Right?
• 41:46
  SPEAKER_00: You want to do Shanghai?
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_02: Sure.
• 41:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:49
  SPEAKER_00: You want to go.
• 41:50
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's it.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_00: We live in the mid-Atlantic in the East Coast.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: That's the opposite direction.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_01: Well, then I'll go and I'll have Pete book it.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh nope, that's the wrong answer.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
• 41:59
  SPEAKER_00: Don't do that.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um, do you think we'll still be going when the kids get older?
• 42:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, because we are locked into that DVC membership until we are 72.
• 42:10
  SPEAKER_00: That's not the right answer.
• 42:12
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's one of those we spent the money, we have to go.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_00: All right, that's the wrong answer.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_02: We don't have to go to the parks necessarily, but we're gonna go stay at a a nice resort.
• 42:22
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, stay at the Riviera.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
• 42:24
  SPEAKER_02: And well, you know, we're gonna go to Epcot and have a date night in France.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: At least, at least, yes.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_00: See, there's France again.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_00: The final question, the must-ask question.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: You ready for this?
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_00: What do you hope our kids remember about all these Disney trips that we've taken them on?
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, just the fun that we've had together.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_02: We it's harder when your kids are getting older, and I mean, I haven't seen my son in what feels like days because he's in his bedroom.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: So when you're he does a good job to disappear into his room, doesn't he?
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and the middle one is getting to be that way.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um she's 11.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I'm not cool anymore, and neither are you.
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_02: I'm cool and my wallet is open.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_02: Um but when you are on these trips, you are you are together, you are spending time together, um, and you are trying to do things that they enjoy.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_02: Um, and another part of that is we have gone there with babies.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_02: Um and some people say, Why would you do that?
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_02: They're not gonna remember.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_02: Well, they might not remember, but I will always remember.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 43:29
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about that, yeah.
• 43:30
  SPEAKER_00: See, if you listen to an episode, you would know that we we've talked about that, but um, but she's got a good point.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_00: Um take them when they're little, don't be shy.
• 43:40
  SPEAKER_00: You will experience the magic through their eyes, like we continue to do, and even in our 13-year-old's eyes, we still we still see it.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um obviously there's more in the five-year-old's eyes than there is in the 13-year-old's eyes.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_00: I know I've said that before, but um she's got a really good point.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_00: You will forever remember those memories.
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: So take them while they're young.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: So I think uh Pete might have a problem here.
• 44:03
  SPEAKER_01: What's that?
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_00: I think you're you're better at this than he is.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_01: Well, sure.
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_01: I've listened to enough.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_00: You think you get his paycheck?
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_01: There's a paycheck?
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, he doesn't have one.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: I guess he could keep the job then.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for filling in.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_01: Sure thing.
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_00: I love you.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_01: I love you too.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: Or uh putting up with me on all these Disney trips.
• 44:29
  SPEAKER_02: Thanks for booking it, applying it, executing it.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_00: Until next time, we're here to give you the real deal.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_02: Mouse droppings included.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: That's right.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_00: This has been the worst beyond the magic.