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Episode 51: An In-Depth Review of the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Experience with LeeAnn and her friends Derrick and Corey! · Most Things Kenobi - A Star Wars Podcast

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  Hello, there. It's time for most things
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  Kenobi. Hello, everyone.
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  Welcome to another episode of most things Kenobi.
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  A podcast about Obi-Wan Kenobi and all things Star Wars.
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  I'm your host Leanne, and I'm alone this week, but not alone.
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  Lauren is not joining us this week, but that's because we have
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  two very special amazing. Guest my dear friends, Derek and
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  Corey, welcome to the show. Hello.
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  Thank you. We're so excited to be here.
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  Yes, we are. And the reason why you guys are
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  joining us, not just because you're fabulous and you're my
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  besties but we just got done being and having a stay on the
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  galactic star Cruiser and we had that three-day experience there
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  and that's what this episode is going to be about.
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  We're going to give you the rundown on how we got the room,
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  what we thought of the experience, the hits the missus
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  and everything in between. So before we get into that, how
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  do we all know each other? Why do we love each other?
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  Tell us the ways. Will you lead because I'm the
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  third one in this group. It's true Derek and I have been
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  friends for like 16 years, right?
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  Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
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  Take, but it's been a little bit less than 16 years that since we
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  were. I think, since we started
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  working together, guess who's here?
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  Clarence Clarence. He's the fourth guest of this
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  show as usual. But yeah, we've been, we know
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  each, We work together and we've remained friends this entire
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  time and we have been on some seriously.
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  Cool Adventures. We've been to Comic-Con for many
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  years together. Just Disney all day.
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  Every day whenever we're together in Austin, 24-hour
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  lines to see, Marvel and amazing.
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  It's been so much fun and Corey another bestie.
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  I'm just a bitch who makes the biscuits?
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  Are we love you cannot hear. Here are we you your belly.
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  You're allowed to do whatever you want on this show.
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  No so I meant well, Derek is my now husband but I met him almost
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  11 years ago this this November so and obviously I know you Liam
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  through him and it's been yeah we've known each other for, you
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  know, ten years, ten, ten or nine or ten years.
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  And I remember when we first met, but and we are Birthday,
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  Twins or birthday. Neighbors for Neighbors.
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  Yes. Yes, so there's a kindred spirit
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  there for sure. There really is.
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  And not only that Cory. You actually have your own
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  podcast and you and your other two friends.
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  Your co-host, your podcast is called Cinema pod, Rafi?
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  Yes, yes, yes. Oh, my good friends.
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  Justin and Brian, and I have a podcast as you just said called
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  cinematography where we review, any movie that that we want and
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  it's just just, we've called it like, are the new bowling
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  league, right? We're there to have fun.
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  It's nothing serious. It's literally just to have fun
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  and enjoy talking about a movie. We watched that's it.
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  Either's cocktails. And a lot of laughs.
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  It's really fun. And it's made me want to watch
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  some of the movies that I haven't seen.
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  So mission accomplished. Oh good.
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  So The star Cruiser. It was kind of a crazy
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  experience. I have so many good memories
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  from this with you guys and we weren't the only ones we had a
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  group of seven. Greg, Dan Leslie, Christine and
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  us three. So shout out to all of them.
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  We had one hell of a good time on boring time.
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  We'll all Big Star Wars fans and you know, we just we loved it.
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  Yeah, this is perfect for us. It was and I went into it.
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  Spoiler-free I didn't look at anything or I tried not to, I
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  know a few things. Not me not you Derek is always
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  prepared. I'm the planner so I have to
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  know everything although I did a really good job about so any of
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  the show elements stuff like I stayed away from but when it
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  came to like what tips and things ahead of time would help
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  us out because you are spending a lot of money on this
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  experience and you want to get your money's worth.
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  So you know I wanted to you know make sure that I had that
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  information. Nation and I could, you know,
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  share it with everyone and I was happy that you all were
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  spoiler-free and I could do that for you you know.
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  And thank you and I mean I think at the end of the day you sort
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  of were able to live vicariously through us.
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  Watching our first initial reactions to it and we all had
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  very different reactions throughout the entire three
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  days. And we did, we'll get, we'll get
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  to that. Let's talk about how we actually
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  got the room. Well, first of all, we have to
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  thanks. Seeing who traveled with us?
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  Because she had a travel agent and she's like, why don't you
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  use my travel agent to help book this?
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  And oh my God. I'm so glad we did because we,
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  we booked on the very first day that you could as an annual pass
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  holder or for me and Corey. So she was on the phone lines
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  for that long. It was several hour.
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  Wait, I think it was to get something book but her name is
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  Jo vagos. I hope I pronounce that
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  correctly. Yeah, yeah.
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  A Big O's to me. Yeah, when Jo VA G OS and she
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  works for the Magic For Less, so she's awesome.
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  She really helped us out and got us everything that we needed to
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  get booked for that star. Cruiser trick it.
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  What I was really impressed with from her from a level of service
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  was she was engaged from the minute, we inquired to pretty
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  much the day, we boarded the ship and the other was not like,
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  okay, cool, I've done my job, get a life, it was truly.
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  You know, from start to finish. Yes, she was great.
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  And we definitely want to thank her for her work.
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  I mean, that day, of the booking we were all on our group chat
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  like nervous. Like May the force be with us
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  like, you know, worrying about it and then the news came and we
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  got it and not only that we got a seat at the Captain's Table.
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  The first night we were there which was really special and one
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  of them was. So thank you, Joe and thank you
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  for saying yes and Christine First Impressions.
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  We were we got there. We had stayed on universal
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  grounds for the two days prior and then we took our cars and
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  went over to where the star Cruisers located and there's a
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  bit of a line outside but not uncomfortable.
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  You're in the shade. They provide you water, they
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  give you your magic bands. Very nice comfortable.
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  Yeah, I would say it was a very seamless check-in process, very
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  if you've ever been on a cruise it's very similar in the sense
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  that your luggage is sort of tagged and bagged right at the
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  Right. When you arrive and you won't
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  see it again until you hit your room.
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  So, which was very nice to lay, you have la which is all
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  included and it was really nice to just arrived have this
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  conversation. As far as you know.
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  Where's your bags going? X?
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  Y&z get your magic band and then you're literally ready to
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  experience. What is in front of you?
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  And the second, they let you in, it's the beginning of your
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  experience. Like, there's once you're in,
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  you're in it. And when we say in it, you will
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  become part. Out of the storyline which
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  unfolds and, and we'll get into that in more detail.
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  But it was really cool. And like Corey said seamless
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  just getting there getting in taking care of the technical,
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  like baggage cars, Etc. And when she says technical
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  baggage, she means. I mean I had a William Sonoma
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  shopping bag with vanilla extract and other things that
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  it's so. Like limit that was tagged in
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  back in arrived in my room on the Surfers are.
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  So he really did a great job with that.
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  They sure did. And we were allowed to bring
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  liquor and we did we had a toast when we got in the room.
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  Yeah, it was great. And I'm going to just mention a
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  quick Pro tip for the beginning, if you are going soon or booking
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  and when you have your first day, you can check in as early
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  as well. They say, you can check in as
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  early as one, but let me tell you, people are there earlier.
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  So they were, we just took a chance and I'm kind of breaking
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  a rule of Comic-Con here. We're done early, you line up
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  because then people just keep on lining up earlier.
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  But We I think we got there a little after 11:30 and there are
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  already groups in front of us. So and being there early and
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  getting in early is the best thing you can do because it just
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  maximizes your time, you know, the hotel.
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  Well, I wish. Yeah.
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  And I think, with that to, that's what allowed our, our
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  luggage to arrive at her room. By the time we walked in, right?
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  We walked in at noon and it was in our room because they had
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  already had a chance to. Are we watching it one?
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  I guess and we had Chance was already there so which was
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  great. Yeah, yeah.
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  And so they do bag check, you know, security walk through
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  metal detector, that sort of thing.
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  And then you forget you're even in like Derek said not a hotel,
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  it's kind of exactly. Like you're in a ship, they
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  start you on level 6 to make you feel like you're down in the
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  ship itself and then everything that takes place while you're on
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  board and in the experience is like levels, five and four.
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  So they give you the impression or like this brain rain T's of
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  like, you're going down further into the ship, which I don't
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  even know if we were above ground below ground.
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  No idea because all of your windows on board, look out at
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  space and that was really cool. So, you walk into the room and
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  your main window. I guess out into the world is
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  literally looking out your ship at the planets.
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  I think it was Coruscant and chandrila or Shangri-La or
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  Shangela. And croissant, it was great
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  names. And at this point, I just want
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  to say to because if anybody sitting is sitting listening
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  going, oh, that sounds way too. Claustrophobic for me one, I can
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  understand even though I'm not claustrophobic, I can understand
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  but to there is something called the climate chamber, which is
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  essentially an outdoor space. You can't see anything but the
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  sky really, but it does give you a chance to experience what the
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  climate of Earth would be like. Well, not on Earth.
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  Well, no, I forgot everything and let's, let's just not
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  confuse people like it is Earth here like you're going outside
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  in Florida to experience the weather but correct radically
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  for the storyline you're experiencing.
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  I think when that what they said it was is supposed to experience
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  the climate of about to which you're going to be going.
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  Yeah on to that planet. Sure on your second day so and
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  usually it's pretty hot. Yeah.
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  So, there is there's a chance for you to get this area songs.
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  There's some chance for you, to get some air, and see some
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  light, if this all sounds a little claustrophobic.
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  Yeah. And it was modeled in the way of
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  like a meditation Garden. So it was, it was peaceful out
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  there. It wasn't just like a porch.
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  You didn't just walk out onto a deck.
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  We're like, okay, there's the parking lot, it was done.
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  Well, it wasn't a Smokers Lounge, either, like actually
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  good point. And my first impression was just
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  Wow, once you get done with the check-in process for lack of a
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  better term, they put you on this pod that is supposed to
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  take you to the ship but really it's just like a in between
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  point where they close you in there.
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  They show a little video of you of your little pod going to the
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  ship itself. Yeah there's some windows that
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  are there's some slits that are supposed to look like Windows
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  that have projections to Leon's blank that that show it look
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  like you're blasting off into Outer space, right?
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  So it's not just here. You are, welcome to the star
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  Cruiser, it's a whole experience.
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  And when they open the door, as you go into the atrium, which is
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  mind-boggling, how well done and how clean, and how on point for
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  Star Wars, it was like top to bottom.
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  Yeah, it was beautiful and, you know, I'm I'm sure a lot of
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  people saw, like some of the original promo videos.
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  Those for this experience and they were, let's say very
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  underwhelming and so they, the, the promoter, the PR department,
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  or whoever you want to say is like, trying to like advertise
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  this, they did not do a very good job at the beginning.
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  So, you know, it was so much more fantastic than you know,
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  what? I even expected after seeing
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  some of the videos. It was it was great and it's
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  too. Worries, which we weren't
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  allowed to go up into the top story, which makes sense after
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  you go through the entire experience and you see what the
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  grand finale is, but it gave the sense that when the captain came
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  out and the other players, the cast members came out, they
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  stood above you and addressed you down in the atrium and it
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  was, it was wonderful. You could hear them, it gave you
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  clear view, no matter where you were in The Atrium.
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  And I think there were about 300 400 passengers, but it didn't,
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  like we said, it never felt cramped and never felt
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  overwhelming. None of that.
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  And it was only there was only a handful of times across the span
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  of two days that we were all in that Atrium together.
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  And, and to her point, we, it never felt the crowded, so,
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  which was really great. Yeah, yeah.
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  And I think it's, I think the capacity is people were saying
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  like, it can be, like, around 100 to all.
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  There's 100 rooms, I believe. So I think you have up to like,
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  maybe 400 500 as Max. You're most likely not going to
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  be filling out now. Every meds going to be thrown in
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  every exactly. Yeah.
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  So let's talk about a room because it was amazing.
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  That's when I kind of lost it. When we got to the room I
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  totally geeked out. Derek put on the Star Wars
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  music. It was a whole thing.
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  We did our toast with champagne and it was it was like real at
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  that. Yeah.
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  Why don't you guys share your room since you had the sweet?
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  Yes. So we had two rooms and Derek
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  and I and Leslie and Christine stayed in the suite, which had
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  like a living Ria living room. If you will a bedroom, a very
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  large bathroom, very, very spacious shower.
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  Yes. And kind of people can fit in
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  the shower. Now I have five people in two
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  droids and we had a Droid in the room we did and we'll get to her
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  but Cory and Dan and Greg stayed in the room right next to us.
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  Thank God, they put us right next to each other.
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  We book together, under two separate names, but they put our
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  rooms right next to each other. It was perfect.
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  We were kind of worried that might not happen.
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  Think they have like a group code that they can use when
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  you're booking it to know that this entire group is together.
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  But we wanted to do two Suites initially.
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  But then I found out that in this ship on the ship.
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  There's only four Suites total, really.
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  No, I didn't know that. Well, for of the sweets that we
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  were looking for. There's two, I think of the
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  captain sweets, but which Richard harder and bigger, which
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  is almost, as kind of like combining a standard room and
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  dress, the Galaxy Suite that we were in, but so very limited
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  availability. And so we were just lucky enough
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  to get one and luckily again, the standard State room was
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  right next door because we had a party of seven.
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  So yeah, we want A space that we could all hang out.
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  And that living room space in the suite was kind of perfect.
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  Yeah. And we met the other day.
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  We wouldn't have needed to sweets because we were all in
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  there in one or we were out or we were in bed, right?
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  And so for the other room for the standard room has standard
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  queen bed. I mean, I would say is the
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  configuration was very much of a standard hotel room as far as
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  the layout, obviously, the finishes and you know, interior
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  design of the room was of course on point with everything else in
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  the ship. Ship.
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  But they're really cool feature in that room was there's the
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  queen bed and then sort of bunk bed style but think of it as
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  sort of to almost sort of enclosed on seven of the eight
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  sides, I guess. So kind of like an open box on
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  one end but it was not claustrophobic at all.
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  There were still a lot of room and a lot of room to move around
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  but it had a very cozy feel to it which is really neat.
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  Yeah. And then there were a lot of
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  bigger especially if they are standing room when Would
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  videotape it and show it online. It looked a lot smaller agree
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  than what actually was when you were there.
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  Yeah, and we had two adult people sleeping in there.
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  Comfortably, plenty of room to move, plenty of room to sit up.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  And the looks of it. I mean, I felt like I was in
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  Star Wars and that's what I wanted, and even just the door
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  to get in the room as a pocket door, that was sort of a Door on
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  a ship, you know, it wasn't just, oh, rinder door, just
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  everything down to your place of finishes down to the door
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  itself. Was great.
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  Yeah, yeah. And the lights, the she's even,
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  the coffee table was everything. Yeah, I mean, it was just on
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  point. And I will say, I didn't think
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  the beds were that comfortable. I'm not going to praise
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  everything on board, you know, we'll get to the hits and misses
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  but one of the missus for my book is nothing was that
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  comfortable. The couch was The couch is very
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  comfortable spacious again, and let's just point out this.
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  There were plenty of outlets, plenty of charging units.
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  They understood what people needed and you had to use your
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  phone the entire time you were there because it was quote, your
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  data pad to help you carry out your personal missions while
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  you're on board and you had to charge your phone pretty often.
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  I mean, if you were on it as much as you were and there was
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  no lack of like, man, I wish there was another Outlet.
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  Why don't they have more Outlets?
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  No, you never had to ask for that.
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  That was fine. Agreed.
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  Yeah, I'm going back to your comment about the beds.
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  I think it's kind of interesting because and this is something we
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  really didn't know since we booked this experience before.
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  All the information was kind of given to us that the Galaxy
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  sweet setup for beds was a lot more Awkward or just weirdly
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  placed. Then a standard room would have
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  been, we had four people staying in there and and the Galaxy
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  sweet. You had one pull down bed off.
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  All in the living room area and then one in the bedroom and then
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  the queen bed and no bunk beds. So it was kind of like and not
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  to say I can't I was spoiled and I got the big green back, the
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  queen got the queen bed, gets the big queen bed, so, Allison
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  up is comfortable, but I've heard from everybody else that
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  the others were not quite so much.
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  Yeah, I think they could have done like a pull-out couch in
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  the living room. And in the pulldown bed out
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  there to where, like, you literally have to separate
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  rooms, but otherwise, you're living have three people
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  sleeping in one room and one person sleeping in the other.
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  Yeah, that's our first impression of the room.
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  What did you think of the mess hall?
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  The cafeteria /, dining room /. Everything as, as the as the
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  foodie on this podcast right now.
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  The the the aesthetic of it all was fantastic.
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  It was, it was great. It was Well, executed, the
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  Captain's Table to shape the configuration to placement.
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  All that was wonderful. I will say the food was good.
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  I was not blown away by the food.
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  I I was a little shocked at how asian-inspired all of the food
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  was not that I have anything against that it just was not.
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  I was expecting a little bit more variety and a little bit
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  more out of the box. Type thinking with what was
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  served. I will say that they did a very
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  good job. The chef did a very good job,
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  coming up with ways to make it seem Galactic, not anything.
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  They took something as pedestrian as macaroni and
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  cheese and chicken nuggets, and turned it into something that
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  was space inspired, you know. Sure.
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  It's my favorite thing that was really good like lame because
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  it's like, Really out of everything.
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  It's just a mac and cheese, but the mac and cheese.
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  I mean, I've had a lot of different Disney mac and cheese
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  and for whatever reason, this one was so delicious.
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  Yeah, no lie. And I think you hit, I think you
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  hit the nail on the head. Is that everything was
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  creatively executed, for sure. Yes.
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  You sure like the peanut butter and jelly dessert was like a
• 21:06
  puff ball that looked like a mushroom That Grew on Felucia?
• 21:09
  Like it was they kept the theme going?
• 21:12
  No matter what. Yeah, and I was very happy to
• 21:15
  see that in even in space They had Sweet'N Low.
• 21:17
  So if you're a country that wants to look a little or an
• 21:20
  iced tea drinker with sweet little, they have all that
• 21:22
  stuff, they're not, everything is very strange.
• 21:24
  There's very, you know, Coca-Cola products.
• 21:26
  You know what I mean? Which I spilled coffee all over
• 21:30
  the. I was that person but I was
• 21:32
  happy to see that the next day. Someone else was that person?
• 21:34
  Listen listen the ship, hit some turbulence, and what are you
• 21:37
  gonna do? They didn't have the Travelers
• 21:41
  the ter. Bus' in an outer space?
• 21:44
  Your good girl? No.
• 21:45
  And they didn't have a Droid clean it up.
• 21:46
  A nice person who I apologize to profusely.
• 21:48
  So the food, I'd have to agree with Corey generally is that I
• 21:53
  wasn't really Blown Away by it was good.
• 21:57
  And actually, out of my personal opinion, the best meal of the
• 22:02
  day was lunch for both days. I think that, yes, I do.
• 22:06
  I think that's where the best food was, and the dinners were a
• 22:12
  little bit more Awkward because we had seven people.
• 22:16
  Oil. And so they were coming out with
• 22:21
  our orders for like that. Was it supposed to be shared
• 22:24
  family, but family style. But these family-style meal
• 22:28
  should be like shared between really two people because they
• 22:31
  were like giving the same amount to like the other couples that
• 22:34
  were at. Our captain be edible.
• 22:35
  Yeah. And now here so you get two
• 22:38
  people are sharing one. Two people sharing one and then
• 22:41
  they weren't going to bring out a third.
• 22:42
  Yeah, it and it was like, but then three people are sure.
• 22:46
  Yeah. It's like people didn't get
• 22:47
  equal amounts of food. No, that's a, that's a really
• 22:49
  good point and I think that's and I think they would have had
• 22:52
  we made a big enough stink about it, but it, we should have never
• 22:55
  had to do that. It should have just been a
• 22:57
  standard to your point. If it's two people, they get
• 23:00
  one. If it's three people, they get
• 23:01
  to because there needs to be enough and, and correct, and it
• 23:04
  just, it just almost seems like, when we ask for another one, it
• 23:08
  almost seemed like the, well, we don't normally do that but we'll
• 23:11
  go ahead and do it, which is very unlike a cruise like on a
• 23:15
  different inclusive. Hell yeah.
• 23:17
  Like if you go on a Disney cruise, I'm sure any cruise.
• 23:20
  But I have a lot of experience on Disney Cruises and they're
• 23:23
  like they're just coming out with more food that you didn't
• 23:26
  even ask for their like, oh try this trap.
• 23:28
  And so it seemed very weird that it was like, almost kind of hard
• 23:33
  to get more from for the dinners anyways.
• 23:36
  Yeah, it was nice dinners. Yeah, yeah, I like a traditional
• 23:41
  Full Table service but I didn't mind the family style because it
• 23:45
  truly everything was kind of At once you can pick and choose as
• 23:47
  you wanted if you wanted more of something than great.
• 23:50
  If not, then so be it. I want to take a quick step back
• 23:53
  though. To I loved the trays that they
• 23:56
  used for the breakfast and lunch service.
• 23:58
  Thank goodness. It was a way.
• 24:00
  It was a way to make it fun but also have some level of portion
• 24:06
  control because sometimes let's be honest in America.
• 24:08
  When you see a buffet people load or load and overload their
• 24:12
  tray and what was neat about these trays was they were sort
• 24:14
  of like a Bento Box Style. Owl with these sort of defined
• 24:19
  compartments to wear. What you were getting was, was
• 24:22
  different shapes, but they all fit on the tray.
• 24:25
  So, you could do two small squares or one long rectangle,
• 24:28
  and it would all fit in the same space, but it was very well
• 24:31
  executed and very fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 24:35
  And for, you know, for the Captain's Table, we actually got
• 24:40
  to speak to the captain. Who was a pan Turin, female, she
• 24:43
  was great. She knew her shit.
• 24:44
  I was grilling her a little bit, not Not like grilling her
• 24:47
  aggressively but like yes, conversationally and she knew
• 24:52
  for all the Star Wars fans out there.
• 24:53
  She knew who Rio chuchi was. Okay.
• 24:55
  So that's like that's like test exam.
• 24:58
  Number one, she passed number two.
• 25:01
  She had background stories about her father.
• 25:03
  She had, you know, all of these things that added to her being a
• 25:07
  true character in the story. Yeah.
• 25:09
  And her execution was Flawless. Yes.
• 25:12
  Thank you. That's exactly what I was gonna
• 25:13
  say. She did it, it wasn't like a
• 25:15
  script. It was Just part of her dialogue
• 25:18
  and it made it feel like we were actually speaking to the captain
• 25:20
  of a ship who's been flying it. She knew Leia Organa.
• 25:23
  You know she knew this and that and how she came up in the ranks
• 25:26
  and that's how she became the captain of this ship and it gave
• 25:30
  some authenticity to it which was really cool for a nerd like
• 25:34
  myself. So just someone who isn't right?
• 25:37
  I mean and you know I'm out of this group, one of the fewer
• 25:41
  people that I don't dislike Star Wars but I'm not the true fan,
• 25:45
  right? I can enjoy it.
• 25:46
  Our, I can enjoy it for what it is, Derek's different levels to,
• 25:50
  because, sure, I know the movies and, you know, much more beyond
• 25:57
  that every so yeah, like pretty much everything.
• 26:01
  Well now, if Lauren was here, I know less than Lawrence though,
• 26:04
  case because I'm Star Wars knowledge.
• 26:09
  But I mean, we had all kinds in our group like you said Cory and
• 26:13
  what would you say you felt about, you know, the characters.
• 26:16
  And the story that played out oh well I mean I just think
• 26:19
  everybody was so well executed and spoke with confidence and it
• 26:24
  wasn't to me it was so believable.
• 26:27
  I literally felt like I was watching the movie and they just
• 26:29
  plucked these folks out and plop them into the star Cruiser.
• 26:32
  It didn't feel like these actors trying to make it big or like
• 26:38
  overacting and being ridiculous kit.
• 26:39
  Truly, just felt genuine authentic and sincere and
• 26:45
  everybody had such An air of confidence in what they were
• 26:50
  doing and who they were? Yeah, well, speaking of
• 26:53
  confidence, let's give some props to Gaia our resident
• 26:58
  twi'lek performer. She was amazing.
• 27:02
  She was fan tastic. Yeah.
• 27:04
  And not only that, but we got her almost to break character
• 27:07
  Corey. Yes, the Killer is the best at
• 27:11
  getting really, isn't? This is to break character
• 27:15
  because it Here's the thing, here's the thing, it's not like
• 27:18
  a game that I'm like, trying to do but the reality is that like
• 27:21
  I know I can do it to some degree.
• 27:23
  So like, why not? Right and so connect, can I move
• 27:26
  ahead to tell what my what my outfit was and what, Holly?
• 27:30
  So we're all dressed. And I, of course, those who
• 27:33
  follow most things Kenobi on Twitter and on Instagram, some
• 27:37
  of my outfits were revealed but I haven't, I haven't shared your
• 27:40
  pictures. Yeah, sure.
• 27:42
  And you please feel free to do so.
• 27:45
  So, so going And the point that I was not the the true fan on
• 27:49
  this is I wasn't trying to be a Debbie Downer, but I also wasn't
• 27:52
  going to go out and like spend all this money on Con on apparel
• 27:56
  that I'm likely to never wear again.
• 27:58
  X y&z, welcome to find out that everyone else in our group was
• 28:02
  going out, and being a participant, and I was like,
• 28:04
  well, I'm happy to do, so I just wasn't originally planning to
• 28:06
  because I didn't expect everyone in our group to do so.
• 28:09
  So anyway, fast forward. I know there's a captain's
• 28:13
  dinner and I already had some ideas and I was like, you know,
• 28:18
  I was like, I had I have a pair of gold, like sort of glittery
• 28:23
  stilettos that actually fit from a from a previous previous
• 28:27
  Crews. I'll leave it at that.
• 28:29
  And anyways, so I had put this look together black jeans.
• 28:33
  This black sort of flowy kind of shirt these heels, Black
• 28:37
  sunglasses Nails, gold and nude nails.
• 28:40
  And anyway, long story short, that's what I wore.
• 28:43
  The captain's dinner, Gaia had, you know, been around me.
• 28:46
  And, you know, we had made eyes and whatnot.
• 28:49
  And then the next night we had actually had a moment to chat
• 28:53
  with her in the, the lounge, the Star Lounge.
• 28:56
  I think it was. And I said, she said something
• 28:59
  and I was like, oh, do you remember seeing me?
• 29:01
  She goes, oh, I remember seeing you the nails?
• 29:03
  The he had those, I remember a look or something like that, and
• 29:07
  I said, well, you know, I said, it's because it's Intergalactic
• 29:10
  and the minute I said that she laughed like, like her head was
• 29:13
  like, she didn't say, I gotta go, but she dismissed herself.
• 29:16
  Very Quickly like that was that was the moment that I you know,
• 29:21
  got her to break a little bit. Yeah, she was, you know, the
• 29:24
  great part about this is that they don't just perform and then
• 29:27
  you don't see them again. They come around, they talk to
• 29:30
  you. They're part of the storyline
• 29:32
  and they're not imposing at all. The captain was very
• 29:36
  approachable. She told us a poem at the, at
• 29:38
  the Star lounge and it was I recorded.
• 29:42
  It was amazing. It was like heartfelt and about,
• 29:44
  you know, New Paths and they taught Us to buoy today, which
• 29:48
  is like cheers. Basically the other one side
• 29:53
  equal, your Cola a Diga Diga Cola, oh, and now we don't know
• 30:00
  what the co I know. I know, I know I know Cola is in
• 30:05
  there because that's the point I remember anyway.
• 30:08
  So while she's looking it up, no, but, uh, it was gonna say,
• 30:12
  you know, speaking of people being in character, it's not
• 30:15
  just The actors that are Central to the role of the story on the
• 30:21
  star Cruiser, the waiters everyone, bartenders the people
• 30:25
  that the people at the, the dustpans everybody, everybody is
• 30:31
  playing the story, and they're all characters.
• 30:34
  And, and the and the sense of that they're all going along
• 30:38
  with this story to make you feel as a murmur.
• 30:40
  Yeah, that's possible. Yes.
• 30:42
  Yes, yeah. And, and not only that, but we
• 30:44
  had a few interruptions at dinner.
• 30:46
  From the first order and the waiters and waitresses were like
• 30:50
  don't worry the security and safety of the cab.
• 30:53
  You know, the of the cabin here is is our top priority.
• 30:56
  I'm sure the first order won't, cause any more issues and you
• 30:59
  know, they just like little things like that.
• 31:01
  That kept the story going. And let me just say quite
• 31:04
  possibly my favorite actor or cast member on this ship was
• 31:09
  Lieutenant Croix, the main bad guy.
• 31:11
  If you know what a bad guy at all, he was a good guy.
• 31:15
  What do you mean? Our Lieutenant luck cry for our
• 31:18
  sparkling water fans out there. They have called him Lacroix
• 31:21
  once or twice. I have the phrase right now.
• 31:24
  Hang on. It's a team yet:.
• 31:27
  Not your Kula told you call it was in there.
• 31:29
  Yeah. Okay, Tema, your Cola.
• 31:32
  What was that something about the the Huts you had said that.
• 31:36
  Yeah, hot said that. Yeah.
• 31:37
  Which is kind of funny that they brought up hotties on the ship.
• 31:42
  Who the fuck like why I came out here:?
• 31:46
  Have any of these Hudson here. Like, oh my God.
• 31:51
  So speaking of waiters and waitresses we loved ours at the
• 31:55
  Cantina. She was amazing.
• 31:57
  What was her name? You got actually, got her number
• 31:59
  Corey. Yeah.
• 32:01
  Well, the lounge that way. They get her number, I got this
• 32:04
  second one's number, but but, you know, but so.
• 32:07
  So I want I want to bring something else that we said back
• 32:10
  to this moment is while we had all these folks on board Beyond
• 32:15
  being in the atrium, Mm combined at certain moments, there wasn't
• 32:18
  ever really another time that it felt busy.
• 32:21
  And I'm saying that in the sense, that any time, that our
• 32:24
  party of seven walked into the sublight lounge, we had a spot
• 32:29
  to sit. All said we didn't have to wait.
• 32:31
  It wasn't packed, it wasn't. I mean, and there's people in
• 32:34
  there. Don't get me wrong, but that's
• 32:35
  just how much space there was for everybody to move around and
• 32:38
  be doing kind of their own thing and so, anyway, but Crystal was
• 32:42
  the one that yes we had bought with Shout The crystal to
• 32:47
  Crystal. She was the other one that I
• 32:49
  made break character. Yes, she was.
• 32:51
  Listen, the she was amazing. The drinks were amazing.
• 32:55
  I mean, they even, they were all about Base by planets, you know,
• 32:59
  named after planets, they kept in theme.
• 33:03
  It's like our dinner the second night each dish represented, a
• 33:06
  planet, and that was really cool.
• 33:08
  So, I mean everything, top to bottom was pretty on point.
• 33:16
  Kashyyyk dare go know how to pronounce his cheek and he found
• 33:21
  out that night. And chewy was on board.
• 33:25
  We helped quote-unquote rescue him off board as part of the
• 33:28
  storyline. So, back to chewy, what no one
• 33:31
  saying on here is the fact that chewy had a Brazilian blowout
• 33:34
  before. He got on the before he got on
• 33:37
  the star Cruiser because I have some Fly Away things that were
• 33:41
  out of control. I don't know what was going on
• 33:43
  with. I told you Brazilian blogger
• 33:46
  land in but you because I'm telling you, I see we see chewy
• 33:50
  that too and he does not look like that.
• 33:53
  So So it looked like he he just woke up.
• 33:56
  Yeah, no, he got, he got himself ready for this trip.
• 34:02
  So that's true. We had Stormtroopers, we had
• 34:06
  kylo Ren. We had Ray and we didn't even
• 34:09
  know that they were on the ship until like the second or third
• 34:12
  day or whatever and when our story lines kind of played out
• 34:15
  and came to the grand finale that's when it was revealed that
• 34:19
  they were part of the story and it was really interesting.
• 34:23
  Because we had seven people all starting off at the same point
• 34:27
  in the story line and ending on completely different points.
• 34:30
  Yeah. And my take I tried to play Both
• 34:35
  Sides. I tried to be friendly with the
• 34:37
  first order talk to Lieutenant, Croix kind of get smoothie with
• 34:40
  them and then I would report back to, you know, the captain's
• 34:45
  helper or first first mate, I don't know what the term is, but
• 34:49
  I would give her information and then she'd be like, okay, we'll
• 34:51
  come talk to me later. I have information for you, You
• 34:53
  there for this and then we all had different missions that we
• 34:56
  had to accomplish when we went to Batu you know, off planet or
• 35:01
  off ship if you will and that played out but Derek Cory.
• 35:05
  You both had completely different story lines.
• 35:08
  Yeah. And and one thing I will say for
• 35:11
  anybody that does plan to go and do this experience is the first
• 35:16
  thing you need to remember, is the more you interact with these
• 35:21
  characters, the Better your experience will most likely be
• 35:26
  and you 100. Also, you need you need to be
• 35:30
  ready to start like right away. So we were, we boarded the ship.
• 35:34
  We were shown our room. And then I think the muster
• 35:38
  drill that they have, is that for.
• 35:40
  And from that moment, you're starting to talk to some of
• 35:43
  these people. And then, after the fact, you
• 35:46
  want to, you know, you just want to go around and talk to them as
• 35:49
  much as you can. And in also, Interact with
• 35:54
  things, like everything that you see that you can possibly
• 35:57
  interact with interact with and it will make sense.
• 36:00
  It will it will essentially, I think, I think if I had to say,
• 36:05
  I don't know, say a Miss. But like, I think that was
• 36:06
  probably the hardest part about all of it was getting started
• 36:10
  because, for example, Leslie in our group, interacted with
• 36:14
  something. And because she did all of a
• 36:16
  sudden, her datapad started to send her stuff, right?
• 36:18
  Well, because I gotta go, meanwhile, this the rest of
• 36:21
  their other six of us are looking at each other, Like
• 36:23
  okay, did we order another drink?
• 36:24
  Like you know and and going back to what Derek said about
• 36:27
  interacting you don't have to interact with other guests.
• 36:30
  They are not going to make your they're not going to like make
• 36:33
  your experience one way or the other.
• 36:36
  Like like the cast members that are on board of the ones that
• 36:39
  you you want to interact with and so anyway.
• 36:41
  So but the point is, if you're, if you're hitting a point that
• 36:44
  you're just, not sure how to do, or what to do, or where to go,
• 36:48
  just ask. And I mean, that in the sense
• 36:50
  that I literally asked I needed to pass, Password for something
• 36:53
  and I couldn't figure out. And I literally asked the girl
• 36:55
  with the dustpan, the like to help me and she looked, she
• 36:59
  looked at her, she looked at her friend with the broom.
• 37:02
  What hand does fan when of the broom at clearly it's not a
• 37:03
  two-person job but it is in outer space.
• 37:05
  But but she looked at him she's like, okay, listen like make
• 37:10
  sure nobody follows us like to Derek's Point earlier, is that
• 37:12
  everybody's in it? Like everybody plays an integral
• 37:15
  role. So don't be afraid to ask, don't
• 37:18
  be afraid to interact with things and have fun.
• 37:21
  Yeah, and when we went to Batu, We went to oghuz Cantina, the
• 37:25
  bartender's slipped us Clues to continue the story line.
• 37:29
  So even the people on, but to serving you at the Cantina,
• 37:34
  we're in on it. So it's and we had pins that
• 37:36
  said passenger on the house. Ian and we got in the lightning
• 37:40
  lines for the rides and we were served free alcohol and food and
• 37:45
  not at the Cantina. We had to pay for that but like
• 37:47
  you got one free alcoholic drink or any drink at all and one free
• 37:50
  meal, you know, Epi to. But everyone was in on On and
• 37:54
  you got to hack into some of the things throughout the park.
• 37:57
  We didn't go into any other part of Hollywood Studios, just the
• 37:59
  two, but we had our own entrance into the park and our own way of
• 38:03
  getting there which felt also like a ship.
• 38:05
  So yes. Yeah.
• 38:07
  And you're joining us here, I'm sorry.
• 38:10
  Okay, to have to talked about the BET to peace right now.
• 38:12
  Oh yeah what whatever you want to talk about because I
• 38:15
  definitely want to get to what Derek and I experienced at the
• 38:20
  end of our well basically your storyline Derek.
• 38:23
  Yeah. Just kind of let me piggyback
• 38:24
  and then the end of your story Cory.
• 38:26
  But do you want to share what you were impressed with about
• 38:29
  the transport from the Halcyon tuba to?
• 38:33
  Yeah, I thought that was really interesting and you know, again
• 38:36
  I know that people took pictures of it, you're basically getting
• 38:39
  onto a box truck. And so this box truck is taking
• 38:43
  you transporting you to Hollywood Studios the interior
• 38:46
  completely. Looks like a capital ship.
• 38:48
  You have no idea. You're getting it, Obama new
• 38:50
  walk on into it. It's seamless like you You don't
• 38:53
  even know that this is a truck that's taking you somewhere and
• 38:56
  you walk in and it looks like a little transport unit that's
• 38:59
  going to take you and they have some flashing lights through
• 39:05
  some of the events that make it look a little bit more, you
• 39:08
  know, realistic. And they have a Droid that's
• 39:11
  talking to you. You don't see the Droid but you
• 39:13
  get to hear him on the China over the speaker and he's
• 39:17
  talking to you on your way to bet you.
• 39:20
  Yeah. And you know, we did our time,
• 39:24
  did our time at Batu and had a really good time.
• 39:27
  Had a few drinks. I mean, it's early, you got back
• 39:30
  onto the Halcyon to continue your story line and it felt like
• 39:33
  it was 5:00 p.m., but you didn't know really what time of was you
• 39:36
  know, like when you're on board, you kind of forget because your
• 39:39
  face is either down to your data pad or walking and you're in the
• 39:43
  windows are outer space. So there is no you don't you
• 39:46
  have seen the sun rise and set you have no idea.
• 39:48
  Yeah, and as the storyline played out the first order,
• 39:51
  Actually takes over the ship, right?
• 39:53
  And so that the second morning when we woke up there were Tie
• 39:55
  fighters flying through space outside our ship in our window.
• 39:59
  So you knew something was going on like it.
• 40:02
  Even that the space out the window kind of progressed along
• 40:06
  with the story and we did have lightsaber training and we did
• 40:12
  baby. You did it in heels girl.
• 40:15
  Yeah, my I told you my look had, you know, heels for the
• 40:19
  captain's dinner and I didn't look Or I didn't know what the
• 40:22
  agenda looked like in the sense that it was that tight of a
• 40:25
  timeline because I was just gonna wear that outfit for
• 40:28
  dinner, come back change into my other outfit for the rest of the
• 40:30
  evening. And I told Derek that and he was
• 40:33
  like, girl, you ain't got time to change.
• 40:35
  I was like, oh, so literally I had to go straight to lightsaber
• 40:39
  training after dinner to where I'm in.
• 40:41
  There's photos that and please feel free to share them.
• 40:44
  I will and he deals with a lightsaber and press-on nails.
• 40:47
  And I told me on later I said, Leia, never even did this shit
• 40:50
  in heels. Also like, you know, just just
• 40:52
  saying, just select it first. It's a first.
• 40:56
  Yeah. And I enjoyed lightsaber
• 41:00
  training. I had it with Derek and Leslie
• 41:02
  and Christine, we were all part of that group, right?
• 41:04
  And that was fun. But it was it was you got to
• 41:08
  hear you out at the end, right? And he speaks to you about the
• 41:12
  forest and it kind of changes the lesson a little bit, but all
• 41:17
  of the trainers. What were their names?
• 41:18
  The Jedis Sasha They were in on the storyline as well.
• 41:24
  So, so all the sausages are kind of like, your are your, I mean,
• 41:31
  I don't think that they were Jedis themself.
• 41:34
  No. He said, they were like Jedi,
• 41:36
  lure. Studiers and so they were versed
• 41:38
  in Jedi lightsaber training, but they weren't Jedi, they just,
• 41:43
  but they are key to getting onto the forest path, which is the
• 41:48
  most difficult one to get. And so your interactions with
• 41:53
  them are important. And so I knew that ahead of time
• 41:59
  going onto the ship. And so immediately when I saw
• 42:02
  them, I started talking to. Well, you ended up on basically
• 42:07
  the Jedi path. That was where your storyline
• 42:10
  ended up. Yes.
• 42:12
  And no, I just just by pure chance, I was just talking to,
• 42:19
  you know, the crew. Director and the Sasha and oh
• 42:27
  God. What was the the Smugglers name
• 42:29
  wraith? Oh right?
• 42:31
  Yeah, yeah. So I just happen to keep hell.
• 42:34
  Yeah. I just kept on talking to them
• 42:36
  and interacting on the app with those characters on the data
• 42:40
  path. And so I continue to be on all
• 42:44
  three paths and it was smart enough to know, when I had
• 42:49
  something scheduled for 1:00, One of those paths to schedule
• 42:53
  me at another thing for one of the other paths and it wasn't
• 42:56
  like, you know, conflicting and kept him busy.
• 42:59
  And so I was on three different ones which I don't know if
• 43:04
  that's the best way to do it. But you know Corey had a very
• 43:09
  different experience doing just a singular path doing the first
• 43:14
  order. Well just to say that Dan and
• 43:17
  Greg, I think they did everything right to get on to
• 43:21
  The force Jedi path and it didn't end up there.
• 43:24
  So it's kind of by chance whether you play it correctly or
• 43:28
  not. Yeah, and core you ended up on a
• 43:31
  totally different path. Yes.
• 43:32
  And so so one of the pieces of advice that Derek had shared
• 43:36
  before we had boarded was it's better to take a singular path
• 43:42
  and Run Deep with it, instead of trying to spread yourself too
• 43:46
  thin and engage with everything. So so I would say another piece
• 43:50
  of advice is that so Okay to say no and why.
• 43:54
  So point is that I wasn't really getting.
• 43:56
  I was interacting I was getting some hits and what's really
• 44:00
  interesting about it is and I want I want to pause for one
• 44:04
  second because there's going to be folks listening who may go
• 44:06
  one day and who may not you do not have to interact on the dead
• 44:10
  a pad and be a part of this. If you don't want I will say
• 44:13
  that you're there isn't much else for you to do.
• 44:15
  If you're not going to do that you don't have to be a die-hard
• 44:20
  fan and you also don't Have to do everything they say.
• 44:22
  The reality is though. This experience is very much.
• 44:25
  You make of it what you want. If you want to be super involved
• 44:28
  in, say yes to everything, you can't write with that.
• 44:32
  It was Derek's point in that choosing multiple paths.
• 44:35
  They were smart about scheduling certain things.
• 44:38
  They were also very smart about not scheduling you or not
• 44:43
  prompting you during your dinner time, which I loved.
• 44:47
  Everybody is able to sit and enjoy.
• 44:49
  Nobody's, nobody's like all you gotta go.
• 44:51
  I have this problem to do so, so well props to to, to the folks
• 44:55
  who executed that. But, but yeah, so I wasn't
• 44:58
  really getting a lot that I was interested in and what's cool is
• 45:01
  that as the prompts the prompts or the communications come in?
• 45:04
  It's very yes I'm in. No I'm not or tell me more kind
• 45:09
  of is its kind of the general General I don't know, I'm kind
• 45:15
  of vibe, but I think you for each interaction.
• 45:17
  Anyway, so finally Lieutenant Kroy came onto my Came on to my
• 45:21
  pad and I was like, all right well I'm going to go ahead and
• 45:25
  find yes. And then I just kind of things
• 45:27
  were going well and I had some good personal interactions with
• 45:31
  him and was like, you know, I was like I don't think anyone
• 45:33
  else in our group is going down the first order path.
• 45:37
  I'm going to just go down this path and honestly I just I
• 45:39
  followed Eric's advice and went deep with it and kind of said,
• 45:42
  no to everything else that wasn't first order.
• 45:44
  And I didn't feel like I didn't have enough to do.
• 45:48
  I didn't feel like, oh, I should have engaged more.
• 45:50
  So I had more Or to do my schedule is still busy and I it
• 45:54
  was very fun like I told them at the end like I knew I was on a
• 45:57
  losing path like of course the first order is not going to be
• 46:01
  the you know, the ones out on top but it was still very fun
• 46:05
  and engaging that's because they made it that way.
• 46:08
  It wasn't. They were all just Lieutenant
• 46:12
  cry was amazing. He was funny and just enough of
• 46:15
  a petty bitch. Yeah believable.
• 46:17
  And while he's in while he's a villain, he was still very
• 46:21
  Approachable likeable, I mean, and and I and so, so to go kind
• 46:26
  of back to something that Derek said, was you want to interact
• 46:29
  and and it really is true because because I had had some
• 46:33
  interactions with him, he knew my name and so there was a
• 46:37
  moment when we were on the bridge training that he actually
• 46:40
  called me by name to help interact with something
• 46:42
  specifically. So, I would say, you know, if
• 46:45
  you're not comfortable with that step outside your comfort zone
• 46:49
  and, and it really will or could Could work to your advantage.
• 46:52
  I mean, I consider myself to be kind of reserved and a little
• 46:56
  bit more shy when it comes to those kind of things.
• 46:59
  But you know, I had heard so many people say that you just
• 47:03
  step outside your comfort zone and it will it all work out.
• 47:07
  Yeah. And I'm so glad I did because it
• 47:09
  was it was just so great getting to do so many things.
• 47:15
  And, and, you know, one of the things that is even great is
• 47:19
  that you don't have to be. Wanted to be told to be
• 47:23
  somewhere to, you know, to experience something.
• 47:26
  If you are just walking around that ship, then you are going to
• 47:30
  run into something. You didn't even think you were
• 47:32
  going to experience, right? And so, like, I walked out of
• 47:36
  dinner the first night, I think, and I just happened to see all
• 47:41
  of these people hiding chewy as he's walking through the
• 47:45
  hallway. And I was like, what is this?
• 47:47
  And so, I just went along with it.
• 47:48
  We type. Yeah, and they all turned and
• 47:50
  said, Well chewy has a 730 blow out of the salon so we're going
• 47:56
  to get to it. Looks so cool because it was
• 47:59
  just like it was you didn't know what surprises were around every
• 48:02
  corner and again you don't need to be invited to that party.
• 48:05
  If you want to join that group, go for it or in ask I mean there
• 48:09
  was times that I simply that's what it was.
• 48:11
  There was a moment with Lieutenant Croix and the captain
• 48:14
  and they were off to do something and I just said can I
• 48:17
  join you? And they were like absolutely
• 48:19
  Lieutenant crows like absolutely like your Like let's go, right?
• 48:22
  So absolutely ask just make yourself part of the story.
• 48:27
  Yeah. Or we can say leaving some
• 48:28
  sorry. Oh, just I came out.
• 48:31
  I went down with you to, like, the fourth or fifth floor and
• 48:34
  Ray was in the hallway with a coaxial canister and it's just
• 48:38
  like, when did she give here? Like what the hell?
• 48:42
  Like, all of a sudden, she's just in there and she's talking
• 48:45
  about, you know, Sammy one of the players chewy we have to get
• 48:49
  chewy. The there was a Astromech Droid
• 48:51
  that. What was his name?
• 48:52
  SK, SK SK. So he's like are too.
• 48:57
  But it says K. And like we had, he was part of
• 48:59
  the story and it was this whole thing.
• 49:01
  And, you know, I just didn't expect to see Ray.
• 49:05
  Whoo, kudos to the female, the woman who played her, because
• 49:11
  not only did she have that wide-eyed like deer in the
• 49:13
  headlights? Ray look to her.
• 49:16
  She also had the accent. She also had the knowledge. she,
• 49:22
  it was great, she made references to Luke, she made
• 49:24
  references to, you know, Master, Luke and You know, General
• 49:28
  Organa and then of course, Derek was kind enough to get me in on
• 49:34
  the last bit of his story which was, we went into a room.
• 49:37
  There were three of us Ray, and one of the Sasha's and we all
• 49:41
  kind of put our hands out. Use the force and opened a Jedi
• 49:45
  holocron which a prism or some kind of, I don't know like
• 49:52
  projection, I don't know the technology, I don't know what
• 49:55
  you'd call it. It's kind of like Projection.
• 49:58
  It's one of those things that like you know, that spins really
• 50:01
  fast that has light on it that can change.
• 50:03
  And oh yeah, creates this 3D illusion.
• 50:06
  Sure. So I know that's what the Oda it
• 50:09
  was Yoda. Who spoke to us.
• 50:11
  So it was it was who is the three of you?
• 50:13
  Is the two of you. It was the two of us, and then
• 50:16
  another person. But I went into my session, we
• 50:20
  were, I think we might have been the first one first group,
• 50:23
  because they have more of the shirts going in through.
• 50:25
  It's just not one. And the effects don't work.
• 50:30
  Nothing did do that. I knew that things were supposed
• 50:34
  to happen to like wait, what's going on?
• 50:36
  And we're just walking out and I'm like, oh no.
• 50:39
  And so I had, I was walking around later on, Christine had
• 50:45
  gotten a separate session and she walked out and she was
• 50:49
  crying because of how amazing it was.
• 50:51
  And I was like, Christina's, I oh my god.
• 50:53
  Did it work for you? And she said, yes and I was
• 50:55
  like, and so I was standing, right?
• 50:58
  Are by the door where the people that were working it and as I
• 51:01
  owe our student work and I don't know how, I don't know how these
• 51:06
  people know where you are, or what you're doing, or what you
• 51:09
  say, but it almost seemed like they had set something up to get
• 51:14
  me back into another session because I was up in the atrium.
• 51:18
  And one of the Sasha's came around and she remembered my
• 51:21
  name, she's like, Derek. She's like, you know, I want you
• 51:25
  to experience this again, or she said it in a Such a way that it
• 51:28
  was still part of the experience.
• 51:30
  Not like, oh, the effects were down.
• 51:32
  Yeah, so yeah, trucks. Done with the screwdriver
• 51:36
  downstairs, you can go back. So when I found out, I was like,
• 51:40
  well, I was like, you know, I wanted to share it but I was
• 51:45
  like, how many people can I get in?
• 51:47
  And so I and I was limited on time because she's like, it was
• 51:51
  basically like in 15 minutes and I was like, okay.
• 51:54
  So I talked to some people and they're saying, oh we can't
• 51:57
  guarantee Thing and Southern, oh God.
• 51:59
  So I don't wanna like pull everyone aside because I was
• 52:02
  like, I didn't know that I was going to get people in.
• 52:05
  And so, luckily, I was able to get Leanne down there and yeah,
• 52:08
  I here, I come, I had to take a nap because I was gonna die and
• 52:12
  we hadn't slept, you know, whatever.
• 52:15
  I had to take a damn nap, I had to power down power back up and
• 52:18
  I'm coming down the hallway and dirge-like.
• 52:19
  You got to come with me right now.
• 52:20
  And I was like, okay because that's how things work on this
• 52:23
  ship, you know? Yes.
• 52:24
  And he's like I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do this so
• 52:26
  don't get too disappointed. It doesn't happen but I'm going
• 52:28
  to try and get you into this experience.
• 52:30
  I said, okay and then I cried. I mean it was I knew it's fake,
• 52:35
  it's not real but it was real enough for me to be like, okay,
• 52:40
  I'm in Star Wars. It sounded really cool though.
• 52:43
  Yeah. And so there's not a lot of
• 52:46
  things on this ship that are because when you think of Disney
• 52:49
  and think of like especially if you ride rise and resistance and
• 52:51
  see all these cool things that they do with this ride and cool
• 52:55
  technology that they use and effects.
• 52:58
  I would say that this is like the main, like cool thing to see
• 53:02
  like like the main like kind of special effect on this ship.
• 53:08
  I love that. He tells me that now two weeks
• 53:10
  later, but in the end, that's really a lie because the all the
• 53:15
  things that they did in the final show, which we can get to
• 53:17
  layer, it was was amazing. Amazing.
• 53:21
  I will say that one of the missus, I think of the
• 53:24
  experience. And we talked about this while
• 53:26
  we were there, is that there's only One Lounge.
• 53:29
  There's only one restaurant. There's only one place to escape
• 53:33
  to really I wish there had been maybe just one more what?
• 53:37
  Exactly not because it was packed because it wasn't.
• 53:39
  It's just variety on your down time.
• 53:43
  There's only one place to go. Really.
• 53:44
  Yeah. And also I wish there had been
• 53:48
  more characters. Maybe not part of the story but
• 53:51
  like have another species walking around.
• 53:53
  We did have a rodian walking around but she was part of the
• 53:56
  guy a show as well. But you know have a togruta
• 54:00
  walking around or another tweet leg or you know, any character
• 54:03
  just like walking around just to talk to you but I can understand
• 54:06
  why there wasn't. Because if they're not part of
• 54:09
  the storyline then it might distract you from the storyline
• 54:12
  which is your main point of being on the ship.
• 54:14
  Yeah and I don't think you know one thing is that there are so
• 54:19
  many things to do with the storyline as much as you want to
• 54:23
  see you can really be. You can wake up.
• 54:26
  Have your breakfast. Your day and and you can be busy
• 54:31
  the entire day, getting involved in your story lines.
• 54:34
  Well, in on the inverse of that, I will say a hit-and-miss right?
• 54:39
  Hit not hit and run. That's a very different thing.
• 54:42
  Didn't miss a bit. Heavier, the hit is the fact
• 54:46
  that everything all of the missions, sort of ceased around.
• 54:50
  I think what was it like, 11:00 10:00 or 11:00 10:00 or 11:00?
• 54:54
  Yeah, so those actors. Gotta go home.
• 54:56
  Yeah. Upon they need rest too many to
• 55:01
  go up to their cabin AKA. And that Toyota Corolla, you
• 55:04
  know, you know, blowing a red light camera, but but the thing
• 55:09
  of it is so that was the hit is the fact that it was nice, that
• 55:11
  it stopped at some point. So you could relax go to the
• 55:15
  lounge, enjoy the climate chamber, laying your bed,
• 55:18
  whatever you wanted to do the Miss though, and this is what I
• 55:23
  think could be an opportunity in the future is for those folks
• 55:27
  who Who are my towels and who would have been willing to stay
• 55:31
  up and have their, their story continued.
• 55:35
  I get it that, you know, the actress, the, the folks playing
• 55:37
  these. These, these roles can't be
• 55:40
  there longer, whatever, but it would have been nice if there
• 55:42
  would have been other things to do on the ship like interact
• 55:46
  with or puzzles or like something that you could still
• 55:49
  continue. So like I said it's kind of a
• 55:51
  double-edged sword one. It was nice to have it stops.
• 55:53
  You could breathe and then to it would have been nice if you
• 55:56
  wanted to. You wanted that option to
• 55:58
  continue that it was there, right?
• 56:01
  Yeah. And you know, to your point with
• 56:06
  my story, I never got to see the cargo bay, which I think you
• 56:10
  spent some time in or the engineering room.
• 56:12
  I didn't see either of those. I never went in those.
• 56:14
  Neither neither. Oh, okay.
• 56:17
  No fair mouth closed when I tried to go down.
• 56:19
  So it wasn't like, I guess I didn't do that.
• 56:22
  Right. But I never got to go in either
• 56:24
  of those rooms, but I never had a mission, any Of those rooms.
• 56:28
  Yeah, me neither so and I had one in each.
• 56:31
  Yeah. And see, that's another thing
• 56:32
  that I wanted to say is that while the Jedi path is has that
• 56:38
  nice, you know, and to it with the holocron.
• 56:42
  I don't I don't know if it would be the most exciting throughout
• 56:46
  because it I think with the resistance and with their first
• 56:52
  order and even with the Smuggler we're out, there are a lot more
• 56:58
  Fun activities to do. But I can't say that for sure
• 57:03
  because I had three going on at once.
• 57:05
  So I was never fully involved with one particular so I don't
• 57:09
  know how they would have filled my time.
• 57:11
  Yeah, with each different thing. Yeah, Derek's dead bitch.
• 57:14
  At the bingo hall. Was 17 cars in front of her, you
• 57:18
  know, stamping left to right with the troll drills Nails in
• 57:21
  the lashes and take the train. Yes, no, no.
• 57:26
  But but but that's very true. And I and same thing kind of
• 57:30
  kind of in the sense of just asking at some point I was down
• 57:33
  there by somebody and I was like hey can I get in the car?
• 57:35
  Go to I need to see what's in there and they the guy was like,
• 57:37
  okay? Yeah.
• 57:38
  But don't tell anybody, right? And so he keep me in to do it,
• 57:41
  right? And then it wasn't until towards
• 57:43
  the end of the second day that I actually had a mission that
• 57:46
  directed me for the, the cargo hold we we didn't have access to
• 57:52
  it, but we were just, like kind of like trying to figure it out
• 57:55
  and we were standing there and then all of a sudden, Open the
• 57:58
  door. Opens.
• 57:59
  And there's Gaia coming out and she's like, well, hello.
• 58:02
  Hey, we didn't know it at the time, but she was walking out to
• 58:10
  go to her first performance for dinner.
• 58:12
  And so, so, she's walking out and saying goodbye were like,
• 58:17
  oh, we got access to the cargo when we broke it, but something
• 58:20
  like, it's very clear. The space is, you're allowed to
• 58:23
  be an art, right? And so something like that.
• 58:26
  Like, no, you're not. Doing the wrong thing by doing
• 58:30
  it right? You're not I cast members are
• 58:33
  going to come in and be like you're not supposed to be in.
• 58:35
  Yeah it's a good. I mean everything you're not
• 58:36
  supposed to be in says crew only, right?
• 58:38
  I mean so it's very exploratory. It's very make of it.
• 58:41
  What you want. We also had a panel in our
• 58:44
  bedroom that had a Droid that would talk to us and also prompt
• 58:48
  us to do further missions the actors.
• 58:51
  A programmatic never prompted us to do missions.
• 58:55
  Oh ours was like talk to me. Yeah but But yes, we did.
• 59:01
  We'll see it was different ours was had to do with Smugglers Run
• 59:05
  the ride and but to so and we actually got our own special
• 59:08
  message but it was all. It was all magic been activated,
• 59:11
  so it remembered and she was a very sweet Droid at night.
• 59:15
  She would either tell you a story or sing, you a lullaby and
• 59:18
  we did both and they were very nice, very nice dried.
• 59:22
  We can get either that at night but it's cool.
• 59:24
  I mean, listen everyone else. Your serenade was from Gregor
• 59:28
  Dan, right? One of the quotes of the trip
• 59:32
  was we were all like, going through our personal checklist
• 59:36
  before we went to Batu, like do we have the keys?
• 59:38
  Do we have the magic bands? We have backpacks, sanitizer,
• 59:41
  sunglasses and Greg's like, oh shit, I need to go get my
• 59:44
  sunglasses and he pauses and turns and says, wait, are
• 59:46
  aviators considered Canon? And this is just like, it was
• 59:52
  very good in the story that we were concerned that our aviators
• 59:54
  were not canon. It was very good, was really
• 59:58
  fun. Yeah.
• 59:59
  Friend Leslie, who is on the ship with us?
• 1:00:03
  She was an Ewok the entire time. Yeah, so but she's amazing.
• 1:00:09
  Yes. One of the things that people
• 1:00:12
  also were starting to say on the forums as reading them is, you
• 1:00:16
  know, we went into this thinking that, you know, we did a lot of
• 1:00:18
  costume changes. Yeah.
• 1:00:20
  And the thing people started saying was no stick to the same
• 1:00:25
  costume or only do like one costume per day.
• 1:00:28
  Yeah, I had to look like I had three different looks.
• 1:00:34
  You did you did a good job though?
• 1:00:35
  Yeah. You did a good job.
• 1:00:37
  So, but Leslie was the same and it helped her.
• 1:00:40
  She was well-known to everybody. She was called out by everybody.
• 1:00:43
  This is the only Ewok on board. Yeah.
• 1:00:46
  Yeah, correct. And that's where it's like,
• 1:00:51
  because you have to remember, these actors are only have two
• 1:00:55
  days of you. I mean, if you were in a really
• 1:00:57
  call it like a day and a half because that second half is
• 1:00:59
  like, The wrapping up, but like, right a day and a half to with
• 1:01:01
  you to not only try to remember your name and for some folks,
• 1:01:06
  they all of us included we had creative names that went along
• 1:01:10
  with where we were at. So not only, they are, they
• 1:01:14
  trying to remember a unique name but also trying to put it with a
• 1:01:17
  person and so if you're changing your Aesthetics so much are so
• 1:01:21
  often and I can't remember you and it will number one and then
• 1:01:25
  number two, if you're not engaging with them enough like
• 1:01:28
  you know, for Them to remember you outside of that then your
• 1:01:32
  could be doing yourself a disservice right?
• 1:01:34
  And so like Leslie she being you know in her Ewok costume again.
• 1:01:39
  Very easy to remember and she was, you know, kind of giving
• 1:01:44
  Lieutenant Kroy a hard time throughout the entire thing
• 1:01:46
  because he's a bad guy. Ended up calling her.
• 1:01:48
  Oh no, no, no. This isn't she said to him,
• 1:01:51
  she's like, oh no, no, no. And so that's what he called her
• 1:01:55
  for the entire wrestling again, keeps hitting eternity goes, oh,
• 1:01:58
  so that's your name. Oh no, no, no.
• 1:01:59
  Like it. And that's what he calls on her
• 1:02:02
  performances in the atrium. He she said, she shouted out
• 1:02:07
  something to him and he turned down and looked at her from the
• 1:02:09
  up on the second level. And was like, I don't need to
• 1:02:13
  hear from you. Oh no, it's okay and showers.
• 1:02:17
  And that's the thing that goes back to what I said earlier, is
• 1:02:19
  that, if you can can make yourself, you know, interact and
• 1:02:22
  be memorable, once again, as there as these group things are
• 1:02:25
  going on and they need to interact with you or they want
• 1:02:29
  to interact. Act, you've given them something
• 1:02:31
  to be memorable to respond to. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:35
  And I would say, the biggest hit for me, was that grand finale
• 1:02:39
  show, and it was literally a show.
• 1:02:41
  It went on for like, 30 minutes. The story all came together,
• 1:02:46
  everything all of our paths, all of the things that we were
• 1:02:50
  watching all of the interruptions, the all of it
• 1:02:53
  came to a grand finale and it wrapped up seamlessly and we had
• 1:02:59
  against me Dollars. We had an actual lightsaber duel
• 1:03:03
  between kylo Ren and Ray. We're at one point a piece of
• 1:03:08
  the ceiling fell. Like, it's separated.
• 1:03:12
  Like, as if, you know, I don't know, if kylo sent did tried to
• 1:03:17
  break, bring it down or something and race, stopped it
• 1:03:20
  with the force, and it was just hanging there.
• 1:03:22
  It was all part of the show, all in that Atrium and you'd never
• 1:03:25
  know that all of those special effects of like blaster.
• 1:03:29
  Sparks going off and, you know, their lightsabers hitting the
• 1:03:33
  railing and it was barking and yeah, destroying the railing
• 1:03:36
  right in front of you. Yeah.
• 1:03:37
  And the best part, which, you know, we weren't allowed up on
• 1:03:41
  this balcony area, where this show is taking place, there had
• 1:03:45
  to have been like a treadmill or something.
• 1:03:46
  Because Ray, lost her lightsaber kylo.
• 1:03:50
  Ren reached out with the force and pulled her towards him, and
• 1:03:53
  she like moved, yeah, flawlessly, yeah.
• 1:03:56
  Yeah, her legs were moving, but she was moving.
• 1:04:00
  It was like frozen. Yeah and but moving towards him
• 1:04:04
  just like the force. She was not.
• 1:04:06
  She was an Intergalactic Bowflex basically.
• 1:04:08
  Yeah it was really cool and very cool.
• 1:04:14
  The best part was when Sammy one of the characters who we thought
• 1:04:19
  you know they're his storyline, you thought he was kind of
• 1:04:22
  working for the first order but he was like the shy, you know,
• 1:04:26
  kind of humble doing whatever the first order asked for here.
• 1:04:29
  And It up ripping off his helmet, he was a stormtrooper
• 1:04:32
  undercover and like saved the day and it was everybody
• 1:04:35
  cheered. And it was this whole Atrium
• 1:04:38
  cheering for Sammy and I was like, oh my God, I wasn't
• 1:04:40
  expecting that. It was it was so well done.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah, really great. And then of course, one of the
• 1:04:46
  best effects, which people were so excited about seeing was that
• 1:04:50
  actual working lightsaber, like we're yes.
• 1:04:53
  When she actually press the button, the light saber.
• 1:04:57
  Yeah. Like just came out of the hell.
• 1:04:59
  Yeah. And it was such a cool effect
• 1:05:01
  and it was so neat to see in person they've got a little work
• 1:05:04
  to do on the transition to if we actually lightsaber work in
• 1:05:08
  progress, they'll get it. They'll get there.
• 1:05:11
  But damn that Ray and kylo ren thing was I was in it.
• 1:05:16
  It was just like wow I'm like in it and you know I felt like such
• 1:05:20
  a nerd but I was in my element. So question is was after that
• 1:05:25
  the concert with the guy who played the guitar and sang, the
• 1:05:28
  song was that? Yeah.
• 1:05:29
  Million. Yes.
• 1:05:31
  Second row are Sandra Sandra Sandra called him Sandra, but
• 1:05:36
  his name was Sandra, but he was actually on Marillion.
• 1:05:40
  So that was nice to see one of their species on board.
• 1:05:42
  But he was, he was wonderful. It was so cool because we
• 1:05:46
  literally had like we were holding court at this.
• 1:05:48
  This table in the in the lounge really worked out and we really
• 1:05:51
  were and he came over with who was the the rodian they came
• 1:05:58
  over sat down and he Is essentially trying to write a
• 1:06:01
  song that he was going to be performing later that evening
• 1:06:04
  and, you know, he was like talking about it and then, you
• 1:06:08
  know, asking for, you know, kind of some input and I was sort of
• 1:06:11
  singing a little riffs here and there Greg have thrown out some
• 1:06:15
  words and like we kind of all put it together and it was cool
• 1:06:18
  because it ended up in the final song that he's saying later that
• 1:06:21
  night saying it after the big finale.
• 1:06:24
  It was really cool for me for me I will say it was such a A hard
• 1:06:31
  come down after the final performance because it was sort
• 1:06:34
  of that, you know, it's over and it's not even the fact that it's
• 1:06:39
  over but it was really like a hard stop.
• 1:06:41
  There was no other interaction. There was no other data path
• 1:06:44
  stuff. There was it was done.
• 1:06:46
  And that's where I feel about this.
• 1:06:48
  Yeah, I want to talk, I want to go over this because it was the
• 1:06:51
  biggest Miss for me, was, how hard of a stop?
• 1:06:56
  You gotta go. I mean, it was, Next morning,
• 1:07:00
  like they couldn't get us out fast enough, but to, to their
• 1:07:04
  credit, they had to turn over that entire ship to get a whole
• 1:07:07
  new set of people on later that afternoon but little things
• 1:07:12
  matter. Like our screen in the bedroom
• 1:07:15
  was no longer in space. They didn't show us docking on
• 1:07:18
  planet. They didn't show us any stars.
• 1:07:20
  It was just a black screen and it was like who turned it off?
• 1:07:24
  Not. Yeah.
• 1:07:25
  And maybe it was a mistake or but I mean, It was like they
• 1:07:30
  didn't seamlessly send us on our way.
• 1:07:33
  I felt it was too hard. That's something I wanted to ask
• 1:07:36
  the forms because the only thing that surprises me with that is
• 1:07:39
  that they spent so much time trying to make you feel immersed
• 1:07:42
  in this environment. Why would you then turn off the
• 1:07:45
  display at the very end? Yeah.
• 1:07:47
  Well if you're going to do that like don't even do it.
• 1:07:52
  Number one, just just have it be a static image though of.
• 1:07:55
  Hey we're docked next to the ship.
• 1:07:57
  That's going to take you back to earth like Yeah, it's not hard
• 1:08:00
  to fix that part. You know.
• 1:08:02
  Also there was some confusion on when we had to put our luggage
• 1:08:06
  out so they could take it back to valet and get it ready for at
• 1:08:09
  our cars so that kind of created some Chaos on the way out.
• 1:08:13
  Like do we have time? Do we not have time?
• 1:08:15
  Do we have to bring it to breakfast with us?
• 1:08:16
  Like what do we have to do with this?
• 1:08:18
  So I would I would fix that or at least be a little clearer and
• 1:08:21
  maybe a few data pad like thank you for joining us you know see
• 1:08:25
  on your way you know and I think one of the phrases they use was
• 1:08:28
  May the Stars light. R way, but like we didn't get
• 1:08:30
  any send-off. It was kind of just like, that's
• 1:08:33
  it. Yeah.
• 1:08:34
  And you know, Leah you absolutely hit the nail on the
• 1:08:36
  head and because of the fact like that, I'm not going to
• 1:08:39
  repeat anything. You said that.
• 1:08:41
  Plus, for example, like, Lieutenant Kroy was was, was my
• 1:08:46
  guy, right? And, and, you know, the first
• 1:08:49
  order was not that the hero at the end of the day.
• 1:08:53
  But I had zero chance to just say, thank you to him, for
• 1:08:56
  making it such a great experience for me.
• 1:08:59
  And I, Get it because it's not too easy with the story.
• 1:09:01
  But there is no. They literally hauled the first
• 1:09:04
  order people off the ship so to speak.
• 1:09:06
  Yeah, thrown out exactly. But I would have liked an option
• 1:09:10
  to receive a survey that said, hey is there anybody from your
• 1:09:14
  experience that you would you would like to say something to
• 1:09:17
  because I would have, I would have said, hey lieutenant, Kroy
• 1:09:19
  blah, blah blah, like you know and so all of that and like I
• 1:09:23
  understand it needs to end at some point but Julian's point it
• 1:09:28
  was so harsh. That Like, it would have been
• 1:09:30
  nice to have some, sort of trickle, over in the morning,
• 1:09:32
  like, like Gaia or like other people being around and just,
• 1:09:36
  you know, just kind of having that send-off and, you know,
• 1:09:39
  thank you for your journey. And, you know, you were all
• 1:09:40
  brave and, you know, probably, you will always remember you.
• 1:09:44
  It was just very, it was very, just, just abrupt obviously.
• 1:09:48
  I think that it's probably just one of those issues where it's
• 1:09:52
  their schedules, like the Regale.
• 1:09:54
  Yes. Yes.
• 1:09:56
  Because if you think about it, you start your day.
• 1:09:59
  The first. Like yeah, afternoon into the
• 1:10:01
  evening so and then the second day no one's around because
• 1:10:05
  you're going to bed too. So you then come back from a 2
• 1:10:08
  in the story begins again on the ship in the afternoon early
• 1:10:11
  evening so that's their schedule.
• 1:10:13
  It's that late afternoon to you agree.
• 1:10:15
  They agree. Even though they wouldn't be
• 1:10:17
  able to come back in the morning and be there, but it could have
• 1:10:20
  been that you're 100% agree with you.
• 1:10:22
  They could have done something where they had a pre-recorded or
• 1:10:25
  they had a recorded message playing in The Atrium that said,
• 1:10:28
  you know, You know, our captain is fast asleep in her cabin, she
• 1:10:32
  was up late, you know, helping the engineers in the, in the
• 1:10:34
  maintenance room. But, you know, go ahead and, you
• 1:10:38
  know, here's, here's a message. She wanted to make sure you all
• 1:10:41
  saw before you, disembark poop, you know, something something,
• 1:10:44
  something small like that to help bridge the gap and going
• 1:10:47
  back to your Lieutenant, Corey thing not being able to say
• 1:10:50
  goodbye. I think, one way that they could
• 1:10:51
  solve that is just like, put them in the brig, that's it.
• 1:10:55
  Yeah. And you put out a be like, in
• 1:10:58
  jail, but you can be out. It looks like we're so sorry you
• 1:11:01
  could. Yeah, you know, that a great,
• 1:11:03
  you know, that that's a great idea because he was really, he
• 1:11:06
  was really the well, I mean, guess they all kind of did but
• 1:11:09
  he was he was really a hard stop.
• 1:11:10
  Like you weren't seeing him again and you did.
• 1:11:13
  Yeah, right. Everybody else like it was so
• 1:11:15
  nice. You know that, you know, the
• 1:11:17
  other characters were there and you can actually give him a hug
• 1:11:20
  goodbye. Yeah.
• 1:11:21
  I mean, I fake cigarette butt with the cruise director on the
• 1:11:24
  floor, like my meeting Echo. You know, they were friends by
• 1:11:28
  the end of this. This in a way, you know?
• 1:11:30
  And so it was a shame that we didn't get to say goodbye to
• 1:11:33
  Lieutenant Kroy, but there's just a few things, they could
• 1:11:36
  easily fix like that screen in the bedroom or provide a message
• 1:11:40
  from somebody or put him in the brig and you send your regards,
• 1:11:43
  you know. Yeah.
• 1:11:45
  Easy fixes. And not only that we because
• 1:11:48
  Christine is amazing. She was able to secure us, a
• 1:11:51
  professional photo. Shoot.
• 1:11:53
  Yes. Which was an extra cost that she
• 1:11:55
  she got us. Yeah, it is a hit.
• 1:11:57
  It is a major hit. That like it was like that was
• 1:12:02
  now I think out of everything that we spent on that ship that
• 1:12:06
  was the best my because that's what you walk away with is the
• 1:12:10
  memory like you have, your dad is what you have and that's
• 1:12:13
  where I'm going to. I'm going to give the plug and
• 1:12:15
  say if you're going to do it do it because at the end of the day
• 1:12:18
  I don't know how much that pick up.
• 1:12:20
  The package was only a hundred dollars.
• 1:12:22
  Okay. So perfect if you're going to
• 1:12:23
  spend well worth it, if you're going to spend three thousand
• 1:12:26
  dollars on this Cruise, what is the difference between?
• 1:12:29
  Thousand or three thousand one hundred like like at the end of
• 1:12:32
  the day to get, I mean really great.
• 1:12:35
  Fantastic. I mean, some of the some of the
• 1:12:37
  PhotoPass shots that you get at Disney, I mean, they're good
• 1:12:41
  quality. But like this is like, you know,
• 1:12:45
  hiring like a wedding photographer, what is it?
• 1:12:49
  100, that's such good quality and he they knew what they were
• 1:12:54
  doing and eating the positioning the the shot.
• 1:12:59
  IIT of the locations. And that's where to your point.
• 1:13:02
  Eric, it's not a Disney PhotoPass where it's like, okay
• 1:13:05
  stand on this Mark snap snap. Thanks by it was.
• 1:13:09
  Where do you want to go? What do you want to do?
• 1:13:11
  Who's in the photo? And, and you know, what was what
• 1:13:14
  I was impressed with was the photographer, took a few little
• 1:13:17
  minutes to get to know the dynamic of the group and how
• 1:13:20
  people know what, right? And it was it came down to
• 1:13:22
  essentially, Derek being the glue, right?
• 1:13:25
  I mean everybody's connection was through Derek.
• 1:13:27
  And so one of the photos In the atrium is literally surrounded
• 1:13:32
  by Derek being in the middle. I'm next to him, obviously, as
• 1:13:35
  this husband and holding hands and then everybody else kind of
• 1:13:38
  fans up from there, but just that little key knowing that
• 1:13:42
  Derek's the glue, and he wanted to make sure that you were the
• 1:13:45
  center of act. I just think to your point very
• 1:13:49
  much in alignment, with what you get from a wedding photographer
• 1:13:52
  or any special event photographer.
• 1:13:54
  Yeah, because everybody that saw our photos after we posted in
• 1:13:56
  the like, oh my God, these are amazing. 100% a must do, if you
• 1:14:01
  have the experience and our photographer.
• 1:14:04
  He, I literally said, I was dressed as a Jedi inspired
• 1:14:08
  outfit, and I had Leia's lightsaber.
• 1:14:10
  And I said, all I want to do is this with this light saber.
• 1:14:12
  Like, this is my idea, he took that ran with it, and made it so
• 1:14:15
  much more than I could have ever imagined because he had the
• 1:14:18
  creative. Yeah, part of him running with
• 1:14:21
  all of us, you know, it had a Greg's photos with you and Derek
• 1:14:24
  and Cory you together you know, Leslie's personal request.
• 1:14:29
  He had he had, he had Christine like fan, my Kpop like bitch,
• 1:14:33
  like I was coming in for a landing somewhere like you know,
• 1:14:36
  and Beyonce fan somewhere in that, you know, that bridge.
• 1:14:40
  Exactly. And that's what I would say too
• 1:14:42
  is that it's good to come in with ideas and have have a
• 1:14:46
  Direction but let the photographer do what they do
• 1:14:49
  best and be creative, right? Unless, unless you are Beyond
• 1:14:53
  specific about, like I want to be holding the throttle in the
• 1:14:57
  bridge like but but otherwise as long You have a general idea
• 1:15:02
  because I think the worst thing to do in any case when working
• 1:15:05
  with an artist is just to say, I don't know whatever you think is
• 1:15:07
  best right? Because while yes they can do
• 1:15:10
  that but if you have if you can meet halfway with some ideas
• 1:15:13
  that makes it way too much better.
• 1:15:14
  Yeah. And one thing I was going to say
• 1:15:15
  because you're mentioning locations of where you can go on
• 1:15:18
  the ship. This is another major Pro tip
• 1:15:20
  for the photo. If you're going to book this
• 1:15:22
  photo session, one of the best time frames to book it, if you
• 1:15:27
  can is I would say that. Between two and three, maybe
• 1:15:31
  even a little bit earlier because there's nothing else
• 1:15:34
  going on at the ship on the ship and so you can get access to all
• 1:15:38
  these rooms. Oh, it's like between 2 & 3 on
• 1:15:40
  the second day I should say. So, you know, you can be on the
• 1:15:43
  bridge, you can go into the engineering room, there's not
• 1:15:46
  active things going on, whatever those it was 2:30.
• 1:15:50
  Oh wow. See, it seems to me nobody in
• 1:15:52
  the atrium. Nobody nobody in the bridge.
• 1:15:54
  Yeah, if you look at all of our fathers and that's it was
• 1:15:56
  photoshopped because there was living nobody there, but Funny.
• 1:15:59
  So, so, going back to what we said before.
• 1:16:01
  Like, Derek just said it was 2:30. 3:00 that to me seemed
• 1:16:05
  like it was, like, 8:00 p.m. oh, I know did not seem like I was
• 1:16:09
  2:00 later. But again, we just worked on
• 1:16:11
  that thing. I know he really was.
• 1:16:14
  Yeah, yeah. That's a really great time to do
• 1:16:16
  it because it's, you know, you have access to pretty much every
• 1:16:19
  single area with hardly anybody there and they're all on by two
• 1:16:24
  still doing their thing or in their rooms there's nothing
• 1:16:26
  going on actively on the ship with Hers or missions.
• 1:16:30
  And so I felt like that that was, we just happen to randomly
• 1:16:33
  pick that. And then I saw on the forums
• 1:16:37
  that oh, this is a good time to guys, I perfect as like we've
• 1:16:41
  got it. Yep.
• 1:16:42
  Yeah, it was overall really amazing.
• 1:16:46
  What was your favorite experience?
• 1:16:47
  If you had to put it down to one?
• 1:16:50
  And now it's really tough. I'm going to be a little bit
• 1:16:53
  sentimental here and I'm just going to say, I think my
• 1:16:57
  favorite thing was getting to experience it with all of you we
• 1:17:00
  have been talking about this for so long and we, you know, are
• 1:17:06
  all Star Wars fans went at one level or another and and just
• 1:17:12
  getting to all finally come together.
• 1:17:13
  Some of us met for the first time that you got to meet Dan
• 1:17:16
  and Greg for the very first time for a long time, we've been
• 1:17:19
  talking about you. Need to meet them and it says,
• 1:17:21
  yes, so, cool to like, have everybody there and get to share
• 1:17:25
  this experience and I, and that's a memory that I will
• 1:17:29
  always have forever. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:17:32
  Couldn't say it any better than that.
• 1:17:34
  Honestly, I mean, the experiences and the storylines
• 1:17:37
  and everything. We're really great.
• 1:17:39
  It felt like I was in Star Wars, which is exactly what I wanted.
• 1:17:43
  Out of my little dress up for two and a half three days,
• 1:17:45
  right? But it wouldn't have been worth
• 1:17:48
  it without My friends there. And so you know and even I have
• 1:17:54
  to say it really sucked not having Lauren there but we
• 1:17:57
  included her as much as we could.
• 1:17:59
  We did with videos and pictures and I just sent her her gifts.
• 1:18:04
  So yeah those for her birthday come on.
• 1:18:07
  Yep. And but like to do Dirk you and
• 1:18:13
  I have been through so many things like and we've done so
• 1:18:17
  many large things like Comic-Con, right and This was
• 1:18:20
  another one of those large things.
• 1:18:21
  I remember leaving you at the airport that day when I had to
• 1:18:24
  leave it was terrible. I was crying.
• 1:18:25
  It was whatever I always cry but I said we did it.
• 1:18:29
  We did it again and it like it was the experience to share with
• 1:18:32
  you and Cory. You and I had a moment, the
• 1:18:35
  second night in the room, we did girl, I won't forget it was it
• 1:18:40
  was one of those things, like we're all doing these
• 1:18:42
  storylines, we're all doing this, but when we came together
• 1:18:44
  it was something we all shared so and huge it that made it
• 1:18:48
  worth it. You just said my Part was the
• 1:18:52
  storylines were fun. But what I didn't like about it
• 1:18:55
  is that I wasn't with all of you, right?
• 1:18:57
  I mean, we were on the same ship, great.
• 1:18:59
  But my favorite part was, when we weren't doing missions and we
• 1:19:03
  were together exchanging what had just happened and my
• 1:19:07
  experience in your experience and, and watching Liam like
• 1:19:09
  watching you light up because you would you talk to so-and-so,
• 1:19:12
  right, and watching you do this and like you know that to me was
• 1:19:16
  the best part was pulling everybody back together because
• 1:19:18
  to your point, That's kind of. That was the that was the intent
• 1:19:21
  right for us to go on this this this journey together and
• 1:19:24
  experience it together. So to hear everyone's stories
• 1:19:27
  around, the table was was great. Yeah, and it's such a unique
• 1:19:31
  experience because like, where, where else would you get to do
• 1:19:35
  this? Totally immersive.
• 1:19:37
  You know, serious. Feared X.
• 1:19:39
  That is a something that you love that you absolutely love
• 1:19:44
  and want to be a part of and we got to do it is unlike anything
• 1:19:48
  else that's out there. No.
• 1:19:50
  Yeah. And you know there's some
• 1:19:51
  questions about whether or not how long this can last in terms
• 1:19:55
  of you know, will people be able to you want to go back or are
• 1:19:58
  they going to be able to continue to fill out this ship?
• 1:20:01
  And you know we all set up the end of it even with the
• 1:20:06
  expensive price tag that came with it.
• 1:20:09
  You know, we all said that we would want to do it again.
• 1:20:12
  And you know, who knows what does he has planned?
• 1:20:15
  I'm sure they have plans for like changing the storyline at
• 1:20:19
  some point. Don't you know what they need to
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  do to make sure that it keeps fresh and new ideas, but I
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  really think it's going to be a thing that's going to want that.
• 1:20:29
  People are going to be drawn back into and want to go again.
• 1:20:33
  Yeah. And you know, if they can afford
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  it, you know, you shouldn't have to go into debt to experience
• 1:20:38
  something like this. But you know it's one of those
• 1:20:40
  experiences that if you can save up and do it, it's definitely
• 1:20:44
  worth it. Yeah, and I don't remember who I
• 1:20:47
  heard say this once but it was kind of one of those things.
• 1:20:50
  Of, you know, like go out there live your life, enjoy it.
• 1:20:53
  The money will come back, right? I mean so it's kind of all those
• 1:20:56
  things like yeah, this was this was on the pricier side but I
• 1:21:01
  don't regret it. One bit and I would do it again.
• 1:21:05
  I said I would do it again but I want there to be enough time to
• 1:21:07
  have lapse that it's not so fresh that I remember a lot.
• 1:21:11
  I mean, of course, there's going to be the big key things that I
• 1:21:14
  remember, but like I want, I want there to have been enough
• 1:21:18
  time to have elapsed and Maybe, maybe, they, maybe they enhance
• 1:21:21
  things, right? Maybe there is some changes.
• 1:21:23
  Maybe there's, you know, X Y or Z?
• 1:21:26
  I mean, I'd have to think. I mean, we're asking these
• 1:21:28
  questions right now, I'm sure in the planning phase of this area
• 1:21:32
  expensive, you know, experience that they were asking themselves
• 1:21:37
  the same. So there probably is some type
• 1:21:39
  of plan that we may not know about sure, and maybe they're
• 1:21:43
  just, you know, we're going to see how much this continues to
• 1:21:47
  draw people. I think it's going to be very
• 1:21:49
  popular. Next, you know, few years,
• 1:21:51
  especially for the people that are going to experience it, and
• 1:21:55
  then we'll just see where it goes from there.
• 1:21:56
  But I'm just so excited for not only, you know what this
• 1:22:02
  experience means just for Star Wars.
• 1:22:05
  But what it could potentially mean for other franchises in the
• 1:22:09
  future, you know, whether Universal then wants to bring a
• 1:22:14
  Harry Potter Hotel into the mix, you know, go to Hogwarts, you
• 1:22:19
  know it, I Think I think if it is successful, I think it's
• 1:22:23
  going to be replicated through other fandoms.
• 1:22:26
  And I am excited to see where the 100% goes because it's not a
• 1:22:31
  hard concept. I mean, I think the hardest part
• 1:22:33
  about all of it is the storyline piece and the the data pad and
• 1:22:38
  making it into an integer. So integral integrated intuitive
• 1:22:43
  and at the end of the day, when we all sat around and talked
• 1:22:46
  about stuff, none of us said, oh that Conflicts with what my
• 1:22:51
  story said, or blah blah. But like, it was very, very well
• 1:22:54
  done. From a storyline perspective,
• 1:22:57
  both in what we were fed from the data pad and then also what
• 1:23:01
  was executed in front of us by the live people as well.
• 1:23:04
  Yeah, it was amazing. What can I say?
• 1:23:07
  I cried several times? That's always a good sign if
• 1:23:11
  you're traveling with me, so I'm glad I got to do it with you.
• 1:23:15
  I mean I to throw fire grew yeah.
• 1:23:17
  So it wouldn't have been the same Same without Leslie.
• 1:23:21
  Christine Dan Greg, if you're all listening and I hope you are
• 1:23:24
  thank you for making it an amazing experience with myself
• 1:23:28
  Derek and Cory I would I think we all agree.
• 1:23:30
  It was we had a damn good group and we represented we thought we
• 1:23:35
  were players at bat to panic. We were part of this like yeah
• 1:23:40
  that's my second favorite thing is that so a father came up to
• 1:23:44
  Greg Dan and I and asked if his daughter could take a picture
• 1:23:48
  with us, right? And it was like that.
• 1:23:50
  Just like a tiny little Ray universe is so cute.
• 1:23:53
  I mean that was one of those things like absolutely.
• 1:23:55
  Like this thing is from Amazon, like I'd be happy to take a
• 1:23:57
  photo with you right now. Yeah.
• 1:23:59
  But you look fabulous. We all did we represented.
• 1:24:01
  I'd say a good job. We did.
• 1:24:04
  We did it. So on that note, I guess I'll
• 1:24:07
  say your Cola a Tima by Tima. And of course, to buoy today,
• 1:24:23
  which is cheers. So I think, I think we did it,
• 1:24:27
  right, don't you? Yeah, I think so.
• 1:24:29
  Yep. My ill-mannered cat is ruining
• 1:24:32
  this send-off here, he said, yeah, you're right, he's saying
• 1:24:37
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• 1:24:50
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• 1:24:53
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