1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:04,240 Happy Monday evening, DVC fan, and welcome to this special live 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,920 episode of The DVC Show. Or as I think Derek already 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,200 wrote in the chat, happy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,440 whenever you're actually watching this in the future. 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,360 But we are super excited to join you tonight for this special 6 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,200 live episode of The DVC Show, celebrating the launch of our 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,280 DVC Fan Forum. Yeah. 8 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:25,240 I'm here. It's Monday. 9 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:27,840 I'm actually here on a Monday this time. 10 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,000 Normally we. Feel it's normally a Wednesday. 11 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:32,360 Not yeah. It'll, it'll be this Wednesday. 12 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,680 We are joined this week, as always, by our dear friend, the 13 00:00:36,680 --> 00:00:40,520 Honorable Jeff Haslam. Hey dudes, what's happening? 14 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,520 It's weird being live and doing all of this and we're in a 15 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:47,680 different location tonight because we're going to be doing 16 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,240 some screen shares and stuff. So we just wanted to make this a 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,960 little bit more accessible for us and all the technology and 18 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,080 fun stuff that we've got going on here. 19 00:00:56,080 --> 00:01:00,000 But super excited to join you this week and celebrate the 20 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,120 launch of something that we've been talking about doing for 21 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:03,880 some time. Yeah. 22 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:05,560 So we've always had this in our head. 23 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:11,160 Right now, our only Ave. to communicate with our community 24 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,800 is social media like Basic general, Facebook, Instagram, 25 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:16,320 whatever. And it's not that those things 26 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:20,560 aren't great, but there are a lot of community members out 27 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,720 there that tell us we're not on Facebook, we're not on 28 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:26,400 Instagram, but we'd love to be able to connect. 29 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,840 And also, you know, when you are on those social medias in those 30 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:36,400 spaces, those are kind of bogged down by advertisements, by 31 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,160 whatever the algorithm wants you to see. 32 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,400 So we are kind of, you know, we're still going to maintain 33 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:47,200 the Facebook group, but we are kind of breaking free of that, 34 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:51,640 those ads and those algorithms and somewhere where we can 35 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:54,880 organize things a little bit better, you know, so you can be 36 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,480 reading and engaging in what you're interested in talking 37 00:01:58,480 --> 00:01:59,960 about. What were we talking about the 38 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,360 other day that I was being served like a bunch of random 39 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:03,800 stuff for? It was. 40 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,200 I get random greyhounds in my feed all the time. 41 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,560 Oh, it was something that I was like, Paul, it's because you 42 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:12,240 watch it and then you get more of it. 43 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:14,000 I don't even remember what it was. 44 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,160 But that that takes me away from actually engaging with you, our 45 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:21,160 DVC fan community, and all of the amazing Disney or travel 46 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:22,840 conversations that come from that. 47 00:02:22,840 --> 00:02:27,520 So we are excited to have officially launched our DVC fan 48 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:30,760 forums today. And this little guy right down 49 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,120 here will be in the corner throughout the evening on every 50 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,920 screen. You can even see him like next 51 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:37,600 to Jeff. If I go to this screen, he's 52 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,200 like right down below Jeff. And then like if I just go and 53 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,960 we look at Jeff, there's Jeff trying to point at it. 54 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,560 That QR code, if you scanned that right now, that'll take you 55 00:02:47,560 --> 00:02:50,960 so that you can head over to the DVC fan forums and sign up. 56 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,880 Jeff, I didn't tell you this at the beginning of the show, but 57 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,960 I'm trying to get to 1000 subscribers by the end of the 58 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:02,040 night, so we're staying on live until we get to 1000. 59 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,000 That's the goal. That is not true. 60 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:06,160 Why not? I am hungry. 61 00:03:07,280 --> 00:03:09,960 We are like 4 or something right now. 62 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:15,440 Well there there are 181 of you now watching this so if if you 63 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:21,880 are one of the 181 not already a part of the forums. 495 it was 64 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:25,200 488 and then it. Only 505 to go and then we can 65 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,640 go to dinner. That's all. 66 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,680 Head to forums.dvcfan.com or scan the QR code throughout the 67 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,320 episode. You might be wondering where 68 00:03:33,320 --> 00:03:37,160 Derek is tonight. He is actually busy doing his 69 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,160 DVC resale stuff as always, so if you're looking for a contract 70 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:43,280 tonight you can head over and chat with. 71 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,240 I don't know if he's working chat or emails or. 72 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,480 Get the emails. Phone calls or at some point you 73 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:52,160 can get in touch with him. He may or may not jump in and 74 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,400 kind of join us a little bit later in the conversation. 75 00:03:56,480 --> 00:03:58,880 Amy, I think you said it great to kind of start things off. 76 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:02,240 And when I was actually kind of researching and we wrote a great 77 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:06,360 blog write up about kind of why we launched these forums over on 78 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:10,080 dvcfan.com earlier today. But I looked things up. 79 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:16,000 It's been 7 years now that DVC fan has been around and the goal 80 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,079 from day one has been to educate and engage with this community. 81 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:25,440 So many people in this community have shaped our lives. 82 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,080 The past seven years have started off by just being a 83 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:33,760 random voice. Hold on, a random voice in the 84 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:37,000 community and then gradually becomes. 85 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:38,640 Next thing you know, you just can't shake them. 86 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,720 I. Know I'm like a I'm like a 87 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,200 disease. You can't get rid of me without 88 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,000 antibiotics. Gradually becomes a friend and 89 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:48,640 basically a member of our family. 90 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,240 At this point. There are so many other people. 91 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,320 There are moderators in our chat today that have become people 92 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:58,640 that are near and dear to us. Heck, we received a package 93 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:04,440 today from Singapore from our good friend Tom, who shipped us 94 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,000 coffee and a coffee mug. I should have brought it up to 95 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,680 actually show it, but we're going to see him later this 96 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:12,040 week. But he did the Disney adventure 97 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,200 a week or. So jealous he's been all over 98 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:17,080 the place. This coffee they have in the 99 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:20,080 room, it's a special like pour over single serve coffee. 100 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,040 It's I think it's a Moroccan coffee. 101 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,160 And so he wanted to ship some back home for himself. 102 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:28,160 And he was going to be down here at Walt Disney World. 103 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:30,760 So he was like, can I send it to your house and then I'll pick it 104 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:32,200 up from you. And we were like, sure. 105 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:34,600 And then he sent some for us also. 106 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:38,240 So I mean, it's just amazing the connections that this community 107 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:43,080 has brought, the friendships, truly the family, family that 108 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:46,040 we've created over the years. And this is just an effort to 109 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,160 continue that. You know, we've always kind of 110 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:50,960 dabbled with communities a little bit. 111 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:54,160 Some of you may remember we launched Unlocked Magic as a 112 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,720 community several years ago. That was a paid community. 113 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,320 We learned a lot from it. And Unlocked Magic is now its 114 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,600 own little ticketing brand that is super successful in its own 115 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:05,080 right. So we learned what was 116 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,480 successful for that, and we also learned what we wanted to do and 117 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:11,440 what we didn't want to do in this next iteration. 118 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,920 Yeah, yeah. And what is awesome about this 119 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,600 is it was completely. And we're going to talk about a 120 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,880 bend in a little bit, but it was completely built by Key Holder 121 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:25,000 vacations. So it is completely exactly what 122 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,400 we want it to be. And it's not finished. 123 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,080 It's just, it's a work in progress. 124 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,680 You know, we're continuing to add more tools and more unique 125 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:35,760 features and we're taking in the feedback that you give us. 126 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:40,200 So once you join, there is a feedback button that you can, 127 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,760 you know, make a suggestion for a way to improve or if there's a 128 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:46,960 bug that needs fixed or a feature that you would like to 129 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,360 see, you know, added there. And, and we'll definitely take a 130 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:53,400 look at that because we're, we're, we're shaping it into 131 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,000 what the community wants. So we're taking your feedback 132 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:59,080 and, and doing that. And I say we, and I really mean 133 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:01,720 Ben, Ben. So everyone in this thing right 134 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:05,200 now in the live chat just put thank you Ben because he is who 135 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:07,960 made this vision and everything possible. 136 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,840 He is probably watching this on one screen and making changes to 137 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,320 the community on another screen as he's watching it. 138 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:18,360 So just a huge shout out to Ben and all of the support that our 139 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,240 Key Holder Vacations team has brought. 140 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,400 Jeff, I wanted to kick it over to you. 141 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,680 You've been a part of this community for what seems like 142 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,960 forever, but it's been like what, several, several years 143 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:32,240 now? But what does this DVC fan 144 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,360 community mean to you and this next iteration, including our 145 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:40,240 DVC fan forums mean? Yeah, that's a great question. 146 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,000 And first of all, thank you guys for everything that you do for 147 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:46,680 not only me as my friend, but as the community as a whole. 148 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,200 You guys don't see how much goes on behind the scenes. 149 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:53,400 This is a brainchild truly of of Paul and what he's able to 150 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,080 accomplish in such a short time with with the help of an 151 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,080 excellent team. But so I joined the show 152 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:03,200 officially in August of 2023, so I'm coming up on my 3 year 153 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:05,840 anniversary. But I was a member of the group 154 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,120 before that. And like Amy said, it was kind 155 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:10,480 of a talking head. You know, I actually stole her 156 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:12,320 idea. That's how I got to know people. 157 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:14,120 In the group we got to know. You guys because. 158 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,560 We would post like our top 10 funny things like it was almost 159 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,000 like a trip report but was totally full of sarcasm and I 160 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:23,880 actually miss doing it. But I don't go to the parks 161 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:26,760 enough for a long time to to build up. 162 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:30,440 A full post SO. You get my ramblings on here 163 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:33,520 yes, Amy started doing it and I'm like, I can do that. 164 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:36,240 And so I started to get funny and people started to respond to 165 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,480 that and you know, it led to Paul and Amy reaching out one 166 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,880 time to see if I had any moonlight magic tickets and then 167 00:08:42,880 --> 00:08:45,120 we met and kind of the rest is history. 168 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,560 So I'm grateful to them first of all, but I'm I'm really grateful 169 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:51,400 to this group every time I get stopped in the parks, which is 170 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,920 still mind blowing to me. You know, I just this last 171 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:59,200 weekend I met Jen and, and, and Rachel from the group that are 172 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,720 always commenting and always an active part of this group. 173 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,600 But every time I go, I meet somebody new and I'm just so 174 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,360 grateful for this community and what it brings to not only our 175 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,160 own community, but to DVC members as a whole. 176 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,640 I think it's just, it's just very special. 177 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,800 And this next step, I wasn't, I'll be honest with you, I was 178 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:21,480 never a big forum person. And so a lot of the times, you 179 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,360 know, the questions that we got in our group, what's different? 180 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:28,000 Why is this new? I'm all in after, you know, 181 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:30,840 helping test the forums and and being behind the scenes a little 182 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:33,160 bit on it. It's just going to be such a 183 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,440 better way to filter what you want to look for and, and engage 184 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,320 with people and and find like minded members. 185 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,880 And just I just thrilled with with everything that's coming 186 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:45,840 and, and the ability to grow this community. 187 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,800 Nothing can stop us now, as Mickey and Minnie like to say 188 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:52,680 so. I see what you did there. 189 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,120 Also, I, I want to touch back if you ever want to read those, I, 190 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:00,600 I think we called them like random thoughts, right? 191 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,240 It was like Jeff's random thoughts. 192 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:05,360 So if you go in the DVC fan Facebook group and you hit the 193 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,240 search button and you, you type in Jeff's random thoughts and, 194 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:10,840 and then you do Amy's random thoughts, you'll see those lists 195 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,160 and they're, they're from like 2020. 196 00:10:13,160 --> 00:10:16,760 What 2021 they? Helped us through the pandemic 197 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:17,760 they did. Made us. 198 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:19,080 Half our way through the pandemic. 199 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:22,200 But they were great and Jeff came in and he did an awesome 200 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:23,480 job. So so this is gonna. 201 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:25,760 Be funnier than I think we're putting this into the world. 202 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:28,920 This needs to be a sub forum within the DVC fan forums as we 203 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:31,560 need to bring this back and everyone can give their random 204 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:36,200 thoughts within the forums. So let's let's jump in and talk 205 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,680 a little bit about what makes our DVC fan forums different. 206 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:43,760 And again, if you're just joining us, make sure you had to 207 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:49,440 forums.dvcfan.com or click, not click, but scan the QR code down 208 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,840 in the corner to join our forums. 209 00:10:52,680 --> 00:10:55,440 But one of the first things that we kind of identified that we 210 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:59,840 wanted, and I know even our DVC fan website at times can be a 211 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:01,440 little bit overwhelming in this regard. 212 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:03,960 But the same thing goes for traditional social media. 213 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,040 We've been on other forum platforms or other community 214 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:10,440 platforms. There are ads everywhere, 215 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:14,920 literally everywhere. Like Google ads popping up 216 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:18,080 reminded me that I need to buy this Moroccan coffee that I just 217 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,320 tried for the first time and I'm now addicted to from Singapore. 218 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,080 Whatever you've randomly Googled, it's really good at 219 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:29,560 making you spend money. But something that we identified 220 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:32,840 was that those ads take away from that user experience. 221 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,800 They really clutter up the space, their stuff in the 222 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,680 sidebars, in the middle of text, sometimes in the middle of 223 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:42,400 paragraphs. And so thanks to our amazing key 224 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,160 Holder Vacations community brands, all of that, there are 225 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,040 no ads as part of the DVC fan forums. 226 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:53,560 This is truly brought to you by key holder vacations, our Key 227 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:57,200 Holder Vacations series of brands DVC resale market, DVC 228 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,400 rental store Monera financial magic vacation title unlocked 229 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,560 magic be our guest vacations. Yeah, we have a travel agency 230 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:07,360 too, in case someone, someone actually didn't know that in the 231 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:09,000 forums earlier and I answered that question. 232 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,160 But we have a travel agency too. They can help you with planning 233 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,320 travel to Disney, Royal Caribbean, beyond all that kind 234 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:17,560 of fun stuff. But thanks to all of those 235 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,320 awesome brands and the support that you have shown them over 236 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,760 the years, we are complete completely keeping this ad free. 237 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,400 And all that we ask in return is that you continue to show your 238 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,280 love for all of those amazing brands like you've done over the 239 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,400 years. And it just gives it such a 240 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,920 clean and sleek look. I'm not going to show it yet. 241 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,120 I want to save it. I'm just like saving saving the 242 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:40,880 screen share. It's like a tease. 243 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,880 But that was when. People have seen it already. 244 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:46,280 It is. We did. 245 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,520 Not 1000, not 1000 people. Because, you know, we're still. 246 00:12:49,920 --> 00:12:53,120 We're still. 536 people know what it looks like. 247 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,360 Oh, hey. There's 214 people in watching 248 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,120 the show live right now. I'm guessing like 100 of you 249 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:02,800 still aren't signed up. So just jump over there turn us 250 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:03,880 off. It's OK. 251 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,280 Our feelings won't be hurt. I did want to jump into a 252 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:11,920 comment real quick. I I I saw earlier, but mark and 253 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,320 Bonnie Mark should still keep driving the car. 254 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,560 Bonnie, I'm pretty sure said not tech savvy. 255 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:21,400 Amy, sorry. Making Mark pull over to sign us 256 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,080 up on. His Bonnie, you don't have to do 257 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:24,160 that. You can do it later. 258 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:26,840 It'll it'll be there when you get here. 259 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,280 We love the commitment, but. OK, can I just say really 260 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,040 quickly, do you know who Mark and Bonnie are? 261 00:13:32,440 --> 00:13:35,760 Do you remember how much you loved those Washington chocolate 262 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,760 covered cherries? Yes. 263 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,000 They are the ones that sent us those goodies. 264 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:43,360 OK, let's let's this is full circle moment because this is 265 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,760 another ad that I've been served a lot recently. 266 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,880 I've mentioned on the show before, Dungeon Crawler Carl, 267 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,040 the book, the audiobook is the best version ever. 268 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:58,080 But the chocolate company that makes the chocolate bars that 269 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:02,200 Mark and Bonnie sent us, yeah, they made one exclusive to 270 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,560 Dungeon Crawler Carla. It is the fastest sell out that 271 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,880 they ever had in the history of their company in that chocolate 272 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,440 bar. So and you didn't get any Mark 273 00:14:10,440 --> 00:14:13,400 and Bonnie I will be hitting you up if that goes back in stock 274 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,000 because I feel like I I have to get this chocolate bar to. 275 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,600 Celebrate that. Thank you, Mark and Bonnie. 276 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:22,800 Tell Joel we said hello as well. Yeah, you can. 277 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:24,760 You can keep driving. You can sign up later. 278 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,960 The next thing that we really wanted, Why we're good. 279 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:29,720 Sorry, really quick. Why we're talking about ads. 280 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,760 I was watching your guys's like I just did a round trip drive to 281 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,240 Fort Lauderdale today, which is 4 hours each direction to drop 282 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:38,480 off to my family at a cruise port. 283 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,200 Yeah, because I have nothing else to do, but I listen to both 284 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:47,200 of your Mass and Nuttin videos. This your ski situation? 285 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:51,280 In both of those videos, the number of timeshare ads I got 286 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,360 served watching our own video was hysterical. 287 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,560 Not our timeshares, but. Yeah, other timeshares. 288 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,120 That's hilarious. Good old YouTube ads. 289 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,080 YouTube at its funnest there, so we'll show you a little bit of 290 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,840 the experience here in a couple of minutes, but completely ad 291 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:08,360 free. Brought to you by our key 292 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:09,560 holder. Vacations brands. 293 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:13,520 Also brought to you by our amazing DVC fan Patreon 294 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:18,800 community. patreon.com/DVC fan. There is a small subsection of 295 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:22,800 the DVC fan forums that we call the Supporter Lounge, and that 296 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,120 Supporter Lounge is Patreon exclusive. 297 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,400 The lowest tier is $5 a month. You can join us on Patreon. 298 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:34,720 You get crazy photos of Jeff as a child or crazy videos of of 299 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:37,120 Derek. Basically of Jeff or Derek send 300 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,880 anything private to us that is embarrassing potentially. 301 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,880 I put it on Patreon and. That our friends, always. 302 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,480 Comes free game. It said that our friends now 303 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:49,160 have to ask the question to themselves every time they send 304 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,760 something to us. Is it going to end up on the 305 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,840 interwebs? But the Supporter Lounge Thank 306 00:15:55,840 --> 00:15:58,120 you to all of our Patreon supporters that support us. 307 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,600 patreon.com DVC Fan If you join at the lowest tier, not only do 308 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,840 you get a special badge within our DVC Fan forums, but you get 309 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:08,880 access to Supporter Lounge. You get the opportunity to chime 310 00:16:08,880 --> 00:16:10,920 in, give us ideas for upcoming shows. 311 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:13,920 We have an Ask Us Anything section where you can just ask 312 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,960 any question to us and we're going to answer. 313 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:17,960 There were two questions I answered to go within this 314 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,000 section. Ben, if you're listening, I have 315 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:23,160 access to the lounge but not the forms in it, so I can't answer 316 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:28,600 any of the questions. Yeah, we'll fix that. 317 00:16:28,960 --> 00:16:31,080 Yeah, literally. Ben will put in the chat. 318 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,120 It's fixed Amy, and it'll be fixed in like 5 minutes. 319 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,080 But also there's some cool things we're doing in the 320 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:41,160 supporter Lounge like some live write of first refusal tracking. 321 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:43,640 You don't have to wait for the blog that I write for resale 322 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:47,480 market at the end of the month. We are putting live updates in 323 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,000 there as we we learn about contracts that are Roeford. 324 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,320 Right. It updates. 325 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:53,760 How often does it update, do you think? 326 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:54,960 It's daily? Daily, yeah. 327 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,840 Daily that is being updated. Anything that's been Roeford and 328 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:00,520 then average prices. Average prices as well. 329 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,920 We'll show you some of those features here in a little bit. 330 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,920 So just some really cool data. I actually think he updated it 331 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,240 earlier today and he put those under a section that he entitled 332 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:15,079 Stats for Nerds. So there, there, there are, 333 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:17,560 there's all that information in there. 334 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:21,160 And we will, we will, we will highlight that earlier. 335 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,119 Did get a question here just a second ago I wanted to answer. 336 00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,680 Is there DVC fan forms app in the works? 337 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,640 No app in the works just yet, but it's possible it it could be 338 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:35,240 implemented into one of our key holder vacations series of apps 339 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:40,240 that are rolling out. So stay tuned for more on that. 340 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,080 But very mobile friendly. We did want to make sure that it 341 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:47,040 was mobile friendly, so it can be accessed via Safari, Chrome, 342 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,040 any of your web browsers and then you can actually save to 343 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:56,040 your home screen kind of a bookmark to the page. 344 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:58,600 That's what I did, yeah. And if you see anything that 345 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:01,840 isn't mobile friendly isn't working for you, click on that 346 00:18:02,600 --> 00:18:07,520 feedback tool in the and Paul will show you that soon and and 347 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:09,120 send us feedback and it'll get fixed. 348 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:12,360 Yep. Next up, free and open 349 00:18:12,360 --> 00:18:14,440 community. So as we mentioned, there is a 350 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:16,600 small subsection for our Patreon supporters. 351 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,120 We want them to, you know, have some of those exclusive 352 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:23,360 benefits, but there's not going to be a whole lot more added to 353 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:27,440 that section because we do want to make this all as part of the 354 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:31,280 forums itself. So no paywall to access this. 355 00:18:32,240 --> 00:18:35,080 And it's going to be an honest and open discussion. 356 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:38,080 You know, there are a lot of forums, there's a lot of places 357 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:42,000 out there that potentially block certain conversations, block 358 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:47,680 certain discussions and, and, and all of that we didn't want 359 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,080 as part of this, we went honest open discussion. 360 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:53,080 So if you have a link to a new site or something that you want 361 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:57,000 to post within the forums, do so there are some community 362 00:18:57,000 --> 00:18:59,360 guidelines. You know, we don't ask that you 363 00:18:59,360 --> 00:19:02,600 have any self promotion of other YouTube channels or stuff like 364 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,800 that or self promotion. If you are a travel agent and 365 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,520 not associated with our brands, you know, we don't want you in 366 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:12,920 there kind of schleffen yourself for some travel business. 367 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,360 This is not the place for that. So there are some community 368 00:19:15,360 --> 00:19:19,760 guidelines, but also at this time, we're not kind of blocking 369 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:23,200 any conversations or discussion of other brands, even other 370 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:25,840 brands outside of our key holder vacations companies. 371 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,840 So we really want you to have an honest and engaging 372 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,960 conversation. It is completely what you make 373 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,600 of it. So go in there, have those 374 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,520 conversations and all of that kind of fun stuff. 375 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:43,960 And just want to give a quick shout out to Nick Cotton, our 376 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:47,160 CEO at Key Holder Vacations. He said give Ben a couple hours 377 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:49,080 and he can have that DVC fan app ready. 378 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,720 This is 100% true. Like Ben would have it up by 379 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:56,520 morning if we, if we really had him put his mind to it. 380 00:19:56,520 --> 00:20:03,320 So. But yeah, so completely open, 381 00:20:03,360 --> 00:20:05,760 honest communication is what we want within this. 382 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,400 Yeah. And and I, I did want to address 383 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:11,240 a question that came up early on. 384 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,360 So if you see me look in this way, it's because I'm looking at 385 00:20:13,360 --> 00:20:15,600 this with this board of all I've got. 386 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:17,920 Lots. Of four screens going on there. 387 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,960 There are the devices, yeah, there's four screens. 388 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,880 I'm trying to read questions. It's it's why we decided to come 389 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,120 up here tonight. This is my office. 390 00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:28,760 But it looks familiar. We we, we, we moved houses and 391 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:31,440 it looks exactly the same. And Amy said I should have done 392 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,640 something a little bit different to my office, but the couch is a 393 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:38,520 little bit different. But yeah, we we needed all this 394 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:40,240 extra room for all the screen share. 395 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,840 Yeah, stuff that we were doing tonight. 396 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,680 OK, I I never know how to say these handles. 397 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:49,600 So G Videl said love everything you guys do. 398 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,360 Thank you so much. Genuine question, how do these 399 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,800 forms differ from Diz boards? You know, forms like Diz boards 400 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,640 and mouse owners. Actually, I think mouse owners 401 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:03,000 is gone, is defunct, those sorts of forms, those are great. 402 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,680 This form is built specifically for our community and we're 403 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:09,200 using things that our community wants. 404 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:15,760 So things like, you know, DVC specific if like information 405 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,600 right at your fingertips. So the Roefer, you know, reports 406 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:22,000 even if you're not in the supporter lounge, the Roefer 407 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:26,400 Monster publishes every Saturday to tell you what it has eaten. 408 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:30,240 So we've got like that kind of information at your fingertips, 409 00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:34,560 but there's also some really cool things that Ben is building 410 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,640 into the space, which Paul will be walking us through soon. 411 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:41,240 But we've got a DVC price comparison tool where you can 412 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,200 compare resale to direct for different resorts and in 413 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:47,280 different scenarios. And that's a really cool 414 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:50,280 feature. There is also one of the things 415 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,600 I'm excited about is the travel journal. 416 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,240 So we're we're in kind of a little beta test for that right 417 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,600 now. It's available for Patreon, but 418 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:00,560 you can add like trip reports through Travel Journal that 419 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:03,480 those will live on on your profile, but they'll be viewable 420 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:07,200 to, you know, the public, people to see, read, you know, see your 421 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,360 photos, hear about your trip. But we're just continually 422 00:22:10,360 --> 00:22:15,480 building this to mold around our community and what we know about 423 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,800 our community and and what they want. 424 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:20,440 And then again, you know, obviously the ad free thing for 425 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,880 us, that's huge because I am like literally Paul Mason 426 00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,360 Kingdom said I was interrupted by an ad just as Paul was 427 00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:30,800 talking because he's on YouTube and YouTube has ads, you know 428 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,040 what I mean? So that to me is a big 429 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:38,880 differentiator from other forums is we plan to maintain that to, 430 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,160 to, to not have those Google ads popping up everywhere. 431 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:45,040 It's, it's free of that. It's just the community, it's 432 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,720 just the people, it's just us and you know and what you want 433 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:49,680 to talk about. Yep. 434 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:54,000 And and again, we, we want to make it what you want it to be. 435 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,600 So like as Amy was talking, someone said, I would love the 436 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:00,440 the ability to see DVC availability, you know, 437 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,200 searching DVC availability information inside the forums, 438 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,120 join the forums, head to the feedback, put these things in 439 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:11,240 there. Nothing is a crazy comment that 440 00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,480 you can add in there because we want to be able to sift through 441 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,360 all of this feedback of things that you want. 442 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:20,000 Because at the end of the day, what makes this successful is 443 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:23,880 you choosing to log in and engage in this community each 444 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,080 and every single day. And I'll just go a step further 445 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:30,040 to kind of what Amy said. What differentiates our forums 446 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,000 from DIS boards and other communities out there are all of 447 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,880 the things that I mentioned earlier. 448 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,440 And the biggest one I really think is that ad free 449 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,760 experience. You are not having all of that 450 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,800 clutter of Google ads and constant ads. 451 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,880 You can focus the conversation where you want it and really be 452 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:51,520 able to just have that space to engage with this awesome 453 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,680 community that you all have developed over the years. 454 00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,080 Go ahead, Jeff. No, you're fine. 455 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,840 I just was going to just kind of echo to a lot of the questions 456 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,760 we got when we first announced this was how is this different 457 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:07,640 from Facebook? And I think the key thing for 458 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,160 people to understand is Facebook is a feed, right? 459 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,280 And it's based on, it feeds you information like Amy said 460 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,120 earlier, based on your algorithm, what you're typically 461 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:17,320 searching, it tracks everything, right? 462 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,400 It's so easy for something to get lost. 463 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:24,080 Or for example, like when we post a new video, Derek and I 464 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,320 screwing around at Disney Springs, it hits there for a day 465 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,320 or so and then it gets lost and everything else. 466 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,840 And that's because we want to hear what everybody else in the 467 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:34,480 world has to say in our community. 468 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,320 This will have specific areas. If you want to go and search for 469 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,040 our shenanigans, it's easy to find. 470 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,800 If you want to ask questions about a specific resort, it's 471 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:45,800 easy to find on a forum and we're not limiting it. 472 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,080 It's for our community. But we're going to talk about 473 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:50,600 the parks too. We're going to talk about 474 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,000 cruises. We're going to talk about other 475 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,000 things that our community cares about, our events that we have 476 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,960 every year, you know, just a place for all this information 477 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,680 to be easily searchable, easy to find. 478 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,960 Not that Facebook doesn't have its place, it does, but this is 479 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,320 a way more fine-tuned approach to things. 480 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,120 So that's that's how it differentiates itself from from 481 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:14,440 regular social media. The other thing we wanted to be 482 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:18,800 very mindful of, so we have we have a broad range of people 483 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:22,880 that potentially would access this, not to pick on Ben, but 484 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,320 Ben is a younger generation Ben. Ben has come up in the in the 485 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,360 TikTok generation. He's like, he could be my baby. 486 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:33,040 He. Probably could be my baby 487 00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:36,360 actually. But so we have this younger 488 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:40,200 generation of people that, you know, potentially are going to 489 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:42,600 be logging in here. So we wanted to harness like the 490 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,920 sleekness of Facebook and Instagram and the sleekness of 491 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:51,040 Reddit and stuff like that. But then there was a question 492 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,320 that that came up over and over. And this, this comment, I think 493 00:25:55,320 --> 00:26:00,000 is very fitting to that question was because we also had to ask 494 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:05,440 ourselves, could could Derek access these forums? 495 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:11,560 Would Derek himself be able to access the forums? 496 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:15,280 And this man was one of the first people that signed up. 497 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,600 I know. Happy Monday, everybody. 498 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,840 Happy Monday. Yeah, I, I am proud to let 499 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:29,040 everyone out there know that I received a diploma. 500 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:33,840 And a diploma came from the new DVC fan forums that says if 501 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,760 Derek was able to figure this out, anybody on earth can figure 502 00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,960 this out. So I'm telling you, it's great. 503 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:47,760 It's really, really easy. It's super accessible, we can 504 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,800 kind of keep talking about it. Sorry if if I wasn't able to 505 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:52,240 join in or be on here the whole time. 506 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:54,640 I am working helping answer folks. 507 00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,480 I have questions about the Magical World of Disney Vacation 508 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,760 Club until 10:00 PM Eastern Time tonight. 509 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:06,040 But these forums I love because I know again, I'm from the older 510 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:07,960 school. So when people talk about like, 511 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,520 oh, it reminds me of like Mouse Planet and it reminds me of 512 00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,760 other sites out there. Like before you know, it, it 513 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:16,560 that that's where you used to go. 514 00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,680 You know, you used to fill up your computer with gas and then 515 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:23,280 go online and, and you ask some questions and people would 516 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,200 respond back. I think what I love about this 517 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,320 first and foremost that I'm already seeing is every time I 518 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:33,400 check in, people doing the their welcomes and people telling 519 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,480 their Disney story, showing a picture, showing, you know, how 520 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,680 they got involved in the DVC fan community, how they got involved 521 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,360 in Disney Vacation Club. So seeing all these people every 522 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:46,480 few seconds come in and share their stories and it's just 523 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,200 awesome. And knowing that, you know, 524 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:53,920 there's places that people can go when they have specific info, 525 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:58,200 'cause as much again, I'm, oh, I love, you know, Facebook, you 526 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,320 know, the, the book of the face as all the kids call it. 527 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:07,800 But I'm feeling what I love about this lovely too is what I 528 00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,560 love about this is you're able to go in. 529 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:13,600 If you want to read someone's recent trip reports, then you go 530 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,640 to the trip reports section. If you want to read about the 531 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,480 Polynesian and you're a Poly owner, you can go to the Poly 532 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,800 section. If you want to go into a buying 533 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,160 or selling question, you can go there, which is what I love 534 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,800 because you know, as great as I love the DVC fan Facebook page 535 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:31,680 and always will, you know, you could get a question on, you 536 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,760 know, where can I buy this lounge fly and immediately 537 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,880 followed by what's the best use here for me, you know, all in 538 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:41,320 one big giant thread. So breaking this out into 539 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,000 sections, it's awesome. And again, anybody out there 540 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:46,400 that might be kind of afraid, like I don't know if I can do 541 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,520 it. I don't know what these are. 542 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:50,480 You can do it. I did it and I love it. 543 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,760 So kudos to everyone involved. I love it. 544 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,200 And the thing about forums is you don't have to read 545 00:28:55,320 --> 00:29:00,520 everything, you know, find what interests you, go to that space, 546 00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,640 you know, take part in that. Yeah. 547 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,640 It doesn't have to be unless you're, unless you really need 548 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:08,120 something to pass the time, you don't have to. 549 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,440 You don't have to read everything but, but there is a 550 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,400 well organized space. So with Derek one. 551 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:16,320 One last thing and then I'll stop talking. 552 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:22,440 Is it a forum like this is only as good as the people putting 553 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,360 stuff into it. So please you guys out there, be 554 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,400 active, be comment on other people's, comment on your own, 555 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,800 create your own like just it's only as good as the people 556 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,120 involved. So make sure that you are. 557 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,560 Yep, yeah. Well, Derek, if you have to jump 558 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:41,960 off at any point, let us know. Feel free to just chime in, but 559 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:46,000 hang out for as long as you want for sure because I love having 560 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,120 you here. And I do want to highlight one 561 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,080 of your posts from earlier today because I think it's important 562 00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:54,320 for multiple reasons. But no time like the present to 563 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,200 actually dive in and show you this thing that we're actually 564 00:29:57,200 --> 00:30:02,000 talking about. So here is our DVC Fan Forums 565 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,680 homepage. So when you actually get here, 566 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:10,080 you're actually going to be able to view this, even if you're not 567 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,360 already a member of the DVC fan forums, you're actually going to 568 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:15,680 be able to view the forums and all of that kind of fun stuff. 569 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,640 But we do ask that you sign up and create a profile with us. 570 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,360 And to do that, you'll go up into the upper right hand corner 571 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,760 where currently it says Greyhound dad because that's my 572 00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,920 login, but it'll say sign up or sign in and that's where you'll 573 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,920 actually create your account. Worth noting that if you have 574 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:38,840 joined the Key Holder Club loyalty program or if you are 575 00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:43,840 already subscribed and have the DVC resale market app and you 576 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:48,760 have an account on that, you will have an account already 577 00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,520 here. So that's actually been all 578 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:56,000 rebranded again Ben's brainchild under what we call one key. 579 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,800 So that same login will allow you to login across all of those 580 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:05,960 same platforms. So head over, sign up, login, 581 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,400 you can then customize your profile. 582 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,800 So like I can go to my profile I think. 583 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,720 Account settings. Account settings? 584 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,280 Where is account settings? There we go, I have a lot more. 585 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:21,560 You have you have a lot to do. It's a lot of empty space over 586 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,960 there. Oh yes, I've not. 587 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:25,080 I've not completed my signature yet, but you're going to have 588 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,760 the ability to set a profile picture. 589 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,320 Set up a brief file about yourself. 590 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:31,960 There will be some badges that are auto assigned. 591 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,600 Anyone that is signing up within this first week is going to get 592 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,880 our founding member badge and let us know what other badges 593 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:39,720 you want. I want to make more badges. 594 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,360 I'm super excited about it. Do you remember how I same? 595 00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,240 With me. Yes, and then you can they can 596 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:47,320 all live on your profile, but then you can display like your 597 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,680 top, however many when you you know, when you're commenting. 598 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,640 But do you remember when we did the DVC fan badges and it was 599 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,520 like the DVC master badge, which meant you stated every single 600 00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,200 DVC resort, the East Coast badge, the West Coast badge, 601 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,680 like I wanna like we could make those. 602 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,040 That was like your first foray into graphic design. 603 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,680 Yeah, they were really poorly. There was a. 604 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,080 First, fan it. Was Canva? 605 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:15,440 Yeah, beautiful, but I wanna. I would like you to make up. 606 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,560 I would like you, Amy, to make a badge that says, I don't know 607 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,560 what badges are so. That's Derek's badge. 608 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,560 Did want to just mention real quick Rock spuds. 609 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,280 Thank you so much for the Super chat. 610 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:32,760 Yay no ads, even more yay no Facebook. 611 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,960 Very much looking forward to connecting with everyone on the 612 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,640 forums, owners. All things DBC, all things 613 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:39,080 travel. This is a sentiment that's 614 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,480 actually come up multiple times where I feel like there's been a 615 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:44,960 lot of people that have been like, the only reason I was on 616 00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,800 Facebook was because of the DVC fan. 617 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,840 Facebook, there are actually a lot of people that have joined 618 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,400 us that have commented already in the forums. 619 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,320 It says I'm not on Facebook. Thank you. 620 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,360 I want to be here. You know, I mean, I don't want 621 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:58,200 to be on Facebook. So yeah, yeah, I totally get 622 00:32:58,200 --> 00:32:59,480 that. And it doesn't mean that we're 623 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,880 getting rid of our Facebook group that will always be there. 624 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,680 That is like our tried and true magical community that will 625 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,840 always live on forever. That is where we started. 626 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,680 And we will always post things there and still have 627 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,800 conversations over there if that's more your again, there's 628 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,280 something for everyone. And so the. 629 00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:17,720 Thing I will say really quickly is there's a miscellaneous 630 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:21,200 section in the Oh my gosh, in, in this like whole platform 631 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,000 here. So if you go to the left under 632 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,080 Trips, it says miscellaneous. If you want to talk about 633 00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:31,120 something that's not DVC related, for example, someone 634 00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:35,720 commented on one of our videos and said, I love that Paul 635 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:39,920 mentioned Dungeon Crawl or Carl, because that's like my favorite 636 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,240 book. And I love when you guys talked 637 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,560 about Stranger Things because there's a lot of stuff that we 638 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,520 have in common outside of Disney. 639 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,360 And so it's too hard to talk about it in the the Facebook 640 00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,360 group because then we would be kind of junking it up with 641 00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,640 things that aren't on topic. But here, like use the 642 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,040 miscellaneous thread throughout, you know what I mean? 643 00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:01,080 And if you want to talk about something and see what else we 644 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:05,200 have in common outside of, you know, DVC and Disney, you would 645 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,160 be very surprised. One of the things I loved was 646 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,080 just seeing how many people were just from different like the 647 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:12,960 same locations, you know, I mean, someone would say, you 648 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,520 know, I'm from Chicago and someone said, oh, where are you? 649 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,920 You know, where this is where I'm from. 650 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:20,880 And, and so there was a couple people from the Niagara, you 651 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:23,920 know, Niagara Falls area in Canada recently on the on the 652 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,320 threads so. Did want to address another 653 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,320 question that came in while we were chatting, Disney Dad 55, 654 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,320 what are the rules about talking about other contracts for sale, 655 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,520 other resale market companies, other brokers and stuff like 656 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:37,800 that. Right now there is nothing that 657 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:39,840 is blocking you from those conversations. 658 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,679 You know you want this to be open and honest and at the end 659 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,199 of the day, we do feel you're going to find your way back to 660 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:49,120 key holder vacations in some way, shape or form to do some of 661 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,440 that resale rental travel agent business. 662 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,840 So again, right now we really just want to keep this as open 663 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,720 as possible and have this be an engaging community. 664 00:34:59,720 --> 00:35:02,480 So did want to chime in and add that. 665 00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,080 So let's walk through kind of just the homepage real quick, 666 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,200 and then we'll kind of take some other questions, get Derek's 667 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,560 other thoughts before he might have to go sell a resale 668 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,200 contract or something. Derek, you work in phones, chat, 669 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:21,280 e-mail, all the above. I am working e-mail tonight 670 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,080 specifically, however that also involves plenty and plenty of 671 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,080 phone calls. So folks that I've talked to 672 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:31,240 over the last day, last week, last month, last year, we always 673 00:35:31,240 --> 00:35:33,040 have, you know, follow up questions and whatnot. 674 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,280 So it's a a little bit of mix of phones and e-mail. 675 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,160 So you're covered all the way tonight until 10:00 PM Eastern 676 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,920 Time to get all of your questions answered. 677 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,080 And I can tell you what's cool about this too, Paul is I wanted 678 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,800 to mention is that you can go and even message other people 679 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,200 directly because I want, I asked Paul once I went on, you know, 680 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,840 and said, hey, what if I have a question for someone that posted 681 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,480 something, but I didn't want to make it like a public question. 682 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,640 Is there a way for that person to message me auto? 683 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:08,120 And instantly within 2 seconds, Paul had sent me an IM message 684 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,920 on that thing and it shows up right there in the upper right 685 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,480 hand corner, which is great. So if you see someone that maybe 686 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,560 you have questions for, I've already already had some folks 687 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,120 say, hey, Derek, what's a work e-mail for you? 688 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,920 Because I have a question about buying DVC or selling. 689 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:26,640 So there's that way that you can message people immediately if 690 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,880 you don't want to make something out there in, you know, public. 691 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:33,640 So yeah, it's very easy to use. You can even. 692 00:36:33,720 --> 00:36:35,640 Say, I love that you just called it an IM. 693 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:37,680 Are you still rocking AOL at your house? 694 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,080 I'm just curious. He is. 695 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,400 Derek. Derek. 696 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,920 DVC Derek. SO puts his away message up VRB, 697 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,640 Rihanna, Kurto said. Amy, we guys talk about 698 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:53,480 Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte make a thread. 699 00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,720 I cried my eyes out, asked Paul after Queen Charlotte was over. 700 00:36:57,880 --> 00:36:59,800 He just turned around and I was just. 701 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,920 I might have shed a couple tears with Queen Charlotte more than I 702 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:04,000 did in Bridgerton. Yeah. 703 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,880 And, and again, like when we get into, we're going to get into 704 00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,240 this here in just a little bit, a little bit further. 705 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:11,640 But you're going to notice that right now there's not a lot of 706 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:16,200 categories, and it's really for you to make it what you want it 707 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:18,680 to be. And as we see discussions, maybe 708 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,160 focus around something, we can then kind of make a larger 709 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,200 category for that. Again, we didn't want to create 710 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,400 too many options to get started. So go back to the homepage real 711 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,720 quick here. Let me click on all my buttons 712 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,080 and take us back over to the homepage. 713 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,080 So first up, there's going to be some sort of announcement maybe 714 00:37:37,080 --> 00:37:39,160 at the top right now. Right now, we're just welcoming 715 00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,120 you, our founding members, to the forums. 716 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,120 So thank you so much for our support. 717 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,000 Sign up today and become a founding member and you'll 718 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,960 receive that permanent founding member badge that is only 719 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:53,200 available for a limited time this week, only to anyone that's 720 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:54,760 signed up. That'll be a part of your 721 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,560 profile forever. Once we actually get a little 722 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,320 bit further here, you're going to get into kind of all of the 723 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,720 details. So if you've signed in and 724 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,960 you've been active in the community, you're going to see 725 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:07,920 kind of just for you sections, areas that you might have 726 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:11,880 recently commented in and recently engaged in. 727 00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:15,960 There's also some recommended forums that we have that some 728 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,600 conversations happening in trending and popular actually 729 00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,360 pulls up, You know, what's received the most views in the 730 00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,400 past 24 hours. If you want to jump in and and 731 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,520 have a conversation in one of those sub forums and then down 732 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:32,320 the right hand sign is any recent activity that's going on. 733 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,080 We have a lot of people signing on right now creating kind of 734 00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:38,040 their welcome post, sharing a little bit more information 735 00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,440 about themselves in the resources section on the 736 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,160 homepage. This is where you're going to 737 00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:46,280 find what we call our DVC Fan Forums Field guide. 738 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,200 This is an amazing resource that Ben put together that walks you 739 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:55,160 through how to use this. So I think Louis Edwards, you 740 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,600 had mentioned a little bit earlier that Derek needed to put 741 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,240 together a tutorial of how to use these forums. 742 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:05,280 Well, it is already created for you, so there are 7 chapters for 743 00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:09,080 you to explore, to learn about how to engage, how to 744 00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:13,160 communicate within our DVC Fan forums community. 745 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,240 So head over under that DVC Fan field guide and then help and 746 00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:19,280 feedback. We've mentioned this multiple 747 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,520 times. Help and feedback is where you 748 00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,120 can come here. If you have a question, you can 749 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,040 submit a question as like a frequently asked question and we 750 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,200 will answer it and post those here within this section. 751 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:35,080 If you have feedback, you can actually share any feedback you 752 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,520 want for an improvement, a feature request, a bug report, 753 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,800 you see something that just doesn't seem to be working 754 00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,600 properly or other any of that kind of fun stuff. 755 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:47,360 We want you to come here often. We want you to give us as much 756 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:51,520 feedback as possible because again, this forum is designed to 757 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,680 be what you want it to be and we want to learn from how you're 758 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:58,480 engaging in it and then make it better based off of all of those 759 00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,640 interactions. Then down below the last part of 760 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,400 the homepage here you're going to see. 761 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,960 Your motley crew this this wonderful group of people. 762 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,680 If you want to see our most recent videos, you've got all of 763 00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,600 those here across their latest. Video. 764 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:14,240 Oh, that one looks good. This, yeah, this one, this one 765 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:18,040 on the far right with Jeff Garrick Share and a milkshake. 766 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,040 If you've not watched that video, you definitely want to 767 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,560 check that it is. It is probably the best piece of 768 00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:28,560 art that has been created on the Internet a long time, second 769 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:32,720 only to when you guys did the coke you tried you tried the 770 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:36,920 Coke store and then Jeff decided to make some weird picture of 771 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,600 like the shining of Amy and I on a bike riding down a hallway 772 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:43,120 that was also. Oh my gosh, The best part of 773 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,800 that is when you texted me and said it was that AI or did we 774 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,480 really ride a bike? I don't remember. 775 00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,760 Yeah, Amy doesn't allow me on bikes that often so. 776 00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,520 Why we're talking about creating your your profile. 777 00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,520 I just have to tell you that my Amy just made her own profile. 778 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,320 She's never been on a forum in her life. 779 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:03,720 She told me today. She goes, I know I'm a moderator 780 00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:04,920 and I was supposed to be helping. 781 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,320 I don't know what this is, but she just created her profile and 782 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:17,960 her username is the other Amy. There was so much that's so 783 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,840 good. There was someone actually that 784 00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:23,160 joined earlier today that was comical because they came up. 785 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:29,040 Their handle was DVC Dan and when they joined Amy thought I. 786 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,200 Thought it was Dan. Was our good friend Dan Lajoie. 787 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:33,960 It was our Dan, yeah. It was actually a different Dan 788 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:39,360 and so now there's DVC Dan and then there's DVC space Dan. 789 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:44,920 So just if you're trying to message the the actual DVC Dan, 790 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:46,600 don't get confused between the two because. 791 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,760 Or yeah, because the other DVC, Dan Dan might want to talk to 792 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:50,760 you. Yeah, maybe. 793 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:51,840 Maybe you'll become best friends. 794 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,200 It's true DVC, Dan. You never know. 795 00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,640 And. And DVC Derek is totally taken. 796 00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,600 Don't even try DVC. Why were we on this topic? 797 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:04,200 Just by the way, we were doing some behind the scenes testing 798 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:08,120 and so I just created my own profile and then just put like a 799 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,800 random introduction. I didn't know that was going to 800 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:13,000 stay and be public. So. 801 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,600 That's awesome. Was that your one where, like 802 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,120 you said, you like long walks in the rain and pina colada? 803 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,520 Okay, yeah, I thought. Yeah. 804 00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:26,080 It was just. A test. 805 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:29,080 Everything stays on the Internet forever. 806 00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:32,080 I mean, your name is for goodness sakes, yeah. 807 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,680 The last the last section down here at the bottom is the latest 808 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,040 news. So this is going to pull in 809 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:41,800 latest DVC fan articles or other articles across their key holder 810 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,960 vacations brand. So if you just want to stay in 811 00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,040 the know and the cool thing about all of these is that you 812 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,280 can actually click into one of them and start a conversation 813 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:54,080 about that specific thing. So if you actually, you know, I 814 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:58,680 encourage you right now to head over and you know, click on the 815 00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,600 the video of Jeff and Derek having the milkshake and then 816 00:43:02,720 --> 00:43:08,000 comment, you know, your random thoughts down down below and, 817 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,560 and just start a conversation within the forums about that 818 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,320 specific video or that specific news article or any of that kind 819 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:17,560 of stuff. Also, you're getting started 820 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:19,440 down the right hand side. This is where you're going to 821 00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:22,960 find all of those sub forums, all of those different places 822 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,640 where you can have an engage in conversation. 823 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:29,040 A lot of people today have been engaging in the welcome 824 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,680 Introduce yourself forum. People have been just putting 825 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,200 in, you know, posts about themselves. 826 00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,440 This is where if you want to read Jeff's random introduction 827 00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,360 post that he's embarrassed now is is living on on the Internet 828 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:44,880 forever. You can actually go on and read 829 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,400 that. Do you want to read it live, 830 00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:48,720 Jeff? Or oh, sure. 831 00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,640 Yeah, where is it? It's got to be like one of the. 832 00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:53,320 First it was it said testing I think. 833 00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,680 Testing. We should have should have 834 00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:56,560 known. We should have removed. 835 00:43:56,560 --> 00:44:00,080 Just a little test. Just a little test. 90. 2 views. 836 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,200 92 views. It's getting some. 837 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,680 It's going to be on trending and popular pretty soon. 838 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:09,040 Jeff, My name is Jeff. I like books by the fire, long 839 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,480 walks on the beach and stuff. And then this. 840 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:15,400 What the lovely Yam Kriegs wrote. 841 00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:22,840 Stuff is a very broad category. I do want to address a question. 842 00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:30,400 Oh my gosh, Rob. Rob Rambles. 843 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,280 Do you have to be a DVC member to join? 844 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:35,240 I'm still debating on whether this is for me. 845 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:38,600 Absolutely not. You do not have to be a DVDVC 846 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,080 member. Well, I cannot talk today. 847 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:46,200 There are a lot of just Disney lovers, resort lovers in our DVC 848 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:48,560 fan Facebook group that are learning more about Disney, 849 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:51,080 learning more about the resorts. Same here. 850 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,400 You do not have to be a member. Join us. 851 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,840 You may become a member someday. We can't. 852 00:44:55,840 --> 00:44:59,640 You know, we, we, we do not take responsibility for contract 853 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,160 purchase after joining. But you do not have to be a 854 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:04,760 member. We'd love to have everybody. 855 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:08,400 Yep. Again, down the right hand side 856 00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:10,560 is where you're going to find all of these sub forums. 857 00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:13,640 And if you're in a sub forum and the topics not there that you 858 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:19,200 want to discuss, you can create your own conversation to do so. 859 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,600 You can just head into. So if you do want to create an 860 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:25,360 intro post or introduce yourself here within the introduce 861 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,960 yourself section, just don't go to that button that says new 862 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:31,840 thread. And then you can put a thread 863 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,840 title like happy to be here, whatever, whatever floats your 864 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,800 boat as that thread title, whatever that title of your of 865 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,960 your sub threads going to be. And then you put in the content 866 00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,800 of that introduce yourself. Share a little bit about what 867 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,240 brought you here and why you decided to be a part of our DVC 868 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:52,800 fan forms community. We have a Disney Vacation Club 869 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,680 space where there's a buying and selling general DVC questions, 870 00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,680 member extras and events like Moonlight Magics coming up next 871 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:02,240 week. Hollywood Studios and I believe 872 00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:05,920 Ryan, one of our moderators, actually created on Moonlight 873 00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:08,200 Magic at Hollywood Studios thread where we've got some 874 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,960 people already talking about what they plan to do when they 875 00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,480 go to Moonlight Magic next week. Buying and selling. 876 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,400 If you have questions about buying or selling a Disney 877 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,640 Vacation Club contract, get in here. 878 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,520 Ask your questions. If there's not a forum that's 879 00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,000 already created about what you want to talk about, go ahead and 880 00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:25,600 create one yourself. Again, create that. 881 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,600 Click that new thread button and create that conversation. 882 00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:32,040 The DVC ownership approach is one that's gotten a lot of 883 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,680 attention early on in the past week since we went live with our 884 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:39,840 Patreon preview last week. A lot of people kind of engaging 885 00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,800 in that. My personal favorite is the 886 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,080 Roofer Report. Now, currently this is the first 887 00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:50,760 week, but we actually are going to make this a monthly recurring 888 00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,120 thread. So this will probably change its 889 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:57,480 name to Roofer Report April 2026. 890 00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:02,920 But the weird thing about this is, as much as we've created and 891 00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:08,000 and invited you to, you know, create your profiles, something 892 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:11,960 went weird on the back end. And there are things creating 893 00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,360 profiles automatically. I guess. 894 00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:19,440 So the roofer monster actually chimed in at the end of last 895 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,960 week and shared with us a quick bite. 3 contracts caught my 896 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:24,960 fancy. Disney thanks me. 897 00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,800 Two Grand Floridian contracts with an average price of 156 and 898 00:47:28,800 --> 00:47:35,120 an old Key West contract at 78. So yeah, it has a mind of its 899 00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:39,320 own now and it weekly posts how many contracts it ate. 900 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,480 That's Derek. That's fun, right? 901 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:43,680 I mean, that's exactly. What I hope for. 902 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:46,960 Yeah, it's like, what is his picture? 903 00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,320 Can you can you blow up his picture so I can see what he 904 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:50,440 recognize it? No. 905 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:54,200 Recognize that. And if you didn't head back to 906 00:47:54,200 --> 00:48:00,600 around the holiday season when Derek wrote read, read to us, 907 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:02,760 what was it called? Like the Roefer monster that 908 00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:04,080 stole. Christmas. 909 00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:08,640 Contracts or something, I think it yes, yes, it was something 910 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:10,680 like that. We're not very loud, like they 911 00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:11,680 can't hear us. Oh. 912 00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,960 I'm sorry, yeah, we are not in our normal setup tonight. 913 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,640 I will try to talk more towards the microphone over here, but 914 00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:21,000 doing the best we can because we wanted to be able to do a screen 915 00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:22,440 share and all that kind of fun stuff. 916 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:25,560 So I will try to talk a little bit louder and I will. 917 00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,840 I do want to say, Lisa, Reckmeyer said. 918 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,480 I'm watching this on my phone so I can't scan the QR code at the 919 00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:36,480 same time. Lisaforums.dvcfan.com So you can 920 00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:40,200 just type that in if you are not able to scan the QR code and 921 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,000 that'll take you right there turn. 922 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:43,480 Us off. You don't need to watch us. 923 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:45,040 We're just going to ramble here for the next. 924 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,800 Do you know the answer to the one a rate above that from 925 00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:51,600 Rebecca? My Patreon is under an old 926 00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,640 e-mail. Is there a way to link my 927 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:57,840 Patreon even though the emails don't match Rebecca, we probably 928 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,480 can do that. Head to that help or feedback 929 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:06,560 section as we mentioned earlier. So help or feedback put in that 930 00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,080 information. I would just call it other and 931 00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,000 then put in that information right there that goes to the 932 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,880 amazing Ben who will be able to figure this out and probably be 933 00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:20,960 able to link that somehow on the back end and get you all set up. 934 00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:25,000 So definitely just reach out. We had an issue earlier this 935 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,000 morning with someone with a password and Ben had that fixed 936 00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,920 within. Two, yeah, he he personally for, 937 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:36,000 for the guy who single handedly built the forums, he personally 938 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,080 reached out to that person on Facebook and fixed their issue. 939 00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:43,480 So he is amazing. He he I call him the wizard. 940 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,240 And sometimes when he's still working and messaging us on 941 00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:48,600 Saturday, I'm like, shouldn't you be playing Quidditch or 942 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,840 something? He does kind of look like Harry 943 00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:57,080 Potter, I'm not going to lie. Also in that buying or selling, 944 00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,360 what I thought was great is that, you know, we had some 945 00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,800 people chime in right away when the Roefer monster posted what 946 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:09,880 contracts he ate last week. And then Derek actually, oh, 947 00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:13,000 here's that picture of Derek of you from from the holiday. 948 00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:18,360 But then Derek a little while ago decided to throw 1 back at 949 00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,720 the Roefer monster and chime in. And he said, sigh, Roefer 950 00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:25,080 monster, knock it off. Stop trying to scare all these 951 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:28,840 folks that just joined the forums with your 03 contracts. 952 00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,040 Caught my fancy. Three. 953 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,440 That was it, bro. Derek, I want to come back to 954 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,200 the fact that you used the word bro in a sentence because that 955 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,880 was amazing. But Derek then shared all the 956 00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:43,840 names of people that passed Roefer over the course of the 957 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:46,920 past week. So I expect more of this back 958 00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:52,000 and forth between Derek and the Roefer monster within the forums 959 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:55,200 and and that should be pretty, pretty cool. 960 00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,840 Don't don't worry, Jeff. Jeff, I'm not going to start 961 00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,360 doing Disney videos with the Roefer monster. 962 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,520 You're still my favorite. I would be, I would be so sad. 963 00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:12,000 I also want to go back Ben is watching and yes, that's a 964 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:16,520 picture of his cat and and I'm on meetings constantly with Ben 965 00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,600 and the cat takes over the meeting and he'll like he'll 966 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,400 actually like end the meeting for Ben or he'll type gibberish 967 00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,920 on the computer. Is that Buckeye or Buckeye? 968 00:51:26,240 --> 00:51:28,480 Also is there another? There's 2 cats. 969 00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,200 Oh, I thought he just had. One no, I read it on his profile 970 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:33,560 earlier. Oh OK. 971 00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,400 Or his I don't know what the one on Key Holder's website OOSO or 972 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,440 something is the other one oso? Anyhow, answering that Patreon 973 00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,760 question earlier, there should be a there should be in your 974 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,760 account settings. You can link your Patreon 975 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,640 account that way, which will link then to your account in the 976 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,600 forums. So try that. 977 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:56,680 And if that doesn't work, tell Ben that he lied in the feedback 978 00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:58,080 section and then he'll figure it out. 979 00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:03,560 So but. Yeah, Aaron Face said There 980 00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:09,000 should be a bro bro, I can't even say it, bro BRH badge. 981 00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,160 Are these words that you hear from your kids, Derek, and then 982 00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:16,560 you just try to inject them and. Well, I I got to tell you, 983 00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,560 that's a pretty monumental day. To have me be able to sign in 984 00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:24,480 and participate in an online experiment like these forums and 985 00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,560 also use the word bra successfully is a very, very big 986 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,440 day. He did use it correctly. 987 00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:32,440 He. Didn't. 988 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:36,000 Yeah, he used it wonderfully. If you're just joining us, 989 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,920 please, I know I sound like a broken record, but head to the 990 00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:46,080 QR code or go to forums.dvcfan.com. 991 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,120 Sign up now. As I told Jeff at the top of 992 00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:53,080 this show, we're we're not allowed to end this live stream 993 00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:59,680 and get to 1000 people and. 643 right now. 643 we're almost to 994 00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,840 dinner. Time closer than almost halfway. 995 00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,640 I mean over halfway we're getting closer than I thought we 996 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:05,840 would to that goal. So. 997 00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:07,800 But yeah, if you're watching this. 998 00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,800 I have 63. We do not feel bad. 999 00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,240 We do not feel bad if you turn us off to head over to the 1000 00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:16,480 forums. We'd prefer it at this point 1001 00:53:16,480 --> 00:53:19,760 because we're just rambling, you know, Derek's going to read us a 1002 00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,080 bedtime story in about 20 minutes, so. 1003 00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,400 When he said he was working tonight and was going to call 1004 00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:29,800 in, I fully expected him to be like at a brewery somewhere 1005 00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:33,160 working. OK. 1006 00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:36,400 Can Derek, can you, can you tell us about the photo that is 1007 00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,040 behind you? Because I think that you're 1008 00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,880 sitting working in your dining room, right? 1009 00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,040 Yes, and so there's pictures. Right. 1010 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:49,320 Yes. So this picture is one that we 1011 00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,520 got a couple of years ago. I got it for Annie. 1012 00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,160 I think it was either for her birthday or Christmas or 1013 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,120 Mother's Day. I can't remember what we did it 1014 00:53:57,120 --> 00:54:00,880 from, but it came from a picture that we took when we bought this 1015 00:54:00,880 --> 00:54:03,800 house, which there's a very famous lake that's just about a 1016 00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:06,520 block or two down the road called Lake Butler. 1017 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:11,240 And when we first moved into this house, the kids happened to 1018 00:54:11,240 --> 00:54:12,960 be sitting on the edge of the lake. 1019 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,120 And this is, you know, it was quite a while ago. 1020 00:54:15,600 --> 00:54:18,200 And I, I happen to take just a regular picture of them. 1021 00:54:18,440 --> 00:54:21,040 And then I found a place years ago that was able to take 1022 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,160 regular photos and they could turn them into paintings and 1023 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:26,480 whatnot. And so they took that picture of 1024 00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:28,560 my kids, which this was obviously a long time ago 1025 00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:32,080 because now they're 21 and 17 years old right there. 1026 00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:35,080 But that is from the lake that's two blocks down from our house. 1027 00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,920 And it's in my, in my dining room, which is where I prefer to 1028 00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,080 work and make phone calls if I can. 1029 00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:45,320 So yes, thank you. I wanted to thank you, Derek, 1030 00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:47,400 and I love that I every time I see that photo, I love it. 1031 00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:52,040 Oh, where did it go? R Baz more. 1032 00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:54,000 Is there a Royal Caribbean space? 1033 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,640 So we we do plan to expand as we go along and in what you want. 1034 00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,120 I did start a Royal Caribbean conversation, I think in 1035 00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:04,560 general. Yep, if you had to 1036 00:55:04,920 --> 00:55:06,960 Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous and then. 1037 00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:12,480 You had to general discussion. But I do think that we're going 1038 00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:16,440 to there, there's definitely 2 categories that I want to add 1039 00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,280 soon. One it's going to be dining 1040 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,680 because we've definitely started some dining conversations. 1041 00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:25,280 And then the other one is going to be cruising because I do 1042 00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,760 think that that's relevant. There's it's under trips, OK. 1043 00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:30,720 That's where you're. Wrote That's where it is. 1044 00:55:30,720 --> 00:55:32,320 OK, got it. See, we had to learn. 1045 00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,160 We have to learn. We have to learn how to navigate 1046 00:55:35,160 --> 00:55:37,440 our own forums live, live on air. 1047 00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:40,880 So we forget where we put something and again we have 1048 00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:45,600 limited the categories right now because. 1049 00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:49,240 Do we just don't want it to be too overwhelming to start as you 1050 00:55:49,240 --> 00:55:52,200 get used to it as we want to branch off, make that 1051 00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:54,160 suggestion. We can definitely do that. 1052 00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:58,240 For now, you can put it in miscellaneous, but yeah, I also 1053 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:01,000 started a Run Disney discussion as well. 1054 00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,160 There's a lot of Run Disney people in the community that's 1055 00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,480 in miscellaneous Run Disney events. 1056 00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:07,200 Actually, there's a category there. 1057 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:13,040 So if you head over, I need some dopey advice, please, if you 1058 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:17,280 have any. But so yeah, the. 1059 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,040 The advice from this from from this group of people on this 1060 00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,080 call is why, why did you sign up for Dopey Nah. 1061 00:56:24,400 --> 00:56:27,040 I bet there's a lot of dopey runners in here right now. 1062 00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:30,800 So again, all of these sections are where those conversations 1063 00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:32,880 are going to be guided, but then where you take those 1064 00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:34,840 conversations is completely up to you. 1065 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:37,640 Like under Walt Disney World and theme parks, you know, annual 1066 00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:41,840 passes or no is is a conversation that Blake created. 1067 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:46,800 We shared the news of Rock and Roller Coaster earlier today and 1068 00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,760 kind of wanted to start a conversation about that. 1069 00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,120 And there's been some replies to whether or not you're excited 1070 00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,520 about Rock and Roller Coaster. And again, if you don't see that 1071 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:58,080 conversation here, then go ahead and create that new thread. 1072 00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,520 Also, if multiple threads start talking about the same 1073 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,360 conversation, we do as moderators on the back end have 1074 00:57:03,360 --> 00:57:06,680 the ability to kind of merge those conversations together and 1075 00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,520 we will probably do so just to streamline that conversation. 1076 00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,800 Because you got like 5 people talking about, you know, rock 1077 00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,680 and roller coaster over here. You got 5 talking. 1078 00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:15,920 About it over here bring you together. 1079 00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:18,160 Let's bring those 10 people together and then you can have a 1080 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:19,600 better conversation with each other. 1081 00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:23,200 So we do have the ability to do that on the back end. 1082 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:27,200 So if you see any needs to merge things, again, share that 1083 00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:31,400 feedback, all that kind of fun stuff and we'll get it done as 1084 00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,240 we kind of grow and develop these a little bit further. 1085 00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,040 I did want Paul. Yep, go ahead. 1086 00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,400 Where was that one favorite question of mine today that 1087 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:44,960 asked which resort do I need to stay at just in case the Mcrib 1088 00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:48,680 comes back it? Wasn't miscellaneous. 1089 00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,520 It sounds miscellaneous. I had to, I had to explain to 1090 00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,960 the group they were like, I, I need some more context here. 1091 00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:01,560 And I said, listen, my brother treats the MC rib coming back 1092 00:58:01,560 --> 00:58:06,200 like a national holiday. Like it is a thing to people who 1093 00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,520 enjoy the MC Rib. I personally not had McDonald's 1094 00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:13,760 for a while but. And every time it comes back, 1095 00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:15,800 they're like this is the last time. 1096 00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:19,840 Kind of like how Cher has had like 5 farewell tours but. 1097 00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:24,280 This is this is Ben's probably screaming from his computer 1098 00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:27,320 right now. Paul used the search because I 1099 00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:28,680 feel like this is an opportunity. 1100 00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:29,560 To. Yeah, to. 1101 00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,200 Highlight our our search. Thank you for that. 1102 00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:37,040 And I know some of you have said Ben Ben Ben should have joined 1103 00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,320 the live stream. We did extend that offer to him, 1104 00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,520 but he really just wanted to stay behind the scenes working 1105 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:46,000 on making this better. So we will definitely have Ben 1106 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,680 on a future show. He was on I believe, Derek the 1107 00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,640 World DVC show. He was, yes. 1108 00:58:52,000 --> 00:58:53,920 Yes, he was. He was. 1109 00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,000 And which is really funny because Ben has built this 1110 00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:01,040 tremendous platform and I know him trying to search up the word 1111 00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:04,480 MC Rib was not on his bingo card at all. 1112 00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,040 So let's go. Is it one word? 1113 00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:08,080 MC? Oh, it's already. 1114 00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:11,960 Up there you. Go I just typed in MCR and then 1115 00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:16,120 the. 1st it's in general because he wanted to know the resort 1116 00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,280 they would be closest to him getting from the McDonald's. 1117 00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,240 Yes, on property. But yeah, blow this thread up 1118 00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,120 because this is the one that we're here for. 1119 00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:28,000 And I would, I would be lying to say if we didn't, we actually 1120 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,360 went to this McDonald's once. It's a great McDonald's. 1121 00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,520 It's not the large, what is it? The largest McDonald's in the 1122 00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,640 world is on iDrive. That's on iDrive. 1123 00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:39,360 That would be correct, Yep. And Jeff has an older video up 1124 00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:43,560 on DVC Fan of exploring the largest McDonald's in the world. 1125 00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:49,680 But Derek, have you ever had a Mcrib or Derek's busy at the 1126 00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,280 moment, But you know, we'll chime back in a little bit later 1127 00:59:52,280 --> 00:59:55,760 to see if he's, I think he's ordering a Mcrib right now. 1128 00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:57,600 They don't off, they don't have them. 1129 00:59:57,600 --> 00:59:59,600 This is just on the chance that it would come back. 1130 00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:01,880 Oh, it's not out. Yet no, he's hoping it comes 1131 01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,120 back during his DVC stay so he wants the resort that's closest 1132 01:00:06,120 --> 01:00:07,720 to the McDonald's so he can get to. 1133 01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:12,480 Make a lot more sense now. Yeah, OK, see this is you need 1134 01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,680 to pay attention. Well, not everything. 1135 01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,560 Except that's my brother says. Not at all. 1136 01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,680 Under theme parks we have Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort, 1137 01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:22,720 Universal Parks, even international parks. 1138 01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,640 If you want to talk about international resorts like 1139 01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:28,720 Disneyland Paris and the new frozen land that they just 1140 01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,880 launched over at Disney Adventure Park, all that kind of 1141 01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,240 fun stuff. Under resorts, we've got Walt 1142 01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:35,760 Disney World resorts, we've got Disneyland resorts. 1143 01:00:36,320 --> 01:00:40,520 One of Derek's other favorite threads right now under here is 1144 01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:44,760 the Bay Lake Tower Owners thread, because this is where 1145 01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,160 Derek will be spending most of his time I'm pretty sure. 1146 01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:52,560 I will, I will and, and I, I will be telling people how happy 1147 01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:54,760 I am that they love Bay Lake Tower. 1148 01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,560 That is what I'll be doing in that group, and I already have 1149 01:00:57,680 --> 01:01:00,400 because I'm obsessed with reading people's comments and 1150 01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,680 hearting and liking them. Yeah. 1151 01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:07,240 Obsessed is. That's a fast and loose term. 1152 01:01:08,720 --> 01:01:13,840 Every video that we post, Derek is constantly firing screenshots 1153 01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:17,480 of the comments. So make sure that you comment 1154 01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:18,880 because it just makes his whole life. 1155 01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:24,480 Yes, as a matter of fact, I love sharing the comment from what 1156 01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:25,920 was it? It was a video. 1157 01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,520 I don't know what video was on it, but it just popped up today 1158 01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:33,680 and it said that they they thought they saw Jeff outside of 1159 01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:38,200 Ratatouille in the rain and they went up and said, hi, is your 1160 01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:41,320 name Jeff? And they were like, no, why? 1161 01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,640 And they're like, oh, you look like someone I watch on YouTube. 1162 01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:48,000 But then after they walked away, they thought it was George 1163 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,400 Clooney, right? Is that what they? 1164 01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:51,320 Said George Clooney. Yeah. 1165 01:01:53,040 --> 01:01:55,560 Although I didn't know that he would be out in the rain. 1166 01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:57,480 I don't know. He would have. 1167 01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,840 I have been mistaken for Brendan Fraser a couple times but never 1168 01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,480 take George Clooney and I will take that every single day. 1169 01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:07,600 It was so funny. Oh great. 1170 01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:11,880 I don't want to bore everyone with going through every sort of 1171 01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,200 sub form here. So the last thing I really want 1172 01:02:14,200 --> 01:02:17,880 to highlight again is we do have some special things that we are 1173 01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:21,040 giving to our DVC fan Patreon community. 1174 01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:25,040 Lowest tier I think is like $5 a month and we greatly appreciate 1175 01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,440 all the support there. It allows us to be creative and 1176 01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:32,320 do all these wild crazy things and send, you know, Jeff and 1177 01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,960 Derek to get milkshakes together, all that kind of fun 1178 01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,600 stuff. So thank you to all of our 1179 01:02:37,600 --> 01:02:42,520 patreonsupporterspatreon.com/DVC fan within the forums. 1180 01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:46,000 Those of you that are Patreon supporters will have access to 1181 01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,840 our Supporter Lounge. A couple of things that I 1182 01:02:48,840 --> 01:02:51,320 mentioned earlier in the member lounge. 1183 01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:55,000 This is where some individualized conversations are 1184 01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,480 happening with our Patreon supporters. 1185 01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,520 We're giving them the the opportunity to ask us anything 1186 01:03:01,520 --> 01:03:04,040 within the forums and we will answer those questions. 1187 01:03:04,240 --> 01:03:07,480 Hey, I can see the I can see the forums on. 1188 01:03:07,480 --> 01:03:10,040 That we're giving them the opportunity to help us with 1189 01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:14,960 future video ideas and stuff. One that came in here earlier, 1190 01:03:15,480 --> 01:03:20,000 actually someone, it was Lauren put in the idea that we should 1191 01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:23,040 do a video where people do monorail crawls all the time, 1192 01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:27,680 bar crawls, talking about like monorail, alcoholic drinks and 1193 01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:29,800 doing a monorail and. Mocktails. 1194 01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:33,240 But Lauren said, yeah, you should do a mocktail and snack 1195 01:03:33,240 --> 01:03:35,640 crawl. And I said that you and Lauren 1196 01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:37,640 should go, dude. We should do. 1197 01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:40,360 It and make it. Mocktails and snacks on the 1198 01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,440 monorail we could go. We could go to each one and pick 1199 01:03:43,440 --> 01:03:45,360 a snack and each have a mocktail. 1200 01:03:45,920 --> 01:03:48,520 Yep, love it. So that is a part of the 1201 01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:51,440 Supporter Lounge, but really cool. 1202 01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:56,680 And again, love the name here. We've got stats for nerds. 1203 01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:00,200 So two different elements here. First, we have our live roofer 1204 01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,760 report. This is showing you live 1205 01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:07,280 activity related to Kurt Broker's stats for this year. 1206 01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,600 Derek, I think, just saw this for the first time and the 1207 01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:14,080 colors bloom away. He's like, holy moly. 1208 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,600 You can actually filter by resort. 1209 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,760 You can save different views if there's a certain different way 1210 01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,320 that you actually want to look at this data. 1211 01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,640 And like you're moving around and seeing each day. 1212 01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,240 You're seeing every single week, so it's. 1213 01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,560 By week, OK, by week. Throughout the year so far. 1214 01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,080 But can you we change it to daily? 1215 01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:33,240 What happens if we change the daily? 1216 01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:36,720 Daily and it kind of changes how the lines look a little bit or 1217 01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:40,520 we can go back to monthly and it shows us those trends a little 1218 01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:42,400 bit more. And then down below you're going 1219 01:04:42,400 --> 01:04:45,960 to see how many contracts were taken and the average cost of 1220 01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:49,360 those contracts and how long they actually sat before they 1221 01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:52,040 were Rowford. And then down below here is the 1222 01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:55,080 details of every single one of those contracts, how many points 1223 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:59,760 were on that contract, how much per point that would be and how 1224 01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:04,600 many days it sat in Roefer. So all of that kind of fun 1225 01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:06,120 stuff. And then we're also giving you 1226 01:05:06,120 --> 01:05:08,760 the opportunity to contribute to this report. 1227 01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:12,640 If you did buy a contract that was not through the DVC resale 1228 01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:16,280 market and you wanna add that data to our Roefer data, you can 1229 01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:18,760 actually submit your contract information right here. 1230 01:05:19,560 --> 01:05:22,520 Give us that information and we will put that into our Roefer 1231 01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:25,560 stats to give us a little bit more of a more well-rounded 1232 01:05:25,560 --> 01:05:29,320 broader picture of what Roefer looks like throughout the entire 1233 01:05:29,320 --> 01:05:31,440 community. Same thing goes for average 1234 01:05:31,440 --> 01:05:37,000 resale prices. This graph is the same kind of 1235 01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:41,200 look and again we can look back a year, we can look back on 1236 01:05:41,240 --> 01:05:42,640 these. These lines are getting a little 1237 01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:46,080 intense at this point. You can look back 180 days, you 1238 01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:49,240 can look back 90 days, 30 days, or you can even customize the 1239 01:05:49,240 --> 01:05:52,760 view. And then also you can kind of 1240 01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:59,000 say I only care about points contracts that were 101 to 75 1241 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:03,520 points or 100 points to 125 points, whatever that specific 1242 01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:07,440 number of point range this was. So this is these are those 1243 01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:12,360 details that again, people nerd out over someone in the comments 1244 01:06:12,480 --> 01:06:17,400 did recently did did recently say are there stats for non 1245 01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,240 nerds? What would that look like? 1246 01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,960 You know, if you have an idea, add it to the feedback section. 1247 01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:26,480 We'll create it, I'm sure. But all of this information 1248 01:06:26,480 --> 01:06:28,800 exists here currently within. The But if you don't want to 1249 01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:32,000 look at, look at a graph. Also, the Roefer monster post 1250 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:36,280 every Saturday has just a brief overview of here's what what we 1251 01:06:36,280 --> 01:06:37,760 took. Here's you know what I mean. 1252 01:06:37,760 --> 01:06:42,320 So that's a little bit more less nerdy. 1253 01:06:44,000 --> 01:06:47,560 Yeah. And so, yeah, all of this kind 1254 01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:49,720 of stuff lives in the supporter lounge right now. 1255 01:06:50,560 --> 01:06:53,640 And you know, we're still tweaking things and it could be 1256 01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,960 something that we do make global at some point in the future. 1257 01:06:56,960 --> 01:07:01,120 So again, obviously want to share some of these early 1258 01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:03,520 features with our Patreon community, get their feedback 1259 01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:06,840 first before we potentially expand the reach of all of that. 1260 01:07:06,840 --> 01:07:10,200 But super cool what he's done. These are going to make the 1261 01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:14,360 roofer blog super easy to write in the future. 1262 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,920 Derek's not going to talk to me as much, unfortunately, because 1263 01:07:17,920 --> 01:07:20,200 he asked me questions about what's happening in Roefer or 1264 01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:21,400 what's happening in average price. 1265 01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:24,400 And now he has this. So I'm, I'm like obsolete to 1266 01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,840 you, Derek now. Like you don't even need me 1267 01:07:27,840 --> 01:07:29,200 anymore. Does that mean one less group 1268 01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:33,600 chat though? No, definitely no to definitely 1269 01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:36,760 no to that question. The last thing I want to point 1270 01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:40,960 out here before we answer any questions that we have and kind 1271 01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,800 of start to wrap things up is that as Amy mentioned, we do 1272 01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:49,640 have our our travel journal section, which this was kind of 1273 01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:54,360 something that was inspired by a lot of thoughts that we've had, 1274 01:07:54,400 --> 01:07:56,480 inspired by conversations that we had. 1275 01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:01,760 I was talking to Nick, our CEO, just the other day and I said 1276 01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:05,880 it's funny that we sat in a room with some individuals going on 1277 01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:09,400 four years ago or so and we we dreamed up kind of some of these 1278 01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:12,160 concepts and, and they're becoming a reality now. 1279 01:08:12,160 --> 01:08:16,279 So this travel journal is really inspired partially by that, 1280 01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:19,200 partially inspired by this giant map that Amy has. 1281 01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:22,720 Which, which I like, we have plans. 1282 01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:26,840 I want to add that I want like your own push pin map because 1283 01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:29,920 that is one of my favorite things that I own in this house. 1284 01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:33,319 Paul and I sometimes. Do you ever talk about like, if 1285 01:08:33,319 --> 01:08:35,479 something happened and you had to leave your house right away, 1286 01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:37,560 what would you take? And it was always like, OK, you 1287 01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,000 could like two things. It's like, OK, the dogs and my 1288 01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:42,640 my map. Those are the things I'm taking, 1289 01:08:43,359 --> 01:08:46,080 but yes, I want to incorporate that like where you can have 1290 01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:48,560 your own map and you can put little pins in like here's where 1291 01:08:48,560 --> 01:08:52,600 I've been because DVC members love the travel, you know what I 1292 01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:55,200 mean? And and going to Disney inspires 1293 01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,920 you to see the world and what Disney gains its influence from 1294 01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:00,800 so. And also on our coffee table 1295 01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:04,279 downstairs, we have a book and it is literally a travel journal 1296 01:09:04,279 --> 01:09:08,760 where Amy has put little pictures in and written out some 1297 01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:11,439 descriptions of our trips and everything in that journal. 1298 01:09:11,439 --> 01:09:13,760 And we know a lot of other people do that also. 1299 01:09:14,040 --> 01:09:16,000 So this is a place to do that digitally. 1300 01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:19,319 And I think what's great is that you can do that and you can 1301 01:09:19,319 --> 01:09:21,279 share it and have people chime in. 1302 01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:25,279 So if you love sharing your trips, sharing your thoughts of 1303 01:09:25,359 --> 01:09:28,279 everything related to your trip, you can put all of that 1304 01:09:28,279 --> 01:09:29,960 information. And you have the option for it 1305 01:09:29,960 --> 01:09:32,359 to be public or not. So if you just want it for you, 1306 01:09:32,640 --> 01:09:35,000 you don't have to toggle that make public. 1307 01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:38,240 If you want it to be on your profile invisible to everybody, 1308 01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,560 then you can make it public so you have that option. 1309 01:09:40,640 --> 01:09:42,439 Yep. And then the last thing I wanted 1310 01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:46,399 to point out is we do have a DVC price comparison tool where you 1311 01:09:46,399 --> 01:09:52,399 can actually compare direct and resale prices currently and also 1312 01:09:52,399 --> 01:09:55,000 view current contracts. I think I don't know if that 1313 01:09:55,000 --> 01:09:57,560 that feature is live yet, but we do have a feature up and running 1314 01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:00,720 where you can actually view current contracts with the DVC 1315 01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:05,000 resale market at at a later. I don't know if that's up and 1316 01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:07,200 running yet, but we do plan to have that functionality 1317 01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:09,760 available to you. But I think what's cool here is 1318 01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,720 that not only are we looking at resale pricing and direct 1319 01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:16,680 pricing, but we also were able to pull in some of that data 1320 01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:20,480 related to the current incentives being offered for 1321 01:10:20,480 --> 01:10:23,520 direct contracts. And this information is being 1322 01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,160 updated by that. So this is a really cool tool if 1323 01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:30,160 you are looking to compare different types of contracts, 1324 01:10:30,880 --> 01:10:34,720 different options and you are in kind of that buying or selling 1325 01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:36,720 mindset right now. This is going to give you a lot 1326 01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:38,440 of that information and a lot of that data. 1327 01:10:38,440 --> 01:10:43,640 So at your fingertips, and again let us know, is it good? 1328 01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:45,400 Is it bad? Should we change something? 1329 01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:48,080 Tell us what you want. Put that information in the 1330 01:10:48,120 --> 01:10:50,720 feedback. We've been in dark mode tonight. 1331 01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,240 I like dark mode. I did want to mention. 1332 01:10:53,400 --> 01:10:56,520 My whole life is dark mode, Facebook, everything there's. 1333 01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:58,160 A little button here where it's a sun. 1334 01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:01,800 Yeah, now that that burns my eyeballs. 1335 01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:04,800 Yeah, so. You can click on the moon and 1336 01:11:04,800 --> 01:11:07,040 it'll take it to dark mode. Keep it on. 1337 01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:09,360 All the way. Burn burn your eyeballs. 1338 01:11:09,440 --> 01:11:12,000 That might be my favorite feature and I meant to mention 1339 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:14,960 it. No. 1340 01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:17,520 That's awesome. No, I can't see any of that when 1341 01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:19,760 it's in dark mode. I need as bright. 1342 01:11:19,920 --> 01:11:24,400 As yes, I need the light mode, yes that's bright as possible. 1343 01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:31,080 Wow my Facebook is dark mode, my Instagram is dark mode. 1344 01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:36,440 Like anything, Oh my my, like messages, my iMessage all dark. 1345 01:11:36,440 --> 01:11:39,000 Like I do the dark, all dark. Oh my God. 1346 01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:42,040 Yeah, I for me, I can. See, I have a question. 1347 01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:46,880 Paul. Paul So on here, when I look 1348 01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:50,080 around and I mention it, 'cause I saw a section over there and I 1349 01:11:50,080 --> 01:11:52,640 think it's in the the theme park section. 1350 01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:55,800 Oh no, it's under trips and there's a section in there that 1351 01:11:55,800 --> 01:12:00,320 says trip reports. Could you describe maybe what 1352 01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,520 your thoughts or goals are on that? 1353 01:12:02,520 --> 01:12:08,560 Because me being an old man IA, lot of my Disney history was 1354 01:12:08,600 --> 01:12:11,200 built on reading other people's trip reports. 1355 01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:16,080 And I know there's folks out there that absolutely love trip 1356 01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:17,920 reports. And because that's what we had 1357 01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,960 before there was any vloggers, before there was anything like 1358 01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,080 that. If you weren't at Disney, the 1359 01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:26,280 only way you're going is if you print out, you know, a 30 page 1360 01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,440 trip report from somebody you never met. 1361 01:12:28,440 --> 01:12:31,080 But you could live through their trip day by day. 1362 01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:35,080 Is that what that section like? Is that our kind of goal for 1363 01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:36,640 that? That's awesome. 1364 01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:38,560 Exactly. Yep, that's great. 1365 01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:41,640 And so this is going to be where you can share that information 1366 01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:46,000 for those trip reports and then Ben can correct me if I'm wrong 1367 01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,240 or we'll make this functionality in the future. 1368 01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:51,840 I do believe if you do make that travel journal, if you do create 1369 01:12:51,840 --> 01:12:54,880 a travel journal and then make it public, I believe what that's 1370 01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:56,320 where that information is funneling. 1371 01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:58,120 Have you done a live travel journal yet? 1372 01:12:58,120 --> 01:12:59,560 Yes, I do. So it's in my, it's on my 1373 01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:02,280 profile, but I think. Did you share it? 1374 01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:08,480 Yes, go to my profile. But yeah, but we we can also 1375 01:13:08,480 --> 01:13:12,120 like we can actually house that in another spot too. 1376 01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:16,680 If you market public, we can we can ask Ben to do that Yam 1377 01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:19,160 kriegs. OK, I don't. 1378 01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:21,920 Know how to find you easily. That's all right. 1379 01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:23,920 Just just go to Animal Kingdom owner's thread. 1380 01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,560 I I started it. OK. 1381 01:13:29,160 --> 01:13:31,760 You're just there. Welcome welcome to Paul live 1382 01:13:31,760 --> 01:13:34,600 clicking through this like not knowing what he's doing we're. 1383 01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:39,520 Still learning? Animal Kingdom owner's good yam 1384 01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:44,560 kriegs. And CCA lives on my profile but 1385 01:13:44,560 --> 01:13:48,200 also I that we can we can put them in other places too so. 1386 01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,160 Yeah, so we make cross post like if you create a travel journal 1387 01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,200 like Amy did here for a first Animal Kingdom club level stay. 1388 01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:57,080 I think right now the Travel Journal is just in beta for 1389 01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:00,560 Patreon, so if you go to the Supporter Lounge, it might be in 1390 01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:05,720 there. It's in mind. 1391 01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:08,280 So yeah, so it must be. It must just be on my profile 1392 01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:11,320 for now. So probably answer your 1393 01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:14,920 question, Derek, Yes, long winded answer to yes. 1394 01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:16,480 We want those trip reports to live there. 1395 01:14:16,480 --> 01:14:21,680 We wanna live vicariously through who who's traveling to 1396 01:14:21,680 --> 01:14:24,160 Disney right now so that we can explore and. 1397 01:14:24,480 --> 01:14:27,480 But yeah, I think we'll add a trip report section where if you 1398 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,560 you do a travel journal economically. 1399 01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:32,000 Ben said it can be done. It's probably done already. 1400 01:14:32,840 --> 01:14:36,480 Anytime we ask Ben for anything, he just he just gives us that 1401 01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:41,440 GIF that's like consider it done and then it happens. 1402 01:14:41,440 --> 01:14:47,480 So he's pretty cool. So want to give a pause, Have 1403 01:14:47,480 --> 01:14:50,840 any of you that are listening to this and have stayed with us for 1404 01:14:50,840 --> 01:14:55,680 the past hour and 15 minutes, another 10 or 15 minutes to ask 1405 01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:58,560 us any questions that you might have about the forums. 1406 01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:02,600 I did see someone ask us a question and I'm I'm not going 1407 01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,880 to scroll back up to find it, but there was a question related 1408 01:15:06,160 --> 01:15:10,400 to the average resale price data that we currently have in here. 1409 01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:14,320 This is currently just being aggregated based off of sales 1410 01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:20,360 within the DVC resale market. We may expand that functionality 1411 01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:24,280 again in the future, similar to how we have it set up on roofer 1412 01:15:24,440 --> 01:15:26,600 so that we can. Yeah. 1413 01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:30,600 So those are closed sold sales. So that's the price it's sold 1414 01:15:30,600 --> 01:15:32,680 for, Yeah. But right now it's specific to 1415 01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:35,880 the DVC resale market. But again, we may open that up 1416 01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:38,760 where you could submit a contract that potentially you've 1417 01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:41,800 purchased with a different resale company and we can track 1418 01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:45,840 some of that data also. So again, some of these things, 1419 01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,480 again, it's why it's why it lives in the supporter lounge 1420 01:15:48,480 --> 01:15:51,160 right now is because kind of beta test mode and we're kind of 1421 01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:54,040 just getting our feet wet with what works, what doesn't, what. 1422 01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:58,160 Yeah, and somebody else had asked about and now I lost it, 1423 01:15:58,160 --> 01:15:59,440 but they were asking about something. 1424 01:15:59,440 --> 01:16:02,040 But give us feedback, you know, click that feedback tool. 1425 01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:06,000 Let us know if you know, you want to see, you know, the 1426 01:16:06,000 --> 01:16:08,880 information aggregated in a different way for you to 1427 01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,640 consume. If the graph isn't your thing, 1428 01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:16,120 what's what's below the graph down there again, just show me. 1429 01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:19,000 Oh, OK, this. Yeah, We compare weekly market 1430 01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:21,520 average prices against the average price of contracts 1431 01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:25,480 Disney took, so. And then if you go down further, 1432 01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:28,800 you've got numbers, you've got. Here all of the specific 1433 01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:32,240 contracts for each resort that have been taken, the average 1434 01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:36,600 price per point, the number that have been taken by Roefer, so 1435 01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:38,480 all of that kind. Of But yeah, give us, give us 1436 01:16:38,480 --> 01:16:41,120 your feedback. Let us know, you know, and we 1437 01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:43,360 can do that. The cat was Buckeye. 1438 01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:46,040 We can make up a lot of things happen. 1439 01:16:46,640 --> 01:16:49,840 We've got, we've got the wizard. Yeah, yeah. 1440 01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:53,240 And also this was kind of going back to our to our comment. 1441 01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,080 I appreciate the transparency of including other brokers again, 1442 01:16:56,080 --> 01:17:00,800 like we want this to be a a forum where you converse openly. 1443 01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:05,080 Again, this is brought to you by Key Holder vacations and you 1444 01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:08,000 know our series of brands, resale market, rental store, 1445 01:17:08,000 --> 01:17:11,120 Monera, all of those brands. And we do think you'll find your 1446 01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:13,200 way back to us eventually in some capacity. 1447 01:17:14,120 --> 01:17:18,960 And you can send Adm to DVC Derek whenever you're ready and 1448 01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:21,000 he'll be there waiting. Oh, I didn't, I didn't highlight 1449 01:17:21,000 --> 01:17:24,880 DMS at all. Which, which the ability to do 1450 01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:28,200 that actually exists. The problem is that it's going 1451 01:17:28,200 --> 01:17:29,600 to pop up. Can I move us? 1452 01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:31,440 Oh, look at us. We're moving across the screen. 1453 01:17:31,480 --> 01:17:32,000 Look at that. Go. 1454 01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,280 We're in the other corner now. So up in the upper corner here, 1455 01:17:36,280 --> 01:17:38,080 you do have that little messenger button. 1456 01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:40,040 And if you click on the messenger button, you're going 1457 01:17:40,040 --> 01:17:44,200 to have the opportunity to have messages, direct messages 1458 01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:46,240 between you and another individual. 1459 01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,600 So like right now, Ben Dev four O 4, that is Ben. 1460 01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,080 So him and I have sent messages back and forth. 1461 01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:54,480 And of course the lovely DVC Derek. 1462 01:17:55,160 --> 01:17:59,360 But you can have a message with anyone that you want to chat 1463 01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:02,400 with. Yeah, I've already gotten 1464 01:18:02,440 --> 01:18:05,000 someone asked. Someone sent me a, someone sent 1465 01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,680 me a message today. It's like my first day as a 1466 01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:10,600 person learning to talk. Someone sent me a message today 1467 01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:12,320 and asked the exact same question. 1468 01:18:12,320 --> 01:18:15,000 That's up there, but a little bit different. 1469 01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:17,960 They asked if we would do an Oktoberfest again, 'cause they 1470 01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:19,640 said they had. They love the Oktoberfest. 1471 01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:23,120 That question is after the cruise, which is the next BBC 1472 01:18:23,120 --> 01:18:26,280 fan event, which we are. We are. 1473 01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:31,080 We have our sights set on a winter fest sometime after the 1474 01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:33,160 cruise, so that's what we're considering. 1475 01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:36,720 No official announcements yet. We will actually probably be 1476 01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:42,760 announcing our next plans for our in person events on on the 1477 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:46,200 Key Holder cruise in July. So those of you that are joining 1478 01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:51,280 us for the cruise, you will be the first to let us know you 1479 01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:54,160 will, you'll be the first to know the future events that we 1480 01:18:54,160 --> 01:18:56,120 have planned for this this amazing community. 1481 01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:00,840 But Amy did tease, we are thinking about a 2027 winter 1482 01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,400 fest. We are thinking a little bit 1483 01:19:03,400 --> 01:19:05,920 maybe about a spring Fest in 2027. 1484 01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:10,200 And yes. Yeah, Ben does not sleep. 1485 01:19:10,200 --> 01:19:11,680 We're convinced that he does not sleep. 1486 01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:14,640 He said sleep was for the week when I asked him a couple days 1487 01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:19,800 ago. I need a full 8 hours because 1488 01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:23,480 I'm old. OK so I do want to address. 1489 01:19:23,480 --> 01:19:25,720 Can you go back really quickly? We've had a couple people asking 1490 01:19:25,720 --> 01:19:29,440 about signing in. They already have an account. 1491 01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:33,400 I believe that if you're struggling to find your account 1492 01:19:33,720 --> 01:19:37,000 that you can do the forgot password correct and that should 1493 01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:38,720 help let. Me, go ahead and sign out right 1494 01:19:38,720 --> 01:19:39,840 now. Yeah. 1495 01:19:39,840 --> 01:19:46,840 So this is for Beto dot Canada and Mr. Thermo Bob, who both 1496 01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:49,000 kind of asked around the same thing. 1497 01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,960 So we're just going to go here. And then again, up in the upper, 1498 01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:55,720 upper corner, you have the option to sign in or you have 1499 01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:59,320 the option for one key. These both do the same thing. 1500 01:20:00,840 --> 01:20:02,760 So you can say continue with one key. 1501 01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:05,680 Again, one key is kind of our branded single sign on. 1502 01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:09,960 And if you do have an issue, you can always click on that, forget 1503 01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,640 your password. So if you do have an account, as 1504 01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:15,760 I mentioned before with either, I believe it's the DVC. 1505 01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:20,600 The DVC resale market app or if you're in the key holder club 1506 01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:24,280 loyalty program, if you have accounts with either of those, 1507 01:20:25,280 --> 01:20:28,600 then you're already going to have an account here. 1508 01:20:28,800 --> 01:20:31,560 You just potentially if you've had an issue, maybe you need to 1509 01:20:31,560 --> 01:20:33,120 reset that password or something. 1510 01:20:33,880 --> 01:20:36,000 Sorry, do that. Did Ben just add a number? 1511 01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:37,520 Someone asked. Ryan asked. 1512 01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:40,080 Did Ben just add a number of members widget to the front page 1513 01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:41,720 of the forums while the live stream was going on? 1514 01:20:41,720 --> 01:20:44,200 Yes he did. I saw that as. 1515 01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:47,160 Ben, my dude, that is awesome. I cannot believe how fast that 1516 01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:47,960 happened. That is. 1517 01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:51,360 He can do anything. He can seriously do anything. 1518 01:20:52,480 --> 01:20:55,280 Maccabi O3 asked how Panda was doing. 1519 01:20:55,280 --> 01:20:58,120 He's doing great. He actually asked me to go to 1520 01:20:58,120 --> 01:21:00,480 Sprouts, which is our new grocery store. 1521 01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,600 They have not checked that out, so I might head there with him 1522 01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:04,880 sometime. He said that there's a lot of 1523 01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:07,200 sandwiches, so that's all I know. 1524 01:21:08,280 --> 01:21:10,880 He said you'd want. We got a lot of all sandwiches. 1525 01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,480 We scrolled past a really important comment that I feel 1526 01:21:14,480 --> 01:21:18,080 like needs to be talked about. I think it was at the Plimptons 1527 01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,360 when you guys were talking about dark mode versus light mode. 1528 01:21:20,800 --> 01:21:24,680 She said or he. They said, I thought you guys 1529 01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:26,480 said dork mode and I was here for it. 1530 01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,480 Listen, if Derek and I are involved, you're already 1531 01:21:29,480 --> 01:21:31,920 watching dark mode, so. Dork mode? 1532 01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:36,160 Yep, this whole forum is dork mode. 1533 01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:40,600 Welcome, you are amongst friends here. 1534 01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:46,120 And hey, hey, for anyone out there that's already obsessed 1535 01:21:46,120 --> 01:21:50,200 with Ben like we are, I had mentioned he was on a previous 1536 01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:53,320 World of DVC show, which you can find on YouTube. 1537 01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:57,360 And all you have to do is type in Growing Up with Disney 1538 01:21:57,360 --> 01:22:01,720 Vacation Club Part 2, the World of DVC show. 1539 01:22:01,720 --> 01:22:05,080 And there you could see Ben in all of his glory, hear about 1540 01:22:05,080 --> 01:22:09,600 Ben's story, his back story, and realize how lucky we are to have 1541 01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:11,160 him. So yes, check it out. 1542 01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:14,960 Derek, that sounds like a great sub forum that you should post 1543 01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:19,280 about. Well, the the world of DVC 1544 01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:21,560 shows. Growing up like DVC. 1545 01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:24,720 Like highlight, want to want to know more about? 1546 01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:25,960 Ben, there we go. And. 1547 01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:29,200 The person went to the show. That would be a great because 1548 01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:31,400 like, the audience tonight is loving Ben. 1549 01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:33,440 There's been a call. For someone said Ben needs a. 1550 01:22:33,440 --> 01:22:36,320 Raise someone asked if he sleeps. 1551 01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:38,360 The answer to that question is no. 1552 01:22:40,360 --> 01:22:42,920 Are we running a Run Disney Wit race this weekend? 1553 01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:45,960 Yes, multiple of us are running WIT races. 1554 01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:49,720 I think Ben's. I think Ben's here, he flies 1555 01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:52,360 down tomorrow. Ben is running the Five Ki 1556 01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:54,200 Believe with his family. Yeah. 1557 01:22:54,600 --> 01:22:56,800 We are running the 10K. 10K because we. 1558 01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:59,320 I want the Wayne de Poo medal. I'm so excited. 1559 01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:01,000 I love it. I even got myself a Wayne de Poo 1560 01:23:01,000 --> 01:23:05,400 tank top. Yeah, Ben is also running his 1561 01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:08,520 first Dopey when we run our first Dopey in January. 1562 01:23:08,520 --> 01:23:13,240 Ben and I have a pact where if we see the other person on on 1563 01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:16,000 the ground halfway through Dopey, we have to pick them up 1564 01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:17,840 and pick back them the rest of the way. 1565 01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,960 So not only do we have to train for running, but we have to 1566 01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:24,840 train train for like weighted carries also so that we can vote 1567 01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:29,800 both make it through this. Derek and I will not be running. 1568 01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:34,840 Ben needs a fans thread. I mean, go, go create a Ben fans 1569 01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:37,920 thread. I mean to make it make it 1570 01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:40,400 whatever you want. And I think that's the the key 1571 01:23:40,400 --> 01:23:44,360 take away here with the forums launch is again, make this what 1572 01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:45,920 you want. It is your community. 1573 01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:52,560 We are Ben is gifting it to you as he as he dreams it up and as 1574 01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:55,000 we give him other ideas. Oh my goodness. 1575 01:23:55,160 --> 01:23:59,360 Dave Ben Dad Hilger is in the live chat. 1576 01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:03,440 That's his dad. Everybody say hi to Ben's dad in 1577 01:24:03,440 --> 01:24:07,320 the live chat because. He's doing the 5K with him. 1578 01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:09,480 And he's running the 5K with him so. 1579 01:24:09,480 --> 01:24:11,760 Good luck this weekend, it'll be a lot of fun. 1580 01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:15,280 Yeah, and, and Dad, have you signed up for the BBC fan forums 1581 01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:16,840 yet? We just, we, we need to ask that 1582 01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:19,240 question. And I and that has to be your 1583 01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:21,800 name as well sign. Up and that has to be your name 1584 01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:23,920 and and just present yourself as absolutely. 1585 01:24:25,360 --> 01:24:30,680 All we know is the next the next DVC Fan Fest event has to 1586 01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:32,880 include Ben or no one's going to. 1587 01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:35,960 Agree yeah, Ben actually was featured. 1588 01:24:36,680 --> 01:24:39,920 He's been featured in two videos on DVC Fan partially so he was 1589 01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:44,040 briefly on our Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party video. 1590 01:24:44,320 --> 01:24:48,560 Oh yeah, there's a brief moment in our second Massa Nut video 1591 01:24:48,560 --> 01:24:50,480 where he's running away from the camera that I. 1592 01:24:50,480 --> 01:24:52,480 Had that was like my favorite the whole video. 1593 01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:54,840 So that was a great moment. And then did we? 1594 01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:55,800 Ever post? What was it? 1595 01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,640 We you. No, we have not. 1596 01:24:58,640 --> 01:24:59,320 Oh. OK. 1597 01:24:59,920 --> 01:25:01,960 But we did a dining review with Ben. 1598 01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,560 And he was awesome. I will, I will try to make, I 1599 01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:07,560 will try to make that the video that goes up this week. 1600 01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:11,000 That needs to go up this week. But we did a dining review with 1601 01:25:11,000 --> 01:25:14,680 Ben at Tony's Town Square. And yeah. 1602 01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:19,160 And also, in case anyone was wondering, Ben's dad did create 1603 01:25:19,160 --> 01:25:20,960 an account on the forum. Thank you. 1604 01:25:20,960 --> 01:25:22,480 But thank you, Dave. Thank you for that. 1605 01:25:24,640 --> 01:25:27,400 Is it Hilker? Conversation Also, someone said 1606 01:25:27,400 --> 01:25:29,280 next event pool party at Derek's house. 1607 01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:33,000 We've been promised a pool party at Derek's house two years. 1608 01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,640 That's a sore subject. Derek just had to have a crack 1609 01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:38,840 in his pool fix. He is not a happy camper. 1610 01:25:39,960 --> 01:25:42,520 New soon. The pool was fixed last week. 1611 01:25:42,520 --> 01:25:44,440 It had a crack. It was draining water. 1612 01:25:44,440 --> 01:25:47,640 I was sending them pictures of said crack and it has been 1613 01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,600 repaired. We've filled it up, so hopefully 1614 01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,640 it will be ready to go soon, I promise. 1615 01:25:52,280 --> 01:25:55,600 Derrick sends us a lot of crack pictures and we never know where 1616 01:25:55,600 --> 01:25:58,800 they're going to show up. And now we have now we have DMS 1617 01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,560 within the the DVC fan forum. So we're going to have like a 1618 01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:03,280 Ben. Can we do group chats? 1619 01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:04,560 Are there group chats available yet? 1620 01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:06,320 There will be in 5 minutes. Don't worry about it. 1621 01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:11,080 Anyhow, we are going to kind of start wrapping us up here for 1622 01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:13,280 the evening. Again, if you continue to have 1623 01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:16,440 questions about the forums, please go ahead and put them in 1624 01:26:16,440 --> 01:26:19,720 the comments of this video. Head to that feedback section, 1625 01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:22,520 ask those questions or just start a sub forum and ask your 1626 01:26:22,520 --> 01:26:24,520 question and we will answer it for you. 1627 01:26:25,280 --> 01:26:29,400 We are all in there and anxiously awaiting having 1628 01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:32,280 amazing conversations with you all. 1629 01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:37,080 And yeah, any any other final takeaways from any of you? 1630 01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:40,240 But no, I'm just. I'm just laughing at the 1631 01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:41,920 comments. They're making me laugh. 1632 01:26:42,200 --> 01:26:43,320 You guys are you? We. 1633 01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:45,760 Derek says this all the time. But we have the best community. 1634 01:26:45,920 --> 01:26:48,800 You guys are so funny. Oh, my goodness. 1635 01:26:48,800 --> 01:26:51,440 It's all the time. I get to laugh all the time when 1636 01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:52,520 I read your stuff. Yeah. 1637 01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:57,240 If you've not good, Dick. Oh, no, no, yeah. 1638 01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:00,400 I was just going to say something that our CEO Nick said 1639 01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:03,800 on a company call we had last week when he was talking about 1640 01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:06,240 these forums. And it's so true, especially for 1641 01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:08,520 all the folks out there that might have been involved in 1642 01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:11,800 previous versions of different fan forums or whatnot. 1643 01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:15,640 He was like, looking at how this looks, right, with the no ads 1644 01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,600 and the sleekness and the ease of use in it. 1645 01:27:18,600 --> 01:27:21,400 It's like, you know, trying to compare watching something on 1646 01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:25,920 like an old like grainy VH, just tape and what not compared with 1647 01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:28,760 like a state-of-the-art digital movie. 1648 01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:32,640 Like you can't even compare it that it's still at its heart, 1649 01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:35,640 it's still the same amazing content, which again, the 1650 01:27:35,640 --> 01:27:39,400 content is only there because of every single one of you. 1651 01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:43,360 So give us that content. But it's the same content and 1652 01:27:43,360 --> 01:27:47,600 just such an easy to use, simple, sleek formula. 1653 01:27:47,600 --> 01:27:52,080 And my God, there's no ads. I can't tell you how nice it is 1654 01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,520 to go to a forum and all of a sudden instead and you're moving 1655 01:27:54,520 --> 01:27:58,440 your mouse around and you don't wind up on a Toyota Rav 430 1656 01:27:58,440 --> 01:28:01,720 second ad that that you didn't plan on having to watch. 1657 01:28:02,320 --> 01:28:07,280 So this is everything you want an easy to find place, great 1658 01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:10,120 sections. And I've even had a few people 1659 01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:13,360 even maybe mentioned like, Oh my God, it's so overwhelming. 1660 01:28:13,360 --> 01:28:15,080 There's so much, you know, stuff on here. 1661 01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:18,000 That's what I love about it. Don't feel like you might have 1662 01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:21,280 sections of this that you'll never go to right? 1663 01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:23,080 And that's OK. But there's going to be some 1664 01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:25,680 sections where it's going to be like your morning routine, 1665 01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:27,160 right? You're going to get your coffee, 1666 01:28:27,480 --> 01:28:30,880 sign into your computer, open up this section, interact with this 1667 01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:34,080 member or that member. So I'm just super, super excited 1668 01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:37,280 about it and can't thank Nick and can't thank Ben and Paul and 1669 01:28:37,280 --> 01:28:40,480 Amy and everything for, for bringing this to life. 1670 01:28:40,480 --> 01:28:43,440 So it's it's very, very exciting for this old man. 1671 01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:49,720 We're at 699. No, please get to 700 before we 1672 01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:51,360 send off. We need one more. 1673 01:28:51,360 --> 01:28:54,040 One more of you people that have just been watching us for the 1674 01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:56,760 past. The past all things a little. 1675 01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:00,080 But yeah, I haven't reset that. I also there's been so many 1676 01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:02,680 pleas for Ben to be on the show that I did finally send him the 1677 01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:07,520 calling link and so now even even his dad is trying to peer 1678 01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:10,520 pressure him into joining the show just. 5 seconds, Ben, give 1679 01:29:10,720 --> 01:29:13,560 us 5 seconds. Like the best sign off ever is 1680 01:29:13,560 --> 01:29:17,040 if if if Ben just joined us live for like 5 seconds. 1681 01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:19,240 Yeah. While we're trying to pressure 1682 01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:22,480 Ben into that, we'll read a couple of comments. 1683 01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:29,080 Before you read comments again, forums.dvcfan.com QR code in the 1684 01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:32,400 lower corner and thank you to the. 1685 01:29:33,920 --> 01:29:41,840 I feel like I need to refresh. Thank you to the. 699 Six. 199 1686 01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:43,480 of you we. Need that one. 1687 01:29:43,600 --> 01:29:48,600 Really, just really putting us on the. 700. 700. 1688 01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:50,680 There we go. Refresh it again. 1689 01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:55,480 I. Think I think the comment of the 1690 01:29:55,480 --> 01:30:01,200 night here that that I can see it goes to Dush and Bill BIJA 1691 01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:04,400 says quote what do you do on the live stream question mark 1692 01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:08,320 answers hung out with Ben's dad and talked about Derek's crack 1693 01:30:08,480 --> 01:30:10,600 usual. The usual. 1694 01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:15,480 I What else would you expect from this crew of people? 1695 01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:25,120 And and now we're down to 500. Oh my goodness. 1696 01:30:25,360 --> 01:30:29,040 Well, I'm not sure that Ben's gonna join us, but we will have 1697 01:30:29,040 --> 01:30:30,080 him on soon. We'll get him. 1698 01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:32,880 We'll get him on. We will make sure then that that 1699 01:30:32,880 --> 01:30:34,840 late that I was gonna say late in the Tramp. 1700 01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:36,400 But that's the theme of the restaurant. 1701 01:30:36,400 --> 01:30:38,480 That tiny town square. We're putting it up. 1702 01:30:38,560 --> 01:30:40,320 It's going out. You're going out Friday this 1703 01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:42,640 evening. Excellent. 1704 01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:47,400 But yeah, thank you all for joining us tonight, Derek. 1705 01:30:47,400 --> 01:30:50,800 Thanks for taking some precious time out of your busy work day. 1706 01:30:51,840 --> 01:30:54,600 Wait, my wait. I just heard Ben is joining us. 1707 01:30:55,040 --> 01:31:00,560 It just starts to ring. Wait. 1708 01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:02,200 Oh, now we're gone. We're. 1709 01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:03,720 Gone. It's OK. 1710 01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:06,040 You don't need us. I don't need us. 1711 01:31:06,240 --> 01:31:07,680 Technology. Oh God. 1712 01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:13,920 Jeff, I wasn't prepared for four guests tonight, so I have to 1713 01:31:13,920 --> 01:31:15,520 pull up this. This isn't even the same 1714 01:31:15,520 --> 01:31:18,480 backdrop that we were using earlier, and now we just have 1715 01:31:18,480 --> 01:31:24,600 this blank one. But let's see guest 3 and there 1716 01:31:24,600 --> 01:31:27,600 is the man of the hour. There he is, there he. 1717 01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:33,040 Is guys, when I say that Ben single handedly built this whole 1718 01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:36,560 site I am not even joking. We all we did was tell him what 1719 01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:39,200 we wanted and we just kept telling him stuff and he was 1720 01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:42,840 just like OK, done, done. Ben, the primary question I have 1721 01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:45,680 right now is just was your dad screaming at you from a 1722 01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:48,360 different room or did he call you and say like, get on the 1723 01:31:48,360 --> 01:31:50,080 live stream? Like how did this all? 1724 01:31:50,520 --> 01:31:53,680 I remember watching it together and not even my dad, like my 1725 01:31:53,680 --> 01:31:56,240 whole family was like, you got to call in and then my dad, I'm 1726 01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:00,360 calling. So yeah. 1727 01:32:01,000 --> 01:32:02,600 And then he sent the text on the chat. 1728 01:32:02,600 --> 01:32:04,640 So now I came downstairs and now. 1729 01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:06,760 I love the peer pressure from your dad. 1730 01:32:06,960 --> 01:32:08,720 Thank you. Thank you. 1731 01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:12,040 Thank you, Dave. Ben, I feel like I've butchered 1732 01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:14,680 just describing these forums tonight. 1733 01:32:14,680 --> 01:32:18,680 So if you could, if you could just give us like a one minute 1734 01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:22,760 like stump speech as to why someone wants to join what, what 1735 01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:27,680 would be your reasoning? I mean to be honest, like this 1736 01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:30,960 whole forum, the DVC forums, is like a big thank you to the 1737 01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:32,840 community to start with. I want to say that out loud. 1738 01:32:32,840 --> 01:32:36,960 Like it's been a part of my family since the beginning, like 1739 01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:40,800 the very beginning back, way back in the day when like Paul 1740 01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,680 and you first joined. So the work on it has been like 1741 01:32:43,680 --> 01:32:47,920 a true like it's been kind of a cool full circle moment, 1742 01:32:47,920 --> 01:32:50,320 especially now being on a live stream right now. 1743 01:32:50,320 --> 01:32:54,360 So that's pretty funny. But I mean, it's really, I mean, 1744 01:32:54,440 --> 01:32:58,520 but like, no, I just, it's just a great, it's going to be, I 1745 01:32:58,520 --> 01:33:00,880 really wanted to become a great place where people can connect 1746 01:33:01,200 --> 01:33:04,360 in a much way. Like I'm on the, I always, I'm a 1747 01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:08,160 lurker on the Facebook group. But one thing I've always not 1748 01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:09,680 been a big fan of with the Facebook group, which is like, 1749 01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:13,000 sometimes like goes really out of order of like I see a post 1750 01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,360 from like 3 days ago and then like, it'll be just now. 1751 01:33:15,360 --> 01:33:16,400 And I'm like, oh, wait, was this. 1752 01:33:16,440 --> 01:33:17,680 And I have to look at the date all the time. 1753 01:33:17,680 --> 01:33:19,400 So I'm really hoping that this becomes a place where we can 1754 01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:22,480 have, you know, more organized discussion and like, not even 1755 01:33:22,480 --> 01:33:23,880 just discussions, but like the tools. 1756 01:33:23,880 --> 01:33:26,800 So like the comparison tool was something that was just out of 1757 01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:29,760 an idea of like something like I've seen a need for like people 1758 01:33:29,760 --> 01:33:30,800 asking. There was someone who asked the 1759 01:33:30,800 --> 01:33:34,360 question about flash sale for Saratoga when I was building it 1760 01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:39,280 yesterday for like like buying direct Saratoga. 1761 01:33:39,840 --> 01:33:41,840 And then I was like, it was kind of like full circle. 1762 01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:44,040 Oh, we have this tool now that you can actually like I can 1763 01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:47,400 share the exact link that shows you exactly the comparison, 200 1764 01:33:47,400 --> 01:33:49,440 points with the incentives versus 200 points resale. 1765 01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:52,080 You can see the exact difference and like, is that difference 1766 01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:54,200 good for you? And like that and then the Rover 1767 01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:59,680 report and the resell, you know, I mean, it's, I hopefully they 1768 01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:01,480 make a place not just for conversation, but for like 1769 01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:05,760 having a great place where you can have, I know, great 1770 01:34:05,760 --> 01:34:07,840 conversations, great tools available so. 1771 01:34:08,200 --> 01:34:11,040 That's awesome. And then so full circle like he 1772 01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:13,960 said he came from our DVC fan community. 1773 01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:17,360 That's like he, I think one day you just messaged right or 1774 01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:22,760 emailed us or. Oh, that started that was 2022 1775 01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:25,280 with resale market through the support forms. 1776 01:34:25,800 --> 01:34:28,200 But yeah, that's when I first actually like reached out about 1777 01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:32,360 doing stuff and then but yeah, so, but even before then though, 1778 01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:35,960 I was watching the BBC fan all the way back when it first 1779 01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:37,960 started. So it's back when it was like 1780 01:34:37,960 --> 01:34:41,120 with the diss and everything but and every show around it too. 1781 01:34:41,120 --> 01:34:43,880 So like we're the BBC show. I've been there since day one, 1782 01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:45,680 since the first episode. Yeah. 1783 01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:49,120 So it's really, it's amazing. Yeah. 1784 01:34:50,120 --> 01:34:53,400 Awesome, McCabe said. It's like a young Derek having 1785 01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:59,640 Ben right next to Derek. I mean, if you do take the Gray 1786 01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:04,320 and transplant it, I can see you just need some glasses, Ben, And 1787 01:35:04,560 --> 01:35:07,360 you would. He's also a wizard, so don't 1788 01:35:07,360 --> 01:35:12,600 forget that, yeah. Well, Ben, we're gonna have to 1789 01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:15,480 have you back on for some more conversations here because I 1790 01:35:15,480 --> 01:35:18,040 feel like I feel like the community is going to mandate 1791 01:35:18,040 --> 01:35:20,160 this happen. So, and and and we love you. 1792 01:35:20,160 --> 01:35:22,160 So much, especially after they We need more. 1793 01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:24,960 FaceTime with you, do you. Remember, like his. 1794 01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:28,720 Oh his like intro or whatever. Yeah, on the when we did, Oh 1795 01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:31,320 yeah, we did the writing review. We just had a. 1796 01:35:31,520 --> 01:35:35,960 Post I had a flashback and a Oh yeah yeah, you guys said you're 1797 01:35:35,960 --> 01:35:38,440 gonna make to the intro too, so be ready for that whenever that 1798 01:35:38,440 --> 01:35:40,680 comes. It's going to be it's going to 1799 01:35:40,680 --> 01:35:43,200 be a good video and then the community's just going to demand 1800 01:35:43,200 --> 01:35:45,680 more, more Ben in your life. But Oh my. 1801 01:35:45,800 --> 01:35:47,640 Goodness. We can't give you too much Ben, 1802 01:35:47,640 --> 01:35:49,880 or else he's then going to not have time to do all these 1803 01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:51,920 amazing things behind the scenes too, so. 1804 01:35:52,080 --> 01:35:54,040 It's true you're. Going to have to clone yourself, 1805 01:35:54,400 --> 01:35:56,840 it's just settled. It's almost done it. 1806 01:35:57,440 --> 01:36:00,280 Yeah, we got a Ben is a retro Derek. 1807 01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:04,120 This is great. Like it's, it's like mini Derek. 1808 01:36:05,560 --> 01:36:07,360 Oh my goodness. And now we can't Unsee it. 1809 01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:08,120 That's. Correct. 1810 01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:10,600 Cannot Unsee it now. It's all. 1811 01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:13,320 Right, I'm starting to get a little jealous here. 1812 01:36:13,640 --> 01:36:14,880 So can. Yeah, sorry, Ben. 1813 01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:21,920 Well, Ben, thank you for joining us as we kind of wrap things up 1814 01:36:21,920 --> 01:36:26,680 here tonight. forums.dvcfan.com, join in the conversation. 1815 01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:29,440 If you go to dvcfan.com, there's a button for the forums on the 1816 01:36:29,440 --> 01:36:31,640 menu bar now too. So it's all over the place. 1817 01:36:31,640 --> 01:36:35,560 It's going to be in your in your face feedback is the best thing 1818 01:36:35,560 --> 01:36:38,440 that you can give us right now because again, this is going to 1819 01:36:38,440 --> 01:36:42,120 be what you want it to be. And oh, there's what cat? 1820 01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:43,600 What? What cat is this? 1821 01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:47,360 That's Buckeye, Yeah. Buckeye and the other one is 1822 01:36:47,360 --> 01:36:51,560 like Oso or Oso. Yeah, well, there's 4 cats down 1823 01:36:51,560 --> 01:36:52,600 here. So this is Grayson. 1824 01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:54,040 Now we're. Now we're. 1825 01:36:54,800 --> 01:36:57,360 Does Grayson know he shares a name with one of your cats? 1826 01:36:58,240 --> 01:37:00,920 Yeah, he's the one who turns off my computer mid mid meetings 1827 01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:02,040 and. Then he plays them. 1828 01:37:03,240 --> 01:37:03,640 Oh my goodness. Oh. 1829 01:37:04,120 --> 01:37:06,080 There's. Camera that's also right there. 1830 01:37:06,880 --> 01:37:10,600 Someone go in the forums in a miscellaneous channel and just 1831 01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:13,160 write cat fans as a sub forum right now please. 1832 01:37:14,440 --> 01:37:18,440 Yeah, if you my picture, my profile picture on DBC fan forms 1833 01:37:18,440 --> 01:37:21,000 is of that's Mango. Mango. 1834 01:37:22,520 --> 01:37:26,880 Yeah. That that that is where the 1835 01:37:26,880 --> 01:37:29,240 similarities between me and Ben and I don't know. 1836 01:37:29,240 --> 01:37:32,520 I don't. Have 4. 1837 01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:35,240 Eric is definitely a dog. First, Eric is giant dogs and 1838 01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:40,280 and Ben has pets. Oh, all right, ending on 7/10. 1839 01:37:40,440 --> 01:37:45,320 710 that's pretty good first day I'd say for DVC fan forums and 1840 01:37:45,720 --> 01:37:49,920 tell your friends about it share it on social media share it put 1841 01:37:49,920 --> 01:37:51,720 out in the world. If you have like a million 1842 01:37:51,720 --> 01:37:54,440 Instagram followers and somehow you stumbled upon this measly 1843 01:37:54,440 --> 01:37:57,520 video on YouTube and was talking about forums, like if you would 1844 01:37:57,520 --> 01:37:59,920 just like cross post this, that'd be amazing. 1845 01:37:59,920 --> 01:38:05,120 Like anything, anything any of you guys want to do to to push 1846 01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:09,640 this along again, it's your baby as, as Ben said, it is, you 1847 01:38:09,640 --> 01:38:11,320 know, a gift to the DBC fan community. 1848 01:38:11,680 --> 01:38:15,960 And so we're very, very excited to see where this goes next. 1849 01:38:16,280 --> 01:38:21,160 And Derek, Jeff, Ben, Amy, thank you guys. 1850 01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:25,800 We hope you enjoyed this special episode of the DVC show. 1851 01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:28,960 We'll be back next Monday morning or whenever you tune in 1852 01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:32,840 with another regular episode. And there'll be a lot more Ben 1853 01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:36,200 coming in your near future. So get ready for that. 1854 01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:38,320 Gear up. Thanks for sticking with us 1855 01:38:38,320 --> 01:38:40,520 tonight. Go chat in the forums. 1856 01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:41,800 We're going to head over there right now. 1857 01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:44,200 It's going to be like the after party is in the forum. 1858 01:38:44,200 --> 01:38:47,720 So head to the after party in the forums right now. 1859 01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:51,160 Now. We will see you all next Monday.