Happy Monday evening, DVC fan, and welcome to this special live
episode of The DVC Show. Or as I think Derek already
wrote in the chat, happy Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or
whenever you're actually watching this in the future.
But we are super excited to join you tonight for this special
live episode of The DVC Show, celebrating the launch of our
DVC Fan Forum. Yeah.
I'm here. It's Monday.
I'm actually here on a Monday this time.
Normally we. Feel it's normally a Wednesday.
Not yeah. It'll, it'll be this Wednesday.
We are joined this week, as always, by our dear friend, the
Honorable Jeff Haslam. Hey dudes, what's happening?
It's weird being live and doing all of this and we're in a
different location tonight because we're going to be doing
some screen shares and stuff. So we just wanted to make this a
little bit more accessible for us and all the technology and
fun stuff that we've got going on here.
But super excited to join you this week and celebrate the
launch of something that we've been talking about doing for
some time. Yeah.
So we've always had this in our head.
Right now, our only Ave. to communicate with our community
is social media like Basic general, Facebook, Instagram,
whatever. And it's not that those things
aren't great, but there are a lot of community members out
there that tell us we're not on Facebook, we're not on
Instagram, but we'd love to be able to connect.
And also, you know, when you are on those social medias in those
spaces, those are kind of bogged down by advertisements, by
whatever the algorithm wants you to see.
So we are kind of, you know, we're still going to maintain
the Facebook group, but we are kind of breaking free of that,
those ads and those algorithms and somewhere where we can
organize things a little bit better, you know, so you can be
reading and engaging in what you're interested in talking
about. What were we talking about the
other day that I was being served like a bunch of random
stuff for? It was.
I get random greyhounds in my feed all the time.
Oh, it was something that I was like, Paul, it's because you
watch it and then you get more of it.
I don't even remember what it was.
But that that takes me away from actually engaging with you, our
DVC fan community, and all of the amazing Disney or travel
conversations that come from that.
So we are excited to have officially launched our DVC fan
forums today. And this little guy right down
here will be in the corner throughout the evening on every
screen. You can even see him like next
to Jeff. If I go to this screen, he's
like right down below Jeff. And then like if I just go and
we look at Jeff, there's Jeff trying to point at it.
That QR code, if you scanned that right now, that'll take you
so that you can head over to the DVC fan forums and sign up.
Jeff, I didn't tell you this at the beginning of the show, but
I'm trying to get to 1000 subscribers by the end of the
night, so we're staying on live until we get to 1000.
That's the goal. That is not true.
Why not? I am hungry.
We are like 4 or something right now.
Well there there are 181 of you now watching this so if if you
are one of the 181 not already a part of the forums. 495 it was
488 and then it. Only 505 to go and then we can
go to dinner. That's all.
Head to forums.dvcfan.com or scan the QR code throughout the
episode. You might be wondering where
Derek is tonight. He is actually busy doing his
DVC resale stuff as always, so if you're looking for a contract
tonight you can head over and chat with.
I don't know if he's working chat or emails or.
Get the emails. Phone calls or at some point you
can get in touch with him. He may or may not jump in and
kind of join us a little bit later in the conversation.
Amy, I think you said it great to kind of start things off.
And when I was actually kind of researching and we wrote a great
blog write up about kind of why we launched these forums over on
dvcfan.com earlier today. But I looked things up.
It's been 7 years now that DVC fan has been around and the goal
from day one has been to educate and engage with this community.
So many people in this community have shaped our lives.
The past seven years have started off by just being a
random voice. Hold on, a random voice in the
community and then gradually becomes.
Next thing you know, you just can't shake them.
I. Know I'm like a I'm like a
disease. You can't get rid of me without
antibiotics. Gradually becomes a friend and
basically a member of our family.
At this point. There are so many other people.
There are moderators in our chat today that have become people
that are near and dear to us. Heck, we received a package
today from Singapore from our good friend Tom, who shipped us
coffee and a coffee mug. I should have brought it up to
actually show it, but we're going to see him later this
week. But he did the Disney adventure
a week or. So jealous he's been all over
the place. This coffee they have in the
room, it's a special like pour over single serve coffee.
It's I think it's a Moroccan coffee.
And so he wanted to ship some back home for himself.
And he was going to be down here at Walt Disney World.
So he was like, can I send it to your house and then I'll pick it
up from you. And we were like, sure.
And then he sent some for us also.
So I mean, it's just amazing the connections that this community
has brought, the friendships, truly the family, family that
we've created over the years. And this is just an effort to
continue that. You know, we've always kind of
dabbled with communities a little bit.
Some of you may remember we launched Unlocked Magic as a
community several years ago. That was a paid community.
We learned a lot from it. And Unlocked Magic is now its
own little ticketing brand that is super successful in its own
right. So we learned what was
successful for that, and we also learned what we wanted to do and
what we didn't want to do in this next iteration.
Yeah, yeah. And what is awesome about this
is it was completely. And we're going to talk about a
bend in a little bit, but it was completely built by Key Holder
vacations. So it is completely exactly what
we want it to be. And it's not finished.
It's just, it's a work in progress.
You know, we're continuing to add more tools and more unique
features and we're taking in the feedback that you give us.
So once you join, there is a feedback button that you can,
you know, make a suggestion for a way to improve or if there's a
bug that needs fixed or a feature that you would like to
see, you know, added there. And, and we'll definitely take a
look at that because we're, we're, we're shaping it into
what the community wants. So we're taking your feedback
and, and doing that. And I say we, and I really mean
Ben, Ben. So everyone in this thing right
now in the live chat just put thank you Ben because he is who
made this vision and everything possible.
He is probably watching this on one screen and making changes to
the community on another screen as he's watching it.
So just a huge shout out to Ben and all of the support that our
Key Holder Vacations team has brought.
Jeff, I wanted to kick it over to you.
You've been a part of this community for what seems like
forever, but it's been like what, several, several years
now? But what does this DVC fan
community mean to you and this next iteration, including our
DVC fan forums mean? Yeah, that's a great question.
And first of all, thank you guys for everything that you do for
not only me as my friend, but as the community as a whole.
You guys don't see how much goes on behind the scenes.
This is a brainchild truly of of Paul and what he's able to
accomplish in such a short time with with the help of an
excellent team. But so I joined the show
officially in August of 2023, so I'm coming up on my 3 year
anniversary. But I was a member of the group
before that. And like Amy said, it was kind
of a talking head. You know, I actually stole her
idea. That's how I got to know people.
In the group we got to know. You guys because.
We would post like our top 10 funny things like it was almost
like a trip report but was totally full of sarcasm and I
actually miss doing it. But I don't go to the parks
enough for a long time to to build up.
A full post SO. You get my ramblings on here
yes, Amy started doing it and I'm like, I can do that.
And so I started to get funny and people started to respond to
that and you know, it led to Paul and Amy reaching out one
time to see if I had any moonlight magic tickets and then
we met and kind of the rest is history.
So I'm grateful to them first of all, but I'm I'm really grateful
to this group every time I get stopped in the parks, which is
still mind blowing to me. You know, I just this last
weekend I met Jen and, and, and Rachel from the group that are
always commenting and always an active part of this group.
But every time I go, I meet somebody new and I'm just so
grateful for this community and what it brings to not only our
own community, but to DVC members as a whole.
I think it's just, it's just very special.
And this next step, I wasn't, I'll be honest with you, I was
never a big forum person. And so a lot of the times, you
know, the questions that we got in our group, what's different?
Why is this new? I'm all in after, you know,
helping test the forums and and being behind the scenes a little
bit on it. It's just going to be such a
better way to filter what you want to look for and, and engage
with people and and find like minded members.
And just I just thrilled with with everything that's coming
and, and the ability to grow this community.
Nothing can stop us now, as Mickey and Minnie like to say
so. I see what you did there.
Also, I, I want to touch back if you ever want to read those, I,
I think we called them like random thoughts, right?
It was like Jeff's random thoughts.
So if you go in the DVC fan Facebook group and you hit the
search button and you, you type in Jeff's random thoughts and,
and then you do Amy's random thoughts, you'll see those lists
and they're, they're from like 2020.
What 2021 they? Helped us through the pandemic
they did. Made us.
Half our way through the pandemic.
But they were great and Jeff came in and he did an awesome
job. So so this is gonna.
Be funnier than I think we're putting this into the world.
This needs to be a sub forum within the DVC fan forums as we
need to bring this back and everyone can give their random
thoughts within the forums. So let's let's jump in and talk
a little bit about what makes our DVC fan forums different.
And again, if you're just joining us, make sure you had to
forums.dvcfan.com or click, not click, but scan the QR code down
in the corner to join our forums.
But one of the first things that we kind of identified that we
wanted, and I know even our DVC fan website at times can be a
little bit overwhelming in this regard.
But the same thing goes for traditional social media.
We've been on other forum platforms or other community
platforms. There are ads everywhere,
literally everywhere. Like Google ads popping up
reminded me that I need to buy this Moroccan coffee that I just
tried for the first time and I'm now addicted to from Singapore.
Whatever you've randomly Googled, it's really good at
making you spend money. But something that we identified
was that those ads take away from that user experience.
They really clutter up the space, their stuff in the
sidebars, in the middle of text, sometimes in the middle of
paragraphs. And so thanks to our amazing key
Holder Vacations community brands, all of that, there are
no ads as part of the DVC fan forums.
This is truly brought to you by key holder vacations, our Key
Holder Vacations series of brands DVC resale market, DVC
rental store Monera financial magic vacation title unlocked
magic be our guest vacations. Yeah, we have a travel agency
too, in case someone, someone actually didn't know that in the
forums earlier and I answered that question.
But we have a travel agency too. They can help you with planning
travel to Disney, Royal Caribbean, beyond all that kind
of fun stuff. But thanks to all of those
awesome brands and the support that you have shown them over
the years, we are complete completely keeping this ad free.
And all that we ask in return is that you continue to show your
love for all of those amazing brands like you've done over the
years. And it just gives it such a
clean and sleek look. I'm not going to show it yet.
I want to save it. I'm just like saving saving the
screen share. It's like a tease.
But that was when. People have seen it already.
It is. We did.
Not 1000, not 1000 people. Because, you know, we're still.
We're still. 536 people know what it looks like.
Oh, hey. There's 214 people in watching
the show live right now. I'm guessing like 100 of you
still aren't signed up. So just jump over there turn us
off. It's OK.
Our feelings won't be hurt. I did want to jump into a
comment real quick. I I I saw earlier, but mark and
Bonnie Mark should still keep driving the car.
Bonnie, I'm pretty sure said not tech savvy.
Amy, sorry. Making Mark pull over to sign us
up on. His Bonnie, you don't have to do
that. You can do it later.
It'll it'll be there when you get here.
We love the commitment, but. OK, can I just say really
quickly, do you know who Mark and Bonnie are?
Do you remember how much you loved those Washington chocolate
covered cherries? Yes.
They are the ones that sent us those goodies.
OK, let's let's this is full circle moment because this is
another ad that I've been served a lot recently.
I've mentioned on the show before, Dungeon Crawler Carl,
the book, the audiobook is the best version ever.
But the chocolate company that makes the chocolate bars that
Mark and Bonnie sent us, yeah, they made one exclusive to
Dungeon Crawler Carla. It is the fastest sell out that
they ever had in the history of their company in that chocolate
bar. So and you didn't get any Mark
and Bonnie I will be hitting you up if that goes back in stock
because I feel like I I have to get this chocolate bar to.
Celebrate that. Thank you, Mark and Bonnie.
Tell Joel we said hello as well. Yeah, you can.
You can keep driving. You can sign up later.
The next thing that we really wanted, Why we're good.
Sorry, really quick. Why we're talking about ads.
I was watching your guys's like I just did a round trip drive to
Fort Lauderdale today, which is 4 hours each direction to drop
off to my family at a cruise port.
Yeah, because I have nothing else to do, but I listen to both
of your Mass and Nuttin videos. This your ski situation?
In both of those videos, the number of timeshare ads I got
served watching our own video was hysterical.
Not our timeshares, but. Yeah, other timeshares.
That's hilarious. Good old YouTube ads.
YouTube at its funnest there, so we'll show you a little bit of
the experience here in a couple of minutes, but completely ad
free. Brought to you by our key
holder. Vacations brands.
Also brought to you by our amazing DVC fan Patreon
community. patreon.com/DVC fan. There is a small subsection of
the DVC fan forums that we call the Supporter Lounge, and that
Supporter Lounge is Patreon exclusive.
The lowest tier is $5 a month. You can join us on Patreon.
You get crazy photos of Jeff as a child or crazy videos of of
Derek. Basically of Jeff or Derek send
anything private to us that is embarrassing potentially.
I put it on Patreon and. That our friends, always.
Comes free game. It said that our friends now
have to ask the question to themselves every time they send
something to us. Is it going to end up on the
interwebs? But the Supporter Lounge Thank
you to all of our Patreon supporters that support us.
patreon.com DVC Fan If you join at the lowest tier, not only do
you get a special badge within our DVC Fan forums, but you get
access to Supporter Lounge. You get the opportunity to chime
in, give us ideas for upcoming shows.
We have an Ask Us Anything section where you can just ask
any question to us and we're going to answer.
There were two questions I answered to go within this
section. Ben, if you're listening, I have
access to the lounge but not the forms in it, so I can't answer
any of the questions. Yeah, we'll fix that.
Yeah, literally. Ben will put in the chat.
It's fixed Amy, and it'll be fixed in like 5 minutes.
But also there's some cool things we're doing in the
supporter Lounge like some live write of first refusal tracking.
You don't have to wait for the blog that I write for resale
market at the end of the month. We are putting live updates in
there as we we learn about contracts that are Roeford.
Right. It updates.
How often does it update, do you think?
It's daily? Daily, yeah.
Daily that is being updated. Anything that's been Roeford and
then average prices. Average prices as well.
We'll show you some of those features here in a little bit.
So just some really cool data. I actually think he updated it
earlier today and he put those under a section that he entitled
Stats for Nerds. So there, there, there are,
there's all that information in there.
And we will, we will, we will highlight that earlier.
Did get a question here just a second ago I wanted to answer.
Is there DVC fan forms app in the works?
No app in the works just yet, but it's possible it it could be
implemented into one of our key holder vacations series of apps
that are rolling out. So stay tuned for more on that.
But very mobile friendly. We did want to make sure that it
was mobile friendly, so it can be accessed via Safari, Chrome,
any of your web browsers and then you can actually save to
your home screen kind of a bookmark to the page.
That's what I did, yeah. And if you see anything that
isn't mobile friendly isn't working for you, click on that
feedback tool in the and Paul will show you that soon and and
send us feedback and it'll get fixed.
Yep. Next up, free and open
community. So as we mentioned, there is a
small subsection for our Patreon supporters.
We want them to, you know, have some of those exclusive
benefits, but there's not going to be a whole lot more added to
that section because we do want to make this all as part of the
forums itself. So no paywall to access this.
And it's going to be an honest and open discussion.
You know, there are a lot of forums, there's a lot of places
out there that potentially block certain conversations, block
certain discussions and, and, and all of that we didn't want
as part of this, we went honest open discussion.
So if you have a link to a new site or something that you want
to post within the forums, do so there are some community
guidelines. You know, we don't ask that you
have any self promotion of other YouTube channels or stuff like
that or self promotion. If you are a travel agent and
not associated with our brands, you know, we don't want you in
there kind of schleffen yourself for some travel business.
This is not the place for that. So there are some community
guidelines, but also at this time, we're not kind of blocking
any conversations or discussion of other brands, even other
brands outside of our key holder vacations companies.
So we really want you to have an honest and engaging
conversation. It is completely what you make
of it. So go in there, have those
conversations and all of that kind of fun stuff.
And just want to give a quick shout out to Nick Cotton, our
CEO at Key Holder Vacations. He said give Ben a couple hours
and he can have that DVC fan app ready.
This is 100% true. Like Ben would have it up by
morning if we, if we really had him put his mind to it.
So. But yeah, so completely open,
honest communication is what we want within this.
Yeah. And and I, I did want to address
a question that came up early on.
So if you see me look in this way, it's because I'm looking at
this with this board of all I've got.
Lots. Of four screens going on there.
There are the devices, yeah, there's four screens.
I'm trying to read questions. It's it's why we decided to come
up here tonight. This is my office.
But it looks familiar. We we, we, we moved houses and
it looks exactly the same. And Amy said I should have done
something a little bit different to my office, but the couch is a
little bit different. But yeah, we we needed all this
extra room for all the screen share.
Yeah, stuff that we were doing tonight.
OK, I I never know how to say these handles.
So G Videl said love everything you guys do.
Thank you so much. Genuine question, how do these
forms differ from Diz boards? You know, forms like Diz boards
and mouse owners. Actually, I think mouse owners
is gone, is defunct, those sorts of forms, those are great.
This form is built specifically for our community and we're
using things that our community wants.
So things like, you know, DVC specific if like information
right at your fingertips. So the Roefer, you know, reports
even if you're not in the supporter lounge, the Roefer
Monster publishes every Saturday to tell you what it has eaten.
So we've got like that kind of information at your fingertips,
but there's also some really cool things that Ben is building
into the space, which Paul will be walking us through soon.
But we've got a DVC price comparison tool where you can
compare resale to direct for different resorts and in
different scenarios. And that's a really cool
feature. There is also one of the things
I'm excited about is the travel journal.
So we're we're in kind of a little beta test for that right
now. It's available for Patreon, but
you can add like trip reports through Travel Journal that
those will live on on your profile, but they'll be viewable
to, you know, the public, people to see, read, you know, see your
photos, hear about your trip. But we're just continually
building this to mold around our community and what we know about
our community and and what they want.
And then again, you know, obviously the ad free thing for
us, that's huge because I am like literally Paul Mason
Kingdom said I was interrupted by an ad just as Paul was
talking because he's on YouTube and YouTube has ads, you know
what I mean? So that to me is a big
differentiator from other forums is we plan to maintain that to,
to, to not have those Google ads popping up everywhere.
It's, it's free of that. It's just the community, it's
just the people, it's just us and you know and what you want
to talk about. Yep.
And and again, we, we want to make it what you want it to be.
So like as Amy was talking, someone said, I would love the
the ability to see DVC availability, you know,
searching DVC availability information inside the forums,
join the forums, head to the feedback, put these things in
there. Nothing is a crazy comment that
you can add in there because we want to be able to sift through
all of this feedback of things that you want.
Because at the end of the day, what makes this successful is
you choosing to log in and engage in this community each
and every single day. And I'll just go a step further
to kind of what Amy said. What differentiates our forums
from DIS boards and other communities out there are all of
the things that I mentioned earlier.
And the biggest one I really think is that ad free
experience. You are not having all of that
clutter of Google ads and constant ads.
You can focus the conversation where you want it and really be
able to just have that space to engage with this awesome
community that you all have developed over the years.
Go ahead, Jeff. No, you're fine.
I just was going to just kind of echo to a lot of the questions
we got when we first announced this was how is this different
from Facebook? And I think the key thing for
people to understand is Facebook is a feed, right?
And it's based on, it feeds you information like Amy said
earlier, based on your algorithm, what you're typically
searching, it tracks everything, right?
It's so easy for something to get lost.
Or for example, like when we post a new video, Derek and I
screwing around at Disney Springs, it hits there for a day
or so and then it gets lost and everything else.
And that's because we want to hear what everybody else in the
world has to say in our community.
This will have specific areas. If you want to go and search for
our shenanigans, it's easy to find.
If you want to ask questions about a specific resort, it's
easy to find on a forum and we're not limiting it.
It's for our community. But we're going to talk about
the parks too. We're going to talk about
cruises. We're going to talk about other
things that our community cares about, our events that we have
every year, you know, just a place for all this information
to be easily searchable, easy to find.
Not that Facebook doesn't have its place, it does, but this is
a way more fine-tuned approach to things.
So that's that's how it differentiates itself from from
regular social media. The other thing we wanted to be
very mindful of, so we have we have a broad range of people
that potentially would access this, not to pick on Ben, but
Ben is a younger generation Ben. Ben has come up in the in the
TikTok generation. He's like, he could be my baby.
He. Probably could be my baby
actually. But so we have this younger
generation of people that, you know, potentially are going to
be logging in here. So we wanted to harness like the
sleekness of Facebook and Instagram and the sleekness of
Reddit and stuff like that. But then there was a question
that that came up over and over. And this, this comment, I think
is very fitting to that question was because we also had to ask
ourselves, could could Derek access these forums?
Would Derek himself be able to access the forums?
And this man was one of the first people that signed up.
I know. Happy Monday, everybody.
Happy Monday. Yeah, I, I am proud to let
everyone out there know that I received a diploma.
And a diploma came from the new DVC fan forums that says if
Derek was able to figure this out, anybody on earth can figure
this out. So I'm telling you, it's great.
It's really, really easy. It's super accessible, we can
kind of keep talking about it. Sorry if if I wasn't able to
join in or be on here the whole time.
I am working helping answer folks.
I have questions about the Magical World of Disney Vacation
Club until 10:00 PM Eastern Time tonight.
But these forums I love because I know again, I'm from the older
school. So when people talk about like,
oh, it reminds me of like Mouse Planet and it reminds me of
other sites out there. Like before you know, it, it
that that's where you used to go.
You know, you used to fill up your computer with gas and then
go online and, and you ask some questions and people would
respond back. I think what I love about this
first and foremost that I'm already seeing is every time I
check in, people doing the their welcomes and people telling
their Disney story, showing a picture, showing, you know, how
they got involved in the DVC fan community, how they got involved
in Disney Vacation Club. So seeing all these people every
few seconds come in and share their stories and it's just
awesome. And knowing that, you know,
there's places that people can go when they have specific info,
'cause as much again, I'm, oh, I love, you know, Facebook, you
know, the, the book of the face as all the kids call it.
But I'm feeling what I love about this lovely too is what I
love about this is you're able to go in.
If you want to read someone's recent trip reports, then you go
to the trip reports section. If you want to read about the
Polynesian and you're a Poly owner, you can go to the Poly
section. If you want to go into a buying
or selling question, you can go there, which is what I love
because you know, as great as I love the DVC fan Facebook page
and always will, you know, you could get a question on, you
know, where can I buy this lounge fly and immediately
followed by what's the best use here for me, you know, all in
one big giant thread. So breaking this out into
sections, it's awesome. And again, anybody out there
that might be kind of afraid, like I don't know if I can do
it. I don't know what these are.
You can do it. I did it and I love it.
So kudos to everyone involved. I love it.
And the thing about forums is you don't have to read
everything, you know, find what interests you, go to that space,
you know, take part in that. Yeah.
It doesn't have to be unless you're, unless you really need
something to pass the time, you don't have to.
You don't have to read everything but, but there is a
well organized space. So with Derek one.
One last thing and then I'll stop talking.
Is it a forum like this is only as good as the people putting
stuff into it. So please you guys out there, be
active, be comment on other people's, comment on your own,
create your own like just it's only as good as the people
involved. So make sure that you are.
Yep, yeah. Well, Derek, if you have to jump
off at any point, let us know. Feel free to just chime in, but
hang out for as long as you want for sure because I love having
you here. And I do want to highlight one
of your posts from earlier today because I think it's important
for multiple reasons. But no time like the present to
actually dive in and show you this thing that we're actually
talking about. So here is our DVC Fan Forums
homepage. So when you actually get here,
you're actually going to be able to view this, even if you're not
already a member of the DVC fan forums, you're actually going to
be able to view the forums and all of that kind of fun stuff.
But we do ask that you sign up and create a profile with us.
And to do that, you'll go up into the upper right hand corner
where currently it says Greyhound dad because that's my
login, but it'll say sign up or sign in and that's where you'll
actually create your account. Worth noting that if you have
joined the Key Holder Club loyalty program or if you are
already subscribed and have the DVC resale market app and you
have an account on that, you will have an account already
here. So that's actually been all
rebranded again Ben's brainchild under what we call one key.
So that same login will allow you to login across all of those
same platforms. So head over, sign up, login,
you can then customize your profile.
So like I can go to my profile I think.
Account settings. Account settings?
Where is account settings? There we go, I have a lot more.
You have you have a lot to do. It's a lot of empty space over
there. Oh yes, I've not.
I've not completed my signature yet, but you're going to have
the ability to set a profile picture.
Set up a brief file about yourself.
There will be some badges that are auto assigned.
Anyone that is signing up within this first week is going to get
our founding member badge and let us know what other badges
you want. I want to make more badges.
I'm super excited about it. Do you remember how I same?
With me. Yes, and then you can they can
all live on your profile, but then you can display like your
top, however many when you you know, when you're commenting.
But do you remember when we did the DVC fan badges and it was
like the DVC master badge, which meant you stated every single
DVC resort, the East Coast badge, the West Coast badge,
like I wanna like we could make those.
That was like your first foray into graphic design.
Yeah, they were really poorly. There was a.
First, fan it. Was Canva?
Yeah, beautiful, but I wanna. I would like you to make up.
I would like you, Amy, to make a badge that says, I don't know
what badges are so. That's Derek's badge.
Did want to just mention real quick Rock spuds.
Thank you so much for the Super chat.
Yay no ads, even more yay no Facebook.
Very much looking forward to connecting with everyone on the
forums, owners. All things DBC, all things
travel. This is a sentiment that's
actually come up multiple times where I feel like there's been a
lot of people that have been like, the only reason I was on
Facebook was because of the DVC fan.
Facebook, there are actually a lot of people that have joined
us that have commented already in the forums.
It says I'm not on Facebook. Thank you.
I want to be here. You know, I mean, I don't want
to be on Facebook. So yeah, yeah, I totally get
that. And it doesn't mean that we're
getting rid of our Facebook group that will always be there.
That is like our tried and true magical community that will
always live on forever. That is where we started.
And we will always post things there and still have
conversations over there if that's more your again, there's
something for everyone. And so the.
Thing I will say really quickly is there's a miscellaneous
section in the Oh my gosh, in, in this like whole platform
here. So if you go to the left under
Trips, it says miscellaneous. If you want to talk about
something that's not DVC related, for example, someone
commented on one of our videos and said, I love that Paul
mentioned Dungeon Crawl or Carl, because that's like my favorite
book. And I love when you guys talked
about Stranger Things because there's a lot of stuff that we
have in common outside of Disney.
And so it's too hard to talk about it in the the Facebook
group because then we would be kind of junking it up with
things that aren't on topic. But here, like use the
miscellaneous thread throughout, you know what I mean?
And if you want to talk about something and see what else we
have in common outside of, you know, DVC and Disney, you would
be very surprised. One of the things I loved was
just seeing how many people were just from different like the
same locations, you know, I mean, someone would say, you
know, I'm from Chicago and someone said, oh, where are you?
You know, where this is where I'm from.
And, and so there was a couple people from the Niagara, you
know, Niagara Falls area in Canada recently on the on the
threads so. Did want to address another
question that came in while we were chatting, Disney Dad 55,
what are the rules about talking about other contracts for sale,
other resale market companies, other brokers and stuff like
that. Right now there is nothing that
is blocking you from those conversations.
You know you want this to be open and honest and at the end
of the day, we do feel you're going to find your way back to
key holder vacations in some way, shape or form to do some of
that resale rental travel agent business.
So again, right now we really just want to keep this as open
as possible and have this be an engaging community.
So did want to chime in and add that.
So let's walk through kind of just the homepage real quick,
and then we'll kind of take some other questions, get Derek's
other thoughts before he might have to go sell a resale
contract or something. Derek, you work in phones, chat,
e-mail, all the above. I am working e-mail tonight
specifically, however that also involves plenty and plenty of
phone calls. So folks that I've talked to
over the last day, last week, last month, last year, we always
have, you know, follow up questions and whatnot.
So it's a a little bit of mix of phones and e-mail.
So you're covered all the way tonight until 10:00 PM Eastern
Time to get all of your questions answered.
And I can tell you what's cool about this too, Paul is I wanted
to mention is that you can go and even message other people
directly because I want, I asked Paul once I went on, you know,
and said, hey, what if I have a question for someone that posted
something, but I didn't want to make it like a public question.
Is there a way for that person to message me auto?
And instantly within 2 seconds, Paul had sent me an IM message
on that thing and it shows up right there in the upper right
hand corner, which is great. So if you see someone that maybe
you have questions for, I've already already had some folks
say, hey, Derek, what's a work e-mail for you?
Because I have a question about buying DVC or selling.
So there's that way that you can message people immediately if
you don't want to make something out there in, you know, public.
So yeah, it's very easy to use. You can even.
Say, I love that you just called it an IM.
Are you still rocking AOL at your house?
I'm just curious. He is.
Derek. Derek.
DVC Derek. SO puts his away message up VRB,
Rihanna, Kurto said. Amy, we guys talk about
Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte make a thread.
I cried my eyes out, asked Paul after Queen Charlotte was over.
He just turned around and I was just.
I might have shed a couple tears with Queen Charlotte more than I
did in Bridgerton. Yeah.
And, and again, like when we get into, we're going to get into
this here in just a little bit, a little bit further.
But you're going to notice that right now there's not a lot of
categories, and it's really for you to make it what you want it
to be. And as we see discussions, maybe
focus around something, we can then kind of make a larger
category for that. Again, we didn't want to create
too many options to get started. So go back to the homepage real
quick here. Let me click on all my buttons
and take us back over to the homepage.
So first up, there's going to be some sort of announcement maybe
at the top right now. Right now, we're just welcoming
you, our founding members, to the forums.
So thank you so much for our support.
Sign up today and become a founding member and you'll
receive that permanent founding member badge that is only
available for a limited time this week, only to anyone that's
signed up. That'll be a part of your
profile forever. Once we actually get a little
bit further here, you're going to get into kind of all of the
details. So if you've signed in and
you've been active in the community, you're going to see
kind of just for you sections, areas that you might have
recently commented in and recently engaged in.
There's also some recommended forums that we have that some
conversations happening in trending and popular actually
pulls up, You know, what's received the most views in the
past 24 hours. If you want to jump in and and
have a conversation in one of those sub forums and then down
the right hand sign is any recent activity that's going on.
We have a lot of people signing on right now creating kind of
their welcome post, sharing a little bit more information
about themselves in the resources section on the
homepage. This is where you're going to
find what we call our DVC Fan Forums Field guide.
This is an amazing resource that Ben put together that walks you
through how to use this. So I think Louis Edwards, you
had mentioned a little bit earlier that Derek needed to put
together a tutorial of how to use these forums.
Well, it is already created for you, so there are 7 chapters for
you to explore, to learn about how to engage, how to
communicate within our DVC Fan forums community.
So head over under that DVC Fan field guide and then help and
feedback. We've mentioned this multiple
times. Help and feedback is where you
can come here. If you have a question, you can
submit a question as like a frequently asked question and we
will answer it and post those here within this section.
If you have feedback, you can actually share any feedback you
want for an improvement, a feature request, a bug report,
you see something that just doesn't seem to be working
properly or other any of that kind of fun stuff.
We want you to come here often. We want you to give us as much
feedback as possible because again, this forum is designed to
be what you want it to be and we want to learn from how you're
engaging in it and then make it better based off of all of those
interactions. Then down below the last part of
the homepage here you're going to see.
Your motley crew this this wonderful group of people.
If you want to see our most recent videos, you've got all of
those here across their latest. Video.
Oh, that one looks good. This, yeah, this one, this one
on the far right with Jeff Garrick Share and a milkshake.
If you've not watched that video, you definitely want to
check that it is. It is probably the best piece of
art that has been created on the Internet a long time, second
only to when you guys did the coke you tried you tried the
Coke store and then Jeff decided to make some weird picture of
like the shining of Amy and I on a bike riding down a hallway
that was also. Oh my gosh, The best part of
that is when you texted me and said it was that AI or did we
really ride a bike? I don't remember.
Yeah, Amy doesn't allow me on bikes that often so.
Why we're talking about creating your your profile.
I just have to tell you that my Amy just made her own profile.
She's never been on a forum in her life.
She told me today. She goes, I know I'm a moderator
and I was supposed to be helping.
I don't know what this is, but she just created her profile and
her username is the other Amy. There was so much that's so
good. There was someone actually that
joined earlier today that was comical because they came up.
Their handle was DVC Dan and when they joined Amy thought I.
Thought it was Dan. Was our good friend Dan Lajoie.
It was our Dan, yeah. It was actually a different Dan
and so now there's DVC Dan and then there's DVC space Dan.
So just if you're trying to message the the actual DVC Dan,
don't get confused between the two because.
Or yeah, because the other DVC, Dan Dan might want to talk to
you. Yeah, maybe.
Maybe you'll become best friends.
It's true DVC, Dan. You never know.
And. And DVC Derek is totally taken.
Don't even try DVC. Why were we on this topic?
Just by the way, we were doing some behind the scenes testing
and so I just created my own profile and then just put like a
random introduction. I didn't know that was going to
stay and be public. So.
That's awesome. Was that your one where, like
you said, you like long walks in the rain and pina colada?
Okay, yeah, I thought. Yeah.
It was just. A test.
Everything stays on the Internet forever.
I mean, your name is for goodness sakes, yeah.
The last the last section down here at the bottom is the latest
news. So this is going to pull in
latest DVC fan articles or other articles across their key holder
vacations brand. So if you just want to stay in
the know and the cool thing about all of these is that you
can actually click into one of them and start a conversation
about that specific thing. So if you actually, you know, I
encourage you right now to head over and you know, click on the
the video of Jeff and Derek having the milkshake and then
comment, you know, your random thoughts down down below and,
and just start a conversation within the forums about that
specific video or that specific news article or any of that kind
of stuff. Also, you're getting started
down the right hand side. This is where you're going to
find all of those sub forums, all of those different places
where you can have an engage in conversation.
A lot of people today have been engaging in the welcome
Introduce yourself forum. People have been just putting
in, you know, posts about themselves.
This is where if you want to read Jeff's random introduction
post that he's embarrassed now is is living on on the Internet
forever. You can actually go on and read
that. Do you want to read it live,
Jeff? Or oh, sure.
Yeah, where is it? It's got to be like one of the.
First it was it said testing I think.
Testing. We should have should have
known. We should have removed.
Just a little test. Just a little test. 90. 2 views.
92 views. It's getting some.
It's going to be on trending and popular pretty soon.
Jeff, My name is Jeff. I like books by the fire, long
walks on the beach and stuff. And then this.
What the lovely Yam Kriegs wrote.
Stuff is a very broad category. I do want to address a question.
Oh my gosh, Rob. Rob Rambles.
Do you have to be a DVC member to join?
I'm still debating on whether this is for me.
Absolutely not. You do not have to be a DVDVC
member. Well, I cannot talk today.
There are a lot of just Disney lovers, resort lovers in our DVC
fan Facebook group that are learning more about Disney,
learning more about the resorts. Same here.
You do not have to be a member. Join us.
You may become a member someday. We can't.
You know, we, we, we do not take responsibility for contract
purchase after joining. But you do not have to be a
member. We'd love to have everybody.
Yep. Again, down the right hand side
is where you're going to find all of these sub forums.
And if you're in a sub forum and the topics not there that you
want to discuss, you can create your own conversation to do so.
You can just head into. So if you do want to create an
intro post or introduce yourself here within the introduce
yourself section, just don't go to that button that says new
thread. And then you can put a thread
title like happy to be here, whatever, whatever floats your
boat as that thread title, whatever that title of your of
your sub threads going to be. And then you put in the content
of that introduce yourself. Share a little bit about what
brought you here and why you decided to be a part of our DVC
fan forms community. We have a Disney Vacation Club
space where there's a buying and selling general DVC questions,
member extras and events like Moonlight Magics coming up next
week. Hollywood Studios and I believe
Ryan, one of our moderators, actually created on Moonlight
Magic at Hollywood Studios thread where we've got some
people already talking about what they plan to do when they
go to Moonlight Magic next week. Buying and selling.
If you have questions about buying or selling a Disney
Vacation Club contract, get in here.
Ask your questions. If there's not a forum that's
already created about what you want to talk about, go ahead and
create one yourself. Again, create that.
Click that new thread button and create that conversation.
The DVC ownership approach is one that's gotten a lot of
attention early on in the past week since we went live with our
Patreon preview last week. A lot of people kind of engaging
in that. My personal favorite is the
Roofer Report. Now, currently this is the first
week, but we actually are going to make this a monthly recurring
thread. So this will probably change its
name to Roofer Report April 2026.
But the weird thing about this is, as much as we've created and
and invited you to, you know, create your profiles, something
went weird on the back end. And there are things creating
profiles automatically. I guess.
So the roofer monster actually chimed in at the end of last
week and shared with us a quick bite. 3 contracts caught my
fancy. Disney thanks me.
Two Grand Floridian contracts with an average price of 156 and
an old Key West contract at 78. So yeah, it has a mind of its
own now and it weekly posts how many contracts it ate.
That's Derek. That's fun, right?
I mean, that's exactly. What I hope for.
Yeah, it's like, what is his picture?
Can you can you blow up his picture so I can see what he
recognize it? No.
Recognize that. And if you didn't head back to
around the holiday season when Derek wrote read, read to us,
what was it called? Like the Roefer monster that
stole. Christmas.
Contracts or something, I think it yes, yes, it was something
like that. We're not very loud, like they
can't hear us. Oh.
I'm sorry, yeah, we are not in our normal setup tonight.
I will try to talk more towards the microphone over here, but
doing the best we can because we wanted to be able to do a screen
share and all that kind of fun stuff.
So I will try to talk a little bit louder and I will.
I do want to say, Lisa, Reckmeyer said.
I'm watching this on my phone so I can't scan the QR code at the
same time. Lisaforums.dvcfan.com So you can
just type that in if you are not able to scan the QR code and
that'll take you right there turn.
Us off. You don't need to watch us.
We're just going to ramble here for the next.
Do you know the answer to the one a rate above that from
Rebecca? My Patreon is under an old
e-mail. Is there a way to link my
Patreon even though the emails don't match Rebecca, we probably
can do that. Head to that help or feedback
section as we mentioned earlier. So help or feedback put in that
information. I would just call it other and
then put in that information right there that goes to the
amazing Ben who will be able to figure this out and probably be
able to link that somehow on the back end and get you all set up.
So definitely just reach out. We had an issue earlier this
morning with someone with a password and Ben had that fixed
within. Two, yeah, he he personally for,
for the guy who single handedly built the forums, he personally
reached out to that person on Facebook and fixed their issue.
So he is amazing. He he I call him the wizard.
And sometimes when he's still working and messaging us on
Saturday, I'm like, shouldn't you be playing Quidditch or
something? He does kind of look like Harry
Potter, I'm not going to lie. Also in that buying or selling,
what I thought was great is that, you know, we had some
people chime in right away when the Roefer monster posted what
contracts he ate last week. And then Derek actually, oh,
here's that picture of Derek of you from from the holiday.
But then Derek a little while ago decided to throw 1 back at
the Roefer monster and chime in. And he said, sigh, Roefer
monster, knock it off. Stop trying to scare all these
folks that just joined the forums with your 03 contracts.
Caught my fancy. Three.
That was it, bro. Derek, I want to come back to
the fact that you used the word bro in a sentence because that
was amazing. But Derek then shared all the
names of people that passed Roefer over the course of the
past week. So I expect more of this back
and forth between Derek and the Roefer monster within the forums
and and that should be pretty, pretty cool.
Don't don't worry, Jeff. Jeff, I'm not going to start
doing Disney videos with the Roefer monster.
You're still my favorite. I would be, I would be so sad.
I also want to go back Ben is watching and yes, that's a
picture of his cat and and I'm on meetings constantly with Ben
and the cat takes over the meeting and he'll like he'll
actually like end the meeting for Ben or he'll type gibberish
on the computer. Is that Buckeye or Buckeye?
Also is there another? There's 2 cats.
Oh, I thought he just had. One no, I read it on his profile
earlier. Oh OK.
Or his I don't know what the one on Key Holder's website OOSO or
something is the other one oso? Anyhow, answering that Patreon
question earlier, there should be a there should be in your
account settings. You can link your Patreon
account that way, which will link then to your account in the
forums. So try that.
And if that doesn't work, tell Ben that he lied in the feedback
section and then he'll figure it out.
So but. Yeah, Aaron Face said There
should be a bro bro, I can't even say it, bro BRH badge.
Are these words that you hear from your kids, Derek, and then
you just try to inject them and. Well, I I got to tell you,
that's a pretty monumental day. To have me be able to sign in
and participate in an online experiment like these forums and
also use the word bra successfully is a very, very big
day. He did use it correctly.
He. Didn't.
Yeah, he used it wonderfully. If you're just joining us,
please, I know I sound like a broken record, but head to the
QR code or go to forums.dvcfan.com.
Sign up now. As I told Jeff at the top of
this show, we're we're not allowed to end this live stream
and get to 1000 people and. 643 right now. 643 we're almost to
dinner. Time closer than almost halfway.
I mean over halfway we're getting closer than I thought we
would to that goal. So.
But yeah, if you're watching this.
I have 63. We do not feel bad.
We do not feel bad if you turn us off to head over to the
forums. We'd prefer it at this point
because we're just rambling, you know, Derek's going to read us a
bedtime story in about 20 minutes, so.
When he said he was working tonight and was going to call
in, I fully expected him to be like at a brewery somewhere
working. OK.
Can Derek, can you, can you tell us about the photo that is
behind you? Because I think that you're
sitting working in your dining room, right?
Yes, and so there's pictures. Right.
Yes. So this picture is one that we
got a couple of years ago. I got it for Annie.
I think it was either for her birthday or Christmas or
Mother's Day. I can't remember what we did it
from, but it came from a picture that we took when we bought this
house, which there's a very famous lake that's just about a
block or two down the road called Lake Butler.
And when we first moved into this house, the kids happened to
be sitting on the edge of the lake.
And this is, you know, it was quite a while ago.
And I, I happen to take just a regular picture of them.
And then I found a place years ago that was able to take
regular photos and they could turn them into paintings and
whatnot. And so they took that picture of
my kids, which this was obviously a long time ago
because now they're 21 and 17 years old right there.
But that is from the lake that's two blocks down from our house.
And it's in my, in my dining room, which is where I prefer to
work and make phone calls if I can.
So yes, thank you. I wanted to thank you, Derek,
and I love that I every time I see that photo, I love it.
Oh, where did it go? R Baz more.
Is there a Royal Caribbean space?
So we we do plan to expand as we go along and in what you want.
I did start a Royal Caribbean conversation, I think in
general. Yep, if you had to
Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous and then.
You had to general discussion. But I do think that we're going
to there, there's definitely 2 categories that I want to add
soon. One it's going to be dining
because we've definitely started some dining conversations.
And then the other one is going to be cruising because I do
think that that's relevant. There's it's under trips, OK.
That's where you're. Wrote That's where it is.
OK, got it. See, we had to learn.
We have to learn. We have to learn how to navigate
our own forums live, live on air.
So we forget where we put something and again we have
limited the categories right now because.
Do we just don't want it to be too overwhelming to start as you
get used to it as we want to branch off, make that
suggestion. We can definitely do that.
For now, you can put it in miscellaneous, but yeah, I also
started a Run Disney discussion as well.
There's a lot of Run Disney people in the community that's
in miscellaneous Run Disney events.
Actually, there's a category there.
So if you head over, I need some dopey advice, please, if you
have any. But so yeah, the.
The advice from this from from this group of people on this
call is why, why did you sign up for Dopey Nah.
I bet there's a lot of dopey runners in here right now.
So again, all of these sections are where those conversations
are going to be guided, but then where you take those
conversations is completely up to you.
Like under Walt Disney World and theme parks, you know, annual
passes or no is is a conversation that Blake created.
We shared the news of Rock and Roller Coaster earlier today and
kind of wanted to start a conversation about that.
And there's been some replies to whether or not you're excited
about Rock and Roller Coaster. And again, if you don't see that
conversation here, then go ahead and create that new thread.
Also, if multiple threads start talking about the same
conversation, we do as moderators on the back end have
the ability to kind of merge those conversations together and
we will probably do so just to streamline that conversation.
Because you got like 5 people talking about, you know, rock
and roller coaster over here. You got 5 talking.
About it over here bring you together.
Let's bring those 10 people together and then you can have a
better conversation with each other.
So we do have the ability to do that on the back end.
So if you see any needs to merge things, again, share that
feedback, all that kind of fun stuff and we'll get it done as
we kind of grow and develop these a little bit further.
I did want Paul. Yep, go ahead.
Where was that one favorite question of mine today that
asked which resort do I need to stay at just in case the Mcrib
comes back it? Wasn't miscellaneous.
It sounds miscellaneous. I had to, I had to explain to
the group they were like, I, I need some more context here.
And I said, listen, my brother treats the MC rib coming back
like a national holiday. Like it is a thing to people who
enjoy the MC Rib. I personally not had McDonald's
for a while but. And every time it comes back,
they're like this is the last time.
Kind of like how Cher has had like 5 farewell tours but.
This is this is Ben's probably screaming from his computer
right now. Paul used the search because I
feel like this is an opportunity.
To. Yeah, to.
Highlight our our search. Thank you for that.
And I know some of you have said Ben Ben Ben should have joined
the live stream. We did extend that offer to him,
but he really just wanted to stay behind the scenes working
on making this better. So we will definitely have Ben
on a future show. He was on I believe, Derek the
World DVC show. He was, yes.
Yes, he was. He was.
And which is really funny because Ben has built this
tremendous platform and I know him trying to search up the word
MC Rib was not on his bingo card at all.
So let's go. Is it one word?
MC? Oh, it's already.
Up there you. Go I just typed in MCR and then
the. 1st it's in general because he wanted to know the resort
they would be closest to him getting from the McDonald's.
Yes, on property. But yeah, blow this thread up
because this is the one that we're here for.
And I would, I would be lying to say if we didn't, we actually
went to this McDonald's once. It's a great McDonald's.
It's not the large, what is it? The largest McDonald's in the
world is on iDrive. That's on iDrive.
That would be correct, Yep. And Jeff has an older video up
on DVC Fan of exploring the largest McDonald's in the world.
But Derek, have you ever had a Mcrib or Derek's busy at the
moment, But you know, we'll chime back in a little bit later
to see if he's, I think he's ordering a Mcrib right now.
They don't off, they don't have them.
This is just on the chance that it would come back.
Oh, it's not out. Yet no, he's hoping it comes
back during his DVC stay so he wants the resort that's closest
to the McDonald's so he can get to.
Make a lot more sense now. Yeah, OK, see this is you need
to pay attention. Well, not everything.
Except that's my brother says. Not at all.
Under theme parks we have Walt Disney World, Disneyland Resort,
Universal Parks, even international parks.
If you want to talk about international resorts like
Disneyland Paris and the new frozen land that they just
launched over at Disney Adventure Park, all that kind of
fun stuff. Under resorts, we've got Walt
Disney World resorts, we've got Disneyland resorts.
One of Derek's other favorite threads right now under here is
the Bay Lake Tower Owners thread, because this is where
Derek will be spending most of his time I'm pretty sure.
I will, I will and, and I, I will be telling people how happy
I am that they love Bay Lake Tower.
That is what I'll be doing in that group, and I already have
because I'm obsessed with reading people's comments and
hearting and liking them. Yeah.
Obsessed is. That's a fast and loose term.
Every video that we post, Derek is constantly firing screenshots
of the comments. So make sure that you comment
because it just makes his whole life.
Yes, as a matter of fact, I love sharing the comment from what
was it? It was a video.
I don't know what video was on it, but it just popped up today
and it said that they they thought they saw Jeff outside of
Ratatouille in the rain and they went up and said, hi, is your
name Jeff? And they were like, no, why?
And they're like, oh, you look like someone I watch on YouTube.
But then after they walked away, they thought it was George
Clooney, right? Is that what they?
Said George Clooney. Yeah.
Although I didn't know that he would be out in the rain.
I don't know. He would have.
I have been mistaken for Brendan Fraser a couple times but never
take George Clooney and I will take that every single day.
It was so funny. Oh great.
I don't want to bore everyone with going through every sort of
sub form here. So the last thing I really want
to highlight again is we do have some special things that we are
giving to our DVC fan Patreon community.
Lowest tier I think is like $5 a month and we greatly appreciate
all the support there. It allows us to be creative and
do all these wild crazy things and send, you know, Jeff and
Derek to get milkshakes together, all that kind of fun
stuff. So thank you to all of our
patreonsupporterspatreon.com/DVC fan within the forums.
Those of you that are Patreon supporters will have access to
our Supporter Lounge. A couple of things that I
mentioned earlier in the member lounge.
This is where some individualized conversations are
happening with our Patreon supporters.
We're giving them the the opportunity to ask us anything
within the forums and we will answer those questions.
Hey, I can see the I can see the forums on.
That we're giving them the opportunity to help us with
future video ideas and stuff. One that came in here earlier,
actually someone, it was Lauren put in the idea that we should
do a video where people do monorail crawls all the time,
bar crawls, talking about like monorail, alcoholic drinks and
doing a monorail and. Mocktails.
But Lauren said, yeah, you should do a mocktail and snack
crawl. And I said that you and Lauren
should go, dude. We should do.
It and make it. Mocktails and snacks on the
monorail we could go. We could go to each one and pick
a snack and each have a mocktail.
Yep, love it. So that is a part of the
Supporter Lounge, but really cool.
And again, love the name here. We've got stats for nerds.
So two different elements here. First, we have our live roofer
report. This is showing you live
activity related to Kurt Broker's stats for this year.
Derek, I think, just saw this for the first time and the
colors bloom away. He's like, holy moly.
You can actually filter by resort.
You can save different views if there's a certain different way
that you actually want to look at this data.
And like you're moving around and seeing each day.
You're seeing every single week, so it's.
By week, OK, by week. Throughout the year so far.
But can you we change it to daily?
What happens if we change the daily?
Daily and it kind of changes how the lines look a little bit or
we can go back to monthly and it shows us those trends a little
bit more. And then down below you're going
to see how many contracts were taken and the average cost of
those contracts and how long they actually sat before they
were Rowford. And then down below here is the
details of every single one of those contracts, how many points
were on that contract, how much per point that would be and how
many days it sat in Roefer. So all of that kind of fun
stuff. And then we're also giving you
the opportunity to contribute to this report.
If you did buy a contract that was not through the DVC resale
market and you wanna add that data to our Roefer data, you can
actually submit your contract information right here.
Give us that information and we will put that into our Roefer
stats to give us a little bit more of a more well-rounded
broader picture of what Roefer looks like throughout the entire
community. Same thing goes for average
resale prices. This graph is the same kind of
look and again we can look back a year, we can look back on
these. These lines are getting a little
intense at this point. You can look back 180 days, you
can look back 90 days, 30 days, or you can even customize the
view. And then also you can kind of
say I only care about points contracts that were 101 to 75
points or 100 points to 125 points, whatever that specific
number of point range this was. So this is these are those
details that again, people nerd out over someone in the comments
did recently did did recently say are there stats for non
nerds? What would that look like?
You know, if you have an idea, add it to the feedback section.
We'll create it, I'm sure. But all of this information
exists here currently within. The But if you don't want to
look at, look at a graph. Also, the Roefer monster post
every Saturday has just a brief overview of here's what what we
took. Here's you know what I mean.
So that's a little bit more less nerdy.
Yeah. And so, yeah, all of this kind
of stuff lives in the supporter lounge right now.
And you know, we're still tweaking things and it could be
something that we do make global at some point in the future.
So again, obviously want to share some of these early
features with our Patreon community, get their feedback
first before we potentially expand the reach of all of that.
But super cool what he's done. These are going to make the
roofer blog super easy to write in the future.
Derek's not going to talk to me as much, unfortunately, because
he asked me questions about what's happening in Roefer or
what's happening in average price.
And now he has this. So I'm, I'm like obsolete to
you, Derek now. Like you don't even need me
anymore. Does that mean one less group
chat though? No, definitely no to definitely
no to that question. The last thing I want to point
out here before we answer any questions that we have and kind
of start to wrap things up is that as Amy mentioned, we do
have our our travel journal section, which this was kind of
something that was inspired by a lot of thoughts that we've had,
inspired by conversations that we had.
I was talking to Nick, our CEO, just the other day and I said
it's funny that we sat in a room with some individuals going on
four years ago or so and we we dreamed up kind of some of these
concepts and, and they're becoming a reality now.
So this travel journal is really inspired partially by that,
partially inspired by this giant map that Amy has.
Which, which I like, we have plans.
I want to add that I want like your own push pin map because
that is one of my favorite things that I own in this house.
Paul and I sometimes. Do you ever talk about like, if
something happened and you had to leave your house right away,
what would you take? And it was always like, OK, you
could like two things. It's like, OK, the dogs and my
my map. Those are the things I'm taking,
but yes, I want to incorporate that like where you can have
your own map and you can put little pins in like here's where
I've been because DVC members love the travel, you know what I
mean? And and going to Disney inspires
you to see the world and what Disney gains its influence from
so. And also on our coffee table
downstairs, we have a book and it is literally a travel journal
where Amy has put little pictures in and written out some
descriptions of our trips and everything in that journal.
And we know a lot of other people do that also.
So this is a place to do that digitally.
And I think what's great is that you can do that and you can
share it and have people chime in.
So if you love sharing your trips, sharing your thoughts of
everything related to your trip, you can put all of that
information. And you have the option for it
to be public or not. So if you just want it for you,
you don't have to toggle that make public.
If you want it to be on your profile invisible to everybody,
then you can make it public so you have that option.
Yep. And then the last thing I wanted
to point out is we do have a DVC price comparison tool where you
can actually compare direct and resale prices currently and also
view current contracts. I think I don't know if that
that feature is live yet, but we do have a feature up and running
where you can actually view current contracts with the DVC
resale market at at a later. I don't know if that's up and
running yet, but we do plan to have that functionality
available to you. But I think what's cool here is
that not only are we looking at resale pricing and direct
pricing, but we also were able to pull in some of that data
related to the current incentives being offered for
direct contracts. And this information is being
updated by that. So this is a really cool tool if
you are looking to compare different types of contracts,
different options and you are in kind of that buying or selling
mindset right now. This is going to give you a lot
of that information and a lot of that data.
So at your fingertips, and again let us know, is it good?
Is it bad? Should we change something?
Tell us what you want. Put that information in the
feedback. We've been in dark mode tonight.
I like dark mode. I did want to mention.
My whole life is dark mode, Facebook, everything there's.
A little button here where it's a sun.
Yeah, now that that burns my eyeballs.
Yeah, so. You can click on the moon and
it'll take it to dark mode. Keep it on.
All the way. Burn burn your eyeballs.
That might be my favorite feature and I meant to mention
it. No.
That's awesome. No, I can't see any of that when
it's in dark mode. I need as bright.
As yes, I need the light mode, yes that's bright as possible.
Wow my Facebook is dark mode, my Instagram is dark mode.
Like anything, Oh my my, like messages, my iMessage all dark.
Like I do the dark, all dark. Oh my God.
Yeah, I for me, I can. See, I have a question.
Paul. Paul So on here, when I look
around and I mention it, 'cause I saw a section over there and I
think it's in the the theme park section.
Oh no, it's under trips and there's a section in there that
says trip reports. Could you describe maybe what
your thoughts or goals are on that?
Because me being an old man IA, lot of my Disney history was
built on reading other people's trip reports.
And I know there's folks out there that absolutely love trip
reports. And because that's what we had
before there was any vloggers, before there was anything like
that. If you weren't at Disney, the
only way you're going is if you print out, you know, a 30 page
trip report from somebody you never met.
But you could live through their trip day by day.
Is that what that section like? Is that our kind of goal for
that? That's awesome.
Exactly. Yep, that's great.
And so this is going to be where you can share that information
for those trip reports and then Ben can correct me if I'm wrong
or we'll make this functionality in the future.
I do believe if you do make that travel journal, if you do create
a travel journal and then make it public, I believe what that's
where that information is funneling.
Have you done a live travel journal yet?
Yes, I do. So it's in my, it's on my
profile, but I think. Did you share it?
Yes, go to my profile. But yeah, but we we can also
like we can actually house that in another spot too.
If you market public, we can we can ask Ben to do that Yam
kriegs. OK, I don't.
Know how to find you easily. That's all right.
Just just go to Animal Kingdom owner's thread.
I I started it. OK.
You're just there. Welcome welcome to Paul live
clicking through this like not knowing what he's doing we're.
Still learning? Animal Kingdom owner's good yam
kriegs. And CCA lives on my profile but
also I that we can we can put them in other places too so.
Yeah, so we make cross post like if you create a travel journal
like Amy did here for a first Animal Kingdom club level stay.
I think right now the Travel Journal is just in beta for
Patreon, so if you go to the Supporter Lounge, it might be in
there. It's in mind.
So yeah, so it must be. It must just be on my profile
for now. So probably answer your
question, Derek, Yes, long winded answer to yes.
We want those trip reports to live there.
We wanna live vicariously through who who's traveling to
Disney right now so that we can explore and.
But yeah, I think we'll add a trip report section where if you
you do a travel journal economically.
Ben said it can be done. It's probably done already.
Anytime we ask Ben for anything, he just he just gives us that
GIF that's like consider it done and then it happens.
So he's pretty cool. So want to give a pause, Have
any of you that are listening to this and have stayed with us for
the past hour and 15 minutes, another 10 or 15 minutes to ask
us any questions that you might have about the forums.
I did see someone ask us a question and I'm I'm not going
to scroll back up to find it, but there was a question related
to the average resale price data that we currently have in here.
This is currently just being aggregated based off of sales
within the DVC resale market. We may expand that functionality
again in the future, similar to how we have it set up on roofer
so that we can. Yeah.
So those are closed sold sales. So that's the price it's sold
for, Yeah. But right now it's specific to
the DVC resale market. But again, we may open that up
where you could submit a contract that potentially you've
purchased with a different resale company and we can track
some of that data also. So again, some of these things,
again, it's why it's why it lives in the supporter lounge
right now is because kind of beta test mode and we're kind of
just getting our feet wet with what works, what doesn't, what.
Yeah, and somebody else had asked about and now I lost it,
but they were asking about something.
But give us feedback, you know, click that feedback tool.
Let us know if you know, you want to see, you know, the
information aggregated in a different way for you to
consume. If the graph isn't your thing,
what's what's below the graph down there again, just show me.
Oh, OK, this. Yeah, We compare weekly market
average prices against the average price of contracts
Disney took, so. And then if you go down further,
you've got numbers, you've got. Here all of the specific
contracts for each resort that have been taken, the average
price per point, the number that have been taken by Roefer, so
all of that kind. Of But yeah, give us, give us
your feedback. Let us know, you know, and we
can do that. The cat was Buckeye.
We can make up a lot of things happen.
We've got, we've got the wizard. Yeah, yeah.
And also this was kind of going back to our to our comment.
I appreciate the transparency of including other brokers again,
like we want this to be a a forum where you converse openly.
Again, this is brought to you by Key Holder vacations and you
know our series of brands, resale market, rental store,
Monera, all of those brands. And we do think you'll find your
way back to us eventually in some capacity.
And you can send Adm to DVC Derek whenever you're ready and
he'll be there waiting. Oh, I didn't, I didn't highlight
DMS at all. Which, which the ability to do
that actually exists. The problem is that it's going
to pop up. Can I move us?
Oh, look at us. We're moving across the screen.
Look at that. Go.
We're in the other corner now. So up in the upper corner here,
you do have that little messenger button.
And if you click on the messenger button, you're going
to have the opportunity to have messages, direct messages
between you and another individual.
So like right now, Ben Dev four O 4, that is Ben.
So him and I have sent messages back and forth.
And of course the lovely DVC Derek.
But you can have a message with anyone that you want to chat
with. Yeah, I've already gotten
someone asked. Someone sent me a, someone sent
me a message today. It's like my first day as a
person learning to talk. Someone sent me a message today
and asked the exact same question.
That's up there, but a little bit different.
They asked if we would do an Oktoberfest again, 'cause they
said they had. They love the Oktoberfest.
That question is after the cruise, which is the next BBC
fan event, which we are. We are.
We have our sights set on a winter fest sometime after the
cruise, so that's what we're considering.
No official announcements yet. We will actually probably be
announcing our next plans for our in person events on on the
Key Holder cruise in July. So those of you that are joining
us for the cruise, you will be the first to let us know you
will, you'll be the first to know the future events that we
have planned for this this amazing community.
But Amy did tease, we are thinking about a 2027 winter
fest. We are thinking a little bit
maybe about a spring Fest in 2027.
And yes. Yeah, Ben does not sleep.
We're convinced that he does not sleep.
He said sleep was for the week when I asked him a couple days
ago. I need a full 8 hours because
I'm old. OK so I do want to address.
Can you go back really quickly? We've had a couple people asking
about signing in. They already have an account.
I believe that if you're struggling to find your account
that you can do the forgot password correct and that should
help let. Me, go ahead and sign out right
now. Yeah.
So this is for Beto dot Canada and Mr. Thermo Bob, who both
kind of asked around the same thing.
So we're just going to go here. And then again, up in the upper,
upper corner, you have the option to sign in or you have
the option for one key. These both do the same thing.
So you can say continue with one key.
Again, one key is kind of our branded single sign on.
And if you do have an issue, you can always click on that, forget
your password. So if you do have an account, as
I mentioned before with either, I believe it's the DVC.
The DVC resale market app or if you're in the key holder club
loyalty program, if you have accounts with either of those,
then you're already going to have an account here.
You just potentially if you've had an issue, maybe you need to
reset that password or something.
Sorry, do that. Did Ben just add a number?
Someone asked. Ryan asked.
Did Ben just add a number of members widget to the front page
of the forums while the live stream was going on?
Yes he did. I saw that as.
Ben, my dude, that is awesome. I cannot believe how fast that
happened. That is.
He can do anything. He can seriously do anything.
Maccabi O3 asked how Panda was doing.
He's doing great. He actually asked me to go to
Sprouts, which is our new grocery store.
They have not checked that out, so I might head there with him
sometime. He said that there's a lot of
sandwiches, so that's all I know.
He said you'd want. We got a lot of all sandwiches.
We scrolled past a really important comment that I feel
like needs to be talked about. I think it was at the Plimptons
when you guys were talking about dark mode versus light mode.
She said or he. They said, I thought you guys
said dork mode and I was here for it.
Listen, if Derek and I are involved, you're already
watching dark mode, so. Dork mode?
Yep, this whole forum is dork mode.
Welcome, you are amongst friends here.
And hey, hey, for anyone out there that's already obsessed
with Ben like we are, I had mentioned he was on a previous
World of DVC show, which you can find on YouTube.
And all you have to do is type in Growing Up with Disney
Vacation Club Part 2, the World of DVC show.
And there you could see Ben in all of his glory, hear about
Ben's story, his back story, and realize how lucky we are to have
him. So yes, check it out.
Derek, that sounds like a great sub forum that you should post
about. Well, the the world of DVC
shows. Growing up like DVC.
Like highlight, want to want to know more about?
Ben, there we go. And.
The person went to the show. That would be a great because
like, the audience tonight is loving Ben.
There's been a call. For someone said Ben needs a.
Raise someone asked if he sleeps.
The answer to that question is no.
Are we running a Run Disney Wit race this weekend?
Yes, multiple of us are running WIT races.
I think Ben's. I think Ben's here, he flies
down tomorrow. Ben is running the Five Ki
Believe with his family. Yeah.
We are running the 10K. 10K because we.
I want the Wayne de Poo medal. I'm so excited.
I love it. I even got myself a Wayne de Poo
tank top. Yeah, Ben is also running his
first Dopey when we run our first Dopey in January.
Ben and I have a pact where if we see the other person on on
the ground halfway through Dopey, we have to pick them up
and pick back them the rest of the way.
So not only do we have to train for running, but we have to
train train for like weighted carries also so that we can vote
both make it through this. Derek and I will not be running.
Ben needs a fans thread. I mean, go, go create a Ben fans
thread. I mean to make it make it
whatever you want. And I think that's the the key
take away here with the forums launch is again, make this what
you want. It is your community.
We are Ben is gifting it to you as he as he dreams it up and as
we give him other ideas. Oh my goodness.
Dave Ben Dad Hilger is in the live chat.
That's his dad. Everybody say hi to Ben's dad in
the live chat because. He's doing the 5K with him.
And he's running the 5K with him so.
Good luck this weekend, it'll be a lot of fun.
Yeah, and, and Dad, have you signed up for the BBC fan forums
yet? We just, we, we need to ask that
question. And I and that has to be your
name as well sign. Up and that has to be your name
and and just present yourself as absolutely.
All we know is the next the next DVC Fan Fest event has to
include Ben or no one's going to.
Agree yeah, Ben actually was featured.
He's been featured in two videos on DVC Fan partially so he was
briefly on our Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party video.
Oh yeah, there's a brief moment in our second Massa Nut video
where he's running away from the camera that I.
Had that was like my favorite the whole video.
So that was a great moment. And then did we?
Ever post? What was it?
We you. No, we have not.
Oh. OK.
But we did a dining review with Ben.
And he was awesome. I will, I will try to make, I
will try to make that the video that goes up this week.
That needs to go up this week. But we did a dining review with
Ben at Tony's Town Square. And yeah.
And also, in case anyone was wondering, Ben's dad did create
an account on the forum. Thank you.
But thank you, Dave. Thank you for that.
Is it Hilker? Conversation Also, someone said
next event pool party at Derek's house.
We've been promised a pool party at Derek's house two years.
That's a sore subject. Derek just had to have a crack
in his pool fix. He is not a happy camper.
New soon. The pool was fixed last week.
It had a crack. It was draining water.
I was sending them pictures of said crack and it has been
repaired. We've filled it up, so hopefully
it will be ready to go soon, I promise.
Derrick sends us a lot of crack pictures and we never know where
they're going to show up. And now we have now we have DMS
within the the DVC fan forum. So we're going to have like a
Ben. Can we do group chats?
Are there group chats available yet?
There will be in 5 minutes. Don't worry about it.
Anyhow, we are going to kind of start wrapping us up here for
the evening. Again, if you continue to have
questions about the forums, please go ahead and put them in
the comments of this video. Head to that feedback section,
ask those questions or just start a sub forum and ask your
question and we will answer it for you.
We are all in there and anxiously awaiting having
amazing conversations with you all.
And yeah, any any other final takeaways from any of you?
But no, I'm just. I'm just laughing at the
comments. They're making me laugh.
You guys are you? We.
Derek says this all the time. But we have the best community.
You guys are so funny. Oh, my goodness.
It's all the time. I get to laugh all the time when
I read your stuff. Yeah.
If you've not good, Dick. Oh, no, no, yeah.
I was just going to say something that our CEO Nick said
on a company call we had last week when he was talking about
these forums. And it's so true, especially for
all the folks out there that might have been involved in
previous versions of different fan forums or whatnot.
He was like, looking at how this looks, right, with the no ads
and the sleekness and the ease of use in it.
It's like, you know, trying to compare watching something on
like an old like grainy VH, just tape and what not compared with
like a state-of-the-art digital movie.
Like you can't even compare it that it's still at its heart,
it's still the same amazing content, which again, the
content is only there because of every single one of you.
So give us that content. But it's the same content and
just such an easy to use, simple, sleek formula.
And my God, there's no ads. I can't tell you how nice it is
to go to a forum and all of a sudden instead and you're moving
your mouse around and you don't wind up on a Toyota Rav 430
second ad that that you didn't plan on having to watch.
So this is everything you want an easy to find place, great
sections. And I've even had a few people
even maybe mentioned like, Oh my God, it's so overwhelming.
There's so much, you know, stuff on here.
That's what I love about it. Don't feel like you might have
sections of this that you'll never go to right?
And that's OK. But there's going to be some
sections where it's going to be like your morning routine,
right? You're going to get your coffee,
sign into your computer, open up this section, interact with this
member or that member. So I'm just super, super excited
about it and can't thank Nick and can't thank Ben and Paul and
Amy and everything for, for bringing this to life.
So it's it's very, very exciting for this old man.
We're at 699. No, please get to 700 before we
send off. We need one more.
One more of you people that have just been watching us for the
past. The past all things a little.
But yeah, I haven't reset that. I also there's been so many
pleas for Ben to be on the show that I did finally send him the
calling link and so now even even his dad is trying to peer
pressure him into joining the show just. 5 seconds, Ben, give
us 5 seconds. Like the best sign off ever is
if if if Ben just joined us live for like 5 seconds.
Yeah. While we're trying to pressure
Ben into that, we'll read a couple of comments.
Before you read comments again, forums.dvcfan.com QR code in the
lower corner and thank you to the.
I feel like I need to refresh. Thank you to the. 699 Six. 199
of you we. Need that one.
Really, just really putting us on the. 700. 700.
There we go. Refresh it again.
I. Think I think the comment of the
night here that that I can see it goes to Dush and Bill BIJA
says quote what do you do on the live stream question mark
answers hung out with Ben's dad and talked about Derek's crack
usual. The usual.
I What else would you expect from this crew of people?
And and now we're down to 500. Oh my goodness.
Well, I'm not sure that Ben's gonna join us, but we will have
him on soon. We'll get him.
We'll get him on. We will make sure then that that
late that I was gonna say late in the Tramp.
But that's the theme of the restaurant.
That tiny town square. We're putting it up.
It's going out. You're going out Friday this
evening. Excellent.
But yeah, thank you all for joining us tonight, Derek.
Thanks for taking some precious time out of your busy work day.
Wait, my wait. I just heard Ben is joining us.
It just starts to ring. Wait.
Oh, now we're gone. We're.
Gone. It's OK.
You don't need us. I don't need us.
Technology. Oh God.
Jeff, I wasn't prepared for four guests tonight, so I have to
pull up this. This isn't even the same
backdrop that we were using earlier, and now we just have
this blank one. But let's see guest 3 and there
is the man of the hour. There he is, there he.
Is guys, when I say that Ben single handedly built this whole
site I am not even joking. We all we did was tell him what
we wanted and we just kept telling him stuff and he was
just like OK, done, done. Ben, the primary question I have
right now is just was your dad screaming at you from a
different room or did he call you and say like, get on the
live stream? Like how did this all?
I remember watching it together and not even my dad, like my
whole family was like, you got to call in and then my dad, I'm
calling. So yeah.
And then he sent the text on the chat.
So now I came downstairs and now.
I love the peer pressure from your dad.
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you, Dave. Ben, I feel like I've butchered
just describing these forums tonight.
So if you could, if you could just give us like a one minute
like stump speech as to why someone wants to join what, what
would be your reasoning? I mean to be honest, like this
whole forum, the DVC forums, is like a big thank you to the
community to start with. I want to say that out loud.
Like it's been a part of my family since the beginning, like
the very beginning back, way back in the day when like Paul
and you first joined. So the work on it has been like
a true like it's been kind of a cool full circle moment,
especially now being on a live stream right now.
So that's pretty funny. But I mean, it's really, I mean,
but like, no, I just, it's just a great, it's going to be, I
really wanted to become a great place where people can connect
in a much way. Like I'm on the, I always, I'm a
lurker on the Facebook group. But one thing I've always not
been a big fan of with the Facebook group, which is like,
sometimes like goes really out of order of like I see a post
from like 3 days ago and then like, it'll be just now.
And I'm like, oh, wait, was this.
And I have to look at the date all the time.
So I'm really hoping that this becomes a place where we can
have, you know, more organized discussion and like, not even
just discussions, but like the tools.
So like the comparison tool was something that was just out of
an idea of like something like I've seen a need for like people
asking. There was someone who asked the
question about flash sale for Saratoga when I was building it
yesterday for like like buying direct Saratoga.
And then I was like, it was kind of like full circle.
Oh, we have this tool now that you can actually like I can
share the exact link that shows you exactly the comparison, 200
points with the incentives versus 200 points resale.
You can see the exact difference and like, is that difference
good for you? And like that and then the Rover
report and the resell, you know, I mean, it's, I hopefully they
make a place not just for conversation, but for like
having a great place where you can have, I know, great
conversations, great tools available so.
That's awesome. And then so full circle like he
said he came from our DVC fan community.
That's like he, I think one day you just messaged right or
emailed us or. Oh, that started that was 2022
with resale market through the support forms.
But yeah, that's when I first actually like reached out about
doing stuff and then but yeah, so, but even before then though,
I was watching the BBC fan all the way back when it first
started. So it's back when it was like
with the diss and everything but and every show around it too.
So like we're the BBC show. I've been there since day one,
since the first episode. Yeah.
So it's really, it's amazing. Yeah.
Awesome, McCabe said. It's like a young Derek having
Ben right next to Derek. I mean, if you do take the Gray
and transplant it, I can see you just need some glasses, Ben, And
you would. He's also a wizard, so don't
forget that, yeah. Well, Ben, we're gonna have to
have you back on for some more conversations here because I
feel like I feel like the community is going to mandate
this happen. So, and and and we love you.
So much, especially after they We need more.
FaceTime with you, do you. Remember, like his.
Oh his like intro or whatever. Yeah, on the when we did, Oh
yeah, we did the writing review. We just had a.
Post I had a flashback and a Oh yeah yeah, you guys said you're
gonna make to the intro too, so be ready for that whenever that
comes. It's going to be it's going to
be a good video and then the community's just going to demand
more, more Ben in your life. But Oh my.
Goodness. We can't give you too much Ben,
or else he's then going to not have time to do all these
amazing things behind the scenes too, so.
It's true you're. Going to have to clone yourself,
it's just settled. It's almost done it.
Yeah, we got a Ben is a retro Derek.
This is great. Like it's, it's like mini Derek.
Oh my goodness. And now we can't Unsee it.
That's. Correct.
Cannot Unsee it now. It's all.
Right, I'm starting to get a little jealous here.
So can. Yeah, sorry, Ben.
Well, Ben, thank you for joining us as we kind of wrap things up
here tonight. forums.dvcfan.com, join in the conversation.
If you go to dvcfan.com, there's a button for the forums on the
menu bar now too. So it's all over the place.
It's going to be in your in your face feedback is the best thing
that you can give us right now because again, this is going to
be what you want it to be. And oh, there's what cat?
What? What cat is this?
That's Buckeye, Yeah. Buckeye and the other one is
like Oso or Oso. Yeah, well, there's 4 cats down
here. So this is Grayson.
Now we're. Now we're.
Does Grayson know he shares a name with one of your cats?
Yeah, he's the one who turns off my computer mid mid meetings
and. Then he plays them.
Oh my goodness. Oh.
There's. Camera that's also right there.
Someone go in the forums in a miscellaneous channel and just
write cat fans as a sub forum right now please.
Yeah, if you my picture, my profile picture on DBC fan forms
is of that's Mango. Mango.
Yeah. That that that is where the
similarities between me and Ben and I don't know.
I don't. Have 4.
Eric is definitely a dog. First, Eric is giant dogs and
and Ben has pets. Oh, all right, ending on 7/10.
710 that's pretty good first day I'd say for DVC fan forums and
tell your friends about it share it on social media share it put
out in the world. If you have like a million
Instagram followers and somehow you stumbled upon this measly
video on YouTube and was talking about forums, like if you would
just like cross post this, that'd be amazing.
Like anything, anything any of you guys want to do to to push
this along again, it's your baby as, as Ben said, it is, you
know, a gift to the DBC fan community.
And so we're very, very excited to see where this goes next.
And Derek, Jeff, Ben, Amy, thank you guys.
We hope you enjoyed this special episode of the DVC show.
We'll be back next Monday morning or whenever you tune in
with another regular episode. And there'll be a lot more Ben
coming in your near future. So get ready for that.
Gear up. Thanks for sticking with us
tonight. Go chat in the forums.
We're going to head over there right now.
It's going to be like the after party is in the forum.
So head to the after party in the forums right now.
Now. We will see you all next Monday.