1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,040 We got a lot of questions over our most recent round of shows 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,080 about where are the dogs. Would you like to explain the 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,520 fact that the dogs are still in this room, you just can't see 4 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:11,920 them as much? I hear one licking himself at 5 00:00:11,920 --> 00:00:14,000 the moment, so I know that they're still here. 6 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:16,880 I just posted this on Patreon a couple of pic. 7 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:20,400 I took some pictures because when we had showed our new 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:22,480 office setup there was a bunch of comments. 9 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:24,280 But what about the dogs? I don't see any dope as. 10 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,560 Where is there a couch? And I love that you guys worried 11 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,159 about them. Basically we've got we've got so 12 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:35,120 many dog beds in this house. There's more dog beds than human 13 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:36,960 beds in. Yeah, if you have dogs, just 14 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:41,400 tell me like what is the ratio of dog to dog bed in your? 15 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:44,920 Home Jeff Jeff, Case in point, little buddy. 16 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:51,840 Right behind us, we we drag their living room beds into here 17 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:53,360 and because they have to be in here. 18 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,080 If not, they'll be laying on the floor and. 19 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,800 So there's one on both sides of us at the moment, and there's 20 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:01,200 one right behind us, right underneath that that that 21 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:03,240 screen. Same is true with the cats. 22 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,800 There's three cats. There's like 6 beds including 23 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:07,040 our bed. Yeah, yeah. 24 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:08,400 And then Derek, where's your dog? 25 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,880 What's its name? Snots or what's it called? 26 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,480 Woody and Luna are currently downstairs and they're in there. 27 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:18,360 Okay, I think it's time to go for a. 28 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:23,240 I can't say it too loud WALK. So once we say that so they're 29 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,040 already kind of jacked up and I hear them so they're going to go 30 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,600 out on a walk soon. But I did represent my 31 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,480 Roosevelt's dog shirt, so we didn't even plan this. 32 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,720 That's how synced up we all are. It's like when we tell Derek 33 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,880 it's time to go for an IPA. So. 34 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,000 He gets real excited. I just did the math. 35 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,760 We have three dogs and there's nine dog beds if you don't count 36 00:01:44,760 --> 00:01:48,640 everything else they sleep on, which is our couch, our bed, the 37 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:52,040 4th dog it's. Time for 1/4 dog the same. 38 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:04,240 Hey everybody, and welcome to this week's episode of the DVC 39 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,400 Show. I am your host, Paul Krieger, 40 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,759 and joined as always by my lovely wife Amy Krieger and our 41 00:02:09,759 --> 00:02:13,080 three dogs that surround us. We've got John Sicari, Big Fat 42 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,720 Panda with us. Welcome home everyone. 43 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,800 The one the only Derek de Boer from the DVC resale market. 44 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,040 Hey now. And our friend Jeff Haslam and 45 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,520 his puppy left him, so he's just Jeff Haslam now. 46 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:26,960 He'll be back. Hey everybody. 47 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:31,240 All alone. Well, thank you guys, as always 48 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,360 for joining us for our ramblings and our fun. 49 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:36,640 What was that you you forgot the? 50 00:02:36,640 --> 00:02:38,920 People like this, they keep forgetting that that's supposed 51 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,200 to be my thing. He's supposed to be the mayor of 52 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:46,040 Old Key West too, but you know, he sold half of your points, so. 53 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:48,960 I still own plenty. Amy threw me under the bus and 54 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,120 people have been ratting me in the comments. 55 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,240 Can't calm that anymore. He doesn't have any contracts. 56 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:54,280 I got contracts. He's. 57 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:57,040 Not have his point? He's still the mayor. 58 00:02:57,920 --> 00:03:01,960 You don't have to own the whole resort to decide over it. 59 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,640 Well, I'm really looking forward to this, to this topic really. 60 00:03:09,680 --> 00:03:12,160 Did we have topics on this show? I thought we just rambled for, 61 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:14,520 you know, at least 15 minutes before we actually got to 62 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:16,320 anything that was productive. It's about dogs. 63 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:17,960 We're just going to talk about dogs for an hour. 64 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:22,840 We could we could we? We definitely I was where were 65 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:24,720 we on? Oh, we actually, we were 66 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:29,400 featured on one of Gray's What's? 67 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:29,960 Brewing. Yeah. 68 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,520 You haven't had a chance to watch, so it's on the DVC Rental 69 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:39,600 Stores YouTube channel and it's Gray who has. 70 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:43,200 He was in the Yachtsman. What? 71 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,880 What's that Cruise Cup lounge called? 72 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:47,440 Crew Cup. He was in this Crew Cup video 73 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:49,920 with us. Really great guy. 74 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,640 He's doing marketing stuff and he has a new series called 75 00:03:53,640 --> 00:03:58,280 What's Brewing and basically he interviews different people and 76 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,560 it's Jeff. Jeff was on a a mini episode 77 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,480 related to flower and garden I think it was. 78 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:05,600 Yeah, it was a lot of fun. He's a good dude. 79 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:08,240 Yeah, he is and he brings coffee. 80 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,480 He the first one he did was Tim and Jen Tracker. 81 00:04:11,480 --> 00:04:13,560 So that was that was an interesting one. 82 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:17,519 But anyway, we got to we got to be on it and I if you've ever 83 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:22,400 watched hot ones, which is a really cool Paul loves that that 84 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:23,840 show. We're still doing it, Jeff. 85 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:28,200 Andy, Andy got the hot sauces from it, but you know, the guy 86 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,520 on there does a lot of research on the the people before he 87 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,480 interviews them. And Grey, I was really impressed 88 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,800 with the things that he knew and asked about. 89 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:41,280 I just wasn't expecting them. So really, really good show. 90 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,200 If you get a chance to watch that, head over to DVC Rental 91 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:50,200 store YouTube channel. Actually, Jeff, recently Gray 92 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,160 actually agreed to do the Hot Ones thing with me and then I 93 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:54,760 was telling the other Jeff about it. 94 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,600 And so the two Jeff's should interview Paul and Gray as we do 95 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:02,000 the Hot Ones. I love this idea. 96 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,800 Just because you get out of having to try the hot sauces so. 97 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,240 Well, and I've always wanted to be Jimmy Fallon when I grow up, 98 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:13,040 so I'm going to start writing questions. 99 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,800 This is going to be great. I'm going to be a spectator. 100 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,680 That sounds like my my job. Well, this week on the DVC Show, 101 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,880 our topic is talking about two different types of Disney 102 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:26,880 experiences. And Jeff, you came up with this 103 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:29,960 topic, so why don't you kind of explain what you were thinking 104 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,520 related to it? Yeah, I just, I, I don't know 105 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:35,200 it. I kind of kind of felt a little 106 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,080 bit guilty lately because I've been really, really hard on 107 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:40,840 Disney, you know, over the course of our epic universe 108 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:43,280 shows and some of the other things, some of the decisions 109 00:05:43,280 --> 00:05:46,040 they've made. I, I watch the shows back mostly 110 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,640 to see if I can do things to improve the way I do things, but 111 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:52,480 also just to kind of because when you're in the show, you 112 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:54,760 don't really watch the show. And so I'll watch it back one 113 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:59,720 time and I just like, man, I'm rough on Disney right now. 114 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:04,080 So I was kind of like thinking of things that we could do that 115 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,960 because I am still positive, I still love Disney. 116 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:10,240 And the first thing that came to my mind was, well, let's go into 117 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,680 something for me. Something immediately popped 118 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,560 into my mind that we were kind of dreading or that we didn't 119 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,880 want to do something that we were going to do at Disney that 120 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:21,200 we didn't really want to. That actually surprised us. 121 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,000 That actually exceeded our expectations. 122 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,360 And I'm like, yeah, but can we do a whole show about that? 123 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:30,240 So we're going to do the flip side too, which is something 124 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:33,520 that we were really excited for that kind of left us wanting a 125 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,560 little bit more. So we're going to, we're going 126 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,560 to do both, I think. Yeah. 127 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,280 And then your negativity one out and we get that other piece 128 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:45,040 also. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 129 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:48,320 Start with that part and then do the end on the positive. 130 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,800 Yeah, I don't. I I'm still workshopping the 131 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,840 title, so I hope I came up with a good one by the time this goes 132 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,000 live. But I've written down like let 133 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,880 downs and surprises. You know what we totally got 134 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,160 wrong? Expectations versus reality, 135 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:03,280 surprise and delight, which sounds like the wrong type of 136 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:05,280 show, so we're not going to go with that one. 137 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:13,080 But you know, yeah, I loved, I loved the topic and I think that 138 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,440 we can definitely have some great conversation about it 139 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,720 before we get into it. 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So please, as always, you guys 151 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,320 do a great job of showing some love for our sponsors. 152 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,160 And since Amy mentioned at the top of the show also, I'll just 153 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:04,040 throw in a little plug for patreon.com slash DVC fan where 154 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,880 we put up some behind the scenes footage and some other fun stuff 155 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,880 for our Patreon community. And thank you so much to 156 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,240 everyone that supports us on on Patreon as well. 157 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,600 And I think I'll kick off the conversation with you. 158 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,720 Am I? Am I starting with something 159 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,320 good? Let's stay positive at 1st and 160 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:25,280 then take it down into the dark dungeon cellar to to round out 161 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:29,240 the show at the end. So something that pleasantly 162 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:32,240 surprised you, you weren't looking forward to it, but in 163 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,159 the end you were like, wow, that was exceeded expectations. 164 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:37,799 OK. I don't know if not looking 165 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:43,120 forward to it is the right, but I will say that the very last, 166 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:46,920 excuse me, the very last DVC resort that we ever stayed. 167 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,840 So we have officially as of last year in February have stayed at 168 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,800 every single DVC resort that exists. 169 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:59,720 And it took us a long time to visit Hilton Head. 170 00:09:00,040 --> 00:09:03,040 And a lot of that was, you know, it was just like, OK, you know, 171 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,560 we've been to Vero Beach, we like Vero Beach. 172 00:09:05,560 --> 00:09:07,160 It's easier to get to Vero Beach. 173 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,640 You know, Hilton Head is what we drove. 174 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:13,440 Is it 6 or 8 hours 6? To get to Hilton Head from here. 175 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:15,520 From here, yeah. About 5 hours, 5 hours, OK, it's 176 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:17,440 not that bad. But you know, I was like, do we 177 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,320 want to drive clear to Hilton Head for five hours? 178 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:22,560 We've got beaches surrounding us in Florida. 179 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:28,320 It's not on the actual beach. It's, it's in like a, you know, 180 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:32,560 back channel waterway area, you know, do we really want to go 181 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:37,280 over there? So it was something I wanted to 182 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,960 eventually do, but I it's just kind of like the last, the last 183 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,760 choice. But then we went and we went in 184 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,160 February, which isn't even a time to use the beach. 185 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,000 And I was very blown away by Hilton Head Island Resort. 186 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,560 I loved it. I loved that it where it was 187 00:09:53,560 --> 00:09:55,360 located. I felt like it didn't even need 188 00:09:55,360 --> 00:10:00,320 to be on the beach because, you know, that whole back channel 189 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:04,000 waterway was was very pretty. It was very quiet. 190 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,520 I love the rooms. I love the rocking chairs on the 191 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,000 balconies. I love the whole area and all 192 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:14,840 the restaurants and little shops and, you know, farmers market 193 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,720 and, and things like that. And then I thought it was just 194 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,480 really easy to hop on the little shuttle and go to the beach and 195 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,600 the beach house had everything you needed there. 196 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,560 If you wanted to spend, you know, time there. 197 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:27,800 There was a second pool at the beach and food and, you know, 198 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,160 whatever else. And I I was pleasantly surprised 199 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:35,560 by how much I really enjoyed that resort to if you had to ask 200 00:10:35,560 --> 00:10:40,000 me what my favorite DVC resorts are right now, that would be in 201 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,440 my top five. Oh, wow. 202 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:42,160 OK. Yeah. 203 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:46,520 I really, I want to go back. We haven't had time to schedule 204 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,360 it this year, but. Whenever we have these 205 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,080 discussions, it always makes me so sad because, you know, these 206 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:55,360 are those little gems of resorts that you just know come 2042 207 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:57,560 might not might not be around anymore. 208 00:10:57,880 --> 00:11:02,080 And so like I always say, people don't sleep on these things, 209 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:05,800 take advantage of them while they're here because they might 210 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,800 not, they might not get recycled whenever they decide to do 211 00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:11,560 whatever they're gonna do with these properties. 212 00:11:12,840 --> 00:11:16,480 And I'm so glad that you said that because I think you're 213 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:18,880 exactly right. And the fact of people that have 214 00:11:18,880 --> 00:11:21,520 their Disney Vacation Club membership, I think I mean, for 215 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:25,320 me personally, I love obviously all the resorts in Florida are 216 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:27,800 great, but you know, it's at Walt Disney World. 217 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:29,840 So they all have different theming and they're all this, 218 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:34,120 but once you experience a Vero Beach, once you experience a 219 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,400 Hilton Head, you realize this is literally like the greatest 220 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,440 thing that you could ask for because it's amazing. 221 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,640 Disney team members and cast members that have been there for 222 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,920 years and years and years. And it's nice because it's just 223 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:49,160 family spending time or couple spending time together without 224 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,960 the OK, I've got my phone, I've got 84 things lined up and we 225 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,360 have to go to this park and this dining reservation and this 226 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,240 here. It's like, let's just sit in a 227 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,520 hammock and, you know, or let's just walk up and down the beach 228 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,440 So you don't have that stress of feeling the need to do 1000 229 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:07,080 things, but you're completely immersed in that magic. 230 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,080 I mean, I just think to me that, my God, how different my life 231 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,920 would be if I never had Vero Beach in it. 232 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:18,040 And it makes me incredibly sad because some of my favorite 233 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:22,160 memories of my kids who are now, you know, 20 and 16, have been 234 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,920 at Disney's Vero Beach in all stages of their life. 235 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,520 Yes, we have great memories. We just made more at the Poly a 236 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:31,200 couple of weeks ago. But there's something about 237 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,880 those resorts that I'm so glad. So if you haven't as a member, 238 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:38,000 if you haven't used your points to go to those, just do it. 239 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,600 Just don't do it when I do it because don't mess up my 240 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:43,000 availability. But other than that, you gotta 241 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,680 go. You gotta gotta go. 242 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:48,560 So great choice, Amy. Panda, give us give us something 243 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:51,760 that you know you weren't super excited about that kind of 244 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,760 pleasantly surprised you. I've always loved the Country 245 00:12:55,760 --> 00:13:00,840 Bear Jamboree and I was petrified as to how they were 246 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:03,520 going to destroy it. My dad, if you've ever seen my 247 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,600 dad, he looks like Big Al. And we've always said that like 248 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,160 since I was a baby. I remember in my pic, everybody 249 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:10,520 seeing Big Al going Lenny to my father. 250 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,560 It's you. And I thought, oh, they're going 251 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:14,560 to ruin all these memories and everything. 252 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,320 I got to tell you, the more I see it, the more I love the new 253 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:21,960 version. Like love it, which is crazy 254 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,040 because Alexa stop every time it's 16 or she has. 255 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:31,920 And you know what? I'm thrilled seeing it crowded 256 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,640 every. I must have seen it 12 times in 257 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,280 the past two months. It's always a packed house. 258 00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:40,080 Lately, the people are enjoying it and I look around and it 259 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:42,920 gives me this pride like I built it, like I have something to do 260 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,400 and I'm just so happy that people are back into it. 261 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:49,680 I love the way they've utilized the three heads on the wall that 262 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:53,760 they now sing, the smoothness of the animatronics, all the eyes 263 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:55,520 work. The theater looks great. 264 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:57,320 I mean, they really put love into it. 265 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,280 And, you know, yeah, they made a couple of such changes. 266 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:02,120 It's OK. I think it's great. 267 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:05,360 And I'm, I really was petrified that it was not going to be. 268 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:08,280 So I am very happy with the Country Bear Jamboree right now. 269 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:12,240 That's funny because I asked in preparation for the show, I 270 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,400 asked my Amy what she would choose. 271 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,080 And that was the first thing because Country Bears is her 272 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,440 thing, her and her reminds me, reminds her of her dad. 273 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,560 And to sit and watch this with her and she giggles like a 274 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:27,640 school girl, it's great. And she was devastated when they 275 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,320 found out that they were going to change it. 276 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:31,960 And she agrees with you that they've done a really good job. 277 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,520 And for me, my connection to Jimmy Buffett, you know, his Mac 278 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,000 Mcanally did all the music and voice is one of the bears now. 279 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,960 And I I agree with you, Panda, I think they did a nice job. 280 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:45,440 Also, show this to Amy. She has to know that. 281 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,360 I had no idea she would have thought of that. 282 00:14:47,640 --> 00:14:50,160 But and just watching the oh, that's great. 283 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:53,360 Watching the audiences soak it up just gives me some great 284 00:14:53,800 --> 00:14:56,120 happiness knowing it's probably going to stick around for a 285 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:57,160 while. Yeah. 286 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:00,400 We've never saw it. We've not seen. 287 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:01,640 It I know we. Were. 288 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,200 Oh my God, Amy, tell me when you're going. 289 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:05,320 I'll go. I want to see your face. 290 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,240 I want to see it that that. It's good. 291 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,960 It's yeah, and it's. And like Jeff, I don't know if 292 00:15:09,960 --> 00:15:11,480 you agree with her. The more you see it, the more 293 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,400 you like. These were some necessary, you 294 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,520 know, as far as the upkeep and everything. 295 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:16,760 And it was. It's pretty good. 296 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:19,360 They did a nice job. I I I really don't have any 297 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:21,000 complaints. I think they've done a great job 298 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,600 of keeping something so old fresh now. 299 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,080 There's die hards out there that are going to want the original 300 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,920 version back, but they've done that with other rides. 301 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,280 Look at Sauron, maybe once a year we can have a country bear 302 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:35,560 rewind or something. Like that I, I, I really hope we 303 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:37,400 go back to a Christmas version also that was. 304 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:40,560 Yeah, that'd be cool. Do some sort of overlay or 305 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:41,720 something like that. Yeah, yeah. 306 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:44,240 It used to do that for for the Christmas party. 307 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,720 You would see a different show with different costumes and 308 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:48,440 different songs. It was great. 309 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,720 Yeah, that would be so cool. I really had a hard time coming 310 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,680 up with this in terms of a positive. 311 00:15:56,920 --> 00:15:59,600 We all probably came up with 25 negatives because, you know, 312 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,800 that's just how we think. What in terms of something where 313 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:06,240 I was like, it blew me away or exceeded my expectations. 314 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:10,040 I I don't know, I feel like I go in with fairly realistic 315 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,880 expectations to a lot of things. But it's funny, on our most 316 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:16,760 recent show that was actually before this, we discussed some 317 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:19,920 news related to Disney water parks. 318 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:23,560 And I am not what you would say, a water park guy. 319 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,040 I'm like, if we go to a beach or something, I'm much happier like 320 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:30,000 lounging with a book on a chair or something like that. 321 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:31,400 I don't have to get into the water. 322 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:33,440 Like I'll, I'll walk the beach or something like that. 323 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,040 That's fun. But I'm not trying to get like 324 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:42,440 drenched or anything like that. And so with moonlight Magic 325 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:47,080 events, the water Park Moonlight Magic event at Typhoon Lagoon 326 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,320 was always one where I was like, you know, if we make it to it, 327 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:51,800 great. If we don't, we don't. 328 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,360 I will say it is aside from Epcot, which still will always 329 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,400 hold the number one position for me. 330 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:03,320 Typhoon Lagoon Moonlight Magic is the Moonlight Magic event 331 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,040 that is like the not you don't want to miss it when it comes to 332 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:10,520 these events anymore. We have gone twice now and both 333 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:16,119 I have vivid memories of first because when we went, it was in 334 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,400 the middle of a thunderstorm and yet Disney felt it was safe 335 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:21,560 enough to just keep the park open. 336 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:24,079 And like, we're on rides, we're on coasters. 337 00:17:24,079 --> 00:17:27,119 We're in the wave. Pool and there is lightning just 338 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,480 everywhere and you're just like this. 339 00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:33,160 Isn't safe and not just like in the distance like real bolts of 340 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,520 lightning. There's no way it was safe like. 341 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:40,640 I have at that moonlight magic. So that would have been 2023 in 342 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,640 May. If you were at that moonlight 343 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:44,120 Magic. I just want to know how it 344 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:46,960 appeared to you. You felt safe, but at the same 345 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,160 time you were at Disney and you were just like, it's going to be 346 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:51,480 OK, It's going to be fine. It's absolutely fine. 347 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,840 It was fun, but. I had an amazing time at that. 348 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:58,600 And then this past year we did Typhoon Lagoon, Moonlight Magic, 349 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,040 and I actually was sending Jeff and Amy and everyone that went 350 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,720 to that this past year pictures from it the other day because 351 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,560 they came out with the fact that Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard 352 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,560 Beach was going to be open all summer long. 353 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,240 And I was just going back through the photos from that 354 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:17,160 Moonlight Magic because it was absolutely hilarious. 355 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,760 We had an amazing time. You know, I, I love the video 356 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:22,960 that we put together for that moonlight magic. 357 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:26,320 Just Typhoon Lagoon is like, and that's why I'm so excited to go 358 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,480 to Blizzard beach this year. I hope, I hope that I'm not 359 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:31,120 exceeded like I'm not I, I hope that I'm not setting myself up 360 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:35,240 for failure and that Blizzard Beach will like land on my other 361 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:38,720 list here, you know, in a couple weeks or so whenever we get 362 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,640 there. But yeah, Typhoon Lagoon, just a 363 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,560 huge, huge shocking surprise for me in terms of how much I 364 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,080 enjoyed that part of it's the company too. 365 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:50,320 You know, you surround yourself with with fun people, you're 366 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:51,520 bound to have a good time. So. 367 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:55,240 Yeah, we had a great time. We need to get this group to 368 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:58,480 Typhoon or to Blizzard Beach. I want to get Derek in a in a 369 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:01,440 water park and I want I want Panda to go down the big slide. 370 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:04,440 I'll do it. I've done it before. 371 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:06,680 I did humonga cowabunga. That was a little crazy. 372 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,880 Yeah. Well, Jeff, this was your topic. 373 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:15,520 Give us, give us your surprise and delight or whatever. 374 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:19,360 I had picked 2 just in case somebody had stolen mine, but 375 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:22,120 we'll go with the one that actually probably shocked me the 376 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:24,840 most. Pains me to even say this 377 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,360 because I was so hard on it when they announced it, but the cake 378 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:30,680 bake shot. I wanted to hate that place real 379 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:34,000 bad. And some good friends of ours 380 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:35,360 come into town every once in a while. 381 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:38,200 Glenn Davis and his wife invited us to go last time they were 382 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:41,760 there in the group. Hey, Glenn, they invited us to 383 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:42,720 go. He's like, you got to try it. 384 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,080 You just got to try it. And I'm like, I don't want to 385 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:49,560 go. It was fantastic from start to 386 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,560 finish. The ambiance, the carousel. 387 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:55,960 We had drinks at the bar before and then had a full meal plus 388 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,080 cake. Absolutely phenomenal. 389 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,640 I was blown away at how good that restaurant is. 390 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,680 So, and for me, that's not a foodie to to come around on 391 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:08,320 something like that really, really should speak volumes 392 00:20:08,320 --> 00:20:10,920 because. Out of everything I've done this 393 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,120 last year, that was the thing I wanted to do the very, very 394 00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:14,120 least. What kind? 395 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,000 Of things did you eat there? What's that? 396 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:18,600 What kind of things did you eat there? 397 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,400 I had the salmon I believe, and it was excellent. 398 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:30,040 We had, we shared the Raspberry champagne cheesecake or sorry, 399 00:20:30,240 --> 00:20:32,600 not cheesecake, the ranberry champagne cake. 400 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:37,600 That was phenomenal. And I think Amy just had a salad 401 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,240 and the French onion soup. But it was, it was phenomenal. 402 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,000 We all got a different dish and nobody was disappointed. 403 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:47,280 So. Panda Panda and I still have to 404 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:48,760 have our egg sandwich breakfast date. 405 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:50,880 There I want to go. I've I've never I've never been 406 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,800 yet I need to go. And is the carousel there all 407 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,200 the time? Because it wasn't there, correct 408 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:56,920 it. Wasn't it is and in? 409 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:01,200 Fact, fun fact, there's a seating inside the carousel that 410 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:04,680 I was going to bring this up to Paul that seats 8 that you have 411 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:08,720 to reserve specifically, which I think would be a really cool 412 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,280 opportunity I want. To eat on the carousel. 413 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,000 Yeah, it's like it's inside the carousel that there's there's a 414 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,680 special table it's. Like a chef's. 415 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:17,680 Table. How do you reserve it? 416 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,360 You call. There's a special number that 417 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:22,840 you call, yeah, that you can. Kind of know a guy that knows a 418 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,120 guy. I remember you were you were 419 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:27,840 sending like a text blow by blow the night that you went dinner, 420 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:30,560 dinner there and. And yeah, it was. 421 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,200 It was fun to kind of see you be like, Yep, it's good. 422 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:39,640 Yep, yeah, Amy had the espresso martini as she does, and the the 423 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,960 one at Cake Bake Shop actually has glitter in it, so it's like 424 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,840 it's sparkly in and of itself, which is dried up her alley. 425 00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:50,160 So yeah, I didn't realize when you guys were talking about like 426 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:53,440 the carousel and the restaurant itself. 427 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,400 I didn't realize there was so many moving parts and 428 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,520 animatronics. Very subtle. 429 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:02,200 It's not like the Tiki Room, but like the the horses on top of 430 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:05,480 the carousel move a little bit and it's just a phenomenal 431 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:06,920 restaurant. It was really, really cool. 432 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,040 Yeah, we missed a lot because we were there really early on the. 433 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,600 So no carousel. Yeah, I want to. 434 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,560 I want to try more food and. I would go back in a heartbeat 435 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,480 for sure, yeah. And I've seen, I don't know if 436 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,440 it's new, I don't know if it's just temporary or if it's the 437 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,480 stay, but I've seen post everywhere this week. 438 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,920 Did you see they have like a cookie dough cake? 439 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,000 No. It's like right up my eyes. 440 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,560 The only posts that I've seen this week related to cake are 441 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,320 disgusting and it's the new carrot cake flavor that they 442 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:43,000 bought the Gideon's which just. What is it? 443 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,600 What's the flavor? It's like a carrot cake, which 444 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,280 I'm OK with a good carrot cake, but it's like a carrot cake 445 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:51,200 chocolate. Something just doesn't look 446 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,720 good. You know, when you take a 447 00:22:52,720 --> 00:22:56,040 picture of something, I'm kind of over Gideon's anyhow, I'm 448 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:57,920 more I am. Just in that. 449 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,680 Summer House and the desserts that they're doing over there, I 450 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,320 think not. Gideon's out of the park and 451 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,080 they don't cost you a small fortune either. 452 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,040 And you? Don't have to enter a virtual 453 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:08,080 queue to get it. That's true. 454 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,600 Yeah, you can do. It I feel like every Gideon's 455 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,080 cookie is a lump and they just put different things on top of 456 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:15,880 it. But I think that lump is always 457 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,760 like the same, which I don't like, yeah. 458 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:20,400 Yeah. See, everybody's talking about 459 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:23,480 this. It's like a cookie dough cake. 460 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:26,560 It looks amazing. That sounds really good. 461 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:29,800 Add it, Add it to the list of must do's Derek. 462 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:34,200 Round us out with our positivity before we do what we really want 463 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:36,640 to do and talk. Maybe about that before we kill 464 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,880 it and feel much more cozy, yeah. 465 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,040 No, yeah, this was a this was a great topic and it may think. 466 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,920 And it made me talk with Annie, of course, my wife, when I 467 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,160 brought it up and I said, Jeff actually has a good idea for a 468 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,400 show. I'm kidding. 469 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:55,840 I'm kidding. I'm kidding. 470 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,960 But then I told her what it was, and she kind of nailed it. 471 00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:02,680 And I was kind of glad because I was going back and forth between 472 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,920 different things. And she's like, no, you know 473 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,600 what? It was the biggest surprise. 474 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:11,080 She goes, it's our dinner that we had three weeks ago when we 475 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:14,480 did our staycation at the Polynesian just for two nights. 476 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:18,240 We went to a place that our last experience there was not good. 477 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,720 We know others have not had that good of experience there as 478 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,080 well. We know it's not cheap, but we 479 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,680 were like, you know what, We're here at the Poly. 480 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,440 Let's you know the old Disney motto, let's give it another 481 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:32,920 try. So we did Ohana for dinner and 482 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:37,440 we were so pleasantly surprised. It was great. 483 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,720 I mean, yeah, there was like 5 of us. 484 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:41,640 So again, it's like 80 bucks a person. 485 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,880 I don't know how much it is now, but it was great. 486 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,800 And I think the difference, and this might just be our 487 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:51,200 assumption, but we told them when we sat down that Annie 488 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,560 would prefer to, you know, stay away from gluten. 489 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,840 So therefore, I always think the biggest complaint that you hear 490 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,160 about Ohana, which is true because we experienced it the 491 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:04,400 last time that I think our last time there, by the time we sat 492 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,440 down to the time we got our check, it was like 13 minutes. 493 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,080 I mean, that's how fast it was. It felt like they just throw you 494 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,600 down there. They throw you some pot 495 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,000 stickers, they put noodles on the table, they bring you the 496 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,840 banana bread, a couple of hunks of meat, and then they want to 497 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,480 churn and burn you to get you out to get the next people. 498 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:22,960 I know I'm not alone feeling like that because people have 499 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,840 posted, I know I've read all about it. 500 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,000 So that was a concern of mine. But I can tell you our last time 501 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:31,920 3 weeks ago, we loved it. It must have, we must have been 502 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,120 there almost for like 2 hours. So I don't know if it was the 503 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:38,200 fact that maybe the gluten kind of maybe slowed it down home for 504 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,960 us, but it was perfectly paced. The service was great. 505 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:46,040 We didn't feel rushed at all. The food was terrific. 506 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:50,720 So I was very, very pleased to put Ohana back in the that was a 507 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:55,080 really great meal. So Ohana, thank you, Mahalo. 508 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:58,440 I'm happy to hear that actually, because I we went, in fact, it 509 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,640 was the night of the hurricane when you guys made me put on a 510 00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:02,440 raincoat and go outside and go live. 511 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,520 From. Yeah, we didn't do anything. 512 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:06,600 You wanted to do it. I know it was fun. 513 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,400 It wasn't the bad and I think that's Ohana's biggest problem 514 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,240 is its consistency. It's either really, really good 515 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:15,040 or really, really bad. There's not really happy medium 516 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,200 and our our experience wasn't that great that night. 517 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,080 It had nothing to do with the pacing of the meal. 518 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:21,720 They we didn't feel rushed at all. 519 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:24,480 It's just the food itself was just kind of, you know, kind of 520 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,320 felt like yesterday's leftovers a little bit. 521 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:27,840 But I'm glad to hear that you had a good time. 522 00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:30,560 I'm never opposed to it. I just I wish they. 523 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,920 Were a little more inconsistent. Yeah, we've been back twice in 524 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:37,160 the past two years I think and both experience have been pretty 525 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,080 good for. Us I love Ohana. 526 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:42,320 But that's, that's because we have the PTSD from the post 527 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,960 COVID Ohana, which if anyone got to experience that, that's when 528 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:49,200 they had like the seafood casserole, which you were, you 529 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:52,760 were like, if anything was like, if you, if you wanted to do like 530 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:56,520 the extreme thing that Amy was excited about and then extremely 531 00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,320 let down. She was like, we're back. 532 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,000 We're this is when we're in West Virginia. 533 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,280 She's thinking about this like seafood casserole. 534 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,000 It's gonna be great. It's gonna be like we're on the 535 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,280 beach and this thing. I know we. 536 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,440 Went. Died in vain so. 537 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:18,480 Sad, but a listener actually reached out recently and said 538 00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:22,080 similar to what you just did, Derek, that it was time to go 539 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:25,360 back and do another review at Ohana, which our our most recent 540 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,320 review, I think going on two years, it'll be this August, 541 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,600 it'll be two years old. But that was a very positive 542 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,200 review. But also, you know, another 543 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,360 viewer listener said the same thing that it was knocking it 544 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,080 out of the park. I will say that is if the 545 00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,840 restaurant is functional. So about two weeks ago, we were 546 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:46,760 actually, when we did our review of Mckim's Smile House, we 547 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,640 actually walked over that night and had dinner at Wailulu. 548 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,560 And all of a sudden the, the, the walk up window like amount 549 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:59,520 of wait time just sky rocked at, at, at Wailulu and basically 550 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,800 went offline after a while. And we're like, what the heck is 551 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,960 going on? And our friends Jeff and Dan 552 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,400 were over there meeting us for dinner and they go, Oh yeah, we 553 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,600 just heard that Ohana had no gas. 554 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:13,680 So they have nothing to actually cook food with. 555 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,680 And so everyone's reservation at Ohana was cancelled that night. 556 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,640 And that's not the there's definitely some structural 557 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,880 things going on with the Grand Ceremonial House because there's 558 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:28,880 that recently, I think there was, you know, a pipe burst and 559 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,680 it leaked into boutique and that place flooded. 560 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:34,280 So they're having all kinds of issues over there. 561 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,440 But I, yeah, Ohana has, has done well. 562 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:40,920 I've not been to breakfast there ever or it's been a long time. 563 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:44,520 The last one was really bad. I've never been to. 564 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:45,640 Breakfast I've never been there for. 565 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:49,000 It was powder, it was fake eggs and I I can't imagine that they 566 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,200 do that all the time. There had to be a problem that 567 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:55,160 they couldn't get eggs and they were like a powdered egg thing. 568 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,160 And that flipped me. I couldn't believe for the. 569 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:00,040 Amount is it really character breakfast it. 570 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,400 Was still characters, yeah. Is it sad that I've resorted to 571 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,080 not ordering scrambled eggs out just because I'm always scared 572 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,640 of powdered eggs anymore? Like I always basically kind. 573 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,920 Of and you, you, you shouldn't be after, you know, $40 or more 574 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,240 for breakfast. You should be getting a real 575 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,480 egg. I can't walk into Ahana and not 576 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:25,160 eat noodles, so I refuse to go to breakfast there until they 577 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:27,200 start serving noodles. Maybe they have breakfast 578 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:28,640 noodles? They're going to noodles that 579 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,680 are noodle egg casserole that you're going to get really. 580 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:32,000 Excited about that should be a thing. 581 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:35,320 That actually that it does sound good. 582 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:40,360 Breakfast pasta casserole. I've heard like isn't there like 583 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,520 a breakfast carbonara or something? 584 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,680 I think someone. Has carbonara is with eggs, so 585 00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:47,480 it could and. Bacon already? 586 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:50,360 It pretty much is. You guys are making me hungry. 587 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,880 It's bound to happen. It's it's midway through show 588 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,160 two of the night. Yeah. 589 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:56,960 So all right, let's turn this around again. 590 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,920 Negative. Panda, you're so excited for it 591 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,080 gets off, man. Take us into the gutter. 592 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,720 We want to go along, but I, I. I feel like what I picked might 593 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,880 be other people, people's picks as well, but I thought about 594 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,800 what was like the biggest let down and it's the transformation 595 00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,040 of Epcot. It really is. 596 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:22,160 And the more I think about it, the more I want to strangle Mr. 597 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,640 Epcot or whoever's responsible. I can't believe. 598 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:28,520 The. Thank you. 599 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:31,800 I can't believe the Odyssey building and that wrap around 600 00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:36,720 beautiful video that was all around you and it just showed so 601 00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:40,280 much promise of every. I don't think anything from that 602 00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:47,600 ever really happened at all. None of it between not Alice in 603 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,880 Wonderland, wow, Mary Poppins and everything. 604 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,640 It was I just, I just and I can't believe what we got. 605 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,640 What we got is just like 4 walls and a space. 606 00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,440 I'm just blown away by the the when they said that with this, 607 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,720 the transformation of Epcot is complete. 608 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:05,880 I just, I thought that was a joke. 609 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:07,440 I really did. I still do. 610 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:11,160 I'm still disappointed in their vision of that park and I still 611 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,880 think it needs an overhaul still. 612 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,560 Remember the whole when you went in and saw that? 613 00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:18,080 That's what, Yeah. The Odyssey, that's. 614 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,120 What? It was, yeah. 615 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:21,800 OK. Do you? 616 00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,640 Remember, it was like 20 minutes of what's coming and it was like 617 00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,680 wondrous. They should just bring that back 618 00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:30,920 so that we can like just feel like. 619 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:34,040 The Cherry Tree lane part was so cool, like with all the like. 620 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:37,280 Yeah, remember the pink, the pink flowers blowing around? 621 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,160 Yeah, 'cause I think we got that because. 622 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:45,200 That's what my Amy said too. And you know, I I would even say 623 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,840 less, less or so just that front part of Epcot. 624 00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:50,800 I know we didn't get Mary Poppins and I know that stuff. 625 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,240 But the Moana thing is A1 and done. 626 00:31:53,440 --> 00:31:56,840 It took him 16 years to build a fountain with some picnic 627 00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:58,680 tables. Like the whole thing was such a 628 00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:00,320 let down. I'm I'm with you there, man, 629 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,200 that that was Amy's choice. The front with the small 630 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:06,160 monolith. It's cute, but that does not 631 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,520 make Epcot. I mean, Spaceship Earth needed 632 00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:10,560 their overhaul too. That never happened. 633 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,840 God in. The festival center that we lost 634 00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,040 the the two store Festive 2 store. 635 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,040 Center. Were you on the roof? 636 00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:22,760 It's turned into a permanent Moana Sing along. 637 00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,600 Cafeteria. And yeah, I got literally a 638 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,080 cafeteria. Oh, that the Encanto show 639 00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,160 outside to me is just. Oh, what? 640 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,960 Oh, no, it's so loud. It's so loud. 641 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:36,560 Like I, I heard it the other day. 642 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:40,400 I, I think I was in Germany and like you could hear it all the 643 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:42,440 way like across the water. Oh, because. 644 00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,280 It's two people with a soundtrack. 645 00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,280 Not even really. Yeah. 646 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:52,200 Well, and and and that weird fake Cirque du Soleil show that 647 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,720 they do in the cage with the strippers, I don't know, the 648 00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:57,280 whole thing is just weird. I've tried to watch that thing 649 00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,400 like 3 times. Hold on, where was that show? 650 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,720 What I'm talking about right where each ones like I don't 651 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:04,440 even know what it. Is. 652 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,600 I know what you're talking about, but I've not actually 653 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,040 watched it. I've only seen like pictures of. 654 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,800 The Soleil meets nature, and it's right by. 655 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,080 They they, they took the small Illuminations globe and they 656 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,720 just like outfitted it to have people on it, I feel like. 657 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,760 It's yeah, that was a good pick, Panda that. 658 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:21,760 Was a good one. Good choice. 659 00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:22,800 That was a good. Choice. 660 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,760 I didn't even think. Of that but it really it's just 661 00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,120 such a big let down still I can't get over it I. 662 00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,560 Can't hey, but we're getting Polynesian in Canada. 663 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:38,200 So that right Amy, what is what topped your list of let downs 664 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:38,440 all? Right. 665 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,480 Well, I'm changing mine a little bit because I thought about it a 666 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:45,480 little harder and and and it's similar, but so originally I was 667 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:51,880 going to say the opening of Big Pine Key because we went to the 668 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,160 opening and it was it was it was such a let down like nothing. 669 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,560 And Panda, you were there. Yeah, nothing happened. 670 00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,880 It was like they. Didn't even have the shrubbery 671 00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,000 it. Was like they're still putting 672 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,520 in shrubs and it took until like 5 till your room was ready and 673 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:08,719 then it was like your room's ready. 674 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,920 Tada. Anyway, But then I thought about 675 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:17,239 it even more and I'm probably gonna like make some people mad, 676 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,120 but Derek doesn't know where we live yet. 677 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,239 So that's that's good. I, I think big Pine Key in 678 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,600 general was kind of a let down for me. 679 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:31,480 You know, overall, if you really look at it, it just felt like a, 680 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:38,080 a cheaper remodel. You know, the the walls and the 681 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:43,840 door frames and the doorways and the baseboards. 682 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,159 And you can just tell that they're all the old, you know, 683 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,320 materials that were already there and they didn't do 684 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,719 anything to like, improve. You know, the walls are made out 685 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:54,480 of Graham crackers. They didn't do anything to 686 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:58,720 improve the sound quality. You know how loud it can be in 687 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:00,960 that building, which was always a complaint. 688 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,280 Yeah, they didn't even improve the electric at first. 689 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:05,560 They were concerned about putting microwaves in there, 690 00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:06,720 right? Yeah. 691 00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:13,080 And and so I just was kind of disappointed by that edition. 692 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:16,880 And I don't know what it is. I've said this before, but when 693 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:22,360 we bought Grand Floridian, I felt like this is like, I am a 694 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:26,480 Grand Floridian owner and I love owning this resort and it's so 695 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,760 hard to get into, but I've got my Grand Floridian points. 696 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,840 And then adding Big Pine Key kind of like cheapened it. 697 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,680 It diluted kind of the ownership there a little bit. 698 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,800 So it's not as special anymore because everybody owns Grand 699 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,800 Floridian. And I just offended like a whole 700 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:44,520 wave of people. I'm sorry. 701 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,680 But at the same time, I'm glad it's there. 702 00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:50,000 I'm glad that you know that DVC members have more options. 703 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:52,720 I just was personally a little disappointed with the building 704 00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:57,560 I. Know so funny because Panda and 705 00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,640 and Amy have stolen the top 2 that I have on my list here. 706 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,080 Oh, you put that down. I put Big Pine, well, I said 707 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:07,600 what I said was my stay at the Grand Floridian OK, Because I've 708 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:09,880 only stayed there once and it was at Big Pine Key. 709 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:14,360 And that's really was the beginning of the end for me as 710 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,080 to why I don't understand why people love that resort so much. 711 00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,440 Now I understand I understated the actual Grand Floridian so. 712 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:23,720 We'll get there and I've ruined my mind. 713 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,600 But to Amy's point, you could hear the neighbors as if they 714 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:31,160 were in your room with you. Yep, you have to walk a mile to 715 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,440 get anywhere. I just didn't like it. 716 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,200 It was not for me. It was so overrated. 717 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,160 Derek, for the audio listeners, Derek's just waving. 718 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,440 Waving his hand, Derek is, I think he shouted. 719 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:42,960 He's. Quitting. 720 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,720 He's quitting. He's quitting the show. 721 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:49,160 No, I, I, I mean, we don't have to go into it, but I couldn't 722 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,200 disagree with all of you more and I love all of you. 723 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,680 I couldn't. No, I I liked my room at Big 724 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,480 Pine Key. I did. 725 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,360 Thank you. I absolutely loved my room. 726 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,320 I loved the layout, I loved the decor. 727 00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:04,800 I love the little simple Disney touches that itself. 728 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,200 I loved that location. If I have a choice now and if I 729 00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,000 want to stay at the Grand and if any and I look and it says OK, 730 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,280 do you want a studio in the original DVC building or do you 731 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,720 want one of the new ones? I will always pick the new one. 732 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,160 The location is closer. I love it. 733 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,000 It's right next. It's got the best pool. 734 00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:26,800 I don't like the main pool. It's too loud, it's too small, 735 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,040 it's too crazy. But that main quiet pool they 736 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,760 have is fantastic. Perfect location, right by the 737 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:34,680 boat docks, by the pool, by the main building, the Decor 738 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,080 Insight. And it's still the Grand. 739 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:41,440 So it's like if it allows more people to experience the Grand. 740 00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,560 And I think to me, I love it because for 20 some years of 741 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,280 talking to folks about Disney, the number one resort, people 742 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,640 would always tell me that have never stayed there is like, 743 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:52,720 yeah, we're not going to go to the Grand yet. 744 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,160 You don't understand. We're not Grand Floridian people 745 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,000 there. That's just not our speed. 746 00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,960 We're not that. I've had so many folks that 747 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:02,440 finally have stayed there and been able to stay there because 748 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,960 of these studios that they fell in love with it. 749 00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,960 And they're like, Oh, my God, I don't know why it took us so 750 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,000 long. It was so relaxing and it felt 751 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:11,840 so upscale. And the location was so perfect. 752 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,440 So for me, yeah, you guys couldn't be more messed up with 753 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,920 this, but. Amy, do you remember? 754 00:38:18,920 --> 00:38:21,640 My room was a little different and there was like some night 755 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,480 light in the wall. Yeah, you were in like I. 756 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:27,880 Loved that. Yeah, turret, the turret room, 757 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,480 it had more like height to it and you had a much bigger 758 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:34,200 balcony off the side. Yeah, but not one of those 759 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,280 doesn't have a balcony at all. The one on the 5th floor I don't 760 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,680 think has one at all. No. 761 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,960 And you had like a little sitting area, too, where it's 762 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:42,360 like you could entertain. It was adorable, but the night, 763 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,040 the night light panel or something was like a almost like 764 00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,800 a stained glass night light and I loved that addition. 765 00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:50,320 Look, it's great if you want to feel like you're staying in a 766 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,480 hostel and hearing everybody and I. 767 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,080 Didn't go that. I didn't go that dark. 768 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:00,520 When I was in college, I went to a hospital. 769 00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,560 I work for housing. No, I work for housing 770 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:05,200 maintenance department. And so in the summers I would 771 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,560 help like repaint dorm rooms. And it's a call. 772 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,960 It's a, it was a State College at the time, you know what I 773 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,080 mean? So they were cheap and we just 774 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,560 repainted over like old doors and old crap. 775 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,240 And that's what it reminded me of when we first went into one 776 00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:22,440 of those rooms, just like repainting over old wood and 777 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:23,520 stuff. Like some of them, they didn't 778 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,960 even scrape well enough. I, I will agree with that. 779 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,400 And it's funny when you were talking earlier, I, I never 780 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,200 thought about this during the entire Big Pine Key flip. 781 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,520 But it's, is it coincidental that this happened right after 782 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:42,240 the year when the NBA stayed there and they blocked off all 783 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:44,680 of Grand Floridian and the NBA stayed there. 784 00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,440 Forgot about that. Did they trash Big Pine Key? 785 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,160 And then we're like, what do we do with it now? 786 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:51,280 Think about that. That's. 787 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:52,800 Funny, I know. It's. 788 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,480 Probably there's some truth to that. 789 00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:56,440 I had never even put that together. 790 00:39:56,480 --> 00:39:59,720 And we followed with that one of the one of the players that did 791 00:39:59,720 --> 00:40:02,040 like. A YouTube vlog throughout the 792 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:05,120 entire. And I will tell you in his vlog 793 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:09,800 he like like he took apart the furniture and wanted to lay on 794 00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,800 the floor instead on his mat like it was. 795 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:13,960 It. Was. 796 00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:18,840 Probably pretty interesting so. Yeah, that, that brings back 797 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,760 some memories. Well, Speaking of that time 798 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:27,880 frame, which was kind of pandemic, post pandemic, that is 799 00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:32,080 for me where the biggest excitement, which I I think it 800 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:38,680 was just the build up around it. But for me, the 50th anniversary 801 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,560 of Walt Disney World, specifically that day, the day 802 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:48,480 of the 50th, October 1st, that day for me, there was so much 803 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,280 build up for so much time. Granted, we had, you know, the 804 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:55,120 pandemic come in the middle of all of that excitement and a lot 805 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,400 of the original plans I think kind of got canned. 806 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:05,440 But what we ended up with that day was just chaos merch lines 807 00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,120 and really kind of mediocre merch originally that came out 808 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:13,080 for that that initial day. I loved the 50th celebration. 809 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,360 It actually got better maybe about 6 to 8 months later. 810 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:21,800 But the experience on October 1st was just kind of mediocre at 811 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,360 best. After all of us enchantment for 812 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,320 the first time, we were kind of like what? 813 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,960 And it was just, yeah, I, I, I think it was just like, you set 814 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,720 your, I, I, I try not to do this too much in life, but it's like 815 00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:38,240 you set your expectations and you get so excited for this 816 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:41,200 moment and it's like 50 years of Walt Disney World. 817 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,000 Like, you know, I. Nothing really happened that 818 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:44,840 day. Yeah. 819 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,320 And then it's just kind of a womp, womp like it. 820 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:51,000 Just you compare that to, you compare that to what they did 821 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,720 with Disneyland's 50th. And I remember that very vividly 822 00:41:53,720 --> 00:41:56,000 because that was one of my favorite vacations. 823 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,960 But it wasn't just, I mean, Disneyland was the one that 824 00:41:59,960 --> 00:42:01,960 started it all. So that was the focus of the 825 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,280 celebration, but all of the parks worldwide also 826 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,280 participated, which to kind of curtail on to what Paul said, 827 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,400 the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company. 828 00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,680 I was expecting some pretty big things that we didn't get 829 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:17,040 anything out here. It was all focused. 830 00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:21,960 But like Disney World got, they brought the car show over the 831 00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,400 stunt car show from Paris as a celebration. 832 00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,760 And they, they got, each park got a little something to help 833 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,480 celebrate that. And it was a resounding thud. 834 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,120 You're right, I had forgotten about that. 835 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:35,680 But. And the fact that enchant good. 836 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,880 Yeah. That enchantment didn't have any 837 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,640 like Walt starting it or classic movies. 838 00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,240 It was all current. It was like, what anniversary 839 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:48,920 like? They added Walt later to it. 840 00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:51,920 Because the the outcry was ridiculous. 841 00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:57,200 And it just goes to show too, that love it or hate it, if you 842 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:01,880 were around or experienced the 25th anniversary of Walt Disney 843 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,840 World, again, love it or hate it, what they did to that 844 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:09,080 castle, their songs that they had remember the magic, remember 845 00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:12,000 the magic. Like that's that's. 846 00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,160 Still. Resonate. 847 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,320 Cake Castle. Yes, that was the Cake Castle. 848 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,560 At least. It was one of those, yeah, oh, 849 00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,000 right. I mean, they did something with 850 00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,000 it. Whereas I know it was like the 851 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:26,960 the 50th, I would have thought because we got married right 852 00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:29,240 around the 25th. I was like, Oh my God, the 50th, 853 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:31,880 it's going to be insane. It's going to be great. 854 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:34,360 And then you go, so what's happening for the 50th? 855 00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,960 And you're like, I don't know, there's like a phone app and we 856 00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:41,000 got to find like a golden Groot in like a, a shrub somewhere. 857 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,400 And it's supposed to like make a noise. 858 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:44,680 And you're like, what are you serious? 859 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,800 Like that's it for the 50th like. 860 00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:50,200 To this day, I absolutely love those things because you see 861 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,920 people walk by them in the park and no one to this day really 862 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:55,600 understands what to do with them. 863 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:59,440 But everyone in front of them is just like this and they have no 864 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,480 idea if it does anything or if it works. 865 00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,640 And then truthfully, the random guy that's not even trying to 866 00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:09,120 get it to do anything walks by and his magic band vibrates and 867 00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:11,760 it does something like that's that's how they function. 868 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:17,600 So but yeah, and, and again, I don't want to again, I love the 869 00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,800 50th anniversary. I was extremely sad when it was 870 00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,160 over, like after those 18 months. 871 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,880 And then there was none of the 50th music or none of the 50th. 872 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,880 Even what they did to the Electric Water Pageant, Like I 873 00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,680 did, love that, love the glow up that they did to that show for 874 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:35,240 the 50th and thought that they needed to somehow keep it. 875 00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:37,560 Around that's gone. It feels really short. 876 00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:39,640 Yeah, it feels short. It feels a little bit empty. 877 00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:42,560 I loved how they they, there was, there was an announcer that 878 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:45,800 talked about the history of the Electric Water Pageant so that 879 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,200 people could understand. Nowadays, you just hear the 880 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,320 music and unless you actually know what's going on, you're 881 00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,600 just kind of like, what's that? Who's playing loud music? 882 00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:54,520 And then you kind of see this out on the water. 883 00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:56,560 So you really don't know what's going on. 884 00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,520 On a more positive on a more. This is Derek's long show. 885 00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,120 On a more positive note, I think that the best part of the 50th 886 00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,200 is still with us. Yeah. 887 00:45:09,200 --> 00:45:11,720 What do you think that is? I would have. 888 00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:15,600 Painting of the Castle. Yes, Spaceship Earth Points of 889 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,240 Light that was, yeah, which is the name of the little lights 890 00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:20,560 that are all over Spaceship Earth. 891 00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:23,120 That was added for the 50th and they kept it around and I think 892 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,080 that's the best thing that came out of the 50th. 893 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:28,280 Kudos to that one that when the entire castle is white, it's 894 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:30,080 green. I want to be that light when I 895 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:31,280 grow up. I want to be that. 896 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,040 Yeah, right. Everybody knows which one I'm 897 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:38,800 talking about, too. All right, Who's who's next? 898 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:42,880 Derek, to talk us into what? What really let you down? 899 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,920 So this is kind of a different one perhaps because it's nothing 900 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,120 that maybe anybody else obviously might have 901 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,200 experienced. But when we talked about it, 902 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,880 we're like, OK, So what about a disappointment, something that 903 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,840 you had huge hopes for and it turned out maybe not to be so 904 00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:02,200 great and you were disappointed. And mine is a very specific one 905 00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,240 that I will say with the disappointment, but then I will 906 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:07,240 follow it up quickly with a how it redeemed itself. 907 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:12,160 So disappointment came when it came to Disney Cast members. 908 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,680 And I say this because we all know the hidden gem, the key to 909 00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,840 Walt Disney World. What difference it from any 910 00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,280 other place and the Disney parks are the cast members so they are 911 00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,000 truly what makes the magic happen. 912 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,080 My personal experience, my biggest disappointment was when 913 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,280 it was my 25th wedding anniversary. 914 00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:35,400 We had got married at Walt Disney World on May 13th, 1996. 915 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:38,960 We knew that our 25th was coming up, so we were able to get a 916 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,000 room at the Grand Floridian right next to the wedding 917 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:47,400 pavilion on the exact same day that we got married 25 years 918 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:49,600 ago. So when it came to this trip, I 919 00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:52,760 was like, OK, let me do some research because I have a little 920 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:56,320 bit of a room request and I know everyone does, but I just want 921 00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,760 to be able to maybe to look at the wedding pavilion, like have 922 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,800 a balcony that we could look at the wedding pavilion. 923 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:03,160 We didn't want an upgrade or anything like that. 924 00:47:03,480 --> 00:47:05,640 So I had looked into, you know, what's the best way to do it? 925 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,080 And I swear to God, I think I did everything possible. 926 00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:12,080 I was faxing smoke signals. I had a horse drop off something 927 00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,000 at the resort with like a cake, anything to just try to get my 928 00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:18,680 room request to say, listen, we're going to be there on the 929 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:21,080 actual day. Is there any way that we could 930 00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,880 get just a nice view? You know, we had paid for a 931 00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,840 Lakeview, so we just want haven't look at the cat because 932 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:30,160 how often is it 25 years ago that day someone's right there, 933 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,840 got married right next door. We had then got there, we 934 00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:35,840 checked in and we explained to the lady, this is such a big 935 00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:36,440 day. My God. 936 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,160 It was literally almost at this exact same time. 937 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,120 We had just gotten married 25 years ago. 938 00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:43,680 And she's like, oh, that's so great. 939 00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,760 Let me check you in and your room is ready. 940 00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:49,880 So we're like, OK, this is either really good or they're 941 00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,160 just going to throw us into like the first available room. 942 00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,320 And they threw us into the first available room that overlooked 943 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,640 the parking lot. And it was, it was just one of 944 00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,440 those things where it was like, and I even called like from the 945 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,640 room and I was not looking for any sort of an upgrade. 946 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:07,880 It was just a, you know, we barely saw the lake. 947 00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,800 It was a lake view. So we talked to them and I was 948 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,480 like, listen, I'm not trying to be difficult, but I got 125th 949 00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,280 wedding anniversary where I'm right next door to where I got 950 00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,400 married. Is there any way that there's 951 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,120 another room may be available that could have a little bit 952 00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,440 better of a view than like a sliver of the lake and the 953 00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:26,560 parking lot? And they were like, no, I'm 954 00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:28,320 sorry. No, that was it. 955 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,360 So we're like, OK, let's just make the best of it. 956 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,040 Which of course, we obviously did. 957 00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:36,280 But we went out to dinner and we came back that night and we're 958 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,200 so used to Disney service after so many years that we're like, 959 00:48:39,240 --> 00:48:42,520 OK, I think everybody on property cast member wise knows 960 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,200 because we've told everyone that it's our 25th wedding 961 00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,480 anniversary today. Surely we're going to get back 962 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,600 to the room and there's going to be like a cookie or there's 963 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,520 going to be something like a little hey, congratulations, 964 00:48:53,520 --> 00:48:55,040 blah, blah, blah. Got back to the room. 965 00:48:55,240 --> 00:48:58,600 Nothing, not one thing. So there was no sort of 966 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,720 acknowledgement of this monumental that for us, again, 967 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:05,840 it was such a huge, huge deal. And that's if we didn't expect 968 00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,440 it because it's happened before where Disney cast members go 969 00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,400 above and beyond. We wouldn't have been so kind of 970 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:14,960 disappointed. Which then segways me into 971 00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:17,480 staying at the Boardwalk for my wife's 50th. 972 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,600 We had just let them know in a simple way nothing is crazy 973 00:49:20,600 --> 00:49:22,000 because it was like, oh, that's our 50th. 974 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,120 Hey, if we could get a cool like Boardwalk view room, that would 975 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:27,520 be great. This was just a couple years ago 976 00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:30,720 and we checked in out of nowhere, didn't even say 977 00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:32,560 anything. They upgraded us to a one 978 00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:37,840 bedroom boardwalk view room. We had checked into the room and 979 00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:42,320 they had a set of these coffee mugs from the boardwalk. 980 00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,600 They had a whole little like cookie platter with a big happy 981 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,400 50th birthday sign on it. A little thing from the 982 00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,160 characters. You know, we hope you guys have 983 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,200 a magical 50th birthday blah blah blah. 984 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:56,040 And I was like, that's what I'm used to. 985 00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,760 Like that kind of service that, you know, kind of going above 986 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,760 and beyond. And, you know, it didn't cost 987 00:50:01,760 --> 00:50:06,320 them anything, but it meant the world to us because it was like, 988 00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:09,200 well, we don't expect anything on this trip based on what 989 00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:12,040 happened on our 25th. But we were so pleasantly 990 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,080 surprised. And we're like, that's the magic 991 00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:19,720 that I, you know, cast members need to have that ability to be 992 00:50:19,720 --> 00:50:23,400 able to, in those circumstances, do those little things that 993 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:26,160 don't cost them. Honest to God, it doesn't cost 994 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:30,120 you anything, you know, but it means the world to people when 995 00:50:30,120 --> 00:50:33,480 they do those kind of out of nowhere little experiences. 996 00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:38,040 So that's my my disappointment followed by a redemption. 997 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,760 I guess you could kind of say that's it. 998 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:45,440 Yeah, Yeah, that can really that that would be very disappointing 999 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:47,720 to me, especially if I had gone through all of that work. 1000 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,480 Like, you know, even to this day, a lot of people like look 1001 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,160 at us and they think we get special treatment when we go to 1002 00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,280 the rooms and resorts. And it's like we do not, you 1003 00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:57,880 know, and we don't ask for that either. 1004 00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,760 Like we want to be treated like every other Joe Schmo. 1005 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,560 I want you know, you, all the listeners, the viewers out there 1006 00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:08,200 to be able to celebrate your special events and your trips in 1007 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,360 a unique way here. And I want Disney to use that 1008 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,760 extra Pixie dust on all of you because we could live down here 1009 00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,520 in the magic that's, you know, that that's special enough as it 1010 00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,920 is for us. But to go through everything you 1011 00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:23,720 went through but you just had to be famous on some mediocre 1012 00:51:23,720 --> 00:51:26,760 podcast on the Internet and then finally they acknowledged you 1013 00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:28,680 when in previous month apparently. 1014 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,000 Right, but but that's just it. And that's how important cast 1015 00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:36,360 members aren't and, and, and why we all love them so much and why 1016 00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:40,000 we go because so many of the greatest stories that we tell 1017 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,200 our friends and tell our family, like why are you going back to 1018 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,640 Disney World again? My God, go, go somewhere else. 1019 00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,760 So much of that is because of our interaction with the cast 1020 00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:51,240 members, you know, So that's why we do have such high 1021 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:54,680 expectations of them and they're when they're left to doing what 1022 00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:57,720 they can do best, it's life changing. 1023 00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:59,960 It's awesome. Yeah, Yeah, for sure. 1024 00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,480 Well, Jeff, round us out, I think, I think I've got everyone 1025 00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,400 else on their negative so far, so. 1026 00:52:06,360 --> 00:52:09,280 Just let's kill this puppy. Take us all the way into the 1027 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,480 darkness. My two really good ones, Panda 1028 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,600 and Amy, already stole but we don't need to talk about them. 1029 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,200 So I had a backup. And this is going to sound like 1030 00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:23,320 a weird flex, but believe it or not out of all the attractions 1031 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,360 that were built at Walt Disney World, the one that was the 1032 00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:29,920 biggest let down for me and still remains to be is Remy's 1033 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:34,600 Ratatouille Adventure. And the reason for that is, is 1034 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:39,440 we rode that in Paris when we went in 2017 and loved it at the 1035 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,560 time. And then it was announced it was 1036 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,000 coming to Disney World for the 50th anniversary. 1037 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,280 And we got super excited cuz I kind of thought that maybe they 1038 00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:52,800 would update that ride and make it cool for us down here in 1039 00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:56,000 Disney World. It's the same technology as Rise 1040 00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,440 of the Resistance, but it's just a universal ride with screens. 1041 00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:03,520 And I just, I think I was just so let down. 1042 00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:07,360 They punted with something for the 50th anniversary, to Paul's 1043 00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:12,320 point that I I wrote it the last time we had some friends in 1044 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:13,560 town. This has been about three months 1045 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:17,080 ago and I still don't get why it's a 90 minute wait all the 1046 00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:18,600 time. That ride just sucks. 1047 00:53:18,800 --> 00:53:22,360 It sucks almost as a figment and that's saying. 1048 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:25,200 Something wow this I. Hit it. 1049 00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:29,360 There is no upgrade to it there. It's just they took Paris and 1050 00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,240 brought it over here and did nothing to it. 1051 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,960 So it's already dated compared to Rise, compared to Mickey and 1052 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,560 Minnie's runaway Railway that all uses that same, you know, 1053 00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:40,640 technology. You look at what you can do with 1054 00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,960 that type of ride vehicle. Even SeaWorld has a better 1055 00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,640 trackless ride vehicle than Remy. 1056 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:48,640 And so I was just so disappointed that it's just 1057 00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:54,040 screens with like a physical set that you look through, but the 1058 00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:59,600 car doesn't do anything. I don't know, I just that was a 1059 00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:05,720 Epcot needs rides so badly to suck up some of these guests 1060 00:54:05,720 --> 00:54:09,480 that we talk about and for them to just kind of go, yeah, we're 1061 00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:11,280 just going to bring this one over from here. 1062 00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,520 We're going to bring Tron over, which is also the exact same 1063 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,360 clone. Like make them a little 1064 00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:20,840 different, do something that makes U.S. special. 1065 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,560 Not We're just getting everybody's leftovers. 1066 00:54:24,160 --> 00:54:25,920 Yeah, yeah. I don't know how that sounded to 1067 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,680 anyone else, but it sounded like an admission of guilt that Jeff 1068 00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,720 started the fire behind Epcot the other day to try to actually 1069 00:54:32,720 --> 00:54:34,040 get. Off Remy's. 1070 00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:38,320 Ratatouille Adventure. Yeah, Tron was. 1071 00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:40,640 Tron was in my head the whole time you were talking. 1072 00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:44,920 We we never ride the Ratatouille ride because it it. 1073 00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,560 Was a one and done. It's it's not that I dislike it 1074 00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:53,200 to Jeff's level, but it's not exciting enough to warrant the 1075 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:54,720 wait time. Right. 1076 00:54:55,560 --> 00:55:00,360 And I'm sorry but 3D technology for me that is so outdated 1077 00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:01,800 anymore. It's jumped the shark. 1078 00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,040 I know, stop making me wear glasses. 1079 00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,240 When they tried to get everyone on board with the 3D televisions 1080 00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:10,040 for your house. And I'm just like, I hate 3D 1081 00:55:10,040 --> 00:55:13,200 movies in general. Just make my television better 1082 00:55:13,200 --> 00:55:15,400 and make my viewing experience at home better. 1083 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:18,480 Like why do we have to go 3D like? 1084 00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:22,840 No, it and you look at these and I like, I'm not saying that 1085 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,240 everything has to be a rise of the resistance, nothing. 1086 00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:29,280 It doesn't have to be that epic of a scale every time, but you 1087 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:34,040 can do more with an attraction that you've already made that 1088 00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:35,080 all. Right. 1089 00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,400 We could have got an extra scene. 1090 00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,480 An extra scene would have been great, like a big extra scene. 1091 00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:43,080 Do something other than make them instead of the screen, 1092 00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,800 making it feel like you're doing something. 1093 00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,560 The cart The cart tilts a little bit, but it's not enough to. 1094 00:55:48,640 --> 00:55:51,160 But not like the dancing scene in Mickey and Minnie's Runaway 1095 00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,040 Railway. This is what I'm talking about. 1096 00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:55,840 You know, the the technology's there to do a lot with. 1097 00:55:56,600 --> 00:56:01,040 All you're doing is watching snippets of the movie inside a 1098 00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:04,920 little rat car and like, at least the Paris one exits into 1099 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,600 their French restaurant. Yeah, yeah, You know what I 1100 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:08,280 mean? Like that? 1101 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,160 Was a huge mess. I just, I don't know, I was 1102 00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:15,480 really disappointed in their lack of updating for that. 1103 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,000 Although Jeff's left, if it if it makes you feel better, I did 1104 00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,360 hear that they're working on it now and it's supposed to be 1105 00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:24,960 ready like in a a year. So the car, the little rat cars 1106 00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,000 going to somehow go over to Canada and right into the 1107 00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:31,160 Polynesian stale. So it's going to be a perfect, 1108 00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:34,360 perfect slip. Well, one of the big things that 1109 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,120 I think he jumped off the page when Jeff came up with this 1110 00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:41,800 topic for us was that we are super excited to hear about your 1111 00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,360 experiences. What are things that have been a 1112 00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:49,000 pleasant surprise in the Disney barks that you have experienced? 1113 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,000 Try to stay positive like we did early on in the show. 1114 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,320 Think about those those things that really surprised you, 1115 00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,520 whether it be related to the parks or Disney Vacation Club. 1116 00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,680 And then of course, yeah, we want to hear about the things 1117 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:04,280 that really disappointed you as well because those things 1118 00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:09,480 empower us and give us show topics for future discussions to 1119 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,960 to ramble on about. But please leave those in the 1120 00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:16,120 comments of this video. Or if you're listening to this 1121 00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,640 on an audio podcast, you do have the ability to comment there as 1122 00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:23,760 well or joining the conversation over in the DVC fan Facebook 1123 00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,440 group. But we really look forward to 1124 00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:29,360 engaging you in those comments and hearing what you have to say 1125 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,560 and those things that have either surprised or disappointed 1126 00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,000 you over the years when it relates to Disney and Disney 1127 00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:37,640 parks. That's going to do it for this 1128 00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:41,400 week's episode of the DVC Show. We hope you enjoyed it, or if 1129 00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:43,920 you didn't enjoy it, then maybe this is your disappointment for 1130 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:47,400 the week. But until next week, we will see 1131 00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,200 you next Monday.