I started a really bad trend a couple shows ago where I found a
random picture and I made Derek talk about it and then my wife
said oh I should do that to you and here we are.
So. Am I just supposed to AirDrop it
over to? You or you can just show it to
me. You know it's going to go on the
screen. I will they'll be an overlay
like or do you want them all to see it right now?
Right now. Oh OK, so you're air dropping it
to my computer right now. I'm going to save to downloads.
Here it comes. This is kind.
Of like Derek trying to book a lightning lane.
It oh, that would be that would be a show in and of itself.
Let. Me see, I got my glasses on.
There we go. There it is.
Oh my gosh, is this the new Stranger Things?
That was me right after I saw Debba Gorgon.
That's the noise. I'm amazed.
Please tell me this is the photo that started the fear of
bicycles. Between the two, this.
Is probably. After they save ET.
Yeah, he fell out of my basket and I ran over him.
That's why I've got that face. ET didn't make it back to the
ship. This actually was when Amy and I
were first together in our first apartment.
We lived in Wheeling at the time and I got this idea where I
wanted to learn to bike. So I I never as a kid learned
how to ride a bike. I did have a bike which is
actually still this bike that I'm riding on in this picture is
the same bike from my childhood. And so Amy then took that summer
to teach me how to ride my bike. And so the one thing that I was
really bad at was both turning and brakes and so.
And passing anything like people on other bikes.
I'm a much more confident. Pedestrian.
I'm a much more confident biker than Amy wants me to be because
like, I'm like, hey, let's get some bikes because we, we now
live in an area that has a lot of trails and stuff.
And she's like, over my dead body.
Are we getting a bike? Because you're just going to
get, you're going to become like a Rd. sickle or you know.
Road Pizza. Road pizza or something.
But yeah, this was a night we went to a park and I rode
around. There's actually a great video
that goes with this where you can hear how squeaky my brakes
are. So I'm just like going around
and doing turns in this parking lot and you just hear and it's
just me, like hammering the brakes around the corner.
I don't, I don't think that was the bike making that noise,
Paul. I think that was that's.
The noise I'm making in this in that photo.
So all right, that was a good one.
That was a good one to bring up. Get ready for next week.
Get ready. I have a whole album for you.
Oh great whole album. I'm going to stop sending
pictures to you guys. Oh, your Facebook is readily
available. Hey everybody, and welcome to
this week's episode of The DVC Show.
I'm your host, Paul Krieger, joined by my wife, who likes to
blackmail me, Amy Krieger. We've got John Sicari, Big fat
Panda with us. Welcome home everyone.
The one, the only Derek de Boer. Knows he's wearing his Prince
Charming shirt, Sorry. That's why I was going to do
like a like a curtsy Prince of DVC.
Let me wait. Wait, wait, wait.
Let's back up. Try it again.
The Prince of DVC Resale, Derek Devol.
Well, hey now, and happy Monday to each and every one of you.
You aged yourself like real bad like you you.
You sounded like an 80 year old telling us hello.
And there's. Jeff's just tired of us going to
him last after that nonsense. I need new friends.
The dog is like what is. That look you made, you made so
much noise that cinders got up and he 'cause he heard a high
pitched noise and he woke up from his slumber and now he's
like, hey, what was is that a squeaky toy?
No, just Derek making a noise on a podcast.
So. I apologize for that my 4 legged
friend. Well, welcome everybody.
This week's episode, we are not sorry for our antics because it
really is we it's half the fun for us.
So we absolutely love each other's company and we love kind
of our random antics at the start of the show.
It helps loosen us up, warm us up for the discussion that is
yet to come. And this week we have titled the
show something along the lines of DVC fans.
Best of where The one and only Amy Krieger has come up with a
list of random topics. And we're going to go around the
room and say what is our choice for the best of whatever she
comes up with. And I'm excited.
I'm excited to see kind of where this goes.
I always enjoy shows where you kind of take the lead and and
host them as well. I like, I don't mind like
leading the conversation. I don't like feeling like I have
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Back to the best of DVC fan Amy. Take us through our first topic
so that I can just stop thinking for a second.
OK, so some of these are DVC related, but they don't all have
to be. They could be related to
something in one of the parks, Disneyland, Disney World, or
could be related to something at, you know, any of the other
resorts. So Alani, Vero, Hilton Head,
Disney World, cause a lot of times we always think Disney
World and then sometimes we forget like there's a lot of
other places out there for DBC. So DBC fan, best of the first
one is what do you think is the best pool swimming pool?
I know I say that word weird at a Disney property.
It's. Pretty easy I think.
All right, yeah, if you got the answer so fast, Panda, go for
it. It's the yacht and beach club.
I don't know. I don't think we can get a
better pool than that, especially with the sands
bottom. Oh, no, Jeff is saying no, so I
need to hear what he says. But that's that would be my OK
Good. All right.
That was my favorite pool that I've been at, at a Disney resort
that I could imagine. It is.
It is kind of the complete complex.
We've not. It's got a lazy river.
You've got the slide, the flying jib, I believe it is called,
yes. At the time of this
conversation, it is still under refurbishment, correct?
So it is going to be very fresh and new when it reopens.
Sometime in June I believe is when it's supposed to reopen,
which this show might not go up until then, so.
It might be open. I don't know, but we'll, we'll
be, we'll be pretty close to that.
And not to get ahead of ourselves, but Disney's
Lakeshore Lodge looks like it's going to have a pool complex
that rivals Beach Club, which it's got to.
But that's based on the concept art, and if we look at the
concept art from Abu Dhabi, could be wrong.
You have a point. Do you have a good?
Point Abu Dhabi's concept art looks like baby's first
watercolor. We're also going off of concept
art from Reflections, which was the first name before it did its
name change and decided to come back to life.
So. Jeff, what is your best pool?
I am a fan of the Poly, the main pool of the Poly.
I love the water slide because it goes inside The Cave.
Dole whips are readily available.
You can see the fireworks if that's your thing.
Just the tropical vibe, the the tiki torches.
That's the problem with Stormalong Bay is the lazy river
is really lazy. It's really slow and it's like 9
feet deep. Then you lose your kids and to
ride the water slide. The ride the water slide is
great, but you have to like walk through Epcot to get to it.
And so I'm. A I'm a Poly pool fan.
For me. And your bare feet.
Speaking of lazy rivers, I don't know how much people follow like
cruising like Amy and I do, but they just announced Royal
Caribbean, announced Perfect Day Mexico.
It's going to have like a mile long lazy river or something
crazy that's supposed to take you like an hour or more and it
can go from, as Jeff says, what? How'd you call it?
Super lazy and calm. Or it can be like the intense
crazy river, like the the one that's at Volcano Bay.
Fearless. Fearless.
An an hour to go around the lazy river.
One hour. Oh my God, it's about all the
boy time. If you were worried about the
kids peeing in the pool before, you're going to be peeing in the
pool for an hour. It's going to be.
About. It Why is it yellow when we're
getting off? I didn't know how we'd get to
pee, but we did. Derek, can you save us from
this? What's your favorite pool?
I can you go with Panda because it's easy.
I mean, it is Stormalong Bay and I'm with Jeff.
I thought about, I was going to say the Poly, but my problem
with the Poly is I feel it's too crowded.
And I know some people might say that about Stormalong Bay, but I
feel like at least Stormalong Bay has areas that are kind of
secluded, like they've got little nooks and crannies.
It's got multiple levels. I feel like as much as cool as
that Polly Pool is, the main pool, it's really not.
It's just chair on top of chair. You can't even walk in front.
You've got to sometimes go by the side.
You're like laying on top of the family, like right next to you.
It's just too crowded. But my close second after my
stay there a couple months ago is the the the new pool at
Island Tower. I think that's my second
favorite pool. It's not crowded.
There's actual space between the lounge chairs, so you've got
room to move around. And that view is phenomenal.
Like you see the castle right there.
It's just so much less crowded than that main Poly pool.
So storm along winds easy because storm along Bay's got
sand on the bottom of it. For God's sakes.
It's sand like that's so cool and the lazy easy river and you
can go to different parts. It just feels like it's just so,
so cool. But close second Pauley Island
Tower pool. Don't.
Don't sleep on that pool. Paul, you have some homework to
do before this show goes up and you need to go back when we
first started talking about the Polly Tower and just splice in
right here Derek's comments about how crappy that pool is
and the Mist design and everything that he hates about
it because it. Wasn't even filled with it.
Wasn't even filled with water he didn't expect.
There to be water, Jeff, It's it's a reasonable confusion.
He thought that they were just gonna leave it as a concrete
cave. Once you're there in person and
you realize that I could walk a little bit and I could sit with
30,000 people at the main polypool or walk just a little
bit more and it's nice and quiet and calm.
I mean, is it super spectacular? No.
I mean, it's a nice quiet pool, but it's the crowd differential
is what does it for me. So yeah.
If I'm taking myself and and asking this question across all
of DVC 1 answer. That's what I was going to say.
Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't go to Hawaii.
If you go to Hawaii and you experience the pool complex
there, it's a it's a game in itself getting the wristbands
every day and collecting all of the wristbands over the course
of the week. The.
Lazy river. Yeah, I I mean.
Yeah, I didn't think to include Alani.
So I I would say that. Yeah, sorry Pan, I didn't even
interrupt. And then for me it's that pool
that overlooks the ocean. The.
Infinity. Pool.
With the Infinity edge, yeah. So they have a full package all
the way around. I would probably say the pool
that I've spent the most time in at Walt Disney World has been
Storm along Bay. That's the one that like
everyone just keeps going back to.
But it also is, you know, pretty chaotic most, most times.
I personally like the pool at the Villas at Disney's Grand
Floridian. We've spent a couple days there
and that Village pool is also pretty nice pool.
Yeah, it's where the Beach Beaches Bar and Grill is as
well. They have their side over there.
No, no the. Quiet pool at the The big quiet.
Pool at the courtyard pool. Way better than that one with
the rock that's always got like white stuff all over it coming
off the the waterfall and you can sit behind that rock.
That pool's way too crowded. That pool's way too crowded.
The main pool is awesome at the. Ground.
At least it has water. I have two pools I want to give
an honorable mention to. I love the pool at Jambo House.
I think it's just a really good size.
There's a lot of space. And then I love the pool at Vero
Beach. I do like.
The pool, yeah, yeah, it's a good one.
It's a great one. It's got a good slide.
It's shaped like Mickey. Yep, it's it's a cool, it's a
cool space. Yeah.
And if this question was water slides, my my answers would be
completely different, but yeah. Not on the.
OK, moving on, where in Disney can you find the best pizza?
Oh. My answer's going to surprise
everybody so. Well, I want to start with Jeff
because he is the bona fide pizza connoisseur of this group.
Oh, Panda is also Italian. He is Panda is Italian, but
Jeff's like the guy that says I've not found good pizza in
Florida yet so. Yeah, and it's, and I'm, I'm a
little, I'm not sure connoisseur is the right word because I'm a
snob when it comes to pizza. My family back home owned a
pizza place. He's going to say pizza Rizzo.
I'm never going to say pizza. So surprisingly my answer is
going to be well, I've got a solid Disney World one and then
an honorable mansion. But my my Disney World One
Connections eatery at Epcot it. It is.
It is really good and it's made the same way pizza good.
Pizza thin, it's greasy it there's not a lot of options,
but it's just a solid slice of pepperoni pizza.
I love it, but my honorable. Mention also San Marzano
tomatoes and 0 flour dough in connection.
So there's a reason it tastes so good.
It's not just they they made it accidentally good.
It's good. Yeah, my honorable mention is
out at Disneyland at Pizza Planet, believe it or not, I do
like the pizza out at Pizza Planet at Disneyland, but that's
we're talking fast food gross pizza.
So I mean it is what it is, but Connections eatery for sure.
Panda. You're the resident.
Have you? Yeah, I'm going to go with Jeff
with connections, but I'm going to say Pizza Ponte, which is
actually made the same way. Have you eaten there, Jeff?
It is. That is good.
Yeah, that is it's. The same pizza as Connections if
they've made it the same way. Zero flour doughs, San Marzano
tomatoes, good cheese, it's good.
So Pizza Ponte or Connections eatery to me.
They make a great pizza, they really do.
Since we're going with two answers each, I'll give you 2
answers and one of them you. You all will just scoff.
At I know what you're going to. Say the first one is we have
been to Wolfgang Puck's a couple times and we had a very good
pizza at Wolfgang Puck's at Disney Springs one time.
That's what like goes to my mind when I think of of probably a
good pizza on property. The pizza place that I spend the
most time at on property is Blaze I.
Knew you were going to say. That I knew it was coming.
And here's the thing I love. It's like a Subway or it's like
your local sandwich shop or anything like that.
I can build exactly what I want. I know that I'm going to like
what comes out of that oven no matter what.
Paying per topping No. Yeah, for a chain restaurant,
Blaze Pizza is perfectly fine. I'm I'm.
Yeah, I've enjoyed it too. So there you go, Derek, Have you
had pizza on property? Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm
surprised. I'm, I'm going to go with the
most cliched obvious choice, which is Via Napoli.
So if I'm going to get pizza, I'm going to go to Via Napoli at
Italy, at Epcot. But I will give my honorable
mention and it's a really sad one because it's kind of rest in
peace. So a few seconds of silence,
which the Boardwalk pizza window used use for years, sell the
best flipping pizza in the world.
When we used to go there and stay at the boardwalk, we used
to order pizza would do people would be in line just getting
whole entire pies and eating them on the boardwalk.
I don't know what they did, but they screwed up that pizza like
years ago. You never get a.
Full pie there, now we. Can't even get a full pie and it
just makes me so mad because we have so many memories of our
kids growing up. Where long day in the park.
You come back from Epcot, you go out there, you get your box and
you wait, you get a beer and you sit right there on the
boardwalk, and you all just split your pizza for some
reason. And I'm sure what we know it is
is they listen to our guests. And our guests told us that we
didn't want to, you know, the option to buy an entire pizza.
But yeah, so be an apple. Eat currently and rest in peace.
Boardwalk pizza window. We all ate it the pizza window
for Summerfest and I think it kicked all of our trash.
I think we all ended up in the restroom.
At some point that night. Pretty much.
I actually almost threw a whole pizza away.
Well, and we not a whole pizza you it was a slice of pizza.
Yeah, 'cause it's just a slice. The slices were like 10 to $15
each. And then we asked, we said you
don't do like a whole pizza. And they said well we could but
you have to buy 4 slices and I'm like $50.00 for a pizza.
No like this is. This is why you get the Flyers
under your DVC door rooms for flippers pizza.
Which is also terrible. Which is yeah, don't do.
That really everybody talks about it.
It used to be decent and now it's just not.
So it's owned by the same people that do the pizza window at
Boardwalk, that's what you're saying?
I would eat Little Caesars before I ate flippers, that's
how bad it is. Hey I like a $5 hot and ready.
Are they still $5? 699 now my.
Come on now, that's like what they did that a $5 footlong. 5
Did you know that you can get footlong nachos though Subway
now? Footlong.
Subway needs to do French bread pizza.
Subway could really ace French bread pizza.
They already got the bread, sauce and cheese.
Put it in. The ad at Subway to our
potential sponsor list, because that's a great idea.
Oh, and how have we talked about pizza so far and not brought up
our potential Red Baron? Red Baron Pizza.
There is no potential sponsor you.
Said you had to weigh in here. You said you figured it out.
What were you going to do? I wrote.
I wrote them. You need to dress up as the Red
Baron. Can you read us the poem?
No. Where's the poem?
You've got to have it saved somewhere.
I do, but it's really long. Where is it?
I will read it. No, please.
Maybe a Patreon? The world.
While you're looking at it, guys, I'm not even joking.
While you're looking at that panda, you need to try their
triple bacon pizza, The Red Baron.
One, I think that sounds good already.
OK, wait a minute. I didn't.
I didn't get to say my Disney, which is why we're here.
My honorable mention is the pizza window at Epcot.
It's almost never open. But it's open.
It's been pretty good. It is good, but the best pizza I
ever had at Disney was at the Craftsman Grill.
Quick service at Grand California.
That is good pizza too, and you can get that at the pool.
Yeah, and you can get a whole pizza.
Yep. And it's a really good price.
Like I thought I was paying for an individual pizza and we got
that whole large pizza. Do you remember?
We wondered why it was taking so long.
Right, it was. It was a whole.
Piece a whole pizza, like a large.
Pizza that. Is.
Good pizza I forget about. That one, I just want to show
this to the camera real quick. So Amy wrote this novel, which
I'm going to read in a second, but then she attached literally
every screenshot of the group talking about Red Baron Pizza.
They didn't say anything other than thanks for being a fan.
And then, then, then a copy of where our group is.
All they wrote back was thanks for being an amazing fan :) oh.
Bro that. Was some AR response.
But yeah, and that's what they wrote.
Back to this ode to Red Baron and your Mexican pizza by a
hungry DVC fan. Oh, Red Baron pizza in flight.
Your Mexican magic is pure delight.
One bite in and I saw the light cheese, spice and Peppers.
My soul took flight. It started with me, just one
little fan craving a pie with a bold, zesty plan.
I posted, I raved on video, made quite the fuss and suddenly our
community joined the bus. Yes, DVC fan, that Disney clad
crew were not just for castles or skyline interviews.
We're snack connoisseurs with mouths to feed and your Mexican
pie fulfilled that need. Our members cheered.
What is this joy? It tastes like a Taco made love
to a doughboy. The love spread fast like melted
cheese. Soon everyone begged Red Baron
more please. So now we ask with pizza in
hand, let's team up. Make this partnership grand.
Together we'll fly like toppings in sink, bringing joy one slice
at a time and maybe a drink. But one small plea we humbly
declare, Keep this pizza. It's beyond compare.
Don't let it vanish like a park day snack or we'll riot nicely
with mouse ears but still come back.
So here's to the Baron. Spicy and bold for pizzas that
shimmer like Cinderella's gold. Let's cook up some magic, you
and this clan. Much love and slices from your
DVC fan. Wow, that was.
Pretty amazing. Amazing, Pretty amazing.
I didn't know that Amy Krieger was a poet until now.
I would buy all your books. I have a degree in English.
I know. And I did not use any AI for
that. We need to have AI make us a
cartoon like the Grinch that Stole Christmas.
Yeah. So all I thought about was his
heart grew 3 sizes that day with that, Yeah.
We could make, could you imagine, 6 copies of that book.
If she set this to some banjo music it would be like a 1-2
punch. It would be.
Oh, people are going to look at the I I have started our viewers
have requested that we start putting time stamps in the show
to each section and they're going to be like man, why was
the best pizza section 25 minutes long.
We realized very quick that we enjoy pizza.
Take us to our next best of Amy, now that you're embarrassed
that. Was so good.
No, Amy, that was good. Thank you, I did take poetry in
college. OK, best lounge and it doesn't
need it doesn't have to be a DVC lounge.
It could be, you know, a dine, a lounge where you get drinks and
dining. All right, let's get Derek's out
of the way, because we all know what it's going to be.
Yep. Cruise Cup lounge.
Easy, nice, small. They got TV's, they got big
boots, they got beer. It's a perfect lounge right
there, right outside the Oxford cruise.
Cup Lounge. It was booze.
He. Got booze?
Big what? I didn't.
I would like to rewind that. I would think to big booze that
you sent. Oh boots.
Oh. Boots.
Oh, none of us were even right, we thought.
We thought the revised version was booze that you drink.
No, no. That first one, I swear I don't
know. OK, OK, I do.
We did have a really good experience when we finally went
over to Crew Cup. We did and the sliders were just
as great as. Derek.
Proposed there would. Be cozy.
The chips. The housemaid chips.
We sat in a big booths booth and had some booze and so it was a
good a good all around trip. Panda what is your go to lounge
whether it be a DVC lounge or a food lounge or.
You know, I love the Riviera next to the coffee shop.
I love that you can get your coffee.
You can even, I think you can get a drink there too.
But then there's that, that little library on the end.
I don't even know the name of it.
Does anybody know if it has a name?
It does. It does have a.
Name Voyagers Lounge. Voyagers.
OK, I love that. But it could be because I'm
biased that I'm in my happy place when I'm there and I'm
using my points so I don't know, but.
We tried to go there just yesterday.
It was. It was act.
It was really loud. Really, really loud music.
Yeah, I tried to work in there. It's usually dead with like 4
people if. That there was nobody there when
I was waiting for you guys to at Hollywood studios the other day.
I went there to work while. I think it's a difference of we
were there in the morning and all everyone's sitting there
waiting for their rooms to be ready versus being there after
everyone's got their rooms. That makes.
Sense they should be at a water park, yeah.
Were they soggy in the? Were they soggy in the?
There was no one, nobody was soggy in there, no.
Someone did say hi to me though, so it was very nice to meet
somebody in there. I love the cold brew at the yes.
Amy's not a coffee drinker, but let me tell you, you give this
girl a cold brew, she will suck that down in 10 seconds flat.
Like I had one sip out of my cold brew and I look over and
she's like at the bottom of it. Like it was like.
Wow, it's so good. So she is a coffee drinker.
She is not a coffee drinker. I don't.
Oh, for cold. For cold brew, she is,
apparently. Apparently, yeah.
But once in a while because it has way too many calories.
But also if if you give her coffee, it's always been at
Riviera where she ends up getting coffee and then she
bounces off the walls for the next 18 hours.
And she does not sleep. You did have trouble going to
sleep last night too again so. And now I drank it, yeah.
Amy, Amy, I can make you a vanilla cold brew with stevia.
Vanilla. You wouldn't know.
It tastes really good and it tastes sweet even though it's a
lecher. Jeff, take us to your favorite
lounge. Barriers to entry aside, I
really just love Trader Sam's at the Poly.
It's just such a cool vibe. The drinks are really, you know,
fun and the glasses they come out in the, the staff is amazing
in there, but it is hard to get into.
You have to have like a fast pass booked seven days out or
something. So my backup, if I'm allowed to
have a backup I really like Victoria Falls at at Jambo above
Boma. Oh yeah, we have never.
It's kind of out of the way. I want to go and sit there.
It's in a quick space. Yes, the way the staircase is
suspended always gets me. I don't know why.
Yeah, it's it's a cool vibe for sure.
Good call. This goes.
This goes back to our conversation a few weeks ago,
which was whether actually, I think it was on the live show,
whether or not we like the idea of a bar coming to the Grand
Floridian. But this is like A2 Fer, which
is that I will either enjoy sitting in Enchanted Rose.
I've had a lot of good experiences there.
If you want to consider that a lounge, I know it can be a bar
basically, or you could actually go next door to the lounge
connected to Citrico's, which is actually what I recommend doing
because less people think of that.
Enchanted Rose is always crazy and always pretty busy.
But if you go next door to an, if you go next door to
Citrico's, then you can actually normally sit down, have some
snacks, have a drink there, and they've got all the same foods
coming out of the same place. Yeah.
Asking this group if you want a bar and the great food is I
guess good child if they open the candy store next to the
house if that's OK. This is true, yeah.
I don't. I don't know that any of us
would balk at that idea. Too much so.
I've been thinking really hard and I don't even know the own
answer, but I'm gonna OK. There are two things to me that
can make a lounge really special.
And one is if they have really good small bites, so like they,
you know, obviously things to eat.
And then the other is like location, like the atmosphere,
the view. So one of them that IA lounge
that I think doesn't get talked about, it's not at a DVC resort,
it's not at a deluxe resort, but it is so pretty.
It has a beautiful view. Do you know where I'm going with
this? Three Bridges I knew, I knew.
I was not going to say Three Bridges, Derek.
Dahlia Lounge. Dahlia Lounge.
If you have never sat up there, it is at the top of the
Grandestino Tower in Coronado Springs.
It is beautiful. Fireworks from up there is
great. The fireworks.
Are great. You can see Hollywood Studios,
Epcot, you can see like Galaxy's Edge.
It's just a really, really cool view and it's very pretty
inside. One of the motifs are
dandelions. Are they still called dandelions
when they're like the little wisher, the seeds that you blow
on? You know what I'm talking about.
Are there still dandelions? I I still call them dandelions.
I don't know what they're called.
I think they're still dandelions and then they turn into like the
yellow flower, but they've got like those we we call them
wishers. They they've got those wishers,
like the lights look like wishers and they've got them on
the wall and it's like blown away.
It's just it's just really pretty.
But if I. Have molded up to remember magic
journeys that was in 3D those things came off the flower and.
Yep, but if I have to pick for food, I'm going to say I'm going
to I'm going to consider why Lulu a lounge because there is
like the bar area and you can just grab a seat there if
there's an opening and get food. It's very I'm.
Surprised that you guys didn't say Wicked Wind down at Top of
the World Lounge. I.
Know you love it so. Much Can't wait for that video
to come out. Can't wait for that place to
clothes and rebrand itself again.
Everyone's favorite or Amy's favorite?
I was going to skip that one. No, we're not skipping I
sandwiches. Yeah, best of.
Sandwiches I I want to preface this by saying that I think
Panda, you're the one that like that sandwich at Riviera.
They changed it. It's not the same anymore.
I actually had it yesterday and I ate the other half for lunch
today. It was decent.
But anyway, Panda, what's the best sandwich at Disney?
OK, there's one that it, it's, it's not the greatest by any
means, but I love it. In the Contemporary Contempo
Cafe, they make a spicy chicken sandwich.
They used to make it with coleslaw on top so you have hot
like Buffalo crispy chicken crispy and good inside and then
cold coleslaw on the top and the juxtaposition between the hot
and the cold is great. They no longer sell it like that
but you can just ask for a side of coleslaw for like $2.00 and
do it yourself and it's the same sandwich I I love.
It that sounds. Really good, I want it right
now. What is yours?
I don't even. Oh well.
OK, my favorite sandwich at Disney is something that the
other Jeff hates and now he's making me question.
But I love it. The holiday Turkey sandwich from
Earl Sandwich. Sandwich.
Everybody I know loves that. It's a solid choice.
Yeah, it's so comforting and it just never lets me down.
I I love it so. Why does the other Jeff hate it?
Gervasio hates it. Yeah, he he, he hates Earl
Sandwich altogether. One of the best quick service.
I even like to shoot. Bully dem as a kid?
I don't know. I'm not much of A foodie, so you
guys are just going to make fun of mine, so let's get that out
of the way so that I can start going to therapy.
The McDonald's by the All Star? Yeah.
No, I it's really, it's going to sound silly, but I like a solid
grilled cheese sandwich. Like it's one of my favorite
things to eat and the one at beaches and cream is the right
bread with the right cheese. There's nothing special about
it, but I love it. And I also really like the
breakfast sandwich at Fryer's Nook and the Magic Kingdom.
The bacon, egg and cheese crochet.
If we're adding breakfast sandwiches.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That's a bacon, egg and cheese
croissant at Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom and it comes with
tater tots. So what?
Only available for breakfast. You got to go tomorrow.
Getting online now. Wow I will say I've not had the
grilled cheese at beaches and cream but their French dip is
very good so I get they have like comforting diner food.
Sometimes simple is OK. Yeah.
I agree. Derek, what do you think?
So I'm going to go with. I don't get some.
Yeah, of course I have to put my glasses on.
I don't. I don't like crave many Disney
food, because Disney food can often times have a rightful
reputation for not being good. Because when you say again, it
wasn't that bad, you know that's not a good thing.
No, no, Jeff. Derek, you say it was perfectly
fine. It was OK.
I didn't. I didn't fine the one food that
I had that I've had it. I started it a couple of years
ago and it's the one thing every time I go to Disney Springs, I
would love to get it, but I can't because the restaurant's
always booked. Is Art Smith's thigh high
chicken biscuits? Oh, it's so good.
Yeah, these are. Let me read it for you.
These are three biscuits topped with Chef Art Smith's famous
fried chicken thighs and bread and butter Pickles drizzled with
hot honey. I.
Swear, somewhere in the middle of that he turned into a radio
announcer. Did you hear?
It there was a switch to the voice, I don't know.
It was you would be a very good you would do radio commercials
real well, Derek, if you ever need a second career.
And an interesting fun fact, Thigh High Chicken Biscuits was
Jeff's stage name when he used to sing.
Also the name of the dead hooker that he found.
Yeah, I've been waiting to use that joke all day for the last
three hours. I'm like, get to the sandwich.
Get. To the sandwich that's so funny.
That's why he's going to be so devastated when you were going
to skip sandwiches. That is a really good, that is a
really good sandwich. Like don't skip it.
But yeah, that's such a good sandwich.
And again, I would love to get it every time.
Like I wish they had like a walk up take out window that you can
but Shepard Smith trying to get a reservation at that flipping
point. How hard you could walk in and
order it. I bet you they'd they'd make it,
just give it to you. Then they asked me to leave,
just standing there. Chef Art himself will be there
that day. He'll be like, Sir, please.
Paul, what's yours? Throughout the conversation, the
the thing that it has been in my head in terms of a sandwich the
whole time has been the chicken salad sandwich that I recently
had at the Cake Bake Shop. Oh, that was.
Really, that was a very, very, it was a chicken salad croissant
and it was very, very good. They they balanced you can you
can go wrong with chicken salad really fast.
You know, I it was the perfect balance of the mayonnaise and
everything like that. So really enjoyed that.
The next one is a debate kind of is a hot dog a sandwich?
But I'm just going to and I'm basically going to say a Ronto
wrap is something that I have always really.
Enjoyed. My problem with it they're only
open from like 12:50 like it they have the shortest hours.
I feel like of any place anytime I go by the ronto wrap stand
anymore I'm just like where are they?
I think you can get it inside at docking Bay.
I don't think so, actually. You you can with the Disneyland
1 is it I I saw it on the mobile order for Disneyland but not I
don't think ours. I don't know if ours changed or
not, but. What's what's in a Bonto wrap?
What's in it? It's like.
A. Sausage.
It's like a piece of pork. Well, it's roast pork, grilled
pork sausage, peppercorn sauce and a tangy slaw wrapped in pita
bread. Thank you.
Where was the radio announcer voice for that?
I can't do it. Oh no.
It was pretty good. That was good.
Going. Pretty good roasted pork.
Stuff. OK.
Amy's like, wow, this is a terrible show, no.
One's going. You read them.
You read them I'm. Having I want to get through all
these, so we got to we got to get going.
Now this is going to be a 2 for they'll be the best of part.
When we do 2 for. They'll be the best of Part 2.
I promise, because I'm going to add to the list.
All right, the next one is the best Disney thrill ride.
Oh, come on. Everybody's going to say the
same thing. Probably.
If it's not Guardians, you're wrong.
It's Guardians, Absolutely. Yeah, I knew.
I knew us three would get Guardians.
What about them? Amy and Paul.
Oh, Guardians hands down. Paul just wants to be different.
No, but if like if I'm here's the thing, we ride Guardians so
much that I'm like, it's great. I ride it every time.
But for me going out to Disneyland and riding like the
Incredi coaster, I'm like, this is awesome.
Like it's it, and it's because it's just not in my face every
day. Right, right, right.
The fact that you ride Guardians so much means it is your
probably your favorite I. Actually avoid riding guardians
most days. Don't you people at home just
feel so sorry for him? You poor thing.
More unfortunate soul. So, so many Guardian rides.
You're just tired of it. So many alarms of Amy waking up
at 6:55 AM to make Guardian back when it was a virtual queue and
I. Think it's so, so funny that on
this topic, like all the other ones, it like took me a while
and I kept like going back and forth, wow, what about this or
like this? Because Disney has no thrill
lines. And again, that's why if you had
what's the best thrill ride in a universal park, you'd be like,
oh God, there's this one, this one, this one.
Disney, it's like, no, it's still a Velocicoaster.
It's not hard. Did you ride Stardust?
Yeah, love Stardust. Stardust.
Been on, never been on. Yeah, I mean, for for Disney,
because Disney has that mentality.
Like we can scare you a little bit, but don't worry, we're not
going to scare you too much as Universal just doesn't care.
I saw somebody at Universal go up to the Invisible Man and he
says she, the woman says to the character, can you recommend
some things I can do today? And he goes, yeah, how about
leaving me alone? And I thought that's perfect.
Disney couldn't do that. But the fact that that was just
great. Can you suggest things I can do
today? Yes, I suggest you leave me
alone. Perfect.
It's awesome. Are you so muted?
All right, coming up next. Can we skip around a little bit?
OK, I will say you pick one more for tonight.
OK, I think this is a good one. The best Disney animatronic.
Oh yes, certainly. Oh, I know that one too.
Excited. The only thing that no, the only
thing that ride has going for it.
I know, I know. You're gonna send.
Can you? Can you sing it Panda?
Can you sing it for us? Yeah, hold on.
I gotta get it in my head. Good, tilted and I'll get it in
my head. So he said it's the only thing
that this ride has going for. Us, so I know.
And so it is really like. I'm.
Like something like that, These shorts, these shorts.
Just write themselves, Paul. I know, right?
But she really, I mean, honestly, you could sit there
for as long as you can and look at her.
She is mesmerizing everything, including the metal, the metal
piston that you can see under her arm here.
But not is she really it's it's an amazing 9 foot a wah blue
thing. I'm just picturing of me making
a video of like a 5 minute like just replay of that.
Just constant, oh boy, that's going to be good, but I'm
wearing. I'm wearing the blue.
Yeah, that's I, I feel like that's outside of the honorable
mention to the Yeti. Rest in peace.
We've never we, we've never seen the Yeti I.
Know that's why I said rest in peace.
All right, does anyone? Tell you.
Oh, go ahead, Feta. When the Yeti worked, he he
moved wonderfully. He did.
He came down and swiped to the point where you ducked because
it felt like he was going to hit you.
It moved a good amount. I'm really sad we don't have
that back. Also honorable mention on my
part to Sunny Eclipse. Oh God.
What is Jeff gonna? Choose Amy will not sit so close
to the stage there to be close to him.
I can't. She's a bit, she's a bit scared.
I was scared of Fraggle Rock when I was a kid, so oh.
I. Love him the Fraggle Rock the.
Doosers. Yeah, Jeff would be your
favorite animatronic. I actually, I mean
technologically speaking, you guys are right in the Navi River
journey thing, but the ride just sucks so bad that it doesn't
save it. And so I actually like the Tiana
animatronics. I think they've done a great job
with Tiana, her specific. When they work, they're great.
Well. And, and my I was actually going
to say the Yeti because I do remember seeing that when it
was, I was lucky enough to see it in the four months that it
operated it. Was it only four months?
Something like that. It was pretty short time.
That's crazy, yeah. What about you, Derek?
I'm going to go with when I think of riding a ride in
animatronic, is it the most, again, like the most elaborate
technologically advanced one? Absolutely not.
But it's one that every time I ride this ride, I look for it.
And I feel like if I don't look at it and stare at it intently,
it's the dangling pirate hairy leg when you're riding.
I do, I do stare at the hair coming off of his.
Like, no matter what, how many times you've been on that,
right? Foot around.
Everything's going on, but you're riding and you're like,
oh, there's that dude's hairy leg.
Hey, Owen, look and rumor. Rumor has it.
I looked at it up because I was Googling some of this stuff
because I was going does that dude have a name?
It's a real leg, I know. It's real hair.
It's human hair on his leg. That's what I read.
True fact. So.
Now I'm scared it's going to fall on me.
Is that true? Isn't it like don't get to say
it the like the Disneyland Pirates?
There's like a real skull too or something.
I don't. Know yeah, there was in the
yeah, I think they've taken it out since then, but for the
longest time there was a in the caverns, there was an actual
human skull. He's making sense because most
of the wigs. I just heard this the other day
talking about Disney conspiracy theories.
You guys heard the conspiracy theory that the whole reason
that Disney made the Frozen film.
What? Oh.
This is my favorite thing ever. Disney got tired of people
Googling. Is Disney frozen inside Sleeping
Beauty? 'S castle.
And so they, and that's why the song Let It Go is part of it,
because they want people to let that theory go.
And so when you Google Disney Frozen, you get the movie now
instead of whether Walt's head's underneath the castle.
That's I bet there's some truth to that.
Oh my. God there.
You have it fun facts with Jeff. That is good.
That's going to be that. That should be a whole show
itself. Disney conspiracy theories.
Oh, that. 'D be fun.
Let's do it. There are more there.
There are some in Disneyland too.
Good theories about bathrooms and stuff.
There's a lot, yeah. That was a fun.
That was a good topic. That was a very fun show it.
Was fun. We need a Part 2.
We will because I have a whole, I have a whole list.
Yep, she's going to kick it off with the best Mexican, which I'm
surprised, I thought that's what she was jumping to.
I didn't want to. I didn't want to do too much
food or too much of like this. But you know that Jeff would
just give you that look that he has on his face for the whole 10
minutes of us talking about Mexican food.
Yeah, I had an answer. I had an answer.
For the record, the best animatronic is the dog that
shows up on Pirates on Living with the Land and.
The Carousel of Progress. The Carousel of Progress,
because that dog never dies and he's everywhere.
Oh God, now I now I just remembered my favorite is not
it's that the guy that's sleeping and pounding the
papyrus on spaceship work I. Love those too.
He never hits the thing, but you hear it.
OK, and just why I'm thinking of it before we go Have you ever
smelled smoked paprika? It smells just like Rome
burning. Yeah, I went with Jeff to
Universal. I, I, I did.
Yeah. I.
I apologize for this show everyone.
I hope it's been enjoyable to listen to Smoked paprika.
We at the end. At the end of the day, these
kind of topics are the funnest because we get to hear your
thoughts in the comments. So be sure to head into the
comment of this video and write us a paragraph for each of these
and tell us what is your favorite pool, pizza, lounge,
sandwich, thrill ride, boat ride?
No, we didn't do that. Save that for next time we
skipped to animatronic. Yeah, we did boat ride.
No, we. Didn't all.
Do boat ride. No, we talked about animatronic
that the. I thought that was boat ride.
Sorry, I thought the answer. Was saying it is not the best
boat ride. Yeah, we skipped to animatronic
and that that is what happened there.
And you know, Derek's getting ready for his Dungeon and Parish
podcast that's up next tonight. Oh.
My God, Derek's parents just went back in time to 1955 and
didn't meet. Now he's fading.
That's going to do it, ladies and gentlemen.
For this week's episode of the DVC Show, I'm going to have
Panda take you out with a lovely number from the most famous
animatronic boat ride that we know of, and we will see you
next Monday. Something.
Like that?