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Derek, is that Roosevelt's 
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I've never seen it. 
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wear the least, as a matter of 
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find it. 
It was kind of shoved all the 

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way in the back of the closet 
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shirts for tonight. 
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time. 
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What's the name of the store on 
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Planet Hollywood? 
It's the Disney Store. 

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It used to be the old 
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style. 
Is it Target? 

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What's it called? 
Huh, think it's Disney style, 

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isn't it? 
Right there by the balloon. 

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Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 
right there. 

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That's. 
One of my favorite shirts. 

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It's great. 
Did. 

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You see the new Oogie Boogie 
Bash exclusive Roosevelt's 

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that's going to be in 
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Yeah, it looks cool. 
They had. 

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California people, Yeah, yeah. 
Five grown people talking about 

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shirts. 
That's what you get when. 

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You I want an Oogie Boogie 
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Call me. 
Message me please. 3X Come on, 

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give it to me. 
Those villains are sold out 

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like. 
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Hey everybody, and welcome to 
this week's episode of The DVC 

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Show. 
I am your host, Paul Krieger, 

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joined as always by my lovely 
wife Amy. 

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Hello, we've got John's Kerry 
Big Fat Panda with us. 

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Welcome home everyone. 
Senior Sales Associate for the 

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DVC resale market, Derek de 
Boer. 

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Hey now, happy Monday everybody.
The Honorable Jeff Haslam. 

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Hey everybody. 
I hope you know when I say your 

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name Jeff, I go the Honorable 
Jeff Haslam and I bow like as 

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I'm saying it. 
You don't get to see it because 

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I'm not on camera for it, but it
happens. 

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Absolutely not do that. 
That's. 

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What I do? 
Nope. 

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Nope. 
I, I want you to guys to know 

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that you fully derailed that 
cold opening that I had planned 

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for that show. 
I had, I had something written 

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up. 
It was going to be great. 

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But you know what? 
We just skipped over it. 

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We moved on and we talked about 
shirts for, you know, a minute 

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and a half and that's what the 
people are here for. 

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I guess so. 
My shirt's orange. 

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That's a nice orange shirt. 
Where'd you get that? 

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You're a pumpkin. 
I'm. 

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A pumpkin. 
We have fully decorated for fall

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here at the Krieger House. 
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around August 15th, which. 
Happy Fall, It's August 18th. 

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Most of our friends think are 
crazy. 

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And you can't see them when 
there's a pumpkin over there. 

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No, but it's way. 
Right above your head. 

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Oh, over here, it's like right 
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There's a lot of pumpkins and. 
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friends. 
This week we are here talking 

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about why you should do what we 
did and move down to Florida 

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because it's where everyone's 
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I'm pretty sure that the the 
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ocean one of these days because 
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single year with more and more 
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And I can hear construction in 
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They are still building houses. 
It's about 7:00 at night on a 

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Monday, but they are still 
building, which means people are

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coming. 
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So this is actually a topic that
has been requested many, many 

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times from people in our DVC fan
community. 

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They're obviously if you love 
Disney, you have a vested 

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interest in Disney. 
A lot of people want to know 

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what it's like to move to 
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reasonable for a DVC member to 
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and just just general 
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So Lauren De La Cruz, one of our
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dvcfan.com, she did an excellent
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kind of use as a reference point
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is DVC the gateway to living in 
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was called. 
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Amy's topic? 
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real, real quick. 
She was like. 

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Tell people stop your nonsense 
doomsday like sinking into the 

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ocean. 
I wasn't saying that, I'm just 

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saying that. 
Eventually I just. 

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Feel like I don't know how we 
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Every time I drive down the 
Interstate, I'm just like whole 

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new development yet again. 
Derek, you just, you just drove 

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to Lakeland, which I have 
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I lived in Lakeland basically 
for two years and you never 

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drove to see me. 
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of developments on your way, on 
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Because I feel like Lakeland is 
almost Orlando at this point 

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because it's expanding so much. 
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because we went out to the 
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very first time. 
I had never been there before. 

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People that maybe are savvy and 
watch like YouTube and vloggers 

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and stuff know that it's a 
really cool antique mall. 

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Probably it's like 45 minutes 
from our house and we're like 20

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minutes away from Disney. 
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know, Merchant and Disney props 
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some very unique stuff. 
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was like, think we're on 429 the
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And I was like, my God, on both 
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It's just, it's a never ending 
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Orange Fields that it's just 
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after complex after complex and 
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And it's just, I can't. 
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It's crazy. 
It's crazy. 

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Guys are really making this 
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Before we go any further into 
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to give a quick shout out. 
As always, if you love our 

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content, please, please show 
some love for our friends at Key

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Holder Vacations, which is our 
broader brand here at the world 

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of DVC. 
And I want to emphasize Key 

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Holder Vacations because we just
launched the Key Holder Club 

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loyalty program recently and 
this is kind of a industry first

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when it comes to basically 
Disney Vacation Club or Disney 

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Vacation Club resale. 
This is a multi branded loyalty 

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program in which you're going to
earn keys for your transactions 

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across our family of brands from
Be Our Guest Vacations, DVC 

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resale market, Monera Financial,
DVC Rental Store. 

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These keys never expire, and 
you're essentially going to add 

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keys to your collection every 
single year to move up the 

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ladder in the Key Holder Club 
and unlock some amazing 

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discounts and some spectacular 
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For a quick little kind of demo 
and discussion of it, we have a 

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great video from our friends at 
Key Holder Vacations that we're 

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going to insert here just so 
that you can learn a little bit 

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more about this program and how 
you can sign up. 

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At Key Holder Vacations, we're 
beyond thrilled to launch the 

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Key Holder Club loyalty program,
a one-of-a-kind to loyalty club.

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You won't find any where else. 
This is a lifetime rewards 

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program, meaning the keys you 
earn never expire. 

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You can continue doing business 
with us for years to come, 

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collecting your keys and 
unlocking decades of rewards as 

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you travel. 
Whether you're a DVC member who 

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bought on the resale market, a 
guest who rents DVC points, or 

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an avid traveler with Be Our 
Guest Vacations, you'll be 

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rewarded for the travel you 
already love across the entire 

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Key Holder Vacations family. 
It's free to join. 

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Just grab the Key Holder 
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or Google Play. 
Create your account with the 

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e-mail you've already used, or, 
if you're brand new here, create

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a new account and start earning 
keys across all of our brands. 

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Here's how it works. 
Every booking and every 

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transaction earns you keys, your
path to exclusive benefits and 

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experiences. 
You'll earn one key for every 

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dollar in transactions with BR 
Guest Vacations, DVC Resale 

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Market, Monera Financial, and 
DVC Rental Store, including when

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you rent out your DVC points or 
sell your DVC contract. 

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Keys accumulate over time, your 
tier upgrades automatically at 

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milestones, and keys never 
expire, so you keep climbing 

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trip after trip. 
And great news, your keys are 

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grandfathered back to January 
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If you've travelled or 
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you're already on your way. 
Your club level reflects your 

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loyalty status, each new level 
unlocks new perks, and you keep 

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all of the benefits from earlier
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Joining is free and easy. 
Download the Key Holder 

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Create your account, be sure to 
use an e-mail that you've used 

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with us in the past, and start 
earning keys on every booking 

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and transaction across all of 
our brands. 

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Ready to unlock more from every 
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Join the Key Holder Club today 
and let the memories and the 

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keys keep adding up. 
Have questions? 

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Please don't hesitate to reach 
out to our team at Loyalty at 

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keyholdervacations.com. 
So there you have it. 

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Several of us have actually been
able to play around with the Key

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Holder Club app. 
If you are looking on the Apple 

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App Store or on the Android 
store, you're going to want to 

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look for the Key Holder 
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That is where the Key Holder 
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Download the app, It is 
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It is free to sign, sign up. 
Once you sign up, it's going to 

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any transactions that you've 
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beginning of 2024. 
So it's going to have all of, if

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you've done it, some, some 
recent transactions with us, 

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those are going to be pulled in 
to get you your qualifying tier 

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status. 
Any additional questions you 

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might have, you can direct those
to loyalty at key holder 

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vacations dot dot com. 
But wanted to go around the room

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real quick. 
Jeff, Derek, I know you guys 

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have had some opportunities to 
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Pretty easy to use, user 
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To use, it's like, I wish 
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designed all of the apps because
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Like, I look at my Royal 
Caribbean app, for example, and 

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just to get my loyalty status, I
have to go like through six 

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different screens. 
This is it's right at your 

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fingertips. 
It's awesome. 

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in, I don't remember when, that 
I wish Disney would do is some. 

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So the fact that we are so 

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Disney adjacent, I think this is
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sure. 
Yeah, and you, you asked me, 

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Paul. 
You summed it up perfectly. 

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Here's the ad. 
It's so easy, even Derek can do 

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it. 
That's how simple it is to get 

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the. 
App. 

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I want the app. 
It's so good, it's so good 

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because what I'm thinking about 
program is it's it's stuff 

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you're doing anyway. 
So you're not even going in like

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outside of your comfort zone. 
You might be renting points with

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us already. 
You might be financing a 

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So many, you know, booking a 
vacation through be our guest 

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vacations. 
It's all under the same 

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umbrella. 
So now you just get rewarded for

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doing stuff that you were going 
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So it's a slam dunk. 
The app is so so easy to use and

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I think it shows if it started 
back in 2024. 

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I think it shows Jeff's 37 old 
Key West add-ons, so I. 

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Think he should. 
So Panda, I love that you're a 

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little bit in the dark on this 
because some of these things 

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that I'm about to say are going 
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I think we talked about them 
while you were getting your 

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royalty program with your 
dentist set up over the past 

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few. 
Weeks what's what's the name of 

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the? 
I'm going to get it right now. 

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Vacations. 
So Panda, I want to just tell 

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you a quick, quick little nugget
about some of the things you're 

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going to get as a member of the 
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your teal. 
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that's the entry level tier. 
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with us to actually qualify for 
the bronze level tier. 

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But you guys were so fixated on 
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to highlight a couple of the 
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tier with our friends over at 
the Loss Bros, who we do a lot 

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of collaborations with and also 
Park Candy, which makes a lot of

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similar I. 
Love to our to. 

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Our Roosevelt's here. 
You've got like two or three 

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different. 
Just one, I need more. 

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You need more, but yeah, there's
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going to be eligible for our 
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Panda, if you move up to the 
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going to get some on board 
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Be Our Guest Vacations. 
If you book a Disney cruise with

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them. 
Then we get into some of my most

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exciting things that I'm that 
I'm, you know, I just want to 

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tell Panda about right now. 
The gold tier is going to be 

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where you get a key holder club 
luggage tag. 

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That was great reaction from 
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luggage tag. 
He was super excited about other

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luggage. 
Tag though it's not these cheap 

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ones from Shutterfly. 
This is This is quality stuff. 

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Yeah, yeah. 
Don't. 

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Don't act so excited, Panda. 
I mean, go luggage tag ain't 

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doing it. 
It's not not moving me. 

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Give me something else. 
Come on. 

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OK, OK, how about this. 
If you become a diamond level 

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with the key holder club, you 
are going to get to be on this 

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show. 
No. 

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Yes, Sir. 
Right there, right here, right 

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there, sitting right next to 
Jeff Haslam. 

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Jeff, we need another chair. 
Just expensive. 

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That's actually pretty. 
That is pretty. 

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If they're going to do it from 
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Diamond Plus thing. 
OK, Yeah, or they bring beer. 

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Fine, we could move it up to the
enchanted tier. 

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Is it? 
Supposed to be live in the App 

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Store already because I searched
key holder vacations and I don't

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find it. 
I don't think it's lot and shit.

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Oh. 
It's launched as of right now 

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Panda. 
Oh look, there it is. 

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There it is if you were in the 
future. 

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Panda, if you're an Enchanted 
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going to get to be on this show,
but also how about we just give 

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you a VIP tour? 
Oh, that's cool. 

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That pretty cool, yeah. 
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work your way up these tiers as 
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Super excited to get this 
launched. 

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It has been a conversation 
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two to three years. 
I think I've been in meetings 

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for it. 
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Head to the App Store or the 
Android store Key Holder 

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Vacations app. 
Download the app today for free.

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Join the Key Holder Club, it is 
free and you can get some of 

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these rewards that we've 
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others. 
Panda luggage tag. 

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How exciting. 
You know, I really do want the 

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luggage tag, actually, after 
Jeff said it's not like a little

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plastic when I'm like, OK, let 
me see. 

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All right, now that I've fully 
sabotaged and hijacked your 

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show, Amy, take us on a journey 
to being a Floridian. 

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Can pull up. 
Floridians are a grand. 

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Floridian, if you will. 
Oh yes, Lauren did write a great

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article about this. 
It's called the gateway to 

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living in Florida. 
It's over on DVC fan. 

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We'll put it in the link link 
below in the show notes here. 

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But I think first is being a 
Disney Vacation Club member. 

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It is kind of the first gateway.
I think we can answer that 

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question because you actually 
own something you actually own. 

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You know, I I always like to say
I owned the zebra tile in Animal

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Kingdom Lodge when I first 
bought. 

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Yeah, or doorknob. 
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big thing for people. 
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invested from a financial 
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standpoint. 
You know, you own this vacation 

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club. 
Now that doesn't make you a 

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Florida resident. 
We get asked that a lot. 

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And and so we'll get asked, you 
know, if I buy DVC, does that 

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make me Florida resident that I 
can get the Florida resident 

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rate for annual passes and pay 
the monthly payment? 

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Unfortunately, it does not. 
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resident, but if you own DVC, 
you're kind of already, you 

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know, you're partially there, 
you're probably here a lot. 

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You know, I know that when we 
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did, we were coming to Disney, 
oh gosh, like once every couple 

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of years. 
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member, it became, you know, a 
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times a year to I think we did 5
* 1 year. 

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It just became so much more 
accessible knowing that not only

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do we have the points, but we 
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Pittsburgh at the time, which 
made it very easy to jump down 

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here, and you just wanted an 
excuse to do it. 

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Like I remember that the one 
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we, we were super excited. 
We got down here, then we got 

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stuck for like two or three 
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hurricane. 
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Disney vacation clubs, like 
their first hurricane experience

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is related to a Disney Vacation 
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be here during hurricane season 
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trip gets affected. 
It happens to, it actually 

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impacts more Disney Vacation 
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probably think about when it 
comes to it because it is a 

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constant question during this 
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right now because Hurricane 
Aaron has I think Jeff. 

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I think Jeff wrote out a 
hurricane at Riviera, didn't he 

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before you lived here? 
Yep. 

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Yeah, but you know, in in 
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coming down here a lot, you own 
DVC. 

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A lot of people get to the point
where they don't, they don't 

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want to leave, you know what I 
mean? 

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Or they don't want to go back to
granted, you know, you still got

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to go back to reality, you still
have to work where you live. 

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But you know, going back to 
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big one for a lot of people. 
So just being being a DVC member

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I think is like kind of like a 
first step for a lot of people. 

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Derek took that first step. 
He then took the second step of 

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moving here, and he took a third
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life to it as well. 
So Derek, tell us a little bit 

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about your journey down to 
Florida. 

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I don't feel like I ever knew 
the story of what actually 

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brought you here, other than 
probably Disney. 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. 
It, it definitely was Disney. 

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I was a a Disney Vacation Club 
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Chicago for many, many years. 
I was eventually given an 

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opportunity to join the Disney 
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Club team. 
So that was about in 2013, 2014,

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I think somewhere around then. 
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we packed up and moved from 
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here to Florida. 
It definitely is an adjustment. 

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So I can tell you that it takes 
and I've talked to other people 

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too that have made the change, 
whether it's from the Midwest or

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whether it's from the East 
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It just takes a little bit of an
adjustment time. 

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I think for us there's probably 
maybe a couple years. 

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moved here, then I was on the 
cruise team, so I was kind of 

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traveling a whole bunch. 
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half the year, you know, gone a 
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blah. 
So my wife was here with two 

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little kids at the time after 20
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And I'm sure she had many 
moments back in 2014 as I'm off,

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you know, sailing around the 
world selling Disney Vacation 

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Club and she's got the little 
kids there. 

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She's saying, what did I do? 
Why did we do this? 

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But in the end, it's the best 
decision we ever made. 

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Like I cannot ever go back to to
the Midwest. 

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You know, since then, my brother
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nephew, they all moved down here
to Florida. 

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So a lot of times, and I know 
Jeff has been in that situation 

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too, where, you know, once you 
move down here, you might have 

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friends that want to come down 
there with you as well. 

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But for us way I never look 
back. 

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I mean, every day I, I count my 
my blessings. 

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I don't know how deep we want to
kind of get into it. 

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We, we rented at first. 
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here, we didn't weren't quite 
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We weren't quite sure of this. 
So we wanted to get a feel. 

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So we rented for two years. 
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when we visited different 
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And then we happen to stumble on
where we are, which is in a part

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of Florida called downtown 
Windermere. 

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So it's right near a bunch of 
lakes and. 

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It's just idyllic for us. 
We absolutely love it. 

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Like I couldn't be happier. 
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live in Florida if I didn't live
where I live. 

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So we took our time and we did 
our research and explore 

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neighborhoods because again, 
there's a lot to be able to pick

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from. 
You know, how close do you want 

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to be right behind Cinderella 
Castle? 

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You can't like literally you can
have places, there's houses 

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right there. 
Do you want to be more towards 

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like middle of the road? 
Do you want to be like 30 

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minutes away, 45 minutes away? 
Do you want, you know, lots of 

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other houses around you? 
Do you want space? 

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There's a lot to look at when 
you come. 

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So definitely like when you buy 
DVC, research is very important.

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But again, our main thing that 
that made us so happy is doing 

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the research and figuring out 
where, figuring out location 

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wise, like I wanted to be close 
enough to Disney. 

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So we're about 2025 minutes 
away. 

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We're maybe 15 minutes from 
Universal. 

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We're, you know, two hours from 
Vero Beach. 

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So our location was, was key for
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Whereas maybe for you, you might
want to be near, you know, a 

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bigger city, you might want to 
be near Tampa, or you don't 

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drive the, you know, you don't 
want the 45 minutes to an hour 

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commute to get to Disney every 
single time. 

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So that's where taking your time
and doing research. 

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But every winter, as much as I 
dread the hurricane season, I'll

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take hurricane season any day 
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Chicago winter again. 
I'm too old for that. 

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Yeah. 
Panda, I know it wasn't DVC that

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maybe drove you here, but it was
Disney to a certain degree. 

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What what kind of what would be 
some of those takeaways or some 

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of those things you would you 
would tell someone that's 

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thinking about making this leap?
So it's just very weird to me 

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that my moving to Florida 
started at five years old when I

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was on the ferry boat and I saw 
the Magic Kingdom. 

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I hadn't even gone yet. 
I just saw it. 

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And I said to my father, this 
exists, and you never showed it 

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to me. 
People can live, like, close to 

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this. 
I said, dad, I'm going to move 

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there one day. 
And he's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And that was my focus since that
visit. 

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But yeah, I did it the opposite 
where I moved here first because

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I wanted to be near Disney, and 
then what? 

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DVC and the amount of people 
that tell me I don't need DVC, I

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live local. 
I'm flabbergasted because it 

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works so good. 
If you're local, because you 

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have more, you know, you can 
look at the availability and say

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I need a night here or two 
nights here. 

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And it's so much easier to be 
flexible. 

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Tomorrow I'm going to, you know,
the resorts, the DVC and being 

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local just makes it better. 
I'm 1/2 hour away from Disney, 

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but I'm still going on that 
little mini vacation that makes 

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me, you know, remember when I 
was in New York and that I, you 

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know how you lose that planning 
excitement. 

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You still get it if you have 
DVC. 

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So yeah, I think mine was a 
little different. 

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But being a local does not mean 
you can't. 

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You don't have to get DVC. 
It's great as a local. 

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00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,520
It's actually funny because 
we've we've heard the statistic 

451
00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:06,040
before multiple times that 
actually the makeup of Disney 

452
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:09,160
Vacation Club members. 
There is more ownership that are

453
00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,440
Florida residents that are 
Florida based than any other 

454
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,320
state. 
So it is it is the case in which

455
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,040
those people that live here are 
some of the people that either 

456
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:23,720
bought and then moved or like 
us, bought and then moved and 

457
00:23:23,720 --> 00:23:27,240
then bought more. 
Yeah, or like Panda or like, and

458
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,920
then later bought and realized, 
you know, I want, I want some 

459
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,880
like little getaways at, you 
know, at Disney Panda. 

460
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,320
When did you move to Orlando 
area? 

461
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:43,400
Gosh, it's was 23 years ago. 22 
years ago, yeah. 

462
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:47,280
And it was a dirt Rd. like the 
Gilded Age outside my house. 

463
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:49,480
I mean, it really was a dirt 
road. 

464
00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,680
And now the traffic is, you 
know, it reminds me of New York 

465
00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,800
sometimes on 27, you guys know. 
But I'm shocked at how it 

466
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,600
changed from 22 years ago. 
Yeah, And Panda, you, you picked

467
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,360
kind of the same general area 
that Amy and I have now settled 

468
00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:07,120
in, which is kind of the 
Claremont area. 

469
00:24:07,120 --> 00:24:12,120
It's a little bit norther than 
the parks, but also takes out 

470
00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:14,880
the I4 equation. 
Would you change the location? 

471
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,840
We could do a whole other show 
on location of like where you 

472
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,880
move. 
But I feel like the fact that 

473
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,760
you picked this area that many 
years ago, my mind is blown. 

474
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,800
I'm just like you, pick the 
perfect a friend. 

475
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,920
A friend who worked at the 
Animal Kingdom Lodge is the one 

476
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,440
that told me when I said I'm 
thinking of moving there he 

477
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,200
goes. 
There's this little town called 

478
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,400
Claremont. 
He goes, It's like a sleepy 

479
00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,160
little town. 
It's far enough away where you 

480
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:40,640
don't get the tourists. 
It was affordable. 

481
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,040
And he said that, you know, it's
up and coming because right now 

482
00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:46,440
there's only orange Groves 
there, but a lot of them died 

483
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,480
and they're making houses there.
They were like no houses. 

484
00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:52,800
Windermere is my favorite where 
Derek is at the time. 

485
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:55,480
I don't even think I could 
afford it or look, But Claremont

486
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:57,520
was really a, you know, 200 
grand. 

487
00:24:57,520 --> 00:25:01,520
You got a house that was 700 
grand on Long Island, so it was 

488
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,520
a no brainer for me to be there.
But now, I mean, it's built up 

489
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:05,600
now. 
It's crazy. 

490
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:08,120
I love that you don't have to 
get on I-4. 

491
00:25:08,120 --> 00:25:11,200
You can just take the back roads
20 minutes and you're in, you 

492
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:13,280
know, Magic Kingdom. 
Yeah, So I do like that. 

493
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,480
So many people ask us the 
question all the time, like 

494
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:19,120
where should I move, what area? 
And I think we've hit on it 

495
00:25:19,120 --> 00:25:23,200
already, like you've got to 
experience places you've got to.

496
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,600
And as I was going to say, 
Lauren mentions in her article 

497
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,280
that, you know, the ability to 
have DVC points allows you to 

498
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,560
explore a little bit outside of 
the Disney bubble. 

499
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:35,880
So if this is something serious 
that you're considering about 

500
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:40,600
that, that full move to Florida,
use some of those DVC trips, 

501
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:45,000
take those points, rent a car 
and explore some of these areas.

502
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,680
Because it's definitely not an 
answer that I feel like any of 

503
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,920
us on this call can really give 
someone because it's so 

504
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,960
individually based. 
Like Derek said, he rented for a

505
00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,760
few years. 
Jeff, you, you rented for the 

506
00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,560
first year when you when you 
actually moved to your right. 

507
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:00,560
Tell us a little bit of your 
story. 

508
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,440
Yeah, we did. 
And so, and we did exactly what 

509
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,040
you said, Paul. 
We we came down for spring break

510
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,640
on a Disney Vacation Club trip. 
We were at Boardwalk for a week.

511
00:26:10,360 --> 00:26:13,720
We sent the kids to the park and
Amy and I got in the rental car 

512
00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,200
and made some trips to some 
neighborhoods. 

513
00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:18,400
We walked through some model 
homes, some new construction. 

514
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,880
But I know again, you just said 
we could do a whole show on 

515
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:24,440
location. 
But as somebody that's in real 

516
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:28,440
estate professionally, I can't 
stress enough that you should 

517
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,120
get yourself a professional, 
somebody that you trust. 

518
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,680
Not me. 
I'm not an agent. 

519
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:34,000
I'm. 
I'm an appraiser but. 

520
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,640
I don't want my message. 
You're blowing up saying, hey, 

521
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,520
help me buy a house. 
But you know, I, I hear people 

522
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:43,400
all the time. 
Well, we want to be within an 

523
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,080
hour of the parks. 
Well, that's the entire Central 

524
00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:49,520
Florida from coast to coast. 
You know what I mean? 

525
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:55,320
Like Disney World is so open and
so massive that it really you 

526
00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,720
need to narrow down what you 
were wanting and what you're 

527
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:00,920
used to. 
So for example, we came from 

528
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,640
Utah. 
We live on the Wasatch Front in 

529
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:06,000
Utah, which is, you know, 
suburban Salt Lake City. 

530
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:08,640
Everything was very, very close 
to us. 

531
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:11,240
You know, Target was 5 minutes, 
Home Depot was 5 minutes. 

532
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,480
I, I made a joke when I went 
back a couple months ago to 

533
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,520
visit family that I was able to 
pick up my rent a car, hit the 

534
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:22,920
burger joint, hit the swig, drop
off my dry cleaning and be at my

535
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:24,600
dad's house and all that took an
hour. 

536
00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,240
And where I live, that's four 
different days worth of errands.

537
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,600
You can't do that on the same 
day. 

538
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,440
You just can't, right? 
And so it really depends on what

539
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:35,520
you're used to. 
If you kind of like a rural 

540
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,480
atmosphere, you know, there's a 
lot of options for that. 

541
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,000
If you want that hustle and 
bustle, there's a lot of options

542
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,360
for that. 
And there really is a budget, 

543
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,440
you know, something for every 
budget in Florida. 

544
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:48,520
You know, Polk County tends to 
be a little lighter on on the 

545
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,120
pocketbook as opposed to 
Claremont and Lake County and 

546
00:27:52,120 --> 00:27:54,160
you know, Lake Nona and some of 
those places. 

547
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:58,040
So really dial in what you're 
used to so that you can kind of 

548
00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,160
find what you want. 
Because our biggest shock was we

549
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:05,360
almost bought a house sight 
unseen in Auburndale, which is a

550
00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:08,120
beautiful town. 
It was a brand new construction 

551
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,600
subdivision. 
We went down on that trip. 

552
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,880
Like I have money in hand ready 
to put down the down payment. 

553
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:17,640
And as we're driving to it, I'm 
like, where are we? 

554
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,240
Like there's a water tower. 
And like we just drove through a

555
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,240
mobile Home Park to get into the
subdivision. 

556
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:26,600
And the first question I asked 
the model home agent was how far

557
00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:28,680
am I to Target? 
And they said, oh, well, you got

558
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,800
to go to Lakeland, which is like
1/2 hour drive rather than 

559
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,880
around the corner to my house. 
That wasn't immediately a no. 

560
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,280
Like we're like, that is not for
us. 

561
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,560
It's it's a great area, but it's
not for us. 

562
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:43,120
So, right, I just can't stress 
enough that you spend the time 

563
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:47,440
before you move to learn about 
where you want to be. 

564
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,960
And I would just add to it too. 
Disney is a reason why a lot of 

565
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:56,840
people move here, but as much as
you move here for Disney, 

566
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:01,240
realize that your local 
community is what is most 

567
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,280
important. 
Like like Jeff said, we 

568
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:08,760
originally had signed on a house
in Lake Alfred, FL, similar area

569
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,920
in Polk County. 
We actually ended up changing it

570
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,120
because they got behind on 
construction. 

571
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,080
But we were very happy about 
that because it was that same 

572
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,000
scenario, Jeff, where it was 
like where's the nearest Walmart

573
00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,120
or Target or grocery store like 
big box store. 

574
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:27,040
It was you were headed all the 
way to Winter Haven or headed 

575
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,720
out to Lakeland, which again, 
was 20 or 30 minutes further 

576
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,560
South at the time when we were 
buying, the market was so crazy 

577
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,440
here. 
I mean, it was a seller's 

578
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,800
market. 
You could ask any price for a 

579
00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,880
house and get over asking price 
for it. 

580
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:43,800
And we needed a house to have 
some land with the dogs, and 

581
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,760
that's what kind of drove us a 
little bit further away. 

582
00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:49,400
So we actually compensated. 
And for two years, if we had to 

583
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:51,680
be on Disney property for 
something, three years it was, 

584
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,280
yeah, three years if we had to 
be on Disney property for 

585
00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,800
something, it was a 2 hour drive
that we would like. 

586
00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,680
We would basically carve out two
hours. 

587
00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:03,080
Some days we would be there in 
an hour and 15 minutes and some 

588
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:06,120
days we would be there in 3 1/2 
because something happened on 

589
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:09,720
I-4. 
So that is how unknown it was. 

590
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,440
I also say that the area that we
lived in, we did like we loved 

591
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:16,440
how close Lakeland was. 
Bartow was just South of us. 

592
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:20,280
So that's what made it livable 
for us for three years is that 

593
00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:24,560
we did have those things about 
it around us, right, because. 

594
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,240
You know when you move, when you
move to Florida, and especially 

595
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:31,080
if you're a DVC member, you're 
probably used to come to Disney.

596
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,120
You're at Disney for a week or 
so. 

597
00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,640
You're spending all your time at
Disney. 

598
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:38,840
Well, your relationship with 
Disney World is going to change 

599
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,680
and that is something you you 
have to consider when you're 

600
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,280
thinking about moving. 
For us, it went from that, you 

601
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,560
know, it's very exciting getting
on the airplane, driving to the 

602
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,800
resort, and then we're there 
for, you know, a week or, you 

603
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:55,640
know, something. 
We did trips as long as, you 

604
00:30:55,640 --> 00:31:00,040
know, 12 days or whatever. 
And you know, you're always 

605
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:03,560
buying the lightning lane. 
And so your relationship going 

606
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,360
to change when you become a 
local. 

607
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,080
You're not going to be there for
several, several days at a time.

608
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,920
You, you have to work. 
You've got grasp to mow, grasp 

609
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,920
to mow, laundry to fold. 
You know, more often now we're 

610
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:22,680
there for one night, we're there
for maybe an afternoon or even 

611
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,720
if we do stay a few nights, it's
because there's something like a

612
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,800
race going on or we're going to 
an after party, you know, 

613
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,360
Halloween party or Christmas 
party. 

614
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,080
You know, it just your 
relationship changes a little 

615
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:38,200
bit and it goes from spending a 
whole day in a park make buying 

616
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,040
and getting, you know, taking 
advantage of every little thing 

617
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,760
you can to maximize your time to
ride as many rides as you can. 

618
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:48,840
And that changes to I'm not, I'm
gonna, I'm gonna sleep a little 

619
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,600
longer. 
We're gonna head over, you know,

620
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,160
maybe in the afternoon we're 
gonna get something to eat, 

621
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:57,480
we're gonna ride maybe like one 
or two things and then, you 

622
00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,920
know, we're satisfied. 
So it does kind of change that 

623
00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,000
relationship. 
I used to be worried that I 

624
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:05,600
always said like it. 
I'm afraid that moving to Disney

625
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,800
will will eliminate that like 
magic for me, you know, that I 

626
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:14,600
feel, but it actually it hasn't.
You know, if anything, I'm still

627
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,040
happy. 
I'm so excited when we go. 

628
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,920
I'm a little spoiled though, 
because we get to you know, we 

629
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:22,480
get to see the resorts and see 
the parks a lot, but also it's 

630
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:25,520
helped us to branch out. 
Like it gives you the time to 

631
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,640
branch out and kind of do other 
travel as well. 

632
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,400
You know what I mean? 
And even if that's, you know, we

633
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,640
finally got to spend go to Vero 
Beach and we finally got to go 

634
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,760
to Hilton Head and hopefully 
Alani soon, but also other 

635
00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:39,680
things, you know, like cruises 
and stuff like that. 

636
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,920
Well, and that's. 
What I was just going to chime 

637
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:46,080
in and say too, is, you know, 
you, you go from going to Disney

638
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:51,400
for a week hard to going once a 
week or once a month or 

639
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:52,800
whatever. 
Like Derek's once a month, I'm 

640
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,160
once a week. 
Paul, Amy, Panda, you're kind of

641
00:32:55,160 --> 00:33:00,160
in between us, I think, but it's
for two or three hours. 

642
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:05,240
It's not all day. 
Yeah, but that was a big factor 

643
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,440
for us is moving here. 
We didn't move here for Disney. 

644
00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:09,840
Our family and friends asked 
that all the time. 

645
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,480
Did you guys move there to be 
closer to Disney? 

646
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:14,160
That was a part of it. 
But we also got tired of the 

647
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,240
snow and we got tired of some of
the other Utah goings on and, 

648
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:18,960
and things like that. 
And we were just kind of in a in

649
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,520
a place where we wanted 
something fresh and new. 

650
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:26,480
But what that a byproduct of 
that, if you will, is, you know,

651
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:29,320
there's a joke that we always 
say is people that move to 

652
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:34,200
Disney go through three phases. 
You go annual pass at Disney and

653
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,640
then you go into your cruise 
phase because there's five 

654
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,600
cruise ports within two hours of
Disney. 

655
00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,400
And then after that you expand 
to Caribbean and Europe and 

656
00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:42,840
things like that. 
We're on a cruise phase right 

657
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:43,760
now. 
We've got three booked in the 

658
00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,040
next year or something. 
So it does give you the option 

659
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,200
to use that vacation money that 
you were spending on Disney for 

660
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,600
other things, but it changes 
your relationship with Disney. 

661
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,560
Chances are you bought DVC or 
are thinking about DVC for one 

662
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,880
or two reasons. 
Either you're coming a lot and 

663
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,200
you want to save money or you 
want to come more. 

664
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:06,360
And so it definitely changes. 
And, and there's, there's a flip

665
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,520
side to this coin that I know 
Amy wants to talk to about. 

666
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,239
You know, there are some 
negatives that we'll, that we'll

667
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:14,760
get into, but Disney is 
familiar. 

668
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,800
Disney is comforting to all of 
us is it's a love that we have. 

669
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,400
And so it makes it seem really, 
really awesome. 

670
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,520
And it is, it's great, but it's 
going to change your whole world

671
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:24,840
in a way that you never thought 
of. 

672
00:34:25,199 --> 00:34:27,920
You know, as far as how 
frequently you do the parks and 

673
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,679
whether you're not you ride 
Figment 7 or 8 times every trip 

674
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,840
and, and those things. 
So so I wanted. 

675
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,719
To I want to talk about two 
things. 

676
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,239
First, I want, I do want to 
touch on the drawbacks because 

677
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,480
if you're if you're doing your 
research and you're this is if 

678
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,920
you're watching the show, but 
because you or you've asked us 

679
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:49,800
to do a show where we talk about
moving in Florida, there are 

680
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,600
things I do think you need to be
aware of and know and just to 

681
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,960
have on your radar. 
But before we get to I agree, 

682
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:56,719
Amy. 
Bagels and pizza. 

683
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,040
Before. 
Before we get to the bagels and 

684
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:07,400
pizza we do, we do want to talk 
about, you know, why move to 

685
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,000
Florida besides the fact that 
you love Disney, If that's your 

686
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,440
only reason, I think you're 
going to have a tough time in 

687
00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:18,840
Florida. 
But if you if you are moving for

688
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,040
for multiple different reasons, 
I think there's a lot of great 

689
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,680
reasons why you might want to 
live in Florida. 

690
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,800
So Paul, what is what is one 
thing that you love about living

691
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,840
here that does not related to 
the parks? 

692
00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:34,600
So I'll give you 2 because as 
you were talking, there were two

693
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,840
that came to mind first for me, 
and this is going to sound like 

694
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,360
blasphemous for a lot of people,
but it's the weather. 

695
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,520
You moved to Florida for the 
weather. 

696
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:45,640
And I'm not talking necessarily 
about the heat. 

697
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:48,960
I'm talking about what we're 
headed into right about now, 

698
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:53,400
which is we're heading into end 
of August, 1st of September 

699
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,880
where the insane highs start to 
calm down. 

700
00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,280
And it is is beautiful in the 
evenings. 

701
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:03,960
And you get that weather 
starting now through about the 

702
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:08,000
first or second week of April or
even longer, depending on what 

703
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,480
the weather systems are doing 
this year compared to last year.

704
00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:13,680
Does it get hot? 
Yes. 

705
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:15,040
Yeah, it's Florida. 
Yeah. 

706
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,720
I'm not gonna lie. 
It does get hot and as people in

707
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,360
the northeast maybe hibernate 
during the winter months, we 

708
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,280
kind of hibernate a little bit 
more in that July time frame 

709
00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:27,760
where it just gets absolutely 
but can still go out. 

710
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,240
Like my wife still drags. 
Me out after a long day work to 

711
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:34,000
run a 5K. 
For some reason, we almost. 

712
00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:37,640
Died on Yeah Sunday, yeah? 
I asked Alexa. 

713
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,840
What the notification was before
we started running on Saturday 

714
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,840
and it was that there was a heat
advisory in the Claremont area 

715
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:47,560
and I said great time to run 7 
1/2 miles, but we just off of 

716
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,760
the OK. 
On the way the Circle K saved us

717
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:50,280
if. 
They. 

718
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:54,880
Didn't take Apple Pay then. 
I'm not sure we would be here 

719
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,640
doing this show right now, but 
with that said, you're. 

720
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:02,400
Getting like almost like spring,
like fall, like weather almost 8

721
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:04,160
months out of the year. 
You know what I mean? 

722
00:37:04,720 --> 00:37:09,080
Really I would say mid-october 
all the way until even mid-May. 

723
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:12,000
The weather is amazing. 
It is the times of year that 

724
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,480
you. 
Remember from other places, if 

725
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:16,000
you're from the Northeast like 
we are from places that have 

726
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:21,200
more climate fluctuations, it's 
those times of year, early fall,

727
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:25,360
early spring, those feels are 
with you for a lot of the time. 

728
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,400
Yes, it does get hotter, but 
man, oh man, like I, I still 

729
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,600
even I even suffering through 
the 7 1/2 miles the other day, 

730
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,600
still very happy that that we 
are here and weather is one of 

731
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,720
those main reasons. 
The other one I'll hit on just 

732
00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,280
goes both ways a little bit. 
I think for us it went the 

733
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:47,320
opposite direction, which is 
probably more common, but I've 

734
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,440
seen a lot of people wear this 
pans out very positively. 

735
00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,320
And that is I've heard of a lot 
of people moving from either 

736
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,360
California or New York 
metropolitan areas that are 

737
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,800
incredibly pricey that then you 
know, Panda, you mentioned this,

738
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:04,600
what you'd pay $700,000 in New 
York, you can get down here for 

739
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,200
less. 
So I, I think I don't know that 

740
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,360
that price differential is as 
great as it used to be, but I 

741
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,240
still do believe if you're 
moving from like a big 

742
00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:18,840
metropolitan hub or if you're 
moving from the California area 

743
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,080
where I know home prices are 
just bonkers, you are going to 

744
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,400
save money in terms of your home
down here. 

745
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,800
Now that being said, for two 
people that moved from West 

746
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,720
Virginia, it is a lot more 
expensive here in Florida, 

747
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,480
everything is expensive. 
And you know, some of you will 

748
00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,560
come in the comments and say, 
well, you don't have, you know, 

749
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,920
state income taxes. 
And it's like, no, they make up 

750
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:43,400
for that by tolling every single
Rd. that we drive on all day 

751
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,840
long. 
So, you know, I'd, I would hate 

752
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:49,680
to see Jeff's toll bill because 
I know he drives that, you know,

753
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:51,360
for part of his job for a 
living. 

754
00:38:51,720 --> 00:38:53,800
And so it's true. 
You're absolutely. 

755
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,200
Right. 
And for people that use Magic 

756
00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:00,360
Express or mirrors or even a 
rent a car that probably just 

757
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,640
charges you as part of trip, you
know what I mean? 

758
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,560
You cannot get to the airport 
from Disney without a toll road.

759
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,200
Yep. 
I mean, you could. 

760
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,760
You could take a back Rd. 
It would take you 2 1/2 hours. 

761
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,840
If you're on the freeway, you're
getting charged a toll. 

762
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,160
My toll bill is about $250 a 
month. 

763
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,960
Oh my goodness. 
Oh my God. 

764
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,160
That's a crazy amount. 
Derek's shocked, but that's. 

765
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:24,480
Only because he never leaves his
house. 

766
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:26,760
He's. 
Not right. 

767
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:33,800
Who's the winner here? 
But yeah, I mean, I mean I, I. 

768
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,280
The only reason that came in my 
head when you asked the question

769
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:38,640
though, was because I know that 
there are a lot of people that 

770
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,360
do move from more expensive 
areas that move here and real 

771
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,440
estate is a lot cheaper. 
And I've heard more of that 

772
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,400
chatter more recently, I think 
from from people. 

773
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,240
And I know that happened. 
That was definitely the case 

774
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,160
during the pandemic when people 
were moving out of those areas 

775
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,920
like crazy down here. 
I mean, real estate was cheap in

776
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:57,120
Florida, even though for us it 
was, it was kind of bonkers and 

777
00:39:57,480 --> 00:40:03,240
expensive and still is, but OK. 
But I just want to touch back on

778
00:40:03,240 --> 00:40:05,840
the weather thing. 
So one of Lauren's points in her

779
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,000
article was that more stays, you
know, as ABC member helps to get

780
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,800
you acclimated in the winter or 
sorry, in the summer. 

781
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:16,400
I mean, so basically I, I felt 
like that because we were coming

782
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:20,200
down, you know, I was a teacher.
So we were coming in the summer 

783
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,840
a lot. 
So you did kind of get a feel 

784
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:24,920
for it already. 
So it's not like you don't know 

785
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,320
what you're getting into. 
If you're, you know, a member 

786
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,160
that goes to the goes to the 
parks and resorts and you come 

787
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,040
down in the summer, you, you 
know, you know what you're 

788
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:38,560
getting into there. 
Jeff, tell me one of the things 

789
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:44,560
that's outside of the parks and 
weather that you love about 

790
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,720
living in Florida. 
Yeah. 

791
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:47,560
And and. 
I think. 

792
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,480
And this is probably just 
because, you know, I, I was a 

793
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,160
Utah boy my whole life. 
So we did everything that Utah 

794
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:56,320
had to offer, right? 
Coming to Florida, there's a lot

795
00:40:56,320 --> 00:41:01,720
of things outside of the Disney 
parks that you can do. 

796
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:03,360
Some are expensive, some are 
not. 

797
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:07,480
But like beaches, both coasts, 
Gulf of Mexico and and the 

798
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,800
Atlantic or Gulf of America, 
whatever we're talk talk calling

799
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,840
it these days. 
You know, we just went to the 

800
00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:15,000
beach last night and, and Amy 
and I both said to us, we were 

801
00:41:15,000 --> 00:41:18,200
sitting there, it was sunset. 
We had a drink in our hand and 

802
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,840
we were like, we'd say it every 
time we go out there. 

803
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:23,120
Why don't we do this more? 
Because it's very easy to get 

804
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:24,760
there from here. 
It's an hour, hour and a half 

805
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:29,440
depending on traffic. 
You know, there's there's trails

806
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:33,560
and there's preserves and 
there's kayaking areas. 

807
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,920
There's a lot of outdoor 
activity that would shut down in

808
00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,840
Utah and in the, you know, in 
the mountain states that you 

809
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,920
couldn't do in the winter time, 
you know, so that that's a big 

810
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,760
part of it. 
There's a lot to do when you 

811
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,400
have had enough of Disney 
crowds. 

812
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:50,360
Having said that, there's a lot 
of other theme parks too, 

813
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,120
Universal, SeaWorld, Busch 
Gardens, Legoland there. 

814
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,240
There's all kinds of things in 
Florida, discounts and Groupons 

815
00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,440
and escape rooms and 
restaurants. 

816
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,960
And I mean, yeah, pandas, right?
There's no bagels, there's no 

817
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,760
pizza and there is there's not 
good ones. 

818
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:08,240
But I think that was the biggest
thing for us is we're like, all 

819
00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,320
right, we get to explore this 
whole new world, whole new set 

820
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:16,600
of restaurants, a whole new set 
of, of adventures that we're, 

821
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,920
we're new to us that we get to 
embrace and, and do things that 

822
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,240
are outside of the parks. 
Because you will get bored of 

823
00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,360
the parks. 
Maybe bored's not the right 

824
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,640
word, but you're, you're not 
crushing it. 

825
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:29,480
You know, you're, you're going 
to go ride your favorite, you're

826
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,080
going to have dinner, you're 
going to go home. 

827
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,320
Amy and I only go to the parks 
after, after 5, after we're done

828
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,520
working. 
So we're only there for a 

829
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:39,400
limited amount of time. 
Weekends are for all these new 

830
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:42,000
things that we're just 
discovering constantly. 

831
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:45,560
Derek. 
Derek was the one the pick me 

832
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,200
thing earlier. 
No, no, no. 

833
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,440
I thought that's when you. 
Asked Jeff what was his favorite

834
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,040
thing about. 
Oh, I want to know your favorite

835
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:54,280
thing. 
No, I thought he was going to 

836
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,200
say. 
Me oh, oh, you thought he. 

837
00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:57,840
Was going to say you were his 
favorite thing. 

838
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:03,120
That's not OK. 
I do think that's. 

839
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,920
Adorable. 
Just just. 

840
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:10,040
To touch on the weather thing, I
can tell you again I'm 52 years 

841
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,000
old. 
I would rather be here when it's

842
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:16,480
hot, humid, and walk into a 
building with AC than to be 

843
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:23,200
outside in -600° weather, 
scraping my car off of ice and 

844
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,640
bundled up in winter clothes. 
So I will Amen the heat. 

845
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,440
I will. 
Take the humidity over winter 

846
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,040
any day because we all know if 
you're from the Midwest or 

847
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,880
you're used to any kind of 
winters, it's real pretty when 

848
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,280
that first snow comes down and 
it's all magical and light and 

849
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,400
fluffy. 
And then you look at the stuff 

850
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,400
that's sitting out there in like
March and April and it's Gray 

851
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:49,520
and it's black and it's heavy 
and it's slushy and awful snow. 

852
00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:54,480
The weather that we're about to 
come into is why people move to 

853
00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,520
Florida. 
And like Jeff said, don't do it.

854
00:43:57,560 --> 00:44:00,560
If I just love Disney and I just
want to go to the parks all the 

855
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,760
time, don't do it. 
That's not reason enough to move

856
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,960
here. 
I did it because of my job and 

857
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:09,600
because of Disney Vacation Club.
That's who I work for. 

858
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:13,400
That's still who I work for is 
selling Disney Vacation Club. 

859
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:18,040
So we came here for that reason.
But we're so blessed that we did

860
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,440
because the memories that we've 
been able to make here since, 

861
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,360
you know, over the last, you 
know, 10/11/12 years of us being

862
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:27,760
here, I, I can't imagine a 
better place. 

863
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:32,480
You know, knowing that going to 
the actual Florida Keys, right, 

864
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:37,200
has been a part of so many big 
memories of my life and my kids,

865
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:39,600
You know, again, going to of 
course, Vero Beach. 

866
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,960
And like, like Jeff said too, 
what I love most about it is the

867
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:48,120
fact that you have, if you want 
it, a world at your fingertips 

868
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:53,160
of the most amazing, yet maybe 
some of the cheesiest touristy 

869
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,280
theme parky things that you want
to do. 

870
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,760
But you don't have to do that. 
You can get in a car and drive, 

871
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,440
you know, two hours And I'm on, 
you know, the Gulf, which the 

872
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,160
water is completely different 
than if you drive two hours and 

873
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,720
go towards the Atlantic and 
these cute little quaint beach 

874
00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:13,400
towns and these overnight little
hotels that you're able to 

875
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,720
decide and you know, then if you
want to venture outside the 

876
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:18,120
state. 
But there's so much in this 

877
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,520
state that we haven't really 
explored. 

878
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:24,480
And a big reason why for anybody
out there with kids was a big 

879
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:27,840
thing for us that kind of 
solidified it with us are a lot 

880
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,160
of the Florida schools and 
specifically, you know, Florida 

881
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,360
colleges. 
I mean, my son goes to Florida 

882
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:36,400
State, which is a fantastic 
school, University of Florida, 

883
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:41,240
not as good as Florida State, 
but we've got great, great 

884
00:45:41,240 --> 00:45:45,240
schools here in Florida too. 
So that's where you got to do 

885
00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:48,240
your research and realize that, 
you know, you're not just doing 

886
00:45:48,240 --> 00:45:51,800
it for Disney. 
Do I love, I love going to 

887
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,800
church every single Sunday and 
after church my wife will just 

888
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:57,280
spring on me and say, you know 
what, why don't we go have lunch

889
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,040
at Disney Springs? 
So we drive 20 minutes down the 

890
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,920
road. 
We get there, we walk around 

891
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:05,560
Disney Springs, we get a little 
Disney fix and we love it. 

892
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:09,640
So being able to have all of 
that here on top of amazing 

893
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,280
nature and everything else and 
fantastic weather for basically 

894
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:15,360
8 months of the whole entire 
year. 

895
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:21,920
Come, come join us. 
Before panic, I just want to 

896
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:23,080
touch. 
On one more thing about the 

897
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:24,880
weather because we get this 
asked a question a lot 

898
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:28,080
especially given the last week 
hurricanes, right? 

899
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,160
Yeah, yeah. 
Do hurricanes happen here? 

900
00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:34,440
They absolutely do. 
Can they be devastating? 

901
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,960
They absolutely can. 
But it's the only natural 

902
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:41,240
disaster in the world where you 
get 2 weeks notice pretty much 

903
00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:43,040
right. 
Thank you and. 

904
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:44,680
I say that. 
Jokingly, but it's true. 

905
00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:47,280
Like, we've been watching Aaron 
for 10 days. 

906
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:51,040
And, you know, as it starts to 
move forward, we keep an eye on 

907
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:52,560
it. 
We listen to Dennis Phillips. 

908
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:56,840
He tells us when to panic. 
But realistically, you have a 

909
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:59,120
week where they're going to say,
OK, either it's going to hit or 

910
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:00,120
not. 
Well, it's coming. 

911
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:01,720
All right. 
I'm going to go stock up on some

912
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:04,640
water, grab my canned goods, 
maybe make sure the propane 

913
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,800
tank's full just in case. 
Then it gets a little bit 

914
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:07,640
closer. 
It moves. 

915
00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,560
You move on with your life. 
Maybe it still keeps coming. 

916
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:12,480
We got hit with two big ones 
last year. 

917
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:15,120
I think everybody in this room 
got pretty lucky. 

918
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,760
I think Derek maybe lost a tree 
into his garage or something 

919
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:20,120
like that. 
I forgot about that but. 

920
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:22,880
Overall. 
You're lucky. 

921
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:28,880
That it's. 
Rarely, rarely a huge problem, 

922
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:33,120
right? 
So don't not come because 

923
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:35,320
hurricanes happens. 
Natural disasters can happen 

924
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:36,640
anywhere. 
Yeah. 

925
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,760
This is the only one that you 
had start. 

926
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,280
I was gonna say exactly what 
Jeff said. 

927
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,560
People who would be like, yeah, 
here in California, we got 

928
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,040
earthquakes, you got hurricanes,
same thing. 

929
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:45,920
I'm like, no, no, not same 
thing. 

930
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,280
We get an advance warning, you 
don't. 

931
00:47:48,280 --> 00:47:50,440
So, yeah, and we're not talking 
about an. 

932
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:54,800
Area of the state in which you 
are prone to, you know, coastal 

933
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:56,680
flooding. 
Or any of those. 

934
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,160
Major things that you see when 
it comes to a hurricane, like 

935
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,440
you are seeing the impact that a
hurricane typically has right 

936
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,160
when it makes landfall, which is
right against the ocean. 

937
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,360
That is where the worst 
devastation normally is. 

938
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:12,400
We're talking about Orlando is 
basically middle of the state. 

939
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:16,200
And so by the time the storm 
even gets here, it downgrades a 

940
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,680
little bit and you know, you're,
you're at at worst in most 

941
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,080
situations just going to be 
worried about wind, a lot of 

942
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,280
rain, maybe just some localized 
flooding that we've seen. 

943
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,760
But this area is where a lot of 
those coastal towns actually 

944
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,760
evacuate too. 
And we covered that on, you 

945
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,120
know, a prior hurricane show 
where we talked about, you know,

946
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,520
a lot of places, you know, 
Disney World is the evacuation 

947
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,520
zone for some of these coastal 
towns to move into that area. 

948
00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:47,840
So that's why we always say that
if you are, you know, looking 

949
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,800
for a place to go, go there 
during a hurricane because it's,

950
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,000
it's fairly safe. 
Yeah. 

951
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,680
Before, so that was probably one
of our one of our drawbacks. 

952
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,960
But I do agree you get a lot of 
advance notice, you know, you 

953
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,480
know, when hurricane season is 
every year, so you can be 

954
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:07,000
prepared. 
And I feel like we we really 

955
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:09,520
we're very prepared. 
Last year we've been boarding 

956
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,720
our house up and it it probably 
didn't need it. 

957
00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:16,640
But before, before we talk about
the rest of those those 

958
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:21,880
drawbacks, I do just want to 
touch on, you know, some of the 

959
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,200
the things that we really love 
about Florida. 

960
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:29,120
I know I asked Paul, but you 
know, we we went to a Mexican 

961
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:30,680
restaurant. 
It was like a new, it was a new 

962
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:35,960
place on was it Saturday? 
So I just love that we're going 

963
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,120
to a. 
Mexican restaurant, I love it. 

964
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:46,960
So basically our date night on 
on Saturday was Hobby Lobby at 

965
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,240
home. 
So basically looking for fall 

966
00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:51,840
Decor. 
And then we went, we went to a 

967
00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:55,400
restaurant in Winter Garden that
Paul found on Yelp. 

968
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,760
And then we went over and walked
through like the Winter Park 

969
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,040
downtown and it's just winter 
Garden, Winter Garden. 

970
00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:02,480
I'm sorry, not Winter Park, 
Winter Garden. 

971
00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:06,240
It's just that there's so many 
little places like that that I 

972
00:50:06,240 --> 00:50:09,160
find so charming. 
You know, Winter Garden, 

973
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:13,560
downtown Claremont, downtown 
Claremont, downtown. 

974
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,160
We love downtown Lakeland. 
If you've ever been to the 

975
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:19,040
Baldwin Park area, it's really 
cool. 

976
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,320
There's a there's a whole little
Cafe that's all themed to 

977
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:23,840
friends and it's got the couch 
and everything. 

978
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,640
There's just so many cool little
downtown areas and little 

979
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,320
shopping areas and little 
restaurants and breweries and 

980
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,200
things like that, that I feel 
like we haven't. 

981
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:36,560
We've been here for almost 4 
years now and we haven't even 

982
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:41,520
scratched the surface of all 
the, the options, all the dining

983
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,240
and the different cuisines and 
just so much, you know, 

984
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:50,320
international cuisine and just, 
it's just really very diverse as

985
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,640
an area. 
And there's just a lot, a lot 

986
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,640
there that we, we haven't even, 
I feel like tapped the surface 

987
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:56,760
of. 
And I think part of that's. 

988
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:01,840
Where we came from, too, because
we were very, it's funny, like 

989
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,680
we came from. 
You can look it up on a map. 

990
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,440
Wheeling, WV. 
It's a state. 

991
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,760
I like to emphasize that, but it
was about an hour. 

992
00:51:10,240 --> 00:51:13,200
It was about an hour southeast 
of Pittsburgh, PA. 

993
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:15,320
So a lot of people always ask, 
we say we're from Pittsburgh. 

994
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:21,360
It took every power of our being
back then to go to Pittsburgh 

995
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,320
for a date night or for an 
event. 

996
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:27,360
It was only an hour away. 
And you say that now coming to 

997
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:31,120
Florida and you're like, I'm an 
hour from everything on a good 

998
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:34,360
day. 
And so an hour is nothing. 

999
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,280
So I think it's a perspective 
shift. 

1000
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,000
But also you're talking about 
two people that did not come 

1001
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:41,640
from a big city. 
We go back home now we go, how 

1002
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,000
did how did we do it here for as
long as we did? 

1003
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,960
Because you ask yourself on a 
Tuesday night, where do you want

1004
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,360
to go for dinner? 
And there's about four things 

1005
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,560
that come to mind back in 
Wheeling that would be like 

1006
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:53,560
those go TOS that I would 
probably go to. 

1007
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:57,240
And down here it's, you know, 
you just you could just do Yelp 

1008
00:51:57,240 --> 00:51:59,560
shuffle and yeah, it's infinite.
And. 

1009
00:52:00,440 --> 00:52:01,400
Pick one. 
Yeah. 

1010
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:07,200
And Jeff mentioned cruise ports 
being driving distance to what, 

1011
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:12,360
4-5 cruise ports? 
I mean, just the opportunities 

1012
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,720
are just they're so like 
abundant. 

1013
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:18,640
You know, you want to get away 
for a weekend or you want to 

1014
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,880
take a trip, but you don't want 
to have to fly. 

1015
00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:23,240
You know, you can still leave 
the country, go on a cruise. 

1016
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:29,520
So just really being down here 
just opens up your yeah, Panda 

1017
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:31,200
earlier. 
You didn't get to give us kind 

1018
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:35,000
of your what is what is that 
thing that keeps you here and 

1019
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,520
that you love? 
Just strangely, going back to 

1020
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,080
when I was five years old, that 
it was Disney and it always was.

1021
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,280
You know, when you grow up, 
you're going to move to Florida 

1022
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:46,600
Disney. 
But I also fell in love with the

1023
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,120
palm trees that I couldn't get 
in New York. 

1024
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:51,680
And I longed to be around palm 
trees. 

1025
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,280
As weird as it sounds, I have 
Sicilian heritage. 

1026
00:52:55,400 --> 00:52:59,440
I don't know if there's a DNA 
component that made me obsessed 

1027
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:04,160
with palm trees, but I am. 
So for me, it was also the 

1028
00:53:04,160 --> 00:53:07,880
memory of going into like a Main
Street store and getting hit 

1029
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:11,000
with the air conditioner after 
the 95° outside. 

1030
00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:15,040
That was part of the charm of 
being in Florida, as rare as I 

1031
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:17,720
was. 
So I couldn't wait to be, you 

1032
00:53:17,720 --> 00:53:20,000
know, moved here. 
But my thing really was the 

1033
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,560
focus was Disney. 
There's no doubt about it. 

1034
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:24,920
And I still adapted to 
everything else. 

1035
00:53:25,560 --> 00:53:29,080
Disney trees and air. 
Conditioning, Disney trees and 

1036
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,080
air conditioning. 
Things that we have. 

1037
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,920
Abundantly here. 
Before we end, I do just want to

1038
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,760
just touch on some of the 
drawbacks, things that you just 

1039
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:40,640
need to remember. 
Keep in mind if you're planning 

1040
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,720
on moving to Florida, do your 
research, look up, you know, 

1041
00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:47,720
insurance prices. 
Like that's a big thing for some

1042
00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:49,080
people. 
Like Paul said, depending on 

1043
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,120
where you're coming from, you 
know, your car insurance might 

1044
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:54,320
be less, your property insurance
might be less, but it's 

1045
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:57,400
important to to look into those 
things. 

1046
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:01,840
Budget for toll roads. 
If that's not something we we 

1047
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:05,840
had 0 tolls basically where we 
come came from. 

1048
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,320
I have lots of tools. 
Tools I it's that it's. 

1049
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:13,880
That yeah Rd. it's the double O 
pool, pool, swimming pool, light

1050
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:15,200
pool. 
I can't hear the difference 

1051
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:18,960
anyway, just just for the audio 
listers out. 

1052
00:54:18,960 --> 00:54:21,160
There that are now going what 
are we talking about? 

1053
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:27,280
I'm. 
Trying put that into your thing 

1054
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:32,600
wildlife is is a little 
different here we we've. 

1055
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,720
Been here for. 
Four years I've never seen a 

1056
00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:38,840
live Gator crawling around. 
We have seen a couple roadkill 

1057
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,720
ones out on the the Polk County 
Expressway. 

1058
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,320
But you know things that we had 
to get used to lizards. 

1059
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,600
Paul has been in a battle with 
these lizards on our back. 

1060
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:50,960
Yeah. 
On. 

1061
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,200
Our backland eye, I think we. 
Finally figured it out. 

1062
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:54,800
They've taken up residence. 
Yeah. 

1063
00:54:54,800 --> 00:54:57,680
But we they were getting. 
Under a little flappy thing 

1064
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,160
under the door. 
I replaced the flappy. 

1065
00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:05,160
Thing with my twins noticed. 
We talk about how big the bugs 

1066
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,880
are in Florida, but I think I 
had more bugs in my house every 

1067
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:11,640
now and then in New York than I 
do in Florida, 'cause they're 

1068
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,720
happy outside in this weather. 
They are as big as right, 

1069
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:19,120
They're as big as your hand, but
they're outside at least well 

1070
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:21,160
and see Utah is. 
Very different in that way 

1071
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:24,600
because Utah when it starts to 
get cold they they come inside 

1072
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:28,360
but you don't see them where 
here like the number of things 

1073
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:31,960
that we have to get off of our 
front porch of various size 

1074
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:37,200
color shape it it it freaks the 
girls out now Amy and Tatum are 

1075
00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:41,240
are champs now but for the first
year it was hit and miss whether

1076
00:55:41,240 --> 00:55:43,280
they were going back just 
because of the bugs and that is 

1077
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:47,120
not an exaggeration they. 
All right. 

1078
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:49,720
So hey, wait here. 
Here I. 

1079
00:55:49,720 --> 00:55:52,560
Have to share this because your 
story about the Florida animals 

1080
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,600
is so perfect. 
I remember it was almost 

1081
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,000
probably within the first six 
months that we moved here. 

1082
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,080
So my kids were little at at the
time and where we live, we have 

1083
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,200
a well. 
And it turned out that something

1084
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,800
happened with the well. 
So we didn't for a short period 

1085
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,240
of time that, you know, didn't 
have water, but the kids had to 

1086
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,160
wash their hair and go to 
school. 

1087
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,960
So we're like, OK, so we don't 
have running water because 

1088
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,760
they're coming over later today.
But the kids, so Owen, just go 

1089
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,600
to the swimming pool and just, 
you know, wash your hair in like

1090
00:56:18,720 --> 00:56:20,720
the swimming pool. 
So he's in there washing his 

1091
00:56:20,720 --> 00:56:22,720
hair and then all of a sudden he
shouts out. 

1092
00:56:22,720 --> 00:56:25,440
He goes help, help. 
And we look outside the screen 

1093
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,920
door and we're like, what? 
And floating on the other end of

1094
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:31,760
the swimming pool happened to be
a tiny Gator jumped into the 

1095
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:35,080
swimming pool. 
And Annie, I remember God bless 

1096
00:56:35,080 --> 00:56:38,040
her, she looked at me as our cud
was, you know, son was covered 

1097
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,680
with shampoo and he's in a 
swimming pool with the Gator and

1098
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:44,600
gave me this look like what are 
we doing there are what is 

1099
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,680
going. 
On it is you will. 

1100
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:48,840
Find. 
Critters. 

1101
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,880
Do not underestimate the 
critters. 

1102
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,760
They're everywhere. 
Everywhere. 

1103
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,880
Oh, turtles, yes, I think. 
No, that that wasn't a turtle. 

1104
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:01,160
Do you know how big this was? 
I could have sat on it and got a

1105
00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:03,400
ride. 
That thing was humongous. 

1106
00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,200
That's that's the half of my 
driveway that you're seeing. 

1107
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,160
And that thing was walking 
around my. 

1108
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:10,480
Driveway I walked. 
Into the house. 

1109
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,960
And I went, it was like from 
Disney, from the from Animal 

1110
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:15,440
Kingdom. 
Oh my goodness. 

1111
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,360
So. 
Before we get too off the roads,

1112
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:22,720
our our weirdest wildlife story 
is that I I had to come over to 

1113
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,360
Paul and I said, Paul, I need 
you to get something out of the 

1114
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,760
yard. 
It's a giant fish. 

1115
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:32,040
And so like a hawk had. 
Dropped a like. 

1116
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,440
Really big. 
It was like it was like this 

1117
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,080
big. 
Yeah, Yep, our dog is barking. 

1118
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,920
But yeah, it had dropped a fish 
from the. 

1119
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:42,120
Nearby lake that it had gotten 
and it had dropped it right in 

1120
00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:44,800
our backyard so our dogs 
obviously were back there 

1121
00:57:44,800 --> 00:57:48,280
barking at it. 
Cinders are what dog hooked it 

1122
00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:49,680
up and carried it. 
Around the yard. 

1123
00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:53,280
But it's also we have like we 
have like, great, Jeff was a 

1124
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,480
cop, so he knows. 
Paul, Amy, that was an Italian 

1125
00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:58,160
message. 
You. 

1126
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:01,680
You pissed somebody off. 
Can you piss the neighbor? 

1127
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:04,520
Off behind us. 
Can I say one up you? 

1128
00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,880
Sleep. 
With the fish, I think some 

1129
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:09,720
people. 
Don't think of when they first 

1130
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:12,520
moved down here. 
Maybe negative isn't the right 

1131
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,120
word, but it's something that 
you absolutely need to be aware 

1132
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,400
of. 
If you have a big family, if you

1133
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:21,240
have a lot of friends that maybe
want to come visit you, yes. 

1134
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,080
My house since we. 
Moved here two years ago, has 

1135
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,440
been a never ending hotel of 
friends and family that want to 

1136
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,080
come stay, which is great. 
We love that. 

1137
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,680
But they also expect you to be 
on vacation when they're on 

1138
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:36,320
vacation. 
And that is something, yes. 

1139
00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:39,880
It actually took me longer than 
it should have to. 

1140
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:41,920
Yep. 
Shut that off because I was 

1141
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:43,080
like, yeah, I want to go with 
them. 

1142
00:58:43,080 --> 00:58:44,440
I want to have, I want to show 
them a good time. 

1143
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,520
I want to show them you can't. 
Like you got to say, you know 

1144
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,600
what? 
I'll see you after work. 

1145
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:51,760
I'll see you after the parks 
because it will happen. 

1146
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:56,280
I will 100%. 
And it's, and it's also the the 

1147
00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,600
perception that I think a lot of
things give off. 

1148
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:00,840
You know, I know it's the 
perception that this show gives 

1149
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:04,400
off to many people that watch 
it, which is that we are always 

1150
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:08,520
talking, we are all always 
sitting on this call talking 

1151
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:12,600
Disney Vacation Club or we are 
all always doing a vlog in the 

1152
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,200
parks. 
And that is actually just such a

1153
00:59:15,240 --> 00:59:19,520
low percentage of what we do. 
And yet it is all that we 

1154
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,840
project because we want to 
generate excitement about Disney

1155
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:25,040
Vacation Club and Walt Disney 
World. 

1156
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:29,280
But the reality of it is, you 
know, we have all of those basic

1157
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:33,280
things that you would be doing 
when you're not on vacation that

1158
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:37,440
are a part of your daily life we
are doing, like cooking dinner 

1159
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:39,800
or laundry. 
We mentioned it earlier, cutting

1160
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:44,120
the grass, you know, got to take
the car to get an oil change, 

1161
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:48,080
got to go get a haircut, you 
know, definitely need one. 

1162
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:52,520
But those are all of those 
things that for us, those fill 

1163
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:56,360
our days and fill our weeks and 
it's not parks all the time. 

1164
00:59:56,360 --> 00:59:59,160
Is it wonderful and convenient 
that they are right there? 

1165
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,800
Yes. 
But I mean, yeah, Jeff, yeah. 

1166
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:04,320
You kind of got to just 
eventually just sort of say, 

1167
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,880
great, can I meet you for dinner
on Thursday? 

1168
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:11,880
Like, because otherwise there is
that expectation of like you're 

1169
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,240
always going to be in the parks 
and always be in the resorts 

1170
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:17,360
and. 
And I would just add to kind of,

1171
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,360
you know, just round out our, 
our, our discussion here is, is 

1172
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:23,880
to make sure that you for all of
these reasons, make sure that 

1173
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:25,920
you have a solid plan. 
Like if you're retiring to 

1174
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,560
Florida, great, you've worked 
very hard all your life. 

1175
01:00:28,560 --> 01:00:31,360
You hopefully have the funds set
up where this is going to be a 

1176
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,360
great retirement destination. 
But if you're trying to make 

1177
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:38,720
this make sense for your family,
make sure that those those key 

1178
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:41,480
things line up. 
You know, make sure that you, 

1179
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:45,000
you know that financially it's 
gonna work 'cause, you know, God

1180
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:49,280
forbid you travel halfway across
the country and get here and 

1181
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:52,040
realize that you either can't 
afford it or, you know, you 

1182
01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:54,640
didn't set up the right job. 
You know, who knows what those 

1183
01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:58,360
situations are? 
You know, I know for Amy and I, 

1184
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:02,120
we discussed moving to Florida 
probably about three years 

1185
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:06,720
before we ever even began to 
think it could be a reality 

1186
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,960
because there were just so many 
check boxes that we knew in our 

1187
01:01:10,960 --> 01:01:13,200
heads we had to be comfortable 
with. 

1188
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:18,480
And so you've got to have those.
I always say you've got to have 

1189
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:22,160
those hard conversations early 
on in that discussion. 

1190
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:26,520
And I think that's a negative 
only because it is hard to have 

1191
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:28,920
those conversations sometimes 
with. 

1192
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,400
Everyone thinks of the Disney 
bubble, and I think that's very 

1193
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:36,800
important that you said that, 
that when you're moving here, 

1194
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:39,000
you're not living in the Disney 
bubble. 

1195
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,500
You're not in the bubble. 
So you're moving to quote UN 

1196
01:01:42,500 --> 01:01:43,720
quote, the whole state of 
Florida. 

1197
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:45,880
So that's where things you have 
to look at. 

1198
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:50,360
Not everything is 100% perfect 
when you're in that Disney 

1199
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,960
bubble because it's life. 
So if you're coming here 

1200
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,560
especially, and I touched on it 
earlier too, if you're coming 

1201
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:59,840
here with kids or with a family,
do research into schools, 

1202
01:02:00,200 --> 01:02:06,240
schools and schools. 
Tremendous difference in schools

1203
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,800
literally within 30 minutes from
each other, one might be a top 

1204
01:02:10,800 --> 01:02:14,440
rated school and 30 minutes away
it might not be so top rated. 

1205
01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:17,160
So you've got to look at things 
like that. 

1206
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:19,960
Another thing. 
Worth mentioning that we 

1207
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:22,160
haven't. 
If you notice, most of us live 

1208
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:26,760
1/2 hour 20 minutes from Disney.
You could live 5 minutes from 

1209
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:30,760
the back of the Magic Kingdom. 
It could be true transient 

1210
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:32,680
though, because it could be very
touristy. 

1211
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,200
Not that that's bad, but if you 
have kids, take that into 

1212
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,120
consideration. 
You want to be a nice amount of 

1213
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:41,360
time away where you can get to 
when you want to, but not be in 

1214
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:43,880
vacation mode with tourists all 
the time. 

1215
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:47,960
Yeah, I wouldn't want a number 
of Airbnb communities down here 

1216
01:02:48,080 --> 01:02:49,240
is. 
Astonishing. 

1217
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:52,320
As somebody that works in real 
estation, it is astonishing. 

1218
01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:56,520
I think we have more Airbnb's 
per capita than anywhere else in

1219
01:02:56,520 --> 01:02:58,240
the country, you know? 
Oh, wow. 

1220
01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:03,520
And the other thing too, just to
add to that is before you make 

1221
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:06,200
the move, I can't stress this 
enough. 

1222
01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:10,520
Find your people. 
OK, so like whatever community 

1223
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:13,320
you're in, if you play Dungeons 
and Dragons or if you crochet or

1224
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,320
if you there, there's a Facebook
group out there for you. 

1225
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,040
And Amy and I have joked about 
this. 

1226
01:03:18,120 --> 01:03:19,200
Amy Kriger and I have joked 
about this. 

1227
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:21,000
There's a Facebook group for 
everything. 

1228
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,880
Join some of them, ask 
questions, meet some people. 

1229
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,320
I kid you not. 
I don't know that we would have 

1230
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,640
lasted if we didn't have Paul, 
Amy, Jeff and Dan in our friend 

1231
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,840
group and then Derek and Panda 
later, obviously. 

1232
01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:36,480
But Paul, Amy, Jeff and Dan were
lifesavers for us because we 

1233
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:39,600
didn't know anybody. 
And I don't know that my girls 

1234
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,520
would have stayed if we hadn't 
found our people. 

1235
01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:44,520
And we've expanded that and it's
been great. 

1236
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:46,120
We've met other people through 
various things. 

1237
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:49,080
You know, we went to Boxy Park 
on Sunday like Amy was talking 

1238
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,960
about, which was just a 
phenomenal place to meet people.

1239
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:56,880
But no joke, if you're an 
introvert, or if if you're 

1240
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,840
somebody that tends to get 
lonely or depressed, being away 

1241
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,760
from the family, being away that
from the things, because moving 

1242
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:07,640
across the country is huge. 
I cannot stress enough what a 

1243
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:12,000
culture shock that can be. 
If you don't have some kind of 

1244
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,160
support group, it can get really
lonely here. 

1245
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,600
Jeff is right. 
Yeah, yeah. 

1246
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:23,000
Well, I think we could probably.
You know, talk about this topic 

1247
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:26,040
for days. 
There's they're literally as 

1248
01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:31,000
literally there's so. 
Much to. 

1249
01:04:31,000 --> 01:04:34,960
Discuss and unpack that a even a
one hour show does not do 

1250
01:04:34,960 --> 01:04:38,200
justice to how important it is 
to make the right decisions. 

1251
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,200
Jeff made this comment earlier. 
I will just echo it at this 

1252
01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:43,240
point in time. 
If it is something serious that 

1253
01:04:43,240 --> 01:04:46,440
you're looking to do, get 
involved in a Facebook group 

1254
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:50,320
dedicated to this and make sure 
you get yourself a good realtor.

1255
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,080
We don't have any personal 
recommendations on that front. 

1256
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:56,160
We've used some amazing Realtors
and our time down here and there

1257
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:58,520
are plenty of them around the 
area. 

1258
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,360
So look on YouTube. 
I definitely, I know that there 

1259
01:05:01,360 --> 01:05:04,520
are some people that do a lot of
videos on YouTube that cover all

1260
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,200
community videos. 
Topics as well. 

1261
01:05:08,560 --> 01:05:12,440
Yeah, so there's there's a whole
other community just dedicated 

1262
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,680
to this there. 
I mean, there's a there's 

1263
01:05:14,680 --> 01:05:18,280
someone locally in our community
in Claremont that runs a 

1264
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:20,840
Facebook group and has an 
Instagram page and they just 

1265
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:22,560
talk about what's going on in 
Claremont. 

1266
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:24,080
I think it's called only in 
Claremont. 

1267
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:27,160
And it's cool just to hear about
what's happening in Claremont. 

1268
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:32,160
So that's why, you know, it is a
very big and growing, ever 

1269
01:05:32,160 --> 01:05:34,800
growing community. 
And so it's important to just 

1270
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,720
make the right decisions, but 
also like aiming it like we 

1271
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:40,400
didn't make the wrong decision. 
It's just that three years 

1272
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:43,360
later, our decisions changed 
and, and we knew more about the 

1273
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,920
area. 
Jeff's rode the same roller 

1274
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:49,120
coaster and I and I don't think 
he's done yet, but still still 

1275
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:52,760
plans to move, move yet again to
kind of get in that perfect area

1276
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:55,360
that he wants to be in. 
And who knows, we could be doing

1277
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:57,800
the same thing down the road, 
you know, who knows? 

1278
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:02,680
It's just we're moving again. 
We've painted walls. 

1279
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,280
I'm with you. 
I hate it. 

1280
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:06,200
I'm with you. 
It's a serious commitment for us

1281
01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:07,280
to. 
Actually paint walls in the 

1282
01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:08,640
house. 
So I think we're gonna be we're 

1283
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:10,480
gonna be in this house for quite
some time. 

1284
01:06:11,440 --> 01:06:13,600
Put your questions that you 
might have in the comments of 

1285
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:15,480
this video. 
We also answer a lot of 

1286
01:06:15,480 --> 01:06:17,240
questions in the DVC fan 
Facebook group. 

1287
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:20,760
But if we get enough, like maybe
follow up questions related to 

1288
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:24,560
living down here or just certain
areas, maybe we can do a follow 

1289
01:06:24,560 --> 01:06:28,320
up show and answer some of those
questions that you have because 

1290
01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:30,040
this is a question that does 
come up. 

1291
01:06:30,600 --> 01:06:33,520
I apologize for those of you 
hoping for Disney Vacation Club 

1292
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:36,760
content, but there's enough of 
us Disney Vacation Club members 

1293
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,120
that have made this leap that we
thought it was an important 

1294
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,480
topic to consider. 
Panda, I'm getting you. 

1295
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:45,920
I'm going to put that key holder
Club luggage tag in the mail to 

1296
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:47,880
you here just momentarily. 
I really want it. 

1297
01:06:47,880 --> 01:06:50,160
I'm not kidding. 
Yeah, don't, don't do, do that 

1298
01:06:50,160 --> 01:06:52,960
to me and joke and then not send
it because I'll be waiting at 

1299
01:06:52,960 --> 01:06:56,440
the mail. 
Key holder club. 

1300
01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:00,600
Key Holder Vacations app on the 
iOS store or Android store that 

1301
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:02,920
is going to do it for this 
week's episode of the DVC Show. 

1302
01:07:03,080 --> 01:07:04,520
We will see you next Monday.