Here we are, all all sitting in our Halloween garb and all
dressed up like ready for Halloween.
And we are talking about Christmas because we are.
We're blown away that Epic Universe is not going to do
Christmas in certain lands. And then Amy just drops this
news on us. Because it's not Christmas in
Burke. It's snuggle talk which is the
same. That's what I wish they would
decorate it. Happy snuggle talk.
Yeah. And I merry, merry snuggle talk.
Merry snuggle talk. And I also feel like I need to
be like, if you've ever been to a play or a musical.
And the role of Derek de Boer tonight will be played by Jeff
Drivazio. He's like the understudy.
Big. Big shoes to fill.
You give us a big hey now, hey now.
Pretty good. Hey everybody, and welcome to
this week's episode of The DVC Show.
My name's Jeff. I got my wife Jeff here.
We've got Jeff here as well, and then the Jeff over here and also
a Jeff here. So there's a party with lots of
Jeff's tonight. I planned that ever since we
announced that you were going to be on the show, Jeff, so.
My name is Jeffina. Thank you.
I. Don't know what.
Pardon. Pat, hold on.
What are you drinking? Amy that.
Much it is not. Great question, Panda.
OK wait, so this is our DVC fan Oktoberfest.
Stein. Stein.
Plastic Stein. Yeah, did everything.
Iced coffee. It's not.
So this is my new fall beverage. I actually just posted.
It's getting a little bit wonky looking because it's been
sitting, but I just I just posted on Patreon, like making
it on Patreon. But this is my new I call it
Amy's Appley Amazing Autumn awesomeness.
Anyway, it it is apple cider, which I got from Kroger because
we don't have any farm apple cider around here, but Kroger
does a decent job. And then the kicker is caramel
cold foam. So little bitch caramel cool
foam on top. This is the best fall drink
ever, trust me. Is is caramel cold foam
something you can buy? Everywhere.
Caramel caramel I've. Yeah, I've never saw.
I've never seen. I've got this one at Kroger,
like just from the delivery, but they have it.
They have, yeah, they have all kind of cold foams.
It's a thing now. I'm gonna try to just drink it,
it sounds. Good, not whipped cream.
Has to be cold foam. SWIG should definitely be paying
attention. This should be on their menu.
Right, and they need to name it appropriately too.
I agreed. Well, if you've turned in tuning
into our TVC show for the first time, my name is not Jeff.
My name is Paul. That's Amy.
We got Big Fat Panda with us. We've got.
Welcome home everyone. The Honorable Jeff Haslam, who
you guys are very familiar with, and then Jeff Devazio, which I
feel like if you are a die hard and are watching us pretty
frequently, you should be familiar with this face because
he's been on videos before. He's been on a lot of our live
streams. He's usually behind the camera
making. Or crawling under the table.
Or crawling under a table. So, Jeff, thanks for filling in
for Derek this week and joining us.
Well, thank you for having me. I appreciate it.
Yeah, I. Don't know.
Who I'm going to make fun of now, though that's I don't
that's weird. Yeah, for those I'm.
Going to be. I'm going to be more of a target
for sure. For those of you wondering, we
did not scare Derek away. Jeff, correct me if I'm wrong,
he's in Tampa at a Lumineers concert.
It's It's weird to say those words and Derek's name together
all in the same sentence I feel like.
It is just when you think you got that guy figured out, he he
throws us a curveball. But yeah, he and Annie are out
at a concert in Tampa this weekend, which is weird because
he never leaves like Windermere. Ever.
No, and and he lives by a calendar just like I do.
So on Monday it was a shock to all of us when he goes, hey,
oops, I forgot we were recording on Wednesday.
So. Yeah, he's like never missed a
show as far as I, as long as I've been involved.
I think he just sits in his office in front of the camera
all day long. You can actually book him for
like a live appointment on camera.
I'm pretty sure available for. Weddings and bar mitzvahs.
Yeah, that's your. Cameo, yeah.
People would buy Derek cameos. I'm pretty sure if we tried to
sell them, they would. Well, we are here for, as
surprisingly as it sounds, a part three of a series that we
have done called The Best of Disney, where Amy came up a long
time ago with a large laundry list of best of's.
And we're going to tell you our thoughts on some of the topics
we've not discussed. If you've missed the prior
episodes, go back. There's a best of part 1A, best
of Part 2. But this is.
I love I love the best of shows think I just it's a very
positive and I just love talking about this and listening and
getting everyone's opinions. And I love how the people who
watch or listen will list their you know, what their thoughts
are. So if you have any other ideas
of something that we didn't choose for a best of, let us
know in the comments and we'll we'll keep it unless.
Part 4. Next time, yeah.
How many part twos do we still have to do, Jeff?
At least 20 at. Least three.
OK, Yeah, I've lost I've lost track of that list at this
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We're moving on to Christmas anyway.
We are what? No, we're moving on to snuggle.
Snuggle log. Snuggle log.
I'm pretty sure I. Gotta look real quick.
But anyhow, we are moving on to Christmas even though we're
wearing all of. Our snuggle talk.
Snuggle talk. Merry snuggle talk everyone.
Snuggle talk. I love how you like.
Cheers the audience. Merry snuggle talk.
Great. But yeah, before we kick off
into the best of shows though, we did have some news break
today. And since this will go up like
the following Monday, I wanted to cover it real quick.
We got our annual increase in prices day for Walt Disney
World. You know it's the first of their
fiscal year come October and so a lot of prices went up as
effective as of today. We are filming this on
Wednesday, October 8th. The biggest one that a lot of
people in our sphere talk about is annual pass holder prices.
So a lot of annual pass pricing went up today, basically
anywhere from the range of 80 to $20, depending on what actual
pass that you have. The surprise that we saw was
that the sorcerer pass renewals and also the Pixie dust pass
renewals did not have any increases that we can see at
this time that could change, you know, they could actually
increase them here as we head into January.
Other things that saw increases today tickets, Mickey pretzels,
other drinks throughout the the the parks.
If Amy wants wants her autumn autolicious, amazing this autumn
splash. Oh, you can only get this at.
Home that probably increased in price if it was a Disney World
drink as of today, but a lot of price increases happened today.
And then I'm pretty sure Disney PR said, oh crap, all they're
talking about is price increases.
Please just share something, anything that can change the
news cycle. So we did get 3 pieces of news
out of the day as well. And those were kind of nothing
burgers if you're asking me. One was some additional
information about Zootopia's Better Zoogether show that is
coming to Animal Kingdom next month.
We got information on annual pass and DVC previews.
That information is available to you on dvcfan.com.
We got some additional information about The Muppets
and the Electric Mayhem taking over Rock and Roller Coaster.
We got a big official date of that.
Jeff, what was that date? Sometime in the summer of next
year. Yeah, whatever that means.
And the last thing that was announced today, which was kind
of out of left field, but I think was most exciting to a lot
of people. I know Panda, you were, you were
kind of excited about it. Thrilled.
Which is the fact that Frozen Ever After at Epcot is moving
away from the what I can only describe as LED screen faces
that sometimes either go black or show a Windows logo and are
being updated. We're getting updated
animatronics that actually look like real people.
What I love about that is that they didn't have to do it and
they are spending the money knowing that it's good.
And I'm I'm that just, it makes me very happy.
That's a win. I got to give Disney credit when
they do something right. And that's that's right.
I don't know. I feel like if I say Jeff, I'm
not quite sure which one of you is going to respond.
I feel like we need to have like alter egos for for today.
I'm going to, I'm going to say the honorable and I'm going to
say Jeff and then call. Me has.
That's what everybody does is call me has.
Yeah. Has who's everybody?
I'm like, we are like your best friend and we've never heard.
Hey, listen, that's a Utah thing.
I just got back from Utah. It's still lingering here, which
is I'd like it to go away. So in Utah you're has, but in
Florida you're Jeff. Hef Jazz.
HEF Jazzlin regular Jeff, any thoughts on any of the the
Disney news today? Excited.
Sad about price increases. Mean you know what's, you know
what's going to come so yeah, and as as much as we want to
complain about it, you know we're still going to pay it so.
We're. Right there, we're right there.
I did see the one thing about I know you didn't bring this up,
the carts going cashless. Did you see that news?
Like no, like the like the popcorn carts and those type of
things. Oh.
Man, I mean, yeah, I don't know. I've, I've been in line to, you
know, get the refill of the popcorn and you see somebody
pull out the money and they're fumbling and fumbling and, you
know, they're, they're paying with the cash, which is fine.
But I think it's just going to speed up those lines.
Like sometimes you see the line. The the carrying cash anymore is
a small feat. Any anytime Amy and I go on
cruises, I have to plan to have all of the cash for said tips
and and things like that because I think Amy has like a $2.00
bill in her wallet and that's about.
It and I and I had to use my debit card for like 4 years and
I didn't know the pin at all because I used my credit card
and then I just paid off. No, tell the whole story.
We were at the Pittsburgh airport and the Powerball was in
the billions. And so here is Amy Krieger
trying to buy a Powerball ticket from a machine in the Pittsburgh
airport with a debit card. And he keeps saying, Nope, your
PIN wrong. Like.
And there was a line behind her, like people going, come on,
lady, do you know, you know your epic park?
Well, and and in that morning, I had droves who?
Publix because. Or maybe it was more no.
That that was like the week before.
Oh my goodness. OK, well I drove to Publix
because the smoke detector in my office started beeping and I was
like, this is going to drive me insane.
I can't work under these harsh conditions.
And so I went to Publix. I was a hot mess.
I hadn't showered yet. I was trying to get there before
work. And so I'm buying these 9 Volt
batteries and I was like I'll just get some money out for the
cruise and I'm like, they're trying to remember my debit code
and getting denied. If Amy is online at a cart
that's cashless, it's not helping us at all.
It's. Not going to speed up the line.
They probably thought, oh, this poor girl at Publix, she's so
desperate. She's so desperate for 9 Volt
batteries of. Cash.
I never did get the cash. I had to leave without a credit
card. It's the Haslam OCD over his
camera is getting. No, my dogs just came in because
they heard me talk and they haven't seen me for a week and
they just knocked it all off center again.
So not touching. It anymore you've been fiddling
with it. He texted our group chat
yesterday and he said I'm so excited to see see my dogs and I
said, oh we're super excited to see you too.
Yeah. All right, you better put
little, little things that say like at 15 minutes they stopped
rambling. No, it's pretty normal.
Like I don't think we get to 15 or 20 minutes in this show
anymore without without doing this.
And I'll just extend us by one more minute and quickly say
thank you to the amazing response we've gotten so far for
the Key Holder Vacations group cruise July 20th through the
24th of next year. We have about 50 staterooms
booked. I think already we had over 100
initial requests. We still have people that are
kind of working through that quote process, still paying
their deposit booking that cruise.
It has been a tremendous response and yeah, blown away.
I don't think I left my office last week while while we did all
this. And we worked over the weekend
and especially him just trying to get caught up.
He did all the quotes, which was a huge feat.
I don't even know how to do that.
And I would go and do processing like the deposits and the
payments and doing the final, the final confirmation for our
our guests. But yeah, it's it's been fun.
Yeah, it's gonna be amazing. Time Key Holder,
vacations.com/group Cruise or if you just go to the main main
site, I think it's LinkedIn, the menu bar there also.
And not wait. Yeah, we can't wait.
And I imagine that we will probably mark it as sold out
before too long here because we really don't want to want this
thing to be too super big. We really want to enjoy the time
that we have with the people that have already committed to
going with us. So if you are interested, head
over, fill out that quote form. Put me to work.
I'll put together a quote for you.
Yeah. Because we're already in the
range of 100 or so people. Yeah, you know, most that is
super big, Yeah. No matter what we want to be, we
want to still keep it kind of intimate.
So if you're still thinking about it, now is your chance,
you know, before we mark it as sold out to keep it kind of a
little more more intimate then. It might be your only chance to
see Derek and his Speedo so oh. Gosh, they do have the world's
sexiest man competition on board Royal Caribbean ships.
So you 2 have tried. Royal Caribbean.
You 2 have tried to drag me into that competition at least five
times at this point. So.
Well, welcome to everyone that tunes in after we ramble for 20
minutes. We're here for the Best of Part
3 show. Happy to happy to see you.
That is not Derek, in case you wondered.
Yeah, Jeff's joining us this week for some more best of while
Derek is singing his hearts out at a Lumineers concert.
What are The Lumineers sing? I don't even.
I thought they were a ball team there.
We go Amy thought that he was headed to a baseball game and
that's all. And scene first best of on the
list for the night, best parade. And I will kick it over to Panda
to kind of share what his best parade is.
It's Spectra magic, it really, and it should be the Main Street
electrical parade, but it's not. There's something about
Spectromagic's music and floats and Jiminy Cricket at the end
being a physical thing, going good night, goodbye, that was
just magical to me. And I have this memory of
following it down Main Street into the castle.
Like at the end, you know where the end is and the people are
walking. And I'm just like a little, kind
of not a little kid, but I'm probably like a teenager and I'm
just walking following it. And I'm looking at the castle
and the lights and hearing, you know, the whole parade.
It's just, it was magic. Just magic.
I wish you would return. I do.
The rest of. You magic 22 point O.
The rest of you were nodding along, but I think Amy and I are
the only ones in the room. We have never seen Spectromagic.
So it was, it was during a kind of a period where, well, you had
never been to Disney World. And I wasn't going to Disney
World at that, at that part in my in my childhood and growing
up. So never got to see
Spectromagic. I'm going to have to go back and
like, watch, watch a, watch a rerun of it.
Jeff G, you know what is that? Was that your pick too?
Is that no? No.
And I'm glad I got to go before the other three because I'm
going with paint tonight. I knew he was going to say that.
Yeah, I I've never seen that one, to be fair, but I heard
that was. Crazy, and I think so the.
First the. First time I I saw it.
That was not Jeff Haslam's first time, and that was not Paul and
Amy's, but it was Dan and I's first time.
We sat and watched it and it was great.
Took it all in. It was it was amazing.
We had a perfect spot. We get to sit by the Hub in
Disneyland and watched everything come by.
When the Mack truck came by, like my jaw just dropped.
Like how do you, how do you fit this through the park?
But then we watched it the second night in what what do
they call that area? Jeff of Disneyland where did
like where we watched it from over.
By where? Or the town square.
Sorry. Yeah, yeah, like right in the
middle. And we were like immersed in the
parade and the lights and music and it was just.
It was. I'll never forget it.
It was awesome. Yeah, that was a cool spot.
Yeah. What's your pick?
Amy Krieger. Main Street Electrica Parade,
because for me, see, I never saw all Spectrum magic.
So for me, Main Street Electric Parade is the nostalgia.
And that was what was playing with the first, the first day
I've ever been to Disney. Yeah, the one day and that.
I thought you hated. In 2011 and I just, I just
remember being in awe, the lights and the music and I that
that song is on my running playlist.
I have a really weird eclectic running playlist.
But yeah, I, I love it. And then and then getting to see
it again in Disneyland, you know, we saw it twice that trip.
That was, gosh, what was that 2022 who Jeff and Dan were with
us then. Yeah.
But I that's my favorite hand sound.
That's my favorite. And I love the dragon Elliot
Elliot from Peach Dragon. And we have a lot of things.
We have the popcorn bucket of him and think we have an
ornament and some other some other things.
Yeah. We collect a lot of.
Them you know, do you know how many times I bought the last
light from the last electrical parade?
I have six boxes. Six boxes of the last time.
I imagine it has not seen its last time yet.
So it's they're just bulbs, like light bulbs?
Yeah, they it was. A It was a little, you know,
like it was the those old Christmas tree light bulbs,
those. That's hilarious.
And they, they sold them and but I it can't be the last 1-6 times
guys. There should have been a
warranty or a guarantee that went along with that.
All right, has tell us. This was harder than I thought
because I picked mine immediately, but then I listened
to all of you and you're all also correct, so I'm not gonna
fight you like I normally would. The one that kind of immediately
popped in my head though, was I really like Boo to You at the
Halloween. I thought about that.
I just love that music. It's a banger.
It has a sportsman. I don't know.
I I love it. I don't know if bangers do that
word there I. Agree.
I agree with that. That it's a banger.
But honorable, honorable wife is the people of Panda, because
Panda likes to go into the vault for some of these.
I do wish they would. I would.
It's not the best by any means, but I do wish they'd bring back
Tapestry of Nations that I've. Got yes.
Gosh, Yes. Yeah.
OK, do you notice that he sings the same words for it's?
Always. It's always a word.
It's always. A word.
But that's not the word. Those are not the words.
It's just. From the Pandora animatronic,
it's the yeah yeah. That was a religious experience,
tapestry of nations. I felt like Christ returned.
I've never gotten to see you, but I know the music.
I know the music. And, and for me growing up, the
trip that we took in 2000, that is like that quintessential
Disney trip for me, where that tapestry of nations is so
special to me for that reason. On the same lines as one of the
first Disney parades I ever saw was Main Street Electrical
Parade. And that is my answer to this is
Main Street Electrical Parade. And I think it's where I love
Paint the night. Paint the Night is probably #2
to me, you know, Starlight has the glimmers of all of that and
maybe Spectromagic, if I had seen it, puts it all together.
But I think the thing that Main Street Electrical Parade still
brings into it is both the interactive element that you
have, so like the bumblebee or the snail, and how they like
come up to you. You have that interactive
element that you don't have with a lot of these other parades.
And you also have a lot more just walking cast members and
performers and entertainers in that parade as compared to some
of these newer ones in which you can tell like that's a budget
cut. It's an easier way to make the
the parade a little bit cheaper. I think the paint the night
still does a very good job with that.
And I, I honestly, I've loved the additions that they've done
to Main Street electrical parade over the years too.
The last time we saw it when we were at Disneyland, it had the
new final float that had some of the newer characters on it.
I thought that was super cool, just like just kind of revamping
this this show that's been just the quintessential Disney for so
many years. But I don't think there was a
wrong I. Do we talked everything we
mentioned was a night parade, which shows you like there's
just a certain level of like emotion or I don't know what the
word, you know, it's a very different feeling with a night
parade, you know, with the lights and.
Everything like it's a magic. It's a magic at night.
Yeah, but I do want to give a. Night.
It's your closure to the night. And then you, you sit and you
watch. Yeah, you've had a long day.
You sit and watch it. You take it in and then you see
the fireworks. And then you close your day out
and you go home. It's like.
It's like the perfect end. Yeah, it's.
Just. Good, yeah.
Now, if we're talking banger music out of a parade.
Though I think we're going to say the same thing.
Magic Happens is the one daytime parade.
Point essential banger of a parade song.
And, and, and that that there's, there's, there's certain parade
moments that like tear me up and the one with the sorcerer and
the stone when he pulls that sword out during that parade.
Best moment in any parade that I've ever experienced.
Like it is just and the entertainers that play those
roles just do it so perfectly. Like Magic Happens was at
Disneyland for it's, I feel like we saw it when the Disneyland
Tower opened. So that was 2023.
So it's been a while, a little while since it's been been
around, but that was a really for a daytime parade.
He'll bring it back. That one was really good.
Moving on, question number dose in tonight's best of show, the
best water slide you've ever gone down.
And I must start with Jeff G on this one.
Jeff. G was his way around water
slides. What'd you say?
Old Key West. Oh, Key West, I think.
I don't think I've done old Key West.
We've not. We did it.
It was our first DVC stay was like 2020, right when, you know,
the resorts opened up. I think the parks were open.
And we went in the pool and the lifeguard watched me go down and
he's like, not good enough. I thought he was messing with
me. I was like, ha, OK, and he's
kind of walking and he's like, no, do it again.
He's like arch, arch, arch your back.
Get up. Get up like this.
I. Was like, okay, so he was like
coaching us how to go faster down the water slide.
So it's just a fun memory. It's a fun slide though.
Yeah, see, I've never had that problem with my pick for my
favorite slide, which is Vero Beach, because it it turns so
many times and if you are laying flat on your back, you get going
up the sides like this and it is just, you have no idea what's
happening by the time you get to the end of it.
So that is, that is my favorite one if we're talking Disney
slides. And then we move into the
category of like Volcano Bay and the drop slide there where I
didn't, I didn't know so much water could go up my nose in, in
a three second span of, of, of time, but it did.
So there you there you have it. Panda.
What's your favorite Disney slide?
So Blizzard Beach has a family slide.
I don't know the name, but it's like fits like four or five.
I think it's four people and it's me and a friend that's
about my size and a nice Korean couple that probably weighed
about £120 together. And I thought that our last
cupcake was going to kill them because this was a lopsided,
this was a very lopsided thing. And we were stationary while
they were going up the sides and I thought they're going to fly
right off. But it was a lot of fun and we
survived it and I thought it was great and they were really nice
about it, which is very fun. But the family slide at Blizzard
Beach. Does anybody remember the?
Name is it called Team Boat Springs?
Or that does. Thank you.
Yeah, I've. Never even been to Blizzard
beach. But I also love the Typhoon
Lagoon ones that are inside the mountain that you go on the
inside the mountain. Stuff.
Right. Other than that, yeah.
Amy Krieger. OK, I have to say.
So it used to be Boardwalk. I love boardwalk.
And and if you remember that one time that we were there, it was
when the hurricane was coming. And so there was hardly any
crowds. And I think you and I are the
only ones in the pool. And I was just riding that slide
like over and over like a little kid.
Like I just feel myself smiling. I was.
So this is something about being regurgitated by a clown.
And that's and that's what it used to be used to come out of
the clown any. Time with the spaghetti O hair.
Spaghettios for hair. Yeah.
But anymore, I mean, it's the same slide, so I still like it,
but I, I also, I, I have to say Vera Beach as well, because
that's where I have the memories of probably like, aside from
boardwalk riding, like actually getting on a slide the most.
And when you go all the way up to the top of the slide, this is
one of the best parts of the whole experience is that not
only can you look down and see that the pole is actually shaped
like Mickey, which a lot of people don't realize at Vero
Beach. Very cool.
But then on the other side, you've got this gorgeous view of
the ocean and there's not a whole lot of Disney slides that
give you a gorgeous ocean of the ocean.
Yeah. And I and I, and I'm guessing a
lot of people people are going to say why is no one said the
slide at Stormlong Bay the. Flying.
Jib, Gib. It's either jib or gib.
I can never remember. That thing is danger.
Like like first of all you got to walk across the street
without your shoes on, You got to climb like 5 stories of
stairs or 10 stories of stairs and then you go down it and it
flares your sciatica and then you lose.
If you were in glasses, you will lose them like all.
Of these things have happened to Amy.
They had to at once. They.
Had to turn. They had to turn the slide off.
Yeah, they had to turn the water off and have people stop going
down. And I had to dig under the sand
to find my glasses. Not sunglasses either.
They were like the only glasses I had to see with that week.
That was a good time. So if you were there like 4
years ago and your trip was ruined because of the slide had
to be turned off for like a 10 minute span of time, that was
Amy Krieger's fault. So has save us from this
conversation. I didn't realize that we were
throwing water parks into the water slide.
I just assumed it was like pools.
But if you ever get the chance to do Crush and Gusher with
Grayson, highly recommend it. That's a great time.
But I went with Hilton Head, believe it or not.
And the only reason is, is I think it surprised me.
It's it's deceptive. When you're climbing up those
stairs. It doesn't look like that, but
that thing spits you out like it.
You talked bad about its mother. And.
Water up the nose, you know, like it was, it was way more
intense than I was expecting. So that's that's kind of why I
went to that one in my head, just because it didn't look like
much until you went down it and then it's much.
Yeah, it's much. It's always the unsuspecting
ones. I would have picked that slide
if it wasn't January. We never got the try.
It's so cool, yeah. I was not going to not going to
freeze it for that slide #3 on our list, the best character
meet and greet. Amy, what would be your choice
for this? Oh, this is easy.
So Halloween party where they bring out the poo characters
because I think it's four of them, right?
It's Eeyore and Winnie the Pooh and Tigger and Piglet, and you
get that photo with all four of them.
I've only done it one time in my whole life.
We waited. Over an hour.
Over an hour, but it was worth it.
Is the cutest photo one of the cutest photos of our lives?
It was like one of the first times we did a Halloween party,
I'm pretty sure, and it was the only objective of the evening.
Like we knew. Get the poo photo.
Amy's childhood characters, Winnie the Pooh, so we knew we
had to make sure and. They're all in their little
Halloween outfits and like ones a bumblebee and yeah, so that's
that's my favorite. I still I still love that photo.
Panda your favorite character experience.
Christmas party at the Magic Kingdom with the Seven Dwarfs,
all seven of them. Oh yeah, that's.
A good one you. It's fantastic.
So very quickly I went and I was with friends and we took a
picture of the 7 dwarfs and I said OK, I want to get a picture
now just by myself. All the dwarves left and I
thought that made me laugh. I did not expect.
I was like, no, I myself with you guys, not those people.
It was they all left, they all scattered, they all ran away.
It was so much fun. But that's a great picture.
And the the fact you're getting all seven of them and it's all
themed up and I think we waited a good, good hour for that one.
That's a long line. Yeah, yeah.
I feel like yeah, half these parties you can wait in these
lines for for the character meet and greets.
You got to have, yeah, you got to set your priorities for.
Exclusive and special Jeff G. Mine would be and I I even gave
Paul the photo to prove it. In 2017 I went.
To. Shanghai Disney.
And when I walked up to Captain America, he actually looked at
me and said, now you, you I can talk to and you all understand
me. And it was, it was very, it was
very funny. He was, he was happy to speak
English to me. So it was.
It was kind of a fun, fun photo and fun character meet and
greet. That's a cool.
That's a cool photo. Now I'm going to tell this story
because it just happened, but it was hilarious this morning when
I sent this, when he sent it to me and I said that's America's
ass. And Jeff had no idea what I was
talking about. I.
Know that. Wow, I.
Know, I know the worst. The has it's going to be like
the fawns for me, Jeff. It's it's going to be like the
has. I'm pretty sure the.
Fawns is narrating the Candlelight Processional this
year. Yeah, well, the has, the has is
going to narrate a live, live version of it for us.
That's I didn't know that I got to go see him.
Yep. I went with a little more
traditional, but out at Disneyland, I love that to meet
Mickey Mouse, you wait for him in his house.
The queue for that is the house and you walk through and see all
the cool things they've done. And then when you get to the
actual part where you're going to meet Mickey, they rerun some
of the old cartoons. So it kind of gets you ramped up
and then you don't know which Mickey you're going to get.
Is it sorcerer Mickey? Is it classic Mickey?
Is it tuxedo Mickey? Or is it the other one that I
don't ever remember because I don't think I've ever got him.
But I just like, I thought that was a really cool way to
incorporate the most popular character, which, you know, is
going to have a long line with, you know, giving people
something to do, which Disney does well with cues.
So that's the one I went with. I don't wait in character lines
very often so, but I like that one.
Was Steamboat Willie on that list, though?
No, I don't think you can meet. Him.
Anywhere. That's a shame.
That would be two hour wait. That would be so easy.
Yeah, I've never seen him. That would be cool.
They do have an Oswald California adventure, but.
We also have Pete in California. I've never seen Pete in Disney
World. I have too many jokes that I
could go with that. So you know.
Who he means. Anyhow, my my favorite character
meet and greet. All of you are going to expect
me to say what is probably the obvious one, which is Wally I I
did finally get to do the Wally meet.
That was really. That was for springtime, I'm
pretty sure two years ago. Springtime surprise when it was
Pixar theme. That was pretty cool.
I mean, to finally like interact with Wally and like stand next
to him. But also for me, when I'm
pressured in those situations, I tend not to enjoy it as much.
Like Amy has a great like we met.
We did a meet and greet at with Alton Brown, who is like my idol
one time and I'm pretty sure Amy had to do all the talking
because he asked a question and I'm just like that cooking.
I couldn't talk like I just like froze up.
Star Trek. He was Star Trek by Wally.
I was Star Trek by Wally too, so I don't think I enjoyed it the
way I should have enjoyed it fully.
So for me, I wrote down at Epcot, we did the Baymax, yeah,
one time and the interaction that we had with Baymax.
It was. Was just so great.
You know, getting a hug from an inflatable Baymax is is
something. And then he does like the the.
Yeah, yeah. It.
Was. Cute.
I mean, and I know this isn't Disney, but we would be remiss
if, especially you guys, if we didn't talk about Toothless.
Oh my gosh, I can't. Believe that is the.
Best. Yeah, I was in Disney mode, but
yes, that like of everything that we've ever talked about,
that is the coolest character experience of of my life.
And I'm not, I'm not a big character person either.
And obviously it's an animatronic, but it is so cool.
And that you can like touch him and you can feel his nostrils.
Like like he smelled my hand and I could feel the air in his
nostrils. Yeah, that was just really.
And and the the performers, the entertainers that play Hiccup,
yeah, as well. They know they know so much
stuff about the storyline. We posted a little reel that has
now gotten. Like it's almost a million
views. Yeah, it is almost 1,000,000
views that we've got on Instagram, Instagram and I think
it's like at 500,000 on Tik. T.O.K.
If you've not gone to see it, check it out.
But today would not be a good day for Amy Krieger to meet a
dragon because she is wearing stripes, and stripes look like
eels, which Dragons do not like. Every single character that we
interacted with in Burke that day told Amy, why are you
wearing stripes around Dragons? And so it, it just turned into
this whole thing throughout the entire day, it was great
interaction. But they know those roles just
so well that, yeah, I think it just, it makes that even more
special. Yeah, I am so glad.
Even the. Cadence, the cadence on how they
speak sounds so much like the character.
Yeah. Awesome.
Yeah, it's too early in the night to get hungry, but we're
going to take a stab at it now there's another.
Character meet Greed, What was that?
There's another There's a character meeting great here.
Oh. Wow.
It's DVC fans, DVC Dan. If I had known everybody, Tasmic
music and you could have popped out of a cake or something.
That's DVC, Dan, everyone. Hi, everybody.
How are you? How's.
It going I'd like to. Stay along.
I just heard I heard the the the party going on so I wanted to
say hi. Dan, answer the answer the
question real quick. What's your best character meet
and greet you've ever experienced in a Disney park?
Oh gosh, this is this probably goes back to like my first trip.
I think when I met and we met Mickey and I went didn't he
talk? Didn't Mickey talk in the?
Response there. Was the talking.
He did for a minute. Yeah, I was the talking one,
yeah. Yeah, I mean.
At the theater and it still had a photo pass.
Too. Yeah.
And he and he kind of responded, I mean, vaguely to what you said
to him. And he had a card trick and
everything. And I remember to think this is
when I was not. Into Disney and he had a he.
Had a card trick. He showed me it was a pretty
basic card trick and I was like, oh, I obviously know how you did
that. And I was like, oh wait, hold
on, I got to play. I got.
I played with tonight. I got.
Told her you told Mickey that you knew how he did his card
trick. I was going, I almost did, and I
was. Like, Oh, no, no, no.
No, don't do that one. Yeah.
Hello, I have to go. Goodbye.
Thanks for dropping by. Good to see you guys in the the
four, the four sections here. Yeah, yeah.
Thank you. I produced this show really
well, I'm pretty sure. Sorry.
Like how my face hurts from. Oh, yeah, that was funny.
And was that the was that the the light up wand from the
parade? The parade?
Yeah, we're full circle now. You want to talk about how much
someone like, I don't think that you wanted to see the parade.
I think you just wanted the light up wand.
Oh. For sure, yeah.
Yeah. Because you know you can change
other people's wands like the like the bubble wand, you can
change them. And then it changes as the
parade's going by. So the wand changes the colors
to the floats, and then you can hit a button and then it can
change the person, like across the street, you can change it to
red or blue. So I like the tag.
Behind it, why is this not interactive with play Disney in
some some capacity like this sounds like some interactive
game where like at the end of the day, it's like what team are
you on team blue or team red and like what team won for the day?
Like that's a no. Yeah, Come on, Disney.
Right. We're currently at 70% blue, 30%
red and we got to try to take turn the time.
That'd be great. It reminds me of the Christmas
in which our entire family left our house to go play Pokémon Go
because the church down the street needed changed.
Or I don't play so I'm sorry if you do.
I don't know the terminology. It was they need it.
It was a gym I think. They called it a RAID and they.
Needed to raid the church gym. Let's move on Christmas, OK?
Best burger? Really quick.
No, really quick. I want to talk about that
because that's important. Back when Galaxy's Edge first
opened, that was a thing because you know, they have the Disney
Play app and you can hack the things and scan the barcodes as
you're waiting in line for all the things and talk to the
droids. But if depending on who you
registered with the 1st Order or the, it's not the Rebellion and
the new ones anyway, the good guys and the bad guys, yeah,
them, that the Resistance, that's them.
That's what would make whether stormtroopers would walk around
or Ray and Chewbacca would walk around.
So they did it for a minute. They almost had it, but.
They kind of abandoned that. They hyped it up so much and
then they just. Left.
It was hyped up, yeah. I, I need to like time stamp
this moment. It's at 42.
It was like at 42 minutes basically when when Amy Krieger
told Jeff Haslam a Star Wars terminology.
I know that was that. Yeah, it was.
I we're, we're in a we're in a different dimension at the
moment. I want to go to burgers now.
I came. Up with the slide name.
I've never been to Blizzard Beach, I'm just.
Full of knowledge. You are you're batting it out.
It's it's that amazing apple. Delicious.
Awesomeness. It's gone.
It's something still questioning whether or not it was apple
cider, but best hamburger? Well, not hamburger burger.
OK, I know what you're going to pick.
I've actually not had it, so I have to go with the burger at
Steakhouse 71 because it is very, very good.
It's only on the lunch menu, but yeah, that's my choice.
Steakhouse 71, yeah, I'll just get, I'll just get it out of the
way. And bison burger, that is the,
you know, superior burger for me.
I get it bunless. That is kind of the twist that I
typically do. I'm not someone, someone that
enjoys like a lot of like heavy bread or heavy carbs.
So getting it bunless if they serve it on some Lisa lettuce,
but it is just they cook it perfect.
I love bison. I do like a game of your meat.
So absolutely amazing. I did write down on the list and
maybe it's one of yours. Honorable mention, Amy recently
did kind of a head to head geyser point versus Wailulu Bar
and Grill. And the thing that a lot of
people said was the burger at Wailulu, which I believe is
called the Wayfinder burger. It gives gives the bison burger
a run for its money. So going to have to try that on
the next on the next time I'm there.
It looks more of like a smash burger style of a burger where
like the bison burger is more heavy meteor a hamburger.
But yeah, those are my choices. I'm curious for Jeff G's choice
here because I know he's not much of A meat eater.
No red meat, so I don't. I don't have one.
It doesn't. Have to be a red meat burger.
But I will tell you, but I will tell you has the has.
I will go on a chicken tendy off with you with all these new
chicken tendies that are coming. Out.
Oh, I know, right? Where are their new chicken
attendees coming out There's. A sassy, tender situation.
Everywhere. Yeah, some at Hollywood Studios,
some at Magic Kingdom, some at Animal Kingdom.
Epcot I think it was I think Juan Carlos in the DVC fan
Facebook group just tagged Jeff Jeff Haslam in a in a picture of
a a thing of the new chicken tenders.
So a lot of new chicken tenders to try.
Someone still has to do the Hot Ones challenge with me that I
still have not done and still have all the sauces for.
So you're. Going to be.
Expired. No, hot sauce doesn't expire.
That's like. Pause doesn't live by expiration
date. I don't know.
I know, that's why I brought that.
Up it. Passes the sniff test.
It it it goes Panda best best burger.
Your wife was correct, it is the steakhouse 71 burger and that
was a smash burger when I did it.
It was like 2 thin burgers well done with cheese on both.
It was pretty amazing. It's like caramelized onions.
Yeah. My hack for steakhouse.
I have to leave now, yeah. We could probably still get a
dinner reservation if we if we really tried steakhouse.
I'm down. Yeah, and the the hack at
Steakhouse 71 too, is you could always walk into a bar.
So we did that one day we actually were going.
It was when we did the Top of the World Lounge Villains layer.
Yeah. Good thing we might got food
ahead of it. Glad, glad that was the best
food we had of the night. But yeah, we sat at the bar and
we were able to order from the venue.
Had a couple. Snacks, a couple snacks and
little bites. Chicken Tendy McGee, What's your
choice? So problem with this one is it
was only for like the month of August but the glowing Oak
burger at Deluxe Deluxe Burger at Disney Springs.
OK. Listen, there was nothing
special and there never is anything special about the
burgers at Deluxe, but they mashed this burger in between
two Cheddar Bay biscuits from Red Lobster.
And it was. Like it was so freaking good.
Those flavors together with some cheese in the middle of the
burger. My God in heaven, I think I saw
Jesus. It was so good.
Wait, they can't do that. Again, it's it was only for that
month. Probably will it was there
because deluxe burger every month has.
Like a specialty. And I just looked this week or
this month, It's like a Tripleta burger, which is Patty, ham,
pork belly. Potato Stick No.
Sounds terrible. I love the.
Sauces they have for fries over there and that's all I've ever
had over there is fries with sauce.
So I need to go try something. Else yeah, we had a work event
one time and they were like, meet us at Deluxe Burger.
So Amy and I went there. We were starving so we ordered a
side of fries and a drink and then sat down.
Like. Change your mind, Change your
plans. Go here instead.
Oh boathouse honorable mention Boathouse Burger.
Yeah, I've heard really good things about that one.
Can't go wrong with a burger or a chicken Tandy.
Really, unless you're Jeff G, no burgers for him.
No burgers. Best stage show.
You already asked me early. I want to see what everyone.
Else does 1st. I'll say mine real quick since
I'm I'm kicking us off. I have two one that I've never
seen so that's kind of the honorable mention.
Rogers the musical. I would have died to see that in
Disneyland when it was playing, would have just yeah, I, it, it
took everything in my power not to book a trip to Disneyland.
But we were going like right after it ended.
And I'm sad I missed that because that is like the one
thing that I always wanted to see.
But I, I, I don't know how you don't say Festival The Lion
King. I've, I've never sat through
that show and not really just had an amazing experience and
not just had fun watching the interactions that they have with
the audience and watching the monkey, the tumble monkeys and
watching the guy with the swords and the fire and just the, the
entertainers are great. The singers are great.
It's it's great. I will say it was terrible
before they took it indoors into an AC environment.
If anyone has lived through that, that is when you just, you
know, sweat yourself to death and watch the show.
So those were the sad old days of the Festival of The Lion King
show. Jeff G.
What is your favorite Disney show?
Mine is the longest running stage show in American theater
history. Oh, I forgot about it.
Crap. Hey, what's up?
What are you singing? Carousel now is the time.
I don't think that was it Carousel progress.
That is not what I was expecting you to say.
That's. Not what I thought you.
At all. Nope.
And that's why I'm going to say what I thought.
OK, then has. What was I going to say?
Well, first of all, I don't think carousel progress.
That's an attraction with animatronics.
There's no live people. Live actors, so that's not.
There is, there is, there is no definition that says the stage
show has to have live. Actors, that's true.
Yeah, exactly. The mayor has the floor and the.
Correct. I I defer to the mayor because
he has the right answer, and that's what I expected you to
say. Actual longest running stage
show in America. Hoop Dee Doo.
I knew you're Yeah, that's what I he doing for a. 100%.
Wow. That that would be my choice for
sure. Hoop Dee Doo.
Yep. I I forgot I can't.
Believe Paul didn't say that I. Don't know why it didn't come to
my mind. I feel like I just thought about
this question too quickly and. None of your choices comes with
fried chicken. That is all.
I like to change my answer. Yeah, you 2 are just like
sleeping, like in the theater, watching animatronics that are
really old, maybe Catching Fire. Panda, was that your answer as
well? Actually no.
Hoop Dee Doo was my answer. It is the best stage show.
It is the consistently the best acting, the best performances,
the best creativity and then changing it up with like improv.
But it is not the longest running stage show.
That would be the Carousel of Progress.
But Hoop Dee Doo is still the best to me stage and the fried
chicken is awesome. Amy left again to deal with the
front door, which she didn't close properly when she when she
left. But just the door he.
Said she left again and he touched his nose like, you know,
she has to go do some drugs or something.
What? All right, moving on that topic
was the way. Yeah, that was we went off the
rails on that one. Next up, best Omni mover ride.
I really hope Carousel Progress is not a pick for this one too.
That's not an Omni mover. OK, good.
Give us your answer, Panda. Haunted Mansion?
Come on, who's not going to? I got to Who doesn't say Haunted
Mansion? I can't tell if Jeff is really
talking or just pretending to talk.
Well, he muted himself and I can't unmute him, so he I think
he was trying to talk. But we're really.
Technology has gone off the rails.
Thank you to the solar salesman that decided we needed Solar
Roofing. It was.
It was a water. Oh, OK.
Yeah, water salesman. Trying to explain.
I know we already had one. He wasn't getting it.
OK. What did you say Jeff Haslam
has? Haunted Mansion.
OK. Which one?
Oh. Haunted Mansion holiday.
Yes. Superior Jeff G's first Haunted
Mansion holiday experience just last month.
How was it? It was, it was, it was great.
It was great. Nobody told me or us that about
the the gingerbread that it changes every year, so we didn't
know we then you're looking at everything and then you realize
that. We realized after friends text
us and asked if we noticed what the gingerbread house was and I
didn't even pay attention to it. I.
Was looking at everything. And I'm sad that we didn't equip
you well enough for that experience.
Give me, give me this, give me this detail.
I've never done it. There's a gingerbread house that
changes or does different. Every year there is a specialty
gingerbread house that the culinary team designs and places
on the dining room table on that scene and every year it has its
own theme and they typically do an article on Disney Parks blog.
They've been doing some videos recently.
Also also part of Destination D23.
They talked about it when they were doing the Disney Foods and
Disney Eats panel. This year it was like Blackbirds
in a pie was the theme, but it was like all these.
That's pretty cool. Yeah, and you can smell it.
Yes, I didn't smell it. As soon as you get into the
room, you can smell it. It's just, yeah.
So next time we're going to go back and Panda, You've never
rode Haunted Mansion Holiday. I've only been to Disneyland
twice and it's never been around the holidays.
I. Have to hit it.
It looks. It looks like Yeah, the most
extensive. I don't, I I hate the movie.
Paul can attest. It was on the other day and I
was like, please don't make me watch this, OK?
For the record. But she said please don't make
me watch it. She sat there with like her
blanket over her head with one eye sticking out, watching it
the entire. Watch it through a shield
because it's creepy. Is it?
It's creepy to you? Yes.
She doesn't like the whole claymation thing.
I also. I also.
Like, I'm just not Tim Burton either.
Claymation Christmas will Vinton's Claymation Christmas.
If anyone's ever seen that, it's.
It's also creepy. Yeah, so it's the best Christmas
show. That there is.
Don't watch. Don't watch Coraline, Amy.
That's creepy. No, yeah, I can't.
Jeffy was that, is that your pick for best Omni mover?
Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, I was.
I was Haunted Mansion as well. Yeah, mine is People mover.
I I still love a good people mover experience.
I still think a missed opportunity.
That's not an, that's not an Omni mover.
It doesn't stop moving. It doesn't.
Mover has nothing to do with stop moving.
Fully connected like continuous. OK, well you're you for a
statement. No, the question, the question
needs to be re. If you say what's a constantly
moving ride, then that's different.
The Omni mover is one that actually can turn and face
different ways and move that's. Now he gets technical after we
gave him crap about. His the answer was people mover
and I'm going to take it a step further and I think in the
mornings on People Mover they need to do a breakfast
experience where they put like a little table and no.
No about there's just a buffet that you pass when it slows down
and you take what you can and then if you miss you.
Stop me that that's quickly how this.
Becomes and you'll have a full. That that you.
Have a Full breakfast. In the airport or whatever,
yeah. Come on, a couple of bacon
stations, on the Omni, on the People Mover, that'd be awesome.
I think you got to like preselect your meal, they give
it to you on like lap 2 and then get off.
Drinks on lap one. Drinks on lap one, food on lap
2. No, you get an appetizer lap, an
entree lap, OK. This this just got to be a
really expensive ride experience but.
I'm still. Stuck on pandas has to be the
Omni mover because what then? It's only hot.
That was the question. The question was what was the
best Omni? Mover the spaceship Earth is an
Omni mover. Oh, you're right.
OK, so there's three. My bad.
Hold on. Well, spaceship head, I thought.
Anything that continuously moves.
Spaceship Earth is yeah. Spaceship Earth is not an Omni
mover. What?
What is with these technicalities?
An Omni. Mover.
According to the AI overview on Google, an Omni Mover is a theme
park ride system developed by Imagineers, where vehicles move
on a hidden track at a constant continuous pace, guided by a
system of wheels and rails. The vehicles can also rotate,
tilt and swivel to precisely control.
The guests. And direct their attention.
Asia does not direct your attention.
It swivels once. At the end it just turns
completely. Segma, an Omni mover.
Yes, figment is tech. No, I think it stops at the
station. Nemo is Little Mermaid is an
Omni mover. Haunted Mansion is an Omni
mover. Same AI overview, same AI
overview I typed in Is people mover an Omni mover?
Yes, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority People Mover is an
Omni Mover system because the People Mover ride at Walt Disney
World's Magic Kingdom uses the Omni Mover system to control its
vehicles rotation. It doesn't rotate the people
mover, so that's wrong. AI is wrong.
Have. You.
Have you seen, have you seen, have you seen the people mover
rotate ever? Maybe you don't know what I've
seen. Moving on, Best ice cream Panda,
Let's move back to food. Best ice cream?
Ice oh oh the coconut soft serve next to the tiki room.
It's phenomenal excitement. Just you can put me under the
machine. It's if he's never had it.
Honestly, if you like coconut, ask for just a coconut soft
serve. Forget Dole Whip, just get a
coconut soft. Serve.
So where? Where do I get this?
At the Sunshine Terrace, is it right next to the Tiki Room?
It's amazing. Aloha aisle.
Well, it's. Aloha aisle.
Yeah. Oh, it's not Sunshine Terrace.
No, Sunshine Terrace is the one with the orange bird and.
That's where it is. In Adventureland, is that where
it's at? The one.
I know it's right next to the tiki room.
The one by the Tiki room is Aloha Aisle.
That's the one then, yeah. Now, is that an ice cream or a
sherbert though Panda? It's an, it's an, you know, it's
an ice cream. There's no sherbert involved.
It's ice cream. Jeff G Give us your favorite ice
cream at Disney World. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm afraid to you
now because, like, it's a Dole Whip, but like, I don't think a
Dole Whip is. We only attack each other
because we do this on a constant basis.
But no Jack. Jeff, they'll swirl the Dole
Whip with the coconut soft served.
And that's another That's a pina colada surprise celebration in
your mouth. It's almost like an Amy
appalicious Apple tastic amazingness.
Every time you mess with an original Dole Whip, the flavors,
they're never as good as the OG. So just going straight up Dole
Whip I. Like a Dole Whip float.
Does that count? Sure.
It's not my choice, but no, you want my choice because you'll
tell me it's the yuckiest yuck that you've ever eaten.
I enjoy. Oh, I know exactly what he likes
it. It's disgusting.
That's salt and straw. They have specialty flavors
there. But this is on their constant
menu, which is. If it's so bad, why haven't they
taken it off the menu? Because they're schmucks like
you around. They like it.
Don't yuck. It's Yum.
It is the. Yuck.
It is the strawberry balsamic black pepper.
Flavor. Gosh, what?
They have at salt and straw. At least I didn't say the one
with like, crickets. In it, bosomic black pepper.
It is the how those flavors mix. It's a salad.
There's no lettuce. It's, it's that you put those
things all in a, it's. Not an Omni mover either.
The has give us your ice cream choice.
I I also went to salt and straw but I like the strawberry and
coconut water. Sure, but.
That's a sherbert. Next.
Next try. OK, well then my honorable
mention is the Lyme Dole Whip float at Animal Kingdom that
nobody ever knows about. Where can you get that?
So it's right across, as you're walking across the bridge to the
area the artist formerly known as Dinoland, there's a little
tiny shack on the right just across that bridge, and it's a
lime sherbet float with Sprite and a little bit of pineapple,
and it's really good. Sounds pretty good.
I'm sorry, I have a cat killing me.
Well, great show guys. The the over here, the what's
the, the place? We were just talking about
Sunshine Terrace. Questioning more and more if
that was apple cider. With the orange bird place it
has the swirled orange and vanilla and there is a cat.
What is? Sorry for the audio listeners
out there already for this show. How green that cat's eyes are.
At this point I'm actually more sorry for the visual listeners
at this point of. Everything.
What is that leg doing? That leg is just like, but yeah,
I I feel like the first half, it was a solid first half of a
show. The solicitors messes up anyway
the OK the swirl orange and vanilla there's two different
ones that but both they're both good.
OK, great. Moving on to the next question,
best hard ticket event, Jeff, we'll go to you first since you
seem to be thinking hard about that one, which Jeff has, has
Jeff has Jeff. I am going to go with Mickey's
very Merry Christmas party. OK, OK.
I do like a good Christmas now. That's because I haven't done
Jolly Wood yet. I'm doing it for the first time
this year. So come back to me in a month
and we'll see if I stick with that.
But right now, that's my favorite.
Well, and the cookies. You get all those cookies.
All the cookies. Way better than candy.
Amy. Jollywood Jolly, I love the
theme, I love being able to dress up and go into the park.
I love the photo OPS and yeah, that's my that's my pick.
Jeff G, you already know it's the Halloween party.
Oh yeah, he is all about that. It's now.
OK. And you didn't even go this
year. Do you want to poke the bear?
I do. I do my job in life.
Keep picking the moon. Thank you.
Panda. It's the Christmas party at the
Magic Kingdom. I love Jollywood, but going back
to those like really memorable magical things when it snows on
Main Street and Santa's coming down the lane and the castles in
the background with the wreaths and the Garland and the cookies
and the carolers, it's just magic, you.
Know what would be really cool? What they would do with Santa if
they put him on an Omni mover? With a breakfast, breakfast with
Santa and. Some it.
Doesn't even need to be breakfast.
It could be bacon with Santa and with done.
Or it could be back to the ice cream thing for just one quick
second. Can we please do a video because
nobody will ever eat this with me.
Can we go to beaches and cream and do the kitchen sink?
Yes like like a group. I've always wanted to do it, but
nobody will do it. I.
Will I love the? When would I turn that down?
We. Could buy, We could buy 4
kitchen sinks and see who eats at the fastest.
No, no one's up for that. That kind of show.
My answer to this question is either Christmas party.
I do prefer Jolly Wood. The experience that I had at
Jolly Wood two years ago was probably like one of the best
after hours parties that I've ever been to.
Part of. That was just like, you know,
just fully immersing ourselves in the experience.
Like that was, it was just such a great event.
I'm excited we're going back this year.
All of us are going back this year to Jolly Wood.
And so that should be fun. We're going to film a great
video covering that. But I also love when we went to
the Christmas party and I remember walking down Main
Street. It was when we still lived up
north and there was snow. But I was more amazed by Snope
on Main Street than I was by snow.
I just thought it was so cool that I was standing in Florida.
It was a little colder. I was wearing a hat.
And enjoying, yeah, enjoying not cold enough for real snacks.
But I am surprised because most if you if you poll people, most
people answer like Jeff G and say the Halloween party that
typically like if you put a head to head of like Christmas party,
Halloween party, Halloween party pretty when you.
Pretty much choose between a piece of candy and a cookie.
Why would you pick the candy over a cookie?
It's. The way it's the way they make,
it's so spooky, like they have to go above and beyond in the
fog, in the lights and the and the the villains come out and
the Headless Horseman running for the parade and.
The the I do like the Headless Horseman is cool.
You know, to come to Jeff's defense a little bit so we don't
throw them completely under the bus.
I do love that event. I just hate that it's been hocus
pocus for like 72 years. If they would change up that
party, just that part of it. What do you want?
What do you want it to be like? Halloween Town.
I don't really care, but. Just not hocus pocus is popular.
No, but my hocus pocus is popular.
But my argument to the Haz's, you know, defense is how does
Halloween Horror Nights reinvent itself every single year and
fully reinvent that event and here like it's just need.
To they're sold. Out.
They don't need to. They sold out.
They were successful. They increased the price and
they sold it out. So you know, what am I yapping
about? Who knows?
Well, I'll tell you folks, we have 4 topics on the best of
that we didn't get to tonight. And so you can guarantee that
we'll have a fourth, fourth round of of best of coming up in
the near future. But we'll need a couple more.
So if there's something we've not discussed, let us know in
the comments. Also make sure you let us know
all of your choices and why the People Mover is an Omni mover
ride so that we can settle that debate.
And Spaceship Earth. And once.
Once which? Does swivel by the way, panda at
the end towards the earth? But that's going to do it for
this week's episode of the DBC Show.
Jeff, thank you for joining us. Yeah, it was it was it was fun.
We'll have you back again. As always, you're stuck with us
for life, whether you like it or not.
That's going to do it for this week's episode of the DBC SHOW.
We'll see you next Monday. And everybody, happy Monday.
I wish I could be there with y'all, but I'm in Tampa for our
concert, overnight concert with my beautiful wife Annie, where
we saw The Lumineers last night. It was absolutely fantastic.
But I needed to get in on this and I hated missing the show
because this is a great topic. So I just want to plow through
some of mine. So if you're listening, thanks
for sticking around. Ready.
I'm going to go ahead and start put my old man reading glasses
on. Here we go.
Best parade. Easy Epcot's tapestry of nations
for the Millennium celebration done.
Absolute no brainer. Best parade of all time.
Best water slide crush and gusher at Typhoon Lagoon
followed by best DVC slide would be Vero Beach because when
you're at the top of that Vero Beach slide overlook and see the
whole ocean. Amazing.
Best character meet and greet Goofy New Year's Eve celebration
at Vero Beach where Goofy comes out in this tuxedo is fantastic.
Best burger? The bison burger at Keizer
point. close second, the Wayfinder burger at Wailulu
Grill. Best stage show.
I don't I don't like stage shows so I have no favorites.
Best Omni Omni mover ride would be of course the people mover
Easy. Best ice cream?
What? What am I 5I?
I don't know probably. I'm sure it's something over at
beaches and cream or what not. Best hard ticketed event?
You guys know I'm not a fan of any of the hard ticket events so
maybe I might like jolly wood nights coming up.
So we're all going to do that with the show soon.
Best mountain, Big Thunder mountain easy next one.
Best DVC perk was years ago, like 75 years ago.
We used to get free valet parking so that was my favorite.
Now it's the fact of I don't know if it's a perk but it is
being a member, checking out of your hotel with a room bill of
0. Finally, best food and wine
festival booth. Flavors of Fire is awesome.
It's they have this like Rodizio beef skewer or something.
But the best booth that's always there is the cart outside of
Canada where they have the Ottawa apple drink that Annie
loves and they have La Fin Dumond, the best beer at Epcot.
Thanks everybody. We'll see you next week.