[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and welcome to very amusing, your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets, and shenanigans of a pop-war feud theme park journalist.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Curly Byzel, and we are on the Cusp of Halloween people.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're...
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess if Halloween is all Halloween's Eve, this is all Halloween's Eve Eve Eve.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is about to happen, and if you like me.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, maximize your Halloween celebrations.
[SPEAKER_02]: You probably did some stuff last weekend.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I carved a pumpkin for my second time ever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I got to say, huge improvement.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did way better than last year.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went to my friend Brandon's.
[SPEAKER_02]: And last year I did just, you know, traditional Jackal Lantern face did not come out great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very new with this complete the whole time about upper body strength.
[SPEAKER_02]: lack lack thereof i mean and uh same thing happened this year but thankfully i was blessed with a pumpkin that i picked out of his pumpkin patch that he set up at home it was very cute but the pumpkin i picked had like nothing inside i really looked out because other people did not and i drew a little starry night scene a moon some stars it was very fun if you weren't planning on carving pumpkins i don't know make it like a Thanksgiving tradition if we're too late do get a gold
[SPEAKER_02]: It's this fun!
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really fun and colorful things and the scoop amount and then put up you put a little candle in it and a glowed it was wonderful.
[SPEAKER_02]: But to me, nothing is scarier in the Halloween season than something like this episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: This to me is a personal podcast HHN because I'm out here ranking all of our collective favorite place.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm basically exploring what is good and not as good in a place that we unanimously agree that we love.
[SPEAKER_02]: Very scary territory to cover, but we are doing it this week.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was a podcast suggestion by one of our listeners.
[SPEAKER_02]: Becky, if you were listening Becky, thank you for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was trickier than Bal then, ranking the parks because obviously I do not like Hollywood studios, apparently, and so that was pretty easy to rail on.
[SPEAKER_02]: This was a little
[SPEAKER_02]: complicated, but ultimately fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope you all have the best Halloween for listening to this one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It drops.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am going to Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going trick and treating with a child who is excited to be a princess.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to dress up in a Disney adjacent costume and I am not happy about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not like the costumes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to be myself in my own cloak at all times, but you'll see it on the internet soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's probably the last time you'll ever see me in a costume.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never wanted to do this again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love Halloween, but I do not like
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway stick around.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have so much Halloween fun ahead with our world showcase rankings and I apologize in advance if I say anything You hold against me for the rest of my life.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, see you on the other side
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back friends because we are getting into our world showcase rankings.
[SPEAKER_02]: I actually just started a computer like record the audio and Morty came in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Morty knows something big is about to happen in this room.
[SPEAKER_02]: He knows he feels it in his dog bones.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now there are some stuff I want to proclaim very loudly from the start.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is not a review of the cultures or religions or the people from these places.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is simply a review of these locations at Epcot.
[SPEAKER_02]: None of this is a commentary on the people or citizens or a history trust me, please, please, please, that is not my intent with this episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is a lighthearted romp through the world showcase where we take down the places that need it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Based on just their pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also, solemnly swear, I'm doing like the girls count on her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree that I will not cheat and I will not give Germany an automatic first place because of Caramel Couch.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will not do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I swear to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am also now remembering that I have received calls about this and that it is not pronounced the way it is pronounced kuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, today, we are doing a three tiered system of rankings for the World Showcase Biblions.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are bringing them on the details, which is layout architecture, essentially what has been done to make this swamp land look like another real-world region, the dining, food snacks, drinks, restaurants, and these stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Attractions, character shopping, art, kind of all of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a maximum of five points for category, perfect details, dining, and stuff to do that each world showcased pavilion can get for a total of 15.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I can tell you now, let me look at my notes.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one got that, one came close, one came close, but not everybody got that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, actually, a few came close.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we like a few came close for dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: This will mostly be about the food.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not really about beverages or even not alcoholic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, not alcoholic or not alcoholic beverages, because I don't really drink either of those.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know every country has like a fun festive beer, but I don't know what that means.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm also not out here getting like flavored teas.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we are gonna mostly focus on the actual food, and especially the age accessible items offered at these locations.
[SPEAKER_02]: And well, that's time because I'm quite paranoid of this episode being taken out of context.
[SPEAKER_02]: When I say we are reviewing these countries, I am not saying the real countries.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not pinning countries against countries like some sort of Bachelor-Red dating contests for the hottest country in Orlando.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am merely evaluating this from the perspective of someone who has visited these countries in Epcot weather or not, I have been to the real region, does not matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is really just based on their imprint at Epcot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, please, I need to stress that again, I've last time, and it's not as bad about the real place, it's just about the upguff versions.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yes, while in real life, when we are in Epcot, you start with Mexico and you go the correct way, unless you are leaving through, you know, through the, uh, the gateway, or you are wanting maple popcorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you do that, you go to the right, you go to the left, you walk in Epcot and you take a left to Mexico.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are not doing that today.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Gosh, we are going the other way, we are starting with Canada and I thought that that would maybe help quail my biases and not put me in the footprints of the places I usually stop on my journey through the world's showcase.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to do the opposite direction, just to kind of enrich my rankings, enrich, enrich my rankings with a more critical view than usual.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we will begin for the first and only time in these stark position on this podcast,
[SPEAKER_02]: And Canada is really just the most low key of Epcot Pavilion's.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're looking for an iconic character to cling onto and experience the guide books will recommend, you will find none of it here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's essentially the public park of Epcot's World Showcase.
[SPEAKER_02]: but that's okay!
[SPEAKER_02]: Because parks are good!
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's also kind of Loki a park too.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have landscaping modeled after Victoria Gardens, which is a place I've never been to, but based on this is gotta be cute.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of tucked out of the way, but it's so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the layout of the Canada Pavilion is wonky AF.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got, like, stairs going a fun way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I was like, oh, right up to the other way.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not very inviting in my opinion.
[SPEAKER_02]: The foyer of the Canada Pavilion is not as great as it could be.
[SPEAKER_02]: But boy, do they have a waterfall?
[SPEAKER_02]: In incredible waterfall.
[SPEAKER_02]: But at the end of the day, I just don't feel like I get enough Canada from this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wish there was like some sort of edge case educational spokesperson walking around.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe like a mountain-slide playground in the back, representing their rich heritage of winter sports.
[SPEAKER_02]: But from the perspective of someone who has spent probably more time in Canada than the Canada for billion, this ranking really comes down to like how much this is waterfall enticed me.
[SPEAKER_02]: the pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to give Canada a two.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like because it is low-key, just beautiful, and landscape tomorrow, which a lot of these pavilions aren't.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to give it a three.
[SPEAKER_02]: It deserves it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, this is a different story.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now listen, their iconic food is cheese soup.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you ever heard of anything more Disney than that?
[SPEAKER_02]: An excuse to eat liquid cheese as an actual respectable meal?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Wisconsin-Coded and I got a love for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But on top of that, they have got a flavored popcorn that is growing on me immensely.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is neck and neck with caramel corn at this point.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is my mom's favorite, the maple popcorn that they have, the Canada Pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: She always gets it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we, the last time we went, we got it warm.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was warm and we my mom had three of them under her arm waiting for me to go to the bathroom and I came back She was just like live in her life snacking on these popcorns having that warm We'll change your brain chemistry and I swear it does rival where there's caramel corn It really really does and in Licellia is a solid sit down option and you got this great grab and go snack and yeah
[SPEAKER_02]: This place is getting a four, but when it comes to stuff to do in Canada, here is where things get interesting because on the surface they really don't have that much going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they've got live music and it's done at a venue that opens up onto the walkway, seating, which is clutch.
[SPEAKER_02]: We love that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They really only have Canada far and wide as in attraction.
[SPEAKER_02]: And while I think you know, you know, you know, I think you think, that's what I'm going to say.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you think I'm going to drag it, but you will not catch me out here, low-ranking Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, co-stars of SCTV, it's like having two SNL all stars hosting a large format film and Eptop that nobody ever really sees.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is what the Jimmy Fallon ride and Universal should be, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: It should be comedians like this, just riffin' and having fun and teaching me something.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got the cast of Shits Creek, hosting an Epcot attraction, and that is something we cannot be snoozing on.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, we had to lose Martin Short in the old format of the film for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something I bet Disney really regrets with the success of who lose only murders in the building.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, wow, that would have been a pretty good tie-in.
[SPEAKER_02]: but we gotta throw some praise where we get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is funny because I don't like watching these films.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm sorry, but in the middle of my theme park day, I don't wanna lean!
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't wanna lean, give me a sit, give me a seat.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me chill, let me spread out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, circle vision should be arm chairs.
[SPEAKER_02]: There should just be a nice comfy place to sit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Count's is cozy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It should be like a nice place to tuck up and watch a movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not in a impressive place where all you can think about is how badly you would like to sit down in a chair.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then this is something you'll learn about me as we progress through because that's kind of all I'm going to say about these films and just kind of like let me Sit knowing I can't sit is what makes me so stressful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I don't think about that in a regular queue for an attraction But here I'm like all I can do is lean all I can think about but between all of these circle vision large format films
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna praise the one hosted by Catherine O'Hara over a regular old school one.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this land is absolutely locking a certain modern Disney oof.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like can we just put an outfit on Goofy and shove him in here?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like he would look so great in a cool outfit by the waterfall.
[SPEAKER_02]: He would fit in so well here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the lack of IP is negatively affecting a lot of lands, but I do weirdly feel it more in Canada.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, unfortunately, to my Canadian friends, again, not a reflection on you, I adore you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Canada is getting a two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, to recap, that is a three for details, a four for dining, and two for stuff to do, giving Canada a total of nine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, the United Kingdom, and for the details here, it's got a real review error resort lobby situation going on here, because while it is undeniably beautiful, the layout could not be more bizarre.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean there's a music venue almost entirely hidden from view?
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you mean it's the only pavilion that really feels like it's just split in half?
[SPEAKER_02]: You can go to AppCon a hundred times and just think of this place as a pub, a fish and chipsand and a phone booth photo op because that's basically been me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I almost never turn in and walk around because I'm like, why, I say it, I'm just gonna keep walking.
[SPEAKER_02]: UK is kind of like the rump of the world showcase, but it does make the use of the space.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's charming.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's quaint.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've had over 300 years of architecture represented.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I did a little googling.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a hedge garden.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the layout.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so disjointed and having some of it hidden from view.
[SPEAKER_02]: just feels weird, but does it do the trick?
[SPEAKER_02]: It kind of does.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then again, if Paris has, I'm sorry, if France, I always call the France with a million Paris.
[SPEAKER_02]: If France has the Eiffel Tower, shouldn't London have like big ben or something like some big icon?
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't see an icon like it's channel neighbor, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so for that, UK for details is getting a two and a half.
[SPEAKER_02]: when it comes to dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, what can you say?
[SPEAKER_02]: They got it.
[SPEAKER_02]: British snackies in the shop, a whole tea store, fish and chips stand, a full pub restaurant?
[SPEAKER_02]: What else can you ask for?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even really want it, eat here usually, but I got it recognized that they kind of have the most truly iconic eatery for their local possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, UK's getting a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: The stuff to do though.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, Brett Rock is really not my vibe, but we're gonna focus on the positives.
[SPEAKER_02]: They low key have what I would call a hidden Winnie the Poom Me agree.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know many of you probably know about it, but a casual Epcot guest is not gonna know Winnie the Poom is hanging out in this pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely not.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels like a portal to the 90s when you go there for the, like in the best way possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something about that back portion of the shops where like the Winnie the Poom Eaton Greed is feels like I don't know it like takes me back to when like putting a Disney promotional VHS into your tape player and then like being sucked into the TV and landing there Like it just feels like it transports you in time and space to this meeton Greed But nobody really talks about and I bet many people don't even know about I rarely go into these stores just because I'm seeing aforementioned rant about the layout
[SPEAKER_02]: They also have Alice in Wonderland.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've got an animated character and a princess which is no small feat.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've also, if you think about it, got outdoor waterfronts sitting, a full restaurant, and I know we're not talking about food, but they do kind of have a robust program here.
[SPEAKER_02]: When I land in Orlando, I'm not like, oh, I got to get to the UK pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there is a vibe there, and I think it needs to be rewarded.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I'm gonna say, they get us three and a half minus the half for a three and don't yell at me because I am dinging them that have a point for a very good reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: We almost had a Mary Poppins attraction and it was ripped away from us, ripped away.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know not every pavilion can have a ride and we will discuss that in this episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they probably announced it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wrote about it from National Publications.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was real and they took it back.
[SPEAKER_02]: They took it back and I am still hurt about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they are getting a three and I stand behind it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now they're total.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me make sure I have the math correctly because math is not my strong suit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, for details, we got a two and a half dining, a five and stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: A three, two and a half, five and three.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to have a little grid so I keep track that is, oh, listen to how slow I add.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are you ready for this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Ten point five if my math is right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I have a really bad feeling.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, to get a true call from someone who's like an elementary math teacher.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like, do you want digital tutoring?
[SPEAKER_02]: I might need it after this episode.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why I chose so many numbers.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're getting there, yeah, 10.5, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, six, seven, eight, five, seven, eight, five, seven, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no, I'm giving them a three, yeah, yeah, two and a half, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how math works.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool, cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are hop-skipping and jumping our way over to France, and for the details, well, well, let's just break it down a little bit here, because my review of this would be different before the expansion that they made to accommodate Remi's Ratatouille adventure when it opened.
[SPEAKER_02]: The pavilion kind of doubled in size, and now it's like a whole different beast than it used to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: The fake-eyeful tower is not going to see any take-downs for me today.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can tell you that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we're in like a tricky situation here because it is split and there's these two portions and it wasn't developed as them being cohesive, which they're really not.
[SPEAKER_02]: But because we have so many civilians and so much to talk about, I gotta be picky, picky, picky.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is going to happen here with the France Pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, this land is themed to Le Belipoc, which was 1870 to 1910.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I would be raving about the France pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: If Epic Universe didn't just kind of sort of do it better, I know I know they're different.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the timeframe is ever so slightly different.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's close.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's about, I think, 10-ish years after the end of this time period.
[SPEAKER_02]: And while the expansion is lovely, the back pathway is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, oh, a new secret addition.
[SPEAKER_02]: Unlike the UK, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't like the way the UK is split up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do, I'm fine with the way France is split up because they have that big walkway now.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're going to a big rush to Remis, it's not crowding the small land.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like frozen in Norway can get crowded crowded crowded.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I got a ding France knowing what I know is now possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you walk in,
[SPEAKER_02]: To that wizarding world at Epic Universe, you feel like you are in France, and that is the ultimate goal.
[SPEAKER_02]: So because I know it can be done better, I'm unfortunately going to have to give France a 4.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would have given them a higher score, but I feel like that is accurate knowing what I know now.
[SPEAKER_02]: for the dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: Y'all know where this is gonna go.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got multiple restaurants, four in total.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got two exterior food stands, and an ice cream shop, I think that, that amount is right, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: We got that one and that one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Down and down and yeah, there's so much dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: This like really isn't a pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's its own theme parkland.
[SPEAKER_02]: Think about it, it really is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even know I find the Boulangerie to be incredibly stressful, and this seating to be surprisingly limited in the old portion of this pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, there used to be a table and I didn't bring my stuff outside, gone.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like nowhere to sit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I ate ice cream standing up like it's just toy-toy-toy-toy-tomb there.
[SPEAKER_02]: But regardless of all that,
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's obviously getting a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can get iconic ice cream iconic bistro They have like iconic snacks and they've an iconic drink which I said I wouldn't talk about But we got to talk about it here because it's pretty iconic and then they added a creepery Which I don't go to because I don't like grapes, but they have so much French food Then you can have a full days worth of food there and still not eat everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got a high-end restaurant They got a Parisian bistro tens across the board which here are our five so it's getting five across the board for tightening
[SPEAKER_02]: stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of like that house on the block that they knock down to build a fancy mansion, but they like did a good job.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a hideous one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a huge farmhouse one.
[SPEAKER_02]: They really retained its original spirit when they added that back alley section.
[SPEAKER_02]: But
[SPEAKER_02]: To, you know, expand upon the expansion further.
[SPEAKER_02]: They also gave us Remi's Ratatouille adventure, which really fits perfectly here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all ages attraction at Epcot, that's in story, that feels French, but also ties back to IP we know.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is the future of Disney Parks, like it or not, that's the future of Disney Parks.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think it transferred...
[SPEAKER_02]: beautifully from Disneyland Paris or Walt Disney Studios Park or Disney Adventure Park, I think pretty sure that's a new name.
[SPEAKER_02]: It transferred here and I think it works really, really well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And while they have that dual film opportunity with Union and Beast and Impression Safe Ross, France, and seem to be able to say France after saying Impression's Day.
[SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, so many of these spots only have one film and they've got multiple.
[SPEAKER_02]: They've got a ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: They also got that acrobat that dude doing live entertainment And they've made the waterfront area look like you're on the sand and the shops have Disneyland Paris merchandise low-key They have a ton of it and they've got princess up the was zoo Aurora and Belle
[SPEAKER_02]: it's getting a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, what is the deal to come back to food?
[SPEAKER_02]: What is the deal with most of your Paul?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why are you nobody talking about it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody talks about most of your Paul.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to revisit it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, details for dining five stuff to do five.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, wow, wow, France is clocking in at 14 compared to UK's 10.5 and Canada's 9.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, next up is Morocco, and we got to talk about Morocco, because the details, baby, they are stunning to a level that we will likely never experience again.
[SPEAKER_02]: And while dining and details are different categories, and they are in time together in this ranking,
[SPEAKER_02]: Unfortunately, we must make an exception from Morocco because here they do kind of go hand-in-hand, because Morocco, without a doubt, is the most beautiful pavilion at Epcot's World Showcase.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there is quite literally no reason to walk through it now that restaurant Miracash has closed.
[SPEAKER_02]: This repair cache is now basically, like, sometimes used as a Florida blue air condition lounge during food and wine fest, which is currently happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I didn't realize until literally this day that they provide limited, kind of like free seating for eat to the bead, which is pretty rad.
[SPEAKER_02]: I assume they're still doing that through 2025.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is pretty cool, I didn't know that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know that because I'm not going to the Florida blue air condition lounge.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I'm not, but enough about Florida blue.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, because this beautiful pavilion leads back, like perfectly in story like carries you back to the location that is no more.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the fact that like, oh, this beautiful pavilion, this expanse, you go through it and you wind up at a partnership buy out for an insurance company, feels itky.
[SPEAKER_02]: And while the other food offerings in this pavilion are good, I have to give them a hit on the front end, because while so beautiful, there is almost no reason to ever walk back there again.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they, for details, are getting a 4.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: Still a very high score, still a very, very high score, but I can't be perfect because of what I said.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the dining, we have a little more to sing our teeth into here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Spice for a table is one of the best seeding setups I know of at Atcon, both indoor and outdoor, water-friendly views.
[SPEAKER_02]: We love options, and at bar in the middle is lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: They also low-key got that cookie stand.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody's talking about that cookie stand.
[SPEAKER_02]: Think on the cookies, Dan.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I believe I'm saying this correct, Tangierine Cafe, which in other iterations I have visited on many work trips and took dinner back to my hotel from clutch move.
[SPEAKER_02]: By the way, if you stay in the Epcot resort hotel loop and you eat late, maybe on West Coast time like me, get food to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can always get food to go and it's nice to eat it in your hotel room.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the form of that place has changed a couple times, the menu is a little different.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just went to check it and I didn't see hot mint tea on the menu, which was my old school go-to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't gotten it in a few years now, and I'm scared to find out if it's still there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the closure of restaurant mare cash, which had really good food, removes one of their main offerings.
[SPEAKER_02]: They had couscous!
[SPEAKER_02]: They had live entertainment!
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a huge pandemic era loss that I'm still sad about.
[SPEAKER_02]: So knowing what we could have had and what we have now,
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a 3.5 for dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: and stuff to do in the Morocco pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: What has happened to the Morocco pavilion needs to be brought in front of the UN.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, it does.
[SPEAKER_02]: To have a beautiful pavilion and zilts to do there is heartbreaking.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can meet Jasmine and there's an art gallery, but come on, man, I love it here and I still got nothing to promote.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't even make me talk about what is that racing into the sun or whatever that is cause it is bleak and sad and I don't care.
[SPEAKER_02]: We need something special here, something special, it deserves it!
[SPEAKER_02]: But for now, it has done the bare minimum!
[SPEAKER_02]: But it has a character, so I'm going to give it a 1.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, that's 4.5 details, 3.5 dining, and a sad, or lowest score so far.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, 1.5 for stuff to do, which brings it to a 9.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is currently in third place, under the four areas we have discussed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, Japan.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when it comes to details, honestly, it does the job.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we could have backwards expansion and have like one more thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe like, oh, like a small little neighborhood street, with like different little businesses and food stalls, something, something, something.
[SPEAKER_02]: because I know if they expanded this, it would absolutely slay.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we got a Tory gate, we got a pagoda.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got that little garden that I never walked through and definitely should.
[SPEAKER_02]: This sightlines from up on top are beautiful, like they nailed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm gonna give them a 4.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know if your memory works, which mind doesn't, but I wanna flag it for those working students, or at least work, because clearly I was not, I cannot do the addition.
[SPEAKER_02]: They did get a higher score than France, which got a four, which may feel weird because France feels so like the first millennia.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I really feel like the approach and standing in this pavilion feels more transportive than I think that's where transportive than being in the France pavilion, because something about that fountain that divides it down the middle
[SPEAKER_02]: The fountain doesn't feel like, oh, I'm in front.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's so much about that area that is French, but the fountain doesn't really do it for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just kind of like fills space.
[SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of that, you know, like the theming is coming from the neighbouring restaurant, the bistro, the bulangerie.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Japan does get a higher score than France.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, it's getting to 4.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're dining, I mean, are you joking?
[SPEAKER_02]: Five, five!
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course you get to five.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that said, even with all that we have and we have so much, we have so much in the Japan for Million, we have Shave Ice, we have Quick Service Food, we have Teppanyaki, we have that new killer sushi restaurant, we even have a Supreme High and Restaurant with Tacomitay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, having a young child is really restricted me from fine dining at Epcot.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to make some of musicals a week reservations.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I do always think there's a little room for improvement.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then again, Kusura Grill covers the rest of the grounds with Udon and Ramen and chicken Kotlet and Curry, so I'm just nagging and ignore me fives all around for Japan dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: But stuff to do!
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, offerings are slim!
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we do have a bit of entertainment, thank goodness, with the Matsuriza.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never seen that out loud.
[SPEAKER_02]: Matsuriza, the drummers, the live drummers, if you ever seen them, the Japan Pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is always fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And Mitsukoshi is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is easily the best store at Epcot unless you're my mother at 9.22pm and going through every item at creation shop after a nighttime entertainment and before the park closes.
[SPEAKER_02]: But when one of your two top offerings in this land is spending money,
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a docket, some points, I mean it is a great store, but the pavilion is mostly store, and when you take away all the food, it's mostly store.
[SPEAKER_02]: That said though, their gallery is actually what I want more of in some of these lands, particularly the pavilionans that have Disney presences in their country.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have a kawaii exhibit, and even though it's almost 10 years old now,
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, that's a long time ago than exhibit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think that it's enticing and it's fun to visit and it's really relatable as Kawaii culture becomes even bigger in America year over year.
[SPEAKER_02]: So with that, and I guess like I've fun things to buy, they don't really have a character, but it's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna give it a two.
[SPEAKER_02]: to recap Japan gets four and a half for details, five for dining, and two for stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: In first place, we still have friends with 14, second place Japan, ooh, pulled up with 11.5, and in third place, the UK surprisingly, a billion I never thought I rode four at 10.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stick around, we will be right back with the back half of World Showcase, and whoo there are some doozy's ahead.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see you on the other side.
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back, and we are discussing the American Adventure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, for the details, you know, it's really one big building, which, I guess, I obviously, I looked this up because I didn't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It takes cues from the classic Georgian style of the late 1700s and Colonial Williamsburg and Thomas Jefferson's Montagello, whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not doing it for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, it's just not giving me enough America on the outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: And kind of on the inside too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, maybe I just love to be overstimulated.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe I just want to be like pummeled with bald eagles.
[SPEAKER_02]: But when you're able to annex an entire upper floor of the structure to club 33, and I still don't even get like any sort of east coast country club vibe out of it, we're done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, got club Disney's got club feels more American to me than this entire pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, like, doesn't Disney practically own Hamilton at this point?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why is there no time in?
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, I will come down.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just not obsessed with this pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have any emotional feeling when I walk through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And as an American, I feel like I probably should.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm seeing that even having heard voices of Liberty sing inside this pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: for my friend Jeffrey's birthday party a few years ago, which was excellent, but that was a separate event.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I can't rank this off of a separate event.
[SPEAKER_02]: So don't hate me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, do not hate me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not hate me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a one, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is not a reflection and the American adventure performance, the experience, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: This is just the details, the exterior, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_02]: So hold your USA horses, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hold your horses.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, things weird that the show has the same name as a pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've always found that pavilion confusing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Moving on to timing, on one hand, it's muffins.
[SPEAKER_02]: On the other hand, this pavilion's best known for a brick shaped ice cream plopped on top of a funnel cake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Couldn't we do more here?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we all live here.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're not eating funnel cake with ice cream three times a day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like can we highlight?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know American manufacturers American culinary inventions.
[SPEAKER_02]: Couldn't we have like a club cool of like American made condiments and products?
[SPEAKER_02]: If this was a permanent world's fair, show me world's fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're really missing so much potential, especially because we are, in the world's showcase, the host Pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we partner with chefs and other pavilions.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why can't we partner with like, I don't know, an American pit master for the restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what if the different barbecue options were made in partnership with a different barbecue style pro?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, just making it a little more American in terms of highlighting the craftsmanship of these people who make delicious food.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they have Kansas City, Smoke Chicken, Texas beef brisket, why wouldn't we do cool chef partnerships there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do like you need to have cut spice blends, honor the talented food providers in our country.
[SPEAKER_02]: And while I love you, Muppets, I love you.
[SPEAKER_02]: I look around my office as I record this and I'm surrounded by them.
[SPEAKER_02]: We didn't really highlight food in America so much better even without building anything We don't have to open anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just can like like tweak it like porn with some cool people like really make it Fresh and fun and new and we haven't done that so it's getting a 2.5 This stuff to do in the American adventure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know y'all and I'm scared to say an ill word about these hair robots Okay, but we're not even gonna speak on them because the American adventure has something nobody else has
[SPEAKER_02]: They have the best bathrooms in the world showcase.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you have a tummy problem, or you have a child, which I have both, I mean, scoot your way on over here, because you are going to be delighted by the cleanest bathrooms in Epcot and the best place to use the facilities.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I realized like the banchel counts.
[SPEAKER_02]: The banchel counts as part of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And voice to men aren't playing in like France or Italy, you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I kinda low-key got to give this pavilion a four and a half just because of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know, I know it doesn't technically deserve it, there are no characters, there's no real ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they sometimes have John Stamos telling the story of Christmas, which I have seen and I made an exemption for because I wanted to see him perform live and he was great and my mom met him and it was worth it and it was lovely, he's a fantastic man, big we ride, we ride for John Stamos, but here in this quirky pavilion they have real celebrities on stage included with park and mission and we must clap for that, also the only place in Epcot that Hanson can perform and it fits in story is here, it's nowhere else, so for that they must be handsomely rewarded.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, the American adventure has a four and a half for stuff to do, a two and a half for dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: I believe I gave it a ho-one for details, which brings their total to if my math is right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: First place still France.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're, they're, oh, they're on the bottom.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're on the bottom of both the countries.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think he's starting in there again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Moving on.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are going to Italy now.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I still remember seeing the Italy pavilion for the first time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it felt like a wonderful smack in the face, the scale to which they built this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Is a scale we don't always get.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks so good there.
[SPEAKER_02]: That there was that meme on TikTok recently of people joking about being in F-Cott when they were actually in Italy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's that good.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I could break down the different designs, like, ah, vanilla shnarka texture, and the fountain.
[SPEAKER_02]: But truly like they could have made this a foe colosseum, and they didn't do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They didn't go with the first thought.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we must reward them with a 4.5, which is on par with Japan and Morocco in just above France, and I think that is an accurate ranking.
[SPEAKER_02]: As for the dining and the Italy pavilion, it's basically a food court at a high end mall.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we got wine.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got us to town food.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got the cave restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got the Vietnam police.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to a lot of.
[SPEAKER_02]: They got it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they would get a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I do think the pizza window could be better.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have heard endless complaints about the pizza window not being good.
[SPEAKER_02]: So much so that I have not gone to the pizza window because everyone in my life, my personal friends, like people I know who live in Orlando are like, don't do the pizza window,
[SPEAKER_02]: So if they fix that, I'm going to give them a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: So until then, I'm going to give them a 4.75.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just a little thing, just a little thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I was looking up photos and Disney food blog, and it looks good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't eat certain kinds of pizza.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the Annabely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I will not eat pizza in a way just to hold out for the Annabely, and I love like a thick, like a grandma slice, like a thick pizza pizza.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm from Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you expect from me?
[SPEAKER_02]: I want either thin crispy tavern or I want like a big like a big or sloppy piece of pizza or I want like the Annapolis style like those are the pizzas that I'm into and the food's so pretty good like I want to order that and eat it So I'm gonna give it a 4.75 and I'm gonna feel okay about it not at all panic about the fact that yesterday I went over my friend's house and I said I don't like pizza and they ended up ordering Greek food because I don't eat pizza And everyone was browsing I mean for not liking pizza
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, I don't need Italian food and I still'm giving this place a 4.75.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not, I just don't like pasta.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, shouldn't you say that I'm like, oh no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, shouldn't have told the public.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to move on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Substant to do, please, no, some closure was hotline.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't like pasta.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a whole thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: By probably gluten intolerant, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, moving on, moving on, moving on, moving on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, please don't.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe I did that publicly.
[SPEAKER_02]: I usually don't tell people that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay moving on moving on very I'm like shaking I don't want to tell you what stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why does this civilian have like four restaurants and sell designer bags and have a beautiful waterfront view and literally nothing to do not want to do and not just Repeat some people who don't really eat pizza like I thought there was more, but I looked it up and there's the juggler There's the juggler and that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's the juggler and that's it so
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, Italy, you're getting a one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It can't be higher than Morocco, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: There's nothing to do here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a one for stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: A 4.75 for dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, huge for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please don't hold it against me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I shouldn't have told anyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm out of mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I forget this time I'm talking to real people?
[SPEAKER_02]: And for details, it got a four and a half, which brings it to, oh, that can't be right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Eight, nine, no, that would be 10.25.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see, I have to check my work for eight,
[SPEAKER_02]: 9, 10, 10.25.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is just behind UK, but it is not in the top three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Top three is currently France at 14, Japan at 11 and a half, and UK at 10 and a half.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, Germany.
[SPEAKER_02]: The one we've been waiting for, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, girl, center yourself.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not be biased about the popcorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do not be biased about the popcorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can listen to your journalists.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if we're talking about details, it's so cute.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like being in a storybook village that's real.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't want to get ahead of myself, but I have to dock points here, and I will talk about it momentarily.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have to give it a three and a half, and I will tell you why very, very soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we, this is not talking about the dining and the digital makes sense.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Dining, the Dining at the Germany Pavilion at Epcot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get ready for a big score on the board and not just for caramel corn, because Germany secretly has the most themed theme dining in Epcot.
[SPEAKER_02]: In all of Epcot, you've already know this.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know my visit to beer garden in February, changed me forever.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have been changed for good to quote the wickeds, because of the Germany Pavilion, and it's getting a five by itself just for that restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, well, the fix is in because care.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, here we go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Here we go at him.
[SPEAKER_02]: The fix is in because Caramel kusha.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I did it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can do it because caramel kusha is the confection also.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you when people point things out of me saying things incorrectly because I sometimes really don't know I do appreciate those calls.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you
[SPEAKER_02]: Caramel Kusha is the confectionery.
[SPEAKER_02]: I wish we had this at other parks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also we're like a version of a word their sponsored place because magic kingdoms candy shop that confectionery being being in bed with the Morris candy company is not good y'all.
[SPEAKER_02]: We do not talk about it enough.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, I know there's a whole popcorn moment there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want soggy like chocolate sauce covered popcorn.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you enjoy it, that's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's not the issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: The treats in the
[SPEAKER_02]: This partnership between Disney and the Mars candy company, they are turning out some of the most cursed, cursed, and desserts I've ever witnessed with my human eyes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Skittles do not belong in the, in the, in the confectionary window treats.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't belong there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Skittles don't belong there.
[SPEAKER_02]: and all of the offerings there are just like, wait, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: I literally walked past it when I was there like a week or so ago and not even realizing I was saying it out loud.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went, oh no!
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, just, oh, I think someone heard me too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I was just so taken aback by how grotesque some of those creations were.
[SPEAKER_02]: But here is a perfect partnership with others.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Germany Pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's...
[SPEAKER_02]: Heaven, and that's not even why it's getting a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a five because Björgarn is perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: It has a mix of true old school theme dining.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they've like stadium seating style dining, so you can watch life performances.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get to get up and dance.
[SPEAKER_02]: The beautiful and tearyers make you feel like you're inside outside, which is something I love.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which we will obviously talk about when we get to Mexico.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't know, I feel like I could have docked it points here.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I, to loop back, chose to dock points in details, because one of the best parts, one of the best things to look at, in this civilian is inside that restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: So much of this civilian is inside that restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you can't see it unless you're dining there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So dining, they're going to get a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they got caramel apples here wearing later hoses.
[SPEAKER_02]: That, like, if I could give it a 10, I would, I guess I can.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm the judge, but that's not fair.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't expand it like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, because they're going to find for dining, but because the dining is so good in that restaurant is so themed, I do think it takes away from the details, so details need to be dinged a little, and they will be at 3.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: But when it comes to stuff to do, oh, Germany.
[SPEAKER_02]: we got a problem here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do believe, honestly, that these sent wafted outside the shop can legally be considered an attraction.
[SPEAKER_02]: Smelling caramel kushe?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, no, caramel, oh no, I had it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kushe, yeah, is that what it was, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, do I have to hurry for you?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm pretty sure, my brain, I looked it up before this, just to make sure, wait, is it still here?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hold on, I think you can still hear it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kusha, Kusha, Kermal Kusha.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we got there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a terrible memory.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also, I'm trying, I'm trying to see these word rights.
[SPEAKER_02]: I promise I promise I promise I promise, Kermal Kusha.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like that sent could legally be considered an attraction.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I just said.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they do have, they apparently have Snow White in the Germany Pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never seen that, but apparently they do.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they've live music, but like a smell with Snow White and some tunes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't give it a to.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give it angle and give it a generous too.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a two for stuff to do, a five for dining in three and a half for details, which if my math is right, 10 and a half for Germany tied with the UK in third place.
[SPEAKER_02]: in their lives.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up is China.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if we're talking to tales, oh my gosh, it's beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's nothing to do, but we'll get to that shortly because it is stunning.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go on to walk around there and try to fight me on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a four and a half.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: The China Pavilion, ah, beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the Dine.
[SPEAKER_02]: People are out here talking a lot of smack about the Dining in the China Pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is usually like a punchline for people.
[SPEAKER_02]: But my friend Kendall was like you kind of need to go to nine dragons.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of legit.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she was right, and I have been going there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is quietly so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do wish they had maybe like a third little dining location with really authentic food, because I feel like it could be a smash hit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like soup dumplings.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the Sejwani's food, like anything, something with like Sichuan peppercorn, like some spicy food.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's so much that can be done here for like a quick service thing to drop people in.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do feel, especially, I don't feel this way about all the pavilion, but I do feel this way for the China pavilion that if they have like a little offering of maybe three very like all like intriguing items, everyone would go there to try them and it would be a huge Boom to the entire pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really think that the dining could be improved by just having something worth stopping in there for that isn't like, oh Chinese, we're like something special to seek out that people may not experience at home.
[SPEAKER_02]: The answer is the one, the whole time I was like, there's a number of, so I think that they could do better, but I do think they're actually doing quietly doing a great job and nine dragons.
[SPEAKER_02]: The menu, like look up the menu.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty legit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did try some really spicy stuff there a while ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't see it on the online menu, but it might be imp-
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't have to check back that next time I go, but I'm going to give them a three and a half with hopeful room for improvement because I do think offering a couple things worth drawing people in, like, you know, like, offer few things, get the vloggers in.
[SPEAKER_02]: If they like it, the word will spread, people will come here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it needs that kind of rejuvenation, the China Pavilion needs that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on stuff to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean the worst is that like the most stuff you're gonna do in the China Pavilion is probably gonna be to play with those fluffy bird puppets on the outskirts of the walkway You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's like the most we ever do in this pavilion They got an option of circle vision like they got a museum exhibit They sometimes have Milan Two and a half don't ask me any follow-up questions.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's like not there's nothing to do again like the needs Mean to drop people and there's nothing to do here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, don't here 2.5 okay
[SPEAKER_02]: China, 2.5, 3.5 for dining, 4.5 for details, brings it to 10 and a half tide with Germany.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tied with the UK, first place France, second place Japan, third place three way tie UK, Germany, China, did not think I would see China on the board that high.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow!
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, China, show it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next up, this may skew everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got Norway.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if we're talking Norway details, it was a huge improvement when Frozen came in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, like they got new money to burn and it looks good.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks fresh.
[SPEAKER_02]: The detail and design of the areas they added are quite beautiful.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I really think the addition of the Royal Summer Housse is stunning.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's getting, it's getting a three, but actually, I want to know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm going to raise that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's getting a three point five.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not really, I think they did a really good job.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they did a really, really, really good job.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we got to talk about the dining because all of my thoughts here are centered on awkwardious.
[SPEAKER_02]: The character dining offering in the normally pavilion.
[SPEAKER_02]: Put a little pain in that school bread girl, put a lot of pain in it, because we gotta talk about this restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, pros, I love that they have Norwegian food, I love that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, oh sorry, we're just portalling in all these princesses, like this is some Olympic United Nations gathering of royalty?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that does not work for me, and like kind of breaks the bounds of what the Epcot World Showcase is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ocrashos should be an exclusively frozen restaurant with all frozen characters full stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm talking to rare ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm talking Olaf, Sven, Kristoff, everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: As the parent of a frozen Fureka'soid, I would pay so much money for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why is Belle here?
[SPEAKER_02]: If you go on the website and you look up Ocrashos, I'm gonna, yeah, yeah, yeah, I was right.
[SPEAKER_02]: The lean image is a photo of Belle, and then the next few images, a photo of snow white get out of town, go home, give me frozen dining, give me frozen dining, and I like listen, I love immigration, we love the diversity of princess, but come on now, how good would it be to have an entirely frozen theme restaurant next to the vine?
[SPEAKER_02]: It just makes sense, and yeah, I guess that would ding the character mean green and be a little tricky.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we've worked around that before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just give to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just give to me, it would be so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, oh, if you could see all the fringe characters of Frozen, and also now that they're announcing like, oh, quadruple Frozen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I couldn't catch my breath.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think so many Frozen's just do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm giving it a three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Boo!
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm giving it a three.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stuff to do here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, you know what they're gonna get.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Frozen was a huge upgrade for the masses, and I know Mailstrom heads don't come from me, okay?
[SPEAKER_02]: I know Retro F-Cut lives in our hearts, and Mailstrom is like, it's like a big chunk of that piece.
[SPEAKER_02]: But to have this set here, because they were gonna open a Frozen something,
[SPEAKER_02]: to have this here and not in fantasy land, to have this rooted in a realistic place, I think makes this ride better.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't think this ride is as good as a country.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I think the place making of it is better.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, they're changing the faces!
[SPEAKER_02]: Finally, they heard face lifts were in and something decided to give that to them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, stuff to do, norm is getting to 5.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nor wait is getting a 5.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a 5 for stuff to do, a 3 for dining, and a 3 and a half for details which brings it to,
[SPEAKER_02]: 11.5, first place France with 14, second place a tie, what normally 11.5 with Japan, 11.5 and then a 3-way tie, 10.5, China, Germany, UK.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this one can mess up everything, because last but not least, only in this order for this, not usually is Mexico.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the pyramid entrance is so unique.
[SPEAKER_02]: The feeling like it's night, when it's day, heaven, like, oh, I guess characters don't come for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: We won't count that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the design of this pavilion really feels so abcaught and feels so special and they have so much going on in there that detail wise, it's going to get a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: You walk in through a gallery, then you walk in and you're like, oh, it's a night.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's just so much to appreciate outside and inside this one that it really is special and it's different in its unique.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's obviously getting a five.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I'm dining, oh my god, another five.
[SPEAKER_02]: The beans get a five on their own, obviously.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I eat here constantly because it is that good.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are three full dining options and fooded both bars.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have five different dining establishments.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's wacko, and I really enjoy all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, they're getting the five.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going fast with Mexico on my Lord.
[SPEAKER_02]: And for stuff to do, you know, you would think there isn't that much to do, but I guess compared to the others, their kind of is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they have a character meet outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have an interior ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have Mariachi bands sometimes.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have jewelry ring carvers, which is like shopping, but it's also kind of like fun thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've bought rings there multiple times.
[SPEAKER_02]: They just,
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if they have a little of everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought I would have more to say about Mexico, but I guess the ride could be improved.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they have a ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: They have a character and they have a lot going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when it is like thriving, when there's like music and character like when it all happens, it's like, oh, Mexico is a great place to be.
[SPEAKER_02]: So while it's not going to go to five for stuff to do, but I think I'm going to give it.
[SPEAKER_02]: us 3.5.
[SPEAKER_02]: So 3.5 stuff to do, 5 dining, 5 details brings us to 13.5, a immediate second place, a immediate second place.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got first place France, second place Mexico, third place time Japan in Norway.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, okay, now what I was expecting, but nonetheless fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope you enjoyed this ranking, I hope it wasn't offensive, I hope it was okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I think we did okay, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, no, I'm talking about the Epcot Villians, not the people, not the citizens, not the countries, not the territories.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I love them all.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm now extremely hungry, so I'm gonna go have lunch.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, thank you for listening.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you have any thoughts, ring ring, call me up in the show's hotline because I would love to hear about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi Carly, my name is Jan, I live in Burbank and I have a seven almost eight-year-old daughter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was the same to your episode about epic universe and all the different rides there and the ones that your mom didn't want to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my daughter is not a big fan of thrill rides.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're planning to do a Florida next spring break, so like March, until the eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm not sure if we should
[SPEAKER_01]: My husband and I are a big theme park people and we would like to see epic because it sounds cool, but I just don't know that there's enough of there for her to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: She likes rides like radiator springs, racers, and she does like an occasional, like a slow roller coaster, not something too crazy to like space mountains, but she won't ride a big amount of mountains.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she won't do Guardians the Galaxy at California Adventure.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just wondering if you think that there is enough there for us to do with an eight-year-old who doesn't love thrill rides.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my husband works for Universal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we probably will have a free employee to get if that factors into your decisions.
[SPEAKER_01]: The time will be a Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, I love your podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, Jen!
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi from Burbank.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, guys, Burbank is Loki, my favorite.
[SPEAKER_02]: My favorite area of LA.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, and this is, I'm going to digress for a second.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just need to talk about Burbank because whenever I drive through Burbank, I'm like, oh, I mean, Los Angeles.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a breath of fresh air in me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think a lot of it is because at the end of the day, we're going on a tangent.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going on the tangent and I will get back to your question.
[SPEAKER_02]: I assure you, but to me, Burbank is like reminds me that Los Angeles is really an artist's city.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like this is where things are made.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is where people are pitching ideas that are in their little heads.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then they become TV shows and movies that people around the world watch like it is an artistic city.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you don't always feel that when you're like, beep, beep in traffic.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I love being in Burbank.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cause it's like, oh,
[SPEAKER_02]: sounds ages people hard at work making dreams come true.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just really it that to me is like the Hollywood of it all and I love it so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also that's where Priscilla is.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well I guess it's maybe technically to look alike but it's like right there which is one of my favorite coffee shops in a late evening talk about it all the time but let's get back to your question and not continually praise you for living in Burbank because again we love Burbank.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I listened to your call and I was a little on the fence about if you should go or not.
[SPEAKER_02]: Until I learned it may be free.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go.
[SPEAKER_02]: If it's free, dude, you gotta be going.
[SPEAKER_02]: And even if it's not, I want to make sure I address your call for anybody who may be thinking about going to the park in a similar situation as you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe going with someone like I did with my mom who doesn't go on thrill rides, somebody young, maybe somebody younger than your child.
[SPEAKER_02]: Somebody older than has motion sickness, anything like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to make sure we cover all of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: in my response to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: But no matter your situation, there really is kind of no better high than going to epic universe for the first time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is truly so cool to experience four bombastic themed lands.
[SPEAKER_02]: And no, I'm not counting the main hub one, celestial park, there's not a land.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not a land, I'm not calling it that.
[SPEAKER_02]: the four different portals in the lands going for the first time is so cool because you're just like falling in awe of all of it and I think it is worth going to epic universe for that alone.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can truly make a day of it even if you don't go on the thrill rides.
[SPEAKER_02]: But because you're
[SPEAKER_02]: inquiry about the rides is still valid.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to break all of this down.
[SPEAKER_02]: The question I would ask you if you were talking in person would be, has your child gone on the Harry Potter rides at Universal's other parks?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because that would inform a lot of what my general response would be.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like if your kid has gone on Harry Potter and they're forbidden journey, they would be so fine on some of these.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you're still unsure, I get the hesitation and I'm going to break it down for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are definitely rides that I would say are off limits for her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think she's going to be doing a star desk racers, which since our last episode a few weeks ago has reopened.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also would not recommend the Donkey Kong coaster because one, the line is weirdly oppressive.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is so long.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the juice is really not worth the squeeze.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is on pleasant, that ride is a rough, rough ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: And truly, if your child is on the fence about coasters,
[SPEAKER_02]: The poster and dark universe, of course, with the wear wolf, is probably a little aggressive for her.
[SPEAKER_02]: If we're kind of on the fence about Biggest Under Mountain Railroad, but because that is outside, you can look at it and kind of explore it from that vantage point before you decide if you want to hop in line.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bye!
[SPEAKER_02]: Whether or not someone your child, anyone else, is opting in on these big thrill rides?
[SPEAKER_02]: There is still so much for them to do at Epic Universe, especially on their first trip.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, baseline.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have one of the experiences in Wizarding World of Harry Potter playing with Power Up bands and super Nintendo worlds, exploring the lands themselves, seeing what secrets are there, meeting characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: You've got the two shows, both in Wizarding World of Harry Potter and
[SPEAKER_02]: If you listen to the universe first episode my recap from the park, you know I love them.
[SPEAKER_02]: You got the Yoshi ride, which is kind of like what if an elevator was horizontal and that was the ride?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's slower, significantly slower than people mover.
[SPEAKER_02]: Significantly slower, but it's still a ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's something to do and my mom loved it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The carousel is beautiful and anybody of any ride skill level ability will love the carousel.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can probably totally find the Mario card ride, even though it's really not that great.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's also a water ride in Burke, the How to Train Your Dragon Land.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a pirate ship shootout that gets you soaked.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that is how I'm going on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But your kid might be interested in that, especially on a hot day.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then there are a few things that are kind of on the line.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think monsters unchanged is way less intense than a drop ride or a coaster.
[SPEAKER_02]: The type of things your kid won't go on.
[SPEAKER_02]: But being in a dark room filled with monsters for like four full minutes might melt her brain.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I would have a little concerned about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I tip just for you specifically.
[SPEAKER_02]: The pre-show of that has, um, and it would, oh, is it called like a little model of what the ride vehicle is?
[SPEAKER_02]: It is way more aggressive in the example model than it is on the ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will look at that and be like, oh, I'm a gay whiplash.
[SPEAKER_02]: You will not.
[SPEAKER_02]: You'll be fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just ignore that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It looks, it is what the mechanism is for the ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's,
[SPEAKER_02]: way more aggressive than the actual rider.
[SPEAKER_02]: The line insight and ministry of magic, Harry Potter and the Battle of the Ministry is a thrill ride, but I would even say it's more tame than something like guardians, either guardians on either coast.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is categorically a thrill ride, but to me the concern is more motion sensitivity than actual thrill ride for that one.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if your kid can do space mountain, they can do hiccups wing glide coaster.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm sorry, wing, that's hard to say a loud hiccups wing gliders coaster.
[SPEAKER_02]: And honestly, I want to emphasize that because I do feel like it might even be her favorite ride of the day.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is so fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is outdoor.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is like quick but not scary quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's maybe even closest to a seven dwarves mind train actually.
[SPEAKER_02]: It packs a lot of punch.
[SPEAKER_02]: but the main piece of advice I have for you and anyone who's wondering this going to epic universe is to watch YouTube videos of these rides to make sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can watch anything and everything on YouTube these days.
[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe sit down together, watch videos for the thrill rides, the ones that you're kind of on the fence about and let her decide what she thinks is best before you even go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think it'll be immensely helpful since so many of these are so ambiguous until you see them in person.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like
[SPEAKER_02]: monsters unchanged the battle of the ministry.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're all like behind walls.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can't see what they are.
[SPEAKER_02]: So watching it YouTube video just kind of clues you into what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And for these rides, I do think it is worth spoiling any sort of on board reveal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Since we're talking about ride experience versus your kids safety and comfort at the park, and that is what is more important here than like knowing what monster might pop out.
[SPEAKER_02]: but really epic universe is an excellent perk to visit for the first time, and to be so real with you, to go for free is something you gotta do.
[SPEAKER_02]: You gotta do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean my mom and I went knowing she couldn't go on many of the rides, and me just basically, I don't know we like treated it like a mall with great exhibits and even better timing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And add a minimum that will be a great day for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can have a sit-down dinner at the Dragon or Atlantic, which is like their fancy seafood restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can pop on the carousel right before the park closes, enjoy the ambience, the flaming the lens.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can meet toothless, you can meet so many characters, you can like princess peach, I'm pretty sure is in Orlando also, like there's so many super Nintendo characters, you can wait to me of which is fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can visit one of two Starbucks, which I know, and it should be a joke.
[SPEAKER_02]: The fact that there's two Starbucks, there's an outdoor moment and an indoor moment is absolutely thrilling.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was so excited to get a coffee because I was so tired on my visit that I like poked my head in the window and was like thank you all for your service Like having two Starbucks is such a joy because you know that's not going to be a long, long, long, long, long line.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's two different Starbucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you can go to either.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I'm not going to like praise the two Starbucks anymore, but he really is exciting.
[SPEAKER_02]: And someone who's like doesn't like to feel exhaustion and loves to go go to Starbucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: huge and you can experience that for the low-low cost of my husband works at Universal so definitely try it out and if anyone else listening is kind of on the fence going to Epic Universe for one day
[SPEAKER_02]: is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Universal Orlando announced their new ticketing setup for 2026.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is easier to visit Epic University than it has been before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Check that out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure we will talk about it with Becky Minkin on our little segments in the future with any upcoming news for Universal Orlando.
[SPEAKER_02]: So stay tuned for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Check out the ticketing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Enjoy yourself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The park is very mid right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, they just had a face lift and they're getting another face lift.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have to deal with construction all over again.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I don't love that you can't see the fantastic water during the day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was weren't family lights this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a bummer!
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[SPEAKER_02]: If you want more of this, I mean, you just got it like an hour of it, but anyway, I'd love to have you on the internet.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is my friend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can join the folly and hang out with other cool people at not, I mean, not me, included like the members are cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not calling myself cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: the song is where the real joy is.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's at facebook.com slash group slash Carly Waisel and subscribe to my Instagram 99 cents a month.
[SPEAKER_02]: Inflation has not hit us.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you will just get a lot of nonsense every month.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I can promise you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some Q&A's.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is a trip coming up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like wink wink that I will be doing Q&A after 4, which is always, I get so many questions about, okay, it's a crayon, that's a crayon, I get so many questions about cruises and we do a private Q&A on subscribers, I post more insights into my life, so if you want more stories, again 99 cents a month, if I was good at math, I would say it's probably 33 cents a day.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, that's wrong, I'm bad at math!
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, do you see why I majored in words?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you see why I majored in words?
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to take an e-Con class to get through college and I almost didn't make it up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wait, oh no!
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, wait, I-
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it like three cents a day?
[SPEAKER_02]: This is really embarrassing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no, kids stay in school.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stay in school, don't, don't have big podcast dreams.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is just, this is just for people like me who really struggled my mom had to drop me off in school.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every morning from aftutoring and clearly it didn't take.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, I got there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Three point three cents a day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Three cents a day!
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, that is cheap.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, that's not bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Three cents a day for a woman yelling into her phone.
[SPEAKER_02]: Worth it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, I'm leaving this on mic to keep me real, but like wow Stay in school study math and I hope you're brain remembers it cuz um, I'm not surely did it Thanks so much for listening and real.
[SPEAKER_02]: So real sorry about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's our See you all real I'm so embarrassed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm that bad at math.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no
[SPEAKER_00]: Hi honey, it's mom.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't posted that hurry about the jolly wood.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know you waited 10 hours at the airport and then they canceled that was so frustrating.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm glad that you went to Disney World or Amanda, which friends and the only thing is I know you had so much fun, precious, so bad for AJ.
[SPEAKER_00]: But she's a grouper.
[SPEAKER_00]: She was definitely online, showing where she was going and what right, she's adorable.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope next year you all get to go again.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you start chipping Dale in the park and you've got a hug all I could think of is this is what I've been hearing lately is that the characters with the kids They hug them and they don't stop hugging them until the kid releases.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm wondering now if that's the same with adult.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I definitely need to test that out because I'm such a hugger.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for you being a Disney writer and having a podcast was the best decision for you and I love what you do so so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's wonderful.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm glad you had 10 minutes to yourself on the hub eating my favorite popcorn Our favorite popcorn, and it's just wonderful to do what you love and love what you do I love you so much great episodes I love you, Carly, I'll see you real soon for sure, and I love you, baby