[SPEAKER_01]: and welcome to very amusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your one-stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn-skilled theme park journalist.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm Curly Waisal and welcome to our January Gabs-Sex episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now if you're a regular listener you likely noticed Gabs-January.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a little different than what we usually title it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I've made the executive decision as employee and
[SPEAKER_01]: So CEO, I'm very amusing enterprises.
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually my LLC is called very amusing LLC, so I guess in a way I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I guess there would be CFO, I don't know how corporations work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a corporation, I'm a LLC limited liability core, no corporate.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that what the CFO is?
[SPEAKER_01]: Limited liability, corporate rate?
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I do run a corporation and I didn't even have that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, as the person in charge here generally speaking, I decided we should be doing one of these once a month.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I just felt right to have it on the schedule.
[SPEAKER_01]: Usually I slot things around, I move things around, I don't like to do two interview episodes back to back.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have an interview that I'm likely going to slot in for next week, which I've been holding back on, which I can't wait to share with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like a gab session month is really good to check in, to talk about things that are happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Disney things we might have missed, personal life, goals, adulthood, shopping, just a bunch of things that I just want to, uh, get off my chest that, um, people tend to, like, these episodes.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think putting it into the calendar once a month is, if I have to have to have a good idea, if I compliment my staff, my staff.
[SPEAKER_01]: because I am in charge of, I don't even know how else he stands where I really have no, I have no power and I shouldn't pretend like I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, we are at Stephen to January, I hope your month has been going well, we're going to get into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The pub is like, gab session is essentially an extended podcast intro, so I don't want to see too many things here because I'm about to say so many things later, I have so many things I want to say.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the one thing I'm going to say, okay, so popcorn fueled, hi, obviously done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have been making popcorn at home, I've been buying some brands, my friend Kelly, who isn't the podcast, I Kelly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went to uncommon goods who are not currently sponsored with they previously were.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she got me these popcorn kernels that pop in a brown bag.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it is straight up from the farm.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a up type of, I guess, a breed strain.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are
[SPEAKER_01]: whole kernel like the whole the whole year the whole year you just put it in a brown bag and you microwave it and it boom and it makes popcorn like some of its stays on the cob.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like oh like I'm like I'm living out west or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean I'm living out with you know what I mean like on the land.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know I'm placing it in like covered wagon times but people have been making popcorn forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: So ignore me anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I've been making that and it just like pops up in a brown bag and it's air pops you have like add a little oil to it or some butter but it's like oh my gosh it comes right off the corn cob.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's bananas.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought Bjorn corn which I think.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm officially ready to say that the non-standard Bjorn corn products are not that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought earth because I looked at it and was like, oh, I kind of want this.
[SPEAKER_01]: This stuff is expensive.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if they sell Bjorn corn at your grocery stores so expensive, but it's there in the packaging, cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I like when there's nutritional yeast on popcorn, it really do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And Pearl pointed to it and was like, oh, I want to get this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, oh, I want to see her get that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you point I do as no I can get it because I have an excuse because it's for my child.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a truffle flavor.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It did not taste like truffle.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I was at book club last week and my friend put out the standard Bjorncorn and I went to town.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you know, booklovers sitting around we're talking, people are picking its snacks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to not go too hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ate the entire bowl of popcorn was like, no F's given.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm eating all of this snacks here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I did.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was the label.
[SPEAKER_01]: So standard being for a good the other one's passing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I started making my own popcorn again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And usually I do an olive oil, like a pepper, salt combination.
[SPEAKER_01]: I for a minute did a curvy one to emulate the popcorn.
[SPEAKER_01]: It took you a Disney.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was also good.
[SPEAKER_01]: But...
[SPEAKER_01]: I used coconut oil and flavor call, which is the magic secret ingredient, and then I went down that wormhole again, that if you make popperner home, you know that there is butter-flavored coconut oil, is what you're supposed to use with, flavor call to make like Disneyland level popcorn, and the thing is, I can't bring myself to do it because if I could have Disneyland level popcorn in my house, I'm going to be ill over how much popcorn I eat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely ill.
[SPEAKER_01]: So the point where like I'm so hooked on Disneyland Popcorn, I was supposed to go to Disneyland yesterday and hand-to-cancelled my plans And it's all I'm thinking about.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all I'm thinking about.
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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you for watching!
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back and welcome to our January gab session episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you feel the same way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pulled subscribers and they overwhelmingly agree with me.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I thought, January was supposed to be a chill.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought January was when like, oh, it's cold out.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna stay inside.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna work on our goals.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know that I don't go sin on a annual calendar.
[SPEAKER_01]: basis, but like January is the time to like reset after a busy December get things in order Respond to all those emails in your inbox loop back baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're looping back.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is January and it's dead January has been chaotic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like the 20 25 train left the station and going in a rapid clip and somehow The January 26 Kabus was attached to it and it's just flowing on the tracks
[SPEAKER_01]: Things have been so quick and kooky since December and I cannot get them to calm down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just can't get things to feel like that January lol that I remember they're used to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's modern times.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's what's happening in our country.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which I'm not going to get into because we all know and it's really really bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really bad Maybe it's like the existential weight of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's just the fact that like internet moved so quickly That our brains are just all in different pacing schedule But I just feel like January I cannot get a grip on anything so if you feel the same way if you're a little like wait Wasn't this my like reset recharge months?
[SPEAKER_01]: I am completely with you like since when has like a haul I mean I guess you know kind of your holidays are supposed to be relaxing but like we travel to travel with the toddler my voice is still not back I think because that whole week I had to be like pro don't touch that don't touch that don't touch we were not in a condo that it was full of objects you can touch and I was like don't do that but then down we come here come here like I it's just why was that more relaxing than January
[SPEAKER_01]: Post to be calm now there has been and we're gonna talk about a lot of stuff in this episode But first off, I do want to talk about That your girls been going to Disneyland a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a moment maybe.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh gosh like a month ago Went month ago six weeks if somewhere around then
[SPEAKER_01]: when the Disneyland app started to allow you to see how many times you have visited with your annual pass.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I looked at it and my visits were not at the number I needed them to be to justify the pass that I pay for.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have the highest to your pass, which I don't know is that inspire, believe, explore, educate, like I don't know what it's called.
[SPEAKER_01]: All I know is that a
[SPEAKER_01]: Now for the price you get to go to the park a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just never really on weekends I have the top tier pass because parking is included and the parking math did net out positive for me for how often I visited But I didn't really visit enough and I kind of got to a point where I was like, what am I doing here?
[SPEAKER_01]: My kid is free until March like I might as well just spend a day there
[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't get over the hump of like, I'm gonna drive there, I'm gonna park, and we're only gonna spend four hours here on the weekend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, usually we have to get home because it's a weekday, but I just been pushing it a little, I've been pushing the limits, and I've been going more, and it has been really great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went three times and one week, which was wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was kind of fun because by the third day of it, I was like, oh, we have a routine now.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were kind of like in the vacation pacing.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got there and I was like, okay, this is what we do when we're here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while I did have to pivot, if you saw an Instagram, I did like a realistic day at Disneyland video.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the day we pivoted.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was the third visit of the week because I forgot the monorail.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was issues with one of the trains.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me say because I don't know the news story by heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so the monorails were running really slow.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we had to change our pace because now again, not going to be a child episode, but just want to mention this for anyone who ever travels with kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now that my kid is almost 3, I am down to all of the strollers stuff being in a backpack, boom, being in one bag.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while when I'm a Disney world, I do prefer a whole system like bat, like this is where the diaper change stuff is, even though we don't do that anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where the snacks are, this is where this is, but for Disney land, especially because I'm coming in on a security, I just want to make it easy breezy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I'm able to take the monorail when I'm with her alone, and I never used to be able to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has as people who follow me online have mentioned, this does also open me up to Toy Story Parking, which apparently if you take that and you take the bus over is way more convenient.
[SPEAKER_01]: I always went out to Toy Story, I walk just because I prefer walking.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also got into a little bit of a habit of a year ago where I would walk from Toy Story and then I would stop at
[SPEAKER_01]: McDonald's and I'm gonna hash browns and a die-coke and it was delicious.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have cut soda out of I don't want to see my diet Because I'm not dieting.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've cut soda out of my behavioral practices because I think it was contributing to all my tummy stuff Unfortunately, I haven't had soda in a while and I feel a lot better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't love that really upsetting But people mentioned like now now this whole world of toy story parking is opened for me
[SPEAKER_01]: I always try to get to Mickey and Friends before 11.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have this dialed in, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you're not familiar with Disneyland Resort or if you are, you still may not know about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mickey and Friends is the like THEV parking garage.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, they have one connected to it that has a separate entrance called Pixar Pulse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pigs are pals, and big youasely closes at 11 a.m. Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there's a reason.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is it not wanting to pay staff?
[SPEAKER_01]: No idea.
[SPEAKER_01]: Could be, though, because now that people in the booths pop and back and forth, and everything will move a lot more smoothly, and your entrance moment to these parts for this date you're spending a lot of money on, or move a lot smoother if they had people at each window didn't have to go back and forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen, if they staffed the the start of the day a lot better, I think people would spend more money.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's the platform I'm sticking with.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when I go, I try to always get there before 11, and I will pull in.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so specific, but this is going to help one person have a brilliant day, and that's all the matters.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I drive past the sign this is parking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't go there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then I drive past the next sign this is parking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't go there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in your brain, even though I do this constantly, I'll be like, I'm not going to make the crash.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to make it to parking, how am I going to park?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to be able to go to Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_01]: You take a right where you would, if you were going to Disneyland Hotel, and there are two right lanes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I go in the outer one, right lane, and then you're at a light, which is like, nobody's really going in that light.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you pull right into the other garage, into Pixar Pals.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I go in the outer of the right lanes, like it would be on the left of the two right lanes, and I stick as left as possible, and I am in Naccarage so
[SPEAKER_01]: Fast, they're on weekdays, they're her mid days when I don't even break.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just pull all the way up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the less lately it's been busy, holidays were winding down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Passes were a lot back in after holidays.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of pent-up demand.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has to get longer, but stick in the left has always been the move.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little scared to like give that up and try Toy Story again.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're gonna see all of that to say.
[SPEAKER_01]: Going to Disneyland has been really nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have been treating it like the local mall, which is privileged, I understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the thing, when I go to Disneyland, corporate executives close your ears, okay, we don't want you to hear this, Ben.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I go to Disneyland, I don't always spend a lot of money.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I mean, if you really write it down, I probably do, because there was one time last month, when I took her to River Belteris randomly, and then I bought Lightning Lane, which I never do, but it was only for one person, because she's under three, yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought an also doll, but like I don't buy things every time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Typically we go, I don't pay for parking.
[SPEAKER_01]: I buy popcorns.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a snacky for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a lunch that's like a comparable price to getting lunch anywhere.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's been really lovely to just casually visit the parks for a few hours.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like buy a
[SPEAKER_01]: sourdough bread bowl with macaroni and cheese that we split.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get a popcorn that you can ask them to dump one popcorn in two different boxes for each of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Heaven, it's just been really nice to treat it like this casual place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now my daughter's favorite thing to do there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, we're not going to talk about kids the whole time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to just want to, I just need to paint the whole picture.
[SPEAKER_01]: She loves Tune Town.
[SPEAKER_01]: She loves the new version of Tune Town.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you to whoever spearheaded that updated design because they absolutely had a family and understood what people needed.
[SPEAKER_01]: My kid will go to Disneyland to be like, great, I can't wait to run around on the play area.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the area where there's like a tree in branches, we will be there for a half an hour, every single.
[SPEAKER_01]: but on an earlier trip this was this during this might have been during the back-to-back visits um my child went on a roller coaster for the first time and it's just quiet to be like oh we're there we're we're there like I'm looking at the height chart which I have talked about on this podcast before my Walt Disney World height chart which people told me about I didn't even know existed thank you so much and it is Disney World's coded so it does say
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just been so nice to be like, oh, a chill day at the park.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: We waited in long lines because it's holidays.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a special, it's a small world, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like to treat it, like it's a casual day has been honestly like revolutionary.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yes, again, local privilege.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's been really nice to visit a Disney park and to take the urgency out of it, which is something that I honestly hope happens this summer at Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, did not plan on segue into me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also in trouble here, but I do want to shout out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hit them up if you want to take advantage of that deal that's happening where it's four days.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you do like four days, you get two days free and going from four days to six days without paying extra money for those two days.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do feel like it, it lets you enjoy the parks in a way similar to the way I enjoy it when I go this frequently.
[SPEAKER_01]: I noticed in myself the minute I booked a lightning lane, which I never ever do when I'm there with Pearl.
[SPEAKER_01]: The minute I booked a lightning lane, it was like my brain chemistry changed.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know like the lame is stage when it's like, oh we're gonna rotate it something else is happening like it just falls very specific rubber is by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: They built the stage in high school and it is um, when they did late months and it stayed with me forever fun fact I went to high school back then it he was a senior on his freshman's been it really interact But he was Jean Phil Jean and he was so good at it, and he's starting late miss He's hasn't done musical sense.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why he should be on Broadway.
[SPEAKER_01]: He should be on Broadway He was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was feeling good in late minutes
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Queen of Degression, so in case you haven't seen the chaotic little video I posted online, I got in line for a little mermaid It took us forever to get into the park that day in the monorail.
[SPEAKER_01]: We ended up walking in the great California moon And we get to a little mermaid.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like 15 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hollywood, yeah, and I see someone
[SPEAKER_01]: turn the dial to 30 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It actually might have been 35, but at 30, I just like, recoiled in horror.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I got in line.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, I was just here six days ago waiting in this line for 45 minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I simply can't do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, what is the price that it will take for me to step out of line?
[SPEAKER_01]: And with my 25% discount with my new fast, I was like $28 for my child and I to not wait in line.
[SPEAKER_01]: Today for this or small world to skip truly almost an hour and a half of
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you salt.
[SPEAKER_01]: So in line, I bought it and then like shuffled out being like skin These things usually shuffled out when in the line, and I immediately noticed my brain be like, Okay, what are we going to book next?
[SPEAKER_01]: What are we going to do next?
[SPEAKER_01]: What should we book?
[SPEAKER_01]: What should we do?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I was on the hamster wheel of Disney booking planning stress, and it happened in an instant.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm really, really glad I noticed it because I'm trying to channel that chilled Disney energy even if I do by the end of the day feel a little like, oh, we didn't do enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, I don't, I don't like that feeling.
[SPEAKER_01]: And more and more the way these parks are structured, like, though, if you visit like you're spending so you're dropping so much coin, you're dropping so much coin to go under certain circumstances.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so something like two free days, something like this so cal, or not even so cal, California resident deal at Disneyland,
[SPEAKER_01]: To offer ease to be like to get that thought out of your head of like oh my gosh, I spent so much money here I think to me is the way to do Disney in twenty twenty six That's why visiting more often with my annual pass actually makes me feel better because I'm getting more use out of it instead of It kind of languishing and about that California ticket So Disneyland has been advertising this three-day California ticket honestly better than in annual pass better than a magic key because you have
[SPEAKER_01]: full, like almost nearly full range of weekends through spring and, like, end of spring.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because it's through May.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you have incredible range of weekend days.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I hadn't really looked in this ticket because I'm like, I have an annual pass.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pearl, I mean, I have to buy her one in March.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I didn't have a need for this California resident ticket offer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew it was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then these deals are always great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm always like, oh, I'm not going to buy an annual
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not, I need my, I, I need my, I need my, I need my, I need my, I need my, I need it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like an emotional thing for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, it's my main work of expense.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I had plans to take Pearl to Disneyland on Valentine's Day.
[SPEAKER_01]: On February 14th.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my husband was kind of like, so what's the vibe in my coming?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or am I staying at home alone on Valentine's Day when my family spends time together?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, no, no, like, you'll come.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we'll make a day of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went to go buy his ticket.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I want you to like make sure you're like settled.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure your shoulders are down.
[SPEAKER_01]: Make sure your jaw is unhinged, not clenched.
[SPEAKER_01]: One day, for my husband to go to Disneyland for one day.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are not rope drop tonight, people.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will not be seeing Nary a firework.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will be rollin' in like 10, 15, still early enough to get into Pixar Pulse.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will not be spending the day there.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will be spending probably three to four hours there.
[SPEAKER_01]: a one day ticket for my husband.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, single man.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just I mean, it's not single, but an individual.
[SPEAKER_01]: Both parks because when I know if we go to Disneyland, she'll be like, I want to go a little bit made.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to go on a meter and then we'll have to upgrade this ticket over there.
[SPEAKER_01]: One man, one day two parks, 289 smacker ruse.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is a lot of money, especially when the lowest
[SPEAKER_01]: This California resident ticket was, I believe, 250 for three parkhopper days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Somehow, the math being math in where my husband going with a parkhopper ticket to Disneyland three times was not just the same price, but was cheaper than one day with a parkhopper.
[SPEAKER_01]: I filmed a video about this and I never posted it and I probably drew it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so bad about thing videos.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's like I do it and I'm like, that was fun and then I forgot to have to actually submit it to the internet.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like I fooled him into going once a month and I'm kind of thrilled.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of thrilled about it because again, the stakes are so low now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, there was a moment which I shared with subscribers where I crashed out because I was like, okay, we're gonna do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna buy you this ticket and I went to buy it in the only sold out day with February 14th and I lost it because $289, the pressure for what you have to accomplish it Disney during that one day is too high.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's too high.
[SPEAKER_01]: But now that we have these three flexible days and granted $250 is not nothing, that's a good amount of money.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the fact that we now have these three days, it's like we can be of time to play.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have to worry about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have to be like, oh, this is dad's only day here.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has to see this, he has to see this, he has to see this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And made our lives so much easier because we have that spread of time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have more time, we have more ease.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while I do think they intended the lightning lane product to provide you with more ease,
[SPEAKER_01]: I think because there's a monetary value attached to it, it does not.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you got it maybe for free with something, I'd be like, oh yeah, then I wouldn't be, if you got like a bunch of lightning links with your hotel room instead of like one, because I got rid of the early, early morning magic.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh, not gonna get into it, but I just think the best way to do Disney right now is just to find a way to do it with ease.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what, this was even echoed in our WhatsApp group for a music pollusa, because people were, there was a poll that someone submitted.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember who posted it, but it was basically like, what do you go to the parks for?
[SPEAKER_01]: Or what do you go to Disney World for?
[SPEAKER_01]: And the answers, it was like rides characters, vibes, vibes was through the chart.
[SPEAKER_01]: People are coming here for vibes, people are coming here to just enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think keeping that front of mind for our 2026 travels is very important and very worthwhile.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I just think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I would like to take a moment of silence on this podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: to mention that film strip fries are apparently gone, RIP, they are no longer in award winners at Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you've listened to my food episodes here, you know that they were always on there because they were like a hearty snack.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't one of those like sad regular french fries.
[SPEAKER_01]: Disneyland, not known for their french fries.
[SPEAKER_01]: None of these Disney parks mean over their french fries.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were these thick, like these thick, kind of curly fries.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they were amazing, and all of a sudden they bloop disappeared.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I don't know, like, did something happen in the film strip fry factory?
[SPEAKER_01]: Did they switch to a vendor that's just given us those boring old fries?
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not know, but it's extremely upsetting, and I just need you all to know about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, RIP, I guess, this is like the funeral or funeral, depending on how you take this next news.
[SPEAKER_01]: The other thing we got to talk about, Star Wars Galaxy's Edge time shift.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're finally giving us what we want.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be delicate when I say this because Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, I do think is a triumph.
[SPEAKER_01]: They did a wonderful job.
[SPEAKER_01]: They brought these stories and these characters to life in the parks in a way I could have never envisioned.
[SPEAKER_01]: Rise of the Resistance is one of the greatest rides ever built.
[SPEAKER_01]: It just it blows my mind to even think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there is an interesting pattern now that you look at the way that the landscape did where it's like, oh, they shifted the story of the land.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they shifted the story of Millennium Falkin' Smugglers' Rotten.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're gonna do that later this year.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Star Cruiser Closed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a little...
[SPEAKER_01]: So, oh, yikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little yikes, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh, oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, no one's ever outright said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, anything was wrong with the Capitol W here.
[SPEAKER_01]: But like, we're changing the timeline.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're adding in characters that weren't here.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're changing the music.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're changing all of these different things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it feels a little like, oh, yikes, yikes, yikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I was among the people who while I loved Galaxies Edge and I covered it extensively, I never understood why we didn't root these stories in the original trilogy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it makes sense because the movies were coming out then.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that was, this is all being announced at a pace where they're like, we're gonna have a Star Wars movie every year, which is not the case anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ugh, yikes.
[SPEAKER_01]: That'll give a big yikes too.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's just interesting that like,
[SPEAKER_01]: He would think these characters have done so all over time, like it may be you include them a little more in the new land.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we haven't, and now things are going back that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to give an optimist perspective.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, instead of like a journalist perspective, which is that, yeah, investing in the films and the franchise and where it's going next, they did need to focus on the newer characters.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, what I think is interesting is that we are getting this rare experience now, where a brand-new theme park land is built only a few years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're now getting a second version of it, essentially.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's basically like a grand reopening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Kylo Ran is being swapped out for Darth Vader.
[SPEAKER_01]: The music is being swapped out for John Williams's iconic score.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are going to get the Mandalorian inside our ride.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just really cool if you think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, the odd thing is,
[SPEAKER_01]: optimistic here is that we are doubling down on theme park experiences.
[SPEAKER_01]: We got to experience Galaxy's Edge opening day in a way that nobody else ever will again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I didn't think this was something we were going to have to say goodbye to this early, but now things are changing and we now get to see other characters in these spaces.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we can see new stories in this ride.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while I'm sure the process that we got to this through was not ideal for I assume people working on it who put a lot of work into the original version.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, you know, I'm sure there's a lot of emotions there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But as someone who visits theme parks, as someone who loves theme parks, how cool is it that we got this land one version?
[SPEAKER_01]: And now we get a totally different version soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just kind of looking at it with yes, like rose-colored glasses trying to think of a Star Wars E-Rose version by kidding of anything that's rose adjacent in Star Wars.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure there's something I'm playing on it, but I kind of love that we're now getting this different version of Star Wars Galaxy's Edge.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think that's
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just to give you the full rundown, starting April 29th of this year, Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland specifically is going to include other Star Wars eras.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm reading from Kelsey's Post on Disney Parks blog, Darth Vader, Leia, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, but I think Skyward was already there, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: I met him at one of the parks.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really hard to remember where I was because I was at the book, but sometimes works in Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we're both in Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pretty sure it was there.
[SPEAKER_01]: John Williams' Star Wars score selections from there will be there.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Disneyland specific, but I am assuming if this goes well, they'll probably bring it to Disney World, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, there's more of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: You then marvel split, where it's like the Mississippi, like East and West, the Mississippi, listen, you can Google it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have the brain, brain comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have the brain cells right now to explain that, because that is deep in the archives of my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it is interesting that they are further,
[SPEAKER_01]: creating a divide between the botto east and botto west, and I just find that interesting.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to see what happens there.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to see what this is, and I do, again, optimists take, I love an ever-evolving theme land, ever-evolving theme park land, and I think it's going to be really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Another thing I think is gonna be really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, just my dreams coming true.
[SPEAKER_01]: It Disneyland, pandemic, hugable, pandemic coming to Lunar New Year.
[SPEAKER_01]: On this very podcast, years ago, years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked to the director and producer of Turning Red.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a fun one.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was like a slumber party.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love to that episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was so much fun to record.
[SPEAKER_01]: But,
[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about how nice would be to hug pandemic in the parks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, with the time of recording that, we didn't know that pandemic would be appearing in the parks as part of a parade, a cavalcade, however you want to say it during Lunar New Year.
[SPEAKER_01]: But now they're letting us hug pandemic and it's going to be fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I cannot wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm counting down the days.
[SPEAKER_01]: Almost coming down the hours until I'm able to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, Lunar New Year is coming up.
[SPEAKER_01]: My favorite, favorite festival at Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_01]: January what are the dates?
[SPEAKER_01]: What are the dates?
[SPEAKER_01]: January 23rd to February 22nd.
[SPEAKER_01]: I knew that I should have just set it and trusted myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I should have trusted myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's the best time of his Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_01]: The weather is usually good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of hot right now and Disney and Los Angeles where I live.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of hot, but it's still better than summertime.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's year of the horse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Can't wait for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Mickey and Minnie are going to be wearing Korean inspired outfits, goofy and clear about Vietnamese inspired outfits, Donald and Daisy and Chinese inspired outfits.
[SPEAKER_01]: You get to meet Horace Horace Collar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, I always want to say Harace Harace Collar, but that's not how you say those words.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just love that I don't have to run a race to see them in special costumes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: And there was a chance.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a chance.
[SPEAKER_01]: Instagram subscribers, no, but I don't want to like keep secrets.
[SPEAKER_01]: Instagram subscribers now that there's a chance I almost randomly ran the Disneyland have marathon this week A brand approached me and I'm not gonna see them by name, but they're a chocolate brand
[SPEAKER_01]: and getting an email at night that's like, hey, we're from Big Chocolate and we even love for you to run a race at Disney.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like nothing has ever been more unbranded that the thing that would get me to literally cross the finish line to actually do run Disney again is a chocolate company being like, you want to go?
[SPEAKER_01]: You want to run nice?
[SPEAKER_01]: Come run with chocolate.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I couldn't, it's not going to work out for the schedule, there's so much going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh wait, it's next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm getting my weekends confused.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's over Grammys.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am full-time parenting that weekend.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's just not going to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, those are a lot of excuses to say one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have the endurance.
[SPEAKER_01]: And two, I don't want to wake up at 2 a.m.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't wanna wake up at 2 a.m.
[SPEAKER_01]: I understand a little bit like the running.
[SPEAKER_01]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a lot of you like to do that as your chosen workout.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like to do as much exercises I can without physically leaving like a 5 by 5 square.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I just wanna be like in place in my mat, just moving around a little but not too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I don't wanna be running.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so hard running.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so hard you're also brave.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you're running while you're listening to this right now, a virtual high five.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's me giving you a high five because you are brave and you are strong and I'm impressed by you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I don't have it in me and but more so I don't have it in me to run that much.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have it in me to run that much after waking up into a no What like physically I can't do that again so impressed by you guys, but I don't think it's ever gonna be me again There was a chance because there was Ms. Piggy yoga, and I did right back and be like Amazing is in I can I do Ms. Piggy yoga And it was very much like it was a whole thing and I have to go and get the babe and it's just I couldn't get it together in time But maybe one day
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm, I think I'm not saying, I'm never saying, I'm not saying never.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not the phrase.
[SPEAKER_01]: Never saying never, but I'm not, I'm not saying never.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, let's just quickly talk about lunar new year food.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's going to be so much good stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, again, best festival, best food, pulling from the best cuisines.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is, I'm jabchain noodles, spicy chicken wings, five spice popcorn chicken.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta begin that.
[SPEAKER_01]: My stomach is going to be in knots because I have all those digestive issues.
[UNKNOWN]: I do
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, we're gonna just plow through it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm seeing my doctor next week.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna be fine There's a fud dip.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a Vietnamese beef sandwich.
[SPEAKER_01]: You dip into fub broth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have a scallion pancake to stada.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, this honey do colato, which I feel like is going to be the runaway hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like rum, melanchore, honey do cream, coconut cream, my body would crumble if I ate this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And sweet and sour.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I would not survive.
[SPEAKER_01]: And put it to sloshy, made with doughed pineapple, whoo, baby.
[SPEAKER_01]: They also have that year of the horse shaped bread, which if you saw the, take the video that Disney put out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: 10 out of 10 they have a career inspired Mickey Waffle that I'm not going to recommend because the color red that that waffle is giving um you will be seeing it again hours later that's all I'm going to say I'm not putting that in my body but the only thing I'm concerned about is that I did not see my whole fish oh
[SPEAKER_01]: My beloved Lunar New Year, Holfish was not on the menu.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will be there Friday If I'm not too busy hugging, hugging pantomeh, I will be looking into it But my whole fish was like my favorite food there and I don't know if nobody ordered it But it was the best was a whole fried fish was so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I loved eating a whole fried fish at Disneyland But I guess Disney California adventure Disneyland resort is what I meant to say, but I really I really hope it's just an internet error
[SPEAKER_01]: Really?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh my gosh, I have so much force stuff to talk to you guys about whenever I do one of these I'm like gabsash what if it's only 22 minutes long and I have nothing to say I'm like I have so many more things I have so many more things stick around we're gonna take a break and I will be back talking about oh my gosh Life scheduling I'm using blueza things I'm watching things I'm buying Things I'm looking forward to do something that is so cool that I can't be talking about
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, like in a couple minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before we get into some other life stuff, I do just want to, I want to mention that amuse a palooza is happening very, very soon, exactly two weeks when you're listening to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my lord, and I gotta say, come in together quite nicely.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you aren't attending, you know that we have sent out a group directory, the What's App chat is going, things are happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you aren't going, please know that the struggles I had in planning this one are going to set us up for future success.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see how we wouldn't do this again at this point because it does seem like it's coming together nicely, but oh my Lord, is it a lot of work?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh!
[SPEAKER_01]: my board and the funny thing is whenever I've seen friends the past few weeks they're like oh how's the trip going like tell me what's this what's the schedule what's happening and I explained it to them and every single friend of mine like like a friend I'm talking to in person will be like you have a hundred people coming like are you freaking out are you panicking or are you losing your mind and I keep telling them it hasn't even clocked as something stressful
[SPEAKER_01]: There are so many other things that are not my skill set.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, we're going to have a activity that we do and one of the events.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, um, one of the events I'm worried that there's going to be like some dead space, we're all just standing around, not doing anything like that is stressful to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, making sure people have logistics to get to who do you review that is stressful to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of the type of things that are organizational.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, any, I'm also in travel booked everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let me tell you that booking process is not simple.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are essentially throwing a wedding.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are throwing a wedding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, they did all the tough stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just me being like making sure that T-shirts get delivered on time like making all the little things which that is stressful for me that to do list has been so stressful trying to get like special little gifts for everyone from brands that I adore that stuff is like is difficult for me to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: talking to people who like Disney at Disney?
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, that's literally a regular Tuesday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's totally, I guess a little Wednesday when the show comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like to me, that is so not anything to fear or be concerned about.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I do, my goal is to memorize everyone's name before we get there, which I'm getting pretty close to after making the cryptocurrency because let me tell you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I did it by hand, and it took a real long time, and I did not do it the most optimal way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, these are all lessons we are learning from the next trip, which will go much more smoothly on my end when it comes to executing things.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm like, uh, that's a part of, that's why I'm doing this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to meet everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to challenge everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not worried about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the other stuff that also, I keep just telling myself like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is so fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just keep telling myself little phrases.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, dude, it's literally all good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like the event is happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone's going, you don't need to worry about the font size for one person's response in the group directory.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: But what I am happy about is that like this, it is all coming together in a pretty seamless way, which does set us up to do these again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to do these again.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is if these stress over the activity we do,
[SPEAKER_01]: does not, does not put me to an early, you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the, the nights I have spent at home, sweating through my clothes, being like, will the beads fit the cord that I got for our craft?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that is what I'm panicking about, but hanging out with everyone is not a concern at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, my friends can't believe it.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like, you're just gonna go hang out with a hundred people and I'm like, yeah!
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I'm doing this!
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I'm flying all the way there!
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it is proof that you really kind of create the community you want to be a part of.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while I never intended to do that, I was just writing stories and I was like, oh, share these online.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why not?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I never put any intention behind doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just kind of happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm really excited about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Things are happening and we're...
[SPEAKER_01]: down to the wire but nothing's a rush and it's all done and I just I can't wait for it to happen I can't wait to share it with everyone and I can't wait to have this most importantly this blueprint for the future of how we can do these again because it's it's going to be good that it's all going
[SPEAKER_01]: very well.
[SPEAKER_01]: What's not going as well is my personal organization.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know I spoke months ago and this is why I wanted to build gam session because we feel like have these check-ins every month because I know a lot of people related to me being like everything feels chaotic.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to get my schedule, like we're trying to get my schedule down, trying to figure it out and I did reach a point where I was putting the tasks into the blocks in my calendar and it was working great.
[SPEAKER_01]: the crunch time before a music blues that has messed that up a little where I'm just I'm not even there because it's just like this list of things that are happening ambiguously like daytime and nighttime just getting them done when I can but I do think like reflecting on the past few months I do think I have made some improvements in scheduling and it's pretty
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it's hard at this age, in this time, to accomplish things and actually feel like you've accomplished them.
[SPEAKER_01]: This keeps coming up to me.
[SPEAKER_01]: This keeps presenting itself where I'm like, I'm not doing enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not organizing enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not scheduling enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, oh, actually, I have made a lot of improvement.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like I had had a lot of physical body issues.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even have to explain it, but my left shoulder, my right hip, has been very off.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had this ambiguous lower back pain, physically my body was still coming back together after having a child, and I had all of these issues with strength issues, stability issues,
[SPEAKER_01]: But really, if you can find a fashion massage therapist, it's like what deep-titched you massage should be because it actually makes you like physically feel better and it like breaks things up in a way where you can actually work out again without pain.
[SPEAKER_01]: So, they go to the student George, he rocks, if you live in LA, hit me up, 7% of the Charles, I will send over his info, he's the best.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, that's been the only way that I can get, because if I don't work on my shoulder, my shoulder is literally like almost perpendicular in the socket, it's fully rounded, and it messes everything up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I went to my guy George and he's like, how are you doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, well, if I'm here, I'm not doing great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm having like this really bad right hippy shoe that was like so bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was hurting to walk.
[SPEAKER_01]: And like the left shoulder is not in the socket.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like a nowhere it should be and it's just popped out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I see what you're saying, working on it, but like, you need to recognize how much better you're doing than when you first walked in here.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that kind of surprised me, because I never think about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I never think about how far I've come.
[SPEAKER_01]: I only think about how far I have to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I only think about how, well, I'm still dealing with this stuff, so it's not done yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not checked off the to-do list.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still trying to be better about, about my work to-do list, about my big to-do list, what my goals, about like, all these things I wanna do, I'm trying to be better, and I'm not completely, they're not like, fully, brup, like, frost out yet,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on the path and I do think there is things we said about being on the path and recognizing that you're on the way there You're making progress because physically I never thought I was making progress.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just wasn't paying attention And he's like you didn't realize how much better this is and then he went to my physical therapist as you can tell have a lot of physical stuff going on I went to him and he said the same thing unprompted and I was like oh my god Like I didn't even notice that I was doing that much better to me I was just like I'm still not done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not done the task is not done
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just think it's worth recognizing that maybe if you are feeling a little chaotic in January if you're like, oh my god, I have so much to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Think about how much you probably improved at getting things done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I used to be really garbage about scheduling and it's getting better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm getting better.
[SPEAKER_01]: I now have, I scheduled my, I realized it like for me a big moment of growth was to realize that if something is in my calendar, I'm going to get it done.
[SPEAKER_01]: If it's on a to-do list, it's gonna get done but eventually, if the to-do list is in my email, I'm not gonna open it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a huge one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I now wrote everything down and it's a lot easier.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think we talked about a few months ago and I think I was back to digital, but we go back and forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting there.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're getting through.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is like, again, I'm pre-wedding.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm two weeks out from a wedding.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not to be like, it's my day, but to be like, we're planning a large group event.
[SPEAKER_01]: It Disney World with a welcome event with a nighttime event and with a daytime reception.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's categorically a wedding party.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not because I'm not me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I'm wearing...
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, that's not what I mean, that's not what I mean.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what I mean, it's not about me, it's about you guys, it's whatever meaning each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh god, I really stopped in it, that's not what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I just feel like lately I'm opening my phone a lot and it's all these people who are like highly functional doing these 5am to 9am pre-worker routines.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only doing that, like filming it, editing it, putting it up and it's just like, huh, everything is this echo chamber of making me feel like I'm not doing anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you feel the same way, it is not us.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not us, you're actually accomplishing a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm very,
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm very glad that we are.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I would recommend taking time to highlight one, two, or three things you have done to actually get stuff done better than you did probably four, five, six months ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on my phone a lot less around my kid, which is amazing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before I was just kind of seeking a dopamine hit to be like, this is hard, I need to be sued.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now I'm on it less.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm on it taking photos of her and taking video for because I have no memory.
[SPEAKER_01]: My brain does not remember things well,
[SPEAKER_01]: Her size and her the way she acts like those things I want to capture so I'm always capturing stuff But I'm not loose now on my phone as much as I used to be in general, which is Great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I recognize now when I'm scrolling it makes me feel bad and then I stop or at least try to stop sooner than before But I also have noticed conversely
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't know if you relate to this, but I have these big projects.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to call them goals because time is fluid.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I have these projects that I want to do both from my own self and for work.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I would love to sit down and take three hours and actually learn how to do makeup.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how to do makeup.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just like jup jup jup jup like I just put it on and I don't know if it's it could be better But I see those people like fancy makeup and they look so Good and I'm like how did they learn this?
[SPEAKER_01]: How did they learn the last just like how did they learn this and there's endless videos There's endless things I could do.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's this one huge work project, which I have been dragging my feet on for a year like a huge work project
[SPEAKER_01]: I am all I need to do is just like broke like tip it over the finish line and I can't do it And I'm realizing maybe it's not that like oh god, if so much going on I'm like oh, I just can't get on top of scheduling maybe it's that if I wanted to I would actually do it But I don't actually want to I don't actually care enough to do it because I am someone who when I And like when I care about something I'm locked in
[SPEAKER_01]: But for this stuff, maybe I don't actually want to do it as much as I think I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I'm like, I'm fine with the way I look and I just, I need the night off.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's okay too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's okay too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it can feel bad sometimes to be like, there's all these things that I wanted to do and haven't done.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, think about the stuff you have done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I've kept a small person alive while also eating healthy while also making it to the gym or my workout class like four to five times a week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm getting a lot of things done.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think we don't give ourselves credit enough for these small improvements.
[SPEAKER_01]: ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I felt like I really had the rest of the sentence there, but then I was looking up on my shelf and I saw that I have these Mickey Mini Goofy trons stuffed animals from the opening of Shanghai.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was just like, wow, those are really cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got distracted.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were so cool.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got distracted.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's what I'm at.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you are also feeling a little, I call it wiggly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Really like a little wiggly, a little wobbly about like beginning of the year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm supposed to have these golden.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm supposed to do this stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just consider that you have made it.
[SPEAKER_01]: further along than you probably think you have.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you have it, then you have time to improve.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have time to improve.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then in a few months when we check in again like this, unless we're unable to every gap sash, maybe you'll realize there's some fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: That has happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you quickly change gears.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to tell you that I am on season five of bones.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am deep in a rewatch.
[SPEAKER_01]: I listen to every episode of the bones podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are a bones person, you have not listened to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Boneheads.
[SPEAKER_01]: So good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just so lovely to be with them talking about stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a place in the podcast about halfway through where it gets better.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think their producers are like, okay, we need some more organization to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they added,
[SPEAKER_01]: kind of like tent poles like bmb love meter which is like booth and running um it's been really lovely to listen to it but i am getting sad and frustrated that this is the second talent lead rewatch podcast that was so good had enough episodes where it made me fall in love with it and then it went away on hey it isn't didn't come back there's this one and then it was the ugly Betty recap podcast with Michael Yuri
[SPEAKER_01]: And Becky Newton and it's so good and they're on hate us because like I know they're talented and busy I know all these people are talented and busy, but like come on man Come on and I guess I'm a hypocrite because I too have going on hate us, but like I want more I want more episodes.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll be Betty Pugas or versus the niz
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so good!
[SPEAKER_01]: To the point where I was sad about the podcast ending, and when you watch bones, if you watch too much bones at once, you're like, oh my god, I cannot hear Hodgins talk about bugs right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I started splicing in a little bit of how I met your mother.
[SPEAKER_01]: to give me a little bit of a break.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I forgot, because they talk about this on boneheads, that they shot on the same lot, and there was one shot of McLaren's pub, I think that's what it's called, on how I met your mother, where I can see the diner from bones in the background.
[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't that crazy?
[SPEAKER_01]: I went down to wormhole, and this is so much proof of like, if you wanted to, you would, instead of doing things I was supposed to do, I went down to wormhole like the Radford CBS,
[SPEAKER_01]: Studio Radford Center, Radford Studio because they're apparently being foreclosed upon.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is where Gilligan's Island filmed, that is where Seinfeld filmed, that's where I didn't know Brooklyn Nine-Nine films.
[SPEAKER_01]: If this lot, I thought it was the Fox Latter something else, I didn't realize.
[SPEAKER_01]: They shot at this lot in LA, they're being foreclosed upon.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Radford Studio doesn't have tours.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there's no way to see it, but there was this one YouTube video, someone who was on a golf cart with someone who I guess worked there.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they took all this footage and like, they're tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny New York set.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is where so many iconic signboard moments happened?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like,
[SPEAKER_01]: There was, I don't want to say the end word in case, not that end word, but the end AZ I word in case it's get flagged in the wrong way.
[SPEAKER_01]: The soup, uh, that episode, then there was like across the street was like the bobcub, the brownstone of the bobcub, like there was so many different things that happened in that episode, like, uh, in those episodes, and we're just on one tiny little backlog, and I was fascinated by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just,
[SPEAKER_01]: I love this stuff and I've never, I've never been on, I went to a party on the Fox love and I've never seen the backlog.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe I need to ask a few favors to figure that out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know anyone who works at Fox, but if anyone here works at Fox, take me to the New York streets set.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just love in New York streets set.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love, I mean, maybe this is the come down from all the, uh, the Gilmore girls events that I attended, but I just really love seeing how magic is made because I'll tell you on TV.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks real.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I keep, I keep falling for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just keep falling for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: some other things going on that I wanted to discuss with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is this coffee shop that I'm going to the day you're listening to this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am if my schedule sticks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so excited.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's called Granada and if you are like tapped into LA internet, you've heard about this.
[SPEAKER_01]: If not, you'll probably hear about it in like two weeks.
[SPEAKER_01]: I happen to see it because the LA Times reported on it and I went to
[SPEAKER_01]: to check out this place and like a bunch of friends already followed them.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm very behind.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it is a coffee shop that is in someone's house in LA and it feels so cool and it feels like this is the way things are going.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think people want small community gatherings and like I'm all here for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am all here for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is this couple who I guess they had a kid during the pandemic and they were like coming out of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really really craved community and there's this
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, there's a new thing in LA where you can be permitted to do something like this in your house granted the house is like freaking beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks like a coffee shop and they just open up weekdays.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's like nine to three while they're toddlers at preschool.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have a coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have baked goods and like not like sad muffins like legit fancy coffee shop vibes.
[SPEAKER_01]: it looks so rad and I really want to check it out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw a friend post from there this week like I just want to get there before it gets because things the way things travel you know with like TikTok and cities it's like in within a second it'll be too packed and I just want to get there without waiting like a two-hour line because it seems so rad I really want to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I really want to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Other things that are happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have bought more clothes from Instagram and the algorithm just gets me I found there's this brand mother that I bought not like they make clothes for mothers It's just like the name of the brand.
[SPEAKER_01]: They had some cool like and they almost look like
[SPEAKER_01]: Like varsity sports shorts, or I had to order them with so-called never seen anything like them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It looks a little like boday, if you're familiar, I thought it was bod, but I've been corrected.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is a very expensive clothing store where everything is kind of vintage inspired and so chic and like silky and lovely and every price tag is, I want to ringly high.
[SPEAKER_01]: It felt kind of in that vein, so I'm excited these were not priced at high, so it was, I mean it was still, it was not nothing, but it was not for digits like boday.
[SPEAKER_01]: My favorite, one of my favorite brands based on New York, C-S-E-A.
[SPEAKER_01]: I posted about them a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a lot of things from them.
[SPEAKER_01]: The coffee cup cardigan that I wore to Gilmour Girls, which I bought over the summer, and was just like saving for the right time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then woke up that morning, did not plan to wear it, and was like, oh, yeah, I guess that works for this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I deal outfit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, oh my god, wait, I just realized I wore that to the, um, the media preview of Warner Bros Studios Hollywood holidays made here Gilmore Girls Activation, uh, still got it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wore that with a Sazon skirt and the collab I'm talking about or those two brands, collabing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember putting those together and being like, wow, I never thought these would work together, but I guess the brands do over that more than I thought.
[SPEAKER_01]: I ordered a handful of stuff in different sizes, um, mostly because Ben was out of town and I was like,
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what, I'm just gonna order up on just stuff and he won't be here being like, did you just charge three orders?
[SPEAKER_01]: I need a different size as you never know.
[SPEAKER_01]: You never know!
[SPEAKER_01]: So, ordered some tops and ordered a cool quilted pattern skirt.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm not saying it's on, I feel like.
[SPEAKER_01]: the quality isn't always what you want it to be depending on the item.
[SPEAKER_01]: I only own that one skirt from there in a t-shirt, a linen t-shirt which was like so itchy until I watched it a bunch of times.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure what the quality will be of this collab because you know modern clothes are pricey and not as great as old clothes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Vintage clothes are much higher quality and much nicer and I try to buy them as often as possible.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, buying vintage pants is
[SPEAKER_01]: troublesome.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't buy this stuff online.
[SPEAKER_01]: The return policies are tricky.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm trying to get more bottoms and then basically a basic white top.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I ordered those.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm really excited about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also ordered these wedge platform kills.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're like platform clogs with a pattern in them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the last time, and like I'm at the age now, oh, where I'm like trends are coming around, trends be coming back around.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I used to wear
[SPEAKER_01]: platform clogs in don't I'm not gonna about to go 2016 trends on you that thing needs to end that thing needs to end we get it we get it you were younger and you went out more in 2016 fin we are done I have these clogs that I were it must have been
[SPEAKER_01]: 2010, 2011 when I was working in music and I remember I'd like love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were so cool They must have been knock off Chloe or something.
[SPEAKER_01]: They were sold at LF, which was the Stormed downtown in New York.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought them and I clomped around in them and I do feel like Oh, I just remember this this is a memory.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god So I remember wearing these.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm gonna have to tell you the whole freaking story now, aren't I?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if I've told this before in the podcast, but so I worked in a record label called Epic Records.
[SPEAKER_01]: Epic Records had some sort of loose partnership with MTV with some of their programming.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's why one of our colleagues appear on must have been the hills.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think one of our colleagues was the one talking to, oh my god, it was her name, Adrina.
[SPEAKER_01]: When you remember, she was like talking about something serious and then Adrina's like, yeah, wow, it's so crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: All this is happening in the Lawrence on the town.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure that was all of my friends' colleagues, I never worked with them, but they all knew her.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure that was Kira, I'm pretty sure.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, there was always this affiliation between like epic records, Sony music and MTV, and so I don't know how I don't even remember how I got in this position, but they were filming the city, which was this been off with Winnie Port, and that's her name, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, in New York.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we had this artist called Videra, um, that was the band, the lead singer, I don't remember her name, she was so cute, cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they were the ones that were going to meet with
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, can we control this PR agency?
[SPEAKER_01]: Guys, I'm really, really hazy on the details now, like 20,000 years later.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I remember that I shot a scene for the city that never aired.
[SPEAKER_01]: I also remember I got invited to Whitney Portsford.
[SPEAKER_01]: They party night went and it was really fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she was so sweet, it was so kind of her to invite me to her birthday party, like I just met her.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the vegetable memory I'm having is that the outfit I wore that day, I think I wore those clogs.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I wore those clogs and Andrew Mook Mall.
[SPEAKER_01]: was the pop, was not the publicist, was the stylist for Margot Robbie on the Barbie tour.
[SPEAKER_01]: The person responsible for the Barbie looks, now it's like, oh my god, it's a mucle.
[SPEAKER_01]: He got, I think he complimented me on the clogs.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have this visceral memory of him being like, love the clogs.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, ah,
[SPEAKER_01]: Because at that time, I was like, oh my god, these cool downtown people, but oh my god, now I was like the most important stylist in the country kind of God, I feel like my clugs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, now I feel good about buying them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it all came full circle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoa, I wonder what else is hidden down there deep in the troughs of my memory.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't I gotta find the photos now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got wow.
[SPEAKER_01]: I usually remember that day is just being like I went.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I went to Wendy parts, birthday party, and it was a karaoke party, and I had a drink, and I tried to karaoke, and I failed, and I had to watch Kelly Cetron look, it was like a old famous PR person looking me and be like, oh girl, this is bad for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we were filming it for the show, thankfully the show got canceled, and it didn't air, it never made an air, otherwise it would have been a meme for my entire life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, Holly Luya, a small miracle that I'm very grateful to MTV for, I guess, for cutting the show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but I forgot about the clags!
[SPEAKER_01]: I forgot about the clogs.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, we just wanted to journey together guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was huge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Other stuff that I wanted to mention.
[SPEAKER_01]: Very randomly, just like friend to friend wanted to mention.
[SPEAKER_01]: One, all of the foundations out there are reformulating.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember seeing I think it's Javan Ford who's a beauty chemist posting about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't find like the source material of why.
[SPEAKER_01]: But all of the foundations are reformulating so like make sure to check that out the next time you stock up on your makeup because it might have changed and your college might be different.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, uh, what else, I had plans with a friend the other day to go to a coffee shop, which is like, let's walk around and I was like, this is LA, we don't walk, we don't walk, and I ended up walking and I clocked like 18,000 steps just walking and talking to my friend drinking coffee.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was also the night that I ordered a D-caf and 4pm and it ended up being full caffeine and I slept terribly so don't do that, but also just in corporate and like it's so weird because usually they'd be like, but we don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't walk around this park.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't walk around this park and just drink coffee.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We sit at the coffee shop.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And get this break and routine had me be like, wow, it's really nice to do something a little different and to physically move.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was really, really nice.
[SPEAKER_01]: I cut out soda, real bummer, but I'm feeling great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I said something very unhinged in a town in country story that my friend interviewed me for, and became a slide on their Instagram.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I will live in infamy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone got my child a golden girl's children's book, and she's obsessed with it obsessed.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I've watched all golden girls, but I didn't retain a lot of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I forgot that there's this episode where I guess they write the theme like a theme song for Miami and they get second place at a competition But in the book, it's like the girls don't want to go to bed, and it's like Dorothy Rosenplanter like kids and then mom's like come to bed kids the whole time.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like come to bed.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's time for bed
[SPEAKER_01]: And there's one song where they're like, they're like, one scene where they're sitting at, um, I was at a computer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, uh, they're sitting at a piano and she's like, enough singing time for bed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And my name and he happened to look at it and be like, oh, I guess she remembers, remember, they're making your sound 4,000 years old.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's under the me.
[SPEAKER_01]: She was like, oh, I think they're singing in the Maya, like all these scenes are pulled from the show, which I almost piece together, but I didn't fully.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like, oh my god.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so she pulled up the Miami video and played the song that Dorothy and Rose write about Miami.
[SPEAKER_01]: And she played it and she played it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now like, I hear my child sing this Miami song that the Golden Girls wrote.
[SPEAKER_01]: All the time, she's obsessed with Golden Girls now, but doesn't even understand it to show.
[SPEAKER_01]: Doesn't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: She just loves the Golden Girls.
[SPEAKER_01]: She knows their names.
[SPEAKER_01]: She knows who they art like.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's wild.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think that would actually click from a children's book, but whoever got me that, fantastic gift.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that, I think that is all.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a real gabby gab session today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be honest, I haven't slept much in the past four days,
[SPEAKER_01]: Delusional right now, but I think we had a great time together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god Andrew complimented my clogs I forgot about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to find evidence of this in my past Um, I never packed up my her drives and my comics in my laptop and I don't want to do that That is one of those tasks that's on that to do this, but I really don't want to do it some problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna end up and when I say probably I mean, I'm not
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, next week we will be back with a non-gab search episode, um, truly have been sitting on the best interview when I can't wait to share with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But, um, thank you for listening, and I'll see you next week, or I'll talk to you about Lunar New Year.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be around.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, love you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Carly, this is Paige.
[SPEAKER_00]: I called over the summer to thank you for your episode about taking a toddler to Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, again, some of their toddler-related question.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are going to be in Catarius at the end of February.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just going to wonder if you had any thoughts for at all about taking a toddler a young two-year-old to Disneyland Paris right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think we have not done any research about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just asking you first.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think there is a new park opening there,
[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess I'm gonna like, if it gonna be less crowded, because it's the same purpose of us, oh, it's been like, would it, you know, well, there's not many people there, might be a good time to go.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm being honest, I'm probably leaning towards not going, just because there's so much other stuff we wanna do in Paris, and we do suit Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm also like, is it a good friendly option?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think my parents will be with us, and they might enjoy going, and she's like,
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, would it be a little less crowded with this new park about to open?
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, would you have any thoughts you have?
[SPEAKER_00]: Brilliant really podcast and thanks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, dude, you knew.
[SPEAKER_01]: You knew what you were going to get yourself into if you called me because I am obviously going to tell you to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to tell you to go to Disneyland Paris.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've already done the hard work.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've gotten a toddler to Paris.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while I'm assuming that you are coming from either Canada or the US, if you are coming from like London, you'd probably mention it and be like, it's a short train ride, we can come back.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are traveling overseas with a toddler, you're there, you're there, you're so close.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you could literally like hire a car to take you with the car seat, you could take the train, and not even worry about a car seat.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not only that, did you learn Paris?
[SPEAKER_01]: It like, the narrative lately has been like, Disney Tokyo is way cheaper than Disney World.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, the one-day adult ticket to Disneyland Paris is as low as $61.
[SPEAKER_01]: The most expensive ticket that I'm seeing is 107 and it's not even during your dates.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like right now, in February, the most expensive single adult ticket that I'm finding is $98.
[SPEAKER_01]: And there is lows on certain days, again, I don't know your dates.
[SPEAKER_01]: 85, 77, so we're not dealing with, like I mentioned earlier in this episode, and nearly $300 if purchase for one adult.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like this is something that is kind of more doable.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while Disneyland Paris is not the wrong
[SPEAKER_01]: How do I be kind?
[SPEAKER_01]: For me, like Walt Disney World is the shining star in the Disney Park port folio, it is home-based Tokyo awesome amazing Hong Kong's and a lot of cool stuff like there are a lot of great things to say about a lot of parks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Disneyland Paris has its flaws, but where it shines is that it is unbelievably beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is unbelievably beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I do also feel like, even not even right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm playing into the bad branding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, why are we like there at Euro Disney?
[SPEAKER_01]: There is so much to do there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is priced correctly.
[SPEAKER_01]: The food may be questionable at best.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you're going with a two year old who's gonna eat whatever you're fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not going here to eat for like four days on a big,
[SPEAKER_01]: A big adventure vacation like you are going to do they hit you're going to see the castle you're going to get iconic photos of your child in their fantasy land They have rides that your kid can go on in adventure land.
[SPEAKER_01]: They have like a whole pirate's area that you can run around You should absolutely go because also this stakes here are so low for you
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you mentioned, Walt Disney Studios Park is doing like a huge rebranding reopening about a month after you're there, it's going to be Disney Adventure World if that phrase has solidified itself in my brain, which I'm pretty sure it has.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the name, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the name?
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that the name?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on now.
[SPEAKER_01]: See, I don't trust myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why this episode is all about me not trusting myself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Disney Adventure World.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, I really don't trust my own brain and I really did it to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, stick to Disneyland, just do the Disneyland portion.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while I can't really
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't really give you any advice about crowds or how it'll be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just looking at the ticket prices, they're on the lower end for February, which usually isn't indicative of they're being less people there because the price is not a low.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you should absolutely do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the photo that you take of your tiny child in front of that castle, like sometimes I do things in case my child is a future Disney adult, your kid will have such a flex.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll just fully be like, oh yeah, that's just me to chill in a Disneyland Paris.
[SPEAKER_01]: No big.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, you can have such magical little memories on your trip and while all of Paris is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: All of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that on your international trip, assuming, again, you're
[SPEAKER_01]: International trip with your small child, it might be a breath of fresh air to be in a place like this where there's no cars except for like, you know, like Disneyland vehicles like there's no cars it's clean and easy like being in a contained space with a child that is a Disney park with me for me has been huge because there's so much I don't have to worry about and I have to worry about safety.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't have to worry about how we're going to get to the bathroom where we're going to get water everything is set up for people to be there and I think that that will be really, really nice for you for at least a day of what I assume is going to be a chaotic trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's plenty to see in Paris.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's plenty to see.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you want your child to see all of it, but I do think that you would have a really nice time even if it's for like a half-day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you're just like spend the amount to be like, you know what, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's put money behind it, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it'll be really nice to just like go to fantasy land.
[SPEAKER_01]: Their tea cups are adorable.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just have a nice little like Bizarro Disneyland Parisian day and then you can head back to the city.
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, you should do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should do it in that.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's, I mean, that's where I'm at.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think even if you just go again, my advice for traveling to Disney Park and the young child is have, sometimes depending on the ages, like, have three things you wanna do.
[SPEAKER_01]: With a young child, they say have one thing you wanna do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if that one thing is like a photo with a Mickey balloon on, like in front of the castle on Main Street, if it's that, you can do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like if it's going on a Parisian version of a ride that you are used to, do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it is, you are able to have the stakes or lower,
[SPEAKER_01]: This isn't what you're traveling for.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you can get it done and have a great time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do you want me to know if you're going?
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you have so much fun, and I'm jealous.
[SPEAKER_01]: I gotta say Disneyland Paris has been kicking around in my brain lately.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of itching to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like sometimes when I'm exercising, my brain will just take me to random places.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the place it keeps taking me is Disneyland Paris, and I don't know why.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why I'm doing like arm circles.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, oh, I just want to dance to love.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I hope you have a wonderful time if you end up going.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have a wonderful time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Leslie is amazing, it must be so unbelievable to see the beginning concept concept study of her reality come to film.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is also exciting to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Great episode this week, honey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Excited to meet Sarah and everyone else is going to use a pollutant a few weeks, yay!
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love you, Carly, I love you, Pearl.
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