[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, and welcome to very amusing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're one stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn fuel to theme park journalist.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm Curly Waisel, and in the five plus years we've been doing this podcast, I think that is the very first time I did a vocal warmup before doing hello because I knew I just, I just wouldn't be able to hit it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe it, I lost my voice in December and I'm still dealing with it, but then again, I'm not doing myself any favors, considering I had a double dose of dairy for breakfast, and it's a known thing that you're like not supposed to have dairy before you record,
[SPEAKER_02]: Where you get into my later in this episode, but I had a lot of dairy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to Okay, so actually wait I had a single no I had a double I didn't have a triple those and a double those of dairy Because I'm trying to like rotate in an oak milk.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to like cut back.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a whole this in it's a whole thing I love dairy, but there is a line and when I cross it I get a tummy ache and I'm trying to not cross that line But I am trying really hard to have coffee at home more because a girl been spending too much money on coffee in a way that I'm walking around this city feeling bad Feeling bad about how much money I'm spending on coffee
[SPEAKER_02]: So I bought Fancy Coffee syrup, which honestly, was the same price as the shelf stuff at Target.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just went, I found a coffee shop near me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's called Alfred, it's a gigantic chain of the way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Saying it like this makes it sound like, can you have a guy's number heard of this like local chain on a Seattle based on Seattle called Starbucks?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, that's what I mean, but Alfred sells their homemade syrup, and it's not as like, there's not as much process stuff in it as the stuff at the store anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got lavender syrup from there, and I've put it into my coffee's at home, and it makes my sad home coffee because I genuinely feel the way about coffee the way people feel about sandwiches.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, they're better than someone else makes for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is made my sad home coffee so much better.
[SPEAKER_02]: So much better.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how I got here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was talking about oh vocal warmups dairy I put a little milk in this because I wanted this I didn't want a whole glass of milk I was also eating cottage cheese.
[SPEAKER_02]: We will get to later on this episode why I was eating cottage cheese There cuz they I mean if children are listening cottage cheese so good for you and if adults are listening Cottage cheese so good for you, which is what we're gonna get into because this is a gap session episode and I will tell you I just got back from walking Morty.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to run an errand we were out of town
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was thinking to myself, you know, we call these gabsash episodes because we're doing more of these in 2026 I'm hoping to do them monthly just because I have so many things I want to tell you about that don't always fit into the framework of an episode
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember, we used to call these Mishmosh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you remember, I mean, called these Mishmosh back in the day?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, Mishmosh, if you haven't listened to that forever ago episode, Mishmosh is what, at the deadly growing up, they would offer as one of their options for soup.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because you can get Motsmosh soup, you can get like chicken and rice, you can go in barley and whatever, uh, you can get crap lock, which is a dumpling where you can get Mishmosh, where you get a little bit of everything, which is what this is.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I kind of want to call these Mishmosh, because I think it's a more fun name than Gabsash, and I think Mishmosh makes me think about dumplings, and who doesn't want to be thinking about dumpling, like bites of food, or often.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kind of like dumpling on the brain is all I need.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we may end up changing the name to Mishmosh, but I would love to know what you think,
[SPEAKER_02]: because this mishmosh sound, that just sounds like, I don't know, to me, Gapses is like, a sit down, oh, we're gonna chat.
[SPEAKER_02]: But mishmosh feels a little like, I don't know, we just had all this stuff here and I threw it in a bowl for you, you're welcome.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels like it has more of an attitude than Gapses.
[SPEAKER_02]: So let me know what you think.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would probably do like an Instagram, Instagram poll.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my voice, oh, my voice just cracked again.
[SPEAKER_02]: Whoa, I'm like a teenage boy, I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll do a poll, but also like, listen,
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you can text the Charles hotline, you can text the Charles hotline, some people know, some people know and you can text it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So give us a text.
[SPEAKER_02]: 7 or 7, Charles, let me know if you prefer Mishmosh or if you prefer Gapsesh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Stick around, we have more deals deals from Becky.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank goodness, we have new ones because these promotions like they're like gone in a flash.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was thinking about booking one and then I was like, oh wait, they're booking window clothes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not taking my own advice.
[SPEAKER_02]: So take my own advice and take Becky's advice and take advantage of these while you can because
[SPEAKER_02]: Deal, deals, deals, baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know Disneyland has a $50 kids ticket this summer?
[SPEAKER_02]: I almost didn't buy Polin' a new passport for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're gonna get it, isn't that too?
[SPEAKER_02]: Ugh!
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I'm spoiling it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, stick around for Becky and then stick around for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Appin' about a bunch of stuff I can't wait to tell you about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ah, see you on the other side.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back this week we're gonna do things a little differently than we usually do for these type of episodes and not because I'm on airplane mode Insightly distracted because my mom keeps sending me childhood photos That I have never seen before of me at Disneyland and Disney World have not seen these before She got them on my grandma's photo album by the way my mom dressed me impeccably well I don't know how she did it cuz like putting a dress on Pearl their Pearl wants to wear is already difficult I don't know how my mom got me to like dress up like a little doll the time is a toddler, but wow respect mad game there
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, we are organizing this episode a little differently because I've realized that in doing these kind of GABS- or Mishmosh TVD style episodes I want to rain it and have it just be a little more organized for anyone who might be more type a brain than not neurodivergent.
[SPEAKER_02]: Are there any of those who listen to this podcast?
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not know!
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, I'm pretty sure we're all in the same wavelength I'm on, but we welcome everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: We welcome everyone and I respect all of you, even the people who know how to do math and can get a task of done.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know what it takes me to get a task done?
[SPEAKER_02]: You remember how months ago I was talking about how I'm putting things in my schedule?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I don't have, I'm trying to get away from what to do list and plopping things in my calendar.
[SPEAKER_02]: I left myself like seven things for the 8 a.m. to 9.15 block.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get all them done.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did not post a book or more like I did not get these things done and I know some of you are so efficient And I'm so amazed by you anyway.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm on a tangent again.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we have I'm called them like
[SPEAKER_02]: I just broke everything down into like different recurring subjects, and now we can know what to expect.
[SPEAKER_02]: For these episodes, even if we do not know exactly what they will be named.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first topic will be Disney stuff we got to discuss, because you know we got to Disney stuff this week we got to discuss.
[SPEAKER_02]: The second one, things I've done lately, then I want to chat with you about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: What we do all the time just doesn't feel better when it's under like a heading.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know guys It just feels better to be like, and now we're gonna talk about all the stuff I've been doing instead of me just rambling on a non-for 45 minutes The next one my tireless pursuit of feeling good all the time That is what I'm calling my health journey from now on because there's a lot there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot of like changing my lifestyle changing when I'm eating Eating more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we're gonna get into the protein thing
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to go into the protein thing because protein fits into the tireless pursuit of feeling good all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, yes, that is a sign-feld reference in case you caught it, one of the best ones.
[SPEAKER_02]: And last but not least, stuff I'm currently obsessed with, again, all these things to be usually talk about in a gap session episode, but now it just feels like, I don't know, it feels like I'm magazine when there's a header.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that's my journalist brain where I'm like, we have the front of the book, and then we have features like it just makes sense to me, but that's how we're going to break things down today.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're going to start with that Disney stuff we got to discuss because there is some Disney stuff we got to discuss.
[SPEAKER_02]: There were essentially just two bits of news that came out, but considering that this news was essentially seated to certain people, this is news that Disney really wants us to know.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first bit of news is that Monsters think Mike and Sully to the rescue will be open until 2020, 7.
[SPEAKER_02]: This originally was supposed to close at Disney California Adventure in early 2026 is what I believe the language is, which is burned in my brain, because every time I go on it in,
[SPEAKER_02]: November, December, January, February, I was like, ugh, it's come in, it's come in, cause March can go early or it can go spring.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, March is ahead.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're going to close it when is my last ride, when is my last ride?
[SPEAKER_02]: But we're fine, we're saved, which is great because that park really needs
[SPEAKER_02]: that right, like especially to hold up the lightning lane system.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're paying for a lightning lane at Disney California Adventure, let's say you only have park admission there.
[SPEAKER_02]: You are purchasing lightning lane.
[SPEAKER_02]: You, if you have a small young child, you can't use that lightning lane on that
[SPEAKER_02]: There aren't that many options for small children.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I just think it's really great that it's staying open another year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Selfishly, I'm thrilled about it because I like this ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like being, I like looking at the Drew Carey figure.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like just being like while there's so much history here and knowing it's going to go away it's still having a year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just kind of gives me like enough juice to be comfortable, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, just gives me like enough to be like, okay, I can actually say goodbye this time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have time and I can go enjoy it without feeling the imminent closure hanging over my shoulder.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very excited about this news and I'm very happy about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now Scott Guston, friend of the podcast, friend of all of us, truly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Scott Guston did share that I just want to pull this up so I can
[SPEAKER_02]: quote it directly.
[SPEAKER_02]: OK, so he did share that Disneyland President Thomas Masloom did confirm that the previously announced avatar project will move forward as planned and will not be delayed by the updated closure date for monsters ink.
[SPEAKER_02]: No real timeline details there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, D23 is this year.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we will get something.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not know, but Avatar is still coming to Disney California Adventure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something, frankly, I don't sure.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, the imagery that they released when they announced that looks great, but I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't scream, California Adventure to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are probably going to get a name change at some point, but it just, again, I'll enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's not something I am actively like hooting and haulering for, and I hope to be amazed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope to be amazed by what they're adding because if they did a really good job in Florida, so I assume they'll do a good job here.
[SPEAKER_02]: But again, I'm very, very excited for the Coco experience we'll be coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: But Avatar?
[SPEAKER_02]: Sure!
[SPEAKER_02]: Again!
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: The other bit of news is that at some point in 2026 this year, Disneyland Resort will be removing the park hopper reservation requirement.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now this I'm a little more trepidacious about because I don't
[SPEAKER_02]: why I'm basically what I'm trying to save without saying it is that I am concerned about another shoe dropping because essentially and I'm just putting Scott Guston because like guys I'm not going to get into it, I'm not going to like pull the curtain all the way back but uh this news was given to certain people Disney from my profile I haven't seen it online, they have not announced it themselves but I know this news is coming from Disney.
[SPEAKER_02]: Park Reservations will stick around.
[SPEAKER_02]: More will be shared about what it means specifically with the Park Hopper rule change but
[SPEAKER_02]: What we know is that we don't have all the information here, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, we know that the resorts 11 a.m. Park Hopping Restriction is going to be taken away later this year.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is what we do know.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, we do know that park reservations are here to stay.
[SPEAKER_02]: We don't know what it's going to look like.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I am just, you know, in a time where tickets cost differently for every single day of the year, I'm just kind of holding, I mean, a holding pattern, just to see what comes of this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because frankly, I don't personally understand the motivation for Disneyland doing this beyond it just being a benefit to guests.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is great for guests to not have to worry about a par copper restriction.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's great, but the 11A restriction wasn't that bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, that's pretty early.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if park reservations, which is the annoying bit of it, if that is still here to stay, what is the motivation for doing this?
[SPEAKER_02]: What is the motivation for announcing this and making sure people know?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm kind of pulling it that thread to be like, well, what does this mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: If this is true, what else is going to be true?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully, nothing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully, it's just going to be a regular reservation, and it's easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: But again, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I am just a little...
[SPEAKER_02]: cautious for what this news means and what else it could mean.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm hoping it doesn't mean anything else except that it's easier to visit these parks.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you never know, you never know.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I'm just leaving that door open, leaving that door open.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't imagine being a company that has access to the specific data I need to be able to staff my parks successfully and in a physically responsible way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't imagine wanting to
[SPEAKER_02]: make that harder on myself as a corporation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like that you can move freely.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like that if you're like let's go out here and go to DCA.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can easily.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hope this means DCA is a little less busy in the morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then again, I'm going to put a pin in this and revisit it when we get more information.
[SPEAKER_02]: Moving on to things I've done lately that I want to chat with you about how succinct and straightforward is that I don't write as much lately because I'm here Yapping and making videos because that's what life is now and I just sometimes I write things and I'm like, yeah, I miss blogging, I miss blogging But it's okay because talking out loud is physically way more fun than sitting in hunch over computer and typing So I'm loving it and I hope you are too
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I didn't really see anyone for about a week ish a week and a half before I left for a music palooza.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I basically like revenge plan.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I came back like my plane landed and it was like surprise you have a jam pack social calendar for the next week, which was thrilling to come back and it's like, ooh past me set me up for so much fun with my friends.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't seen it a few weeks.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was delightful, but like I have no business operating a social calendar.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm 26 clocking out of a very chill office job ready to go out on the town.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I don't load anything I was.
[SPEAKER_02]: I burned the candle at both ends, but really?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's working for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's what I've been doing ever since I had a kid guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just trying to have it all and I feel like I'm getting very close The only thing I don't have is sleep, which is health and my health is failing so I don't have that But I have a lot of fun and I get to do a lot of stuff and so that I don't know I don't know for me, well listen, we'll get to it to the feeling good all the time I guess all the other end of the candles being burnt later in this episode, but still it's fine It's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to do so much fun stuff and it was delightful
[SPEAKER_02]: I went with a few friends to see, oooh the ring heights.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, I always thought it was worth the ring heights.
[SPEAKER_02]: Not like I'm worth there's original brain, but I didn't think it was like worth there's original heights.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was worth.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought there was an R. I thought there was.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, now I'm feeling.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, what is a baron scene if I'm Mandela effects?
[SPEAKER_02]: Is it Mandela effect?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh no!
[SPEAKER_02]: What is the name for the effect when you don't know if it's Mandela or Mandela?
[SPEAKER_02]: Mandela?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm short circling.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is like how you find out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a M3 Gen robot.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wuthering Heights.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why did I think there was an R in there for my entire life?
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, that's not what we're here to talk about.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are here to talk about the movie and I gotta tell you I don't watch too many movies.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know I am a TV girly.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am on like season Lord knows what of bones.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I watch like five episodes last night.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm probably season seven now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Also like the way bones and booth get together.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't think you were gonna hear a mouth fart on the podcast this week, but there we are because what um, okay spoiler alert if you've never seen bones I'm gonna just say this really quick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just like fast forward starting now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry they get together not with like a big kiss or anything romantic, but she's like pregnant That's it move on like what these actors knowingly didn't hate each other like there's no reason for that they're not to be like a big fancy romantic moment makes me so bad
[SPEAKER_02]: Bones!
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, if you've seen what's going on in the news, there's a lot of people of different ages listening, so I could be very careful what I say.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you've seen what's going on in the news, wink, wink.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just go to the Bearing Josephson, uh, producer on bones.
[SPEAKER_02]: And something will come up in that Google search.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, anyway, I went to see what the ring heights.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still feel like there's supposed to be no other there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care Um, and I know people have had a lot of things to say about this film a lot of things about Adaptation of the book, you know, I'm didn't read the book.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I even know I'm happy I was reading I was I was watching Clarissa explain it all and then reading babysitter's clubs like I wasn't I wasn't reading the weathering heights I'm okay Um, so I know nothing nothing going in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I
[SPEAKER_02]: And I guarantee, I guarantee nobody has given you this review, that's how we're talking about a movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first thing I'm going to say about mothering heights is, Emerald Finnell knows how to get somebody to go to a movie theater, because you know me, I don't see a movie, but I am seated.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am seated for mothering heights.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, that's hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's hours of my night that I'm spending seeing a movie where I can't be on my phone, like that's not my default mode.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yet people will, people will rag on Emerald for her movies and for,
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything, everything seeming like everything life is in one man, L.O.L.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like for me, she got me to theater.
[SPEAKER_02]: She got me to drive a cross town on a Friday, friggin' night to go see this movie with my friends and for that, we gotta give her some applause.
[SPEAKER_02]: Number two, my main top line review of Wuthering Heights.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jacobalorty is too tall to be in movies.
[SPEAKER_02]: Period, period, and I know that is heightest of me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, I know that is not a kind thing to say about a very charming, seemingly sweet and delightfully handsome man, however.
[SPEAKER_02]: This man does not fit in the frame.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: There are a few scenes where like this dude is like doubled over trying to get in the camera.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he's too tall.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's too tall.
[SPEAKER_02]: And like I sat in my friends after the film who are all of them are in this space.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're, I mean, not just something like Hollywood, but there was a writer, there was a writer actor and there was a, I guess, writer actor producer composer.
[SPEAKER_02]: She does everything, she's amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're all amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's like people who understand movies and how big budget movies get made like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they were all offering like really, you know, a student critique of the film, their thoughts, and they liked it and like what they didn't like, but like mostly positive.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, nobody's review is that the man is too tall.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's too tall.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's too tall and I told them I would stop.
[SPEAKER_02]: I would stop talking about this, but I cannot stop talking about this because the other day it was it might be announced by now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm recording this a few days early.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like lightly announced that or not announced.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like leaked that Jacob already might.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was not announced.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why did I think Dumwaw was news?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, I am the problem too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, I was leaked at like Jacob Loardy might be bond and I lost my mind in the group chat.
[SPEAKER_02]: I lost my mind because I was like, you think this man can fit in a bond car?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I started like Googling, this is how bad I am at meeting a deadline.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to do something and I instead was like on YouTube being like James Bond, double O7, getting into car, getting out of car, James Bond in car, and found like a still of Daniel Craig getting into a car was like, tell me if you think Jacob Loardy could
[SPEAKER_02]: He's gonna need a horse trailer baby like there's no way this man can be a bond.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's too tall He is wonderful that little earring so cute.
[SPEAKER_02]: He was fantastic in this movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought he gave a great performance However, too tall, too tall, and I love tall talls great, but like
[SPEAKER_02]: That dude is so all like I think about the entire time was like this man is so tall The entire movie and that's not what the takers supposed to be at all the takers Not supposed to be thinking about like that man to tall.
[SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't I couldn't like I found that if you know about the the lift thing I'm not gonna spoil if you haven't seen the movie yet the lift thing was everyone's like wow romantic So cool a moment and it said I was like stopping the height difference is unsettling
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is why nobody invites beta movies moving on one of my many social plans in the past few weeks was book club, which is really fun to talk about here because you know now that you've met Rebecca sirl you know what my book club is like I go to Rebecca's place there's like seven or eight of us we all hang out little snackies we all brought
[SPEAKER_02]: like extra good snackies this week because Rebecca's book is coming out next month as you know once and again we talked about it on the pod.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like halfway through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't make to finish it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I purposefully didn't finish it before our interview because I was really really nervous that I would get I don't cover books a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was really scared I would say something that happens later in the book.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I would spoil it for everyone even though I edit the podcast like it's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was still nervous about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm halfway through.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just finished reading the Laura Dave books.
[SPEAKER_02]: We read both of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, oh, let's see if I can.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can never remember these.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I've talked about this on the podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: The last thing he told me.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, the first time I saw him.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I got both of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Last thing he told me the first time you know what I'm talking about those books with like the scrapped and like the boats on the front I like to the second one better than the first one It's like really fun to be in a book club where some of the people are authors People read really avidly like people are reading a lot of books my friend Lauren who introduced me to Rebecca who we talked about on that episode Lauren was there and Loki was like
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I have four booklobs, and I'm like, ha ha ha, ma'am, you have three children.
[SPEAKER_02]: How are you in four booklobs with like, girly reads, girly's puttin' away books.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very impressed by people who do that in adulten, and I know so many of you do too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, applause!
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I feel like every time you finish a book, remember when you were younger, and then be like reading challenges and you'd get a sticker on that chart.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like we need stickers on that chart.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess for people that's the year end book count, but I can't wait that long for a payoff.
[SPEAKER_02]: I need to pay off immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: Book club was wonderful.
[SPEAKER_02]: I picked up these chocolate chip cookies I had never had before from a place called, oh no, it wouldn't wait, hold on.
[SPEAKER_02]: So is it so delicious?
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, deluscious cookies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hate Googling on Mike.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: D-luscious cookies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd heard of them forever in a label.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never had them.
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't really have a proper storefront.
[SPEAKER_02]: They just sell them like honestly out of an office.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking now like the Google summary is Unassuming bakery known for its cookies available through special order and on site like truly I picked up some for a back on them is there and again It was like an office and I was like, can I get?
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I get it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Can I buy a cookie or other cookies?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's in office and they're like, yeah, girl, and so they handle these cookies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they do a lot of mail order business, but cookies were fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: It takes a lot from me to rave about a cookie.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is like,
[SPEAKER_02]: top three chocolate chip cookies right now it's called delicious um if you're in LA like it's a little tricky to get because you want to like plan ahead for it but really good they ship nationwide that's probably your best bet they were really freaking good anyway I brought those for back us um one of the people baked a olive oil cake um the really smart one who we discussed
[SPEAKER_02]: What about guys?
[SPEAKER_02]: That was delightful.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, what else did I do?
[SPEAKER_02]: I went to a favorite things party.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I got TikTok.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you've seen these, but essentially they're all run a little different.
[SPEAKER_02]: The ones that I've been to are traditionally where each person brings three items.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, three of one items.
[SPEAKER_02]: So they bring one item they love, they bring three of that item.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then they presented to everyone, they put in the middle, and then use a randomizer, a name randomizer, and that's who gets to pick first, and every round, first round randomizer, second round, third round.
[SPEAKER_02]: They say your name.
[SPEAKER_02]: and you get to choose an item off the table.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so you bring three of an item you love.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's always a certain price point.
[SPEAKER_02]: ours was I think 30 or 35 bucks per item was the limit, which is a really good limit.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so you like put yourself down on the table, and then you go home with three new to you items that you're excited about.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm, every time I leave with something that I loved.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, I'm Marty.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sorry, I'm Marty's behind me sneezing if you heard that, if you heard a weird little sneeze in the air, that was Morty.
[SPEAKER_02]: This time, I got like a beautiful little handmade neck scarf, which was lovely.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also got, oh, what else did I get?
[SPEAKER_02]: I got a shampoo that I don't really love, it's a, well, I have to try it a little more.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a cleansing shampoo which I need, the water not only bad guys, the water not only bad, I've used the filter, the water pressure was suffered for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I use a different cleansing shampoo which I'm probably going to bring to the next favorite things party that I go to.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Kristoff Robin.
[SPEAKER_02]: I should like post, I never post about the stuff online so much easier when you can see what it is.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's the one that I prefer to use.
[SPEAKER_02]: I tried this new one, I don't love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it doesn't feel as bad when you're having the Sephora receipt attached to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just kind of like, I tried it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll pass it along to someone else who was there because they might want to use it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then they get like a bonus item.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then last but not least, my first choice item was this five, five pack, six pack, five pack of Ayo mayo sauces.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't follow that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't, you know, I don't know what that is.
[SPEAKER_02]: When I cook, I'm like assembling stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm very every plate.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, that's my vibe.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like have stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: I assemble it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not out here like Googling, looking at New York Times recipes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, no, we are mostly like being given a directive, or we are assembling ingredients.
[SPEAKER_02]: And these males, listen, I do not know this woman.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do not know this woman.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have never cooked one of her recipes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the person who presented these males spoke a such passion.
[SPEAKER_02]: And was like these have changed my life if I don't have one of these in my house.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm upset and I'm like that's that's me I recognize myself in this story And so I got the saw the set of sauces and there is this hot Jordan narrow one again googling on Mike hate it so sorry
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, the packaging is very can bust so I didn't trust it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's first, but there is a five-flavor pack that they brought.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is original mail, which I haven't tried yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, me so mail, which I also haven't tried yet, tangy, dijonale, fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dill pickle, Mayo.
[SPEAKER_02]: So good and then it's hot, jordanayo sauce.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had to break these sauces open the moment I got them.
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a bowl of pretzels out on the table and so a few of us like squeezed some of these sauces on pretzels They are so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are intended for you to put on a sandwich and these are jazz a sandwich up no problem But I'm really excited to try the jordanale and the dill pickle one unlike a rice bowl The dill pickle mayo.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm gonna put in a tuna salad and I already know what's going to be the best tuna salad I've ever had
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, this person's been $50 on the five pack.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I think that was above the limit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, I didn't realize that was a big winner.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh boy, but they're really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're really, really, really, really, really good.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I recommend them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, I looked at the packaging.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I don't know if this is for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what's going on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Highly, highly recommend.
[SPEAKER_02]: To this party, I brought, I hate, I hate saying this word out loud because I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right, nukes, oil, it's a face oil that I love, I use regularly.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, really hard when I don't have photos to show you, but I use the, um, the nukes, reach one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god, I'm Googling again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so sorry if you hear the clicky clackety.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to pronounce this.
[SPEAKER_02]: So bear with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hold my hand virtually.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I spent $45.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe the limit was $50.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the limit was $50.
[SPEAKER_02]: I spent $45.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's a big purchase.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, it is called, oh, she's this Christ.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is called, Phew.
[SPEAKER_02]: Prodigies!
[SPEAKER_02]: I think, is that I said I don't know I'm sorry it's French and this is not a word that I understand but it is spelled HU-ILE, PR-O-D-I-G-I-E-U-S-E. Again, just search N-U-X-E-R-S-O-L-R-A-C-H-H-E.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've used every single one of the royals, every single one of the products.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is like a French pharmacy staple but a lot of people only know about the standard oil and like there's one that's like floral and one that's a little bronze.
[SPEAKER_02]: The resh one is the one I love as someone who is very dry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I use this on my face almost every night.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it is a better oil than, like, expensive, expensive, fancy, fancy oils.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've liked it better than like, I've got a lot of samples because I'll buy like a lot of gift with purchases.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've tried a lot of like, fancy oils.
[SPEAKER_02]: I haven't committed, but I've tried them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this I think is better than all of them, and it also smells amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It smells absolutely amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: I highly recommend.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess one day I'll put together a website with all these links, because that's like what my job is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so bad at that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so bad at that, but just know it's a really great face oil if you are in the market.
[SPEAKER_02]: Other things that have happened, I think I had more social plans in that but I'm blanking.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went to dinner with Jeffrey, let's have a chat with Jeffrey every episode, come on now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jeffrey and I go to this restaurant, I was Hollywood where he goes, he's like the mayor, and he is, his order is so dialed in, I don't know if I've talked about this before, his order is so dialed in that I now I'm like, give me a version of that and it is so, it's fajitas, but instead of like peppers and onions, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was okay in blowing up your order of Jeffrey, instead of peppers and onions, he gets this like
[SPEAKER_02]: with like squash, oh, it's heaven.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I did that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We bought a new bed, huge purchase.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, we had a, you know what, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna drag them because it was, and if usually you're like not, you never, you never know like, um, a manager at your store with long ago was like, you never want to openly drag a brand for no reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like if they've longed you go for it, you don't want to just like be out here dragging them for no reason because you never know like the future is long, the internet lasts forever.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just want to be very careful.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there are brands that I've turned around on, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, didn't like them at first.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I used their products and they came out new products.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love them, et cetera, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is all me trying to get around the fact that, um, SOTVA is my enemy.
[SPEAKER_02]: SOTVA?
[SPEAKER_02]: I will never work with you because like, it doesn't matter.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, you don't want to work with me because I'm gonna be honest about you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I always am.
[SPEAKER_02]: And y'all did us dirty.
[SPEAKER_02]: We bought a son of a mattress before they became this like they're not like the mattress sponsor of the LA Olympics.
[SPEAKER_02]: How did they pull that off?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know because their mattresses are garbage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Nobody going to be competing well at the LA Olympics.
[SPEAKER_02]: The mattresses are bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: We bought a softba for our guest room years ago.
[SPEAKER_02]: We like convert your garage into a little room very California.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, have this bad out there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Matt just is pretty good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, just pretty good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, anybody who stays here on the thing loves it, but like we've slept on it, and it's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's not bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was our, we've slept on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's like if someone sick, they go, they go live in that room.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's when we've slept there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm, I'm pretty impressed by it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we bought a new mattress.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had the same mattress from New York for like 10 years.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like a real like, like an old, like, old, sturdy.
[SPEAKER_02]: heirloom mattress that we had forever and then we got a new one.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got a software really the one in back is really good It's gonna stop a worst mistake we've ever made it began like Sat they came in came like soggy very quickly It got to the point where within the last year Ben and I have developed Horrible like ailments like horrible body pains I know that we're not in the feeling good all the time section yet, but like horrible body pains from this mattress and It got to the point where like Ben would go out of town and be like oh my god I get to sleep in the middle.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited
[SPEAKER_02]: like there were truly like there were like pits there were pits where each of our bodies were on this pretty new mattress and we bought it in like two years like we went there when Prova's a baby to get it it's Prova's not three yet like it it's a new mattress it's supposed to last
[SPEAKER_02]: It was expensive.
[SPEAKER_02]: It stinks.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: When Pen goes out of town, I could sleep in the middle because the middle was the only place that still felt like a good mattress.
[SPEAKER_02]: Otherwise, you were kind of just like in a little cave in a bad way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have been in physical pain for so many months.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all I had to do was go to Bloomingdale's one time to fix it and I was like, I can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just couldn't mean while I'm posting videos and me dancing online for no reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm like, oh, I just can't.
[SPEAKER_02]: Finally went there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Finally, things I'm mattress.
[SPEAKER_02]: Finally got it done.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: So excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: New mattress.
[SPEAKER_02]: The only thing is he doesn't work with our bed frames.
[SPEAKER_02]: We have to figure that out.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is so tall.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are living like we are 17th century royalty right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we get up to bed and we go, we have to climb into bed.
[SPEAKER_02]: We are basically floating in the sky.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is truly a mountain top destination at this point.
[SPEAKER_02]: The way I have been describing it to friends is that
[SPEAKER_02]: like moody every time moody jumps up there were like oh boy like we're worried about him Pearl is fully rock climbing like she is free soloing on the side of our bed to get up to the top it is so high but it is amazing and it is really improved her quality of life and we are very happy
[SPEAKER_02]: Other things that have happened Things I've done lately that I want to challenge out with you about we went to quarter sheets again great pizza place in LA Such a pain in the butt to get into like Like the parking always makes me want to rip my hair out and cry very stressful That's like a trigger.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have a list of triggers that I've been writing down Which are basically things that like I do that like really really stress me out and upset me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh I am so late to go exercise.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm so late to go exercise.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be quick
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so like, I guess that's a trigger is running late.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, no, we'll be right late.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: We went to Porter Sheets and pizza incredible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not a pizza person.
[SPEAKER_02]: This pizza is good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I will eat this and I will eat Aussies and that's basically the only LAP.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I will typically eat the, there's like a few reservations.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can snap up if you are on top of it and plan two weeks in advance.
[SPEAKER_02]: Which is what?
[SPEAKER_02]: did, they have a princess cake which is fantastic.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was my friend Alex's baby shower cake.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a wedding cake for people who are in the know.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fantastic fantastic, but the line to get in and if you line up is so long and I felt so bad sitting there eating pizza while people were waiting for like hours.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was crazy, but it was delicious.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had a play dated a friend's house and I just have to say because we don't experience as much in the city.
[SPEAKER_02]: Having a friend with a carpeted space for children, a hundred out of ten, a hundred out of ten.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do you know how nice it is?
[SPEAKER_02]: To be somewhere where it's carpeted.
[SPEAKER_02]: with kids, we don't have that, we have rugs, we have a ruggable, we have rugs, carpet with kids to go to a friend's house and there's carpet, it's so soft on your feet and you can play and it's nice and they can fall and it's great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I know people with real houses and places that aren't, you know, massively packed metropolitan areas to have this, but I'm just saying I'm jealous, I'm just saying I'm jealous.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, okay, I think that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did go to, I have some Disney land stuff to talk to you about, but I'm gonna go, um, do some jumping jacks, and then I will be back with more of our gaps.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got for too long, which is pretty fitting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, oh, you guys, okay, I'll be right back with so much.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have so much more to talk about, be right back.
[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome back.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every time I go to this personal trainer, which is like a once in a blue moon, it's truly been months.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just look so weak.
[SPEAKER_02]: I look so weak, and it's so embarrassing, and that is what happened again today.
[SPEAKER_02]: That is what happened again.
[SPEAKER_02]: I won't get into it, but like yikes, guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do like ten lunges, and I'm down for the count.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is not good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am so weak, and I'm tired, but I am doing my best.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, what I wanted to say before the break about Disneyland was that I was faced with a huge financial decision this week because my annual passport Disneyland had expired, so I had to get a new one, but by child is turning three, which means that I have to get her a full annual pass, my little peanut has to get an entire annual pass, which financially is just beyond coverage.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just learning how to speak like a person and yet I have to spend four digits worth of money on her past I can't get into it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we're actually we're going to get into it because I spent hours this week trying to do the math and being like, okay What if I like what if I buy these Southern California the California resident ticket for like a few days And then I wait and to go until over the summer and then I do the $50 kids ticket and then I maximize that through some time
[SPEAKER_02]: I gave up.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I'm buying her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've passed.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think about her.
[SPEAKER_02]: The believe key.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's whatever the second highest one is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I realized I need the highest one just for parking.
[SPEAKER_02]: The way the math goes out is that that breaks down is that I think twenty or twenty one visits to Disneyland Resort is the break even point where the difference between passes pays for itself in parking.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I realized I do go to Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_02]: 20 to 21 times a year and I didn't want every time to be forking over 20 dollars for parking because you get half off at that pass.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just felt bad.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was like, okay, I'll get myself the big pass and I'll get Pearl this pretty high but not all the way, like not the highest highest one because, um,
[SPEAKER_02]: The main difference is that there's a few weekends in the holiday season that you can't bring her.
[SPEAKER_02]: I still can go if I want to go with friends, but this way, for the majority of the year, I have the ability to bring her on the weekends, which is what I'm really hoping for.
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like spending a Sunday there with her.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's something to do and I enjoy it and so I'm trying to work around that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But when I was checking out, I got prompted.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got after like, truly hours of math, I got prompted with that new Disney Visa credit card.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's called the Disney Visa Inspire card and the new one they kind of everyone is talking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: I posted about it and I actually was emailing with Save with Sally who I've tagged in all of this because Sally, Sally and I are colleagues and Sally was emailing me about like doing a whole podcast episode about this credit card because she's very much in that space.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, it doesn't really make sense for us to do an episode about it because I never, ever talk about credit cards.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm never on very amusing on Mike talking about credit cards.
[SPEAKER_02]: And here I am talking about a credit card because when she reached out, she was completely right.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's like, this card is actually good for people who visit the parks a lot.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the only reason I'm talking about it is because I signed up on the Disneyland website in the checkout window as I was buying Perlantual Pass.
[SPEAKER_02]: I signed up.
[SPEAKER_02]: And guys, I am immediately got a $300 Disney gift card sent to my inbox.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, the annual fee is, I think, $149, which means I already made money.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I know credit card, like, that's how they getcha.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know that's how they get you, but still like I immediately got money sent to my inbox.
[SPEAKER_02]: It feels like a scam and I know credit cards like a little bit are.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there are benefits where if you travel a lot with Disney, it is pretty worth it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You get a hundred dollar statement credit per year after spending $200 on theme park tickets when you use this card.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to get that hundred dollar statement from buying the annual pass.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if you put your vacation on that credit card, um, it says after spending, you get 200 Disney rewards dollars at spending $2,000 a year at Disney Resorts or Disney Cruise Line bookings.
[SPEAKER_02]: So if you have a big vacation like,
[SPEAKER_02]: You can earn a lot of money in like 3% back and all this stuff and by the way that benefit also I'm not like selling this to you I'm not making any money from this like I just want you to be aware of it because I never thought this was gonna be a good credit card Then I was in the checkout window and I was like texting Ben because obviously he's the brains of the operation
[SPEAKER_02]: I was texting Ben being like, dude, should I get this credit card?
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, looked at, it was like, yeah, you actually should.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, you can earn those $200 in your words dollars.
[SPEAKER_02]: I checked with any emails fan travel.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you book your vacation with the travel agent, you put it on this credit card.
[SPEAKER_02]: You can use the travel agent and still get that big bonus.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, just keep that in mind.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, did nothing I'd ever be here showing a credit card, but it did feel really good to be buying this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, exorbitantly priced annual pass for my child who will not be going as much, but it's fine.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fine, it was easier than doing the math breakdown and then not being able to go for two months and I was like, she's young.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to enjoy it, I want the freedom.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll go a lot more.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's fine, it was really nice to spend that amount of money, which makes me nauseous to think about and to immediately get $300 sent to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just,
[SPEAKER_02]: It just made it feel better.
[SPEAKER_02]: I went to Disneyland on Valentine's Day, and I don't really think there's that much to report.
[SPEAKER_02]: I might end up talking about the parks in the next few weeks, so I think I'm going to put a pin in that, and I think we're going to move on guys, and think we're going to move on to the tireless pursuit of feeling good all of the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, there's obviously, you know, you know, a lot going on with my health at the moment, but I am trying really hard to put the effort in to just feel better every day.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what happens after you turn 35, maybe it's because I had a kid, maybe it's because they sliced me open, like they were just slicing through a baguette when they removed the child, I had for my body.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like, I'm,
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I could be doing better.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I could be feeling better.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I am working really hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: I occasionally do gyro-tronic, which is essentially like, I'd say it's like a assisted yoga physical therapy stretching.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really what we've been working on is like articulating my spine and like helping me move in a more connected way, which I, I
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel good after.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't feel like it's made a huge change, but it is something we're in the beginning.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I showed up and was moving like a robot.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I do think it is helping me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like a very specialized, not something like woo woo, but it's like very movement-based.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have been told I have talked too loud in the studio before, so it's not quite my vibe, but it's something I think I need to do, and so I'm chasing after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I also was prescribed multiple prescription eye drops by an eye doctor who
[SPEAKER_02]: I got eye allergies and that cute.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was prescribed these seven months ago, every month, mebo, mybo, these eyedrops arrive.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like clockwork mailed me, I don't know where I'm paying for them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're like five bucks a month, cause I'm insurance.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know, but they show up every month and every month I'm reminded that, oh yeah, I am doing a terrible job of taking care of myself, just absolutely terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: So after months and months and months and months of getting these eyedrops, I have finally started the regimen.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't feel any different,
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm hoping that something changes in my dry eyes are no longer just weeping weeping weeping whenever I go outside.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just trying to better myself, you know, I'm trying really, really hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying to like not focus on you before exercise used to be very like, oh, I'm gonna exercise harder than I can and now I'm just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Desperate to get strong enough to hold my child on my hip for more than three minutes without pain.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's crazy because my whole life when I would see specifically women, because I identify as women, when I would see other women carrying their kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just like, oh, they're moms.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're strong.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're mom's.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, they're just strong.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, as their kid gets bigger, they get more used to carrying them and they get strong.
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't realize that other people are also suffering the way I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every time I hold her, I'm like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think my spine will ever be the same and I was just down here thinking everyone else was strong and I was weak But I think it is a challenge for everyone.
[SPEAKER_02]: These kids just keep growing I looked in my kid this week and was like when did you get taller?
[SPEAKER_02]: I pick her up now and I'm like There was a time when she was, oh, there was like a sweet spot and I could pick her up and it was fine It's like five minutes and I can't even do that any
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't even do that anymore, so I'm trying to rise above the discomfort I often feel and just, you know, like, just
[SPEAKER_02]: Just make it happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just be able to hold my body up without feeling terrible.
[SPEAKER_02]: For many moons, I have resisted, resisted the push towards eating so much protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's talking about protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: By every time I go to the grocery now, there's always a man in line who's exclusively buying protein bars, protein powder, cases of eggs, and I'm like, oh, they're on the sauce too.
[SPEAKER_02]: All these people are so obsessed with protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, hmm, couldn't be me, couldn't be me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then,
[SPEAKER_02]: I started listening to the Mel Robbins podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Bones podcast is not back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have run out of everything that entertains me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I just kind of fell into an episode that was about specifically women and their diets and how you need a ton of protein.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're supposed to have 30 grams of protein at breakfast, which is bananas.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now I'm out here being like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Today I got to be eating cottage cheese.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm trying to eat cottage cheese.
[SPEAKER_02]: The way my body doesn't even recoil when I eat it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I eat it and my body will not acknowledge that I'm eating it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like it is like do you remember if you have and you like we have if you've ever had COVID and you couldn't taste anything?
[SPEAKER_02]: That is what my body chooses to do when I am eating cottage cheese.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be like, I'm very.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, honey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, peanut butter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Look, blank, nothing for the cottage cheese.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I respect my body for doing that.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're just like, get it in.
[SPEAKER_02]: We understand we have to be doing this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's important, whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I am starting to try to eat it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't want to, but we're told we should.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't believe I found it the protein trap.
[SPEAKER_02]: But again, then Mel Robbins episode, I'll put it in the show notes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I sent it into my mom too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, wait, this is actually pretty good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it was pretty good advice.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was pretty good advice about all the things we're supposed to eat because I think that I eat what I'm like supposed to do to keep my body churning because again, I have a stomach issue.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm trying to like eat exactly what I can eat.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm not.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm missing so many things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this episode was very helpful.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so now I'm attempting to eat kind of cheese.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm attempting to be one of those people.
[SPEAKER_02]: And while this is not about feeling good all the time, part of feeling good is really liking the way you look and like feeling like you're presenting your best self.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I, I'm keep finding myself inspired by people's personal style in the world.
[SPEAKER_02]: randomist, haven't used lately.
[SPEAKER_02]: As you know, Evan viewer of bones, Billy Gibbons from season top.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's his name.
[SPEAKER_02]: He is a fringe character on the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just keep looking at him whenever he appears on screen and thinking, how do you learn that that is your go to vibe?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like how do some of these people like I open my phone and I see the most stylish people pop of my feet every day and I'm like, how do you even know like how did you realize that this is the look that works for you and if you don't know who Billy Gimmons is Google Billy Gimmons and you'll know what I'm talking about like how did this dude figure out that some sort of cap with that long beard with sunglasses was his look.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I can't get away with like sunglasses indoors every day, but like this dude nails it and it feels so authentic to him.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like why those models on the free people website look so good in free people and literally nobody else does.
[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot pull off an asymmetrical hankered chief hen.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's not happening for me and yet for some of these women with a pair of fry boots, no one's ever looked better.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like when you see people with era hair, like when it's like a fun little 50s hairdo and you're like, how did you end up here?
[SPEAKER_02]: How did you know?
[SPEAKER_02]: And the main thing that is like just unraveling my brain in this, in this area, in this region of thinking of things is that did you know that girly Sarah Pigeon, who is on American Love Story?
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you know
[SPEAKER_02]: that she was not bombed until their show.
[SPEAKER_02]: She had brown hair, Google her, Sarah pigeon.
[SPEAKER_02]: She looks completely different as a blonde.
[SPEAKER_02]: And she didn't look bound.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's a brandette.
[SPEAKER_02]: But she is so like, she is so gorgeous like radiant as a blonde that it's like, oh,
[SPEAKER_02]: bond your whole life.
[SPEAKER_02]: What do you ever think like what am I missing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Should I be a redhead?
[SPEAKER_02]: Should I be one of those people like draw freckles in my face?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's not my default like I I my goal in getting dressed and like presenting myself to the world I want to feel as authentically me as possible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want my clothes to feel so much a part of me That it doesn't even feel like they're there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't even think about them and that's how I get dressed is like what do I feel like wearing?
[SPEAKER_02]: That is my great motivator
[SPEAKER_02]: But seeing all these people, it's just really inspired me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And really inspired me and kind of planted this seed where I'm like, what if I'm like, I could amplify that.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I could feel so much more myself, what is missing there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like that little piece that little piece I just keep thinking about.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like what?
[SPEAKER_02]: What is my personal brown to blonde like what if what if it's like I I would be dread what if I were like little like Mod shift dresses with me high boots like that would be so cute and I love that, but I don't have the wear with all the plan that I just keep thinking about how do these people land like this exact vibe that they are especially people over 50 over 60 like people Really locked in who they are and the way they present themselves something I've been thinking about
[SPEAKER_02]: So I've been thinking about because sometimes it adds in flows like a few months ago I felt like I looked at my closet and was like, I'm so happy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have everything I could ever need.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel so myself in these clothes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love my clothes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And lately, I don't know what happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's like a moon phase or something.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I look at my closet and I'm like, what do I put on pants?
[SPEAKER_02]: What do I supposed to look like?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel so disconnected from that that I'm just trying to get back there.
[SPEAKER_02]: and I'm just trying to get back there, Billy Gibbons is really doing it for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, if I could just be my own really given's, I think I would just feel so much better about the whole thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, party people, we are running out of time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we are going to jump to stuff I am currently obsessed with because I have three solid ones for you that I can't wait to share.
[SPEAKER_02]: The first one is this product that I bought.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am, okay, this is how I found it, which is very strange.
[SPEAKER_02]: But there was a QD little influencer I follow, and she was posting a bunch of photos around town, whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And in the background of one of the photos, was this bottle of oil, and I was like, that's a cute bottle, and so I googled it, found it.
[SPEAKER_02]: bought it, arrived at my house, tried it, and it is amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is called Rosie's hot oil, ROSI apostrophe s. It is exceptional, and it's basically just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: olive oil.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's like, uh, it comes in a little can, this little yellow can.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's all of oil with fresh Toronto peppers are what's in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: If they see their stinger peppers, that must be the same thing, it is so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: A can of it is quite small, but it's 14 bucks.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's plenty in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is so good that, uh,
[SPEAKER_02]: I hung out with a friend and we happened to be near a place that I knew sold it because I was on this company's Instagram Just like what is this oil wanting to learn more and I was like you need to go in here and buy this oil and I walked in and I gave her a can was like trust me You're gonna want this it's that good that I'm forcing people to get it apparently it's made in LA
[SPEAKER_02]: I have not heard anything about it beyond this photo, but trust me, it's so good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I highly recommend it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, get that, get that nooks oil, like, you're good to go.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is, I'm putting it on like white rice.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's intended for pizza crust, which would be so good in, like, ooh, like steamed broccoli with like that, or not steamed sauteed.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like sauteed oil, broccoli with like garlic and that and like a pizza crust.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's this pizza place that Ben loves in Japan called Serenkin.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's how you say it and Whenever we go, we always get the same thing you get like a plate of broccoli and then you dip the crust in like the broccoli oil We save the broccoli that Rob is like save a few pieces because we want to be able to like we don't want the plate to be accidentally taking away You dip the crust in the oil like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I haven't tried it on pizza yet, but oh, it would be so good the other thing I have obsessed with
[SPEAKER_02]: is Amy Polar's podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: It took me a really long time to listen because it just didn't seem like something I was interested in.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't always love celebrity celebrity interviews.
[SPEAKER_02]: I find them to be a little like, um, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, we're just, yeah, but it was a point.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, it's quite good.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's quite good.
[SPEAKER_02]: I started with the Haley Williams one and I listened, I'd watch the Andy Sam were going to while ago because I love Andy Samburg.
[SPEAKER_02]: But the Jonathan Groth clips online kind of pulled me in.
[SPEAKER_02]: The Haley Williams one was great and since then I've just been kind of catching up on as many as possible and I find that it's a really good podcast to have on
[SPEAKER_02]: in the morning when you're like half asleep, but don't want to be fully awake yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like a lot of times before my caffeine has kicked in, and I'm like doing a chore around the house.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that is the perfect podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what I underestimated, which I'm sure anybody who isn't to that podcast, good hang nose, is that it just feels like being around friends that are chatting, and you have to put in no effort.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you're just hanging out at the table.
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't at all feel like, wow, luminaries.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, fancy people are here.
[SPEAKER_02]: It just feels like her chatting with the friend.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think because she has like her fame from multiple avenues, like one is from being a sketch comedian, and then one is from truly being the face of a famous sitcom.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think because of that, and because of that, and that parks and wrecks resurgence during COVID during the pandemic, whenever someone was at home rewatching it, I feel like she's just set up in a way where she's not around the mattress, and she's not around the comedian,
[SPEAKER_02]: She's kind of both.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so she kind of toes the line.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I guess I think she won't be a word for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But like listen, I never listen to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how I never got to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it is bringing me much joy.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just bringing me much joy at the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the third thing I'm truly sitting the best for last year.
[SPEAKER_02]: The third thing is this app that I'm pulling up on my phone right now because I actually don't know the name of it because I'm never not in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: We what is this called?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hate when I do this to you guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, wait, what's that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, sorry, it was hard for me to figure out the actual name is because I just know exactly where it is in my phone and I press it every day.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is called Focus Friend, Focus Friend, and it is essentially, if you are an ADHD person, if you are neurodivergent, who may be this app could change your life?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because what it is, there's a lot of like,
[SPEAKER_02]: homodoro, which I think is called timers, is a lot of things that people use for people with time blindness, which I have, where time just gets away from you, it's hard for you to focus, it's hard for you to lock in and get things done.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's also a lot of people down who've been talking about brick, which is that device that you use on your phone to get off an app so you're not on your phone as much.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the intersection of both of those things.
[SPEAKER_02]: This app, essentially, gives you this little cartoon character.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all this cartoon character wants to do real bad is to knit.
[SPEAKER_02]: All he wants to do is knit.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you can set how long he knits for.
[SPEAKER_02]: It can be five minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It can be 20 minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It can be 40 minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And when he's knitting, when this little bean mine, I call mine baby bean.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a little brown bean.
[SPEAKER_02]: When mine bean with a little sprouten for his head for hair, when mine bean is knitting.
[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot go in my phone because it'll interrupt his knitting.
[SPEAKER_02]: It'll interrupt his knitting and then he'll be sad.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I, if I'm like, I don't want to be on my phone for like the next 30 minutes, I know I'm going to be in the house and I'm going to pick it up in scroll for no reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll put it in, I'll put it in, focus mode.
[SPEAKER_02]: My being will be knitting socks and I don't want to interrupt him.
[SPEAKER_02]: and you might think like well that's wasn't it's just an animated being he doesn't have feelings it's fine like it's fine we can just open our phone going Instagram anyway oh just wait who just wait for this because when i wait oh my gosh sorry i'm looking at this app i'm usually not in here if i'm not in focus mode and i'm watching baby beam be on baby beam's phone
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never seen that part before.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so let's say you put, you put your focus in for like 30 minutes.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't touch your phone.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you open your phone.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're like, um, back, baby.
[SPEAKER_02]: We did it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You be, you get, like, points.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I currently have 112 sock points and you can trade in the points to buy things, to decorate the beams apartment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, they have successfully gamified getting the heck off your phone.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is delightful.
[SPEAKER_02]: It like scratches every inch.
[SPEAKER_02]: It gives me a time block so I know how long I'm off my phone for.
[SPEAKER_02]: It also...
[SPEAKER_02]: keeps me off my phone because I don't want to click through it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then when I successfully do it, I get these points and then I get by things to dig her in as room.
[SPEAKER_02]: I currently, um, I've earned enough socks.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've earned enough sock points to buy this really cute little rug.
[SPEAKER_02]: The next thing I'm trying to get, um, I mean, I could get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could get maybe be no window, but I really want to get this banner.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like this little banner that you can hang up that has a little plants on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I am truly like tonight.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I'm not going to be on my phone,
[SPEAKER_02]: earn points from baby mean to decorate his house.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is so motivating to get out of your phone and if you especially are like there's for me there's this time of night where I try to break my night up where like 830 to 10 as the window where I get things done.
[SPEAKER_02]: It always bleeds past that I'm always up to midnight but like 830 to 10 is like oh if I can hit it right I can get things done and sometimes I'll just be like oh I scrolled through Instagram for an hour for no reason.
[SPEAKER_02]: for no reason didn't retain anything pointless and the time just disappears and if I was using this timer at night, oh, it would have saved me, highly, highly recommend.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is called Focus Friend.
[SPEAKER_02]: There is a paid upgrade version where you earn more sock points, you can earn scarf points, you're basically build out your room faster but I'm trying very hard to not spend money on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is just like purely a free endeavor for me and like a little, I'm not trying to like pay to get ahead.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like for me, the point is to really earn,
[SPEAKER_02]: these sock points slowly, and like, truly, like, woo, like, bleed for it, so that I really earn decorating this little room.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why, but it's like so brilliant for someone with a brain like mine.
[SPEAKER_02]: And if any of you have a brain like that as well, it'll be wonderful for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I hope you enjoyed this week's gabs- or mishmosh, either one.
[SPEAKER_02]: There's just too many things to talk about and also I feel like I've left out so many things in the feeling good all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably because I'm about to, I'm sure I'll post about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm about to, um, do a whole colonoscopy prep this weekend.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, can't wait so fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Love broken stomach.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait to talk to you guys again soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm going to Disney land.
[SPEAKER_02]: This week, so hopefully I'll make it there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'd have like cancel, recent visits, things haven't paned out.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there was one where Pro got sick.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it just didn't happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm hoping, hoping, hoping I can finally make it back there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you for listening.
[SPEAKER_02]: Please let me know if you download the app and like it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or if you buy any of this stuff and you dig it, I hope I'll put the links about the links to the items.
[SPEAKER_02]: I should do the show notes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, look at me being responsible.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll put it in the show notes.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll probably put it in stories, but I'll forget to highlight it because that's just kind of how I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, um, wish me luck and earning my baby bean a little bit of decor on this wall because he deserves it!
[UNKNOWN]: He deserves it!
[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Carly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was calling because I am taking my family to Disney World right before we get on the Disney wish and a few weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm curious if you think it would still be worth it to get lightning lane when I explain how packed I'm at the kingdom day is.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we are staying on site.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we're planning to do early entry.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then we do have a 10, 20 reservation at Crystal Palace.
[SPEAKER_00]: been planning to take my daughter back to the hotel for a nap, and then when we come back to the park, we're getting her first hair cut done on Main Street at the Harmony Barbershop, and then after that, we don't have plans for the day, so I'm thinking mainly our priority for doing rides would be very early in the morning with early entry before we have breakfast at 10-20, and then probably not really picking back up on rides until after four p.m.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not really sure if it's worth the extra cost to do lightning lane because I don't know how much it would end up adding to our day.
[SPEAKER_00]: So curious to get your thoughts on that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, bye.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hi, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is an incredible phone call and like the exact type of Disney math that I love to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I'm fed first of all, I need to applaud you because you have planned an incredible day for your family.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Crystal Palace Breakfast, haircut on Main Street, very challenging reservation and get kudos to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going back to the hotel, you're taking a nap, you want to keep things chill and easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it does seem like this day is leaning towards, let's not get another thing to book it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's not worry about lighting lanes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's just play it by ear.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, I am going to play a little bit of devil's advocate in this, because there
[SPEAKER_02]: a few things that play that I want to make sure we cover.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think to make an accurate decision about if lightning lane is worth it for you guys for this day, you need to ask yourself, is X worth Z?
[SPEAKER_02]: Basically break it down to the exact price.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, if you would cost, let's say $70 total, for I don't know how many people are going, but if there are two adults and there's one child under three, let's just give a call at $70.
[SPEAKER_02]: If it's $70 total,
[SPEAKER_02]: is $70 worth you skipping the line on two rides is $70 worth making sure that you definitely get on say Peter Pan and you don't even have to worry about it is $70 worth the anxiety you might have about waiting in a 45 50 hour hour minute hour long ride with your small child.
[SPEAKER_02]: is $70 worth it to you if you can make your day a little more easy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That answer is not always yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: It is absolutely not always yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it really just comes down to what it is for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you're looking at that price and you're going, I would much rather show up, be chill, not have plans like have two rides that we really want to get on, which of course is doable in your day to go on two rides.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just have to make sure you're okay with waiting if there is a line.
[SPEAKER_02]: Something like that, you're like, I brought their 70 bucks to buy fun things on the cruise, then like then you know where you're at, but I think you really have to look at the price and what it's worth.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, is $70 worth this or that?
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is the best way for you personally to break it down.
[SPEAKER_02]: the other thing is a lot of times I think there's this like lightning lane trap that we sometimes fall in when planning our vacation where it's like booking a lightning lane is going to make my day easier booking a lightning lane is just going to make sure like I'm guaranteed to go on the rides everything's great and while that is essentially true it all
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, it doesn't account for the fact that when you book lightning lanes in advance, you don't have a schedule.
[SPEAKER_02]: Your day is inflexible.
[SPEAKER_02]: You have somewhere you have to be at certain points throughout the day, and while there is some loose spending shortly, I'm somebody who likes to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have instructions.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like to follow them.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so you can't just wander the park freely and be like, oh, let's go in the carousel.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or oh, there's no really, there's not a long way for this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: The flip side of that, of course, is that you sometimes arrive with that mentality and you're like, I'm sorry, two hours for this ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.
[SPEAKER_02]: But if you are okay, and you have maybe one target ride that you're like, we have to take our child on this.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is my one goal.
[SPEAKER_02]: Again, remember, when traveling with children have specific achievable goals.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you can identify that there's really just one ride you want to do with them, I don't think you need to do lightning lane.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because you can attempt to do that in the morning.
[SPEAKER_02]: If it doesn't work out, you can try to do it again later.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that way you can just move freely and not be burning to bite the price of it in the schedule.
[SPEAKER_02]: So really, those are the questions I would ask for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: If I was in your situation,
[SPEAKER_02]: I would be inclined to purchase lightning lane just to make sure if there was one ride I really wanted to get on, but the scheduling of it is stressful.
[SPEAKER_02]: On my first trip to Disney World, I did purchase lightning lane for magic kingdom specifically because we were working inside of really tight nap windows.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were also traveling from LA, so like her nap windows were a little, you were keeping her on West Coast time, but like you never know when you're travel.
[SPEAKER_02]: You never know.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, if my kid, if I flew my kid here in my kid is asleep when she meets Mickey Mouse, I'm gonna lose it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like that's gonna be a trigger for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I doesn't sound like you're that way.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're very chill.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're mean characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're navin' back and they're like, you have locked this day in and I'm very impressed by you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Seems like you don't get to stress my things as I do.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I essentially was like, I want to be able to, don't be Mickey.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to be able to do Peter Pan.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to be able to do it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that really, like scheduling that was essential for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: Sounds like this way, you're going to be able to have the best of both worlds.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you have stuff on your schedule, you have Crystal Palace, you have your haircut, you have a nap in the middle, morning, casual, going to go on a ride afternoon, evening, casual, going to go on a ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: I do think that you're set up for success without lightning lane.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that is my takeaway.
[SPEAKER_02]: After going through all the options for anyone planning a trip, I do think you are good.
[SPEAKER_02]: However, if there is something where you're like really thinking about you're like, oh, I really, really, really want to get on this ride.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I want to make sure it happens while they're awake and in a good mood and at this time, then do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Otherwise, save your money and buy yourself some treats and it doesn't
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[SPEAKER_01]: Disney, Yakov was awesome walking around the board, walked with so much fun when we start losing, and he was by the bench, and he was about to sit down and stay, and he'd like put a book and good boy, like he's a daughter or something, he's good to eat!
[SPEAKER_01]: Japsman Steakhouse was incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a Super Bowl Sunday.
[SPEAKER_01]: The restaurant was so quiet and our waiter was so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was an epic night.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was such a beautiful and cozy restaurant.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so sad that we're publishing this glorious restaurant.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Disney is just fading and I love the old feel of old Disney, so sad.
[SPEAKER_01]: The flying fish I have to agree with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was overcrowded.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a little noisy, but the sea bath was excellent and the fillet I thought was great.
[SPEAKER_01]: the FLA at the Yachtman State House.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: I loved everything about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Armour, I know you talked about Armour, but you wore a skirt that you had on this animal print and it was like a satin sheen.
[SPEAKER_01]: I absolutely love to fit on you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was so beautiful and you better buy it or I'm buying it for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, an app app when you bought that graph frame that you bought with the cute little mouse with the cheetah, I'm not saying who was so cute.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you blame him, this is tiny boot and app cut.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was so fun to see the examples that they put out, and you can make your own, it's really special.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am so sorry that you overpatched.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know where you got this from.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's from me overpacking comes from me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And to get home, if you remember, I had to sit on my suitcase to close it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though we overpacked,
[SPEAKER_01]: We always have everything we need.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are definitely candidates for the left-making deal show.
[SPEAKER_01]: I swear we should go on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Do tell me a 3D was so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had so much when I loved 3D glasses.
[SPEAKER_01]: Still fun and a couple unexpected things were so good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the Collins from Ashley and Carrie, from a music producer, my friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love you all guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Suck you a great time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait for the next one.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love you, Carly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love you, Pearl.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bye.