[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and welcome to very amusing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your one-stop shop for the story secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm currently ways out in, of course.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, the one time I do this intro in months where I'm like, wow, this sounds really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like my voice is back.
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, I'm ending my work day early to go to the EMT later to be like, early, what's going on with my voice?
[SPEAKER_01]: Of course, isn't it always like that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Right when you decide to book a haircut appointment, you're like, wow, my hair actually looks really good, maybe I don't need a color, maybe I don't need to cut
[SPEAKER_01]: and I can't believe that is happening right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go and be like my voice sounds great.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just like look in my nostril and be like, yeah, you have terrible allergies going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just don't they ever do it?
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's gonna go back to my E&T because I'm like, you're the, you're the nose expert.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're the nose expert.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, this week we have a true call episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know we're doing a Gabby back to back.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like Gabby Gabby, right on top of each other.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I promise there are less Gabby ones to come.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a trip recap coming in the next few weeks.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have an interview coming in the next few weeks.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a lot of fun stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you guys like the Chitty Chatting ones, but I know too back to back and you haven't scheduled that way, but it just kind of happened that way and we are going to roll with it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, everything else going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the only pressing thing is that whenever recording this yesterday, I took the American Girl Cafe, listen.
[SPEAKER_01]: I will be making a video about it to scream about how great it was.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe one of not the best dining experiences I've had in Los Angeles and I'm not even joking.
[SPEAKER_01]: Coffee included okay coffee dessert a meal appetizers and french fries with french fries with five bucks extra I really wanted them because I ordered him Kim made a key to a bowl.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did a came up all and said the burger I said burger game before and so long story short affordable fun you can borrow a doll I didn't know you could borrow a doll.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was an absolute gas and I'm so glad that I went While I tried over there like my child is so disney-filled Pearl was like are there gonna be rides?
[SPEAKER_01]: I only want to go if there are rides
[SPEAKER_01]: Which now that I say that out loud is wow, I have really done a number on her But she still had a great time even though there were no rights She wanted nothing to do with the dolls.
[SPEAKER_01]: She wanted to find a dress for herself for her birthday Okay, um, don't know how she put that together.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's like birthday dress And I was like, all right, like not even interested in the fact that one of these could go on a doll Did not care only wanted to dress for her and wanted to like play with the little fake kitchen there Totally fine anything for her, but yeah, that's kind of all the snowman in my life
[SPEAKER_01]: There's all the going on, there's some fun stuff coming up, so stay tuned when we have a lot of your calls together today, so I'm not even gonna waste your time.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna get right into it, stick around for some deals from Becky, and then we will be a chicken and chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: See you soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hello and welcome to our true call episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a lot of disparate calls.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have calls about live and with ADHD.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have calls about Disneyland Resort.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have Disney Cruise Line advice.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have, and where do you get your Disney news calls?
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a little bit of everything, but what we don't have are,
[SPEAKER_01]: one of your many many responses to the bucket list episode because they are still coming in.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got multiple calls, truly multiple calls, that there is a Genki candle, do that expo.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is it called?
[SPEAKER_01]: Genki candle, factory Genki candle, experience?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on, let me look up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I can't mess this up because I'm gonna get more calls about it and I don't want to drag you guys out Yankee Yankee doodle dandy Yankee candle village there is one in south do your field Massachusetts.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you to everyone who calls what I haven't done is really played a lot of the location based calls.
[SPEAKER_01]: I know that I am not good with follow through but my plan my hope my dream is that later this year when things get a little more chill.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to invoice all of the calls.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got from everyone being like, oh, you mentioned this on your bucket list.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's four other incredible places to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to make a little travel guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: Woo, I want to make a little travel guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you haven't seen your call yet, that's why I think it's just there's so much good advice that I don't think is best in the Charles call Q&A kind of format.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is better if I like type all that out and make a grid or like base and maybe base and up the rounded.
[SPEAKER_01]: and probably typed out like visual website link, something like that would work best.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you haven't heard your call and you feel bad about it, that's, I'm hoping, I'm hoping to make some sort of like very amusing travel guide out of all your calls.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we can all know all the wonderful places to visit, attach to these bucket list places.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause like, when a little like maybe an interactive Google map, that would be sick.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, maybe we'll do that and I'll have like the main bucket list is one icon and then the other recommendations.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, that I think that'll work best.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, so that is why there aren't in this episode, but there are plenty of other calls, and I hope you enjoy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get into it.
[SPEAKER_10]: Hey, Carly.
[SPEAKER_10]: This is just, thoughts to the universe or what not.
[SPEAKER_10]: I don't have a question.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just wanted to say, like, thank you for talking about your whole health journey.
[SPEAKER_10]: Um, I think,
[SPEAKER_10]: a lot.
[SPEAKER_10]: Like so many of us in our mid-30s, I have also the diagnosis of ADHD, a very late in life.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then it's like, it's almost like this pipeline that I feel like so many people go through for they're like, oh, ADHD, this is so amazing.
[SPEAKER_10]: Now everything makes sense.
[SPEAKER_10]: And then it goes to like, oh, these are all the crazy, crazy health issues that are all links to ADHD.
[SPEAKER_10]: So I just wanted to shut you out for just talking about these things and just wish you a lot of support on your journey, having for me became about a year into a journey where I was told by a doctor, I chronic multiple chronic illnesses and I kind of thought like I was going crazy because I'm like, oh,
[SPEAKER_10]: What are you talking about?
[SPEAKER_10]: I feel fine, I feel fine.
[SPEAKER_10]: I just use it myself all the time.
[SPEAKER_10]: That's completely normal, right?
[SPEAKER_10]: It's completely normal to change yourself all the time.
[SPEAKER_10]: Turns out it's not.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm guessing you're probably dealing with some kind of some kind of hyper mobility disorder because apparently it's like four out of every five when we move ADHD also have hyper mobility disorders.
[SPEAKER_10]: And they're super fun.
[SPEAKER_10]: So when you're talking about things like the straight training and like off-girl, I can relate.
[SPEAKER_10]: I was so much into cardio because it's so easy to do cardio, but then you have to actually build muscle and block annoying.
[SPEAKER_10]: But yeah, so I just wanted to send this message to know that.
[SPEAKER_10]: So let you know that I'm up here also rooting for you.
[SPEAKER_10]: sharing, having my own struggles and oh my gosh, it's just like so great that this information about women's health is now like so common and so it's not like oh you're going crazy like you don't like there's nothing wrong with you when it's like oh no there's there are issues and
[SPEAKER_10]: Yeah, just wanted to thank you for talking about it.
[SPEAKER_10]: My name is Mary by the way.
[SPEAKER_10]: I'm going in some dangerous arrest.
[SPEAKER_10]: Yes, so I hope you're having a wonderful day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, it's so great to hear from you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's really, really nice to get a call like this because so much of, and I'm speaking for myself right now and kind of projecting, so much of being a woman in your 30s with ADHD is tied to, I grew up in my 10s and 20s, not knowing this, and did not have the
[SPEAKER_01]: tools I needed to succeed and so I just kind of like scrapped a bunch of stuff together and was like this is how I get through like this is how I move on with my messy room and my messy person like this is how I get out the door on time and we had to be very resourceful and kind of like not cunning but like we really had to just kind of
[SPEAKER_01]: like nails on the chalkboard do everything we could to force ourselves to move ahead and it's so nice now that people are actually talking about this because none of us knew about this before.
[SPEAKER_01]: I read somewhere ages ago that like I guess from the linear specifically a lot of times because boys would act out this is very gendered but this is what I've read like you know we're talking like
[SPEAKER_01]: 20 something 30 years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is just how things presented.
[SPEAKER_01]: But typically in boys, it would be presented that they were hyper active and typically in girls.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, this is not my research.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what people have said.
[SPEAKER_01]: Typically ours was more internal.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we weren't always diagnosed with ADHD as kids.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't have any female friends who had ADHD as kids though.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, I'm sure we all had it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very, very, very wild that now this happened during the pandemic.
[SPEAKER_01]: You saw on TikTok, like this also kind of like why they ran out of meds.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like they ran out of meds because so many people had this and we like couldn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just like, oh, wow, everyone has it now and like, yeah, we all did and we just all been suffering.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like we all need to use our weird little systems for survival.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it was not great.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so many things I do now that I'm now seeing in these videos
[SPEAKER_01]: that I'm like, oh yeah, I do that and I didn't even know that that was a thing for people who had ADD or ADHD.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's so much information that I just keep casually learning on reals Explorer and on TikTok.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I don't feel like I should ever be the face or voice of like a woman with ADHD.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just feel like it's so a part of me and a part of the decisions I make in a granular way in a cellular way where I don't even really notice, and so much of it is so quiet and under disgust that I feel like it's my responsibility to mention it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like my responsibility.
[SPEAKER_01]: to say that this, like I have this, I'm here and that we're kind of all in this together, especially because so many of us, if you feel anything like me, you've always been a little different, you've always been a little off and you didn't, you didn't know that that was a medical thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I just thought I was really bad at getting things done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I was just like really bad at surviving.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really sad.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I was just bad in school.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought I was stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just couldn't pay attention because I didn't care about what was being presented to me and I couldn't focus for the length of a school day.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was really hard and I'm glad I got through.
[SPEAKER_01]: I found something I'm passionate about and I'm very lucky in that respect.
[SPEAKER_01]: But oh my lord, it is a struggle and it continues to be a struggle to the point where like me packing a bag.
[SPEAKER_01]: is so much mental load that I have to pack a suitcase this week and I've been stressing about it for three days already.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a teeny tiny suitcase.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just a lot and I just want to make sure you know that we are in this together and hopefully like from what we've learned in the past few years, maybe in a few years we'll know even more about what this is like and we will feel much more on top of everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: there is a book that I recommend you read and recommending a book to someone with ADHD is very very funny because I have read this, I retained none of the information and I myself should read it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: But it's called, I believe the title is, what do you mean?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not lazy, crazy, or stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a title.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is very helpful to read and be like, oh yeah, yeah, you get it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not just me.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's also like, driven from distraction and driven to just, there's like, very similar titles.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are a little heavier.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are very, um, ADHD
[SPEAKER_01]: It intended, they're intended for an ADHD audience, I think somewhere in that book specifically, they're like, don't read it in order, skip around, feel free, which I find very comforting, but it is, it is pretty bananas that like, I didn't know a lot of what I do is tied to this thing that I didn't even know I had and that now a lot of people are discovering they have simply through their phones.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, for me, my health issues, I'm not entirely sure if they are tied to my ADHD.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have gotten a ton of videos about what you mentioned to the hypermobility stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I watched those and was like, do I have this?
[SPEAKER_01]: And I don't think I do, but it's hilarious because even after your call,
[SPEAKER_01]: started Googling the hyperhubility stuff and stuff came up and a lot of stuff that came up kind of adjacent to that is stuff that i have like i don't have pots which is something a lot of people um i don't know if there's ADHD crossover i think there has to be like a lot of people stuff and i'm like uh you get dizzy when you stand up your light head aid you're always dehydrated like i've had that for years over a decade and nobody can really
[SPEAKER_01]: Think you're how what it is like I went to the zoo over the weekend and I had a jug of ElectroLights and was still like oh boy, I'm Mozi I'm just I'm scared for the summer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I get fatigued so easily you know from any podcast I might need listen to about me going to Florida.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm always like, oh yeah, yeah, you the sun But my tummy stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a singing suspicion is more tied to hormones Having a child post-cisection vagus nerve lord knows what stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that is that
[SPEAKER_01]: But I agree with you so much because I, okay, in terms of the cardio, it is so hard when you have ADHD to do something that you don't want to do it is the hardest thing in the world and sometimes that is literally standing up from the couch.
[SPEAKER_01]: There are certain places in my house where I cannot sit there at night.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is an ADHD thing and I never think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I cannot sit like if I sit.
[SPEAKER_01]: In the kitchen, there's like a bench, there's like bankette seating in our kitchen.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I sit there to eat my dinner, I will knock it up until 1030 and I will get nothing done.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I sit on the couch, it is impossible for me to get up and actually keep moving around.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, oh my god, this is an ADHD thing, isn't it?
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe there's so little that we know and we are learning so much and it does not happen fast enough.
[SPEAKER_01]: I eat a lot of my meals standing up.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's kind of weird because when I'm at a theme park, I hate doing that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not like getting on a trashcan.
[SPEAKER_01]: You all know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I eat my meal standing up at home because if I sit down, it derails me in a way where I ate breakfast before recording this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm standing and standing and that's where we're recording this, which I, is a new thing I do because it, it's like physically helped a lot with mobility, but I stand up to eat because if I sit down, there is a chance that I will not be able to get myself back up.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which is it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I eat my meal standing up because it's just easier.
[SPEAKER_01]: Once you're moving, it's easier to just keep moving and to keep getting a thing you have to get done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow!
[SPEAKER_01]: You see, I can you believe that I'm responding to your call about like the things we don't know about ADHD and I'm learning one in real time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything we do is informed by this.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I am here with you.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are together in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you for calling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes I don't know if I talk about it too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe this calls too much.
[SPEAKER_01]: For people whose brains work, who can do simple mathematical equations and didn't have to, you know,
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, where you do a check more than twice at American Girl Cafe because they configure all the math, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, for you guys, I'm jealous.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm impressed by you and I'm so amazed and for the rest of us, we're doing our best and I am proud of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, thank you for this call.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, thank you for, this is suffering along with me and I hope that your help stuff gets better.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and I hope mine does too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, thank you for calling.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really, thank you.
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_06]: Good morning, Carly Steefe from Michigan.
[SPEAKER_06]: I wanted to call and ask for advice about how to possibly take off first cruise.
[SPEAKER_06]: I personally have been on a Caribbean cruise.
[SPEAKER_06]: There's only four nights, I believe it was for a Western Caribbean and we went to Cosmo.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I felt that the cruise was way too short.
[SPEAKER_06]: It was how I felt like it was a flash in the pan, which brings me to my question.
[SPEAKER_06]: And we definitely want to do Disney Cruise Line.
[SPEAKER_06]: We were excited for it.
[SPEAKER_06]: We initially had planned to do the European one that leaves out of Spain, out of Barcelona, Spain.
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think it was like six or seven nights.
[SPEAKER_06]: But that plans fell through.
[SPEAKER_06]: And now we're looking at the Caribbean Cruise.
[SPEAKER_06]: She wants to do a short cruise because she wants to see if she likes it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Again, I fall back in my experience with the Caribbean Cruise and how short it was.
[SPEAKER_06]: do you advise taking a shorter cruise to dip your toes in the water or do you feel that you're not getting the full cruise experience by just a short cruise either a three or four night cruise on it?
[SPEAKER_06]: Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
[SPEAKER_06]: I think a longer cruise would be more beneficial by understanding my wife's point about not wanting to spend a whole lot of money if she's not really going to enjoy it.
[SPEAKER_06]: Again, I appreciate your time.
[SPEAKER_06]: Love the podcast.
[SPEAKER_06]: Love that interview just wow.
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you again, Crowley, and I hope you're having a wonderful day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before I get to answer your call, I just want to say thank you for reaching out to me because I do feel like I'm the right person to answer this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you might not like my answer.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: You might not like my answer, but before we get into that, I do want to say that.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you weren't all mourning that your spouses first trip wasn't this European cruise, I actually think this is a good thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because when you sail Disney Cruise Line on one of those like out like grand out of the country, I tend to raise, in my experience, I've done one of them, the
[SPEAKER_01]: It is an unbelievable trip, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: You are like, your hotel is the Disney cruise ship and then you are out in these destinations and you've come back and boom, it's Disney.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the way I described in the Alaska episode.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's very similar.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like you get two vacations out of one and it's fantastic.
[SPEAKER_01]: But on those European itineraries, specifically in my experience, we went to Italy, I think we boarded, I think we were in and out of Barcelona and we went to multiple Italian destinations.
[SPEAKER_01]: The day we went to Rome, let's say,
[SPEAKER_01]: Park the boat of the Colosseum.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was I think almost two hour drive into the city and back and that was a lot We got a full day in Rome.
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to see the Colosseum.
[SPEAKER_01]: My mom and I went to Roscoleoli, I think it's called we had a great day.
[SPEAKER_01]: We did everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a really fun trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: That was a really good trip
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, we had a great time, but there wasn't, we came back and we like got to hug goofy and a special outfit and go to dinner, and that was rad, but there wasn't really as much ship time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if we're really focusing on cruise, like the cruise experience, while that is wonderful, Alaska, I feel differently, because you're not like, out, you're not, you know, you're not driving two hours and back every single day, and there is a lot of ship time, you know, you get glacier days stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Alaska's a little different in that respect, where you were on the boat, you were on the board of the
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you, I mean not touchable if I think this ended up breaking your way.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the Caribbean is a better choice because you're going to get a lot of really fun like hot weather shift time without the pressure of like we have to go take in 11 hour excursion.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to work out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, in terms of length, okay, podcast, mascot, Jeffrey, hello, Jeffrey, he always text me whenever he listens and he comes up every episode, literally like, oh, what is it like, oh, it's gonna say like, all planets revolve around Jeffrey and now I'm realizing I'm too dumb to know if all planets do revolve around a certain planet.
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeffree's gravity, let's just leave it at that and not expose how absolutely stupid I am when it comes to many things I learned in school.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now Jeffree has told me point blank that he thinks anything under four nights is kind of a waste and I do not agree because here is where the divine comes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeffree, sorry to use an example dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeffree really likes to go on Disney Cruise Line and relax.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you are someone who likes to relax, you want to lay in the loungers, you want to go in a hot tub, you want to chill, you might need more than four nights because like you start and then you have a few full days and then you got to be packing again.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are someone like me who enjoys Disney Cruise Line because you are in the Disney of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am totally fine with three or four nights.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes I just need a taste.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just need a little.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do not like to relax.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am not there to lounge.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, addle.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I've ever set on the lounge and Disney Cruise Line ever.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm pretty sure I'm about to go on my 10th cruise.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I just don't lounge.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to do the activities.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to seal the org work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to go to the stores.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to see every nook in cranny of the ship.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think what the deal breaker is going to be is what kind of vacation you guys want to have.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want to have a chill, chill, chill beach vacation, I do think four nights is doable, but I would do five nights.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would do five if you can push it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe to a three and a four and then have like one special night on land like before after your trip somewhere that maybe your spouse loves in the Orlando area, maybe in the four waterdale area, you could do a sailing on a Fort Lauderdale do a few nights and then come back and do like one special night at a hotel just to like break it up and give them
[SPEAKER_01]: Something to look forward to.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like something you know guys have like something nice have something nice like pair with a shorter length of cruise if you were not thrilled by that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I will say my husband does not like cruising.
[SPEAKER_01]: He does not like sailing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like flat out starts at a no and I think that after three or four nights he would not love it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think for someone's first cruise I do think four or five nights is ideal.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would check the ports and the options and I would kind of choose based on like pricing and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, Jeffrey, I think four nights is good because you get the first day as a watch, and you're like, I'm here, what's going on?
[SPEAKER_01]: Then you have a two full days.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's really like you just get to get to luxury in it and depending again on how activity based you are, if you guys are going to be running around the ship doing every little activity playing all the games, like I think you guys will be fine longer, or you guys will be fine shorter, but if you want to relax, you may want that extra day book ended by days where you're not packing your unpacking because the first and last night
[SPEAKER_01]: So you're either going to have like two or three nights in between and if you want an extra little night to just chill To just chill then I would push for five I would aim for five and be okay with landing it for now If you were listening to this with your spouse I apologize because I just gave up your plan But I would try to sell them on five and then just know that four but like actually know You might end up going on four and then they will think they won they will think they want a little I'm sorry for listening.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't mean to like I'm not scamming anyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying like yeah I think if you like good with four like you aim for five
[SPEAKER_01]: Try to seem to get away with the five and be like here maybe it'd be like here's what we're gonna do We'll go to Paul of this night.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll do this this night and if you do five then you can do maybe two specialty Dinings and a regular rotation.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, okay, I'm just saying you don't want to miss a restaurant Okay, so just that way and I think that'll work best for you Let me know how it goes because I'm going on a Disney cruise very soon And I can't wait to tell you about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love Disney cruise line go for as long as you can Final answer okay, bye
[SPEAKER_09]: And currently my name is Amanda, one time listener of the podcast, and I follow her fellow midwesterner move to California.
[SPEAKER_09]: My question is not so much theme parks specific, but more of news kind of related.
[SPEAKER_09]: I recently left a social media platform for my mental health, and I think it was the right choice.
[SPEAKER_09]: However, I do feel like I am missing maybe as an instant news gratification I was getting on that platform.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm curious, like, I am on Instagram.
[SPEAKER_09]: I am, you know, looking at things online.
[SPEAKER_09]: I'm curious if maybe you could shamelessly apply your favorite Disney or the impart related news sources.
[SPEAKER_09]: Anybody who's like posting the news in a, like, journalistic fashion, people who are just letting us know what's going on.
[SPEAKER_09]: I also feel like there's a lot of fake news out there these days.
[SPEAKER_09]: And I'm looking for,
[SPEAKER_09]: You know, people I can follow who are steering me in the right direction, who are letting you know what's going on at the park.
[SPEAKER_09]: And, you know, people who just have a good time doing that.
[SPEAKER_09]: So thought it might be a good question for you if you want to shamelessly plug any of your
[SPEAKER_09]: journalistic team park friends.
[SPEAKER_09]: I would love to know more about who I can be following.
[SPEAKER_09]: Thanks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for this call because I think this is a really really important call, especially in 2026 because if you asked me honestly even two years ago, my answers would be completely different.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything is so different across social media platforms, but especially Twitter and X, which is where a lot of the theme park news would come from.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's where I used to break theme park news all day.
[SPEAKER_01]: You should just be tweeting out theme park news.
[SPEAKER_01]: And at this point, I don't even do it anymore because the way that that platform shifted, I used to be dialed in to a very, very deep Disney community.
[SPEAKER_01]: So when I shared something, not only would all of my followers were cared about that news, see it, but it would spread in a way where like news could be broken.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not the same anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: That platform is just they changed the algorithm and they changed it all and you know who bought it and it's not the same.
[SPEAKER_01]: You cannot make friendships on there anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: I met some of my best friends in real life on Twitter.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not what it used to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it also has changed the way that we digest news and are able to get news from that platform.
[SPEAKER_01]: So.
[SPEAKER_01]: I commend you for getting rid of one of the platforms.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure if you mentioned which.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you did.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is huge.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am unable to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I aspire to your greatness.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to avoid the scroll within the platforms I do go on, but I'm very, very impressed by you and I want to congratulate you at the begin.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now without getting too sad about Twitter, I do want to just break this down in a non-platform specific way for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we are going to be, I'm just going to be so for real about this guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's what this podcast is for.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's for me kind of peeling back the curtain about a lot of what I do, and especially things being a little different in this time frame.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, these days, at the time of recording this, news is breaking in a really different way than it used to, which is why you're kind of wondering where to go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Before, it would really be like people would tweet stuff out.
[SPEAKER_01]: It would be the first thing you saw when you opened the app.
[SPEAKER_01]: You would know what was happening.
[SPEAKER_01]: fragmented between apps a lot of times before the news would come directly from Disney announcing it themselves They would often a few years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: They would tell us the news was coming and then we would be allowed to share it Even though we had known about it before it happened.
[SPEAKER_01]: We would be sharing it the moment it went up on something like Disney Park's vlog
[SPEAKER_01]: And while I'm pretty sure that still happens, don't quote me on that, I'm pretty sure it's still happens, but now a lot of times people are getting news directly from Disney and sharing it themselves without it ever appearing on Disney's own platforms.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this is not insider info, this is not gossip, this is just the way it's done.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you, if you know this space, you would clock that and you would notice it instantly, but a lot of times people might not pick up on that because it's not, it's not as obvious as you would expect it to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that is why a lot of the news feels more fragmented and why we're probably having this conversation because you're like, where is this new, where is it coming from?
[SPEAKER_01]: like where's the sort, where's like the main source I can go to so things aren't just like trickling down where is the head of that stream and that is what I'm here to help you with.
[SPEAKER_01]: So lately, a lot of times when Disney parks is announcing news, they will, you know, announce it in their TikToks and their Instagram reels, they will put it on the Disney Parks blog, but often Disney PR will seed information to a small group of people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes that group is larger, sometimes it's smaller, but for really specific, like business focused, company-based,
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, park specific news that doesn't end up on the Disney parks long, it will be to this group of about, like, 6 to 10 people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, in the past few months, that group, that little small group, and those outlets, have primarily been places like Mickey Visits, Luma and Jello in his platforms, Scott Gustin on Twitter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I'm pretty sure Drew the Disney dude is that his handle.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me just check.
[SPEAKER_01]: Drew the Disney dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's on YouTube also, but
[SPEAKER_01]: And on Instagram, I'm mostly familiar with his work on Twitter.
[SPEAKER_01]: He posts a lot of news there.
[SPEAKER_01]: He, I believe, has been part of that kind of cluster.
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe laughing place is part of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not 100% certain.
[SPEAKER_01]: My chat, Dusty is definitely part of that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And often there's a few others that are put in there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some news outlets.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like David Vaughn has been part of that group at times.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I love David Vaughn has incredible content.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will be recommending David in a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of those people are sometimes given news directly
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, this feels like something I'm not supposed to say, but this is what's happening, and it's very clear when you see news on Scott Guston's feed, and it's not anywhere else from Disney.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just news that it was information that was given to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why do I feel like I'm breaking a rule?
[SPEAKER_01]: That's clearly what's happening when it's official news, and it's not in Disney's platforms.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I will say my stomach is kind of turning over realizing that it's possible every single outlet I just mentioned in that inner circle is a man And it's possible that if I I may be leaving a few people out, but
[SPEAKER_01]: It's possible that the vast majority of the people I just mentioned are white men and um, that's not great.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to forge down that path at this time because I'm already feeling a little itchy like I'm saying the quiet part out loud, even though the quiet part is literally being set out loud on social media platforms, but we're just going to put a pin in that and recognize that that doesn't feel great.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't feel great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the reason I'm so glad you called about this, because it is really hard to discern things like that, but I want to make sure you have the tools to notice if something is authentically coming from Disney, because those bodies are a little watered lately, and there's water, the water is a little muddy lately, because I'm at to say, and it can be really hard to tell when someone's just saying something, and it has no validity, and when someone is saying something there's actual truth there, even though it doesn't link back to like a Disney.go.com platform.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, if you saw some outlets lately mentioned like, oh, they were on a call with Josh tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are people who are kind of getting stuff straight from the source.
[SPEAKER_01]: Disney has also been rolling out news directly to fan sites and outlets.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you saw something like, um, like, park hopping at Disneyland Resort will be going away later this year, details like that, those were also seated directly from the company.
[SPEAKER_01]: If that, if someone had that story, that is someone who you can trust to is getting the information and it is confirmed.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's really, really tricky these days to tell who's reposting, who's re-blogging, and who's actually getting it, because there's no hyperlink back anymore all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I would recommend any of those people I mentioned, they are going to have accurate news information for you 100%.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm also a Disney food blog all year's girly.
[SPEAKER_01]: I always trust them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would make sure you check them out.
[SPEAKER_01]: Scott Guston on X. I know he has a newsletter.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not really sure how often he posts about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But his exit count, even if you don't go on the platform, he might duplicate that to like blue sky or some of the other places.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would definitely check on Scott Guston, because Scott Guston has a hundred percent accurate stuff all the time and is always posting news.
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, these people are also friends of mine, but it's because I respect what they do and I think they do a great.
[SPEAKER_01]: job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, all of those fans, I say, I mentioned, yeah, I, I would go on any of those and really support anything they say, laughing plays, mice, chat, Mickey, visit, things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you want this kind of theme park news with the mix of pop culture Disney news, stuff movies, TV characters, events, definitely check out David Vaughn, who I mentioned.
[SPEAKER_01]: rate feed like David's been killing him and doing so well real mouse vibes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're a duo.
[SPEAKER_01]: They are fantastic and they're like they do like fun like fun TV pop culture stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then also do Disney Park stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're great.
[SPEAKER_01]: Patrick Dougles also in that pop culture, but also theme park space.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would check his stuff out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I also it's not his news-based, but I personally love the mouselets.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the moment, I love the moment, because they dive into Disney history in this way that feels so fun and light and refreshing.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just done in a different tone than I really, really love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I just, I'm so amazed by their work ethic.
[SPEAKER_01]: They must have time-turners from the Harry Potter universe because I don't know how they turn out so much content and then like, live their lives and have jobs and things and travel.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm amazed by them.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how they do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm blown away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just think they're fetus.
[SPEAKER_01]: They've never seen them, they've been around forever, everybody loves the mouselets, but they were never in my feet until last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now I feel like I'm making up a lost time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I think that's mostly it.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I need news, I go to Scott, I go to Disney Food Blog, and I go to all those other people.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and yeah, I guess I haven't like addressed the elephant in the room, which is that I don't really post news anymore.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just kind of stopped doing it a few years ago.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's been fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like big news all post about big news that I care about, but there was a time during the pandemic when every day I was like on my phone posting news commenting on news and it just it was a full time job I wasn't getting paid for like to be frank.
[SPEAKER_01]: It took hours and hours and hours and hours in my life And it was very stressful and it it wasn't me writing a story.
[SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't me doing a podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was just tweets and it it became overbearing and I When I had
[SPEAKER_01]: had a child, I was like, I just don't have the band with for the city board, and so I stopped doing it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And other people are way better at it, and Scott is way better at it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll just repost Scott, and it's kind of been fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: I wish I had more Disney news letters to give to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure all of the fans, I can imagine, like all of those guys are really, really dialed in, and I'm sure they have great news letters.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, to me, my stance with the newsletter is like, I don't want fun in my inbox.
[SPEAKER_01]: My inbox is like where dreams go to die.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is like my dark place with all of my to my to do lists are like scattered across email and in my phone Like I'm in my calendar.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I'm saying that's the final.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's like the final boss of to do is when I schedule it for like a time block But stuff where I'm like, oh, I have to make sure to get Pearl birthday cupcakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I send an email to myself and then my whole email inbox is tasks
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's reasonable, it's reasonable, but I'm no one gonna see it if it's there.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's in a notebook, I might close it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's there and like new fun newsliners just isn't, it's too much, it's too much in the inbox for me.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm sure there aren't newsliners.
[SPEAKER_01]: If anyone has any other sources they love, let me know, but like all those guys are my colleagues, I think they'll do a great job.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they would do a really fantastic job in this new media landscape, keeping up with news and making sure to get stuff out, whether or not Disney themselves is commenting on it, and I'm just really impressed by all of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's it!
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I hope that was helpful and congrats again for getting off one of your platforms.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, even though I just gave you a lot more internet to go deal with.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I hope it was helpful!
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, thank you so much for going.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, bye.
[SPEAKER_03]: Hi, Carly.
[SPEAKER_03]: This is Kristen and Baltimore.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, this more of a comment on the question, but I wanted to thank you.
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, on a recent Instagram, subscribe or Q&A.
[SPEAKER_03]: I asked me.
[SPEAKER_03]: I asked a question about what I should do with 24 hours soloing Disney World.
[SPEAKER_03]: with my first annual pass, and you gave me some really great suggestions along with just the general suggestion that I think about this as time to do things that I wouldn't normally do if I felt the pressure to get my money as worth out of a day ticket or something.
[SPEAKER_03]: They'd really take advantage of the annual tax holder of it all, and it was the best advice I appreciated so much.
[SPEAKER_03]: It helped me go into my quick little solo trip with a mindset of just
[SPEAKER_03]: enjoying the vibe and the atmosphere having fun snacks and not feeling the pressure to wait in long lines or get lightning lions or anything.
[SPEAKER_03]: So just wanted to tell you that the advice is excellent and I appreciate it so much and it helped me get married mindset to have been credible visit to Disney World.
[SPEAKER_03]: Sorry, so sad I can't be able to use a blues of it.
[SPEAKER_03]: I hope you guys have a great time.
[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks, bye.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, okay, huge bummer that I scrolled back in like all the subscriber archives on Instagram.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I somehow, I can't find this.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it should be able to find it because usually it's really easy to find, but to be honest, I gave up.
[SPEAKER_01]: I looked for like seven or eight minutes.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, this is the, I can't find it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Cause,
[SPEAKER_01]: I came from my brain in the first place, maybe I can replicate it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, I just want to mention, thank you for this call.
[SPEAKER_01]: And also, I do want to spread this mindset.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like this is my new philosophy for like the next 10 years of my Disney career.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anything I can do to release you from the golden handcuffs of lightning lane is my purpose for being here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I do think that Disney is best enjoyed when there is no pressure, no schedule, no no stress.
[SPEAKER_01]: trying to make Disney as stress free as possible is important and it's not always possible if you don't go often if you have a small child who like you're crossing off a first they got to get on this ride if you have someone who's obsessed with the character and they have to make it on safe frozen ever after um you don't know if they can wait in the line that long because they got to go potty and they're learning how to go fast and like there's so many factors that go into the schedule of it all but I do think there is something if you can ever experience Disney parks
[SPEAKER_01]: with like just blissfully breezing through.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is like visiting a completely different place.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's part of the reason why I love going so much and why I love my job.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's that sometimes I'm there and I'm running and gunning.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am getting things done.
[SPEAKER_01]: If there is a new ride, if there is a work researcher, like, I am going.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am scheduled.
[SPEAKER_01]: But then sometimes I go.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just farting around.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just as good.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can actually have just as good of a day here, maximizing rides, and also just farting around and doing a whole bunch of nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because there is enough going on here, we're just taking in the sights, wandering into a story you've never been in before.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there's a character.
[SPEAKER_01]: That sort of discovery is part of what makes these places great.
[SPEAKER_01]: And while a lot of that has
[SPEAKER_01]: been taken out with the paid lightning lane system.
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean even paid past pass.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is a double edge sword because I do appreciate that there is a way that you can guarantee that you are going to do the things you came here to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is why I do think it is a great tool even though it does require money.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I think it is fantastic that you can go, okay, um, my mom is obsessed with one of the people.
[SPEAKER_01]: This person loves this and someone else really wants to see, uh, pirates are here again.
[SPEAKER_01]: like you can make sure that all those boxes are checked off, you know, exactly when they're going to happen.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that is an incredible tool for a Disney vacation, but especially when there's other mitigating factors like nap time and children and jet lag and balance, things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But being able to do Disney world with no pressure,
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I spent X amount of money so we have to do Y.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really it's really lovely and I recommend even Maybe building one free day into your trip if you can do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's even like the departure day If you don't go to the parks just like bobbing around to different resort to different skylight online or like doing whatever You can just get a little bit of that impromptu Disney magic it will rejuvenate you in a way that you never expect it I highly recommend and I'm so glad
[SPEAKER_01]: that I was able to spread like my love of the vibes and the atmosphere to you and there is so often I like I myself and I'm sure many of us breeze through some of the most beautiful well-designed spaces they're like the music the atmosphere we just it's something we enjoy on the way to something else and sometimes that
[SPEAKER_01]: can be the destination.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm so glad you had so much fun on your 24-hour solo trip.
[SPEAKER_01]: If any of you haven't been to Disney World solo before, I recommend you do it at some point in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even if you just like ditch your family for a few hours at your friends and you're like, I just think it's time to myself, do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's really rad, that's really fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, okay, I'm so glad I could help.
[SPEAKER_01]: I missed Disney World so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm glad, I'm glad you had fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, bye.
[SPEAKER_06]: Hey Carly, you just wanted to let you know that the music polluter sounded amazing, sounds
[SPEAKER_06]: Not sure how much you're looking into the future about doing round 2.0, but hey, any information you could let us know in the next podcast would be greatly appreciated and yeah, how do I find up?
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi!
[SPEAKER_01]: Also, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry we have such a dumb difficult name for this event.
[SPEAKER_01]: I thought a music producer was a funny name and I'm realizing how hard it is to remember and how challenging it is to say.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I apologize that you had to stumble through it.
[SPEAKER_01]: That is my own fault by giving it this whack-a-do name.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I do want to let you know, I don't have news, but I don't...
[SPEAKER_01]: not have news.
[SPEAKER_01]: I do have a call with Becky as you know and Blair about the event and about moving forward with future events.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to discuss next steps.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Davis podcast comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have a call.
[SPEAKER_01]: So stay tuned for future information.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the truth is I want to do these as often as is sustainable.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we were doing these purely as park events with no goody bag, with no special touches, with no me being extremely particular about every single detail, we can do these more often, but it's really, really, really, really important to me that if we do something like this, it has to be the best possible version of the event.
[SPEAKER_01]: It could be.
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, if you are flying or driving or traveling across the country, if you are spending money for something that I am putting my name on, it has to be the best possible event with as much physical effort as I could put into it that you can experience.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's just how I am.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everything has to be as good as I can possibly do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I want these to be really, really special, which might in turn mean that we do a few less of them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It also means that we might do a few different types of events.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to say anything else about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am waiting to talk to Becky because as you know, if Becky says do something, I'm going to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Becky was like do a group trip and I'm like, no, it's going to come in its pointless.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now I'm like group trips forever.
[SPEAKER_01]: Becky, the Elizabeth Becky is my son.
[SPEAKER_01]: Becky is my guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: I trust her.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's so good at business.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's so smart.
[SPEAKER_01]: She's so good at everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: That I'm going to talk to Becky and see what Becky recommends.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then we're going to move forward on that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, just to put it in perspective, um, this event took a lot of work, a lot of work, and like, what we ended up doing wasn't that far from what, like, booking a regular Disney event is, and you wouldn't think that it would take so long to get things through, but it took Blair so many weeks of work to even like get small menu adjustments approved.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a month out from a music blues and now wow, that is bonkers.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm still like fulfilling
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm now almost done posting videos from the event a month later.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I Brands donated a lot of product.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pitched so many brands that took months of work I had to pitch people I had to like encourage them to donate products because they're donating product for a hundred people That's a lot of stuff
[SPEAKER_01]: And I wanted to let them know what it would get never done this event before.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to like really do a lot of that type of work.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still need to send every brand a formal recap of like photos of the event.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what it was, I need to reach out to brands that said no to be like here's what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope to talk to you next time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like there's a lot of infrastructure required even for just giving out a drawing backpack full of like caramel and candy.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like it took a lot of work.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I just need to make sure I don't over commit.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to make sure that when we do these again, it will be just as good.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but yeah, we are definitely going to do it again because it was so much fun and I missed it so much and there's so much and I know there's a lot of people who couldn't make this one and we need to do a new one so that everyone who wants to go Uh, can go I mean, I or as many as people as possible because I don't know what I listen.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not clearly not the person to talk to a capacity because I goofed on the first one and I didn't think we would sell out in a million years and we did very quickly.
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, I take that back as make sure as many people as possible for the constraints and limits that we have can attempt
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, but stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_01]: Stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_01]: We will hopefully have more information.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know when, but we are talking about it this week and we are going to uh, to our best.
[SPEAKER_01]: So stay tuned.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want more.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to hang out more.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really a more, it's so fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I just want to do it again and bring everyone back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the best.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you for calling.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope to see you there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, bye.
[SPEAKER_05]: Hi, Carly.
[SPEAKER_05]: This is Tyler from Up in Alberta, Canada here.
[SPEAKER_05]: and uh... i was going back through the uh... downtown didn't need or deal uh... perhaps you remember that back from uh... the old days with uh... forecast arrived and uh... i had never realized where the names of formally came from uh... with your facebook group and uh... i had been very naive to even knowing how to spell formally uh... but it just hit me as i listened to this old episode of forecast
[SPEAKER_05]: uh... that is uh... the downtown is the district or deal uh... level four uh... stage two but uh... you love home on coffee at those parts of hot drinks and i forgot about that all the time uh... anyway so i just happy i figured out that you're uh... your facebook group is called a phone leave because you're love a phone and uh... it used to be called a very long name that i cannot remember but
[SPEAKER_05]: proud to be part of the formerly proud of this part of history and just let it out instead of in case there are people who are just joining and are unaware and just wondering why is this called the formerly.
[SPEAKER_05]: That's all have a great day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why does like 2018, 2019, 2020 feel like it was 35 years ago?
[SPEAKER_01]: What is the deal with that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I remember when I started the foamally, like also this is when Cole Foam first came out, do you know how decrepit and old I sound saying?
[SPEAKER_01]: Back in the day, when Cole Foam first came out, when downtown Disney had two Starbucks, I sound like I'm hobbling down a hill with a cane.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like what?
[SPEAKER_01]: The lifetimes we have lived you guys in the past 10 years absolutely blow my mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I was there boots on the ground baby when they introduced cold foam and a lot of you there who were right along side me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I immediately became a sense of cold foam because it's all I've ever wanted.
[SPEAKER_01]: Trevor Coffee before there was toppings.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it was like, do you think it's like how they felt and they made a Sunday for the first time?
[SPEAKER_01]: They were like, oh, we're at a Scoop of Anolo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yum, yum, they were like, we can add whipped cream.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're so, oh, oh.
[SPEAKER_01]: like it was really innovative and it kind of changed the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, Starburst James the World.
[SPEAKER_01]: I still have my Vitamix Air mixer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't use it as much as I should, honestly, but I did just put a pan of coconut cream in the fridge, so maybe tomorrow will be all up and up some cream to put on a cold brew.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, yes, the origin of the foamoli is that
[SPEAKER_01]: began out of like a group obsession with foam.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am because time has passed and hazing on the details, but it used to be called, I think like the car that you might sell, good time, fun time, party zone, something like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted it to sound like at a Chuck E. She's like the area where you go to Sydney, pizza, and they have like the fun carpet in the fun walls.
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, or least, how I remember Chuck E. She's because it's been a millennia since I've been there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I, uh, cold phone for life guys, and also we were head of the curve.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, pat on the back, boom, boom, boom.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were head of the curve.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every time you're putting toppings, play for a lot of days, we were head of the curve.
[SPEAKER_01]: We were there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, the phone, really, um, also, it's really funny because I've never gone about doing anything in the past 10 years intentionally.
[SPEAKER_01]: Think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true, I mean, think about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have just kind of fall and like woo!
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like falling down a beautiful black hole, just hitting wonderful things on the way down.
[SPEAKER_01]: I did not intend for any of this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remember,
[SPEAKER_01]: I went, I went to Disney World for my bathroom right party and was like, I haven't been yours in the dole.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's see if it's fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then it became my whole life.
[SPEAKER_01]: It took over my brain.
[SPEAKER_01]: I never intended to start a podcast until my friend Nikki was like, you should host a podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, okay, I guess I should.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then I just did it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I never intended.
[SPEAKER_01]: to partner with the travel agency and create an amuse of loser until back he was like you should you should do this and I was like okay I think I guess the secret to life is just trusting people who are smarter than you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to make it sound like I'm like a ping pong ball and like everyone else are flapper as being like go do this go do this but I really I just trust people who I know are very knowledgeable and can see beyond my limited purview of myself and I trust them and I ran with it and like
[SPEAKER_01]: Part of that like, formerly a lot of people, I keep seeing like these things pop up in my feed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I consider myself to be very bad at videos on Instagram.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's not something like me talking to the camera feels normal, feels natural.
[SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of people when they're talking to the camera, they're doing it with this like not like sinister, but it's like with this intent.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like you
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to start with a hook and then you got to do this and you got to do that and I can't keep that thought in my head.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I don't know how to do that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so a lot of times stuff pops up in my feet and I watch it and then it keeps giving me more and more.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, oh, how to do with this or that?
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, I'm just never going to be like, I'm a mom of one living in Los Angeles.
[SPEAKER_01]: And here's the seven products that I can't leave my house without.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just not going to...
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not me.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of it isn't me.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I end up watching these videos and then the algorithm kind of learns the wrong things from that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, a lot of times these videos pop up and you know, people will be like, Ooh, you gotta be building a community.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I listen.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I got here.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know how I'm like standing in my own office recording a podcast.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I've never initially done anything.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just really love talking to people.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love making friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I guess that is I guess that's.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just authentically building a community.
[SPEAKER_01]: I think other people are trying really hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm not going to get into it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what other people do because again I my brain is just like you know those those things on the end of an old train where it's two people like pushing the sea saw that's what's happening my brain.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's working really hard just to like keep me awake and keep me functioning and reminding me to drink water which I never do anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I remember seeing some stuff that was like, oh, you got to build a community.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to have a Facebook group.
[SPEAKER_01]: You got to like, you got to make these spaces.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, that's so funny because yet again, the Facebook group, the formerly began because I, again, Instagram DMs is my dark place.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't keep track of it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is not built for someone who's neurodivergent because if someone sends more than one message, it'll just say,
[SPEAKER_01]: to messages.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't give you a preview.
[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't tell you what it's about.
[SPEAKER_01]: During the pandemic, I would open messages and a lot of times we don't have this any more thing goodness, but a lot of times it would be people screaming at me about my belief in science.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'd be like, okay, I can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't like open five of these in a row and it's people losing their minds at me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't because also I, it's hard for me to not fight back, it's hard for me to if I back.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so it's really hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I tried, I started like not really opening them.
[SPEAKER_01]: But now we get a lot of DMs from wonderful people, and you guys, and I want to open them, but I can't open them and not respond.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I won't open one if I don't have time to respond.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is getting some very props.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I don't have time to respond, I'm not gonna open it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I end up not opening them because it's too many.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's untenable, and I don't want to leave anyone on red, because, oh, how rude!
[SPEAKER_01]: I hate that feeling.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when it's like someone saw your message, and they just don't say anything?
[SPEAKER_01]: Ew!
[SPEAKER_01]: So I just don't open them it whole lot of times.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so a lot of people, when I was posting about cold foam initially told you, I was going to bring it back.
[SPEAKER_01]: girl took her mad.
[SPEAKER_01]: She can make things work.
[SPEAKER_01]: She can do her job.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, well that's hope so.
[SPEAKER_01]: I maybe, maybe called a little too early.
[SPEAKER_01]: So people were DMing me in mass about phone.
[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody wanted to talk about cold phone.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, this just makes no sense that I am having
[SPEAKER_01]: 100 conversations directly with different people about the same exact thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I very much have like you know when your friends again, oh we're gonna try to, we're gonna try to fill the way through.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know when you introduce your friends to maybe another friend of yours and they become friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: Typically one of two things happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: If your friends, like let's say I introduce a Sofia to a Julianne.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sofia Julianne meet.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then let's say I find out Sophia and Julian hang out without me there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Typically, one of two reactions happens.
[SPEAKER_01]: People go like, oh, my friends are hanging out without me.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or people go, oh my gosh, my friends, like each other so much that they want to hang out.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am that person.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want everyone to be friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, it's like, why would I have, why would I have like a friendship with these two people and a friendship with these three people, a friendship with this one person.
[SPEAKER_01]: everyone should be friends if we all like the same thing, and especially for all talking about cold foam, why am I talking all these individuals and we can all be talking about it together in a group?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I have camp counselor mentality, that's my default.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want everyone to be brought together and be friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's just, I don't know, it's just how my brain is always working.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to exclude people.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want everyone to be together in it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So getting all these messages about cold foam, I was like, this is so dumb and really inefficient.
[SPEAKER_01]: We just just talk on Facebook
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, and it's really wild because again, I never like intend to, I don't even, I'm not in control of my life, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just kind of go where the wind takes me and I try to have an endless pursuit of fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I like making your friends and I like talking to people and that's kind of all journalism is One more talking to people if you're really serious.
[SPEAKER_01]: You're not making your friends with people, but I love to make friends with people.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of my friends with people, so yeah, that's how we end up with the foamely.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how it happened, and it's really, really great, and I also love when people, when I run into people in the parks, and they're like, oh hi, and I'm like, oh hi, lovely to meet you, and they're like, I'm in the foamely.
[SPEAKER_01]: To me, it's like a cheat code.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, oh, you're in the foamely.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, oh, I didn't know we were related.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that's 23 in me to me, you know?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we're in the formally?
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have history.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have history here, and it's just a wonderful, it's a wonderful feeling.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love the formally.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love all of you, and yeah, this is why I'm like, I don't know how to make a video.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I never intended to do social media stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, it was the same thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: I just kept being like, I'm writing these stories for websites, but...
[SPEAKER_01]: I just want to tell people the information directly.
[SPEAKER_01]: People, however, years ago in rides would open, people didn't have the information needed when the ride opened.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'd be like, I'm going to the opening of this, is there a single rider line?
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, what is the deal?
[SPEAKER_01]: And so I was that middle person, and I just wanted to reach everyone directly all the time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's really just that, I guess my whole life is spurred by like,
[SPEAKER_01]: Cabin inclusivity again.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just a just a camp counselor my whole life is camp counselor, and I love it that way So yeah, I didn't expect to talk for eight minutes about foam, but you know what that's where we are And yeah, oh, so I missed the podcast the ride guys.
[SPEAKER_01]: I need to see them.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been I missed.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I had a birthday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Someone had a birthday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe it's Jean
[SPEAKER_01]: He was like, I missed like multiple birthdays, which is usually when we meet each other and I gotta catch up with them because they're all lovely.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for calling.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great, great choice and listening.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, if you're not in the phone, we join the phone, we it's just really nice place to be.
[UNKNOWN]: Okay, bye.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Crily, this is Michelle from New Jersey.
[SPEAKER_04]: Hope you had a fabulous time at a music loser.
[SPEAKER_04]: Cannot wait to hear all the details in the next podcast on it.
[SPEAKER_04]: And hope I can join for a future repeat trip.
[SPEAKER_04]: Let's do have.
[SPEAKER_04]: My question is, I had used many services in a Facebook group called Year for each other.
[SPEAKER_04]: You may be familiar, but it was basically a Facebook group that had a bunch of furloughed cast numbers that during COVID-19 were able to use their services and skills to re-employ themselves.
[SPEAKER_04]: It seems like many of those people got a thesis from Disney that they're no longer allowed to provide the services on Disney property, many of those services of which don't exist from Disney, so I could understand if Disney had a competing service, but a lot of these people were providing services that Disney doesn't provide.
[SPEAKER_04]: Specifically, I used a photographer
[SPEAKER_04]: trip to Disney with our daughter and wanted to do first-year photos with her like at the boardwalk area but they no longer do that.
[SPEAKER_04]: And you know from what I found on Disney's website doesn't seem like they offer photography outside of the team parks.
[SPEAKER_04]: Anyway, all for that and just curious to your thoughts and you know we could Disney potentially be providing the
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know how I can potentially have every creation and photo shoot on the boardwalk for my daughter's birthday, so I'm sorry this might have been a lot of rambling, but just curious to your thoughts, and if you have any suggestions, thanks so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, thank you for this call because this is something we haven't talked about here and I looked into it and yeah, yeah, yeah, you're onto something.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've seen some similar things regarding like third party vendors dropping things off at the resorts and then something shifting there.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I asked around, I talked to a few people and it looks like, yes, third party photographers were recently told they are no longer allowed to do those type of like paid portrait photo shoots at hotel resorts at Walt Disney World any longer.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure they weren't allowed to shoot in the parks ever, but I think resorts were previously allowed and now it is kind of shut down.
[SPEAKER_01]: The thing that is strange here is that Disney obviously, I like they got all those new photographs.
[SPEAKER_01]: cameras, they like have photo pass photographers there when the characters do the surprise appearances, some of the hotels, but it's weird because Disney doesn't currently offer anything to hire them to do a photo shoot.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you want to do a photo shoot at like the boardwalk or at yacht club, you currently can't bring in your own photographer, but you also can't hire Disney to do this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am assuming if they went forward with a big change like this, and they let photographers know that the policy had shifted, I'm assuming that that means I can only assume that they will be expanding those, you know, those mini photo pass sessions, they will likely be expanding those to the hotel because
[SPEAKER_01]: people want to get their family photos taken naturally and like this is a very important place and so I'm assuming that Disney will be introducing something in the future but for right now there's like kind of no option and I'm really sorry that there's not there's like no option I can give you there's nobody to hire because you can't hire Disney and you can't hire non Disney
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, this recent shift, I, for photography specifically, I feel like this move like it wouldn't make sense otherwise unless they were cooking something up, but I really hope that they do expand Disney Photo Pass to the resort, because otherwise, carefully get your family photos right now.
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't really get your family photos around.
[SPEAKER_01]: But that is Disney specific.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, as always, want to shout out my friends at Wolf, by the way, who I will probably be booking a family photo session with.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not at all, doesn't it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, because I'm not going to make any rules.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Zach, Zach is a great Orlando area photographer.
[SPEAKER_01]: He actually just didn't engageman shoot for a few friends of mine.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he shot at Epic Universe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm pretty sure that Universal has different rules.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not like really cutie romantic photos of that weekend versus really good.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a fantastic photographer and I recommend him so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: So reach out to him.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's in the Orlando area.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's great.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's so chill.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great dude.
[SPEAKER_01]: Friends with everyone he meets.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Check him out.
[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I'm really sorry to be the bear of bad news and comes to photography.
[SPEAKER_01]: But hopefully,
[SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully something will happen soon.
[SPEAKER_01]: And worst case scenario, listen, look around, look around your hotel, find anybody who is between 13 and 22, if there's a little girly plan on her phone, if there's anyone like taking Instagram shots, anyone posing with the leg, you know, like you're leg up on your knee and like boop, like grab them and be like, please take a few photos of me and my family and I guarantee they're gonna hit.
[SPEAKER_01]: The youth know, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: The youth know how to take a photo.
[SPEAKER_01]: Me, old, don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the youth, the youth know.
[SPEAKER_01]: The youth always know.
[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, Carly, this is Courtney from St. Louis.
[SPEAKER_07]: I was just calling because I am planning on taking my almost three-year-old daughter to Disneyland in April, trying to get one last trip in before, before I have to pay for her while she's still free.
[SPEAKER_07]: and we're looking at a couple of dates and one of the nights there is an after hours event at Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_07]: We're planning to do one park per day, so one day at each park.
[SPEAKER_07]: I'm wondering which park we should do on the night that Disneyland has the after hours event?
[SPEAKER_07]: Is it beneficial with a three year old to just do the park during the day and kind of call it a little bit earlier so that we
[SPEAKER_07]: Maybe avoid some crowds.
[SPEAKER_07]: Do you think it'll be slower in Disneyland during the day when there's an after hours event there?
[SPEAKER_07]: Or should we just plan to do DCA that day and do Disneyland the day that there's not an after hours event?
[SPEAKER_07]: Hope that made sense and appreciate your help.
[SPEAKER_07]: Thanks so much.
[SPEAKER_07]: Love the podcast.
[SPEAKER_07]: Bye.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hi, okay.
[SPEAKER_01]: Great question.
[SPEAKER_01]: I am kind of reverse engineering your trip a little to I feel like I'm being detective like But I'm really just taking the information to give me and trying to answer in a cohesive way.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm looking and I do see that there is the after hours Which one is this one the Disney Channel night?
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah Disneyland after dark Disney Channel night on April
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, 14th and I believe, 16th, the hours for the 16th aren't out yet.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to be playing off the 12th and the 14th.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, this ticket event is late.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is 9 p.m. until 1 a.m.
[SPEAKER_01]: Which means that people who are attending this event have early admission starting at 6 p.m.
[SPEAKER_01]: So starting at 6 p.m. you're going to see that crossover that you would see at Disney World, where a lot more people are coming into the park.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, at Disney World, typically like the low key rules that, oh, if there's a Christmas party, a Halloween party, a Magic Kingdom, you want to go that morning because there's not going to be a lot of people there that morning.
[SPEAKER_01]: As a local, I'm going to be so honest with you, I've never heard a single thing about anything when it comes to that at Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I know that's kind of a rule at Disney World, but here it's never even crossed my mind in a way where I'm like, maybe it's statistically insignificant.
[SPEAKER_01]: But because you are traveling with someone who is under three, I think what it really comes down to is if you are planning on staying for fireworks.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I don't know the exact days of your trip and I don't know the exact nights, but typically they don't have fireworks at Disneyland Resort every single night of the week.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are doing one park per day and you are hitting Disneyland on one of these days these parties, you're not going to get stuff like phantasmic, you're not going to get wondrous journeys with fireworks, you're not going to get that because you will have to leave the park at, I believe it will be 8 p.m. is when the park will likely close on the 16th also, but on the 12th and the 14th, 8 p.m. is when the park is going to close.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, you are there with a toddler.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what times I'm here coming from.
[SPEAKER_01]: So there is a chance that you will probably be out of the park before then.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you are, if fireworks is something, and fireworks are fantastic, it's something you absolutely want to see with your kid.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would plan around that instead of potential crowd shifts with the party, because a lot of that stuff is going to be over the weekend.
[SPEAKER_01]: So if you are going like the 10th, 11th, 12th, I would make sure to plan around that.
[SPEAKER_01]: All those hours are now on the site,
[SPEAKER_01]: almost at the full wing for that week.
[SPEAKER_01]: So by the time this comes out, you will be able to check the hours for the 16th and so on.
[SPEAKER_01]: But basically plan around that because Sunday the 12th, there's a there's a ticketed party and you're not going to be able to see that, but Friday and Saturday you will be able to see fireworks and things like that.
[SPEAKER_01]: If I was you, I would not be at the park through fireworks most likely, so I would end up just hoping for the best and hoping and praying, but honestly Disney Land has been pretty evenly busy lately.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can cross-check with crowd calendars, but the thing is they have this Southern California promotion ticket, which is incredible.
[SPEAKER_01]: I bought one for Ben, you guys know about it.
[SPEAKER_01]: In May the parks, I think is cheapest $83 per day for a park hopper.
[SPEAKER_01]: Again, it was cheaper for us to
[SPEAKER_01]: Three day park hopper ticket for my husband.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can use over many months.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then it was to buy one single ticket for the man to park hop on Valentine's Day.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I think a lot of people have this ticket.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people are going the availability for the ticket is still pretty wide.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like you can still book a lot of days and you're kind of coming right out of the spring break bump.
[SPEAKER_01]: So,
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, it's really up to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: I would just do whatever you think works best for your toddler schedule depending on what you think your nighttime plans are gonna be and if, you know, be if you're planning and like sleeping in hanging out and then going to the park in the late afternoon definitely do not do Then Disneyland on the day of the party, but otherwise you're gonna get a full day in the park like the park is open to eight.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's pretty late.
[SPEAKER_01]: Like that's much later than some of the parties.
[SPEAKER_01]: So
[SPEAKER_01]: I would keep that in mind and plan around playing around that instead of like, oh, it's a party.
[SPEAKER_01]: Should I go or should I not?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that is probably your best move.
[SPEAKER_01]: But again, check hard calendars and keep in mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: People have this ticking down like a lot of the data that we have, I believe.
[SPEAKER_01]: I feel like crowd calendars right now aren't the most reliable because a lot of the data that we have is based on single day ticket prices and stuff like that, the dynamic pricing.
[SPEAKER_01]: And now,
[SPEAKER_01]: with this three-day ticket.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like this silent ticket that can be used on weekends or weekdays interchangeably.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's really not many block out dates.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a little more wishy, wishy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope that is helpful, but I would say choose whatever works best for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And on that day of the party, just plan that you might not get as much done later in the day because people might be coming early.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of people are magic keyholders too, so they might come earlier than six
[SPEAKER_01]: as opposed to people who had blow a ticket to go to a party early at Magic Kingdom, and then actually have the ticket at party.
[SPEAKER_01]: So people, you know, might come after school, after work, might come earlier than that, like six o'clock entry time.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's up to you, depends on how much you think you want to do with Disneyland.
[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, I hope that's helpful.
[SPEAKER_01]: I, I, yeah, I hope you have a good time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I don't know why I panicked.
[SPEAKER_01]: I guess I panicked a little.
[SPEAKER_01]: because like we know this for Disney World, but I myself don't know this much for Disneyland, but I feel like Disneyland on a day where this happening and might encourage some people to not go, but it is also something to eat.
[SPEAKER_01]: So again, fireworks is the thing I would lead with and toddler bedtime, because otherwise, you can probably get a lot done in that morning and it will be fun.
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I'm gonna stop being neurotic about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope this was a little bit helpful.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a dumpling with legs,
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[SPEAKER_08]: Um, is a little girl you're probably a pro-vage and all you ever wanted to wear was dresses every day or sometimes I can get some leggings on you with the dresses.
[SPEAKER_08]: I don't mean you ever not liking any of your outfits and um, I bought you a lot but sometimes you would go shopping with me and you pick out your own outfits so you always like wearing what you picked out but also bright we still always worked for all these work.
[SPEAKER_08]: you were programmed to say worthy, like popcorn, like the word there's popcorn.
[SPEAKER_08]: I know that's what's in your head.
[SPEAKER_08]: Anyway, I remember when we bought the stuffed oil in Paris, it was so great and it was so inexpensive there at the drugstore.
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