EarzUp! | Disney Channel Nite at Disneyland (or "How to hit all the rides you want")

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[00:00:39] Eeeeeeers up!

[00:00:42] Hey, what's going on everybody? Ears Up Podcast. We are back here. I don't know why.

[00:00:48] This has plagued me since day one, Taryn. I can't see you, which might be better for you.

[00:00:52] Oh yeah! We're back to that.

[00:00:54] I can just move.

[00:00:55] Well, I think I'm too far over. Like, I've got a shadow on my face. There's a whole thing going on.

[00:00:59] We are in the same room, but it's a very small room. So there's computer screens and stuff like that.

[00:01:05] So what are you going to do?

[00:01:06] But what's plagued me from the beginning of the show is figuring out how to start it.

[00:01:11] Having an intro. Because I realize I'm now in a pattern of like, we're back in the studio!

[00:01:16] We're burning and it's like, well, I mean, I live here. Where else am I going to go?

[00:01:20] Okay, but counterpoint.

[00:01:23] There's no point to make.

[00:01:25] So there is. If you have had this issue since actually day one in 2013, I would just say it's not an issue.

[00:01:33] It's just the way you start the show.

[00:01:34] It's been 10 years. I think you've kind of settled into it.

[00:01:37] It's been one week since you looked at me.

[00:01:39] I think it's just how it is and we shouldn't worry about it anymore.

[00:01:43] But yeah, but it makes me uncomfortable. It throws me off. I feel unprepared.

[00:01:47] This is kind of a throwback because he complained about not knowing how to start the show in quite some time.

[00:01:54] There you go, man. That is true.

[00:01:56] Keeping your toes. Keeping your toes, Eric. That's what I'm trying to do.

[00:01:59] We have a good show for you today.

[00:02:01] We are going to be talking about the Disney Channel night that happened.

[00:02:05] It was a couple of months ago and we have some special guests who actually went to this thing because we didn't go.

[00:02:11] Are you kidding me? What are we going to do? Go to a thing?

[00:02:16] How dare...

[00:02:17] Stop it. Stop.

[00:02:18] No.

[00:02:19] How dare us?

[00:02:20] We could never leave the house.

[00:02:21] No. There's no... Do you know what's out there? Other people.

[00:02:25] Other people are out there.

[00:02:27] It's true.

[00:02:28] You see them walking by.

[00:02:29] It's true.

[00:02:30] And it's like, oh, I don't want to do that. I make notes in my little notebooks.

[00:02:33] I got notebooks and I go...

[00:02:34] Oh boy.

[00:02:35] ...at the age of probably 35, 36, walking dog, 10, 48 a.m.

[00:02:40] I'm scared because I feel like it is something you would do.

[00:02:43] It's muttering inside the house. Keep going.

[00:02:46] Keep going.

[00:02:47] Oh, your screen is glitching.

[00:02:48] Keep on walking.

[00:02:49] It is, isn't it?

[00:02:50] Yeah.

[00:02:51] You're fucked.

[00:02:52] You're like AI.

[00:02:53] Okay. Well, hopefully it's not on the recording.

[00:02:56] Yeah.

[00:02:59] Whatever. Who cares?

[00:03:02] I'm like 80% done with the studio getting put together.

[00:03:06] 10 years later.

[00:03:07] Tell me about it, dude. Whatever.

[00:03:10] Anyway...

[00:03:11] It'll give the show those rave vibes that you're looking for.

[00:03:14] That's right. Yes.

[00:03:15] Exactly me. The drum and bass night is what we have here.

[00:03:21] We're rolling deep.

[00:03:24] We got some pacifiers into water.

[00:03:26] Everyone's going to feel right at home.

[00:03:28] No, we have Carrie and Omari on the show with us.

[00:03:32] And these two lovely people went to the Disney Channel night

[00:03:36] and they're going to tell us all about it.

[00:03:38] I have that outline from them.

[00:03:39] This is like probably the most prepared I've ever demanded to guest, you know, be.

[00:03:44] Yeah, I love it.

[00:03:45] Yeah. It's great because then I didn't know I know what's going on

[00:03:48] because before I was like Disney Channel night.

[00:03:50] I mean that sounds cool, but I don't know what it is.

[00:03:53] But they put together an outline.

[00:03:55] We're going to be talking to them about where you going?

[00:03:57] Why are you leaving?

[00:03:58] Oh God.

[00:03:59] Well, she's gone. All right.

[00:04:02] One down.

[00:04:03] Yeah.

[00:04:04] That's right. Eric, what are you doing?

[00:04:06] You got something to do?

[00:04:07] I just ran a race.

[00:04:09] So I'm very I'm still very tired.

[00:04:11] Oh, you must be in shape because you don't sound out of breath at all.

[00:04:14] Well, I didn't run it like just just now.

[00:04:17] Just now I walked down the stairs a few times.

[00:04:20] So I was out of breath, but I caught my breath because I'm out of shape.

[00:04:25] But I ran a 10 mile race on Sunday in really world.

[00:04:29] In Disney World.

[00:04:30] Oh, so you're like fresh off the plane.

[00:04:32] Did you win?

[00:04:34] Thank you for being the person who asked that because I feel bad.

[00:04:40] I feel bad.

[00:04:41] Nobody else has asked me that and I've told it like someone will always ask you,

[00:04:45] did you win?

[00:04:46] And none of my coworkers asked me if I won.

[00:04:51] No one loves you like I love you.

[00:04:54] That's why well, I love you too.

[00:04:56] And the first five the first five miles I totally crushed it.

[00:05:00] I was yeah, I met I met my goals, which was basically run at the pay.

[00:05:05] Like I'm not I'm not back up to to my my old speed and everything since the back

[00:05:11] surgery and all that.

[00:05:12] So it was like, how long can I go at my current training speed?

[00:05:17] And the answer is five miles out of 10.

[00:05:19] And I thought that was pretty damn awesome.

[00:05:21] So better than I could do.

[00:05:23] I felt pretty good.

[00:05:25] Awesome. Good job, man.

[00:05:27] I know you're dodging the question.

[00:05:29] You didn't win.

[00:05:30] I did not win.

[00:05:32] My age group, not in my weight class, not in my back surgery group.

[00:05:38] Yeah, all group of recent surgeries and run.

[00:05:41] They're very inclusive and run and run Disney.

[00:05:43] Yeah.

[00:05:44] Did they as long as you didn't get swept up?

[00:05:47] Oh no, no, I did know where like if you don't meet the time and then

[00:05:51] little golf cart comes around and picks up the trash.

[00:05:53] The balloon ladies, they they're following at the end.

[00:05:57] They're notorious and I did not get swept.

[00:06:01] That's good. God bless.

[00:06:02] I did get lapped by David Sallie, one of our listeners.

[00:06:07] How did he get lapped in a 10 K?

[00:06:09] I guess he started a corral behind me.

[00:06:13] Oh, he overtook you.

[00:06:15] Yeah.

[00:06:16] He started the race probably half an hour after me and

[00:06:19] Wow.

[00:06:20] Approximately one minute before I did.

[00:06:24] Did he shame you as he passed?

[00:06:26] No, he we didn't know.

[00:06:28] He was like, I'm going to turn around and run backwards.

[00:06:31] I might, I might have clocked him for that one.

[00:06:34] But yeah, I didn't even notice him passing me because I was so

[00:06:38] focused on like just get across the finish line.

[00:06:40] Like my leg.

[00:06:41] Yeah.

[00:06:42] One of my legs was cramping.

[00:06:44] Oh man.

[00:06:45] Cause I stepped funny on a weird thing and like the last

[00:06:47] mile was just go, go, just keep going.

[00:06:50] And yeah, then I crossed the finish line and as after

[00:06:54] I got my medal, I'm going a little bit further and heading

[00:06:57] toward the, the underwrite banana and the rest of the treats

[00:07:00] that you get.

[00:07:01] I came across David and his daughter and I said, when did

[00:07:06] you guys get here?

[00:07:07] And they're like, we literally just got here.

[00:07:09] And I said, so you passed me at the finish line.

[00:07:14] Great.

[00:07:15] Damn.

[00:07:16] They didn't even help you over the finish line.

[00:07:18] They didn't like slow down like those Canyon dudes did

[00:07:20] for that Chinese runner last week or whatever.

[00:07:22] No, they did not because there's no need for them to

[00:07:25] take pity on me.

[00:07:26] They started way after me and they're also healthy.

[00:07:30] Oh, okay.

[00:07:31] All right.

[00:07:32] Well, look, you know, that's I'm glad you survived, man.

[00:07:34] You got your little metal.

[00:07:36] Did you wear it around like a big jock?

[00:07:38] Like Jeremy would do.

[00:07:39] I totally did.

[00:07:40] Only one day.

[00:07:41] Jeremy would have yelled at me on Monday.

[00:07:43] Race wasn't happening when I didn't wear the metal.

[00:07:46] Hey, nice metal.

[00:07:48] Too bad it was yesterday.

[00:07:49] No, he would have yelled at me on Monday for not

[00:07:53] wearing the metal the rest of the week that I was there.

[00:07:55] Oh, I see.

[00:07:56] He has done so in the past.

[00:07:58] Where's your metal?

[00:07:59] Where's your metal?

[00:08:00] Like that was yesterday, man.

[00:08:01] You earned it.

[00:08:02] You earned it.

[00:08:04] Typical Jeremy.

[00:08:05] Thanks, Jeremy.

[00:08:06] Well, if you want to be abused with a bunch of other people

[00:08:09] for these run Disney events or whatever,

[00:08:11] contact concierge and ask them when the next run

[00:08:13] Disney events going to be.

[00:08:14] Maybe they know.

[00:08:15] Maybe they don't know.

[00:08:16] But if they do know, they'll help you plan for it.

[00:08:18] You can go to any of the parks wherever the run

[00:08:20] Disney thing is happening.

[00:08:22] I'll set you up with hotels.

[00:08:23] We'll do all that kind of stuff.

[00:08:24] And it's no additional charge.

[00:08:26] It's just what the parks are going to charge you,

[00:08:28] but there's so much more that you get.

[00:08:30] You get that hands on service.

[00:08:31] You get that one-on-one conversation.

[00:08:34] You get back rubs from Jimmy foot rubs from Jimmy.

[00:08:37] I'm not supposed to say that it's a new thing.

[00:08:39] They're rolling out.

[00:08:40] So just ask for that when you guys book and.

[00:08:43] You don't have to he'll show up anyway.

[00:08:46] Yeah.

[00:08:47] Yeah.

[00:08:48] The sound you hear at night outside in the bushes.

[00:08:51] Conceers.

[00:08:52] They're just making sure everything's cool.

[00:08:54] Doing a sweep or doing a flare drop.

[00:08:56] Mm-hmm.

[00:08:57] Yeah.

[00:08:58] It'll be great.

[00:08:59] It'll be good speaking of Jimmy.

[00:09:01] I was texting with him today because we have a scraping the

[00:09:05] vault ears up collaboration show coming.

[00:09:08] Oh no.

[00:09:09] Yeah, I know it's going to be great.

[00:09:11] You mean.

[00:09:12] Oh yeah is what you mean.

[00:09:13] Oh yeah.

[00:09:14] Yeah.

[00:09:15] The show's that I'm on.

[00:09:17] Here's here's good news.

[00:09:19] So I have to push that show.

[00:09:21] We're going to do we're going to do that show in June.

[00:09:23] Number one, it was supposed to be in like a month.

[00:09:26] We haven't talked about it.

[00:09:27] It's like let's push it back.

[00:09:28] But two, I've set the hook.

[00:09:32] I don't know.

[00:09:33] We haven't discussed details yet, but I have Stan freeze on

[00:09:37] the line for coming on the show finally.

[00:09:41] All right.

[00:09:42] Yeah.

[00:09:43] I'm pretty excited about it.

[00:09:45] Yeah.

[00:09:46] I'm reading his book.

[00:09:47] I finally started his book the other day.

[00:09:49] I was just like sitting here and depressed.

[00:09:52] I'm like, oh my God, I need work.

[00:09:54] I'm so I hate everything.

[00:09:56] I should just let me just read this book.

[00:09:58] And it's like the first paragraph is hilarious and the

[00:10:00] guy is just funny.

[00:10:02] And he's remind it's very reminiscent of the Rolly

[00:10:05] Crump book in the way that he sort of reflects on his

[00:10:08] life in a very humorous fashion.

[00:10:11] And there's a lot of stuff you don't really expect in there.

[00:10:14] I'm 20 pages deep or whatever.

[00:10:17] But it's great.

[00:10:18] It's a great book and something, you know what?

[00:10:20] I find I'm just going to reach out to him.

[00:10:22] I follow him on LinkedIn of all places.

[00:10:24] And yeah.

[00:10:26] And I try to I try to reach out to him, but it's like

[00:10:28] you must upgrade to premium and you have five email

[00:10:32] credits.

[00:10:33] It's like, thanks.

[00:10:34] Thanks.

[00:10:35] Okay.

[00:10:36] And so but you get a month free.

[00:10:38] So yes, I will pay zero dollars to email Stan freeze.

[00:10:42] So I wrote to him.

[00:10:43] I reached out to him.

[00:10:44] I was like, Oh my God.

[00:10:45] And I felt just like in high school or middle school where

[00:10:48] you pass the note and then you like leave.

[00:10:50] Oh, I can't.

[00:10:51] I got it.

[00:10:52] I don't know what I want to know what they say.

[00:10:54] I just I can't watch them open the note.

[00:10:56] Right.

[00:10:57] And so I closed LinkedIn.

[00:10:59] I just do whatever it is.

[00:11:00] Let's check my email and says Stan freeze has

[00:11:02] accepted your message.

[00:11:03] I'm like, Oh my God.

[00:11:04] I haven't checked my email for like a day.

[00:11:07] And then finally I looked and there was no I'm expecting

[00:11:10] an email back saying he replied either, you know, go away.

[00:11:15] My son Josh told me you were terrible.

[00:11:18] So I'm never coming on your show.

[00:11:19] Like these are the things I expect right.

[00:11:21] But I didn't see anything about whatever.

[00:11:22] And then so I get like a job alert and then in my

[00:11:25] email.

[00:11:26] So I click on it and it takes me through LinkedIn and

[00:11:27] then my messages pop up and stands right at the top

[00:11:30] and just says, sure with an exclamation point.

[00:11:32] I'm like, Oh man, what a load off.

[00:11:35] The man put like a thousand pages on his life and

[00:11:37] he responds to an email with one word.

[00:11:40] Sure.

[00:11:41] Well, I was like, let me know if you're interested and

[00:11:43] we'll pin a date down.

[00:11:45] Kind of a thing.

[00:11:46] All right.

[00:11:47] I mean, yeah, cool.

[00:11:48] I'm forward to it.

[00:11:49] I love this guy.

[00:11:50] The more I learn about him, I this guy's great.

[00:11:52] Yeah, me too, man.

[00:11:54] So look forward to that.

[00:11:55] I'm going to try to pin them down.

[00:11:59] The second show next month.

[00:12:00] So it was like the 26th or so something like that.

[00:12:04] Okay.

[00:12:05] So it gives me time to read the book.

[00:12:07] The book's like 300 pages.

[00:12:08] Yeah.

[00:12:09] And I just learning how to read, you know what I mean?

[00:12:13] I read some of the stuff Alice brings home where

[00:12:16] it's like Jake baked a cake.

[00:12:19] Okay.

[00:12:20] Very hard.

[00:12:21] K K K K.

[00:12:22] K K K.

[00:12:23] Alice is like cake dad, dad cake.

[00:12:25] Two K's.

[00:12:27] Anyway, that's what's happening here on the channel.

[00:12:29] Everybody we're getting, we're getting Stan freeze

[00:12:31] here and it's going to be good times.

[00:12:34] Love it.

[00:12:35] Yeah.

[00:12:36] All right, Carrie.

[00:12:39] Are you ready?

[00:12:40] Let's talk to Disney Channel night.

[00:12:43] I'm, I'm carried and I'm ready to talk about Disney.

[00:12:47] Welcome.

[00:12:48] Hello.

[00:12:49] This is what I do.

[00:12:50] I just, there's no transition.

[00:12:51] It just code or goes more and barrels right into the next

[00:12:54] segment.

[00:12:55] So can somebody sing me in or something?

[00:12:57] You want some music?

[00:12:58] I can, I can find some music.

[00:13:01] I'll see you all for a yes.

[00:13:04] Yeah.

[00:13:05] Please sing, sing opera.

[00:13:07] The opera singer I lied.

[00:13:09] Oh my gosh.

[00:13:10] I was just in there.

[00:13:11] The lights won't.

[00:13:12] All right.

[00:13:13] Carrie.

[00:13:14] Now we're welcome to the show you guys.

[00:13:17] I appreciate you coming on.

[00:13:19] We did in fact use concierge to acquire these.

[00:13:24] So I could just go do my job and not stress about getting

[00:13:29] on the computer at the right time.

[00:13:31] Because as you know, the tickets go on sale and then people

[00:13:34] go and get them.

[00:13:35] And there is the same anxiety about the ticket selling out

[00:13:39] for some strange reason.

[00:13:41] These tickets didn't just sell out right away.

[00:13:44] Really?

[00:13:45] Because you know, there was a, we were talking, I think in

[00:13:47] discord or I forget where, but I saw a lot of people

[00:13:51] excited for this.

[00:13:52] I thought it would be really kind of an in-demand ticket

[00:13:55] event.

[00:13:56] I thought the same thing.

[00:13:59] And then I had a second thought that maybe it's like me and

[00:14:03] my delusion being excited about it.

[00:14:06] And like normal people, not so much.

[00:14:08] Yeah.

[00:14:09] They're like, I don't know.

[00:14:10] Is there, is there avatar in it?

[00:14:12] Cause I'll go then, you know, the fandom is weird.

[00:14:16] The Disney fandom is weird because we, especially for me,

[00:14:20] the things that I think people won't like though,

[00:14:22] they're all over the place.

[00:14:24] They love it.

[00:14:25] You know, whatever.

[00:14:26] And then there's the police versa.

[00:14:27] Like on the Disneyland subreddit when they were talking

[00:14:29] about avatar landcoming and people are like,

[00:14:31] who's going to do this?

[00:14:32] And then a lot of people are like, I love it.

[00:14:34] I can't wait.

[00:14:35] It blows me away.

[00:14:36] So I'm with you on that.

[00:14:37] You never know.

[00:14:38] Yes.

[00:14:39] And then, yeah.

[00:14:40] So the tickets for this event were 139.

[00:14:44] And this is less than a park hopper and it's only a

[00:14:48] little bit more than a single-part ticket.

[00:14:50] And I think that's really important to consider when

[00:14:52] you're deciding about whether or not you want to

[00:14:54] go on a special event as I really feel like we got,

[00:14:58] not only got our money's worth of going on attractions,

[00:15:02] but that it was a far more pleasant experience than

[00:15:08] like the 12 hour park day that you would normally do.

[00:15:15] So we got, we rolled in there, I think around seven ish

[00:15:20] and knowing that the event was going to go from eight

[00:15:23] to one a.m. and then at eight, eight p.m. they're going to

[00:15:26] kick out the regular ticket holders and just have the

[00:15:29] special event to give people the park.

[00:15:31] Yeah.

[00:15:32] So we didn't want too much mixing in time because the

[00:15:34] whole reason we're going is to not mix in.

[00:15:37] Not no offense to any humans.

[00:15:40] There's a lot of you.

[00:15:42] It's like, whoa.

[00:15:43] But get out of my park.

[00:15:44] Yeah.

[00:15:45] Right.

[00:15:46] Yeah.

[00:15:47] And it's really like, it's definitely a deterrent for a

[00:15:49] lot of people going.

[00:15:51] So anyway, we rolled in around seven and we got this.

[00:15:55] I guess they call it a souvenir badge.

[00:16:00] It's like a TV with mouse ears.

[00:16:03] You can't see any of the text on that.

[00:16:05] Well, it's not really important.

[00:16:07] It's not anyway.

[00:16:08] Yeah.

[00:16:09] It's like the Disney Channel old logo right now.

[00:16:12] Yeah.

[00:16:13] Well again, it's just, I don't know.

[00:16:14] It's paper.

[00:16:15] It's cute.

[00:16:16] And you get, yeah.

[00:16:17] Okay.

[00:16:18] That's yellow.

[00:16:19] And, you know, we could all use lanyards for.

[00:16:22] Lanier things.

[00:16:23] Yeah.

[00:16:24] Sure.

[00:16:25] Things you would put on a lanyard.

[00:16:26] Yeah.

[00:16:27] Your badge.

[00:16:28] Okay.

[00:16:29] Or other lanyards really.

[00:16:30] And just keep it going.

[00:16:31] Make a chain.

[00:16:32] They gave us a map of the special events.

[00:16:34] All of which we tried to avoid.

[00:16:36] We were there.

[00:16:38] To go on rides.

[00:16:40] And not go to dance parties.

[00:16:42] Hold on.

[00:16:43] Hold on.

[00:16:44] So you, so you, but you, you bought the tickets.

[00:16:47] To just go on the rides.

[00:16:49] So you're, it's like gaming the system kind of for you.

[00:16:52] You're like, okay, well all these.

[00:16:53] Shlubs are going to be doing the stuff.

[00:16:55] I'm going on rides.

[00:16:57] Yeah.

[00:16:58] Yeah.

[00:16:59] Okay.

[00:17:00] Okay.

[00:17:01] The fireworks too.

[00:17:02] Yeah.

[00:17:03] Oh yeah.

[00:17:04] You got to do that.

[00:17:05] That's the smart move.

[00:17:06] But I've never heard this.

[00:17:07] I've never heard of going to an event specifically to do.

[00:17:10] So we're all of the rides open.

[00:17:13] No, not all of them.

[00:17:15] So rise of the resistance is never going to be open unless it's,

[00:17:19] um,

[00:17:20] it's never going to be open on a special event unless it's, uh,

[00:17:23] that Star Wars night because they,

[00:17:25] they have that pay for the fast pass thing.

[00:17:28] Okay.

[00:17:29] And they're going to want to,

[00:17:30] they're going to want to keep making that money.

[00:17:32] So that's closed.

[00:17:33] But the only other two rides that were closed were a splash

[00:17:38] mountain and hot mansion,

[00:17:39] both of because of their big, um,

[00:17:41] refurbishment reduce.

[00:17:44] And I can, you know,

[00:17:45] I consider that to be really,

[00:17:47] really generous like Indiana Jones being open still and

[00:17:51] jungle cruise all the way over to small world.

[00:17:54] Mickey and Minnie's railway was open.

[00:17:56] Unfortunately broke down and we did not get on it.

[00:17:59] But it was open.

[00:18:01] I know like some of these events, um,

[00:18:04] at least when I was looking at going, you know, years ago,

[00:18:07] um,

[00:18:08] It was like sections of the park.

[00:18:10] I don't recall them just being just all basically all the

[00:18:14] ride in the park.

[00:18:15] Like for me,

[00:18:16] for all the way from adventure land to toon town to me,

[00:18:18] that's like too much.

[00:18:19] I would not expect.

[00:18:22] You can sort of go anywhere.

[00:18:23] It's, it's not too much.

[00:18:25] No, no.

[00:18:27] Well, I mean, yes,

[00:18:28] from an enjoyment standpoint,

[00:18:30] it is, it's not enough.

[00:18:32] Um, but you know,

[00:18:33] from a park standpoint,

[00:18:34] I would think like that's that.

[00:18:35] Yeah, I wouldn't expect that,

[00:18:37] but that's a really nice,

[00:18:38] that's a welcome surprise.

[00:18:39] How many people were,

[00:18:41] how many people were there?

[00:18:42] Do you think

[00:18:43] I'm not sure.

[00:18:44] And it's really hard to tell,

[00:18:46] but it must have,

[00:18:47] I'm sure we could like Google it and find out what they kept

[00:18:51] the crowds at,

[00:18:52] but it was so like some places were so empty,

[00:18:55] so empty,

[00:18:57] empty.

[00:18:58] Um,

[00:18:59] it was,

[00:19:00] it was really,

[00:19:01] it was mind boggling.

[00:19:03] Yeah.

[00:19:04] We really just were walking on like Indiana,

[00:19:07] Jones,

[00:19:08] Space Mountain,

[00:19:10] Jungle Cruise,

[00:19:11] like half empty boat.

[00:19:12] Like it was,

[00:19:13] Oh yeah.

[00:19:14] It felt very lush.

[00:19:16] Man, that sounds,

[00:19:17] that's the experience that I want.

[00:19:19] That's almost like the experience we talk about.

[00:19:20] We used to go like,

[00:19:21] oh, you know,

[00:19:22] if you go,

[00:19:23] um, in like,

[00:19:24] you know,

[00:19:25] February or January,

[00:19:26] there's nobody there and it rains.

[00:19:28] Oh my God.

[00:19:29] It's the best thing in the world.

[00:19:30] That's what it sounds like.

[00:19:32] Yeah.

[00:19:33] And as an adult,

[00:19:34] I've been seeking.

[00:19:35] I've been seeking the perfect,

[00:19:37] the perfect weekend there.

[00:19:39] Um, since I started taking a Mari,

[00:19:42] when she was like four or five,

[00:19:45] I've always been seeking.

[00:19:46] And I think,

[00:19:47] I think I finally found it.

[00:19:48] So we were,

[00:19:49] we were like going on rainy days in February

[00:19:51] and middle of the week and all that stuff.

[00:19:54] And it was,

[00:19:55] it was good,

[00:19:56] but this was special and nighttime.

[00:19:59] Um,

[00:20:00] and then like there were these surprising bonuses

[00:20:03] that we weren't expecting to enjoy.

[00:20:06] No offense to babies, but the lack of,

[00:20:09] all the babies listening right now,

[00:20:11] please cover your ears.

[00:20:12] Skip forward.

[00:20:13] Please.

[00:20:14] Yeah.

[00:20:15] So the lack of babies and little children.

[00:20:18] What's the one?

[00:20:19] Yeah.

[00:20:20] Okay.

[00:20:21] I get it.

[00:20:22] I get it.

[00:20:23] I get it.

[00:20:24] That's,

[00:20:25] that is absolutely,

[00:20:26] especially if you're trying to just cruise through rides,

[00:20:29] you do sort of get at a lot of things.

[00:20:32] You sort of get at a loggerhead, I guess.

[00:20:34] Um, when you have people dealing with kids or there's a meltdown,

[00:20:37] you happen to walk through fantasy land and the kids too hot or whatever.

[00:20:41] Totally acceptable.

[00:20:42] You're there.

[00:20:43] And it's,

[00:20:44] yeah.

[00:20:45] And it's interesting because you know,

[00:20:47] framing this in the,

[00:20:48] um,

[00:20:49] sort of guerrilla,

[00:20:50] you know,

[00:20:51] style attack on the park that you pulled or yours.

[00:20:54] We're there to maximize rides.

[00:20:58] That is another bonus.

[00:20:59] You're absolutely right.

[00:21:01] Nothing to slow you down.

[00:21:03] Yeah.

[00:21:04] And we also weren't expecting this like vibe of very cult,

[00:21:10] like familial,

[00:21:13] like we're all,

[00:21:16] we're all in this together.

[00:21:19] We're special here at night.

[00:21:21] Yeah.

[00:21:22] It was like extra friendly among the people there.

[00:21:27] Weird.

[00:21:28] Okay.

[00:21:29] Star Wars was extra fun.

[00:21:30] Star Wars was extra fun because when it like showed who the spy

[00:21:35] I was,

[00:21:36] the people next to him just went that guy and then at the end

[00:21:39] all of us were just like, are you okay?

[00:21:44] Traumatized.

[00:21:46] Really calling a party five like throw the park.

[00:21:50] Yeah.

[00:21:51] Okay.

[00:21:52] Have you, so this is the Disneyland at night,

[00:21:54] uh, series.

[00:21:55] I guess had you done anything like this before these other

[00:21:57] little special ticketed events.

[00:21:59] Not since my own grad night.

[00:22:03] I mean, I went to school down there.

[00:22:05] So yeah.

[00:22:06] So yeah.

[00:22:07] That's what like,

[00:22:08] I don't want to say how long ago.

[00:22:10] That's fine.

[00:22:11] You don't need to couple years ago.

[00:22:12] It's fine.

[00:22:13] This is like a present for you.

[00:22:15] This is great.

[00:22:16] It sounds like it couldn't have gotten any better.

[00:22:18] What were the,

[00:22:19] what were the wait times like just that you were

[00:22:21] experiencing across the parks?

[00:22:23] It was there.

[00:22:24] Mwah.

[00:22:25] Chef's kiss.

[00:22:26] Mwah.

[00:22:27] Everything was like walk on maybe 15 minutes max.

[00:22:33] Um,

[00:22:34] sounds like a dream from 2003.

[00:22:36] I haven't gone on Peter Pan in like four years.

[00:22:39] Oh,

[00:22:40] right.

[00:22:41] And I finally got to go on it again.

[00:22:43] And then I realized why I wasn't going on it.

[00:22:45] Yeah.

[00:22:46] He didn't like it.

[00:22:47] It was so short.

[00:22:49] It was making really concerning freaking noises the whole time.

[00:22:52] It's definitely getting there.

[00:22:53] I didn't like that.

[00:22:54] Oh no.

[00:22:55] A little scary Peter Pan right now.

[00:22:57] That's how it's for, it's fine.

[00:22:58] I can't fly.

[00:22:59] No,

[00:23:00] I shouldn't be flying this is like flying a bowing these days.

[00:23:05] American Airlines like, um,

[00:23:07] interesting.

[00:23:08] Okay.

[00:23:09] Man short rides.

[00:23:10] Was that Peter Pan?

[00:23:11] Like a walk on cause that's like everyone's top tier,

[00:23:14] you know,

[00:23:15] it was a little 10 minutes 15 minutes,

[00:23:20] 15 max.

[00:23:21] Yeah.

[00:23:22] Were there any other rides?

[00:23:23] All those step and your hunt things.

[00:23:25] Sorry.

[00:23:26] Were there any other rides like that,

[00:23:28] that like you just don't normally go on cause their lines are too

[00:23:31] long,

[00:23:32] but this kind of gave you that opportunity.

[00:23:34] Well,

[00:23:35] it really gave us the opportunity to go on more than once.

[00:23:38] And that way I felt like as if we really gorged ourselves on

[00:23:42] the attractions.

[00:23:43] Um,

[00:23:44] instead of like petering out and fading out.

[00:23:46] So it was like,

[00:23:47] I always want to go on Alice more than once and I got to, um,

[00:23:51] and some things like we wouldn't bother going on snow.

[00:23:54] Like,

[00:23:55] we don't really like how.

[00:23:56] Yeah.

[00:23:57] I like the scary part.

[00:23:58] Yeah.

[00:23:59] Good to know.

[00:24:00] Yeah.

[00:24:01] And yeah,

[00:24:02] being able to end our night, um,

[00:24:04] was going on pirates again and literally having a vote to

[00:24:07] ourselves was,

[00:24:08] was the best thing that I've ever done.

[00:24:10] Um,

[00:24:11] I've been doing this for like a year or so.

[00:24:14] And it does feel like that's one of those things where you used

[00:24:17] to be able to do.

[00:24:18] Now you can't.

[00:24:19] Especially with,

[00:24:20] even with the reservation system, I guess.

[00:24:22] And,

[00:24:23] and yeah,

[00:24:24] that's like one of those rare moments for me.

[00:24:26] That's almost worth the price of admission for this special

[00:24:29] event.

[00:24:30] It sounds like this is the only way I want to go back to

[00:24:32] Disneyland.

[00:24:33] Right?

[00:24:34] You get a,

[00:24:35] you get a small window,

[00:24:36] but you pay full ticket price.

[00:24:37] But you get a small window,

[00:24:38] but you pay full ticket price.

[00:24:39] But you get a small window.

[00:24:40] But you get a small window,

[00:24:42] but you pay full ticket price basically.

[00:24:44] And you just slam it.

[00:24:46] Well,

[00:24:47] you pay double price, don't you?

[00:24:48] Cause you have to pay for admission and then this or is it

[00:24:50] separate?

[00:24:51] Oh, okay.

[00:24:52] You just, yeah,

[00:24:53] you just pay for this and you give in a little bit early.

[00:24:56] So you get those hours too.

[00:24:57] I think value wise,

[00:24:58] this is 110% the way to go.

[00:25:01] And my husband doesn't really dig going either because

[00:25:05] it's too crowded.

[00:25:06] Um,

[00:25:07] and when he heard about it and how it was, he's,

[00:25:10] he's going to come with us next time.

[00:25:12] I'm pretty sure.

[00:25:13] Cool.

[00:25:14] Just for the,

[00:25:15] just for the Disney channel one or you're going to just try

[00:25:18] to do these, this is how you're going to be going from

[00:25:21] now on.

[00:25:22] This is how,

[00:25:23] this is how I want to go from now on.

[00:25:24] Okay.

[00:25:25] Go to an after hours.

[00:25:26] I don't know if they're going to do Disney channel night

[00:25:28] again.

[00:25:29] I'm not sure it performed the way they were.

[00:25:33] Doesn't sound like it maybe did.

[00:25:37] There's just the empty.

[00:25:38] What were some of the fun things that they have that you,

[00:25:40] that you totally ditched?

[00:25:43] Karaoke.

[00:25:44] I'm putting it out there because that sounds real weird with

[00:25:48] like a bajillion people.

[00:25:50] Yeah.

[00:25:51] Yeah.

[00:25:52] I'm not trying to do that in front of strangers.

[00:25:56] I guess,

[00:25:57] I guess what like what's with the wood songs really like

[00:26:00] Hannah Montana songs like Disney channel stuff or what

[00:26:03] like, yeah.

[00:26:04] I heard something.

[00:26:06] I don't know what I recognize it.

[00:26:08] They had dance parties.

[00:26:10] They had like life performances,

[00:26:12] lots of photo ops.

[00:26:14] Hmm.

[00:26:15] Yeah.

[00:26:16] Voice actors and stuff like actors,

[00:26:18] voice actors were there.

[00:26:20] Oh, okay.

[00:26:21] That's fun.

[00:26:22] How did you know who they were?

[00:26:24] No, no, no.

[00:26:26] Were there signs or something?

[00:26:29] Were there signs that said like,

[00:26:31] I'm the voice of captain?

[00:26:34] Yeah.

[00:26:35] And then like the guide map they give you has what all the

[00:26:38] what all the special events that you guys are.

[00:26:40] And on the other side of it is the all the special

[00:26:43] events for the food.

[00:26:44] That's another line.

[00:26:45] So, you know,

[00:26:46] people are waiting in lines for their photo ops and their

[00:26:49] meet and greets and they're waiting in line for the

[00:26:51] specialty food.

[00:26:52] And if you live there and that's what you want to do,

[00:26:54] that's fine.

[00:26:55] But if you don't live there,

[00:26:56] you wouldn't go on the rides.

[00:26:58] That's what you do.

[00:27:00] Yeah.

[00:27:01] So they also have the specialty food,

[00:27:03] photo ops, dance parties, karaoke.

[00:27:06] Oh, cosplay.

[00:27:08] So you can that's another big deal of the after hours

[00:27:11] events is people dressing up and people were just

[00:27:15] waiting it.

[00:27:16] It was someone in some insane college dress or something.

[00:27:20] Big ball gown.

[00:27:22] Yeah.

[00:27:23] Really?

[00:27:24] Yeah.

[00:27:25] They're crazy.

[00:27:26] They really are.

[00:27:28] Delta with expendable income.

[00:27:30] Yeah, they're children with money.

[00:27:32] Hey now.

[00:27:33] I'm a real children with money.

[00:27:36] I am an adult child.

[00:27:38] That sounds cool.

[00:27:40] Did you guys didn't dress up or anything?

[00:27:42] I mean, what would you dress up at?

[00:27:44] Okay.

[00:27:45] What did you dress up?

[00:27:46] I'm down, but I did.

[00:27:48] I got like this chief dress of Jack Skellington off of

[00:27:51] Amazon did some basic makeup and she was zero.

[00:27:53] Oh, how cute.

[00:27:55] Very cute.

[00:27:56] I love it.

[00:27:57] Yeah.

[00:27:58] And then we wore our true shirts the next day.

[00:28:00] Oh, yeah.

[00:28:01] Yeah.

[00:28:02] Yeah.

[00:28:03] Appreciate that.

[00:28:05] That's good.

[00:28:06] I appreciate that.

[00:28:07] That's awesome.

[00:28:08] I do have to give a caveat as we're all,

[00:28:12] I think we're all in the same major.

[00:28:14] And being at this event,

[00:28:19] I think the first two or three hours was like

[00:28:25] great prime energy.

[00:28:26] I'm singing and dancing and jumping and running from thing to

[00:28:30] thing.

[00:28:31] It's awesome.

[00:28:32] And then around 11 midnight,

[00:28:36] I'm not sure where I am.

[00:28:39] That's late.

[00:28:43] I'm three hours into my sleep by that point.

[00:28:47] Like that's yeah, you're drunk on power.

[00:28:50] Yeah.

[00:28:51] It's like the Cinderella thing,

[00:28:52] but instead of turning into a pumpkin,

[00:28:54] you turn into the age you really are.

[00:28:56] Fair enough.

[00:28:58] That's what Walt wanted for his park.

[00:29:00] Really.

[00:29:01] I'd like my tea now.

[00:29:03] I'm always like, let's get you back into bed mom.

[00:29:07] Okay.

[00:29:08] You got out once.

[00:29:09] Let's not, you know, let's strap you in.

[00:29:12] Yeah.

[00:29:13] That's actually what I was going to point out on your

[00:29:15] outline.

[00:29:16] You said that everyone got goofier and loopier as time

[00:29:18] passed.

[00:29:19] It sounded like that's kind of one of those things.

[00:29:21] I wonder what do you attribute that to just the dopamine hit

[00:29:24] finally wore off and everyone's kind of got tired.

[00:29:27] I think so.

[00:29:29] And maybe these people are drinking a lot of these very

[00:29:32] tall sugary beverages and probably drinking adult

[00:29:35] beverages.

[00:29:36] And once, once you burn that sugar off,

[00:29:40] you crash hard.

[00:29:42] Absolutely.

[00:29:43] Everyone had these like lays over eyes by the end

[00:29:47] of the night.

[00:29:49] So much stimulation.

[00:29:51] Yeah.

[00:29:52] It's the, yeah, the adult, uh, adult Disney fan zombie

[00:29:56] apocalypse.

[00:29:57] Yes.

[00:29:58] Yes.

[00:29:59] They're all happy.

[00:30:00] Yes.

[00:30:01] Right.

[00:30:02] Right.

[00:30:03] They want to, uh, yeah, I don't know.

[00:30:04] I was going to try to make a weird zombie joke,

[00:30:06] but it wasn't going to go anywhere.

[00:30:08] Well, we're getting to your, to the drawbacks

[00:30:10] section mainly because the first one just says

[00:30:13] I'm old and tired.

[00:30:14] And I don't know if I wrote that or you wrote that.

[00:30:16] I wrote that, but I feel you.

[00:30:18] I think you can relate.

[00:30:20] Yeah.

[00:30:21] Especially with the younger kid.

[00:30:23] Oh my God.

[00:30:24] Forget about it.

[00:30:25] Yeah.

[00:30:26] It's like, I just walked up from a nap.

[00:30:27] I'm like, I think I need another nap.

[00:30:29] Yeah.

[00:30:30] I don't know what's going on.

[00:30:31] And then on day two, you know, we woke up.

[00:30:33] That was terrible.

[00:30:34] Yeah.

[00:30:35] We were already, we woke up.

[00:30:36] I stayed up.

[00:30:37] Later.

[00:30:38] I didn't go to bed until three because I was

[00:30:40] texting a friend who was definitely supposed

[00:30:42] to be asleep because she had school the next

[00:30:44] time.

[00:30:45] And you didn't do what I was doing.

[00:30:47] I don't know what she was doing.

[00:30:49] He's robbing you of prime sleeping.

[00:30:51] I ended up with like four hours of sleep.

[00:30:54] Yeah.

[00:30:55] And then counter, like counterpoint to that.

[00:30:58] It was the food and wine festival.

[00:31:00] Oh my goodness.

[00:31:01] That's terrible.

[00:31:02] We started in there.

[00:31:04] So it sounds like just that.

[00:31:06] So you went from like nobody around

[00:31:08] to everybody and then dated with human beings.

[00:31:11] Oh God.

[00:31:12] I was killed.

[00:31:13] What a culture shock.

[00:31:15] Yeah.

[00:31:16] In hell or in credit coaster was closed in credit

[00:31:19] coaster.

[00:31:20] Oh, dude.

[00:31:21] Yeah.

[00:31:22] Why am I love that?

[00:31:23] Right here.

[00:31:24] See, Iger Giveth and Iger take it away.

[00:31:27] You know, he'll, he'll, he'll come down

[00:31:30] from his mansion and bless you with a

[00:31:32] good night, but then he'll take

[00:31:34] in credit coaster away and then pour the

[00:31:36] food and wine festival all over your trip.

[00:31:38] Oh man.

[00:31:39] I don't think it's what it'll do.

[00:31:41] But I mean, so you were there all day for the next,

[00:31:44] for the God.

[00:31:45] So what was your ride comparison between going on?

[00:31:48] Yeah.

[00:31:49] Yeah.

[00:31:50] Did we even, did we even do 10?

[00:31:54] I don't think so.

[00:31:55] Cause we left early.

[00:31:56] Yeah.

[00:31:57] Oh, yeah.

[00:31:58] On the after hours event we did and I'm,

[00:32:03] I'm a little stats oriented.

[00:32:06] I apologize.

[00:32:07] I know it's not about that for everybody on the

[00:32:09] Disney Channel night.

[00:32:10] We did 20 rides and walked 12 miles.

[00:32:15] Wow.

[00:32:16] Just around Disneyland around and around.

[00:32:19] Yeah.

[00:32:20] In Disneyland, just in Disneyland, not DCA,

[00:32:23] not through the Esplanade, not that 20 rides

[00:32:27] and 12 miles.

[00:32:29] I love that.

[00:32:30] And it's amazing.

[00:32:31] That sounds like you had a fun time when

[00:32:33] you're like really walking through the queues.

[00:32:37] Actually walking and not standing.

[00:32:39] You can't.

[00:32:40] I'd never realized how long the queue line for any of those

[00:32:44] is until I have to walk through them without stopping.

[00:32:50] Yeah.

[00:32:51] You know what?

[00:32:52] One strikes me the most is Indy.

[00:32:54] I was just thinking that one.

[00:32:55] That one hides the queue very,

[00:32:57] very well because you think, oh,

[00:32:58] this you get to the safe, the safety spiel and then

[00:33:00] the rides are on the corner.

[00:33:01] You're not done.

[00:33:02] No, you're going upstairs.

[00:33:03] You're going downstairs.

[00:33:05] Yeah.

[00:33:06] That's wild.

[00:33:07] I think the start was starting to kill me by the end of

[00:33:10] the night.

[00:33:11] I love that ride, but that was a bit much.

[00:33:13] Yeah.

[00:33:14] It was like a workout.

[00:33:15] Yeah.

[00:33:16] You know, you're hitting the wall when a slow incline

[00:33:19] starts to bother you.

[00:33:20] It can't get any more gradual than this.

[00:33:25] So what's your normal?

[00:33:26] Because you were saying in an email the other day

[00:33:28] that you sort of do this or you track your rides

[00:33:32] on your trips.

[00:33:33] What's a normal day just to compare what you would

[00:33:36] normally do, how many rides and whatever compared to

[00:33:40] the Disney Channel night?

[00:33:42] I think the worst we've ever done is like 13 or

[00:33:45] something.

[00:33:46] Although this trip we probably did worse than that.

[00:33:48] Yeah.

[00:33:49] Yeah.

[00:33:50] And the best has been 20 and that's on like,

[00:33:52] that's across a 12 hour day of parking over.

[00:33:56] Oh right.

[00:33:57] Because this was only a couple of hours.

[00:33:59] Yeah.

[00:34:00] It was like eight to one.

[00:34:01] I think.

[00:34:02] Yeah.

[00:34:03] Yeah.

[00:34:04] Eight to one, five, six hours.

[00:34:05] Yeah.

[00:34:06] Wow.

[00:34:07] That's so cool though, honestly.

[00:34:10] Yeah.

[00:34:11] Wow.

[00:34:12] That's fascinating.

[00:34:13] See the bummer is this doesn't sound like they're

[00:34:16] going to do it again.

[00:34:17] I mean, maybe who knows, you know,

[00:34:19] maybe you guys got like a golden ticket.

[00:34:22] This once in a, I don't want to say once in a

[00:34:25] lifetime kind of things, but sort of feels like

[00:34:27] kind of.

[00:34:28] Yeah.

[00:34:29] I wonder what might come next.

[00:34:30] Like I hope, I hope if they don't do Disney Channel

[00:34:34] at night, night again, they do something else kind of

[00:34:37] weird because it was very niche seeming and weird

[00:34:42] and risky.

[00:34:43] And I definitely want to check out other after hours

[00:34:46] events, but, but I do definitely hope there's

[00:34:49] other kind of weird ones.

[00:34:52] Yeah.

[00:34:53] Yeah.

[00:34:54] I mean the Disney Channel one seemed very just rooted

[00:34:57] in nostalgia.

[00:34:58] You know, for people who grew up, I didn't really grow up

[00:35:02] at Disney Channel kid, you know, because it was extra

[00:35:05] money.

[00:35:06] Oh yeah.

[00:35:07] And I just always wait for those free weeks, those

[00:35:10] free weeks.

[00:35:11] Oh, that was the best week ever.

[00:35:13] Even then what was even on it when you were

[00:35:15] watching it?

[00:35:16] What was on incorporated?

[00:35:18] I remember.

[00:35:19] I think kids incorporated was Disney.

[00:35:24] I could be wrong, but I think it was incorporated.

[00:35:28] And then the Mickey Mouse Club.

[00:35:31] Yeah.

[00:35:32] That's all I remember.

[00:35:34] I remember it like coming on and it's like, I don't

[00:35:37] know, I just never really into it.

[00:35:39] There was a show that was cool.

[00:35:41] There was still also too old.

[00:35:43] There was a there was a Alice in Wonderland

[00:35:48] show where that was so weird.

[00:35:50] The Mad Hatter wore skates.

[00:35:54] Like inline skates.

[00:35:57] Rollerblades.

[00:35:58] Rollerblades.

[00:35:59] Yeah.

[00:36:00] And inline skates.

[00:36:01] The, yeah, it was just a really wild show where the

[00:36:04] girl stepped through the mirror and like she was

[00:36:07] just like a teenage girl in her room and she

[00:36:09] stepped through the mirror and then like it was

[00:36:11] this live action.

[00:36:13] Didn't you show this to me?

[00:36:14] Yeah.

[00:36:15] Cause it's on Disney Plus.

[00:36:16] Oh yeah.

[00:36:17] That's right.

[00:36:18] I watched one episode and I was like, it's so bad,

[00:36:20] but I loved it for that one week.

[00:36:23] None of this, none of this, it calls to me.

[00:36:26] So that's why I would go like the Disney Channel

[00:36:28] night.

[00:36:29] I don't know.

[00:36:30] I mean who, who would, who would go?

[00:36:33] But well, I'll tell you what next time they have a

[00:36:35] weird ass one, I'm going to go.

[00:36:38] I'm going to be like, let's go.

[00:36:40] Yeah.

[00:36:41] Ears up field trip.

[00:36:42] Yeah.

[00:36:43] That's great.

[00:36:44] And again, like for the whole park to be open,

[00:36:46] I think that's, that's cool because I remember

[00:36:48] it's like we went to a couple of them.

[00:36:51] Terran, didn't we?

[00:36:52] And then like the sections of the park were closed.

[00:36:55] Yeah.

[00:36:56] I don't think that we did the proper nights.

[00:36:58] The only proper like nighttime thing that we did

[00:37:00] was the Halloween thing.

[00:37:01] And that was before they,

[00:37:03] like toon town was closed before they got big though.

[00:37:06] Like, oh, we were cool before it was big.

[00:37:09] No, I think we were dumb.

[00:37:11] Oh, nice.

[00:37:12] Before they like all we got was candy and

[00:37:14] all that was open was like Norling Square.

[00:37:16] Yeah.

[00:37:17] And like maybe something else, but like,

[00:37:19] it was smaller and it was less expensive.

[00:37:21] I think that's what I mean.

[00:37:22] That's what keeps blowing me away.

[00:37:24] That's what blows me away.

[00:37:25] The park is open the whole time.

[00:37:26] Yeah.

[00:37:27] It's super cool.

[00:37:28] Yeah.

[00:37:29] I think you guys got lucky.

[00:37:30] So what happens when it, when it's over?

[00:37:32] There's the breaks, like the record, the record.

[00:37:34] The magic is over promptly at 1 a.m.

[00:37:38] Oh, I bet.

[00:37:39] It was just gone.

[00:37:40] Yeah.

[00:37:41] Yeah.

[00:37:42] We got on pirates.

[00:37:43] It was magical all by ourselves.

[00:37:45] We walked off and it's like 104 a.m.

[00:37:47] As we're like coming around the corner,

[00:37:49] we're seeing the cast members cleaning up with garbage bags.

[00:37:53] Well, that was fast.

[00:37:55] Okay.

[00:37:56] Yeah.

[00:37:57] That's awesome.

[00:37:58] The masses of people walking out of the, come on.

[00:38:01] The masses of people walking out of the park.

[00:38:03] It felt like some sort of,

[00:38:05] like it felt like some sort of zombie apocalypse or something.

[00:38:08] Yeah.

[00:38:09] Just like, cause we looked like zombies.

[00:38:11] Yeah.

[00:38:12] I always feel for the custodial department.

[00:38:15] A night like that.

[00:38:16] Oh yeah.

[00:38:17] It's like, one o'clock.

[00:38:18] Can you guys just leave?

[00:38:19] You know, it's like being a bartender.

[00:38:21] Like I just want to close.

[00:38:22] I just, I just want to do the mochas.

[00:38:24] You know what I mean?

[00:38:25] Like get out of here.

[00:38:26] I don't want, I don't know, you know, whatever.

[00:38:28] Yeah.

[00:38:29] That sounds cool though.

[00:38:30] It really does.

[00:38:31] I appreciate you sharing your, your expertise.

[00:38:33] So what's your game plan moving forward for all this?

[00:38:36] Are you,

[00:38:37] it sounds like you're going to go back.

[00:38:38] Do you have,

[00:38:39] are you going to change things up in anticipation?

[00:38:41] Maybe of it not being so good.

[00:38:43] Or you just got to, you know, hope for the best.

[00:38:46] We,

[00:38:47] we processed and talked about it afterwards.

[00:38:51] And how could we improve upon this?

[00:38:53] We don't want to end with a bad day after like such a magical

[00:38:56] moment.

[00:38:57] And came up with the idea of going there and doing a rope

[00:39:02] drop on the first day.

[00:39:04] And yeah, leave early.

[00:39:06] And then we started to do a little bit of a,

[00:39:09] yeah, leave early and then go to this special event.

[00:39:13] Yeah.

[00:39:14] My,

[00:39:15] I had a very elaborate plan because I get to go for my 16th

[00:39:19] birthday and I want something extra.

[00:39:21] Nice.

[00:39:22] We're going to look into wait times for like,

[00:39:24] oh, you boogie bash cause I love California adventure.

[00:39:27] So whatever park we're going to for the night of event,

[00:39:31] we do rope drop at the other park.

[00:39:33] Okay.

[00:39:34] So we have a single no park conference one day at a

[00:39:37] park leave a little early so we can get to bed decent

[00:39:40] time take the next day and just chill and then go to

[00:39:43] the special event.

[00:39:44] Okay.

[00:39:45] That sounds good.

[00:39:46] I like that.

[00:39:47] Cool.

[00:39:48] That's a good plan.

[00:39:49] I like that plan because, you know,

[00:39:52] especially when,

[00:39:53] when Taren and I were going a lot,

[00:39:55] you know,

[00:39:56] there in like 2015 ish or whatever it was like,

[00:39:58] I'm just tired of the parks.

[00:40:00] You get tired of it after a while.

[00:40:01] So I think if you dose it out,

[00:40:03] I think that's the way to go.

[00:40:04] You know,

[00:40:05] you dose it out and you leave a little bit of a little bit of

[00:40:08] magic there.

[00:40:09] You don't squeeze all the magic out.

[00:40:10] Yeah.

[00:40:11] And I think that sounds like a solid plan to do that.

[00:40:13] I will say though,

[00:40:14] every single time we,

[00:40:15] we,

[00:40:16] we didn't squeeze all the magic out.

[00:40:18] We got halfway down the five and I'm like,

[00:40:20] should have just stayed another day.

[00:40:22] Yeah.

[00:40:23] What do we do?

[00:40:24] And then I would always help and go,

[00:40:26] just call your boss and say you're sick.

[00:40:28] I don't care.

[00:40:29] You know, whatever.

[00:40:30] No, I can't.

[00:40:32] All right then.

[00:40:33] What do you want from me?

[00:40:35] Well, I think it sounds great.

[00:40:36] It's not a successful trip.

[00:40:38] Disney channel, you know,

[00:40:40] theming aside, you know,

[00:40:44] but first I thought you went specifically for a Disney

[00:40:46] channel like stuff,

[00:40:47] like a nostalgia trip.

[00:40:48] And I was like,

[00:40:49] no, I'm sorry.

[00:40:50] We're looking forward to that.

[00:40:51] There was something about though,

[00:40:53] because to fit the theme,

[00:40:55] they're playing music that fits the theme.

[00:40:57] I heard the intro to Jesse over three times.

[00:41:00] Oh man.

[00:41:01] I don't want to hear it again.

[00:41:02] Yeah.

[00:41:03] I heard a lot of music for the first time.

[00:41:05] So yeah.

[00:41:06] Well, that's cool.

[00:41:08] I guess.

[00:41:09] Yeah.

[00:41:10] That does seem like a very niche thing, man.

[00:41:12] You know, it's not like sweetheart nights or.

[00:41:14] I wonder if like in 10 years,

[00:41:15] it's going to be movie themed.

[00:41:16] You know what I mean?

[00:41:17] Oh, this is the.

[00:41:19] I don't know.

[00:41:20] Cinderella night.

[00:41:21] Yeah.

[00:41:22] I guess or incanto night or something like that.

[00:41:24] I don't know.

[00:41:25] I'd go to that.

[00:41:26] Yeah.

[00:41:27] I do feel like they're like testing things out.

[00:41:29] That felt like a test for sure.

[00:41:32] I wonder if it passed.

[00:41:33] I don't know.

[00:41:34] I mean, the benchmark would be if all the tickets sold.

[00:41:37] Yeah.

[00:41:38] And then how much food and drink at, you know, at the.

[00:41:41] Well, in all the people they have to pay to be working.

[00:41:43] Yeah.

[00:41:44] That's what I mean.

[00:41:45] Right.

[00:41:46] Yeah.

[00:41:47] Yeah.

[00:41:48] If it didn't, I mean,

[00:41:49] if there was still available a few days later,

[00:41:51] that's already kind of a.

[00:41:52] Yeah.

[00:41:53] Not a good sign.

[00:41:54] Not what you'd expect.

[00:41:55] Well, it sounds great.

[00:41:56] I appreciate you guys coming on and letting us know about it.

[00:41:58] Thank you for letting us be here.

[00:42:00] And absolutely.

[00:42:01] Most people don't let us talk about Disneyland as well as me as

[00:42:05] much as I want to.

[00:42:06] So thank you.

[00:42:07] My friends appreciate you.

[00:42:10] Well, that's what we're here for.

[00:42:11] You guys want to come over and listen to my mom talk about

[00:42:13] Disneyland?

[00:42:16] My strategy.

[00:42:18] I'll tell you all about it.

[00:42:20] Print everything out on a dot matrix printer.

[00:42:23] Ream by Ream connecting.

[00:42:25] Yeah.

[00:42:27] Yeah.

[00:42:29] All right.

[00:42:30] We are going to take a quick break everyone.

[00:42:31] We're going to come back and we have some Disney news to run

[00:42:33] through.

[00:42:34] And that's it.

[00:42:35] Then we'll be at what?

[00:42:36] I have a segment.

[00:42:37] Oh yeah.

[00:42:38] Well, we talked about maybe not doing it.

[00:42:40] Oh, we had.

[00:42:41] Yes, we had with me with you.

[00:42:43] No, I didn't hear that.

[00:42:44] I'm not sharing.

[00:42:45] Well, yeah, Eric work wasn't here.

[00:42:47] But anyway, let's take a quick break.

[00:42:49] Everyone will be right back here on ears up.

[00:42:51] Don't go anywhere.

[00:42:52] Come back.

[00:42:53] Yeah.

[00:42:59] Back to ears up where the opinions never stop.

[00:43:03] Ever.

[00:43:05] All right, welcome back everybody.

[00:43:09] I said we're going to do news but Taryn basically beat me up.

[00:43:13] Whoa.

[00:43:14] She psychically berated me into doing her segment and I don't

[00:43:18] have your music Taryn.

[00:43:19] So I'll put it in.

[00:43:20] Okay.

[00:43:21] I'll put it in post but pretend this is it.

[00:43:26] Okay.

[00:43:27] That was it.

[00:43:28] All right.

[00:43:29] Did you like it?

[00:43:30] I did.

[00:43:31] Thank you.

[00:43:32] Okay.

[00:43:33] So today I'm going to talk about a lesser known character.

[00:43:38] And maybe that's not fair to say it's a very well known character.

[00:43:42] I think we just don't know a whole lot about this character.

[00:43:45] And this is Luxo junior.

[00:43:47] Oh, Luxo never heard of it.

[00:43:50] You will have.

[00:43:51] Yeah.

[00:43:52] So aside from the lamp that Steve Carell was referring to an

[00:43:57] anchor man when he famously stated, I love lamp.

[00:44:01] Luxo junior is probably the most famous and most recognizable

[00:44:05] lamp in modern history.

[00:44:07] It's the official mascot of Pixar studios along with its friend

[00:44:11] the ball.

[00:44:12] And it's become part of the opening for every single Pixar

[00:44:16] film.

[00:44:17] Now Luxo junior is a squeaky and curious little desk lamp with

[00:44:23] big feelings and a playful attitude.

[00:44:26] It's gray with a bright white bulb and articulating arm that

[00:44:30] adjusts both horizontally and vertically.

[00:44:33] And while quite similar in its overall makeup, Luxo junior is a

[00:44:38] significantly smaller version of the larger Luxo senior who is

[00:44:43] also a squeaky desk lamp with an adjustable articulating arm.

[00:44:47] Well, it's genetic.

[00:44:48] It's handed down.

[00:44:49] Multiple generations.

[00:44:50] Yeah.

[00:44:51] Yeah.

[00:44:52] You think it would skip a generation but it doesn't.

[00:44:54] The squeak stays.

[00:44:55] Luxo junior and senior were both seen for the first time when the

[00:44:59] short film Luxo junior debuted in 1986.

[00:45:03] Oh, so we got a nepo baby.

[00:45:05] Okay.

[00:45:06] Got it.

[00:45:07] SIGGRAPH which is an annual computer graphics conference.

[00:45:11] And the film starts with a Luxo senior kicking a ball out of

[00:45:15] the frame that bounced over to him.

[00:45:17] He does this a couple of times and then Luxo junior appears

[00:45:21] and playfully begins to jump on top of the ball.

[00:45:24] Unfortunately, the little lamp pops the ball and that makes

[00:45:27] him sad.

[00:45:28] That makes it sad.

[00:45:30] After a brief moment of grief, Luxo junior regains its childlike

[00:45:34] exuberance hops off screen and happily returns with a much

[00:45:37] bigger and much bouncier ball to which Luxo senior appears

[00:45:42] surprised and joyful if not a little perplexed at both the

[00:45:46] resilience and resourcefulness of Luxo junior.

[00:45:49] The lamps don't have like faces.

[00:45:51] Nope.

[00:45:52] They're just lamps perplexed.

[00:45:54] Have you never seen it?

[00:45:55] No, I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:45:57] Oh my goodness.

[00:45:58] Sorry.

[00:45:59] I missed SIGGRAPH that day.

[00:46:01] Yes.

[00:46:02] Well, it was so Luxo junior is you may be wondering why it's

[00:46:06] interesting.

[00:46:07] You may be wondering why that I don't know what you're

[00:46:11] doing listening to this show.

[00:46:13] So why is this interesting?

[00:46:14] It's been 50 minutes.

[00:46:15] Why am I still listening?

[00:46:17] This is how I categorize this segment.

[00:46:19] So Luxo junior as a character is interesting because at the

[00:46:23] time it was conceived, it was one of the most complicated

[00:46:27] characters to ever be animated.

[00:46:29] John Lasseter wrote and directed the film.

[00:46:32] Luxo junior was animated by John Lasseter himself and Ed

[00:46:36] Katmuell after they had both left Lucasfilm computer

[00:46:40] division.

[00:46:41] Now this two minute short films animation took inspiration

[00:46:45] from the classic animation principles popularized by the

[00:46:49] Waltz nine old men, which was kind of bringing an emotional

[00:46:52] life to otherwise inanimate objects.

[00:46:56] The difference however was that this animation was

[00:46:59] completed using only computer graphics and the short

[00:47:03] film took them four and a half months to complete and it's

[00:47:06] rumored that they worked tirelessly to complete it

[00:47:09] even bringing sleeping bags to the office.

[00:47:11] Oh sure.

[00:47:12] That's the story I would tell to you.

[00:47:14] I worked really hard on this.

[00:47:16] I worked incredibly harder than you would ever know.

[00:47:20] Also, I'm just realizing how I'm I shouldn't say this,

[00:47:25] but how creepy it is that John Lasseter was bringing

[00:47:28] sleeping bags to the office.

[00:47:30] I think I think you're reaching but that's all right.

[00:47:33] So Luxo junior received an Academy Award nomination in

[00:47:37] 1987 for best animated short film.

[00:47:41] There were three films in this category, but the film lost

[00:47:44] to a short called Greek tragedy.

[00:47:47] Hey, oh, hey.

[00:47:52] And even though it didn't keep a good film down, you know what

[00:47:55] I mean?

[00:47:56] Even though it didn't get the gold statue, it will always

[00:47:59] go down as the very first CGI film nominated for an

[00:48:02] Academy Award.

[00:48:04] Yeah.

[00:48:05] In 1999, the short was reissued as a short film

[00:48:08] shown before the screenings of Toy Story 2 in theater.

[00:48:12] Do you never saw, you never saw Toy Story 2 in theaters?

[00:48:15] I guess not.

[00:48:16] Oh, that's how I knew of this.

[00:48:19] Yeah.

[00:48:20] In 2014, the film was selected for the preservation

[00:48:23] for preservation by the National Film Registry.

[00:48:26] And oddly, Disney plus states that the release of the

[00:48:29] movie is 1999, not 1986, which is odd.

[00:48:35] So where else have you seen Luxo Junior?

[00:48:38] A cordless Luxo Junior is seen in the opening logo of every

[00:48:42] single Pixar film standing in for the eye.

[00:48:45] So you have seen that before.

[00:48:48] Yes, I mean, I know it's the lamp.

[00:48:50] Yeah.

[00:48:51] Yeah.

[00:48:52] Luxo Junior is what did it sound like?

[00:48:55] Like a bat.

[00:48:57] Okay.

[00:48:58] Got it.

[00:48:59] Luxo Junior is also at the end of Wally where he

[00:49:02] meets that lovable trash compactor.

[00:49:05] Luxo Junior's ball has appeared somewhere in every

[00:49:08] single Pixar movie.

[00:49:09] Easy.

[00:49:10] Easy.

[00:49:11] In Toy Story 2, Luxo Junior can be seen on TV when Ham is

[00:49:17] rapidly flicking through TV channels.

[00:49:21] And this is interesting.

[00:49:23] There was an audio animatronic version of Luxo Junior at

[00:49:26] Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World.

[00:49:28] But it was removed in April 2010.

[00:49:31] And this may have been due to a 2009 lawsuit brought about

[00:49:35] by Norwegian lamp company Luxo AS, who sued Disney and

[00:49:40] Pixar for trademark infringement.

[00:49:42] I vaguely remember this.

[00:49:44] When Disney started selling a limited edition Luxo

[00:49:47] Junior desk lamp.

[00:49:48] Yeah.

[00:49:49] Now the parties ended up reaching an amicable settlement

[00:49:51] in November 2009, but the timing seems a little

[00:49:54] weird so it's possible that those are related.

[00:49:56] Yeah.

[00:49:57] And why it left the park.

[00:49:59] I don't know.

[00:50:00] Let's get it started.

[00:50:01] Yeah.

[00:50:02] Let's go.

[00:50:03] In 1991, this is the last place that you may have seen

[00:50:07] Luxo.

[00:50:08] Yeah.

[00:50:09] In 1991, a series of four shorts were created featuring

[00:50:12] Luxo Junior and Luxo Senior for and aired on Sesame

[00:50:15] Street.

[00:50:16] Okay.

[00:50:17] Which I thought was pretty cool.

[00:50:19] Cute.

[00:50:20] Now who's behind the character?

[00:50:22] Luxo Junior and Senior.

[00:50:24] They don't have voices.

[00:50:25] However, Luxo Junior's composition is said to be

[00:50:28] based on a former Pixar employee Tom Porter's infant son.

[00:50:33] When Porter brought his son to work one day, Lasseter was

[00:50:36] playing with the baby and was fascinated by how huge the

[00:50:39] baby's head was compared to its body.

[00:50:42] Those are babies, John.

[00:50:44] All babies just are like this.

[00:50:46] Do all babies look like lamps?

[00:50:48] Yeah.

[00:50:49] I could see that.

[00:50:50] Like you're sitting there and basically he began to

[00:50:52] imagine what a small lamp might look like with those

[00:50:54] types of proportions.

[00:50:56] Maybe he thought it was a lamp.

[00:50:58] Maybe.

[00:50:59] I mean, I don't know the guy.

[00:51:01] Yeah.

[00:51:02] With articulating arm when your son is weird.

[00:51:05] Also, while there are no voice voices in the film, there

[00:51:09] are three composed pieces of music in the two minute

[00:51:12] short composed by David Lindup, Brian Bennett and

[00:51:15] Carlton Hall.

[00:51:16] Now in conclusion, if you're like me and have often

[00:51:20] wondered if the inanimate objects in your life have

[00:51:25] been broken, you know, like the things like does my

[00:51:28] pillow's bedside feel jealous of the head side?

[00:51:31] If I don't flip it often or does the oven feel down if I

[00:51:34] use the air fryer two nights in a row.

[00:51:36] That sort of thing.

[00:51:38] Then you will certainly hold a small piece of your heart

[00:51:43] for this adorable little lamp.

[00:51:45] I don't want to.

[00:51:47] Must.

[00:51:48] Oh.

[00:51:49] Did.

[00:51:51] Do any of you remember there was an IKEA commercial

[00:51:56] where do you remember the lamp IKEA commercial?

[00:51:59] Mm hmm.

[00:52:00] Okay, I do.

[00:52:01] Then I don't need to tell anybody about it.

[00:52:03] That's the.

[00:52:04] Well, you do.

[00:52:05] Go on.

[00:52:06] Okay, fine.

[00:52:07] It was one of my favorites because yes, I too have

[00:52:10] have imbued feelings onto inanimate objects for

[00:52:13] inappropriate reasons like.

[00:52:15] Yeah, but but we've we've had this.

[00:52:19] This.

[00:52:20] Stick.

[00:52:22] Where our entire our entire hiking trip.

[00:52:25] What?

[00:52:26] But it's part of our family now.

[00:52:28] Sort of.

[00:52:29] Yeah, yeah.

[00:52:30] It would be sad.

[00:52:31] Yeah, it's like in Goonies you live with me now.

[00:52:35] It's like everything you see.

[00:52:37] Yeah.

[00:52:38] Yeah.

[00:52:39] It was a great commercial because this this woman.

[00:52:41] Goes and buys a new lamp at IKEA and throws her lamp

[00:52:45] her old lamp out in the trash.

[00:52:47] And it's like pouring rain and the lamp is on

[00:52:49] the side of the road and it's sitting there and they're playing

[00:52:52] they're playing sad music.

[00:52:53] And then this Swedish guy steps up and says,

[00:52:56] perhaps you feel sorry for the lamp, but do not feel

[00:52:59] sorry for the lamp.

[00:53:00] It is just an inanimate object and it has no feelings

[00:53:03] and the new lamp is much better.

[00:53:08] That was a really good commercial.

[00:53:12] Lamps are important.

[00:53:13] Speaking.

[00:53:14] I don't know.

[00:53:15] Good.

[00:53:16] There's a lot of lamps to think about right now.

[00:53:19] Oh my God, you're spiraling.

[00:53:21] Are you?

[00:53:22] Oh my God.

[00:53:24] Just thinking about it.

[00:53:25] Next episode, let me get to work on it now.

[00:53:27] Yeah.

[00:53:28] Speaking of good commercials.

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[00:54:36] Yeah, do that.

[00:54:38] I feel like I need to clap after that.

[00:54:41] March in the past, present and future with all the news

[00:54:45] that's fit to cover.

[00:54:46] It's the Years of Disney News.

[00:54:49] Look man, I'm never going to say don't applaud.

[00:54:53] Let's start with some lighthearted humor.

[00:54:55] What do you think?

[00:54:56] Instead of the very, you know...

[00:54:59] Dense humor?

[00:55:00] Philosophically dense topic of what lamps would feel

[00:55:05] if they could feel things.

[00:55:08] That is an important topic though.

[00:55:10] Yeah.

[00:55:11] A California dad has recalled the day his 2-year-old son

[00:55:15] began repeatedly shouting a quote very inappropriate F word

[00:55:20] during a trip to Disneyland.

[00:55:22] Carrie, I think this goes back to your point of

[00:55:25] it's good that there were no little kids to curse at you

[00:55:29] apparently at Disneyland.

[00:55:32] The next sentence is great.

[00:55:33] Bad language is all around us in modern society.

[00:55:36] And while parents can lead by example, the reality is that

[00:55:40] by and large they can't prevent their children from

[00:55:43] eventually being exposed to it.

[00:55:46] I actually curse at my child.

[00:55:48] Literally true.

[00:55:50] Yeah.

[00:55:51] My child flips me off.

[00:55:53] Says F you dad.

[00:55:55] I go F you Alice.

[00:55:57] Let me laugh.

[00:55:59] Basically this guy has a twins and one of them was saying the F word.

[00:56:05] That's what he thought in Disneyland.

[00:56:07] Back in March, Brian was visiting Disneyland with his son Brecken.

[00:56:13] Brecken?

[00:56:14] Brecken.

[00:56:15] Brecken.

[00:56:16] Brecken.

[00:56:17] Brecken.

[00:56:18] Brecken.

[00:56:19] Brecken.

[00:56:20] Brecken.

[00:56:21] Brecken.

[00:56:22] Brecken.

[00:56:23] Brecken.

[00:56:24] Brecken.

[00:56:25] Brecken.

[00:56:26] Brecken.

[00:56:27] Brecken.

[00:56:28] Brecken.

[00:56:29] Brecken.

[00:56:30] Brecken.

[00:56:31] Brecken moved out of jail.

[00:56:33] Brecken moved out what tried to run on my car and we spoke

[00:56:35] about an accident that Donica Reed in the comments section

[00:56:38] yolked.

[00:56:39] Rick Louisiana.

[00:56:40] Frank Collins.

[00:56:41] Rita Limon.

[00:56:42] Dray Library.

[00:56:43] Ahhhhh.

[00:56:50] Brecken in one half.

[00:56:51] Roger Hasses the Great.

[00:56:53] Brian said he and his husband Chris have always made a point to avoid using bad language around Brecken and his twin sister London.

[00:57:01] Brecken and London.

[00:57:03] Oh, I mean, look, these are choices.

[00:57:06] But also this is one of the reasons why like I don't avoid using bad language around Alice.

[00:57:12] Like she knows these are at home words.

[00:57:14] And I feel like if you take the sting out of her, if you take the inconsistency, not inconsistency, but if you take the intrigue out, it's just another word.

[00:57:23] Yeah.

[00:57:24] I don't do that to every word. Just everybody knows them.

[00:57:26] But Brecken wasn't actually trying to say the word quote his favorite type of animal at the moment is frog.

[00:57:34] But if for some reason he won't say the word frog, it has to be frogger.

[00:57:38] So he has to say, oh, there's a frogger.

[00:57:42] I like a frogger or whatever.

[00:57:44] Okay.

[00:57:45] You know what I mean?

[00:57:46] Unfortunately, his G sounds a lot like CK and his R isn't very noticeable.

[00:57:53] So it sounds like he's just saying, I think F-T-C-K-E-R.

[00:57:56] Yeah.

[00:57:57] Yeah.

[00:57:58] And so he's like running around Disneyland saying that and everyone's like freaking out or whatever.

[00:58:02] I don't know.

[00:58:03] I thought it was pretty funny.

[00:58:04] That is funny.

[00:58:05] But also is that newsworthy?

[00:58:06] It's Newsweek.

[00:58:07] This is what I'm saying.

[00:58:09] Like people mine Reddit for stories.

[00:58:12] This was on TikTok.

[00:58:14] Okay.

[00:58:15] It's the new thing to mine for stories.

[00:58:16] I just thought it was a cute story.

[00:58:17] I mean, that's that made it far enough.

[00:58:20] Yeah.

[00:58:21] What are you going to do?

[00:58:22] It's a slow Newsweek.

[00:58:23] Next step.

[00:58:24] Nothing else is going on in the country.

[00:58:25] No.

[00:58:26] Yeah.

[00:58:27] Here's a very brief thing.

[00:58:29] It's not really a story.

[00:58:30] It's more of a photo that nobody can see, but apparently in Hong Kong and I want to say

[00:58:35] Tokyo, but maybe just Hong Kong, they have these basically customizable headbands and

[00:58:42] they're coming to the parks.

[00:58:44] They're coming to Disneyland this spring actually where it's basically just like

[00:58:49] a generic headband, but they have different like plushies for the ears.

[00:58:55] And there's a Velcro strap underneath so you can like put one here and one here.

[00:59:01] So you can do Chip and Donald or whatever.

[00:59:05] And it's very, very basic.

[00:59:07] And, but it looks cute enough.

[00:59:09] So that's coming.

[00:59:10] So if you're into headband stuff, but there's no real like decoration.

[00:59:13] There's a lot of people like Christina in our chat does the fancy headbands or

[00:59:17] what?

[00:59:18] It's not that detail.

[00:59:19] It's literally just two plushies Velcro on your head.

[00:59:22] Actually, you can do three.

[00:59:24] Oh, if you want, I mean, I guess you can do as many as you want, but that's coming.

[00:59:29] Okay.

[00:59:30] Creature on headbands and you can buy those.

[00:59:32] They'll be available.

[00:59:33] This always makes me laugh at Bing Bongs sweet stuff.

[00:59:37] Yes.

[00:59:38] Which kind of sounds, I don't know.

[00:59:40] It just sounds like like a strip club out of GTA.

[00:59:43] It just does.

[00:59:44] I don't know why the headbands are available at the

[00:59:46] The headbands are available at the candy store.

[00:59:49] Candy shop.

[00:59:50] Yeah.

[00:59:51] Meep meep meep.

[00:59:53] Yep.

[00:59:54] Sure are, buddy.

[00:59:55] They sure are.

[00:59:56] We talked, I think of the last show about Disneyland's

[00:59:59] Utopia going electric, but at the time there was no timeline.

[01:00:03] Oh, they've come out recently and said a 2026.

[01:00:07] So in like two years, they're going to be gone.

[01:00:10] They're going to be electric cars.

[01:00:12] I don't really think they know how they're going to sound yet,

[01:00:17] but there was a lot of backstory about the upgrades and why

[01:00:22] they're happening.

[01:00:23] You know what I mean?

[01:00:24] It's not necessarily just that Disneyland decided, oh, we're

[01:00:26] doing this thing.

[01:00:29] Disneyland, the Disneyland resort, they have an ultimate goal

[01:00:32] of net zero carbon emissions by 2030.

[01:00:35] According to the environmental protection agency, a typical

[01:00:38] vehicle emits 4.6 metric tons of just carbon dioxide annually

[01:00:43] mixing in gasoline produced methane and nitrous oxide.

[01:00:46] The continuous use of utopia's cars for the past few decades

[01:00:49] amounts to a high level of greenhouse gas emissions.

[01:00:52] Oh, Disney's commitment to environmental sustainability is

[01:00:55] a demonstration of the changes necessary to tackle this

[01:00:58] intimate global threat.

[01:01:00] I would say it's not intimate imminent.

[01:01:03] It's been here for a while.

[01:01:05] Carrie, when you guys were at the Disney Channel night, was

[01:01:09] utopia running?

[01:01:10] It certainly was in all its stinky glory.

[01:01:13] How many times did you go on it?

[01:01:15] Five, six times?

[01:01:16] Zero.

[01:01:17] Oh man.

[01:01:19] Apparently there have been investigations with the California

[01:01:23] Air Resources Board for air quality testing for utopia.

[01:01:29] And these people were complaining about the negative

[01:01:32] environmental impact of utopia and whatever, but the regulations

[01:01:36] were tying everything up.

[01:01:38] Apparently the amusement park is private property and visitors

[01:01:41] can easily take the necessary precautions not to go near

[01:01:44] certain rides.

[01:01:45] So they're like, look, people don't have to go here if they

[01:01:48] don't want to.

[01:01:49] It is a corner of Tomorrowland that you could easily not

[01:01:53] walk toward.

[01:01:54] Yeah, you could never go there again.

[01:01:57] Right.

[01:01:58] In its initial efforts to offset carbon emissions, Disney

[01:02:01] spent over $15.5 million in carbon offsetting schemes related

[01:02:06] to deforestation and reducing industrial gases.

[01:02:09] While the company claims the use of verified offsetting

[01:02:12] projects, most of them are not directly eliminating greenhouse

[01:02:15] gas emissions to combat Disney's pollution.

[01:02:18] Several companies have turned to offsetting projects as a

[01:02:21] way to continue unstable business operations without facing

[01:02:24] consequences.

[01:02:27] Yeah, which I never really understood.

[01:02:29] You should buy carbon offset credits like Al Gore was big in

[01:02:32] offset credits.

[01:02:33] And then people were like, well, you have a company that sells

[01:02:36] these.

[01:02:37] Well, yeah, but it's just still good.

[01:02:39] Yeah, but still do it.

[01:02:40] Yeah, you can still pollute.

[01:02:41] Just pay more for it.

[01:02:43] Just pay more for it.

[01:02:44] It's fine.

[01:02:45] But apparently Disneyland is like, yeah, that's probably not

[01:02:47] going to be great.

[01:02:49] So anyway, I thought there was a little more interesting

[01:02:51] backstory.

[01:02:52] So they're moving a little bit fast and apparently they've

[01:02:54] tried to get sued over the past.

[01:02:56] Hmm.

[01:02:57] A couple of things.

[01:02:58] Cool.

[01:02:59] Yeah, let's see.

[01:03:00] Let's go to a little bit of what's going on in the parks right

[01:03:03] now.

[01:03:04] Disneyland Resorts picks our fast begins this week.

[01:03:07] It's actually already happening, I think right now, but

[01:03:09] some fans aren't thrilled about the celebration.

[01:03:12] If you could imagine.

[01:03:13] Okay.

[01:03:14] Imagine a Disney fan, Eric, not enjoying a thing.

[01:03:17] I'm trying.

[01:03:18] Yeah.

[01:03:19] Why are you looking at my picture?

[01:03:22] Well, because it's it's the biggest one that I have mounted

[01:03:25] right above the wall is paint as a mural of you.

[01:03:28] Oh yeah.

[01:03:29] Yeah, you're me, but, but looking like Shrek.

[01:03:32] Yeah.

[01:03:33] Yeah.

[01:03:34] Or donkey.

[01:03:35] Maybe I don't know.

[01:03:37] Anyway, apparently people on the, I'm going to summarize

[01:03:40] this story because it's not that interesting, but I do

[01:03:42] think it's funny that I'm not the only one complaining

[01:03:44] about anything.

[01:03:45] People are going like, yeah, is there even a Pixar movie

[01:03:48] out right now?

[01:03:50] Like it's hard to really get excited about Pixar fast when

[01:03:53] there's just nothing really happening.

[01:03:55] I mean, never any good movies before ever, right?

[01:03:58] Right.

[01:03:59] Well, that one was good actually that I said I was going

[01:04:01] to hate and I was really mad about it.

[01:04:03] The fire and water one.

[01:04:05] Elemental.

[01:04:06] Elemental.

[01:04:07] Yeah, I actually liked it.

[01:04:08] Okay.

[01:04:09] I did watch it and I liked it.

[01:04:11] Is there even a Pixar movie out in theaters right now

[01:04:13] that we are doing this whole ass festival?

[01:04:15] Okay.

[01:04:17] Okay.

[01:04:18] I mean,

[01:04:19] and then someone says the real reason Pixar fast is

[01:04:22] disappointing isn't the decorations.

[01:04:24] It's the fact that there's no meat to the festival.

[01:04:26] It's entertainment cutbacks disguised as special events.

[01:04:30] Wow.

[01:04:31] Have you been to Epcot lately?

[01:04:33] Yeah.

[01:04:34] Well, yeah, right.

[01:04:36] I guess it's the decorations are weird.

[01:04:38] There is a story here I was going to read,

[01:04:40] but it sort of blends in right now.

[01:04:42] They have a basically a Pixar.

[01:04:47] Tower.

[01:04:48] I forget what it's called,

[01:04:49] but it's a their tribute to the tower of the four winds that

[01:04:53] Rolly crump did for the small world attraction at the New York

[01:04:56] World's Fair and I saw it and I was like,

[01:04:58] is this supposed to be the tower of the four winds?

[01:05:00] I don't know.

[01:05:01] And it just looks like a bunch of Pixar things glued on an arch.

[01:05:05] It doesn't look anything really like it.

[01:05:07] And I feel like if you're going to pay tribute

[01:05:10] to something like as legendary as this kinetic sculpture,

[01:05:15] at least do that.

[01:05:17] But this just doesn't, I don't know.

[01:05:19] It doesn't really look great.

[01:05:21] That's all.

[01:05:23] Like I said, it's not a whole lot of good things on that,

[01:05:28] but we're going to keep rolling.

[01:05:31] So we're talking about Disneyland forward.

[01:05:33] And I believe on the last show we talked briefly

[01:05:35] about Avatar land potentially coming.

[01:05:37] Yes.

[01:05:38] Now there's another rumor about an incanto themed land

[01:05:44] coming to Disneyland forward and I'm not upset about it.

[01:05:47] It would be very pretty, but I feel like it's not a big enough

[01:05:50] movie for a whole land while they're doing to,

[01:05:53] I mean, really a whole land.

[01:05:55] I think what these are going to do and what we really should

[01:05:57] do is get off our back sides, Taryn and do a what we would

[01:06:02] an armchair, imagineering of what we would want to see

[01:06:05] Disneyland forward because I think the way the parks are

[01:06:09] set now, we're never going to get a land as big as what we

[01:06:13] have like the New Orleans square or whatever.

[01:06:15] Even though it's relatively small.

[01:06:17] I think these are going to be small little land.

[01:06:19] So you can do like a casita and you know,

[01:06:22] like a town square thing.

[01:06:23] And that's kind of like, you don't really need a whole lot.

[01:06:26] But you need enough to want to pay to go in.

[01:06:29] Like I'm so, I'm so curious how this is going to,

[01:06:32] to pan out.

[01:06:34] I feel like it's going to be a third gate,

[01:06:37] but it's going to be a lot of smaller little stuff to do.

[01:06:41] Kind of like Super Mario world or whatever a universal.

[01:06:45] I've seen commercials for that.

[01:06:46] It's like, it's very tiny.

[01:06:48] Yeah, there's not a lot like that,

[01:06:50] but it's still really well done and people like it.

[01:06:53] Yeah.

[01:06:54] So I think you could do,

[01:06:55] and I think you could probably do a lot more with a

[01:06:58] smaller footprint honestly,

[01:07:00] because you don't have to flesh it out.

[01:07:01] You don't have to, you know,

[01:07:02] you can do like the house.

[01:07:04] That's either a ride or a walkthrough thing,

[01:07:06] like a, like a Donald Duck's house or a goofy house or something

[01:07:09] like that in toon town.

[01:07:10] People would be fine.

[01:07:11] That's fine.

[01:07:12] I don't know.

[01:07:13] I'm okay with it.

[01:07:15] I don't know.

[01:07:16] I'm on the fence.

[01:07:17] I'm on the fence because what the way that you just described

[01:07:20] that to me sounds like those pop ups where like you go sit

[01:07:23] on the friend's couch and take pictures for Instagram.

[01:07:25] Like that's what it kind of sounds like.

[01:07:27] And I'm like, why would I want to pay to,

[01:07:29] but not that that's what they're doing,

[01:07:31] but it's just,

[01:07:32] just seems so small.

[01:07:34] I'm just really curious.

[01:07:36] Here's a quote from tomorrow.

[01:07:38] He says,

[01:07:39] we will have enough room to build the equivalent of another

[01:07:42] Disneyland park.

[01:07:43] And so then you start to think about,

[01:07:45] well, what can we do here?

[01:07:46] We haven't told anything.

[01:07:47] Any stories are Wakanda.

[01:07:49] We haven't told any stories on frozen.

[01:07:52] Wakanda would be cool and frozen.

[01:07:54] I'm surprised that frozen hasn't come up yet.

[01:07:56] They have they,

[01:07:57] they got rid of mouse storm or mouse storm or whatever.

[01:08:00] That's over there.

[01:08:01] Yeah, yeah, but still, I don't know.

[01:08:03] Frozen here.

[01:08:04] You think about franchises like Coco and incanto.

[01:08:07] We almost have an endless stream of stories that we can tell

[01:08:10] almost.

[01:08:11] We almost have almost, I don't know,

[01:08:14] but for some reason we keep telling the same ones over

[01:08:16] and over again.

[01:08:17] We're not actually writing any new story.

[01:08:19] It's just the same things over and over again.

[01:08:21] Anyway, incanto.

[01:08:23] What do you think Eric?

[01:08:25] Hey, yeah.

[01:08:27] I mean there's a lot of potential on they've been

[01:08:29] talking about doing the same at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

[01:08:33] East coast as part of their like,

[01:08:36] let's let's rip out the.

[01:08:40] The dinosaur land USA area and put in something tropical

[01:08:45] and then making dinosaur into an Indiana Jones ride.

[01:08:49] Like really central America is pretty central

[01:08:52] and South America are pretty underrepresented in all

[01:08:54] of the parks.

[01:08:56] Epcot has Mexico.

[01:08:59] That's about it.

[01:09:01] So like with all these recent films, why not?

[01:09:04] Why not find some way to fit it in and the space constraint

[01:09:10] in Disneyland is what's interesting.

[01:09:14] They keep saying, well, we've got way more space

[01:09:16] than you than you think we have.

[01:09:17] Yeah, but we have to get to it.

[01:09:19] It has to be like it's it's.

[01:09:22] We still have to have a place to sleep at the

[01:09:25] end of the night.

[01:09:26] Like yeah, right?

[01:09:28] They they're not building a lot more hotels.

[01:09:31] Right.

[01:09:32] And that was part of the old Eastern expansion project

[01:09:36] where they were going to put in a fourth Disney hotel.

[01:09:40] That obviously didn't work, but.

[01:09:44] Yeah, I guess Disneyland can kind of trade on like

[01:09:47] there are plenty of hotels in the area and we can

[01:09:49] have some more people here.

[01:09:51] Like going over to the Toy Story lot is just such

[01:09:54] an interesting concept to me because how do you get

[01:09:57] there? It's part of the charm of Disneyland is just

[01:10:00] walking across the Esplanade between the two parks.

[01:10:03] Absolutely.

[01:10:04] And at Walt Disney World, you can't do that, but you

[01:10:07] also have you don't you don't have like a CVS in

[01:10:11] between you and the other.

[01:10:13] Yeah.

[01:10:14] Yeah, that's true.

[01:10:15] You have woods, you have forest, you have a road.

[01:10:20] Gators.

[01:10:21] You have gators that they inspire you to run

[01:10:24] faster to the next.

[01:10:26] So I've thought about this and I think it's going to be a bridge.

[01:10:30] I think there's going to be a bridge over Catella.

[01:10:33] Yeah.

[01:10:34] To connect the Esplanade to the new park.

[01:10:37] That's my that's my guess.

[01:10:38] I'm stating it.

[01:10:40] Yes, you sure are.

[01:10:42] I love about you.

[01:10:43] You're stating your things.

[01:10:45] Carrie, have you ever been to Disney World?

[01:10:47] I have actually.

[01:10:48] I found it too big, overwhelming and hard to get from

[01:10:52] place to place.

[01:10:53] Yeah, yeah, especially coming from Disneyland.

[01:10:56] It's very cumbersome.

[01:10:58] It's a lot.

[01:10:59] And yeah, I guess I was thinking about what Eric was

[01:11:01] saying about like, you just walk across the Esplanade.

[01:11:04] There's charm to it.

[01:11:06] There's a thing, but there's nothing charming about about

[01:11:09] moving parks.

[01:11:10] Yeah.

[01:11:11] You never lose the vibe when you walk across the Esplanade,

[01:11:14] but when you have to get into a tram or a bus or

[01:11:18] whatever, it's like, yeah.

[01:11:22] It breaks.

[01:11:23] Yeah, it breaks the flow.

[01:11:24] Kind of does.

[01:11:25] Yeah.

[01:11:26] Kind of does.

[01:11:27] That's all the stories I got.

[01:11:28] Oh yeah.

[01:11:29] Sorry.

[01:11:30] What were you saying?

[01:11:31] I said, unless you're taking the Skyliner.

[01:11:32] Oh, well, yeah, that's true.

[01:11:33] Wait, what?

[01:11:34] But yeah, I mean, having just been there this last

[01:11:37] weekend with David from puny pod.

[01:11:40] He's never been he and his kids have never been to

[01:11:44] Walt Disney World.

[01:11:45] So we're there for the race.

[01:11:47] That's fun.

[01:11:48] I mean, I think it was a really interesting and

[01:11:52] challenging experience working with people that have

[01:11:55] never been there.

[01:11:57] Like their lifetime Disneylanders, they go multiple

[01:12:00] times per year.

[01:12:01] David and his family.

[01:12:03] And it was, it was fun, but it was also a little

[01:12:07] stressful.

[01:12:08] Like, oh gosh, what do I, what do I do?

[01:12:10] How do I, how do you're like tour guide and

[01:12:13] everything?

[01:12:14] How do I teach them?

[01:12:15] Yeah.

[01:12:16] This is, because I was there with Mike from

[01:12:18] concierge and he and I have been going to Walt

[01:12:20] Disney World for decades.

[01:12:22] Sure.

[01:12:23] Yeah.

[01:12:24] And Disneyland is the foreign thing to us.

[01:12:26] And I've kind of had to learn that.

[01:12:28] I'm like, oh wait, you can just walk across.

[01:12:30] It's, it's get there.

[01:12:32] It's so easy for you guys.

[01:12:34] At 45.

[01:12:36] But yeah, like everywhere we went, it was,

[01:12:41] it was jaw dropping for them.

[01:12:43] And I loved, we'll have an episode of the

[01:12:46] Supreme Resort about it.

[01:12:47] We'll have, we'll have David on to talk about it.

[01:12:50] Cause it was just, it was, it was just wild and nice.

[01:12:54] I did see your, your Instagram post where he

[01:12:58] seemed annoyed with the castle that it was too

[01:13:04] big.

[01:13:05] Yeah.

[01:13:06] What is it doing there?

[01:13:07] Dan said, I need to see David's reaction to

[01:13:10] the castle.

[01:13:11] So David was playing it up a little bit, but,

[01:13:13] but yeah, like it's a, it's a big deal and,

[01:13:16] and adding in a layer of complexity to Disneyland

[01:13:19] that isn't this charming just, just walk there

[01:13:23] aesthetic, walking over a bridge.

[01:13:25] Okay.

[01:13:26] I guess you kind of do that with, with the

[01:13:28] parking structures if you're going to park there.

[01:13:30] I mean, I, I granted that's, that's a good

[01:13:33] ways away and you still might have to take a

[01:13:35] tram up to Disneyland and DCA, but it's

[01:13:40] all really close and tight.

[01:13:42] Yeah.

[01:13:43] You can't be immersed all the time.

[01:13:45] There's got to be a point where it breaks, you

[01:13:47] know, right?

[01:13:48] But what are you going to do?

[01:13:49] All right.

[01:13:50] That's it.

[01:13:51] We're done.

[01:13:52] We're getting out of here.

[01:13:53] Okay.

[01:13:54] What do you think of that?

[01:13:55] I think it's great.

[01:13:56] Where's my music?

[01:13:57] It was so nice to have another,

[01:13:58] another female voice.

[01:14:00] Oh yeah.

[01:14:01] Carrie, thank you very much.

[01:14:03] I appreciate you coming on and sharing your

[01:14:05] experience about the Disney TV, Disney Channel,

[01:14:08] whatever it is, Disney TV streaming

[01:14:11] service.

[01:14:12] That's the same way I talked about it before we

[01:14:14] went.

[01:14:15] Oops.

[01:14:16] Nope.

[01:14:17] Oops.

[01:14:18] Hey, we're back baby.

[01:14:21] Just pushing buttons like some weird

[01:14:24] gorilla on a switchboard.

[01:14:26] Yeah.

[01:14:27] I appreciate it.

[01:14:28] Thank you again.

[01:14:29] I did appreciate the way that you were

[01:14:31] like, you know, I kind of just went to

[01:14:33] just ride rides and game the system.

[01:14:35] Yeah.

[01:14:36] I think it's great.

[01:14:37] I think it's a fresh perspective on how to

[01:14:40] do these things, these ticket events.

[01:14:43] It's a different way to look at the ticketed

[01:14:45] event.

[01:14:46] It's not necessarily about what's going on

[01:14:47] in the event, but it's about the act of

[01:14:50] the event distracting everybody else.

[01:14:53] Yeah, basically.

[01:14:54] You know what I mean?

[01:14:55] I think it's great.

[01:14:56] That's awesome.

[01:14:57] Yeah.

[01:14:58] So thank you to you and of course,

[01:14:59] thank you to Amari as well for being

[01:15:01] your partner on that.

[01:15:02] I appreciate that very much.

[01:15:04] Everybody, you guys know what to do.

[01:15:06] I don't go to our website.

[01:15:07] Figure stuff out.

[01:15:09] I don't know until next time.

[01:15:10] We'll see you in the parks.