EarzUp! | The 2023 Christmas Show: Letters To Santa Iger, The Music of Animal Kingdom At Christmas!

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[00:00:36] right to your speakers. EarzUp! Hey, what's going on everybody? This is EarzUp! And this is our Christmas

[00:00:47] show or is there only show for December, baby? Yeah, just we give ourselves a day off in December. Yeah, why not?

[00:00:54] Is he schedule? Yeah, why not? What else are we gonna do, right? You know, have another show about,

[00:00:59] I don't know what, old people? Yeah, the history of the old person in the park? Those are my shows,

[00:01:05] okay? Yeah, that is true. Earz doesn't have an affinity for the older generation, which, you know,

[00:01:10] I don't mind too much. We have a good show for you because you know what happens on our Christmas

[00:01:16] show? It is our letters to Santa CEO. Unfortunately, it does just happen to be Bob Eyger. Again, I didn't

[00:01:23] think this would happen. You know, too many times more, but you know, I wonder what he's doing.

[00:01:39] Oh, that I'm actually curious about that too. Like, you know, going on various wine tastings,

[00:01:44] I would imagine or buying another, uh, you know, cult. I mean, he has plenty of money. Yeah. I don't know.

[00:01:51] Well, anyway, with us today, of course is a Taran and Eric, but we have some special guests

[00:01:56] with us. And I don't know how we, this is a Christmas miracle everybody. We have Jeremy here on the

[00:02:01] main show, Jeremy. Hi, bud. It feels good to be back on the main show. It's been a while. Yeah,

[00:02:05] a Christmas minus a day or whatever math you did whatever Jeremy Matt happened. Um, and then we

[00:02:10] have the lovely Miss Beverly back on the show. Hello Beverly. Hi. Hi, it's been a long time since we've seen

[00:02:16] you on this very long show. Yeah. I've been good. Yeah. It's working. Yeah. Nice work and white

[00:02:23] cinder block wall behind you. It looks great. It's not cinder block there. Um, but they're

[00:02:28] like acoustic. Oh, really, Terrence is at the other church. Uh oh. You have two churches now. Wow,

[00:02:34] We have two campuses. I would call campuses now. Oh, yeah, it's actually camp by. Um, I'll be i'll be back

[00:02:43] to my office in about 15 minutes. I just had to take care of something real quick. Okay. Okay.

[00:02:47] You just is on the show. Okay. All right. Well, damn, I'm on the show when I what I need to take care of is

[00:02:53] happening right now. So I don't have to come into work Friday. What is it? Uh, there's some videos that

[00:02:58] we need to put on the screens that I don't want to have to come into tomorrow. So I just got the

[00:03:02] last video I need like three minutes ago. Cool. I'm going to put it on the screen. All right. Well,

[00:03:07] we'll see you in a bit. Thanks for, thanks for coming in. I'm here for now. I appreciate it.

[00:03:12] I'll be gone for five minutes and then I'll be back on. Um, he's like the roving reporter. It's like

[00:03:17] during a hurricane. Like, all right, go down to the other end of town and see. We're gonna hear

[00:03:20] live from reporter Terrence Green who is in the middle of the storm with no pants on. Terrence

[00:03:26] hasn't looked down there. Thank you, Chet. Well, uh, yeah. So we have our letters to Santa

[00:03:35] Eiger today. I'm really excited about it. Um, I've worked long and hard on mine. Of course,

[00:03:39] my wish list and, um, I hope everybody else has done the same because I'm very excited.

[00:03:44] But apparently I did tell, tell some people they don't have to do it, which I don't know.

[00:03:47] I don't know why I would do that. Wow. You did it. Yeah. So that's, did you tell it to me? No,

[00:03:54] I didn't tell you Eric, you are. I didn't. Yeah, you need to do it. You're just desperate to have

[00:03:58] people on the show. Yeah. Whatever you guys got to do, just come on and let me green be so good.

[00:04:03] Somebody. Yeah. We weren't talking a little bit, um, about, you know, next time people are

[00:04:08] going to the parks. And if you guys are going to the parks and if you want some help, go into the

[00:04:13] parks and planning that vacation and making reservations and doing all the boring stuff that nobody

[00:04:18] really wants to do, all you really want to do is go to the parks and have the experience.

[00:04:22] It's all that lead up work, especially if you've been to Disneyland or Disney world by now,

[00:04:26] you already know how to do it. Like your first time I get at your giddy and you're doing research

[00:04:30] and you go, Oh, when does this open? And how long is you know, whatever? Let concierge do it.

[00:04:35] Go to concierge.com. Let them plan your vacation for you. You give them the dates,

[00:04:39] you give them a credit card and then they come and gingerly wake you up when it's time to go on

[00:04:43] your trip. They'll enter your house. You have to give them a copy of your key.

[00:04:46] And they will enter your house and then they will gingerly wake you up with a nice soft back rub

[00:04:51] Like sweetie. It's time to give you a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Eric physically does it.

[00:04:56] I make coffee and some toast. And everyone else utterly projects.

[00:05:02] And they're in, in the only one that goes on site.

[00:05:06] That's right. That's right. He's a supervisor.

[00:05:08] But yeah, check him about concierge.com. They're going to help you not only

[00:05:11] plan your vacation, they'll help you book all those reservations and do all this stuff like

[00:05:14] dining reservations and, you know, what is lightning lane and what rides haven't, what don't,

[00:05:19] instead of you sitting at the Google machine or the Bing machine,

[00:05:22] banging, banging your way through life. Let console your deal for you. It's free of charge.

[00:05:27] It costs nothing for you. And it, it means everything to your family, I imagine maybe because

[00:05:34] then you don't have to stress about it. And then, you know, I don't want to buy you a churro.

[00:05:38] I'm upsetty because I had to sit on hold for 45 minutes to get this reservation and dad

[00:05:45] gummy. Um, I, I, I, I stummy hurts, you know, whatever. I don't know what people do.

[00:05:49] Stummy, okay. That's what people do. That's what they down. And she's baby words all the time.

[00:05:54] Dummy. Yeah. And I love that. That was grandpa. Anyway,

[00:05:57] concierge.com. Everybody. Should we just get embarrassing stuff out of the way for a second?

[00:06:01] Oh, there's, there's a spare. I'm just a self. Yeah. I had to have rides like, would it.

[00:06:06] Well, she just went from zero to a hundred.

[00:06:14] Yeah. Zero hymn, Royce to a hundred, apparently, or zero to zero to long.

[00:06:19] Uh, so it's time for the, the giveaway for, uh, because I was talking about a couple shows,

[00:06:24] um, we have two giveaways tonight that were, that we're doing tonight. One is on Patreon and you

[00:06:29] don't have to do anything for that. If you're a patron, remember you're in, you're in the thing.

[00:06:32] And we're going to draw your, um, your name probably on the seeker show. I think we'll do that.

[00:06:36] Yeah. Um, but then I put another thing on social media was like, Hey, if you guys have a cool,

[00:06:41] Christmas stories that are like Disney related or whatever, send him in DMS, you can leave a full,

[00:06:45] uh, leave us a voicemail on our Internet website now, our WWW internet protocol site,

[00:06:51] and, uh, drop us a story. I'm curious to see, and the winner is going to get a prize pack.

[00:06:56] Uh, we got, we got no, no, no such stories.

[00:06:59] No, no, it's not why, except everybody. Yeah, not a single one, which I blame myself because number

[00:07:05] one, I posted like four days ago. Yeah, there wasn't a whole lot of times.

[00:07:10] It's fair number two. I don't really use the Instagram. Like, there's no, there's no interaction

[00:07:16] anymore, because I don't really like social media. I, I don't like it. So, I just called it

[00:07:22] don't like the Instagram, that's part of it. You don't like, you don't like doing social media.

[00:07:28] You like, yeah, you like in taking. Well, sure. Who doesn't? You know, I mean, okay. Um,

[00:07:33] yeah, I don't really like processing social media. I don't really like, you know, doing the

[00:07:36] promoting myself. I guess promoting stuff. I don't like that. I don't like doing that.

[00:07:40] So I haven't done it for a while and I'll post. You see, you're just kind of automated whenever we

[00:07:43] have a show post. So there's like low engagement, worthy content. So the algorithm just didn't

[00:07:49] feed it to as many people and that's, it's with my fall. I'm not blaming anybody, but, uh, yeah,

[00:07:53] so I don't have any price packs to give away. I mean, I do. I have three that I was going to

[00:07:57] give away, but I'm just going to give them to the, uh, patreon people. Sure. So there's

[00:08:01] you a big fat drawing tonight on secret show where we're drinking and, uh, I'll have a good time.

[00:08:04] So, uh, next time we have a giveaway, which we were still will because I still have a lot of

[00:08:08] the cool stuff. I'm going to promote it for a little bit longer. Yeah. Then, uh, then one time

[00:08:13] on Instagram on the insta. Yeah. And I would say maybe I think submitting a story might be a

[00:08:20] little intimidating. I wouldn't do that. Maybe unless it was a really great story, I can't

[00:08:26] imagine myself. Here's what I would have done. Uh huh. If I saw it and I go, Oh man, I'm intimidated by

[00:08:31] it. And then the next time I pops up on my feed and there's no submissions, like no one commented

[00:08:36] or I'd be like, Oh, well, no one's going to do this. I'm just going to enter and I'm going to win.

[00:08:40] Yeah. Okay. I see that. Yeah. Maybe next time just when you post pull the, the, the Luke Skywalker

[00:08:48] photo off your wall and imply that that's one of the prizes. Yeah. Yeah. Just holding go,

[00:08:54] you can win prizes. They're great. Nice. So then a few socks. Yeah.

[00:08:59] They go away beating switch. No, I just think of a picture of me and my friend, my buddy,

[00:09:04] he's a part of it. It's something more just humble. Yeah. So you know, there you go. My, uh,

[00:09:09] my bad, uh, you know, you think I'd learn, but, uh, you know, having done this forever and never,

[00:09:13] but, uh, you know, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? And so I debated whether or not

[00:09:18] two just lie and, uh, pretend that I had stories and use chat, GPT to make up stories and go,

[00:09:25] oh, you know, big hamburger, five, nine, eight, you won. But I, I can't do that. I'm too

[00:09:34] up front in my, my life is too much of an open book when I get in front of these stupid microphone.

[00:09:39] So I'm surprised. I mean, the chat still has time. That is true. Sure. Yes. Well, I'm surprised

[00:09:46] by two different things. I'm surprised one that nobody submitted just AI stories.

[00:09:52] Um, because I would have been an easy win. Um, and two that Jimmy didn't submit anything.

[00:09:58] That to me is a little shocking. I'm not Jimmy Dan. Dan would have submitted an AI thing.

[00:10:05] Yeah, but he didn't submit at all, which to me is shocking. And I'm like, did it.

[00:10:09] Didn't you been barred from social media anyway? I don't think he's allowed to be on the internet.

[00:10:13] Like, it's close. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. We have a whole thing going on. It's, it's fine.

[00:10:19] We're, we're getting better with Dan. Um, he's getting better. Is he in the mental

[00:10:24] Insta? Just like brain activity is a, there's a little bit of electric convulsive therapy and

[00:10:31] just mild mild shocks. Sure. It's fine. We have, of course. And if you get on twitch.

[00:10:36] TV slash Dan, you can shock him as well. If you give 24 bitties.

[00:10:41] Okay. Well, let's do some stories. I don't have any news. So we also, why we have Jeremy

[00:10:47] here in one, because we love the guy, but also we have a spectral radio spectrum time segment is

[00:10:52] what we have. I think it's been for a reason. You looked me. Yeah. It's been forever. Also that.

[00:10:59] Yeah. But I love that song. Yeah. Me too. Jeremy, do you want to do spectro time first, or do you

[00:11:06] want to do an after story? I'll leave it with you to decide that just like Taren. Okay. We'll do it

[00:11:12] afterwards. All right. So let's get into our dear Santa baw-baw. tiger story. All right. To who has

[00:11:18] stories. I do. And I do. Okay. And why are we calling them stories? They're not stories. They're

[00:11:23] letters. Yeah. Or they're letters. I hear what I'm talking about. I'm right. But the listeners might

[00:11:27] not. Did listeners have, have letters? I mean, I guess we don't have tears. Do you have a letter

[00:11:33] from Santa? I go. No. That's fine. Well, you have a Terence. Welcome to the show.

[00:11:39] Sorry. Guys. Do you have a letter from Santa? I go. Can't hear you now suddenly. You're muted.

[00:11:43] I think which is right. Yeah, that's because I forgot it's the button. It's been a long time. Sorry.

[00:11:48] Something's never changed. Yeah. I don't know how to work electronics. No, you told me I didn't have to,

[00:11:54] but I will create one in chat. GPT right now if you want me to, I thought you were doing that 20 minutes ago.

[00:11:59] Well, I did. I'll read it. It's not good. One of you do it through chat. GPT and what if you do it

[00:12:05] through Bing AI? Yeah. And then Google bard. Okay. Well, tell you what, let me start. Let me start with

[00:12:12] mine first. Okay? Well, do mine. I never go first and then we'll, you know, we'll get to everybody else.

[00:12:18] We think of that sounds good. I wish I had music for it, but I don't could we just play like

[00:12:23] for smells. The magic of Disney. Oh, jeez whenever Bob, I go farts. This is what you're here.

[00:12:30] Okay. Here we go. Dear Santa. Well, this is awkward, isn't it? Who would have thought we'd

[00:12:39] be rehashing this tired old segment yet again with you, but here we are to Bob's entered the CEO

[00:12:46] office and only one Bob exited. Only history will tell which one was the winner. What does that mean?

[00:12:53] Hell, if I know, but it sounds pretty cool, right? I know. I still need to work on that transition

[00:12:58] paragraph. When you sent me that bottle of wine and very, very nice case of limited edition

[00:13:02] Mountain Dew code red, I took it as a sign last year that you were reaching out coming to terms

[00:13:08] with all the vibes with the Z that I'd been sending you, even though it was sent COD. I knew that

[00:13:13] game had in fact recognized game, but that was last year and this is about this year or this coming

[00:13:20] year rather. So I guess last year's letter was really about this year and this year's letter is

[00:13:26] the actual letter. The, the point of the thing, I thought that was going to be confusing, but it

[00:13:31] actually came up pretty good. Nice. Last year for this year, I had asked you for five very simple

[00:13:37] things that would not only impress me, which is the main reason to do anything, but also heal those

[00:13:42] self-inflicted wounds you inflicted on the company's reputation. One thing I asked for last year

[00:13:48] was pay cast members a minimum of 20 bucks an hour. This did not happen. In fact, you left it

[00:13:53] at 14 and change and some 25,000 cast members had to sue you to even get an increase the city had

[00:13:59] passed previously, which might see them get 18 bucks an hour. I asked you to stop the move of

[00:14:05] Imagineers over to Disney World, which I'm thankful that you decided to listen to me on this one.

[00:14:09] However, the tide, you requested all of the affected Imagineers to pay me and reward is

[00:14:14] unnecessary. So I would appreciate you. They don't need to do that anymore. And ask you to fire

[00:14:19] Kim or Ryan, which you didn't do and that's your loss. Number four, realize that people will pay

[00:14:24] for something. It doesn't mean that you should charge them for it. And I was talking about

[00:14:29] lightning lane, specifically all these little onesie twosie nickel dime stuff. The only note I had on

[00:14:34] that was just the word psych because it doesn't stop you at all. And five, I'd ask you, you know,

[00:14:40] what just do one price raise and not raise anything for like five years because they're getting

[00:14:44] really annoying and you're pricing people out of the parks. I knew it would be a long shot.

[00:14:49] So I can't really say that I'm mad that that didn't happen. I'm just really disappointed.

[00:14:53] So that was our last year slash this year recap. And honestly, I forget where we landed on that,

[00:14:59] but here's what I'm asking for in this year's letter for next year, smiley face emoji.

[00:15:05] Number one, put someone in charge of nighttime spectaculars that knows what they are doing.

[00:15:10] You've had more than a few misses over the last several years. And we need to know that Disney

[00:15:14] still understands how to entertain rather than simply plop down their entire catalog of IP

[00:15:21] and start pointing to it, looking over the crowd and going, eh, eh, maybe like someone from

[00:15:27] New Jersey, I don't know. Number two, I have three words for you, museum of the weird.

[00:15:35] It's time to give Roly his due. And wow, the little candle man that you put in in the haunted

[00:15:41] mansion on both coast is hard. It's nice. It's not really worth the legacy of one of my

[00:15:46] dearest and closest friends. Number three, dude, you know what I'd really love a bike, like a really

[00:15:52] cool bike, like with the ones like the shocks in the forks, like I've never had one like that,

[00:15:57] I would really that would be cool. Number four, after much thought and deliberation on what the space

[00:16:03] could be, I have decided to go public with my desire to remove the haul of presidents in Walt

[00:16:09] Disney world, the political landscape for the last five years has poisoned the well. So to speak,

[00:16:14] and we need a space where we can go and not have to hear about those dusty founding fathers and

[00:16:19] what they would have wanted because really who cares anymore? Give me some up. It's already

[00:16:24] give me some entertainment. But yeah, it's time to mothball that fleet, baby. Now, in the interest

[00:16:29] of time, that's all of my humble requests. Honestly, I could go on all day, but there are other

[00:16:34] folks in here who you'll want to hear from. And I haven't been to the parks since like 2019. So

[00:16:39] what do I really know? I just can't afford it. And maybe that's the point behind these letters, Bob.

[00:16:44] We aren't willing to deep dive into debt for you with these prices the way they are. And you don't

[00:16:48] really offer anything new. That's of interest to me. I'm hopeful for the future, but for now,

[00:16:52] slightly concerned, I never know how to end these things to you, the bravely yours, Jason,

[00:16:58] dang. Very good. There we go. Well, who wants to go next? I can't wait for next year when you

[00:17:06] remind them that he didn't get you a bite.

[00:17:07] I wanted. Every part of me wants to just like anonymously buy a bike has had a center.

[00:17:16] Like a small one. All three. Yeah. They've been so cool. I thought you were going in a different

[00:17:24] direction. I thought you're going to ask for trust. That would be cool. It's like a light cycle,

[00:17:28] bike. No, just debate for me. Well, there you go. Eric, what are you going next?

[00:17:33] Oh, I was going to look up now. Why not? Oh, no, Terrence disappeared. He hates the

[00:17:41] the sound of your voice, Eric. I thought he's going to drive to the other campus now for some

[00:17:46] reason. I guess, dammit. Terrence, I don't know what he's doing. Oh, man. All I wanted was Terrence

[00:17:51] as approval. He gone. Well, rudeness aside. Deer Santa Iger, thank you for the card again this year.

[00:18:00] As a D23 member, I do deeply care about what you create, and I'm happy to see that you recognize

[00:18:05] that I look forward to seeing letters from you for each of the ways I engage with your company's

[00:18:10] content, like the vacation club and Disney plus subscriptions about that good luck next year in convincing

[00:18:17] Wall Street that the streaming service is a valuable commodity and not a massive money sink.

[00:18:21] You hope we're all addicted to enough to pay a hundred twenty five dollars a month for we

[00:18:25] small times, shareholders will just watch our investment wildly fluctuate. Please don't worry

[00:18:30] about new IP. Most of us don't really realize that all we want is the old junk again.

[00:18:36] I can't tell if I'm being sarcastic or not at this point. I think I'm being sincere, actually.

[00:18:42] Yeah, why not? Laura, the budget of the next few Marvel things, the real fans will still come and see

[00:18:50] it. We'll put it on the background like we did when Paramount was distributing Ironman and Thor.

[00:18:56] On that note, please make sure that part two of Andore re-create the magic of the first,

[00:19:01] And the Star Wars folks will be a bit quieter, the quieter as well. Let felony do his things,

[00:19:06] and I bet the jerks will all shut up. No, so the parks. If you don't have any real plans,

[00:19:13] could you just admit it, maybe? Zaddy tomorrow doesn't need to hold a giant press conference

[00:19:20] every year to show more of the same concept art. Maybe wait until you actually approve some of

[00:19:23] these things. If you don't want to build anything, we're probably fine with that too.

[00:19:27] Just paint some railings, a new color? We're in. Sorry for bossing you around so much. I swear I've

[00:19:34] been good. Let's get to the real requests. Please give the cast of scraping the vault some more

[00:19:39] directed Disney+ sequels and live-action versions so they don't run out of material.

[00:19:44] Also, please give us more Marvel content, so puny pod can talk for a few more years too.

[00:19:50] Same request for the Baffy Milk Boys, I don't want them to have to resort to reviewing every

[00:19:54] episode of Clone Wars one minute at a time from their trailer behind the studio. You know where they hang

[00:20:02] out. Speaking of resorts, please make an appearance on the Supreme Resort with Michael Eisner.

[00:20:08] We want to compare you to live hashtag, Eisner wins a little bit. One last thing,

[00:20:13] please give Jason a good time at Disneyland next month. If he has a bad trip to Disneyland,

[00:20:18] he might just rage quit and lock all of us out of the years up studio. Yes, even the

[00:20:23] Baffy Boys in their trailer. Okay. Well, that's it I guess. Thanks for another year of stuff to keep

[00:20:29] all of us podcasters talking at each other. I love you. I also want that Darth Saber that I bought

[00:20:36] at Disneyland and shipped to my house. But it never showed up and nobody was able to help me get

[00:20:40] that thing reset to my house. Oh, that's good. You know, it'll end up in a high note.

[00:20:49] They just never, they're like, sorry, it didn't choke and that's not our problem. I kind of gave up on

[00:20:55] pursuing customer service and

[00:20:57] - Oh, no. - Oh, come.

[00:20:59] - I mean, it's probably the good chicken chain.

[00:21:01] - Because I lost the receipt.

[00:21:02] We're all like, I don't have the number.

[00:21:04] - Oh, man.

[00:21:05] - Well, I wanna editorialize that a little bit,

[00:21:07] actually Eric, thank you Jeremy.

[00:21:09] - You'll make a great point.

[00:21:10] And it's something that people are saying a lot right now,

[00:21:13] now that they've just unveiled Epcot's over overhaul.

[00:21:17] And it's that you would've been better off doing nothing.

[00:21:22] You closed this half of the park for five years,

[00:21:25] so you could take out a fountain and put in a planter.

[00:21:29] - At least what you build should at least meet

[00:21:33] what you replaced.

[00:21:35] It shouldn't be worse.

[00:21:36] Like it should at least equal that.

[00:21:38] It actually should exceed what you had before.

[00:21:42] So I think you're absolutely right.

[00:21:44] They did this with Tomorrowland.

[00:21:45] Remember when they made it,

[00:21:47] like it doesn't look futuristic anymore.

[00:21:49] And it like now, but when you look back at old pictures

[00:21:52] of Tomorrowland in the 80s,

[00:21:53] it actually looks more futuristic

[00:21:55] than it does now, there's so many times

[00:21:56] when then if they just reused restraint

[00:21:59] and did nothing, they would've been better off

[00:22:00] than if they did something because they're not very good.

[00:22:03] - Yeah, yeah.

[00:22:05] - Well, so I'd want to build on you.

[00:22:08] - I mean, this whole letter was a mixed bag

[00:22:11] because I'm happy that they're doing some things.

[00:22:14] I'm happy that walls are coming down at Epcot,

[00:22:17] but I also want my dark saber.

[00:22:20] - Sure.

[00:22:22] - Well, next time take a picture of your receipt.

[00:22:24] - Less than learned.

[00:22:26] - Yeah, yeah.

[00:22:27] I've never had problems shipping from Disneyland.

[00:22:30] And I actually got, we shipped two things

[00:22:32] from the Disneyland hotel that trip.

[00:22:34] A bowl like a like Trader Sams like serving bowl.

[00:22:39] And that went fine.

[00:22:44] The dark saber never showed up.

[00:22:46] And I lost the receipt anyway.

[00:22:49] It was really hard getting things fixed.

[00:22:52] - Yeah, I never did.

[00:22:53] And I kind of forget about it.

[00:22:56] So it's partly happening.

[00:22:57] - Sounds like it's mostly on you to be honest with you.

[00:22:59] I bet your neighbor has it on the wall,

[00:23:01] on his wall, like above his bed or something.

[00:23:03] - Damn you, Jack.

[00:23:05] (laughing)

[00:23:06] Chuck seems like the kind of guy that would screw with you.

[00:23:09] - I want to go next.

[00:23:11] - Okay, Terry, why don't you-

[00:23:13] - I'm not following Jeremy.

[00:23:14] - Pushing me around.

[00:23:16] - But wait, I have one too in its trash.

[00:23:17] I still, I still wanna go next.

[00:23:19] - Just mine.

[00:23:20] (laughing)

[00:23:21] - I wrote mine in its trash.

[00:23:22] - Okay.

[00:23:23] (laughing)

[00:23:24] - Dear Santa Igar, tough year, huh?

[00:23:27] Streaming isn't doing well.

[00:23:28] Wish and elemental are lame.

[00:23:31] You've over saturated the market on Marvel and Star Wars.

[00:23:34] You've cut jobs, underpaid your employees.

[00:23:36] And your put on quote disturbed by actors and writers

[00:23:39] wanting to be paid appropriately for their talent, bro.

[00:23:43] Let me help you out here.

[00:23:45] Here is my path to your success.

[00:23:48] Number one, just get rid of park reservations.

[00:23:51] It's annoying people, it's complicated,

[00:23:54] and I really don't believe it's solving the problem

[00:23:56] you wanna solve.

[00:23:57] Number two, let's make sure inside out to is good.

[00:24:02] This is mandatory.

[00:24:04] Number three, do nothing with Star Wars or Marvel

[00:24:08] for one whole year.

[00:24:10] Trust me on this, no one's gonna forget about them.

[00:24:13] People will instead just be more excited when they return.

[00:24:16] Number four, stop doing interviews.

[00:24:19] You are personally out of touch and need to stop talking.

[00:24:23] Five, pay your employees a living wage.

[00:24:26] Six, finally,

[00:24:28] and I suspect you won't love this one, but resign.

[00:24:32] (laughing)

[00:24:33] Your time has come.

[00:24:34] You are very quickly becoming the next eisner

[00:24:37] and no one wants that reputation.

[00:24:40] Now, since I have gone out of my way

[00:24:42] to help you on your journey to success,

[00:24:44] it's not worth the very least not utter humiliation in ruin.

[00:24:46] I'd like the following in return.

[00:24:48] One, a four night stay at the suite at the Disneyland hotel.

[00:24:51] Number two, magic key passes with no blackout days

[00:24:55] and no reservations needed.

[00:24:56] Number three, free drinks at Carthay for life.

[00:25:00] Number four.

[00:25:01] Number four will actually, since I helped you so much,

[00:25:04] I want a free membership to Club 33

[00:25:06] with complimentary meals and drinks for life.

[00:25:08] Yes, Queen!

[00:25:10] Can you imagine?

[00:25:11] (laughing)

[00:25:13] Let's check over here.

[00:25:14] Tell you what, why don't you quit

[00:25:16] in an exchange for this lightning bolt of an idea.

[00:25:19] Give me free membership to the exclusive Club, please.

[00:25:22] Thank you.

[00:25:24] It makes perfect sense.

[00:25:25] Yeah, there's only a few hundred thousand dollars.

[00:25:26] Number five, these days.

[00:25:28] Finally, since you clearly missed it

[00:25:31] from my list last year, please reinstate

[00:25:33] the breakfast menu at Rancho Dazocolo.

[00:25:36] Yes.

[00:25:37] Thank you for your time, understanding and consideration.

[00:25:40] Now last year, I said, I love you from Taryn.

[00:25:44] This year, I'm just saying respectfully, Taryn.

[00:25:47] Downgraded.

[00:25:48] (laughing)

[00:25:49] Now, why is it not how I feel?

[00:25:50] Very good Taryn.

[00:25:51] That's my letter.

[00:25:51] Yeah.

[00:25:53] I mean, so right on the interview points,

[00:25:56] he doesn't read,

[00:25:57] first of all, he should be more disciplined

[00:25:59] when he's in these interviews.

[00:26:00] He doesn't realize how badly he comes across

[00:26:02] because he's been so,

[00:26:04] you know, when you're at that level,

[00:26:05] everybody just yeses you.

[00:26:06] And so he has no one checking him and saying,

[00:26:10] This isn't, this is something what you should say.

[00:26:12] Like isn't that good luck?

[00:26:13] I'm really lost it.

[00:26:14] And I feel like it's since he came back.

[00:26:17] He used to be good at this.

[00:26:18] But he took a year off,

[00:26:20] he went mentally down, pill,

[00:26:22] and he's not, he's not good anymore.

[00:26:25] He can't do this.

[00:26:26] How old is he?

[00:26:27] He's bad.

[00:26:28] 72 Eric knows.

[00:26:29] So you know, have you heard that?

[00:26:31] Whoa, this is so much tears.

[00:26:32] (laughing)

[00:26:33] Okay, yeah, I guess.

[00:26:35] I do it with him.

[00:26:36] What I mean is like,

[00:26:38] how do they say people like work to keep themselves sharp?

[00:26:42] But then they die when they quit.

[00:26:44] Yeah, like cops, like detectives and stuff like that.

[00:26:46] They do that a lot.

[00:26:47] Do you think his brain died a bit?

[00:26:49] Maybe that year off, really, his brain took me.

[00:26:51] I mean, he was like,

[00:26:53] he sits on the board of like a number of things.

[00:26:55] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:26:56] I think his, his,

[00:26:57] his ego sort of got the best of him.

[00:26:59] Yeah.

[00:27:00] And he came back thinking,

[00:27:01] you know, his, his white hat was tall enough.

[00:27:04] And it's not.

[00:27:05] It's bad.

[00:27:06] No one pelts this 81 and he's trying to boss Disney around.

[00:27:09] So tell ya.

[00:27:11] But he didn't not to not to go into the new segment.

[00:27:14] (laughing)

[00:27:15] lurley.

[00:27:16] Yeah, well, good job, Terry.

[00:27:17] He's got to go.

[00:27:18] And he's not going to.

[00:27:19] But he's going to go in tow in 26th.

[00:27:20] He's not helping.

[00:27:21] There's that.

[00:27:22] He's not helping.

[00:27:23] We got another few years of the man.

[00:27:24] 1526.

[00:27:25] Isn't that right?

[00:27:27] He kept it far away.

[00:27:29] He just he just expired because he can't find it.

[00:27:32] I want to retire in 20 seconds.

[00:27:34] Same.

[00:27:36] He just can't find, he just for the life of them.

[00:27:38] He can't find anybody to do, to do as good of a job

[00:27:41] as he's been doing.

[00:27:43] He can't, which shows you how, what a narcissist this guy is.

[00:27:47] Yeah.

[00:27:48] One can fill his shoes according to him.

[00:27:51] According to him.

[00:27:52] tomorrow's not ready.

[00:27:53] I wonder why tomorrow hasn't been ready.

[00:27:54] I feel like tomorrow's going to be the next guy.

[00:27:56] Cause he, they're going to make him put on jeans that,

[00:27:59] that him.

[00:28:00] Yeah.

[00:28:01] He might have to buy quarters of zip sweater.

[00:28:05] Why would they do that?

[00:28:06] If parents, what do you think?

[00:28:09] Either Terrence or the serial killer came back into the hallway.

[00:28:12] The serial killer.

[00:28:14] He's either here or I'm going to die.

[00:28:16] Beverly, please come down the hallway.

[00:28:18] I need help.

[00:28:20] Now my door is locked.

[00:28:20] Never mind then.

[00:28:24] Are these scary?

[00:28:25] Church.

[00:28:25] These Cheetos for anybody can reach anybody to take them or.

[00:28:29] Um, Beth, why don't you go ahead with your story?

[00:28:32] Okay.

[00:28:33] Dear Mr.

[00:28:34] I agree.

[00:28:35] I hope this letter, letter finds you in the lap of luxuries surrounded by piles of cash

[00:28:39] and Disney metric as it's customary for someone of your stature.

[00:28:44] As the holiday season descends upon us like an overpriced.

[00:28:46] Terro cart.

[00:28:47] I couldn't resist the urge to drop you a line with my entirely reasonable and not at

[00:28:51] all selfish Christmas wishes.

[00:28:53] Firstly, could you arrange for a personal serenade by a choir of singing Disney characters?

[00:28:58] I hear Mickey Mouse has a particular.

[00:29:00] We enchanting falsetto.

[00:29:02] I'm always dreamed of having an animated creature.

[00:29:04] I'm sorry.

[00:29:05] I've always dreamt of having animated creatures, crew and holiday tunes in my living

[00:29:09] room.

[00:29:10] Think of it as a Christmas concert.

[00:29:11] But with more talking animals next on the list, a private jet shaped like Cinderella's

[00:29:16] carriage because nothing says happy holidays like sign through the skies and a pumpkin.

[00:29:21] I'm sure the federal aviation administration won't mind besides I've always wanted

[00:29:25] to experience turbulence while sitting on a glass slipper.

[00:29:27] Wow.

[00:29:33] Wow.

[00:29:34] So my high-club in a different, uh, okay.

[00:29:37] That, that one didn't, I didn't, I didn't free read this.

[00:29:42] You just wrote it, you just went into a trance.

[00:29:43] Yeah, I just, I just, I had a body experience of course.

[00:29:48] No Christmas would be complete without a lifetime supply of dull whips delivered to my

[00:29:52] doorstep, but I think this should be this should be.

[00:29:56] Yeah, it's a life, it's a lifetime supply, but at once.

[00:30:01] So, here's 20 years are the dull whips.

[00:30:04] Well, it's only like four dull whips because nobody wants more than that.

[00:30:08] It's just on a palate.

[00:30:09] Here you go.

[00:30:10] And here, here they are, they're all in perfect condition.

[00:30:13] It's up to you.

[00:30:14] Let me just not melt.

[00:30:15] Yeah.

[00:30:16] Gross.

[00:30:17] Anyway, I figure they should be a piece of cake for someone of your influence.

[00:30:19] I mean, who wouldn't want frozen pineapple goodness available 24/7.

[00:30:23] Me.

[00:30:24] Lastly, I hope this isn't too much to ask.

[00:30:27] Could you temporarily rename December to December, in honor of my undying love for all things

[00:30:34] listening?

[00:30:35] Oh, my god.

[00:30:36] I think that has a nice ring to it.

[00:30:40] And it would make explaining my constant Disney binge watching to my friends and family

[00:30:43] so much easier.

[00:30:44] I understand you have a few responsibilities running in an entertainment empire, but I'm

[00:30:50] sure granting these whimsical requests would only take a fraction of your time.

[00:30:55] I'll be patiently waiting.

[00:30:56] I'll be patiently waiting by the chimney for these treasures.

[00:30:59] And I'm sure Santa won't mind making room for your delivery, which in you the marius

[00:31:03] holiday, filled with laughter, joy and an abundance of Disney themed extravaganza, extravaganza,

[00:31:10] yours unapologetically, ever.

[00:31:12] Lee Moore.

[00:31:13] Wow.

[00:31:14] Ooh, AI's got your number.

[00:31:18] I typed in write us our cast at Christmas, lead in a ball, Igar asking for Disney things

[00:31:23] and favors.

[00:31:24] Wow.

[00:31:25] That is wow.

[00:31:26] And it did it.

[00:31:27] That was really impressive for that.

[00:31:29] We are all.

[00:31:30] I think the favor might have been the glass, look.

[00:31:34] Wow.

[00:31:35] Anyway, that happened.

[00:31:40] Wow.

[00:31:41] Nicely done.

[00:31:42] I can't tell if I'm sorry that it happened or not.

[00:31:44] It wasn't too good.

[00:31:47] Yeah.

[00:31:48] Yeah.

[00:31:49] Why haven't I been using this for my scary story, right?

[00:31:51] I told you that last year.

[00:31:52] I told you that.

[00:31:54] Yeah.

[00:31:55] I was afraid of AI last year.

[00:31:56] Oh, man.

[00:31:57] Now, you use it every day.

[00:31:59] Everyday.

[00:32:00] Now I'm afraid of it this year.

[00:32:02] I kept forgetting what you were reading that and I was like, why is that writing it?

[00:32:08] Why did you write this?

[00:32:09] Like the way she escapes is different.

[00:32:12] She's using words that have like two syllables.

[00:32:15] Oh, shut up.

[00:32:16] Like rude.

[00:32:17] It words that even I'm going like, wait, what does that mean?

[00:32:20] Well, let's just be clear.

[00:32:22] I would never use federal aviation administration.

[00:32:27] You can say the airport cops.

[00:32:30] Anyway, very good.

[00:32:33] Bev, I'm glad you put a lot of time and effort into that.

[00:32:37] Thank you.

[00:32:38] Thank you.

[00:32:39] All right.

[00:32:40] Terrance, what do you got?

[00:32:41] Is he driving to you now?

[00:32:46] No, no, isn't he dumb?

[00:32:48] Honestly, I'm going to go check.

[00:32:50] Do you hear screaming?

[00:32:51] I'm being murdered.

[00:32:52] All right.

[00:32:53] All right, Jerry, hit us with your, with your story.

[00:32:56] It's always good.

[00:32:57] No one wants to follow a showstopper.

[00:32:59] I'm glad I went before Jeremy.

[00:33:01] Yes, dear Santa, Iger.

[00:33:03] Each year I write this letter that's more poetry than prose in the hopes that that one

[00:33:09] listener won't call Jason and me Reddit bros.

[00:33:11] Each episode of In-depth, I bring stories mundane and sublime, but Jason is fearing my

[00:33:16] titles are starting not to rhyme, but enough about that.

[00:33:20] Let's talk about you, Bob.

[00:33:22] It seems all this year you've made my head throb.

[00:33:25] The Epcot overhaul is something I just knew that you'd watch, but I didn't think you'd

[00:33:30] build a planter that looks like a crotch.

[00:33:34] Then there is luminous Epcot's new nighttime show.

[00:33:37] It's from the lessons of harmonious I thought that you'd grow.

[00:33:40] I saw the new barges and thought, wow, what a good try.

[00:33:43] But this show is just a bunch of crap in the sky.

[00:33:46] It's time to admit you can't top reflections of earth.

[00:33:49] So please bring it back and fill this great dirth.

[00:33:53] You can reuse these new barges.

[00:33:55] There were new globe you'll have to construct, but if you bring back the show, you might

[00:33:58] make a few bucks.

[00:34:01] My next Christmas wish is about the hotels.

[00:34:04] Your designers new changes are boring.

[00:34:08] Michael Eisner's architecture was all about art, but these latest designs are like

[00:34:12] a wet fart.

[00:34:15] And now what about my annual pass and those park reservations?

[00:34:18] The system is nothing but pure aggravation.

[00:34:21] I can visit no problem daily, but only in the afternoon except Epcot and Magic Kingdom

[00:34:26] on the weekends is all this really true.

[00:34:28] There's good to go days, we don't know what that means.

[00:34:31] So I'm hearing this out makes me really want to scream too many twists, rules and exceptions

[00:34:36] to mine to figure this out.

[00:34:37] I need Albert Einstein.

[00:34:39] Do I need a reservation or do I not?

[00:34:43] With this system, it's time to shit or get off the pot.

[00:34:46] Yes.

[00:34:47] Then you've got genie plus, but also lightning lane.

[00:34:50] Why do you want to cause all your guests so much pain?

[00:34:53] Getting rid of that free and easy fast pass is a decision that's really starting to

[00:34:57] chat my ass.

[00:34:59] My final item is a really awesome.

[00:35:02] My final item isn't really a wish, but let's not nitpick.

[00:35:08] It's more of a resolution to which I hope I can stick.

[00:35:12] I haven't done a spectral time segment in a while.

[00:35:14] I'm not making excuses like some little child.

[00:35:17] It just seems this year I've had some writers block.

[00:35:20] It's not that I spend all my time playing with my piano.

[00:35:24] So in 2024, I will try to adhere to bringing spectral time segments back to your ears.

[00:35:30] Merry Christmas, Bob.

[00:35:31] Oh, very, very good.

[00:35:34] Good job.

[00:35:35] Now, I'm starving.

[00:35:37] I mean, what was your chat?

[00:35:40] GPT prompt for that?

[00:35:41] So Bev can learn.

[00:35:44] Next time I need to put in, make it rhyme.

[00:35:47] Oh, my God, you've got to rhyme.

[00:35:50] I tried to hold back with, I actually edit it out some of the cursing, but I couldn't

[00:35:56] do all of it.

[00:35:57] I'm going to let you use the beep where you feel necessary.

[00:35:59] Oh, that was so good.

[00:36:01] Oh, man.

[00:36:02] Absolutely loved it.

[00:36:03] Good stuff, Jared.

[00:36:04] That's why nobody could follow you.

[00:36:06] He was just okay.

[00:36:08] Jason texted me to be on the show like a month ago and it was probably, it was like

[00:36:13] it was like 11, 30 at night here.

[00:36:15] And I probably spent the next half hours like, well, I've got to start writing my

[00:36:19] like at least five paragraphs of it done.

[00:36:22] Oh, it's awesome.

[00:36:23] Oh, yeah.

[00:36:25] Very good.

[00:36:26] Always like it.

[00:36:27] Always look forward to it.

[00:36:28] All right, let's take a quick break.

[00:36:29] We're going to come back.

[00:36:30] We have a Spectral Time segment.

[00:36:31] Jeremy, you want to tease everybody by what it's about?

[00:36:33] Oh, we're going to talk about the music of the best theme theme park that Disney has

[00:36:38] Animal Kingdom at Christmas.

[00:36:40] Oh, cool.

[00:36:41] All right, very good.

[00:36:42] All right, hang on everybody.

[00:36:43] It's ears up.

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[00:37:58] All right, thanks for sticking around everybody because why wouldn't you want to stick

[00:38:04] around?

[00:38:05] Literally the best segment we have on the show.

[00:38:08] We're making Jeremy field too good.

[00:38:10] Yeah.

[00:38:11] How can we make Ben feel good right now?

[00:38:13] Or Eric?

[00:38:15] Not calling Jeremy segment the best.

[00:38:17] I don't know.

[00:38:18] Yeah.

[00:38:19] I mean, it kind of is kind of like it's been a while.

[00:38:23] I'm looking forward to it.

[00:38:26] And Ben was just pretty.

[00:38:28] Thanks.

[00:38:30] I don't know how to think that's like for you.

[00:38:32] I love it.

[00:38:33] Oh, lovely.

[00:38:35] Stop it.

[00:38:36] Oh, I think Karen's is here.

[00:38:39] Sure.

[00:38:40] I'll see you, Ben.

[00:38:41] Because now it's time to join us as we unravel the match you behind some of Disney's

[00:38:45] most beloved pieces of music.

[00:38:47] It's Spectro-Time.

[00:38:51] Oh, Jeremy, it's been a long, long time in my friend.

[00:39:12] How are you?

[00:39:13] It feels so good.

[00:39:14] So good to be back on the main show with the Spectro-Time segment ready to go.

[00:39:19] God.

[00:39:21] Just keep it going.

[00:39:22] All night long, all night long.

[00:39:24] Everything else you can't stop now.

[00:39:30] I don't know really what I'm doing, but I better take your whole spectra thing.

[00:39:35] Better keep voomin.

[00:39:36] Take your whole segment, run it through Chachi, but he can say make this rhyme.

[00:39:40] Make it rhyme.

[00:39:41] Exactly.

[00:39:41] It's amazing.

[00:39:44] We're talking about animal kingdom, wandering the holiday.

[00:39:48] Animal kingdom at Christmas, animal kingdom might be.

[00:39:51] I said this before I went to break the best themed park that Disney has left.

[00:39:56] It won't last much longer because now that they've finished ruining Epcot, you can

[00:40:00] tell some of these announcements.

[00:40:02] They're starting to turn their attention and they're like, we can't have a good park

[00:40:05] over there.

[00:40:06] We've got to go ruin that too.

[00:40:07] So get there while you can.

[00:40:10] Of course, one of my favorite elements of theme is audio.

[00:40:14] In Disney's animal kingdom has a soundtrack to Christmas that is as unique as the park

[00:40:17] itself and yet is remarkably simple.

[00:40:20] The area music of the park during the rest of the year features a playlist that is a

[00:40:23] mixture of custom Disney music written specifically for the park, and third-party music

[00:40:28] specifically curated to create a global sound that leans heavily into Asian and African

[00:40:34] beats and instruments.

[00:40:35] For the Christmas version of the park's main area loop, Disney looked to just two commercially

[00:40:40] available albums.

[00:40:41] They'll probably not prominently known.

[00:40:43] The first album which comprises most of the seasonal area music is Jose Luis Maduano

[00:40:49] and Rick Ricardo Silva's Afroandina Christmas album.

[00:40:54] It's a mouthful.

[00:40:55] Yeah, it's hard.

[00:40:56] Now Jose Luis Maduano is a notable Peruvian pianist.

[00:40:59] No, not only for his piano playing, but his abilities on the flute, the pan flute, the

[00:41:04] quena, which is an andean flute played by the native peoples of the Andes Mountains.

[00:41:10] He's also known as a composer producer and a ranger, Rick Ricardo Silva whom he partnered

[00:41:14] with for this album is also a versatile Peruvian musician.

[00:41:18] The album was actually the brainchild of Silva who sought out Maduano for the collaboration.

[00:41:23] We call us into number one just to start to give you a flavor of the feeling of this album.

[00:41:46] Back to a little breakdown.

[00:41:48] Yeah.

[00:41:49] It's also very happy sounding.

[00:41:50] I don't know if it's, I don't know.

[00:41:52] the guitar. I like the like the

[00:41:57] the base and the percussion sort of just doing weird things with time. It, you know, you

[00:42:01] could just easily follow the arrangement of the song, but they kind of, you know, did the

[00:42:04] old drum kick there and slowed it down a little bit. It was, that was pretty cool.

[00:42:07] You know, you're so intuitive. You're so intelligent because you're actually getting to

[00:42:12] something a point that I'm about. I will make in a little bit, but it's about the rhythms

[00:42:18] that are in this. So when they were looking to create this, they wanted to create a family

[00:42:23] album, but they also wanted to explore how traditional Christmas music would sound played

[00:42:27] using an array of traditional Peruvian and South American instruments and rhythms. So let's

[00:42:33] take a listen to number two to how those rhythms come through.

[00:42:38] Well, the way you're. Remember when I said this is my favorite segment, take some notes

[00:42:42] because Jeremy complimented me several times, profuse yourself.

[00:42:46] So, right. There's, there's another old man who, who drew things, Jason, you're very handsome

[00:42:52] today. Yeah. Okay. Go. That makes it. That's a hard word. I get it. Yeah, it's pay to play, baby.

[00:42:57] [Music]

[00:43:07] I like it. That first part was very like a driving kind of beat to it.

[00:43:36] Oh, that song's called the little drummer boy. So I would imagine that it would have a

[00:43:40] very strong beat. I love music. I'm a big music. You are so entombed.

[00:43:47] Like you knew that that was a drummer boy song. See, you're what you do. There's a

[00:43:52] second song was. No, I don't actually remember. Please, you're going to play again.

[00:43:58] Oh yeah, a little drummer boy. And driving beat. Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. But it's

[00:44:04] that bass that kind of like thumping bass really drives it home. Alright, what's this

[00:44:11] song? [Music]

[00:44:16] ♪ I like it. I like it. Yeah, I know it. But I don't know it. What is it?

[00:44:21] Como, you faith. What? No. It's called Mary's boy child. Yeah. He's

[00:44:28] both. I don't know it. He didn't hit me before. So I was just curious if you did.

[00:44:33] It's somewhat familiar. But I don't know. Probably making that up. In the album, you can hear

[00:44:37] rhythms from various regions of South America. So while these two artists are from Peru,

[00:44:42] they, and they, they focused on Peru and Pruscherly comes through here. But there's also

[00:44:48] there's elements of samba coming in from Brazil. There's traditional Europa from Venezuela,

[00:44:54] the Chakoureira from Argentina. They woven all of these different styles and dances and

[00:44:58] rhythms into a lot of the songs in this album. In this clip, you can really hear

[00:45:03] how they played with the various rhythms. Take a listen to number three.

[00:45:07] [Music]

[00:45:30] [Music]

[00:45:40] Ooo, I like it.

[00:45:42] [Music]

[00:45:46] [Music]

[00:45:51] [Music]

[00:45:58] Yeah, I like the little clap on it. That's good. I love the clip. There's so much syncopation

[00:46:04] in both of those two tracks. I love it. This is one of my favorite. I only know this album

[00:46:10] because of Animal Kingdom. Now it's one of my favorite Christmas albums just to play anyway.

[00:46:14] But of course, I hear it all the time on Spectro Radio.

[00:46:18] [Laughter]

[00:46:20] And where?

[00:46:21] The New, and then a New.

[00:46:22] Yeah, remember one time you called, because the Web address is Spectroradio.us, and you said

[00:46:27] it was Spectro Radio.BS.

[00:46:29] [Laughter]

[00:46:30] Wow.

[00:46:32] I don't remember that, but I often don't remember the times that I've been here.

[00:46:35] Yeah, that wasn't the time that you were so hilarious.

[00:46:37] [Laughter]

[00:46:40] And my ear, you're getting at my afterclass.

[00:46:43] [Laughter]

[00:46:44] That's what we're going to go.

[00:46:46] [Laughter]

[00:46:48] That's a masterclass there.

[00:46:49] So that is Afro-Indina Christmas, the first album that's most of the

[00:46:52] music.

[00:46:53] You can find it on iTunes. You can find it on Amazon if you want to hear it.

[00:46:57] Go get it. I think it would add a nice spice to your Christmas traditions this year.

[00:47:02] The second album that you can hear in the area music is Steel-Drum Christmas by Bill

[00:47:07] Bass, who is known by many as one of the best steel panists in the Virgin Islands.

[00:47:12] Take a listen to his tracks from Steel-Drum Christmas that appear, number four.

[00:47:17] He's the best steel what?

[00:47:20] He's the best pianist.

[00:47:21] They're called the Steel- Parents.

[00:47:23] So he's a pianist, not a pianist, not a pan-fluist.

[00:47:28] Yeah.

[00:47:30] Not something else that I heard.

[00:47:31] Okay, here you go.

[00:47:32] It's the best.

[00:47:54] The Steel-Pans, the drums or what else Steel-Drum, they're like deceptively simple, or not

[00:48:00] the other way around, the deceptively complicated. They look really easy. You know, I mean,

[00:48:05] because you see the guy, you're like, oh, you just beating all over the head of this bottom

[00:48:09] of the steel barrel. But you hear the notes and they're so complicated. There's so many.

[00:48:15] There's such a broad spectrum within that.

[00:48:17] Yeah.

[00:48:18] Always think any instrument that doesn't have specific keys. I mean, all instruments

[00:48:24] are difficult in their own way. But if you're playing something like the trombone,

[00:48:28] the violin, the steel pan, they don't have a place that you press. You have to sort

[00:48:34] of just feel...

[00:48:35] I mean, I think the steel pans are hammered out in certain places. But, you know, a good

[00:48:39] trombone, you just use muscle memory.

[00:48:42] All these instruments...

[00:48:43] Yeah.

[00:48:44] When I press C and you get C, you press E and you get E. You know, like there's no...

[00:48:48] You don't have to have... I mean, you have to have a muscle memory hold other things.

[00:48:51] I just think it's interesting, these instruments where there's not specific keys to

[00:48:55] press that make it.

[00:48:56] I feel seen, since you've called out the trombone, my main instrument. Thank you, Jeremy.

[00:49:02] Yeah.

[00:49:03] I didn't know you rode the bone.

[00:49:05] I was like, "I played a lead."

[00:49:08] I was like, "Oh God, what did you have to love me?"

[00:49:14] When I was in school and I was in marching band at college, I don't know why I'm telling

[00:49:20] the story.

[00:49:21] It's terrible.

[00:49:22] When we would march in a parade, we would do what we call "hoorn swings" and everybody, all the sections

[00:49:26] of their own and the drum bones would put the trombone between their legs and ride it like

[00:49:30] a cowboy and they'd call that riding the bone.

[00:49:33] I have never done such a vulgar thing with my trombone in a parade, probably in this

[00:49:40] week.

[00:49:45] But after you arrive at Animal Kingdom, there's more Christmas to be had than just the

[00:49:48] area music, of course, Jason or there used to be.

[00:49:52] One of the hallmarks of a Disney park used to be the afternoon parade.

[00:49:56] It also used to be the nighttime electrical parade.

[00:49:58] But they took those away as well.

[00:50:01] Arriving in 2000.

[00:50:02] We've all been bad fans over the past decade, so we're on the naughty list.

[00:50:07] Actually, that's something we should ask for in our Santa Tiger letter.

[00:50:12] A electrical parade back?

[00:50:14] How about that?

[00:50:16] Yeah, I get mad.

[00:50:17] Like, you could just feel the anger in the boils to the surface.

[00:50:21] Arriving in 2001 and running to 2014, every afternoon guests could enjoy Mickey's

[00:50:26] jamming jungle parade.

[00:50:29] The parade consisted of a mixture of variously styled safari vehicles, along with large

[00:50:34] animal puppets that looked as though they were created by folk artists along with performers

[00:50:39] on stilts and Disney characters.

[00:50:42] But during the Christmas season, the parade became Mickey's jingle jungle parade and got

[00:50:47] a festive holiday overlay.

[00:50:49] The overlay started in 2004 and just like the jamming jungle parade, it celebrated the

[00:50:55] culture and music of indigenous people around the world.

[00:50:58] Though now, the parade floats and performers were decked out in their finest Christmas adventure

[00:51:02] clothing and the soundtrack of going on a Christmas adventure.

[00:51:08] Oh, how did a riff on the usual jamming jungle parade soundtrack take a listen to number

[00:51:19] five.

[00:51:20] Now, the jingle jungle parade is a long one, so this is a little bit of a long clip because

[00:51:23] I wanted to capture all the various segments of it, but here's number five jingle jungle.

[00:51:28] Hello, my friend.

[00:51:35] So many people.

[00:51:38] The rest of the gang is right behind you.

[00:51:42] Oh, ready for the singing.

[00:51:49] Oh, let's go.

[00:51:56] Let's go.

[00:52:03] Let's go.

[00:52:10] Let's go.

[00:52:15] Let's go.

[00:52:32] Wow, what a festive event.

[00:52:39] A lot there, Jeremy.

[00:52:41] I feel like you picked very good.

[00:52:43] I really like the xylophone.

[00:52:45] Oh, sure.

[00:52:46] Honestly, like I picked that out the most.

[00:52:48] I was like, that's really like, that was some solid xylophone play.

[00:52:51] It was a solid xylophone.

[00:52:53] Words I always say.

[00:52:54] What a solid xylophone playing, but they're good.

[00:52:58] You got it right in the phone.

[00:52:59] Now the thing about the thing about that parade, though, and what I love is it's true to

[00:53:07] the DNA of the park.

[00:53:08] And like just like the affluent DNA Christmas the rhythms are syncopated.

[00:53:13] There's a lot of different global, globally inspired rhythms and instruments and things being

[00:53:19] showcased.

[00:53:20] And also, like that is one of the most upbeat parade soundtracks I've heard Disney do.

[00:53:26] And when that's ending, I'm like, I need to stand up.

[00:53:29] It was so good.

[00:53:31] It was just well executed.

[00:53:33] Yeah.

[00:53:34] It sounded very, very well put together, very intentional, very, like you said, reminiscent

[00:53:39] of the spirit of the park.

[00:53:41] Well, and there's such a huge contrast, because my main experience with, I guess, an event

[00:53:47] or a production of Disney during the holidays is the fireworks and the when it snows on

[00:53:53] Main Street, that whole thing.

[00:53:56] That's, of course, like very classic Christmas music.

[00:54:00] But teetering on almost sad, it's not sad, but...

[00:54:04] It's a melancholy thing too.

[00:54:06] Yeah.

[00:54:07] It's, it's, yeah, mellow melancholy also.

[00:54:11] So sometimes when people or places or events or whatever it sounds, try to, like, remind

[00:54:20] us of nostalgia.

[00:54:21] There's like, plan or emotions, it is frequently, I find very almost somber-esque.

[00:54:27] Yes, softer.

[00:54:28] That's a, that's a perfect word for it.

[00:54:31] And what we just heard was the exact opposite of that.

[00:54:35] And that's what I want.

[00:54:37] I do, I do like the snow on Main Street, but I cry every time and I'm thinking now,

[00:54:42] I think that's because it's kind of sad in a way.

[00:54:46] Yeah.

[00:54:47] Well, imagine if there was snow on Main Street during this.

[00:54:49] Oh my God.

[00:54:50] That's a party!

[00:54:52] It's a party.

[00:54:53] Like, you know what I mean?

[00:54:56] I think that could be, this could be, that could be better.

[00:54:59] It would be so fun.

[00:55:00] Yeah, I mean, I guess there is that element of Christmas that has, like, a solemnity

[00:55:05] to it that, you know, you just, you know, holy night, you know, there is that.

[00:55:09] And like, I know, like, whenever, like radio stations are playing Christmas music in November,

[00:55:14] you're like, it's too early, it's, it's Veterans Day, I can't hear silent night yet.

[00:55:18] I'm like, that, believe that for the 23rd and the 20th grade, the December, but there is

[00:55:21] that also the festive element and that's fun and partying and, yeah, so I, like, I agree.

[00:55:27] I like that, that element of it.

[00:55:29] I want this to be my, my playlist, right?

[00:55:32] Yeah.

[00:55:33] This is a better play, Christmas playlist to me.

[00:55:35] When Nightfall comes to Animal King and there's more holiday magic in store.

[00:55:40] In 2016 Disney Day Beauty of Life Awakenings, an evening series of projection mappings

[00:55:45] that take place on the park's icon, the towering 145 foot tall tree of life.

[00:55:51] The Wakenings are four separate, short projections with a unique soundtrack by Andrew

[00:55:57] Lockington, but during the Christmas time season and starting in 2019, two Christmas versions

[00:56:03] were added called 1st Snow and Northern Lights.

[00:56:07] 1st Snow is all about the animals experiencing the transition from autumn into winter with

[00:56:13] that 1st snow and how they sort of experience that.

[00:56:16] And so you could picture images of Bambi and Thumper when the pond first freezes over

[00:56:21] and they're catching snowflake.

[00:56:23] So I, again, I love, now this is perfect.

[00:56:26] This is exactly how you ink to great.

[00:56:28] When you want to put IP into something, what a great story to tell you're talking about

[00:56:33] that at Animal Kingdom, the changing of the seasons, how the animals would react to seeing

[00:56:38] snow.

[00:56:39] I mean, we all know what it's like if you have a dog or something and they, the 1st

[00:56:42] snow when they play, it's perfectly natural to put these characters in there and do that.

[00:56:49] So what an genius way to do it rather than the crowbar that they're using over at Epcot.

[00:56:54] The second story is Northern Lights and this is all about the season of light.

[00:56:59] The holiday and winter season, the winter sky is so cold.

[00:57:02] Crispin clear that you can see the Northern Lights and this is how the animals first react

[00:57:07] to seeing those lights in the evening.

[00:57:10] Now I'm going to take you through a little bit of that soundtrack, which is number six,

[00:57:13] but a disclaimer, this soundtrack has never been commercially released.

[00:57:17] So the audio here is not as clear as what you're used to me bringing pirate.

[00:57:22] All right, here we go.

[00:57:24] [MUSIC]

[00:57:34] [MUSIC]

[00:57:44] [MUSIC]

[00:58:07] Very good, almost inspirational, very uplifting, but also moving.

[00:58:22] I think you can kind of hear that it is telling a story.

[00:58:25] It's telling a story.

[00:58:26] It's doing it in a way that's perfect for animal kingdom, great use of Disney characters.

[00:58:31] And the reason that they have to do this projection shows at Animal Kingdom is because

[00:58:35] they can't use pyrotechnics there because it would disturb the animals.

[00:58:40] It would use these wider projection shows with the music and late light sometimes in order

[00:58:45] to still give you one night time spectacular, but be nice to the animals.

[00:58:51] And that is the music of Christmas at Disney's Animal Kingdom.

[00:58:55] It's very good.

[00:58:57] Thank you.

[00:58:58] Good job, Jared.

[00:58:59] Good to do it again.

[00:59:00] Thanks, man.

[00:59:01] I appreciate it.

[00:59:02] I really do want that album, the the area music.

[00:59:09] Oh, yeah, it's great.

[00:59:11] It's so that's awesome, but I'll just listen to spectra.

[00:59:15] You can do that too.

[00:59:17] Now, every year, so just a little plug if since you're bringing up listening to an

[00:59:22] unspectrum, you know, once the 23rd, you know, now you'll hear Christmas music, maybe

[00:59:26] every three songs, every four songs.

[00:59:29] But from the 23rd to the 26th, it go, I go hard for Christmas.

[00:59:34] That's so good to you can, you can, you know, on Christmas day, it's all you're going

[00:59:39] to hear.

[00:59:40] They'll be, you know, I'll do morning parades, you're going to hear the candlelight

[00:59:43] processional at midnight, every night.

[00:59:45] Like, so it's going to be, it's going to be great tune into spectra.

[00:59:47] I will be the soundtrack to your Christmas.

[00:59:50] Yeah.

[00:59:51] Yeah.

[00:59:52] Yeah.

[00:59:53] Very good.

[00:59:54] It's awesome.

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[01:00:11] There's monks blood.

[01:00:12] It may feel local.

[01:00:13] That might be more of a local thing.

[01:00:15] We picked some up last time we were there a couple months ago, still tasting great.

[01:00:18] There's a whole lot of stuff out there.

[01:00:20] Of course, they are the Kings of the IPA, the packaged IPA.

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[01:00:56] So check them out.

[01:00:58] I don't like a drink of different IP right now.

[01:01:05] No.

[01:01:06] Yeah, celebration is fine.

[01:01:08] Celebrations, like, uh, everybody will talk pass.

[01:01:11] Yeah.

[01:01:12] Honey, honey, if you could drink another beer, what would it, what it be?

[01:01:16] Celebration.

[01:01:17] It's okay.

[01:01:18] You have to.

[01:01:19] You have to do it.

[01:01:20] Okay.

[01:01:21] Let's get out of here.

[01:01:22] Everybody.

[01:01:23] We are going to leave.

[01:01:24] We're going to get out of here.

[01:01:25] We're going to get ready for the secret show.

[01:01:27] usual go ahead and just pop over to that chat and make that live and get that up and run

[01:01:33] them.

[01:01:34] We'll make our drink and then we have a lot of news.

[01:01:35] There's been some weird stuff going on in, uh, in Disney world.

[01:01:39] Um, maybe we'll get a review about how we're Tik Tok bros after this one.

[01:01:44] Jeremy.

[01:01:45] But, uh, I don't know if you saw like the line cutters or a little business.

[01:01:48] Okay.

[01:01:49] You know, cut in line at Soren.

[01:01:50] No, man.

[01:01:51] Yeah.

[01:01:52] I got video and it's, it's.

[01:01:54] It's, I like, then they doxed.

[01:01:55] Yeah.

[01:01:56] Oh, yeah.

[01:01:57] Oh, yeah.

[01:01:58] Absolutely.

[01:01:59] Oh, yeah.

[01:02:00] The Internet.

[01:02:01] The Internet.

[01:02:02] It's a Disney fan's doc supposed to write in short order.

[01:02:05] That's awesome.

[01:02:06] I actually couldn't watch it.

[01:02:07] Yeah.

[01:02:08] Cause it made me sad.

[01:02:09] And like, I just saw them in like giving them the finger and I was like, I'm not

[01:02:11] turning the audio on because I don't want to hear it.

[01:02:13] It like made me sad.

[01:02:16] No.

[01:02:17] It's bad.

[01:02:18] I mean, you can tell they were drunk and it was, it was, it's awful.

[01:02:20] But yeah, we'll watch it.

[01:02:21] Maybe not all of it.

[01:02:22] Cause like three minutes.

[01:02:23] Hmm.

[01:02:24] But then there's a bunch of follow up videos.

[01:02:26] Yeah, the guy like posted to apology videos.

[01:02:29] But they weren't really apologies.

[01:02:31] Yeah.

[01:02:32] Yeah.

[01:02:33] It's, yeah.

[01:02:34] It's bad.

[01:02:35] Anyway, check it out.

[01:02:36] Speaking of drunk, I've got a lot of ginger.

[01:02:38] It's great.

[01:02:39] Yeah.

[01:02:40] Great.

[01:02:41] All right, everybody.

[01:02:42] Thanks a lot for tuning in.

[01:02:42] I really appreciate it.

[01:02:43] And until next time, we'll see you in the parks.

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