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Epcot Adventures, Disney’s Future & A Killer Book Club
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This week, the Fishes are on the road in Orlando, but with one fish down, a very special guest—Mama Fish—joins the conversation! Kathy and Lynne recap their visit to Epcot, sharing nostalgia, laughs, and a little tough love for Disney. Is the magic fading, or does the park just need a refresh? They break down the highs, the lows, and the ever-rising price tag of a day at the happiest place on Earth.
Then, it’s time for book club! The sisters (and Mama Fish) discuss We Solve Murders, the first book in a brand-new mystery series. Did it live up to the hype? Was it a page-turner or just another whodunit? Tune in for their take on this fresh new crime-solving crew. Don’t forget to rate, review, and share—your support keeps us swimming!
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Introduction and Episode Preview
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Hey, what's up fishes? It's producer Tim out from behind the camera real quick. Just to let you know that this is a very special episode this weekend. By special, I mean a little bit different.
00:00:11
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The girls will get into it and bring you up to speed, but just wanted to give you a little heads up. It's gonna be a little different this week.
Meet the Hosts: The Sisters' Story
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Enjoy. Welcome to Three Little Fishes. We're three sisters who grew up in the Midwest together, but have since spread across the country.
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I live in Los Angeles. I'm in Nashville. And I live in Philadelphia. We are all married with children, have all had careers, but now we stay at home with our families. Join us as we share secrets and stories about being women, wives, and mothers. We welcome you to laugh along, learn something new, reach out, and join our conversation.
Special Guest Appearance: Mama Fish Renee
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So let's jump in. Welcome, fishes. Hello. We have Mama Fish here. everybody. Stepping in for Nancy today. We're fishes on the road. We're in Orlando, Florida. Thank you. Happy to be here.
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Yeah, we're visiting the OG of fishes, mom and dad, at the Grand Vista Marriott Vacation Club. So we've had a great time the last few days, but we do have a fish down with the flu.
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So poor Nancy is not joining joining us. Yeah. and Mama Fish Renee decided to step in and help us out. So thank you for
Epcot Trip and Book Review Plans
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that. yeah So today we're going to a little critique of our trip to Epcot we did a few days ago, and then we're going to review the book, We Solved Murders by Richard Osmond.
00:01:37
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But before we jump in, let's friendly reminder to rate, review, share, comment on the Three Little Fishes. We love to hear from everyone. Really, we love it. So thank you so much when you send us an email. We love hearing All right, let's jump in.
Epcot Experience: Nostalgia vs. Reality
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The other day we went to Epcot.
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You know, it always tugs at my heart a little bit to go to Epcot, with especially with mom and dad. Like it just brings back a lot of memories and big feelings. And it wasn't super crowded, even though it was a holiday.
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i feel like there's some highlights in some spots. I feel like you guys could do better. Yeah. It was crowded, though. I mean, I was surprised. Like, there were people around you. But I didn't feel like a fish in the stream. Like, I felt like it we could get around pretty easy. It wasn't horrible. We still had to wait on the attractions. I was hoping we were going to be able to skate through some of They still have to work on their FastPass situation. It doesn't really work that well.
00:02:39
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Yeah, those lightning passes are still not... Well, and they're expensive. And then you don't get anywhere. So that's frustrating. But anyway, it was a good time. Yeah. I mean, it's always fun. you know what? I do notice, and I was trying to be critical when I was going through, like everything's clean.
00:02:56
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Service is amazing. But it's also a little tired. Like everything could use a fresh paint job. And a couple of the attractions we went on are tired. Yeah. you know, that's what I actually thought.
00:03:07
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Like the crushed chalk. I mean, that is terrible. And it stopped twice. And it's so old and so dated. And with all the technology now, it could be so much better than it was.
Disney vs. Universal: Innovation and Costs
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And even the aquarium was like a tiny bit tired. And I felt like, yeah you know, everywhere I went, it was like everything needs a fresh paint job and just like a little bit more zhuzh.
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But it's clean. It's well... lit it's very like everyone's friendly like it's a plus that way but like it does need a facelift right Disney, come on, get with it.
00:03:48
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Now, the thing is, is that people that go there often, you need something new. Like you guys, because you have the timeshare, you come down here regularly and you enjoy Disney because it is fun. It's usually positive experience. But if there's not something new, it gets kind of boring.
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They're also getting a lot of criticism from people because it is so expensive. Yeah, it's really expensive. It is so expensive. It is expensive. ah For our day at Disney was like over $1,000. Yeah. And we just went to one park.
00:04:28
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Right. That was tickets. That wasn't Fast Passes, wasn't snacks, meals, anything. Yeah. that So that's a lot for people. Right. Who are ordinary people who want to give the child the experience to your kids, which we love doing. Yeah.
00:04:43
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We used to love to bring the kids there. And we knew it was expensive even then, but it wasn't. mean, they still were. I don't think Disney's done. But they need to step up their game because they are competing with other parks.
00:04:53
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Like going to Universal. we went to Universal. Last year. year before. Okay. ah We took one of the granddaughters to the Universal. Yeah. Man, oh, man, it is all high tech, electrical, ah you know, everything is cutting edge. cutting edge Yeah.
00:05:12
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The the Harry Potter things and all that stuff are like, wow. And there was really nothing like that. Yeah. At Disney. So to me, Epcot is amazing. I love the countries. I like the food.
00:05:25
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But like Canada is a drag. It's so boring. Mexico used to have great shopping. Everything is very like touristy, but they won't haggle with you like in Mexico.
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i mean, my thing to Disney is if you want people to keep coming, you know, beyond just the nostalgia element of it, step up
Frustrations with Disney: Long Waits and Outdated Features
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your game. I still enjoyed my day at Disney.
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mean, my only... major disappointment was I wanted to go to the frozen, ride cause I've never done it. And every time we checked on it, it was like 75 minutes.
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And then at the very end of the day, we thought, Oh, we're going to like sneak in. And it was still an hour. I mean, no, who wants to wait in line for an hour? So that was kind of a boo for me.
00:06:12
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Um, but I did enjoy our lunch at, Japan. And I enjoyed actually Kissy Simmons the when we went to the show. Yeah, mean, oh that Broadway show was amazing. But even like I went into the exhibition at the United States, and I will say i it leaves you wanting. Like they really, we have 50 states. Why can't they do regional like something about the United States that would really highlight how diverse and amazing the United States is.
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So that's why I'm saying I feel disappointed in Disney that they have not reimagined some of the things that they put in place. Yeah, I you know i agree. 50 years ago, 60 years ago.
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It's time to step up your game, Disney. So you've heard it here first.
Book Review: 'We Solve Murders' by Richard Osman
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You've heard it from the fishes. So let's talk about our book, We Solve Murders by Richard Osman. And he this is a one-off a one off series he used to He's written on the Thursday Murder Club, which I have not read. So this is my first book on him.
00:07:16
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and I felt like it was good, but it took me about halfway through the book to really kind of figure out the characters because he threw so many characters at me. Yeah.
00:07:29
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There's so many. it's it's hard to It's hard to connect. He's interesting. His characters are interesting. I have read several of the Thursday Murder Club ah stories and When he writes the Thursday Murder Club, as he starts, in the beginning, each character has a chapter.
00:07:49
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Like, he starts out with Joyce, who's the nurse. And then he moves to Elizabeth, who's the spy. Okay. He goes to Ibrahim, you know, and he keeps... So you get a chapter in the beginning that tells you all these are...
00:08:04
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yeah characters and how they all live in this high end retirement community. They're all well to do retired people. So, and they get bored. So yeah, they, Elizabeth started the murder club because she was a retired spy and there were some cases that weren't solved.
00:08:22
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when she was either policeman or whatever. Right, right, right. And so she ropes them all in, and they solve that's their hobby. Right. So on this book, I think he did try to follow a little bit of that formula. I just thought it was very slow out of the gate. I thought there were some very good glows.
00:08:40
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And I think he set himself up for this being the first book of like a multi-series yeah Yeah, it's a prequel. Yes. But I will say he doesn't have any age discrimination. A lot of all these action movies like The Reachers and Mission Impossible and Jack Ryan are all young, starting out, Night Agent, all those are really young. And he doesn't have age discrimination. Yeah. ah Some of his characters, like in We Saw Murders, they're young, middle and old. Yeah.
00:09:13
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Yeah. Thursday murder club. They're all older with some young people yeah thrown in like Donna, the police woman is a young, young woman. So it's kind of an interesting. Yeah, I thought it was, I mean, overall, I thought it kept my interest enough that I would read the next book in the series if he writes one.
00:09:33
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There were a lot of characters to get to know, and at times it was confusing. But I really liked one character, Rosie D'Antonio, the famous author, because I thought she had like a good sense of humor. She was always like, Stevie, what's going on? She kind of had a crush on him. Yeah.
00:09:52
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Yeah, I actually thought that book was pretty good and I liked it towards the end. So yes, I would recommend the book. Okay, so what I'm hearing is the fishes, give it a thumbs up. Just push through the first few chapters and you will enjoy meeting this cast of characters in Resolve Murders.
00:10:09
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Stay tuned. Next week, we will pick our next book on Three Little Fishes. We want to thank you for listening to our podcast and letting us sisters jump into your day. Please
Closing and Listener Engagement
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make sure to follow, rate and review us.
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Have a great weekend. Sisters out.