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Episode 330: Scar Popcorn Bucket, Festival of the Holidays & Holiday Updates
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The guys discuss their vacation plans for 2026. DVC Members can get access to a preferred viewing area for A Christmas Fantasy Parade in Disneyland. Animal Kingdom is now offering a Scar Popcorn Bucket and Ed Hyena Sipper. Disney announced dates and details for the 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays. The guys review holiday themed Disney plushes including an oddly creepy talking Stitch. The Wonderful World of Disney: Holiday Spectacular is debuting on December 1st and Disney revealed the musical acts featured in the show. The holiday season kicks off at Disney Springs with returning holiday experiences like the Christmas Tree Stroll.
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Introduction and Sponsorship
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Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you DVC Resale Market. Thank you for joining us for episode 330 of Welcome Home, a Disney Parks and Vacation Club podcast.
Holiday Content and Food Time Series
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I'm Tom here with Trevor. How's it going, Trevor? Hey, pretty good. Talking to you like we didn't just talk for an hour. Yeah, I was going to say, you know, I feel like, you know, maybe we should just...
00:00:50
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You know, I feel like our listeners are going to kind of be spoiled here live ah leading up to Christmas. Like, we're we're kind of giving them... So much content. Yeah. because Because also, you you have a trip coming up, and we have a waitlist planned for when you're on your trip.
00:01:04
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We do, yeah. So, you know, it's not even like there's going to be a pause necessarily in in the stuff that's coming out for the podcast. And and on top of that, I mean, the yeah, the Food Time episodes are are off the rails at the moment, which...
00:01:19
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ah you know the The food time stuff is it's kind of an anomaly, especially you know the fact that we've had three weeks of it as an anomaly, and it's not all the time. Yeah, i listen, we couldn't – I know we've done a lot of food times recently, right? so and and But as soon as I saw like the Epcot Festival of Holidays, I'm like, we we kind of have to do it. I mean, we can't – You can't not do it, right? I mean, i don't know.
00:01:41
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It just felt like it had to happen. But it's it's funny, Trevor, because you talking about that, right? So obviously we're gearing up for our you know our mini vacation, I should say. I mean, you know listen, we're going to be spending the majority of the time with family, right? like We're just going to hanging out with family.
00:01:55
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But then we have these two days that are you know very Disney-fied because it's yes you know we're going to be going, obviously. It's it's like espresso Disney. like Yeah, pretty much. You're getting the high concentration drip of Disney for couple of days.
00:02:10
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Directly into my into my arm. like you know we're just it's It's just like a shot of adrenaline. you know It's going to be crazy. So we're very excited for this, obviously. But it's it's funny because we...
00:02:23
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You know, you're always you're talking about like the trips that you have planned for, you know, like
Vacation Plans and Ideas
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2027 and 20. And I I looked at my wife this morning and I was like, we have nothing planned for next year. Like, no, there's no plan. know we're not doing anything. As of right now, we have no plans for vacation.
00:02:39
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And, you know, now we can you know, we can plan for things like our our you know situation has changed. We're in a good shape to do this now. Right. So. um but I have no idea what we want to do. Like we, I think we had like 10 different ideas this morning, right? Like it was all right. Like maybe let's go do Disneyland and we'll do like a short cruise at a San Diego. Like, and you know, we'll, we'll do that.
00:03:00
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Or we'll do, you know, maybe just do a seven day cruise out of Florida. Like we've done before or Oh, let's do it with our friends or maybe we'll do a short cruise and then we'll do Disney after like we have, let's do Vero beach. That was another one that came up this morning. i was like, man, these are a lot of things, you know, like I don't know what to do here.
00:03:18
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I mean, so, okay, I'll just throw in my two cents here, even though I don't have any weight in any of this. I'll just i'll just put my opinion out because, you know, we're we're talking about it is – You said, you know, you're you're in a position right now where you have flexibility to do things.
00:03:38
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I would say my opinion is do do the thing that you would not normally do only because of the fact that you're not going to have opportunities Like you're you're, you know, thinking about, um sorry, I, when my son was the same age as your daughter, you know, it was a lot easier for us to, um you know, plan stuff that, you know, it sometimes overlapped with school, but we did try to minimize, you know, how much school he was missing because of trips and everything. But yeah, that's the challenge. But it was a lot easier when he was younger.
00:04:10
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for yeah As he got older, you know, he's at an age now where, you know, we've had conversations and it's, you know, he he's flat out told us, you know, hey, I'm not going to go on this trip with you guys because you know, I'm in school or like it's so, you know, he he's having his own life and it's it's hitting that, you know, we are hitting that point where He's becoming an adult. And so we're not getting, or, you know, if we're doing those trips, it's just us doing them. So it's, you know, it's kind of, again, it's that, ah that timing and opportunity thing.
00:04:39
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My take would be, you know, you said specifically about going to Disneyland and doing a cruise in San Diego. That's something that you would not normally do. Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:50
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Whereas the other things like, like, you know, you, you're far more accessible to Florida and Vero beach and, and doing, you know, a lot of stuff on the East coast. my opinion is look at the West Coast stuff because this might be one of your best opportunities to, you know, do that without it interfering with other things.
Importance of Disney Trips for Families
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Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:13
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That's, I mean, and that's, that's really, it's, it's interesting you say that Trevor, because I, we we, one of our friends said something to us where they were like, you know, there's other places to go on vacation besides Disney. I'm like,
00:05:24
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Yes, we are aware of this. i agree Of course, we're aware of this. But we also just like we're in a window. We're in like such a good window right now for a lot of this stuff. You know, we don't know if she's going to be into the Disney stuff as an adult. Maybe she will. Maybe she won't. I don't know.
00:05:40
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Right. So like it it doesn't matter, honestly. No, is or not isn't because it's a matter of what you want to do. Yeah, but let's do this now while she is, you know, like, let's do these things now. And yeah, sure. We can go travel the world later, you know, like, and and she can come with us maybe, but like we're in this great window where we can go do the Disney cruise and she's going to have a great time doing it. Or, you know, we're going to, Go to go to, you know, Disney World for a week or go to Disney. Whatever we're going to do.
00:06:07
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We're in such a good spot for it. And I don't want to let that go. And so, yeah, it's it's to your point, though, it does become more and more difficult with school. Like, because if even like we were looking at cruises, you know, during the summertime, they're like double the price of not during the summertime. You know what i mean? So it's like.
00:06:25
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it's It's a hard ah hard thing to figure out. But yeah, it's i just we were kind of laughing about it this morning. it just how we're We just have nothing planned at all. And I'm like, yeah, Trevor's got like already planned out to 27. And I'm like, we haven't even thought of next year. well ah Okay. Sorry. And I guess we haven't really talked about this on the podcast. So maybe I should give some context on that.
00:06:45
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I mean, you don't have to. I mean, I can. or Is there anything else that you wanted to cover on your stuff first? No, no, no. You can talk about it. Yeah. Okay. So, so yeah, we, we, we had plans for, um, we, we were talking about doing a Disneyland trip this year and that didn't happen just for, again, you know you know, talking about, you know, my son's schooling and, you know, a bunch of different reasons just didn't play out this year.
00:07:09
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So then we started looking at it. And, uh, so 2027 is my wedding anniversary. So, you know, for me and my wife, we were like, oh, like that's, you know, that's a big year.
00:07:20
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And, and we started like kind of talking about and looking at, um you know, what do we want to do? And, and, you know, you know, to, to your friend's point about, well, you know, there's places other than Disney. It's like, yeah, but I really like Disney.
00:07:33
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is Yeah, like why i go places? Yeah. and And the thing is, is that we when we started really talking about it, um we I realized, yeah you know, when we got DVC and, you know, even when we started this podcast and we talked about, you know hey, the thing about DVC is that it does have flexibility to it. And there's the whole thing about...
00:07:53
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you know, banking and borrowing points and all that, that
Saving DVC Points for Special Occasions
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we really weren't utilizing. Like we were just kind of every year we were using our points, taking a trip and that was, and it was fine. You know, you know, there's nothing wrong with that. We were just using our points as they came in. But um we realized that,
00:08:09
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you know Again, with with looking at my son's... you know This next year, we where' we weren't planning a trip for 2026 because um it's... Again, yeah it's it's a pivotal year for my son. He's you know he's is going into post-secondary. So it's like we didn't want to you know add any extra complications to that. And not to say... like you know we He would just go and do his schooling. We could just take a trip on our own. But we were like, well, instead of us...
00:08:36
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um You know, planning a trip this year. Why don't we take our points and funnel them into 2027 and then also borrow some points from 2028? So then we have a bigger trip in for our anniversary.
00:08:51
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And the thing about our anniversary was that our honeymoon was in Disney World. So our very first my first actual trip to Disney World was my honeymoon. with my wife and we were staying at the all-star. So it was very, you know, it wasn't, you know, it wasn't staying at the poly. I know everyone's like, Oh, well, Trevor just stays at the poly all the time. No, we were staying at the all-stars, but it was, it was our first trip. It had, you know, it had a lot of, it it had a lot of magic to it. It, you know, left a lot of impressions on us.
00:09:20
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And so we were like, well, hey, if we're going to go to Disney we're using all these points, why don't we, you know, we have these extra points. We're going to spend a couple of nights in a bungalow, which I know is crazy, you know, just for the two of us. But, you know, because they sleep like 12 people. Yeah. But you're saying that to the guy that's staying in a grand villa. Exactly. Yeah. I know i know d i know DVC people understand this. is you know we We want to stay in a bungalow. The bungalow has actually been a bucket list thing for us that we've always wanted to stay in one.
00:09:51
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So we're using our 25th anniversary as an opportunity. And we're also going to make it a longer trip. So we usually only go for a week. We're planning for two weeks and or might be a little less. we're We're not sure. But, you know, with all the points and everything, I kind of i kind of ballparked it based on the 2026 point values. um But we're looking using that information. I'm kind of gauging like we should be able to get about the same time a year, which is looking to be about November ish.
00:10:18
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um where we could we we could do two weeks. And so we're going to have this extended trip. It's going to include, um we're going to we're planning for, you know you know, you talked about doing like dessert parties and stuff. Like this is going to be our last couple of trips. we've we've done We've done after hours and stuff, but we haven't done a lot of other extras, I guess, yeah like dessert parties and dining and stuff like that.
00:10:44
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haven't done a dessert party in forever. Since my daughter's been there, we haven't done one. Yeah, so so we're we're planning for like, hey, you know we're we're going to you know do all the extra stuff. It's going to be that we want to do that you know extra bougie trip, I guess is the way to put it. Yeah, that makes total sense. And then on top of that is um you know my you know obviously my brother and I went to Epic Universe. and Well, Universal as a whole. like you know i was Sorry, I say Epic Universe because Epic Universe was like the the crown jewel for me of that trip. But um but you know we're going to go to Universal. My wife and I, like...
00:11:17
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We've been exploring not just like going to Disney or going to to the Disney parks, but also we want to spend some time at Universal because my wife's not been there. Even though um you know there's a lot of rides there, like the the rides there are a lot harder for her to enjoy, but there is a lot of other experiences and stuff there too that we're we're looking into.
00:11:37
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So, yeah, so so we're so instead of us, you know, you know, like on this podcast, we usually talk about like, oh, next trip is in like six months or whatever. This is a ways out. But we're making use of our points to get something, you know, extra that you wouldn't like.
00:11:56
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This is going to be, you know, like i said, a bucket list kind of trip that we're planning. So yeah that's great. Yeah. Yeah. so So that's where we're at right now is that, you know we don't have anything planned for next year either, but that's a deliberate thing because we're kind of pushing it all into 2027.
00:12:10
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Yeah, you're doing a big trip. Yeah. like that's yeah that's And I totally get that. like that makes That makes total sense. I just – yeah. So I didn't mean to blow up your your your like and now like discussion of this. I thought you talked about it before. Yeah, I realized didn't – like you and I have talked about it, but I realized I haven't really talked about like this stuff on the podcast, which, I mean, to be fair, of the the thing was is that it was – For a little while, it was kind of changing a lot. Like it was, I didn't want to be like, oh yeah, we're doing this because it was, i didn't have anything concrete and i wasn't quite sure what was going or what we were going to do next.
Planning Around Educational Milestones
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But, and again, like I said, it was just kind of where, you know, to your point of like timing of where you are in your life.
00:12:52
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We were just, we're just at this weird point right now where we're in transition with, you know, with our son, you know, becoming older and us kind of figuring out like, you know, when when and how do we want to go to Disney next? And this just kind of worked out because it's our, or it worked out because we knew our 25th anniversary was coming. And so we were like, instead of trying to push it and, you know, doing smaller trips, we're going to save up and it's going to be, ah you know, this is going to be just one big trip that we're doing in a couple of years.
00:13:24
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Yeah, it makes sense. It makes total sense. I'm just saying you have more plans than I do. Yeah. I mean, i mean yeah. and and that And again, that's only kind of like you, though. If if it wasn't for our 25th wedding anniversary, I wouldn't know what I'm doing next year either. Because yeah same same as you. as It's like, well, we could do this. We could do that. But it's like, I just looked. I was like, no, we're not, you know, forget it. We're putting it all into that trip.
00:13:47
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Well, I also I said to i said to my daughter this morning, I said, um hey, would you want to go on another cruise again? She's like, yeah, yeah, I want to go another cruise. And I said, I said, well, would you be OK if it's just the three of us, you know, and we don't go with anybody else? And she's like, I don't want to do that.
00:14:01
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And I'm like, what do you mean you don't want to do that? She's like, I want to go with like friends or family. And I was like, well, that's sweet and all. But like it also kind of is like, why don't you want to to go with us? Like, you know, we're fun and But I get it. Yeah. Yeah. you know yeah but I get it. My, my son did the same thing where, you know, the first couple of trips with him were, you know, fine. But then, yeah he, he. Only child thing maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. the The only child thing is a little bit of a challenge because, you know, he, he wanted to bring, or we were planning to bring his friend um back in 2020 because same thing. Like he was like, you know, I don't want to go by myself or, and, and it wasn't like, you know, he, he has a great time with his parents, but,
00:14:41
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He wanted friends with him and whatever. Of course, like yeah you know, we we couldn't do that because of COVID. But yeah, you know i I get that. You know, if you don't have or, you know, only child is it's kind of a weird thing because, you know, you don't have siblings or or other like if it's not a larger family, I see where it can be boring just hanging out with mom.
00:15:03
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Even when it's Disney. I'm only mildly offended by it because I get it, too. You know what I mean? Like, I understand where she's coming from. it just was like, but like, what about us? You know, like, hang out with us. And she's just, we're you know. We're cool parents. We're cool. You know, we're fun.
00:15:19
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yeah You know, I, you make you know, and you make some friends on vacation, you know, like, okay. But, you know, so. You need you need to embrace the ah the dad cringe at some point, though. Like, I i do this to my son.
00:15:30
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Yeah. But, no, it gets more fun when when your your kid gets older. is I will do this to my son where, like, I i do pay attention to, like, the the upcoming, like, slang terms and stuff. And I'll occasionally throw something at my son where I'll be like, okay.
00:15:45
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be like, yeah, that was mid. And he'll give me that look like, don't you dare say that, dad. It's so funny you say that because I was like that that whole like six, seven thing with the kids. like Yeah, know that that that's been a thing. Not with my son, but I've been like, I'm just trying to figure that out too. Well, and I i said to my wife this morning, I was like, now that parents understand what this about, is it going to become uncool? Because that typically is what happens, right? That is the case, yeah. Yeah, like once parents understand it, then it's now lame and they move on to whatever the next stupid thing is, right? But...
00:16:17
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ah You know, I don't know. i We were joking with my daughter about it this morning and she gave me like like the death stare about it. yeah just something yeah was like yeah I was like, whatever. I'm just going start using it until you don't care about it anymore. and Not that she ever has said it to me because she hasn't, but she knows of it. you know But it's just when it's in their circles and yeah and when yeah they you know they they think – I mean, we had we all had our things. Like you know when we were growing up, we there was – phrases and things that you know we we had like you even yours made sense though trevor no no no they didn't yeah they did to us at the time they didn't all make sense like if you i i think if you look back on it you'll find that and especially to our parents who you know didn't know you know what are these kids talking about right it was it's the same thing it's it's just a generational thing and Well, it harder back then because you didn't have the internet to look it up either. Yeah. The funny thing was, is that, yeah, back then, you know, we, we, it was our own little like language and whatnot. And, and you felt like, you know, very easily it was, um, you know, you go and talk with your friends and you'd had a certain way of talking and then you come home and you wouldn't, you would never like hear those things from your parents. But now, like you said, with the internet, it's, it's all of a sudden, you know, when, when your parent says something and it kind of breaks into that bubble of your reality,
00:17:35
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I see where it's very, uh, very jarring for kids. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I, we've gotten like, Oh, oh totally off topic. Yeah. We've not talked about any of this stuff. So yeah.
DVC Benefits and Disneyland Focus
00:17:48
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so we We have been talking about Disney stuff. That's true. That's true. We have been, i will give you that. So, okay. So let's get into some DVC stuff, Trevor. Um, because, because why not? Uh, but, uh,
00:18:01
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So I always love when DVC does like these really kind of like random perks, you know what I mean? That are just like not really a perk of the program, but kind of are like an unannounced surprise. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:11
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Yeah. And so for three dates in, ah in the end of 2025 here, DVC ah members will have access to a special viewing area for a Christmas fantasy parade in Disneyland. So Not only is this a random one, it's for Disneyland people, which, again, i i you know I'm glad they're doing some stuff for the folks out on the West Coast because I feel like most of this stuff usually is for East Coasters and and for Disney World people. So um on November 20th, 25th, and December 11th, DVC owners can watch a Christmas fantasy parade from a special reserve section of the Small World Promenade. Eligible owners must claim a wristband at Starview Station um beginning at 11 a.m. on the event date. Member plus four additional guests on their resort reservation. Each member of the party must present ah but be present to claim a wristband. see everybody's got to go.
00:19:02
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And you have to have a resort reservation booked. So you can't just show up there and do it. You have to actually be staying at a DVC resort. You do. And, and so, yeah, and they, and it seems like they do expect that this will run out because it is limited. So the other part of this is this is a blue card benefit. I know that's an outdated term um for, I mean, but I'm always going to call it that. But basically if you're part of membership extras, meaning you own at least 150 points or you're not grandfathered in, and ah you can participate in this. If you are a resell only, then you, you can't. So
00:19:37
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Yeah. Unless you're grandfathered. If you're grandfathered, then you're good. But, you know. Yeah, exactly. I think everyone who's listening this DVC knows the rules. Well, the the thing is, is that, you know, anyone who's grandfathered in at or that has points at Disneyland is at the Grand Californian.
00:19:54
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Because, there are yeah, yeah um you know the the Disneyland Hotel was you know built recently, so you would you would have to have at least 150 points if you have a Disneyland Hotel DVC contract. That is true. That is true. Yeah, that is true.
00:20:10
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so So, I mean, yeah listen, I, I, like I said, I like when they do this kind of stuff, and this is the kind of thing I would take advantage of, you know? Yeah. I mean, for sure. it's like, again, if, if I was planning to be there at this time, that this would be a nice, like, oh, I'll, I would go out of my way to, you know, have a, have a prime, uh, prime viewing place for the parade because why not? Right. Yeah. Um,
00:20:36
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It's, yeah, the the only thing, ah you know, like you said, i these unplanned things are always nice, but I feel like it's because we're we're talking about this. So so it's, um we're recording this on the 15th.
00:20:53
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November 20th is five days from now. So it like... They're not giving people really any time to react to this. To put ahead for it. Yeah, like you're not booking a stay specifically for this. But yeah, like again, I get it. It's meant to be a, you know, hey, if you happen to be here at this time, we're going to give it to you. Also, i feel like specifically, you know, this being a Disneyland thing is, um you know,
00:21:17
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the I wouldn't be surprised if you see more of these Disneyland things because I feel like they're trying to push the Disneyland hotel contracts, right? Like it yes this definitely feels like them trying to, um you know, remind people that, hey, you can get points at Disneyland too, right? And there are there are events that happen at Disneyland.
00:21:36
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we'll We'll do some things for you. We'll do some well we'll throw some ah some little benefits in here and there, right? so on But, you know, moving from the West Coast to the East Coast, so there is one another one of these little incidental you know kind of benefits, ah you know that that but this one is for Disney World.
00:21:53
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And this one, I was so close to being able to do, Trevor, too. The dates were just, I just missed it. Just missed it. Just missing it. yeah But on on ah November 26th, Zootopia is going to be in theaters, which, by the way, I think while we're in Florida, we may try to get my daughter to go see this maybe on Black Friday.
00:22:14
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um Just to get, I mean, she the only movie she's ever seen in a theater so far is Lilo and Stitch. That's all we got. But she does like Zootopia and i we're going to be looking for things to do because, you know we're going to be in my mom's retirement community, which, you know, there's only so much stuff you can do in there with a seven year old. So we're going to find things to do. But, you know, this is one of those things I think we might try to do. But anyway, ah so DVC owners ah are that are staying on property.
00:22:43
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on September 20, September, November 22nd, could get a, ah get to attend a free, well, it doesn't say free, but I'm assuming it's free, a preview screening at 11 a.m. on Saturday, November 22nd at the AMC Disney Springs of Zootopia 2.
00:23:00
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um And they also, you get free ah complimentary popcorn and soft drinks as well. Yeah, so I am assuming it's, it's said not, like they would say if it was a paid thing here, right? Yeah. So, yeah, yeah so yeah this is it's a free screening with free popcorn and soft drinks.
00:23:17
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um If you want to be in Disney Springs on a Saturday, because there is that. I do want to mention, by the way, that this is already completely booked up. So if you're hearing us say that this is you can't even get into it anyway. But no, it says owners must have a hotel reservation booked on the day of the event. ah Yeah, but it's they they already did the the the virtual queue to sign up for this. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. Got it. listen, then I just wanted to bring this up because I like these kind of benefits. And also, it just kind of annoyed me that I couldn't participate. so I guess the thing about this is that usually Disney will send you, if you are eligible for it, they'll send you a link for it. So, you know, to that point, yeah, we're talking about this after the virtual queue happened. Yeah. For anybody that, you know, if you're if you're worried about missing these kinds of things, my answer to that is make sure that DVC emails are not hitting your spam filters or anything like that, because that's that's how they choose to communicate these things out to people who are on ers are staying there for these events. Yeah.
00:24:20
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and the golden e The Golden Oak ones keep getting through to me for some reason. Yeah, I don't know how you got on that mailing list. I i don't know either. i don't know who they think I am and what kind of money I have, but they they are very wrong. yeah like I mean, listen, it's nice to look at. like i you know I like seeing the pictures they sent me, but you know no, no. Maybe somebody. If I win the lottery, then sure. Yeah. ah We'll know when Tom wins the lottery.
00:24:46
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Yes, you will, because I'll be down in Golden Oaks and that's where I will live. I'll come visit. What's that? I'll come visit. yeah you' Yeah. Well, listen, then you'll have a free. You can sell your DVC points. You have a free place to stay anytime you want. No, no, no. they Sorry. I'm not selling my DVC points. You still want to stay, Pally. Yeah. yeah why why would Why would I so not stay at the Poly? Why wouldn't you stay at my mansion that's in Golden Oaks? Okay. like i'm Why would I not do both?
00:25:12
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Well, that's true. You could do that. Yeah. I could hang out with you for a couple of days and then I could go stay at the poly for a couple of days. There you go. There you go Do both. So I'm going to go a little out of order, Trevor. And instead of doing our ad right now, we're going to do one more topic. Then we'll do our ad. Okay. yeah but Yeah. I figured actually that there was a couple or there was a lot after the ad. There is. Yeah, I clearly did not space these out well. But listen, so there was a little bit of a surprise popcorn bucket release, right?
00:25:43
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That just happened. And it's weird because it's not really a holiday one, right? it's It is the farthest from a holiday one. It is right. So we have a scar pop a popcorn bucket and an Ed hyena sipper that have been released in animal kingdom specifically.
00:26:02
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So you have the scar popcorn bucket, ah which, you know, looks like a pretty nice size popcorn bucket. We talk about this all the time. There's not like a lot of space for actual popcorn in these popcorn but buckets, but based on the scale of the guy's hand holding this thing, it's a nice size. It's a reasonably sized one, and and it's a it's of a shape that will hold popcorn reasonably well. Yeah.
00:26:26
Speaker
um Interesting choice. Now, I don't want to carry this around my neck all day, but, you know. You don't want to have a scarf figurine hanging around your neck all day? No, this looks very, ah you know, it's it's big. It's going to like, I mean, i I think I carried around the the one I got, the um the Skyliner one, briefly around my neck. And I was like, I look like a moron. ah like I look stupid walking around like this. I look like, ah you know, a popcorn themed Flava Flav. Like, I i shouldn't be.
00:26:58
Speaker
yeah There's a reference right there. yeah i mean, a reference yeah but I see people like, it it's not they're not that obstructive like yeah I see people with all kinds of different popcorn buckets I'll say actually the worst one that we we got was we have some what are they that but or yeah i guess yeah Sorry, I'm just looking back at it. It's it's a TIE fighter. Oh, okay. so so So it's got like the the sides of the TIE fighter and then the popcorn sits in the center. in the middle. yeah But it's so like like, it's the worst design for a popcorn bucket. Yeah. Like you said, this one, i mean, yeah, it's you're not necessarily carrying it around your your neck. You're probably like attaching it to your bag or something like that.
00:27:43
Speaker
I should also mention that Scar's light, that his eyes light up, by the way. Yeah. I mean, but the fact, I don't know who wanted a Scar popcorn bucket.
00:27:54
Speaker
I mean. But now that it's here, it's pretty cool. Yeah. It's, well, I mean, the line. Okay. And i i guess if people want to come for me, that's fine. Lion King's not my favorite Disney movie by any means. I i know it i know it's got a lot of, you know, a lot of fandom and and whatnot. Yeah.
00:28:12
Speaker
it just It just didn't hit for me the way that some of the other movies in that era hit. Okay. I mean, i'll I'll be honest, you know, given given the choice, i'll I'll watch Aladdin before I'll watch Lion King. Wow, okay. Yeah, it's... ah I don't know. I liked Aladdin more. I liked, uh, um, liked Beauty and the Beast more than Lion King as well. So, so again, this for me is kind of. Trevor, tell us why you hate wire wildlife.
00:28:42
Speaker
um Well, OK, it's not that I hate wildlife. it's that I'm kidding. i hate obviously i know it's but it's scar to me is just not that's not exciting to me.
00:28:57
Speaker
Like, it's not. what OK, but what about Ed the hyena sipper? I like the sip. I mean, it's cute. Like, he's he's a funny character and it's cute and all that. um i Again, had I'm just not a i'm not a Lion King fan. That's fair. Sorry. I i had a moment where i think I think this is a very millennial term of the the intrusive thoughts came in, right? Yeah. Which I'm looking at the ed the hy Hyena Sipper and I'm like, why did they make that the popcorn box? Because- So if you look at it, it's it's him or popcorn bucket, I should say, because it's him sitting like on his butt laughing. Right. So it's like it's his belly is kind of like the bottom of the thing. And I was but then I was thinking to myself, OK, but then you'd be eating the popcorn. You'd be the opening a door on his stomach and then eating the popcorn out of the stomach. And that's or you're like flipping the the neck back. The head opening. Like trying to reach in. Yeah, it it doesn't really work as a popcorn bucket. I mean, listen, given they had that Mickey popcorn bucket that talked and you ate the popcorn out of its head, you opened up Mickey's skull and then ate it out of its skull, which which is weird as can be. Right? I mean, You didn't have a skull. You make it sound a lot worse than it was.
00:30:07
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i yeah I mean, his head. Okay, his head. You know what I mean, though. It's like, oh, let's have popcorn. I'm going to open up the back of Mickey's head. It's like, you know, so like it's not that much worse than that, I don't think. I mean, i will okay, but any any popcorn bucket anywhere, like unless it's ah an inanimate object, it yes, you're like opening something up to reach inside is always...
00:30:30
Speaker
Yeah. That's always going to be a thing. that Like said, this Ed sipper, though, I feel sippers are always a bit of a hard one for me because they're they're just as cumbersome of pop as popcorn buckets, but then you've got liquid inside of them.
00:30:46
Speaker
They don't function well. Yeah. yeah they're never used like i like People will get them and you never like those popcorn buckets get used The sippers, I feel like, are harder. or I just don't like sippers, I guess, is the thing.
00:31:03
Speaker
I also feel like when you like were actually like you drink out of this, you get that like weird plasticky taste to applied to whatever drinking out of it. You know what I mean? And it's like, also, how do you even clean that? Yeah, it's not going in the dishwasher. yeah you're not You're not shoving Ed in the dishwasher. Yeah.
00:31:19
Speaker
maybe you are i don't know maybe you are uh okay that's that's enough all right that that that was fun but we should move on yeah yeah yeah all right let's do the ad trevor let's say let's i'll do the ad and then we can uh talk about holiday holiday stuff even though i feel like we're we've talked about so much holiday view food it's like it's out of control it's been yeah it's been crazy But okay, we we'll still try and and do a little bit more here because it is still yeah it's still November. I guess it's fair game.
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Speaker
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00:32:40
Speaker
right. So, Trevor, we just did food time about the food menus over at the International ah Festival of the Holidays. So you can listen to that later in the week here. But we didn't really we've talked a little bit, I guess, about some entertainment stuff. Right. Not a ton, though.
00:32:58
Speaker
So I guess we should start for anybody that doesn't know, Epcot Festival the Holidays starts November 28th and runs to December 30th of this year. So it's a very short festival. You've really only got a month, which, you know, if you happen to be there at Christmas time, as we've talked about before, you know, you know Christmas time can be very busy, but there's clearly a lot going on here. it's, yeah.
00:33:22
Speaker
And I think, you know, one of the things that we we touch on every year um is, you know, the Candlelight Processional is kind of a big to-do about about the ah the holiday festival, which um I don't – we did go over the lineup for the – We did, although I just saw that there was an update because they they lost ah somebody.
00:33:44
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ah but we lost people? Yeah, somebody somebody had to bow out. Was it ah Jennifer Garner, I think, had to quit? Yeah. Oh, really?
00:33:55
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And got replaced by the voice of, um ah what's her name? it's Susan Egan is as the is the voice actress. She she was ah in in a her Hercules, right? She was... ah Oh, Meg? Meg. She's Meg, yeah. Okay, yeah. All right.
00:34:10
Speaker
Yeah, so now she's in... not Not a bad trade, I guess. Yeah. it's like hockey cards right i mean you know much less famous person but still is a more disney-esque person that i would say right i mean i guess right but but yeah so that's going on and by the way i've done it before and uh it is it's a really cool event it's it's it's very cool it's really a fun one to go to so so So there's that. And then ah there is also the World Showcase Storytellers. So every – not every – I guess every pavilion are all the the major ones.
00:34:46
Speaker
The the ah African Outpost isn't on here, obviously, but you can – so, you know, like, you know, you you know Mexico, Norway, China – or yeah you know All of them have their own version of a ah a festival storyteller. So it's not they're not all Christmas related. They're they're like related to um you know holiday times in those but ah specific regions.
00:35:13
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the The one that strikes me as most interesting is the Norway Pavilion. The one they pictured here? Yeah. The the mischievous magical barn Santa.
00:35:25
Speaker
Which he looks mischievous and magical in the picture here. Yeah. But the fact that it's barn Santa is I don't I'm sure, you know, they do a very good job of explaining like their.
00:35:39
Speaker
You know, the the things the things that are specific to that region and, are you know, why it's framed the way that is. It's just weird that it's, you know, barn Santa. Can I ask ah in this picture, is that supposed to be like Anna from Frozen? No. Because it kind of looks like Anna. Yeah. I don't think that's on. I think that is just a Norwegian person. Okay. i'm just I'm just asking. I don't know. it probably feeds. i remember years ago I watched because you like you can see all the the storytellers on YouTube and a lot of times like it plays in or, you know, there'll be like the main storyteller, but there'll be somebody with them that is like either helping narrate or it like.
00:36:18
Speaker
like plays into the story of that storyteller. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So it's, so yeah, the, the, the interesting thing about the storytellers is that they're not like, it's, I know it's in a Disney park and whatever, but they're not, they're not selling like a Disney thing. So it's not like, Oh, Anna is part of, you know, the Norway thing. It's, it's meant to be a specific cultural thing to that area.
00:36:40
Speaker
Yeah, no, I get that. I just wouldn't put it past them to andt integrate some IP into there. Yeah, fair. Yeah, the the other one that's kind of funny, too, and I'm not sure what this means is the Canadian Holiday Voyager. Oh, we joked about this on a previous episode. Yeah, know. We trying to find out what this was, yeah. i I don't know what a Holiday Voyager is because we have Santa like everybody else, so...
00:37:06
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you know I don't know. maybe Maybe there's something I'm missing. I'll admit, you know, I don't know the entirety of, you know, Canadian holiday culture. Canadian lore. yeah. I mean, if you want to get into it, there's there's a whole... There are so many facets to it. It's crazy because there's ah there's there's a lot of history here, but it's also like...
00:37:29
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In terms of Christmas stuff, I don't know that there's anything specifically Canadian Christmas here. I get you. Or there's nothing jumping out at me that's like, oh, this is like they're talking about this thing that I i grew up knowing about.
00:37:42
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yeah yeah yeah that makes sense i i have to say one of my favorite ah holiday things at epcot is uh is living with the land uh what they do they decorate that with lights for i mean listen living with the land is also just one of my favorite things which is funny because i i see this on my my wife sends me these tiktoks all the time and i'm not really on tiktok unless my wife sends me a tiktok and it's always like you know a meme of people going like you want to go on a boat and and learn about plants and there's like yeah well I want to do that. Yeah. Yeah. And, and it's like, ah you know, it's just cooler during the holidays though. Cause they put like, they cover everything with the lights and it's just, they, they do a really neat job of decorating.
00:38:23
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Yeah. Oh yeah. It's, I keep saying this is it, it's a vibe. It, there, there's something about it that it, you know, you're right. It, you could at its simplest level, it is just putting lights or an overlay in the ride, but,
00:38:36
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It adds another layer of magic to it. Yeah. And it's like when, you know, going through living with the land is already, it's already a fun experience. i Sorry. Anyone who says living with the land is not fun.
00:38:49
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um You need to like really think about like, you need to think about what you're doing because living with the land is a fun ride. It's educational. Educational. And, and it's,
00:39:02
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And it it should, you know, not everything has to be a thrill ride. Yeah. And I think living with the land hit like a lot of very perfect things that it it doesn't need to change. But then, yeah, hey, adding a holiday overlay on top is like...
00:39:16
Speaker
you're you're just You're just adding that Christmas spice to it, which just it's is just makes it better. right I agree. The ride is just better. i agree. I agree. And, of course, there's a you know Santa. Of course, we've got some Santa. They're also going to the Gingerbread Spaceship Earth is coming back, which is exciting. Oh, yes. yeah That was very cool last year.
00:39:39
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Yeah, that's that's a lot of work too. like like Because i remember we talked about that. is you know you know Gingerbread houses are one thing, but having to do a geodesic sphere of gingerbread is some next level. Yeah, yeah i I'm actually really disappointed they're not doing the Grand Floridian one this year because obviously I'm going to be at the Grand Floridian. I don't think I said this, but um you know we we i talked about doing Park Fair.
00:40:05
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I kind of stopped looking for Ohana reservations because I'm kind of I kind of got myself pumped to go to 1900 Park for it. Like, I want to check it out. Like, I you're you're feeling that. and And it does kind of play into, again, the the the Christmas side of it. Right. Like, yeah you're kind of it just keeps the Christmas vibes going. Yeah, i so i I'm not even really looking for the Ohana one anymore now, but i'm i but i'm I'm a little disappointed that the gingerbread house is not there because I think my daughter would have gotten a kick out of that. Now, that's not to say we can't go elsewhere to see a gingerbread house, but, you know, it just would have been nice because we're already there, and that's that's like the premiere one, you know? Like, that's...
00:40:42
Speaker
The one everyone talks about. but but it is But you really want to see a gingerbread sphere instead of a gingerbread house. I would love to, talk but I'm not going to Epcot despite your best efforts. but you you should but But they also, you know, again, talking about things that are happening there, there's going to be Santa Goofy.
00:40:58
Speaker
Yeah, Santa Goofy is pretty cool. It sounds like he's going to be near the Odyssey is what it looks like. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I i i will admit, you know you know, seeing Santa is one thing, but I would line up for Santa Goofy.
00:41:12
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before i would line up for santa oh yeah totally absolutely absolutely uh and as we mentioned so like the the living with the lands all lit up which looks so cool in the greenhouse because looked the way it reflects and everything uh and and like i mentioned too if you want to hear all about the food we did all of the food from uh the festival of holidays on this upcoming food time so go and check that out uh i think it was a really fun one there was a lot of really good looking stuff in there i'm not gonna lie made Trevor want to hop on a plane and go to go to the the holidays. Yeah. ah
00:41:44
Speaker
So it's it's, they got a good spread this year for sure. They they certainly do. So, i but I think that's really it for, for this one, Trevor. Right. I mean, I think, yeah, I'm going I'm going to do some, some time jump stuff here for people that are, you know This is going to be a callback to the Food Time episode. Okay. But I did find out, yes, that we were talking about Figment's sweater, and it's the blue sweater. Yeah, that's what I thought.
00:42:12
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Yeah, yeah. you're going to hear me say this and go, what are you talking about? Watch Food Time and you'll understand yeah what I was talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah. ah ah So let's leave Epcot. I wanted to, there's a 2025 gift guide, specifically a holiday gift guide for Disney plushes, which feels very specific.
00:42:36
Speaker
That is very specific. Yeah. And also just the fact that there's just a stitch doll here that has zero holiday going on here. ah There's a couple of zero holiday stitch dolls.
00:42:48
Speaker
I mean, the angel one does, because angels dress up like a little Christmas tree, but Stitch has got nothing going on. Yeah, and then and then there's another Stitch right below that that is the same thing. or it's interactive plush, which... Yeah. Okay, I... Yeah, I was just say i was just say thinking to myself, like, oh, maybe my daughter would love that. I'm like, oh, wait, no, yeah I really don't want to i don't want her to have this. like No, and, and okay, so Okay, I'm sorry for mentioning this because it's really it's really not – I know we're a Disney podcast, but this stitch looks like it came out of Five Nights at Freddy's. Yeah, he's a little interesting looking. It's looking a little too –
00:43:36
Speaker
animatronic-y that ah I don't like it. I don't like it at all. it ah Yeah, i it reminds me of ah it's like ah it's like Tickle Me Elmo, but Stitch. Worse, yeah, because it's got teeth.
00:43:50
Speaker
Elmo didn't have teeth. Stitch has teeth. i'll I'll do a major throwback here and and alienate some of our audience. ah Teddy Ruxpin. Do you remember Teddy Ruxpin? Oh, yes. Yes, I had a Teddy Ruxpin when I was a kid. That thing was ah terrifying.
00:44:03
Speaker
you ever just put random music tapes in it? because I was too young, I think. I think I was too young to to do that, but that would have been funny. we had ah Sorry, I know we're we're going off the rails, but it's fine. um we had ah um We had a subscription to Columbia Music House. Oh, Columbia Music Yeah. where Anybody under like 30 that's listening to the show has no idea what we're talking about. So so we we had a lot of tapes was the thing. So we had all kinds of tapes. So yeah I figured out it was like that there was the Teddy Ruxpin tapes, but then just putting random music in like was always fun to watch. Yeah. know
00:44:43
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If you don't know, if you're listening to this, you don't know what talking Watching Teddy Ruxpin Depeche was a memory. And I'm sure that's hitting a lot of people weird right now, and I'm sorry for it. Yeah. If you if you don't know we're talking about, Google Teddy Ruxman, and you'll see what we're talking about because ah it was a cool toy. Like, listen, for the 80s, it was like super revolutionary, right? Oh, yeah. it it was It was huge, definitely. Yeah. I mean, that that was some technology at the time, but ah you know looking back, it's creepy.
00:45:13
Speaker
to Like I said, looking at this Stitch doll, though, the the the thing that's throwing me off is that your plush dolls don't have teeth. And both of these, Stitch and Angel, have teeth.
00:45:26
Speaker
And it's it's scaring me. it's I understand. I understand. they I will say, though, these wishables, the wishable versions of Stitch are better because they are... Christmas themed. There's a little reindeer stitch. There's a stitch with you know it's like a little woolen hat on. There's a Christmas tree stitch. yeah Snowman. There's ah there's a Santa stitch. they're These are adorable. I immediately clicked on the link to buy some of these for my daughter. so Nice.
00:45:51
Speaker
Yeah, yeah yeah they're they're a lot calmer for sure. They are. the the The other ones are a little too aggressive. These ones are these ones are fun. and i don't need anything else in my house that A, needs batteries, and B, is going to talk to me. Or or you're going to hear it at three o'clock in the morning when the batteries are dying. Yeah. Yeah. So i I bought a couple years ago or maybe it was last year. I bought my daughter a Furby when they brought Furbies back out again. I was like, my daughter will love this. Right. And she did. And that was the problem. like Yeah. Because the Furby is annoying and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off. Like it it goes by voice commands these days. And I was just like, I can't do this anymore. so none but you do that
00:46:36
Speaker
It didn't continue going after you removed the batteries, did it? No, it did not. No, that would be concerning. That would be very concerning if it did. um Yeah, I'm going to pretend like you didn't say that because I don't want to have nightmares, Trevor. ah Anyway. Too late. already had that stitched all.
00:46:51
Speaker
Yeah. So we got we got more wishables, though. There's some like frozen themed ones. Yeah, there's. ah there's ah Oh, the or sorry. I thought I thought these were going to be Moana, but it's ah these are these perched shoulder plushes.
00:47:05
Speaker
They're like the sidekicks. Yeah, so so you get a – or I saw Heihei, but then I realized it's also – what is the chameleon's name? Pascal. Pascal, thank you. And then Olaf. So you get the little shoulder guys, which – that's cool.
00:47:21
Speaker
i think the cutest thing, though, of all this might be the Mickey Mouse reindeer plush. Yeah, this reindeer plush is definitely – It's adorable. It is. And I think they hit they hit the mark right on this that, like, Mickey merch is such a weird thing that there's too much of it. Yeah. And it's too samey for me. Or for me specifically, like, I feel like all the Mickey stuff looks the same or like, it's just variations of his, you know, whatever his outfit is. Yeah. The reindeer thing is cool.
00:47:54
Speaker
And it's, it's different enough for me that I'm like, yeah, it's, it's cute. And, uh, you know, would grab my attention for sure. if i was I could do without the, the embroidered Disney store 2025 on it. Yeah. Like that everything has to be marked with a year that it came Well, because they're trying to do it as a collectible, I guess. But whatever.
00:48:15
Speaker
wait to see it on eBay in 15 years. Yeah. We also have another interactive plush that is not creepy looking. That is a Mickey Mouse one. But again, this isn't even holiday themed. Like, yeah, this is again. They did the same thing, you know, again, where they were like holiday collection. And then you look at it as like, what's holiday about any of this?
00:48:34
Speaker
It's just all stuff that happened to get released around the holidays. i guess Yeah. See, but if you're going to tell me holiday, I want it to be holiday themed. I want it to be like this Chip and Dale holiday plush set, which is Chip and Dale are dressed up and they're inside a little a little Santa hat, right? They're dressed up like it's cold out. and they Yeah, they got their scarves and it's very cute. Yeah, this is adorable. but If I got this for my daughter, she'd lose her mind.
00:48:56
Speaker
ah So, oh God, Squishmallows. Keep me away from the Squishmallows. There's too many Squishmallows in my house, man. But there's Zootopia Squishmallows. you You can get a Nick Wild a Judy Fox Squishmallow.
00:49:09
Speaker
I don't need more Squishmallows in my house. I'm just waiting for like them to rise up against me or something because there's so many of them. They could form a little Squishmallow army. You just build a wall of them. Yeah. yeah that's fine mean yeah I will admit, i so ah although um'm I haven't... i don't know if I've said it, but... um Like I do Zootopia, like I'm not watching all the time, but I very much like Zootopia and i do too yeah Nick Wilde is actually gradually becoming one of my more favorite characters that I like seeing.
00:49:40
Speaker
He's a great character. Yeah. I just, I just really like Nick and and the fact that you're seeing like squish mallows and stuff is like, Hey, that's, I'm glad that he like, he's getting that exposure and that Zootopia is getting that exposure.
00:49:53
Speaker
So even though I know you don't want more squishmallows, you can't, you can't hate on a Zootopia squishmallow. You cannot. No, I, I agree with you. And I, ah I'm also fan of Zootopia. I think it's a really good movie.
00:50:06
Speaker
Uh, so I, I went off the, off the beaten path, Trevor, and I decided to go to the Disney store and check out the holiday collection going on. Just see some other stuff that's not on here. yep And they, and I, okay. So I, they haven't talked about this before.
00:50:22
Speaker
I think everybody has that movie or movies that they watch during the holidays. It's kind of like tradition. My sister and I, it's the Santa Claus. We always have to watch the Santa Claus every single year.
00:50:35
Speaker
Multiple times usually, right? So they are selling the mug, the the the hot chocolate mug that they had in the Santa Claus. That the elf brings to... Yes. yeah And it says on the outside, not too hot, extra chocolate, shaken, not stirred.
00:50:53
Speaker
I feel like I need this in my life. ah But yeah, I don't know. I just had to bring that up because I thought that was cool and it's not even on the thing. But I also hate when there's not when they're not dishwasher safe. Like I don't like hand washing stuff. I want to put stuff in the dishwasher. yeah That's that's why I never, you know, talking about mugs is ah so for us, it's National Lampoon Christmas Vacation. That's that's. yeah on that too. My wife and I always have to to. And the eggnog mugs are always, I see them from time to time and I'm like, oh, those would be so cool to have. But yeah, they're not, they're not easy to take care of. So it's like, I'm not going to do that.
00:51:29
Speaker
I would love that. It's also, especially because, you know, the whole, I mean, not to go on a tangent here, but the whole Wally World thing was supposed to be Disneyland. Right. So like when they, when they go on a, a not, and this obviously is not Christmas vacation, it's just vacation, but it's, it's related because the mugs you're talking about are Wally world modes. Right. But those were Wally world is supposed to be Disneyland.
00:51:49
Speaker
So, um, but anyway, that's the other hand over there, but that's, that's a good one too, Trevor. And in fact, my wife and I have already watched it this holiday season. Wow. Okay. Yeah. watch that the other day yeah yeah We watched the other day. So, um,
00:52:03
Speaker
So, yeah, so that's that's that merch. I did want to move on, though, Trevor, because I got a couple more things. Yeah, I wanted to talk about all of these, you know, holiday before that's going to be in the wonderful world of Disney. We've we've been talking about ah the holiday spectacular.
00:52:17
Speaker
We've been talking about this. And I don't know about you, Trevor, but there's nothing that makes me feel older than reading ah artists ah like from current artists doing. No, but also current artists. And I'm like, I have no idea who that is. I've never heard that name in my entire life. I have no clue it is. But yeah, no, from my youth, too.
00:52:36
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i mean, that's true. That, too. Yeah. Okay, but so so je I have, or it says in one of the tag lines here, celebrate the holidays with Gwen Stefani, which I'm i'm immediately thinking of, no doubt, which I know is great. Yeah, yeah but but again, just dating myself that, you know, of course. yeah But Gwen Stefani, Coco Jones.
00:52:58
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Who's that? Yeah, Aloe Blanc. Who the hell is that? Good Charlotte. Yeah. Have I ever told the story about when I hung out with Coach Charlotte for couple hours? Yeah, know you did, and I'm super jealous that you got... You told us when we were playing mini golf, and I was like... Who is this person that gets to just casually hang out Good Charlotte? Sorry. This happened accidentally. Weptower 2000, man. That aside. And then, so Good Charlotte doing Christmas special. Which is weird, too, also, by the way. That feels weird. Mariah the Scientist, which... What is that? I know. I started to realize I was waiting for Mariah Carey. No, Mariah Scientist. Mariah and thought it was Mariah Carey. Yeah. Okay. Mariah the Scientist.
00:53:38
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ah Nicole Scherzinger. um That name sounds familiar, but I yeah don't know who it is. Iam Tongi, which yeah I feel I know that's somebody. for Oh, he was on um American Idol, I believe, is where I know that name from. Okay.
00:53:57
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um baby rexha is what i think i've heard that name actually okay i think i know who that is actually i and then and then trisha yearwood yes i know who this person is yeah no no not trisha yearwood the the the other person yeah yeah yeah i've seen her before okay i don't know why though i don't think i know so so so again so so that's all of the the the um musical guests. Yeah. um And they say, watch this Monday, December 1st at 8 p.m. on ABC and stream on Disney+. This is not the Christmas Day one. This is not the Christmas Day one. Yeah. But this is their holiday spectacular. Hosted by Derek... I can never pronounce his last name. I think it's Huff. think it's supposed to be Huff. Yeah. Huff returns and...
00:54:47
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Guides through the the magical holiday journey, narrated by Disney's favorite favorite Jennifer Goodwin from Zootopia 2. So, of course, they're they're promoting Zootopia 2 because yeah Judy Hopps gets to host the the Christmas special, yeah which is fun. Nothing wrong with that. I'm just i'm just more upset that you know you know No Doubt and Good char Charlotte are in the holiday specials. And I'm like, wait a minute.
00:55:13
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It's interesting that Gwen Stefani is not performing with No Doubt. she's She's doing it by herself. But even in this picture they have here. I don't think she's done stuff with No Doubt for a while. I think they they broke up, right? um yeah But Good Charlotte is performing in front of the Millennium Falcon at a Galaxy's Edge.
00:55:28
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That is so crazy. That just feels wrong. it just I don't understand it but You know, whatever. It's okay. um But, yeah, this i mean, again, this is what makes these are the things that make me feel old. Like when I see stuff like this and I'm like, I know like two of those artists and only because they're from the ninety s Yeah. like Yeah.
00:55:48
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But anyway. Yeah. Sorry. I guess we can, you know, the holidays are a good time to reminisce about things. But, you know. Interesting that this is just going to be on YouTube, by the way. Like, you don't even need, like, a ah subscription to this. they they're They're putting this up for free on YouTube.
00:56:04
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You know, ah I feel like that's actually the smart thing for them to do at this point. I agree. Because trying to put it behind, I mean, you know you know, the fact that it's on Disney Plus and everything is a great bonus, but...
00:56:15
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um It actually works against them if they try and forcibly put it behind a paywall because, yeah you know you know, we talked about like, you know, holiday Christmas stuff. You're not – most people, you know, the Christmas shows and whatever you watch is kind of whatever is on usually or like it's like a specific movie. Yeah.
00:56:33
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The holiday specials are like, if they happen to be on, I feel it's like, you know, I'll turn them on and be like, oh, you know, you know, this Disney thing is on. It's kind of playing in the background. If it's behind a paywall, I'm not paying to go and ah watch it.
00:56:47
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Which, you know, I think Disney's realized that, that, you know, this is not, they can use this as a platform to promote other things. Obviously, they are with Zootopia 2. Yeah. But the show itself should not be, you know, they're doing themselves a disservice if they try and make it exclusively available on Disney+. Right. So.
00:57:06
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Yeah. No, I get that. By the way, there was almost all of the Disney news this past week was about the Disney Destiny. And I know we've been doing little things here and there about it, but we're not really a cruise show. And so if you're wondering why we didn't do any Disney Destiny stuff, that's why. But yeah, I mean, i dont did you see the drone show they did for the Destiny, by the way? I i saw bits and pieces of it. Yes. And and i I saw it and I was like, Tom's going mad about that. I'm not mad about it.
00:57:32
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Really? The more they do about it, the more they do them, the better. just i just want them to bring it to the place I want them to bring it to. that Yeah. No, sorry. You're right. I didn't think you'd be mad about i think you'd be like, oh, I wish jealous I could see that. Yeah.
00:57:45
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Yeah. I'm pretty sure friends at DCL do over there, too. I think they were there for the for the christening or at least for the... at least for the um Media preview. So, yeah. And actually, actually, yeah, to that end. Yeah. if you If you want Disney Cruise Line stuff, we do touch on it, but not nearly as well as DCL do. Yeah. Well, because they they know what they're talking about. We don't. So. za But anyway, last but not least, Disney Springs. ah So holiday stuff at Disney Springs. Now, this is something I could participate in, Trevor. hmm. Whether I'm going to have the time for it or not, I may try to do some you know convincing to ah to do it, but we will see.
00:58:22
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ah But, you know, they're doing the the tree stroll as they have in the past, and there's going to be 19 themed trees. And this is ah always a cool thing that they do. And they really... ah it's It's hard to, you know...
00:58:36
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i've I've tried to describe this to people before and they're like, but they're just Christmas trees. And I'm like, yeah, but like Disney really does a cool job on them. Like it's hard to describe, you know? Yeah. I mean, i mean, they're themed Christmas trees, but it's,
00:58:49
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that They're meant it's it's the same way as like trying to describe the ah the windows outside of the ah Emporium to people. Yeah. Yeah. Like it's the same thing where it's like it's not they're not meant to be, I guess, the, um you know, the shining gem of like the Christmas stuff. But it's like, hey, this this is still really cool and it's worth your time to stop and look at it.
00:59:14
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Yeah. Right. Like, like that's the whole thing about the tree stroll is that, you know, it's, if you're in Disney Springs, go and check it out. But it's, it's, it's the same way as saying like, you know, you know, go look at the windows on main street. Like, yeah.
00:59:28
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They also do make it snow every night. I saw, I saw a, uh, I saw Yeah, I saw somebody the other day call it, oh gosh, what was it? It was either, it was it Snoop? Snoop, yeah. Yeah, they called it Snoop. And I was like, Snoop. And I was like, oh yeah, okay. Like, I get i get what you're saying. I had never heard it referred to that way until then. Yeah. um But I just thought that was funny. I still remember when we we did a holiday party.
00:59:53
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i think I think it was the first time that we went to, And, you know, we came onto the main street and it was snowing and all that. And it it was, it, it looked amazing. But then, um, my son, so as you know, somebody who lives in a colder climate, you know, you catch snowflakes on your tongue.
01:00:10
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oh course Yeah. Yeah. And my son just immediately was like, oh, I'm going to you know catch this in my mouth. and And he immediately regretted it. Yeah, no, that's that's not good. and actually But it's funny because it happens all the time. Like we saw it happen. Like besides my son, we saw other people do the same thing. And it's always funny to see it happen. Yeah. It actually is So believe it or not, it actually snowed here the other day, um which we never get snow, but it snowed. It didn't stick and it was gone within, you know, an hour.
01:00:44
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it's stuck, that would be very concerning. would love for it to stick. I want it to. But but yeah, so we were my daughter and I were outside catching snowflakes with our tongues because they were actual snowflakes. So. By the way, the other thing on this too, if you have a Magic Band Plus, some of the trees are interactive. I don't remember them doing that in the past. They might have, but that's pretty cool.
01:01:05
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There. Okay. So again, even more reason to go and check out the ah ah tree the tree stroll. yeah Yeah. My daughter loves the interactive stuff. Yeah, for sure. And then, of course, there's the food, right? Well, the I skipped over the art.
01:01:20
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yeah but we I mean, yeah, we've talked about the food. like yes This is all food from that we we talked about in the food time. I'm looking at the pictures right now, and it's like, oh, yeah. yeah we talked We talked about all that. Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:31
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And then, you know, very, you know, that last, but there's like an art thing going on there too, of like a Disney art, which is always, I mean, i like the Disney art we buy. We've bought quite a bit of Disney art in the past.
01:01:41
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um And then last but not least, ah Santa Claus, right? Santa Claus. So yet, yet more places you can meet Santa Claus. there There are so many places that you can meet Santa Claus at Disney. It's amazing.
01:01:54
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There are. not a bad thing. i'm not I'm not complaining about it. I'm just saying that, like, the... d What do you got against Santa Claus, Trevor? No, it's it's the concentration of Santa Claus meets to a single area is incredibly high. Because, you know, most places it's, like, your local mall, which, yeah you know, you know they're they're kind of spread out where at Disney it's, like, there's, like, eight different places you could go and meet Santa. Yeah. All at different times, obviously. Yeah. Because Santa's got to run between all these different places. He's got it covered. he Yeah, he does. He could just poof, right? he This is nothing for him. he Yeah. you know It's easy.
01:02:28
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Yeah. Anyway. that That's a Wednesday afternoon. That's not like Christmas Eve. Not a big deal. thing Yeah. Yeah, not a big deal to Santa. Exactly. So why don't we go ahead and wrap this up?
01:02:39
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Yeah. All right. We're going to have a little bit of a weird... skill This is probably our last live show for a bit. Right. say live, but you know what I mean? Like, you know, regular show, guess I should say. So I guess, yeah. So we we won't have a we won't have a regular show. or So we'll have the show coming up this week.
01:02:58
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The following week, um you guys are getting a wait list. Yeah. Because Tom will be in he'll be enjoying the magic of ah Disney Christmas stuff. Yes, I will. yeah Yeah. Hopefully all is well.
01:03:14
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ah Hopefully we we we you know we don't nobody gets sick and we all ah we we have no issues. like Let's hope that. Yeah, I do hope your trip goes well. And and yeah, I guess um yeah just looking at the timing of it, um Yeah, there may actually be a week where we don't have an episode because of when you're back.
01:03:31
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Yeah, yeah. So it's, yeah.
Thanksgiving and Holiday Timing Debate
01:03:33
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So yeah, i think we'll have a waitlist, um you know, after, or we'll have a waitlist next week and there'll probably be a week break and then we'll be back in December.
01:03:42
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So like second week in December, probably. ah we we And we certainly hope that everybody listening, and except for Canada, ah because you guys already had Thanksgiving, i have a happy Thanksgiving. i love that you start. I was like, wait, are you going diss because you're No, is is that a dis now it's a diss. It's happy belated ah hall ah Halloween. Happy belated Thanksgiving to the Canada. Happy Thanksgiving to um our American friends who are a month late on celebrating their Thanksgiving. Oh, A monthly. See, now that's insulting. I said many times I feel like the Canadians do it right. I feel like I want to do Thanksgiving in October. so much easier. You get that nice little gap in between. ah Yeah.
01:04:23
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And and hey I've said, you know, you're more than welcome to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving. You know, nobody's... i Nobody's stopping you. And I've told you, Trevor, that I am not the problem on this. that I'm not the decision maker on this. It's the rest of the country that I yeah have to, you know, i have to abide by the dates that we have off and dates that family wants to do it. so Okay, fine.
01:04:45
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yeah It's not my fault. I, you know, I want to do it differently. You just, you just gotta, you gotta spread the word, you know, it's, it's just easier. And, you know, who wants me to start a Thanksgiving revolution. yeah Yeah. You know, just, just, you know, just get it out there that, you know, Hey, it gives you more time, you know, you know, you can spend all of November planning for Christmas, not having to, you know, do Thanksgiving and then Christmas immediately after it. So. Listen, I'm on your side. Okay. And I guess, I guess to that end, you know, we, I'm like,
01:05:15
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I myself am done my Christmas shopping, but for my family, I think we have like, or like for everybody in the house, like we we all kind of work together to get Christmas shopping done for like extended family stuff. I think we're like 95% done because we've had time to do that here in November. So just putting that up too. I'm pretty sure I'm 0% done. I have not bought a single thing for for Christmas as of yet. Yeah.
01:05:41
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So, hey, start spreading the word that this would be a lot easier if you guys actually did your Thanksgiving. I'll work on it. Instead of giving yourself like three weeks to recover from Thanksgiving and going to Christmas. Yeah, do need that. I do need a lot of time to recover from my Thanksgiving eating habits. So, yes. You're going to need extra time this year, I think, because you're going to have that Disney...
01:06:06
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ah That Disney hangover? That that disney that Disney Christmas dose. it's it's It's not a normal Disney hangover. you're goingnna You're going to have that like Christmas high. that I'm excited for that. it's going yeah'm I'm really excited for you too. i'm I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes when you get back.
01:06:23
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Let's hope it goes well. So I guess we we should probably, you know, leave that here. And so, yeah, you know, you know, stay tuned going, ah you know, like we said, you know, we're going to have stuff for you guys here for at least the next couple of weeks. And then, uh, you know, stay tuned when Tom's back and we're going to talk about how things went for him.
01:06:43
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And listen, you got a lot of content from us the past couple weeks. I don't think I've seen family. My daughter doesn't recognize me anymore. She's like, who are you? Why are you here? You know, I think, you know, hopefully I know, i know some of our listeners, you know, listened, you know, you know, there's kind of a backlog of stuff for them. This should tide them over into, you know, into December. So, you know, we, yeah, we, we, we've given you guys enough. It's just, yeah, we, we have to have a break in there because of travel schedules and stuff like that. So.
01:07:09
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Yeah. um it'll It'll be weird to getting back to it. I'm sure we'll forget how to do the show by the time you get back. So it'll be fine. don't I forget every time we do it. So I know. um But yeah, I guess we'll we'll start wrapping this up here. So, um you know, if you guys ever want to reach out to us about anything you heard on the show or, you know, share your own trips, all that kind of stuff, um you can always find us at welcomehomepodcasts at gmail.com.
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01:09:03
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01:09:23
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01:09:54
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Okay. Since it's Christmas, this is Tom's. Yeah. this is This is your gift to Tom. Give me a gift. Because if you want, it's like the Christmas star, but it's the Christmas five stars. Yeah. And and you know it'll fulfill Tom's wish. it'll It'll fill up his heart. Yeah. Like, i'm I'm going to just throw all the Christmas references here. Every time you write a five-star review, an angel gets their way. And Tom's heart grows three sizes. It does. Because, you know.
01:10:22
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you know, the, the Grinch and I don't know what else. Yeah. Whatever it is. Yeah. yeah it''s the The three ghosts. just do Yeah. do it okay I'm just going all over the place now, but yeah, so yeah leave leave us a review. You know, it just helps the show. And, you know, you can also write us for review on iTunes because we do like hearing what you guys think about show.
01:10:41
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Yeah. Yeah. So there's that. ah By the way, I, you know, I did all the, I, I'm glad we did all these food time episodes for the holidays, Trevor, because I spent an inordinate amount of time putting together holiday food time and all the graphics and everything. And I was like, I'm going to do all this work and going use it once. And now got to use it three times. so Yeah. And I mean, yeah it's actually, you're right. It's good that you did it because we were prepared for the deluge of exactly food time content. Yeah. We'll be able to use it next year. So anyway, there you go. i
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