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Episode 300: Celebration, New Shows & Buzz Overhaul
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The guys celebrated their 300th episode and announced new changes coming to the show. The mystery construction happening at the Canada pavilion has finally been revealed. Disney announced the opening dates for “The Little Mermaid - A Musical Adventure” and “Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After” shows at Hollywood Studios. Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin will undergo a complete refurbishment later this year.
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- The Little Mermaid – A Musical Adventure
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Transcript
Introduction and Milestone Celebration
00:00:02
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Hello, welcome home listeners. It's Tom here with a quick message before we get into our 300th episode. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you all for listening. Whether you just started listening a few weeks ago or you've been with us since the beginning, we can't thank you enough for supporting the show.
00:00:15
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When we started the show, we weren't sure we'd make it to even 10 episodes, let alone 300. We keep doing this because of all of you. So thank you. Your support allows us to keep doing this show. Before we get the episode started, I wanted to mention that the 300th episode you're about to hear was recorded live at our 300th episode celebration.
00:00:33
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In the spirit of our show's commitment to putting out the most real content possible, we're putting out this episode in its entirety without editing. While this episode may not meet our usual audio quality standards, we do hope you enjoy listening to our 300th episode celebration with our listeners. Thanks for your support.
00:00:56
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This is Skipper Albert A. Wall, the voice of the jungle, broadcasting on the DVC to all points unknown. If you're within the sound of my voice, you're listening to Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
00:01:14
Speaker
Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
Live Recording and Listener Participation
00:01:20
Speaker
Hello and welcome home. This episode of Welcome Home is brought to you by DVC Resale Market. Thank you for joining us on episode 300 of Welcome Home, Disney Parks and Recreation Podcast. I'm Tom here with Trevor and Damon and a whole bunch of other people, right?
00:01:38
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That'd be cool. All right. Thank you so much for coming. This is awesome and weird. Is this weird, Damon? No. I mean, it's weird because you're wearing a paintball mask right now.
00:01:50
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But nothing's ever really weird. It's not weird. That's just how Damon is. Thank is how Damon is. um And unfortunately, like I got to see. ah Let's keep Trevor up here. here We don't want lose Trevor.
00:02:03
Speaker
Unfortunately, Trevor can't be joining us, so he's out up in Canada still. So hi to Trevor, everybody. Can we all say hi to Trevor? Can we all say hi to Trevor? Yeah. ah Actually, I i should not stand in front of the camera so you can actually see people. That would be good.
00:02:18
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um That would be nice. So anyway, ah so thanks everybody for joining us. This is great. We've never done a live thing like this before, so this is going to go interestingly. i mean, we've done live before. but We've done live shows before. Yeah, but we never done this.
00:02:32
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Okay. We've never done with, you know, like... Live audience. Yeah, with a live audience. Does that bother you? No. Okay. I'm just My my wife possessie actually asked me the same thing because i was like she was like, are you nervous to talk in front of a bunch of people? I'm like, no, I'm nervous about doing an actual show. Okay. Because, you know, a lot of you guys all travel from a lot of places and we appreciate you coming. And so we want to make sure you have a good time, obviously. And this is the highlight of it. The good time was the open bar and the food. This was just like some extra stuff. That's exactly right. Yeah. So...
00:03:02
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But, uh, so thank you guys again for coming. We do have the giveaway.
DVC Resale Market Partnership
00:03:06
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So if you guys want any pins or hats whatever, or, uh, we're doing a giveaway for a $300 worth of gift cards. Uh, I did, and those are all courtesy of a world of DVC. Yeah.
00:03:16
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yeah We've been our friends for a long time. They're really great people. They also gave us a little message that they wanted to read to us. I wanted us to read. So we, I'm going to read a message from, DVC resale market because Derek wrote this and, uh,
00:03:31
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Is it was going to make me cry? i mean, I don't know. Maybe. You won't do it, Damon. You have a mask on.
00:03:39
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Yeah, well, at least you're blocked. That's true. That's true ah so So Derek said, wow, welcome home podcast, 300 episode on behalf of everyone at DVC Resale Market and the entire world of DVC family. We can't thank you all enough for being such incredible partners over these years.
00:03:52
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When we first partnered up together in 1927, funny, Derek, all the way through 2025, our relationship with you and your audience is far more than just a business partnership.
00:04:03
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Over so many years, it has blossomed into so many magical friendships that we all truly treasure. Whether you all have questions about buying or selling DVC, we always are greeted by the kindest, smartest, and funniest audience imaginable when they let us know that they are part of the Welcome Home Podcast family.
00:04:19
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Tom says, don't forget to use Welcome Home Podcast from the drop-down when making an offer. That's correct. just if you If you go on DVC Resale Market, make sure you choose Welcome Home. yeah but and then ah Why am I reading on the screen when it's up here? I don't know.
00:04:31
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have no idea. To Tom, Trevor, and Damon, we extend our heartfelt gratitude for everything you've done to make World of BBC shine and grow over so many years. Your dedication and support have been instrumental in our journey, and we can't wait to see what the future holds. Do you know that when somebody's reading a PowerPoint, and you're just like, Tom? How was this, Damon? How was this?
00:04:51
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Yeah, that's right. So congratulations on your 300 show and here's so many more years of friendship and Disney magic. And P.S. Derek wants Damon to let ah once let Damon know his bucket hat should get to him by the 487 show.
00:05:02
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I actually got one bucket hat and I refuse to think that more than two were actually sent, but yeah that's fine. How many did he actually send? He said he sent multiples. Again, like I understand our mail is terrible, but like everyone knows North Carolina mail is terrible, but yeah I only got one.
00:05:17
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All right, well, that's fair enough. so well So thank you to DVC Resale Market for doing that and for World of DvC. That was a very kind thing. I'm sure many people in this room have probably bought contracts or sold contracts with them. So really appreciate you guys supporting them. They are the best.
00:05:31
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They honestly, seriously, if you go back to like episode five of our show, they were like the first people on there. And that was before Nick had taken over the world. so That's true. now like That was back when there was just one small company and now they own like all of them.
00:05:45
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All of the BBC world. So, um, so thanks to them for this event too. They, uh, they, they're sponsoring our, our giveaways as well. So thank you guys again for coming. Yeah, absolutely. So do we want to go like, I feel like we kind of want to go right into like people's questions.
Q&A Session with Audience
00:06:00
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Yeah. Even though like, that's not what the schedule looks like. if You want to just, you want to just ask people questions? Yeah. Well, what questions you want to, or your people ask us questions? I don't know. Whichever one that you want. Do people want to ask us questions?
00:06:12
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Do people want to ask us questions? You got one? All right. Hold on. Let's get this. All right. Good. Just talk to me. but just talking Okay. So do you have to have a reservation order to buy points, extra points?
00:06:29
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but A booked reservation in order to buy points? Unless Trevor knows the answer to this, you've already asked already asked us. We don't know the answer. ah I mean, i don't does anybody in the room know of Tetherhead? Any DVC experts in here?
00:06:45
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I know we're supposed to be the ones, but we're not. I think you do have to have a booking, right? I'm pretty sure. and They won't just give it to you. so you can't wait I guess you can't waitlist your Riviera. Yeah.
00:06:59
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Yeah. i joins to and wait question Yeah, I don't i don't know. Yeah.
00:07:10
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to I should probably like actually have a mic on you. Yeah. What were you saying? I can't hear. If you wait list a reservation and you don't have enough points, your wait list won't go through.
00:07:23
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So you it has to be a reservation, not wait listed, that you're going to actually buy those one-time use points for. Okay. That makes sense. Answering questions for Molly. Look at that. I love it. We were like thinking more you know you know silly questions, but you know either either way, that's real question. Do you have some information from the website?
00:07:43
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What's that? So on the website, it says to purchase one-time use points to complete a booking. So that that says that you have to have a booking in order to buy the one-time use point. You got your question answered. See, look yeah, look at that. You got your question answered. We you never had to invite Trevor for a reason. All the way from Canada. Exactly.
00:08:04
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That's fair. That's fair. Or do you just want to tell stories? I mean, you can tell stories if you want. That's cool. books I think that that the story that i feel like I have to tell again... You gotta talk louder.
00:08:15
Speaker
What? You gotta talk louder. gotta talk louder, sure. No problem. So I think the story that I want to tell again is the one about rhubarb. I feel like that's one that people have missed. That's long time ago. A long time ago. So... You know, one of the things is that, kind have to set up the story a little bit. So I do all some other web work. i You know, I deal with Disney a lot. I deal with, you know, all those companies. And we happened to go down for Star Tours when it was redone.
00:08:39
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And what happened was, you know, we wanted to get on a ride, but it wasn't open yet. So I sent a couple of emails to Disney and they were, you know, happy enough to let me and the family on. They actually asked us to interview George Lucas at the time, which, again, everyone's mad about that I turned down, but I was on vacation.
00:08:53
Speaker
Why wouldn't you go meet George Lucas? Because I was on vacation. Okay. But anyway, so what happened is we go the next time and they're doing previews of Toy Story Land. And i don't know why Again, I was by myself, I think.
00:09:04
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And I was like kind of walking through and I see that there's a lady there and she is letting people in and out of the previews for Toy Story Land. And it wasn't like, you know, an official press preview. It was actually prior to that.
00:09:15
Speaker
They were just doing something that day. So I sent a message to my wife and I and and actually we were there with some of our friends as well. And I said, hey, listen, I just was in Toy Story Land and they're like, no, you weren't. So this is before AI. So i had to scour the web and I found out that was it Hong Kong, were saying which one was open first?
00:09:33
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One of the ones that was open for somewhere else. And I started of searching for pictures that kind of match the sky for the day that we were there. I took that picture from the web, sent it to him. I'm like, no, no, I'm in here. We're definitely doing preview.
00:09:45
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All you have to do is go up to the lady at the gate and just tell her the secret password. And they're like, well, wait, what is it? And I'm like, it's Rhubarb. And then I just did something else. I don't know what I was doing, but like I wasn't with them. I must have been with one of my other kids.
00:09:59
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My wife goes up to the lady at the gate and actually stops her and says, hey, can we get in? And the lady's like, but no. And she's like... But it's rhubarb, right? And the lady's like, you know, cast members like wouldn what? And she's like, the password is rhubarb, though. And then I happened to see them there and just started laughing. i thought that was probably one of my favorite family stories. think rhubarb still pretty good, at though. and it is That's pretty funny.
00:10:27
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So that's probably one of my favorite kind of times at Disney in general. What rob what about you? ah Just in general? i was just going to tell a fun I was just going to talk about how we... What's that?
00:10:38
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said Damon's isn't getting Damon's isn't talking about food, right? i hate talking about food. and Unless I've eaten it. If I've eaten it, that's a different st story. You can't talk about food you haven't eaten before, though.
00:10:50
Speaker
Yeah, that's and well, you can, though. I mean, can. You can. bell ahead We can talk about the aesthetics of the ingredients. and Go ahead, Trevor. I just said we do talk about food, so you can talk about food without eating it. yeah you You guys do, but yes, I agree. ah speaking Speaking of that, well I had like a list of announcements I was going to do.
Future Podcast Plans
00:11:08
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You had a list of announcements?
00:11:09
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Yeah, I had a list of announcements. Sure. Because it's our 300th episode, so we're going to start changing some things up. We're going to do things a little differently. going for well We said this before, and we didn't, but we're going to. I blame Tom for that always. so I know. but it is We're going to try to do we're gonna do some different things. so First of all, we're going to what bring the focus back to DVC and Parks. We're going to stay away from other things.
00:11:30
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We're going to try to be more focused. less This is going to make some people because some people like the long episodes, but we're going go shorter episodes. Nobody likes the longer episodes. Some people do. I don't like the longer episodes. You don't like it. feel like We all but we wear have a hand raised in the room.
00:11:46
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one One, two. See, a couple people like long episodes. Thank you. ah So, yes, there's that too. So, yeah, no, we're going to start doing probably a little bit shorter. We're also going to break Food Time out into its own show. Thank goodness.
00:12:02
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Oh, my goodness. Thank goodness. So, David has been convinced for a long time that no one cares about food. They don't. There's people clapping in here for food. I wanted most Who sang the song? Yeah. AI sang the song. AI sang the song.
00:12:17
Speaker
I'm going to get someone to do it eventually. But now it's... Wait, wait. You laughed a little too hard at that. I I did. I did. No, I am not a good enough singer to do that. I may hire somebody at some point to do it, just recreate it so it doesn't sound as AI as it does. Although I think it sounds pretty good, right? It doesn't... Yeah. It does't it sounds like a fairly real song.
00:12:38
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There's going to be more songs too. I've been working on a couple. So... Please keep them all to the secondary episodes for my own sake. could you Just keep them on to the side episodes? Yes, please. Okay. Well, so yeah, we're going to break food out into its own thing. It's going to come out on Thursdays if there's food to talk about.
00:12:53
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ah It's you know safe to say that Damon won't be there. because i will 100% never be there. Because Damon doesn't like that. Listen, the only way that I'll be there is if I actually go to Disney, go to food and wine, eat stuff, and then you want to talk about that. But my guess is you'll talk about it before I go. Yeah, probably. So could come on as a special guest for a third-day episode to talk about food and wine, too.
00:13:13
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You could. But that would be about it. Why can't i do anything on here? What's Tom doing? Do have to carry for a second? I'm just trying to to look at things.
00:13:25
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No, you can't look at things. you should have memorized this. You're in the middle of the announcements, Tom. You should have written it on your hands. You just talked about focusing. We need to focus right now. Yeah, we're going to refocus in a way.
00:13:38
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yeah We did just say we're going to refocus. So the other thing we're going to do is we we got rid of listener questions a little while ago, and we're going to bring those back again. So we're going to start doing listener questions because we had a lot of fun with those, and I think people that wrote in had a lot of fun with them. So we're going do that again.
00:13:52
Speaker
And then last but not least, we've had people for years now say, why don't you do like trip reports and stuff on your show? And we don't. if you're doing hot tra Outside of ours. So we now have a phone number that you can actually call and give us your trip report, and we'll put it on the show.
00:14:06
Speaker
So, yeah. I can't wait to hear how this turns out. Yeah. So if you want to call us and give us a trip report, it's, what it, 833-WHP-TIPS. Because it's also going to be for our weekly segment. It's like the crime dog, I feel like. Yeah, it is. This is what I feel. ahead. It's crime tips.
00:14:22
Speaker
Yes. No. it was It's also for DVC tips. So we want to do another thing called DVC tips of the week. If we have a DVC tip of the week, you can text us you to that number or you can call us and we will either play it on the show or read it on the show.
00:14:34
Speaker
If we don't have a DVC tip tip that week, it'll be a trip report that week. So that's a new way for you guys to be able to interact with us because we want to play more of you on the show and less of us, I guess, because we don't want you to get tired of hearing my voice and, well, really Damon. Not really me, but that's fine.
00:14:51
Speaker
wearing a paintball mask. I guess I'm fine still talking, but okay. I mean, feel like you should be doing like a Darth Vader thing or something. I could do that. That's possible. That'd be weird. Okay.
00:15:03
Speaker
So yeah, those are announcements for for for the time being, but i don't know what else you guys want to do with this. I mean, we what DVC news is there this week? what What did you have that good that you didn't write down that now? right down We're going to go to it right now. Look at this. Okay. Yeah. I got them up here, Damon.
00:15:17
Speaker
Yeah. Look at this. Right so So there's been a... i thought I don't think you were here for this, Damon, but there was rumor that we were talking about because they were building something at the at the Canada Pavilion.
00:15:33
Speaker
And now we know what it is. And it's actually DVC-related. They're building a DVC welcome center there.
New DVC Welcome Center Discussion
00:15:39
Speaker
Right? Kind of weird, right? I mean, so we're getting rid of the kiosks and this is going to be like the new Saratoga Springs?
00:15:46
Speaker
This is going to be like... You always go left? You always go you always go Canada first. No, you you go... Oh, that's right. I'm sorry. You Mexico first. Let's get my left and right. Okay. Yes.
00:16:00
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Great. then You're saying you go to Mexico first, right? got confused for a moment. Thank Yeah, said Mexico first. Oh, have to do that. There's no question. not Even the Canadian knows you go to Mexico first. a yeah you Really? Are you betraying your country by saying that, Trevor? No, you just you just go to Mexico first.
00:16:15
Speaker
That's just how you do it. and is how you do yeah hu but yeah so it's gonna be Trevor, can you pronounce this? ah you know you want to do this ah that Chateau de Voyage? de Voyage.
00:16:29
Speaker
okay is Is this taking place, though, of Saratoga Springs? No, it's the kios not exist another one. They have a model room in there, and like it's a whole like welcome center like they have over at Saratoga.
00:16:41
Speaker
Is it going to be ice cream there? i If there is, there should be like ah something Canadian-themed there, you know like coutine or something. We do good Canadian ice cream because... Wait, what's Canadian ice cream? Isn't it just ice cream? it can eat it what It is, but we actually have... like We get it straight from the dairy farmers, so it's like... We have more cows in the U.S., I guess.
00:17:05
Speaker
You just assume everything involving Canada involves maple syrup. Yeah, yeah i mean, we do have maple ice cream. Well, there's that. That does sound pretty good. um but I hope they put poutine there and it's like the poutine that you hate, Trevor, that's not really poutine.
00:17:19
Speaker
The wet fries, you mean? Yeah, well, the fries and like the random stuff they throw on top of the fries that they call poutine that's not really poutine. Yeah, it's wet fries. It's not poutine.
00:17:31
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We actually, you know, this is some people will know this or not, but in New Jersey, you know, you go to a diner, you can order disco fries. and Anyone familiar with disco fries? No? It's fries with cheese and gravy on them. It's basically American poutine. But yeah but again, as we know, Tom is only from South Jersey, which is not real Jersey. jersey yeah That's not real Jersey. That is not true.
00:17:53
Speaker
That is false. Thank you. Thank you. That is false. As North Jersey people understand what that actually means. No, that's ridiculous. Okay, so... Anyway, back to the Welcome Center. um So what does everybody think about this? This is the first in-park Welcome Center for DVC.
00:18:10
Speaker
That's good question. Anybody have thoughts on this? want to talk? Anyone? Everyone's being quiet, Trevor. i can I can see. i see I see not a fan. I see shaking of heads. I agree. I just don't know what the benefit is here. That's what I'm saying. If I'm in the park...
00:18:29
Speaker
it's It's a little more convenient than going all the way to Saratoga, though. Right? I mean... You've got to bring the mic closer. I can't hear what people are saying. When you go here, are you going to get like paper fast passes?
00:18:42
Speaker
Or fast passes because you signed it? Do they even do that anymore? I don't know. haven't been Saratoga in so long. haven't been to the Welcome Center in 10 years. Yeah. They've got to do something for your time, I feel like. Don't they load something on your account?
00:18:53
Speaker
Yeah. When I signed up, it was like, we got a bunch of free fast passes. We got gift cards, we got transportation and we got ice cream. Yeah. But I don't know what they do now. Cause I haven't bought new from them in forever.
00:19:07
Speaker
in london yeah It should be in France. And call you walk through, you get like ice cream or something. great bey And then you get on me for free. That should be the plug.
00:19:19
Speaker
I like that. It's a good idea. I could do that. If it's a crepe, though, has to be the crepes. I mean, it's the only reason you kind of walk through France is for Remy and the crepes. It's for crepes. Have you been the crepe place? like Have you been to the crepe place in France?
00:19:31
Speaker
Yes, many times. Yeah, okay. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Well, no, it's my only disappointment this is that Trevor and I spent like, I don't know, probably 15 minutes speculating on what this could be. And like, this is the least likely outcome think it would have been.
00:19:45
Speaker
i mean I wasn't thinking DVC at all. No, we were not. We were hoping for something really cool, right? i mean, not that this isn't cool, but if were for something cool. why That's true.
00:19:58
Speaker
so So, yeah, they took four years to get us park benches in Epcot. Is that what you said? Yeah, that is true. It's is weird. we was I was out to dinner last night with with my my parents and my my daughter, and the waitress, my daughter was wearing a Disney dress, and the waitress asked her what her favorite Disney park was, and she said Epcot, and I was like,
00:20:18
Speaker
Well, because that's the only right answer. It is, but I like... to wrong right answer First of all, she's seven years old. she's smart. Obviously, she's not the right answer already. But I don't know how we came to that. Like, I didn't even know she knew the word Epcot.
00:20:31
Speaker
Like, you know? Like, I had no idea that that was even a thing. So, yeah, that was a surprise, actually, to me. Yeah. But... Yeah, I don't know. I mean, listen, it's not there' I don't hate this. It's just weird.
00:20:42
Speaker
Yeah. All right. We're done with this We're done with this now? Okay. Yeah. So like I said, we got to get moving here. That was the problem. That's the goal of the show. To go faster? Is that what you're talking about? Yes. I really just want to talk about Buzz Lightyear
Buzz Lightyear Ride Updates
00:20:54
Speaker
getting updated. That's all I want to do. It's not a race, Steve. Buzz Lightyear getting updated. Can you talk about that? Yes.
00:20:59
Speaker
Yeah, because... I think we just need to talk about this because this is, I think, I was actually reading an article about this and I did not realize that the ride vehicles on this are the original ones from 1972. They the same vehicles, which, you know, if you look at them, it feels like they've been there since 1972. But they're all getting they're getting we're getting brand new ride vehicles. You're actually going to be able to pick up your laser gun, which is like, that's a w yeah who doesn't want that, right?
00:21:26
Speaker
That's some Disneyland stuff there. that's just the area say you got You got to know what the Disneyland version looks like. Yeah. Well, cause that's, yeah, they do that. Well, the other thing I saw too, is it doesn't seem like you actually have to press the trigger.
00:21:39
Speaker
Apparently it's just going to be like, Oh, he's on. So you just kind of, don't know that the the I No, no, that the aiming is on. You still got to pull a trigger, but they just have a light on. So you can actually see where you're aiming. Oh, okay.
00:21:52
Speaker
So Trevor's saying that, the that it's not always on. You It just shows the light and you still have to hit the trigger. Okay. and growth i That's a good question. They don't actually say whether you're going to still spin or not, right?
00:22:03
Speaker
um They said there's going to be a new scene. ah There's going to be a new character named Buddy the Robot. And then there's also going to new ride vehicles. But then they're also going to make it now so that the targets... Is Buddy the Is he coming from Toy Story 5 or is he just a rando? you know, that's, you know what, you're thinking the right way. Yeah. Probably doing that to cross promote something from. I would hope so. I hope so i would hope so too.
00:22:25
Speaker
I just like the idea of being able now to like pick up the blaster and also knowing if you've hit something like, you know, you'll have your own color. It'll blink that color. Like, i love that. But this is like such a long time coming and all I can think of is now that I hope that they do like you know some of the other things that need to be done.
00:22:42
Speaker
Like their the cheap target off the ceiling? yeah Has anybody here ever gotten ah all the way to the max? Yeah. Okay. I mean, after a lot of YouTube videos and reading, but yes.
00:22:54
Speaker
yeah ah You you like studied up on it? I'll have to study up a little bit on it. Yeah, you do have to. Yeah. Well, cause you got to know where the spots are, right? Exactly. Exactly. like But um my wife actually did it when I, we went for her birthday one year and she did it and she somehow thought that I was able to like talk to a cast member and get her that cause she had no idea how she figured it out.
00:23:15
Speaker
And I'm like, what do you think? Like, what kind of connection do you think? that I was like, yeah, it was me. I, I, I called in some favors, you know, no but she just, she got, you know, the maximum amount. So, uh, yeah, that was cool.
00:23:27
Speaker
Yeah. life Let's let's try let's. I said, if you have the laser and you have to pick it up, who's going to drive? Because that's going to be an issue. It's going to cause a lot of problems in marriages. I'm just saying. Doesn't it already? Yeah.
00:23:45
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it just So here I'm looking at the pictures right now on the site. um If this is the cars that they're going to be using for or the new cars, there's no direction turning. It looks like the cars just turn on their own.
00:23:58
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So I think we're losing. younger but But because you have the because you have the handheld blasters, you don't need to turn the car anymore. You can just turn and shoot wherever want. Turn around yourself, I guess. so That's true. you're You're a lot more mobile now. You don't have to yeah you don't have that limited range of motion.
00:24:13
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yeah That's true. Hold on. She's going to be shooting me the whole time. Probably. Your wife's going to spend the whole time shooting you. mean, don't know.
00:24:24
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i mean i don't know
00:24:27
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Well, see, that's the sad part about losing the spinning, though, because my wife and I would always mess around with each other with spinning. She'd be shooting something, and you'd hit the lever, and now can't hit Yeah. you guys You guys aren't going to be able to see Tom spinning around ah himself and in the middle of the room. its so you you just You just have to block the other person with your hand. Yes, I wish we had that on video. Wish we had video? Yeah. All right. Well, I mean, someday, maybe we're going to do video.
00:24:56
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Someday. We talked about it. yeah Yeah. We have to figure out how Damon can not be on video on the podcast. so We have some ideas for that. We do. I have some ideas for that. Yeah, we do. All right. What do we have next?
00:25:07
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But how are feeling about this? Are we excited? Is that like, yeah? Yeah. But it's not even happening until like 26. So we have like, yeah, exactly. We have some time. yeah Yeah. Yeah. We got to wait a little while. I mean, look, the concept art looks cool.
00:25:24
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I guess that's the new character, right, buddy? That's who it is right there. Okay, cool. All right. Well, we don't really have a lot, man. that's What are you doing, man? like Walking around and like talking and having a good time. like We don't need to do a long episode today.
00:25:36
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Okay. um you know i just I see ah other stuff on there. Yeah, because the whole Little Mermaid thing is going to be starting. Yeah. so we got the Okay, there we go.
00:25:48
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All right. Let's hear what people think about it. What's that? so Let's hear what people think about it. Okay, who wants to say something? in the room You seem like you're very excited, huh? No? I don't know how I feel. I like this nostalgic ride. It'll be interesting.
00:26:06
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Yeah, I kind of, I like the old everything. You like the old everything, but like this one looks pretty cool though. I mean, like, that looks pretty cool right there. I mean, I don't know what it's going to look like in practice, but it looks like it's going to be pretty cool.
00:26:19
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No? Yeah. I mean, guess. I don't know. I think it's going to be pretty cool. Yeah. Let's see. And so this is opening what?
00:26:27
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show? Is that what we're looking at? I think it's both. think it's a lot yeah i think it's a little bit of both, actually. I think there's puppets. I think there's projections. and I've only actually ever seen this show once before it closed.
00:26:39
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I do love puppets, though. I don't even love p i and like pppies I love puppets. I know you do. You want to start doing a video podcast with you as a puppet again? I i think so. I think we can do with AI now. i Do the Damon puppet?
00:26:51
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Yes, that would be awesome. That works. okay well Anybody else want to talk about this? No? No. yeah You had something else up there, too. What's that? You had something else up there, too. what you eleven an May 27th. The other one was the the ha ah the the Villains thing.
00:27:08
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The Villains thing is opening. So we also have that. ah Let's see here. I kept it light this week because I you know i don't know what we're going to do with this. So this is also opening May 27th. So two new shows at the same time on May 27th are opening.
00:27:24
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So you know if you're going to be there, then ah just you're just going to miss it, Trevor, by a couple weeks there. Not that you would be into this anyway because you don't like Hollywood not going to Hollywood Studios anyway. we're We're all about the roller coasters this trip. I'm not going to be doing a lot at Hollywood Studios. Yeah, so that's the thing. like i mean How many people actually watch shows? I don't think I've watched the shows for a very long time.
00:27:43
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People go to shows? Yeah, you do shows, right? Yeah, a lot of people do shows. You want to talk? Speaking of Hollywood Studios. yeah The Muppet Show. Oh, yeah. I saw rumor where...
00:27:58
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where Jim Henson's family had stopped that whole... Stopped it from happening? don't know if it's true. I have not heard that, no. I saw it.
00:28:09
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Interesting. I mean, maybe they... I mean, I've kind of believed that they're going to move it somewhere. They seem to understand that people are mad about it, so... um But people may not get mad about a lot of things. That doesn't necessarily mean it changes their mind. Yeah.
00:28:22
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Yeah. I love the Muppets, though. But, you know... But Damon's thing is don't destroy anything, just build new, right? That's what I'm saying. like There's so much land there. Let's just keep building.
00:28:34
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A whole
00:28:38
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park?
00:28:41
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I mean, there is. So my take on this is all of that Disney is going to cater towards the younger audience regardless of what it is, and it's that's just not their MO, I feel like.
00:28:55
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New park section or just a new park? Let's see what your idea is then. I want to hear
Nostalgia for Classic Rides
00:28:59
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it. Hold on. I want to hear your idea. I would do Disney Classic. So all these rides are different in way that we all love. That's what I'm saying. Why not move them?
00:29:08
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I'd be there all day. 20,000 moves under the sea every day. And like Mr. Toad, bring Mr. Toad. I'd be with Mr. Toad every day. Come on. We talked about it. It was not on the show, but we called it Nostalgia Land, didn't we? something like that.
00:29:22
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Yeah, i feel like we brought that up before, but i don't we were going to do like a whole episode on it at one point and we just never did. do like that. So what was your favorite ride you'd bring back? Again, mine would be 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Mine would also be 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I love the Mr. Toad ride. I love that one.
00:29:37
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What about Scary Snow White? Scary Snow White's a beautiful idea. Scary Snow White. There was one a long time ago. I think it was Eastern Airlines or something.
00:29:47
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It's a long time ago. yeahy snowway was one a long time ago i remember think it was yesterday air loads or little long time yeah It's like a... Where Buzz was, right? where Buzz Yeah. because it it was if you could ah If you had wings, think.
00:30:11
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and then it was dream flight after that yeah yeah so the kind that it i'd be a tough call for me There's man after your own hurry. Alien Encounter.
00:30:23
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But the best part about Alien Encounter was not even the ride. It was just the show of the people in there was better than the ride any time. The show of the people in there? Yeah, just the people getting freaked out. That was way better than that for a ride itself.
00:30:36
Speaker
Well, the thing is, now you know Disney owns the Alien franchise, so they could actually use the the actual Alien from Alien. I mean, that's the thing. i I don't see Disney doing stuff like that. That's why I don't see a villain's line. I just don't see it. I think you guys are right, but they probably won't.
00:30:54
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feeling on Oh, yeah yeah. Well, I mean, even just like, you know, they just closed this stuff to be a bug. that I mean, i don't think anybody's ever gone to that show and not seen children crying after that. yeah Chris, are you pointing at your daughter now? Oh, my gosh.
00:31:07
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Chris. Oh, that scared? It scared my wife. I mean, she she doesn't like it either. She doesn't like the spiders coming from the ceiling, you know? She's very excited. She goes, I'll do the new Zootopia one as long as there's no spiders coming from the ceiling.
00:31:18
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And I'm like, well, I can't guarantee that there won't be.
00:31:24
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yeah but I don't think anyone's clamoring for that one to come back, though. right i think I think we're all good with that one going away. um that's We've got to do that whole episode, Damon. but Yeah, we could do that. Yeah, and Trevor, too. I'm sorry, Trevor.
00:31:35
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and as well As long as you keep it under an hour. It's my rule. It's got to under an hour. Although you're never in the room, so I don't know what i'm talking about here because I'm usually just staring at a computer screen and not even at your face. Are you talking about me? What? Are you talking about me?
00:31:48
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No, I'm talking about Trevor. No, he's talking about me. No, trying to it cover. Yeah. All right. Anything else anybody wants to talk about? Yeah. Idea for a new park location? Yeah. So if they took the parking decks they did at Disney Springs and they put them by the teaching station, they would open up all that parking and wear the old Racetrack used to be.
00:32:09
Speaker
Oh, yeah, yeah. And they could build a whole park right there. That is a good amount of space there, right? Yeah. That would be interesting. I feel like Disney has a hard enough time getting new rides out. Could you imagine if they tried to build a new park?
00:32:21
Speaker
They certainly tore down that racetrack pretty quickly, didn't they? Oh, yeah. watch ah yeah yeah Well, you notice when the shows are opening, so that's going to distract anybody from Epic. but I feel like the problem is, though, I mean, even if they started something now, it would be so far out.
00:32:39
Speaker
Yeah, they'd have to stick to just doing new rides, but I just... mean, yeah, Old Man Park is like five years in the home, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. There you go.
00:32:53
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All right. Well, anyone else? i mean, we don't we don't have a whole big plan for this show. It was just kind of a fun thing that we were going to do while we're doing this meetup. So you want to tell? I think part of the problem is that so many people love Disney just as it used to be and are just like hoping for more to come back.
00:33:12
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And they keep going, hoping for more to come back. So this is like, as long as you're coming, there's no sense of me changing. Going back to it. Yep. No sense of going back to new stuff.
00:33:23
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No sense in, you know, we'll just open up more hotels so we get more people in and not do anything come back. And people will still come. And they will. Yeah. I mean, that's why we need nostalgia land, I guess, right? That's true.
00:33:36
Speaker
Yeah. Well, listen, they already they already, you know, kind of sort of took our idea for Haunted River Country since we're building their new, the new Lakeshore Lodge. So... Does everyone like how you said our idea? i just want to make sure they're on the same page.
00:33:49
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I was the shirtrk wearing the shirt the collective of is wearing the shirt, but although we can't see you right now. So so here i mean here's
Evolving Disney Experiences
00:33:57
Speaker
my thing. i mean You're absolutely right. Disney is going to continue to not do what they like mean they can do whatever they want as long as the money is coming in. right that's the That's the bottom line at the end of the day.
00:34:06
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I actually think that when I think about Disney, for me personally, you know actually Blake myself were talking about this a little bit, Now that you have more people there and you have more hotels, and you have more things. I mean, I think the actual experience of Disney has changed in general, right?
00:34:20
Speaker
The entireement you talking about this like entitlement. The is real, right? And that has been kind of the toughest part for me in these past couple years is going to Disney and and the entitlement that exists at these parks you know makes it hard for you to want to do things. And and again, i just I can't see Disney opening and a new whole entire park at this point. I mean, and I don't know if they really need to, right? I don't think they will.
00:34:46
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and But the question is, is that how far behind are they now because they have... like What's next? What's next at Disney? They got a bunch of stuff, though. When? I mean, years from now. Yes. I mean, Test Track is next. Test Track is going to open. Test Track doesn't exist, right? So what's new? Yeah.
00:35:02
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so what's new yeah In the next year, like, you know, I think we're kind of accustomed to at least in a million parts, you'd be looking and said, what's coming next year? For us, it was always that we would go. And again, like being a little bit older than you is like you take the kids to the park and then you would say, well, next year there's going to be boom. It didn't matter what park it was at. There's always going to be something new that doesn't happen now. Listen, whether it be COVID, whether it be whatever, or is it just money?
00:35:27
Speaker
ah well I think it just takes time to develop this. Okay, but you've had all the time in the world. I mean, they opened the redone test track this year. that's not a new ride. They'll have the new Zootopia show at Animal Kingdom by the end of the year. It's a show. It's not the room, nothing. Okay, Damon. Okay, question. What exactly are you expecting to be new?
00:35:49
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A new ride. You tell me what the new ride is and when it is. What is that? When is that scheduled though?
00:36:03
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when when when is that schedule though and when it's in are we gonna see and and i think that she is's going be well I think that that's what would happen. We would go, you'd see the signs up that would tell you the new ride is coming, right? You would know that was happening and you were like, okay, cool. I'm going to go back. Now it's just a little bit different.
00:36:20
Speaker
I don't, I don't think that they have that same new ride stuff. And again, is it more hotels and more people? It was all kind of contribute to a little bit of a different Disney in general. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.
00:36:32
Speaker
So, right, well, do we want to talk about anything else or we just want to wrap up so we can have some food and hang out for a little while here? That sounds fine by me. That sounds good? All right. well When are you giving away these gift cards? After?
00:36:42
Speaker
after yeah I mean, we can do them whatever you want. Let's wrap up the show. I'm going to make this as fair as possible. Okay, so Trevor, I want you, if you could, to generate a random number between... Not a real, though. All the way from Canada. you We don't need a real sound. We don't need any that.
00:36:59
Speaker
Everybody get that. Okay. Yeah. Random number between what numbers? What's that? They're not Canadian dollar gift cards now.
00:37:13
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I don't know if everybody signed up or not, but that's okay. We can do you want. How many people? One
00:37:23
Speaker
i to 21. All right. Okay. number seventeen All number 17 is Annette Jones. Congratulations, Annette. You'll be getting emailed the $100 gift card from Disney. Nice. All right, Trevor, we got two more. Let's do two more. All right.
00:37:45
Speaker
Okay. Number nine. Number nine is Janelle.
00:37:55
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Congratulations to Janelle. All right. And we got one more because we're doing 300 episodes. right. ah Last one is number number twelve is jerry alright congratulations yeah but beside So like I said, we'll email you those gift cards. I promise.
00:38:22
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It's all on Tom now. Let's make sure that we understand. It's really not all on me. They're coming from DVC. They're coming from World of DVC. So we will they will email you sometime the next week or two here.
00:38:34
Speaker
But you know if they don't, you can always call, you email me and harass me and I'll harass them to get them to you. But ah I think that's it. dave that's i mean i mean do do we what We probably don't need to do our regular wrap up. No, no. I think you know it's the 300th. We can cut ourselves a break this time.
00:38:52
Speaker
agree. This is how long every episode should be. Just so we're all on the same page. How long every episode should be? Okay. Whatever. blog yeah You know what?
00:39:03
Speaker
People can leave feedback if they, you know, if you want to hear more or less, you know, leave us feedback. We do want to hear this stuff. Yes. Everyone has different preferences, so we're trying to do what everybody you know will like the most. so um But yeah, we're going probably keep it to 45 minutes or so.
00:39:19
Speaker
so All right. Cool. Well, thanks again. are we i'm talking about for another seven minutes? What? You said 45 minutes? What are we talking about for another seven minutes? A boat, 45 minutes. yeah I mean, I can play food time you want to hear food time. I can't leave, though. That's the problem. like I just can't leave.
00:39:37
Speaker
If you look on the screen here, you can see it's a button right there. I'm not going to do it right now. my goodness. The entertainment's here. I can't do it. We'll but we where let you play for this time, Tom.
00:39:49
Speaker
Go ahead, Tom. All right. If you want me to play it, I'll play it. right. I'll do it. It's cool. I hope it's not loud.
00:40:01
Speaker
I think it's a good ending. What time is it? Food time. I'm going to keep the numbers. Food Damon's not here, so our mission is clear.
00:40:12
Speaker
It's food time, food time. Team food is ready unless it has dairy because it's food time, food time. With Tom and Trevor, this will take forever, because it's food time, food time.
00:40:26
Speaker
Oh my goodness. That's a better one more than one on time. We have the time, because it's food time, food time. Yeah!
00:40:38
Speaker
David makes this so much. This is like torture for David. This is like literal torture for David. It's what?
00:40:50
Speaker
That's fine. All right. Well, thank you guys all for coming. We really, really appreciate it. And thanks for your support over the years. And we, i mean, we can't say enough. I mean, I know some of you guys are from the NC Disney group too. Shout them out, man. Yeah. yeah Thank you. Thank you for coming. What's the name of the group? Just so I can.
00:41:08
Speaker
And see Disney fans on Facebook, right? Okay, cool. Absolutely. All right. Thank you guys for joining us for this. This was awesome. Here's a real question. Is Tom in the group? I am. Okay, hold on a sec.
00:41:21
Speaker
ah I don't really use social media. a lot You do that you can see how it is? It's hard, trust me. That's why we have people that do our social media now, because we're bad at it. Yeah.
00:41:35
Speaker
Well, that's true. I mean, I created a secondary account, Tom. That's what I did. Wait, you used fake account? Well, it's not a fake account. It's still my account. It's just a... It's like a third account. It's like a third over a third account.
00:41:48
Speaker
It's like a third account. Well, thank you guys all for coming. Really, we really, really appreciate it. And, you know... Go join... Go join me in group, The Facebook group is great. Bye to Trevor, everybody. Thank everyone. Nice to see everyone.
00:42:04
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Thank you. This is Skipper Albert Wall, the voice of the jungle, signing off from Welcome Home Podcast on the DVC.
00:42:23
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I looked around from pole to pole, found her in a sugar bowl. Look out, here comes my ball and chain.