Episode 338

Tom:
[0:01] Hello and welcome home this episode of welcome home is brought to you by dbc resale market thank you for joining us at good way to start trevor let’s try that again,

Tom:
[0:14] Hello and welcome home. This episode of welcome home is brought to you by DVC resale market. Thank you for joining us on episode 338 of welcome home. A Disney parks and vacation club podcast. I’m Tom here with Trevor. How’s it going Trevor?

Trevor:
[0:24] Hey, pretty good.

Tom:
[0:25] We just, we just talked for a while. I, I, one thing I didn’t say to you.

Trevor:
[0:29] We had a big business meeting.

Tom:
[0:30] You know, business meeting of the board of a welcome podcast.

Trevor:
[0:37] Right.

Tom:
[0:37] Um, but for good reasons, not like bad reasons or anything like that. So don’t, don’t think there’s bad things. Uh, these, these are good things.

Tom:
[0:43] um but yeah so but what i wanted to talk about first though trevor and i didn’t say this to you because we were busy talking about other stuff um but it’s snowing here like a lot that’s funny yeah so last weekend we had the ice right and now this weekend we are getting uh actual real life snow and i’m just it’s funny because uh we’re we’re there you know forecasting about seven inches of snow the last time we got seven inches of snow trevor here was 2014 and like before that was like another like 20 years before this like we don’t get snow like this you know it’s very rare but i was like trevor’s gonna laugh at this because here i am like seven inches of snow is like snowpocalypse for where i live but like for you it’s a tuesday you know yeah i.

Trevor:
[1:30] Mean and the funny thing is is we’re on the opposite end of it where um it’s we’re back to unseasonally warm we had it was cold we had a cold snap and now um it’s above zero which to us is actually t-shirt weather and i know that.

Tom:
[1:45] Sounds crazy.

Trevor:
[1:46] If you don’t live in the north because you’re you’re probably going what the heck there’s there’s still snow on the ground but we’re not bothered anyway.

Tom:
[1:54] Um i don’t care yeah yeah um.

Trevor:
[1:58] Yeah so yeah that that’s funny though that uh i have been seeing, you know, you know, sorry, I, this is probably not the nicest thing, but, I’ve been seeing all kinds of reports of like, you know, you know, understandably, there’s been a lot of cold weather happening down the States. And I know you guys are all like, you know, some of you are like, you know, you have been talking about, you know, planning for staying warm and all that. And yes, as a Canadian, I’m looking at and going like, oh yeah, like that’s like.

Tom:
[2:31] That’s a joke.

Trevor:
[2:33] That’s been like since november for me i don’t i like okay but but i get it like if you’re not if you’re not prepared for it if you’re in a place where it’s not you know it doesn’t happen regularly it seems very unnatural and you know you don’t quite know how to handle it but uh, yes because i’ve been in it for so long all i can kind of do is laugh and go like ah yeah you got snow like okay listen it’s it’s.

Tom:
[3:00] Different it’s just different it’s uh you know it’s.

Trevor:
[3:03] It’s just a whole.

Tom:
[3:03] Different thing i i understand why you find it hilarious though i would too i think um you know because it’s it’s it is kind of weird i i.

Trevor:
[3:12] I mean i i will say on the flip side when you guys have heat waves like yeah it gets hot here well well i i have experienced like like really hot and like when it gets up like around when it gets to like 35 degrees here which is like i want to say in like the 90s something like that um, uh like when it gets that like anything above 35 95 so so like to me that’s like, i i’m like i i don’t want to go outside i don’t want to go near anything but and and i know that like it you know the it’s the same kind of thing really at the end of the day is it’s like you know you talk about like oh yeah you know if it’s it’s really hot out you know you make sure you’re staying hydrated you make sure that you know you you’ve got you know sun protection all that, but for me that’s like way more scary than the cold even though the cold is the same thing on the other end but it’s like yeah i know how to handle that like minus 40 i don’t like it but i can still go out and function minus 40 plus 35 i like just leave me alone in the house with the ac like yeah i i understand.

Tom:
[4:23] That i i.

Trevor:
[4:23] Get that.

Tom:
[4:24] It makes sense it does so uh yeah no it’s just weird though because it’s it’s i mean it’s it’s snowing and doing other snow on the ground it’s we also we usually don’t get snow that sticks either like that’s the thing that’s the.

Trevor:
[4:36] Other part of this right.

Tom:
[4:36] Is that like we’ll get snow but it’ll melt within you know an hour right like this is like actual sticking snow it’s like windy out it’s it’s crazy it’s a whole thing so my my, extraordinarily unprepared for this right like i.

Trevor:
[4:55] Don’t have.

Tom:
[4:55] Any like you know snow stuff at all like i don’t even have a heavy jacket trevor i i just don’t need one right like i i just you know i don’t.

Trevor:
[5:02] Have something i can.

Tom:
[5:03] Wear like on a daily basis for 19 degree weather you know.

Trevor:
[5:06] The trick is layers yeah layers you don’t need a heavy jacket what you need is you need a wind breaker so something that will like stop the the cold air from coming in and then you just need a layer underneath that um just acts or just gives like an air gap basically between your outer layer and your inner layer and you’ll actually stay warmer than like getting a a heavy heavy jacket yeah so yeah.

Tom:
[5:31] That makes sense.

Trevor:
[5:33] Yeah that makes sense so yeah you could this is gonna sound crazy but you could actually fake it even um if you just uh it’s not super comfortable but if it’s like super windy and cold you can just use like a rain poncho as your outer layer because again it’s it’s just it’ll stop the wind because it’s just you know it’s hard or it’s you know plastic right and then you can you can bundle up underneath and that will actually do a lot more good than like trying to find a heavy jacket nice well listen some.

Tom:
[6:07] Of our listeners are going to need this tip as well if they’re if they’re traveling to the.

Trevor:
[6:10] Parks because.

Tom:
[6:11] I saw orlando is also got like 30 degree weather, which is crazy for Orlando.

Trevor:
[6:16] There might be actual snow in Disney World, not, not the, not the, the snope or whatever the, the, the snow soap or whatever it’s called.

Tom:
[6:28] Yeah, no, that’s really funny. Um, but yeah, it’s, it’s, it’s crazy. I, listen, I, I’m not going to complain cause I, I love snow and I, I’m happy to see some and, you know, knowing how excited my daughter is going

Tom:
[6:42] to be about it is, is about it, I should say. Not gonna. She is. She’s very thrilled about this going on. So, yeah, it’s great.

Trevor:
[6:50] But you know what? I guess one thing your daughter… I guess, no, you have gotten to do it because I think you guys have like a sledding. I remember you saying this, there’s like a fake toboggan hill near you or something like that, or they do those.

Tom:
[7:08] Oh, yeah. It’s not really near me, but yeah, we did. Yeah. It’s like a place where you can go. Yeah.

Trevor:
[7:13] I mean, the one thing like, you know, when I think about when my son was your daughter’s age was like tobogganing was was a very fun activity in the winter that, you know, the hard part is, is that you’re, you know, because you guys live in a place where you don’t have snow. It’s not like your guys all have like toboggans lined up to go to go find the nearest hill. Right. So but I mean, tobogganing in the snow is is an experience and is interesting. Just don’t be that person with a garbage bag trying to toboggan down a hill. It works, but it’s not fun. I think back to when I was a kid and we were like using like cardboard and whatever we could find as makeshift toboggans, because that’s what you do when, you know, you, you, we, we couldn’t always afford like the, the GT snow racers, which, you know, anyone in Canada knows what a GT snow racer is.

Tom:
[8:11] What is that?

Trevor:
[8:12] You’ll have to look it up. They were, they were, they were the, the primo tobogganing thing. And I think they still are a lot.

Tom:
[8:18] Like I’ve, those things are cool. Yeah. They have like little wheels on them. I feel like I, I don’t think I had that. I always said tubes.

Trevor:
[8:24] Yeah, not, or they don’t.

Tom:
[8:26] A steering wheel. A steering wheel.

Trevor:
[8:27] Yeah, it has a steering. Yeah, that was the reason people wanted, is you could drive them and you could like plan out your route down the hill instead of just going with a tube and going.

Tom:
[8:36] See, yeah, now we would always rock tubes and, you know, you just, you would just be taking people out left and right on the hill.

Trevor:
[8:43] Oh, yeah.

Tom:
[8:43] I mean, there’s no controlling tubes, you know, you just, you just go.

Trevor:
[8:46] But I mean, that’s, you know, if you’re, if you are tobogganing, always be looking up the hill.

Tom:
[8:51] Don’t uh don’t.

Trevor:
[8:52] Ever be looking down the hill.

Tom:
[8:53] Because that’s.

Trevor:
[8:54] How you get your legs taken out.

Tom:
[8:55] It’s it’s funny though because i was like i i was looking around my neighborhood because like listen i i’ve talked about this before it down south here we we don’t have plows and and stuff right so the roads are i’m not going out right we’re not going anywhere until it melts so i said i was saying to my daughter i was like we kind of got to find something within walking distance if we’re going to do like any sledding at all right and i what i found was we have a my neighborhood has an alternate as it has a secondary uh retaining pond right so like we have a retaining pond for all the water in the neighborhood and then a secondary one that never fills up like it’s like an overflow but it’s a you know it’s an it’s a retaining pond so it’s kind of deep right and it’s kind of steep on the side so i was like that might be an option like we might be able to do that. There is another hill in the neighborhood, but the very bottom of it goes directly into a wooded area. There’s no runoff, which you’ve got to be careful of. My best friend slash brother-in-law, years and years ago, we used to go to this hill. I bet you could probably Google it. It’s because it’s a well-known sledding hill, but at the very bottom of it is a major roadway. There’s no runoff, but there’s concrete, uh like traffic dividers there but if you don’t stop in time you’re just slamming into concrete like just slamming into concrete and my brother-in-law got a concussion there one time yeah that’s.

Trevor:
[10:22] Why you don’t use like the garbage bags or whatever because you’re going too fast and you can’t you can’t control it.

Tom:
[10:28] Yeah yeah that’s really i mean yeah we went there and i like literally he got it he got a concussion because he he ran directly into into this uh you know into this things. So, but yeah, I was also thinking to myself, I’m like, do I have a, you know, anything for her to sled with? Cause I was like, you know, I, but I, I have, we have like a bunch of pool toys. So like we have a pool, like a bunch, like several pool teams.

Trevor:
[10:53] I guess.

Tom:
[10:53] Yeah. Yeah.

Trevor:
[10:54] Yeah. Those could work. Yeah. Yeah. Sorry. It’s funny. You’re talking about the accident. Sorry. I just remembered this is that, uh, um, there, uh, my, uh, company that are the, the company that I work for used to, um, they used to do sledding as part of the, uh, the, um, Christmas party. so like they would do like it would be like a weekend thing where like they would go out and do like a full weekend at a resort for a Christmas party and part of it was they would do a sledding competition and people got so there was like teams of adults like putting together sleds that got more and more creative and crazy over the years and it finally ended with, somebody brought a raft and used a raft as a as a sled like you know those big rafts that you can you you can fit like you know 10 people on kind of thing yeah i know exactly yeah but they they had way too many people on it of course and and it ended up crashing into the hockey rink which uh and people ended up getting taken away in ambulances okay i’m sorry now i should have laughed i should have laughed no but it’s funny in hindsight like and and that was like we don’t do that anymore because, it’s a danger like yeah you know sledding is like it’s fine until, Until it’s not fine. And then, yeah, people are.

Tom:
[12:24] Like, listen, truthfully, if you’re, if you don’t get hurt while you’re sledding, I mean, you’re probably not doing it right. Oh, yeah.

Trevor:
[12:31] Yeah. I’ve, I’ve gotten many bumps and bruises from sledding. Yeah.

Tom:
[12:35] If you don’t get hurt at least once, you know, then you’re probably not, you’re, you’re doing sledding wrong. You know, because we were kids, we’d make jumps and stuff, you know, you’d have like.

Trevor:
[12:45] You’re always going for the jump. You were deliberately trying to hit the jump on the way down.

Tom:
[12:52] Yeah, although when I did do that as an adult, it was not good. When I went sledding as an adult, I have never in my entire life felt older.

Trevor:
[13:05] You suddenly find where all the joints don’t quite work the same as when you were a kid.

Tom:
[13:09] Well, and the worst part about it was, it’s a place that, it’s called Hawk’s Nest. It’s up in the mountains in North Carolina. And it’s a place that’s just for snow tubing, right? Like that’s what they do. It’s a snow tubing place. So there’s other people there. So once you get to the bottom, as soon as you get to the bottom, someone else is going.

Trevor:
[13:28] Right?

Tom:
[13:28] And so you don’t have time to work yourself off of the tube. You just need to get off as quickly as possible. So I’m rolling off of it like a beach whale. Like, ugh! You know? Yeah. And I’m just like, why does everything hurt? I used to remember this being fun.

Trevor:
[13:46] Just standing up from a tube is actually way harder than you think it is I.

Tom:
[13:51] Well I didn’t I didn’t recognize that until I did it at you know this older age now you know and I man.

Trevor:
[13:59] That was you know we we did it as kids and you know I like as as a kid my parents weren’t always supervising us at the uh at the um toboggan hill but.

Tom:
[14:13] Yeah yeah yeah.

Trevor:
[14:14] But then as we got older, like, you know, it was a lot more feral, I guess, when I was a kid, because we were just, you know, doing whatever. But, you know, as an adult, it was like, oh, yeah, you know, I want to make sure I supervise my kid. And, you know, rightfully so, like, I see it now, like, you know, every Toboggan Hill, there’s like, it’s not just kids, there’s parents out there, whatever. But yeah, like you said, as a parent, it’s like, you remember that, like, you know, what you did as a kid. But, you know, I always, when I was a kid, I always wondered why my parents didn’t participate in the stuff that I was doing as much or they would just kind of stand and watch what I was doing. But then as a parent, now you understand.

Tom:
[14:51] Oh, yeah.

Trevor:
[14:51] Why they weren’t like jumping in and like, you know, they didn’t get on the trampoline with you. They didn’t, you know, they didn’t go tobogganing with you. Stuff like that was, you know, there is a reason for it.

Tom:
[15:05] I 100% get it. But, yeah, it’s just, yeah, you don’t realize until that happens. So, anyway.

Trevor:
[15:14] That was a fun little rant about sledding and weather and all that.

Tom:
[15:21] I love how you guys call it tobogganing. That’s way cooler than calling it sledding, I think.

Trevor:
[15:25] I didn’t realize, is that really a tobogganing? I mean, yeah.

Tom:
[15:30] I mean, yeah.

Trevor:
[15:31] Is it a Canadian thing? I didn’t think it was, but.

Tom:
[15:33] No, I mean, I grew up calling a sled a toboggan, but we never called sledding tobogganing. We just called it sledding. But we had a wooden sled that we called a toboggan. But there are also people that call toboggans hats down here. So it’s all hats toboggans, I should say. Yeah, that’s another weird thing that I was like, wait, what are you talking about? Because toboggan is a sled. And they’re like, no, it’s a hat. I’m like, but no, though, it’s a sled. You know, like, but yeah, that’s, you know, it’s funny how these words all are different things, you know, depending on who you talk to. Yeah.

Trevor:
[16:12] I didn’t realize my canadianism was showing through quite so much yeah it was.

Tom:
[16:17] A little bit yeah but.

Trevor:
[16:17] It’s okay that’s it’s allowed.

Tom:
[16:19] Um i mean but do you guys even do it that much anymore i mean like i mean your son you guys have so much snow all the time like it was almost like a special thing even though we got snow every winter it was your winter lasts a lot longer than my winters lasted in new jersey.

Trevor:
[16:32] I mean it’s still it’s still very much a thing and even like the community we live in we have uh we have like a uh a community lake and the lake has a tobogganing hill so um i mean there there’s fat like we haven’t been out there um like i would take my son out there all the time when he was younger but i think by the time he was about like 10 or 11 he didn’t want me taking him tobogganing um yeah it’s fair so like i haven’t done it in years but you know the but i I used to also like, like my, my brother’s, um, daughters are younger and like, it was the same thing. Like we would, you know, we would take them tobogganing at the, at the hill and everything as well. So yeah, I mean, it’s, it’s just, it’s a thing you do in the winter because you know, not, you don’t get bored of it because there’s not a lot else to do in the winter, I guess.

Tom:
[17:24] That makes sense. Yeah. I don’t remember my parents coming with me. Like you said, it was a more feral time. You just kind of like, I was just like, Hey, I’m going sledding. I’ll see you later.

Trevor:
[17:32] I, I, I, I will admit I did grow up a little bit of, or I was, I guess, a latchkey kid in that, you know, the, you know, you’ll be home before the streetlights come on, which the funny thing here is that that’s a real challenge to navigate in the winter because, the streetlights would come on at 4 PM here.

Tom:
[17:53] Oh, geez.

Trevor:
[17:54] Because, because of how our, our. day and night changes throughout the year like the winter or the days are very short and it would be like you can’t stay out while it’s dark and it’s like well but then you know i’m home before dinner because because you know the sun’s setting at 4 30 in the afternoon whereas uh but then but then the summertime like the street lights wouldn’t come on till 10 p.m because the days are a lot longer so we got that bonus.

Tom:
[18:19] It’s this is uh you i don’t know this might be a regional reference i don’t know i it could be an everywhere reference i don’t know but i i remember when i was a kid uh before the the evening news they always would play this thing where they would say it’s it’s you know 7 p.m do you know where your children are.

Trevor:
[18:35] Yes yeah we had that too yeah it was a yeah it was definitely a thing um growing up that uh my my parents didn’t have any idea where i wasn’t even i i did actually talk with my my mom about this a while ago where i was telling her like the stuff that i did as a kid and she was actually like shocked that the places that we went and, potential trouble we could have gotten into because we were like playing in like construction sites and stuff and oh yeah yeah i mean you.

Tom:
[19:05] Used to do all that stuff when you were a kid i mean yeah my mom doesn’t know half the stuff i did but anyway.

Trevor:
[19:10] Uh sorry.

Tom:
[19:12] Mom if you’re listening to this.

Trevor:
[19:13] I’m not sorry i already told my mom so yeah it’s all good she can’t do anything now she Yeah, exactly.

Tom:
[19:19] So anyway, we should talk.

Trevor:
[19:21] Let’s let’s actually get to the show.

Tom:
[19:23] Can we talk really briefly, though, about what we were talking about before the show, which is show related?

Trevor:
[19:28] Yes. Yeah. So I guess back to our business thing.

Tom:
[19:33] Actual things about the show and stuff. Sorry for the tangent. I apologize, everyone.

Trevor:
[19:38] You know what? It’s our show. We can do it however we want.

Tom:
[19:40] Yeah, we can do it. So we have been, you know, I think everybody, you know, remembers the way the show was before. And then we had a change. And then as part of that change, we kind of lost our website. And so we have and, you know, we’ve been kind of just busy trying to, you know, resettle ourselves into things. And I think we’ve, for the most part, not been all that different. Right. I mean, I think we’ve pretty much been doing what we’re doing, but we’ve been busy and we just haven’t had a website. So I wanted to let everybody know we now have a website again. It’s back. Now the… Website has slightly changed because it is now welcomehomepodcast.co, not .com.

Trevor:
[20:19] Or .co.

Tom:
[20:21] .co, yeah. So .co, just drop the M and you’ll find it. So we have launched a new website and it has all the episodes on it, it has YouTube stuff, it has ways to contact us, all that fun stuff on there, easy ways to join the Patreon, stuff about sponsors, all that fun stuff on the website. but that is just kind of step one in our kind of revamp of what we’re doing, so listen check it out if you have you know if you have any feedback on it please give it to us I will let everyone know it is still a bit of a work in progress we are we are still adding to it so there there might be some things here and there that are not updated yet but we’re we’re working on that and and after this Trevor the next step is is a new store and we’re gonna we’re gonna have a new store which yeah we’ve been working.

Trevor:
[21:05] On that too in the background.

Tom:
[21:06] So we we.

Trevor:
[21:07] Want to get the website up And we still have the existing store. You know, that store has not gone away. But Tom and I wanted to refresh the store. And we found a new place to host the store as well.

Tom:
[21:21] Which the new store has far more different types of items. And it’s way more affordable than the one we have now.

Trevor:
[21:29] Yeah, and that’s part of it too. As we have talked about, there are things we want to do outside of what we were offering in the old store. And this new store will give us the ability to do that. So.

Tom:
[21:40] Yeah. And I will tell everyone to, you know, like, listen, our old store, the stuff in it is fairly expensive, but it wasn’t it was never because Trevor and I wanted to, like, take a big profit out of it. We actually had it set to almost no profit. Like, essentially, we were like making like a dollar on a shirt because this particular site was very expensive. So this new one is we’re going to keep the prices pretty low in there because, you know, truthfully, listen, it’s not it’s not like a revenue search for us. We want, you know, people to be able to buy the stuff and wear it and, you know, spread the word of the podcast. Yes, that’s that’s what’s important to us.

Trevor:
[22:12] Yeah, it’s not the only way we’re we’re helping to support the show. But again, and and to that point, it’s not. Yeah, you know, you know, the store is not there as you know, that this is putting money in our pocket. It’s really just paying our expenses to keep the show running, because even though, yes, you know, putting out these episodes is relatively easy and relatively low overhead. we still have costs that come up and yeah, it’s just, just one of those things.

Tom:
[22:42] My, my new boat and my, uh, my house in Golden Oaks are completely unrelated to the podcast. Totally unrelated.

Trevor:
[22:50] Um, haven’t I been able to come visit yet?

Tom:
[22:53] Uh, well, you know, I’ve been laundering money from, uh, for years now.

Trevor:
[22:57] So all 30 cents. Exactly.

Tom:
[23:02] Uh, any, anyone will tell you that it’s done a podcast. It’s not exactly unless you’re, you know, one of the biggest podcasts in the world. You’re not making millions of dollars doing this. So, yeah. But anyway, so please, yeah, check out the site. We would love to hear your feedback about it. But just also keep in mind, too, that it is a work in progress. And but if you do find something that’s not working or you do, you know, that’s something you’d want to see on the site, you know, that’s not on there now. Just, you know, pop us an email. There’s a contact form on there. You can even contact us through or, you know, send us a message. and we’re happy to take a look at it because we want to make this a cool place. So.

Tom:
[23:40] Yeah. So that’s that. Now we can actually talk about like stuff that’s going on.

Trevor:
[23:44] All right. So let’s, let’s change gears a little bit here. And, you know, we are, I guess we do talk about Muppets on a regular basis, but there is a little bit of Muppets news this week.

Tom:
[23:56] Yeah. Yeah.

Trevor:
[23:58] So, and actually, and this isn’t for DVC, this is for D23 gold members.

Tom:
[24:03] Yeah. Which I can’t believe that anyone can get. I forget.

Trevor:
[24:06] I know. I don’t think, I don’t think I can get gold. because, yeah, it’s, yeah, I can’t remember how they changed the tiering, but I think gold is like the paid.

Tom:
[24:17] Yes, it is the paid. Yeah, exactly.

Trevor:
[24:20] So, yeah, D23 gold members get an early screening of the Muppet Show special. So this is the remake of the old school Muppet Show that they’re doing with, Who is it? Seth.

Tom:
[24:38] Seth Rogen.

Trevor:
[24:39] Seth Rogen. Yeah. I was trying to remember which Seth it was that was doing this.

Tom:
[24:43] There’s more than Carpenter’s hosting it too. And then so Seth Rogen and then his producing partner, Evan Goldberg. And then some, you know, they’re going to have all your favorite Muppets are there. Right. So all the.

Trevor:
[24:54] And it’s giving that old school vibe, like the original Muppet Show kind of vibe. And I love this. I actually kind of forgot how big of a thing this was with the Muppet Show was they did a really good job of doing the behind the scenes stuff.

Tom:
[25:13] Where there.

Trevor:
[25:14] Was like the main show where they would do like skits and stuff but there was always like the you know that them talking in the uh in the wings and.

Tom:
[25:21] Stuff like that which.

Trevor:
[25:22] I’m i’m kind of excited to see that again i i hope that they’re able to maintain that energy that that the old shows had for that so.

Tom:
[25:31] Yeah so they’re yeah and and they’re they’re really bringing it back to the old you know to to the old format too they’re doing a variety show and uh you know they’re doing it in the in the you know the muppet in muppet studios and i mean yeah everyone’s going to be there including terrible kermit but you know that’s terrible kermit i mean dude we’ll have to see you.

Trevor:
[25:51] Know maybe maybe he got feedback i don’t know.

Tom:
[25:54] I can’t with kermit anymore i just i just no no not maybe he got it’s been too long now okay it’s been too long he needs to be better i.

Trevor:
[26:02] Mean yeah yeah fine.

Tom:
[26:05] We’ll leave it there but but.

Trevor:
[26:08] Either way the uh you know the, So, yeah, they said that they’re getting this, the preview of it.

Tom:
[26:16] Yeah.

Trevor:
[26:16] And it’s, uh, it’s happening on February 3rd, which is actually coming up this next week. So hopefully.

Tom:
[26:23] Yeah.

Trevor:
[26:24] Um.

Tom:
[26:24] That’d be, that’d be Tuesday. Uh, so if you’re listening to this after it came out on Monday, this is tomorrow. So if you’re a gold member, I’m sure you got an email about it. Um, but yeah, this, they’re going to have, they’re going to have this, uh, this, this free preview thing. It’s awesome. Yeah.

Trevor:
[26:39] It’s cool. i’m i’m looking forward to it i i want to see what kind of feedback it gets and you know when it comes out for the rest of us i’ll be i’ll be excited to check it out.

Tom:
[26:50] Yeah no i mean it’s going to be out on the fourth and it’s going to be on disney plus so that’ll be easy enough for you to watch right yeah i’m definitely gonna watch it for sure i’m glad that they’re doing more stuff with the muppets always so, I mean, you know.

Trevor:
[27:05] It’s, it’s funny. Um, people, people were, I don’t want to say what’s the right term for it. They weren’t like in my head, I want to say crying, but they weren’t crying about it. But, you know, there, there was a lot of like, you know, the, the, uh, Muppets 3d going away. yeah you know every you know there was a lot of like you know but you know why are they changing it whatever and it’s like but the interesting thing is now that they’ve kind of taken that away i feel like there’s more muppet stuff coming now because like like the fact that it’s not, yeah but so it’s funny because you know between between the rock and roller coaster redo and you know they’re they’re launching the show and and you know we keep hearing more and more stuff about like they have intent to do more with Muppets as a franchise. I feel like Muppets Vision was kind of holding them back a little bit.

Tom:
[28:00] Yeah, I could see that.

Trevor:
[28:01] And you know, that might be a hot take that some people don’t like that, you know, I know Muppet Vision 3D was endearing and all that but yeah, I don’t think we would be getting the stuff we’re getting if it was still there. So, you know, food for thought.

Tom:
[28:17] I mean, I do feel like though, I mean they’re obviously letting, having the Muppets take over Rock and Roller Coaster so So it’s, I mean, they’re, you know.

Trevor:
[28:25] I don’t think that would have happened if Muppet Vision 3D didn’t close.

Tom:
[28:31] Okay. Yeah. Just putting it out there. Yeah. I get that.

Trevor:
[28:35] Yeah.

Tom:
[28:35] I get that. I mean, that was, so you’re saying they were like, okay, we’re going to close Muppet Vision 3D, but we got to throw them a bone here and, you know, and do something else with Muppets. So let’s, that we’ll have the.

Trevor:
[28:44] Yeah. It kind of, well, I think it kind of like prompted something in them because they were closing and they were like, oh, now we need to do something with it. Right. Like there wasn’t, there wasn’t an urgency to do something with the franchise because of the fact that Muppa Visions 3D was there.

Tom:
[28:59] Okay.

Trevor:
[29:00] Right.

Tom:
[29:01] Like, yeah, that makes sense.

Tom:
[29:04] okay yeah i get what you’re saying uh so the other piece here we’ll talk about this briefly trevor just because there’s this is not a ton of information but uh one of the things that uh you know as they’re working on this tropical america’s land which i don’t know if you’ve been looking you know people have been sharing pictures i think it’s going up quick they’re they’re i mean oh i’m not.

Trevor:
[29:24] Seeing the construction.

Tom:
[29:25] Oh yeah you gotta see some construction photos yeah because it’s i mean like there’s like a straight up building already for the uh for for the uh in Conto ride. I mean, it’s, it’s really coming up quick. But, you know, and maybe that’ll be, maybe that’ll be in this other, I don’t know, this Cars and Villains Land. Not okay. But, but yeah, it’s, there’s, there’s a lot of pictures floating around of construction there. You know, of course you’re getting like the overhead pictures from, uh from the helicopters that people are taking you know because that’s that’s always a thing too but uh but you can see i mean it’s it’s gone high enough now you can see like the steel being built up and everything but uh this particular thing there was some uh there was like some these aren’t permits but i guess their plans are filing uh you know with with uh with florida with you know while they’re doing the construction here uh and specific to the playground area which listen one of the things that really bummed me out about tropical tropical americas and the closing of dino land i should say was the closure of uh you know the boneyard and and that play area over there because my daughter really liked that and i i think i really like that stuff in in disney parks like i it’s it’s a weird kind of thing where you just there’s a playground and a theme park but it it makes sense you know those.

Trevor:
[30:39] Need to exist in theme parks.

Tom:
[30:40] Like full.

Trevor:
[30:41] Stop they they need to be there.

Tom:
[30:43] Yeah and i mean listen i like one of my i i and i bet a lot of people would agree with this is like one of my early memories of disney is is being in the honey i shrunk the kids uh you know that that play area that they had at hollywood studios because it was so cool yeah like it was a whole different i mean it was a different kind of play area but it was so neat and different uh but it looks like see i almost thought for a second they might just like keep the structure of the Boneyard and the playground over there and just maybe re-theme it. But no. They’re actually going to be moving this over to where the Chip and Dale meet and greet is and Daisy Duck is over by Dinosaur and Restauranosaurs. They’re building a whole brand new thing.

Trevor:
[31:25] Okay. Yeah. That, um, yeah, I feel like that’s like, you know, I’m, I’m looking at the concept art for this and where Boneyard was, I, you’re like, I, I, yeah, it didn’t make sense to keep it where it was.

Tom:
[31:41] Yeah. Cause that’s where they’re putting the new carousel that they’re putting in the land.

Trevor:
[31:44] So exactly and because they’re like i feel like they’re kind of like they’re trying to build like that center courtyard like they’re almost giving it like the like a hub yeah they’re doing the treatment yeah so yeah it makes sense that they had to move it and also like to your point you know of them you know they could have just rethemed it i’m actually kind of glad that they didn’t me too because it it does lend itself to you know they don’t have to maintain you know frankly an old play structure because the boneyard was getting kind of old yeah so um yeah it’s yeah i agree yeah i i i’m i’m curious to see what this looks like when it’s done because you know i don’t you know i’m not at a point anymore where i have kids that need to go to playgrounds when we’re in a theme park but like you um you know my my son he he had plenty of great times at various playgrounds in Disneyland and Disney World and in Disneyland the Redwood Creek um.

Trevor:
[32:44] Uh playground is the like like that that like it’s the same kind of thing like you were talking about with like the honey i shrunk the kids stuff where it’s like it it made such an awesome impression on him and on us like like you know even though it wasn’t like going down the slides or anything like it was just like wow this is like a really cool playground and you know you know had a lot of neat elements to it that uh you know some of it tied back to like brother bear and stuff like that um but yeah so so this one you know you know the tropical americas i’m i’m kind of expecting i’m wondering if it’ll lean more into encanto or more into indiana jones or maybe both i.

Tom:
[33:24] Think it’s going to be indiana jones and.

Trevor:
[33:26] Because where.

Tom:
[33:27] They’re putting it is going to be so close to the indiana jones ride and but also too there’s like the structure on the end of it i don’t know what that is like it almost looks like the old like dig yard that they had like you know but i I don’t think that’s what it is, but that’s, it kind of, I mean, and if you actually look at the original source article, they kind of did an overlay of where this is, is on the map where these plans actually sit. And I don’t know, I could see this being like an Indiana Jones, like, you know, almost like they’re, they’re recreating the boneyard, whereas you’re doing like archeological stuff, like an archeology, you know, like a dig site, you know? So it almost could be kind of a cool way for them to, to keep a part of Dino Land. I know not everybody liked Dino Land. I am probably in the minority of liking Dino Land and thinking it was kind of fun. And I liked the concept of it just because it was like the roadside attraction thing. But I also understand why anybody would walk in there and go, oh man, this is weird. It’s like all this open space and it’s like a big old parking lot. Like I get it. Like, you know.

Trevor:
[34:29] I live close enough to Drumheller, Alberta. I get what Dino Land was doing.

Tom:
[34:33] What they were trying to do. Yeah. But like if you didn’t, You weren’t like, if you didn’t know like what a roadside attraction was though, like it could just look like they cheaped out, you know, which they also did. Don’t get me wrong. Like, but that’s, but, um, but anyway, so why don’t we go ahead and do our ad Trevor and then we’ll talk a little bit more about new stuff that’s being built and, uh, yeah, but let’s do our ad first. All right.

Trevor:
[34:57] I think it’s you this week.

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Tom:
[35:51] So yeah so check them out yeah anyway so we’re we’re now we’re still we’re getting a lot more details trevor as as you know things are going on here like i i know it’s funny to me i i we talked about this before where it a lot of people are just like well you know why is it disney doing anything new it’s like they’re doing a ton of new stuff you know like there’s like a lot of construction going on at the resort right now right i mean a lot like and i i understand you know there’s there’s a lot there’s new parks and stuff at a universal and so that’s that’s a big piece of news but they’re building a lot of new things here so uh so i mean you know we we should be we should be excited about those things for sure obviously it’s hard to get excited when it’s just mounds of dirt but um but as they they continue they continue on working through these things uh you know it’s it’s uh really kind of interesting to see the details as they emerge especially since they’ve been kind of quiet about a lot of it really especially for a while now we You haven’t heard much. You know?

Trevor:
[36:50] I’ll be honest. I… Like, there’s been… I get why there’s been a lot of Cars Land stuff, because Cars Land is going to be coming way faster than Villain’s Land.

Tom:
[37:02] Yeah.

Trevor:
[37:02] But yeah, to your point, we haven’t really heard a lot about Cars Land at the moment, and Villain’s Land has been like nothing.

Tom:
[37:12] We’ve heard literally nothing, yeah. We’ve heard not a single thing.

Trevor:
[37:16] Yeah.

Tom:
[37:16] I mean, really, we haven’t. So what we’re seeing now is like, you know, as they’re doing some of these filings, you know, which, listen, you know, a filing with a government agency is not in and of itself exciting, but it does kind of give you insight into what’s going on, right? you know like what’s what’s going on with this construction so like if you look uh at the at these new filings it’s showing where there’s some of the facilities are going to be as in like some of like the buildings are going to be for the villains lands and for uh and and for cars and so there’s two there’s two gigantic buildings and by the way i think one of these buildings is, the reason why we’re getting the Haunted Mansion work that we’re getting because it’s kind of in the line of sight of the queue. If you look at it, it’s like right behind where Haunted Mansion is. And it’s almost, it also looks like they’re building some other facility right by where the queue is there too. Now what that’s going to be, I don’t know. But that also, I guess, could be part of it as well because it’s there there’s some sort of building that is literally right next to the queue for haunted mansion yeah you see that yeah i do.

Trevor:
[38:38] See it’s a very small building but wait do you think oh boy.

Tom:
[38:46] Do I need to play the Reckless Speculation song?

Trevor:
[38:49] Do you think that they’re going to move Memento Mori?

Tom:
[38:53] Ooh. Now that’s a good question, Trevor. Yeah. I mean, I could see it.

Trevor:
[39:00] Because I look, I just, I’m looking at it. Okay, so for context, for anyone that’s wondering, Tom sent me this link, which is an overlay of that. So the plans for these buildings over the actual map. the size of this little building that is going to land next to Haunted Mansion looks about the same size as Memento Mori. Like it’s not a huge building and neither is like a Memento Mori is very small, but it’s also attached to the rest of the facade going into Fantasyland, right? So it’s not its own building, but it doesn’t have a lot of space. And to your point, you know, the fact that they’re building this very tiny building right next to Haunted Mansion makes me go like, why would they put something

Trevor:
[39:52] there? Like it’s really close to Haunted Mansion.

Tom:
[39:54] It is. It’s extremely close to Haunted Mansion. And that’s interesting.

Trevor:
[39:59] And the other side of that is if they moved Memento Mori over there. It kind of or well.

Tom:
[40:09] I guess I think they tear down Memento Mori. I think they take the opportunity because that particular area is a choke point, right? Like it’s.

Trevor:
[40:18] Oh, and so don’t actually replace with anything, but just expand.

Tom:
[40:21] Just make more sidewalk space, right? Because think of how bad that choke point is going to be once the new lands open up. You’re going to have.

Trevor:
[40:29] That’s true.

Tom:
[40:30] It’s going to be you’re going to have people coming from all different directions. And anybody that’s coming from Fantasyland to Carsland and to Villain’s Land is going to be coming through that area. And that already cannot accommodate a lot of people. It already gets gummed up all the time. I mean, literally every time I’m there, it’s a bad spot.

Trevor:
[40:49] Yeah, you’re right. We avoid going that way through Fantasyland unless we absolutely have to. I’ll actually go back through Liberty Square and through the hub instead of going that back route.

Tom:
[41:01] Yeah, because it’s a really kind of cramped area. And I think Memento Mori, if you do a satellite of Google Maps, you get rid of Memento Mori, that’s a huge amount of space that people can walk through. I mean, it’s a small store, but you open that up and the stuff that’s behind that, I mean, you can make a very large walkway.

Trevor:
[41:23] Yeah, that’s a good point.

Tom:
[41:25] That literally will feed directly into a new walkway that gets you to Cars Land. I mean, if you, Memento Mori is right at the entrance of Haunted Mansion. Like that’s, that’s some legit reckless speculation right there.

Trevor:
[41:37] Yeah, I mean, it makes sense. Because like I said, when you sent this to me and I was looking at it, I’m like, immediately that tiny building was the first thing that stood out to me. It was like, like you said, there’s these huge buildings, which looking at the larger buildings, I’m not convinced that… This whole area is going to be Cars Land.

Tom:
[41:59] Well, the ones in the huge buildings in the back are where Villains Land is.

Trevor:
[42:04] Yeah, but that’s supposed to extend beyond the berm for the track.

Tom:
[42:12] That’s true.

Trevor:
[42:13] Because I thought Villains Land was supposed to be past the train.

Tom:
[42:17] Was it not? Yeah, but this could be a show building for something in Villains Land, though. I mean, that’s what they’re speculating, I think, here.

Trevor:
[42:24] One of the one of the buildings though overlaps the uh new tunnel new tunnel, Could be. Yeah. Yeah. It could be the train or it could be the tunnel. But then, but then what is this other building that is like in rivers of America? What do you think that could be?

Tom:
[42:40] So this article, and by the way, I’ll give credit to WDW Magic. Oof. Okay. So the one building, the large building that’s back there in Villain’s Land is 71,000 square feet, which is about the same size as the show building for Rock and Roller Coaster. So maybe Indoor Coaster. I don’t know. The second building is about 48,000 square feet. So that’s the two buildings for villains. And those, I mean, those are big buildings, but, and they’re saying, you know, for comparison, Rise of the Resistance is 92,000 square feet. Dinosaurs, 85,000 square feet. So, which is interesting.

Trevor:
[43:23] Dinosaurs are not. They’re not that big.

Tom:
[43:25] They’re decent size though. I mean, they’re not small. Yeah.

Trevor:
[43:29] I guess, yeah. Yeah. So, okay, fair. Because I guess, yeah, you know, I’m looking at Haunted Mansion next season. Like, you’re right. It’s a bigger building than Haunted Mansion.

Tom:
[43:37] Yeah but.

Trevor:
[43:39] I guess we’re kind of used to like or sorry if i’m thinking indoor roller coaster

Trevor:
[43:44] indoor roller coasters need a ton of space.

Tom:
[43:47] They do yeah so listen nothing compares to cosmic rewind which is 197 000 square feet although i think that’s the largest one in existence so yeah i don’t think they’ve ever made a bigger building than that for a roller coaster so uh yeah this is this is, really really interesting to me because without actually knowing what they’re doing in villains like what they even said what there’s going to be in villains villains land right like we can see in the concept earth that there’s certainly a roller coaster of some sort right and so there’s there’s you know there’s going to be a roller coaster but you know we don’t know what that’s going to look like and you know this could just be the inside portion right obviously so there’s probably an outside portion too i would think to.

Trevor:
[44:30] That point yeah that the coaster doesn’t necessarily need to be exclusively indoor.

Tom:
[44:34] Exactly yeah now i also wonder though too if this one facility that almost that is is like literally just a it almost looks like it’s just like a tunnel right it is a long straight piece i almost wonder if that is going to be a tunnel right because the reason why i’m saying that is you are going to need some sort of separation uh between cars land and also you know uh big thunder is right there right it’s almost like you would want some sort of like almost like the tunnel that they have for for for star wars right for for galaxy edge where you where it enables you to keep everything out around it right like it actually does like that transforming you know into a different place where you’re actually getting away from hollywood studios you know it’s.

Trevor:
[45:19] The portals in epic universe.

Tom:
[45:22] If you.

Trevor:
[45:23] Or i know you haven’t seen that or know what i’m talking about anyone who’s been to epic universe.

Tom:
[45:26] The portals fit that same functionality it’s all the same concept yeah yeah so but i don’t know if that’s what it is it seems kind of long and i also anticipate that there’s i i assume there’s going to be stuff next to big thunder there because that’s not going to be water anymore i wouldn’t think but i don’t know, uh but yeah i don’t know that’s.

Trevor:
[45:43] All going to be that uh that um piston peak attraction though correct.

Tom:
[45:47] I mean that’s all kind of in the middle right yeah, That’s all kind of in the middle where Tom Sawyer Island was.

Trevor:
[45:55] Yeah, yeah, you’re right. I didn’t realize how much space there was actually like on the back end of Tom Sawyer’s Island. Yeah, yeah, there’s a lot. There is so much unused space there that they’re going to be filling stuff into. And yeah, I guess I was honestly thinking that Villain’s Land was going to be further back. Like I didn’t, I thought that, I thought the train was closer. I guess the train seems closer, but there’s, yeah, it’s, it’s a very odd thing that they’re, um, you know, I guess if Villain’s Land is like straddling the train, that’s kind of a, that’s going to be very interesting because you’ll like, you’ll have a section of the train that like, how do you hide that? Right. Like, like you’re just going to have like the, the Walt Disney World Railroad running through Villain’s Land. Like, I mean, I guess, you know, it makes sense.

Tom:
[46:52] Yeah. Tunnel. They’re building a tunnel, right? That’s what’s going to happen. They’re going to build the tunnel.

Trevor:
[46:56] But that whole section will be a tunnel.

Tom:
[46:58] Yeah. Kind of seems like it. Yeah. Kind of seems like it. Uh, it’s interesting though, because that one, that one straight piece, like you don’t really get that far back in the concept art for, for Cars Land, right? Like there’s no, that like doesn’t exist in the Cars Land. Uh, you know, at least what we’ve gotten so far.

Trevor:
[47:14] Yeah.

Tom:
[47:15] So, uh, this is, I don’t know, it’s going to be interesting. It’s, uh, there’s, there’s a lot of, uh, obviously we’re going to learn a lot more sometime soon here. i think all the cars land stuff is pretty straightforward right because clearly there’s going to be indoor parts of the of that ride and

Tom:
[47:31] and outdoor parts right it’s it’s.

Trevor:
[47:32] Looks like buildings for like like there’s going to be shops and stuff there too like that’s what i’m kind of thinking this is like they’re you know there’s gonna because i believe there was there going to be a uh like a restaurant or a quick service there i don’t remember it.

Tom:
[47:46] Says it’s also expected to include themed dining and shopping locations.

Trevor:
[47:49] Right into the frontier land style exactly so So, yeah, a lot of these buildings are that. Like, it’s not even just… Because I think a lot of the attraction is outdoors for Piston Peak. So, yeah, these buildings are facilitating exactly that. It’s going to be dining and all that. But then, yeah, that long one, I was thinking, you know, maybe it was like storage or something like that. But, yeah, if you’re saying it’s a tunnel, that makes sense. But then it’s… Then, then you’re going to have, it’s going to be weird because you’re going to have like, you’re going to have a separation with Haunted Mansion or I’m not sure how, I guess you’ll have to see how they slice this up because like Haunted Mansion would fit going into Villain’s Land, but where Villain’s Land sits is on like the back end of Haunted Mansion, which doesn’t make any sense. right like it does it’s not it’s not going to be it’s going to be strangely connected if it if if they uh, Yeah, you’re right. They have to do something. There has to be like a portal or something that they’re using to kind of split those two lands.

Tom:
[49:06] Yeah. Yeah. That’s kind of what I was thinking. But I mean, I don’t really know. Obviously, we’re just I mean, I didn’t play the reckless speculation song, but we’re recklessly speculating. So because we honestly nobody knows at this point, except unless you work in Imagineering.

Trevor:
[49:19] But I wouldn’t say there’s a speculation only because of the fact that we’re just looking at building positioning. And I guess we are speculating on what those buildings could be. But yeah.

Tom:
[49:29] I mean, I think it’s a pretty safe bet to say that these are going to be show buildings for Villain’s Land. Those are two really big buildings. Like, what else are they going to be? I mean, they’ve got to be, right?

Trevor:
[49:38] Yeah.

Tom:
[49:38] And I mean, we don’t know what this little square next to Haunted Mansion is going to be. We don’t know what this Cars Land stuff is going to be. But we have to assume it’s all part of the attraction and part of the land. So, you know, that’s really what we have to guess here because we don’t have any more details. Well, we will probably soon, though. I mean, assuming they’re going to start talking about this kind of stuff soon.

Trevor:
[49:59] Yeah, I, I, I’m betting we’re going to get a whole bunch more Piston Peak stuff here going into 2026. I’m not honestly expecting that we’re going to see anything about Villain’s Land for like another year.

Tom:
[50:13] You’re probably, you’re not wrong. Yeah.

Trevor:
[50:15] That’s my feeling. So.

Tom:
[50:16] Yeah. I mean, did they even give us like a date for any, like a year for any of this? I mean, I, I feel like it’s going to, I mean, it’s obviously going to take a couple of years. It’s, you know.

Trevor:
[50:25] Yeah.

Tom:
[50:25] But I just, I’m trying to remember if they even like gave us an idea.

Trevor:
[50:28] Wait, Villain’s Land was announced in 2024 or was it 2025?

Tom:
[50:34] Gosh, I don’t know. 2024 probably?

Trevor:
[50:36] Yeah.

Tom:
[50:36] Time flies, man.

Trevor:
[50:38] Yeah.

Tom:
[50:39] Time flies. I don’t know. It’s a good question.

Trevor:
[50:45] Yeah, let me find out.

Tom:
[50:46] Yeah, you look into that.

Trevor:
[50:48] August 2024.

Tom:
[50:49] Okay, yeah.

Trevor:
[50:50] So, yeah. So, we’re more than a year now into this.

Tom:
[50:57] Yeah.

Trevor:
[50:57] But like you said, you know, these things take a couple of years. I think realistically, you’re not going to see Villain’s Land until probably 2028 is what I’m thinking.

Tom:
[51:10] And that makes sense because, yeah, it’s, listen, it’s, it’s a brand new, it’s not like they’re retheming an area, they’re net new. I mean, if you think about how long it took them to build like Avatar, right? That took forever. That was like five years, right? I mean, maybe more.

Trevor:
[51:27] Galaxy’s Edge got like they announced Galaxy’s Edge very early.

Trevor:
[51:31] And it was, yeah, it was a good four or five years of development before it actually opened. And I remember that because, you know, people were covering it in Disneyland and Disney World. And there was like, there was one vlogger that was doing like weekly updates in Disneyland, which was just like, I remember I like went and looked at it and for it was like weeks of like, they moved this dirt pile. I was like, okay. Yeah.

Tom:
[52:01] That’s, that’s, yeah, exactly.

Trevor:
[52:03] Yeah.

Tom:
[52:04] But it’s, this is a, this is really, this is going to be interesting. the, by the way, this, the other, the, the, somebody speculating in the, in the article here that they’re saying that the building by the haunted mansion could just be like, you know, an extended queue or restrooms or a bar or something.

Trevor:
[52:22] Again, restrooms doesn’t make sense because the.

Tom:
[52:25] You have, you have restrooms right there already.

Trevor:
[52:27] Yeah. Yeah. The tangled restrooms are right there. Right there. So like, I don’t think they need another restroom. I, I’m, I’m going to put this out there. I feel this is going to be a, either moving my memento Mori or it’ll be a new, maybe they won’t call it memento Mori, but it’ll be a new like gift shop for haunted mansion stuff. And then momentum worry will close down.

Tom:
[52:52] Love it. I love somebody mark that down somewhere. Yeah.

Trevor:
[52:57] I’m going to totally forget about this in like six months.

Tom:
[52:59] But I forget about it. I’ll forget about it in a week.

Trevor:
[53:02] Yeah.

Tom:
[53:05] But anyway, yeah. Okay. So that was, I should have, I should have, you know, put some record. I was not thinking that we would speculate on that one, but there we are. Trevor, this next thing I put on the list just because I want it, and I don’t even care about popsockets. I don’t use popsockets.

Trevor:
[53:22] Yeah, I was going to say, when was the last time we talked about a popsocket?

Tom:
[53:25] Listen.

Trevor:
[53:26] Because.

Tom:
[53:27] I know.

Trevor:
[53:28] I haven’t had a popsocket on my phone since like 2015.

Tom:
[53:33] My wife uses popsockets, though. She loves a good popsocket. I’m not a fan. I don’t feel the need for popsockets, but she loves them. But, I mean, I can’t.

Trevor:
[53:42] This one’s an exception.

Tom:
[53:43] Yeah, I can’t let a figment pop socket go by that spins, Trevor. It spins, okay? You can spin figment on it.

Trevor:
[53:52] Yeah, the spinning aspect of it is definitely like, you know, it turns it into a fidget spinner on the back of your phone, which is not a bad thing.

Tom:
[54:01] I would break this within weeks because I’d be spinning it too much, you know? Like, it would spin itself off of there very quickly.

Trevor:
[54:08] Yeah, if I was to buy this, I would need to buy two.

Tom:
[54:12] Yeah yeah yeah because i would have one that would just get absolutely.

Trevor:
[54:15] Destroyed on the back of my phone and then another one that you know it it looks very nice like the the the um.

Tom:
[54:23] It looks like it’s metal i was saying yeah i was gonna say.

Trevor:
[54:26] It looks like a pin right.

Tom:
[54:27] Like it looks like.

Trevor:
[54:28] A metal pin and then and then yeah you know the the the coloring and everything on it is just it looks really nice.

Tom:
[54:36] It’s really cool and i i love this time of year with this when the arts festival is going on because we we get uh you know all this really cool figment merch you know like figment gets his time in the sun you know like every time we have the festival of the arts it’s it’s all figment all the time which is great like it makes me happy because figment should just always be getting all the love that he’s always getting you know of that not always getting you know what i mean yeah uh so it’s it’s nice to see when all this all this different figment merch Although I feel like, I don’t know. I feel like keep Disney keeps like leaning into figment and then leaning out, you know, like it was just.

Trevor:
[55:12] You know, it’s an ebb and a flow thing. You can’t, I mean, you know, I, I get what you’re saying that, you know, you want more figment, but it is very much a double-edged sword, right? You know, just like we talked about with Muppets and everything else is that, you know, there’s time to lean into it, but then they do need to back off because, you know, absence makes the heart grow fonder and, you know, it gets people, you know, more excited for it. And then when they bring it back, it’s like, oh, you know, you know, the next thing. And it kind of builds that hype up again, right? So, you know, it’s not bad of them to, you know, limit how much they’re doing of it. And, you know, I think if it was all Figment all the time, you say you want that, but I don’t think that’s what you actually want.

Tom:
[56:02] Yeah. All right.

Trevor:
[56:04] Listen, you’ve got to find balance. You know, Figment appreciates balance, I think. Like, even though he’s very chaotic, I think you got to find balance.

Tom:
[56:13] Yeah, he likes some balance. That’s right.

Trevor:
[56:14] Yeah.

Tom:
[56:15] I think there’s one thing all of us really want that I feel like we’re going to get eventually. We just don’t have now. And that’s the ride to be redone.

Trevor:
[56:26] Right? Yes. Agreed.

Tom:
[56:27] Like, all they need to do is take it back to the two versions. Take it back to the original. Like, literally, just make it an updated version of the original and people would be very happy with that. Like, you don’t even need to do anything new.

Trevor:
[56:40] I, I, I, you probably won’t like me saying this, but I think that they may have similar problems to like how rocket rods ruined the people mover in Disneyland.

Tom:
[56:53] Oh yeah, that’s fair.

Trevor:
[56:54] I, I get like, I know there’s a whole other section of that building that they’re not using. I’m, I feel at this point, there’s probably something that has been done that can’t be undone and just putting it back to the way it was, was as actually going to be more work than just redoing the whole ride.

Tom:
[57:15] Just gutting the whole thing.

Trevor:
[57:16] Yeah.

Tom:
[57:17] I still, yeah.

Trevor:
[57:18] I still believe it should be an Omnimover.

Tom:
[57:21] I see. I still think it should, I think it should be a trackless. A trackless.

Trevor:
[57:25] Yeah.

Tom:
[57:25] Yeah.

Trevor:
[57:25] I guess, yeah. It could work as a trackless too, but I don’t know. I just, there’s not enough Omnimover rides, in my opinion.

Tom:
[57:34] Really? Okay.

Trevor:
[57:35] I think there could be more. And especially in Epcot. Like, Epcot specifically, the only Omnimover there is Nemo.

Tom:
[57:44] Right? Yeah, yeah.

Trevor:
[57:46] I think they could do another one.

Tom:
[57:48] No, they also have, they have Spaceship Earth, too.

Trevor:
[57:51] Oh, yeah, fair. Yeah, I guess that is an Omnimover. Don’t forget that.

Tom:
[57:55] I’m trying to think, is there another one? uh no no there isn’t yeah or everything yeah no uh but like yeah like you said so the the the new one only used 60 of the track of the original one so like there’s a whole bunch of track just like i don’t even think they ever took it out from what i’ve read like it’s it’s literally just sitting behind walls yeah which.

Trevor:
[58:18] I i believe that there’s a part in the ride where where you detour into Figment’s open house.

Tom:
[58:24] You do.

Trevor:
[58:25] You can see the track. They use it as an element of you can see the track connecting to the next area, but I think yeah, that’s where they rerouted it.

Tom:
[58:36] Yeah, I mean, it’s… It’s, it’s really, it’s, it’s unfortunate that that’s the way that, the way that things happen. But I mean, they also like, you know, they moved all of like the, the, the, the, you know, the entrance and exit and all that stuff. So like you, it’s, it’s a completely different ride really.

Trevor:
[58:56] Which again, to my point is I don’t think they can, they can put it back the way that it was.

Tom:
[59:02] No, no, they, they probably can’t. But I, again, I want to say, I think they should do trackless because I think trackless would be very cool.

Trevor:
[59:10] Yeah. You know, I, I’m on the fence about trackless.

Tom:
[59:14] Why? You don’t like the trackless?

Trevor:
[59:18] Like they’re, they’re good, but.

Tom:
[59:22] I just think they’re so cool though.

Trevor:
[59:23] Yeah. They, they have the ability to do interesting things. The one thing that I don’t think helps trackless rides is the parts where they put you into a very small area and use screens to pretend that the ride is doing more than it is.

Tom:
[59:41] Yeah.

Trevor:
[59:42] I think that part needs to stop with trackless rides.

Tom:
[59:45] Yeah.

Trevor:
[59:45] Because I, I think that because it’s, it’s basically turning it into a simulator ride, like a, like a star tours or something like that, which to your point, yes, trackless rides are cool, but they, they kind of waste some of the potential by shoving you in a corner, making you watch a video for 30 seconds.

Tom:
[1:00:02] I understand. I understand that. I get that. I think though, I think you can do it in ways that are, you know, I just think it would be really, it, it, plays into the chaotic nature of what you can do with figment you know what i mean.

Trevor:
[1:00:17] Like and yeah you’re right i guess it like kind of like mickey and minis that you know i i don’t know if you’ve if you paid attention to the stuff like i didn’t realize how in-depth mickey and me’s runaway railway is but like to the point where there’s elements that happen like like once in a hundred rides kind of thing like there are yeah have you heard about the video i.

Tom:
[1:00:39] Didn’t watch that imaginary.

Trevor:
[1:00:40] Video. So, so there’s like, like the Loch Ness monster shows up at one part in the ride, but it’s like extremely rare. Like it does. Yeah. Like you could, you could ride it like, like a hundred times and not see it kind of thing.

Tom:
[1:00:54] That’s crazy. Okay. So I didn’t know that. I, I, that’s, that’s news to me. Was that in the imaginary video that they put out about it?

Trevor:
[1:01:01] I don’t know if it was in the imaginary video, but I saw a video specifically talking about that. And it might’ve been a clip from the Imagineering video. I didn’t, I actually came out.

Tom:
[1:01:11] I almost put it in the rundown. I didn’t. So, yeah.

Trevor:
[1:01:13] So, but yeah, like there, there’s stuff like that where like, like the ride is deliberately programmed in a way that there’s unique elements that you, you may never actually see, which is both cool and maddening at the same time because, you know, you, you want to see it, but, um, yeah, But yeah, like, like you’re right. I guess figment could go the same way that, you know, you could have, you could have where the vast majority of ride throughs play out a certain way, but then every once in a while you get something just slightly off. Right. Which.

Tom:
[1:01:48] Yeah. That’s why I like the track list though, too, is because every ride is a little bit different because you’re taking different paths. Now the paths are defined, but you don’t really ever know where you’re going. You know, that that’s, that’s how like, uh, rise resistance is like that, where like you, there’s the ride is almost completely different just like every when you go on it because it takes you in different different ways you know and it’s kind of that’s what i like about it is is there’s that randomness to it the re-ride ability piece you know it just it also just feels like i mean like uh that every time i’m at the at ratatouille and i’m getting off and i see you see all of the uh mice at the same time uh sideways park into the spot like it’s just kind of cool you know i don’t know maybe it’s just the nerd you know uh wannabe imagineer in me that that looks at that and go that’s just really cool to watch it like that and also just like mickey minnie’s runaway railway i mean the fact that they make it legitimately feel like you’re on a train that’s connected and then everything just kind of disconnects and then it all reconnects you know and and it’s the it’s so seamless that it feels really real and even though they’re not connected at any time, they do feel like they are. You know?

Trevor:
[1:02:59] Yeah. I get it. There are merits to it. Like I said, I think there’s just some choices that are made with those ride systems that, feel it feels a little cheaper to me versus the reason I say I like Omnimovers is that you know while the you know the throughput is incredibly high so it means that you know there’s always a chance you can get on it and in my experience you know you know the obvious Omnimover rides like the Haunted Mansion and Spaceship Earth they there’s so like even though you’re not seeing a different thing every time there’s so many details in those rides that that’s what plays into the right re-ridability of it is that you can like you can find stuff that you you know you can ride it like 50 times and never notice this one little thing but it’s always been there kind of stuff right so yeah so i like i i see yeah i i see the the the benefits of doing one or the other you know we’re all we’re talking about this as if they’re actually like doing anything with figment you know maybe we’ll maybe we’ll see i you know uh i i know you didn’t put this on the rundown but i i did see some there have been some rumors about um bob eiger um yeah.

Tom:
[1:04:16] Yeah i thought.

Trevor:
[1:04:17] About putting another rundown for a hot second but but let’s you know let’s just put it out there you know you know there’s talk that he’s potentially going to be stepping down here or at least naming the successor which you know we’ll see how that plays out Hopefully, whoever comes in, maybe they have a to-do list of things that they want to clean up and maybe figments on that list, right? So…

Tom:
[1:04:38] I, I, I, you know, I’ve, I heard, I want to say it was Tony Baxter. It might’ve been a different, uh, a different Imagineer that said it was a matter of, uh, of when, not if that they were going to redo it. Um, so, and, and I would like to believe that. So, um, I want to believe that that is true.

Trevor:
[1:04:56] The fact that we’re, you know, we were clamoring over a pop socket, you know, 10 minutes ago says that, you know, there, there’s, there’s a demand there for figment and.

Tom:
[1:05:05] Well, listen, they’ve been doing these surveys, man. we keep talking about these surveys that they’ve been doing the past couple of years on, you know, people’s thoughts on figment. So clearly they’re thinking about it. They just don’t, they just don’t know if they want to spend the money on it.

Trevor:
[1:05:18] Less pop socket, more ride, please.

Tom:
[1:05:20] Yeah.

Trevor:
[1:05:21] Just put that on your next, uh, your next, uh.

Tom:
[1:05:25] Survey that you get more ride. I like that. Less pop socket, more ride. Okay.

Trevor:
[1:05:31] There you go.

Tom:
[1:05:32] All right. So Trevor, what did you want to talk about with this Disneyland stuff?

Trevor:
[1:05:35] Go pop into Disneyland.

Tom:
[1:05:36] And wrap the show up here.

Trevor:
[1:05:37] Yeah yeah okay let’s uh let’s talk about the uh California Adventure 25th anniversary offerings oh yeah because I.

Tom:
[1:05:45] Need to talk about this popcorn bucket is that a popcorn okay yeah it’s a popcorn bucket.

Trevor:
[1:05:49] It is a popcorn bucket yeah so first of all do you believe it’s been 25.

Tom:
[1:05:53] Years that California Adventure’s been open that’s kind.

Trevor:
[1:05:55] Of I mean I mean I can because I’ve I’ve gone to California Adventure in various incarnations of it which Which is, you know, honestly, the fact that it’s only 25 years is surprising, but also… Kind of makes sense. Um, cause it’s, um, yeah, the park has changed so much. Like, like it’s kind of crazy to think about like.

Tom:
[1:06:22] Well, they basically redid the whole thing when Iger came back, came in. Right. I mean, he was like, yeah, we screwed this place up. We’re going to redo it all. You know?

Trevor:
[1:06:29] And I, and I saw it like in those transitions where like, like things were honestly like before, um, radiator springs open, like it was, it was not good, but, but, or, there were there were still some redeeming elements of it like california screaming was great before it became a credit coaster and we got soaring out of it yeah exactly and and um uh you know grizzly or grizzly peak and and all that you know you know all that coming in, it’s changed so much and like i said just the fact that it is 25 years is is it feels like it should be longer i do like like you said this popcorn bucket the fact that it’s mickey’s fun wheel or the wheel of death as it’s yeah um but.

Tom:
[1:07:19] Just the concept of this is i mean it’s cool i this is a cool popcorn bucket yeah.

Trevor:
[1:07:25] Yeah it’s there my only comment on it is there’s so many little pieces to it because like there’s.

Tom:
[1:07:34] Like the cars on it yeah.

Trevor:
[1:07:35] Yeah like and and just because it is like the wheel like it you know there’s a lot of like very thin pieces to it i don’t know that i would want to walk around with this hanging off my neck because i feel like it would get broken yeah.

Tom:
[1:07:47] I i get that.

Trevor:
[1:07:47] I get.

Tom:
[1:07:48] I just i this is such a cool idea for a popcorn bucket the fact that they even did this is great but it’s see the middle part of it is the popcorn bucket and it’s.

Trevor:
[1:07:57] Seen through.

Tom:
[1:07:58] And so it’s it’s there but also if i don’t know if you saw but you turn the lights on by touching mickey’s nose.

Trevor:
[1:08:04] Oh is that how oh i didn’t realize the video.

Tom:
[1:08:07] I don’t know if that’s actually how you do it or if they were just doing that for the video but uh yeah it’s it’s pretty cool.

Trevor:
[1:08:15] Yeah i.

Tom:
[1:08:16] I really i really like this and i i you know have not been to california venture but uh this is a this is a cool.

Trevor:
[1:08:21] It’s an interesting ride to pick as a popcorn bucket because it is obviously a very polarizing ride like some people some people like it some people refuse to ride it like my wife who you know i mean to be fair my wife does i.

Tom:
[1:08:37] Hate ferris wheel so i would never.

Trevor:
[1:08:38] Really i love a good ferris wheel but yeah but this one in particular like it’s it’s a scary ferris wheel like i will give it that it has way more going on to it than than normal ferris wheels they do have the normal cars you know i guess you could do the normal ferris wheel cars if you want to but the the ones on the tracks are so much fun so yeah well i just judging by.

Tom:
[1:09:01] The instagram comments on this the bucket we never we never knew we always wanted amazing iconic uh this is the winner of the year coolest popcorn bucket ever yeah.

Trevor:
[1:09:13] I i agree it’s definitely one of the one of the cooler popcorn buckets that’s come out of the the celebration type things right yeah.

Tom:
[1:09:22] I this literally everyone is just raving about this they’re gonna.

Trevor:
[1:09:25] This is.

Tom:
[1:09:25] This is the thing.

Trevor:
[1:09:26] So but it’s funny because you know i’m sure a lot of those people would also say like i’ll never ride mickey’s fun wheel either who cares you don’t need to you.

Tom:
[1:09:34] Don’t need to ride it to to where.

Trevor:
[1:09:35] That’s true yeah here’s.

Tom:
[1:09:37] Here’s a comment for you trevor does it also play the various sounds of blood curdling screaming.

Trevor:
[1:09:42] Terrified uh screams as you come over the crest and you feel like your car is gonna fly off yeah yeah exactly yeah yeah exactly but it needs to be authentic um that’s very cool i i really.

Tom:
[1:09:56] Like that uh and oh also by the way too we’re we’re we’re actually missing uh the even the coolest part about this and it says featuring embedded magic inside technology the bucket reacts to select locations in the parks, Oh, it changes colors, lighting and lighting patterns based on where you are during, you know, in some of the lands and attractions and also during the nighttime spectacular. So this is this is going back to the glow with the show stuff. You remember that? But they’re doing it with a popcorn bucket.

Trevor:
[1:10:30] Which is that’s actually a much smarter way to do it than the than the ears and stuff. because i’m more likely to be walking around with a popcorn bucket and it’s just going to be, constantly on display which yeah you know you know will grab people’s attention more than like you know we we tried an early incarnation of those ears and i think we wore them for like 10 minutes and found that they were very very heavy there it was like what.

Tom:
[1:10:55] I used to i was i would mess with my wife because she bought them.

Trevor:
[1:10:58] And i would.

Tom:
[1:10:59] Just go and knock on her head because they were like a hard hat. Like, you know, they were like a construction hard hat. Because it was just, they were, I mean, listen, at the time, you know, the technology wasn’t, it was small, but it was still big enough that it was heavy and you had batteries sitting on top of your head and stuff, you know? It is what it is.

Trevor:
[1:11:18] Yeah. But yeah, like I said, putting it into a popcorn bucket is I hope that this is something you see a little more of where like, you know, having interactive elements to the popcorn bucket, because there are people that, you know, like my wife is very much one of these people that will buy a popcorn bucket and walk around with it. and having it interact with different elements in the park is smart in my opinion it’s it’s a it’s a great way to incentivize it even more than you know it’s already a cool popcorn bucket but you know take those elements and do more popcorn buckets in the same way yeah absolutely absolutely now the other thing um so outside of the popcorn bucket i have to say i do really like the merch that they did for the 25th anniversary.

Tom:
[1:12:05] I thought you were going to comment on Mickey and Minnie’s outfits that are interesting.

Trevor:
[1:12:11] No, I’m ignoring those because I don’t know what to think about those. They’re a little…

Tom:
[1:12:17] They’re interesting.

Trevor:
[1:12:19] There’s a lot of colors going on, which I’m not usually opposed to colors, but…

Tom:
[1:12:23] They feel very 90s. They feel very throwback.

Trevor:
[1:12:25] I don’t even know what it is. It’s not even 90s.

Tom:
[1:12:28] It’s like early 2000s. Yeah, I guess when the park opened, right? It’s, you know…

Trevor:
[1:12:32] Actually, yeah, that does make sense. So I’m not vibing with it quite as much as other 90s apparel, but further down on this list, there’s the 20th… What is the set called? I don’t even know what the set’s called. It’s just the 20th anniversary set.

Tom:
[1:12:47] Yeah, yeah.

Trevor:
[1:12:49] So they have… It shows the Carthay Circle Tower, but it’s done in the same aesthetic as around Carthay Circle, which also funny enough gives the same vibes as Tower of Terror before they redid it to Guardians of the Galaxy. So, I kind of like it because it’s reminding me of, like, I know it’s showing like the current state of the park, but it reminds me of like, weirdly of like a good part of the park that is no longer there okay it’s fair oh so i like it i like the aesthetic of the the 25th anniversary because it is giving the um yeah the carthay circle stuff is like very like 1930s 1940s which yeah um i i like that i i like i like that aesthetic on the merch for sure yeah they.

Tom:
[1:13:44] Also just you know to the they’re bringing back soren over California to Soarin’.

Trevor:
[1:13:49] On February 6th.

Tom:
[1:13:50] So if you are a fan of the original, you can go see that.

Trevor:
[1:13:57] And what about, um, are we going to talk about Humphrey?

Tom:
[1:14:02] I don’t know how much I care about this.

Trevor:
[1:14:04] Really? You don’t, you don’t care about Humphrey?

Tom:
[1:14:06] Not really. No.

Trevor:
[1:14:10] I’m, I’m a little disappointed.

Tom:
[1:14:12] I didn’t know that anyone cared about Humphrey. Okay. I mean, I remember him from the, from the cards, you know, from cartoons. I mean, I mean.

Trevor:
[1:14:20] Cause there was the ones with him and Donald in like, yeah, like I liked Humphrey. He was like, I always enjoyed seeing him in, in the various like cartoons.

Tom:
[1:14:30] I like him. I just, I just am not like clamoring to go meet him. I don’t know.

Trevor:
[1:14:34] Well, but you, but maybe you’ll find he’s more enduring than you think he is. Um, he, he is going to be at a storytellers cafe, which is in the grand Californian belief. Yeah.

Tom:
[1:14:48] Yeah. Yeah.

Trevor:
[1:14:49] Um, yeah. So kind of, kind of a deep cut to be honest. like yeah a little bit i i you’re right i i didn’t think that they would do like a humphrey meet and greet but you can go and meet humphrey i i feel like that you know they’re pushing that it should have been humphrey and donald like i think those two together would be an interesting meet and greet but the the fact that they’re that they’re diving into more obscure characters i’m not opposed to that oh no listen i’m always.

Tom:
[1:15:17] In favor of them going back to like older characters obscure characters I just like I don’t know I just didn’t have a like a you know attachment to Humphrey like I know of him but he’s you know it doesn’t do anything for me I don’t know maybe just me.

Trevor:
[1:15:33] That’s fair. I mean, like I said, I just, I remember watching the, like the Sunday wonderful world of Disney cartoons and he would always show up in there. So yeah. Yeah.

Tom:
[1:15:42] Okay. I, I, I don’t know if there’s anything else you want to mention here, Trevor.

Trevor:
[1:15:47] No, I mean, there’s stuff about downtown Disney as well, but it’s, yeah.

Tom:
[1:15:53] I mean, there’s a Bananas Foster Beignet over at Beignet’s Express, and I mean, I would tear that up.

Trevor:
[1:15:59] But yeah, I mean, it’s Beignet, but like, that’s, yeah, I, that’s nothing like.

Tom:
[1:16:05] No, that’s not special.

Trevor:
[1:16:07] Yeah, it’s not, I mean, they’re always doing new takes on Beignets and stuff like that.

Tom:
[1:16:11] Yeah.

Trevor:
[1:16:11] Yeah.

Tom:
[1:16:12] All right.

Trevor:
[1:16:12] Well, I think that’s good. Yeah.

Tom:
[1:16:14] Let’s wrap it. Let’s wrap it.

Trevor:
[1:16:15] Yeah. All right. So, yeah, I guess, you know, if you want to reach out to us about anything that we did talk about on the show today, you can always find us at welcomehomepodcast at gmail.com. You can also find us through the website now. So, you know, just a reminder, we have our website up and running again, which is welcomehomepodcast.co. So you can go there and you can find episodes. So, you know, as the episodes come out, they’ll be posted up there. We are working on the website. There will be more stuff added as we go. But you can also contact us through the website, too. It just sends you to the email address that I mentioned. So, you know, you can send us questions, send us feedback, thoughts, any of that kind of stuff. Similarly, we are on other social media platforms. So you can find us on Facebook as Welcome Home Podcast. YouTube as Welcome Home Podcast. And Instagram as Welcome Home Picks. We also have in Facebook, there is our group Welcome Home Disney Waitlist.

Trevor:
[1:17:12] Again, another place that we have conversations about stuff from the show, but also just people talking about their general Disney experiences and stuff that they’re doing with Disney. I’ve, you know, I’ve seen, um, you know, love seeing people talking on there, you know, asking questions about like, um, you know, uh, what was one that I saw recently? It was, I think somebody was asking about, uh, um, planning for, I think it was Ashley. It was asking about, um, you know, ways to entertain their, their four-year-old while they’re waiting in line for rides, you know, love seeing discussions like that, you know, love seeing, uh, you know, you guys, you know, it’s not, it’s not just about us in the podcast. It’s, you know, it’s about everybody talking about Disney and enjoying Disney stuff. So, you know, you know, come join us in there and, you know, talk about Disney stuff with us. And yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s always a good time.

Trevor:
[1:18:06] As we mentioned, we do have a store, which is, you know, one of the ways you can help support the show. It’s store.walkoampodcast.co.

Trevor:
[1:18:15] You know, right now it’s still, you know, as we talked about, we have the current lineup of merch is still up there. You can still find shirts and all that kind of stuff. we will have a new store coming that’ll be in the future but you know it is underway as we’re getting the website up and running so stay tuned for that um, And we also have a Patreon, so go to patreon.com slash welcome on pod and check out our different levels of Patreon support. And all of our Patreon supporters do get access to the Discord server, which is yet another place that we talk about all the stuff from the show and sometimes random topics as well, because, you know, why not? We love going down our rabbit holes and the Discord’s yet another place we can do that. and last but not least if you’re listening on iTunes or Spotify or anywhere you can leave us five stars leave us a five star review also on iTunes you can write us a review and let us know what you think about the show we love we love hearing what you guys think there as well.

Tom:
[1:19:12] Yeah and uh shout out to becky uh because by the way if you’re if you’re in the patreon you get you get an early view at the at the rundown of what we’re going to talk about uh which is essentially just an outline trevor and i you know tend to deviate from the outline but the outline helps us you know it’s a framework it’s not it’s not a script that’s right it’s a framework but a shout out to becky who found a typo in the in the uh in the uh rundown and and let me know about it in discord so if you want to find my typos uh you know due to uh writing rundowns uh with lack of sleep uh you could do you could do that if you join patreon so uh but the other thing you should do is don’t is not forget you know in fact remember to subscribe to welcome home podcast so you can remind that every time we’re releasing the episode you can find us on apple podcast amazon music tune in spotify youtube youtube music that’s just a couple places, there’s like a million places that you can find us, okay? There’s every one that streams podcasts, you can find us, except for like Netflix. We’re not cool enough for that, but everywhere else where, you know, you can stream any podcast, you can find us there. So, huge thank you to the sponsor of this episode, DVC Resale Market, and also Keyholder Vacations for sponsoring everything that we do here and continuing to be great partners of ours, and you’re going to hear more from those folks as we continue to do the show. So, join us next time for more Disney Parks discussion. Of course, More DVC talk. We hope to see you all real soon.

Tom:
[1:20:39] We hope to see you all real soon. That’s a better take.