Join us on a journey as we navigate the mysterious weather patterns of Nashville, recount adventurous drives through ice storms, and share a Tennessean tradition that will pique your interest. We've got a tale or two about our kids pushing boundaries and accomplishing amazing feats. As we move on, we introduce you to a fantastic service for travelers, ridetothemagic.com, an absolute game-changer for anyone heading to Orlando area or Port Canaveral.
Ever wondered how your favorite horror movies could be transformed into Halloween Horror Nights houses? We're diving into that too, offering up our thoughts on movies like 'The Changeling' and 'Children of the Corn'.
As we transition from Halloween to Christmas, we're already excitedly planning our trip to Disney and Universal. We'll share our insights on Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, Jollywood Nights, and the Grinchmas Christmas Breakfast at Universal. If you're a fan of Epcot or Animal Kingdom, you'll love our tips on the best holiday offerings in these parks. So, if you're ready for a rollercoaster ride of humor, nostalgia, and exciting travel plans, you're in the right place. We can't wait to share this episode with you!
Join us on a journey as we navigate the mysterious weather patterns of Nashville, recount adventurous drives through ice storms, and share a Tennessean tradition that will pique your interest. We've got a tale or two about our kids pushing boundaries and accomplishing amazing feats. As we move on, we introduce you to a fantastic service for travelers, ridetothemagic.com, an absolute game-changer for anyone heading to Orlando area or Port Canaveral.
Ever wondered how your favorite horror movies could be transformed into Halloween Horror Nights houses? We're diving into that too, offering up our thoughts on movies like 'The Changeling' and 'Children of the Corn'.
As we transition from Halloween to Christmas, we're already excitedly planning our trip to Disney and Universal. We'll share our insights on Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, Jollywood Nights, and the Grinchmas Christmas Breakfast at Universal. If you're a fan of Epcot or Animal Kingdom, you'll love our tips on the best holiday offerings in these parks. So, if you're ready for a rollercoaster ride of humor, nostalgia, and exciting travel plans, you're in the right place. We can't wait to share this episode with you!
Happy Monday everybody. Welcome to the let's Talk podcast. Mike gets mad every time I say it wrong, which was let's talk about Disney, so it's the let's Talk about Destinations podcast these days for anybody who missed a memo. So, yes, happy Monday. So for those who normally expected this on Friday, well, we changed the schedule.
Speaker 2:Looking at the stats, that's where most people downloaded. It is on Mondays. So, why not just let it go on Mondays?
Speaker 1:Yeah, on Fridays everybody's preparing for the weekend and they're not going to listen to this, probably until the next week. Anyways, if you were downloading and listening to this on Friday over the weekend, we'd be interested to hear that. But I think for the most part, people are in their cars and commuting on Mondays, so we are changing that over. So we don't wind up so far down in your feed that you listen to everybody else before us, and if you're listening to anybody before us, shame on you. Yeah, shame on you, so we will come to get you. So, anyways, happy Monday. It's the top of our week here at Maysuit Travel and it is a fairly nice day here in Nashville, tennessee. So weatherwilds were doing good. Now, last week we had one of the hottest days of the season it was 89 degrees on Thursday.
Speaker 2:I think it was the hottest day ever. On that day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I loved it. It was fantastic. We had lunch outside. Yeah, we did. I mean, that was nice. It's just once it starts getting cold and it starts fluctuating like that, it just makes me mad. My extremities, my toes, the tips of my fingers, if they start getting cold, my entire body is cold and there's really no solution to it except for a hot shower to just warm up your blood at that point is what you're doing? Correct, yes, so, yeah, I'll take the hot days and I you know don't be surprised, erica because we know that you love winter and snowy weather. Love it. You didn't grow up with that. We have had 86 degree Christmas days here in the past, so that's kind of what I'm rooting for.
Speaker 3:I would not be surprised, but I'm over it. I've had 30 plus years of going to the beach on Christmas and 85 plus degree Christmases, and I would just rather have snow.
Speaker 2:Last year we had a real warm Christmas, yeah, and then on January 1st New Year's it was like six.
Speaker 1:So we watch somebody on YouTube. It's a weather type. It's not the weather channel, but it's a weather type channel. Do you know that channel name?
Speaker 2:Ryan Hall.
Speaker 1:Ryan Hall.
Speaker 3:I love him. When we have tornado warnings. I watch him on YouTube.
Speaker 1:They're saying that we're going to have a heavier than normal Thank God Snow season here in Tennessee. Have you been through a true snow season here in Nashville yet?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we moved here in 2020 and everybody said oh, it doesn't snow. In Hendersonville it snowed and everybody said oh, it's so rare. And then in 2021 it snowed, so apparently it's not experienced an ice storm here, not an ice storm, but we have had snow.
Speaker 1:That's when you're going to be like. I never want to see another drop of snow in my life because it shuts Nashville down. I'm talking shuts it down. You will be confined to your house as if we were in COVID again.
Speaker 3:It's only state that people are out driving because, we do not.
Speaker 1:The state is not prepared to handle ice on roads and we end up getting black ice on top of that. Everybody's in the ditch.
Speaker 3:So I have a question about Tennesseans and snow, or the threat or talk of snow. We're scared why this is personal for me why? Okay, why? Because? No, no, no, I need to know. Why does everybody flock to the stores and buy milk and bread?
Speaker 1:Because look, if we get half an inch of snow and it melts on our roads, that turns to ice and we we are not equipped to scrape the ice off of our roads but it's only milk and bread.
Speaker 3:Why wouldn't you buy, like, some frozen burritos or something Like? Why is it only milk and bread? That that is the question.
Speaker 1:Probably because it's the easiest to serve to a kid. A kid can pour their milk on top of bread and then they can make themselves a sandwich. It's easiest for a little kid to prepare a meal with milk and bread. Buy some burritos next time.
Speaker 3:But it's only milk and bread, like nobody's buying a peanut butter or the jam or the jelly it's only milk and bread.
Speaker 1:Maybe because that's a fresh product and there's less of it on the shelves than the other things. Okay, so yeah.
Speaker 2:But even with the hardest ice storms, we're back up within about three days Do you not remember ice aged in 1994?
Speaker 1:Ice aged in?
Speaker 3:Ice aged in. Ice aged in Is that a word you just said? Yeah, I made it up Ice aged in is not a word.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's not what's aged in, it's a word. That's why all the all the lines. So it was a huge ice storm.
Speaker 1:And he shut the air, though Nobody went anywhere for two straight weeks.
Speaker 3:Well, there was no power. There was no power, there was no power.
Speaker 1:There was no power, all the lines came down.
Speaker 3:That does not sound heavenly yeah.
Speaker 1:Guess what Russell and I did during ice aged in, because we were living in Louisiana at the time. That's where we're from. He had a job interview at Virginia Beach and we drove from Baton Rouge, louisiana, through ice aged in to get up to Virginia Beach. We got up there and our car was frozen shut. I couldn't we think I couldn't get out.
Speaker 2:How do you always get locked into things? We did not move to.
Speaker 1:Virginia Beach. They have jokes, Y'all. We have no voicemails this week. Rude, Rude for y'all who listen especially you original OG years who know that we love to hear from you. We want your voicemails If you are new to this show. We want to talk together. That's the reason we call it let's talk, listen, talk about destinations. It's let's talk about destinations. We want to hear from you guys. I've actually got the phone number this time.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, maybe before I remember this.
Speaker 1:We want to hear your opinions. We want to hear your thoughts, your current events, all the things related to Disney vacations and beyond. So if you've been to a Sandor's or beaches, or if you've been to a universal or you've been to Europe or Hawaii, on the other, road to Hannah we want to hear all about it 615-246-5823. I'm going to repeat that for you 615-246-5823. Does 5823 stand for LTD?
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, 615-246-ltd. And you need to put out like a voicemail intro because we do get calls on that and people are hanging.
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Speaker 2:It just goes straight to a beat.
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Speaker 3:Oh, just one.
Speaker 1:At least one, at least one.
Speaker 3:My son had his jogathon. It was called the Wildcat Run this time, but he is on the spectrum and he is not athletic, but he just missed that. He would rather game and code and stuff like that. He's very, very intelligent when it comes to tech and stuff like that, but he ran. I was so proud. He ran half a lap. Go Riley, he ran half a lap. And then he is very dramatic, like his sister, and started grabbing his back.
Speaker 1:It was like oh, my back hurts.
Speaker 3:I was like that's enough of that.
Speaker 1:Let's not do that right now. That's hilarious. Well, good for him for stepping out of a comfort zone that is probably pretty hard for him to step out of and doing something. Anyways, he's also in Cub Scouts.
Speaker 3:He is yes, and oh my gosh, he just had a big week. He did, he did.
Speaker 1:Because he did something else for the first time ever. He did.
Speaker 3:He went on a camping trip up at Bloodsow with Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts Because he'll be bridging over into Boy Scouts here pretty soon without dad, without my husband and he was with his troop and lead list to say, mom and dad were nervous wrecks the whole weekend but we were getting messages saying he's doing great. He's telling a spooky story. Around the campfire he manned the grill and made cheeseburgers for everyone. He broke down his tent.
Speaker 1:That's amazing.
Speaker 3:He was perfect.
Speaker 1:He's discovering independence. He is.
Speaker 3:I love that. I think that's fantastic, and social skills and everything.
Speaker 1:He had a popcorn fundraiser and I bought a big old box of popcorn from. We've already ate it all.
Speaker 2:I need some more popcorn. Yeah, we just take the last one, I believe.
Speaker 1:Mike, anything good for you this week.
Speaker 2:I didn't have to come in here Monday, tuesday or Monday.
Speaker 1:Rude or.
Speaker 2:Thursday.
Speaker 1:Wow, me and Mike have had a busy week outside of the four walls of this storefront, so it feels like we hadn't been here at all last week, right? So anyways, ok for me. I'm going to go next, because I think this is pretty cool. Just a small bit of history. I deal with a pretty bad thyroid, underactive thyroid. It affects my weight and a billion other things in my body. Everything that's wrong with me medically is related to my thyroid and apparently my eyeball, but anyways. So I have been trying to lose weight for a while and it just does not budge one bit whatsoever. Nothing I do is working. So my doctor was like let's talk about your weight. No, no. I was like I'm fine with my weight, I'm fine, I give up, I'm tired of trying to do this and nobody believes me when I say I can't lose it. I go to the gym and I'm told I'm cheating on the food and all this kind of stuff. No, I'm not. I just it will not come off, it will not come off. I've done everything under the sun, it won't come off. So she was like what do you want to try? Like some Fintermane? Is that what it's called? Fintermane, fintermane, something like that. Now I can't remember. It's the second fan, finnaw. No, y'all remember from back in the 80s and 90s, the Fin fan.
Speaker 2:How was that what it was?
Speaker 1:It's the second fan because apparently the first fan is like dangerous for you. So I was like is it going to affect my thyroid any worse? And it already is, and all these things. And we talked through it. She was like no, so I started taking it. Well, something else I have dealt with literally for my entire adult life is my ears hurt like nobody's business and I get these little pulses of pain in my ears. But I have a constant, forever, every single day of my life, low, dull pain in my ears, and then every day or so my left ear, my right ear, will pulse in this pain. So I had also, in this visit, told her is there anything we can do? So she sent me to an ENT. Well, as I'm waiting on this ENT appointment, I realized suddenly my ears are no longer hurting. Just one day I was like my ears are not even hurting. Now, what's happened? Like, why are my ears suddenly not hurting? Well, the only difference is that I started taking that Fintermane or Fintermane, whatever it's called. So I went to the ENT. She didn't say anything, nothing big about it. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Go back for a follow up to my doctor, which was six weeks after she gave me this. And I'm telling her this and she's like yeah, no, that has nothing, we adjusted your thyroid meds too. And I'm like lady, you have, or we, I have had my thyroid meds adjusted a billion and one times in the past 20 years. This is not the adjustment of the thyroid medicine at all. This started when you served me this cocktail of this Fintermane and whatnot. Well, so she's written it off. Well, yesterday I went to have it refilled at the pharmacy and this is two days after she's told me that it's not having an effect. Well, I went two days without it because the day I saw her was the last pill I had and it was not an automatic refill. So then I went one day without it, day two without it, which was yesterday, and y'all were with me, and we went to lunch. And whose ear was hurting yesterday? For the first time in six weeks, Mine was. So in that lunch yesterday I got the text that my medicine was refilled. So we went over to the pharmacy and I asked that pharmacist. I said to him there was two things. I said the first thing and then the second thing. I said have you ever heard of anybody reporting that their ears or anything in their head the pain was gone after taking this? And explained to them what had my history with my ears and all that. He's like oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And he goes it's called something and he ran across to the other pharmacist. He came back. He goes yeah, it's on my phone, which is on my desk. It's an antichodulant or something. He called it anti-sludge and he told me what sludge.
Speaker 3:Coagulant.
Speaker 1:Coagulant maybe. No, that's a blood thinner or something. Okay, I don't know Something different. But he then also called it anti-sludge and he went through sludge and what sludge stood for. But what happens is and the reason I have water sitting at this table is this phentermen, the number one side effect is dry mouth. Okay, it's drying me out. Oh, it's drying out my ear canals, my mouth. I'm not dealt with dry eyes or anything, but he said that could absolutely happen and he goes. So, yes, if your ears are hurting and it has anything to do with moisture in your ear canals, then yes, this has dried you out and it's taken away the pain. Oh, wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:So now you're gonna walk into that doctor and throw all this and say you're wrong. Yes. I am you're wrong In your face, and then we don't have a doctor, no more Facial scrub. So you're gonna say, get out.
Speaker 1:I cannot begin to tell you how many doctors I've gone through, because they will tell me they're just so against anything that could naturally fix what L is you and they're also very against you telling them that they're wrong? Oh, for sure. I cannot begin to tell you how many doctors I've told you're wrong.
Speaker 2:I can't begin to tell you, because I can't tell you how many doctors you've been through too.
Speaker 1:I know how I feel, and when I find something that makes me feel better and you don't want to even recognize and say oh yes, I heard you said that this makes you feel better, they want to say it's all in your head. No, I'm stepping away because I'm not ever going to have a doctor tell me that you're crazy and then try to put you on some kind of those drugs. No, and this is a known thing. So if you deal with endocrine system type things, thyroid, autoimmune type things, that's probably what you're hearing, more so than not. So just know that there are doctors out there who will listen.
Speaker 2:You just haven't found one yet.
Speaker 1:I did find one in California.
Speaker 2:What.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We're not going to go out and see them all the time.
Speaker 1:It was very expensive because those are going to be the doctors that don't take insurance and stuff. So, anyways, I get to the good thing that I get to do this week. My good thing happened this week was I was right, she was wrong, and the good thing that's going to happen next week is when I tell her that she's wrong. I'll report back to you guys on that.
Speaker 2:You're the only one that's going to be happy about that.
Speaker 1:But you know, I talk about that because one of the things that my ears are doing to me is I'm having tons of motion sickness and tons of vertigo. And going to a theme park, getting on a cruise ship, is very hard for me because I can't enjoy it, because I wound up sick with a headache over motion and things like that. So for me that's very important and if I can fix that in me which I would like to do. I would like to figure that out. So most likely she probably thought I wanted to stay on the finermane, which can't do that for one three months. So no, I told you before you suggested I go on it that I was fine with my weight Right. So don't throw that at me, I know.
Speaker 3:Do you know what's something going to happen to you?
Speaker 1:Okay, well, I got two and the first. None of them are nearly as like, meaningful and serious as yours. Like nothing about my, my sweet kids. You know doing these, you know big kid accomplishments and nothing like health related. That's good news and whatnot. But being the biggest Christmas fan that I am, it was devastating to me when I went to put up one of my three Christmas trees. Yeah, whatever One of my three Christmas trees. She looked right at Mike. Why did you?
Speaker 2:expect me to say something.
Speaker 1:No, I'll idiot. Well, she already knows, and half of the lights didn't work Tragic.
Speaker 2:Are they built in? It's the worst.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a prelit tree, the one. The other one in our store, the dead center of it, doesn't work. Dana has a history of really bad luck with prelit trees and Dana said the last, and that was my newest tree. By the way, dana said the last time we bought a Christmas tree, I don't think I'm going to get a prelit anymore, I'm just going to go old school, string the lights. Well, we found this one. It was the perfect size, shape, great price. Let's just do it. I think this is its third Christmas, maybe fourth.
Speaker 2:Probably had a year warranty.
Speaker 1:So here's the thing. You know, Dana could go down to two Christmas trees, but she really didn't want to Such a dilemma.
Speaker 2:I told you it was not a big deal.
Speaker 1:But it was a big deal to Christmas, dana. Okay, so what do I do? And I even shared it with Erica. I was like I don't know what I'm going to do and do I go buy a new Christmas tree? You know, those things they don't just give them away. It has to be a certain size and shape, because my living room's not that big and I've got two in the living room, so whatever.
Speaker 2:Where's the third?
Speaker 1:It's in the office which sits on the front of her house, by the front door Correct. So Talk to Russell. He's just thrilled at the prospect of having to buy another Christmas tree. He said let me look at it. Are you sure that you tweaked all the branches? Yeah, I'm sure you know. It's not what. No, I don't know what the problem is. So he tweaked it. I tweaked it same thing. So I just decided. I know it's kind of sad, but the ending of the story is happy. I'm just gonna do what I said I wasn't gonna do. I'm gonna take regular lights and string it over the places where it's not lit up. I hate doing that. It looks tacky, but I said you know what, I'll buy one, maybe Black Friday or after the season, but it's the only one that would probably notice We'll limp through it. So that's where I'm going about. This story ends kind of happy. So I did that while Lia was at dance and Russell said hey, it looks really good. I said, yeah, it does, that's what we're gonna do. So I went and strung the lights on the other tree that I have in there, which is not pre-lit, which because I wasn't gonna buy more pre-lit, Anyway. So Lia comes home after dance and they're still lit up. I hadn't decorated them or anything yet and she comes up the stairs and says mom, when did the Christmas tree lights start working again? And I said, well, funny story, they didn't, I just added lights to it. She was like well, it looks so good, Thank you, baby, you saved Christmas, you saved Christmas. So there's my happy thing that happened this week.
Speaker 3:I had to do that last year with a tree I put here in the store.
Speaker 1:I turned it on and the dead center of it had no lights. So I had to go by the little tiny light and string in there and it wound up looking pretty good, no way.
Speaker 3:I will go buy a new tree. I'm not doing that. I can't do that.
Speaker 1:I have to buy a new tree. I know.
Speaker 3:If I buy my 25 foot tree that I really want for my living room, you can have my good tree.
Speaker 2:Did you say 25 foot tree? We?
Speaker 3:have very high ceilings in our living room, so we only have two trees, but one is a Disney tree and that's upstairs in the family room, which is the all Disney room. But then our one downstairs is where the presents are, next to the fireplace, and it's the Christmas room.
Speaker 1:And a 25 foot tree.
Speaker 3:I could do a 20, because my ceilings are bad.
Speaker 1:You could, or you do, have one.
Speaker 3:No, I want one.
Speaker 1:Oh, so if I? Buy my 25 foot tree my mom's tallest tree is 15 feet. It's difficult, that's tall.
Speaker 3:I know we have big ladders, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Because she's probably I mean she's probably got a 50 foot pitch on her ceiling. So it's really hot, it's beautiful. One year we did three trees, 15, which I call big Bertha. Yes, and then there's a 12 foot tree, the 10 foot tree that we called little Jimmy. I can't remember the middle tree's name, but it was gorgeous. All three of those trees in her living room side by side Boom boom boom. Love it, it was, it was beautiful. Then she's got a tree in her kitchen and in her dining room. So that year she had five trees. I love it. I think the most I've had is four. But why, told Erica? One was like the little kitty tree, like all the comments they make at school and stuff and they. I know men don't get it, whatever. So, now that we have talked about everything but wait travel. That was my first good thing. She has another thing.
Speaker 2:Remember my second.
Speaker 1:Thing actually might lead into what you're fixing to talk about.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Okay. So my second good thing was I finally got my dance group registered. So, in case you didn't know, main Street travel loves to book groups. Yeah, not that we don't love, you know, individual family we do all of it, but groups we have a passion for it it's so funny when we broke into our very first group and it was it was before y'all were here, it was just me and it was. It was a high school marching band as the first group I took and, oh my gosh, you talk about discovering a passion for something you love doing. I loved everything about that booking that group process, everything about it. I adore booking groups. I love the processes, I love all the people and then I love getting down there. But the number one thing I love so much about booking the specific groups that we're booking, which is youth performance arts type groups Now we can book others, don't get me wrong, but the arts types are my favorite is because there is usually someone within that group who has never been to Walt Disney World or Orlando before. Year and a half ago we took a group where the little girl had never left her town before. So we live in the greater national area. We here at Mastry are located in Hendersonville. This student was located in another town similar in the greater national area. A lot smaller, much smaller. She had never left her zip code before in her life, 16 years old, and we got the opportunity to take her to Disney for the first time and it's so fun to kind of pay attention to those kids and when they go into the Magic Kingdom and they come around that corner and they see the castle for the first time. Sometimes you get tears, sometimes you get jaw on the ground, sometimes there's no expression, they're just standing there, just whatever is going through their head.
Speaker 2:Unless you take them to Disneyland. Then they go oh, is that it? Is that it?
Speaker 1:I'll never forget Mary, Is that it so? But then to see them put their talent on a stage at a Disney or Universal.
Speaker 3:Park. There's nothing like it.
Speaker 1:There's nothing like that, and if you're a parent, I can't imagine how it feels, because I'm not a parent and I've seen that. Well, I take that back.
Speaker 3:I watched my daughter watch that mainstream.
Speaker 1:So I do, I do, but it's such a powerful emotion that comes across you when you see your child up on this international stage dancing in front of people from around the world. And gosh, we know from firsthand experience. Dana, Now, if you did not make it to the end of last week's podcast and if you did not, we do not blame you it was way too long.
Speaker 3:It was a long one. We had a good time right.
Speaker 1:But I wanted to bring this up again today because we are taking a group of dancers and that's it's alongside of Dana's group. It's called Celebration Dance Festival. This is a mini festival. In the website is celebrationdancefestcom. That's where you're going to start. Celebrationdancefestcom is where you're going to start. It is June 8th through 11th. You're going to have the opportunity for your dancer to do a workshop and a performance is optional if they want to do the performance on a Disney stage, and the dance director that we work with over at Celebration Dance Festival she's going to choreograph it. Put it all together for you. So you can come down as an individual. If you are with a studio who does not believe in traveling, all they want to do is compete. Or if you're with a studio who's super small and you don't have enough to travel, or maybe you're with a studio where you're in an area where not everybody can afford to travel because dance is expensive. We're not going to lie about that. Dance is expensive. So, whatever it might be, you can come as an individual. You can bring your best dance buddy, you can split a room with your parents, you can bring the whole dance group. Whatever y'all want to do, head to celebrationdancefestcom. If you do want to invite a dance director, share the website with the dance director. Tell them that, hey, we want to go do this. Do y'all want to come and do this with us, kind of thing. But if they are not interested in going as a group, you mom or you dancer, talk to your parent or legal guardian can come and join celebrationdancefestcom for this June 8th mini festival at Walt Disney World. We're going to be staying at Disney's Pop Century Resort, so it's not going to be an expensive stay. It's going to come with a three day park hopper ticket and then, of course, your workshop, your performance, the transportation involved in that, and then, if you want to do the performance, you'll have to get with Tiffany at celebration dance, because there is an additional fee for that. It is not expensive at all, um, so that you can do this. Now, if you are someone who has done these events or your dancer have done these events with other larger organizations, I can tell you ours is way more better. That's our hashtag way more better, absolutely. Way, way, way less expensive, absolutely Unbelievable what people are paying to do these things. But ours is educational, is the key component here. Absolutely, and last week we talked about Whitney. We're not going to talk about Whitney again. If you want to hear Whitney, who has probably been the most successful of all the dancers to come through this celebration dance program, go back to last week and go to the last 10 minutes of the end of the podcast and you'll hear us talk about Whitney and those incredible accomplishments the girl has done with her time at celebration dance over at Disney World. But then we also have two other dancers and there's one I believe her name is Jordan. She's a blonde. Sydney, jordan, jordan. Jordan's her last name, correct? She's done a celebration dance event a few times, correct? Um, through this program and she has taken what she's learned with this educational dance experience, where you're learning how to take dance into your future. You're not dancing for a trophy, you're dancing for your future. Right, for those who want to turn this into a career, sydney landed a spot. Do you remember who it is? Okay, I'm looking right now. She's in Denver. It did a basketball team. It's a basketball team. So what is it?
Speaker 2:Nuggets, I think that's right, it's purple, the dance team of the Denver Nuggets.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's so cool. It's not cool.
Speaker 1:I'm looking at her mama. But yeah, she graduated college University of Tampa. She was a dance major.
Speaker 2:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 1:And, um, you know, when dance is your passion, when dance becomes your dream, you work to make it happen. And she's worked hard. While she was in college, she also worked at Universal, mm. Hmm, orlando, uh, doing different parts seasonally. She also worked at Bush Gardens, dancing there and some of their seasonal performance type things. So so see, guys, it's what, what, what, what. This is Sydney Jordan. Yes, sydney Jordan. That's why D. What this event does is it gives you a taste of a career. It's not, you're not so inundated. Oh, she's beautiful, wow. You're not so inundated with the, the, the competition that's in front of you for this day, and you're, and you're focused on this trophy and this win, and data, data, data. You get to think about your future and you get to make plans and then you're on stage performing to an audience as if you are practicing for a future experience, and it's giving you the experience that gets to go on your resume. That's correct, of, of, of, of what you've you've done, your experience. And there's another girl we'll talk about when we talk about this another time. Um, but, guys, there's just example after example after example of what this particular program, celebration Dance Festival, is doing for young dancers who are making that transition from high school to college and then into their professional careers, right, so keep that in mind. We would love to have you a celebration dance festcom. You're going to start there and then, once you kind of get signed up and registered on her side, you'll come over to our side and I can tell you that, um, the, the room and ticket and the, the workshop fees and the transportation that is needed, it's all included in guys. It's very, very reasonable priced. You're not going to pay a monthly mortgage booking Gosh, that was. That was like a half a year's worth of monthly mortgage booking under this event for something that your dancers truly going to take into the future with them. Okay, so we talked about Halloween hard nights and how me and Mike went and did all that, and we talked about your Mickey's not so scary and all those things. So I had said I don't know if I said it on the show I need to stop doing that Cause. Then we changed our mind, right, or if I said it after the show, but what I wanted to do was I wanted to. I had ideas in my head for future Halloween horror night houses, but if you do these houses universal. If you're listening to me, if you do these houses, you need my input on how to scare people. Obviously because your scare tactics are repetitive and people get used to them and look, I know y'all two are never going to get used to them, but I want to be scared I want to get startled and scared at a Halloween horror night. So I was like, okay, so what we're going to do is we're going to talk about how many did you come up with to me? I'm just the one, okay, and Mike had one, and I have a small list. So we're going to talk about the house, house themes or movie bases We'd like to see a house created from. And, mike, I'm going to make you go first.
Speaker 3:Kujo is that the dog? I wish you guys could see her face.
Speaker 2:No, they got behind a storm door and the dogs coming at you.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, you'd be behind the storm door and the dog comes at you and he's on the door and the door's like pushing through the mouth. Okay, I almost didn't survive the weekend house.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That would be dead, dana, right there. Dana would be dead on the floor my heart is racing, just thinking about that.
Speaker 2:I don't think they've done it. I don't think they've done anything like that Dana.
Speaker 3:Dana has a huge fear of four legged animals. I can't help it. I don't want to be afraid she's that little dogs, but for some reason I'm just literally terrified.
Speaker 1:But this ain't a cute little dog. No, this ain't no cute little dog.
Speaker 2:No Fomy.
Speaker 1:I want to eat your face off. Yes, wow, what a topic to go from dance to dance. This is a weird show.
Speaker 2:Just like normal.
Speaker 1:That's like truly terrified. See, you're the first one You've got something there. You've got a real fear that people deal with in the form of a movie you could put in a house. I'm sure Mike has additional ideas of what else should go into this house. If you've got one, say it, because I see your head turning.
Speaker 2:Are you talking about Kujo as Kujo? Well, yeah, I mean you could have the hole that he sticks his head down inside of and it gets bit by the bat.
Speaker 1:You can make people go through the car. The car. Yeah, that's the thing I remember, the most is the car scene yeah, because I don't think I could watch much of that.
Speaker 3:I've seen parts of it. Is that what scarred you for life?
Speaker 1:Oh no the being chased scarred me for life but I'm sure the movie didn't help.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh why you? Could have a full car there and have a dog come towards the you could. I could never do it, it would be amazing.
Speaker 3:It would be amazing.
Speaker 2:Would it be a real dog? Yeah, no, a real dog, but Universal do not put Just find one with rabies and put him in there.
Speaker 1:A human in a dog outfit, a dog costume like you get the. Chuckie, don't do that that was so dumb.
Speaker 2:A six foot tall Chuckie doll coming at you, you're like what's not Chuckie, that's not Chuckie.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you can't put a human in a doll costume. You're gonna have to come up with some really good animatronics.
Speaker 2:So I wanted to go first because I was afraid y'all might take mine So-.
Speaker 1:Yes, no I would never go there.
Speaker 3:When was that made? Is that was the? 80s right yeah see, I was too young.
Speaker 1:That's why I picked 90s.
Speaker 2:No, I'm like I don't do scary movies. It's just not my-. It's not a scary movie, though. It's a real movie, big difference.
Speaker 3:Who did?
Speaker 2:this. It's something that you could happen to you going out your back door. It could, I mean, you give a day they could knock down your front door.
Speaker 1:This is why Dana gets herself locked in the garage because she don't walk to her car outside. She goes through the closed garage.
Speaker 2:Same thing, sister. We're going to get a Saint Bernard.
Speaker 1:Yes, we already got two great ains. Why not?
Speaker 2:We're gonna bring them in here every day.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I gotta get out of here. Well, since I have so many, let me go next, and then I'll let Erica go.
Speaker 3:I knew you'd have a whole list.
Speaker 1:You gotta have this one, though, so the very first thing, because we talked about that. I've told y'all about the movie the Changeling. Of course that's on my list. We'll get that off the list right now. But the first thing that popped through my mind when I was like, what could Universal do? Was they need the Crypt Keeper, as their host, like the Dr Dolittle dude was this year was it the change, dolittle it's not Doom Oddfellow. Oddfellow, I don't like Dolittle.
Speaker 3:See, I wanna go instead of ODD.
Speaker 1:I wanna go D-O-O with that name for some reason. So, but the Crypt Keeper. But they've done it before, so I'm kinda bummed that I missed that because I wasn't super familiar with Halloween Horror Nights until recent years. So I want y'all to do the Crypt Keeper again because I love him. You remember when Steve from the Blues Clues announced that he was leaving, had this cute little video that went viral. The Crypt Keeper also went viral because he was my bedtime storyteller was the Crypt Keeper. He came on all the time at like 11 o'clock at night.
Speaker 3:I remember that. I do remember that.
Speaker 1:And he would tell the bedtime story, which was always this spooky little 30 minute story on TV, and you go to bed to that. So I would prefer the Crypt Keeper to make a reappearance at Halloween Horror Nights. I love him. I would also like an opportunity to meet and greet him with photos, so please, of course you would so with. That said, because when I Googled it it had already been done, so that made me have to really get specific, but I came up with some that just have not been done, and these are some of the most iconic horror movies on the face of the planet. The first place I'm going and this would be an outdoor house. It needs to be outdoor. Children of the Corn, oh.
Speaker 2:I didn't even think about that one. That's good too. That's better than Cooju.
Speaker 3:Children of the Corn. Two girls at the end of the hallway right, yes, and you the whole outdoor house is a corn maze.
Speaker 2:Oh God, no, absolutely not. Two girls at the hallway no, that's shining.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's a shine. I don't know these things Because I don't watch TV. They've done that one because I looked for that one too.
Speaker 2:Children of the Corn is terrifying.
Speaker 1:Is that all the blonde kids.
Speaker 2:They're just yes.
Speaker 1:That live in the field.
Speaker 2:Live in the field, the corn field? Absolutely not.
Speaker 1:No way.
Speaker 2:I'm with Erica. All you gotta have is a corn field and some weird looking kids. It would just be a corn maze.
Speaker 1:But they're not gonna make it a maze because they gotta push you through time wise right. But you're going through the path, through the corn field until you get to the center, where they've got the the big cross is set up there, Corn sweat, I'm sweating. They're like worshiping the devil, or whatever they were doing in that movie. So yeah, Children of the Corn is my first.
Speaker 3:Wow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a doozy.
Speaker 1:All right, erica your turn.
Speaker 3:So I did 90s and from what I could tell they're these have not been done at Universal, the Kraft. Oh yeah, cause that was me and high, that was us in high school, like my whole generation, the class 2000. Kraft was. There was a new girl at like a Catholic prep school and like she gets with this trio and they practice like witchcraft.
Speaker 1:Oh, I have seen that. Yeah, everything yeah.
Speaker 3:I haven't seen the movie all the way through because it was too scary for me.
Speaker 1:Because I'm a baby.
Speaker 3:That is something that I think would really really well to like the millennials. Like the Kraft and then the Blair Witch Project.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Oh.
Speaker 3:I did see that that would be so easy to imagine that's a good idea Outdoor.
Speaker 1:I know why they do it inside cause it stays so bright outside? Children of the Corn. It didn't have to be dark, because the majority of that movie was set in the daytime but for the Blair. Witch, it would have to be inside Blair Witch Project.
Speaker 3:I did see all the way through it. Look at the woods inside, just like they did that, that campground, thing, oh the campground was cool, the Yeti was cool.
Speaker 1:I could choose the Yeti box to do the Blair Witch Project. It's already set up.
Speaker 2:That would be cool. That's true Cause. That movie was terrifying.
Speaker 1:So that's what I got. Okay, was that all of yours, that's all mine, Dana, did you have one at all? Okay, well here's the thing. So in case you didn't hear last, the last show, dana's more of the not so scary Cause. Like in that last podcast Dana talked about the other theme park, mickey's not so scary Halloween party, because Dana has done Halloween Horror Nights that one time and totally scared to death, so not the biggest fan. I only did that one house and I almost didn't survive the weekend.
Speaker 2:So we almost all died on the weekend. That was the scariest one I've been.
Speaker 3:It was all of them.
Speaker 1:So like, yeah, super scary horror, that's not really my thing. So when Jana said you gotta think of something, and she mentioned, well, think of something that's like already sort of there, well, the obvious choice is something Harry Potter Well, who's the creepo, creepiest, scariest dude in Harry Potter but Baltimore? So somehow now I don't think along like Mike's kind of got ideas about how to set his Cujo house up, but like on the the Green Guts Bank ride where there's the scene with him. I mean, take, take from that, he's right there. In that I have ideas. Then See, okay, why don't they just take the entire area there that like the, the part of the park that that one is the what's that? Diagon alley? It's always kind of creepy, so take Diagon alley the entire portion of the park and make the house walk through there. The sets already there. That's a good idea All you do is add the scare factor to it and you could add a lot of magic being shot through the air.
Speaker 3:Can you imagine going? Through Nocturne alley, yes, it's dark in there.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it's pitch black in the middle of the day in.
Speaker 2:Florida Dark alley.
Speaker 1:But they could do the whole thing, yes, and if they want to get really fun, they could force you onto a ride as you pass them, so it could be this entire experience. You could even charge extra for this house at Universal because it's going to be a walk through attraction. It's all one way. I would say keep the shops closed because you don't want people to check it out and stay there, so make it a house and either incorporate the rides or don't. But you could force them through because there's two entries and exits. You could force them through and out and, like I said, the sets already done, you would just be adding in the element of scary things.
Speaker 2:I'm really surprised they don't do that anyway, because we walked in there and it was just like back to whatever it was it didn't feel Halloween-y or nothing, except those weird guys who were walking past us, the deaf leaders.
Speaker 1:But this would need to be a little bit more scary than Harry. Potter Kid movie.
Speaker 2:Correct. Oh my gosh, yeah, you gotta amp it up.
Speaker 3:Pour it up some Because that dude is that?
Speaker 1:dude is his wicked evil. You know who scares me more than him.
Speaker 3:Are you going to say Snape, bellatrix? Oh no, I lost Snape.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, so yeah.
Speaker 3:Bellatrix, she scares me. She did that so well.
Speaker 1:Well, you got to bring in the spider element too.
Speaker 3:There you go.
Speaker 1:Because there's so many weird creepy things in Harry Potter that they could bring in like that big forest of spiders or whatever it was Like. You could do so many things and make that super scary in line with Halloween.
Speaker 3:So it's like we're giving them a great idea. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:I will take all royalty, ideal royalties for that, please. Absolutely. I prefer silver to gold, if that matters. So okay, I prefer annual passes, thanks or cash. Well, maybe we should take cold heart cash, ideally cash. Anyways. So I had three more. Y'all Dang, I knew you would. I was like there's so many things you could do.
Speaker 2:Well, we had a bunch of them and then they've already been done. They've been done. The church has been a block. That's been done.
Speaker 1:Like I was like yeah, let's do some houses, let's be scared, right. So, speaking of spiders, how about arachnophobia? No way.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I'd like that one.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I'm not scared of spiders. I just don't know how to breathe with that thing.
Speaker 1:I hate spiders, and it's not that I'm scared of a spider. They gross me out. When I see it, I wanna puke. That's my problem with spiders. But in that I'm not going to smash and kill a spider because it makes me want to throw up. So I always make Mike do it. Mike can get the spider. I can't stand.
Speaker 2:And that's one thing I don't like about the thing. They do have good going with the haunted houses. They got like little fishing line.
Speaker 1:Yes. And you just feel like something's crawling on them Correct, so gross and you could have a room of itty-bitty spiders hanging from that fishing line and then fishing line with nothing on it so you can't see it touching you. Oh no, just have a real spider you could have a giant spider somewhere in it, like coming out and crawling. It would be. I'm surprised Jenna's talking about spiders like this, it'd be super cool, I talk about spiders.
Speaker 2:It's Christmas time.
Speaker 3:Why are you talking about scary things? I?
Speaker 1:want a Halloween Horror Night house. That is scary. I mean, don't get me wrong, I had a great time at both Halloween Horror Nights that I did. They're super fun, you're with friends, everybody's just the energy is up and all that, but I wasn't scared. Scare me. I want a house that's scary. Maybe we need to find these people over here off McMurtry Road that put them goat heads on the sticks and let them input too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that only lasted for a year or two, ok.
Speaker 1:The next one is kind of obvious. This is one of the most famous horror movies and true life horror stories that ever was, and that is the Conjuring.
Speaker 3:Oh, I was going to say Poltergeist. They've already done Poltergeist. Oh, they have. I don't know.
Speaker 1:So the Conjuring there's a Conjuring house up north, yes, and this family moved in with these four girls a mom, dad and four girls and the Warrens Ed and Lorraine Warren who at that time were people. They were ghost hunters and they were demonologists and things like that, and in the 50s and 60s people didn't like that right, but when people had something happening in their home, that is who got called. So they went all over the Northeast investigating people's homes. But those are the report in here where the mom was lifted up out of her seat in the kitchen in the middle of a seance they were doing and then thrown across the floor. The girls were like hearing footsteps in their room and they would see things and they were being touched. So there's all kinds of stuff you could do. Now, I know that in something like this they would not be able to bring in the touch element, but universal scare actors get so close to you, they might as well touch you. They may as well, but it could be done without the sensation of touch. I think there's other things you could do Like you've got smell, you've got sound, you've got feel without touching, like puffs of air and things like that, that you could bring in to the conjuring house and just really scare somebody. So this would kind of harken back to a witchcraft type and spiritual demon type house. There's no blood and gore, it's just scary, it's creepy.
Speaker 3:So the conjuring house that's the house that I told you about. That was on that TikTok with the friends that took their Tesla to the cemetery that's around the real conjuring house, and the screen was showing all these people walking around the cemetery and they're filming on their phones like, oh my god what is happening right now. There's nobody there and then, all of a sudden, all of the people got into the car and then whether it's real or not, I don't know, but it scares me.
Speaker 1:So and then the very last one I had if you grew up in the 70s 80s, you are Gen X related aged child you should have a thought about this, the very first thing that crossed your head when you think about a theme for a haunted house, and that's going to be probably one of the most famous 80s horror movie on the face of the planet the Amityville horror. Oh gosh.
Speaker 2:I don't think I've ever seen it.
Speaker 1:I know I haven't. How have you not seen the Amityville horror?
Speaker 2:I'm not into these 70s and 80s.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, they're the best ones. They're the best ones, Cause these days it's all gore and blood and guts. It's like okay, this is ignorant. No, I don't. I want a ghost. I want something that can't be explained.
Speaker 3:I want something that can't be seen. That's a real story.
Speaker 1:Even if it's a made up story, it needs to be something along the lines of supernatural stuff that you can't explain. You can't control things like that. So Amityville horror you could have the basement scene where it's all red, where the spirit apparently came from. You could have the facade of the house where it looks like the two windows were the eyes. You could have the room where the flies are all in the windows. But this one is where the story is. Is that the son or the dad? Was it the son or the dad? It's the son. The oldest son of the house was staying in the basement and was possessed and killed his family with an ax. So there is going to be a little blood and gore in this Because that's the story of it, but you could do so much with that. So much with that, okay.
Speaker 2:There's so many at it Universal Studios Orlando.
Speaker 1:you need to contact Janice Smith. Ha, ha, ha ha.
Speaker 3:To put her on the payroll, the woman needs to be on your team. I swear.
Speaker 1:Put her on the payroll, I swear You're missing out. You saw how a mom of two little kids would decorate for a birthday party when my kids were little. I turned our back deck into an entire pirate ship y'all, an entire pirate ship. The theming on a limited budget for what I was doing was incredible. I had a reputation for my kids' birthday parties. One time we did a Clifford the Big Red Dog Birthday Party and they were served dog food in their dog bowls. It was Cocoa Puffs, love it. Those kids wouldn't eat it Cause they thought it was dog food.
Speaker 2:One kid was crying.
Speaker 1:I was like it's a Cocoa Puff, you little brat. So, anyways, like I, just there's so many things that my mom gets so creative when it comes to, like sets and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:Look at the story. Y'all you should see it. Look at the story.
Speaker 1:So it's just like I can do these things. I have ideas. I just don't always have a universal Orlando budget. So if they would like to work with me, man, I'm more than happy. Jenny Smith, give me some free tickets and let's do this Main Street Travel. Yeah, hendersonville, tennessee. With that said, I guess that's Mike moving us into our last segment.
Speaker 2:It just sounded like a good advertisement for your new production.
Speaker 1:So where are we at? On Tom.
Speaker 2:We are at 45 minutes.
Speaker 1:Okay, so let's take. Do you think you can get through both of those in 15 minutes, or should we split them?
Speaker 3:Both I have Jollywood nights, is that all?
Speaker 1:you got, I have wine.
Speaker 3:Okay, I was told wine, I was told Jollywood.
Speaker 1:So what we want to do is kind of detail out Jollywood nights, mickey's very merry Christmas party and then Christmas at Universal, the Grinch. We want to detail these things out for you guys. But in the midst of us planning for this podcast segment, we got spontaneous, the bug bit us and we booked a trip. Yay. So for my birthday weekend we are going to Disney and Universal and we're going to do specifically Mickey's very merry Christmas party. I was trying to say Halloween party, yeah don't say that. Mickey's very merry Christmas party. Then we also got tickets for the brand new Jollywood nights. So we are not sure what to expect from there. And then we also are going to go over to Universal for the day to do all things Universal. We're trying to get figure out a way to see the Grinch Visiting the Grinch. You got two options you can do just meet him, a meet and greet, which is kind of what I want to do. I want to do his meet and greet, because I've seen videos of both activities here and I really want that specific meet and greet. But you can only do it on a virtual queue and we're staying on Disney property, not Universal property, so we might not get this. So I was like, okay, well, let's guarantee we see the Grinch and let's book the Grinchmas Christmas breakfast, which is also a character meal, with a Grinch sold out. I'm going to watch that and I think I'm going to call and say you know, tell me how cancellations work here, so I can make the call at the right time for to catch, possibly, a cancellation there. So, either way, our goal is to see the Grinch. If not, I know there are many other things at Universal which we will talk about, probably next show, because we do want to detail these shows out for you, but today, by the way, fergie, you said that next time I come down when we weren't doing work things you want to see. That's what we're doing. So I think the Christmas party is now sold out. I think it's sold out the night we purchased it. Oh, did it really?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I actually told Jenna do we have to do it today, can't we do it tomorrow? Yeah, I was like how's?
Speaker 1:more. It's going to sell out because the dates prior to were sold out. So, fergie, if you want to come, we are going to plan to be in the parks during the day regardless. We're definitely going to do resort tours so we can see all the Christmas stuff at the resorts, but we will be going into Magic Kingdom non-party and party. So is Jollywood sold out for the next night?
Speaker 3:There's three nights that are sold out so far as of today, as of this morning Saturday November 11th, saturday November 18th and Saturday December 16th.
Speaker 1:Look into our dates though you don't have to say the date if you don't want to, but Our day is available, okay. So, fergie, I will send you the date if you want to come down and hang out with us, amy Ferguson.
Speaker 2:Oh, why do you call her Fergie?
Speaker 1:Because we always call her Fergie, because that's fun. Harle Tedlin was Fergie. It was delicious. Oh, was it yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought it was Amy Ferguson.
Speaker 1:No, it was Amy Ferg, and then we kind of was like Fergie. So, yeah, how do you not remember this? I don't know, amy, he forgot you.
Speaker 3:Oh, wow, you're right. The night that we're going to very merry is sold out.
Speaker 1:It's sold out. Yeah, wow, anyways, that's what we're doing.
Speaker 2:It's gonna be packed Hush Mike.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be so fun.
Speaker 2:No cookies for you, that's right, I'll go buy something from the store.
Speaker 1:He'll cook you some Christmas cakes you won't have nearly. Well, that is a good idea.
Speaker 2:I'm not going.
Speaker 1:I know it's my birthday and he won't even go with me, red.
Speaker 2:That's the reason We've got two old, far dogs.
Speaker 1:We've got a really really old great dane who is having issues. So that's why he's not going, because the kennel will no longer take him. So what? Because he got up there last time and pretended he was dead. Yeah, and it scared them, and so they called us and we're in Orlando. There's actually, we were in Turks and Caicos. That was nothing we could do about it, so anyway, okay so tell us about Jollywood, because Jollywood is new. This year.
Speaker 3:We're new this year.
Speaker 1:And the only thing I know is I'm seeing photos coming out of it that they want you to dress up kind of flapper-ish and I'm not doing that. So I'm gonna have all my jeans and I'm gonna have on a t-shirt and we're gonna go enjoy Jollywood. So what else is there in what's gonna be? What's it gonna consist of?
Speaker 3:So it looks I mean, from everything that we've read about Jollywood and what we've seen come out from the first few parties here is it's a special ticketed event, like Very Mary, so you can't just waltz in with a regular park ticket. It's from 8.30pm to 12.30 in the morning. You get entrance into Hollywood Studios at 7 and it looks to be I don't want to say like it's adult centered, but it's a lot of stuff for adults. There is stuff for kids and whatnot, but it's very old Hollywood glamour, which is I look at it as like holiday dapper day, yes that's a good analogy. Holiday dapper day like that. I don't want to say like roaring twenties flapper, but like forties era, maybe early fifties glam, you know, when women wore gloves and you know had their hair pinned and whatnot. But it looks like it's, it looks like a lot of fun. I'm really stoked that we're doing this. I mean there's a sing along with Jack Skellington which I know you don't care about Jack Skellington, but I do and he's there and we're gonna have a sing along with him to Nightmare Before Christmas. Jingle Bell, jingle Bam is there. It's only going to be during Jollywood nights or stuff with the Muppets. Oh that's fun.
Speaker 2:I know the.
Speaker 1:Muppets. There's so much stuff.
Speaker 3:There's going to be DJs and we're going to the tip talk club. You guys?
Speaker 1:Yes, I did know that there's a tip top club. Let's clarify something, though, because I saw somebody online talking about this especially if you're a travel agent and this was a travel agent oh boy, there is not a real club at the top of the Tower of Terror. Wait, it's a projection, it is a projection that was put up there just as a storyline. There's not a club at the top of the tower, that is a rod. It is not a club. They are going to create the tip top club on ground level in the garden area of the rod cue. Please don't go around spreading false information to people who have never been before and then they go and look like a fool when they can't get to the top of the tower, to the club, because it doesn't exist. This is the first year there's actually going to be a physical representation of the tip top club in the form of basically a dessert party in the garden area of the ride queue for Tower of Terror. On the ground, your feet will be on the concrete and under that concrete is the dirt of the earth.
Speaker 3:Okay, the way to put it yes.
Speaker 1:It's on the ground, it's in the courtyard.
Speaker 3:It's not at the top level, if you need to go any further down.
Speaker 1:You're going to be underground with the dead zombies from Halloween hard nights. There you go. Oh, is that where they live in the off season there's tunnels all over Orlando.
Speaker 3:That's true. Everybody knows this.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, that's just where the scary people go, yeah.
Speaker 3:But I mean at the tip top club there it's in the courtyard of the Hollywood Tower Hotel you can sip cocktails and there's going to be a live band and little treats that you can buy, and I already.
Speaker 1:It's by reservation only, though. You have to get a reservation. Yes, it is.
Speaker 3:Capacity is limited. Hollywood Brown Derby is doing something that you're going to have to join the walk up list.
Speaker 1:Well, I think this is a. It's a walk up list, but you can't just walk in, you have to. It's limited capacity. I've already read this and you might walk up and get it. You might not. I think it's on a reservation. I just don't know how to go about getting that reservation. If it's a day of, or it's prior, I want to say it's day of.
Speaker 3:It's day of yeah, there's nothing prior.
Speaker 1:Because there's only so much space in that courtyard area. So, and you got to think, people who get in there and enjoy it and don't want to leave because of the theme of the lobby of the Tower of Terror is right in line with this 40s, 50s type style that they have going on here, your holiday stuff.
Speaker 3:So yeah, and then, like I was saying over at the Brown Derby, there's a mobile walk up list that you can use through the app to get on. That's the only way you're going to be able to get in is to get on that list. So you check in. It's called Jazzy Holidays at the Hollywood Brown Derby. So you, you get on the list and then call your name when you know your table is ready and everything, and then you go ahead and go inside. It's a lot of cocktails, it's a lot of treats, kind of like very merry. You know they've already put out a pocket guide for it and everything. There is a cookie that I'm so excited. I don't even care how it tastes Like, it's just so cute. I just want it for pictures.
Speaker 1:It's Gertie, it's Gertie. Oh yeah, where did the dinosaur?
Speaker 3:It's like a sugar cookie and it's Gertie with the mint icing on it, it's just so she's wearing a little hat, of course.
Speaker 2:It's just so cute.
Speaker 3:I need it so much I need it. So, yeah, I already have. Like I said, we're doing all things Christmas because you're a Christmas girl and we're going for your birthday and I've got a map, because why wouldn't I? And the best way to hit all these trees at the resorts and the gingerbread houses and everything. But we'll go at your pace.
Speaker 1:I think we should try to get into the tip top club.
Speaker 3:Oh for sure we're absolutely doing that and this jazzy thing I'm gonna try to do if we're there for five minutes.
Speaker 1:I want to try to get in and do and see all the things at this event.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it looks like a lot of fun. The videos from the first couple of nights have already come out and whatnot and gives a good idea and I think that's pretty important to you. Like, you want an element of surprise, especially if it's your first time or something new like this, but you need to kind of have an idea of where things are.
Speaker 1:to maximize your time, we need to start really looking for reports and stories from these people who've done it, to see how we get into the tip top club because I want to do that Speaking of my son will be going to Jolly with Nights till we get her Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2:We need to know all the details, all the details.
Speaker 1:The job of getting us. I've already told him he's got to get me great videos.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Because he's a blogger slash vlogger, so he's, he's Go ahead and say his channel.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's Disney my Way, it's his podcast Disney my Way, and so, anyway, we could also make sure he knows those two little tidbits and see what he can find out for us while he's there and give us a heads up. So, yeah, I'm most excited on this trip. First of all, jollywood is new and I wasn't really interested in it and I was like you got to go see it, what's your career? You have to go see this right. So but now that I've read more into it and I'm seeing kind of the things and the snacks coming out, I'm actually a little bit more excited for it than I was before, cause I had no interest. I just I'm not. I like my jeans and my T-shirts, y'all. I worked for attorneys for a long time and I do not. I got into a position where I sell vacations and I don't want to dress up for nothing. I want to go to a beach. I'm not going to wear a suit at the beach. I'm not going to wear a dress to the beach. I want to go to a theme park where you don't wear. You can wear a dress, but you don't have to. The point is is when I see anything that requires me to dress up, I'm immediately turned off by it, even if it's dress up for fun. I don't even want to put on a Halloween costume anymore. I just want to be comfortable in what I'm wearing.
Speaker 3:So what about Christmas jammies?
Speaker 1:I'll wear Christmas jammies. Okay, we're getting some. Wear Dana, get in the car. We're going on here we go, here we go Yay. Okay, we're making progress, we're doing big things over here.
Speaker 3:Look at us, I know right Not excited.
Speaker 1:So, whereas I think that they came up with the perfect theme for a new party at Hollywood Studios, it just seems like they absolutely nailed it, and if that's your vibe which I don't know that, anybody, I don't know that I've really heard anybody say they hate the vibe at Hollywood Studios. No, I don't hate the vibe, whether that's your favorite thing or not, it's just so cool and fun. Well, I love the old Hollywood themes yes, when I see that's going to be a ton of old Hollywood type events, yes, I'm just not going to dress up like it, but I do want to go see that. And so where I was, in contrast, you've got Mickey's very Merry Christmas party at Magic Kingdom. That is. It's a classic. Magic Kingdom is classical, basic what everybody thinks of when they think of what. Disney World and the party fulfills that in a Christmas sense honestly. And then you've got Festival of the Holidays over at Epcot, which then also fulfills a travel element, because when you go into each country you're getting a taste of the Christmas culture in that country. In UK, you got Papa Noel right, or is that France? I think that's France.
Speaker 3:I think it might be France.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you've got different things and that's something I want to do too. I would like to see Epcot on this trip because I like to go and watch and if you guys are there during the November through into December timeframe, go to Epcot and watch their version of Santa Claus, come out and talk about the story of Christmas in that country, and then they'll have treats in that country and the little oh good Lord I used to know the fun stops, the Epcot fun stops for the little kids, Were they doing.
Speaker 2:They were called fun stops.
Speaker 1:There are. I haven't had a little kid do that in so long it's really good, but the little craft there is also in line with the story of that country for Christmas. So it's funny how Disney hits it in three spots that are just really good at. Third being, this year, Jollywood. It's in theme with the park, but it's also something very interesting, Absolutely that a lot of people are going to draw to you Now they don't have to do anything. Animal Kingdom I don't know what they would do, but I don't need an animal full Christmas. Yeah, I mean there's a few extra things in Animal Kingdom, but it's not going to have the biggest draw and I think it would be a little bit harder to do any type of party there anyway, I think the few little things they do are just enough there.
Speaker 3:Well, plus too, at EPCOT you have candlelight Perseccional. Yeah, we're going to be doing that.
Speaker 1:We're going to try to catch that too, even if we're on the back row standing up. You know, speaking of candlelight perseccional. If you're listening and you have a choir student or you are a director of a choir, you can take your choir to Disney and they can apply to perform in candlelight perseccional. We took a choir who did that pre-COVID and since COVID they haven't let anybody in yet. I think they're just now opening it up for next year for public groups to come back in, but the year we went, kurt Russell was the narrator for that and we're backstage with Kurt Russell. You weren't allowed to speak to him, you weren't allowed to take any photos. But the point being is, if you're going down with a group like this and you're a chaperone or you're a director, the director probably wants to be out to watch the show, but you're going to put your chaperones backstage because actually a lot of kids get on this stage and I guess they lock their knees and they get hot from the lights and they just start dropping light flies.
Speaker 2:So you've got it does.
Speaker 1:So you've got to have a representative from your school, be it a chaperone or director or whatnot, to sit back there.
Speaker 2:You see people disappearing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, in the event a person goes down and then they assist them off stage and then you care for them. The year we went it was funny the group we were with every single chaperone under that group. They brought something down with them.
Speaker 3:They really did they all got sick.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, every one of them were in their rooms and I had just happened to bring down a few extra agents because we were training, and then this group came and they were still there as the group was. So I'm calling these people who are training parts over, and I'm calling these people saying, hey, I need you guys, I need bodies over here, can you assist? And then we all became the chaperones for this group. So we were it was me and Dana and Amber, we were backstage during this processional acting as the chaperone for these kids, and that's how we got to see Kurt Russell and he came over and he talked hey, what's the weather today? How hot is it out there? And of course he was decked out. I bet he was sweating. Oh, he had to have been. Bullets on that stage, cause he had the scarf on and everything.
Speaker 3:It looked very nice.
Speaker 1:He looked the part. But he is no taller than I am. Oh yeah, he's, I'm five foot three.
Speaker 3:He was no taller than me. I've heard that.
Speaker 1:So, but it's funny. Speaking of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, his wife, you see them around those parks more often than not. We've seen them at space two, 20. We've seen them walking to the park.
Speaker 3:Same thing with John Stamos who is gonna be there this year?
Speaker 1:Oh, I'll go just say, I know, I'll go, just say he's always there and you just see him sitting around like in a dining room having a meal or walking in line for a ride. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:I mean look at all that Disney stuff that Kurt Russell did when he was super, super joy with like Donnie Offman and stuff we had a.
Speaker 1:Maysuit Travel is an authorized Disney vacation planner and Disney has summits for us yearly and we had went to a summit a year before last. I believe I haven't done them in a couple of years, but we went to the one year before last and he was the guest speaker there. They brought Kurt Russell in and he has a lot of wands. Yeah, what's is it? It's Goldie. What's the name of his wands? I forgot.
Speaker 3:Gosh, that would be a great name.
Speaker 1:Oh gosh, it had something to do with his, with Goldie Hawn, if I remember Erica's Googling it, but he sat there Goji, goji, goji, wands, so. But he sat there talking about not only his wands but his history as a child working with Walt Disney, and how he would get out of school and go to the studios and they would. He'd do his parts and everything, but he'd help with homework and Walt Disney or somebody was out there helping him with his batting for baseball.
Speaker 2:Cause it was like on, it was on, it was on parted be a professional baseball player and they wanted him to do acting. So he was doing practicing baseball and acting at the same time.
Speaker 1:Yeah so Wild, it was really cool.
Speaker 2:So when you get the opportunity, I think he hurt himself and that's why he went the acting career.
Speaker 1:I think it is too, but when you get the opportunity to sit in any room with anybody who has history with the Walt Disney Company, be it an Imagineer, be it an actor, be it anybody, cause I mean gosh, we've got to sit and meet with so many people Michael Broggy, which was the son of what his dad is, the one who created the trains at Disneyland, the steam trains, so Michael Broggy, and then Bob Gurre and Margaret Kerry, who I'm still friends with her on Facebook, and Terry Hardin and we had all these people in LTD years ago too. Who else did we have?
Speaker 2:The shot, bob Iger. We didn't have Bob Iger.
Speaker 1:However I did actually actually it wasn't Bob Iger. Who did I call that day, cause we were talking about doing a legends cruise. Who did I call and I spoke? I don't think it was Bob Iger, but whoever was in that place in the Michael Eisner who was there between 2008 and 2012? That's who I spoke to. That's not Michael Eisner Lane. Who was it son? Lane so anyways, I don't remember. It's funny how that's the one name I don't remember, but he didn't know Walt Disney. So, um, and then the Sherman brothers, which was that? That was a magical magical for me. Yet to talk to talk to one of them, and then 2012 Bob Iger. Okay, Then I spoke to Bob Iger. What so, what not? But anyways um.
Speaker 2:Eisner was before him right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but he was ousted prior to Bob Iger, like there was somebody in between them, wasn't there?
Speaker 1:I don't remember. But the point being is it doesn't have to be an actor, an actress, a celebrity. Those people have great stories too. But the people who worked side by side, hand in hand, with Walt Disney are those imaginers and they're now Disney legends. And if you get the opportunity to ever sit and talk to a Disney legend, take it. Take it all day long, every single day, because that's where the true heart and the stories are coming from. Don't get me wrong. Kurt Russell had amazing personal one-on-one experiences with Walt Disney and the and the acting and all that. But those imaginers worked with him in a different way in creating these parks and the, the stories and the ideas and the way that that Walt Disney, the man just um, ran his business and created in his head and just looked at them and expected them to figure it out, but they did. Yep, so um, that's what's super cool when you run across any kind of Disney legend. I know Bob Gerr is very active and he still runs around and he has all the things, as does Margaret Kerry. Margaret Kerry modeled with Marilyn Monroe when she was in her early, early twenties and she posted about that on Facebook and told the stories with photos of her modeling with Marilyn Monroe. So these people also have histories of their own, outside of Disney, that are just fascinating. But look up those two people, specifically look up Terry Hardin there's there's some great stories to be told. So, um, we are over an hour, so let's leave this off here. We'll pick it up next week, but I do want to do this and I'm going to put it on here and I'm not going to mark it off my list because I have a different idea. Okay, let's go ahead and talk about, um, all the other, the two other things Festival of the Holidays and Mickey's Very Merry, but I also want to talk about Christmas at Universal Orlando. Um, because there's there's uh, for me there's a big draw for that, but I don't know a ton about it, and since we're about to go do it, let's learn all the things so we don't miss anything.
Speaker 2:Okay, that sounds awesome. Yeah, I'll need to bring a microphone down there. Oh, and I got one more thing.
Speaker 1:What? Oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Um, we're thinking about putting doing YouTube with this.
Speaker 1:So he wants to set up a camera somewhere and record.
Speaker 2:There are probably like two of them.
Speaker 1:Recording the podcast and put it on YouTube Switching back.
Speaker 3:That would be fine.
Speaker 1:So it'd be the same thing. We're just going to be waving at a camera and they can see your facial expression when Mike says when Mike says Kujo for uh y'all miss that. I'm sorry. Anyways, all right, happy Monday everybody. I hope you all have an amazing week and we will talk to you again next week. Bye, bye.