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A Big Week at Disneyland - GEEKS CORNER - Episode #772
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Jul 16, 2025
Welcome to Geeks Corner! This week, the Geeks talk a lot about what is going on at Disneyland during the week of its 70th anniversary! The biggest part of this is the new show, Walt Disney - A Magical Life, in the Opera House and its accompanying exhibit. Mr. Daps talks about his experience during the media preview for this show and exhibit, along with his thoughts and feelings. The Geeks also talk about some other new things at Disneyland this week. The show wraps up with a discussion about Disney's Emmy Award nominations. During the comments section of the show, things go a bit off the rails talking about BBQ. We hope you enjoy this week's episode of Geeks Corner! We also hope you will join the conversation in the comments! We'll see you 'round the corner! THE WEEK IN GEEK Full Tour of Opera House Including Evolution of a Dream and Walt Disney - A Magical Life https://dapsmagic.com/2025/07/photos-video-take-a-comprehensive-tour-of-the-opera-house-evolution-of-a-dream-exhibit-walt-disney-a-magical-life/ FIRST LOOK: Walt Disney’s Speech During Walt Disney - A Magical Life https://dapsmagic.com/2025/07/first-look-full-walt-disney-speech-during-walt-disney-a-magical-life/ New Plaque Installed in Town Square Honoring History of Horse-Drawn Street Car https://dapsmagic.com/2025/07/new-plaque-installed-in-town-square-honoring-history-of-horse-drawn-street-car/ Main Street Cinema Closes for Installation of Sherman Brothers Tribute https://dapsmagic.com/2025/07/main-street-cinema-closes-for-installation-of-sherman-brothers-tribute/ The Walt Disney Company Earns 137 Emmy Award Nominations https://dapsmagic.com/2025/07/disney-garners-137-emmy-award-nominations/
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Welcome to Geeks Corner. I'm Mr. Daps. I'm Katie. and we're so excited that you're here on the last Tuesday before
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the 70th official anniversary of Disneyland, which is on Thursday. You're saving that one. That's a good one.
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No, I just came up with it actually. Oh, I did not think that far ahead. Don't replay last week's intro.
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Okay, I won't. Good. I don't remember it anyway. Hi, pal.
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All right. What should people do, Katie? You should go uh Oh my god.
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Subs subscribe on YouTube. I'm still I This is All right. First thing you should do is if you're not doing it already,
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perhaps most importantly, share this and join us in the comments for the conversation because at the end of the
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show, we will be responding to questions in the comments in a section we like to call or segment we like to call
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comments. You're not supposed to take that part away from me. It's all together now.
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No, it's not. That's how it is in the notes. Um anyway, this man's like, "You didn't read the
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notes." as if like I can just the thing I've been saying on the show for the last like six years I can just change.
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But that's why I put it in the notes for you. Anyway, he thinks that we're playing an obstacle course. Let's talk about Muppets.
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Thanks, Daddy. Mr. Thank you, Mr. Daddy. Thanks, man. Daddy. Thank you, Mr. Daddy. Thanks, man.
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As has been happening throughout the entire Muppet 70th celebration as well,
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70th, right? Yeah. Uh we have been highlighting a Muppet each week. And by we, I mean the Muppet studio. And we
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have been guessing which Muppet will be highlighted. And uh so far we've not
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been super good at guessing which Muppet is going to be highlighted each week.
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And uh so this is the chance where we guess. And I see Statler and Waldorf. I see Uncle Deadly. Katie, who do you
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think this week will be the Muppet of the Week? Uh Miss Piggy, I see.
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Um, I think no. I'm gonna Have they already done Jim
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Henson Muppet? I don't think so. I'm gonna say Jim. I can't remember now.
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I'm going to say Jim Henson Muppet. Clockie will tell us if we're wrong. Um, and I'm going to go with Bobo the Bear
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cuz uh someday is going to be his day. Like I keep hoping that that he's going to get some love at some point.
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Bobo. I don't actually think it's going to be either of those though because it was Borugard this last week and so I
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feel like it has to be uh more recognizable because they kind of go back and forth. So
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we will see. It'll be interesting. It would be funny if they did something like so we have not had the Jim Henson Muppet. There we go.
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I feel like we have to have which I say that we're not going to ever get Jim Hensson Muppet. I feel like we have to get Jim Henson Muppet at some point.
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Um I would like to see Yes. I hope Bobo will have his week. I
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would like to see though like the greater like grander Muppet family also.
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So like Big Bird. Yeah, but that's not I know. I would like to see it though
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because technically they are Muppets. Yes. Like I would I think it would be a goodwill offering to um give some love
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to those friends on Sesame Street. Don't you think?
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As opposed to this guy. Welcome to Indiana's podcast. He thinks he runs the place tonight. Um,
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this is our producer who's actually really bad at his job. That is for sure. I honestly don't know how he has not
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been affected by um the cuts cuz some of the interns haven't seen some work in a
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while, but that is true. Anyway, this week has been a very busy week for DAP's Magic. Are we
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done with the Muppets? Yeah, we're done with the muppets. Yeah, because this Muppet here is doing enough on his own. Uh
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the this week has been a very busy week and this coming like couple days I guess
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we're gonna see is the world will get to see for the first time in person the
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Walt Disney audio animatronic and Walt Disney A magical life which will be opening to the public on July 17th along
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with the uh the exhibit just in the lobby actually it's the beginning and
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the exit of the uh opera house which is called Evolution of a Dream, which really is looking at Walt Disney's dream
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kind of origins, where it went, where it's going, like it it's kind of a big picture um
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big tent, I guess, like it there's lots of things you can do with this, and it it starts from the beginning and and
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moves on as you go through the experience, which really does include the exit as well. Uh we at DAPS Magic,
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some of us got a chance on Monday to check this out. And uh this is easily
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something that you can spend a good chunk of time on if you like exploring
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um like concept art and and old images and old uh animatronics and things like
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that. So, when you walk in, your first thing you're going to see, just like you used to see, you see the the uh the
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bench from Griffith Park. You see the Walt Disney walking through Sleeping Beauty Castle just like you normally
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would see. Then you hang a right and everything's different. In front of you, there's uh different Mickey years
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through the years that uh they've had from merchandise that are vintage. And then on your right, right there is
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u concept art of different iterations of what Disneyland could look like. and and as you go down the hall, it develops
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more. And then as you go around the lobby, you see that you've got uh a lot of concept art for the parks, different
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lands in the parks, there's concept art. There's different uh vintage uh
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merchandise that you can take a look at. There's a recreation of Walt's apartment
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which has um actual furniture that was in his apartment back in the day that uh
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it turns out Lily uh like to Lillian like to swap out apartment uh furniture
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occasionally. Mhm. So the wonderful thing about this is they could have a separate set. So
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you've got the stuff upstairs and you got stuff downstairs and doesn't really matter because at the end
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of the day this is all from the Walt Disney Family Museum anyway. So, it is from the Walt Disney family. It is from
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It was in the apartment at one point. And um and that's actually how a lot of this exhibit works because as you go
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further back into what was it? Oh, the dog. Um as you go further back into the
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the lobby, there is going to be a show where they were showing most recently the 50th show or the 50th
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presentation with Steve Martin and Donald Duck. Um there's gonna be another show there. That wasn't up yet when we were there, but it's coming. And then
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you go into the back half and it really goes from more um
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I don't know what to call it like more the front half I'm going to say is more conceptual and then you have the uh like
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concept art and stuff and artwork and then the back half has physical animatronics audio animatronics that
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yeah it was Once Upon a Studio um that have come from the parks. So, as you're
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walking into that back lobby where there was once the the capital building, instead of the capital building there,
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now you see this display that has different eras of audio animatronics
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through Walt's era. Mhm. So, first you see the dancing man that was kind of the the starting point for
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audio animatronics from a physical standpoint. Then you look to the right a little bit and you see um I think
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there's an alligator there. There's the uh this was actually really cool. There is a um a bird in a bird cage.
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Mhm. It's the exact one that Walt had, but not they actually went and found the
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company that made Walt's original bird cage and the bird, you know, that inspired, you know, tiki rooms and all
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that fun stuff. And um and then they found the company, then they went on
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wherever they go to find these things. And they found this old version. And I was talking to one of the Imagineers and
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they're like, "Yeah, we got it. We tried it. It worked. Like that one does work and now it's here for you to see." And
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it's the same one that Walt had. It's just not his. And uh same year, same age, all that fun stuff. It sounded like
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But the question I then asked was like, "So, what was it like that first time where you pull this thing out of a box
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and you're like, "All right, who's going to who's going to like, yeah, who does who's going to wind it up?" Because that could be a really great moment or a
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really terrible one. And then I was like, did it work? And it did work. It was really dusty apparently, but it it
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not surprising. The world worked out in terms of this little bird. Um, right below this bird cage. I'm impressed that Oh, you know
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what, guys? I was smart, too. Kind of. So, um,
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this is Here we go. There's the display I'm talking about. And right on top of
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the TV is the bird cage. That, uh, that's the same as Walts, but different.
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Um, then also on the right you'll see there's a couple tiki birds and there's the uh the um
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I don't know what to call the bird in the baskets that that sing. Um anyway, those are the birds themselves,
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the tumac. They're actually moving and and breathing and
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lifelike. And I've heard that they might be doing more in the coming days, which
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would be very cool. And I'd love to see those cylinder things.
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Tiki room that were down in the basement of the tiki room. And uh they just found
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them and preserved them. And if you look closely, there's a piece of tape you can see in this picture. And on that piece
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of tape, I think is where it says the last time that was serviced for when it still ran the tiki room, which was very
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cool. I thought that's extremely neat. Yeah. Um, on the other side of this,
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there is a uh a goose from Small World. There's a uh a little kid from Small
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World that was from I think 1965, like the original Small World. Um, I think at Disneyland. I'm spacing a little bit in
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the moment what that was. And uh there's also pirates from Pirates of the Caribbean. Like there's a couple of of
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figures and then there's also a pig. And um and uh yeah, it was the Barker Bird in
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Jose. Thank you. Uh, and I'm curious what they're going to do. But, uh, these
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these pirates were from the attractions. The pig was from the attraction, although it was originally from World of Motion and then it got moved over to our
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version of Pirates of the Caribbean, which is where I'm like, yeah, things come and go. They move. Now, the pig is
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available to be in this exhibit. Very cool. Um, and the Imagineers were very
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generous with their time and sharing this passion project, and we hadn't even gotten into the Walt Disney thing yet.
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Um the walls were filled with pictures of like there's Walt, there's all sorts of
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different people in there. There's also awards that he's received through the years and there's literally hundreds of
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them and they don't have hundreds of them in there, but there's hundreds they could choose from him. Those came from the Walt Disney Family Museum. It was
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very clearly a collaborative effort from many different um
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different parts of not just the company, but also the Walt Disney family.
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And uh and then on the back wall where they they show they've had different videos through the years like they had
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an Abraham Lincoln video there um originally that I remember but uh they have a Walt Disney bust on one side,
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they have an Abe Lincoln bust on the other side with pictures of each of them above their busts and then now they have
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um videos of people remembering Walt Disney and talking about experiences
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with him and and things like that. Like it's it's it's a nice thing. Um, a lot of the videos are ones that if you keep
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up with these kind of things, you've probably seen them before. And um, and that's okay. Like they're they're good
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because I think a lot of people haven't seen them and and they fit very well in the room. And so uh, finally we get to
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go in and we get to see uh, Walt A Magical Life. So the show starts. I'm
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going to give you a big picture of it. I'm not going to give too many like there won't be that many spoilers. Um,
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big picture is it starts with One Man's Dream, which is a show that I originally saw at Disney California. Do you ever
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see it at Disney California Adventure, Katie? I don't think so, actually. So, basically, there used to be a theater where Turtle Talk with Crush is.
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I mean, it is a theater, but it was a seating theater and there's a show called One Man Dream, which we have seen
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in Florida, I'm pretty sure. I've seen it multiple times in Florida. Okay, great. And, uh, it's actually the first place I ever saw
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it. Yeah. Was I was like 12, which is a great place to see it because there it's it's narrated by Julie
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Andrews. And here it was narrated by uh Michael Eisner kind of because it actually started with
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him in his office I think at Walt Disney Studios was where it was supposed to be like the Florida version um or Hollywood
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Studios and it was one of those very fun things that um
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uh he it very much lined up with him on
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television if you grew up in the 80s and 90s and and so then then it went into all that. Well, now it's narrated by Bob
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Iger, which the Imagineers were talking about why they chose Bob Iger, and it really came down to he's one that sits in the
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chair that Walt Disney sat in metaphorically. And there's only been a handful of people that have ever led
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this organization. And as they were going through a lot of the things that Walt talked about for coming up with
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Walt's speech, um, the future of the organization was always something that he was looking at and that was always
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something very important to him. and and so they really wanted to kind of honor
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that and and have somebody that had that same um
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responsibility and weight to carry this this show forward. So that's why they chose Bob Iger.
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Bob Iger does basically the same narration. I'm going to say 95% maybe even more that if you've seen
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the show before it's it's it's very similar. There's a few things that have been changed, whether it's uh part of
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the narration or different images and videos that are shown. In fact, I think there was a couple new ones that were
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from the Walt Disney Family Museum that were contributed for this um edit. It also looks beautiful. It's been updated.
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I feel like the last time I saw it at Walt Disney World, it was not so beautiful. Do you remember this? Did it seem a little bit
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uh Yes. I think the last time we saw it, we were like, "Oh, there's like holes in this film. This needs some love." Yeah. Like it it
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had some And if you have questions, feel free to throw them in, Katie. Um I I recognize with this topic I have to
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like get us through this a little bit. Um so then finally Walt Disney comes, he gives a speech. Uh I will say I called
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it last week. I'm going to do this spoiler. What did I say the song was going to be at the end?
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Uh great big beautiful tomorrow. No, that was your song. That was not my song. My song or maybe it was from the chat.
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My song was When You Wish Upon a Star. Oh yeah, it was When You Wish Upon a Star. There's your one spoiler. Um
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Oh, one spoiler. Then they then they send you out into the world and you see Feed the Birds would have been great. Feed the birds way better.
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I actually we could do a whole show on the soundtrack because I actually thought
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I thought there were some opportunities that you could do some fun things. Um
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but uh so then you get sent out there's the old artwork, some of the old artwork
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of Abe Lincoln in the hallway right as you're exiting which I was very thankful for because I've always loved that picture. You know, the one with uh Abe
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standing in front of the window as president and it's kind of got that lonely but visionary thing. I love that picture.
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It's the one they recreate in Lincoln with Daniel D. Lewis in 2012. I would love that. Like if I had a fancy
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office. Yeah, I know. Like that would be the best picture. Then you go out and there's this
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beautiful wall length mural that Sam Carter created. It's
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It's fantastic. I should have worn my West. This was one of the last projects that Kim Irvine worked on. Like they they were very once
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again collaborative is the word that keeps popping up in my head as I'm talking about this because everybody was like, "Oh, and this person helped and
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this person had that idea and we did, you know, like it was just really nice to see." So that's on the right side. On
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the left side, they have pictures of cast members that have worked at Disneyland through the years. I was very happy to see um my friend Dave that
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worked at the watch shop years ago painting well painting artwork that ended up on watches and it was always
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fun to watch him explain that. But um there's all of these pictures. There was
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a Eureka picture you would like. Um I think there was one from anime. It might have been Pocahontas the my friend
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that uh that was kind of like my contact there. We weren't entirely sure because it could go either way, but it's you
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could spend a lot of time. This is why you can have that extra 5 to 10 minutes at the exit because there's just so many pictures to look at. And then finally,
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there's Mickey Mouse, Sorcerer, and Mickey kind of pointing off to the future as you're just about to exit. And
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they have concept art for what's coming to the Disneyland Resort that's from Imagineering. So then it's the past, present, and future. That is the entire
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description of the the the experience as you go through it. What everybody really cares about though is Walt Disney and
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and right and we have been talking about this I don't know a lot. Um I think
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everybody else has been talking about this too. I'm just going to say
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my mind was broken when I walked out of it the first time we saw it. Well, I saw
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it twice and and I was asked by my friend Tim and he's like, "So, what'd you think of it?" And I was like, I
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actually don't know what to think of it. I know how I feel. How I felt was I felt
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happy. I felt emotional. I felt like they really
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did something special and showed how much they love Walt Disney with this show. Like everything built to the love
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of Walt the Man as opposed to Walt the caricature of the head of Disney. Like
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and and part of that is is like the script they chose for him. Part of that is is different things that you see
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around the the uh exhibit. Um and then also just the show One Man's Dream, I think does a good job with that, too.
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But I really was moved by the whole show. And uh walking out, I had this
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realization that I didn't have the best way to judge Walt the audio animatronic
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because it was the first time I'd ever seen him in HD in physicality, 3D, whatever you want to
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call it. Like right there, you could reach out and shake his hand. And um and
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there's some little things that they do during the show that really like you sit
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there and let's say you know nothing about Disney. You're going to be charmed
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by this little old man that's excited about what he's doing and thinks he's
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he's said something witty or is being impatient about the current CEO talking
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about the original CEO. like it there's some really magical moments that happen
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in the storytelling and um and and like that is what
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especially the first time I watched the show that's what I was focused on like it was just like oh you did it like
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there there's tweaks obviously like there's things if I was the the executive producer for this project I
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would be like okay this is what I would change. Like there's there's a musical note that if I had been in charge, this
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is what I would have done. And um and and what they did was fine. Um there
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there were also like acting notes I think you could choose. But on the flip side, I'm like
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they've been so they told us that they started they went into Walt's office um with Becky Klene and it's Tom
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Fitzgerald Jeff. I'm spacing his name at the moment, but they went into Walt's office on July 17th, 2018.
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Oh wow. So that means they're already thinking about this, working on this. This is the point where they're like, "Hey, we need
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to start thinking about recreating Walt's office." So that's what, seven years, 8 years, something like that. So,
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let's assume they've been doing this for 7 to 10 years, working on this and trying to make this that's a labor of
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love and and you know from the get-go, you're going to get reaction
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across the board because traditionally we as Disney fans, there will be some people that love it. There will be some
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people that will will grow to love it and then there will be actually here's what it is. There's going to be probably
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what is it the 10 1080 10 rule. There's 10 there's 10% that absolutely adore
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this thing. I think there's 80% they're gonna be somewhere in the middle and then there's gonna be another 10%
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that absolutely hate the thing and and the tens are the most vocal and the tens are always the most vocal.
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I would say I'm in the upper right. Okay. Like I really liked it. Um it's one of those things I want to go back and
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experience multiple times. Um, I also will say as much as people have been
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ragging on how the Walt audio animatronic looks. Look at this.
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I don't think it's terrible. Like, I think it's much closer than a lot of the presidents we've seen in the eyebrows
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are wrong. I think the eyebrows might be a little bit too bushy. I agree with that. Well, and they're too dark in my humble
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opinion. I could see that, too. like and that could be a a choice so that you can see them on stage or something too like I
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don't know. Um but I do know that everything before,
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during and after this experience in the opera house shows the level of love and
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care and dedication that was put into this project by Imagineering, by
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archives, by corporate, by the Walt Disney Family Museum. like there was a lot of buyin and collaboration coming
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from across the board because there was so much
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care and love for Walt Disney that they wanted to do it right and and I think um
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and I think it's one of those things that it really when you experience the whole thing and you go through the whole
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uh project, you know, like it's it's kind of it's like a good movie or a good symphony like it takes you on that that
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journey and when you go through the whole journey, it really is a lovely thing and um so I'm glad they did it.
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Like I think it's two thumbs up. Um it might be I don't know if it's an every
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week attraction. It'll kind of depend on what the vibe is with with the people
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that are in the like if it's loud obnoxious people maybe not. Like I really want to go and sit in it in
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different parts of the room too. um because there's different details you see on the set and with what Walt does
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with his hands and his body and stuff that I really wanted to catch and even his face like there's some interesting
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things but um I don't want to give away too much but yes I would definitely like to see it multiple multiple times like
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you you'd have no problem getting me in there multiple times. Um do you have any questions Katie or
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thoughts? No, I I don't know. Um this is still something I I not to be the
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contrarian on the internet. This is still something I feel super wary about if I'm being completely honest. I have not listened to any thing that has come
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out of it. Um I refuse to listen to it until I have seen it with my own two eyes. I think it's the best way to do it.
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Um and like people like, "Oh, how you going to spoil the like it's a man that exists?" Yeah, whatever. Like I believe
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that there are spoilers. I believe that the way that they presented it is something that I want to see presented in person for the first time. Um,
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and yeah, I don't know. I've been trying to I I kind of disassociated a little
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bit when you were discussing the uh intro and the exit because I didn't want to know much about that either. Um, so I
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don't know. Like I'm trying to go into this as fresh as possible. Uh, while also not
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I don't know. I I will lovely I would be so happy to be surprised, but I I still feel kind of worried about it.
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Well, and I think that's fair. And I also think just at the end of the day, um,
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you have to take it for what it is. Are we ever going to see Walt Disney walk into our into our I mean, I
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sure hope not. I mean, unless they come up with something like Star Trek with, you know, the the um
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holiday holiday, we're probably not going to have anything that close. Um, I will say they worked very closely with the Walt
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Disney Family Museum to get dimensions right and sizes right and even the right fabric and the right rings. Um, but you
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know there's always that that it's a replica. Um, so it's not going to be exactly right. Um,
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but I will also say I think that's a better attitude to have to come for it as opposed to looking for the company to
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fail, looking for the bad. You know, one of my favorite lines in Polyiana is if you look for the bad, uh, what is it? If
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you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. And um, and I kind of feel like people were looking
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for that with here. They're like, "Oh, I'm looking for I mean, everybody, if we take the picture of anybody that's
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watching us or ourselves from the wrong angle, we can look a little weird or
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even not like ourselves and or we just don't like how we look that way." And and you think of everything we saw or
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see on a regular basis of Walt Disney is is taken from a specific angle, from a very perfectly lit whatever. Um, so I
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don't know. Like it it'll be interesting to see how it goes. I think long term it's going to be a good thing. uh just
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because the other element that Tom was talking Tom Fitzgerald's talked about was uh Walt Disney was a huge huge huge
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fan of Abraham Lincoln which is why he made him an audio animatronic form and he felt a great weight of responsibility
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for that and they said they felt the same way and Tom was talking about how he saw the Abe Lincoln audio animatronic
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at the World's Fair as a kid because he grew up in New York and now how what six decades later uh he felt like kind of in
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the same position of having that weight of responsibility uh for recruiting. Well, so we'll see how it goes. It'll be
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fine. Uh this week we also got a new plaque. Let us know also what you think in the chat. Um just be nice. Uh there's
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a new plaque installed for the horserawn trolley on Main Street, which is kind of a fun thing. Uh there's also the uh
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installation of the Sherman Brothers tribute currently happening on Main Street which will be interesting. Um
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because it's it's a I realized it's it's a weird thing because a lot of this and I guess it makes sense because it's Main
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Street. A lot of this is looking back right now and for a a company that was built on a man that keeps moving forward. I was I
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had that weird thought today as I was writing like oh well this is about back then. Oh this like it was a lot of history today and it works on Main
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Street. Yeah. Um, the other exciting thing though is we're getting a new verse, the last verse in uh, Small World
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this week, which will be very interesting. And we just filmed the current for what, two more days, day and
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a half, um, version of Small World this last weekend. So, we'll have both and and that'll be kind of a fun thing. But
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that's not all that's going on because we are going to talk about one more thing before I return to go questions and comments. If you have them, throw
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them in the comments and we will respond. But we of the 137 nominations or Emmy
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nominations for the Walt Disney Company. Katie, which one are you most excited about? I have a guess.
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There's a couple guesses, but I I think like you can just go with show. You don't have to do like specifics.
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Doctor Who. Really? Doctor Who. Yeah. The fact that it's gotten a nomination for the first time in over 60 years over Rexom.
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Okay. I love Rexom. I thought you were going to go with Rex. Rex gets nominated for an Emmy every year though. Like
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fair. I mean, I think Doctor Who getting an Emmy. Um,
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I thought Shy was a wonderful doctor and I really really loved him. Um, and so for,
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um, I also think the Walt Disney Company messed up by not having him be the doctor anymore. Um, and so I really like
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to see that recognition. U, it's the first time that The good thing about Doctor Who now though is just because it's like you
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never know, he might be back in a couple years. Um, yeah. So, that's that's
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definitely I think really cool. Yeah. And Acolyte, obviously. Acolyte I thought was cool. Uh, my
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favorite will be no surprise to anybody I would assume was Only Murders in the Building. I think they got was it eight
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of them? I think so. And, uh, Martin Short got
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something like that. It's hard. I I could look at notes, but it's 137 for the whole company. I mean, that's that's pretty impressive.
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And I feel like that's a higher number than a couple times in recent years. Um, so that's exciting.
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Um, yeah, it's interesting because like Doctor Who would be a lot of fun to see get some wins.
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Only Murders I just love because it kind of breaks the it kind of breaks a mold
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for what popular television is supposed to be. It also breaks a mold for like your Agatha Christies, your Columbbo,
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your Murder She Wroes, like all of those murder type shows.
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They're like, "Can we make a murder type show that's also funny, but also has old guys best friends with a young girl?"
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Yeah. Like, it's hilarious. Um and it works. Um I would love to see Acolyte get some
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love, too. I would love that. Um, just because I think if it can get enough love and if
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that generates enough views like at the end of the day, Acolyte didn't get another round just because of the financial sense of
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was it Alan Bergman? It's like it financially just did not make sense for the amount of money they put into this.
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It didn't it didn't pay for itself. And that's the sad fact of entertainment. And um and
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because they didn't want to tell Darly just I mean honestly it should have gone just straight there. Um,
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it's not tell the Jedi would tell you I would that's that's what I would love to see in season 2. That's all we need.
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Um, but yes, zero. You know what they could do?
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You know, you know, uh, Emperor Palpatine. Yeah. Wouldn't you like to see him as a
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little boy? It's actually not funny. It's actually like so not Hey, whoever from Lucasfilm
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just saw this. Um, delete delete the last five minutes out of your brain.
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That'd be super cool. Thank you. All right, let's You didn't like that idea, huh? Okay. I
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I I thought it was I thought it was and his buddy Snoke. Yeah, it is buddy.
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Oh, it was his best friend as a kid. And then Mhm. All right, let's go to the comments.
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Comments. Comments.
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We don't need baby help. Wait, what if what if his best friend was actually um
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Jarger Bing's dad? I guess that makes sense timelinewise.
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Uh-huh. I just realized that could work also. And maybe that's why he hates Gungans. Yeah, that's that's
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Well, maybe actually it wasn't his best friend. That was his that was his first
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love of his life. And they were in two different parts of the world on the same planet. But because different it was a
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fung a to the fungus. I was gonna say forbidden Gungan rule
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and then it came out fun. I don't know. So just hear you say that Palpatine is
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Jar Bink's dad. He could have been. See, it would have, but the love was forbidden and it was
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Oh, so he had to not love Jar. Yes, it was forbidden. Um, so he wasn't allowed to be with Jar
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Jar's dad, so he couldn't be Jarar's second dad. Yeah. None of that was happening. Oh, well
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that it was a miss. Um, it was also because he refused to take swim lessons as a kid. Um,
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true. Yeah, he could. All right, so let's go for real to the comments now. First question is, do we think that the uh Walt Disney Magical
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Life goes to Florida or the international parks? Absolutely not. Um, they were very clear that this was a an
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exhibit and a show that fits at Disneyland because Disneyland is where Walt uh Walt actually walked and it was
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a good um anchoring point in the park for people as they were coming to
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Disneyland and and bringing Walt to life. So, I I don't think that'll um happen. Also, Florida has no Lincoln. So,
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yeah, that too. I mean, they do, just not that. Uh, Chris is wondering if they'll put the third verse into the
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holiday version of It's a Small World. That's an interesting idea. Um, I think that they will.
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I think that's a very distinct possibility. Yes, that's that's a that's a good thought. Uh, Lillian Window is beautiful.
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Yeah. Uh, it it's got so many nods to her story to
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Oh my gosh. to her story. Not Yeah. Um, there's some beautiful art up
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there. like it's it's definitely worth um spending some time looking at all the
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details. And I like the vintage Mickey. Um yeah. Well, and the firehouse. I was going to say the firehouse is
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pretty cool. Um and if you look at where the firehouse is and the art setup there, it's perfect for if like you're
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painting and looking to your left at the fire. Like it's great. Um was there another question? You feel
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free to throw. Back in the day, they called him palpy. I will be just like young Sheldon.
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I I'm sorry, Clocky. You don't know what you did referencing young Sheldon in
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this chat. Um, and yes, uh, Dabs is writing his own Gungan
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fanfiction. We can't trust him. He cannot be trusted.
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You know, crazier things have happened. That's how people have ended up being like producers on random shows and stuff. Um, especially in this day and
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age. Uh, we do have new Star Trek coming this week, too, which is very exciting for those of us that watch Star Trek Strange New Worlds, and I'm excited to
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uh go boldly where Well, I was like, lots of men have gone
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before. No, I was going to say we're like the Enterprise hasn't gone before, but we're
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basically going boldly to where they've gone before because this show eventually ends up where the original series
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starts. But they definitely haven't gone there before. if they haven't gone there yet canonically.
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I don't know. Uh it is asking if Palpy's Mima has a good Absolutely.
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Uh can't you tell that's what happens in Revenge of the Sith?
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You're sick. You are so You are ill. He's the Sith. I just observe. I report
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on what I see. You are sick in the head. Am I wrong?
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Welcome to the Mustafar Barbecue Cookout. That was his backup plan.
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Stop. You're He's like, "If if this empire thing doesn't work out, I'm going to start a
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barbecue. I'm going to be a bit master and Moose Far." No.
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Can you imagine Palp What would it be? Uh Palpatines's BBQ on Food Network.
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Palp Palpy's BBQ. Uh yeah,
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Geeks Corner after dark. Mustafar
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that's funny. But it needs like a slogan like Mustafar Barbecue. Taste the char. You know,
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I thought you going to say we cook while you wait. No, that's not a good slogan. I would
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not go to a restaurant. Do you think Anakin likes burnt ends? He didn't like
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his ends burnt. Um, it depends like if it's Yeah.
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Uh, but no, like most of my barbecue needs like a a slogan, like a catchy slogan. That's funny. That's really really good. That's really
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funny. Um, you were supposed to
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h You were supposed to cook the meat, not burn it. I don't know. Like, you have to I have the high ground beef.
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See, the menu just cooks like the menu writes itself. That's really good. Yeah, the menu. Um,
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oh my gosh. I do have a question for those though, like just because I did have lunch yesterday at Hungry Bear Bbecue and I
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had the salad for the first time. My question is, how are you supposed to eat corn? I don't know.
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Because you can't cut through it with your knife cuz it's got the core still. Oh, but it's also not a thing that you
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really like they don't give you something to wash your hand. I don't know. Like it it it was a very weird
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You were the chosen beef. You were the chosen beef. Yeah. Um, that's good. Anyway, if anybody knows
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how to eat the corn, I'd like to know cuz um it didn't work out so well. Everything else was good. It was a
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little bit of a spicy uh salad dressing. Like it was it was good. Love spicy. That's true. All right. Um I think we
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are running out of time. So Katie, what should people do? You should go to daps I'm sorry. I'm currently playing tug-of-war with my
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