New Year, New News - GEEKS CORNER - Episode #745

welcome to Geeks corner I'm Mr daps I'm Katie and we're so excited that you're here on the first Geeks corner of

2025 craziness how did we get here well the passage of time is that the Earth

rotates around the Sun and that causes our uh years to be 365 days long say we

took a left at the fork in the road but you know that's okay too uh what should people do keny should go into the chat

you should tell us what you are looking forward to the most in 2025 um personally I read your article

that you put out um about 2025 and looking forward and friendship and

positivity and making a difference in the world and I think that that is also what I am looking forward to the most

good we're gonna talk about that a little bit that is true amazing uh what else

should people do said go into the chat okay I guess that's good and answer that Clocky says

seeing friends absolutely we're looking forward to seeing you Clocky and uh recording some stuff I think too uh

which will be a lot of fun and we need to talk about that very soon uh yeah

it'll be good it's a lot or it's been a busy week busy year starting been a busy

year um it's it's literally one week into the new year and I feel like there's already a ton of things

happening starting off with the Parkside Market opening at Downtown Disney District in the Disneyland Resort and it

soft opened in on Saturday I think yeah Saturday it's soft opened and it's got

uh several businesses in inside of it and uh you can you can really do a lot

of different things there um what do you think of this so I think this is kind of our answer to the Disney Springs Co-op

Market because it's kind of like one building there's a lot of stuff inside of it except for it's food um yes

personally I think it's giving um college campus got to use your food

credits at the end of the semester type of vibe um I don't know if that's a

universal experience but my friends that I visited at College had that experience um and it's like specifically Grand cany

University is what I'm talking about there's like one building there's like a Chick-fil-A there's like a Coba there's like a there's all these like different

businesses which place here do you most want to try I most want to try Gigi's

chicken and what do you want to get at gig's chicken I want the chicken sandwich because everybody is saying

very positive things about this chicken sandwich that or the chicken nuggets I or not the chicken strips I would be all

about and on a totally opposite direction I think soul sister would be a

really good one because um I think it looks really good yep and I'm what is it

Sip and thund oh Sip and thund is cute so I'm probably most excited to try the

food at G's okay but I'm equally excited to try an Americano at Sip and Su yes

this might have to be like a video for our patreon or something because um one of the things I like to do is go to

different coffee shops and always order an Americano what's Americano it's literally just espresso in water okay

and I like it hot but um I like to order those because you can't hide anything

with those and you can tell how good the coffee is how good the coffee shop is for how well they prepare and all that

jazz um there are four fundamentals of coffee um that is water

that is freshness that is proportion and that is grind um and so you really can't

hide a whole lot behind your coffee your freshness um your like your water your

proportion your grind like you can't really hide behind any of those things so I Parks Side Market I could not read

that said well that's why I put it up people could read it we didn't have to then gotcha I I just could not

personally read it too good um had good drinks as well that's good there you go

um I think it's funny because I've I've seen some discussion discourse if you will about how good or bad the views are

from the place and I think they're great I would be happy watching fireworks from there because it's not like you're going

like when you're in Downtown Disney you're not there to see every little firework you're just like oh explosions

in sky so I think that's great um I love the view of the Montreal like I think

it's a it's a nice addition to the Disneyland Resort I'm looking forward to seeing how um the whole area progresses

because there's some permits happen Happ over it was formerly the ESPN Zone that'll be interesting we got the new

steakhouse coming the new restaurant next door like there's a lot of things that are still in the works for Downtown

Disney and until it's done which may never be to be completely honest because

we got Disneyland forward as well um it's fun to watch these things grow and

develop and evolve in in all of that fun Jazz um should we move on sure all right

uh yesterday I went to Disneyland resort to cover the ending of the holidays which meant the end of Christmas fantasy

parade the end of Disney Festival holidays the end of Haunted Mansion all of that jazz before we get into

everything my question for you is Disney Festival holidays what was your favorite

thing this year that was a part of the offerings in the entire park uh the and

what do you want more of uh probably favorite thing was Mickey's Happy Holidays because I love

it I wanted more of the sitar player that was at Sona Terrace I'm so sorry

sitar player I don't know your name but I wanted more of you and I loved you so he was really good actually that kind of

changes my M my my idea um I would like or my favorite thing was the bands okay

in Paradise Gardens Paradise Palisade Gardens whatever that is in the middle um I'm sure Paradise Gardens Park yes

Cafe yeah iced coffee but um love that we got quite a few different

bands this year so you can catch out different ones I hope we get more yeah of that in the future like favorite ones

returning some new favorite ones arriving I thought that was fun the sitar guy being one of them even though

he wasn't there he was over at somoma Terrace um because if you've never heard a guy singing classic rock accompanying

himself with a sitar you just haven't lived like it so good um you're not

wrong you're really not wrong it's just something you never knew you needed or wanted and then you hear it you're like

this is kind of amazing I've told this story before but I'm going to tell it again very briefly he started playing

the first set that we heard we're sitting at Sona Terrace we're enjoying our beverages we're talking to friends

and I do this thing where if I hear a song that sounds like something I know I will jokingly start singing said song

It's a thing people do and so I that was also every song and so I hear it and I

go J's on a vacation far away and then three seconds later and I went oh this

is this is real this is like really happening wonder if this guy has weddings I him at a wedding like that

would do you think we get him on Geeks corner I don't know we gotta figure out who it is first but um we get him on

Geeks can you imagine seeing him at a wedding like that would just be the cocktail hour I was thinking as the the

entertainment for the the reception because I was thinking like you know there's all those like Saturday

Night Live where they have like the movies where they have the very unique wedding entertainment and I'm like a

reception likeo like this could be really really funny you know Domingo maybe no you don't I have no clue and

it's Domingo's crazy he was at their baby shower too like it was wild um I'm

lit referencing SNL and a a wedding reception bit I was talking about these

anyway okay I don't know uh it's he know Domingo okay see it I also watched SEL

in a different era than you did I think this is just a thing that was big six months ago oh of course I don't know it

then um he came all this way had to explain direct from

Domingo there you go sorry Kermit sorry Kermit uh yeah but I thought that was

great the um like the entertainment all around I thought was really solid this

year and I want more of it um I don't know if it's technically Festival holidays but the Mariachi show was really a highlight that was really fun

um that was just a highlight Resort wide I felt like this correct uh Christmas fantasy parade it was the 29th year of

the Christmas fantasy parade this year and that means it's the 30th next year we'll see if they do anything for that

I'm hoping like I don't know what you would do for a 30th anniversary of a parade because that's not something that

we hear very often and the closest I can come is we got artwork and what else did

we get for the 50th of electrical parade uh which weird think how close they are

together yeah so maybe there'll be merchandise and artwork from Ashley Taylor I think they're only like 15

years apart I feel like Ashley Taylor could do the artwork for it well 20 years apart or 22 years apart

um because the 50th was what two years ago for three years ago for for E I thought

it was like five years ago okay so then that thought it was like9 25

years I'm just confused all the time okay um any who I so this is the 30th

season it's ran correct because it debuted it'll be 30 years old because um

if it started in 95 and it didn't go in 2020 exactly so like so that's what I was saying it's it's 30th it's the 30th

year yeah okay um that's always a trick on like how you

count that technically it's still I don't know I'm counting it as 30 we're counting it yes uh but Clocky says there

should be a new uh float I think that's a great idea I don't know what it would

be we all know how I feel about um a Christmas fantasy I've been hearing lots of people saying they want the toy

factory float back so Grand kelan you are in skiers I like a lot I like the skiers

that would be good I would like the old toy factory float with Pinocchio on the front on the on the chair that like

swung all over the place like I thought that was great I only know the one toy factory float I did not miss it I'm so

sorry for saying and then I kind of don't either like I didn't think I know a lot of people really love it but to me

it was too almost simplistic like everything else is very um intricate yeah like it's

it's a real world that's kind of grown up around you and like the old version of the float was that and it was like

wood and and it kind of had that feeling of being in in kind of like the mail room at the beginning it matched with

that and if it matched with the mail room I think I'd feel better about it or miss it more whatever um what I miss is

the winie the Pooh unit and all of them dragging their little sleds well it was

eore dragging his dragged it Winnie and and and piglet were fine yes they knew

how to ride the sleds not drag them but yes that's what I miss personally very fair

uh then Haunted Mansion holiday said goodbye yesterday when's it coming back it is coming back in August whoa that's

crazy yes um but it has been here for since was it uh July 20s something was

it the 22nd or something it's been here so long yeah so

um the big question is when do you really think it should come back when do

I think I'm opening the door for you okay thank you I think I think it should come uh first

day of the holidays in which version is your favorite oh classic classic okay I'm so sorry I'm a little bit of a

haunted mansion holiday not lover I I like it I enjoy it but I think Haunted

Mansion classic is incredible and it bums me out that I can't experience it all year round I tend to go on Haunted

Mansion holiday the first day and the last day of the Season like that's kind of my routine and feel like that's plenty whereas traditional Haunted

Mansion I will go on multiple times throughout the year my question is is how many other people are that way as

well because I have a feeling the reason you have so long of Haunted Mansion holiday is because the demand is there

and the numbers warrant that and I'd be curious what the like which one actually draws more

people yeah also I feel like part of it's not fair because I think people just in general want to go on a Haunted

Mansion attraction Halloween time and they settle for a lot of us would love

to go on the traditional one because that just fits so perfectly but I also think that they're very different story

beats I think Haunted Mansion holiday is much more upbeat it's much more um like not frantic in energy but it it is much

more chaotic almost I mean it's it's like the movie and Haunted Mansion classic is very like we have this creepy

organ and everything kind of moves slow and it's it's creepy it's Eerie um um

and to me that is the one I prefer um in my perfect perfect world it would start

with the holidays and it would end with the holidays much like small world holiday um I don't need it to be forever

um and I would love it if we got those two months of holiday and then classic

was the rest of the year and we had it for Halloween and I would be and that's where I'm very curious like there must

be a demand and that's why they do it but we're not that demand I don't know like I like them both I'm not that guy

like classic better I'm really not yeah um yeah I also really liked the uh

speaking of the Season getting to go through the new uh queue like the extended queue is beautiful it's great

they did a wonderful job um what you haven't been on it yet I haven't even been near the new queue

yeah but that's okay I've stayed blind to it because I want to experience it um on my own and yes small world holiday

mention because she is and honestly is be even better with the classic version of the attraction so I I can't

wait to do an extended video of the Q with classic hted Mansion probably at

night I feel like that's what needs to happen because I think that will be the best time to experience that I yeah I'm

going to stay um away from that area of the park until classic is back and then I will experience the new que weeks for

the first time with classic two weeks two weeks um very it'll be very fun I think it's going to be fun

uh in two weeks also lunar new year begins at the Disneyland Resort mostly

in Disney California Adventure which means lots of food some entertainment uh hurry back all of that fun stuff my

question is is we hurry home thank you H Manion is we got it's true it's in my

brain um and I just went on it yesterday it's true shocking um we got a look at

the foods yesterday that's going to be offered for Lunar New Year we also

learned that there's going to be three versions of the Sip and saer pass and uh the Disney Park's blog said that you can

you can ask for which version you want I'm not entirely sure if that's accurate because the press release I got said it

was going to be random so we'll find out one way or the other when it when was it

January 17th is that when it starts um but there's also a ton of food that's

coming some of it new is there anything that's jumped out at you from the menu

so nothing's jumped out at me because I've been excited for everything um if you we're going to talk about this every

year every time L year comes up um there was the day that Disney California Adventure Park got completely rained out

um to the point where we were in waterproof layers and we were still soaked to our bones and we got to eat

Lunar New Year food for free because they just said please we made all this we can't do anything with it um and so

that to me is one of my happiest Disney Parks memories and whenever later New Year comes about I just I love Asian

food so much and so I'm really really excited about this chocolate

firecracker yeah that one sounds fun to me there's also like there's some ribs

um I was texting with our friend Christina the other day and she's like my go-to like what's good this year at

Lunar New Year and like that one looked really good um it looks like it'll be messy but delicious like I think that

will be I think that'll be fun um always I kind of like all of the Noles I feel

like yeah because there's I think a shrimp one that I remember seeing that looked good the garlic noodles are

always good the garlic noodles are also going to be at somoma this year o that's a good choice so that's better because

then you can get it without waiting for uh the really long line because this is the problem it's only three weeks long

it's true so everybody just crams in here for this thing and and it's all of

it's generally good like other than waiting in line like I really

think it's one of the best festivals we have at the disl resort just because I

think the food is generally great the entertainment is good the the vibe of

everything is good like the message of it's great um character costumes are awesome all the time like there's just

nothing really you can miss when it comes to are they featuring a snake character this year I don't think so

it's like who could you feature besides like c c um story of twins oh wait

what's the one um s from Robin Hood oh yes um but I just

don't feel like we have a lot of snake options I'm trying to think if there's any others see I get lucky I'm okay see

year of the Rat so mine's kind of Jafar Jafar staff sure um so they should just

put Jafar in yes Disney California Adventure he also turns into a snake

yeah technically he's he's a snake I mean in multiple ways it's true

foreshadowing um Karen coming to a Disney park Karen was the giant Cobra

for the reputation tour she had a name um so the joke was that every time

somebody had a snake at um the eras tour it was Karen with a li Fluffy from

Indiana J oh yeah love it uh speaking of Indiana

Jones I've heard of Indiana Jones 30 years ago at Disneyland the Indiana Jones Outpost was

opening in adventur land yeah and with it Indiana Jones the pinball the pinball

Adventure we have spent many an evening on Sundays well back in the day at the

pinball Adventure then it disappeared and it came back and it's moved locations many times yeah it's been

bumped around the room a little bit or down the hall a little bit but mostly in that same location that it started Doug

wrote about it this last week last week yeah it was last week because it's still that early in the year um and did a

fantastic job taking a look at the the pinball adventure and my question is did

you ever play it or did you always watch it I've never even watched it you did once because I'm pretty sure you weren't

with this huh oh no so we used we used to go there yeah I've never even been

near you when you've played it oh that's that's a bummer yeah well then we're not going to have a lot to talk about with that one then huh um I literally was

just like huh okay I know the lore I and I've walked by the pinball machine with

you but I've no one's ever actually played it around me okay well there you go you could tell a story check it

out n um check it out on Doug's most recent 30 years AG go at Disneyland uh

no basically we just go play like there's not a huge like it wasn't a competition or anything it was more just

that was one of the Sunday routines we'd occasionally hit um not to the same level of Flynn's arcade and competing

there where it was really something on Su Al never soft arade um yeah Roger did

an article we'll go to there instead that brought up an interesting question so the uh the Walt Disney Family Museum

shared about lady in the and Sun Saturday Saturday was National spaghetti

day and so the lady in the almost did not have the spaghetti

scene which is unfathomable my question is so this one

almost gets cut but think in other movies what would be the quote unquote spaghetti scene that could cut that

would completely change easy movie easy answer Part of Your World Part of Your World cuz that

was almost and I was thinking At Last I See the Light if you had a moment like like that

one could easily get done um and change the movie pretty significantly the fact

that like I frequently think about the fact they went well part of your world's not testing that well and so we're just

gonna cut it and thank goodness somebody's like kid I think saved him was like no I like that part but like

that entire movie didn't help with up at Christmas Carol yeah well they did cut that one

so well you know um but yeah no it's just uh uh I don't

think at all Little Mermaid would work I think the funny thing is is you think of the spaghetti scene it's really like if

you go through a lot of movies it's a whole new world in Aladdin it's Beauty in the Beast and Beauty in the Beast

it's uh Can You Feel the Love Tonight in The Lion King but the spaghetti scene

transcend like all media like you think of how many times it's been referenced in not just Disney movies and not just

kids movies like it is something that is so ingrained in pop culture references that it's like but it's it's that pivot

song SL moment that that really like if you didn't have that I can't imagine the

film being the Beloved classic that it is today yeah and um the cake making and

Sleeping Beauty yeah um it'd be like taking out make it make it Pink yeah it

it is it's it's one of those iconic moments maybe the most iconic moment in that movie other than taking like

opening at the beginning when she's in the little box or bbid Bobby boo yeah

dopy in the bar of soap yeah there's so many of those moments where um it literally changes

the nature of the movie if it's not there yeah I'm glad crazy to think kept

it in like I'm trying to think in um like the Princess and the Frog with which one I think that would what moment

that would be friends on the other side oh okay yeah okay there you go like I

think that if you didn't have that like Voodoo segment and this like

creepy this is what's going to happen uh I think it's that or if you were to take

out the um almost there

yeah it's very interesting to think that that like the spaghetti thing really

does mess with my brain because that is the the the love song the moment of

coming together before everything goes wrong you know moment that's in so many

of these movies and it's such a pivotal part of so many uh what is it So This is Love Maybe from Cinderella yeah like

it's that moment and if you don't have that I almost feel like you don't have a Disney movie like that sometimes is what

makes the difference between what's truly a Disney musical versus a

DreamWorks or you know whatever I don't know anyway it's an interesting thought it's an interesting article go check it

out Roger wrote it and did a fantastic job uh we got about five minutes more and as Katie alluded to at the top of

the show I wrote a post on Mr dbs.com instead of daps magic.com talking about

the new year with new adventures and a new era do you want to give the short

version of what that was all about you want me to do it yeah I want to hear

what you took away from it um I took away that um it's the focus

on the not to be somebody in the room but what you focus on grows and

um focusing and choosing to focus on love positivity friendship and Community

even when things are hard um and I thought it was very beautiful great

so great to have those things great to have these ideas and these Concepts that

we're putting out on and focusing on but we also have to do practical things calls to action movements things so what

we want to do this year is we really want to be intentional about having fun together geeking out together letting

the puppy come into the room um all of that is good stuff but uh we really want

this year to be more fun than ever more Community Based than ever um and really just a

Kinder than ever and and more positive than ever I guess so specifically we

want to uh really lean into the the chat box in these things like on Geeks Corner

we're going to be doing some fun Meetup ideas that we have that we're uh we're kind

of noodling how that's actually going to work and when it's going to work and what's what it's going to be um so

everybody can be there obviously chalk walk will be a huge part of this when it happens whatever time this summer I were

putting money on it I would guess sometime in AUST because that seems to be the popular time but keep these things in your mind

and when you see them coming up or if you have ideas for things it could be fun to do uh together as a community

either virtually or uh in person uh let us know in the comments on social media

over on the patreon is always a really great place as well because we're just very accessible there um because we get

notifications that aren't overwhelming from p where social media gets a little

overwhelming from time to time we we get a lot of little red dots um but uh

specific ideas would be fantastic as we go into the new year um you know maybe

there's even a uh an event that we want to do or something uh later in the year

that that would be a lot of fun um or just go listen to music the piano or catch a a show at Disneyland or go

everybody meet up just to go on the Mark Twain you know something like that like they don't have to be huge things but

they do have to do things that build people up and build up community and uh that we have fun doing together I think

how do you think of that I agree you do agree I do um that'd be so crazy if I

was on this show and did not that would be funny um hi Honeys that' be like wamp

I no I I think that um as you say in the

article like there's a lot of not positivity in the world there there's a lot of not so great things and so I

think that um we do what we can do to make a difference and I think what makes a difference is

um finding other people who don't make you feel silly for loving the things you

love um and that's just a conversation that just popped up in my head from the other day um as I have a puppy crying at

me right now uh but I just think that it's about um choosing

to surround yourself with people that better you um and I think we've got some really fun things coming up for daps um

there may be a somewhat cooking series coming to the patreon um so patreon.com

daps magic um and that's just like a another fun thing just to get to do

so yeah exactly uh one other thing that we can do as we're focusing on keeping

kind and making a positive influence in the world is there's a lot of people struggling tonight as I believe over

30,000 people have been uh displaced because of the fires up in Pacific Palisades if I've got that right so if

you're online you see people struggling whatever um help us amplify them you know tag us let us know we'll amplify

their stories we'll amplify uh um hopefully help them find support that

they need and let's use our platforms for good um because one of the great things we can do with social media Med

and the internet is connect people and so we can connect the people that need help with uh the people that are

offering help and uh maybe we'll even get something up on the site tonight or tomorrow morning uh that kind of just

direct people like hey this is a resource where you can um connect to people that need the help and uh you

know maybe you're feeling lost and destitute on a on a very windy and uh

stormy from a fire perspective night which is not so fun at all but uh welcome to Geeks Corner plus I do see

Clocky said you can't change the people around you but you can change the people around you people around you that is

true that's and so we do enjoy having uh positive people around us that want to

change the world and uh do it in a positive way and we're gonna have fun doing it in the coming year I think that

means that Indie will be um taking me out of his life because unfortunately I am the toxicity to him I did try and

brush him today with the puppy vacuum and so he just uh he doesn't really oh

are you forgiving me sir and it's always happens during geks Corner plus if you have any questions or comments you'd like us to respond to let us know in the

chat and we'll stick around a couple more minutes and do exactly that as the dog licks the microphone um I'm sure

that sounded great he didn't lick the microphone okay look like it um but yes it'll it'll be a fun year and we'll

hopefully do a lot of fun things uh yeah he does not like the vacuum it's a puppy

vacuum uh Clocky would like one prediction Katie what's your prediction for

2025 uh Disney wise or otherwise I think we'll stay in the world of Disney and positive

stuff I don't know that's a really hard he is upset I would love

to say we found out he's scared of the dark yesterday um I wish I could say I have some Grand

prediction for who's going to narrate candl light I don't but I'd love to see

Tom Hanks um yes we would love to see Tom Hanks

um I predict something big in the realm of entertainment from Disneyland this

year H I feel like something is coming that Beyond paint the

night yeah I think so I I I wouldn't be surprised if we get something else in the coming year either actually mounted

or announced okay in within a year like

um uh I love that idea have a group outing to watch paint the night Chris great idea I think that should be um I

like the idea lot that definitely happen because we're gonna all have to camp out for this thing anyway in fact I was

talking with somebody yesterday while waiting for a Christmas fantasy parade and we were we were kind of doing the

whole pregame because we do this pretty frequently it's like so uh how early do

you think we're going to have to get there to wait for it and uh um yeah so

maybe maybe we do something like that that'd be very fun and uh pick a night and we'll make it work do you think they

might bring out back the um no curb saving until the ropes go up I hope

not honestly just if people this is my my weird thought and I'm probably in the

minority here if people want to spend their time at Disneyland waiting for a parade or waiting for a show let them

wait because it makes the lines that much shorter for me to go on Indiana Jones Big Thunder Mountain true Haunted

Mansion like I love it when people wait like and and sometimes it's I you know I'm the one that's waiting and I'm okay

with that like I think if you want to spend the money you spent on Disneyland to sit and wait for a parade go

um what I am looking forward to the most in 2025 is the 70th anniversary with

paint the night as like a special asterisk um do I think the 70th is going

to be mindblowing or anything no I don't um but I love anniversary celebrations I

think they're super fun um somebody's in a mood tonight

um and so I am looking forward to it I think that um if you don't want to think

of it as 70th you could think of it as the 10th anniversary of the 60th um and that's pretty magical uh

also I loved the 60th the 60th is um fun one don't I get to say what I looking

for I would just looking the Tokyo Disney comment uh I think what I'm most looking forward to is probably paint the

night I am excited about wondrous Journey's returning as well that's very fun um and I'm curious about the New

World of Color like I think that'll be cool as well um I wish to make a new print to match

up the decade prints that would be cool I like that idea

um Diamond celebration was like I think it's funny though because uh you are

very Diamond celebration like excited about it and for me it's all about the 50th in fact I

found my 50th mug today it was pretty cool um that's that's that'd be an

interesting show is the different uh DEC celebrations that people have

experienced the years uh maybe get dug or something on that because we've we've got quite a few

between the lot of us I guess you could say um but the 50th is is impossible to

beat and Parade of Dreams is probably the best parade Disneyland ever did or will do um I would say and um I just

sorry that some people like the 60th because of the friends they made along the way yeah I I like that too

clearly one of us values the friendship more than the other one I'm just being objective about what Disney offered but

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