Going Beyond The Castle Meets The Disney Crush

In this episode of Going Beyond the Castle, hosts Fredrick Briley and Lori Talamo chat with David and Toni from The Disney Crush podcast. They explore their shared love for Disney, favorite parks, resorts, dining experiences, and the magic of introducing Disney to newcomers. The discussion delves into the origins of The Disney Crush, the challenges of podcasting during the COVID pandemic, and the strong sense of community they've built. Highlights include resort touring, holiday decorations, and personal stories of how podcasting has created meaningful connections and supported listeners through tough times. They offer advice for aspiring podcasters, emphasizing collaboration, inclusivity, and the power of community.

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Chapters

• 2:30 Introduction
• 4:55 Love for Disney
• 9:10 Favorite Disney Parks
• 13:00 Favorite Disney Resorts
• 17:24 Favorite Disney Dining
• 22:06 Favorite Disney Trips
• 24:00 First Time Disney Experiences
• 27:01 Holiday Magic at Disney
• 31:31 The Birth of the Disney Crush Podcast
• 33:41 Choosing the Right Podcast Name
• 36:57 The Journey of Podcasting
• 40:06 Favorite Episode Types and Challenges
• 44:31 Navigating Challenges During COVID
• 48:04 Building a Community Through Podcasting
• 51:38 The Impact of Podcasting on Lives
• 55:20 Creating Meaningful Connections
• 58:33 Lessons Learned from Podcasting
• 1:05:13 Advice for New Podcasters

Transcript

Fredrick Briley (00:01.325)
What is up? Welcome back to another episode of Going Beyond the Castle. I am super excited to be back. I think it's been all of like 72 hours since we were live, but I'm super excited to be back. I am your host, Fred Briley, and with me as always is my fabulous co-host, Lori Kalamow. And this week, think, probably is one of the weeks we've been waiting for for a very long time. Probably since we started this podcast.

Lori Talamo (00:12.108)
All

Fredrick Briley (00:28.965)
We are super excited to have the host of the Disney crush on our podcast. So David Tony, welcome to the podcast. We're super excited to have you guys Yeah, you guys I know Lori's been listening to you guys for a long time She's been on a couple of your episodes. I've recently been listening to you guys. So It's definitely really good to have you guys on our show

Toni Z (00:36.06)
Hi. It's great to be had.

David (00:39.412)
Yeah, thank you guys.

Toni Z (00:46.493)
Hmm?

David (00:52.264)
Well, we're happy to be here.

Lori Talamo (00:52.928)
Yes, I will say this is definitely the show that I've been waiting for. And I'll be honest, I don't know if it was just searching for Disney groups when I first started with the travel agency stuff. I don't even know how I came across the Disney crush, but super excited that I did. I have loved Dave and Tony Ann ever since day one. They kind of remind me of how

Toni Z (00:53.938)
Good to be here.

Lori Talamo (01:20.706)
Fred and I are just down to earth, real people, and actually got to meet them finally. shoot, I don't know that was last year or two years ago now. So definitely excited that we were able to get you guys on. So I appreciate you joining on my podcast this time.

David (01:37.553)
thanks for having us. It's great. Yeah.

Toni Z (01:37.6)
It's great to be here.

Fredrick Briley (01:41.199)
Well, we've got some fun questions for you. We're going to dive a little bit into, you know, your love for Disney, all things Disney. So of course we've got some Disney related questions for you. And we've also got some podcast questions, right? Because, you know, one of the big things that, excuse me, you know, one of the big things that I see, you know, stepping into the podcast world recently is that, you know, podcasting is a big thing.

You know, it's becoming more more popular all the time. So we're really looking forward to kind of hearing your story and how you got started with Disney Crush. And so, yeah, we'll just dive into some questions. Lori, I think you're leading us off on these questions.

Lori Talamo (02:22.926)
Yeah, so we know that you guys are big Disney fans. How did your love for Disney begin? And y'all can shoot for who wants to go first. You know, just where was the love of Disney? Where did it start?

David (02:37.024)
Well, I'll let Tony go first. It's, you know, age before beauty. Go ahead.

Lori Talamo (02:40.162)
course.

Toni Z (02:41.288)
Wait a minute. My first trip to Walt Disney World was 1981. I was nine and we stayed off property out of La Quinta on International Drive probably. We planned it with maps where we're going to go. We went for two days to Magic Kingdom because it was the only park and I fell in love with it. I remember back then it was

really big in the, adventure land area. had these juice cups that were like shaped like the fruit, like, so the grape juice was in, was in a bunch of grapes and the orange juice was in an orange. And that was like the coolest thing when I was a kid. So, but that was, that was, that was the start of it.

Lori Talamo (03:30.382)
Sounds yummy.

David (03:33.876)
Wow.

Lori Talamo (03:34.424)
fine.

Toni Z (03:36.786)
And then as an adult, when I moved to Florida and I'm a hospice nurse, don't know if you know that, going to Disney a lot, I have to have a trip on the horizon to keep, yeah, just to keep sane, some happiness.

Fredrick Briley (03:49.049)
Yes. Same. Yes. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (03:49.571)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (03:54.648)
Yeah, I imagine. Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (03:55.907)
down. want to believe anytime you're sad, just go look at the app and look, right.

Toni Z (03:59.848)
That's right. It's only a 20 minute wait.

David (04:01.056)
She's always on that app.

Lori Talamo (04:03.736)
Yeah.

Toni Z (04:05.658)
I am always on that

Lori Talamo (04:09.944)
to Dave.

David (04:10.336)
Well, my story is I was born and raised in California and I as a kid, you you think you go to Disney, but I don't think I went to Disneyland until I was probably 11 or 12, I think. We kept begging my dad to go and we lived, we could hear the fireworks and see him on a good night. We lived 20 minutes away, but we finally got him to take us and I grew up, you know, as a kid growing up.

you know, in the 60s and 70s, you know, we had the wonderful world of color, then the wonderful world of Disney, and you know, just all kinds of things about Disney, and that was just normal. didn't really, you know, and then as an adult, I would go every now and then, and me and when I got into the family, Tony Anne and I would go, we'd meet Tony Anne, we'd probably go once or twice a year maybe. And then one year, my wife, Veronica said,

I know what we're gonna do for Christmas. And I'm like, okay, what? I'm thinking there's gonna be something like a jet ski or a boat or something. And she goes, I'm getting, we're getting the family a annual passage to Disney. And I'm like, what? No, no, that's a lot of money, no. So I went kicking and screaming and we took like a week, I think we had like a week vacation there and we took the kids and I...

Fredrick Briley (05:12.687)
me.

David (05:35.324)
After this, think probably the second day, just, don't know what it was. Something happened, I think it was just because we were all together and it was a magical time, if you will. And I absolutely fell in love with Disney and been around it. Like I said, with Tonyanne, we'd go once or twice a year with her and the family. But I think that trip really sealed the deal for me. And I was at that point happy I didn't have a jet ski, happy I didn't have a boat.

Happy I had an annual pass and it's been like that for the last, I don't know, eight or nine years now.

Lori Talamo (06:11.63)
Sweet, one day I'll have one too, hopefully.

David (06:12.564)
Yeah. What a boat or a jet ski.

Fredrick Briley (06:14.565)
Call. Call.

Toni Z (06:17.0)
He's still waiting for that Jetski. And just to clarify, because people probably don't realize, Dave's wife and my husband are brother and sister, so that's our relationship. We're in-laws.

Lori Talamo (06:19.5)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (06:29.73)
Yeah, I thought as they was talking, I was like, probably should have said how you guys know each other, but yeah.

Toni Z (06:33.064)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (06:35.193)
I was curious, I figured we would have got there eventually.

Toni Z (06:37.552)
Yeah, Dave's wife and my husband are brother and sister.

Fredrick Briley (06:40.421)
Okay, that's cool.

Okay, now for I think big question, right? Favorite park and why?

Toni Z (06:51.378)
Dave can go first.

Lori Talamo (06:51.512)
I know Dave's.

David (06:52.672)
Well, you know, me and Laurie, we like Animal Kingdom. and the reason I like it, I, you know, I just like all of the, I mean, I love animals for one, and it's not a zoo, people, it's not a zoo. And it's not Animal Kingdom hot, what everybody says it's not. I think maybe because it doesn't feel like a, it doesn't really feel like a Disney property. You don't.

Lori Talamo (06:58.392)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (07:07.662)
Thank you.

Fredrick Briley (07:19.662)
Yeah.

David (07:20.864)
I don't get that vibe there at all, honestly. I mean, there is Disney there, of course, but you don't feel like you're in Disney. You feel like you're in a tropical forest somewhere. I don't know just everything about it. And we were just there recently for Moonlight Magic and it's been a long time since I've been at night. And Tony and I both love it there at night. I'm sure Laurie does too. But we got to be there at night and it's just, I think it's one of that in Hollywood studios. I just love it at night.

Lori Talamo (07:42.296)
Mm-hmm.

David (07:50.004)
But Animal Kingdom, just adore it at night.

Fredrick Briley (07:53.241)
That was my, my very first trip to Disney, which my wife, then girlfriend took me. she was like, she was super excited to stay at animal kingdom, like after dark and I couldn't figure out why it was like, then I experienced it, especially like avatar area, the bio sense. guess just animal kingdom is just a gorgeous, like non theme park vibe in itself. It really is great park.

Toni Z (08:09.703)
Mm-hmm.

David (08:09.781)
Mm-hmm.

David (08:18.174)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And now with Galaxy's Edge and Toy Story Land, just, yeah, I mean, everything that's happened in these parks along the way, like at Hollywood Studios at night, those parks at night are great. I mean, they're all good, great at night, but yeah, Animal Kingdom just has a special park, know, the Tree of Life, the tree is just amazing. So I think we lost Tony Anne.

Lori Talamo (08:19.149)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (08:22.755)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (08:43.375)
past Tony.

David (08:45.958)
She was bored with us guys. think she just said, okay, I'm out of here.

Fredrick Briley (08:47.461)
That's fine. She said I'm out. This is a boring podcast.

Toni Z (08:49.51)
No, Michael came in the room.

Lori Talamo (08:52.056)
Well, I was going to tell you if he comes in the room, feel free, like, it's fine. I love Michael Minnett on the Disney cross show. It's okay. I gotcha. and you're on camera. So I get it.

Toni Z (08:56.764)
Yeah, but he's... he's not really presentable right now. He's half-dressed.

David (09:06.109)
She does that quite often when we record. When I start talking, she just checks out and then she comes back in.

Toni Z (09:10.076)
Yeah, I just check out. Yeah, yeah.

Fredrick Briley (09:11.301)
I like it.

Lori Talamo (09:11.884)
Yeah, it's totally fine.

Fredrick Briley (09:16.143)
Tony, your favorite.

Lori Talamo (09:16.418)
Alright, so what's your favorite part?

Toni Z (09:17.562)
my favorite part, my favorite changes. I think right now it's Epcot. I love Guardians. I love Cosmic Rewind. I love all the different food in all the different countries and the different drinks. So I think right now I'd say Epcot. I'm excited about the changes that are coming to the other parks and we'll see. Magic Kingdom, you're gonna, I mean, this is kind of like Blast for me.

Fredrick Briley (09:25.743)
day.

Toni Z (09:46.716)
But it's probably the park that if I have to cut a park from a trip, I'll cut Magic Kingdom. sounds terrible. know. we do a lot of adult trips and for us, Epcot's where it's at.

Fredrick Briley (10:00.677)
Magic Kingdom only has like, you know, especially as like an adult, like it's good to do a couple of times and there's like, you know, there's like two or three rides that you're like, we gotta do. And then you're like, I'm good now. Like we can go somewhere else. Let's go to Epcot so I can drink and eat all the food.

Toni Z (10:12.07)
Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

David (10:18.804)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (10:20.12)
Yeah, yeah, I can see skip in Magic Kingdom sometimes too.

Yeah. Okay, so then let's move on to what is your favorite Disney resort?

Toni Z (10:34.268)
Well, for me, there's an airboat behind my house, I'm sorry. For me, favorite Disney resort, I would say probably Coronado. my gosh, there's a really loud car up my side. Coronado, and the tower, know, Grandestino Tower. Just because of the price point for what you're getting, it's a beautiful resort. There's five restaurants at that resort.

Lori Talamo (10:45.9)
No, we can't hear it. I can't.

Fredrick Briley (10:47.15)
No.

Toni Z (11:02.62)
Three bridges is open till midnight. So after park after you leave a park at nine or ten You can still go to three bridges and have a drink or a nightcap or something and hang out a little bit on the water it's just beautiful and So I really really like Coronado people Give it give it some grief because it's got buses only but if you stay in the tower that bus goes right to the parks and It's it's

power is just beautiful. It's just so, it's such a cool vibe. I also love Swan and Dolphin, I'll be honest with you, because as a pass holder, I can get some really great rates. There's a promo code for pass holders. And there are times when I can get the Dolphin for cheaper than Pop Century. And for the location, I mean, it's between, you can walk to Epcot, you can walk to Hollywood, you got the boats, you got the Skyliner, you got the boardwalk, the beach club, the yacht club for dining. The Swan and Dolphin itself has,

Fredrick Briley (11:47.623)
yeah.

Toni Z (11:59.996)
some great dining. Rosa Mexicana is a great addition to the restaurants at Walt Disney World. And so I stay there a lot too.

David (12:05.728)
Mm-hmm.

David (12:13.086)
Yeah, for me, I got like three of them. I know, it's like trying to pick your favorite child. Polly for sure, and Animal Kingdom, and Pop. And Pop is kind where we started when our journey began in Disney. That's where we'd stay a lot. And now that the refurb is there, it's just really cool in the Skyliner. It's just, now it's not so much a value anymore. It's more of a moderate, if you will. But yeah, those three, I think, for me.

Yeah, and have to, that's kind of a toss up between all those three. Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (12:46.437)
Pop century is where I'm all day. Lori will tell you that's my favorite place. That's where we always stay. We stayed there once and that sold it. Any time I want to stay somewhere cheap, pop century.

David (12:48.359)
Yeah. Is that right? Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.

David (12:56.096)
Mm-hmm.

David (12:59.696)
Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's it's

Lori Talamo (13:00.982)
Yeah. I want, yeah. Go ahead.

David (13:04.434)
No, was just going to say, yeah, it's after the refurb. I mean, the refurb only helped everything in the Skyliner. it's, yeah.

Fredrick Briley (13:11.855)
Well, now they just read the entire food court. They're redoing the,

Lori Talamo (13:12.184)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (13:19.577)
Why am I drawing a blank shopping area? Everything. yeah. So they're just constantly making refurbs on that. On that resort.

Toni Z (13:21.544)
Mm-hmm.

Lori Talamo (13:22.554)
yeah.

David (13:27.358)
Yeah. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (13:29.26)
Yeah, I've seen you talk or I've heard you talk a lot, Tony and about Saratoga Springs. Yes.

Toni Z (13:34.504)
I've been there a lot this year. I've been to Saratoga Springs a lot this year, because I've stayed with friends for a few trips in 2024. And I like the location of Saratoga Springs by being by Disney Springs. I don't feel like I enough Disney Springs in my trips and being at Saratoga kind of forces you to do that.

Lori Talamo (13:48.759)
Yeah, we're

Lori Talamo (13:54.584)
Yeah, we're going in February for Olivia's cheer trip and we won't get a lot of part time because we don't know like the competitions when she competes. So we do spend a good bit of time in Disney Springs. So that's why we booked Saratoga Springs. So it would be my first time checking that one out since it'll be right there. When actually when we went, when my husband and I went in October and we took the boat over from Port Orleans to Disney Springs and he saw Saratoga Springs, he's like, why don't we stay there next time? I'm like, sure.

Toni Z (13:58.472)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (14:03.132)
Right.

Toni Z (14:20.648)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (14:23.749)
So.

Lori Talamo (14:23.968)
I'll book it. It's a deluxe, but I'm booking it.

Toni Z (14:25.838)
see if you can yeah are you are you staying standard or preferred do you know do you remember

Lori Talamo (14:33.826)
can't remember. I think it might be standard, but I was able to request the, is it Grand Station? Grand Station, yeah.

Toni Z (14:34.92)
Okay.

Grandstand, grandstand. That's where, yeah, that's what I was gonna say to you if you're in stand standard. Yeah, because it's closest to the carriage house and the boats to Disney Springs.

Lori Talamo (14:43.244)
Yeah, so we'll see.

Lori Talamo (14:47.768)
Yeah. So we'll see. Fun stuff. All right, you're up,

Fredrick Briley (14:54.425)
Alright, well let's talk about Disney food. Where are we going off of this? Are we going like...

David (14:58.826)
Mmm.

Lori Talamo (15:01.986)
Now this was your question. Yes.

Fredrick Briley (15:03.619)
Was it? That doesn't surprise me. Favorite table service and favorite quick service.

Toni Z (15:13.16)
Dave, you want me to take it or you got it? For me, my favorite table service, well, my favorite signature table service would be Citricos. I love Citricos and I don't feel it gets the love that it deserves. I also love Morimoto and I love the duck at Morimoto. My favorite quick service, that one's harder.

David (15:16.64)
Yeah, go ahead. You go first.

David (15:37.098)
Hmm. Yeah. There is. Yeah. A lot of good ones.

Fredrick Briley (15:38.095)
so many.

Toni Z (15:40.282)
Yeah.

I'm not really sure. that's a tough one.

Lori Talamo (15:48.526)
I feel the same way because I'm trying to sit as we as you're talking I'm like gosh I don't even know if I could really pick a favorite either well actually

Toni Z (15:56.104)
Probably the patisserie in France. think it's one. I just wish there was more seating in there. I wish there was more seating. Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (15:56.654)
I'm three bar with the animal today.

David (16:02.312)
Really?

Fredrick Briley (16:05.611)
seating at all and the line's always so long.

David (16:10.366)
Hmm. Yeah.

Toni Z (16:11.397)
Mm-hmm, because it's good.

Fredrick Briley (16:13.443)
Yeah, that's

David (16:15.124)
For me, it's going to be, I think Raglan Road. Can I say Raglan Road? Yeah, I'm going to say Raglan Road. And then for quick, I'm going to say Satili Canteen in Animal Kingdom.

Toni Z (16:19.335)
Yes.

Lori Talamo (16:25.646)
you.

Fredrick Briley (16:27.033)
Okay. I like. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (16:29.41)
Yeah, Raglan Road is good.

David (16:31.722)
Yeah, it's kind you know, I have so, there's so many, it's hard to pick just one, you know? It really is. Yack and Yeti's good. Yeah, I love Yack and Yeti. So.

Toni Z (16:36.68)
Yeah, we like Yak and Yeti too in Animal Kingdom.

Lori Talamo (16:39.362)
Yes. Gosh, so when we went in June, my husband got a ribeye from Yak and Yeti. And he was like, this is the best ribeye I've ever had. like he was, go ahead.

Toni Z (16:47.463)
Yeah.

Toni Z (16:50.952)
Tori's, no, Tori's husband said the same thing. We went to Monsieur Paul the night before and he had the steak there and he said the steak at Yakin yeti was better. So.

Lori Talamo (17:05.922)
So Josh couldn't wait till we went back in October. He's like, I want to go back and get that steak. And do you know they took it off the menu? But we did get ribeye fajitas, and it was just as good. It was really good. And we might have talked, maybe I talked about it with you guys, or at least Fred and I, I remember saying how like, I know when people say the food at Disney is terrible, I'm like, you're just not going to the right places. I mean, if you're getting in the park food,

Toni Z (17:11.769)
no.

David (17:11.868)
Ugh. They're famous for doing stuff like that.

Toni Z (17:17.8)
Okay.

Lori Talamo (17:33.506)
you all the time, quick service. And of course you're going to say that it's not good. Or if you go into some of the, you know, the buffets that are just the same foods over and over, but man, there's so much good food at Disney.

Toni Z (17:36.52)
Right. Right.

Toni Z (17:42.726)
Yeah. But the, the, people are going to, going to Disney and they're focusing on Magic Kingdom, cause that's what people, their first trip, that's what they do. And they're staying in Magic Kingdom because they don't know about the great food at the resorts right next to Magic Kingdom. There's so many good restaurants right, you know, a monorail, a boat or a walk away if they just leave the park. So.

Lori Talamo (18:08.354)
Yeah, Magic Kingdom, I think, has my least favorite food, I think.

Fredrick Briley (18:11.673)
Yeah, I mean, it's all like Magic Kingdom. mean, it's made for kids. Like it's all food that, you know, you go anywhere in Magic Kingdom, your kids kind of almost guarantee going to eat everything at that quick service restaurant.

Lori Talamo (18:24.962)
Yeah. Have y'all tried, has anyone tried Skipper Canteen? Skipper, yeah, I keep saying I'm going to try that one, but I have to go when it's just my husband and I, because the kids probably won't.

Toni Z (18:28.748)
yeah, we love Skipper

David (18:29.259)
yeah. Yeah.

Toni Z (18:33.48)
They have decent apps and that's what we a lot of times do. We just get apps there. They have a fried rice dish, they have a Brazilian cheese bread, they have these cachapas which are like corn cakes with shredded pork on them that are very popular. Their appetizer game is really good. The entrees are hitting this but.

David (18:55.774)
Yeah. Yeah. And, and that was kind of a late comer for both of us because I think in the last two or three years we just started going there, but for years we just kind of dismissed it and just didn't go there for some reason. And then we got, we went there and before you, yeah, that's, that's right. That always do it.

Toni Z (19:10.64)
It was the alcohol. They started serving alcohol and we decided, let's go there. We do, that's one of our things. use, we use it as a lounge. We don't go, we don't go, we just want to have a drink. We'll go in, we'll order an appetizer and a drink. so, yeah, it makes it sound like we drink a lot, but we don't. We really don't.

Fredrick Briley (19:16.527)
people.

David (19:19.261)
Mm-hmm.

David (19:24.254)
Yeah. And now it's become one of those things that we'll do.

Lori Talamo (19:24.969)
smart.

David (19:36.671)
Okay.

Lori Talamo (19:36.792)
Alright, so I think I might know the answer to this one. But what is your favorite type of Disney trip?

David (19:40.192)
Mmm

Toni Z (19:40.22)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (19:45.67)
You think you know the answer to this one? Because I didn't know the answer to this one.

David (19:49.29)
Yes you do, come on.

Lori Talamo (19:49.72)
Well, would imagine when you're meeting up with your friends, all of your...

Toni Z (19:52.58)
No, no, truthfully, my favorite type of Disney trip is when I bring somebody who's never come or hasn't been for a very long time and seeing it through their eyes and showing them everything that I love about Walt Disney World. That is my favorite, is bringing somebody that hasn't been in a long time or has never been and showing them my favorite place in the world. That is my favorite kind of trip. I do have a lot of trips with my friends and family and I love those too, but...

I get one of these newcomer trips once every couple of years and I really enjoy those. Cause those are the trips where I ride the rides again. Cause a lot of times when I go with my friends, I hardly ride new rides. I'll be honest with you. There have been trips where we ride one or two things.

Fredrick Briley (20:25.103)
See if.

Lori Talamo (20:31.212)
Right, y'all just hanging out, yeah.

Fredrick Briley (20:34.351)
See, if it wasn't for people like you, I would have never gone to Disney. Because Rachel's mom, my wife, that's the whole reason that she, I ever went to Disney. Because she was like, Fred's never been to Disney? Like, no, she loved taking people for the first time. So that is what started my Disney obsession.

Toni Z (20:36.84)
That's right.

Toni Z (20:44.104)
Mm.

Yeah.

Toni Z (20:50.898)
Mm.

David (20:54.27)
Yeah. And I'm going to parrot what Tony Ange said, the same thing. Newbies and people that have never been and we've taken, like she just said, we've taken family members that have been away for years and then taken them back. then with the knowledge that we have and the opportunities that we know how to navigate the parks. Yeah, they were like, my gosh, I can't believe I have. And then these are people that almost really didn't have nice things to say about Disney and it's too expensive.

Lori Talamo (20:55.501)
Yeah.

Toni Z (21:13.682)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (21:23.238)
My husband, for example, who just went to Toy Story Land and Star, Star, the galaxy's edge for the first time this year. Yeah. And, yeah, he went on Slinky dog for the first time and it was funny. It was really funny.

Fredrick Briley (21:29.668)
Nice.

David (21:35.422)
Yeah. So the.

Lori Talamo (21:36.716)
I loved listening to the episode when y'all got him on. I think it was the one where maybe Dave tried to trick him into it, but it was great. Wait, was it a chicken or something when you had to keep like beeping out the turkey?

Toni Z (21:43.068)
Yeah, he tricked him. He called him and tricked him.

David (21:45.779)
Yeah.

Toni Z (21:52.367)
the turkey. That's the turkey of truth. That's what Dave does when we curse.

David (21:53.81)
Yeah, the Turkey of Truth kept coming in because he had a potty mouth that night.

Lori Talamo (21:58.051)
Yes.

Toni Z (22:00.978)
Yeah.

Lori Talamo (22:02.094)
It was great though.

David (22:03.476)
Yeah, but that's it. Yeah, taking somebody new or fresh that hasn't been in long time. So that's the best.

Lori Talamo (22:11.224)
Yeah, I remember when we took my in-laws, they had never been. And so a few years ago, Josh and I had a trip planned and I'm like, you know what, let's take your parents with us. And so we brought them with us. Cause I remember the first time we went to Disney and we were walking, when we walked into Main Street, Josh called his mom on FaceTime and was like showing her the castle. And I remember him getting emotional because they, you know, they weren't ever able to go.

And so that next time when we took her, she still talks about it. She still wants to go. And so it's definitely awesome when someone gets to experience it, like you said, for the first time.

David (22:52.212)
Yeah, a crazy story. we, where we live, our neighbor's been there for probably, don't know, Veronica, how long they've been there? They've been there for, six years, Veronica, maybe? Yeah, maybe six years or so. And I know fairly well he's been our neighbor for a long time, but we moved away and we come back every now and then. And...

We went over to visit him during Halloween and he's like, come here, I want to show you something. He was talking about going to Disney. I'm like, you went to Disney? He's like, yeah. goes, let me come in. He took us in his house and he's got a whole room just full of Disney stuff and what's the Legos. And I mean the big ones, the huge ones. And he's been my next door neighbor forever and I never knew it. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. I never knew. I just talked to him today and

Lori Talamo (23:38.466)
Never knew.

David (23:43.316)
I'm like, hey, how's it going? I'll be in town till tomorrow and I gotta leave. And he's like, we just got back from Disney. my God, Never even knew it. So, very cool. So you never know who your neighbors are. They might be Disney fans, you just don't know it.

Lori Talamo (23:58.624)
right? It's come out like, because Fred and I, I think I told you guys, Fred and I met at church. And so since then, all the I think the Disney people are coming out more and more. And we find that there's a lot of us there.

Toni Z (24:09.0)
Mm-hmm.

David (24:09.04)
Mm. Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (24:11.225)
Yeah. And even our pastor started every time he'll throw those Disney marks in there and you'll, you'll see that. Right. Yeah. I thought it was, he says it in immediate looks at me or Lori. I'm like,

Lori Talamo (24:17.804)
Yeah. And everybody starts looking at us. We're like, yeah, we know he's talking about us.

David (24:20.522)
the

Fredrick Briley (24:30.821)
Okay, cool cool. So with it being the holiday season, of course we got to ask the big question of what's your favorite part about Disney during the holidays?

Toni Z (24:41.96)
I enjoy resort touring. I go to all the different resorts. My mom is 91 and most years we go and do that for a couple of days. We go to all the different resorts. There's a couple that people don't realize have decorations. One of them is again, the swan. They have the largest chocolate Santa and a lot of people miss that one. And Animal Kingdom, the edition of the giraffe and the zebra.

Fredrick Briley (25:00.11)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (25:12.012)
the last couple of years has been really great. You know, everybody goes to the Grand Floridian and I was telling people about that, that you don't want to stay at the Grand Floridian in December because it's crazy. Everyone's there and you can't get on the monorail. The line to the monorail goes all the way back to Victoria and Albert and Citricos. So, yeah, just be mindful of that. Don't plan on taking the monorail if you're going to the Grand Floridian. And getting an Uber is hard too because

The cars at the guard shack are lined up. I drove past it one time and they were back to the poly. So just be mindful of that. Yeah. Got to walk out of there or take a boat or a bus.

Fredrick Briley (25:53.409)
It wasn't bad. went a month ago. We went November 14th. I took my buddy. We did a one day trip and we parked at the TTC and then Monorail over to Graham Fleury and looked around. It wasn't bad, but of course I think that was like day three of the gingerbread house being up. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, still even then, like,

Toni Z (25:59.176)
and

Toni Z (26:06.3)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (26:14.042)
Mm-hmm. Right. closer you get to Christmas, the worse it gets.

Lori Talamo (26:18.67)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (26:22.533)
There was nowhere to sit, like all the chairs were taken, like everybody's hanging out there. So it definitely gets crazy.

Toni Z (26:24.25)
mm-hmm. Right, right.

David (26:29.672)
Yeah. For me, I think just for me, it's the trees. mean, that kind of amazes me. I know they probably got down to a science. I'm sure it's quick. I mean, they start in the morning or start late at night and it's up by the morning. But to me, just they're so big and beautiful and just all the ornaments on it and around it. We kind of took some time. Animal King last week to really look at the tree and we were at Epcot, too, for a while. It's just that kind of stuff amazes me. But

Yeah, just the decorations around this time of year, you know, kind of gets you in the spirit and and some of the parks probably need more. Right, Tony Anne?

Toni Z (27:08.723)
Magic Kingdom. Magic Kingdom is the worst. They only decorate Main Street.

David (27:09.568)
Yeah, I know. I just don't understand it. you know, some of the other. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just we don't we've never understood that. I mean, Animal Kingdom, there's stuff sprinkled all around. Yeah, yeah, I mean, it's yeah, it's crazy. And then Dino land, the dinosaur was all lit up. It was great. But yeah, that's the trees. I love the trees.

Fredrick Briley (27:12.079)
Yeah.

Toni Z (27:13.872)
All the other parks are pretty much decorated throughout, but Magic King and the Flag-Chick Park...

Fredrick Briley (27:18.659)
you get out of the hub.

Toni Z (27:26.298)
Even in Pandora, there's Christmas decorations.

Toni Z (27:33.896)
Mm-hmm.

Fredrick Briley (27:36.625)
dino land.

Lori Talamo (27:39.246)
Fred's favorite area.

David (27:41.661)
Dino land? Yeah. Tony, what do you want to do with Dino land?

Fredrick Briley (27:42.862)
least favorite.

David (27:48.266)
She wants to bulldoze it. Yeah, she wants to.

Toni Z (27:49.45)
I want to bulldoze it, yeah. Okay. And Dave's wife... yeah, well, Dave's wife was very heartbroken when Primeval World closed. That was her favorite ride.

Fredrick Briley (27:50.691)
Let's go, we'll do it together. take it on. First thing going is dinosaur itself.

Lori Talamo (28:01.878)
My daughter too. That was, I wrote it maybe once, maybe twice. And I'm like, I feel like I'm going to die on this thing. Cause I don't like heights. And so just the spinning and you feel like you're going to fall off the track. couldn't, I couldn't do it, but Olivia loved that ride. Like they would go and just ride it over and over and over. So she was, she was pretty sad when and took it away. She's not a fan of dinosaurs, so she's glad that one's going away.

Fredrick Briley (28:01.913)
I never

David (28:25.696)
Yeah.

Toni Z (28:29.042)
Yeah, Dave and I usually wait outside when our family rides dinosaur.

David (28:29.376)
Hmm.

Yeah, we're benchers when that happens. We're on the bench, waiting.

Lori Talamo (28:36.942)
Yeah, Josh isn't a huge roller coaster fan, but he does like dinosaur. So we'll do that one. But I don't know, we'll see. I'm excited for the things to come in the parks. So all right, so it looks like we're going to shift on over to the podcast focus now.

David (28:41.696)
Mm.

David (28:51.85)
Good stuff coming.

Toni Z (28:56.616)
Okay. Dave's going to take the lead on a lot of these.

David (28:57.139)
no.

Fredrick Briley (28:58.412)
no.

Lori Talamo (28:58.604)
Yes!

Okay, sure. So what got what inspired you guys to start the Disney crush?

David (29:08.384)
Well, I guess I'll go, And if you want to jump in, go ahead, jump in. I would say that that trip, that week trip that we had, well, let me just go back a little bit. I've been a big podcast listener for years, many, many years, 15 years ago, almost when they first started coming out. I listened to talk radio and then when the podcasting started coming out, I started listening to podcasts. And I just fell in love with podcasts and the work I was doing, I had a lot of time.

to listen to podcasts. So I would spend eight hours a day listening to podcasts. And then after that trip, Tony and I call her, know, she's the sensei, she's an expert. I know I'm embarrassing her right now, but she is quite the expert at Disney. And I thought, you know, that might be a good to do a podcast. That might be good to do like a newbie and a pro.

kind of thing, because I'm kind of new at it and she's been around for long time and kind of work off each other. And I called her up one day and I said, hey, you want to do a podcast? And she said, yes. And then that's how it kind of came about. So it was that simple. And we just, yeah.

Toni Z (30:17.244)
The thing that nobody believes about Dave and I is that we were in the same family for about 20 years. Maybe, yeah, about 20 years. And we talked. I mean, we would see each other at Christmas and Thanksgiving and things, we weren't, like now we talk every day. Like this is, he was my husband's sister's husband. that wasn't, there wasn't much of a relationship there. We, you know, we'd say, we see each other on Christmas basically.

So it's just bizarre how, we're very, yeah, yeah, we're brother and sister now, essentially. So, yeah.

Fredrick Briley (30:50.287)
That's transformed over the years. Yeah. That's cool.

David (30:53.888)
Yeah, yeah, it's been good. So it's brought some good things to the podcasting. mean, nothing negative, everything good. So that's how it started.

Lori Talamo (31:02.894)
That's awesome.

Fredrick Briley (31:05.669)
How did you come up with the name for the Disney crush? Like where did the Disney crush come from?

David (31:11.112)
Well, I'm going to say it on your podcast because I really haven't I've kind of talked about it on our podcast and I think on other podcasts that we've been on and we've been asked this question, but

There was a hunting show that I used to watch and it was called The Crush. And I was trying to find a name and I didn't want to put too much energy in a name, but know, names can be hard to come by. And I just didn't know what to call it. And I just, one day I just said, what about the Disney Crush? Because you can use that, it's kind of a homonym. can use it as a verb, you can use it as a noun. You can say I've got a crush on Disney, I love Disney, or I'm gonna crush him.

Lori Talamo (31:34.449)
yeah.

Fredrick Briley (31:35.32)
We

David (31:53.024)
literally crush them. Yeah, or yeah, right. So you can you can bounce off those two things. So that's kind of how it came up. It was that simple. And I I called Tony and she Tony is just so easy. Because I thought maybe I'm gonna call her up and tell her and ask her this. How do you like this name? And she would say, well, and I'm like, what do think about the Disney crush? And she goes, Okay, sounds good. And that was it. And I, yeah.

Toni Z (31:54.738)
or it's crushing me, my wallet.

Fredrick Briley (31:58.323)
it works.

Lori Talamo (31:58.338)
Yeah.

Toni Z (32:16.508)
Yeah. Yeah. We, we had, you know, in hindsight, we probably wouldn't have used the name Disney in our podcast because it came when we started doing some merch and stuff, became problematic. Disney doesn't like people using the name Disney, but Disney is a name and I I've worked with people with the last name Disney. I, so I don't really understand. Like I can't, I don't know, but

Lori Talamo (32:40.814)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (32:41.795)
Yeah, I get it.

Lori Talamo (32:44.578)
Yeah, we kind of struggled a little bit in the beginning trying to come up with a name because originally we thought maybe we would come up with a mashup between because Fred and I both travel agents with, you know, something to do with with that. And then I just I use chat GPT and I just was like, give me some podcast names for these things. And so this was one of the ones. So, you know, initially we were just. What was it?

Toni Z (32:53.5)
Mm-hmm.

Fredrick Briley (33:12.515)
Beyond the castle. Yeah.

Lori Talamo (33:13.612)
Beyond the Castle. And then we realized after we started, in both of us searched, so I'm like, our search and skills that day must have been off because there was already a podcast. And so we added going in front, which I do like going Beyond the Castle because we've talked about Universal a little bit and then hopefully we'll get some cruises and stuff. The one thing I like about yours that I feel like we're lacking is I like how you can call your followers or your friends crushers.

Toni Z (33:32.05)
Mm-hmm.

Lori Talamo (33:42.912)
or, you I'm like, we don't really have.

Toni Z (33:43.6)
Yeah, and he didn't like that and that was one of his his reservations. He didn't like the term crushers

Lori Talamo (33:48.644)
he didn't like it.

David (33:49.714)
No, I didn't like it. No, I didn't. you know, we have friends that have podcasts, Geek in a Walt Disney World, and they call themselves the geeks. And I kept thinking, someone's gonna say crushers. I just did not like it. I was like, it just doesn't, it just sounds, I don't know. Just didn't like it. But now it's kind of grown, it's just there. It's grown on me and I've accepted it. So it's okay.

Lori Talamo (33:59.224)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (34:10.927)
Yep. We'll get there. We'll come up with something. Beyonders.

Lori Talamo (34:13.186)
Yeah. Beyonders.

Toni Z (34:14.856)
You'll get something.

David (34:15.296)
Yeah, you'll find something, right. It's amazing what you come up with when you do the podcast. So many things have organically just kind of happened and came up through the podcast and it just kind of happens.

Toni Z (34:23.432)
Mm-hmm.

Lori Talamo (34:27.842)
Yeah. Yeah. So I remember telling you guys that I started listening to your podcast while I'm working out. And so, you know, I was kind of catching up to I was caught up to where you were. So I was going back and listening to some of the earlier ones. And I think I remember you saying, Tony, and don't go back and listen to the first one. So what was it like when you guys created your first podcast or like?

Fredrick Briley (34:28.591)
That's cool.

Toni Z (34:45.309)
don't do that.

Fredrick Briley (34:46.488)
haha

Lori Talamo (34:57.262)
Not so much on the bad side if you felt like it was bad, but like how did it make you feel? know, like what is it about the first one that kind of was like, okay, we can we can do this Or did you kind of feel like gosh?

Toni Z (35:07.556)
I didn't think anybody would listen. I didn't think anybody would listen. Why would you listen to me and Dave talk about Disney? There's people that have been doing, know, I listened to the Diz on Plug back in the day and Lou Mangelo. And so what do we have to say that they haven't already said? But I found in time that everybody has a different spin on things. You you listen to podcasts.

And everybody loves the same restaurants. Everybody loves Homecoming. And it's like, and I don't love Homecoming. So there's something I could say that nobody else is saying. just everybody has their own spin on things. there's no reason, there's room in this world for all of us.

David (35:58.432)
Yeah, one thing I didn't do was check to see how many Disney podcasts were out there. We just jumped, well not literally jumped right in, might go into that a little bit later, maybe in one of the other questions, but yeah, I had no idea that there were so many Disney podcasts out there. I don't know if that would have scared us or scared me away, but we were just kind of naive and just went into it. And then not until maybe years later did we realize, wow, there's a lot of Disney podcasts out there.

Lori Talamo (36:15.342)
Mm-hmm.

David (36:26.58)
But like Tony said, everybody's got their own spin on it. I encourage everybody, if you want to do podcast, do one. I think it's great.

Lori Talamo (36:36.578)
Yeah, I can tell you, and I'm not just saying this because I'm talking to you guys, but I've tried listening to other podcasts and I don't know, I just can't get into them. So I mean, I do have one, there's the Disney nerds, one of the guys local. We live in the same, you know, like 10 minutes from each other. So I'll listen to his. But some of the other, I don't know, I just, loved you guys. I think it was, you know, your personalities and just talk, like listening to you guys talk.

David (36:47.84)
Hmm.

Toni Z (36:51.73)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Lori Talamo (37:05.644)
that kind of drew me in. And so that's how I got sucked into it.

Toni Z (37:07.208)
Thank you.

David (37:10.197)
she must have received that check, Tony, and we sent her.

Toni Z (37:12.87)
Or she didn't listen to the last podcast or the last two podcasts. Dave's been cranky lately. Dave's been cranky lately.

Lori Talamo (37:17.954)
No wait, I'll save them now until I go to the gym.

David (37:18.035)
Uhhh

Everybody says I've been cranky lately. I don't know. I don't think it's cranky. think I just, yeah. Even my wife says I've been cranky.

Lori Talamo (37:26.902)
I'll let you know because I'll be at the gym in the morning. I'm going to listen. So I'll let you know what I think.

David (37:30.432)
Okay. Just get ready. I guess I was a little cranky. I don't know.

Lori Talamo (37:36.568)
Gotcha.

Fredrick Briley (37:37.093)
Well, we all have our moments, it's okay.

David (37:38.995)
You

Lori Talamo (37:39.662)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (37:41.093)
Okay, so next question is what is your favorite type of episode?

David (37:46.336)
Hmm.

Toni Z (37:47.804)
I like having guests on and we do a segment where we have, we haven't done one in a while, where we have a lot of guests, we have five guests on at the same time. I love those episodes. Dave, those are the bane of his existence because he does the editing. So, but I like hearing from other people and getting their take on things and learning about their experiences and maybe that'll influence me to try something new or see something I haven't seen before.

So I really like those episodes and I think people enjoy hearing different voices. Like they listen to me and Dave talk every week, it probably gets boring. that's how I feel, but he's got to edit it. So.

David (38:28.628)
Yeah, but I...

Lori Talamo (38:28.718)
Yeah, I think I was the first time I joined was the 515.

Fredrick Briley (38:28.781)
I know,

David (38:34.624)
What you gonna say, Fred?

Fredrick Briley (38:36.121)
I was just saying I know the pain of editing. Yeah, I know.

David (38:38.118)
yeah.

Lori Talamo (38:38.722)
I don't, I don't. I said I'm the podcast princess. So yes, Fred does all of the technical stuff. I'll do the groundwork as far as looking up some info and sending notes and stuff, but he does the harder stuff.

Toni Z (38:42.512)
That's us, we're the podcast princesses.

David (38:55.434)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (38:55.439)
Lori funds our podcasts and plans it all. I just make it look pretty.

Toni Z (39:01.757)
Good.

David (39:01.876)
Hmm. No, it's...

Lori Talamo (39:02.402)
Well, I tell them I feel like I need to contribute. was like, so I'll pay the fee and then you do the work. And then at least I'll feel like it's a little bit even.

Toni Z (39:10.088)
Mm-hmm.

David (39:11.024)
yeah. it's, you know, look, well, maybe some of your other questions, we'll talk about it, but it's, yeah, editing can take some time. In fact, just, wanted Tony to feel sorry for me, so I texted her the other day and I knew I was traveling, so I had done our last episode and then I decided while I'm at it, I'm gonna throw a quick Patreon in there. So I spent right at nine hours editing.

Toni Z (39:34.568)
Mm-hmm.

David (39:40.296)
the one podcast and a Patreon and then down, you know, getting it all on my hosting and all that, you the whole thing. So it took me about nine hours. Yeah. People don't realize that it does take some time Fred. Fred knows. But anyway, it's all good.

Lori Talamo (39:40.345)
yikes.

Fredrick Briley (39:51.342)
Yeah, it does.

Lori Talamo (39:57.388)
Yep. Did we get your favorite type of episode?

David (40:01.62)
you're my favorite type of episode. will say, unlike Tony Anne, who likes to bring five people on the show and drive me crazy, which I do love it. I love having guests on. like, I might be, I don't want to spoil it, but a lot of times, you know, coming up with topics sometimes can be sometimes difficult. even, okay, for instance, Tony Anne calls me the other day and says, you're not going to believe what happened. And I'm like, okay, well, what happened? Well, I can't tell you. We have to save it for the show.

Well, we don't record until on Thursdays. Well, now I've got to wait five or six days. But this is typical with us. And that's why when we talk during the day, we'll start talking, but I'll say something and she'd stop, stop talking. Don't say it for the show. And that's why I think it's fresh a lot of times when we come on and we, yeah, it's just natural. So my answer to that question is I like it when we just don't have a topic. And I think it drives her crazy because she's like, well, what are we going to talk about? And I said, you know what, Tony Ann?

Lori Talamo (40:31.36)
no.

Toni Z (40:48.048)
much more natural.

David (41:01.216)
let's just get on and we'll just start talking. And then, and all of sudden we do, and then an hour later, I'm like, see there, there's a show, there you go. And it was pretty good.

Toni Z (41:11.526)
And there are times when I listen the following week and I'm like, I can't believe you made a show out of that. Out of that gibberish that we talked about for two hours, that you made a show out of that.

David (41:16.352)
Yeah, she'll text me and she'll say, luck editing that one.

Fredrick Briley (41:17.985)
I did.

Toni Z (41:22.376)
And he does it. He's really, he's really good at what he does. I tell people that they don't realize, but I know what the raw footage sounds like.

Lori Talamo (41:24.11)
That's funny.

David (41:32.992)
Yeah. So yeah, just jumping on and talking, I think I just love that part of it. Because we always come up with something and before you know it, it's an hour and we're into it.

Fredrick Briley (41:34.85)
A chaos in the beauty.

Lori Talamo (41:46.904)
Yeah, so I guess we kind of answered the next question maybe about what the biggest challenge of running a Disney crush is.

David (41:55.098)
Tonyan? You have any?

Toni Z (41:56.796)
Well, I didn't take it the way that you said it just now. When you asked what the biggest challenge was, for us the biggest challenge was 2020. COVID, when the parks closed, we didn't know what we were gonna do. We didn't know if we should keep doing the podcast. We didn't know how we were gonna come up with a topic every week for...

Lori Talamo (42:01.23)
Okay.

Toni Z (42:19.122)
however long the parks were gonna be closed. we, originally they said two weeks, remember? They said two weeks and we're like, we could do two weeks. And then it went to be two months and three months. Right. So somehow we wound up doing two shows a week during COVID, because we were doing live streams every Tuesday night and we made it work. And I think that all speaks to our community and our community really came together during COVID. That actually, I couldn't.

Lori Talamo (42:19.948)
Right, for heaven's sake.

Lori Talamo (42:39.104)
well.

Toni Z (42:48.4)
I would not have ever believed it, but we got closer to our friends during COVID being isolated than we ever had been before because we were just communicating online all the time.

David (43:02.462)
Yeah, and when she says friends, she means listeners, because the listeners became, a lot of the listeners became friends of ours, like Lori. I mean, we just met people, before you know it, we were meeting them in the parks to enjoy the parks together, and it's, yeah, that time really brought us all together, I think, and solidified a very tight-knit kind of group, which is kind of cool.

Toni Z (43:10.3)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (43:25.65)
Mm-hmm.

Lori Talamo (43:27.79)
That's awesome.

Fredrick Briley (43:29.048)
That cool.

Toni Z (43:30.6)
Dave what's your challenge because I took that question totally different than probably anybody else would have

David (43:34.8)
No, I think that was absolutely right. And I think I have notes and my notes, my notes says the same thing, Tony and I put COVID down. Yeah. What? Yeah. And the meetups, the COVID and the meetups. The biggest, the biggest challenge I don't, I, you know, I don't know. It's just, it's just.

Fredrick Briley (43:36.527)
Yeah, they did.

Lori Talamo (43:36.588)
Yeah, that was awesome. Yeah.

Toni Z (43:44.176)
We

Toni Z (43:51.804)
when we both forget to hit record.

Fredrick Briley (43:54.073)
Nn ha!

David (43:54.138)
well, that's a whole podcasting. That's another thing, right?

Toni Z (43:56.988)
That's the challenge. And it goes back to that whole thing about us saying, no, no, don't tell me, let's keep the conversation fresh. Cause if you do forget to hit record and you got to go back and do it all over again, it's never as good as the first time because the natural conversation flow is gone. And you're waiting for the person to say the thing they said before, or they forget to say something that was really a good point. it, you know, it just, it's never the same.

Fredrick Briley (43:58.221)
I'm

David (44:09.365)
Mm-mm.

David (44:13.696)
Mm-hmm.

Lori Talamo (44:17.422)
So you can say.

Fredrick Briley (44:19.705)
Yeah.

David (44:22.856)
Yeah, I hope it never happens to you guys. I really, really do, but...

Lori Talamo (44:27.522)
No, I think...

Fredrick Briley (44:27.653)
There was that one episode that we recorded like three times and it was different every time.

David (44:32.543)
Mm.

Lori Talamo (44:32.834)
We had to, yeah, I don't even remember what happened, but yeah, we had to redo it and like, okay, here's the third time. Or the last time, this is what we said. We'd forget some stuff.

Toni Z (44:34.418)
Mm-hmm.

David (44:45.29)
Right.

Toni Z (44:45.328)
And our fail safe is for each of us to do it, to record on each end. And there have been times where we've both forgotten.

David (44:52.008)
Yeah, there's been a couple of times. One of us usually remembers and so we cover ourselves, but yeah, there has been times.

Toni Z (44:58.0)
And we have notes that say, don't forget to hit record. we look right at the note.

Fredrick Briley (45:02.309)
You'll do it.

David (45:05.465)
This is backwards.

Lori Talamo (45:05.602)
Yeah, I remember when we were first starting, Dave's like, don't forget to hit record.

David (45:10.942)
Yeah, I have it on my equipment and I still forget sometimes. That's crazy. And you're right. It's Yeah, we've done that. We've had to record. We've had to record a whole show over again. Which is painful. Does happen. That's what happens. We get to talking and then before you know it, it's like, we forgot to push record. Yeah.

Toni Z (45:17.48)
And it's always when we have, it's always when we have guests. A lot of times it's when we have guests.

Fredrick Briley (45:25.701)
No, thank you

Toni Z (45:34.578)
Mm-hmm.

Fredrick Briley (45:37.349)
An hour later, crap, forget to hit record.

David (45:41.46)
Mm-hmm.

Fredrick Briley (45:43.429)
Okay, so talked about the most challenging. Let's flip it around. What's been the most rewarding part of, you know, sharing your journey on the Disney crush?

David (45:46.538)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (45:55.442)
just the friendships that we've built. We've built some incredible friendships with people who are like-minded Disney adults. We've also, their kids are wonderful. We just have a happy family. And it's really been something that I can't, know, I'm 50, I was almost 50 when I met some of the best friends I've ever had in my whole life. So that,

I never would have thought that, but.

David (46:27.39)
Yeah, we weren't expecting that, right? That was something that caught us by surprise was the community, the listeners, and I have the same thing on my notes is the community. Just the people, the listeners have become such an integral part of our podcast that we feel like they're, I always say it's a journey. We're on a journey and we want to bring the listeners on that journey with us.

Toni Z (46:30.152)
Mm-mm.

David (46:54.848)
And they can see the progression if you want. We don't encourage it. Please don't, please don't. But if you want to go back to episodes one through, I'd say probably one through 20, you might want to skip. we've had listeners and friends of ours say, no, no, no, you don't understand. We loved it then, even though it was not so good and you couldn't hear Dave a lot. But things over time have gotten better and technology has gotten better and more equipment. And so they've kind of

Toni Z (47:05.35)
Mm-hmm. the sound quality.

David (47:24.116)
been on this journey with us and that's what's really cool is that we've, the community for sure, yeah, just the community. We're surrounded by such amazing people and friends now that it just boggles my mind that these people that we know now and see so frequently weren't in our lives eight years ago. And like Lori, we didn't know any of you guys and now we do and it's amazing, absolutely amazing.

Toni Z (47:37.137)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (47:43.472)
Right.

Toni Z (47:52.028)
And it's a, it's a really great podcast community, not just our podcast, Geek and Omel Disney World podcast, the Mickey file podcast, the monorail tales, the my DVC points community. We're all kind of like sisters, cousins of each other. And, and so it's, there's no sense. you would think like people would feel competitive, but there's really none of that. It's just, because there's plenty to say about Disney that

that we're not cutting into each other's schtick. And we all have our own little spin on things. Yeah. Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (48:23.022)
Yeah.

We all have our own opinions.

David (48:29.48)
Yeah. And you know, like our friend Kevin, he started a podcast. I know. I got him. Yeah.

Toni Z (48:32.698)
Kevin, my god, I forgot Kevin. Kevin has in the UK has five cats too, but he's got about four.

Fredrick Briley (48:38.308)
up now.

Lori Talamo (48:42.489)
wow, he does four podcasts.

Toni Z (48:44.902)
He's sleeping right now, he won't hear that I forgot.

David (48:46.784)
That's true.

Fredrick Briley (48:46.809)
There you go. We'll edit this out of the actual one.

Lori Talamo (48:50.594)
There you go.

So keeping in line with that, are there any moments or any specific things that you have felt the impact of your podcast on your audience?

Toni Z (49:08.22)
Well, there have been, in our group, have been births and deaths. One of our friends and listeners had there, we were doing a live stream one night and our friend Daniel was on the live stream talking, because when we were doing live streams, our listeners would chat with us, they would have their comments and he was on chatting with us and we signed off and 10 minutes later I got a text.

that Daniel's house was hit by a tornado. I'm like, what are you talking about? He was just, we were just talking to him five minutes ago, 10 minutes ago. And he, the community came together. The community wrapped their arms around him and his wife, Norma. they've been, since, you know, several years removed now, they've rebuilt their house. But that's the kind of community that we have. And I can't believe that, you know, we've had people who's

who have family members who passed away. And like I said, we've had a few new babies and we always seem to come together. So, yeah.

Fredrick Briley (50:15.717)
That's super cool.

David (50:16.008)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I'm just gonna, that's just what I would say too. some crazy stuff has happened and we just rally around each other and it's very heartwarming and it's a good thing, it's a good thing.

Toni Z (50:29.096)
Yeah. On a personal level, had a meetup in 2023. We had never had a Disney crush meetup in Walt Disney World before 2023. our first event, our first group event was a meetup in the Nomad Lounge. And we have these obnoxious orange shirts that a lot of us wear that say crushers on them. And that whole Nomad Lounge was full of people.

in these orange shirts and we yeah we we had filled Denoma Lounge with with listeners and that was kind of surreal because why are they here why are they here like yeah it was it was really it was really mind-blowing it was really mind-blowing

Fredrick Briley (51:12.805)
Yeah, I can't imagine that. That's kind cool.

Lori Talamo (51:13.582)
Yeah, that's awesome.

Lori Talamo (51:18.146)
Yeah.

One of the things that you all did, and I won't say the names just in case, but once I say it, you want to say, feel free. I just don't want to say anything just in case. But there was a young boy that's part of your community and was feeling maybe unloved, like he didn't have a lot of friends. And you had got everyone on. And I'm pretty sure you did it for several months. I don't know how much work it took for you to go in and put a calendar together for people to send him things from all over.

Toni Z (51:27.784)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (51:37.714)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (51:44.433)
You

Lori Talamo (51:50.894)
the United States to let him know that he was loved and that he did have friends. And I thought that was really amazing, you know, for you to put that together, you know, for a young kid, because that could have a huge impact on somebody's life. So I thought that was truly special that y'all did that.

Toni Z (52:07.464)
Yeah. Well, my Michael, he came in before. He's autistic and he's 25 now, but he acts like a kid. the community has really wrapped their arms around him too. And he's excited because now Christmas cards have started dribbling in and he comes in with a gr- And he runs to his room with him. I don't even see them. So if I haven't thanked somebody for a card they sent Michael, it's because he doesn't let me see it because he runs off with them.

Lori Talamo (52:25.07)
Coming in.

Toni Z (52:35.164)
But I do see them coming in and if I can catch him, I'll always thank people. But yeah, he's been blessed like that too.

Fredrick Briley (52:50.031)
Dave, did you answer?

Lori Talamo (52:52.322)
He did, I think. Yeah.

David (52:52.566)
yeah.

Toni Z (52:53.436)
Yeah, he did.

Fredrick Briley (52:53.647)
I can't remember. Okay, cool, cool. This is I'm excited to hear. If you could interview any Disney legend or character, any Disney character for your podcast, would it be and why?

David (52:57.472)
Thank you, Laurie.

David (53:10.666)
Wow. No, go ahead, Tonya. I just know she's smiling. Go for it.

Toni Z (53:11.666)
Are you gonna go first?

Lori Talamo (53:12.206)
So me and smiling because I'm wondering.

Toni Z (53:16.124)
I really want to interview Bob Chapick. I really want to hear his side of the story. really, you know what? I don't think that man ever had a chance because Eiger never stepped away really. He was hovering over him, watching everything he did. And whenever anything bad happened, they would blame Chapick, even though some of it was already in the works when Eiger was in charge. And, and Eiger was still pulling strings back then. So I really would love to hear Chapick's side of the story. Cause

David (53:19.136)
Dare you.

Fredrick Briley (53:20.057)
Yup.

Toni Z (53:43.196)
The man got this big job. He could not be completely incompetent. There's no way he would have gotten that job if he was as big a fool as everybody makes him out to be.

Fredrick Briley (53:51.973)
Look, and you bring up a really great point. Like, he came in and took over this company and people like just made it seem like he showed up and was like, we're going to change all of this. Like that's not how Disney works. Like, it's like, and, he got, like you said, he got blamed for all of it. Like that would be a good person to have on.

Toni Z (53:57.404)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (54:05.028)
No, was all in the works already.

David (54:08.416)
Mm-hmm.

Toni Z (54:11.282)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. I'm sure he has nondisclosures and he can't say what he wants to, but...

David (54:14.355)
No.

Fredrick Briley (54:17.326)
yeah, absolutely. We'll just change his voice and make it seem like it's not him.

David (54:19.817)
Newtonian

Toni Z (54:22.267)
Okay.

David (54:23.2)
Tony has a shirt she wears that says, Chafee.

Toni Z (54:27.014)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (54:28.068)
Ha

Lori Talamo (54:29.304)
I thought you were gonna say Josh Demaro.

Toni Z (54:31.524)
No, no, he looks like Count Chocula.

David (54:33.6)
You know, she's got too much of him anyway. She's got posters in her room of him. Mr. Tight Pants. yeah. yeah. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, where was it? What was that big event they had that he, yeah, D23. Yeah, I had no idea what all these girls were talking about. Then I saw him, I'm like, okay, well, okay, I see it now. Okay, yeah.

Lori Talamo (54:41.279)
Hmm

Toni Z (54:42.172)
I'm sure his jeans cost more than my car.

Toni Z (54:51.528)
D23? Mm-hmm.

David (55:01.022)
He's a good looking guy, got some tight jeans on.

Toni Z (55:04.038)
Yeah, but since somebody told me he looked like a vampire, can't unsee it now. so that's Count Chocula.

David (55:07.016)
I did, yeah, Count Chocula. He looks like Count Chocula. Yeah, yeah, yeah, kinda sorta. You'll see it now. You won't be able to unsee it now, Lord.

Lori Talamo (55:10.712)
I can see it. I can see it.

David (55:16.808)
Okay, I'm gonna, this is gonna sound a little crazy maybe for me, but I'm gonna say Johnny Depp. But when I interview him, I want him to be Jack Sparrow. So that he has to be in character for my interview with him. Only because I think he's, yeah, he's a great actor and he's a musician, which I love. He plays guitar and I love that. play guitar and yeah, just think he'd be, do you? cool.

Lori Talamo (55:16.976)
gosh.

Toni Z (55:21.992)
Fredrick Briley (55:22.117)
F

Lori Talamo (55:22.754)
Mmm, interesting.

Fredrick Briley (55:28.997)
my god.

whole time. It's gonna be a long time.

Lori Talamo (55:42.798)
So does Fred.

David (55:45.888)
I just got a new one today. I just got me a new Yamaha today. But I think he'd be fun to interview and hear all about the pirates and his movies and stuff.

Fredrick Briley (55:55.599)
Well, there's rumors he's coming back for another pirate. No, we'll see.

David (55:57.728)
I would hope so, I can only hope.

Fredrick Briley (56:03.332)
I will see.

Lori Talamo (56:04.844)
Yeah, fun. Fun. All right, we're winding down. If you could go back to when you first started your podcast, what advice would you give yourself?

David (56:04.992)
So that's mine.

David (56:17.417)
Mm.

Fredrick Briley (56:18.821)
This is a hard one, I feel like.

Lori Talamo (56:20.814)
Yeah.

David (56:23.114)
Tonyans, you thinking, she's thinking, or you have one.

Toni Z (56:25.02)
No, I know what mine is. I worry because we're driven by a lot of humor. And because of that, like Josh Demaro looking like Count Chocula in his hot pants and all that, there's a lot of inside jokes in our Disney crush culture. And I worry that all those inside jokes alienate new listeners that they don't know what we're talking about, or they don't know these people, because we do have a big community. So sometimes we'll...

will shout out to somebody, but I worry that that alienates new listeners who don't know these people or don't know what we're talking about. So I think I try to be mindful of that, but sometimes it gets away from us because it's the listener base we do have, they enjoy the humor. I don't know. I don't think we could put that back in the bottle.

David (57:16.692)
Yeah, because so many things have happened and not us meaning for it to happen. It just kind of happens. Like the Turkey of Truth. mean, the list can go on and on and on, but there's so many things that have happened in the podcast itself that we met somebody at a meetup. I think it was at Geek and it was Bubba Mack. Yeah, he was at a Geek and Meet I think we went to.

Toni Z (57:26.449)
Right.

Toni Z (57:30.428)
Right.

Toni Z (57:38.246)
It was Bubba.

David (57:43.164)
He's a friend of ours now and I think he started to listen to our show because he met us and then we got to talking to him at another time and he said, know, it's and he's a very honest guy, which I love and I appreciate. And he said, you know, your show is just kind of hard to follow because there's so many inside jokes and I just, I don't know what you guys are talking about. And we both went, man, then that's what Tony is talking about. And.

Toni Z (57:53.69)
Yeah.

Toni Z (58:05.436)
And we actually had an episode already that we had recorded, our 200th episode, and we explained all the inside jokes. And we told Bubba, listen to episode 200. And he did, and he said it helped. But now we're on episode 370. So there's 170 more episodes. So a lot of time has passed. So we might need to revisit that.

David (58:22.133)
Yeah.

David (58:26.206)
Yeah, so now we're just going with it. I mean, we try instead of mentioning, like lot of times we mention somebody's name that if a new listener

Toni Z (58:35.538)
Well, our friend Kevin Curtis Allen from the UK, that's another inside joke because when we first started our podcast, when we would always say, we would mention him and the episode would go flawless. And then we'd go one week and we wouldn't say, we wouldn't have anything to say about him. And that would be the week that the audio didn't work or we didn't hit record. So it became an inside joke that we always say his name during an episode. And, but if people don't know that.

Like, why are they saying this man's name?

David (59:05.872)
They're like, why they keep saying, and for some reason we say it three times, Kevin, Curtis Allen, Kevin, Curtis Allen. Yeah. See? Yeah. And I don't know why we said it three times, but yeah. But it was funny because when he came to the meetup, he stood in front of all those people at the meetup, not our meetup, somebody else's meetup, and said, okay, everybody, what do you say? And everybody was like, Kevin, Curtis Allen, Kevin, Curtis Allen, Kevin, Curtis Allen. But somebody knew would...

Lori Talamo (59:06.52)
Huh.

Toni Z (59:09.864)
Like, like Beetlejuice.

Lori Talamo (59:10.412)
I was gonna say that, why you say it three times? Yes.

Toni Z (59:24.936)
Yeah, well somebody else does media.

David (59:35.518)
be like why are they saying that that's so silly.

Toni Z (59:38.032)
Yeah, we're silly.

Lori Talamo (59:42.222)
You guys are great.

Toni Z (59:44.914)
Did you have anything you regret or would be more mindful of David?

David (59:45.341)
thank you,

David (59:50.84)
I don't know. I well, I would, and I would, and I would give that advice to any new podcaster out there. just record maybe 10 episodes and, and delete, just delete them. know it's going to be hard. I know it'd be hard, but just delete them and then start again. And you can still use the same material, you know, the same topics and the same material in there, but yeah, just delete them just, and then start fresh. That's one thing I wish we had done.

Toni Z (59:54.172)
You always say you'd erase our first 20 episodes, so nobody can listen to me.

Fredrick Briley (01:00:05.143)
them.

Toni Z (01:00:13.384)
same topics.

Lori Talamo (01:00:19.118)
Start over.

David (01:00:21.268)
But I'm embracing it, it is what it is. There's a learning curve to everything in life and that was our learning curve. And it's funny because a lot of listeners say, no, it's all good, we enjoyed all those old ones. And to see where you were then and now, it's a big difference. So maybe that, but yeah. The only thing I do regret, if there's a regret in there is that.

Toni Z (01:00:38.566)
Mm-hmm.

David (01:00:46.75)
When I first started the podcast or when we first started the podcast, I asked Tonya if she wanted to do it. I'm not very techie at all. My wife is very good on the computer and my son is really, really good. And so I have to give them props for helping get this thing going because I got scared and it took me a long time, like almost six or seven months. And I bet Tonya was like, is he going to ever start this thing?

Toni Z (01:01:08.072)
Yeah. I think it was a full year because you asked me at Christmas and we started recording the next Christmas or if not two Christmases later, I don't know.

David (01:01:16.98)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just froze. just, I couldn't do it. So I gave up on it. And then I finally just said, you know, just get in. And I just immersed myself in it and figured it out. And now that was, you know, nine years ago, whatever it was when that happened. Now things are a little different. They're a little easier with the technology. Things have changed a little bit, but back then it was a little different, but I had so much help with my wife and my son. I have to give them props.

My son does the intro and outro music and he did that music when he was 15 and we still use it and we still use it today. And you know, and another thing, since we're on this and we're talking about podcasting stuff, Tonyanne's always talking about how my editing is and all that kind of stuff, but people don't realize everything that Tonyanne does. and not only for our podcasts, but for other podcasts that we know. She's such a great help and she does so much behind the scenes, like the...

Toni Z (01:01:49.352)
Mm-hmm.

Fredrick Briley (01:01:52.59)
cool.

David (01:02:14.42)
just everything with the community. yeah, I'm just, I'm so lucky that we were doing this together because I couldn't do it without her. So this is, you she's just, she does so much. She really does. Yeah. Doesn't get the credit for it, but she does it. So.

Lori Talamo (01:02:17.838)
You

Fredrick Briley (01:02:31.877)
That's cool.

Lori Talamo (01:02:31.886)
Awesome. Yep, you guys are a great team.

David (01:02:36.511)
Well, thank you.

Fredrick Briley (01:02:37.413)
All right, any, before we wrap it up, any last words before we finish up?

Toni Z (01:02:43.965)
No, just good luck to you guys when you know, we're really excited that you guys started this and if you need anything, let us know if you have any questions or anything. We're here and yeah, because we had people help us. We didn't do it alone. So, you know, we're always pretty supportive and mindful of that with new podcasts.

David (01:03:04.424)
Yeah, I think, don't know if this is, it's like this in other genres of podcasting, but in our, Disney groups, the other podcasters that we know, they're, I'm sure there's some out there, but the ego, there's no ego. And we've had so many people step up and help us along the way, or if they hear something, they'll get in touch with us and say, hey, you know, I could hear your audio. You might want to check out this or do that. Or if I have a question, I'll call them and.

Toni Z (01:03:19.24)
Yeah, they're all very welcoming.

Toni Z (01:03:30.811)
Yeah.

David (01:03:33.948)
And this has been so supportive, the podcast community, the Disney podcast community that we've been around. Just no ego at all. just, you know, even when we first started, people, you know, they were asking us to come on their shows and they're like, why are you asking us to come on your show? And we're just starting. But yeah, that just a great community. So a podcasters. So anyway.

Toni Z (01:03:55.08)
Mm-hmm.

Fredrick Briley (01:03:55.311)
Yeah. Well, I, having met you guys all of one hour and four minutes ago, it's already been super cool. So I don't think L'Oreal or Vito, but I'd love to have you guys back on and, you know, dive into some actual Disney stuff together. Yeah. There we go. Yeah.

Toni Z (01:04:11.858)
Okay.

David (01:04:12.264)
Yeah, sounds good. Hey, maybe we'll have you guys on and five more people. Antonio will be happy.

Lori Talamo (01:04:12.728)
Yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Toni Z (01:04:19.686)
and Dave can edit it.

Fredrick Briley (01:04:19.781)
speed of that. Yeah, right. You can edit it all. Have fun.

David (01:04:21.706)
But no, we're, yeah, I okay, well, I'm super excited for you guys, honestly, and thank you for having us on. And yeah, it's so, so excited for you guys. I always say, everybody should start a podcast. I think it's great, so yeah.

Lori Talamo (01:04:32.024)
Thank you.

Lori Talamo (01:04:35.822)
And it's so funny because I don't know why, but I was like, it did work out too. I was like, I'm going to get them on our 10th episode. I don't know why it was like, you know, we like kind of leading up and we'll have like tens, like double digit. So it did work out perfectly. And and I know and I know I had messaged you a couple of days ago, feeling a little. Not insecure, but you know, because you don't know when you're stepping into something new, that someone something that someone else is already doing.

David (01:04:48.541)
huh.

Toni Z (01:05:04.296)
Mm-hmm.

Lori Talamo (01:05:04.926)
if it's going to be awkward or hard feeling. So that was just me making it weird. But I appreciate you guys embracing us. y'all are still my faves. I love y'all and really love what y'all do. And I love your community. So I hope that we'll be one day included in the round of friendship podcast and maybe get to do some meetups with you guys.

Toni Z (01:05:27.716)
Absolutely. Absolutely.

David (01:05:30.322)
Yeah, we'll definitely collab some more, do some more stuff together. Absolutely. Enjoyed it. This has been great.

Lori Talamo (01:05:33.699)
Yeah.

Fredrick Briley (01:05:35.673)
Yeah, absolutely. So if our listeners want to add you to their list of podcasts, where can they go to hear the Disney crush?

David (01:05:46.238)
Well, we have, you can get ahold of us at thedisneycrush.com. We're on Instagram at the underscore Disney Crush. TheDisneyCrush at gmail.com if you want to get ahold of us or ask a question. We have a private Facebook group called Friends of the Disney Crush. We have a main page. And these are all these, of the stuff Tonyanne takes care of. So that's another thing. She does so much work on these platforms.

The dizzy crust and on YouTube Yeah Yeah, yeah, we've yeah, we just started doing that so I mean I watch YouTube all the time and If you want to listen to us on YouTube, it's just it's just a static picture there But if you just want to put us on the background you can do that on YouTube now I just put us on there. I don't know three months ago or so Yeah, but that's it

Toni Z (01:06:18.566)
Yeah, anywhere you listen to podcasts to and you've been uploading to YouTube now to the just the audio.

Toni Z (01:06:37.596)
Yeah, anywhere you listen to Ponca. I do that with them. I just tell Alexa play it and she plays it.

David (01:06:43.198)
Yeah, but that's it. Yeah, the Disney crush.

Lori Talamo (01:06:46.03)
awesome

Fredrick Briley (01:06:48.037)
Lori can you close it out or do I need to run through our thing?

Lori Talamo (01:06:52.46)
Man, not if you want me to do that beacons. gosh. Now I'm not going to be able to say it because I'm going to have to go and find it. Let's see. So we thank you guys for joining us. We appreciate it. We love going live now. Hopefully we'll get some interaction in our episodes coming up soon. And we will be going live on Sundays now. Actually, I'm super excited for next Sunday. I'm probably hyping it up.

David (01:06:55.84)
this is great. What this is good.

Fredrick Briley (01:06:56.002)
You gotta do it all.

We'll right back.

Lori Talamo (01:07:20.684)
a lot, so hopefully it's fun. But we're going to do the 12 days of Christmas and Fred and I are going to go through our 12 favorite things or things that we want. So I've already been making my list. So I'm looking forward to hearing some of Fred's choices.

Fredrick Briley (01:07:38.277)
You should send me what I need to prepare.

Lori Talamo (01:07:41.998)
No, this is all you buddy. You got to pick your 12 favorite things. And you got to remember, because on the first day you only get one of those things, but on the second day of Christmas you're going to get two of them.

David (01:07:42.112)
You

Toni Z (01:07:44.124)
Yeah.

David (01:07:46.388)
Now that's a

Fredrick Briley (01:07:51.877)
Nobody told me when I agreed to a podcast that I had homework. I thought I could just go out and look pretty.

Toni Z (01:07:51.886)
no. yeah. yeah.

Lori Talamo (01:07:55.63)
Yeah, this is no, this is the only one. This is the only one. So, yeah, so you can listen and find us at beacons. forward slash. No, see, you got to get it. so close. This is why I don't close this out.

Fredrick Briley (01:08:14.809)
All right, this is your assignment. If I gotta do homework, then you gotta do homework. I need you to prepare this for next week, because you're closing next week.

Lori Talamo (01:08:21.738)
Got it. Got it.

Fredrick Briley (01:08:25.061)
So definitely again, I'll say it again, David, Tony, it's been a pleasure to have you guys. Thank you for coming on. For those that are going beyond the castle fans, please like and share our stuff. The easiest way to find us is our Beacon channel, beacons.ai forward slash going beyond the castle podcast. As always, that's got both mine and Lori's Facebook pages in case you're looking for a travel agent and it has all of the locations that you can tune into us.

every Sunday and on Wednesday when we drop our audio only podcasts. So with that being said, again, it's been fun and we will talk to you guys next Sunday when we do the 12 days of Christmas that I'm going to prepare for.

Lori Talamo (01:09:05.228)
Next week. Yes. All right. Bye.

David (01:09:07.134)
You

Thanks guys, thank you so much. Thank you.

Fredrick Briley (01:09:10.191)
Bye!

Toni Z (01:09:10.952)
Bye.

Fredrick Briley (01:09:15.109)
It says stopping, but it...