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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at Me.

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Speaker 2: That is the sweeping epic Disney theme which Mike Hadley,

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Speaker 2: a travel correspondent, absolutely insisted he must be introduced with

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Speaker 2: this morning and fair enough, Mike, I reckon, I reckon.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's it's the kind of the level of

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Speaker 2: grandeur that we would expect for someone like your good self.

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Speaker 3: Indeed, Jack, by the way, congratulations on all of your

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Speaker 3: momentous news and achievements. So you will soon have another

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Speaker 3: child to lug off to Disneyland.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you see that. Don't mention anything I see. I

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Speaker 2: reckon that seven year old. I reckon he would be Look,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure he would be very excited by the prospect

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Speaker 2: of Disneyland. But yes, I've never been. I've never been.

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Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to your do's and don't your

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Speaker 2: tips this morning, because they do say that Disneyland is

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Speaker 2: one of those places that even if you're not a

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Speaker 2: huge Disney fan, it can be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think so, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, So look, twenty twenty five is a big

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Speaker 2: anniversary year for the Magic Kingdom in Anaheim, right.

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Speaker 3: Yes, indeed, Jack, the original Mouthhouse turned seventy. Guess how

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Speaker 3: many visitors have trawled through Disneyland since nineteen fifty five.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's think about this, seventy years. Let's say what

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Speaker 2: would be an appropriate number of visitors a day.

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Speaker 3: I reckon they can house about one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I reckon if they can house one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty thousand a day, let's say that it's one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand a day. So let's say one hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: a day. Okay, So you know, are we I mean,

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Speaker 2: are we? Are we getting into the Are we getting

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Speaker 2: into the hunt? I mean we must be in the

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Speaker 2: hundreds of millions, if not.

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Speaker 3: Billions, Yeah, eight hundred million.

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Speaker 2: Hundreds of millions, if not billions.

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Speaker 3: Well done. I mean there's a.

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous number of visitors.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it. Yeah, it's just yeah. You can fully expect

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Speaker 3: plenty more to add to that Q next year for

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Speaker 3: the big seventy. And they've got a lot of milestone

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Speaker 3: festivities in store. They haven't really saw the details, but

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Speaker 3: what I have managed to find out is there's going

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Speaker 3: to be a really big focus on nostalgia. A lot

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Speaker 3: of sort of retro theming a lot of returning parades

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Speaker 3: from over the decades. And there's also going to be

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Speaker 3: basically going to prize open the vaults on Walt Disney's

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Speaker 3: Made Life. So yeah, a lot of new stuff in

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Speaker 2: Where should you start in the park?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, Jack, once the gate's open, it's just

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Speaker 3: incredible to watch all of these billowing queues form at

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Speaker 3: every single ride. You know, it's just the mess march

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Speaker 3: of humanity. So if you are a kid at heart,

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Speaker 3: what I would suggest is forget about the rides the

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Speaker 3: starters go straight to Tomtown for a personal photo inside

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Speaker 3: Mickey's house with the mouse themselves. I just reckon, that's

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Speaker 3: one of those little golden moments, and then you can

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Speaker 3: rinse and repeat that right next door with Mini. So

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Speaker 3: if you do that early, you will only have to

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Speaker 2: That's good at two o'clock in the afternoon, and you'll

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Speaker 3: Yeah, at two o'clock in the afternoon, you could be

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Speaker 3: So go and see Mickey first up and also by

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Speaker 3: tick that off early as well before the queues build.

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Speaker 2: What would you rate as the do not miss experiences?

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Speaker 3: Well, I reckon the original rights are still the best,

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Speaker 3: so think it's a Small World, Mister Toad's Wild Ride,

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Speaker 3: the Matter Horn, Bobcats. Something more recent time Star Wars

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Speaker 2: How can you expedite time spent queuing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Well, the Disney theme parks they have chopped and

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Speaker 3: a time to write via the Disneyland app very short

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Speaker 3: during time, and yeah, you can basically just jump the ques.

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Speaker 3: The multi pass is available for a lot of the rides,

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Speaker 3: but you can also buy single lightning lane passes for

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Speaker 3: the likes of Radiator Springs Races or Rise of the

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Speaker 3: Resistance And honestly, that will just save you so many

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that being said, it's a smart idea not to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, this was the saddest insight I had a few

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Speaker 3: many families I saw in a state of total implosion.

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Speaker 3: And it was like they were frantically trying to make

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Speaker 3: of those turos and the Mickey Waffles had well and

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Speaker 3: truly worn off on the kids. They were in like

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Speaker 3: spoiler on what Disneyland should be about. So don't try

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Speaker 3: and pack it into one day. Definitely by a multi

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Speaker 3: paced I know it's going to cost you more, but

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Speaker 2: Yeah, But I mean if you're already spending the money

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Speaker 2: a ultimately, would you recommend staying on site at a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the closer the better, I reckon to once again

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Speaker 3: eliminate a bit more stress. I mean, there is quite

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Speaker 3: a bit of fath involved getting to and from the park,

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Speaker 3: the other really good perk about that is you actually

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Speaker 3: just gives you that jump on humanity which is particularly appealing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, when would be the best time for key

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Speaker 3: Well, A good thing for us is that if you're

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Speaker 3: to March, they are actually the quietest months at Disneyland. January, February, March.

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Speaker 3: so September school holidays is quite good for that. Definitely

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Speaker 3: And the other thing, try and book your visit for weekdays,

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Speaker 2: Nice should we add to the list, And I would

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Speaker 2: not dare suggest you'd be speaking from personal experience here, Mike,

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Speaker 2: don't lose your cell phone at disil.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. My misadventure with my cell phone which

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Speaker 3: phone was indadvertently dislodged from my side pocket. The whole

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Speaker 3: loss and found machine that hums across Disneyland. So I

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Speaker 3: and forty thousand hats, wallets, in sunglasses.

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Speaker 2: Twenty thousand cell phones plus all stuff. So that's a

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Speaker 3: Apparently it's ninety two percent.

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Speaker 2: Cell phone. That's amazing. Cell phones are easier to be

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Speaker 3: Only year sort of. Yeah. The impression I was left

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Speaker 2: Yeah, not a good log.

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Speaker 2: I had a twelve hour stop over in La on

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Speaker 2: So I ended up getting a You can actually go

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Speaker 2: so you can go into locker for the day. So

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Speaker 2: lax But yeah, yeah, thank you so much for your tips.

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Speaker 2: We'll put all of those on the News Talks. He'd

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Speaker 2: be website so you can keep Mike's dos and don'ts

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Speaker 2: painting a trip there. Johnny flicking me a note so Jack.

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Speaker 2: Fun fact to it. My mother's cousins, Jerry and Marsha McDougall,

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Speaker 2: were the first two kids through the gate at Disneyland

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Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty five. It's amazing, Johnny. Thank you only

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Speaker 2: message just like Johnny did it.

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