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Speaker 1: Welcome to tech Stuff, a production from iHeartRadio. Hey there,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

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Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer with iHeartRadio and how the tech

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Speaker 1: are you? It is Friday. It is time for a

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Speaker 1: classic episode of tech Stuff. This episode originally published on

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Speaker 1: June twenty second, twenty sixteen. It is titled how the

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Speaker 1: Disney Magic Works The Disney Magic being a cruise Ship.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy. Now, before I jump into this show,

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Speaker 1: I just want to let you all know Disney had

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with me choosing this episode, apart from

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Speaker 1: the fact that I'm going on a cruise anyway, this

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Speaker 1: is not a sponsored show. I'm not getting any perks

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Speaker 1: for recording it. In fact, Disney's not even aware I'm

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Speaker 1: doing this. They wouldn't know me from anybody else out there.

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Speaker 1: And I say this because I am a Disney fanboy.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna geek out over Disney stuff as well as

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Speaker 1: the cruise ship technology stuff. And it's important you know.

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Speaker 1: I have a completely biased opinion, but it comes to

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Speaker 1: me honestly. Now that being said, the company, if they

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Speaker 1: decide they want to sit me on a cruise they

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Speaker 1: can do that. I'm not gonna turn it down. I

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Speaker 1: love them. I'm really hoping that I can actually get

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Speaker 1: a bridge tour this cruise, but they don't tend to

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Speaker 1: do those, so if it happens, it will only be

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Speaker 1: because somebody took pity on me. All right, So let's

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Speaker 1: talk about the history of Disney in the cruise industry.

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Speaker 1: Before the Disney Company actually commissioned its own cruise ships,

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Speaker 1: it partnered with an existing company called Premiere Cruise Line.

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Speaker 1: Back in nineteen eighty five. Premiere became known as the

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Speaker 1: official cruise line of Walt Disney World, and Disney characters

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Speaker 1: would appear on Premiere ships. It was one of the

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Speaker 1: things that set Premiere apart. Premiere was also known as

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Speaker 1: the big Red Boat because some of their ships were

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Speaker 1: big and red, big ish. They're not as big as

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Speaker 1: the ones that you would see today in the industry,

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Speaker 1: and the nickname of its flagship, Starship Oceanic, was the

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Speaker 1: of two of their other ships. They actually renamed them

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Speaker 1: because both of those ships were older. With the exception

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Speaker 1: of one of their ships, the Starship Atlantic, which was

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Speaker 1: built in nineteen eighty two. The company's fleet consisted of

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Speaker 1: ships built between nineteen fifty five and nineteen seventy, so

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Speaker 1: they were a little on the creeky side. The partnership

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Speaker 1: with Disney ended in nineteen ninety three. Premiere would eventually

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Speaker 1: And once that partnership with Premiere ended, you know, it

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Speaker 1: essentially a little less than ten years. The Disney Company

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Speaker 1: started to hold talks with other cruise lines, including Carnival

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Speaker 1: to Disney's terms, essentially how much money they would have

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Speaker 1: Department was founded in nineteen ninety five, and Disney commissioned

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Speaker 1: two ships from an Italian shipyard called Fincantieri. The two

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Speaker 1: and according to a website called Hidden Mickeys, the Magic

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Speaker 1: costs three hundred and fifty million dollars to build. I've

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Speaker 1: An imagineer has had a hand in designing. Same thing

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think it was the third largest ship

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Speaker 1: a computer control. But the tracks actually limit where the

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Speaker 1: scenery can move so that way it doesn't just roll

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00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: all over the stage if the seas get a little choppy.

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Speaker 1: The other thing they can do is they can also

437
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: alter the shows, so they can take out stuff that

438
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 1: isn't necessary for the show if the sea is acting

439
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: up a bit. So what they'll do is they'll simplify

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Speaker 1: a sequence so that there's not as many elements on

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00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: the stage, or they might remove some of the dance

442
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: moves that the performers need to do so that they

443
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: aren't endangering themselves while they're trying to perform. And so

444
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,800
Speaker 1: it's a combination of changing the performance itself and depending

445
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: upon this technology. If you talk to people in theater.

446
00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: They often will refer to the cruise ship stages being

447
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: as advanced as something you would see on a state

448
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 1: of the art stage on Broadway or London's West End.

449
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: That's the amount of detail that Disney put into this stuff,

450
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: including things like LEDs that are inside the ceiling where

451
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 1: you'll get a starlight effect inside the theater. It creates

452
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: this more immersive experience for the audience. They also have

453
00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: pyrotechnic capabilities, so you'll actually get some fireworks in some

454
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: of the shows. And these are all things that you

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00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily think to find on a cruise ship or

456
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 1: even just a regular theatrical stage. I've got a chance

457
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,240
Speaker 1: to do a behind the scenes tour of the stage

458
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: as well. Disney used to do a lot more behind

459
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Speaker 1: the scenes stuff, several like more than a decade ago now,

460
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: and I took those opportunities to take those tours. It

461
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,720
Speaker 1: is really interesting to see how they made as much

462
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: use of the space as possible. This theater doesn't have

463
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: very much wing space, so everything has to go either

464
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: up or back or down from the stage because there's

465
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: not really a whole lot of room stage left or

466
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: stage right, and It also showed how technical these shows were.

467
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: They had to be timed just right for multiple reasons.

468
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: They had to be time just right so that the

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Speaker 1: scenery and the lighting and the effects are all coming

470
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Speaker 1: on at the right time. So you have all these

471
00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:10,720
Speaker 1: very sophisticated computer systems that keep all of that synchronized properly,

472
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 1: and you also have the time it right because of

473
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: the schedule that people have in the evening, you would

474
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 1: either be coming from dinner and seeing a show, or

475
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,239
Speaker 1: you'd see the show and then go to dinner, and

476
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 1: you don't want anything to run too long and interfere

477
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: with the rest of the schedule. So it was really

478
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: cool to see how they had set up these computer

479
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,520
Speaker 1: systems that were all specifically designed for each show. And

480
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: keep in mind, if it's a long cruise, they do

481
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Speaker 1: multiple shows. They do two shows a night for the

482
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Speaker 1: two different seatings that they have for dinner. There's an

483
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Speaker 1: early seating that kids tend to go to and then

484
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: they go see the show afterward, and then there's the

485
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Speaker 1: late seating that adults tend to go to. They see

486
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Speaker 1: the show earlier in the night, they see it before dinner,

487
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,880
Speaker 1: and that means that you have to have a sophisticated

488
00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 1: technical system that can handle all of the needs of

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Speaker 1: each show, do it twice a night and then be

490
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: switched over for the following night, and it is really

491
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: neat to see this stuff backstage. If you ever get

492
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: a chance to check that out, you should. There are

493
00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: also several documentaries more or less commercials for the Disney

494
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: Cruise line that do show you some of the behind

495
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,800
Speaker 1: the scenes stuff, and it's cool. Sadly, most of them

496
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: are pretty limited in what they show you, so if

497
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: you ever get a chance to actually do a behind

498
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: the scenes tour, I highly recommend it because it is

499
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: really cool to see how they put this stuff together.

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Speaker 1: And keeping in mind, this is all on a ship

501
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:44,320
Speaker 1: that's moving around. I as a performer, I've done some

502
00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: stage work. I've done musicals where I have to dance

503
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: and sing. I'm not great at it, and to think

504
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: about having to do that on a stage that's actually

505
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: moving is terrifying. So let's talk about some of the

506
00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:00,480
Speaker 1: other technical stuff about this ship, not just the which

507
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: obviously I'm a huge fan of, but the actual things

508
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: that make the ship itself work. The most technically complicated

509
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: area of the ship is undoubtedly the bridge. The bridge

510
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: of the ship is where the ship's senior staff, who

511
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: are in charge of the systems that keep the ship

512
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: running and navigate, navigation, as well as actual steering the ship.

513
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: All of that is located on the bridge, and then

514
00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: you have other departments that are obviously very important where

515
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: those officers would be located elsewhere they would not be

516
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: on the bridge. That's where your ship's captain is going

517
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: to be most of the time. And if you were

518
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:42,640
Speaker 1: to take a look at it, look a lot like

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00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: the Star Trek Enterprise set. I mean, you have these

520
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: different consoles with computer screens and lots of complicated looking controls,

521
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: and they're all very important for the control and safe

522
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: operation of the ship. There are stations for communications, navigation,

523
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:03,800
Speaker 1: and other critical systems all on the bridge, and you'll

524
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: see lots of screens showing stuff like current sea conditions,

525
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 1: whether any sort of a naval traffic that's going through

526
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: the area, ship status, that kind of stuff. They do

527
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 1: have a ship's wheel, so you could stand behind the

528
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 1: wheel and use the wheel to steer the ship, but

529
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:24,400
Speaker 1: they also have an option to route all the ship

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00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: controls into a joystick, so you could actually have the thrust,

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Speaker 1: the steering, all of that in a single joystick, which

532
00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,800
Speaker 1: is particularly useful if you are maneuvering in or out

533
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: of a dock. You can also hand over controls to

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00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: a land based system if necessary, but it's really interesting

535
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: to see that all of these complex controls like the

536
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,800
Speaker 1: thrusters and the steering and all of these other elements

537
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:56,840
Speaker 1: can be boiled down to a single joystick control when necessary.

538
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: In normal operations, you wouldn't be using that, but for

539
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:03,280
Speaker 1: something where you're using precise movements and you're trying to

540
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: maneuver so that you can dock or something similar, then

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00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: it becomes necessary. They also have a semaphore flag station. Yeah,

542
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: the cruise ships still uses semaphore flags in case other

543
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,800
Speaker 1: communication tools are unavailable or not working, so semaphore you've

544
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: probably seen it, the idea of holding flags that have

545
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: symbols on them and then you move your arms in

546
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: a particular way. It usually looks very robotic, very stiff,

547
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: but those are specific ways of communicating messages to other

548
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: ships when your communications tools have otherwise died down. It's

549
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,920
Speaker 1: all visual based and you can send messages like we're

550
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 1: in distress or you know you know, we've got we

551
00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: need some help, whatever it might be, And they have

552
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: a whole cabinet filled with the various semaphore flags they

553
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 1: would need in order to communicate at any part of

554
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: the world, which is pretty cool that they have the

555
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:02,800
Speaker 1: low tech version of long distance communication along with the

556
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: more high tech versions as well, because you want to

557
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: have some redundancy in those when you're talking about more

558
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: than two thousand guests, you've got to have those redundant

559
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: systems in place just in case something goes wrong. There's

560
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: also apparently a bridge simulator for the kids in ocean Quest,

561
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: but that's a kid's only area, so that's one of

562
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: those things I've heard about but I've never actually seen,

563
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:33,600
Speaker 1: because despite my sense of humor and my general personality,

564
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: I am not a child, so I'm not allowed to

565
00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: go there. But they apparently have a live camera feed

566
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 1: from the bridge that serves as the vision they see

567
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: like the they have windows or actually their displays, but

568
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: they look like windows up in front of them, and

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Speaker 1: that's coming from the live camera feed from the bridge.

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00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: And then you have controls that you can use as

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00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: a kid that simulate the way it would work if

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00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: you actually on the bridge of the ship itself, which

573
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,160
Speaker 1: sounds so cool that I wish that all the State

574
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: rooms had one of these because I would play with it.

575
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: But again, I'm not allowed to go there, so I

576
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 1: haven't been able to experience this myself. Some other interesting

577
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:20,120
Speaker 1: technical details. When Disney Magic anchors when they have to

578
00:34:20,160 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: lower the anchor, they're lowering an anchor that weighs twenty

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00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: eight two hundred pounds, So imagine the torque necessary on

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00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,400
Speaker 1: the motor to be able to lift twenty eight two

581
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: hundred pounds worth of anchor. The ship has seven propellers.

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00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 1: They has two primary propellers and then five thruster propellers.

583
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: I mentioned the thrusters earlier. You have two in the

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00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: stern and three in the bow. The two primary propellers

585
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: weigh eighteen tons each. They are enormous and heavy and

586
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 1: in order to limit the amount of rolling that the

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00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: ship does. Rolling is the side to side motion, like

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00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: if you're looking four, meaning you're looking forward from the

589
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: position you are in on the ship. Rolling would be

590
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: the left right mission the import and starboard rising and

591
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 1: lowering as opposed to the fore and aft that's rocking,

592
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,320
Speaker 1: So you can rock and roll on one of these ships.

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00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: The stabilizers are meant to reduce that rolling. They are

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00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:22,560
Speaker 1: actually two large wings that can retract into the ship

595
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: or extend outward if the seas start getting choppy and

596
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,399
Speaker 1: it's beneath the water line so you don't see it

597
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: as a passenger, but beneath the water line, these two

598
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: wings extend outward and create some stabilization, and they look

599
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: like plane wings and they're pretty big, so they, according

600
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: to Disney, they reduce roll dramatically. They actually sat up

601
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 1: to ninety degrees, which is pretty amazing, and I'm not

602
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: entirely sure how that's possible, but at any rate, they

603
00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: are meant to reduce that rolling so that you don't

604
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,919
Speaker 1: get that seasick feeling walking around inside and being rocked

605
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: all over the place. I am not prone to sea sickness,

606
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: so I haven't really had an issue with it, apart

607
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 1: from I think one cruise where for some reason that

608
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,480
Speaker 1: was affecting me. But I do know that even with

609
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 1: the stabilizers, some folks are a little susceptible to that.

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00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 1: So if you ever do go on a cruise, look

611
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 1: into dramamine. That can help you out a lot. Now,

612
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: one of the other things you have to think about

613
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: is when you're on a ship and you're out at sea,

614
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 1: you are a completely self contained community, and that means

615
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,080
Speaker 1: you have to figure out how you deal with other

616
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: stuff like garbage and waste, and how do you conserve

617
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: water and energy so that you're not being wasteful. So

618
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: one of the things I do is they actually have

619
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: a way of collecting the condensation from air conditioning. So

620
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,160
Speaker 1: as air conditioners work and water condenses, water from the

621
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:57,560
Speaker 1: atmosphere condenses on the equipment, they can actually collect that water.

622
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: They harvest it, and they use that water to wash

623
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: the decks, and they also use it in the laundry system.

624
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 1: It's perfectly fine. It gets filtered through into everything. It's

625
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: just condensed water from the atmosphere. It's actually pretty clean stuff.

626
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 1: But Disney estimates that this approach saves them up to

627
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: twenty two point three million gallons of fresh water every year,

628
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: so it's a pretty interesting way to get around the

629
00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: issue of how do you deal with all of these

630
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:30,240
Speaker 1: needs without wasting fresh water. The ship can also distill

631
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: two hundred tons of fresh water from seawater every day,

632
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,919
Speaker 1: and the total potable water storage capacity aboard the ship

633
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:45,360
Speaker 1: is eighty two thousand gallons. They also recycle used cooking oil,

634
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:48,120
Speaker 1: so they go through about two hundred and sixty four

635
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: gallons of cooking oil every week. Now that oil is

636
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: taken by a company called the Bahamas Waste Management Company

637
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: and they convert it into biodiesel. They also have a

638
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: partnership with BMW and there's several BMW vehicles that run

639
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:08,760
Speaker 1: on this biodiesel in the Bahamas. Disney estimates that recycles

640
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: nine hundred tons of aluminum, paper, plastic, and other odd

641
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: recyclable stuff every year from their cruise line. Now, going

642
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: back to the Disney Magic and talking about its original cruises.

643
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: It sets sale and it's made in voyage on July thirtieth,

644
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,280
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, out of Port Canaveral, Florida, And originally

645
00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: it only sailed for three or four day cruises. In fact,

646
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: the first time I ever went on one, it was

647
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,560
Speaker 1: a four day cruise. Then a year later the Disney

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00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: Wonder joined the fleet. The Disney Wonder and the Disney

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Speaker 1: Magic are nearly identical. The theming is different. It's Art

650
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:48,799
Speaker 1: Deco and one Art Nouveaux in another. Some of the

651
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: spaces are themed a different way, like the different nightclubs

652
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: and stuff that you can go to have different themes.

653
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: The main restaurant on the Disney Magic is Loumiere's. The

654
00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: main one on The Disney Wonder is Tritons. Helmsman Mickey

655
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: is in a statue in the lobby and the Magic

656
00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: and Ariel the Little Mermaid is on the Wonder. But otherwise,

657
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:15,400
Speaker 1: apart from some superficial differences, they're largely the same. So

658
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: once the Wonder came online, it started doing the three

659
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,719
Speaker 1: and four day cruises, and the Magic began to do

660
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: seven day cruises, which meant that Disney had to come

661
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: up with all new ways of entertaining guests and feeding

662
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: them and making sure they had enough variety on their

663
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: menus so that people weren't just tired of eating the

664
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: same thing over and over. So it came up with

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Speaker 1: new challenges. Well, we're getting ready to conclude our episode

666
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: about the Disney Magic, but before we returned to port,

667
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:55,279
Speaker 1: let's listen to some more messages. In twenty thirteen, the

668
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: Magic went in for a massive facelift. Disney actually called

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Speaker 1: it a reimagine, which makes perfect sense when their engineers

670
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: are called Imagineers. Now this time they took it to

671
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: the Navantia Shipyards in Cadiz, Spain, so they weren't at

672
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 1: the same place that they were when the ship was

673
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: being constructed, and there was another dry dock period in

674
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen that updated a few more features. The twenty

675
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: thirteen dry dock lasted two months and involved taking a

676
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: part about eighty percent of the ship for upgrades, including

677
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 1: stripping the ship completely of paint. So you can see

678
00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: pictures of the Disney Magic and dry dock from twenty

679
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: thirteen and it looks pretty pretty banged up because all

680
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: the pain has been removed. In twenty fifteen, they upgraded

681
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,040
Speaker 1: the engines aboard the Magic to be more efficient and

682
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: reduce fuel consumption further along with that special coating on

683
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,239
Speaker 1: the hull. And one practical addition to the ship was

684
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,800
Speaker 1: the duct tail. And this was not a Donald Duck reference.

685
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: The ductail is an industry term. It's essentially a tank

686
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: that's placed in the back of the show that adds buoyancy,

687
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: and it's distributed so that it provides buoyancy without making

688
00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 1: the ship list to either side. This is really important

689
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,799
Speaker 1: because during this renovation period They added a lot of

690
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: features onto the Disney Magic, which increased the weight of

691
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: the ship, and it wasn't built to hold that much weight,

692
00:41:19,440 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: so they had to adjust the design of the ship

693
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: in order to account for that. To account for the change,

694
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: Disney added a second water slide. There was already one

695
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:33,200
Speaker 1: small water slide, which they actually replaced and made a

696
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: slightly larger one, and this new water slide, called the

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Speaker 1: Aqua dunk is a is a slide that's designed to

698
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: do a pretty rapid drop into water. It's actually a

699
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: twisty slide. It goes two hundred and twelve feet and

700
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: twists that way, and part of that includes a twenty

701
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: foot clear section that extends out over the side of

702
00:41:54,960 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: the ship and over the ocean. So for a twenty

703
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,440
Speaker 1: foot stretch of that, you're directly over the ocean. You

704
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,800
Speaker 1: can look down and see the ocean about one hundred

705
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: feet below you. Sliding down takes about five seconds, so

706
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: you have to look fast. It's actually a really tough

707
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: thing to have water slides on a ship. This is

708
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: another engineering challenge. Water slide technology is pretty simple. You

709
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,840
Speaker 1: pump water up to the top of the slide. You

710
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: let the water go down using gravity as your main

711
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 1: force to the bottom, and then you collect the water,

712
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: filter it, pump it back up. Not a whole complicated

713
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: technology there, but the engineering when you're talking about a

714
00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: water slide on a cruise ship is much harder. And

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00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: the reason for this is that cruise ships can twist

716
00:42:41,000 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: and torque, they can bend in different ways. They also

717
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 1: can expand and contract because the body of the ship

718
00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,680
Speaker 1: is made out of metal, and all of these mean

719
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,160
Speaker 1: putting extra stresses on what is supposed to be a

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00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: water tight tight water slide. So if you want a

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00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: watertight slide and you're going to have all of these

722
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: different motions to take into account, you have to build

723
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: it out a very special material, and you have to

724
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: figure out a support system that will move along with

725
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,560
Speaker 1: the ship while keeping the integrity of the slide intact.

726
00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,320
Speaker 1: On top of that, you have engines running at different

727
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: levels throughout the cruise, which means you're going to have

728
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,800
Speaker 1: vibrations sent through the ship. And yes, if you're quiet

729
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: and you're in a quiet spot, you can feel the

730
00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:30,320
Speaker 1: vibration from the engines pretty much anywhere on the ship.

731
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,280
Speaker 1: Of course, you can feel it better when you're closer

732
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: to where the engines are. But if you're very quiet

733
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,879
Speaker 1: and you just touch a wall, you can pretty much

734
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: feel the vibrations. Well, that slide has to take that

735
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: into account too. You are constantly being rattled. So this

736
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: was actually a pretty tough challenge for the imagineers to

737
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:53,799
Speaker 1: create a slide that was fun and safe and would

738
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: be resilient to these different stresses on it, and I

739
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: think that's pretty impressive. One of the other changes they

740
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:04,680
Speaker 1: made was to the ship's horn. Originally, the horn only

741
00:44:04,719 --> 00:44:07,200
Speaker 1: played the first few notes of when You Wish upon

742
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: a Star, And if you're a Disney nut like me

743
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,640
Speaker 1: and you hear it for the first time on your

744
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: first cruise, it's a pretty phenomenal experience. You are surprised

745
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: and delighted to hear this little Disney touch early on

746
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,000
Speaker 1: in your cruise experience. It's also fun to see all

747
00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: the families and kids kind of light up at it.

748
00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:26,839
Speaker 1: These days, when I go on to Disney cruise, I

749
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: see a lot of returning cruisers because you can tell

750
00:44:30,600 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: the more cruises you go on, the different lanyard you

751
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,280
Speaker 1: will get, like you have a silver level, a Gold level,

752
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: a Platinum level, and I just went on my Platinum cruise,

753
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: so anyway, I see a lot of returning guests. So

754
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: the ship's horn doesn't have quite the same effect that

755
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: it used to. But the upgrade allowed them to create

756
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: new tunes for the horn to play, and they're all

757
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: Disney related or one of the Disney properties are property

758
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: owned by Disney. Like Star Wars. There's an Imperial March

759
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: horn now as well. Also, this is kind of dorky

760
00:45:08,239 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: but awesome, there is a physical button to sound the

761
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,800
Speaker 1: ship's horn. You have to make an announcement first to

762
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:16,320
Speaker 1: let people know, hey, by the way, we're going to

763
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: sound the horn, so be prepared for that. But the

764
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: button itself is on a console and around the button

765
00:45:23,239 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: is a little frame in the shape of Mickey Mouse ears.

766
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 1: So the button's in the center and you got the

767
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: two ears on either side. And I know it's dorky,

768
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: but I love Disney, so I think it's awesome and

769
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:38,760
Speaker 1: I want to push that button so badly I wouldn't

770
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: be able to resist it. That, of course, is on

771
00:45:41,640 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: the bridge, so it's right there along with all the

772
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,360
Speaker 1: other controls. There's a console area where there's the ship's horn,

773
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: and you usually sound that whenever you're entering or leaving

774
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: a dock area. The parent Key restaurant during this renovation period.

775
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:03,160
Speaker 1: The thirteen to one was changed at that time, so

776
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 1: parrot Key, which you can no longer go to, had

777
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,960
Speaker 1: a Caribbean theme. Actually, I don't know. The Disney Wonder

778
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: might still have parrot Key, but I haven't been on

779
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: the Wonder in years, so I'm not sure. But the

780
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: magic the parrot Key is gone. So I had a

781
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: Caribbean theme. It was a lot of the cuisine was

782
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:24,080
Speaker 1: Caribbean in inspiration. They have now replaced that with a

783
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: restaurant called Karriokas, and Karaokas is named after Jose Karaoka,

784
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,440
Speaker 1: a Donald Duck character in the Three Caballeros cartoon. I

785
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,880
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm suddenly adopting an accent here, but

786
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: the Three Caballeros cartoon is a very fun classic Disney cartoon.

787
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:47,320
Speaker 1: And so the Three Caballeros takes place in South America,

788
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 1: and the cuisine at Kaiokas is largely influenced by the

789
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,439
Speaker 1: food of Brazil, so it's a different change, different style

790
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: of cuisine, and they did different theming, different lights in

791
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: order to give it this much a pretty large change

792
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: in identity, and another space that got a major overhaul

793
00:47:08,880 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: was the Oceaneer's Club. That's when they ended up being

794
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:15,240
Speaker 1: able to incorporate stuff like Marvel Avengers and toy story

795
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: things that weren't as prominent back in the late nineties

796
00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 1: when they were building the ship in the first place.

797
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 1: So when you go to like the or when your

798
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 1: kid essentially goes to the Avengers Academy, they can train

799
00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: to become a superhero. No word yet. If Captain America

800
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: whispers hell Hydra to each recruit, that's a reference to

801
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 1: a storyline that's going on right now in Marvel that

802
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about. I also wonder if the Captain

803
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,240
Speaker 1: America aboard the Disney cruise ships is getting any flack

804
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 1: about being a secret Hydra agent, because they do have

805
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:56,399
Speaker 1: lots of different Disney characters aboard these various ships, including

806
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: Marvel characters. Typically it's Captain America. They've also had Star

807
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:06,440
Speaker 1: Wars characters as well. They've done Star Wars themed ship cruises.

808
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: I have not gone on one of those, despite the

809
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: fact that I also loved Star Wars as well as Disney.

810
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: I did not do one of those yet by stress

811
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 1: yet now. One of the other changes they made was

812
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,320
Speaker 1: at animator's palette. I mentioned the fiber optics static displays earlier.

813
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,560
Speaker 1: The ones that were just black and white sketches of

814
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 1: various Disney characters, they couldn't change because they were built

815
00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: into the wall. But then the fiber optics would allow

816
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: color to come into the picture, and so they would

817
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: change from black and white to color, but you couldn't

818
00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: change what the portrait was of, Right, like a picture

819
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: of blue the bear from the Jungle Book is always

820
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: going to be blue the bear. It would never change

821
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: into anything else. When they did the renovation, they pulled

822
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,880
Speaker 1: out some of that and swapped in LED screens, and

823
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,719
Speaker 1: now you get a different experience. So instead of it

824
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: just being images that go from black and white to

825
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: color on the screens, you'll see sketches start to appear

826
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: on the various portraits of various Disney characters. And as

827
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: the dinner progresses, you get more details, you get color,

828
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: you get animation, and they change over time, so you're

829
00:49:18,239 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: not looking at just an evolving sketch of a single character.

830
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: It swaps as the dinner goes on, and again it

831
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: ends up being kind of a show. It's not just dinner,

832
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: it's also a performance, which is kind of cool. At

833
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: the end of one of the dinners at Animator's Palette,

834
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:39,360
Speaker 1: if you go twice, if your cruise is such that

835
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: you go to Animator's Palette two times, the second time,

836
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:46,320
Speaker 1: they have a special show where all the guests are

837
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 1: invited to draw a character on a piece of paper,

838
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: and all of those pieces of paper are taken backstage

839
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: and scanned into a system, and then when you watch

840
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: the show at the end, these characters are animated and

841
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: they appear on screen. So a character you drew will

842
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: appear on screen and dance around and move about. The

843
00:50:07,000 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: way they do this is they have special blocks set

844
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,840
Speaker 1: aside that you draw in things like legs and arms

845
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: and hands and a head and a body and that

846
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. And when they scan it, each of

847
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,919
Speaker 1: those blocks is design in such a way that it's

848
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:24,440
Speaker 1: considered to be a joint, right, like the shoulders or

849
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:28,120
Speaker 1: the hips or whatever. And so when it's animated, it

850
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: animates each of these blocks in a way so that

851
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 1: the characters can move around when you're looking at them

852
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: on the screen. When I did this, I drew a

853
00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 1: pirate with a peg leg and a hook and an

854
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:42,800
Speaker 1: eye patch, and his name was Lucky. Other Disney touches.

855
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: Of course, you've got the characters, You've got the Disney

856
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 1: movies that are shown in the various theaters. If a

857
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: Disney film comes out during your cruise, they show it

858
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 1: that same day on the ship, so it's premiere on

859
00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:03,040
Speaker 1: land and sea. And I think I might be seeing

860
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: Finding Dory by the time this episode goes live, I

861
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:10,360
Speaker 1: will have seen Finding Dory, assuming that I it premieres

862
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: while we're on the ship. I think it will actually,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of cool the neat idea that you

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Speaker 1: get this unique Disney experience. Disney actually also does this

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Speaker 1: big fireworks display out at sea. Typically they do this

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Speaker 1: with a pirate themed deck party. So if you've heard

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Speaker 1: the tech Stuff episode on fireworks, you know how technical

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Speaker 1: that can get. In the Disney shows. They tend to

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Speaker 1: be three hundred or so shots per fireworks display, which

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Speaker 1: is modest by Disney standards, but it's at sea, so

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Speaker 1: that makes it different. These are also controlled by a

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Speaker 1: system that is highly synchronized with music and other effects,

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Speaker 1: so that you get a story throughout the fireworks display,

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Speaker 1: not just stuff. Shooting off into the sky. I am

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Speaker 1: blowing up, which is also pretty cool, but it's more

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Speaker 1: effective when it's all synchronized with music and everything else.

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Speaker 1: They actually hold several patents for their fireworks displays, and

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Speaker 1: they were the first cruise line to have a fireworks

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Speaker 1: display out at sea because it involves getting a lot

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Speaker 1: of permissions from various nautical authorities. The fireworks themselves are

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Speaker 1: made out of edible material, so when they are done

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Speaker 1: exploding and they go down into the ocean, they can

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Speaker 1: actually be eaten safely by sea life, so there's no

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Speaker 1: pollution there. I thought that was pretty cool, so you

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Speaker 1: can actually check this out and not feel any guilt

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Speaker 1: about it. Some of the ships also have interactive portraits

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Speaker 1: that animate or a part of an augmented reality game

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Speaker 1: aboard the ship. I got to play with one of

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Speaker 1: these on the Disney Dream I believe, and that's really

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Speaker 1: cool too, this idea that you've got these things that

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Speaker 1: look like they are static portraits from Disney movie, but

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Speaker 1: if you watch, you see that they start to animate

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Speaker 1: and sometimes they interact with each other. I remember coming

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Speaker 1: to one hallway where there were portraits of pirate ships

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Speaker 1: on either side of the corridor on either side of

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Speaker 1: a doorway really and they had a battle with each other.

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Speaker 1: They actually started firing cannon balls at each other, and

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Speaker 1: I thought that was really a clever thing to do.

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Speaker 1: And the game aspect, you can play a game where

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Speaker 1: you have cards that have a low pattern on them,

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Speaker 1: and when you hold them up to the portraits, the

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Speaker 1: portraits have an embedded camera that can pick up the

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Speaker 1: pattern on the card and tell the portrait this person

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Speaker 1: is playing this particular game. And it's almost like a

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Speaker 1: scavenger hunt as you go through the ship and you

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Speaker 1: try to solve a mystery or help out a character,

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Speaker 1: and it's really an interesting way to explore the ship

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Speaker 1: as well as engage in a fun interactive form of technology.

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Speaker 1: A very clever approach to using augmented reality and video

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Speaker 1: interactive video. So well done there. That was the episode

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Speaker 1: on How the Disney Magic Works, which published on June

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Speaker 1: twenty second, twenty sixteen. These days, the Disney Cruise line

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Speaker 1: has five ships. There's the Magic, the Wonder, the Fantasy,

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Speaker 1: the Dream, and the Wish. Actually spent my twenty fifth

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Speaker 1: anniversary on the Wish, which ended up being a longer

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Speaker 1: cruise than we intended because Hurricane Ian hit Florida while

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Speaker 1: we were at sea and we could not return to port,

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Speaker 1: so we had to stay on the ship two extra days,

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Speaker 1: which you know, there are worse ways to have to

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Speaker 1: ride out a hurricane, trust me. But it was definitely

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Speaker 1: a stressful time because you also had to try and

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Speaker 1: arrange things like travel and stuff like that, things that

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Speaker 1: you couldn't easily do because you were on a boat

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Speaker 1: at sea and didn't have very much connectivity. It was

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Speaker 1: a complicated time, but yeah, it was fun to If

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