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Speaker 1: Get in technic technology with tech Stuff from stuff dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland, and this week I want to talk about

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Speaker 1: Disney Magic. Not just Disney Magic, but the Disney Magic,

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Speaker 1: the oldest of Disney's cruise ships. And the reason I

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Speaker 1: wanted to tackle this topic is that by the time

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Speaker 1: you hear this episode, I will have just returned from

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Speaker 1: my tenth cruise with Disney. So you might say I'm

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Speaker 1: a bit of an addict. I thought it would be

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Speaker 1: cool to talk about how the Disney Magic works and

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Speaker 1: explore the sort of things that make cruise ships possible. Now,

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Speaker 1: before I jump into this show, I just want to

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Speaker 1: let you all know Disney had nothing to do with

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Speaker 1: me choosing this episode, apart from the fact that I'm

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Speaker 1: going on a cruise anyway, this is not a sponsored show.

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Speaker 1: I'm not getting any perks for recording it. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Disney is not even aware I'm doing this. They wouldn't

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Speaker 1: know me from anybody else out there. And I say

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Speaker 1: this because I am a Disney fanboy. I'm gonna geek

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Speaker 1: out over Disney stuff as well as the cruise ship

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Speaker 1: technology stuff. And it's important. You know, I have a

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Speaker 1: completely biased opinion, but it comes to me honestly. Now

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Speaker 1: that being said, the company, if they decide they want

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Speaker 1: to sit be on a cruise, they can do that.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna turn it down. I love them. I'm

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Speaker 1: really hoping that I can actually get a bridge tour

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Speaker 1: this this cruise, but they don't tend to do those,

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Speaker 1: so if it happens, it will only be because somebody

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

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

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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 Premier Cruise Line.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty two, the company's fleet consisted of ships

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Speaker 1: Disney ended in nineteen Premiere would eventually go out of

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Speaker 1: business in two thousand and Out of all the ships

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Speaker 1: the Atlantic. All the others have either been sold for

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Speaker 1: scrap or they sank. So Disney had kind of dipped

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Speaker 1: its toe in the cruise partnership world. And once that

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Speaker 1: partnership with Premier ended, you know, it was an agreement

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Speaker 1: less than ten years. The Disney Company started to hold

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Speaker 1: talks with other cruise lines, including Carnival and Royal Caribbean,

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Speaker 1: but neither of those companies could agree to Disney's terms,

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Speaker 1: essentially how much money they would have to pay Disney

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Speaker 1: By the rumors were that Disney the company was looking

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Speaker 1: Disney commissioned two ships from an Italian shipyard called Finn Cantieri.

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Speaker 1: The two ships would become the Disney Magic and the

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Speaker 1: an Art Nouveau style. Now, the ship was constructed in

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Speaker 1: And then they had to fit the two together. Now,

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Speaker 1: So you think about the Disney parks, the imagineers are

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Speaker 1: and of course there are other cruise lines that have

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Speaker 1: ships much much larger. So the Magic is nine four

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Speaker 1: It's certainly like you might if you're if you're a grouch,

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00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: you might roll your eyes at such a thing. But

434
00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: to see all the families and kids get really excited

435
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:44,479
Speaker 1: when this transformation happens, It's it's like going to Disney

436
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 1: World for the first time and having that experience of discovery.

437
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,560
Speaker 1: Now I've done this, it will be ten times by

438
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: the time you hear this. So for me, I still

439
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: enjoy it, but there's not a whole of discovery left

440
00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: for me at this point. That said, I still think

441
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,920
Speaker 1: it's one of those experiences that really sets the Disney

442
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: cruise line apart. Because it's pure Disney um. There are

443
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,879
Speaker 1: two theaters aboard the Disney Magic. One of them is

444
00:26:12,920 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 1: specifically for live performances, although they'll also show movies in

445
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,160
Speaker 1: that one, and the other one is specifically for movies,

446
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,680
Speaker 1: although they'll also hold live conference type things in there,

447
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:27,560
Speaker 1: like sometimes they'll have special guests aboard the cruise ship

448
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 1: that might give a talk in the second theater. So

449
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 1: the big live action theater is the Walt Disney Theater

450
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: and the cinematic theater is the Buena Vista Theater Um.

451
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,240
Speaker 1: So the live action one can set around nine hundred

452
00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 1: people and the Buena Vista one about two hundred and

453
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 1: eighty or so, and uh, they're both really impressive. In fact,

454
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,879
Speaker 1: the the Walt Disney Theater has a lot of different

455
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: interesting technologies behind it. It's got a stage that's about

456
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: forty ft wide, really impressive considering it's on a boat,

457
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: and it has an advanced fly system which doesn't involve

458
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: zippers necessarily anyway. A fly system in theatrical terms is

459
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: a term for a rigging system, and the rigging system

460
00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: is a bunch of ropes and pulleys and they're meant

461
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: to do things like move curtains or lights or scenery

462
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,320
Speaker 1: and sometimes even people. So if you've ever seen a

463
00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:27,679
Speaker 1: show where a person is in a flight harness and

464
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: they're flying around, that's because they're part of the fly system.

465
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: And of course in Disney that happens a lot. You've

466
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: got characters like Peter Pan who fly around over the stage,

467
00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: so they are part of this or dependent upon this

468
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: pretty impressive flight system or fly system. The stage also

469
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: has several lifts. Uh, So they have lifts that can

470
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: that can elevate or recess below the stage. There's a

471
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,879
Speaker 1: storage area below the stage where scenery can can be

472
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: or or actually characters can wait so that they can

473
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: dramatically appear on stage that being lifted out from underneath.

474
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: And uh, it's really pretty incredible to think about that.

475
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: You're on a moving platform, you're on a ship, and

476
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: the ship is at sea, and you have these theatrical

477
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: elements that have to be placed on elevators to go

478
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: up or down. So you might think, well, how do

479
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 1: they make sure stuff doesn't slide around if the ship

480
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: is rolling a little bit, And there are two things

481
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: that they do. One is that the stage itself has

482
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 1: tracks built into it, and the scenery can be placed

483
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: on these tracks. They look like almost like if you

484
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:44,320
Speaker 1: remember old slot cars, it looks kind of like the

485
00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 1: slots for slot car racing. And you set the scenery

486
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: into these and you can even have it all computerized

487
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 1: and automated so that the scenes can come on and

488
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: off through a computer control, uh, but that the tracks

489
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: actually limit where the scenery can move so that way

490
00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't just roll all over the stage if the

491
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: sees get a little choppy. The other thing they can

492
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: do is they can also alter the shows so they

493
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: can take out stuff that isn't necessary for the show

494
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 1: if the sea is acting up a bit. So what

495
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: they'll do is they'll they'll simplify a sequence so that

496
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: there's not as many elements on the stage, or they

497
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,480
Speaker 1: might remove some of the dance moves that the performers

498
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: need to do so that they aren't endangering themselves while

499
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: they're trying to perform. And so it's a combination of

500
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: changing the performance itself and depending upon this technology. If

501
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: you talk to people in theater, they often will refer

502
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: to the cruise ship stages being as advanced as something

503
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 1: you would see on a state of the art stage

504
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: on Broadway or London's West End. That's the amount of

505
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,280
Speaker 1: detail that Disney put into this stuff, including things like

506
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: l E. D s that are inside the the ceiling

507
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: where you'll get a starlight effect inside the theater. It

508
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: creates this more immersive experience for the audience. They also

509
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:13,360
Speaker 1: have pyrotechnic capabilities, so you'll actually get some fireworks in

510
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: some of the shows. And these are all things that

511
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: you wouldn't necessarily think to find on a cruise ship

512
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: or even just a regular theater theatrical stage. I've got

513
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: a chance to do a behind the scenes tour of

514
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: the stage as well. Disney used to do a lot

515
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: more behind the scenes stuff, um several like more than

516
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,600
Speaker 1: a decade ago now, and I took those opportunities to

517
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: take those tours. Is really interesting to see how they

518
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: made as much use of the space as possible. This

519
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: theater doesn't have very much wingspace, so everything has to

520
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,040
Speaker 1: go either up or back or down from the stage

521
00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:51,400
Speaker 1: because there's not really a whole lot of room stage

522
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:56,000
Speaker 1: left or stage right. And it also showed how technical

523
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 1: these shows, where they had to be timed just right

524
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 1: for multiple reasons. They had to be time just right,

525
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:05,200
Speaker 1: so that the scenery and the lighting and the effects

526
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: are all coming on at the right time. So you

527
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:10,480
Speaker 1: have all these very sophisticated computer systems that keep all

528
00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: of that um synchronized properly, and you also have the

529
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: time it right. Because of the schedule that people have

530
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: in the evening, you would either be coming from dinner

531
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,080
Speaker 1: and seeing a show, or you have see the show

532
00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: and then go to dinner, and you don't want anything

533
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: to run too long and interfere with the rest of

534
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: the schedule. So it's really cool to see how they

535
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: had set up these computer systems that were all specifically

536
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 1: designed for each show. And keep in mind, if it's

537
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: a long cruise, they do multiple shows. They do two

538
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: shows a night for the two different seatings that they

539
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: have for dinner. There's an early seating that kids tend

540
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 1: to go to and then they go see the show afterward,

541
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: and then there's the late seating that adults tend to

542
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 1: go to. They see the show earlier in the night,

543
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,120
Speaker 1: they see it before dinner, and that means that you

544
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: have to have a sophisticated technical system that can handle

545
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: all of the needs of each show, do it twice

546
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 1: a night, and then be switched over for the following night,

547
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: and it is really neat to see this stuff backstage.

548
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: If you ever get a chance to check that out,

549
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: you should. There are also several documentaries more or less

550
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: commercials for the Disney Cruise line that do show you

551
00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: some of the behind the scenes stuff, and it's cool. Sadly,

552
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:30,480
Speaker 1: most of them are pretty limited in what they show you,

553
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: so if you ever get a chance to actually do

554
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: a behind the scenes tour, I highly recommend it because

555
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 1: it is really cool to see how they put this

556
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: stuff together. And keeping in mind, this is all on

557
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 1: a ship that's moving around. I as a performer, I've

558
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: done some stage work. I've done musicals where I have

559
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: to dance and sing. I'm not great at it, and

560
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,080
Speaker 1: to think about having to do that on a stage

561
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: that's actually moving is terrifying. So let's talk about some

562
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 1: of the other technical stuff about this ship, not just

563
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: the theater, which obviously I'm a huge fan of, but

564
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: the actual things that make the ship itself work. The

565
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: most technically complicated area of the ship is undoubtedly the bridge.

566
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: The bridge of the ship is where the ship's senior staff,

567
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: who are in charge of the the systems that keep

568
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: the ship running and navigate navigation as well as as

569
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,800
Speaker 1: actual steering the ship. All of that is located on

570
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: the bridge, and then you have other departments that are

571
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 1: obviously very important where these those officers would be located elsewhere,

572
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 1: they would not be on the bridge. That's where your

573
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:40,800
Speaker 1: ship's captain is going to be most of the time.

574
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: And if you were to take a look at it,

575
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: look a lot like the Star Trek Enterprise set. I

576
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: mean you have these different consoles with computer screens and

577
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: lots of complicated looking controls, and they're all very important

578
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: for the control and and safe operation of the ship.

579
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: There are stations for communications, navigation, and other critical systems

580
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: all on the bridge, and you'll see lots of screens

581
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: showing stuff like current sea conditions, whether any sort of

582
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 1: naval traffic that's going through the area, ships status, that

583
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. They do have a ship's wheel, so

584
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 1: you could stand behind the wheel and use the wheel

585
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: to steer the ship. But they also have an option

586
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: to route all the ship controls into a joystick, so

587
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: you could actually have the thrust, the steering, all of

588
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: that in a single joystick, which is particularly useful if

589
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: you are maneuvering in or out of a dock. You

590
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: can also hand over controls to a land based system

591
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: if necessary. But it's really interesting to see that all

592
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: of these complex controls like the thrusters and the the

593
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: steering and all of these other elements can be boiled

594
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 1: down to a single joystick control when necessary. In normal

595
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 1: up rations, you wouldn't be using that, but for something

596
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,000
Speaker 1: where you're using precise movements and you're trying to maneuver

597
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: so that you can DOC or something similar, then it

598
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:15,640
Speaker 1: becomes necessary. They also have a semaphore flag station. Yeah,

599
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: the cruise ships still uses semaphore flags in case other

600
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: communication tools are unavailable or not working. So semaphore you've

601
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: probably seen it, the idea of holding flags that have

602
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: symbols on them and then you move your arms in

603
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: a particular way. It usually looks very robotic, very stiff,

604
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: but those are specific ways of communicating messages to other

605
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:39,799
Speaker 1: ships when your communications tools have otherwise died down. It's

606
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: all visual based and you can send messages like we're

607
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: in distress or um you know, uh, you know, we've

608
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,839
Speaker 1: got uh, we need some help, whatever it might be.

609
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 1: And they have a whole cabinet filled with the various

610
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: semaphore flags they would need in order to communicate at

611
00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: any part of the world, which is pretty cool that

612
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: they have the low tech version of long distance communication

613
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 1: along with the more high tech versions as well, because

614
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 1: you want to have some redundancy in those when you're

615
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: talking about more than two thousand guests, you've got to

616
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 1: have those redundant systems in place just in case something

617
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: goes wrong. There's also apparently a bridge simulator for the

618
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 1: kids in Ocean Quest, but that's a kid's only area,

619
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: so that's one of those things I've heard about but

620
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 1: I've never actually seen, because despite my sense of humor

621
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 1: and my general personality, I am not a child, so

622
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:41,319
Speaker 1: I'm not allowed to go there. But they apparently have

623
00:36:41,440 --> 00:36:45,239
Speaker 1: a live camera feed from the bridge that serves as

624
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: the vision they see like the they have windows or

625
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: actually their displays, but they look like windows up in

626
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: front of them, and that's coming from the live camera

627
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: feed from the bridge. And then you have controls that

628
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:01,120
Speaker 1: you can use as a kid that simulate the way

629
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,800
Speaker 1: it would work if you were actually on the bridge

630
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,400
Speaker 1: of the ship itself, which sounds so cool that I

631
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: wish that all the staterooms had one of these because

632
00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: I would play with it. But again I'm not allowed

633
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,760
Speaker 1: to go there, so I haven't been able to experience

634
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: this myself. Some other interesting technical details. When Disney Magic anchors,

635
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 1: when they have to lower the anchor, they're lowering an

636
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 1: anchor that weighs twenty eight thousand, two hundred pounds, So

637
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: imagine the torque necessary on the motor to be able

638
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 1: to lift twenty two hundred pounds worth of anchor. The

639
00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: ship has seven propellers. There has two primary propellers and

640
00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: then five thruster propellers. I mentioned the thrusters earlier. You

641
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,440
Speaker 1: have two in the stern and three in the bow.

642
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:48,359
Speaker 1: The two primary propellers weigh eighteen tons each. They are

643
00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: enormous and heavy, and in order to limit the amount

644
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: of rolling that the ship does. Rolling is the side

645
00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: to side motion, like if you're looking for meaning you're

646
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: looking forward from the position you are in on the ship.

647
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: Rolling would be the left right mission the important starboard

648
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 1: rising and lowering, as opposed to the fore and aft

649
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: that's rocking. So you can rock and roll on one

650
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: of these ships. The stabilizers are meant to reduce that rolling.

651
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 1: They are actually two large wings that can retract into

652
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: the ship or extend outward if the seas start getting

653
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 1: choppy and it's beneath the waterline, so you don't see

654
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: it as a passenger, but beneath the waterline, these two

655
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: wings extend outward and create some stabilization and they look

656
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,959
Speaker 1: like plane wings and they're they're pretty big. So they

657
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: according to Disney, they reduce roll dramatically. They actually set

658
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: up to ninety degrees, which is pretty amazing and I'm

659
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: not entirely sure how that's possible, but at any rate,

660
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 1: they are meant to reduce that rolling so that you

661
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: don't get that sea sick feeling walking around inside and

662
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: being rocked all over the place. Um. I am not

663
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,440
Speaker 1: prone to sea sickness, so I haven't really had an

664
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,959
Speaker 1: issue with it, apart from I think one cruise where

665
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: for some reason I was affecting me. But I do

666
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: know that even with the stabilizers, some folks are a

667
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: little susceptible to that. So if you ever do go

668
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: on a cruise, look at the drama mine that can

669
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: help you out a lot. Now, one of the other

670
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 1: things you have to think about is when you're on

671
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: a ship and you're out at sea, you are a

672
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: completely self contained community, and that means you have to

673
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: figure out how you deal with other stuff like garbage

674
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,200
Speaker 1: and waste, and how do you conserved water and energy

675
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 1: so that you're not being wasteful. So one of the

676
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: things they do is they actually have a way of

677
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: collecting the condensation from air conditioning. So as air conditioners

678
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: work and water condenses, you know, water from the atmosphere

679
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,720
Speaker 1: condenses on the equipment, they can actually collect that water.

680
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,800
Speaker 1: They harvest it, and they use that water to wash

681
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: the decks, and they also use it in the laundry system.

682
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:08,879
Speaker 1: It's perfectly fine. It gets filtered through and everything. It's

683
00:40:08,920 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: just condensed water from the atmosphere is actually pretty clean stuff.

684
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,080
Speaker 1: But Disney estimates that this approach saves them up to

685
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 1: twenty two point three million gallons of freshwater every year,

686
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: so it's a pretty interesting way to get around the

687
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 1: issue of how do you deal with all of these

688
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: needs without wasting fresh water. The ship can also distill

689
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:38,719
Speaker 1: one two hundred tons of fresh water from seawater every day,

690
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: and the total potable water storage capacity aboard the ship

691
00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:47,600
Speaker 1: is eighty two thousand gallons. They also recycle used cooking oil,

692
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: so they go through about two and sixty four gallons

693
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 1: of cooking oil every week. Now that oil is taken

694
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: by a company called the Bahamas Waste Management Company and

695
00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: they converted into bio diesel. They also have a partnership

696
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: with BMW and there's several BMW vehicles that run on

697
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: this biodiesel UH in the Bahamas. Disney estimates that recycles

698
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:15,840
Speaker 1: nine hundred tons of aluminum, paper, plastic, and other odd

699
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:21,240
Speaker 1: recyclable stuff every year from their cruise line. Now, going

700
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: back to the Disney Magic and talking about its original cruises,

701
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:27,919
Speaker 1: it sets sail and it's made in voyage on July

702
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: out of Port Canaveral, Florida, and originally it only sailed

703
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,600
Speaker 1: for three or four day cruises. In fact, the first

704
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: time I ever went on one, it was a four

705
00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: day cruise. Then a year later the Disney Wonder joined

706
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 1: the fleet. The Disney Wonder and the Disney Magic are

707
00:41:45,239 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: nearly identical. The theming is different. It's Art Deco and

708
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: one Art Nouveaux and another. Some of the spaces are

709
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: themed a different way, like the different nightclubs and stuff

710
00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,879
Speaker 1: that you can go to have different themes. The main

711
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: restaurant on the Disney Magic is Loomier's. The main one

712
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: on the Disney Wonder is Triton's. Um helmsman Mickey is

713
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: on a is in a statue in the lobby on

714
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: the Magic and Aerial, the Little Mermaid is on the Wonder,

715
00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: But otherwise, apart from some superficial differences, they're largely the same.

716
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: So once the Wonder came online, it started doing the

717
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 1: three and four day cruises, and the Magic began to

718
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: do seven day cruises, which meant that Disney had to

719
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: come up with all new ways of entertaining guests and

720
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: feeding them and making sure they had enough variety on

721
00:42:30,600 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: their menus so that people weren't just tired of eating

722
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,279
Speaker 1: the same thing over and over. So it came up

723
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: with new challenges. In the Magic went in for a

724
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: massive facelift. Disney actually called it a reimagining, which makes

725
00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: perfect sense when their engineers are called imagineers. Now, this

726
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 1: time they took it to the Navantia shipyards in Cadiz, Spain,

727
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: so they weren't at the same place that they were

728
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: when the ship was being constructed, and there was another

729
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,600
Speaker 1: dry dock period in two thousand and fifteen that updated

730
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: a few more features. The two thousand thirteen dry Duck

731
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: lasted two months and involved taking apart about eighty per

732
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: cent of the ship for upgrades, including stripping the ship

733
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: completely of paint. So you can see pictures of the

734
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:16,920
Speaker 1: Disney Magic and Dry Duck from and it looks pretty

735
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: pretty banged up because all the pain has been removed.

736
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, they upgraded the engines aboard the Magic

737
00:43:24,080 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 1: to be more efficient and reduce fuel consumption further along

738
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: with that special coding on the whole. And one practical

739
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: addition to the ship was the duck tail and this

740
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: was not Donald Duck reference. The duck tail is an

741
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: industry term. It's essentially a tank that's placed in the

742
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:46,359
Speaker 1: back of the ship that adds bulliancy, and it's distributed

743
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: so that it provides bulliancy without making the ship list

744
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: to either side. This is really important because during this

745
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: renovation period they added a lot of features onto the

746
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: Disney Magic which increased the weight of the ship, and

747
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,719
Speaker 1: it wasn't built to hold that much weight, so they

748
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: had to adjust the design of the ship in order

749
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: to account for that. To account for the change, Disney

750
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: added a second water slide. There was already one small

751
00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: water slide, which they actually replaced and made a slightly

752
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: larger one. Uh. And this new water slide, called the

753
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: Aqua dunk is a is a a slide that's designed

754
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: to do a pretty rapid drop into water. UH. It's

755
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: actually a twisty slide. It goes two twelve feet and

756
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,919
Speaker 1: twists that way, and part of that includes a twenty

757
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: ft clear section that extends out over the side of

758
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: the ship and over the ocean. So for a twenty

759
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: foot stretch of that, you're directly over the ocean. You

760
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 1: can look down and see the ocean about a hundred

761
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: feet below you. Sliding down takes about five seconds, so

762
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,439
Speaker 1: you have to look fast. It's actually a really tough

763
00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: thing to have water slides on a ship. This is

764
00:44:56,600 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: another engineering challenge. Water slide technology is pretty simple. You

765
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: pump water up to the top of the slide. You

766
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: let the water go down using gravity as your main

767
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: force to the bottom, and then you collect the water,

768
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: filter it, pump it back up. Not a whole complicated

769
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,759
Speaker 1: technology there, but the engineering when you're talking about a

770
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,920
Speaker 1: water slide on a cruise ship is much harder. And

771
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,840
Speaker 1: the reason for this is that cruise ships can twist

772
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 1: and torque, they can bend in different ways. They also

773
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,919
Speaker 1: can expand and contract because the body of the ship

774
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 1: is made out of metal, and all of these mean

775
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: putting extra stresses on what is supposed to be a

776
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: water type tight water slide. So if you want a

777
00:45:40,920 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: watertight slide and you're gonna have all of these different

778
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,160
Speaker 1: motions to take into account, you have to build it

779
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: on a very special material, and you have to figure

780
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: out a support system that will move along with the

781
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: ship while keeping the integrity of the slide intact. On

782
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: top of that, you have engines running at different levels

783
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: throughout the cruise, which means you're going to have vibrations

784
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: sent through the ship. And yes, if you're quiet and

785
00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: you're in a quiet spot, you can feel the vibration

786
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: from the engines pretty much anywhere on the ship. Of course,

787
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: you can feel it better when you're closer to where

788
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 1: the engines are, but if you're if you're very quiet

789
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: and you and you just you know, touch a wall,

790
00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: you can pretty much feel the vibrations. Well, that slide

791
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,120
Speaker 1: has to take that into account to you are constantly

792
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: being rattled. So this was actually a pretty tough challenge

793
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: for the imagineers to create a slide that was fun

794
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: and safe and would be resilient to these different stresses

795
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: on it, and I think that's pretty impressive. One of

796
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: the other changes they made was to the ship's horn. Originally,

797
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,359
Speaker 1: the horn only played the first few notes of when

798
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: You Wish upon a Star, And if you're a Disney

799
00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 1: nut like me and you hear it for the first

800
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: time on your first cruise, it's a pretty phenomenal experience.

801
00:46:57,200 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: You you are surprised and delighted to hear this little

802
00:47:00,680 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: Disney touch early on in your cruise experience. It's also

803
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: fun to see all the families and kids kind of

804
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: light up at it. Uh. These days, when I go

805
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,719
Speaker 1: into Disney cruise, I see a lot of returning cruisers

806
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: because you can you can tell the more cruises you

807
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:18,280
Speaker 1: go on, the different lanyard you will get, like, um,

808
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,479
Speaker 1: you'll have a silver level, of Gold level, Platinum level,

809
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 1: and I just went on my platinum cruise. So anyway,

810
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: I see a lot of returning guests. So the ship's

811
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 1: horn doesn't have quite the same effect that it used

812
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:35,000
Speaker 1: to but the upgrade allowed it them to create new

813
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: tunes for the horn to play, and they're all Disney

814
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: related or uh. One of the Disney properties are property

815
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:45,480
Speaker 1: owned by Disney. Like Star Wars, there's an Imperial March

816
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: horn now as well. Also, this is kind of dorky

817
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:54,840
Speaker 1: but awesome, there is a physical button to sound the

818
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,759
Speaker 1: ship's horn. You have to make an announcement first to

819
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: let people know, Hey, by the way, we're gonna sound

820
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: the horns, so be prepared for that. But the button

821
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: itself is on a console and around the button is

822
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 1: a little frame in the shape of Mickey Mouse ears.

823
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 1: So the buttons in the center and you've got the

824
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: two ears on either side. And I know it's dorky,

825
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: but I love Disney, so I think it's awesome and

826
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,920
Speaker 1: I want to push that button so badly. Um, I

827
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,160
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to resist it. Uh. That of course

828
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: is on the bridge, so it's right there along with

829
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: all the other controls. There's a console area where there's

830
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 1: the ship's horn and you usually sound that whenever you're

831
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: entering or leaving a dock area the parent Key restaurant.

832
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:45,439
Speaker 1: During this renovation period, the two one was changed at

833
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: that time. So parent Key, which you can no longer

834
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,160
Speaker 1: go to, had a Caribbean theme. Um actually, I don't know.

835
00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 1: The Disney Wonder might still have parent Key, but I

836
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: haven't been on the Wonder in years, so I'm not sure.

837
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: But the Magic the parent Key is gone. So I

838
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 1: had a Caribbean theme. It was a lot of the

839
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:06,000
Speaker 1: cuisine was Caribbean in in inspiration. They have now replaced

840
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 1: that with a restaurant called Kariokas, and Karaokas is named

841
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: after Jose Karaoka, a Donald Duck character in the Three

842
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: Caballeros cartoon. I don't know why I am suddenly adopting

843
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: an accent here, but the Three Caballeros cartoon is a

844
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:28,200
Speaker 1: very fun classic Disney cartoon, and so the The Three

845
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: Caballeros takes place in South America, and the cuisine at

846
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 1: Karaokas is largely influenced by the food of Brazil. So

847
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:41,239
Speaker 1: it's a different change, different style of cuisine, and they

848
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: did different theming, different lights in order to give it

849
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: this much what a pretty large change in identity. And

850
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:52,320
Speaker 1: another space that got a major overhaul was the ocean

851
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:54,279
Speaker 1: Eers Club. That's when they ended up being able to

852
00:49:54,320 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: incorporate stuff like Marvel Avengers and toy story things that

853
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:02,839
Speaker 1: weren't as prominent back in the late nineties when they

854
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: were building the ship in the first place. So, uh,

855
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: when you go to like the or when your kid

856
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: essentially goes to the Avengers Academy, they can train to

857
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: become a superhero. Nowhere yet, if Captain America whispers hell

858
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,800
Speaker 1: Hydra to each recruit, that's a reference to a storyline

859
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: that's going on right now in Marvel that I'm not

860
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 1: crazy about. I also wonder if the Captain America aboard

861
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: the Disney cruise ships is getting any flak about being

862
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:35,360
Speaker 1: a secret Hydra agent because they do have, you know,

863
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: lots of different Disney characters aboard these various ships, including

864
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: Marvel characters. Typically it's it's Captain America. UM. They've also

865
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Speaker 1: had Star Wars characters as well. They've done Star Wars

866
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: themed ship cruises. I have not gone on one of those,

867
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: despite the fact that I also love Star Wars as

868
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: well as Disney. UM. I did not do one of

869
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: those yet by stress yet. Now. One of the other

870
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: changes they made was that Animator's palette. I mentioned the

871
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 1: fiber optics static displays earlier, the ones that were just

872
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: black and white sketches of various Disney characters, they couldn't

873
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: change because they were built into the wall. But then

874
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,680
Speaker 1: the fiber optics would allow color to come into the picture,

875
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:19,520
Speaker 1: and so they would change from black and white to color,

876
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,719
Speaker 1: but you couldn't change what the portrait was of, Right,

877
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: like a picture of of of Ballue, the bear from

878
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: the Jungle Book is always going to be blue the bear,

879
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:33,560
Speaker 1: it would never change into anything else. When they did

880
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: the renovation, they pulled out some of that and swapped

881
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: in LED screens, and now you get a different experience.

882
00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: So instead of it just being images that go from

883
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: black and white to color on the screens, you'll see

884
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: sketches start to appear on the various portraits of various

885
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:56,279
Speaker 1: Disney characters. And as the dinner progresses, you get more details,

886
00:51:56,320 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: you get color, you get animation, um, and they change

887
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: over time, so you're not looking at just a an

888
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: evolving sketch of a single character. It swaps as the

889
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: dinner goes on. Uh, And again it ends up being

890
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: kind of a show. It's not just dinner, it's also

891
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: a performance, which is kind of cool. UM at the

892
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: end of one of the dinner's an Animator's palett. If

893
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: you go twice, if your cruise is such that you

894
00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: go to Animator's Pallett two times, the second time, they

895
00:52:25,560 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: have a special show where all the guests are invited

896
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: to draw a character on a piece of paper, and

897
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: all those pieces of paper are taken backstage and scanned

898
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,839
Speaker 1: into a system, and then when you watch the show

899
00:52:38,840 --> 00:52:42,280
Speaker 1: at the end, these characters are animated and they appear

900
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,880
Speaker 1: on screen. So a character you drew will appear on

901
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 1: screen and dance around and move about. The way they

902
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:52,640
Speaker 1: do this is they have special blocks set aside that

903
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 1: you draw in, things like legs and arms and hands

904
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: and a head and a body and that kind of stuff.

905
00:52:59,360 --> 00:53:02,160
Speaker 1: And when they in it, each of those blocks is

906
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,360
Speaker 1: um design in such a way that it's considered to

907
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: be a joint, right like the shoulders or the hips

908
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:11,759
Speaker 1: or whatever. And so when it's animated, it animates each

909
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: of these blocks in a way so that the characters

910
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: can move around when you're looking at them on the screen.

911
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,840
Speaker 1: When I did this, I drew a pirate with a

912
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: peg leg and a hook and an eye patch, and

913
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,600
Speaker 1: his name was Lucky other Disney touches. Of course, you've

914
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: got the characters, You've got the Disney movies that are

915
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,240
Speaker 1: shown in the various theaters. If a Disney film comes

916
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: out during your cruise, they show it that same day

917
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: on the ship, so it's premiere on land and see

918
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Speaker 1: UM and I think I might be seeing Finding Dory

919
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: by the time this episode goes live, I will have

920
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:54,759
Speaker 1: seen Finding Dory, assuming that premieres while we're on the ship.

921
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Speaker 1: I think it will actually, which is kind of cool

922
00:53:57,880 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: the neat idea that you get this unique Disney experience. UM.

923
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Speaker 1: Disney actually also does this this big fireworks display out

924
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Speaker 1: at sea. Typically they do this with a pirate themed

925
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 1: deck party. So if you've heard the tech Stuff episode

926
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: on fireworks, you know how technical that can get. Uh.

927
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Speaker 1: In the Disney shows, they tend to be three hundred

928
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: or so shots per fireworks display, which is modest by

929
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: Disney standards, but it's at sea, so that makes it different.

930
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Speaker 1: These are also controlled by a system that is highly

931
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:37,400
Speaker 1: synchronized with music and other effects, so that you get

932
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: a story throughout the fireworks display, not just stuff shooting

933
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: off into the sky and blowing up, which is also

934
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,360
Speaker 1: pretty cool. But it's more effective when it's all synchronized

935
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: with music and everything else. They actually hold several patents

936
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Speaker 1: for their fireworks displays, and they were the first cruise

937
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Speaker 1: line to have a fireworks display out at sea because

938
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Speaker 1: it involves getting a lot of permission from various nautical authorities.

939
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,879
Speaker 1: The fireworks themselves are made out of edible material, so

940
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: when they are done exploding and they go down into

941
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 1: the ocean, UH, they can actually be eaten safely by

942
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: sea life, so there's no um, there's no pollution there. Um.

943
00:55:19,400 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty cool. So you can actually

944
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:26,600
Speaker 1: check this out and not feel any guilt about it. Now,

945
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 1: a couple of other little things before I wrap up.

946
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Speaker 1: One of them is that there are two suites aboard

947
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Speaker 1: each of the Disney cruise ships that are the biggest

948
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Speaker 1: and most luxurious staterooms on board. Uh. There's the Walt

949
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: Disney Suite and the Roy Disney Suite, and they have

950
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: lots of special features like a private hot tub um

951
00:55:46,600 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 1: I think, and at least one of them there's a piano.

952
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: There are things like in the master bedroom there's a

953
00:55:54,160 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: television that can rise up from the foot of the

954
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: bed and then go back down when you're done with it.

955
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: There are two and a half bathrooms inside these uh

956
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: inside these suites, they're pretty swanky. I have never been

957
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:13,479
Speaker 1: in one. I can't afford it, but it does sound

958
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: like it would be quite the experience to be in

959
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: the Walt Disney Suite or the Roy Disney Suite. I

960
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: think they can sleep up to seven people in those

961
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: suits as well, so they're they're meant for a family

962
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: of some means beyond my own. Maybe one day, I

963
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: can keep hoping. But interesting that they would go with

964
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: this level of luxury. The staterooms in general aboard Disney

965
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: cruise ships are larger than the industry standard, and part

966
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: of that was because Disney was aiming for families, so

967
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:49,880
Speaker 1: they needed more room for each stateroom because it could

968
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 1: be a family of four, not just a couple, so

969
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:58,200
Speaker 1: it was a practical concern. Some of the ships also

970
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: have interactive portraits that anime or a part of an

971
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: augmented reality game aboard the ship. I got to play

972
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,720
Speaker 1: with one of these on the Disney Dream I believe,

973
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: and that's really cool to this idea that you've got

974
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:14,280
Speaker 1: these these things that look like they are static portraits

975
00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: from Disney movies. But if you watch, you see that

976
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: they start to animate and sometimes they interact with each other.

977
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: I remember coming to one hallway where there were portraits

978
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 1: of pirate ships on either side of the corridor UM

979
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: on other side of a doorway really, and they had

980
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: a battle with each other. They actually started firing cannonballs

981
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: at each other, and I thought that was really a

982
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: clever thing to do. And the game aspect, you can

983
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: play a game where you have UM cards that have

984
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 1: a low pattern on them, and when you hold them

985
00:57:42,840 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: up to the portraits, the portraits have embedded camera that

986
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,919
Speaker 1: can pick up the pattern on the card and tell

987
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:53,560
Speaker 1: the portrait this person is playing this particular game. And

988
00:57:53,600 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: it's almost like a scavenger hunt as you go through

989
00:57:56,760 --> 00:57:59,720
Speaker 1: the ship and you try to solve a mystery or

990
00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: hell about the character. And it's really an interesting way

991
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: to explore the ship as well as engage in a

992
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 1: fun interactive form of technology. Very clever approach to using

993
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:18,080
Speaker 1: augmented reality and and video interactive video. So well done. There. Now,

994
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: that pretty much concludes all the stuff I have to

995
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: say about the Disney magic and the basic technologies behind it.

996
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:29,640
Speaker 1: I look forward to my upcoming cruise, and I hope

997
00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 1: to be able to explore more of this if I'm

998
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: given the opportunity. We also have at how stuff works

999
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:40,480
Speaker 1: dot com a full article on how cruise ships work.

1000
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: I didn't go into full detail on the stuff from

1001
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 1: there because obviously that would be its own episode, and

1002
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: I hope one day to get either Ben or Scott

1003
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,920
Speaker 1: from Car Stuff in here and talk about cruise ships

1004
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: and what makes them work and the considerations that you

1005
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 1: have to take when you're creating something that big that

1006
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: has many people in it for that long a period

1007
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:04,880
Speaker 1: of time. Didn't go into stuff like how do you

1008
00:59:05,080 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 1: make sure that people are being as careful as possible

1009
00:59:08,920 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: so they don't spread an illness that's a big concern

1010
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: aboard cruise ships, or just how how's the water recycling

1011
00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: system work? How frequently do they have to deal with

1012
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: things like waste like people waste that I feel would

1013
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: be a great episode as well. So I hope to

1014
00:59:28,600 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: do an episode with either Ben or Scott in the

1015
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 1: future to talk about the workings of your basic cruise ship.

1016
00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:36,680
Speaker 1: But since I'm going on vacation and I had to

1017
00:59:36,720 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 1: record another episode so that I would have enough to

1018
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:42,560
Speaker 1: get through that time without going dead for a week

1019
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 1: or giving you guys a rerun. I chose to do

1020
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Speaker 1: Disney Magic. You're probably sick of hearing me talk about it,

1021
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: but the alternative was a rerun or not having any

1022
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: episode at all this week, and I hope that this

1023
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: is a better alternative than those. If you guys have

1024
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: suggestions for future episodes of tech Stuff, maybe there's some

1025
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Speaker 1: technology that either I've never covered or I covered so

1026
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 1: long ago that is transformed completely since then. You want

1027
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:11,040
Speaker 1: me to talk about it, you want me to have

1028
01:00:11,080 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: a guest on to really dig down into the details.

1029
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,160
Speaker 1: Let me know. Send me an email. The address is

1030
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: text stuff at how stuff works dot com, or draw

1031
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: me a line on Facebook or Twitter. The handle at

1032
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Speaker 1: both of those is text Stuff h SW. I really

1033
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Speaker 1: do look forward to hearing from you guys. I'm very

1034
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: excited to do a bunch of new episodes in the

1035
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:38,000
Speaker 1: near future. I'm hoping to get a lot of different

1036
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Speaker 1: guests in here to do two person shows or interviews,

1037
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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. I really want to do more

1038
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: of those moving forward if I can. Scheduling is a challenge,

1039
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: but I want to do more and I want to

1040
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: hear what you guys want to hear more of as well,

1041
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Speaker 1: So get in touch with me and until then, I'll

1042
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Speaker 1: talk to you again really soon for more on this

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Speaker 1: and thousands of other topics. Isn't how Stuff Works dot

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