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Smart Moms Plan Disney Podcast

Animal Kingdom: Embrace or Replace?

Smart Moms Plan Disney Podcast

Smart Moms Plan Disney Podcast

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.9765 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes we think Disney is PERFECT but the reality is that sometimes things need to change and improve. Join us as we look at some of the theme park elements of Disney’s Animal Kingdom as we discuss which ones we should EMBRACE and which ones we think Disney should REPLACE. Our co-hosts can’t always agree but what about you?

Hosts: Aly Thomas, Katie Boone, Becki Smedley

Editing: Stacy Walker

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up, Animal Kingdom has a lot of highs and a lot of lows. Which of these things that are going on to Animal Kingdom should we be embracing? And which need to go. Need replacing. We're going to talk about it. And some of our answers, they might surprise you. I didn't say it was good, but... Oh, you just eat it every time. But there's a giant pretzel. Maybe the best pretzel on Disney property there.

0:23.3

Hey y'all. It's LJ here, owner and founder of SmartMoms Plan Disney and SmartMoms Travel.

0:30.0

We are so glad you're here for another episode of the SmartMoms Plan Disney podcast.

0:35.5

Now here's your host, Allie. What's up, everyone? Welcome back to another

0:41.8

episode of the Smart Moms Planned Disney podcast. I am your host, Allie, here today with Becky and

0:48.2

Katie. We are so excited. We are trying something new. And you know what? I'm really excited to talk about these things. Good morning. How are you but doing? Are you as happy and excited as me? I am really excited to be talking about these things. And I'm really excited to be up this early. I tell you, I might be growing as a morning person. I set my alarm. It's early for every smarty listening. It is early. We just had other stuff going on today. So we decided we would just get up and be adults that we need to be and record early. And I set my alarm for an hour ago so that I could get up and be alert for this. And I kind of enjoy that alone time. I'm not going to lie. Wait, you said it for an hour.

1:28.7

How many times did you snooze? I did not snooze. I am not a snooze person. Wow. So this is up for an

1:33.5

hour, Ali. Here she is. This is still rolled out of bed 30 minutes ago, Katie.

1:42.1

Do you all typically hit snooze? Because here's my thing. When I go to bed, if I know I'm going to want to hit snooze? Because here's my thing.

1:45.5

When I go to bed, if I know I'm going to want to hit snooze, I will set my alarm for 15 minutes before I need to get up so that I can hit snooze and still get up at the right time.

1:55.0

Nope.

1:55.5

I've set it on the podcast before.

1:58.0

I have Energizer Bunny Energy and just, you know, get up. I have literally never

2:03.8

hit snooze in the morning ever. I'm to the point in life and it's maybe it's just being in my

2:09.1

early 40s now that my brain does not allow me to sleep till my alarm. I'll set my alarm for seven o'clock

2:15.6

or whatever time I'm waking up. And then it literally 6.58, my body wakes me up and it just knows what time I'm waking up.

2:24.0

And I hate it because I am like a hit snooze 13 times because I love morning sleep.

2:29.9

I don't like nighttime sleep. I like morning sleep.

2:32.7

Oh, really?

2:33.6

Yeah.

2:33.9

Morning?

2:51.4

I'm like ready to get up, I think. You love morning sleep. That's really weird. It's another decky weirdism. It might be. I am the weirdo. Sean, Sean gets so mad at me because he would go to sleep at like 8.30 if he could. And he's like, nighttime sleep is so much better than morning sleep. And I'm like, morning sleep is less sleep. Sleep is that thing in my life that I'll never get sick of. You know, I just love to

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