Welcome to the WDW News Today podcast. My name is Eric Morton. Thank you so much for joining today. We have a special

episode today. Before we get going too much, you might notice Tom is not here. Tom had to take

an unexpected trip. He'll be back on Wednesday, but this show comes out on Tuesday. I was out of

town until I landed at 5.05 a.m. this morning. So I'm here to, this is Monday. This comes out on Tuesday. We have the Wigs with us live in the chat. Hello Wigs. The Wigs are WInty Interglobe Society. It's our Patreon members. So at the $7 and up per month level, you get to join us live when we make these podcasts. They're here in the chat. And it's good for them because we're doing an AMA today. We can do a little AMA. I have Kate. Don't worry. I'm not alone. Katie is here. Say hi to everyone, Katie. Hello. Katie there is in her little production area. And we have a lot to talk about. But like I said, Tom had an unexpected trip.

Speaking of unexpected trips, if you'd like to take one next Monday, a week from today,

you can come right here to the studio.

Right after Destination D-23, we have Detour, WDNT.

You can come here to our studio.

We have tours that will be going on all day.

Also a live recording of WDW News today,

our most popular show with Tom. Tom will be given guided tours, four different sessions of those

you can come to. And the museum is being reimagined. It's almost done. They're putting

finishing touches on that. See the new stuff in a museum. Watch this film a show, and then in the evening we come back and we will have a panel discussion with some former imaginers, some of whom you're familiar with, and they are going to talk to you about the art of theme park design.

What goes into designing rides, the whole theme park, the lands, all of that stuff.

At the conclusion of that, it will break up into groups and you will design your own theme park.

And then the Imagineers will critique what you've created.

It should be a fun time.

You can find out more about it when tickets are on sale, events.

www.w.net.com that is on the next Monday, right here in our studio in Celebration, Florida, just minutes from the Walt Disney World Resort. Okay. I'm tired, Katie. Do we have any other ads? What? Do we have any other ads? I'll talk about little, well, we'll talk about Gertie later. We'll sprinkle in Gertie. We've got to sell those Gertie's. We're selling a lot, but we've got to sell all of them. We also don't have a Gertie Cam. We can't go. No Gertie Cam from in here. The podcast studio, we're tucked way back in a cave far from the main studio, but in the same building. And thankfully, it stopped pouring rain. I was doing a news from a live audience about a half hour ago or an hour ago and the skies opened up

and it was just roaring for like an hour like you can't really just hold the live

recording when you have a studio audience so we had to record it hopefully Billy's he's

editing it right now on the other side of the studio somewhere and hopefully he can

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