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Derek here, no Doug, and said I'm with with my amazing better half, Madison Sassman,

and we just got done doing two days at the taste of Epcot International Festival of the Arts.

That's a taste. It's not the full thing. In fact, it's the fifth year anniversary.

I've been to all five of them. My wife has been to three of the five, so it's a good opportunity for us

to discuss what I call my favorite festival. I don't know where it ranks for you, but it's my

favorite, and we're going to go kind of through it a little bit today and give our review

with what the Festival of the Arts is during the time of COVID. But where does this rank on

your list of festivals? Well, I have never

done flower and garden. I haven't done that yet. And food and wine, we've gone with our kids.

And so I feel like Festival of the Arts is my favorite because this is, it it's it's been the opportunity to be able to

really enjoy epcot without worrying about kids rampaging through the little shops and being able

to enjoy um the food without thinking like will my kids eat this so So this ranks number one for me, although I think

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