Hello!

And welcome to Very Amusing.

Your one stop shop for the story, secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. I'm Carly Waisel and guys, we are back in the Muppets' resurgence window. Like, do you feel it happening? Do you feel, ooh, do you feel like bubble it up from the surface? It's happening. Like, the Muppets are about to be back. And we got to watch this special. We got to make sure we tune in because it's very important that this does well. Because this does well, they'll probably do more of it. And then we'll get more Muppets and more Muppets and more Muppets. And I do feel a little, you know, sometimes I, it's best that I don't think about the fact that my job is to talk to myself in a room all alone.

Like, under any other circumstances, I would be a little concerned for myself.

However, right now I'm standing in my office and I'm making eye contact with the cover of a calendar from, it's like a Seinfeld parody, a Muppet parody calendar.

But it's like the Seinfeld cover. It's the Muppets, but it's Seinfeld that's framed. I look to my left. I see Gervid and Miss Piggy. I look further to my left. I see all of my Miss Piggy ceramics. I just see all the Muppets staring back at me being like, Gurley, make it happen for us. Girlie, talk about the show. Girlie, make sure everybody watches because we're the Muppets and we're here. So all of them are staring at me like, it feels like I set up an audience of stuffed animals and was like, these are my podcast listeners, but I swear, I'm pretty sure most of you are real. If some stuffed animals are listening, that's fine. I'd like to think that the three Lena Bells who live in my child's room understand.

Also, yeah, my child, I'll find a tangent for a moment.

Her Ben's sister came over yesterday, and Pearl was, like, presenting all of her stuffed animals to her.

And I realized, like, she pulled out three, three Lena Bells are in her crib, and I had to be like, oh, that is a character that is exclusive to the overseas Asia Disney theme part.

And my child has three of them and does not really understand that.

So you know what?

It wouldn't be so wild if my audience was stuffed animals, but I'm glad that it is real humans because I adore all of you and I am so appreciative of all of you because some of you are coming to a Musa-Balooza. This way? Oh my gosh! This week, I can't believe it's here. It is absolutely bonkers. I am so excited. There's also like details. You're going to hear all about it next week, but there are details that I haven't even told you about yet, including like something very, very special with Swan and Dolphin, the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin, a hotel that I am like emotionally timed to. I just love them so much. It's a quality product at a great price. I really stand behind it. And we will talk about that further because I have stood behind it for so long that a very

funny thing happened as part of our trip booking.

But anyway, there will be a little, ooh, like a little Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin.

Surprise.

So stay tuned for that.

I want to let you know.

Next week's episode, I'm letting you know early,

early and often. Next week's episode will be arriving late. It will be out. I'm hoping end of

day, Wednesday, possibly Thursday morning, the latest. Basically, I'm in Disney World for so long

and I want to do a recap episode right after. I don't want you to feel like by the time we do a recap episode of Amazapalooza, you're like, really this happened years ago. Like, I want to make sure it is boom right there. But I get home so late past when I make this podcast. And I really don't have time while I'm there to do the podcast because the event goes all the way through the weekend.

I think that's all you need to know about Disney News and housekeeping and Amusapalooza.

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