Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Ryan Bergara.

I'm Barron Morin.

And for today's episode, we're going to be talking about the avalanche of announcements from Destination D23 and joining us to unpack all of that

is James Grosh from Guy 2 DWW. Oh, I nail. I was going to say,

Nailed it. Guy 2 WD, it's so hard to say fast and I couldn't do it. But check out Guy 2DW.

No, my God. Guy to W.D.W. I feel like I'm having a stroke right now.

My apologies for this. I didn't, I didn't name Guide to WDW. That was my sister. How are you doing that?

She's through many, many, many hundreds of videos saying I'm James from Guide to WDW. That was my sister. How are you doing that? She's through many, many, many hundreds of videos saying I'm James from Guide to WDW. Although now I have it in my head. I'm going to mess it up. Yeah, my sister named it as a website in 1999. And then I took it over and then started doing videos for about a couple of years ago. So that's been saying Guide to WDW a lot. I could tell. It's quite the tongue twist here. Doing the family business proud. And I practiced before this and I still couldn't get it. But either way, that's in no way indicative of the great content you could find over there. Thank you for joining us. Thank you very much for having me. Y'all are one of my favorite podcasts out there, not just theme park podcasts, but podcasts. I've been coming down to Orlando a lot, doing a lot of travel. And kind of my ritual is that I'll fire up FYA to, you know, as I'm on the plane or driving down and just listen to who's going to do a muscle job. And, you know, the attraction is world class. So I love it. Thank you. This is a thrill for me. Oh, amazing. Really appreciate it. We're going to have to have you back on to do a normal, just cover a ride, just a ride in general. I would love to. But for today, as mentioned up top, we're going to be talking about D 23. Now, now every time I say the word D, my body is going into shock. But in the meantime, just a little quick housekeeping, like and subscribe to keep us alive over on YouTube.com slash at FYAPod. Or if you're listening to the audio version, subscribe and rate the podcast five stars over there, wherever you get your podcast. And consider supporting us on our fourth wall,

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And sometimes we're going to be releasing some vicarious vlogs early for e-ticketers over there. That's right. E-ticketers can get extended cuts of the vlogs a little bit early,

about like a week or so early is the goal. So, yeah,, yeah, for, for you Kearney ticketers, thank you so much for supporting us to the, uh, extent you do. We really appreciate your passion and we hope you are enjoying the extended cuts that you've been receiving so far. Byron's a machine. We'll, we'll try and keep it on track, but. Well, we'll try. And you as if you're a fan of this pod, you know that we don't often succeed in that. But, James, thank you for listening to the pod. I'm always surprised when people have actually listened to the pod and they come on this show. So that's very nice of you to say. And of course, we've seen your content. But you were just there. You were just at D23. This is now we're filming this, what, three days removed? Two days after it ended on. It was Friday through Sunday. So in today's Tuesday. Oh, yeah, today's Tuesday. So about a week after this event is when viewers and listeners will be feasting on this. That's right. A little time for it to digest. Yeah. Not going to need that

much time. It was, it was, I think we all kind of knew going into this one, there wasn't going to be a

lot of details shared, just because there wasn't even a parks panel. So I kind of knew to keep my

expectations low, but how did you feel going into the event?

I had heard like, okay, it's not going to be like last year at D23 when they had the at Anaheim, when they had the Hanna Center and they announced the Villains Land and Pistic Peak. And, you know, it was a bunch of new lands, new cruise ships. Like, it was a crazy event. So I heard like, okay, it's going to be new details on things that we've already announced. So I had heard that. And my expectations were set. And then, of course, I couldn't help myself, but I did like a big 23 predictions for D23 thing that ended up being, I just went through it. I think I got like two or three right. So I couldn't help myself. I couldn't help myself, but even with my

expectation set of like, okay, they are going to announce a bunch of stuff. And, you know, we did get a lot of,

there were some surprises, there were some juicy details. There was a lot of things that got me

excited as a Disney fan. But I think it is a thing of like they are, this is kind of a resetting year. You know,

two years ago at Destination D23, they had Josh Tomorrow out. And I believe that was like they

announced the country bear redo. They announced Sutopia. They announced the tropical America's

land. So it was a lot of like big news at that event. And this year, I think it's more about like they've reset it as like, okay, we're going to get the big announcements at the Anaheim show. This show is much more of like a focused fan event. Vibes. Yes, vibes. I've written down some of the announcements that, you know, occurred to me as substantial. Oh, or at the least the ones

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