Today on our podcast is our monthly news and analysis episode. We'll discuss not only what is

happening in the world of Disney films, parks, and experiences, but also what these things mean

for the future of the Disney company. We have a number of topics to explore today. First, we have

the Disney Forward plan and some changes to that plan,

which is significant as the Disney Forward Plan will go up for a vote before the Anaheim Planning

Commission later this month. We also have a detailed update to the construction of Tiana's

Bayou Adventure over in Florida. Beyond

this we'll look at changes to Epcot, including some lovely temporary additions to living

with the land, and we'll touch down with a couple of other topics of interest, particularly

if you're planning to head to the parks anytime soon. Beyond all this,

I have two new video essays as companion pieces to today's podcast episode, which will show

you in detail how construction is advancing in Tiana's Bayou Adventure and what exactly is happening at the Florida

resort in terms of interesting seasonal additions. These video essays will be housed over on

YouTube. Our podcast episodes typically post many hours early to band camp, So the video essays will go live when this episode

posts the band camp. So if you're on band camp listening to this episode early, those video essays

are there right now for you. I've also set up a landing page to collect all of our video essays as they are released.

So a simple way to find them is to just click over to dhipodcast.com.

We have a lot of topics to explore today. And if you click over to our video page,

we have some companion videos to supplement these topics.

If you're ready, let's go.

Today on our news episode, we're going to focus mostly on the American parks, looking at what's

changing and what has been announced over the last month.

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