Hello!

And welcome to very amusing, your one-stop shop for the story, secrets, and shenanigans of a

popcorn-fueled steam park journalist. I'm Carly Wiesel, and nothing I'm going to say

up front at the top of this episode is going to compare to the fact that we have freaking A.J. Wolf on this episode. Now, A.J.'s dear friend, but like, still, hearing A.J.'s voice, even as a friend in person over the phone on a Zoom to record this episode, it's still like, oh my God, it's AJ. Oh my God, it's the legend,

the Disney food blog legend, that voice, it is iconic and I'm just so excited about it.

Now, separate from everything we're going to get into on this episode, I do want to let you know

that in a few weeks we will be doing something new, and that is that we won't be doing an episode about Royal Caribbean. And I guess that's not new because we did want a minute ago, well a minute ago, it's like a year and a half, about Royal Railway Utopia Station, which was one of their themed restaurants on board. But I never got to go on that ship. It was a conflict with the trip I had to New York. I couldn't do it. Oh, that was when Noah Khan was playing Madison Square Garden.

And James Bay was opening, both of which are acts of my husband that he signed many, many years ago and still works with. And so it was like, this is like my husband's night in Madison Square Garden. I can't leave to go on a new cruise ship. But they have a sister ship to that one, the Star of the Seas, which is coming out. and I'm going to be on the inaugural sailing.

I can't wait.

I'm very, very excited to see what they offer. It is different than

Disney Cruise Line, and I think there are a lot of very cool things that I can't wait to

experience and report back about. So stay tuned for that. That is coming up in a few weeks. I just,

I don't know, I can't keep a secret I had to tell you about it. This week, though,

obviously we're talking Disney adults, Disney adults with author, published author, A.J. Wolf. Stick around.

There's so much fun ahead. There's truly so much fun ahead. I can't wait to say even more.

Stay tuned for some deals from our friends over at Mouse Man Travel, and I'll see you on the other side.

And now a quick chat about current Disney discounts and promotions with our travel agent partner, Becky Mankin, of MouseFam Travel. Hi, Becky. Hi, Carly. It's so good to hear from you again. I know. I feel like we're pen pals. We're like business pen pals. It's so good to see you, though. It's good to see you, too. It's been a whirlwind for me, though, as you probably know. I just did

an Adventures by Disney to Japan. Oh my gosh. Amazing. And it's my second time on that

itinerary. It was so great. And then I hopped over to Europe, believe it or not, and I escorted

a group cruise with Royal Caribbean, which included like Copenhagen and

Rotterdam. It was just amazing. And I'm not sure what time zone I'm in or exactly what day it is right now,

but I do know in a few days I leave for another Adventures by Disney to Southern California. I'm going to go

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