Hello!

And welcome to Vary Amusing, your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets, and shenanigans

of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist.

I'm Carly Weisel, and boy does it feel good to no longer be recording that intro quietly

in a hotel room.

I was very scared of waking up my neighbors because the hotel I stayed at, there wasn't

much noise between the rooms.

There's a lot of noise between the room and the hallway, and there was a space between

the full doors and the ground, and I was like, oh my god, the last thing that someone

was trying to sleep and get a few hours of shut-eye between ex-ponites.

The last thing that they want is to hear me going, ow, ow!

So now I'm free to intro the podcast without anxiety.

I'll bring up this next topic, which I'm just going to get through really quick.

If you are listening to this podcast, the date comes out.

I want to formally apologize once again for the delay this episode is coming out Wednesday,

early evening, afternoon, not Wednesday morning, as we typically do, and the reason for that

ends up like yada yada yada into good news, which is that next week we will be playing audio

from my world of Duffy and Friends revealed panel at D23 Expo.

This panel was such a blast, and apparently people who attended also liked it, such as

me being pogged.

But we were able to locate the footage.

I'm going to be able to pull the audio out of the video to put it on the podcast, which

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