From the Bob Barley studio in Orlando, Florida, you're listening to the Diz Unplugged.

Hello and welcome to the Diz Unplug Roundtable discussion for July 30th, 2008.

I'm your host Pete Warner, joined each week by my good friends, Julie Martin,

Cory Martin, Kevin Close, and John Meijai in the peanut gallery this week to

reset echoes and joining us at the table is Julie's sister Taylor, Taylor Glass.

And they're going to be telling us a little bit about their experience at the

Grand Floridian T a bit later on. And in our final Christmas in July segment this

week, we're going to discuss Christmas on board, the Disney Cruise Line, as well as a

recap of our favorite Don't Miss Holiday events. And we will be giving away more

prizes this week. We gave away a podcast cruise last week and we're hoping that we

get to give another one away today. All that plus this week's news and roundtable

rapid fire on this edition of the Diz Unplugged. Do we have any housekeeping this week?

I don't have anything like pressing. I don't either. I don't think we do. No. I don't.

We didn't screw up. We didn't have to. I wouldn't say that.

There's nothing we need to apologize about. Yeah, really. I apologize for not being here

last week, but thank you Peter for letting me have the day off. No problem. We enjoyed it.

We crafted. You were doing crafts. Yes.

How cute. All right. Well, then we'll just get ahead and get started with the news.

Our first news story this week. According to Forbes magazine Wall Street may want to

rethink their predictions about Disney's business. According to the article, Disney has exceeded

analyst expectations by 13% over the last two quarters. Theme park attendance has been up

an estimated 3% in each quarter. And hotel of the hotel occupancy rates have been averaging

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