Hello! And welcome to very amusing, your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled

theme-park journalist. I'm Carly Wiesel and if you can't hear

it in my voice I am already anxious about the events that are coming later this

week. D23 Expo Fan Convention whatever they want to call it now D23 in general fine sure

But D23 the event there's coming up this weekend is going to be absolutely packed to the gills with Disney news and I am

Really feeling and I am really feeling excited. I am recording this on

Monday you're gonna hear it on Wednesday. My D23 coverage begins Wednesday night

the event actually starts Friday but I have a few things

lined up beforehand. Regardless, there is so much coming our way this week and it's so

exciting. Usually I'm a little more like stressed going into D23, but this year I am purely just anticipating

everything coming our way which is why we have this this kind of primer episode

it's to remind you and me I'm not gonna going to lie, and me, of everything that was announced before,

everything we have to look forward to, and kind of what I need Disney to make good on in these announcements.

There are three things where I'm like if they don't do these three

things I'm going to walk away pretty upset and if they do these three things I'm

going to lose my mind with joy. We're going to get into it this week and next week

which I do want to at the top just just let you know, I will not be doing

daily podcast episodes from D23. The reason being that the entire format of this event has made that

impossible now.

And I know I am blaming someone else.

I also, I need to sleep because I'm,

now that I'm a mother, now that I'm a mother,

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