[Music] thank you welcome to the new comeback edition of WWE News Today podcast episode two we're back like NSYNC just not as good looking or famous or um in demand or in demand nobody here's something asked for right so here we are uh with me today of course Tom Corliss my name is Eric Morton and we have a special guest today uh none other than the incomparable Nana Tanaka Nana is a a global Disney fan and also on staff here she runs our reporters here at WWNT and she has unique insights so we'
re going to share she manages all three teams Florida California and Tokyo that is true yeah believe it or not we do have a team of reporters in Tokyo so uh we have asked the community to give us some questions things that we want to talk about because today's subject is the Disney online community the current state the current state of the Disney online community boy sends shows up your spine just talking about it right remember when the Disney like online community was basically a few podcasts
I remember before that it was a series of Internet forums well yeah that's all we did and then there were podcasts that was the new craze uh thank you Stinky Pete The Miner oh God uh so obviously there are many flavors of Disney creators I would say they and each less palatable than the last correct so there's all things all kinds of things to end in auger right there's bloggers and vloggers and we talked about loggers already there there's they're cutting down the trees by the Magic Kingdom ri
ght now oh yeah it's crazy over there so through all this obviously this creates a great amount of interest in the community either hate watching these people talking bad about these people and to people themselves with a lot of drama in between them I don't even know where to start but well there's a there's a couple of facets right like to break down the community real quick there's there's the news side right there's the YouTube side vloggers right uh then there is the the influencers right t
hose are I think those are your three main categories right I don't know if there's anything in between I mean there's some there's Legacy people there's the like the Lou um of the world that are kind of it's a name I haven't heard in a long time right but they are still in their own Circle uh highly relevant and uh you know there's just a little bit of this forever I think they fall on the news side I don't know but you know perhaps uh where are we where are we we're in a little bit of everythi
ng but I think we mostly fall on the news side would you consider yourself an influencer Tom I'd like to not yeah you are though no don't do this to me yeah you are the top chorus that doesn't make you an influencer though like you know newscasters have been famous right that doesn't make them influent they're not they're not news influencers you get the power to change Disney like yeah but I don't like the term influencer I think is is like I I have a following on social media and I use that fo
llowing to get free stuff and to you know like I don't think the point of an influence the point of an influencer to me seems to be like self-promotion as opposed to like wwt is a very a much broader mission right which is to bring people news and also you know in later years to to withhold the legacy of the thing we love so much right which is the Disney Company even the influencers I would say someone like us more news focused yeah we're in the Parks every day and we'll get to that we have a l
ot of questions about this um but also I think there's a brand of uh influencer if I'm gonna use the word that the uh they're they're in the Parks a lot but really the parks are a backdrop for them to Showcase themselves right it's more about their uh person more personality driven they're not driven uh by news they are um I hate I get I hate to use the word Creator right because everybody's creating just because you're documenting your life experience doesn't make you more creative than someone
else but those people are out there too there's room for all of them but most of them hate each other yeah and we could talk about that a little bit I would say I think people asked about that the people that people ask about that a lot I'll tell you I don't use tick tock a lot but I'm aware that Disneyland is crazy those people all at each other's throats 24 7. here I think it's a little more subdued a little behind the scenes here it's a quiet hatred everyone just quietly dislikes each other
in Florida yeah and we'll talk about why why do we think that's a thing right we put the question number one to the YouTube Community section and then we also put the question in our patreon for the wigs members if you're interested in becoming wisman member by the way patreon.com WWMT or if you're like me you get It reversed sometimes it's wwnt.com patreon either one works does the other one yes they both work we we idiot proved it we Eric approved yes you could say that so we put the question
out there and we got some really interesting responses yeah Tom I think we'll start with uh and I I'm trying to pronounce your usernames this is from YouTube uh Sherry Wadsworth 5797 Sherry said do you think that some bloggers are ruining it for guests example talking over rides cameras on rides and showing others on rides yeah yeah I think we've talked about this several times right well we did here do what WWNT is we try to not impede on the guest experience as much as possible right and that'
s why when you see us do a food review we have those little mics that's so we don't have to be loud and bother other people right like what I took pride in you know we went and did a laselier review yesterday what I liked was you know I noticed like no one even really knew we were doing anything because we weren't screaming right um it even it took the servers and the managers because you know obviously WWNT is pretty well known at this point So eventually like towards the very end of the meal m
ore of the servers and like management caught on that we were there and like came to to visit and check in um but but it took them quite a while right which is what we want we want to have the experience that every other guest is having and then we want the other guests that are experiencing the thing at the same time that we are to to not even know where they're doing it but I I think it is a problem because I I hear people bring it up all the time I will tell you I'm I can only talk so much ab
out what other people do other than what you know people in our audience tell us because I don't watch what other people do I barely have time to watch what we do um but I've I've seen enough whether you know in passing or that people have sent me a link to on YouTube or whatever um to to see that there's a problem right so I I think one video that particularly comes to mind somebody at one of our I think it was at our 16th anniversary event um one of the wigs members talked about was it central
Florida edits or what is it Florida resident edits Florida resident edits yeah it's a YouTube channel Nana if you haven't seen it it's also kind of funny they take um little bits and pieces of uh kind of well-known vloggers around the area and they they make fun of them right so zoom in no it's these are generally there are some influencers yeah and there are some episodes that are I've seen a couple and some of them are just mean but there was one that I watched that that it wasn't trying to b
e mean it was it was more kind of angry it was angry that it kept showing in the course of just watching one person's Vlog all the times that they you could see other people like guests in the background either annoyed or bothered by what they were doing right um and so that that was one that stuck with me because I was like that's I'm glad there are other people in the community that kind of feel how I feel where it's like it's like it's it's fine to go film yourself and it's fine to film right
then it's fine to do all these things but you could do them in a way that doesn't bother people or ruin their experience or interfere with their experience right so I agree with people I think they do I don't I don't look when we live streamed every day I never talked during a ride unless we were the only people in the vehicle which only was a thing that generally happened back then because it was covid and they wouldn't sit anyone else in the vehicle with us but if other people were in the veh
icle once that started happening again we stopped talking on the ride now cameras on a ride that's always been a thing right like of you know normal tourists are filming um there's a respectful way to do it you shouldn't have a bright screen on things like that but I don't I don't know that that's necessarily the problem and then as for showing other people on rides I mean you know you've gone into a theme park you've gone you know if you go to a baseball game if you go to you know if you go to
a concert if you go to a theme park if you go to a tourist area of any kind you should expect that you could appear in the background of anyone's videos especially in the social media age right I don't think there's I'm sure as often as we do film in the park that there could be anecdote look there are people that just do not like us because of who we are and what anything we do is going to annoy them and I'm sure there are anecdotes of us being inconsidered but in general I think that we go out
of our way to consider I know when when I was live streaming which I disliked doing by the way um well it it I don't like to stand there in a queue I have to wait and you know I I couldn't make myself point a camera at people so I'm I'm with that like inevitably people are going to be in the frame at times but but in terms of standing right there on the back of a family you know of a family who's trying to have a conversation or having your camera in someone's face in particular a problem we've
seen recently there was a tick tock incident of people having an interaction with a uh with a cast member and kind of escalating it and uh what appeared to be kind of prodding her along and sticking a camera in her face during the whole time cost her her job a very I'm very cognizant of trying of not wanting to put cast members faces on camera if I can avoid it you know inevitably something's gonna happen you're in a you're in a public space and people are going to walk by or whatever but I wil
l say uh I know recently Horror Nights first night of Horror Nights a Creator we've they've just opened the gates and within a minute and a half a creator has their camera like placed on a light stand it's doing like some kind of dance in front of all the people it's like and this is when people are first coming in the park they're making it about themselves immediately I it rubs me the wrong way it may not bother everyone but I've seen stuff like that happen where you're like you know you can I
understand that you you're making your money right you're you're trying to make your living and do these things because people expect to park content from you but also there's a way to do it where the you know where you're respectful of other people and and when we're eating food and things I try to keep it down you try to keep it down maybe we're imperfect but I think by and large you're gonna not see a lot of instances of us there were reviews where people comments are like I can barely hear
you guys and it's you know that's why we end up buying the mics because you know in the process of not trying to bother people we were being really low right yeah you don't want to bother anybody where are you nana you see you you're in the Parks more than we are you probably see more creators walking around than anybody I mean as a creator it's tough you know Japanese social media world if you're doing something people will talk the rules are very different it's really like and like somebody go
nna take picture of you doing something and then post it on Twitter says oh she's doing this in the park today and it's so annoying like have you had that happen oh yeah people have posted a picture of you what were they complaining that you did well because I'm taking the space not really but like there was nobody so I would just take a picture of merchandise and people was like oh she's taking a lot of space to do like take pictures of merch but like hey yeah if you think the Disney World or D
isneyland Community is anal may I introduce you to the Tokyo to the Tokyo is really bad I've been in trouble a couple of times with them like the time they didn't no one told me I couldn't film small world during the soft opening and then I did and then everyone complained and then the next day they had signs in English yeah I feel like I had a hard time taking picture of the merchandise at the Duffy's releasing day that I went to get the geratoni's Hat yeah oh my gosh like people like you're li
ke there's a like is it the resellers complaining about you though yeah like they're like they have five dolls in their hands picking up their and they're worried about you you photographing to show people yeah like take a picture of like those people there's like there's a guy on social media that was live streaming in Japan that uh offended enough people he was going out it was way too offend people by the way American guy um playing basically almost I don't know if he was on Twitch or what he
was on but people were requesting songs and then he would play uh songs that were offensive to Japanese people on a loudspeaker while he's in in the queue at Tokyo Disneyland I think Dick's on the mountain um and then he's walking the streets and by I mean next thing you know all of Japan is like a social media Firestorm about this guy and he did like someone did physically assault him yeah not just once a couple times a couple times it does happen yeah but you know the olc have a rule that we
cannot live stream from Toca Disney sea toky Disneyland if you do that people will come out you're like you're not supposed to we got yelled at when we streamed uh believe sea of dreams we got yelled at by by the PR department well when that news came out though they didn't say that you couldn't live stream no they said that they were gonna if people abused it they couldn't live stream or something yeah so and then they're like no we said and then they're like no you can't do it I was like well
your rules are very vague so you know maybe make them clearer but if you go to Tokyo I know this means don't film do not do not and then my personal favorite is away most people get this there are some people that just think that they are the show right I'm here to be the show and this is who I am and the to the the Florida resident edits video you're talking about I know this group of people by the end of this Vlog that they're filming is singing at full volume on a monorail full of guests and
doing all kinds of things that they're getting criticized for by these people uh not to defend Florida resident at its uh no maybe they're nice people no you know yeah I mean and then we you know and we haven't ended up on it since the beginning we've always been I I think we've always you know sort of pointed and laughed at not only just the community at large but you know what we do also right because there has to be um you have to look at this with with uh you have to understand the Ridiculou
sness of it all at some points right like I I you know I love what we do and I think what we do is important but at the same time like we sometimes you have to take a step back and be like yeah all right guys we're you know we are a bunch of grown adults fighting to be first in line for the figment meet and greet um yeah like like sometimes you have to and and we can make fun of that right in Florida the Florida resident edits thing like look there's some episodes that are particularly mean um t
here's some like the the Mr Mara one where they were you know all kind of drinking around the resorts and being loud on the monorail where I sit there and I'm like there's no real argument right like if I'm Mr Morrow I don't know that I have an argument against that because you could see people are annoyed in the background like I don't know yeah I mean look some people when you do this inevitably you're gonna have moments that you put on camera out there for the world to look at that you're not
proud of right we have hours and hours and hundreds of hours of you and me and Anna and others on camera and not everything you know you don't always make the best choices but you try to try to act like respectful of people I think I think most of my moments were Twitter yeah that's probably they're not they're maybe not in video but you uh you and Twitter man that was yeah those were the days remember Twitter was an app where you could oh I love that now nobody can call it Twitter and you can'
t really call it X so they everybody in the news always calls it X formerly Twitter yeah so the artist formerly known as Twitter um our next comment comes from Christian suglia I apologize if I mispronounced that um this is from our wigs uh patreon uh remarks uh would love for you all to chat about how the influx of more bloggers and vloggers in the park impacts the normal guest experience also interested to see how the benefits of entertainment and content they provide are weighed against any n
egatives thank you I mean there shouldn't be negatives right I think that's you know the same way you know we want a net zero impact on on the park guests right so there shouldn't be a negative um the influx definitely affects people though right so like if you're a normal guest and you go to the first night at Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party that's not a normal party right like none of the norm like it's not normal to stand at Cheshire Cafe and wait 25 minutes for the one weird special de
ssert they have that's not gonna happen the rest of the season probably right um and you know what and the thing that was so this is a really good example is I'm in that line party started I'm in that line for the food and everyone else is you know there's some kind of influencer right there's vloggers in the line there's people that work for other news sites there's people that with very little following are trying to get started who are doing you know their own thing on Instagram or Tick Tock
or whatever right and we're all there for the same reason and and we're all there because we're going to all photograph her video this new dessert that's only available at the very expensive party we paid extra money to go to um and so um Adam the woo who's another I probably don't need to say who this is but you know Adam has a very successful Channel been around a long time um really one of the few very nice kind people I think in the community that no one has anything bad to say about um but
Adam always stops and says hello and we we did a quick hello I'm standing in the line and he's like what are you doing I was like oh you know I gotta wait in this line and take a picture of this you're gonna wait 30 minutes to take a photo of this dessert it's very important and I can see a couple people in the line are like giving me a dirty look at this point I'm like because it's absurd yeah right it's okay it's absurd that it's important look I'm in this line also so I have to do this for fo
r what we do right that that's I have decided this is what we do we are going to bring you reviews of all of this food so you can decide what you should get and what you shouldn't get when you go to the party and save you money right that's the idea and that's I'm making fun of what I'm doing also so like the fact that they're sitting there annoyed at me like don't be mad like don't hate the player hate the game yeah like don't pretend like we're doing something wildly important at this moment e
ven in the scheme of thing of theme park reporting this is the low end of the totem pole no matter what like it's okay like we're all being we all we all have decided we're gonna wait 25 minutes to get a picture of this slush like it's it's an absurd moment like don't and then people are mad at they're giving me dirty looks about it like no you're not doing something important and neither am I like com calm down um it's funny uh Tom when you and I went to Disneyland recently uh we met up with uh
our friend Max uh Mr cheesy pop yeah on YouTube and he's like yo I don't do first days anymore yeah I'm like wow talk about Rising above the game right I don't do first think about that if I didn't have to do first day of a festival every time there's a new Festival you know how much more I could enjoy my life yeah I think foreign Festival first day of any event obviously you're gonna be you're gonna have bloggers and vloggers and influencers and everybody all over the park um it's kind of just
what we're used to when someone says you know when you weigh the uh or do you weigh this against negatives there are negatives right we take up space we are we make the lines longer because you know we're there as fast as we can and sometimes at least on that day multiple right on that day and sometimes we have multiple people going to multiple location you know the only way we could do all the food on the first night of Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party is to split up so we are spreading o
urselves out we're taking up a little space yeah you may see us filming I think we try to keep it low-key you can't eliminate your presence in the park right Nana knows this Nana Nana's done this more than we um or more than me my teeth hurting maybe not more of the time no just back in the day you know I think it's important to review all the food the first day I mean it's it's very important to do first day so the people doesn't need to spend extra money extra time extra someone's going today
or tomorrow yeah I mean that's right so you know we get kind of saved in their times and like especially for like Japanese people if they don't know what they're doing they like to search before they're coming in so like we're kind of helping them too so we talk about this a lot our mission which is you know and this is this comes up the question but essentially why are we there and I think the value that we provide isn't necessarily a picture of a slush it's someone's going to go to the Hallowe
en party and you have four hours to do it and you want to have the three or four best food items while you're there and there's 26 of them and you want to go to someone that's going to be honest and say this one sucks this one's good this one's okay we're kind of consumer Advocates right and that's kind of I would say especially when people ask why are you guys negative I don't I don't feel that we're negative I just feel that there are some Outlets that are all 100 positive and if you are a con
sumer that doesn't do you any good right if you go to consumerreports.com because you're buying a new television and all the televisions are rated as a 10 what good is it to pay for a subscription to Consumer Reports if we were negative I think if we reviewed something and it was terrible and we told you not to go to Disney World that's actual negativity but negativity is not you know this dish wasn't good here but here's another place on Disney World property where we've had this where it is go
od right like going back to the lasellier review for for tomorrow you know yachtsman right I talked about yachtsman Steakhouse I was like you know what I don't like yachtsman Steakhouse but what did I offer I said Le celier and flying fish are two great alternatives to yachtsman I'm not telling you not to go to Disney World I'm telling you where you're going to spend that money and have a better time and that doesn't mean I hate Disney World that's not being negative that's being honest and cons
tructive is what is what that's being if I tell them this cupcake's not that great they're not going to leave Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party go to Publix and eat a cupcake and then come back to the party right they're still going to spend their money at Disney so I think that there's this um thought with people that when we're negative we're somehow just negative about everything I think what we're doing is trying to take it seriously I don't know how it helps I don't always agree with yo
u and you don't always agree with me on what's good and what's bad those are subjective they're things that you said are terrible that I thought were good and I'm sure things I thought were good that you thought were good and things that I thought were terrible you know whatever yeah um but so there's a little little bits in the eye of the beholder but in general I think we are provide trying to provide an honest uh consumer and we saw in the the Shiki Sai review like there were things Nana like
d like her gross what was the what was the gross thing the NATO Maki yeah my favorite and what is that again uh uh some something something in Sweden in the soybean yeah that is already yeah it's like a fermented fermented soybeans yeah right like so you know in the review generally in our reviews if possible there's more than one of us with the idea again being like you know let's let's have all the pertinent opinions available and then then you as the consumer can decide based on what you know
we thought right but to Christian's uh point in the question there is an influx of more bloggers and vloggers you I've never seen more gimbals and and cameras and things yeah ever I can't really look down on it because I have to do it sometimes too as part of my job but that that's the thing right and people can decide do I like to follow this person or not some people like to follow the smaller creators and help them build up some people just find people that that you you click with right tryi
ng to find a particular quote I want to oh boy to enact here okay you can keep going is it from Walt Disney no it's from an animated like if you can Vlog it you can do it no that was that was Trump Fitzgerald wasn't it um uh Remy said well yeah anyone can cook that doesn't mean that anyone should right and so anyone can do this that doesn't mean that everybody should and I think that's that's the problem sometimes is I think there isn't over abundance and there there's too many people and I thin
k too many people try to just emulate what other people are doing right I think when we the reason WWMT exists is because we saw something that no one else was doing and what no one else was doing was posting news from Disney World every day that was not a thing WWE magic back in 2007 you're lucky if three to four days a week there was news and you know I'd come around vacation it would be like well it's clear something new is happening here every day whether it's food or merchandise or attracti
ons or operational changes meet and greets whatever the case may be there's something new here every day and now you know fast forward 16 years and um all these websites post 20 to 30 times a day with different things that have happened at the Disney parks right so um you know I I think that's you know what the community needs more of is is different ideas and less of people that just do the same exact things um and I think that's you know I don't know I've never been a fan of like look what som
eone else is doing is like let's just go rip that off right and then don't don't get me wrong there's been a number of websites I could name right now or just wdwnd ripoff I mean everybody have their sites because it's a business right as opposed to wwt which was started by people not to make money it was started because we loved doing it and look at us now and it was yeah but I mean it's true it was a volunteer Enterprise for eight years and then we woke up one day and we're like you know oh th
ere's some money maybe this maybe this can be a thing okay um but I think there's something to be said when it comes from a place of that that kind of and there don't get me wrong there are other big entities in this community that started that way and that's great um but I I think I think I I take particular offense to the people they got in this community with you know one of two other thoughts which was oh look other people are making money doing this maybe I can and the other thought is like
oh other people get attention doing this maybe I can get that attention and that's if those are if those are the things driving you to be a part of this I think you're in it for the wrong reasons and I think you shouldn't be here and I don't really care who that rubs the wrong way if that's the reason why I'm doing this company after three years yeah yeah it's because we actually care no it's like you know everybody else kissed Disney's you know not ever not everyone but like they don't really
tell the truth they don't really bring out their opinion they just it's like oh this is new but us this is new and this is this and then we didn't like it or we didn't like it we give them like supported sentence for each things and then the viewers and read the value our opinion and that's the reason I'm almost through here and and people uh all she digs at us sometimes like well we know why you you guys aren't trustworthy because you're not even on a media list it's actually the the reverse of
that is true right yeah you're probably trustworthy because you're not on the media list because if you are an immediatist and you're a small Creator if you're I'm not talking your CNN or the Orlando Sentinel even uh you know those are you know those guys aren't getting into the nitty-gritty anyway right those are those are major news sources who you know IGN and all those get sent to these things like that's you know right but if it's a different thing if you're us and if you're you know if yo
u have a tick tock account and you have 40 000 followers you might get they might reach out to you yeah and invite you uh to a private event uh before the opening of something and uh try out a new Cupcake and the fact is that better be your review better be it's the best cupcake you've ever had or you're not gonna have a medium so you either play ball or you don't well I think that like the best thing that could happen to us is to not be on that media list yeah a lot of people think like oh oh t
hey're just burned because they're not an immediately I think that our mission aligns a lot better with not being on a media list because we're free we can we can say we don't have to be unethical right I mean I I think it's extraordinarily unethical number one that you have to say certain things to to be on a media list number one and number two like I I know like you know in the case of Disney food blog we know for a fact like it was well documented that they would get food photograph it and t
hrow it away we have video documentation of it happening where they just weren't even trying the food they just threw it out and they've gotten a little better over time but it's still to the point where they can't be a hundred percent honest about the food there if they don't like something there are certain words and phrases they have to use stuff like that um that seems really disingenuous that just seems like not a great idea right that's what Disney wants yeah and so why why like and Disney
you know obviously Disney hates us for a number of reasons and one of them is a resentment right they took us off the media list thinking well that's that's the end of them and it turns out by not being on the media list all those years you're free we were yeah we were able to post all the things that everyone else was not allowed to post and by not and by posting different things and this this comes back to what I said before about being different if you post different things you get readers t
hat other people do not if you're simply just posting the little press release that Disney emailed to you then you have the same text the same photos you have the same information as everyone else on the media list you have no ability to be different from other people right but more importantly there's no ability to be ethical you you cannot be ethical on the medialist they they deny that from you and that's why you're not media at that point you're actually you're actually like PR yeah the thin
g that drives me crazy though is is what's happened in recent years where I think um a lot of audience in the community has been really misguided by these uh real journalists is the term I'm going to use right we have uh Scott Gustin we have um uh that's a Twitter guy right yep mostly Twitter yeah and I think she I think he's only Twitter actually and then um what's her name um who doesn't like us very much oh Harley Carly white myself um these these real media people and I say real media by lik
e they're people that have worked in places that would be considered real journalistic outlets in in very low ranking positions and and we'll be very honest positions they couldn't succeed in and then saw like oh I like Disney and this is sort of an emerging market and I can jump into this and what Disney found is again and what Disney likes is the ability to control these people and control the narrative right and in the case of Scott uh less so Carly I think has had a couple of moments where e
ven Disney was like we're not dealing with you anymore um but then she has connections we won't even get into her whole unethical thing that her husband's a record producer and and you know so some people at D20 I don't know any of this some people at d23 will know anything about her by that Jeffrey Epstein who's no longer with the company thank god um yeah not not Dad Jeffrey Epstein um but still still bad um but like Jeffrey and then Michelle Schmidt this guy has connections and I want to be a
n LA socialite and you know and they further their own agenda by putting her on media list and to Carly's credit when she first got in the community and she first got on the media list she was still staring sharing stuff from us because we were first and I had a whole conversation with her where we shared the transport the original concept art the blueprints for the transport for the star Cruiser and we shared that and she re-shared that to whatever Outlet she was writing for at the time and she
wrote backwards like Disney asked me not to do that but I said to them I was like but but he has the information like this is real why can't I share this but then over time you saw her like she slowly just stopped putting our stuff out there and Disney slowly got her to just post what they wanted her to post right um and Scott is the same thing where Scott only posts what really what he's given to post and that's why they give him stuff first it's it's this trade-off it is you know you you know
we we like you we're going to use you essentially to dispel what what we don't like right my favorite Scott Gustin moment of recent is here's beef I didn't even know oh yeah this is not on my radar you may remember you may remember there was a situation where Bob chapek wasn't coming to destination D here in Florida oh I remember that right and it was the day after Bob iger's farewell party and because of that chapek canceled right there were certainly other things going on and one of them was
there was generally a fear that Bob chapek wasn't liked and might be booed by some people if he went to destination day correct so that big CNBC article came out and CNBC claims the reason simply was the Bob Iger party and Scott Gustin decides to tweet like remember those remember those rumors about why Bob chapek wasn't going well this story has all the facts fun fact about the CNBC story it says that the party and the d23 presentation were the same day yeah guess what they were in they were on
different days separated by a day uh so yeah I guess the full real story with the wrong dates it cancels out in the my sources in the most technical sense he could have been at Bob iger's house after midnight which it doesn't sound like he was based on the accounts of that yeah in which case it could have been the same day because destination but he also could have left at 6 a.m from Burbank Executive Airport and made it in plenty of time for Destination I think it didn't even need saying becau
se if we had not posted the story that they were worried about the ramifications and the behavior of the fan Community if he were to take the stage I think if we would have reported um Bob chapek quietly removed from the schedule everyone else would have said we understand why right everybody knew why but that wasn't what you had a source that you had a source multiple sources yeah but everybody else didn't really need one everybody knew like you're not going to put that guy in a stage in front
of in front of the most rabid but no Scott and these other people have such an inferiority complex that it is a need to discredit us whenever possible and Country Bears was another one where Disney put out that release saying the Bears are here to stay blah blah blah and everyone jumped on that and said the rumors were wrong and blah blah blah and we've come to realize at this point from various imagineers who are no longer with the company you know people who are in PR wherever they may have be
en we all know the real story at this point the real story at this point was the Bears were going away and if you still don't believe that after the fact that they were itching to make a new show pretty much very short order after the 50th Anniversary I mean I don't know what you need to believe but Scott and them like they'll never retract that even if I find if I found that art if I found that Toy Story marionette show concept art tomorrow if that was sent to me tomorrow these people whether i
t was the dis or them Scott Gustin or blog Mickey or whoever these people are all these these people would never post the retraction because they're unethical human beings and that's the problem with this community is there is a lot of unethical people and some of it's to stay on media list and some of it's for attention and some of it is out of jealousy which is a big thing in this community where everyone hates each other I'm not saying it's just directed to me I think everyone hates everybody
I think everyone's jealous of everybody this got spicy quickly did you not think it would oh boy yeah people do hate everybody I don't know I don't know why I that's the first thing I learned 16 years ago along type of person I don't feel like I'm making enemies I will tell you because our next question says I would love to see a discussion on why there is so much tension between vloggers and why it seems to be such a stressful occupation most of us listening would love to try it but what are t
he hidden downfalls that was from Kyle Murray one of our wigs members um I will tell you they don't like each other they don't I don't know why I haven't okay I was at a bar near my home not that long ago and someone keep in mind I don't watch other people's content I don't have that kind of time I don't even I probably shouldn't say this in front of Tom I don't even watch our content a lot of the time this week there's so much maybe we wouldn't have released accidentally in episode news today w
ith Tom dropping an F-bomb or some of these other things that I probably should watch before I said publish right oh yeah or the Mike Wazowski moments problems happen and it's late tonight whatever um so I recognize this person as a vlogger um who has a growing Channel that's gotten pretty big and I've never watched this person's content and this person sat at a bar near my house glaring at me for like 30 minutes to the point like other people around me are like who's that dude and I'm like oh t
hat's right and I don't why is he looking at us like I don't know I've never met this person my life I don't know these people right I don't know these people and um a couple years ago when that when Jeannie launched remember I did the doing whatever Jeannie tells us to do I had the I recorded the video first thing I got to Magic Kingdom early we did it and then we decided to do all of them and then like a day and a half later everybody starts doing I did whatever Genie told me to do and they ex
cept they didn't right they would be like oh tell me to do this nope you know so I actually tortured myself and did this yeah um yeah I came up with the idea on my own other but it's not a hard idea to arrive at it's not a stretch to believe that other people could come to that same idea for Content immediately yeah I'm not claiming that people are stealing the idea for that from me but all the comments are like hey you're the one person that actually did it and they named some names of people a
nd I think I said I made it I responded I was like oh whatever yeah I didn't say anything bad about this person but that could be the only thing close to an interaction with that person I had until they just sat there glaring at me in a bar like the kind of glariness not like a curious glare and the kind of glaring like I want this guy to look no and the person you've mentioned before has done it to me and I can tell you I have never said a word about them I didn't even know who they were until
you told me and I'm not going to mention them now because I I fear for you know my safety honestly given the weird public glaring but um yeah it's it's just so weird it's a weird community and like like Lou mangello you brought up earlier which is a name I haven't heard in a long time but you know when I first came in I tried to be nice to everybody like I tried to be real friendly and people made it very clear that they didn't want to be friendly that this was competition and I was you know to
my credit I was like oh this is competition okay let's compete and then I proceeded to compete with all of them and they didn't like that very much um and here we are now Dan are they mean to you you have any haters in the park well I do have a Japanese hater coming at me all the time just one well you're not even in Japan that much well there's the Japanese people doing um covering Disney World here like okay so before I became WWMT family I had my own I started in 2017 and maybe two years late
r they started popping up more Japanese people food covering Disney World but whatever I posted out people started copying me like you know this is who copy who did it who that just prepare yourself for the comments on this show where we're all gonna get thrown under the bus well you guys could come up with everything first but it's not always the case but you know in the Japanese People's Community people just stealing people's stuff and copy and paste like coffee and pieces nearly just operate
our Japanese language website by the way wwnt.jp that's a that's kind of a ground floor effort we're trying to get it up so if you even if you don't speak Japanese go give us a page view it'd be much appreciated yeah yeah I mean of course these people hating each other there is no I mean I don't like each other anyway yeah because we are doing the same thing and everybody have different colors so you know we try to show what we are best and yeah but still people be like oh he tried to copy me h
e copied my stuff I'm like um that's why I don't even bother looking what other people are doing because I'll just get angry about it we have openly made fun of I mean I know we've done things with food blog in particular yeah the old fingernails or the food hacks and I like I can understand that like at the time like for instance Isis See Molly around all time I don't know Molly I've never had an interaction with Mike she's doing she's a professional she's doing her thing I never had any troubl
e with her we did mock food blog who if you didn't know owns all ears or they're both there one by the same company um you know and we have made fun of them openly uh for that you know you you that's a risk you take but I think our audience for them it's parody right we have a game where we throw cupcakes in the trash can and the audience has to get if you've never watched WWE news tonight on Thursdays on wwnt.tv um where they have to answer a question and the question will give a real food blog
headline and they have to guess which word in that headline was put in all caps in the actual headline and it's actually a fun and difficult game yeah um and then they earned the right to throw a certain amount of cupcakes in a trash yes we're making fun of them but it's parody I think it's light-hearted I mean there are legitimate I think just business disagreements we have with how they operate you know how they operate genuine so like I you know we've always had a problem with the people tha
t aren't genuine in this community and foodblock let's let's be honest about Disney food blog in all years entities that were built not by people that love Disney but by people that saw an emerging business like it is a business it was a business from day one and they're very good at it don't get me wrong but they also mislead people the people say we write clickbait I think food blog titles are the worst kind of clickbait they give you no no no no information I'm sorry inside there's there's on
e like yeah I wasn't even gonna name names that's the worst headlines my favorite thing today was inside the magic we we you know we had um Gabrielle Russen who does some freelance stuff for us used to write for the Orlando Sentinel for God I think she's there 20 30 years however long she was there um she looks over like police reports and stuff like that for us and so we had the the lawsuit that's filed for Peter Pan's flight yeah I saw that inside the magic stole that story today linked to a s
ite that linked to us but had no mention of us as the original Source because they're yeah because I've on several occasions the new owner who bought it from Ricky I've had disagreements with where he literally wrote to me he's like you do not own the news I was like yeah but like we're the ones that got them they paid for the police report that year no not even the police report was another story where a source gave me like something from Paris and then he took it I was like this hasn't been pu
blished anywhere but WWNT can you put credit or remain sorry and he just went you do not own the news and blocked me wow that was he's he's a he's a mental case I hate to use them when you talk about the news people a lot of people are publishing the same things around the same time sometimes someone will publish something uh that we didn't know about him we will verify that and Link accordingly yeah hopefully or have our independent Source yeah um I if I'm very rarely editor for reasons that ar
e obvious which are I'm not good at it it's not part of my uh core competencies but what I'm doing I if I see something interesting I will find my own I'll find a source right and I will I will cite a source yeah and we can't always do that sometimes people hide their sometimes people don't put with their sources because they don't want the other bloggers to know what their Source was yeah right that's very common we've done that yeah we do that other people do that yeah play the game it's part
of the game um you know we're not first on everything I think a lot of people come to us to go the reason I come to W I mean WWNT is I'm a cast member and you guys know stuff before I do yeah in fact someone said that about the about the bear in the tree story yeah which actually we weren't first two no so which I would love to have been first I mean we were first to say that that side of the park was closed but we didn't know why yet so I didn't think we're gonna get that deep into the T with e
veryone oh I knew we would oh naming too many names we are you know they already hate us what's the difference well no but here's something I'll say for all these people is having worked in that environment I respect the game right I respect that it does take time effort diligence time away from your family to sit there and publish news and all these kinds of things and and we do have differences about the way we go about it from some other people that I don't necessarily begrudge them uh some o
f the ways people go about it I don't agree with but I don't you know and sometimes I can make fun of it nobody gets made fun of more than us yeah like we're probably public but then but that's my favorite is then everyone gives us a black eye and then when we give them two back it's it's they're mean well like especially a free blog like they're like oh you know punching don't punch down I'm like they have like millions of followers they have in many ways we're punching up on that one I mean as
much as we are the worldwide leader in Disney Parks news they certainly have a very large social media following and I'm sure they're doing uh they're very successful their YouTube following is bigger yeah so but yeah they're subscriber base but but um the way I look at Disney food blog is I I think they're good for the industry and that they're a gateway drug um I think people find the fandom through that and then they crave more because I think foodblog is very much the the top layer right it
's you're only ever right you know the base layer of all of this and then as you get deeper in the fandom you're like well this is you know I appreciate that they post news in this but but why is this stuff the way it is and and you know maybe you go to you know they they review a restaurant and you were like oh they made it sound really good and you go there and it's not as good as maybe they said it was and then that's that's the Gateway and then people are like well there's got to be other pe
ople that do that and that's when we come in that's what people always say is I I get that a lot where they're like oh we used to watch Food blogger we used to watch all ears and um then we found you guys and it was just refreshing we what we get a lot is it's refreshing how honest you guys are and I I think that it right like look I love Disney and very much the Disney style is that smile the whole time and be positive and I get why Disney does that I I understand why when Disney PR produces vi
deo and audio and and stories I understand that positivity and that that pixie dust and that makes sense to me as a community we don't you know you can choose to go down that road I think it's it's you know it's a bit much I don't think you need to be like you know full on phony with people and I think that's what we are like we love this thing I love it dearly probably more than anything else in my life and I care about it and I think that shows in in what we do and I think you can't be news if
you only report the positive side or something that's not news right that's no and that was like my big Scott Gustin gripe was when we were I guess I really just really dislike this guy I think he's the least genuine human being in the entire Community honestly um but like when the cast members were going when the cast members were fighting for their raise Scott didn't get involved Scott sat there like a lot of people did and then someone asked him like Scott why like are you going to stand up
for them are anything and he goes I don't like to get involved in like these kind of things there's a protest yeah but then sag happened and Scott because Scott wants to have Hollywood friends is suddenly like posting all sorts of things in in support of the the SAG strike and I'm like so Scott you're you know because people give you information or want to be nice to you and you feel you know special and important when Hollywood types like talk to you you're gonna you know try to win over points
with them but these Disney World cast members who are responsible for all the stuff you post every day you're not going to fight for them though you're going to sit there and and ignore the story because oh it's uncomfortable Scott you went to school for journalism I assume you you claim to be a journalist you claim you've worked in this field you know the first thing they teach us when we go to school for journalism it's like you're supposed to fight for the little guy you're supposed to be th
e voice of the voiceless that's the purpose of the job that's what journalists do they uncover the truth and instead he sat there quite like oh it's uncomfortable do you think Watergate was comfortable Scott do you think any like major event in the world that a journalist has covered go on a cover War do you think any of those things were comfortable look I am not comparing what we do to that that is not what I'm saying but I now go to our war correspondent Tom Corliss and the transit if you go
to school for journalism we're all taught the same way it doesn't matter right and the messaging is that is not that everything's comfortable like you're gonna cover uncomfortable stories that's the job and in some there are some reporters that's all they do all they do is cover things that are not fun to talk about like you know the homeless problem in certain cities or you know uh all sorts of other things I'm not going to get into because God knows we'll open a can of worms on this show but u
m no I mean that that is never an excuse look there are plenty of stories that were uncomfortable right the monorail accident was terribly uncomfortable a cast member died you know when when the alligator incident happened at the Grand Floridian that's that's uncomfortable but that's that's in our scope of news that's what we cover right like that's someone died at Disney World that that's a terrible terrible thing but we told you we're going to tell you what's happening at Disney world that day
and yeah look I'd much rather it be a day full of cupcakes new new spirit jerseys a ride opening and whatever else rather than that but I I can't control when a bear arrives on property when a kid goes splashing in the Grand Floridian you know Beach you know like those that's not within our control but it is within our our circle of coverage I was almost hit by a Disney Bus a couple months ago and I was like man if I got killed would Tom write the story and would it would that would he make the
headline say like local blogger hit to sizzle up the page views a little bit no you can you have my permission no but I think it Eric to be honest like I think that the story is the fact that if someone got killed by a Disney World bus that is just you know that's the story it doesn't matter who the person is like that's that's just I think we're gonna pump up the clicks a little bit just don't tell people it's me because that's like when inside the magic says someone from Nightmare Before Chri
stmas died and then it's the guy who played like boy number three when you get to the bottom of their article right yeah no but I'm there I'm at the bottom no I mean you've agreed to cover this and and again I think it was extraordinarily unethical to not say anything about the cast member wage thing right not even cover that there was a Yeah March um to the last part of Kyle's question most of us listening would love to try it but what are the hidden downfalls don't don't do it I'm gonna go fir
st um because I'm much I'm many tears below like most of the creators that people know right I've people some people recognize me some people recognize Nana some people many more people recognize Tom quite often people will recognize me but only when I'm with Tom and they're like you're the other guy oh yes someone actually said that to us once um well sometimes I get you're the guy with the desk you're the guy with the desk um so on on a given day I go to the park I will bump into a few a handf
ul of people that will say hey Eric you know I like what you guys do or they shout Spike to be at me or whatever uh yesterday on the way from the parking lot into Epcot yesterday afternoon I got stopped three times um sometimes never but what I'll say is for everyone that stops you there's a couple people that know who you are and don't say anything it might be overhearing your conversation or um as a friend of mine said well you're not famous Eric you're just well known enough that you better w
ash your hands for 20 seconds every time you leave the bathroom at Disney World right so there's that um keep in mind it's a it's not a true celebrity right it's not like I'm trading off my privacy for millions and millions of dollars so there is some of that where you know you can be having a nice day and be worried are people overhearing my personal conversations are people taking pictures of me especially when I'm not looking real good like today I just had to come on the air anyway shampoo e
ye and everything um that is a downfall right you lose a certain amount of privacy oh the other thing is people just love to tell stories about people they saw who they know from you know from the internet sometimes they make sometimes they make stuff up like I asked for an entire ride vehicle to myself at dinosaur right that's a good one I like our whole staff made up another one was me and my significant other got off an airplane and cut people off while while you know what's that was a child
like you knocked over oh people said Epcot 30 Epcot 30 they said I knocked over a child trying to get in line for merchandise I mean that was believable that was my favorite wow I will I will say this like look it's not it's not true Fame like you said but it is Fame in a certain realm right like within a Disney park like I can go I can go to New York City and be a normal human being and I don't have to worry generally have to worry about anyone knowing who I am if I go into a Disney park forget
it I lose that I I have to assume that every person that works there and a good amount of guests know who we are right I've been here a long time people either from the website or from this um the YouTube channel or from whatever know who I am and like that's you know that's still where I go and same for you and I'm sure same Fernando I could still want to go horrible you still where you go with your family or your friends to hang out and so you can't necessarily always just be yourself worse l
ike well there I want to hear from you yeah believe it or not no they know me so they'd be like oh that's that's fair but like Japanese people are so mean and like not nice wait wait hold on known for go back to episode one where Tom goes on and on about how nice chat and polite Japanese people are oh in public though oh but you're talking about like behind your back are you talking about like like passive aggression like bring up the phone and like look at my picture and like I think that's her
it's a cultural difference and um yeah and then later point on me so like if I do something wrong like if I was like if I went to bathroom leave my stuff and come back and they'd be like oh she left her stuff and it went to ride the ride even though I just went to the bathroom yeah like those things happen so like my peaceful time in Japan oh it's gone by um my own cast mates on WWE news tonight claim that I demanded water with lemon when we were singing a song which couldn't be further from th
e truth but like going to a park like let me walk you through that a bit if people don't stop me and say hello then people think they're quieter than they are and Jason heard it yesterday Jason like very rarely do other people get to hear it but Jason's like others people were talking about you I go yeah that's just a thing that happens as I walk by some not everyone stops you to say hello and you don't even know if those people necessarily like you or dislike you right all I hear is like that's
that guy it's not yeah it's the news guy it's and that's all I hear walking through the park and people don't realize how loud they are but it's a thing and like look I loved when people like it's great when people who doesn't like if someone stops you and tells you they love what you do I don't care what you do for a living that's that's gonna feel nice right but it's the the part that's rough is when you don't know how people feel and you hear them Whispering yep off to the side and they're p
ointing and the pointing thing too like people people think that you can't see them they're like they're looking I see you with the phone taking a picture of me like your phone's like this like yeah you're taking a picture of me I'm aware just just wave do you remember the times do you remember the time you were lived streaming and you walk by and you're live with an audience of several hundred people and a guy's like there's a please anyway oh you can say that on YouTube I think can we I don't
know people are gonna listen to this with their kid this is not this is not the TV channel we're on the main Channel we need to put like uh not kids or like no I'm not doing that I'll just bleep it just but yeah no I'm uh the in the it had to be edited out of I think the rise of the resistance opening day where some guy basically yelled at me wow um I flipped him off off camera but I wasn't letting that go on on uh returned yeah but no but that's I will tell you that's only only two times as any
one ever said anything negative to me in a park people usually just preserve those comments for online where they're safe and so there was a there was the girl who wrote about me she tweeted about me like asking for my own car on dinosaur like I very politely tweeted underneath I was like this I mean this didn't happen can you please and I it's just very nicely I just was like could you please remove this because this this did not happen and I don't appreciate it that's all I wrote I didn't I di
dn't name call I didn't wasn't mean I just asked and she did she's like I'll take it down she and she wrote something kind of blah in response which was like this happened but I'll take it down like why are you taking it down if it did happen like you know you made it up like just just just take it I've I've tweeted things I regret you know I've made mistakes certainly you know just just you know well you also um you're recognizable because you're a you're a tall you know tall big guy you kind o
f wear a uniform right A lot of these personalities where are you I'm hard to miss uh Mr Morrow used to be always like a hat or now he's got the Roosevelt stuff I mean you know Molly had her sunglasses and her ears people have these sort of things that their their signature look I think I kind of blend in hopefully um but you you're you're hard to miss I wore a regular this is the old Tom cross uniform the regular you know I used to wear those a lot and I had to quit wearing them when I started
working I had the CH you changed your whole wardrobe to work changed everything I never wore I never wore just a t-shirt and shorts ever yeah I wore like slacks and a dress shirt and nice stuff oh yeah it is the worst no not here and with my job before I work for yeah the happier times yeah oh yeah being an I.T project manager very very much not stressful do you like this better than your old job totally different challenges oh wow I used to have to all right I mean I'm I'm difficult I don't dis
agree uh Jake sniper says also would be cool to know how many days a week does each member spend at the park since it's their job do you feel since you're forced to spend so much time at the park it has diminished your love on the parks do you think you would enjoy it more if you only went once every year or twice like the General Public um to answer the first part of the question we have staff in the Parks every single day and that goes for Walt Disney World we have a team of several reporters
plus people like myself Tom Jason other our social media team who are also in the Parks uh quite often so every day Walt Disney World somebody from our staff is uh in the Parks um at Disneyland I think we have someone every day Sunday Friday we have we have a team of uh at least three reporters out there at Disneyland uh Tokyo less often Tokyo doesn't have an annual pass so every time mom wants a merchandise I'll send the people when Tom wants the merchandise or an event is happening we went for
Halloween but I happen to also want things yeah it also happened to okay but they don't have an annual pass in Tokyo so we do have to pay admission every time we go but I mean so we planned that out a little bit more we it's not as much like go there and look around and see what's new it's more like what if the annual pass returned we'd probably be there more often right now uh Paris Tom goes there 42 days a year show is airing we're definitely not filming this one ahead of time uh and then go
there though Tom's actually going to Hong Kong soon yeah yeah November we don't have full-time staff in Hong Kong or Shanghai or Shanghai yeah we have staff members in Tokyo Disneyland Walt Disney World um but does it diminished Your Love Of The Parks Nana um so since I started I saw this job right it will never gotta be like like private time at Disney it's like once I've got into the park it's always like reporter mode like I have to get oh my God this happened oh what is this oh I don't think
it was here like it never like holding a hands like having a nice time at this it's not it's not like that no it's always have to be like oh this is new I have to send in like even I try not do that it's impossible I try to do it if I'm with if I'm with my girlfriend I'll be like I'm gonna try to switch off and she'll be like that t-shirt looks new and I'm like that t-shirt looks like something I can wait a day if I see something that looks like it's big yeah yeah that's not a hassle though rig
ht I think I think for those of us that go a lot that's it actually became like a hobby right like there are habits there are parts of this job that are purely the job right but then on top of that it is a place we all go several times a week so like before there was a website before WWNT I remember going in stores and doing that anyway like going in there and being like oh look they got all this new stuff or like oh look they moved that bench oh look they painted that building those were just t
hings I noticed before but that's why this exists is because these were things my you know me as a as a young mental case what I was doing back then right like I I jokingly say if it wasn't for Disney pin trading we wouldn't be here today because that's what we did we walked all four parks in a day looking for pins to trade with cast members and in the course of doing that learned every inch of the park better than most people I think we knew we knew every store we knew all everything that was i
n it we knew every building you know and but they're the opposite hey honey it turns out they don't have any merchandise here today let's go ride something God I mean it's like a disease I don't think yeah like because you know next week I might get to go Disneyland who knows but like I'm like what I'm gonna do in Disneyland if I'm not gonna look out for anything like there is no way that I can just go in and like ride the ride and watch it doesn't go away it's like it's really bad disease defin
itely yeah Dana Marie says a day in the life of a blogger vlogger might be neat no see the whole writing editing process behind the finished product we've talked about doing a day where like a crew follows me I wrote it to you like last year and they used it I don't think reporter would love to do that so we didn't I don't think a reporter would but we we'll talk we could talk about it yeah you got to be careful how we do that but I mean generally speaking it is kind of interesting what we do an
d in other ways it's very boring right we're writing a lot of scripts uh not this show like um but for news today the creation of the script takes longer than recording the show editing the show takes longer than a show you know there's a lot of people at work any episode of news today has someone work in the studio uh I don't Tom usually writing a script or or me depending on who's I don't know if that's the part they're super interested in I I think they're very interested in like what is the
park experience look like right like what is a report what is the writing and editing oh it does okay so if we're talking about video content then an episode news today Tom's gonna write it or I'm going to write it uh Jake is going to be at the studio they get have a light set up get the teleprompter set up we record we send it off to someone and someone has to edit it then someone has to create a thumbnail someone has to publish it so there's a lot of people that are involved in the process if
you're talking about the website um everybody does that a little differently we do it in real time our website lives in real time now there are times you'll see a reporter will send oh God my nose is really itchy um you'll a reporter will send in something we'll go okay that's a new Croc those are new Crocs or something like that they'll send it in and someone will write the article up and we'll just set it aside it'll be ready to publish whenever we need to publish it it may not get published r
ight away so quite often you'll see us publish something that we got on Monday we don't get around to publishing it until Friday because it's just not a big deal and inevitably someone's like that was there on Tuesday you guys are late we're like well you know we don't publish everything that's our reputation but we do there we do find it in real time and we share it and our reporters will basically use a tool online to if there's any number of these tools some people use things like WhatsApp or
slack or whatever and they share it with a team and in our cases our reporters don't write their own stories they send it to the writing team and writing team does it and then editors edit it and publish it yeah and then you have a website social media people then take that stuff and turn into social media and that's how the sausage gets made that's your one minute explanation yeah all right get a lot more questions yep okay also would be cool to know how many days a week does each member spend
at the park since it's their job yeah I think you read that one did I read oh I did that yeah okay which one is that oh yeah so like do you feel I I think I double um somehow oh yeah um yeah but they said also if you went once every year or two like the general public would you like it more uh probably Pro I but I still like having Disney World in my backyard I still like after work to go and you where you meet your friends to have a beer at the end of the day is that the Rose and Crown it's no
t at cheers right you go into like a totally different place it's cool I love Disney World but the thing that changed what I love about Disney World was going to Japan that was that in Paris changed because I think we just realized like our Parks had not been been maintained over the decades and kind of fell behind and like look I think the things that make Disney World special are the resorts and the dining I think more so than anything I think compared to the other Disney resorts in the world
but I think once you get out there and see more of what Walt Disney imagineering has done over their 70 years of existence I think then you're like oh well some things can certainly be better and maybe you know like there are things I still like I love Disney World still and there are some things that I still really enjoy doing but there's a number of things where it's like you know go on Pirates here and it's a sad reminder of like the fact that we got a pirates that was rushed and no one reall
y cared about and Mark tried to do his best to make it something but it you know I still like it yeah and I'm I'm happy that what I my favorite part of it which was Pig like Pete The Barker bird is coming back like that means a lot to me that means more to me than our version of pirates does but it will ruin you I mean if you go to the other Disney parks around the world you will see things and you'll be like oh I like this better and I like this better and I like I like Disneyland better um but
then there's some things you want right it's the resort hotels I think I think all the I've been uh almost every Disney Resort Hotel in the world I've stated at this point and I think the Disney World ones are still the best they're still by far the most interesting the most fun the most thematic um you know so I have soft spots um for Resorts that aren't necessarily people's favorite like Disneyland hotel it's not even the nicest hotel Disneyland I just like a lot of history I just like it mor
e right Old Key West I just like it I love old keyword you know I I can't explain it I just like it more vibe yeah it's a relaxing Vibe yeah it feels like it's like Fort Wilderness it feels like you're actually on vacation oh that was the best week of my year probably so far uh Naco said I'm looking forward to this I wish more vloggers would comment on their past experiences versus their current experiences with Disney what is a quality Vlog was it good value for your money the whole team of WWN
T does a good job providing the cost of food the amount of food for the money and quality of the food and special event tickets a value Tom's Insight because he has a long history at the park and provides viewers with his past experiences yeah so at the end of like the lasellier Vlog I I the whole end is is why should you go here or why should you not and that's that's what it is and we talk about value right we talked about the 51 scallop dish um you know I'm not going to spoil the review yet b
ut like that scallops cost 51 but that's that's how we end every review is is was it good was it bad should you do it should you not does it work as a local does it work for tourists like who who is it for is it worth it like that's that's the point of what we do and so and I know a lot of people you're right a lot of vloggers it's like I went to this event and it's not like is it worth it for you to go to Marceline it's just so I'm going to show you Marceline but I don't really care about you i
n the end whatever I did this thing I don't care if you can I think a lot of people that are new to the our content or or for whatever reason are familiar with us I see in the comments a lot of times that we're showing for Disney you know which probably couldn't be further from the truth tell me you have no idea who we are just to clarify um when we eat this stuff we're not Disney does not comp this food to us no we pay for the food for the hotel we we pay for the hotels and I will tell you some
times the the review that we post pays for itself with you know advertising and things like that that we get on the website yeah sometimes it does not yeah and Thomas frustratingly for me sometimes Tom is adamant that we review it anyway even if it's not going to make money so some of those cupcakes don't make a lot of money but do it there's there we have an obligation for it the cool thing our health though what is our health and our and our Revenue but but we told people we're going to be the
re when something happens so we have to be there whether it's profitable or not like there is a um you know there's a need and thank and thank God like you know between ad revenue on the website and between YouTube and super chats in between the patreon program and Carousel products between all that we are profitable enough to where we're successful thank God but but you know as long as those numbers stay where they are then then we have to continue to commit to what we've commit to right so whe
ther or not food reviews are profitable or Resort tours are profitable they're part of the you know they're part of the pub but our pocketbook for the company says thank God we've almost stayed in all the resorts now [Laughter] remodeling them and just get it out um stay tuned next week for the Villas at the Disneyland Hotel um She also asked what is a quality vlog I don't know if that means what vloggers do we watch that like I don't watch them I'm told someone better than others I don't know I
know like Mammoth Club has a huge following I don't I assume that means it's good a quality Vlog is you watch it and you look forward to watching it every time they do a new one right that that the quality is hard to it's hard to explain quality but when you see it you know it yeah I think it's the way the way I would put it I say things that are fun I'm going to watch something I want to have fun or everyone's different some people want to learn right so some people like time keeping they watc
h our time different everyone's got a different thing and the nice the one nice thing about the community being so large is hopefully there's enough out there where there's something for everybody right where if you are a history buff or you just like cupcakes or you want to know about lounges or you're vegan they're they're channels that just review vegan food at Disney World right not that we don't but um I thought you don't think I'm a vegan now I you know no but I I do eat a lot of vegan dis
hes I recently bought an Xbox which means there are games that I'm like how do I play this properly what's the best way to do this and there's all kinds of content for that those are the kind of Vlogs I like that those are informative but I find the people that are also entertaining um okay uh meowing peeps we did that already how many workers oh yeah yeah and the next one we did already too you could skip ahead these are okay Petes basically do you want me can I read this yeah uh d-w-mk1644 the
amount of reporting on experiences that are unrealistic for the regular fan to enjoy or experience at times it feels like vloggers and bloggers media are those that Disney cares about rather than actual people that will pay money to attend events and the vloggers ETC know it and don't care just like any Community there are there are scumbags uh but it feels like the theme park community there are more than others everyone trying to get theirs and come across as fake I mean I don't I will say th
is I don't think everyone on the media list is out for themselves right I think you know I know I talked about the Dizz before but I I think most people at the dis are you know um pretty honest and and do a good job um but you're right I mean there are definitely people that are there that it's like I'm having a good time and this the other day it drives me crazy at some of those media events Disney will do things for them that don't aren't things you even experience yeah like the Halloween part
y they brought out Mickey yeah Mickey and Minnie and Tron costumes like in the park like yeah you're having them post photos of them but like like the guest isn't going to get to see these why even why show them something you're not going to give to the right you're guessing they do it like the Halloween party and Christmas party they'll have them a contemporary to try the food and they'll bring out a character in a costume that's not even the costume that's at the event um and then you're right
there there are some larger things right like there is some there is some argument as to whether or not a media Outlet was invited on the 110 000 Adventures by Disney trip to every Disney Party World there is some argument that we provided you would have said oh we weren't I would have gone right I would have sent you because I would have been annoyed to be at Tokyo for only 72 hours I would have been like this is 72 hours it's such a waste it's such a waste you can't see the parks and Tokyo in
there I hereby volunteer to only spend 72 hours there but right they said people want to think that only that sells out anyway and you at home can't really do like look we have covered some events that maybe like Galactic star Cruiser was not a thing everyone can afford to do right but we had to cover it because it was a new offering at Walt Disney World right and eventually we will review Victorian Alberts probably won't Vlog from inside Victorian Alberts they think that's in poor taste but we
'll review Victorian Alberts but you know that's a premium experience everyone may not get to do that right um I think the problem is that there are some people that that that's never a thing that's even said in the review I think when we did three reviews of star Cruiser I said very adamantly I was like look a lot of people may not get to do this which is a shame because I think it's wonderful I wish it I wish Disney would cut the price so more people could see this that would be great I don't
know that a lot of other people said that I think a lot of people they made it about them it's like that's not my experience I loved it and again we did as a company pay for that yeah we were not hosted no right there the first media Crews is a lot of people who were hosted so can you if you're getting a six thousand dollar experience and you just paid for it you're a lot more likely to tell me what the quality of the experience that was like the wish right they matched the money that came out o
f your pocket they put them on the wish media cruise and everyone's glowing and then the rest of us human beings get on the boat and they're like the boat's not done and and I think that made a lot of people look bad I think because I remember like we were on the member cruise and it's it's us and there's almost no other media on that cruise um it's it's Disney Vacation Club members and if one per if one group is gonna the most reasonable group yeah if one group is going to notice everything tha
t's wrong it's the Disney vacation club members and they certainly did and I think that's why that's why it doesn't pay to be dishonest to be on that media list if being on the media list is your goal I think you have a a warped perception of reality I don't think you understand what is right I will tell you what means so much more to me is when people come up to us and say you guys it's you guys are so refreshing I appreciate your honesty that means so much more than Disney's saying uh we we re
cognize you now I don't I don't need that I don't need that from them that means nothing to me I I think it's also important just to be authentic and I don't just mean opinions but like a lot of creators it's always like hello everybody I'm so happy to be that drives me crazy and I'll tell you I took some criticism um on our food and wine review Tom and I were at Disneyland we did um all of this new food at Disneyland we flew on a red eye land at the airport and went directly to Food and Wine Fe
stival for the first day and one of the comments is like Eric looks cranky I'm not watching you anymore like would you have rather I was like Tom I could not be more excited to be here today I just hope that after a week after a week of complaining that you weren't gonna try the pickle milkshake you then tried the pickle milkshake no and I always like the way we open like I I think you have to have a sense of humor about all this so I think the way we always end up opening those reviews is I'm l
ike we have 80 items we have to eat today I hope to live and so it's always like oh boy here we go here we go um but then you know like that's because I think for so long so much of the stuff was bad right I think we did that uh Halloween party food review and by the end I'm sitting there in disbelief I'm like wow a majority of it was good this is great and then I've started you know I was more positive because the product was positive the video editor says to me oh yeah um I might want to cut t
his segment of Tom at this restaurant because he's sweating so much that he might feel bad it looks kind of gross and I'm like no that's actually the authentic experience over 100 degrees the first night of Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party I that was part of the story right yeah I'm sweating like crazy and I'm miserable and I'm trying to eat this food and get it all done and and I'm having a good time but also working yeah and if I had been hello everybody here I am again I just don't think
that's authentic I don't think people would connect with that no some people do some people there are people that that you know they like those other uh YouTube channels and websites because that is what they want it's it's look Disney World is is my happy place too but um I don't know I just choose to be a little more realistic about it I think but I understand some people just like they get home from work and maybe they don't want Tom Corliss you know reigning on their parade for an hour and
a half you know I don't know I get it I think I start with the Baseline that like this is a great place and everything is judged on the spectrum of this why would we be doing this with expectations that they've you know so sure the idea that like oh all you guys do is complain do you even like Disney like no we hate it that's why we go there yeah no we are giving you the opinion of this one thing judged against many of the other things that you can experience or that we have experienced all righ
t uh user boy uh qg7jl two I'm sorry if I pronounced your name wrong sir uh how do sites like WWMT get sources on the inside that are able to get Scoops clearly you can't reveal your sources but I'm genuinely curious how those relationships form in the process of leaking info do they contact you what do they get in return um I think those relationships start because you know wwt didn't begin with sources like we didn't have sources I think because we did things a certain way we did something dif
ferent we we got a lot of there were a lot of cast members imagineers Executives people in all different places in the company that that were actual fans and saw what we were doing and read our site and we're like something came across their desk or or was told to them and they're like oh maybe people should know about this right and that's kind of what happens what do they get in return the answer is nothing it's unethical to give them anything in return we can't pay people from another company
for information and that's they get anonymity that's not what people look for people just people love this thing the way we do and they want to share information and that's that's what it is and in some cases it is I'll be honest with you in some cases it is to ruffle feathers in the right direction right sometimes it is like can you leak like in the case of country bears can you you know that in the Moana tiki room it's like hey can you can you stop this from happening for the tiki room until
we found the concept art remember yeah but that sometimes that's what it is and we're not the only site they've ever used that like I remember on WWE magic there were fake Forum users that used to leak stuff and all sorts of stuff like sometimes it's even Disney sometimes Disney used to do it to get feedback on projects but well sure you get it from cast members imagine a company that's laying off all of your friends yeah and is not give giving in to your Union uh demands all these other things
of course uh you've they've created a work environment that maybe is less than what it used to be for you or you feel like you're being treated unfairly I'm not saying everyone's disgruntled I'm saying there are 70 some thousand cast members and every now and then one of them's like I think that people need to know about this I don't think it's fair that this is not uh in the public eye yeah um and sometimes it's just for fun sometimes it's I heard about this really cool thing that's going to ha
ppen and you should let people know yeah um some of it's very innocent and then some of it has an agenda there are definitely Disney Executives that have used wdwnt to further a project or something that they were involved in I mean it's a thing and of course like we're a fan site so we love rumors and we love to talk about what's coming you know what's going to be happening in the future so we share it I mean so that so the thing for us was again we shared it because it's exciting as fans that'
s what we want to read and we assume that's what you want to read and they want to share it because they have some investment in it or their fans too and they can't wait to see people fun there's also kind of I don't know if I should talk about this or not I think there's kind of a high to being involved in that like I remember some cast member sources we used to have would be very excited like they'd give us something like this is gonna paid Resort parking 48 hours before it happened we ran tha
t and people like this isn't real and then I just remember talking to the source on that and they're like they're seeing thousands of retweets and it's it's reaching hundreds of thousands of people on Facebook there's there's an excitement to be a part of that right that's exciting for us when stories whether they're rumors or not when a story blows up like that that's it's terribly exciting to be a part of something like that I think I we can also say that everything's not always some confident
ial informant sometimes we I'll give you a perfect example somebody took a lot of heat for um that was unwarranted a lot of the things we get people think are a scoop because the organization doesn't communicate internally they're so disorganized so quite often so I bumped into someone from Disney PR once and they were upset that we got uh the news that Tom Brady was at um Hollywood Studios after the Bucks won a Super Bowl he was doing rise of resistance or something and they're like oh I'm in t
rouble because you guys got this information nobody was supposed to have it and I'm like I don't know how we got it I didn't happen to be involved in it I talked to Tom and Tom's like they posted it on the Press on the Press I got it from Doug yeah our source was Disney's website the parks blog and whoever was operating the Press site upload didn't communicate so the Press site uploaded the image and the caption way before the parks block had a piece ready and so I I saw it pop up on the Press s
ite so I posted it it's officially from Disney and then the parks where people just assumed like I hacked something where it was handed to me or I stole it because they you know back at that time especially believed that I was like the devil and and out to get everybody and ruin all their lives but here's the here's a a big one was coming out of covid things are reopening and the Polynesian yeah sent so Polynesian workers have not been called back to work yet right it hasn't reopened yeah and we
find out that it is not going to reopen until they finish some remodeling we didn't find this out through a source we found this out because Disney emailed hundreds of travel agents that it was going to be opening on a certain date which was much further in the future than the employees expected so what we have is people dragging us on the internet saying I'm finding out that my husband's not getting his job back because you guys have to be first with the news and my response to that is if Disn
ey emailed hundreds of travel agents this news before they told your husband we're not the ones you should be mad at you should be mad at Disney right but they never wanted to be met like a lot of those people didn't want to be mad at Disney because that's their employer and who wants to hate who they were right we didn't we didn't send a ninja in to sneak in and put their ears no they just in usual fashion like no one checked anything and just decided like time to let the travel agents know and
yeah Nana do you get Scoops in Japan yeah yeah we have a source in Japan too so but you know there's things that cannot go out in our platform so I just really text him like this she just tells me yeah this is what happened he's like oh okay and we don't because the the Japanese fans do not like rumors there's a lot of frowning upon rumors if people swimmer Digger coming at us like no take your room around put it away yeah uh you want to read the next one this one's long is this me Doug Jackson
no hold on oh yeah Doug Jackson yeah Doug Jackson three eight nine zero why is WWMT usually not looked highly upon by other podcasting others in the podcasting Community I assume is what do you mean I also liked the Diz and Pete Warner stuff before the allegations came out about him and the AmEx card stuff I'm not going to talk about that is there any hate on your end towards them and I mean more than the dis or what is the issue that could mend the fences with everybody from your perspective I
don't look like I've mended fences before like me and um still runs WWE magic for many years did not get along but we've that since has that fence has been mended we always say hello to each other and stop and talk and I think we realized we were more similar than we were different people and that's a great thing I don't think you'll ever see that in the rest of the community because I think some of us are more real people than others and Steve Steve I think falls in the same category as me whe
re he started that thing um out of passion and out of love and it happened to take off and make some money um I think Steve is competitive like I am and I think that's that's the only reason we had differences but I think the reason Steve and I respect each other now in later years is because we both realize we're both kind of the same person we both love this thing and care about it and I think it was maybe a little better a couple years ago than it is now and and yeah there's a there's a respe
ct there for sure um we do rock the boat though which we might not rub people the right way because yeah we do post things that are not always uh great news some of these four things early like the media the medialist people hate us because we were allowed to post stuff early and grew a bigger following to them because we could post whatever right like a track I brought this up before Matt Roseman attractions magazine I can't even count the number of people have told me the things he said about
me that are always like we got invited to a terrolina you know we get right to very few media events sometimes the third party people squeak through and Carolina was one of those and I'm there and I think he said to John Frost of the Disney blog he's like why are they here and John said he's like because they have a giant following and this will be read by a lot of people when they post it and and John told me that I was like John I appreciate it John's another guy who has always been very nice
to me and I respect and appreciate it also the way rumors fly around I think people hear a lot of things that we're not going to get in I don't think we're going to get into the dis stuff uh no I will say that when you had the Bob chapek booing thing they did get the dis did go on and say yeah Tom was right about it he called him on it and Disney's mad at him yeah right they they did say that yeah we made a quick parody of some of that situation but it's not stuff that we have a lot of facts abo
ut and we kind of stay out of that I don't it's not it's not pertinent to what we cover and it's not our business right yeah you know what what happened in people's companies that we don't cover and in their personal lives is their own their own business you know yeah let me get it oh boy here's a long one you want me to do this yeah you do this one this is this is longer than the news today the mooch 916. unintended negative feedback looping is the primary concern in the in the Blogger to Disne
y relationship we fans understand the Glad handling that occurs that enables YouTubers to hop around the world on Disney's dime to Shield products and services that's expected and somewhat necessary the downside is the unintended consequence of raising yourself as a mouthpiece of the community then centering real Community concerns when those negative Revelations could cost a relationship with Disney that's very fair so our concerns aren't heard as our mouthpiece is sidestep uh the core reaction
s and everyone pretends that false expectation is to blame instead of whatever budget conscious blatant lie falsely advertised price spiking no theme having Country Fair ride is being touted as amazing uh the story of Disney bloggers is a story about Walking the Tightrope to both engage an audience via company access and finding a thin enough line to walk that still includes harsh truths and true Community sentiment and this is how you found yourself being labeled as the extremist media Wing in
the Disney third party news realm you use shocking techniques like the truth to talk with us about Disney ideas and when they have all the imagination of an airport bathroom and not even the female bathroom equally qualified to speak to this Loop and how it damages internal perception which is how we get meetings that sound like this Disney executive hey does anyone have ideas employees not any you're willing to execute Disney executive great alert the media enroll the cameras in headline ideali
sts have ideas um there's a lot to cover there but it is true it is like you know they accept the handout and it's I think sometimes people get you know blinded by the handouts and people enjoy that and it's I mean who of course today feels nice to be invited and go to a free party look I've been to Media events they're very fun they used to be better but they're very fun like Cars Land the opening a car's landing and the rededication account for adventure the greatest thing I've ever been to it
's tremendous um but what was important about that and what I think made the difference then um was I was like I realize yeah we're doing the media event but I'm gonna stay Disney arranged our travel for that event and they're like well you you can come in on this day and leave on this day and I go um actually could I leave later I'm gonna stay after to see how like regular guests how it goes with regular guests after you actually open the land and they did that they didn't give me more hotel bu
t they at least gave me the return flight they gave me a different day and I stayed several days I remember the last day of the media event I was talking to Jim Hill and Jim's like how do you like everything and obviously we're gushing it was great um and he's like are you are you out of here with the rest of us tomorrow and I was like no I'm saying through the weekend I want to see how things going Jim goes that's that's a great idea and I that that's the difference I I think even I mean God I
was pretty young at that point but the idea crossed my mind then that it's like like I'm it's great that I'm being invited this event this will be great we'll get the videos out and everything will be out early but people are going to ask me like how do you do Cars Land do I do I have to run to radio Springs Racers do I run to the fast pass machine how do I do all the rides what should I eat at flows what do I do here that occurred to me and so it was like well I'm gonna stay a couple more days
and see what see what it's actually like is there going to be a line to enter the land is there not going to be um you know so that's that's the difference I think a lot of people accept the media event and that's that's the extent of their coverage and I think that's a mistake I don't think the media event should ever be the review right and I know the couple times the dis to their credit withheld right I think might have been wish there might have been a couple things were there like we're goi
ng on a real one after this and star Cruiser might have been the same they're like we're gonna hold the review until we see the paid guest version essentially right um and that's kind of what everyone should do it's not what everybody does but um I I don't disagree with this person like I think there are some people in the community that hate us because like like Matt roseboom I think they they were like I'm I'm doing what I'm supposed to do and just going to the media events and posting what Di
sney asks and this guy's got all these followers and all these page views and all this attention because he can write whatever he wants and it's not fair and I kind of want to say to Matt like Matt you could you could decide to be honest with people tomorrow and Embark you know on the same path I did you you decided you wanted to be media and only post what they email you you know what the press release is in your inbox you've decided that's good enough for you that's great if that's what you wa
nt to do more power to you don't be mad when someone Blows By You oh boy Eric's like I'm not looking forward to the feedback from this episode I can't wait to get pie thrown in my face at it boy mina723 says we've just started our Disney YouTube inspired by this channel what would you recommend for new park vloggers uh one is like you've already done it get just get started right make yourself do something make do something that's try to find something different about you that's different if I f
ind something about your Park experience that's different and interesting um and and try to hold yourself to some sort of schedule right um that's the hardest part for me I wanted to do more creative things with the company but as my role in this company grew my time to do those types of things shrunk yeah and it's hard to have that discipline to say I have to do this yeah you know we this is we're we want to launch a podcast I was like you want to do the podcast we got to do it you know sometim
es we're gonna have to record two or three a week because of travel and people and and I have a show called boxed in on our on wwnt.tv and I don't keep a regular schedule it's too hard so I think part of it is just be regular with your content have it set an expectation and live up to it I think we have time for one more if you want to go to Jason Vaughn from wigs Jason Vaughn yep there are a couple of times you guys have done some stories where I feel like there's a lot of context missing that
may get you clicks but it makes other people look bad one instance comes to mind when a woman had been stuck on Guardians for 30 minutes and had tried to get attention multiple times for a long period but a clip of of alive had been shared of her getting out of her vehicle without all of other the other context the woman was body shamed a ton as well by people I think instances like that where he can still call how stupid it was to do but provide some context for the fact that these people shoul
dn't be kept on these rides trapped for so long could be a good thing I believe we did I believe we said like we said like the woman we have a clip of this woman jumping out now we don't know why we don't know and we said we don't know how long they've been there we don't know the circumstance we said that and that's like to say that'll get you clicks like look the circumstances are Irrelevant in that case because we don't number one we don't know them and number two that doesn't affect page vie
ws right like the the lady jumped out that's the pages that there was nothing there was no other context to that that changes that right like a person jumped out of a ride vehicle Disney World that's news in our realm that is the thing we cover right I would love to know the context I'd you know there is no way to know how to contact the woman who jumped out of the vehicle that's that's not a thing we can do we can't magically find out who she was right all we can report on is what we know and s
ay like look we don't know how long they were stuck on the ride we don't know why the ride was stuck but we do know that someone jumped out of the ride so that's it and I that people have to realize is I cannot control the internet's comments I can put a story out that is very tame and gives you just the facts you know if people people are going to be gross in the comments they always are people are going to say mean things about people it's just the way it is right people say mean things in the
comments about me every week like it is what it is I can't control that right I can control what's on camera I can control what's on the page I cannot control what people on the internet are going to say in response to a video or a story that that is not possible it can be frustrating when we don't have enough information the story is newsworthy we of course would want more information I can assure you if we have more information we share yeah um we don't always have that information but I can'
t go in the comments and be like every five minutes let's not judge like are we already basically said that in the story above we already said look we don't know what happened we don't know how long they were stuck we don't I think and I think it even was updated shortly after with how long they were stuck and it was a long period of time um but I mean I don't know how anyone in the community could be held accountable for what people say in the comments you know like there was nothing we didn't
say anything a story about the woman's body that would be unethical that was not a thing we said if people in the comments are going to be mean like yeah we can moderate that on Facebook we can delete them Twitter we can't you know there's some platforms we you can't do that there are certain topics there are certain topics that we do report on that were required by kind of our mission to report on um some of those are controversial in terms of people feel very strongly one way or the other and
some of their comments can get hateful a lot of this revolves around uh things where people sexuality or whatever and the comments that get gross and I will tell you someone's like why is that comment on your Facebook well we're not Facebook we have staff but at 9 00 pm on a Saturday when we have 1100 comments that we had to delete that has to be done manually yeah so and at some point the person is going to go to bed take accountability for the own ugliness of your of your own comments I mean s
ome of these people can't be adults right I like I I can't pay someone to be on the clock from 11 PM to 7 A.M to look at in case someone posts something like that that's Facebook's problem for allowing those things to go through and I'll say like our website if you leave comments on our website nothing gets published they're all moderate yeah all of that that's within our country we are on the side like you know what it's not important to have this comment on here you know we I try quite often m
ore comments are not published in our one day it might be fun to read some of the non-published comments and we've had Sean Publisher's comments that are like we need to call the FBI this person is insane that was when we had to yeah recent threatening yeah um so you never know yeah well that's uh uh that's the recap of our conversation we have uh who brings us this conversation Tom carousela products at carouseloproducts.com the official shop of wwmt.com right now they're having a sale 50 to 75
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onight or come to one of the events the Carousel products shop here in the front of the office is open and you get some stuff that's sold out online if you do want to come here and check out this uh exhibit slash Museum in person uh go to WWE news wdwnews tonight.com you can buy tickets to come to our show on Thursday nights we have a show this Thursday then we're going to be off for a couple of weeks October 5th we're back October 5th the day you get back as you're saying this it probably isn't
a show but yeah I don't know why this is airing but October 5th we're back on October 5th and uh tickets throughout the end of the year are available the schedule from eight to nine we have free Refreshments that are included with your ticket you can grab a soda and some snacks a water and come Mill about and meet other fans in here in the museum and then nine o'clock we were a couple minutes before nine we open the doors you come watch the show and it's a it's a good time it's a comedy variety
show if you haven't watched it it's over on the TV channel Nana's laughing like yeah it's not good don't watch it but we think we think it's fun and I think you might enjoy it go check it out well there we go two episodes in the can Tom I didn't know I was gonna get this spicy thank you Nana for being here Nana uh it's a pleasure to have you here last minute she dropped in I mean I have to join back for uh the Tokyo stories what are we gonna happen we'll do a Tokyo episode I'm sure yeah we'll d
o another Food review with you soon Friday you guys are going to do a food review I won't be here I'll be in Paris always food reviews I want to be a blogger because I want to eat all that oh my God that's the nightmare that might be when someone asks what is the hidden downside of this Festival Day Festival oh no no food I have such bad PTSD that people friends and family will ask me to go to like food and wine or any of those festivals after first day and I'll just be like you guys can eat at
the booth I'm gonna have to eat somewhere else I the booth food just gives me like PTSD and look there are dishes I like and I used to go back and get them more often but now I'm at the point where it's like all right I don't know if I want all the drinks start to taste the same after a while I don't know I after your fifth scallop for fifty one dollars yeah I want to try that so bad now what just kill up 51 the 51 stops you're good pretty good they got 30 scallops over at uh Raglan road that ar
e good they're fried though I don't like fried scallops they're pretty good Tom oh yeah pretty good all right the scallop Forest doubling in price every two years that's why I walked I walked through the scallop through the scallop forest and out of the Lincoln Tunnel that's how I got here through the river of liquid sugar yeah paraphrase elf through the Gumdrop forest and out the Lincoln Tunnel all right I don't know if this podcast is going to work we're just as dumb at the end as we were at t
he beginning and we just shut down and now everyone hates us again so send your hate mail various other bloggers and vloggers to Tom wdwnt.com I will promptly get back to you podcast at wwmt.com is that a thing I don't know if it exists but I can have Jason crady's just in the next let's make another email podcast at wwmt.com you can email us we might read it we might not I mean hey if they have any Tokyo question we will happy to answer that we'll have to do like ask Tom anything or ask Tom any
thing awesome question in there don't send them yet we're not ready for our Japanese viewers tell them thank you for joining us all right we'll see you next time thanks a lot for joining us bye-bye [Music]
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I personally watch WDWNT for news, DFB for planning, and Mammoth Club and AllEars for entertainment. This episode has given me a greater respect and appreciation for what you do and what you stand for. Thank you for being honest and giving actual news instead of catering to an agenda.
A day in the life of a vlogger could be a hilarious skit for a cold opening.
I have to say, Eric seems to be in his natural element here. Not that he is bad at the news - he just looks and sounds so much more comfortable here. It’s awesome to see. :)
Been listening to you for years. You're the most trusted name because you give honest reviews and you LOVE Disney. No other outlet provides the love of the parks, storytelling, news, and history of Disney like your team.
Great topic! I also enjoy Mickey Views. He seems like a good kid, not a grizzled cynical vet like Tom! 😊
I have cut back on Disney Food Blog because their reports seem to include the same canned shots in every report. After a while I felt like I was hearing the same stories just repackaged in different ways.
Thank you for showing respect for Molly. Although Mammoth Club has a different format from your channel you are both my favorites. The love of Disney is so genuine. I have so much respect for your honesty.
Disney Food Blog: You'll NEVER guess what this Podcast said about us!
I started watching dfb to help plan my trips, learned a lot through their reviews. Then i found allears and loved Molly. I basically only watch mammoth club and wdwnt right now. Molly's videos are great and she has an awesome personality and i enjoy the variety of her channel. I love Tom because he's honest and blunt and is probably much closer to my personality 😂 I am also eternally grateful for what he did for the country bears!! ❤
I think there is an influx of "influencers" without self-awareness for others in the parks. Their goal is to gain internet popularity and not reporting on what's happening in the parks. The lack of honesty in most park influencers is the problem. I'm a long-time viewer, and that's why WDWNT is superior, in my opinion, because of their ethics.
The respect you have for Disney history and your honesty and sense of humor keep me watching. You do a stellar job, thank you.
Tom you are an influencer, button up shirt sales have definitely gone up 😂
Your biggest strength is your honesty. We only have a short time in the parks and you save us time and unhappy choices. Thank you. I’m now joining patron after watching you for a year. ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
I really appreciate the work you and your team put in. You show and put in the hours. Most of these vloggers/streamers are just grifters who don’t spend $ and want to do the least amount of work and spend the least out of their pocket. Thank you for the time, effort, and $ you put into your channel.
Tom, my family had the pleasure of standing next to you in line on Guardians on opening day. You were very nice and normal. I can’t remember or didn’t notice you filming one time. Very incognito with camera work. I think the issue with the younger crowd of bloggers is they lack class. They never heard the phrase,” Act like you’ve been there before”. Nice job!
That was a good episode. Putting aside the subject of the work, it is just impressive that Tom has built the WDWNT organization into what it is today. Well done.
I swear Christopher Guest needs to make a film about the world of Disney vloggers.
I’d love to see a Molly V.S Tom Disney quiz competition to see who has more knowledge. In my opinion, Molly is the best!!
Tom is definitely not an influencer. He’s a news reporter with a deep love and respect for Disney; a historian if you will.