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[1:52] David Alpert: And now on to the episode. I only met this guest in person about a year ago, but of course, as soon as we met, all we talked about was Disney.

[2:00] David Alpert: She starred on Broadway in Kiss Me, Kate and on the national tour of Newsies, in addition to some very cool film and television credits. And she truly loves Disney.

[2:08] David Alpert: Get ready to walk right down the middle of Main Street USA with Stephanie Styles.

[2:08] David Alpert: Stephanie, welcome to E-Ticket to Broadway. I love that I've connected with another ultimate Disney Parks fan.

[2:27] David Alpert: Did you sleep at all last night, knowing that we were going to discuss Disney Parks at length today?

[2:32] Stephanie Styles: No, I truly like this is the most excited I've been about something in a very long time. This morning, I watched some park YouTube videos to prep.

[2:41] Stephanie Styles: I like picked out my outfit. They won't be able to see, but because I know Disneyland is your land, I wore a Disneyland sweatshirt.

[2:49] Stephanie Styles: So I love it. That is so sweet. Very exciting. The way you said Disneyland is your land sounded just like Walt Disney.

[2:55] Stephanie Styles: That was my intent. I'm just so excited.

[2:58] Stephanie Styles: So, Stephanie, we were connected first in a Twitter message group with Leslie Margarita, Andrew Barth Feldman, Rachel Zegler called Fast Pass to Musical Theater.

[3:06] Stephanie Styles: And I literally was like, wow, this girl loves Disney. That was a beautiful moment, and I forgot who made it, but it truly was like this incredible amalgamation of people who all, I mean, loved these two things, but on a level which we all like, you know, what I was saying, this Venn diagram of musical theater people, but Disney people, which is also, I believe, you know, a Venn diagram that's basically a circle, because most people who like Disney, I think also enjoy musical theater, which is why this podcast is so great.

[3:38] Stephanie Styles: It's a really special group of people, and there's definitely a focus on the artistic side of all of it, which I think makes it even more exciting to talk about.

[3:45] Stephanie Styles: I mean, that's what's great about your rope drop episode I listened to today because when you start talking about how your love of directing and your desire to be an imagineer eventually, those two things are so uh one, they're hand in hand.

[3:59] Stephanie Styles: And I think, you know, it's the storytelling elements. And for me, like even I was watching a video this morning about just like the theming of Animal Kingdom and just some of the, you know, how Joe Rhodey and everyone there, like, there's so much they didn't need to do, but they did, and like those details are like why I love Disney and especially the Disney parks so much.

[4:19] David Alpert: Stephanie, when did you first realize that you were a true Disney kid?

[4:25] Stephanie Styles: I think it was kind of subconscious because my parents were so great about taking us, and it was always a thing with my mom. She knew she was like, I want to take my kids to the Disney parks when I have kids before she even had us, probably before she was even married.

[4:42] Stephanie Styles: So we went often, and I'm super lucky for that. We were World kids, and I think it was I mean, it was just totally a part of my life. Like I remember everything about me kind of starts with Disney.

[4:58] Stephanie Styles: Even my love for musical theater and my love for storytelling. It started with those 90s Disney's Renaissance and Beauty and the Beast was my first Broadway show I saw.

[5:07] Stephanie Styles: And there's just been so many Disney elements that have followed my career. So there's been a time where I can imagine it started. I do think I don't know if it's the same for you.

[5:17] Stephanie Styles: I can like pinpoint a time in my life where I realized I was becoming an adult who liked Disney, and where I was being more less passive in that in that I had a more active relationship with kind of um cultivating that relationship with Disney and that when I went to college and I was on my own for the first time, I remember having nights where it's like, well, I'm done with school. What do I do? I can do whatever I want.

[5:46] Stephanie Styles: And I sat with my laptop and Googled Disney trivia and drank large glasses of milk. Like I was really cool in college. And so it just was a time where I remember I was like, oh, there's other people who are my age who still love this. I can continue to learn more.

[6:02] Stephanie Styles: And there's so many incredible outlets where I can learn more about imagineering or the parks behind the scenes. And I just realized like there were so many more people like us that were adults that were fans, but really wanted to learn about the history and what was coming next, even.

[6:22] David Alpert: I love that. What about you?

[6:23] Stephanie Styles: Well, I was gonna say, as you said that I was like that transition from being the young to the young at heart. And that's when that feels I love that. You're right. I want a t-shirt that says that.

[6:34] David Alpert: Yes. I mean, you worked at the parks in when did you say 2004?

[6:37] Stephanie Styles: Five for the 50th.

[6:39] David Alpert: Yeah, oh my god. Yeah, I was there for the 50th. I mean, I totally relate.

[6:45] David Alpert: I remember in college, you know, as I was decorating my apartments and my dorm room, I was like putting up Disney and friends were being like, that's stupid. It's like I don't is it? You know, I really like this.

[6:57] Stephanie Styles: I definitely remember a time in middle school I held a cookie and brownie bake sale, and the money that I was able to raise, I bought a seven dwarfs really bright blue hoodie from the Disney store. And some kids in seventh grade teased me about it, and I was so excited to wear it. And I remember being like, no, the seven dwarfs are cool.

[7:15] David Alpert: I would have come up to you and be like, the oldest person I know, David.

[7:29] David Alpert: So speaking of being a kid, you started the national tour of Newsies. Was that movie a staple of your childhood?

[7:36] Stephanie Styles: What's wild Newsies and it's been a while since I did the press tour, so my facts may not be totally straight, but believe the Newsies film starring Christian Bale came out in 1992. I was born in 91.

[7:49] Stephanie Styles: So for me, I missed the original launch of Newsies. And so I think, like, for fans, it's a huge element of the people who grew up with Newsies. And then because it's kind of timeless tale that really just re-established itself with every generation coming up and kind of taking their place in the world.

[8:16] Stephanie Styles: I think when I saw the Broadway show, it was always I always loved the material, I always loved it. But I remember seeing it on Broadway while I was in college at Michigan, and being like, this show is incredible.

[8:29] Stephanie Styles: And what I loved about it was that it had the quintessential Disney elements. You had these. You know, personify hope in these characters and just and the fight and the hope of you know Jack Kelly and Catherine and being from two totally different backgrounds, but that drive and passion they have and just seeing these characters who are quintessential Disney were singing amazing Alan Mencken tunes, but it's a true story, it's really high stakes, and seeing that, but also like seeing Ryan Steele and like these amazing guys just being incredible.

[9:15] Stephanie Styles: I couldn't, it was I just remember seeing that and being like, that is amazing. I don't know how they do it. I think that was my freshman year at Michigan. And then I ended up auditioning for Newsies while I was still at school as a senior. So it was very full circle.

[9:30] David Alpert: I mean, again, like the Disney movies just live in the world that whenever however old we are when we see it, we uh we relate in different ways. And I love that your journey with Newsies was later in your life than you know, when I saw it when I was a kid and seeing all the I had a different reaction to seeing all those news boys when I was in elementary school. It definitely confirmed some things for me.

[9:47] Stephanie Styles: I love that. You see it in was it in theaters, or did you see it at VHS?

[9:53] David Alpert: No, I mean I think I saw it in the movie theater, but definitely we had it on VHS for sure we did.

[9:58] Stephanie Styles: Amazing. Because I was, you know, I was born halfway through the 80s. So as I was getting older, I grew up with the Renaissance. You know, Little Mermaid was 89. I remember seeing that in the movie theater, and it just hit it, it really solidified this love of Disney.

[10:14] Stephanie Styles: That's amazing. I can't imagine being in a movie theater and hearing maybe he's right, maybe there is something the matter with me. Like in a dark movie theater, I would have my body would be a goosebumps.

[10:25] Stephanie Styles: I definitely remember in Little Mermaid seeing Ariel swim to the top of the grotto at the end of Part of Your World. I remember that as a kid. It's incredible.

[10:31] David Alpert: We were talking uh before this about Howard, but it's definitely, I mean, Howard on Disney Plus right now cannot recommend it enough. It's just I'm he's one of those people that I'm like, if I could have dinner with anyone in the planet on the planet Living Your Dad, like he and those moments are part of your world.

[10:49] Stephanie Styles: I mean, that's so much him. And so just you know, recommendation. Watch Howard on Disney Plus.

[11:08] David Alpert: So Stephanie, I know that you have been to, you know, you grew up in Texas question mark.

[11:14] Stephanie Styles: You're up in Texas.

[11:15] Stephanie Styles: Yes.

[11:15] David Alpert: So probably Disney World was your youth, but you've been to Disneyland many times. Are there things that you like better at land than world and vice versa?

[11:24] Stephanie Styles: What's great is that I was raised on World. World is what I really associate my childhood. However, as someone who is now primarily based in Los Angeles, at least over the past few years, I have I'm an annual pass holder for land.

[11:43] Stephanie Styles: So land has been the park that as an adult I've really established a relationship with. And there's things I love about both.

[11:52] Stephanie Styles: I love that being an annual pass holder at Disneyland. It's as though, you know, I could go in an afternoon and say, you know what, I just want to after work go see the fireworks and eat at Carnation Cafe and like maybe ride pirates.

[12:06] Stephanie Styles: Whereas like World, I went for New Year's, and you know, you do it all, you go all day. What I love about land is um this is tricky because I'm like, I don't want to say it's it's not an argument of quality over quantity, but it's this thing of that when you go to land, it's so A, it's so doable, it's so everything is attainable because you can do what you want in a day more or less, and I love that.

[12:37] Stephanie Styles: I love the I also just think there's so many elements that are you know, it's the original to have these incredible things, but then there's like the quaint corners, so of both, and I think world will always be my childhood to me, whereas land, it's kind of like it feels like home now, and that it's you know, where I'm choosing to be, and then world is like what I come back to.

[13:03] Stephanie Styles: So I love both. I definitely, you know, if we want to do like ride-by-ride comparisons, I definitely have my favorites, and um, but I think there's magic in both, and I'm I think they're so different because you were raised on land, but you've obviously spent time at world.

[13:20] Stephanie Styles: Wow. And then but enough to really appreciate everything that you just said that you know, Epcot and Animal Kingdom, you know, and even Hollywood Studios, what we don't have a DCA. It is really exciting, and for me, Disneyland is built on nostalgia and childhood memories. So for me, it always has my heart, but because like the international parks, I see the charm and the draw for each of them.

[13:47] David Alpert: When did you last go to World?

[13:50] Stephanie Styles: 2016.

[13:52] David Alpert: Okay. So you've done Pandora or no?

[13:55] Stephanie Styles: No, no, I can't wait. Flight of Passage, I cannot wait. It's unbelievable. Speaking of attractions, this is also from a fan, Eden Corner. But I both I want to know this as well. What is your favorite attraction?

[14:10] Stephanie Styles: I, you know, I always say my quick answer is Peter Pan's Flight. I'm a big Peter Pan's Flight. That was my favorite growing up as a child. And I think there's something about even that cue that like just gets me going. But I do think, I mean, speaking of Radiator Springs, I do believe that I think Radiator Springs Racers is kind of a perfect attraction for me. Okay in that it encapsulates all the things I love about a classic Disney attraction, classic Disney dark ride, incredible theming, and then family level thrill, which I love. But then at the same time, I mean, I love, I would say probably my favorite mountain is Space. But um, I also have there's just I love so many of them. I think that Peter Pan's Flight, though, is that nostalgic favorite for me.

But then I love, I mean, I love Flight of Passage, love Rise. Um, I'm a big Carousel of Progress gal. So we have a few, and I think those are I'm trying to, I'm probably forgetting something, but I'm also I think you talked about this in one other episode. I'm basically a giant ad for your podcast. But I think I think it was a Susan Egan episode where we talk about there's so many, especially Disneyland, there's so many corners that I'll discover or things that I won't do.

[15:23] David Alpert: You were talking about you, was it you or Susan who had never done the Tiki Room?

[15:27] Stephanie Styles: I had never done it until I worked there on the Tiki Room.

[15:31] David Alpert: Yeah.

[15:31] Stephanie Styles: I think one time I'd never been to Tom Sawyer's Island, or as an adult at least.

[15:36] David Alpert: I was just gonna say that I the first time I did that was last November. I had never been to the island. And of course, once I was up there, I was like, this is where Mickey shoots sparks from his fingers.

[15:51] Stephanie Styles: That's one of my special skills is that I can do the entire Mickey Mouse track to Fantasmic physically. And that has to be part two of this episode. Listen. I love this is not in Phantasmic 2.0, but after he like does his opening bit, he like shoots fire from his fingers and he just like turns the side hands.

[16:13] David Alpert: The side bow.

[16:14] Stephanie Styles: Yeah the side bow and then like fire like water screen out and he's like I did my job. He's like it is done some imagination huh? Huh? Uh-huh.

[16:27] David Alpert: That's good.

[16:27] Stephanie Styles: That's really good. Listen, some of them are better than others. I can only do the oh boy and even then it's bad.

[16:34] David Alpert: Can you do it now or no?

[16:35] Stephanie Styles: Yeah I'm gonna do it.

[16:36] David Alpert: Or do you want to surprise me?

[16:37] Stephanie Styles: Okay. No no no oh no I have to do oh boy if I clap into the mic is that gonna be too abrasive but I'm I'm giving you a very soft round of applause over here.

[16:49] Stephanie Styles: I'm really bad in impressions but like that one and also Winnie the Pooh's oh ball the are like the only two things I can kind of do.

[16:56] David Alpert: That's the most tender thing I've ever heard in my entire life. Really tender.

[17:00] Stephanie Styles: Speaking of favorite things from the parks is there a favorite like piece of merchandise or mouse ears sweatshirt that you bought collectible item?

[17:09] Stephanie Styles: I used to circa Newsies I was obsessed with Vinylmation oh yeah the little figurines um that were like Mickey shape like painted over and I've had some amazing people in my life oh who was it um someone painted me a Katherine Plummer vinyl that I still have to this day um but I I used to collect Vinylmation. I collected those Disney animator collection dolls, like the young versions of all the princesses. But nowadays, really I I'm um trying to think.

[17:45] Stephanie Styles: I love obviously um I'm I was I've I've I have pins, I have ears, I have a little bit of everything, but I think it would be tough for me to collect, continue to collect one thing because it's could be disastrous for me.

[18:02] David Alpert: I know, I know.

[18:03] Stephanie Styles: But um I did, I just got a record player, and I am really trying to find some like deep cut old Disney EPs. I have a Main Street Electrical Parade and just these like really um crinkly ones that I love so much. And then I'm also as you see, I love a good vintage uh sweatshirt as well.

[18:24] David Alpert: So it's a great sweatshirt. We'll have to take a picture and put it on the Instagram page.

[18:29] Stephanie Styles: I have an MDM Studios one that's a treasured possession.

[18:33] David Alpert: Don't go on eBay, it's my one advice.

[18:35] Stephanie Styles: Oh no, what are you? Do you collect anything?

[18:37] David Alpert: It's I mean, I briefly for the um so for the 80th anniversary of Snow White pop dolls, there was a whole like the dwarfs and the and the witch and Snow White, and I bought some and then I was like, oh, there's a Peter Pan one. That's cool. Oh, then there's some Mickey ones, and then there's like the Disney theme parks. And I was like, I have got to stop.

[18:56] Stephanie Styles: But I definitely just collect Dopey collectibles.

[18:59] David Alpert: I love it so much.

[19:01] Stephanie Styles: It's definitely a problem, but it makes me so happy. Um, and then here's like a random thing, and I don't have a very good answer, but it's almost a question that came out of an observant that I had last time I was in World. I was doing the queue of Space Mountain, and I saw all these uh they're kind of like Discovery Zone back in the day, like balls that are at the bottom randomly of Space Mountain queue, and they're blue. And I thought, I was like, what if you had one of those balls from the queue, the Space Mountain, like in your house, and you're like, oh, this, this is that.

[19:35] David Alpert: What is that item for you? What is that item for me?

[19:37] Stephanie Styles: That if we just had like, oh, this is a leaf from It's a Small World. What would what would those little things be?

[19:44] Stephanie Styles: I think as I become more of a young at heart, what I really want to start investing in is like Disneyland history, kind of what you're saying. Not so much like, but like, you know, going to those auction houses. I actually just recently purchased a Dopey pencil holder from the 60s from Disneyland. But there was a moment um in 2012 I got the honor of putting John Stamos into the best man on Broadway. And he is, of course, a huge Disney fan and a really great guy. And when he got back to LA, he was like sharing me from his house, he's like, Oh, look at this, because he has like really awesome Disneyland memorabilia. And I want to like aspire to that level of Disney collectible. That would be incredible. One day I'll be like, oh, this is an original Autopia car.

[20:25] David Alpert: Yes, or the signage.

[20:27] Stephanie Styles: I know he has a lot of signage, which is so cool.

[20:41] David Alpert: Stephanie, if you could go to Disney with any Disney legend, whether they're still with us or not, who would it be?

[20:47] Stephanie Styles: And you cannot choose Walt. Um, okay. So the one I would have dinner with is Howard Ashman, because it's uh I just think he I think he's a genius. I think, especially if you watch Howard, how integral he was to all of these plots and the stories of these shows, just the way his mind works and watching him coach people. I just I think he's a genius. I would love, love, love, love to be with him. But otherwise, when it comes to the parks, I would probably say definitely someone from Imagineering.

[21:26] Stephanie Styles: So it's a probably like uh Bob Gurr, Joe Rohde, Tony Baxter, one of those elements, I think would be incredible. Bob Gurr has my heart. I have spoken to him one time, and I wept. Joe Rohde, I think is the coolest. My friend's trivia team is called Joe Rohde's earring, their Disney trivia team. And then um, shout out to Sarah Tiffin Patrick. And uh then also I just think obviously, like Tony Baxter, he's he's a legend.

[22:00] David Alpert: But um, but at the same time, I'm sure like sitting down with Mary Blair would be incredible.

[22:06] Stephanie Styles: Oh my gosh, totally. I didn't think of that. These like older, I definitely I mean, because this we haven't ever stated this like, but uh we both are such with Disney, but for me, parks has always been the like number one outlet of trivia and fascination for me personally, and imaginary and the parks and history of the parks with Walt and you know what they aim to do in the future with the parks, as opposed to obviously I love animation, obviously I love all these different facets of Disney, but it's it's I think the parks are like the main fascination that I have.

[22:44] David Alpert: What about you?

[22:45] Stephanie Styles: What would you say?

[22:46] David Alpert: I'm the same, and like even this podcast is about you know, the parks. People, I mean, listen, I appreciate Disney across the board, and there would be no Disneyland without Mickey Mouse and Snow White and Peter Pan and Pinocchio. But my love is specifically Disneyland. So people will be like, oh my gosh, you're so excited for this new Disney movie. It's like, oh, sure. Or like, don't you love this movie? It's called Lady and the Tramp. It's like, oh, I've actually never seen Lady and the Tramp. You know, I will, but my love is specifically the park. So like I would much rather watch the Imagineering story than you know binge watch, you know, Lady and the Tramp and Bambi and Alice in Wonderland. Which I of course respect and have a place in my heart for, but specifically when those stories appear in the parks.

[23:29] Stephanie Styles: So like Alice in Wonderland, I have a more emotional connection to because of the ride. But Bambi, it's like, oh cool. What a what a beautifully made movie. And then I move on.

[23:38] David Alpert: I'm surprised you went with well, not really surprised, because like my Disney go to the park with would be Julie Andrews, just to be able to hold her hand and just have her tell me everything's gonna be okay.

[23:51] Stephanie Styles: You could ride the carousel with Julie Andrews on Jingles.

[23:55] David Alpert: How amazing would that be?

[23:56] Stephanie Styles: It's like that. I also just want to like sit in front of the castle with her and just like hug I that's what I want to hug Bob Gurr in his red sweater from The Imagineering Story. And just to add, I do think in retrospect, obviously going through the parks of Bob Iger, I would love. Because I am I am a big, huge giant Iger fan.

[24:18] David Alpert: So Bob Gurr, Bob Iger, we'll take it all.

[24:23] Stephanie Styles: Oh shit!

[24:26] David Alpert: Oh what's the ball?

[24:41] Stephanie Styles: Fast Pass.

[24:47] David Alpert: Stephanie, it's time for Fast Pass answers.

[24:51] Stephanie Styles: Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god.

[24:52] David Alpert: Okay, okay. You're gonna have 30 seconds on the clock after I ask the first question to answer as many as you can.

[24:58] Stephanie Styles: Okay, I'm nervous.

[25:00] David Alpert: This is gonna be great.

[25:01] Stephanie Styles: It's gonna be great.

[25:02] David Alpert: It's gonna be great.

[25:03] Stephanie Styles: Yes.

[25:04] David Alpert: Stephanie Styles, who is your favorite Disney character?

[25:09] Stephanie Styles: Belle from Beauty and the Beast.

[25:11] David Alpert: Name a character from Newsies.

[25:13] Stephanie Styles: Katherine Clover from the the that's from the musical.

[25:17] David Alpert: Name a ride in California Adventure.

[25:20] Stephanie Styles: Radiator Springs Racers.

[25:22] David Alpert: Favorite Disney movie.

[25:23] Stephanie Styles: Beauty and the Beast.

[25:24] David Alpert: Name a song from Pinocchio.

[25:26] Stephanie Styles: When You Wish Upon a Star.

[25:28] David Alpert: Favorite country in Epcot.

[25:30] Stephanie Styles: UK.

[25:31] David Alpert: Name a character from Mulan.

[25:34] Stephanie Styles: Mushu.

[25:35] David Alpert: Name a song from Phantom of the Opera.

[25:37] Stephanie Styles: Music of the Night.

[25:40] David Alpert: Oh my gosh.

[25:41] Stephanie Styles: Wow. Um, can I just say that I could have done a lot better, but a let me just say Belle's my favorite princess. I have a favorite care for each subcategory, but I just went princess because that's what I meant to chose in the moment.

[25:55] David Alpert: Well, that's no favorite villain.

[25:57] Stephanie Styles: Favorite villain.

[25:59] David Alpert: Uh I kind of Gaston.

[26:02] Stephanie Styles: I definitely think Gaston, which is wild, but it's just like I love that he uses antlers and all of his decorating.

[26:07] David Alpert: Yeah.

[26:07] Stephanie Styles: Favorite sidekick.

[26:09] David Alpert: You're like, it's Lumiere.

[26:10] Stephanie Styles: Well, I love everyone's beating the beast. Well, here's what I'll say. I think I appreciate all sidekicks. I think sidekicks are great, but the one I think I would excel with personally, who just gets it is Pascal. I love Pascal's sense of humor. I also love, you know, like it just his sense of humor is so uh non-verbal.

[26:29] Stephanie Styles: Like when he just points to his hand when I'm Pascal's, I think identifies as male, correct?

[26:36] David Alpert: I believe so.

[26:37] Stephanie Styles: I'm not, I'm I might have wrong, but um Pascal just um Flynn Ryder's getting healed by Rapunzel for the first time, and um Pascal just points to his hand and he's like, Yeah, magic.

[26:51] David Alpert: Like, I love that.

[26:51] Stephanie Styles: That's amazing.

[26:52] David Alpert: Um, but yeah, so like Fab Five, other than Nikki, Donald, you know, we have different, but also Ursula and Ursula and um Hades are so good.

[27:03] Stephanie Styles: But I'm just a I'm a Beauty and the Beast gal, Beating the Beast is it, love Beating the Beast.

[27:07] David Alpert: Um, but yeah, you did very well, and um wait, but but the opera, that's what I loved in the end.

[27:14] Stephanie Styles: Well, you know, this is Broadway meets, and I do know that you do love a Phantom of the Opera song.

[27:20] David Alpert: So I know I love Phantom, Hunchback, Beating the Beast are all I mean, Quasimoto is probably my favorite Disney hero.

[27:26] Stephanie Styles: I love Quasimoto.

[27:28] David Alpert: On an episode, you say that you wrote The Imagineering That Clans for Hunchback of Notre Dame attraction.

[27:40] Stephanie Styles: That is true.

[27:41] David Alpert: Yeah, please give us the reader's digest version of said attraction.

[27:45] Stephanie Styles: Is it boat ride?

[27:46] David Alpert: Is it is it what's the omni mover like it was a dark ride, very similar to Snow White.

[27:52] Stephanie Styles: You were in a gargoyle.

[27:54] David Alpert: That was like you would be on a Victor or Hugo or Laverne, and it would start at the Festival of Fools, and then there was like you would then the the vehicle would go up, not like Peter Pan's flight, but you would feel like you're going up into the ca the into Notre Dame, and then you get to see Quasimoto, but then of course there'd be like the hellfire scene, there'd be the catacombs, you'd see Esmeralda singing the beautiful God Help the Outcasts.

[28:18] Stephanie Styles: And you know, then it would kind of be like Mr.

[28:21] David Alpert: Mr. Toad's wild ride at the end being like, what just happened?

[28:25] Stephanie Styles: Immediately.

[28:27] David Alpert: The Court of Miracles, hellfire.

[28:31] Stephanie Styles: Um, but they were very, very wonderful.

[28:33] David Alpert: And they said, We cannot even keep this piece of paper because you're going to sue us if we do this.

[28:38] Stephanie Styles: Um, but I was so touched, and I will never forget they sent me a um Disney Adventures magazine.

[28:43] David Alpert: Remember those?

[28:44] Stephanie Styles: Yes.

[28:45] David Alpert: And also the Disney magazine, which I loved, and then two postcards.

[28:50] Stephanie Styles: One was a um Peter with Wendy, John, and Michael flying over London, and the other postcard, I kid you not, was Snow White leaning over to kiss Dopey.

[29:01] David Alpert: And I loved it so much.

[29:02] Stephanie Styles: I was like, how did they know I loved Dopey?

[29:05] David Alpert: That's amazing.

[29:06] Stephanie Styles: That's that's the Disney magic.

[29:08] David Alpert: Well, I am giving you a Snow White style forehead kiss all the way on the other side of this.

[29:24] Stephanie Styles: Oh boy.

[29:27] David Alpert: Okay, everyone. So this round of trivia is a bit different.

[29:29] Since Stephanie is such a fan and frequent visitor of the parks, I have three questions prepared, and I've asked her to prepare three questions for me.

[29:39] So it's the battle of the Disney fans, and I am very sure that I'm gonna be terrible at this.

[29:44] Stephanie Styles: No.

[29:44] David Alpert: This is going to be so fun.

[29:46] Stephanie Styles: So um, we're just gonna have fun nerding out over Disney trivia together.

[29:50] David Alpert: I can't wait.

[29:51] Stephanie Styles: So I've got like easy, medium, and hard.

[29:54] David Alpert: I'm gonna throw an easy one at you first.

[29:56] Stephanie Styles: Okay.

[29:56] David Alpert: I don't know.

[29:57] Stephanie Styles: I mean, this is what I'll say is I know a lot about certain elements of Disney, but I don't know everything.

[30:02] David Alpert: So I'm excited, ready for my quote unquote easy question.

[30:05] Stephanie Styles: Okay.

[30:05] David Alpert: What does Epcot stand for?

[30:07] Stephanie Styles: Experimental prototype.

[30:09] David Alpert: Although Walt called it City of Tomorrow in a few different previews, but community of tomorrow.

[30:14] Stephanie Styles: Yeah, I think that was pretty easy for you.

[30:18] David Alpert: Okay, why don't you why don't you throw it at me?

[30:21] Stephanie Styles: Okay.

[30:23] David Alpert: And mine are all Disneyland specific for you, sir.

[30:27] Stephanie Styles: Thank you.

[30:27] David Alpert: You are so kind.

[30:29] Stephanie Styles: What are the two places in Disneyland where you can buy a corn dog?

[30:36] David Alpert: And I need the exact name of both.

[30:39] Stephanie Styles: I'm gonna fail at this.

[30:40] David Alpert: And what's so funny is even when I worked there, I was like, there's only two places to get corn dogs, and I've forgotten.

[30:45] Stephanie Styles: Let me think.

[30:47] David Alpert: I feel like one is definitely at the stagedoor cafe.

[30:53] Stephanie Styles: Is that what it's called?

[30:54] David Alpert: Stage.

[30:56] Stephanie Styles: Yes.

[30:56] David Alpert: Because I love getting my chicken um tenders and fries there before a phantasmic.

[31:01] Stephanie Styles: Yes, because that's the hack, and this might help you a little bit.

[31:05] David Alpert: That's the secondary place to get one.

[31:07] Stephanie Styles: Most people don't get them there.

[31:08] David Alpert: There's another, there's another place that's very specific for corn dogs, but the hack is that at Stagedoor Cafe you can get a side of fries.

[31:15] Stephanie Styles: The other one is very, it's like what they're known for.

[31:18] David Alpert: And I'll give you a hint.

[31:19] Stephanie Styles: Yeah, please do.

[31:20] David Alpert: Main Street.

[31:22] Stephanie Styles: I was gonna say it's definitely Main Street.

[31:25] David Alpert: Walking myself down Main Street.

[31:27] Stephanie Styles: You're looking left, you get to the end, you're past Carnish Cafe, you're past everything.

[31:31] David Alpert: You go go left.

[31:31] Stephanie Styles: You're like, nothing over there.

[31:32] David Alpert: You turn to the right.

[31:34] Stephanie Styles: Yeah, I feel like it's a cart between like the Kodak.

[31:37] David Alpert: Yeah, it's like it's a cart.

[31:38] Stephanie Styles: It's between the photo store and plaza inn, right?

[31:42] David Alpert: It's little red wagon.

[31:46] Stephanie Styles: Yep, you nailed it.

[31:48] David Alpert: The wagon.

[31:48] Stephanie Styles: You nailed it.

[31:49] David Alpert: That was exciting.

[31:50] Stephanie Styles: Um shout out to Josh Strickland who loves the corndogs.

[31:53] David Alpert: They're my favorite as well.

[31:54] Stephanie Styles: Good.

[31:55] David Alpert: He has taste.

[31:56] Stephanie Styles: This one I feel like you're gonna know, but I love it.

[31:59] David Alpert: It's one of my favorite trivia questions.

[32:01] Stephanie Styles: Which classic Disney character can be found in the queue for the Indiana Jones ride?

[32:06] David Alpert: Figment.

[32:07] Stephanie Styles: No?

[32:08] David Alpert: No.

[32:10] Stephanie Styles: I'm wrong on both.

[32:11] David Alpert: It's Eeyore.

[32:12] Stephanie Styles: Oh.

[32:12] David Alpert: Well, well, here's here.

[32:14] Stephanie Styles: What's interesting is what I'll say.

[32:17] David Alpert: Here's this is a beautiful figment is something else.

[32:20] Stephanie Styles: That was nowhere.

[32:20] David Alpert: It's ER.

[32:21] Do you want to know why?

[32:22] Stephanie Styles: Why it's Eeyore?

[32:25] David Alpert: Yeah.

[32:25] Stephanie Styles: Yeah, it's built over the the parking lot where the Eeyore lot was.

[32:29] David Alpert: My other question was what used to be in the location where Indiana Jones is now.

[32:32] Stephanie Styles: ER parking lot.

[32:33] David Alpert: Oh my god.

[32:34] Stephanie Styles: Isn't that wild?

[32:35] David Alpert: Isn't that so connected?

[32:37] Stephanie Styles: But I have some backup ones.

[32:39] David Alpert: Have you seen it?

[32:40] Stephanie Styles: The EOR parking lot, like the sign?

[32:42] David Alpert: No.

[32:43] Stephanie Styles: You have to ask a cast member to show it, shine a flashlight.

[32:46] David Alpert: It's the only way.

[32:48] Stephanie Styles: Done.

[32:48] David Alpert: Next time.

[32:49] Stephanie Styles: I'm making it happen.

[32:51] David Alpert: Yeah.

[32:52] Stephanie Styles: Mary Blair can be seen in two places in It's a Small World in Disneyland.

[32:59] David Alpert: Where?

[33:00] Stephanie Styles: What are they?

[33:01] David Alpert: Two places.

[33:03] Stephanie Styles: Do you know any of them?

[33:04] David Alpert: This is so good.

[33:07] Stephanie Styles: Minor.

[33:08] David Alpert: I mean, I can I can see Mary Blair in every doll in every piece of clothing.

[33:13] Stephanie Styles: That's the real thing.

[33:14] David Alpert: I see Mary Blair in every inch if it's a small world.

[33:17] Stephanie Styles: I'm sure that I I think she's a doll in somewhere in the ride.

[33:23] David Alpert: And I'm I'm gonna need a hint.

[33:25] Stephanie Styles: This is a really good one.

[33:27] David Alpert: This is one that I knew, one of them, and then the person on my team knew the other one.

[33:32] Stephanie Styles: Mary Blair is in the Eiffel Tower in the France section.

[33:36] David Alpert: And then my favorite one is there's a harp at the back of I want to say Ireland.

[33:40] Stephanie Styles: Yes.

[33:41] David Alpert: There's a and she's like the of the harp.

[33:44] Stephanie Styles: Do you have here?

[33:45] David Alpert: Side side question.

[33:47] Stephanie Styles: Do you have a favorite?

[33:47] David Alpert: It's a small world doll.

[33:50] Stephanie Styles: When I was a kid, my sisters, Gilana and Alisa loved the hula dancers.

[33:55] David Alpert: Yes.

[33:56] Stephanie Styles: And I love the laughing hyena.

[33:59] David Alpert: Oh quintessential.

[34:01] Stephanie Styles: Incredible.

[34:01] David Alpert: This is a hot take.

[34:02] Stephanie Styles: I love the Disney characters in the small world ride.

[34:05] David Alpert: I love it.

[34:06] Stephanie Styles: I love the Disney characters.

[34:07] David Alpert: I love the small like melodies that are hidden underneath the main theme.

[34:13] Stephanie Styles: I love it all.

[34:14] David Alpert: I um my favorite doll.

[34:17] Stephanie Styles: I don't know if it's in world.

[34:18] David Alpert: I think it's just in land, but when you go into the UK, there's uh, you know, the big moon, and then there's the London bridge in front of it, and it's not, you know, like a like the the actual child dolls that are the staple, you know, base of all the it's a small world dolls, but it's one of those like wooden dolls that are like the ones in the hot air balloon and the random ones throughout the ride.

[34:41] Stephanie Styles: It is dressed like a schoolboy, and then it just has a pendant banner, and the banner just school.

[34:49] David Alpert: And I always think of this little doll like just waving this banner that says school, and it's just like my favorite part of seeing it's a it's a good one to look out for in it's a small world.

[34:59] Stephanie Styles: Okay, I think that's my next Halloween costume.

[35:01] David Alpert: I want to be there for.

[35:03] Stephanie Styles: Oh, uh, oh, that is that is that is that's I'll send you a picture after after this.

[35:09] David Alpert: But um, okay, last questions.

[35:10] Stephanie Styles: Which restaurant at Disneyland has been there since 1955?

[35:15] David Alpert: And I'm gonna tell you it's been renamed, but it's the same restaurant, it's the same location and building.

[35:21] Stephanie Styles: Some renovations, but it's been a restaurant since 1955.

[35:26] David Alpert: Uh I don't think I know.

[35:29] Stephanie Styles: Um, I don't think I know this.

[35:36] David Alpert: Oh, okay.

[35:37] Stephanie Styles: Carnation Cafe, no.

[35:39] David Alpert: No, though I do love my Carnation Cafe.

[35:42] Stephanie Styles: It's near where you can get corn dogs down Main Street.

[35:45] David Alpert: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, um, uh, not Carnation Cafe, but oh I it used to be called the Red Wagon Inn.

[35:56] Stephanie Styles: Oh my gosh.

[35:57] David Alpert: I I I uh I I not no, I'm thinking of world.

[36:01] Stephanie Styles: I was about to say Casey's corner, but that's not what it is.

[36:03] David Alpert: Other side, other side.

[36:06] Stephanie Styles: It's in 1965, it was renamed to be the Plaza Inn.

[36:09] David Alpert: Oh, the Plaza Inn, man.

[36:11] Stephanie Styles: I know.

[36:12] David Alpert: I just I don't eat on May Street.

[36:14] Stephanie Styles: I do the brunch now at Carnation, it's my favorite.

[36:17] David Alpert: I think I ate because Plaza Inn is to the right.

[36:22] Stephanie Styles: Yeah, down.

[36:23] David Alpert: It's it's near the hub.

[36:24] Stephanie Styles: Yeah.

[36:25] David Alpert: Okay.

[36:25] Stephanie Styles: Between Tomorrowland and Main Street.

[36:27] David Alpert: I ate, I had a character meal there, I want to say in 2016, and it was great.

[36:34] Stephanie Styles: But I'm just so cornd duck focused that I I miss it entirely.

[36:38] David Alpert: Okay, here's my last question.

[36:40] Stephanie Styles: Okay.

[36:40] David Alpert: I have two, I have two I'm torn between asking you.

[36:43] Stephanie Styles: So I have another one ready, so we can this must be fun for everyone listening.

[36:48] David Alpert: Wait, yes, this is probably so fun.

[36:50] Stephanie Styles: And mine are Disneyland specific because I have a favorite Disney trivia, but it's world.

[36:56] David Alpert: So I'm not gonna ask you.

[36:57] Stephanie Styles: We should ask that at the end of this because people listening.

[37:00] David Alpert: And maybe I'll know it randomly.

[37:02] Stephanie Styles: I won't.

[37:02] David Alpert: I promise I won't.

[37:03] Stephanie Styles: These are gonna be you know it or you don't know it.

[37:05] David Alpert: One shortest ride at Disneyland, shortest ride.

[37:08] Stephanie Styles: Peter Pan's flight.

[37:11] David Alpert: And by close, I mean I don't know what I mean by close because it's not close at all.

[37:15] Stephanie Styles: But it is outdoors.

[37:19] David Alpert: It's not Peter Pan.

[37:20] Stephanie Styles: No.

[37:21] David Alpert: It's not Casey Jr.

[37:23] Stephanie Styles: Last time I checked, I was told this is the shortest.

[37:26] Stephanie Styles: And I got it right in a trivia competition.

[37:28] David Alpert: Thinking you go past Casey, you go past it's a small world.

[37:34] Stephanie Styles: So we're talking like Toontown.

[37:38] David Alpert: It's not it's not the roller coaster in Toontown, is it?

[37:42] Stephanie Styles: It is.

[37:42] David Alpert: I think it's Gadget's Go Coaster is the shortest ride.

[37:45] Stephanie Styles: I feel like it's not running anymore, but but let's not.

[37:49] David Alpert: Listen, as of as of uh July or no, not July, March, when I did my last trivia night, it was an answer.

[37:58] Stephanie Styles: But I don't know if it was truth.

[38:00] David Alpert: Um but Peter Pan's flight so fast.

[38:03] Stephanie Styles: I know you love it, but like it's like you're done.

[38:05] David Alpert: You make it like it's a circle.

[38:07] Stephanie Styles: You're like, here we go.

[38:09] David Alpert: You're done.

[38:10] Stephanie Styles: You like your boat like hits the landing.

[38:13] David Alpert: Um, I'm gonna ask you another question that I had prepared.

[38:15] Stephanie Styles: Great.

[38:16] David Alpert: Just in case.

[38:17] Stephanie Styles: Um, where in Disneyland can you see a wall with two patterns of bricks?

[38:17] David Alpert: A wall with two patterns of bricks.

[38:25] Stephanie Styles: Like this is something I love.

[38:26] David Alpert: I don't know if I know the answers to this, but I love it.

[38:30] Stephanie Styles: Well, one might think it would be between lands or no.

[38:34] David Alpert: It's not, it's actually down an alley of Main Street.

[38:37] Stephanie Styles: And the legend goes that they were trying to figure out which pattern they liked the best.

[38:41] David Alpert: But you can see that.

[38:42] Stephanie Styles: You get to go see it, and like it's really awesome.

[38:45] David Alpert: There's a drinking fountain.

[38:45] Stephanie Styles: But like, you know, I don't think many people will notice it.

[38:48] David Alpert: But if you take a step back, you're like, oh, these are two patterns.

[38:51] Stephanie Styles: I love that.

[38:51] David Alpert: That is the exact thing that I love.

[38:53] Stephanie Styles: Do you want my last Ast Disney one or do you want my world one?

[38:56] David Alpert: Let's do last Disneyland one.

[38:58] Stephanie Styles: Uh who at the popcorn stations, they always have different figurines churning the popcorn.

[39:04] David Alpert: Yes.

[39:05] Stephanie Styles: Who is in Tomorrowland?

[39:07] David Alpert: What little doll.

[39:11] Stephanie Styles: It's a deep cut space-yisney reference.

[39:19] David Alpert: I can smell it.

[39:20] Stephanie Styles: I can see it.

[39:21] David Alpert: I used to work in Tomorrowland.

[39:24] Stephanie Styles: I don't know it's got a Helm Rocketeer.

[39:27] David Alpert: Oh my gosh.

[39:29] Stephanie Styles: The Rocketeer.

[39:31] David Alpert: Yeah.

[39:32] Stephanie Styles: I loved that movie too.

[39:34] David Alpert: Incredible.

[39:35] Stephanie Styles: Incredible.

[39:35] David Alpert: I have my last one, which kind of goes with the bricks thing, in that why do you know why Tower of Terror in Disney's Hollywood Studios is the color it is, that like salmon-y, coral, peachy color.

[39:50] Stephanie Styles: Does it have to do with airplanes?

[39:53] David Alpert: No.

[39:54] Stephanie Styles: Yeah.

[39:54] David Alpert: But it's the sort of thing where it's just it's just this much like the bricks, it's this like imagineering thing. When they were built studios, they already had Epcot and they're looking at studios, looking at Tower of Terror. They realize they can see Tower of Terror from the back of Morocco. That when you look at the Morocco pavilion, Tower of Terror is behind it. So they said, Oh, to blend it in, however many miles away, we should paint that the same color as Morocco. Isn't that amazing?

[40:22] Stephanie Styles: I love it. But like that's the sort of stuff I love where it's like, oh, in the process, like these bricks, which one's better? Oh, we'll just leave this here. It's like, why is Tower of Terror? It's kind of this like old. I mean, it's very like old Hollywood, like worn down, sun bleached LA Hollywood like coloring, but it's it's the same color as Morocco because then you just see this random building in the background of Morocco and it's Tower of Terror.

[40:49] David Alpert: You did it so well. Thank you for those great questions. Gosh, you're like my favorite person. What if we started our own trivia um group? What would we be called?

[40:59] Stephanie Styles: Oh gosh. I don't know.

[41:01] David Alpert: The young at heart.

[41:03] Stephanie Styles: The young at hearts.

[41:04] David Alpert: We could be the Bob Goritas.

[41:06] Stephanie Styles: Oh, goridas.

[41:08] David Alpert: If I ever start a gang, we would be called the single writers.

[41:11] Stephanie Styles: I love it. That's incredible. That's amazing. Perfect. Now let's hear from some of you. Stephanie, we put on social media. The fans are really excited to hear about you and your love of Disney. So let's jump right in. Mark asks, which Disney movie, whether animated or live action, has your favorite score?

[41:39] Stephanie Styles: Excellent. Excellent question. Obviously, I've said it a hundred times during this. I love Beauty and the Beast. And I think why the musical is so brilliant is that all the unmusicalized moments are the ones, you know, that weren't lyrics that I loved on the score of Beauty and the Beast became songs. Like the oh Mark, the part in is it I can't love her word? It's the dun-da-da-da-da-da-da. Like all of those moments are amazing. Alan Menken added in a scene change for the tour of Newsies that wasn't in the original production. It kind of sounded like Beauty and the Beast, and it was kind of the best moment of my day every day that I did Newsies.

[42:17] David Alpert: Yeah, of course. What about yours? Do you have one favorite score?

[42:19] Stephanie Styles: Hercules.

[42:22] David Alpert: Oh, well, who put the glad in Gladiator? Hercules.

[42:25] Stephanie Styles: Every time I talk to my dear friend Lachance, I always say, What a pro. Because that was her line. What a pro. My favorite flavor. Uh so um speaking of Newsies, Josh wants to know what would Catherine and Jack's perfect Disney date include?

[42:45] Stephanie Styles: I mean, I definitely think for Jack's affinity for, you know, Santa Fe in that landscape, he would love Big Thunder Mountain. I think he would thrive on Big Thunder Mountain. Um, and then Catherine, I um I mean, I think she would she would obviously love Big Thunder Mountain as well, but I think anytime might she might like the new refurb of Pirates because I think she'd be a big red fan.

[43:16] David Alpert: Totally. I love that.

[43:17] Stephanie Styles: Yeah. So together they could, you know, and especially if they're at Disneyland, which makes sense because it's closer to Santa Fe, they would really love going on Big Thunder and then a quick jaunt over to Pirates back and forth all day would be very sweet. Maybe grab a beignet or something.

[43:32] David Alpert: Oh, totally. In the same vein, Jen Rubin 10 asks, if the park sold Catherine Plummer themed mini ears, what would they look like?

[43:40] Stephanie Styles: Oh, I mean, she has those costumes are incredible. I definitely think it would probably be either her um her Jacobi's Deli, which is also your Watch What Happens costume, or the um finale costume. My favorite costume is that in a Jacoby's Deli scene, the where she sees Watch What Happens, where she's little best, her tie you wouldn't know except unless you were really close, has little angel fish on it, which is so random. But I always thought that was kind of cool, and that you know, Catherine is this very comes from a privileged background, like in wealth, and like everyone in her family is very literally wears stark black and white outfits. And so when she gets to play with color and play with kind of getting out of that, you know, really conservative, refined captain ensembles that she has to wear, being fun.

So I think the angel fish is always something I thought she was like picking it out. Like, you know what? I want that fish tie, but obviously probably one of those patterns plus a little like newspaper ode somewhere in there.

[44:44] David Alpert: Anna asks, how would you explain the Disney parks to aliens?

[44:49] Stephanie Styles: Oh wow. I'd say, well, there was a man who wanted a place where all generations could have fun together. And so he built this place that you pay to go to where people tell stories and you experience the stories through physical rides, much like your spaceship, or um eating in themed restaurants and such. So I think it's basically a place that you go to to experience the stories that you are told that are basically uh crafted and uh selected by this company.

[45:36] David Alpert: What would you say, David?

[45:37] Stephanie Styles: Well, they'd be like, okay, but explain the big rodent.

[45:41] David Alpert: Yes.

[45:42] Stephanie Styles: Well, guys. Yeah. I would say probably I'd be like, well, on your planet, do you experience the emotion of happiness? Because that's what it is. I think you explained it really well. That's what I would say. And then I'd be like, break it down and I'd and I'd say, let me tell you this whole thing. And I'd pull out a like a giant board and be like, so also the lucky rabbit. This is where we got to today.

[46:05] David Alpert: Yeah. Or like you'd call Buzz Lightyear over, like, come on, let's let's talk.

[46:09] Stephanie Styles: Yes, the green, the green aliens. I get I get Green Aliens. I'm like, let's start with Tokyo Disney. Look at these mochi. Last question. S. Powell 5050 wants to know who is your favorite Disney princess, which I think at this point we're very aware of.

[46:23] Stephanie Styles: Yes. I'm a 91 Bebe. I love Belle. Belle was it for me just because I think I love to read. I loved stories and You love Stockholm Syndrome.

[46:35] David Alpert: I yeah, you know me, Beauty and the Beast, fan of the opera.

[46:39] Stephanie Styles: Um, and so that was really it for me. But I also I think that um there's so many I love. I love, I'm so excited about Mulan. I love Mulan. I am I just I love I love them all so much. I love, I think Rapunzel's great. I mean, they're all they're all amazing. I love them all. Anytime we have new princess stuff in the parks, I'm all for it. Whether it's, you know, I was so excited about the Rapunzel restrooms. I can't tell you how excited I am about Tiana's new attraction. And I'm so I'm also I want, I I don't know which one it would function better as, whether a Princess and the Frog musical or Princess and the Frog, I guess you would say live action, although at some point it'll have to be CGI with frogs, but I don't know which one would be better.

[47:28] David Alpert: Do you have an opinion?

[47:30] Stephanie Styles: I love the score, so I would love to see it on Broadway. And I think there's a lot of moments that can more moments to be musicalized. Yeah, it's very theatrical, you know.

[47:40] David Alpert: Yeah.

[47:41] Stephanie Styles: Yeah. So great. So you're doing that.

[47:44] David Alpert: I'm doing that.

[47:45] Stephanie Styles: I'm on it. Well, maybe it's not my story to tell, but I want to be supportive.

[47:50] David Alpert: Great. It's time for some tough choices. Let's play Tweedledee or Tweedledum.

[47:59] Stephanie Styles: David, it's Tweedledee or Tweedledum. I'm gonna give you two options. You let me know which one you prefer. Here comes your first Tweedledee or Tweedledum, Space Mountain, or Expedition Everest.

[48:09] Stephanie Styles: No. Oh land or world. Whichever your heart leads you to.

[48:17] David Alpert: Then because we have options, I guess I'll say space, even though Everest is incredible.

[48:21] Stephanie Styles: Tweedledee or Tweedledum, Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella.

[48:27] David Alpert: Cinderella.

[48:29] Stephanie Styles: But I like Aurora's costumes.

[48:32] David Alpert: Yeah.

[48:33] Stephanie Styles: That one's a tricky one. She just has like 17 live dialogue.

[48:36] David Alpert: I don't have a lot to go to go off. What if that was like subconsciously? I'm asking you if you like Disneyland or Disney World better.

[48:41] Stephanie Styles: I know. That's tough. That's tough. I mean, because the score of Cinderella, I love the the movie of Sleeping Beauty, I love. Well, I love, I mean, the like even just like the background work of the animation in Sleeping Beauty can't be beat. But I do both aesthetically love Aurora, love her strong bang. But I just think I think again, because I grew up with world Cinderella, but who knows?

[49:08] David Alpert: Tweedledee or Tweedledum, the teacups or Dumbo the Flying Elephant.

[49:08] Stephanie Styles: Dumbo the Flying Elephant, because I think of no, I mean, now. I prefer Dumbo originally in World. I still prefer, I like where Dumbo is in land, but I I prefer the original Dumbo in World. And I prefer teacups in land to world. So, but I'll say Dumbo. I like being able to see, it's the best place to see like construction. Like you get up there, you get up there, and you can find you can see, you're like, oh, there's the Tron coaster. You're like, is that is that the Tower of Terror? You're like, no, no, no, that's Morocco.

[49:49] David Alpert: Oh my god. He's bringing it back.

[49:50] Stephanie Styles: He's bringing it back. Call that back. I love a good callback.

[49:54] David Alpert: Okay, final tweedledee or Tweedledum. Seize the day or masquerade.

[50:00] Stephanie Styles: Uh I've gotta go with seize the day, Carpe that DM. Listen, they're both great, but it's like seize the day, end of act one, masquerade beginning of act two. Gotta say, seize the day.

[50:27] David Alpert: Stephanie, if you had to put into words how you feel when you see the castle down Main Street, what would you say?

[50:35] Stephanie Styles: I would say, I mean, happiness, home. It's I think it's the number one thing that no matter what just brings me joy and happiness, and whether it's exciting, it can be excitement or it can be like my ASMR. It's just, you know, Disney. So it's just happiness, joy, and home.

[51:03] David Alpert: What about you?

[51:04] Stephanie Styles: Perfect.

[51:05] David Alpert: Same thing.

[51:06] Stephanie Styles: Yeah.

[51:07] David Alpert: Yeah. I'm with you. Um, so the next time you go to a Disney park, what's the first thing you want to do?

[51:13] Stephanie Styles: Oh, I just kind of no, like take it in, take my time, and just I mean, I'm gonna beeline for those bricks, man.

[51:24] David Alpert: Yeah.

[51:27] Stephanie Styles: No, but I just think I want to take my time and take everything in, and just just, you know, I think now I've watched so much stuff with now watching one day at Disney and all these different things on Disney Plus. Like, there's so much I want to revisit at the park specifically.

[51:44] David Alpert: Stephanie, thank you so much for your time and sharing your heart and stories. This has been so much fun. I love connecting, as I said in the beginning, with a real Disney fan. This has been amazing talking to you. I've been such a fan of the pod. I love the pod so much. And I know we've been talking about being on for a while, but there's so many things, even just about you specifically as a Disney fan that make me excited. You're a B1 on Soarin'.

[52:08] Stephanie Styles: You're that top middle, middle section. You're B1. You're the best.

[52:11] David Alpert: Just blew my mind. That's the best compliment I've ever been given in my entire life. Amazing. But this is this has been a dream come true being on the pod.

[52:20] Stephanie Styles: Well, thank you. And I can't wait to go to Disneyland with you. So we'll see you at the parks.

[52:25] David Alpert: See you real soon, pal.

[52:39] Stephanie Styles: Now is the time to see Soday.

[52:41] David Alpert: Dun dun dun, d-da-da-da-da.

[52:44] Stephanie Styles: Oh boy, thanks for listening.