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[0:08] David Alpert: There's no better place for creating adventure, making new friends, and building memories that last than at Homemade Disney.

[0:17] David Alpert: Feel the magic in the air as your imagination soars to other worlds and ignites your spirit of wonder.

[0:26] David Alpert: Day after day, night after night of pure Disney magic.

[0:32] David Alpert: No wonder there's no place to be than in your own living room.

[0:32] David Alpert: Welcome to E-Ticket to Broadway, where Broadway meets Main Street.

[1:06] David Alpert: Here's your host, my pal, David Alpert.

[1:10] David Alpert: Uh-huh.

[1:17] David Alpert: Hey, good evening, everyone, and welcome to this extra magic hour.

[1:21] David Alpert: I'm David Alpert, and I'm the creator and host of E-Ticket to Broadway, a podcast where your favorite Broadway stars talk about their love of the Disney parks.

[1:30] David Alpert: I love the Disney parks.

[1:32] David Alpert: I'm not sure if you could tell from my headgear.

[1:34] David Alpert: Stay tuned to see all of our wonderful guests in their Disney merchandise as well.

[1:38] David Alpert: This is the third extra magic hour.

[1:40] David Alpert: The past two have been so much fun.

[1:42] David Alpert: We've giggled, we've laughed, we've played games.

[1:45] David Alpert: For those of you returning, thank you so much.

[1:48] David Alpert: Let us know in the comments that you're back.

[1:49] David Alpert: And for those of us coming for the first time, let us know that you're here for the first time.

[1:54] David Alpert: We're so happy to have you with us.

[1:57] David Alpert: The beautifully sweet video that you just saw was created by Jess Siswick, who is actually one of our guests later on tonight.

[2:04] David Alpert: And tonight is that sentiment bringing some Disney magic into your lives with your families.

[2:10] David Alpert: We have lots of special guests tonight, and we hope to inspire you to recreate some of your experiences in the park in your own homes.

[2:18] David Alpert: Because where else are you going these days?

[2:21] David Alpert: Before we go any further, I want to introduce my co-host for this evening's extra magic hour.

[2:26] David Alpert: I met Jessica Rush back in 2008 when we were both working on the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls.

[2:32] David Alpert: She's also starred on Broadway in Jersey Boys, Gypsy, Tina, and Dear Evan Hansen.

[2:38] David Alpert: And she introduced me to the delightful Cara Cooper of Broadway's The Prom, Jersey Boys, The Wedding Singer, and Legally Blonde.

[2:45] David Alpert: Together, they host the wonderful podcast, Mamas Talkin' Loud.

[2:50] David Alpert: Please welcome Cara Cooper and Jessica Rush.

[2:53] Jessica Rush: Uh uh oh, uh uh oh.

[2:57] Jessica Rush: Uh uh, Mama Talking Loud, Mama's talking loud, mama's talking tough, mama talking, have been good with good enough.

[3:08] Jessica Rush: Mama's talking like co-hosts.

[3:14] Jessica Rush: I just realized you could see me when I started dancing to our song.

[3:18] Jessica Rush: But yeah, we have a very catchy.

[3:20] Cara Cooper: Uh it is.

[3:21] Cara Cooper: Welcome, Kara and Jess.

[3:22] David Alpert: Tell that is a catchy tune.

[3:27] Cara Cooper: Well, it's funny you should say that as a catchy tune because it was written by some people who wrote a little song called Let It Go and Into the Unknown.

[3:36] Cara Cooper: Uh, Kristen and Bobby Lopez.

[3:38] Cara Cooper: Kristen Anderson Lopez and Bobby Lopez wrote our theme song.

[3:41] Jessica Rush: Ha!

[3:42] Jessica Rush: Cause Kristen is a Broadway baby mama.

[3:45] Cara Cooper: Exactly.

[3:46] Cara Cooper: It's no wonder my kids literally ask to listen to it on repeat.

[3:49] Cara Cooper: They're like, Can you play Mama's Talkin' Loud? Can you play Mama's Talkin' Loud?

[3:53] Cara Cooper: Um, so to have this podcast crossover, it makes sense.

[3:56] Cara Cooper: You already have a theme song written by Disney legends.

[4:00] Cara Cooper: It makes sense.

[4:01] Jessica Rush: So fun.

[4:02] Jessica Rush: It's perfect.

[4:04] David Alpert: So over to you both.

[4:05] Jessica Rush: Oh, well.

[4:06] Jessica Rush: Well, we are so excited, David, to be here with you and to be here with all of your listeners and ours as well.

[4:12] Jessica Rush: So I um we love the idea of a podcast crossover event.

[4:17] Jessica Rush: I mean, it makes sense, like you said, Disney parents, families.

[4:20] Jessica Rush: So here we are.

[4:21] Cara Cooper: Exactly.

[4:22] Cara Cooper: Here we are.

[4:22] Cara Cooper: And Jess and I, as David said, are the hosts of a podcast called Mama's Talkin' Loud, also on BPN.

[4:28] Cara Cooper: Uh, our podcast invites you into the dressing room.

[4:31] Cara Cooper: We chat with the stars of Broadway and beyond about motherhood and parenting and everything that comes along with that.

[4:39] Cara Cooper: Uh, you know, we have lighthearted chats, we discuss being a special needs parent, we have pride content.

[4:45] Cara Cooper: But our goal has always been to create a community of support and comfort, and right now it's even more important than ever.

[4:53] Jessica Rush: So we are so thrilled to be here with you tonight.

[4:56] Jessica Rush: Yes, can't wait.

[4:58] Jessica Rush: So and tonight, in addition to sharing our love of the Disney parks and our families, we're raising money and awareness for Gilana's Fund, a cause which is so dear to me.

[5:07] Jessica Rush: I'm thinking I'm just super thankful, Kara and Jess, for helping me raise money for it.

[5:12] Jessica Rush: And um, we're gonna talk about that more later on.

[5:15] Jessica Rush: But thank you both for being here.

[5:17] Jessica Rush: And thank you to all of you watching.

[5:20] David Alpert: Yes.

[5:20] David Alpert: Thanks, you guys.

[5:21] David Alpert: Thank you all for tuning.

[5:23] David Alpert: Oh, New Zealand, that's amazing.

[5:25] David Alpert: I love that.

[5:26] David Alpert: How fun.

[5:27] David Alpert: Um, thank you so much for tuning in.

[5:29] David Alpert: And if you don't already, then tonight, hopefully, you'll uh feel compelled to follow us on social media.

[5:35] David Alpert: So you can head to our Instagram pages at eTicket to Broadway or at Mama's Talkin' Loud.

[5:41] David Alpert: We also are on Twitter at Mama's Talkin' Pod.

[5:44] David Alpert: And uh, and then give us a listen and maybe a rate and review wherever you listen to your podcast.

[5:49] David Alpert: We'd really appreciate it.

[5:51] Jessica Rush: We really, really would.

[5:52] Jessica Rush: As most of you, I'm sure know in March, both Broadway and the Disney parks closed, and it has been a really difficult time for all of us.

[6:01] Jessica Rush: It's been difficult to process the loss of what brings us so much joy as performers and as Disney lovers.

[6:08] Jessica Rush: And life is a lot right now.

[6:10] Jessica Rush: There's something called burnout.

[6:13] Jessica Rush: I know all you parents out there are experiencing it.

[6:16] Jessica Rush: And even if you aren't a parent, you're experiencing burnout in this situation that we're in.

[6:20] Jessica Rush: Um, so tonight we are trying to celebrate the family community, helping you find ways to bring magic into your home.

[6:27] Jessica Rush: Uh, we have some incredible Broadway moms as our guests tonight, and later on, we'll have some Disney DIY experts to help you to inspire you to create this homemade Disney magic.

[6:38] Cara Cooper: Yeah, so fun.

[6:40] Cara Cooper: This is gonna be such a fun.

[6:41] Jessica Rush: I know.

[6:42] Jessica Rush: Um, so so before we bring in the other Broadway moms, I want to share obviously Kara and Jess.

[6:47] Jessica Rush: You're both Broadway moms.

[6:48] Jessica Rush: Kara, you've got two kids.

[6:49] Cara Cooper: Yeah, Elon from Spain and Finn, who's three and a half, and Jess, your daughter Elliot is almost six.

[6:55] Jessica Rush: Oh, there they are.

[6:59] Jessica Rush: Sweet kiddos, babies.

[7:02] Jessica Rush: I do want to.

[7:03] Jessica Rush: I uh we're gonna talk to Broadway moms.

[7:05] Jessica Rush: I want to show that I'm also a Broadway mom.

[7:10] David Alpert: Let's go to that next slide.

[7:12] David Alpert: There's my child, that's Henry.

[7:14] Jessica Rush: Oh, Henry.

[7:15] Jessica Rush: In October.

[7:17] David Alpert: So Henry's thrilled.

[7:18] David Alpert: Um so uh I love that you started this podcast to show a different side of Broadway.

[7:24] David Alpert: It's about being real people and and moms and parents are incredible.

[7:28] David Alpert: So thank you for sharing those stories.

[7:30] Cara Cooper: Um let's switch it to some Disney talk.

[7:32] Cara Cooper: Kara, you shared with me some photos of you at Walt Disney World.

[7:35] Cara Cooper: We have to take a look.

[7:36] Cara Cooper: These are from the vault.

[7:38] Cara Cooper: So there's Kara at Disney World.

[7:42] Cara Cooper: What year do we think this was?

[7:44] Cara Cooper: I know exactly when it was 2008.

[7:47] Cara Cooper: I was newly married.

[7:48] Cara Cooper: That's my husband in the picture.

[7:50] Cara Cooper: We weren't even married six months yet, and we were on the national tour of Spamalot, and it was in Orlando for a week.

[7:57] Cara Cooper: And so we hit the parks as hard as we could.

[7:59] Cara Cooper: This is pre-children, everybody.

[8:03] David Alpert: That's pre-when I met you.

[8:05] David Alpert: That's a long time ago.

[8:06] Cara Cooper: Yeah.

[8:07] Cara Cooper: And there's a really special photo I want to share of your experience.

[8:12] Cara Cooper: There's an actress on Mission Space who's acting out her experience.

[8:17] David Alpert: Um I take it from the photo you loved the ride, or tell me.

[8:22] Cara Cooper: Oh my god, I was terrified.

[8:25] Cara Cooper: I think I turned to Graham like a million times.

[8:27] Cara Cooper: I said, Is it over yet? It's over.

[8:28] Cara Cooper: I was terrified.

[8:30] Cara Cooper: I love Disney.

[8:31] Cara Cooper: That is a singular experience, but oh my goodness.

[8:35] Cara Cooper: I rode that ride one time.

[8:37] Cara Cooper: I thought I was gonna pass out, never again.

[8:41] Jessica Rush: Yeah.

[8:42] Jessica Rush: That's that's kind of a running theme that Mission Space is terrifying.

[8:45] Cara Cooper: That is gonna like scary adventures.

[8:47] Jessica Rush: Terrifying.

[8:49] Jessica Rush: Um so Jess, we um I've been so fortunate to have you and your husband Eric on the podcast and on the live show as well.

[8:56] Jessica Rush: And we know that you worked as a cast member of the parks.

[8:58] David Alpert: Let's look at some of those photos.

[9:01] Jessica Rush: There, well, first of all, there's you meeting Minnie.

[9:04] Jessica Rush: That's my and that's my sweet old mom.

[9:07] Jessica Rush: God rest her soul.

[9:08] Jessica Rush: That's her handwriting.

[9:08] Jessica Rush: It says Jessica E. Rush.

[9:10] Jessica Rush: Oh yeah, that's me.

[9:12] Jessica Rush: That was I was two and a half, I think.

[9:14] Jessica Rush: Meg on cruise line, Disney Magic, 1999, 2000, last century.

[9:20] Jessica Rush: Just you always wanted to be Susan Egan when you got older.

[9:26] Jessica Rush: Basically, I mean, dreams, you know.

[9:29] Jessica Rush: I remember for the audition, the audition for the cruise line.

[9:31] Jessica Rush: The cast or the director was like, You remind me so much of Susan Egan when she came in to audition for the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast, and I about fell over.

[9:40] Jessica Rush: I was like, Oh my god, oh my god.

[9:43] Jessica Rush: So yeah.

[9:44] Jessica Rush: Um, and so Jess, you and Eric have taken Elliot to the parks a lot, and it's so delightful.

[9:49] Jessica Rush: Your photos are always so great.

[9:51] David Alpert: Let's take a look there.

[9:52] Jessica Rush: There she is fighting, getting ready to fight Darth Vader.

[9:55] Jessica Rush: That's what she's doing over there.

[9:57] Jessica Rush: Um, the Pluto one is Disneyland, actually.

[10:00] Jessica Rush: Um, but the others are Disney World.

[10:03] Jessica Rush: And you see, we like to get in we like to get a nice shot on the rides.

[10:07] Jessica Rush: But um, if you and if you want to see more, you guys, FYI, hashtag Elliot and the Mouse on Instagram, and you can see you can see things from her first visit when she was 13 months old, the sweetest video meeting Pooh and Tigger.

[10:22] Jessica Rush: Remember that?

[10:22] Cara Cooper: Oh my god.

[10:23] Jessica Rush: Yes, um all the way up until February when we went to Disneyland with Kayala.

[10:27] Jessica Rush: So I mean, you know, yeah, six years of or five years of Elliot at Disney.

[10:32] Cara Cooper: Oh, I love what I love is when you have two parents that are Broadway stars, you have theatrical photos, like when you go for Halloween.

[10:39] Cara Cooper: We've got some photos there.

[10:40] Jessica Rush: Just the the evil Queen one kills me.

[10:43] Jessica Rush: Well, the evil Queen one is at the Wilderness Lodge.

[10:46] Jessica Rush: That's at the Snow White, it's a dinner at the Artist Palette, I think is what it is.

[10:50] Jessica Rush: I forget, but that was a couple trips ago.

[10:52] Jessica Rush: And then obviously we went for what's so funny is scary.

[10:56] Jessica Rush: Mickey's not so scary.

[10:57] Jessica Rush: That starts in August.

[10:59] Jessica Rush: This was literally like the second to last week of August that we did not so scary, but we fully committed, obviously.

[11:05] Cara Cooper: Obviously.

[11:06] Cara Cooper: Um, so I just love that you are Broadway mamas.

[11:10] Cara Cooper: You love the parks.

[11:11] Cara Cooper: It's gonna be great.

[11:12] Cara Cooper: And um, we wanna talk to some more Broadway mamas that love the parks.

[11:15] David Alpert: So let's bring our first mama in.

[11:18] David Alpert: So kicking us off tonight, we have our sweet friend from Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde, where I met her a million years ago.

[11:25] David Alpert: She is a Tony winner, a Disney lover, and an all-around ray of sunshine.

[11:31] David Alpert: Annaleigh Ashford is here with us.

[11:51] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh that was the best intro music I've ever heard.

[11:57] Annaleigh Ashford: Woody says hi too.

[11:59] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, he does.

[12:00] Annaleigh Ashford: Hey Breedy.

[12:03] Annaleigh Ashford: It's my son's favorite shirt I own.

[12:05] Annaleigh Ashford: So I thought I'd thought I'd wear that.

[12:07] Annaleigh Ashford: How are you?

[12:08] Annaleigh Ashford: And this is my favorite thing I own in my life.

[12:11] Annaleigh Ashford: Fabulous.

[12:13] Annaleigh Ashford: It's beautiful.

[12:14] Annaleigh Ashford: Thank you, Annaleigh, for being here.

[12:16] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, I'm so honored to be here.

[12:18] Annaleigh Ashford: Hello, my friends.

[12:20] Annaleigh Ashford: Hi.

[12:22] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, what a night.

[12:24] Annaleigh Ashford: You're magic.

[12:26] Annaleigh Ashford: Thank God.

[12:27] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah.

[12:28] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh man, hey, Katie.

[12:29] Annaleigh Ashford: We love you, Rosen.

[12:32] Annaleigh Ashford: Saying hello.

[12:33] Jessica Rush: Um, Annaleigh, for those guys for y'all who don't know, um, Annaleigh Ashford.

[12:38] Jessica Rush: She is well, she is a Tony Award winner, which is a really big deal if you follow the Broadway.

[12:45] Jessica Rush: But Annaleigh joined um Kara and I both known her for years, and she joined us earlier this year on an episode of Mama's Talkin' Loud.

[12:51] Jessica Rush: So you can listen to that if you want.

[12:53] Jessica Rush: You can download it and catch up.

[12:55] Jessica Rush: She shared her attitude of gratitude for all the ups and downs of motherhood and what it was like to juggle nursing and the fourth trimester while she was on stage opposite Jake Gyllenhaal.

[13:07] Jessica Rush: You might have heard of him.

[13:09] Jessica Rush: All the good things.

[13:10] Jessica Rush: But um, Jack is her son that she just mentioned, and he's three, right?

[13:14] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah.

[13:15] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, he's turning four in a couple weeks and wants a full uh Toy Story birthday party for the third year in a row.

[13:23] Jessica Rush: Yes, of course.

[13:25] Jessica Rush: He has been committed to those Toy Stories.

[13:28] Jessica Rush: I mean, I can remember when he was a tiny person taking Elliot's Toy Story toys.

[13:33] Jessica Rush: I remember that, like at our apartment.

[13:34] Annaleigh Ashford: But um, you and Joe, her husband love the parks, and uh I know that taking Jack there is just such a special thing.

[13:41] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, yeah, it's been like one of the joys of our life.

[13:45] Annaleigh Ashford: Sweet.

[13:47] Annaleigh Ashford: That's um that's our family favorite family photo.

[13:50] Annaleigh Ashford: It's one of uh our only family photos are from Disney World when we go to Disney World.

[13:56] Annaleigh Ashford: And uh actually before the pandemic, uh we my husband's birthday is um I had to go three nineteen eighty because I know all of our birthdays for insurance. Do you do that? I do that since 1980.

[14:22] Jessica Rush: I did everything right because we go to Disney World more often. So I did all my research for Disneyland. We've been multiple times obviously, but I wanted to make sure we did it just right. And um, so what I wanted to just share is um we're putting a pin in that pictures are coming. It's her or just put a pin in it. We're pivoting, you know. That's really magic. Story of our lives right now. Annalie, I got to chat with you this week. Uh your upcoming your episode of E-Ticket to Broadway is coming up, and you shared this beautiful sentiment that you went to Disney World when Kinky Boots had just closed, or you left the show and it was kind of a honeymoon. But what happened to you just a few days before going to Disney World?

[15:04] Annaleigh Ashford: So my uh oh Mine Train action. Jack got mine train. Wait, but do you know you guys? But do you know what's funny about this picture, Annalie? Is every time I see this photo, I wonder why Bruce Glicus is with y'all on that ride. I truly did my one of my favorite things in the whole world too is when we do single rider. I'm sure you guys do this too. Um, there's some amazing photos of Joe and I riding rides alone by ourselves. Like and sometimes I know when the photo's coming, so I'll look over to the person next to me. You know But Annalie, what what happened to you a few days before you went to Disney World after Kinky Boots? It's I love the story. During the run of Kinky Boots, um, I was with the show for a year uh from the time that it opened, and I did it out of town as well.

And during that time, I had some I didn't know I had celiac disease. We figured that out, and it can make your teeth really dance. Why have terrible teeth? Um, so I had like lots of root canals, and then they were also like, you need to get your wisdom teeth out. Well, you can't really do that while you're doing a Broadway show. So I got my wisdom teeth out, and then like the next day we went to Disney World. So I have big huge black eyes, and Joe had never been. So there's all these pictures of like us that trip, and Joe's eyes are like manic wonder. You know, the first is the first time he'd really been for real. He kind of went as a kid once, but it wasn't a you know, and so we went full out and ate at all the best places. We ate probably 7,000 calories a day, walked 12,000 steps a day, and I had big black circles under my eyes.

[16:46] Jessica Rush: That is a true Disney fan.

[16:48] Annaleigh Ashford: True Disney fan. Yes. Well, Annalie, thank you for being with us tonight. We're gonna chat a little bit more soon, but we're gonna bring on some more friends. They were stay right there. Yes, we have another mom coming on with us. She's got quite the Disney connection, you guys. She is a former Mouseketeer, people. I mean, what? I mean, I think once you are one, you're one forever, obviously. I mean, clearly, clearly. Totally. Um, she's also appeared on Broadway and across the country in Miss Saigon, If/Then and Wicked. She was also in Sister Act 2. Joy Show. Hello. Uh, she's the voice of Pearl in Cartoon Network's Steven Universe. Please welcome, Deedee Magno Hall.

[17:50] Deedee Magno Hall: I think I may have I think I may have overdone the um the my decor in my closet, by the way. Perfect. Um Didi, I said it to you when I first met you, and I said it to you like 20 minutes ago. I am such a fan of yours. Thank you for joining us tonight. This is so delightful.

[18:08] Deedee Magno Hall: Thank you for having me. Hi, everybody.

[18:10] Jessica Rush: Of course. Hi, Dee Dee. Hi, KM Productions. Hi, everyone. Hi everyone. So, Didi, you and Clifton have two wonderful kids. Are they aware of what a big Disney star their mother is? Are they aware of that?

[18:26] Deedee Magno Hall: I don't, I don't know. You know, I try to show them video, old videos, and pictures. I'm like, look at what mommy used to do. And they're just like, yeah, cool, Ma, I gotta.

[18:39] Jessica Rush: How old are they, Dee Dee?

[18:41] Deedee Magno Hall: Uh, so I have an uh just turned nine years old and uh and 15-year-old boy.

[18:51] Jessica Rush: I know the last time I saw Annalie, she came to our yard sale. Do you remember that before you?

[18:58] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, it's amazing.

[19:01] Deedee Magno Hall: They remember so we actually we have a photo, Didi of you with Clifton and the kids at Disneyland that you shared there.

[19:08] Deedee Magno Hall: How sweet. Oh, that's a that's an old photo, but yeah. That's definitely Pixar Fest. If you notice the flags in the back.

[19:16] Jessica Rush: Yeah. Oh, oh yeah. There you go.

[19:18] Deedee Magno Hall: Yeah, I like the brand a lot.

[19:23] Jessica Rush: Um, Dee Dee, so many of your fans know you as the voice of Pearl on Steven Universe, but you were a member of the Mickey Mouse Club.

[19:31] Deedee Magno Hall: MMC. MMC, right? Mickey Mouse, I've got my original uh my jacket here. You shared, Didi, when you were on E-Ticket to Broadway, you shared that you would sometimes during filming go into Walt Disney World. Do you remember what that was like as a kid?

[19:49] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh yes. I actually was thinking about memories to share. And I think we may have been shooting um uh we we shot at MGM Studios. It was it's now Hollywood Studios, but we shot it uh at one of the big uh backstage studios, and it was a nighttime shoot because I remember me and another cast member, Tiffany. Uh we had our roller skates on, and you know, I don't think that this would fly today, but I remember it was nighttime. It had just they had just like cleaned off some of the the ground, and the trams were still kind of going, picking up last uh minute uh patrons, and we held on to the back of a tram, and we rode a little bit around backstage. Unbeknownst to the uh like on the studio tour, the backstage Hollywood studio tour.

[20:46] Jessica Rush: Yes, yes, yes, yeah, one of those trams.

[20:49] Deedee Magno Hall: Wow, stage. We have a photo of you when you were on the Mickey Mouse Club. Let's take a look at that.

[20:55] Jessica Rush: Yeah, there you are. Stage left giving us a sensible hand on hip.

[21:05] Deedee Magno Hall: I dreamed that's what I wanted.

[21:10] Jessica Rush: So, Didi, I don't I don't know if you're aware, but on this live stream, you're not the only one who was on the Mickey Mouse Club. So we actually have a photo we want to share.

[21:20] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh, and you can see look, there's Ryan Gosling. And who's in the pink?

[21:26] Jessica Rush: Who is wearing that pink shirt?

[21:28] Deedee Magno Hall: Is that the corner?

[21:30] Jessica Rush: It's me.

[21:31] Deedee Magno Hall: No way.

[21:33] Jessica Rush: No way.

[21:34] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh my gosh. No, I'm telling you, I well, we moved there. We moved to Orlando when I was in the eighth grade. And I would go, I did a couple. This was after you had left to go to the party. Like the party was happening, and you were a teenager. I mean, it's amazing. Um, but I would go uh to tapings, and they would do one, and then there would be a lunch break, and then there would be another one, and you could go into the parks while they were, you know, and you could get lunch, you could ride Tower of Terror, whatever. And a couple times I was on just like an under five or a co-star, but I went to the tapings all the time.

[22:08] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh my gosh! I even bought um a letter jacket, like your varsity jacket, but not I mean, I bought it in the park, but it has red leather sleeves and gray, and it has the big old uh Mickey Mouse Club emblem on the back. Yes, I was I was a hardcore fan. I love this story.

[22:27] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh my gosh. I wanted to be a Mouseketeer. One day I'll tell you about my audition for the Mickey Mouse Club.

[22:33] Deedee Magno Hall: Where I sang where I sang on my own with a shawl.

[22:36] Jessica Rush: That was perfect choice for Mickey Mouse Club.

[22:39] Deedee Magno Hall: But perfect. And um Didi, it's so cool that in California, you were the original Princess Jasmine in the Aladdin musical spectacular at the um California Adventure. In fact, oh my Mickey. Sorry, Mickey. I I found one of these programs. Remember these guys?

[23:00] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh yeah. The map.

[23:02] Jessica Rush: It's a map.

[23:03] Deedee Magno Hall: Yeah. It was uh it was a good time. It was really one of my favorite things to play a princess, a Disney princess, and then um meet the the children after. It was before I was a mom, but I actually was pregnant. Uh during I did I did some research. I saw those pictures.

[23:23] Jessica Rush: Yeah.

[23:26] Deedee Magno Hall: Um yeah, you look great though.

[23:28] Jessica Rush: Yeah.

[23:29] Deedee Magno Hall: Yeah, my the jasmine costume was not forgiving. So I had to take a step down from the role. But it was such a blessing. I to I tell my my kids, I tell my oldest that you were on that stage with me when I was singing. Um but uh yeah, again, wait, that was that long ago that show opened at California. 15 years ago.

[23:50] Jessica Rush: Yeah. Time. Time. Tricky.

[23:57] Deedee Magno Hall: Where did you know that now that we're all in, I would love to ask you four, because again, tonight is about sharing the Disney and the parenthood overlap, not the parent trap. That's a different conversation. But I just want to hear from you all like what's it like bringing your kids there for the first time. Annalie, do you want to share what that was like when you brought Jack there for the first time?

[24:16] Annaleigh Ashford: Well, I don't know if you saw my face during that last story, but my jaw was dropped the entire time because uh I grew up in Denver, Colorado, so we were very, very far away from either park. I got to go to Disneyland once as a kid, um, just because I was doing a dance convention in California with Susan Egan. Amazing. Um, and anyways, uh so taking my little boy there, both Joey and I cried like four times the first day that we took him and he was like eight months old. And we still there's a lot of times where we get extremely beklempt because there's a you know there's something sort of magic about watching your child experience something for the first time whether it's pooping or going on uh it's a small world. Both even when your kid poops for the first time by themselves it makes you tear up a little bit. So going to the most magical place on earth I would say that's like you know that goes beyond a 10. Top it's like an 11 moment in my life.

[25:24] Jessica Rush: Yeah. Didi what about you when you brought your kids there? What was that like?

[25:28] Deedee Magno Hall: Um well we are so fortunate to have some very close friends of our family that still work at the park and so we've been able to go often there was actually one time that we were in Disney World with um with with our oldest when he was younger and then we did a road trip to California and like literally a week later we were in Disneyland. So um it was uh I I don't think that they will remember and and how amazing that was and how incredibly cool that we were able to do that. Um but like Annalie we took our kids when they were still so young and they couldn't enjoy the rides you know like if they get a little bit bigger they were still in strollers and sleeping most of the time um but I I grew up on Disney so it's always so much fun for me to go and then also um bring my my kids my family and uh we love riding um specific rides together and then there are others that some prefer more than uh than me but um i you know it's always a special and magical time disney is always and and and we always say you know there's no crying at Disneyland unless unless it's during the the the parades and the fireworks the fireworks that's a that's an okay time to cry totally and so what do you I mean I would love to hear from you all how do you navigate when you really want to do something and your kid doesn't or your kid wants to do something else do you ever play like no we're going on the Matterhorn because mommy wants to we try to we try to make sure that each of us get it get to say what we want to do you know so you know somebody's yeah no I was gonna say Eric and I have yet to do things the only thing that we do on our own because she won't after the first time is the haunted mansion and that is his favorite ride and it's one of my top like three and it's a must whenever we go so this last trip I convinced him to go on by himself but some not and we do single riders you know we'll do the switch and we we bypass the stretching room Elliot like she went on the ride once just by bypassing the stretching room and then we thought we'd be okay and then she's not into it.

[27:58] Annaleigh Ashford: So um but yeah. Well, especially when it all the blackout happens and the scream, and then it's like it's really intense it's a little um and my child's a bit anxious, so uh, but we uh she's not big enough. We haven't done like Matterhorn or Space Mountain, she's just now tall enough to go on those, and she loves a roller coaster, like Seven Dwarfs Mine Train at Disney World is her jam. Like we went on that like seven times the first time.

[28:26] Deedee Magno Hall: So, but um seven, yeah, we went on it seven times the first time. I got it. Sorry, you were so on it. No, but um we don't we don't force her, and like we don't we don't even like we'll just keep walking.

[28:43] Annaleigh Ashford: You know what we did do when we went to Disneyland at Christmas after I was in La Jolla working, we had gone, and Disneyland doesn't have as many fast passes like the Disney World. You know, I'm a world person, so it's like you go to Disneyland, you have to wait in line. There's all these moments, and it was the holiday season, and Small World was, we said you could pick one more ride to go back and do again. Well, she picked Small World. Sorry. Who was that? Is that you, Annaleigh? Yeah, it's my kid outside the door going, Mana, scream on life. We like you guys. All right, keep talking. No, so she picked Small World, and that wait was 90 minutes, you guys. Oh, but we told her we would, and we did. I mean, we waited, and she got one of those big lollipops, and she was so high on that sugar, like in that line. She was like four, and she's just like, and now very long.

[29:46] Cara Cooper: You were about to go, you were planning a trip coming up, which unfortunately was canceled, like so many of us. Um, and you were doing some special research. Can you share with us what that experience was like?

[29:57] Cara Cooper: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I grew up a Disney lover. We went, I think I grew up in New Jersey. We went like five times as a family. I don't, I can't believe I didn't tell you this before, but when I was, I think like 12, my grandparents took all of their grandkids to Disney World, and we all had t-shirts made that said they can't take it with them, so they're spending it on us. And we walked around the parks with these shirts on. Thanks, Drammy and Poppy on the back. We have pictures of all of us in the white robes at the Grand Floridian. Oh, she sent you those pictures. So it's been a dream of mine to take my kids to Disney for sure. And I know that the tears are going to be overwhelming. Um, my seven-year-old is autistic, and so we have prolonged when we were going to go.

We wanted to make sure she was nice and ready, that it wasn't just gonna be about managing um a child who was breaking down. You know, sure her language and speech is now really just emerging to a place where we can understand what she needs and what she wants. Um, so we were so excited to go in the fall. I contacted a special travel agent for, you know, special needs kids, and there are lots of accommodations that Disney makes for um us, which and it was gonna be amazing. And we didn't even tell them, like they don't even know that it got canceled. Um, and my son would, I he was gonna lose his mind. So we have to figure out a time to reschedule, you know. I know that the parks are open, but just we didn't want that to be the first experience for our family, you know. So hopefully we'll figure it out soon.

[31:28] Jessica Rush: Yeah, and we'll make some homemade family magic here tonight.

[31:31] Annaleigh Ashford: Exactly. Yes, bring the parks in.

[31:34] David Alpert: Absolutely. Well, very nice segue, Jess. We are going to um get ready to bring some guests, but first, because it's an e-ticket to Broadway event with Mamas Talking Loud, we are going to play a game with you with the mamas on the podcast. It's gonna be great. So let's get ready to play Mama's Talkin' Disney.

[32:07] David Alpert: Everyone is so nervous. You four are like ready. It's really okay. Now here's the fun. I'm nervous too because our script is in code for the section because Jess and Kara could see it. So like I'm gonna try and remember what the questions are. Thankfully, there are a few cards for them to be like this one. So the Disney world has so many wonderful mothers, and we want to share some questions and some trivia. Annaleigh, I need you to just breathe. It's gonna be okay. What do you mind helping with one of them? Um, so we've just got some five questions about Disney. You're gonna write down your answers in Sharpie and you're gonna hold them up this time. Um, but this is all about the mothers and Disney. So here comes question number one. Which Disney character sings the song your mother and mine? Go ahead and write it down. Which Disney character sings the song your mother and mine?

[33:06] David Alpert: Okay, well, let's wait. Oh, Annaleigh's ready. Annaleigh, I know what you were thinking. I know what you were thinking because I have the same thing. We're gonna go question by question once you have it. Write down whatever you think. And then in a moment immediately show it. We're gonna show it in a second. So, Kara, are you ready to share yours? Everyone ready? Dee Dee, you need more time. I don't even know. It's really okay. Let's write what comes to your heart. So crazy. Okay, let's reveal who we think. Not oh, it's Wendy. Show me your answer. Let's see your answers. We'll go the opposite way next time. So Annaleigh had Wendy. Oh good. I mean else have I wrote baby mine. I that's the same thing.

I saw what did you write? Question I saw I saw mine, and I immediately thought of Dumbo with baby mine. Yeah, yeah. And I want to point out that in both Peter Pan and Snow White, what they say about mothers is so misogynistic and wrong. We have to just completely erase like Snow White, bless. She walks in that dwarf's cottage and she's like, Oh, it's dirty. Do they have a mother? It's like, listen. Hold up. Peter Pan's like, will you cook and clean for us? Right. It's like mothers do more than that. So um, but yes, it was Wendy Darling. It's a beautiful and fathers do it too. Fathers do it too. Amen.

[34:29] David Alpert: So here comes our next question. Lady Tremaine is the name of the stepmother of which Disney Princess. Lady Tremaine is the name of the stepmother of which Disney princess. So do you four want to write down what you think it is? I'm ready. I'm gonna give you a hint, Dee Dee. Over your left, this isn't gonna help. Over your left shoulder is an actress playing this role in the upcoming live action. It's not gonna happen. So Lady Tremaine is what do we think? You ready? Oh, oh, oh. So Lady Tremaine is the stepmother of which Disney Princess. Show me your answers. I'm gonna get this one wrong. Stepmother. Everyone's terrified. Jess has Cinderella, Cinderella, Elsa, Snow White. The answer is Cinderella.

Why did you another group? There's a live coming out. There is the fairy godmother. Yeah, Nadina's playing the stepmother. You totally threw me off. Oh, I'm sorry. Dee Dee, that was my fault. That was my fault. Live action. Like we're just filming it live with an audience. No, it's gonna be released. Well, at some point they're filming, but they're filming it now. Is it is that the Rogers and Hammerstein? I don't think so. Oh, it'd be nice to have a job. That is a nice they just did it. That's crazy.

[36:00] David Alpert: Here comes our next question. Next question. Sorry. Horrified. What superpower does Mrs. Incredible possess? Oh wow. What superpower does Mrs. Incredible possess? I'm not keeping score, you guys. Everything's fine. I am so everyone ready. Let's show our answers. I didn't figure out how to spell it. Stretching, elastic. Yes, Jess. Elastic. Oh, elasticity. Oh, Jess, what does that say? That's where I frantically tried to write elasticity. I was thinking I saw her in my mind and I saw her like, yeah. Yeah, you saw this, Jess. Let's show the next slide. It is Elastigirl, yes. Yeah, that's what I saw. Yeah. But I also just kept thinking about her big, uh, her strong quads. I love it. I couldn't remember like how makes me feel so much better about my life.

[37:08] David Alpert: Here comes our next question, our fourth one. What is the name of Aurora's mother? Oh. And Aurora, of course, a sleeping beauty. And if you listen to E Ticket to Broadway, that actually has come up on trivia. Ah, this is you got me. This one's hard. You got me. Do I can I get the answer correct if I know what her real name, what Aurora's real name is? Wow. Right. Oh. Is it Briar Rose? Yes. So what is the name of her mother? Anyone? This one's great. I don't know this one. You got you. Yeah. Let's see your answers. No answer. No answer. Not even. No. I would have given you a point. I did quit David. I did. Wait, what's the question under it? Why are what is it? Why are you doing this to me? Sorry.

Well, let's show the answer. It is Queen Leah. Who knew? That's a tricky one. How do you even find where did when do they say that? In that movie. Also, in the credits. Y'all ever catch. Do you ever catch that Aurora is like 15? Yes. Like as you get older and you start to watch things, you go. I was watching it with Elliot one day and I thought, oh god.

[38:29] David Alpert: Uh show our last question. Let's move on. Who is the voice of Andy's mom? Oh, oh, I know this. Voices Andy's mom from Toy Story. I know this. She has it all written. Connor's hand. I didn't know this at first. You didn't? Um. I'm blanking on her name. She's such a fierce actress. Uh oh. I've I don't. Oh, that's the screenshot of this episode. Just Jessica Rush holding Lori Metcalf. And let's show the answer. It is Lori Metcalf. Oh my gosh. Yes. Yeah. Sony Award winner, Lori. No, Jack asked me the other day. He said, Mama, where is Andy's dad? Which we all ask. Um, and I said, he doesn't have one. And he went, okay. Then you're fell off. I haven't done the front of my wig in five months. Don't know if we're gonna let's do that.

Well, let me uh well thank you all for playing. Mama's talking Disney. Thank you so much. We we love our Disney moms and we love all of you. Um before we bring on our guests, I just want to share briefly about Gilana's fund, which is a cause that's very dear to my heart. Um it was created in 2007 after my oldest sister Gilana died from a rare reaction to medication. And the fund is a way to honor her memory and change the world. It's raised over 100,000 and has awarded nearly 40 grants to nonprofit organizations across the country whose mission is to educate, support, and promote the core values of Gilana's fund acceptance, inclusion, justice, and equality. I want to share some of those grant recipients with you right now.

So you can see the wonderful organizations on the front line of the battle we're facing today and how in 2020 we're even more focused on fixing you know the terrible injustices of our country and the world. Each year I produce and direct uh the Living for Today concert to raise money for the fun, but because of the pandemic, we're not doing that this year. So part of the money raised on the eTicket to Broadway Patreon is going to go to Gilana's Fund. And tonight, if you're enjoying this live show and you want to make the world a better place, please consider making a donation on the Gilana's Fund website. Um, you can learn more by going to GilanasFund.org and making a donation there. So thank you all for being here. Again, these these wonderful Broadway stars and do-it-yourself Disney experts are donating their time. So please um help us change the world.

[41:08] Jessica Rush: Yes. Yes. Be the change.

[41:11] David Alpert: Yes. Change. So let's move on, Cara. You guys, let's get down to some Disney magic, okay? We have our first um special guest here, the co-creator of Magic Foodie Tour and vlogger of all things Disney related from Eat See Magic. Welcome, Bree.

[41:57] Bree: Oh my gosh. Hi, life is a party. Why not? That was amazing. That was awesome. I want to go to the parks with you. That looks like a really good time. I'm just telling you, you have to be prepared because I'm there from rope drop to park clothes. And it's thank you so much for joining us tonight. We really appreciate it. We're so glad you're here. Thank you for having me. This is amazing. I'm so excited. Yay. What is your shirt? The city on it's the new Disneyland Spirit jersey. Um, there's a little pineapple detail. Can you see? Let me see. Oh, yes, but yes, since I'm a foodie. Um, and I always wear my spirit jerseys back to front because this is the best part to me. And I don't want to hide it. So I'm definitely gonna show it. That is true. That is so true. Um, when did so you're clearly, I mean, foodie, magical blog vlogger, all the things. When did you first fall in love with Disney? Tell us how you came to be, you know.

[43:02] Deedee Magno Hall: My mom would put like two Afro Puffs in my hair so I can look like Minnie. And we always went to the park with my family, so I've always been obsessed. Uh grew up watching Disney Channel, Disney movies, so it's just always been a thing. And I've always been in the parks, and like clearly, I've always been a foodie. I just love to eat, so it's the best thing. It is really the best thing.

[43:23] David Alpert: Yes. Um, have you been to Disney World? Because you're in California, right?

[43:26] Deedee Magno Hall: I'm in California. I have not been to Disney World. Um, it's gonna be a problem. I don't want to get kicked out because I'm just gonna be too excited. So like I need time to like wait till I calm down, maybe meditate like for two weeks, but I'm planning on going hopefully next year, maybe the week after.

[43:44] Annaleigh Ashford: Well, girl, that is gonna be you should schedule it. I'm just telling you, as someone who knows them very well down there in Florida, you need to schedule it for the food and wine festival because that is my favorite time, and you're the foodie.

[43:56] Deedee Magno Hall: So that's exactly, and that's the thing. Like, I feel like I already have a list because I have so many friends in Florida, a lot of content creators, and like everything they post. I'm like, okay, so I need this cookie, I need to go to Pandora, like I have a whole list.

[44:10] Jessica Rush: Totally, totally for sure. Oh my god. Well, um, I think that before since we're talking foodies and food, why don't we go around? Let's see what is everyone's favorite food in the park. Now I wanna I wanna clarify that this is your favorite food, not your favorite snack, because we're gonna have someone coming on later who's gonna be the snack person. Okay, let's talk, let's talk your favorite food. So, any kind. So, David, you go first.

[44:39] David Alpert: This is tough. You know what's so funny? I was thinking I was gonna say the chicken fizzli from Pizza Port, and because it's so good. I actually did make it on July 17th. I made it at home. I didn't do nearly as well as Brie would have done. I promise you that. But this is a new thing. The brunch at Carnation Cafe on Main Street, they have these amazing apple cinnamon granola pancakes, and then fruit and coffee, and you hear Main Street. So it's like the experience plus the food makes it so good. But I think I'm gonna go with that as my answer for food. The brunch at Carnation Cafe.

[45:10] Annaleigh Ashford: Love it. Yeah, let's go. I've never eaten there. I know I'm taking notes for when I got crazy. All right, um, then uh Brie, let's go to you. We'll go around this way.

[45:19] Bree: All right, so it's it's it's this isn't any shade. Uh, but you know, the snacks in Disney are are superior to the food. I'm not that is true. That is true. You can you can give us you can give us one snack because I'm sure you have a few snacks. So actually, I kind of decided on food in DCA, California Venture. And especially because I made this drink for tonight. Oh monster nachos. They slept in Lamplight Lounge. And this is the Mickey Fun Wheel. Now let me tell y'all, I ran out of kinky, which is like the pink part. So you can only see the yellow and blue, but imagine that there's a pink layer. So the lobster nachos. Hands down.

[46:00] Deedee Magno Hall: I actually some friends told me about the lobster nachos recently. They were we were going to the I think, or maybe it was Kayala when we went. She was like the lobster nachos. Anyway, yeah, I got it from Didi. I gotta try the nachos too.

[46:13] Annaleigh Ashford: I was gonna say chimichangas. I was gonna say the chimichongas right there on the carts, you know, uh, because I don't have time to sit down and have a meal usually with the kids, so we're sort of on the go, and we just gotta find something to so it's either the chimichongas or the corn dogs.

[46:32] Deedee Magno Hall: Yes, I think that's Anna Lee. Now, here's the thing because you've got celiacs, so I'm sure you're a little limited.

[46:40] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, yeah. Um, and it's really hard for me right now because I'm like going through snack credits and meal credits, and I'm like, sometimes I can sneak out a snack credit as a meal. Um, so I'm just gonna I know we're supposed to pick a favorite, but because I have celiac disease, I feel like it's not fair because I can't have everything that everybody has. So I'm gonna give you a couple of my favorites. I like that breakfast at the Grand Floridian, and I like to have the full breakfast with Mickey waffles, gluten-free, runny eggs, extra crispy break, and I can actually eat the hash browns, and then I like to have I can have the full meal at Flame Tree Barbecue, everything is gluten-free.

[47:17] Deedee Magno Hall: Yes, yum. I like to sometimes get an order of fries and I can get them gluten-free. Yes, yum, and then I like La Cellier Steakhouse. I like a full meal there. I can also get at the Raglan Road, I can get gluten-free fish and chips. I can't get them anywhere else. And I can get gluten free calamari. But I have a lot of other favorites in Disney Springs, but those are my oh, I guess that was Disney Springs. That's a long way. No, that was also Epcot. You're giving me Epcot.

[47:41] Jessica Rush: Oh yeah, I loved sometimes too. I just go to the bar by myself. I go, I am mommy has to go have some mommy juice. And Joe and Jack do another round, and I go to the bar by myself in Mexico, and I have chips and guac all by myself with a drink.

[47:57] Deedee Magno Hall: That sounds amazing. I know that. I know that restaurant. I like to sit there too.

[48:01] Cara Cooper: It's been a minute, but what is been a minute, but because I knew I well, I was supposed to be going, I did some research. I'm I try to eat healthy, knowing full well I'm gonna indulge while I'm there, but I've tried to like scope out some healthy options, and I really want to try the lettuce wraps. Apparently, they're amazing. Kind of like what um where they're at they're in Tomorrowland at the Terrace Cafe, is what I found. Um, which is not very frequently open, but apparently they're they're like Poisson chicken, and they're supposed to be amazing. They come in like a little tray, three little lettuce wraps, kind of like um what's your cheesecake factory, right? Cheesecake factory has the best lettuce wraps.

[48:40] Jessica Rush: So that's what I'm that's what I'm hoping to try whenever we get there.

[48:44] Annaleigh Ashford: That's good, that's solid. Yeah, um well, this is tricky because depending on which park I'm at, there are different things. But I do enjoy, as we spoke about on a different podcast, the poutine, or that was on the episode with my husband, right? Yeah, uh in Canada. And um, what's funny is I haven't been to many restaurants. Like we were definitely creatures of habit and going to the same like prime time cafe. That's one of my favorites. And like things like I like the pot roast there at the Primetime Cafe. And I also, if I'm in Frontierland I like Pecos Bills I like the barbacoa the shredded barbacoa and you make your little tacos at Pecos Bills that's actually pretty really tasty food so those are what I'm I'm gonna stick with that.

[49:13] Bree: Free can you make all of those dishes because the dinner party tomorrow it's gonna be a blast amazing when did you how long have you had your vlog like when did that two years two years so I honestly I started it because um I didn't see a lot of people that look like me in the parks and also because a lot of people aren't giving honest reviews like I don't know they're not trying to hurt Disney's feelings but if you tell me something's good and it's not season I'm gonna be upset so I was like when we start a vlog I'm gonna keep it real in these fairy tale streets and I'm gonna be honest so that's really why I started and then I love I love Disney and I love to give my opinion on things that's awesome.

[50:10] Jessica Rush: I love I mean yeah Disney does not if one of us says something is not fierce it ain't gonna hurt them please are you kidding they will they will make back all the coins and they are fine right exactly well I was checking out your videos and I love the one you're so much fun I mean obviously here we are but um uh the one with the dole whips because the dole whip is my jam I love a dole whip yes I mean I think most people it's at the top of their list right so you have a video that I love you don't measure uh which is very brave I'm measuring my soul I feel it in my soul my mom all used to say that just throw it in there.

[50:51] David Alpert: Um, but uh let's uh I think we have do we have a clip, David?

[50:54] David Alpert: Yeah, there are no we've got those photos. We have the photos of the Dole Whip experience.

[51:02] Deedee Magno Hall: I also like how we started with the just the coconut and the pineapple, and then we moved on to the rum.

[51:11] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, yeah, like a different version for the for the adults to have a little bit of fun during quarantine, like it's a stressful time.

[51:19] Deedee Magno Hall: Exactly. A little bit of that rum in there. But honestly, like it was so much fun. I wanted to recreate. Well, actually, I didn't have a choice. I live with my niece who's six, my nephews, they're twins, they're two. Uh, had to do something creative to keep them busy. It's all of us in this house. So I was like, what can I do? What's the easiest thing? And I immediately thought of Dole Whip. That's like the number one snack people get. And honestly, I kind of prefer the flavored Dole Whips now than uh over the original. So when I was creating the original, I was like, how can I make this taste more like pineapple? Because Disney released their recipe, and it was just like ice cream and pineapples, and I'm like, no, gotta add some stuff. So I added like pineapple juice, coconut smoothie, like all this stuff, and it came out so good.

[52:02] Jessica Rush: I want to make one. I was watching it with my daughter, Elliot, who's who's almost six, and she was like, Mom, I want to make a Dole Whip at our house. She was all about it. So, what do you how do you suggest? Like you said Disney had released the recipe, but also do you have any tips for our listeners at home to maybe inspire them to make some treats themselves?

[52:21] Bree: Yeah, I think first off, you just have to do it. Like, even if you burn the beignets, like it's fine. You tried it, it's fun, you're doing it at home. But I think uh Disney's doing a great job at releasing a lot of recipes online. And what I've been doing, sometimes I'll try the ones online, but sometimes I'll look through my old photos and my old vlogs, and I'm like, wait, that was so delicious. Let me try to make it at home because I want it now. So, yeah, I just think there's a lot of ways to make magic at home, and it doesn't have to be perfect. That same vlog, I did the whole Main Street electrical parade at the end. And literally, it was just stuffed animals and Christmas lights. But it was so fun because we have the original song in the background. So you just have to be creative and do it for do it with what you have at home, and it's just gonna be magical.

[53:06] Annaleigh Ashford: That's amazing. That's awesome. I love it. It's like put on some tiki room music, make your doll whips, and you know, set up the parade. That'll occupy kiddos for at least you know 35 minutes. I don't know.

[53:19] Jessica Rush: Well, yeah, we actually have to the second showing. My niece was like, Okay, so what time is the second showing? I'm like, this is not really good.

[53:28] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh my god. Well, Brie, can you show us that drink one more time? Because that was cute.

[53:31] Bree: Absolutely. So this is the Mickey Fun Wheel, it's the sweet and sour. You have a let layer of the kinky, which is the pink, look here so, and then you top it off with um Sprite, but you also add liquor in there, obviously, vodka to the sweet and sour part. And it you put a is it in there? You put the little ears for Mickey.

[53:54] Annaleigh Ashford: So cute, it's so cute. Oh my god, you guys, y'all. You can see the videos we've talked about with Bree and all the things that she does, the fun times uh at her insta handle, Eat C Magic, also on YouTube, Eat C Magic and Twitter. Um, Bri, thank you so much for joining us. I'm so thrilled. I can't wait to go like down the rabbit hole of all of your videos and find all the different things we can make.

[54:18] Bree: Yes, if you're missing the cards, my vlogs are a very fun time.

[54:22] Jessica Rush: Totally for sure. It's just such a function. It's such a light. Thank you so much, Bri.

[54:26] Bree: Be welcome. Have a magical time.

[54:31] David Alpert: All right. That was amazing. I know what I'm going to do with my kids.

[54:34] Jessica Rush: I know, right? Philip's in the parade. Like, we're gonna get those Christmas lights out and dress up those stuffed animals. My kids are gonna love that.

[54:43] Deedee Magno Hall: Exactly. Exactly. So we're not done. We have more, everybody. We have Maggie coming with us on with us now. She is a Disney mom of two. She is juggling life as a flight attendant, a blogger, and my favorite, a cookier. Didn't know it was a word, but it is. She makes you guys these cookies. You've not seen anything like this. Please welcome Maggie of Jet Plane Mommy.

[55:23] Maggie: Yes!

[55:26] David Alpert: Look at you. How are you?

[55:28] Maggie: Look great. Thank you so much for being here. Um, look at all those fabulous costumes behind her. I mean, they're amazing, and I'm sure you love putting them on, but I'm assuming you put those on your two gorgeous little girls. Can you tell us about them?

[55:44] Maggie: They I have two little girls, uh Madison and Maya. And they are like the biggest princesses around here. They live in these costumes. We actually have doubles of a lot of them because they just go through them so fast.

[55:58] Jessica Rush: Yeah, and you want to maybe head off any fights, right? You don't want them fighting over who's gonna be Mulan today, right?

[56:03] Maggie: Right. Well, we have like two um snow Whites, or not snow whites, I'm sorry, uh, beauty and the bees or Belle. I should say Belle.

[56:10] Jessica Rush: Yep, basically, yeah. And um they still love dressing up. So tell us a little bit how you became jet plane mommy and how this all came about.

[56:20] Maggie: Uh well, I've been a flight attendant for the past eight years. I had my first daughter five years ago, and that's when I started vlogging. It was about, you know, transitioning into motherhood and still maintaining my career as a flight attendant attendant. And uh I wanted to inspire other moms, you know, that are in the field or are wanting to become flight attendants to know that you can still do both. Um but I also, you know, it all it takes how do I say this? It takes a team of people to like help you out, you know. Like my mom helps us out a lot. My husband does too, and yeah, it takes a village, you know.

[56:59] Jessica Rush: Um we always talk about the village, it's so important, right?

[57:04] Maggie: Yes.

[57:04] Deedee Magno Hall: So well, I love I love that you are you know putting it out there to moms to be like you can do this too.

[57:09] Deedee Magno Hall: Like it's hard, but you can continue to do what you love and be a mom.

[57:13] Jessica Rush: That's something that Jessica and I preach all the time on our podcast.

[57:17] Deedee Magno Hall: Um, no, we actually have a photo.

[57:19] Deedee Magno Hall: We actually have a photo of your beautiful family.

[57:22] Jessica Rush: Yes.

[57:22] Jessica Rush: There, um that's so sweet.

[57:25] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh those just the cutest.

[57:30] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh my gosh.

[57:33] Jessica Rush: Obviously, you have your masks on, right?

[57:36] Maggie: Yeah, we went to weeks ago. We went to downtown Disney.

[57:40] Maggie: And just had we had a dinner, had some ice cream, went and did some shopping, and yeah, it was it was good. It was a good time out and you know, having like a normal day kind of.

[57:52] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, I bet they were so happy to be there.

[57:55] Maggie: Oh my gosh, yes. They were like, Can we do dinner again tomorrow?

[58:01] Jessica Rush: We know the feeling.

[58:02] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, we do know the feeling. We gotta get into these cookies, you guys, because I just like you're not gonna believe what she makes at home.

[58:09] Jessica Rush: How were you always a baker? How did the inspiration for this come about?

[58:14] Maggie: So I basically started they I've been baking since I was a little girl, obviously, but the cookie started last year. Maybe it's been actually a whole year. I started taking classes. I wanted to learn to make my own cookies for my girls because they're expensive. Like I don't know if you guys have ever ordered cookies for birthday parties. They're they're kind of pricey. If you want like the little details, like the you know, princes and all that stuff. So I was like, I have to learn to do these myself.

[58:43] Annaleigh Ashford: And yeah, I'm those so cute.

[58:48] Maggie: Amazing. Amazing. Oh my goodness. I've been doing this for the past few months, especially now that we're quarantined. I've been on leave from work, and so I like just dived in and I was like, I'm gonna learn.

[59:03] Annaleigh Ashford: Look at Annalie.

[59:06] Jessica Rush: I know. They're so pretty. I don't want to eat them.

[59:10] Deedee Magno Hall: Look at those.

[59:12] Maggie: Oh my gosh. They're so cool. Wait, did you draw those those uh the Dalmatians? Are those Dalmatians?

[59:25] Maggie: Um that's no, that's bolt!

[59:28] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, yeah, it's bold. Did you did you draw that?

[59:31] Maggie: I I did. I did.

[59:33] Annaleigh Ashford: My goodness. I'm obsessed. That's my fantasy. If I had a hat, I would tip it.

[59:41] Jessica Rush: They are amazing.

[59:42] Annaleigh Ashford: They are amazing. I'm so impressed.

[59:45] Maggie: Yeah. Um, so clearly that's this. We're gonna move into our favorite snacks, right? Because that's a snack. Cookies a snack or treats.

[59:52] Jessica Rush: Yeah. That's right. So maybe we'll say, like, what is your favorite snackslash treat at the park? Something like that, right? Should we go around?

[1:00:00] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah. Let's start with, let's go the other way. So Annalie, let's start with you.

[1:00:04] Annaleigh Ashford: Uh now it's Dole Whip. Oh, it's Dole Whip, but before I found out celiac, it was those Mickey pretzels.

[1:00:11] Deedee Magno Hall: You stole my answer.

[1:00:16] Jessica Rush: Um am I next?

[1:00:18] Deedee Magno Hall: You're next, Dio.

[1:00:19] Deedee Magno Hall: I love a churro. I love a churro. I love the Mickey Mouse ice cream bars.

[1:00:26] Maggie: Yeah. They're kind of iconic. How about you, Maggie?

[1:00:31] Maggie: I'm a churro girl. Like I have to start the day with a churro when we get to the park and end it with a churro before we go home.

[1:00:40] Annaleigh Ashford: I love it. I love it.

[1:00:41] David Alpert: I am a Mickey Mouse ice cream sandwich.

[1:00:46] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh so like it's close to the bar.

[1:00:49] David Alpert: You get them in the same carts with the dry ice. It's very exciting. It's the one where you bite into it and your teeth fall off because it's so cold. They're my favorite. I get them every trip and they're so good.

[1:01:01] Deedee Magno Hall: Yeah, so Target sells the one that Didi was talking about, and they're like slightly different. I think they're actually like lower in fat than what you get in the park, so they're not as good.

[1:01:11] Annaleigh Ashford: But they target Target comes through.

[1:01:14] Deedee Magno Hall: Target coming through. Who knew? How about you?

[1:01:17] Jessica Rush: Yes. Dole Whip all the way. Dollip all the way. I'm not a big sweet tooth person. Like, I'm not a desserts person. I mean, I my answer before has been like fries with cheese sauce for dipping. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's my so if I'm picking a treat, I'm gonna go with the dole whip.

[1:01:34] Annaleigh Ashford: I'm the same. I'm I'm I'm a salty girl, not a sweets girl. So that pretzel, oh, all those carbs and one big bite. I just love it.

[1:01:42] Deedee Magno Hall: No one mentioned a turkey leg. Anyone a fan of the turkey leg?

[1:01:47] Maggie: I don't know.

[1:01:48] Deedee Magno Hall: No, they're hard to never had one in Disney World too.

[1:01:51] Annaleigh Ashford: What'd you say?

[1:01:52] Jessica Rush: Don't start.

[1:01:56] Maggie: Well, then there's that one spot by the Liberty uh Inn, you know, and then I always want the one time we had fried corn or uh grilled corn there, and we go back every time. Do you have the grilled corn for five years?

[1:02:07] Maggie: Joey and I, oh excuse me, do you have grilled corn today? They've never had it again.

[1:02:14] Annaleigh Ashford: Aww.

[1:02:14] Jessica Rush: I was gonna say I've never seen it.

[1:02:17] Maggie: Yeah, but it doesn't have a grill corn. I think I've seen it.

[1:02:19] Deedee Magno Hall: There you go.

[1:02:25] Maggie: DCA.

[1:02:26] Deedee Magno Hall: DCA!

[1:02:28] Jessica Rush: DCA. Um Maggie, what obviously you're home with your kids right now, trying to create some magic. What um advice do you have for people? And how can you inspire people to create some of that magic while they're home with their kids during this crazy time we're in?

[1:02:45] Maggie: Well, I breakfast usually that's my go-to. We start the day off with Mickey Mouse pancakes. Yeah. I'll do like blueberries in them or chocolate chips and then you know, fruit on the thigh, uh a little bit of whip for them, and you know, start the day like that, and then of course they're like, Can we get dressed up already? So they come and pick their dresses, and then they'll like, okay, I'm bored of this dress. I'm gonna change into Moana now. Oh, well, now I want to be Cinderella, so let me change. So we go through that, and then um during the day, like I'll try they love the Disney Magic Prey, this last one. They love the music.

[1:03:25] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh, the magic happens.

[1:03:27] Maggie: Yeah, yeah, the magic happens. So we typically watch that once a day just to you know dance around. And then um, yeah, just you know, we watch movies, we dress up, we play games, we colored. There's a few like pages. Um I want to say, oh my gosh, I'm trying to think of the website, but you can print out like princess, like yeah, it's like the print of printouts or whatever. Imagineer just released. I mean, and here's a I just need to share this. Imagineer released this really extensive paper cutouts of magic happens, the floats, main street, the castle. But when you put main street together, their geography is off. Unless I'm wrong, but they had the emporium on the wrong side of the street, and I was like, Nope. I can do more.

[1:04:15] David Alpert: Wow, David. There's a lot of I know, sorry. I still want to work through Disney. But Maggie, I think that's totally right. Like finding all these do-it-yourself ways to keep your kids entertained and and really bring the magic home.

[1:04:27] Jessica Rush: Yeah, yeah. It sounds like you really follow their lead too. Like, you know, they just want to play, and you're just like, I'm just gonna play with you, you know.

[1:04:34] Maggie: Yeah, I mean, just dress up with them. I actually have my own costumes that I'll play along with them, you know, and yeah, just keep the magic alive.

[1:04:43] Maggie: Yeah, or my uh daughter's fifth birthday just passed last like two months ago. Um, she wanted us to dress up. So I was Snow White, she was Elsa, we had Maya was Anna, and my husband was the prince.

[1:04:56] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, there you go.

[1:04:57] Maggie: We were all dressed up and you know, perfect.

[1:04:59] Annaleigh Ashford: So happy.

[1:05:00] Jessica Rush: Yeah. I love that. I love that so much. Well, you guys, Maggie is so much for you have to check out all of her social sites. She has got it's so inspiring. Just taking a look at that, you'll be like, oh, I could do this and I could do this, and then you'll see those cookies, and you'll be like, I need them now. They are incredible. Um, so you're on Instagram, you're on Twitter, you also are at jetcleanmommy.com, right? You have your own uh website. Uh, and we are just so grateful that you came to join us today, Maggie.

[1:05:28] Maggie: Thank you for having me.

[1:05:30] Jessica Rush: Thank you.

[1:05:32] Maggie: Goodbye, guys.

[1:05:35] Annaleigh Ashford: I know, I'm so sorry. Uh so much.

[1:05:43] Annaleigh Ashford: Um, I uh had some really I've what's happened in the biz is I've lost my light. That's what we call it in the biz. I've lost my light.

[1:05:52] Jessica Rush: Find your light, Annalie.

[1:05:54] Annaleigh Ashford: Find your light. We're losing light. We're losing light.

[1:05:59] Annaleigh Ashford: Um changed like that. Well, that was great. I I want to um I didn't want to to say it in front of Maggie. My dad has been making Mickey pancakes for me my entire life. They unf they do not look like those. Dad, I love you. They're wonderful. Um, Mickey in the morning, make every day great. They're so great.

[1:06:14] Annaleigh Ashford: Um, well, our final do it yourself expert has been making homemade Disney magic, recreating beloved attractions into clever and heartwarming videos. So let's take a look at this first one.

[1:06:28] Annaleigh Ashford: Kindly step all the way in, please, and make room for everyone. Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it your imagination?

[1:06:43] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, I didn't mean to frighten you prematurely. Do not pull down on the safety bar, please. I will lower it for you.

[1:07:02] Annaleigh Ashford: Serpents and spiders, tale of a rat. Happy haunts with South. Beware of hitchhiking ghost. Let's do that again.

[1:07:28] Annaleigh Ashford: There it is. Is this haunted room actually stretching?

[1:07:35] Jessica Rush: Jess Siswick. She is at not Broadway, but you are a ray of sunshine. That's her that's what she released. I just wanted to differentiate between the two Jesses.

[1:07:45] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh Jess, your videos are so cool. Do you have a background in video production? They are so good. Like what is how did you come to make these wonderful movies at home?

[1:07:56] Jess: Um, well, I have always been a nerd. Um, I got a little video camera when I was eight years old. Uh, my parents got it for me, and then when I was eleven, I was booked for a wedding video. I had this teeny little editing set. Um, so I actually majored in animation, and I have just always been telling stories and making dumb videos. And when I was denied going to Disney in early March, um, I thought, well, I might as well just recreate it in my very own Disney park, right here.

[1:08:28] Annaleigh Ashford: Awesome. Totally. I love it. What's crazy is just Annalie, me, I think we all had trips planned to Disneyland in March. We all could have been there at the same time.

[1:08:39] Jessica Rush: Oh, that would have been funny and magical.

[1:08:41] Annaleigh Ashford: It'll happen. It's gonna happen. But Jess, I you know, I saw an article about your work in the Washington Post and Insider and AOL. People just love it. And um, I know that's how we connected. I saw um, I saw this wonderful thing, and I reached out to you on Twitter and I was like, you are my hero. Um there's a really wonderful quote of yours I want to share before we talk more. Um, it's in the Washington Post about the responses to your work um that has been uh you thanking them for you know, they they say they that these videos make them smile at home. And you said that those responses are the ones that resonated with you so much that my dumb little videos are helping people get through this terrible time. And I know that for all of us, this live show um where I started e-ticket, it's about bringing joy into homes. Um did you were you stunned at the reaction of it of everyone reaching out to you that you're suddenly on the Washington Post and all that?

[1:09:33] Jess: Oh, absolutely. Like I um, in fact, one of the other people that was interviewed in the Washington Post too, she lives um in Utah, and I was out there recently visiting my adorable three-year-old nephew and my six-month-old niece. And um, we were like, hey, let's meet up in a park somewhere, and like we made like a genuine friendship from it. And I think one of my favorite things that is watching how everyone else is creative, and when they involve their kids, there is this spectacular one where an entire family recreated um the frozen ride, and like frozen has a special place in my heart, and I've got my baby Anna ears on. Um and just seeing the creativity and seeing everyone work together was just fabulous.

And one of my favorite things that has come out of that is doing collaborations with other people. Um I did like a past the popcorn watching somebody else's recreated parade with other people that had done things and just expanding our little homemade park universe to include other people's rides, like uh one family recreated pirates in California. And I just loved seeing that, and I thought, well, how can I get on part of that? Wait, the blue bayou is um is in pirates. So I cut myself into their video waving at them from the blue bayou with my little um light up ice cube drink.

[1:10:51] Annaleigh Ashford: Amazing.

[1:10:52] Jess: Nice. Um Jess, how do you choose which ride to recreate?

[1:10:57] Jess: Um, I think it was like it's just a case of like seeing what I have and seeing, oh wait, that could be this or this could be that. This office chair is the most versatile piece of equipment that I've had in my homemade Disney Parks.

[1:11:11] Annaleigh Ashford: When you do this, like I immediately thought of the haunted mansion.

[1:11:14] Jess: Yeah, I actually I love that that is in your haunted mansion video. I just saw it because that's my favorite part of the ride is when you go into the cemetery and you lean backwards and then you just have to go. And that's where you always get stuck.

[1:11:27] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, I think it's like it's yeah, it's seeing what you have, and then like I if I if I there's one thing about a ride that I am like obsessed with, or I have a little like I never win in Buzz Lightyear, or um Indiana Jones always breaks down.

[1:11:44] Jess: That's what I base the videos around. It's those tiny little things that like people who truly love the parks enjoy. Like when I did Soarin, I had the little yellow tag that you pull out and try just building the video around that. You've done, you've done, you know, of course, Haunted Mansion. You did a Tower of Terror, Star Tours, the Soren One Indiana Jones by Zlight. What's your next video you're gonna make? So I did have a local. Oh, I have all my props down here from all my videos. I've saved everything. Um, I did have some local kids give me this and said to me that their favorite ride was the little mermaid. So I'm already working on props. Hey, my daughter will love that. That she loves that ride. So I'm gonna be raiding the kitchen for some tongs that will be used as things. Um, yeah, I would love to try that one. And then Peter Pan's flight is my white whale. I will conquer it.

[1:12:46] Annaleigh Ashford: Yes, you will. Um, so Jess, uh, as we've been playing with our previous guests, we're gonna go around the circle and we want to hear what our favorite rides are. So think about what your favorite ride is. And Jess, you do not have to suddenly create these videos.

[1:13:01] Jessica Rush: Okay, I'll take note. Yeah, um, I'm gonna go with Haunted Mansion for today. That's how I feel today. Haunted Mansion. It does change, like depending on what it is.

[1:13:15] Cara Cooper: Yeah, Kira, we know yours is mission space.

[1:13:20] Deedee Magno Hall: I also just like wait this anymore.

[1:13:23] Jess: Wait, what is yours?

[1:13:24] Cara Cooper: I'll tell you in a second, what were you gonna say?

[1:13:26] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh no, I was just gonna say, and shout out to Spaceship Earth. That's that is a solid runner-up to my favorite always. I love spaceship earth, it is old as get out, but I love it.

[1:13:37] Jess: Yeah, that's it. Move okay.

[1:13:39] Deedee Magno Hall: I just want to give it some love because everybody poo-poos spaceship Earth, you know.

[1:13:43] Jessica Rush: Well, my favorite ride is no longer there, so it totally got poo-pooed. But and it was it's gonna show my age. But Horizons.

[1:13:52] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh my god.

[1:13:54] Jessica Rush: You guys, we would get up and go to the park when it opened.

[1:13:57] Cara Cooper: Is this at Epcot?

[1:13:59] Jessica Rush: Yeah. And we would be, we literally would get there when it opens so we could go on it over and over again. Cause like you said, there's that part of the ride, Jess. So you like drop your you're on your cart and you drop through, and there's a giant screen in front of you, and there's like whole different parts of the movie. But we always wanted to get the part of the movie where the earth comes rushing towards you so that you feel like you're flying towards the earth. So my brother and I would ride it over and over again until we got to that point in the movie where we were rushing towards the earth, and it smelled like oranges because it was all supposed to be in the future, and they're at this like orange plant. So when you they the ride smelled like oranges, so favorite ride ever. Love it.

[1:14:34] Annaleigh Ashford: Um, I lost my light again. Uh haunted mansion ride.

[1:14:43] Jessica Rush: No, I mean I know.

[1:14:45] Annaleigh Ashford: Um, so it's a tie between the rise of the resistance, because it took my breath away when we just got to write it, and flights of passage.

[1:14:54] Jessica Rush: I've oh flights of passage.

[1:14:57] Annaleigh Ashford: When we wrote it, I got off and I said that must be what heaven is like, because in heaven we'll get to fly to people we love.

[1:15:04] Jessica Rush: Yes, I've only ridden it once, so that's why it's not even like in my mind.

[1:15:08] Annaleigh Ashford: But yes, it's the best ride.

[1:15:11] Cara Cooper: Where is it?

[1:15:13] Annaleigh Ashford: It's an animal kingdom.

[1:15:15] Jessica Rush: Avatar.

[1:15:16] Annaleigh Ashford: It's oh I wasn't gonna say that.

[1:15:19] Jessica Rush: I didn't know what it was called.

[1:15:21] Annaleigh Ashford: I was gonna say that's the ride that we rode twice two years ago for my son's birthday.

[1:15:27] Jessica Rush: Um, flights of passage.

[1:15:30] Annaleigh Ashford: We got to go twice because the lines were really like you know, short.

[1:15:35] Jessica Rush: That's crazy.

[1:15:36] Annaleigh Ashford: It was crazy.

[1:15:37] Jessica Rush: What I love about that ride is how you can feel the the thing like breathing. You know, like like when you're sitting on it on the ride, like feel it's yes.

[1:15:47] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, and um, oh, the reason why the lightings were short was because it was pouring down rain, and so people kind of had to go, and uh we had our little rain jackets on, and we just went right back around again.

[1:16:00] Deedee Magno Hall: That one and soaring.

[1:16:02] Jess: I love soaring's great.

[1:16:04] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, soaring is great.

[1:16:04] Jess: Soin's great.

[1:16:05] Jess: Jess, what is your favorite ride?

[1:16:07] Jessica Rush: Oh, that's like picking a favorite child of favorite Broadway show. Um I know. I'm gonna say because we rode it five times in one day once was Guardians of the Galaxy, and it just never got boring. Like I love Terror of Terra, I love the atmosphere it creates, I love the tension it builds, but Guardians is all about the fun, and it is spectacular. And one time we snuck on a loaf of bread, and me and my friends are all there in various stages of eating bread in our picture, and it goes down as one of my favorite pictures that we've ever taken.

[1:16:43] Annaleigh Ashford: Yes, I'm with you.

[1:16:44] Jess: It's hard for me to choose a favorite ride. I love Indy, I love Space Mountain, but uh it's always just sleeping beauties castle, which is an attraction at Disneyland because it's the walkthrough, but I just love that castle so much. Just when when we're able to go back to the parks, I'm just going to sit in the hub on a park bench just staring at the castle for 14 hours.

[1:17:06] Deedee Magno Hall: Um so uh Didi, you love Soarin. Um, Jess actually made a wonderful soaring video she referred to. We're gonna share that.

[1:17:13] Jess: Ooh.

[1:17:32] Deedee Magno Hall: So good.

[1:17:33] Jess: Did you catch that foot acting?

[1:17:35] Deedee Magno Hall: I love it.

[1:17:36] Jess: Oh yeah, it was great.

[1:17:38] Jess: So Jess, what I mean, so the families watching tonight, what where do they start? They they look at what they have in their house, or what are what do you think they should do?

[1:17:45] Jessica Rush: I think I think first should be like a discussion of what's your favorite part of a ride because you can't recreate the whole thing. That's just insane. Um what's your favorite part of the ride? Is it like when the ball comes down in Indiana Jones? Or is it when is it the orange smell when you're going over sort of song over California? And like build something around that and um try and recreate that small moment and recreate that moment because you might not be able to create the whole ride. You'd be insane to try and create the whole ride.

[1:18:14] Jess: Um I mean, I am happy to take the challenge, and I think once you've got that, it's all about the preparation around it. I know that my favorite thing is getting getting my getting my whole lot of cardboard out and like just making the prop, like this is my uh buzz light year.

[1:18:35] Jessica Rush: Oh yeah, made out of a yoga mat, um, which then it's stuck on top.

[1:18:40] Annaleigh Ashford: Amazing.

[1:18:41] Jess: Wow, that's awesome.

[1:18:43] Deedee Magno Hall: So crafty.

[1:18:44] Jess: Yeah. So it's so it's really kind of getting the family together, yeah.

[1:18:50] Jessica Rush: And then you get to film it and then relive the magic in your home. I think that's it's so beautiful. And and Jess, you made that wonderful video that opened our live show tonight that just shows across the world the magic of Disney, kind of bringing us together in these dark times.

[1:19:04] Jess: Yeah, I think so. The other day I had an epiphany in the middle of the night and I was watching Tangled and like how Rapunzel is like she is the personification of healing, right? She's the she's got like the healing sun in her. And how do they show that? Through creativity. And like creativity is healing. And like create like creativity and sunlight is needed in these times. And creativity just helps calm you. It helps you get through the day. If you have a project to work on, I I made this little dis I made this Lego Disney Castle last week.

[1:19:35] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh, it was the most thank you.

[1:19:39] Jess: My uh my little brother helped me for about two hours of it and then he gave up, but is taking full credit for it. Um it really helped like ease stress and calm down. And I really think that having a project like this, um, you'll be less like this and like a little more calm and a little more zen my nephews.

[1:20:04] Annaleigh Ashford: But hi hi.

[1:20:07] Jess: I need to have that.

[1:20:09] Annaleigh Ashford: I know.

[1:20:10] Jess: He's got a loot right now because he's gonna star in the live action Robin Hood.

[1:20:13] Annaleigh Ashford: Look, it's his own.

[1:20:15] Jess: Oh, that's wow.

[1:20:17] Annaleigh Ashford: Awesome.

[1:20:18] Jess: Yes, we love it.

[1:20:19] Jess: So Jess, um, we're gonna uh share on the bottom of our screen how they can find you on Instagram and to watch your wonderful videos on YouTube and to hopefully they can tag you if they make their rides.

[1:20:30] Jessica Rush: Yes, please. I love seeing those.

[1:20:33] Jess: Yeah, so uh thank you, Jess, for being with us tonight. This was so great.

[1:20:36] Jessica Rush: Thank you so much. This was so much fun.

[1:20:39] Jess: Thank you.

[1:20:40] Jess: I be well.

[1:20:42] Annaleigh Ashford: Well, you guys, are we all inspired to make Disney Magic at home?

[1:20:47] All: Yeah.

[1:20:48] Jess: Yes, I'm on the haunted mansion right now.

[1:20:55] Annaleigh Ashford: I love that we started a podcast.

[1:20:57] Jess: Hey, hey, in the mood.

[1:21:02] Annaleigh Ashford: I like you getting in getting into the spirit, Annalie.

[1:21:05] Jess: Yeah, yes.

[1:21:07] Jess: We started this uh in full sunlight. Uh, because we're in California.

[1:21:12] Annaleigh Ashford: So I forgot.

[1:21:13] Jess: I forgot that like by the time that we'd be done, there'd be no sun.

[1:21:18] Annaleigh Ashford: It's parkly.

[1:21:19] Jess: It's fine.

[1:21:20] Annaleigh Ashford: I know you are smart closed.

[1:21:22] Jess: Yeah.

[1:21:23] Annaleigh Ashford: Thank you.

[1:21:26] Jess: For like the stretching room.

[1:21:28] Annaleigh Ashford: She's getting ready.

[1:21:30] Jess: She's ready to go.

[1:21:31] Annaleigh Ashford: Oh my god, I can't wait to tell Eric he needs to build all those rides.

[1:21:34] Jess: I don't know if we're gonna do it.

[1:21:37] Jess: So again, like uh tonight you can all make a dole whip. You can build maybe a tiki room. I think there's always a really good thing. You can have cookies, you know, you can figure that out too. But I always think in those videos, add your pets, add pets if you have them.

[1:21:50] Deedee Magno Hall: Yeah, also one thing we've been doing in our household is we at least once a day, a lot of times multiple times a day since the pandemic started, and it's given us so much joy. I feel like all of us our stress level goes down immediately. We listen to the entire Walt Disney World soundtrack.

[1:22:09] Jess: So um we have Amazon music and you can get it many different ways, but we just go, we don't call uh Alexa, Alexa, we call her Echo for some reason. So we're like, Echo, Jack will go echo, play Walt Disney World soundtrack, and then it goes all aboard.

[1:22:27] Annaleigh Ashford: It plays like it plays all of the music that you hear in the park.

[1:22:31] Deedee Magno Hall: We had a friend social distancing visiting in the backyard.

[1:22:35] Jess: And he was like, uh, do I hear the sounds of Disney World?

[1:22:39] Deedee Magno Hall: And we were like, we said you're on Main Street USA. Get ready.

[1:22:43] Jess: And it goes through Epcot, and even you even get to hear Canada.

[1:22:47] Deedee Magno Hall: Oh, Canada.

[1:22:48] Jess: And then it's in French.

[1:22:50] Deedee Magno Hall: It's like somebody that they got to sing who sounds like Celine Dia.

[1:22:52] Jess: So, anyways, that's a great way for your family to just sort of take a load off. Put it on anytime all day.

[1:22:59] Annaleigh Ashford: I love that idea.

[1:23:00] Jess: I love it so much.

[1:23:02] Annaleigh Ashford: I'm so inspired.

[1:23:03] Jess: I'm doing that late parade.

[1:23:04] Annaleigh Ashford: Mike, I'm that I'm all about that.

[1:23:06] Jess: That's gonna be so great.

[1:23:07] Annaleigh Ashford: And you can put your pets in that.

[1:23:09] Jess: That's a good thing for the pets, right?

[1:23:10] Annaleigh Ashford: Yes.

[1:23:11] Jess: Walk in the late parade.

[1:23:14] Jess: We we have some people behind the scenes that we have to thank. We have Alan and Brittany who've been working some magic behind the scenes, bringing you all our slides and everything. Annaleigh, Dee Dee, Bree, Maggie, Jess. Be sure everybody thank you so much for being here, but be sure to follow them, give them some love on social media, check out their Instagrams, their Twitter, and you'll be more inspired. You'll continue, you'll continue to be inspired by them.

[1:23:37] Jess: Um, we're so grateful for you guys being here.

[1:23:39] Annaleigh Ashford: Thanks for having me.

[1:23:42] Jess: Thank you.

[1:23:43] Annaleigh Ashford: Love you guys so much.

[1:23:44] Jess: Did you think it's a good thing?

[1:23:48] Annaleigh Ashford: I miss you too.

[1:23:49] Jess: I had no idea when we when we decided, Didi and Annalee, that you guys knew each other.

[1:23:54] Annaleigh Ashford: I didn't know there was a connection there.

[1:23:56] Jess: So this is so fabulous.

[1:23:57] Annaleigh Ashford: I love it.

[1:23:59] Jess: We also want to we also want to thank the Broadway Podcast Network for sponsoring tonight's live show. Be sure to visit um Broadway Podcast Network.com to learn about the uh many different podcasts that you're able to enjoy.

[1:24:10] Annaleigh Ashford: So thank you for that.

[1:24:12] Jess: And then of course, and I was gonna say also a reminder about Gilana's fund. If you had a good time, please visit Gilana's Fund.org to donate whatever you can.

[1:24:24] Annaleigh Ashford: Yeah, absolutely.

[1:24:25] Jess: Yes.

[1:24:26] Jess: And if you liked what you heard and what you saw, you can check out our podcast. You have E Tickets to Broadway, you have Mamas Talking Loud. Check us out, give us a review rating, show us some love if you like what you what'd you say, Jess?

[1:24:38] Jessica Rush: That's really helpful.

[1:24:39] Jess: It really is helping us a lot.

[1:24:41] Jessica Rush: The ratings and the reviews.

[1:24:43] Jess: It's true.

[1:24:43] Jess: We love Disney and we love families. We also love making the world a better place. And that starts with all of you.

[1:24:55] Annaleigh Ashford: Please vote and make sure everyone you know does so as well.

[1:25:00] Jess: It's very important.

[1:25:02] All: Yes, voting.

[1:25:03] Jess: Come on, people.

[1:25:04] Annaleigh Ashford: There it is.gov.

[1:25:06] Jess: And the wonderful feelings, the magic that we felt tonight. Bring that into your home, into your communities, to people you know. We can work hard to make the world a more loving place where we can accept each other and bring that Disney magic out into the world.

[1:25:22] All: So thank you all for that.

[1:25:23] Jess: Spread the love.

[1:25:26] All: Spread the Oh my gosh.

[1:25:28] Jess: Be well, everyone.

[1:25:30] All: Bye, everyone.

[1:25:31] All: Good night.