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The DANK Pod - A Disney Adult Adventure
DANK Pod: A Disney Adult Adventure - After Hours Events
After Hours Events and Disney Adult Chatter
In this episode of The DANK Pod, the hosts dive into lively discussions about their first CDs and explore various after-hours events at Disney and Universal Parks. They debate the value of after-hours tickets, share personal experiences about these events, and contemplate the perks of shorter lines and cooler evening park visits. The conversation also includes planning for birthdays and holidays at the parks, touching on wider topics from Disney Urban Legends to season-specific parties. Listeners are encouraged to like, follow, share, and email their feedback to join in on the chaotic fun of being Disney Adults.
00:00 First CD Memories
00:53 Welcome to the DANK Pod
01:07 After Hours Events Overview
01:34 Debating the Costs of After Hours Events
02:49 Perks of After Hours Events
04:54 Personal Experiences with After Hours Events
10:48 Creating Our Own After Hours Event
11:13 Epcot After Hours Event for a Birthday
17:56 Reflecting on the Year and Upcoming Events
19:04 Discussing Holidays and Park Visits
19:23 Veterans Day and Bank Closures
20:30 Easter Date Algorithm
21:59 Christmas in Canada
23:43 After Hours Events at Theme Parks
31:24 New Year's Eve at Epcot
35:05 Wrapping Up and Final Thoughts
What was your first cd?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I got two.
JP:Tell me about'em.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I'm sorry babe, I didn't mean interrupt you.
JP:you did. Yeah, you totally did. And you, yeah. Yeah. She mowed right over you, Natalie and I just allowed, allowed it to happen. But you know,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:know.
JP:entitlement.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:up your habits.
JP:And, and go ahead January. Give us, use all your white privilege. Tell us about your, tell us about your, your, your double cd. What was it?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:So I got the whole shebang. They gave me a boombox and then they gave me two CDs.
JP:Two female singers, which female singers they were.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Mm-hmm.
JP:Bette Midler
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh, wow,
JP:and
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:it.
JP:are you serious? Do it again,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I am so proud of you for that. I love you.
Ash:girl. You stuck that landing. Yeah,
JP:and let's see. It's all convinced.
Nancy:Welcome to the DANK Pod! Join us on our chaotic adventure of what it means to be Disney Adults. Like, follow, comment, and share wherever you listen. Send any questions or feedback to us at the dank pod at gmail.com This week we're going off on After Hours Events. Let's get DANK!
JP:Are we ready to, to
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:We ready?
JP:get dank? Get dank. All right. What's, what's tonight's topic? Anyone know what tonight's topic is?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah, after hours park events,
JP:Yes. I love these things. What do we know about'em?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:they're not included in your regular day's admission
Ash:They're expensive. Fuck,
JP:actually, I don't, I don't think they're that expensive.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Don't get discounts per the usual.
JP:D So depending on where you, which, which one, which park system you're going to. I think that they're pretty affordable.
Ash:Say more.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:is easy.
Ash:I disagree.
JP:Disney is like 1 25 a ticket.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Disney is not even rigged priced for the Normies. We, we just talked about it.
JP:Oh, we didn't talk about the Normies one yet. Well, we can do that in the future. Yeah.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:my bad.
JP:You're living in the future. Get back in the DeLorean Nat. Come back to, come back to this week. Yeah, it's like 1 25. 1 25 for a an after hours event's, like three hours though. Right.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Wait,
JP:I.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:you think? I'm sorry. You said 1 25 for an hour after hours event and you're good with that.
JP:Yeah. Yeah. How much is it at Universal for like a informer event? Two 60?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:day pass. A whole day pass.
JP:Mm-hmm.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:to be,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:used to be
JP:Used to be like 60 bucks.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:to be what? It used to be like 20, but we don't even talk about that. When it broke the a hundred, it was still like only
JP:It was like a hay penny and a moose nickel. What do you call it?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I can't after hours events.
JP:But like you get some perks, right? There's benefits to it.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah, the sun is gone
JP:It's not as hot. Good. Yeah. Nice. It's so, it's a beautiful night. It's not as hot, clear night. You got stars in the sky. You have the lower crowds, significantly lower crowds. All the rides look better at night, right?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:agreed.
JP:You get at Disney, you get free snacks. So you go up to the car, do you? Yeah. You get, you can get popcorn, Mickey bars can you get pretzels for free? And then you get like,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:so. I think it's like the, the cheapest possible thing, such as popcorn and
JP:yeah.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:something that's gonna melt away in the heat of Florida, even though it's
JP:Yeah. And then bottled drinks like Coke and Water and Powerade, stuff like that.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:that? Are you for all aft or I.
JP:Yeah, except for like, I think,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:all and then you said
JP:well for after, so after hours events at Disney are, there's two categories. So there's like party nights,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Ooh,
JP:there's after hour stuff. So the party nights are like 1 25 or something like that at night, and they do'em periodically throughout the year. They don't do'em during like, like peak season because there's too many people. But they, the party nights and what made me think about this one was they just announced the dates of Mickey's not so scary Halloween party. And that I think is more expensive and I. There's more, there's rare characters that you see. There's more focus on entertainment, like parades and shows and trick, the trick or treating thing, but there's also more kids and that I'm not a super duper fan of'cause just kids in line for getting treats. I'm not always like, I'm not always there for that.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Be stuck in the lines. We'll be riding the rides.
JP:Yeah, absolutely. I would like to do like Hollywood Nights though. I think that's a party I would go to sooner rather than sooner. Because they encourage you to, it's like this Hollywood affair and they encourage you to dress up like you're going to like the Oscars, like some Hollywood ball.
Ash:He's very into dressing up recently.
JP:I, yeah, I like to, yeah, I wanna, you know, I wanna live my life L-A-V-I-N, you know, I wanna, I wanna get out there and I wanna enjoy stuff, you know, differently. But yeah. Have y'all done an after hours event yet?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I've done the Christmas after hours event. I did not take advantage of the treats.
JP:Tell me about, tell me about what you did there though. What were the benefits that you think you, you saw?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I was just you know, it was so long ago. I can't even remember.
JP:How long ago was it?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Was the last time they did,
JP:That's not bad.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:The twinkle lights, the actual lights on the,
JP:Mm-hmm.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Ago. Oh yeah, that was 2020
JP:Oh, dang. Yeah, that's a while back.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah. Yeah.
JP:Oh. I'm just drop this link in our chat. It's the Orlando Informer Meetup. So it's, I think it, it's, it's like the Disney after hour stuff, but it's on steroids and it's the price on steroids too. But, but it's a third party that rent basically rents out the park and then sells these after hour tickets. So it's what it, what it does is it, it, they bring in like privately private caterers and, and they'll set up like catering bars in the middle of the walkways. And they'll do restaurants fully, like wide open. Some of'em are like, you can walk into it usually starts off with like some, like a mixer in one of the. One of the stages, the sound stages, and they'll have like little stations where you can go and get like maybe one tacos or maybe you want a hamburger or hot dog or you know, Coke or something like that. And then, you know, you just mix and mingle. It's
Ash:like snack confusion.
JP:Yeah. And everybody's, everybody's like pissy'cause there's not enough tables. Then they try to hold'em down. But have you ever, it's okay.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:my bad. I
JP:That's okay.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:it.
JP:It's okay. Have you ever been to Riverside Market in Fort Lauderdale?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:There's one implantation.
JP:Yeah. No, this is way better in Fort Lauderdale. The, the, you can't replicate it. The OG one in Fort Lauderdale is the, the better one.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Dang. That's racist.
JP:Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Gosh. Oh.
JP:It's, it's just a, it's a real unique
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:experience.
JP:it's hard to like replicate it. So, anyway the whole idea is that it's a social drinking place or they might have a sofa, a 90 and sofa and one part two people who don't know each other could be sitting on the same sofa, having two separate conversations facing a different direction. Same thing, like they're in this. Mixer, but like some people get real like hoardy with the tables and I'll just, I don't give a shit. I walk over and I say, Hey, I'm gonna put my stuff down here and I pump, pop it down and people look at me like I got two heads on and I'm like, there's a thousand people here and four tables. You ain't the only one.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Like you're in a public place. This is a, you know, like this is not anybody's home.
JP:Mm-hmm. Yeah. Share. Share. Right. I'm moving through. I'm not hanging out here all night. I'm moving through. The older the people get, the more fluid they are. So when you're in your twenties, you're there to cause like a little bit of a ruckus. Have some fun. I don't blame, you don't get, and I'm, I'm gonna be honest, don't get in my way. We're cool. I won't get in your way. We're cool. You know, do whatever you wanna do. Don't hurt anyone. I don't give a shit. You wanna, somebody got kicked out of Epcot recently. In, yeah. In the ghetto for climbing in a fountain again.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I.
JP:Yeah. It was like a fountain outside. They were like drinking around the world and they got,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:saw that they were singing songs they don't like when you sing songs. We, we did
Ash:Don't like when you think
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh yeah,
JP:they get.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:showed up.
JP:When you were singing?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Well, there was like, there was like maybe 10 of us ish.
JP:No.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:yeah, they, they, it was, it's frowned upon.
JP:Oh, was it because you were taking atten, you were commanding attention and you started to like almost put on a show?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Mm-hmm.
JP:Yeah.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:we are so.
JP:I think sometimes people go to the parks in order to build their, you know, like influencers go to build their own brand. And they take advantage of the audience. And that, I think, can confuse some people. Like you can get, like a random show can break out. So there's a difference between a group of friends singing the verse of a song and like high five and be like, let's go have the most magical day ever. And then like a, an organized concert with a a, a choir. So.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Guitar and everything,
JP:I'm not falling for it. I'm not falling for that one. Natalie, you got me with Bette Midler January. But Natalie, you're not getting me with the guitar. Yeah, the guitar is too far. That's right, that's right. Yeah, so for, I think for us, the main draw to the after hour stuff, like shorter lines, free food, snack.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Also, I, I think what I enjoy about an after hours event as well is you're not dealing with the sun. So, you know, I could, I feel like I can do a lot more hours because the sun is setting, it's not as hot
Ash:Absolutely nothing brings me more joy than the universal. Meetup that we do in December and the last few years we've caught it on like a cold front weekend.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Mm-hmm.
Ash:it gets, yeah, and it's like brutally cold even for South Florida sometimes. But it's still just so much more pleasant than any other time of year. Like I would rather it be freezing and dark out then hot and sweltering or even just like sunny and 75. That's too much for me. I am. That's too much for my skin.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Be protected. You're, you know,
Ash:that's what I'm saying. So like those, a like January was saying like the after hours part of it is super ideal for me. I'll pay it to take my money and it's free snacks.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah.
Ash:like at, at Universal it's more, it's not just snacks, it's like actual entrees and snacks.
JP:So
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:interesting.
JP:I'm going to, I'm gonna make a request.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh.
JP:Would you
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:create our own after hours event?
JP:gonna hide out in the bathrooms?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Imagine.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I mean, you could, like
JP:I'm gonna get off the, the
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:they
JP:boat on living with the land.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:like police you too crazily, but you can't get on a ride. That's when they'll know,
JP:Yeah. Ashley.
Ash:Husband for my birthday. Oh gosh.
JP:Epcot, you're a liar. After hours event. And during the after hours event at Epcot, it's like$125 a ticket, Ashley and, oh, I think maybe we go to Epcot for an after hours event on my birthday and and celebrate. With you can enjoy the attractions like guardians, Remys, frozen and more with lower than ever wait times. And you can indulge in, this is right off their page, ice cream novelties and select, but popcorn, ice cream, novelties, and select bottle beverages are included in the price of the tickets, and we can meet some beloved di Disney characters you head. Get a head start on the fund by entering the park as early as 7:00 PM and that's hours before the park begins. So this is a benefit, right? So we're pass holders. We don't have the, we don't have, we're not beholden to the time we can just check into the park, right? Whatever.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Right.
JP:if you were just buying the after hours event, which I believe is from 10:00 PM to 1:00 AM.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Mm-hmm.
JP:You could, you could enter the park at 7:00 PM with your after hours event ticket, so you don't get the whole day, but you get 7:00 PM to 1:00 AM which is a full park day. So there, there are gonna be some restaurants that won't be open when you, when you go at 7:00 PM I'm sorry, at, at 10:00 PM'cause it'll just basically be like, you're paying for low rides and you're paying for snacks. Right for, it's like 125. Um
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:you know, not, not everybody's always eating a meal at 10:00 PM too.
JP:mm-hmm.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Exactly.
JP:Yeah.
Ash:Bring Ziplocs.
JP:You take home a, a Ziploc full of ice cream. Cream. I'm getting my
Ash:money's worth one way or another. You guys, one thing about me.
JP:Go ahead Natalie.
Ash:Sorry.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:so like I figured at 1 25 and let's say being modest with it at$5 an ice cream, we just need 25 ice creams.
JP:Yeah. And how many,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:our money back.
JP:how many Cokes?
Ash:Ice creams,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:ice cream
Ash:Cokes, popcorn, popcorn, because you can eat popcorn the next day. Yeah. Car ride home.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Coke. The coke itself is like five or six bucks.
JP:Yeah. 10 ice creams. How many, how much is the popcorn? How much is the popcorn?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:the popcorn is only a dollar and change if you have a bucket, two
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:It's two
Ash:We don't have a bucket. A two
JP:50. Okay.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:for a refill.
JP:All right, so you got, we gotta get five popcorns. How much is that then? That's that's like 10, 12 50. That's 1250. That's half, that's 10% of the purchase price is is those five, those five, five popcorn leaf refills. Then we have to get 10 ice creams and 10 cokes. That's the that's a hundred and the rest, then you are only paying$12 and 50 cents to ride the rides for, for the rest of the night.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh, okay. So we'll get like three each.
JP:No, no, sorry ma'am.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:About each of
JP:That's for, yeah, that's for, that's each one of us has to Do
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh,
JP:you look at that. Yeah. 40 cokes for us. You better
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Imagine.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:May, they're like, there's a two Coke limit per stand.
JP:there.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:up a lot of stands.
JP:There's a two alcoholic beverage limit everywhere.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:an, you can get an alcoholic beverage
JP:You can probably, you can buy an alcoholic beverage, I'm sure,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:you can.
JP:but but yeah, there's a, you can only buy two at a time in Disney.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah, but there's two of us, so we can buy four at a time. And now there's, there's four of us, so we can go eight at a time. So we don't have to go back
JP:That's great. I
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Ashley
JP:You'll get six of'em. I don't drink at the parks.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:No, but you're gonna get, you're not gonna,
JP:Oh,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:help a friend.
JP:oh yeah.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:That was super.
JP:I love you
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:are
JP:learning so much. I'll get your, I get your ice cream now, you know? Yeah, no, I mean, for you. I would, for you. I would. Nobody else though. Nobody else. I mean, I'm not gonna drink it. I'll just, yeah, you literally, you will take it.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:carry
JP:I'll just, I'll pass. Yeah. Okay. We'll go to a drinking area. Yeah, no, that would be, I would be down for that only'cause I like guardians.
Ash:Only,
JP:only
Ash:that seems like a, an expensive endeavor, just for one.
JP:It seems cheap to me. I don't know the other things that I like, they also do Hollywood studios and they do and they do magic of course amongst other things. And H2O glow after hours at Typhoon Lagoon, and I think that's cheap, if I'm not mistaken. Hold on. I say cheap, but I think it's only like 60 bucks or something like that. But they're, you know, the ride factors aren't there.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:The right at, at the.
JP:H2O. Yeah. You don't wanna do that on a cold night.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh no.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Do they heat? Do they heat the water?
JP:I mean, if you pee in it.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh, my,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh man.
JP:You don't think people peeing that? People totally peeing that one.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:being that.
JP:Do you think people poop in it? Have you ever heard anybody, like any, any times where people had to, like, they had to like scoop it out?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:wanna know that they wanna
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Why is this happening?
JP:Well, any, have you ever been inside the pool and been like, oh, ooh, bird chili, and they're like, oh, you know what? All of a sudden it's warm.
Ash:No.
JP:No,
Ash:not at all.
JP:Mm
Ash:mm.
JP:I think for, for me, going to an after hours event with friends with the idea that we're just gonna go ride some rides and have a good time, that is more appealing than just going for a park day, especially after hours. It feels special.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah,
JP:Is there?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:feel like I'm in the right time. See'cause like it's perfect. I, I, I should live the after hours life.
Ash:I love watching them kick out the peasants. It's one of my favorite pastimes.
JP:They, oh yeah. She loved.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:have the special wristband.
Ash:Yep. Oh, I love a special wrist band. Bitches.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:That's how
Ash:my heart of, in my heart of hearts, I'm a Karen. Like, it's not even that deep down. I have to push it deep down.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Wow.
Ash:It's a regular fight.
JP:She, she does enjoy things like,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:like a rule follower?
Ash:it's not therapy time. January.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Okay. Okay. Okay.
JP:I do like, I like, I like watching them leave. I don't like telling them that I'm staying, but I like watching people leave too. I,
Ash:I'll tell a bitch bye.
JP:No,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:So when you uhhuh, I can't believe you chose Epcot for your birthday. You have, we have this, we have witnesses.
JP:it's, it's because it's there. It's not like if they had Hollywood studios, what's the event like?
Ash:Is it a name event?
JP:No, this is after hours.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:it's, it's Disney after hours, but it's been going on February 27th through September 25th,
JP:Yeah, they don't have it at at Hollywood Studios for that time. I mean, they have it like through, from January 22nd through September 3rd. I would rather go to Hollywood studio. It's not gonna lie. But yeah. Hmm. When do they do it from, for magic?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:It's over like May, it's over this
JP:Yeah. May 19th you got a, a couple more days left. That's it.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Then like it's, it works out. Like it's, they shut it down'cause they start opening the park till like 11:00 PM for us.
JP:yeah.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Can you believe half the year's almost gone?
JP:Right.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:gosh.
JP:We got,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:20, 26,
JP:yeah,
Ash:the year start coming and they don't stop coming.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:connected. I love you.
JP:I can't wait for I, I mean, I can wait for 2026. Don't get me wrong. There's just, I, I love that. October, November, end of October, beginning of November, Thanksgiving into Christmas season. That six month block of the year is amazing for me.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I feel like especially this year. January lasted for a good like six years, and then all of a sudden the month, rest of the months, like we're, we're in May now. Like, I don't even, we've blinked. It's, it's insane.
JP:I can.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:but I always like, I. Like workwise, I would always be like, okay, we don't get a holiday now until May, and then we have Memorial Day, and then we have 4th of July. And then, you know, we got those holidays. Yay. The holidays
JP:And now we got it. We're right here. Next we got a couple more weeks. One Monday off. Everyone will be hanging out. Memorialize and stuff.
Ash:What do you think is the best holiday to go to the park and not have long lines?
JP:July 4th? Sure. It's hot as fuck.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Veterans Day,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I see what
JP:that is a good one. Veterans Day and like it's gonna have local, you gotta go to which park for Veterans Day.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Animal kingdom.
JP:It kind of makes sense.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I cannot, you're always at,
JP:Yeah. So Animal Kingdom too makes sense.'cause it's like a Tuesday and then you're, you know, it's Tuesday. Veteran's Day. Is it Tuesday? Ashley, every year? I'm pretty sure.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:no, it's, it's November 11th.
Ash:Yeah. I didn't,
JP:is it always November 11th?
Ash:Yeah.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yes.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Natalie knows she's a November baby.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:do you know how many times I've gone to the bank? The banks are fucking closed
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:On November 11th. Really? Why,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:for Veteran's Day. What do you mean?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:but why are you always going to the bank on that day?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:It just, it just happened several years in
Ash:It just happens.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:by it.
Ash:We don't ask questions.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I was back in the cash days
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:You got cash for your birthday.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I guess, whatever.
JP:It just so happens that Veterans Day is on a Tuesday this year.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Wow. It really is. That's funny.
JP:Next year it's on a Wednesday.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:November 11th
JP:Do you remember the algorithm to find out when Easter is?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:What the heck?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh, no, no, no, no. I just wait for them to tell me.
JP:Just look at a calendar
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah, I don't have to. No, absolutely not. I can't base my life around this, that algorithm. I'm not figuring out a
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Isn't it always like the, the third Sunday?
JP:in what.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:No.'cause sometimes it's in March and sometimes it's in April. We used to be playing fucking games. It
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:really?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:It's, Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday,
JP:Are you ready? Yeah. I don't worry. I asked the Googles, I binged it.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Google it.
JP:Easter is determined by a complex system rooted in the lunar calendar and the spring equinox. It falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox, which is defined as. March 21st. This means Easter always falls between March 22nd and April 25th.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Okay, so
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:A is a sneaky one.
JP:It is. It's, it's like a
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I didn't
JP:range by month.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:a holiday that was. Celestial base.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Celestial
JP:They're are, they're all ES based.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:And not Thanksgiving. It's the fourth Thursday of the month.
JP:Well, yeah, but that's almost, that's, that's celebrated here.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:full moon, sir.
JP:That's always celebrated here though. That's like, it's not celebrated across the globe.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:the,
JP:Easter.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:of America. Lemme stop. Sorry. We need to cut that out.
JP:Easter It is. Yeah. Easter. Easter,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh my God.
JP:Easter celebrated across the entire globe. I had a friend who was moving to Canada, and we had another friend who was, who was very, very, yeah. Thank you for that one. He was very he's a, he was a very beautiful person. And I was like, oh yeah, I can't wait to to, you know, Christmas be his first Christmas in Canada. And this guy, it like, genuinely said like, Hey, when is when is Christmas in Canada? When is Canadian Christmas? And we, like, we all just paused and looked at him and he was very serious. And I was like so part of the magic of Christmas is like the whole world one night.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah. Well, everywhere there's Jesus. Right.
JP:I think
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:everywhere, but yeah.
JP:Jesus is all over the place. Jesus gets around except the United States. He gets stopped at the border.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Ooh.
Ash:So much editing for you tonight.
JP:Oh, I'm that, that shit is gonna live. I'm letting that stuff go. That stuff can hang out. Yeah. Anyway, so, speaking of Christmas, hollywood Nights and the December meetup, I wish one of my goals is to earn enough money so that way we can buy y'all tickets to the Universal Meetup in December because that would be, but
Ash:you just gotta refer a few more people to work.
JP:Yeah, that's what it's, they would, they would, that would turn'em around. That would turn'em around. They would no longer be up in here talking about lobster rolls being the best food. They would be like,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Wow.
JP:remember that time we had, we had Street, street tacos and, and Dec like they,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:it's Tuesday.
JP:they have everything, isn't it? No, it, it's not
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Natalie, it's Wednesday.
JP:last yesterday. Actually. I thought it was Thursday today. Natalie thinks it's Tuesday. Don't nobody know what day of the weekend. I didn't. It was Thursday, yesterday. Oh.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:She knew
JP:Oh,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:day it
JP:that reminds me
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:week. That's all.
JP:I wanted to order something from Amazon this week.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:squirrel,
JP:yeah. My goodness. All right, so what's our consensus on, on after hours events? Are they are go or no go,
Ash:go.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:think. There I go.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah, I think they're a GoTo, especially like if, if I'm debating between paying for all day or paying for the afdi, I'd go to the afdi again. You're gonna get the benefit of, of the free snacks. that in itself, you know, it's like, especially in my, even when the sun is gone, it still full, it still gets hot, and a nice ice cream will pull you down,
JP:Mm-hmm.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:a, a soft, you know, a bottled drink. Even again, the water is like five or six bucks. So. That's, that's a nice savings. and the lesser lines, and like, there was a time that January and I went to your world for Halloween Horror Nights,
JP:Oh,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:went in September oh my God,
Ash:mistake.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:it was disgustingly hot.
Ash:Oh, you guys didn't get poured on. There was like three years in a row that it rained so badly, it flooded.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh my gosh.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I remember that. I remember the flooding.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:no. we did not flood this
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:No, but it was, it was like just you're dripping and there's no sun out.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:was
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:is.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:heat was like after your soul.
Ash:I swear it feels like that every time I go to Disney.
JP:To Disney,
Ash:yeah.
JP:Oh, I don't get, I don't get that from Disney. I do, I do very much detest, HHN. It's the worst after hours night for me of the year.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Because you know. You know why. You
JP:I'm, I'm scared as fuck. That's why
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:that Yeah, that's true.
JP:they just live for that. I hate that. I really, Ooh, if I woke up tomorrow and they were like,
Ash:baby, just tell them no.
JP:No, I can't. No. You like it.
Ash:I do.
JP:I don't do it for people. I do it for you.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh,
JP:Make me,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:appreciates
Ash:it's my reward for Kansas.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:It, you know what as it should be.
JP:That's
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Mm-hmm.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:So does that mean when the Kansas stops, does Halloween horror night stop?
Ash:sure.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:No.
Ash:He doesn't have to go to Halloween whore nights. He can say no. He just has to be the one to say it, and he doesn't want to be that person. Eventually he'll hit a limit. I know it. I know he will. I know exactly who my partner is. He'll hit a limit or he'll get pissed off at something and then that'll be it, and we won't ever get to go back. But it's the, it's genuinely the one thing he indulges me in, so he hasn't. Pull. He hasn't pulled a final say in it.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I see.
JP:Yeah, it's just, it's never gonna be my favorite. We'll, just, that's
Ash:okay. Kansas ain't my favorite either.
JP:Can what mean
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:You.
Ash:I do it because you asked me to go.
JP:Kansas is not your favorite. No, I don't understand.
Ash:26 hours in a car, almost nonstop. No thank you
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:We should take
Ash:Twice in less than a week.
JP:It's an after, it's an after hours event for some people too.
Ash:Kansas.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:this, an after hours event.
Ash:Yeah. You suck my soul outta my body for an entire week and I ask you for one night a year so that I could laugh at your pain.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:That's fair.
Ash:I think that's a, I don't, that's very fair.
JP:That's a real shit end to the stick if you ask me.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:think you're, I, I think she's right. You're both giving something. You're both giving something.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:would you prefer to have a whole week of terror versus just a few hours?
JP:N no was who has to go through a whole week.
Ash:So we've thought about that in the past, like doing one of the frequent fear passes so that it spreads out instead of it being one continuous, solid hit. It was so bad last year.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I don't think you can get him to go back after first visit though, like
JP:No, it was, yeah, I know. That's why we haven't done it. That Yeah, it is, it's bad if you're, if anyone's looking for after hours entertainment. HHN with me is, I mean, we invest though in that, so we get the free, we get a free ticket to HHM because of the pass. Mm-hmm. That's a perk, Natalie. It's a free freebie with our premium pass. They let you into the.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I know I've, I'm actually pretty familiar with your past. I've, I've been, I've actually shopped for them in the past. I.
JP:And then along with that, we, we definitely, we pay for express and and so we see, we hit all the houses. We usually hit the shows, and it sucks consecutively back to back to back houses that they torture me with and. I can say, I can say this, I can live without the shows. I can live without The Nightmare Fuel Show. It really doesn't do it for me. So if you're, it's a good way to thin crowds out or maybe just sit down and, and, and, you know, you're still packed in there. Pretty, pretty steep. But we usually go, what, in September?
Ash:Yeah, it's the annual, it's my party and I'll die if I want to. Time.
JP:Yeah. And then
Ash:Correct.
JP:And it rains on us Normally it's not uncommon, although it hasn't rained the past two years. It did rain last year, right? Yeah, but it was, but
Ash:we caught a sweet spot last year. Yeah.
JP:We were under a shelter eating, walking tacos when it rained.
Ash:But the year before that, I think it was finally dry for like, the first time ever. Yeah,
JP:it was, it's pretty, it's pretty good. You, you definitely pay out the no for, for everything there that night though.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:let me Google something while we chat.
JP:Yeah, Google it hit the Googles. So yeah, so I think here's, here's what I think the after hours events where they win. If you are, if your family. You're coming to Disney World and you don't want, and you wanna buy tickets for, you wanna buy tickets for your, your family and have an enjoyable park experience without having to like super duper break the bank and not think everything through. Like, you don't wanna do Genie plus you don't wanna be caught on the phone all day looking at the app. Then what my suggestion would be is to do an after hours event. And your ride times are reduced. You'll likely be able to walk on rides. A majority of rides are gonna be set to walk on. You won't have to worry about whether it costs five bucks or 10 bucks for a a, a Mickey bar and a, and a, and a popcorn, and a a soft drink. Your kids can just have whatever they're having and it's, it's just all in 1 25 a person. Doesn't matter what age you are, it just 1 25 a person. It's probably cheaper than the the park day. And you can have an enjoyable day. Go go book two nights at a resort check in. At the resort spend the day at the resort, chilling, lounging by the pool, chilling out max and relaxing. All cool. And then head to the park for the after hours event with your family and just say, Hey, 10 o'clock comes around. Eat and drink, whatever you want. Everybody meet back up here. Or text me every hour on the hour so I know that you're still alive and kicking. And don't do, don't touch things that you shouldn't touch. See you at the end. Everybody. Love everybody.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I like that you get time to like hang out at the resort.'cause sometimes you don't even get to enjoy the amenities.
JP:Yeah,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:get to go to the pool, you don't get to hang out at the arcade or,
JP:with the camp Flyers.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:if you're spending your whole day
JP:Mm-hmm.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:park, then you come home and you just go to sleep. So after hours you get.
JP:Yeah, and you get if you're there for a couple nights, if you're there for two nights and that first night, maybe it is the whole day is just like, I'm gonna hang out at the resort and we'll resort hop and like drink around the monorail kind of thing. And then go back and they'll usually have like a campfire or like s'mores night or something like that going on or a movie night by the pools, things like that. Go out there and do it. Have fun. Go take the monorail over to the Poly and go watch the fireworks, the nighttime spectacular from the seven Cs Lagoon with a dull whip. You know, enjoy your, enjoy your time whip
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:whip
JP:And watch me. Nay, nay. Watch me. Whip, whip. Oh, watch me. Nay. Nay.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:What I gonna say. okay. So what I was looking up is a couple. think of year two or something we learned about Epcot Epcot,
JP:Yeah, share it with the rest of the class. Natalie. We'd like to laugh too.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:New Year's Eve celebration.
JP:Oh,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I wanna do that. Yeah.
JP:is that a saying?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:That's a thing. So I, so first I Googled it, right,
JP:Oh, what did Google say? Nothing.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Google said Epcot will offer. This is Google's ai. What's Google's AI's name? We'll talk about that later. Epcot will offer a new, especially New Year's Eve celebration on December 31st with fireworks DJ parties. The park will be open from 9:00 AM to 1:00 AM with early entry for resort guests at eight 30, blah, blah, blah. And anyway, cheer is it? It should be called Cheers to the new year, a sparkling celebration, and then this like blogger. Has a post on it and it says, indulging with a la This is 2024. Oh, this is this, this is last year's. Oh, he needs to get it together. Yeah, so they posted information on last year's event, but we definitely wanna try that one year.
JP:What was the cost? Do you know the cost last year?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Ask the Google,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Okay.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:bing
JP:that. I like that you're, you're holding an iPad there January.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:eye coloring.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:She's a delegator. She's a,
JP:I know you're coloring.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:wait. I gotta send you guys something. I
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Look at my masterpiece. I finished my other
JP:It's a masterpiece. Sorry.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:cherry trees at night.
JP:Oh, very, very, very look at the that, that, yeah, definitely.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:This one's hard. I didn't even, I didn't wanna do this one, but then I tapped on it and I had to.
JP:Oh 1 29 to 180 4 is the speculated range.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I got distracted the President Ofay in 1978. Well, I was gonna show
JP:Well, yeah, don't worry. We're all good. We're good here. All right, so, so your after hours desired event is gonna be the Epcot one for New Year's Eve. So wait for more details to be released on that and as we get closer to the end of the year, ashley's, looking forward to the December Orlando and former meetup. I would prefer to visit Jolly Wood Knights. January. Are you in the camp with the Epcot New Year's Eve or do you have a, a specific one that you prefer? I.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I mean the New Year's one sounds good, but so does the Informer one too.
JP:Good choices. Good choices. You know what we haven't done, we haven't we haven't checked our slot in a, in a little bit.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Oh, we didn't check our slot yesterday.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:yeah, we maybe last week.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:We did. Oh,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:didn't.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I'm sorry. Last week.
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nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I don't, no, no,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:why the sound effects?
JP:Oh yeah. Because, you know, I wanna keep people entertained, you know?
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I see, I see. That's,
JP:Any final thoughts on the after hour stuff before we wrap it up?
Ash:So are we going for your birthday or for Joll Knights? I'm confused.
JP:I would rather go for Joll Wood Knights.
Ash:Okay. And save your pennies.
JP:We look at the confusion. Look at the confusion. Let go for your birthday. I think they wanna go from a birthday. They're like, did you say Epcot?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:mean,
JP:They were like, Epcot. We would rather go to Epcot. Jonathan, let's go to Epcot. We don't even give, it doesn't even need to be somebody's birthday. Let's go to,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:I mean,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I mean.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:up.
JP:oh, we're going, Epcot. When are we going? Epcot next July. We're going to, we're gonna Hollywood we're gonna Hollywood this weekend, next week is the is Epic.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:just at the parks this weekend,
JP:Mm-hmm. Who's going to, who's going to who's going to, where are you, where are you guys gonna, the parks this weekend?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:but my parents are gonna the park,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Before we go, one of the reasons that we wanted to do the, the New Year's at Epcot,'cause it's like a rave. It's like Disney's raving.
JP:Oh,
Ash:and now you've talked him out of it. Yeah, I'm
JP:out. So,
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:damn.
JP:you know, my ears can't take that. I get, I have a bunch. My questions for parties are the same. Where is is parking, where do we park? Is parking an issue? I need to know about the park parking situation before I arrive on site. Who's gonna be there? Thanks Ash for that.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Bless
JP:gonna be there?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:Bless you.
JP:Bless you. Ah, you. And how loud is it gonna be?
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I mean, parties are loud, sir,
JP:Mm-hmm. Yeah,
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:and like do you always know everyone at the party that you're going to,
JP:hopefully, Or it's not that loud.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Interesting.
JP:It is a little, I don't, I try not to go to parties anymore, and if I do, they're like toddler parties.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:That's so funny.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Yeah.. Okay.
JP:All right. All right.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:times
JP:This is a good, good place to wrap it up.
nat_1_05-14-2025_185116:Dink out.
JP:Dank out. Ashley, I didn't get a dank outta you. Dank out outta you.
january-raine_1_05-14-2025_185116:I went up in Octa.
Ash:It's, it's hard to beat that one. Dank out
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