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Disney Pricing Out the Normies? A Chaotic Discussion on Affordability

In this episode of the DANK Pod, the hosts dive into a lively discussion about whether Disney's pricing is becoming unattainable for the average family, often referred to as 'Normies'. They explore the cost breakdown of Disney tickets and annual passes, debate the varying definitions of 'Normies', and consider the financial reality of an average household trying to afford a Disney vacation. The team discusses potential strategies for saving money, such as packing meals, leveraging discounts, and staying off-property. Throughout the dialogue, they reflect on personal experiences and the evolving nature of what it means to enjoy Disney Parks in today's economic climate. They conclude with a reminder that achieving financial stability can make these magical experiences more attainable, eventually turning dreams into reality.

00:00 Pop Quiz and Guideposts
00:57 Introduction to the DANK Pod
01:10 Disney Pricing Discussion
02:10 Normies and Disney Affordability
05:52 Strategies to Save at Disney
08:38 Personal Experiences and Tips
18:00 The Cost of Disney and Other Events
20:03 Creative Ways to Save Money
25:01 Portable Drink Solutions
25:13 Staying Hydrated in the Heat
26:37 Food Strategies for Park Visits
26:54 Discussing Fast Food Prices
30:24 Theme Park Ticket Prices
32:38 Recession and Theme Park Pricing
37:10 Annual Passes and Value
44:28 Experiencing 4DX Movies
47:38 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

JP:

All right. Pop quiz.

Ash:

Pop quiz. What?

JP:

What are our

Ash:

Fuck. Every week?

JP:

Yeah. I know you got, I can't believe you're surprised.

Ash:

every time it's like I block it out.

JP:

Uhhuh, what do we got? We got a guidepost. Ashley,

Ash:

Ashley, don't yuck. Somebody's yu don't.

JP:

Don't yuck someone. That is my f absolute favorite one. Uhhuh. Natalie, Nodding in agreement. What do you got, Natalie? You got a guidepost.

Nat:

Have fun.

JP:

Have fun. That is a fun one for me. All right. January, be Absolutely.

Ash:

us.

JP:

Yeah. I'm so glad. Yeah. Do we know what tonight's topic is?

Nat:

Yeah. Yeah.

JP:

is it?

Ash:

If it makes you feel any better. He didn't remember until the other night.

JR:

Disney pricing out the

JP:

Oh.

Ash:

guys,

JP:

Are we ready to get danked with it?

Ash:

Let's get Dink dink.

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 talking about Disney pricing out the normies! Let's get DANK!

JP:

All right. So is Disney pricing off the Normies? Who's on deck?

Ash:

I gotta tell

JR:

did we schedule, his name? Josh,

JP:

Josh. I called Josh. I Josh tomorrow. I asked

Nat:

oh, I thought we were talking about GaN.

JP:

Well, you bringing up that loser. He lost to me. He lost the battle of my wife. I won. Can't get my wife. Mm. What? Josh, tomorrow I called Josh. I was like, Hey, big D was good. He was like he's, he's tied or he would've been here, but he's super tied up right now. The schedule running the happiest place on earth. Not yet. So I put in a good word for him with the board though. So hopefully in the near future if he does get it, it's because of Yeah. So what, say you,

JR:

He'll join hear like the like jumping on the call. Oh, can

Nat:

you imagine? Oh my gosh. Sorry. I'm late guys.

JP:

Been two years, you're late, where you been at? So where do we

Nat:

Is the. the pricing the Normies? I don't think, yeah. Yeah, I think it's, it's not for think it takes a lot to go to Disney, especially if you're outta state, at least for the locals, you know, they can drive a couple hours and be here if they really wanna, they wanna do it, but no, just,

JR:

what

Ash:

It is like 200 bucks. I'm rounding up.

Nat:

on the day. It does, some days are higher than other

JP:

And the park too. Does anybody have the Googles up? Bang it.

JR:

Google, calendar shows the price See varying prices

JP:

The more you, the more you play, the cheaper it is. Like,

Ash:

Well, but like, let's think Norm normie, right?

JP:

Okay, so qual qualify normy.

Ash:

I mean, you're, you're not talking about an annual passholder at the ba so there's probably different levels of normie, right? You have somebody who's going for a day. You have somebody that's going for a couple of days and then you have a normy passholder.

JP:

What's a norming person in general? Like, what's the income level of a normie?

Ash:

A household that's less than 200,000

JP:

a household? How many people are in that household?

Ash:

I you're talking about two working adults in

Nat:

I mean, it just depends because it could, you could make$200,000 and if you have 17 kids, not gonna be enough, you know? Okay. Like, so all those, all those things are factors.

JR:

In 2024, the average annual salary in Florida was

JP:

What, what's

JR:

a living wage for a single adult was estimated around

Nat:

That's a single adult. That's not including offspring.

Ash:

Right,

JP:

the median household income? Anyone wanna take a shot at it for the a house in the United States? Yeah, it's in the ballpark. Yeah, it's like, so for, for the us across nationally, the average little bit higher. That's for four, four person families. So now you're balling on that budget. What do you

JR:

So we're, we're like in the 70,000

JP:

Yeah, let's pa let's, let's say anywhere between. 70 to$75,000 Is is our ballpark. That's our budget. That's annually. You got four people in your house. Are you able to go to Disney World?

JR:

Is there a second

JP:

No. No. That's the household income. That's everybody. Everybody

Nat:

well, wait, what? I'm sorry. What was the household income

JP:

70. Between 70 and

Nat:

And how, how many kids did we say we have? And wait, so there's two adults and two children.

JP:

correct?

Nat:

How do we have a mortgage?

JP:

I don't know.

Nat:

Oh, see, all those things are

JP:

you have a housing, you have a housing expense, right? So you have to have a mortgage or you have rent.

Nat:

but Right. But rent. Rent could be sometimes, you know, if, if,

JP:

we're not trying to, we're trying to figure out if Zillow's boxing out the Normies, trying to figure how Disney is you

Nat:

Well, my, my, yeah, there's housing

JR:

expense,

JP:

Yeah. Oh yeah. I completely agree. You know, your,

JR:

and mortgage can be

JP:

you know, your

Nat:

Right? No, I understand. But it, it could be two very different buckets as well. You could be paying 1300 for a three bedroom, or you could be paying$2,000. So that's a drastic

JP:

ma'am, if you're paying 1300 for a two bedroom sign me up, or a three bedroom,

Nat:

someone who's paying 1300 for a three bedroom and it's

JP:

That's a bargain. That's a

Nat:

that's what I'm, that's exactly what I'm saying. And if you're making 70,000, then of course you can do that. But again, if you have a two bedroom that you're paying 2100 for, like, again, all these are factors. So yes, normies two incomes obviously more, hopefully more feasible than one depending on, on what they're making. I.

JP:

Mm-hmm.

Nat:

Maybe one of the kids doesn't deserve to go. Maybe you leave one behind. I don't know. Maybe you take the

JP:

It's like you gotta go in the parking lot, you just roll, crack the window. You come in after lunch lick the lick and transfer the stamp, the hands stamp, what is it? Sea oil? Nah. So, okay, so imagine your, your current household expenses, right? Whatever they are. And then tack on, I don't know, how much is daycare these days?

Ash:

A mortgage,

Nat:

listen, if we're going to Disney, they're not in daycare. And if they're in daycare, they're not

JP:

call. Good call, good call. They're school age, so now you gotta buy, so you gotta buy four tickets and,

Nat:

And there's only like a, like a 2 cent difference between the adult ticket and the child ticket. Under what? 13 or 12? What, what is it?

JP:

Yeah. It's like, it's like a$4.

JR:

a special offer knows 67 per ticket per adult.

Nat:

Two 60. What? No, but that's a 2

JR:

6 7.

Nat:

Is that a multi pass? What is that?

JR:

Yes, for three days.

Nat:

Oh, okay. That's important.

JP:

Ma'am.

JR:

Three days, three parks does not include Magic Kingdom.

Nat:

I, I wanna know what the

JP:

Oh, is that a Florida on? Is that a Florida resident?

JR:

No, it does not say Florida resident. just special

JP:

that's a shitty take to get.

JR:

that they're,

JP:

Did you hear what she said, Natalie? No. Magic.

Nat:

include magic. That's ridiculous.

JP:

That's iconic. You know, how do you come to Disney World and not go to magic? Yeah.

Nat:

probably you imagine like you just pass by the castle as you're on the monorail to get off at Hollywood. That's terrible. Oh

JP:

Yeah, exactly. That's a shitty day. Shitty. That seems like a shitty package. I think, I think Natalie's right, you have different levels. So you have this like median household income for, you know, four kids, sorry, two kids, two adults, 75, 70 to 70 5K hanging out. So let's call it, let's split it in the middle. 72, 70 2000, whatever, annual annual income. And then you have you have to get here, have accommodations, you've got to

JR:

flights, gas

JP:

yeah. Mm-hmm. Take it costs, you know, so you gotta say, like, if you're, if it's just the act of getting a ticket, sure. You could probably, what's Ashley? What's four times 180? Seven 20 bucks. Right? It's 1% of your annual income gone. And then, and that's just for one day. Right. And if you are,

Nat:

that we haven't even eaten

JP:

oh, you wanted to eat, you wanted

Nat:

Children want to eat.

JP:

So Natalie you and I arguably grew up been like, if the poverty level was up here, we were down. You, you and I were maybe like, we were just, we were floating like,

Nat:

you're right. We're packing up sandwiches. It's gotta be done

JP:

Thank you. I was gonna, you, I, I had my, my lunch when we went on field trips was like a jam sandwich. Two pieces of bread.

Nat:

Jam. I don't want

JP:

jammed together. Yeah, at like, so we weren't, we didn't, we definitely didn't grow up like like January with a silver spoon and everything

Nat:

Wow.

JP:

I was, just pulling your leg January. I didn't I trying to get you going. But yeah, so I think you gotta look for those shortcuts, right? So if the park is the experience I think something my mom used to do when we would go on vacation is 90% of what you ate at the park was like, you packed your sandwich or you brought your bottles of water in a soft cooler, whatever. And then maybe you had one sit down meal at the park in the evening.

Nat:

Yeah. That's cute. You had the one sit down meal. No.

JP:

And when I say that, I mean like pizza.

Nat:

That's still food.

JP:

That's still good.

Nat:

That's a$5. That's a, that's a$5 slice. And I'm being modest of it because it's probably like nine.

JP:

Oh yeah, I was gonna say you, that is, that, that's being very, that's a bargain at five bucks. Yeah. What did we have recently where it was like, each, each plate was like$18. What kind of world are we living in? When it was like, I think we were, we spent like 35 bucks at a meal. This is how bad di Disney got us. We went out to eat in Kansas and the bill was$35 or something like that. And Ashley was like, dang, that's cheap. It's two of us. And yeah, so go to Disney and 35 bucks is one of us. Now multiply that times four. If you're talking about, you know, it's, it's gotta be challenging to have that. Limitation, that salary limitation and bring for, you know, bring your entire family a four to the parks. How would you beat it? How do you beat the, besides packing lunch? How do you beat it? What do you

Ash:

I mean, I think

Nat:

Well, you, you go ahead,

Ash:

I was gonna say, I think the passholder payment plan is kind of a way to beat it. I you know, it's basically an interest free loan. The way that we're paying that off, we're not dropping you know, 12 what are we paying, like 800 a ticket or 900? Or wait, no, we're at a thousand I'm sorry. So it's a thousand. We had to put a down payment down the first time, and then it, was monthly payments, It is an annual, contract, so we have to physically go in and choose whether or not to renew. Right. And then it puts us into another contract. the month through. Monthly rate goes up after the first year because you lose that credit of the, of the. initial deposit. So, I mean, honestly, you and I are paying what, 75 bucks a month per pass, give or take a few bucks. And to me that's girl math. It's coming out. I didn't, I didn't have to pay it. I didn't have to budget. We've already budgeted for it because it's already coming out. You know what I mean? So to do that for a family of two, possibly four, is a potential way to mitigate the cost over a period of time without it being dropped on a credit card and

JP:

there. I love that for you.

Nat:

Yeah, but some people still put that, that same monthly charge on their credit card.

Ash:

that's true.

JP:

Also, you just multiplied that ticket by like four, from 700 and whatever to$4,000 and you have to be a Florida resident to do that.

JR:

did some forum I have two very like opposite the spectrum for spending.

Ash:

Okay. Hit us.

JR:

one person said, factoring in flights, hotels, park The family of four spent 8,000 on their four days

Ash:

Yeah.

JP:

Wow. 25. 2,500 a day. Or, sorry, 2000 a day, but like that's.

JR:

somebody else said, we spent 2,500 on our family of four for seven So roughly Oh,

Nat:

they were, camping out in the car.

JR:

tell how, and they explained that they made breakfast and one meal in the room versus times a day. They only

JP:

Mom. that you?

Ash:

Food will definitely set you back, Right?

Nat:

Yeah. I mean I think way around that, like we were saying also is like, like making sure you have like a breakfast or something like to hold and then just. Packing up things to hold you down throughout the day all

Ash:

hotels that help with that too. So like the Dreary Plaza is technically not a Disney bubble hotel, but it is very close to the Disney bubble. And they do have like a hot breakfast, if I'm not mistaken.

JP:

like a continental breakfast?

Ash:

Yeah, I think so. But maybe even a little bit bigger. I also think they do Like evening Appetizers or something. But a lot of people say that a lot of those options are actually very filling and they, they treat it as a dinner. So I think if you're smart in the meal planning process, in addition to hunting down those deals, then you can get lucky. But again, if you're talking about the normal everyday person like who has necessarily. How many people have the time and the bandwidth to sit down and micromanage that process? I don't wanna do it

JR:

legit.

Ash:

Right.

Nat:

I think it's just a little bit different'cause you're, you're planning for X amount of days, so it, it's like a last minute decision. Like it could be like, You know what I'm saying? Like whether it's we're gonna grab a protein shake, a protein bar or protein this, a protein that, and make sure like, you're right. We're definitely not grabbing Top Ramen unless you're gonna like, let it sit out in the sun for

JP:

but you can do like Pop-Tarts, Uncrustables. You don't like

Nat:

yeah, but I don't, I don't think it's the norm music. I

Ash:

Uncrustables are expensive.

Nat:

like

JP:

my sister had the square ones. I was like, oh, when I start making these square, and she said, those are Aldi.

Nat:

those are Aldi.

JR:

Why So do you have to have the brand when it comes to

Ash:

no, He was just super intrigued by it. Like, oh, and did they start making them square? This is a fun new shape, he thought.

JP:

Yeah. As a matter of fact, we have like the press, we have the sandwich press to like pop out the un the crust, and so you could make that at home with whatever you like, and then throw'em in a Ziploc, tot'em along, freeze'em, and then bring'em over with you. I think stay off stay off property, you know, like stay at

JR:

Yeah, that

Nat:

for sure,

Ash:

when you buy.

Nat:

on the property. I mean, also comparing, because, you know, staying at the like at the pops, sometimes those prices will surprise you if you're not, if you know they're, and they might, they might not always, but they might sometimes be lower than, than properties that are surrounding the Disney property.

Ash:

Yeah, that's fair. Especially when you, start, because I was thinking there was that one place we stayed and it was the big family thing. Remember you ended up getting the ho the resort really cheap. through the

JP:

like, probably like$40 a night.

Ash:

Yeah. We had points or something. So you know, that's another life hop to con. Yeah, it was it but it was an off offsite hotel resort actually. And it had all, we actually ended up getting like a two bedroom. It had, a, I think it had a full kitchen. Yeah, the

JP:

Oh yeah. It had a full kitchen.

Ash:

There were multiple pools. it had buses that went to the parks. And so I think the family'cause this was a family event, so the, the family ended up, you know, like my dad was like you know, reimbursing the kids or whatever, and the other kids had to pay like a hundred bucks or 150 bucks a night. We got ours for like half. the price if, Or like 50 bucks a night and we had points and stuff that went towards it. But like he had to pay me less than he paid the rest of the family back for it kind of thing. And so yeah, if you're, if you have those, you know, those apps like hotel.com, or booking.com, or something like that where sometimes you can contribute points to a hotel stay that could dramatically, reduce costs.

JP:

you ready for this two bedroom suite with mobility access, roll in shower,$152 a night. Transportation is a thing though,

Ash:

like right

Nat:

No, absolutely. Yeah.

JP:

So

Nat:

That's another thing too, like if you're, like, for example, again, if you're, if you're coming in from out of town and you happen to fly in and maybe you didn't rent a car and you do stay on property, you do, you don't have to worry about transportation being an issue. Although it does make sense probably get a car. I don't know. are different. You have to, you be ready with Kids,

JP:

Car seats, all sorts of stuff. Yeah. So I, I think, you know, it's gotta be, it's a challenge that it may have experienced when we were kids. And the solution. What was the solution? Your mom used Natalie for Disney.

Nat:

Well, well, again, I, she only took us the one time she won the tickets, so that was free. She had her, she won four tickets and there was only me, her and my sister. So she was an infant. So she. Talked to her friend. Well, she gifted her friend and her daughter, the other two tickets for her to drive so she didn't have to pay for parking or drive. And then she packed she packed the sandwiches and that's, I remember like her prepping and, and packing the sandwiches have to spend money out there on food

JP:

I think that's the model. That's the blueprint.

Nat:

for sure.

JP:

Win the tickets.

Nat:

did great.

JP:

Yeah. Yeah. I think yeah. I mean my, my mom's solution was don't go.

Nat:

Oh yeah. Mm-hmm.

Ash:

I mean, I don't think I went with

JP:

went with your grandparents though?

Ash:

Yeah, but not my parents Like a family, trip. I never even went with my sister. Yeah. No, she wasn't born. And so my trips with the grandparents stopped the second that the other kids were

JP:

those those assholes came

Nat:

ruining your life.

Ash:

from the get.

JP:

Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Ash:

So it was good for the first, you know, from ages like three to five, but then those other cats were born and I was done for,

JP:

That

Ash:

They never took me again.

JP:

I'll take you all the time, baby.

Ash:

you. I think I take you.

JP:

I agree. Oh. So I think part of the struggle for me was trying to figure out the rate at which prices have increased at the parks. And then

Nat:

it's, well, it's ridiculous. Oh, and remember when you called me out and you're like, oh, I don't think that was his dream. That was definitely his

JP:

I looked it up I looked it up later. And for your information, ma'am, I was completely 1000% wrong. It was

Ash:

thank God we're recording right now'cause we'll never hear it again.

JP:

it was definitely part of his dream, for sure.

Nat:

Yeah, for sure. And, and so like, it's, it definitely has strayed a long way from that.

JP:

so thinking about, yeah, okay. Like.

JR:

do a lot, like I think about concert tickets,

JP:

Okay. How much is a concert ticket?

JR:

for one to two hours and concert tickets can start anywhere from a hundred up to

JP:

That's interesting.

JR:

Especially if you're seeing just one person.

JP:

yeah. I don't go to, like, Ashley asked me if I wanted to go to a football game. The, you know, the Eagles are playing in in Tampa this year again, and she's like, do you wanna go there? And I'm like, nah. It's like a thousand dollars a ticket to get shitty seats. I'm not

JR:

Well, and they have no cover there

JP:

Yeah. intentionally no cover.

JR:

if you sit on the opposite side,

JP:

Mm-hmm. You fucked?

JR:

hot as hell,

JP:

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

JR:

no shade.

JP:

Yeah. I'm not interested in that for the amount of money we spend on that. I can throw two more Super Bowl parties and I fully intend to do that.

JR:

see

Nat:

Dang. Remember the Phillies in, the stadium's nicer The stadium was amazing in

JP:

It's gotten a lot better.

Nat:

gave us some tickets play and that was

JP:

It's an interesting experience.

Nat:

we, were, we went like I, I kind of wanna every sport played

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

out so It's a whole vibe.

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

don't, I don't, I don't know football, I don't follow football. I don't know the rules. I don't know the points. I don't know But you're like, yeah, She

JR:

was in it. The energy had her,

JP:

It, there's a, there's a, there's a high energy there for sure. And it starts, it starts in the parking lot hours beforehand too, with tailgating. And then, you

Nat:

tailgate. Oh my God. You know what? That could be another one you could tailgate at Disney. No, don't tailgate definitely escort you out. I know the

Ash:

Springs is. No,

JP:

no. I mean, no, no. You can, you can tailgate a Disney, I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Nat:

you know what, just hit me right now. Bring a cooler, keep it in the car. You can go back and forth. You could, there's reentry. It's not like it's You can go in, oh, we need a break. Go back to the car, eat, come back and keep going.

JR:

Damn. That's really hard for magic on that. Well,

JP:

you're right. Did you,

Nat:

that's, that's your whole day.

JP:

did you know you can walk from magic to the parking lot? E you can walk you, yeah. You have to let, well, you can walk from Magic Kingdom all the way back to the main parking lot at, at in Magic Kingdom without having to take the Ferrier or the monorail. It, it's definitely, it's a, it's level B or C,

Ash:

Hundred

JP:

a hundred percent. And you got it.

Nat:

think it's probably closer to

JP:

You gotta, you gotta keep moving. It's def it's between 30 to 50 minutes to do it, but you got, you ca you gotta know, a, you gotta know where you're going. And then b, you gotta keep moving because you have to walk, you have to walk out past the friendship boats to the resorts, and then take the walking path around the Seven Seas lagoon and go past that, what's that? Pretentious resort? The plantation one?

Ash:

Grand Flaherty,

Nat:

the Grand Floridian

JP:

Correct. Yeah. And then you gotta, then you gotta go past through the chapel and take the back route through Polynesian. And then you go you, it's easy to get lost in Poly, but then you pop out by by the ferry, so, yeah.

JR:

I don't know why, but when you said the Polynesian think dull Then it made me think that men had a pineapple

JP:

You just had your, you're just, you're just bragging about how good you are with your dessert and how you're only trying to do level A walking.

JR:

It's frozen ice cream.

Nat:

Let me check what time they goes. Are the

JR:

calories the same?

JP:

I have no idea. It probably is sugar. So, The, okay, so, so yeah. So Natalie, that was a fantastic point there that you made like, yeah, you can put a cooler in the car, you can get a bucket of chicken, put your chicken on the dashboard

Nat:

that'll be hot all day.

JP:

be nice and sizzling.

JR:

Oh my God. Because it gets more than a hundred

JP:

Hell yeah. Your car's gonna smell like all the herbs

JR:

we should test it and bake a potato.

JP:

Okay. I was gonna say like you test that chicken, I'm gonna be fine. Not

JR:

No bake a potato.

JP:

chicken. Let we get some dashboard chicken nuggets, please. Baked

Nat:

get like

JR:

one of the little mini cookie sheets and put a potato up on your dashboard.

JP:

in put it, put it in some aluminum foil. We'll, pat of butter on there. Stick it on your dashboard. Go to go ride. Something wherever, get in

Nat:

can bake brownies.

JP:

you probably could.

Nat:

ready when we come back.

JP:

Yeah. You're dessert. No, you could don't, don't bring the milk.

Nat:

No, no. Don't I, I know not to bring the milk.

JP:

but yeah, you, you can totally, you totally put a cool throw toss a cool in your back. Especially cooler technology has improved dramatically. Right.

JR:

could wear one on your backpack.

JP:

Right. And it's like, they're also like a billion dollars now. Like what's a, what does a, what does a Yeti cost

Ash:

Yeti's high up

Nat:

I don't, they're, they're over like$200. Do. You didn't really

JR:

have proprietary, like cooling technology, like

JP:

when you put something in it, how does it know to keep it cool or how does it know to keep

Nat:

you're supposed to activate it. You don't just throw in there and it

Ash:

well, she was ready for you, sir.

Nat:

you're supposed to activate the Yetis

JP:

you, you have to turn'em on as it's like it's

Ash:

a woman.

JR:

to throw a bag of ice in there before you use it.

Nat:

Yeah. You gotta like, you gotta cool it down before you, expect it to keep your shit

JP:

you tell it to keep it cool. Is it like, where do you put the oil in the air fryer?

JR:

Whoa.

JP:

Yeah, same thing, same concept. Yeah, so like, so you get a cooler, you throw your snacks in there, your sandwiches your homemade, uncrustables. And do you, y'all carry, y'all get a bottle of water? You, y'all take a, a reusable bottle of water, right?

JR:

Yes.

JP:

Tell me when you remember, tell me about it.

JR:

Tell you about the water bottle.

JP:

Yeah. And, and, and, yeah.'cause you invested you, so you definitely invested in the clip for it,

Nat:

Oh yeah, the clip. The clip was actually one of the most affordable things you can probably ever buy at Disney. It's actually cheaper to buy at Disney than it was to buy on Amazon. That never, yeah,

JR:

yeah. I looked up the price with,

Nat:

with our annual password discount that isn't always applied, so you really wanna take advantage of those.

JR:

Yeah, I think we got

JP:

Speaking of which I just got an alert from from, from Disney about drinking drink in the magic summer is almost here, pass holders and we're raising glasses. Well, thank God, I thought there was raising prices to, all

JR:

Right as we're talking about pricing.

JP:

right, to all the sunshine filled fun in store with this exclusive Tumblr. It looks like it's like an animal Kingdom Hollywood

Ash:

Can I see

JP:

Tumblr an alert

JR:

I can't see. I, I have my eye on a Tumblr. That is spill proof.

Nat:

Wait, I can't see. next time.

JP:

I'll send it to the group. Yeah, I can just send it to

Nat:

That's what I thought you were gonna do, but I just

JP:

my goodness. Yeah, so we've, we've taken like cups or like, like portable, like refillable drink, collapsible drink bottles. I haven't found one that I like.

Ash:

I have a thing

JR:

For portable cups?

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

For I think for us it's important like the installation just because it gets so hot. Like, I like to, like, my, my method will be like to fill it with ice and fill it with water and then like freeze a couple water bottles and then keep them in the bag. And then as they melt, like I've already drank my water and just keep refilling the ice, kind of depending on the day. You know, it's, it's actually pretty surprising.

JP:

It's so, so I think so. I like that. I just don't like to carry a whole bunch with me. I, you never know when you gotta run, you know? So I like to stay mobile. I like to stay agile.

Nat:

Well, the thing is, you and I are different because of no

JP:

you. You, you're trying to trip somebody so you don't like.

Nat:

no, no, no, no. if someone's gonna chase me, I'm gonna turn around and we're gonna have a conversation or things are

JP:

It's just like,

Nat:

but I'm not running, isn't gonna do anything for me.

JP:

like, I gotta negotiate my way outta this one. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I, I, I, I think what I started to do is like, I'll just buy a bottle of water when I get there, and then I'll refill it throughout the day. They have

Nat:

I see. I like, I like ice cold water.

JP:

Hmm. I can deal with. And I think my tolerance level for water has has, is not as sensitive as others.

Nat:

Okay. And, and not all the parks are priced equally either,

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

right? Different, the different parks have different prices on different days.

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

Damn.

JP:

So let's, so let's take that, let's factor that in. So I think we got the food, the food situation's easy, right? You're packing it, you're bringing a cooler. You got that under control, right? Even if you're, even if you're staying, you don't have to eat dinner at the park. You can go off property on your way back to your off property bargain hotel and get Little Caesars$5 hot and ready. Right?

Nat:

These are facts.

Ash:

are they still$5?

JP:

I don't know. I just, I like to

Nat:

Oh my gosh. Let's see.

JP:

You,

Nat:

you know, Chili's doesn't have two for ones

Ash:

you shut your

JP:

Are you serious? No. Two for ones.

Nat:

No more two for ones. I don't even

Ash:

they are?

Nat:

I don't know. They're tripping because that's why. Else would you

Ash:

this world?

JP:

That's what I'm saying. You can't even get a$5 foot long. You can get a a$5 seven and a half inch though if you try hard enough. Or like$5 sushi day at at Publix. But it's always like, California rolls only. That sucks. Yeah.

Nat:

checking how much the hot and Readys are.'cause now you made me

JP:

Well that's important. I think if you're, because if you're trying to feed a fan, like what, what do you wanna put in? Right? You wanna put calories in?'cause you're doing a whole bunch of walk-ins, so you wanna put calories in and,

Nat:

But you don't want them to be empty calories either. You definitely wanna sustain.

JP:

I, as adults we would, I think I would just eat pizza six, six or seven days a week if you left me to my own devices. So a$5, I mean, I think Ashley would do that too. Plus, aren't you like a slut for chicken tenders? Ash?

Ash:

Yeah. Yeah. And pizza. let's be

JR:

you know what I can is tacos.

Nat:

I love tacos.

JP:

oh, okay. So that's good. Did I tell you my, my my Chipotle hack? It's not my Chipotle hack, but it's a hack. So the things that they don't charge extra for are double, double rice, double beans, double wrap. So there's

Nat:

they don't charge you for double wrap. Well, I feel like they don't, I feel like also they don't charge you for the double wrap because like they try to fix it sometimes with a second wrap. Like, when it gets outta control. Like my, my, my hack when I try to, like, I won't get like right. I, I'll do salad and stuff, but like, I'll try to get like extra lettuce and just, I hope that they make me a good bowl. But when I get home, I'll use like the low carb wraps and have like, make my like tacos

JP:

I got you.

Nat:

there's, I, I

JP:

it doesn't look.

Nat:

anymore they're 7 99 now.

JP:

That's a know. That's

Ash:

Domino's. You can get like the two for six or something, isn't it?

JP:

well, you could get

Ash:

maybe it's 6 99 now.

JP:

Yeah. It might be like$7 medium pizzas or something like that. No,

Ash:

No, they still have the two or more for, I thought it was 5 99 maybe.

JP:

Maybe.

Nat:

Me, let me ask

JP:

so what were we talking about? Yeah, I, I, I think the, I.

JR:

were trying to tell us about your Chipotle hack.

Nat:

Oh, Yeah.

JP:

Yeah. We went, when we were going, when we were out to, when I had to start carb loading for Kansas and I had to eat like 800 grams of carbs a day, I had to go from like less sub 40 grams of carbs to 800 grams of carbs a day. That's an enormous amount. The best way to get that for me was like Rice and Chipotle. So I went in and ordered two Chipotle burritos, and it was just, I was like, double rice, double wrap, double bean. And he was like, well, at the end when he handed me legit two footballs and he was like, he, he was looking at me. I was like, I was like, he, he was like, oh, you're gonna eat this? And I was like, yeah, now I'm gonna

Ash:

I know. He was

JP:

I'm gonna eat it twice.

Ash:

big burrito. But then he looked up at Jonathan, and he was like, you're a big dude. Like, like, like he's tall, right? He is like, we gotta feed you.

JP:

It is good. that's the, that's the, that's the best. It was

Ash:

It was legit the biggest like wrapped sandwich thing I'd ever seen

JR:

should have waited.

JP:

Yeah. Oh, it was outta control. I

Nat:

so Google says that, that the price is not, it went up to 5 55, but it's now 5.99. it here? The is 7

JR:

site.

Ash:

Are we still talking about Little

JP:

Yeah.

JR:

I have pricing for one day Park tickets.

Nat:

Okay. That's more relevant. Yes.

JP:

Have Little Caesars.

JR:

So if we wanna go this Saturday, magic Kingdom open till 10, 180

Nat:

That's almost 200 Do. Wait, That's before tax time out. What's the this from? One

JR:

day?

Nat:

Yeah, that's after Tax is gonna pass

Ash:

Yeah. That's why I said$200 a day. You guys didn't believe me.

JR:

Upcott is 1 Hollywood Studios 1

Nat:

Oh man. W wa wa. If only we could bring you in for a Shut all this

JP:

We assume we're gonna have the animatronic version of him. Were you able to ask him? He'll be like, no, I'm all about the money. Okay. So they

Ash:

pay less if they offered a, Hey, come visit the park, but don't ride any rides

Nat:

What? Whoa. Well, because some people, yeah, why not? There's people who genuinely do not ride rides.

JP:

Mm-hmm.

Ash:

I'm indifferent about

Nat:

other people, right?

JP:

That's how it used to be.

Ash:

That's what I'm saying. I was taking it back for a second there.'cause that's how Walt probably made it affordable. Right. Is or he made it, you know, an experience and more expensive is by having need these a la carte rides. But I would pay, you know, a fraction of the price for ticket if it meant no rides. I, I could live without the rides when it come, you know, when, when we do take the kids our niece and nephew, that would get harder, but like most of the time when Jonathan and I go we don't ride

JP:

Yeah. On occasion. But like, so they used to do like, when, when in 71 you used to be able to just get a ticket and then you would have to buy a book of ride

Ash:

like a carnival,

JP:

Yeah,

Ash:

I'd be down. for Listen up Josh.

JP:

Yeah. I, that's, it's interesting because I, I think of it as like. I mean, it's kind of, it's cyclical, right? Like we've already, we've been down that road. We're gonna go for him to redo it and relive it is just, I don't know,

Ash:

It's a recession.

JP:

Okay. That's a great, that's a great point. Would you, do you think I was trying to see if I had a picture of those burritos. Do you think they're a good size? Do you think that if if we end up in a recession that we're gonna see a rollback of prices?

Ash:

No, it's never going back. that's what I'm saying. You

Nat:

Oh yeah, you're tripping. No, they're not gonna go back. You're in such denial. I would, I would. As a matter of fact, why don't you tell me in the history what, what theme park has been like, oh, besides SeaWorld, some

JP:

can't take that from me. You can't take SeaWorld from me. That's the one, that's the

Nat:

absolutely. Yeah, that's because they need help. Don't, that's not the, that's not the one.

JP:

SeaWorld

Ash:

not because of the economy, that's because of blackfish.

Nat:

Blackfish.

JP:

Yeah. So I think, I think what we start to see are bundle deals pop out. So like their single day tickets kind of hold steady for a long time, for not a, not a long time, but they hold steady. They don't, we don't see a reduction in the in the price. But what we do see are bundled tickets that drop down in price. So like four day for 200 bucks, four day for

Ash:

It has not been four days for 200 bucks in a

JP:

I know, but it was, was it four days for 240 this year for Florida So we start to see those bundle tickets gets kind of pop out. I think didn't we used to get like four day for like a hundred bucks?

Ash:

bucks? Do you remember that?

Nat:

Dang back in my day.

Ash:

though. Like that was a minute

Nat:

what's, and that's what's even more crazy when you start, like sometimes when you think how far back, you're like, dang, that was a long time ago. But then sometimes you think you're like, dang, that wasn't even that long ago.

Ash:

I mean, it Was definitely a while ago, but

JP:

Yeah. We used

Nat:

But it wasn't the seventies.

Ash:

but I do remember doing like four days for 1 75. Like I think the last one that I did, that we did, I'm trying to think of when we did

JP:

We did it at pub. We, we would get'em at Publix.

Ash:

I, don't know, I get'em anywhere,

JP:

yeah. No, we would get'em at Publix We'd also get, didn't we get the Power Pass the first year? The power pass at Universal was like a hundred bucks.

Ash:

I don't remember how cheap it was, but it was dirt

JP:

it was the whole year pass. It was like SeaWorld money.

Nat:

Nah,

Ash:

but that was also a very long time ago. Like 20, 20 16 is probably being generous. a different time.

JP:

Yeah. The whole nine years back.

Ash:

That was back when people could live on 50 KA year and be like,

JP:

oof.

Ash:

extravagant

JP:

back when rent prices

Ash:

oh, do you remember rent prices.

JP:

Alright, so what's the consensus here? Disney Price, not the Normies. I

Ash:

Yeah, I think

JP:

How about you,

Nat:

Yeah. Not for normies.

Ash:

I think it's a struggle for the

JP:

and January.

JR:

a day is

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

JP:

All right, go ahead. Give it to me. Horse shack

Nat:

What's, I know we did the median, da da da. What's the average? Average pay per hour's? Hit it. Hit me. Hit it. Hey. Just per hour. I don't want, I don't want salaries.

JP:

per hour. I, you want me to take a guess? 25 bucks.

Nat:

25. No, I don't think so. You're tripping. That's not,

Ash:

more like. less than, I think it's less than 20. It's probably

Nat:

yeah. I think it's like 18 to 19. Let's let, let's hit it on the higher end and hit it with the 19, 19 an hour.

JP:

What does the Google say?

Ash:

Are we talking about in Florida though, or all

Nat:

You have to work. Oh, I was just, you know, overall I just getting to, you know, because what the minimum wage in Florida, what is it now?

Ash:

Oh pennies. No,

JP:

It's like three, three,$4.

Ash:

no, it's like sub, it's like eight I think is probably being optimistic.

Nat:

you're so cute. Minimum wage is not

Ash:

Are you

JP:

The average, the average hourly wage in the United States is currently 30,

Nat:

the United States. and I, wait, wait, I'm sorry.

JP:

24

Nat:

Yeah, again, I, that wasn't my question. I said what is the minimum wage

Ash:

well, that

JP:

that was, that was not your que It was not your

Nat:

No, I know, but when we, when I was just talking to Ashley, my original Yeah. But it's definitely, and it's certainly not 35.

JP:

me answer the question.

Ash:

Florida, the minimum wage will be$14 per hour starting September 30th. 2025.

JP:

That's not a, that's not a

Nat:

it's like, so it's like 13 and something right

Ash:

The current minimum wage is$13 per hour. The increase to 14 is scheduled for 30. September 30th.

Nat:

$300 a day divided at, at 13. What is it, guys?

JP:

Oh, no. You gotta knock off. You gotta

Nat:

gotta work, you gotta work 23 hours to spend to spend one day.

JP:

You got,

Nat:

you know what,

JP:

you got,

Nat:

you're, you're, you don't have enough.'cause they're gonna tax you on this

JP:

was gonna say, you got, you gotta knock off 20% of that, or 18, take out 18% of your$13.

Ash:

So basically you have to work for a month. let's be honest, because there are other taxes. and deductions that are happening on everybody's paycheck.

JP:

My goodness. I mean, it's a greater, it's a better part of a week till everything's said and done. It's the better part of a week for, for somebody who's working a minimum So if you're making,'cause what is that?$28,000 a year. If you're making$28,000 a year, you're not going to Disney unless, unless you're an annual pass holder. And you bought yourself the pixie passed.

Nat:

a pixie pass,

JP:

Ashley just

Nat:

still have to save up for the

JP:

number did you come up with? Ashley?

Nat:

You forgot. You still have to save up for the deposit.

Ash:

Before taxes. It's$27,040.

JP:

That's good. Right? I'm, I'm not too, I'm not, I wasn't too far off with my mental math there. Okay, so what's the deposit of a pixie pass?

Ash:

Actually, it's only like a hundred. bucks.

JP:

So they have to work.

Ash:

They just lowered the deposit prices

Nat:

ooh, you know why? Because it's not for the Normies. They're like, if we're gonna get their monthly money, we need to drop this down

Ash:

I mean, honestly, I think I think Disney was a little nervous about Epic this year because they, they rolled out an asked. ton of promotions for the summertime. we're talking 30, 40% off of resorts. There are dining discounts. in the upwards of 40% at some of their resort dining locations. They're doing, kids eat free in 2026 with certain packages from ages three to they dropped a lot of information in a very short

JP:

Sounds like they're trying to roll prices back.

Ash:

I mean, They're not rolling prices back, but they're trying to make it more enticing in different

JP:

More affordable. Yeah. All right. So I, I have, I have one, this is gonna be, this is gonna be against the grain here, but

Ash:

not you.

JP:

I know right. Follow me on this I used to tell when we were working in the service industry, I would tell people to raise the price of their service until people complained heavily and then maybe dial it back a little bit.

Nat:

People have been complaining about their prices

JP:

hold on

Ash:

Hold on Let'em

JP:

know, lemme get through it. Lemme get through but. If you, if I have, and actually break out the calculator for this one, let's just choose like a, a set of a hundred people, right? You get a hundred people and and they're paying$25 a ticket, right? What does that come out to?

Ash:

2,500,

JP:

right? So I can get$2,500, but now I raised that$75 a ticket, not a hundred. doing a hundred, No, I know, but now I'm doing$75 a ticket and 50 people don't renew their passes. So we only have 50 left. How much, how much more did I make for a less crowded?

Ash:

1250

JP:

I made an additional$1,250 and I'm only, and I'm servicing half of the So that's the men. That's the mentality. you raise your price. Maybe you price out a, a, a, a subset of the population

Ash:

the poor people

JP:

and now you've got a different consumer base in your

Ash:

the 1%

JP:

You've got less people, which I don't know.

Nat:

you just want the 1% in your park. I thought you were on the other side of that. You've really betrayed me right now.

JP:

so may, I mean, so this is just, this is business strategy, right? Like this is just

Ash:

see what you can get away with, for how

JP:

not, not only that, but like, if you're, you're, you're going grocery shopping. Where, which grocery store are you gonna go to? That you, you're tr you're on the highway. You get off the highway, you can go to a Winn-Dixie, you can go to an Aldi, you can go to Publix, you can go to Whole

Nat:

What am I getting that that matters?

JP:

I love you for that. I, I understand that, and that's what I think is how many people should think is what am I getting? If I'm gonna get, if I'm looking for meats and cheeses, then I'm going to Walmart, or I'm going to food for less, or I'm going to you know, the, the a place where I can get a bargain. But if I want seltzer water, I'm going to Publix or Whole Foods, right? I dunno, I was thinking of something pretentious, but like, when we would, when we would establish businesses like we, okay, we have Product X and Product X sells for this, our target market are gonna be these people. We wanna position our stores next to a Publix, next to a a Sprint or an at and t or a Verizon store. We want to avoid Albertsons. We want to avoid.

Nat:

Dang. Remember Albertsons? What a

JP:

right. We wanna avoid metro PCS stores. We want to, we don't wanna be next to a a pawn broker because that the, the demographic in the surrounding, in the surrounding area changes, So if I'm trying to sell an$8 soft pretzel, I wanna sell it to the person who can afford$200 a day to enter, Not necessarily, and I'm not saying this to be cruel or that it has to be punishing. It's just a, this is just a fact of commerce, right? They have, if you raise your prices and enough people backed out of it, you can still make more money off of the people who can afford to come and see you and then hold you thin out the crowd a

Nat:

So, but again, the people who can afford to come do it, guess what? You priced out the period.

JP:

Yeah. Yeah. I, I'm not saying, I'm not saying it is right or wrong, I'm just saying that's business. Right. I get, I understand the process there. I just, I'm not saying do it and I'm not saying don't do it. How do you feel though, knowing that, knowing where you came from and how it felt to finally have the opportunity to go there? I emote and that's part of why EI continue to renew my past, is because I emote with the idea that this was something that my mom or my parents couldn't or wouldn't give to me because of monetary constraints. And as an adult, it's something that I can give to myself and I'm gonna indulge I feel like I deserve it.

Nat:

I mean, I, I've never, like, I don't really think about to that level until I think about it, but I just, it is something that I enjoy very much and it's something that I. Like Ashley said, it's, it's practically an free, loan. So, and, and not for nothing. You can cancel at any time if things do get hard or God forbid there's an emergency you know what? We can't handle this ticket anymore. Life is happening. And then just, Obviously there's no, benefit of having continuous passes. It's not like it keeps you at the price. So,

JP:

that's a whole different, we're not trying to activate you today.

Nat:

But it is, it is something that I like, and I, it's, I don't know. I just, I, I really enjoy going to Disney and it gives me joy.

JP:

Yeah, I agree.

Nat:

love it around the holidays. I

JP:

do you put a, how do you put a price Yeah.

Nat:

I like to charge anywhere between,

JP:

I, I, like to

JR:

rate is,

JP:

just gimme a little extra to get a little happy ending.

Nat:

Oh my

JP:

exactly. Sorry, sorry. All right. So, so yeah, so I think we're on the, we're on the same page there. Do we, do we ha do we have a buffet balance for this? Meaning like, how many times do you have to go to beat the buffet?

Nat:

Oh, for the, for the, for the annual pass?

JP:

Yep.

Nat:

Yeah. I mean, last time I did it, I don't ever, we had to go at least eight times.

JP:

Okay.

Nat:

was the last time I did

JP:

How many times do you go a year? Just curious.

Nat:

I mean, I would, I would definitely say it's easy to pass the eight. I don't know where we're right now. And there'll be times, you we understand it's not an every month situation. There'll be months that we don't, we don't make it, but there'll be months where we hit it, you know, three or four times during that month, or two or three times, even during a week. So

JP:

Yeah.

Nat:

we certainly do, we, we make it a point, we do surpass it. And if there is that one year that maybe for whatever reason we didn't. The years that we do surpass it, it's a balance. We have other pa like we have our, our movie pass and the movies are only 10 minutes away from us. But just life and, and being busy. Like sometimes we'll make a month we'll hit a month, don't, unfortunately, aren't able to make it. Or maybe they're not movies that are entice us that badly but the, the months that we go two or three times a week more than make up for it.

JP:

We went recently to go see the How to Train Your Dragon Live action.

Nat:

Oh, how was that? Talk to us about It

JP:

It is very good. But the most important piece of this story is that I used my meta glasses to to record the rollercoaster ride for, you know, the, the before the previous begin for at, at Regal. I'm gonna

Nat:

I didn't see that this time.

JP:

I will. Thank God

Nat:

actually went to Regal to see Lilo and Stitch.

JP:

How was that?

Nat:

not see the

JP:

I'll send it to you so that you can relive it.

Nat:

No, that's okay. I

JP:

it on your tv and you put your hands up.

Nat:

No, no, no. And we were actually, we watched it in 40 x

JP:

Oh. Oh. Tell me about it, bitch. Tell me about

Nat:

go back and watch how to train your dragon in

JP:

I ain't trying to get car set, car sick. Trying to but tell me about it. Tell me about,'cause

Nat:

ride over mountains.

JP:

Yeah, but tell me, tell me, how did you feel? Because you saw 40 X Stitch

Nat:

Yes.

JP:

L Stitch. How'd it go? Tell me what it was it like. Tell me about it. Was it like a ride? Did you ride the movies? That's a

Nat:

I did. It was like, and what was cool,'cause I, I, you know, I got there early enough to watch the previews.

JP:

Ride the previous two?

Nat:

That, that's what I was gonna say. Not all their previews have the 40 x effect. Right. So how to Train Your Dragon was one of the ones. That actually like, like they really want you to see it in 40 x and I think it'd, it'd be a good one to

JP:

How much was the, how much was a ticket for 40

Nat:

It's like 18

JP:

That's it.

Nat:

Yeah, bro,

Ash:

like you missed out, now, don't you?

JP:

Dang. 18. That might be$2 less than what we actually pay to watch that in those banged up recliners. We sit in the, we sit in the most banged up seats because we're always trying to get back road dead center. The most popular seat in the house. That thing's like a fucking Petri dish full of disease. That's what we should test.

Nat:

Oh my But, and then you start spraying it like, come, just come with white pea.

JP:

Yeah. Licking your fingers full of butter and touching those buttons and stuff. Everything's Imagine a fecal matter that's just in that cup holder.

Nat:

I don't know don't

JP:

The cleanest seat in the house has to be like front row all the way to the which that

Nat:

All the way to the left. Not even center. Don't

JP:

It's like brand fucking Yeah. I wonder, can you get a, do you get a discount if you have a wheelchair?'cause you're not using their You just roll into

Nat:

probably, I cannot, you do not get a discount. You guys are ridiculous.

JP:

I mean, I mean, we go, I'm sorry. I'm getting

Ash:

I don't know that they have a 40 DX here.

JP:

It's not ableist.

Ash:

Orlando, or Like Orlando would probably be the closest. to us. There's Dia Beach, north Naples, Jacksonville, Kendall Lakes, and Orlando

JP:

Wow. You guys are so fortunate

JR:

for the.

JP:

live in that space.

Nat:

Yeah, we would

JR:

drive by the four DX

Nat:

Oh, the one in Dan? That's not that far from me. How? How far? Dang. You guys are like, that's messed up. How do we get one to by you? What do we do? Do we call

JP:

Yes. Call Josh. Call him up. One 800 Disney ga you say, can you say Gad? You keep

Nat:

Be like, oh, your hometown doesn't have a theater. What the fuck?

Ash:

I mean, we have a theater. We just

Nat:

A 40 x. A 40 to enjoy a 40 x?

JP:

Exactly. All right. This feels like a good place to, to, to, to end it, to hang it up.

Ash:

You are not gonna check our mail.

JP:

We don't have that in the mail. Nobody send us mail. If you wanna send us mail, send it to us at the dang pot@gmail.com. We'll be happy to see. don't send your bills. That's such a dad joke. Why don't you stop me before anyone have any final thoughts on the Normies

Ash:

We're

Nat:

Oh my God. Listen, everybody. Listen. Listen. So no one told you, look, everybody starts off at the bottom and you just gotta keep going. You are gonna keep pushing. You're going to get better. You're gonna grow, you're going to get raises, you're going to get new positions. Nobody like work. Hopefully. Like, it's like, like January's dad says, like, working at McDonald's isn't your forever job. You know? Like you're gonna

JP:

it, can be if you want it to be.

Nat:

I mean, it can, right? But then also you're gonna not be at 14 an hour forever. You're gonna at, at least don't be in the same, listen, if you wanna be in the same thing for the rest of your life, that's fine, but you need to understand you can't afford everything. gotta accept it. You gotta plan accordingly. And you gotta plan it for like. Two years to spend a day at Disney. That's all.

Ash:

Save Those tax returns.

JP:

Yeah, exactly. Get that earned in that earned child income tax credit thing I love it. All right. Yeah, no, I mean, you're right, you're right. It, it's gonna suck now, maybe. And as you move on through life, things will get better, and hopefully your first trip to Disney won't be when your kids sprinkle your ashes in the Haunted All right. On that note, stay Dan. Stay Dan.

Nat:

Stay tank.

Nancy:

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