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Disney News (5/7) – Disney AAPI Heritage Month Snacks, and Why the Disney Monorail is Amazing

May 8, 2023
Episode 6

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In this week’s episode, Chris discusses the AMAZING snacks at Disney to celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Kelli trolls he-who-must-not-be-named by sharing 15 fun facts about the Disney Monorail system. For show notes and a transcript of this week’s episode, visit https://scfadp.com/season-7/disney-news-5-7-disney-aapi-heritage-month-snacks-and-why-the-disney-monorail-is-amazing/

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Show Notes:

Chris and Kelli discuss their favorite Disney-related topics, including unique food offerings at Disney parks and the company’s efforts to represent marginalized groups. They also discuss Disney’s legal challenges with Governor DeSantis and the efficiency and safety of the monorail system, sharing interesting facts and trivia. Both speakers express their enthusiasm for the multifaceted cultures represented in Disney’s offerings and their appreciation for the company’s efforts to represent marginalized groups.

Outline

Disney news, including DeSantis’ nullification of Reedy Creek agreement and oversight board member Ron Perry’s homophobic comments.

  • Kelli and Chris discuss Disney things, including their favorite Disney podcast moments and listener downloads from various locations.
  • Kelli’s segment is on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which is appropriate given the week’s theme and unintentional coincidence.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss Ron Perry’s surprise at being served a federal court summons as part of the oversight board for Disney.
  • Chris provides context on Ron Perry’s past statements, including his controversial comment about drinking tap water making someone gay.

Disney-related bills and new band playing at Epcot.

  • Kelli and Chris discuss Disney-related bills passed by the state legislature, including one giving the state power to oversee privately owned transportation systems.
  • Kelli and Chris share a humorous anecdote about a riverboat evacuation at the Magic Kingdom, with Kelli joking about paying money to see people walk off a boat onto a raft.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss a new band, Les RASSMAN, replacing the Country Bears at Epcot in Canada.

Disney’s celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, including food offerings and cultural experiences.

  • Chris and Kelli discuss the honorary window for Bob Weiss, a legendary Imagineer, and the making of the window using gold leaf and makeup brushes.
  • They also talk about the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, which has officially kicked off the summer movie season with $282 million globally and $13 from Chris.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss the reimagined “Tomorrowland” campaign and Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
  • Chris highlights the culinary offerings at Disney World during AAPI Heritage Month, including a Polynesian-inspired dish called “How Far I’ll Go” and a Korean fried chicken bow at Captain Cook’s.
  • Kelli joins in on the discussion, sharing her thoughts on the menu items and the cultural significance of the dishes.

Asian-inspired food and drinks at Disney parks.

  • Chris and Kelli discuss various cocktails and dishes inspired by Asian cultures at Nomad Lounge.
  • Chris and Kelli discuss food options at Disney World, including a pineapple nigori saki at China Gardens and a Japanese Hawaiian pineapple cocktail at Emirates.

Disney’s monorail system, including fun facts and codes used by cast members.

  • Chris and Kelli discuss a menu featuring Filipino-inspired treats and drinks.
  • Kelli and Chris discuss codes used on the Disney monorail, including code V for a protein spill and code P for a teen spill.
  • Kelli shares 15 fun monorail facts, including that the California monorail is an attraction, not transportation, and the history of the monorail is fascinating.
  • Kelli shares fun facts about the Walt Disney World monorail, including its electric power, top speed, and backup diesel power trains.

Disney’s monorail system, including its size, capacity, and safety features.

  • Kelli and Chris discuss the Walt Disney World monorail system, including its capacity and safety record.
  • Kelli and Chris discuss the Walt Disney World monorail system, including its size and passenger capacity.
  • Kelli and Chris troll “he who must not be named” on Twitter.

Episode Transcript:

NOTE: This transcript was produced by AI and may have many inaccuracies. Please excuse any transcription issues.

Welcome aboard Disney fam Hello out there Disney fam. Welcome to the show. My name is Chris and I’m Kelly. We are so glad to have you here on our little podcast Kelly. You’re wearing Mickey sourcerer ears tonight not the hat the headband,

Kelli 0:46
the headband some of your favorites. I think these these are easily in the top three years for me maybe in the top two because of comfortability mobility and just total overall adorableness are pretty Dorbz you know, minus the bow all that and also, you know, has nothing to do with my segment, but I am feeling very magical in my abilities to troll he who must not be named. So, hey, honey, did anybody listen to us this week?

Chris 1:11
A couple people did. We had downloads from Augusta, Georgia where a month ago they just hosted the Masters tournament and Georgia. They got done with that decided to listen to us. I mean, nach was clearly in the top two things of in Augusta and things to do in Augusta worse. Allison Park, Pennsylvania, it’s a little suburb of Pittsburgh.

Kelli 1:33
That sounds adorable.

Chris 1:34
That sound Allison Park is just beautiful. And it’s really really nice. 8000 fine folks outside of Flint, Michigan in a town called Grand Blanc, Michigan grant

Kelli 1:45
Bullock. Like I got like this fancy pen.

Chris 1:49
I mean, I don’t know if they call it maybe they call it Grand Blanc I don’t know. It’s spelt like the French Blanc

Kelli 1:54
and then a fancy pen. Blanc Montmarte. Bates pen Michigan,

Chris 2:03
my guys since 1000 of them so it’s fine. Lassie, and Taipei City Taipei? Yes, that’s fine. They are, which is so appropriate now and not just here. Think about what my segment is on your segments on Taipei. So no, my segment is on Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Now how perfect. Did you pick? I did not intentionally pick them because of this week. That’s fantastic.

Kelli 2:37
So good. It’s good. You did? You did that. You did that unconscious unconscious.

Chris 2:45
Inside joke. So yeah, so you want to talk about the news and ubiquitous, never ending? Just Santos drama.

Kelli 2:57
He must not be named. We’re calling him he he must know.

Chris 2:59
I didn’t know that was a rule. So I just started it. I

Kelli 3:02
started while I was working on my segments. Okay.

Chris 3:05
Well, so yes, he who must not be named, has officially signed the bill to nullify the Reedy Creek development agreement with Disney. This is gonna get challenged in court because it requires a law to take effect at a previous point in time, which is known as ex post post facto.

Kelli 3:22
Post stating a check. So yes, it’s can’t do that.

Chris 3:27
So yeah, so he signed it, it’ll get challenged, and that will get challenged with a different lawsuit than the one that Disney has brought forth in federal court.

Kelli 3:34
I just wonder if the people of Florida want him to do actual legislation or if they’re okay with him spending all of his time on just a whole

Chris 3:42
bunch of time campaigning for president without actually campaigning for president and then when he’s not doing that, just signing bills that attack Disney

Kelli 3:48
and just being openly scared of LGBTQ community.

Chris 3:52
Yeah, while they’re while their insurance home insurance rates triple, right. Yeah, you know, I just wonder

Kelli 3:57
if we’re gonna do an actual job, or if they’re okay, but the homophobic fear mongering that’s happening. I mean, just,

Chris 4:06
just just asking questions, asking questions. That’s

Kelli 4:09
good question that

Chris 4:11
the oversight board, the new oversight board was officially served their federal court summons, which somehow surprised one of the board members, Ron Perry. This is the guy who although he denies it and says the media took this out of context. He’s the guy that said that drinking tap water makes you gay.

Kelli 4:31
So you know, how far out of context did they take how

Chris 4:34
far out of context because they have taken that right. And what exactly

Kelli 4:38
was the context in which that made sense? So

Chris 4:42
Ron says that he is just shocked by the fact that Disney would sue you. Just gone away. He loves Magic Kingdom things is wonderful. A lot of they do a lot of positive things there loves take his kids there. Yeah, Is he is he has this guy is apparently a successful businessman for 40 years and then was a pastor for 10.

Kelli 5:04
But has he attended any of the board meetings? Yes, he

Chris 5:07
has. He has been right there awake, it appears that he voted in line with what you know DeSantis wants and and then was shocked when, when they did like that and thought, Wow. You know, he’s like I didn’t need this stress in my life.

Kelli 5:25
I just wanted to go to Disney. I

Chris 5:27
thought I thought it meant free tickets, I guess. Maybe

Kelli 5:30
he sits across the table from that dude with the horse beside him. And he’s seen the pictures, blacks houses, just looks, it just blacks out or so it just too much fun honestly with it. I mean, it’s ridiculous. But on some level, it’s

Chris 5:50
also at least they’re just playing around with people’s livelihoods though. The state legislature passed a bill this week, we’re gonna do this, this is what kills me is all these bills all these Disney related bills that they’re, they’re whipping right up here and send it over to you know, Ronnie’s desk. This new legislation gives the state the power to oversee. And here’s the quote, this is specific to the monorails. But here’s the quote, any privately owned fixed guideway transportation systems operating in this state, which are located within an independent special district created by local AG, which have boundaries within two contiguous counties, that’s who this law is directed at. And as the the common Terry, that we read from the Palm Beach Post this morning said, that is 29 words that mean Walt Disney World. So for the love of what it means is that the they have turned they have forced Disney to turn the control of monorails in the Disney property over to the state. So the state can now shut the monorails down in order to do inspections on the elevated railways. No word on how long these shutdowns would take but clearly that is a way that in any, you know, sort of bad moment for the gov. We can just shut down. We can shut down the leading transportation system between the Magic Kingdom and Epcot.

Kelli 7:31
That’ll make all of your tourists happy. Make your resident real thrilled. That’s gonna make people so happy. I mean, what a great decision you idiot. So another thing that might I’m sorry, did I accidentally call him an idiot out loud? You did. That was a different adjective there. So let’s just congratulate me.

Chris 7:54
Congratulations. Yeah. So, you know, just again, so petty and not at all.

Kelli 8:03
Just totally missing what the people want. Like,

Chris 8:07
um, Okay, so moving on to the Magic Kingdom. Yes, we’re evacuated from the Liberty Bell riverboat yesterday. Oh, it broke down. Wow. Okay, so what’s your question about that?

Kelli 8:22
Did they spill oil into the river as well? All of the fish? I mean, all of the little duckies I

Chris 8:28
don’t think that’s what happened. My question was,

Kelli 8:31
how do you evacuate the river boat? Because it is in fact on a river it’s a well it’s not

Chris 8:36
a body of water. Yeah. But it turns out they brought the Tom Sawyer rapids over people walked right off the boat onto the raft so

Kelli 8:45
obviously I would have paid money to see that well, you can you don’t have to pay a dime raft boats were still functional. Yeah, they carry what like 10 people but

Chris 8:53
yeah, that’s what they did. Wow. I mean, I pay money. You can go on Twitter. There’s pictures.

Kelli 8:58
I guess every you know situation every ride like that has to have a way to evacuate and that’s the evacuation

Chris 9:06
evacuation method. They just

Kelli 9:08
redid the riverboat and so I feel like it shouldn’t really be breaking down just yet. It’s fair.

Chris 9:13
I think that’s a fair criticism. Okay. You’re, you’re gonna be excited about this. Okay. Leigh RASSMAN is the new band that will be playing on the stage in Canada at Epcot, Leigh Leigh Leigh RASSMAN.

Kelli 9:30
rafts Minh. Oh, Ra FTS ma N me and yeah, then multiple men. Okay. Lay rafts really? RASSMAN Yeah, what is their genre? They are.

Chris 9:43
They come from the French Canadian portion of Ontario in Canada. Okay. They describe their music as a clever mix of traditional French Canadian songs, original compositions and fiddle reels. We like fiddles I am for fiddles guests can expect traditional songs with a twist and even some call and response songs during their sets which take place from 2pm to 7pm. At the Canada middle stage along the World Showcase promenade,

Kelli 10:14
is this band previously known as off kilter? No, I’m against it.

Chris 10:18
No you know I you know I catch a lot of grief for like worrying about Who Moved My Cheese and change and all that

Kelli 10:25
you’re talking about those blasted bears again, and that’s not what we’re talking about here. I’m talking about an actual good band.

Chris 10:31
Listen, all. Listen, I was with you. I was having fun.

Kelli 10:36
You said you’re talking about those black bears. There’s

Chris 10:39
nothing wrong with those beggars.

Kelli 10:40
I’m just saying honey, like they’ve got mold on their outfits. They do not. They’re furries all matted downs. They look like they look like showbiz before showbiz went out of business.

Chris 10:54
Nobody’s gonna know what showbiz is.

Kelli 10:58
They look like Bobo showbiz to cheese bought it and re fluffed everybody. Look,

Chris 11:04
all I’m saying is Les RASSMAN. Somehow we got beating up the Country Bears because favorite pastime. Les RASSMAN is taking over that stage and I think this is has potential I think it’s got potential. I will

Kelli 11:17
go and see their show and then we will see. Okay, for how I will keep ace Watson open mind but a mind that is slightly ajar.

Chris 11:29
Okay, at least you could do it. Bob Weiss, legendary Imagineer received his honorary window at Hollywood Studios this week. He was instrumental in bringing Hollywood studios to life back in the 80s. And his window can be found near the Hollywood and Vine restaurant is actually right above the Hollywood and Vine restaurant there you

Kelli 11:48
see the man that makes the windows Did you watch that? Oh, no. Oh my goodness. It’s amazing. Like he’s using actual gold leaf and like a makeup brush to make those things. I mean, it is straight legit. Oh, wow. And that cool. And I thought what are they going to do when he gets really cool out to be 150

Chris 12:07
Hopefully he’s got himself an apprentice. It

Kelli 12:11
was amazing. I mean, it was truly an amazing thing to watch him do that.

Chris 12:17
It’s a cool thing that they do for Disney legends. So that’s a really cool like, absolutely. You know, Hollywood star type thing there right there in the parks for sure. Let’s see here. Mantis can be seen for a limited time at Avengers campus at Disneyland which is cool. And she looks great.

Kelli 12:36
I mean, does she have like contacts that my girl is all black? Oh, that’s good. I can’t have regular I don’t

Chris 12:42
know that’s a good question. She’s got her antenna. That’s a cute Yeah, she looks good. She looks she’s a better Mantis than Chris Pratt of that then Star Lord is Star Lord. We are those years. A mantis just a matter of time. No matter how much you right now. It’s

Kelli 12:56
not a good Star Lord.

Chris 12:57
He’s not a good Star Lord Gamora is good. Mantis is fantastic. And speaking of which, Guardians Galaxy kicked off this weekend, no spoilers here but it brought in $282 million globally 114 In the US officially kicking off the summer movie season.

Kelli 13:15
So and it was good.

Chris 13:17
It was good. It was so good.

Kelli 13:19
I mean one to 10 What did you give it

Chris 13:22
13

Kelli 13:23
I was gonna say 11 Okay, but I mean definitely good. It was it was everything you want it to be and more as per use the Guardians ago. Fantastic. And don’t pay attention to any of the horrible stuff people are saying on Twitter. Just go and enjoy the movie because it’s great. It’s

Chris 13:38
great. POM Clemente of I guess I’m not sure hopefully I’m saying her name right. She plays Mantis

Kelli 13:46
I thought you said chlamydia

Chris 13:56
off the rails

Kelli 14:00
long week

Chris 14:03
what is wrong with the off the rails

Kelli 14:08
slapped regulator that I’ve managed to gather up to tell you why I was about I

Chris 14:15
thought I had like insulted her name by saying it slightly off. But now I’m never gonna be able to hear anything but POM committee so awful. She early in the making this James Gunn actually got fired. But they she and Karen Gillan, who plays nebula had a had a script. So they read the script together at Karen Guillen’s house. And you know, and then she POM was like, we had to get we had to hide the script so nobody can see it. Because you know, they’re super secretive with Marvel, right? She’s like, Let’s bury it in your garden. That’s exactly what Karen Gillan was responsible. She was like We could just put it in the cupboard she’s like, she’s like that’s a big problem I’ve got I’m like a squirrel. I had things I don’t remember where I had this like you gotta have the body. The body. Are you ready for Tomorrowland? move on from that committee a moment. Okay, look. So as part of Disney’s reimagined tomorrow rising Together campaign, on May 1, they launched their celebration of the Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month which is awesome. You’ll see engagement in so many ways from the Disney network of media outlets theme park offerings, resorts everywhere from the Disney sorry I found I’m off the rails now. So Disney announced what they were doing here in this this campaign. And I found this particular comment super relevant. They said we are all greater than a single story and we all deserve to feel seen heard and understood. Not only during heritage months but year round and I loved that sentiment. So this month Disney plus Disney Channel freeform Nat Geo, you’ll be able to experience and may even be introduced to wonders of the AAPI culture that maybe you weren’t aware of previously, that’d be great. But it’s gonna surprise absolutely nobody that here we focused a celebration around the food the culinary teams at Disney are have done an amazing job. And they they’ve got a program called World of voices which is what they sort of center their culinary adventures through so here we go. All right with the food now I’m not going over everything and I’m focused on Walt Disney World there’s there’s some Disney Land stuff also. And I’m going to focus on some things that I think just were really interesting to me and things that are only available during this heritage month.

Kelli 17:05
I mean, I will say I thought the menu was large is huge.

Chris 17:11
So I wouldn’t be able to get through all of it. But a lot of the stuff is things that are that are always there. Right and so I’m going to focus on some things that are just may in the month of May and you know also that I just found interesting so starting out the poly course that’s a great place to start this adventure at the pineapple and I you can get the heart of defeat the dough whip cup. Okay, this is dough whip mochi cake Mallanna inspired white chocolate medallion and an edible flower

Kelli 17:41
nice that’s that’s apple and I is a dark horse of snacks

Chris 17:45
it really really is and and Captain Cooks which is also a Polly has got tons of stuff Yeah. I mean you can experience you know Asian food there year round anyway. It’s Disney’s Pop Century resort and the Art of Animation Resort. At the everything pop shopping and dining and landscape of flavors. The How Far I’ll Go. How we pa how pa how pa py how pa py okay,

Kelli 18:16
what’s he what’s into how pa pa?

Chris 18:18
It’s rich chocolate coconut pie with a layer of coconut. How Pia custard topped with sweet cream and macadamia nuts have it? Yeah, this dish is inspired by how Pia and the name celebrates malanez ambition to preserve her culture and tradition. Ah, yep. At other Disney resort hotels and I mean a whole slew them. There’s like 15 of them, including Captain Cooks at Poly you can get Korean fried chicken bow with cucumber and NEMA Sue. This is double fried chicken thighs tossed with gudja Chang sauce, sesame seeds, green onions and pickled cucumber. Executive Chef Kevin was inspired by his mama Chun, and his heritage is to create homestyle Korean comfort food accompanied by pickled cucumbers.

Kelli 19:05
Is he Kevin Chong? Like why don’t we just call him Executive Chef Kim most

Chris 19:09
I’ve got a couple of these here. And most of them they just call them either pastry chef, so and so and so or Executive Chef Kevin All right. That’s cool. Okay, very various pool bars and table service restaurants and lounges. You can get a pad type is this is a drink. Inspired by the traditional flavors of a pad Thai. This cocktail features screwball peanut butter, whiskey Fevertree, ginger beer, Thai basil and lime. Interesting nugget here because we see a screwball peanut butter whiskey here all the time. This cocktail feature screwball whiskey, which tells the story of its founders journey from Cambodia, to California and the pivotal role that peanut butter played in his childhood. Wow, I’m going to go get a bottle. Wow, that is worthy.

Kelli 19:58
They sell it here. That’s what you Yeah, we see it here.

Chris 20:00
Yeah, we see it right. I’m gonna go to how the heck are we recording up to Javi? Yes, yes, you

Kelli 20:06
can get the screwball. Okay. Yep, that is exciting. How about

Chris 20:10
you to California? Okay, over at caravan road at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park, you can get cocky, gory Japanese shaved ice flavored with watermelon syrup and sweetened condensed milk. Yes, that is a huge huge it’s huge. That’s obviously kakigori is a popular shave ice dessert dating back to jab Japan’s he on period

Kelli 20:33
which is basically snow cream in South Carolina.

Chris 20:36
I mean, she’s

Kelli 20:38
gonna same Nomad

Chris 20:39
lounge. They are burning in it. Bangkok chicken wings. These are crispy chicken wings, fish, fish sauce, caramel, and peanuts and cilantro, tuna Pokeball, steamed rice and Emami pickled radish and chili sesame glaze. This is heavily influenced by Japanese and other Asian cuisines and pokey represents diverse and multifaceted cultures. coconut mango cocktail. This is also at Nomad lounge. This is parrot Bay coconut rum, Stoli vodka, of vanilla vodka, mango puree and rice milk garnish with a whole lychee fruit. No, we don’t like I’m against lychee This cocktail is inspired by the exploration of the Pacific Islands featuring popular ingredients offered to explorers along the way. Pete Safari and a number of other places have gotten the turning red cupcake. I love turning red. We haven’t seen a lot in the parks and turning Rihanna well. Now there’s a cupcake of a no this is a vanilla cake Mandarin cream filling. Honey mousse bow bun, crispy pearls sweet Magnolia blossoms chocolate garnish and the Asian Canadian character. Mei Lin panda on a white chocolate medallion.

Kelli 21:46
Wait, there’s a bow a bow bun mousse on the cupcake.

Chris 21:51
That’s what it says. A honey mousse Battleborn

Kelli 21:54
Oh my goodness.

Chris 21:55
That sounds that sounds delightful. Oh, there it is. See the pig. Oh, it’s

Kelli 21:59
an albino.

Chris 22:00
It’s a little honeymoon. Yes.

Kelli 22:03
Y’all know I love the moose. That’s adorable.

Chris 22:08
Yes. This is going to be delicious at Tiffany’s. You can get a yuzu Creme de la. Okay. It’ll be ice cream hibiscus cookie crumble Matcha Tea Cake and mango sauce on this crimper lay at Tiffany’s.

Kelli 22:21
Yeah, that’s nice. All right, bouncing

Chris 22:25
over to Epcot connections eatery. You can get a curry spiced pizza. Two slices of freshly baked pizza topped with Tikka Masala carrot, potato peas, tomato plant based mozzarella and lime yogurt.

Kelli 22:39
Hmm. Okay, yeah.

Chris 22:42
First, now there’s a lot of things that Epcot okay, that are part of the Garden Festival right now and that are that would also be wonderful Asian options to try. In this case we’re going to go over to China to the garden house where they have the Ozeki pineapple nigori Saki. Now this might be this actually might be in Japan. The pineapple nigori honors the Japanese settlers who came to the United States and worked on pineapple farms. The first Japanese community in Florida the Yamato colony grew up around the pineapple field. So that’s why they are offering Ozeki pineapple nigori and monkey Teppan Edo. They are offering a Japanese Hawaiian pineapple cocktail. This cocktail celebrates some of the contributions of Japanese Americans to the culture economy and the social fabric of Hawaii. Hawaii. Okay, sorry, skipping past all this stuff here. We’re going over to Disney Springs. Okay. Emirates. This is a cool one. Okay, obey. Here. No, no,

Kelli 23:50
yes, I saw it.

Chris 23:52
Did you take roll?

Kelli 23:53
It’s yeah, it’s gonna be the cover image for our it’s been.

Chris 23:58
This is a eBay related cake or Swiss cake roll with cinnamon banana mousse, and it’ll be bread butter cream. Yeah.

Kelli 24:07
Like it’s gotta be like the most amazing peanut butter and jelly. Yeah, Scituate. Yes.

Chris 24:11
It looks like this treat was was created by pastry culinary cast member Ruben, who drew inspiration from his Filipino heritage. Wow, how cool is that?

Kelli 24:23
It’s also a dark horse and a lot of people are using it these days and I am here for it.

Chris 24:27
I love that Ruben put this together as well done Ruben Yep. At the Edison High Voltage chicken sandwich. This a spicy take on Korean fried chicken sandwich with Goji Chang, a staple of Korean Korean cooking. The ganache curry has a matcha user square Japanese green tea with Yuzu and dark chocolate. The plight pig has got a coconut jerk pork sandwich smoked pork butt braised and a coconut jerk sauce and topped with pineapple slaw accompanied by a Hawaiian macaroni salad. Wow. And lastly, I love this idea. Love this one sprinkles cupcakes. Only available through May 14. A Vietnamese coffee cupcake featuring a decadent coffee cake infused with new in coffee supplies loyalty bland, filled with creamy condensed note buttercream and finished with coffee frosting. The new N coffee supply is America’s first specialty Vietnamese coffee company and a proud champion of the resilient robust to being founded in 2018 by Sarah Newlin. Their mission is to build a diverse and inclusive coffee culture for all while uplifting robust coffee produces worldwide robust

Kelli 25:35
debate is fantastic. I love that so much y’all the pictures of this food are amazing they are so we’ll have the link will share Samoan and stuff but like these are amazing. So the link will be in our show notes and everything but you got to look at these photos. It’s they’ve done a phenomenal phenomenal job with

Chris 25:55
this menu and you’ll see you’ll see pictures of the stuff at Disneyland Resort also. So yeah, go AAPI Heritage Month. All right. Ready?

Kelli 26:05
I’m ready to roll. Yes. So I’m going to just mildly troll I’m going to I’m going to blatantly troll he who must not be named with 15 Fun monorail facts and you know I’m gonna go ahead and call it 15 Things he who must not be named does not know about the monorail okay, but first let’s start with some codes that he also doesn’t know Okay, now you and I have learned code v s have so many others on a monorail ride and this is also sometimes called a protein spill don’t take a sip of your drink what I’m starting with sometimes called a protein spill. Yes. Okay code V we’ve heard of a code V cast members did handle it very well

Chris 26:49
yes yes. The doors opened right up into just immediately postcode v COVID-19. spill

Kelli 26:55
or teen spill. There’s also a code P which you know, I thought could be like poo but it’s not and I don’t mean like the bear I mean like the other time I know we get it we get Okay, okay, but it’s actually it’s P

Chris 27:08
Yeah, it is that’s actually what I thought it was.

Kelli 27:12
Which I guess apparently also happens on the regular that’s worrisome so you got code V and you’ve got code P code 101 means that something is down like a ride transportation these things are not just used on the monorail These are used around the park but but often are said on the monorail and you can hear them over the speaker so things you should know Right? Code one on one means a ride is down at Disney we don’t use the word broken. Broken. I sighs that it’s unfixable. I see, right? It’s down. That’s code one on one code. 102 means it’s back up. Okay, so it’s a one on one and one or two. That’s it. All right, the next code that you really need to know and there’s more than these but I’m just focusing on the ones that have happened on the monorail is your white powder alert. Now the white powder alert is when somebody decides to spread ashes. Oh, we have a dead loved one. Now this happens most often on Disney’s haunted mansion. Okay, but it does happen regularly throughout the parks in play in people’s favorite areas. Okay, this is going to be your white powder alert. They say unfortunately like don’t do it because those things get quickly vacuumed

Chris 28:20
away. Yes, your loved ones gonna end up in a vacuum cleaner

Kelli 28:23
but then you’re in a Disney vacuum cleaner so is it’s not this magical I’m just saying so if you’re gonna ride the monorail you need to know 101102 VP and white powder Alecia All right now let’s get into the 15 fun monorail facts that he who must not be named knows absolutely nothing about right so the first one is the monorail in California is actually an attraction instead of transportation Right? Like the one at Disney World right now you have given us the history of the monorail before so I will say for those of you interested the history of the monorail it’s fascinating. Go back and listen that episode. It’s probably over a year ago now. It was great did fantastic job. I’m just focusing on some fun facts. Sure. Okay. The monorail is fully electric. There is 600 volts of electricity that run through the bus bars on either side of the concrete beam. That electricity powers eight motors aboard each monorail train so a lot of electricity going through there. But this is clean green. Sure. Right, right. There are 14.7 miles of track. Oh, that’s almost half of that is the Epcot rail alone. Yeah,

Chris 29:34
that I believe. Yeah.

Kelli 29:36
The top speed is 40 miles per hour. We’re on Fun Fact number four here that is as fast as the drop on Splash Mountain. Oh,

Chris 29:46
no kidding.

Kelli 29:47
Are you miles it’s gotta be on the way to Epcot like on the way to and from but still 40 miles. Right. It should open the crack the windows that well and then you can have the white powder alert, which could be an issue. Okay. Okay. Okay, the pink and purple lines have been retired. But currently we have 12 other trains running peach, teal, red coral, orange, gold, yellow, lime green, blue, silver and black. Fun fact on Christmas Eve and Christmas day Yes, the resort line Ryan’s green, red, silver and gold. Come on. Oh no, he’s gonna screw that up. He doesn’t know crap about the colors that they run on Christmas. Jack Wagner the voice of Disneyland is the original voice of the monorail. But it is currently voiced by Tom Kane, who guests will probably recognize as the voice of Yoda in Star Wars The Clone Wars.

Chris 30:46
Wow, how

Kelli 30:48
about that fun. That’s a fun one. Walt Disney World has three backup diesel power trains. Oh, and so they’re used when there’s a power outage so that Disney can continue to move gas from here to there even during emergencies about that again, he who must not be named it go no crap about the backup diesel powered versions. They actually use commercial grade truck tires that helps propel them forward up to that 40 miles per hour top speed. There are 12 load bearing tires, 52 steering and guide tires and 60 nylon safety wheels per monorail. That’s 124 altogether. That’s 124 chances for him to screw that up. Yep, yep. Right. Okay. Since the monorail began operation, it has made the equivalent of more than 17 trips to the moon. What I know. Is that crazy wild that’s crazy. And think about how well it has done that. Yes. Any Florida government oversight has done a shockingly enough

Chris 32:03
it’s done pretty well. It’s done a really great job. And you know, and I’ve in the few times that something bad has happened and I think they’ve had I think they’ve had one fatality you know, they’ve they’ve handled it pretty well.

Kelli 32:18
Yeah. Okay, so here’s our last five. Each monorail train is 203 feet long. If you were to string all of the monorails into end, they would stretch out to more than seven and a half football fields.

Chris 32:35
How about that? Crazy is wild. I know it’s carrying a lot of people man, it is so much more than he can handle. We just I don’t think he’s personally going to be doing the inspection. Well,

Kelli 32:45
he’s gonna you know, he’s gonna appoint somebody that doesn’t even know the person sitting next to him has horrible bang. Like he’s gonna appoint somebody that’s like, I love Disney. Why did I get sued? He’s gonna appoint some imbecile. Right. Okay. Each monorail can accommodate up to 360 guests, which breaks down to 60 people per car. I want you to think about that for a second. That’s that’s, that’s a lot of people. That’s pretty tight quarters in that in that area. And it says that’s on a busy day. Of course. It does, however, transfer roughly 50 million guests each year on the monorail about that. And that is more than two and a half times the entire population of Florida.

Chris 33:36
Interesting that there would be even be that many people to transport. Right?

Kelli 33:40
And if you can’t manage to serve the people of Florida How are you going to serve these 50 million guests on this transport and that’s just on the monorail again, Disney has tons of other transportation options.

Chris 33:51
The point is probably to just I’m just gonna schedule

Kelli 33:56
me while I troll the heck out of him for this next three things for each train has a towing knuckle on both ends. So again, in the event of a power outage, one of three diesel towing tractors can rescue a stranded train. The three towing tractors can pull three trains simultaneously to the monorail shop located behind spades belt in for maintenance again, we’ve got systems in place. We don’t need you and your homophobic self to come and try to get your nose in these monorail systems. We’ve we’ve got a plan. Do you think he just wants to sit up front? No, because if he could, he could still go do that in Disneyland. They still allow it there does not allow it anymore at Walt Disney World. The monorail conductors are called pilots. There is also a cast member station as a central coordinator which oversees all monorail operations. That cast member is called monorail one. That’s a good sign. It’s

Chris 34:55
a cool title. That’s monorail one coming into right contemporary.

Kelli 34:59
Is that going to be Have you that fear mongering homophobe? You’re not gonna be called monorail one used

Chris 35:05
to be called Monroe one. But that’s like their air traffic controller for the monorail. Yes. Okay,

Kelli 35:09
Monroe one. Okay. As of 2013 the Walt Disney World monorail system. So this is 10 years ago. This is 10 years ago. Okay, so perspective averaged 150,000 passengers per day that’s gone up. Wow, that’s gonna Okay. But at that time, it was the second busiest monorail in the world. It is surpassed only by a system serving a shopping center in Kanji King China, which serves over 500,000 passengers per day. On one line alone. This is the second largest monorail system in the world. Yep. We don’t need you.

Chris 35:58
And that has been operating for 50 years. damn near perfect, right.

Kelli 36:03
We don’t need you and your fear mongering homophobic self sticking legislatures that don’t know crap about transportation. With their noses up these tires and electric system. We don’t need it he who must not be named. So I’m just gonna go full blatant trolling. And say nobody Disney likes you.

Chris 36:28
And you’ve probably got chlamydia. I’m just kidding don’t I didn’t mean to say that in my head.

Kelli 36:37
Probably was so glad that we have no sponsors, because they would have

Chris 36:45
we just lost them all. And I think we might have secured our chances of ever getting any Hey folks, hope you enjoyed today’s episode. We did. If you did you know what to do now go out to wherever you get your podcasts. Give it a five star rating. Leave us a review and it’ll bring more people to the show.

Kelli 37:10
Absolutely. And if you’re looking for more things Disney, please visit SCF adp.com. That’s s for Super C for Pat Kelly. ritualistic a ferocity for Disney peak for podcast. Hey, bonus points this week. If you troll he who must not be named on Twitter, tag us we’ll send you a sticker if you tag

Chris 37:29
yes troll him on Twitter or or or Instagram tag us and we’ll send you a sticker. Join us for all the conversation on Instagram at SCF ADP I’m sure there’ll be some action this week. And with that, we will see you real soon.

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