Walkabout The World - A Disney Podcast - EPCOT with Guest Hosts Bill and Erin

Episode Date: January 26, 2025

Hello Travelers! This week we welcome our patron pals Bill and Erin Ziese as they take you around Epcot in our first official Walkabout Guest Hosted episode! Journey around Epcot as Bill and Erin take you through the Seas with Nemo and Friends and into a crowded World Showcase during the International Festival of the Arts where they'll treat you to some of the artsy food it has to offer.   If you like what we do, consider joining our crew on Patreon. These wonderful people help us keep the microphones crisp and the servers warm at night. The best zero cost option for supporting us to give us a five star review on apple podcasts or wherever you listen.   Visit us at walkabouttheworld.com - find links to all the things - attraction episodes, Insta accounts of all the hosts, and even how to buy your own Walkabout shirt!   Look us up at @WalkaboutWDW on Instagram and drop us a note to say hi.   You can now also drop us at line at [e-mail]. Say hi, tell us how you found us, and give us some suggestions on things you'd love to hear.   Walkabout The World is a weekly Disney podcast, always recorded on property at Walt Disney World or Disneyland Resort with the simple goal of making you feel like you are in the middle of the magic.

Hello travelers welcome back to Walk About the World. Welcome back to Epcot Center near the land. Can you hear the music? That's the old-school music and I am not here alone. I have a have a crowd first off Heather's here hi everybody very very quiet hello everybody but still and I also have one producer Josh hi John hey Jeremy travelers and we have a Neverland local hello Jeremy But last but not least we have visitors we have guests. Sir who are you? Bill Zees. How are you? I was trying to make it as awkward as possible. Who are you ma'am? Erin Zees. So Bill and Erin you guys all know them they've been down here before we've said hi to them before they hosted us at Oga's Cantina which was freaking awesome and I didn't have to pay for anything so that was that was even better but they are

going to be guest hosts this week for us on walk about the world and their job and you will hear is to finish this episode that we are now starting so with that I'm gonna to sign out. Let them take over. See you in a minute. Hey, everybody. So Bill's here, and I'm with... Hey, it's Erin. And we are going to take a

stroll over to the seas and right now we're in the Communicore Plaza area so... We just got left here by, I feel like by our parents, Jeremy, Heather, Pete, Josh. They left us here... With a mic. With a mic. So you're stuck with us now for a little while. So apologies for that, but we're excited to be here. This is the first time we've been to the Festival of the Arts. Yes, yep. So you're gonna come along with us and we're just gonna listen to sounds as we make our way over to the seas. Cool. Sound good? Sounds like a plan. You may or may not be able to hear the amount of people that are at Epcot today. It's Saturday. I thought you were going to say me eating potato chips.

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Oh, science is great, there's so much to know. Find the more explorers, it's time to go. We have Nemo swimming up the sea. Oh, don't worry. Just keep your eyes open for him along the way. Nemo! Now for Nemo! Oh, let's go explore, explore, explore. Let's go exploring the world. Mr. Ray, we can't explore without Nemo. We're going to a huge adventure together.

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Freak awesome! I'm shocked! Whoa! Check out the mini marlin! Ba-boom! Woohoo! Not bad! Okay, okay!

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Too many creatures! To the house of sea! So many creatures living past the sea In the evening blue sky Even all of them are out of their minds Whoa! You're like totally stopped! Well, coo coo coo choo, here's what you do! Stay in your seats while the Crush Man sees what he can do to get you moving big old Blue world, blue races go. Yeah!

Give it a big blue world. Listen up, explorers. Good news. Stay in your seats because we're about to get started again. Keep your eye out for Nemo along the way. Oh, let's go! Creatures swimming around the sea In the Big Blue World Watch this!

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I get to see a good water canal Great! Thank you! Thank you! Well, we hope you enjoyed the seas. We're gonna go try to track down a beverage or two. Water or other? Whatever looks good when we get there.

Okay. Sounds good. So you guys come along with us. If you want. Should I just take you back to the store? Please, no? Do you guys come along with us? If you want. Should I just take you back to the store? Please, no? Hm.

No, I'm not sure. Which way you wanna head? Towards the country? Yeah. It's really you and the outside. Oh, okay. Oh, okay, then show me that. Svartålskog We're currently walking towards the Imagination Pavilion, straight ahead of us. It's lovely out. It's winter.

Florida winter ended for a little bit. Perfect day earlier. Happy it got close to 70. Did it? Yeah. I love it. It was at least 65. Passing the fountain over by the Imagination Pavilion.

Little log jammed here, trying to get you through. I'm going to walk around the park. CommuniCorps Hall is on our left and we are hanging a right towards the sea of people that exists in World Showcase today. So wish us luck. The I'm not sure if I can get a better view of the city from here. I'm not sure if I can get a better view of the city from here. I'm not sure if I can get a better view of the city from here. I'm not sure if I can get a better view of the city from here. I'm not sure if I can get a better view of the city from here. I'm not sure if I can get a better view of the city from here. The Now going through the middle entry into World Showcase, Odyssey Building buildings on the left. Imagination Figment Pavilion is on our right. Poor little one. The end of a long day. Doing his best. So on either side of us we have those trees that are still not quite budding yet.

Just getting through the cold. They look dead but we know they're not. We have some Festival of the Arts decor as we get into World Showcase. Figment, rainbows, paint supplies. We're going to head left towards Mexico, which is Neverland locals' non-preferred direction to go. I said if we don't judge. I'm hungry. That's my kid's name. That's my kid's name. And we don't judge.

I said out loud. I said, yes! I'm like, shut up. I'm hungry too. Oh, I can smell Joffreys. I think I have to stop. We will return with Joffreys in hand. I think I have to stop. We will return with Joffreys in hand. Currently at Fictional Victuals, and we're waiting for the squid ink pasta. So I'll give you some ambience of the waiting in line. Thank you so much. It's a fantastic place to go. You know, like...

Alright, we have obtained our squid ink pasta. And are finding an empty table, which is right here. Behind the booth. This becomes a food podcast when we're here yeah when we're on the podcast it becomes all about food and drinks so if you haven't gotten that there's your late morning anyway what do we got in this it looks like we have like a tagliatelle squid ink colored truffle and it just looks delicious with some parmesan and breadcrumbs so we'll let you know how it is afterwards okay so we're back we've had some tastes of the the pasta let's let you know what you think what do you think about it it's great if you're coming

to this festival, head here. It's not a bad price. It's delicious pasta. You have crab in there. Truffle cream? Yeah. No, there's been some really good food here, but this one, I would say, definitely in the top five.

Nice. For sure. And it is located on the way to Mexico from the middle entrance to World Showpiece. So it's right before you get to the Mexico Pavilion. So what's your rating? Right near Joffrey's. Right near Joffrey's. Oh, man.

I think I would give this like a 9.5 out of 10. Whoa. That's pretty intense. I would come down maybe about 8.75. Okay. Okay, so we finished our pasta, and now we're just going to head out towards the exit, the lepcot.

And to give you some wayfinding, we are going towards Mexico. And then we're going to loop through the Odyssey building by Test Track, which is down for refurbishment. And then we'll just go out towards the front. So come along and let's see what you can hear. The the the the the

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the the the the The The Now I have Guardian straight ahead. We're going to hook a left to in between the Connections Eatery and the Connections Shop. The The Now anyone that's seen the Walt statue here, send a virtual hello and goodnight to him. We're passing him on the left. There's a small line for photos, which is good to see. That was so podcasty of you. I've learned is the best Disney music. Listen to this all day. So that could be another option. The park is located on the right side of the park. The We're approaching the underside of Spaceship Earth, which means we are in for the show. Probably some food and drink. And around the countries.

This is where we're going to leave you. So we hope we did the podcast justice. Erin, any words? Oh, we have a monorail. We've got monorail green going over us. No. Thanks for letting us do this. If you never hear from us again, it means we probably did a really bad job.

You know where to direct your complaints. Yes, you know who to direct them to. But this was fun. Come visit Epcot. It's the best. International Festival of the Arts is until February 24th. Thank you and... Later. And don't forget that there's a great, big, beautiful tomorrow.

And we hope to see you all in one of those thank you so much for listening and following along with us each week here at walk about the world for our little in-park family reunion that we do we really really appreciate each of you that listen you can find us online at walkabouttheworld.com, where you can find links to pretty much everything that we do, including attraction ride-throughs, and where you can get your very own Walkabout t-shirt, if that's a thing that you would like to do. You can find us also on Instagram at walkaboutwdw. You can find each of our hosts on Instagram. Find me, Jeremy, at Jeremy underscore Hunt underscore FL. Our producer, Josh, at The Steel with an E.

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