Disney Daze: Family Fun and Kidless Quirks

In this hilarious episode of the podcast, we dive into the chaos of a family vacation to Disney—yes, that Disney, not some exotic destination! Join us as we recount the absurdity of navigating the theme park as adults without kids. From navigating the sea of strollers to encountering some truly unique “Disney people,” we explore the quirks and comedy of it all. Whether it's discussing the curious rituals of fellow vacationers or the unexpected challenges of being the only adults in a sea of families, this episode promises to bring laughter and relatable moments for anyone who's ever felt out of place on a family trip. Tune in for a lighthearted adventure filled with anecdotes and giggles!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Welcome to Gotta Get Said. Here's your host, Matt Cuco.

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What's happening, guys, and welcome to another episode of Gotta Get Said on this Thursday, April the 2nd, 2026? What's going on, everybody? How's everyone been? How's everyone doing this lovely Thursday? Sorry I couldn't do Tuesday. I had work. Wednesday was the lady's birthday. So, you know, we had a lot going on over here. It gotta get said, headquarters. We had a lot to do. But how's everyone been? Everyone having a great week? Everyone having a lot of fun. Enjoying themselves. Springs here. We are in spring, right? I think. Literally. Are we literally in spring? Probably, right? It's April, right? We gotta be by now. Well, let's hope we're in spring. But if not, we're in a spring spirit, right? Sure are. Sure are. But yeah, hopefully everyone's doing well. I know I am. One more day of work for me, then I start vacation. Woo woo vacation. Vacation. Go ahead, ask me where I'm going. Go ahead. Am I going to the white beaches of Athens? Am I going to Hawaii? To go in a cave and swim and see a waterfall hit my skin while laying on rocks comfortable Paradise? Am I going on a cruise? Ooh, casino, all you can eat buffets, sunset views on your room balcony in the middle of the Pacific, nothing but clear blue skies and blue water ahead. Am I doing that? Which one of those three am I doing? Am I going on an RV and going cross country? Stopping at different restaurants and pubs and events, meeting new people, understanding the culture of those people south, east, west, north, everyone's different accents, having a good time, trying new things, just me and the lady. Wind in our hair. Am I doing that? No. No, I'm not doing that. So instead of sitting on the beaches of Hawaii watching the waterfall hit my skin when it hits the rocks and dribbles on to my skin, giving me goosebumps. Instead of being in Europe looking up at that beautiful ceiling, looking at that painting, understanding that this was done in a time where, you know, things like this didn't make sense. No, no, no, no. I'm not doing that. Instead of doing all those fun things I just named, I will be in tropical, I will be in exotic, I will be in the one place and the one place only you wanna go Disney World. How fun is Disney World, right? Is Disney World not the best place you can picture for a fat thirty seven year old man with bad feet to be? Can you think of anywhere else that a fat thirty seven year old man with bad feet would rather be than Disney World? Why? Think about it. Long walks from the parking lot to the park, long days, long lines standing in the park, overpriced Mickey Mouse ears, overpriced Mickey pretzels, eleven dollar goofy water, goofy drinking a goofy. Come on. It's gonna be so much fun. It's gonna be so much fun. Waking up at 6 a.m. like I do every other day because the kids aren't on vacation time. They wake up at 6 a.m. time because that's all they know in love. It's gonna be awesome! I can't wait! I love it! It's so fun! It's so fun. Hawaii, keep Hawaii! Give me Disney. All you can eat buffets and casinos on a cruise overlooking a sunset on a balcony connected to your room on top of a beautiful yacht with your significant other. I'll take goofy any day. You got jokes on y'all! Jokes on y'all. Going to Greece for half the price. Eating lamb chops made. Fresh grass fed only from the farm down the street from your local lamb farmer. Give me that mini pretzel any day of the week. So yeah, I'll be in Disney. I'll be in Disney for the next week, starting on Saturday. I will not have a gotta get episode, gotta get said episode next week because I will be in Disney. I'm sorry. I really am sorry. Trust me. Joke's on me. Trust me. I promise you. Just know on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, when your feet for Gotta Get Said, just know that Matt is somewhere in a long line. Probably getting yelled at by his significant other. Probably in trouble. In a long line, feet hurt, back coat, most likely sweating, wanting, begging, pleading to do a gotta get said episode. So I promise it's gonna be worse for me than it is for you. That much I can promise you. But yeah, that's where I'll be next week. Vacation. Woo! I'm very excited. Disney, Disney, I don't know. You know, Disney people. You know what I mean? Like, ah, and I know, I know, I know for a fact that a lot of you love Disney. I know that. I know a lot of you love Disney for a fact. So I kind of stumbled into, I kind of backed myself into a corner on this topic because after I just splurted out my sentence, because I don't do any prep work, I kind of just get up here and talk, as you guys, I'm sure, can tell. Um, you know, mid-sentence, I'm learning on the fly right this second. I was like, eh, I probably should back out of this because I know for a fact that a lot of you that listen to this show are Disney people. It's not an assumption, it's a fact. I know it. I know it to be true. So I kind of want to back out of this, but I can't do it now because I just just this whole spiel. So now I can't back out of it because I did the spiel. I built it up. I already built it up, so now I gotta piss you guys off. I have to piss off the Disney people that listen to Gotta Get Said that I know for a fact exist. So I apologize in advance. I didn't mean to do this, I should have prepped. I walked right into it, I walked myself right into the corner, now I'm stuck in it. Now I have to lash down them a cage down. Disney people. Now I gotta defend myself, Disney people. Disney people. Hear me out, Disney people. If you're a Disney person because you have kids that love Disney things, movies, product, toys, etc., and that makes you a Disney person because you love that, all right. I'll be I'll you know what? I'm back, I'll back off you. I will back off of you, Disney people. If you're a kid influenced Disney person, I'm okay with that. I'm a hundred and ten percent okay with that. I truly am. And I support that. If you're a Disney person and you have no children and there's no children involved in the decision making to be a Disney person, uh, you know, uh, good for you. You know, we'll agree to disagree. Is that fair? Can we agree to disagree? I feel like that's a nice way of putting it. We'll agree to disagree. That's kind of me, like that's kind of me. I'm openly being on the fence because I know a lot of people that like like this podcast like Disney, and I know. And I really don't want to come at you. I really don't, I don't. But we'll agree to disagree for sure, and I think that's more than fair. I think that's politically correct, I think it's fair, I don't think I'm crossing a line, Disney people. But let's just say, like, you know, if I had two packages and they were like, no kids involved, would you rather lay on the sands of Hawaii, staying in a villa overlooking the cliffs of Wahi Wahi, with you and your lady for the next five days? Or would you and your lady rather go to Disney World? Yeah. You'll be staying at the Mickey Swede at the sports bo, yeah. Free li skip the line. Skip the line pass for everything included. Which one's it gonna be? Paradise with the significant other or Disney World? I'm probably gonna pick Paradise with the significant other, and I'm not mad that you're gonna pick Disney World. Everyone listen, everyone gets a pick. Over here, gotta get said, we're listen, listen. I'm not, whoa, I'm not that. I'm not judging. Well, I'm not judging you. You can pick whatever you want to pick, but I'm gonna pick the other thing, and we'll agree to disagree, and that's okay. So, yeah, that's all I gotta say about Disney people, the Disney experience itself. Is it the most magical place in the world? I don't know. I haven't traveled the world, but I would imagine like being in like Antarctica, looking at the northern lights, touch Earth's atmosphere for the first time, and that laser emerald green goes between your whoa, good you know what I mean. I would imagine going into the 16th chapel and looking up at that beautiful ceiling. Second reference on this Oh, guess by the way, beautiful ceiling, and you see the the the the the pen the I don't even know. I was gonna say pembonship, which you know, yeah, but you know what I mean. Like looking at that beautiful work. I would imagine going to the pyramids and seeing, like, wow, like how were these things built at that time? Look at it, everything's symmetrical, heavy, how levees we don't how did they aliens or levees, you know, which one is it? How did they do this? I would imagine that places like that around the world or are more magical than Disney World. You know, like I don't know, like is that is that fair to say? Does that make me a bad person, Disney people? Are you coming at me right now, Disney people? Does that make me bad? Looking up and seeing the northern lights hit Earth's atmosphere for the first time ever. Or sitting in it's a small world. Which would am I a bad guy for thinking that the northern lights is more magical than it's a small world? Does that make me a bad person? Does that make me a Disney's person's enemy? I don't know. Oh, but there's the castle! You know, we're throwing the word castle a little loose, you know? I don't think King Henry III would appreciate calling Disney World Castle a real castle, you know? I don't know. People like for centuries have died over castles, bled, killed, defended more than anything in this world over their castle. So, like, I don't know. I feel like for castle people, if you're out there, for my castle people out there in 2026, listening to Gotta Get Said, for all my castle people out there, I would imagine you would take some offense to the Disney castle, right? I don't know. That's just me. That's just me. And I know, I know this is now that I'm doing this podcast on the fly, I know it sounds like an anti-Disney podcast, and I really don't want it to be. Like, I don't hate Disney. I really don't. I don't hate Disney. I get it, I do get it. I get like listen, there's a there's parks, there's a castle, you have rides that have like staples in our mind, history, you know, the Disney movies do Disney themes, and that's all fun, and we love Disney. I understand why people love Disney. I really do. I'm just not necessarily that person that is gonna like ride or die for Disney no matter what. That's all. I don't think that makes me a bad person. I don't think that makes me a bad person. I look at Disney like I look at Six Flags. It's cool. It's a fucking theme, it's a theme park, guys. Let's call Spade a Spade. It's a fucking theme park. I'm sorry. Gotta get said. It's a fucking theme park. It's cool. It's a nice maybe it's the nicest theme park. Maybe, I don't know. Maybe it's the night. I can give you the nicest. I can call you the nicest theme park in the world and still call you not the most magical place in the world. I think those are two things that can be true. You can be the nicest theme park in the world, but you're not as magical as looking at the northern lights. I feel like that's more than fair. I feel like that's understood. I feel like standing inside of a pyramid, like, wow, how? How can they do such a thing? The smartest people in the world throughout all of history can't answer this question. And I'm standing in between it. That is amazing. I think that moment is probably a little more magical than standing on it's a small world. And I feel like that's okay. I feel like that doesn't make me a bad person. So I'm not coming at you, Disney. I'm really not. I like Disney, right? I guess I like Disney. I don't not like Disney. I have kids and we're going to Disney. If I didn't have kids, I probably wouldn't be going to Disney. I don't care that you go to Disney if you don't have kids, that's fine. That's your prerogative, that's your right. I'm not mad at you. That's totally okay. But I'm just not going to, I'm not going to Disney. You know what I mean? I'm not going to do that. You know what I mean? But what's what you know, like whatever. That being said, I'll be in Disney next week. It is what it is. And that's okay. I'm not mad. I'm not mad. I'm gonna be in Disney next week. I mean, you know, I mean, it is what it is, you know. That's all. I don't think that makes me a bad person. So don't come at me, Disney people. Don't be too mean, don't be too harsh, Disney people. My kids are pumped. My kids are pumped. My kids are pumped for Disney. Pumped. My son's like, yeah, I can't wait to go on this plane. I'm like, you think I I think that you think that. I'm sure that you think that, but we'll see when the plane starts fucking, you know, take off, starts rattling and making noises and shit. Takeoffs are always intense. You're going like fucking a thousand miles an hour still on the land. Like, this is good. Like, you know, like I don't know. Who wants to deal with that? Sorry about that. Drop the headphones. But yeah, who wants to deal with that? Like, I don't want to. Do I really want to go fucking a thousand miles an hour while on the ground still, then take off? Ears are popping. I don't think my kid's gonna love his ears popping. I'm sure that's not gonna be a fun seven minutes while we fucking climb elevation. He's like, I can't wait for an airplane. Yeah? You can't wait to go on the airplane? You ever climbed elevation? Have you ever climbed elevation, kid? Have you ever deceded, whatever it's called? Deseeded? That ain't deceded, but you know what I'm saying. Descending. Descend? Descend sounds right. In my defense, descend sounds right. Are you descending? You ever descended from 30,000 to 10,000, kid? Yeah, I don't think so. So don't tell me you love flying. Don't show me how excited. You know, this ain't JJ the jet plane. This ain't Paw Patrol planes here, kid. We're on a fucking vessel. Descending thousands of feet. Turbulence? Don't even start me.

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Turbulence. What a word, huh? Turbulence.

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You know. I know I get I'm a dope. I understand that I'm not well read. I understand that I'm not a rogue scholar. You know, I understand, but like turbulence, that's the word. That's the word for bumpy plane ride. Turbulence. I'm not saying call it bumpy plane ride, but can we meet somewhere in the middle between turbulence and bumpy plane ride? Can we find like a middle word that's a little more realistic? Turbulence. Fucking came up with that one. Bumpy plane ride. Bumpy fucking plane ride. No, no, it actually means that like the depth of the wind channel. I understand, bro. Bumpy plane ride. Got it. What happened? Bumpy plane ride. I understand. Let's meet somewhere in the middle with that. Fair? I think that's fair. Whatever. Gotta get set, right? Fuck turbulence. Bumpy plane ride. But yeah, I don't know if I'm prepared. I don't know if he's prepared for that. He's three. I don't know if he's prepared for turbulence. I'm not. I'm sure as hell not. But whatever. That's my week ahead, right? That was fun, right? That wasn't um, that wasn't uh, what's the word? Negative. That wasn't sad. That wasn't depressing. That was all good and great, right? April Fools was yesterday. AKA my lady's birthday, too, but this is about April Fools. Did any does anyone still do April Fools? Remember when we were kids and April Fools was a thing? You look really pretty today.

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April Fools. You ugly fuck. You thought you looked pretty. It's April Fools, you ugly fucking hyena. You're never pretty. You suck!

SPEAKER_01 21:10

High school rock. April Fools, man. I wonder if people like I would imagine some people like take April Fools serious. Like read did you hear?

SPEAKER_02 21:25

No, no, what? Nana's dead. Why? Oh my god, that is dead. Why? She was so healthy. I just saw her yesterday. Why are you laughing? April fools, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Click. I'm sure that happened. I'm sure that happened yesterday. You guys can laugh at that little spiel and be like, you're insane. I guarantee that. Happened yesterday. Guaranteed that happened yesterday. Rough. Rough out there. But yeah, that's about it, really. What else do you guys want to talk about? Anything going on in current events that's happening? Any current events currently happening that you guys currently want to talk about? Current events. I don't really got much, honestly. Iran and us are still doing our thing, right? Who the f I don't even I can't even pay attention to that shit anymore. Honestly. I can't even pay attention to the Iran war anymore. I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's going on. Trump comes on, he's like, hey, no, we're done. We did it. We're good. No, we're good. We did it. No, we did it. Yeah, they lost. We're like, yeah, I don't know. I don't. This isn't a political thing, but I don't know. I don't feel like we, I don't feel like the winner, you know? I don't feel like the winner. If you if we won, we won. Maybe, maybe we won. I don't feel like I'm not hey listen. I don't feel like the loser either. I I think we're winning. I think we're winning for sure. But how did we win? Oh, I don't feel like we won just. I feel like I don't know. I feel like there's a lot of a lot of what ifs still floating around, but if you say it, whatever. Who am I to question? Who the fuck am I to question, right?

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Not us.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Not us. But yeah, that hat that's still happening. Uh what else is happening? That's about it. Really? March madness. March madness. March madness. It's fucking mad, man. It is madness. March madness is madness. It really is madness. I watch these fucking replays and it's like, man, these kids putting it all on the line, fucking crazy combat. It's mad. March madness, man. Man, whoever invented that wouldn't not like the actual bracket itself. Whoever what is it? Coin the freeze, March madness, good for you. Because that's exactly what it is. That's exactly what it is. 110%. Couldn't agree more. Like, that is exactly what it is. And it is funny. It is ex I don't know why I said funny, but it is mad. The madness is mad. Got Easter right around the corner. Woo! Easter. My kids are pumped for the Easter bunny. Whatever. Whatever. Easter bunny, you know, the Easter egg hunts. We just commercialize everything. And I know I don't care. I really don't. But like from the outside, I'm not even from I'm not in the outside. Like I do Easter egg hunts too. But like it's so funny. We like literally commercialize everything. Everything.

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Oh, the most holy day in the Catholic. Let's get a bunny. Yeah, no, yeah, we'll get a bunny. And then they're gonna have to put, they're gonna have to fill up stuff in the eggs, money, candy, etc. And we're gonna spread it out.

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And then we're gonna get it. And then we're gonna have big baskets filled with fucking toys and clothes. And the we're gonna say the Easter bunny dropped it all. Yeah. Woo! Yeah. On the third day he rose again. Easter. I feel like that's what we do to it, you know? These holidays, these sacred holidays. People died over these holidays. People fucking wars started over these holidays for people that feel so passionate about them, and we just rip them to shreds. Rip them to shreds. I'm actually Catholic and I don't even know what is like the real. I don't even know. What is Easter? Oh no. Um let's see. I should know this. I'm literally Catholic. Easter meaning. Easter meaning in the Bible. I will do it. Easter in the Bible refers to the resurrection of Jesus Christ for three days after his curse. I was kind of right. Wow. I was I said on the third day he rose again, man. But Christian faith where modern traditions differ, the biblical focuses on Jesus' victory over sin, death, and offering salvation. Yeah. Yeah. The central event recorded as well. Oh my god, Matthew. The central event recorded in all four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, where Jesus rose from the dead. I was there, motherfuckers. Yeah, exactly. So, like, you know, people that like are super Catholic and feel super passionate about this think that like this is it. This is when it happened, like, Easter is it. Easter is the fucking Kentucky Derby of believing in Jesus. You know? And what do we do with it? We fucking strap a bunny, we fucking plant chocolate eggs everywhere, we commercialize everything. This holiday means everything for certain people. And what do we do? We strap a fucking bunny to it. Lottie fucking dah. Well, happy Easter, everybody. I hope you have a great time. If you do celebrate, if you don't celebrate, have a great weekend. I will not see you next week because I will be in Disney World having the time of my life, as I clearly stated in the last 25 minutes of this episode. I love you all, and I will see you in two weeks. And until then, I'm out of here, and I say peace.