Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Rick is joined by fellow-Disney and M*A*S*H fanatic Shan. They will talk about the ideal ways to enjoy a Walt Disney World vacation, and they will talk about the greatest television show of all-time.

After covering the Walt Disney World announcements from the D23 Expo with Maz the past two weeks, Rick will be going over the remainder of the theme park announcements for the other Disney parks throughout the world. He will also be talking quickly about the five-year anniversary of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Walt Disney World, and going over the menu items for Epcot's International Food and Wine Festival.

Rick and Maz spend a second-straight week discussing the D23 announcements for Walt Disney World. They get into Maz's favorite park, Disney's Animal Kingdom. They talk about the announcement that has Rick most intrigued.

Rick and Maz are very passionate about the announcements from this past weekend's D23 Expo in Anaheim, California. For the next two weeks, the two of them will discuss the announcements for Walt Disney World from the Expo. Today's conversation even includes a mention of some of the things that weren't announced, even if we expected them.

Author and Hiker Ethan Gallogly, who wrote the book "The Trail: A Novel" will be Rick's guest on the show this week. The two will discuss traveling as a way to get reconnected with nature through hiking, and exploring locations that aren't theme parks.

Rick is joined by runDisney veteran Natalie. Along with some of her college friends, Natalie is starting her own podcast to follow their preparations for runDisney races on both coasts of the United States. Hear about the races that have returned to Disneyland, and the extremely popular races at Walt Disney World.

To most of the Northern Hemisphere, late-July is the middle of summer. In the Orlando-area, it is time for Halloween. On today's episode, Rick talks with his friend Gillian, as the two talk about why they are thinking of skipping the special-ticketed events in 2024.

In the mid-1960s Walt Disney was very busy. He was not only scooping up land for his Florida Project, and his hopes for an experimental, prototype community of tomorrow. Walt also had plans for a ski resort in the mountains of California. Why didn't it work? The authors of the book "Disneyland on the Mountain: Walk, the Environmentalists, and the Sky Resort That Never Was" will be on the show today to answer that question.

Rick and Maz started a tier-list for all of the attractions in Disney's Hollywood Studios back in June. Today, the two of them will finish ranking those attractions. Before that, Rick talks with a representative from Locks-of-Love about his donation of hair for sick children.

On the 4th of July, Rick is going to take a look at the American Adventure in Epcot's World Showcase, and he will talk about the different changes he would make to the attraction. Speaking of changes, Disney has made a lot of changes to their Disability Access Service. Rick is going to go over those changes in the first week of Disability Pride Month.