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A Dick Tracy 35th Anniversary Conversation from a Super-Fan

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Release Date: 07/31/2025

Covering All Four Epcot Festivals show art Covering All Four Epcot Festivals

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Happy New Year!  Rick and Maz talk about the benefits and drawbacks of all four of the festivals at Epcot over the course of the year.

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Give Kids the World Helping Families Enjoy the Theme Parks show art Give Kids the World Helping Families Enjoy the Theme Parks

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

In honor of the holiday and the season of giving, Rick is going to be replaying his conversation with Susan from Indiana.  Susan's family was able to have a great Orlando-area vacation thanks to Give Kids the World. 

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The Disney Renaissance: Part One show art The Disney Renaissance: Part One

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

As Rick continues his series on former-Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner, he turns his attention to the Disney Renaissance.  This week, he will cover the first three animated movies of the Renaissance. 

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How Disney Wastes Your Time: Part Two show art How Disney Wastes Your Time: Part Two

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Disney doesn't want you getting too much done when you are on vacation.  The theme parks have hidden ways to waste your time when you are in the parks.  For the second straight week, Sarah and Rick discuss the different ways they waste your time.

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How Disney Wastes Your Time: Part One show art How Disney Wastes Your Time: Part One

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Did you ever notice that you never get quite as much out of your Disney park day as you planned?  That is 100% on purpose.  Rick and Sarah Says talk about the different ways Disney wastes your time on a theme park day.

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Disney's Billion-Dollar Busts at the Box Office: Part Two show art Disney's Billion-Dollar Busts at the Box Office: Part Two

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Rick and Maz continue their conversation about Disney movies that made over a billion dollars at the box office, but haven't had the cultural impact of some of their other films.

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Disney's Billion Dollar Busts at the Box Office: Part One show art Disney's Billion Dollar Busts at the Box Office: Part One

Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Disney has had a lot of movies recently pull in billion-dollar takes at the box office.  That doesn't neccesarily mean that all of those movies are building blocks for the company.  Rick and Maz will talk about Disney's "Billion-Dollar Busts" from 2015-2019 in the next two episodes.

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Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Before Bob Iger made multi-billion dollar acquisitions for Disney, Michael Eisner purchased some smaller companies that had a big impact.  One of those companies was Mirimax.  While Disney got credibility, respect, and money from the addition, they ended up having to make a deal with the devil.  Rick will talk about that acquisition in the 250th episode of the show.

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Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

Rick and his co-host Sarah Says will talk about rare characters that guests used to be able to meet at Disneyland and Walt Disney World.  They will then move on to some of the rare characters that are showing up for special events in the theme parks.

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Tall Guy Talks Travel with Rick Dougherty

 Rick will be joined by Jeff Gordon of Gordon Grubs for a conversation about all of the international Disney theme parks.  There is so much to discuss between Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.  

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After Rick talked about Dick Tracy with Maz earlier this year to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the movie, Sarah Says gave him a call to let him know that it is one of her five favorite movies of all-time.  Of course, we have to hear from Sarah Says about this movie if she loves it so much.