Michael and Dave Kay #12 Uncomfortably creamy and not very dreamy

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Just got back from a Very Merrytime Christmas Cruise on the Fantasy. I learned something new: the Ahi Tuna Tower Michael and Dave rave about is really called the Ahi Tuna and Avocado Tower. :rolleyes: Not a big deal, but jeez he said it about a gazillion times over the past 5 years and never said it correctly once? https://touringplans.com/blog/five-mouth-watering-appetizers-on-disney-cruise-line/ It was pretty good, but I'm not going to sell my soul for it, or rave about it, or go out of my way for it.

Our cruise was postponed four times for over 2.5 years because the pandemic (twice) a wedding, and another vacation rescheduled twice for the pandemic. While Michael was whooping it up about the deadly plague, we postponed things to avoid dying/spreading disease. I'm getting along in years and I have about five risk factors so I have to be careful.

Quick thoughts about the cruise, my 11th Disney cruise: The quality of the cruise experience is much lower than it was previously IMO. Obviously still understaffed, cast members (kudos to them) doing much more than they should be trying to do and the result is an inferior product. For instance, my wife and I had a sit down breakfast in Enchanted Garden. The coffee was horrible, it's like it was made from coffee grinds that was first used two cruises ago. My wife and I each ordered omelettes, the waiter read our orders back to us, but hers was served missing ingredients my was served with extra ingredients. We sent them back for a redo. Rather than put us at the front of the line serving line, we were served the redos as if we hadn't already ordered, i.e., people who got there well after we did were served before we were. I really didn't want to spend my entire morning waiting for breakfast, but at least the scenery was nice. When they brought the redo to our table, my wife's omelette was good, but mine wasn't even an omelette, it was 2-3 fried eggs folded over once. I like fried eggs, but these were hard fried (rock solid yolks) and, of course, a fried egg is not the western omelette I had ordered in what seemed like a prior life. Stuff like that happened quite a bit.

We were in concierge which was still very nice compared to other cruises I have been on, but I can only imagine what life was like outside that bubble for a non-concierge passenger. The quality of the food in the rotational dining has declined significantly. We had dinner a Palo twice/Remy once, they are still very good and the staffing is excellent. The brunch at Palo food-quality-wise has declined substantially (and it's still not a buffet); Remy brunch was very good.

TheNextStacey said:
If you don't have time to listen, here's the transcript from Main Street Moments latest podcast where they discuss in detail Michael's current predicament. They suggest that since allears is dying and it's painful and inevitable, Michael should be the new face of allears. They go so far as to say of course, he would need to bathe and shave, and get better clothes, and no Dave whatsoever - never ever....hahahahah. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

I'm talking about Disney specific vloggers one of my favorite vloggers that I like very much who has become a controversial person is Michael Kay and I like Michael K. I've met Michael Kay several times, he is super nice to everybody he's really cool. We've been watching him for many years now of course. Since he became a Florida resident things got a little weird - he went on like this Bender at Disney where he just overdosed on Disney you know, he's yeah he's a crack addict, he's a Disney fanatic. He lived in Maryland; he came to Florida and then he went on this like a drug addict but on Disney and he was on a constant high. And, whoa and it got a little strange especially with his brother who's a little weird well not a little, his brother's very strange okay - Dave Kay's a very odd man. But I like Michael K a lot and we talk about Michael K A Lot on this program because I I really like Michael Kay but I like the old Michael Kay. A lot of people do.

There's been a change with Michael K which I'm building up to guys that I want your thoughts on but Michael Kay the way he used to do things is he used to do a video every day of the week at around 8 or 9 A.M Eastern. I can't remember it was either eight or nine Eastern and it was an informational video. I don't know why this stands out in my mind but a couple years back they changed the rules on the sizes of the baby carriages that you could take the strollers so he would do he would do a little video and he would tell you what the new rules are or you know minor little things like that I don't know how how he came up with a different topic every day. I'm like wow this guy just coming up with great ideas and he learned so much about what was going on at the place and then on occasion every few months he would come to Florida and spend time at the parks and it was exciting. Then he got here and he went on this non-stop bender and uh gained a lot of weight and everything because he's eating the Disney food and stuff that happens, he stopped shaving and then took very strange photographs with Dave, like when they were the figment or the dream finder or those yoga poses on the cruise.

I really like him and I'm rooting for Michael Kay to get back where he was. He's always done cruising on occasion Disney cruising, but a few months ago he started the transition his channel into a cruising channel and then he didn't have a video for like a month almost. He had taken an Alaskan cruise it wasn't even a Disney cruise, by the way, the Disney cruise rip off is a lot of money and you can have a better cruise for a lot less money on better cruise ships..., but um anyway, he did this Alaskan cruise and then he didn't do a vlog for quite some time and then he did a weird video that he showed a parade. I can't remember which parade it was - was it the Christmas or the Halloween parade? And he just was standing there showing the parade he didn't even talk or show himself was very unusual and then all of a sudden this week he's done two live streams one from Hollywood Studios and one from Epcot and I've never known him really to be a live streamer at the parks, but he's been live streaming from the parks now. I don't mind.

I like his live stream. I've been saying for years he should be live, I think it would be but I think he'd be very successful at it and I always felt and I've talked to you about this, that he should live stream one day a week, maybe on a Wednesday or a Tuesday when there's no other live streamers, like Lake Buena Visitors, That Crazy Disney Lady, ResortTVOne. Those are live streamers we watch and you know everybody's got their night or their time, some people do it multiple times a week but I think he'd be very good at it because he's very communicative with the audience. He's very talkative. It's just weird because I'm so used to seeing him on camera, and yeah he's never on camera anymore. But people would complain sometimes that he's on the camera too much because he was in every single shot and sometimes that would get a little annoying because I'm like to see what you're looking at and I don't think he meant anything by it. I don't think he's an arrogant person. I think he just felt that we were his friends and it was like brought us more into it. I feel like I'm a friend of Michael Kay. He brought us more into being at the park with him - like he was talking to us and I think that was the way he
went, but now I never hardly ever see him on camera and then he did a couple of videos where he was at home with some information there's a lack of consistency and hey that's his prerogative.

I don't know where he's at with YouTube, um his views are down because there's no consistency and his channel is not growing. If you want a channel to grow you have to be consistent like when he was first starting out. When we first started watching him like four years ago, he was extremely consistent. He had a video every day and then he would go like on a Disney Vacation two or three times a year and it was a huge build up with the packing and the planning and that was awesome and he had a video every day. Now you don't know when his videos are coming or what it's going to be. I don't know what's up. I'm sure he won't comment and tell us but I don't know what's going on. And I don't think a lot of people do.

Let me tell you open about it - I want Michael Kay to regain his momentum and be successful because I really like Michael Kay a lot and I know
he cares for his viewers on his channel and I know he loves Disney. If Michael Kay happens to listen to this or someone who knows Michael Kay is
listening - I really enjoyed his two live streams this week. I thought they were very good, they were very informative. You know I like Resort TV but sometimes I feel like I'm watching a Telethon like Jerry Lewis's Telethon because there's so much money coming up. There's so much thanking for the super chats - well they have a generous audience - and I feel like are they are they raising money for Jerry's kids, and there's nothing wrong with super chats but sometimes it's just out of control.

Michael Kay, I really enjoyed his live streams and he adds a lot of value on the live streams. When he was doing his live streams it wasn't a Non-Stop thank you for the PayPal and the super chats. He was going around showing you things, enjoying them and explaining them and everything else. So I hope he starts live streaming more because I want Michael Kay to get back where he was. You know it would be really good and this might be crazy and the best way he can do that is to never Vlog with his brother again. Yes.

You know it would be really interesting, I don't know if this would be good or bad but, all ears.net is clearly dying a slow death. It is. Molly and them are
doing great with the Mammoth Club. Horrible name but anyway, they're doing well. Molly's great, we all love Molly, but all ears.net is dying without Molly. They need a name, they need a person. They got like 10 people there. They're all over the place, there's no one person you can like really bond with that's like a super authority. We were talking about they should hire somebody. What if they hired Michael Kay or what if they hired Spokesmayne?

We thought we'd put that name out there - that he might be good. I think if allears.net fired everybody else and they hired Michael Kay - gave him like a one-year contract or whatever if you're listening - and obviously they can edit and control the content and get him on track get him a script. Get him to dress nice, yeah exactly. And he's very good on camera, I think that would be a super idea. What do you guys think if allears.net hired Michael Kay, fired everybody else, hired him and make him the face of all your stuff. I think he'd do it. You know only really put him on track. The people on allears.net that are on there now, I have no personal dislike of any of them, but when Molly left all ears.net and started the one of the most successful YouTube channels for Disney that is Mammoth Club, because it grew faster than anyone - their Patreon is insane - Molly on Mammoth Club makes more money on Patreon in a month than some people make in a year. That's right and you know so they're doing very well and everybody that's on allears.net I like them, but they're what I said when Molly left was they are Supporting Cast. They're not the leading men and women and they're very nice and all - I can't remember their names now - what's the Seabiscuit, the funny guy, what's his name, you know I'm talking about love muffin, I don't know, they all got nicknames. I don't know, but they're just they're Supporting Cast. I think we have a great idea, hire Michael Kay. I'm telling you I think that would be right.
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That is one warped view of reality offered up by mainstreetmoments!

HeyLetsGoState said:
He played all those people for a sucker and I applaud him for it. It's a solid grift. Targeting hordes of fat middle-aged women that wander a children's theme park looking for 'autographs' from glorified cosplayers and furies, gulping down Dole Whips and eating fried foods all week long saying "Calories don't count at Disney, tee-hee. I'm just pooh-sized....."

He played them all for a fool. Got them to send him gift cards, money, merchandise, etc. Then subscribe to his patreon channel which provides zero value at all.

It's one of the best grifts I've seen in a hot minute. Good for him.

A fool and their money are often parted. And this was a prime example of it.

Mike, if you're reading this. Just nuke it all and vanish. The channel, the videos, the facebook group, the patreon, all of it. Just nuke it all and walk away. Don't even have a good-bye
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But the day after you posted Trump made his big important announcement that you can buy a rendition of him in a space suit for $99 😂 😂 😂 The fact that he said he was better than Washington and Lincoln add a level of sophistication to the grift that Michael can only dream about.
 
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I wonder what the venue will be for Michael Kay’s wedding? Will it be at Walt Disney World? On a Disney cruise ship? At Castaway Kay? Who will cater the event? Will they serve Bison Burgers? Chicken sandwiches that are fried instead of fried chicken sandwiches? Night Blossoms? No alcohol?
Whatever happens, Michael is not going to have to pay for it. Usually the father of the bride has to pay the bill. And will Michael invite his dad?
 
Just arrived at WDW for a few days. What are the odds I run into Mike? I know he moved here specifically to be closer to the magic and hangs out at the parks and resorts nearly every day so I’m hoping my chances are good! I noticed he hasn’t posted a video or even really talked about Disney in quite some time. He can’t be over it all, can he? I sure hope not. His wardrobe consists pretty much entirely of children sized Disney t-shirts so that would be a waste. I’m actually thinking of vlogging but that would require me to focus on technology while I’m in the parks and Mike lectured me about not doing that. But wait, how do his vlogs exist then? Nevermind. I’m also thinking of staying at the parks past closing time cuz that’s what Mike said to do. Although, didn’t he also used to always mention how how appreciative he was for the cast members and how hard they had it and how he didn’t want to make anything more difficult for them? Does that mean they would appreciate having to shoo me out of the place? Oh well. Off to eat some protein items and things containing 75 grams or more of sugar. Have a magical daaaaaayyyy.
 
It looks like Michael is making a miraculous return to vlogging. Can one of our insiders give us a synopsis?

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