Very Amusing with Carlye Wisel - A Theme Park Podcast

Gab Sesh: We Moved!

Buckle up, because we’ve got a bunch of VERY honest chit-chat ahead! From tummy issue updates and the products I’m loving right now to the very real consequences of criti

My (Unexpected) WDW Bucket List!

What’s that you say? A bunch of very fun things at Walt Disney World that I desperately want to do and think you would too?! That’s what we’re getting into on this week’s

Is Europa Park BETTER Than Disney World? (ft. Zach Laks)

This week, we welcome my dear friend and colleague Zach Laks on the show to school us about EUROPA PARK! Did you know that random German theme park with the fake Spaceshi

D23 Recap (with The Mouselets!)

I am OBSESSED with The Mouselets — the hilarious sister-duo who do such extensive and entertaining coverage of Disney Parks -- that we all thought, hey, why don't we gab

25 D23 Predictions I'm Absolutely Convinced Will Come True

Is it some Reputation: Taylor's Version clownery for theme park news? Or just one journalist's very grounded predictions that have actually business and financial reasoni

A First-Timer's Guide To Halloween Horror Nights (with Universal's Lora Sauls!)

Too scared to experience Halloween Horror Nights? Never fear!! Lora Sauls (Assistant Director of Creative Development and Show Direction for Art and Design, Entertainment

Gab Sesh: July!

Universal's surprise coaster opening, the wildest Broadway production in NYC, popcorn price hikes at Disneyland, a laughable bucket list trip and the return of an old fav

Muppets At The World Cup?!! ft. Madeline Hill (The Sports Gossip Show)

We had to bring our sportiest friend of the pod on the horn to do a *mini episode* on WHAT THE HECK THE MUPPETS WERE DOING AT THE WORLD CUP!!!! Enter: Madeline Hill, co-

I Made It To My Bucket List Dream Museum!!!!!!!!

THE STREETS OF OLD MILWAUKEE ARE MARKED SAFE FROM ME NOT SEEING THEM BEFORE DEMOLITION!!!! I zipped my lips since the second I visited this BRILLIANT soon-to-be-closed-a

Mini Guide: Disneyland!

A mini episode with all my essential info about Disneyland and some yapping about my faves! Whether or not you have an imminent trip, this one is as fun to listen to as i

It's...A Churros Hotline Episode!

YEEEEHAW we’re answering all your questions on this Churros Hotline episode! Overseas Disney theme parks, D23 planning, Wisconsin Dells, French fries!? We’ve got it all! 

Gab Sesh: June!

It’s…a chaotic gab sesh! Call it a summer solstice or just my entire family wanting to be a part of the action but we got the gabbing done regardless of school being out

18 Of My Freshest Disney World HOT TAKES!

Listennnnn I just spent half a month at Disney World having two very different trips in the same place and boy do I have some THOUGHTS TO SHARE!! The good (how much money

Disney Superlatives! (with Drew Taylor)

It’s the end of the school year…so we’re passing out yearbook-style rankings across all of Walt Disney World with writer, podcaster and a hero of a man, Drew Taylor! (The

Oh, We Got A LOT of Disney World STUFF To Talk About!

**THE ISSUE WITH OUR INTRO HAS BEEN FIXED -- IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE REFRESH YOUR FEED! EXTREME APOLOGIES + THX! - THE MANAGEMENT** My voice is (mostly) back wh

It's...The Electric Mayhem!!!

We're doing a *mini-episode* this week because I lost my voice screaming about Kermit the Frog (in my defense, who wouldn't!!!) so we are instead going to focus on MY INT

Gab Sesh: We're Going To Disney World!!

and I'm literally here!!!! it's 1:30am I should be asleep but instead I'm here so delighted to tell you about all the new things at Disney World that I'm planning to expe

3x3 with Todd Martens!

I am DELIGHTED to welcome LA Times' Todd Martens back onto Very Amusing for a new concept we're calling 3x3, wherein myself and one of my colleagues battle it out with ou

How Things Work: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!

We all have been sleeping on Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade...and that ends today!!! Cross this one off the dream episode bucket list, because we're about to learn the in

Gab Sesh: April! (Disneyland, Universal Fan Fest Nights, Lots of Life Stuff!!)

oooh baby we're getting into it this month! Hear my wild and wacky Disneyland routine shift — and an observation I am pretty sure a Disney corporate finance person will w