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A Return Trip to Florida's Walt Disney World

Shitara Osamu took roughly one week off this summer and headed to Walt Disney World in Florida. The party of six included Shitara, Tsukaji and Touch from Drunk Dragon (Drank Dragon), plus staff and managers. Tsukaji, apparently, went on a posting frenzy on X during the trip — uploading photo after photo along with full, formally written captions that Shitara described as reading "like proper essays, with official attraction names and everything." Touch was equally active on social media, meaning the entire trip ended up documented in near real-time for fans to follow.

It was Shitara who invited Tsukaji in the first place. He explained that he floated the idea on-air, then had a manager negotiate on Tsukaji's behalf — and it came through. For Tsukaji, who rarely gets the chance to take a proper extended holiday, the trip was something of a rare occasion.

Four Parks and an Almost Incomprehensible Scale

Walt Disney World covers an area equal to or larger than the area inside the Yamanote Line loop in Tokyo. The group worked through all four parks: Magic Kingdom (the area anchored by Cinderella Castle), Animal Kingdom (home to the safari experience and Avatar-themed attractions), EPCOT (recognizable by its iconic geodesic sphere, housing World Showcase pavilions and the Guardians of the Galaxy ride), and Hollywood Studios (which contains a dedicated Star Wars zone with four or more attractions on its own). On a separate day they also visited Universal Studios for its nighttime Halloween Horror Nights event, which featured a Stranger Things collaboration.

Just moving around inside the parks pushed the group to between 17,000 and 23,900 steps per day for four or five consecutive days. Shitara noted that on an ordinary day he barely walks 2,000 steps, and laughed that it's only natural for men around age 50 who normally rely on cars to fall apart when asked to walk 20,000 steps every single day. Even with frequent use of the paid Lightning Lane skip queues, popular attractions still meant 30-to-40-minute waits, and the days vanished faster than anyone expected.

Hitting the Wall: The Day Shitara Tapped Out Early

Around the middle of the trip, the fatigue became insurmountable. By 6 p.m. one evening every member of the group was completely spent. Shitara announced he was heading back to the hotel and would return if he recovered — adding with a laugh that he already knew at that moment there was absolutely no chance he'd be coming back. He returned to the hotel and slept for roughly ten hours straight. Tsukaji and Touch, unwilling to leave early, stayed behind and caught Magic Kingdom's grand finale: the fireworks and projection mapping show on Cinderella Castle. The exhaustion had reached the point where people were falling asleep while standing in attraction queues, and blacking out the moment they sat down for a show.

Touch's Immaculate Trip Preparation

The group's preparations before departure became a talking point in their own right. The full party met for a meal ahead of the trip, during which Touch shared a list of essentials: comfortable walking shoes were non-negotiable, and he'd put together a recommended viewing list of Disney, Marvel, and Star Wars titles to watch in advance so everyone could appreciate the attractions. On the ground, Touch had an impeccable sense of timing — at exactly the right moments of the afternoon he would produce salt-replenishment tablets (two flavors: lemon and pickled plum, packed in a zip-lock bag) and hand them around. He also packed a collapsible travel electric kettle and a stack of instant cup noodles in his suitcase. On top of that, he arrived with his suitcase deliberately left half-empty in order to fill it with local snacks and food during the trip, then swap those out for souvenirs on the way home — a seasoned traveler's move that left Shitara genuinely impressed. "I honestly can't tell which of the two of them is more meticulous," Shitara said, marveling at both Touch and Tsukaji.

The Akasaka Request Taikai and Next Week's Preview

The second half of the episode featured the annual 'Akasaka Request Taikai' (赤坂リクエスト大会) segment. Because the podcast version cannot use the music itself for copyright reasons, only the talk portions around the songs were included in the distributed audio. The episode closed with an announcement that Shiori-chan will appear as a guest the following week, and a call for listener questions ahead of her appearance.