Some quick thoughts from my perspective:
1. While most of the team is good, for me the core of the show is and always has been Pete, John, and Kevin. When any or all of those three are absent, I am far less interested in the show and find it less enjoyable.
2. I agree that the housekeeping segment is once again way too long. Pete had cut it way back for a while, but now it has grown again. If everything they plug in housekeeping is truly needed, then I would suggest sprinkling the plugs throughout the show in small bites, rather than having one huge segment of it before any real content begins.
3. I enjoy the news and rapid fire segments and would not want them to go away. But I also enjoy the more freewheeling discussions and a lot of humor and banter between the team. I think once the news stories are done, Pete should allow the show to be more freeform and less structured than it is now.
4. While I don't mind some content outside of Walt Disney World (e.g.,
Disney Cruise Line,
Disneyland, etc.), I tune into this primarily as a WDW show, and I think there has been too much non-WDW content of late.
5. I think some of the other podcasts, like the Disney Dining Show and the Best/Worst show, while good in their own right, have left the main show hurting for content in slow news weeks. I, for one, really miss having dining reviews be a part of the main show, for example, and having John and Kevin participate in them.