Hopefully this helps answer some questions...
1. Pete is the boss and we listen to him. He wants his show live and we make it happen and when he wants to sub in for pre-recorded shows we listen, and at the end of he day it is all his choice and we are doing his bidding.
2. The shows are recorded out of Pete's house and when he says we can't come over, we can't come over and that's that.
3. We realize that it does throw people out of their loop when the podcast doesn't come out, but 99% of the time we try to make up for it with extra content. We know this is benefits video viewers more than audio listeners, but we could just do nothing and leave it at that.
4. The Universal Show sadly will never be live again. At this point we struggle to get it pre-recorded in the studio in the days that we have over there to do so and we'd lose another day of park time to being in the studio and it's kind of hard to proclaim that you're experts at helping plan perfect vacations when you never spend time in the parks.
5. The Disneyland Show will be back soon - it will be different, but it will be back soon.
6. Finally, Ryno and I both loved doing DIS POP, but it just wasn't working as a weekly show and the audience retention didn't help the case. It's essentially the same as a TV show you love getting cancelled after the first season. If only more people would've tuned in, the network probably wouldn't have cancelled it.