Disney Detective Tells All! Live Q&A
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Hey, there we go.
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We're live.
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Hello, Randy.
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Well, Megan, how the heck are you?
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I'm doing great.
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How about you?
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You know,
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I always say every day is a good
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day on the right side of the grass.
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I'm on the right side of the grass.
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I agree with you.
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I'm having a great day.
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It was beautiful weather today.
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I got a lot done.
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I had some good meetings.
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It was a good day.
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So I'm so grateful to be
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here with you again.
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I love our conversations.
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Our last conversation was about Disney.
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And we just finished the
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episode where you talked
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about your time as a Disney detective.
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So someone in the chat was asking,
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who is the Disney detective?
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Well, it's Randy Watts, everyone.
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So can you remind us what
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years you worked for the
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Walt Disney Corporation?
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Yeah, you know,
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I went on vacation to Walt
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Disney World in nineteen ninety.
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And instead of going to the parks,
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we saw this castle building
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and saw that it was the casting center.
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So my wife and I,
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just for chuckles and grins,
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popped into the casting
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center and they ended up
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interviewing us that day.
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And we both walked out with employment.
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And I walked out with full-time employment,
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which they didn't even do at the time.
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But he felt like maybe my qualifications,
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he made an exception and
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hired me as a full-time.
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Well, that's amazing.
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Yeah.
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And then you worked your way
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all the way up from being just a,
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what did they call you
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right at the beginning?
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It wasn't quite a detective yet.
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No, no.
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I was just a security guy.
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It's like a quasi police department.
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You know, I had a police car and uniform,
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but I was in uniform and
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patrolled the whole
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property or I may be
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assigned to one particular park.
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But yeah,
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I had to do that for six months
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while I learned all of the
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ins and outs and every gate
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and every opening and
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anything that might go wrong,
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I had to study and learn.
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And six months to the day,
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I went into the
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investigations office and I said, look,
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I've done what you've asked.
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I'm ready to become a detective, i.e.,
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investigator.
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They soften up their
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language a little for everything.
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Right.
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They want it to sound a
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little more Disney.
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I think that's the adjective.
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Yeah.
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And then you worked your way
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all the way up to a resort manager.
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Well, I did.
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I was actually the first...
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I'm not bragging because
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it's not that important,
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but I was the first individual...
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to ever go from my position
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right into resort management.
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And they put me through
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Disney University in the
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hospitality area and taught
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me the ins and outs and, you know,
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threw me in.
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That's amazing.
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So I noticed after we did our episode,
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now I should have done this
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before we did our interview.
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But after our interview,
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I talked to my daughter,
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who is a Disney person.
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And I talked to my son,
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who is a conspiracy theorist.
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He loves to research conspiracy theories.
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And
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It turns out that I fell
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short and I did not ask you
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the questions that they
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would have wanted me to ask you.
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And so I went and did some
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research and found the top
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questions that people want
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to know from Disney.
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And we actually hit the majority of them.
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You'll be interested to know.
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The ones that people want to
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know the most about are
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about the utilidors,
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the underground tunnels,
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People want to know what's
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inside Cinderella's castle suite.
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They want to know about the
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abandoned and hidden areas.
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And that's one of the things
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we didn't quite get into enough,
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but maybe you can talk about that.
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They want to know the truth
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behind the no death policy,
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the hidden Mickey's Club thirty three,
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which we talked about the
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smell it smell itizers.
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Is that what you called it?
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The smell itzers.
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Yeah, Smellitzers.
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And then the other thing we
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didn't really touch on is
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what happens to lost items.
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So those were the top things
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that people wanted to know about.
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Do you have any more
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comments about something
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maybe we didn't cover in the episode?
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Well,
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I'm actually truly surprised that one
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of the questions wasn't,
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is Walt Disney frozen?
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Well,
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that's definitely one of the
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conspiracy theories that's out there.
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From what I understand,
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that's been debunked.
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Or do you have more
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information about that?
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No, he is not frozen.
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He's buried.
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Yeah.
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And he was cremated, wasn't he?
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He was.
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Well, you know, I don't know that answer.
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Okay.
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So I did a little bit of research.
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I think that what I came up
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with is that he was cremated.
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And when I told that to my
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son who enjoys conspiracy theories,
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he said, well, how do you know?
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might have just cremated his
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body and frozen his head
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there are people that have
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done that um in the cryo
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world I know that there are
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several heads that are
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preserved and frozen but
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that certainly isn't an
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expert I'm certainly not an
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expert in that I can I can
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tell you all about funerals and
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body preparation because I
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worked in the funeral
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industry for a while.
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But yeah,
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I don't know anything about the
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science of cryo
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What is it?
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Cryogenetics.
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Cryogenetics.
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Yeah.
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And we'll, you know,
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that's a rabbit hole for another time.
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We'll talk to you about your
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funeral industry experience
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probably in another episode.
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But for tonight,
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we're going to stick with Disney.
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We're going to stick with
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Q&A from our live audience here.
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So if anybody in the chat
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has some questions for Randy,
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I would love to hear them.
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I'm sure Randy will do his
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best to answer them.
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But for now,
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let's get back to just a
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couple of things that we
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didn't talk about in this
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episode because I just
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didn't know to ask.
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But a couple of people have
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asked me about abandoned
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projects like Discovery
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Island and River Country,
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which was a water park, wasn't it?
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I don't know if you know
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anything about that.
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Well,
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I do know that they modify them into
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different themes and different rides,
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you know,
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like Space Mountain and the
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Matterhorn in California.
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They have changed up the
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themes and they've become
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different rides.
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I have to tell you, well,
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I want to tell you one
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quick thing about Tinkerbell.
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because it's kind of a fun
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experience but you know
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every night uh at ten
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o'clock before the
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fireworks the first thing
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that happens is the park
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just goes dark the lights
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go down and all of a sudden
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you hear the music and the
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twinkling and the the the
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uh the great big are there
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spires on the castle
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they start twinkling and
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people look up because it
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grabs their attention and
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tinkerbell comes from the
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very tip top of that castle
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and flies down with her
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magic wand and uh goes away
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and then the and the music
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is all it's really cool
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it's a neat experience and
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the music starts and
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the fireworks go off,
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I was assigned because they
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always have to have someone
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present when Tinkerbell
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prepares for her flight.
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And so I went backstage
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before she had gotten her
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outfit on and it's several,
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she's just a tiny little thing.
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And her mother was
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Tinkerbell and her
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grandmother was Tinkerbell.
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Oh, wow.
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So it runs in the family.
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Yeah.
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It's just a tiny little thing,
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but they put all of this
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material on her and these
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tight vests and things.
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And, uh, you know,
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to make sure it's a hundred percent safe.
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And then they dress her in
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her Tinkerbell costume and
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she goes up onto the roof.
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This is, this is while it's dark.
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She goes up onto the roof.
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There's a ladder.
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And there's a line that
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she's hooked up to and it
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pulls her up to the very
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tip top of the castle.
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But no one sees that because
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it's dark and no one's
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paying attention in the dark.
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You know, if they looked closely,
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they would see her being
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pulled up on this zip line.
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And then when the music
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starts and everything happens,
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the zip line is released and she,
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you know, it's controlled speed.
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But she comes down from the
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castle doing her wand and
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all the sparkly lights and everything.
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And she lands on the top of
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one of the buildings.
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But she goes out of sight so
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you can't see her land.
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But she lands on the same
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top of the building that
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she took off from.
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Okay.
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And climbs down and all the
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layers come off and she gets paid.
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Incredible amount of money
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to do really on a nightly basis.
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Yeah Yeah, very wealthy.
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I Wanted to be tinkerbell,
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but for some reason they
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didn't think I would make a good one.
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I Don't know why Well,
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you've got the right color
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of glasses for sure.
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Oh Yeah,
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well it could be that I weighed
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three hundred and ten
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pounds at the time So
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that's that's one reason
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Fortunately, a lot of that's gone now,
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but yeah.
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And I was going to tell you
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another little experience
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that I forgot to tell you
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last time when I was sent
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to Europe to open the Euro Disney project,
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now Disneyland Paris.
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it was just being built so I
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mean there were so many
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things that hadn't even
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been constructed yet and my
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assignment was just to walk
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the property get to know it
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every little inch of the
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property and the fencing
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and stuff and there was
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this big like a a mound
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with a cave in it and I I
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was so curious you know so
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I walked in and
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here's this huge dragon
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laying there and I thought
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wow that's incredible they
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make it look so realistic I
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didn't know what the
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attraction was going to be
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but I just know that this
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dragon was laying there and
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it was enormous and then I
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noticed that it was
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breathing and I'm like
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oh that makes it look so
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realistic and all of a
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sudden the eyes pop open on
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this dragon and it flings
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its head and it was in
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chains and all the chains
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snapped and broke and it
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threw its neck around and
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looked right at me and fire
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came billowing out and the
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loudest roar and
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I hope nobody was watching
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because I came running out
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of that thing so fast.
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I was scared to death.
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I should have been wearing
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diapers at the time because
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it threw me off.
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But, you know,
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the Imagineers do that kind of stuff.
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I was walking at Epcot
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Center one time when I was in uniform.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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What was it?
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It was an attraction or what was it?
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Yeah, it was called the Dragon's Lair.
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and it had just been you
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know they they they were
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building it from the inside
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out so the inside was
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complete and it looked just
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like the inside of a real
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cave you know and uh and
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the chains that snap and
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everything that's that
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really adds to the effect
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because yeah it had a huge
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metal collar thing on its
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neck and on its feet and
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there were skeletons
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human bones laying all over
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the place so it put you in
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the mood right away that
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you're going to be killed
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and eaten but man when it
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snaps those chains and
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comes at you and that fire
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comes out it made me weaken
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the knees so you were so
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you were afraid for your
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life really but it was so
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it was an attraction it
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just wasn't finished yet
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and you just stumbled upon it
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yeah because that's what I
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was doing I was looking at
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everything I had uh I had a
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similar experience at epcot
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center when I was in
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uniform um there was uh you
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know they have the
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different pavilions and one
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of them is all about the
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human body and um within
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that pavilion there's this
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little guy that
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controls the brain and it's
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a theater that you sit in
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and he does this whole show
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about the different parts
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of the brain and you know
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his robotics are amazing he
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comes to life and
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everything well I started
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out on the midnight shift
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and so my my uh my duties
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there as I learned the
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property was to go and uh
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put a key in in all these
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different attractions that
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hey I've been there all looks well
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And I was, you know,
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I'll admit I was a little,
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it was a little spooky
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because I didn't think
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there was anyone else in the pavilion.
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And I was walking through
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that theater and all of a
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sudden that little guy that
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controls your brain came to
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life and his chair swung
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around and he says, howdy.
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Once again,
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I almost had to give myself CPR.
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Um, I bolted out of there so fast and I,
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I heard laughter and it was
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those dang Imagineers that
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were working on the robotics.
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They love to do stuff like that.
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Yeah.
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So they,
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they surprised you on purpose so
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that they could get a little laugh.
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Yeah.
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They got a kick out of that.
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And then,
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and then within a couple of weeks, uh,
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I was at the sea, the pavilion,
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all about the oceans and seas,
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the sea life,
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they have aquariums and everything.
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And one of my
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responsibilities was to go
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into the medical autopsy
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area for the sea life when
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they have to operate on them.
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And they had these dolphins
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swimming around in a pool inside there.
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And I'm like, oh, those are so cute.
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And there were balls
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floating on the water that
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they would play with.
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So I went over and I took
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one of the balls and I said, hey, hey.
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And one of the dolphins swam
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up to me and I was going to
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toss the ball.
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And that thing, you know,
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you think of dolphins.
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I always think of flippers so friendly.
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That thing came up out of
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the water and the mouth
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opened and I thought I was
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going to lose my hand.
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So, yeah,
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there's all these little surprises I had,
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which.
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kind of threw me you know in
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the beginning and I'm sorry
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if I got off track because
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no that's okay that's okay
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I love I love hearing all
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of these little secret
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things and I'm sure our
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audience does too we all
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you know I don't know lots
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of people have been to
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Disney but you know these
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little secret um stories
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and everything things that
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people don't really know
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and so this is the only
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place to get them right
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behind the scenes from
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someone who actually worked there
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One of the funnest things
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that I used to like to take my family on,
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at night we'd go and I
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could get in twenty-four hours a day,
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you know,
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and I'd drive in and I'd just hop into my,
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I had an unmarked police
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car with the spotlights and
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everything and
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I'd get into the car and get
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the kids in there,
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and I'd drive back into the
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preserve area.
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Do you remember last time we spoke,
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I told you that gators end
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up in the pool all the time
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and in the ponds and things
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where the public is,
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and they have to capture
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the gators using their marshmallow luring,
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you know?
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Get them in a cage,
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and they release them in
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Disney's preserve because
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they don't want to hurt any wildlife.
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Yeah.
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So there's a river back there,
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or a big river-like pond, actually.
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that is just chucked full of alligators.
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And so I drive,
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there was a little bridge
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that went over it.
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And then I take my
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flashlight and shine it and
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gators eyes glow bright red.
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Then it was fun.
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My kids used to love seeing
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when I put the spotlight
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across all these bright red
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looked like bright lit up
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Marbles or lights and then
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the Gators would start
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barking they bark like dogs
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kind of It's a very eerie
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sound unless you're safe in
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your car on a bridge, right?
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I can imagine but no one
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knows about that area.
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It's a It's a really neat
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preserve also all of the
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trees at Disney they're
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beautiful and they're in
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perfect condition and
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people have asked me so many
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times how on earth do they
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keep all these trees so
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perfect there's never any
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you know there's lightning
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all the time in florida I
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was walking in the studios
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it was during the day and
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they had a thunderstorm
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come up and a bolt of
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lightning hit one of the
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palm trees and just fried
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it and there are these
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really tall palm trees like in hollywood
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But what's really neat is
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the Disney nursery for
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every tree they have on property,
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no matter what park or resort,
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they have five other trees
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in this nursery that are
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ready to go in the event
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that there's a car accident
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that wipes them out or lightning.
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So by the next morning,
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that palm tree was replaced
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with another huge, tall palm tree.
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And there was just absolutely no sign that
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One of them had been damaged
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and that's back in the area
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where people can't see,
00:19:09.929 --> 00:19:10.749
but it's really an
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interesting tour to go
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through that nursery and
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see every plant and all the, uh,
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what do they call them?
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Uh,
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topiaries that are carved like Mickey
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and Minnie and all these bushes that,
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you know,
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they're all replaceable in just
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a number of hours.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And that's actually one of
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the things that one of my
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people asked me about is
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the nature preserve.
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Um,
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they seemed to believe that
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there was some place inside
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the animal kingdom that was
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kind of secreted away from
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everyone that was intended
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to be a nature preserve.
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And then kind of didn't really,
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I don't know, is that, is that where the,
00:19:49.345 --> 00:19:51.266
the gators are or is there a separate,
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is there another location?
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It's separate and it's away
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from the public.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It's completely away from the public.
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But and I have to say that
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I'm not familiar with the
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animal kingdom because I
00:20:05.744 --> 00:20:07.086
was there when they were building it.
00:20:08.193 --> 00:20:09.993
but I never actually got to
00:20:10.054 --> 00:20:11.095
go through it and I need to
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go back sometime.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That was one of the things that I,
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I actually really loved the
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most when I went a few times,
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I took students,
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high school students to a
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Disney vacation.
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In fact,
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it's about to be spring break over here.
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I don't know about where you are,
00:20:26.156 --> 00:20:28.498
but every other year as a choir teacher,
00:20:28.577 --> 00:20:29.817
I would give up half of my
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spring break so that I
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could take students on a trip somewhere.
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And we went to Disney four times and,
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San Francisco once and New York City once.
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And that was the that was
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the extent of it.
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The kids always wanted to go
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to Disney World.
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Oh, man,
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I wish I wish I was in your choir.
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Yeah,
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so we would leave school usually the
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Friday before spring break,
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and we would go Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
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Monday, and then fly back on Tuesday.
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And we tried to do one park per day.
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So it was a whirlwind trip.
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We always tried to keep the
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kids as worn out as possible.
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I think we did anywhere from...
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fifteen to twenty miles of
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walking every single day
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that we were there just to
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wear them out so they
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wouldn't get into mischief
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in the in the nighttime.
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But I loved I loved the animal kingdom.
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And one of my favorites was
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the safari excursion.
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So you would get in these jeeps, you know,
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pretty large jeeps.
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They would hold one to ten, sorry,
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twelve to fifteen people.
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And you would go around this
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little safari.
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And what amazed me is that from the jeep,
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it looked like there were no
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fences and no enclosures
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and you were looking at
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things like cheetahs and
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leopards and lions and you
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know things like that but
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it looked like they weren't
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contained in any way so it
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sort of gave this illusion
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that they could kind of
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come up to the jeep at any
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time they wanted to it was
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a little bit scary but I'm
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sure that they had
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invisible fencing probably
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electric fencing in there
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somewhere to keep people safe
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Yeah,
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they're pretty clever with that stuff.
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And yeah,
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people are incredibly safe there.
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Yeah.
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The Imagineers do a good job.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Unless people do something, you know,
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stupid.
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Right.
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Right.
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And that's safe.
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Right.
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There are rules for a reason.
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And this is kind of what I
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was talking about in the
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chat with the other video is that,
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you know,
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people don't generally get
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harmed unless they're
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breaking a rule of some kind.
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Although there are, of course,
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exceptions to that.
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But one of the other
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questions that I got was
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about the secret room above
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the firehouse.
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Do you know anything about that?
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I am sorry.
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I just don't know what
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they're talking about.
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Okay.
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Walt Disney World?
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Yeah,
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so this was a viewer who saw that I
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had posted that I was doing
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this interview today, and they said,
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there's a quote-unquote
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secret room above the
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firehouse near Main Street,
00:23:02.709 --> 00:23:04.730
which was supposed to be
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Walt's planned hideaway,
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which piqued my interest.
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People want to know if it's
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still in use or just a time capsule.
00:23:14.372 --> 00:23:16.594
well walt's walt's hideaway
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was in the kingdom in the
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castle the cinderella
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castle cinderella's castle
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his beautiful apartment up
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there for that he had built
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for him and his wife he
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passed away before he could
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live there but that was his
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intention to actually be
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able to live up in the
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castle when you know when
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he was in florida and uh
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Yeah, beautiful, perfect,
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and the view of everything is awesome.
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Yeah, I bet amazing.
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That's the highway I know about.
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And we had certain areas
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that we'd take celebrities
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when we wanted to watch the parade.
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We'd get up on the roofs and things.
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Yeah, it's a new way.
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Yeah.
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And then when...
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We had the vice president
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and the president, which is frequent.
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It's like every vice
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president and every
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president visits Walt Disney World.
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Secret Service comes three
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days before the president arrives.
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And all of the manhole,
00:24:22.217 --> 00:24:23.837
the covers of the manholes
00:24:23.857 --> 00:24:25.299
in the streets in Orlando
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are all welded shut.
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And all around Disney property,
00:24:29.942 --> 00:24:31.644
the manholes around the
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property are welded shut.
00:24:34.607 --> 00:24:36.329
and we were assigned to be
00:24:36.430 --> 00:24:37.652
up on the roof with one of
00:24:37.672 --> 00:24:39.094
the secret service agents
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and they they would go up
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each roof had a secret
00:24:44.681 --> 00:24:46.502
service agent on it to
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watch everywhere the
00:24:47.824 --> 00:24:50.468
president went and they would have these
00:24:52.243 --> 00:24:54.704
Strange, they were weapons, they were guns,
00:24:55.005 --> 00:24:56.605
but they were so strange.
00:24:56.644 --> 00:24:58.566
They looked like square
00:24:58.645 --> 00:25:02.626
black boxes with a scope
00:25:02.666 --> 00:25:05.008
coming out and it had laser
00:25:05.067 --> 00:25:06.988
systems and everything on it.
00:25:07.147 --> 00:25:08.929
And it was so intriguing to
00:25:08.969 --> 00:25:12.349
be up on the roof and watch
00:25:12.369 --> 00:25:14.590
these guns track the president.
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So yeah, if you happen to become president,
00:25:18.592 --> 00:25:18.892
Megan,
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You'll be safe when you get
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to Walt Disney World for sure.
00:25:24.366 --> 00:25:26.367
Well, I think I'm pretty much unelectable,
00:25:26.407 --> 00:25:27.909
but I appreciate the support.
00:25:31.170 --> 00:25:33.451
So one of the other questions.
00:25:33.471 --> 00:25:35.211
Well, so first of all, Tim asked,
00:25:36.153 --> 00:25:37.012
how does Tinkerbell,
00:25:37.053 --> 00:25:38.773
I think he's referring to Tinkerbell,
00:25:38.874 --> 00:25:40.055
how does she start and end
00:25:40.095 --> 00:25:40.954
on the same building?
00:25:41.055 --> 00:25:42.155
I'm assuming it's something
00:25:42.195 --> 00:25:43.297
to do with the zip line and
00:25:43.336 --> 00:25:44.176
a pulley system.
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Can you explain more about that?
00:25:46.299 --> 00:25:47.661
you bet it's uh you know it
00:25:47.701 --> 00:25:48.921
kind of reminds me of a big
00:25:49.280 --> 00:25:51.162
heavy-duty clothesline you
00:25:51.201 --> 00:25:52.362
know how when people live
00:25:52.422 --> 00:25:53.603
in high-rise buildings
00:25:53.643 --> 00:25:54.663
they'll have clothes lines
00:25:54.682 --> 00:25:56.104
that jut out and they can
00:25:56.183 --> 00:25:57.443
pull the line and it will
00:25:57.763 --> 00:25:59.184
put the clothes out and
00:25:59.224 --> 00:26:00.144
then they pull the other
00:26:00.265 --> 00:26:01.566
end and it brings them back
00:26:02.185 --> 00:26:04.787
so when in the dark when
00:26:04.807 --> 00:26:06.728
she's going uphill you know
00:26:06.928 --> 00:26:08.808
it's it's motorized and
00:26:08.848 --> 00:26:10.509
it's taking her up all the
00:26:10.528 --> 00:26:11.910
way up to the top of the castle
00:26:13.724 --> 00:26:15.846
Then it's released and she's
00:26:15.906 --> 00:26:18.448
coming downhill and lands
00:26:18.508 --> 00:26:19.587
right there on the building too.
00:26:19.627 --> 00:26:21.388
Okay, that makes sense.
00:26:21.429 --> 00:26:23.970
Yeah, it's not like a free fall for her.
00:26:24.029 --> 00:26:25.131
It's all motorized.
00:26:25.651 --> 00:26:30.153
But yeah, she ends up where she starts.
00:26:30.173 --> 00:26:31.673
You know,
00:26:31.713 --> 00:26:32.855
and something interesting about
00:26:32.894 --> 00:26:34.194
the fireworks at Disney,
00:26:35.675 --> 00:26:36.856
when I was in uniform,
00:26:36.997 --> 00:26:39.478
we always had to have someone stationed
00:26:40.443 --> 00:26:42.684
in the area right underneath
00:26:42.724 --> 00:26:43.904
where the fireworks went
00:26:43.984 --> 00:26:45.026
off now it looks like
00:26:45.046 --> 00:26:46.526
they're going off right
00:26:46.586 --> 00:26:48.267
over the castle but that's
00:26:48.307 --> 00:26:50.508
an illusion it's uh they're
00:26:50.548 --> 00:26:51.907
actually going off back
00:26:51.948 --> 00:26:53.429
behind the castle and
00:26:53.449 --> 00:26:55.450
there's a large grass field
00:26:56.410 --> 00:27:00.191
and when when the sergeant
00:27:00.211 --> 00:27:01.612
took me and dropped me off
00:27:03.205 --> 00:27:06.507
He said, that little shed out there, shed,
00:27:07.228 --> 00:27:12.229
S-H-E-D, is protection for you.
00:27:12.509 --> 00:27:15.029
And I said, wait, protection for what?
00:27:15.089 --> 00:27:15.810
He goes, you'll see.
00:27:15.830 --> 00:27:16.911
He says,
00:27:16.951 --> 00:27:19.031
you just stay under there during
00:27:19.051 --> 00:27:19.811
the fireworks.
00:27:20.311 --> 00:27:22.192
And if you see anything
00:27:22.252 --> 00:27:24.933
burning or breaking out into a fire,
00:27:25.394 --> 00:27:26.994
you know, call on the radio.
00:27:28.020 --> 00:27:29.382
And he said, oh, here's a hard hat.
00:27:29.402 --> 00:27:30.942
I'm like a hard hat.
00:27:31.682 --> 00:27:33.423
He said, trust me, trust me.
00:27:33.502 --> 00:27:34.323
Just put it on.
00:27:35.104 --> 00:27:36.183
So I put on this hard hat
00:27:36.223 --> 00:27:37.284
and I went and stood under
00:27:37.324 --> 00:27:38.525
this little tiny shed.
00:27:38.944 --> 00:27:39.184
I mean,
00:27:39.224 --> 00:27:40.566
it's like a little shed that you'd
00:27:40.586 --> 00:27:41.965
have a barbecue grill under
00:27:42.346 --> 00:27:44.547
no walls or anything, just on stilts.
00:27:46.192 --> 00:27:47.692
And when those fireworks started,
00:27:48.512 --> 00:27:51.294
it was like I was in some kind of a war.
00:27:52.194 --> 00:27:54.556
All of the burning shrapnel
00:27:54.576 --> 00:27:55.596
would hit the ground and
00:27:55.615 --> 00:27:56.757
they were just pounding
00:27:56.797 --> 00:27:59.258
down on this tin roof of this shed.
00:28:00.270 --> 00:28:01.172
And, you know,
00:28:01.211 --> 00:28:02.372
it's funny because you think
00:28:02.392 --> 00:28:03.512
of the fireworks and you
00:28:03.553 --> 00:28:04.512
don't even think about
00:28:04.553 --> 00:28:05.513
where did they all go?
00:28:06.054 --> 00:28:08.336
Well, they go in this grass area.
00:28:08.496 --> 00:28:11.737
It's really large and it's just boom, boom,
00:28:11.836 --> 00:28:13.077
little bombs hitting
00:28:13.157 --> 00:28:14.979
everywhere and shrapnel
00:28:15.118 --> 00:28:16.519
slamming down on the shed.
00:28:16.579 --> 00:28:19.521
And I could see why I needed
00:28:19.541 --> 00:28:20.862
a hard hat just in case I
00:28:20.902 --> 00:28:22.262
had to run out or something.
00:28:22.282 --> 00:28:22.363
Yeah.
00:28:22.383 --> 00:28:26.305
So that's kind of an unseen
00:28:26.806 --> 00:28:28.906
thing about Disney is the fireworks.
00:28:30.619 --> 00:28:32.240
Yeah, I bet that was an experience.
00:28:33.843 --> 00:28:34.903
One of the other questions
00:28:34.923 --> 00:28:37.905
that I got was about the lost and found.
00:28:39.847 --> 00:28:41.308
Somebody mentioned that
00:28:41.348 --> 00:28:44.131
there were probably a huge
00:28:44.250 --> 00:28:47.173
amount of very odd items in
00:28:47.193 --> 00:28:48.535
the lost and found and
00:28:48.575 --> 00:28:49.816
wanted to know how long
00:28:49.836 --> 00:28:51.336
they're kept and what's
00:28:51.376 --> 00:28:52.979
done with them if nobody claims them.
00:28:53.019 --> 00:28:54.259
Do you know anything about that?
00:28:54.934 --> 00:28:56.355
I do know all about the lost
00:28:56.375 --> 00:29:02.239
and found for both items and children.
00:29:02.619 --> 00:29:04.721
Because there's so many kids
00:29:04.760 --> 00:29:05.820
that get separated from
00:29:05.861 --> 00:29:06.781
their mom and dad.
00:29:07.102 --> 00:29:09.544
They actually have a station for that,
00:29:09.584 --> 00:29:11.904
for lost and found kids,
00:29:11.984 --> 00:29:13.306
if someone finds a child.
00:29:14.451 --> 00:29:16.192
they they are directed you
00:29:16.212 --> 00:29:17.493
know they ask anybody and
00:29:17.513 --> 00:29:18.394
they'll direct them right
00:29:18.434 --> 00:29:20.076
to this area where they
00:29:20.096 --> 00:29:22.877
have toys and and food and
00:29:23.057 --> 00:29:24.298
juice and everything to
00:29:24.338 --> 00:29:26.280
entertain the kids and and
00:29:26.300 --> 00:29:28.241
disney movies going until
00:29:28.281 --> 00:29:29.603
their mom and dad who will
00:29:29.702 --> 00:29:31.605
also ask an employee I've
00:29:31.644 --> 00:29:33.266
lost my kid what do I do
00:29:33.326 --> 00:29:35.887
and they're like it's no problem and they
00:29:36.666 --> 00:29:38.868
they radio and say the
00:29:38.909 --> 00:29:40.431
parents are here at such
00:29:40.490 --> 00:29:43.192
and such and so the parents
00:29:43.232 --> 00:29:44.595
and the children are reunited.
00:29:46.016 --> 00:29:47.657
As far as items go, yes,
00:29:48.077 --> 00:29:49.199
there are a ton of things
00:29:49.239 --> 00:29:50.681
found that some of it's
00:29:50.740 --> 00:29:52.142
illegal contraband and
00:29:52.162 --> 00:29:54.183
that's turned over to investigations.
00:29:54.924 --> 00:29:57.507
What isn't illegal is all
00:29:57.527 --> 00:29:59.429
turned into a very large
00:29:59.489 --> 00:30:01.211
lost and found central area.
00:30:01.903 --> 00:30:03.243
up towards the front of the
00:30:03.263 --> 00:30:05.105
magic kingdom so that if
00:30:05.145 --> 00:30:06.667
someone comes asking if by
00:30:06.728 --> 00:30:08.950
any chance anyone found a
00:30:09.009 --> 00:30:11.152
wallet or a phone or camera
00:30:11.952 --> 00:30:15.256
and and tons of cameras I'm
00:30:15.296 --> 00:30:17.877
sure they they they can
00:30:18.378 --> 00:30:20.580
describe it and claim it um
00:30:20.601 --> 00:30:23.083
there are lockers in the
00:30:23.103 --> 00:30:25.625
magic kingdom that are
00:30:25.685 --> 00:30:27.086
underneath the train station
00:30:27.946 --> 00:30:30.229
And it's just an entire wall of lockers.
00:30:30.288 --> 00:30:32.190
And they're always packed full.
00:30:33.090 --> 00:30:35.291
Everyone who has cameras or
00:30:35.333 --> 00:30:36.973
something they don't want to carry around,
00:30:37.433 --> 00:30:38.934
they can turn things into there.
00:30:39.635 --> 00:30:41.477
If no one claims the lost
00:30:41.557 --> 00:30:43.979
and found after a certain period of time,
00:30:44.439 --> 00:30:45.960
they're donated to charity.
00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:50.182
And yeah, I think if I'm not mistaken,
00:30:50.262 --> 00:30:53.546
I think it's three months they keep it.
00:30:55.493 --> 00:30:56.654
I think that's what it was.
00:30:56.994 --> 00:30:58.355
I'm trying to stretch my
00:30:58.395 --> 00:31:01.098
brain back that far.
00:31:01.338 --> 00:31:02.480
Do you happen to remember
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:04.082
anything particularly odd
00:31:04.102 --> 00:31:05.143
that turned up in The Lost
00:31:05.182 --> 00:31:06.604
and Found that you were
00:31:06.624 --> 00:31:07.525
called attention to?
00:31:08.226 --> 00:31:10.047
Most of the odd things were
00:31:11.749 --> 00:31:12.789
like bags of weed,
00:31:14.491 --> 00:31:16.534
crack pipes and things that
00:31:16.554 --> 00:31:17.714
you just wouldn't expect to
00:31:17.734 --> 00:31:18.976
find at the Magic Kingdom.
00:31:18.996 --> 00:31:19.336
Right.
00:31:21.855 --> 00:31:24.836
uh there was there was one
00:31:24.916 --> 00:31:25.998
particular time where
00:31:26.498 --> 00:31:28.478
someone turned in a pair of
00:31:28.778 --> 00:31:31.960
underwear that wasn't
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:36.840
particularly clean but I I
00:31:36.901 --> 00:31:38.342
had to wonder as did all of
00:31:38.402 --> 00:31:43.282
my co-workers how what the
00:31:43.323 --> 00:31:45.903
heck how is this how is
00:31:45.943 --> 00:31:47.404
this laying on the ground
00:31:48.652 --> 00:31:50.875
you know, at Disney.
00:31:50.915 --> 00:31:51.257
Yes.
00:31:51.297 --> 00:31:52.358
And also, you know,
00:31:52.398 --> 00:31:53.480
what would be the point of
00:31:53.541 --> 00:31:55.505
turning that in as a lost item?
00:31:55.865 --> 00:31:56.688
One would think that you
00:31:56.708 --> 00:31:57.930
would just leave it laying
00:31:58.029 --> 00:31:59.212
where you found it.
00:32:00.548 --> 00:32:01.690
I don't think they kept that
00:32:01.730 --> 00:32:02.750
for three months.
00:32:02.911 --> 00:32:04.673
I think that went right into the garbage.
00:32:05.252 --> 00:32:06.114
Let's hope not.
00:32:06.134 --> 00:32:07.255
Oh, my goodness.
00:32:09.436 --> 00:32:12.259
And anything that was illegal, like I said,
00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:14.321
any drug paraphernalia
00:32:16.063 --> 00:32:17.704
would be turned into us in
00:32:17.805 --> 00:32:18.746
investigations.
00:32:19.405 --> 00:32:20.928
And we would just hope that
00:32:20.948 --> 00:32:23.670
the person would come to claim it.
00:32:24.211 --> 00:32:25.392
Obviously, they never did.
00:32:27.236 --> 00:32:28.277
because if they had come of
00:32:28.317 --> 00:32:29.836
course that they would have
00:32:29.916 --> 00:32:31.557
consequences for bringing
00:32:31.597 --> 00:32:33.938
that into the park right
00:32:34.357 --> 00:32:36.598
yeah definitely we we would
00:32:36.638 --> 00:32:37.699
have people wearing
00:32:38.579 --> 00:32:40.299
clothing items that should
00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:42.621
never be in the park um
00:32:42.661 --> 00:32:45.422
some very offensive clothes
00:32:45.501 --> 00:32:46.662
that you know with the f
00:32:46.741 --> 00:32:49.262
word on it or you know and
00:32:49.383 --> 00:32:50.542
I think I covered the
00:32:50.623 --> 00:32:52.784
immodest clothing uh last
00:32:52.844 --> 00:32:55.244
time um where some
00:32:57.018 --> 00:32:57.778
Someone would wear a
00:32:57.818 --> 00:32:59.920
completely sheer shirt or something.
00:32:59.980 --> 00:33:02.903
And, you know, anytime that happens,
00:33:03.202 --> 00:33:04.763
we would approach them and
00:33:04.864 --> 00:33:06.644
let them know that they need to change.
00:33:07.425 --> 00:33:09.247
And if they said they didn't have a shirt,
00:33:09.988 --> 00:33:11.909
you know, and they couldn't get one,
00:33:12.589 --> 00:33:13.790
we would tell them to
00:33:14.550 --> 00:33:16.492
either buy one at the gift shop.
00:33:16.532 --> 00:33:17.773
And if they contested,
00:33:17.834 --> 00:33:19.714
we would give them a very
00:33:19.815 --> 00:33:22.797
cheap Disney shirt that, you know,
00:33:23.218 --> 00:33:25.880
a T-shirt cover the essentials.
00:33:26.769 --> 00:33:27.570
or cover there.
00:33:29.132 --> 00:33:30.353
I'd tell the kids that had
00:33:30.393 --> 00:33:32.575
the nasty things on their
00:33:32.595 --> 00:33:34.336
shirt that they just needed
00:33:34.356 --> 00:33:36.198
to turn them inside out.
00:33:36.337 --> 00:33:37.179
Yeah.
00:33:39.080 --> 00:33:39.601
Interesting.
00:33:40.622 --> 00:33:40.741
Well,
00:33:40.781 --> 00:33:42.222
another one of the questions that I
00:33:42.263 --> 00:33:44.746
got was about the hidden Mickeys.
00:33:45.526 --> 00:33:47.268
And I personally, I mean,
00:33:47.288 --> 00:33:48.429
at least from what I know,
00:33:50.083 --> 00:33:51.664
Disney kind of keeps it
00:33:52.025 --> 00:33:54.146
secret as to how many there are.
00:33:54.646 --> 00:33:55.828
But do you happen to know
00:33:55.848 --> 00:33:56.829
the exact number?
00:33:56.849 --> 00:33:58.550
I mean, you don't have to say.
00:34:00.032 --> 00:34:01.054
There are hundreds.
00:34:01.334 --> 00:34:03.076
They, you know,
00:34:03.096 --> 00:34:04.336
they call them Easter eggs
00:34:04.356 --> 00:34:07.619
and they want people to find them.
00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:09.922
And I think I mentioned you
00:34:09.961 --> 00:34:11.103
go down some of the water
00:34:11.123 --> 00:34:12.565
slides and there will be a Mickey Mouse.
00:34:13.623 --> 00:34:15.146
At some point in that big
00:34:15.206 --> 00:34:17.068
tube you're going down or
00:34:17.168 --> 00:34:18.230
they'll have big huge
00:34:18.309 --> 00:34:21.233
paintings and Mickey will have, you know,
00:34:21.353 --> 00:34:22.856
if you looked really carefully,
00:34:22.876 --> 00:34:24.137
you'll see the different
00:34:24.157 --> 00:34:26.561
characters and even though
00:34:27.021 --> 00:34:27.943
you know you'd really have
00:34:27.963 --> 00:34:28.943
to strain to see him.
00:34:29.704 --> 00:34:33.126
yeah disney collects things
00:34:33.186 --> 00:34:34.965
that have the mickey shape
00:34:35.065 --> 00:34:37.487
as well like every year
00:34:37.507 --> 00:34:39.447
there's a cow that becomes
00:34:39.487 --> 00:34:40.867
the official disney cow
00:34:40.907 --> 00:34:42.788
because it has a mickey
00:34:42.807 --> 00:34:45.768
mouse head and ears it just
00:34:45.809 --> 00:34:47.268
happens to grow like that
00:34:47.289 --> 00:34:49.268
you know and so there's
00:34:49.349 --> 00:34:51.110
always you know the cow that's
00:34:51.873 --> 00:34:53.315
That's awarded the Disney
00:34:53.355 --> 00:34:55.956
cow and any animals or pets
00:34:55.996 --> 00:34:56.858
that happen to have
00:34:56.918 --> 00:34:58.438
something in the shape of Mickey.
00:34:59.139 --> 00:35:01.320
They Disney will either buy
00:35:01.340 --> 00:35:05.043
it or come photograph it and yeah, yeah,
00:35:05.083 --> 00:35:05.864
that's kind of fun.
00:35:07.364 --> 00:35:09.065
And then we'd have the Super
00:35:09.106 --> 00:35:12.208
Bowl winner quarterback who
00:35:12.268 --> 00:35:13.650
you know after the Super Bowl.
00:35:14.775 --> 00:35:15.855
They'd come up and say,
00:35:15.934 --> 00:35:18.536
you've just won Super Bowl XLIX,
00:35:18.695 --> 00:35:19.996
now what do you do?
00:35:20.755 --> 00:35:22.936
And of course, they're instructed to say,
00:35:23.456 --> 00:35:25.217
I'm going to Walt Disney World.
00:35:25.677 --> 00:35:26.077
Yeah,
00:35:26.436 --> 00:35:28.237
and what's the compensation for that?
00:35:28.257 --> 00:35:29.637
Do they get free passes?
00:35:29.777 --> 00:35:30.518
Is it money?
00:35:30.597 --> 00:35:32.577
What do they do?
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:35.219
They get free everything, yeah.
00:35:35.298 --> 00:35:35.719
Okay, gotcha.
00:35:35.739 --> 00:35:38.179
They're treated very VIP,
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:40.320
as are several of the dignitaries.
00:35:40.996 --> 00:35:41.056
OK,
00:35:41.876 --> 00:35:43.677
so that let that be a lesson to you
00:35:44.097 --> 00:35:44.538
people.
00:35:44.637 --> 00:35:46.818
If you are ever a Super Bowl
00:35:46.858 --> 00:35:48.039
winning quarterback,
00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:49.420
make sure that you cash in
00:35:49.460 --> 00:35:50.420
on your Disney prize.
00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:51.762
I actually remember when
00:35:51.802 --> 00:35:52.842
they started doing that.
00:35:52.882 --> 00:35:54.043
It was it was sometime when
00:35:54.083 --> 00:35:54.782
I was a teenager.
00:35:54.822 --> 00:35:56.204
I think I'm not going to date myself,
00:35:56.724 --> 00:35:59.284
but I remember it wasn't
00:35:59.324 --> 00:36:00.545
just the Super Bowl season.
00:36:00.826 --> 00:36:02.266
It wasn't just the
00:36:02.306 --> 00:36:03.467
quarterback at the Super Bowl,
00:36:03.487 --> 00:36:05.268
but it was Olympians when
00:36:05.289 --> 00:36:06.489
they would win their gold medal.
00:36:06.931 --> 00:36:09.813
They had a whole ad campaign at one point,
00:36:09.853 --> 00:36:10.853
and I think it was maybe
00:36:10.873 --> 00:36:13.074
the early nineties, early to mid nineties,
00:36:13.594 --> 00:36:14.436
where it was, you know,
00:36:14.615 --> 00:36:16.376
any of these national heroes,
00:36:16.617 --> 00:36:18.278
people who won something, they would say,
00:36:18.478 --> 00:36:19.400
I'm going to Disney.
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:19.619
Yeah.
00:36:21.092 --> 00:36:22.452
yeah you know uh there's
00:36:22.512 --> 00:36:23.713
special nights that they
00:36:23.753 --> 00:36:26.235
have at disney um grad
00:36:26.275 --> 00:36:27.797
nights for graduation
00:36:27.836 --> 00:36:29.577
they'll they'll go all
00:36:29.677 --> 00:36:31.818
night with the park open so
00:36:31.858 --> 00:36:33.079
that the graduates can
00:36:33.139 --> 00:36:34.300
spend the entire night
00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.103
celebrating and you know
00:36:37.123 --> 00:36:38.103
having fun at disney
00:36:38.143 --> 00:36:39.545
there's actually a few of
00:36:39.605 --> 00:36:41.826
those around graduation
00:36:41.885 --> 00:36:44.108
time there's also um
00:36:45.818 --> 00:36:46.980
One night that's just
00:36:47.641 --> 00:36:51.523
especially for gay people, the gay folks,
00:36:52.804 --> 00:36:54.125
they call it Red Shirt Day.
00:36:54.925 --> 00:36:55.085
Okay.
00:36:55.865 --> 00:36:57.266
And they'd all wear red
00:36:57.306 --> 00:36:58.987
shirts and just have a
00:36:59.027 --> 00:37:00.829
blast and they'd feel comfortable.
00:37:00.909 --> 00:37:01.768
And, you know,
00:37:01.789 --> 00:37:03.971
this was back a ways when
00:37:04.710 --> 00:37:06.152
they might feel otherwise
00:37:06.251 --> 00:37:09.494
uncomfortable with their
00:37:10.534 --> 00:37:11.376
significant other.
00:37:12.275 --> 00:37:13.496
And they just...
00:37:14.724 --> 00:37:15.965
they just had a blast and
00:37:15.985 --> 00:37:17.005
you know they were very
00:37:17.206 --> 00:37:19.047
very that with all these
00:37:19.106 --> 00:37:20.588
groups grad night was tough
00:37:21.748 --> 00:37:24.090
this night for the gay
00:37:24.230 --> 00:37:27.251
folks was always they were
00:37:27.271 --> 00:37:29.472
just so kind and followed
00:37:29.512 --> 00:37:31.114
the rules and they were
00:37:31.153 --> 00:37:33.976
exemplary you know who wasn't exemplary
00:37:36.009 --> 00:37:37.349
And I hate to even say this,
00:37:37.389 --> 00:37:40.210
but the Christian night that they'd have,
00:37:40.751 --> 00:37:41.972
where Christians come from
00:37:42.032 --> 00:37:44.972
all over the United States,
00:37:45.092 --> 00:37:48.974
and that's where we had the most problems,
00:37:49.034 --> 00:37:49.916
because I think they're
00:37:50.036 --> 00:37:52.077
getting away and sneaking
00:37:52.157 --> 00:37:55.237
alcohol in and just going nuts.
00:37:56.931 --> 00:37:58.653
So what did you have to do
00:37:58.753 --> 00:38:00.235
to get in on Christian night?
00:38:00.275 --> 00:38:01.498
Did you just have to profess?
00:38:01.518 --> 00:38:02.798
Did you have to wear a cross?
00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:05.061
What were the requirements for that?
00:38:07.918 --> 00:38:09.920
I guess there was no requirement.
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:10.960
They didn't have to show any
00:38:11.001 --> 00:38:12.262
Christian card or anything.
00:38:12.722 --> 00:38:13.722
They just, you know,
00:38:13.882 --> 00:38:15.143
it's just that's when they
00:38:15.182 --> 00:38:17.344
went because the park was open all night.
00:38:18.244 --> 00:38:19.746
When we had these special groups,
00:38:19.786 --> 00:38:20.985
we would have to leave the
00:38:21.025 --> 00:38:22.567
park open so that the public,
00:38:23.248 --> 00:38:24.668
once the last person left,
00:38:25.068 --> 00:38:26.088
and that was a coveted
00:38:26.128 --> 00:38:27.769
position for the last person.
00:38:28.230 --> 00:38:31.152
Everyone wanted to be the last person out.
00:38:32.184 --> 00:38:34.646
and and we would each have
00:38:34.686 --> 00:38:36.407
an area that we would have
00:38:36.447 --> 00:38:39.407
to cover as the park closed
00:38:39.827 --> 00:38:41.148
and we just bring kind of
00:38:41.528 --> 00:38:43.130
heard the crowd in you know
00:38:43.710 --> 00:38:44.971
you'd look in some of the
00:38:44.990 --> 00:38:47.231
uh attractions because
00:38:47.271 --> 00:38:48.552
people would try to hide so
00:38:48.572 --> 00:38:50.293
that they're right the very
00:38:50.333 --> 00:38:52.793
last person out and yeah
00:38:52.853 --> 00:38:54.094
they they always tried to
00:38:54.114 --> 00:38:56.155
be the last one but once
00:38:56.195 --> 00:38:57.175
everybody was out of the
00:38:57.215 --> 00:39:01.378
park there was a quick cleanup and
00:39:02.731 --> 00:39:04.032
everything starts up again
00:39:04.293 --> 00:39:05.713
and the special groups are
00:39:05.753 --> 00:39:07.454
let in they have one for
00:39:07.474 --> 00:39:08.876
the employees that was just
00:39:09.016 --> 00:39:11.759
amazing and I told you they
00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:13.280
treat the employees like
00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:16.864
gold yeah yeah so when it I
00:39:16.884 --> 00:39:18.025
wanted to ask you when it's
00:39:18.085 --> 00:39:19.706
employee night obviously
00:39:20.126 --> 00:39:21.307
somebody has to be manning
00:39:21.347 --> 00:39:23.369
the rides right so did you
00:39:23.409 --> 00:39:25.012
guys go in shifts or you
00:39:25.032 --> 00:39:27.094
know how did that work well
00:39:27.153 --> 00:39:28.355
I was fortunate enough to
00:39:29.525 --> 00:39:29.826
you know,
00:39:29.865 --> 00:39:31.768
be in a position where whether I
00:39:31.788 --> 00:39:33.351
was working or not, you know,
00:39:33.510 --> 00:39:35.594
I was at the park and
00:39:36.465 --> 00:39:37.967
um yeah we'd take shifts
00:39:38.007 --> 00:39:40.927
with uh the characters the
00:39:41.027 --> 00:39:43.648
shop keepers all of those
00:39:44.369 --> 00:39:46.369
they'd get off halfway
00:39:46.389 --> 00:39:47.411
through their shift and
00:39:47.490 --> 00:39:48.751
someone would come on for
00:39:48.771 --> 00:39:49.692
them so that they could
00:39:50.251 --> 00:39:52.273
cover and it was it was so
00:39:52.313 --> 00:39:53.474
fun they didn't care
00:39:54.034 --> 00:39:55.554
because it's all employees
00:39:55.614 --> 00:39:56.534
coming in with their
00:39:56.574 --> 00:39:58.695
families and it's just a
00:39:58.735 --> 00:40:00.177
good time it's almost like
00:40:00.217 --> 00:40:00.916
they don't have to
00:40:02.141 --> 00:40:04.844
you know they don't have to
00:40:05.786 --> 00:40:07.628
be in character the entire
00:40:07.688 --> 00:40:09.088
time they can loosen up a
00:40:09.128 --> 00:40:11.231
little bit right right it
00:40:11.251 --> 00:40:12.873
was really special that
00:40:12.893 --> 00:40:14.114
that they would celebrate
00:40:14.134 --> 00:40:15.295
their employees like that
00:40:15.896 --> 00:40:18.778
the dressing room for I I
00:40:18.898 --> 00:40:22.442
opened the huge resort the
00:40:22.541 --> 00:40:24.804
sports resort um
00:40:26.302 --> 00:40:27.463
And it's themed with sports
00:40:27.503 --> 00:40:29.664
and it's got I think it was
00:40:30.385 --> 00:40:32.344
thirty five hundred rooms.
00:40:33.746 --> 00:40:34.445
It's enormous.
00:40:34.505 --> 00:40:37.166
And they have these giant sports icons.
00:40:37.226 --> 00:40:38.827
Maybe you've seen them like
00:40:39.728 --> 00:40:41.588
like a cheerleaders megaphone.
00:40:42.429 --> 00:40:43.188
It's huge.
00:40:43.208 --> 00:40:44.309
And there's a stairwell
00:40:44.369 --> 00:40:45.969
inside of it or they'll
00:40:45.989 --> 00:40:47.210
have a baseball bat.
00:40:47.773 --> 00:40:49.094
that would have a stairwell
00:40:49.135 --> 00:40:50.076
inside of it and that's how
00:40:50.115 --> 00:40:51.277
people would get from floor
00:40:51.297 --> 00:40:52.137
to floor if they didn't
00:40:52.157 --> 00:40:54.440
take the elevators but each
00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:57.784
each resort had a theme and
00:40:57.905 --> 00:40:58.945
they would have these giant
00:40:59.086 --> 00:41:04.452
icons or yeah and uh what
00:41:04.492 --> 00:41:05.855
was I going to tell you about that
00:41:09.309 --> 00:41:11.550
it was very popular with the,
00:41:12.010 --> 00:41:13.429
the competition.
00:41:13.730 --> 00:41:14.590
People would come the,
00:41:15.250 --> 00:41:16.831
the cheerleading competition.
00:41:16.951 --> 00:41:18.471
It's a national competition
00:41:18.851 --> 00:41:19.831
that would come each year.
00:41:19.851 --> 00:41:19.971
Right.
00:41:20.952 --> 00:41:21.992
Yeah.
00:41:22.072 --> 00:41:23.632
My daughter actually was there for that.
00:41:23.652 --> 00:41:25.512
Um, a couple of years ago.
00:41:25.592 --> 00:41:25.932
Yeah.
00:41:26.592 --> 00:41:26.773
Yeah.
00:41:26.793 --> 00:41:27.313
They,
00:41:27.393 --> 00:41:28.813
it was always fun because they'd be
00:41:28.853 --> 00:41:31.074
out practicing in the yard, you know,
00:41:31.094 --> 00:41:32.393
and they're so good.
00:41:32.454 --> 00:41:35.155
They're so precision right on.
00:41:35.295 --> 00:41:35.894
But, um,
00:41:37.532 --> 00:41:39.353
And did I happen to mention
00:41:39.572 --> 00:41:40.693
when we were just about to
00:41:40.793 --> 00:41:41.733
open that resort,
00:41:41.793 --> 00:41:43.275
some guy cut himself really
00:41:43.315 --> 00:41:46.056
bad and splattered blood on the ceiling?
00:41:46.815 --> 00:41:47.637
Oh, goodness.
00:41:47.976 --> 00:41:50.097
We had the inspection that
00:41:50.137 --> 00:41:51.318
was happening that day.
00:41:52.077 --> 00:41:55.219
And so, you know, as a resort manager,
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:57.221
this is when I was in resorts,
00:41:57.940 --> 00:41:58.880
I walked through and I
00:41:58.900 --> 00:41:59.981
wanted to look at each room
00:42:00.021 --> 00:42:03.143
to make sure that with this
00:42:03.302 --> 00:42:05.304
inspection that everything was perfect.
00:42:07.059 --> 00:42:08.882
walked into one room and
00:42:09.762 --> 00:42:10.623
just looking around
00:42:10.762 --> 00:42:11.864
something caught my eye and
00:42:11.903 --> 00:42:14.646
it's this big trail blood
00:42:14.686 --> 00:42:16.068
splatter up on the ceiling
00:42:16.088 --> 00:42:18.949
oh and I you know quickly
00:42:19.170 --> 00:42:19.971
you know had people
00:42:20.050 --> 00:42:21.211
investigate for me and
00:42:21.572 --> 00:42:22.492
found out that one of the
00:42:22.532 --> 00:42:23.934
workers had cut his finger
00:42:23.974 --> 00:42:25.195
quite bad and was doing
00:42:25.235 --> 00:42:28.117
this number so I called for
00:42:28.197 --> 00:42:29.219
some of the office people
00:42:29.259 --> 00:42:30.820
to bring the uh white out
00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:32.262
as soon as possible
00:42:33.273 --> 00:42:35.014
and uh and a ladder and they
00:42:35.034 --> 00:42:36.476
did bring it and I took
00:42:36.496 --> 00:42:37.396
that you know that little
00:42:37.436 --> 00:42:39.239
white out that you correct
00:42:39.278 --> 00:42:41.300
typing mistakes with I just
00:42:41.340 --> 00:42:42.460
would unscrew that and dip
00:42:42.501 --> 00:42:44.222
it in and I just went over
00:42:44.302 --> 00:42:46.503
all those blood spots and
00:42:46.523 --> 00:42:48.885
made it white again and I'm
00:42:48.945 --> 00:42:50.606
sure that they're still
00:42:50.646 --> 00:42:51.947
there they're just covered
00:42:52.068 --> 00:42:55.891
up disney magic at that at
00:42:55.931 --> 00:42:57.652
that same resort I received
00:42:57.733 --> 00:43:01.856
a call uh for a possible dead body
00:43:03.161 --> 00:43:03.460
Okay,
00:43:03.481 --> 00:43:05.161
so just warning for anybody who
00:43:05.202 --> 00:43:07.583
doesn't want to hear unaliving details.
00:43:07.963 --> 00:43:09.503
Go ahead.
00:43:09.563 --> 00:43:12.244
So I responded and, you know,
00:43:12.284 --> 00:43:13.846
I had a master key to it.
00:43:13.925 --> 00:43:15.045
I had the keys to the kingdom.
00:43:15.106 --> 00:43:15.947
I had a master key to
00:43:16.007 --> 00:43:18.268
everything and all the resort rooms.
00:43:19.427 --> 00:43:19.929
And, you know,
00:43:19.989 --> 00:43:22.329
I knocked and knocked and I
00:43:22.349 --> 00:43:24.271
could smell it wafting out
00:43:24.311 --> 00:43:25.811
from this room.
00:43:25.891 --> 00:43:27.291
And I'm like, oh, crud.
00:43:27.331 --> 00:43:28.072
You know,
00:43:29.012 --> 00:43:30.713
my mind was going everywhere
00:43:30.773 --> 00:43:31.653
thinking it's not...
00:43:33.103 --> 00:43:34.864
Who's dead in there?
00:43:34.903 --> 00:43:36.204
It's how many are.
00:43:37.405 --> 00:43:40.286
And I knocked on the door and nothing.
00:43:40.327 --> 00:43:42.588
So I opened it up and I
00:43:43.088 --> 00:43:44.509
almost needed an oxygen
00:43:44.548 --> 00:43:45.789
tank to breathe because the
00:43:45.849 --> 00:43:48.030
smell was so strong, this rot.
00:43:48.871 --> 00:43:50.313
And I started looking around
00:43:50.373 --> 00:43:52.273
and looked under the bed
00:43:52.313 --> 00:43:53.715
and there I saw a suitcase.
00:43:54.485 --> 00:43:55.746
that looked like it was
00:43:55.846 --> 00:43:58.646
bulging and I put some
00:43:58.686 --> 00:43:59.927
gloves on and I reached
00:44:00.007 --> 00:44:01.188
underneath and I called for
00:44:01.228 --> 00:44:03.429
the sheriff's office to
00:44:03.469 --> 00:44:06.331
respond from off property
00:44:06.351 --> 00:44:10.652
to respond and the homicide
00:44:10.713 --> 00:44:13.313
unit and I took my gloves
00:44:13.353 --> 00:44:14.635
and I pulled this suitcase
00:44:14.735 --> 00:44:15.775
out and I waited until they
00:44:15.815 --> 00:44:16.755
got there and then we
00:44:16.795 --> 00:44:18.856
reached over and we slowly
00:44:18.916 --> 00:44:21.217
unzipped that suitcase and
00:44:21.358 --> 00:44:23.619
opened it up and there in front of us
00:44:24.717 --> 00:44:28.920
were like eight bottles of Asian kimchi.
00:44:29.521 --> 00:44:31.842
And one of them had broken open,
00:44:32.862 --> 00:44:33.804
I guess when they threw it
00:44:33.864 --> 00:44:38.126
under the bed and it smelled horrible.
00:44:39.628 --> 00:44:40.728
But what a relief.
00:44:40.969 --> 00:44:41.789
Oh, yeah.
00:44:42.168 --> 00:44:42.690
It's like, whew.
00:44:42.710 --> 00:44:43.110
Oh, goodness.
00:44:43.690 --> 00:44:44.431
Oh, wow.
00:44:47.452 --> 00:44:48.773
These people would get a
00:44:48.813 --> 00:44:49.793
hotel room and then they'd
00:44:49.833 --> 00:44:50.914
go on a Disney cruise.
00:44:51.838 --> 00:44:52.739
And the hotel room,
00:44:53.018 --> 00:44:55.121
they'd rent it even while they were gone.
00:44:55.202 --> 00:44:55.963
When they got back,
00:44:56.322 --> 00:44:57.364
they'd still have all their
00:44:57.403 --> 00:44:58.344
stuff that they didn't want
00:44:58.364 --> 00:44:59.666
to take on the cruise in the room.
00:45:00.179 --> 00:45:01.800
And that was the case with this.
00:45:01.820 --> 00:45:03.619
Goodness.
00:45:03.780 --> 00:45:04.380
Yeah.
00:45:04.420 --> 00:45:06.961
So that was a fun experience.
00:45:07.262 --> 00:45:07.481
Yeah.
00:45:07.722 --> 00:45:07.882
Yeah.
00:45:07.922 --> 00:45:08.822
That seems crazy.
00:45:09.422 --> 00:45:09.623
Well,
00:45:09.782 --> 00:45:11.202
I want to share my screen with you
00:45:11.222 --> 00:45:13.364
because I'm going to ask
00:45:13.403 --> 00:45:14.425
you about one of my
00:45:14.485 --> 00:45:18.445
favorite Disney mysteries that is recent,
00:45:18.606 --> 00:45:19.226
actually.
00:45:20.007 --> 00:45:21.507
And I don't know if you know
00:45:21.606 --> 00:45:23.327
about Tally the Elf.
00:45:23.347 --> 00:45:24.949
Have you ever heard of Tally the Elf?
00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:29.922
Tally the Elf must be new.
00:45:29.983 --> 00:45:30.623
I'm sorry.
00:45:30.682 --> 00:45:31.384
I wish I could tell you.
00:45:31.403 --> 00:45:31.945
That's okay.
00:45:32.184 --> 00:45:32.764
That's okay.
00:45:32.864 --> 00:45:34.347
So this is something that
00:45:34.387 --> 00:45:36.548
popped up on my TikTok feed
00:45:36.648 --> 00:45:37.510
over the holidays.
00:45:37.590 --> 00:45:40.092
And admittedly, I'm not a huge TikToker.
00:45:40.291 --> 00:45:42.514
I just have about a thousand
00:45:42.554 --> 00:45:44.596
followers and I don't post very often.
00:45:44.635 --> 00:45:45.777
But it seemed like every
00:45:45.817 --> 00:45:47.398
time I was opening my phone
00:45:47.818 --> 00:45:49.119
from the beginning of November,
00:45:49.199 --> 00:45:50.782
I was seeing these videos
00:45:50.862 --> 00:45:51.902
of Tally the Elf.
00:45:52.563 --> 00:45:54.405
And it was just addictive,
00:45:54.605 --> 00:45:56.246
and I can't explain why,
00:45:56.326 --> 00:45:57.266
but I'm going to play one
00:45:57.306 --> 00:45:58.648
for you so that you can see
00:45:58.748 --> 00:45:59.628
what I'm talking about.
00:45:59.668 --> 00:46:00.429
This is Tally the Elf.
00:46:00.449 --> 00:46:01.030
Yes, Tally the Elf.
00:46:01.050 --> 00:46:02.791
Oh, I have to turn on the volume here.
00:46:02.811 --> 00:46:04.012
Jason!
00:46:04.072 --> 00:46:04.172
Jason!
00:46:04.193 --> 00:46:04.653
That's a good name,
00:46:04.673 --> 00:46:05.514
but it's a naughty name!
00:46:35.978 --> 00:46:37.438
I just think he's so fun.
00:46:38.179 --> 00:46:39.079
That is fun.
00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:42.643
I wonder how many there are.
00:46:42.663 --> 00:46:43.583
Mr. Bear, we're looking for five.
00:46:47.405 --> 00:46:52.367
Naughty!
00:46:52.387 --> 00:46:54.568
I expected more, Bob.
00:46:54.588 --> 00:46:57.590
Get it together, Bob.
00:46:57.630 --> 00:46:58.050
What's your name?
00:46:58.070 --> 00:46:59.711
These all look like the same guy to me,
00:46:59.771 --> 00:47:01.132
so there must be more than one,
00:47:01.753 --> 00:47:02.813
but these are all the same guy.
00:47:02.833 --> 00:47:02.972
Naughty!
00:47:02.992 --> 00:47:03.094
Korea!
00:47:03.114 --> 00:47:03.853
You're not fooling anybody with those.
00:47:03.873 --> 00:47:04.414
You need to get it together.
00:47:04.434 --> 00:47:04.893
What's your name?
00:47:04.914 --> 00:47:05.153
Claudia.
00:47:05.175 --> 00:47:05.335
Claudia.
00:47:05.355 --> 00:47:14.398
Of course.
00:47:16.483 --> 00:47:18.764
What's your name?
00:47:18.844 --> 00:47:19.045
Ashley?
00:47:19.065 --> 00:47:19.105
No!
00:47:19.125 --> 00:47:19.324
Ashley!
00:47:19.344 --> 00:47:19.525
Ashley!
00:47:19.545 --> 00:47:24.027
We were rooting for you, Ashley.
00:47:24.047 --> 00:47:28.690
I'm going to help you out, okay?
00:47:28.730 --> 00:47:30.130
You don't tell Santa.
00:47:30.150 --> 00:47:31.311
You don't tell Santa, Ashley.
00:47:31.331 --> 00:47:31.992
You keep it down.
00:47:32.012 --> 00:47:34.253
You keep it down right there.
00:47:34.333 --> 00:47:40.076
All right, Ashley.
00:47:40.096 --> 00:47:40.356
Good job.
00:47:45.018 --> 00:47:47.539
Anyway, I could watch this guy.
00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:47.898
I mean,
00:47:48.358 --> 00:47:49.780
this goes on for another couple of
00:47:49.820 --> 00:47:50.280
minutes here.
00:47:50.639 --> 00:47:52.561
I could watch him all day.
00:47:52.701 --> 00:47:53.760
I think he's hilarious.
00:47:54.360 --> 00:47:58.023
But the tea is, people love Tali,
00:47:58.422 --> 00:47:59.063
and they would go
00:47:59.143 --> 00:48:00.663
specifically to video him
00:48:00.682 --> 00:48:01.603
during the parades.
00:48:02.384 --> 00:48:03.985
And then people started to
00:48:04.025 --> 00:48:06.025
want to know more about Tally.
00:48:06.706 --> 00:48:09.327
And they started to ruin the Disney magic.
00:48:09.947 --> 00:48:11.068
And they went and found out
00:48:11.148 --> 00:48:12.909
who he actually was.
00:48:13.369 --> 00:48:15.090
And they found his social media.
00:48:15.951 --> 00:48:18.251
And then apparently he got reassigned.
00:48:18.851 --> 00:48:21.032
because I guess Disney did
00:48:21.092 --> 00:48:22.793
not like the fact that he
00:48:22.833 --> 00:48:24.393
was personally getting some
00:48:24.454 --> 00:48:26.414
notoriety for his character.
00:48:26.534 --> 00:48:27.273
I don't know if you had
00:48:27.313 --> 00:48:28.594
anything like that happen
00:48:28.675 --> 00:48:30.514
or if you know anything, you know,
00:48:30.554 --> 00:48:31.715
that you could shed some
00:48:31.755 --> 00:48:33.115
light on this situation for us,
00:48:33.135 --> 00:48:34.076
but I'm just heartbroken
00:48:34.115 --> 00:48:36.496
that Tali may not be an elf anymore.
00:48:37.358 --> 00:48:37.898
Yeah, well,
00:48:37.978 --> 00:48:39.338
it would take one phone call
00:48:39.739 --> 00:48:40.679
for me to find out
00:48:40.719 --> 00:48:41.619
everything about Tally.
00:48:41.639 --> 00:48:41.840
Okay.
00:48:43.221 --> 00:48:45.782
Because the president of
00:48:45.842 --> 00:48:47.742
Walt Disney World was the
00:48:47.802 --> 00:48:48.963
gentleman that I found his
00:48:49.023 --> 00:48:50.023
wallet in the lake.
00:48:50.043 --> 00:48:50.824
Oh, yeah.
00:48:50.864 --> 00:48:51.605
That I told you about.
00:48:52.184 --> 00:48:55.646
So, yeah, he's very gracious.
00:48:55.706 --> 00:48:57.847
And if there's any questions,
00:48:57.927 --> 00:48:59.409
I can certainly call and find out.
00:49:01.170 --> 00:49:01.949
The characters,
00:49:02.150 --> 00:49:03.271
it's really interesting
00:49:03.311 --> 00:49:04.931
because even though you see
00:49:04.971 --> 00:49:05.891
Tally's face...
00:49:06.686 --> 00:49:08.748
and hair and everything,
00:49:09.528 --> 00:49:10.951
I would venture to guess,
00:49:11.010 --> 00:49:12.251
like they do with all of them,
00:49:12.271 --> 00:49:14.873
like Mary Poppins and the princesses,
00:49:15.634 --> 00:49:18.235
there's always, just like at the nursery,
00:49:18.757 --> 00:49:19.757
there's replacements.
00:49:20.277 --> 00:49:21.518
There's always replacements
00:49:21.539 --> 00:49:22.500
that are gonna come in and
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:23.320
you would swear they were
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:24.141
the same person.
00:49:26.043 --> 00:49:27.543
The in costume characters,
00:49:29.985 --> 00:49:32.007
all they have to do is have
00:49:32.027 --> 00:49:33.509
the certain body type and height
00:49:34.550 --> 00:49:37.153
and learn there's no voices
00:49:37.173 --> 00:49:38.054
that they have to do.
00:49:39.536 --> 00:49:41.259
But the un-costumed characters, yeah,
00:49:41.278 --> 00:49:42.500
they always have a backup
00:49:43.221 --> 00:49:45.923
in case Mary Poppins falls
00:49:45.963 --> 00:49:46.824
and hurts herself.
00:49:46.844 --> 00:49:47.105
Right.
00:49:48.777 --> 00:49:48.996
Right.
00:49:49.376 --> 00:49:49.536
Yeah.
00:49:49.556 --> 00:49:50.458
And you talked a little bit
00:49:50.498 --> 00:49:51.898
in our last interview about
00:49:51.998 --> 00:49:54.039
how there was never more
00:49:54.079 --> 00:49:56.320
than one Mickey out at the same time.
00:49:56.360 --> 00:49:57.541
So there's only one Mickey
00:49:57.561 --> 00:49:58.360
in the whole park.
00:49:58.561 --> 00:49:59.601
And, you know,
00:49:59.641 --> 00:50:00.581
there are several people
00:50:00.641 --> 00:50:02.123
playing the same characters.
00:50:02.182 --> 00:50:03.123
And I love that part of the
00:50:03.163 --> 00:50:05.204
Disney magic is that when
00:50:05.224 --> 00:50:06.465
you're playing a character,
00:50:06.925 --> 00:50:08.846
you have to wear the exact costume.
00:50:09.226 --> 00:50:10.266
You have to sign your name
00:50:10.326 --> 00:50:11.447
exactly the way that
00:50:11.467 --> 00:50:12.766
character signs their name.
00:50:13.347 --> 00:50:14.507
I love the attention to
00:50:14.547 --> 00:50:16.108
detail that they've done in that.
00:50:16.949 --> 00:50:19.349
So since you know, sorry, go ahead.
00:50:19.451 --> 00:50:21.452
Were you going to say something?
00:50:21.492 --> 00:50:23.213
When Mickey and Minnie would
00:50:23.253 --> 00:50:25.414
have their show at Mickey's Playhouse,
00:50:27.054 --> 00:50:27.315
you know,
00:50:27.355 --> 00:50:28.896
that was a real popular show and
00:50:28.936 --> 00:50:30.016
people would crowd in.
00:50:30.577 --> 00:50:32.157
And the minute that show started,
00:50:32.318 --> 00:50:33.918
every other Mickey had to
00:50:33.958 --> 00:50:36.679
be gone and out of the park.
00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:38.641
In the tunnels, right?
00:50:38.780 --> 00:50:38.940
Yeah.
00:50:39.021 --> 00:50:39.541
Well, yeah,
00:50:39.561 --> 00:50:41.043
they go right down into the tunnels.
00:50:41.503 --> 00:50:42.784
They don't want anybody
00:50:43.344 --> 00:50:45.164
seeing another Mickey.
00:50:45.822 --> 00:50:47.603
knowing that the mickey's
00:50:47.623 --> 00:50:48.742
playhouse show was going
00:50:49.443 --> 00:50:51.485
right they are masters with
00:50:51.525 --> 00:50:55.126
the magic and uh you know
00:50:55.146 --> 00:50:56.586
they they never cease to
00:50:56.626 --> 00:50:57.927
amaze me even now they're
00:50:57.967 --> 00:50:59.289
always the front runners of
00:50:59.989 --> 00:51:03.411
robotics and uh technical
00:51:03.731 --> 00:51:05.972
illusions you know they
00:51:05.992 --> 00:51:07.952
they they are so good at
00:51:08.393 --> 00:51:09.634
like if you look at the
00:51:09.673 --> 00:51:10.974
disney studios down
00:51:11.054 --> 00:51:14.416
hollywood boulevard it looks so long
00:51:15.219 --> 00:51:16.519
And you know how when you're
00:51:16.539 --> 00:51:17.800
looking down a real street,
00:51:17.820 --> 00:51:20.802
the buildings get smaller as, you know,
00:51:20.842 --> 00:51:21.902
cause they're further away
00:51:22.581 --> 00:51:24.382
and they're able to force
00:51:24.422 --> 00:51:26.903
that perspective on so many
00:51:26.943 --> 00:51:28.224
of their attractions that
00:51:28.784 --> 00:51:30.445
it looks way longer than it
00:51:30.525 --> 00:51:32.164
is because things get
00:51:32.224 --> 00:51:33.405
smaller and smaller.
00:51:34.065 --> 00:51:36.146
And if someone is playing a role where,
00:51:36.746 --> 00:51:38.447
you know, they have to be big and huge,
00:51:38.487 --> 00:51:39.867
then everything around them,
00:51:39.907 --> 00:51:41.168
they make sure is smaller.
00:51:42.288 --> 00:51:44.409
They're just masters at, you know,
00:51:45.282 --> 00:51:47.822
at, I don't want to say deceit,
00:51:47.882 --> 00:51:49.483
masters at illusions.
00:51:49.963 --> 00:51:51.905
Illusion, magic, right?
00:51:52.264 --> 00:51:52.465
Yeah,
00:51:52.525 --> 00:51:55.126
so if I were going to play a taller
00:51:55.186 --> 00:51:55.706
character,
00:51:55.746 --> 00:51:56.586
they would have to make sure
00:51:56.626 --> 00:51:57.887
everything around me was very,
00:51:57.927 --> 00:51:59.748
very small.
00:51:59.849 --> 00:52:00.568
Yep, yeah.
00:52:00.588 --> 00:52:02.090
It's forced perspective.
00:52:02.804 --> 00:52:04.025
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:04.065 --> 00:52:06.427
So I think I mentioned in our last episode,
00:52:06.447 --> 00:52:09.289
I've always wanted to play the bad ones,
00:52:09.349 --> 00:52:10.210
the bad queens,
00:52:10.271 --> 00:52:12.353
the evil person or whatever,
00:52:12.373 --> 00:52:13.773
and they would never cast me as that.
00:52:13.853 --> 00:52:15.094
I think it would be so fun
00:52:15.534 --> 00:52:17.617
to be the evil queen from Cinderella.
00:52:17.717 --> 00:52:19.478
The first time that I went to, well,
00:52:19.898 --> 00:52:20.719
the first time I went to
00:52:20.759 --> 00:52:22.561
Disneyland as an adult and
00:52:22.621 --> 00:52:25.001
not as a child was the
00:52:25.041 --> 00:52:26.443
first time that I realized
00:52:27.063 --> 00:52:29.206
that right across from,
00:52:29.786 --> 00:52:31.608
I think it's the Peter Pan ride,
00:52:32.248 --> 00:52:33.768
If you look up in the building,
00:52:33.829 --> 00:52:35.110
there's a window and the
00:52:35.210 --> 00:52:36.510
evil queen is in the window
00:52:36.530 --> 00:52:38.452
and the curtains open and
00:52:38.472 --> 00:52:39.532
you see her sort of look
00:52:39.552 --> 00:52:41.215
around and then the curtains close.
00:52:41.695 --> 00:52:43.096
And that was the first time I'd seen that.
00:52:43.155 --> 00:52:44.896
And I didn't notice this
00:52:45.358 --> 00:52:46.438
until I was an adult.
00:52:47.259 --> 00:52:48.519
But sometimes the evil queen
00:52:48.539 --> 00:52:49.820
would come around and talk
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:51.141
to the people in the lines.
00:52:51.202 --> 00:52:53.202
And she was very condescending.
00:52:53.242 --> 00:52:54.483
She was very high and mighty,
00:52:54.543 --> 00:52:55.724
had her nose in the air,
00:52:55.744 --> 00:52:58.286
refused to sign autographs
00:52:58.346 --> 00:53:00.068
unless you absolutely begged her.
00:53:00.847 --> 00:53:02.389
And then I didn't notice this,
00:53:02.429 --> 00:53:03.349
but when she was around
00:53:03.389 --> 00:53:04.190
walking in the crowd,
00:53:04.230 --> 00:53:06.311
those curtains always stayed closed.
00:53:06.831 --> 00:53:08.112
When she wasn't around,
00:53:08.233 --> 00:53:09.974
the curtains would open periodically.
00:53:10.193 --> 00:53:11.795
But when she was down in the audience,
00:53:11.835 --> 00:53:13.215
they made sure to keep
00:53:13.235 --> 00:53:13.996
those curtains closed.
00:53:14.036 --> 00:53:15.137
I thought that was so cool.
00:53:15.663 --> 00:53:18.365
Yep, same principle with, you know,
00:53:18.385 --> 00:53:20.047
the Mickeys and the different characters.
00:53:20.067 --> 00:53:21.809
Yeah,
00:53:21.849 --> 00:53:23.731
you would make a great Cruella de Vil.
00:53:24.923 --> 00:53:26.425
Oh, oh, thank you.
00:53:26.686 --> 00:53:27.485
I don't think I'm quite
00:53:27.505 --> 00:53:29.007
skinny enough to be Cruella de Vil,
00:53:29.027 --> 00:53:30.588
but I do drive like a mad person.
00:53:30.608 --> 00:53:34.831
Do you have any Dalmatians by any chance?
00:53:35.072 --> 00:53:36.213
I have no Dalmatians.
00:53:36.333 --> 00:53:37.653
I have a couple of dogs that
00:53:37.673 --> 00:53:38.755
are velociraptors,
00:53:38.795 --> 00:53:40.617
but they're not they're not spotted.
00:53:40.637 --> 00:53:42.018
Their coats would not would
00:53:42.057 --> 00:53:43.239
not make a good fur coat.
00:53:43.579 --> 00:53:44.300
So they're safe.
00:53:46.240 --> 00:53:46.541
You know,
00:53:46.722 --> 00:53:49.684
I was never I never spoke to the
00:53:49.704 --> 00:53:50.224
characters.
00:53:51.815 --> 00:53:53.318
that's a huge no-no.
00:53:53.838 --> 00:53:54.300
No employees.
00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:56.423
You'll never see an employee
00:53:57.585 --> 00:53:59.088
communicating with a character.
00:53:59.931 --> 00:54:02.596
They do have people that watch over them
00:54:03.182 --> 00:54:05.103
You know, like if someone,
00:54:05.664 --> 00:54:06.945
some ding-dong wants to
00:54:06.985 --> 00:54:08.987
come up and try ripping a
00:54:09.007 --> 00:54:11.590
part of the costume off of them or her,
00:54:13.411 --> 00:54:14.331
they have someone that will
00:54:14.411 --> 00:54:15.733
intervene right away.
00:54:15.753 --> 00:54:18.014
So they have people maybe at
00:54:18.054 --> 00:54:19.215
a distance that you can't
00:54:19.255 --> 00:54:20.356
really detect that are
00:54:20.396 --> 00:54:21.838
always watching the characters.
00:54:21.858 --> 00:54:22.297
Yeah.
00:54:22.637 --> 00:54:24.278
Sure, they're hostesses,
00:54:24.358 --> 00:54:25.699
and actually you can detect
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:30.043
them there in the ambassador outfits.
00:54:31.143 --> 00:54:33.286
I was offered something that
00:54:33.365 --> 00:54:34.547
I wish I would have accepted,
00:54:34.586 --> 00:54:36.068
and I regret it to this day,
00:54:36.188 --> 00:54:40.170
but the character manager
00:54:40.311 --> 00:54:42.072
who manages all Disney characters...
00:54:43.215 --> 00:54:44.235
Called me up and asked if
00:54:44.295 --> 00:54:46.257
I'd like to go on a cruise
00:54:47.456 --> 00:54:48.677
and I'm welcome to take
00:54:48.697 --> 00:54:50.318
that cruise anytime I want.
00:54:50.818 --> 00:54:52.539
All I need to do is watch
00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:54.661
over those characters like
00:54:54.740 --> 00:54:56.641
three different times throughout the day.
00:54:58.463 --> 00:55:00.043
And I didn't I didn't do it.
00:55:00.143 --> 00:55:00.384
I mean,
00:55:00.603 --> 00:55:02.864
I had the opportunity several times,
00:55:02.925 --> 00:55:04.606
but it's like, you know.
00:55:05.672 --> 00:55:05.972
I don't know.
00:55:06.012 --> 00:55:07.032
I can't even tell you why I
00:55:07.072 --> 00:55:09.213
didn't do it because I should have.
00:55:09.833 --> 00:55:11.414
With my attitude about life now,
00:55:11.474 --> 00:55:13.295
I definitely would do it.
00:55:14.096 --> 00:55:15.916
But yeah,
00:55:16.297 --> 00:55:17.557
they always have someone watching
00:55:17.617 --> 00:55:17.878
over them.
00:55:18.438 --> 00:55:20.018
You don't want to ever have
00:55:20.039 --> 00:55:23.119
to speak to them backstage all the time.
00:55:23.260 --> 00:55:25.181
But once they're on stage,
00:55:26.222 --> 00:55:26.981
you don't ever want to
00:55:27.021 --> 00:55:29.003
compel them to have to speak back to you.
00:55:29.202 --> 00:55:30.603
Everything is hand signals.
00:55:30.704 --> 00:55:34.186
Everything is, come here.
00:55:34.206 --> 00:55:34.905
They never speak.
00:55:37.461 --> 00:55:38.101
It's interesting.
00:55:38.121 --> 00:55:41.043
It's just part of that illusion,
00:55:41.264 --> 00:55:42.284
that Disney magic.
00:55:43.123 --> 00:55:43.364
Yeah.
00:55:44.644 --> 00:55:44.885
Yeah.
00:55:45.585 --> 00:55:46.306
Well, that's amazing.
00:55:46.365 --> 00:55:46.846
I love that.
00:55:48.626 --> 00:55:50.447
So if I ever wanted to
00:55:50.547 --> 00:55:51.947
actually be a character, I mean,
00:55:52.007 --> 00:55:53.407
since you have some ends
00:55:53.967 --> 00:55:55.449
over there at the Disney Corporation,
00:55:55.509 --> 00:55:56.329
I could just, you know,
00:55:56.789 --> 00:55:57.929
you could set me up with
00:55:58.010 --> 00:55:58.969
one of those twenty five
00:55:59.010 --> 00:56:00.351
interviews you had to go through.
00:56:01.791 --> 00:56:02.632
You wouldn't have to pass
00:56:02.672 --> 00:56:03.233
through that many
00:56:03.273 --> 00:56:05.054
interviews for being a character.
00:56:05.914 --> 00:56:07.554
That was because I would be
00:56:07.574 --> 00:56:08.916
going into upper management.
00:56:08.996 --> 00:56:11.416
But, yeah,
00:56:11.496 --> 00:56:12.898
if you ever want to be a character,
00:56:13.358 --> 00:56:14.699
I've got the connections to
00:56:14.739 --> 00:56:15.679
do that for sure.
00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:19.400
And it just takes, you know,
00:56:19.460 --> 00:56:21.942
having the right personality.
00:56:21.981 --> 00:56:23.842
And if they're going to hire
00:56:23.882 --> 00:56:25.164
you as Cruella de Vil,
00:56:25.204 --> 00:56:26.023
then you're going to want
00:56:26.043 --> 00:56:27.125
to act like a real character.
00:56:28.338 --> 00:56:30.579
Cruella type of a person.
00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:31.900
Yes,
00:56:32.601 --> 00:56:35.244
I'd have to wear my fur coat and talk
00:56:35.284 --> 00:56:36.965
about the puppies, the puppies,
00:56:37.025 --> 00:56:38.244
and where's my cigarette?
00:56:41.186 --> 00:56:42.507
I think I'm a little too old
00:56:42.527 --> 00:56:43.708
to start a journey as a
00:56:43.748 --> 00:56:45.469
character at this point in my life,
00:56:45.510 --> 00:56:46.570
but it sounds like fun.
00:56:47.391 --> 00:56:50.092
Well, how old do you think Cruella is?
00:56:50.492 --> 00:56:52.014
Well, that's a good question, I guess.
00:56:52.195 --> 00:56:53.815
I guess I don't really know
00:56:53.876 --> 00:56:55.016
how old Cruella is.
00:56:55.777 --> 00:56:57.137
Well, she's exactly your age.
00:56:57.947 --> 00:57:00.507
Oh, do you know how old I am?
00:57:02.307 --> 00:57:03.648
Yeah, I know everything about you.
00:57:03.668 --> 00:57:05.148
I was an investigator.
00:57:05.929 --> 00:57:06.429
Oh, okay.
00:57:06.469 --> 00:57:09.311
So you looked me up and you're still here,
00:57:09.490 --> 00:57:13.231
which is amazing.
00:57:13.251 --> 00:57:14.492
You know all my secrets and
00:57:14.512 --> 00:57:15.972
you decided to show up anyway.
00:57:16.273 --> 00:57:16.992
They're all out.
00:57:17.413 --> 00:57:19.034
I'll put them on Facebook or something.
00:57:20.382 --> 00:57:22.143
Well, you know, the funny thing is,
00:57:22.302 --> 00:57:23.362
I guess I probably don't
00:57:23.382 --> 00:57:24.264
really have very many
00:57:24.324 --> 00:57:25.463
secrets because I spend a
00:57:25.503 --> 00:57:26.605
lot of my life talking
00:57:26.644 --> 00:57:28.704
about my entire life right
00:57:28.744 --> 00:57:29.585
here on YouTube.
00:57:30.045 --> 00:57:31.445
And I actually have one of my,
00:57:31.806 --> 00:57:33.266
I do some one-on-one coaching.
00:57:33.847 --> 00:57:35.108
One of my coaching clients,
00:57:35.708 --> 00:57:36.748
the very first meeting that
00:57:36.809 --> 00:57:38.489
I had with her, she said, well,
00:57:38.528 --> 00:57:39.449
I feel like I know you
00:57:39.530 --> 00:57:40.769
already because you tell
00:57:41.050 --> 00:57:42.550
way too much information
00:57:42.590 --> 00:57:43.811
about your life online.
00:57:43.851 --> 00:57:44.010
Yeah.
00:57:47.726 --> 00:57:48.985
I wanted to share this
00:57:49.106 --> 00:57:50.106
mystery that I have.
00:57:50.126 --> 00:57:51.427
You had one about Tally.
00:57:52.226 --> 00:57:52.487
Yes.
00:57:52.726 --> 00:57:54.108
My mystery is this.
00:57:54.708 --> 00:57:56.688
I was walking in the sports resort.
00:57:57.568 --> 00:57:59.869
I was... I don't know where I was going,
00:57:59.909 --> 00:58:01.389
what I was doing, but I was walking,
00:58:02.871 --> 00:58:04.010
trying to check on something.
00:58:04.851 --> 00:58:05.692
And all of a sudden,
00:58:07.233 --> 00:58:08.333
something yellow came
00:58:08.413 --> 00:58:09.632
flying down in front of me
00:58:09.652 --> 00:58:10.534
and hit the ground.
00:58:11.893 --> 00:58:13.835
And I looked at it, and it was...
00:58:15.260 --> 00:58:16.840
you know when you take a
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:18.902
flight uh there's always
00:58:18.963 --> 00:58:20.643
the flight attendant that
00:58:20.664 --> 00:58:21.885
will go over the
00:58:21.925 --> 00:58:23.085
instructions and they have
00:58:23.126 --> 00:58:24.726
that life vest and they
00:58:25.306 --> 00:58:26.507
pretend they put it on and
00:58:26.527 --> 00:58:27.489
they pretend like you pull
00:58:27.509 --> 00:58:28.548
the cord and everything
00:58:29.150 --> 00:58:30.510
yeah it was one of those
00:58:31.471 --> 00:58:33.492
but okay there was there
00:58:33.512 --> 00:58:35.353
was nowhere for it to have
00:58:35.393 --> 00:58:38.195
come from I mean unless
00:58:38.235 --> 00:58:39.436
someone was on top of a
00:58:39.476 --> 00:58:40.438
building or something and
00:58:40.458 --> 00:58:41.858
then just threw it but that
00:58:41.898 --> 00:58:43.159
makes no sense at all
00:58:44.072 --> 00:58:45.213
That's my little mystery.
00:58:46.195 --> 00:58:47.715
And I have to tell you this
00:58:47.835 --> 00:58:49.717
one experience I had at the
00:58:49.757 --> 00:58:50.918
Disney cafeteria.
00:58:51.760 --> 00:58:55.643
We used to eat at the cafeteria,
00:58:55.702 --> 00:58:57.744
no matter where you are in management,
00:58:58.224 --> 00:58:59.907
you eat with the people
00:58:59.927 --> 00:59:03.949
that are hourly and it doesn't matter.
00:59:03.969 --> 00:59:05.411
They don't segregate, oh,
00:59:05.791 --> 00:59:08.054
you're important or you're high up,
00:59:08.114 --> 00:59:08.974
so you eat here.
00:59:09.315 --> 00:59:11.757
Everyone's a cast member, right?
00:59:11.836 --> 00:59:13.538
Everyone's a cast member, exactly.
00:59:13.617 --> 00:59:16.501
Right up to Michael Eisner at the time,
00:59:17.400 --> 00:59:18.181
whoever it is now.
00:59:18.222 --> 00:59:18.402
Well,
00:59:18.422 --> 00:59:20.364
it's my friend George Kalogridis now.
00:59:20.784 --> 00:59:22.485
He's not over all of Walt Disney,
00:59:22.505 --> 00:59:24.806
but he's over the Walt Disney World.
00:59:25.887 --> 00:59:26.327
Anyway,
00:59:28.230 --> 00:59:30.411
I entered the cafeteria and I had
00:59:30.451 --> 00:59:31.711
my suit and tie on and
00:59:32.952 --> 00:59:36.275
people know who we are as investigators.
00:59:38.978 --> 00:59:41.059
when we're dressed like that and we,
00:59:41.119 --> 00:59:42.059
they look for the little
00:59:42.179 --> 00:59:43.440
earpiece secret thing that
00:59:43.460 --> 00:59:44.802
comes down into our clothes.
00:59:46.422 --> 00:59:48.083
And I was an investigator at
00:59:48.103 --> 00:59:50.623
the time and I was at one
00:59:50.643 --> 00:59:52.764
of the resorts and I went
00:59:52.784 --> 00:59:54.585
to lunch and I got my tray
00:59:55.606 --> 00:59:57.467
and I had my plate of food
00:59:57.586 --> 00:59:59.748
and my drink and a straw sticking out.
01:00:00.969 --> 01:00:06.150
And as I'm waiting in line to pay, um,
01:00:07.907 --> 01:00:10.929
I bent over to take a drink from the straw,
01:00:11.349 --> 01:00:12.811
and someone called my name.
01:00:12.851 --> 01:00:14.711
So I looked up as I'm bending down,
01:00:15.333 --> 01:00:17.094
and instead of going in my mouth,
01:00:17.693 --> 01:00:19.536
the straw went straight up my nose.
01:00:20.496 --> 01:00:23.018
And I have this tray in both hands,
01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:24.840
and I lowered the tray,
01:00:24.860 --> 01:00:26.201
but the straw stayed.
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:28.641
And I could do absolutely
01:00:28.702 --> 01:00:29.842
nothing about it except
01:00:29.902 --> 01:00:31.003
hurry and find a place to
01:00:31.063 --> 01:00:32.644
set the tray down as this
01:00:32.766 --> 01:00:34.407
straw is swinging out of my nose.
01:00:35.007 --> 01:00:36.829
And everybody, everybody saw.
01:00:37.829 --> 01:00:39.831
It was so embarrassing.
01:00:41.893 --> 01:00:42.132
Well,
01:00:42.253 --> 01:00:44.454
I can tell you it was probably
01:00:44.494 --> 01:00:45.536
mortifying for you,
01:00:45.556 --> 01:00:46.396
but probably the people
01:00:46.436 --> 01:00:47.418
around you just had a good
01:00:47.458 --> 01:00:48.898
chuckle and didn't think much of it.
01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:50.340
Oh, they had a good chuckle.
01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:53.943
Yeah, absolutely.
01:00:53.963 --> 01:00:54.963
That was probably the story
01:00:54.983 --> 01:00:56.063
that they told that day.
01:00:58.365 --> 01:01:00.907
We had a guest at the sports resort.
01:01:00.927 --> 01:01:03.269
This was when I was a manager of resorts.
01:01:04.474 --> 01:01:07.657
And we always have cash dispensers,
01:01:08.378 --> 01:01:14.601
you know, ATMs, kind of nonchalant,
01:01:14.762 --> 01:01:17.324
you know, kind of blended in.
01:01:17.384 --> 01:01:19.125
But we always have those so
01:01:19.144 --> 01:01:20.445
that if guests need cash,
01:01:20.485 --> 01:01:21.286
they can get it.
01:01:22.086 --> 01:01:23.688
And some guest was in front
01:01:23.728 --> 01:01:24.969
of me and I needed to get
01:01:25.028 --> 01:01:26.228
some cash because I wanted
01:01:26.268 --> 01:01:27.429
to go to the cafeteria.
01:01:28.911 --> 01:01:32.032
And I didn't have much money
01:01:32.052 --> 01:01:32.673
in my account.
01:01:32.713 --> 01:01:33.034
I wasn't.
01:01:33.735 --> 01:01:33.954
You know,
01:01:33.994 --> 01:01:36.356
I had four kids and paying for
01:01:36.795 --> 01:01:38.876
rent and I didn't have a
01:01:38.896 --> 01:01:39.556
whole lot of money,
01:01:40.157 --> 01:01:41.898
but this guest in front of
01:01:41.938 --> 01:01:44.119
me tried to get some cash
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:46.518
out and she kept trying and
01:01:46.858 --> 01:01:47.599
she turned around.
01:01:47.619 --> 01:01:48.440
I was, you know,
01:01:48.460 --> 01:01:49.860
in a suit and tie my name
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:52.420
tag because this isn't working.
01:01:53.141 --> 01:01:54.702
And I said, oh, shoot, really?
01:01:54.782 --> 01:01:55.742
Because I was going to get
01:01:55.802 --> 01:01:56.603
some money out of it.
01:01:57.262 --> 01:01:58.143
She walked away.
01:01:59.103 --> 01:01:59.324
Well,
01:01:59.983 --> 01:02:02.085
there was a button there that says
01:02:02.605 --> 01:02:03.184
continue.
01:02:04.659 --> 01:02:09.342
And so I said, you know, if, yeah,
01:02:09.583 --> 01:02:11.885
so I hit continue and put in,
01:02:12.746 --> 01:02:13.045
I don't know,
01:02:13.085 --> 01:02:13.947
I think I was trying to get
01:02:14.007 --> 01:02:17.789
two hundred dollars and, uh, it came out,
01:02:19.471 --> 01:02:20.932
but then I realized it
01:02:20.972 --> 01:02:22.833
wasn't my two hundred
01:02:22.873 --> 01:02:24.896
dollars that was from the guest.
01:02:25.916 --> 01:02:29.699
That was because now I know
01:02:29.780 --> 01:02:30.800
I didn't know at the time,
01:02:30.820 --> 01:02:32.061
but when it says continue,
01:02:33.153 --> 01:02:35.494
It means continue with that
01:02:35.775 --> 01:02:36.855
person and that card.
01:02:40.014 --> 01:02:40.675
You're muted.
01:02:40.755 --> 01:02:41.396
Can't hear you.
01:02:42.295 --> 01:02:42.755
Oh, sorry.
01:02:42.775 --> 01:02:42.976
Yeah.
01:02:43.016 --> 01:02:44.215
With the past transaction,
01:02:44.255 --> 01:02:45.115
continue with the past
01:02:45.155 --> 01:02:46.396
transaction or whatever
01:02:46.416 --> 01:02:47.597
transaction was already there.
01:02:47.657 --> 01:02:48.697
Yeah.
01:02:48.777 --> 01:02:51.157
And I, you know,
01:02:51.177 --> 01:02:52.478
there's two temptations I
01:02:52.518 --> 01:02:53.498
ever had at Disney.
01:02:54.097 --> 01:02:55.538
I was in need of cash and I
01:02:55.577 --> 01:02:58.298
had that and I thought I could,
01:02:58.858 --> 01:03:00.478
I could use this and then
01:03:00.518 --> 01:03:02.440
just pay the two hundred back.
01:03:03.302 --> 01:03:05.603
know tomorrow I wouldn't
01:03:05.724 --> 01:03:07.744
dare do that but it crossed
01:03:07.784 --> 01:03:10.847
my mind yeah what I did is
01:03:10.887 --> 01:03:11.907
went to the front desk and
01:03:11.967 --> 01:03:14.369
I said here's the lady or
01:03:14.389 --> 01:03:15.471
you know here's the money
01:03:15.550 --> 01:03:16.550
from the lady that was
01:03:16.570 --> 01:03:18.373
trying to get in and she's
01:03:18.393 --> 01:03:19.634
going to call and complain
01:03:19.653 --> 01:03:21.155
that the atm didn't work
01:03:21.255 --> 01:03:23.195
and you'll know that this
01:03:23.235 --> 01:03:23.996
is her cash and she
01:03:24.056 --> 01:03:24.956
actually did go to the
01:03:24.996 --> 01:03:27.039
front desk and fortunately
01:03:27.159 --> 01:03:28.599
I had taken the money and
01:03:30.293 --> 01:03:32.615
told them to give it to her to redeposit.
01:03:32.936 --> 01:03:34.036
It was a total accident.
01:03:34.677 --> 01:03:36.059
Second temptation I had,
01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:38.280
I was with Tommy Mottola
01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:39.782
who was the head of Sony
01:03:39.822 --> 01:03:43.925
Music and he makes
01:03:44.045 --> 01:03:45.987
everybody a star from
01:03:46.047 --> 01:03:48.289
Barbra Streisand to Mariah Carey,
01:03:48.329 --> 01:03:50.231
Michael Jackson, all of these people.
01:03:50.893 --> 01:03:51.793
Tommy Mottola,
01:03:51.934 --> 01:03:52.974
all the celebrities would
01:03:52.994 --> 01:03:53.954
like to get to him.
01:03:55.135 --> 01:03:58.016
So I was supposed to watch over him.
01:03:58.496 --> 01:04:00.536
He brought his fiancee, Mariah Carey.
01:04:00.956 --> 01:04:02.038
And I think we talked about
01:04:02.077 --> 01:04:03.617
it last time that I take
01:04:03.637 --> 01:04:04.818
him swimming every night
01:04:04.838 --> 01:04:06.018
while he'd get a massage.
01:04:07.938 --> 01:04:09.039
And he said to me, Randy,
01:04:09.059 --> 01:04:10.159
don't ever worry about me
01:04:10.179 --> 01:04:11.460
because no one knows who I am.
01:04:12.300 --> 01:04:13.820
Just watch over Mariah.
01:04:14.521 --> 01:04:17.320
So they'd go out for the day
01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:18.362
and I'd be with them.
01:04:18.442 --> 01:04:19.402
I was always there.
01:04:20.641 --> 01:04:22.202
And I would have to play
01:04:22.242 --> 01:04:24.262
interference for Mariah.
01:04:26.231 --> 01:04:27.092
On their last day,
01:04:27.132 --> 01:04:29.456
he called me over and he says, hey,
01:04:29.476 --> 01:04:30.436
thank you so much.
01:04:30.516 --> 01:04:31.958
And he went to shake my hand
01:04:32.778 --> 01:04:33.960
and I felt this bulge.
01:04:33.981 --> 01:04:35.782
And maybe I told you this in
01:04:35.822 --> 01:04:37.724
his hand and I pulled it away.
01:04:38.425 --> 01:04:39.367
I don't know how many
01:04:39.847 --> 01:04:42.050
hundred dollar bills were in my hand,
01:04:42.889 --> 01:04:44.132
but it was a lot.
01:04:45.382 --> 01:04:48.826
And I said, oh, Tommy, that's so kind,
01:04:48.905 --> 01:04:49.266
sweet.
01:04:49.686 --> 01:04:50.106
Thank you.
01:04:50.146 --> 01:04:51.228
And I went to shake his hand
01:04:51.289 --> 01:04:52.409
and I gave it back to him.
01:04:52.849 --> 01:04:54.172
I said, I can't take that.
01:04:54.672 --> 01:04:54.972
He said,
01:04:55.032 --> 01:04:56.173
what do you mean you can't take it?
01:04:56.554 --> 01:04:57.936
He said, this is just a tip.
01:04:58.476 --> 01:04:59.898
I said, well, first of all,
01:05:00.478 --> 01:05:01.559
I can't take tips.
01:05:02.039 --> 01:05:02.920
And second of all,
01:05:04.322 --> 01:05:05.985
it's completely against the rules.
01:05:07.150 --> 01:05:07.990
And he said,
01:05:08.130 --> 01:05:10.411
Michael Eisner is one of my best friends.
01:05:11.032 --> 01:05:13.693
So I'll tell him that you
01:05:13.733 --> 01:05:15.114
were great and I tipped you.
01:05:15.135 --> 01:05:18.757
And I said, I especially can't do that.
01:05:18.818 --> 01:05:20.898
Don't tell him anything.
01:05:22.679 --> 01:05:24.579
But I needed that money so bad,
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:26.420
but I just couldn't take it.
01:05:27.021 --> 01:05:29.742
So instead, and if I'm repetitive,
01:05:29.782 --> 01:05:30.202
I'm sorry,
01:05:30.242 --> 01:05:32.422
but he asked for my address and
01:05:32.463 --> 01:05:33.302
I gave it to him and he
01:05:33.342 --> 01:05:35.003
sent me this box just
01:05:35.043 --> 01:05:36.264
packed full of all of the
01:05:36.284 --> 01:05:38.684
greatest hit CDs at the time.
01:05:39.324 --> 01:05:40.646
The collector's versions
01:05:40.686 --> 01:05:41.646
where you'd open them up
01:05:41.706 --> 01:05:43.206
and like Michael Jackson's,
01:05:43.646 --> 01:05:44.666
you'd open that up and the
01:05:44.726 --> 01:05:46.307
thriller scene would pop up,
01:05:46.367 --> 01:05:47.929
the cardboard pop-out
01:05:47.969 --> 01:05:50.369
things and all those collector's CDs.
01:05:50.389 --> 01:05:50.809
The big box set.
01:05:52.289 --> 01:05:53.550
It was a huge box and just
01:05:54.090 --> 01:05:55.391
full of all these artists' CDs.
01:05:55.411 --> 01:05:59.673
And yeah, I could take that.
01:05:59.733 --> 01:06:00.414
That's amazing.
01:06:00.873 --> 01:06:02.934
No, that wasn't a repetition at all.
01:06:04.335 --> 01:06:05.496
You hadn't shared that before.
01:06:05.536 --> 01:06:06.157
That's amazing.
01:06:07.177 --> 01:06:07.677
So cool.
01:06:08.197 --> 01:06:08.398
Well,
01:06:08.418 --> 01:06:10.117
you've been so generous with your time,
01:06:10.297 --> 01:06:10.719
Randy.
01:06:11.018 --> 01:06:12.759
I just love talking with you.
01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:14.199
I could probably keep
01:06:14.239 --> 01:06:15.661
talking for hours and hours.
01:06:15.681 --> 01:06:18.101
As could I. Yeah.
01:06:18.641 --> 01:06:19.762
I am going to let you go, but I,
01:06:19.943 --> 01:06:21.324
but I am going to have you back.
01:06:21.385 --> 01:06:22.545
I definitely want to have you back.
01:06:22.565 --> 01:06:23.346
There's so many different
01:06:23.365 --> 01:06:24.768
topics that we can talk about.
01:06:25.748 --> 01:06:25.889
Um,
01:06:25.949 --> 01:06:27.150
just thank you so much for your
01:06:27.190 --> 01:06:28.951
generosity for sharing everything.
01:06:29.010 --> 01:06:30.393
And I think next time you come back,
01:06:30.452 --> 01:06:32.994
I'd love for you to talk about your book,
01:06:33.034 --> 01:06:35.356
filling empty and your
01:06:35.416 --> 01:06:39.661
experiences in the funeral care industry.
01:06:39.681 --> 01:06:40.601
That would be, uh,
01:06:41.418 --> 01:06:43.300
an honor to come back, Megan.
01:06:43.500 --> 01:06:45.262
I'm very appreciative of you
01:06:45.661 --> 01:06:46.762
having me on the show.
01:06:46.822 --> 01:06:47.804
And, you know,
01:06:47.923 --> 01:06:49.364
I have found a community
01:06:51.146 --> 01:06:52.467
within this group of so
01:06:52.487 --> 01:06:53.989
many people that you and I know,
01:06:54.168 --> 01:06:56.030
and it's such a pleasure to
01:06:56.050 --> 01:06:56.871
be able to be on these
01:06:56.971 --> 01:06:58.952
podcasts and share some experiences.
01:06:58.992 --> 01:07:00.974
So thank you very much.
01:07:01.769 --> 01:07:03.630
Yeah, well, I love having you here.
01:07:03.650 --> 01:07:05.172
You've just been a delight to talk with.
01:07:05.211 --> 01:07:06.492
You're a beautiful human being.
01:07:07.333 --> 01:07:09.014
Thank you to our audience for being here.
01:07:09.054 --> 01:07:10.114
Thank you to everyone who
01:07:10.155 --> 01:07:11.375
sent in questions for me.
01:07:11.976 --> 01:07:13.016
And if you keep putting
01:07:13.056 --> 01:07:14.097
questions in the comments,
01:07:14.117 --> 01:07:14.936
those of you who are
01:07:15.077 --> 01:07:16.918
watching after the fact on
01:07:16.938 --> 01:07:17.818
the replay crew,
01:07:18.259 --> 01:07:19.340
I will do my very best to
01:07:19.380 --> 01:07:20.900
get your questions to Randy
01:07:21.021 --> 01:07:21.900
and see if we can get them
01:07:21.981 --> 01:07:23.802
answered in the comments or
01:07:23.882 --> 01:07:24.963
have him back again for
01:07:25.003 --> 01:07:27.625
another deep dive into Disney secrets.
01:07:28.465 --> 01:07:29.668
Until then, everyone,
01:07:29.708 --> 01:07:31.594
please take good care of your people,
01:07:31.614 --> 01:07:32.315
but most of all,
01:07:32.335 --> 01:07:33.418
take good care of yourself
01:07:33.840 --> 01:07:34.802
and have a lovely evening.