May 11, 2025

Disney Detective Tells All! Live Q&A

Join Megan Conner and former Walt Disney Corporation Detective Randy Watts as he discusses the premiere of his interview, and answers your questions LIVE!

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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

00:17:23.750 --> 00:17:24.490

that went over it.

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And then I take my

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flashlight and shine it and

00:17:29.272 --> 00:17:31.433

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

00:17:42.355 --> 00:17:44.615

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

00:17:50.076 --> 00:17:51.758

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

00:18:04.540 --> 00:18:06.041

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

00:18:20.007 --> 00:18:21.228

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

00:18:38.144 --> 00:18:39.463

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

00:18:48.506 --> 00:18:49.906

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

00:19:05.366 --> 00:19:06.667

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

00:19:10.808 --> 00:19:12.809

interesting tour to go

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through that nursery and

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see every plant and all the, uh,

00:19:16.672 --> 00:19:17.531

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,

00:19:22.615 --> 00:19:22.914

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

00:19:31.157 --> 00:19:32.638

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,

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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

00:20:03.001 --> 00:20:05.704

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

00:20:11.134 --> 00:20:12.654

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

00:20:17.096 --> 00:20:18.635

most when I went a few times,

00:20:18.715 --> 00:20:19.576

I took students,

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high school students to a

00:20:21.135 --> 00:20:22.156

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

00:21:52.176 --> 00:21:53.257

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,

00:22:01.647 --> 00:22:03.548

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,

00:22:24.635 --> 00:22:26.357

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

00:22:44.349 --> 00:22:45.309

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

00:22:55.288 --> 00:22:56.847

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

00:23:04.809 --> 00:23:06.630

Walt's planned hideaway,

00:23:07.269 --> 00:23:08.570

which piqued my interest.

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People want to know if it's

00:23:10.931 --> 00:23:13.412

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

00:23:33.609 --> 00:23:36.211

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

00:24:09.247 --> 00:24:10.047

president and every

00:24:10.106 --> 00:24:12.429

president visits Walt Disney World.

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Secret Service comes three

00:24:15.392 --> 00:24:17.854

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

00:24:25.980 --> 00:24:27.141

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

00:24:31.684 --> 00:24:33.026

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

00:24:43.098 --> 00:24:44.641

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.

00:25:15.230 --> 00:25:18.551

So yeah, if you happen to become president,

00:25:18.592 --> 00:25:18.892

Megan,

00:25:20.805 --> 00:25:21.846

You'll be safe when you get

00:25:21.865 --> 00:25:23.185

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.

00:25:44.656 --> 00:25:45.798

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.