Disney Parks Most MYSTERIOUS Facts Exposed

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Well,

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you know that there's only one thing

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people are interested in

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more than crime investigations,

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and that is Disney secrets.

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I think you're probably right about that.

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And I think that's a great

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way to start our interview.

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So I don't even need to do an intro.

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I think that's our intro right there.

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There is a lot of...

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you know disney disney this

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disney that several books

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entitled disney and i'm

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actually in a few of those

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oh okay yeah that was a

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shocker to me i i was in a

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bookstore uh in mesa

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arizona while my wife was

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shopping i was kind of

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thumbing through books and

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i saw this uh something the

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mouse exposed or something

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like that it was a picture

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of mickey and had disney on it

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And so I'm really interested,

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and I'm reading a few of

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these very top secret

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reports that this author

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somehow got a hold of.

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And they were my reports of

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cases that I was working on.

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Wow.

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Crap.

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And I brought it to the

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attention of Disney,

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and suddenly they're

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wanting to know who is this

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person that had clearance

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to get these reports.

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Yeah.

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public record.

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And of course, I was the suspect.

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But I said, it ain't me.

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So they thought you were

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trying to pull a Spencer

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and visions of glory thing

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where you were telling the story,

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but it's not really your story.

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But but it's not really your story.

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well i'll go ahead and i'll

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go ahead and introduce you

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just for those of you who

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are here for the first time

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welcome this is the midlife

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revolution channel where we

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talk about making small

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changes that change

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everything and we had randy

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watts on a couple of weeks

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ago to tell his story with

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uh his involvement with my

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cousin alex cox who was an

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accomplice of lori valo daybell

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and he tells some

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fascinating stories about a

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short time that he knew

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alex in his life he's also

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written a book called

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filling empty which is

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available on amazon we'll

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put the link to that in the

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show notes and i'm also

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joined today by gene judson

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of latter daily digest

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welcome randy and gene

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thank you it's a pleasure as always megan

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So good to see you again.

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And Gene is the host of

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Ladder Daily Digest,

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where he and his co-hosts,

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whoever they may be,

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honor other creators.

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So do you want to tell us a

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little bit about your channel, Gene?

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Yeah,

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so I've been going on for about a

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year and a half now,

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done like a hundred and

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fifty shows and we have

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authors or other podcasters

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or other people that have

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special type jobs that are

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just interesting to me.

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I don't care if anybody cares.

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I don't care if anybody

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thinks it's interesting else,

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just for me only.

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But anyway,

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usually people have a good time

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no matter what.

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And so I discovered Randy a

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month and a half ago and didn't know

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what a gold mine i had at

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first and then um i started

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thinking randy's got to be

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worth twenty shows over the

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next year or two and um and

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then you were able to have

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him on a couple weeks ago

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and and now we're doing

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this show and um i know

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that he's written other

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books that would be fun to

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have him on and have him

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talk about those in the future so

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definitely appreciate randy

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yeah so gene invited us

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both to a panel discussion

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um on tuesdays with tim and

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during that panel

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discussion randy revealed

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that he knew my cousin alex

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which i was shocked by so

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of course we talked in the

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after show and that's how i

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got him on my channel and

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and he also talked in that

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after show about some

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secrets that he can reveal

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as a former detective for

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the disney is it the disney

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corporation walt disney corporation

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I was actually a detective

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for the city of Bay Lake,

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which is Disney.

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It's their municipality.

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Got it.

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Got it.

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So the city of Bay Lake is

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owned by the Disney corporation.

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And does that encompass all

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of Disney world and Epcot

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and all of the parks that

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are right there in the Orlando area?

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It actually encompasses everything.

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The entire Walt Disney world resort,

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which is all of the parks, the resorts,

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uh,

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all of the attractions there.

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Okay, excellent.

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And by the way, Gene,

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I've called a lot of things,

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but I've never been called a goldmine.

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That's right.

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I just wanted to refer to

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Gene as the connections

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whisperer because he knows

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everybody and gets us all connected.

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So thank you to you, Gene.

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Yes.

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That's right.

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I'm happy to do it.

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Gene is the original hype

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man for all of our channels

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and all of our interviews.

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He comes into the comments

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every time telling everybody to like,

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share, and subscribe.

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So I hope that everyone will do the same,

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do the favor of going to

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Ladder Daily Digest,

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go and subscribe to his channel.

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Gene has fascinating guests

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on all the time in a wide

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variety of different

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locations and different, as he said,

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job titles and life situations.

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And the interviews are always fascinating.

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So make sure you go follow his channel.

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Thanks.

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Yeah.

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So, Randy,

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can you start off by telling us

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maybe how you came to be

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hired by the Disney

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Corporation and then maybe

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walk us through what a

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typical day was like for

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you as a detective for the corporation?

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Absolutely, Megan.

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And I hope that you have

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twelve hours for this show.

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about how long it would take

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me to go through all of the

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experiences and secrets that we know.

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But back in nineteen ninety,

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my wife and I decided to go

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on vacation to Florida.

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We had four children and it

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was time to kind of get

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away from the kids for just, you know,

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a little while.

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So we arranged care for them

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and we decided to go to

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Florida and go to Walt Disney World.

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And we figured if it was really fun,

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then we'd

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you know,

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the next trip would take the kids and go.

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So we traveled to Orlando

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and we both just had this

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fun idea that instead of

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going to Walt Disney World,

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we were going to go to

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what's called the casting

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center where they hire people.

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It was just so off the cuff,

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but I was working and she

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was working both in Mesa, Arizona,

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but neither of us were really gave a

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rats rump about the jobs that we had.

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So we went into the casting

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center and waited our turn.

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And my wife got a job as in

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the food and beverage part of it.

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And I told the guy that was

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interviewing me that I

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wanted to be one of those

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guys that walked around in

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a suit and tie with the

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secret earpiece and the

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microphone and all that.

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And he said, well, that's our detectives.

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We call them investigators

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because at Disney,

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they have their own

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language for everything.

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Bodyguard is actually an

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escort and the hostesses

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all have their names for

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their particular positions.

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Instead of pest control, or excuse me,

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instead of exterminators,

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they call them pest control.

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So the detectives were

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called investigators.

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And he says, man, you know,

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what are your qualifications?

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And I explained to him that

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I'd had police experience.

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I was a police officer and

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that I spoke fluent Spanish,

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having served a mission in Madrid, Spain.

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And we just hit it off with each other.

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And he says,

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I'm going to hire you full time.

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as a as a detective and i i

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was ecstatic you know uh

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because they don't hire

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full-time they only hire

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part-time and you have to

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work your way up to

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full-time but he just uh he

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was very kind and we really

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got along well and he hired

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me up now i thought that my

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first day on the job was

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gonna be doing exactly what

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i wanted to do

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But I showed up and they

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sent me to wardrobe to get dressed.

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I'm like, wardrobe?

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I have plenty of suits.

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And they said, no, no, no,

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you're starting in patrol.

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You're going to be like a patrol officer.

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I'm like, what?

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I see.

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So a little bait and switch.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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so uh i i went to the

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investigations office i

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said look i i'm supposed to

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be an investigator they

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kind of chuckled and they

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said well you don't start

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like that you have to be a

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patrol officer and and you

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need to know the property

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and so i you know i did the

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patrol thing they gave me a

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kind of a police car you

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know to be in with the red

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lights and everything and

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That was nothing new to me.

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So I did that.

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They told me I needed to do

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it for six months, which I did.

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But during that six months,

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I drove the property,

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the complete property.

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Now,

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people don't realize how big Walt

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Disney World is.

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It's forty seven square miles,

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which is thirty thousand acres.

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It's it's the size of San

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Francisco and double the

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size of Manhattan.

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Wow, I had no idea.

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Oh, it's enormous.

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And I drove and drove and drove.

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And you know, when I first started,

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I kept looking for the different parks.

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Once you get out on the

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roads and you're driving

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all around the resort,

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Disney has set it up to

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where you can't see the Magic Kingdom.

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You can't see Epcot Center.

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You couldn't see the Hollywood Studios.

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It was called Disney MGM

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Studios at the time.

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They're all invisible from the road.

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And they do that on purpose.

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They have big,

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huge berms with beautiful

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greenery and plants.

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you kind of have to know

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where you're going or

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follow the maps to get to the park.

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And then when you come into

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the parking lot, it's like, ah,

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the angels sing and there's the park.

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Yeah,

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so I just have to pause for a second

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to say the fact that they have InSpeak,

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they have their own language, right?

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And the fact that they've

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built this city as sort of

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a labyrinth to keep people

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in and that they don't show you, like,

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you can't see the big, uh,

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Cinderella castle from the street,

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which is what you, the icon of Disney,

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right?

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Is the Cinderella castle.

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That's what everybody wants to see,

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but you don't see it until

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you get all the way there.

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So this is sounding to me a

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little bit of a combination

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between a casino and a cult.

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Well, yeah, a little bit.

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Yeah.

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They control, it's all about control.

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They control the tourists.

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Yes.

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I love Disney and I will

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always be loyal to Disney

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because they treated me so well.

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As a matter of fact,

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they treat their employees

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like the real VIPs, not the guests,

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you know, they treat their guests very,

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very well.

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And that's why they have

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such an incredible business going, but

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They treat their employees just as well.

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It's all about empowerment with them,

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empower the employees,

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teach them and let them do their thing.

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And they really exercise that.

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So I love the way they operate.

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That's amazing.

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Yeah, so.

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So, Randy,

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so if you were patrolling this large area,

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would they get calls sometimes?

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Or you would have to drive for, like,

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five or ten minutes to get

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to where they needed.

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A bunch of officers all at once.

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Yes.

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I actually lived right there

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on the edge of property so

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that I could respond in an emergency.

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But yeah,

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it was sectioned off so that we

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each had our jurisdiction.

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I mean, our jurisdiction was the property,

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but we each had our areas

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that we were working.

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But often another

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investigator would call and

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say that he just had a serious situation,

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injury, homicide, anything like that.

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Need backup.

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By the way, people say,

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Walt Disney,

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what on earth would they need

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detectives for?

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But like I said,

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this is the size of the

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city of San Francisco.

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So anything can happen.

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We had homicides, we had suicides.

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But here's the first secret

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is that nobody dies on Disney property.

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That's what I was going to

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ask you about because you

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went right there.

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I wasn't going to go there

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until a little later,

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but you went right there already.

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We would respond to

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emergencies and we'd have our ambulance.

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We have our own fire department,

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our own ambulance services, medical.

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Just to touch on that,

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no one is pronounced dead

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until they cross the Disney

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property lines.

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Then they can be pronounced dead.

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Well, I'll get into that later.

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But I remember my first day in uniform,

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in my security uniform or police uniform,

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I

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needed some lunch and I had

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to learn how to get to the

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cafeteria underneath the Magic Kingdom.

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And we're going to talk about that.

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But I walked into the

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cafeteria and it was like I

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had walked into a Disney

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movie because here's

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Yeah,

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Cinderella on one side and all these

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little tiny people in their Huey,

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Dewey and Louie, you know, costumes.

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And every character you can

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imagine is eating lunch in there.

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And I'm like, oh, my gosh, this is real.

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This is actually the real

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deal that I'm in.

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And just to be sure,

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you're not dressed in the

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Keystone Cop uniform, right?

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well no but when i worked at

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the studios within the park

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during that six months of

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uniform they actually do

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dress up as keystone cops

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with uh just to to kind of

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match the whole uh the

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whole street vibe yeah the

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main street vibe of uh the

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nineteen forties fifties movie scene

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So that's one thing I will

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say that I love about

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Disney is that they do an

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excellent job of making magic feel real.

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And so it doesn't surprise

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me to hear that they had you in a costume,

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really.

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The only thing that gives me

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a little bit of pause, though,

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is when people see you on

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the Disney Street dressed

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in a Keystone Cop costume,

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do they know you're an

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actual officer or do they

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just think that you're another character?

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You know, it's funny.

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They do think I'm a character.

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I used to...

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entertain myself when i

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would work the studios

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because i would stand by

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one of the props that they

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had one of the thousands of

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props and i would stand

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perfectly still and they

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would come by looking at

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the props and stuff and

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they would think i was a

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statue and then as they'd

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approach and get near to me

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i'd say can i help you and

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they're like so yeah i had fun with that

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I just want to give you an

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idea of how big the property is.

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I know I talked about it a little bit,

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but if you took Disneyland

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in California and if you

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could take it in a

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helicopter and lift it up

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and go over to Walt Disney World,

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you could set the entire

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Disneyland down in one

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section of the parking lot

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of Walt Disney World.

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As a comparison,

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Disneyland is five hundred

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acres and Walt Disney World is

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like I said, thirty thousand acres.

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So it's a whole different ballgame there.

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So Disneyland would fit in a

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corner of the parking lot?

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Yes.

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For Disney World?

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Wow, I had no idea.

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Right.

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And each morning we'd have to,

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one of us would have to go

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up in a bell jet helicopter

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and we'd circle the

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property entirely because

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there were poachers and

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guys that sneak in through the swamps.

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And so in the helicopter,

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we'd do a complete circle.

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In a Bell Jet helicopter,

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it took an hour to go

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around the property.

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So that gives you an idea

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because Walt Disney was a

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very smart when he

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purchased the land for Walt Disney world,

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it was all swamp land.

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They got it for pennies on the dollar.

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So they bought as much as they could.

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And then they drain the

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swamps where they needed to

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and started construction and building.

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And it was a secret.

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Nobody knew that it was Walt

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Disney that was doing it.

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Yeah,

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because they did it under Buena Vista,

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right?

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They were incognito, if you will.

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So that's some serious

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forethought on Walt Disney's part to,

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number one,

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form an entirely new

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corporation to buy up as

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much land as possible and

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to do it sort of under the

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plan of making this gigantic place.

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Um, to,

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to buy so much land and then to

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have the vision,

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to turn it into something amazing.

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But I do, I just want to comment one thing,

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you know,

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I'm not the smartest person in the world,

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but I don't think that

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wading through a swamp in

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Florida to get into Disney

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world free is the best idea.

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Unless you're a Gator hunter,

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which they did.

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Yeah.

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But speaking of gators,

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I want to get into a few of

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the secret parts of Disney

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that the public doesn't see.

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First of all,

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you'll notice that no matter

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how many hours you spend

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and how many days you spend

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at one of the parks,

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especially the Magic Kingdom,

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we'll use that as an example,

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you'll never see anyone

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repairing anything.

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You'll never, you know, a pipe breaks,

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you know,

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in other theme parks and other

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parts of the world.

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They always have maintenance

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people that have to run and

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take care of it.

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Walt Disney World has an

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intricate tunnel system underneath it.

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When I say tunnel,

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I mean the size that a huge

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truck can actually pull

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into and circle all the way

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around the Walt Disney

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World Magic Kingdom.

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Uh,

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you'll never see an employee from

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adventure land going to, uh,

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having to cross over

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through other lands within

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the park because they

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simply just go backstage as

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we call it and drop down

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into the tunnel and walk to

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where they need to walk and

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then come back up.

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Just like when I went for my

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lunch at the cafeteria, you know,

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I entered from backstage

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down into these tunnels and.

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And had my lunch and then

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came back up and no one

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ever saw me in the Magic

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Kingdom unless They needed to you know,

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so I could I could respond

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to incidents Almost

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instantly I had to memorize

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those tunnels but I could

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go from one land to the

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other in a matter of

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seconds rather than minutes

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and pop right up because

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it's a just an amazing shortcut and

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all of the repair work is

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done from underneath the

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streets uh the water

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systems the uh you'll never

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see anyone dumping a

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garbage can because they

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have what's called um what

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do they call them uh like

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shoots utilidors

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They're garbage cans,

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and they're always themed

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for the land that they're in.

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It's not just a park-like garbage can.

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It's got a theme to it.

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But when you put your garbage in there,

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people don't realize,

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but it's sucked down into the tunnel.

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And it all goes to the spot

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where this huge amount of

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garbage accumulates,

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and then the garbage truck can come in,

00:21:23.800 --> 00:21:24.661

load it all up,

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and go out without anyone ever seeing it.

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Wow, so say that word again.

00:21:31.110 --> 00:21:31.891

What did you call it?

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It's a utilidor.

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It's a system of suction

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that sucks the garbage down.

00:21:39.214 --> 00:21:41.074

It reminds me of like the bank, you know,

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when you put the tube thing

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in and it sucks it up to

00:21:45.616 --> 00:21:47.877

the teller and then that's

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kind of what it's like.

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So do they have trash can

00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:53.240

liners in the trash cans or

00:21:53.260 --> 00:21:54.660

it just goes into that chute?

00:21:55.100 --> 00:21:56.181

It just goes into the chute.

00:21:57.044 --> 00:21:58.264

So nobody ever has to take

00:21:58.305 --> 00:21:59.585

out the garbage in Disney world.

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No, no.

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It's taking from underneath.

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That is magical.

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That's the one thing about

00:22:06.968 --> 00:22:09.389

Disney is they were always thinking about,

00:22:09.629 --> 00:22:09.849

you know,

00:22:09.889 --> 00:22:11.430

tomorrow we'll say the

00:22:11.470 --> 00:22:14.051

experimental prototype community tomorrow,

00:22:14.151 --> 00:22:17.572

Epcot, you know, plan for, you know,

00:22:18.132 --> 00:22:19.854

New ways of doing things and

00:22:19.914 --> 00:22:21.696

so they always had like,

00:22:21.716 --> 00:22:22.297

what do they call them?

00:22:22.357 --> 00:22:23.918

Imaginariums, you know,

00:22:23.958 --> 00:22:26.000

where their people were imagining things,

00:22:26.441 --> 00:22:27.121

thinking about different

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ways to do things, animatronics.

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All the advancements that they, you know,

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made and so the whole

00:22:34.249 --> 00:22:35.570

company was always thinking

00:22:35.610 --> 00:22:37.212

about better ways of doing things.

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Yeah,

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so while we're on the subject of garbage,

00:22:41.457 --> 00:22:43.458

we might as well talk about bathrooms,

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because I just want to say

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I personally have an

00:22:48.281 --> 00:22:49.902

abhorrence for public restrooms.

00:22:49.982 --> 00:22:51.202

I hate going to the restroom

00:22:51.302 --> 00:22:52.303

in public places.

00:22:52.343 --> 00:22:53.884

They're always dirtier than

00:22:53.964 --> 00:22:54.684

I want them to be,

00:22:54.724 --> 00:22:55.885

no matter how clean they are.

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But I do have to say I went

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to Disney World,

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and my very favorite public

00:23:02.809 --> 00:23:04.890

bathroom in the world is there.

00:23:05.730 --> 00:23:08.131

in the magic kingdom they

00:23:08.171 --> 00:23:10.931

have a bathroom that is

00:23:11.091 --> 00:23:12.792

shaped like the tower from

00:23:12.992 --> 00:23:14.552

tangled the rapunzel movie

00:23:15.432 --> 00:23:16.432

and that was my favorite

00:23:16.452 --> 00:23:18.093

bathroom it is beautifully

00:23:18.133 --> 00:23:20.193

painted like the inside of

00:23:20.233 --> 00:23:21.334

the tangled tower as you

00:23:21.374 --> 00:23:22.714

might imagine there are

00:23:22.734 --> 00:23:23.734

beautiful little wooden

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benches in there that make

00:23:25.134 --> 00:23:26.695

it look kind of magical and

00:23:26.715 --> 00:23:27.715

of course it was beautiful

00:23:27.755 --> 00:23:29.455

and clean so what can you

00:23:29.495 --> 00:23:31.256

tell us about bathroom secrets

00:23:33.065 --> 00:23:34.666

I don't have a lot of bathroom secrets.

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They are constantly,

00:23:38.208 --> 00:23:40.008

constantly in the bathroom

00:23:40.489 --> 00:23:44.311

because it's the happiest place on earth.

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And it really is.

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And it's the cleanest place on earth.

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Have you ever noticed that you never,

00:23:51.814 --> 00:23:53.675

ever see gum?

00:23:54.015 --> 00:23:55.576

Well, you probably haven't noticed,

00:23:55.616 --> 00:23:57.877

but you can walk the entire parks,

00:23:57.897 --> 00:23:59.438

you'll never see gum on the side.

00:24:00.383 --> 00:24:01.403

because Walt Disney World

00:24:01.443 --> 00:24:02.424

doesn't sell gum.

00:24:02.884 --> 00:24:05.024

Of all the things they sell in their shops,

00:24:05.104 --> 00:24:07.185

they don't sell gum because

00:24:07.225 --> 00:24:08.505

they know that when people are done,

00:24:08.525 --> 00:24:09.486

they just spit it out.

00:24:10.146 --> 00:24:13.327

And that's, yeah, it's really intelligent.

00:24:13.367 --> 00:24:14.667

They plan everything.

00:24:14.727 --> 00:24:15.808

It's so themed.

00:24:17.948 --> 00:24:18.088

Now,

00:24:18.108 --> 00:24:20.329

when they do the bag checks at the

00:24:20.409 --> 00:24:22.410

entrance, do they check for gum?

00:24:24.290 --> 00:24:25.991

No, no.

00:24:26.031 --> 00:24:27.871

So someone could bring in their own gum.

00:24:28.291 --> 00:24:29.932

They don't confiscate gum, but...

00:24:31.325 --> 00:24:31.605

Yeah.

00:24:32.206 --> 00:24:34.908

Um, it just, if they sold it,

00:24:35.328 --> 00:24:38.250

it would be a lot more, you know,

00:24:38.470 --> 00:24:40.752

common for these yucky gum

00:24:40.832 --> 00:24:42.072

spots to be on there.

00:24:42.573 --> 00:24:45.655

Now it's because when the,

00:24:45.715 --> 00:24:47.216

when the sun drops and the

00:24:47.256 --> 00:24:49.377

nighttime comes, everything lights up,

00:24:49.437 --> 00:24:51.719

you know, and the fireworks happen.

00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:54.041

Tinkerbell makes her flight.

00:24:55.161 --> 00:24:56.002

And, uh,

00:24:56.387 --> 00:24:58.769

once the park closes and the

00:24:58.869 --> 00:25:00.851

last guest is gone and

00:25:01.011 --> 00:25:02.052

everyone wants to be the

00:25:02.092 --> 00:25:04.654

last guest out of there

00:25:04.674 --> 00:25:06.155

then the park lights up

00:25:06.175 --> 00:25:07.856

like daytime you would

00:25:07.916 --> 00:25:09.077

think it was daytime

00:25:09.117 --> 00:25:10.578

because there's all these

00:25:10.698 --> 00:25:12.179

powerful lights that light

00:25:12.219 --> 00:25:13.380

up the streets and the

00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:14.521

rides and all the

00:25:14.541 --> 00:25:16.423

attractions and that's when

00:25:16.443 --> 00:25:17.844

the cleaning crews for the

00:25:17.964 --> 00:25:20.366

upstairs come in and work

00:25:20.446 --> 00:25:21.787

all night making sure that

00:25:21.827 --> 00:25:24.409

it looks brand new for the next morning

00:25:25.579 --> 00:25:27.180

So it really does become

00:25:27.220 --> 00:25:30.603

like a daytime thing at night at Disney.

00:25:31.043 --> 00:25:32.304

It really comes alive.

00:25:33.926 --> 00:25:35.086

I wanted to mention that

00:25:35.787 --> 00:25:38.409

there's a lot of vermin at Disney,

00:25:38.629 --> 00:25:40.491

a lot of, I mean, in Florida,

00:25:40.851 --> 00:25:41.611

in the swamps.

00:25:41.932 --> 00:25:44.053

You can imagine the mice,

00:25:46.035 --> 00:25:48.377

all of the creepy crawlies, the bugs,

00:25:49.698 --> 00:25:52.600

the gators, the gators everywhere.

00:25:57.864 --> 00:25:58.745

There's a department,

00:25:58.785 --> 00:25:59.966

it's called pest control,

00:26:00.066 --> 00:26:02.128

not extermination, but pest control.

00:26:03.048 --> 00:26:04.590

And they're the ones that we

00:26:04.630 --> 00:26:06.551

call if there's a gator

00:26:06.591 --> 00:26:07.952

that has made its way into

00:26:07.992 --> 00:26:10.094

the swimming pool at one of the resorts.

00:26:10.574 --> 00:26:14.017

And that happened almost on

00:26:14.057 --> 00:26:15.138

a regular basis.

00:26:16.739 --> 00:26:18.200

And they come in swiftly,

00:26:18.280 --> 00:26:20.582

they toss marshmallows into

00:26:20.602 --> 00:26:23.084

the pool and gators love marshmallows.

00:26:23.511 --> 00:26:24.792

So they'll chomp and chomp

00:26:24.852 --> 00:26:26.153

and chomp right into the

00:26:26.193 --> 00:26:28.435

trap and they close the

00:26:28.455 --> 00:26:29.857

trap up and take it to our

00:26:29.917 --> 00:26:33.039

conservation area that's full of gators.

00:26:33.720 --> 00:26:37.563

And they're pretty much

00:26:37.623 --> 00:26:39.165

confined to that area.

00:26:39.845 --> 00:26:40.866

But yeah,

00:26:40.986 --> 00:26:42.607

I can't count the number of times

00:26:42.628 --> 00:26:44.109

that we've had a gator swim

00:26:44.149 --> 00:26:45.010

into one of the swimming

00:26:45.030 --> 00:26:47.452

pools and guests don't really like that.

00:26:48.012 --> 00:26:48.613

For some reason,

00:26:48.653 --> 00:26:49.573

they're not comfortable

00:26:49.634 --> 00:26:51.215

swimming with an alligator in the pool.

00:26:51.860 --> 00:26:53.881

No, I can't imagine they would be.

00:26:54.121 --> 00:26:55.401

But I love now,

00:26:55.581 --> 00:26:57.001

I know how to catch a gator.

00:26:57.421 --> 00:26:58.542

They love marshmallows.

00:26:58.602 --> 00:27:00.902

So from now on when I visit Florida,

00:27:00.942 --> 00:27:01.702

I'm just going to make sure

00:27:01.762 --> 00:27:02.743

I always have marshmallows

00:27:02.763 --> 00:27:04.223

in my pocket so that I can

00:27:04.283 --> 00:27:06.163

lure the gator away if I need to.

00:27:07.064 --> 00:27:08.044

They always fall for it.

00:27:08.064 --> 00:27:11.745

But I would say that one

00:27:11.765 --> 00:27:13.025

thing that pest control is

00:27:13.105 --> 00:27:14.885

not allowed to do is have

00:27:15.186 --> 00:27:17.706

mouse traps set out in the

00:27:17.746 --> 00:27:20.287

hallways where the mice want to go.

00:27:21.936 --> 00:27:22.717

They don't have any

00:27:22.757 --> 00:27:25.679

mousetraps out during the day.

00:27:25.739 --> 00:27:26.840

And the reason for that is

00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:28.541

they don't want any kids

00:27:29.122 --> 00:27:30.082

looking and seeing a

00:27:30.142 --> 00:27:31.623

mousetrap and associating

00:27:31.664 --> 00:27:32.824

that with Mickey Mouse.

00:27:32.844 --> 00:27:35.486

Of course, yeah.

00:27:35.546 --> 00:27:39.109

So no mousetraps will ever be shown.

00:27:39.610 --> 00:27:40.931

No restaurants.

00:27:41.511 --> 00:27:42.332

There's, you know,

00:27:42.352 --> 00:27:43.753

there's thirty resorts

00:27:43.833 --> 00:27:45.314

within Walt Disney World.

00:27:46.115 --> 00:27:48.156

And you can imagine how many restaurants.

00:27:48.356 --> 00:27:49.357

None of them are allowed to

00:27:49.397 --> 00:27:51.379

serve duck in any fashion.

00:27:53.744 --> 00:27:55.165

They don't want the kids

00:27:55.205 --> 00:27:57.447

seeing duck on a menu and

00:27:57.507 --> 00:27:59.408

associating that with Donald Duck.

00:28:00.189 --> 00:28:01.410

It's all these little things

00:28:02.130 --> 00:28:03.171

that they pay so much,

00:28:04.572 --> 00:28:06.894

so close of attention to.

00:28:08.732 --> 00:28:10.333

Yeah, and that makes a lot of sense.

00:28:10.453 --> 00:28:12.274

It makes a lot of sense for their brand.

00:28:12.354 --> 00:28:13.395

It's very smart.

00:28:13.455 --> 00:28:14.776

They probably have a lot of

00:28:14.836 --> 00:28:18.037

people who review changes

00:28:18.117 --> 00:28:19.458

and new things to make sure

00:28:19.478 --> 00:28:19.918

that they don't

00:28:20.058 --> 00:28:21.879

accidentally release a

00:28:21.939 --> 00:28:23.480

cartoon that's problematic

00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:24.681

and then have to recall it

00:28:24.721 --> 00:28:25.861

several days later.

00:28:27.102 --> 00:28:27.662

Exactly.

00:28:28.302 --> 00:28:29.683

Are some detectives dressed

00:28:29.723 --> 00:28:30.964

up just like tourists and

00:28:30.984 --> 00:28:32.805

they're sort of undercover?

00:28:32.845 --> 00:28:34.125

We're going to get to that, yes.

00:28:35.926 --> 00:28:38.148

I'm assuming that Randy has a plan,

00:28:38.288 --> 00:28:40.551

and he's just working his plan.

00:28:41.051 --> 00:28:41.892

Just like Disney,

00:28:41.912 --> 00:28:42.853

where they want you to go a

00:28:42.933 --> 00:28:44.074

certain way around the park.

00:28:44.455 --> 00:28:44.915

Exactly.

00:28:45.195 --> 00:28:47.898

We're accessories at this point.

00:28:47.918 --> 00:28:49.740

Just one more unseen

00:28:50.981 --> 00:28:53.263

interesting point is that the castle,

00:28:53.964 --> 00:28:55.886

Cinderella's castle at the

00:28:55.926 --> 00:28:56.687

Magic Kingdom...

00:28:58.659 --> 00:29:01.620

has a beautiful apartment up

00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:03.800

in the the top floor of it

00:29:04.220 --> 00:29:05.620

that walt disney had built

00:29:05.660 --> 00:29:06.901

because that's where he

00:29:06.921 --> 00:29:09.121

wanted him and his wife to

00:29:09.181 --> 00:29:10.201

stay when they came to

00:29:10.241 --> 00:29:11.902

florida that they would be

00:29:11.942 --> 00:29:12.762

able to stay in that

00:29:12.802 --> 00:29:15.062

apartment but sadly he

00:29:15.102 --> 00:29:16.242

passed away before they

00:29:16.282 --> 00:29:17.483

could utilize it but they

00:29:17.523 --> 00:29:20.583

kept it intact so it was a

00:29:20.643 --> 00:29:22.423

nice place to go up and and

00:29:22.624 --> 00:29:24.044

look out the windows to see

00:29:24.124 --> 00:29:25.104

over the kingdom and

00:29:26.044 --> 00:29:27.925

It's where the kingdom kids,

00:29:28.285 --> 00:29:29.066

I think they call them,

00:29:29.086 --> 00:29:30.666

the dancers and all the

00:29:30.706 --> 00:29:31.967

performers that perform in

00:29:32.007 --> 00:29:32.887

front of the castle.

00:29:33.788 --> 00:29:35.769

They all have changing rooms

00:29:35.969 --> 00:29:37.810

up there in the castle near

00:29:37.890 --> 00:29:39.090

Walt Disney's apartment.

00:29:39.451 --> 00:29:40.911

All kinds of things going on.

00:29:41.171 --> 00:29:42.552

On the main street,

00:29:42.572 --> 00:29:44.753

if you go down main street,

00:29:45.673 --> 00:29:47.194

you see all these cute

00:29:47.234 --> 00:29:50.376

buildings depending on the

00:29:50.536 --> 00:29:51.916

area is how they're themed.

00:29:51.996 --> 00:29:53.617

But when you enter in and

00:29:53.637 --> 00:29:54.778

you go down main street,

00:29:55.588 --> 00:29:58.570

You'll see American flags

00:29:58.610 --> 00:30:00.731

flying on top of all of the buildings.

00:30:01.751 --> 00:30:03.953

But the secret is they're

00:30:04.033 --> 00:30:05.794

not really American flags.

00:30:06.414 --> 00:30:09.876

They will be missing a star or a stripe.

00:30:10.656 --> 00:30:11.977

So they're not actually

00:30:12.077 --> 00:30:14.058

American flags so that they

00:30:14.098 --> 00:30:15.579

don't have to comply with

00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:18.400

the standards that the

00:30:18.441 --> 00:30:21.002

nation has put on flying American flags.

00:30:21.832 --> 00:30:22.413

Oh, I see.

00:30:22.553 --> 00:30:23.654

So they don't have to take

00:30:23.674 --> 00:30:25.676

them down every night and

00:30:25.716 --> 00:30:26.997

protect them from weather

00:30:27.097 --> 00:30:28.718

and they can replace them at will.

00:30:28.758 --> 00:30:30.360

They don't have to dispose

00:30:30.380 --> 00:30:31.521

of them in a certain way.

00:30:32.942 --> 00:30:33.522

Exactly.

00:30:34.483 --> 00:30:35.884

And it's just another thing

00:30:35.904 --> 00:30:37.306

that no one would ever notice.

00:30:37.386 --> 00:30:38.687

You know, I don't think about that.

00:30:39.325 --> 00:30:39.585

Yeah.

00:30:39.865 --> 00:30:41.486

So while we're on the subject or while,

00:30:41.586 --> 00:30:42.726

while we briefly talked

00:30:42.746 --> 00:30:43.626

about the apartment in

00:30:43.666 --> 00:30:44.726

Cinderella's castle,

00:30:45.106 --> 00:30:47.287

I seem to remember a few years ago,

00:30:47.327 --> 00:30:50.408

maybe it was a lot of years ago that they,

00:30:50.748 --> 00:30:52.048

Disney was running some

00:30:52.088 --> 00:30:53.408

kind of a promotional or a

00:30:53.468 --> 00:30:54.849

deal of some kind where you

00:30:54.869 --> 00:30:56.389

could actually go stay in

00:30:56.449 --> 00:30:57.449

Cinderella's castle.

00:30:57.529 --> 00:30:59.410

Is that a thing that still happens?

00:30:59.450 --> 00:30:59.890

Do you know?

00:31:00.570 --> 00:31:01.270

You know, I,

00:31:01.350 --> 00:31:02.551

I honestly don't know right

00:31:02.611 --> 00:31:04.531

now currently if it still happens,

00:31:05.111 --> 00:31:08.112

but it is one of the most luxurious

00:31:08.753 --> 00:31:10.915

fancy apartments you'll ever

00:31:10.975 --> 00:31:13.777

see with incredible disney

00:31:14.118 --> 00:31:16.059

memorabilia and the cells

00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:17.240

from the different movies

00:31:17.300 --> 00:31:19.162

the you know the the

00:31:19.282 --> 00:31:20.443

animators create these

00:31:20.543 --> 00:31:23.365

cells that are part of uh

00:31:23.385 --> 00:31:25.447

yeah it's it's laden with

00:31:25.507 --> 00:31:27.149

all these beautiful ornate

00:31:27.189 --> 00:31:28.830

decorations so that

00:31:28.850 --> 00:31:30.051

wouldn't surprise me it

00:31:30.111 --> 00:31:31.673

wasn't going on while i was

00:31:31.713 --> 00:31:34.295

there it was just nobody had

00:31:35.070 --> 00:31:37.372

well i had access i had the

00:31:37.392 --> 00:31:38.933

keys kingdom if you will

00:31:39.613 --> 00:31:42.195

but typically nobody had

00:31:42.275 --> 00:31:43.696

access up in there so i

00:31:43.736 --> 00:31:44.896

really enjoyed going up

00:31:44.916 --> 00:31:45.997

there and just sitting and

00:31:46.057 --> 00:31:47.978

feeling the energy and i

00:31:48.058 --> 00:31:49.199

always thought i could feel

00:31:49.259 --> 00:31:51.240

walt disney's presence and

00:31:51.300 --> 00:31:53.662

i'm sure he he walked the

00:31:53.722 --> 00:31:55.703

hallways at night i i just

00:31:55.723 --> 00:31:58.985

have no doubt about that uh

00:31:59.005 --> 00:32:01.687

in his spirit form of course yeah

00:32:03.284 --> 00:32:04.045

but so where do you want to

00:32:04.065 --> 00:32:05.165

take us next because you're

00:32:05.265 --> 00:32:06.066

you're in charge of this

00:32:06.126 --> 00:32:09.667

ride apparently no no i

00:32:09.707 --> 00:32:10.988

don't i want you to run the

00:32:11.028 --> 00:32:13.089

podcast i just i have so

00:32:13.149 --> 00:32:14.690

much that spills out of me

00:32:15.010 --> 00:32:17.251

um i will tell you about

00:32:17.351 --> 00:32:20.593

the the in the imagineers

00:32:20.613 --> 00:32:21.873

have come up with something

00:32:21.913 --> 00:32:24.094

called smellitzers which

00:32:24.175 --> 00:32:27.016

pump smells out when you're

00:32:27.056 --> 00:32:28.317

walking down main street

00:32:28.357 --> 00:32:29.457

what you smell is the

00:32:29.497 --> 00:32:30.678

bakery you smell those

00:32:31.632 --> 00:32:33.115

Rice Krispie treats that

00:32:33.516 --> 00:32:34.679

they're so famous for.

00:32:34.739 --> 00:32:36.322

And I've never had Rice

00:32:36.342 --> 00:32:37.544

Krispie treats better than

00:32:37.584 --> 00:32:38.406

Disney can make.

00:32:38.967 --> 00:32:41.412

That buttery cookies and all that.

00:32:42.014 --> 00:32:42.675

They pump.

00:32:43.315 --> 00:32:45.496

The bakery smells out into the street,

00:32:46.036 --> 00:32:47.357

and that draws people in.

00:32:48.297 --> 00:32:49.818

When you go to the Haunted Mansion,

00:32:50.138 --> 00:32:51.359

you walk in and it smells

00:32:51.379 --> 00:32:52.920

like a musty old attic.

00:32:53.560 --> 00:32:55.041

It doesn't really smell like that,

00:32:55.081 --> 00:32:56.841

but they pump that smell in there.

00:32:57.342 --> 00:32:59.983

Same with the Pirates of the Caribbean.

00:33:00.463 --> 00:33:06.246

It's got that watery, musty smell to it.

00:33:06.266 --> 00:33:07.467

It's all by design.

00:33:07.527 --> 00:33:11.488

It's all to add to the

00:33:11.548 --> 00:33:12.569

theming of the park.

00:33:14.531 --> 00:33:15.672

um and it's just one thing

00:33:15.732 --> 00:33:18.155

after the other when you're

00:33:18.175 --> 00:33:19.277

walking through disney you

00:33:19.317 --> 00:33:20.638

want to pay close attention

00:33:20.679 --> 00:33:22.341

to the smallest minute

00:33:22.381 --> 00:33:23.943

details like columns on

00:33:23.983 --> 00:33:25.305

buildings you'll find

00:33:25.345 --> 00:33:26.887

little secrets little

00:33:27.007 --> 00:33:28.709

easter eggs all through the

00:33:28.729 --> 00:33:31.753

different parts and you'll have to google

00:33:32.329 --> 00:33:33.630

disney easter eggs because

00:33:33.650 --> 00:33:35.030

there's so many and i could

00:33:35.050 --> 00:33:36.951

never name them all but you

00:33:36.971 --> 00:33:37.991

know like some of the water

00:33:38.031 --> 00:33:40.652

slides in blizzard beach uh

00:33:40.672 --> 00:33:41.793

you know they have these

00:33:41.853 --> 00:33:44.614

incredible water parks some

00:33:44.654 --> 00:33:45.954

of the slides have easter

00:33:46.074 --> 00:33:47.535

eggs that you can only see

00:33:47.615 --> 00:33:48.555

when you're on an inner

00:33:48.595 --> 00:33:50.276

tube flying down these

00:33:50.396 --> 00:33:52.416

curly slides and if you

00:33:52.456 --> 00:33:53.217

don't know where to look

00:33:53.237 --> 00:33:54.077

you're not going to find

00:33:54.097 --> 00:33:56.098

them in norway they'd have

00:33:56.118 --> 00:33:57.438

a huge painting of all

00:33:57.478 --> 00:34:01.200

these norwegian um what do they call them

00:34:02.280 --> 00:34:03.401

the people on the ships.

00:34:04.382 --> 00:34:05.123

Vikings.

00:34:05.463 --> 00:34:07.225

Vikings, thank you.

00:34:07.465 --> 00:34:09.227

And if you know where to look,

00:34:09.267 --> 00:34:10.408

you'll see Mickey Mouse on

00:34:10.468 --> 00:34:12.390

one of those ships wearing tennis shoes.

00:34:13.191 --> 00:34:14.892

And just all these little fun things,

00:34:14.912 --> 00:34:17.615

you know, it's a real kick in the head.

00:34:19.197 --> 00:34:20.519

So they've really done,

00:34:20.659 --> 00:34:21.881

they've gone to great

00:34:21.981 --> 00:34:23.303

lengths to make sure that

00:34:23.363 --> 00:34:25.065

your experience in the park

00:34:25.626 --> 00:34:29.452

is one that encompasses all of the senses,

00:34:29.532 --> 00:34:29.832

right?

00:34:29.992 --> 00:34:30.974

They wanna make sure that

00:34:30.994 --> 00:34:32.957

you see these little Easter eggs,

00:34:32.997 --> 00:34:34.919

that you smell the right smells.

00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:36.421

you know that you taste the

00:34:36.461 --> 00:34:38.443

right tastes i i just i am

00:34:38.483 --> 00:34:40.025

amazed at the amount of

00:34:40.506 --> 00:34:41.447

forethought that's gone

00:34:41.507 --> 00:34:42.408

into it and i know that

00:34:42.448 --> 00:34:43.950

casinos do a similar thing

00:34:43.990 --> 00:34:45.671

with the smells and with

00:34:45.692 --> 00:34:46.993

the sights and sounds but i

00:34:47.774 --> 00:34:48.795

you know in casinos i

00:34:48.855 --> 00:34:49.976

always see you know

00:34:50.417 --> 00:34:51.999

overflowing trash cans and

00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:53.801

smell unpleasant things i

00:34:53.821 --> 00:34:54.481

don't think i've ever

00:34:54.521 --> 00:34:55.643

smelled anything unpleasant

00:34:55.663 --> 00:34:56.424

when i was at disney

00:34:57.945 --> 00:34:58.646

Well, that's good.

00:34:58.806 --> 00:34:59.306

That's good.

00:34:59.346 --> 00:35:01.889

And, you know, I'll interject this,

00:35:01.929 --> 00:35:04.531

that Walt Disney World,

00:35:04.671 --> 00:35:06.473

along with all of the theme parks,

00:35:07.814 --> 00:35:08.915

are shopping malls.

00:35:09.656 --> 00:35:11.197

I mean, really, that's what they are,

00:35:11.378 --> 00:35:12.939

with attractions to attract

00:35:12.979 --> 00:35:14.100

people to that mall.

00:35:15.041 --> 00:35:16.162

When you go on a ride,

00:35:16.602 --> 00:35:17.864

you don't just exit back

00:35:17.924 --> 00:35:18.805

out into the park.

00:35:18.845 --> 00:35:20.286

You always go through a gift shop.

00:35:21.003 --> 00:35:22.203

And after you've had this

00:35:22.243 --> 00:35:23.764

great experience on the ride,

00:35:23.804 --> 00:35:25.325

you want to share that or

00:35:25.385 --> 00:35:26.485

keep a memory of it.

00:35:26.945 --> 00:35:28.746

So you walk through a gift

00:35:28.766 --> 00:35:29.866

shop and you're way more

00:35:29.926 --> 00:35:33.107

likely to buy the gifts

00:35:33.167 --> 00:35:35.268

that pertain to that particular ride.

00:35:36.168 --> 00:35:37.409

Especially after you've had

00:35:37.629 --> 00:35:38.849

an exhilarating ride,

00:35:38.869 --> 00:35:39.930

you're in a good mood,

00:35:40.470 --> 00:35:41.450

you're ready to go ahead

00:35:41.470 --> 00:35:42.471

and buy that three hundred

00:35:42.491 --> 00:35:43.391

dollar lightsaber.

00:35:44.231 --> 00:35:46.032

Yes, exactly.

00:35:47.160 --> 00:35:48.220

You know,

00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:51.701

there's another thing that people

00:35:51.721 --> 00:35:53.161

will never see unless

00:35:53.841 --> 00:35:58.482

they're part of the Disney staff.

00:35:59.042 --> 00:36:00.242

We call it the zoo crew.

00:36:00.442 --> 00:36:01.602

It's all of the characters.

00:36:01.642 --> 00:36:02.263

They have their own

00:36:02.303 --> 00:36:03.803

department down in the tunnels,

00:36:04.603 --> 00:36:05.583

and they come up through

00:36:05.623 --> 00:36:07.843

the tunnel in the area that

00:36:07.884 --> 00:36:09.164

they're supposed to be working.

00:36:09.204 --> 00:36:10.584

But here's what's really cool.

00:36:11.204 --> 00:36:12.404

They have something called a

00:36:12.504 --> 00:36:13.444

control center,

00:36:13.885 --> 00:36:15.005

and it looks like something

00:36:15.085 --> 00:36:17.106

right off of –

00:36:17.363 --> 00:36:20.085

right out of the Enterprise on Star Trek.

00:36:20.165 --> 00:36:22.828

It's all these screams and

00:36:23.028 --> 00:36:23.968

all these people,

00:36:24.489 --> 00:36:27.772

almost like a control tower situation.

00:36:28.672 --> 00:36:31.495

Because of all the parks and

00:36:31.535 --> 00:36:34.017

all the restaurants and all the resorts,

00:36:34.737 --> 00:36:36.699

there can never be more

00:36:36.739 --> 00:36:39.061

than one Mickey Mouse above

00:36:39.081 --> 00:36:40.562

ground at the same time.

00:36:41.543 --> 00:36:43.705

If Mickey Mouse is in Epcot Center,

00:36:44.484 --> 00:36:46.766

He can't be at the Magic Kingdom.

00:36:47.506 --> 00:36:49.068

They have hundreds of Mickeys.

00:36:50.369 --> 00:36:51.209

To be a character,

00:36:51.249 --> 00:36:54.111

you have to match the right size.

00:36:54.151 --> 00:36:55.472

You have to learn the walk.

00:36:56.333 --> 00:37:00.256

The Minnie Mouse girls and boys,

00:37:00.296 --> 00:37:01.297

there's boys in the Minnie

00:37:01.317 --> 00:37:02.358

Mouse costumes too.

00:37:03.614 --> 00:37:04.675

they have to know how she

00:37:04.715 --> 00:37:07.336

crosses her feet they have

00:37:07.376 --> 00:37:08.917

to know how exactly she

00:37:08.997 --> 00:37:12.038

signs the signature so it's

00:37:12.118 --> 00:37:12.878

nothing when you're

00:37:12.898 --> 00:37:14.959

backstage to see some tall

00:37:15.300 --> 00:37:17.361

lunky guy walking along

00:37:17.721 --> 00:37:19.242

trying to get goofy's walk

00:37:19.262 --> 00:37:21.142

down you know they all have

00:37:21.202 --> 00:37:23.844

to walk and act the exact same way

00:37:25.028 --> 00:37:28.610

So you don't want a kid going up, you know,

00:37:28.690 --> 00:37:29.570

kids and parents,

00:37:29.590 --> 00:37:31.711

a lot of times one group

00:37:31.731 --> 00:37:32.852

will be in one park,

00:37:32.872 --> 00:37:34.333

another group will be in another.

00:37:34.873 --> 00:37:37.754

They never want a child to be able to say,

00:37:37.874 --> 00:37:38.335

Daddy,

00:37:39.095 --> 00:37:40.816

we're at Magic Kingdom and we're

00:37:40.856 --> 00:37:42.457

watching the Mickey Mouse show.

00:37:43.817 --> 00:37:46.499

And we don't want Daddy to be able to say,

00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:48.920

well, yeah, we're with Mickey over here.

00:37:49.580 --> 00:37:49.860

You know,

00:37:50.381 --> 00:37:51.441

they... I sound like Goofy there.

00:37:51.981 --> 00:37:52.162

They...

00:37:53.347 --> 00:37:55.068

they never can have more

00:37:55.108 --> 00:37:56.828

than one mickey or minnie

00:37:56.988 --> 00:37:58.709

or donald or huey dewey

00:37:58.749 --> 00:38:00.589

louis any of them they

00:38:00.609 --> 00:38:03.670

can't be in more than one

00:38:03.710 --> 00:38:06.531

place at a time so the way

00:38:06.571 --> 00:38:07.812

all this over the entire

00:38:07.872 --> 00:38:09.452

property is just amazing to

00:38:09.492 --> 00:38:11.153

me during the mickey show

00:38:11.193 --> 00:38:12.753

at the castle all mickeys

00:38:12.833 --> 00:38:15.114

are grounded until that

00:38:15.134 --> 00:38:18.035

show's over and uh you know

00:38:18.115 --> 00:38:19.495

i i i don't know how they

00:38:19.535 --> 00:38:20.776

pull that off to me that's

00:38:20.916 --> 00:38:21.776

just incredible

00:38:22.453 --> 00:38:25.074

So they have a job or

00:38:25.314 --> 00:38:26.575

several people that are

00:38:26.735 --> 00:38:28.216

coordinating the movements

00:38:28.256 --> 00:38:29.036

of all of these different

00:38:29.056 --> 00:38:31.117

characters in all of the different parks.

00:38:31.758 --> 00:38:33.138

So just for people who may

00:38:33.198 --> 00:38:36.520

not know that Disney World

00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:38.521

encompasses several parks, right?

00:38:38.581 --> 00:38:39.742

So it's the Magic Kingdom,

00:38:39.762 --> 00:38:40.902

which is the main park.

00:38:40.962 --> 00:38:42.303

That's the one most people

00:38:42.343 --> 00:38:43.204

probably think of with the

00:38:43.264 --> 00:38:44.504

Cinderella Castle and the

00:38:44.524 --> 00:38:47.105

Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

00:38:47.386 --> 00:38:49.127

And then there's the Animal Kingdom,

00:38:49.647 --> 00:38:49.907

right?

00:38:51.354 --> 00:38:52.935

And what's the main ride in

00:38:52.955 --> 00:38:53.876

the Animal Kingdom?

00:38:54.697 --> 00:38:56.199

The Animal Kingdom did not

00:38:56.259 --> 00:38:57.420

exist when I was there.

00:38:57.440 --> 00:38:58.541

It was under construction,

00:39:00.604 --> 00:39:03.226

but they have several rides

00:39:03.266 --> 00:39:04.648

just like all the other parks.

00:39:05.849 --> 00:39:09.833

Animal Kingdom, you've got EBCOT Center,

00:39:09.913 --> 00:39:12.176

like Jean was talking about.

00:39:13.322 --> 00:39:16.366

So if I remember right, the Animal Kingdom,

00:39:17.026 --> 00:39:18.268

if I remember this correctly,

00:39:18.308 --> 00:39:18.949

which I may not,

00:39:19.049 --> 00:39:19.930

I know that they've got the

00:39:19.950 --> 00:39:20.731

Jungle Cruise.

00:39:20.771 --> 00:39:22.533

That's a classic one, right?

00:39:23.353 --> 00:39:25.896

And I think that they also,

00:39:25.956 --> 00:39:26.937

do they also have the

00:39:26.977 --> 00:39:28.139

Matterhorn over there?

00:39:29.080 --> 00:39:30.722

You're talking about the Magic Kingdom,

00:39:30.782 --> 00:39:30.962

right?

00:39:31.461 --> 00:39:32.881

Oh, is it in the Magic Kingdom?

00:39:32.901 --> 00:39:33.062

Okay,

00:39:33.122 --> 00:39:35.102

so I'll just say I don't have a lot

00:39:35.142 --> 00:39:36.242

of experience with Disney.

00:39:36.403 --> 00:39:39.964

I've been a couple of times to Disneyland,

00:39:40.164 --> 00:39:41.724

and I've been a few times

00:39:41.764 --> 00:39:44.145

to Disney World taking students on trips.

00:39:44.565 --> 00:39:45.925

And whenever I took students,

00:39:46.566 --> 00:39:48.066

they would give us one day

00:39:48.386 --> 00:39:51.027

in each of four different parks.

00:39:51.067 --> 00:39:52.707

So how many parks are there total?

00:39:53.528 --> 00:39:56.028

So right now you've got the Magic Kingdom,

00:39:56.188 --> 00:39:57.109

Epcot Center,

00:39:57.689 --> 00:40:00.670

the Disney Hollywood Studios.

00:40:00.750 --> 00:40:00.990

Okay.

00:40:01.762 --> 00:40:03.983

uh animal kingdom okay uh

00:40:04.804 --> 00:40:06.285

magic kingdom park regular

00:40:06.305 --> 00:40:08.887

right aside from that you

00:40:08.927 --> 00:40:11.668

have uh the sports complex

00:40:12.229 --> 00:40:14.270

you have the uh huge water

00:40:14.350 --> 00:40:18.032

parks and uh the resort

00:40:18.073 --> 00:40:19.553

that i had the privilege of

00:40:19.854 --> 00:40:22.996

uh opening up uh because i

00:40:23.036 --> 00:40:24.016

eventually went from

00:40:24.357 --> 00:40:27.579

investigations uh i decided

00:40:27.619 --> 00:40:28.659

that i wanted to be

00:40:30.167 --> 00:40:31.468

Well, I'm getting ahead of myself.

00:40:31.488 --> 00:40:34.390

I'm not even going to say it.

00:40:34.430 --> 00:40:37.352

After I'd been at Disney for two years,

00:40:38.573 --> 00:40:41.716

they announced the Euro Disney project,

00:40:41.956 --> 00:40:44.278

which now is called Disneyland Paris.

00:40:45.218 --> 00:40:46.279

And they were selecting the

00:40:46.359 --> 00:40:48.501

best of the best to go open it up.

00:40:50.322 --> 00:40:51.743

When I say the best of the best,

00:40:51.803 --> 00:40:52.604

I mean people that have

00:40:52.624 --> 00:40:53.645

been there a long time.

00:40:54.545 --> 00:40:57.388

So I walked into my boss's office.

00:40:58.424 --> 00:41:00.528

And I said, hey, Carl, you know what?

00:41:01.344 --> 00:41:01.944

I hear that they're

00:41:01.984 --> 00:41:03.725

selecting a crew to go to

00:41:03.945 --> 00:41:05.365

Paris to open that up,

00:41:05.445 --> 00:41:07.745

and I'd like to be a part of that."

00:41:08.306 --> 00:41:09.246

And he laughed.

00:41:09.286 --> 00:41:12.126

He said, yeah, right, Randy.

00:41:12.146 --> 00:41:13.447

You've been here two years.

00:41:13.487 --> 00:41:14.527

These are the people that

00:41:14.547 --> 00:41:15.787

have been here twenty years

00:41:15.807 --> 00:41:17.027

that have that privilege.

00:41:17.768 --> 00:41:19.408

I said, oh, okay.

00:41:19.428 --> 00:41:20.248

I said,

00:41:20.268 --> 00:41:23.049

who's the one just doing the selection?

00:41:23.069 --> 00:41:25.029

He said, oh, it's Brenda down the hallway.

00:41:26.029 --> 00:41:27.690

She's the one selecting the crews.

00:41:28.030 --> 00:41:28.450

I said, oh.

00:41:29.276 --> 00:41:29.636

Cool.

00:41:30.137 --> 00:41:31.538

Well, I thought I'd give it a try.

00:41:32.699 --> 00:41:34.500

So I walked down the hallway,

00:41:35.120 --> 00:41:36.742

and I saw this Brenda.

00:41:37.042 --> 00:41:40.745

And I said, Brenda, bonjour.

00:41:41.505 --> 00:41:42.326

She looked up at me.

00:41:42.366 --> 00:41:42.626

I says, .

00:41:43.527 --> 00:41:46.489

She goes, oh my gosh,

00:41:47.290 --> 00:41:48.771

you speak beautiful French.

00:41:48.791 --> 00:41:50.372

I said, well, thank you.

00:41:50.432 --> 00:41:52.474

It's just something I've

00:41:52.654 --> 00:41:53.875

learned throughout my life.

00:41:56.310 --> 00:41:58.191

She says, oh my gosh.

00:41:58.352 --> 00:41:58.652

I said,

00:41:59.192 --> 00:42:00.793

why are you looking for people that

00:42:00.834 --> 00:42:01.494

speak French?

00:42:02.475 --> 00:42:03.115

She said, yeah,

00:42:03.195 --> 00:42:05.457

I'm selecting the crew for Euro Disney.

00:42:06.638 --> 00:42:07.519

Oh, interesting.

00:42:07.999 --> 00:42:09.120

Yeah, I speak French.

00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:11.282

I speak fluent Spanish.

00:42:11.382 --> 00:42:12.262

I can interpret.

00:42:12.362 --> 00:42:14.344

But yeah, I just thought I'd let you know.

00:42:15.460 --> 00:42:16.421

well serendipitous

00:42:19.482 --> 00:42:21.563

resourceful i don't speak a

00:42:21.603 --> 00:42:22.924

word of french that's a

00:42:22.984 --> 00:42:24.625

song i learned in junior

00:42:24.645 --> 00:42:27.346

high school oh my goodness

00:42:27.386 --> 00:42:30.207

french so uh the next day i

00:42:30.287 --> 00:42:31.748

received an invitation to

00:42:31.768 --> 00:42:33.009

be part of the opening crew

00:42:33.069 --> 00:42:37.331

at euro disney and they sent me to be uh

00:42:38.349 --> 00:42:39.170

to be in charge of a

00:42:39.230 --> 00:42:40.470

counter-terrorist squad

00:42:40.810 --> 00:42:42.251

because they'd had a lot of threats.

00:42:42.891 --> 00:42:44.211

And with my police experience,

00:42:44.251 --> 00:42:45.432

I was comfortable with that

00:42:45.512 --> 00:42:46.872

and very excited to do it.

00:42:47.592 --> 00:42:48.833

That's probably a whole

00:42:48.873 --> 00:42:51.014

different show because- Yes, I'm sure.

00:42:51.614 --> 00:42:54.535

The experiences there were

00:42:54.575 --> 00:42:55.375

pretty incredible.

00:42:55.395 --> 00:42:57.616

So did you purchase the

00:42:57.656 --> 00:42:59.697

Rosetta Stone how to speak French then?

00:43:00.937 --> 00:43:03.758

No, but thank heavens the day I arrived,

00:43:04.138 --> 00:43:05.499

they provided each of us a

00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:06.499

French interpreter.

00:43:07.499 --> 00:43:10.000

And my interpreter looked exactly,

00:43:10.160 --> 00:43:10.941

I thought it was,

00:43:12.101 --> 00:43:13.442

I thought it was John Travolta.

00:43:14.562 --> 00:43:17.064

And he walked up and I thought,

00:43:17.224 --> 00:43:18.124

I really did.

00:43:18.384 --> 00:43:19.965

And it was just a guy that

00:43:19.985 --> 00:43:21.105

looked exactly like him.

00:43:21.125 --> 00:43:23.266

But I had the interpreter,

00:43:23.306 --> 00:43:24.587

so I didn't have to worry about it.

00:43:24.607 --> 00:43:25.387

When I got there,

00:43:25.908 --> 00:43:27.028

I was assigned my

00:43:27.128 --> 00:43:29.129

counter-terrorist squad and

00:43:29.149 --> 00:43:29.910

they were all from the

00:43:29.970 --> 00:43:32.551

French Foreign Legion that Disney had.

00:43:33.371 --> 00:43:34.952

Oh, here I am getting into it now.

00:43:40.972 --> 00:43:41.512

First of all,

00:43:41.532 --> 00:43:43.153

my only job for the first two

00:43:43.173 --> 00:43:45.013

weeks was to walk the

00:43:45.073 --> 00:43:46.934

property or drive the property.

00:43:46.974 --> 00:43:48.755

They gave me a car, they gave me a,

00:43:51.195 --> 00:43:52.036

not an apartment,

00:43:52.076 --> 00:43:53.456

but a lodge in their

00:43:53.516 --> 00:43:55.697

Wilderness Lodge Park that

00:43:55.717 --> 00:43:56.657

they have in Paris,

00:43:56.797 --> 00:43:58.418

just like in Walt Disney World.

00:44:01.572 --> 00:44:02.853

that's all i did was learn

00:44:02.873 --> 00:44:04.094

the property i had to know

00:44:04.274 --> 00:44:07.917

every every square foot of

00:44:07.958 --> 00:44:09.539

the fencing i had to know

00:44:11.020 --> 00:44:12.261

where there's a hole under

00:44:12.301 --> 00:44:13.482

the fence that anyone could

00:44:13.522 --> 00:44:15.724

crawl through i i spent a

00:44:15.764 --> 00:44:17.766

lot of time just doing that

00:44:18.526 --> 00:44:20.008

and then came time for me

00:44:20.048 --> 00:44:22.850

to get my squad these guys

00:44:22.890 --> 00:44:23.811

showed up i had a

00:44:24.644 --> 00:44:28.925

knife uh expert a incendiary

00:44:28.985 --> 00:44:31.886

bombs expert uh firearms

00:44:32.286 --> 00:44:34.306

all these all these people

00:44:34.346 --> 00:44:35.386

that were experts in their

00:44:35.426 --> 00:44:36.987

own field people who were

00:44:37.047 --> 00:44:40.288

self-defense experts and

00:44:40.568 --> 00:44:41.668

they turned these guys over

00:44:41.708 --> 00:44:43.148

to me well they had long

00:44:43.228 --> 00:44:45.789

scraggly hair and facial

00:44:46.369 --> 00:44:50.370

hair beards mustaches and uh

00:44:51.490 --> 00:44:54.912

I was just told to make them Disney.

00:44:55.933 --> 00:44:56.614

I said, okay.

00:44:57.174 --> 00:44:58.415

So the first stop was to go

00:44:58.435 --> 00:44:59.636

to the barber shop and get

00:44:59.656 --> 00:45:00.576

all their hairs cut,

00:45:01.237 --> 00:45:04.819

get all of their beards shaved off.

00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.042

They were all fit with suits and ties.

00:45:08.722 --> 00:45:10.283

I was given a card that was

00:45:10.323 --> 00:45:12.325

good for all the cafeterias

00:45:12.345 --> 00:45:13.826

and restaurants in the parks.

00:45:14.686 --> 00:45:16.407

And even before the park opened,

00:45:17.624 --> 00:45:18.944

all of the restaurants and

00:45:18.964 --> 00:45:20.505

things were open so that

00:45:20.565 --> 00:45:21.885

the staff that was there

00:45:21.925 --> 00:45:23.766

from the United States and

00:45:23.826 --> 00:45:25.506

all around the world could

00:45:25.746 --> 00:45:27.607

utilize the food areas.

00:45:28.227 --> 00:45:29.547

And these guys, you know,

00:45:29.607 --> 00:45:32.428

they just ate their weight every day,

00:45:34.249 --> 00:45:36.229

anything to keep them happy, which I did.

00:45:37.649 --> 00:45:39.190

And then came opening day.

00:45:41.711 --> 00:45:44.191

And that's where all the,

00:45:44.231 --> 00:45:45.452

that's when the crap really,

00:45:45.532 --> 00:45:46.912

that's when the crap hit the fan.

00:45:47.638 --> 00:45:48.700

because we did have some

00:45:48.740 --> 00:45:49.721

attacks and things.

00:45:51.904 --> 00:45:53.307

Something that one of our

00:45:53.607 --> 00:45:55.931

jobs as investigators was

00:45:55.951 --> 00:45:57.493

to keep things under wraps,

00:45:57.673 --> 00:45:59.656

to keep things from getting

00:45:59.716 --> 00:46:00.437

out to the press.

00:46:02.706 --> 00:46:04.007

Disney had actually built

00:46:04.187 --> 00:46:05.949

train tracks going from Paris.

00:46:09.352 --> 00:46:11.894

Walt Disney, at the time it's called that,

00:46:12.715 --> 00:46:14.556

was twenty miles out of

00:46:14.596 --> 00:46:16.858

Paris in Marne-la-Vallée

00:46:17.018 --> 00:46:19.120

was the name of the town.

00:46:19.320 --> 00:46:20.381

This is in nineteen ninety-two?

00:46:21.202 --> 00:46:22.523

Yes, actually, yes.

00:46:23.364 --> 00:46:25.185

And Disney was

00:46:27.758 --> 00:46:29.199

They built a train track

00:46:29.339 --> 00:46:31.181

going from Paris train

00:46:31.201 --> 00:46:32.782

station right out to Disney

00:46:32.822 --> 00:46:34.063

so people could just hop on

00:46:34.083 --> 00:46:35.324

the train and go right out.

00:46:36.045 --> 00:46:38.407

And that was a huge thing

00:46:38.467 --> 00:46:40.308

because Parisians then

00:46:40.348 --> 00:46:41.950

didn't have to worry about

00:46:42.010 --> 00:46:43.571

how they were going to get there.

00:46:45.833 --> 00:46:47.774

It was on the opening day.

00:46:48.915 --> 00:46:50.196

I got a call at about four

00:46:50.236 --> 00:46:51.857

thirty in the morning and they said,

00:46:52.538 --> 00:46:52.958

what?

00:46:54.019 --> 00:46:54.800

You need to get to

00:46:54.820 --> 00:46:55.961

headquarters right away.

00:46:56.801 --> 00:46:57.262

And where?

00:46:58.623 --> 00:47:00.565

very casual clothes and

00:47:00.725 --> 00:47:01.966

nothing that says Disney.

00:47:03.007 --> 00:47:04.128

I said, okay.

00:47:04.548 --> 00:47:07.851

So I put on some Levi's and

00:47:07.871 --> 00:47:11.373

a shirt and got to the headquarters.

00:47:14.716 --> 00:47:16.358

There were farmers coming

00:47:16.398 --> 00:47:19.100

from all over Europe with their tractors,

00:47:19.720 --> 00:47:22.583

several carrying trailers

00:47:23.123 --> 00:47:25.365

full of hay and straw bales.

00:47:26.313 --> 00:47:27.474

And they set them up on the

00:47:27.514 --> 00:47:29.416

train tracks so that the

00:47:29.456 --> 00:47:30.677

train couldn't get by.

00:47:30.877 --> 00:47:32.939

They set them in all of the

00:47:33.079 --> 00:47:35.181

entrances to Euro Disney.

00:47:36.101 --> 00:47:38.984

And several were lit on fire.

00:47:39.805 --> 00:47:41.186

And it was chaos.

00:47:42.207 --> 00:47:43.528

And they told me,

00:47:43.648 --> 00:47:46.450

we want you to infiltrate the group.

00:47:47.691 --> 00:47:48.993

Keep everything hidden,

00:47:49.253 --> 00:47:52.976

your communication devices and things.

00:47:54.433 --> 00:47:56.015

keep reporting on what's going on.

00:47:56.135 --> 00:47:56.935

So I went,

00:47:57.616 --> 00:48:00.419

I was given a pitchfork because

00:48:00.439 --> 00:48:01.119

they had all these

00:48:01.259 --> 00:48:02.080

implements that we could

00:48:02.100 --> 00:48:03.321

carry to look like we were

00:48:03.361 --> 00:48:05.904

part of the big riot.

00:48:06.805 --> 00:48:09.527

And I took this pitchfork

00:48:09.587 --> 00:48:11.128

and I went into this group.

00:48:11.169 --> 00:48:13.311

There were probably in this

00:48:13.371 --> 00:48:15.332

particular area, the main entrance,

00:48:15.372 --> 00:48:16.674

there were probably five

00:48:16.714 --> 00:48:18.936

hundred farmers with

00:48:19.926 --> 00:48:21.287

weapons in their hands

00:48:21.528 --> 00:48:22.248

because they weren't going

00:48:22.268 --> 00:48:23.750

to let anybody into the parks.

00:48:24.310 --> 00:48:26.112

This was all protesting the

00:48:26.172 --> 00:48:29.114

Yankees coming in and

00:48:29.415 --> 00:48:31.517

populating their country.

00:48:32.197 --> 00:48:32.978

Anti-American.

00:48:35.100 --> 00:48:35.440

Yep.

00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:36.681

Very anti-American.

00:48:36.942 --> 00:48:39.544

And so I have this pitchfork in my hand.

00:48:39.804 --> 00:48:41.886

Mind you, I don't speak any French.

00:48:42.326 --> 00:48:43.668

They're hollering all these

00:48:44.487 --> 00:48:44.867

you know,

00:48:44.907 --> 00:48:47.049

commands and get over there and

00:48:47.069 --> 00:48:47.729

get over there.

00:48:47.769 --> 00:48:49.751

And I just sat on my bale of

00:48:49.831 --> 00:48:52.492

straw and would nod my head

00:48:53.153 --> 00:48:54.654

and report what was going on.

00:48:54.934 --> 00:48:59.917

And, uh, finally the Parisian, uh, uh,

00:48:59.937 --> 00:49:00.418

authorities.

00:49:01.078 --> 00:49:01.398

Yeah.

00:49:01.478 --> 00:49:02.339

Like, um,

00:49:03.662 --> 00:49:05.463

Ours would be the National Guard.

00:49:05.823 --> 00:49:08.385

They came in and cleared out

00:49:08.565 --> 00:49:10.586

the train tracks and got

00:49:10.647 --> 00:49:11.787

all the hay bales and

00:49:11.827 --> 00:49:13.188

everything moved off and

00:49:13.268 --> 00:49:14.649

forced the farmers out.

00:49:15.450 --> 00:49:17.931

But that was a pretty spooky situation.

00:49:17.971 --> 00:49:20.813

Talk about a baptism by fire

00:49:20.853 --> 00:49:24.335

for the counterterrorist squad.

00:49:24.916 --> 00:49:26.977

Literally on top of the like

00:49:27.037 --> 00:49:28.458

half a million people and

00:49:28.518 --> 00:49:29.559

ninety thousand cars in the

00:49:29.619 --> 00:49:31.520

road that we're trying to get in.

00:49:32.269 --> 00:49:33.909

yeah yeah they were blocking

00:49:33.929 --> 00:49:35.730

it all and yeah it was

00:49:35.790 --> 00:49:39.051

quite a um melee but yeah

00:49:39.091 --> 00:49:40.991

so so people in these in

00:49:41.031 --> 00:49:41.751

the united states

00:49:41.811 --> 00:49:42.671

especially may not

00:49:42.731 --> 00:49:43.932

understand this about

00:49:43.992 --> 00:49:46.192

france but their culture is

00:49:46.232 --> 00:49:48.273

a culture of protest they

00:49:48.333 --> 00:49:49.453

will protest just about

00:49:49.533 --> 00:49:50.793

anything at just about any

00:49:50.833 --> 00:49:51.953

time and they don't care

00:49:52.093 --> 00:49:54.074

about the inconvenience to other people

00:49:55.314 --> 00:49:56.315

They will just they want to

00:49:56.355 --> 00:49:58.016

carry out their protest and

00:49:58.056 --> 00:49:58.636

get their way.

00:49:58.696 --> 00:50:00.037

So do you think that it was

00:50:00.638 --> 00:50:01.658

just because it was an

00:50:01.698 --> 00:50:03.079

American company or was

00:50:03.099 --> 00:50:03.679

there something

00:50:03.740 --> 00:50:05.341

specifically about Disney

00:50:05.381 --> 00:50:06.201

that they didn't like?

00:50:07.602 --> 00:50:10.284

It was representative of America.

00:50:10.384 --> 00:50:10.824

That's it.

00:50:10.884 --> 00:50:13.466

It's all about them coming in.

00:50:13.666 --> 00:50:15.827

And I think they took it as

00:50:15.867 --> 00:50:16.948

an insult that the

00:50:18.689 --> 00:50:19.809

Americans thought they were

00:50:19.849 --> 00:50:21.611

superior and would come in

00:50:21.651 --> 00:50:23.412

and open this big, huge attraction.

00:50:24.322 --> 00:50:26.102

We had to stop wearing any

00:50:26.142 --> 00:50:28.243

Disney clothes when we'd go into Paris,

00:50:28.363 --> 00:50:29.503

into the subways.

00:50:30.083 --> 00:50:31.784

We had to take off our rings,

00:50:31.944 --> 00:50:33.124

our Disney clothes,

00:50:33.484 --> 00:50:34.524

so that we weren't known.

00:50:36.685 --> 00:50:38.285

And one... Carry a baguette.

00:50:41.406 --> 00:50:43.887

Baguettes, yeah.

00:50:44.067 --> 00:50:44.967

One interesting thing,

00:50:45.087 --> 00:50:49.088

I ended up... My partners and I,

00:50:49.308 --> 00:50:50.608

we had a weekend off.

00:50:51.188 --> 00:50:52.749

And so we went to...

00:50:54.006 --> 00:50:54.426

Belgium.

00:50:55.306 --> 00:50:57.447

And we were in this big,

00:50:57.487 --> 00:50:59.187

beautiful plaza in Belgium.

00:50:59.227 --> 00:51:01.048

And I felt safe there

00:51:01.088 --> 00:51:03.208

because we're not in Paris anymore.

00:51:04.289 --> 00:51:06.229

And some elderly man came up

00:51:06.289 --> 00:51:07.149

with the cane.

00:51:07.589 --> 00:51:09.730

He was all shaky and wobbly.

00:51:09.770 --> 00:51:13.251

And he says, oh, you must be Americans.

00:51:13.271 --> 00:51:15.611

And I'm like, yes, yes, we are.

00:51:15.731 --> 00:51:15.931

He said,

00:51:15.951 --> 00:51:17.892

what are you doing in our country?

00:51:18.941 --> 00:51:19.341

And I said,

00:51:19.361 --> 00:51:21.223

we're just visiting from Paris.

00:51:21.283 --> 00:51:23.585

We're opening the Euro

00:51:23.625 --> 00:51:24.947

Disney complex there.

00:51:26.548 --> 00:51:29.251

And his whole demeanor

00:51:29.291 --> 00:51:30.692

changed and he took his

00:51:30.732 --> 00:51:31.793

cane and raised it and

00:51:31.833 --> 00:51:34.536

started hitting me as hard as he could.

00:51:36.544 --> 00:51:38.165

I'm stepping back trying to

00:51:38.205 --> 00:51:39.566

avoid this cane and he's

00:51:39.606 --> 00:51:41.026

going after my partners.

00:51:41.087 --> 00:51:43.208

And the last thing we wanted

00:51:43.248 --> 00:51:44.769

to do was make a big scene.

00:51:45.389 --> 00:51:46.549

But I thought for sure we'd

00:51:46.589 --> 00:51:47.630

be safe in Belgium.

00:51:47.670 --> 00:51:48.911

But no, we got attacked.

00:51:49.711 --> 00:51:52.973

And we were chuckling, you know,

00:51:53.433 --> 00:51:54.894

even swinging his cane

00:51:54.914 --> 00:51:56.595

because he's not going to

00:51:56.635 --> 00:51:57.896

do any damage to us.

00:51:57.996 --> 00:52:00.377

But yeah,

00:52:00.437 --> 00:52:02.718

we had to stay pretty incognito

00:52:02.738 --> 00:52:04.159

while we weren't on property.

00:52:05.689 --> 00:52:07.751

You talked about Disney demeanor they got.

00:52:11.534 --> 00:52:12.474

That's good, Jean.

00:52:12.995 --> 00:52:14.276

Always great for a dad joke.

00:52:14.376 --> 00:52:16.738

Love it.

00:52:17.018 --> 00:52:18.679

And how did all the protests

00:52:18.719 --> 00:52:21.361

affect the first opening day?

00:52:21.421 --> 00:52:23.563

What was it like in the park

00:52:23.803 --> 00:52:24.484

in the afternoon?

00:52:25.284 --> 00:52:26.825

It was delayed,

00:52:26.885 --> 00:52:29.207

but it all started at about five a.m.

00:52:31.225 --> 00:52:33.887

and by opening time most of

00:52:33.927 --> 00:52:35.988

it was cleared away i

00:52:36.028 --> 00:52:37.749

didn't think that i thought

00:52:37.789 --> 00:52:38.990

that we were keeping things

00:52:39.070 --> 00:52:40.411

under wraps but this was a

00:52:40.491 --> 00:52:42.993

national story and cnn was

00:52:43.053 --> 00:52:44.854

there and i got a call that

00:52:44.894 --> 00:52:46.135

day from a friend of mine

00:52:46.175 --> 00:52:47.355

from the united states

00:52:47.796 --> 00:52:49.076

because we had access to

00:52:49.116 --> 00:52:52.579

telephones uh uh seven and

00:52:52.599 --> 00:52:54.260

he said i saw you i saw you

00:52:54.320 --> 00:52:56.241

on the news like really you

00:52:56.281 --> 00:52:57.402

saw that he goes yeah

00:52:58.227 --> 00:52:59.788

so i know that it was widely

00:52:59.848 --> 00:53:01.209

publicized but they were

00:53:01.249 --> 00:53:02.370

able to clear it off and

00:53:02.410 --> 00:53:04.411

the opening went very well

00:53:04.831 --> 00:53:06.733

now the opening the first

00:53:06.793 --> 00:53:09.374

two days of the opening uh

00:53:09.394 --> 00:53:12.416

before the public they had

00:53:12.616 --> 00:53:13.797

all celebrities michael

00:53:13.897 --> 00:53:16.459

eisner the ceo had flown in

00:53:16.979 --> 00:53:18.480

every celebrity that you

00:53:18.500 --> 00:53:20.401

can think of he paid for

00:53:20.421 --> 00:53:21.562

their airfare he put them

00:53:21.602 --> 00:53:23.083

all up in our resorts the

00:53:23.103 --> 00:53:24.444

fanciest the nicest

00:53:24.962 --> 00:53:26.783

politicians and presidents

00:53:27.904 --> 00:53:29.105

our president vice

00:53:29.145 --> 00:53:30.847

president everybody showed

00:53:30.927 --> 00:53:32.508

up and there was no one

00:53:32.548 --> 00:53:33.869

else allowed in the park

00:53:33.929 --> 00:53:36.391

but celebrities and even

00:53:36.431 --> 00:53:38.312

that got chaotic because

00:53:39.814 --> 00:53:40.995

there were so many of them

00:53:41.055 --> 00:53:42.276

you know you had to keep

00:53:42.336 --> 00:53:43.937

the celebrities in line and

00:53:43.957 --> 00:53:46.078

that's one of my that's one

00:53:46.119 --> 00:53:48.140

of my jobs was to escort

00:53:48.620 --> 00:53:50.022

celebrities and make sure

00:53:50.042 --> 00:53:51.763

that they were not hassled

00:53:51.803 --> 00:53:53.024

or any problems and

00:53:54.180 --> 00:53:57.261

I, I, uh,

00:53:57.341 --> 00:53:59.882

I had my terrorist squad that

00:53:59.902 --> 00:54:02.543

they were what I, they would follow me.

00:54:02.583 --> 00:54:03.923

They'd have to follow me and

00:54:04.063 --> 00:54:05.704

always keep me in their eyesight.

00:54:05.724 --> 00:54:07.104

And then we had hand signals

00:54:07.525 --> 00:54:08.965

in case I needed them to

00:54:09.545 --> 00:54:10.886

attack or to protect.

00:54:10.906 --> 00:54:14.307

So no matter where I went in the park,

00:54:15.427 --> 00:54:17.268

you know, I talked about backstage.

00:54:17.448 --> 00:54:17.728

Well,

00:54:18.548 --> 00:54:21.309

my squad would stay backstage and

00:54:21.770 --> 00:54:23.090

watch me through the,

00:54:23.586 --> 00:54:25.026

areas that we had designated

00:54:25.126 --> 00:54:26.807

so that they could always

00:54:26.827 --> 00:54:30.288

keep me in their view yeah

00:54:30.308 --> 00:54:31.628

well i can only imagine

00:54:32.028 --> 00:54:34.149

what a difficult job it was

00:54:34.889 --> 00:54:36.410

to have the park full of

00:54:36.490 --> 00:54:37.750

celebrities each one

00:54:37.790 --> 00:54:38.490

thinking they're more

00:54:38.530 --> 00:54:40.731

important than the last and

00:54:40.771 --> 00:54:41.631

trying to keep them all

00:54:41.691 --> 00:54:44.152

happy that must have been a crazy job

00:54:45.584 --> 00:54:47.305

If I may drop a name or two,

00:54:48.706 --> 00:54:50.407

I was with Jean-Claude Van Damme.

00:54:50.607 --> 00:54:51.728

He was my principal.

00:54:51.768 --> 00:54:52.649

He was the one I was to

00:54:52.689 --> 00:54:55.110

watch during that particular day.

00:54:56.031 --> 00:54:58.552

And they had a special VIP

00:54:58.792 --> 00:55:01.974

luncheon and Jean-Claude

00:55:02.775 --> 00:55:04.276

and I went in and then I

00:55:04.296 --> 00:55:05.236

would just stand at the

00:55:05.276 --> 00:55:06.657

door and let him go in and

00:55:06.757 --> 00:55:07.998

eat and do all that.

00:55:08.038 --> 00:55:12.221

Well, Eddie Murphy and his crew,

00:55:13.008 --> 00:55:15.189

were eating at the end of

00:55:15.229 --> 00:55:16.510

the hallway there.

00:55:16.670 --> 00:55:21.052

Not hallway, but it was like a train car.

00:55:21.892 --> 00:55:23.333

And he was eating towards the end.

00:55:23.453 --> 00:55:26.734

And Jean-Claude Van Damme said, hey,

00:55:26.894 --> 00:55:27.254

Eddie.

00:55:27.775 --> 00:55:28.815

And he walked towards him.

00:55:29.816 --> 00:55:32.477

And Eddie's bodyguard stood up, great big,

00:55:32.657 --> 00:55:35.898

huge big man, stood up and said,

00:55:36.539 --> 00:55:37.299

excuse me,

00:55:37.619 --> 00:55:40.480

Mr. Murphy does not speak to

00:55:40.540 --> 00:55:41.881

people while he's eating.

00:55:43.190 --> 00:55:45.071

And Eddie Murphy heard this

00:55:45.131 --> 00:55:46.812

and watched it and didn't say, oh,

00:55:46.832 --> 00:55:47.593

come on over.

00:55:48.253 --> 00:55:51.175

So Jean-Claude says, ah, oui, okay,

00:55:51.395 --> 00:55:52.315

I'll remember that.

00:55:53.176 --> 00:55:55.897

And so some of the celebrities in line,

00:55:55.977 --> 00:55:57.078

I had to arrest Eddie's

00:55:57.118 --> 00:55:59.339

brother for beating up his wife.

00:56:01.300 --> 00:56:02.981

And I told him, I said, look,

00:56:03.261 --> 00:56:04.122

I'm going to turn you over

00:56:04.142 --> 00:56:05.303

to the Parisian police.

00:56:06.003 --> 00:56:07.624

I had to call Eddie Murphy and say,

00:56:08.686 --> 00:56:08.986

you know,

00:56:09.066 --> 00:56:10.487

this is what your brother's done.

00:56:11.028 --> 00:56:13.029

And he's like, well, I'll watch it.

00:56:13.049 --> 00:56:13.829

And I said, well, look,

00:56:14.490 --> 00:56:15.510

I'm not gonna turn him over

00:56:15.530 --> 00:56:16.731

to the Parisian police,

00:56:17.111 --> 00:56:19.052

but if you don't keep good

00:56:19.092 --> 00:56:20.593

care of him and keep him in line,

00:56:20.974 --> 00:56:22.074

he's out, he's going.

00:56:22.755 --> 00:56:26.077

He says, yeah, man, I'll do it.

00:56:26.097 --> 00:56:27.918

And I'm not a fan of Eddie Murphy anymore.

00:56:27.978 --> 00:56:29.159

I used to be a huge fan,

00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:32.080

but the way everybody there in that park,

00:56:32.120 --> 00:56:32.981

it was ridiculous.

00:56:35.498 --> 00:56:37.579

It's always telling when

00:56:37.619 --> 00:56:39.859

there's a celebrity or notable person,

00:56:40.359 --> 00:56:41.339

the way that they treat

00:56:41.399 --> 00:56:43.440

people when they have

00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.140

nothing to gain from that interaction.

00:56:46.600 --> 00:56:47.780

It's always very telling

00:56:47.820 --> 00:56:49.321

what kind of a person they really are.

00:56:51.181 --> 00:56:52.361

Yes, it is.

00:56:53.161 --> 00:56:55.602

The next night of the

00:56:56.582 --> 00:56:59.102

semi-opening for just celebrities,

00:56:59.702 --> 00:57:00.903

all the celebrities were there,

00:57:01.003 --> 00:57:03.243

only now Disney allowed the paparazzi in.

00:57:04.180 --> 00:57:06.561

So if they were paparazzi,

00:57:06.601 --> 00:57:07.461

they could come into the

00:57:07.501 --> 00:57:09.142

park because that's the

00:57:09.182 --> 00:57:11.223

best publication you could ever get.

00:57:11.263 --> 00:57:12.543

The best advertising in the

00:57:12.583 --> 00:57:14.284

world is let the paparazzi in.

00:57:14.304 --> 00:57:18.105

So that really got chaotic.

00:57:18.805 --> 00:57:23.247

And during that time,

00:57:23.347 --> 00:57:24.947

I was with Michael J. Fox,

00:57:25.468 --> 00:57:27.788

who is just an incredible man.

00:57:27.848 --> 00:57:31.710

I love Michael J. Fox.

00:57:33.429 --> 00:57:34.229

What a great guy.

00:57:34.689 --> 00:57:36.030

I can't say enough good about him.

00:57:36.170 --> 00:57:39.511

But Candace Bergen and

00:57:39.811 --> 00:57:42.552

Steven Spielberg came up to me and said,

00:57:42.692 --> 00:57:43.912

hey, you're with Disney?

00:57:44.192 --> 00:57:45.012

I said, yes, sir.

00:57:45.792 --> 00:57:48.193

And they presented this little boy to me.

00:57:49.093 --> 00:57:50.014

And Candace says,

00:57:50.134 --> 00:57:51.174

I think this is Jane

00:57:51.214 --> 00:57:53.034

Seymour's boy and he's sick.

00:57:54.115 --> 00:57:55.395

But we can't find Jane.

00:57:56.335 --> 00:57:57.936

And so I put the word out

00:57:58.056 --> 00:57:59.656

that I needed Jane Seymour

00:57:59.836 --> 00:58:01.977

and she was off watching some other show.

00:58:03.024 --> 00:58:05.045

thinking that her son was in good hands,

00:58:05.086 --> 00:58:09.048

you know, with all the celebs there.

00:58:09.128 --> 00:58:11.209

And she came running up, and I said, Jane,

00:58:11.790 --> 00:58:13.331

we have your boy here, and he's sick.

00:58:13.451 --> 00:58:14.572

She goes, oh, no.

00:58:15.052 --> 00:58:15.652

I said, don't worry.

00:58:16.533 --> 00:58:18.114

We can get him to our infirmary.

00:58:18.154 --> 00:58:19.895

She goes, how can we do that?

00:58:20.735 --> 00:58:22.977

Because the crowds were so

00:58:23.137 --> 00:58:24.798

massive of all the celebs

00:58:24.838 --> 00:58:26.479

and all the paparazzi out there.

00:58:27.280 --> 00:58:29.301

And it was pouring rain, by the way,

00:58:29.501 --> 00:58:31.042

so everyone had their umbrellas up.

00:58:32.335 --> 00:58:34.676

said i'll tell you what i

00:58:34.696 --> 00:58:35.716

said i want you to crawl

00:58:35.796 --> 00:58:38.077

under my my overcoat

00:58:39.198 --> 00:58:40.258

because i had an overcoat

00:58:40.338 --> 00:58:41.919

on with my suit i want you

00:58:41.939 --> 00:58:43.319

to crawl under behind me

00:58:43.920 --> 00:58:46.180

and hold on to my waist so

00:58:46.280 --> 00:58:48.221

she did she got under my

00:58:48.301 --> 00:58:49.542

overcoat and held on to my

00:58:49.582 --> 00:58:51.342

waist and i'm thinking if

00:58:51.442 --> 00:58:52.643

only my friends could see

00:58:52.663 --> 00:58:54.164

me now because i've got

00:58:54.204 --> 00:58:57.325

jane seymour paste under my coat

00:58:58.270 --> 00:58:59.510

But anyway, we took her boy.

00:58:59.590 --> 00:59:00.750

I called for a wheelchair

00:59:00.790 --> 00:59:02.971

and I just walked straight

00:59:03.011 --> 00:59:05.031

to the infirmary with her

00:59:05.171 --> 00:59:07.172

trailing behind me, walking, you know,

00:59:07.532 --> 00:59:08.772

simultaneous with me.

00:59:08.812 --> 00:59:11.572

And we got her boy to the medical place.

00:59:12.472 --> 00:59:14.853

I was then called to go to a

00:59:14.893 --> 00:59:18.233

show at the Star Wars attraction.

00:59:19.034 --> 00:59:19.494

It was,

00:59:20.234 --> 00:59:23.794

I was to watch over Cher and Tina Turner.

00:59:24.815 --> 00:59:26.155

And I was there, you know,

00:59:26.255 --> 00:59:26.895

I was their guy.

00:59:27.804 --> 00:59:29.505

so after they performed uh

00:59:30.725 --> 00:59:31.925

getting ready for the next

00:59:31.945 --> 00:59:33.586

show they went into the big

00:59:33.626 --> 00:59:36.767

dressing room and i stopped

00:59:36.827 --> 00:59:38.767

and tina turner turned

00:59:38.787 --> 00:59:39.727

around and she said hey

00:59:40.368 --> 00:59:41.788

you're you're a guy come in

00:59:42.548 --> 00:59:43.448

and i said well i just

00:59:43.949 --> 00:59:45.329

wanted to let you change

00:59:45.369 --> 00:59:47.249

she goes we've got nothing

00:59:47.269 --> 00:59:49.670

you haven't seen before so

00:59:49.710 --> 00:59:51.911

i'm sitting here and share

00:59:51.931 --> 00:59:52.911

and tina turner are in

00:59:52.971 --> 00:59:56.432

their nothings you know in their

01:00:00.493 --> 01:00:01.834

And I'm thinking once again,

01:00:01.874 --> 01:00:04.376

this is one of those moments, you know,

01:00:05.056 --> 01:00:06.177

I'm going to jump back to

01:00:06.197 --> 01:00:07.778

the magic kingdom for a minute though.

01:00:10.360 --> 01:00:11.461

If we see,

01:00:11.481 --> 01:00:13.202

this is how we would catch bad guys.

01:00:13.222 --> 01:00:14.103

And we caught some of the

01:00:14.123 --> 01:00:16.384

most infamous bad guys that

01:00:16.404 --> 01:00:18.226

would come see one of the

01:00:18.246 --> 01:00:21.728

biggest crimes that was

01:00:21.768 --> 01:00:22.909

committed at Walt Disney

01:00:22.929 --> 01:00:24.330

world was counterfeiting money.

01:00:25.486 --> 01:00:26.227

what you'd have these

01:00:26.767 --> 01:00:28.089

counterfeiters from all

01:00:28.129 --> 01:00:29.050

around the world that would

01:00:29.090 --> 01:00:30.912

come thinking that was a

01:00:30.952 --> 01:00:32.774

great target because they

01:00:32.794 --> 01:00:34.495

would they would print

01:00:34.595 --> 01:00:35.737

let's say they're printing

01:00:35.797 --> 01:00:37.839

hundred dollar bills they

01:00:37.859 --> 01:00:38.940

would take a hundred dollar

01:00:38.980 --> 01:00:40.261

bill and give it to the

01:00:40.321 --> 01:00:41.843

store and buy a trinket of

01:00:41.883 --> 01:00:43.284

some sort and they'd get

01:00:43.324 --> 01:00:45.627

all the change in real

01:00:45.667 --> 01:00:46.708

money and they're passing

01:00:46.748 --> 01:00:47.589

counterfeit bills

01:00:48.534 --> 01:00:49.814

We had to know counterfeit

01:00:49.854 --> 01:00:51.475

money like the back of our hand,

01:00:51.535 --> 01:00:53.395

and we had to teach all the shop owners.

01:00:54.036 --> 01:00:55.436

And the minute a shop owner

01:00:55.476 --> 01:00:56.937

would report that they

01:00:56.977 --> 01:00:58.897

thought there was counterfeiting going on,

01:00:59.617 --> 01:01:01.438

I would call my Fox crew.

01:01:02.058 --> 01:01:02.238

Now,

01:01:02.358 --> 01:01:05.259

each of us detectives were assigned a

01:01:05.319 --> 01:01:11.781

crew for our use.

01:01:11.861 --> 01:01:12.881

And these were the people

01:01:12.921 --> 01:01:14.362

that were dressed as tourists.

01:01:14.962 --> 01:01:16.522

They were actually, you know,

01:01:16.562 --> 01:01:18.283

former police officers and

01:01:18.955 --> 01:01:20.217

you know, they had to qualify,

01:01:20.277 --> 01:01:21.679

but they dressed as tourists.

01:01:22.120 --> 01:01:23.402

And when I called my Fox

01:01:23.462 --> 01:01:25.485

crew and gave them what was going on,

01:01:25.906 --> 01:01:27.849

they'd instantly surround the store.

01:01:28.350 --> 01:01:30.172

And this is how bad guys are caught there.

01:01:31.313 --> 01:01:32.493

It's around the store and

01:01:32.513 --> 01:01:33.814

they keep me apprised of

01:01:33.874 --> 01:01:35.634

exactly where these guys are going.

01:01:36.054 --> 01:01:37.075

And they just follow them

01:01:37.095 --> 01:01:38.535

through the parks as they

01:01:38.595 --> 01:01:39.816

exchanged all the money.

01:01:40.416 --> 01:01:41.196

In the meantime,

01:01:41.616 --> 01:01:44.737

the people in the shops are all aware.

01:01:45.217 --> 01:01:46.358

And so they're taking these

01:01:46.398 --> 01:01:47.498

bills that are presented

01:01:47.558 --> 01:01:48.658

and setting them aside,

01:01:48.698 --> 01:01:50.479

but pretending like nothing's going on.

01:01:51.569 --> 01:01:51.629

Now,

01:01:51.649 --> 01:01:53.411

here's something fun about the Magic

01:01:53.431 --> 01:01:53.812

Kingdom.

01:01:54.092 --> 01:01:55.914

You can't drive there.

01:01:56.314 --> 01:01:58.417

You can't get into the Magic

01:01:58.437 --> 01:02:01.400

Kingdom unless you either ride the boat,

01:02:02.201 --> 01:02:04.803

ride the monorail, or ride a bus.

01:02:05.284 --> 01:02:06.926

But no car can even get there.

01:02:07.406 --> 01:02:09.148

So when the bad guys do their thing,

01:02:10.069 --> 01:02:11.691

once we're onto them, there's no escape.

01:02:12.593 --> 01:02:14.394

So while my Fox crew was

01:02:14.454 --> 01:02:16.135

following and collecting evidence,

01:02:16.616 --> 01:02:17.997

I would call Secret Service.

01:02:18.177 --> 01:02:19.718

We had a Secret Service

01:02:19.818 --> 01:02:23.480

agent that was always on call for us.

01:02:23.580 --> 01:02:24.701

And he'd respond and I'd

01:02:24.741 --> 01:02:26.342

meet with him in the back area.

01:02:26.843 --> 01:02:28.444

And I'd say, here's what's going on,

01:02:28.504 --> 01:02:29.785

here's how many we've got.

01:02:30.545 --> 01:02:31.726

And they'd say, okay, well,

01:02:31.766 --> 01:02:32.847

we're ready when you are.

01:02:33.967 --> 01:02:35.488

And so once we were all,

01:02:35.568 --> 01:02:36.769

everyone was in place,

01:02:37.630 --> 01:02:39.171

I would wait for these guys

01:02:39.211 --> 01:02:40.752

to come out of their last shop

01:02:41.589 --> 01:02:43.714

And I'd walk up to him and, you know,

01:02:43.734 --> 01:02:45.137

I'd say, hey, how's it going?

01:02:45.398 --> 01:02:46.781

You know, oh, fine.

01:02:47.122 --> 01:02:47.342

I said,

01:02:47.402 --> 01:02:48.385

is there anything I can help you

01:02:48.405 --> 01:02:48.866

guys with?

01:02:50.390 --> 01:02:51.071

No, no, sir.

01:02:51.331 --> 01:02:51.951

I said, okay.

01:02:52.292 --> 01:02:53.733

And I'd put my arm around them and I'd say,

01:02:53.753 --> 01:02:55.614

hey, here's what we're going to do.

01:02:56.015 --> 01:02:57.776

And I would stay, I would keep smiling.

01:02:57.916 --> 01:02:59.458

I wouldn't let the smile leave my face.

01:03:00.098 --> 01:03:01.179

Here's what we're going to do.

01:03:01.940 --> 01:03:02.940

We're going to take you

01:03:03.020 --> 01:03:04.482

backstage because we know

01:03:04.502 --> 01:03:05.162

what you're doing.

01:03:05.502 --> 01:03:06.823

And I've got a whole bunch

01:03:06.863 --> 01:03:08.545

of people surrounding you,

01:03:08.885 --> 01:03:10.246

but you don't know who they are.

01:03:10.947 --> 01:03:11.367

I do.

01:03:11.928 --> 01:03:12.888

And they are watching you.

01:03:12.928 --> 01:03:14.490

So you can run if you want,

01:03:14.710 --> 01:03:15.751

but you can't go anywhere.

01:03:15.911 --> 01:03:16.992

You can't get anywhere.

01:03:18.012 --> 01:03:18.593

And usually...

01:03:19.860 --> 01:03:21.220

figure out that they can't

01:03:21.240 --> 01:03:22.381

really take off running

01:03:22.421 --> 01:03:23.981

because they're surrounded.

01:03:24.722 --> 01:03:26.442

So I'd escort them with my

01:03:26.562 --> 01:03:27.323

arm around them.

01:03:27.463 --> 01:03:29.623

Like I'm just being a buddy to them,

01:03:30.544 --> 01:03:31.724

escort them to the back

01:03:31.764 --> 01:03:32.944

where secret service would

01:03:33.225 --> 01:03:36.446

make the arrest if they did run.

01:03:36.626 --> 01:03:39.347

And we had a few that, um,

01:03:39.367 --> 01:03:40.587

that got out of the park

01:03:40.627 --> 01:03:42.108

because they suspected that

01:03:42.248 --> 01:03:43.468

maybe we were onto them.

01:03:44.880 --> 01:03:46.401

it was simple it actually

01:03:46.421 --> 01:03:47.561

made it easier for us

01:03:47.601 --> 01:03:48.681

because let's say they took

01:03:48.721 --> 01:03:50.682

the monorail well what they

01:03:50.702 --> 01:03:52.283

didn't know is i could stop

01:03:52.323 --> 01:03:53.463

the monorail anytime i

01:03:53.503 --> 01:03:54.723

wanted to i'd just make a

01:03:54.763 --> 01:03:56.444

call and say hey i need you

01:03:56.484 --> 01:03:58.565

to stop the monorail while

01:03:58.605 --> 01:04:00.245

we get our men in place

01:04:00.405 --> 01:04:01.606

secret service or the

01:04:01.626 --> 01:04:02.886

sheriff's office whatever

01:04:02.926 --> 01:04:06.307

we needed uh i i need you

01:04:06.347 --> 01:04:07.548

to stop the monorail or i

01:04:07.608 --> 01:04:09.168

need you to kill the boat

01:04:09.188 --> 01:04:11.069

you know whatever it took

01:04:11.489 --> 01:04:12.689

until we were in place and

01:04:12.729 --> 01:04:14.050

then the you know the monorail

01:04:15.241 --> 01:04:17.082

Operator would say, ladies and gentlemen,

01:04:17.322 --> 01:04:18.683

we're sorry for the delay.

01:04:18.703 --> 01:04:19.804

We're just waiting for the

01:04:19.844 --> 01:04:21.265

last monorail to clear the

01:04:21.325 --> 01:04:22.925

station and we'll be on our way,

01:04:23.026 --> 01:04:24.086

you know.

01:04:24.166 --> 01:04:25.627

And once the monorail got there,

01:04:25.967 --> 01:04:27.108

we'd all be waiting as

01:04:27.148 --> 01:04:30.330

these bad guys got off and take them out,

01:04:30.550 --> 01:04:31.530

take them away.

01:04:31.711 --> 01:04:33.171

And, you know, if they started running,

01:04:33.552 --> 01:04:34.632

we had people everywhere

01:04:34.912 --> 01:04:35.533

that could get them.

01:04:35.573 --> 01:04:37.994

So don't try counterfeiting

01:04:38.294 --> 01:04:40.896

or committing fraud at Walt

01:04:40.936 --> 01:04:42.597

Disney World because they'll get you.

01:04:43.483 --> 01:04:45.165

or anything else for that matter.

01:04:45.205 --> 01:04:46.627

And you are trapped.

01:04:46.667 --> 01:04:49.591

I mean, that's classic criminal mistake.

01:04:49.611 --> 01:04:50.873

You don't have a getaway

01:04:50.913 --> 01:04:53.136

plan and maybe they did have a plan.

01:04:53.236 --> 01:04:54.598

They just didn't realize how

01:04:54.678 --> 01:04:57.101

well coordinated Disney is

01:04:57.161 --> 01:04:58.703

because it's just as you're saying,

01:04:58.723 --> 01:05:01.286

you can make the transportation stop

01:05:02.087 --> 01:05:03.548

And everybody else thinks

01:05:03.588 --> 01:05:06.108

that it's just a mechanical something.

01:05:06.188 --> 01:05:07.589

And I like that they say, oh,

01:05:07.609 --> 01:05:08.389

we're just waiting for a

01:05:08.429 --> 01:05:09.570

train to clear the station

01:05:09.590 --> 01:05:11.750

because then nobody's nervous or anxious.

01:05:11.790 --> 01:05:12.871

They're just saying, oh, well,

01:05:12.911 --> 01:05:14.671

just just a little delay.

01:05:14.691 --> 01:05:15.752

Maybe someone's taking a

01:05:15.772 --> 01:05:16.772

long time to get off the

01:05:16.812 --> 01:05:17.752

train or something.

01:05:18.133 --> 01:05:19.233

Everyone's at ease.

01:05:19.773 --> 01:05:21.354

Nothing's ever amiss at Disney.

01:05:23.234 --> 01:05:24.055

One big team.

01:05:24.215 --> 01:05:26.996

It took an effort between the shop.

01:05:27.116 --> 01:05:27.436

You know,

01:05:27.456 --> 01:05:30.097

the shop workers were really the

01:05:30.137 --> 01:05:30.877

first ones.

01:05:32.008 --> 01:05:34.550

To start reporting and then you know,

01:05:34.590 --> 01:05:35.791

and then we'd have the the

01:05:35.831 --> 01:05:38.473

foxes who would be just a

01:05:38.533 --> 01:05:40.554

huge help to me When they

01:05:40.574 --> 01:05:41.815

weren't catching bad guys,

01:05:41.875 --> 01:05:43.096

the foxes would be in the

01:05:43.136 --> 01:05:44.177

shops watching for

01:05:44.217 --> 01:05:48.040

shoplifters and Of course,

01:05:48.100 --> 01:05:49.060

it was the same type of

01:05:49.120 --> 01:05:50.862

deal only I didn't get

01:05:50.902 --> 01:05:52.623

involved with that because

01:05:53.283 --> 01:05:54.965

I had bigger fish to fry,

01:05:55.085 --> 01:05:56.946

you know my other responsibilities and

01:05:58.634 --> 01:05:59.775

although i did have an

01:05:59.835 --> 01:06:01.336

experience and megan i

01:06:01.356 --> 01:06:02.677

think actually both of you

01:06:02.697 --> 01:06:03.898

have probably heard about

01:06:03.978 --> 01:06:07.200

it but um well you teased

01:06:07.240 --> 01:06:08.381

this out just a little bit

01:06:08.421 --> 01:06:09.661

on the last episode that we

01:06:09.701 --> 01:06:12.103

did is this about the uns

01:06:12.203 --> 01:06:13.844

the the the character you

01:06:13.864 --> 01:06:16.446

would never suspect exactly

01:06:16.726 --> 01:06:22.750

yes um the fairy godmothers

01:06:22.830 --> 01:06:26.152

from sleeping beauty their

01:06:26.192 --> 01:06:28.474

names were flora fauna and meriwether

01:06:29.351 --> 01:06:33.256

Fauna being the gray haired, sweet lady,

01:06:33.316 --> 01:06:33.497

you know,

01:06:33.517 --> 01:06:35.039

and they all have their wands

01:06:35.079 --> 01:06:36.901

and they'd be in all the

01:06:36.921 --> 01:06:38.023

parades and all of the

01:06:38.043 --> 01:06:40.205

shows and everyone loved

01:06:40.245 --> 01:06:41.207

the fairy godmothers.

01:06:42.892 --> 01:06:46.034

And down underneath, as we call it,

01:06:46.574 --> 01:06:48.735

they have... So just one second,

01:06:49.115 --> 01:06:49.795

let's rewind.

01:06:50.256 --> 01:06:51.376

So just to be clear,

01:06:51.876 --> 01:06:53.097

this is a little old lady

01:06:53.137 --> 01:06:54.858

who plays the character of

01:06:55.178 --> 01:06:58.459

Fauna in the parades and in the park,

01:06:59.020 --> 01:06:59.280

right?

01:06:59.680 --> 01:07:00.621

Okay.

01:07:00.661 --> 01:07:04.622

She was one of the three fairy godmothers.

01:07:04.722 --> 01:07:07.804

I was down in the basement.

01:07:08.664 --> 01:07:09.925

They have, you know,

01:07:09.985 --> 01:07:11.606

if there's any merchandise that...

01:07:12.413 --> 01:07:13.894

they're not selling anymore

01:07:13.994 --> 01:07:15.135

or that might have a chip

01:07:15.235 --> 01:07:16.696

on it somewhere or some

01:07:16.817 --> 01:07:18.338

paint peeling off anything

01:07:18.858 --> 01:07:20.279

it was sold to the cast

01:07:20.319 --> 01:07:22.541

members ie comma employees

01:07:23.442 --> 01:07:25.323

uh for you know pennies on

01:07:25.363 --> 01:07:27.165

the dollar really cheap so

01:07:27.205 --> 01:07:28.166

we'd go down there and we'd

01:07:28.206 --> 01:07:31.188

buy our disney um statues

01:07:31.288 --> 01:07:33.090

and figurines and all

01:07:33.330 --> 01:07:34.671

anything you know the

01:07:34.711 --> 01:07:37.113

watches and i was down

01:07:37.133 --> 01:07:38.414

there doing some shopping and

01:07:39.234 --> 01:07:40.355

I happened to notice this

01:07:40.535 --> 01:07:41.896

elderly lady and I couldn't

01:07:41.936 --> 01:07:43.537

help it because my eyes

01:07:43.577 --> 01:07:45.418

were always scanning the crowd.

01:07:46.419 --> 01:07:47.679

And there was about five

01:07:47.739 --> 01:07:49.601

employees in there doing some shopping.

01:07:49.641 --> 01:07:52.142

And I see this lady tuck one

01:07:52.162 --> 01:07:53.823

of these figurines into her,

01:07:54.864 --> 01:07:56.805

but she had a vest on with big pockets.

01:07:57.706 --> 01:07:59.127

And I'm like, oh no, she didn't.

01:07:59.894 --> 01:08:00.454

You know,

01:08:00.614 --> 01:08:02.355

and so I just kind of watched her.

01:08:02.395 --> 01:08:04.537

And soon a watch goes in

01:08:04.577 --> 01:08:07.258

there and a few other small

01:08:07.298 --> 01:08:08.479

pieces of merchandise.

01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:10.420

And then she starts to walk

01:08:10.520 --> 01:08:11.381

out of the store.

01:08:12.261 --> 01:08:13.642

I didn't know who she was at the time,

01:08:13.922 --> 01:08:15.923

by the way.

01:08:15.963 --> 01:08:18.585

So it was just my job.

01:08:18.605 --> 01:08:19.485

It's just what I did.

01:08:19.585 --> 01:08:21.987

I was on duty twenty four seven.

01:08:22.827 --> 01:08:26.549

So I ran over to her and I said, hey, hi,

01:08:27.050 --> 01:08:27.490

I'm Randy.

01:08:28.307 --> 01:08:30.368

She goes, hi, I'm whatever her name was.

01:08:32.930 --> 01:08:33.930

I'm an investigator,

01:08:34.651 --> 01:08:35.672

and I couldn't help but

01:08:35.732 --> 01:08:36.772

notice that you forgot to

01:08:36.812 --> 01:08:38.273

pay for several items.

01:08:39.234 --> 01:08:40.314

She said, no, I didn't.

01:08:40.775 --> 01:08:42.896

I said, yeah, actually you did,

01:08:42.936 --> 01:08:44.537

and I'm sorry.

01:08:45.317 --> 01:08:47.239

If she would have said, oh, I'm sorry,

01:08:47.299 --> 01:08:48.699

and gone back and paid for them,

01:08:49.760 --> 01:08:51.261

never thought a thing about it,

01:08:52.724 --> 01:08:53.525

She said, no, I didn't.

01:08:53.585 --> 01:08:55.065

And I said, yeah,

01:08:55.105 --> 01:08:56.226

don't make this difficult.

01:08:56.266 --> 01:08:57.786

Let's not do this the hard way.

01:08:58.386 --> 01:08:59.407

She says, I'm not.

01:09:00.047 --> 01:09:00.447

Well, I said,

01:09:00.487 --> 01:09:01.547

what department do you work in?

01:09:01.607 --> 01:09:03.448

And she said, I'm in the zoo crew.

01:09:04.328 --> 01:09:05.569

And I said, okay.

01:09:05.809 --> 01:09:07.069

And so I called the manager

01:09:07.109 --> 01:09:08.890

of the zoo crew and had her respond.

01:09:08.910 --> 01:09:10.451

And when the manager saw who she was,

01:09:10.471 --> 01:09:13.212

she goes, no, no, you didn't.

01:09:13.232 --> 01:09:16.073

And she put her head down.

01:09:16.153 --> 01:09:20.114

And anyway, yeah, she was terminated.

01:09:20.699 --> 01:09:24.960

And I ended up being the reason, well,

01:09:24.980 --> 01:09:26.761

she was the reason that I

01:09:26.801 --> 01:09:27.941

ended up having to be the

01:09:27.961 --> 01:09:32.862

guy that caused this dear

01:09:32.942 --> 01:09:35.323

fairy godmother to lose her job.

01:09:36.543 --> 01:09:37.944

But there's all kinds of

01:09:37.984 --> 01:09:39.184

experiences like that.

01:09:39.844 --> 01:09:42.045

I remember as far as

01:09:42.105 --> 01:09:43.845

celebrities that I watched,

01:09:44.525 --> 01:09:45.406

and here's another little

01:09:45.446 --> 01:09:46.566

Disney secret is that

01:09:49.197 --> 01:09:51.058

anyone who's you know really

01:09:51.118 --> 01:09:53.099

recognizable and people are

01:09:53.119 --> 01:09:54.279

going to know just at first

01:09:54.319 --> 01:09:56.440

glance ie comma michael

01:09:56.480 --> 01:09:59.422

jackson or mariah carey and

01:10:02.283 --> 01:10:03.704

just any celebrity that was

01:10:03.744 --> 01:10:05.145

recognizable we would

01:10:06.085 --> 01:10:08.226

escort them bodyguard them

01:10:09.907 --> 01:10:13.168

and um i was assigned

01:10:13.248 --> 01:10:14.589

someone named tommy mottola

01:10:16.034 --> 01:10:16.594

And I'm like,

01:10:16.755 --> 01:10:19.457

who the hell is Tommy Mottola?

01:10:20.317 --> 01:10:22.399

Well, he was the head of Sony Music.

01:10:22.459 --> 01:10:25.381

He was the one that made Michael Jackson,

01:10:25.461 --> 01:10:27.843

Mariah Carey, and all of these.

01:10:27.943 --> 01:10:31.305

He was the one that I had to,

01:10:31.505 --> 01:10:32.866

my job was to keep the

01:10:32.926 --> 01:10:34.868

celebrities from bothering Tommy.

01:10:35.809 --> 01:10:41.132

So we met and he was a great guy.

01:10:43.234 --> 01:10:43.935

And he says, look,

01:10:44.936 --> 01:10:46.697

Because he was engaged to Mariah Carey,

01:10:46.797 --> 01:10:47.978

and so Mariah was with him.

01:10:48.679 --> 01:10:50.720

He said, look, don't worry about me.

01:10:51.381 --> 01:10:52.622

No one knows what I look like.

01:10:52.662 --> 01:10:54.183

No one knows who I am.

01:10:54.203 --> 01:10:55.944

Worry about Mariah.

01:10:56.485 --> 01:10:57.225

I said, OK.

01:10:57.826 --> 01:10:59.747

So he would have me take her

01:10:59.787 --> 01:11:01.529

to the parks and to the parade.

01:11:01.589 --> 01:11:03.790

And I had this little trick

01:11:03.871 --> 01:11:05.912

of all of these buildings

01:11:05.932 --> 01:11:06.853

that you see along Main

01:11:06.893 --> 01:11:08.774

Street that are so cute are

01:11:08.894 --> 01:11:10.295

actually office buildings

01:11:10.636 --> 01:11:11.757

behind the facade.

01:11:12.725 --> 01:11:13.706

Behind the scenes,

01:11:13.766 --> 01:11:14.947

that's where the guts of

01:11:14.987 --> 01:11:17.129

Walt Disney World takes place,

01:11:17.189 --> 01:11:18.450

that and in the basement.

01:11:19.591 --> 01:11:21.572

And so I would take the

01:11:21.632 --> 01:11:26.156

celebs and take them backstage.

01:11:26.796 --> 01:11:28.738

I'd go up a set of secret stairs,

01:11:29.278 --> 01:11:30.840

the same stairs that

01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:33.642

Tinkerbell would use before her flight.

01:11:35.014 --> 01:11:36.995

And in Mariah's case,

01:11:37.035 --> 01:11:38.216

we went up there to watch

01:11:38.276 --> 01:11:41.917

the electric light parade.

01:11:42.798 --> 01:11:44.399

It was the one that happened

01:11:44.439 --> 01:11:46.420

at night with all the lights lighting up.

01:11:46.500 --> 01:11:49.481

And so we had perfect seats

01:11:49.521 --> 01:11:50.422

because we were up on the

01:11:50.442 --> 01:11:52.342

building and no one would bother us.

01:11:53.603 --> 01:11:56.524

And she started singing,

01:11:56.965 --> 01:11:59.386

when you wish upon a star.

01:12:00.716 --> 01:12:02.657

uh she says randy sing come

01:12:02.757 --> 01:12:05.639

on so her and i who went up

01:12:05.659 --> 01:12:08.041

there another one of those

01:12:08.221 --> 01:12:09.382

if they could see me now

01:12:09.542 --> 01:12:12.604

moments and every evening

01:12:13.544 --> 01:12:15.265

every night tommy mottola

01:12:15.285 --> 01:12:16.746

would have me take mariah

01:12:16.946 --> 01:12:18.668

swimming while he got a

01:12:18.708 --> 01:12:20.689

massage up in the room and

01:12:20.709 --> 01:12:22.570

that was after way after

01:12:22.610 --> 01:12:24.071

hours you know but um

01:12:27.044 --> 01:12:27.925

There are very few

01:12:27.985 --> 01:12:29.285

celebrities that I didn't

01:12:29.325 --> 01:12:31.227

have great experiences with.

01:12:32.267 --> 01:12:34.208

Tom Cruise, a gentleman,

01:12:34.429 --> 01:12:35.729

an incredible guy.

01:12:36.250 --> 01:12:38.031

People make fun of him, but I'll tell you,

01:12:38.051 --> 01:12:39.051

there's no more of a

01:12:39.452 --> 01:12:40.812

gentleman than Tom Cruise.

01:12:41.653 --> 01:12:45.615

And he was with his Australian wife.

01:12:46.796 --> 01:12:48.137

What's her name?

01:12:48.457 --> 01:12:49.738

Nicole Kidman.

01:12:49.758 --> 01:12:50.218

Kidman.

01:12:50.278 --> 01:12:50.438

Yeah,

01:12:50.458 --> 01:12:51.879

and I'd go lay out at the pool with

01:12:51.919 --> 01:12:53.460

him and chat and talk and

01:12:55.545 --> 01:12:57.166

And that's an interesting thing.

01:12:57.206 --> 01:12:57.446

When I,

01:12:57.506 --> 01:12:59.428

when I was in Paris at the pool and

01:12:59.468 --> 01:13:01.089

that's where I was with Tom Cruise,

01:13:02.310 --> 01:13:04.351

you know, these women don't wear tops.

01:13:04.551 --> 01:13:07.153

They just wear bikini bottoms,

01:13:07.333 --> 01:13:08.854

monokinis as they call them.

01:13:10.055 --> 01:13:11.857

And it was an exercise of my

01:13:13.998 --> 01:13:17.921

willpower to keep my eyes glued on Tom.

01:13:19.902 --> 01:13:21.303

And fortunately Nicole stayed,

01:13:21.443 --> 01:13:22.304

she had her top on,

01:13:22.344 --> 01:13:23.605

but I'd have to keep

01:13:23.645 --> 01:13:25.106

talking to them and pretend like

01:13:26.603 --> 01:13:27.624

I didn't see all these

01:13:28.124 --> 01:13:29.265

beautiful French

01:13:29.485 --> 01:13:32.347

celebrities with their top stuff.

01:13:32.387 --> 01:13:36.189

I'm sounding like a dirty man now.

01:13:36.229 --> 01:13:37.370

You're just a man, right?

01:13:37.670 --> 01:13:38.610

Just a man.

01:13:38.630 --> 01:13:39.131

That's right.

01:13:39.171 --> 01:13:40.512

And I would struggle under

01:13:40.552 --> 01:13:41.752

the same circumstances.

01:13:41.832 --> 01:13:45.074

So I just want to validate you for that.

01:13:45.215 --> 01:13:47.336

Nice going to be able to accomplish that.

01:13:48.336 --> 01:13:49.637

One thing I was wondering, Randy,

01:13:50.178 --> 01:13:52.259

when you first had a

01:13:52.299 --> 01:13:53.300

celebrity that you were...

01:13:55.562 --> 01:13:55.982

guiding?

01:13:57.083 --> 01:13:58.644

Was that memorable?

01:14:01.486 --> 01:14:03.327

Yeah, every one of them are memorable.

01:14:03.807 --> 01:14:04.107

Right.

01:14:04.948 --> 01:14:05.128

Well,

01:14:05.448 --> 01:14:06.849

I honestly can't tell you who the

01:14:06.909 --> 01:14:08.570

first one was because there

01:14:08.590 --> 01:14:09.451

were so many of them.

01:14:09.691 --> 01:14:11.292

I do know that the

01:14:11.352 --> 01:14:12.613

experiences I had with them,

01:14:12.833 --> 01:14:14.994

Michael Jackson was a kick

01:14:15.034 --> 01:14:15.855

in the head because

01:14:15.915 --> 01:14:16.815

Michael's a frequent

01:14:16.835 --> 01:14:18.196

visitor of Disney and so I

01:14:18.216 --> 01:14:19.217

was assigned to him.

01:14:20.117 --> 01:14:23.119

And he asked that, you know,

01:14:23.159 --> 01:14:24.760

he called ahead and he asked that

01:14:25.136 --> 01:14:27.159

we all look very casual he

01:14:27.179 --> 01:14:28.160

didn't want the suits and

01:14:28.200 --> 01:14:29.902

ties around him because he

01:14:29.922 --> 01:14:31.044

didn't want people knowing

01:14:31.665 --> 01:14:34.609

you know who he was and so

01:14:34.649 --> 01:14:35.850

we show up i'm wearing a

01:14:36.131 --> 01:14:37.833

pullover with some slacks

01:14:37.893 --> 01:14:39.395

and and you're thinking he

01:14:39.435 --> 01:14:41.157

wants the whole gang to

01:14:41.197 --> 01:14:42.219

blend in the background

01:14:43.363 --> 01:14:44.924

And I told my foxes, you know,

01:14:45.345 --> 01:14:46.285

just be casual.

01:14:46.305 --> 01:14:47.166

This is, you know.

01:14:47.986 --> 01:14:49.628

So he comes walking out,

01:14:49.828 --> 01:14:50.868

and what is he wearing?

01:14:51.529 --> 01:14:54.731

He's wearing his vinyl red

01:14:54.851 --> 01:14:57.073

leather jacket with the

01:14:57.653 --> 01:14:59.794

silver glittery gloves and

01:14:59.814 --> 01:15:02.136

the white socks and his fedora hat.

01:15:03.437 --> 01:15:04.878

And he came walking up to me, and he says,

01:15:04.898 --> 01:15:05.958

how do I look?

01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:07.539

You know, I'm like, Michael.

01:15:09.381 --> 01:15:10.001

You blend.

01:15:10.021 --> 01:15:12.763

You're blending into the crowd here.

01:15:13.076 --> 01:15:15.537

I chuckled, you know.

01:15:16.057 --> 01:15:17.297

I wonder if people seeing

01:15:17.337 --> 01:15:19.138

that scene thought that

01:15:19.178 --> 01:15:19.978

perhaps it was an

01:15:20.018 --> 01:15:22.759

impersonator or somebody that, you know,

01:15:22.799 --> 01:15:24.859

Disney had hired who was in

01:15:24.919 --> 01:15:26.020

costume or if they thought

01:15:26.060 --> 01:15:27.020

it was the real guy.

01:15:28.140 --> 01:15:29.120

I think most of them knew it

01:15:29.140 --> 01:15:29.881

was the real deal.

01:15:30.141 --> 01:15:32.161

It'd have to be a really good,

01:15:32.361 --> 01:15:33.422

exact lookalike.

01:15:34.302 --> 01:15:36.282

But, yeah,

01:15:36.823 --> 01:15:38.483

that was a memorable experience.

01:15:38.863 --> 01:15:40.484

I also did his sister Janet

01:15:40.684 --> 01:15:41.824

and his sister Latoya.

01:15:43.259 --> 01:15:45.240

and uh michael and janet

01:15:45.260 --> 01:15:46.400

were at walt disney world

01:15:46.440 --> 01:15:48.001

and latoya i had in paris

01:15:48.041 --> 01:15:49.201

because she was performing

01:15:49.241 --> 01:15:53.323

at moulin rouge in town

01:15:53.343 --> 01:15:56.284

doing her strip routine and

01:15:56.304 --> 01:15:57.344

we had to keep a close eye

01:15:57.384 --> 01:15:58.305

on her because she would

01:15:58.405 --> 01:16:00.666

wear very revealing things

01:16:01.286 --> 01:16:02.426

you know people in the park

01:16:02.466 --> 01:16:04.607

speaking of that people

01:16:04.787 --> 01:16:06.128

would get into the parks in

01:16:06.168 --> 01:16:08.368

this summer heat and a lot

01:16:08.408 --> 01:16:09.369

of these foreign women

01:16:09.389 --> 01:16:11.670

would just take it off take

01:16:11.690 --> 01:16:12.410

their tops off

01:16:14.318 --> 01:16:15.839

And I would always call one

01:16:15.859 --> 01:16:18.239

of my female foxes to come

01:16:18.299 --> 01:16:20.200

and approach the lady and

01:16:20.260 --> 01:16:23.041

just explain to her that

01:16:23.061 --> 01:16:24.881

she had to have a top that

01:16:24.901 --> 01:16:25.682

would cover her.

01:16:25.762 --> 01:16:26.822

And if she didn't have

01:16:26.882 --> 01:16:28.202

something that was appropriate,

01:16:28.222 --> 01:16:29.943

we'd give her a Disney shirt to wear.

01:16:31.323 --> 01:16:32.364

So it wasn't just Janet

01:16:32.384 --> 01:16:33.224

Jackson that would have

01:16:33.304 --> 01:16:34.744

wardrobe malfunctions?

01:16:35.604 --> 01:16:36.005

No.

01:16:36.085 --> 01:16:37.185

Yeah, Janet did have them.

01:16:37.880 --> 01:16:39.021

She was performing and she

01:16:39.061 --> 01:16:40.482

raised her arms up and her

01:16:40.542 --> 01:16:42.124

breasts both flipped out.

01:16:42.324 --> 01:16:45.287

And this is in front of families and kids.

01:16:45.347 --> 01:16:46.928

And yeah,

01:16:47.088 --> 01:16:50.712

I ran up with my coat and had her

01:16:50.752 --> 01:16:55.316

put it on over her and put her off stage.

01:16:55.356 --> 01:16:56.657

I told her maybe she might

01:16:56.697 --> 01:16:57.918

think about either changing

01:16:57.958 --> 01:17:00.420

her moves or changing her wardrobe.

01:17:00.661 --> 01:17:02.062

You might want to have a

01:17:02.122 --> 01:17:04.184

different shirt for that particular move.

01:17:05.130 --> 01:17:05.730

Exactly.

01:17:06.291 --> 01:17:08.012

Here's another unknown fact

01:17:08.052 --> 01:17:09.473

about Walt Disney World is

01:17:10.394 --> 01:17:11.194

you've got to know what

01:17:11.254 --> 01:17:13.576

road to take within the property.

01:17:13.956 --> 01:17:15.197

It's just a little tiny,

01:17:15.978 --> 01:17:17.139

wouldn't even know it was there,

01:17:18.159 --> 01:17:19.640

but it led to a landing strip.

01:17:20.481 --> 01:17:23.043

And that's where extreme

01:17:23.083 --> 01:17:25.044

dignitaries and Michael

01:17:25.164 --> 01:17:29.207

Eisner and Walt Disney back in the day,

01:17:29.367 --> 01:17:30.448

that's where they would land.

01:17:32.342 --> 01:17:33.463

And then they would be

01:17:33.503 --> 01:17:35.004

picked up by one of us and

01:17:35.184 --> 01:17:36.245

taken into the parks.

01:17:37.666 --> 01:17:39.567

Here's what the Imagineers did, Jean.

01:17:39.587 --> 01:17:40.888

You were talking about Imagineers.

01:17:40.908 --> 01:17:45.251

They figured that if they made little,

01:17:45.912 --> 01:17:46.832

you know when you're going

01:17:47.032 --> 01:17:48.193

along the freeway and you

01:17:48.213 --> 01:17:49.554

get too far off to the side

01:17:49.574 --> 01:17:50.975

and there's all those little bumpy,

01:17:52.176 --> 01:17:52.476

you know,

01:17:52.496 --> 01:17:53.997

that wake you up and you get

01:17:54.017 --> 01:17:54.878

back on the road?

01:17:55.298 --> 01:17:56.078

The rumble strip.

01:17:56.939 --> 01:17:58.280

Yeah, the rumble strips.

01:17:59.740 --> 01:18:01.343

Our Imagineers figured out

01:18:01.403 --> 01:18:02.545

that if they made them all

01:18:02.585 --> 01:18:05.289

different sizes and different spacing

01:18:06.197 --> 01:18:08.099

that they could actually,

01:18:08.259 --> 01:18:11.241

as the tires of the plane would fly in,

01:18:11.922 --> 01:18:12.863

it would run over those

01:18:12.903 --> 01:18:15.365

rumble strips and play a Disney tune.

01:18:16.065 --> 01:18:17.507

And the particular tune was .

01:18:18.788 --> 01:18:21.770

And so they thought that was

01:18:21.830 --> 01:18:24.012

really cool because they

01:18:24.032 --> 01:18:24.953

wanted to put them at the

01:18:25.093 --> 01:18:26.374

entrance to Disney as

01:18:26.414 --> 01:18:27.475

people are pulling off the

01:18:27.515 --> 01:18:29.096

freeway and going towards Disney,

01:18:29.577 --> 01:18:30.958

their tires would play all

01:18:30.998 --> 01:18:32.259

of these Disney songs.

01:18:33.566 --> 01:18:35.368

And I just thought that was incredible.

01:18:35.808 --> 01:18:37.490

And I never paid for lunch

01:18:37.570 --> 01:18:38.891

after that because I'd call

01:18:38.931 --> 01:18:40.913

my associates and I'd say, hey,

01:18:40.933 --> 01:18:41.794

you want to make a bet?

01:18:42.655 --> 01:18:44.056

I'll bet you that I can make

01:18:44.076 --> 01:18:45.738

my tires play Disney music

01:18:45.798 --> 01:18:46.498

on the landing.

01:18:46.558 --> 01:18:48.640

They're like, yeah, right.

01:18:48.700 --> 01:18:49.721

I said, let's bet lunch.

01:18:50.282 --> 01:18:50.822

So we did.

01:18:50.862 --> 01:18:53.545

And I'd meet them there and I'd say,

01:18:53.585 --> 01:18:54.065

hop in.

01:18:54.126 --> 01:18:55.307

And we'd go down the,

01:18:55.607 --> 01:18:57.569

you had to go thirty five miles an hour.

01:18:58.571 --> 01:18:59.832

or let's say on the landing

01:18:59.872 --> 01:19:00.572

strip it wasn't,

01:19:00.632 --> 01:19:02.053

but on the entrance was

01:19:02.093 --> 01:19:02.913

thirty-five because that

01:19:02.933 --> 01:19:03.714

was the speed limit.

01:19:04.174 --> 01:19:05.034

On the landing strip,

01:19:05.054 --> 01:19:06.455

I don't remember what the speed was,

01:19:06.495 --> 01:19:08.376

but I'd get going fast and

01:19:08.436 --> 01:19:09.676

I'd hit those things and

01:19:09.837 --> 01:19:11.157

sure as heck my tires would

01:19:11.177 --> 01:19:13.698

just sing that song and I'd say,

01:19:13.738 --> 01:19:14.659

now let's go to lunch.

01:19:16.444 --> 01:19:17.104

That's amazing.

01:19:18.205 --> 01:19:20.906

I also, let me go back to this view here.

01:19:21.306 --> 01:19:22.506

I also wanted to ask you,

01:19:22.626 --> 01:19:25.287

I know that most visitors

01:19:25.307 --> 01:19:27.728

to Disney cannot get access

01:19:27.748 --> 01:19:29.769

to any alcohol in the Magic

01:19:29.809 --> 01:19:32.190

Kingdom or the Animal Kingdom,

01:19:32.630 --> 01:19:34.251

except maybe there's a

01:19:34.311 --> 01:19:36.392

special place that you can,

01:19:36.572 --> 01:19:38.072

but you have to be somebody

01:19:38.412 --> 01:19:39.093

to get in there.

01:19:39.173 --> 01:19:41.534

And is it available in Epcot or not?

01:19:42.034 --> 01:19:42.614

People wanna know.

01:19:43.235 --> 01:19:44.235

Yes, it is.

01:19:44.415 --> 01:19:46.136

It's available at what

01:19:46.156 --> 01:19:48.017

you're talking about is Club thirty three,

01:19:48.537 --> 01:19:50.397

which is a very, very,

01:19:50.978 --> 01:19:53.378

very exclusive club now at

01:19:53.498 --> 01:19:55.299

Disneyland and Walt Disney World.

01:19:56.039 --> 01:19:59.120

It there's at least a ten

01:19:59.160 --> 01:20:02.762

year waiting list to get on, you know,

01:20:02.802 --> 01:20:05.643

to become a member of Club thirty three.

01:20:07.503 --> 01:20:10.244

It cost between thirty five

01:20:10.284 --> 01:20:12.385

and fifty thousand dollars initial

01:20:14.256 --> 01:20:15.998

and then uh thirty five

01:20:16.018 --> 01:20:17.339

thousand dollars a year to

01:20:17.379 --> 01:20:20.983

keep it active wow it's uh

01:20:21.063 --> 01:20:22.224

yeah and and not just

01:20:22.284 --> 01:20:23.505

anybody can get in there

01:20:24.045 --> 01:20:25.046

the reason they call it

01:20:25.086 --> 01:20:26.488

club thirty three is

01:20:26.508 --> 01:20:28.169

because that's its address

01:20:28.390 --> 01:20:30.892

in in the park it's very

01:20:31.012 --> 01:20:32.353

nonchalant people don't

01:20:32.374 --> 01:20:33.755

know where it is the

01:20:33.795 --> 01:20:35.517

doorway is printed what

01:20:35.537 --> 01:20:37.639

they call getaway green

01:20:38.790 --> 01:20:40.250

it doesn't you know disney

01:20:40.290 --> 01:20:41.611

attracts knows how to

01:20:41.631 --> 01:20:42.431

attract people with

01:20:42.451 --> 01:20:43.471

different colors and the

01:20:43.531 --> 01:20:44.571

color that they painted the

01:20:44.611 --> 01:20:46.872

doors is not even you know

01:20:46.912 --> 01:20:48.272

doesn't catch your capture

01:20:48.292 --> 01:20:50.412

your attention the reason

01:20:50.453 --> 01:20:51.733

they had to have an address

01:20:51.773 --> 01:20:52.673

was so that they could

01:20:52.733 --> 01:20:55.974

serve alcohol alcohol can

01:20:56.014 --> 01:20:58.154

be served in there because

01:20:58.194 --> 01:20:59.174

they had an address and

01:20:59.194 --> 01:21:00.275

they could get an alcohol

01:21:00.435 --> 01:21:02.095

license even though it's within the park

01:21:02.965 --> 01:21:03.145

Now,

01:21:03.185 --> 01:21:06.067

it's called Club Thirty-Three in

01:21:06.467 --> 01:21:07.748

Disneyland, California,

01:21:08.169 --> 01:21:10.250

Club Thirty-Three at Walt Disney World.

01:21:10.730 --> 01:21:12.031

And then at EBCOT Center,

01:21:12.332 --> 01:21:13.572

I had to write this down

01:21:13.652 --> 01:21:16.094

because I didn't know the names,

01:21:16.194 --> 01:21:21.458

but in EBCOT Center, it is called

01:21:26.063 --> 01:21:26.663

Oh,

01:21:26.703 --> 01:21:30.685

the Constellation Club at Epcot and the

01:21:30.765 --> 01:21:32.806

Spotlight Lounge at the studios.

01:21:33.326 --> 01:21:34.447

It was so popular,

01:21:34.487 --> 01:21:36.027

they had to open these up too.

01:21:36.528 --> 01:21:37.168

But yeah,

01:21:37.188 --> 01:21:38.949

the public can't get in and you

01:21:38.989 --> 01:21:41.070

have to know how to get in there.

01:21:41.450 --> 01:21:42.570

You have to know where to go

01:21:42.610 --> 01:21:44.031

to even get in because it's all,

01:21:44.851 --> 01:21:46.673

You know, if you want to see it,

01:21:46.693 --> 01:21:48.314

Google Club thirty three.

01:21:49.015 --> 01:21:49.475

And well,

01:21:49.835 --> 01:21:51.097

I found it when I was at

01:21:51.137 --> 01:21:54.219

Disneyland one time just by happenchance.

01:21:55.821 --> 01:21:57.682

One of the characters from

01:21:58.823 --> 01:22:01.706

The Princess and the Frog, the big,

01:22:01.786 --> 01:22:03.767

tall voodoo doctor.

01:22:03.807 --> 01:22:04.388

What's his name?

01:22:04.448 --> 01:22:04.888

I can't remember.

01:22:04.908 --> 01:22:07.290

I don't know, but I know.

01:22:07.331 --> 01:22:07.571

Yeah.

01:22:08.486 --> 01:22:10.648

anyway he um he was sort of

01:22:10.708 --> 01:22:12.270

standing off in the shadows

01:22:12.390 --> 01:22:13.751

true to his character and

01:22:13.791 --> 01:22:14.892

my oldest daughter and i

01:22:14.912 --> 01:22:17.014

were there and we heard

01:22:17.074 --> 01:22:18.656

this sort of rumbling

01:22:18.696 --> 01:22:22.899

behind us and he was going hey hey there

01:22:23.720 --> 01:22:24.501

are you looking for a

01:22:24.561 --> 01:22:26.462

miracle you know doing his

01:22:26.502 --> 01:22:27.523

little his voice or

01:22:27.543 --> 01:22:29.845

whatever and uh so we went

01:22:29.885 --> 01:22:31.206

over and talked to him and

01:22:31.526 --> 01:22:33.088

and took a picture with him

01:22:33.128 --> 01:22:34.048

and everything like that

01:22:34.108 --> 01:22:35.549

and then you know he went

01:22:35.609 --> 01:22:37.031

on his way to go and try

01:22:37.071 --> 01:22:38.392

and trick someone else and

01:22:38.432 --> 01:22:39.152

my daughter and i were

01:22:39.172 --> 01:22:39.893

looking back through the

01:22:39.913 --> 01:22:41.294

pictures and i saw the door

01:22:41.714 --> 01:22:43.296

i was like this is where it

01:22:43.376 --> 01:22:45.797

is i see it i found it but

01:22:45.878 --> 01:22:47.939

i can't get in so you have

01:22:47.979 --> 01:22:49.400

to know the process like

01:22:49.440 --> 01:22:50.361

you know have to know who

01:22:50.401 --> 01:22:52.443

to contact to get in there

01:22:53.363 --> 01:22:57.845

Yeah, you have Disney admin and, uh,

01:22:57.945 --> 01:23:00.146

and you're put on a list, but you have to,

01:23:00.967 --> 01:23:01.727

you know, like I said,

01:23:02.687 --> 01:23:04.888

the money's just incredibly.

01:23:05.829 --> 01:23:06.269

A lot.

01:23:06.929 --> 01:23:07.169

Yeah.

01:23:07.389 --> 01:23:08.890

So if you pay that fee,

01:23:09.850 --> 01:23:11.171

once you get into the club,

01:23:11.311 --> 01:23:12.592

is everything in there free?

01:23:12.612 --> 01:23:14.252

Do you still have to pay a bill?

01:23:14.713 --> 01:23:16.013

What, what goes on in there?

01:23:16.673 --> 01:23:17.774

They'll pay for your food,

01:23:18.474 --> 01:23:19.835

but the food is incredible.

01:23:20.335 --> 01:23:22.256

And, and of course they serve the alcohol.

01:23:22.985 --> 01:23:26.167

And the service is just unprecedented,

01:23:26.287 --> 01:23:26.787

you know, well,

01:23:26.807 --> 01:23:28.088

like any Disney restaurant,

01:23:28.128 --> 01:23:29.168

but especially at club,

01:23:29.288 --> 01:23:32.050

anything those people want,

01:23:32.070 --> 01:23:35.191

they just request and whatever it takes,

01:23:35.211 --> 01:23:36.312

they'll get that for them.

01:23:37.352 --> 01:23:38.473

Um, I,

01:23:38.753 --> 01:23:41.574

I could go into club because I had to,

01:23:41.594 --> 01:23:42.755

sometimes I never had to

01:23:42.855 --> 01:23:46.877

answer like someone's, you know, dying or,

01:23:47.197 --> 01:23:49.118

or, uh, someone's causing a problem.

01:23:49.838 --> 01:23:50.919

You know, I would just go in.

01:23:52.891 --> 01:23:55.692

For the hell of it, just because I could.

01:23:56.652 --> 01:23:57.792

They had to respond in an

01:23:57.872 --> 01:23:59.233

emergency situation.

01:24:00.433 --> 01:24:01.153

Megan would have been

01:24:01.193 --> 01:24:02.414

treated like a princess,

01:24:02.474 --> 01:24:03.194

is what you're saying.

01:24:04.474 --> 01:24:06.415

Yeah, they would have said, now,

01:24:06.695 --> 01:24:07.955

which princess are you?

01:24:10.436 --> 01:24:12.016

I've always wanted to play Ursula.

01:24:12.156 --> 01:24:13.557

I always thought that would be really fun.

01:24:13.997 --> 01:24:14.837

But I don't think they would

01:24:14.857 --> 01:24:16.037

ever cast me as Ursula.

01:24:16.137 --> 01:24:18.078

I always want to play the bad guy,

01:24:18.178 --> 01:24:19.278

but they always don't want

01:24:19.298 --> 01:24:20.539

to cast me as the bad guy.

01:24:20.619 --> 01:24:21.579

It's very frustrating.

01:24:22.209 --> 01:24:23.830

know if you're the right

01:24:23.870 --> 01:24:26.250

height uh and you have a

01:24:26.290 --> 01:24:28.431

desire you can you can

01:24:28.471 --> 01:24:29.771

become ursula because you

01:24:29.791 --> 01:24:31.192

know they take care of all

01:24:31.232 --> 01:24:32.372

the makeup and they make

01:24:32.392 --> 01:24:33.513

your hair like it needs to

01:24:33.553 --> 01:24:35.793

be and you know these these

01:24:35.853 --> 01:24:37.034

princesses go through a

01:24:37.074 --> 01:24:38.434

whole routine and they walk

01:24:38.514 --> 01:24:40.255

out looking just like mary

01:24:40.295 --> 01:24:42.355

poppins or you know

01:24:42.395 --> 01:24:44.076

sleeping beauty or ursula

01:24:45.204 --> 01:24:46.625

I had a cousin who played

01:24:46.785 --> 01:24:48.467

Ariel at Walt Disney World

01:24:48.527 --> 01:24:49.307

for a little while.

01:24:50.028 --> 01:24:51.749

And she gave us some of

01:24:51.769 --> 01:24:53.070

those secrets that they had

01:24:53.110 --> 01:24:54.191

to learn how to do the

01:24:54.311 --> 01:24:55.892

autograph exactly the same

01:24:55.932 --> 01:24:56.993

because you can't have one

01:24:57.113 --> 01:24:58.254

Ariel autograph looking

01:24:58.294 --> 01:24:59.334

different than another.

01:24:59.434 --> 01:25:01.496

And she told us some of those things.

01:25:01.536 --> 01:25:02.677

That was really fun to learn.

01:25:03.337 --> 01:25:03.577

Yeah.

01:25:03.738 --> 01:25:03.898

Yeah.

01:25:03.938 --> 01:25:05.339

You'd go into the cafeteria

01:25:05.839 --> 01:25:06.900

and there'd be these people

01:25:06.960 --> 01:25:08.681

sitting there with a pad of paper,

01:25:08.881 --> 01:25:11.964

you know, notebook, just signing, signing,

01:25:12.044 --> 01:25:12.504

signing.

01:25:12.897 --> 01:25:14.098

trying to get the signature

01:25:14.158 --> 01:25:17.180

exactly yeah yeah and like

01:25:17.200 --> 01:25:18.320

so randy does does that

01:25:18.360 --> 01:25:19.561

mean your family members

01:25:19.601 --> 01:25:21.962

get free entrance uh year

01:25:22.002 --> 01:25:22.983

passes or anything like

01:25:23.003 --> 01:25:24.184

that for working there for

01:25:24.204 --> 01:25:26.445

disney yeah yeah my family

01:25:26.525 --> 01:25:28.606

could get in um and then

01:25:28.646 --> 01:25:30.427

when i became a manager i

01:25:30.607 --> 01:25:31.848

ended up becoming a resort

01:25:31.888 --> 01:25:33.989

manager with disney um i'm

01:25:34.049 --> 01:25:35.030

actually the first one to

01:25:35.090 --> 01:25:36.090

ever go from law

01:25:36.130 --> 01:25:37.992

enforcement into disney

01:25:38.032 --> 01:25:39.012

management and i'm going to

01:25:39.052 --> 01:25:40.033

tell you how that happened

01:25:40.073 --> 01:25:41.734

but once you become a

01:25:42.559 --> 01:25:46.442

a manager, an upper management person,

01:25:47.562 --> 01:25:49.023

you can get as many people

01:25:49.463 --> 01:25:50.704

a day in as you want.

01:25:51.425 --> 01:25:52.706

So it's amazing how many of

01:25:52.746 --> 01:25:54.106

my old high school friends

01:25:54.146 --> 01:25:56.568

suddenly got in touch again and, hey,

01:25:56.648 --> 01:25:58.509

we're coming.

01:25:58.529 --> 01:25:59.930

And I was just wondering if maybe.

01:26:00.210 --> 01:26:02.852

I used to let people in all the time.

01:26:02.952 --> 01:26:05.674

The only thing was I had to

01:26:05.714 --> 01:26:07.135

meet them at the entrance.

01:26:08.384 --> 01:26:10.625

you know let the people know

01:26:10.645 --> 01:26:11.966

that they're with me and so

01:26:11.986 --> 01:26:12.926

they could go in and they

01:26:12.966 --> 01:26:15.107

had all the privileges and

01:26:15.507 --> 01:26:16.628

yeah it was a perk

01:26:16.688 --> 01:26:18.849

definitely and my kids oh

01:26:18.889 --> 01:26:20.910

my gosh my kids were for

01:26:20.930 --> 01:26:22.010

the first year they were

01:26:22.030 --> 01:26:24.932

there every other day and

01:26:24.952 --> 01:26:27.273

better than i do um and

01:26:27.313 --> 01:26:29.574

it's funny because when we

01:26:29.594 --> 01:26:31.115

would pass you know those

01:26:31.375 --> 01:26:33.096

uh grocery store parking

01:26:33.156 --> 01:26:35.477

lot carnivals that they'd set up

01:26:36.354 --> 01:26:38.095

with a little cheap rides and everything.

01:26:38.616 --> 01:26:40.136

They'd see one of those and they'd be like,

01:26:40.176 --> 01:26:41.077

can we go there?

01:26:41.097 --> 01:26:43.579

Can we go there?

01:26:43.639 --> 01:26:43.919

Wait,

01:26:44.699 --> 01:26:46.280

you want to go there and you could go

01:26:46.320 --> 01:26:46.840

to Disney?

01:26:46.860 --> 01:26:47.781

And they're like, yeah,

01:26:47.801 --> 01:26:49.482

but we've done everything at Disney.

01:26:49.502 --> 01:26:50.983

We just want to go to that carnival.

01:26:52.044 --> 01:26:52.784

Oh my God.

01:26:52.924 --> 01:26:56.166

Warped you guys.

01:26:56.206 --> 01:26:57.567

Nothing would be as good as

01:26:57.627 --> 01:26:59.168

Disney after you've been in Disney.

01:27:00.659 --> 01:27:02.940

right yeah um and i think in

01:27:02.980 --> 01:27:04.581

fact i've i've often said

01:27:04.721 --> 01:27:05.941

if i ever do get married

01:27:05.961 --> 01:27:07.622

again i am going to go to

01:27:07.662 --> 01:27:09.443

disney even if whoever i

01:27:09.503 --> 01:27:10.743

marry doesn't want to go

01:27:11.203 --> 01:27:12.684

because i can't imagine

01:27:12.784 --> 01:27:15.465

anything better a better

01:27:15.505 --> 01:27:16.986

place to go after you've

01:27:17.006 --> 01:27:18.346

been married to be treated

01:27:18.386 --> 01:27:20.948

like a bride than to go to

01:27:20.988 --> 01:27:22.548

disney my daughter actually

01:27:22.608 --> 01:27:23.989

went on a disney cruise

01:27:24.589 --> 01:27:25.931

for part of her honeymoon.

01:27:26.531 --> 01:27:28.633

And she said she felt like a

01:27:28.693 --> 01:27:30.055

princess the entire time.

01:27:30.095 --> 01:27:31.396

People are always saying

01:27:31.436 --> 01:27:32.838

congratulations and giving

01:27:32.858 --> 01:27:34.820

them free stuff and free

01:27:34.860 --> 01:27:36.562

food and free t-shirts and

01:27:36.602 --> 01:27:37.383

all that kind of stuff.

01:27:37.783 --> 01:27:39.245

Just because they were the bride and groom,

01:27:39.285 --> 01:27:40.086

they wore their little

01:27:40.206 --> 01:27:42.088

bride and groom ears and everything.

01:27:43.000 --> 01:27:44.681

that makes me wonder me

01:27:44.761 --> 01:27:46.142

megan if maybe you can do

01:27:46.262 --> 01:27:47.263

one of those things where

01:27:47.283 --> 01:27:49.404

you you sponsor a cruise or

01:27:49.845 --> 01:27:52.387

some resort thing just like

01:27:52.527 --> 01:27:54.228

uh who is it calls the

01:27:54.268 --> 01:27:56.709

consciousness she did a a

01:27:56.790 --> 01:28:01.633

thing in uh costa rica like a getaway

01:28:02.115 --> 01:28:02.315

Yeah.

01:28:02.395 --> 01:28:03.475

And self on the shelf did

01:28:03.495 --> 01:28:04.575

the same thing where they,

01:28:04.736 --> 01:28:06.516

they took some of their channel members,

01:28:06.556 --> 01:28:08.356

their, you know, their followers,

01:28:08.396 --> 01:28:10.517

supporters on a, on a trip.

01:28:10.557 --> 01:28:12.457

So maybe that's, maybe I'll do that.

01:28:12.557 --> 01:28:13.417

That sounds like fun.

01:28:13.477 --> 01:28:14.057

There you go.

01:28:14.117 --> 01:28:15.317

Chalice and Sola.

01:28:15.377 --> 01:28:16.118

If she watches this,

01:28:16.178 --> 01:28:16.998

I want to make sure that

01:28:17.318 --> 01:28:18.538

she knows I remember her name.

01:28:18.558 --> 01:28:20.058

All right.

01:28:21.919 --> 01:28:23.839

I had an office at the grand Floridian.

01:28:24.699 --> 01:28:26.720

The grand Floridian is the premier hotel.

01:28:27.420 --> 01:28:28.600

It's that great big one.

01:28:28.620 --> 01:28:28.840

That's,

01:28:30.154 --> 01:28:30.194

Um,

01:28:30.214 --> 01:28:33.535

that is a replica of the Del Coronado

01:28:33.575 --> 01:28:34.755

hotel in California.

01:28:35.355 --> 01:28:36.596

It's the one that they do

01:28:36.636 --> 01:28:38.076

all the filming across the

01:28:38.116 --> 01:28:39.416

lake with the fireworks and

01:28:39.436 --> 01:28:40.596

the castle and everything.

01:28:41.117 --> 01:28:41.897

Beautiful view.

01:28:42.397 --> 01:28:43.437

And I had a little office

01:28:43.637 --> 01:28:45.238

closet size stepped up in

01:28:45.258 --> 01:28:47.418

there somewhere on the third floor.

01:28:48.778 --> 01:28:51.279

And I got a call from, well,

01:28:51.299 --> 01:28:52.079

I won't say his name,

01:28:52.139 --> 01:28:53.599

but he was the general

01:28:53.639 --> 01:28:56.460