Sclante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, I mean Burbank. This is two
hours of the business end of show Business, every Sunday on KiB from five
to seven eleven fifty on your am dial. Brady McDonald is here from the
Southern California News Group, the theme park reporter for the Orange County Register.
He is our eyes and ears on the street things that have to do with
the theme parks here in California. Usually I talk about Disneyland most because I
live very close to Disneyland and I go there a lot, and Brady is
always been patient with me and my manifesto on how Disneyland could improve. And
he wrote an article just amazing that they're finally that people are paying attention to
things that the abuses at Disneyland that affect people that are just trying to go
there and have a good time and don't like long lines. And one of
the recent article he wrote, which is one of my favorite articles he's written
in a long time, it's called Disneyland cracks down on Disability Access Service misuses
and abuses. And this goes right along with my manifesto because a lot of
my manifesto is things like I believe you should not be allowed to put to
bring a bag into Disneyland, a bag of any kind if you and I
imagine people saying, what about my baby and his diapers. I've got Disneyland
in my world will give away free diapers. How are they going to do
that? Are they going to save enough money to give away a free diaper?
Well, I'm glad you asked me that it's not going to cost him
anything because they're going to have less security people because there will be less people
digging around bags looking for anthrax, which, to be honest, that's kind
of what they're doing, right. They're looking for ant I mean, they've
got they've got dogs sniffing for stuff. They won't say for what, but
they're sniffing for something. I mean, and they usedly got almost a minimum
wage job. And you're looking through a bag looking for a dangerous weapon of
mass destruction. It's not a goodn't want you to have that job. And
I know there's other things that they're looking for, but but in general,
let's take care of those security people and fire a few of them, and
and you'll not be the savings that'll go in the diapers. I just at
least I recognize the faults in my argument, like while I'm in real time,
let's let's help these security guys and so they don't have to look for
So those security guards would be basically diaper stocking. They'd have diaper stocking roles.
In your new new world, we can purpose these people and with new
skills of diaper stocking, and well, you know, you actually make a
good point about the bags, Like if you go to like a concert or
a sporting event, like they're forcing people to bring these pretty small, steep
three bags, and you can sort of a man in a day where they're
like, no more bags. You don't need a bag. Just bring your
wallet and your cell phone. You don't need anything else. Maybe you're a
wife for your kids, you know, but just come as you are.
Well I would, I would. I'm saying no bags at all. But
that's my negotiating point. I'm trying to come from a position of strength and
say we will allow no bags. And then they will period and they will
come back to me and say what about these little clear bags that they have
at Dodger Stadium. And I'll say, well, okay, but oh you
shouldn't you shouldn't bend like that. You should stick to them. No bags?
Thanks, what about what about strollers? Are gonna allow strollers and people
just carry their kids around? If your kid needs a stroller, he's too
young to go to Disneyland. I mean, you know, you know me.
Doesn't your manifesto haveing no kids allowed at Disneyland. No, but it
does reduce the amount of kids that go. And the kids love Disneyland and
they and it provides great memories. But you you, you there's no reason
to clog up misney Land with a bunch of strollers for kids who are never
going to remember the the experience in the first place. So for the parents
to just leave the kid at home with the dog or something like that,
uh, in the hotel room with a stranger. No, of course,
it's it's just you can bring your kid. And maybe my negotiating point is,
okay, you can bring a stroller, but you have to use one
of our strollers. And they're they're they're expensive, and they're narrow, and
they they're not big fat strollers. They clog up areas and they're interchangeable.
So you just pick any stroller because you don't have a bag. Right,
just grab the next stroller, put your kid in it, and we stack
them up like shopping carts. Yes, and you just, oh, I
need my stroller back. Oh, you don't have your own stroller. You
have one of ours. Take this and go just here and you use it
for a while, and you don't. You don't. And if your kid,
you just to get your kid to you know, from for a short
while and a short jaunt in between rides, and you can't. You can't
treat the stroller like your suv that you packed to the gills. No.
And then I'm still seeing big wagons there. Even though I know they did
crack down on the wagons, I'm still seeing them. And they shouldn't have
wagons because wagons they they promote the sins of bringing too much stuff into Disneyland
and then having your kids take naps at Disneyland and then gearing up for round
two of their day. To me, it's like if your kid needs an
app then it's time to leave. And it's not like you have a nap.
You have two bites at the Apple at Disneyland. That's what's clogging this
place up. So you're grumpy. Manifesto is anything Joe doesn't want should be
gone, No, not at all. I love children, I enjoy them
and I and I delight in seeing them having a good time at disney.
But I believe that for the shareholders that Disneyland has a fiduciary duty to service
and honor, they should make the place less crowded and less clogged, and
they will. That will increase revenue, even though people will go like,
well, I'm not coming back there. They won't bring my kids. I'll
guess for every for every person like that, you know, ten new customers
will come in and say, hey, did you hear Disneyland isn't clogged by
wagons and triple wide strollers anymore, and they don't have lines with people looking
through bags that vacuum, you know. Walt Disney said as much on opening
day. He said, to everyone who comes to Disneyland, including our shareholders,
who we have a produciary obligation to welcome. Yeah, Disneyland it would
be nothing without its investors, because Walt had to borrow a bunch of money
to make this happen, and so it has to We have to think about
them, and I'm not one of them. I wouldn't be here. They
would be a conflict and probably an FCC violation if I was here trying to
pump up Disney stock. I don't have any Disney stock. I would say
that the last thing that I think about when I go to Disneyland is the
stockholder. That's not who I'm thinking about. You're yeah, I mean some
people aren't as empathetic as I am. And I get it. I get
I have a heart that that many people can't understand. How do you could
say you have a heart of gold? I do? I do, thank
you. So I'm just trying to make the place a better for people,
and I think that's that's now. But tell me about your article, though
your article deals with a different world that is also clogging up things and making
people have to wait longer in lines because of this disability access service abuse.
Can you tell me about the service in the in the first place. Yeah,
I'm sure Disneyland, which is they had named it something else other than
disability Access service, and that's what they're trying to do now. But they're
not changing a name, and so you know, I think they would have
liked to have narrowed down what a disability is. And I think They would
have probably liked to call it access because everybody would like access to align that's
shorter, and they probably don't want to call it a service because it sounds
like something you need or can buy, or you deserve. And so really
what they're trying to do now is sort of reset the disability access service,
because you know, you could pretty much come in and say I have a
disability and they'd have to give you this. This essentially a free line cutting
lightning lane pass to let you go into an any ride when you stop.
You right there. We're going to take a break and check the traffic and
we will come back. Juwiscolanti Life from Hollywood with Brady McDonald from the Orange
County Register and the Southern California News Service. I'm here with Grady McDonald from
the Orange County Register of the theme park reported there and from the Southern California
News Group, and he writes a lot of Andrew seeing and articles about Disneyland
and other theme parks around Southern California. The one we're talking about right now
is the one where Disneyland is cracking down on its disability access service. And
this is essentially every I think everybody's heard about it. They're like, hey,
when you go to Disneyland, take your kid that has some learning disabilities
and bring them in and get a pass where you and your entire party can
skip the lines. And evidently this has been abused, Brady, do they
have? What? What kind of disabilities are we talking about? Well?
What what Disney is trying to reset for here and to sort of narrow down
the disabilities. They want to make the disability for this particular pass the service
for for for kids and people with autism and developmentally developmentally disability disabilities, and
so what what folks are upset about in the disability communities. There's a lot
of other disabilities besides that, and Disney is saying that they have other tools
that you can use if you have some other type of disability. And so
what they're going to do is right now that when you when you come to
Disneyland, for example, you go to the first stop is to go to
city Hall and get and pick up the d as dos pass. And now
they're going to put it out in the old ticket boots out out in the
espaanad and either deal with the deal with folks there or you'll do it online
before you arrive. Yeah, that makes sense. It is a weird that
big long line which getting longer and longer as the years go by, out
in front of City Hall and then you're like wondering, what is this?
This must be a great thing inside there if people are willing to wait in
this giant line to go, Oh, it's a giant line, so you
don't have to wait in giant lines. And what's what's in there? And
it's and it's like it's a gold mine in there. It's free. It's
it's free money really because they sell access to special lines, correct, Brady,
Yeah, they'll I mean you can buy pretty much anything you want at
Disneyland, and you can buy access to lines if you're willing to pay for
it. I mean, obviously the most basic way to do it is three
Genie Plus, but you can buy a VIP tour guide that would get you
access to lines, and all those things cost various amounts. I think the
big problem with the Disability Access Service or what they call DOS is that people
were cheating it right, Like they were saying they had a disability and they
didn't in order to get basically free Genie Plus or lightning lane access, and
you know, I think we can both agree that nobody should be doing that.
Yeah, I mean, and I mean I know lots of kids with
disabilities where I I'm like, someone's got to be done with this kid.
So this kid deserves to go to Disneyland, and I'm glad they have something
for that kid. And the parents of poor parents are already hard to take
a high functioning kid to Disneyland, but a kid with problems, my gosh,
you know you want you want to give these parents an advantage as well
as the kids. But I have heard about abuses on the streets, and
so I'm glad Disneyland is doing something. Let me ask you, this is
the line that you get in when you have one of these passes, a
DOS pass? Is it? It's not in the back door like it is
it the lightning lane? Where where are they actually going these these So you're
basically in the lightning lane, and so you know, the idea is that
you wouldn't know that you wouldn't be able to tell someone who paid forr Ginie.
Plus, if they're standing right next to somebody who has the DOS pass,
you wouldn't know one from the other. And so they both go into
the lightning lane. But what's been generally happening, and this is part of
the problem for Disneyland, is that I've heard numbers as high as more than
fifty percent of the people in the lightning lane are on a doss pass,
right, because it's not just the person with the disability, it's their whole
family it gets to use this thing. And so they are filling up the
lightning lanes, and that has a casketting effect across the entire park, right,
because we all know that when the lightning lane is jammed up, it
slows down the regular line, and when both of those lines are backed up,
it sort of has a ripple effect across the whole park. Food lines
are longer, everything, everything is worse because of one single ride being jammed
up with a lot of people. And if you do that all over the
park, it's it's you know, it quickly comes grinding to a halt.
Yeah, And if you have if you can bring your whole party and you
got ten people, that's I mean, it's like everybody, like within a
group, any group of ten has has some kind of disability in one of
the kids. So it's yeah, I mean, I've heard and read that
you know, as many as one in ten people in the US have some
sort of disability. Not all of them are going to claim it Kisneyland as
a way to get in front of line. But you know, there's a
lot of folks out there who do truly need a disability access pass and rely
on I want to go to Disneyland. And those are the folks that are
kind of worried right now, is like, how is disney Disneyland going narrow
down? Who can use it? And will I still be able to use
it as I have in the past, because it's the only way that they
can go to the park. Yeah, And I especially feel bad for the
parents because when I look at the looks on some of the parents' faces when
they're when they're trying to deal with their whole family and navigate the park,
it's just a look of death. It's like, somebody, somebody put me
out of my misery. This is this is so hard. So anything they
can do for those parents is great. And if it's cracking down on the
phonies, what they're saying I'm hearing is it's if you catch somebody, it's
a lifetime ban from Disneyland. Yeah, so that is sort of the way
that Disneyland is presenting it as a way to sort of discourage people from cheating
the system. And I think it'll be pretty effective. I mean, we've
we've never really seen that too much at Disneyland. That's much more of a
Disney World thing, a lifetime or year band. We're starting to see more
more of that out here. You know, you got to do something in
Florida. I mean, so they do that a little bit. They have
some some punishments in Florida that they don't have out here. Yeah, like
they throw out your bands and lifetime bands like Cotton Gandy out there. It's
it's a it's a little bit more frequent, we don't. You don't hear
about it as much here. But you know, later on the show,
maybe we can talk about one of my other big stories where someone got banned
for a year for something they did at Disneyland. All right, let's talk
about the next. First of all, I want to make it clear to
all the listeners that the lifetime ban is not just for you, It's for
everyone in your party. I know, you're the silence is you're saying where
did you get that information, Joe, And my answer is I didn't really,
But I think we if we get the word out that it's for everybody
in the party, there'll be less of it. It's for everybody you've ever
met, man, be putty with your DNA right. Uh, No,
it's it's just for for you. But the mom that's that thought this was
a good idea, or the the the the not really disabled kid. Yeah,
it's the person who's gone and gotten the DOS pass, which might be
the mom doing it on behalf of the kid. I think the scary part
is how Disneyland figures out that you're cheating, right like, and so that's
that's. Uh. When you when you stop and think about that for just
a moment, you go, oh, yeah, they are tracking me all
over the park with my app. There's cameras everywhere, there's security guards everywhere.
And so now that they've sort of laid down the law, it will
be interesting to see how they enforce it. Now, do you think do
you think they would be looking at people and saying, like, this person
said that they had autism, but we're following them around and we see no
signs of autism. So so, for example, there's a ton of fine
print on this, but here's an example of how you could buy and you
could get a lifetime ban. Right. Is so one of the new rules
is the person who has the disability has to go on the ride, right,
So like you could sort of imagine what the reverse of that is.
Right. Oh, so you're saying, people get this DOS pass and then
the actual person who has DOS never rides the ride all day, and that
rides any rides all day. You're like, yeah, that happens, and
so like eleven people are streaming into the rune and you're like, well,
where's the guy with the actual disability. Oh, he's over there in the
stroller wagon. He doesn't want to go on any of the rides. We're
just using that to get in the ride. So if they can see that
happening, right, that would be one way that you'll be sort of cheating
the system. And so that they're making that kind of course is grabbing the
kid and put them on the ride securities, and the kid might not want
to go on Star Tours, right because you know it's a little too shaky,
So terror you're going on it. But but that's one of the ways
that people are kind of cheating the system now, So you know that's that
be pretty easy to pull him out on. Is like, where's Steve Jones?
You know it says on the disability pass Steve Jones. He's over there
in the shade, sitting next to the picnic table. Yeah, with a
big, big corn dog the tricky legs. But I still have never yet.
So there's a lot of fine print like that throughout up the new rules
where if you start looking at you go, oh yeah, they could easily
do that. Okay, all right, Okay, I'm gonna take a break.
We're gonna check traffic again. And I kind of say that all the
time, but it's really a bunch of commercials. Brady McDonald Orange County Register,
theme park reporter for all the parks that we go to around here,
not just Disneyland, but you know, Disney that's the big one. All
right, Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. Here we are back with Brady McDonald
from the Orange County Register. He's a theme park reporter there and also rights
for the Southern California News Group and he's always our eyes and ears on the
ground and all the theme parks and particularly today we are talking about the crackdowns
going on to Disneyland for the abuse of these accessible ability what are they called
again, disability access service. Yeah, which I'm all for because you know,
kids and parents need a break. You go to Disneyland and you can
get a cut in lines for if your kid has or someone in your party
has a disability. But there have been some abuses, and we were talking
about the penalties. The penalties for the abuse is a lifetime band now,
and I think you have to get the word out that there's a lifetime band.
So if somebody is abusing this, uh, they will get a lifetime
ban at Disneyland. And that means a You're going to be going to not
Sperry Farm a lot, which is not bad. I like not Spray from
but I like too. They just extended their Boys and Very festival. Oh
good ide Ah, that's good. So the Boys and Berry Festival is still
going and not Spray Farm. That's good news. Well where would we get
this from if we didn't get it from Braid. So he also told me
that that there there have been some recent bands for some abuses at Disneyland that
you that you know about, and you shared that with us. Yeah.
So the other one that I wrote about, which when we started our conversation,
I wasn't sure what you were going to ask me about, is the
greatest story that I ever wrote. But one of our most popular stories was
about this guy, big Disney fan, who sold his Sweetheart Night After Our
Party tickets on eBay and got a one year band for it, and he
was all up in arms about it because he was trying to get it on
he was a pass holder and he was trying to get his pass back.
They only instituted a band on him, but not his wife. So his
wife still has an annual past and and so they you know. So I
wrote a story just about how what had happened to him. He was,
he's this huge Disney fan. He he had gone to Disneyland for New Year's
Day, blew to Florida to be in the half marathon out there with his
wife, then went on a Disney cruise, then flew back here did the
marathon or half marathon at Anaheim. It had lost the marathon, Yeah,
and then and then sold his tickets on e Bay and got banned right here
from Disneyland. Like this guy was just doing nothing but Disney stuff. And
then they're like, no, no, there's no there's no recourse for you.
You're out. So you think they give him a break. You think
they give him a break. He just spent ten grand lying all over America
to spend all of the money on Disney, and they're like, nah,
you broke the rules. You're out. The rules are rules, and we
we I imagine there was some kind of admonition on the thing for on the
ticket, and so you can't there, you can't resell them. But isn't
that the way it is on every ticket and everybody's reselling everything in America?
Yeah, I think that's one of the big problems at Disney. Like,
I know you have your manifesto, I would encourage you to add this.
They need to come up with some sort of aftermarket right for a way for
you to do something to tickets. Everybody else has done it. They could
certainly do something that is within Disney right where you've got I'm like, hey,
a legitimate reason he couldn't use his tickets. They both had COVID,
right, and he was just trying to there was a sole out of any
thought someone could enjoy the tickets like that seems like a pretty legitimate reason to
get rid of your tickets. And there should be a way for you to
unload your tickets like you would like a Lakers game or a Fur concert,
Taylor Swift or whatever. They need a stub hub and it could be an
internal Just trust me, these music people are. It's all internal. There
is a there. They are, just it's kind of an option all the
way around for tickets. And Disneyland is late to the game on that.
They'll figure it out at some point. But a year ban on a guy
that's that much of a patrons So this is this this became news and you
picked up on it. Yeah, I mean he was. He was reaching
out to absolutely everybody you can policibly do. Oh. He called Bob Igor,
he called Just Tomorrow, the president of Disney Parks. He called Ken
Pop Rock, the president doesn't want I mean, he was reaching out to
everybody, and I was sort of his last resort. But what was amazing
to me was, well I told him to talk to Joe, but he
didn't have your number. But but what was amazing that was when I wrote
the story, people started emailing and we're like, I just got banned for
a year today for so my seconds. Like, it's not an isolated thing.
They're cracking down. Disneyland is cracking down a lot of things right now.
I I I've heard about I'm not saying I'm a member of this club,
but I'm saying that if you're a member of Club thirty three and you
get caught selling there's so much memorabilia that's handed out at those parties, they
they will they will say, Hey, come and pay one hundred and twenty
five dollars to be at this event, and we're going to give you this
collectible pin or something that you can sell for one hundred and twenty five dollars
or one hundred and fifty dollars or two hundred if you're clever and fast.
And if you do that, you're banned from that club. You're going to
get kicked out of that club. They also everybody's name of all your guests,
so you can't give it to your nephew or your cousin or your brother.
They're going to track that down and they're all is everybody's name that's ever
been into Cub thirty three in the last you know, ten years. When
they started collecting the names. They're all in there. So it turns out
your name is on your ticket, like essentially attached to your ticket, so
you shouldn't Like if this guy, the problem he had was there's a passolder
bought with his annual pass account. He bought his sweetheart night tickets, So
it would be the same thing for like this this club thirty three member you're
talking about. You know, their name is going to be attached to what
they only gave out like a hundred of these trinkets or whatever it was,
right, so it's not going to be hard to figure out who did it.
And and they're they're sort of putting their saying enough enough. Yeah,
so you how would you get rid of a ticket, like if it's already
attached your name on it? Like I just bought a couple of tickets for
a friend of mine and and I was told they were emailed to me with
his name any and uh, and then the reservations were emailed to him and
the tickets were mailed to me. So that guy's got two pieces of paper,
he's got a reservation, and he's got a ticket. How is he
How can he sell those tickets? How I mean, how does this even
work if you buy him on eBay? I mean, well, that's the
problem. I would say, don't buy any Disney tickets on eBay because you
might end up getting up to the front door on either the Evan or whatever
is going on, and they're not going to let you in somebody else's name
on it, right, because somebody else's name on it might the simplest thing
in the world is to say, show me your driver's license and it doesn't
match, right, And so there are trust me, as we've already talked
about, there's ways to scam and cheat anything, right, But the basic
answer to your question is you can't get rid of that ticket, you know,
like once you've bought it, if you read the front printage yours.
In some instances, when you buy types of tickets from Disneyland, you might
be able to switch it to another day, But when you put a ticket
to something for a scheduled event, right like you're not, you can't get
rid of it. And that's that's what we were talking about earlier, was
like they probably need some version of like a stub ub for Disney. Yeah,
they definitely do. And but you know, the horror of what a
ticket a ticket would be worth and sold for, and people paying one thousand
dollars for tickets on New Year's Eve is something they don't want to No one
wants to face that, but the concert industry has faced that. Yeah,
and they yeah, it's it's a it's a it's a Pandora's box, right,
and they're afraid to open it. Okay, Well, we're going to
take another and check the traffic, and when we come back, we're going
to go over a couple other stories that are affecting the theme parks in Southern
California with Brady McDonald and back after this, Joe As, I'm back with
Brady McDonald from the Orange County Register, where he is the theme park reporter
and has the greatest job in America, and he is also writing for the
Southern California News Group. I hate to put you on the spot, Brady,
but what else is happening at Disneyland right now? Well? I was
actually there yesterday and this morning, and what we were there for was Pixar
Fast, which is if you are a fan of Disney, you'll remember they
had a Pixar Fest back in twenty eighteen and the truth of the matter is
it hasn't changed too much since twenty eighteen. Disneyland will tell you otherwise,
but you know, basically it's a similar type of parade, similar fireworks.
They've you know, sprust it up a little bit with some of the new
Pixar films and stuff like that. But if you enjoyed pixar Fest pre pandemic,
this is the post pandemic version. Basically, Disney doesn't have any new
ride or attraction to sell this summer, and they need a lot of clothing.
They have a lot of broken down ones. Yeah they have. I
mean they could they could have a if they could have something where that you
just get to go on all the rides that have been closed all all year,
you know, come on out and ride our rides that we finally reopened.
But now they've got nothing to sell this year, so they're selling pixar
Fest, which is fun. I had a good time. It's really cute,
And they have the first parade that that Disney California Adventures had since quite
a while, right, they haven't had a parade. I don't think they've
had a parade since the pandemic. So it's nice to see the parade route
up and running again. The formers in the parade were full of energy and
full of excitement, so they were glad to be back out there. So
it's a great parade and it's a great firework show. The problem with Disney
is you have to judge Disney against Disney, right, and so like they're
not living up to their own standards here, but they're beating everybody else by
a mile, right, So like, you're still going to go and have
fun, You're still going to have a wonderful time. But it's not new.
It's just the same old, same old. Now do you think there
is a mark? How are the crowds? Are they worse as the crowd
management better? Has any of this reservation stuff helped anything? I would say
yes, some days it certainly is. But you know, you can still
end up there on a Tuesday or a Wednesday and think, oh, this
is going to be light, and then you're like, what is going on
on main Street? This is just insane. So you can't really predict and
or figure out what days are going to be better than others. Now,
now, if you go back to my manifesto, there's many things that can
clear up the park and make it better people. Oh, I wasn't referring
to number thirteen or twenty seven. Those are clearly things that could change the
park forever. Well. Number five hundred and twelve is adults are not allowed
to go in costume of any kind. They have to wear standard Western clothing.
Permits can be for non Western clothing as long as they can prove citizenship
in an Arab country or some other place. Okay, I made that part.
That's not really. Are are you opposed to Disney bounding where they dress
in just the colors of the character. Oh? Yeah, I'm opposed to
the word bounding. And then I'm upset is that that is a word,
and I always forget it. You know that that it is a word.
Oh you know, dis they already outlaws you from wearing a costume if you're
over thirteen. No, no, really, why do I except when you
go to like one of these after hours event, so that's when they can
all wear their Star Wars stuff or whatever. I seem Okay, I didn't
know that because I seem to see a lot of people. But you're saying
they're bounding, they're just kind of wearing sort of costumes. Yeah, So
the real reason they don't let adults wear costumes is that they don't. You
can do a really good job and look like Cinderella or something like that,
and then suddenly there's a line forming next to you and you're posing for photos,
and that's what they don't want, because they don't want someone that looks
like a dead ringer of sleeping beauty coming in the park and pretending to be
sleeping beauty and charging a buck for Yeah, kids sitting on their lap,
don't. We can't have that. So that is a rule. You cannot
dress unless you're after over thirteen, right, But what you're seeing in the
park is they sell a lot of stuff that looks like costumes to you and
me. You can wear a Star Wars cloak and walk around with a lightsaber,
yes, and have all this stuff, but there's a very fine line,
and Disney will tell you when you've reached it, and they'll ask you
to step back out in the parking lot and take some of that stuff to
your car. Yeah, that happened a friend of mine's girlfriend who was dressed
like I forget the Disney character that is a prostitute, But that's what she
that's what she was dressed like, and they told her to get to leave,
and he was offended. I was not allowed in Disneyland. Is there
really a Disney character that's a prostitute? Probably some sex, okay now,
but she looked like a prostitute, like maybe like Pinocchio or something like that.
Yeah, it was something. It was something scandalous, but I was
kicked out of this. I've told the story before. I was not allowed
in Disneyland because I had dyed hair in about nineteen eighty one. Yeah,
the rules used to be a lot tighter to get into Disneyland. Were there
were hair length rules, there were clothing rules. Yeah, I accepted it.
The guy told me you can't come in here with there like that,
and I go, I go why, And he goes, it's two different
colors, and I go, yours is two different colors. It's gray,
it's black, there's none on top. What's the problem. And then he's
like, you know what, I'm not going to argue with you. Just
get out of here. And I go, what about my parking? I
paid for parking? And he reached into his pocket and he pulled out like
eighty cents or whatever. It used to cause to park there and he goes
here, you go have funny nuts. You're dating yourself. Now, yeah
that went straight from you probably get into fady Cent's no problem. But I
did get stabbed. I'm just kidding. So they still enforce some clothing rules
of Disneyland. If you walk into the front gate, there's a security guard
walk up to you if you're wearing some death metal shirt that has some curse
words on it. If you're a woman and you're walking with like a bikini
top, they're going to be nope, nope, nope, head back out
to your cargo, get yourself a shirt. There's scams related to that as
well, but we can deal with that another day. About the women to
walk in with a bikini top and then they forced Disneyland to buy them a
shirt. So that was a TikTok TikTok scamp for a while. Okay,
yeah, like watch me force them to buy me a shirt. I don't
have anything else. And they're like, okay, well, here's a coupon
to go get a shirt at you know, the emporium. And they would
like, go buy a a what are they call those jerseys? And like
an eighty dollars t shirt with the ticket that was like a sort of a
TikTok stam out in at disney World for a while, like watch me go
get free crap from from a from disney World. Here's how I do it.
I walk in in a bikini and they make you put a shirt on.
I let's switch gears. And I understand. You went to Disneyland,
I think it was, and you met my aunt Bonnie. I did,
and she wanted me to ask you if you knew a man named Noile It
Yes, I do, and yeah, my aunt Bonnie is the one that
used to work at Disneyland in the seventies, and she should take me with
her to work every day and smuggle me in. And then I wander around
and then until I somehow got a bunch of a pile of tickets and and
just spent the rest of my time going with my e tickets, going on
any ride. Uh and uh. And that's where I got my affinity for
Disneyland. Was I spent hours and hours and hours there with that Bonnie.
And Bonnie is referring to the first song I ever wrote. What she always
talks about. I think she's more proud of me for that than writing as
a hit song. For no doubt, she she hummed, she sang a
few bars for me. I was wondering if you could do that for our
listeners. And well it was really just a parody of the Beverly Hillbillies theme
and it went like this will I will. I'm not going to disappoint you,
except for with this song. This is my first song I ever wrote.
Let me tell you a story about a man named Noilett took Ellie May,
he flushed her down the toilet. Then one day he was fishing in
the sea. Guess what he caught? Ellie May and pe so at age
five, it's not bad. And then one day at the movie theater,
Uh, we should go to the movie theater every Saturday and this the host
would go like, hey, kids, how are you? I can't hear
you. I was that where I got a big movie coming up today.
Anyone knows a song? And then my brother raises his hand, he goes,
my my little brother has a song, and he goes, all right,
microphone in my face. And I sang that song and at the end,
I'm telling you in nineteen sixty eight saying the word pe a on a
live mic in front of six hundred people. That was that was bad.
That was like they never they never handed that guy learned his lesson. Never
hand a microphone to someone and you don't know what they're gonna sing. Yeah.
Wow, I have to say I love Aunt Bonnie. The other thing
that she talks about, I don't know if you want to talk about here,
was that I oh, managing Sublime, Yeah, managing Sublime. And
that's kind of why I'm just oriented lately, because it's a it's a full
time job, it's a it's a big band. It's the son Jacob,
a son of Bradley Noa who's singing. He just killed it at Coachella two
weekends in a row, and now we're going to Orlando this weekend. And
it's a big job, but someone has to do it, and everybody's very
happy. It's like spreading joy around with Jacob and Eric and Bud and the
DJ DJ product and Trey Pangborn on guitar, backup guitar. It's just it's
super fun. But that sounds like a lot of fun. I think I
think people are really gonna be excited to see more of that. Yeah,
and more of it is coming. All right, I gotta go. We
will, we'll be back next week of course, and thank you Brady,
and we'll see you at the parks.