WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.679 --> 00:00:11.080 Sclante Live from Hollywood. By Hollywood, I mean Burbank. This is two 2 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:15.919 hours of the business end of show Business, every Sunday on KiB from five 3 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:21.839 to seven eleven fifty on your am dial. Brady McDonald is here from the 4 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:25.839 Southern California News Group, the theme park reporter for the Orange County Register. 5 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:34.200 He is our eyes and ears on the street things that have to do with 6 00:00:34.719 --> 00:00:39.840 the theme parks here in California. Usually I talk about Disneyland most because I 7 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:44.320 live very close to Disneyland and I go there a lot, and Brady is 8 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:50.280 always been patient with me and my manifesto on how Disneyland could improve. And 9 00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:56.759 he wrote an article just amazing that they're finally that people are paying attention to 10 00:00:57.079 --> 00:01:03.479 things that the abuses at Disneyland that affect people that are just trying to go 11 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:07.599 there and have a good time and don't like long lines. And one of 12 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.560 the recent article he wrote, which is one of my favorite articles he's written 13 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:18.719 in a long time, it's called Disneyland cracks down on Disability Access Service misuses 14 00:01:18.799 --> 00:01:23.640 and abuses. And this goes right along with my manifesto because a lot of 15 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:29.519 my manifesto is things like I believe you should not be allowed to put to 16 00:01:29.560 --> 00:01:34.560 bring a bag into Disneyland, a bag of any kind if you and I 17 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:38.120 imagine people saying, what about my baby and his diapers. I've got Disneyland 18 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:42.480 in my world will give away free diapers. How are they going to do 19 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:45.239 that? Are they going to save enough money to give away a free diaper? 20 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:49.120 Well, I'm glad you asked me that it's not going to cost him 21 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:53.120 anything because they're going to have less security people because there will be less people 22 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:57.840 digging around bags looking for anthrax, which, to be honest, that's kind 23 00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:00.599 of what they're doing, right. They're looking for ant I mean, they've 24 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:05.159 got they've got dogs sniffing for stuff. They won't say for what, but 25 00:02:05.640 --> 00:02:08.719 they're sniffing for something. I mean, and they usedly got almost a minimum 26 00:02:08.759 --> 00:02:14.080 wage job. And you're looking through a bag looking for a dangerous weapon of 27 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.439 mass destruction. It's not a goodn't want you to have that job. And 28 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.479 I know there's other things that they're looking for, but but in general, 29 00:02:20.639 --> 00:02:24.360 let's take care of those security people and fire a few of them, and 30 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:30.879 and you'll not be the savings that'll go in the diapers. I just at 31 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.520 least I recognize the faults in my argument, like while I'm in real time, 32 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.360 let's let's help these security guys and so they don't have to look for 33 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:43.719 So those security guards would be basically diaper stocking. They'd have diaper stocking roles. 34 00:02:43.759 --> 00:02:46.400 In your new new world, we can purpose these people and with new 35 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.840 skills of diaper stocking, and well, you know, you actually make a 36 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:53.960 good point about the bags, Like if you go to like a concert or 37 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:58.120 a sporting event, like they're forcing people to bring these pretty small, steep 38 00:02:58.159 --> 00:03:00.800 three bags, and you can sort of a man in a day where they're 39 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.520 like, no more bags. You don't need a bag. Just bring your 40 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:06.960 wallet and your cell phone. You don't need anything else. Maybe you're a 41 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:09.080 wife for your kids, you know, but just come as you are. 42 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:15.199 Well I would, I would. I'm saying no bags at all. But 43 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:19.879 that's my negotiating point. I'm trying to come from a position of strength and 44 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:24.599 say we will allow no bags. And then they will period and they will 45 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:28.120 come back to me and say what about these little clear bags that they have 46 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:31.039 at Dodger Stadium. And I'll say, well, okay, but oh you 47 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:34.879 shouldn't you shouldn't bend like that. You should stick to them. No bags? 48 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.800 Thanks, what about what about strollers? Are gonna allow strollers and people 49 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:42.039 just carry their kids around? If your kid needs a stroller, he's too 50 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:44.560 young to go to Disneyland. I mean, you know, you know me. 51 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.639 Doesn't your manifesto haveing no kids allowed at Disneyland. No, but it 52 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:53.639 does reduce the amount of kids that go. And the kids love Disneyland and 53 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:58.719 they and it provides great memories. But you you, you there's no reason 54 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:02.120 to clog up misney Land with a bunch of strollers for kids who are never 55 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:06.840 going to remember the the experience in the first place. So for the parents 56 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.240 to just leave the kid at home with the dog or something like that, 57 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:17.240 uh, in the hotel room with a stranger. No, of course, 58 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:25.920 it's it's just you can bring your kid. And maybe my negotiating point is, 59 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:28.519 okay, you can bring a stroller, but you have to use one 60 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:32.399 of our strollers. And they're they're they're expensive, and they're narrow, and 61 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:38.639 they they're not big fat strollers. They clog up areas and they're interchangeable. 62 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:41.639 So you just pick any stroller because you don't have a bag. Right, 63 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.759 just grab the next stroller, put your kid in it, and we stack 64 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:46.800 them up like shopping carts. Yes, and you just, oh, I 65 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:49.480 need my stroller back. Oh, you don't have your own stroller. You 66 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:53.519 have one of ours. Take this and go just here and you use it 67 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.160 for a while, and you don't. You don't. And if your kid, 68 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:00.040 you just to get your kid to you know, from for a short 69 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:04.879 while and a short jaunt in between rides, and you can't. You can't 70 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:09.600 treat the stroller like your suv that you packed to the gills. No. 71 00:05:09.879 --> 00:05:14.079 And then I'm still seeing big wagons there. Even though I know they did 72 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:17.920 crack down on the wagons, I'm still seeing them. And they shouldn't have 73 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:30.000 wagons because wagons they they promote the sins of bringing too much stuff into Disneyland 74 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:34.319 and then having your kids take naps at Disneyland and then gearing up for round 75 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:38.800 two of their day. To me, it's like if your kid needs an 76 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:42.519 app then it's time to leave. And it's not like you have a nap. 77 00:05:43.000 --> 00:05:46.519 You have two bites at the Apple at Disneyland. That's what's clogging this 78 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.759 place up. So you're grumpy. Manifesto is anything Joe doesn't want should be 79 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:55.399 gone, No, not at all. I love children, I enjoy them 80 00:05:55.519 --> 00:05:59.439 and I and I delight in seeing them having a good time at disney. 81 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:08.680 But I believe that for the shareholders that Disneyland has a fiduciary duty to service 82 00:06:09.079 --> 00:06:13.720 and honor, they should make the place less crowded and less clogged, and 83 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.319 they will. That will increase revenue, even though people will go like, 84 00:06:16.399 --> 00:06:18.879 well, I'm not coming back there. They won't bring my kids. I'll 85 00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:24.120 guess for every for every person like that, you know, ten new customers 86 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:27.399 will come in and say, hey, did you hear Disneyland isn't clogged by 87 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:32.199 wagons and triple wide strollers anymore, and they don't have lines with people looking 88 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:39.079 through bags that vacuum, you know. Walt Disney said as much on opening 89 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:43.680 day. He said, to everyone who comes to Disneyland, including our shareholders, 90 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:47.879 who we have a produciary obligation to welcome. Yeah, Disneyland it would 91 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:53.079 be nothing without its investors, because Walt had to borrow a bunch of money 92 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:56.920 to make this happen, and so it has to We have to think about 93 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.759 them, and I'm not one of them. I wouldn't be here. They 94 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:03.519 would be a conflict and probably an FCC violation if I was here trying to 95 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:08.120 pump up Disney stock. I don't have any Disney stock. I would say 96 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.120 that the last thing that I think about when I go to Disneyland is the 97 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.240 stockholder. That's not who I'm thinking about. You're yeah, I mean some 98 00:07:15.319 --> 00:07:19.000 people aren't as empathetic as I am. And I get it. I get 99 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:25.480 I have a heart that that many people can't understand. How do you could 100 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:29.199 say you have a heart of gold? I do? I do, thank 101 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.920 you. So I'm just trying to make the place a better for people, 102 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:36.720 and I think that's that's now. But tell me about your article, though 103 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:42.319 your article deals with a different world that is also clogging up things and making 104 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:47.480 people have to wait longer in lines because of this disability access service abuse. 105 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:50.560 Can you tell me about the service in the in the first place. Yeah, 106 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:54.560 I'm sure Disneyland, which is they had named it something else other than 107 00:07:54.680 --> 00:07:58.759 disability Access service, and that's what they're trying to do now. But they're 108 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.720 not changing a name, and so you know, I think they would have 109 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:05.319 liked to have narrowed down what a disability is. And I think They would 110 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:11.480 have probably liked to call it access because everybody would like access to align that's 111 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:15.279 shorter, and they probably don't want to call it a service because it sounds 112 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:20.519 like something you need or can buy, or you deserve. And so really 113 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:22.920 what they're trying to do now is sort of reset the disability access service, 114 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.279 because you know, you could pretty much come in and say I have a 115 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:31.600 disability and they'd have to give you this. This essentially a free line cutting 116 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.720 lightning lane pass to let you go into an any ride when you stop. 117 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:39.759 You right there. We're going to take a break and check the traffic and 118 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.799 we will come back. Juwiscolanti Life from Hollywood with Brady McDonald from the Orange 119 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:50.799 County Register and the Southern California News Service. I'm here with Grady McDonald from 120 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.240 the Orange County Register of the theme park reported there and from the Southern California 121 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.879 News Group, and he writes a lot of Andrew seeing and articles about Disneyland 122 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:07.279 and other theme parks around Southern California. The one we're talking about right now 123 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:13.600 is the one where Disneyland is cracking down on its disability access service. And 124 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:18.360 this is essentially every I think everybody's heard about it. They're like, hey, 125 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.759 when you go to Disneyland, take your kid that has some learning disabilities 126 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.279 and bring them in and get a pass where you and your entire party can 127 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:35.240 skip the lines. And evidently this has been abused, Brady, do they 128 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.399 have? What? What kind of disabilities are we talking about? Well? 129 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.440 What what Disney is trying to reset for here and to sort of narrow down 130 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.639 the disabilities. They want to make the disability for this particular pass the service 131 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:58.000 for for for kids and people with autism and developmentally developmentally disability disabilities, and 132 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:03.039 so what what folks are upset about in the disability communities. There's a lot 133 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:09.799 of other disabilities besides that, and Disney is saying that they have other tools 134 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:13.120 that you can use if you have some other type of disability. And so 135 00:10:15.200 --> 00:10:16.840 what they're going to do is right now that when you when you come to 136 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.440 Disneyland, for example, you go to the first stop is to go to 137 00:10:20.559 --> 00:10:24.519 city Hall and get and pick up the d as dos pass. And now 138 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.399 they're going to put it out in the old ticket boots out out in the 139 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:33.159 espaanad and either deal with the deal with folks there or you'll do it online 140 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:35.919 before you arrive. Yeah, that makes sense. It is a weird that 141 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.440 big long line which getting longer and longer as the years go by, out 142 00:10:39.440 --> 00:10:43.120 in front of City Hall and then you're like wondering, what is this? 143 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:45.960 This must be a great thing inside there if people are willing to wait in 144 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.759 this giant line to go, Oh, it's a giant line, so you 145 00:10:48.799 --> 00:10:54.240 don't have to wait in giant lines. And what's what's in there? And 146 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.120 it's and it's like it's a gold mine in there. It's free. It's 147 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:05.080 it's free money really because they sell access to special lines, correct, Brady, 148 00:11:07.240 --> 00:11:09.960 Yeah, they'll I mean you can buy pretty much anything you want at 149 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:13.720 Disneyland, and you can buy access to lines if you're willing to pay for 150 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.000 it. I mean, obviously the most basic way to do it is three 151 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.480 Genie Plus, but you can buy a VIP tour guide that would get you 152 00:11:18.559 --> 00:11:22.759 access to lines, and all those things cost various amounts. I think the 153 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:28.320 big problem with the Disability Access Service or what they call DOS is that people 154 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.320 were cheating it right, Like they were saying they had a disability and they 155 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:37.840 didn't in order to get basically free Genie Plus or lightning lane access, and 156 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.679 you know, I think we can both agree that nobody should be doing that. 157 00:11:41.120 --> 00:11:43.919 Yeah, I mean, and I mean I know lots of kids with 158 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:48.240 disabilities where I I'm like, someone's got to be done with this kid. 159 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:52.080 So this kid deserves to go to Disneyland, and I'm glad they have something 160 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.799 for that kid. And the parents of poor parents are already hard to take 161 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:01.639 a high functioning kid to Disneyland, but a kid with problems, my gosh, 162 00:12:01.720 --> 00:12:05.080 you know you want you want to give these parents an advantage as well 163 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:11.200 as the kids. But I have heard about abuses on the streets, and 164 00:12:11.919 --> 00:12:16.759 so I'm glad Disneyland is doing something. Let me ask you, this is 165 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:20.679 the line that you get in when you have one of these passes, a 166 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:26.200 DOS pass? Is it? It's not in the back door like it is 167 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:30.919 it the lightning lane? Where where are they actually going these these So you're 168 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.360 basically in the lightning lane, and so you know, the idea is that 169 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.279 you wouldn't know that you wouldn't be able to tell someone who paid forr Ginie. 170 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.200 Plus, if they're standing right next to somebody who has the DOS pass, 171 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.159 you wouldn't know one from the other. And so they both go into 172 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:50.840 the lightning lane. But what's been generally happening, and this is part of 173 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.840 the problem for Disneyland, is that I've heard numbers as high as more than 174 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:56.720 fifty percent of the people in the lightning lane are on a doss pass, 175 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.000 right, because it's not just the person with the disability, it's their whole 176 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:05.159 family it gets to use this thing. And so they are filling up the 177 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:09.799 lightning lanes, and that has a casketting effect across the entire park, right, 178 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:13.039 because we all know that when the lightning lane is jammed up, it 179 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:18.519 slows down the regular line, and when both of those lines are backed up, 180 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:22.000 it sort of has a ripple effect across the whole park. Food lines 181 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:28.919 are longer, everything, everything is worse because of one single ride being jammed 182 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.480 up with a lot of people. And if you do that all over the 183 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.399 park, it's it's you know, it quickly comes grinding to a halt. 184 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.960 Yeah, And if you have if you can bring your whole party and you 185 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:46.360 got ten people, that's I mean, it's like everybody, like within a 186 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.320 group, any group of ten has has some kind of disability in one of 187 00:13:50.320 --> 00:13:54.759 the kids. So it's yeah, I mean, I've heard and read that 188 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.360 you know, as many as one in ten people in the US have some 189 00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:00.759 sort of disability. Not all of them are going to claim it Kisneyland as 190 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:03.000 a way to get in front of line. But you know, there's a 191 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:09.519 lot of folks out there who do truly need a disability access pass and rely 192 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:11.039 on I want to go to Disneyland. And those are the folks that are 193 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:16.679 kind of worried right now, is like, how is disney Disneyland going narrow 194 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.639 down? Who can use it? And will I still be able to use 195 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:22.120 it as I have in the past, because it's the only way that they 196 00:14:22.159 --> 00:14:26.919 can go to the park. Yeah, And I especially feel bad for the 197 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:33.080 parents because when I look at the looks on some of the parents' faces when 198 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:37.240 they're when they're trying to deal with their whole family and navigate the park, 199 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:41.159 it's just a look of death. It's like, somebody, somebody put me 200 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:46.279 out of my misery. This is this is so hard. So anything they 201 00:14:46.320 --> 00:14:48.200 can do for those parents is great. And if it's cracking down on the 202 00:14:48.240 --> 00:14:54.879 phonies, what they're saying I'm hearing is it's if you catch somebody, it's 203 00:14:54.919 --> 00:15:01.440 a lifetime ban from Disneyland. Yeah, so that is sort of the way 204 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:07.200 that Disneyland is presenting it as a way to sort of discourage people from cheating 205 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:11.080 the system. And I think it'll be pretty effective. I mean, we've 206 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:15.600 we've never really seen that too much at Disneyland. That's much more of a 207 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.720 Disney World thing, a lifetime or year band. We're starting to see more 208 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:22.960 more of that out here. You know, you got to do something in 209 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.679 Florida. I mean, so they do that a little bit. They have 210 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:31.480 some some punishments in Florida that they don't have out here. Yeah, like 211 00:15:31.159 --> 00:15:37.440 they throw out your bands and lifetime bands like Cotton Gandy out there. It's 212 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:39.039 it's a it's a little bit more frequent, we don't. You don't hear 213 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:43.720 about it as much here. But you know, later on the show, 214 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.159 maybe we can talk about one of my other big stories where someone got banned 215 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.360 for a year for something they did at Disneyland. All right, let's talk 216 00:15:50.360 --> 00:15:52.080 about the next. First of all, I want to make it clear to 217 00:15:52.159 --> 00:15:56.600 all the listeners that the lifetime ban is not just for you, It's for 218 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:02.480 everyone in your party. I know, you're the silence is you're saying where 219 00:16:02.519 --> 00:16:06.519 did you get that information, Joe, And my answer is I didn't really, 220 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:10.000 But I think we if we get the word out that it's for everybody 221 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:14.000 in the party, there'll be less of it. It's for everybody you've ever 222 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:21.480 met, man, be putty with your DNA right. Uh, No, 223 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:26.679 it's it's just for for you. But the mom that's that thought this was 224 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:33.559 a good idea, or the the the the not really disabled kid. Yeah, 225 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:37.000 it's the person who's gone and gotten the DOS pass, which might be 226 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:41.759 the mom doing it on behalf of the kid. I think the scary part 227 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:47.639 is how Disneyland figures out that you're cheating, right like, and so that's 228 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:51.000 that's. Uh. When you when you stop and think about that for just 229 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:53.559 a moment, you go, oh, yeah, they are tracking me all 230 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:59.320 over the park with my app. There's cameras everywhere, there's security guards everywhere. 231 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.919 And so now that they've sort of laid down the law, it will 232 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.720 be interesting to see how they enforce it. Now, do you think do 233 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:10.680 you think they would be looking at people and saying, like, this person 234 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:19.839 said that they had autism, but we're following them around and we see no 235 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:26.279 signs of autism. So so, for example, there's a ton of fine 236 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:29.960 print on this, but here's an example of how you could buy and you 237 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.799 could get a lifetime ban. Right. Is so one of the new rules 238 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:38.759 is the person who has the disability has to go on the ride, right, 239 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:41.599 So like you could sort of imagine what the reverse of that is. 240 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.319 Right. Oh, so you're saying, people get this DOS pass and then 241 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:48.680 the actual person who has DOS never rides the ride all day, and that 242 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.079 rides any rides all day. You're like, yeah, that happens, and 243 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:53.920 so like eleven people are streaming into the rune and you're like, well, 244 00:17:53.920 --> 00:17:59.440 where's the guy with the actual disability. Oh, he's over there in the 245 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:00.920 stroller wagon. He doesn't want to go on any of the rides. We're 246 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.440 just using that to get in the ride. So if they can see that 247 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:08.839 happening, right, that would be one way that you'll be sort of cheating 248 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:14.200 the system. And so that they're making that kind of course is grabbing the 249 00:18:14.279 --> 00:18:18.680 kid and put them on the ride securities, and the kid might not want 250 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:23.359 to go on Star Tours, right because you know it's a little too shaky, 251 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:30.079 So terror you're going on it. But but that's one of the ways 252 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.440 that people are kind of cheating the system now, So you know that's that 253 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:38.480 be pretty easy to pull him out on. Is like, where's Steve Jones? 254 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:42.200 You know it says on the disability pass Steve Jones. He's over there 255 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:47.000 in the shade, sitting next to the picnic table. Yeah, with a 256 00:18:47.039 --> 00:18:55.400 big, big corn dog the tricky legs. But I still have never yet. 257 00:18:56.240 --> 00:19:00.279 So there's a lot of fine print like that throughout up the new rules 258 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:04.319 where if you start looking at you go, oh yeah, they could easily 259 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:07.480 do that. Okay, all right, Okay, I'm gonna take a break. 260 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:14.160 We're gonna check traffic again. And I kind of say that all the 261 00:19:14.160 --> 00:19:18.079 time, but it's really a bunch of commercials. Brady McDonald Orange County Register, 262 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:22.680 theme park reporter for all the parks that we go to around here, 263 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:30.079 not just Disneyland, but you know, Disney that's the big one. All 264 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:34.359 right, Joe Ascalante live from Hollywood. Here we are back with Brady McDonald 265 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:41.079 from the Orange County Register. He's a theme park reporter there and also rights 266 00:19:41.119 --> 00:19:45.720 for the Southern California News Group and he's always our eyes and ears on the 267 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:52.400 ground and all the theme parks and particularly today we are talking about the crackdowns 268 00:19:52.440 --> 00:20:02.160 going on to Disneyland for the abuse of these accessible ability what are they called 269 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:07.960 again, disability access service. Yeah, which I'm all for because you know, 270 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:10.880 kids and parents need a break. You go to Disneyland and you can 271 00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:15.440 get a cut in lines for if your kid has or someone in your party 272 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:19.680 has a disability. But there have been some abuses, and we were talking 273 00:20:19.680 --> 00:20:25.880 about the penalties. The penalties for the abuse is a lifetime band now, 274 00:20:26.319 --> 00:20:29.200 and I think you have to get the word out that there's a lifetime band. 275 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:33.880 So if somebody is abusing this, uh, they will get a lifetime 276 00:20:33.960 --> 00:20:38.559 ban at Disneyland. And that means a You're going to be going to not 277 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:42.480 Sperry Farm a lot, which is not bad. I like not Spray from 278 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:49.000 but I like too. They just extended their Boys and Very festival. Oh 279 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:55.519 good ide Ah, that's good. So the Boys and Berry Festival is still 280 00:20:55.559 --> 00:20:57.400 going and not Spray Farm. That's good news. Well where would we get 281 00:20:57.400 --> 00:21:00.720 this from if we didn't get it from Braid. So he also told me 282 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:07.640 that that there there have been some recent bands for some abuses at Disneyland that 283 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.319 you that you know about, and you shared that with us. Yeah. 284 00:21:11.640 --> 00:21:14.960 So the other one that I wrote about, which when we started our conversation, 285 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:15.799 I wasn't sure what you were going to ask me about, is the 286 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:19.720 greatest story that I ever wrote. But one of our most popular stories was 287 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:27.319 about this guy, big Disney fan, who sold his Sweetheart Night After Our 288 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:33.240 Party tickets on eBay and got a one year band for it, and he 289 00:21:33.559 --> 00:21:37.599 was all up in arms about it because he was trying to get it on 290 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:40.480 he was a pass holder and he was trying to get his pass back. 291 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.799 They only instituted a band on him, but not his wife. So his 292 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:52.200 wife still has an annual past and and so they you know. So I 293 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:55.920 wrote a story just about how what had happened to him. He was, 294 00:21:56.400 --> 00:22:02.079 he's this huge Disney fan. He he had gone to Disneyland for New Year's 295 00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:07.079 Day, blew to Florida to be in the half marathon out there with his 296 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:11.119 wife, then went on a Disney cruise, then flew back here did the 297 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:17.519 marathon or half marathon at Anaheim. It had lost the marathon, Yeah, 298 00:22:17.720 --> 00:22:21.559 and then and then sold his tickets on e Bay and got banned right here 299 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:26.200 from Disneyland. Like this guy was just doing nothing but Disney stuff. And 300 00:22:26.279 --> 00:22:29.640 then they're like, no, no, there's no there's no recourse for you. 301 00:22:29.759 --> 00:22:32.799 You're out. So you think they give him a break. You think 302 00:22:32.799 --> 00:22:36.960 they give him a break. He just spent ten grand lying all over America 303 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:38.920 to spend all of the money on Disney, and they're like, nah, 304 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:44.279 you broke the rules. You're out. The rules are rules, and we 305 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:51.240 we I imagine there was some kind of admonition on the thing for on the 306 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:53.880 ticket, and so you can't there, you can't resell them. But isn't 307 00:22:53.920 --> 00:22:59.480 that the way it is on every ticket and everybody's reselling everything in America? 308 00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:03.000 Yeah, I think that's one of the big problems at Disney. Like, 309 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:06.119 I know you have your manifesto, I would encourage you to add this. 310 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:08.720 They need to come up with some sort of aftermarket right for a way for 311 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:11.680 you to do something to tickets. Everybody else has done it. They could 312 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:15.640 certainly do something that is within Disney right where you've got I'm like, hey, 313 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:18.559 a legitimate reason he couldn't use his tickets. They both had COVID, 314 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.759 right, and he was just trying to there was a sole out of any 315 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.400 thought someone could enjoy the tickets like that seems like a pretty legitimate reason to 316 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:29.799 get rid of your tickets. And there should be a way for you to 317 00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:33.119 unload your tickets like you would like a Lakers game or a Fur concert, 318 00:23:33.799 --> 00:23:37.079 Taylor Swift or whatever. They need a stub hub and it could be an 319 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.160 internal Just trust me, these music people are. It's all internal. There 320 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:48.359 is a there. They are, just it's kind of an option all the 321 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:51.880 way around for tickets. And Disneyland is late to the game on that. 322 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.119 They'll figure it out at some point. But a year ban on a guy 323 00:23:56.319 --> 00:24:02.640 that's that much of a patrons So this is this this became news and you 324 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.960 picked up on it. Yeah, I mean he was. He was reaching 325 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:08.519 out to absolutely everybody you can policibly do. Oh. He called Bob Igor, 326 00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:11.920 he called Just Tomorrow, the president of Disney Parks. He called Ken 327 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.720 Pop Rock, the president doesn't want I mean, he was reaching out to 328 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:18.279 everybody, and I was sort of his last resort. But what was amazing 329 00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:22.359 to me was, well I told him to talk to Joe, but he 330 00:24:22.480 --> 00:24:26.599 didn't have your number. But but what was amazing that was when I wrote 331 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:30.400 the story, people started emailing and we're like, I just got banned for 332 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:36.839 a year today for so my seconds. Like, it's not an isolated thing. 333 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:40.960 They're cracking down. Disneyland is cracking down a lot of things right now. 334 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:45.200 I I I've heard about I'm not saying I'm a member of this club, 335 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:49.039 but I'm saying that if you're a member of Club thirty three and you 336 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:53.920 get caught selling there's so much memorabilia that's handed out at those parties, they 337 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:57.680 they will they will say, Hey, come and pay one hundred and twenty 338 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:02.039 five dollars to be at this event, and we're going to give you this 339 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.559 collectible pin or something that you can sell for one hundred and twenty five dollars 340 00:25:04.920 --> 00:25:10.079 or one hundred and fifty dollars or two hundred if you're clever and fast. 341 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.960 And if you do that, you're banned from that club. You're going to 342 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.160 get kicked out of that club. They also everybody's name of all your guests, 343 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:22.359 so you can't give it to your nephew or your cousin or your brother. 344 00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:26.359 They're going to track that down and they're all is everybody's name that's ever 345 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:29.440 been into Cub thirty three in the last you know, ten years. When 346 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:34.160 they started collecting the names. They're all in there. So it turns out 347 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:37.799 your name is on your ticket, like essentially attached to your ticket, so 348 00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:41.559 you shouldn't Like if this guy, the problem he had was there's a passolder 349 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:47.279 bought with his annual pass account. He bought his sweetheart night tickets, So 350 00:25:47.279 --> 00:25:51.279 it would be the same thing for like this this club thirty three member you're 351 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:55.039 talking about. You know, their name is going to be attached to what 352 00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:57.799 they only gave out like a hundred of these trinkets or whatever it was, 353 00:25:57.880 --> 00:26:00.359 right, so it's not going to be hard to figure out who did it. 354 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:06.960 And and they're they're sort of putting their saying enough enough. Yeah, 355 00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.400 so you how would you get rid of a ticket, like if it's already 356 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.640 attached your name on it? Like I just bought a couple of tickets for 357 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:19.599 a friend of mine and and I was told they were emailed to me with 358 00:26:19.680 --> 00:26:25.119 his name any and uh, and then the reservations were emailed to him and 359 00:26:25.240 --> 00:26:27.960 the tickets were mailed to me. So that guy's got two pieces of paper, 360 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:33.359 he's got a reservation, and he's got a ticket. How is he 361 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:34.680 How can he sell those tickets? How I mean, how does this even 362 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:38.279 work if you buy him on eBay? I mean, well, that's the 363 00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:44.680 problem. I would say, don't buy any Disney tickets on eBay because you 364 00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:48.160 might end up getting up to the front door on either the Evan or whatever 365 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.079 is going on, and they're not going to let you in somebody else's name 366 00:26:52.119 --> 00:26:55.279 on it, right, because somebody else's name on it might the simplest thing 367 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:57.160 in the world is to say, show me your driver's license and it doesn't 368 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:02.640 match, right, And so there are trust me, as we've already talked 369 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:07.200 about, there's ways to scam and cheat anything, right, But the basic 370 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:10.240 answer to your question is you can't get rid of that ticket, you know, 371 00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:12.920 like once you've bought it, if you read the front printage yours. 372 00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:17.839 In some instances, when you buy types of tickets from Disneyland, you might 373 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:19.759 be able to switch it to another day, But when you put a ticket 374 00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:25.720 to something for a scheduled event, right like you're not, you can't get 375 00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:26.799 rid of it. And that's that's what we were talking about earlier, was 376 00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:30.599 like they probably need some version of like a stub ub for Disney. Yeah, 377 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:34.359 they definitely do. And but you know, the horror of what a 378 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:40.920 ticket a ticket would be worth and sold for, and people paying one thousand 379 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:47.319 dollars for tickets on New Year's Eve is something they don't want to No one 380 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:51.359 wants to face that, but the concert industry has faced that. Yeah, 381 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:55.200 and they yeah, it's it's a it's a it's a Pandora's box, right, 382 00:27:55.319 --> 00:27:57.920 and they're afraid to open it. Okay, Well, we're going to 383 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.119 take another and check the traffic, and when we come back, we're going 384 00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:07.000 to go over a couple other stories that are affecting the theme parks in Southern 385 00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:34.119 California with Brady McDonald and back after this, Joe As, I'm back with 386 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:40.039 Brady McDonald from the Orange County Register, where he is the theme park reporter 387 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:45.319 and has the greatest job in America, and he is also writing for the 388 00:28:45.400 --> 00:28:49.079 Southern California News Group. I hate to put you on the spot, Brady, 389 00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:53.759 but what else is happening at Disneyland right now? Well? I was 390 00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:59.559 actually there yesterday and this morning, and what we were there for was Pixar 391 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.160 Fast, which is if you are a fan of Disney, you'll remember they 392 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.079 had a Pixar Fest back in twenty eighteen and the truth of the matter is 393 00:29:07.160 --> 00:29:11.480 it hasn't changed too much since twenty eighteen. Disneyland will tell you otherwise, 394 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.079 but you know, basically it's a similar type of parade, similar fireworks. 395 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:19.240 They've you know, sprust it up a little bit with some of the new 396 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:25.480 Pixar films and stuff like that. But if you enjoyed pixar Fest pre pandemic, 397 00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.359 this is the post pandemic version. Basically, Disney doesn't have any new 398 00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:32.680 ride or attraction to sell this summer, and they need a lot of clothing. 399 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:34.359 They have a lot of broken down ones. Yeah they have. I 400 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.359 mean they could they could have a if they could have something where that you 401 00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:41.960 just get to go on all the rides that have been closed all all year, 402 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.799 you know, come on out and ride our rides that we finally reopened. 403 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:49.359 But now they've got nothing to sell this year, so they're selling pixar 404 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:53.319 Fest, which is fun. I had a good time. It's really cute, 405 00:29:53.519 --> 00:30:00.440 And they have the first parade that that Disney California Adventures had since quite 406 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:02.880 a while, right, they haven't had a parade. I don't think they've 407 00:30:02.880 --> 00:30:04.799 had a parade since the pandemic. So it's nice to see the parade route 408 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:11.359 up and running again. The formers in the parade were full of energy and 409 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:14.960 full of excitement, so they were glad to be back out there. So 410 00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:19.279 it's a great parade and it's a great firework show. The problem with Disney 411 00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:22.839 is you have to judge Disney against Disney, right, and so like they're 412 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:29.400 not living up to their own standards here, but they're beating everybody else by 413 00:30:29.480 --> 00:30:30.319 a mile, right, So like, you're still going to go and have 414 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:34.640 fun, You're still going to have a wonderful time. But it's not new. 415 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:37.279 It's just the same old, same old. Now do you think there 416 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:41.920 is a mark? How are the crowds? Are they worse as the crowd 417 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:48.799 management better? Has any of this reservation stuff helped anything? I would say 418 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:56.359 yes, some days it certainly is. But you know, you can still 419 00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:59.599 end up there on a Tuesday or a Wednesday and think, oh, this 420 00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:02.119 is going to be light, and then you're like, what is going on 421 00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:07.359 on main Street? This is just insane. So you can't really predict and 422 00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:11.519 or figure out what days are going to be better than others. Now, 423 00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:15.119 now, if you go back to my manifesto, there's many things that can 424 00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:18.079 clear up the park and make it better people. Oh, I wasn't referring 425 00:31:18.119 --> 00:31:23.680 to number thirteen or twenty seven. Those are clearly things that could change the 426 00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:29.759 park forever. Well. Number five hundred and twelve is adults are not allowed 427 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:33.880 to go in costume of any kind. They have to wear standard Western clothing. 428 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:40.400 Permits can be for non Western clothing as long as they can prove citizenship 429 00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:45.680 in an Arab country or some other place. Okay, I made that part. 430 00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.319 That's not really. Are are you opposed to Disney bounding where they dress 431 00:31:48.400 --> 00:31:52.680 in just the colors of the character. Oh? Yeah, I'm opposed to 432 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:56.359 the word bounding. And then I'm upset is that that is a word, 433 00:31:56.440 --> 00:31:57.759 and I always forget it. You know that that it is a word. 434 00:31:59.519 --> 00:32:02.960 Oh you know, dis they already outlaws you from wearing a costume if you're 435 00:32:02.960 --> 00:32:07.839 over thirteen. No, no, really, why do I except when you 436 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:10.799 go to like one of these after hours event, so that's when they can 437 00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:14.960 all wear their Star Wars stuff or whatever. I seem Okay, I didn't 438 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:17.119 know that because I seem to see a lot of people. But you're saying 439 00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:23.240 they're bounding, they're just kind of wearing sort of costumes. Yeah, So 440 00:32:23.359 --> 00:32:27.720 the real reason they don't let adults wear costumes is that they don't. You 441 00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.000 can do a really good job and look like Cinderella or something like that, 442 00:32:30.119 --> 00:32:35.319 and then suddenly there's a line forming next to you and you're posing for photos, 443 00:32:35.319 --> 00:32:37.440 and that's what they don't want, because they don't want someone that looks 444 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:42.720 like a dead ringer of sleeping beauty coming in the park and pretending to be 445 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:46.200 sleeping beauty and charging a buck for Yeah, kids sitting on their lap, 446 00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:51.519 don't. We can't have that. So that is a rule. You cannot 447 00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:54.319 dress unless you're after over thirteen, right, But what you're seeing in the 448 00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:59.559 park is they sell a lot of stuff that looks like costumes to you and 449 00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:02.200 me. You can wear a Star Wars cloak and walk around with a lightsaber, 450 00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:07.519 yes, and have all this stuff, but there's a very fine line, 451 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.160 and Disney will tell you when you've reached it, and they'll ask you 452 00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:14.119 to step back out in the parking lot and take some of that stuff to 453 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:19.720 your car. Yeah, that happened a friend of mine's girlfriend who was dressed 454 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:24.400 like I forget the Disney character that is a prostitute, But that's what she 455 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:28.440 that's what she was dressed like, and they told her to get to leave, 456 00:33:29.000 --> 00:33:32.839 and he was offended. I was not allowed in Disneyland. Is there 457 00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:39.079 really a Disney character that's a prostitute? Probably some sex, okay now, 458 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:44.079 but she looked like a prostitute, like maybe like Pinocchio or something like that. 459 00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:46.079 Yeah, it was something. It was something scandalous, but I was 460 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:49.400 kicked out of this. I've told the story before. I was not allowed 461 00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:54.079 in Disneyland because I had dyed hair in about nineteen eighty one. Yeah, 462 00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:58.240 the rules used to be a lot tighter to get into Disneyland. Were there 463 00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:01.279 were hair length rules, there were clothing rules. Yeah, I accepted it. 464 00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:04.279 The guy told me you can't come in here with there like that, 465 00:34:04.400 --> 00:34:06.759 and I go, I go why, And he goes, it's two different 466 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:08.599 colors, and I go, yours is two different colors. It's gray, 467 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:15.360 it's black, there's none on top. What's the problem. And then he's 468 00:34:15.440 --> 00:34:17.000 like, you know what, I'm not going to argue with you. Just 469 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:20.000 get out of here. And I go, what about my parking? I 470 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:22.719 paid for parking? And he reached into his pocket and he pulled out like 471 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:24.519 eighty cents or whatever. It used to cause to park there and he goes 472 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:30.079 here, you go have funny nuts. You're dating yourself. Now, yeah 473 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:35.800 that went straight from you probably get into fady Cent's no problem. But I 474 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:42.280 did get stabbed. I'm just kidding. So they still enforce some clothing rules 475 00:34:42.320 --> 00:34:45.519 of Disneyland. If you walk into the front gate, there's a security guard 476 00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:47.960 walk up to you if you're wearing some death metal shirt that has some curse 477 00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:51.920 words on it. If you're a woman and you're walking with like a bikini 478 00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:53.840 top, they're going to be nope, nope, nope, head back out 479 00:34:53.840 --> 00:34:58.119 to your cargo, get yourself a shirt. There's scams related to that as 480 00:34:58.159 --> 00:35:00.480 well, but we can deal with that another day. About the women to 481 00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:05.199 walk in with a bikini top and then they forced Disneyland to buy them a 482 00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:08.639 shirt. So that was a TikTok TikTok scamp for a while. Okay, 483 00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:13.599 yeah, like watch me force them to buy me a shirt. I don't 484 00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:15.360 have anything else. And they're like, okay, well, here's a coupon 485 00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:20.639 to go get a shirt at you know, the emporium. And they would 486 00:35:20.719 --> 00:35:24.239 like, go buy a a what are they call those jerseys? And like 487 00:35:24.280 --> 00:35:29.320 an eighty dollars t shirt with the ticket that was like a sort of a 488 00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:31.239 TikTok stam out in at disney World for a while, like watch me go 489 00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.960 get free crap from from a from disney World. Here's how I do it. 490 00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:37.320 I walk in in a bikini and they make you put a shirt on. 491 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:45.920 I let's switch gears. And I understand. You went to Disneyland, 492 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.039 I think it was, and you met my aunt Bonnie. I did, 493 00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:52.360 and she wanted me to ask you if you knew a man named Noile It 494 00:35:53.239 --> 00:35:57.239 Yes, I do, and yeah, my aunt Bonnie is the one that 495 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.840 used to work at Disneyland in the seventies, and she should take me with 496 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:05.320 her to work every day and smuggle me in. And then I wander around 497 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:09.920 and then until I somehow got a bunch of a pile of tickets and and 498 00:36:10.159 --> 00:36:14.000 just spent the rest of my time going with my e tickets, going on 499 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:19.119 any ride. Uh and uh. And that's where I got my affinity for 500 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:22.639 Disneyland. Was I spent hours and hours and hours there with that Bonnie. 501 00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:27.400 And Bonnie is referring to the first song I ever wrote. What she always 502 00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.480 talks about. I think she's more proud of me for that than writing as 503 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:35.079 a hit song. For no doubt, she she hummed, she sang a 504 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.199 few bars for me. I was wondering if you could do that for our 505 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.599 listeners. And well it was really just a parody of the Beverly Hillbillies theme 506 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.239 and it went like this will I will. I'm not going to disappoint you, 507 00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:49.360 except for with this song. This is my first song I ever wrote. 508 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:52.079 Let me tell you a story about a man named Noilett took Ellie May, 509 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.519 he flushed her down the toilet. Then one day he was fishing in 510 00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:01.760 the sea. Guess what he caught? Ellie May and pe so at age 511 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:07.360 five, it's not bad. And then one day at the movie theater, 512 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:10.880 Uh, we should go to the movie theater every Saturday and this the host 513 00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:15.199 would go like, hey, kids, how are you? I can't hear 514 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:16.239 you. I was that where I got a big movie coming up today. 515 00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:20.199 Anyone knows a song? And then my brother raises his hand, he goes, 516 00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.760 my my little brother has a song, and he goes, all right, 517 00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:25.840 microphone in my face. And I sang that song and at the end, 518 00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:30.320 I'm telling you in nineteen sixty eight saying the word pe a on a 519 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:35.920 live mic in front of six hundred people. That was that was bad. 520 00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:39.639 That was like they never they never handed that guy learned his lesson. Never 521 00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:44.679 hand a microphone to someone and you don't know what they're gonna sing. Yeah. 522 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.119 Wow, I have to say I love Aunt Bonnie. The other thing 523 00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:51.159 that she talks about, I don't know if you want to talk about here, 524 00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:57.840 was that I oh, managing Sublime, Yeah, managing Sublime. And 525 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.639 that's kind of why I'm just oriented lately, because it's a it's a full 526 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:04.440 time job, it's a it's a big band. It's the son Jacob, 527 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.639 a son of Bradley Noa who's singing. He just killed it at Coachella two 528 00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:13.039 weekends in a row, and now we're going to Orlando this weekend. And 529 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:17.039 it's a big job, but someone has to do it, and everybody's very 530 00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:22.320 happy. It's like spreading joy around with Jacob and Eric and Bud and the 531 00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:30.920 DJ DJ product and Trey Pangborn on guitar, backup guitar. It's just it's 532 00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.079 super fun. But that sounds like a lot of fun. I think I 533 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.079 think people are really gonna be excited to see more of that. Yeah, 534 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:39.320 and more of it is coming. All right, I gotta go. We 535 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:45.599 will, we'll be back next week of course, and thank you Brady, 536 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:46.639 and we'll see you at the parks.