WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:13.640 Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by Hollywood, you meet Burbank and we 2 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:18.879 are back in the studio. Here in the studio with Brady McDonald. This 3 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:24.440 is a special Disneyland and the Other Parks Brady McDonald episode. It's been a 4 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:27.160 long time, Brady, Thanks for coming down, Thanks for having me. 5 00:00:27.239 --> 00:00:30.760 It's good to be back. I want to talk about the perceived or rumored 6 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:34.320 crowd crush that was going to happen at Disneyland. There was, I guess 7 00:00:34.399 --> 00:00:38.200 a letter sent out to all the employees saying there were so many people were 8 00:00:38.200 --> 00:00:41.640 going to come to Disneyland this week that it was going to be insane. 9 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.560 But it didn't seem to be that way when I went there. Yeah, 10 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.679 I was there today, I was there yesterday, and I were write about 11 00:00:48.719 --> 00:00:53.119 it and said that very thing. You know that the Disneyland was warning their 12 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:56.000 cast members, like, you know, for coming down Harbor, they're coming 13 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:59.880 down ball, you know, giving yourselves an extra time to get to work 14 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:06.400 because it's gonna be a ton of people there. The two sort of storms 15 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:11.040 that were brewing was one was they had a slew of one hundred and four 16 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:15.280 dollars tickets the cheapest tickets you can get, so like Monday through Thursday of 17 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:18.000 this week and for the next couple of weeks, why didn't you sign it 18 00:01:18.079 --> 00:01:22.599 in four bucks the cheapest you get in Because it's back to the school time. 19 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:26.799 The summer is not really what we used to think of summer anymore. 20 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:32.159 The real summer is now sort of Halloween and Christmas. And so that's that's 21 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.400 the reason they the distent tickets. And the second thing that was happening was 22 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:40.560 like all these pass holders that had the lower price annual passes, they had 23 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:44.519 been blocked out for most of the summer, and one set of passes came 24 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:47.840 back on Monday this week, and another set is coming back next week. 25 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:52.079 So we were expecting this big crush, and like you said, and like 26 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:53.799 I'm saying, I didn't see it. It didn't happen. I mean, 27 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:57.439 I wasn't there every day, but I mean, you know, the two 28 00:01:57.519 --> 00:02:00.640 days I was there, I was there Tuesday and Wednesday and it wasn't there. 29 00:02:00.480 --> 00:02:04.879 Yeah, And I was there Thursday and product wasn't there. So I 30 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:08.319 think the big message here is like we can't figure out when it's going to 31 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:12.280 be busy at disney Land anymore. Like you don't know, like you can. 32 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.840 You can go on a Tuesday in April and you're like, oh my 33 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:21.080 goodness, what's happened. Yeah, you can go like on July fourth and 34 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:24.879 you're like where are all the people? They just can't figure it out anymore. 35 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:29.439 I've talked to I'm trying to figure it out. But yeah, talked 36 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:37.199 to security and they because my my one secret security connection. He won't break 37 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:43.120 Disney rules for me, but he when you ask him to I do. 38 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:46.599 Oh yeah, well, he complains about his job so much. What do 39 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:50.159 I care if he gets fired. I'm not gonna You know, you're the 40 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:52.560 one that you're the one that says you hate your job. Uh, and 41 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:54.080 they don't pay you, and then when you get hurt, they don't take 42 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.719 care of you. And these guys are always getting fights and then they'll like 43 00:02:58.759 --> 00:03:01.199 go in the hospital and they tell me that Disney won't give them any medical 44 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:07.240 help for their for the after they got beat up by And then they're getting 45 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:15.319 fights with the guests. Yes they're yeah, they're they're fighting that My one 46 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:20.120 sources on YouTube. He's on YouTube all the time, you know, because 47 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:24.000 as soon as the fight breaks out, it's YouTube city. And if I 48 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.960 ask him, I stopped asking him because they just don't know when it's gonna 49 00:03:28.960 --> 00:03:31.400 be crowded. If you to ask them in confidence of your relatives, hey, 50 00:03:31.400 --> 00:03:35.639 hey, what's a good day to go when it's not crowded, they 51 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:40.159 do not know. And then sometimes they'll say it's crowded. More crowded during 52 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:45.159 the week because the prices are cheaper and if you go on the weekend, 53 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:51.120 you might luxuriate with other rich people in shorter lines. But yeah, and 54 00:03:51.159 --> 00:03:54.199 I went both both times, Thursday and Friday. I went during today. 55 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.479 Who knows of like after six o'clock when everybody gets off work the place, 56 00:03:58.560 --> 00:04:00.319 it's just Jim. You don't know, Like you weren't there all day on 57 00:04:00.439 --> 00:04:04.400 Tuesday and Wednesday, so like it could have been crazy earlier. You never 58 00:04:04.439 --> 00:04:09.479 know. The heat seems to be part of it. But yeah, I 59 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.400 had some people cancel, some people cancel on me, just like we were 60 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.399 going to dinner at an undisclosed location in the park and I can't talk about 61 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:21.399 no U And one of my guests, she said, I will meet you 62 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:27.360 at dinner time. I'm not going in that place during the day. So 63 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:31.600 there's there's a little bit of ash. Yeah, but we had a great 64 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:39.839 time, and so I think the less. So when people ask me what's 65 00:04:39.839 --> 00:04:43.560 a good day to go? I say I can't there's no good day, 66 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.160 and you should go on day to go. I mean, and then sort 67 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:51.480 of pre prepared for both circumstances, like you could have a great day er 68 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:56.000 is nobody there, or it might be a mess. But if you're from 69 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.959 around here, you know both situations. And and if it's a if it's 70 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:01.680 it's a great day, enjoy it. If it's a mass, guess what, 71 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:05.040 you can go back back another time. Rights it's one hundred and fifty 72 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.079 bucks, you know, you enjoy yourself. You say that like it's nothing, 73 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:12.839 but my first annual pass was one hundred and twenty five dollars. So 74 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:15.800 oh no, no, I don't say it like it's nothing, But I 75 00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:24.519 say it like for eighteen hours of entertainment is nothing, Like you pay twenty 76 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:26.959 five bucks to go to a two hour movie. Now, like you pay 77 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.920 twelve hundred dollars to go to Taylor Swift. Yeah, I mean, like 78 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.439 one hundred and fifty dollars is a lot of money for some people, but 79 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:39.240 it's not a lot of money for eighteen hours of entertainment. It's just not 80 00:05:40.240 --> 00:05:45.000 it isn't all right, Brady, you're a good ambassador. You make us 81 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:51.319 put it into perspective. Now. The Davy Crockett Canoe Races were just held 82 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:56.000 recently, and I remember talking to some cast members and they're all preparing for 83 00:05:56.040 --> 00:06:00.040 it and going there and it happens before opens up, right, because these 84 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:09.000 guys were practicing before Disneyland opens up and they get up there. Yeah. 85 00:06:09.360 --> 00:06:11.920 Yeah, it's like two months of practicing. And there's some that's it gets 86 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:15.879 pretty serious. I mean, this isn't like the weener dog races. There's 87 00:06:15.879 --> 00:06:18.279 some well the reason it's serious. So there's sort of two groups of people. 88 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:20.240 There are people that are just out there. They have fun and don't 89 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:24.199 know what they're doing right, and they do both of those things right. 90 00:06:24.839 --> 00:06:27.639 And then there are people who are like, we are going to win this 91 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.199 thing. And the people who are like, we're going to win this thing 92 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:34.000 are the ones that will work at David Crockett because their entire reputation is online, 93 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:36.519 right, Like if they don't come in for a second, they they 94 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:42.399 have a varsity and a junior versity team, and they are deadly serious. 95 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:47.000 Like they're winning in five seconds of each other, and they are furious if 96 00:06:47.040 --> 00:06:51.720 they come in first and third or god forbid second and third or something like 97 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:57.839 that. So it's very very serious for them. Well, I would go 98 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:00.560 just to ride the canoes around in practice. That's fun to me. I 99 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.839 would I would get I would almost get a job there just so I could 100 00:07:02.920 --> 00:07:09.160 ride those canoes around by myself and practice. Yeah, it's it's fun and 101 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.519 it is. Frankly, it is the reason some people get a job there. 102 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:15.000 Like there's starting four thousand people that work there. There's going to be 103 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:16.240 a few people that get a job there to be in the canoe races, 104 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:21.120 right, But I was wondering, Yeah, but beyond that, like you 105 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:27.040 know, there's a thousand people that participate in those canoe races participate. There 106 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.560 are eighty four teams, Like there's fifteen or twenty people on each team. 107 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.600 There's a lot of people to do this. And it is like, imagine 108 00:07:35.240 --> 00:07:39.319 this is a perk that you'll get it no other job. What is a 109 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:43.480 job? Let you ride a canoe around a fake river at five o'clock in 110 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:46.959 the morning, right, Like it just doesn't exist. So this is a 111 00:07:46.160 --> 00:07:51.199 bucket list experience that I'm jealous and say I did it. I'm jealous. 112 00:07:51.240 --> 00:07:55.639 There's a guy. There is a guy at Club thirty three that I know 113 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:01.720 about who works on the canoes and he is wealthy. He's a television producer. 114 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.519 I think I don't know him, but you know, I've heard about 115 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:09.120 him. I know of him, and he's he works at the canoes. 116 00:08:09.519 --> 00:08:11.759 I don't know how he juggles his schedule when you know, if he ever 117 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.439 gets a show in production. But man, I kind of envy that guy. 118 00:08:16.560 --> 00:08:20.560 He just goes. He's running around those canoes wearing the Davy Crockett outfit, 119 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:24.720 and then afterwards he goes and has a stiff drink at the club and 120 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:30.600 he's a king. Let me say that the Davy Crockett teams are serious. 121 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:35.639 They work hard and when they win, they celebrate like they've won like the 122 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.279 Stanley Cup or something like that, like it is. They are hoisting the 123 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.600 trophy above their head and pounding their chests. They got war paint on. 124 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:48.120 These guys are all in Oh my god. Yeah, they look like something 125 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.480 out of Apocalypse. Now. If you want to see it, make sure 126 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:58.200 you go to the Register Orange County Register where Brady is the theme park reporter 127 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:01.320 and he has a bunch of articles as a newsletter called park Life, and 128 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:07.120 you can see all the pictures from the Davy Crockett Racist. We're gonna take 129 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:09.360 a break right here and check the traffic. I come back with more. 130 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:15.679 Brady McDonald from the Orange County Register. Hang on there, Joe Ascalante live 131 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:18.799 from Hollywood. We are back and we have Brady McDonald from the Orange County 132 00:09:18.799 --> 00:09:22.559 Register here. He is the theme park reporter. We're talking about Disneyland for 133 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:28.120 you Disney weirdos, and you're you're gonna talk about not Scary Farm a little 134 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:33.639 bit later, and maybe even a little bit of Magic Mountain and Universal Studios. 135 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:37.799 I'm hearing a lot of pushback, Brady on Disney adults. This is 136 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:41.759 a new dirty word, and I get it. I get it, and 137 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:46.320 you know me very cynical. I don't like adults that dress up at Disneyland. 138 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:52.639 I don't like adults that that, you know, abuse the space with 139 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:58.159 their wagons and there their giant strollers. I've got a litany of place. 140 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.519 I got a litany of complaints about the place, security, everything. When 141 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.600 you say dress up, when you say dressed up, you mean like dressing 142 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.480 character costumes. You don't mean like get dressed up fancy and look like like 143 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:15.279 a gentleman like yourself. I dress up like a gentleman as you know these 144 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:20.240 people, these people, Yeah, and you can't say these people, these 145 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:26.759 people, these these these people, you know who I'm talking about. They 146 00:10:28.799 --> 00:10:33.639 are wearing differs, They're dressed like like characters. And I feel like it's 147 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:39.080 like, like, I wouldn't dress like that if I wouldn't I dress like 148 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:41.279 that if I was going to an adult party. But when you're dressed up 149 00:10:41.279 --> 00:10:45.200 like Captain Hook or something and little kids around, they want to like, 150 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:50.799 uh, talk to you, and and it's creepy. So I don't think 151 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:52.240 they should do it for that reason alone. Yeah, I mean there's a 152 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.240 there is a group of people that for every day is it's Halloween, right, 153 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.399 And so for those folks it's fun. You know, they try to 154 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:03.919 get right up to the line of whatever Disney's rules are, undressing like character, 155 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.679 you know, on these after hours and as you can dress literally like 156 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:09.679 the character that you want to dress like something. So for most folks it's 157 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.240 fun. For me personally, I'm like, I don't want a goofy hat 158 00:11:13.399 --> 00:11:16.960 or a Mickey Mouse ears because there's only one place I'm ever going to wear 159 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.440 them, and why would I wear them twice? Right? Like, that's 160 00:11:20.679 --> 00:11:24.039 when I see the big goofy hat, that's I'm like, where are you 161 00:11:24.039 --> 00:11:26.799 going to wear that? Unless you're going to a rave? And then that's 162 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:28.720 probably the worst hat you wear a rave because everyone knows where you got it. 163 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:35.919 But you and I are are the same because we go to Disneyland a 164 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.679 lot. But I wouldn't. I would not call either one of us disney 165 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.799 adults in the in the pejorative term. But where we are any I'm adulting 166 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.519 now, I'm no more adulting shirts or whatever that is. I mean, 167 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.559 but here we are talking about you. I win Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 168 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:56.240 Thursday. So it's kind of hard to pretend there's something. It's always interesting 169 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:00.440 to talk to people about how much they don't love Disneyland. You talk to 170 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:01.360 them for an hour and a half fro about Disneyland, and you're like, 171 00:12:01.480 --> 00:12:05.360 yeah, I mean I love Disneyland. I love all the parks. I 172 00:12:05.360 --> 00:12:07.720 mean, I have the greatest job in the world. I agree, but 173 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.480 but I still sort of like, I still sort of draw the line and 174 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:16.279 say, you know, here's here's where I'm willing to go to. I 175 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:20.600 do love seeing the kids having a great time and they're dressed up and they're 176 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:24.279 blowing the bubbles and running around bubbles. I love the bubbles and enjoyment. 177 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:28.240 The bubbles are so magical. I mean, I know it's cliche to say 178 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.399 magical. It doesn'tland, but the pet is it is truly magical. Sea 179 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:35.360 bubbles floating across there and guess what, much like the silly hat or the 180 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.639 crazy costume, there's very few places in this world where you see bubbles floating 181 00:12:39.679 --> 00:12:43.399 around and it just makes you smile. You know, they have next level 182 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.840 bubble technology for sure. So yeah, I mean I love it. I 183 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:52.960 love it. But and when but we want to be still love to complain 184 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:56.360 about it though I do? But so why I bring you on because you 185 00:12:56.399 --> 00:13:03.759 help my listeners have a better time at disney Land and or at California Venture. 186 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.639 We haven't been talking about California Adventure. Let's skip over to California Adventure. 187 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.360 Is there anything new going on there? What's what's the what's the latest 188 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.840 over there? How are the crowds? Well? I was there today, 189 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:20.279 I was there for this Disney Junior Festival. It was more like a marketing 190 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:24.840 thing than anything else. But you know what we're about to slip into it 191 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.159 at California Venture, like Lewis Earland next week, is we're about to move 192 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.720 into festival season. And if you think about it, I mean Ugie Boogie 193 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:35.759 Bash and Christmas and then all the stuff that goes was sort of January to 194 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.720 April, you know, literal a year and all that the festival seasons about 195 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:43.759 to start at Disneyland and at California Adventure. And so for me, California 196 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:48.720 Venture is sort of the Florida equivalent of Epcot, right, Like, yeah, 197 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:50.799 it is the place where you go to sort of drank, have fun 198 00:13:50.879 --> 00:13:54.240 and eat us a little better food. I mean, it wasn't envisioned at 199 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:58.720 the beginning twenty plus years ago. It was sort of the forgive me for 200 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.200 saying at the adult park, right it was the place where you were going 201 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.399 to go and hang out and have Wolfgang Puck food or something like that Mandhabi 202 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.919 wine that all failed in the first year. But it is sort of getting 203 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:15.919 back to that a little bit. And you know, I mean it's not 204 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.440 quite Disney win End level in terms of attendance and or attractions, but in 205 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:26.559 terms of food and drinks and fun and sort of parties, if you will, 206 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:28.759 festivals, it is sort of the place to be. And it's that's 207 00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:33.120 just about the start again. I mean, Ogie Boogie Bash sold out in 208 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:35.679 one day. I've never been to the Ogi Boogie Bash. I don't have 209 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:39.639 a strong desire to go to it, but my wife does then and by 210 00:14:39.639 --> 00:14:43.600 the time we know that it's happening, it's sold out. Yeah, And 211 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:48.480 for me, I just don't understand any of the after our events. I 212 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:50.759 mean, who wants to spend one hundred and fifty dollars to go take pictures 213 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.320 with characters where you stand in line for forty five minutes to for a photo. 214 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.120 Yeah, I mean it just doesn't make me sense to me. But 215 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.879 it doesn't matter if it makes it's filmo. It's folded up, it's sold 216 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.200 out in a day, And so this is what the audience cares about, 217 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:07.840 and this is what I'm writing about, because yeah, people get people, 218 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:11.559 and yeah, it could be worse. There could be worse kinds of people. 219 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:16.159 There are people going into Nordstrum and stealing all the bags. You know, 220 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:20.120 I don't understand those people. Either these people are waiting forty five minutes 221 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:26.639 for an Instagram moment and when they could be running around and they're just waiting 222 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.840 and waiting and waiting in those things what I understand, So I'm not there's 223 00:15:30.840 --> 00:15:33.240 some things going on to this music and stuff. But it is always curious 224 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:35.919 to me. It's like, Wow, I can understand paying one hundred and 225 00:15:35.919 --> 00:15:41.080 fifty bucks for seventy five rys. I can't take photos with a bunch of 226 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:45.559 characters, But what about what's the Sam Francisco kio, Sam franci okio? 227 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:48.879 What is that? It sounds racist, but maybe I'm gone. I don't 228 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:56.639 know why. I suppose anything's possible, but it's not. It's basically the 229 00:15:56.679 --> 00:16:03.200 Big Hero sixth movie. They're doing an overlay of food court of Yeah, 230 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:08.559 yeah, I see. It's a fun movie. So the conceit of it 231 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:12.879 is that I'm back in whatever whenever the earthquake was nineteen o two nineteen o 232 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:19.600 six, the city of San Francisco or someplace like that sort of merged with 233 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:26.759 the city of Tokyoko. It's not clear to me whether like it's the separate 234 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:30.600 city or if it's like the city of San Francisco. But but part of 235 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:34.840 it, and this is you know what would have been like the Japanese workers 236 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:38.080 that were there, they had sort of ended up having a larger influence on 237 00:16:38.200 --> 00:16:44.679 rebuilding the city after the earthquake. So that's where the name came from, 238 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:48.639 and that's where the sort of the visual look of the movie came from. 239 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.639 And so they're taking that and they're running with it as a theme for the 240 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:57.039 Pacific Wharf, which I was just called like the food court of California Adventure. 241 00:16:57.360 --> 00:17:03.039 There's like three or four restaurant including uh An, the Asian restaurant, 242 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:08.079 and Mexican restaurant, and so there is sort of these three cultures colliding there 243 00:17:08.960 --> 00:17:18.119 sort of Mexican Japanese slash Asian and then San Francisco. Saint Francis was an 244 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:22.480 Italian Have they addressed that yet? We get to ask about that, but 245 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:26.400 there is not an Italian restaurant, all right, So Big Hero six, 246 00:17:26.400 --> 00:17:30.759 So when you go when you hear the San Francisoccio, it's a place in 247 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:34.839 California Adventure that is themed from sort of by Big Hero six. So I 248 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.119 guess you gotta see the movie. It sounds like a good movie. I 249 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.400 didn't see it. I don't see every once in a while one slips through 250 00:17:41.400 --> 00:17:45.720 the cracks. I did see the Haunted Mansion movie, and I will give 251 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:49.279 you my review on the Haunted Mansion movie, Brady. When when we returned 252 00:17:49.359 --> 00:17:53.359 after this break, you're listening to Joyce Galante Live from Hollywood, speaking with 253 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:57.480 Brady McDonald, the theme park reporter the Orange County Registered. Make sure you 254 00:17:57.519 --> 00:18:03.359 get this Park Life newsletter and you'll be set for all the parks instead of 255 00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:10.880 California. So back up for this Joe Escalante Live from Hollywood. If by 256 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:15.839 Hollywood, you meet Burbank and we are back in the studio here with Brady 257 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:19.839 McDonald, the theme park reporter from the Orange County Register, and we're talking 258 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:25.160 about Disneyland and other parks like we like to do and catch up. Yeah, 259 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:26.920 you were going to give us a review of the Haunted Mansion movie. 260 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:33.079 Yeah, the Haunted Mansion movie. So, the Haunted Mansion Movie. I 261 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:36.200 watched it, and I thought it was pretty good. I enjoyed it. 262 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:38.599 But I enjoyed the Eddie Murphy on a Mansied movie too. I like that 263 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:41.200 one, really, you do? Yeah? Yeah, I like that. 264 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:44.519 Hey, Murphy's funny it was funny, I thought, I thought was I 265 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:48.079 mean, maybe if I rewatched it, maybe I'm smarter now or more sophisticated. 266 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:52.559 But I remember liking it. I liked this movie. I liked this 267 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.960 movie better. It was good and good enough, and it really was true 268 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:00.519 to the esthetic of the Haunted Mansion. You were, I feel like you're 269 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:06.559 in the Haunted Mansion. And but then when I read that there was a 270 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:08.960 Guiermo del Toro script that didn't get made because it was two out there, 271 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:15.480 I wanted to go and find the person who squashed that project in favor of 272 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:18.440 this project. And I wanted to punch that person. And I haven't I 273 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:25.039 haven't wanted to punch anybody in in days. So who is this guy, 274 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:27.319 Brady? Do you do you know who this guy is or this woman? 275 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:33.119 And how can we how you can find them? How do we destroy their 276 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:34.599 career? Well, I mean, so it is one of those you know, 277 00:19:34.599 --> 00:19:38.079 there's a bunch of things that have been there's a bunch of attractions, 278 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:41.400 whether you know ever since you know Pirates of the Caribbean, everybody's gonna got 279 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:45.559 an idea of how to remake a ride into a movie and turn it into 280 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:49.319 a franchise, and so this is one of those movies that has bounced around 281 00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:53.480 for a long time, has been with different stars, has been with different 282 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:59.240 directors, and this is one finally got made and it seems to be doing 283 00:19:59.519 --> 00:20:04.920 pretty well, I mean good enough. I think I think it. I 284 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:08.480 think I think the reviews are are okay, but the the ticket sales. 285 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:15.359 Here's my point. It was a pretty milk toast compared to something that Gammel 286 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.720 Del Toro could do. And then you look at the Barbie movie where they 287 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.359 really pushed the envelope. They did like that person would have rejected the Barbie 288 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:25.880 script, and the Barbie script over at Mattel, they took a giant risk 289 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.599 with this weird, out there script that makes fun of Mattel. It makes 290 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.440 fun of men, it makes fun of women, it makes fun of all 291 00:20:33.440 --> 00:20:38.319 the gender roles. It's just crazy and it's hilarious and it looks beautiful, 292 00:20:38.960 --> 00:20:47.400 and they would have rejected it's it's and it's making over a billion dollars and 293 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:49.599 it's still like making like three million a day or something. But and there's 294 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:52.359 going to be another Barbie movie. I think it's a Ken movie. I 295 00:20:52.440 --> 00:21:00.519 think can deserves a movie, but it was So whoever is whoever rejected the 296 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:04.400 Gammel doltoral script for those reasons, if those are the true reasons that it 297 00:21:04.440 --> 00:21:07.400 was out there and to you know, pushing the envelope, that person should 298 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.759 have his face rubbed in the box office of Barbie for a long time until 299 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:17.960 that person learns their lesson. So yeah, because clearly Disney was doing us 300 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:21.480 to start trying to start a franchise, right, and so you need a 301 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:23.799 good start to do that, and you need to be slightly bold, which 302 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:27.039 was what Pirates was. I mean, you look at Pirates now and all 303 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:30.000 you can think it was the billions that's made in the Giant Depp and all 304 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.599 that. But when it came out, when it first came out, it 305 00:21:33.680 --> 00:21:37.480 was pretty risky because they weren't making movies about rides, right, Like they're 306 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.799 like, what are you doing. You're making a pirate movie. We don't 307 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:45.559 make pirate movies anymore, right, if you lost your mind, yeah, 308 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.000 well they were crazy, Yeah, but that was a thrilling movie. Thrilling. 309 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:52.960 It was a thrilling movie. And if they said the same thing about 310 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:55.319 how to Mansion right now, we'd be talking about what I did it was 311 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:56.519 and how great it was, Like they said, it was crazy, I'm 312 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.920 never gonna work and it probably wouldn't. This probably would have work. But 313 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:03.279 you know, this was pretty much what everybody expected. Like you said, 314 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:08.039 milk twe milk toast and and good enough And that's not really what you start 315 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:14.480 a franchise with. You gotta you have to be boulder a risk. Yeah, 316 00:22:14.640 --> 00:22:18.160 so it just see that's what I'm Although I liked it, I'm glad 317 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:22.119 I saw it. I let me ask you this, would you want to 318 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:27.920 see like Jamie Lee Curtis's head floating and the Madam Leota, magic Ball and 319 00:22:27.960 --> 00:22:33.799 Disneyland? You want to see them sort of remake the Disneyland attraction and then 320 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.880 the vein of the movie, Like I think people would lose their mind if 321 00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:38.559 they did that. No, I don't want I mean, you know, 322 00:22:40.279 --> 00:22:45.400 don't change anything, is what I'm seeing. Never whatever you're doing, whatever 323 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.640 you're doing, don't change it. Just don't. Just wait a little bit 324 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:51.680 and it'll be kitchi, you know, just you don't need to change, 325 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:56.079 it'll be historic. Let's have your storic and kitchi. And yeah, I 326 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:02.119 mean it reminds me of I have a question for you. You know how 327 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:07.720 their name tags on the Disney employees, Yeah, how they used to have 328 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:11.880 where they're from. And that was really cool because you could see someone and 329 00:23:11.920 --> 00:23:15.880 it would say I'm from Hawaiian Gardens and you're like, Wow, that's cool. 330 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.119 That's that's a cool place to be from. Or I'm from Copenhagen. 331 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:22.400 Oh how how how great? I was going to say, how do you 332 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:26.799 do in Dutch? But I don't know how to say it? And then 333 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:33.079 now they just they they they have their favorite Disney character under their name, 334 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:37.160 yeah, which I think is sometimes interesting. Like if it's you know, 335 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:41.640 if it's just some basic character, it's not interesting and it might be even 336 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:48.000 confusing. But you know, if it's something people I find those interesting, 337 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.680 that's a conversation starter. Just as much as you're from Hawaiian Gardens or Copenhagen. 338 00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:56.200 You know, I think it's a conversation starter. I also gonna have 339 00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:00.359 to agree to disagree on this one, Grady. The other good part is 340 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:04.039 like it'll be over at the end of the dish. Okay, it's a 341 00:24:04.119 --> 00:24:07.359 hundred year thing. Okay. Good Because I saw this one guy and his 342 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.640 character under his name was Uncle Remus, and I just thought that was offensive, 343 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:17.680 and I lodged the complaint so they did not did not say Uncle Remus 344 00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:22.160 underneath his name. I guarantee that there are a number of names that you 345 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:26.680 can't get. No, I heard there's a list. There's a list. 346 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.480 There is a list of you to pick for the list, and some of 347 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.519 them there are other thousands of names on the list, but there's a list 348 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:36.759 of also of like the names you can't get. And a lot of times 349 00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:41.319 it has to do with some sort of copyright that Disney doesn't quite have complete 350 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:44.720 hold of. And sometimes it's like an Uncle Remus. I'm thinking like, 351 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:48.279 no, no, no, we're not gonnact. I'm not gonna let you 352 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:53.359 do that. But they call that a rear window problem. Sometimes when you 353 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:57.920 have the rights, you got the rights at the beginning of it all, 354 00:24:57.960 --> 00:25:02.680 but then over time you lost some of the rights to like maybe the underlying 355 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:07.559 story, to the to the to the descendants of the whoever wrote the Rear 356 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:11.079 Window that Hitchcock movie, and and that person is sitting around going, well, 357 00:25:11.240 --> 00:25:14.759 guess what, I don't want you to release that movie again because the 358 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:18.119 rights lapsed, and my lawyer is would like a big pile of money. 359 00:25:18.880 --> 00:25:22.279 Yeah. The one that I heard that you can't get a name tag for 360 00:25:22.400 --> 00:25:26.759 is any sort of nightmare for Christmas characters. Some I'm imagining that's tied up 361 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:30.599 with Burton and everything. And then the other thing that was interesting is you 362 00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:36.960 can get some of it, but not all the seven Dwarfs. Okay, 363 00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.720 I guess yeah. I don't thinking good dope, dope. Yeah, I 364 00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:41.680 mean everyone would want to be dope and sleepy. I don't think you can 365 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:47.680 get those. Yeah, that doesn't. That doesn't inspire confidence. When the 366 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:52.599 guy who's running the uh to the ride the roller coaster's name is sleepy. 367 00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:56.359 Sometimes the lawyers might have gotten involved. Oh my gosh, Okay, what's 368 00:25:56.400 --> 00:25:59.680 going on. We've got a few minutes left in this, like a minute 369 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:02.559 left in the segment. What's going on with Tianna's thing? I heard the 370 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:04.119 unveiled it. I was just there like two days ago. I didn't see 371 00:26:04.119 --> 00:26:07.039 it. It was I missed. No, no, no, it's going 372 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:08.839 to be unveiled September seven, So they're getting ready to unveil it. I 373 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:14.400 think I'm going to a media preview next week to try the food. It 374 00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:15.799 looks pretty nice. It looks like it's pretty much done. The tables and 375 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:19.119 chairs are already sitting there, so they're ready to go. I'm sure they're 376 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:23.640 just in test and adjustmentde and you know, we'll see it pretty soon. 377 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:27.640 It could even soft open if it's ready. But September seventh is the date 378 00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:32.640 for that, so you know, we'll see how much they change it up 379 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:36.359 and how much. It's just like every other New Orleans Square restaurant. Tiana 380 00:26:36.480 --> 00:26:38.279 is not going to be there. It's just it's just going to be her 381 00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:42.000 place. She's going to be on wandering around New Orleans Square, but she's 382 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:48.000 not going to be a character inside of the restaurant. It's not like character 383 00:26:48.079 --> 00:26:52.400 dining. Okay, and that used to be. That's what it used to 384 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.240 be. What was it? What was it? Oh? Was it the 385 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:00.680 market? French Market? French Market? Yeah, okay, I've an open 386 00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:03.519 I've an open mind to that. Yeah. And I think what you like 387 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.400 about it is there, you know the stage that was there. I think 388 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:10.240 it's gonna be dual sided stage, so you're gonna get a little bit more 389 00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:14.240 opportunity for entertainment. I think you'll like that. I like it. I 390 00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:18.599 think that's my my destiny and my retirement. Maybe I was thinking I was 391 00:27:18.640 --> 00:27:21.359 going to ride the Columbia boat around from my job that I pick out for 392 00:27:21.440 --> 00:27:26.480 myself and pretend that I can have it, the ride the boat around the 393 00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:30.039 Tompster's Island. But maybe I'll just play stand up base in one of those. 394 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:33.279 Yeah, you could be like a bootstep for stand up base too, 395 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.599 but you have to get a little wheels for the bottom of your stand up 396 00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:40.839 based you could roll it around Disneyland. Well, I mean that reminds me 397 00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:45.240 of Woody Allen playing the sallow in the Marching Band on that movie. Take 398 00:27:45.319 --> 00:27:48.640 the Money and Run So fond Memories. I'm gonna take a break and wh're 399 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:51.920 gonna come back. We got one more segment with Brady McDonald from the Orange 400 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:55.559 County Register talking about Disneyland. We're gonna talk a little not scary farm coming 401 00:27:55.599 --> 00:28:02.519 up next. Okay, you know what I'm I'm done with my zoom, 402 00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:04.960 so I'm gonna I'm gonna make a new segment and call you back. I 403 00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:07.119 think that works all. Yeah, it texted to me because I'm using my 404 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:37.839 phone. Okay, Joe Escalante, you don't want do Escalante Live from Hollywood. 405 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:42.400 We are back talking to Brady McDonald from the Orange County Register about Disneyland, 406 00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:47.680 and this is an update that it's been a long time coming. Brady, 407 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.599 thanks again for coming with us. We got one more segment and Uh, 408 00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:55.799 one thing I wanted to ask you about is when I go to Disneyland. 409 00:28:55.839 --> 00:29:03.640 There's a part of when you go to all right Tomorrow adventure Land from 410 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.640 Main Street. They've got it all blocked up in a big in a tiny 411 00:29:07.680 --> 00:29:11.680 funnel. And that's why I know it's not that crowdy, because in one 412 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:15.599 of those crowded days, that would be a hellscape. But there's a do 413 00:29:15.680 --> 00:29:18.839 you imagine it actually getting stuck up with people? Yeah, I mean I 414 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:23.119 people jammed in there. Yeah, and in ninety eight degrees, a couple 415 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:30.440 of wheelchairs and a so what's going on there? What happened? So you 416 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:33.480 know, Disneyland was built in nineteen fifty five, right, and it still 417 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.200 got some pipes on her name of it from nineteen fifty five. And if 418 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.519 you were to do an X ray of Disneyland, they just you know, 419 00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:41.960 it was built exactly the way you think. It was right on top of 420 00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:45.319 each other, over and over and over again. So there's pipes from the 421 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.039 fifties, sixties, seventies, eighties and nineties, Oh my gosh. And 422 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.039 so yeah, and it's a mess, you know, And so this kind 423 00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:55.640 of happens every once in a while. This one. The way that this 424 00:29:55.640 --> 00:30:00.599 one happened, it just kept growing in the wrong place, right, And 425 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:06.279 so it's the eventual land bathrooms there that we all know. It looks like 426 00:30:06.480 --> 00:30:11.640 they're pretty close to wrapping it up. They've laid the frames for the support 427 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.200 the cement, so you know, it looks like probably pretty soon that'll be 428 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:19.160 over. But the reality is, and the fact is it's going to happen 429 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.359 again, right, Like disney Land is not digging up everything and starting over 430 00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:29.160 with plumbing. You're dealing with seventy year old plumbing patching things here and there. 431 00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.160 Is it when you say it's growing, was it a pipe growing? 432 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:36.440 Was it a tree trunk? Now? The projects kept growing, right, 433 00:30:36.480 --> 00:30:38.759 Okay, they kept fighting the pipe and then they're like, we need to 434 00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:41.960 go further up stream. And so that's what ended up happening, was like 435 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:48.720 it's just kept expanding. The problem expanded grew, So I can imagine the 436 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:53.880 I like to visualize the lead plumbing guy there just going just the king. 437 00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:59.000 You know you want me to, you want me to prevent crap from blowing 438 00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:06.799 all over this adventure land. Do what I say. The conversation had to 439 00:31:06.799 --> 00:31:08.319 go, do you want to fix the problem we have right now or do 440 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.920 you want to fix the problem we're gonna have like in six months, Like 441 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.480 do you want to do this again? Or do you just want to a 442 00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:18.680 band aid? Or do you want surgery? And they're like, oh God, 443 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:21.759 I guess we're going to have to do the surgery right in the middle 444 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.880 of summer. Blocking off essentially one interest to one of the layouts. Now, 445 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:30.039 there's a lot of places in Disneyland that's stink from stuff under the ground. 446 00:31:30.079 --> 00:31:33.960 There's there's one place that smells good right by the ice cream place, 447 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:37.920 but there's a lot of places that are stinking. Are you gonna end to 448 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:42.640 deny that? Well, I'm gonna say you might have a more sensitive nose 449 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:45.880 than me. And it's all particular about that kind of stuff. Well, 450 00:31:45.880 --> 00:31:48.400 there's places that where you just go, what's what is that? What was 451 00:31:48.440 --> 00:31:53.680 that? What was it? In its underground stuff infrastructure? It happens there's 452 00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:56.279 a place in Seal Beach like that on the corner of Seal Beach Boulevard and 453 00:31:56.279 --> 00:32:04.200 Westminster Avenue. She smells like Calcutta. That'd be a great new land for 454 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:10.759 Disneyland. Calcutta with the natural authentic smells. Oh oh well they have they 455 00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:15.599 have. It does exist somewhere, you know sometimes right now since heal beach. 456 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:19.839 Okay, what about let's go over to Knotsbury Farm and let's briefly, 457 00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:23.680 uh, give a preview of what of not Scary Farm that's coming up that's 458 00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:30.519 epic, and then we have all the pretenders to the to the Scary park 459 00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:36.200 throne that try to compete and you can tell us how they're doing. Yeah. 460 00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:39.680 So Knats is getting ready to announce their lineup next week, going on 461 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:45.680 our media event for that next week, and it's their fiftieth anniversary. They 462 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:52.119 are the oldest first parked ever to this Halloween thing that is now literally around 463 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.160 the world parks do this. I mean Disneyland literally learned it from knots They 464 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.480 went over there one Halloween and they're like, oh my god, those guys 465 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:04.079 are printing money. We could do that over here our own way that's to 466 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.200 be empty on Halloween. It used to be where you could go and waiting, 467 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:12.839 no line, zero line, nothing exactly. And so now now at 468 00:33:12.880 --> 00:33:17.359 Disneyland, it's a two month you know, Uly holiday festival, right and 469 00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:22.720 it is one of the for for most of these parks. It's probably the 470 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:27.680 most profitable time of the year. Universal calls it the thirteenth month of the 471 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:32.920 year because they make two times as much money in October too everywhere else because 472 00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:37.640 if you think about it, they're charging a mission twice. They're letting everybody 473 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.079 in from eight am to six pm, and then they charge essentially the same 474 00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:44.599 emission from like say six to midnight or one am or two am, so 475 00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:49.839 they get to charge and mission twice. It is incredibly profitable for these guys, 476 00:33:50.839 --> 00:33:53.519 and it is it is the new summer, right like this is this 477 00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:59.559 is the busiest time of year for these parks. Natzis seems to be looks 478 00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:04.599 like they're to be going all in this year. To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary, 479 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:13.920 they've promised nons back to you know, mazes and haunts and scare zones 480 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.960 from the last fifty years. So if you went forty years ago, thirty 481 00:34:19.039 --> 00:34:21.719 years ago, when you were a kid like oh, I always wanted to 482 00:34:21.760 --> 00:34:24.760 see such and such again, you know, it'll probably be there this year. 483 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:30.239 And if you were Man Jack, be happy, Wolfman Jack and Wolfman 484 00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:37.400 back, I'll virus or I don't care. Yeah, So that that that'll 485 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.960 be this year, and it should be fun. It should be crowded and 486 00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.400 crazy, but it should be a great trip down memory lane. And and 487 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:50.719 they are the forebearers of all this that you know, every other park benefits 488 00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:52.920 from that. I'm gonna go. I went the I used to think I 489 00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:57.840 went on the first year, but because I'd never heard of it before. 490 00:34:58.039 --> 00:34:59.639 But when I do the math, I go, oh, no, I 491 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:01.360 didn't go until the second year. So I my first year was the second 492 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:06.559 year. And yeah, the first year was pretty slim, I think. 493 00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:09.360 I don't think it was. I don't know that they even knew they were 494 00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:13.239 doing it. Yeah, right, that's what I imagined. By the second 495 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:15.159 year, they knew they were doing it, and there was ads in the 496 00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:22.440 paper and they had Wolfman bug Uh and him and he was you know, 497 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:28.440 that was just what a great celebrity or Seymour. It might have been Seymour. 498 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:30.119 They had the first year, and Seymour was in there very early. 499 00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:36.920 Yes, Salvi was there for a long time. Yeah, so they're gonna 500 00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:39.599 I think I think they'll pay tribute to all that kind of stuff, and 501 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:43.360 it should be a lot of fun. It would be a great opportunity, 502 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:45.519 particularly if you were, like, you know, a parent and you want 503 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.039 to take your kid to this thing. They're like, you know, a 504 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:51.719 teenager and you're like, look, oh, this is what it was like 505 00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:52.880 when I did it, and I get to do this thing that now that 506 00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.639 the way you guys do it. So it's sort of a good generational fun. 507 00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.800 They should have a Misfits tribute band or the Misfits. I mean how 508 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:06.559 expensive connecting? Uh well, I mean you find it. Yeah, And 509 00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:08.079 I do know. I do know. I do know that because I've been 510 00:36:08.440 --> 00:36:14.760 I've been offered money by by that park for for for performing, and they're 511 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:19.280 they're not in the high dollar world, but you know, maybe they don't 512 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:22.719 need to be. So what Okay, So what do we what can we 513 00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:28.480 expect from Magic Mountain? Magic Mountain is going in a slightly different direction this 514 00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.519 year. They're kind of taking on a universal a little bit, which is 515 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.559 pretty bold, and they're gonna do a Hollywood horror movies, a couple of 516 00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.639 them. They're doing a saw and they're doing conjuring, and so that wought 517 00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:44.480 to be interesting. The thing that we're going to want movie, I'll see 518 00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.480 that you get the rights to it. They might be able to because Disney 519 00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:52.079 is never gonna use it. That would be really interesting. To have Hannah 520 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:58.199 Mansion the Universal or something like that would be fantastic. But the big question 521 00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:00.800 will be whether it's six Flags spends them on a hair sort of keep up 522 00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.800 with the Universal. Remember they were having that Goth fastin and then they then 523 00:37:04.800 --> 00:37:07.960 they abandoned it, they pulled the plug. I think it was more about 524 00:37:07.960 --> 00:37:13.199 the Goth fast folks. I think they had some issues. Yeah, well, 525 00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:15.400 you know, there's a lot of Satanism in that world. Just kidding. 526 00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:19.079 I don't know anything about goth people. I don't want to get a 527 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:21.679 bunch of letters from goth people, as if I ever got a letter ones 528 00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:27.280 from the show. Do people still write letters? I don't know. Yeah, 529 00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.199 they get they get very uh get their quill out and their ink path 530 00:37:30.280 --> 00:37:37.760 their ink uh well, and and they write me nasty missives. Okay, 531 00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:42.400 anything else we're missing that we didn't talk about. I got about thirty seconds 532 00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:45.960 now and we are heading in the Halloween. So this is the big so 533 00:37:46.239 --> 00:37:51.639 like the beginning of quote unquote summer for for those folks, and it is 534 00:37:51.760 --> 00:37:54.000 going to be a busy and it's going to be a big year for how 535 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:58.239 it's going to be. Your tickets, get your you can't go too but 536 00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:00.719 gay tickets are not scary farm and then you probably can still get tickets to 537 00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:05.239 the other ones. Right, yeah, your tickets too long? Okay, 538 00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:12.000 all right, Rady McDonald the Orange County Register, Jowisco Wante signing off, 539 00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.880 I now leave you with just a taste of the great song you ever written.