Hello and good morning, Arian. How are you doing today? Hi,
I'm doing well. I just want to say, you've got such a cool
name. Well it's not a Disney name, but it is a radio created
name, because you know, in radio we're trying to do everything we can
to to be noticed. But the problem is though program directors didn't like it
because they thought, are you saying, Earl Errol Harold, what's your name
again? Oh? I'm looking at it written down? It looks so cool.
Hey, speaking speaking of cool, this book, I first of all,
you've got to understand that for the past year and a half I've been
collecting everything Disney one hundred and so when this book arrived, I was a
kid in a candy store. Is like, no, this is amazing.
What are some of your favorite fashionts? Well, one of my things.
First of all, I did not know that snow White is the only Disney
princess that has a star. When I came across that, I'm going,
well, of course she does. Of course she does. She has to.
But it was such a shock because I didn't realize that anime could have
its own star. Yeah, isn't that incredible? There there are so many
facts in this book. You know, as we were putting this together,
we you know, we I'll give you an example, like our photo editor
for the book, she's a huge fan of Disney, and so even she
would like discovering things that are that are totally new. And you know,
we thought that, you know, because fans of Disney, they know Disney
in and out, and so we were like, oh, is they gonna
be really hard to put to get their three hundred wow worthy facts you know
that people don't already know. And we were so shocked that no, like,
there's so much content. Disney's been around for so long, They've created
so many movies, and they've got the parks and everything, and they're all
these little hidden things in the parks. I mean, we were shocked at
how much information, like how many nuggets of information we're totally wowworthy. That
surprised all of us. And you know, I feel like there's enough content
to even make like a weird rich to Disney too, because there's just so
much wow worthy stuff. Well, one thing that he is not hidden in
the park is in Dubai, and that is that six story tall Mickey Mouse.
Yeah, there there are so many things even around the world. You
know, I think, you know, if a kid wanted to bring this
book with them to like one of the Disney parks, I think they'd have
a really great time just finding the little nuggets of information, just find the
real, the real life thing that we're talking about in the book. You
know, for example, I don't know if people know this, but there
are manatees at Epcot at the Nemo and Sees exhibits, and they eat about
one hundred heads of lettuce a day. So you could actually go there see
the manatees. Look at them from above. They're just bobbing in the water,
and you can you know, if you happen to be there while the
keepers are feeding them, they'll probably see them bobbing around among you know,
tons of heads of lettuce and they're just slowly munching on them. And we've
got facts like that in there, and a you know, a beautiful image
of a manatee. It's they're just so many cool and just so many things
where I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot. There are animals
that have caught and you know obviously there's you know, animal Kingdom as well.
There are tons of backs in here about that, So there really was
like an organic partnership with Disney and National Geographic Hits. Now, one thing
that I didn't see in this one, but man, I wish you would
do it in the next one, is that I just learned recently that Disney
wanted to have a Winter Wonder Park in California but couldn't go through it because
people were protesting it. And I thought, wow, that would still be
so much fun to have a place where I can go ski you with the
mouse. Well, well, I'll bring it up at our next meeting.
We can make it happen. I'm a daily writer, so when you bring
up subjects such as pencils or anything that has to do with even doodling,
seventy thousand pencils were used for the artwork of Hunchback. Oh my god.
I mean that just blows me away, Oh my goodness. And there's another
fact in the book that's the animated dogs and one hundred in Dalmatians bort a
total of oh my gosh, over six million spots. Wow. And I
think it just goes to show like the incredible lengths these animators have gone to
and go to to get every scene just right and to to you know,
make everything just so beautiful and so realistic. You know. Another fact in
the book is about how the creators, the filmmakers have Frozen. They actually
met with a NASA scientist because nicknamed Doctor Snow, to learn how snowflakes form.
So it's not even just to look at snowflakes so that they could copy
them for the scenes. I mean, they wanted to know how they actually
form. And to me, that just shows the incredible lengths to which these
creators go to to make everything seem super realistic. Look at what they did
with Nemo. They actually took up scuba lessons, yes exactly, and pour
them on the filmmakers of of Rat Tattooy. They had to actually create and
eat all the delicious recipes that are in that movie. Now, one of
the most famous sidekicks ever has always been Donal Donald Duck. I mean,
not only does he have an asteroid named after him, but I just learned
because of your book that is middle name is Fautler Roy. Yeah, yes,
he has a middle name. And you know, I don't know if
others know this, but there you know, there are three if you go
to Hunt and Mansion, there are three ghosts that you know, as you
go through the ride, you'll see they're trying to like they're trying to hitchhike.
They're they're just you know, trying to hitch a ride as you go
through. And they actually have names as well, which is really interesting to
me. Parents need to understand this book. First of all, it's for
every age group. But I think one of the most one of the greatest
decisions you guys did in this book was to put a section in there about
the Liberty Bill that even though it is a replica that but but it's still
from the same cast I mean, And that to me is very special because
man, I was here in nineteen seventy six when we celebrated the two hundredth
anniversary and that bell was on the Freedom Train. So when I saw that,
that really warmed my heart. Yeah, you know, it's amazing.
There's so much planning and so many details that went into the Disney parks,
and that was something that you know, we on the Natio Kids side,
we uncovered as we were putting this book together. And you know, I
think a lot of people they go through the parks and some of them may
be aware of this, and some of them may not be. But you
know, the factory referencing the replica of the Liberty Bell in Liberty Square at
the Magic Kingdom was built from the same cast as the original, you know,
and there really are just like these nods to actual to real American history.
And you know, there's another fact in the book. I don't know
if I can find it, but it's about the land terms and I think
Liberty Square, like there are thirteen of them to represent the original thirteen colonies.
So you know, there are these little nods to to American history throughout
the parks and and it's just, you know, incredible how much planning went
into all of them. Now, because you've teamed up with National Geo,
is there a website where readers can go, because you know they're going to
go through this book and then they're going to want more, more, more
more more. Yeah. I mean, you know, kids can definitely,
you know, with with their parents, I can definitely go to kids dot
National Geographic dot com. You know, I I think, you know,
if they want to get a copy of the book, they're also welcome to
go to you know, their favorite local bookstore. You know, this book
is also available you know at Barnes and Noble and Amazon and wherever books are
sold. You know, I will say, you know, the beauty of
Weird but True is that the facts are short. I mean, they're they're
they're just like single sentence, maybe two sentences, and they're just those short,
pithy facts that are just meant to to ignite this little bark and a
kid's or anyone's brain and just have you go, wait what. So I
think that really the formula is kind of like some of these do sort of
beg for a little more explanation, But our goal is just to get kids
kind of you know, curious about the world around them, and to really
share the magic of the world around them, you know, and bring it
right to their fingertips. And I think that this series that's one of the
reasons the series is so great, so true, so true. Please come
back to this show anytime in the future. The door is always going to
be open for you. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me.
Will you be brilliant today? Okay, thank you so much.