1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,839 Hello and good morning, Arian. How are you doing today? Hi, 2 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,320 I'm doing well. I just want to say, you've got such a cool 3 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:08,720 name. Well it's not a Disney name, but it is a radio created 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,080 name, because you know, in radio we're trying to do everything we can 5 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,039 to to be noticed. But the problem is though program directors didn't like it 6 00:00:14,039 --> 00:00:18,000 because they thought, are you saying, Earl Errol Harold, what's your name 7 00:00:18,039 --> 00:00:22,440 again? Oh? I'm looking at it written down? It looks so cool. 8 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,359 Hey, speaking speaking of cool, this book, I first of all, 9 00:00:28,359 --> 00:00:30,719 you've got to understand that for the past year and a half I've been 10 00:00:30,719 --> 00:00:36,479 collecting everything Disney one hundred and so when this book arrived, I was a 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,520 kid in a candy store. Is like, no, this is amazing. 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,359 What are some of your favorite fashionts? Well, one of my things. 13 00:00:46,399 --> 00:00:49,880 First of all, I did not know that snow White is the only Disney 14 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:53,119 princess that has a star. When I came across that, I'm going, 15 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,920 well, of course she does. Of course she does. She has to. 16 00:00:56,439 --> 00:01:00,600 But it was such a shock because I didn't realize that anime could have 17 00:01:00,679 --> 00:01:06,120 its own star. Yeah, isn't that incredible? There there are so many 18 00:01:06,159 --> 00:01:07,319 facts in this book. You know, as we were putting this together, 19 00:01:07,439 --> 00:01:11,200 we you know, we I'll give you an example, like our photo editor 20 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:15,359 for the book, she's a huge fan of Disney, and so even she 21 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:18,760 would like discovering things that are that are totally new. And you know, 22 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:21,840 we thought that, you know, because fans of Disney, they know Disney 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,159 in and out, and so we were like, oh, is they gonna 24 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:27,000 be really hard to put to get their three hundred wow worthy facts you know 25 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:33,599 that people don't already know. And we were so shocked that no, like, 26 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,959 there's so much content. Disney's been around for so long, They've created 27 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:40,239 so many movies, and they've got the parks and everything, and they're all 28 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,040 these little hidden things in the parks. I mean, we were shocked at 29 00:01:44,079 --> 00:01:49,319 how much information, like how many nuggets of information we're totally wowworthy. That 30 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:53,200 surprised all of us. And you know, I feel like there's enough content 31 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,519 to even make like a weird rich to Disney too, because there's just so 32 00:01:56,680 --> 00:02:00,560 much wow worthy stuff. Well, one thing that he is not hidden in 33 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,920 the park is in Dubai, and that is that six story tall Mickey Mouse. 34 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,879 Yeah, there there are so many things even around the world. You 35 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,479 know, I think, you know, if a kid wanted to bring this 36 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:15,680 book with them to like one of the Disney parks, I think they'd have 37 00:02:15,719 --> 00:02:21,479 a really great time just finding the little nuggets of information, just find the 38 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,560 real, the real life thing that we're talking about in the book. You 39 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,599 know, for example, I don't know if people know this, but there 40 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,680 are manatees at Epcot at the Nemo and Sees exhibits, and they eat about 41 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:37,240 one hundred heads of lettuce a day. So you could actually go there see 42 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,280 the manatees. Look at them from above. They're just bobbing in the water, 43 00:02:40,759 --> 00:02:44,800 and you can you know, if you happen to be there while the 44 00:02:44,879 --> 00:02:49,360 keepers are feeding them, they'll probably see them bobbing around among you know, 45 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,360 tons of heads of lettuce and they're just slowly munching on them. And we've 46 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:55,719 got facts like that in there, and a you know, a beautiful image 47 00:02:55,719 --> 00:03:00,159 of a manatee. It's they're just so many cool and just so many things 48 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:04,360 where I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot. There are animals 49 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,080 that have caught and you know obviously there's you know, animal Kingdom as well. 50 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,039 There are tons of backs in here about that, So there really was 51 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:16,680 like an organic partnership with Disney and National Geographic Hits. Now, one thing 52 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:19,960 that I didn't see in this one, but man, I wish you would 53 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,080 do it in the next one, is that I just learned recently that Disney 54 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,960 wanted to have a Winter Wonder Park in California but couldn't go through it because 55 00:03:28,199 --> 00:03:30,479 people were protesting it. And I thought, wow, that would still be 56 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,000 so much fun to have a place where I can go ski you with the 57 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:38,080 mouse. Well, well, I'll bring it up at our next meeting. 58 00:03:39,159 --> 00:03:43,479 We can make it happen. I'm a daily writer, so when you bring 59 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:46,240 up subjects such as pencils or anything that has to do with even doodling, 60 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:52,840 seventy thousand pencils were used for the artwork of Hunchback. Oh my god. 61 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:57,199 I mean that just blows me away, Oh my goodness. And there's another 62 00:03:57,319 --> 00:04:00,599 fact in the book that's the animated dogs and one hundred in Dalmatians bort a 63 00:04:00,719 --> 00:04:05,800 total of oh my gosh, over six million spots. Wow. And I 64 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:11,360 think it just goes to show like the incredible lengths these animators have gone to 65 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,240 and go to to get every scene just right and to to you know, 66 00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:20,000 make everything just so beautiful and so realistic. You know. Another fact in 67 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:25,839 the book is about how the creators, the filmmakers have Frozen. They actually 68 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:32,959 met with a NASA scientist because nicknamed Doctor Snow, to learn how snowflakes form. 69 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:38,120 So it's not even just to look at snowflakes so that they could copy 70 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:41,399 them for the scenes. I mean, they wanted to know how they actually 71 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,319 form. And to me, that just shows the incredible lengths to which these 72 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,480 creators go to to make everything seem super realistic. Look at what they did 73 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:57,399 with Nemo. They actually took up scuba lessons, yes exactly, and pour 74 00:04:57,519 --> 00:05:03,279 them on the filmmakers of of Rat Tattooy. They had to actually create and 75 00:05:03,399 --> 00:05:09,800 eat all the delicious recipes that are in that movie. Now, one of 76 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:13,639 the most famous sidekicks ever has always been Donal Donald Duck. I mean, 77 00:05:13,639 --> 00:05:16,079 not only does he have an asteroid named after him, but I just learned 78 00:05:16,079 --> 00:05:24,120 because of your book that is middle name is Fautler Roy. Yeah, yes, 79 00:05:24,519 --> 00:05:27,120 he has a middle name. And you know, I don't know if 80 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,160 others know this, but there you know, there are three if you go 81 00:05:30,240 --> 00:05:33,920 to Hunt and Mansion, there are three ghosts that you know, as you 82 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:36,959 go through the ride, you'll see they're trying to like they're trying to hitchhike. 83 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,079 They're they're just you know, trying to hitch a ride as you go 84 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:45,399 through. And they actually have names as well, which is really interesting to 85 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:48,360 me. Parents need to understand this book. First of all, it's for 86 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:51,680 every age group. But I think one of the most one of the greatest 87 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:56,040 decisions you guys did in this book was to put a section in there about 88 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:59,360 the Liberty Bill that even though it is a replica that but but it's still 89 00:05:59,399 --> 00:06:01,439 from the same cast I mean, And that to me is very special because 90 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,839 man, I was here in nineteen seventy six when we celebrated the two hundredth 91 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:09,360 anniversary and that bell was on the Freedom Train. So when I saw that, 92 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:13,839 that really warmed my heart. Yeah, you know, it's amazing. 93 00:06:13,879 --> 00:06:18,319 There's so much planning and so many details that went into the Disney parks, 94 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,560 and that was something that you know, we on the Natio Kids side, 95 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:26,120 we uncovered as we were putting this book together. And you know, I 96 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,040 think a lot of people they go through the parks and some of them may 97 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,000 be aware of this, and some of them may not be. But you 98 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,920 know, the factory referencing the replica of the Liberty Bell in Liberty Square at 99 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:41,920 the Magic Kingdom was built from the same cast as the original, you know, 100 00:06:41,959 --> 00:06:46,680 and there really are just like these nods to actual to real American history. 101 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,319 And you know, there's another fact in the book. I don't know 102 00:06:50,319 --> 00:06:55,560 if I can find it, but it's about the land terms and I think 103 00:06:55,600 --> 00:07:00,839 Liberty Square, like there are thirteen of them to represent the original thirteen colonies. 104 00:07:00,759 --> 00:07:06,240 So you know, there are these little nods to to American history throughout 105 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:11,120 the parks and and it's just, you know, incredible how much planning went 106 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,000 into all of them. Now, because you've teamed up with National Geo, 107 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:16,079 is there a website where readers can go, because you know they're going to 108 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:18,680 go through this book and then they're going to want more, more, more 109 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:24,839 more more. Yeah. I mean, you know, kids can definitely, 110 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,439 you know, with with their parents, I can definitely go to kids dot 111 00:07:27,519 --> 00:07:30,879 National Geographic dot com. You know, I I think, you know, 112 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:32,439 if they want to get a copy of the book, they're also welcome to 113 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:36,399 go to you know, their favorite local bookstore. You know, this book 114 00:07:36,439 --> 00:07:41,120 is also available you know at Barnes and Noble and Amazon and wherever books are 115 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:45,240 sold. You know, I will say, you know, the beauty of 116 00:07:45,279 --> 00:07:49,199 Weird but True is that the facts are short. I mean, they're they're 117 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:55,680 they're just like single sentence, maybe two sentences, and they're just those short, 118 00:07:55,720 --> 00:08:00,680 pithy facts that are just meant to to ignite this little bark and a 119 00:08:00,759 --> 00:08:03,439 kid's or anyone's brain and just have you go, wait what. So I 120 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,439 think that really the formula is kind of like some of these do sort of 121 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:11,000 beg for a little more explanation, But our goal is just to get kids 122 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:15,519 kind of you know, curious about the world around them, and to really 123 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:20,399 share the magic of the world around them, you know, and bring it 124 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,639 right to their fingertips. And I think that this series that's one of the 125 00:08:22,639 --> 00:08:26,560 reasons the series is so great, so true, so true. Please come 126 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,000 back to this show anytime in the future. The door is always going to 127 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,799 be open for you. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. 128 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,840 Will you be brilliant today? Okay, thank you so much.