Good morning, Wisconsin. Morning, world. It's a new day. Thanks for kicking it off with
us at 97-5 FM WF HR.
Your host, James behind the mic, joined this morning, got a bunch of great things to get
into. Good morning. How are you enjoying the fall? Not bad, not bad. But you know, got
some pretty, uh, clapped a little quicker than I was ready for. Yeah. But I know we're
warming up. Gentlemen, walking shorts. Yep. That's Wisconsin right there. You know what
you got to do? That wind will cut right through it. It's kind of crisp. Um, so breezy.
Is he dressed for the weather, Britney? Is he? He's probably shedding the coat by the
afternoon. Yeah. All right. But today, yeah, 50 degrees out there right now. Still more
clouds than sunshine. But it is going to be bright and beautiful all day long. Sunny
skies, still breezy winds out of the northwest around 20 miles per hour or so. Eyes today, upper
60s. Marrow, low 70s. And then we'll warm things up mid 70s on Wednesday. And then Wednesday
night, it looks like a chance for some rain. That's the next chance of rain. And that's about
it. We stay dry for the rest of the week. And even it looks drawing to the weekend too.
So a good pattern. We'll take that. It's been a while. So he doesn't need the rain jacket.
No, it doesn't need the raincoat. He doesn't need the raincoat. Okay. Okay. Good to know.
And good to talk to you, Britney. Thanks so much for the time. You have a good morning.
You two, thanks. Best in the business right there, Britney. Hello, joining us every morning,
right in this time slot. Seth and I got a bunch of fun stuff lined up for you. The El Café,
birthday and anniversary club is right around the corner. We have the states that are the most
and least enthusiastic about pickles. Yes. And we're talking words. We're talking worlds oldest
when we get back after that. It will have some fun there. It's a Monday and the 10 o'clock hour.
You know what that means. We'll kick things off of the kitchen's open. Beth will be joining us for
that. And we're going to keep Beth around for a little bit longer because she sent over a topic.
I thought was fun. Oh, very cool. Very cool. The best fair foods in all 50 states. Oh,
oh, oh, should be a good one. That sounds like fun. That should be fun. As we wrap up fair season
and all that. That's right. Then a little bit later, Seth and I will get into some entertainment
news. And we're going to talk Saturday Night Live and returning cast members. We've got some fun
there. Chris Martin doing a security check at a cold playing concert. And a couple of other fun
things. We got a lot of stuff for you there. We'll get into all that. We'll wrap up with some good
stories of the day and certainly get into our schedule around here. But we kick things off as
we are getting to colder weather. I am used to Christmas stuff showing up in stores early.
Right. You know, it'll be any day now. In any day now, we'll start seeing Christmas stuff.
It will be. You're correct. It's been happening for a while. But I'm still a little surprise when
I see Halloween stuff. It's not even September. And I'm already seeing Halloween stuff out and
everything. And we've been we've been over this topic a many, many times with why companies are
doing this and sure those things. I don't I would love to know first off if this really helps
any business in any format and any in any industry, getting a jumpstart on these things like this.
Yeah. Because I feel more and more like as just not just me as a society. By the time the holiday
comes around, we're not even paying attention to the one after it. Right. And we're doing it even
with like the big will holidays. Right. We're like, we're constantly planning. Right. It's
like we're always getting a, well, got to get a head start on this and then to get a head start
on this. And then when the other holiday comes by, it's like, okay. And then it's done. Right.
I've spent my whole life being doing this and being very bad about being in the moment. So
in I'd say the last five years, I've been trying really hard to be in the moment more and everything.
And I don't know if I'm just more aware of that. But I'm telling you, you go and pay attention
this year to the big Halloween Thanksgiving Christmas, all these holidays, you know, it feels like
they don't hit as hard as they used to. Because we're celebrating a wedding in September.
The build up, nothing, you see this happen with movies all the time, the build up. They're building
this movie up for months and months and months and you're watching the trailer and trailer and
you see the movie and you're like, okay, well, I didn't live up to the hype because nothing can.
You hype something up too much. It can be over hyped. Yes. It feels a little of that. And while
there are all the, I have respect for all the holidays and it really, and now they're doing it
at the Halloween, quarantine days, oration. Oh, yeah. That was a big one on the morning show we
were talking about. Well, which, um, that they're Skelly, which is what they're called.
Skeleton is getting an upgrade. Oh, and it's unreleased. And it's animatronic elements.
Health can also be the pre-recorded dialogue up to 30 seconds long. Yes.
Can be kind of the one down half feet tall. Only. Yeah. What?
It's like my a little bit taller than me and James. So yeah. Okay. Uh, and they say that's
the only downside. I have a counter to that. The only downside is it's $279. Oh, that's a downside.
Yeah. Wow. So apparently the new upgrades were offset by the shorter stature,
because it usually is $300. Yeah. Oh. So 20 bucks off or yeah, 20 bucks off, right? Yeah.
And to be clear, Home Depot is still is also bringing back the original 12-foot Skelly.
Despite inflation and tariffs, it's still $200, $300. Who can afford that?
For a Halloween prop. Yeah. So maybe that's what it is, James. Maybe we're missing something here
in that the reason people are getting early and earlier is they want to get their money's worth.
Yeah. Is that I spent $300 on this giant skeleton? You better believe I'm going to have it
out for like at least a couple of months, right? Like all good use. Like all good comedy.
There's a little truth in that joke. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's funny. But it's also you might
write there. Maybe you're right. Uh, they encourage, they encourage also the uh,
scary Skelly dog, a cute Skelly, um, a, a, a, a, a scary Skelly dog, a cute Skelly dog,
any Skelly cat. Now he's got animals to involve. Okay. He's got pets. Skelly's got pets.
A 15-foot, uh, lead worry crow and a troll. Oh, and a dragon. They've got all these things
that you can add to it. Okay. You make a little, uh, little set up there in your front yard.
If you want. Yeah. That's cool. What's the conversation like significant other to significant
other? And, and, oh, I'm just going to say guy to woman. Uh, it could be any scenario you want
to say. But let's be honest here. Most like, let's be honest with our fellow men out there.
Yeah. This is, this is something that a guy is probably going to pitch probably more,
more so that to say always. Uh, they're right. There are plenty of outliers and plenty of women
to love Halloween and probably love a 12-foot couple that are all about Halloween. Yeah. Absolutely.
There are. So I'm just doing this for comedic purposes. Uh, but I love the idea of going to
your significant other and trying to pitch this. All right. How do you hear me out? All right.
The 12-foot Skelly. Kids are going to love it. Kids in the neighborhood. Kids are going to come
there. Everybody's going to be talking about our House of Halloween. That's fantastic. That sounds
like a fun idea. I love this. How much is it? Now listen. In life, you've got to make investments
sometime. Now we're going to use this for like the rest of our lives for Halloween. Every year
we'll be putting it out. We're going to make that money back. Okay. How much money? Now listen.
I know this number is going to sound high. But you've got to think of the long term here.
Anytime you have a conversation, you have to say now listen like four times and get in trouble.
Sometimes this is not going well. Okay. I could certainly do a good sales job. You know,
it was certain things. When it comes to being on the air, very fortunate and very seldom in my
radio career and 22 years have I had to really pitch or sell things and I really don't believe in
it or whatever. I've been really lucky in that regard. I am terrible at selling myself.
I am horrible at it. The idea of pitching this if this was my idea, it's defeated before I even
go in the room. It's not going to happen. It's not going to happen. I do kind of like the idea of
watching people set this up. I think that might be more interesting. That would be entertaining.
That would be interesting. You never get to see it. They do like the dead of nights and
no one can see them. I heard cursing last night. What was that all about? I'm waiting until
the neighbors leave for work. I'm going to take a day off of work just to set it up. No one can see
it. What are you doing there? What's next? What is next for the Halloween? Do they have a
cauldron yet? Do they have like an actual work? I mean, a real cauldron. Like a real cast iron. Wow,
no. Yeah. Wow. You know, because it's only going to go up from here. It's like we're going to
stay here like 20 years later. We're talking about Skelly still. They must be up. You know, the
game must be up as we go along here. So if they start you know what? Five four two four through
the civic media app. Does anybody else care about these things and started because I'm curious.
If it's just me, so you know, in just in our house alone, you've got a little bit of a
difference of opinions and everything. Well, almost all this stuff is about decorations, right?
Yeah, and trick-or-treating, right? Right. Trick-or-treat. All of a sudden, you're two months off
on there. But I wanted to get or at least start, you know, some people would say I'm every day
I dress for Halloween. Some people would say I look pretty scary every day. But yeah, you've got
a point there. So it's just decorations and it's still leading up to I guess personally,
I don't have a big problem with it. It's if it's something you enjoy doing, have fun with it,
you know, go for it. I like what you said about getting your money's worth out of it. I also know
that a lot of this stuff it takes planning and prepping and maybe so maybe having a little more time
to do that. That's true. That's true. Especially if you want to go, you know, if you want to go all
out, you know, and really, you know, gussy things up, then yeah, you might need a little bit more time
for that. It might just be one of those things too that we've just been worn down on.
It's not so much that people care or don't care. It's just that they're kind of like
whatever. Well, and there's this too. And I talk about this from time to time, you know,
choosing your battles wisely. There's a lot of other things to get us bent out of shape nowadays.
This might not be enough to really hit the top 30, you know, of things that you don't get
your belt. Oh, yeah. It's a 12 foot skeleton. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, no.
Cream that before Christmas stuff is being sold in August. Okay. Yeah. Fine.
Sure. Whatever. If you want it, you can buy it. If not, I'll just, you know, do it in December.
We are in the beginnings of the high school and college and NFL seasons for football.
And we're kicking off the college football season this week right here at WFHR.
Your home for Wisconsin Badger Sports has been forever and will always be. Yep.
Six o'clock this Thursday, your badgers hosting Miami, Ovo, Ohio, Madison,
going to be popping. Mm-hmm. Going to be a mad time, mad time. It's going to be fun.
And you know what? James and I said, we talked a little about about the Sun Playmakers on Friday.
You know, with all of the streaming services, you know, all the different sports now going to,
there's going to be, you know, games and seven different streaming. So where are you going to find it?
Well, you know where you can find it. It's right here on radio for free. Yes.
You will hear every Badger football game right here on WFHR.
Catch it right here. Everybody 97-5 FM 13-20 AM will have every Badger football game here
all season long. Also going to, of course, be having your Badger basketball and hockey,
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be listening for those wonderful bumpers of Matt LePay and that great voice of his as well.
In Thursday, uh, double duty, uh, more football because we'll have high school football
on one of five five W.I., right? Six fifty, rice lake at my alma mater Lincoln High School,
Mike and Randy going to be covering that one for you. I'll open it. I heard from, uh,
the superintendent last week, Ron was talking about Lincoln having a new logo, a new wolf logo.
Yeah, it's very cool. I think I found it. I think I found it. If it's the one I found,
it's pretty cool. Yeah, it looks like it. It's really neat. We are looking forward to all of that.
And of course, a great fall and winter season of sports. More and more of it's coming up for you.
And we'll be talking about it on playmakers today. Be sure to join us in four to five on one
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conversation. I have three possible qualifiers here. Seth, give me a one through three.
One today. It gives us that qualifier when you're right into it. First up,
want to wish a very happy birthday to Corey Kinnippel. Happy birthday, Corey.
Corey, the older brother, one of my oldest friends, Eden. Corey, great guy,
I'm wishing you a great birthday. Hopefully you see one of those river kings games this winter.
Cool. You take care, man. Yeah. And wishing a very happy birthday to Avery Morris.
Happy birthday, Avery. Enjoy the day, Avery. Hope it's a good one for you.
And we wish a very happy birthday to our qualifier, Gail Gibbons. Gail, congratulations and happy
birthday to you. Enjoy the day, Gail. Hope it's a good one for you. I love the name Gail.
It's a great name. Enjoy your day, Gail. And we encourage you to brag to all your friends,
families, celebrities, you know, different, anyone you can find animals. Everybody,
go ahead and brag to them that you're our qualifier for today. Taking a look at who you share
your birthdays with. Blake Lively is 38 today. Okay. Gossip Girl star. And of course,
is a handful of other great movies and performances. You've seen her with Ryan Reynolds a lot as
they are a couple. They are married. Yes. Kell is 47. Kell Mitchell from Kenan and Kell is 47.
Good. It's gracious. That's crazy. Oh, late 90s. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Uh, happy birthday. Happy 47th Ann. Yeah. Happy 49th to Alexander Skars guard.
Another one of the Skars guard brood, right? Oh, man. What a family that app actors that is.
Yeah. Recently started a show on Apple, Murderbot. It has been a big hit for them. They've got a
reward of the second season. Of course, a lot of people got to know him from true blood. Um,
you get a chance, the, the Northman, the Northman. The Northman. He stars. And it's a very,
it's, it's what it sounds like. It's a bit of a Viking tale and everything. It's incredible.
Perfect for a Swedish actor. Yeah. He's incredible in it. He's an incredible actor.
It's also very funny. Does it like these cameos here and there for once in a while?
I don't know if I've seen him do that. He's, he's, he's very funny. He's a good actor. That,
that whole family, man, that family. Yeah. Marvin Harris in his 53 former NFL superstar.
Yes. Um, it's not all the same yet. I'm not sure. I feel like he will be. He will be at some
pretty. Yeah. Joe D. Masina is 55 country singer. Fantastic. Love her. Robert Ori Big Shot Rob is
55 retired NBA role player, but, um, hit clutch shots for seven championship teams. I mean,
man, he was something about that guy. Robert Ori in the moment. He was always there.
Also created one of the best sports debates and sports questions there is. Okay.
Woodball knows when he's hit like literally, no, not even, even even in the basketball
Hall of Fame, which it tends to let a lot of guys in. Right. It's a bigger hall. Would you
rather have those seven rings and be a legend like that or be a Hall of Famer and never win a
ring like Charles Barkley or somebody like that? Yeah. Man, if I were a, if I were Robert Ori,
I'd be like, Hall of Fame, who cares? Yep. I got mine. I got seven rings. Are you kidding me?
Like one championship opposed to the Hall of Fame. That's a little debatable. Seven
championships. Why are we doing this? Not who cares? Yeah. To me, athletics is not about
the Hall of Fame. It's about winning the big one with the big right exactly. Yeah. Give me seven
titles, man. Yeah. I'll take that every day. Billy Ray Cyrus is 64. Wow.
Ackie breaking heart and all that. Rachel Ray is 57. Oh, wonderful celebrity chef and
everything. She does a good job. I haven't seen a lot of her personality. She has got a great
personality. The great, the legend Tim Burton is 67. Wow. Game changing director.
In our youth, one of the biggest names there was in directing and one of the biggest,
you could count on, oh, he's going to do something different no matter what the movie is.
Right. Right. And he had his own aesthetic style. He had, I mean, yeah. He's one of the,
not only was he successful, but he was also had his own style. That's not something you see very
often in directors, especially nowadays. Big fan of his work and a lot of the things he did.
I've said this before, I think the only problem for Tim Burton was he got too big.
When he started getting big and kind of doing like the Dumbo remake and things like that,
it just seemed like he kind of lost a little bit of that. Self indulgent maybe. I don't know.
And then it just seemed to be, okay, I'm going to do whatever like old fairy tale or old,
you know, play and stuff, kind of leaning into things that I didn't think that were really his,
really in his wheelhouse. Yeah, yeah. But it's certainly not only an amazing director, one I'd
love to work with. I do. Elvis Costello is 71. Oh, yes. Veronica. Oh, my God. Every day I write
up. He is one of the great singer songwriters of his generation, kind of thing. Although,
I don't know why, why didn't he stay with his original name? It's he's got such a great,
his actual name is way better. It's Declan McManus. It's a great name. Why didn't it? I mean,
come on, Elvis, you could have stayed with a fantastic name. Oh, listen to this. So,
Elvis Costello 71, Rob Helford from Judas Priest is 74. Okay. Let's use older than him.
Wow. And Gene Simmons from Kiss, the demon is 76. Oh, wow. Wow. There's a try. There's a
trifecta for you. Very interesting names. Very different artists too. And then I'll just throw
a little curveball in there. Raleigh fingers is 79. Speaking of curveball, legendary pitcher and
mustache. And, man. And of course, legendary brewer. He was the kind of the guy that gave us the
prototype of the closer. Yeah. It was him and a couple other guys. But mostly I would say it was
Raleigh fingers. Yep. Some people no longer with us, like the legend sir Sean Connery born in
the state in 1930. Sean Connery. The original, you know, everybody's James Bond. Right. Yeah,
pretty much everybody's James Bond. And just an incredible actor. Yes. Incredible actor. I
don't know that Sean Connery has ever truly gotten the credit for his acting skill. No, you know,
he was because he was a blockbuster guy. You know, he did lots of big movies and that sort of
thing. So yeah, you watch the rock. And it's a silly fun action movie. But you go ahead and watch
it and give it a give just a chance at watching what Connery does in certain scenes. And his work
with other actors. Sean Connery was always good at bringing up other actors, especially young
actors. Christopher Lambert is a good example of this. Yeah. Yeah. That kind of thing. But the rock
or some of the other performances of his too, where he's not necessarily the lead actor. He brings
up other actors. Good. Good one. Regis Filman born for a very, very long time. Yep. And
Monty Hall legends of like a game. That show was so popular too. Also, maybe the greatest
game show name. Monty Hall. I mean, come on. That's hard to talk. I don't know if that was his
actual name or not. It didn't matter. It was awesome. Yeah. I almost don't want to even look
it up. I don't know. I don't get an anniversary club. But we encourage it. It's open their doors
over in the cafe at 221. Mark it out. I make a very happy birthday in anniversary to everybody.
I never celebrate with you. Everybody. Everything you love. And you can do that using the
civic media. If you like, that's right. We will take a time out. Get to our news, sports,
entertainment and partner break. When Seth and I get back, got some fun with stuff lined up for you
here. The states, the states that are most at least enthusiastic about pickles coming up.
I want reasons why. Yes. Coming up on the morning show.
Welcome back, everyone. Morning show at WFHR.
Seth and James hanging out with you. Thanks so much for hanging out with us. I hope you're
having a great Monday out there. Made it through the weekend. Got a week ahead here. We're
going to have some fun with it too. We got great stuff lined up for you throughout the week.
We're going to be getting into. I got one right here that is a little bit interesting. And I
want audience participation on this one. 715-424-2600. Feel free to call up and join us through the
civic media. You can text us through there as well. It isn't often that we hear about North and
South Dakota. But having somebody who actually lived in one of the Dakotas with me, I kind of feel
like we got to bring this one up. I got a source I could tap into here and everything.
I know all about North Dakota. So would you know what sets them apart from the rest of the country?
Turns out the Dakotas love pickles. They do? Okay. Instacart just released some data on pickle
orders across the country for whatever. I mean, a reason it might be. Well, I can tell you right
now there's been a rise of pickles and pickle related things and pickles, scented things and all
this. Yeah. Pickled juice. Yeah. The younger generation has really gotten into pickles.
And the states with the highest rate of pickle orders are North Dakota and South Dakota and
one and two. Really? Yeah. I did not know that about the Dakotas. Interesting. Generally,
pickles seem to be the most popular in middle of the country, according to their report. Wisconsin
is third on this list. That's very, you know, pickles. I believe if I maybe I'm not
to know if I'm correct in this. That's kind of a German. I think pickling things looks like a
German kind of thing. That does it totally makes sense in Wisconsin. 100% makes sense in Wisconsin.
I wouldn't have thought of it. I would not have guessed that, you know, hey, what is Wisconsin
ranked 30 in loving and buying and, you know, and all that? They love their pickles. Yeah.
Wisconsin is third again, followed by Iowa, West Virginia, Vermont, Mississippi, Minnesota,
Arkansas, and Kansas. That is your top 10. No one on the West Coast likes pickle pickles.
Apparently. No, it's just either in the Midwest or the East or maybe some of the South.
Like in hot over there, they're like, they're spicy and stuff. The states with the least that are
least into pickles are Florida, followed by Hawaii, California, Washington, DC, New Jersey,
Nevada, New York, and Maryland. So we're seeing the coasts. Yeah. It's more of an inside the middle
of the country thing. Okay. All right. And why, you know, why this is? And nobody knows.
Well, questions of at least 10 different websites. The reason necessarily for this.
And there are a lot, but the reasoning or anything like that. Okay. And I just found that
can know the end. The subject is it's part of what it's kind of mystery out there. Random stuff
like this. I almost kind of like when there's that little bit of fun and mystery to it.
So here's I know I'm going to dig deeper now. Is this just like straight up
getting a pickle and eating it? You know, you pull a pickle out of the jar or you know, you get
you get a sandwich and you get a pickle with it. Or is this also putting pickles upon different
other things, right? On your burger, you know, or you know, sandwiches or anything like that.
Does that include like the slices or chips or whatever those are called pickle chips? I
guess. Does that include that too? I want to know. What's their what's their their how they
they come up with this study? I want to know. I mean, I know how they did, but I want to know more.
I know people using a brother things too. Had a student asking me what makes something kosher
the other day. And we were talking about it and we got into pickles and one of them said,
you know, I don't think I've ever had a non kosher pickle. And it's interesting how so many of
the pickle chains do that now. Right. They just make kosher. You get not even going to find
non kosher pickles or whatever. Right. Because they basically they taste exactly the same as
any deal pickle exactly the same. Very, very similar to a lot of other things. But as well. Yeah.
But I thought that was interesting. I thought that was really interesting. In this day and age where
they have every there's no product. There's just the one of every product whether we're talking
about dish soap or cereal or anything else. There's a billion different brands. Yeah. Now we got
like hot pickles and you know, and that's and we're not talking. I know it's more of a Midwest
thing that, you know, bread and butter pickles, which are the sweet kind of pickles. That kind of
thing. But I don't know, man. I wonder if it's more like because I saw on the map that you
brought up, you know, in the Southwest, very not big on pickles, including California. And I
wonder if that's because of the proximity to like Mexico. And maybe they're more interested in
peppers. Yeah. And that sort of thing. It's just a cultural thing. Maybe not as many, you know,
German folks moved out there. Who knows? I mean, they people bring their customs with them. So
right. Right. Right. And to that point, what we're talking about earlier, not surprising to see it
in the middle of this country. Exactly. Where exactly. A lot more of that immigration going on
back 100 percent. That's interesting, though. Fast. And I'm curious too. Like, is there and does anybody
have a favorite thing about pickles or a favorite way to have them? Oh, yeah, that's good. I like pickles.
Overall, I don't like them on my burger. Okay. I will not. If I've ordered a burger, especially
if I'm hungry, I'm just going to woof it down a barely even notice. Yeah. But I don't, I feel like
I don't like the flavor. It takes me away from the burger. I want to taste the meat. Sure.
It tastes to me. But I like pickles on the wrong. Yeah. Right. I like a good pickle just on its own.
It's just a crunch. If you want a pickle, there's nothing that really hits it like the pickle.
Well, and it's interesting because you go to a deli and you order a sandwich. And they
usually not always, but usually comes with a pickle. And I think now, I don't know if this is
true or not. It's like, it seems like you're supposed to eat it when you're done. Give you that
last kick. Maybe you've eaten the sandwich. And now you get like a little, it's not dessert,
obviously, but it's like a different flavor, you know, because the pickles are strong, you know,
very strong flavor to them, right? Yeah. Yeah. So is that part of the reason why? I mean, why do
they do that? I'm curious. Maybe this because they have, you know, old delis just had pickles.
They made just one something they had. And you just something you got with the sandwich kind
of thing. I don't know. And maybe even the most fascinating part of this, why in baseball,
that they call it a pickle when a runner gets stuck between two, you know, that's fielders.
Now that is something we need to figure out. Find out on playmakers later today, everybody.
Oh, he did do it. All right. Oh, yeah. I looked up. Have you figured out can of corn yet?
No one is that one. I don't think anyone knows. Legendary lead that one is, is there's a billion
stories? Yeah. Every one of them are interesting. But yeah, join us for playmakers a little later
today. I think I'll be on my own today. Pickle. Nice. I won't be getting into that a little bit
later. Look, I just realized a little pepper thing. It's like it's a one of the top brands of
pickles, Mount Olive, Vlasic. Okay. North Dakota's topic is get out of Minnesota. Yes. Yeah,
needs, by the way, if I had to choose and it's by for many, many years, whoever won the pickle,
the best were the top and show of pickle, that pickle and their blue ribbon would be on the jar
of it. I don't know if they still do that. But that is cool. That is a really cool way to do that.
I was earlier and jump in maybe I will check with her and see if she is because I got a topic for us.
Oh, okay. Five fashion rules that could get you kicked out of Disney parks.
Yeah. All right. If you've got time, we'll do it next. Okay. We'll do it when we come back,
everybody. We'll get into that when we come back and wrap up the hour here on the
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but for newer listeners out there, our own Beth work at Disney World. I did. I worked down on
Walt Disney World and do there, but I did all sorts of things. I started on a college program.
So it's in the what's now goes back then it was the MGM studios. And so the tours that I did,
those buildings don't even exist down there anymore. Interesting. Then I was a jungle cruise skipper
for a couple of months. And then I figured I'd been a character in my life. I might as well get paid
for it. So I helped the characters for a long time. Right up. Yeah. And appreciate that,
appreciate that. And fascinating job too, by the way. It's always been interesting to me that.
Well, I came across this one. Did you know there are fashion choices you can make that'll get you
kicked out of Disney parks? Here are the big fashion don'ts if you're planning a trip to
Disney park around around the world and everything. And I would think that a lot of these you just
wouldn't do because you know that there are going to be kids there. You be surprised. So number one
costumes for adults. Kids under 12 can dress like their favorite princess or pirate or what they
like, but grownups are out of luck. Disney wants the official characters in the parks to be the only
ones in costume. It's to reserve the magic for the children. Right. It becomes confusing. If you
have somebody that actually looks like Cinderella, I mean physically, facial and all of that, and then
dresses like Cinderella, then you're going to confuse whether or not that's the actual Cinderella or
not. Now you can theme your clothes towards a character that you like. Meaning that you can
wear that color. You can change kind of alter what the length of the skirt and that kind of thing
is that's okay, but you can't wear the actual costume of that character in the park. That makes
sense. I think that right away I have a little bit of a defense mechanism that kicks up with some
of these things. I'm going to do it. And there's certainly like oh well, Disney wants to keep their
copyright stuff and all those kind of things and some of that. And even if there is a little of that,
it doesn't matter because that part about the kids. And this really be about them and everything.
So as badly as I want to dress up as Jack Skellington, go to Disneyland. Probably not a good idea.
Probably not a good idea. Number two, outfits with long trains or dragon fabric. I think floor
length gowns, giant capes or anything that could trip you up or someone else in the crowd. Disney
safety concerns, especially on rides, plus a million people will step out of it. Well then, and
there's a whole lot of strollers that go through that part. Oh my gosh. And motorized wheelchairs
that you see all the and if that gets caught underneath. Right. The only exception to that rule is if
you pay to have your wedding. And there are some people that pay to be able to have their wedding
in Magic Kingdom in front of the castle. Okay, that's right. So the bride is able to have the train
for their dress, but that is the only exception. And that's when typically the park is closed to
other guests. Right. I was going to say, what are how much that costs? I just was thinking the same
thing. Oh my gosh. I was just thinking the same thing. I'm like, I can't imagine. It's a lot of
coins. It's a lot of coins. Man. At number three, I would think that this is a pretty, you know,
understandable revealing attire. Bikini's crop tops with the mimic swimwear or anything basically
skimpy. Shoes are required at all times as well. Yes. Yeah. I don't know, man. The last time we
were at Disney, there was a couple of ladies wearing something. I was like, I've seen videos
and I was like, what are you doing looking at other ladies? When you're people watching,
sometimes you can help what you're wearing something. Right. I can't imagine the mindset of,
oh, I'm going to Disney world. You know what? I'm going to wear my bikini. That was a perfect time
to wear the bikini. Yeah, exactly. I know it's going to be hot, but still. Yeah, but I mean,
you think about the, you used to be splash mountain. And now it's Tiana. They've been themed
that ride. It's still the same ride system. So it's, you're going to get the same flume that you
were in before. It's just themed to something different. You're going to get what? And they have
similar things in all of the other security person or we can't let you in shop that's right there
at the entrance by a teacher smart. Right. Right. And I should journalistically mention, I don't
know any about you as a Disney world or Disney land or anything and like six flags or anything
like that. Like, at least in Illinois, the Disneyland of Illinois is owned as six flags or anything.
I've never been to any kind of all I know. I am sensing a team building trip. Yes, yes. Oh, wow. Yeah,
that'd be great for that. I'm okay. I think I would, I would enjoy it more as an adult than I
would have as a kid. It's a different experience. And that was a nice thing about when Walt Disney
opened the original Disneyland is it wasn't you're just two kids. It was a family experience.
Right. So he kept the adults in mind. And if you think about Disney animated films,
there's always adult jokes in there. So there is something and there's a whole new genre of people
out there called Disney adults who are just, I mean, I'm a fan. They're super fans of Walt Disney
world and their whole lives deal with, you know, Disney and the movies and the parks and all of that.
There's a podcast I listen to that's, it's a fantasy football podcast, but one of the hosts,
he went to Disney with his family and now he, he totally admits he's a Disney. Oh, yeah.
It's true. You, right? I mean, you had gone maybe once as a kid. I wouldn't want you to get me.
And now we go like all the time. Every couple of years were down there. It's, you know,
and there's some fun about that. I just, the only when you take it too far when it becomes your
whole personality. That's a little much. Yeah. That's one thing. When it, when you're the Disney guy
or something like that's, that's when it's gone maybe too far. But I think you know, I haven't
fun with it. Absolutely. Scary or offensive clothing. Same kind of reason behind the, you know,
the skimpy or clothes and some of that. Yeah. Certainly don't want to be scaring kids or anything
like that. And it's a family place. Right. Yeah. Keep that in mind. Right. It's one thing when I'm at,
you know, a department, I'm at Walmart. I'll just say it. I'm at Walmart. And I see somebody
wearing clothes that I'd like, okay, so you left the house in that. We've all seen that a
billion times. There are million websites with pictures of it or anything. I can't imagine
like doing this to a Disneyland in part. And I'm going to try to say this as carefully as I
can in a cheap, if I'm going to do anything that's expensive. I don't care if it's Disneyland.
It's a restaurant or whatever. I am dressing to the, to the moment. I'm dressing exactly
everything. The only excuse I can think of is I spent all my money on the tickets. I have no
money for clothes anymore. I had to wear this. I can't help it. I don't know. Oh my gosh.
That's absolutely right. At number five, offensive tattoos. If you have ink that could be seen
as vulgar or inappropriate, you'll need to cover it up before entering the park. For adults who
wills who still want to channel their favorite character, there's a thing called Disney bound.
That bends the rules a bit. It's where fans use regular clothing to mimic a character's look
in the same color palettes, accessories, and hairstyles. Yeah, that's what I was explaining with
the costume thing. That's what you do is you kind of have that theming to what you're ready to take.
I didn't realize it had a name, though. I didn't need her. That's Disney bound. Interesting. Wow.
If there is something about like this that you think they're missing or is there something that
you think they're too careful or too heavy about? Or does this all make sense to you? Because to me,
it all makes sense. I don't know. But again, this is not my wheelhouse. I don't think I mean,
there's so many people that go through them every single day. I'm sure there's going to be people
that are missed and that sort of thing. It's at a minimum. Because I think for the most part,
people are there for a specific reason. They just want to be at Disney. They're not thinking about
making a statement or trying to be outrageous or something like that. Maybe they want to go a
little overboard with looking like their favorite character. That makes more sense to me than that.
But like you said, the investment, it's a lot of money and it's a specific amount of time.
You want to do certain things. I mean, I see a vast majority of people not even dealing with
stuff like this just going for fun. The other thing we keep in mind is the number of cultures that
come through Disney's stores. The worldwide thing, yeah. Because when I was working there,
these all sorts of different cultures from all kinds of styles and what's suitable and not
acceptable. So Disney is trying to find with, okay, how can we allow them to be, but still,
respect to Donor of Clujerstein isn't on there is sleepwear. Oh, okay.
You know, because a lot of people like to walk around me that it doesn't make sense.
Right, that's yeah. Yeah, I don't know if you can go that might be too far. That might be a
little bit too far here. You know what I think they should do and this is I'm fully behind
that the the the the made that the printed cheesy family vacation t-shirts that ever the matching
ones that everyone wears. I know where else, by the way, only at Disney do I accept that.
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, we have that on record now. So the next trip we go to and I say,
that we're going to be doing this. I don't believe I said that I was going to be doing it.
So you said you were on board with it. Oh, I was on board with other people doing it.
Sorry, brother, you walked into that. I am my I'm being taken completely out of context here.
Yeah, I demand. Isn't that where isn't that how marriage works?
Get completely out of here. He listened to the playback and you can hear it.
You're here for my lawyers. I look forward to seeing how that tabat is up.
I like I look forward to let's see the end of that story. You know, just a quick side note
and it's something that you kind of touched on that with the with the theme park.
But it's something that Disney really like where the first ones that I can think of that did this
and did it have always done a master class on it and the idea of making something
for kids that adults can also find enjoyment in or laugh at.
They if they could have put a copyright on that. That would have been a master move.
I think they're doing okay financially.
Yeah, they're doing all right. But you see that this has become the new norm.
Right. What they've been they were doing, you know,
limitedly back in the day with, you know, snow white and a seven dwarfs or some of those early,
early cartoons has become a mainstay. Now, where you're not releasing anything,
anything, even if it's G rated, there's going to have to have some not adult humor,
but some jokes that the adults are going to laugh at.
Well, kids only stay kids for what 18 years.
If that and even by the time they get to middle school high school, they're not into the
kiddie thing. So unless you do something that's going to include more than that,
once they get to that, you've lost that family. So this opens up the door for our people.
Yeah, we'll be back with more show next time.
