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DANK Pod: A Disney Adult Adventure - Park Merch and Collectibles

• Nat, January, Ash, JP

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Exploring Disney Collectibles and More!

In this episode of the DANK Pod, the hosts kick off with their fun and authentic guideposts before diving into a spirited discussion about Disney collectible merchandise, with a particular focus on the variety and customization of Mickey Ears. They also share humorous stories about collecting Disney hats, bubble wands, and key mysteries of park merch pricing. Alongside this, they touch on the recent Grand Opening of Epic Universe, recounting their experience with express passes and the wonderful customer service they received. Tune in to enjoy the chaos, get tips on budget-friendly souvenirs, and hear about the latest park trends. The episode wraps up with a teaser for next week's topic, exploring Disney as a coping mechanism.

00:00 Introduction and Guideposts
00:26 Welcome to the DANK Pod
00:39 Collectible Merch Discussion
01:27 Disney Ears Galore
03:58 Customizing and Legal Issues
12:16 Christmas Ornaments and Park Experiences
14:13 Epic Universe Grand Opening
26:15 Laundry Woes with Spirit Jerseys
27:27 Nostalgic Toys and Dangerous Fun
29:23 Freebies and Crafty Ideas at Disney
32:51 Disney Merchandise and Souvenirs
44:56 Bubble Wands and Park Etiquette
51:08 Final Thoughts and Upcoming Topics

JP:

All right. Pop quiz. What are our guideposts?

JR:

Have fun. Have fun.

JP:

That's,

JR:

I said it

Ash:

that was, very cute.

JP:

know who's holding. I don't know who said it first. Ashley, you got a guidepost.

JR:

so you guys have to say the next one together.

Ash:

Don't yuck. Somebody's yum.

JP:

And then I'll give the, I'll give guidepost number three. Just, You know, be, be yourself. Be authentic.

Nancy:

Welcome to the DANK Pod! Join us on our chaotic adventure of what it means to be Disney Adults. Like, follow, comment, and share wherever you listen. Send any questions or feedback to us at the dank pod at gmail.com This week we're talking about collectible merch! Let's get DANK!

JP:

That's good. I love this. What what's our topic tonight?

Ash:

Stuff?

JP:

It is stuff. It is stuff What kind of stuff.

Ash:

Oh, should I go get my magazine? I didn't get

JP:

chance to look at it

Nat:

Ooh,

JP:

of

Nat:

do you have a merch magazine?

Ash:

Yeah. Co collectibles, right? Am I on the rights? Am I on the right track?

JP:

Yeah. Who was the, who's, who donated this idea?

Ash:

You did?

JP:

No, it wasn't me. I

Ash:

know.

JR:

seems very ash.

Ash:

Was it me

JP:

Was it you?

Ash:

Do you, you

Nat:

actually added this card to the episode templates on May

JP:

Who did it?

Nat:

that would be an ap

JP:

Oh, I say Ashley. Okay.

Ash:

You know, I love stuff. It's

JR:

I like stuff too. Our one of our listeners sent me a of the new Ear drop,

Ash:

Woo.

JR:

Mickey Ears.

JP:

What did the new ears look like? What do they?

JR:

It was a really long video. They kept going going and going. I, I just, I didn't realize that there was that

JP:

was there a lot? I mean, there's just a ton of ears. Is that, are they customizable? Wow, that's a racket. I'm gonna be honest.'Cause then there's accessories to go with your ears. Like how do you store'em?

Nat:

for sure, for sure. Oh yeah, we have a January has a ear hangy holder thing.

JP:

How many years sets of ears do you have, January.

JR:

I said I wasn't gonna get more than the holder had,

Nat:

but you can double up on on each,

JR:

you know, I'm trying to be curating. feel like it's five or six.

JP:

Okay. Well

Ash:

not too bad. Oh,

JP:

that's a fair amount. Yeah. Fair amount. Natalie, do you, do you collect ears

Nat:

No, I don't have ears.

JP:

back to January? January? Tell me what, what variety of ears do you have?

JR:

so I thought I had an encanto

Ash:

I thought you did too.

JP:

No, no, but she has

JR:

and then, and then I discovered that they were Anna from

JP:

they double As? They double as encanto slash Anna,

JR:

I really don't know why I thought they were encanto.

JP:

I think because of her dress. Right. They look, they have a, a very similar look to it. I like those ears. though. What, Which other ones do you have?

JR:

I have one from the Flower and Garden headband

JP:

Nice.

JR:

I definitely have one of the pride

JP:

I love it. Happy Pride month.

JR:

oh, it have a fall winter one, so it's like red velvet with

JP:

Ooh,

JR:

irid

Ash:

Ooh,

JP:

I like the

JR:

love, I like the sequin like the plain gotta have

Ash:

that's fair.

JP:

Yeah. Remind me. I'm, I'd be, I'm almost positive I have like, are they 50th anniversary years They do. like with Gold glitter. maybe, or Gold sequins. I'll bring, you, I'll bring them up for you. They're, They're new. But maybe they're, maybe they'll

Ash:

Oh, like that we bought you mean?

JP:

yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe they're, they'll come in handy for like, New Year's Eve

Ash:

I think I like the concept of ears, but I don't think it's something that I

JP:

What makes you not enjoy it?

Ash:

got a big no in,

JR:

they are starting to sell ears with that aren't a headband. They actually have like a stretchy strap.

Ash:

I've seen them, but like on Etsy, not on like

JR:

Disney. Disney

Ash:

That's a good investment for'cause some of us have odd shaped

JR:

mean, I can So long before my, a break.

JP:

How do you how do you feel about. The pe? not, not necessarily how, well, yeah. How do you feel about the people who are making the Etsy ones?

JR:

more power to them, like there's more creativity I did see that Disney is offering

JP:

How

Ash:

I did see that,

JR:

more, but we talked about that

Nat:

on a previous

JR:

Yeah. Where you could put like the little, make your own headband, but also you could add words

Ash:

Mm-hmm.

JP:

Oh, so like the ears.

JR:

Yeah. To

Ash:

Yeah. I saw too that people are getting even more creative with them.'cause they have like the, I don't know if it's like full leather or if it's like the fake leather ears, but people are like piercing them and like putting earrings in, like multiple earrings and just to make it more festive. And then some people are also putting pins in the ears. But I feel like that would make it super heavy.

JP:

Oh yeah. So I feel like, I feel like you could, you could, so there's like this hybrid, counterfeit kind of ear thing that you could do. So you could go buy the blanks from Disney, so that way you have like the real legit ear, but then if you're an artist, you could art out your own ears

Nat:

right?

JP:

and then they would be like semi authentic, semi custom. I wonder if that's if that's like a, like a saleable thing, Like you could just sell. resell blank ears, but Then you could offer like, Hey, as a customization to this I'll customize these ears as an artist, and maybe it could be airbrushing. or like, maybe somebody's just really good with Yeah. I bet you that's, that probably falls within the, don't take legal advice from me, but it, it might. be Legal. It was a couple that was making their own merch, their own ears and they were sued by Disney And then Disney revoked Their, annual pass and had them kicked outta the parks and they pretended as they were getting kicked out, they pretended like they didn't know why.

Ash:

shady.

JP:

I need to look them up.

JR:

Well, I, I do know that they partner with people who actually go to the licensing lounge Fly Is Lo Lounge Fly third party or is Lounge by branded

Ash:

it's third party. Third party, yeah.

JR:

So they do have lounge ply excuses now being sold in the park.

JP:

Yeah. they have Doy and Burke. Right. Doy and Burke makes ears.

Ash:

Yeah.

JR:

what I've noticed on the TikTok about the new drop ears some, they're starting sell some with how the bow has a, a, a button. So like you take the bow off,

Ash:

Oh

JP:

that would be good.

JR:

right? Especially for like, when you start getting into superheroes like Spider-Man. you don't

JP:

Yeah, no, exactly. Exactly. And you know, there's, I think if you, it, it, it is to me it feels like, like I wanna wear ears too, but I, I don't necessarily wanna wear the headband. Go

Nat:

I like that they have the magnate ears for the hats.

JP:

Who

Ash:

that's newer though, right? Didn't we see that? Yeah, it's, well, I thought I saw it for like Disneyland. Oh

JP:

That's what I'm not sure about.

Nat:

What? What was the question?

JP:

If it was third party or if it was Disney.

Nat:

Excuse me. Why I entered

JP:

Well, you look that

JR:

Google time. Like we should have a whole bit,

JP:

The couple that Disney sued, and kicked out. They got a final judgment this time last year, roughly about this time last year. A hundred thousand dollars. And they had to take down their site.

Ash:

dang,

Nat:

they had a whole site and It's just, I really don't understand like what, like how much you have to push to get their attention because there's like tons of people

Ash:

don't think it, you have to push that hard.

JP:

You know, I think if, I think the hard part here is like, there are, you have people who, are in like Ohio, who are making Tumblrs, right? And maybe they've got an Etsy shop and they're using creative titles. in their listings To avoid it. So it might just be like un un Copy unc copyrighted stuff like Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh, the, the, the story is not copyrighted anymore It's, it's, it's beyond that trademark. whatever. So you can use that character, but you can't use the Disney cartoon likeness, if that makes sense. Right. So you could say, like, you could say like, Winnie the Bear, you know, or you could say

Nat:

Oh, can you say poo bear?

JP:

Yeah. You could say

Nat:

So you can just break it up

JP:

Yeah. Break it

Nat:

can't say it as a whole.

JP:

Correct. Your listing might say things like M Mouse or Wd MK Mouse. kind of thing. And might just say, inspired by. And that would keep the search Engines From their legal team, they have like. they Web crawlers. that are looking for certain keywords. It would keep them from flagging that. and submitting a copyright infringement claim. And so also they don't seem as aggressive, but when you do it in their front and right, if you do it in their house and then they sent, they're with everything, They're gentle. So they say, they'll send you a letter first. and say, Hey, we, we don't

Ash:

cut this shit out.

JP:

Yeah, let's, let's stop. Let's get away. from If you don't, then they're like, they'll probably send you one more letter. like, Hey, we, we sent you this letter. We know you got it. We mean business. stop. And

Nat:

magnetic ears are not official But they do the job.

Ash:

Yeah. So I didn't, yeah, I thought what I had seen, and I sent you the TikTok about it, is in Disneyland they have hats, like ball cap hats with ears on them.

JP:

So I think also.

Nat:

that on the Disney store

Ash:

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nat:

saw

JP:

If, you, and I think that's hard to stop though too. So like, that's not, a, that's not necessarily copyright infringement if you just say, Hey, I have magnetic mouse ears that I sell.

Nat:

right. Exactly.

JP:

like, That's

Ash:

loophole.

JP:

I mean, not even just loophole. I mean, that's like if you were at Universal and you would sell like wand holders, they didn't necessarily have those things. remember I was taking like you ever see those like chapstick key chains They were like neoprene and you just slide your, your chapstick into the neoprene sleeve and it's on your key key ring.

Nat:

don't know this word that you're

JP:

A little elastic.

JR:

material

JP:

Yeah. Or like spandexy kind of. Material but a little thicker than spandex. I used to snip the bottom of them off, and then you could just slide the wand through the chapstick holder and clip it to your lanyard. Right? So could you essentially make a, you could market that as a wand holder, lanyard, wand holder. Somebody made them out of leather and then the, the park started selling them. That's the other thing is like if you keep it,

JR:

take your Yeah. If they take your idea, can,

Nat:

can you sue them?

JP:

So yes, you could,

JR:

it in court.

JP:

in that particular case, universal just did business with them. is all,

Nat:

Oh, that's cute.

JP:

Universal for the pennies. Universal asked me to submit for a vendor agreement with them. I

Nat:

remember at one point you, you had something going on with them. If it wasn't that something else. Right.

JP:

It is just too a it's a lot. There's a lot of work. and not enough time. Oh, that's a cute duck. Speaking of collectibles, Ashley Ashley has been on that toothless collectible search. Did you show Natalie your toothless duck?

Ash:

I did show her my duck. I don't know if, if January saw my

JR:

A duck.

Nat:

No, she didn't.

Ash:

It's in my office.

JP:

go Go get your mechanical. Toothless as well. the one that talks, too. I, Yeah. but I Bought it for her. So she's been on this like toothless collectible merch, whole person. And I like the painting, like that's what I, wanna collect. And Natalie, do you have anything that you like to merch, that you like to collect from the parks? If, if somebody came to you, and they were like bawling on a budget and wanted some sort of merch to collect without spending a whole bunch of money, what would you Recommend.

Nat:

I would probably suggest a Christmas

JP:

That is fantastic. I love that idea. Do, Do you, do y'all do Christmas ornaments from the parks? you collect? Yeah, we,

JR:

you can get them customized if you want that year on it

JP:

we, we get we do Christmas ornaments a lot actually, mostly from Universal. I'm gonna be honest. We haven't done a whole bunch of Disney but

Nat:

has a whole Christmas store. Does Universe have a Christmas door?

JP:

uni,

Ash:

he's a mini one.

JR:

but he's a.

JP:

Yeah. No, you do that. one

Ash:

So this is, this is my talking He does it

JP:

Once you activate him. He just goes and Pet his

Ash:

Like and his head shakes this morning. He moved on my desk. He had talked so much.

JP:

Talk. Show show.

Nat:

Cute.

JP:

I know when

JR:

is cute.

JP:

he's annoying during the day'cause he just talks

JR:

Oh, He's so cute. He's a, he's a companion.

JP:

Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah, universal does have, I have Christmas, stores. They have a Christmas store in every park which we, we, we enjoy going to the, Christmas. I like Christmas. I don't get, I don't give a shit who you are or what you're doing. I, I love the idea. of

Ash:

There you go.

JP:

So getting the ornaments. Yeah,

Ash:

he's just a baby.

JP:

Getting ornaments is, is, is a good time for us. Another thing that they do is they have, like a Christmas scavenger hunt. I think Disney does this at Disney Springs where it's like the tree hunt Universal does that, and then at the end of

Ash:

he went to sleep.

JP:

oh, At the end of it, you get, a, a, a themed ornament.

JR:

Oh,

Ash:

I mean, sometimes it's not the coolest ornament, but like sometimes it is like one year it was just like a plastic minion. But then another year it was like this full like metal,

JP:

Globe? like almost like one of those metal earth sculptures.

Ash:

No, that was a gift.

JP:

Oh.

Ash:

They do get fancy lately.

JP:

Let me float this by Natalie,'cause I. know this will Activate. Natalie,

Nat:

Oh, I already know God. Just go, just do it. Jesus,

JP:

Ashley? I didn't tell her anything. Oh, okay. So we had gone to Epic. To the Epic opening, grand opening on the 22nd.

Ash:

Oh fuck. You're going

JP:

I'm going there. I know. Buckle up. Natalie. Tell'em Yeah.

Ash:

you gotta, so you gotta take it back and tell

JP:

the whole story. No, I'm gonna tell the whole story. We we we purchased these tickets for for Epic, the grand opening day. And we, we purchased Express Pass for it, which was like$260 a

Ash:

a piece.

JP:

Yeah. per person. for the whole day. So to go to on all the rides that Express Pass style. But

Ash:

we had assumed that it was gonna be so packed, right. Like that it was gonna be extra busy and we, we would need these express passes,

Nat:

mean, it's opening day. That's a, that's a fair assumption,

JP:

they limited capacity so much that everything was. a walk-on. We were literally getting off of one ride and, and like walking. We didn't even get our stuff from the locker. we just walked right on the rollercoaster again. like Within minutes. Yeah. Of being seated. And we were just Being seated back

Nat:

Yeah. You got, you have to.

JP:

So here, here we were$500 into express passes with no value. We scanned them once to get into a show And it was a Spite scan.

Ash:

Oh, I guess, to be fair, we did use them twice because we also used it for monsters. We used it for monsters and we used it for the

JP:

and we used it for the show We used it for Mario Kart. But then we got, kicked outta the ride. Mario and then they immediately gave us a makeup pass for it. For that one ride. So,

Ash:

and it's good for like three months, four months.

JP:

Yeah. So when we got back,

JR:

to go back.

Nat:

I

Ash:

well wait. It gets better.

JP:

So when I got back, I was listening to people complain about. having Spent this money on express and then not needing it, and they were getting refunds. So I was like, you know what, it's been a week. Let me just send an email. So I emailed customer service, and IE and I copied Ashley on it, I was very polite with it, and I said, Hey you know, we, we enjoy your parks. We love coming to your parks. Here's the deal. We Came on opening day, we spent all this money. This is really the only thing that we feel that we didn't get a good value out of.

Nat:

Right.

JP:

How, how can we I forgot what are, is there a, sol? would you happen to have a solution? And they Said they first asked for the purchaser Ashley to give the order number. So she did. And they were like, Hey, it looks like you scan these. We Can't refund it. And we're gonna give you two tickets. to Epic and we'll leave, Matt will call for you Perfect.

Ash:

for free.

Nat:

How much is, how much is the ticket to what Epic.

JP:

Typical to a ticket to Epic. is about one between One 60 and one 90.

Ash:

Yeah. I think, well now that it's fully open, it's I think especially too after like, you know, after summer, after maybe like September it starts to go higher. So about 180. Yeah. I think was the average.

JP:

So I think we're gonna

Nat:

you guys are coming back and how long do you have to use it?

JP:

until they said they don't expire.

Nat:

That's a beautiful.

Ash:

So basically we go to pick it up on the day that we want to go and the tickets are supposed to be there. It will call for us and we'll be able to just go to the park. Girl math, it's free, right?

JP:

It is

JR:

Totally

Ash:

right. that. But like, how cool was that? Like they certainly didn't have to do it. And they were right. We did, we did

Nat:

You did scan it that, that, that's what you fucked

Ash:

Well, and not for

Nat:

you ever touch it

JP:

but we didn't

Nat:

it's walk

JP:

it, it says like, usually it says like, No, No refunds. Right. No refunds. Non

Ash:

Well, and not for nothing too. We actually didn't buy the Express Passes directly from Universal. We bought them out of Orlando Informer, which is technically a third party, but they are partnered with Universal, so Orlando Informers who we buy all of the the event tickets that we're telling you about the night stuff. And so aca, they do sell park tickets and they do sell express passes and the site was so inundated with Express Pass requests for when they release them after opening, you know, for opening day and later that we couldn't even get onto the Universal site. So I had bought them within minutes at the Orlando Informer. So I was fully expecting them to deny us because of that, because we didn't even buy it through Universal

Nat:

universal directly.

Ash:

did, they didn't even address it. I'm so impressed with how Universal handled that, because they certainly didn't have to do anything for us.

Nat:

Well, kudos to universal customer service and understanding and hearing you and accommodating'cause. That's awesome. You're absolutely right. They didn't have to for several reasons. So I'm really happy that you guys got that. I'm happy that you get to go back again. I'm tired of you guys coming. I'm just kidding.

Ash:

now we get to go back and I think we're gonna try to save it a little bit closer to like the holidays.'cause we were thinking, you

JR:

Oh yeah. Yeah. How are they gonna decorate?

Ash:

be. So I, I think maybe we should take like a Thursday or a Friday and go out there and do that. You know,

Nat:

support that.

JP:

I agree.

Nat:

I

Ash:

I'm, I was so stoked. I

Nat:

yeah. Yeah. Tell me,

Ash:

No, I was gonna say like, I told my sister about it and she was so jealous. She was just like, the luck that you guys have had lately with these, with this whole park situation, she was sick of me.

Nat:

I love it. I'm not saying I'm glad, I'm, I'm, I'm happy for you. I, what was I gonna tell you? Okay. What's the merch over there? What are we into

Ash:

Here we go. Okay. Buckle up.

Nat:

Buckle up. Butter cup.

JP:

it was opening day. And we, and

Nat:

Picture it.

JP:

the whole point of opening day for me is to yes, exactly, is to experience all these unique opening day treats. And'cause I, Like I always say this, I feel like Ashley had a better opportunity. I know she really didn't To, to open up one of the Disney rental parks like Animal Kingdom happened. She lived in Florida just because she lived in Florida. I make it up in my mind. It's a story that I tell

Nat:

I thought you were gonna talk about Josh sc, but Okay.

JP:

oh, why you gotta keep bringing him up. I beat him out for her. I won. Anyway, so, they had some merch, like, here's this epic universe opening day wrapped Coca-Cola bottle. You see this, this thing costs$4 in the parks. It's just a 20 ounce bottle of Coca-Cola and it's date stamped with the time and date of the opening park. The Official

Ash:

January's into it. Look at her.

JP:

Oh, yeah. I did drink it. I did drink it. This was a, I drank,

Ash:

it was hot.

JP:

$20 Coca-Cola is what I drank. is what they, they sell for$4.

JR:

for tacos once.

JP:

Oh

Ash:

Were they good tacos?

JP:

good tacos? Were they opening day tacos? Those self

JR:

flea market

Ash:

Oh,

JP:

oh,

Nat:

It made no sense.

Ash:

oh. Concerned

JP:

you usually pay for that the next day. Those, those were so those are on eBay currently listed at like, anywhere from 18 to$20 a bottle now.

Nat:

My gosh.

Ash:

yeah,

JP:

of The, yeah, they gave us a,

Ash:

oh, this, this I thought was really

JP:

They gave us a commemorative opening day ticket.

Nat:

Ooh. Are you gonna laminate it? Are you gonna put it somewhere

JP:

I am gonna put somewhere special. I'm not sure where I'm gonna put it. But They're numbered. And they also gave you a you can get, get a digital medallion. So They gave me a QR code for that. These were selling on eBay before we got home. For$50

Ash:

each, which by the way, were free as we walked outta the

JP:

included. Comes in a nice little envelope.

JR:

If it's limited, then you should have stacked up

Nat:

on them.

Ash:

Yeah,

JP:

right. We Should have kept looping around. They also had I like pins. I think y'all know. I like pins. They

Nat:

You like pants?

JP:

oh yeah. They had this these, each world, each world had a its own pin,

Ash:

like an opening day with a date

JP:

And you could buy it separately for like$18 a piece. And then midway through the day, they unveiled the grand opening pin box pin collection which

Nat:

Ooh.

JP:

a hundred, a hundred,$10, a hundred dollars, something like that if you just went in and bought it. But if you

Ash:

no discounts on that

JP:

if you buy on eBay now it's like 300

JR:

my goodness. So you should have

Nat:

bought two,

JP:

I did buy two. We're gonna give one to,

Nat:

so you should have bought three.

JP:

should have bought. four. Yeah,

Ash:

Should've bought. Yeah. Should've bought

JP:

should pay for the whole day.

Ash:

But again, that was something that we found literally as we were leaving. So we had bought the individual world pins as we walked in.'cause I was scared. I was scared they were gonna sell out. And so we bought the four worlds individually at 18 bucks a pop. And then we did the same for, you know, our, our friend group that also goes out there just in case they didn't have them when they came the next week. And so we carried these things around all day. And literally it was the last store that we went to as we were leaving. What time did we leave? It was like 7, 6 37 when we got to that

JP:

store. Yeah.

Ash:

And so we had bought the Coke in the store'cause Jonathan was. We were Dr. We were so hot. It was so hot that day. And as we walked out the door, there was a guy at the door and he was holding the pin box, like up against his chest, you know, like advertising it. We were like, bro, where'd you get that? He's like, man, we put these out 10 minutes ago. And we, we were, so, we were, we were concerned that like, we weren't gonna be able to return what we had bought. And he was like, yeah, if you have the receipt. And I was like, fuck. I threw away everything

JP:

not me. I kept that,

Ash:

thank God that was the one receipt

JP:

I pulled it out. I must, I pulled it out my ass crack. I'll tell you what

Ash:

I thought for sure that thing was gone and he, he whipped out that receipt so fast and they were really good about it. They, they exchanged it and they did the cost difference. And we left with a, a commemorative pin box of opening day. Epic.

JP:

Yes. I'm stoked on that. It'll go right next to my, my, pin board. I like the idea of trading pins with people as collectibles. Hmm. The issue that I have with that. is Lots of them are fake. so, yeah.

Ash:

Yeah.

JR:

Yeah.

Nat:

When you say fake, not licensed.

JP:

Yeah. Like knock off out of like, the Teo.

Ash:

well, and some of them are really nice fakes, so it's just a matter of what you're trying to accomplish. But

JP:

I like, I want, I don't want fake I want real, if I was collecting fake, stuff, I would, you know,

Ash:

that why I can't have a boob job?

JP:

We're edit that out. later.

JR:

Oh shit. That escalated quickly.

JP:

so,

JR:

want one?

Ash:

no.

JP:

So, the, if I, so, and you know, I collect pennies, so the pennies aren't out yet. So I, I definitely wanna get back to Epic. to Get more pennies. from them when they debut their penny machines. I'm hoping they do that this year.

Ash:

Yeah. I can't wait for them to be like, they were still definitely sold out of a lot of stuff. So like the toothless. You know, big bag that I bought when we went during the previews that wasn't there or available, A lot of their like mystery eggs plushies were, that was completely sold out. So they were definitely, you know, not lacking. I'm sure shipping is an

JP:

issue. they were going through. Yeah. You know, everyone knows that the tariffs were, are, are a concern and so getting stuff outta the port and over to. Right? My guess is that they port on the west coast because of Hollywood and then they probably just ship it across the country. Takes about a week to get here then. So those types of things had slow, had slowed stuff down. I'm

Ash:

I'm so stoked that we get to go back.

JP:

She's looking

Nat:

I'm so happy for you.

Ash:

I'm, so happy. For me,

JP:

the bucket hat is a big thing.

Ash:

Oh yeah. There was like this, like neon green and black toothless bucket hat. I don't even like bucket hats, but I wanted that toothless hat in a bad

JP:

Has little flappy ears.

Ash:

I think it does have like pokey ears, but I don't think it flaps,

JP:

yeah, so we're look cute. We're looking forward to getting some of that stuff. Yeah so I would say if you were, if I was bawling on a budget and needed a discount commemorative piece, there are two items that kind of pop into mind. And Mostly Disney related. The, the pennies, number one,'cause they're used, they're just a buck. Right. and they can really, if you emote with a particular character,

Nat:

They're, they're above, but like, but

JP:

you're paying for the, you're not, you're not just paying for paying right. You're, You're paying for the art. And Disney tends to have better copper in their machines as well.

Nat:

better pennies.

JP:

Yeah. Yeah. Disney has tends to have pennies that are either newer. Or have less like you can get now I like to see the, zinc. stretch out In there and I like to see Lincoln's face sometimes in the design of the penny. So uh, but you don't usually see that as much at Disney World. They either are, some machines, might just be using copper blanks.

JR:

trail,

Ash:

what are they gonna do when they stop making

JP:

they stop? Just use copper blanks. The Canada, when you go to Canada, you can't deface money like that's against the law. So they just use copper blanks instead of their 1 cent or their equivalent coin and, and other countries. So like you go to Tokyo, Disney, they don't have pennies, right? They have copper Blanks and you just purchase a pressed coin of sorts. So yeah. Do you guys

Ash:

like spirit jerseys?

JR:

do. I've been holding out for the one that really calls

JP:

I recommend that.

Ash:

Oh, you're strong.

JP:

Yeah. Hold out.

JR:

there was this yellow one. This really, this sparkly yellow one that I really liked,

Ash:

Oh, that's in your color palette

JP:

Like wish. That's like bluish. No, not

JR:

forgot what it was. I felt like it was bell

JP:

Oh, it could be.

Ash:

That sounds

JR:

or, no, I feel like it was like pineapple. Like they were doing the

Ash:

Oh, like the food one.

JR:

like

Nat:

doll. It was do whip. Yeah,

JR:

like doll whip.

JP:

well that's probably pretty good. sounds so fun. I think the issue with the spirit jerseys for me is that, and we're prepared, we're trained for it here. The laundry part of it, like you have to wash and hang dry. You can't wash and throw it in the dryer. All of my sports apparel. Is Wash and hang dry. So If you add, if you, if you introduce heat to the Spirit jersey, those things just come apart. the designs. Oh, yeah. Biggest complaint from people. Disney I think will make good on it. Like if, if you're, if you get it home, you're like, Hey man, I just bought this and I washed it and it's gone. to crap. They'll replace it, but really? Yeah. Hmm. Yeah. You gotta show a receipt. I'm sure.

Ash:

What I like is that Disney's starting to release, like soft spare jerseys, like a lighter weight material. I haven't seen it super often, but I do understand that it is becoming more popular. So I'm excited for that because it'd be hot out

JR:

Well, it's I would think they would have the same issues, like if it's thinner, have, to rip or have holes

Ash:

Oh, I don't

JP:

It's more so the designs come off in the dryer,

Ash:

especially like the puffy ones. Yeah,

JP:

that Yeah. So, yeah, absolutely. If you're

Nat:

sitting in the back of Disney with a cricket I'm hearing?

JP:

with their puffy paint from the, you remember the puffy paint from the nineties? It came in a little squeeze bottle, You like put'em on, like make your mom a Mother's day sweatshirt at daycare. Yeah.

JR:

oh. Is it

Nat:

like when I think I know what

JP:

You like squeeze it on. and like paint with it. I dunno. It was it was popular in the nineties. It was Probably toxic So they did away with it, but didn't Tell. anyone.

Nat:

So much you remember. Remember those? Remember the little tiny straws with the little tube of whatever it was, and you would blow? That definitely had to be

JP:

that was toxic. You could see kids were getting high huffing, huffing, quarter machine bubbles in, the back of their, it came in like a metal tube. like, a, Like, like it was like. rubber cement for kids?

JR:

Was it pink?

JP:

No, it was just like, it was like it was petrol based. But it was

JR:

Oh, it was glue.

JP:

It was, yeah, almost. It was like a little thin plastic. So what you do is it had this little straw, and it had like a little metal tube, like smaller than a, a travel toothpaste. And You would just like squeeze a little bit out, put it over the end of the straw and you would blow and it would, expand into a bubble, like plastic bubble. And that was, those were the toys we had.

Nat:

basically the it, there was no fucking purpose to it. It did. It wasn't a solid bubble. You weren't gonna play catch with that bubble.

JP:

yeah.

Nat:

It's, Semitic. It was, again, you could smell the chemicals.

JP:

We had the best, we had the best, you know, Natalie, the toys that we had when we were kids, we had lawn darts. Did you have lawn darts?

Nat:

You mean because I didn't have a lawn, lawn thing, but

JP:

They're giant. They're giant darts. And you put like a little hula hoop thing in the grass. in front of your feet, Somebody stands on the other side of the yard and heaves it up in the air and then try in an attempt to get it to stick in that ring. Meanwhile, your head and your feet and all your limbs and body is like in the middle. It was, I can't believe I'm not dead. Collected scars when I was, a kid. that's the kind of merch we, had. Hospital bills, Things, couple of things that are free or included at the park for for.

Nat:

about Epic or Disney?'cause there's nothing

JP:

at at Disney. At Disney.

Nat:

Disney has shade.

JP:

Oh. Wicked sick Burn. Natalie with a Wicked Sick burn maps. So each park has a has

Ash:

Epic did not have a physical map to be found.

JP:

I don't think universal

Nat:

2025, baby. Okay. That Epic wasn't, wasn't made in the 19

Ash:

Bro. Let me tell you, this last vacation that we just took, nothing had a physical anything. Not the car rental? Not the hotel. Nobody gave us a physical receipt.

JP:

Oh, oh,

Ash:

Everything was electronic. Yeah.

JP:

cool. I'm not opposed.

Nat:

Yeah. do we feel about

JP:

I'm okay. We got, we got the, we keep accidentally booking the, the Accessible room.

Ash:

I don't think it was an accident. No, it wasn't an

JP:

accident this time. wasn't an accident. Oh. Like it's, it's guaranteed on the first floor for the most part.

JR:

Do you bring,

Nat:

why do you, you don't wanna go up the stairs after

JP:

we have a bike. You've got a bike, right? It's a,

Nat:

the bike, sleeps with you, and that you, you

JP:

you think, you think, oh ma'am. I'm sorry. I

Nat:

I knew I

JP:

are you,

Ash:

activated

JP:

what is wrong

Nat:

to activate you. I just wanted to activate

JP:

oh. like if you're cold, they're cold.

Ash:

palpitations.

Nat:

just wanted to activate

JP:

Oh my goodness. Yeah. And then they have like a roll in shower. So,

Nat:

Oh.

Ash:

also clean the bike

JP:

in. Yeah. you can bring the bike in the shower. It has a little chair in the shower so you can sit down when you're depleted. Like all sorts of stuff.

Ash:

But I think also, like we knew because it was on the first floor, it would be cleaned sooner. Yeah. So literally check-in was at three o'clock. We got there at two 30 and we were able to

JP:

You go roll. We rolled right in. The, yeah, so maps maps are a freebie at Disney that I, so sometimes I like to go to Walmart and get, I ha it's been a while since I've done this. But go to Walmart and get the little plastic tumblers, the clear tumblers, and you can cut out the shape of the map and stuff it inside of the, the layer of the bottom on screws. So you have a, like a hollow core so you can stuff it inside there. Another thing that you could do with them is you could make them what do they call it? Mod Podge. Mod Podge. Yeah. The, G glue. January's on it She got to and, and kind of glue it into stuff you could cut out different shapes and get it to adhere to the inside of a clear ornament as well if you, if you do it right.

JR:

Oh, the map,

JP:

Yeah, for the map, Yeah. So there's a lot of different crafts you can do if you're creative or sometimes when I send people things who live out of state, I just throw like, it might be like, oh, I got you this Disney trinket and here's a map of the park that I got it from. And if you're a kid and you live in like Missouri, and you get a Disney World map, that's entertaining Right? Look at it, draw on it, play with it, explore it, tear it up, do whatever you want with it. Autographs are another freebie stand in line to you. I mean, you pay with your time, but you can take what's the trend now? Taking the all Wonka's, what are those bottles called? The, what are the, the tumblers. A Wallas. You're taking a, Yeah. A Wallas or Stanley's. And you take those, those tumblers to with like, different colored sharpies and they. the character sign that and then you just hit it. with a clear coda, like a spray paint when you get home and then,

JR:

water bottle,

JP:

yeah, Exactly. So like, but you don't have to take a new one. You take a used one one that you've been getting mileage on and, and you know that that's a free autographs are free and they preserve your memory from that trip. You'll drink from that bottle for the rest of whatever till a new version comes out. And you'll have that cell phone, shitty iPhone pictures. freebie, free collectible. Those are my those are my pro tips for if you're looking for things that are low cost or free. Pennies, maps, autographs, shitty iPhone pictures. Anyone got anything else? Oh, gotta love a shitty iPhone picture, right.

JR:

you ask the, the photographers to use your phone?

JP:

I think

Nat:

I mean, you, you can, you can, you can get the, the, the free, the pin for my first time celebrating. Oh, okay. The

JP:

Yeah. Even if it's not your birthday, go, go get it.

Ash:

Yeah. You can get a pin for anything.

JP:

Yeah. Celebrate Whatever. Sometimes you

JR:

do anniversaries as well.

JP:

yeah, absolutely. You can, I think you can, you can celebrate whatever you want. Like I, maybe we should do that next time. while we go to the parks, is just like go celebrate the dumbest thing ever. Like Whatever whatever. I don't know. I got new, new shoe day.

JR:

place in the 100.

JP:

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

Nat:

That wasn't the dumbest thing ever, but you know, she's just saying, oh,

JP:

I know. I got it. I'm picking up what she's putting down it's, it's with fresh watermelon day. we'll celebrate You know, whatever breakfast at Boma day. Look at that duck. It's rubber ducky day Yeah, I think, I think that's a, that was a great a great ad there, Natalie. I really I really like

Ash:

about the pins, but yeah, that's a whole, that's a whole thing.

JP:

Yeah. Anything

Nat:

I like the art. I would like to like save up and, and probably have like, when they have their pieces. I like to have, I like, I like to see their art. Like there was this one that was like a giant penny. Like that was, that was the art, like one of the And I was just like, I wish I were rich. I totally would buy that

JP:

I appreciate that it's a thought that counts.

Nat:

Yeah. The thought is that I'm poor, but

JP:

The art. So at the art, at at, Epcot or just like

Nat:

I, if I'm not mistaken, I saw it at Epcot. Let me like, excuse me, while I check the iPhone

JP:

if you had, if you had, if money was no object, you can go into that park and buy whatever souvenir you want. What are you buying and is it, so what are you buying and is it this soki crystal replica of the castle?

JR:

yeah. No, would, that's a magic Kingdom,

JP:

Yeah, it is. It is. I wonder if somebody has to dust that.

JR:

Yeah, probably.

JP:

Do you think they've ever sold one?

JR:

gotta go ask, is it it's for sale though,

JP:

Yeah, I don't even know how much it is now. You can buy it. There's definitely a price tag on it. I just, I don't know how much it is I wanna say it's like a car.

JR:

You might as well be a or Club 33. What is it called?

JP:

You club 33. You got it.

JR:

Yeah, you might as well be for the press of

JP:

see oh. It looks beautiful. It is def people take pictures of it all the time. But I wonder how much it is behind a case. It definitely has to have a price tag with, it.

Ash:

I thought it was like 5K.

JP:

for some reason actually, I thought it was more, but I mean, I could be. way off. Um Oh. Oh wow. Are you ready?

Ash:

Thousand? Yes. Wow.

Nat:

Wow.

Ash:

That's a house.

JP:

Yeah. That's not even a good house. That's just a house. By inflation standards. That's like,

Nat:

That is

JP:

Can you imagine if I had that, if I had that kind? That's why I'm like, if you had, if you had$250,000 that you had just go spend 250,000, that's not even including tax There's gotta be tax on that. Where are you putting it

Ash:

up high

Nat:

I,

JP:

in your, it's gotta be in, like how do you get it home?

Ash:

I hope they ship it because

Nat:

hope they ship it.'cause you don't want to carry it around the park all

JP:

Yeah. it's, it's gotta be the one. Can, I can't imagine they've sold any of'em, but maybe, maybe somebody's bought it.

Ash:

I can't fathom that they haven't sold any. Then why other than just the

Nat:

I don't have, I

JR:

think you have to love Disney a lot. A

Ash:

I think there are some crazies out there. I mean, no offense to the crazies.

JP:

I mean, we love Disney a lot over the course of our lifetime. We're probably going to spend, I bet you we spend a hundred thousand dollars. at Disney. If Disney was valuing us as Disney put price tags on us. Yeah. If they were, how much, so how much is your Disney Plus account? each month? How much do we pay for Disney Plus and Hulu?

Ash:

Well we have the cable package with them, so it's like 80 or 90 bucks.

JP:

So 80 or 90 bucks a month goes directly. from, have the

Ash:

have a cable package,

JP:

goes directly to them Right. For entertainment purposes. Not to mention our annual passes each year, which go up. Right.

Nat:

yeah. Yeah. I know.

Ash:

Don't activate her

JP:

So from our house, let's just, I'm just gonna use round numbers from our house. It's$3,000 a year. Just in, just in access. Just to

Ash:

You're making me hostile.

JP:

Right. So we spent, from our household, we spent$3,000 a year just to gain access to the, the Disney entertainment. Not to Mention what is spent when we go there. So we've been, we've been spending money on resorts.

Ash:

We, we went there not too long ago with a nugget. And I know this is not that kind of podcast, but it was so hot and we had been there for so long that, that, that little girl handed me a stuffy. Said she wanted it. And I didn't bat an eyelash. Nothing could have cost me a hundred dollars and I gladly would've paid for it just to get us out of there to go home. You know what I mean? And it was, at the end of the day, bless her heart, she waited till the end of the day to ask for something. And thankfully, this was a$20 stuffy that she now worships the hell out of. But like, to your point, we're gonna spend the money and we're, we're rarely gonna bulk at it.

JP:

Like food drink.

Ash:

Yeah. I, I don't go there looking for a bargain, you know what I mean? And I think we lucked out for the resort that we booked in July, which ended up being like 215 bucks for a mod resort. So I'm stoked for that. Like, who else would be stoked for that kinda money? Nobody. We're crazy,

JP:

but still like, we're gonna, so we're gonna go up there and we're gonna spend, we're only spending one night there, right?

Ash:

I mean, I only booked one night.

JP:

No. So we spend one night there,

Ash:

The French Quarter, I Porter.

JR:

Quarter, you guys, you're gonna get beignets.

Ash:

Fuck.

JP:

Oh Yeah. This is the money It's, I'm telling. We're already spending money. We're gonna get dinner, we're gonna get dinner, we're gonna get drinks, we're going, we're going, we're gonna spend money, we're gonna go to a park, we're gonna spend money. at the parks. So like, do you take, speaking of resorts, I love taking the little soaps. Oops.

JR:

You know, I'm gonna be real. I like to do it too. But then when you have like five or six of them hanging out for like three or four years,

JP:

mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. What my friend, I have a friend who has like a bunch of them, like the, like he collected them from everywhere he's traveled to, and he did a lot of traveling for work. So we'd take him from the hotel rooms and he would bring'em back. And in his guest bathroom was like a big, clear vase. Like the, size of like my torso. and it was just filled up with all the soaps. and. Yeah. And it's basically like, oh, hey, you're spending a night with us. Yeah. You don't need to bring anything. We just, just Take it outta this container. in our guest bathroom. Take what you want. kind of thing.

Ash:

It was mildly bougie, but so cool.

JP:

It was wild. Yeah. Same. Same person also had a life sized cut out of, Justin Bieber in his downstairs bathroom and half bath. It was amazing. We Used to go in there and the trick to getting a good selfie with with the cardboard cutout was to go, Baby, baby. baby. Ooh. And then take the picture real quick. May he rest in peace,

Nat:

Wait, what?

JP:

Justin Bieber. He's not Then I thought he was out. I thought he checked out. No, he will be Puffy's gonna do'em in.

JR:

My geez. Nice. Did you see conspiracy?

JP:

I haven't seen anything, I'm be honest.

JR:

theory?

JP:

gimme the, gimme the de.

JR:

Bieber, his wife who owns a makeup company. Guess how much her makeup company just got bought out

JP:

Oh, a billion.

JR:

a billion.

JP:

Who bought it?

JR:

who like why is her makeup company. Netting a billion,

JP:

Oh,

JR:

valued at a billion

JP:

you're say to keep'em quiet. Interesting, interesting. I like it. I like it.

Ash:

it is, it is mildly suspicious. There was a makeup. A makeup influencer on, on the socials that was commenting on how brand new her makeup line was Haley Bieber's makeup line road. It's called Road. So it was only released in like 2022 or something. So it's literally a baby in the makeup world. And there are, there were several other well-known, very marketable makeup brands that were also on the market for sale. And so it was just, it's, it has been flagged as very interesting that hers only being a handful of barely three years old sold for such an astronomical amount. That is true.

JP:

Interesting.

Nat:

Interesting.

Ash:

But I hadn't gotten the

JR:

I don't, I don't think Justin Bieber's gonna get up there. Y'all

JP:

No, I don't think he's gonna get on. I mean there, I think the stuff that quite honestly, I think the stuff that Justin experienced might be Something he wants. to keep. Yeah.

Ash:

Well, and I think he was very likely a minor at the time, so I don't know that they'll call him for it right now. I think they have plenty on deck currently. I also think the, the focus of the crimes are on women currently. So Bieber being

JP:

meaning like they were the victims. And you, wanna, okay.

Ash:

I think the, I think they're trying to prove the Cassie case more than anything else. I think that's enough to put'em away for a

JP:

for, Let's, let's shift out of,

Ash:

I didn't

JP:

I know that was me. It's my fault. But let's shift out of it now. Thank you.

JR:

you brought Justin Bieber into

JP:

I, that was me. It was my, I'm the problem. All right, does anyone have anything else they wanna add before we before we roll? On

Nat:

Hmm. What's your least favorite merch?

JR:

Oh.

JP:

least? fa I don't know if I have a least favorite.

Nat:

that's like, why does this exist? Well, I took my, I took my nephew in Mohin, it's his first time and I was asking him if he wanted anything was, he, he kept, we went to the store, he looked at stuff. He kept going back little like stuffed animal magnet thing. Like they were like this small. And it's like, I asked the lady, I'm like, what are these? And she, I'm like, what are these for? And she looks at me and she's like, they're magnets. And like the little hands open up and you like, it clamps on the other side. Like, people just, she's like, I have a coworker who will put'em on the fridge or people will clamp them into like

Ash:

to their bag straps.

Nat:

right? And she's like, you know. It is like she gave me this look like it's a pointless piece of,

JP:

Oh,

Nat:

and I'm like, okay, say no more. And for what? He like, he's so funny'cause he kept looking at different things and kept going back to the magnets and I ended up getting him three of'em.

JP:

huh. That's, That's just one three, You know, the kids, they, they, I know we're, we're we're Disney adults. Part of being, There's not, there's not, there's no like 9-year-old kid showing up at the gate, plunking down. 150,$180 a day to go into the park. Those are adults. who are paying for those Disney tickets and planning it and getting'em in the parks and stuff like that. So not for nothing. We we're not, we're not coldhearted. We, we see

Ash:

My nugget gets what my nugget wants.

JP:

Yeah. So I'm down for that. All right, so that's your, so the, the backpack trap magnet thing.

Nat:

No, no, no. That wouldn't be it. I don't

JP:

I I thought of one that is, that I

Nat:

Ooh, it came, it came in. I, I needed to be something.

JP:

Yeah. There's, There's one that I despise.

Nat:

That, that escalated quickly from not having anything to

JP:

You leave me alone long enough. I'll think of the one thing that, I would love to break. And it's not, it's not a me thing. Like I am sorry. It is a me thing. It's not an everyone else. thing. Like if we're at the park and you have this cool, I don't care It's when a member of my party has it, that I get that I'm very upset.

Nat:

Oh

Ash:

A stroller.

JP:

No, I don't care about strollers, bubble wands.

Nat:

Wow. I like the Bumble wine. it.

JP:

if you have them, that's perfectly fine. I love that For you spray your bubbles all over the place. I don't care. It's when, when we take people to the park, and they're insistent on bringing, a bubble wand and we haven't made it, outta the parking lot. And that thing is on full blast. Just spraying your load of bubbles all over the place and now I'm the person who's responsible for, for getting you wet with our bubbles or soapy with our bubbles. What you're trying to eat. I get, upset.

Nat:

But you're not responsible. You're not the, you're not the bubble holder. What? You know, the,

JP:

I know, but I'm in charge of that person sometimes.

Nat:

interesting.

JR:

You know, I get it. Because I'll be walking around and I'll be like, you don't necessarily wanna walk through the bubble cloud.

JP:

Yeah. I mean, and genuinely, I don't care if you have, if you have bubbles and you put your bubbles all over me, I'm cool. I

Ash:

You just don't wanna be the person f

JP:

Correct. I don't wanna be the, I don't wanna be seen as a person who's

Ash:

He doesn't wanna be the

JP:

want out. Yeah, exactly. I'm not gonna be mad at you for having a good time. I'm not gonna yuck your yum, but I. don't wanna piss you off. Yeah, there. So,

Nat:

I hear you. I, I see what you're saying. Especially'cause like you said, you don't wanna feel the soapiness or on your skin or whatever it may be. I will say it can be handy, blah, blah, blah. Wand. I've only, only'cause I've experienced it in in rave world. We had our friend who was also, he's a wanderer but we would follow the bubbles and we would be able to locate him.

JP:

winds up. Oh, there he is. I can see him over there. He, so He is. That crowd over there. Look at him. He is got a very bubbly personality.

Nat:

Yes he does.

JP:

Are are y'all, are y'all going to the parks for for Gday this this

Nat:

nah, we can't, we're all booked up this

JP:

Same. We, I wanted to go. but we're, we're not able to go for it. Bummer. Do we have any correspondence who might be going to Gade?

Nat:

No. Some of our planes are with those correspondence.

JP:

okay. Dang. All

Nat:

having our own good days.

JP:

No worries. The merch dropped for love is Universal as well. Again, so anybody who's interested in Spending money, to help facilitate major corporations to profit from the sexuality of others feel free to purchase those things. I think that universal, is universal teeters on the edge, like I almost wanna shift it in their favor.'cause they sell the, lovers universal merch all year round. They just release new, new merch at this time of year. And then the IP at. Universal. It's a little more Friendly, with the exception of the wizarding world. We all know that Joe Row has her own issues, her own burdens to bear, but universal has the Minions. So when you walk into Minion Mayhem in the middle of that store is a minion in drag. And it's literally a queen.

JR:

is there all year long,

Ash:

All year long.

JP:

year long. Huge, massive drag queen, minion which is which is great. What is it? The Jurassic Park. That whole IP is built off of transgenders.

JR:

right, because the, dinosaurs changed their sex to procreate.'cause remember in Jurassic Park, one, they only bred females,

JP:

Mm-hmm. Love will find a way. Life will find a way. Is that what he says? And it's very poignant. If you see, there's a couple of references in that when he is in the helicopter and he has the two female ends of the seatbelt and he can't get them to click together, he just ties him in a

JR:

ties them.

JP:

ma'am.

JR:

Tie them in. No, you can tie

JP:

So, yeah, I think, I think the IP there lends itself to to the love is universal, theme again, with the exception of Joe Rose's work, which we don't fully support. Anyway.

JR:

hats.

JP:

You like, you like hats as in HAT or Kaz as in

Nat:

H

JP:

Okay.

Nat:

Yeah. I remember like my first had these three Disney hats,

JP:

Oh, are we going, are we going back to like merch that you like? like, All right. we're Shifting gears, let's shift this back. and, Hey, Natalie, do you have any other merch that you'd like,

Nat:

I like

JP:

You like hats? okay.

Nat:

Yeah.

Ash:

Like a particular

JR:

I like lamp vibes.

Nat:

I like, it depends. Like, not all hats, it just has to call my name. Like I have, I have a, like, core memory. When I was a kid, like my mom was at TJ Maxx and she, she had gotten me three Mickey Mouse hats. Like, they had like the m it was a white one, like a teal one. And I don't remember the third one. Maybe it was two shit, but I'm pretty sure it was three. My first like Mickey Mouse hats. I love those hats.

JP:

I like hats too. I.

Nat:

Oh, and I also liked their watches. I used to have a goofy watch. It was the, the, the numbers on it was back. They were backwards.'cause you know,

JP:

He is goofy.

Nat:

it's goofy. Yeah. And then my mom had one, I. That, like, I've actually looked it up.'cause she actually, somebody broke into her house a few years ago

JP:

Oh no.

Nat:

took, they took her jewelry, including the, like, I wanted this watch, like

JP:

They,

Nat:

be my watch.

JP:

they took the goofy watch.

Nat:

the, no, not the goofy watch. That was mine. I lost that several times. But my mom's watch the, the Mickey Mouse watch.

JP:

I remember you telling me about the goofy watch. That's an expensive that's a, that's an expensive collectible. Well, maybe not too expensive. But still, I think those things are selling for like 80,$80 each.

Nat:

Actually went through three of She

JP:

I know we touched on it a little bit. Do you like to make your own Disney march?

Nat:

I'm not creative enough for that.

JP:

I don't know. you can probably, do things without

Ash:

this fight with you.

JP:

Yeah. I, you know.

JR:

don't dedicate enough time

JP:

Yeah. I think you're creative. You just, you elect not, to use your creativity in that way, which is fine. really fine. I'll Accept it. I wanna do like a. I wanna do another vest, but I wanna line the back of it with like the soft side of Velcro. and then I wanna take different Disney patches and line it with the harsh side of Velcro. and then put it like deck, like do like a very dynamic park vest and like the kids can play with it when we're in line, like move the characters around on my back. That doesn't sound appealing to me. Maybe. All right. I know we're getting, we're getting late here. And y'all have some plans. Any final thoughts?

Nat:

Stay. Think.

JP:

Stay dank. All right. I like That's a

JR:

it. up.

JP:

dank it up.

JR:

Think it up.

JP:

Thank you. Appreciate that. January. You, Are you saying you can't get up? We can't see you.

JR:

No, I'm saying think it up.

Nat:

I can't.

JP:

Oh, There she is there. she is. All right. She ready to, you ready to dank out. All right. Thanks everybody for, for listening. We'll see you again next week. What are we talking about next week?

Ash:

I don't know that we have

Nat:

we don't know. We haven't talked

JP:

Okay.

Nat:

chosen.

Ash:

it's a surprise to all of

JP:

Oh, no. Let's

Nat:

a surprise.

JP:

what does that say? Right There Ashley? No, not that one. We can't use that one because that's not December yet. What's this one? Oh. Who, who wants to talk about emotions? Next week?

JR:

Ah. I mean, we should have talked about it this emotional.

JP:

All right, so Next week. Apparently we're talking about Disney being a coping mechanism. Who's responsible for that one? Is it you, Ashley,

Ash:

Sounds like some dumb shit I would put in there.

Nat:

let me see. Ashley added this card on May 19th.

JR:

I like what she put, added this card.

Ash:

he's so mad you guys.

JP:

All right. Dan out.

Ash:

Dan

JR:

Yeah. It's a coping mechanism.

JP:

You guys rough.

Nat:

time

JR:

for the childhood. I didn't get,

Nancy:

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