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[0:52] David Alpert: Welcome to E-Ticket to Broadway, where Broadway meets Main Street.

[0:58] David Alpert: Here's your host, my pal, David Alpert.

[1:04] David Alpert: Hey everyone, and welcome to this extra magic hour. I'm David, and I'm the creator and host of E-Ticket to Broadway, the podcast where your favorite Broadway stars share their love of the Disney parks. This is now the fifth extra magic hour, and each one has been so much fun. If this is your first time, welcome. And to those returning, welcome back. Let us know in the comments where you're watching from and be sure to tag us online in any post that you may make.

[1:45] David Alpert: Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and follow on Instagram to see photos of our guests at the parks, play games, and learn who's going to be on those upcoming episodes. There are a lot of Broadway stars who love the Disney parks, and there have been nearly 30,000 downloads so far. So I'm glad it's bringing some Disney magic into the world during these times. Well, one of Walt Disney's most favorite and famous quotes reads, "I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing, that it was all started by a mouse." And tonight we're celebrating the birthday of not just Mickey's Mouse, but also of Minnie Mouse. They both appeared in Steamboat Willie, which was released on November 18th, 1928, 92 years ago today.

[2:30] David Alpert: And I want to share because there's a lot of us that love the mice. So if you take a look, we've got some of our listeners, some of our stars on the podcast. Everyone loves Mickey's. I love everyone in these photos so much. I also wanted to share right above the title are my nephews, Benjamin and Ari with their Mickey's Mice. Yes, that's right, plural Mickey's Mice, that I got from the Disneyland Emporium. I think it's important that we share with the next generation this little mouse that teaches friendship, bravery, and doing the right thing.

[3:04] David Alpert: In addition to all the fun that comes with an E-Ticket episode, tonight is a fundraiser for Gilana's Fund, an incredibly special organization that was created in 2007 after my sister Gilana passed away. In her memory, my family and I have raised over 100,000 and given grants across the country to organizations promoting inclusion, justice, and acceptance. So please consider donating tonight and throughout the night to make the world a better place. Later on, we're also going to talk about how to help those Disney cast members that are in need of some extra help these days, and we'll be sharing links on how you can help these magic makers. So now on with the show. I'm so excited to celebrate tonight with some certified Broadway stars who have all been guests on E-Ticket to Broadway. Please welcome Eden Espinosa, Andrew Barth Feldman, and Lesli Margherita.

[3:42] David Alpert: Hi friends! Oh, Ian's got a wonderful Mickey's Mouse shirt, and we actually have a friend joining us who's just popping in now because unfortunately Drew Galen's internet went kaput. It is a dunzo. Welcome to 2020! But we are so happy to have stepping in last minute, he's swinging in from a vine, please welcome Josh Strickland. What's up y'all? Oh my gosh, literally this is, you see my parents? They're already Christmas. They are very proud. I had to borrow their ears.

[3:42] Andrew Barth Feldman: This is my Mickey's puppet that I think is like, it's an heirloom. Like it's definitely like my older brother's. He's just hanging out. I got this guy behind me. I went Mickey's specific today because we have to.

[5:22] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[5:23] Andrew Barth Feldman: So I got this shirt with all these Mickey's.

[5:25] Lesli Margherita: So I guess we have, I got this shirt with these Mickey's too, Andrew.

[5:31] Lesli Margherita: I love it. I love it.

[5:33] David Alpert: We are so on brand, Josh. Thank you for stepping in. Literally the 11 o'clock hour. We're so happy to have you. As we talked tonight about Mickey's and Minnie. So Eden, on your episode, you actually talked about how Mickey's was your favorite character.

[5:47] Eden Espinosa: I can be like he's my best.

[5:49] David Alpert: Yeah. Well, you like, what would if you guys went outside of Disneyland, what would you want to do with Mickey's for the day?

[5:56] Eden Espinosa: I mean, I think it would involve a picnic at a park of some sort. And then we'd like maybe get a scoop of ice cream while we were walking to our next adventure, which might be a movie or, you know, or like a show or something.

[6:14] Lesli Margherita: Very romantic.

[6:15] Eden Espinosa: Yes, yes, great.

[6:17] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, but platonic romance.

[6:20] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, platonic romance.

[6:21] Lesli Margherita: Oh sure. Platonic date with Mickey's Mouse. You don't want to make Mickey's jealous now.

[6:27] Eden Espinosa: Oh no. And you know, they do live in separate homes, but the Disney company has said they are married, but okay that's the way to do it.

[6:28] Lesli Margherita: That's the way to do it.

[6:36] David Alpert: So I would love, she's like, I'm gonna own my own piece of property. You can stay at your house, I'm gonna stay at mine.

[6:44] Eden Espinosa: That's right, that's right.

[6:45] David Alpert: So, um, I've got, what's funny is for some of you, not Drew, but you some of you have worked at the parks. I want to share that some people that worked at Disneyland. So we've got, there's Drew as Prince Charming. We've got Pocahontas, we've got magical dancer with Mickey's.

[7:04] Eden Espinosa: Magical dancer.

[7:05] Lesli Margherita: Actually, today is National Princess Day, and so I on my Instagram, I put a picture of me as Belle, which is just not, Belle has never had more makeup in her life.

[7:17] Eden Espinosa: Like it is.

[7:19] Lesli Margherita: She is beat.

[7:21] Eden Espinosa: Um, we saw that.

[7:23] David Alpert: That's actually that photo of yours, Belle is on the Instagram page. We love it.

[7:27] Eden Espinosa: Great and Eden of personality.

[7:30] David Alpert: Okay. And Eden, you did both Aladdin and Little Mermaid.

[7:37] Eden Espinosa: Yes.

[7:41] Eden Espinosa: I'm going to another room to see if the internet's better because you guys were like getting in and out.

[7:46] Lesli Margherita: It's like a Disney ride, though. We're going to think we had a blackout section.

[7:52] David Alpert: Very excited. I'm taking you.

[7:57] David Alpert: I do want to point out that Andrew, I think that might be you as that woodland creature in Snow White.

[8:02] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh, it is. You're right.

[8:03] Andrew Barth Feldman: I wasn't sure.

[8:06] David Alpert: The one on the left though, that like, yeah, no, totally.

[8:10] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah.

[8:11] David Alpert: Is that Dopey?

[8:13] Andrew Barth Feldman: I think that's Dopey.

[8:14] Andrew Barth Feldman: Dopey back.

[8:17] Andrew Barth Feldman: It's Dopey, please. I will say I when Enchanted Tales with Belle opened in Disney World, which is like essentially a glorified character meet and greet, but like they let you like play parts in Beauty and the Beast. And I was like just about to be too old for it. So I thought I was too old for it. And so they were like, do you want to be beast? And I was like, no. And every day after that, I regretted that not taking that opportunity.

[8:45] Lesli Margherita: Very smart of you to be like, I've aged out.

[8:47] David Alpert: So guys, find some anger for this, please.

[8:51] David Alpert: Well, of course, we do have this lovely photo of Andrew with Mickey's.

[8:55] Lesli Margherita: Oh, they're so sweet.

[8:58] David Alpert: I mean, I've shared this on the podcast, but, and Josh Wayon, you know, when you're at the parks and we see Mickey's, I always say to Mickey's, like, oh my gosh, Mickey's, do you remember me? And he always nods yes, and I'm always like, oh, what in 500 billion kids did I remember? Okay. I'm not saying kids, I do this every time I go.

[9:18] Josh Strickland: Well, let's be honest.

[9:21] David Alpert: But do you like to change doors?

[9:24] Josh Strickland: Well, yes.

[9:25] Josh Strickland: But you guys can be awkward.

[9:29] David Alpert: It might. Josh, do you enjoy meeting Mickey's and Minnie in the parks?

[9:32] Josh Strickland: Absolutely. I mean, that's usually one of the first stops. Like you have to kind of get that out of the way because that's one of the most important. You know, you gotta get your pick with Mickey's.

[9:42] David Alpert: That's right. And we asked the other day on the pod or on the Instagram page, do you prefer to meet Mickey's and Minnie on Main Street or in their homes?

[9:43] Josh Strickland: In their homes.

[9:51] David Alpert: Yeah.

[9:52] Josh Strickland: On your Main Street guy.

[9:54] David Alpert: I think that I'm like, I need them in their element, which is their own space. And I love that the home is just so fun to walk through. It's all the cute little things that are everywhere that I think is, it kind of makes it more magical for me. I love doing that and in like the middle of the night, like right before Disney Night's about to close. Go to Toontown. Nobody's in the house, and they're still there.

[10:16] Eden Espinosa: And Mickey's.

[10:18] Josh Strickland: Of course, they live there.

[10:19] David Alpert: They live there. That's why I liked Toontown so much because it's literally like all their houses, like where they live and their space, and it was just so cool and magical whenever that came out.

[10:30] David Alpert: Right. All right, right. Um, so I want to share as Eden's working on internet. I have actually been preparing for this. I want to share this press clipping from the Muskegon Examiner, probably. So this is a 1993 celebrating 65 years of Mickey's Mouse. We're gonna read about the kids of Church Elementary. But if you look at the last few lines, the school's front display case was filled with Mickey's items belonging to David Alpert, a church student and big fan of Mickey's Mouse.

[10:59] David Alpert: So I've been on brand, but I want to share it. My mom did find this photo, so brace yourself. This is, there he is. Look at how proud you are.

[11:10] Lesli Margherita: That is so cute.

[11:12] David Alpert: And clearly, what is that pilgrim puppet?

[11:15] Lesli Margherita: I was gonna say, where is it?

[11:16] David Alpert: Well, of course, as we know, it is November, and back in the 90s, we weren't quite aware of the true story of Thanksgiving. We are clearly, I would not be proud.

[11:26] Lesli Margherita: No, but there was a puppet show about the first Thanksgiving, and I was really proud of my puppet, and it was a choice.

[11:26] David Alpert: It was a choice. Um, but, uh, kind of guess for the group, I guess what I know it's, it's gonna haunt me. The question is, why do we love Mickey's and Minnie so much? Why do you think we love them so much? Anyone?

[11:52] Josh Strickland: I'm like, they're so joyous, no matter why, and even though like in some cartoons they get a little like angry, feisty, but I think it's just like the, I don't know, when I see them, I'm so happy.

[12:04] Lesli Margherita: Right.

[12:05] Josh Strickland: Well, I think it's also too what they represent, you know, as like they represent the whole, the company as a whole, and there's so many magical things that the company has done, but they're like the, the two, Mickey's and Minnie are the two that really were like this is the start of it all.

[12:21] Lesli Margherita: And so I think that there's just this undying love for them because they're OGs, you know, it's just like it's kind of that unconditional love.

[12:30] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, it's, it's, you're right, it's the nostalgia as a whole of like, it's just so comforting, you know, like the, like the cartoons that are on in the hotel, I'll just turn them on sometimes to be like, especially now, but like yeah, it's a storm. It's just comforting, it's comforting that they'll always be there.

[12:48] Josh Strickland: This guy's so old, so old now, but he's always gonna be there forever.

[12:52] Eden Espinosa: 92. He looks amazing. You know, and sometimes at the parks, Mickey's, there was a while in Florida where Mickey's actually did speak.

[13:00] Josh Strickland: Yeah, I think they learned they're like, I never saw that Mickey's.

[13:05] Lesli Margherita: I didn't either. I think the time that I went, he didn't speak. I could be wrong. I might have seen it one time, but I think they realized that now people are expecting all like kids expect all Mickey's to speak, and so they stopped.

[13:16] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, I mean, it was pretty, I will say it was pretty magical. It was pretty cool. I think I like the original. Well, I mean, of course, that but whenever you like have never heard him before, and then you're asking him a question, and then he's actually speaking to you. I was like it's crazy, yeah.

[13:34] Josh Strickland: And it's a little personal, a little bit more.

[13:37] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, it's personal, yeah.

[13:39] David Alpert: Um I know, I didn't either. So um Eden's working on internet, it's in and out, but that's okay, because we're so happy to have you with us. We can still see your beautiful face.

[13:51] Josh Strickland: We can.

[13:52] David Alpert: Um, but we are going to move in because E-Ticket to Broadway. We're going to move to our first activity.

[13:58] Lesli Margherita: Oh, you're fing in ears.

[14:06] David Alpert: It's trivia time.

[14:07] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh boy.

[14:12] David Alpert: Speaking of personal, Mickey's Mouse just literally was like, it's trivia time.

[14:18] Lesli Margherita: He knows.

[14:19] Andrew Barth Feldman: He knows.

[14:21] Lesli Margherita: Yes, agreed. Even though it is a mouse, Mickey's is the best at being human.

[14:27] David Alpert: And there is a lot that Walt Disney said that kind of Mickey's represents him, you know? Great. So we're going to play some Mickey's trivia.

[14:39] David Alpert: And uh what's so fun about this time is we actually want you watching to play along via the Instagram page. So you want to uh head to Instagram, go to um @eTicketToBroadway, and you're gonna go to the stories and play along, and we're gonna kind of watch that fun stuff.

[14:57] Lesli Margherita: So um again, remember, my friends, this is not a real competition.

[15:03] Andrew Barth Feldman: Be kind.

[15:04] David Alpert: You say that now.

[15:08] David Alpert: So Eden's back with us, she's coming in. Um what you want, Josh. If you have like pieces of paper that say A, B, C and D on it, A, B, C or not.

[15:19] Josh Strickland: You can also just speak.

[15:20] David Alpert: So um, I'm going to do the first one. So I want to give everyone enough time to uh head to um uh Instagram.

[15:30] Lesli Margherita: Okay, is it only the four letters A B C D?

[15:34] David Alpert: That's right.

[15:36] David Alpert: Um great okay, ready everyone? So they're all gonna be multiple choice.

[15:48] David Alpert: I've asked you to prepare these cards. So and also a big thank you to Natalie for the research for this. These are some great questions.

[15:54] David Alpert: Uh I do not know the answers. I know them now, but I was like, did not know.

[15:59] Lesli Margherita: So everyone's gonna play along at home on the Instagram.

[16:02] Andrew Barth Feldman: Wait, you didn't know these answers, and you had a display of Mickey's.

[16:08] Lesli Margherita: I am angry at you.

[16:10] Andrew Barth Feldman: I feel attacked.

[16:12] Lesli Margherita: I feel attacked.

[16:13] David Alpert: Well, let's see how you do, Josh.

[16:17] David Alpert: Question number one.

[16:19] David Alpert: Okay. Who drew the first Mickey's Mouse comic strip published on January 13th, 1930? Was it A, Walt Disney? B, Ub Iwerks, C, Wynn Smith, or D, Floyd Gottfriedson.

[16:34] Andrew Barth Feldman: Uh oh. Could be completely wrong. I I don't know.

[16:36] David Alpert: And we're gonna check on the Instagram page how everyone's responding to that.

[16:42] David Alpert: First question. I'm gonna put it back up.

[16:45] Lesli Margherita: Oob earworks, Andrew.

[16:48] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yep.

[16:48] Lesli Margherita: Damn straight.

[16:51] David Alpert: The first one's not quite up yet.

[16:56] David Alpert: Well, we're gonna give everyone a chance as we do this first one to get some other chance.

[17:03] Josh Strickland: Well, my mom commented.

[17:05] Lesli Margherita: Mom, don't comment.

[17:06] Andrew Barth Feldman: You want to uh hi ma.

[17:09] Lesli Margherita: Hi mom!

[17:10] Andrew Barth Feldman: Hi mom.

[17:10] Lesli Margherita: I this was a guess for me.

[17:12] Lesli Margherita: I just you two. It's probably uh I hope so.

[17:17] Andrew Barth Feldman: I know he drew he came up with Mickey's Mouse, but I don't know if he drew the comic.

[17:21] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, I think you're I think you're correct.

[17:22] David Alpert: I just don't know how to do it okay.

[17:24] David Alpert: So everyone, it's on it's live right now. We've got 10. We've got three for Walt Disney, 10 for Ub Iwerks, one for Wynn Smith, three for Floyd, Mr. Floyd, Lesli and Josh were saying Walt Disney.

[17:37] Andrew Barth Feldman: Andrew's saying Ub Iwerks.

[17:40] David Alpert: Uh we've got more people voting in.

[17:43] David Alpert: The answer is everyone.

[17:45] Lesli Margherita: B.

[17:46] Andrew Barth Feldman: Andrew.

[17:48] Andrew Barth Feldman: Okay.

[17:52] Lesli Margherita: Andrew here.

[17:53] Andrew Barth Feldman: Good job, viewer.

[17:55] David Alpert: Uh, our viewers did very well. We did get the most amount of votes for Ub.

[18:00] Lesli Margherita: Uh it's also, I think what I call Lesli sometimes is Ub.

[18:04] Josh Strickland: Oh, that's Mr. Bub.

[18:06] David Alpert: Mr. Bub.

[18:08] Lesli Margherita: Uh Eden's back with us.

[18:10] David Alpert: Hi, Eden.

[18:13] Eden Espinosa: Okay, guys.

[18:14] Eden Espinosa: That internet feels so strong and good.

[18:17] Eden Espinosa: Like the beautiful like fairy that comes in once in a while.

[18:22] Eden Espinosa: Like people see me.

[18:24] Eden Espinosa: This internet connection.

[18:25] David Alpert: That internet feels so good.

[18:27] Chris: It's feeling stronger.

[18:31] David Alpert: So Eden, you missed the first trivia question, so it's just you now.

[18:34] David Alpert: Okay. Can you please let us know the year in which Walt Disney was born?

[18:38] Eden Espinosa: What city and no, I'm just kidding.

[18:40] Eden Espinosa: You're fine.

[18:45] David Alpert: Okay, here comes question number two.

[18:48] David Alpert: Okay. What year did the Mickey's Mouse Club debut on television? Was it A, 1955? B, 1960, C, 1947, or D 1949.

[19:01] David Alpert: Mickey Mouse Club debuting on television. 55, 60, 47, 49.

[19:06] Lesli Margherita: Oh, I'm torn.

[19:07] Lesli Margherita: I'm I'm Lesli, are you okay with that?

[19:09] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, I'm torn between, but I'm gonna go.

[19:14] David Alpert: We got a lot of strong A's.

[19:15] Eden Espinosa: Eden and Lesli are A.

[19:16] Andrew Barth Feldman: Andrew's really working through this.

[19:18] Andrew Barth Feldman: He also says A.

[19:20] Josh Strickland: Josh is my L1.

[19:23] David Alpert: So now I'm gonna have to do some sign language for for C and D.

[19:30] David Alpert: I'm just checking online to see how everyone's doing.

[19:34] David Alpert: I'm like, I'm I'm Josh, I'm with you.

[19:36] David Alpert: I'm like, uh Yeah, I don't know.

[19:39] Lesli Margherita: I thought it was A or 60.

[19:42] David Alpert: Well, I would say as we discussed this, well, 1955 is a year.

[19:49] Lesli Margherita: 1955 is the correct.

[19:53] David Alpert: So then you kind of can process that.

[19:55] Lesli Margherita: Wait, what did I do 53?

[19:57] Lesli Margherita: Wait, maybe it's I think Josh, I think he might be 1960.

[20:02] David Alpert: I think it's 60.

[20:04] Eden Espinosa: So Eden's saying 60.

[20:06] Eden Espinosa: Wait, which one?

[20:08] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna also say 1960, and I have no idea.

[20:13] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, no, I'm gonna stick with A.

[20:14] Andrew Barth Feldman: I'm sticking with A.

[20:16] David Alpert: Okay. We are gonna answer.

[20:21] David Alpert: Okay, the answer is it is A.

[20:24] Lesli Margherita: Oh dang it!

[20:25] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh, I was originally right.

[20:26] Lesli Margherita: Do I get points for that?

[20:28] Andrew Barth Feldman: You do I think thank you, Josh.

[20:28] Lesli Margherita: Thank you, Josh.

[20:33] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, 1955. What a year to be alive.

[20:39] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, did any of you watch the Mickey's Mouse Club reruns growing up?

[20:43] Eden Espinosa: I did after the reruns?

[20:46] Lesli Margherita: Oh, yeah, the reruns, the black and white.

[20:47] Eden Espinosa: The reruns, and then of course the um the Mickey's Mouse Club like 70s thing on Disney Plus, where they like go to Disney World.

[21:00] Josh Strickland: Y'all, it is the most it's an hour long special.

[21:05] Josh Strickland: You have got to check that out.

[21:07] Eden Espinosa: I will.

[21:08] Josh Strickland: Josh, we are sure.

[21:10] Lesli Margherita: I love you so much.

[21:11] Josh Strickland: It is hilarious, and it is.

[21:13] Josh Strickland: I'm gonna look it up so I can give y'all what it looks like.

[21:15] Lesli Margherita: Please put it in the chat.

[21:17] Lesli Margherita: Because I'm into that.

[21:19] David Alpert: If you need a good giggle, this is it.

[21:19] David Alpert: This is it.

[21:24] David Alpert: Okay, here comes the third question.

[21:27] David Alpert: Okay.

[21:29] David Alpert: And this is gonna give some love to Miss Mouse.

[21:33] David Alpert: Okay. What are the names of Minnie's nieces?

[21:36] Lesli Margherita: Oh man.

[21:37] Lesli Margherita: Maisie and Mabel.

[21:39] Lesli Margherita: B, Millie and Melody.

[21:41] Lesli Margherita: C, Matilda, Lesli and Mildred.

[21:44] Lesli Margherita: Or D, Mindy and Marcy.

[21:47] David Alpert: All right.

[21:49] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh good.

[21:50] Andrew Barth Feldman: Millie is just I don't know this.

[21:54] Lesli Margherita: I don't know any of like truly.

[21:56] Lesli Margherita: I think it on Josh and I are on the same wavelength.

[22:00] Josh Strickland: Millie and Melody is so good.

[22:03] Lesli Margherita: That was just everyone on the Instagram page are all engaged with this.

[22:07] David Alpert: This is great.

[22:09] David Alpert: Okay, we have a lot of so only Lesli and Josh are in agreement.

[22:14] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[22:15] Josh Strickland: Josh is Googling it as we speak.

[22:18] Lesli Margherita: No.

[22:18] Lesli Margherita: No, cheater.

[22:20] Lesli Margherita: No.

[22:21] Lesli Margherita: Millie and Melody feels right.

[22:25] Lesli Margherita: Millie and Melody feels right.

[22:27] Lesli Margherita: Maybe it feels right to me.

[22:34] David Alpert: But no one likes Mindy and Marcy.

[22:36] Lesli Margherita: No.

[22:36] Lesli Margherita: No.

[22:37] Lesli Margherita: No.

[22:39] Lesli Margherita: Okay.

[22:39] Lesli Margherita: No offense to those two names.

[22:42] Lesli Margherita: But that's not so good.

[22:43] David Alpert: Of course, no.

[22:45] David Alpert: Okay. The answer is B, Millie and Melody.

[22:51] Lesli Margherita: How did you guys know that?

[22:53] Andrew Barth Feldman: Hallelujah.

[22:54] Lesli Margherita: Got one right.

[22:56] Lesli Margherita: I love it.

[22:57] Lesli Margherita: How did you know that?

[22:58] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah.

[22:58] Lesli Margherita: I I guess I said, oh Melody.

[23:01] Lesli Margherita: That would be like a cute and Millie.

[23:03] Lesli Margherita: That was it.

[23:04] Lesli Margherita: This is dumb and stupid.

[23:06] Lesli Margherita: And I don't know.

[23:07] David Alpert: Everyone is doing so well online.

[23:09] David Alpert: I want to share our wonderful watchers, watchers, viewers.

[23:14] David Alpert: A lot. Most of you said Millie and Melody.

[23:16] David Alpert: Well, well done.

[23:17] Lesli Margherita: Amazing.

[23:17] David Alpert: Wow.

[23:17] David Alpert: Well, um internet.

[23:21] David Alpert: Yeah.

[23:21] David Alpert: Well, the internet has been not on our slide earlier, but they could be.

[23:24] David Alpert: Are you all cheating at home?

[23:27] Lesli Margherita: No, they would never also look at my AirPods.

[23:31] Lesli Margherita: Oh.

[23:37] Eden Espinosa: Listen, I I only met Eden in January, and we were like, just like chat chat chat.

[23:42] Eden Espinosa: And then we started talking on the podcast, and we were like, wait, what?

[23:46] Eden Espinosa: Both turned 33 and 23.

[23:48] Lesli Margherita: I don't know.

[23:50] Lesli Margherita: I've got the world.

[23:51] Eden Espinosa: The world.

[23:53] Eden Espinosa: I'm signing up for I'm in for it.

[23:56] Lesli Margherita: She is.

[23:57] Eden Espinosa: Anyway.

[23:58] David Alpert: Uh so here comes our fourth question.

[24:01] David Alpert: Okay, fourth question.

[24:03] David Alpert: Yeah.

[24:04] David Alpert: And this one is trademarked. Walt Disney was presenting honorary Oscar, trademark for the creation of Mickey's Mouse. In what year?

[24:11] David Alpert: Oh what year did Mickey's win an Oscar for the creation of Mickey's Mouse? Was it A, 1932, B 1940, C 1925, or D 1934?

[24:23] Eden Espinosa: Eden coming in strong with D.

[24:25] Eden Espinosa: I'm going D for 1934.

[24:27] Lesli Margherita: Leslie also D.

[24:29] Lesli Margherita: I see the 32 or 330.

[24:33] Josh Strickland: Josh is B, 1940.

[24:36] David Alpert: So one of you will be right.

[24:38] David Alpert: And that person is going to be Mr.

[24:42] Andrew Barth Feldman.

[24:47] Andrew Barth Feldman: Wow.

[24:48] David Alpert: Darn it.

[24:49] Lesli Margherita: Like so early on.

[24:50] Andrew Barth Feldman: So early on.

[24:52] Andrew Barth Feldman: I think he was four and got an Oscar.

[24:54] Lesli Margherita: Was that Snow White?

[24:56] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, just for Mickey's Mouse.

[24:59] Andrew Barth Feldman: Just for creation for creating Mickey's.

[25:02] Lesli Margherita: Oh wow.

[25:03] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[25:03] David Alpert: But you think Mickey's was then four.

[25:07] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, wow.

[25:08] Lesli Margherita: That's NBC.

[25:09] Andrew Barth Feldman: We'd be in ABC.

[25:14] David Alpert: Okay, you're all doing so well.

[25:16] Lesli Margherita: She's like, oh you know.

[25:22] David Alpert: Um, is anyone watching Keeping Score?

[25:24] David Alpert: If anyone's keeping score, just let us know that we have four winners.

[25:31] Lesli Margherita: Oh, I am like at live.

[25:34] Lesli Margherita: I mean, I'm no mathematician, but I'm pretty sure.

[25:38] Lesli Margherita: I only got two right, I think.

[25:40] Eden Espinosa: I don't know.

[25:40] Eden Espinosa: I got zero right.

[25:44] David Alpert: Okay.

[25:45] David Alpert: Okay, ready.

[25:47] David Alpert: This is a family affair because we're asking, what is the occupation of Minnie's parents?

[25:55] David Alpert: Are they farmers? Bakers or cooks.

[25:58] Lesli Margherita: Oh, it's an amazing option.

[26:02] David Alpert: I told you.

[26:06] Lesli Margherita: So, um, thinks farmers, no one thinks they're park rangers.

[26:11] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, a lot of you think they're bakers, and no one thinks they're cooks.

[26:16] Lesli Margherita: I I'm not confident in this in the slightest.

[26:19] David Alpert: Okay.

[26:20] David Alpert: One of you is right, and that is, of course, Eden.

[26:23] Eden Espinosa: They are farmers.

[26:26] Eden Espinosa: They are farmers.

[26:30] Lesli Margherita: But like in Toontown, like all her house has like the little like carrots in the well, Lesli, I'm sure that you pursued a career different than your parents.

[26:40] Lesli Margherita: Oh, where that is in the story.

[26:45] Eden Espinosa: It's because I have the mini hands.

[26:47] Lesli Margherita: I don't know.

[26:49] Lesli Margherita: I'd be like the comic survey.

[26:50] Eden Espinosa: There must be a story.

[26:52] Lesli Margherita: There has to be a watch.

[26:54] Lesli Margherita: I have to look that up.

[26:55] Eden Espinosa: That's cute.

[26:56] Lesli Margherita: I like that they're farmers.

[26:58] David Alpert: Well, well, everyone's spending well, everyone is spending so much time at home and being safe. This is the time to binge watch every Mickey's Mouse cartoon.

[27:07] David Alpert: Um, I'm just looking online. Everyone is doing very well. I hope you all enjoyed that. Great. We all learned about the birthday, uh, the birthday mice.

[27:18] David Alpert: Um, well, we are going to move on, and this is going to be probably the most disaster-like thing we could ever do.

[27:26] Lesli Margherita: So here we go.

[27:27] David Alpert: Oh no, don't know it's gonna be great.

[27:38] Josh Strickland: Josh is mad at me already.

[27:40] David Alpert: So, um, I'm asking to grab a piece of paper and a drawing utens.

[27:44] David Alpert: So we are going to learn how to draw Mickey's Mouse.

[27:48] Eden Espinosa: Oh yeah, so we're getting ready for this.

[27:51] David Alpert: And um, so play along at home. Does anyone before we start? Are any of you a secret cartoonist illustrator that you just haven't told us?

[27:59] Lesli Margherita: I actually know I'm really bad at drawing.

[28:00] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, no, I'm really really terrible at it.

[28:02] Lesli Margherita: I'm too.

[28:03] Eden Espinosa: No, I think it't.

[28:03] David Alpert: Um, everyone at home, this is your chance. And we're I'm gonna guide you through this, you know, like the animation studio. This is not that. This is me looking at a screenshot, but it's gonna be lovely.

[28:13] David Alpert: So here's the guide we're gonna be looking at.

[28:16] David Alpert: Oh, we're gonna go step by step, everyone.

[28:19] David Alpert: Okay. Um, and everyone at home, this is your chance to grab uh paper and please please share your progress on there to bag us. I know this is gonna be great.

[28:29] Lesli Margherita: I really have no artistic ability.

[28:31] Eden Espinosa: Oh, it's gonna be great.

[28:32] David Alpert: Literally, this is my favorite. So everyone, my friends, we're just gonna draw a circle on your page. This is probably not the hardest voted for any.

[28:43] Lesli Margherita: And remember I didn't even do that right.

[28:49] Lesli Margherita: I literally it's like a like a squiggle.

[28:52] David Alpert: Okay, wait. You're just drawing a screen.

[28:54] Andrew Barth Feldman: I mean, dude.

[28:55] Lesli Margherita: I mean, it's just please look at the what is that?

[28:58] Lesli Margherita: What is what is this?

[29:00] Lesli Margherita: What happened?

[29:02] Eden Espinosa: Oh my, it's on the back of like discarded sides of an audition that I'll never find out what happened with.

[29:09] David Alpert: So I was around your circle.

[29:16] Andrew Barth Feldman: Great. Andrew, good circle.

[29:18] Josh Strickland: Josh, I'm I don't think I left enough room for other stuff, but you're not showing the group what is happening yet.

[29:26] David Alpert: Okay. Okay, everyone, next we're gonna just draw divide the circle into four quadrants.

[29:33] David Alpert: Well, do you draw that? You just kind of draw like a cross in the middle.

[29:38] Josh Strickland: Wait, are we supposed to be using pencils?

[29:41] Andrew Barth Feldman: I have a pen, Josh.

[29:42] Andrew Barth Feldman: I have a pen.

[29:43] Andrew Barth Feldman: It's I've got a sharpie.

[29:45] Lesli Margherita: Literally in a red sharpie.

[29:49] Eden Espinosa: I'm using a pencil.

[29:49] Andrew Barth Feldman: Guys, I think I actually am a professional illustrator now that I'm thinking about it.

[29:53] Lesli Margherita: And I think I'm actually gonna get it.

[29:55] David Alpert: So you won the trivia game, and you're gonna be too.

[29:58] Andrew Barth Feldman: All right, right.

[30:00] Lesli Margherita: No, I'm so again the quadrant lines are just to help guide later. We know that Mickey's doesn't actually have a quadrant line.

[30:07] David Alpert: Well, you will in my don't put that down.

[30:13] Lesli Margherita: Put that down quickly.

[30:15] David Alpert: Okay, okay, okay.

[30:17] Lesli Margherita: Oh my god.

[30:18] David Alpert: Okay, so everyone, so this is what your papers would maybe look like.

[30:22] David Alpert: Okay, okay. Now we're gonna add a nose. So it looks like a sideways egg just below the quadrant, right in the middle. You can do some shading if you want to get fancy.

[30:35] Lesli Margherita: Oh dear.

[30:37] Lesli Margherita: Oh no.

[30:39] Lesli Margherita: Well, my definitely have a cross tattoo on his face.

[30:44] Josh Strickland: Same Josh, same no word.

[30:46] Lesli Margherita: Same, me too.

[30:47] David Alpert: Okay, all right. Okay, okay. This is the part of the evening where don't show your paint your painting, your drawings until the end, so that we can really the anticipation can build.

[31:00] David Alpert: So everyone see we've got kind of shaded nose. Everyone good.

[31:04] Andrew Barth Feldman: Andrew's at his drafting table, working furiously holding the play model.

[31:15] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[31:16] David Alpert: I'm really enjoying this narrative.

[31:18] Lesli Margherita: Okay. Well, I you know, in the before I was a director, believe it or not. I used to do this for a living. And now I make my friends draw Mickey's Mouse.

[31:29] Lesli Margherita: Which kind of I never took your direction ever, anyway.

[31:32] David Alpert: Which kind of tracks?

[31:33] Lesli Margherita: This was oh my goodness.

[31:37] Lesli Margherita: I know it's true, Lesli Devo. She won that old nymph award by herself.

[31:42] David Alpert: Okay. Okay. Uh so here comes we're now gonna draw a mask.

[31:51] David Alpert: Okay. This is basically just I'm gonna leave this one up a little longer.

[31:55] Lesli Margherita: Okay. Yep. Eden's right. It's that widow's peak, and then just you know, some kind of yeah things on the side.

[32:04] David Alpert: Okay, but if you okay, okay. Uh-huh. I need to just everyone's face is so intense. I love it.

[32:09] Lesli Margherita: Well, you can't take it away.

[32:14] David Alpert: This is what it was like directing Lesli.

[32:17] Lesli Margherita: You can't take it away.

[32:19] Lesli Margherita: The lines.

[32:20] David Alpert: Okay. It's gonna be a little hard. Your script. Your script. You can't take it.

[32:26] Lesli Margherita: And I'm not ever gonna be off book.

[32:32] Lesli Margherita: Oh, okay. Oh you guys, I may I may be an artistic master.

[32:36] David Alpert: All right, okay.

[32:37] Lesli Margherita: You are okay poorly for me.

[32:41] Lesli Margherita: Terrible, but I'm gonna leave this up to the room.

[32:45] Lesli Margherita: I had to readjust my circle to how bad it's going through.

[32:48] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, no, mine too. Mine's got a flat head.

[32:52] Lesli Margherita: Oh yeah. Okay. All right. This is passable.

[32:57] Lesli Margherita: Oh, whatever. You're gonna show yours, and it's gonna be like the first masterpiece of the world.

[33:04] David Alpert: That would be awesome.

[33:05] David Alpert: Okay. Okay. Okay. Hey, everyone doing okay.

[33:09] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[33:10] David Alpert: Everyone's good.

[33:12] David Alpert: Okay. Here comes so uh we've added the mask.

[33:15] David Alpert: Oh no, we're adding the mouth. Excuse me. So now we're adding so this is not only you're adding a little mouth, but then a little chin.

[33:23] David Alpert: Okay. And a little above nose kind of the ore strip.

[33:29] Lesli Margherita: Okay. Yeah.

[33:31] Lesli Margherita: All right. Okay. All right. I can do this. Hold, please. Hold through that for a minute. I'm gonna leave it up. You guys let me know when you're ready.

[33:39] Lesli Margherita: Oh dear.

[33:40] Lesli Margherita: All right. I'm actually not mad at what's happening.

[33:45] Lesli Margherita: I'm not mad either, but I'm not happy.

[33:48] Lesli Margherita: I'm not I'm I'm first of all, this Mickey's that you have up here right now has like a double chin.

[33:55] Josh Strickland: I don't remember that.

[33:57] Lesli Margherita: You're correct. I think you're right, Josh. He's got like a like shading, like a goatee kind of like he's gotten like a new lip injection here.

[34:07] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, my face is disproportionate, but it's okay.

[34:13] Lesli Margherita: It's my first time. I'm gonna give myself grace.

[34:16] Eden Espinosa: Mine looks drunk, which is on brand.

[34:21] David Alpert: And everyone at home, we hope that you're doing some great sketching on Mickey's's birthday. Happy birthday.

[34:30] Lesli Margherita: Oh boy.

[34:31] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, happy birthday.

[34:32] Lesli Margherita: It's like when you take to Times Square, like getting caricatures, and they're always okay.

[34:41] David Alpert: I'm gonna put it this back up. Does anyone need more time for this one?

[34:45] Lesli Margherita: No.

[34:46] Eden Espinosa: Oh no.

[34:48] Lesli Margherita: It's fine.

[34:49] Eden Espinosa: It's fine.

[34:49] Lesli Margherita: Oh yeah.

[34:50] David Alpert: Okay. Everyone, let's put our pencils down for a second, or sharpies. Breathe. Know that it's gonna be okay. The truth is it's not in a perfect circle. His face is not a perfect circle.

[35:00] Lesli Margherita: Oh, I know.

[35:03] Lesli Margherita: Okay. They should have told you to make it a little bit more like not a perfect circle.

[35:09] Eden Espinosa: Yeah.

[35:10] Lesli Margherita: First of all, my Mickey's's tongue looks like buck teeth. Like something is not right.

[35:16] Eden Espinosa: Mine looks like he like melted.

[35:20] David Alpert: Okay. Okay. Now we're gonna be adding some eyes. So if you look, you're gonna use that quadrant line and you're gonna draw two um kind of pupils and then the bigger eye parts.

[35:33] Lesli Margherita: Clearly, I went to school for theater. I just called it an eye part.

[35:38] Andrew Barth Feldman: The eye parts were gone.

[35:40] David Alpert: The quadrant line.

[35:42] Lesli Margherita: Okay, hang on.

[35:42] Andrew Barth Feldman: All right.

[35:43] Lesli Margherita: Wait a minute.

[35:47] Andrew Barth Feldman: Totally.

[35:48] Lesli Margherita: That was a lie.

[35:51] Andrew Barth Feldman: Kind of, you're right.

[35:52] Lesli Margherita: A little bit is.

[35:53] Andrew Barth Feldman: It was.

[35:54] Lesli Margherita: I'm gonna go back.

[35:55] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, not really.

[35:57] Lesli Margherita: I'm drawing that evil Mickey's.

[35:59] Eden Espinosa: You can't mine just looks like he's had a lot of happy juice.

[36:08] Lesli Margherita: Mine looks like Lafu.

[36:13] David Alpert: Okay, okay. All right. Yeah, okay. All right, that's happening. I'm doing all right so far, I think.

[36:18] Lesli Margherita: Oh let me just say for the record, if I saw this face of the kid in the park, I wouldn't scream.

[36:30] Eden Espinosa: I'm serious.

[36:31] Lesli Margherita: It's gonna it's you would have run.

[36:35] Lesli Margherita: I wonder who would have like I thought I thought that was gonna be Eden singing Magic Club of Disneyland.

[36:40] David Alpert: Well no, you know, a while ago she saw Mickey's Mouse.

[36:45] Lesli Margherita: Mine's starting to look like that early, the early flushies, you know, that came out, the scary ones with the big and the teeny bodies.

[36:53] Eden Espinosa: Well, I mean, like when when Mickey's was first in the park and all the friends, those those characters looked a little time square.

[37:00] David Alpert: Time scare.

[37:01] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, you're right. This is also a great time. You can start shading in the pupils if you'd like. You know, that would be I did.

[37:07] Eden Espinosa: I didn't really know.

[37:08] Andrew Barth Feldman: Right, Eden's there.

[37:09] David Alpert: So uh our final slide, we're gonna be adding some ears, some eyebrows, some more shading. So here comes the last slide.

[37:14] Lesli Margherita: Oh dear.

[37:17] David Alpert: All right. Oh boy. Okay. See how they extended the circle? Like this is not even fair.

[37:24] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, you're right. I'm with you.

[37:26] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, they they kind of like erase as they go.

[37:29] Eden Espinosa: Yeah.

[37:30] Lesli Margherita: Well, they lie.

[37:33] David Alpert: Okay. All right. Oh, oh, okay, okay. I'm shading.

[37:39] Lesli Margherita: I don't know, but my my sharpie is is smelling great.

[37:43] Eden Espinosa: Okay, and oh, I see. Oh, oh, oh no.

[37:49] Lesli Margherita: This is pretty unfortunate, I think.

[37:51] Eden Espinosa: It's mine as well.

[37:52] Lesli Margherita: You know, like when I've um been in the parks, like going to the animation academy, I always leave so defeated.

[38:01] Eden Espinosa: This is challenging.

[38:02] Lesli Margherita: You know what? Mine looks like speed again.

[38:05] Lesli Margherita: That's a choice.

[38:07] Eden Espinosa: I mean, it okay. And mine looks like Mighty Mouse.

[38:11] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, mine actually, Eden, mine is too a little bit.

[38:14] Lesli Margherita: Like, yeah.

[38:15] Eden Espinosa: So you might want to shade in kind of the uh, the back of the throat, the nose, you know. He's got some eyebrows going on.

[38:24] Lesli Margherita: I also love how the end is like, and you're done. It's easy.

[38:30] Lesli Margherita: And you're a done.

[38:36] Lesli Margherita: I don't know. Mine looks like Bianca Del Rio.

[38:40] Lesli Margherita: Oh no.

[38:43] David Alpert: Okay, how's everyone doing? Leslie, are you fit? Are you finished?

[38:46] Lesli Margherita: It's fine. It's cute. It's just not, I don't know that it's cute.

[38:51] Lesli Margherita: Oh no, no, not yet. Not yet, Lesli. Don't show it yet.

[38:54] David Alpert: Okay. It's okay. You're not on the screen. Mine is a little bit more.

[38:56] Lesli Margherita: Oh yeah, I got to enjoy that moment.

[38:57] David Alpert: Yeah, it was. It's very cute.

[39:00] Lesli Margherita: Yeah. It's not Mickey's, but it's something.

[39:04] Lesli Margherita: It's Mickey's's.

[39:05] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[39:06] Lesli Margherita: Leslie actually just drew Miss Picky.

[39:11] David Alpert: That's all right.

[39:13] Josh Strickland: Yes.

[39:15] David Alpert: Leave it. Don't show us that.

[39:17] David Alpert: Andrew's still completing.

[39:18] Eden Espinosa: There's a lot of heavy things.

[39:19] Andrew Barth Feldman: I think I guess I'm done.

[39:23] Eden Espinosa: Eden's right. It's not a perfect circle.

[39:26] Andrew Barth Feldman: It's not.

[39:27] Josh Strickland: They trick you.

[39:29] Eden Espinosa: They do.

[39:30] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, I mean, look, it's a lot better than I thought it was gonna be.

[39:30] Josh Strickland: Me too. I just wish I had done this in pencil.

[39:39] Eden Espinosa: Yes.

[39:40] Andrew Barth Feldman: Is it bad that it's not? I thought mine would be better than it actually is.

[39:45] Josh Strickland: I wish I had done mine in pencil and without wine. Would have been probably better.

[39:51] Eden Espinosa: I said the same thing to you after rehearsals.

[39:55] David Alpert: Great. Does anyone need more time before we show our works of art? We'll go one by one to enjoy.

[40:02] Josh Strickland: Well, it's okay.

[40:03] Eden Espinosa: I'm okay with that.

[40:04] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah.

[40:06] David Alpert: All right. I think it's gonna be great. And, of course, please don't throw these away or burn them. We will want photo documentation.

[40:12] David Alpert: Lesli.

[40:13] Lesli Margherita: Yes.

[40:13] David Alpert: Would you please show us your work?

[40:16] Lesli Margherita: Wow. Oh god. I think it's more of like a backwoods Mickey's, like a little, I don't know, like maybe it looks like a tooth that's hard to do. So what's also on brand is that he looks like he's wearing a tiara, which is perfect for me.

[40:41] Lesli Margherita: Like he's a little like party city. He's probably like it's mic and mo like making two ease.

[40:52] Lesli Margherita: I think is probably that's great working first year.

[40:59] David Alpert: Yeah, thank you. Andrew, all right. Are you prepared?

[41:01] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, here's what I got. It's all right. I can live with it.

[41:05] Josh Strickland: Better than this, yeah.

[41:08] Andrew Barth Feldman: I can live with it. It's pretty good.

[41:15] Josh Strickland: We're really proud of you.

[41:16] Andrew Barth Feldman: I can live with this. I'm really proud of it. I wouldn't win the loo. I wouldn't run screaming from that Mickey's.

[41:21] Josh Strickland: I wouldn't run screaming.

[41:23] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, but it looks like the kind of Mickey's you'd see on like a wall in a weird part of France. You know what I mean? Like it looks like somebody drew this as like a statement about something.

[41:36] David Alpert: Andrew, just you did a great job. I don't want Andrew like four in the morning. You wake up, you're like, I could have done it better. I want you to just be really kind to yourself.

[41:45] Andrew Barth Feldman: Thank you. I appreciate it.

[41:52] David Alpert: Here comes Josh. Josh!

[41:56] David Alpert: Josh.

[41:58] Josh Strickland: He signed it. That's good.

[42:00] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, that's unfair. That's really good.

[42:03] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yours looks very similar.

[42:05] Josh Strickland: First of all, mine looks like we just had Halloween. He looks like vampire Mickey's.

[42:11] Eden Espinosa: No, Josh, yours looks symmetrical.

[42:13] Josh Strickland: I was an animator who was like, I just did this quick. I'm here.

[42:17] Lesli Margherita: Well, y'all are very sweet, but thank you. I feel like everyone's doing really great. Eden, would you please show us your work of art?

[42:25] Eden Espinosa: Please. You guys did mighty mouse.

[42:31] Eden Espinosa: Oh, it's I do believe that and lopsided.

[42:39] Josh Strickland: No.

[42:39] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, but see, you and Andrew did right. You shaded in like where he actually has the ears are supposed to be black too.

[42:48] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, but I think you're being way too hard on yourself. That's lovely.

[42:52] Lesli Margherita: I wanted them to be better.

[42:54] Eden Espinosa: I totally, you're right. Shade in like here, right? Like the widow.

[42:58] Josh Strickland: Oh, yeah, totally. I didn't do that either.

[43:01] Eden Espinosa: Everyone at home, please. Please do share. But we have a lot of great comments. People are saying that that's really good.

[43:08] Lesli Margherita: Oh, thanks. That's so good.

[43:11] Eden Espinosa: Oh, thank you. No need to be.

[43:14] David Alpert: Can you all just show us your photo one last time and then we'll ask you to take a photo of it, just so proud. I'm gonna put that all in my refrigerator.

[43:24] Lesli Margherita: Leslie, you can feel free to do that later tonight if you'd like.

[43:28] David Alpert: Thank you all. And thank you all for drawing at home.

[43:32] Josh Strickland: Josh won.

[43:33] Eden Espinosa: Yeah.

[43:34] David Alpert: I think you know, it might be child.

[43:38] Lesli Margherita: Everybody is a winner, people.

[43:40] Eden Espinosa: Everyone's a winner.

[43:41] Josh Strickland: Everybody is a winner.

[43:42] Andrew Barth Feldman: I don't know, Josh. You're all a winner.

[43:48] Josh Strickland: I'm already fading.

[43:49] Eden Espinosa: I'm fading now.

[43:50] Andrew Barth Feldman: I guess so am I. I'm like, no, no, this is really fun. Let's do another one.

[43:54] David Alpert: Okay, great. It's like a really complicated character. It's like, here's P from Hercules. You're like, what?

[44:02] Eden Espinosa: My childhood best friend is asking, where is mine? And um, I don't know, I'm too busy trying to do everything else. But thank you, Nick, for trying to shame me in the internet.

[44:13] Lesli Margherita: Well, I expect that. I expect you to do it after we hang up.

[44:16] Eden Espinosa: Okay. It's going on.

[44:18] Josh Strickland: Oh, definitely. I have one in my closet that I did at Disney World, and like it's Mickey's, but it's like so squished. It's really challenging.

[44:27] David Alpert: Anyway, uh another. I'm sorry. So I was so busy, like.

[44:35] Eden Espinosa: So uh well, really quickly while we recover from that, I want to share a cause that's very dear to my heart, uh, which is Gilana's Fund. And it was created in 2007 after my older sister Gilana passed away from a rare reaction to medication.

[44:47] Eden Espinosa: And the fund is a way to honor her memory and change the world. And the fund has raised over 100,000 and has awarded over 40 grants to nonprofit organizations across the country whose mission is to educate, support, uh, and promote um the core values of Gilana's fund, which is acceptance, inclusion, justice, and equality.

[45:08] Eden Espinosa: Um, I want to share with you some of those recipients um, as I've done on every live show, but these are just some of the organizations that are really working on the ground to make the world a better, more inclusive, and just place to be. Um, I know a lot of us felt in this past year kind of this urge to activate. We must continue that fight.

[45:27] Eden Espinosa: And it's our family or uh my family feels very strong that Gilana's Fund wants to continue to be on the front lines. Um each year I produce and direct a living for today concert, but because of the pandemic, we're not doing that. So the Patreon of this um podcast is 20% goes directly to Gilana's fund.

[45:44] Eden Espinosa: Um and anything that we can raise tonight for Gilana's Fund goes there as well because we're not going to be packed into Joe's pub hearing Lesli Margherita singing Eliza Manelli song. Which happened.

[45:54] Eden Espinosa: Um anyway, uh, if you want to donate, you can go to www.gilanasfund.org. And again, you can support both the podcast and Gilana's Fund by signing up on Patreon as part of the money there goes directly to this fund.

[46:08] Lesli Margherita: Great. Um she really did. She sang ring them bells and it was great.

[46:14] Eden Espinosa: Okay. If we actually ended up owing the audience money, but it was fun. Anyone that doesn't know us thinks that Lesli and I are very mean, but we love each other very much.

[46:27] David Alpert: Anyway, let's play a game.

[46:42] Josh Strickland: Josh is feeling himself. I like that.

[46:44] Eden Espinosa: I know, Alex Parrish. It's great music, right? Uh, so we're gonna play password. Leslie and Andrew, you play this in July. You were brilliant. You were so great.

[46:54] David Alpert: And tonight's game is actually all gonna be about Mickey's and Minnie. You know, the reason for the season, if you will. So uh two of you are going to see what the password is, and the other two will close your eyes because we're not in a studio where I can make you turn away and I'll talk you through that because you don't cheat.

[47:09] David Alpert: And everyone watching at home, you'll get to see what the password is. The rules are you can say one word to get the other person to guess the password. If they don't guess it, we switch teams and they can say another one-word clue, and we'll go back and forth until one team gets it right.

[47:26] David Alpert: For example, if the password is aerial, I'd say mermaid. And then if you didn't get it, the other team may say ginger. And if they don't get it, the other team may say feet. And then they would be like, oh, it's mermaid. That would be the one.

[47:42] David Alpert: Yeah, exactly. Um, this is a great plug to say Johnson's episode came out. Are we all guilty of that? Uh so whichever team gets it right, they win the point, and the winning team gets their Mickey's Mouse drawings displayed in the Smithsonian. Or maybe I should say the winning team doesn't.

[48:04] David Alpert: Yeah. Uh so the team signed are Eden and Lesli and Josh and Andrew. Okay. Let's do it, Josh.

[48:14] David Alpert: Great. So um team Eden Leslie, you're gonna go first.

[48:18] David Alpert: Okay. So Lesli and Andrew, I need you to close your eyes because again, if Lesli doesn't catch it from Eden, then we'll switch and Josh will try. So uh I want to Lesli and Andrew closing their eyes. I'll talk you through this.

[48:27] David Alpert: So here's the first password. Do not open your eyes yet, but there it is. Okay. Leslie and Andrew, open your eyes. And Eden, you get one word to get Lesli to say that.

[48:46] Eden Espinosa: Um you get oh I say one word. One word, one word.

[48:51] Eden Espinosa: Oh.

[48:55] David Alpert: And it's all Mickey's and Minnie.

[48:57] Eden Espinosa: Weenie?

[49:00] Andrew Barth Feldman: We'd dog.

[49:09] David Alpert: Oh my god. Wow. That was excellent.

[49:12] Eden Espinosa: That was very good. I'm more concerned why Lesli's mind went. Never mind.

[49:19] David Alpert: So that was very exciting. And again, that was the first words that Mickey's ever uttered was hot dog.

[49:25] Lesli Margherita: Oh no.

[49:27] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh god dog.

[49:31] David Alpert: That was exciting. Wow.

[49:32] Eden Espinosa: Wow.

[49:33] David Alpert: Great. So um Eden and Josh, if you can close your eyes.

[49:37] David Alpert: Okay. So Andrew, you're gonna be doing this first, but Lesli, you're gonna go to the next one. So keep your eyes closed.

[49:45] David Alpert: Oh Josh and Eden, you can open your eyes. I have two directions I can go here.

[49:59] Andrew Barth Feldman: It's hard with just one word.

[50:19] David Alpert: Okay. I'm going to say planet.

[50:35] Josh Strickland: What?

[50:37] Eden Espinosa: Oh.

[50:40] David Alpert: And this is all kinds of different stuff. It's all gonna be tied to Mickey's and Minnie.

[50:45] Eden Espinosa: Okay.

[50:53] David Alpert: That is why I felt confident in this clue, but I understand any.

[50:57] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, I was with you. I got it.

[50:59] Eden Espinosa: I'm with you.

[51:00] Andrew Barth Feldman: Even though the scientific community may not be.

[51:02] Eden Espinosa: I know. That's why I those of them that are watching e ticket to Broadway Live.

[51:09] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, I want to deliver a formal apology after that.

[51:11] David Alpert: Planet.

[51:13] Eden Espinosa: Oh man.

[51:14] Andrew Barth Feldman: This is horrible.

[51:15] David Alpert: Toontown.

[51:18] Lesli Margherita: It is not Toontown.

[51:19] David Alpert: Leslie, you can steal.

[51:21] Lesli Margherita: It's gonna be easy.

[51:22] Lesli Margherita: Dog.

[51:24] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh, Astro.

[51:25] David Alpert: Oh, it is not Astro.

[51:29] Andrew Barth Feldman: Pluto!

[51:31] David Alpert: Okay, it is Pluto.

[51:34] Lesli Margherita: Astro meet the Jetsons dog.

[51:38] Andrew Barth Feldman: I know that Pluto is not a planet, everyone.

[51:42] Eden Espinosa: But now I get it.

[51:43] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, I know. I almost you know what I almost went with you.

[51:46] Eden Espinosa: I am I literally like Andrew, I was like, oh that's a yeah, that was the direction I could have gone too.

[51:52] David Alpert: Yeah.

[51:53] Eden Espinosa: You could go goofy or totally we got it.

[51:58] David Alpert: Sorry, so Eden and Josh. Eyes are closed.

[52:09] Lesli Margherita: Uh-huh.

[52:10] Eden Espinosa: Oh.

[52:14] Lesli Margherita: I'm still not over the bag that I said astro.

[52:17] Andrew Barth Feldman: Are you hungry? You want an Astro burger.

[52:21] Lesli Margherita: You can you can come back to us.

[52:23] Eden Espinosa: Okay.

[52:23] Lesli Margherita: Oh, sorry.

[52:24] Lesli Margherita: I'm hanging my head in shame.

[52:27] David Alpert: Okay.

[52:28] David Alpert: Okay.

[52:30] David Alpert: Ready?

[52:31] David Alpert: Okay.

[52:32] David Alpert: Okay.

[52:32] David Alpert: Ready?

[52:33] David Alpert: Ready.

[52:33] Lesli Margherita: Say it, Lesli. Say it. You've got to say it.

[52:37] Lesli Margherita: Willie!

[52:42] Andrew Barth Feldman: Steamboat.

[52:44] David Alpert: Yes.

[52:45] David Alpert: You did it.

[52:46] David Alpert: Yes, it was indeed Steamboat.

[52:55] Lesli Margherita: I didn't know we had Weenie and Willie.

[52:57] Eden Espinosa: I know, I know.

[52:59] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah.

[53:00] David Alpert: Yep.

[53:01] David Alpert: Uh great. Um Lesli and Andrew, if you can close your eyes. And Josh, you're gonna be going first.

[53:06] Josh Strickland: Okay.

[53:15] David Alpert: Leslie and Andrew, you can come back to us.

[53:18] David Alpert: Okay. And uh Josh, you go first.

[53:22] Josh Strickland: One word.

[53:27] Josh Strickland: Do I have to say a word?

[53:31] David Alpert: You can't mime.

[53:32] David Alpert: You may not mime. It's just a word.

[53:34] Josh Strickland: Pass word.

[53:37] Lesli Margherita: Oh okay, teacher.

[53:41] Eden Espinosa: Okay. Um, we got this.

[53:50] David Alpert: Shoot.

[53:52] Lesli Margherita: Um.

[54:04] Josh Strickland: You stole me.

[54:08] Lesli Margherita: You stole.

[54:11] Eden Espinosa: Oh my gosh!

[54:14] Lesli Margherita: That was another one. I was gonna say listen.

[54:18] David Alpert: Well done. Great. Good one.

[54:22] David Alpert: Uh Lesli and Andrew, if you can close your eyes. Eden, you'll be up first.

[54:25] Eden Espinosa: Okay, I'll be up first.

[54:31] David Alpert: Okay.

[54:32] David Alpert: Okay.

[54:33] David Alpert: Leslie and Andrew, you can open your eyes.

[54:35] Eden Espinosa: Okay.

[54:38] Lesli Margherita: Did you make up this game?

[54:41] Eden Espinosa: I did not make up password, but I did make it up for this one.

[54:44] Lesli Margherita: This game is hard.

[54:46] Eden Espinosa: You only get in one word.

[54:47] Lesli Margherita: Okay.

[54:47] Eden Espinosa: Um I know. I will say.

[54:54] Eden Espinosa: Dress.

[54:57] Lesli Margherita: Polka dots.

[55:03] David Alpert: That was good. That was good.

[55:05] Lesli Margherita: Very, very good.

[55:06] Eden Espinosa: Little do we know Stewie's like watching and like whispering to Lesli.

[55:12] Lesli Margherita: This is hard.

[55:14] Eden Espinosa: That is hard.

[55:15] Lesli Margherita: You're all doing so well.

[55:20] David Alpert: Anyway, it's three to two. You're doing very well. We got a question. Eden and Josh, close your eyes.

[55:27] Andrew Barth Feldman: Okay.

[55:31] David Alpert: Okay.

[55:34] David Alpert: Oh.

[55:36] David Alpert: Okay.

[55:37] Andrew Barth Feldman: Eden and Josh, open your eyes. And Andrew, go ahead.

[55:42] Andrew Barth Feldman: How do you say a word that isn't okay?

[55:45] Andrew Barth Feldman: Well, here's what I'm gonna do. Ready?

[55:47] Andrew Barth Feldman: Okay. Dog.

[55:57] Lesli Margherita: Leslie.

[56:07] Lesli Margherita: Ooh, I think I might know.

[56:16] Eden Espinosa: I feel like you're so I feel like we're gonna say Lesli, are you okay?

[56:27] Lesli Margherita: I hate goofy.

[56:28] Eden Espinosa: I know I think I can't.

[56:30] Eden Espinosa: I yeah, I don't, and not at all.

[56:33] Lesli Margherita: I know.

[56:38] Lesli Margherita: Now also there is some talk within the Disney community of is Goofy a dog? Is he not? I think perhaps a cat I I think he's a dog, you know.

[56:48] Josh Strickland: He's a morph. Can anyone do a goofy impression?

[56:56] Lesli Margherita: Go word.

[56:59] Josh Strickland: I cannot.

[57:00] David Alpert: Um great. Uh Eden and Josh, close your eyes, please. Um and Lesli, you're gonna go first.

[57:06] Lesli Margherita: Okay.

[57:13] Lesli Margherita: What one word?

[57:16] Lesli Margherita: Oh, I know what I could find out. Why they're so mad.

[57:19] David Alpert: Eden and Josh, go ahead and open your eyes.

[57:26] Lesli Margherita: Oh wait, that's not one word.

[57:33] Lesli Margherita: It's not one word, is it?

[57:37] Lesli Margherita: Uh do you want to text me and I can help you?

[57:42] Eden Espinosa: Can you call a friend?

[57:44] Lesli Margherita: I feel like if you're thinking what I'm thinking it well, I don't know if you are though.

[57:48] Lesli Margherita: Uh I it's a number.

[57:52] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, yeah, I feel like that could be.

[57:53] Lesli Margherita: Oh that doesn't technically what you're thinking is two words.

[58:00] David Alpert: Okay.

[58:00] Lesli Margherita: It is all right. I'm gonna say something totally different then.

[58:04] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[58:09] Lesli Margherita: Oh that's all you get.

[58:22] Lesli Margherita: Um Pete.

[58:36] Eden Espinosa: I don't know.

[58:37] Lesli Margherita: I was gonna say Pete, but it's not Mickey's.

[58:41] Eden Espinosa: That we fight with Pete all the time.

[58:43] Lesli Margherita: That is a really that is true, Ian.

[58:43] Eden Espinosa: That is true.

[58:47] Lesli Margherita: It's not the answer though. Very smart.

[58:51] David Alpert: Listen, but that like any that was really good trivia though. Uh one word is hard.

[58:57] Andrew Barth Feldman: One word is hard.

[58:58] Andrew Barth Feldman: I don't know what to do.

[59:02] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh my god.

[59:06] Andrew Barth Feldman: Is this game point?

[59:09] David Alpert: No.

[59:12] Andrew Barth Feldman: I don't know what to this is a very difficult one.

[59:17] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, for one word.

[59:18] Andrew Barth Feldman: Okay. I'm gonna try something. And I'm gonna say I'm I'm gonna say Timberlake and I'm gonna see what happens.

[59:31] Lesli Margherita: I was with you though.

[59:34] Andrew Barth Feldman: Gosh, I'm getting hives.

[59:37] Lesli Margherita: Um I mean, I don't know what I would guess, but I don't know if it's right.

[1:00:03] Lesli Margherita: I mean, I re I really uh I'm at a loss.

[1:00:06] David Alpert: You can just say a favorite color if you'd like at this moment.

[1:00:13] Andrew Barth Feldman: So um back.

[1:00:18] Andrew Barth Feldman: Wait, do I get another one then?

[1:00:20] David Alpert: You do, yep.

[1:00:21] Andrew Barth Feldman: So we we've had fight and temper lake.

[1:00:24] Lesli Margherita: Timberlake.

[1:00:24] Andrew Barth Feldman: Timberlake, and Lesli's gonna give you another word.

[1:00:27] Lesli Margherita: One word.

[1:00:30] Lesli Margherita: Oh, okay. We're really going in two different directions.

[1:00:33] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[1:00:35] Lesli Margherita: Uh oh, I have such a good one.

[1:00:39] Lesli Margherita: I'm an idiot. I have a great. I have a I'm gonna tell I I this well.

[1:00:43] Lesli Margherita: I just came up, I just I think I know the one that I would have thought you would have gone with.

[1:00:47] Lesli Margherita: No one has yet. I think I know what you're thinking, and I think I know I don't know why I haven't said it yet.

[1:00:55] Lesli Margherita: I'll say it next, hopefully.

[1:01:09] Eden Espinosa: Okay, I was thinking mouse club when he said temperature, but you said it.

[1:01:15] Eden Espinosa: You said it, Lesli.

[1:01:16] Eden Espinosa: You said the fact that neither of us said mouseketeer is I was gonna say leader, and then I would have continued on like leader.

[1:01:27] Eden Espinosa: I would have done that right.

[1:01:28] Eden Espinosa: Which was the number, but then when you said Timberlake, I was like, works both he said to her like we can take the mouse club.

[1:01:38] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, yeah. Good.

[1:01:39] David Alpert: Eden got it. Great. Uh we've got three more. Uh so now I need uh Lesli and Andrew to close their eyes.

[1:01:45] David Alpert: Josh will be up first.

[1:01:47] Josh Strickland: Oh you got this, Trick Lynn.

[1:01:51] Josh Strickland: You got this.

[1:01:53] David Alpert: Oh okay. Open your eyes.

[1:01:57] David Alpert: Okay. We got this, Josh.

[1:02:15] Josh Strickland: Saturday.

[1:02:19] Lesli Margherita: Cartoon?

[1:02:22] Josh Strickland: Yes.

[1:02:23] Lesli Margherita: Damn it.

[1:02:24] Josh Strickland: Wow.

[1:02:25] Lesli Margherita: That was good.

[1:02:28] Josh Strickland: Bro.

[1:02:29] Josh Strickland: We got this.

[1:02:33] Josh Strickland: That was really exciting. You were Tarzan on rock. You had to do things that are harder than what we're doing right now.

[1:02:39] Lesli Margherita: But this is more stressful.

[1:02:43] David Alpert: Okay, uh Eden and Josh, if you can close your eyes, and Lesli, you'll be up first.

[1:02:48] Lesli Margherita: Oh, okay.

[1:02:52] Lesli Margherita: Okay.

[1:02:56] Lesli Margherita: I mean, this I feel like I'm at an advantage here, unless you really You are.

[1:02:56] Lesli Margherita: You are, you are.

[1:03:04] Lesli Margherita: Because I can go off of whatever you say.

[1:03:07] Josh Strickland: Yeah.

[1:03:09] Lesli Margherita: Okay.

[1:03:10] Lesli Margherita: Rat.

[1:03:11] Josh Strickland: I'm with you.

[1:03:13] Lesli Margherita: Duck.

[1:03:18] Josh Strickland: Daisy.

[1:03:19] Lesli Margherita: Damn it.

[1:03:20] Josh Strickland: No, yes.

[1:03:22] Lesli Margherita: Damn it.

[1:03:23] Lesli Margherita: See, and then I was gonna say lady.

[1:03:27] Lesli Margherita: No, but that listen, that mannerism was on point.

[1:03:36] Lesli Margherita: Duck.

[1:03:38] David Alpert: Okay, I somehow messed up the score. I have it four to four, but this is the tenth one.

[1:03:45] David Alpert: So great. Anyway. Um Josh, close your eyes.

[1:03:48] David Alpert: Yeah. Ian Josh, close your eyes, please. Okay, Andrew, you're gonna be first.

[1:03:55] Andrew Barth Feldman: Okay.

[1:03:57] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh god.

[1:03:59] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oof.

[1:03:59] David Alpert: Okay.

[1:04:00] David Alpert: Okay. Ian and Josh, you can open your eyes.

[1:04:02] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh, I'm feeling really positive about this.

[1:04:05] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, silence from your teammates.

[1:04:10] Andrew Barth Feldman: I would do the same thing.

[1:04:12] Andrew Barth Feldman: I'm going to start with a casual. I'm gonna say fantasia.

[1:04:25] Lesli Margherita: Sorcerer.

[1:04:26] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah.

[1:04:29] Lesli Margherita: I wouldn't say that.

[1:04:30] Andrew Barth Feldman: I was gonna say the same thing.

[1:04:32] Lesli Margherita: You guys are so good.

[1:04:35] David Alpert: You both everyone did so well, truly.

[1:04:37] David Alpert: I would if you said fantasia, I would be I would say brooms.

[1:04:41] Lesli Margherita: I don't know how to do it.

[1:04:43] Lesli Margherita: Because that's also part of it.

[1:04:44] Andrew Barth Feldman: You would have been the same.

[1:04:46] Lesli Margherita: Hippo.

[1:04:48] David Alpert: Well done. You four. You did very, very well, all four of you.

[1:04:56] David Alpert: So we've learned you're very good at trivia and games and cartoons. Well done, you four.

[1:05:18] David Alpert: That's very on brand.

[1:05:20] Eden Espinosa: Yeah.

[1:05:22] Lesli Margherita: Oh my goodness.

[1:05:24] David Alpert: Well, uh, we want to, I just want to take this moment too. Right now we know that, um, unfortunately, due to current events in the world, not all the parks are open, and it's very sad for all of us. Um, but we do want to make sure that we are helping the magic makers, the cast members. So, um, in California, there's a specific fund called Second Harvest Food Bank Orange County, specifically, um, a group called Disney Fans for Good. Um, and the cast member pantry, which was I believe based in Florida, but is now helping out, um, on the West Coast as well. Um, is there.

[1:05:57] David Alpert: Um, laughing because, uh, I have a visitor finally to make a live show. There it is. I was sending like he's never made one of the live shows, but he's made his appearance. He woke up. Hey Henry. This is Henry. Uh, but Henry wants us to help the cast members in need. Excuse me. Um, so you can go to those websites, we'll have them on the Instagram page as well. But now is a great time. Another great way to help these cast members is to wear a mask. Okay, pretty simple. Um, let's wear a mask, let's do our best to stay inside, stop the spread. But our cast members, everyone, frontline workers, we need to work together on this. We need to consider that we are living in Disneyland, and when they tell you to stay on the right-hand side of the walkway, you do it.

And they tell you to not board the vehicle until it's time, you do it. Let's all take the magic of the Disney parks into our everyday life. Um, but please, if you're able to please help these cast members because we rely on them and we can, you know, make the world a better place. So again, we'll have that on the website and also on the Instagram page.

[1:07:02] David Alpert: So I always, um, end episodes asking, uh, with that in mind, knowing that we're not sure when it will be, but what's the first thing you all want to do the next time you go to a Disney park? What's like the must do?

[1:07:15] Andrew Barth Feldman: Rise of the resistance.

[1:07:15] Lesli Margherita: What was yours?

[1:07:18] Andrew Barth Feldman: Rise of the resistance.

[1:07:20] Josh Strickland: It's a good totally corn dog on Main Street.

[1:07:25] Lesli Margherita: Josh loves corn dogs, corn dog.

[1:07:28] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yep.

[1:07:29] Lesli Margherita: Yep.

[1:07:30] Eden Espinosa: I think I'm just gonna cry is what's gonna happen.

[1:07:35] Josh Strickland: Right?

[1:07:36] Eden Espinosa: Totally.

[1:07:36] Lesli Margherita: That's why you're right.

[1:07:37] Eden Espinosa: Oh yeah, definitely. I mean, I want to do rising.

[1:07:41] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, I want to do rising resistance, but I want to start. I want to go to Magic Kingdom first.

[1:07:46] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[1:07:48] Josh Strickland: Well, you can just go to Disneyland.

[1:07:51] Eden Espinosa: Yeah.

[1:07:51] Lesli Margherita: All right.

[1:07:52] Josh Strickland: I know the Anaheim.

[1:07:56] Eden Espinosa: The O.

[1:07:57] Lesli Margherita: The OG.

[1:08:01] Eden Espinosa: Yeah.

[1:08:01] Lesli Margherita: Yeah.

[1:08:03] David Alpert: We love all the parks.

[1:08:05] Eden Espinosa: Yes, we do.

[1:08:06] Lesli Margherita: We do.

[1:08:06] Andrew Barth Feldman: We do.

[1:08:06] Lesli Margherita: Yes.

[1:08:07] Eden Espinosa: But haunted mansion is, I think, my answer probably.

[1:08:14] Andrew Barth Feldman: I mean, I just think like when Disneyland does reopen, I will just be at a park bench. I'm not getting choked up. Just a park bench on Main Street just for hours.

[1:08:23] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all.

[1:08:25] Eden Espinosa: Oh, just walking around. I'm just going to go in every store. I'm gonna have every piece of food I can cram it in my mouth.

[1:08:35] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, it's gonna be really special. Like I was telling before like we came live. Like I seriously weigh with my hubs. We're like, do we go to Florida? Do we not? And it's gonna be really special when it actually like reopens, no restrictions.

[1:08:51] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, yeah.

[1:08:53] Eden Espinosa: I know we come home to Anaheim for the holidays, and I this was the first time that I there it set in that I was like I'm not going to Disneyland during Christmas time. This like I don't remember Christmas where I have been.

[1:09:07] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, um, and so I'm like, whoa, it I had a moment because I was like, whoa, I can't even believe it. Soon soon.

[1:09:18] Lesli Margherita: It's true, and and soon, and we're gonna love it so much more. And, um, you know, I started this podcast back in May. Leslie was actually the first interview I did. I feel like that was so long ago, and it was just this idea of like how do we spread some joy? And I truly do hope that people that are missing it can tune into an episode with any of the four of you and think about that. And by all means, watch those online videos. I've been doing that, you know.

[1:09:45] Eden Espinosa: I still haven't watched a single video of Mickey's and Minnie's Runaway Railway.

[1:09:49] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh, yeah.

[1:09:49] Eden Espinosa: I didn't either.

[1:09:50] Andrew Barth Feldman: I didn't either.

[1:09:51] Lesli Margherita: I'm with you.

[1:09:51] Eden Espinosa: Or Rise of the Resistance.

[1:09:52] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, I'm with Rise of the Resistance.

[1:09:54] Lesli Margherita: Wait, you never you did you never got to do it?

[1:09:56] Eden Espinosa: Oh man.

[1:09:56] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, and I won't watch the video.

[1:09:58] Lesli Margherita: That's good.

[1:09:59] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, I want to watch video first thing to do then because oh my god, it's the best time.

[1:10:04] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, I'm really excited.

[1:10:05] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, and again, during this holiday time, shop Disney come through.

[1:10:11] Eden Espinosa: Oh my gosh, that and box lunch, honey take my money.

[1:10:20] Lesli Margherita: Uh if I can show you this pottery barn teen. Okay, this is gonna happen. They have great, uh, teen.

[1:10:27] Andrew Barth Feldman: I did my whole room that I have here.

[1:10:29] Lesli Margherita: Andrew, you are a teen.

[1:10:31] Andrew Barth Feldman: That's, uh, yes, for another year or two.

[1:10:35] Lesli Margherita: Can you see this lamp? Hold on. Wait, they have to do that.

[1:10:39] Andrew Barth Feldman: Is that how you're looking at Andrew's a teen?

[1:10:42] Lesli Margherita: Wait, really?

[1:10:42] Andrew Barth Feldman: He's 19.

[1:10:43] Lesli Margherita: I'm 18.

[1:10:44] Andrew Barth Feldman: I'm 18 years old.

[1:10:45] Lesli Margherita: So my god, I'm dead. But look at that lamp. That's such a good lamp.

[1:10:48] Eden Espinosa: Oh, that's cute.

[1:10:52] Lesli Margherita: That's really cute. Okay, so I'm gonna be going to that website after this.

[1:10:58] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah.

[1:10:58] Lesli Margherita: Pottery barn teen the whole line.

[1:11:00] Andrew Barth Feldman: I've really pottery barn teen.

[1:11:01] Lesli Margherita: If you're listening, please sponsor this podcast. Like this is great.

[1:11:07] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, box lunch. Come on, sponsor your tickets of Broadway.

[1:11:10] Lesli Margherita: I've thought about because there's a line in Dear Evan Hansen that I said at the end of the show that's, um, uh, I'm working at pottery barn, so you could come get a friends and family discount or something fun and silly, Steve Levinson like that. And, uh, so, uh, Alex, my good friend Alex Bunny all had the idea that I should tweet at them and be like, hey guys, can I get the discount to like furnish my college dorm room?

[1:11:30] Eden Espinosa: Yes, you could.

[1:11:32] Andrew Barth Feldman: Oh yeah, that's cool.

[1:11:34] Lesli Margherita: Fantasia 80th merchandise. That's great. Um, someone else, uh, yeah, Mick uh McDonald's has happy meal toys that I saw that so I know you're all craving for some McDonald's, but I know really looking at it. In LA here, Vaughn, you can get first of all pop.

[1:11:51] Eden Espinosa: Oh yeah, Vaughn's has stuff too.

[1:11:53] Lesli Margherita: Vaughn's, little Disney pop characters, yeah.

[1:11:56] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, wow.

[1:11:57] Lesli Margherita: My, um, uh, Peter Pan 65th anniversary uh, pop doll is downstairs. The it just arrived. I ordered it from Amazon. But the, um, where is it? Oh, it's in the background. The like castle. Can you see this?

[1:12:11] Eden Espinosa: Oh, there it is.

[1:12:13] Lesli Margherita: Oh cute. It's a pop doll, but it's the castle, and in the park still have the walt one. Um, someone else has mentioned something. I don't know if you all saw this. Someone's talking about the partner statue. They just revealed from Disneyland, they just kind of, um, cleaned it up, they refurbished the partner statue back to kind of its original glory.

[1:12:31] Andrew Barth Feldman: That's awesome.

[1:12:32] Lesli Margherita: Um, they're putting that waltz statue in Epcot, so looking forward to that as well.

[1:12:40] Josh Strickland: I'm definitely gonna say as soon as it opens, I'm staying in the Star Wars hotel.

[1:12:44] David Alpert: Oh, wait, someone wants you to talk for three minutes. So, this is something I do on Broadway Jackbox every week when we raise a certain amount of money. I talk about a Disney attraction of the audience's choosing for three minutes uninterrupted and watch our guests watch the light leave their eyes.

[1:12:58] Lesli Margherita: Um, all of our guests.

[1:13:01] Andrew Barth Feldman: Can I give you a minute?

[1:13:04] David Alpert: You can give you can give a minute if you want. I mean they're gonna we've just done like an hour of it, but sure. Let's do a minute.

[1:13:09] Lesli Margherita: But you guys watch a Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

[1:13:13] David Alpert: Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.

[1:13:15] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, let's give them a, um, my timer ready. Hold on one second.

[1:13:20] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah, I could yeah, I have a minute. Ready? Go.

[1:13:24] Lesli Margherita: So Mr. Toad's Wild Ride is most known for being the one ride where you can literally go to hell on a Disney ride, uh, because you go to hell in the ride. Uh, because in Disney World, they had two, um, tracks, and this is why it was so popular, partly because there were two tracks that like went at the same time. So it was like dueling, and you would like meet and almost crash into each other, which is like very much akin to like what Mr. Toad is, but of course, there was the huge controversy when they closed the ride in Disney World. It was the first time that they'd like closed a classic or changed a classic, and there were riots. There were full like you can look in newspapers, like riot outside Disney World about this ride not being open anymore.

Um, so people were really, really not happy anymore. But now it's not there, and everyone seems to be pretty okay with it. But it's still in Disneyland, and, uh, they really keep their dark rides in good shape. So it's good in Disneyland, but they don't have the dueling thing, which is something I really wish I ever got to like remember and see. But yeah, they don't have the dueling like crashing cars in Disneyland. But they do, uh, often auction off little of the little devils in the hell scene. They like it in like Disney auctions, they'll auction off ones you can have in your house if you want a little devil from hell. There you go.

[1:14:25] David Alpert: You did it.

[1:14:26] Lesli Margherita: Wow.

[1:14:27] Andrew Barth Feldman: Wait, question it's not in Disney World anymore.

[1:14:31] Lesli Margherita: No.

[1:14:33] Andrew Barth Feldman: No, fantasyland's a whole other thing, but that was a long time ago that they did that.

[1:14:37] Lesli Margherita: I just have to say a fun fact that when I was a kid and I used to go on that ride with my grandfather, they used to keep that hell section so steamy and hot that when we came out of it, his glasses would be fogged up. And I remember every time he would take me on it and I would look at him and his glasses would be fogged up, and that's not even like that.

[1:14:57] Eden Espinosa: That's so true.

[1:14:57] Lesli Margherita: Yeah. You if you still in the queue, in the queue at Disneyland, they you're right, and they don't heat it up so much. They have that that ceiling fan just outside to get rid of the smoke, and like but I remember as a kid, yeah, that experience was terrifying.

[1:15:12] Andrew Barth Feldman: Yeah.

[1:15:12] Lesli Margherita: I this is this is my biggest this is my biggest Disney magic story that I have. I was in Disneyland, and like something I like to do when I was younger, especially is go into the parks by myself one night and just like explore. And I was doing all the dark rides, and I was like, it wasn't like long, like I was like 15 or something. I was like 17. And I was doing sorry. And doing all the dark rides, and I get off of Pinocchio, and there's this older man. Uh, and there was a long wait for Peter Pan's flight as there always is. And there's a long older man uh operating the ride, and I get off of Pinocchio like by myself, and there's nobody else in the building. He's like, Have you been on Peter Pan yet? And I was like, No, there's such a long line, I haven't gone. And he took me around the back to to go on Peter Pan's flight because you could tell I just had such an appreciation for the art form.

[1:15:57] Eden Espinosa: Yeah, I mean that I want to go to Disneyland with you.

[1:16:00] Lesli Margherita: I know we haven't officially met except for I need to go again. It's gonna happen when this is all done. We're gonna do an e-ticket trip to Disneyland.

[1:16:11] Andrew Barth Feldman: We better shut down the place because we're gonna go crazy.

[1:16:18] Lesli Margherita: I'm gonna get Adina to sign us all in, she'll shut it down for us. It'll be so much fun.

[1:16:24] David Alpert: We're gonna do it. We have to do it.

[1:16:26] Lesli Margherita: Yeah, what was this all for? If we don't, uh, but but uh here's that link again to Sporculonus Phone. You can also go to um e-ticketpodcast.com, become a Patreon, some cool um perks here and there, uh, which is super fun.

[1:16:39] David Alpert: Um, so I just want to thank Josh, Eden, Andrew, and Lesli for their time tonight. Please, everyone, they're donating their time. Please support them online, please support their benefits, their concerts, and they do. Um, they are giving of their time, and they are, you know, in this pandemic, they're out of work, so anything you can do to help them. Um, I want to thank the Broadway Podcast Network for sponsoring tonight's live show for all of you for watching. Please, as I always say, take this magic you feel, spread it online. When you have the choice to do a negative thing or a positive thing, go the positive way. Truly, we can change the narrative, we can make, as Kayla Settle said, it's that moment when you're in the line for small world and you see the railroad go by and you all wave to each other.

That's the world we want to live in, right? So we can do that. And Gil on his phone wants to help. It's just happening. So let's show our mice. Let's show that. Look at this magic. This is the magic. It's magic.

[1:17:36] David Alpert: It's so magic. Everyone just stick around. But thanks everyone for watching tonight.