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December 2, 2024 4 mins

Walt Disney Week: He invented the difficulty levels of ski slopes

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fact of the Day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
This week, the subject of Fact of the Day is
Walt Disney the man oh Walt Disney.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
And today's Fact of the Day.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
To kick it off as do you know Walt Disney
invented the ratings for ski slopes?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
What Walt Disney?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
So after Walt Disney Land and Walt Disney World, the
next thing he wanted to open was a Walt Disney
uh Mountain ski resort.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Okay, he wanted to be the next thing. It never
ended up happening.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
But if you go into the Magic Kingdom, and if
you take the Keys to the Kingdom tour at the
Magic Kingdom, you'll learn about the fact that he wanted
to do one. And there's a map of the proposed
skiping on the wall which has the official rating scales
of ski slope difficulties, green circles easiest, blue square, more difficult,
black diamond, most difficult, and two black diamonds, double black

(01:11):
diamonds extreme terrain.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yep. And he was the one that minted it. Why
because he was just nothing before that.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
No, there was nothing before then the Ski Areas Association
was kind of being pressured to come up with something,
and he was like, well, I've got this plan for
a thing and I'm going to do it. And they
were like, we like that, we'll all start using it.
And that used worldwide. Yeah, even though he never got
he never got a ski resort opened. What would Disney

(01:41):
ski resort be like expensive? Yeah, and all the star
expensive scanning your passes on the chair lift, but their
dress like making Yeah, you think about your Disney, your
classic Disney things that involved snow, Disney Frozen, Prodounce, some
Star Wars, snow White, so.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
White is that Disney? Yeah? But she was never in
the snot no, but she always looked name of snow White.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
But you said things that are Disney related to snow.
There's literally a character called snow White. Yeah, you don't
think they're snow White is going to be in a
snowy Disney resort? Dumb?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
She lived in the forest, It doesn't matter. The flame
is snow white. I know, you're not even gonna think twice.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
What do you think kids are going to turn up
and be like, well, god, you're an idiot. Okay, it's
snow White at the Disney Resort. Yeah, this guy, I know,
it's a punished working with her, just a big thicky,

(02:46):
So just be related things to snow.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Can barf at me when I said.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Snow white her name, and she had nothing to do
with the snow other than the fact that name was,
Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
Wow, snow white, rice cream parla. Don't try to make
seeds of it.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
She's just gonna be there some drama school and she
was on even warm.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh my god, have a little polyprop.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Or white pollyprop because her skin is.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
So white, she's as fair as snow. She got her name.
I've even thought how weird it was that her name
was snow white. It's a weird name. You're just rocking
me up at this point. It's a weird name. I've
never even met anybody called snow your last name, white

(03:39):
last name, little Snow's surname there. I don't know if
you really want to hangy coat on that one, pulling
it apart.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
She's there in the snow because her name is snow white,
And I'll like, what are you doing here? Someone just
text and she's called snowe because her skin.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
As white as snowy. No, yeah, I know that she's
got no place in the snow. She freeze. She's used
to a more temperate clim harassed. Almost looked like a rainforest.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
So today's fact to the day on the first for
Walt Disney Week is that Walt Disney the man. You
know what, There's probably someone working for him, but he
was pretty happy to go out there and totally take
the credit tap into the modern ski slope scale difficulty.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
In fact of the day, day day day day, didn't
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