May 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Michael and Ryan chat with Disney content creator Chelsea Watson about her journey from small-town beginnings to building a vibrant online community through the magic of Disney. They dive into the mystique of Club 33, the evolution of Genie Plus vs. FastPass, and share personal stories—some heartwarming, some hilariously painful. Plus, a fun game of Disney "what ifs" and a debate over who told the best story!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Your poor nose did not ask for this.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It really didn't. And then the other one, I was
jumping on my bed trying to be Mary Poppins lifting
off into the air, same fell caught my nose on
the corner of a dress. Are broken. You've been through
it so really, I probably not supposed to look like this,
but thanks to Mary Poppins, who knows, maybe I have
a better nose than I would have. Welcome back to
(00:24):
White Noise. I'm so excited about our guest today. The
well she is literally styled by magic. So you were
literally the most magical person we have had so far.
It's fabulous. Chelsea Watson, Chelsea, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hi Chelsea, Hi guys, thank you so much for having me.
I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And your friends with Liz, our last guest. And yes,
she was like, I know exactly who your next guest
should be, and so I'm just so thrilled you could
make it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah. I was actually telling Ryan earlier. I met Liz
about seven years ago. At this point at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
I was they're shooting content and her and her husband
now husband Colin, they approached me. They're like, she's like,
I follow you on Instagram, which was a crazy like
moment for me, and we've been we've been friends ever since,
(01:15):
and she's she's just so cool. I love her style.
No one does cool girl Disney style quite like her.
And I told Ryan we were just together from May
the fourth at Hollywood Studios. We had a great time.
She helped me get this insane shot with all the
lightsabers her and her friend Lauren did and yeah, it
was crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And no, you live near Disney, you can see the fireworks.
Hear the train, as you were telling us.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, in the mornings when I'm walking our dog Pascal,
He's a Golden Retriever. He we literally hear the train
in the morning. We can hear the electrical water parade
at night. We obviously can see the fireworks. Sometimes I
can hear like the screams of children having so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh oh, I like you finished it with having some
much fun.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was gonna say, I did read that your kind
of journey into the content creation and everything actually started
in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So when I first got married, my husband had accepted
a job as a software developer and that took us
to the New England area. So I grew up in
West Virginia, so going from no where Huntington area.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So I grew up in Virginia in northern Virginia, but
went to school in Blacksburg. And yeah, I ventured into
West Virginia on a pretty regular basis with friends and hiking,
and it's.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, it's a beautiful state for stuff like that, for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
For stuff like that. Yoh that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, don't get me wrong. I'm very proud of my roots.
But as we you know, we all grow. Yeah, So Jaffrey,
we moved to New Hampshire, and I was honestly, very
quite literally, I got very depressed and lonely because I
didn't have any friends. I was very young at the time.
I did get married young. I've been with my husband
since I was fifteen. Like, we got married when I
(03:03):
was twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Oh whoa.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We actually celebrate our ten year anniversary in a couple
of days, so cheers, thank you. So, yeah, we're we
moved there. I didn't have any friends at the time.
We were broke because he's just fresh out of college.
We only had one car and he had to take
it to work every day, so I'm trapped at home
every day, and I started posting on social media as
(03:26):
like a creative outlet. I started with beauty blogging though,
and I did like lots of makeup reviews and things
like that. And I was actually inspired by my friend Jill.
She has an account called Disney Girl Beauty, and that's
how I discovered, like this whole space was because of her.
I followed her from the time that I was still
lived in West Virginia and now we're also best friends.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Kind of like in your own way, you kind of
like brought your magic, brought the magic to your own
situation to kind.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Of like like uplift and like and really, I guess
and real, that's kind of what Disney's about, right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, no, for sure it for me, it gave me
not only like more purpose, but it also I to
this day have some of my best friends to think
for that. And I've had like Jill's been my friend
now for a decade going on a decade, which is
kind of crazy to think about. And I met her
on the internet through our love of Disney and makeup.
(04:19):
And yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's like the loveliest side of social media bringing leg
you know, the like that connection because I've had that
a lot too with some people because I got into
doing like content creation for a little bit and it
was all Shit's creek stuff and I just found some
really lovely people and some lifelong friends because of that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, for sure, it's definitely there is a beautiful side
to it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
M M.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's like a it's a coin, you just get one
or the other.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
When you were in New Hampshire at some point, did
you know you were always going? Like did you know
you'd be proximate to Disney World? Did you know you'd
move back there? That was this like a was this
on the vision board or did you just know it
was always going to happen?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It was on the vision board, but I quite literally
could never have actually fathomed that I would be here
right now, like in this moment, I'm like, I put
this on delusion, Like I just like say things and
I hope that they happen, and a lot of times
I do and it seems to work for me.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Michael and I both do that do a lot of
that too.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Go. Yeah, we at the time whenever I started really
getting into trying to do this full time, and I
really told myself like, hey, you can do this this.
At the time, that space was not tapped into really
at all. There weren't many people I could. I'd probably
say there were less than ten of us doing this.
(05:41):
When I started, like doing Disney influencing content creation type thing,
you're og, Yeah, I'm a fossil quite literally because things
have definitely progressed. I feel like the Disney content creator
community is very massive now. It became very lucrative, especially
during the pandemic. At the time, I had friends here,
(06:02):
so I was traveling to Disney from New Hampshire as
often as I could, Like I would say once every
one to two months, I would come down shoot as
much content as I could, like fashion content. In that time.
I would bring in like a huge toe bag and
do multiple outfits in a day and shoot that way.
And then I came back from one trip and I
(06:24):
like told my husband, I was like, sit with me.
We sat on the floor and I'm like, do you
want to form an alliance? No? And I was like,
I would really like to chase this dream. Do you
think there's any possibility or any way we could move
to Florida? And he ended up asking his work like, Hey,
(06:46):
could I go remote because obviously mostly what he doesn't
have to be in person to do anything he does.
And so we made the move to Florida, and we
moved it. We lived in Celebration at first, which, if
you don't know any Disney history, Celebration was a community
originally built by Disney to be like this kind of
like ideal community. We lived there for a little bit
(07:08):
and then we bought a house right behind Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, this is all perfect since our topic today centers
around Disney obviously, could you imagine if we were like,
today's topic is actually cum quats, how do you feel?
I will tell you that is how we operated for
a while. We'd be like, hey, oh wow, yeah, so
at least, like we know, this is a topic that
clearly you feel passionate about. But it's not just Disney.
(07:32):
The specific thing we are given is Club thirty three.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I am not a member. That's out of my tax bracket. Yes,
but have you been I have been to a few
of the lounges here at Disney World. I've never been
to the og one in Disneyland, which is like a
Disney bucket list item for me. I've always wanted to go,
and I probably could have enangled a way to go
at this point, but I am so like chronically anxious
(07:58):
that I would never ask any one to like get
me in.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Look, if anyone is listening and can help wants to
take Chelsea, don't make her ask call her up right now,
ping her on Instagram and be like, hey, this is
the day and time. Come come with me, let's do
let's do it. Let's go to New Orleans, Let's go
to the club thirty three. There, Yeah, let's do it.
So I'm doing it for you. You're going, thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Thank you. Oh my gosh, again I'm delusional. I'm somehow
met you and now it's hopefully going to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We're all manifesting this together. Yeah. Because also I'm sure
whatever you wear will be spectacular, because I do love that,
like your content is a blend of like really beautiful
outfits and really cool offits, I Will says. And then
also Disney, so it's like this great little combination of interests.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, that's that's definitely kind of why the account was
just not like styled by Disney or something that like that.
I wanted Magic to kind of encompass a whole range
of things, and that's just that's not just limited to Disney.
There's magic. I feel like there's magic in every day.
Like I feel like you have to actively seek that out.
(09:06):
And so that's kind of my motto.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So I try. And we're getting ready to go to
Scotland for our anniversary and so I've planned like really
fun content for there, so Meredith from Brave Outlander content
because I'm a huge Outlander fan. So a lot of
fandom stuff, a lot of pop culture things of that
nature that really inspire me.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh yeah, cool, Scotland's fabulous, by the way, You're gonna
love it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, no, but yeah, I not to like get off topic.
I know we're a talking Club thirty three. I for me, like,
I know a lot of people want to go, like
like to go to Club thirty three for the kind
of status of it, but I am actually just so
like I the history of it, Like I want to
(09:51):
go in there and know that like I was in
a place where so many legends have been in Like
there's I don't know, if you know, like the kind
of things that in Club thirty three, but like they
have the table from the Mary Poppins movie. I just
want to touch it. You know.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Now comes the next part where we each get ten
minutes to now like riff on what Club thirty three
made us think of, and also feel free to like
chime in if I say something and you're like that
made me think of this, go for it? Okay, So
which and we'll keep time, no worries. Which one of
us would you like to hear? Go first?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Let's do like a Ryan, you're on top, I'll just
have you go first.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Great. I love when Ryan goes first because he tends
to actually research. Okay, right, are you ready? I'm ready? Okay,
and go.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Of course I did do like a little bit of
research and found some interesting things here and there. I
kind of have a game.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
If you will, kind of plan for us Chelsea for
the last half of it. We'll see how this goes.
So Club thirty three.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Walt Disney was inspired by the World's Fair in the
VIP lounges at the World's Fair and was like, we
need something like this for Disney. And the original intention
was to be like a sponsor's lounge. So if you
sponsored or co sponsored something with Disney, a perk which
you got access to this specialty lounge for business for
(11:32):
whatever else, mixing and mingling with other sponsors, et cetera. Right,
it's located at thirty three Royal Street in New Orleans
Square and Disney World, which I think is also approximate
to his apartment as well.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sorry, it's in Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh my bad, Disneyland. That's what I meant to.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No, no, no, and I don't mean to. It's just like
I didn't want people to be confused. But yeah, it's
Disneyland so than California.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And by the way, it's worth noting the past few
podcasts have actually the topics have taken us to Anaheim, California,
because Vans was also actually Vans, which was the topic
last week, was started in sixty six in Anaum, California,
and that is the same timeframe, so it was started
to be built in sixty six and then actually opened
in sixty seven. Odd coincidence. I think I'd be interested
(12:20):
in if you know what the answer is. So I've
heard that the thirty three is either representative of the address,
which is thirty three Royal Street, or it's representative of
the original thirty three sponsors that it was intended to host.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I've heard both of those things. But honestly, I think
I've always kind of thought it was the sponsor thing more.
And I feel like because it like what came first,
the chicken or the egg. I'm trying to remember if
New Orleans Square was built that way already and then
it was already kind of it already was, like.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I think it was built into New Orleans Square. So
I think to your point, like in other words, they
gave it thirty three Royal Street, they gave it the
thirty three address because the thirty three was a pre
was a pre existing number.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, Yeah, makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's That's what I've always thought too. But again, like
I think a lot of misinformation kind of goes around
about Disney because like it becomes like war in and
of itself, and people will say things like, oh, like
Walt Disney, his ashes are poured and hot in mansion
or something like like or you know.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Like I thought his head was frozen, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Or his head it's cryogenically frozen, like.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So they can bring them back to life.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
These things. Yeah, they just kind of like snowball until
it becomes like a complete not truth.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now I'm going to tell you if that does happen,
that is some magic.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, but uh, it turns out in like the eighties
and nineties. The eighties and nineties is where basically the
corporate sponsorship things started to dwindle off and they started
to realize that there was a lot of personal interest
and having this thing, so they turned it into this
club with very exclusive access. Reading that like, it's it's
not necessarily about making money. Now, I would disagree with
(14:02):
that now. I do think it's probably a money thing,
a bit of a money thing now.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
But the marketing, the.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Mystique, the kind of question and intrigue that surrounds it,
or like like big drivers for it, that's where it
kind of evolved to. I read that there was a
shake up in twenty twelve, which was pretty controversial because
they made a majority of the members reapply for access,
and they raised the cost anywhere from twenty five to
fifty thousand dollars per year. There's a fifteen thousand dollars
(14:29):
a year membership fee, and there's a ten to fifteen
year waiting list.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, so it's it's quite crazy. And again you were
mentioning like the mystique of it and like the fact
that it is. It feels like this like unattainable thing. Yeah,
obviously you have to have a lot, you have to
have a lot of money, or you have to at
least want to expend your money on that. But even
just getting on the list, like that's your first biggest hurdle,
and that that's harder than getting the money together. I think.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, apparently they're also weird about that, Like they do
deep financial checks with you because they want to know
that you could sustainably pay to be a member. So
in other words, if they can't substantiate the fact that
you can be an ongoing member and continue to pay,
they won't let you in. Like you might be able
to do the first year, but they don't see it
as like you get a year of it, you're in it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Like if you get in, they want you in for
life sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, I did read how much time do I have, Michael?
Because I want to get to my.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Four and a half minutes you know what I there
is like I did read like a couple drama stories
like Rebel Wilson fucked up and posted some photos, and
then I did think it was interesting that Katy Perry
auctioned off access to it for charity, got one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars for the charity for it. I
read that she didn't get any trouble for it, and
(15:48):
it was actually related to the fact that the PR
person for Katy Perry basically called up Disney and said,
you have two options. You can get Katy Perry in
trouble for this and blacklister her. Do whatever you want,
but we will also come out and say it's unfortunate
that Disney doesn't want to operate and supportive I think
whatever the charity was or be okay. Yeah, So it
ended up being a little bit of a headbutting and
(16:09):
everyone was like, you know what we're going to do.
We're all just going to say nothing and pretend like
it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, they're very they're very strict about things like you
can only take pictures as far as so like Rebel
posted pictures like inside you cannot do that. There's like
two places you're allowed to take pictures in Club thirty
three and share publicly, and that's the balcony. And that
kind of overlooks like there's pirates in the Caribbean. That
(16:36):
kind of like area public space. Then there yeah, public yeah,
and then there's the courtyard. As you were going into
Club thirty three, there's like a little courtyard and a
staircase that goes up, and so that's usually the picture
that people.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Do you ready to play the game?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So the game is this or that?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And I have various different topics for you and be
interested to see which one you would choose. So the
first question is it's labeled flex or fantasy. Would you
take a long term Club thirty three membership and never
get to post about it in any way, shape or form,
or would you pick a one time twenty one Royal
(17:17):
Sweet dinner that you could chat about and share about
and have that experience. And by the way, it's worth
noting that that Royal Street dinner is a fifteen thousand
dollars add on if you're a Club thirty three member,
so it's a very exclusive thing to get into.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So part of me wants to say, take the membership
and just don't ever post about it, But I also like,
that's the thing. Just because you have a membership, every
time you go, you still have to You're still paying
for everything. It's not like, oh, your membership gets you
free food and drinks.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
While you're there, and it's still very expensive. From what
I've read, it's not.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, you're still paying for everything. So for me, I
think in a way like, yeah, it would be cool
to have that. But I think doing the twenty one
Royal Street and not even necessarily being able to talk
about it, but just being able to do that and
also go to Club thirty three and be like, hey, yeah,
I've been there, and it's like I checked a thing
off my bucket list. I feel like I'm in with you.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I would I would do the fancy dinner. I would
do the fancy experience. I feel like that would be cool.
I'm with you as well. I a thousand percent? All right,
I got The next one is access. So would you
take a free Genie plus Lightning Lane for life pass
(18:39):
or would you take private park access once a year
with no other perks?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
The lightning lane?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Lightning Lane nice?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And I will explain why when Disney got rid of
their fast pass system that was a travesty. I really
wish it would come back, because for one, was free,
and two as like, for me as a local, a
lot of times, you know we'll go to Disney just
for like an hour or two, or we'll go for
(19:10):
date night, and it's like a very like very privileged,
but a very casual thing for us. And so we
would go, get like some food or snack, get a
fast pass for a ride, and then leave. But now
it's I can't bring myself to like buy Lightning Lane
unless like I have friends or family here that like
I want to make sure that they get like an experience.
(19:32):
I can't bring myself to like pay for it all
the time, and to the wait times are just so
crazy a lot of the times, and it's changed our
dynamic and our relationship with how we experienced Disney, and unfortunately,
I don't think it's.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
For the better. So Michael, can I ask one more question?
Am I allowed to do one more? Go for it?
We can do one more, all right?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So I so this I jumped through a few more,
but I'm jumping to this one based upon something that
you shared earlier.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So this one is.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Kind of like the ultimate question, right, So if you
had the option to hang with Walt Disney himself in
nineteen fifty five in Disneyland and have the experience with him,
or if I was going to lean on what we
talked about earlier. They unfreeze that head and bring him
back to life, versus design your own land in a
(20:22):
future Disney park.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Which one do you choose?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh, man, I'm gonna say design my own land. I
say that because of Walt's legacy in the sense that
when he was creating Disney, they had wed enterprises, which
was basically where imagineering started, right, So he really cultivated
and brought in these insanely talented people to create the parks,
(20:50):
to do all the theming from Mary Blair who did
concept art and did the all the stuff for It's
a Small World. It's just like there's so many people
to admire, like Joe Roadie, he's or was an imagineer
and did Animal Kingdom. I think Walt's legacy of them
getting to meet the people who have come from his
legacy and then build a park with them is just
(21:12):
as much a like tribute to Walt as getting to
go back in time and like see him.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And I was going to say, the only thing that's
going to drive me crazy now is I'm going to
be humming It's a Small.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
World for the rest of the day, which I.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Did want to say, just because I was like, I
don't like the way Disney World operates. Still love you, Disney,
You're great. I just no, like, it's just I do
miss the fast past system. I miss like the accessibility
of that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
No, you're just constructive criticism.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah. Sorry, I didn't want to like, I'm not like
trying to like bash or anything.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I guarantee Disney has heard that feedback plenty of times
over at this point, so I.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Definitely I've definitely like rage posted bring back fast tasks.
This is.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Let's do it? All right? Ready, set go, okay, great
Club thirty three. It was interesting to learn about that,
and it's funny Ryan, we almost never researched the same things,
but we did this time because I was like, well,
where did it originate? And I was like, oh, from
the vip lounge in the World's Fair, And I do
think it's really interesting. I learned that that was the
(22:29):
first real like corporate vip lounge was that the World's
Fair in the nineteen sixties in New York. That was
the first time that like companies did these like sponsored
vip lounges for people, which I thought was fascinating, and
it's because in my head, VIP lounges have been around forever,
but the technical thing it was really that. And then Disney,
(22:51):
like it sounds like, was the first real like permanent
VIP lounge was this one. So it's yet again Disney
on the forefront of something because technically there were airline
VIP lounges in airports, like the first one I believe
was in the nineteen thirties at LaGuardia. I think it
was American Airlines, So maybe that's where they got the
idea for the World's Fair. But again, I feel like
(23:13):
that's different because that was more for like people who
you know, it's airport lounges as we know them now,
like memberships and stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Uh No, interesting enough, speaking of like sponsors and like
how that started, a lot of attractions at Disney are
still will be like sponsored by some something. So like
test Track at Walt Disney World an Epcot, GM sponsored it. Well, yeah,
it was sponsored by GM, and so GM actually had
a VIP lounge above Test Track and you could only
(23:42):
get access to it if you were a GM employee. Mmmm.
So and my my cousin who was like my brother.
He was a GM employee, and so when we went
to Disney, we could have went, but we unfortunately it
got there and it had already closed for the day.
But yeah, it's like it says a lot a lounge
specifically for the sponsor, which is GM.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But I just think it's so interesting that those weren't
a thing until this, like really, yeah, the World's Fair,
because that was temporary. So really it sounds like this
experience at Disney was the first time that this was
a permanent thing, which I just think is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I feel like Walt Disney was like on the forefront
of a lot of those kinds of ideas, or it
definitely at least the people that like he was employing,
Like as you guys maybe know It's a Small World
debut at the World's Fair.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
No, Yeah, So It's a Small World was literally World's Fair,
and it ended up being so popular and such like
a you know, kind of like groundbreaking thing for the
time that they disassembled it and brought it to Disneyland.
So yeah, and it was like reconstructed there. Oh cool.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And you know, just when I thought I had gotten
the song out of my head it is back. Well,
we'll see, maybe we'll swap out another one for you.
So that so you kind of went into where I
was going to go. So now I'm personal stories then,
so my thing with Disney because obviously Club thirty three Disney,
I weirdly it makes me think of injuries and I'll
(25:17):
tell you why. Oh I know, so different and multiple
ones right, so it all so the original ones are
I are from Mary Poppins. So I love Mary Poppins.
When I was a child, that was my favorite movie.
I was a horrible sleeper and so when I was three,
I learned how to use the VCR and like I
(25:37):
would go, like after everybody went to sleep, I would
be up in the middle of the night just watching Mary Poppins.
And like when I was like three or four, I
could say like Docia, Sally xpistic, fragiic Ali Rupus. I
had it down. I knew this step in time choreography,
loved it. I ended up breaking my nose three times
because of Mary Poppins. So my nose probably is not
(25:58):
supposed to look like this because when you're little, they
just sort of like push it back into place. So
over the course of one year. So the first time,
I was sliding down the banister in my house because
I wanted to be Mary Poppins, fell off onto the
tile entryway floor, face planet and broke my nose. Another time,
I was trying to do this step in time dance
and I was using there's a part in it where
they're dancing on a rail, just sort of like doing
(26:19):
high kicks, and I was doing that on the edge
of my couch along with the movie. Fell caught my
nose on a table, broke it that way.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Your poor nose did not ask for this, it really didn't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
And then the other one, I was jumping on my
bed trying to be Mary Poppins, lifting off into the air,
same fell caught my nose on the corner of a dress.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Are broken, So you've been through it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So really, I probably not supposed to look like this,
but thanks to Mary Poppins, who knows, maybe I have
a better nose than I would have. So that's the
first thing for Disney related injuries. It's a very strong
nose structure. Michael, thank you all.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, it's like, who heard you Mary Poppins. Long story, but.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I still I still love her, and it's still like
I have a Mary Poppins movie poster on my wall
in my apartment when you walk in, practically perfect.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I have a Mary Poppins poster that's signed by Dick
Van Dyke.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, my husband got it for me and I quite
literally like cried. So just yeah, so that's always very fun.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh my god, I love that. I just oh no,
I'm just thinking about that movie. Like when Julie Andrews
won her Golden Globe and she random and she thanked
the producer of My Fair Lady, which I love. Yeah,
I mean because she was supposed to be She was
doing My Fair Lady on Broadway and then Camelot and
they found her when she was doing Camalot. But I
love that, like she didn't get the film because they
didn't think she was famous enough, and then she ended
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up getting Mary Poppins. They came out the same year.
They were against each other at the Oscars, and I
love that she when she won and she when she
tells the story, she was all of what I think,
like twenty four or twenty five to were the young.
Her first movie in this big you know, never done.
She was new to Hollywood, and I love that she's
like I took a deep breath and I was like,
and I'd like to thank mister Jack Warner just look
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and think and she's like and thank god he laughed.
But like ballsy. I think people also forget that about
Julie Andrews because they think, oh, total queen, and I
love that. They think she's like between Mary Poppins and
Sound of Music, that that's who she is, is the
sweet nan when in real life like swears like a
trucker is like I know people have worked with her
who were like, she's lovely, she's everything you want her
(28:27):
to be, but she is also not Mary Poppins and
like which is great. They're like, oh no, she's really crash.
She makes dirty jokes, like you forget that she grew
up like a Cockney girl doing music halls when she
was a kid.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, but love it, love her National treasure.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh my god. So anyway, so those are the first
injuries Disney related injuries. Why I think of it. The
second was I did a half marathon with my sister
and a very good friend at Disney World. We did
the Disney Villains half marathon. And I am not a
runner and I didn't really prepare.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Don't Chelsea, don't, don't, don't buy this. This is this
is absolutely bullshit. This guy is one of these guys.
They could be like, I'm not a runner and then
just go run a half marriage. Okay, but that's the
problem is that's what I did. So or No, that
one wasn't. It was Disney Princes and Princesses. Sorry, that
was the theme. So I dressed as Prince Eric. But
I thought again, I was like, well, it's not that
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far right. I always meant to train and I never
got around to it. And I was living in La
at the time, so this is a Disney world. So
I flew to Disney for the weekend. I met my
sister and my our friend and our families came to
cheer us on, and I was like going, and after
three miles I was like, I actually feel okay. So
I like really went for it and like stopped and
took pictures, had the best time. And again they do
(29:47):
it before the park suping. This was like four o'clock
in the morning, right, So then we go back. I
did not stretch, I did not do anything. I just
went back to sleep. When I got up, I could
not work. And the thing with the marathon is you
get access to.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
The park for a day.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Been there, Oh, been there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And it's like I and I was flying back to
LA the next the next night, so I was like, oh,
I only have one day here, and I hadn't been
to Disney since I was a kid, and I was like,
I'm de termerant. And I just remember being in so
much pain that whole day, and like literally going to
do Space Mountain and having to be lowered into it,
and then my sister and my friend literally having to
pick me up and people are looking at me like
(30:28):
what is wrong with this man? Because my legs just froze.
Wouldn't Yeah, it would not work. And sadly, that's the
last time I was at Disney World. So it's like
all I think was how much fun I had, but
also just how much pain I was in because I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
We've got to replace, We've got to replace that experience.
I'll be your tour guide if you want. I will
show you everything the world if you will.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I would love that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. We would make it definitely more fun and less
pain less pain this time. Yeah, I am always like
in awe of the people who like do the challenges
where it's not just like a half marathon. They do
the five K, the ten.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
K, the half Oh the Goofy isn't that called the Goofy?
Don't you get the goofy metal?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
There's like the Dopey challenge.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Like there's our dope or something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
End. So and then I see them they've done all
three and then they're like trucking around Epcot drinking around
the world like it's nothing, And I'm like, did you
are a different breed? Like I cannot do that.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I wish I could be that person. But I've done
the Disney I've done the Disney Marathon. Oh you did
the full marathon. I've done the full marathon. That was
my one and only.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That was also the one where the person who talked
me into doing it abandoned me around mile eight.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh no, well, my last one was. It's a sadder story,
but anyway, really long story short. I went to go
to another Disney half marathon at disney Land. We didn't
end up making it. We ended up in the hospital
for a lot of anyway, that's a different story. But
so it didn't end up getting to do it because
I was with my sister and we she ended up
getting hurt, so we didn't get to do the race,
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but we were talking to the nurses and they were like,
we sort of prep for these because so many people
are dumb dumbs like me who don't prepare for these
races and they all end up like hurting themselves pulling
something and have to go to the er. And they're like,
but it's really cute because they're all in costumes and
they're themed. And I was like, what was your favorite
and the wonder She was like, I love when they
do the tinker bell one and she was like, and
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we just have an er full of tinker bells, like
wounded tinker bells.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You know what. I bring in magic to the hospital exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So that was the last part of that story. Anyway.
That is us. So now you have the really fun
task of choosing which one of us won the episode.
I put that in air quotes for.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
One, I appreciate everything that you guys shared. I love
that you kind of like looked into it because there
is just so much history to all these sayings. I
did love the game that Ryan had us do, so
I think for that reason I picked Ryan though I
love your Mary Poppins lore very much so, but I
just yeah, because I could just yaugh about Disney all day.
(33:14):
We could do some more questions and I would be
very happy to just do it.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Love it and we learned a lot from that. So Ryan,
I'm with you. I'm one thousand percent. I think you win. Yeah,
I would have picked you as the winner as well.
I appreciate it. Thank you so, And what is our
topic for next week?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Octopuses Octopi.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yes, Oh that's fun. I've been waiting for someone to
say that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I'm so glad I could fulfill that. Three.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
No, you don't understand. I've read so many books on them.
I find them fascinating. Oh my god, I kill this
is going to be great. If they lived longer, they'd
rule the world. I think it's only a matter of time.
We're just waiting for them to evolve and then they're
going to come up and be like humans. Just going.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
People are arguing about whether or not aliens are real,
but honestly, I feel like octopi are like aliens in
a way. They're just because they're so smart, right, Like
they're just it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, they're they're already here. Oh my god, thank you.
I'm so excited. Yeah, well, thank you. Where can people
follow you? Find you all the things?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
So my handles across everything is styled by Magic, styled
as in like past tense, like ed. I know sometimes
when I say that people are like style by Magic
and I'm like styled, I try to, like really try
to enunciate it. But yeah, style by Magic. I share
lots of different things, from Disney to Universal theme parks
(34:35):
to every day to travels, mental health, journey, my dog.
That's why most people follow me.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think at this point, Hey, whatever it is, it
brings joy your whole pictures of that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yes, that's definitely my goal. So thank you for having
met to like talk about it.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, thank you for being here our pleasure. Yeah, thank you,
And and join us next week for Octopus OCTOPI not
Clean
Your poor nose did not ask for this.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It really didn't. And then the other one, I was
jumping on my bed trying to be Mary Poppins lifting
off into the air, same fell caught my nose on
the corner of a dress. Are broken. You've been through
it so really, I probably not supposed to look like this,
but thanks to Mary Poppins, who knows, maybe I have
a better nose than I would have. Welcome back to
(00:24):
White Noise. I'm so excited about our guest today. The
well she is literally styled by magic. So you were
literally the most magical person we have had so far.
It's fabulous. Chelsea Watson, Chelsea, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Hi Chelsea, Hi guys, thank you so much for having me.
I'm very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And your friends with Liz, our last guest. And yes,
she was like, I know exactly who your next guest
should be, and so I'm just so thrilled you could
make it.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Yeah. I was actually telling Ryan earlier. I met Liz
about seven years ago. At this point at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
I was they're shooting content and her and her husband
now husband Colin, they approached me. They're like, she's like,
I follow you on Instagram, which was a crazy like
moment for me, and we've been we've been friends ever since,
(01:15):
and she's she's just so cool. I love her style.
No one does cool girl Disney style quite like her.
And I told Ryan we were just together from May
the fourth at Hollywood Studios. We had a great time.
She helped me get this insane shot with all the
lightsabers her and her friend Lauren did and yeah, it
was crazy.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
And no, you live near Disney, you can see the fireworks.
Hear the train, as you were telling us.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, in the mornings when I'm walking our dog Pascal,
He's a Golden Retriever. He we literally hear the train
in the morning. We can hear the electrical water parade
at night. We obviously can see the fireworks. Sometimes I
can hear like the screams of children having so much fun.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Oh oh, I like you finished it with having some
much fun.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I was gonna say, I did read that your kind
of journey into the content creation and everything actually started
in New Hampshire.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So when I first got married, my husband had accepted
a job as a software developer and that took us
to the New England area. So I grew up in
West Virginia, so going from no where Huntington area.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
So I grew up in Virginia in northern Virginia, but
went to school in Blacksburg. And yeah, I ventured into
West Virginia on a pretty regular basis with friends and hiking,
and it's.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yeah, it's a beautiful state for stuff like that, for sure.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
For stuff like that. Yoh that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
No, don't get me wrong. I'm very proud of my roots.
But as we you know, we all grow. Yeah, So Jaffrey,
we moved to New Hampshire, and I was honestly, very
quite literally, I got very depressed and lonely because I
didn't have any friends. I was very young at the time.
I did get married young. I've been with my husband
since I was fifteen. Like, we got married when I
(03:03):
was twenty.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Oh whoa.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
We actually celebrate our ten year anniversary in a couple
of days, so cheers, thank you. So, yeah, we're we
moved there. I didn't have any friends at the time.
We were broke because he's just fresh out of college.
We only had one car and he had to take
it to work every day, so I'm trapped at home
every day, and I started posting on social media as
(03:26):
like a creative outlet. I started with beauty blogging though,
and I did like lots of makeup reviews and things
like that. And I was actually inspired by my friend Jill.
She has an account called Disney Girl Beauty, and that's
how I discovered, like this whole space was because of her.
I followed her from the time that I was still
lived in West Virginia and now we're also best friends.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Kind of like in your own way, you kind of
like brought your magic, brought the magic to your own
situation to kind.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Of like like uplift and like and really, I guess
and real, that's kind of what Disney's about, right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah, no, for sure it for me, it gave me
not only like more purpose, but it also I to
this day have some of my best friends to think
for that. And I've had like Jill's been my friend
now for a decade going on a decade, which is
kind of crazy to think about. And I met her
on the internet through our love of Disney and makeup.
(04:19):
And yeah, see.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
That's like the loveliest side of social media bringing leg
you know, the like that connection because I've had that
a lot too with some people because I got into
doing like content creation for a little bit and it
was all Shit's creek stuff and I just found some
really lovely people and some lifelong friends because of that.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yeah, for sure, it's definitely there is a beautiful side
to it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
M M.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's like a it's a coin, you just get one
or the other.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
When you were in New Hampshire at some point, did
you know you were always going? Like did you know
you'd be proximate to Disney World? Did you know you'd
move back there? That was this like a was this
on the vision board or did you just know it
was always going to happen?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
It was on the vision board, but I quite literally
could never have actually fathomed that I would be here
right now, like in this moment, I'm like, I put
this on delusion, Like I just like say things and
I hope that they happen, and a lot of times
I do and it seems to work for me.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Michael and I both do that do a lot of
that too.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Go. Yeah, we at the time whenever I started really
getting into trying to do this full time, and I
really told myself like, hey, you can do this this.
At the time, that space was not tapped into really
at all. There weren't many people I could. I'd probably
say there were less than ten of us doing this.
(05:41):
When I started, like doing Disney influencing content creation type thing,
you're og, Yeah, I'm a fossil quite literally because things
have definitely progressed. I feel like the Disney content creator
community is very massive now. It became very lucrative, especially
during the pandemic. At the time, I had friends here,
(06:02):
so I was traveling to Disney from New Hampshire as
often as I could, Like I would say once every
one to two months, I would come down shoot as
much content as I could, like fashion content. In that time.
I would bring in like a huge toe bag and
do multiple outfits in a day and shoot that way.
And then I came back from one trip and I
(06:24):
like told my husband, I was like, sit with me.
We sat on the floor and I'm like, do you
want to form an alliance? No? And I was like,
I would really like to chase this dream. Do you
think there's any possibility or any way we could move
to Florida? And he ended up asking his work like, Hey,
(06:46):
could I go remote because obviously mostly what he doesn't
have to be in person to do anything he does.
And so we made the move to Florida, and we
moved it. We lived in Celebration at first, which, if
you don't know any Disney history, Celebration was a community
originally built by Disney to be like this kind of
like ideal community. We lived there for a little bit
(07:08):
and then we bought a house right behind Magic Kingdom.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, this is all perfect since our topic today centers
around Disney obviously, could you imagine if we were like,
today's topic is actually cum quats, how do you feel?
I will tell you that is how we operated for
a while. We'd be like, hey, oh wow, yeah, so
at least, like we know, this is a topic that
clearly you feel passionate about. But it's not just Disney.
(07:32):
The specific thing we are given is Club thirty three.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
I am not a member. That's out of my tax bracket. Yes,
but have you been I have been to a few
of the lounges here at Disney World. I've never been
to the og one in Disneyland, which is like a
Disney bucket list item for me. I've always wanted to go,
and I probably could have enangled a way to go
at this point, but I am so like chronically anxious
(07:58):
that I would never ask any one to like get
me in.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Look, if anyone is listening and can help wants to
take Chelsea, don't make her ask call her up right now,
ping her on Instagram and be like, hey, this is
the day and time. Come come with me, let's do
let's do it. Let's go to New Orleans, Let's go
to the club thirty three. There, Yeah, let's do it.
So I'm doing it for you. You're going, thank you.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Thank you. Oh my gosh, again I'm delusional. I'm somehow
met you and now it's hopefully going to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
We're all manifesting this together. Yeah. Because also I'm sure
whatever you wear will be spectacular, because I do love that,
like your content is a blend of like really beautiful
outfits and really cool offits, I Will says. And then
also Disney, so it's like this great little combination of interests.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Yeah, that's that's definitely kind of why the account was
just not like styled by Disney or something that like that.
I wanted Magic to kind of encompass a whole range
of things, and that's just that's not just limited to Disney.
There's magic. I feel like there's magic in every day.
Like I feel like you have to actively seek that out.
(09:06):
And so that's kind of my motto.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So I try. And we're getting ready to go to
Scotland for our anniversary and so I've planned like really
fun content for there, so Meredith from Brave Outlander content
because I'm a huge Outlander fan. So a lot of
fandom stuff, a lot of pop culture things of that
nature that really inspire me.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh yeah, cool, Scotland's fabulous, by the way, You're gonna
love it.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, no, but yeah, I not to like get off topic.
I know we're a talking Club thirty three. I for me, like,
I know a lot of people want to go, like
like to go to Club thirty three for the kind
of status of it, but I am actually just so
like I the history of it, Like I want to
(09:51):
go in there and know that like I was in
a place where so many legends have been in Like
there's I don't know, if you know, like the kind
of things that in Club thirty three, but like they
have the table from the Mary Poppins movie. I just
want to touch it. You know.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Now comes the next part where we each get ten
minutes to now like riff on what Club thirty three
made us think of, and also feel free to like
chime in if I say something and you're like that
made me think of this, go for it? Okay, So
which and we'll keep time, no worries. Which one of
us would you like to hear? Go first?
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Let's do like a Ryan, you're on top, I'll just
have you go first.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Great. I love when Ryan goes first because he tends
to actually research. Okay, right, are you ready? I'm ready? Okay,
and go.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
Of course I did do like a little bit of
research and found some interesting things here and there. I
kind of have a game.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
If you will, kind of plan for us Chelsea for
the last half of it. We'll see how this goes.
So Club thirty three.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Walt Disney was inspired by the World's Fair in the
VIP lounges at the World's Fair and was like, we
need something like this for Disney. And the original intention
was to be like a sponsor's lounge. So if you
sponsored or co sponsored something with Disney, a perk which
you got access to this specialty lounge for business for
(11:32):
whatever else, mixing and mingling with other sponsors, et cetera. Right,
it's located at thirty three Royal Street in New Orleans
Square and Disney World, which I think is also approximate
to his apartment as well.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Sorry, it's in Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Oh my bad, Disneyland. That's what I meant to.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
No, no, no, and I don't mean to. It's just like
I didn't want people to be confused. But yeah, it's
Disneyland so than California.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
And by the way, it's worth noting the past few
podcasts have actually the topics have taken us to Anaheim, California,
because Vans was also actually Vans, which was the topic
last week, was started in sixty six in Anaum, California,
and that is the same timeframe, so it was started
to be built in sixty six and then actually opened
in sixty seven. Odd coincidence. I think I'd be interested
(12:20):
in if you know what the answer is. So I've
heard that the thirty three is either representative of the address,
which is thirty three Royal Street, or it's representative of
the original thirty three sponsors that it was intended to host.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I've heard both of those things. But honestly, I think
I've always kind of thought it was the sponsor thing more.
And I feel like because it like what came first,
the chicken or the egg. I'm trying to remember if
New Orleans Square was built that way already and then
it was already kind of it already was, like.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I think it was built into New Orleans Square. So
I think to your point, like in other words, they
gave it thirty three Royal Street, they gave it the
thirty three address because the thirty three was a pre
was a pre existing number.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Okay, Yeah, makes sense to me.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
That's That's what I've always thought too. But again, like
I think a lot of misinformation kind of goes around
about Disney because like it becomes like war in and
of itself, and people will say things like, oh, like
Walt Disney, his ashes are poured and hot in mansion
or something like like or you know.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Like I thought his head was frozen, yes.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Or his head it's cryogenically frozen, like.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
So they can bring them back to life.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
These things. Yeah, they just kind of like snowball until
it becomes like a complete not truth.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Now I'm going to tell you if that does happen,
that is some magic.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, but uh, it turns out in like the eighties
and nineties. The eighties and nineties is where basically the
corporate sponsorship things started to dwindle off and they started
to realize that there was a lot of personal interest
and having this thing, so they turned it into this
club with very exclusive access. Reading that like, it's it's
not necessarily about making money. Now, I would disagree with
(14:02):
that now. I do think it's probably a money thing,
a bit of a money thing now.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
But the marketing, the.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Mystique, the kind of question and intrigue that surrounds it,
or like like big drivers for it, that's where it
kind of evolved to. I read that there was a
shake up in twenty twelve, which was pretty controversial because
they made a majority of the members reapply for access,
and they raised the cost anywhere from twenty five to
fifty thousand dollars per year. There's a fifteen thousand dollars
(14:29):
a year membership fee, and there's a ten to fifteen
year waiting list.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Yeah, so it's it's quite crazy. And again you were
mentioning like the mystique of it and like the fact
that it is. It feels like this like unattainable thing. Yeah,
obviously you have to have a lot, you have to
have a lot of money, or you have to at
least want to expend your money on that. But even
just getting on the list, like that's your first biggest hurdle,
and that that's harder than getting the money together. I think.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah, apparently they're also weird about that, Like they do
deep financial checks with you because they want to know
that you could sustainably pay to be a member. So
in other words, if they can't substantiate the fact that
you can be an ongoing member and continue to pay,
they won't let you in. Like you might be able
to do the first year, but they don't see it
as like you get a year of it, you're in it.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Like if you get in, they want you in for
life sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, I did read how much time do I have, Michael?
Because I want to get to my.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Four and a half minutes you know what I there
is like I did read like a couple drama stories
like Rebel Wilson fucked up and posted some photos, and
then I did think it was interesting that Katy Perry
auctioned off access to it for charity, got one hundred
and sixty thousand dollars for the charity for it. I
read that she didn't get any trouble for it, and
(15:48):
it was actually related to the fact that the PR
person for Katy Perry basically called up Disney and said,
you have two options. You can get Katy Perry in
trouble for this and blacklister her. Do whatever you want,
but we will also come out and say it's unfortunate
that Disney doesn't want to operate and supportive I think
whatever the charity was or be okay. Yeah, So it
ended up being a little bit of a headbutting and
(16:09):
everyone was like, you know what we're going to do.
We're all just going to say nothing and pretend like
it didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yeah, they're very they're very strict about things like you
can only take pictures as far as so like Rebel
posted pictures like inside you cannot do that. There's like
two places you're allowed to take pictures in Club thirty
three and share publicly, and that's the balcony. And that
kind of overlooks like there's pirates in the Caribbean. That
(16:36):
kind of like area public space. Then there yeah, public yeah,
and then there's the courtyard. As you were going into
Club thirty three, there's like a little courtyard and a
staircase that goes up, and so that's usually the picture
that people.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Do you ready to play the game?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yes, I'm ready.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
So the game is this or that?
Speaker 3 (16:56):
And I have various different topics for you and be
interested to see which one you would choose. So the
first question is it's labeled flex or fantasy. Would you
take a long term Club thirty three membership and never
get to post about it in any way, shape or form,
or would you pick a one time twenty one Royal
(17:17):
Sweet dinner that you could chat about and share about
and have that experience. And by the way, it's worth
noting that that Royal Street dinner is a fifteen thousand
dollars add on if you're a Club thirty three member,
so it's a very exclusive thing to get into.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So part of me wants to say, take the membership
and just don't ever post about it, But I also like,
that's the thing. Just because you have a membership, every
time you go, you still have to You're still paying
for everything. It's not like, oh, your membership gets you
free food and drinks.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
While you're there, and it's still very expensive. From what
I've read, it's not.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Yeah, you're still paying for everything. So for me, I
think in a way like, yeah, it would be cool
to have that. But I think doing the twenty one
Royal Street and not even necessarily being able to talk
about it, but just being able to do that and
also go to Club thirty three and be like, hey, yeah,
I've been there, and it's like I checked a thing
off my bucket list. I feel like I'm in with you.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
I would I would do the fancy dinner. I would
do the fancy experience. I feel like that would be cool.
I'm with you as well. I a thousand percent? All right,
I got The next one is access. So would you
take a free Genie plus Lightning Lane for life pass
(18:39):
or would you take private park access once a year
with no other perks?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
The lightning lane?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Lightning Lane nice?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And I will explain why when Disney got rid of
their fast pass system that was a travesty. I really
wish it would come back, because for one, was free,
and two as like, for me as a local, a
lot of times, you know we'll go to Disney just
for like an hour or two, or we'll go for
(19:10):
date night, and it's like a very like very privileged,
but a very casual thing for us. And so we
would go, get like some food or snack, get a
fast pass for a ride, and then leave. But now
it's I can't bring myself to like buy Lightning Lane
unless like I have friends or family here that like
I want to make sure that they get like an experience.
(19:32):
I can't bring myself to like pay for it all
the time, and to the wait times are just so
crazy a lot of the times, and it's changed our
dynamic and our relationship with how we experienced Disney, and unfortunately,
I don't think it's.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
For the better. So Michael, can I ask one more question?
Am I allowed to do one more? Go for it?
We can do one more, all right?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
So I so this I jumped through a few more,
but I'm jumping to this one based upon something that
you shared earlier.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So this one is.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Kind of like the ultimate question, right, So if you
had the option to hang with Walt Disney himself in
nineteen fifty five in Disneyland and have the experience with him,
or if I was going to lean on what we
talked about earlier. They unfreeze that head and bring him
back to life, versus design your own land in a
(20:22):
future Disney park.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Which one do you choose?
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Oh, man, I'm gonna say design my own land. I
say that because of Walt's legacy in the sense that
when he was creating Disney, they had wed enterprises, which
was basically where imagineering started, right, So he really cultivated
and brought in these insanely talented people to create the parks,
(20:50):
to do all the theming from Mary Blair who did
concept art and did the all the stuff for It's
a Small World. It's just like there's so many people
to admire, like Joe Roadie, he's or was an imagineer
and did Animal Kingdom. I think Walt's legacy of them
getting to meet the people who have come from his
legacy and then build a park with them is just
(21:12):
as much a like tribute to Walt as getting to
go back in time and like see him.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And I was going to say, the only thing that's
going to drive me crazy now is I'm going to
be humming It's a Small.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
World for the rest of the day, which I.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Did want to say, just because I was like, I
don't like the way Disney World operates. Still love you, Disney,
You're great. I just no, like, it's just I do
miss the fast past system. I miss like the accessibility
of that.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
No, you're just constructive criticism.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah. Sorry, I didn't want to like, I'm not like
trying to like bash or anything.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I guarantee Disney has heard that feedback plenty of times
over at this point, so I.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Definitely I've definitely like rage posted bring back fast tasks.
This is.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
All right?
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Are you ready?
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Let's do it? All right? Ready, set go, okay, great
Club thirty three. It was interesting to learn about that,
and it's funny Ryan, we almost never researched the same things,
but we did this time because I was like, well,
where did it originate? And I was like, oh, from
the vip lounge in the World's Fair, And I do
think it's really interesting. I learned that that was the
(22:29):
first real like corporate vip lounge was that the World's
Fair in the nineteen sixties in New York. That was
the first time that like companies did these like sponsored
vip lounges for people, which I thought was fascinating, and
it's because in my head, VIP lounges have been around forever,
but the technical thing it was really that. And then Disney,
(22:51):
like it sounds like, was the first real like permanent
VIP lounge was this one. So it's yet again Disney
on the forefront of something because technically there were airline
VIP lounges in airports, like the first one I believe
was in the nineteen thirties at LaGuardia. I think it
was American Airlines, So maybe that's where they got the
idea for the World's Fair. But again, I feel like
(23:13):
that's different because that was more for like people who
you know, it's airport lounges as we know them now,
like memberships and stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Uh No, interesting enough, speaking of like sponsors and like
how that started, a lot of attractions at Disney are
still will be like sponsored by some something. So like
test Track at Walt Disney World an Epcot, GM sponsored it. Well, yeah,
it was sponsored by GM, and so GM actually had
a VIP lounge above Test Track and you could only
(23:42):
get access to it if you were a GM employee. Mmmm.
So and my my cousin who was like my brother.
He was a GM employee, and so when we went
to Disney, we could have went, but we unfortunately it
got there and it had already closed for the day.
But yeah, it's like it says a lot a lounge
specifically for the sponsor, which is GM.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
But I just think it's so interesting that those weren't
a thing until this, like really, yeah, the World's Fair,
because that was temporary. So really it sounds like this
experience at Disney was the first time that this was
a permanent thing, which I just think is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
I feel like Walt Disney was like on the forefront
of a lot of those kinds of ideas, or it
definitely at least the people that like he was employing,
Like as you guys maybe know It's a Small World
debut at the World's Fair.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Oh oh, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
No, Yeah, So It's a Small World was literally World's Fair,
and it ended up being so popular and such like
a you know, kind of like groundbreaking thing for the
time that they disassembled it and brought it to Disneyland.
So yeah, and it was like reconstructed there. Oh cool.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And you know, just when I thought I had gotten
the song out of my head it is back. Well,
we'll see, maybe we'll swap out another one for you.
So that so you kind of went into where I
was going to go. So now I'm personal stories then,
so my thing with Disney because obviously Club thirty three Disney,
I weirdly it makes me think of injuries and I'll
(25:17):
tell you why. Oh I know, so different and multiple
ones right, so it all so the original ones are
I are from Mary Poppins. So I love Mary Poppins.
When I was a child, that was my favorite movie.
I was a horrible sleeper and so when I was three,
I learned how to use the VCR and like I
(25:37):
would go, like after everybody went to sleep, I would
be up in the middle of the night just watching Mary Poppins.
And like when I was like three or four, I
could say like Docia, Sally xpistic, fragiic Ali Rupus. I
had it down. I knew this step in time choreography,
loved it. I ended up breaking my nose three times
because of Mary Poppins. So my nose probably is not
(25:58):
supposed to look like this because when you're little, they
just sort of like push it back into place. So
over the course of one year. So the first time,
I was sliding down the banister in my house because
I wanted to be Mary Poppins, fell off onto the
tile entryway floor, face planet and broke my nose. Another time,
I was trying to do this step in time dance
and I was using there's a part in it where
they're dancing on a rail, just sort of like doing
(26:19):
high kicks, and I was doing that on the edge
of my couch along with the movie. Fell caught my
nose on a table, broke it that way.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Your poor nose did not ask for this, it really didn't.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
And then the other one, I was jumping on my
bed trying to be Mary Poppins, lifting off into the air,
same fell caught my nose on the corner of a dress.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Are broken, So you've been through it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
So really, I probably not supposed to look like this,
but thanks to Mary Poppins, who knows, maybe I have
a better nose than I would have. So that's the
first thing for Disney related injuries. It's a very strong
nose structure. Michael, thank you all.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, it's like, who heard you Mary Poppins. Long story, but.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
I still I still love her, and it's still like
I have a Mary Poppins movie poster on my wall
in my apartment when you walk in, practically perfect.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
I have a Mary Poppins poster that's signed by Dick
Van Dyke.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
That's cool.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Yeah, my husband got it for me and I quite
literally like cried. So just yeah, so that's always very fun.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh my god, I love that. I just oh no,
I'm just thinking about that movie. Like when Julie Andrews
won her Golden Globe and she random and she thanked
the producer of My Fair Lady, which I love. Yeah,
I mean because she was supposed to be She was
doing My Fair Lady on Broadway and then Camelot and
they found her when she was doing Camalot. But I
love that, like she didn't get the film because they
didn't think she was famous enough, and then she ended
(27:43):
up getting Mary Poppins. They came out the same year.
They were against each other at the Oscars, and I
love that she when she won and she when she
tells the story, she was all of what I think,
like twenty four or twenty five to were the young.
Her first movie in this big you know, never done.
She was new to Hollywood, and I love that she's
like I took a deep breath and I was like,
and I'd like to thank mister Jack Warner just look
(28:06):
and think and she's like and thank god he laughed.
But like ballsy. I think people also forget that about
Julie Andrews because they think, oh, total queen, and I
love that. They think she's like between Mary Poppins and
Sound of Music, that that's who she is, is the
sweet nan when in real life like swears like a
trucker is like I know people have worked with her
who were like, she's lovely, she's everything you want her
(28:27):
to be, but she is also not Mary Poppins and
like which is great. They're like, oh no, she's really crash.
She makes dirty jokes, like you forget that she grew
up like a Cockney girl doing music halls when she
was a kid.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Yeah, but love it, love her National treasure.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Oh my god. So anyway, so those are the first
injuries Disney related injuries. Why I think of it. The
second was I did a half marathon with my sister
and a very good friend at Disney World. We did
the Disney Villains half marathon. And I am not a
runner and I didn't really prepare.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Don't Chelsea, don't, don't, don't buy this. This is this
is absolutely bullshit. This guy is one of these guys.
They could be like, I'm not a runner and then
just go run a half marriage. Okay, but that's the
problem is that's what I did. So or No, that
one wasn't. It was Disney Princes and Princesses. Sorry, that
was the theme. So I dressed as Prince Eric. But
I thought again, I was like, well, it's not that
(29:25):
far right. I always meant to train and I never
got around to it. And I was living in La
at the time, so this is a Disney world. So
I flew to Disney for the weekend. I met my
sister and my our friend and our families came to
cheer us on, and I was like going, and after
three miles I was like, I actually feel okay. So
I like really went for it and like stopped and
took pictures, had the best time. And again they do
(29:47):
it before the park suping. This was like four o'clock
in the morning, right, So then we go back. I
did not stretch, I did not do anything. I just
went back to sleep. When I got up, I could
not work. And the thing with the marathon is you
get access to.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
The park for a day.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Been there, Oh, been there.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And it's like I and I was flying back to
LA the next the next night, so I was like, oh,
I only have one day here, and I hadn't been
to Disney since I was a kid, and I was like,
I'm de termerant. And I just remember being in so
much pain that whole day, and like literally going to
do Space Mountain and having to be lowered into it,
and then my sister and my friend literally having to
pick me up and people are looking at me like
(30:28):
what is wrong with this man? Because my legs just froze.
Wouldn't Yeah, it would not work. And sadly, that's the
last time I was at Disney World. So it's like
all I think was how much fun I had, but
also just how much pain I was in because I'm done.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
We've got to replace, We've got to replace that experience.
I'll be your tour guide if you want. I will
show you everything the world if you will.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I would love that.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah. We would make it definitely more fun and less
pain less pain this time. Yeah, I am always like
in awe of the people who like do the challenges
where it's not just like a half marathon. They do
the five K, the ten.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
K, the half Oh the Goofy isn't that called the Goofy?
Don't you get the goofy metal?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
There's like the Dopey challenge.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Like there's our dope or something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
End. So and then I see them they've done all
three and then they're like trucking around Epcot drinking around
the world like it's nothing, And I'm like, did you
are a different breed? Like I cannot do that.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I wish I could be that person. But I've done
the Disney I've done the Disney Marathon. Oh you did
the full marathon. I've done the full marathon. That was
my one and only.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
That was also the one where the person who talked
me into doing it abandoned me around mile eight.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Oh no, well, my last one was. It's a sadder story,
but anyway, really long story short. I went to go
to another Disney half marathon at disney Land. We didn't
end up making it. We ended up in the hospital
for a lot of anyway, that's a different story. But
so it didn't end up getting to do it because
I was with my sister and we she ended up
getting hurt, so we didn't get to do the race,
(32:11):
but we were talking to the nurses and they were like,
we sort of prep for these because so many people
are dumb dumbs like me who don't prepare for these
races and they all end up like hurting themselves pulling
something and have to go to the er. And they're like,
but it's really cute because they're all in costumes and
they're themed. And I was like, what was your favorite
and the wonder She was like, I love when they
do the tinker bell one and she was like, and
(32:33):
we just have an er full of tinker bells, like
wounded tinker bells.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
You know what. I bring in magic to the hospital exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
So that was the last part of that story. Anyway.
That is us. So now you have the really fun
task of choosing which one of us won the episode.
I put that in air quotes for.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
One, I appreciate everything that you guys shared. I love
that you kind of like looked into it because there
is just so much history to all these sayings. I
did love the game that Ryan had us do, so
I think for that reason I picked Ryan though I
love your Mary Poppins lore very much so, but I
just yeah, because I could just yaugh about Disney all day.
(33:14):
We could do some more questions and I would be
very happy to just do it.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Love it and we learned a lot from that. So Ryan,
I'm with you. I'm one thousand percent. I think you win. Yeah,
I would have picked you as the winner as well.
I appreciate it. Thank you so, And what is our
topic for next week?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Octopuses Octopi.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Yes, Oh that's fun. I've been waiting for someone to
say that. Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
I'm so glad I could fulfill that. Three.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
No, you don't understand. I've read so many books on them.
I find them fascinating. Oh my god, I kill this
is going to be great. If they lived longer, they'd
rule the world. I think it's only a matter of time.
We're just waiting for them to evolve and then they're
going to come up and be like humans. Just going.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
People are arguing about whether or not aliens are real,
but honestly, I feel like octopi are like aliens in
a way. They're just because they're so smart, right, Like
they're just it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, they're they're already here. Oh my god, thank you.
I'm so excited. Yeah, well, thank you. Where can people
follow you? Find you all the things?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
So my handles across everything is styled by Magic, styled
as in like past tense, like ed. I know sometimes
when I say that people are like style by Magic
and I'm like styled, I try to, like really try
to enunciate it. But yeah, style by Magic. I share
lots of different things, from Disney to Universal theme parks
(34:35):
to every day to travels, mental health, journey, my dog.
That's why most people follow me.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
I think at this point, Hey, whatever it is, it
brings joy your whole pictures of that.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Yes, that's definitely my goal. So thank you for having
met to like talk about it.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Yeah, thank you for being here our pleasure. Yeah, thank you,
And and join us next week for Octopus OCTOPI not
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