In this episode of "Synergy Loves Company," Eric and guest Bethanee from Park Swagger Tees dive into the quirky world of "Mickey Unwrapped," a 1994 Disney album mixing iconic characters with hip hop tunes. They explore the surprising and sometimes risqué lyrics sung by Minnie Mouse, and critique songs like "Ducks in the Hood" and "DJ Goof." The episode highlights Russi Taylor's standout performance voicing Minnie Mouse, while discussing other tracks like "Ice Ice Mickey" and "Whoomp There It Went" featuring Tag Team. Bethany shares insights into her Disney-themed clothing line, blending Disney imagery with hip hop lyrics, with designs like "Turn Down for Walt." The episode also touches on Disney's historical connection to music and its attempt to merge with hip hop, noting potential for contemporary artists like Snoop Dogg to bring fresh magic to such projects. Eric and Bethany express anticipation for a possible modern hip hop collaboration while recalling Disney's past cultural shifts with tracks like the "Splash Mountain Rap." Tune in for a fun analysis of Disney's peculiar foray into the hip hop genre and find a link to a YouTube playlist of "Mickey Unwrapped" in the show notes.
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00:10 --> 02:49 We have this coterie of rich franchises, the company now that people want to engage with. I came here to try and continue what Walt Disney and his associates set in motion 50 years ago, which is to experiment with every new and innovative kind of entertainment possible. It's what we hope to do here, to really develop something that, well, just more than an entertainment enterprise, it's something that contributes to many other ways. Hey, this is Synergy Loves Company, where we explore how Disney connects to everything. Because the magic is not just in the Disney parks. It's all around us. I'm Eric, and today we're diving into music again. Is this a music show or is it a Disney show? Well, today it's both again. Disney and music, though, have always gone hand in hand. Walt famously said it all started with a mouse, but it wasn't just the mouse. It was also the music synchronized with Mickey that made the magic happen. That magical connection has only grown stronger over the years, and Disney has set musical trends and capitalized on pop culture waves time and time again. Simply put, Disney and music just belong together. But there's one genre that Disney hasn't really connected that much with. Hip hop. Over the years, Disney hasn't done much with hip hop and rap, which is a shame because there are plenty of hip hop fans who also happen to be Disney fans. And it's surprising that Disney didn't make more moves with the rap scene. Well, except for one thing. There's this 1994 album called Mickey Unwrapped. And this album featured Mickey and friends rapping parodies of popular hits of the time and some original tracks in there, too. And I really just want to talk about this album because it's. Well, it's something. And honestly, I'm not too sure how I feel about it. So keeping me company today is someone who actually connects Disney with hip hop. Bethany from Park Swagger or Park Swag, a clothing company that remixes Disney parks inspired designs with iconic hip hop lyrics. So, Bethany, welcome to the show.
02:49 --> 02:51 Thanks, Eric. I'm so excited to be here.
02:51 --> 03:27 You were the first person I thought of when I was digging into this album about Mickey and friends doing hip hop songs. And sometimes they're trying to. Sometimes they get into those, like, iconic hip hop songs and they're, like, parodying the lyrics. And it. I don't want to say that that reminded me of Park Swag, but the same energy of connecting hip hop with Disney reminded me and made me think of you and your clothing. And I just thought you would Be the best person to talk to about this.
03:27 --> 03:31 You know, it's not a bad thing to be connected to hip hop and Disney. Right. So I'll take it.
03:32 --> 03:51 All right. Yes. So we'll have to see though, if you would rather just be connected with hip hop and Disney or specifically Mickey Unwrapped after we have this conversation. Because like I said, I don't know how I feel about it. So the first thing I want to ask you is how would you describe this album, Mickey Unwrapped?
03:52 --> 04:20 It was a mixed bag for me. Some songs are better than others. Some songs failed epically. Some songs I would listen to again. But I will say that on the scale of, you know, like Kidz Bop in the car versus listening to Mickey Unwrapped in the car, I would choose Mickey Unwrapped over Kids friendly. Yeah. As my car bops.
04:21 --> 04:36 Nice. Yeah, yeah, it's. And that. I think that's where like it kind of sits there, right? It's like definitely made for kids. It sits in that kid's bop zone. I don't think they were going for any street cred with the songs that they made for this.
04:37 --> 04:45 I hope not, because they did not get any. Except for one slightly dirty Minnie Mouse reference, you know, but yes.
04:45 --> 05:47 Oh, and it kind of sticks out, right? Like, wait, what. What just happened? No, and that's. I like how you put it there. Like put it head to head with Kidz Bop because I think it like in a time when Kidz bop didn't exist in the. In the early 90s when this came out, this kind of. Does that say it kind of fills that same kind of gap. Like those kid friendly versions of the radio hits that maybe aren't so kid friendly sometimes. And I think it's a mixed bag I like too. So I want to. I want to just list off really quick some of the. The titles and the songs. I'll list the whole track listing. Then we'll go back and we'll talk about some of our favorites and maybe some of the disasters. So we've got the first track. We've got Ice Ice Mickey, which is not Ice Ice Baby.
05:47 --> 05:48 No, that really threw me.
05:49 --> 06:28 And that's the lead track. So from there, where are we going to go with this? That wasn't a parody. It was an original song inspired by Vanilla Ice or something like that, which was. Yeah. Anyway, so the Minnie Mouse in the house, which was not. It sounded like a salt and pepper song maybe, but not once again, like an inspired by kind of piece. There and then we get the shining moment. Track three on albums is usually a big, like, you know, you put your big lead track there. We've got Tag Team. Yeah.
06:28 --> 06:31 Okay, that makes sense, right?
06:31 --> 06:39 Because if you. If you think about some of the best albums you've listened to, track three, it really kind of hits. Maybe that's where the first single is or something like that.
06:39 --> 06:41 It did hit, right?
06:41 --> 07:03 Because went whoop. And there it went. But not there it is. Because Tag Team has this song and it's actually Tag Team. So not only do we get a parody, right. But it's actually Tag Team doing whoomp, There it went. Instead of womp. There it is. We got the past tense version of their song for some reason.
07:03 --> 07:12 I think I know the reason. Talk about it. We can get there. I looked it up. I was like googling into the history of these songs to find some. Like.
07:12 --> 07:27 That's amazing. Yeah, that's awesome. And that's gonna. That's gonna definitely help me get to my. How I feel about this for sure. And the next one is a big question about how I feel about this because it's Minnie's what a Mouse, Which I think is what you were referencing earlier.
07:27 --> 07:28 I was.
07:28 --> 07:33 Which is a direct parody of what a Man by Salt, which is a great song.
07:33 --> 07:44 But I was surprised. I was surprised by some of the lyrics and the room for interpretation that they left of Minnie's, you know, of what she was exactly singing about.
07:45 --> 07:51 Right. It gets a little risque for a Disney song there.
07:51 --> 07:56 I was surprised they got past Disney legal. Although maybe they don't. Maybe they don't think the same way I do.
07:56 --> 08:29 You know, that could be too. I would think that they would have to have some people who think all different ways just for all interpretations. But who knows? Who knows back in 1994, back then, what was going on? So we've got. Here's track number five. We've got Bow Wow Wow to the Beat, which is a Mickey. Well, it's a Pluto song. Bow wow wow to the Beat is a Pluto song featuring Whoopi Goldberg. Because when I think rap, I think Whoopi Goldberg.
08:30 --> 08:40 This was, I guess, before she was best known as the co host of the View. Right. Famously hip, hoppy, real edgy, edgy street, you know.
08:41 --> 08:56 Yeah. The only thing I could think of is like Sister act and Sister Act 2 and there was some hip hop in Sister Act 2, but like, her character didn't ever rap that I remember.
08:57 --> 09:01 Maybe she was trying to prove that she should in Sister Act 3.
09:03 --> 09:47 There you go, which maybe one day still. Maybe one day still. Right. And so. Yeah, so I feel like after. And I don't know how you feel about this, but, like, after this, it starts to get even more weird because we get away. We start getting away from some of, like, the stars mixed with Disney. Disney. Mickey and Friends characters, and we start getting more in. It starts kind of fizzling into kind of weird areas. But we get DJ Goof, which is a goofy centered song where he's a dj. We get Ducks in the Hood, which is a. Like they're trying to do gangsta rap with Huey, Dewey and Louie.
09:48 --> 09:51 That one I'm gonna go with. Worst track.
09:51 --> 09:53 That one. The worst track.
09:53 --> 09:56 Yeah. And we can discuss more in depth. Wise track.
09:56 --> 10:11 Yeah, for sure. Little Red wrapping Hood has nothing to do with Mickey and Friends, but it's a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood. And she doesn't necessarily even rap. She just kind of talks a lot. Like, there's no rhyme to it.
10:11 --> 10:14 Yeah. Maybe there was a statement in there that we're just missing.
10:14 --> 10:21 That could be. And then there's the Mickey Mouse club mix, which I kind of liked.
10:21 --> 10:34 I actually, I was gonna say I really liked it because I could totally see someone doing it today if, like, they could get the rights to do it. An actual hip hop artist. Not that Mary. Mary is not a hip hop artist, but.
10:34 --> 10:34 Right.
10:34 --> 10:38 I could see people wanting to remix it in their own style. So.
10:38 --> 10:50 Yeah, no, that. And that was. It was that one. That one, I think works. And they should have ended the album there because then we get Color Me Bad doing like an acapella song called the Color of Music, which.
10:50 --> 10:51 No.
10:51 --> 10:54 Which I don't even think Color Me Bad is hip hop.
10:56 --> 11:01 No, they're like. They're like R and B ish adjacent. Right.
11:01 --> 11:09 They're like one of those. Like, the New Kids were a thing. And like, Color Me Bad was trying to get into that early boy band scene, I guess. Like, I. But not hip hop.
11:09 --> 11:11 It was not hip hop.
11:11 --> 11:16 So that. Yeah, it kind of. It kind of. It kind of falls apart towards the end, in my opinion.
11:16 --> 11:23 Just. It went womp. And there when. And out the door it was done womp.
11:24 --> 11:42 There it went. Right. So. So I. We listed all the tracks, but I want to kind of dig in. And we kind of put markers in them as we went. Right. Like kind of pointing out. Let's get back to that. So which songs are like, the standout tracks, whether it's a good thing or a bad thing on this album?
11:43 --> 12:11 So the bad ones. For me, that really stood out. Ice Ice, Mickey. Like we said, you're anticipating a straight parody of Ice Ice, Baby, which I could go for. Right. I could see that happening. And then that's not what you get. And it just leaves you disappointed the whole time. Right. Because I keep wanting to, like, sing the song that I know and I don't get to. And so it sets me up to be like, mm, I don't know if I'm gonna like the rest of these songs.
12:13 --> 12:51 It's not a good start. And this is. This is weird, too. I'm gonna get into my. Like, if they would have held on and I can't remember the years. I have to look at the years. Like, the only thing I could think of is, like, Ice, Ice, Mickey. I know Vanilla Ice got in a lot of trouble with Queen and David Bowie's people about the samples, and there was, like, a lot of mess there. So I wonder if they were, like, trying to do it, but they couldn't. But remember Disney at some point in the early 90s. And this is where I can't remember the years on it owned Queen's catalog with Hollywood Records. So it's like, you could have done that and been okay and done it.
12:51 --> 12:54 Even better because you appropriately. That's true.
12:55 --> 13:05 So that. Yeah, I was like, I don't. I don't understand that joy. Like. Like, when my brain started to try to think about, is it the rights? Like, but you had the rights, and you can't.
13:05 --> 13:11 You can't go so close. You can't steer so closely to ice, ice and not right.
13:11 --> 13:16 What else is called Ice Ice. Something that ends in E. That, you know.
13:17 --> 13:26 He also had some of the worst puns that I've ever heard in this one. I'm. One of them was like, I'm cold. Like, ice cream or something.
13:26 --> 13:30 Yeah. He said something about his ice cream cone doesn't melt.
13:30 --> 13:31 It doesn't.
13:32 --> 13:40 And I was like that. No, Mickey was not the best mc.
13:41 --> 13:46 Yeah. No, I mean, bless his heart. He just wanted everyone to have a good time. I get that.
13:47 --> 13:48 Right.
13:48 --> 13:50 Yeah. This wasn't his jam.
13:50 --> 13:59 No. So, yeah, I'm with you on that. And that one is memorable in that. In its disappointment.
14:00 --> 14:01 That's true. No, for sure.
14:01 --> 14:17 It's memorable and it's disappointment. And so, like, there. There's a lot of. There's some forgettable songs on this. On this album. But, like, what are some of the other, like, disappointing tracks? If we start with that disappointing one, let's stay. We'll do the negative up front and then we'll talk about the positive later.
14:18 --> 14:52 Okay. I was. Let me run through my notes here. I was not in love with Bow Wow Wow, which we kind of alluded to. Number one, they straight up said Rin Tin Tin and Lassie weren't classy, which I thought was fighting words. You know, there's room for everyone. And Lassie, you're going to go up against Lassie. That's a hard one for me. But also, it was just. It didn't make any sense to me. There was too much bowel.
14:53 --> 15:01 It's like they wanted to do a Snoop Dogg song, but they didn't do a Snoop Dogg song other than the Bow wow part.
15:02 --> 15:18 And this is before I didn't look this up, but this is Lil Bow Wow true. Right. So if they had waited, they couldn't know he was coming. But, like, he would have been perfect. Maybe not Whoopi, but Little Bow Wow would have been great. Or Right. Or even Snoop Dogg would have been great.
15:18 --> 15:23 Yeah. I feel like Snoop Dogg would do something with Disney now and that I would be totally here for.
15:24 --> 15:30 Absolutely. Disney. Get on it. Because he does all of those sort of lullabies.
15:30 --> 15:42 Yeah, yeah. And he's. Yeah, he's come around like. Like at this point, Disney wouldn't have touched Snoop Dogg because he was too controversial. But like now he's like, he's on the Olympics. He's like. He's like in everyone's homes. We all love him now.
15:42 --> 15:46 No. You know, and make him the marshal of the parade. It'd be great.
15:46 --> 15:47 It would be awesome.
15:47 --> 15:50 Pluto next to him. Why are they not calling him?
15:50 --> 16:05 This is great back then, though. Yeah, they shouldn't. That was definitely also a kind of down in the dumps moment. Now you did say that. Ducks in the Hood. I'm gonna hold you to this. Ducks in the Hood was the worst.
16:05 --> 16:12 Here was the thing that I felt. Felt about Ducks in the Hood. We know. And here's where I'm gonna put my history hat on a little bit. Right.
16:12 --> 16:12 Do it.
16:12 --> 17:12 Know that the genre of hip hop comes out of a place of, you know, pain and suppression on the part of the black community. Some of the songs, I think are written in a more light hearted way. Right. That still incorporates some of that pain and I think, you know, like, what a man and Ice. Ice, baby. All right. Vanilla Ice is white. So you can like, you can give that whatever you want to. Oh, the tag team. I mean, some of so. And whoop. There it is. Is kind Of a lighthearted one. But, yeah, Boys in the Hood really felt like it's coming from a place of pain and it's expressing, like, deep seated feelings and systemic problems with the way that our country is set up. And so for Huey, Dewey, and Louie to come out and say they're from the hood of Anaheim was like, ouch. Okay, that. That one. It went a little too far for me just from if you know the context of where the original song came from.
17:13 --> 17:20 Yeah, No, I agree with you more now because I didn't have that as my worst.
17:21 --> 17:22 No. Okay.
17:22 --> 17:25 I didn't have that as my worst. I thought it was bad. Yeah.
17:25 --> 17:29 As a song, it wasn't the. I'm gonna say as a song, it was not the worst.
17:29 --> 17:29 Okay.
17:30 --> 17:34 I felt like it was the most like, ooh, cringy, Cringey.
17:34 --> 17:45 It was cringy. Yeah, it was cringy. That's for sure. And it's like. Yeah, they're like. They tried to make it like they broke out of a kindergarten or something. Like, it was really.
17:46 --> 17:49 There were so many ways in which I was like, oh, no, don't.
17:49 --> 18:12 Oh, no, don't go that way. And that's. Yeah, they could have done it. They like. Well, let me ask you this, because this is kind of where my worse kind of came from. Do you think they could have done Ducks in the Hood a different way? That would have made it better? Like, could. Should they have touched, like, nwa should they have not even tried to touch nwa, nw, nwa?
18:12 --> 18:30 I feel like they could have. They should have kind of stayed in that. In that crossover hip hop area. Right. The sort of crossover between pop and hip hop where. Where Vanilla Ice comes in and makes it sort of a little more middle class, white people friendly.
18:31 --> 18:50 And that's. I feel like that is where this comes from. This album only exists because rap had started moving into the top 40 because of that, like, that, like, party hip hop kind of vibe.
18:50 --> 18:50 Yes.
18:50 --> 19:18 Like, you would get with Tag Team or. I realized I left it off of our track listing. But there's another one in towards the end there. You can't botch this. Which was like. I realized I missed that one on my. On my notes. But it's a. It's. It's. It's a. That one is a parody of you can't touch this, which botch as a word that people are going to use in a hip hop song or even just in, like, regular everyday conversation. It was an interesting choice.
19:18 --> 19:25 But yeah, that was a good one for me, though, because I Liked the parodies. See, I'm a sucker for a parody, right?
19:25 --> 19:26 Yeah.
19:26 --> 19:30 When you like, if you see my shirts, you know that's like, yeah, I'm a sucker for a parody. Right?
19:30 --> 19:30 True.
19:30 --> 19:40 They were doing well with the parodies. I felt so botched. Botch, I agree, is a hard word for some. Right into the groove of it.
19:41 --> 19:51 Yeah, no, you could get it. And the song went with the theme and it like worked in it. And it was like they sang the story of like all the characters botching.
19:51 --> 20:01 Something and matched the characters personalities well. Right. To have. So that one was a win. That one was a win. Although we were still about the bad ones.
20:01 --> 20:03 Yeah. Should I tell you about my bad one?
20:03 --> 20:03 Yeah, yeah.
20:04 --> 20:04 Okay.
20:04 --> 20:07 So I have a feeling know what it is?
20:07 --> 20:11 Let's see. So I. I had a problem with DJ Goof.
20:11 --> 20:13 Oh, no. Okay. Wow.
20:13 --> 20:50 This surprise because so my. My brain, like, I love Goofy as a character. So he, like. So Mickey and Goofy in this album both did this thing that bothered me. Like Mickey and Ice. Ice. Mickey and Goofy and DJ Goof, where they like, act like they're not good at rap in the song to like, it's like, it's like an. I'm like trying to find another example, but it's kind of like this, like, I don't even understand this, so why am I doing this thing? And it's like, don't do that with it.
20:50 --> 20:52 Do take it seriously or don't do it at all.
20:52 --> 21:27 Right. But don't do the, like, I don't know what this is, but I'm going to try it. So like, I saw the potential in a DJ Goof song because I love the DJ Cool, let me clear my throat kind of thing with the call and response song. And I was like, if Goofy did a call and response song as the DJ and you make it like kind of one of those like Goofy how to shorts. So you could have like the narrator in there too, and he's like messing up the DJing. But it actually works out well.
21:28 --> 21:30 That would be so much better, right?
21:30 --> 21:39 So like, when I would think about it like that, I was like, no, this song is terrible because they had it right there all along and they just didn't take any of those ideas.
21:39 --> 21:40 Reach out and grab it.
21:40 --> 22:05 No, it was so, like, it would bother me every time I listened to that song. And then I would go listen to DJ Cool and I'd be like, we need a call and response song on this. And then I would go listen to the rest of it and then I would get to DJ Goof again and be like, no, I need DJ Cool. Let me clear my throat. That's what this goofy song should have been. But that's. Yeah, that's where my brain went with it. So I think I got stuck on that. And that's why I dislike that one. What did.
22:05 --> 22:12 Yeah, I just couldn't listen to the Color of Music. I straight up could not finish the song. I was like, what?
22:12 --> 22:13 Yeah, this.
22:14 --> 22:19 First of all, the idea that the people who sing. Do you know what song they're most famous for? Color me Bad.
22:19 --> 22:36 Yes. Yes. They sing I want to sex you up. They also had. I'm just gonna say they also had that song all for love, which had, like, a weird xylophone thing in it. Okay. It was really. Yeah. And it was the only two ones I know of theirs, though I.
22:36 --> 22:39 That's probably the only big hits that they had. Right?
22:39 --> 22:39 Yeah.
22:39 --> 22:45 Because they're. I mean, they're not, you know, they're not insane. Well, this is pretty insane, but you know what I mean?
22:45 --> 22:46 Yes.
22:46 --> 22:59 They were going to get them to close out the album. That's how we're going to finish it off with, like, a slow ballad that doesn't have anything to do with the care. There were no character references that were decent.
23:00 --> 23:08 No, not at all. It's just tacked on the end for more star power. Question mark, maybe. And even they're not like, that much a star power.
23:09 --> 23:14 No, it felt like the song that plays, like, after the fireworks, when everyone's leaving.
23:14 --> 23:14 Right.
23:14 --> 23:22 And you're like, we just need something to play in the background. Except I'm not doing that. I'm held captive because I have my CD in my.
23:22 --> 23:23 Right.
23:23 --> 23:23 Right.
23:24 --> 23:36 And you got to get over to there to change it. But I know, honestly, I kind of would be. I was with you. I'd kind of duck out after, you know, like, the. The Mickey Mouse club mix thing.
23:36 --> 23:39 They could have ended it on a high, a relative high with Mickey.
23:39 --> 23:48 Yeah, that was good. Any other bad ones you want to talk about before we get into good? Because now we're starting to talk about the good ones again.
23:48 --> 23:50 No, I think I can go to. I can go to good ones.
23:50 --> 24:12 Let's do that. So what. Let's start with the club mix. We'll kind of start at the end there because we just. Like, that's where the album should have ended. And then just. We'll cut that last track off and it ends with the club mix and. Yeah. What do you think? I thought it really worked. Well, what do you think worked about it?
24:12 --> 24:46 I think it worked because it wasn't a song or characters trying to pretend to be something that they weren't. Right. Which is what a remix is supposed to do. It took the Extant song and just imposed the style of hip hop on it or sort of, you know, added the style of hip hop in it without pretending like the original song was made in a way that it wasn't. And so that, I thought was where they really succeeded. If they were trying to pay, like, homage to hip hop, if that's what we want to call it, that's where they actually.
24:46 --> 25:10 Yeah. No, and that's. I love. There was like, little. Like, those little clips from the Mickey Mouse Club, like, mixed in from, like, the OG Mickey Mouse Club. And like, that was cool. Like, that's the. That's the album I would want. Like, I would love it if instead of the Mickey characters, this album was like, we're going to let MC Hammer make a song, but use Disney samples.
25:10 --> 25:29 Yes. I think that would be fantastic. I agree. We still could do something with Hammer and let them, like, they let pop stars remix and sort of redo some of their other hits right. On their albums. So let the rappers do it.
25:29 --> 25:36 Yeah. No, it would just be. It would be. It would be so cool. And there's still time. Disney, you can still do this.
25:36 --> 25:38 Nothing but time.
25:38 --> 26:14 It would be amazing. But no, that's that there. So I do gotta say, when I. When I was looking into this album more, I did see, and I haven't tracked it down yet, but there was one called, like, Mouse House Club Mixes that was kind of a sequel to this. That. Right. So not. We're not doing hip hop this time. We're doing, like, techno, you know, like house music and that kind of stuff, which I was like, I need to find that. And it seems to be a little more rare out there, so I gotta. I gotta track that one down.
26:15 --> 26:15 I understand.
26:16 --> 26:21 I feel like this probably was the impetus to moving in that direction.
26:21 --> 26:26 Were they, like, we need things to play at the Pleasure Island Club in Disney Springs.
26:27 --> 26:34 Yes, it was. It was an album made just for Pleasure Island. It's, you know, that would be awesome, though.
26:34 --> 26:36 I could see it happening.
26:36 --> 26:49 It's the only problem I have with that album is because I found out it exists in my brain. It is the greatest thing ever. And I know when I listen to it, it is not going to be as great as I think it is.
26:49 --> 26:53 Yeah. I mean, you should. Yeah. Just prepare yourself.
26:53 --> 26:57 Right. Check my expectations.
26:57 --> 26:57 Yeah.
26:57 --> 27:10 All right, so we did Mickey Mouse club Mix, a great song. I'm going to throw one out there that I thought worked really well, which was the womp. There it went with tag team.
27:11 --> 27:28 Yes. I wrote, like, a whole paragraph about this in my notes because I love it so. Great one, because they got the real tag team right. Like, that was a key part of it. And they, like, sprinkled in the Disney characters. But the real rapping was done by tag team.
27:28 --> 27:28 Yes.
27:28 --> 27:30 You could tell the difference.
27:30 --> 27:31 Oh, yeah.
27:31 --> 27:48 Actors did not do a fantastic job. But obviously Mickey Mouse doesn't rap, right? He's not. No, he's not a rapper, but tag team was. So I thought it was one of my favorites because there were actual, like, rap skills being.
27:48 --> 28:17 For sure. Yeah. And tag team, you get this. I got this sense because I tried to listen to Whoomp, There it Is, the original song, and then this one. And I got the this. I got this, like, tone of joy in tag team's voice that's in this version. That is not in their, like, party club hit original version that you could tell they were just. It almost sounds like they're giddy to be doing this. Like, they were super excited to be doing it.
28:17 --> 28:26 And that's part. It was fun because of that. So I also did a deep dive into the term Whoop, There it is.
28:26 --> 28:27 Nice.
28:27 --> 28:39 Like, when did we. Where did this. You know, where did this come from? And I don't know if you know this, but when Whoop, There it Is came out, there was a rival song. Woot, There it is.
28:40 --> 28:41 Woot, there it is.
28:42 --> 29:03 95. It was a different group that I had never heard of one, so. And one was a lot more intense and maybe darker than the other one. So. Woot, There It Is Apparently a more sexually explicit reference.
29:03 --> 29:04 Okay.
29:04 --> 29:22 Whoop, There it is still referencing, like, booty on the dance floor, but not in a. An unacceptable way, I guess. Right. Which. Which makes sense as to why they maybe went with this one as opposed to the other one.
29:23 --> 29:31 Gotcha. That makes. That makes sense. And I was not familiar with Woot There it is with a T. I just know the one with the P.
29:31 --> 29:32 Look it up now.
29:32 --> 29:36 Yeah, I'm gonna have to. I'm gonna have to listen now. Did you listen to both Head to Head?
29:36 --> 29:39 I did not go. I did not go in search of the. Of woot.
29:39 --> 29:44 Because I'm gonna have to see how they compare head to head because that'll be interesting.
29:44 --> 29:46 I mean, obviously, one got really popular and one did not.
29:47 --> 30:32 So that's like when we had two or three different versions of the Macarena, one got really popular. The other ones, if you got it on some compilation cd, you were a little upset because it wasn't the one that was on mtv. But the I. So I'm going to share this story about the womb. There it is thing. Because I have these Disney. So like a lot of my Disney memories, like as a kid we went to the parks when I was like really young and then we didn't. There was like a number of years where we didn't go to the parks. So a lot of my Disney memories come from like these weird, like random moments. And so around the same time that this album came out, the D2, the Mighty Ducks came out.
30:32 --> 30:32 Sure.
30:32 --> 31:58 And this song is in the movie Whoop, There it is not Whoop, There it went. Not the one. No, I. Let me specify. No, the original whomp. There it is in the movie. And I remember as a kid going to. I was at. I was at a Best Buy. I like have a vivid memory of this. And I got the soundtrack for D2 off the shelf and it was before I even saw the movie. And I was looking at it and I was like, this soundtrack has whomp. There it is on it. That song is so new. Like, and it like blew my mind that a song that new and that cool could be on the soundtrack of a movie. Like it was do it right. I was just like, this is, you know, like kid me looking at a CD in the store and we did buy the D2 soundtrack and I would run that thing on rotation, you know, because it was amazing with There It Is on it. Because who knew that tag team. So I wonder too, like how Disney does have like a. They do this, they'll like bring someone in and they're not just in one Disney thing. They're in like three, four, five things. So like, I almost wonder if it was like they saw like if womp there was whoomph. There it is. The thing that made this happen.
31:58 --> 32:01 Which came first, right? Yeah.
32:01 --> 32:13 Like, was it like that song being a hit like the summer before this came out made it like, oh, this is a song that's not controversial. Even though they didn't know it was.
32:13 --> 32:15 About playing at 13 year old birthday parties. It's fine.
32:15 --> 32:29 Yeah, right. So like maybe rap is okay and cool and we could do it with Disney and let's put it in this soundtrack. Let's get these guys to make a song and then we'll kind of throw together a whole album around this one.
32:29 --> 33:07 Song, and if they had done them all like they did this one, I think it would have maybe been a little more like you were saying with the joy that you could feel. I felt like there was also. It was sort of muppety in a way, in the sense that you are like acknowledging that the characters were characters. Right. They were having fun with it. And I thought getting all the voice actors to do the shaka laka, shaka laka part was amazing. But I could see like the Muppet show doing that too. Right. Having the. The real guys, the real rappers in the studio and. And then having, you know, animal going so that.
33:07 --> 33:16 No, that. That's. Yeah. And if they would have went like you said, if they would have went more like this, it would have been 10 out of 10 for sure. 100%.
33:17 --> 33:45 I have a way that I described the whole album when I was trying to think about how to like, you know, characterize it if I had to. And it feels like, like a dare advertisement. It's like. It's like that meme, you know, where the guy's got the baseball cap on backwards and his skateboard and he's like, how do you do fellow kids? You know, it just was a little bit too. Adults trying too hard.
33:45 --> 33:46 Yes.
33:46 --> 33:47 For me, I think.
33:47 --> 34:13 I think that's what I. I think you put into words what I was feeling on those Mickey and Goofy track where they like, I'm trying. I'm not good at this rap thing, but like, that's like somebody's dad, like trying to joke around in 1994 being like, this rap thing. I can do this. Look at this shoe too. I'm rhyming. Yeah, it had that energy on those songs for sure.
34:15 --> 34:35 And you know what contributes to that energy? I have to put this out there. I don't know if you are able or going to show a picture of the album, but the fact that on the front of the album you have Mickey Mouse in low slung pants, but they're over his shorts. Yes, he's wearing pants over shorts. That's not how that goes.
34:36 --> 34:43 He's like sagging them. So does this mean that his pants are actually underpants and that he's just always in his underpants?
34:43 --> 34:47 I thought about that a lot longer than I should have or wanted to after.
34:47 --> 35:46 It's weird. It's weird. But that shows that disconnect of the people making this. Didn't totally understand it. And I think that if maybe if Tag team had been a producer, a consultant or something, they might have had A better chance or anyone really, that understood. Anyone who had bought a hip hop album before this as a consultant, they might have done a little bit. Some made some different choices. And let's. Let's get to this one, because speaking of not quite understanding what the hip hop scenario is, we got to talk about what a mouse. Because I don't know if they knew what they were doing there or what they were touching. And also, I feel like they could have gone the next step and just asked Salt and Peppa to be part of the album. They, like, asked for the. The rights to cover the song. I wonder if they did. That's true.
35:47 --> 35:58 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if they would have. I mean, what I have written down here is 10 out of 10. No notes would put in rotation. It is a good song because it's hilarious.
35:58 --> 36:16 It is. It. So, like, the. The original song is. It would definitely not be Disney appropriate. Is the Disney fied version Disney appropriate? Because it does actually toe the line.
36:16 --> 36:19 Oh, no, it definitely toes the line.
36:22 --> 36:24 It gets risque. It's.
36:25 --> 36:49 And I was sitting, drinking tea, right? Like, listening to this album, literally choked on my tea when Minnie Mouse said, I finally found a mouse who could make me last. And that was the end of the sentence. I thought, like, I thought more would come to change the. You know. No, it did not.
36:49 --> 37:04 No, they just left it at that. And it's like, that's one of those. Did they know what? Like, did who. Did they know what they were saying? Like, did they know what the original song was about? Because it's awfully close to the original.
37:04 --> 37:10 Song we possibly be referencing. I don't know. He knows just what to do. I don't have to say, please.
37:12 --> 37:17 Which even some of Minnie's delivery is a little, like, sensual.
37:17 --> 37:18 And I'm like, winky wink.
37:18 --> 37:27 Yeah, yeah. And it made me like, wait, what is. Like, how is this really a Disney. Like, Disney let's.
37:28 --> 37:30 So maybe they could get away with it.
37:30 --> 37:48 That's true. They tucked it away in the middle and they were expected. You know, the executives listened up to. They listened up to tag team, and they're like, great. And then they didn't keep going because then they would have been like, wait, what? What did she. What did she just say? But yeah, no, it is a What.
37:48 --> 37:50 Makes it great now, listening to it.
37:50 --> 38:00 Right, right, right. No, it is a. I, It. Would you say it's the best track? It might be one of the best tracks just because of its shock value. Kind of.
38:01 --> 38:11 I think it. And also, Minnie's, like, actually good, right? Like, Ruthy Taylor slayed it, which.
38:11 --> 38:50 That. Let's talk about that. Because so on the. I tried to go through and, like, look at who did each voice, because Disney's not especially back then, they were not very forthcoming with who did the voices. And it's kind of only after the fact that we know. So, like, Wayne Alwine was Mickey at that time. Rucy Taylor was Minnie. She was Huey, Dewey, and Louie. And from what I could tell based on the tone of voice, she was also Red in little red wrapping hood, which makes sense. Yeah. And then Bill Farmer was goofy for, like, one song and then, like, some backing vocals. So, like, she did most of this album.
38:51 --> 38:53 I mean, a woman's work is never done.
38:53 --> 39:18 Right. She is impressive, not just with all the voices that she does, but that, like, I felt like she stepped up to the plate when it came to rapping, where, like, the other two, I. I almost feel like they were like, you're gonna rap like this? And they're like, I can't do this. And they're like, fine, we'll write that into your rap. I can't do this. This is my rap. And then she was just like, what do you got for me? Okay, let's try it. And she was just, like, up for it. Yeah. Which was pretty amazing.
39:18 --> 39:19 Minnie can do anything. Right.
39:19 --> 39:22 Because she was Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
39:24 --> 39:25 I don't even know.
39:25 --> 39:36 I don't know. She was. And yeah, I thought Red sounded like webby from. From DuckTales, which is. She also did the voice of Webby. So then I was like, I think that's her, too.
39:36 --> 39:38 Okay, I can see that. I can see that.
39:38 --> 39:40 No, she was impressive.
39:40 --> 39:42 She deserved props for this one.
39:43 --> 40:13 This is a Rusy Taylor album featuring some. Yeah, yeah, right. Because. No, that's. If anything, like, giving this a listen gives you a new respect for her work, like, because she brings it. And the other two, I don't think do it. And then the other thing is, we're missing Donald. Yeah. I don't know if Donald. Is Donald rapping too much of, like, a throwaway track? Like, like, would they have. Would they have phoned it in too.
40:13 --> 40:17 Much or is it just so unintelligible at that point?
40:17 --> 40:26 Right. Like, if he's trying to get a flow going and it's like, that's. That would be difficult. But, like, even that womp there it went is about Donald's.
40:26 --> 40:28 Right. They referenced him. Yeah.
40:28 --> 40:30 But I don't think he's in it at all.
40:30 --> 40:34 Or if he was, it wasn't. It was a. Just like a hot second. Right. Because I don't.
40:35 --> 40:40 Right. I'm trying to remember. It would be more of just like a little voiceover kind of addition.
40:40 --> 40:42 He was being, like, thrown.
40:43 --> 40:48 Yes. Because what. What would you want at your birthday party other than to be thrown?
40:51 --> 40:58 It was interesting. It was interesting that they chose to use the past tense for. There it went and there and there.
40:59 --> 41:19 But there he went. Yeah, but no, it was. So. Yeah. Rusty Taylor, 100% is. Is. It's her. It's her show. This is her show. This is her hip hop world. We're just living in it as far as the songs go. And I think that deserves a shout out.
41:20 --> 41:30 To be fair, if you asked me which character would be good at rap, the only one I would pick would be Minnie Mouse. Probably. Right. Just because she has, like, grit.
41:30 --> 42:09 Yeah, for sure. Well, and she's got the. Like, she had. She had her own. Her like, own flow. Like, it wasn't like she was going for, like, it was. It was definitely a. What would Minnie Mouse sound like if she rapped? This is what she'd sound like, and this is what she sounds like. It wasn't like she was trying to imitate anyone or, you know, like, maybe it wasn't the. She. She wasn't gonna get a. A Def Jam record contract, but she. She stepped up to the plate and she knocked it out of the park. I thought.
42:09 --> 42:14 No, I agreed. Yeah. That for sure was one of my favorites. What a mouse man.
42:15 --> 42:50 Yeah. All right, so we kind of hit a little bit on this, but I kind of want to kind of go directly into it and like, this album is disconnected from hip hop, but what does it get right about hip hop in 1994? And then also, like, what are things that it gets very wrong? Like we. We went into the. The ducks in the hood. But if there's any other things that it gets very wrong, what do you think it gets right and what do you think it gets wrong about hip hop in general in 1994?
42:50 --> 43:39 I think some of the songs did hit on that sense of play and the sense of fun. Like you were saying with. With whomp. There it went. Right. Yeah, it did sound like people enjoying themselves right now. Not every track, I think, sounded like it was people enjoying themselves, but I really. You know, when you get to the sort of 90s hip hop where it's sort of becoming a bit more of a crossover, that's what I associate with it. Is that sense of sort of exuberant irreverence maybe, that they did really well. And I think in Whoomp, There it went, and. And in the Mickey Mouse club remix. Right. It was like, we're not taking it too seriously. We're letting someone play with, you know, our ip, and if they had, they could still do a little more of that, and that would be super fun.
43:39 --> 44:06 Yeah, I think it's like that party aspect, which was happening a lot, I think, at this point in the wave of the. If you would call it the golden age of hip hop of the early 90s kind of thing. It kind of hit at that time when that party stuff was happening. Other than Ducks in the Hood, was there anything. Any egregious.
44:07 --> 44:19 I didn't find them, like, you know, borderline offensive in the way. Like, borderline offensive. More so just bad, you know?
44:19 --> 44:29 Yeah, no, I think. I think because they didn't like the songs that were highlighting as the. As the best are the ones that took a risk.
44:30 --> 44:30 Yeah.
44:31 --> 44:37 Or the worst, too. I mean, like, Ducks in the Hood was a risk, and it did not pay off.
44:38 --> 45:16 But you know what else? It was a risk that they didn't invite a collaborator on. And I think if you're going to do something like this. Right. You kind of said it earlier. They needed, like, a producer or a rapper or someone who would say, like, hey, we should do it this way if we're going to do it. Or like, hey, this one. No, I'm not participating. That's right. Because like I said, you know, the tag team one was, I think, really great. And the Bringing In Mary Mary on the Mouse Club remix, I think probably really helped too. Whoopi Goldberg, I don't know. She couldn't save Bow Wow to the beat. But, no, she's not a rapper. Like you said, she's not known as a rapper.
45:16 --> 45:28 So in no world, I don't know what timeline that is, where we think of Whoopi Goldberg as a rapper, but we're not living in that timeline, that's for sure.
45:29 --> 45:35 No, but I do think of her as, you know, is she a Disney legend at this point? I mean, I do think of her as a Disney star.
45:35 --> 45:37 Yeah, she is for sure.
45:37 --> 45:40 She hosted the special for the 50th.
45:41 --> 46:50 So, yeah, I think. I think it's. So that's the next. So this album comes out. I don't think it's that big of a hit, but it. It's there. And then Disney doesn't really touch hip hop for basically ever from what I like, I tried to go digging and finding more hip hop connections with Disney, and the only thing that really would jump out to me is they got Lin Manuel Miranda to do a bunch of stuff with Disney. Like. Well, like Hamilton coming out on Disney was a big deal. But even like Lin Manuel Miranda's hip hop is. And I feel like in Disney's mindset is like the safe Broadway hip hop that they feel like they could understand. Since a lot of Disney music comes from Broadway. It's like, this is the way Broadway's going. He's the guy who could bring us into the future. But like, what. Can you think of any other Disney hip hop that kind of lives in the times between Mickey Unwrapped and Lin Manuel Miranda's?
46:50 --> 46:57 Well, maybe I should have looked up what year this came out, but what year was the Splash Mountain Wrap?
46:57 --> 47:08 Oh, yes, I forgot about that. Well, and that even if it's before Mickey Unwrapped, that. That should have been on Mickey Unwrapped. If it was before this, why did.
47:11 --> 47:19 Either. I would assume it's either tied to the opening in Disneyland in 89 and then was I.
47:20 --> 47:30 Then Florida was like 91, 92. So it was definitely before this. So why wasn't the Splash Mountain rap on this album? Oh, man.
47:30 --> 47:33 I mean, talk about living in infamy.
47:33 --> 47:38 Yeah. That would have made it so much better too. Just.
47:38 --> 47:44 Yeah. Yeah. And it's. Every now and then it gets like, rediscovered. Right. Like Disney fandom.
47:45 --> 47:48 And it's especially that video guys wrapping in.
47:48 --> 47:51 Yeah. Construction gear. I don't know. It's.
47:51 --> 47:59 Yeah, it's weird. It's weird, but in. In the best way. In a way that I don't think would ever happen again.
47:59 --> 48:09 No. But I remember actually loving it. It was on one of the single. It was on Disneyland Sing along songs. I think the best of the song compilations.
48:09 --> 48:25 Yes. Which those were. Those were great. And I feel like these. They kind of wished that these hip hop versions could make it to sing along song status. But no, I do wonder though, you.
48:26 --> 48:34 Know, we're living in a different cultural moment and Disney, in my opinion, has gotten a lot better about learning when they need to bring on cultural partnerships.
48:34 --> 48:35 Yeah.
48:35 --> 48:41 And I wonder if they could pull it off now in a way that felt more authentic and a little less.
48:42 --> 48:47 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was very outside looking in.
48:47 --> 48:48 Yeah.
48:49 --> 49:26 When it. Especially when it had its, like, boring moments and things like that. Very outside looking into the world of rap and hip hop. But no, I do. I think there's room in our lives for a new. A new version of this. I know we just had that. And maybe not with Mickey and Minnie rapping, like, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, because we just had that. What's that? A whole new sound came out. And for us, like, emo kids, it was awesome because of all of those songs on there. It was, like, great. Like, you're getting, like, yellow card and, like, plain white tees all doing these songs.
49:27 --> 49:33 Yeah. So let Snoop gather his friends and do one of these. I think it would be a big hit.
49:34 --> 49:55 That would be great. And if Snoop's doing it, we could. I'll let Martha Stewart be part of it too. For some reason, because she's always hanging out with him. For some reason. Because that would be like. That would be a nod back to this album and having some random Whoopi Goldberg random lady. Why is she here?
49:57 --> 49:58 Love that.
49:58 --> 50:07 But, you know. No, I do think we could leave the door open for this. Please, Disney, if you're listening, which they're probably not, but then they can bring.
50:07 --> 50:11 Him in and he can be a narrator for, like, the Christmas candlelight processional.
50:13 --> 50:14 That.
50:14 --> 50:16 I would lie down there for that.
50:17 --> 50:42 I just want to see what would happen if Snoop was the candlelight. Can he write his own script, too? Give him the script first and then let him put his own flair on it because it would be so amazing to see. Yes. We need Snoop as part of, like, the Disney, you know? I know. I know NBC's got him for the Olympics and stuff, like, NBC Universal. But, like, let's try to. Try to get him over to our side.
50:43 --> 50:44 We can play nice in the sandbox.
50:44 --> 51:40 Right? There you go. All right. So is. So as far as, like, I think we figured out that this could be fixable, and there is a world that we live in that Disney could do a hip hop album that could be great. And even though this one had some great moments, it doesn't quite do it for us. But for us hip hop fans out there, especially old school hip hop fans, I love the hip hop of my. My youth. Of course, Park Swag does something to fix that void of hip hop and Disney coming together. And so you make some awesome clothes that have hip hop and Disney mashed up together. And so could you give us a little behind the scenes of, like, what you do to make Park Swag happen?
51:40 --> 51:45 Yeah. I came from the same probably generation, right?
51:45 --> 51:45 Yeah.
51:45 --> 53:09 And so I love Disney and I love that 90s hip hop. And I would always be walking around the parks and hearing these lyrics in my head right when I'm walking through the parks. And I wanted to be able to wear them and also to be able to have shirts that weren't saccharine. Sweet kind of Disney vibes. Love those on occasion. But it really started with. And I can't take credit for this. I know I saw it somewhere and I didn't love any of the things I saw it on, but I saw a turn down for Walt shirt, and I was like, oh, my gosh, that is epic. I feel like Walt Disney would have loved it. And that is exactly my vibe. Right? Like, turn down for Walt. And so I brought that to one of my friends who's a graphic designer, who is not a Disney person. And I said, these are their, like, references. These are the Disney references that I think you should put into this shirt. And so she sort of reworks the designs until I look at it and go, oh, my God, yes. That is. I wear that. And then they just kind of started coming for me. Right. And some of them I haven't gotten out yet. We were talking about salt and pepper. You know, push it real good. You have to do with. Push the trash can, right?
53:09 --> 53:10 Oh, yeah.
53:11 --> 53:30 Gotten one of those out yet. But it will come. But so there's just so many good references that make sense when you can. When you leave the lyrics as the original lyrics, but have an image that references Disney. And so that's what we're doing is kind of trying to create that moment where the line comes together with a moment from the park.
53:31 --> 53:49 Yeah. And I will tell you, when I see, like, the turn down for Walt shirt, like, I hear the music in my head. I, like, hear those, like, synthesizer. Like, I can't. I can't not, you know. Or you guys had a head like a. Drop it. Like, it's hot, right?
53:49 --> 53:52 Like it's hot with the Tower of Terror. Yeah.
53:52 --> 54:07 Right. And it's like, I can't not hear it in my head when I see those. And it's kind of awesome to, like, see the Disney imagery and then, like, see it mashed up with some hip hop lyrics that just gets stuck in your head. And it's so cool.
54:08 --> 54:15 I think it gives me that same sense of fun and joy. Right. That the songs give me as well as.
54:16 --> 54:22 Yeah. Do you have a favorite one of the shirts that you've designed? Like, what's the one?
54:22 --> 55:00 I mean, the turndown for Wall will always be, like, my most epic favorite number one. That will be my number one OG Also, because, like, I'm a Walt Stan, I love Walt, and I like, whenever we can put him in the park, there's. My other one is probably started from the bottom. Now we hear. Which is a picture of the partner statue. And I feel like I love wearing that one because, A, you know, it's fun to mash them up, but B, it really says so much about, like, what we love. I think about Walt and Disney and Mickey. Right. Like, they really did start at the bottom and work their way up to become these cultural icons.
55:00 --> 55:43 It fits so well. Yeah, it fits like that. And I think that's kind of the magic of park swag is that you find that lyric that fits the Disney moment. And it doesn't always have to be like the Disney commercial where it's, like, you know, playing, like, the sweet music and, like, talking about family memory. Like, it's. We. We all have different soundtracks in our heads and, like, that's not the soundtrack in everyone's head. But maybe started from the bottom. Now we hear is. Is the soundtrack in your head. And that's the most fitting moment for. For you. And that. That works. I agree. That one works so well. Yeah. That you guys have.
55:43 --> 55:58 We tried to do some Christmas ones, and so we did one with Mickey Mouse that's also one of my, like, holiday favorites. From the window to the wall till Mickey decks these halls. It's amazing, Right.
55:59 --> 56:11 That one gets into what a Mouse territory there. And I love that. But it zigs and zags when you need it to. Not like, mini.
56:12 --> 56:37 It's about the picture that you put it with. Right. We didn't get the right context for Minnie Mouse and what a mouse. Take it out of that territory. So, yeah, we also play very hard to make it so that we're not putting innuendos and things that are inappropriate for the parks on our shirts. And we take pride in that because the. You know, my designer friend and I, we have kids and we walk around wearing these shirts, so.
56:37 --> 56:38 Right.
56:38 --> 56:39 The fine line.
56:39 --> 57:04 Yeah. No, but it's. I appreciate it gives us that. It gives us that. That space to kind of. When I mean, my show is about, of course, how Disney connects to everything and what it can connect to. And it's like, if you can connect Disney with hip hop and put that on a shirt to express yourself in the parks or even just walking around town, like, that's amazing. That's like, how we connect it all.
57:05 --> 57:15 Yeah. That's what the Disney fandom is. Right. It's just connecting your Disney fandom to all these other things that you Love and all the other people that love the things that you love.
57:16 --> 57:21 That's it right there. So how can we find these really awesome shirts of yours?
57:21 --> 57:29 So we currently sell on Etsy under Park Swagger Tees, and you can find us on all the social medias at Park Swagger Tees.
57:30 --> 57:45 First off, thanks for sharing the shirts with the world because they're awesome. And then personally, thank you for helping me make sense of Mickey unwrapped, because there was a lot to unwrap there and figure out what happened?
57:45 --> 57:50 Did you name it correctly? You gotta think there was a lot to unwrap.
57:50 --> 58:01 There was a lot. Like, instead of unpacking it, we unwrapped it. But no. So thank you so much for coming on the show. I feel like I have a different appreciation for the album.
58:02 --> 58:02 Definitely.
58:02 --> 58:19 I won't say new or better. It's just different now. Right. And I'm seeing songs in a way that I. That I didn't before, which I really appreciate. And would you tell. Would you. Would you say it's worth a listen should someone.
58:19 --> 58:21 I mean, it's free, so you might as well. Right, Right.
58:22 --> 58:45 Because there will be definitely, there will be a link to the playlist on YouTube where you could. Where you could check it out in the notes down below. So go ahead and check that out after you have checked out Park Swag, of course, because there will be a link for that down below, too. But, Bethany, thank you so much for coming on Synergy Loves Company. To sort through that and talk about hip hop and Disney.
58:45 --> 58:51 That was so fun. And thank you because I never would have known that album existed without you.
58:52 --> 58:58 And here we are. And it exists. We'll go with that. Right.
58:58 --> 58:59 Say it exists.
59:01 --> 59:07 And now we're better for knowing that it exists. I'll say that I feel better for knowing that it exists.
59:08 --> 59:09 Sure. I'll agree with that.
59:09 --> 01:00:23 Right, right. So thanks so much to Bethany for coming on the show. And you gotta go make sure that you check out Park Swag and then you could go rep your love of Disney with some cool Park Swag. Probably turn some heads when you wear these shirts in the parks. And you know, you got to go take a look right now, see what she's got up there, especially for the holiday season. And as for you and me, I've always got more Disney connections coming your way, so if you don't want to miss them, be sure to subscribe or to follow. Synergy Loves Company. Wherever you're enjoying the show right now, whether it's YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or some other platform. You can just click that little subscribe Follow button. Or you could visit Synergy Love's company right now for links to all of those platforms and you'll know as soon as a new episode drops. If you are subscribed and if you've been listening for a while, let's take this to the next level. I'd love to connect with you, so follow me on Facebook, Instagram or threads at Synergy LovesCompany on all those platforms or on BlueSky. I'm Eric H. Synergy there they won't let you have Synergy Loves Company on Bluesky. They won't let me put the Y at the end so I had to go with my old Twitter handle. Isn't that weird?
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