a lot of

time here working.

Without a salary, and I've got a pension, and I've got investments, and so I'm comfortable.

So that really helps.

I also saw people, and you did too, stay on a little too long.

And I didn't want that to happen.

I wanted to be relevant.

And you push back, but then you also know when to push back.

No matter how crazy, like tearing out the whole main entrance.

Yeah, that was wild.

That to me was the biggest gamble of money ever.

Disney could make.

You take a street that's selling thing, it's doing the same thing.

It's retail and food and you walk through it, right? To get to where you want to go.

And when we reopened it, it served exactly that purpose with a completely different, not cheap overlay and storytelling.

Is the park about California or is it about, so they had California car culture and they also had the cars movie.

Was it? Something related to?

That's what it turned into for me.

It was really vague.

So I went to, I think, my supervisor at Disneyland and Adventureland and said, anything written? And he said, yeah, we've got the standard operating procedure, SOP, that we need written in this new format.

So I would go into the office at Disneyland.

once a week or something and sit and write for a day or eight hours, whatever I did.

And then, of course, obviously my English teacher approved of that as acceptable.

A snow-capped mountain with a chairlift taking