Welcome to I Want That, which is a podcast that focuses on the dynamic world of Disney merch.

I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill.

And I am blogger, a podcaster, and designer Michelle Vaya Doolid.

And Michelle and I are recording this episode on Sunday April 14th, 2019, which is Palm Sunday.

And since we were a week out from Easter, I thought we might talk about how the Walt Disney Company has repeatedly tried to turn Easter to another Christmas or Halloween at their parks and resorts.

Meaning, how about you can celebrate for weeks, if not months,

out ahead of the actual date of that holiday.

And... I'm looking forward to Disney's snake whacking day.

That's Weird Owl, right?

No, Simpsons.

Oh, oh, I'm sorry that I'm kind of embarrassed

because you say I immediately thought it's weasel stomping day for

Weasel stomping day that's right. See you know you know your stuff.

Yes again I gotta I gotta refresh the Simpsons part of my brain.

Yeah well you'll be able to on Disney

Plus. This is true. Okay. But Easter. Now to get back to to Easter that the problem with

Easter is it doesn't have an actual fixed date on the calendar like

December 25th for Christmas or October 31st for Halloween and that's largely

because of the whole Easter must be celebrated after Passover and because Passover is

celebrated on the first full moon after the vernal equinox and because the

Vernaliquinox only occurs on the day when the sunshine directly in the equator, which means on that date, typically March 21st, we get equal amounts of sunshine and darkness because of all this lunar solar factors that go into determining when

Easter is annually. Easter can slide all over the calendar. I mean it can be as early as

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