Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Len Testa,

and this is our show for the week of Shmars Day, October 6th, 2025 on the show today. News

in surveys, would you attend an after-hour event called Paradise Nights? And do you want an

annual pass subscription service? In listener questions, what are they putting in the water?

Then in our main

segment, Jim answers a listener question about the history of Push the Talking Trashcan. Let's get

started by bringing in the man who says the only real holidays are the ones Rees makes a special

candy for. So, Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going? It's going well, Len, but this is the time of year.

Obviously, we're just a couple of weeks out from Halloween at this point, where, you know, the whole concept of fun-sized candy rears its ugly head. And it's just sort of like, who in their right mind? It's like, you're getting less candy, but it's fun-sized. It's like, come on.

Yeah, would the larger size be even more fun or something not fun? There we go.

There we go.

We're on the fun spectrum is that size candy.

That's what I need to know.

I don't know.

And the weird thing is junior size bars started back during the Depression and you get that you know just sort of like

yeah kids don't want candy and the candy companies you know want to continue so but fun size actually

starts in the 60s as trick-or-treating in the suburbs really start to take off and the notion of

yeah you know these poor parents who are like i get a filled filled a candy bowl. It's like, well, look, here, they're fun size. As in cheaper. So go buy a bag. Yeah, it's better than taking a butter knife out and cutting up your Clark bar into six segments. There we go. First of all, it's more standard. Yeah, Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. I'm looking forward to seeing how many kids we get in celebration. Yes. Yes. I know at this point, I think we talked previously off air. You're not going for the record this year that you've sort of thrown down the or given up the gauntlet. Is that the plan? So the last, so I did it two years ago. Last year we were traveling. Two years ago, I bought 3,000 full-size candy bars. And I think this year the number is going to be 4,000. I'm going to see what happens there. That's a lot of money. It's a lot of money for Halloween. Yeah. We'll see. Yeah. But I told you the story about after the last time we were

handing out candy, it was my, my neighbor and I were sitting around, Daniel, my neighbor

and I sitting around at the end and my niece came up and said, see that guy across the street,

he's handing out one jolly rancher to each kid. And I was like, well, clearly we're reporting this man to the HOA.

According to Wakanda forever, that's not what we do. We don't do that around here, right?

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