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The Day Pooh Beat Davy Crockett (and Sold Cereal Too) (Ep. 64)

The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Tv & Film, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jim Hill and Lauren Hersey return with a jam-packed episode of I Want That Too, covering the latest Disney merch, clever marketing strategies, and holiday surprises. The rise of popcorn buckets in parks and movie theaters – from talking Mickey to mummy Stitch to a Tron lightcycle How Disney uses psychology to nudge us into spending more, from limited releases to sneaky menu tricks Nightmare Before Christmas merch expansions, books, and light trails around the globe Early Christmas décor spotted at Disneyland Paris – and why Disney (and retailers) get a head start on the holidays The surprising history of Winnie the Pooh at Disney, including cereal crossovers and rare collectibles From ghost Mickey buckets to glow-in-the-dark villain sneakers, Jim and Lauren unpack the ways Disney keeps fans coming back for “just one more thing.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.8

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0:04.1

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network. To verify best networks at E.e.com.uker slash claims. Welcome back to I want that to the podcast

0:32.9

where Disney merch meets Disney history. I'm entertainment writer Jim Hill, and as always, I'm joined by the

0:40.5

lovely Lauren Hersey, who's just back from Kenny Wood, right? Skidwin the family?

0:46.3

Yes, I am recently, but I mean, I'm not at Disney, so I had to get the theme park fix it. I don't

0:52.5

know. Is Kenny Wood in Pittsburgh a theme park or an amusement park? Is it an amusement park?

0:58.3

I think it actually started out life as a classic trolley park, as in, you know, it was one of these things that was built at the end of a trolley line next to a scenic lake, and it had a merry-go-round and a carousel, and it

1:12.5

eventually became an, you know, full-on amusement park. And I think over time it has reclassified

1:19.4

itself as a theme park. To be honest, the big question here is, did it have popcorn buckets?

1:28.4

No popcorn buckets.

1:31.0

Probably overpriced old popcorn.

1:34.1

I don't know.

1:35.3

But we are talking about popcorn buckets in today's show because not only do we have some new ones to talk about in the parks,

1:46.8

but also in the movie theaters, wondering if this is going to be a thing now that we're seeing.

1:54.4

We're also going to talk about how Disney gets us to spend even more money than we were going to spend anyways without realizing it.

2:03.9

And we're going to talk a little bit about, I'm sorry, Jim, but we're going to talk a little bit about Christmas before we even got to Halloween.

2:11.6

Well, oddly, on topic here, when Halloween comes crashing into Christmas, of course, that's where Tim Burton's

2:20.7

Nightmare Before Christmas rises up, so to speak.

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