and number one spokesman for everything that makes trash and vaudeville trash and vaudeville. >> it's leopard. and it's a white motorcycle jacket. and it's red plaid. and it's a silver star. and it's something, and it's a stud, and it's sex pistols pink and green. and it's a leather jacket. when you put it on and zip it up and unzip it, it's how you feel. >> when it comes to picking merchandise like this, jimmy is a punk fashion genius. >> want to see my favorite tattoo? i need more compassion. i need more forgiveness, i need more understanding, i need more jewelry, i need more leather fnts. >> he knows his customers, the stars and the fans, and maybe even more important than that you might say he's his own best customer and that gives him a huge edge as a buyer. >> can you tell me what the top five things are? i'm probably not going to buy them. i want to stay ahead of the top five things. i want to add to the future, not be stuck. >> trash and vaudeville is a niche in its merchandise mix and in what we sell here. what works for a lot of people doesn't work for us, and what works for

there's one act that they do, they bring back old time vaudeville. they do a ski act. it includes acrobatics and tap dancing on skis. they have this one magic act-- >> acrobats on skis. >> it's fabulous. they also do a magic act that i have friends and family, they've come back to see the show just to watch the blowoff of their magic act. >> that's the magic act. but you're here to tell us about something even more special. your ticket for the only gets you into the circus but for young people, an amazing behind- the-scenes access built to amaze. tell us about that. >> yes. we have an all access preshow. if you have a ticket purchased, you're welcome to come on to the arena floor one hour before the show, and you can interact with our two-legged and four- legged friends. learn some acrobatics, some circuit tricks, clowning. >> you have something to teach us? >> i do. >> we need a child to do this. >> we even have an elephant who does a painting. catch that scarf and when you catch it, go in a downward motion. you use your right hand and i'm use hi left hand. our elepha

it personifies the 70's, yet it has the timeless feel because jim placed it in that vaudeville theaterhe finally figured out where it took lace. that gave us timelessness to figure out the muppets have always been here. it felt like they were always there from the beginning. tavis: what's the story of how kermit turned out to be a frog. why is kermit the frog? >> kermit came out in 1955. jim was always building muppets out of found objects. his mother had a coat that was milky blue. he really did make the puppet's eyes out of ping-pong balls cut in half. it's really hard to watch that character now and not think of a fraud. the face is the shape. he was an abstract character. all of the characters were vague and abstract. jim really like that, but as the 60's progressed, he put a collar on him, and when you see the footage, it's black-and-white. collar around its neck. there is the frog right there. that's probably one of the moments they knew that was it. jim said it was a little sad to lose that abstraction. he really like that. you are really giving the audience of the tooled onto.

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