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Hello and welcome to episode 84 of the Diz Unplugged connecting with Walt Podcast.

I am your host and Diz historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by that jolly old elf my co-host producer and

good friend Craig Williams Craig how are you today not too bad how are you Michael oh I'm doing fine

thank you I I think you need a couple more pillows in that Santa Claus costume you're wearing.

No, no, no, no.

I'm like Santa Claus, Tim Allen, before he gets the white hair and gets really big.

And that's my style.

Okay. So that's good.

Well, I got an early Christmas present.

I got delivered today my Tash and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse,

the ultimate history behemoth of a book.

And you read it already, right?

Oh, gosh.

Yeah, I should just take it to the gym and work out with it.

This is not a book where I'm going to be sitting up in bed reading it at night. Yeah. Because this is a book where you need one of those.

Remember from, you know, when Walt tells the story of Mickey Mouse, you know, and he says his famous line, let's never forget one thing, it all started, you know,

with the mouse, and he has that big book that he opens on that big book pedestal. That's what you

need for this book. If only they made an audio version of it

Where someone just describes the pictures that are in it

And then reads the text

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