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Hello and welcome to episode 102 of the Diz Unplugged connecting with Walt Podcast.

I am your host and dis historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Craig Williams.

Craig, how are you today?

I'm doing pretty okay. How are today? I'm doing pretty okay.

How are you?

I'm doing fine.

A real busy week since we last spoke.

Yeah, you've been, you've been, I don't know, you're not a world-class traveler, but you

were a world state traveler?

Yes, yes, I'm up and down the state. Yeah, I was a week ago, you know, on Wednesday, Thursday,

I was at the Walt Disney Family Museum to see the exhibition, Mickey Mouse, from Walt

to the world. And, of course, the curator is Disney animator Andreas Deja.

And first I went to the press preview.

And that was cool because Andreas took us, and there weren't that many people there, surprisingly,

although some joined late.

But Andreas took us around on a personal tour of the whole exhibition.

I mean, that was amazing.

And he told us stories about the animators and the drawings and, you know, Mickey and, you know, this era of what was going on to Disney Studio and the you know Mickey and you know this era of what was going on to Disney

Studio and through how Mickey was rendered and and all this I mean and how it impacted him

and affected his career I mean it was really fascinating and I'm and I know that

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