#185 - Les Clark Pt. 1
Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World
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4.7 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From West to East and Kingdom to Kingdom, you're listening to the Diz Unplugged Connecting with Walt |
| 0:06.8 | podcast. Connecting with Wallet is brought to you by Dreams Unlimited Travel, |
| 0:28.3 | experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation. |
| 0:32.8 | Visit them on the web at DreamsUnlimited Travel.com. |
| 0:36.8 | Hey there, hi, they're ho there, and welcome to episode 185 of the Diz Unplugged, connecting with |
| 0:42.4 | Walt Podcast. |
| 0:43.7 | I am your host and Diz Historian Michael Bowling, and I am joined by my co-host, executive |
| 0:48.8 | producer and good friend Craig Williams. |
| 0:51.9 | Craig, how are you today? |
| 0:53.5 | I'm as welcome as can be. |
| 0:56.9 | I don't know why I haven't answered like that yet. |
| 1:00.0 | It took a couple weeks of you doing that, but I got there, I feel like. |
| 1:04.8 | How are you, though? |
| 1:06.2 | I'm doing well. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm doing well in our little jamboree here. |
| 1:15.7 | Excellent, excellent. Well, in this episode, |
| 1:21.8 | we are continuing a series. We began way back in the day with an interview with Disney animator Andreas Deja on the Walt's Nine Old Men. And we've talked about Ward Kimball, and today we'll be talking about |
| 1:29.2 | the first of Walt's nine old men, Les Clark. So let's start with talking about who the nine old men |
| 1:36.3 | were. And these men were the core of Walt Disney's animation studio and the foundation of this |
| 1:43.5 | entire, of his entire enterprise. |
| 1:46.8 | Walt called them his nine old men, playing off Franklin Roosevelt's term for the United |
| 1:52.7 | States Supreme Court justices, with whom he was having a disagreement, and was threatening |
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