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And welcome to episode 252 of the Diz Unplugged, connecting with Walt Podcast.

I am your host and Diz historian Michael Bowling.

And I am joined by my co-host and good friend John Sakari.

John, how are you today?

Excellent and glad to be here. Thank you, Michael.

Oh, good, good. Well, I'm glad you're here, too. As we all know,

2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company, and this year is filled with many special events to commemorate this milestone.

So far, there have been two highlights for me.

The Disney 100 Years of Wonder exhibition currently at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia that I saw a couple of weeks ago.

And the book, The Story of Disney 100 Years of Wonder.

So joining us today is Becky Klein, director of the Walt Disney Archives, and Bruce Steele, editor-in-chief of the D-23 magazine and co-author of The Story of Disney 100 Years of Wonder.

Becky and Bruce, welcome to connecting with Walt.

Thank you so much for having us.

It's good to be here.

I am delighted, and I know our audience who are Uber Disney historians are going to be

thrilled with this, too. We were talking before.

You know, what company has their own fan club and has a following? I mean, there's no other company that really for me, because I grew up with Walt watching them every Sunday, really the Walt did Walt and those who created his legacy really defined childhood for generations.

And with so much history to cover about Walt and his company and those who've worked to

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