706- The Dark Side of Disney with Animator/Podcaster Frank Sasso
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Frank Sasso (Animator, Podcaster, Owner of New Pod City) signed a 25 year non-disclosure agreement with Disney to not talk about his weeklong experience there as an animation system trainer. Well guess what? Times up! Listen to Story Worthy and hear the true story of an underground bunker in Florida where Disney dreams are made but public knows nothing about it. Until now.
Each week Hollywood’s most talented people in the entertainment industry share true, personal stories on the Story Worthy Podcast. Story Worthy celebrated 13 years of podcasting in July 2023 and has over 800 episodes recorded. Christine Blackburn is the creator, host and producer of Story Worthy, Story Smash the Storytelling Game Show, and My Life in 3 Songs exclusively on Spotify.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Christine with Storyworthy. Today on the show, animator, podcaster, and the owner of New Pod City, Frank Saso, talks about the dark side of Disney. |
| 0:12.4 | They fly me down to Florida. I get off the plane. I see these two guys. Imagine an agent from the Matrix and one of the men in black characters. I get into a |
| 0:24.5 | Jeep Wrangler. We go off road now. Now we're off a highway and we're going down this other |
| 0:29.5 | kind of a paved road and then it gets to a more of a non-paved road and then they pull over |
| 0:35.8 | and they ask me to put on a blindfold. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm like, am I going to be whacked? |
| 0:41.0 | Like, I don't know what to think. |
| 0:42.1 | It wasn't funny then. |
| 0:43.3 | I was crap in my pants. |
| 0:51.0 | Today on the show, animator, podcaster, and the owner of New Pod City, Frank Saso, talks about the dark side of Disney. |
| 0:52.3 | Stay close. |
| 0:57.5 | Hey, my name is Frank Sassau, and you are listening to Storyworthy. |
| 1:13.4 | Welcome to Storyworthy. My name is Christine Blackburn, and I'm Thumbing D from Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:21.1 | Whether you're a longtime fan of the show or a new listener, if you're a new listener, you have a lot of catching up to do. |
| 1:27.6 | Either way, you guys, welcome to Storyworthy. Now, I hope you enjoyed the show last week with comedian Bruce Baum. |
| 1:30.1 | Bruce Baum, boy, he's old school. |
| 1:35.1 | He's like, he was doing comedy with Carlin and Richard Pryor. |
| 1:39.5 | And Bruce Baum was like the deal in the 70s and 80s. And he did a lot of game shows. |
| 1:42.6 | He was like on match game and password and all these different game shows. |
| 1:47.3 | And so his story last week was very cool. |
| 1:50.3 | It was called, we call the story game show scandal. |
| 1:54.4 | And it was about him doing this show's Super Password. |
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