Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish podcast with Jim Hill.

It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the week of Schmersday, September 8th, 2025.

On the show today, news, listener questions.

In surveys, Disney asks, what benefits do you really need if you're staying on site?

While Universal asks the existential question, what is a popcorn bucket anyway?

I can smell the Peabody Award from here, Jim, and it's covered in butter.

Then in our main segment, Jim continues the story of how Disney California Adventure prepared for its Carsland Redue in 2012.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who read that only one in ten people is good at math and concluded he must be in the other half. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's he going? Math. Okay. I think I previously mentioned in this podcast that back when I was attending Maynard High School, I was so terrible at math. I had to take algebra two twice. So technically, I have taken algebra four. I think part of the problem, you know, now that we're of a certain age, I think part of the

problem that you and I both had with math is that it's really difficult to understand Roman numerals

when they're in quantities like that. Like, you know, we went to school before Arabic numerals

were invented.

There we go.

There we go.

And by the way, this is why I am so grateful to work up.

Here's a guy who actually knows how to make math, math.

And in today's algorithm-driven world, it especially helps.

Let's be honest here, your only real talent is telling long,

pointless stories to surround yourself with people who are so much smarter than you are. I mean,

this is why, and I mean, this sincerely, I'm so lucky to work with Len and the Herseys and to have Nancy in my life. By the way, we celebrated our 28th anniversary this week.

Mazelps have you crazy kids. What did you guys do? Well, we, because it was Labor Day,

it took us three tries to find a restaurant that was open and then celebrated being together

that long with some pretty indifferent pasta. But, you know, I mean... You know what? The point is you tried. The point is you... It's quantity time, not quality time. It's important. There we go. And we both dressed up like grown-ups. It was, you know, I mean, it cleaned up nice. But anyway, back to it. Look, when I see X plus Y equals E, I am in over my headland.

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