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Disney Dish Episode 223: How Epcot’s cost over-runs almost cost The Walt Disney Company everything

The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing the troubled history of “Primeval Whirl.” Jim then looks back on when greenmailers Saul Steinberg & Irwin Jacobs were making runs at Walt Disney Productions and threatening to sell off underperforming divisions of the Company to the highest bidders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:04.1

It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of June 24th, 2019.

0:09.6

On the show today, Jim talks about the outside events that caused Epcot to change back in the

0:15.2

mid-1980s and what it means for the next round of changes in future world. Plus, we do the news. And speaking of Jim, let's bring in the man who says that if you donate a kidney, everyone thinks you're a hero, but donate three kidneys and people start asking all kinds of questions.

0:32.5

When Mr. Jim, how's it going?

0:34.0

Thanks for bringing it up, Len.

0:35.1

Technically, the last donation wasn't actually kidney.

0:38.0

It was just kidney shaped.

0:39.6

And from what the hospital's been telling me,

0:42.0

I'm actually going to need that back.

0:44.0

It's all the misunderstanding.

0:47.0

Yeah.

0:48.0

Mind you, they've coupled together temporary replacement made mostly at a bounty paper towels and fabric softeners.

0:53.7

That's why whenever I use the bathroom these days it it spells springtime fresh.

0:58.1

Plus bounty is a it wasn't bounty the sponsor of Let's Motor Action.

1:03.5

Okay, so we're making it work from a corporate synergy point of view.

1:07.4

Seriously, I'm going to need that organ back.

1:08.9

So if you're listening, Charlene from East Lansing, Michigan,

1:11.8

I'd really appreciate if you could pop that in the mail.

1:15.9

Cover a days before you send it.

1:17.2

There you go.

1:19.3

All right, Jim, before we get started, let's do a quick shout out to subscribers

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