Disney Dish Episode 227: Backstage at Disneyland in July of 1955
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Lantesta, and this is our show for the week of July 22nd, 2019. |
| 0:09.0 | On the show today, new hotel discounts, new Halloween fireworks, a new walkway to the Magic Kingdom, and more. |
| 0:16.0 | And with the imminent opening of Galaxy's Edge in Walt Disney World, Jim talks about what it was like when |
| 0:20.6 | Disneyland opened almost exactly 60 years ago today. |
| 0:24.7 | And speaking of Jim, let's bring the man who definitely does not suggest |
| 0:28.9 | replacing your cat's litter with pop rocks. |
| 0:31.6 | One Mr Jim Hill. |
| 0:32.4 | Jim, how's it going? |
| 0:33.3 | This may seem like a slightly grotesque transition, Lynn, but did you know that Milka, |
| 0:38.3 | the German-based chocolate company, once made a chocolate that actually had |
| 0:41.7 | pop rocks mixed in? |
| 0:43.7 | I think I vaguely remember that. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, my friend Eric Craven, he's a Department of Defense employee who's station in Germany. |
| 0:50.4 | It introduced me to these things... |
| 0:51.4 | Hold on, did you go, Department of Defense employee, in air quotes when you said it? |
| 0:56.4 | On advice of counsel, then. |
| 0:58.8 | All right, go ahead. |
| 0:59.8 | Anyway, what did he do? |
| 1:00.8 | Okay, so anyway, he introduced me to these things a few years back and since I've reached a point of my life where, you know, I don't necessarily enjoy placing things in my mouth that explode. |
| 1:11.0 | I would hand these off to Alice and she got hooked on Milkabars so much so |
| 1:15.2 | that when Milka stopped making these chocolate bars with pop rocks in them she |
| 1:19.2 | searched and searched online until she found a company in Israel that now makes them? |
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