Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,

Land Testa, and this is our show for the week of January 6th, 2020. On the show today,

The News and some new surveys Disney's been sending out. In our main segment,

Gemini preview, what's going on in Disney theme parks in 2020? Let's get

started by bringing in the man who's currently recording a series of

Where's Waldo audio books it's Mr. Jim

how's it going not a challenging assignment it basically consists of me going

there he is top of 835 next to the Oregon grinder. To me it seems to take a lot of fun out of the books.

I thought you would just go by reading, you know, starting at the top of the left page and going to the bottom right and just saying,

Penguin, Diane suit, hot dot card.

You see.

I should have thought of that. By the way folks a quick sidebar here we

recording this on January 1st 20 we should be watching the tournament of

roses but now we're doing this.

Which makes me think of perhaps the most famous New Year's Eve, and that of course was December

30th year's 1999, where there was all that fear of the Y2K stuff and the fact that the power grid was possibly

going to collapse.

And I came across this great story in Cleaning the Kingdom, insiders' of keeping Walt's dream spotless.

That's the book that Ken Pelman and Len Baron put together.

But they talk about Disney wanted to prep its guests and that day they had 80,000 people come up to Disneyland.

Just to have them ready just in case the power grid did collapse.

So how they did this line is they gave everybody a

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