Disney Dish Episode 261: How is the coronavirus is impacting the Walt Disney Company

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

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4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Len Testa & Jim Hill talk about the impact that COVID19 has been having on the Disney Parks (Editor’s note: This was before Disney Parks announced on the evening of March 12th that they’d be closing all of their theme parks in the United States & France). Then Jim takes a look at how WDW’s Typhoon Lagoon wound up with a water coaster 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. It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of March 16th, 2020.
0:09.0	On the show today, News, listener questions, and in our main segment, Jim tells us the story
0:14.7	of Disney's first water coaster, The Crushing G usher
0:18.2	in Walt Disney World Typhoon Lagoon.
0:20.2	Let's get started by bringing in the man
0:21.9	whose next Apocalypse movie script will have fewer scenes with
0:25.2	zombies and more fighting old people for toilet paper at Costco. It's Mr Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?
0:30.8	It's going reasonably well
0:33.0	Linn I mean it's the morning after the European travel ban got announced and
0:38.1	it's interesting to bring up the toilet paper thing because Nancy is determined to
0:42.4	score purelle. thing because Nancy is determined to score
0:43.2	Purell.
0:44.4	Oh yeah, okay good luck with that.
0:47.6	I keep pointing out, you know, there's a thing called soap and hot water.
0:51.0	Yeah, yeah, it's absolutely fine. The thing I'm waiting for
0:54.0	after this because everyone's going crazy for the hand sanitizers and everyone's
0:56.6	washing their hands, I'm waiting for the epidemic of dry skin after this because I
1:01.0	think the lotion people have an opportunity that's being missed.
1:04.0	There was a quote earlier this week from Ram Manuel who this was during his his time in the
1:11.2	Obama White House but basically what he said is you shouldn't allow a good crisis to go to waste.
1:16.3	Yeah, never a lot of crisis go to waste.
1:17.8	There you go.
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