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Disney Dish Episode 283: Are Disney World & Universal Orlando heading for not-such-a-great Fall?

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill share what they’ve learned from a round of surveys that Central Florida’s biggest resorts recently sent out. Then Jim talks about how Disney’s Animal Kingdom tried to solve its everyone-leaves-this-theme-park-by-1-p.m. problem  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.

0:03.7

It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, August 17th, 2020.

0:09.2

On the show today, News from the Parks, and we read a bunch of new surveys from Disney and Universal.

0:15.0

In our main segment, Jim talks about how Disney's Animal Kingdom has struggled over the past 22 years

0:21.0

to come up with some sort of a nighttime entertainment program for that theme

0:24.9

park that actually appeals to guests.

0:28.4

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that you can't buy hot pockets. You can only buy cold pockets to which you

0:35.0

add the heat yourself. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going?

0:38.4

Given the amount of time you spent walking around Orlando's blazingly hot theme parks lately.

0:44.2

I'm kind of surprised you just don't shove a hot pocket into your pocket just to have.

0:49.2

Actually, I keep them in my socks because my feet are closer to the ground and the heat radiating from the

0:54.8

concrete cooks them in no time.

0:57.6

That opens a whole new series of questions and remind me never to...

1:02.0

Jim, would you like a hot pocket?

1:03.6

I would not thank you.

1:04.6

I would not.

1:05.6

I would not.

1:07.6

We had, my sister Christina and I were walking around at

1:09.8

at night yesterday and the heat index temperatures, no breeze yesterday. The heat index temperature was 107 and for kicks we we

1:18.6

tried to measure the heat of the pavement you know where it turns sort of different colors in Epcot.

1:24.8

And the closest we could get on our thermometer was it only goes up to 120 degrees,

1:28.9

but it was 120 degrees in the sun.

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