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Disney Dish Episode 285: How Eisner’s cost containment efforts changed Kali River Rapids

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by sharing some cost savings tips when it comes to staying on WDW property. Then they offer up the long-awaited conclusion to a feature piece about the construction of Kali River Rapids at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park 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.

0:04.0

It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, August 31st, 2020.

0:09.7

On the show today, news and listener questions. In our main segment Jim finishes up a story on

0:15.0

Kali River Rapids that we started way back in 2016. Let's get started by bringing in the

0:20.7

man who says that Pie is a real-time pie chart showing how much pie is left.

0:25.8

It's Mr. Jim Hill.

0:26.8

Jim, how's it going?

0:27.8

Oh, you had to bring a pie.

0:30.4

Okay.

0:31.4

I missed breakfast today, I'm so hungry. All right. The thing is I am the pie maker of the Hill family and especially when it comes to the big holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas so my parents actually have in the corner of the yard,

0:44.5

they have a high bush blueberry bush

0:46.9

and a low bush blueberry bush.

0:48.5

So because I'm the pie master, I'm also the one

0:51.5

I was to pick the berries. And I was just in the yard last week,

0:57.0

basically picking the last berries of the season, and I say the reason they were the last berries

1:00.9

of the season, it was me and three rather irate

1:04.7

grackles who were in the bush at the same time.

1:07.1

You're like, move over man, move over egg.

1:10.7

No, that's kind of, what are you doing picking our food? And it's like, to be picking our food and it's like okay all right you know I don't need an

1:16.2

offered a hitchcock moment here you're I'm done all right look I just I need enough for a couple of

1:21.0

pies it's good and they're like pies?

1:22.8

That's great. A little nature moment for you there, Jim.

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