Disney Dish Episode 288: What was Disneyland like 6 weeks prior to its opening?
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4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, |
| 0:03.9 | Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, September 21st, 2020. |
| 0:08.9 | On the show today, news and photos. In our main segment, Jim talks about a pre-Disney |
| 0:14.3 | opening memo from CV Wood to Walt Disney. Let's get started by bringing in the |
| 0:19.6 | man who grew up just a stone's throw away from where all those people had mysterious head injuries. |
| 0:25.1 | It's Mr Jim Hill, Jim how's it going? |
| 0:26.7 | It's going well. |
| 0:27.7 | Len, have I ever told you about my head injury, the one that happened while I was in the military? |
| 0:33.6 | No, go ahead. |
| 0:35.6 | Does this go a long way towards explaining a lot of things too? |
| 0:39.6 | Oh, yes, Glenn. |
| 0:41.1 | So I had literally just gone to the base newspaper and I was trying to impress my new editors there. |
| 0:47.5 | So, and they're opening the schools. So we're going to do a story about, you know, the on-base schools are opening. |
| 0:52.0 | My editor goes, we need a picture, but we're going, you know, the press today. |
| 0:55.5 | So it's like, not a worry, I grab the official government vehicle, I drive over to the school, I pull into the parking lot, |
| 1:01.5 | and I hammer on the brakes, throw open the door, step out of the car |
| 1:05.6 | to take the picture, but the thing is the car door continues its momentum, hits the side of the |
| 1:10.4 | vehicle, and then bounces back and hits me in the head. |
| 1:13.2 | Oh, so it didn't have a stop on it. It just kept opening. |
| 1:18.3 | Just kept opening. Okay, so I get the picture, I go back to the base newspaper and my editor's like you're bleeding |
| 1:25.2 | and it's like oh it's nothing it's like no this is literally blood running down to your face |
| 1:28.7 | but we need to send you to the base hospital I end up in the emergency room on a table and they |
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