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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Disney Dish Episode 315: Remember when Mel Brooks worked for the Mouse

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about how the Disneyland Resort is actively getting ready to re-open its theme parks. They also talk about how facial recognition technology may play a role in the next generation of rides, shows & attractions that WDI is developing for Disney Parks. Show notes for this episode are here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:05.0

and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, March 29, 2021.

0:09.0

On the show today, News, listener questions, and in our main segment, Jim gives us part four of five on the history of the Tower of Terror attraction at Disney's Hollywood studios.

0:21.0

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that Push, spelled backwards, means

0:25.8

pull.

0:26.8

It's Mr. Jim Hill.

0:27.8

Jim has it going.

0:28.8

So the whole Push Pull thing, isn't it kind of the equivalent of the buttered toast scenario to the effect of you

0:34.8

approach a door and if you push it it's going to be a pole in much the same way that

0:38.8

whether or not your toast falls butter side up depends on the value of the carpet you're standing on.

0:44.0

That's exactly what my life is.

0:49.0

I was at I was at MoMA this last weekend with Laurel and we were going through the Calder Exhibit of

0:56.3

Mobels and the door to exit the exhibit was a pool door which is odd because in the United States normally all exit

1:03.9

doors should be pushed so I tried pushing on the door and that didn't work and

1:09.1

the woman behind me said it's a pool door and I said oh because the next thing I was going to try

1:15.6

is lifting from the bottom and she actually snorted laughter. That's great.

1:25.0

great.

1:27.0

Yeah.

1:28.0

All right Jim, let's do a quick shout out to subscribers Disney dish. That's Bandcamp.com.

1:34.4

Thanks to new subscribers, Joe TV, A Byrne, My Wildcats O2,

1:39.6

Clint, C. Nikolof, and Nathan F and longtime subscribers Alex Jessup

1:45.1

Chad R11 Patrick W. Cori B and longtime friend of me in the show

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