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Disney Dish Episode 318: How the 50s Prime Time Café paved the road for the Sci-Fi Drive-In Theater Restaurant

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4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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So what happens when Len Testa & Jim Hill each record their contributions to a Disney Dish episode separately? You’re about to find. Special thanks to editor extraordinaire Aaron Adams who stitched this show together. 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.

0:03.4

It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the Week of Schmars Day,

0:07.0

April 19th, 2021. On the show today, news, listener questions,

0:12.7

I eat at the sci-fi dinin, and in our main segment, Jim tells us the history

0:17.6

of the sci-fi dinin restaurant at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

0:21.2

And listeners, a quick word before we begin today.

0:24.5

Due to scheduling difficulties, Jim and I couldn't record this show together.

0:28.3

But never fear, for we came up with a plan.

0:31.3

Jim's going to do his regular in-depth piece, where he normally does,

0:34.4

and I'm going to do the news and listener questions.

0:36.9

And I've given Jim a set of writers prompts,

0:40.1

a few words about what's in the script and asked him to riff on those,

0:44.0

but he hasn't actually seen the show's script.

0:47.7

What could possibly go wrong here? Nothing.

0:50.8

So here it goes.

0:52.0

Let's get started by bringing in the man whose word of the day is

0:55.0

Kuchisabishi, which in Japanese means when you're not hungry,

0:58.6

but you eat because your mouth is lonely.

1:01.6

It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?

1:03.5

I don't know. Isn't that kind of like walking into a restaurant in Japan,

1:06.7

and then ordering something without actually understanding the menu?

1:10.1

Seymourn used to do a great bit about this.

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