Disney Dish Episode 344: How far back was Disney planning an Animal Kingdom for Florida

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about the return of live entertainment to WDW’s theme parks. They then share some of the more entertaining anecdotes from the Orlando Sentinel’s unofficial WDW history book, “Disney World at 50” Show Notes for this episode are here. 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.
0:03.6	It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the Week of Schmur's Day, October 18th, 2021.
0:09.6	Happy Birthday to Laurel.
0:11.6	On the show today, news, listener questions, and in our main segment,
0:16.0	Jim gives us part three of our inside look at how Walt Disney World was developed
0:20.2	more than 50 years ago.
0:22.1	Let's get started by bringing in the man who reminds you that the old English word for body
0:27.2	was ban co-fan, which translates literally to bone cave.
0:31.8	Sleep tight, kids.
0:33.0	It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going.
0:34.6	Okay, so we're going for Halloween.
0:40.2	I have a whole thing of Christmas as well.
0:42.4	Okay, cool. Well, we're going to talk about bone kids.
0:44.4	Let's talk about real bone kids, like the catacombs in Paris.
0:47.9	Disney fans, they love to talk about the utilities that run out of the magic kingdom.
0:52.1	Whereas the catacombs in Paris are this man-made network of tunnels
0:56.4	that connected the ancient stone quarries that surrounded the city of Alain,
1:00.7	and lend they were, and still are, constructed out of no lie,
1:05.3	the remains of no more than six million people.
1:08.2	Wow.
1:08.7	The catacombs project was instigated back in 1774,
1:13.0	where on the heels of an extremely damp spring,
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