Disney Dish Episode 355: When Disneyland was closed two days a week

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🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Len Testa starts off this week’s show by sharing some off-site suggestions where WDW visitors can stay if they’re looking to vacation with multiple family members. Jim Hill then talks about why Disney’s Board of Directors was initially reluctant to fund the construction of Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 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 Shimmer's Day,
0:06.7	January 3rd, 2022. Happy New Year.
0:10.1	On the show today, news, listener questions, and in our main segment,
0:13.9	Jim Hill tells us what it took to finally seal the deal
0:17.0	to get the construction of the original Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
0:20.8	at Disneyland Park back in February of 1977.
0:24.6	Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that platypuses,
0:27.8	lay eggs, and produce milk, so they're a portable source of omelets.
0:32.1	It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?
0:33.9	Are you familiar with the piece that Robin Williams used to use in his stand-up
0:38.4	back about platypuses?
0:39.7	Uh, I can't know. I'm not actually familiar with that one, Jim.
0:42.7	Go ahead.
0:43.4	I'll use less adult language, but if you look at the platypuses,
0:46.4	you have to think that the lard of a maybe invite.
0:49.3	I mean, let's take a beaver and put a duck spills on it.
0:52.0	It's a mammal, but it's lay eggs.
0:53.6	It's like, hey Darwin, kiss my butt.
0:58.7	Now we're all going to go look up that particular clip on YouTube, right?
1:02.0	There we go. There we go.
1:03.5	Yeah, that's awesome.
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