Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, January 3rd, 2022. Happy New Year.

On the show today, news, listener questions, and in our main segment, Jim Hill tells us what it took to finally seal the deal to get the construction of the original Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyland Park back in February of 1977. Let's get started by bringing in the man who says

that platypuses lay eggs and produce milk, so they're a portable source of omelets.

It's Mr Mr Jim Hill.

Jim, how's it going?

Are you familiar with the piece that Robin Williams used to use

in his stand-up act about platypuses?

I can, no, I'm not actually really without what you go ahead.

I'll use less adult language.

But if you look at the platypus,

you have to think that the Lord of a maybe imbyes.

I mean, let's take a beaver and put a duck spills on it.

It's a mammal, but it lay eggs. It's like, hey Darwin, kiss my butt.

Now we're all going to go look up that particular clip on YouTube, right?

There we go. there we go.

There we go.

That's awesome.

What's the term,

Planopuses and another species belong in the class of mammals that lay eggs and give milk? It's a very small class. I think it's another, it's an ant eater that doesn't as well, but apparently they're not the only ones anyway. And our listeners are now streaming into the radio with the, with the name for it is so I

I apologize some lens come on a class these things were homeschooled

okay that's the only thing that that makes any sense at all

all right all right Jim was too quick shout out to subscribers over All right. All right. All right.

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