Disney Dish Episode 362: Will Storyliving by Disney work without a theme park nearby

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing whether Victoria & Albert’s at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is getting ready to re-open. They also share a recent “Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser” survey that suggests that WDW execs are growing increasingly concerned about this soon-to-open Resort Show notes 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.
0:04.0	It's me, Lantesta, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, February 21st,
0:08.0	2022.
0:10.0	On the show today, news, surveys, and listener questions.
0:13.8	In our main segment, Jim finishes up the history of Epcot's Communicore attractions.
0:18.5	Let's get started by bringing in the man whose mother said everything is going to be okay was a conspiracy theory.
0:24.0	It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going.
0:26.0	If we're Disney Show or we're talking conspiracy theory so we gotta spend just a moment
0:31.6	Lynn talking about Disney on Ice.
0:33.7	All right, go ahead.
0:36.7	Because it turns out, there literally is a place where this story starts.
0:41.8	It's early 1967, and there's a reporter for the tabloid called
0:47.0	the National Spotlight and this was one of the the newspapers that was out there of this period kind of like
0:55.8	uncensored Vice Squad kind of a step or two below the Inquirer. I was going to say
1:01.5	okay the National Inquirer but with fewer scruples.
1:04.4	Well, there we go. Unencumbered by ethics, we proceed on. Go ahead.
1:09.7	Okay. But here's supposedly what was reported in the national spotlight.
1:14.2	A reporter did a piece for this tab that said that they had managed to sneak into St. Joseph's Hospital,
1:21.3	which again is the hospital in Burbank directly across from
1:23.9	Disney Studios, after Walt had passed away on December 15th, 1966. And the
1:30.5	reporter supposedly disguises himself as an orderly, sneaks into a storage room, and sees the deceased Walt Disney suspended in a cryogenic metal cylinder.
1:41.0	What's the scandalous part of the story, Jim?
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