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 Shmer's Day, January 29th,

2024. Reminder that tomorrow is National Crescent Day.

On the show today, news, surveys, and listener questions.

Then in our main segment, Jim tells us about the opening of illuminations

back on this day in 1988. That thing was reinvented more times than Madonna, so this should be interesting.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that all music is in 4-4 if you stop trying to count it like some kind of band nerd.

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

Oh, Flynn, I am not good at music. I mean, in high school, I started off by playing

clarinet and then my band director not please with what I was

saying with the clarinet moved me to baritone saxophone which is you know you

you have that

strap around your neck and it weighs as much as a cinder block.

And then again, I was so talented

the baritone saxophone that, you know, in my senior year he moved me to bass drum.

You know, it just sort of, you know, and I swear to God if I'd hung in there

one more year I would have been the kid out on the football field lugging the grand piano.

This guy did not like me. I'm surprised he didn't he didn't assign you to

Canon. Have you ever seen the indoor performances of the 1812 overture that use a cannon and there's one dude there with like he's holding a torch like now now now You have to think like cannon like you know any sort of field artillery is a really specialized piece of musical instrumentation right?

Yeah, yeah, no I've always seen the footage of one, for example, the Boston Pops, that plays along the Charles and they periodically cut away to the marine reserve unit that's literally sitting in there with a real cannon.

And again, same thing.

Now, now, now, now, yeah, yeah, exactly.

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