Disney Dish with Jim Hill Ep 488: Disney Cruise Line coming to Japan

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill welcome Disney author & historian Foxx Nolte. Who gives them a preview of his latest book, “Scoundrels, Villains, & Knaves: Disneyland, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Popular Culture” Throughout this episode, listeners will learn about: What are the differences between the VIP tours offered at WDW versus those made available to visitors at the Universal Orlando Resort Which train show staged back in the mid-1940s reportedly influenced the design of New Orleans Square at Disneyland Park What’s the rumored reason that character greetings are not being offered as part of Lightning Lane Multi-pass Which scene was originally designed for the Escher Staircase area for WDW’s version of the Haunted Mansion What’s kind of intriguing about the fact that the Themed Entertainment Association has yet to release its annual Theme Park Index (which lists theme park attendance numbers) has yet to be released for 2024 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, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, July 15, 2024.
0:09.1	On the show today, in news, a surprise cruise ship announcement.
0:13.0	In surveys, Universal starts floating prices, asking how much you'd pay for a one-day tour of Universal's
0:18.9	upcoming Epic Universe Park.
0:20.8	Then in our main segment, Jim and I speak with author Fox Nolti on our new book about Disney's
0:25.2	Pirates of the Caribbean. Let's get started by bringing in the man who fell off the Diet wagon and then
0:30.1	burned it for the insurance money which he used to buy cinnamon rolls.
0:33.1	It's fine, but again, you know,
0:37.4	cinnamon rolls are pricey.
0:38.7	I mean, the good stuff from Ceylon
0:41.2	I was overlooking on Amazon today.
0:43.6	It's 25 to $30 a bottle.
0:46.0	I mean, but, you know, but that's,
0:48.4	it's from one region of the world,
0:49.8	Cyrilanca, has to be hand peeled, thinner the better, and these quills, by the way, that's what individual
0:56.2	pieces of hand peeled sentiment bark are called, quills, must dry in the sun and are collected at the end of the day, labor-intensive process, a cinnamon peeler,
1:06.8	they're lucky if after the end of an eight-hour long work day, they can produce three pounds of cinnamon quills which then have to go to be
1:14.6	market and be graded and they're graded on the tightness of their quills and
1:18.7	Lenn knowing all this I feel like now I need to start locking up my box of cinnamon toast
1:25.2	crunch every night you know it just sort of like that's why it's behind those
1:30.1	plastic guardrails at CVS right there There we go, take the stocks and bonds to help yourself
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