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Unlocking The Magic: Talking all things Disney Parks, Universal and Cruising

Disney Imagineer and Legend Marty Sklar

Unlocking The Magic: Talking all things Disney Parks, Universal and Cruising

Konstantina Irving

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.72.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We are deeply saddened by Marty's sudden passing. Marty was an incredible person with such great passion and we are forever grateful to have had the opportunity to talk with him. Prayers to his family. 😪

Transcript

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it's Bruce and Connie here from unlocking the magic. We just found out some really

0:05.8

sad news late last night early this morning about Marty Schler's passing. It was very, very sudden and we're very, very crushed.

0:16.1

Yeah, I came downstairs today and I didn't hear about it last night but I heard about it this morning and

0:20.6

I just immediately sat down and felt extremely sad. Just saw him at

0:25.9

D23 and he looked so happy and his stories were so he memorized his stories like

0:32.4

he could tell you the stories of what 50 years ago like they just happened yesterday.

0:37.0

Yeah, they were so vibrant.

0:39.0

And he's such a great storyteller and he had a great perspective on the company and what he's done there so I mean I

0:46.0

just wanted to kind of go back and recap our interview with him and re-share his story

0:50.3

because I really want to get it out to as many people as possible.

0:53.0

Reshare, reshare.

0:54.0

If you guys can share this episode, it would be super, super special.

0:58.0

Not for us at unlocking the magic, but for Marty and what he's done throughout his lifetime.

1:04.1

It's really important for us to, it's up to us

1:10.5

to be able to share these that our generation, the young generation

1:16.0

behind us, will grow up with these kind of stories.

1:20.0

Yeah, I mean, Marty worked hand in hand with Walt, and he had a great message to share, and we want to be able to help spread that message about what the company and

1:35.0

and everything that he did there was so legendary that you know it's important to get that out there and

1:42.0

especially in his books like he did a great job

1:44.2

of writing those books those books are very entertaining and educational and if you

1:48.7

haven't had a chance to read those yet I definitely suggest that you go pick them up

1:52.4

he was one of the few people that was

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