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It's Disneyland Opening Day, 1955, on Podcast, The Ride. ride. To all who come to this happy podcast, welcome.

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Here's Scott Gerdner relives fond memories of the past.

And here Mike Carlson may savor the challenge of the future.

Say so here so yeah there you go okay. I'm savoring. Okay.

Okay. Great. With the hope that it will be a source of Jason Sheridan to all the world.

Sorry can you start from the top we didn't we weren't ready.

Oh no shit.

Start it over to all.

I can't do I need to I need to I need to have the religious leaders here with me

to every Republican politicians the religious leaders. Yeah, yeah.

Full color guard from all 48 states.

We're, uh, we're referring to the opening day ceremony that that was a little rendition of

Walt Disney's opening speech on Disneyland's opening day July 17th, 1955, which if you're listening to this

episode the day is released today's July 17th, 2020. So exactly 65 years

ago was the opening day of our Mecca of Disneyland.

So we wanted to devote an episode to talking about the opening day, the televised ceremony and all the other chaos that

ensued.

That's what we're doing here today.

Of course the idea was that Disneyland would be back up and running on this day.

Like if you, maybe we think about July 17th more than anybody else, but when they announced when it would be reopen post

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