Disneyland's Platinum Jubilee Celebration

Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World

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Walt Disney, Unknown, Roy Disney, Walt Disney Animation, Walt Disney World, Society & Culture, Disneyland, Walt Disney Studios

4.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In this episode, Michael and Tom talk about a private event leading up to Disneyland's 70th that Michael attended. The event included several presentations focusing on the history of Walt Disney and the Disneyland Resort, including Michael's discussion of the never made "Rainbow Road to Oz".

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0:00.0	From west to east and kingdom to kingdom, you're listening to the Connecting with Walt is brought to you by Dreams and Limited Travel, experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation.
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0:50.4	Hey there, hi, there, and welcome to episode 337 of connecting with Walt. I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling. And I am joined by my co-host, producer, and good friend Tom Bell. Tom, how are you today?
1:07.7	Hey, Michael, and doing well. Welcome to the summer finally. Oh, yeah. Well, we had a hot May.
1:15.5	Did you? Okay. I think we've only had like 400 degrees. We had a hot June. Yeah. Ours is coming
1:23.7	up. And then a cool, a cool July, but yeah, it's July ended up warm in the 90s.
1:32.4	And but I think we're going to hit 100 this weekend.
1:36.8	Yeah.
1:37.1	This is like 104 on Saturday or something.
1:39.7	I think it's all this week again already.
1:42.7	Yeah.
1:43.5	So anyway. Oh, well. It's been catching up again already. Yeah, so anyway, oh well.
1:46.1	It's been touching up.
1:47.9	Yeah, but I'm doing fine.
1:49.1	I just, I had a, as they were talking before, we started recording, I had an unexpected vet.
1:56.3	Oh, those are the worst.
1:57.8	Vet appointment today.
2:00.3	I don't know what my cats do, but Roy and Walt tussle a lot.
2:06.8	And Roy isn't like, he doesn't really play a lot.
2:11.1	He'll sort of run a little.
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