Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Lantesta, and this is our first show for 2018.

Jim, if I was writing checks, I'd still be writing 2016 on them, but that's how it is.

Okay, so a full year out of date.

Okay, good.

Well, again, who writes checks?

Who writes checks?

There we go.

Exactly. Alright, Jimmy, I thought we would start the show off as a look back at some of the more memorable things that happened in 2017.

Obviously lots of Disney news.

I thought we would go month by month and focus on maybe the one or two events that

happened each month that were really notable

and that are going to change the way that we look at Disney theme parks for

the foreseeable future and after that let's finish up our spectrum magic show which is

part three of the two-part series of Spectromed.

There we go.

Increasingly inaccurately numbered part three of a two-part series.

No, that works for me.

All right, let's sort of with that with January 2017.

For me, the big news here was the first ever Festival of the Arts at

Epcot. This was, let's face it, another festival in Epcot along the lines of

flower and garden, food and wine, holidays around the world. This one was focusing on the lines of Flower and Garden, Food and Wine, Holidays Around the World.

This one was focusing on the Disney artists though, had some really interesting Mary Blair

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