Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - Episode 164: How many different actors voiced Draco the Dragon

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🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Drew Taylor & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing The Walt Disney Company’s response (or lack thereof) to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. They then talk about John DiMaggio returning to voice Bender in that “Futurama” reboot Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to fine tuning through Taylor. You're one stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.
0:05.5	I'm Drew's co-host, entertainer writer Jim Hillin. He and I are recording the show on Friday, March 4th, 2022.
0:12.4	Drew, 50 years ago today,
0:16.1	the West Coast version of the Country Bay, Jamboree opened to the public.
0:19.8	Did you ever get to do that version of the attraction?
0:24.3	No, my first time at Disney Land was I think
0:30.0	February, when 2002. Oh, so go ahead.
0:35.4	They closed it on September 9th, 2001.
0:39.1	They were so certain that they had a hit that they actually built two identical versions of
0:46.6	Grizzly Hall side by side inside of this giant show, but it was an amazing setup.
0:52.1	And it never caught on the way the one in Florida did.
0:56.6	Limped the log for 29 years and they finally shut it down.
0:59.9	And then I guess the next time you got to the park,
1:03.2	you did get back there to catch the many adventures of Winnie the Pooh, the ride they stuck in the Country Bay.
1:09.2	Yeah, yeah, that's a terrible ride.
1:11.2	But didn't the Disney Land version do like the
1:15.2	Christmas version and wasn't there one a spring break version or something?
1:19.3	No, they definitely put those vacation shows in and they actually got attendance the first year or so.
1:25.4	They put those in there, but again, it was just they put it so far in the back of the park.
1:30.0	It never caught on the way it was supposed to, but it's a shame.
1:32.9	The reason I bring up the story today is that the way to illustrate that sometimes the Walt Disney
1:38.9	Company, though well-intentioned and seemingly armed with adequate research,
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