How a Western River led to Big Thunder Mountain (Ep. 495)

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Len Testa & Jim Hill start this week’s show by discussing the three tiers of hotels that the Universal Orlando Resort just rolled out. They also talk about why Disney wants to know more about how you allocated your cash during your most recent trip to Orlando. For this episode, listeners will learn about: Why the Universal Theme Parks want to learn more about which brands & IPs your young daughter is interested Who was just placed in charge of the committee to find a successor for Disney CEO Bob Iger Why it’s likely that DCL will soon need to replace the Magic & the Wonder How many people visited the Magic Kingdom in Florida during the first full year that theme park was in operation Which opening day attraction for Walt Disney World did Tony Baxter go to the field to install back in 1971 SHOW NOTES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	Disney Dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day,
0:37.3	September 2nd, 2024. Happy Labor Day, everyone. It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, September 2nd,
0:38.5	2024. Happy Labor Day, everyone. On the show today, news, many, many listener questions,
0:45.2	and a new Disney survey that asks, where did all your money go? Then in our main segment,
0:50.7	Jim gives us the history of Disney's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Let's get started by bringing in the man who's going to celebrate National Literacy Day
0:57.3	this coming Saturday by sitting in a library and hallucinating while staring at tree slices
1:02.1	for hours on end. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it gone.
1:04.9	It's going well, Lynn, but let's be honest here. It must suck sometimes to be a tree.
1:10.2	And I'm not just talking about the fall fall where never mind losing some of your hair.
1:15.0	You lose all of your leaves.
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