When you wish upon a lot.

Now we want you to share with us our latest and greatest dream.

Disneyland.

Just go to action park with no other park like it.

Six Flags Great Adventure. It's not a world away.

Paramount's Kings Island.

We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.

Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.

Now, here is your host.

Hi, and welcome back to the defunct land podcast.

My name is Kevin Perger.

Today I'm joined by a very special guest, former Imagineer Mark Eads.

Mark, how are you doing today?

I'm doing Pitchie King.

That's fantastic.

My first question for you today is the most obvious, which is what were you doing before you entered

the theme park industry and how did you eventually enter the theme park industry?

Well, like a lot of people in Orange County, California, I entered it by getting a job at

Disneyland while I was going to college at Cal State Fullerton. Some of us like to call

it Cal State Disneyland. And yeah, I started in foods, working at River Belteris, starting as a busboy, eventually

became an order cook, flipping pancakes and cooking eggs and all that kind of lovely stuff.

After five years there, I met my wife there, and we got married, and then we actually

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