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Interview w/ Former Imagineer Trader Brandon: Digging Through Disney's Trash

Defunctland

Kevin Perjurer

Society & Culture, History, Society & Culture:history

4.8573 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Former Imagineer Trader Brandon joins the Defunctland Podcast to surprise Disney Dan and Kevin with his vast knowledge on the creation of Trader Sam's, the Hatbox Ghost in the Haunted Mansion, and broken animatronics of purple dragons. Get Trader Brandon's book! https://www.traderbrandon.com/collections/pins/products/the-field-guide-to-tiki-decorating

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you wish upon a song.

0:05.0

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

0:09.0

Disneyland.

0:10.0

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

0:17.0

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

0:20.0

Paramount's Kings Island. We will officially Six Flags Great Adventure. It's not a world away.

0:24.2

Paramount's Kings Island.

0:27.0

We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.

0:28.9

Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.

0:36.9

Hi. Hi, and welcome back to the Defunct Land Podcast. My name is Kevin Perger. For today, Now, here is your host.

0:37.7

Hi, and welcome back to the Defunctland podcast.

0:39.9

My name is Kevin Perger.

0:41.1

For today's show, we're going to have a bit of a different format because what I'm about to play is actually the interview between me, Disney Dan, and Trader Brandon, the Imagineer behind Trader Sam's.

0:51.8

This is the interview that was teased at Charityland a few weeks ago, and I decided to

0:55.9

release the full thing here on the podcast for you all.

0:58.8

This was also Dan's surprise Christmas gift because he did not know that we would be

1:02.7

interviewing Brandon.

1:04.1

So here is that interview.

1:06.0

So Dan does not know what's going on.

1:07.7

Dan, do you know what's going on?

1:09.5

I have no idea what's going on. Dan, do you know what's going on? I have no idea what's going on.

1:11.5

Okay. Well, Dan, Merry Christmas. I got you a present. Okay. Okay. It's Brandon. Brandon, say hi.

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