Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmurs Day, April 13th, 2026 on the show today. News and maybe a preview of rock and roller coaster songs, plus listener questions. Then in our main segment, Jim tells us about Disney's Live the Dream Project for Disneyland's second theme park, with hotels built on top of attractions.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says, we've never seen a cave painting of salad.

It's Mr. Jim Helt. Jim, how's it going?

It's going well, Len.

But want to remind folks that the first vegetables to be consumed by humans were likely wild plants.

You have to remember, mankind didn't switch from foraging to farming till what?

More than 11,000 years ago.

And just a note here, the two wild plants that were popular were figs, those were cultivated in the Middle East in Western Asia,

and then peas. Peas were actually among the oldest domesticated crops. They were initially

native to the Middle East, but because they were so easy to grow, they quickly traveled the world

and became a staple. Just a side note here, Len, given that these two crops, figs and peas, factored so heavily

in early trade, it just makes you think back to a time when to give a fig or to take a

pea had an entirely different meaning.

Entirely different meaning.

It's also maybe that's where we get the princess and the pea story from, because peas were so ubiquitous. There we go. Wow. By the way, for those of you who thought I got all of the bathroom jokes out of the way last week with Crane's bathroom with tomorrow, no such luck. One more week of it. It's fine. It's fine. There we go. There we go. All right, Jim, let's do a quick shout-out to our subscribers. Thanks to everyone who subscribes to the show over to patreon.com slash jimmel media, including Deb Bray, Janet Pellegrini, Mandy Erickson, Marty Moose, Paul Lanham, and Diane Whiting. Jim, this is the Disney Imagineering team trying to diagnose why animatronic Olaf

Olaf fell over during his debut in Disneyland Paris a couple of weeks ago.

So far, they've narrowed it down to either a problem with the gyroscopic sensors

or the fact that many of Olaf's parts came from the Gerald Ford Animatronic at Hall of Presidents.

True story.

Oh, I like that. Okay.

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