Roundtable - 10/31/06

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🗓️ 31 October 2006

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we tell you about the most popular news stories on the DIS this week, including Robert Igers trouble with Ithaca College, and the new biography on Walt Disney. We talk by phone with Tammy Spangler, whose family was chosen as one of the big winners in the Year of a Million Dreams promotion. The Spangler family had the Magic Kingdom to themselves for a few hours, among many other surprises. By listener request, we discuss the pros and cons of the Disney Vacation Club, Disney's timeshare offering. We also give clue number 5 in the DIS Unplugged Podcast scavenger hunt - one lucky winner will win a 4 night Disney Cruise courtesy of Dreams Unlimited Travel.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Design Plug Roundtable discussion for October 31, 2006.
0:10.0	This week we'll be discussing the top three news stories on the Diz this past week.
0:14.0	Also, we'll talk with Tammy Spangler, whose family had the magic kingdom to themselves as part of Disney's Year of a Million Dreams promotion.
0:21.0	In our feature discussion this week, we'll tell you about Disney Vacation Glob and discuss the pros and cons of buying into Disney's time share offerings.
0:29.0	All that plus this week's trivia challenge clue on this edition of the Diz unplugged Roundtable.
0:34.0	Now the Roundtable looks a little different this week.
0:45.0	John and Kevin actually are not here this week. They had some technical difficulties they had to work through, so they're not joining us.
0:52.0	But we are joined by a special guest, Jason Clauber, my good friend, who is also known as JPD on our discussion boards, one of our moderators who is in town.
1:02.0	Welcome to the Roundtable J.
1:04.0	Thank you.
1:05.0	J is actually in his real life, a New York City police officer, a decorated New York City police officer as he rolls his eyes because he always gets mad at me when I do this to him.
1:18.0	But J is one of our 9-11 heroes. He was there on that fateful day and was injured in the line of duty, saving the life of one of his fellow officers and the mayor put a big ol' fat metal on his chest for it.
1:33.0	So he also has a bum knee thanks to it, which has it feeling?
1:38.0	It's getting there.
1:39.0	J had surgery a few weeks ago.
1:41.0	Yeah, I had my second knee surgery in September.
1:44.0	So, yeah, he's been hobbling around, but making a good effort.
1:50.0	Yeah, for the fun.
1:51.0	So, well, welcome to the Roundtable J.
1:54.0	We're glad you're here with us.
1:55.0	All right, with that, we'll discuss some of the news stories this week that were most popular on the Diz, the number three story about Disney CEO Robert Eiger, not being the most popular man on the campus of Ithaca College right now in New York.
2:08.0	Eiger is an alumni of the school and had come to the campus on October 12th to kick off a new fundraising campaign for the school.
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