Self-Driving Vehicles at Disney? Plus The Story Behind The Legend of the Lion King (Ep. 500)

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Disney Dish Podcast, Len Testa and Jim Hill discuss the latest updates and history behind Mickey’s PhilharMagic. Tune in for: Autonomous Vehicles at Fort Wilderness?: Could self-driving vehicles soon be delivering food and merchandise around this iconic resort? Jim and Len explore the potential future of tech at Disney. Occupancy Rates for Disney Vacation Club Resorts: Discover why DVC properties like the Grand Californian and Bay Lake Tower are at the top of the occupancy charts and what makes them so popular. The Legend of the Lion King: Jim dives deep into the history of this fan-favorite stage show, detailing the ambitious production, massive puppetry, and how it paved the way for future Disney attractions. This episode is filled with Disney news, unique history, and some listener questions. SHOW NOTES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,
0:04.4	Lantesta, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, October 6, 2024.
0:09.2	On the show today, Robots in Fort Wilderness?
0:12.5	And which DVC resorts have the highest occupancy?
0:15.6	Then in our main segment, Jim continues the history of Mickey's failure magic.
0:20.1	Let's get started by bringing in the man who wonders why nobody talks about human spontaneous
0:24.4	combustion anymore.
0:26.2	It's Mr. Jim Hill.
0:27.2	Jim, how's it going?
0:28.2	Len, if it's all the same to you, I'd prefer today to talk about the dangers of non-spontaneous human combustion.
0:35.2	Intentional human combustion.
0:37.2	I'm just saying you spend the morning out on the driveway on your back under your vintage Ford Pinto fixing a leaky fuel line all right and the wife
0:49.0	calls you in for lunch you go to wash up and he's mind, you know, have a seat in this for a tan chair, all right?
0:56.0	And then exactly, exactly.
0:58.0	And then you go, what's on the menu today?
1:00.0	And your bride responds as she hands you a hot toddy it's like why we're going to have
1:04.1	flaming chiskabobs and then cherries you believe a dessert and you know as she
1:10.4	goes to light the candles on the romantic centerpiece she just offhandly mentions, oh you did sign that life insurance policy left in your work bench, right?
1:18.7	Speaking of your romantic partner doing intentional stuff, I happen to watch this week Abbott and
1:28.4	Costello meet Frankenstein, the willow, and Dracula.
1:32.4	And the premise there is that is that Bud Abbott has a has a
1:36.3	girlfriend who is way out of his league and she wants him for his brains literally
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