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 Schmerzday, January 13th, 2025.

On the show today, news, listener questions involving Russian architecture.

Then Jim hacks into a Tiddy Ruxman doll to extract its music from theme park composer George Wilkins.

Now, that's an art project, folks.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who questions whether that small town girl living in a lonely world really took the midnight train to anywhere given America's limited rail network.

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

Oh, Len, come on.

The song literally says, don't stop believing.

You gotta believe it.

Look, if she's taking a midnight train out of Detroit, she's going to Cleveland, Jim, and that's it.

That's the only place she's going at midnight.

I have to admit, my knowledge of the American rail system actually dates back to 1985.

I think I've talked about this previously on the show.

It was the year Disneyland was celebrating its 30th,

and there had been lots of headlines that year about Amtrak was on the verge of collapse. And the whole notion was, if I'm ever

going to ride the train cross country, this is probably my one and only... This is it. This is it.

And I got to say, once you got past Chicago, it was lovely. You had amazing views. But on the

other hand, the Northeast corridor, going from Boston to Chicago, I saw every

rusted out car parked in somebody's backyard.

It's so true.

It's true.

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