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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill: Do you remember Epcot’s “Magic Journeys” (Ep 499)

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Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa and Jim Hill start this week’s episode by sharing a survey the Universal Orlando Resort recently sent out. They then look back at the 3D movie that eventually led to “Mickey’s PhilharMagic” Over the course of this show, listeners will learn about:  Why Rodney Dangerfield’s obituary may be the funniest story that the Los Angeles Times ever ran  How does an RIP Tour compare to a HHN Express Pass  Why it’s unlikely that Disney will ever build a just-for-kids theme park at its Florida Resort SHOW NOTES  What’s the name of that 3D Donald Duck cartoon that used to run on a double bill at the Fantasyland theater  How did Dick Nunis feel about “The Mickey Mouse Revue” attraction at WDW’s Magic Kingdom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill.

0:04.4

It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's day, September 30th, 2024.

0:10.0

On the show today, horror.

0:13.0

Plus listener questions and a new Universal Orlando survey,

0:17.0

but only if you promise not to tell anyone about it.

0:20.0

Then in our main segment, Jim gives us the history of Mickey's Fill Our Magic.

0:24.0

Let's get started by bringing in the man whose health insurance is so cheap,

0:27.5

he's got a $35 co-pay for Dr Pepper.

0:30.0

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

0:32.0

It's going well, but health insurance humor. I have to say one of my favorite jokes in this field came from the late great Rodney Dangerfield who by the way when he died back in October of 2004 the

0:46.1

Los Angeles Times did two full pages that recapped his career but but what great is in between each section of where they told

0:56.3

about did this is what he didn't tell his film they'd also they'd throw in one of his

1:02.1

great a quote yeah one of his great. A quote? Yeah, one of the great one liners. So it's like for example, when I was a kid I got lost to the beach. I asked the policeman to help me find my parents. I said to him, do you think we'll ever find them? And he said, I don't know, kid, there's so many places they could hide.

1:15.0

But my favorite, my absolute favorite Rodney Dangerfield joke is, again, health insurance. It's like, I is again health insurance. It's like I have terrible health

1:24.6

insurance other people have mutual of Omaha I have mutual of Murray. The difference

1:29.1

between these two policies if you lose a leg Murray helps you look for it.

1:34.0

He was a genius.

1:38.0

He was a genius.

1:40.0

He was a genius.

1:41.0

None of it would work today.

1:42.0

Very little of it, but whatever, it's fine.

1:44.0

This is true. It's a different time. You got to judge people in the air that they lived, right?

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