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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill - Episode 376: How Walter Cronkite wound up narrating “Spaceship Earth”

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by sharing some tips about how to score an ILL for “Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind.” They also answer some listeners' mail related to DVC members still being unable to purchase annual passes to the Disney Parks 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, Lantesta, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, May 30th, 2022. On the show today, we've got news and listener questions. Then in our main segment Jim gives us the history of

0:13.8

Walter Cronkite's narration of Spaceship Earth as well as other celebrity

0:17.5

appearances in Epcot. Don't forget that Walter Cronkite's narration began

0:21.4

back in May of 1986.

0:24.2

Let's get started by bringing in the man

0:25.9

who says that he has the world's worst thesaurus.

0:28.6

Not only is it terrible, but it's terrible.

0:32.2

It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going.

0:33.6

As an English major, yes, I expect more mythosaurus. When I'm thinking terrible, I want to be dreadful, frightful, ghastly, gruesome,

0:40.3

harrowing. To just get terrible, see terrible, it's just terrible. It is just terrible it's just terrible it's not good

0:46.4

it's not good

0:48.8

all right trip let's do a quick shout out to subscribers over at Disney dish

0:51.6

dot bandcamp.com.

0:53.0

Thanks to new subscribers Janie Janayo,

0:55.8

Joshua Intrilligator, and Paul Lanham,

0:58.4

and the long-time subscribers Kaldar, Unsupervised,

1:01.8

and STL Mouse.

1:03.6

Jim, back when Mickey Mouse was in a snow globe

1:06.2

as part of the afternoon share a dream come true parade.

1:09.6

These were the cast members who had to carry emergency fire extinguishers and Gatorade.

1:14.2

And although Mickey never burst into flames, it got close a couple of times, giving the team

1:18.6

their nickname, the Smoldering Rodents.

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