The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 378: Looking back on Fort Wilderness’ abandoned expansion plans from the mid-1970s

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

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Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Len Testa starts off this week’s show by sharing a fairly blunt survey that the WDW Resort recently sent out about Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. Then Jim Hill talks about how – once upon a time – Pioneer Hall was supposed to have been the very first part of Florida’s Frontier Town project 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.
0:03.3	It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the week of Smur's Day, June 13,
0:07.1	2022.
0:08.6	On the show today, we've got news,
0:10.4	listener questions, and surveys.
0:12.3	Then in our main segment, Jim gives us the history
0:14.9	of what was almost built at Fort Wilderness
0:16.8	after Pioneer Hall was built back in 1974.
0:20.9	And Hoopty-Doo reopens this month in Walt Disney World.
0:23.4	Let's get started by bringing in the man who says his wife was shocked
0:26.5	to find out he's a bad electrician.
0:28.8	It's Mr. Jim L. Jim, how's it going?
0:30.4	Electricity jokes aren't funny at this house this morning, Len?
0:34.0	That's right, you lost power this morning, right?
0:38.0	Yesterday, we had ever source a local power company in our driveway cutting down trees to make
0:44.6	sure that branches would not fall in the lines. We got a little rain this morning and
0:48.6	boom no power. But you've recovered. They recovered is is you again. I need my coffee, lend damn it. Exactly. I was a every day when every day that we record I'm waiting for the email that begins with the phrase
1:05.7	Moose emergency from you just so you know. Well we had a bear on the porch just
1:11.2	this week so you put out birdseed and it's like wow look a
1:14.7	grackle in a bear suit.
1:16.2	Crackle in a bear suit. It's the name of my upcoming studio album.
1:20.0	All right fair.
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