Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill.

It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the Week of Shimmer's Day, June 20th, 2022.

On the show today, news, surveys, and to listener questions.

Then in our main segment, Jim gives us the history of Disneyland's House of the Future,

which opened in mid-June 1957 and gave us all a glimpse of our automated, plasticized future.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who reminds you that the month of May

is procrastination awareness month. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?

Well, Lent, as I always say, never put off for tomorrow. What can be put off for

a week from Tuesday? Exactly. No need to rush into this. Come on, sit down, have a beverage.

And we have a special guest on the show today, Christina Harrison, the in-park person

at Walt Disney World for Touring Plans. Chris is just back from Alonni in Hawaii and is here to share

some details on that, as well as what's going on around Walt Disney World. Welcome, Christina.

Good Shimmer's Day. Thank you for having me. Well, glad you're here.

All right, before we get started, let's do a quick shout out to subscribers over at DisneyDish.bandcamp.com.

Thanks to new subscribers and Fernandez 12, A-Steven 2, and to Comp Edwards.

And long-time subscribers Torin and Heather, John Malone, and Ginny H, whose husband Eric

wishes her a happy 17th anniversary. Jim, these are the folks trying to make World Showcase

dining more authentic. In this case, by using France's national treasure, it's Mimes,

as wait staff in these chefs to France restaurant. They say that testing is going way better than

expected, in part because most of us never want to talk to another human being ever. And they say

that one downside is the Mimes gestures for, would you like another baguette? It's very similar to

their signal for, there's a distinct lack of buries at this table, which, to be fair, is somewhat

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