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 Shmurs Day August 29th, 2022.

On the show today, news and listener questions. Then in our main segment,

Jim gives us the history of Disneyland's Pirate ship

restaurant. Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that this country doesn't play

enough Abba and it shows. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going? It's going.

It's going well then and Abba gets its name from the initials of the first name of all the members of the group

So that's Agnatha Fetskew, Bjorn Oldview Hughes, Benny Anderson, and Annie Freeling Stad.

And just in case you're wondering, Len, if you, me, Nancy, and Laurel ever formed a band,

it would be called

Linsha. It's a type of Swedish Berry so not entirely unrelated Jim.

No, no there we go. Coincidentally also the noise my car makes on a very cold morning when it won't start.

So what you're saying is we have cross-cultural appeal.

We do, we do.

In speaking of different cultures, Jim, before we start, I'd like to thank you and Christina

for doing a great job on last week's show while I was on vacation.

And as we get started with today's show, I'd like to tell all of y'all a little bit of my trip and share an important travel tip.

As many of you know, one of my travel goals is to visit every country in Epcot's World Showcase,

and not only that, but if it's possible to see the things in the real world that are referenced in World Showcase.

So I've been to Chichen Itza in Mexico to see the Mayan Ruins on which El Rio del Fiamo was modeled,

and by the way it's very accurate. I've been inside the

800-year-old Steve Church in Oslo that you see outside of the Norway Pavilion and I've

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