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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 414: What’s it like to ride TRON: Lightcycle Run at WDW’s Magic Kingdom

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Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa reports in from his experience at the Cast Member Preview for Tomorrowland’s newest addition. Then Jim Hill talks about how KUKA arms went from being a tool used on industrial assembly lines to theme park attractions 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.

0:03.5

It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, February 12th, 2023.

0:08.8

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone. On the show today, I ride Tron. Plus news,

0:13.9

blister questions in surveys. Then in our main segment, Jim tells us about all the times

0:18.4

Disney's tried to use robotic arms as rides in its theme parks. Let's get started by bringing

0:23.7

me in the man who says that if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now.

0:28.0

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

0:30.2

I mean, it's going well, Lent. By the way, have you ever heard of this British expression hard

0:35.6

cheese? If someone says, you know, I don't want to move the barbells up to the attic or I don't want

0:41.4

liver wars for lunch, you're supposed to say, well, hard cheese, which is, I guess, the British

0:46.4

equivalent of tough luck. Tough cookies. Yeah, well, it's expressions like this and things like

0:52.4

Bob's your uncle, which by the way, that's the British equivalent of, there it is.

0:56.8

Yeah, there you go. Yeah. Voila. Yeah.

0:58.6

It seems to me that the Brits say things like this to keep Americans from annoying them and pubs.

1:06.1

You're conversing with someone who says, part cheese and Bob's your uncle and you're sitting

1:09.9

and thinking, I know these words. Yes. You know, you're momentarily stunned and then they go away.

1:14.9

It's, no, no, that's exactly. It's like an estate tactic, like, like, squid ink.

1:18.8

That's it exactly. And the sad thing is confused Americans then go back to their hotel where

1:24.0

they could serve baked beans for breakfast and that, and they're even more confused.

1:28.1

All right, Jim, let's do a quick shout out to subscribers over at DisneyDish.bincamp.com.

1:32.8

Thanks to new subscribers, John Luther, Jackie Parmalay, Al Chaser, and Mike 345.

1:38.4

And the long time subscribers, Emily Kind, Mandy Erickson, Michael Fitz, and Devon Drake 49.

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