The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 433: “When Disney World fast tracked construction of its Speedway

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🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Len Testa and Jim Hill start off of this week’s episode by sharing some listener questions. They then talk about how Mr. Eisner’s trip to Indiana in May of 1985 led to an ambitious project being built in the parking lot for WDW’s Magic Kingdom. 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,
0:03.9	Lentesta.
0:04.9	And this is our show for the Week of Shimmer's Day June 26th, 2023.
0:09.1	On the show today, news, a great batch of listener questions.
0:13.2	And in surveys, Disney wants to know if you like Tron more at night than in our main segment,
0:18.9	Jim gives us the surprising history of the Walt Disney World Speedway, which started
0:22.7	construction this week in 1995.
0:24.9	Let's get started by bringing in the man who kind of wishes Dolly Parton saying,
0:29.5	10 to three, instead, it's Mr. Jim Hill, Jim has it going,
0:34.4	Golly Parton, I had a national treasure if we ever had one.
0:39.0	Are you familiar with her imagination library program?
0:41.8	Oh, yeah, she gives, uh, gives books to kids.
0:44.2	Yeah, that they're up to at this point, 200 million books given away to kids under the age of five.
0:50.1	Amazing.
0:50.8	I've been meaning to get down to Dollywood forever.
0:54.3	I remember back in 1986 when they announced they were going to rebrand, uh,
0:58.9	Silberdola city around Ms. Parton.
1:02.4	And this December, finally, my sister and I are going to go down there.
1:06.6	Are you going in December?
1:08.0	Yeah.
1:08.3	Let me know the dates.
1:09.9	Okay.
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