Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,

Lynn Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's day January 1st,

2024. Happy New Year everyone on the show today, news, surveys, and in in listener questions who would pay the outrageous

sum of five dollars for dinner then in our main segment Jim gives us the history of

Shrunken Ned's junior jungle boats in Adventureland.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who wishes Monster Truck

meant the same thing as Clown Car.

It's Mr. Jim Hill.

Jim, how's it going?

It's going well then.

And by the way, for you monster truck fans, we are actually coming up on a significant anniversary.

The first real monster truck Bigfoot made his debut in 1979.

Bob Chandler started with,

I want to say it was a 1974 Ford F-250 and he started actually in 1975 and and kept tinkering and

tinkering and eventually decided you know what this car need or this truck needs is 48 inch tires.

And you know, that's how the first monster truck Bigfoot was born.

I mean, I imagine the 48 inch tires have to be specialty things for like bulldozers or something right or some sort of like

Construction equipment I get to be honest for me what has always fascinated me about the monster truck is again it's all big on you know the

the outside but then when you get inside and the fact that you know well this thing might rollover so let's put it in a roll cage you know it's kind of

the reverse of the Tartis from dr who it's like big on the outside tiny

inside it and isn't the outside tiny on the inside.

And isn't the driver sit in the middle as opposed to the right of the left?

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