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

It's me, Len Tessa, and this is our show for the week of Schmers Day, April 27, 2026.

On the show today, special guest, Dan Pashman, tells us about the food behind Tiana's Bayou Adventure, plus news and listener questions.

Then in our main segment, Jim finishes the history of Disney's Live the Dream Project for Disneyland's second theme park with hotels built on top of attractions.

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says the good thing about Florida Summers is that you know nobody's hiding in the backseat when you get in your car.

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

Hey, it's going well, Lynn.

Though that said, I wonder how many of our listeners remember the comedy warehouse at Pleasure Island.

They used to have that sketch show Forbidden Disney, and there was this one blackout gag that they did where, I mean, it literally starts the stage is dark, the audience is sitting in the dark, and all you can see on stage are the beams of two flashlights. And at some point in the dark, you hear a woman say, honey, I don't think this is where we park the rental car. And the man says, no, I'm certain. This is where we left it. I get away. I wrote it down. Roe Z, subsection Y, the very back of the

Epcot parking lot. And they says, yeah, look, the car's right here. In fact, your fur coat is right in the back seat. We left it. And then you hear the growl of a bear. And it's like, I didn't have a fur coat in the back seat. Twenty-eight thousand acres. I mean, anything could happen, right? There we go. There we go. And then the

flashlight gets knocked out of the guy's hand and you hear, you know, the wife say something.

They were so much nicer at the country bear playhouse. Oh, it's just joke-o-ton joke. That's fantastic.

By the way, just a quick note to our listeners, the very first showing of the Forbidden Disney show that from

April of 89, before Pleasure Island Open, is available in three parts right now over at

YouTube. And it has some stuff that's really, really funny, some stuff that misses. But the Disney, the audience that's entirely made up of Disney cast members is really eating this up. So it's well worth checking out. Let's put a link in the show notes. Okay, we'll do. Fantastic. Also with us is Dan Pashman, host of the award-winning culinary podcast, The Sporkful, an inventor of the pasta-shaped

cascatelli from the Italian word for waterfall. Here to talk about his new podcast episode on Disney theme park food. Welcome, Dan. Hey, guys. Thanks so much for having me. Thanks for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Yeah, glad to be here. Glad to talk Disney, which I'm sure. Do you two, like, are there some days where the two of you wake up and you're like, I just don't think I can talk about Disney today?

Or, or, two, like, are there some days where the two of you wake up and you're like,

I just don't think I can talk about Disney today?

Or is it a never-ending?

It hasn't happened yet, although we're trying through medication, Dan.

There we go.

There we go.

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