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Social Distance

'The Most Magical Place on Earth'

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Staff writer Graeme Wood makes his first visit to Walt Disney World in the midst of a pandemic. You can read Graeme's piece here and support all of The Atlantic's journalism by subscribing at http://theatlantic.com/supportus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, Jim.

0:04.3

Hey.

0:05.3

So, uh, today we're talking to Graham Wood.

0:08.3

Tell us a little bit about Graham Wood.

0:11.0

Ah, well, Graham is an excellent writer who kind of throws himself into disaster zones, war zones, combat zones,

0:20.0

probably best known for, I mean, an enormous piece on ISIS, it's called what ISIS really

0:26.8

wants, and an immersive journalist who throws himself into the heat of the moment.

0:33.0

Right.

0:34.0

And about a week ago, we called him to see, you know,

0:40.0

what sort of conflict zone he was traversing at the moment and why don't you tell us where he was?

0:47.1

Well yeah he was at Disney World.

0:51.7

Okay here I am I'm now speaking to you from the town square at the Magic Kingdom.

0:58.0

Wow.

0:59.0

I'm using my Bluetooth setup. So if this is working, then let me know.

1:04.1

If it's not, then I can switch to normal audio.

1:06.4

Yeah, I can hear you.

1:07.4

And I can also hear some sort of faint,

1:11.3

terrifying happy music in the background.

1:13.5

So.

1:14.0

Yeah, there is a brass band that just walked through.

1:16.8

And that's what they're doing.

1:18.5

I think mostly instead of the character interaction,

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