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🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to very amusing your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. |
0:18.5 | I'm Carly Weiz Allen. As you can tell, I did not learn my lesson from last week. |
0:23.8 | I still have not gotten my allergy medication |
0:26.5 | because, and this is somewhat not an exaggeration, |
0:30.0 | I am too busy obsessing over the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. |
0:36.2 | I don't know. |
0:38.1 | I don't know why this is happening now. |
0:40.1 | I mean, truly what else to preoccupy oneself with in this never ending quarantine |
0:45.3 | than discovering a treasure trove of new things on eBay, but it's an obsession that has foisted |
0:50.9 | itself upon me much more quickly than I anticipated. |
0:55.0 | Last week I was probably 30 minutes into a documentary about the World's Fair, |
1:00.0 | and all of a sudden I had a full eBay account set up with alerts for rainbonnets, literally |
1:06.5 | for disposable sheets of plastic that people wore to cover their hair at a temporary |
1:11.7 | event in the 60s. This is what my work inbox is filled |
1:15.8 | with right now. It's a bit much, but it's the only thing I can think about as of late. |
1:21.2 | The strange part is that Disney fandom is kind of like a zero entry pool. |
1:26.0 | You show up and you get really into it and then all of a sudden it fully consumes your body. |
1:31.0 | But learning about the attractions that came out of that world's fair, like |
1:35.1 | it's a small world and carousel of progress, are basically the splash zone. That's some |
1:40.4 | entry-level stuff. But it's nice, it's really nice to be this far into Disney fandom |
1:46.7 | and still be learning more about something so historical. |
1:50.1 | And I gotta say, it's nice to jump further back in time when the future seems increasingly bleak. |
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