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

It's me, Lan Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmurs Day, December 2nd, 24.

On the show today, we're recording this the week of Thanksgiving, which is a slow news week.

So we'll save the news and list your questions for next week and jump straight into our feature piece on the history of Disney's Utiladors.

That means I'm not going to bring in the man who says there were probably dinosaurs that

tasted amazing, but we'll never know.

And I'm not bringing in the man who says that student loan forgiveness implies the existence

of student loan revenge.

And you'll have to wait until the main story to hear from the man who thinks airports

should have emergency exit slides in the terminals that adults can try just once. That's right, Mr. Jim Hill

will be on later in this show. But before we get to that, thanks to everyone who

subscribes to the show over at patreon.com slash Jim Hill Media, including Scott Bradbury,

Lisa Abbott, Lori Keel, Jersey Tink, Sandra Farmer, and Janet Sala.

Hey, Janet.

Jim, these are the Disney merchandise cast members hauling loads of newfound, unreleased park merchandise to the Disney outlet stores just in time for the holidays.

They say that commemorative Play Pavilion Opening Day team cast members' sweaters are super soft,

and the Disney's Reflections, a Lakeside Lodge, travel mugs, will keep your coffee hot all day long for just $5.99 each.

True story.

All right, folks, we're going to take a really quick commercial break when we come back.

Jim and former Imagineer Jim Scholl and I give us the history of Disney's Utilador system. We'll be right back.

So earlier this year, my brother Pete became the proud grandfather of a beautiful little girl called

Anila, which is of course great news, but this life-changing event also came with kind of an

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