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Today, we finish up my interview with Disney Legend, Imagineer, and more, Rolly Crump. As before, I got to ask a number of questions I’ve never been able to ask, this time more about the people he worked for and with.
Now, as I mentioned last time, in case you have sensitive ears, there is a little bit of PG-level language in this interview. You’d hear worse in almost any primetime TV show nowadays, but since the interviews are usually 100% G-rated, I thought you should know.
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In this episode Rolly talks about:
- Bringing it’s a small world to Walt Disney World, including the changes he made (some because he wanted to, some because he had to);
- Yale Gracey;
- Mary Blair;
- Eric Larson;
- Bob Gurr;
- John Hench, Rolly’s mentor;
- Walt Disney;
- What it was like for him when Walt passed away;
- Playing gags on each other at the Disney studio and in Imagineering—I almost left one of these stories out, but it was just to “Rolly” to cut;
- “Another great story about vodka”—now there’s a phrase I never thought I’d hear in this podcast, but it really is a pretty funny story;
- Whether he ever thought he was doing something special while he was working for Disney;
- What it’s like to get all the attention he’s getting now;
- What he loved most about what he did—one of them is something you can still see today if you visit Disneyland;
- If there’s anything he’s never been asked that he’d like to be asked;
- A thanks to Jeff Heimbuch for his work with Rolly on It’s Kind of a Cute Story, and why it was so different from other authors who’d wanted to work with him;
- What inspires him;
- His advice to you for following your dreams;
- Shameless Plug Time.
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Music and voiceovers provided by Rick Moyer.
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