{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6961268923ce58f14615840d/6a0f7537a9d3d2ec14c81f91?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"It’s a Rich Man’s Disney World","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6961268923ce58f14615840d/1779397920140-08e195d3-d695-4a09-bf0f-b5390e9ac935.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Vacations to a Disney park were never cheap but now, in a reflection of American culture writ large, there are ever more-expensive tiers to pay to get into.</p><p><br></p><p>Guest: Dan Curell, management consultant who wrote “<a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/opinion/disney-world-economy-middle-class-rich.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class</a>” for the New York Times.</p><p><br></p><p>Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at<a href=\"http://slate.com/whatnextplus\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> slate.com/whatnextplus</a> to get access wherever you listen.</p><p><br></p><p>Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther. </p>","author_name":"Slate Podcasts"}