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As Disney deals with the backlash against its live-action version of "Snow White" that has been deemed "woke," there's another problem behind the scenes. There's massive tension between the movie's two co-stars, the liberal Palestinian supporter Rachel Zegler and Israeli queen Gal Gadot.Gadot - who was devastated by the Israeli attacks on Oct. 7, 2023 - is said to be furious with her co-star for publicly supporting Gaza.Last August, Zegler posted on X: "Free Palestine!" - the first of several similar posts on the outlet - and said in interviews: "I can't watch children die. I don't think that should be a hot take. We're nearing one year since the horrendous attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, but I've been following this conflict for so many years. Like so many people, I'm so heartbroken by the loss of life that we're seeing with these insane death tolls coming out of both regions." For her part, Gadot has held several screenings of the film "October 8" and footage of the October 7 massacre at her home in Los Angeles for power players and recently appeared at the Anti-Defamation League's "Never Is Now" rally, where she said: "Never did I imagine that on the streets of the United States, and different cities around the world, we would see people not condemning Hamas, but celebrating, justifying and cheering on a massacre of Jews. This is a time when many of us in the Jewish community have had to find our voice and confront the hatred against us, even if it's extremely uncomfortable. That's been the case for all of us in every walk of life, in every profession, including my own." And it's got to be really uncomfortable for Gadot to promote the movie alongside Zegler. The two have kept their distance - neither appear in each other's Instagram feeds (although they both follow each other for the moment) - and, despite the duo presenting at the Oscars together, they will keep interaction at the March 15 premiere of "Snow White" at LA's El Capitan Theater to a minimum. Even before her X posts, Zegler put herself in an awkward position after being awarded the role by criticizing the beloved original.As she told "Extra" in 2022, the animated film was "extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman's fit for in the world.The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so. There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird. So we didn't do that this time. We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because we cast a guy in the movie."Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

As Disney deals with the backlash against its live-action version of "Snow White" that has been deemed "woke," there's another problem behind the scenes. There's massive tension between the movie's two co-stars, the liberal Palestinian supporter Rachel Zegler and Israeli queen Gal Gadot.Gadot - who was devastated by the Israeli attacks on Oct. 7, 2023 - is said to be furious with her co-star for publicly supporting Gaza.Last August, Zegler posted on X: "Free Palestine!" - the first of several similar posts on the outlet - and said in interviews: "I can't watch children die. I don't think that should be a hot take. We're nearing one year since the horrendous attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, but I've been following this conflict for so many years. Like so many people, I'm so heartbroken by the loss of life that we're seeing with these insane death tolls coming out of both regions." For her part, Gadot has held several screenings of the film "October 8" and footage of the October 7 massacre at her home in Los Angeles for power players and recently appeared at the Anti-Defamation League's "Never Is Now" rally, where she said: "Never did I imagine that on the streets of the United States, and different cities around the world, we would see people not condemning Hamas, but celebrating, justifying and cheering on a massacre of Jews. This is a time when many of us in the Jewish community have had to find our voice and confront the hatred against us, even if it's extremely uncomfortable. That's been the case for all of us in every walk of life, in every profession, including my own." And it's got to be really uncomfortable for Gadot to promote the movie alongside Zegler. The two have kept their distance - neither appear in each other's Instagram feeds (although they both follow each other for the moment) - and, despite the duo presenting at the Oscars together, they will keep interaction at the March 15 premiere of "Snow White" at LA's El Capitan Theater to a minimum. Even before her X posts, Zegler put herself in an awkward position after being awarded the role by criticizing the beloved original.As she told "Extra" in 2022, the animated film was "extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman's fit for in the world.The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so. There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird. So we didn't do that this time. We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because we cast a guy in the movie."Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Paula Froelich is a Senior Story Producer and On-Air Contributor for NewsNation. She began in January of 2022. She's a New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning journalist with over two decades of experience in writing, reporting, and leading start ups. S he is best known in New York for being the deputy editor of the New York Post's gossip column, Page Six, where she worked for ten years until June, 2009.As Disney deals with the backlash against its live-action version of "Snow White" that has been deemed "woke," there's another problem behind the scenes. There's massive tension between the movie's two co-stars, the liberal Palestinian supporter Rachel Zegler and Israeli queen Gal Gadot. Gadot - who was devastated by the Israeli attacks on Oct. 7, 2023 - is said to be furious with her co-star for publicly supporting Gaza. Last August, Zegler posted on X: "Free Palestine!" - the first of several similar posts on the outlet - and said in interviews: "I can't watch children die. I don't think that should be a hot take. We're nearing one year since the horrendous attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, but I've been following this conflict for so many years. Like so many people, I'm so heartbroken by the loss of life that we're seeing with these insane death tolls coming out of both regions." For her part, Gadot has held several screenings of the film "October 8" and footage of the October 7 massacre at her home in Los Angeles for power players and recently appeared at the Anti-Defamation League's "Never Is Now" rally, where she said: "Never did I imagine that on the streets of the United States, and different cities around the world, we would see people not condemning Hamas, but celebrating, justifying and cheering on a massacre of Jews. This is a time when many of us in the Jewish community have had to find our voice and confront the hatred against us, even if it's extremely uncomfortable. That's been the case for all of us in every walk of life, in every profession, including my own." And it's got to be really uncomfortable for Gadot to promote the movie alongside Zegler. The two have kept their distance - neither appear in each other's Instagram feeds (although they both follow each other for the moment) - and, despite the duo presenting at the Oscars together, they will keep interaction at the March 15 premiere of "Snow White" at LA's El Capitan Theater to a minimum. Even before her X posts, Zegler put herself in an awkward position after being awarded the role by criticizing the beloved original. As she told "Extra" in 2022, the animated film was "extremely dated when it comes to the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman's fit for in the world.The original cartoon came out in 1937, and very evidently so. There's a big focus on her love story with a guy who literally stalks her. Weird. So we didn't do that this time. We have a different approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will assume is a love story just because we cast a guy in the movie." Other comments Zegler has made that offended Disney fans and conservatives include: Skewering people who were upset by her casting and calling them "losers obsessed with maintaining the bloodline purity of cartoon princesses." Zegler claimed her version of "Snow White" is "really not about the love story at all," a change she deems "wonderful." Instead, it's about Snow White's "inner journey" to "find her true self." After Donald Trump's reelection, Zegler posted in part on Instagram: "May Trump supporters and Trump voters and Trump himself never know peace." She apologized for her remarks two days later. And now "Snow White," which cost Disney over $260 million to make, is set to premiere March 21st. But thanks to the controversies Zegler and the directors of the film created, the decision was made to scale back the premiere, and coverage will be limited to photographers and a house crew.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/i-am-refocused-radio--2671113/support.

Bri Bertolaccini and Chris Mullen from The Walt Disney Family Museum are with us. We're talking about the museum in San Francisco, a new exhibit focused on early directors at the studio, and a new book. Walt Disney Treasures: Personal Art and Artifacts from The Walt Disney Family Museum chronicles the legacy of Walt through iconic objects that represent his life and career. Order the book at waltdisney.org/store.Plus, Shawn Degenhart shares his incredible experience assisting with the recent tribute concert for Richard Sherman titled “A Great Big Beautiful Concert for Richard” held at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. We're also debuting a new segment called Our Disney Reviews. John Alois has a review on Moana 2. Hosts John Alois, Shawn Degenhart and John Redlingshafer would love to hear from you! Email or send a recorded audio message at podcast@thehyperionhub.com. Find us on social media. The Hyperion Hub is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company or its subsidiaries.  https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=100063622463796 https://www.instagram.com/hyperion_hub/ https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FHubHyperion

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Joanna Robinson and Dave Gonzales, coauthors of the book MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, out in paperback this week.I really loved the book, it dives into what is the main flywheel of mainstream entertainment, for better or for worse, and dives into the fascinating history of the MCU. Whether you're a fan of Marvel movies or just someone living in a world dominated by them, the book is a really interesting look into contemporary filmmaking and the pressures and economics and just simply human scale of these massive operations.We spoke about Marvel's journey from underdog to cultural icon, how its moviemaking process has changed over time, and what it was like covering a narrative that was developing in real time.Robinson and Gonzales can both be found on the podcast Trial by Content, and the book can be found wherever books are sold.This interview has been condensed and edited. Dave and Joanna, thank you so much for coming on.GONZALES: Absolutely.ROBINSON: Thanks for having us.I really, really love this book. So happy to see it out in paperback. I guess I'll just kick it off with an easy one: What were each of your first experiences with Marvel? How'd you get into this?ROBINSON: As in the comic books or the films?Anything.ROBINSON: Anything at all. Gosh, I think X-Men: The Animated Series was my introduction, back in my infancy. It really got into the world they created, the various characters, their character sets, the trading cards, and then everything spirals out from there. That was my introduction.GONZALES: Mine was probably with the comics. I might have had some X-Men: The Animated Series in there, but I got much more into the comics around late 1993, early '94, when I happened to buy a Spider-Man issue that was part of “The Trial of Peter Parker.” Suddenly I had questions: Why was Peter Parker on trial? How many different Spider-Man books were there? Because I bought an issue of The Spectacular Spider-Man, but the next part of “The Trial of Peter Parker” was The Amazing Spider-Man.That led me to get a cubby at my local comic book shop in Louisville, Colorado, which was Time Warp Comics at the time. That was my way in, just being a comic book fan. I also jumped in on one of the longest and mostly considered worst Spider-Man arcs, but loved it. So imagine how good “good” Spider-Man was to me as a child, because I got weaned in on “bad” Spider-Man.Amazing. One reason I really dug the book is that it's about the MCU, but it's also about Marvel, the history of this entire company, and its very different evolution over time, from the '60s to the period of the '90s. What was it like trying to cover not just a film series, but a big franchise with a lot of moving parts as part of an even bigger company with even more moving parts?ROBINSON: A good question we asked ourselves was both where to start and where to end, and where to end was a constant, ongoing question mark. I'll let Dave address that. But in terms of where to start, there were certain things we felt we had to backdate, because there were players involved in the major “How did Marvel Studios come to be?” question and you had to know who they were, why they were important, how did we get here and what were the stakes? Being able to loosely explain who's Stan Lee, who's Perlmutter, who's Avi Arad, who are all these people, helped us tell that story without losing the audience entirely by throwing a bunch of new names at them. Dave, what about ending the book?GONZALES: Oh, ending the book. That was super fun. We started right as Avengers: Endgame was in theaters. I remember seeing Endgame and knowing that Joanna and I were going to work on this, so we started off thinking, what a fantastic hill that Marvel climbed, this interconnected universe with three phases. Everything surely was planned out from the beginning and could only go up from here. The book was originally “The Rise of Marvel Studios,” because we thought surely this was just up and up and up.Then the pandemic hit — which was very good for us, having to write the book and just sit down and figure out what it was. It also gave us and a lot of sources a pause to regain our footing. As Marvel started rolling out, we tried to peg an end date. I wanted it to be Blade to Blade when we started, but Mahershala Ali's project has still not come out, so that became an impossibility. Then WandaVision premiered and suddenly there was this whole other aspect to the story we were trying to tell. So we wanted to do that and just tried to report things as they went along.We were blessed and cursed by the year that we published the hardcover, October 2023. As we were turning in the final part of the book in January and February, a whole bunch of Marvel news started breaking. Ike Perlmutter left Disney; Victoria Alonso, who was a big mover and shaker in Marvel Studios, was let go, so we had to report that out; Jonathan Majors went on trial.It was only in a panic over all those things that I really ended up appreciating what we had done just by thinking of all these topics so thoroughly for several years. Even though we were tacking new endings on, it wasn't that hard to make it feel like it was a whole arc because we were kind of working there anyway. I wouldn't say I'd've enjoyed releasing the first version of this book in one of Marvel's worst financial years and most critical years ever, but I do think it provided an interesting little tie-off or a fascinating ellipses that allowed us to be relevant and, more importantly, in the year 2024, look like we knew exactly what we were talking about in Marvel's rebounds.That's a really good point. When I met you on tour, a key thing you were getting at was that the idea that Marvel has not had a slump before is naive, and also ahistorical. A fun thing about the book is that you go through all these different eras, and sure, there's an easier story and probably a more polished, corporate story that's ever upward, toward Excelsior, all that crap.But you really do cover the pits and troughs of this. There was Iron Man 2; there was Thor: The Dark World; there was that period of time between the assorted Spider-Mans. What was that perspective like, particularly as it was coming out and as you were able to talk about the issues in 2023?ROBINSON: It was important for us, just on a basic journalistic level, to try to tell as much of the story as possible. We're fans of Marvel, of the movies, but as long as I've known Dave, both of us have been people who don't like to feel like we're not being told the whole story. We don't want the PR version of something — we want to know all the messy details as well. And it's not to knock Marvel or have any kind of “gotcha” moment. It's to say, “Okay, they had these various pitfalls, these various problematic people that they were working with, X, Y and Z. Look what they accomplished anyway.” That's the story in broad strokes. It was important for us to be able to acknowledge the stumbles along the way.When we found ourselves in a 2023 space where everyone was saying Marvel is cooked, or Marvel used to know exactly what it was doing from the beginning and now they're just making it up — no, they were always making it up. They just did it so well, you didn't notice. That gave us a better perspective to be able to say, let's just slow down. We were looking ahead to 2024, saying they're only putting out one movie and two shows next year. If those hit, then you'll start to hear that Marvel's back, baby. Then Deadpool & Wolverine makes a gajillion dollars and Agatha All Along is a pretty solid hit for them.So I think that “Marvel is over” narrative that was so prevalent a year ago is now the question, “Is Marvel back?” Looking even further forward at the next couple of big projects coming, I think Captain America: Brave New World is going to be a tough one for them. I don't know if that's going to hit the way a lot of people want it to. I think Thunderbolts is going to be hit for them, and I think The Fantastic Four: First Steps is going to be hit for them. They're still getting their bearings, but to your point, it was a bit naive to say they've been nothing but successful and now they've run off a cliff. Dave, what do you think?GONZALES: It was just a less interesting narrative, ultimately. I actually found myself getting less adversarial the more we learned, especially being a fan when all this started around 2008. There was this idea that Joanna was talking about, which is even a fan perspective today, that if something doesn't work out it's because we've been denied something at some creative step. Like, you know what, screw those guys; we want to do Harrison Ford as Red Hulk instead, or something like that.But it's not that at all. There are a whole bunch of different drama and production and business problems, and all these things come together to make these gigantic machines of a movie work. It was really important for us to drill down on Marvel Studios and get into those ups and downs, because a lot of times you can try to compare Marvel Studios to something through contrast, through Warner Brothers trying to do it with DC back in the early 2010s. Everybody started trying to launch an interconnected universe from the first movie, but all you could really say is that Marvel's worked and these others didn't. The details of the alchemy are in the tiny stories and little conflicts. That's why I think they were so important to track, be they how movie stars look or how we use CGI to make movie stars look. Tracking that over at Marvel Studios was just as important as how many movies Tony Stark was going to be in.Can you speak more to how much of this was on the fly? One of my big takeaways from your book was just how much things aren't necessarily set in stone during the production of a movie, and how sometimes one person's smart idea, regardless of where it comes from, can drastically alter what a lot of folks think was written in stone in 2007.ROBINSON: That idea of “best idea wins” — without ego; best idea from whomsoever — was a prevailing concept at Marvel. Kevin Feige was also this really interesting figure that has no comparison at any other studio. He's head of the studio, a creative producer, a storyteller in his own right and someone who wanted to make movies as a kid and thought he would be a director. He wound up an executive, but he has that storytelling sense. When Marvel was putting out fewer films and TV shows — or no TV shows at all and just a few films a year — the process was, “Go shoot your movie. Bring me, Kevin Feige, back the pieces and I'll tell you what you're missing.” They had this built-in reshoot window where you could go and add scenes where he felt like you hadn't really nailed this character, or cut this action out to bump up the action over here a bit more. They had this rough-drafting process with the master editor being Kevin Feige himself. There's no system like that at any other studio.That works so well for them, and in doing so, they're able to cement over the cracks and make it all feel like one smooth story that they're telling, because that refining process is built into their filmmaking process. Once the mandate comes from Disney, from Iger on his way out the door, from Chapek in his seat for a while, that they need to compete with Netflix and all these other streaming services, that they need more and more content — then the pace becomes untenable for that revision process that made them so solid in the first place.You talk about Feige not having an analog. I was really shocked reading the book because there's not even anything recent. You have to go back to Cecil B. DeMille for someone who has that producer, authorial presence. He's really a fascinating figure, and it's a key takeaway from the book that I loved. It really highlights the people who make these movies, not just the corporation. It's actual human beings who do this kind of stuff, often with long continuities. Do you want to speak about some of that?GONZALES: Definitely. Actually, while you were talking, I was wondering if part of the chip on Zack Snyder's shoulder was because someone at some point told him he was going to be a Kevin Feige and he's been chasing that ever since.A lot of the Marvel continuity that's been going on is still going on, even after our new chapter. It's been interesting to see how it's developed. It could be that the best idea wins, but then they also have that old school, in-house process where the starting team is very often the same people and has been since phase one. You put together a bullpen of concept artists, so you're constantly using concept art. Not only is that smart from a design standpoint for making a movie, but then you can have those things scanned and it goes directly into making toys. So at the beginning, there's no fight about bringing on these design creatives super early on.Where we start to see the wear and tear is, as Joanna was saying, with this output increase. All of the pressure starts being put on post-production, which is the place where you can't make more time. The solution is to hire more people, and because of that, the job of keeping things consistent falls to Victoria Alonso.She does a pretty good job considering that she's working a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week work schedule because the industry is so messed up. It was never built to do stuff like this. In a lot of ways, the way the VFX industry is structured is still from the '90s turn of the century, when you would bid on a number of shots to do and get money for that number of shots. You'd have to work those shots until they get approved by the director. There isn't an extra budget, and there isn't an overtime, which was a fine way to do it when there were three or four VFX shots in every movie. But now that we're in the 200s or some such, there's a natural strain put on that, and it's impossible to budget on the VFX side. They have to underbid because there's a limited amount of work. If Marvel decides they don't like you, as much as a third of your entire year's work can just not come to your company.As Marvel ages into it, we get a lot of people who are able to make their careers there, from Kevin Feige to Mary Livanos, who's doing great things on Agatha and seems really close to being ascendant. We have Brad Winderbaum, who's been made head of streaming now to take some of that pressure off Kevin. You have all these great continuities. You're less likely to see continuities in visual effects artists, just because of how they're going recently. When Joanna and I were interviewing people like ILM for Hulk, occasionally we'd do a person that was in three or four movies. Now, like for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, there was a team of about 12 people at Framestore who make animals look good. They just come in for that movie to make animals look incredibly good. They did it the whole time, but they're not as legacy as other parts of the Marvel development studios — which I hope will change, because there are some people who are really good at making Hulks. And if you've made Hulks for 20 years, shouldn't those be the people that are making Hulks in Brave New World? We'll have to see.ROBINSON: I love that you mentioned Cecil B. DeMille. As we were putting this whole story together and realizing that they bring all these teams in-house, Dave and our coauthor Gavin and I, we are to varying degrees students of old Hollywood history, and we had this realization that it's just the old Hollywood studio system. You're putting actors under contract for nine movies, all this other stuff, and we felt so smart. Then I was talking to someone who worked at Marvel and they were like, “Oh yeah, Kevin says that all the time.” I was like, oh, I thought we really put something together. But at least we were right! We were consciously doing this.I think that industrial element of it is really interesting. A key thing that changed the way I see the film industry was realizing that every movie is basically a corporation that briefly exists. Every movie is an entire apparatus, with a CEO operation and departments and all that. Then it folds and you move on to the next one.With Marvel, though, the circus never closes; it's just onto the next city. It was really interesting to see its place in the industry. Like Dave was saying, the limiting reactant for some of this is just the number of animators on the earth who are capable of making this kind of stuff. It's so cool to get a look inside this apparatus through the book.ROBINSON: Thank you.GONZALES: What an apparatus. It's really interesting to me, even now, as we are pending the return of the Russo brothers, who are just able to find this and also find the emotion in it.In Endgame, the Tony Stark “I am Iron Man” moment was the last insert. They had to go to dinner with Robert Downey Jr. and Joel Silver and have Silver be like, “You'd be dumb not to do it, Robert,” because Downey didn't want to go back there. He's a weird dude, but for him, it felt like in order to get to what he needed to do, he had to take off a scab that had formed and get back into the character. Whereas the Russo brothers are like, we built a workout system and we have our smoothies and every day is trying to make the machine work. Somehow, through the alchemy of those two things, the machine works, and occasionally we get these story moments that feel like they were created individually for that movie.That, I think, is the mystery that the book is trying to unravel. At the beginning, it's untapped storytelling potential. Everyone's like, if you don't have the X-Men, if you don't have Spider-Man, what do you have? There's so much in just proving that you have good stories. Now that you're the biggest game in town, that idea of, “Are you going to make me feel anything?” is so much different than what the initial promise was, that they're going to bring Thanos to the screen and you're going to understand who he is and what he wants. That was the big lift. Now there's a whole simultaneous saving of the industry, and bestowing status on different actors. There's just so much more mixed up in it now. It's amazing we got where we did.The book is also a really interesting look at the transition from being a super underdog. As you describe in the earliest chapters of the book, Marvel was bankrupt, and all the executives were folks who fell out of the toy industry or Revlon. The folks who were in charge came to it in the manner of somebody accidentally having to join a carnival, and then eventually it becomes the hegemonic juggernaut of everything, in many ways the thing that people stand against. In the book, watching the perception around it change and then internally having to adapt to that change in perception was a really cool tension.ROBINSON: My favorite indicator of that underdog status versus top-of-the-world status versus wherever we are now is the making of the first Iron Man movie. Marvel Entertainment in New York — who was, to your point, chiefly concerned with merchandising and toys — had the attitude, “Okay, go make your cute little movie. If it doesn't cost us any money, you can go do your little cinematic experiment in Hollywood and we don't really care that much. Just make sure you don't spend any of our money. Other than that, go have fun.”And they make Iron Man, and Iron Man is a massive, smash hit, and all of a sudden the people in New York are like, we're forming something called the Creative Committee. We would like a lot of intake. We want to be part of this. This is the big shiny thing, and everyone wants to weigh in on it. So it's really interesting to track this going from a weird little project they were doing out in Los Angeles to The Thing for Marvel. You can track it by who needs to have an opinion about what and when they start to care.GONZALES: One of my favorite moments — it's after the book chapter “Marvel vs. the Creative Committee” — is when Kevin Feige gets on stage himself to unveil the entirety of phase three, which includes Captain America: Civil War and Avengers: Infinity War and everything. That is such a telling moment for me. He had just won his battles with these behind the scenes. He's fully in full control. Black Panther is coming. Joss Whedon is in the edits for Avengers: Age of Ultron, in the audience, but they already know he's not coming back.There was a version of a chapter in the book that was just me going through that and being like, here's why each one of these announcements is like Kevin Feige spiking a football in the face of someone that told him he couldn't do it. That's still the purest creative energy I've seen. “We could finally do it!” burst out of Marvel. I think they've been more reserved since, even with some big announcements, but I like to go back and look at that just to see the pivot point when Marvel was the underdog. It was like, we want Black Panther, we want Captain Marvel, but the studio won't let us do it. Then Kevin Feige gets up and goes, “Here are the next 10 years of your life.” It's just such a joyous moment.ROBINSON: We love that moment. We talked to people behind the scenes who were working at Marvel at the time about it, and there's a reason that whole presentation wasn't at a Comic-Con. It wasn't at D23. It was its own thing at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, and internally, they jokingly called it Kevin-Con. It was this whole thing, and part of it was that they weren't ready to announce certain things at Comic-Con.But part of it was this moment for Feige who fought various personalities across the various companies to get control of the narrative. And I agree, Endgame is of course in all of history going to be looked at as the pinnacle of achievement at Marvel. But I actually think it might be Kevin-Con at the El Capitan Theater, when Chadwick Boseman comes out and Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans are there to anoint him as the future of the franchise. That, of course, comes with its own terrible poignancy. We were really lucky to talk to Chadwick Boseman for the book before he passed away. These were things that happened while we were writing the book. History was constantly happening as we were trying to frame this entire narrative.If there's a protagonist in the book, it feels like it's Kevin, even in the earliest days when he was advising on the Fox products. Having read the book and then seen Deadpool & Wolverine — which, as you mentioned, went on to become a phenomenal financial success — it was really cool to come away with a little more admiration for the role that Kevin had in some of the Fox properties. Seeing that manifest in the MCU was just really nice.ROBINSON: I love that he got to have his Wolverine story, given that it all starts with him in a trailer with Hugh Jackman saying it needs to be bigger, it needs to be bigger, it needs to be bigger. I love that.GONZALES: I don't even know if it's still called that, but Joanna used to call that the “Feige fix-it.” Instead of developing these things by always going forward and introducing younger Avengers, he's actually much more interested in reaching back. There were good things there. Or, I guess the generous way to think about it is rewarding the fans that were around before it was the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Like, “You didn't waste your time with X-Men: The Last Stand. I know it might have felt like that occasionally, but here's this. Or Andrew Garfield. Yeah, maybe we treated him badly, but don't worry. You didn't waste your time with that because boom, here it is paying off in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.”Initially there was some hesitancy about Marvel homework. Do I need to have seen these things to do these things? But ultimately, if we're just talking dollars and cents, the nostalgia play has made them a billion dollars so many times that it doesn't surprise me that Deadpool & Wolverine is a huge hit just by being a swan song for the Fox movies.ROBINSON: I was personally incredibly gratified to finally get Channing Tatum as Gambit. That was a very important moment for me.My favorite version of the Feige fix-it was putting the storyline from Thor: The Dark World into Endgame and making Thor: The Dark World, the most universally mocked and reviled MCU film, an integral part of their biggest triumph. All of a sudden that's wrapped into the larger tapestry in a way so you can't just toss it in the garbage and say, oh, don't bother watching Thor: The Dark World — now you have to watch it to understand everything you're seeing in Endgame, which is certainly not a movie you're ever going to skip.It's a magic trick that really works and almost shouldn't work as well as it does. But even how they were able to get the Infinity Stones, almost taking elements of the first couple films that were dropped or introduced somewhat randomly and then doing that. It's a trick that they keep on pulling.GONZALES: Kevin Feige will say this, but we're coming up on 80 years of comic book history, and if there's one thing that comic books do more than any other medium, it's just use the same story. How could you have another angle on this story? They have so much A/B testing on what we like about this character, or what we'll buy about a certain character, it's interesting to see Marvel adapt that along with what sort of story you like on the Hollywood side of it.But yeah, we're going to see Captain America: Brave New World and finally see that Celestial that came out of the ocean in Eternals. Every Marvel property contributes something, we're told. Except the Inhumans; that never happens.The book is MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios, and it's a fascinating look at the intersection of the humanity behind these movies and the technology of these movies. And if there's one figure that reminds me of that in particular, obviously, one of the most central people in the Marvel universe is Green Steve. Let's talk a little about him before we wrap this one up.ROBINSON: He's my favorite! Green Steve, a Chippendales dancer that was painted green in order to make sure they understood how the green light on skin would be captured accurately for the Hulk. Green Steve was one of my favorite anecdotes we got, and it was out of the book for a while before we worked it back in. Dave, what do you want to say about Green Steve?GONZALES: I love Green Steve. I love that this bodybuilder from Long Island can technically say he played the Hulk in a sort of way. In theory, because it's a whole CGI character, he might have played the Hulk close to how much Mark Ruffalo played the Hulk in that first movie. I love that story.Pretty early on, we brought in Gavin Edwards, our third author, to help us do a book, since Joanna and I had never done a book before. We were starting to put together the notes and I was like, can we please have a mid-credits scene? Can we just have a chapter in the middle of the notes?ROBINSON: That was Dave.GONZALES: I held onto that for as long as possible. I remember in one of the final meetings after we turned in the draft, we pitched it up to the editor and they were like, “That's really fun,” and I thought, oh thank god. That was a really early idea, and Green Steve fits that perfectly; it's a super interesting story that doesn't really belong anywhere else, but will stick in your mind as, Marvel literally tried everything to make the best Hulk. So I'm very happy that it's the mid-credits chapter — and remains the mid-credits chapter! Even when we added another chapter in, we were like, where does this go? Not before Green Steve.ROBINSON: He's got the final word for sure.Amazing. The book's out of paperback now. Where can folks find it? Where can they find you? And what's next?ROBINSON: “All good and evil news agents.” That's what the Empire Magazine folks say. All good and evil bookstores or any online book purveyor is where you can find our book. Dave does a tremendous podcast called Fighting in the War Room, which I love to listen to, so you should listen to that. And together we do a podcast called Trial by Content that y'all should listen to.GONZALES: Joanna's on a fantastic podcast called the House of R with Mallory Rubin over on The Ringer, where she covers lots of cool pop culture things. If you want to go to a bookstore and don't know exactly which one to go to, you could head to theMCUbook.com. That will forward you to our publisher's website, which has links to your Barnes and Nobles, your Amazons, your Bookshops.org, and will help you track down the book near you. And look for us in a couple more years with something similar.Thanks for coming on.ROBINSON: Thanks, Walt.GONZALES: Thank you.Edited by Susie Stark.If you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news.  This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.numlock.com/subscribe

Time for our weekly snake draft and this week we will choose best sports shows in honor of Clipped the new show produced by Ramona Shelburne. Also, have you been to El Capitan Theater? Clinton Yates talks about his experience there. Time for RABBIT HOLE where we talk about the videos that we have seen on You Tube or Social Media. THE DUMP and SUPER CROSSTALK with MASON and IRELAND! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Taylor starts off this week's show by describing what it was like to attend the world premiere of Disney's “Wish” at Hollywood's El Capitan Theater. Then Jim Hill looks back at how the success of Disney's “Aristocats” influenced the development of the Studio's next animated feature, “Robin Hood” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Taylor starts off this week's show by describing what it was like to attend the world premiere of Disney's “Wish” at Hollywood's El Capitan Theater. Then Jim Hill looks back at how the success of Disney's “Aristocats” influenced the development of the Studio's next animated feature, “Robin Hood” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Watch the video version of the show: https://youtu.be/x-9jHma-HTI  We celebrate the 100th anniversary of Disney animation, and the life of Star Wars costume designer Shawna Trpcic, with special celebrity guests! First, Sarah Woloski shares fun facts she and Richard learned at a  press event for ONCE UPON A STUDIO held at El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. This all-new animated Disney short is now available on Disney+, and it will make you laugh and cry. The fun facts learned from directors Trent Corey and Dan Abraham might also make you laugh and cry more!   Then, Max Cervantes (Co-host, The Max EFX Podcast) shares his experience at the once-in-a-lifetime 100th Anniversary D23 Royal Ball held at the Walt Disney Studios Lot this past weekend. Disney Legends, characters, food, merchandise and the experience - he shares it all.Finally, Leilani Shiu (Teeka the Jawa, Obi-Wan Kenobi / Jawa and creature performer, The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett) worked very closely with Shawna Trpcic. We were all devastated by the news of the sudden passing of Shawna, and Leilani shares stories of working with the award-winning costume designer. You can contribute to the family GoFundMe page here.   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more videos and fun Shorts     Check out these SKYwalking NETwork Podcasts:   Classic Marvel Star Wars Comics - Delving into each issue of the Star Wars comic series 1977-1986 The Max EFX Podcast - Chronicling the 35-year Special Effects film career of Max Cervantes Neverland Clubhouse - Two sisters, and best friends, sharing Disney adventures Talking Apes - focusing on the original Planet of the Apes films and TV shows Totally Tell Me Everything - Two ladies, one topic, three questions. Sarah Woloski and Bryn MacKinnon learn, share and grow. Star Warsologies - A podcast about Science and Star Wars   SPONSORS   Small World Vacations is an official sponsor of Skywalking Through Neverland. Contact them for a no obligation price quote at www.smallworldvacations.com. Tell them Skywalking Through Neverland sent you.   SUPPORT THE SHOW   Find out how you can become a part of the Skywalking Force and unlock bonus content.   CONTACT US   Instagram: http://instagram.com/skywalkingpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkywalkingPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skywalkingthroughneverland Send emails to share@skywalkingthroughneverland.com and follow us on Facebook.   If you dug this episode, click over to iTunes | Stitcher | YouTube and leave us a review!   Never Land on Alderaan!

Watch the video version of the show: https://youtu.be/x-9jHma-HTI  We celebrate the 100th anniversary of Disney animation, and the life of Star Wars costume designer Shawna Trpcic, with special celebrity guests! First, Sarah Woloski shares fun facts she and Richard learned at a  press event for ONCE UPON A STUDIO held at El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. This all-new animated Disney short is now available on Disney+, and it will make you laugh and cry. The fun facts learned from directors Trent Corey and Dan Abraham might also make you laugh and cry more!   Then, Max Cervantes (Co-host, The Max EFX Podcast) shares his experience at the once-in-a-lifetime 100th Anniversary D23 Royal Ball held at the Walt Disney Studios Lot this past weekend. Disney Legends, characters, food, merchandise and the experience - he shares it all.Finally, Leilani Shiu (Teeka the Jawa, Obi-Wan Kenobi / Jawa and creature performer, The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett) worked very closely with Shawna Trpcic. We were all devastated by the news of the sudden passing of Shawna, and Leilani shares stories of working with the award-winning costume designer. You can contribute to the family GoFundMe page here.   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more videos and fun Shorts     Check out these SKYwalking NETwork Podcasts:   Classic Marvel Star Wars Comics - Delving into each issue of the Star Wars comic series 1977-1986 The Max EFX Podcast - Chronicling the 35-year Special Effects film career of Max Cervantes Neverland Clubhouse - Two sisters, and best friends, sharing Disney adventures Talking Apes - focusing on the original Planet of the Apes films and TV shows Totally Tell Me Everything - Two ladies, one topic, three questions. Sarah Woloski and Bryn MacKinnon learn, share and grow. Star Warsologies - A podcast about Science and Star Wars   SPONSORS   Small World Vacations is an official sponsor of Skywalking Through Neverland. Contact them for a no obligation price quote at www.smallworldvacations.com. Tell them Skywalking Through Neverland sent you.   SUPPORT THE SHOW   Find out how you can become a part of the Skywalking Force and unlock bonus content.   CONTACT US   Instagram: http://instagram.com/skywalkingpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkywalkingPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skywalkingthroughneverland Send emails to share@skywalkingthroughneverland.com and follow us on Facebook.   If you dug this episode, click over to iTunes | Stitcher | YouTube and leave us a review!   Never Land on Alderaan!

It wasn't all frights and scares in Hollywood for Alicea and Kaitlyn, they also got to do a few other things while they were in town. Science fun at Griffith Observatory, “A Goody Movie” and the Walk of Fame at El Capitan Theater, and a day at Universal Studios Hollywood in regular theme park mode. Gotta get that podcast content! ;-)----Adventures & Mousecapades is a passion project from Alicea & Nathan Novak - two Seattlites addicted to The Mouse. We are not affiliated with Disney, nor are we travel agents. Opinions are our own.Instagram, Twitter, Facebook: @ourmousecapadesOurMousecapades.compodcast@ourmousecapades.com

The new series, STAR WARS: AHSOKA, premiered August 22 on Disney+. To celebrate, Lucasfilm and Disney hosted 5 AHSOKA FAN EVENTS across the United States. We take you to every event, with reports from each one including Disneyland - the one we attended! The one thing in common with all the Fan Events was the opportunity to see the first two episode of STAR WARS: AHSOKA. But the experiences were fun and different from there! From Lucasfilm Headquarters in San Francisco to Times Square in NY - here are the Fan Events we cover and the Skywalkers we spoke with:   Disneyland in Anaheim, CA - Richard & Sarah Woloski (STN), Louella Laureolla & Nanette Pittenger, Brian Sims (Jedi News) Hollywood Studios in Orlando, FL - Meredith Duckworth (D23 member) El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, CA - Martin Keeler (Fantha Tracks) Lucasfilm Headquarters in San Francisco, CA - Marcus Dohring (501st member) Times Square in New York - Lou Secki and Tim Riecker (Force Chatter)   Tune in next week for our in-depth review of the first 3 episodes of AHSOKA. Thank you to Brian Sims for taking some amazing photos which we've shared on social media and as part of this episode on YouTube.   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more videos and fun Shorts   Like this one:   https://youtube.com/shorts/2fhDORTPtDg?feature=share   This is the Way.   Today in Star Wars History, Part 2 NOW AVAILABLE   Use code LIFEDAYFREESHIP for free shipping on 2 or more books!     Autographed Edition!!     Check out these SKYwalking NETwork Podcasts:   Classic Marvel Star Wars Comics - Delving into each issue of the Star Wars comic series 1977-1986 The Max EFX Podcast - Chronicling the 35-year Special Effects film career of Max Cervantes Neverland Clubhouse - Two sisters, and best friends, sharing Disney adventures Talking Apes - focusing on the original Planet of the Apes films and TV shows Totally Tell Me Everything - Two ladies, one topic, three questions. Sarah Woloski and Bryn MacKinnon learn, share and grow. Star Warsologies - A podcast about Science and Star Wars   SPONSORS   Small World Vacations is an official sponsor of Skywalking Through Neverland. Contact them for a no obligation price quote at www.smallworldvacations.com. Tell them Skywalking Through Neverland sent you.   SUPPORT THE SHOW   Find out how you can become a part of the Skywalking Force and unlock bonus content.   CONTACT US   Instagram: http://instagram.com/skywalkingpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkywalkingPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skywalkingthroughneverland Send emails to share@skywalkingthroughneverland.com and follow us on Facebook.   If you dug this episode, click over to iTunes | Stitcher | YouTube and leave us a review!   Never Land on Alderaan!

The new series, STAR WARS: AHSOKA, premiered August 22 on Disney+. To celebrate, Lucasfilm and Disney hosted 5 AHSOKA FAN EVENTS across the United States. We take you to every event, with reports from each one including Disneyland - the one we attended! The one thing in common with all the Fan Events was the opportunity to see the first two episode of STAR WARS: AHSOKA. But the experiences were fun and different from there! From Lucasfilm Headquarters in San Francisco to Times Square in NY - here are the Fan Events we cover and the Skywalkers we spoke with:   Disneyland in Anaheim, CA - Richard & Sarah Woloski (STN), Louella Laureolla & Nanette Pittenger, Brian Sims (Jedi News) Hollywood Studios in Orlando, FL - Meredith Duckworth (D23 member) El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, CA - Martin Keeler (Fantha Tracks) Lucasfilm Headquarters in San Francisco, CA - Marcus Dohring (501st member) Times Square in New York - Lou Secki and Tim Riecker (Force Chatter)   Tune in next week for our in-depth review of the first 3 episodes of AHSOKA. Thank you to Brian Sims for taking some amazing photos which we've shared on social media and as part of this episode on YouTube.   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel for more videos and fun Shorts   Like this one:   https://youtube.com/shorts/2fhDORTPtDg?feature=share   This is the Way.   Today in Star Wars History, Part 2 NOW AVAILABLE   Use code LIFEDAYFREESHIP for free shipping on 2 or more books!     Autographed Edition!!     Check out these SKYwalking NETwork Podcasts:   Classic Marvel Star Wars Comics - Delving into each issue of the Star Wars comic series 1977-1986 The Max EFX Podcast - Chronicling the 35-year Special Effects film career of Max Cervantes Neverland Clubhouse - Two sisters, and best friends, sharing Disney adventures Talking Apes - focusing on the original Planet of the Apes films and TV shows Totally Tell Me Everything - Two ladies, one topic, three questions. Sarah Woloski and Bryn MacKinnon learn, share and grow. Star Warsologies - A podcast about Science and Star Wars   SPONSORS   Small World Vacations is an official sponsor of Skywalking Through Neverland. Contact them for a no obligation price quote at www.smallworldvacations.com. Tell them Skywalking Through Neverland sent you.   SUPPORT THE SHOW   Find out how you can become a part of the Skywalking Force and unlock bonus content.   CONTACT US   Instagram: http://instagram.com/skywalkingpod Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkywalkingPod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skywalkingthroughneverland Send emails to share@skywalkingthroughneverland.com and follow us on Facebook.   If you dug this episode, click over to iTunes | Stitcher | YouTube and leave us a review!   Never Land on Alderaan!

EPISODE SUMMARY: Mark Wallengren is a 35 year radio personality and former host of the Mark and Kim show on KOST, the first equally billed male and female morning show in the country. Mark and Kim have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Wallengren shares how he got his start in radio and tons of exciting stories from his decades on air as Mark and Chachi sit down at for a chat! On this episode of Chachi Loves Everybody, Chachi talks to Mark Wallengren about:Growing up in a Mormon pioneer family full of artists and innovatorsGetting his start in Preston, Idaho and working his way to larger marketsShutting the Union Pacific Train with his reenacctment of War of the WorldsDoing voiceover work and creating a proffessional press kit that got him noticed by Jhani KayeLanding a job at KOST and eventually replacing MG Kelly in the morningsMeeting Kim Amidon and quickly dominating ratings with the Mark and Kim show His connections with Disney and the thrill of the annual KOST Disneyland PartyGetting a star on the Hollywood Walk of FameThe tragic loss of his brother Ernie to ALSAnd more!ABOUT THIS EPISODE'S GUEST:Mark Wallengren is a 35 year radio personality. He got his start in radio at KACH Preston, Idaho then worked his way to LA and was hired along with Kim Amidon at legendary Los Angeles radio station KOST 103.5FM in Feb of 1985. They won most of radios top personality awards and on the 20th anniversary of the Mark & Kim Show received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of Disney's El Capitan Theater in 2006. To donate to the E. F. Wallengren Fund for ALS Research in honor of Mark's brother, Ernie, who passed away from ALS, click HERE.ABOUT THE PODCAST: Chachi Loves Everybody is brought to you by Benztown and hosted by the President of Benztown, Dave “Chachi” Denes. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the myths and legends of the radio industry.PEOPLE MENTIONED: Kim Amidon, Gary Owens, Uncle Earl Trout, Don Burns, Larry McKay, Orson Welles, Kip Guth, Jim Ladd, Frasier Smith, Jhani Kaye, Machine Gun Kelly, Mark Allen, Mike Sakellarides, Lowman and Barkley, Robert W Morgan, Charlie Tuna, Rick Dees, David Paymer, Grant Tinker, Earl Hamner, Rugburn Liz Fulton, Scott Shanon, Big Boy, Mark and Brian, Kevin and Bean, Real Don Steele, Roy Disney, Darren Silva, Roy Laughlin, John Peake, Michael Levine, Dick Cook, Mike Eisner, Greg Ashlock, Ellen K, Andrew Jeffries, Rodrigo HernandezABOUT BENZTOWN: Benztown is a leading international audio imaging, production library, voiceover, programming, podcasting, and jingle production company with over 3,000 affiliations on six different continents. Benztown provides audio brands and radio stations of all formats with end-to-end imaging and production, making high-quality sound and world-class audio branding a reality for radio stations of all market sizes and budgets. Benztown was named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 by Inc. magazine for five consecutive years as one of America's Fastest-Growing Privately Held Companies. With studios in Los Angeles, New York, London and Stuttgart, Benztown offers the highest quality audio imaging work parts for 23 libraries across 14 music and spoken word formats including AC, Hot AC, CHR, Country, Hip Hop and R&B, Rhythmic, Classic Hits, Rock, News/Talk, Sports, and JACK. Benztown provides custom VO and imaging across all formats, including commercial VO and copywriting in partnership with Yamanair Creative. Benztown Radio Networks produces, markets, and distributes high-quality programming and services to radio stations around the world, including: The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown, The Daily Dees Show, The Todd-N-Tyler Radio Empire, Hot Mix, Sunday Night Slow Jams with R Dub!, Flashback, Top 10 Now, AudioLogger, Audio Architecture, Radio Merch Shop, The Rooster Show Prep, AmeriCountry, and Benztown Swag Bank. Benztown + McVay Media Podcast Networks produces and markets premium podcasts including: The Making of: A National Geographic Podcast, Run It Again, Hot Chicken and Cage-Free Conversation with Byron Kennedy, and Edelman Financial Engines' Everyday Wealth.Web: benztown.comFacebook: facebook.com/benztownradioTwitter: @benztownradioLinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/benztownInstagram: instagram.com/benztownradio

Pop culture hosts, Aljon Go and Dave Bossert chat with musical director/composer/producer, Ed Vodicka about performing at the El Capitan Theater on the legendary Wurlitzer Fox Special Organ and his early career (part 1 of 2). The duo also discusses the closing of Walt Disney World's Galactic Star Cruiser Experience, what's worth streaming, and entertainment news. Learn more about Ed Vodicka - Ed Vodicka – Pianist /Jazz & Pops and the organ at the El Capitan About Us (elcapitantheatre.com). PRE-ORDER - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion (Commemorating 30 Years) (Disney Editions Deluxe) Hardcover by Dave Bossert using our Amazon Affiliate Link - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3E51hyR⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. - The Skull Rock Podcast is brought to you by the generosity of the following companies: Shure and their ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MV7 - Podcast Microphone Kit (shure.com)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sound Extraordinary | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Old Mill Press - “Publishing beautifully crafted books that illuminate our world.” To learn more visit theoldmillpress.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - and listeners like you. Follow us ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Skull Rock Podcast | Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Aljon Go (@aljongo) • Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- Aljon's pop-culture podcasts - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Disney List Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dining at Disney Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Sorcerer Radio - All Disney Music, All Day Long SRSounds.com - E-mail: aljon@skullrockpodcast.com || ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Dave Bossert (@dave_bossert) • Instagram ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- dave@skullrockpodcast.com. For more great behind-the-scenes stories and articles visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠davidbossert.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Shop using our Amazon affiliate link - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3uld8or⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Thanks to you, the Skull Rock Podcast is on the list of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Best Disney Podcasts You Must Follow (feedspot.com)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. - Outro music "The Pirate King" composed by Jared Rehnquist/Untold Journey - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skullrockpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/skullrockpodcast/support

A few weeks ago, Disney's 'Homeward Bound' celebrated its 30th Anniversary at The El Capitan Theater in Hollywood! This is a hugely nostalgic film for so many of us and I was honored to be asked by one of the film's stars, Benj Thall, to moderate the cast and crew panel before the screening! Benj is a fantastic friend and the film is just as entertaining today as I'm sure you remember it being! Joining Benj and I onstage were his on-screen family of Robert Hays, Veronica Lauren Sawyer and Kevin Chavalier. Director Duwayne Dunham and producer Jeffrey Chernov had some amazing stories to share about putting the film together. And of course, where would this movie even be without the film's animal trainer Joe Camp, joined on the panel by Tammy Maples. Whether or not you've never seen Homeward Bound or you've seen it a million times, I think you'll really enjoy these stories from the people who helped bring it to life! You can also subscribe to the Geekscape podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3BVrnkW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3H27uMH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There is more than one way to drive home from Landers. Topics include: spam comments deleted, Pro Bowl, Crocs with team logo accessories, back roads through the low desert, sand storm, Palm Springs, Landers house, flying, riding a horse, Hollywood Blvd, El Capitan Theater, Mr Ed, Dennis the Menace, Chinese spy balloons, Chief Wahoo, A League of Their Own, Major League, Jerry Lawler

No. 48: Walt Disney's Hollywood and the beginning of the Walt Disney Company from January 24, 2011 Let us hear from you: comments@mousetalgia.com Visit Walt Disney's Hollywood: In this week's episode, Jeff takes us on a tour of Walt Disney's Hollywood, with stops at his first home and the first studio where Walt's "Alice" short films were created. Other stops include the infamous Snow White Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard, Paty's Coffee House (which Walt would visit from time to time) and Walt's final resting place in Forest Lawn. Also - Jeff reports on the Disney Pops and Pipes organ concert at the grand El Capitan Theater, the Disney Soda Fountain serves up TRON Sundaes... and more!

For our 200th episode, we're bringing you our non-spoiler reaction to Andor fresh off its Hollywood premiere! We had the opportunity to attend the launch event on Thursday and watch the first three episodes in the El Capitan Theater. We talk through our red-carpet experience, the Andor pre-show featuring Diego Luna and Tony Gilroy, and our initial thoughts on the series. Stay tuned next week for our full spoiler discussion on episodes one through three. Twitter: https://twitter.com/FriendsOfForce Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/friendsoftheforce/?hl=en Website: http://www.friendsoftheforcepod.com YouTube: https://bit.ly/36w7bsd Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/friendsoftheforce Thank you to all of our Patrons, including our Luminous Beings: Brian, Bryan, Carol, Dylan, Huong, Jenn, Lee-Ann, Lucy, Travis, Tom, and T. #StarWars #Andor

We attended the Opening Night fan event for Disney-Pixar's latest animated film, “Turning Red” at Hollywood's iconic El Capitan Theater. Find out what we had to say about our experience as well as all of our thoughts on the movie! Let us know what YOU thought about it! You can follow us on Instagram @pocketfulofcozypod, on Twitter @cozypod or email us at pocketfulofcozy@gmail.com to send feedback & suggestions! Until next time… Stay cozy! :)

Welcome to the Neverland Clubhouse - where we discuss Jungle Cruise! The film, the Disneyland attraction changes and the D23 Fan event at the El Capitan Theater! Here you leave today, and venture into adventure, excitement and nostalgia. This is the Disney podcast where two sisters, Kelly and Courtney, take you to different park lands share Disney adventures, stories, news and so much more.   First the Sisters welcome Special Guest Co-host Sarah Woloski of Skywalking through Neverland and Totally Tell Me Everything! They all head to Adventureland and hop on the Jungle Cruise to go find the 8th wonder of the world. We discuss the changes made to the queue, new scenes on the ride and even new jokes! They even discuss the new Disney+ show Behind the Attraction episode of the Jungle Cruise in regards to some history of the attraction.   Then the Sisters take Sarah through D23's opening night screening At the El Capitan of Disney's Jungle Cruise. Such a fun event including getting hats to take home and eating some Dole Whip! Pictures below in the show notes.   And finally its an in-depth review and discussion of the new movie Disney's Jungle Cruise with Sarah, Courtney and Kelly giving their thoughts on the movie. Did they like it? Was it everything they had been waiting for? And was there a Backside of Water? Spoilers ahead on this river cruise!! Pictures from Our Jungle Cruise Adventures!       About Neverland Clubhouse   Welcome to the Neverland Clubhouse! Here you leave today, and venture into adventure, excitement and nostalgia. This is the Disney podcast where two sisters, Kelly and Courtney, take you to different park lands share Disney adventures, stories, news and so much more.   How To Listen on the Go:   Listen now on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS   If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a podcast rating and review!!   Social Media   Instagram: http://instagram.com/neverlandclubhousepod Courtney: https://www.instagram.com/clt8622/ Kelly: https://www.instagram.com/kellyturckel/ Join the Skywalking Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/488002904732240/   If you dug this episode, click over to iTunes | Stitcher | YouTube and leave us a review!SaveSave   Subscribe to the Skywalking Network Newsletter   If you liked this episode, check out more of the Neverland Clubhouse!

Welcome to the Neverland Clubhouse - where we discuss Jungle Cruise! The film, the Disneyland attraction changes and the D23 Fan event at the El Capitan Theater! Here you leave today, and venture into adventure, excitement and nostalgia. This is the Disney podcast where two sisters, Kelly and Courtney, take you to different park lands share Disney adventures, stories, news and so much more.   First the Sisters welcome Special Guest Co-host Sarah Woloski of Skywalking through Neverland and Totally Tell Me Everything! They all head to Adventureland and hop on the Jungle Cruise to go find the 8th wonder of the world. We discuss the changes made to the queue, new scenes on the ride and even new jokes! They even discuss the new Disney+ show Behind the Attraction episode of the Jungle Cruise in regards to some history of the attraction.   Then the Sisters take Sarah through D23's opening night screening At the El Capitan of Disney's Jungle Cruise. Such a fun event including getting hats to take home and eating some Dole Whip! Pictures below in the show notes.   And finally its an in-depth review and discussion of the new movie Disney's Jungle Cruise with Sarah, Courtney and Kelly giving their thoughts on the movie. Did they like it? Was it everything they had been waiting for? And was there a Backside of Water? Spoilers ahead on this river cruise!! Pictures from Our Jungle Cruise Adventures!       About Neverland Clubhouse   Welcome to the Neverland Clubhouse! Here you leave today, and venture into adventure, excitement and nostalgia. This is the Disney podcast where two sisters, Kelly and Courtney, take you to different park lands share Disney adventures, stories, news and so much more.   How To Listen on the Go:   Listen now on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | RSS   If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a podcast rating and review!!   Social Media   Instagram: http://instagram.com/neverlandclubhousepod Courtney: https://www.instagram.com/clt8622/ Kelly: https://www.instagram.com/kellyturckel/ Join the Skywalking Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/488002904732240/   If you dug this episode, click over to iTunes | Stitcher | YouTube and leave us a review!SaveSave   Subscribe to the Skywalking Network Newsletter   If you liked this episode, check out more of the Neverland Clubhouse!

    Today's episode Sesame Street is brought to you by the number 4 and the letter T...wait, nope. This is Totally Tell Me Everything and we're talking about tea. The kind you drink, silly. We couldn't record a show about tea without having some of it while we talked. right? What were we drinking? Sarah made herself a glass of iced green tea with honey, and Bryn had hot peach tisane.   Question 1: What is it about tea that you are into?   Bryn starts us off by talking about the appeal of the ritual of tea, informed by her daily tea-drinking husband's deep thoughts about this caffeinated beverage: “Tea is MOMENT. Tea is a respite in your day. It's a moment of quiet and mindfulness and contemplation or just resting and not doing. It's a moment for just being.”   Herbal teas/tisanes are Bryn's jam these days, as she tries to avoid caffeine. She likes iced tea with flavored simple syrups that she makes herself.   Sarah first became interested in tea thanks to everyone's favorite bald Starfleet hottie, Captain Picard, thanks to his iconic order: Tea, Earl Grey, Hot, even though Sarah likes to drink Lady Grey better than the Captain's fave.    But her big tea love is British High Tea!   She got into this in when she was just out of college. She and her girlfriends would go about once a month and try out different tea rooms around LA, from the Valley to Orange County.  While in London on their honeymoon, Richard and Sarah went to have High Tea at Harrods of London. It did not live up to her expectations. :( A better tea experience, however, was at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood in 2004, when Sarah and her mom enjoyed a special tea-movie special event. The movie was Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. The theater rented out a dining space in the upper levels of Hollywood and Highland, for an Afternoon Tea Seating. After the film (which she loved), they were escorted across the street, up stairs and into this ballroom space with round tables all set with the traditional tea service 3-tiered tray. On walls and columns were costumes, photos and paintings from the movie. And seven Disney princesses walked around and visited your table, and you could go visit Ariel in her grotto. It was the BEST. Check out pics from Mouseplanet! (Side note: Stan Lee did not limit his cameos to just Marvel films. He has a rather disturbing cameo in this film!) Education Corner: Low Tea vs. High Tea   Question 2: What we want to learn about/deep dive?   Sarah was determined to find out where tea comes from and why there are different types. Her research came from a book!    Some highlights:   All tea comes from ONE PLANT, no matter the type. A single species of plant Camellia sinensis.  An evergreen shrub that has small white aromatic flowers. The leaves of this plant create tea when processed correctly!  Processing is what creates the different types. If you pluck the leaves off the plant and throw them in boiling water, you get a bitter beverage. The process has 5 stages: Step 1: Withering - the leaves and buds are softened on large racks in a heated room or air-dry in the sun. Starch in leaf begins to convert to sugar, moisture content drops. WHITE TEA uses mostly the white buds, and maybe a leaf. Step 2: Rolling - leaves are now soft and pliant and can be rolled - this twists and crushes the leaves and releases sap and stimulates fermentation. (GREEN TEA is immediately heated and dried, and does not go under the next Oxidation step) Step 3: Oxidation - VIP b/c here is where the flavor and value are determined. Rolled leaves are placed on trays at a 1-2” thickness, then left in a cool damp place for 1-3 hours to oxidize. This causes a chemical reaction which heats the leaves. If the temp gets too high, the leaves taste burned. Too low and you have a metallic aftertaste. Oxidation makes leaves turn from green to copper. (OOLONG tea is partially oxidized (about 60%, then goes to next 2 stages.)  Step 4: Drying - Oxidizes leaves are dried with hot air on a conveyer belt, which stops the fermentation process and turns the leaves the characteristic dark brown or black.  Step 5: Grading/Sorting - Sorted into leaf grades based on size. Whole leaf produces the finest quality tea, dust size are used for the quick-brewing tea bags.  Herbal Teas, Rooibos and Yerba Mate do NOT come from this Camellia Sinensis, and we should be calling them “tisanes” (rhymes with “inane” and “brynane”), a medicinal drink or infusion.   Sarah also wanted more info on the origin of British Afternoon Tea. It's fascinating!   Thanks, Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford, for the tea, coffee and freedom.   Bryn's deep dive this month was shallow, as she sought the answer to the question: Is sun tea actually dangerous?   Bryn was an ‘80s kid, and her mom made a lot of sun tea Verdict: Snopes says don't do it: Tea steeped in a jar on your porch doesn't get hot enough to kill the beasties in the water or the tea.   Question 3: What are you excited about regarding tea?   Sarah and Bryn are both all about the vessels!   Bryn brought out an array of some of her favorite cups for drinking tea Miss Piggy, Tony Brown, Unurth ceramics,    Sarah shared a new-found story behind her mom's tea set: a vintage 1960s Japanese Somayaki Green Double Wall Tea Pot with 4 cups, a creamer and sugar bowl from Matsunaga Ceramics Shop. The heart shape cut outs represent plovers (Chidori) - a species of wading bird. Notice the wavy brush pattern below? That represents waves. This combination of plovers and waves is called Nami-Chidori in Japanese, and is a common motif in Japanese arts.   She's just so tickled that this tea set she grew up with turns out to have such history!            Final Thought   Sarah says tea is a moment, but it also creates a memory, whether it calls you back to an amusingly disappointing Harrods experience or a precious time with family from long ago.    For Bryn, tea is another way to perform self care in a time when life seems to move too quickly.    And perhaps the best final thought came from Eleanor Roosevelt (Or did it?):   A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it is in hot water.  Eleanor Roosevelt   We hope you'll come sit by us next month when we tackle another topic on Totally Tell Me Everything. Ta-ta!   About Totally Tell Me Everything   Two friends, one fun topic, three burning questions = lots of fun conversation! Each month we pick a topic and ask each other three questions about it - we learn about the subject, our past and each other. So come sit by us and we'll totally tell you everything!   How To Listen on the Go:   Listen now and leave a Review on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Google Podcasts | RSS   If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a podcast rating and review!!   Social Media   Instagram: http://instagram.com/totallytellmeeverything Sarah: http://instagram.com/jeditink Bryn: https://www.instagram.com/brynane/ Join the Skywalking Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/488002904732240/   Subscribe to the Skywalking Network Newsletter

    Today's episode Sesame Street is brought to you by the number 4 and the letter T...wait, nope. This is Totally Tell Me Everything and we're talking about tea. The kind you drink, silly. We couldn't record a show about tea without having some of it while we talked. right? What were we drinking? Sarah made herself a glass of iced green tea with honey, and Bryn had hot peach tisane.   Question 1: What is it about tea that you are into?   Bryn starts us off by talking about the appeal of the ritual of tea, informed by her daily tea-drinking husband's deep thoughts about this caffeinated beverage: “Tea is MOMENT. Tea is a respite in your day. It's a moment of quiet and mindfulness and contemplation or just resting and not doing. It's a moment for just being.”   Herbal teas/tisanes are Bryn's jam these days, as she tries to avoid caffeine. She likes iced tea with flavored simple syrups that she makes herself.   Sarah first became interested in tea thanks to everyone's favorite bald Starfleet hottie, Captain Picard, thanks to his iconic order: Tea, Earl Grey, Hot, even though Sarah likes to drink Lady Grey better than the Captain's fave.    But her big tea love is British High Tea!   She got into this in when she was just out of college. She and her girlfriends would go about once a month and try out different tea rooms around LA, from the Valley to Orange County.  While in London on their honeymoon, Richard and Sarah went to have High Tea at Harrods of London. It did not live up to her expectations. :( A better tea experience, however, was at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood in 2004, when Sarah and her mom enjoyed a special tea-movie special event. The movie was Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. The theater rented out a dining space in the upper levels of Hollywood and Highland, for an Afternoon Tea Seating. After the film (which she loved), they were escorted across the street, up stairs and into this ballroom space with round tables all set with the traditional tea service 3-tiered tray. On walls and columns were costumes, photos and paintings from the movie. And seven Disney princesses walked around and visited your table, and you could go visit Ariel in her grotto. It was the BEST. Check out pics from Mouseplanet! (Side note: Stan Lee did not limit his cameos to just Marvel films. He has a rather disturbing cameo in this film!) Education Corner: Low Tea vs. High Tea   Question 2: What we want to learn about/deep dive?   Sarah was determined to find out where tea comes from and why there are different types. Her research came from a book!    Some highlights:   All tea comes from ONE PLANT, no matter the type. A single species of plant Camellia sinensis.  An evergreen shrub that has small white aromatic flowers. The leaves of this plant create tea when processed correctly!  Processing is what creates the different types. If you pluck the leaves off the plant and throw them in boiling water, you get a bitter beverage. The process has 5 stages: Step 1: Withering - the leaves and buds are softened on large racks in a heated room or air-dry in the sun. Starch in leaf begins to convert to sugar, moisture content drops. WHITE TEA uses mostly the white buds, and maybe a leaf. Step 2: Rolling - leaves are now soft and pliant and can be rolled - this twists and crushes the leaves and releases sap and stimulates fermentation. (GREEN TEA is immediately heated and dried, and does not go under the next Oxidation step) Step 3: Oxidation - VIP b/c here is where the flavor and value are determined. Rolled leaves are placed on trays at a 1-2” thickness, then left in a cool damp place for 1-3 hours to oxidize. This causes a chemical reaction which heats the leaves. If the temp gets too high, the leaves taste burned. Too low and you have a metallic aftertaste. Oxidation makes leaves turn from green to copper. (OOLONG tea is partially oxidized (about 60%, then goes to next 2 stages.)  Step 4: Drying - Oxidizes leaves are dried with hot air on a conveyer belt, which stops the fermentation process and turns the leaves the characteristic dark brown or black.  Step 5: Grading/Sorting - Sorted into leaf grades based on size. Whole leaf produces the finest quality tea, dust size are used for the quick-brewing tea bags.  Herbal Teas, Rooibos and Yerba Mate do NOT come from this Camellia Sinensis, and we should be calling them “tisanes” (rhymes with “inane” and “brynane”), a medicinal drink or infusion.   Sarah also wanted more info on the origin of British Afternoon Tea. It's fascinating!   Thanks, Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford, for the tea, coffee and freedom.   Bryn's deep dive this month was shallow, as she sought the answer to the question: Is sun tea actually dangerous?   Bryn was an ‘80s kid, and her mom made a lot of sun tea Verdict: Snopes says don't do it: Tea steeped in a jar on your porch doesn't get hot enough to kill the beasties in the water or the tea.   Question 3: What are you excited about regarding tea?   Sarah and Bryn are both all about the vessels!   Bryn brought out an array of some of her favorite cups for drinking tea Miss Piggy, Tony Brown, Unurth ceramics,    Sarah shared a new-found story behind her mom's tea set: a vintage 1960s Japanese Somayaki Green Double Wall Tea Pot with 4 cups, a creamer and sugar bowl from Matsunaga Ceramics Shop. The heart shape cut outs represent plovers (Chidori) - a species of wading bird. Notice the wavy brush pattern below? That represents waves. This combination of plovers and waves is called Nami-Chidori in Japanese, and is a common motif in Japanese arts.   She's just so tickled that this tea set she grew up with turns out to have such history!            Final Thought   Sarah says tea is a moment, but it also creates a memory, whether it calls you back to an amusingly disappointing Harrods experience or a precious time with family from long ago.    For Bryn, tea is another way to perform self care in a time when life seems to move too quickly.    And perhaps the best final thought came from Eleanor Roosevelt (Or did it?):   A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it is in hot water.  Eleanor Roosevelt   We hope you'll come sit by us next month when we tackle another topic on Totally Tell Me Everything. Ta-ta!   About Totally Tell Me Everything   Two friends, one fun topic, three burning questions = lots of fun conversation! Each month we pick a topic and ask each other three questions about it - we learn about the subject, our past and each other. So come sit by us and we'll totally tell you everything!   How To Listen on the Go:   Listen now and leave a Review on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Google Podcasts | RSS   If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a podcast rating and review!!   Social Media   Instagram: http://instagram.com/totallytellmeeverything Sarah: http://instagram.com/jeditink Bryn: https://www.instagram.com/brynane/ Join the Skywalking Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/488002904732240/   Subscribe to the Skywalking Network Newsletter

    Today's episode Sesame Street is brought to you by the number 4 and the letter T...wait, nope. This is Totally Tell Me Everything and we're talking about tea. The kind you drink, silly. We couldn't record a show about tea without having some of it while we talked. right? What were we drinking? Sarah made herself a glass of iced green tea with honey, and Bryn had hot peach tisane.   Question 1: What is it about tea that you are into?   Bryn starts us off by talking about the appeal of the ritual of tea, informed by her daily tea-drinking husband's deep thoughts about this caffeinated beverage: “Tea is MOMENT. Tea is a respite in your day. It's a moment of quiet and mindfulness and contemplation or just resting and not doing. It's a moment for just being.”   Herbal teas/tisanes are Bryn's jam these days, as she tries to avoid caffeine. She likes iced tea with flavored simple syrups that she makes herself.   Sarah first became interested in tea thanks to everyone's favorite bald Starfleet hottie, Captain Picard, thanks to his iconic order: Tea, Earl Grey, Hot, even though Sarah likes to drink Lady Grey better than the Captain's fave.    But her big tea love is British High Tea!   She got into this in when she was just out of college. She and her girlfriends would go about once a month and try out different tea rooms around LA, from the Valley to Orange County.  While in London on their honeymoon, Richard and Sarah went to have High Tea at Harrods of London. It did not live up to her expectations. :( A better tea experience, however, was at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood in 2004, when Sarah and her mom enjoyed a special tea-movie special event. The movie was Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. The theater rented out a dining space in the upper levels of Hollywood and Highland, for an Afternoon Tea Seating. After the film (which she loved), they were escorted across the street, up stairs and into this ballroom space with round tables all set with the traditional tea service 3-tiered tray. On walls and columns were costumes, photos and paintings from the movie. And seven Disney princesses walked around and visited your table, and you could go visit Ariel in her grotto. It was the BEST. Check out pics from Mouseplanet! (Side note: Stan Lee did not limit his cameos to just Marvel films. He has a rather disturbing cameo in this film!) Education Corner: Low Tea vs. High Tea   Question 2: What we want to learn about/deep dive?   Sarah was determined to find out where tea comes from and why there are different types. Her research came from a book!    Some highlights:   All tea comes from ONE PLANT, no matter the type. A single species of plant Camellia sinensis.  An evergreen shrub that has small white aromatic flowers. The leaves of this plant create tea when processed correctly!  Processing is what creates the different types. If you pluck the leaves off the plant and throw them in boiling water, you get a bitter beverage. The process has 5 stages: Step 1: Withering - the leaves and buds are softened on large racks in a heated room or air-dry in the sun. Starch in leaf begins to convert to sugar, moisture content drops. WHITE TEA uses mostly the white buds, and maybe a leaf. Step 2: Rolling - leaves are now soft and pliant and can be rolled - this twists and crushes the leaves and releases sap and stimulates fermentation. (GREEN TEA is immediately heated and dried, and does not go under the next Oxidation step) Step 3: Oxidation - VIP b/c here is where the flavor and value are determined. Rolled leaves are placed on trays at a 1-2” thickness, then left in a cool damp place for 1-3 hours to oxidize. This causes a chemical reaction which heats the leaves. If the temp gets too high, the leaves taste burned. Too low and you have a metallic aftertaste. Oxidation makes leaves turn from green to copper. (OOLONG tea is partially oxidized (about 60%, then goes to next 2 stages.)  Step 4: Drying - Oxidizes leaves are dried with hot air on a conveyer belt, which stops the fermentation process and turns the leaves the characteristic dark brown or black.  Step 5: Grading/Sorting - Sorted into leaf grades based on size. Whole leaf produces the finest quality tea, dust size are used for the quick-brewing tea bags.  Herbal Teas, Rooibos and Yerba Mate do NOT come from this Camellia Sinensis, and we should be calling them “tisanes” (rhymes with “inane” and “brynane”), a medicinal drink or infusion.   Sarah also wanted more info on the origin of British Afternoon Tea. It's fascinating!   Thanks, Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford, for the tea, coffee and freedom.   Bryn's deep dive this month was shallow, as she sought the answer to the question: Is sun tea actually dangerous?   Bryn was an ‘80s kid, and her mom made a lot of sun tea Verdict: Snopes says don't do it: Tea steeped in a jar on your porch doesn't get hot enough to kill the beasties in the water or the tea.   Question 3: What are you excited about regarding tea?   Sarah and Bryn are both all about the vessels!   Bryn brought out an array of some of her favorite cups for drinking tea Miss Piggy, Tony Brown, Unurth ceramics,    Sarah shared a new-found story behind her mom's tea set: a vintage 1960s Japanese Somayaki Green Double Wall Tea Pot with 4 cups, a creamer and sugar bowl from Matsunaga Ceramics Shop. The heart shape cut outs represent plovers (Chidori) - a species of wading bird. Notice the wavy brush pattern below? That represents waves. This combination of plovers and waves is called Nami-Chidori in Japanese, and is a common motif in Japanese arts.   She's just so tickled that this tea set she grew up with turns out to have such history!            Final Thought   Sarah says tea is a moment, but it also creates a memory, whether it calls you back to an amusingly disappointing Harrods experience or a precious time with family from long ago.    For Bryn, tea is another way to perform self care in a time when life seems to move too quickly.    And perhaps the best final thought came from Eleanor Roosevelt (Or did it?):   A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it is in hot water.  Eleanor Roosevelt   We hope you'll come sit by us next month when we tackle another topic on Totally Tell Me Everything. Ta-ta!   About Totally Tell Me Everything   Two friends, one fun topic, three burning questions = lots of fun conversation! Each month we pick a topic and ask each other three questions about it - we learn about the subject, our past and each other. So come sit by us and we'll totally tell you everything!   How To Listen on the Go:   Listen now and leave a Review on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Google Podcasts | RSS   If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave a podcast rating and review!!   Social Media   Instagram: http://instagram.com/totallytellmeeverything Sarah: http://instagram.com/jeditink Bryn: https://www.instagram.com/brynane/ Join the Skywalking Facebook Group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/488002904732240/   Subscribe to the Skywalking Network Newsletter

Jason Badger is back on the show! We talked about his work as projections programmer on a stunning production of Ring Cycle at the Los Angeles Opera, the curtain shows he’s created at the El Capitan Theater, how DMX based fountain control works, and what inspired him to get so deeply under the hood on lighting control software.We also continued our discussion about lighting for theme parks, this time discussing area development in detail, with examples from Galaxy’s Edge and Cars Land. We wrapped up by discussing how World Of Color at California Adventure works, a massively complicated project that included fountains with their own built-in lights and integration with the surrounding rides and attractions.Thanks for downloading and listening!

The Country Bears is a 2002 American family musical comedy film, directed by Peter Hastings, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and based on the Disney theme park attraction Country Bear Jamboree. The film stars Christopher Walken, Daryl Mitchell, Diedrich Bader (in a dual role), Alex Rocco, and Haley Joel Osment as the voice of Beary Barrington with the voice talents of Candy Ford, James Gammon, Brad Garrett, Toby Huss, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Stephen Root. It was Disney's second theatrical film based on an attraction at one of its theme parks and the third overall film based on an attraction following the television film Tower of Terror (1997) and the theatrically-released Mission to Mars (2000). Its world premiere was on July 21, 2002, at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California. After that, it was released to theaters nationwide on July 26, 2002, and was a box office bomb, grossing $18 million of its $35 million budget. www.ObscureDisneyPodcast.com www.DisneyPatch.com www.Obscuri-D.com

We’re back! This week we are discussing the ways you can familiarize yourself with and support Disney’s black culture. Also, a HUGE announcement about reopening the Disneyland Resort including California Adventure, Downtown Disney, The Grand Californian and The Paradise Pier Hotel. As usual, we’ve got updates on merch, what to watch on Disney+ and all of the ways you can bring the magic into your home until we can get back to the parks! Links:Subscribe to our events calendar (it’s free)!Follow Sean, Tabitha and the Magic on Main Street Podcast on Instagram!If you have any comments, questions or any stories you may want to share with our audience, email us at friends@magiconmainstreetpodcast.com.Become a patron on our all new Patreon! For as little as $2 a month, you’ll get early access and you’ll never have to listen to ads!Topic 1 - This Week in Disneyland history1956:Disneyland debuts Tom Sawyer Island & the Rafts to Tom Sawyer Island in Frontierland, the film 3D Jamboree at the Mickey Mouse Club Theater, and the Storybook Land Canal Boats attraction in Fantasyland.Tom Sawyer Island (today known as Pirate's Lair on Tom Sawyer Island) is an artificial island surrounded by the Rivers of America and inspired by the works of Mark Twain. Guests visit the island by traveling on a motorized raft which is piloted by a Disneyland Cast Member. The short 3D Jamboree features the famous Mouseketeers and their leader Jimmy Dodd. The presentation includes the animated shorts Melody and Working for Peanuts all in 3D. Storybook Land Canal Boats (originally known as Canal Boats of the World in 1955) features 13 boats (powered by outboard motors) afloat in 465,000 gallons of water.1958:Disneyland's Columbia ship opens on the Rivers of America. It is a full-scale version of the first ship to carry the American flag around the world. It actually was built in large part from the plans for the HMS Bounty (of mutiny fame). Disney's shipbuilders couldn't find plans for the original Columbia, so they relied heavily on those of Captain Bligh's ship, which had similar dimensions. It has cost $300,000 to build. Fowler's Harbor (named after Admiral Joseph Fowler, who helped to build Disneyland) is also officially opened on this day to dock the new ship. A dedication ceremony takes place with Fowler and Walt Disney himself in attendanceThe Disneyland attraction Alice in Wonderland debuts in Fantasyland. Actress, Kathryn Beaumont, voice of Alice in the 1951 animated movie, provides the voice for the dark ride. It follows the path of the movie, as the riders (as Alice) follow the White Rabbit down the Rabbit Hole into Wonderland. Disneyland's first "Alice" attraction - Mad Tea Party (a spinning tea cup ride), has been operating since the park's debut in July 19551959:Three major attractions are christened at Disneyland on this day:The first urban monorail system in the U.S., the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail System, begins operation in California's Disneyland. The two Mark I trains run on a .8 mile track around Tomorrowland. Walt Disney and U.S. Vice president Nixon and their families are on hand for the dedication of the "Highway in the Sky." (In June 1961, the Monorail will become a true transportation link instead of just a sightseeing ride. With an extended 2 1/2 mile track, Disneyland Hotel guests will be able to board the Monorail at the hotel and begin their park visit in Tomorrowland.)Also on this day at Disneyland, the Matterhorn Mountain with its Matterhorn Bobsleds, opens. Modeled after the Matterhorn, a real mountain in the Swiss Alps, it is the first roller coaster to use cylindrical rails and urethane wheels (which will become standard in the roller coaster industry). At 147 feet tall, the Matterhorn contains 500 tons of structural steel. The ride consists of two separate tracks that run somewhat parallel to each other for much of the ride, intertwining and eventually deviating from each other at the loading areas.The Submarine Voyage ride is officially dedicated on this day as well in Tomorrowland (although it has has been open since June 6). The attraction has cost about $2.5 million to create. The Nautilus and 7 sister submarines - the Triton, Sea Wolf, Skate, Skipjack, George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Ethan Allen allow 38 Disneyland guests at a time to take their own voyage to the North Pole. For the dedication of the new Submarine Voyage attraction the opening ceremonies feature eight live mermaids performing a synchronized swimming ballet in the lagoon.Mrs. Mildred Nelson, wife of the chief machinist on the the first nuclear-powered submarine, USS Nautilus,helps Walt Disney christen the sub D-301, appropriately named Nautilus. Also taking place at 1:30 is a special dedication parade specifically designedfor this day's festivities. The parade and all the day's events are filmed for an ABC television special to be titled Kodak Presents Disneyland ’59.1967:The Club 33 restaurant (for members-only) opens at 33 Royal Street, in New Orleans Square at Disneyland. It is comprised of two dining rooms and several adjoining areas, all of which hold a wide array of magnificent antiques and original works of art. A secret feature of the theme park, the entrance of the private club is located next to the Blue Bayou Restaurant at "33 Royal Street" with the entrance recognizable by an ornate address plate with the number 33 engraved on it.1971:The All American College Band performs for the very first time at Disneyland. The All-American College Band, made up of musicians from colleges all across the United States, will perform for 11 weeks throughout the summer (and become a yearly tradition).1972:The Main Street Electric Parade kicks off at Disneyland for the very first time. The floats include the Blue Fairy, Casey Junior Circus Train, Alice In Wonderland, Chinese Dragon, Dumbo’s Circus, Cinderella’s Ball, "it’s a small world", and the American Finale.1974:Disney World’s "Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue" dinner show debuts in Pioneer Hall at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground. Created as a college workshop summer production only, guest response will be so positive that Walt Disney World entertainment will continue the show with a permanent professional cast at the end of the 1974 summer! 1975:Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln returns to Disneyland after being replaced in 1973 with The Walt Disney Story.1983:The Disneyland parade Flights of Fantasy, which celebrates the opening of the New Fantasyland, debuts.1999:Disney's animated feature Tarzan premieres in the U.S. at the El Capitan Theater in HollywoodThe computer controlled sign that welcomes guests to the main entrance of Disneyland's parking lot is removed. Its site will be absorbed into the new California Adventure area. (This is only the second sign to greet guests as they entered Disneyland in the park's 44 year history. The original marquee, erected in 1958, had letters that had to be changed by hand!) Disney's 37th animated feature Tarzan is generally released in the U.S.2010:Toy Story 3 has its worldwide premiere at Taormina Film Fest in Italy. (It will premiere in the U.S. the following day.)2012:An expanded and spruced-up Carnation Café debuts on Main Street, U.S.A., in Disneyland park.A 4.1 earthquake in Yorba Linda that shake parts of Southern California on this evening adds a little extra unexpected excitement to the star-studded red carpet opening of the new Cars Land at the Disneyland Resort.Disneyland Resort caps off its $1 billion renovation of Disney California Adventure with the public opening of Cars Land and the new Buena Vista Street. Based on the Disney-Pixar movie Cars, Cars Land is the largest piece of a five-year expansion at Disney California Adventure Park, adding 12 acres of new attractions to the theme park. It is a recreation of the fictional town of Radiator Springs, featuring Luigi's Flying Tires, which flies riders over what looks like a giant air hockey table; Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, which swings riders in trailers in a "tow-si-do" square dance; and Radiator Springs Racers, which takes riders through a race through a mountain range.2016:Finding Dory, a 3D computer-animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures, hits U.S. theaters. The revamped Soarin’ flight simulator rides at Disney California Adventure and Epcot open to guests. Now called Soarin' Around the World, new scenes include a flight over Switzerland’s Matterhorn, the Arctic Ocean with a leaping whale, the Sydney Opera House in Australia, Germany’s Neuschwanstein castle, a herd of African elephants, the Great Wall of China, Egyptian pyramids, India’s Taj Mahal, hot air balloons in Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border, outrigger boats off Fiji, the Iguazu waterfalls on the Argentina-Brazil border and France’s Eiffel Tower. A new soundtrack performed by the London Studio Orchestra is based on Jerry Goldsmith's original Soarin’ score. Patrick Warburton (best known as Elaine’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Puddy on "Seinfeld") returns as chief flight attendant and host.2018:Incredibles 2, a computer-animated superhero film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, is released to theaters in the U.S.Topic 2 - News ReopeningDatesAPExpiration stays the same or extendRecharge for paymentNew expirationTicketsHotels updateJosh D’AMaro Announcement:Topic 3 - MerchNew Disney Rainbow Collection Mickey Loungefly Backpack and Dog Tee Parades into shopDisney for Pride MonthNew Rainbow Mickey Collection Drops on shopDisney In Honor of Pride MonthNew Pirates of the Caribbean Loungefly Mini Backpack Sails Into shopDisneyTopic 4 - Hidden MickeyTopic 5 - FoodCooking up the magic: The chefs at Lamplight Lounge in Disney California Adventure park have put a fun spin on a lunchtime classic with these PB and J Rolls.Topic 6 - Events/EntertainmentArtemis Fowl is now streaming on Disney+MAIN - Disney's Black CultureDisney+Splash Mountain rethemingThe Walt Disney Company has pledged $5 million to support nonprofit organizations that advance social justice, beginning with a $2 million donation to the NAACP to further their longstanding work promoting social justice by eliminating disparities and racial discrimination through their advocacy and education programs.“The killing of George Floyd has forced our nation to once again confront the long history of injustice that black people in America have suffered, and it is critical that we stand together, speak out and do everything in our power to ensure that acts of racism and violence are never tolerated,” said Bob Chapek, Chief Executive Officer, The Walt Disney Company. “This $5 million pledge will continue to support the efforts of nonprofit organizations such as the NAACP that have worked tirelessly to ensure equality and justice.”In addition, through the Disney Employee Matching Gifts program, employees are able to increase their impact in their communities by donating to eligible organizations, with the Company matching those gifts.Disney’s “Real Change” In Wake Of George Floyd Killing ProtestsBelow is a link to a statement we sent to our fellow @Disney employees. It's from Bob Chapek, our CEO, Latondra Newton, our Chief Diversity Officer, and me.Floyd Norman, an Animated LifePrime moviesSoulhttps://movies.disney.com/soul? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Happy Friday, March 6th Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be mostly cloudy with a high of 71 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 12 am and DCA 8 am - 10 pm. Today in the year 2011, Disney's Animated feature, Mars Needs Moms premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, Ca. Ian & Barley from Disney Pixar's Onward are officially at DCA. Beginning today, there is a New Meet & Greet with Both Characters where guests can meet them daily at Pixar Pier. And for a limited time, Guests can also see & take pics with Guinevere the Van. Speaking of, Disney Pixar's Onward is officially now in theaters! Will you be watching?

Drew Taylor starts off this week’s episode by talking about what it was like to attend the world premiere of Pixar Animation Studios’ latest at the El Capitan Theater. Then Jim Hill takes a look at one of the weirder promotional events ever staged at a Disney theme park, “Pooh for President.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drew Taylor starts off this week’s episode by talking about what it was like to attend the world premiere of Pixar Animation Studios’ latest animated feature at the El Capitan Theater. Then Jim Hill takes a look at one of the weirder promotional events ever staged at a Disney theme park, “Pooh for President.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Wednesday, January 22nd Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be mostly cloudy with a high of 66 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 9 am - 9 pm and DCA 9 am - 8 pm. Today in the year 2018, Minnie Mouse received her Star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. Perfect day for it too as today is National Polka Dot Day and Rock The Dots! Minnie's Star can be found in front of the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. New Concept Art, Costume Design and Float designs for the all-new Disneyland Parade, Magic Happens was just released online. This much-anticipated parade will hit Disneyland next month on February 28th. In Downtown Disney news, Sprinkles Cupcakes is now offering Toasted Coconut, Caramel & Chocolate goodness in their signature German Chocolate Cupcakes now through February 2nd.

Happy Thursday, November 14th Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be mostly cloudy with a high of 72 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 10 pm and DCA 8 am - 8 pm. Today in the year 1998, The Disney/Pixar Computer Animated Feature Film, A Bug's Life, premiered at the El Capitan Theater. Also on this day in the year 2016, the World Premiere of Moana takes place at the El Capitan Theater. In Park News, Just announced for AP's. From November 18th - 22nd, AP's Can ride It's a Small World Holiday and Get a Special Photo Op after Disneyland Closes. Valid AP's required and You must be inside the park before closing.

Happy Wednesday, November 13th Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be mostly cloudy with a high of 74 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 10 pm and DCA 8 am - 8 pm. Today in the year 1940, Disney's 3rd Feature Film, Fantasia premiered. Also on this day in the year 1991, Disney's Beauty & The Beast premiered at the El Capitan Theater and in the year 1999, Disney Pixar's Toy Story 2 Had its world premiere, also at the El Capitan Theater. In Park News, Attention AP's, Tonight after DCA Closes, Guests with AP's have from 8:30 - 9:30 pm to ride Radiator Springs Racers. Valid AP required. AP's Must be in DCA prior to closing. In More Park News, The Tomorrowland Walls are down exposing an entire new Grassy area giving guests more room to enjoy the park as well as give more viewing space during Fireworks.

The history of Disney's El Capitan theater is a long and storied one, tied to the creation of Grauman's Chinese Theater.  Hosts Catherine Law & Kristen Henley venture out to see Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and discover the hidden lair of movie paraphernalia buried in the theater's basement!  The gals discuss whether or not Michelle Pfeiffer is a tween, why Elle Fanning is actually from outer space, and how a 10-square-foot patch in front of the El Capitan is immune from the choking indignities and filth of the rest of Hollywood.  Welcome to Disneyland!

Happy Tuesday, November 5th Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be sunny with a high of 78 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 9 am - 10 pm and DCA 9 am - 8 pm. Happy Anniversary to The Incredibles. On this day in the year 2004, Disney Pixar's animated film, The Incredibles opened in theaters Nationwide. Also on this day in the year 2018, Ralph Breaks The Internet had its World Premiere at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Tonight at 8 pm on ABC TV, The Wonderful World of Disney Presents The Little Mermaid Live. In Park News, It's a Small World Holiday Overlay will be debuting 3 new scents when the ride returns this Friday, November 8th. In Asia, Guests will get to experience the scent of Cherry Blossom, South America will have a classic holiday Cinnamon scent and in the South Seas the Tropical smell of Coconut! In More park news, A New Character Celebration Mickey's Happy Holidays, is coming to DCA twice daily beginning this Friday. You will get to dance along with Mickey & Friends to High Energy music and the Holiday Toy Drummers. There is also a New Jingle Bell Mickey Ornament Sipper that will be released this Friday in the parks and I'm sure there will be much more as the day approaches.

Happy Wednesday, October 30th Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be sunny and windy with a high of 78 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 10 pm and DCA 8 am - 8 pm. Today in the year 2005, The world premiere of Chicken Little took place at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, California. In Park news, Lunar New Year and DCA Food & Wine Festival dates for 2020 have been released. With Lunar New Year we get to celebrate the year of the Mouse and festivities will begin January 17th - February 9th. And the Much anticipated Food & Wine Festival will begin on February 28th and will run until April 21st. New Trailers have just been released this Morning for Disney Plus. Pixar's Spark Shorts & Forky asks a Question. Disney Plus streaming begins on November 12th.

Happy Monday, October 28th Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be sunny with a high of 80 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 10 pm and DCA 8 am - 8 pm. Today in the year 2001, Disney Pixar's animated feature film, Monsters Inc premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. This is your last week to take Advantage of Halloween Time in the parks before it goes away. So if there is still some Halloween treats or merch you haven't gotten your hands on or if you still have yet to see Halloween Screams, You still have a few days. It all goes away on October 31st. Last week we mentioned WDW Fuel Rod Kiosks will begin charging guests $3 per swap beginning November 1st. Over the weekend it was confirmed that this will also be the case for guests At The Disneyland resort beginning November 1st.

Happy Thursday, October 24th Everyone! Weather in the parks today will be sunny with a high of 95 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 11 pm and DCA 8 am - 6 pm. Today in the year 2003, Disney's 44th Animated Feature Film, Brother Bear premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Also on this day in the year 2008, High School Musical 3: Senior Year was released. In Park News, Disneyland's Matterhorn Bobsleds will be closed Weekdays for refurbishment until Saturday, November 2nd. Disney Parks Blog just announced yesterday that the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland will be getting new destinations inspired by the latest episode of the Star Wars Saga, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker beginning December 20th. In Downtown Disney News, Guests Visiting Uva Bar & Catal Restaurant that dine-in Costume, will receive a free dessert. Offer valid on Tuesdays, Thursdays & Sunday Only until October 31st. Offer valid with the purchase of an entree, limit one dessert per table.

Happy Monday, September 23rd Everyone! And Happy1st Day of Fall! Weather in the parks today is mostly sunny with a high of 82 degrees. Park hours today, Disneyland will be open from 8 am - 11 pm and DCA 8 am - 8 pm. Today in the year 2007, the World Premiere of Walt Disney Pictures The Game Plan took place at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. The World Premiere of the New Frozen 2 trailer debuted this morning. Frozen 2 hits theaters on November 27th, 2019. Attention AP's! A new round of AP Mobile Order Buttons are now available when you mobile order at Refreshment Corner & Stage Door Cafe in Disneyland, and Adorable Snowman Frosted Treats & Rita's Baja Blenders in DCA. All you gotta do is show your AP when you pick up Your Mobile Order. Speaking of Buttons, AP's there is a New Oogie Boogie Themed Button this week at AP Corner. Once again, AP Corner is located on the 2nd floor of Tomorrowland Expo, from now till September 30th.

Happy Monday, June 3rd Everyone! Weather in the parks today is partly cloudy with a high of 74 degrees. Today in the year 2001, Disney's animated Atlantis : The Lost Empire premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Today In Disneyland History in the year 2011, Disney Officially launched Star Tours The Adventure Continues in Tomorrowland. Big News right now Star Wars Galaxy's Edge is officially open for all who were able to make reservations and The new land looks amazing! Soarin over California is now back for a limited time in DCA We now have a date for the premiere of Disney Channel's Descendants 3. Descendants 3 will premiere this summer on August 2nd.

Happy Tuesday, May 28th Everyone! Weather in the parks today is sunny with a high of 72 degrees. Happy Birthday to It's a Small World! Today in the year 1966 (straight from the World's Fair), It's a Small World Attraction opens in Fantasyland in Disneyland. Today in the year 2014, Disney's Maleficent Premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. Disney's Live Action Aladdin was a hit over Memorial Day Weekend, bringing in over $112 Million at the Box Office. In Disney Parks News, Watermelon Cotton Candy has returned for a limited time to the Disneyland resort. You can find it at all outdoor vending carts in both Disneyland & DCA. Star Wars Galaxy's Edge reusable bags have been spotted at Disneyland. With that, you will be seeing more merch being released this week for the Star Wars Galaxy's Edge opening.

Happy Thursday, May 16th Everyone! Weather in the parks today is cloudy with a high of 68 degrees. On this day in the year 2008, The reality Mini Series Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream debuts on The Disney Channel. Today in the Year 2009, Disney/Pixar's animation feature UP had its World Premiere at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. This just in, Lamplight lounge in DCA's Pixar Pier will begin serving Brunch starting May 25th. The menu ranges from Crab & Potato Benedict, French Toast to Chilaquiles, Also offering a Mimosa Flight, Beermosa and more. Lamplight Brunch will be served on Saturdays & Sundays only from 8:15am - 12 noon. Just Announced, the 2019 Disney Legends to be Honored at D23 this year. Among the line up, Robert Downey Jr, James Earl Jones, Jon Favreau & Hans Zimmer to name a Few. Full list can be found online.

Happy Thursday, May 2nd Everyone! Weather in the parks today is Mostly Sunny with a high of 73 degrees. Today in the year 2011, The movie THOR had its Red Carpet Premiere at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Today's the Day for all you Star Wars Fans wanting to get your reservation for the New Land. We now know the details of the reservation process and at 10 am guests will be able to make their reservations for the New Star Wars Galaxy's Edge. Guests must be sure to have a valid Disney Account on the Disneyland Website before making the reservation and you must have the name of each person in your party & there can be up to 6 people per reservation. All info can be found online. Good Luck to All! Reminder, Space Mountain will be closed tomorrow May 3rd to Prep for Hyper Space Mountain this Saturday for May 4th Festivities.

Recorded Live from the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, CA, it’s New Rockstars Live. Filup Molina interviews Erik Voss, Sam Bashor, and Smosh’s Matt Raub about all things Marvel after seeing Avengers Endgame. They also take questions from the live audience with the help of their guest, Tommy “Bottomline” Bechtold. Things they go over, other than what their favorite moments were, are theories about where Loki is now, did Captain America have to see Red Skull again when he returned the soul stone, was there really no Post Credits scene or was there actually a tease to the future of the MCU that we all missed? Plus lots more! Give it a listen and stay tuned for more details about the upcoming service provided through Himalaya media, called New Rockstars PLUS, that will feature all kinds of new content with no ads on it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recorded Live from the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, CA, it’s New Rockstars Live. Filup Molina interviews Erik Voss, Sam Bashor, and Smosh’s Matt Raub about all things Marvel after seeing Avengers Endgame. They also take questions from the live audience with the help of their guest, Tommy “Bottomline” Bechtold. Things they go over, other than what their favorite moments were, are theories about where Loki is now, did Captain America have to see Red Skull again when he returned the soul stone, was there really no Post Credits scene or was there actually a tease to the future of the MCU that we all missed? Plus lots more! Give it a listen and stay tuned for more details about the upcoming service provided through Himalaya media, called New Rockstars PLUS, that will feature all kinds of new content with no ads on it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Friday, April 26th Everyone Weather in the parks today is Partly Cloudy with a high of 74 degrees. Today in Disney History in the year 2003, Disney's The Lizzie McGuire Movie starring Hillary Duff premiered at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Today's the Day All Marvel Fans have been waiting for. Avengers End Game is Officially in Theaters. We saw it last night and trust me, You won't want to miss it! Speaking of Endgame, if you are in the parks today make sure you grab your Avengers Endgame Button upon Entry while they last. In DCA news, Mickey's Philharmagic, a 3D show begins today in Hollywood Land inside the Sunset Showcase. Reminder, In Downtown Disney News Pop Up Disney, A Mickey Celebration located at the Old ESPN Zone in Downtown Disney begins today. Tickets are required for the Pop Up Experience. You can purchase your tickets online only at Disneyland.com Calling all Disney Channel Fans. Disney Channel Fan Fest is tomorrow April 27th in DCA.

Happy Thursday, April 11th Everyone! Weather in the parks today is Mostly Sunny with a high of 75 degrees. Today in Disneyland History in the year 2003, The Disneyland resort welcomed 2 new Attractions, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh & Playhouse Disney, Live On Stage. On this day in the year 2006, Winnie the Pooh received his Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Also on this day in the year 2012, The World Premiere of The Avengers was held at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood California. In Park News, Permits have officially been filed for the demolition of the Adventureland Sign in Disneyland near the Enchanted Tiki Room in preparation for Star Wars Galaxy's Edge Opening.

Happy Thursday, April 4th Everyone! Weather in the parks today is Cloudy with a high of 65 degrees. Happy Birthday Craig T. Nelson. The actor who Voices Bob Parr, AKA Mr. Incredible in Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles, was born on this day in the year 1944. Today in the year 2009, Disney Channel's Animated Series, Special Agent Oso debuted with 2 back to back episodes. Also on this day in the year 2010 Disney Channel debuts its newest Sitcom at the time, Good Luck Charlie. Drawing 4.8 million viewers. On this Day in the Year 2014, Captain America, The Winter Soldier was released in theaters. Also today in the year 2016, Disney's Live Action Feature film The Jungle Book has its World premiere at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Breaking News this morning, Bo Peep from Disney Pixar's Toy Story 4 will be making her way to Pixar Pier in California Adventure starting this Summer! For More Minnie Mice Minute Updates, Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! Again, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, co-host of The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice Thanks for listening…. This is the Minnie Mice sounding off! Until Next time, Be Kind & Spread Some Magic!

Happy Monday, January 28th Everyone! Weather in the parks today is Mostly Cloudy with a high of 73 degrees In Park News, Scented Food Pillows have hit the parks… With scents such as Chocolate, Strawberry & Pineapple. In Downtown Disney Food News, As we have been mentioning, This Month Sprinkles Cupcakes has been featuring Cereal flavored Cupcakes and starting today, Sprinkles is featuring Strawberry Lucky Charms Cupcakes till Sunday, February 3rd. In Disney Related News, Tomorrow January 29th, The El Capitan Theater is celebrating Sleeping Beauty's 60th Anniversary with a Special Screening of the Disney Classic, Sleeping Beauty. If you plan to Attend, Arrive early for your chance to meet Princess Aurora before the movie begins. This just in, There will be an All-New Sneak Peek of Disney's new Live Action Aladdin during The Super Bowl on February 3rd. So make sure you keep an eye out, Super Bowl Sunday! Bo Peep is BACK! Released this morning, a first look of at Her making her return in Toy Story 4 hitting theaters June 2019! For More Minnie Mice Minute Updates, Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! Again, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, co-host of The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice Thanks for listening…. This is the Minnie Mice sounding off! Until Next time, Be Kind & Spread Some Magic!

Welcome to EPISODE 27 of the Minnie Mice Show, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, and these are my 2 Minnie Mice, Anyssa & Cianna! Happy Friday, January 18th Everyone! In Park News, Today is the Day!! Get Your Ears On - A Mickey & Minnie Celebration has officially arrived in the Parks! As part of the Celebration, The Brand New Mickey's Mix Magic Nighttime Spectacular begins! This New High Energy projection Show features lasers, lights & music all up and down Main Street, and also at the Water Screens over Rivers of America and at It's a Small World. And with this new celebration, there is a Never ending list of food & merch that comes with it all. Thankfully there is a New Food & Merch Guide that you can grab at the parks so you don't miss a thing. In more park News, The Famous Tea Cup Photo Op in Fantasy Land was removed this week. No word yet as to why and whether or not it will be coming back. In Downtown Disney News, The Much anticipated Ballast Point Brewery & Kitchen had their soft opening last weekend. And then this last week had their Official Grand opening this Wednesday, January 16th. It's Official, White Water Snacks is now back in business with a whole new Entryway and New Menu items! White Water Snacks is a great place to eat to avoid the crowds in the parks and even in Downtown Disney. You can find White Water Snacks at Disney's Grand Californian Hotel. This just in this week from Marvel Studios, the New Teaser Poster Along with the first Teaser Trailer for Spider-Man Far from Home was released. The movie is set to hit theaters July 5th, 2019. New Captain Marvel Character Posters were released this week. Captain Marvel will hit theaters on March 8th, 2019 Speaking of New Posters, There is a Brand New International Poster for Disney's Dumbo that was also released this week. Dumbo hits theaters March 29th, 2019 We also learned this week that a Live Action HunchBack of Notre Dame is in the works, and Josh Gad is rumored to Play Quasimodo but no official word on that yet. This just Confirmed, Valentine's Month Celebration will Officially begin in the Parks Starting next Tuesday, January 22nd. So Be prepared to see all it will have to offer soon! In other Park News, The Lunar Year Celebration begins January 25th at DCA. Along with that All the Food And Merch that comes with it! Including new items making their way to us from Shanghai Disney. In other Disney related News, Mark your calendars. On January 29th, the El Capitan Theater will be having a Special Screening of Sleeping Beauty. This Special screening is to celebrate the Animated Classic's 60th Anniversary. Plan to arrive early as You will also have the chance to meet Princess Aurora Before the film starts. FOOD - With all the talk of the “Get Your Ears On” Event, Celebrating Mickey & Minnie comes a TON of new Food Items that we are excited to talk about. So Much food that we won't be able to cover it all here but you can find the guide in the parks and even online. Don't forget to Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! For those of you watching on YOUTUBE, don't forget to hit the SUBSCRIBE button below! We are The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice on social media.

Happy Wednesday, November 21st Everyone! This is #TheMinnieMiceMinute Weather in the parks today is Sunny with a High of 71 degrees and possible light showers later tonight! On this day in the year 2007, Walt Disney Pictures Magical new Animated & Live Action Musical Fantasy, Enchanted opens in Theaters With a Special debut at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, Ca. Also on this Day in the year 2008, Disney's 47th Animated feature BOLT is released into theaters. Today's the Day!! Ralph Breaks the Internet Is Officially now playing at A Theater Near You! This just in, The Starbucks in Downtown Disney next to the Lego Store that closed a couple months back is set to reopen soon. However, No Set date listed yet. Wishing you All a Very Happy, Blessed & Magical Thanksgiving Holiday! Don't forget to Count Your Blessings! For More Minnie Mice Minute Updates, Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! Again, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, co-host of The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice Thanks for listening…. This is the Minnie Mice sounding off! Until Next time, Be Kind & Spread Some Magic!

Happy Tuesday, November 13th Everyone! This is #TheMinnieMiceMinute Weather in the parks today is Sunny & Windy with a High of 79 degrees. As most of you have already heard, Yesterday we lost a Legend. Marvel's Biggest Hero, Stan Lee passed yesterday morning. May He rest in Peace. New Characters & Character Posters Released today for Pixar's New Toy Story 4 Movie. Featuring 2 new Characters, Ducky & Bunny voiced by Comedians Key & Peele Today in Disney History, in the year 1940, Disney's 3rd Feature Film, Fantasia Premiers at New York's Broadway Theater. The film Introduces Stereophonic Sound to the Motion Picture Via a special sound system dubbed Fantasound, which literally vibrates the theater seats. Although a Triumphant Premiere, Fantasia will not be appreciated for many years until its re-release in the 1970's makes it a hit! On this day in the year 1991, Disney's Beauty & The Beast premiers at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. Also on this day in the year 1999, Disney/Pixar's Toy Story Premiers at the El Capitan theater in Hollywood Ca. Today, In the year 2000, Disney's Live Action Feature Film 102 Dalmatians has its World Premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. For More Minnie Mice Minute Updates, Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! Again, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, co-host of The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice Thanks for listening…. This is the Minnie Mice sounding off! Until Next time, Be Kind & Spread Some Magic!

On this episode of West of Broadway, Lara gets to hear about Will’s experience at the El Capitan Theater seeing the premier of the Disney film Nutcracker and the Four Realms. And then, they talk to Amanda Rafkin a Los Angeles-based composer, musical director, and pianist. She is the composer of the new musical The Lightning Howler, formerly titled 300 Bones, and is also the host, producer, pianist and musical director of Broadway LA Unplugged, a bi-monthly acoustic cabaret show. And then we’ll talk to Kelley Dorney and Brent Schindele the stars of IN A BOOTH AT CHASEN’S is a new musical about the real-life Hollywood romance of ron and nancy Reagan, playing at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood November 9 th through the 25 th. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Contact info: Social Media: Facebook: Faith Trust and Pixie Dust - Podcast Email: 1stgeek411@gmail.com Twitters: @Sparkle_Fists @SpilledXWater @deanna790Segment: Episode movie to watch “Feature Film”Tease other segmentsUnder WrapsSegment: This week in Disney history “Once Upon a Time”This week in Disney HistoryOctober 23— 1941:Disney's newest animated feature film, Dumbo (directed by Ben Sharpsteen) world premieres at the Broadway Theater in NewYork City.October 24— 2003:Disney's Brother Bear (featuring 5 new songs by Phil Collins) premieres at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood.October 25 - 1965:In Miami, Florida Governor Haydon Burns confirms the rumors that Disney "will build the greatest attraction yet known in the history of Florida."1971:The formal dedication of Walt Disney World in Florida, takes place with Walt's brother Roy O. Disney officiating. (The park has been opened since October 1.)1997:The Disney Channel Original Movie Under Wraps - about a trio of 12-year-old kids who discover a mummy in the basement of a dead man's house - debuts.Segment: Misc “Whosits and Whatsits Galore”Our Experiences at EPCOTSegment: News/Announcements “The Newsies Banner”There will be 2 new fireworks shows in EPCOT in the coming future replacing Illuminations Reflections of EarthNew Nature inspired resort will be opening in 2022Nutcracker and the four realms premieres Nov. 2Segment: weekly top 4 (secret from each other)”Let’s get down to business”Disney Villain familiarsTease Next Week: Disney Villains and Hocus PocusContact Info Again: Social Media: Facebook: Faith Trust and Pixie Dust - Podcast Email: 1stgeek411@gmail.com Twitters: @Sparkle_Fists @SpilledXWater @deanna790Disney Villain Animal Familiars/Sidekicks:IagoFlotsam and JestamDiabloRoscoe and Desoto

Today we have not 1 not 2 but 3 guests on West of Broadway! Lara and Will start things off with the founding artistic director of the Verdi Chorus Anne Marie Ketchum , We hop on the phone with Cabaret Legend Todd Murray to talk about his 2 new Christmas songs available on itunes and Sharon who is manager of ticket sales for the El Capitan Theater shares some valuable insider information about the legendary theater! It’s a fun one! Hope you enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Thursday, July 26th Everyone! Weather in the parks today is Sunny with a High of 89 degrees! Breaking News, last night during the Live Stream for Paint the Night, it was announced that The Paint the Night Parade & the Pixar Play Parade will be sticking around after the September 3rd Pixar Fest end Date! Today in Disney history, in the year 1951, Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland has its world premier in England, in a London Theater. Also on this day in the year 2002, Disney's movie, The Country Bears debuts at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. In the year 2008, on this day, some 5.86 million viewers tune in to watch Disney Channel's 3D concert film Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus - Best Of Both Worlds Concert. As mentioned in Yesterday's Minute, 1 more day till the reopening of the Wildest ride in the Wilderness, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad which has been closed for refurbishment. For More Minnie Mice Minute Updates, Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! Again, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, co-host of The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice Thanks for listening…. This is the Minnie Mice sounding off! Until Next time, Be Kind & Spread Some Magic!

Happy Tuesday, July 24th, Everyone! Weather in the parks today is sunny with a High of 94 degrees. On this day in 1966, The New Orleans Square area opens in Disneyland, with a ceremony presided over by Walt Disney and the real mayor of New Orleans. On July 25th, In 1999 the10th Disney Channel Original movie, Johnny Tsunami debuts. Also on this day in 2001, The Soundtrack for Disney's The Princess Diaries was released. In the year 2005, the premiere of Disney's live-action feature, Sky High debuts in the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood Ca. #DisneyParksLive returns Tomorrow, July 25th, to Disney's California Adventure Park with a live stream of Paint the Night parade. Make sure you tune in at 8:50 pm on the Disney Parks Blog & join the conversation on Twitter @Disneyparks For More Minnie Mice Minute Updates, Subscribe on Itunes, SoundCloud or Google Play! Again, I'm Mama Mouse Cynthia, co-host of The Minnie Mice Show, Make sure you check us out at @TheMinniemice Thanks for listening…. This is the Minnie Mice sounding off! Until Next time, Be Kind & Spread Some Magic!

This week we talk about Avengers: Infinity War (spoilers start at: 1:20:40). We also talk about Andy breaks 5 Minute Dungeon, Free Comic Book Day, Best of the West Competition, Level Up Expo, El Capitan Theater, Rambo 5, "True life" exorcisms at Sony, Power Rangers change hands, Hulu reaches 20 million subscribers, Failsafe, Rick and Morty and Dungeons and Dragons, and other stuffs. So snap your fingers, it's time for a Geek Shock!

This week, chaos reins as we talk about Moviepass, The El Capitan Theater, The Ritual, 1922, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Star Wars Revisited, Infinity War Box Office, The Simpsons takes Gunsmoke, Blackhawk, The Long Walk, Netflix grows and throws money, NOS4A2, Choose You Own Adventure: The Movie, Spider-Man: Hostile Takeover, Batgirl (I think), Pop! Cereal, Guillermo Del Toro get his own movie line, and some other shenanigans. So give Torgo his blood pressure meds, it's time for a Geek Shock!  

Star Wars ate my brain. It's true. EVERYTHING is Star Wars this holiday. The new land is being built at Disneyland. A Star Wars VR Experience is about to open in Downtown Disney. And Dusty was invited to interview the Nerdist, Chris Hardwick, on the red carpet at the historic El Capitan Theater in Hollywood on opening night. This show is PACKED with special guests, insider info and lots of fun moments.  Have a ho, ho, holiday Star Wars Christmas everyone!  HOSTS: Dusty Sage CEO of MiceChat.com Doug Barnes Owner of the SeasonPassPodcast.com And special guests Chris Hardwick, the Nerdist Lindalee Rose, future social media superstar. Check her out on YouTube right now:  http://youtube.com/lindaleerose SPONSORS: Today's show is brought to you by the following great sponsors. They support us and we hope you'll support them in return. And it's a win/win situation because you get a great deal with each of our sponsors: RX Bar - The delicious & healthy snack for adults and kids alike. Just perfect for throwing in your backpack for extra theme park energy or into your kid's lunch box! Save 25% off of your first order by visiting RXBAR.com/micechat and use promo code: micechat Away Travel - For $20 off a suitcase, visit AwayTravel.com/micechat and use promo code: micechat BarkBox - For a FREE EXTRA MONTH of BarkBox, visit barkbox.com/micechat when you subscribe to a 6 or 12 month plan! Hello Fresh - Healthy, delicious meals delivered straight to your door! Save $30 off your first week of deliveries, visit hellofresh.com, and use promo code: MiceChat30   CONTACT US: Podcast@MiceChat.com Or call 609-935-2147 Find all of the MicePod shows at: http://MicePod.com We’re social, are you? Follow us and share with your friends and family. Facebook: http://facebook.com/MiceBook Twitter: http://twitter.com/MiceChat Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/micechat Instagram: http://instagram/MiceChat Amazing MiceChat theme song by Steve Williard and Andrew Taylor from Amplify This Music!!! We'll see you online at MiceChat.com ! ! !      

"The Sade Champagne Show" (Season 3 EP46) Each episode is full of Inspiration, Encouragement, Entertainment, and Empowerment. Welcome to the Season 3 Premiere! Join us with Celebrity Guest  my longtime dear friend actor, host, producer and songwriter JOSH SKINNER and Hip hop artist, spoken word artist and lyricist J.ANISE! Josh Skinner has worked for Walt Disney Entertainment Productions, performed at Disneyland and the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. Some of his hosting appearances include Ellen's Design Challenge on HGTV and Live Like a Star with Ryan Seacrest on Fox. He has produced and costarred in films with Oscar nominee Bruce Davison, Chris Pine, Drew Seeley, Amy Paffrath and Jonathan Bennett. As a songwriter, Josh has writtend for several popular artists including Disney's R5 from Hollywood Records, Jeff Timmons from 98 Degrees, Kimberley Locke, 9x Grammy Nominee Dave Koz and Jason Evigan. Many of his songs have been national and international hits on the Billboard charts. J.Anise has released several music projects and is working on new music. Her powerful voice is making waves in this industry and piercing through people's hearts! Also featuring brand new Mind Right, Game Tight segment with castmate Michelle Morgan, Wellness Made Simple segment with Veronika Esquivel Winters, Sharing Your Story segment with Ayokunle Falomo, and Say What?! Segment where I'll be featuring clips from my mentors and favorite speakers.    Call-in @ 323-693-3043 and press "1" to stream LIVE and CHAT with Sade, the cast and her guests. Presented by: GrindHard Radio. #SadeChampagneShow

The Filmlosophers Eddie Villanueva and Chad Riley welcome VideoGame BANG! co-hosts Cory Vincent and Aaron Carter for a detailed review and breakdown of Captain America: Civil War (2016). Who stands with Team Cap, who favors Team Iron Man, and who wants to assemble Team Black Panther? News items include updates on the Deadpool (2016) DVD release and Ryan Reynolds' cameo voiceover on the ScreenJunkies Honest Trailer, the start of the 69th Annual Cannes Film Festival featuring jurists George Miller, Kirsten Dunst, Mads Mikkelson and Donald Sutherland, and the Nerdist Captain America marathon at El Capitan Theater with some interesting spoiler comments from Sebastian Stan, the cinematic Winter Soldier.

Visit Walt Disney's Hollywood: In this week's episode, Jeff takes us on a tour of Walt Disney's Hollywood, with stops at his first home and the first studio where Walt's "Alice" short films were created. Other stops include the infamous Snow White Cafe on Hollywood Boulevard, Paty's Coffee House (which Walt would visit from time to time) and Walt's final resting place in Forest Lawn. Also - Jeff reports on the Disney Pops and Pipes organ concert at the grand El Capitan Theater, the Disney Soda Fountain serves up TRON Sundaes... and more!

(((HEADPHONES STRONGLY RECOMMENDED))) With Mouse Lounge Martini in hand, I'm your host Gary Chambers. Welcome, to the Mouse Lounge. To voice your comments, ask a question, or make a request, send an email to mouselounge@gmail.com or leave voicemail at 805-215-0277 for later playback on the show. Lastly, if you like the show, be sure to post a review for the Mouse Lounge Podcast on iTunes. Visit Mouselounge.com anytime for detailed show notes, theme park blog, and multimedia downloads that accompany each show. This week, the Mouse Lounge sees spots and goes to the dogs. Also on the show, a full docket of Disney News from departments Entertainment, Theme Parks East, Theme Parks West, and Business. Each week, in From the Vault we sample a clip from a classic Disney film, short, television or radio program, or Disneyland Record: This week, the Mouse Lounge takes a trip to Hollywood. Not Disney's Hollywood Studios, but rather the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood California to see 101 Dalmatians on the big screen. The film has been beautifully restored, but what really made the evening of January 18th special was the unique panel discussion prior to the picture's screening. Join host Leonard Maltin and animator Eric Goldberg, actress Lisa Davis, animator/sculptor Blaine Gibson, and Imagineer, Alice Davis as they reminisce and comment about this sleeper Disney film. Each week we present a high definition ride-through from a Disney Park East and a Disney Park West. This week from Disney Parks East we head over to the Imagination Pavilion in Epcot and take a ride with Figment on Journey into Imagination. Then take a trip back in time by going to the multimedia section of Mouselounge.com and download the original incarnation of Journey Into Imagination. From the Disney Family Museum: With the country spiraling headlong into a near certain recession, it's refreshing to hear Walt share his thoughts about money. In Disney Parks West we head north into Fantasyland for a ride on Snow White's Scary Adventures. Each week we feature a unique take on Disney music. On this podcast, you knew it was comin', two very different versions of Cruella de Ville. First, from Disneymania 5, Payden Panettiere gives us a very smacking good bubblegum dance track, followed by a salubrious arrangement by the incomparable Dr. John. Now, please keep your head, arms, feet and legs inside the podcast at all times. Driver you're clear! Gary Chambers 206-909-7427 The Mouse Lounge http://www.mouselounge.com Subscribe to our write a review about the Mouse Lounge Podcast: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=180696323 The Mouse Lounge is a fan-based podcast and is not affiliated with the Walt Disney Company or its subsidiaries. Non factual statements made by the Mouse Lounge hosts, Gary Chambers and his guests are their current opinions only and are subject to change without notice. All copyrighted material used with permission or under the Fair Use Doctrine in Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act. Although the information in this program is believed to be reliable, Mr. Chambers, and Mouselounge.com do not make any representations or warranties as to its accuracy or completeness, nor do they assess, verify or guarantee the suitability of information.

A life-long Disney World fan visits Disneyland for the first time! Hear my thoughts on the original Happiest Place on Earth and its sister park across the street. Plus, there's a review of POTC2 and the El Capitan Theater.