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WDW Radio # 800 - Joe Rohde: Our Conversation on Art, Wildlife, and Culture This week, I'm sharing a special episode from the Archives, as my interview this week comes from show # 232 back in 2011 in honor of legendary voice actor Pete Renaday, who passed away on September 8.   Pete's iconic voice brought life to unforgettable characters in both Walt Disney World and Disneyland, including Henry from the Country Bear Jamboree, Walt Disney World's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (as Captain Nemo), The Hall of Presidents (as Abraham Lincoln), the Disneyland version of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and The Walt Disney Story as narrator, the Tomorrowland Transit Authority, Adventure Thru Inner Space, and Mark Twain Riverboat. He was also the Ghost Host on the Haunted Mansion album (which I still have and love).   I feel fortunate to have Pete be able to share his story in his own words and iconic voice as he shares his incredible journey—from meeting Walt Disney to his work on animated films and iconic attractions. So just refrain from hibernatin', and let's enjoy the show, cause he's still got a lot to give. - Which of Pete Renaday's voices do you like or recognize most? Share your thoughts in the WDW Radio Clubhouse at WDWRadio.com/Clubhouse, or call the voicemail at 407-900-9391 (WDW1) and share your story on the show. Subscribe to our newsletter and get a FREE copy of my 102 Things To Do at Least Once in Walt Disney World book at WDWRadio.com/Subscribe Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and WDW Radio on YouTube But for now... sit back, relax, and enjoy this week's episode from the Archives on the WDW Radio show. ---------------------------------- WDWRadio.com - Visit the site and blog WDWRadioNATION - Get monthly rewards, and help support the show WDWRadioLIVE.com - Watch and chat LIVE Wednesdays at 7:30pm ET Events - Disney meets, events, cruises, and more! 407-900-9391 - Call the voicemail with a question, comment or "Hello!" from the parks THANK YOU for your support by voting WDW Radio Best Travel Podcast for 9 consecutive years, and for listening! Please be sure to tune in next week, and help spread the word about the show! ---------------------------------- LouMongello.com - Let me help you turn what you love into what you do and turn your passion into your profession with one-on-one mentoring, mastermind groups, and my Momentum Workshop and Retreat in Walt Disney World.  I am also a keynote speaker who can present at your event, conference, business, or school, and provide mentoring and consulting to individuals and organizations looking to build their businesses and brands. I speak on a variety of topics, including sharing the magic of Disney, and teaching how to deliver exceptional customer service, social media, podcasting, live video, community, following your dreams, and more.

Hello Travelers! This week, join west coast host Ric and his wife Lisa as they take you with them to Disneyland! You will start your day on the tram to the main entrance esplanade, enter Disneyland Park where you'll travel down Main Street USA aboard a horseless carriage then make your way to Frontierland for a trip along the Rivers of America aboard the Mark Twain Riverboat.   If you like what we do, consider joining our crew on Patreon. These wonderful people help us keep the microphones crisp and the servers warm at night.   Visit us a walkabouttheworld.com - find links to all the things - attraction episodes, Insta accounts of all the hosts, and even how to buy your own Walkabout shirt!   Look us up at @WalkaboutWDW on Instagram and drop us a note to say hi.   You can now also drop us at line at contact@walkabouttheworld.com. Say hi, tell us how you found us, and give us some suggestions on things you'd love to hear. Please consider giving us a rating and review wherever you listen - it really helps.   Walkabout The World is a weekly Disney podcast, always recorded on property at Walt Disney World or Disneyland Resort with the simple goal of making you feel like you are in the middle of the magic.

Updates on park attractions like Mark Twain Riverboat and Fantasmic, Magic Key sales, new food highlights like a buffalo chicken dip, Disney merch news with the trending Disney Lorcana game and festive spirit jerseys. On Disney+, catch new releases and global park news like HK Disneyland's Frozen Land. Plus, Disney on Ice is returning to SoCal, Christmastime at Disney's neighbor Knott's Berry Farm and Universal's holiday offerings. 

It's easy to forget that just about every aspect of Disneyland was made specially for Walt before the park opened. Take the subject of this week's show, for example: The Mark Twain Riverboat. to the casual observer, the Mark Twain is .. well, it's a boat. A way to get around the real attraction., the Rivers of America. Taren takes us through the construction and inspiration of this incredible machine, while Erik and Jason try not to laugh like small children. ---------------- Support the show! Subscribe to us on YouTube Join everyone over on our Patreon page Visit us on Etsy for the coolest Disney-inspired shirts Check out the podcast archives on our website Come check out the Discord group! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Halloween Time is just around the corner, California residents get a deal on multi-day tickets, new Disney100 eats, one mountain closes, while another reopens, we continue our chat with Illustrator Rick Law, and more! Please support the show if you can by going to https://www.dlweekly.net/support/. If you want some DLWeekly Swag, you can pick some up at https://www.dlweekly.net/store/. Book your travel through ConciEARS at no extra cost to you! Be sure to mention that you heard about ConciEARS from DLWeekly at booking! DISCOUNTS! We have partnered with the Howard Johnson Anaheim Hotel & Water Playground to get great deals for our listeners! Book your stay at the Howard Johnson Anaheim and get 15% off your stay (code 1000022077)! Magic Key Holders get 20% off their stay (code 1000025935) as well! Book now! Need the perfect bag for your days in the parks? Look no further than Designer Park Co.! Purchase the Rope Drop Bag as featured on Episode 222 and get 10% off your purchase! Use coupon code DLWEEKLY to get the discount. If you want some awesome headwear or one of a kind items, be sure to visit our friends over at All Enchanting Ears! You can use the promo code DLWEEKLY10 to get 10% off your order! News It seems impossible, but Halloween Time at the Disneyland Resort is just around the corner! This year, the Oogie Boogie Bash will take place on 25 select nights from September 5th through October 31st. The Plaza de la Familia and Tributes to Dia de los Muertos are also back from September 1st through November 2nd. Of course the Haunted Mansion Holiday, Guardians of the Galaxy – Monsters After Dark, Mater's Graveyard JamBOOree, and Luigi's Honkin' Haul-o-ween are all back, along with the Halloween Screams fireworks at Disneyland. – Disneyland Announces 2023 Oogie Boogie Bash Dates, Return of Halloween Time, Plaza de la Familia on Sept. 1 | Disney Parks Blog (go.com) California residents have a new ticket deal for this summer. The deal allows guests to visit the parks for three days for as little as $83 a day. There is a slight catch; the tickets are not valid on Fridays through Sundays at that price. To upgrade to a ticker with no limitations, the price goes to $100 a day. These are one park per day tickets, with no park hopping. The tickets are good from June 12th through September 28th. – New California Resident 3-Day Disneyland Ticket with Admission as Low as $83 Per Day – Disneyland News Today (dlnewstoday.com) New California Resident 3-Day Disneyland Ticket with Admission as Low as $83 Per Day – Disneyland News Today (dlnewstoday.com) Guests watching World of Color – ONE have an added bonus for a limited time. Elemental Connection, a new pre-show showcasing the story of the upcoming movie Elemental, plays just before the main World of Color show. No end date has been announced, but with the movie premiering on June 16th, it may not be there for long. – PHOTOS, VIDEO: New ‘Elemental Connection' Pre-Show Debuts at ‘World of Color – ONE' at Disney California Adventure – Disneyland News Today (dlnewstoday.com) We are a few months into the Disney100, and more things keep coming! Some new items have been added to the Foodie Guide for the celebration. The Disney100 Chocolate Tart is now available at the Blue Bayou, and a Spiced Ham & Eggs with Biscuit and Gravy is at Carnation Cafe. Over at Gibson Girl Ice Cream, the Berry Violet Sundae is also new. At the Tropical Hideaway, the popular Jungle Cruise dessert bowl has had a Disney100 makeover. – Disney Eats: Foodie Guide to Disney 100 Celebration at Disneyland Resort, June 2023 Update | Disney Parks Blog (go.com) June 6th was national churro day! Nine new churros are available now until August 31st, along with two others that are available later this summer. Some of the options are the Fruity cereal churro, a chai-spiced churro, a pineapple churro, and so many more! There are also an array of new churro dipping sauces. {talk about the specifics} – Disney Eats: Foodie Guide to Celebrate National Churro Day 2023 | Disney Parks Blog (go.com) Out in Downtown Disney, Beigets Expressed has opened at Jazz Kitchen Coastal Grill and Patio. Guests can watch beignets being made through a window, much like candy on Main Street! The inside of the location is pretty open and spacious. Guests can also purchase beignet mix to try making them at home. There is also some merch available with the Beignets Expressed logo on them. – Brand-New Beignets Are Now in Downtown Disney!

A second recording of the Mark Twain Riverboat. I felt like the first recording could be approved upon, but unfortunately this second recording faced some wind noise. Please bear with it as the latter portions are clear of it. Recorded by Joel Covey on 3/13/22 at 2pm.--------------------Interact:Email - podcast@offharborandmain.comTwitter - @Park_SensoryInstagram - @offharborYouTube - Off Harbor & MainFacebook - Off Harbor & MainWebsite - OffHarborAndMain.com

Genie+ Adds a Minor Improvement Allowing You to Modify Lightning Lane SelectionsTo make it easier to change plans on the fly, you can now modify Lightning Lane selections made with Disney Genie+ without having to cancel and rebook your selection.  This should have been included from day one and it's hard to believe it took this long to add, but at least it's there now. To make a change select the three dots on your current Lightning Lane selection from the Tip Board or My Day tab of Disney Genie, and then select “Modify Plan” from the menu that appears.After selecting “Modify Plan,” available Lightning Lane experiences from the same park will appear. You can adjust their arrival window to a different time from whatever is shown as available, or pick a new experience to replace your current Lightning Lane selection.--New Food to Try at Disney's Animal Kingdom LodgeDisney's Animal Kingdom Lodge has some new dishes on its menus.Starting at Maji Pool Bar there are new poolside snacks with an African twist. Shrimp Bakuli is a shrimp bowl inspired by the open-air food markets in Zanzibar. The bakuli includes chilled poached shrimp, pickled carrots, and Basmati rice with a soy-ginger dressing and berbere aïoli.The Multigrain Tabbouleh is a plant-based bowl with salad, grains, fresh herbs, and grilled vegetables.The Spiced Pork Nachos are topped with spiced pork, beans, herbed crema, and kachumbari. The pork vindaloo is prepared with paprika, garlic, tomato, vinegar, and a house-made spice blend.The Short Rib Grilled Cheese has slow cooked short ribs with a house-made spice blend, tamarind, and red wine until tender. It's on buttery brioche bread with gouda cheese and pickled onions.The Mara also has new items. There's a Marinated Sun-dried Tomato and Herbed Ricotta Flatbread with fresh herb ricotta, tomato sauce, four-cheese blend, and arugula. There are three new bowls: The Chermoula-spiced Shrimp Bowl has grilled shrimp, pilau rice, kale slaw, cucumber-tomato salad, and chermoula sour cream. The Oak-grilled Chicken Bowl has marinated chicken thighs, slow-roasted over an oak fire. Rounding out the new additions is the plant-based South African Vegetable Bowl, a perfect balance of curried vegetable stew, pilau rice, kale slaw, dried fruit achar, and avocado-tahini sauce.At Jiko: The Cooking Place there's a new appetizer to try – Sweet Potato-Groundnut Soup. This soup features spiced groundnuts, finger lime, pickled red chilies, and sorrel. Groundnuts are actually peanuts.Finally, to celebrate Avatar: The Way of Water, Animal Kingdom Lodge has a new signature cocktail at Boma: Flavors of Africa, Sanaa, and Victoria Falls Lounge. Way of Water is a blend of African Starr Rum, BACARDÍ Raspberry Rum, Bols Blue Curaçao, and lemonade garnished with a lotus flower and mint.-- Disneyland After Dark Returns in 2023 with New Princess Nite Event and MoreDisneyland After Dark events are returning in 2023 with two limited-time after-hours events including Disneyland After Dark: Sweethearts' Nite, and the new Disneyland After Dark: Princess Nite.Disneyland After Dark begins with a three-hour pre-party from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at Disneyland park, then the private party runs from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m., so you can ride some popular attractions after regular park hours. All event guests will get unlimited digital downloads of Disney PhotoPass photos taken during the party, plus commemorative keepsakes including a souvenir credential and event guide map. Disneyland After Dark: Sweethearts' Nite January 31, February 2, 5, 7, 9, 14, 16, 2023 at Disneyland ParkSweethearts' Nite will take place on seven different “date nights” in Disneyland park: a special themed fireworks show  Dance at the Royal Ball hosted by Aladdin and Jasmine near “it's a small world” Take a moonlit cruise on the Mark Twain Riverboat with the sounds of a live jazz ensemble Relax to the sounds of island music from a Polynesian trio at The Tropical Hideaway Enjoy deliciously themed menu items available for purchase, created just for the event  Capture your moment with photo opportunities with darling Disney couples and spots inspired by romantic scenes from Disney films such as “Lady and the Tramp” and “The Little Mermaid/”  Enjoy pre-party admission to Disneyland park starting at 6:00 p.m., no park reservation required Disneyland After Dark: Princess Nite March 7 & 9, 2023, at Disneyland ParkThis all-new first-ever event will feature the iconic characters who light the world with kindness, courage and a touch of magic. There will be shimmering décor, special photo opportunities, themed food and beverage offerings, commemorative keepsakes and characters galore. Receive a royal welcome at the Disneyland Train Station featuring Princess Minnie Mouse and Princess Daisy Duck with fanfare trumpeters  Enjoy an inspiring concert with Moana, Merida and more accompanied by live singers  Dance the night away at the high-energy, candy-themed dance party at Tomorrowland stage with Vanellope Von Schweetz Experience Tiana's Southern hospitality and dance to jazz music in New Orleans Square Enjoy specialty menu items throughout Disneyland park, available for purchase  Picture yourself in photo backdrops inspired by Disney films like “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Princess Diaries” including unlimited Disney PhotoPass digital photo downloads from the party Pre-party admission to Disneyland park starting at 6:00 p.m., no theme park reservation required Tickets are limited and available on Disneyland.com. --Disney Cruise Line will Return to Tropical Destinations in Early 2024In early 2024, Disney Cruise Line is going back to the islands with itineraries to the Caribbean, Mexico, Bahamas and Disney's private island, Castaway Cay.Getaways from South Florida The Disney Dream will begin 2024 with an assortment of three- and four-night getaways to the Bahamas and five-night vacations to the western Caribbean. All sailings from Florida will include a stop at Castaway Cay. Sailings from Central Florida  The Disney Wish will kick off 2024 with three- and four-night voyages to Nassau, Bahamas, and Castaway Cay departing from Port Canaveral, Florida, Disney Cruise Line's home port located an hour from Walt Disney World Resort.  Also from Port Canaveral, the Disney Fantasy will continue seven-night sailings. Eastern Caribbean cruises will visit Tortola and St. Thomas, while western Caribbean itineraries will feature the ports of Cozumel, Mexico; Grand Cayman; and Falmouth, Jamaica. Every Disney Fantasy sailing includes a stop at Castaway Cay, along with several days at sea. Caribbean Adventures from Texas and Louisiana The Disney Magic will have two limited-time engagements in Galveston in early 2024. The ship will embark on Caribbean adventures ranging from four to six nights through the end of January.  New Orleans will welcome the Disney Magic back for a second consecutive year in February 2024 with four-, five- and seven-night cruises to the Caribbean.  Mexican Escapes from CaliforniaAfter returning from its first season in Australia and New Zealand, the Disney Wonder will arrive in San Diego in March 2024 for three- to seven-night voyages to Mexico, including the Baja peninsula. You'll visit some of Mexico's top destinations, including Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan and Eansenada, along with stops to Catalina Island off the California coast.Thank You for Listening to the Disney Travel PodcastThank you very much for listening to this episode, Amelia and I hope that you enjoyed it. If you did, we would be very grateful if you could rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (or on whichever app you choose to listen). 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Hello Travelers! This week we journey out west to join host Ric and family at Dapper Day Expo 2022 for some music and dancing, and then venture over to Disneyland for a full ride on the iconic Mark Twain Riverboat!    As always, use good listening devices as we always record in 4 channel surround sound. We hope you enjoy the episode and thanks so much for following along!    Look us up at @WalkaboutWDW on Instagram and drop us a note to say hi! Find our producer Josh also on Instagram at @TheSteele. Say hi to our west coast correspondent Ric at @opticaljedi. Lastly give a shout to our Orlando correspondent Pete at @neverlandlocal.   You can now also drop us at line at contact@walkabouttheworld.com. Say hi, give us some suggestions on things you'd love to hear, or even record your own 'Hello Traveler' show open when you are out and about, and we'll work it into a future show!

Hello everyone, in today's episode we take a relaxing sail around the beautiful Rivers of America on the grand Mark Twain Riverboat. Come join us as we try to beat the heat and listen to all the sounds of the Mark Twain, as it makes its journey around Frontierland, New Orleans Square, Critter Country, Tom Sawyer's Island, and the back side of the Rivers of America. Be sure to put on some headphones for the full binaural audio effect.

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This week we are tackling a request from Nathan East & Family. They were wanting to hear the audio from the Liberty Belle Riverboat. So this week we are taking a ride aboard not one, but two riverboats. We will start out in Liberty Square as we ride aboard the Liberty Belle. We will they jump over to Disneyland and take a ride on the 2010 Mark Twain Riverboat. . . . Show Patrons: Brenda Howton Allington Brown Warren Budenbender Kelly Mayer Scott Geyer Jared Story Thomas Hartman Brian Martin James Farrington Nick Baker Anne Griffith Maria Sanchez Sokolowski Great Nate Elisabeth Puglisi Sydney Weddleton Kyle Horton Rachel Sutton Jonathan Howser Jennifer Gorlick Holly King Christine Champagne Victoria & Darren Janey and Gary Zerilli Raffi Minassian Jenna Bench Shay Lochinger Gillian Shipley Katherine Lund Leitrim Peters Gabrielle Kosta Dorothy Kathleen Lawrence Dameron Ostapczuk Tiffany Sullivan . . . . Questions/comments: soundsofdisneypodcast@gmail.com Support the show at: www.patreon.com/soundsofdisney --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sounds-of-disney/support

(Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/MOXIE - Enter promo code MOXIE for 83% off and 3 extra months free!) T-shirt for Ukraine, all proceeds and matching donation to Ukraine Red Cross at yourbrainonfacts.com/merch There are four Sundays a month, but more than a dozen days we call "Black Sunday."  Here are three -- two forces of nature and one parade of schadenfreude. 02:42 Black Blizzard 12:45 Bondi Beach 24:42 Disneyland Quote reader: Vlado from It's Not Rocket Surgery Promo: Remnant Stew Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Dan Lebowitz,  Kevin MacLeod,  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   Every year, tens of millions people or so go through Denver International Airport, the fifth busiest in the country and in the top 20 busiest in the world.  That's a lot of bodies to get from hither to yon, so the airport relies heavily on Automated Guideway Transit System, a people-mover that connects all of the midfield concourses with the south terminal, providing the only passenger access to concourses B and C.  And in 1995, a day that will live in infamy for staff and passengers alike, the system failed.  They refer to that day as Black Sunday.  My name's…   So I said to myself the other day, you know what would make a good topic, days with colorful sobriquets, surely there are enough of those to write about.  In what they call a good problem to have, there are in fact, too many!  Most of the “black.”  So I'm starting with a few Black Sundays and if you thinks it's a fruitful area of discussion, I'll make it a series, maybe one a month.  I'd space them out because you don't hear about the planes that land and you don't call a day Black whatever if everything was chill.  As such, today's episode is two heavy topics and one packed with schadenfreude, so gauge how you're feeling today.,  I don't mind waiting – it's not how long you wait, it's who you're waiting for.  We're going to go heavy, heavy, light, as decided by folks in our Facebook group, the Brainiac Breakroom, where anyone can share clever or funny things they find; same goes to the ybof sud-reddit.   Speaking of social media, folks are starting to post pictures of themselves wearing their Russian Warship go F yourself shirts to raise money for the Ukraine red cross (url).  Thanks to them specifically and I want to send a sweeping cloud of thanks to people in other countries for taking in the refugees.  Speaking of refugees, there was a time when hundreds of thousands of Americans were refugees in their own country.  During WWI, wheat prices rose and farming in the open prairies of the great plains was an attractive proposition.  Homesteaders and farmers set up shop, ripping up or tilling under the native grasses that had evolved as part of that ecosystem, with long roots that both held onto lots of soil, but reached down far enough to reach water waaay below the topsoil, allowing it to better survive drought conditions.  But we don't like to eat those grasses, so they replaced it with shallow-rooted wheat.  The rain stopped falling in 1931, leaving instead a severe widespread drought that lasted the rest of the decade, eventually killed thousands of square miles of wheat fields.  No other crops, either, and nothing to feed livestock.  Without live plants to hold onto the topsoil, it blew away.  The prairie wind became a sandstorm and people's livelihoods blew away.  It got so bad, the dust clouds eventually reached the east coast and beyond.  At the same time, they had this Great Depression on, a real nuisance, you've seen the movies, Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, the other versions of Of Mice and Men, O Brother Where Art Thou (only time I enjoyed George Clooney), and dozens more.  The price of wheat [sfx raspberry] and people lost their jobs left right and center.  Many families were left with no choice but to pile whatever they still had left onto the family car and follow rumors of work, sometimes migrating all the way to California, where, even though they were regular ol' ‘Mericans, they were treated like foreign invaders.   Black Blizzard, American Dust Bowl, 1938   That's a broad-stroke quickie overview – and boy do I want to rewatch Carnivale for the fourth time (love me some Clancy Brown, rawr, I still would) – but we're here to talk about one day, a black Sunday, brought on by a black blizzard.  It's a blizzard but made up of dirt so thick, it blocks out the sun.  14 hit black blizzards hit in 1932, 38 in 1933, up to 70 by 1937 and so on.  The worst of it hit Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.  The storms became so frequent that people could discern the origin of the storm by the color of its dirt – brown dust storms were from Kansas or Nebraska, gray from Texas, and red dust storms were from Oklahoma.    People tried to protect themselves from breathing the dust and cloth masks were the least of it.  They'd hang wet sheets over doorways and seal up windows, sometimes with a paste ironically made of wheat flour because that's what they could get. They'd rub petroleum jelly into their nostrils, anything to try to prevent the “brown plague,” dust pneumonia.  Constant inhalation of dust particles killed hundreds of people, babies and young children particularly, and sickened thousands of others.   1934 was the single worst drought year of the last millennium in North America, temperatures soared, exceeding 100 degrees everyday for weeks on much of the Southern Plains, absolutely *baking the soil.  When spring of 1935 rolled around, there was a whole lot more dry dirt ready to be thrown into the air.  After months of brutal conditions, the winds finally died down on the morning of April 14, 1935, and people jumped on the chance to escape their homes.  Hope springs eternal and people thought maybe it was finally over.   It was, of course, not over.  The worst was standing in the wings in full costume, waiting for its cue.  A cold front down from Canada crashed into warm air over the Dakotas.  In a few hours, the temperature fell more than 30 degrees and the wind returned in force, creating a dust cloud that grew to hundreds of miles wide and thousands of feet high as it headed south.  Reaching its full fury in southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas and the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, it turned a sunny day totally dark.  Birds, mice and jackrabbits fled for their lives.  Have you ever heard the sound *one terrified rabbit makes?  I would not want to be on the ground while this was happening.  Domestic animals like cattle that couldn't get to shelter were blinded and even suffocated by the dust.   Drivers were forced to take refuge in their cars, while other residents hunkered down anywhere they could, from fire stations to tornado shelters to under beds if a bed was the closest you could find to safety.  Folksinger Woody Guthrie, then 22, who sat out the storm at his Pampa, Texas, home, recalled that “you couldn't see your hand before your face.” Inspired by proclamations from some of his companions that the end of the world was at hand, he composed a song titled “So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh.”  [sfx song] Guthrie would also write other tunes about Black Sunday, including “Dust Storm Disaster.”   The storm dragged on for hours and peoples' wits began to fray.  One woman reportedly thought the merciless howling wind blocking out the sky was the start of the Biblical end of the world – can't imagine how she arrived there-- contemplated killing her child to spare them being collateral damage in a war between heaven and hell.  By all accounts it was the worst black blizzard of the Dust Bowl, displacing 300,000 tons of topsoil.  That would be enough to cover a square area of .4mi/750 m on each side a foot deep.  “Everybody remembered where they were on Black Sunday,” said Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, a history professor at Iowa State University and the author of “Rooted in Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas.”  “For people on the Southern Plains, it was one of those defining experiences, like Pearl Harbor or Kennedy's assassination.”   The Black Sunday storm blew its dust all the way to the east coast, causing street lights to be needed during the day in Washington DC and even coating the decks of ships in the Atlantic ocean.  The next day, as the remnants of the storm blew out into the Gulf of Mexico, an Associated Press reporter filed a story in which he referred to “life in the dust bowl of the continent,” coining the phrase that would encapsulate a phenomenon, a place, and a time.  Inspired by the myriad tales of suffering that proliferated in Black Sunday's wake, the federal government began paying farmers to take marginal lands out of production. It also incentivized improved agricultural practices, such as contour plowing and crop rotation, which reduced soil loss roughly 65 percent. By then, however, many families had given up hope and ¼-⅓ of the most affected people fled the Southern Plains, never to return.  But in the win column, thanks to better agricultural management practices, the massive black blizzards never returned either. Bondi Beach, Australia, 1938   The phrase Black Sunday isn't exclusive to the US, of course.  My one sister's adoptive country of Australia has had their fair share as well.  Like Black Sunday from 1926, an especially bad day during an already disastrous bushfire season.  60 people were killed and 700 injured.  Or the Black Sunday bushfires across South Australia in 1955.  60 fire brigades and 1,000 volunteers were needed to get the fires under control.  Thankfully this time only 2 people died that time.     On the far side of the element wheel is the story of Bondi Beach, minutes east of Sydney, on a February Sunday in 1938.  Sydney had recently celebrated its 150th birthday, or sesqui-centenary, with a big old parade and events planned to last until April.  The city was a-bustle with visitors, many of whom joined the locals spending the hot, sunny day at Bondi Beach.     The sky was clear, but the sea was already acting a fool. A large swell was hitting the coast and lifeguards at Bondi were busy all day Saturday pulling people from the heavy surf, as many as 74 rescues in one hour.  Despite the heavy seas, beach inspectors gave a mayor of Amity-approved thumbs-up to opening the beach on Sunday, February 6.  Beachgoers started coming and coming and coming.  The morning started out relatively quiet for the lifeguards, but business got brisk, even as they tried to wave swimmers toward safer parts of the beach.  As the tide moved out, more and more people ventured out to a sandbar that ran parallel to the beach.  The crowd had grown to 35,000, enjoying the surf and sand.  Extra surf reels were brought out to the beach as they tried to keep pace with the ballooning battery of bathers.  A lifesaving reel is an Australian invention that was brilliant in its simplicity.  It was a giant reel of rope, with a belt or harness at the end, in a portable stand.  The life saver would attach the harness to his or her self then swim out to the struggling swimmer or surfer.  The lifeguard –and I am going to persist in saying the American lifeguard rather than the Australian lifesaver– then puts the rescuee in the harness and a lifeguard on the beach would reel them in.  The lifeguard in the water either accompanies that person back or goes on to rescue someone else.      Boat crews were out in the water dropping buoys to mark out a race course for weekly races held by and for the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club.  This would turn out to be as fortuitous as when a woman had a heart attack on a trans-atlantic flight, but there were 15 cardiologists on board, going to a conference.  At about 3.00 p.m. two duty patrols were changing shifts at the Bondi surf club and some 60 club members were mingling around waiting for the competition.    Suddenly, five tremendous waves crashed high onto the beach, one right after the other, in such quick succession that the water could not recede.  Even though most bathers were only standing in water up to their waists, they were thrown onto the beach, and pummeled by the following waves.  Then the water receded.  What goes up must come down and what comes in must go back out.  The backwash, which is the term for water on the beach finding its level and returning to the ocean, swept people who'd been nowhere near the water, including non-swimmers who never planned to get in the water, into the water.  The people on the sandbar were then swept further out.  The club recorded 180 people, but news reports at the time put the figure as high as 250 – 250 people now in need of rescue, panicking and thrashing in the surf.     All hands from the Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club lept into action.  Beltmen took every available line out, many went in without belts and held up struggling bathers.  Lifesaver Carl Jeppesen is said to have simply dived into the surf to rescue six people without the aid of a surf reel.  One of the main problems was not lack of assistance but too much unskilled help from the huge crowd on the beach.  One beltman, George Pinkerton, was dragged under water by members of the public trying to haul him in. He ended up in need of medical attention. Once the lines had been cleared and a certain amount of order restored, the lifeguards could get on with the job.  Thankfully there were people who *could help.  “I was co-opted into the situation because I was a strong swimmer and they put me on a line,'' said Ted Lever, just 16 at the time, a member of the Bondi Amateur Swimming Club who would soon be invited to join the renowned Bondi lifesaving club.    Even when the well-meaning public had been cleared from the lines to leave them in trained hands, there were still problems. The beltmen often found themselves swamped by swimmers seeking assistance. Some of them had to punch their way through a wall of distressed bathers to get to others in more danger.  One beltman spoke of being seized by five men who refused to let go.  “I was trying to take the belt to a youngster who was right out the back but I didn't get the chance.  As I went by, dozens yelled for help and tried to grab me.  I told them to hang on to the rope as soon as I got it out.  I didn't think I had a chance when they all came at me.  One grabbed me around the neck, two others caught me by one arm, another around the waist and another one seized my leg.  I hit the man who had me around the neck, managed to get him on his chin and he let go.  I had to do it; but for that, I would have been drowned myself.”   The boat was still out after laying the buoys but the crew were waiting for the race to start, but they were completely unaware of the chaos just off the beach.  Nobody thought to signal them, but even if they had, the boat could have posed a danger to people in the water with overactive waves and rip currents.   It was difficult to tell exactly how many people had been rescued during the course of that chaotic 20 minutes.  Rescued swimmers were brought up the beach by the dozens.  About 60 needed to be resuscitated to one degree or another.  Five people died, including one man who died saving a girl.   American doctor Marshall Dyer, there on vacation, helped resuscitate swimmers.  “I have never seen, nor expect to see again, such a magnificent achievement as that of your lifesavers,'' he said. ``It is the most incredible work of love in the world.''   There were inarguably many heroes on Bondi Beach that day, but the Lifesavers' club stance afterwards was that “everyone did his job.”  “It must be realised that though perhaps less spectacular, the work on the beach and in the clubhouse was just as necessary if not more so,'' he told a newspaper.  Instead of recognising individuals for their efforts the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia recommended the entire club for a special meritorious award.   Opening day of Disneyland, 1955   even a potential COVID outbreak or the measles outbreak they had a few years ago would pale in comparison to the disaster that was opening day at Disney.  Disneyland is known as the happiest place on Earth.  But when the park opened on July 17, 1955, the now-ubiquitous nickname was downright ironic.  Disney employees who survived the day referred to it as Black Sunday.  So opening day at Disney was a bit more like the Simpsons episode where they went to itchy and scratchy world. The opening day was meant to be a relatively intimate affair, by invite only, not for every Huey, Dewey and Lewey.  If you were friends and family of the employees, members of the press, and celebrities of the day, you received a ticket in the mail.  If you were everyone else, you bought a counterfeit ticket.  The park was only expecting 15,000 guests; 28,000 showed up, nearly doubled what they prepared for.  Well, what they meant to prepare for, we'll ride the teacups back around to that in a sec.  The counterfeit tickets might have been better than the legit ones, as those were only good for half the day, morning or afternoon, to spread the workload out more evenly.  The morning tickets had an end time of 2:30 pm, when, assumably, they figured people would see that and just say, oh, bother, my time is up, guess I'll leave then.  Nobody did that.  One is stunned.  You buy a ticket for a theme park, you're there all day.  So the morning people were still milling about when the afternoon people started showing up.  And then there were the people who started just sneaking in.  One enterprising self-starter set a ladder up against the outside fence and charged people $5 to climb it.  That's about $50 adjusted for inflation, many many times over for schlepping along a ladder that I like to think he nicked from his neighbor's yard.    A lot of things were not ready on opening day, within the park and without.  The Santa Ana Freeway outside turned into a 7 mile long parking lot.  The opening of the park essentially shut the freeway down.  There were so many people waiting so long, according to some media reports, there was rampant [] relief on the side of the road and even in the Disney parking lot.  Like the video for Everybody Hurts, if folks couldn't hold their water.  If you just flashed back to your life when that video came out, be sure to stretch before you mow the lawn and don't forget your big sun hat.     Today might think of a Disney park as being meticulously manicured and maintained.  Opening day, not so much.  Walt Disney tried to have everything ready on time, hustling his people to work faster, but there's only so much you can do.  So there were bare patches of ground, some areas of bare ground that had been painted green, weeds where the lawns and flowers were meant to be.  Weeds and native flora that they couldn't get rid of in time, they instead put little signs with the Latin name of the plant in the weeds, so it kind of looks like it was meant to be there.  Turn a liability into an asset, I always say.  Returning to the topic of bathrooms, there was a plumber's strike going on during construction; Walt basically had to decide between working water fountains or working toilets.  Florida heat notwithstanding, he chose to have the toilets working, and I'd say that was probably a good call.  If you've ever played theme park tycoon or any of those games now, you know that a lack of water fountains means people *have to pay for drinks now…  Or they would… if the park's concessions had been fully stocked.  The overabundance of people meant that the food and drink sold out completely in just a couple of hours.  Did I mention it was literally 100 deg freedom/38C that day?  The asphalt had been finished so close to opening that it began sticking to people's shoes.  Some people even claimed to have gotten their shoes completely stuck to the pavement on Main Street, where lots of people spent lots of time, because the rides, kind of a big deal at a theme park, they were not ready.  A number of rides, like Peter Pan's Flight, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Submarine Voyage, and the famous Flying Dumbo either broke down or never opened at all.   Disney's Black Sunday lasted for weeks.  A Stagecoach ride in Frontierland permanently closed when it became clear that they were as safe against rollovers as a Bronco II with a roof rack loaded with building supplies.  36 cars in Autopia crashed due to aggressive driving on the part of the patrons.  I'm starting to wonder if Disney ever met people.  Ironically, the ride was designed to help children learn to be respectful drivers on the road.  There were a number of live animals in a circus attraction, which was not great when a Tiger and a Panther escaped, which resulted in a furious death struggle on Main Street, USA.  Now that's an attraction you can't pay for, like Baghera vs Sher Khan, 8 years before The Jungle Book.  Like the park, the Mark Twain Riverboat was over capacity on opening day with over 500 people cramming onto the boat, causing it to jump its tracks and sink in the mud.  It took about half an hour to get it back onto the rail, and as soon as it pulled up to the landing, everyone rushed to one side of the boat to get off…. and tipped it over.  Thankfully, the water was shallow and there were no injuries.  There was, however, a gas leak inside Sleeping Beauty's Castle, which could have been a serious problem and prompted the closing of Adventureland, Fantasyland and Frontierland for a few hours because, whoopsie-doodles, Sleeping Beauty's Castle is on fire.  Well, trying to catch fire.  Reports vary as to how severe it actually was.  Walt was so busy handling the press that he didn't even learn about the fire until the following day.  That's how chaotic things were.     Disney was a shrewd and clever businessman, so he thought, I am opening this park. Let's make this into a big live television event.  He partnered with ABC, which had also helped provide nearly a third of the funding.  In return, Walt Disney would host a weekly TV show about what people could expect to see in Disneyland for the year before it opened.  So on opening day, Walt hosted a 90 minutes live TV special with Art Linkletter and future President Ronald Reagan.  90 million people tuned in to see the happiest place on Earth and that kind of ratings was no mean feat for the 50's.  The cameras showed all of the fun and excitement of Disneyland, completely obscuring all of the disasters and unhappiness that was actually happening.  But if you think the live broadcast would go off without a hitch, you may have pattern-recognition problems.  It was riddled with technical difficulties.  Parkgoers kept tripping over camera cables that snaked all over the park.  They were on-air flubs, mics that didn't work, people who forgot their mic *did work, and unexpected moments caught on camera, such as co host Bob Cummings caught making out with one of the dancers.  “This is not so much a show as is a special event,” Art Linkletter said during the broadcast.  “The rehearsal went about the way you'd expect a rehearsal to go if you were covering three volcanoes, all erupting at the same time and you didn't expect any of them. So from time to time, if I say we take you now by camera to the snapping crocodiles in adventure land and instead somebody pushes the wrong button and we catch Irene done adjusting her bustle on the Mark Twain. Don't be too surprised.”  And that's…. The train system is essential for the airport to function at its full capacity since it provides the only passenger access to Concourses B and C. In rare instances of the train system being out of service, shuttle buses have been used. While the system is highly reliable, one major system failure took place on April 26, 1998. A routing cable in the train tunnel was damaged by a loose wheel on one of the trains, cutting the entire system's power. The system was out of service for about seven hours. United Airlines, DIA's largest airline (who operates a large hub out of Concourse B), reported that about 30 percent of their flights and about 5,000 passengers were affected by the failure.     Sources: find sources for Disney https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2013/11/historical-echoes-what-color-is-my-day-of-the-week/ https://www.history.com/news/remembering-black-sunday https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/black-sunday-1938-hundreds-washed-out-to-sea-on-bondi-beach-as-freak-waves-kill-five-injure-dozens/news-story/2f584af7365abc298d039d42e5f2ddf1 https://bondisurfclub.com/the-club/history/black-sunday/ https://www.history.com/news/dust-bowl-migrants-california https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnEErB6sPRY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925%E2%80%9326_Victorian_bushfire_season https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sunday_bushfires https://web.archive.org/web/20110927091319/http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/19553/Black_Sunday.pdf https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/black-sunday-1938-hundreds-washed-out-to-sea-on-bondi-beach-as-freak-waves-kill-five-injure-dozens/news-story/2f584af7365abc298d039d42e5f2ddf1 http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/159183/Bondis_Black_Sunday,_1938_rev.pdf https://bondisurfclub.com/the-club/history/black-sunday/ https://web.archive.org/web/20110927091319/http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/19553/Black_Sunday.pdf https://www.history.com/news/remembering-black-sunday https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1000-mile-long-storm-showed-horror-life-dust-bowl-180962847/ https://alchetron.com/Denver-International-Airport-Automated-Guideway-Transit-System  

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Coming back to Disneyland in 2022: Sweethearts' Nite, Villains Nite and Star Wars Nite Disneyland After Dark events take place after regular park hours with festivities, special nighttime entertainment, access to most attractions with reduced wait times (although this is not always a guarantee, as we have experienced long wait times during ticketed events). There are special things to do not typically available during regular park visits.With each ticketed Disneyland After Dark event, you get up to four hours of fun after the parks close to regular visitors. Plus, you can arrive early for a three-hour pre-party mix-in at the same park before the event begins.At each event, you also get unlimited digital downloads of Disney PhotoPass photos taken during the party, plus commemorative keepsakes including a souvenir credential and event guide map.Here are the details for each of the upcoming themed nights:Disneyland After Dark: Sweethearts' NiteFebruary 1, 3, 8, 10 and 14, 2022, at Disneyland Park (now on sale on Disneyland.com)Sweethearts' Nite at Disneyland Park on five separate nights in February. The final night is, not surprisingly, Valentine's Day. Here's what to expect: A special themed fireworks show Projection effects on Sleeping Beauty Castle and Main Street, U.S.A. A jazz ensemble aboard the Mark Twain Riverboat, plus other live entertainment, including a Royal Ball and a dance party with a DJ Spot the most darling Disney couples, and take selfies with your favorites Fun photo opportunities featuring romantic scenes from iconic Disney films Lovely décor, along with food and beverage offerings around the park Plus, early admission to Disneyland park starting at 5:00 p.m., no theme park reservation required Disneyland After Dark: Villains NiteMarch 8 and 10, 2022, at California Adventure (on sale on Disneyland.com, as of January 11, 2022)At Villains Nite you get to party with some of Disney's most infamous villains at Disney California Adventure Park. Tickets will go fast as it's just two nights in March. Here's what you get: The Cauldron is a cabaret show featuring a cast of villains showing off their talents through song and dance Ursula's Seaside Sing-a-long, where you can find your voice The Underworld Dance Party, which allows you to bust a move at a DJ dance party in the Hollywood Backlot Special photo backdrops, featuring scenes inspired by some favorite villains Some of Disney's infamous villains – or their sidekicks – at special locations in the park Devilishly decadent food and drink offerings Early admission to Disney California Adventure park beginning at 5 p.m., no theme park reservation required Disneyland After Dark: Star Wars Nite May 3, 4 and 27, 2022, at Disneyland Park (on sale Disneyland.com, beginning January 11, 2022)Star Wars Nite features galactic fun on three separate nights at Disneyland Park in May 2022. Highlights of Star Wars Nite include: A pyrotechnic show that will light up the night with a Star Wars-themed fireworks show March of the First Order, featuring Captain Phasma and her elite unit of Stormtroopers A Galactic dance party Sightings of various Star Wars characters throughout the evening   Star Wars-themed attractions, usually with shorter wait times Star Wars-themed eats and treats, merchandise, photo opportunities, and more Plus, early admission to Disneyland park starting at 6 p.m., no theme park reservation required If you bought a ticket for the 2020 Disneyland After Dark: Villains Nite or Star Wars Nite, you can exchange you 2020 tickets to one of the nights of the new event of the same theme. You may need to pay a small price difference if the new show costs more.  Is It Possible to Visit Walt Disney World or Disneyland Without a Phone?We tackle this hot topic on this week's show and share our thoughts on why it's a good thing that you'll need a digital device to get the most out of your Disney Parks vacation.Even More Entertainment Returning to Disneyland in 2022“Celebrate Gospel!”A celebration of the soulful spirit of Gospel music will return with “Celebrate Gospel!” on select days in February. The event moves to the Fantasyland Theater at Disneyland park.“Tale of the Lion King”Sometime in the spring, the Fantasyland Theater at Disneyland park will become home to “Tale of the Lion King.” It debuted in 2019 at Disney California Adventure park and then covid hit. The Storytellers of the Pride Lands are a troupe of traveling performers who present Simba's journey in a unique story with live music and dance.“Main Street Electrical Parade”To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the “Main Street Electrical Parade” will make its big return to Disneyland park! “Fantasmic!”“Fantasmic!” is coming back too. It's nearly 30 years old at Disneyland park and it's Disney's longest-running nighttime spectacular.“World of Color”World of Color is getting set to light up the night at Paradise Bay in Disney California Adventure park this spring.“Disneyland Forever” fireworks spectacular“Disneyland Forever” coming back with some surprising special effects. Main Street, U.S.A., and other spots in Disneyland park will become the canvas as a world of dreams takes over the park. From “Peter Pan” flying over the London skyline, to a dance with King Louie in “The Jungle Book” it's all back. Plus, two original songs, “Live the Magic” and the closing song “Kiss Goodnight,” both written by Disney Legend Richard Sherman. Festival of the Arts Update (Jan 14 - Feb 21, 2022) Last episode we talked about the Broadway performers...now it's food and art.Art-inspired menus at 15 Food Studios throughout World Showcase. Deco Delights and The Craftman's Courtyard will debut at the festival, featuring artfully presented cuisine and beverages as visually appealing as they are delicious. The complete foodie guide in early 2022.Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine – a food stroll with five sweet & savory offerings. Once you buy (and get your passport stamped) for all five, you'll get an Artist Palette Cookie as a bonus.Visual art -- over 100 Disney and visiting artists will showcase their works throughout EPCOT. See artists at work from the Disney Artist Gallery and the WonderGround Gallery, plus see pieces from ACME Archives, Thomas Kinkade Studios, Wyland Galleries and POP Gallery.Figment also lends an artistic touch to this year's festival merchandise collection.Chalk artists will create masterpieces at Chalk Art Galleries, and you can learn how to draw a Disney Character at Animation Academy. Children can create their own chalk masterpieces at Kid's Chalk Art and families can leave their artistic stamp on a larger-than-life mural at Expression Section: A Paint by Numbers Mural. Around World Showcase there will be Photo Ops around famous works of art. Thank You for Listening to the Disney Travel PodcastThank you very much for listening to this episode, Amelia and I hope that you enjoyed it. If you did, we would be very grateful if you could rate, review and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts/iTunes (or on whichever app you choose to listen). A brief review about what you liked most about an episode truly helps to keep the show going by exposing it to new listeners. We look forward to continue producing new episodes each week.If you are interested in helping to support the our show, we have set up some great rewards for our supporters on Patreon. So feel free to drop by for a visit. Sharing the podcast with your friends and on social media is also extremely helpful and very much appreciated.Shop 1923 Main StreetFeel free to visit our 1923 Main Street® Disney merchandise shop where we have hundreds of unique and original Disney-inspired t-shirts, leggings, clothing, mugs, phone cases and much more. You'll find everything from 1923 Main Street logo merchandise to custom created authentic Disney-inspired originals, including lots of great patterns for leggings and other items.Contact 1923 Main StreetThank you for listening to the Daddy Daughter Disney Travel Podcast at 1923MainStreet.com. 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http://www.attractionchecklist.com - Let's take a leisurely cruise around Disneyland's Rivers of America on The Mark Twain Riverboat on this episode of Attraction Checklist! Recorded on May 18, 2021. TRANSCRIPT: Welcome to Attraction Checklist. This episode we head to Disneyland's Frontierland to climb aboard the Mark Twain Riverboat.  This attraction is described on the Disneyland Resort Website saying: Cruise the scenic Rivers of America on a sightseeing tour aboard a majestic 19th-century paddle boat. There are no age or height requirements for this attraction and the Thrill Level describes the ride as being a Slow Water Ride that is Loud. Before we shove off, here are five fast facts about the Mark Twain Riverboat at Disneyland. 1.  The Mark Twain is a Disneyland opening day attraction, opening with the park on July 17, 1955. 2. Walt Disney named the riverboat the Mark Twain after the pen name of author Samuel Langhorne Clemens.  Clemens, who was a riverboat captain in his youth took his pen name from the boating term mark twain meaning the water depth is safe for a boat to pass through. 3. The Mark Twain Riverboat stands 28 feet tall and is 105 feet long. 4. The Mark Twain travels around the Rivers of America on a rail.  Though the operators can control the forward and reverse speed of the boat, the steering of the ship is all done by this rail. 5. The Mark Twain burns biodiesel fuel in it's boiler turning water into steam.  The water used is fresh water from a tank on board, not the water in the Rivers of America. Let's see what sights we can see as we cruise around the Rivers of America on the Mark Twain Riverboat.  After we ride I'll give you my thoughts on this attraction and this is a binaural recording so if you have headphones put them on now as we ride the Mark Twain Riverboat at Disneyland. The attraction audio recorded for this episode is available exclusively to the Saturday Morning Media Patron Patron.  Support the show and get fun Bonus content over at http://www.patreon.com/saturdaymorningmedia Episode edited by Stephen Staver FOLLOW US https://www.instagram.com/attractionchecklist/ http://www.twitter.com/SaturdayMMedia  https://www.linkedin.com/company/saturday-morning-media http://www.youtube.com/user/SaturdayMorningMedia?sub_confirmation=1 FOLLOW GRANT http://www.MrGrant.comhttp://www.twitter.com/toasterboy  https://instagram.com/throwingtoasters/ SOURCES: https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/mark-twain-riverboat/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_riverboats Show ©2021 Saturday Morning Media/Grant Baciocco

We're joined by Nick Gervais, owner of My Monthly Cigars, to find out what is in the September box. We smoke the Mark Twain Riverboat on what Gator is saying could be his final show...? We discuss a lot of different topics including Nick G's recent trip to 2 Guys Smoke Shop in Salem, New Hampshire, documentaries we've watched, Gator's near death experience, and lots more.  We also find out three cigars we've smoked and enjoyed this week and get a Final Third Friday review from Broccoli Rob. Check out the Cigar Pulpit on Instagram at @TheCigarPulpit and @NekkidGator and sign up for the free newsletter HERE. Sign up for the Robusto box at My Monthly Cigars and smoke along with the guys at MyMonthlyCigars.com  Follow JRE Tobacco at @JRETobacco on Instagram or check out their website, JRETobacco.com for a store near you that carries their cigars And check out Rivermen Cigar Company on Instagram at @TheRivermenCigarCompany  online at RivermenCigars.com or give him a call for mail order service at (314) 843-3355

Special 'The Disney Beat' Podcast EpisodeWe have been running the Ultimate Disneyland Resort Tournament of Rides on our website and social media accounts. Over the last two weeks we had over 111,000 votes from Disneyland fans in two rounds of matchups.Today, we reveal the winners that will move on to Round Three, the Sweet Sixteen, next week.My dear friend Myken Nunes joins me to reveal our own picks in each matchup, before revealing the fans' choice.I will post all of the winners, along with the vote split, on TheDisInsider.com on Sunday January 24th. Voting for round 3 begins Monday January 25th at TheDisInsider.com, Twitter handles @SeanNyberg and @TheDisInsider, and both the Instagram and Facebook pages for The DisInsider.We will be revealing the Round 3 winners next week here on The Disney Beat.----Splash Mountain, Soarin' Over California, Mad Tea Party, Tea Cups, Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure, Incredicoaster, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Toy Story Midway Mania, Haunted Mansion, Indiana Jones Adventure, Mr. Toads Wild Ride, Star Tours, Radiator Springs Racers, Matterhorn, Goofy's Sky School, Luigi's Rollickin Roadters, Grizzly River Run, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Mark Twain Riverboat, Buzz Lightyear Astroblasters, Alice in Wonderland, Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout, Jumpin' Jellyfish, Jungle Cruise, it's a small world, Pirates of the Caribbean, Peter Pan's Flight, Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin, Monster's Inc Mike and Sully to the Rescue, Space Mountain, Mater's Junkyard Jamboree, Disneyland Monorail, Millennium Falcon Smuggler's Run

Special 'The Disney Beat' Podcast EpisodeWe have been running the Ultimate Disneyland Resort Tournament of Rides on our website and social media accounts. Over four days we had 62,055 votes covering 20 head to head matchups for the tournaments first round. Today, we reveal the winners that will move on to Round Two next week.My dear friends Myken Nunes and Marci Vernon join me to reveal our own picks in each matchup, before revealing the fans' choice.A number of the bigger rides, (IE Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Matterhorn, Incredicoaster, Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission breakout, etc) got a bye in the first round and will pop up next week.I will post all of the winners, along with the vote split, on TheDisInsider.com on Sunday January 16th. Voting for round 2 begins Monday January 17th at TheDisInsider.com, Twitter handles @SeanNyberg and @TheDisInsider, and both the Instagram and Facebook pages for The DisInsider.We will be revealing the Round 2 winners next week here on The Disney Beat.So check it out and hear which rides are moving to Round 2: Pinocchio's Daring Journey, Mark Twain Riverboat, Disneyland Railroad, Star Tours, Toy Story Midway Mania, Goofy's Sky School, Gadget's Go Coaster, Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin, Snow White, Peter Pan's Flight, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Sailing Ship Columbia, Grizzly River Run, Monster's Inc Mike and Sully to the Rescue, Soarin' Over California, Soarin' Around the World, Main Street Vehicles, Winnie the Pooh, Davey Crockett Canoes, Mad Tea Party, Finding Nemo Submarines, Autopia, Astro Orbitors, and more.

Part 1 was a hit so we came back for round two of The Lost Attractions of Disneyland! Find out more about the attractions, parades, shows, restaurants and encounters that have come and gone from the Disneyland Resort over the years. Also, COVID closure updates, new merch, Sean auditions for the Haunted Mansion and much much more! 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 history1928:Walt Disney's trademark application for "Mickey Mouse" is filed with the United States Patent Office.1971:Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes debuts in Disneyland. Originally called Indian War Canoes, the attraction opened on July 4, 1956, as part of Frontierland's Indian Village expansion, with real American Indian guides aboard every canoe. Guests used a "D ticket" to ride the attraction. The Indian War Canoes closed with Indian Village in 1971 but reopened on May 19 as Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes, inspired by the Davy Crockett miniseries, with the guides now wearing coonskin caps. It is one of only two attractions in Disneyland to be in three different lands without ever being moved. Frontierland, Bear Country, Critter Country1997:Disneyland's Mike Fink Keelboats re-closes for only the second time in the attraction's history.1998:The new Disneyland Tomorrowland is unveiled after being given an extreme facelift. Various dedications will take place over the next 2 days. Among the special guests are legendary astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Wally Schirra.1999:Disneyland hosts the official homecoming of Army Staff Sergeant Andrew Ramirez, Staff Sergeant Christopher Stone, and Specialist Steven Gonzales. It is the first time the three U.S. soldiers, who had been captured by Serbian forces on March 31, stand on American soil since their release from captivity.2000:The Disneyland Pirates of the Caribbean Celebration is held inside the Main Street Opera House, to celebrate the 33rd anniversary of one of the most popular rides at the park. Special guests include Harriett Burns, the very first woman hired as an Imagineer.2007:A gala premiere for the feature Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End takes place at Disneyland. Johnny Depp and his fellow actors attend the world premiere2011: Guests get the public’s first glimpse of Disneyland's revamped Star Tours. (The attraction will open to the general public on June 3.)2015:The premiere performances of "Paint the Night" parade and "Disneyland Forever" fireworks takes place at Disneyland park. Both additions to Disneyland's 60th birthday bash (which kicks off the following day), the parade and fireworks are broadcast live on the Disney Parks blog.Topic 2 - News Construction has resumed on Avenger’s Campus as well as the site for Mickey & Minnie’s runaway railway in ToonTown. All work is being done by limited essential crews that include Imagineers and additional contractors. Other construction regarding refurbs (like HM and Snow White) is still on hold.The Dapper Day events that were tentatively scheduled for the summer have been cancelled. There are talks of a possible small marketplace being held in August in place of the normal expo. As of now all November events are still taking place as planned. Disney Springs phased re-opening to begin May 20. Still no date for Disneyland opening yet.Topic 3 - MerchMore free merch! Disney released a few additional desktop and mobile backgrounds through photopass. There is an amazing mobile wallpaper of fireworks at the castle available to download. These will expire on 6/27 so go get them downloaded now.Artist Series “Bambi and Forest Friends” Dooney & Bourke Collection released on shopDisney. The pattern features bambi, meeko, thumper, flower and Tod and Copper from Fox and the Hound. The collection includes a wristlet wallet, tote and satchel.A new Haunted Mansion board game called “Call of the Spirits” is being released by Funko later this year. They have not put any additional information regarding gameplay or an exact release date on their website as of yet, but I’d assume if they’re looking to release later this year that it’ll be in October to keep it spooky!Loungefly has some more merch coming soon. If you check out entertainmentearth.com, you can find all the new Disney Loungefly pieces that are available for pre-order. There is a Toy Story Pizza Planet/Little Green Men mini backpack, a 101 dalmations pouch and standard backpack, and inside emotions pouch and standard backpack and a bing bong backpack and a Princess dress patterned pouch and backpack. Everything is ranging from $10-75 with releases in May and June.An inflatable space crane ball pit is new on shopDisney. It comes with 100 plastic balls to fill up the base and the crane doubles as a hoop to shoot the balls through. Super cute and easy alternative to going to the park during this time. $49.99.Topic 4 - Hidden Mickey with the KidTopic 5 - FoodTopic 6 - Events/EntertainmentThis week on #DrawWithDisneyAnimation, artists who worked on The Princess and the Frog are showing you how to draw characters from the film! Learn how to draw Tiana from the character’s Lead Key Cleanup Animator Rachel Bibb.The D23 Podcast this week features Disney Legend Bob Gurr in which he talks about what it was like working with Walt Disney, filming the Imagineering Story and more. The episode is about 30 minutes long and can be found on the D23 website.Hamilton is being added to Disney+ on 7/3 starring the original broadway cast.MAIN - The lost attractions of Disneyland part 2Over 150 lost attractions, restaurants, shops, parades and fireworks showsGeneral Electric Carousel of Progress (1967–1973): A sit-down show in which the building rotated the audience around a series of stages. The stages had audioanimatronic humans and household appliances showing how appliances and electronics advanced about every 20 years from the turn of the century to the "modern" era of the early 1960s. The audience stopped in front of each stage while the characters joked with each other, described life at the time in history, and demonstrated their kitchen. This ride originated at the 1964 New York World's Fair and was installed at Disneyland after the fair closed. In 1974, Carousel of Progress was moved to Florida's Walt Disney World, and the show building was used for America Sings and Innoventions.The PeopleMovera train ride that ran along an elevated trackFirst built in 1961A great way to relax and enjoy a unique view of TomorrowlandClosed in 1995Rocket RodsPeople mover closed in 1995 as part of a Tomorrowland overhaulRepurposed trackDragster-style thrill attraction - more thrilling than PMOverhead view of TLQuick launchSlowed down at every turn - they lost GM sponsor/budget - didn’t build in banked turns on the flat PM trackSpeed up/slow downNot thrilling enough/Too thrillingLong wait timesMechanical issuesInfrastructure wasn’t altered to accommodate the quick/slow - stress on track & vehiclesAfter weeks went down for 3 months to try to fixStill constantly breaking downTrack and structure was breaking down, making it unsafe - cracks, broken concrete - lawsuitClosed again in 2000 to reopen Spring 2001Didn’t reopen - announced permanent closureSad skeleton in the middle of TLVideopolis (1985–1995): A nighttime dance club targeted at young adults. Videopolis featured television monitors playing modern music videos and also hosted live musical acts. It also featured its very own snack bar, "Yumz". Videopolis was converted into an amphitheatre in 1990 and was renamed Fantasyland Theatre in 1995.Mike Fink Keel Boats (1956–1994, 1996–1997): The Mike Fink Keel Boats were based on two episodes of the Davy Crockett miniseries which aired on the Disneyland TV show in 1955 -- "Davy Crockett's Keel Boat Race" (Nov 16) and "Davy Crockett and the River Pirates" (December 14). The ride was named after Mike Fink, the "King of the River" who lost the keel boat race. The two 38-foot boats, the Gullywhumper and the Bertha Mae, were the actual props that had been used in making the TV shows a few months earlier.The boats were free-floating and traveled around Tom Sawyer Island Riders would sit on benches either inside the cabin or on the roof of the cabin.1997, the Disneyland Gullywhumper boat began to rock side to side. It capsized, dumping a full boatload of passengers into the Rivers of America, leaving several with minor injuries. The boat was removed from the waters for inspection and neither the Gullywhumper nor the Bertha Mae returned for the next operating season. The Bertha Mae was put up on Disney's eBay Auction Site and was sold for $15,000 to Richard Kraft, and was later featured in a scene from Kraft's documentary Finding Kraftland. It was billed as an unseaworthy craft.In 2003, the Gullywhumper returned to the Rivers of America as a prop and is moored on Tom Sawyer Island, where it is visible from the Mark Twain Riverboat, the Sailing Ship Columbia, and the Explorer Canoes.Swiss Family Treehouse (1962–1999): Treehouse based on the film Swiss Family Robinson. Rethemed as Tarzan's Treehouse in 1999 and still open under that name.Jolly Trolley (1993–2003): The Jolly Trolley was a Trolley providing transportation from one end of Toontown to the other. Closed due to crowded walkways presenting major safety hazards, meaning the trolleys could only operate on days with sparse crowds. The Jolly Trolley's track is still present in the main walkway of Toontown, and one car stands stationary in the middle of Toontown. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What's streaming this week on This Knee Plus: We learn some history on Disney After Dark with Nikki. Mark Twain Riverboat isn't a celebrity. What's the Skyway? Toy Story Land is meh. Our Disney+ avatars. Julia breaks into song, and our pick of the week, Treasure Planet. This Knee Plus Podcast. A show with four hosts talking about what's on Disney Plus. Each week we’ll watch something that’s ONLY on Disney+ and Review/discuss the movie or show. We'll also talk some Disney History, News, or related topics about Disney. Hosted by: @monkeymonsterscosplay, @the_kilt_guy, and @death_star_diva. New Episodes loaded weekly. Intro and outro music:Weekend In The City - Silent Partner (YouTube Royalty-free Music Download)

In Episode 42 of Dateline Mousetalgia, we’re talking all about magical experiences guests have encountered at Disneyland Resort! Piloting the Mark Twain Riverboat on the Rivers of America, riding up front on the Disneyland Railroad in the tender seat, being a rebel spy on Star Tours, even becoming an Honorary Member of the Dapper Dans— there are many unique experiences to be had! We’ll also discuss the new Ramone’s Serv-Ice Station in Disney California Adventure’s Cars Land and recap the Disney Channel Fan Fest. Plus, this month’s refurbishment schedule, the Disneyland app’s new look, and Galaxy’s Edge reservation timeslots!

The Dubs #172 - We talk with Jesse Foutz about his first time to Disneyland, but with a special bonus...We recorded a 15 minute "Recorded Live" at Disneyland segment!!  Jesse was a good sport for talking to us on location by the Mark Twain Riverboat allowing us to hear and enjoy the sounds of Walt's park! Thank You for downloading and listening to Show #172 of The Dub Dee Dub Revue.  We hope you enjoy the show (actually with this episode...we KNOW you'll enjoy the show!) The Dub Dee Dub Revue can be found almost ANYWHERE podcasts are heard!!  To find us most easily, checkout Spotify, Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Stitcher, Tune In Radio, Google Play Music, iHeartRadio, Overcast, Player FM, Pod-O-Matic, Pocketcasts, Podcast Addict, Soundcloud, and on our own site TheDubDeeDubRevue.com.   Also, Please be sure to subscribe to the show to get the latest shows delivered directly to your podcast feed.  AND visit us on Twitter @dubdeedubrevue, like our Facebook page, and checkout our Instagram page @thedubdeedubrevuepodcast. Lastly, Thank You to our sponsors for making this show happen:  The Theme Park Brothers on YouTube (themeparkbrothers.com)  Made to Order Mickey Ears (magicalmaradesigns.com) and Disney Vacation Club Resales and Point Rental (DVC-Rental.com & buyandselldvc.com)  We appreciate your support...AND...as always, we appreciate YOU spending a little of your time with us.  We know that you have lots of options for Disney-based podcasts, but for including us...Thank You!

Disney fans rejoice! The Disneyland classics have returned to the park including The Disneyland Railroad, Mark Twain Riverboat and more. But with that great news we unfortunately have some classics closing at Walt Disney World. Plus Kermit the Frog has been part of some controversial news lately.  That and so much more on this weeks episode.

The boys are back! And in this episode they will be exploring the hallowed decks of the Mark Twain Riverboat. In this episode you will hear everything you've ever wanted to hear and more about a Disneyland original! So grab a husk of wheat to chew on and enjoy the story of The Mark Twain Riverboat!

Welcome to episode 99! It's "Dockside Discussion" time on The Cruise Dudes Podcast. We jabber all about the much need refurbishment and remodeling of the Queen Mary in Long Beach. They want to spend 100's of millions of dollars to restore the ship - is it worth it? We share our thoughts. Plus we talk about the new technology coming to the Celebrity Edge and MSC's "MSC for Me" wearable tech.  We also welcome back Grace and Stanley for an interview about their cruise on the Carnival Inspiration and a beer tour they took in Mexico. It was fun interview, because Tommy recorded it at Disneyland on the Mark Twain Riverboat. Check out their video here: Please don't forget to sign up here for our new and upcoming digital magazine app: www.seawindmag.com  We will be releasing private preview copy of the magazine that will only be available by invitation. Sign up today! Also, follow our new Instagram feed here: Seawind Magazine IG Thank you for listening and sharing our show with your family and friends - we really appreciate all of your support of our podcast! Happy Cruising! Tommy & Scott  P.S. Click Here To Visit Amazon.com also visit The Cruise Dudes Amazon Associates Store    Contact The Cruise Dudes! Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecruisedudes Instagram: https://instagram.com/thecruisedudes/ YouTube: The Cruise Dudes Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/321163017150953432/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/thecruisedudes Email: thecruisedudes@gmail.com Voice Mail: 424-272-1916 The Cruise Dudes Podcast is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. 

It's Time D-Heads! This week we Celebrate, Take a Trip to the Rivers of America and have a Birthday as we welcome DEREK BRANDON (Tom Sawyer on the Mark Twain Riverboat in Disneyland, The Adventures of Mickey Matson Series, North) to the show! Derek talks about being part of this classic Disneyland Attraction, Mickey Matson, his career, upcoming projects and more! We also celebrate our D-Team Member Paige's Birthday as she celebrates at the Walt Disney World Resort. In addition no show would be complete without the D-Team and this week we keep you in the loop with Caitlin as she has the latest from the Walt Disney World Resort. Erin answers all your questions in I Want To Know while Nathan dusts off the books and uncovers what happened This Week in Disney History, and Jason goes deep into The Vault with another mythical Blu-Ray and DVD you want to add to your collection and Cody takes a stroll on the Hollywood Walk. Paige brings the joy of Disney music with this weeks Magical Music Review and Randy gives you the lowdown on the latest Disney Multi-Media. There is news hot off the D-Wire from the Blizzard Beach, Walt Disney World, the Disney Channel, Lizzie McGuire, Make a Wish Foundation, Olaf, Kristoff, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Epcot, The Tower of Terror, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, Marvel Entertainment, Big Hero TV Series and Sequels, and more! So it's time to Put on Your Ears, Give it a Little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo, and get ready to Relive the Magic, Memories and Appreciation from Your Lifetime of Disney with our New Kind of Disney Show!

It's Time D-Heads! This week we Celebrate, Take a Trip to the Rivers of America and have a Birthday as we welcome DEREK BRANDON (Tom Sawyer on the Mark Twain Riverboat in Disneyland, The Adventures of Mickey Matson Series, North) to the show! Derek talks about being part of this classic Disneyland Attraction, Mickey Matson, his career, upcoming projects and more! We also celebrate our D-Team Member Paige's Birthday as she celebrates at the Walt Disney World Resort. In addition no show would be complete without the D-Team and this week we keep you in the loop with Caitlin as she has the latest from the Walt Disney World Resort. Erin answers all your questions in I Want To Know while Nathan dusts off the books and uncovers what happened This Week in Disney History, and Jason goes deep into The Vault with another mythical Blu-Ray and DVD you want to add to your collection and Cody takes a stroll on the Hollywood Walk. Paige brings the joy of Disney music with this weeks Magical Music Review and Randy gives you the lowdown on the latest Disney Multi-Media. There is news hot off the D-Wire from the Blizzard Beach, Walt Disney World, the Disney Channel, Lizzie McGuire, Make a Wish Foundation, Olaf, Kristoff, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Epcot, The Tower of Terror, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, Marvel Entertainment, Big Hero TV Series and Sequels, and more! So it's time to Put on Your Ears, Give it a Little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo, and get ready to Relive the Magic, Memories and Appreciation from Your Lifetime of Disney with our New Kind of Disney Show!

It's Time D-Heads! This week we head off into the Circle of Life as we welcome JOSHUA RUSH (Bunga in Disney's The Lion Guard, The Adventures of Puss and Boots, Heroes, Emelie and more) to the show! Joshua stops in and discusses everyone's favorite Honey Badger Bunga from The Lion Guard, how he became an actor, favorite foods, animals, technology and even his friends hearing his voice on the television. In addition we have the D-Team back kicking it off with Erin answering your questions in I Want To Know and we have Jason giving you a Blu-Ray and DVD that we must add to your collection in The Vault. Paige is coming to us live from the Walt Disney World Resort in the Magical Music Review. Caitlin is back with the latest from the Walt Disney World Resort and Nathan looks back at the books this week in This Week in Disney History and Cody stops in with the Hollywood Walk. And Randy is here giving you the latest from Disney Multi-Media! There is news hot off the D-Wire with news about The Good Dinosaur, The Oscars, The Lion Guard, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Bunk'd, Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, Mark Twain Riverboat, Tsum Tsum, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Star Wars, Fireworks, Parades, Animal Kingdom, The Force Awakens, Marvel, Toys, Clothing and more! So it's time to Put on Your Ears, Give it a Little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo, and get ready to Relive the Magic, Memories and Appreciation from Your Lifetime of Disney with our New Kind of Disney Show!

It's Time D-Heads! This week we head off into the Circle of Life as we welcome JOSHUA RUSH (Bunga in Disney's The Lion Guard, The Adventures of Puss and Boots, Heroes, Emelie and more) to the show! Joshua stops in and discusses everyone's favorite Honey Badger Bunga from The Lion Guard, how he became an actor, favorite foods, animals, technology and even his friends hearing his voice on the television. In addition we have the D-Team back kicking it off with Erin answering your questions in I Want To Know and we have Jason giving you a Blu-Ray and DVD that we must add to your collection in The Vault. Paige is coming to us live from the Walt Disney World Resort in the Magical Music Review. Caitlin is back with the latest from the Walt Disney World Resort and Nathan looks back at the books this week in This Week in Disney History and Cody stops in with the Hollywood Walk. And Randy is here giving you the latest from Disney Multi-Media! There is news hot off the D-Wire with news about The Good Dinosaur, The Oscars, The Lion Guard, Disney Channel, Disney Junior, Bunk'd, Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, Mark Twain Riverboat, Tsum Tsum, Epcot, Hollywood Studios, Star Wars, Fireworks, Parades, Animal Kingdom, The Force Awakens, Marvel, Toys, Clothing and more! So it's time to Put on Your Ears, Give it a Little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo, and get ready to Relive the Magic, Memories and Appreciation from Your Lifetime of Disney with our New Kind of Disney Show!

Show Notes:  In this episode of The Tiara Talk Show, voice-over actor Peter Renaday chats with host Tammy Tuckey about recording the voice of Henry and Max for the Country Bear Jamboree along with Thurl Ravenscroft and Frank Welker, meeting Walt Disney on the Disney Studio lot, acting opposite Brian Keith in a play version of “The Happiest Millionaire” put together by the Disney Players and more! Are you looking to plan and book an upcoming Disney vacation? Contact The Tiara Talk Show’s official travel agent, James from Destinations in Florida by visiting www.destinationsinflorida.com/tiara for a free quote! Be sure to… - Follow us on Twitter at @TiaraTalkShow: www.twitter.com/TiaraTalkShow - ‘Like’ our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/TheTiaraTalkShow - Follow us on our Tumblr page: thetiaratalkshow.tumblr.com - Follow us on our Google+ page: google.com/+TheTiaraTalkShow - Follow us on our Instagram page: instagram.com/thetiaratalkshow Want to give us your thoughts on this episode? Call us at 1-407-413-9390 and leave us a voicemail! Thanks for listening! “The Tiara Talk Show” is edited, created and hosted by Tammy Tuckey. The Tiara Talk Show is Copyright © 2013-2016 by Tammy Tuckey. All rights reserved.

In this episode we review and discuss, "Paint the Night" the new nighttime parade for the 60th Diamond anniversary. Plus at the end we have an interview with Scott Ramp from The Scream Factory runs the entire make-up effects for Six Flags Magic Mountain's Fright Fest. News Disneyland Continues Diamond Celebration through Sept 5 2016 Fantasmic, Mark Twain Riverboat, & The Disneyland Railroad to Close as Season of the Force Moves in Rumor about removal of a section of Tom Sawyer's Island and Train Re-Route MahaloWeen Returns Thanksgiving at Disneyland Pop Secret is now the official popcorn of the Disney parks Holidays at the Disneyland Resort Shows and Attractions Join Paint the Night Parade Disneyland Forever Fireworks Feature Paint the Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIEDfiLLzlQ   Scott Ramp - Six Flags Magic Mountain's Fright Fest Interview Twitter Daniel @disgeekpodcast  Tommy @tommypix Chris @dizchris Jae @MagicalFoodTour Email us at- disgeekpodcast@gmail.com Call us at 661 450-8290. If you enjoy the show take a minute and Review us in itunes. Download Sticher Radio. Use Promo Code: DISGEEK Check Out Touring Plans.com! Use code DISGEEK for 20% a one year subscription.   Visit our friends at:

(((HEADPHONES STRONGLY RECOMMENDED))) Pixie Dusted Productions presents... Disneyland's, "Mark Twain Riverboat"!

In this episode Paul and Daniel take a look at what's on the Drawing Board.  This time it's Carsland! We also visit the Main Street News Stand and as always our Tip of the Week.  Click MORE for full show notes. News Disneyland Closes some attractions due to Pirates Premiere - The closed features are: Sailing Ship Columbia, Mark Twain Riverboat, Tom Sawyer's Island, Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes and the Fantasmic! show. The attractions are set to reopen May 12. Other Attractions shops closed in may are:  DL - Star Tours, Splash Mountain, Star Trader store, Gadget's Go Coaster ride, Stage Door Cafe and The Golden Horseshoe restaurant. DCA - Mulholland Madness (Reopening as Goofy's Sky School), and crews are converting a dining and shopping complex in the Paradise Pier area, which is expected to open this summer http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/04/28/disneyland-closes-attractions-for-pirates-premiere/76491/   Disney sets up some new crowd control measures in Adventureland, NOS, and Frontierland due to pirate premiere. The bridge over the Pirates of the Caribbean queue is divided for easier crowd flow.   Disney Blog gives us a look at Ariel's Wedding Dress (probably to coincide with the Royal Wedding) http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/04/first-look-at-the-royal-wedding-dress-ariels-that-is/   Soundsational Sneak Peak - Last week disney filmed a commercial for Mickey's Soundsational Parade and we got a little sneak peak of two floats http://www.ocregister.com/news/parade-297831-disneyland-new.html   http://micechat.com/forums/blogs/dateline-disneyland/1814-soundsational-sneak-peek-mermaid-lights-signs-bye-bye-brother-bear-more.html   Mary Blair Tribute at Disney Gallery - The Art of Mary Blair celebrating 45 years of it's a small world http://psc.disney.go.com/eventservices/artofdisneyparks/event/dlr_thedisneygallery.html   Nighttime Entertainment Boosts DCA attendence http://ocresort.ocregister.com/2011/04/19/nighttime-entertainment-boosts-disney-business/75417/   Marvel wants IN at Disneyland - “It's the biggest dream of all” (keep dreaming) http://uk.movies.ign.com/articles/116/1162758p1.html   Quick Hits Main Street Building refurbishments done and look brand spanking new. Tomorrowland Star Tours Neon now glow a purpleish blue to match the new marquee (used to be orange and red) Buzz has Purple and Green The Star Tours Mural has been updated to include the Starspeeder 1000 Little Mermaid Marquee up (but covered) & Little mermaid building lights are now on at night (looks amazing) In DTD Kitson Kids Closed (I never knew it was there!) Celebrity Spotting in DL over the last few weeks:  Matt Damon, Hugh Hefner and his wives (he was riding around in an old man scooter) Paris Hilton, Tom Brady   Feature On The Drawing Board - Cars Land   Luigi's Flying Tires http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgKoj4olEm0 http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/cars-radiator-spring-7392/   Tip of the Week Fireworks Viewing - @tommypix

(((HEADPHONES STRONGLY RECOMMENDED))) In this episode, the Mouse Lounge presents a rootin’ tootin’ tooth shootin’ good time in Frontierland!  From the Walt Disney Archives:  Walt introduces Frontierland to an eager America on Disneyland’s opening day in 1955.  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, we travel back in time, to the late 1800’s for Slue Foot Sue’s Golden Horseshow Revue!  Each week we present a high definition ride-through from a Disney Park East or a Disney Park West.   This week, we hop on board the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.   We'll close this week’s show with a couple of jumpin’ Frontierland tracks from the Mark Twain Riverboat, enjoy Come Back, Sweet Papa, and Milenberg Joys!

This episode takes you on a trip aboard the Mark Twain Riverboat. This Rivers of America attraction is a must see if you really want to get a feel for what it was like to travel down the Mississippi in the 1800's. Also, it was a project near and dear to Walt's heart. I hope you enjoy your journey aboard the Mark Twain. Please don't forget to stop by my website at www.oakfan.com to check out the high quality videos as well as photo galleries.