BOOTLEGGING BANDS FROM A SPEAKEASY IN DOWNTOWN LAIt’s simple really. We like bands and we like booze, so we established our own Blind Tiger (another term for a speakeasy -- shhhhhh) in the heart of LA’s meat packing district. Because we may or may not know what we are doing, we named our speakeasy the "Blind Blind Tiger."THE GOAT PARADE is a Blind Blind Tiger spin off of sorts, a gonzo podcast focusing on a guest musician or artist while showcasing the current climate of the music scene, bo ...
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Two former Jungle Skips talk Disney, Theme Parks, & Pop Culture. However in true Skipper fashion, the conversation frequently heads into uncharted waters. Hosted by David "Dr. Skipper" Marley (Author, Disney Historian) & Trevor Kelly (Crooner, Senior Art Director)
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Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet take on all aspects of theme parks - Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Six Flags - discussing them in historical context and then finding ways, to quote Walt Disney, to "plus them up!" A Boardwalk Times Podcast https://boardwalktimes.net/ https://boardwalktimes.store/
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–– From the Author of The Old Mrs. Moody™ audiobook series –– A delightful new SHOW for KIDDOS ON THE GO! Staring Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo! These 10-ish minute episodes are the perfect listening length to keep kiddos entertained while running errands around town, waiting at the doctor’s office, riding in a shopping cart, or while sitting in a car seat in an after-school pickup line. The Old Mrs. Moody Show Programming includes: INTERACTIVE ADVENTURE EPISODES Kiddos are invited to join in ...
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: The unique smells of the Jungle, Trevor's upcoming trip to Japan, ruining Major League careers, The Mummy, a new sport called "Food Punch", Universal's upcoming Epic Universe theme park, favorite/least favorite Thanksgiving foods, Ironic stories from the D.A.R.E. program, Reading the crowd on the Jungle…
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: Spotify AI DJ Experiences, Dave's Surprise Vasectomy, Trevor's Upcoming Trip to Japan, Waffle House Ordering System, Disney Parks and Upcharging, Dr. Skippers experience as an Area Greeter at Disneyland, Jungle Cruise Jokes They Disliked, Upcoming Book Release Event, and much more!…
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Another amuse-bouche one between the big shows. Let us know if you like these. And review us on your podcast platform of choice, please. We'd really appreciate it. Thanks for listening! We'd love it if you would give us a cheeky little review on your podcast platform of choice. They're really helpful. Come visit our Facebook group at https://www.fa…
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You Will Believe a Goat Can Fly - Frontier Village
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It was a small park in rural San Jose with off-the-shelf rides and entertainment liberally lifted from Disneyland; so why is it so beloved? Is there another regional theme park in the country that has yearly reunions four DECADES after it closed? What was the magic behind Frontier Village? Playland at the Beach, The San Francisco Opera, Fantasia, P…
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Old Mrs. Moody has a terrible cold, and while she waits to see the doctor, Catbaloo tells her the story of Anderson Kate and the Goody Goat Cart – a beautiful story of giving. Anderson Kate is a little girl who lives on the mountaintop. One day, she and her mother bake a chocolate cake for Grandmother’s birthday. They put the cake in a little cart,…
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Another mid-opus Minnie-sode! Full episode next week! In the meantime, catch Pete as Mr. Hives in Hayward introducing "The Tingler" tonight and "Night of the Living Dead" next Monday. Tix available here, https://douglasmorrissontheatre.thundertix.com/events Enjoy! Thanks for listening! Thanks for listening! We'd love it if you would give us a cheek…
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Deadhead: Chasing Robo Lincoln, Mushka the movie, and Yo Ho,Yo Ho, It’s a Mylar Table for me
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Send us a text Unfortunately Trevor has fallen ill with Bronchitis so this episode will be what we Skips call a deadhead. Which is when you send a boat out on the river without guests to keep things moving. But like the old NBC slogan said, if you haven't seen it, it's new to you! Join the lads as they discuss: Paper Mache Aliens, The Battle of Bri…
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Another mid-opus Minnie-sode! Goff, Renaday, Buzzy! More singing! Enjoy! Thanks for listening! We'd love it if you would give us a cheeky little review on your podcast platform of choice. They're really helpful. Come visit our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511094196139406 or drop us a note to comments@lowdown-plus-up.com and le…
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Our first Minnie-sode! To bridge the gaps between full episodes we're laying down a more casual - and far shorter - episode devoted to thoughts about things that happened this week in theme park history. Hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening! We'd love it if you would give us a cheeky little review on your podcast platform of choice. They're really …
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: Porch swing incidents, Dr. Skippers wikipedia fame, The Jungle Cruise movie, wild Disney artist contracts, The Disney studios strike, Dave's recommendations for the show, terrible streaming services, the terrors inside Oogie Boogie Bash, Classic Disney vs. Modern Business Approach, Cars Land at Hallowee…
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Retro-Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used to Be - The Main Street Electrical Parade
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It exists in a nexus between three time periods: the future, the retro-future and the nostalgic past. The Main Street Electrical Parade is the most famous Disney parks parade for a good reason, it somehow synthesizes everything that is contained in Walt's original park - fantasy, history, progress - in a joyous and timeless spectacle. And Walt Disn…
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When Charlotte and her small pony, Sonora, enter the horse race at the county fair, no one thinks they can win. Sonora is much smaller than all of the other horses. But when Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo overhear Charlotte speaking words of encouragement to her pony - "I love you, pony. You have everything you need to win!" - they sit down with a bag…
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: The Battle of Britain, Mario Kart and World War 2, One couple battling with Club 33, Their own visit to the original Club 33, Disney Lawyers, The People vs. Disneyland, Park Booze tips, Things that aren't here anymore in the parks, Jungle skips in Parades, Which Disney princess has the highest kill coun…
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Folks Here's a Story 'Bout Minnie the Watcher - Fleischer Land
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If you take a left turn around 1929, you end up here: where the jazz band triumphed over the orchestra, where sexy usurped formal, where a very different theme park empire began, and died. Welcome to Fleischer Land. Keep an eye out for hidden Bettys! Thanks for listening! We'd love it if you would give us a cheeky little review on your podcast plat…
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Explaining Jokes to Skeletons, The Kidney Stone Goat Trick, & Jerry Lewis’ terrible clown show
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Send us a text Join the lads on the shows 2nd anniversary as they discuss: why Trevor wasn't allowed to have celebrities in the boat, why they both left the Jungle, Zorro and Davey Crockett saving Disneyland, the deadly Wizard of Oz, a wild fact about the wildest ride in the wilderness, dressing up for Universal Studios themed night, Disney legends…
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Kiddos are invited along on this TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURE with Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo! They’ll buckle up in the time machine and travel back to Kitty Hawk on December 17, 1903 – just in time to help spin the propeller to start the engine on the first powered flight in history. Kiddos will hear interesting facts about the Orville and Wilbur Wright…
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They Died with their Boots On - The History and Future of the Disney Shooting Galleries
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When we pick up a fake gun and shoot it at a fantastical electric target, what are we trying to become? What do we think Frontierland is? Who is Paul MacGlashan and how did the guy that designed Disney's shooting galleries help win WWII? And, most importantly, How did Kelly and Pete find themselves so mired in the kind of Disney current affair news…
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Uh-Oa Party for One, Red Bulls and Mai-Tais, & Trader Sam's Bartenders Kelly Merrill and Cristian Diaz
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Send us a text Join the lads from their live at Tiki Oasis recording of The Jungle! They are joined by special guests, legendary Trader Sam's bartenders Kelly Merrill and Cristian Diaz for an off-the-rails, wide ranging chat thats not to be missed!
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: Fun at Tiki Oasis, Gremlins, the theme park hiring spiral, misleading Disney headlines, Deadpool in the DCA, The Flanos challenge, The Lounge last call, Exotic themes for the silver screen, Leading questions, Puppets hosting Skipper Stand Up, the never used plot for The Jungle Cruise Movie, and much muc…
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The Ballad of Bumping Biff - Back to the Future: The Ride
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Fire up your Flux Capacitors, people, because we're heading back, back, back in time! We're traveling to the early-20th Century to visit some houses that ought not spin the way they do, the '60s to visit that same Not-Really-A-World's-Fair that we keep yammering on about and, of course, the '80s - where Huey Lewis lives. It's the ride that saved Un…
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DUMP TRUCKS, EXCAVATORS, and JACKHAMMERS, oh my! They’re fixing the road right in front of Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo’s houses and it is very exciting to watch! But, when the road crew digs through the water line with an excavator, they'll be without water for the rest of the day. Oh dear, now they won't be able to get any of their daily chores do…
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The Starcruiser Evermore - The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Theme Park Interactivity
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We go out on a limb this episode by philosophizing about the uses and abuses of guest interactivity within theme parks and other forms of live entertainment. We get real philosophical and voices get kind of contemplatively husky (or Kelly is still getting over a cold). Along the way we visit Knotts Berry Farm, the Galactic Starcruiser, Evermore, li…
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Main Street Ankle Gauntlets, Cast Member Strikes, & Who Wants To Annoy The Host Of Millionaire?
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Send us a text Join the lads as they chat about: Rickety Fair rides, Disneyland's 69th birthday, A Disney trap for John Stamos up in Sacramento, Skipper Stand Up, Taco Bell's retirement community, Fantasmic's new ending, The upcoming Disneyland Strike, Halloween starting earlier, Why you should never invite Skippers to movie premieres, Visiting Wal…
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: Dave looking like a biker gang leader, Laziness at Knott's Berry Farm and theme parks in general, wild facts about My Way for it's 50th anniversary, Disney vault films, generations being priced out of the parks, Donald's origins, ways Skippers got fired and much much more!…
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The Racing Monkeys of Leisure - Bob Gurr's Autopia
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A puzzling anomaly today - we dive for hours on packed highways to a place where we pay money to simulate driving on packed highways - the Richfield Autopia attraction was once a vision of an America poised on the brink of progress and possibility. Kelly and Pete go on a pilgrimage to Disneyland to consider its history in person and meet legendary …
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Is Old Mrs. Moody the only person on earth who doesn’t know the story of the Bubble and Squeak Carwash? It’s only the biggest mystery in Bixby County—ever! Catbaloo and Old Mrs. Moody bake fresh peach cobbler together while Catbaloo tells Old Mrs. Moody the mysterious tale. Hop in the the station wagon with the Jones brothers, Jack and Otis; the pu…
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Send us a text Join the lads as they bounce around discussing: Sunsetting cranky guests, cocktails on Main Street, LARPers in Star Wars land, 97 year old WW2 parachuters, Men's skirts in Star Trek, How Disney Built America, Yelling at bosses, weird Jungle cruise skipper bits, and much much more!
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Restoring the Swisskapolka, Sinking Ships in Trader Sam's & Part Two with Special Guest Kevin Kidney
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Send us a text Join the lads for part two with special guest Kevin Kidney as they chat about: Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse fun facts, Working on Trader Sam’s, Restoring the Swiss Family Treehouse Organ, The Donn of Tiki, Soundsational parade, and much much more!Di Trevor Kelly & David "Dr. Skipper" Marley
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Rude Mechanicals - Jungle Cruise: The Early Years
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It's been in the parks so long that it seems simply part of Disneyland's fabric, which it is. The Jungle Cruise is almost synonymous with the idea of "theme park." But it struggled with its identity for a very long time before becoming that attraction that we all know and love today. And some of the most fundamental players in its development have …
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Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo are having a knitting lesson on the back porch, but a very crafty crow is interrupting them with his loud "caw, caw." Is he trying to tell them something? What could it be? When Mrs. Moody brings out a pair of binoculars to get a better look at what the crow is up to, she discovers an opening—the door to someone's home—w…
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Swimming Round The Jungle, Dragons Love Coffee Creamer, & Part One with Special Guest Kevin Kidney
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Send us a text Join the lads for part one of two as they chat with special guest, Disney/Mid-Century/Tiki Artist Kevin Kidney about: His early days in the Disneyland Art Department designing Fantasmic, abandoned concepts for the show, fun Fantasmic facts, his time as a Jungle Cruise skipper and much much more!…
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Calamity Boag - The Golden Horseshoe Saloon
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After Sleeping Beauty Castle, there may be no more important icon of the first few decades of Disneyland than The Golden Horseshoe Saloon. Wally Boag, Betty Taylor and Fulton Burley held court, every day, in Frontierland's grandest meetin' place, for thirty years. But what exactly was it? Join us. Come visit our Facebook group at https://www.facebo…
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Dr. Skipper's Rage Stroke, Pirate Makeup Tutorials, & Never Run Behind A Flight Simulator On Wheels
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: Trevor singing in Vegas, Zippys hawaiian food zipping through ya, Dave losing it at Jungle incompetence, Harper Goffs Ghostbusters cameo, Unreleased early footage of Disneyland, Interesting Pirates facts, Cast Member attraction walk-throughs, announcing our special guest next episode and much much more.…
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Towers of Tomorrow - The Disneyland Hotel
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Once the most modern of resorts, the story of The Disneyland Hotel goes from the Governor's mansion in 1930s Texas to an engineering miracle in 1815 Cairo... At least that's how we tell it. Trust us, this is a strange ride. Thanks for listening! We'd love it if you would give us a cheeky little review on your podcast platform of choice. They're rea…
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Campers, get on the bus! You're going on a one-night campout at Possum Creek with Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo! You'll take a hike through the woods and learn to identify animal tracks. Then, you will paddle out to the middle of the lake to do a little fishing. After a day of adventures, you will sit around a cozy campfire and toast marshmallows for…
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We're All Goons Here - Sleeping Beauty Castle
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The icon of all theme park icons, Sleeping Beauty Castle. While it's the smallest of the Disney parks' castles, it has the richest, and strangest, history. Watch out, in this episode you will learn how something you probably thought was true about the Haunted Mansion is not, but is, instead, true for the Castle. Come on into this dark, cramped, sta…
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Send us a text Join the lads as the chat about: Jack Daniels and Sinatra, Waffle House whiffs, Tiki A Go Go, Dave's hang with East Dock Skips, Trevor's Tron Prediction, The Pun Killer Tour, John Cleese live, The themed restaurant craze, Peltz big loss, Their most embarrassing interactions with a guest in the park, and much more!…
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Free Price is Right pants, Board billionaire bullies, & Announced but never arrived Attractions
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: Winning the 2024 Disney Podcast battle (thanks to all of you), Bob Barkers house for sale, accidents at the Price is Right, Tiki A Go Go, our annual Disney Legends critique, New Historical Landmarks at Disneyland, The origins of the worst fake holiday - April Fools Day, Unrealized Attractions at Disney …
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It's the day of the Hot Diggity Dog Parade and it's coming right down the middle of Main Street! Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo are going to sit on the front row and watch all the cute little doggie faces go by. Dogs of every size, shape and breed will be there! Marching bands and special performances by ballet-dancing poodles; juggling, jumping Jack …
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Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln
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We're chaining ourselves to Honest Abe and discussing why YOU should make a point of visiting him every time you go to Disneyland. Walt would want you to. Thanks for listening! We'd love it if you would give us a cheeky little review on your podcast platform of choice. They're really helpful. Come visit our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.co…
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Send us a text Join the lads as they chat about: I'm just Ken and the new Mickey Mouse Club, Big life events, Sinatra roughin' up people, Rise of the Resistance, The new New Orleans Square, Their recent Patreon visit to Disneyland, Adventureland Day, Terrible thought Starters, Rides that scared you as a kid, Jungle deadheads at night, Lovin' touchi…
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ROYLENE Little piggy, Roylene, has a big imagination! She wants to turn Uncle Henry’s farm into the African veldt. She makes the barn cats roar and growl like lions and tigers; makes the goats stretch their necks up like giraffes, and makes the ducks stand on one leg all day, like flamingos. The whole barnyard is in chaos! Old Mrs. Moody and Catbal…
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Send us a text Join the lads as they sit down for a chat with special guest, artist Shawna Marie Tice "The Pleated Peacock". A talented creative who currently does everything from making gorgeous floral crowns to interior environments such as Club 616 and the Mai-Kai. It was a blast discussing her time at the Park including: Working on parades such…
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Send us a text Join the lads as they discuss: Inhuele, Waffle House, visiting the Skipper Canteen in Florida, a food pivot at Lunar New Year, DCA's early days, Superstar Limo, security photos, San Fransokyo, old-school Tinkerbell, Sleeping Beautys murder hole and much much more!
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Kiddos are invited along on this Underwater Adventure in the Coral Sea! Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo get a letter from a young seahorse named Seabiscuit asking them to come to watch his first-ever seahorse pony race in the Coral Sea. He thinks if they were there to cheer him on, he might win a trophy! Listeners will put on wet suits, swim fins, mask…
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Kiddos are invited to join Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo on this fantastic Time Machine Adventure to the Old West! Old Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo find a very old letter in the attic from the year 1860. It's from an old silver miner, Whistling Pete, who has lost his mule, Bessie, and desperately needs help to find her. Mrs. Moody and Catbaloo and the kid…
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As Old Mrs. Moody sits at her window watching a thunderstorm roll by, she spots a tiny kitten under a tree in her backyard. It's caught out in the rain! Catbaloo comes at once to help Mrs. Moody rescue the kitten. They dry the kitten's fur, feed her a bowl of warm milk, and make her a soft cozy bed by the fire. They even name their new baby, Puff. …
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Send us a text Happy new year! Join the lads as they discuss: Tesla robot factory fights, new years resolutions, Golden glizzys at the Park, Peter Pan and rich parents, going pantsless in Vegas airport, Magic Keys, interesting facts about the owners of Knotts Berry Farm and Disney's America, repurposed attraction concepts that ended up in DCA, magi…
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Send us a text What happens when two Jungle skips try to do a nice Christmas episode? They talk about Christmas in the Goulag, Manipulating the press at DCA, Stealing golf carts and much more. There's also some nice Christmas memories and Christmas specials recommendations you may not have seen. Grab some eggnog and take a listen to our weirdest Ch…
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Showing off your Small World, Murder Hornets in Dreamland, & why Anaheim’s Jungle has no Jingle
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Send us a text Join the lads as they chat about: The Small World streaker, what rides they would streak on, Macy Thanksgiving conspiracies, Mickey and Minnies Runaway Railway, Sneaking into Nara Dreamland (an abandoned Disneyland clone), working in the parks during the holidays, why Anaheim doesn't have the Jingle Cruise but Florida does, and much …
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