Ep. 31 - Mouse Tales and More with Pioneering Disney Author David Koenig

DCL Duo Podcast: A Disney Cruise Line Fan Podcast

Brian Flock

Hobbies, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week were truly honored to speak with pioneering Disney author David Koenig. David has been writing about Disney since the 1980's, with his first book "Mouse Tales," published in 1994. "Mouse Tales" broke ground in surfacing the behind-the-scenes Disneyland story to the masses through castmember interviews and stories. David has since gone on to write multiple books about Disney including a sequel to Mouse Tales - "More Mouse Tales," an insider look at Walt Disney World called "Realityland," and book detailing the impact of lawsuits on Disneyland park operations called the "People v. Disney," a book celebrating the stories behind Disney animated films called "Mouse Under Glass," and his newest book chronicling the stories of some of the original castmembers who opened Disneyland in 1955 called the "55ers." It was truly a pleasure to talk to David and tell his story! Check out David's books on Amazon. The DCLDuo Podcast is a weekly Disney Cruise Line and Disney travel focused podcast. If you like our podcast, please subscribe and leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts. Our podcast is also available on Pocket Casts, Spotify and most other major podcast providers. You can also like and follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @DCLDuo. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, you can email us at dclduo@gmail.com. The views in this podcast are our own, and are not those of the Walt Disney family of companies, Disney Cruise Line or the Walt Disney theme parks or resorts. If you have questions about a Disney vacation or any of the Disney offerings discussed in this podcast please contact Disney directly or discuss with your Disney travel agent. Thanks for listening! You can connect with the DCLDuo Podcast and Vlog at: https://dclduo.com Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel at: https://tinyurl.com/u5bj9lv Please review and subscribe to our Podcast on the following platforms (or most major podcast providers): Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dclduo-podcast/id1501550336 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/gn6f1034 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4Fcl8SPuSJFlam2KsJBHx7 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=526093&refid=stpr You can also like and follow us on social media at: The DCLDuo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DclDuo The DCLDuo on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dcl_duo/ The DCLDuo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DCLDuo The DCLDuo Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dclduo

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0:00.0	There was no internet back in the 80s, and there was no blogs and no podcast, no chat boards,
0:06.4	and no people emailing and no social media.
0:08.7	So what happened at Disneyland?
0:10.3	Pretty much stayed at Disneyland.
0:25.6	Welcome back, everybody, to this week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast. And tonight we are excited to welcome, I would say, a bit of Disney celebrity onto our show.
0:33.9	If you're a Disney fan, you probably know his name.
0:40.0	He's been writing books about Disney since 1994. And his first book, Mouse Tales, was actually one of the first books I ever read about
0:45.9	Disney and Disneyland when I was living in Southern California at the time. So we want to welcome
0:50.5	and excited to welcome David Kandig to the show. Welcome, David. Thank you so much.
0:54.5	So happy to be here. We're excited. We're really excited. Yeah. You're our biggest celebrity on the show
1:00.5	thus far. No offense to Seth and Aaron from the unofficial guys, but yes, I think.
1:08.8	It is a high on it. Well, David, we like to start out with folks as just personal Disney background. So before we dive into your books, I mean, I know that you're down in California, so you're probably going to Disneyland quite a bit. But what's your background in terms of going to the parks and where a Disney Cruise Line kind of focused podcast in some ways? So I'm wondering if you've had any experience with the cruise line. What's your experience with Disney just personally? Yeah, well, a lifelong Disney fan
1:32.2	literally from almost birth. We raised in Orange County, California. I'm not far from Disneyland.
1:38.1	I like to say I grew up in the shadow of the Madahorn. And it was always, it was always a big
1:43.4	fascination for me. I never had the urge to want to work
1:46.9	there but i just wanted to play there always a you know just as i'm sure you love the cruise line and other
1:53.9	facets of disney dinsneyland was truly i've been visiting there for 50 years and can hardly wait for
1:59.6	the doors to open up again.
2:01.4	And when I became a writer, it just was a natural that, especially back when I first started researching Disney in the 80s, there were no Disneyland books, period.
2:09.3	There were Disney put out, you know, souvenir guides and such like that, but there was no such thing as a history of Disneyland or anything like that.
2:16.5	So that became a natural topic of study
2:18.9	that continued to this day. Yeah, that's a really good point. I mean, before your book,
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