Ep. 691: Kevin Kidney on Swiss Family Robinson; Michael Vargo, VP - D23
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
This week, Mousetalgia is jam-packed with history and fandom. First, we welcome D23 VP Michael Vargo back to the show to give us a peek at the newest D23 Gold Member gift and to chat about the latest happenings at D23 and how things have shifted during the pandemic. Next, Dave reports on last week's D23 press event announcing the upcoming 2022 D23 Expo, giving us the first announcements and notes about the event. Then, we welcome Disney artist and historian Kevin Kidney back to the show to share some of his research and stories about the making of Walt Disney Pictures' Swiss Family Robinson and Disneyland's Swiss Family Treehouse. Plus - a big announcement.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Mostalgia, January 17th, 2022. |
| 0:06.0 | Mostalgia is a member of the Mice Chat Podcast Network. |
| 0:26.0 | Hang on to them hats and glasses Because this here is the wildest podcast in the wilderness |
| 0:30.1 | This is Mousalgia |
| 0:33.9 | Carpe Kingdom Seize the Magic |
| 0:36.4 | Music Nostalgia. Carpe Kingdom, seize the magic. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the Mousetalgia, your podcast, all about Disneyland, Disney, |
| 0:49.0 | Disney California Adventure, and everything else. |
| 0:49.3 | Disney. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm your host, David, with us today. |
| 0:51.4 | We have Jeff. |
| 0:52.5 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:53.3 | And Kristen. |
| 0:54.9 | Bahal for all. And Kristen. Well, all for all. |
| 1:00.5 | And no Becky today, but we will carry on with the torch. |
| 1:03.5 | Today we're going to start off of the Mousalja Roundup. |
| 1:10.2 | Get ready, folks, for the weekly mouse Al Jirondah! |
| 1:20.7 | We are celebrating the fact that the Swiss family tree house started construction on January 17, 1962, |
| 1:25.1 | and it completed November 18, 1962. So to honor that, we're going to go around and say, |
| 1:31.2 | in the family race, where they all kind of like having this big celebration of like being |
| 1:36.8 | on this island and surviving and everything. And they all were on these random different |
| 1:43.1 | animals for this big race. |
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