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Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast

No. 14: Disney University and Van Arsdale France

Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast

Jeff Baham

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4776 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Mousetalgia's Best Ear Ever #14: Disney University and Van Arsdale France from March 11, 2013

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Van Arsdale France and Disneyland University: Team Mousetalgia takes a look at the career of France and his contribution to the development of the Disneyland "cast member," as well as a little history of the frantic march to Disneyland's opening day and the challenges of staffing the park. We also talk to Cast Member Lindsay, and get a modern perspective on what it means to represent the Disney company today. Also - we dig into the email folder and offer Disneyland resort dining tips, trip tips, and a random JJ Abrams sighting! Plus, windows on Main Street - and more!

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0:00.0

Remain listening, please.

0:04.6

Permaneseer Escuchando, for favor.

0:07.4

You're listening to Mousetalgia's best year ever.

0:10.3

An encore presentation of the top 52 episodes of the Mousalgia podcast curated by Team Mousalja.

0:16.2

Please note that all sweepstakes are wide and time-sensitive news may be outdated.

0:18.9

Now sit back, hold on, and enjoy Moustalgia's best ear ever.

0:22.9

Hello, Mousalge's

0:37.6

best ear ever. This week will be revisiting episode 228 that originally aired in March of 2013.

0:45.6

I thought this was a great episode because it focuses on Van Arsdale, France, and the Disneyland

0:51.1

University, something that people don't really necessarily think a lot

0:55.4

about, whereas, sure, you know, cast members have to go through this onboarding. Maybe, you know,

1:00.7

when they start, maybe you knew that they go through, you know, kind of this Disneyland University

1:04.4

or, you know, I think it's kind of evolved and has some different names over the years. But

1:09.6

somebody had to create that,

1:11.1

right? And of course, they needed that even when they were launching Disneyland in the first

1:14.6

place. So I think it's one of those very moustachia episodes where we go back and think about,

1:20.2

well, where did this come from? Who was part of this? How did this happen? And why did this happen?

1:25.0

Again, one of those stories that I feel like doesn't get enough attention

1:29.5

and love. And if you're a big nostalgia person, then you're going to love this dig back into the

1:35.4

history of how did that all happen and talking about Bannarsdale, France. So please enjoy this

1:42.0

episode and join my co-host as we revisit the episode 228 during episode this week's Mousalja Best Year Ever.

1:49.8

You're listening to Mousalja, March 11, 2013.

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