No. 18: Interviews with Imagineer Kevin Rafferty and three Disney Legends
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2022
⏱️ 83 minutes
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No. 18: Interviews with Imagineer Kevin Rafferty and three Disney Legends from July 8, 2013
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Learn about the earliest in-"car"-nation of Cars Land from Creative Director Kevin Rafferty in this star-studded episode of Mousetalgia, recorded directly from the 2013 Pacific Northwest Mouse Meet, featuring four exclusive interviews covering many fascinating aspects of the Disney company. First, we speak with Dave Smith, the director emeritus of the Disney Archives, who tells us some secrets of his years with the company. Learn which items Dave broke, Dave's opinions about the nature of collecting, and his explanations about how the Disney Company and Disney family share items and information. Next, we talk to Kevin Rafferty about his long, productive career with Walt Disney Imagineering, including a behind-the-scenes look at the "It's Tough To Be a Bug!" attraction, and his leadership in the development of Cars Land. Finally, we attempt to corral Bill Farmer and Tony Anselmo, two of Disney's most popular voice actors, into a dual interview with varying degrees of success. Hilarity ensues! Please note: Meet up information is outdated - stay tuned for meet-up information for the 2022 D23 Expo!
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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| 0:16.2 | Please note that all sweepstakes are wide and time-sensitive news may be outdated.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 Moustalja's best ear ever. |
| 0:22.9 | We'll be it again. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, Mousalja friends. |
| 0:31.9 | This is Dave, and I'm here to introduce you to this week's episode of Mousalda's best ear ever. |
| 0:37.0 | This week, we're revisiting episode 245. |
| 0:40.5 | That is from July of 2013. |
| 0:43.5 | And I just love this episode because we get to talk to so many amazing people. |
| 0:48.6 | And there's just so much great information and hilarity that happened. |
| 0:53.6 | Just crazy. Cheeks hurting, gut hurting, |
| 0:58.2 | felt like you had to work out so much laughter when we were recording it. And I just hope |
| 1:02.4 | you get even a piece of that at the end. But being able to talk to Dave Smith about, you know, |
| 1:07.3 | what's he think about the Disney archives and what about collecting and talking |
| 1:11.5 | to Kevin Rafferty about being an Imagineer and, of course, being involved with Bugsland and cars |
| 1:16.5 | and all of these great things. But of course, also talking to Tony and Bill about being the voices |
| 1:22.8 | of some of our favorite characters. And that's when the chaos really happens. So hopefully |
| 1:28.6 | you can follow along and enjoy these great recordings we were able to do during the P&W Mouse |
| 1:34.0 | Meet in 2013. So join me and my co-hosts as we revisit this episode 245 for this week's |
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