No. 41: Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast
Jeff Baham
4.4 • 776 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Mousetalgia's Best Ear Ever #41: Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room from June 27, 2016.
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Team Mousetalgia celebrates Audio-Animatronic history by welcoming Disney historian and author Jeff Kurtti back to the show today as we investigate Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room. Join us on the lanai as we reminisce about the history and development of this famous attraction, from its roots as a proposed Chinese restaurant through its present day acclaim with the recent resurgence in the popularity of Polynesian culture. Kurtti, author of "Walt Disney's Imagineering Legends," talks about the early days of WED Enterprises, the cultural trends that enabled the Tiki Room to succeed, and the famous Sherman Brothers song that ties the whole show together. Also - we unveil the secrets to some of Trader Sam's most closely guarded drink recipes, and take a look at the grand opening of Shanghai Disneyland.
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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| 0:16.2 | Please note that all sweepstakes are wide and time-sensitive news may be outdated.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 Mousalja's Best Ear Ever. |
| 0:22.9 | Good to be it again. |
| 0:24.6 | Let's do it again. |
| 0:29.4 | Hey, Mousalja listeners. |
| 0:31.0 | This is Kristen, and I'm here to introduce you to this week's episode of Mousalja's Best Ear Ever. |
| 0:36.2 | This week will be revisiting episode number 401 that |
| 0:39.9 | originally aired on June 26th, 2016. Okay, so I'm going to be really honest with you. How I chose this |
| 0:46.1 | episode is I thought to myself, what number do I like out of 653 episodes? 401. So I looked up 401. |
| 0:53.3 | It was all about the enchanted tiki room. So clearly, |
| 0:56.0 | I chose wisely. The gods knew that this was the episode for this week. Anyway, on this episode, |
| 1:02.7 | we had a chance to sit down and talk with Jeff Curti, who is a Disney historian, Disney author. |
| 1:08.5 | He's been on Moussela a number of times and talk all about Walt |
| 1:12.3 | Disney's enchanted Tiki Room. I mean, really, is there a better attraction in Disneyland? You get to |
| 1:17.3 | sit down. There's a great show. It's cool on the inside. There's audio animatronics. There's |
| 1:23.0 | catchy tunes. I love everything about the Tiki Room, especially the fact that the birds are fake, |
| 1:29.6 | because I'm terrified of birds. You know that? I don't like birds. I really don't like birds. |
| 1:34.0 | There's nothing wrong with them. I just don't trust them. But these birds, these are birds |
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