Hola, Sneakers! It’s Episode 611 of the podcast that knows its place!

This week: solar shit show; plutonic relationship; rat on, rat on, rat on; giant problems; deep Disney; obscure tactics; the ride that inspired the movie that inspired the ride; merry mansion; the unbearable smallness of being; nostalgic travelogues; isn’t it a pita; Haligonia, here I come; shallow hell; children at plays; the Godzilla dilemma; concurrent sci-fi; mid-level crisis; TV versus movies; Good O-meh-ns; a movie with Shortcomings; stay young at heart; enjoy the cars; support the fat cats; what’s in store; the no-prize home; a P.N.E. for your thoughts; yard game night; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; a whole lotta Regis; daydream notion; virtual stimulation; fake news; star whack offs; celebrity nuts refuge; super coincidence; and, finally, cat call out.

Question of the Week: What’s your C.B. handle ?Sub-question of the Week: What is a movie that you think is unfairly maligned?

Thanks for listening.

Departnemt of CorrectionsThe Disney film Dave was vaguely remembering is called America the Beautiful. It was filmed to be projected in the round using a system developed by longtime Disney employee Ub Iwerks (who also developed the multiplane camera systems for Disney). Dave could not have seen it when he visited the park in 2003 with his daughters as the display was closed at that point. He could have gone to see it his first three visits though (and probably did).

Here is that film that so fascinated a nostalgic at heart, young Dave Dedrick (unfortunately not in the original Circarama):

Also, here is the Sesame Street animated short mentioned by Ian during the show: