The Mouse Knows Best Podcast

Episode 251: Adventure is out there- The History of California Adventure.  Join host Cody with Jared, Justin, Kevin, Jenn, Elizabeth, and Joe as we look back at California Adventure from the past.  And on another note Happy 5th-anniversary TMKB Podcast!  Your 1st episode aired on January 24, 2016.

 

 

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Episode 250: Retro vs. Modern.  Join host Cody with Jenn, Justin, Jared, Kevin, and Joe as we take a look at past Retro rides and the Modern replacements.  And away we go...

 

 

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Episode 249: Tribute to Joe Rohde. Join host Cody with Jared, Jenn, Kevin, Justin, and Joe as we discuss Joe Rohde's retirement as an Imagineer and his career with Wald Disney Imagineering.  Just amazing... 

 

 

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Episode 249: The Mandalorian Season 2 Roundtable. This episode contains SPOILERS! - Join host Cody with Jared, Jenn, Kevin, Elizabeth, and Joe as we roundtable the heck out of Season 2. This is the way...

 

 

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Episode 247: Imagineering Christmas Overlays/Pin Trade. Host Cody is joined by full house Jared, Jenn, Robyn, Kevin, Elizabeth, Justin, and Joe.  As we attempt to Imagineer our own Christmas overlays and discuss our annual pin trade fun. Grab some hot cocoa or a dole whip and here we go... 

 

 

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Episode 246: Pamela Landwirth from Give Kids The World.  Join host Cody with Justin, Jenn, Joe, and our special guest Pamela Landwirth President and CEO of Give Kids The World Village.  We talk about all the good GKTW is doing and how they are adapting to the pandemic. 

 

 

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Episode 245: Attractions and the Aging Process.  Join host Cody with Elizabeth, Jared, Kevin, Robyn, Justin, and Joe as we discuss how Disney Attractions age into classics.  And away we go.

 

 

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Episode 244: Floyd Norman.  Join host Cody with Justin, Jenn, Joe, and friend of the show, Animator, Screenwriter, Artist, & Disney Legend Floyd Norman.  Settle in and enjoy the master storyteller.

 

 

 

Norman had his start as an assistant to comic book artist Bill Woggon, who lived in the Santa Barbara, California, area that Norman grew up in. 

Norman first joined the Disney studio in 1956. As an in-betweener on Sleeping Beauty, he assisted Frank Thomas working on the fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. As an assistant animator on Mary Poppins, he worked on The Pearly Band. As a story artist on The Jungle Book, he was responsible for much of the gags in the "Trust In Me" sequence with Mowgli and Kaa, and for the Vultures.

After Walt Disney's death in 1966, Floyd Norman left Disney Studios to co-found the AfroKids animation studio, with business partner animator/director Leo Sullivan. Norman and Sullivan worked together on various projects such as the original Hey! Hey! Hey! It's Fat Albert television special which aired in 1969 on NBC (not to be confused with the later Fat Albert series made by Filmation Associates).

Norman returned to Disney at one point in the early 1970s to work on the Disney animated feature Robin Hood and worked on several animated television programs at Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears. In the 1980s he worked as a writer in the comic strip department at Disney and was the last scripter for the Mickey Mouse comic strip before it was discontinued.

More recently he has worked on motion pictures for Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios, having contributed creatively as a story artist on films, such as Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc. for Pixar and Mulan, Dinosaur, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Walt Disney Animation, among others. He continues to work for the Walt Disney Co. as a freelance consultant on various projects.

Norman has also published several books of cartoons inspired by his lifetime of experiences in the animation industry, Faster! Cheaper!, Son of Faster, Cheaper!, How the Grinch Stole Disney, Disk Drive: Animated Humor In The Digital Age, and Suspended Animation: The Art Form That Refuses To Die. Norman's latest book, titled: Animated Life: A Lifetime of tips, tricks, techniques, and stories from an animation Legend (Animation Masters) was published by Focal Press in 2013  Debuting at the 2017 D23 Expo, Disney Editions published the picture book: A Kiss Goodnight written by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Norman.

Floyd Norman: An Animated Life, a feature-length documentary on his life and career was released in 2016.

 

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Episode 243: Keepers of the Kingdom - Bob Iger & Chapek.  Join host Cody with Jared, Elizabeth, Jenn, Kevin, and Joe as we wrap up or Keepers of the Kingdom with my two Bob's discussion.  What about Bob's begins now.

 

 

 

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Episode 242: Keepers of the Kingdom - Michael Eisner.  Join host Cody with Jared, Robyn, Justin, Kevin, and Joe as we continue on to Michael Eisner's tenure as CEO.  Hello, I am Michael Eisner join our discussion.

 

 

 

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