Turkey Leg Talk

I don't interview a guest this week. Instead, a couple of guests interview me. This week two of the members of the Ear To There Travel team prepared questions for me for the show. We talk about everything from my time as a Disney cast member to going back in time to hang out with Walt Disney. It's a wide-ranging show full of fun stories and interesting topics. Enjoy!

From pardoned turkeys to the infamous Turkey Legs, Thanksgiving and turkey has been a big part of the Disney Parks for decades! This week I'll go into the history of Thanksgiving in the Disney company and talk all about the World Famous Turkey Legs that helped inspire the title for this show! We'll find out how many turkey legs the parks sell each year and even what kind of meat they actually are made of!

The Ear To There Disney Podcast is now Turkey Leg Talk! It's the same fun show with a new name and logo. Find out what we're thankful for in 2020! Disney has helped get us through a very tough 2020. We're thankful for so many things this year including Disney+, looking forward to future trips, not riding a certain Disneyland attraction and more!

Disney announced that a new Norway pavilion was coming to EPCOT Center's World Showcase in 1985. By 1988 the Norwegians had arrived and with them came an all new attraction within the pavilion that would entertain guests for the next twenty six years. This week's Word of the Week is all about the Maelstrom and its lasting impact on the Disney fan community. Mythical gods, fantastic trolls, polar bears, and oil rigs...let's talk about Epcot's classic, the Maelstrom!

The food in the Disney theme parks is much more than hot dogs and hamburgers. Amazing appetizers, savory snacks, decadent desserts, and elegant entrees are just a few of the things you can expect on your next culinary adventure through the Disney parks! Join me and the author of "The Unofficial Disney Parks Cookbook", Ashley Craft, for our chat all about the fantastic food available in Walt Disney World and Disneyland! Want to make some of your favorite Disney Parks foods in the comfort of your own home? This episode has you covered!

With all of the flashy new Disney attractions so often in the blog headlines, it's nice to take a nice, nostalgic trip to the classic attractions that started it all. Disney-obsessed people like myself are often obsessed with the next greatest attraction. From Avatar: Flight of Passage to Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance, we're always waiting to see if the newest attraction is Disney's best ever. We often forget, however, that they are tons of new Disney fans coming to the parks every year who've never ridden the classic attractions we've ridden hundreds of times. That's why this week's episode was so appealing to me when my co-host brought up the topic. I hope you enjoy Episode 216: Rediscovering Classic Attractions. - Subscribe to, Rate & Review the show HERE - Meet Carolina Jatene or contact her HERE

There are no shortage of books about the history of the Disney company, the theme parks, and Walt Disney himself. This week I wanted to do my best to bring you my all time favorites. Enjoy Episode 215: Top Ten Disney Books! With all off the books out there about Disney, how do you choose which ones to buy? Here are my favorites!

Fire up your Disney+ and get your iPhone ready, it's time to watch Mr. Boogedy with me!

I first heard about Mr. Boogedy around last Halloween. The Disney cult classic was first aired in 1985 but somehow I missed it over the years. Maybe it was too scary and my parents kept it off the TV or maybe we just didn't have the right channel back then. Either way, this year I decided to finally watch it and ask you, the listener, to watch it with me!

Disney has brought us some very famous dogs in movies and television over the years. We've been inundated with Goofy, Pluto, 101 Dalmatians, and many more. But what about those dogs that are in the Disney theme parks that no one ever talks about? Those dogs that have been in the background of our favorite attractions for years, just waiting to be thanked! That's why this week's show is all about those under appreciated pups! I hope you enjoy this week's Word of the Week - Dogs! Goofy & Pluto aren't the only dogs who should be appreciated in Walt Disney World and Disneyland!

Three words: Return. To. Oz. And that nightmare fuel is just the tip of the scary iceberg this week!

Over the years, Disney has given its fans many intentionally scary things. From the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror to Space Mountain to Mr. Boogedy, Disney's had it's fair share of real scares. Then there are the scary things in the parks, movies, and TV that aren't scary on purpose...they're just, scary! I hope you enjoy Episode 213: Unintentionally Scary Disney!