This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am featuring the Yeti and Expedition Everest.  I feature both the attraction and the creature which resides within Expedition Everest, at Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom.

For a walk-through and ride-through of the attraction, I highly recommend Attractions 3600 and TheCoasterViews, who both have videos posted on YouTube. 

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Intro and Outro music is the Bansuri flute available on Wikimedia commons and is released in the public domain.  

First mid-track is the Yellow-breasted green finch, recorded in Gyirong, Tibet, and available on xeno-canto.org.

Second mid-track is available on Wikimedia commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am featuring the 2019 Pixar short Kitbull, available for viewing on Disney+.

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Intro and Outro sounds retrieved from Pixabay. 

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am joined by returning guest Peter Gullerud.  Peter joined me on episode 42 to discuss his work on films including The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company.  I highly recommend listening to that episode prior to this one.

In this episode, we discuss his work as a Visual Development Artist for 1992’s Aladdin, as well as work with live animals, including several large cats! 

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Intro and Outro sounds from Pixabay. 

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am joined by Pam Burns-Clair and Haley Clair, the daughter and granddaughter of Imagineer Harriet Burns.

We discuss the life and work of Harriet Burns, the first woman hired by WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering) in a creative capacity.  Included are conversations about her work on attractions such as Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room and “it’s a small world”; as well as 1964’s Mary Poppins. 

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You can visit Harriet’s official website here, which includes where you can purchase the book Walt Disney's First Lady of Imagineering, Harriet Burns.

Please also visit her official Facebook page, Imagineer Harriet, and Haley Clair’s Instagram page. 

Intro and Outro sounds from Pixabay.

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am featuring voice actor Verna Felton.  Verna voiced characters in several full-length animated films: Dumbo (1941), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959), and The Jungle Book (1967).

I highly recommend Verna Felton by Fredrick Tucker to learn more about her life and career.

You can listen to the December 24, 1951 episode of Lux Radio Theatre here, which features an adaption of Alice in Wonderland. 

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Intro and outro sounds licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported available here. 

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am featuring voice actor Florence Gill, who contributed her voice to about 21 animated shorts including 1934’s The Wise Little Hen and Orphan’s Benefit.

You can find her Disney filmography on the Disney Wiki. 

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Intro and Outro accessed on Pixabay.  

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am featuring the African Forest Elephant.  The African Forest Elephant is featured in two viewing options available on Disney+:

Secrets of the Elephants

Animals Up Close with Bertie Gregory.

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All sounds available from NPR’s Forest Elephant Stories: Additional Sound And Video and recorded at Dzanga Bai in the Central African Republic.

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am featuring Bagheera from 1967’s The Jungle Book, as well as leopards of the Indian subcontinent.

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Intro and Outro Music Sitar and Tabla rendition - Freedom Jam, August 2015.oga accessed on Wikimedia Commons. 

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, I am part two of two of my series featuring the 1946 film Song of the South, which includes both animated and live-action segments.   

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Intro music from the Internet Archive and outro music from Pixabay

This week on the Walt’s Oasis podcast, is part one of two of my series featuring the 1946 film Song of the South, which includes both animated and live-action segments.   

Please follow myself and the show on Instagram @spencerwright1989 and @waltoasis. Please also feel free to e-mail any comments, questions, or episode suggestions to [email protected].

Intro music from the Internet Archive and outro music from Pixabay