Episode 425: Mixtape #13: Tender Ballads for Subhuman Lovers (2005)

20 Saturday Jun 2020

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Episode 425 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Tender Ballads for Subhuman Lovers

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This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 421: Didier Ghez!

23 Saturday May 2020

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Episode 421 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

Didier_Ghez

This week I talk with Disney historian Didier Ghez about the joys of research and forging one’s own path as a historian.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

TDADP5

Designs by Ken Anderson.

Design by Mel Shaw.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

If you want me to talk about creativity, check out my appearance on Jeff Wilfong’s podcast, Dub Ya Mind.

Consider donating to City Lights Books to sustain it and/or buying a book online from Powells.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 414: Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway Review, with Todd James Pierce!

04 Saturday Apr 2020

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Episode 414 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I talk with creative writer and Disney historian Todd James Pierce about the new Disney’s Hollywood Studios attraction that let’s guests cross into the screen of a cartoon experience.

Todd Pierce Studios CROPPED June 2018

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway Sign

Photo by Todd James Pierce.

Photo by Todd James Pierce.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out Todd’s books:

Check out Todd James Pierce’s site and podcast, Disney History Institute. His episode devoted to Kevin Rafferty and the Runaway Railway is here.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 410: Ron Schneider!

14 Saturday Mar 2020

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Bamboo Forest Press, Dreamfinder, EPCOT, From Dreamer to Dreamfinder, Golden Horseshoe Revue, Journey Into Imagination, Leonard Kinsey, Ron Schneider, Shakespeare, Theater, Theme Park Entertainment, Titanic The Exhibit, Universal Studios

Episode 410 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

This week, I speak to actor, show writer, and memoirist Ron Schneider about the show business life, theme park creativity, and learning to master new creative challenges.

Ron Schneider

TEXTS DISCUSSED

From Dreamer to Dreamfinder

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Episode 384: Galaxy’s Edge Review, with Todd James Pierce!

14 Saturday Sep 2019

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Episode 384 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing).

In this week’s episode, I talk with creative writer and Disney historian Todd James Pierce about the new developments in role-play storytelling that were and perhaps still are planned for Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios park at Walt Disney World.

According to the end of the line cast member outside Oga’s Cantina, you can’t see all three of Batuu’s suns, but you could certainly feel them, on a day called Heatstroke-in-the-Shade.

My score as a gunner, on a later visit to Smuggler’s Run.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out Todd James Pierce’s site and podcast, Disney History Institute.

Check out my literary adventure novel, Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame.

Episode 370: A Discussion of Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

08 Saturday Jun 2019

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Episode 370 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

This week, we go to Walt Disney World with Nathan Holic and David James Poissant in order to discuss Cory Doctorow’s science fiction novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Nathan Holic, John King, and David James Poissant. Photograph by Nathan Holic.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by Scribophile.

TDO Listeners can get 20% of a premium subscription to Scribophile. After using the above link to register for a basic account, go here while still logged in to upgrade the account with the discount.

Check out Nathan Holic and I discussing Stanly Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom in episode 267.

Check out my interview with Cory Doctorow back on episode 184.

Check out these wonderful books by today’s guests.

Episode 370 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Video Essay: Reasons to be Excited by the Walt Disney World Skyliner!

12 Sunday May 2019

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Dear readers

Some of you know about my Disneyphilia. Here is a video essay I created about the skyline transportation system, which should change the way people get around two of the theme parks and four hotels.

Selah,
John King

Episode 354: Todd James Pierce

16 Saturday Feb 2019

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Disney history, Todd James Pierce, Walt Disney, Ward Kimball

Episode 354 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

In this week’s episode, I talk to Todd James Pierce about his new biography of Ward Kimball from an epic corridor of The Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World.

Todd Pierce Studios CROPPED June 2018

TEXTS DISCUSSED

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Check out Todd’s site and podcast, The Disney History Institute.

Check out my previous interview with Todd back on Episode 218.

Episode 354 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 326: Patrick Greene!

04 Saturday Aug 2018

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Orlando Literature, Patrick Greene

Episode 326 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Pat Greene Sunrail

In this week’s episode, I talk with the Orlando legend, Patrick Greene, about the power of being an autodidact, the importance of curiosity outside of one’s area of expertise, and the struggles of trying to live the life of a writer.

NOTES

To get some idea of Pat Greene’s influence, here’s a video featuring his 60th birthday celebration at the gallery earlier this year.

Episode 326 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 303: Drinking at Disney, with Drunky & Rhiannon!

03 Saturday Mar 2018

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Bamboo Forest, Drinking at Disney, Drunky, Rhiannon, Tipsy Travel Guide to Walt Disney World's Bars Lounges & Glow Cubes

Episode 303 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

On this week’s program, I drive West of Orlando to meet up with two adventurers named Drunky & Rhiannon who’ve just happened to write the best guide to Walt Disney World as far is this show is concerned. We geek out about boozing like pros at WDW!

We drank outside at Hurricane Hannah’s,

Drinking at Disney 3

and then we walked over to inside the Ale and Compass over at the Yacht Club,

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and then enjoyed some beverages at The Belle Vue Lounge in the Boardwalk Inn.

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The actual bar of The Bellevue Lounge.

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NOTES

The Belle Vue Lounge is where I, sober, interviewed Ridley Pearson all the way back on #199.

This show did the Monorail pub crawl back on #77.

Episode 303 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.