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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.

Mickey Minney Railway Podcast Photo

Photo by Todd James Pierce.

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by the excellent people at Scribophile.

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:

Ward Kimball

Three Years in Wonderland

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.

Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame Cover

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).

Episode 410: Ron Schneider!

14 Saturday Mar 2020

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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.

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 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).

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.

Episode 384 Art

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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.

Galaxy's Edge Gunner Score

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.

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.

Guy Psycho and the Ziggurat of Shame Cover

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).

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 John Jamie Cry Doctorow

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

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Down and Out in the Magic KingdomElkin The Magic Kingdom15 Views of Orlando

NOTES

This episode is sponsored by Scribophile.

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.

The Heaven of Animals
Things I Dont See - Comic CoverAmerican Fraternity Man

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

Episode 354: Todd James Pierce

16 Saturday Feb 2019

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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

Ward Kimball

Three Years in Wonderland

NOTES

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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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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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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Drinking at DisneyOur Kingdom of Dust

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.

Episode 267: A Discussion of Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom, with Orlando author Nathan Holic!

01 Saturday Jul 2017

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Episode 267 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Nathan Holic John King Contemporary

Nathan Holic, right, in dire need of another beer at The Outer Rim lounge of The Contemporary Resort.

On this week’s show, I talk to my friend Nathan Holic, who is an Orlando writer and editor of the 15 Views of Orlando anthology series. While in situ at The Contemporary Resort, we discuss the stressors of theme park-going, the uses of such postmodern settings, and the odd counterbalances of melodrama and dark satire in Stanley Elkin’s The Magic Kingdom.

TEXTS DISCUSSED

Elkin The Magic Kingdom15 Views of Orlando

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Contemporary Marry Cottles Room

Mary Cottle’s room? The equivalent of room 822 now, but perhaps not back in 1986. (No, we didn’t knock on the door.)

Check out Nathan’s books!

American Fraternity ManThings I Dont See - Comic CoverUCF

All our Waves are Water

Episode 267 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Episode 253: Barry Temple!

01 Saturday Apr 2017

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Episode 253 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

Barry Temple

Photo by Jared Silvia.

In this week’s episode, I talk to animator Barry Temple about his extraordinary professional experience in show business. We cover career highlights like The Mouse and His Child, Ralph Bakshi’s animated version of The Lord of the Rings, and the arc of Disney animation in the 1980s (from Don Bluth’s defection to the renaissance of Disney filmmaking). We discuss the role that perseverance and adaptation play in a successful career.

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The Mouse and His Child

The Lord of the Rings.jpg

Black CauldronWho Framed Roger RabbitRoller Coaster RabbitThe Little Mermaidbeauty beast posterThe_lion_king_poster

Mulan

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Episode 253 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.

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