Episode 147 - Grab your favorite Disney coffee mug.  Join host Cody, Jenn, Jared, Elizabeth, Kevin, Justin, and Joe with a guest to the show Erick Kanter from Expedition Roasters. - We continue or friends by the fireside discussions by talking about Disneyland Resort.  So settle in and enjoy your coffee. BREW YOUR HAPPY PLACE®

Back in 2014, we started a small online coffee company as a way to help give back to dog rescue organizations through outstanding coffee and unmatched customer service. From that small Trader Sam's Coffee Company we've evolved to Expedition Roasters, where we seek to create the next big thing in coffee by doing something that hadn't been done before. By combining our premium coffees with art and story we pioneered what we call Themed Coffees™. This creation combines all your senses of sight, smell, thought and of course, taste all coming together to create an immersive experience.

The stunning artwork on our bags are created by guest artists and features a tale of adventure making each bag a collectible in and of its self. Each roast is carefully selected to compliment the theme and story of each bag. Expedition Roasters quality is not just a perfectly roasted coffee for your life, but a lifestyle brand of unique goods.

A love of great coffee and a passion for story and art is what sets our coffees apart from the rest. With Expedition Roasters coffee, there's an adventure in every bag.

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Episode 146 - Find your Lightsaber and Infinity Gauntlet.  Join host Cody, Jenn, Jared, Kevin, Justin, and Joe with a friend of the show Kyle and Jessica Loomis from i2i - Disney Through Our Eyes.  We continue or friends by the fireside discussions by talking about some of Disney's live action movies.  So grab your seat it's time to make the Kessel Run. Were shooting for under 12 parsecs.

i2i - Disney Through Our Eyes - This is a community for Disney fans of all types. Whether you like movies, the parks, Star Wars, Marvel, just like the mouse himself, we have something for you. Kyle and Jessica Loomis started this community in hopes of connecting with other Disney fans!

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Episode 145 - Grab some marshmallows and a log to sit on.  Join host Cody, Elizabeth, Jared, Kevin, Justin, and Joe with a friend of the show Brian Smith from @HistoricDisney.  We continue or friends by the fireside discussions by talking about some Disney History.  Buckle up time travelers.

Brian Smith and his wife Laura are avid Disney Fans and have a love for Disney History.  So check them out on Twitter @HistoricDisney and on Instagram as historicdisney10.  

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Episode 144 - Grab some marshmallows, chocolate, and gram crackers.  Join host Cody, Jenn, Jared, Kevin, Justin, and Joe with a friend of the show and bestselling author, Aaron H. Goldberg.  We starting out fireside discussions with friends talking about Magic Kingdom and EPCOT.  Join the fun.

Aaron Goldberg is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, having graduated with bachelor's and master's degrees in anthropology. He is the author of the best-selling book The Disney Story: Chronicling the Man, the Mouse, and the Parks.

Aaron and his books have been mentioned in stories about Disney in the Los Angeles Times, The Dis, Imaginerding, Inside the Magic, and the Huffington Post. He's active on Twitter @aaronhgoldberg and has visited the Walt Disney World Resort more times than his wallet cares to remember!

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Episode 143 - Floydering is a phrase first used by friends and colleagues at the Walt Disney Studios (and eventually adopted by the Disney fan community) to describe Floyd Norman and his particular creative process.  Join Host Cody with Jenn, Elizabeth, Justin, Jared, and Joe.  We were honored to have back on the show and friend of the show.  Disney Legend Floyd Norman.  Grab a comfy chair and join us for some Floydering.

Floyd 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 the snake.

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.

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Episode 142 - "At Pixar, we LOVE shorts! In fact, our first ventures in storytelling through film were with short films and commercials. Beginning with Luxo Jr., shorts have allowed us to tell stories in different ways than our feature films, but often with just as much emotional impact." - Pixar Animation Studios.  Join Host Cody with Kevin, Justin, Jared, and Joe.  As we conclude our Pixar series with some history and discussion of some Pixar Short Films. And then we reveal our Pixar rankings.  So grab a calculator for the math. Ugh, math.

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Chapter 3 - For over 60 years, it has been that careful balance, coupled with a flair for innovation that has left Disney unique among its peers and has enabled Disney to find the heart within the darkness. As riders journey into the dimness of the unknown, they draw comfort in that whatever frights may await them, there is always going to be light at the end. Join Cody, Justin, Jared, and Joe as we talk with Shawn Patrick Farrell the author of Heart And Darkness Scarry Adventures and the Evolution of Disney's Dark Rides.  So jump in here we go.

The Definitive Book of Disney Dark Rides
The dark rides in Disney theme parks have delighted—and sometimes terrified—millions of people. The history of these attractions is a fascinating story of creativity, engineering, and pop culture, and it's told here for the first time.

From their primitive beginnings in the 1800s to their perfection by the Disney Imagineers, dark rides are an ingenious way to tell a visually exciting story to guests who "travel" through the action, scene by scene, aboard vehicles ranging from boats to (Doom) buggies.
Despite their popularity, dark rides still retain an aura of mystery: when did they originate? how did Disney transform them from curiosities into crowd pleasers? why are they such a draw to young and old?

Shawn Farrell dispels the darkness with the definitive history of Disney's dark rides, from Disneyland's Peter Pan, Mr. Toad, and Snow White, to Disneyland Shanghai's cutting-edge version of Pirates of the Caribbean. Farrell also explores notable dark rides, not in a Disney park, the many that have gone into the gloom, and some hints of what's to come.

Shawn Patrick Farrell spent his youth in Buffalo New York and its suburbs before earning an undergraduate degree in English Literature from Fordham University in New York City. He returned to western New York to earn his MA degree from the University at Buffalo and spent the next several years living in New York City before moving to the midwest.

An introvert by nature, Shawn periodically attempts to belie his innate wussery by appearing on stage or in major motion pictures and in addition to parts in a number of films, has worked with Disney, and with such luminaries as Judy Blume, Cookie Monster and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. He is currently working on his second book. His first, "Heart and Darkness: Scary Adventures and the Evolution of Disney's Dark Rides," was released in late 2017 by Theme Park Press.

Shawn is single but has successfully nurtured a cactus for several months and is raising a pug named Darby O'Gill.

Just keep reading, just keep reading!

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Episode 141 - "Well if I ever meet a sea turtle I'll ask him right after I'm done talking to the shark." - Marlin.  Join Host Cody with Kevin, and Joe.  As we continue our Pixar series with some history and discussion of Finding Nemo and Finding Dory.  So let's remain calm as we swim to the dropoff and never ever touch the butt. "Sigourney Weaver is going to help us!" - Dory.

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Episode 140 - “Some say our destiny is tied to the land, as much a part of us as we are of it. Others say fate is woven together like a cloth so that one’s destiny intertwines with many others. It’s the one thing we search for or fight to change. Some never find it, but there are some who are led.” - Princess Merida  Join Host Cody with Jenn, Jared, and Joe.  As we continue our Pixar series with some history and discussion of Brave and Up.  So let's grab our goggles and inflate those balloons. "Thanks for the adventure - now go have a new one! Love, Ellie"

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