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Episode 33 – Club 33 and 50 Dollar Churros

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Daniel, Tommy, Chris, and Jae talk Club 33.  Chris and Tommy have been there and share their experiences while Daniel and Jae can only dream about it.  We also visit the Main Street Newsstand, and we also have our Tip of the Week. Plus a new segment, “Just Sayin'”  We hope you enjoy the new format of the show!

NEWS

Robert Sherman Passes Away

Tarps slowly being removed from the Matterhorn and it looks fantastic!

It’s Official: ElecTRONica will be switched off on April 15th – END OF LINE
To replaced by Mad T Party on June 15th.

New Mad T Party costumes revealed

Grizzly River Run Repainted – Changed to reflect a more 1940s theme instead of gen-x stuff.

Alice Davis to be Honored with Main Street Window

Billy Hill and The Hillbillies Record some of the background loop music for Cars Land

Just Sayin’

The Girls from Shake it Up and did a CD signing over at Disney 365 in DTD last saturday.. What a disaster!
John Carter Flops Loses 200 mil
Next D23 Expo dates announced – Aug 9-11 2013 – Anaheim CA

Feature – History of Club 33

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_33

Photos of Club 33 by @TommyPix

Tip of the Week

Tips for People with Disabilities

Download Flyers from the Disneyland Resort

Hearing Disability
Visual Disability

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Wednesday Photo Challenge 3-28-12

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Hey Everybody!

It’s that time again for our Wednesday Photo Challenge! Sorry for the delay, but between the site getting hacked and everything else, it’s just been crazytime. But I got my but over to the Disneyland Resort and snapped some awesome images.

Here’s the deal.  I put up a picture, you guess what it is.  What do you win?  A Wednesday that is a little less sucky…  So here we go..

Where in the Disneyland Resort is this detail?

 

If you know the answer to this one, or you think you know, all you have to do is drop me a line. You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (the recommended, simple way)

Send me a direct message on Twitter (@disgeekpodcast)

or drop me an e-mail: daniel@disgeek.com.

I’ll keep your answers hidden so that more people can guess, therefore YOU will be able to see your answer, but no one else will.

Tomorrow morning I’ll post the names of players who guessed correctly and reveal a new photo with the correct answer.

Have a great magical day and good luck!

The DisGeek Podcast – New Format

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Hey everybody! Now that the site is working again I wanted to take a few minutes and write about what’s going on with the DisGeek Podcast. If you pay attention to our facebook page then you know that my brother and co-host Paul has decided to leave the show as a full-time host. The reason being is that he felt the show was too much of a distraction and was getting in the way of his desire to be a writer. Paul actually did write a message about this on facebook but when he closed his facebook account (he felt that was a distraction as well) the message he wrote got deleted as well. Of course while all this was going on the website got hacked. So I had to deal with that.

I know what some of you may be thinking. Well, this sucks. Trust me, I know. But it is what it is and I’m not going to stop doing what I ABSOLUTLY LOVE doing.

So what does this mean for the show?

Well, I have to change things up. I truly feel that there is no way I can replace him with somebody else and recreate what we had. It’s not possible. Therefore while the show WILL go on, it will be a little different. I’m bringing in Tommy Allison (tommyPix), Chris Allison, and Jae Brattain in as full time co-hosts. I’m also hoping to have guest panelists from different Disney related Blogs and Podcasts and I’m going to change it to a round-table, panel style format. It’s something I’ve wanted from day one but didn’t have enough folks to join in. Now I do and I’m very excited about the new direction. My goals for the show has always been to keep it entertaining and to keep it real. And I’m planning to continue doing just that.

I’m also planning on keeping the fun we have on facebook and this site going. Audio and photo challenges will live on. I just have to get my butt to the parks and take pictures and record some audio.

I totally understand Paul’s decision. We all have to follow our passions in life and for him it’s writing his novel. Not Disney. So the show will go on and the new format allows him to come on from time to time and chime in.

One last thing. I’m also happy to say that our partnership with Sorcerer Radio and sponshorship with Know the Mouse will continue. And I want to thank everybody for thier support.

Like I said I’m totally excited about the new direction and so are Tommy, Chris, and Jae. We look forward to doing the show and I hope you will all be there to join us!

Also if anybody is interested in joining the discussion (COUGH…a female COUGH..) with us please drop me a line at daniel@disgeek.com.

Thanks,
Daniel Hale
HOST – The DisGeek Podcast

Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-29-12 Answer

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11 participants, 11 correct answers. Probably would have been more if I had remembered to tweet the challenge. :/

I mean, clearly I overestimated the toughness of that picture. I expected silence or for at least one of you to say “Big Thunder”, but no. You guys know the illiterate scrawl of Brer Rabbit and his backwoods buddies when you see it.

I think I need to raise the level of difficulty of the photo challenge. When you see e-mail domain names like sorcerertink, and daysinthepark you figure out pretty fast that you’re not dealing with featherweight jobbers here.

Yes. The attraction I’m about to get a Fastpass for is:

Splash Mountain

Splash Mountain is one of those rides that I really like, but rarely go on.

I usually wear denim jeans. When denim jeans get wet… I’ll just use the word chafe, and let you fill in the blanks.

The last time I got on a water-ride with jeans on was years ago in Orlando. I figured, hey, it’s hot enough. It’ll dry fast.  I didn’t factor in the %$@#! humidity!

My wife (girlfriend at the time) also mostly wears jeans, and she made the same mistake in Orlando, thinking the same thing I did. The chafing torture was so bad for her that she went and bought new sweatpants and changed into them immediately.

Anyway… You all did great! Thank’s for taking a minute to play my little game!

This week’s winners are:

  • Angie Howatt
  • Chad Elliott
  • Kevin Healy
  • Rob
  • Elizabeth
  • Kayla
  • Lyndsey
  • Alex Hein
  • Robert Erickson
  • Alison Hodgson
  • Ashley Hodgson
I had you Hodgson ladies on the ropes for a minute there, but you came back swinging, didn’t you?

It won’t be so easy next time.

I have a new one lined up, so when you’re in the Disneyland Resort (Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and all of the Disney hotels), keep your eyes peeled and take in everything!

Don’t forget to come back on Monday for a new Magical Monday Audio Challenge! Bye for now! 😀

Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-29-12

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Happy Leap Day everybody!

Most of you are already at Disneyland Resort for One More Disney Day. I’ve decided to sit it out.

I feel a cold coming on, and competing with all the people who think that DLR being open for 24 hours is somehow going to be different from when it is open for regular hours isn’t something I am feeling a need to do.

Yes, it’s leap day. It’s also Wednesday. That’s a work day for most of us who aren’t crazy and want to spend our vacation days actually on vacation, and our sick days actually being sick.

Although you do get a hat… Hmmm…

Nah!

Truthfully, I was going to go…. But reading online, the comments of all the real Disney crazies and how they plan to get there at 4 in the morning (so that they can be there at 6 on the dot when it opens), and then stay to watch Fantasmic! at 1AM as if that too will somehow be different from Fantasmic! at 9PM (aside from tweaking out from coffee or 5-hour energy drinks to manage it after traipsing around DLR alllll day)…

This isn’t to say that I frown and scoff at you guys taking a day off to go to the Land. No way! If One More Disney Day has given you an excuse in your minds to skip work and go to a Disney Park, I’m all for it! And I hope everybody who is there has a great time!

Me? I take the day off all the time to visit the resort– when I know it won’t be nutso up in there. So, One More Disney Day for Paul?

Yeah, no. Not today. Maybe next Tuesday. 😀

But look at me running on at the keyboard. You’d think that this isn’t a Wednesday Photo  Challenge post.

But, HA! It is!

So here we go…Let’s see… We’re walking… We’re walking…  WOW! 50 minutes!? I got a question:

What attraction am I about to get a FastPass for?

If you know the answer to this one, or you think you know, all you have to do is drop me a line. You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (the recommended, simple way)

Send me a direct message on Twitter (@disgeekpaul)

or drop me an e-mail: paul@disgeek.com.

I’ll keep your answers hidden so that more people can guess, therefore YOU will be able to see your answer, but no one else will.

Tomorrow morning I’ll post the names of players who guessed correctly and reveal a new photo with the correct answer.

Have a great magical, and happy Humpday!