Add More Mouse - A Disney Beginner’s Podcast

We’re back! More like “Waking Sleeping Podcast,” am I right? Eh? Anyways, we’re back with a new episode, sorry for the layoff. In this ep your boys are talking about the film Waking Sleeping Beauty, a documentary all about the Eisner/Katzenberg era of Disney parks and animation. Before we get to that we touch on a WHOLE BUNCH of Disney stuff - WDW 50th Anniversary things, the new nighttime shows HarmoniUS and Enchanted as well as the wild online reaction to them, Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser hotel, and how to spot Disney shills. We’re happy to be back and hope you dig it! Please review and subscribe! You can email the show at addmoremouse@gmail.com.

Woah! Hi there and welcome to the Add More Mouse podcast, the only Disney podcast hosted by Mike and Dave! We were supposed to start our new miniseries on Disney Documentaries, but with the release of the newest Pixar movie LUCA, Dave and Mike are in a Pixar mood. What the boys expected to be a quick and easy conversation became one of the longest episodes yet. Listen and thrill to the sounds of two grown men giving their reviews of Luca, and then go through the entire 25+ year of Pixar movies to determined which films qualify as “Major Pixar” and which go into the “Minor” category. If you have been waiting for us to talk for 90 minutes about cartoons, this episode is for you! Email the show at addmoremouse@gmail.com!

Hi! Hello! Howdy! Thanks for finding our show devoted to all things Disney. Are there like 3,000 other Disney podcasts out there? Yes. Do any of them feature us as host? NO! On this episode we wrap up our Fact and Fiction miniseries by taking a look at the 2013 film Saving Mr Banks. We’ll take you through all the things they changed for the move and how that us feel about the film and the nature of subject matter being “Disney-field.” Can a movie be good and also give you some suspicion? It turns out the answer is a resounding YES! We also talk about the golden age of Disney clamshell VHS tapes and the weird activity surrounding them on eBay. We ALSO announce our next miniseries! We hope you enjoy, and thank you for listening! Email the show at addmoremouse@gmail.com.

Well, it’s still winter time, and your hosts Dave and Mike both live in Ohio where it is cold, snowy, icy, windy, and grey...so what better time to sit down and fantasize about hanging out at Walt Disney World? On this episode of the Add More Mouse podcast, your hosts each pick three things they love to do when they’re at the parks with the caveat that these are not attractions or rides. Mike’s take place in the parks, and Dave’s take place outside of the parks, and honestly we don’t know if this will help you plan your next trip, we were just desperate to talk about warm weather activities. It did the trick and brightened our spirits, so here’s hoping it works for you, too!

Oh man, this is a good one! On today’s episode Dave interviews legendary Disney podcaster Matt Parrish of The 3028 and Wedway Radio shows! What? It’s like we’re a real podcast! The two discuss the early days of podcasting, changes in the Disney parks over the years, and compare the Covid-19 era to the time period immediately following 9/11, an era in the parks that Matt is very familiar with. Before that Mike and Dave kick it off with some random topics and check in on their Disney New Year’s resolutions. We hope you love listening to this episode as much as we did making it! Review and share the show, and email us at addmoremouse@gmail.com!

Hi there! Happy New Year! Today Dave and Mike are diving into their Disney-centric New Year’s resolutions. The boys discuss the shows and movies they plan to watch, the books they plan to read, and their modest goals for this here poddy cast. Hopefully you’ll hear about some shows, movies and books that you can add to your own list of Disney To-do’s. Along the way they obviously get derailed like they always do and fall down some Disney history rabbit holes. For the first time ever Dave had to use the bathroom in the middle of recording, so see if you can spot the edits! Thank you for listening and tell your Disney loving friends! You can email the show at addmoremouse@gmail.com

2 episodes in one week? Why, it’s a Christmas miracle! In this special Christmas episode, Michael and Dave celebrate the holidays socially-distanced style by recommending Disney Christmas movies to each other in lieu of exchanging gifts. You’ll find out some things about Michael’s pick (The Santa Clause) and Dave’s pick (Muppet Family Christmas), as well as hear an interesting story regarding what Dave does on eBay after having a bit too much eggnog. Happy holidays, merry Christmas, and email us at addmoremouse@gmail.com.

Hello and welcome back to The Add More Mouse podcast! Oh man, this is a big one! Dave interviews Karen Shriner, a professional singer and actor who has worked as a Cast Member for both Walt Disney World and the Disney Cruise Line for over 14 years. In honor of the holiday season, they discuss Karen’s history of performing for Disney at the holidays, including her role in the annual Candlelight Processional. Dave also asks tons of questions about how she keeps her voice in shape when she’s singing all day everyday, and they discuss some of the Disney magic Karen has gotten to see up close. They also touch on the state of the parks in 2020 and the role live performance must continue to play in the future as the world plans to rebound from the global pandemic. Don’t worry, we will have Karen back to hear more stories, but for now we hope you enjoy this peek backstage!

It’s Christmas! Almost! In order to try to block out the end of this legendarily garbage year, Dave and Mike are focusing on Disney holiday topics for the whole month of December. In this episode, the boys close out their miniseries looking at Disney sequels and segue into whatever holiday magic they can scrounge from what remains of 2020 by looking at the first sequel to the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast - which happens to be an entry into Disney’s secular Christmas canon. Is it good? Why is the villain the only CGI character? Why is chip’s mom so old? Is this Tim Curry’s greatest performance? Have we lost our minds? We must be, since we originally uploaded a version that wasn’t finished being edited! We’re professionals!

Hi. Welcome to the Add More Mouse podcast. Dave and Mike love Disney stuff. They are doing a miniseries on Disney sequels. For this episode, they decided to discuss Cars 2. They have questions. So many questions. The most important of which is: how do you make a sequel to a story about small town pride and courage in the face of uncertainty? You add machine guns, explosions, torture and death, and voila: you get Cars 2.

Oh hi! We’re back with a new entry in our tiny “Disney Bombs” miniseries with a look at the colossal 2012 box office catastrophe John Carter! Though we lay our early on that we are not here just to pile on “bad movies,” we have a lot of questions about this one, such as: Who is mad at who? Is John Carter’s only special power the ability to jump really high? Where is anyone in relation to anyone else? Also, what on Earth is everyone talking about? Is half this movie in a made up language? Anyways, we also touch on some Disney Park news and fall down some rabbit holes like we always do. Hope you dig it!

Mike and Dave are back! Again! For the like the 25th time!   The boys are continuing their miniseries covering Disney films that bombed at the box office, but this is no "bad movie podcast." Mike and Dave are watching these movies that underperformed while in movie theaters to gain some new insight as to what went wrong. Are they actually bad? Were they ahead of their time? Were they mis-marketed? Are they hidden gems worth rediscovering, or should you skip them altogether? This week they focus on the poorly received (yet seemingly adored in cult film circles) film The Rocketeer. Is it good? Is it bad? Were audiences right to stay away, or did they miss out on something truly cool that could have spawned sequels and a toy line? And why is the diner the Rocketeer hangs out in shaped like a dog's mouth?  Before all that, the boys discuss the recently released to Disney+ musical event Hamilton. Listening to the thrilling tales of your hosts' roles in various high school musicals (spoiler alert: Mike played Nathan Detroit and Dave played "guy with newspaper." Enjoy! 

Dave and Mike are back with the first episode in a 4 part miniseries delving into Disney Bombs. Did you that the Disney company doesn’t always just print money? They make mistakes sometimes! But we’re not interested in making fun of bad movies (well...we sort of do that). We’re taking a look at Disney movies that failed at the box office and try to figure out why. Were they really bad movies? Was the marketing wrong? Or are they good films that simply didn’t connect with an audience? In this episode we dig into The Black Cauldron, a Disney animated classic that no one really likes except Roger Ebert. Why do the characters look so weird? Why is the opening narration so brutal? Why are this magic pig’s powers so lame? Listen and find out why this film is actually a crucially important film in the Disney catalogue and may have set the course for the ensuing decades of Disney success. Also: our hottest takes on the just-announced Splash Mountain re-theme!

My goodness! Here it is, the epically sleepy conclusion to our seemingly never ending mega series that looked into every tv sitcom that has taken a trip to a Disney park. Did you ever think we would finish it? We were so ready to be done that we crammed 3 episode reviews into one podcast, woohoo! Join us, Mike and Dave, as we finish out the miniseries that began way back in the winter time and finally finishes up in the beginning of summer. We've all been through a lot during that time, and though a Disney-related podcast may seem extra frivolous during these heady days, hopefully our obsessing over  ridiculous things helps you focus on something fun for an hour! And listen for the end, as we preview our next mini-series looking into Disney Bombs!

OH WOW!  We're back!  Yes, Michael and I are still here, still alive, and still talking about ridiculous things.  We originally did a whole episode about our individual experiences through quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic, and then Zoom ate the audio file. In retrospect, that was probably for the best, because we were RUSTY. Now we're back again for the first time, talking about the tv episode that changed the world: the time Modern Family went to Disneyland. Ok, it didn't change the world, or much of anything. But we watched it, because we are committed to finishing this mini-series that has dragged on and on and on and on (and on).  The audio is a little wonky thanks to recording in a socially distant way, but we decided mediocre sounding content was better than no content. Hope you enjoy it as much as we liked making it.