“While Disney’s California Adventure abandoned the Golden State, Mike Love is reconstructing California in his mind.”

Fasten your seatbelts and hold on tight, because this slow-moving dark ride through the history of California has sudden stops, drops, facts, a looooot of fiction, and a rock-n-roll soundtrack to boot! Rosie takes Krista on an unsanctioned tour through the history of California’s own “Disneyfication” and how that process affects our boys today (goodbye nuance, hello uncritical Disney+ documentary!!). Special guest (and theme park expert) Miya Singer takes us behind the curtain of Disney’s California Adventure and how it made a cardboard cutout of our beloved home state. Do NOT buy California from Shein! Krista is horrified by the concept of “Paparazzi: The Ride” (RIP Princess Diana) and Rosie gets on her American Studies soapbox to opine about the 1964 World’s Fair.

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