Monday, September 30, 2013

Make your own Butterbeer and Pumpkin Juice

After KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #203: Trek-a-doodle were you anxious to try these beverages but lacking the means to get to Orlando?

Here ya go:

Ingredients: 
5 cups apple juice 
1 cup pumpkin puree 
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice 
Directions: 
1) Combine all in a large pitcher and stir well 
2) Let it sit for an hour in the refrigerator 
3) Strain it (if too thick) 
4) Chill or serve iced

From OrlandoInformer:
Butterbeer
2 liter cream soda
2 tablespoons Butter extract
2 teaspoons rum extract
*drop the extracts into the 2 liter bottle, put on cap and slowly rotate until combined.
Cream topping
1 7oz container of marshmallow creme
1 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon rum extract
*add all items together in an electric mixer and combine until smooth.
Pour the butterbeer into a glass,  drizzle with the cream topping, and enjoy!

Friday, September 27, 2013

Universal Studios Butterbeer and Pumpkin Juice

KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #203: Trek-a-doodle Ken and Dana talk about Universal Studios Pumpkin Juice and Butterbeer.

The Harry Potter wiki says:
Butterbeer is a popular wizarding beverage described as tasting "a little bit like less-sickly butterscotch."

Butterbeer is served cold in bottles and hot in "foaming tankards".In Hogsmeade, it's sold at The Three Broomsticks and The Hog's Head, although the fact that the latter pub's stock was described as "very dusty" suggests that it was not sold there very often. In Diagon Alley, the drink has been known to be sold at the Leaky Cauldron.
At the Hog's Head, customers are charged two sickles per Butterbeer (£0.60 approximately), but it is not certain whether this is a universal price for the drink, or if the price of the drink varies from location to location.


Pumpkin juice is a beverage made from pumpkins. Manufactured since 1837 by London Pumpkins & Sons, it is extremely popular in the wizarding world, particularly among the students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is drunk at any occasion, such as breakfast, lunch, at feasts or on other occasions. It seems to have taken on the same role that orange juice has in the Muggle world, though orange juice is sometimes consumed in the wizarding world as well.
Pumpkin juice is readily available, and can be purchased on the Hogwarts Express. Severus Snape threatened Harry in his fourth year that he might slip Veritaserum in his evening pumpkin juice while believing that Harry stole his potion ingredients. Dolores Umbridge offered Harry Potter pumpkin juice in 1996 when she wanted to secretly administer Veritaserum to him, but he chose tea instead. Prior to a Quidditch match in his sixth year, Ron Weasley believed that Harry had slipped Felix Felicis into his morning juice to help him play perfectly.


In the podcast Ken says "pumpkins don't go bad" to which Dana replies "haven't you ever seen one a week after Halloween?"
The label does indicate it needs to be refrigerated, but only after opening.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Exciting!

What could this be?

Tom Kenny is the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants here is a photo of Ken with Tom (as well as Paul and Storm and DC Pierson) at a Bob's Big Boy in 2011:

I'm excited to see what becomes of this! You may remember this great Christmas treat from Ken and Stan Lee:

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Star Tours 2.0

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #203: Trek-a-doodle Ken and Dana talk about Star Tours 2.0:



Ken also mention the AT-AT in front of the ride:

Monday, September 23, 2013

Teenager killed in remote-control helicopter accident

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #203: Trek-a-doodle Dana mentions the horrible accident where a man was partially decapitated by an RC helicopter.

Here are some details from The NY Post:

A Queens teenager’s obsession with high-powered model helicopters ended in gruesome death yesterday, when one of his beloved toy whirlybirds spun out of control in a Brooklyn park and scalped him, sources said.
Roman Pirozek, 19, — a chopper aficionado who bragged about his exploits on YouTube — was piloting the small machine at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend at around 3:40 p.m., when something went horribly wrong, cops said.
The toy aircraft turned toward the teen as he tried to pull off an unusual stunt. It hit him at high speed with the rotors spinning into his head and taking out “good chunk,” law enforcement sources said.
A handful of his friends watched in horror.

Read more here.

The high-end RC helicopter has a blade span of 62 inches, with a rotor that spins at more than 2,000rpm. It weighs a little over six pounds.

Jammie Dodgers

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #202: Too Hot To Tot Ken and Dana talk about Jammie Dodgers.

It's a popular cookie in the UK.

According to Wikipedia:
The biscuit has been mentioned several times in the British science fiction programme Doctor Who. Lead actor Matt Smith has described Jammie Dodgers as "The Eleventh Doctor's favourite snack".[citation needed] Most prominently, in the episode "Victory of the Daleks" (2010), The Doctor attempts to pass one off as a remote self-destruct button for his TARDIS. He also mentioned that he required a dozen Jammie Dodgers in his list of items needed to retrieve the child calling the president in the episode The Impossible Astronaut. In the episode The Bells of Saint John, he leaves a plate of Jammie Dodgers for his new companion.

Ken tweeted a photo of the bag:

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Friday, September 20, 2013

Mayor Goldie Wilson

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #202: Too Hot To Tot Dana mentions that the interview he was doing with me was cut short because of an interview I had scheduled with Donald Fullilove.



Donald played Goldie Wilson in the first Back to the Future film. Goldie was a 1955 soda jerk who would become the mayor in 1985.

Donald also played Goldie Wilson III in the sequel Back to the Future part II.

Among Donald's other credits are Michael Jackson in The Jackson 5 cartoon and voice appearances in Up and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Dana in The Producers

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #202: Too Hot To Tot They talk a lot about Dana appearing in The Producers in both Vero Beach and in Arrow Rock.


Here are some photos from Arrow Rock:





Here's Vero Beach (where Dana is the Vero Zero):








Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Episodes recorded together

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #202: Too Hot To Tot Ken and Dana record together. In the same room.

They discuss how rare this is. It has happened a few times before.

As they mentioned, KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #68: Snyde-lympics was recorded at Anime Supercon and  KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #113: Nuts On The Snyde Part 2 was recorded at DragonCon.

They also mention KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #112: Shoo Fly which was recorded at Milltown Arms Tavern near DragonCon.

Dana mentions an ep recorded on the way to Club 33. That was KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #14: Club 33.

There is also at least one more, KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #8: Tijuana Taxi which was recorded on It's a Small World.

EDIT: Got this via Twitter:
He is, of course, correct! KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #13: The Logo Fiasco-rama!

Are there any more?

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Ken & Dana return with an evening filled with tales of taters, live from Walt Disney World.It's a podcast full of reminiscing, Broadway songs and dueling Doc Brown impressions.

Listen! Go: KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #202: Too Hot To Tot

Friday, September 13, 2013

Trailer for Escape from Tomorrow

KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #195: Architectural Digestive features talk of the 2013 film Escape From Tomorrow.

The film was shot (without permission) at Walt Disney World and is a creepy story that uses Disney icons as a backdrop.

The film will be released on October 11.


Here is the new trailer:


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Twitterin' with Ken!








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