Seven Dwarves Mine Train

Ken tweeted out a link about the new WDW Seven Dwarves Mine Train!

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/theme-parks/disneys-seven-dwarfs-mine-train-ride-introduces-next-generation-audio-animatronics-98847.html

“This is the first time we’ve done a full 3-D design and delivery process on any of our audio-animatronics figures,” says Ethan Reed of Disney Imagineering.

Dana bought beans

MAJOR NEWS ON TWITTER:

Dana bought twelve 16-oz cans of beans. THAT'S 192 ounces of beans! 6 GALLONS OF BEANS! 1,586,457 FREAKIN' BEANS!

If Dana laid each bean end to end in Canal Street... PEOPLE WOULD THINK HE WAS CRAZY.

Canal Street is  is a major thoroughfare in the city of New Orleans. Here is a post card:

Blue Runner promises that these are the best tasting beans "this side of Canal Street." But Dana and I live on OPPOSITE SIDES of Canal Street so this makes NO SENSE AT ALL.

From the Blue Runner website:
It’s a tradition like no other in Southern Louisiana. It’s Monday. It’s red beans and rice. It’s what’s for dinner.

Red beans and rice became a staple Monday meal when Monday was washday. Since red beans and rice don’t require much attention (just a lot of time!), it became the ideal meal to sit simmering while the wash was getting done. While we don’t all spend Mondays doing laundry any longer, South Louisiana and New Orleans still loves that Monday bean routine.

Traditional pairings include smoked sausage, but tons of different foods go well with red beans and rice, whether it’s a pork chop, fried seafood, ham shanks, hot sausage, fried chicken/chicken livers. Top your meal off with some cornbread and greens, and you have a true New Orleans meal.

Also on the website:

Chilling.

Slightly more chilling was this:

Order your Blue Runner beans here.

Indiana? Is that you?

Enjoy the show:

Look where Ken is!

Suck It, Gary!

Dana has a new segment of the show Trip Tank entitled Suck It, Gary!

Very funny stuff:

You can watch it here: http://screen.yahoo.com/suck-gary-223214293.html

Ken's office

Ken tweeted some amazing photos of his office:

Dewey Pigmeat Markham

On Ken P.D. Snydecast #114: Baby Driver Dana mentions Pigmeat Markham, praises his comic abilities and suggested we all check him out.

So take a look and a listen to Pigmeat Markham:

VIDEO: Jack Benny and Rochester

KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #53: Fleet Feet And All You Can Eat starts off with Ken's impersonation of Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (Jack Benny's valet on the radio and TV series The Jack Benny Show.)
Then the boys discuss Jack's comedy techniques and what made him so successful.

On KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #142: iFail Dana discusses his purchase of an iPad. At around the 12 minute mark Ken breaks into an impression of Jack Benny and Rochester at the Apple store.

Here is a classic bit with Jack and Rochester:

Video: Dana & Ken talk about Julia Child

I put together this video with audio from KEN P.D. SNYDECAST #157: Make All Our Dreams Come True.
I hope you love it.

Pets.com puppet

Ken posted this on Twitter today:

Remember this guy:

From wiki:

Pets.com hired the San Francisco office of TBWA\Chiat\Day to design its advertising campaign. The firm had recently created the popular Taco Bell chihuahua. For Pets.com they designed a doglike sock puppet that carried a microphone in its paw. The puppet, performed by Michael Ian Black (an alumnus of MTV's surrealist comedy sketch show The State), was a simple sock puppet with button eyes, flailing arms and a stick microphone emblazoned with "pets.com".

As the puppet's fame grew through 1999 and 2000, it gained almost cult status and widespread popularity. The puppet made an appearance on ABC's Good Morning America, Nightline, Live with Regis and Kathie Lee, and even had a balloon made in its image for the 1999 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In addition to the media appearances the Pets.com puppet made, merchandising was also done for the company including clothing, other trinkets, and a retail version of the sock puppet that delivered some of the puppet's famous lines.

The sock puppet toy was the last item available for order on the Pets.com site at the time of its shutdown in 2000.

Here's a montage of the puppet... watch it and watch eBay for a chance to buy Ken's puppet:

It might me the new Talking Dennis Miller.

Ken and Dana podcasting

I had a podcast with Ken and Dana yesterday... separately.

Ken appeared as a guest on The Flux Capaci-cast, the Back to the Future fan podcast I co-host:

LINK (right click to save) 53:00
Guy Hutchinson and John J. are joined by author, film producer and podcaster Ken Plume to discuss the trilogy as well as tangents about SelectaVision discs, old cable boxes, wired remote controls and Ghostbusters II.



Meanwhile, Dana and I put out our weekly episode of Drunk On Disney:

LINK (right click to save) 1:08:03
Bart Scott meets the Drinkfinder! Dana Snyder is Father Guido Sarducci! Guy chats with Big Fat Panda! It's a fun filled romp you wont wanna miss.

To play the home game you need pineapple juice, orange juice, Pusser's Navy Rum, Coco Lopez, nutmeg and cinnamon.

The Day The Clown Cried

On the newest Ken PD Snydecast Dana and Ken chat about the Jerry Lewis (unfinished) film The Day the Clown Cried.

Dana mentions reading the script. You can read it here:
http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/the_day_the_clown_cried.html

Here is a short clip of Jerry Lewis talking about it:
There is significant set footage in this Flemmish documentary.

Jerry Lewis Saturday 15 March 2014

Dana mentioned on the last Ken PD Snydecast that he was attending the Jerry Lewis live show on March 15 at the La Mirada Theatre For The Performing Arts.

He tweeted this picture:

Some one posted a short video online:



So we await the Snyde review on the next Snydecast.

Spin and Marty

Snydely certainly had Disney on the brain during Ken PD Snydecast 212. At one point he says "what Disney needs to know..." and then corrects himself "what substitute teachers need to know..."
At another point he confuses actor Ron Silver with Disney parks performer Ron Schneider.

And then, when he goes to mention the Adult Swim show Rick and Morty...

He mentions the Disney show Spin and Marty.

FROM WIKI: Spin and Marty is a popular series of television shorts that aired as part of ABC's Mickey Mouse Club show of the mid-1950s produced by Walt Disney. There were three serials in all, set at the Triple R Ranch, a boys' western-style summer camp. The first series of 25 eleven-minute episodes, The Adventures of Spin and Marty, was filmed in 1955. Its popularity led to two sequels – The Further Adventures of Spin and Marty in 1956 and The New Adventures of Spin and Marty in 1957.
It aired as reruns on the Disney Channel until September 9, 2002.
The serials were based on the 1942 novel Marty Markham by Lawrence Edward Watkin. The producer for Disney was Bill Walsh and the screenplay was written by Jackson Gillis. The shows' success led to the Spin and Marty comic books of the late 1950s.

You can watch a 7 minute clip of the show here.

Also voice of Zinger for Tidy Cats internet-only campaign of 8 years ago.

Dana updated his Twitter bio:

 Also voice of Zinger for Tidy Cats internet-only campaign of 8 years ago.

This was a real thing:
LINK to press release
With the subject line "Secret tests revealed in these Tidy Cats videos," consumers were directed to tidycats.com to watch clips along with Roscoe, Phoebe and Zinger (the brand's "spokescats" in its TV commercials). The online videos were produced by infuz, a St. Louis-based interactive agency.

infuz has a video about the promotion online, but no audio from any of the acts appear.

I found a blog that mentions it:

But the link goes here:

The comments are no help:

Zinger may be lost to time...