Pete and Kelly take on Disneyland's Big River. boardwalktimes.net/t... #Disneyland

Errata for our most recent episode: Peter Renaday's voice is no longer heard on the Disneyland Mark Twain at all. Oddly, the character no longer speaks on the ride. At some point we might do a breakdown of all the narration differences throughout the years. It might be cool! #Disneyland

We are back, just in time for Christmas! This Hidden River Is Disneyland’s Quiet Magic | Lowdown on the Plus-Up Available wherever you get your podcasts!

After our Autumn Bradbury-fest, I thought I'd share with you all a couple of dramatized version of one of my favorite of the master's stories, "There Will Come Soft Rains." The first version is wonderful, the second strikingly strange. #RayBradbury New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!

We've talked about Universal's Battle of Galactica stop on the Tram Ride, but who built those first robotic performers for it? He's a Columbian immigrant named Alvaro Villa and he invented "Theatronics". Here's a short bio of him below. #UniversalStudios New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!

Listening to Billy Corgan and Paul Williams share their love of The Guess Who was not on my to-do list today, but here I am...

I got a bunch of episodes of The Midnight Special from 1973. We started watching one with Joan Baez, Wilson Pickett and The Pointer Sisters. I don't think I'd ever heard Black Oak Arkansas. I don't know if I liked it, but I do know that David Lee Roth and Axl Rose watched this guy a LOT as kids.

Join us for all things Universal as The Lowdown on the Plus-Up pays tribute to the late Jay Stein. What a story! What a life! Link in the thread. #UniversalStudios #JayStein

This week we salute Jay Stein on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. He passed away on November 5th at the age of 88. If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built. Link in the thread.

This week we salute Jay Stein on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. He passed away on November 5th at the age of 88. If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built. Link in the thread.

Well, this should be delightful!

Jay Stein - Universal Theme Parks First Visionary: Dead at 87. The news is trickling in, but it looks like Jay Stein, the most important person in theme parks after Walt Disney, has passed away. More in the thread...

Corrections from recent episodes: Sinister Seymour wasn't in a 3 Stooges movie. He was a voice for "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon. Wolfman Jack grew up in Brooklyn, not Jersey. Irving Kirschner wasn't a producer of "Star Wars". Kirschner directed "The Empire Strikes Back." More in thread...

It's kinda interesting, isn't it, that the East Wing of the White House, which was built, in many ways, to protect the President from the Nazis if WWII had reached our shores, is being torn down by a Nazi President. Ironic.

Before Elvira was the Queen of them all, Vampira! We couldn't do a show about Knott's Scary Farm without talking about her. Here's a little taste of her TV show (in the comments). It's the newest Lowdown on the Plus-Up podcast: Knott's Scary Farm! #KnottsScaryFarm #Vampira

Before Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, before Oogie Boogie Bash and Mickey’s Not So Scary, before Six Flags’ Fright Fest there was Knott’s Scary Farm. Join us as Pete and Kelly explore the wild and wonderful history of the Godfather of Theme Park Haunts! Link in the thread. #KnottsScaryFarm

With AWS knocking out half the internet earlier, I thought I'd hit this again... In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything. My piece on "The Fall of the City." Link in the thread... #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane #WaroftheWorlds

Last time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up we invented a theme park based on Ray Bradbury's writings. This week, we invited a Ray Bradbury expert to tell us the reality of the relationship between the great writer and theme parks, Walt Disney, and lots more! Dr. Phil Nichols joins us! Link below...

Responding to Charlie Kirk on the US founding #maklelan2966 youtu.be/EAjskIgXaMM

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Last time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up we invented a theme park based on Ray Bradbury's writings. This week, we invited a Ray Bradbury expert to tell us the reality of the relationship between the great writer and theme parks, Walt Disney, and lots more! Dr. Phil Nichols joins us! Link below...

With AWS knocking out half the internet earlier, I thought I'd hit this again... In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything. My piece on "The Fall of the City." Link in the thread... #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane #WaroftheWorlds

Last time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up we invented a theme park based on Ray Bradbury's writings. This week, we invited a Ray Bradbury expert to tell us the reality of the relationship between the great writer and theme parks, Walt Disney, and lots more! Dr. Phil Nichols joins us! Link below...

In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, under extremely strange circumstances. Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything. My piece for Fanfare on "The Fall of the City." Link in the thread... #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane #WaroftheWorlds

In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, under extremely strange circumstances. Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything. My piece for Fanfare on "The Fall of the City." fanfare.pub/the-poet... #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane #WaroftheWorlds

Brother Mamdani speaks for me youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

A couple of errata for this ep of The Lowdown on the Plus-Up: Bradbury's book about the making of "Moby-Dick" is "Green Shadows, White Whale." We mispronounced an Imagineer's name; it's Joe LanZISero.) The story that made Marta Becket famous was in National Geographic, not Time or Life. Mea Culpa.

We talk about Marta Becket quite a bit in our new episode: Here's Ray Bradbury talking about her, too! youtu.be/P869Tf-h9m0... Listen to the new Lowdown on the Plus-Up, Ray Bradbury’s Theme Park — The Great Electric Time Maze wherever you get your podcasts! #Disney #RayBradbury #ThemePark #EPCOT

We talk about Marta Becket quite a bit in our new episode: Here's Ray Bradbury talking about her, too! youtu.be/P869Tf-h9m0... Listen to the new Lowdown on the Plus-Up, Ray Bradbury’s Theme Park — The Great Electric Time Maze wherever you get your podcasts! #Disney #RayBradbury #ThemePark #EPCOT

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"the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.” 🤬

Portland = Ghorman

boardwalktimes.net/alien-earth-... Now that Alien: Earth is done, it's interesting to see how much more resonant this is than I thought it was when I wrote it. #disney #alien

Let's just take a moment to revel in a picture of one of my favorite Doctors - Sylvester McCoy, The Seventh Doctor Who - out in the streets last week protesting Donald Trump being in England. He is so much more than JUST a Time Lord.

Today is "Talk Like a Pirate" Day. The dialect that we refer to as "pirate" actually had a modern origin: the 1950 Disney film "Treasure Island." So maybe I'll just talk in my normal voice today.

Ok, this was not the antifa warrior I was expecting, but heck, I'll take it! wdwnt.com/2025/09/mich...

Holy...! Thank you Morgan Fairchild!

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

They've stopped even pretending. If you criticize Republicans, you're done. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Disney has been weirdly obsessed with the Alien franchise since the '80s. Now with Alien: Earth, they have finally merged with the Xenomorph. Was it worth it? boardwalktimes.net/a... #Alien #Disney

The Walt Disney Company has been chasing the Xenomorph for 40 years, including various attempts to bring the ALIEN franchise into the Disney Parks, but even with the brilliance of FX's ALIEN: EARTH, was catching the white whale worth the cost? boardwalktimes.net/alien-earth-...

person on reddit looking to hire for art in GTA style high contrast, but about appalachia, so posting example. did this as a fan art originally for @lowdown-plus-up.bsky.social and their very fun history of the jet pack episodes. I have yet to watch The Rocketeer. archive.org/details/the-... #art

2 of our favorite things in the world are Star Trek and Doctor Who. Did you know about the very subtle crossovers between the 2 this year? The Doctor told Belinda that he ought to "go visit" the Star Trek Universe.... More Star Trek goodness on last week's episode! boardwalktimes.net/t...

We were surprised to see the great Jeri Taylor's face during the "In Memoriam" section of the Emmys. An important Star Trek writer who wrote one of TNG's greatest episodes, "The Drumhead" as well as creating the Cardassians and presiding over Voyagers best years. #StarTrek lowdown-plus-up.com/

Today would've been the 105th birthday of the greatest of all Disneylanders, Wally Boag. If you loved the Golden Horseshoe Review, or The Enchanted Tiki Room, or gunfights in Frontierland; you loved Wally. Lots about him and his contributions on our episode: Calamity Boag! lowdown-plus-up.com/...

The half marathon is also completed!

10k achieved.

🚨🎙️NEW POD ALERT🎙️🚨 @kellymccubbin.bsky.social & Pete take a look at the complicated history of STAR TREK. From Lucille Ball to Las Vegas to a remarkable Elvis impersonator in upstate New York, they explore America’s most resilient science fiction franchise. boardwalktimes.net/the-lowdown-...

I love that Timothy Oliphant seems to be channeling UFO in Alien Earth.

Boardwalk Times columnist @kellymccubbin.bsky.social takes a deep dive into how one song's complicated past connected two South African composers, almost a century apart, in THE LION KING. boardwalktimes.net/disney-a-to-...