Dateline Jiminy Crickets - March 2025

This special episode of Dateline Jiminy Cricket's is all about our host, DisneyChris! Chris explains his own personal Disney fandom, sharing his passion for Disney including his favorite  his favorite films, animated features, art, music and more. 

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Jiminy Crickets Episode 192 - 2025 Music Series - A Salute to Disney Artists: Part 2 - Ken Anderson

Our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured  artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. 

Episode two of our 2025 Music Series pays tribute to Disney Legend Ken Anderson. We will follow his career as a lead animator and production designer for many classic Disney films spanning the 1930s through the 1980s.

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Jiminy Crickets Episode 191 - Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies: The Best of 1935

This episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast  marks the beginning of an ongoing series where we will revisit Walt Disney's classic Silly Symphony animated shorts of the 1930's. Each episode will cover the best and most fondly remembered cartoons of a particular year. 

Our first episode of this series will cover the milestone year of 1935. regarded by Disney historians as the apex year of the series. We will discuss our top six shorts of the year, from its origin, to the behind the scenes production, to the movie release. These will include: "The Tortoise and the Hare", "The Cookie Carnival" , "Who Killed Cock Robin?" , "Music Land" , "Three Orphan Kittens" and "Broken Toys." 

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The Best of Jiminy Crickets Episode 18 - Country Bear Jamboree Part 2

Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our February 2025 episode, we will revisit episode 123 from May of 2020, where we continued our extensive look at the classic Disney attraction, "The Country Bear Jamboree"

May 2020 - Howdy Y'all! Jiminy Crickets is proud to present part two of a special two part tribute to the classic Disney Audio Animatronic attraction, Country Bear Jamboree. Join DisneyChris and Ruthie as they conversate and elucidate on the history, evolution, back stage production, amazing performances, unforgettable characters and musical legacy of this knee slappin', hand clappin', foot stompin' down home country music review. They conclude the show with a special look at all the many versions of the show to follow the Walt Disney World original, including Bear Country in Disneyland, and the Christmas and Vacation themed incarnations of the wildest show in the wilderness.

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The Best of Jiminy Crickets Episode 17 - Country Bear Jamboree Part 1

Welcome to the "Best of Jiminy Crickets," where every month we bring to the forefront a past episode of the Jiminy Crickets Podcast from our back catalog of shows. For our Janaury 2025 episode, we will revisit episode 122 from April of 2020, where we took an extensive look at the classic Disney attraction, "The Country Bear Jamboree"

April 2020 - Howdy Y'all! Jiminy Crickets is proud to present part one of a special two part tribute to the classic Disney Audio Animatronic attraction, Country Bear Jamboree. Join DisneyChris and Ruthie as they conversate and elucidate on the history, evolution, back stage production, amazing performances, unforgettable characters and musical legacy of this knee slappin', hand clappin', foot stompin' down home country music review. And remember, ya'll come back y'here, cause part two will be coming real soon! 

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Jiminy Crickets Episode 190 - 2025 Music Series - A Salute to Disney Artists: Part 1 - Marc Davis

Our 2025 Music Series will pay tribute to many of the legendary Disney animators and Imagineers, who were the creative geniuses behind many now beloved Disney animated classics and theme park attractions. Each episode will chronicle the career of the featured  artist's work for Walt Disney through the use of music to represent their many Disney career highlights. 

We kick off our 2025 Music Series in a big way with Disney legend Marc Davis. We follow his career from animation in-betweener, to character designer, and lead animator, then trace his insurmountable Imagineering contributions from the living dessert, to the Caribbean, and regions beyond. 

 

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Dateline Jiminy Crickets - Janaury 2025

For their first show of 2025, Ruthie and DisneyChris review all the major Disney events of 2024, including movies, streaming, Disney parks, and more. Then they do a top 10 list of the best events of the past year, a memoriam to those we lost in 2024, and some predictions for the year ahead.

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 THE OPTIMAL WAY TO EXPERIENCE THIS PODCAST EPISODE IS VIA YOUTUBE

Dateline Jiminy Crickets is first and foremost a video experience. We post an audio version for those who prefer it that way, but to get he most out of this episode, we highly recommend viewing it over on our YouTube channel, as it  contains many images and other visual elements. Click the link below to view the video version....

https://youtu.be/3CN_FwQdc5E?si=NWPagX0TnUGR_Yjm