{"podcast":{"title":"Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast","slug":"mousetalgia-your-disneyland-podcast-310847","podcast_index_feed_id":310847,"rss_url":"https://mousetalgia.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://www.mousetalgia.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/b/3/e/2b3e7f28511c1f4e88c4a68c3ddbc4f2/logo_pandora_3000-20220205-iueb6e1cq1.jpg","author":"Jeff Baham","episode_count":812,"summary":"Mousetalgia is a podcast for Disney fans about Disneyland, Disney in society, and Disney trivia and history. Enjoy in-depth reviews of the parks, discussions about Disneyana and Disney merchandise, and our take on the latest Disney movies, books and more. View our galleries and join the discussion at www.mousetalgia.com!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T22:19:28.345723+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mousetalgia-your-disneyland-podcast-310847"},"episode":{"title":"Ep. 753: Mandalorian and Grogu review; Disneyland technology with Roland Betancourt","slug":"ep-753-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-disneyland-technology-with-roland-betancourt","published_at":"2026-05-25T16:27:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mousetalgia-your-disneyland-podcast-310847/ep-753-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-disneyland-technology-with-roland-betancourt","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mousetalgia-your-disneyland-podcast-310847","url":"https://mousetalgia.libsyn.com/ep-753-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-disneyland-technology-with-roland-betancourt","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/clean/secure/mousetalgia/Mousetalgia_-_Episode_753.mp3?dest-id=21110","summary":"This week, Jeff welcomes author and professor Roland Betancourt to the show (41:31) to discuss the history of technology at Disneyland and his new book \"Disneyland and the Rise of Automation.\" We discuss the nature of post-war automation and the mid-20th century, and how Walt Disney took many influences and distilled them into his automated verion of themed entertainment. Also - Jeff reviews \"The Mandalorian and Grogu,\" (18:50) and we talk about the extensive fan-service throughout the film: cam there be too much of a good thing? Plus - Jeff follows up on the Topps Disneyland 70 trading cards discussion and reveals how he finally decided to go about collecting this behemoth set.","meta_description":"This week, Jeff welcomes author and professor Roland Betancourt to the show (41:31) to discuss the history of technology at Disneyland and his new book \"D…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4634,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/mousetalgia-your-disneyland-podcast-310847/episodes/ep-753-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-disneyland-technology-with-roland-betancourt/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/mousetalgia-your-disneyland-podcast-310847/ep-753-mandalorian-and-grogu-review-disneyland-technology-with-roland-betancourt.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}