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Netcot is proud to have been nominated for a people’s choice award for Best Travel Podcast. To place your vote for the Netcot Podcast, please click here (scroll down to the “Travel” category and select the Netcot Podcast, then “vote”). News stories featured in this episode: A Maimi, FL woman is facing 42 felony counts [...]

This week’s podcast focuses on an overview of The Land pavilion in EPCOT including information about the history of many of the attractions within it. Weekly Disney news featured in this episode include: Disney is part of a group of companies helping to pay for portions of theater upgrades to support more 3D movies, which [...]

A panel of guests who are big Disney fans and have or are recently considered a Disney wedding discuss the pros and cons of doing a Disney wedding. Topics include how to manage your budget, the planning process, resources for information and much more. Other resources mentioned in this episode: Official Disney Wedding website Carly’s [...]

News stories from this episode of the podcast: Disney CEO Bob Iger says the company is defying gravity with strong park attendance despite the U.S. economy. Disney and the U.S. Department of Energy have teamed up on a new ad campaign. The Disney Channel show “My Friends Tigger and Pooh” will not continue beyond the [...]

News stories from this episode of the podcast: Tropical Storm Fay has been a concern for WDW. The resort has been opening up parks a bit earlier to ensure guests get some extra time at the parks. Some cast members dressed in Disney character costumes (not all of which were real costumes) were arrested for [...]

News: Disney is opening up two new Research & Development labs that will focus on robotic and virtual theme park characters. McDonald’s is shutting down restaurant locations at the Disneyland, CA resort. Disneyland is shutting down The Vineyard Room restaurant at their California Adventure park. Disney launched a new website for their Disney Animation group. [...]

News: Walt Disney World ticket prices were raised this week. United Airlines has a special offer for people traveling to Disneyland. Disney announced a new quick service meal plan option. The Caribbean Beach resort will get some new Pirates themed rooms. Toon Disney will get rebranded as Disney XD. A family from Missouri won a [...]

Since this is the 113th episode of the show, I decided to do the entire format backwards beginning with the end. That way, I know what went wrong and didn’t have to leave it up to “lucky number (one hundred and) 13.” News: Batman – The Dark Knight, beat the record previously held by Pirates [...]

News: Pocahontas and her Forrest Friends will close in September of this year. Miley Cyrus has been featured more racy photos that she says she’s not proud of.. Miss Minnie Piggy is a pig that features a birthmark in the shape of Mickey Mouse. Georgia Pacific paper company things they can also ban guns like [...]

Show notes and additional resources for episode #111 of the Netcot Podcast: Disney found a loophole in FL law that allows them to prohibit employees from carrying guns (link) … then an Animal Kingdom employee decided to challenge that policy (link) A new coffee shop appeared at the TTC. Is it good? You decide. Disney [...]

Former WWE Superstar, Scotty 2 Hotty (aka The Worm) joins the Netcot podcast to chat about Disney, wrestling and … 80s hair bands. Scotty tells us about how he got into Disney; other professional wrestlers that are Disney fans; and why there’s a connection between some Disney fans and some pro-wrestling fans. Also on this [...]

Shownotes for episode #107 of the Netcot Podcast: Disney says they’ve improved blu-ray technology by adding interactive functionality (more). Apple announced the iPhone 3G along with new features targeted at enterprise IT groups. Their announcement featured a brief video that included statements from a member of Disney’s IT group (more). Mickey and Minnie mouse will [...]

(News | Source: Twisney) Twisney.com blends social networking and short updates of sites like Twitter with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth technology to allow Disney fans around the world to see live updates from within the Disney World Resort. The site officially launched just two weeks ago and has already drawn the attention of Disney fans world-wide. [...]

Feature: Your Disney Index – listen and write down the scores that correspond to the questions asked. Add up the numbers you wrote down and you have your Disney Index – or a measurement of how much of a Disney fan you are. Top 7: Jobs I’d leave my job for (at Disney parks) News [...]

I’m excited to launch our first Netcot.Podcast VIDEO podcast. I hope its just the first of many. Since you might want to share it with your friends, I thought I’d offer a few ways to do that: First, you can obviously tell them about the Netcot.Podcast. You can also tell people on MySpace to check [...]