Mousetunes Podcast Cancelled
The Mousetunes podcast announced on this week’s show that this would in fact be their last show. Hosts Lou Mongello, author of the fantastic Disney World Trivia books, and Nathan Rose, owner of Magical Mountain, abruptly called it quits during a 12 minute show.
Mousetunes was a well produced, terrifically entertaining, and often quirky show based mostly around Walt Disney World, but also dealing with the Disney Company as a whole. It was consistently professional in the programming and production, yet just as consistently genuine in the banter and “babbling”. What made it great was that these two did not see and hear everything eye to eye or with mouse ears on, and often debated with hilarious and informative results. Speaking personally, Mousetunes will be missed. Hard work and effort went into this show, and even though I often found myself hollering at Nathan through my mp3 player, that work was appreciated and respected.
The good news is that the podcasting world has two new shows to look forward to. Lou Mongello, who is a Disney trivia addict’s idol, has announced that he will be launching the WDW Radio podcast soon. If all Lou does is take the information, interviews and rumors that he would bring to Mousetunes each week and puts them into a new podcast, it will be a worth it. I can only assume that it will be more than that. Everything Lou has done so far has been of a very high quality. (If you don’t have his books yet, stop depriving yourself!)
Nathan posted a message to Mousetunes listeners and announced his projects. Among them he announced “A new podcast featuring myself, Tim Devine, and special guest appearances by Disney imagineers, and other celebrities is coming this March”. I haven’t heard Devine do a podcast yet, but he certain has produced amazing photography and this team sounds intriguing.
Sounds like two may very well be better than one. Good Luck guy. We’ll be listening.
Mike said,
February 6, 2007 @ 2:26 am
do we know why its over?
Lou Mongello said,
February 6, 2007 @ 1:33 pm
Thank you SO much for such kind words about the show, books, etc. As a fan of your work, I appreciate your comments and sentiments.
Although they say that all good things… I am excited about what the new show is going to bring. Entitled, “The WDW Radio Show – Your Walt Disney World Information Station”, this all-new podcast will be found at http://www.WDWRadio.com focus on Walt Disney World, and feature some of the same topics I covered on the old show, as well as so much more including news, Rumors, Interviews, Trivia, History, Vacation Planning, Attraction, Dining & Resort Reviews, Contests, Reviews, Special Guests, and more.
As for the “whys” of the end of MouseTunes, while it was something very difficult for us to do, it affords each of us the opportunities to pursue other projects and endeavors. What’s that saying? When one window closes, a door opens?
Thanks again! Hope to see you over at the new show!
Lou
MJMcBride said,
February 6, 2007 @ 2:23 pm
You will Lou. And good luck to both you and Nathan
Matt said,
February 6, 2007 @ 4:48 pm
Lou’s a great guy and I’m sure his future project will be great. Mousetunes was one of maybe one or two Disney podcasts I took the time to listen to now and then (if that’s not a glowing recommendation, I don’t know what is). And Dave is right about his books; definetley fork over your hard earned cash for Lou’s books, which some people forget about when it comes to Mousetunes. I wish Lou all the best of luck in the future…..until his new show comes out, then it’s back to the trenches.
David said,
February 6, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
Anytime Lou. Can’t wait for the new show.
But are you SURE this had nothing to do with the now infamous “Marathon Incident”???LOL! Enquiring minds want to know…
TIm Devine said,
February 10, 2007 @ 4:53 am
thanks for the nice compliment. i do appreciate it and i hope you continue to find nathan and i ‘intriguing’ as we are gearing up to put a lot of time and effort into the the new and i hope you folks will like it.
Mike said,
February 19, 2007 @ 4:44 pm
Just keep up that great website of yours, Tim