Disney [Channel] Adult (feat. Ashley Spencer)

Be There in Five

Kate Kennedy

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4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 99 minutes

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In this episode, we're joined by Ashley Spencer, author of Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire. She shares her four-year journey researching Disney becoming the choice tween TV channel, and shares details from her interviews with former executives and cast/crew members, like the infamous Hilary Duff and LaLaine fallout or how the Zac/Vanessa High School Musical romance came to be IRL. We explore Disney's internal culture and show development, the role of pop music in Disney Channel's success (Samantha Mumba!), and get all the tea from our favorite 90s and 2000s shows and DCOMs. And last but not least, we can’t help but touch on how things have changed since our Zoog Disney days—from modern media consumption patterns, the implications of binge-watching, and the loss of monoculture. And don’t forget to check out Ashley’s book below! Enjoy. Read Disney High by Ashley Spencer: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250283450/disneyhigh SUPPORT OUR SPONSORSOrder Kate's NYT Bestselling book, One in a Millennial here!Text or leave a voicemail for Kate at 775-HEY-BETH!Thank you to AllModern for furnishing Kate's Season 2 Studio! AllModern has the best of modern furniture and decor all in one place. With styles from Scandi and mid-century, to minimalist and maximalist, every design is hand-vetted for quality by their team of experts. Plus they have fast + free shipping! Check out allmodern.com (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://allmodern.com&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1728092914694326&usg=AOvVaw0Bmil5QdUVm2wvLb1Bsjf4); you'll find Kate's bookshelves here (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.allmodern.com/furniture/pdp/annora-63-h-x-63-w-geometric-bookcase-a000142700.html?piid%3D90101977&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1728092914694326&usg=AOvVaw0EBBMRqbZNO5JV9rMnEKlF) and her new rug here (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.allmodern.com/rugs/pdp/virgina-southwestern-yellowcreambrown-area-rug-a000668129.html?piid%3D600621059&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1728092914694326&usg=AOvVaw2hxBhGU2RZyhQZ4BuFLqAC)!Take a load off and let CookUnity handle dinner. Affordable food, crafted by award-winning chefs, delivered to your door. Go to cookunity.com/BETHEREINFIVE (https://www.google.com/url?q=http://cookunity.com/BETHEREINFIVE&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1728092914694326&usg=AOvVaw1kPAXlM2drQFPZGpb7PTaC) or enter code BETHEREINFIVE before checkout for 50% off your first week.Upgrade your shower with clean, vegan face and body care from OSEA.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody welcome back to the Be Therein Five podcast I'm Kate Kennedy
0:10.4	your host. Today we have an interesting episode that I think fellow
0:16.2	nostalgia and will really appreciate. It's adjacent to a topic people ask me to
0:21.0	deep dive quite a lot surprisingly that I probably never will because I don't really I don't know I don't like to pick a part of fandom because I get it
0:28.0	We all have our thing that allows us to escape brings a little bit of magic to our lives,
0:33.5	and I don't really care what it is as long as you're not hurting anybody.
0:36.3	And what I'm referring to is that people often ask me to talk about Disney adults.
0:39.7	And yeah, I just don't really have much to say.
0:42.0	If you like Disney and you want to go to Disney. That's awesome. I want to go to Club 33 if any bets are members and want to invite me. I will become a Disney adult. I will really transform into anything you need me to for a free high-end meal at an
0:58.1	exclusive eatery that I could never get into otherwise, just throwing that out there
1:01.9	in case everybody has any opportunities. I'm just kidding. There's no one of the
1:03.0	if anybody has any opportunities.
1:04.3	I'm just kidding.
1:05.1	But we, there's so much talk in the psych guys
1:06.7	about Disney adults.
1:07.3	Well, we don't talk enough about our Disney channel adults,
1:09.8	and I do consider myself one of those.
1:11.9	I find it really interesting that the Disney Channel
1:14.8	was this whole universe that kind of is preserved in time.
1:20.0	It's its own nostalgic bubble in that Disney's didn't really franchise or merge out the earliest days of Disney Channel and incorporate them into their bigger properties or their broader portfolio.
1:32.0	I'm not into Mickey and a gang.
1:34.0	I don't really care.
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