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So, you’ve been stuck at home now for over a month, you’re probably sick and tired of not being able to get out and do normal stuff. We sure are. We wanted to bring out of our vaults an episode we recorded quite some time ago in which we talked about the rides at Disneyland and California Adventure (the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA) that we love so much.

We actually recorded this a LONG time ago (but in our own Galaxy….it was May the Fourth just two days ago), way before we even launched the podcast. We kept it “on ice” for a while in part because we didn’t want to be releasing it during COVID 19 stay at home orders. But, that’s been going on for like 6 weeks now and, as I say above, we’re all missing things about real life so, what the heck, we’re talking about stuff we can’t do right now!

And, we get to hear from special guests Madison and Delainey Asbhrook again, so that’s nice. RJ Carnesi and Larry Lloyd are, of course, here again to guide the conversation into an enjoyable direction. We talk a lot about things that have changed in the main park, differences between summer and winter visits, and where to get beer!

As always, we hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think. Leave us a comment here or, more importantly, give us a review and rating where you listen to podcasts! It gives us opportunities to find new listeners! PLEASE!!!

You’ll notice it has been 3 weeks now since we last posted an epsidode of the world-renowned Whats Your Top 5 Podcast. Well, life has definitely been strange lately. As of the date this episode launches, we’ll be into week 5 of California’s stay at home order. The days all sort of blend in to each other…hard to tell the weekends from the weekdays.

In this episode, your hosts RJ Carnesi and Larry Lloyd are once again joined by special guest Madison Ashbrook to talk about the things we miss from life, BC (Before COVID). We’re lucky enough to all have jobs to keep doing and we know not everyone is as lucky. Hopefully, this one won’t sound whiny in light of our circumstances. But, I think we can all agree that being stuck at home is,, generally speaking not an ideal experience!

One of outcomes of this is being forced to record in non traditional ways…in our case via Zoom calls. So, yeah, the sound quality is as good as our fancy podcasting studio (umm, I mean bedroom that was converted to an office/studio) but it works in a pinch. We hope you don’t mind too much. We hope you also don’t mind that we enjoyed a little dinner while we recorded!

So, anyway, we hope you enjoy this week’s episode. Please leave us a comment! Either here, by email (RJ@whatsyourtop5.com or Podhostlarry@whatsyourtop5.com) or, more importantly, rate and review us wherever you listen to podcasts!

Enjoy……from a safe distance!

We’re back with an all-new podcast episode, today we go back to our movie roots and talk about our favorite movie sequels. It’s the original Whats Your Top 5 crew, RJ Carnesi, Linda Ashbrook and Larry Lloyd, reuniting from our Will Ferrell episode to talk about some pretty classic films!

We had a great time talking about these films, got somewhat philosophical in regards to what really counts as a move sequel (it’s not as straight forward as we might have thought!), and we talked about sequels and movies we didn’t like almost as much as the ones we did! That whole Lord of the Rings/Samwise Gamgee discussion is still fresh in my memory!

This was recorded a while ago, a fact that was divulged a couple of times during the recording, and we’ve held onto this episode a while so we have a few non movie-related discussions, including how Coronavirus has turned our lives upside down. But this episode is timeless. The films we discuss are timeless and we hope you enjoy it!

Please let us know what you think about this or any of our other six episodes. Let us know what you like, what you don’t like…suggest a list for us to make…leave a comment to this blog post! Most definitely rate us on whatever Podcast platform you use to listen to us. All of these things help us get the word out a bit!

Thanks!

Coronvirus special! Stuck at home, bored out of your mind? “Working” from home but looking for something to pass the time a bit more quickly? Looking to help out a struggling podcast get a bit more of a share of the massive #podcastuniverse ? Let us try and help you out of this predicament!

Look, we know how hard this will be, and that we’re only getting started. Hanging out at home rather than going to work SOUNDS good until you are actually forced to do it, Am I right? Well, we took your burden and turned it into our 6th podcast episode. Today, we’ll be discussing our Top 5 Things to do While in Quarantine.

There really is a ton of stuff you can be doing with this time. I’m sure you’ve already thought about some of these, but we’ve gone through the effort of compiling them into three nice and tidy lists for YOUR benefit. Aren’t we great???

Today, RJ Carnesi and Larry Lloyd are again joined by guest Trevor Lucas for this discussion and, because of social distancing/quarantine/safe-at-home etiquette, we had to opt for a new way of recording. So, we recorded this episode via Zoom. The sound quality may not be quite where we’d like it to be but, hey, in a pinch, it works pretty damned good!

We hope you enjoy. Please leave us a comment here with this post or send us an email (at rj@whatsyourtop5.com or podhostlarry@whatsyourtop5.com) and, as always, please rate us on your favorite podcast listening platform. This, along with your personal recommendations (which we will GREATLY appreciate) are the best way for us to grow our audience.

Thanks and enjoy!

We’re back! Another Pod has dropped, this one, our third full episode, is a discussion about our favorite things to do in Southern California. Your co hosts, Larry Lloyd and RJ Carnesi, are joined this week by returning guest host Madison Ashbrook.

This was a lively discussion, in large part because there are just so many things todo and enjoy in Southern California. Beaches, deserts, mountains, islands, theme parks, great sports teams, Southern California has all of that! Few other places in the world can make the same claim.

Our lists had very little overlap this week which also made the conversation super fun and interesting. It doesn’t hurt that “Southern California” really covers a pretty huge area. For purposes of this podcast discussion, we agreed to limit the area of interest from the San Fernando Valley in the North, all the way to the Mexican boarder in the South, from the coast to the inland deserts. There’s a TON of stuff to do in that big of an area!

Anyway, we hope you enjoy listening to this episode. If you’re thinking of visiting the area, we REALLY hope you get some great tourist stop ideas from us. If you’ve visited any of these places, please let us know what you think of them and and how we rate them.

As always, feel free to leave us a comment here or send us an email. Both myself (podhostlarry@whatsyourtop5.com) and RJ (RJ@whatsyourtop5.com) would love to hear from you! Also, be sure and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to us, great reviews will help us reach more and more listeners. Anyway, enjoy the episode!

New Pod is up now, this one about our favorite Disney movies, the animated kind. We brought in a couple of younger guest hosts to help us out on this topic as we knew this conversation would veer into the “childhood memory” lane often. Madison and Delainey Ahsbrook were happy to bring their pointed perspectives to this conversation and each brought a more contemporary view to these movies while RJ and Larry leaned a bit more toward the classics….no surprises there. Madison is actually employed by the Walt Disney Company and RJ once was as well, so it felt a bit like we had some insider access on this topic.

We also learned a few things about each other during this episode. One is that Delainey somewhat struggled to be heard over the cacauphany of noise we made during the recording of this episode. Two times she could be heard making statements that no one responded to; unfortunately, we’ll probably never know what interesting factoid she wanted to bring up during our discussion of Lion King. The other is that she stated three times that she never saw Sleeping Beauty never once getting a reaction from anyone!

The other thing we learned was that Robert has missed a LOT of Disney Amimated Feature Films. “I never saw that” could have been the subtitle to this episode!

Finally, we got some good background info on a couple of movies including a brief discussion of the story behind Mulan as well as Robin Williams impact on the color choice for the Genie in Alladin as well as what he demanded of Disney before agreeing to the role. You’ll have to listen to get more details!

You can listen over on our Podcast page or by looking us up in Apple Podcasts and Spotify podcasts.

Anyway, another movies-based topic for your listening enjoyment. Send us some feedback to podhostlarry@whatsyourtop5.com or RJ@whatsyourtop5.com and let us know what you thought of our choices and let us know your own!

We like to rank things, all kinds of popcultural things, from first through fifth! We’ll give you a weekly list of our favorite things and are more than happy to listen to your suggestions!

This Blog will also will also be the place that we’ll use to keep listeners up to speed on new podcast developments, random totally unrelated matters, links to shows we like, etc. If you’ve got some ideas on good podcasts we might like or to share with our audience, feel free to drop us an email or a blog comment.

Our first episode will (hopefully) be out around the first of March. We hope you check back with us as we get closer to that date, we’ll definitely be keeping everyone apprised of our progress.

You’ll be able to listen to episodes here on the site as well as (again, hopefully) on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, etc. We’re super excited to have you as a listener and hope that you can recommend our show to your friends and go rate us on your favorite podcasting platform.

More to come soon!