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Poor Unfortunate Podcast is an award-winning Disney podcast for grown ups where Disney is what we do…it’s what we live for! Join hosts Conor Perkins and Caroline Aimetti for a heartfelt and hysterical journey through a cycle of four unique formats: the Rant/Rave, the Showdown, Tips and Tricks, and the infamous Wild Card episodes. We’re talking about the movies that make us sob, the songs that still slap, and the characters that we would fight (or fight for). With scalding hot takes, behind t ...
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Book of the Mouse Club is an Unofficial Disney podcast that explores books about Disney, its history, films, theme parks and more. Join us for discussions about books, interviews with authors and broader topics that relate to the literary realm of Disney. Disclaimer: Book of the Mouse Club has no affiliation with The Walt Disney Company. The views and opinions expressed by hosts and participants are theirs and theirs alone and do not represent the organizations or companies they happen to wo ...
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: December 7, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listene…
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Beluga Sevruga! In this bonus D-Brief episode, Conor and Caroline are giving their thrillifying, (largely) unedited, frank analysis of 2025's box-office smash, Wicked: For Good. Go down the yellow brick road with them as they obsessulate over every detail that brought to life the emotional, epic conclusion of one of the most beloved musicals and fo…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: November 16, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listen…
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In this Wild Card episode, Conor and Caroline invite you to “come on down” as they play their own version of daytime’s most popular game show. They each challenge the other to guess the retail prices of Disney merch and Parks experiences, as well as budget and box office numbers related to Disney films, TV, and theatre. Play along to see who will g…
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"And now it's time to say goodbye to all our company." Courntey and Emily are hanging up their headphones after 120 episodes and over 100 books. In this episode, they reflect on their podcasting experience and turn their author interview questions on themselves to give advice to future podcasters and what they want to do next as they keep moving fo…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: October 30, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listene…
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Beluga Sevruga! In this bonus D-Brief episode, Conor and Caroline are surrendering to their darkest dreams as they give their reactions, insights, and tips for experiencing NYC's newest theatre experience: Masquerade. This reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's classic, The Phantom of the Opera, comes to life all around you in an immersive spectacle …
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The Overtakers and Disney Villains are at it again! But the Keepers are parents now, and their kids are as invested in saving the Disney parks as they were in their youth. Is it time to pass the wand to a new generation? Courtney and Emily welcome back Ridley Pearson, author of the Kingdom Keepers, to discuss the final installment in the series, Th…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: October 3, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listener…
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Anything can happen in the woods, such as having Conor and Caroline from the Poor Unfortunate Podcast back on the show! In the episode, Courtney, Conor, Caroline, and Emily go into the woods to journey's end to compare Grimm's Fairytales to Stephan Sondheim's 1987 stage musical and Disney's 2014 film adaptation of Into the Woods. Careful the things…
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In this Tips and Tricks episode, Caroline and Conor remember how good it is to be bad as they unpack the highly anticipated Bath and Body Works Disney Villain Collection. This fabulously wicked collaboration has your favorite hosts choosing between the glamour and ambition of the Evil Queen or the fierce power of Maleficent. Join them as they explo…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: September 7, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listen…
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Join your hosts for a kiss goodnight finale to the Disneyland 70th anniversary! Courtney and Emily complete their Celebratory Summer Series commemorating Disneyland's 70th anniversary with "The Happiest Place on Earth: The Incredible Story of Walt Disney's Disneyland" by Don Hahn and Christopher Merritt Foreword by Bob Iger. This coffee table book …
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In this Showdown episode, Conor and Caroline are tucking in for a feast in this 32-way contest of Disney Animated Food and Drink in a return of The Beluga Sevruga Brackets. With four divisions: Small Plates, Entrées, Beverages, and Sweet Treats, this is the ultimate taste test for all the animated food and drink you've been dying to try. Whet your …
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: August 10, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listener…
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In this Rant/Rave episode, Conor and Caroline are seeking out some parental guidance as they put two Disney father figures under the microscope. Do you agree with Conor that we give King Stefan of Sleeping Beauty too much of a pass when it comes to being a good dad to Aurora? And are you in Caroline's corner when she claims that Beauty and the Beas…
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A picture is worth a thousand words, and these never before seen photographs of Disneyland on its opening day in 1955 tell a lot of stories. Courtney and Emily continue their Celebratory Summer Series by welcoming back author, Aaron H. Goldberg, to the podcast to talk about his book, "Presenting Disneyland: Forgotten Photographs From Opening Day." …
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: July 27, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners …
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In this Wild Card episode, Conor and Caroline are setting the pod ablaze as they discuss and defend your spiciest Disney opinions! With over 20 listener-submitted hot takes, conspiracy theories, and hear me out crushes, your favorite hosts are up for the challenge of arguing fiercely in favor of your Disney beliefs...well, Caroline is anyway. The s…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: July 12, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners …
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In this Tips and Tricks episode, Conor and Caroline are talking all about Caroline’s experience aboard the Disney Wish. This voyage marks her first time back on the Disney Cruise line in over 20 years and so much has changed. Get all the tips you need to prep for your own cruise from Caroline’s curated Wish list, live vicariously through her 4-day …
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Disneyland is celebrating its platinum anniversary! This episode introduces the Celebratory Summer Series with a Disneyland theme to commemorate 70 years of the Happiest Place on Earth. Courtney and Emily kick off this three book summer series by meeting some original cast members around Disneyland in David Koenig's book "The 55ers: The Pioneers Wh…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: June 22, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners …
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Beluga Sevruga! In this bonus D-Brief episode, Conor and Caroline are making Conor's birthday a standout with a (largely) unedited, gut reaction to Conor's very first viewing of 1995's A Goofy Movie. Take the journey with them as they go beat-by-beat through the highs and lows of this 90s cult classic so that Conor is finally seeing I2I with all of…
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In this Showdown episode, Conor and Caroline are out of the tower and over the palace walls to take the two captive Disney Princesses and pit them against each other. Is Jasmine the bold princess who can lead us into a whole new world or is she destined to take the backseat on Aladdin's Magic Carpet? Is Rapunzel's optimism a ray of sunshine or does…
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Welcome Class of 2025 to Kermencement! In honor of Kermit the Frog's commencement speech at his, and your hosts' alma mater, the University of Maryland, Courtney and Emily read Kermit's book, "Before You Leap: A Frog's-Eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons." Kermit has 70 years of wisdom to share with graduates and readers and in honor of the Muppet …
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: May 25, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners w…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: May 11, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners w…
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In this Rant/Rave episode, Conor and Caroline are bringing balance to the force as they explore the light and dark sides of Star Wars in the Disney parks. Are you giving into your anger with Caroline about Disney's handling of a potentially revolutionary immersive theme park experience: The Galactic Starcruiser? Or are you over with Conor and the E…
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You may recognize her from social media: she loves churros, Orange Bird, and telling her followers all about Disney history in the late hours of the night. Danielle Kelly, aka the Dapper Danielle, joins Courtney and Emily to give them a tour around the Magic Kingdom in her new book "I Love Disney's Magic Kingdom 100+ Surprising Facts, Magical Quizz…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: April 27, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners…
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Happy Spring and Happy Easter! In this special bonus episode, Conor and Caroline are hopping back into your headphones with the return of their special Easter Egg Hunt. With ten secrets across Disney parks and films, you'll have plenty of new fun facts that'll impress your friends. So grab your eggs and fold them in gently as they scramble up some …
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Beluga Sevruga! In this bonus D-Brief episode, Conor and Caroline are giving their stream of conscious, (largely) unedited reactions to 2025's Snow White directed by Marc Webb. Go beat by beat with them through the live-action remake of the film that started it all as they discuss what was fairest in the land and what was rotten to the core. Heigh-…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: April 6, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners …
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In this Wild Card episode, Conor and Caroline roll out the purple carpet again for the 5th Annual Poor Unfortunate Awards® (PUAs®)! With 20 unique categories and over 100 nominees, this is the biggest event in Imagined Disney Award history. Prepare yourself for those award season butterflies as they decide who will walk away empty-handed and who wi…
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There's a girl in the castle! Courtney and Emily invite you to be our guest for a latest Fairytale Favorite episode. The tale as old as time, "Beauty and the Beast" by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont, was the inspiration for the 1991 Walt Disney animated film. There are many differences between the 14 page fairytale and the 90 minute film, but th…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: March 23, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners…
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In this Tips and Tricks episode, Caroline and Conor are unpacking the highly anticipated Bath and Body Works Disney Princess Collection. This royal collaboration stuns with 6 new princessential fragrances and a palace vault full of accessories for Belle, Tiana, Jasmine, Moana, Ariel, and Cinderella. Join your favorite hosts as they explore the coll…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: March 8, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listeners …
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In this Showdown episode, Caroline and Conor are headed over the rainbow as they compare the two Disney entries to the Wonderful World of Oz: 1985's Return to Oz and 2013's Oz the Great and Powerful. While both films offer new stories, characters, and designs to the Oz pantheon, how well do they actually capture the magic of one of the greatest fan…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: February 23, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listen…
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Hi-ho the me-ri-o! Courtney and Emily have no strings to hold them down as they celebrate the 85th anniversary of Walt Disney Animation's second motion picture, Pinocchio, by comparing the film to Carlo Collodi's original novel, "The Adventures of Pinocchio: Story of a Puppet." Collodi's episodic adventure takes readers to the puppet show, the not …
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In this Rant/Rave episode, Conor and Caroline are headed to the pet shop as they look at two classic Disney animal companions. Do you support Conor’s belief that Aladdin’s monkey sidekick Abu is a terror of a pet and an even worse friend? And do you agree with Caroline’s claim that Lady from Lady and the Tramp deserves a spot alongside Disney’s mos…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Get tickets to Sad Magic Sins at NY Theater Festival Feb. 4th, 5th, and 8th! Recorded: February 2, 2025 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch …
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Courtney and Emily are all in this together for this nostalgic discussion of Disney Channel and Ashley Spencer's book, "Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire." The Disney Channel was falling behind in children's programming in the 1990s until they discovered the tween market and launch millennial defini…
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! In this special Christmas bonus episode, Conor and Caroline are back again to play the classic game of "Yes and No" from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Nestled under Belle's hallucinatory, pile-o-junk Christmas Tree are many beautiful presents with new Disney objects hidden inside. It's up to each host to gues…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: December 15, 2024 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listen…
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Beluga Sevruga! In this bonus D-Brief episode, Conor and Caroline are giving their thrillifying, (largely) unedited, frank analysis of 2024's box-office smash, Wicked: Part One. Go down the yellow brick road with them as they rejoicify in every detail that brought to life one of the most beloved musicals and formative books for our delightful duo. …
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Courtney and Emily welcome back Michael Lyons to the Book of the Mouse Club to discuss his latest book, "Magic Moments: Stories, Lessons and Memories from a Twenty-Year Career at Disney." This book is a perfect selection for the end of the year because it is about reflecting on past experiences and the lessons learned along the way. Michael talks a…
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Caroline and Conor discuss the latest and greatest in Disney news in this new mini-episode series. Recorded: December 1, 2024 Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, BlueSky, and TikTok for fun content and exciting new updates! Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch the podcast! Join the Poor Unfortunate Fam, our private community for listene…
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