Best Chris Knott Podcasts (2025)

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How To Start Sprint Training 59:42

1d ago59:42

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Bonn and I discuss what to do if you’d like to get in to sprint training. We go through the biggest mistakes we made at the start, why sprinting needs to be something you build towards and don’t just do straight away and what equipment you need if you’d like to take it seriously.By Chris Knott

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Ep. 740: Mary Blair deep dive and D23 event, Star Wars LEGOS 1:16:28

2h ago1:16:28

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This week, Jeff invites Julia Layne and Tina Biles to the show to discuss the recent D23 Gold Member preview tea and preview of "Mary Blair: Mid Century Magic" at the Walt Disney Family Museum. We also talk about our Star Wars Day adventures at the LEGO Store and at a special orchestral performance by Alphabet employees, and Jeff takes a deep dive …

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101 Time Cannot Be Wasted 23:07

4d ago23:07

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Time the body needs to transition, meet needs, rest and recover is NOT wasted time! I don't know that it's even possible to "waste time" outside of ableist capitalist structures. If you still have ableist thoughts, that's okay. We all do! It's worth resting anyway. Resources mentioned: Neuraluxe's post about parentification Car fundraiser for DV su…

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Joe Loney - Domestic Abuse, Fathers4Justice, Stable Start 1:00:51

5d ago1:00:51

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In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In Episode 10 Rich …

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100 Creative Time Limitations 20:46

10d ago20:46

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If you have multiple interests, realistically you probably don't have enough time to develop all of them to the degree that you'd like. And even with more targeted pursuits, many of us are busy because of real life and capitalism. What this means is that we have to make tough choices. I talk about some of the ways I've worked through this, where I'…

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99 a little more or less 14:36

17d ago14:36

14:36

To change something, I've been playing with telling myself I'll do "a little more or less." It is less exciting than a huge plan... but also easier on my nervous system! Love Your Brain course info & live round update Resources: Transcript Doc Email Newsletter: Nothing Wrong With Us Like Your Brain community space (Patreon) Hosted on Acast. See aca…

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Ragnar Potter - Desperation, Armed Robbery, Relationship Abuse 1:16:26

19d ago1:16:26

1:16:26

In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In Episode 9 Rich c…

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98 Meeting Intensity Needs 18:42

25d ago18:42

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This year I've been trying to meet my intensity needs in more "healthy" ways, while also recognizing that sometimes that doesn't feel possible. And that's okay! Love Your Brain course info & live round update Resources: Transcript Doc Email Newsletter: Nothing Wrong With Us Like Your Brain community space (Patreon) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr…

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97 Handling Daily Life with Vanessa Gorelkin, OT 57:34

1M ago57:34

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Vanessa Gorelkin is an Occupational Therapist who often works with ND folks. She shares about compassionate approaches to daily life tasks. The main tool she shared is creating a crisis kit to use when experiencing distress in public, at work, or anywhere that you can't be fully unmasked. List of suggested items below. Crisis kit items suggested in…

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Ep. 739: Mary Blair, Season of the Force, Knott's Bear-y Tales 1:17:02

1M ago1:17:02

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Welcome to the Return of the... Mousetalgia potpourri! This week, Jeff and guest co-host Julia Layne welcome the first week of May with some Star Wars talk, including a review of Disneyland's Season of the Force (29:00) and the new show "Shadows of Memory: A Skywalker Saga." We also talk about a new exhibit coming to the Walt Disney Family Museum (…

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Ep. 738: Don Hahn and Chris Merritt on Disneyland at 70, authors and historians on Snow White '25 vs. '37 1:29:07

1M ago1:29:07

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Ep. 738: Don Hahn and Chris Merritt on Disneyland at 70, authors and historians on Snow White '25 This week, Imagineer Chris Merritt and Disney producer and director Don Hahn join Mousetalgia to talk about "The Happiest Place on Earth: The Incredible Story of Walt Disney's Disneyland," their upcoming book scheduled to be released to celebrate Disne…

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96 Building Our Own Systems 35:32

1M ago35:32

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Reflecting on the interview with Anna, who shared about accommodations for her students and herself. Learning how to build our own systems/structures is often more useful than being handed a system. Because no matter how much dopamine we get initially from a new tool or system, it inevitably becomes stale. Instead of throwing the whole thing out th…

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95 Kind Accommodations for Students & Teachers with Anna Shaver 52:10

2M ago52:10

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Anna is an educator who has developed an incredible approach with accommodations at the core (for the student AND herself!). It makes sense pedagogically, and it's working! With a core of psychological safety, students are able to explore writing and language with their own goals in mind. We've also known each other since I was 15... so we talk a b…

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Ryan Yates (part 2) - Spiralling, panic attacks, Ukraine 1:04:26

2M ago1:04:26

1:04:26

In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In Episode 8 Rich c…

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94 Coping Mechanisms 27:00

2M ago27:00

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Coping mechanisms can be a pathologizing term. What's the difference between coping mechanisms and intensity or interests? This episode also touches back to the interview on sobriety with Amy in ep. 92. As well as this note on a positive AA experience from a listener. Resources: Transcript Doc Email Newsletter: Nothing Wrong With Us Like Your Brain…

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93 Tunnel of Focus: Monotropism, Trauma, and Thriving 42:21

2M ago42:21

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Thanks Eric Tivers for interviewing me & allowing me to share the full episode here as well. His show notes: In this episode of ADHD reWired, Eric Tivers is joined by Mattia Maurée, an award-winning composer, poet, and host of the AuDHD Flourishing Podcast. Mattia shares their insights into the unique challenges faced by neurodivergent (ND) individ…

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Ryan Yates - Poor in a posh school, Regimental Life, Op Herrick 57:08

2M ago57:08

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In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In Episode 7 Rich c…

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92 Sobriety While AuDHD + Gifted with Amy Knott Parrish 59:02

2M ago59:02

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Thank you to guest Amy Knott Parrish for sharing about her unusual journey with sobriety. When she realized what her future was going to look like, she... stopped drinking. Because it wasn't about the drinking, it was about the problem that the drinking was self-medicating. After nine years of continuous sobriety, her therapist insisted that she tr…

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91 Gifted + AuDHD: Surviving (part 2) 1:04:20

2M ago1:04:20

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(Part 2 of 2. Part 1 here) Being AuDHD + gifted is being an outlier of outliers. I'd guess most of us feel like aliens. And even when we start to understand the shape of our experiences, it can feel overwhelming to even begin to order our understanding in a satisfying way. (Autoethnography, anyone?) Our depth and intensity needs can be quite challe…

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Ep. 737: Live action Snow White review, Brenda Chapman talk 1:10:54

2M ago1:10:54

1:10:54

This week, Tina and Julia from the Pal Around Podcast join Jeff to talk about the new Snow White live action film starring Rachel Zegler. Jeff caught an early screening and discusses this much-debated release from the Walt Disney Company. We talk about the music - old and new, the changes from the original animated classic to create a new story, th…

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Chris Knott - Fighting Pirates, Escaping Haiti, Getting Cancer 1:15:55

3M ago1:15:55

1:15:55

In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In Episode 6 Rich t…

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90 Gifted + AuDHD: Why It Matters (part 1) 55:02

3M ago55:02

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Being AuDHD + gifted is being an outlier of outliers. I'd guess most of us feel like aliens. And even when we start to understand the shape of our experiences, it can feel overwhelming to even begin to order our understanding in a satisfying way. (Autoethnography, anyone?) Our depth and intensity needs can be quite challenging to meet, especially i…

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89 2E & ND-Affirming Education with Emily Kircher-Morris 52:30

3M ago52:30

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Emily Kircher-Morris is the host of the long-running and popular podcast, The Neurodiversity Podcast. (And she interviewed me last year.) She's a compassionate, incisive, and important voice in 2e and neurodivergent-affirming education. Also a delight to talk to! Building on what we talked about, she shared some additional resource links below. Con…

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Dr. Emily Caldicott - Being Trans, Green Jackets, Veterinarian School 40:19

3M ago40:19

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In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In Episode 5 Rich t…

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88 Gifted Development & Positive Disintegration with Chris Wells 58:58

3M ago58:58

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Dr Chris Wells speaks & teaches about positive disintegration, Dabrowski's theory that (among other things) provides an alternate explanation for some mental illness. While the theory is not entirely about giftedness, it helps many gifted people make sense of their experiences. Dr Wells also talks about their journey, which included being on disabi…

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TOXIC relationships - How do YOU survive them? 46:45

3M ago46:45

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How has your week been? We go over what adversity, big or small, that we've been through recently. Also, in this episode we chat about our experiences with toxic people, and how we got through it. In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about bein…

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87 Giftedness & the Sparkly Mind with Sheldon Gay 1:09:12

3M ago1:09:12

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Sheldon Gay shares about giftedness, in particular the intersections of being late-identified as a Black man. He hosts the I Must Be BUG'N podcast (Black, Underrepresented/Unidentified, Gifted and otherwise Neurodivergent). I absolutely love his term of having a sparkly mind! We weave through many topics, including education and melanated & margina…

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Wayne Ingram MBE – Paramedic, Prison Healthcare and Scoliosis Research. Episode 3 54:06

3M ago54:06

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In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In Part 2 Rich chat…

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86 Apocalypse Survival Guide 50:10

4M ago50:10

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24:23 to skip specific American politics In this episode: Mutual aid Local connections Surveillance & privacy considerations for devices Resistance is working General strike & Mar 15 shutdown (#Shutdown315) Emotional survival: monotropic reset, alpha brain waves Being careful whom you listen to (accompanying Emily Science Journalism ep 82) Links me…

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Intrusive Thoughts & AuDHD 14:28

4M ago14:28

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Mini episode on my experience with intrusive thoughts and how/when they stopped being distressing. Monotropic brains tend toward thought loops and thus can make intrusive thoughts pretty easily. In my case, I think my brain was in part trying to generate interest when my needs were not being met. Dopamine is also a learning chemical that tells the …

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85 Rising AuDHD Rates (PBS interview) 12:28

4M ago12:28

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Last week I was interviewed on WHYY, Philly's PBS/NPR radio station, about the rising diagnosis rates of Autism & ADHD. Here are a few additional thoughts and my favorite moments, and you can find the full interview below Mentioned in episode: YouTube PBS interview (& Patreon post about it) WHYY.org page with the audio only version Public Patreon p…

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Wayne Ingram MBE – Belfast ’93, PTSD, Royal Tank Regiment. Episode 2 50:32

4M ago50:32

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In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. Rich chats with Lew…

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Ep. 736: Disneyland party of seven; Sleeping Beauty and Vampira 1:09:38

4M ago1:09:38

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This week, Jeff welcomes special guest Violet Bird to the show to talk about her recent holiday Disneyland road trip with her husband and their 5 children. Violet shares some anecdotes and stories about her trip, with tips for a successful family vacation inserted along the way. Then, Jeff talks about Sleeping Beauty in honor of the 66th anniversar…

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84 The Neurodivergent Playbook with Dr Matt Zakreski 52:14

4M ago52:14

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Dr Matt Zakreski is 2e (ADHD & gifted) and also a clinical psychologist supporting neurodivergent folks. His recent book, The Neurodivergent Playbook, aims to meet that social gap in which we often feel we missed the "instruction manual" for how to approach people. Connect with Dr Matt: The Neurodiversity Collective for therapy & assessments Dr Mat…

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Bonus: Overview of my approach by Notebook LM 17:46

4M ago17:46

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As I describe at the beginning, this goes along with episode 83 about AI & tech tools. The latter 15m of this episode was an AI "podcast conversation" based on AuDHD Flourishing principles and my overall work and approach. I was impressed by how it was pulled together, as well as pronouncing my name & getting pronouns right! Note: if you have misop…

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83 Tech and AI Tools for AuDHD Accommodations 37:49

4M ago37:49

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It's okay to have strong feelings about AI! Yes, we touch on ethics in this episode. It's also okay to use accommodations and tools that work for you, especially in the short term to feel better first. This episode covers a number of AI and tech tools suggested by other AuDHDers. When there's a blog post to go through all of them (plus any others a…

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Lewis Clark - Gangs, PTSD, freedom. Episode 1 1:23:58

4M ago1:23:58

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In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. Rich chats with Lew…

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82 Science Journalism & Misinformation: Best Practices Being ND Online with Emily Earlenbaugh 1:03:36

5M ago1:03:36

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Emily is a science writer, AuDHDer, and ND-affirming coach. They share online about neurodivergence topics and accuracy in science journalism as The Neurodivergent Well. In this episode, we talk about best practices as a consumer of science info online, especially via social media. If you don't have time or capacity to read journal articles, what C…

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Being Autistic, Criminal Life & Dark Humour - Some Topics May Offend! 55:47

5M ago55:47

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In the Through Adversity Podcast, Rich Jones (The Lost Soldier) gets into it with guests about the course their lives have taken. Whether it’s about being a veteran of the armed forces, criminal justice reform, severe mental health issues, or other harrowing life experiences, Rich is here to explore what makes us all keep going. In this introductor…

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Ep. 735: Disneyland's 70th, Star Wars Beastiary, collecting Disney 1:07:30

5M ago1:07:30

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This week, Jeff welcome's Julia Layne back to the show to cover a broad range of topics. We discuss Disneyland's 70th anniversary announcements and the return of Paint the Night, and talk about a brief Haunted Mansion PR gaffe (and that $35 Bride sipper!) Next, we review some new books and talk a bit about the new Star Wars Beastiary, and then we t…

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81 When the Body Simply Cannot 30:28

5M ago30:28

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This week I pushed my body way too far, even though I was having trouble parsing that in the moment. The story is also a great analogy for how other ND internal needs feel (including PDA). Even with all the info, self-kindness, and support, I still struggle to find that exact line of capacity. It's okay that it's hard to figure out! This is the per…

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80 Is This the Year to Give Up? 13:32

5M ago13:32

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Is this the year to give up on neurotypical and ableist nonsense that is causing you harm?? I hope so, for all of us. There are so many layers to unraveling internalized ableism. Here's your permission to do that a little more :) p.s. of course you know I never mean to give up on life ;) If you're in crisis, there are crisis links below <3 Links me…

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79 Seasonal Energy & Sleep 15:52

5M ago15:52

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It's okay if your sleep and energy vary wildly during the seasons! Or at least... it's okay with me ;) Obviously there can be real world effects to having a chronotype outside of the 9-5. But if your body is going to make you rest anyway... may as well enjoy it and get the most out of it, in my opinion! Resources: Transcript Doc Email Newsletter Li…

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Ep. 734: Celebrating the holidays with Disney parks, cruises and traditions 1:31:13

5M ago1:31:13

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Happy holidays! This week, we look at the history of Disneyland's holiday traditions, and then take a look at how Disney has invented their own notion of holiday celebrations both at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. NPH shares some thoughts about Haunted Mansion Holiday, Skipper Emma joins us to discuss Jingle Cruise jokes, and Diana joins us to t…

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