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Disney Drive Time Podcast Show 854 - 12/10/25

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Hallmark is filming its first holiday movie in Walt Disney World, with Lacey Chabert, Travis Van Winkle, and Patrick Renna.

1. Disney Drive Time Podcast Show 854 focuses on December 10, 2025 Disney Parks and Disney+ news with Tony and John Hannon at the microphone. 2. Tony is the regular host, John Hannon is the local super fan guest co-host, and Cheryl is away on the Disney Destiny. 3. The episode asks what is happening across Disney Parks, Disney Cruise Line, Disney+, Universal, and Legoland, Florida. 4. The first Parks Blog item covers five recipes from the Epcot International Festival of the Holidays, tied to National Cookie Day on December 4. 5. Tony names the Cinnamon Spice Chocolate Crinkle Cookie, the Hazelnut Linzer Cookie with Raspberry Jam, the Ginger Molasses Cookies with Cream Cheese Icing, the Maple Leaf Shortbread Cookies with Maple Buttercream, and the Coffee Mocha Cookie. 6. The Hallmark segment says the Hallmark Channel is filming a holiday movie in Walt Disney World for a 2026 release. 7. Tony lists Lacey Chabert, Travis Van Winkle, Richard Kind, Christy Carlson Romano, Bryce Duffy, Tegan Burns, Asher Alexander, and Patrick Renna in the cast. 8. He summarizes the story as Lindsay and her family visiting Walt Disney World, then finding Philip next door after a bad first date. 9. Disneyland news includes new digital signage at the Esplanade entrance gates for ticket scanning and photo validation. 10. Tony also gives a January 20 closure date for Rise of the Resistance at Disneyland and notes that no reopening date has been announced. 11. In Walt Disney World news, he says the 2026 calendar does not mention the Cinderella Castle repainting or the Walt Disney animatronic for Carousel of Progress. 12. He adds that Disney shared a behind-the-scenes video of Living With the Land: Glimmering Greenhouses and says the overlay takes four weeks of lighting installation and one week of decorations. 13. The same segment mentions an eight-foot-tall gingerbread Spaceship Earth in EPCOT’s CommuniCore Hall and points listeners to Disney Eats on Instagram for the time-lapse video. 14. Tony and John then cover Disney Lorcana’s planned scavenger hunt and collection quest for the 2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts, running January 16 through February 23. 15. They note that Lorcana has also appeared on Disney Cruise Line, Disney California Adventure, and Disney Treasure events, with exclusive card giveaways. 16. Another Disney Parks item says two Jollywood Nights tracks are now streaming on Apple Music and Spotify: 'What the Holiday Means' and 'The Banded Nutcracker.' 17. The episode’s pace stays conversational and jokey, with John and Tony riffing on carpet remnants, movie casting, and their own family park trips. 18. The format mixes quick news reads with back-and-forth commentary, and Tony repeatedly links the stories to practical park details like dates, prices, and locations. 19. Fans of Disney Parks updates, holiday overlays, and Disney+ release schedules would get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting deep interviews or one single topic may skip it.

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Park news, card tie-ins, and easy banter keep this Wednesday show moving.

John and Tony keep this Wednesday-morning Disney roundup moving, and Cheryl's absence gives John Hannon more room to steer the banter. The best stretch comes when they talk through Disney folding Lorcana into parks and Disney Cruise Line events, where the joke about a little…

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