Tom Corless & Eric Morton
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Broadcasting Magic, Music, and Mayhem
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed park analysis and loose group banter turn Disney attractions, design choices, and fan behavior into lively subjects for scrutiny.
The WDW News Today Podcast - without News Today treats Disney parks as places to inspect, debate, and occasionally tease. Eric Morton leads conversations with Tom Corliss and other contributors, moving between practical trip advice and close attention to how attractions tell…
Clam chowder fountain logistics: exactly the detour your Disney park brain might welcome.
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A quote list that works because the hosts never bother to make it too neat.
Episode 100 brings Eric Morton, Josh Bennett, and Jason Diffendahl together for a long run of Disney ride and attraction quotes, with the definition of "quote" kept loose on purpose. That looseness gives the discussion some room to breathe.
A thoughtful case for treating Disney nostalgia as something to manage, not ignore.
Disney nostalgia is treated less like a warm blanket here and more like a question of stewardship: when should a park honor its past, and when does it just keep circling it?
A loose, crowded farewell that turns a 10-year run into one last roomful of memories.
The WDW News Today crew turns its wrap party into a final look back at a 10-year run, with a crowded room, a live bar, and interviews with people who have been part of the show across the years.
A loose, practical conversation about Disney park memory, DinoLand, Tropical Americas, and budgets.
Paul Osterhout, a former Disney Imagineer, fits well into this free-form WDW News Today conversation. The strongest stretches come when the talk turns to how old park ideas age, why Tropical Americas makes sense as a region-based move, and whether every park area needs an IP…
A wandering episode that settles into a sharp Star Tours discussion.
Episode 94 starts in a crowded lane, with interviews and event chatter that take their time before the conversation settles into Star Tours. That later stretch is the strongest material here.
A brisk Disney park discussion that begins with a heavy memorial note and settles into a messy arrest story with a loose, familiar voice.
It moves from a heavy memorial opening into a Florida arrest story, and the hosts keep the pacing brisk while still covering the practical pieces around trespass, enforcement, and the arrest report.
A lively, slightly wandering look at how Marvel changed the parks and the rights mess behind them.
This episode treats Marvel and the Disney parks like a business story with fandom noise all over it. It opens with Comic Con chatter and side arguments about city names, then moves into Disney's Marvel purchase, the early MCU, and the rights tangle around Spider-Man, Fantastic…
A loose, thoughtful argument about the people behind Disney parks.
It is messy, and that fits both the post-Comic-Con mood and the subject. The discussion settles into a useful look at the people who shaped the parks, with Joe Rohde standing out as the clearest case study because the hosts keep returning to how he explains a project until the…
Theme parks, overexplained with affection.
Disney history with ghost-host table talk.
Universal Orlando talk with community mileage.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss spend much of Episode 77 on Destination D23, arguing that the event felt less like the old park-history gathering and more like a mini expo.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss use WDW News Today Podcast Episode 92 to explain why WDWNT is reorganizing its YouTube presence around WDWNT POV, News Today, and new specialty channels in 2026.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss redesign Adventureland at Magic Kingdom, starting with Club 33 moving back to Main Street, USA and the Swiss Family Treehouse getting replaced by Mystic Manor.
Episode 101 of The WDW News Today Podcast without News Today turns into a practical guide for a first Tokyo Disney trip, built around Josh and Eric's plans for Tokyo DisneySea's 25th anniversary.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss interview Sabrina, who says she started on the Disney College Program at Blizzard Beach, then moved to Disney Quest after first- and second-degree sunburns.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss redesign Magic Kingdom’s Tomorrowland as the “Tomorrowland Interplanetary Expo,” a retro-future, 1960s-style World's Fair instead of a loose sci-fi zone.
Tom Corliss and Eric Morton begin a land-by-land redesign of the Magic Kingdom, starting with Main Street U.S.A.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss focus on EPCOT sponsorships, starting with Spaceship Earth’s Bell System debut in 1982 and the later AT&T and Siemens eras.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss spend Episode 82 ranking Disney World hotels, starting with a blunt claim that the All-Star resorts are “the worst three” on property.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss redesign Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland and a new Villains Land, starting with a Sleepy Hollow transition from their earlier land-by-land project.
Tom returns after a break with a long catch-up that starts with UK candy, including Terry's Chocolate Orange, Bounty, Maltesers, and Milky Way bars from a Celebrations bag.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss open by explaining why the WDW News Today Podcast is moving to a Saturday release and why News Today will now run Monday and Thursday.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss spend the first part of WDW News Today Podcast episode 93 on listener questions about Hollywood Studios boat rides, Drawn to Life at Disney Springs, and whether Magic Kingdom’s Festival of Fantasy should be replaced.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss open episode 97 with banter that makes the milestone feel close without pretending it is here yet.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss use this WDW News Today Podcast episode to redesign Frontierland and Liberty Square, starting with the Hall of Presidents, which they call one of the park’s few pieces of Walt Disney’s “dying wish.” They argue over whether the current president should keep a speaking role, whether the film needs a reset, and whether the attraction should stay or become a Muppets-presented version.
The show opens tired.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss open by joking that they barely remember the episode number and treating the last 73 installments like homework nobody really did.
Josh walks Eric through a first visit to Disneyland Paris.
Eric Morton starts the show feeling rough, worried about how congested ears will handle a flight.
Eric Morton opens the show without Tom.
Eric Morton and Tom Corliss start with late-night banter.
The podcast opens 2026 with jokes about the 100th episode and a fair bit of talk about where the year is headed.
The hosts of the WDW News Today Podcast celebrate their 100th episode by debating and ranking the top 100 most memorable and quotable lines from Disney theme park attractions.
Eric Morton opens episode 98 with Josh Benes in the guest seat.
The hosts and crew of the WDW News Today Podcast gather for a wrap party to celebrate and reminisce about the 10-year run and final episode of their comedy variety show, WDW News Tonight.
Eric Morton hosts Tom Corliss and former Disney Imagineer Paul Osterhout, and the conversation quickly drifts toward the office walls, a lighting piece tied to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at Magic Kingdom, and the kind of backstage detail that only clicks once someone explains it.
Episode 94 opens with the hosts taking stock of a strong run of interviews and updates, including Leslie Iwerks, AEW World Heavyweight Champion MJF, and an Imagineer interview set for next week.
The show opens on a somber note about Adam the Woo before shifting into a roundup of Disney guest incidents.
Hosts Eric and Tom discuss Marvel's impact on Disney parks, from the 2009 acquisition to current attractions like Avengers Campus and Guardians Mission Breakout.