In honor of summer vacation, this episode we’re heeding the advice of innumerable super bowl winners and taking a trip to Disney World, with three stories all about the magic kingdom, and the complex emotions that arise when we visit a place of fantasy and forced wonder.

Host: 

Kate Tellers

Storytellers:

Sara Rae Lancaster’s grandfather takes one last trip to Disney World.

Michelle Ephraim takes her parents to Disney’s Haunted Mansion, and learns a little something about them.

Jessi Klein is reluctant to attend her sister's wedding in Disney World.

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Disney World and the unions representing its workers have reached a tentative agreement to boost the resort’s minimum wage from $15 to $18 an hour by year's end.

Disney’s lowest-paid full-time workers will earn at least $18 an hour this year under a contract union members overwhelmingly approved Wednesday.

Disney plans to invest $17 billion in Walt Disney World over the next 10 years and create 13,000 new jobs, CEO Bob Iger says.

Gov. DeSantis says he will void the Reedy Creek deal that stripped the new board of its power and consider new hotel taxes and tolls on Disney World.

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ tourism oversight board is looking to exert its authority over development in Disney World’s special district.

Walt Disney World begins selling annual passes to new customers Thursday after months of being on "pause."

North Carolina Democrats want to take advantage of the bad blood between Disney and the state by enticing Walt Disney World to relocate to the Tarheel State.

The development west of Disney World will open with 100 more units than previously announced, for a total of about 1,400 income-capped apartments.

"Fantasmic" show continues at Disney's Hollywood Studios despite Maleficent fire during Disneyland show.

Lawmakers will take up an amendment requiring the Florida Department of Transportation to inspect Disney World's monorails.

Disney World’s monorail system is poised to get state oversight as Gov. Ron DeSantis battles the theme park giant.

Disney World to host new meet-and-greets with Ariel in conjunction with new live-action "Little Mermaid" movie

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Roger Myers, recent graduate of Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, has accepted an internship with Walt Disney World Resort.

Not to worry, nightly fireworks shows at Disney World aren't going anywhere ... yet.

Open house festival details are released

Crow writes meticulously researched, entertaining novels of romance, history and mystery in an engaging you-are-there style that allows readers to live the history.

Disney Springs vice president Matt Simon posted Thursday on the official Disney Parks Blog that the area will reopen May 20 with enhanced safety measures to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Our Disney World trip was so close I could taste the character breakfast. But there was fine print.

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The NBA is looking at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Fla., as a possible playing site should the 2019-20 season resume, and has even gotten the OK from Disney to use the site, Stadium's Shams Charania reported Wednesday.

She welcomed her daughter Olympia into the world in September 2017. And Serena Williams kicked off another milestone as she took little Alexis for a first-time visit to Walt Disney World

The 20-year-old captioned the 12-second video: 'just crashed a wedding at disney world' He walked hand-in-hand with a young bride as they entered the reception hall to his track Old Town Road.

Those considering holidays to southern states in the US should look at alternatives, said Professor Jimmy Whitworth of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

It's a Disney day for this 'self-made billionaire' and her famous family. On Wednesday, Kylie Jenner, 22, and her ex-boyfriend Travis Scott, 27, took their daughter Stormi, aged one, to Disney World.

Guidelines have been drawn up by the Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force, which has been charged with plotting the Florida area's route to normality.

Millions who were planning to head abroad this year to visit well known attractions, will still be able to do so from the comfort of their own home.