Hey Mickey Shortsters! It’s APRIL FIRST!!! And we have a deep, dark, show with stories the Disney animators have been trying to keep secret for years: Mickey Mouse Shorts conspiracy theories! What REALLY happens inside the writers rooms when they come up with their ideas?! Is there a DARK side to Disney?! And why are we revealing all these top-secret stories TODAY?! Plus, a new Mickey and Minnie T-shirt debuts just in time for Easter season, and Keaton introduces Disney Bitzee’s! Remember to sub...
Apr 01, 2025•38 min•Ep. 136
Hey Mickey Shortsters! This week, we begin our month-long deep dive into the history and influence of Mickey Mouse by watching the 2022 documentary film: Mickey: The Story of a Mouse. This film explores the history of Mickey and gang, how he was adapted from troublemaker, to corporate “do-good” icon, back to troublemaker! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' friends! WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION OF THE PODCAST: https://youtu.be/w-m2pwVEr1I WATCH ALL OF OUR EPISODES: ht...
Mar 25, 2025•44 min•Ep. 135
Hey Mickey Shortsters! It’s awards show season and if you can have the Oscars and the Emmys, why not the Mi-Sho Awards: A celebration of all things Mickey Mouse shorts! We are dressing in formal wear this week to see who wins in such prestigious categories as “Best What Did We Just Watch?!” “Best Goofy-est Antics,” “Best Mickey Beat Down,” “Lines We Quote The Most” and many more! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' friends! WATCH THE VIDEO VERSION OF THE PODCAST:...
Mar 19, 2025•45 min•Ep. 134
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Can there be a better ending to the shorts series than Mickey and Minnie singing a love song together while traversing the globe? Nope! Even if Mickey is wildly distracted with all the elements around him! Watch with us, the Season 5 Ep 18 short titled “Carried Away.” Plus, John Favreau is producing a new Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series for Disney+, Disneyland has introduced new features coming for its 70th anniversary, along with new merch! Remember to subscribe and share ...
Mar 13, 2025•31 min•Ep. 133
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Do you feel like you are falling apart some days? Today, it literally happens to Goofy! One second he’s celebrating his bowl of cocktail weenies and the next… he’s in pieces! How do Mickey and Donald put him back together again?! Watch with us, the Season 5 Ep 17 short titled “Gone to Pieces.” Plus, a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse exhibit begins its national museum tour, new Mickey Mouse Avengers comics debut, and Mickey Mouse crocs go on sale! Remember to subscribe and share our...
Mar 04, 2025•28 min•Ep. 132
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Mickey and Minnie LOVE each other, right? RIGHT?! Not this week! This week they are avenging competitors, vying for space in Thailand’s merchant ports, until those pesky chipmunks Chip & Dale steal all their business! Watch with us, the season 5, episode 16 short “Our Floating Dreams.” Plus, We discuss our new re-start of the show, our goal to do weekly shows all throughout 2025, we give our “State of Mickey Mouse in 2024” report, and we get a preview of a new line of ...
Feb 25, 2025•35 min•Ep. 131
Hey Mickey Shortsters! This week we are going back to the 80’s with an inspirational sports themed story, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Daisy, tennis balls, electrocution, cannons, epic cheating, and some of the most painful tennis hits anywhere. Watch all the fun in the season 5, episode 15 short “Two Can’t Play.” Plus, a Keaton surprise that proves what a powerful character Mickey Mouse really is, we finally get to watch Once Upon a Studio, and we discover a Mickey Mouse titanium action...
Apr 12, 2024•36 min•Ep. 130
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Disney has produced a new Mickey Mouse stop motion Christmas-themed series for Disney+, aimed at kids, and much to our surprise, features Mrs Clause plotting to murder her husband, animal cannibalism, Goofy buried in snow and Donald being sling-shotted through a Christmas village! Don’t believe us, then join us as we watch the entire season of “Mickey’s Christmas Tales” Plus, we celebrate Mickey’s 95th birthday, we ride and review the new Disneyland version of Mickey and M...
Dec 26, 2023•34 min•Ep. 129
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Remember that Goofy is technically a dog even though he can walk and talk just like the rest of the gang? But what happens when Goofy realizes this, and wants in on Pluto’s easy way of life? We find out as we watch the season 5, episode 14 short “Easy Street.” Plus, we celebrate Mickey’s 95th birthday, we ride and review the new Disneyland version of Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, we broadcast live from Mickey’s house and have an exclusive interview with him! Remembe...
Dec 09, 2023•35 min•Ep. 128
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Warning for all you 9 year olds - This show will get icky! It contains kissing… and cuddling… and romance… and the Moon ignorantly wreaking havoc on poor Mickey and Minnie. Will we all survive the romance overload? Find out as we watch the season 5, episode 13 short “Over the Moon.” Plus, we learn how to play Disney’s Illusion Island and we discover a Disney 100 Samsung TV! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' friends! WATCH THE VIDEO VERSIO...
Aug 27, 2023•27 min•Ep. 127
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Time for brand new Mickey Mouse content! This week we get to watch the brand new short, Steamboat Silly, for the first time and you can all watch our reaction to Mickey Mouse clones taking over the planet! Plus, we are devastated to report that today’s new Mickey short is the SERIES finale, and will be the last of the Paul Rudish produced shorts (this does NOT mean our podcast is over!!) Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' friends! WATCH TH...
Jul 29, 2023•32 min•Ep. 126
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Time to get down and hoedown, as Mickey struggles to keep his prized pig in-tune in the season 5, episode 12 short “Our Homespun Melody.” Plus, a new Mickey photo spot debut’s in EPCOT, Disney releases more Marvel/Mickey comic book variant covers, are Mickey and Minnie fighting? And build Walt Disney’s multiplane camera in Lego! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' friends! WATCH OUR HOMESPUN MELODY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJTQQyZs...
Jul 28, 2023•30 min•Ep. 125
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Another Mickey Mouse shortcoming is revealed: He doesn’t like taking advice from giant, buff mammals. Rebelling against this advice puts Mickey in a lot of trouble with a simple boomerang in the season 5, episode 11 short “Outback at Ya!” Plus, a new Mickey Mouse short is coming to Disney Plus in July, Mickey and Minnie’s new holiday outfits have been revealed, we go to the Disney Immersive Animation Exhibition and we try Disney 100 cereal! Remember to subscribe and share ...
Jun 16, 2023•36 min•Ep. 124
Hey Mickey Shortsters! After an extended break, we are finally back! Two big problems to deal with this week - What if someone actually doesn’t like Mickey Mouse? And what if that creature was a vicious tiny dog? Mickey attempts to tame a tiny, ferocious beast in the season 5, episode 10 short “You, Me & Fifi.” Plus, the dates for the Oogie Boogie Bash in Disneyland were just released, Lego releases a new Disney 100 set, and you can get a Mickey Mouse suitcase!Remember to subscribe and share...
Jun 02, 2023•30 min•Ep. 123
Hey DONALD Shortsters! It’s April 1st! This week on the DONALD Shorts and More Podcast, Donald is one lucky duck, being tasked with delivering a bomb to its destination. We find out if he gets blown to smithereens in the classic short “Donald’s Lucky Day.” Plus, Disney Speedstorm (featuring Donald Duck) release date and pricing revealed, Donald Duck’s pond opens at Disneyland, and we review the Donald Duck Lego Brick Headz set. Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Donald lovin'...
Apr 01, 2023•35 min•Ep. 122
Hey Mickey Shortsters! What would happen if you ignored your garden for 2.5 years? Would it get overgrown? Would it spawn dangerous creatures? Could you get lost in all the foliage? We find out in the horror themed season 5, episode 9 short “My Little Garden.” Plus, a new Mickey and Minnie statue is installed at Disneyland, you can now buy Disney 100 merchandise on Amazon, we walk though the queue for Runaway Railway in Disneyland, and an animated board game! Remember to subscribe and share our ...
Mar 11, 2023•33 min•Ep. 121
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Oh no! Goofy’s tiny bladder has trapped him in the pre-historic world! It’s up to Mickey and Donald to travel back in time to save him in the season 5, episode 7 short “Outta Time.” Plus, we watch Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway from Disneyland, Mickey’s Illusion Island get’s a release date, there’s a product recall on popular Mickey toys for toddlers, and new retro-styled Mickey mugs are released at the Magic Kingdom. Remember to subscribe and share our show with all ...
Feb 23, 2023•45 min•Ep. 120
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Mickey Mouse rules the Serengeti, or at least he THINKS he does! Mickey and Minnie ditch the safari tour bus and explore the wilds of Africa on their own (oh the poor animals!) in the season 5, episode 6 short “Safari So Good.” Plus, new Mickey and gang Marvel Avengers crossover comic book covers, a new shorts collection coming next month to Blu-ray and DVD, an update on Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway in Anaheim, and we buy the Lego Steamboat Willie set. Remember to s...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 119
Hey Mickey Shortsters! It’s time for our annual Christmas show as we celebrate the holiday season with Mickey! This week, we watch the new stop motion animated Mickey Mouse special on Disney Plus titled “Mickey Saves Christmas.” Plus, watch our reaction to our reaction from riding Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway in Hollywood Studios for the first time, hear our latest park’s trip report, and why we were so excited to hear the recent news of Disney’s corporate leadership change. Remember to s...
Dec 24, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 118
Hey Mickey Shortsters! We apologize for the delay, but its finally time to watch the Wonderful Autumn of Mickey Mouse and you get to watch us react to this new Mickey Mouse content for the first time! Mickey, Donald and Goofy attempt to win a pumpkin growing contest while Minnie and Daisy harvest syrup in epic fashion! As we are traveling when this episode debuts on Disney Plus, we are skipping all the latest news and our product of the week. It’s simply us watching and reacting to new Mickey Mo...
Dec 23, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 117
Hey Mickey Shortsters! From the very beginning of doing this show, we have had a crazy dream, that we thought was too nuts to ever happen. I am excited to announce that this week, that crazy dream has come true: Paul Rudish, the creator of the Mickey Mouse shorts, is on our show! He’ll tell us about how he got started in the industry, how the Mickey Shorts came to be, what its like to have your show turned into a theme park ride, and share some fun stories. No news, no products, no Mickey short ...
Nov 12, 2022•46 min•Ep. 116
Hey Mickey Shortsters! It’s time for our annual “Halloween Spooktacular” show as we celebrate the Halloween season. This week the styles of Alfred Hitchcock (and Psycho!) meets Mickey and Minnie in the season 5, episode 7 short “For Whom the Booth Tolls.” Plus, an epic round of spooky news including a “murderous eye glitch" for Mickey in the Disney Dreamlight Valley video game, Goofy becomes the hulk in new comic book covers and Mickey becomes a vampire in vinyl! Remember to subscribe and share ...
Oct 29, 2022•47 min•Ep. 115
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Mickey Mouse has had a revelation: Unlike all his friends, he doesn’t have a signature hat. He must solve this dilemma in the season 5, episode 5 short “Hats Enough.” Plus, the model for Mickey’s Toon Town was released at D23 along with the trailer for a new Mickey Mouse documentary, a Mickey and friends video game coming to the Nintendo Switch, and listen the the voices from the Mickey shorts perform on stage! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey ...
Oct 23, 2022•45 min•Ep. 114
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Mickey Mouse is tired of birthday surprises and just wants to spend his birthday relaxing. Too bad his friends have other plans, in the season 5, episode 4 short “Surprise!” Plus, we give our predictions for Mickey news at this weekend’s D23 convention, Mickey popcorn buckets you can buy WITHOUT being in the parks, plus we shop for 2022 advent calendars! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' friends! WATCH WITH US: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Oct 15, 2022•58 min•Ep. 113
Hey Mickey Shortsters! We have finally arrived at our all-time favorite Mickey shorts episode! This week, Mickey, Donald and Goofy surprise Minnie by painting her house (with disastrous results) in the season 5, episode 3 short “House Painters.” Plus, we take a look at the latest construction progress in Mickey’s Toon Town, and we answer the question of why Mickey wears gloves. We also preview a new backpack from Loungefly and Entertainment Earth as well as Funko Popsies! Remember to subscribe a...
Aug 26, 2022•53 min•Ep. 112
Hey Mickey Shortsters! We are broadcasting from vacation! Question of the week - Do bullies get jealous if they can’t pick on us, or if we find a new bully? Mickey Mouse finds out in the season 5, episode 2 short “A Pete Scorned.” Plus, new Mickey Mouse airplanes take to the sky, is Goofy a cow or a dog? Goofy’s voice actor, Bill Farmer, weighs in, and we get our first look at Halloween Merch now available at shop Disney! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' frien...
Aug 20, 2022•39 min•Ep. 111
Hey Mickey Shortsters! How do you handle those little crushes we get when we see someone we like? Embarrassment and humiliation are likely to ensue! Even Mickey Mouse needs to help his scooter woo the bike of his dreams in the season 5, episode 1 short “Amore Motore.” Plus, Mickey Mouse releases a Friendship Day video, we get our first look at the Print Charming Regal Carrousel Main Attraction Merch collection, you can subscribe to a Mickey Mouse t-shirt club, and why is Keaton trying to levitat...
Jul 30, 2022•47 min•Ep. 110
Hey Mickey Shortsters! What do Mickey Mouse, the Great Movie Ride and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure all have in common? It's time for a tribute to movie classics, as we watch Mickey and Minnie trample the classic movie sets and studios in the season 4, episode 19 short “Roll ‘Em.” Plus, a sneak peak at the new season of Mickey Mouse Funhouse, we chat about how copyright laws will effect the future of Mickey Mouse and Disney Family Feud! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lov...
Jul 21, 2022•55 min•Ep. 109
Hey Mickey Shortsters! Dealing with the death of a cherished pet can be hard! Saving them when they are not REALLY dead: even harder! We go along with Mickey Mouse as he discovers Gubbles is still alive (and in the sewer!) in the season 4, episode 18 short “Flushed!” Plus, a new meet and greet for Mickey and Minnie together at the Magic Kingdom and we play Mickey Mouse Ultimate Trivia! Remember to subscribe and share our show with all your Mickey lovin' friends! WATCH WITH US: https://www.youtub...
Jul 15, 2022•50 min•Ep. 108
Hey Mickey Shortsters! We have brand new Mickey Mouse content this week! Mickey Mouse and gang celebrate summer.. by destroying a town and their fireworks spectacular. What went wrong to cause such a tragedy? We will learn the truth from Mickey, Minnie, Daisy, Donald and Goofy as each character recounts the event from their perspective, as we watch the Wonderful Summer of Mickey Mouse special on Disney Plus, for the first time. Plus, we watch the ride POV footage from the AquaMouse on the brand ...
Jul 09, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 107
