Julie Piekarski, Mary Shearer Eckert, and Jaimie Skultety

This edition opens with a Mitchell S. Karnes Podcast simulcast featuring actress, dancer, and choreographer Julie Piekarski, who was one of just twelve children chosen from some thirty thousand for Disney's 1970s New Mickey Mouse Club before going on to play Sue Ann on The Facts of Life. Piekarski shared warm memories of filming daily, performing at Disneyland, and the show's enduring global fan base, noting the Mickey Mouse Club's fiftieth anniversary reunion is coming in January. A St. Louis native who kept up her Catholic schooling on set...