This week on The Niche Files, Ryan drags us headfirst into his childhood nostalgia with a deep dive into Holiday World -- the surprisingly wholesome Midwest theme park with free soft drinks, free sunscreen, wooden roller coasters, and a delightful amount of history and lore.

We chat about the rides, water coasters, food, accessibility, and all the little details that make this place such a joy. Come for the theme park stories, stay for the shared nostalgia, food envy, and the warm realization that Holiday World is a genuinely happy place.

After a short vacation, The Niche Files is back, and Ryan is already planning a field trip.

In this teaser, we start talking about childhood favorite theme parks, questionable ride safety, and why Kass might be actively tempting fate at this point.

This week on The Niche Files, we’re talking about The Muppet Christmas Carol, Cody’s pick for the best adaptation of A Christmas Carol, and the one that somehow manages to be heartfelt, emotional, and extremely Muppet-level chaotic at the same time.

We walk through the story, the songs, and the ghosts, talk holiday traditions, and derail ourselves with a Muppet personality quiz along the way. It’s festive, funny, and feral -- exactly how a Christmas episode should be.

A simple holiday question turns into disbelief, metaphorical daggers, and a passionate defense of a Muppet-filled “beautiful masterpiece.”

Was The Muppet Christmas Carol a yearly tradition -- or did someone in the room somehow miss it entirely?

This week on The Niche Files, we take on The Nightmare Before Christmas, a movie that’s been sparking arguments for decades.

Kass makes her case, Cody questions the hype, and Ryan does his best to derail the conversation at every opportunity. We talk big opinions, strong nostalgia, and why this movie hits very differently depending on who you ask.

Whether you watch it every year or side-eye the obsession, one thing’s guaranteed: this episode gets chaotic fast.

In a world where one Christmas movie dominates every Hot Topic shelf… Three podcasters must face the truth: Is it a masterpiece? Is it overrated? Is it both?

This week on The Niche Files, we’re dropping a special Thanksgiving Day episode and talking about A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving -- from Snoopy’s chaotic cooking to Peppermint Patty inviting herself (and everyone else) over, plus our own questionable childhood traditions and holiday memories.

Join us for the holiday vibes! It’s nostalgic, lightly unhinged, and probably the closest thing you’ll get to wholesome from us.

A small appetizer before our full Thanksgiving episode full of cozy vibes, and Ryan speaking entirely in Charlie Brown–adult gibberish.

Here’s the general translation:

Happy Thanksgiving! We’re grateful for you -- enjoy your holiday and stay tuned.

Want the full word-for-word version? We posted it on our socials.