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Disney Reel to ReelWhen Elephants Fly (Halloween Edition): Seqs. 16-18 ("Clowns Hit Big Boss for a Raise," "Pink Elephants")*Trigger Warning for discussions of addiction, alcohol and drug abuse, child exploitation, and language*Happy Halloween!!! Wyatt's back after a brief hiatus and joined by friend Frankie Sparks (@shoottheflick) to talk Dumbo. We try to bring some levity to an otherwise depressing, but insightful subject. "I'm afraid, need your aid, pink elephants on parade."Opening Music: "Dreams from Yesteryear" by AnkariReferences:Brogan, Scott. “The Pirate.” The Judy Room...
2025-10-181h 14
Disney Reel to ReelThe Fairest Sessions of All: Seq. 3B ("Snow White Meets Animals in Woods")"What do you do when things go wrong? Oh, you pod."Opening Music: "Dreams from Yesteryear" by AnkariReferences:Amidi, Amid. “Everybody Wanted to Sue Disney in 1940.” Cartoon Brew, 31 Dec. 2016, https://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/everybody-wanted-to-sue-disney-in-1940-58472.html. Caselotti, Adriana, and Brian Sibley. “Snow White Speaks! Adriana Caselotti Answering Questiions for Brian Sibley.” SoundCloud, SoundCloud, 19 Dec. 2012, https://m.soundcloud.com/brian-sibley/snow-white-speaks-adriana. Darrow, Lin, and Jeremy G. “EP 1 - Snow White (193...
2025-01-1928 min
The PackcastDisney+ Day, GTA Dismay Featuring Michael A. Jorge - The Packcast: Episode 42This week on the Packcast the boys are joined by special guest Collective Member Michael Jorge as they discuss Disney+ Day, Rockstar's GTA: The Definitive Edition, and the new Spider-man: No Way Home trailer! Disney+ Day: (9:23 - 31:27) GTA: The Definitive Edition: (31:27 - 36:45) Spider-man: No Way Home Trailer 2: (36:46 - 42:30) CWC- Content We’re Consuming: (49:18) Mike - An Evening With Silk Sonic (Music), Arcane (Netflix), Apex Legends (PS4), Tales of Arise (PS4) Jacob - Succession (HBOMax), You (Netflix), Cyberpunk 2077 (PS4), Fix You (Music) Jeremy - An Evening With Silk Sonic (Music), TWOPOINTFIVE (Music), Mass Effect: Legendary Edition (PS5), Rider's Republic (PS5), Far Cr...
2021-11-2357 min
The Ink and Think HourEP 14 - Peter Pan (1953): Growing Up, Gender Roles, Queer Pirates, and Little MothersIn this episode, we discuss:
- racism, sexism, and the white male fantasy in the Edwardian boy's adventure story,
- the depiction of childhood as the time in your life that you can act however you like without regard to the consequences your actions have for other people,
- the accidental, backwards subversiveness of the game played by the Indigenous characters and the Lost Boys,
- the subversive potential of Smee as the pirates' mother,
- how much we love Captain Hook as campy, theatrical dandy, and
- the sudden and arbitrary importance...
2020-07-141h 13The Ink and Think HourEP 13 - Alice in Wonderland (1951): Nonsense, Madness, Authority, and the Art of Teaching in the 21st CenturyIn this episode, we discuss:
-the politics of literary adaptations and why the cartoon is the ideal medium for adapting Alice,
-how the world can feel like nonsense when the logic you learn in school doesn't hold true in 'real life',
-how to recognize what kinds of authority need to be rebelled against and what kinds of authorities should be respected,
-how silly language is and how easily we can play with it,
-how rote memorization isn't actually learning (and how honing your critical thinking skills is), and
-our dream that Alice could...
2020-06-301h 32The Ink and Think HourEP 12 - Cinderella (1950): Class, Predestiny, and Putting a Mouse in Our Babes GalleryIn this episode, we discuss:
-how much of this movie is actually about the mice,
-the Tremaines' need to denigrate Cinderella's inherent class value to make themselves feel better,
-how much work shady, shady Cinderella has to do to choose kindness,
-Cinderella's inability to identify the prince (or, perhaps, her calculated performance of not knowing who the prince is so that he will fall in love with her),
-our uncertainty about what Cinderella's queenship might be like, and
-Jaq the mouse's potential as a romantic partner.
2020-06-2356 minThe Ink and Think HourEP 11 - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949): Fabulous Manias, Horsemen (both BoJack and Headless), and Prospective Spectral HusbandsIn this episode, we discuss:
-The Adventure of Mr. Toad being a Beatrix Potter story (if Beatrix Potter wrote stories about devastatingly disastrous characters),
-Angus MacBadger's 'Scottish' accent that is so bad we theorize that he is not Scottish in-universe,
-some wild theories about why Toad Hall is weirdly both human-sized and animal-sized at various points,
-the moral obligation of the idle rich to respect and care for the people affected by their excessive lifestyles,
-the ethics of being fabulous (**spoilers for the BoJack Horseman finale 27:13-29:35**),
-Ichabod Crane's scholarly, metropolitan threat to...
2020-06-1654 minThe Ink and Think HourEP 10 - Melody Time (1948) - Could you stay friends with the horse who yeeted your life partner into space?***In light of the current political climate, we decided to re-record portions of this episode to make our critiques of American power structures more clear. As a result, you may notice slight variances in the audio quality. These variances should be resolved for future episodes.***
In this episode, we discuss:
-the limits of our love for anthropomorphic musical instruments and shorts about the seasons changing,
-our projection of a good, old-fashioned lesbian love story onto a cute little Christmas card romance,
-the movie's investment in exploring a pioneer version of Americana and its celebration...
2020-06-091h 03The Ink and Think HourEP 9 - Fun and Fancy Free (1947): Would You Willingly Join Jiminy Cricket for a Night Out on the Town?In this episode, we discuss:
-the retconning of Jiminy Cricket as a 'conscience' without a care (despite the fact that he sees how awful the world is),
-our choices for a better host for the movie,
-the use of face-slapping as a courtship ritual in an inherently kinky bear culture,
-Jiminy Cricket crashing the worst party ever (where a little girl is seemingly held hostage by a middle-aged ventriloquist and his drunk and deeply depressed puppets),
-our differing opinions on whether or not it would be fun to hang out with Jiminy Cricket in...
2020-05-2642 minThe Ink and Think HourEP 8 - Make Mine Music (1946): Jazz, Americana, and the Unnecessary Death of a Hyper-Talented WhaleIn this episode, we discuss:
-how this film fulfills our dream of a jazz Fantasia,
-the roots of America's gun violence problem in a short with a high body count,
-censoring boobs, slimming butts, and the rules that govern the relentless pursuit of pleasure in the 1940s,
-the fragile masculinity of a showboating, All-American proto-Gaston baseball player,
-being emotionally invested in a clandestine love story between two resilient hats, and
-the tragedy of a The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met singing his only sold out show in Heaven.
2020-05-191h 07The Ink and Think HourEP 7 - The Three Caballeros (1944): Unpacking Donald Duck's Upsetting DesiresIn this episode, we discuss:
-Jeremy's distaste for this film as a discerning gay child,
-the goofy display of misremembering in 'The Flying Gauchito,'
-our appreciation of Aurora Miranda's appreciation of chaos,
-the Aracuan bird's not-malicious attempts to kill Donald Duck and José Carioca, and
-our sincere wish that he was successful so that we didn't have to watch 20 minutes of women generously suffering Donald Duck operating as a sex mosquito in a horny fugue state.
2020-05-1253 minThe Ink and Think HourEP 6 - Saludos Amigos (1942): Tourism, Translating Cultures, and Jeremy's Deep, Sincere ApologyIn this episode, we discuss:
-the mixed-bag nature of the short collection,
-Disney’s explicit cultural exchange project,
-our deconstruction of the film’s advertisement of a romanticized, “strange and exotic” Latin America,
-our speculation about how Pedro the plane keeps himself from being “another martyr to the mail system,” and
-the introduction of Lin’s newest favourite Disney character.
2020-05-0531 minThe Ink and Think HourEP 5 – Bambi (1942): oh Bambi we love you get upIn this episode, we discuss:
-the movie’s failure to escalate in places where it might have been interesting for it to escalate,
-how a tenth of the movie is Bambi struggling to stand up,
-Bambi’s weird, withholding deadbeat (ghost?) dad,
-the horniest Disney song ever written (which seems to have been scrubbed from the internet), and
-the human perception of the cyclical nature of the natural world.
2020-04-2858 minThe Ink and Think HourEP 4 - Dumbo (1941): Otherness, Prejudice, and Excessive Bullying of Literal BabiesIn this episode, we discuss:
-the question of sexual propriety in a world where babies are literally delivered by storks,
-the long history of the denigration of clowns,
-a consideration of the feelings of animals being exploited by humans,
-an extended deconstruction of what it is to be an elephant and the essence of "elephantness,"
-an ambivalent engagement with the crows as a depictions of black entertainers in the 1940s, and
-the nature of human cruelty and its connection with circus culture.
2020-04-211h 14The Ink and Think HourEP 3 - Fantasia (1940): Abstract vs. Concrete Art and a Damning Number of Sexy FishIn this episode, we discuss:
-using the orchestra to legitimize cartoons and using cartoons to make the orchestra accessible
-our speculation that 'extremely gay' Tchaikovsky would have loved Disney's sexy fish
-the terrifying design of Yen Sid, the (maybe) evil wizard,
-being vocally excited about the evolution of life on Earth,
-cupid butt hearts,
-the greatest romance of all time, and
-fun suckers ending the devil's cool party at 6 AM.
2020-04-141h 11The Ink and Think HourEP 2 - Pinocchio (1940): Self-Surveillance, Morality Plays, and a Solid Gold Conscience Sheriff BadgeIn this episode, we discuss:
-Jiminy Cricket uncomfortably flirting with inanimate objects,
-predatory culture in Hollywood and the long history of exploitation of child actors,
-tricking destructive young boys into becoming working bodies by letting them smoke and drink,
-being happy to live in the belly of a whale with your cat, your fish, and your puppet-son,
-the Blue Fairy's lazy grading scale for goodness, and
-why Pinocchio is not a satisfying story.
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2020-04-0755 minThe Ink and Think HourEP 1 - Snow White (1937): Labour, Power, and Crapple DumplinsIn this episode we discuss:
-misconceptions about a creepy corpse-kissing prince,
-Snow White's deep determination to hustle,
-a Wicked-style backstory about the dwarves mining jewels for the Queen,
-using music to make meaning in a laborious life, and
-the joy of watching the joy the Evil Queen takes in murder.
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2020-03-311h 01The Ink and Think HourEP 0 - What in the Hell Are We Even Doing?: An Introduction to the Podcast and Its Hosts, Lin and JeremyWelcome to The Ink and Think Hour, where two best friends discuss cartoons like they're high art -- cuz they are!
In this episode we discuss:
-our vision and goals for The Ink and Think Hour,
-why we chose to talk about cartoons,
-how we plan to get deep about cartoons,
-Lin-spiracy theories,
-our moms,
-gabbing like old hags, and
-what's coming up on our first season: The Walt Disney Animation Studios canon!
2020-03-3107 min