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PODCAST

The Ink and Think Hour

Lin Darrow and Jeremy G.

A podcast where two best friends talk about cartoons like they"re high art -- because they are! Season One: Walt Disney Animated Studios Feature Films. New episodes every other Tuesday. Artwork by Alex Assan.

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01:13:43

EP 14 - Peter Pan (1953): Growing Up, Gender Roles,...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/07/14

In 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,

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01:32:22

EP 13 - Alice in Wonderland (1951): Nonsense,...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/06/30

In 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

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00:56:46

EP 12 - Cinderella (1950): Class, Predestiny, and...

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2020/06/23

In 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

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00:54:55

EP 11 - The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad...

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2020/06/16

In 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

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01:03:31

EP 10 - Melody Time (1948) - Could you stay friends...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/06/09

***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

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00:42:46

EP 9 - Fun and Fancy Free (1947): Would You Willingly...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/05/26

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

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01:07:29

EP 8 - Make Mine Music (1946): Jazz, Americana, and...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/05/19

In 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

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00:53:27

EP 7 - The Three Caballeros (1944): Unpacking Donald...

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2020/05/12

In 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.

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00:31:31

EP 6 - Saludos Amigos (1942): Tourism, Translating...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/05/05

In 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.

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00:58:21

EP 5 – Bambi (1942): oh Bambi we love you get up

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/04/28

In 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.

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01:14:35

EP 4 - Dumbo (1941): Otherness, Prejudice, and...

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2020/04/21

In 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

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01:11:29

EP 3 - Fantasia (1940): Abstract vs. Concrete Art and...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/04/14

In 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.

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00:55:11

EP 2 - Pinocchio (1940): Self-Surveillance, Morality...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/04/07

In 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. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107

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00:07:02

EP 0 - What in the Hell Are We Even Doing?: An...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/03/31

Welcome 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!

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01:01:14

EP 1 - Snow White (1937): Labour, Power, and Crapple...

The Ink and Think Hour ·

2020/03/31

In 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. Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, commenting, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and

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