Heart 2 Heart Club

This week on Heart 2 Heart Club, we go to Olympus to get our butts kicked by Cloud Strife and Cerberus, and sing the praises of "I won't say I'm in love" and discuss the incredible voice acting of a bigoted human being. In this episode, we're lucky to have Cassie of cassie.ink, who fell in love with Kingdom Hearts watching a Disney Channel ad when she was 8 years old, and went on to moderate a major Kingdom Hearts fan forum from age 11. It was a really fun conversation about how the internet has changed, how to build a good gummy ship, and if you can seriously continue a relationship at the II.8 Final Chapter Prologue era.Podcast: https://heart2heart.fun Email with questions and comments to club [at] heart2heart [dot] fun Cassie's blog: https://cassie.inkMickey’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/fmcapper Mickey’s Bluesky: https://fmcapper.bsky.social

Brennan Pickman-Thoon is brand new to Kingdom Hearts, and had so much to discover, including how to get through Traverse Town, where Kingdom Hearts exists on the Disney/Darkness/Video Game spectrum and what exactly is a Final Fantasy. We discussed getting stuck, turned around, and lost, both Alice’s journeys through 1951’s animated Wonderland and Brennan’s journeys finding what exactly makes you bigger and smaller and why that would matter in 2002’s video game Wonderland. Podcast: https://heart2heart.fun Email with questions and comments to club [at] heart2heart [dot] fun Brennan’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bpickmanthoonSee Brennan in Death of A Salesman, now through 10/25 with the Ross Valley Players: https://www.rossvalleyplayers.com/death-of-a-salesman/Learn how to act from Brennan and audition for his production of Anastasia with the Damato Performance School: https://damatoperformanceschool.com/ Mickey’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/fmcapper Mickey’s Bluesky: https://fmcapper.bsky.social

Why does Kingdom Hearts open with an image of Snow White?Very grateful to the superb Ben Montoya for joining me on this first episode of the Heart 2 Heart Club. We discussed discovering these games for the first time as kids, the Brady Games Kingdom Hearts Strategy Guide, and what elements the Squaresoft development team might have taken inspiration from the first Walt Disney Company Feature Film, Snow White. Podcast: https://heart2heart.funEmail with questions and comments to club [at] heart2heart [dot] funBen’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bencmontoyaI Chews You: https://pod.link/1455409177Mickey’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/fmcapperMickey’s Bluesky: https:/fmcapper.bsky.social

Future episodes will feature in-depth discussion of animation, level design, thematic resonance and more. This trailer features me pitching my daughter on the premise of the show while she sort of listens. Episode I.01 Destiny Islands / Snow White coming October 8th. Email any questions or comments to [email protected] ASAP and we’ll try to address them on the episode!