The Ink and Think Hour

***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 of the Christian-American expansion into the Western frontier, -the misadventures of a little tugboat who is a menace and a miscreant but who ultimately wants to be good, -the return of our boy José Carioca, and -our various opinions about whether or not we would stay friends with a horse if he sent the other to space.

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 a neutral location, and -Disney's really clever and inventive take on the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

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.

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 culture.