Speaker 1: The most insidious of Disney movies. The common examples, the
Speaker 1: one that comes up the most maybe are the dick
Speaker 1: castles in Little Mermaid poster, right, the little castle in
Speaker 1: the background. They look like little dicks. Then you've got
Speaker 1: the the Rescuers where they're flying down a city scape
Speaker 1: and there's like a naked lady in one of the windows.
Speaker 1: Really quickly, there's the line that some people say is
Speaker 1: all teenagers take off your clothes in Aladdin. There's the
Speaker 1: part in Lion King where he jumps into the little
Speaker 1: cloud of like dust and feathers and it spells out
Speaker 1: the word sex and the sky really briefly. There's even
Speaker 1: a deleted scene and Who Framed Roger Rabbit in which
Speaker 1: Jessica Rabbit gets into a car wreck and her she
Speaker 1: opens her legs as she falls out of the car
Speaker 1: and a intentionally created that scene and then deleted it
Speaker 1: just so they could have a deleted scene that like
Speaker 1: people would talk about. These are the ones that I
Speaker 1: think I might have missed one or two, but those
Speaker 1: are the ones that come up the most in that
Speaker 1: Disney's trying to corrupt your kids. Disney's trying to convert
Speaker 1: your kids into sex crazed maniacs. I don't think that
Speaker 1: your kids seeing three letters on the screen for like
Speaker 1: a half seconds gonna do it. I don't think a
Speaker 1: Dick Castle is gonna do it. You know what I
Speaker 1: do think can harm your child, though, is teaching them
Speaker 1: that it's toys love him back, and that they feel
Speaker 1: physical pain, and that if you if you relinquish control
Speaker 1: over your material possessions, that you're essentially killing them, that
Speaker 1: you are torturing these things that love you. I think
Speaker 1: that is probably one of the most insidious lessons that
Speaker 1: Disney can put into anything. I would much rather Dick
Speaker 1: Castle's and chernal bug and black magic and horoscopes than
Speaker 1: teaching my kids that, you know, like your toys love
Speaker 1: you back, so therefore you should put like a spiritual
Speaker 1: investment into your material possessions. That is so crazy to me.
Speaker 1: And Toy Story is one of the bigger examples. Toy Story.
Speaker 1: I would say that, like what is it brave Little
Speaker 1: Toaster walk, so Toy Story can run. They both are
Speaker 1: the exact same premise that material possessions have a soul
Speaker 1: and a spirit and therefore it's almost bad to get
Speaker 1: rid of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, There's also one in the marriage scene of The
Speaker 2: Little Mermaid where the preacher or the priest or whatever,
Speaker 2: it looks like he has a boner.
Speaker 1: Right, well, again, I would say that even if let's
Speaker 1: just say that that is one hundred percent of boner,
Speaker 1: and I would say it is I'm not I am
Speaker 1: a hugs like that he has a boner. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's gonna if that's gonna harm a young
Speaker 1: viewer that sees that versus being taught that their toys
Speaker 1: love them back and to not throughout their toys. And
Speaker 1: even better, if you look at the first Toy Story Sid,
Speaker 1: who's seen as like the bad guy, because what does
Speaker 1: Sid do? Sid takes broken toys and he puts them
Speaker 1: back together. So he's like making his own toys. He's
Speaker 1: recycling things, which is not what Disney wants you to do.
Speaker 1: Disney wants you to go to the store and buy
Speaker 1: your ass a brand new, license, trademarked, you know, approved
Speaker 1: Disney product, and that if you are making your own toys,
Speaker 1: then you're essentially a monster. At least that that's Sid
Speaker 1: rules and Toy Story one, they change that a little
Speaker 1: bit when you get to like toy story four.
Speaker 2: That's very true. That's very true. Don't make your own
Speaker 2: buy ours.
Speaker 1: So here's another here's a more fun version of Disney
Speaker 1: villains and Chernibog. And the first thing to note is
Speaker 1: that this is from Fantasia and this is on Ball Mountain.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the silhouette of Chernobog when
Speaker 1: he has his wings up, because he's like a legitimate demon,
Speaker 1: his his name translates to the black God, and he
Speaker 1: was a Slavic Germanic entity, which we're this is gonna
Speaker 1: get kind of deepier. But look at the silhouette and
Speaker 1: you'll see that that silhouette is repeated by Disney in
Speaker 1: a lot of their other villain designs. The one that's
Speaker 1: the most obvious is Maleficent. So you can see, like
Speaker 1: Maleficen's head is the exact same shape as the wings
Speaker 1: of Chernobog. And this is intentional. There what what Fantasia does.
Speaker 1: And I really believe this one strongly. Fantasia is a literal,
Speaker 1: magical spell that Disney cast onto the world to create
Speaker 1: a fit like a reality, to make the Disney world
Speaker 1: a real world, right like, like it's it's an actual
Speaker 1: thing that exists in a way that me and you
Speaker 1: could be dead for one hundred years and no one
Speaker 1: will ever remember either of us have ever existed or
Speaker 1: anything we ever said. But Disney, the company and the corporation,
Speaker 1: they will They will outlive almost anyone on the planet
Speaker 1: right now. So in that way, like the spell worked,
Speaker 1: and that every time someone watches Fantasia, or any time
Speaker 1: a new movie comes out that uses a theme from Fantasia,
Speaker 1: whenever I'm a Lificent remake comes out, it's just recasting
Speaker 1: that spell over and over again and just making it
Speaker 1: stronger each time. And I think that's that's almost how
Speaker 1: you can interpret most Disney movies, is like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: time to put another spell on real quick. And it
Speaker 1: all starts with Fantasia in my opinion, But I feel
Speaker 1: like Disney is accurately retelling real things that happened that
Speaker 1: just turned into mystery school stories, and then mystery school
Speaker 1: stories over thousands of years turned into old wives tales
Speaker 1: and stories that Grandma would tell the youngins. But they're
Speaker 1: essentially the same accurate stories being told over and over again.
Speaker 1: And then here's another example of how chernobog And again
Speaker 1: this is not like, oh, well, Disney is sneaking in,
Speaker 1: you know, these these evil references. No, this is all
Speaker 1: completely on out in the open. No one ever denied this.
Speaker 1: There's an interviews with the music director that said why
Speaker 1: he picked all of these different songs. And for example,
Speaker 1: churnal Bog is also the name of a mountain called
Speaker 1: journal Bog, and journal Bog had the name of Hell
Speaker 1: and Devilstones and that also there's this area around this
Speaker 1: Journobo which is where they said there's ancient objects. There's
Speaker 1: a place called Devil's pulpit, Devil's window, and a sacrificial cauldron.
Speaker 1: So these this is a real factual place that the
Speaker 1: Chernobug demon that they decided to depict in this episode
Speaker 1: of Fantasia. This is like some of the oldest cult
Speaker 1: like word like black magic worshiping cults that they decided
Speaker 1: to kind of archetype this after. So none of this
Speaker 1: is just by accident, and it's all really fascinating to me.
Speaker 1: So this it's gonna go a little bit deeper. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna just straight up read it. But if you
Speaker 1: look into the region itself, these weren't just regular Slavs.
Speaker 1: These Slavs end up becoming part of Eastern Germany. So
Speaker 1: the reason why this is important is because look at
Speaker 1: all of the early Disney films outside of Pinocchio, a
Speaker 1: large majority are Grim fairy Tales, and Grim fairy Tales
Speaker 1: were largely Germanic folklore, and the Grim fairy Tales was
Speaker 1: second only to the Bible, so in terms of sales,
Speaker 1: in terms of popularity, and I would even argue that
Speaker 1: when the Grim fairy Tales were out, if you had
Speaker 1: Grim's fairy Tales and you had the Bible in your bookshelf,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance you read Grim's fairy Tales more
Speaker 1: than the Bible because you had to have the Bible,
Speaker 1: like everyone had to have a copy of the Bible,
Speaker 1: otherwise you could be like someone would be like, hey,
Speaker 1: how come you don't have a copy of the Bible? Right,
Speaker 1: But if you had Grim's fairy Tales, it was likely
Speaker 1: because you were actively reading it, or you're reading it
Speaker 1: to kids, or you were reading it yourself. Like this
Speaker 1: was like incredible, Like it was the only Harry Potter
Speaker 1: that existed. Right. So the popularity of Grim's fairy Tales
Speaker 1: paired with the German identity crisis that was going on
Speaker 1: at the at the tail end of the nineteenth in
Speaker 1: the early twentieth century, combined with Walt Disney repopularizing Grimm's
Speaker 1: fairy Tales all over again through his animation in the
Speaker 1: nineteen thirties. I've then there's a strong argument here that
Speaker 1: like all of this kind of like comes to a head.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that that Walt Disney started World
Speaker 1: War Two, but he invigorated, he helped invigorate this you know,
Speaker 1: Germanic nation that had been going through an identity crisis
Speaker 1: and then was all of a sudden popular with the
Speaker 1: entire world over who and we're gonna we're going to
Speaker 1: return to that too, because it's gonna come up again
Speaker 1: a few different times, which is you know, the the
Speaker 1: Werner von Braun and Heinz Hop who also came over
Speaker 1: in paper Clip. He doesn't get as much recognition, but
Speaker 1: he also had a kids show on the Disney Channel.
Speaker 2: So a lot of these original stories originally from Germany,
Speaker 2: these original fairy.
Speaker 1: Grim fairy tales, and they would they would often go
Speaker 1: to Grim fairy Tales. Disney has a they would revisit
Speaker 1: Grim for a lot of their inspiration on early movies.
Speaker 1: And I'll go into some non Grim fairy tales ones too,
Speaker 1: but that was definitely all all sort of Germanic or
Speaker 1: at least like Slavic Eastern European folklore. That essentially, if
Speaker 1: you're not familiar with Grim fairy tales, the Grim brothers
Speaker 1: were actually historians, and before the fairy tales, they wrote
Speaker 1: the history of Germany like they were like the the
Speaker 1: number one book on Germanic history, and they basically applied
Speaker 1: the exact same level of research and detail to folklore.
Speaker 1: So they weren't just guys that were interested in in
Speaker 1: stories that people were telling their kids. They were actively
Speaker 1: trying to reconstruct an entire cultural identity that had been
Speaker 1: lost for however long hundreds or thousands of years.
Speaker 2: It seems wow, that's super fascinating.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna we're gonna keep going on to Oh
Speaker 1: and another fun little fact is that there is this
Speaker 1: was discovered in two thousand and eight, but there's some
Speaker 1: sort of an astrological alignment where you can witness the
Speaker 1: the winter solstice at the actual Churnobog location at the
Speaker 1: very top of this mountain called the Hand of the Gods.
Speaker 1: So anyways, there this specific location in which Fantasia and
Speaker 1: chernobog Are introduced like the very first Disney villain. Essentially
Speaker 1: that there's all sorts of astrological alignment to it, so
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's probably just a coincidence. And then here
Speaker 1: is a quote from Deams Taylor. James Taylor was the
Speaker 1: master of ceremonies in Fantasia. Since it's essentially like a musical,
Speaker 1: He's the one that decided what music would go in
Speaker 1: and he said, quote Bald Mountain, according to judition, is
Speaker 1: the gathering place of Satan and his followers on Wahlberger's Night,
Speaker 1: the equivalent of our Halloween. So he is talking about
Speaker 1: why they included this scene because they wanted something to
Speaker 1: represent a Satanic ritual by name. This isn't trying to
Speaker 1: read between the lines. This is literally the guy that
Speaker 1: put that song and that scene in there. And then
Speaker 1: if you want to go on a whole Wallburger's tangent.
Speaker 1: But it's essentially like the movie, the A twenty four movie.
Speaker 1: I'm flanking on the name, but the may Day not hereditary,
Speaker 1: but it was the other one. That's essentially just another
Speaker 1: variation of this Wahburger's Night. And then Midsommer go with
Speaker 1: wicker Man, like all of the like, these were all
Speaker 1: different variations of a similar, similar ritual that happened at
Speaker 1: the same time, either like the day before the day after.
Speaker 1: There's also a Saint John's Day. And then here I
Speaker 1: told you we were gonna we're gonna keep coming back
Speaker 1: to World War two and like these interesting notes here
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the Olympics when we first started talking. Interesting.
Speaker 1: This is a fun one to come up on Trivia night.
Speaker 1: The first television tower in the entire world, ever in
Speaker 1: human history. The first television tower was built on on
Speaker 1: the Brocken, which is the mountain in which Wahlberger's Night
Speaker 1: was actually being celebrated, in which Churn of Bogs depicted
Speaker 1: that actual mountain and real human history. Was the first
Speaker 1: television station antenna to ever be erected, and it was
Speaker 1: erected by the Nazis specifically to broadcast the Olympics one time,
Speaker 1: and then they took it down. So they erected an
Speaker 1: anti kenna on Devil's Mountain just to broadcast the first
Speaker 1: television broadcast ever and then took it back down again.
Speaker 1: I just I find that endlessly fascinating