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<v Speaker 1>Here's the one of the theories that I'm not gonna

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<v Speaker 1>take credit for that. I can't remember who I heard

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<v Speaker 1>this from, or maybe I should just take credit. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>it's called the Disney proxy, and it's it can be

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<v Speaker 1>more complicated, but the dumbest version, the most simplified version,

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<v Speaker 1>is that you traumatize a kid. You introduce them to

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<v Speaker 1>a cute little sidekick that's their savior, and then you

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<v Speaker 1>sell that kid Chochke's related to their savior, and that

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<v Speaker 1>in if your kid like so, here's here's the general

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<v Speaker 1>premise is that you sit your kid down in front

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<v Speaker 1>of the TV and you gotta go do taxes, you

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<v Speaker 1>gotta go do dishes, you gotta go fix the car,

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it is. You're like, I just need an hour

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<v Speaker 1>to go and do adult stuff. So we're gonna PLoP

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<v Speaker 1>you down in front of the TV. We're gonna put

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<v Speaker 1>on a Disney tape because Disney is more or less

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<v Speaker 1>like I can trust it. It's not gonna do something

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<v Speaker 1>horrible to you. That's the sale right of Disney is

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<v Speaker 1>like family friendly, so that if I go in the

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<v Speaker 1>other room, I can just leave you to it. So

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<v Speaker 1>when that happens, if you're five years old and your

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<v Speaker 1>parent leaves the room to a five year old mind

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<v Speaker 1>with maybe still developing the concept of like per object permanence, right,

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<v Speaker 1>if mom leaves the room, mom might as well be

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<v Speaker 1>dead until you know she comes back into the room.

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<v Speaker 1>You're still figuring things out. So you put your five

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<v Speaker 1>year old in front of this show. In that movie,

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<v Speaker 1>Bambi's mom becomes the kid's mom because the kid's mom's

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<v Speaker 1>in the other room. She's doing dishes or something. So

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<v Speaker 1>now like you're bonding with this character or the dad

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<v Speaker 1>of its lyon King, right, And then when the mom dies,

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<v Speaker 1>this kid might for a five year old mind, it

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<v Speaker 1>might be the first time in their life where they've

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<v Speaker 1>gone through this psychological mental exercise of mommy died. What

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<v Speaker 1>do I do? What do I do if mom died? Wow,

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<v Speaker 1>I've never considered that before. What happens when my mom

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<v Speaker 1>actually dies? And they start thinking, even if they're not

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<v Speaker 1>actively thinking that the back of the head like seeds

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<v Speaker 1>are being planted. So now it's kind of traumatic. If

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<v Speaker 1>that's the first time you've ever thought about your own

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<v Speaker 1>mortality or the mortality of your parents and your loved ones,

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<v Speaker 1>it could kind of spiral you a little bit. If

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<v Speaker 1>your head's not big enough to fully contemplate it, you

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<v Speaker 1>still kind of get stuck in this trauma mode. So

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<v Speaker 1>there's three main ways that happens in Disney movies. Either

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<v Speaker 1>the parent dies, which is a pretty obvious one, or

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<v Speaker 1>you get separated or lost. You could almost consider like

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<v Speaker 1>maybe an Alice in Wonderland would be like this, maybe

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<v Speaker 1>Mary Poppins would be like this, where the kids are

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<v Speaker 1>removed from any authority figures and they're out in the

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<v Speaker 1>world fending for themselves and it's unknown if they ever

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<v Speaker 1>make it back. And then the third one is a

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<v Speaker 1>more extreme version of that where you get kidnapped. But

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<v Speaker 1>all three of these are forcing a young mind to

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<v Speaker 1>actually go through via this process of oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>my mom just died, or oh my god, I'm lost

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<v Speaker 1>and I might never get home, or oh my god,

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<v Speaker 1>I was just kidnapped. So once they're in this new

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<v Speaker 1>traumatic state, thinking new thoughts, the first thing that Disney's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna do is put a very cute sidekick savior character.

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<v Speaker 1>They're gonna save you. And what happens is that you

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<v Speaker 1>now have this nlp anchor of in this case Thumper.

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna have a bunch of examples. And now, whenever

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna see Thumper, after you've seen this movie, you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna feel a little bit of relief. You're gonna be like, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know why, but I feel like a little

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<v Speaker 1>more at ease than I just did five seconds ago.

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<v Speaker 1>It might be you were walking down the aisle in

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<v Speaker 1>Walmart and you saw a Thumper backpack. You don't know

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<v Speaker 1>why you felt that way, but this is the reason.

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<v Speaker 1>It's because sometime earlier in life, Thumper saved, like literally

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<v Speaker 1>saved you and became your new parental figure. And you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna see this happen over and over again. Lying Ca

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<v Speaker 1>is an example. You kill the parent, you introduce the

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<v Speaker 1>cute sidekicks, You sell the chochkeys with the sidekicks, and up,

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<v Speaker 1>even if it's not a kid that's dying here, you've

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<v Speaker 1>got like an old man that loses someone gets a sidekick.

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<v Speaker 1>The sidekick gets cool little chochkeys. Even in Frozen Frozen,

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<v Speaker 1>she gets she ages a little bit, Her parents go

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<v Speaker 1>away on a trip and just never come back. And

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<v Speaker 1>then you get ol Off, and then Olof becomes an

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<v Speaker 1>expensive Lorcana card or a Funko pop. Right. So, like

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<v Speaker 1>this constant theme that I call the Disney proxy where

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<v Speaker 1>traumatize the kid, introduce the kid to a cute little

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<v Speaker 1>character that's then gonna be a happy meal toy or

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<v Speaker 1>a lorcanic card or a or a sneaker or something

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<v Speaker 1>out in the real world, and then just keep capitalizing

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<v Speaker 1>on that for the rest of their life. Because and

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<v Speaker 1>this is where Disney adults become so useful. Where a

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<v Speaker 1>Disney adult is still feeling some sort of ease by

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<v Speaker 1>seeing Thumb or even when they're like fifty years old,

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<v Speaker 1>whoa bro.

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<v Speaker 2>That is a deep rooted psychological manipulation, and I can

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<v Speaker 2>definitely see how that works. As you were explaining that,

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<v Speaker 2>I was immediately thinking to one of the first Disney

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<v Speaker 2>movies that I ever saw, which was Tarzan. Tarzan the

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<v Speaker 2>animated movie, and what happens in that Tarzan loses his parents.

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<v Speaker 1>There's some theories that the parents and Frozen are the

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<v Speaker 1>parents in Tarzan. Here's another fun This is my favorite

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<v Speaker 1>part about Tarzan. If you look at the original story

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<v Speaker 1>of Tarzan the premise. Again, this is like kind of

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<v Speaker 1>Rosicruciani maybe, but it was that the blood of a

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<v Speaker 1>British aristocrat was so inherently superior to any other race

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<v Speaker 1>of human being that you could literally take a British aristocrat,

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<v Speaker 1>drop them in the middle of a jungle and they

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<v Speaker 1>would thrive. Not only would they thrive, they would become

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<v Speaker 1>the king of the jungle. And that's what Tarzan is.

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<v Speaker 1>Tarzan represents that British aristocracy is just inherently better than

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<v Speaker 1>anything else in the world, and that it will always

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<v Speaker 1>thrive no matter what environment you put it in.

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<v Speaker 2>This is really crazy right here. I one percent believe

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<v Speaker 2>this absolutely, that this is happening. And this explains why

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<v Speaker 2>kids are so crazy about Disney movies because they've been

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<v Speaker 2>traumatized by watching it, and then they get their best

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<v Speaker 2>friend within that movie and they're put into that type

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<v Speaker 2>of scenario even though it's not real life. They're watching

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<v Speaker 2>a fictional version of it. And then the parents don't

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<v Speaker 2>understand why they like these characters so much, especially in

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning. You know, of course, people are now parents

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<v Speaker 2>that grew up with a lot of the stuff, and

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<v Speaker 2>I feel like even in the nineties or in the eighties,

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<v Speaker 2>parents didn't really understand why their kids like these shows

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<v Speaker 2>so much. But this explains it.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think it's also really interesting to note that

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<v Speaker 1>I think Disney found this formula out on accident because

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<v Speaker 1>they came out with Bambi and something called the Bambi

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<v Speaker 1>effect happened, or you can look up like Bambi syndrome.

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<v Speaker 1>But essentially, after Bamby came out and everyone saw Bambi's

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<v Speaker 1>mom die and here's this adorable Bamby yawning and mom,

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<v Speaker 1>where are you mom? Right, like, people were upset and

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<v Speaker 1>there was actual legislation and cultural change where it became

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<v Speaker 1>less acceptable socially to hunt and eat deer, and it

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<v Speaker 1>actually got so out of control that there became an

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<v Speaker 1>overpopulation issue with deer, and then they had to start

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<v Speaker 1>aggressively overcoming the deer because they had let it go

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<v Speaker 1>and checked for too long again because of like like

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<v Speaker 1>public pressure that people saw the Disney movie and complain

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<v Speaker 1>to their local you know, politicians, and it changed the

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<v Speaker 1>landscape for the worst. And I think when this happened first,

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<v Speaker 1>Disney was like, Okay, that's interesting, Like we have some

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<v Speaker 1>real power here. We have to be a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>more careful now about how we wield this power. But

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<v Speaker 1>I think also the when they realize, oh, if you

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<v Speaker 1>kill the authority figure, it does something extra even though

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<v Speaker 1>it's just a cartoon, it does like something beyond what

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<v Speaker 1>anyone was expecting. So again, I feel like that when

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<v Speaker 1>they killed Bambi's mom, it was like a happy accident.

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<v Speaker 1>They were like, oh, what was this. Let's keep trying

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<v Speaker 1>this out, And then over the years they make it

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<v Speaker 1>so that it's almost like a formula. And then you've

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<v Speaker 1>got movies that can do this over and over again,

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<v Speaker 1>where they can kill characters over and over, like Coco

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<v Speaker 1>is a good example, where like they have regular death

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<v Speaker 1>and they have like a second death, so now like

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<v Speaker 1>everybody to die and see their loved ones die and

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<v Speaker 1>go back to like it gets But again, then that

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<v Speaker 1>one's almost like a logmarthic function, whereas this is like

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<v Speaker 1>the most simple algebrake version of that first.

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<v Speaker 2>Wow, they just kept repeating the same formula over and

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<v Speaker 2>over and over again.

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<v Speaker 1>So here's here's what I would consider the darker side

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<v Speaker 1>of Disney. And we won't get too much beyond this one,

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<v Speaker 1>but it's so easy to ruin a Disney movie for yourself.

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<v Speaker 1>If you look into it just enough, you're you're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>find something that's gonna be like, Eh, I wish I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't know that. So here's my example is that Sword

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<v Speaker 1>in the Stone was probably my favorite Disney movie of

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<v Speaker 1>all time. I absolutely love this movie. I think I

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<v Speaker 1>saw it the most times out of anything. Where this

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<v Speaker 1>one gets kind of weird is just if you look

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<v Speaker 1>at the original author Sword in the Stone by THH. White. THH.

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<v Speaker 1>White was this old old guy that didn't develop any

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<v Speaker 1>adult relationships with anyone, and he fell in love with

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<v Speaker 1>a twelve year old boy when he was in his

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<v Speaker 1>late fifties, and that a lot of the work and

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<v Speaker 1>a lot of his diary entries basically we were just

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<v Speaker 1>talking about this constant struggle that he was going through

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<v Speaker 1>that if he wanted to express the love that he

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<v Speaker 1>had in his soul, that society would reject him, and

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<v Speaker 1>that it was like the most painful thing ever and

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<v Speaker 1>his a later biographer basically said that this turned him

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<v Speaker 1>into a Sado massachist. That he he might have had

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<v Speaker 1>some like pretty strong other diary entries that never made

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<v Speaker 1>it to like the full public light. But anyways, when

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<v Speaker 1>you start learning about this guy's actual background and then

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like rewatching Sword and Stone and I'm just like Damn.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's this old guy that looks kind of like him

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<v Speaker 1>smoking the pipe, lives out in the middle of the woods,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's luring an orphaned boy to learn all about magic,

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<v Speaker 1>and he's not allowed to go home and tell any

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<v Speaker 1>of the alts about it. All of a sudden, now

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<v Speaker 1>it's like the story of Sword in the Stone and

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<v Speaker 1>the story of an old guy that literally lured a

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<v Speaker 1>young twelve year old away from his family to try

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<v Speaker 1>and teach him magic as a you know, a euphemism.

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<v Speaker 1>So here's just an example of I mean, if another

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<v Speaker 1>maybe a darker one who would be like powder, but

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<v Speaker 1>we're not going to get into powder because it's not animated.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, that's kind of the story of the original Star

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<v Speaker 2>Wars trilogy too, Obi Wan King Obi an old man

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<v Speaker 2>luring a teenage boy into the woods to teach him magic.

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<v Speaker 1>It's a story as old as time itself.