#112: The Little Mermaid

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Leisure, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 169 minutes

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Summary

The ocean is a mysterious and even scary place, but in Disney's 1989 classic animated film The Little Mermaid, it's pretty damn awesome. That's what makes protagonist Ariel's insistence on leaving her home waters for the world above so confounding... that is until she falls in love and finds the perfect excuse to live her dream. The Little Mermaid was the first film in the so-called Disney Renaissance of the '80s and '90s, and it still holds up wonderfully these few decades later. So let's examine Ariel's story, the history behind it, and the gorgeous animation that may just convince you to remain Under the Sea, even if you like your oxygen in gaseous form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback is brought to you by, well, you.
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0:06.3	Greetings and salutations, welcome back to knockback. My name is Colin Moriarty.
0:16.3	I'm joined as always by my brother, Dagen. Mermaid off the port bow!
0:21.4	Moriarty. Dagen, thank you for joining me today.
0:23.7	How are you?
0:24.7	Oh, it's beautiful.
0:29.0	I love that.
0:30.0	That sequence of notes.
0:31.9	It's really awesome. I love that. Not so much when I do it, but when... Not, not, not, not particularly when you do it, but yeah, otherwise. It's pretty good. So how are you, how are you doing? How's everything?
0:43.4	Good. Everything's okay, my friend. We've been talking about, we've been starting the show by talking about
0:47.8	our adventures, our various misadventures in coronavirus pandemic.
0:55.0	And, you know, I know it's on everybody's mind and
0:59.0	people seem to be appreciating us opening the show by talking about it a little bit and not sort of
1:05.8	dodging it.
1:06.8	You know what's really been on my mind with the whole thing, man?
1:08.6	I want to get your take on this too.
1:10.8	Sure.
1:11.8	Which is on everybody's mind, I'm sure, but it's just now like being in that mode, you know, we're like we're in that state now with with COVID-19 and just like of holding out for you know some sort of definitive timeline you
1:26.7	know some answers a more defined prognosis of how long this is going to be how bad is it going to get and trying not to be in patient you know as we
1:38.4	wait to learn more as we wait for the experts to find out more and as we wait for
1:42.4	answers but it's funny experts to find out more and as we wait for answers.
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