115: Tearing Down Disney with Robert Evans
Night Call
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Today we take a night call about problematic Disneyland rides and suggest alternatives. Should we replace the torn down Splash Mountain with a Princess And The Frog Ride? (Yes) What is the most racist ride at Disneyland? Can theme parks be divided from themes of imperialism? Then it’s a listener query about Synanon, the self help drug rehab retreat on the Santa Monica strand that turned into a cult in the seventies. For our second half we are joined by Behind The Bastards host Robert Evans to discuss citizen journalism during the uprisings era! Robert discusses covering the Pacific Northwest, the Boogaloo creeps, showing up to face fascists. Then he takes our listeners’ questions about storing rations in small spaces, how to combat fascists flyering in your town, and where the best place to be during the revolution is (hint: among friends). Plus Molly exposes Robert as a full on pumpkin spice Fallhead!
Footnotes:
- Splash Mountain Petition
- LA Mag on Synanon
- Paul Morantz on the Snake in his Mailbox
- Behind the Police Podcast
- Behind the Bastards Podcast
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- LOL Surprise Bondage Doll
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.0 | It's 11.39 p.m. at Synanon, and you're listening to Night Call. |
| 0:13.2 | Hello, and welcome back to Night Call, a call-in show for our dystopian reality. |
| 0:22.5 | I am Tess Lynch and with me are Molly Lambert and Emily Yoshita. |
| 0:27.5 | Hey guys. |
| 0:28.5 | Hello. |
| 0:29.5 | And later in the show, we're going to be joined by Robert Evans, host of Behind the Bastards and citizen journalists to tell us all about being a live streamer in these crazy times. |
| 0:41.4 | We thought we would jump in real quick with an email from Meg. |
| 0:46.0 | She writes, hello night call. |
| 0:48.1 | Wasn't sure if you've seen the online petition going around demanding that Splash Mountain be rethemed to Princess and the Frog. |
| 0:53.6 | I work in the |
| 0:54.4 | theme park industry here in Orlando, and usually when updating a classic ride comes up, there are many |
| 0:59.7 | decries from theme park enthusiasts and Disney Purists that this is a racing history and the ride |
| 1:04.9 | should be used as a teaching moment. Same argument came up with the re-theming of the bride auction |
| 1:09.4 | scene in Pirates of the Caribbean. |
| 1:11.4 | While I agree with what Karina Longworth recently tweeted about films like Song of the South and Gone with the Wind, |
| 1:16.9 | where decirculating these films can turn them into fetish objects, I'm not sure this applies to theme park rides. |
| 1:22.8 | While it's nice to think that parents would use problematic aspects of rides as a teaching moment for their children, |
| 1:28.2 | I believe it's not the case the majority of the time. Theme park rides feature simple story narratives |
| 1:33.2 | that can be easily consumed in less than 10 minutes. And while I appreciate the museum-s aspects |
| 1:38.0 | of some Disney attractions, mostly at Epcot or the Everest Q in the Animal Kingdom, |
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