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Fine Tooning with Drew Taylor - Episode 166: Pixar puts same sex kiss back into “Lightyear”

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🗓️ 22 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Drew Taylor starts off this week’s show by sharing what he’s learned about the Imagineers’ efforts to persuade Disney CEO Bob Chapek to cancel WDI’s move to Lake Nona. Then he & Jim discuss the “Encanto” -related controversy that’s begun brewing around ABC’s live broadcast of this Academy Awards ceremony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to fine tuning through Taylor your one stop shop when it comes to animation news and

0:04.0

commentary. I'm Drew's co-host entertainment writer Jim Hill and he and I are recording this week's

0:09.3

show on Friday, March 18th, 2022, which is the day after St Patrick's Day. Did you and Katie do

0:17.5

it? No, Katie's out of town, right? No, Katie was here, but we did not do anything. I was,

0:22.8

as we'll talk about in a minute Jim, I was knee deep and calling people and trying to

0:28.4

get a story out the door. Okay, okay. Well, it was kind of hoping you'd go up to the street to

0:34.9

my home away from home, Bob's big boy and to look alike. I did see another Bob's big boy out of

0:41.8

Norco, California. They have what they call the big Irish, which seems to be a burger with thinly

0:49.5

sliced corn, beef and cabbage on top of it. So if I have to clog my arteries, I will go with the

0:57.4

real one. I'll go with the big boy, the classic. Yeah. The next time I've been town, we'll go to

1:02.2

the media district and I mean, I need some from Micah. It's been so long since I've been to Bob's.

1:07.1

We'll sit at the Beatles table. How about that? Oh, yeah, better. Yeah. Okay. Now, you would just

1:12.4

referencing again, crazy week, lots of work, but it all led to an amazing piece, which kind of

1:19.2

keys off of what we were talking about last week about the whole Bob, JPEG, don't say gay thing,

1:24.8

but you collaborated on a story with Chairman Wax herself. Yes. You know, there's a double

1:32.1

edge sword, Jim, of my John Carter piece, which is now people understand that I can't actually

1:37.2

write. And I'm not sort of a, you know, charity case. So she said, you seem to know a lot about

1:46.3

this. What do you think about this? And so here we go. I wrote a giant story about Imagineers wanting

1:53.4

to kind of leverage the backlash to get JPEG to abandon his plans to force everyone to go

2:02.5

to Lake Nona. And by everyone, I mean, the handful of Imagineers that are still left at the company.

2:08.0

Yeah. That to me, I think is the huge news. You want to share that number? I know. I think I didn't

2:14.8

put the number in. I think I was pretty comfortable saying that there are less than 100

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