Oh, this is immediately awkward.

How do I start the show in our normal format without somehow sounding like a racist caricature?

Jake, you started.

Oops, silly doodles, fuckety shit.

This topic's racial and we're not good at it.

Three bearded white guys doing their best.

We're doing Splash Mountain.

I hope it'll rest easily on the minds of America's cultural critics.

And I'm your wizard, Holden McNeely.

Not that kind of wizard.

I know, Jesus God.

Welcome to our new show, Grand Wizard and the Bruiser, Holden McNeily and and Jake Young, telling you. I am a talking frog. How about that? I'll just jump to Princess and the Frog. Right? He kind of had an accent like this. Did he kind of the prince? Prince Nazeem. Yes. Prince Nazeem. It's not wonderful. By the way, the voice you're hearing right now are resident Disney expert, Ed Larson, joining us yet again.

Oh, how you doing? And...

Goving to the laughing place. Laughing place. Laughing, huh? And what a fascinating, like, you know, sometimes I have to, like, work hard for a thesis or, like,

uh, overlying, like, what is the story kind of in this, in this one?

This one's just, Splash Mountain is like the epicenter of just, it's chaos.

Everything.

Everything.

Just Disney's entire relationship to racism and, and, you know,

not just Disney's Americas. And because Disney is a company whose sole purpose is to

appeal to the most Americans as possible at any given moment, Disney can't like shut the door on this thing either because it'll get a bunch of people, like, mad at them.

And those people spend a lot of money.

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