On this weeks very special bonus episode Deefy sits down with Dan Viets, the man who literally wrote the book on Walt’s time in Marceline and who is heading up the project to preserve the Laugh-o-Gram studios in good ole KC. Welcome to the Midwest, indeed.
Extra! Extra! Read all about (or listen to) young Walt Disney's later childhood years in Kansas City, Missouri. From slingin' papers and doing sketches for the local barber to starting a sketch comedy duo to joining the Red Cross near the tail end of World War I, this kid stayed in a pretty much perpetual state of motion. Let's see if we can keep up!
We're taking a little bit of a breather from our Marceline to Mowgli series to stretch our legs and grab some beef jerky before getting back on the road. Join us while we talk a little bit about Wish, air out some grievances about Hamilton, and give a cursory look at whether Meryl Streep was based or not when she called Walt a bastard.
This week we continue our probe into the origins of Walt Disney, and attempt to unpack the fate that befell Walt's idyllic (at least as he saw it) hometown. We'll find out about the planned park in Marceline, Missouri that never came to be, and watch the deevolution of a hopeful Everytown, USA, into bland Midwest obsolescence.
In the beginning of our new series-within-a-series, we go into the primordial ooze of the D'Isigny clan and their dogged progeny that begat the boy who started this whole crazy business that we stan and dissect weekly: Walt Disney. You'll get you're fill of frontier entrepreneurship, bad farming practices, and well-coifed mustaches as we talk about a few of Walt's ancestors, and land in the small town where young Disney had a brief and pastoral childhood before beginning his lifetime as a workah...
We're a day late and the eclipse was a bust in San Antonio (old man shakes fist at clouds), but we've got our super special spooky eclipse episode for you. Let's take a dip into Disney's first attempt at horror! Piggybacking on the "hagsploitation" or "psycho-biddy" genre of the late Sixties and Seventies, we see Disney throwing pasta at the wall to see what sticks, and hiring aged legend of the silver screen Bette Davis to play our resident creepy old (land)lady. Note: You'll wanna catch this o...
Plussin' and Cussin' is back for a fourth season, and while Tim Q and Deefy are looking a little long in the tooth, our subject matter are looking long in the gums. That's right gang, we're unpacking the phenomenon of Disney Adults! The strange grown ass people who spend fortunes to visit Disney's theme parks for that little slice of happiness to make them feel whole. We could sit here and tear these weirdos to shreds (and maybe we do), but remember: There is no ethical consumption under capital...
After technical difficulties in Lubbock and a couple of goosebump-inducing Halloween episodes, we return with the conclusion to our longest series ever, Mary Poppins! Who among you would go back into work so that they could fire you? Bring your kites and inside-out umbrellas and join us as we ride the West Wind and bring this baby into harbor
Deef and Timmy sit down for a spell with Tim Jacobus, the illustrator behind all of the iconic covers of RL Stine's children's horror series, Goosebumps! No tricks up our sleeves here, this guy was a real treat!
For our FOURTH (wow) Halloween Spooktacular, we're covering the new Goosebumps series on Disney Plus. Gonna come right out and say that I thought this was going to be a garbage fire, but it turns out this thing is kinda good? Also Deefy and Timmy Boo talk about their past with the iconic book series, and drop a teaser for a special guest.
Click-Click, Boom! Time to blow on in to Number 7, Cherry Tree Lane and get a load of this Banks family! That's right, Deefy's finally finished talking about PL Travers so we can watch the movie and talk about it in classic PnC fashion! We've got movie trivia, boner pills, dem Island Boys, and Saliva on the docket for discourse! Hope you love to laugh, cause this tea party's happening up in the rafters! You ever hear the one about the guy with a wooden leg named Smith?
The breaking winds of change are blowin' in, which means trouble's a brewin,' and we're about to begin.. to actually start watching Mary Poppins. But first we'll finish hammering out the details of Pamela Travers's strange life, just like Walt managed to hammer her inexhaustible will down to a nub in time to finish making this movie. Find out how with Timiny and Deef Van Dyke!
Here come Dick and Bob, Here come Dick and Bob, right down Dick and Bob Lane! (Okay not that funny or clever but I've had it stuck in my head ever since Deefy sang it at the end of the last episode). We're talking about Robert and Richard Sherman, the musical powerhouse who were Disney's unseen but much-heard musical engine during the Sixties. Since Mary Poppins is arguably their best work, we're gonna get to know these guys a bit. If you didn't prepay for your tickets, it's just tuppence at the...
We begin our exhaustive coverage on the world's greatest emotionally withholding nanny by examining her problematic creator, an enigma of a woman who would end up calling herself Pamela Travers. You're gonna need more than a spoonful of sugar to wash the medicine down, 'cause this lady's a real pill.
Haloo my bonnie bairns, and have we got a cracklin' yarn for ye today! Last year was for the dogs, but this year the cats come out to play! We're kicking off 2023's Pussin' and Cussin' series with a Scottish banger from 1963: The Three Lives of Thomasina. Now that I think about it, they really should've used a Scottish Fold for the cat.. Anyways, this episode gets a little loose in the cage after awhile, and meanders a bit, but that's just Timmy and Deef enjoyin' the beautifol Scottish weather! ...
Hope you showed up bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, because it's time for some sexy squirrels! TH Half-White and Archimedeez-Nuts return to give you a walkthrough of 1963's Sword in the Stone. We're covering time travelling, shape-shifting wizards, and egregious voice-cracking displays of puberty. So let's get a grip on that hilt and give it 'ell!
Grab your snorkels and O2 tanks and get your Logitech controllers ready, cause we're goin' on a good ol' fashioned Deef Dive behind the scenes of Disney's 1963 romp through medieval England, The Sword in the Stone! This ep focuses on TH White (the writer of the source material), and the writers, animators, and musicians who brought the magic together. Part 2 will focus on our coverage of the movie itself.
Halloooooo out there to all you Pooh-heads in your XXXL Pooh pajama pants! (And by the way, you really shouldn't smoke indoors). Today we get to the big stuff-and-fluff bottom of a tale of a bear of very little brain and all his dumb animal friends. We bust out the honey and condensed milk and jump headlong into the Hundred Acre Woods of Disney's sixties-era adaptations. So grab yourself a "little something" and hunker down, cause it's gonna be a blustery one!
To all you faithful plussers and cussers who've been grinning and BEARing it for the past few episodes, we thank you. But your wait for audio that is actually BEARable to listen to is finally over. That's right, Timmy the Q talked to somebody smarter and we've finally got Deefy coming through in dulcet tones on his own mic out of his own Lubbock masturbatorium, as opposed to squeaking out of a tinny phone speaker. Deefy unveils his new Lubbock-based podcast, "Show Me Yer Haboobs," and we do a li...
For the conclusion of our series on Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, we dig into this opportunistic piece of crap and see it through to its (very short) credit sequence. Seriously, this movie was made by like thirteen people. Doesn't mean I hate it any less. But that's a little bit impressive. Also, Deefy mentions the company who made the masks for Pooh and Piglet. They also deserve some props. Our coverage of the movie is perhaps even lazier than the movie itself, but here it is folks..
It's 2023 and the copyright on everybody's favorite silly old bear has expired, hurtling him into the public domain like the time Christopher Robin uncorked his fat ass from Rabbit's doorway. What better way to commemorate this momentous occasion than watching a lazy, low-budget slasher set in the Hundred Acre Wood? How could this abomination be allowed to see the light of day? Deefy gives us a good ol' fashioned PnC deep dive into copyright law and Disney's diligent efforts to protect all of it...
Did you know you can't spell "down" without DOW? Tune into our Disney news segment for this and other pearls of financial wisdom. Tonight: Disney cancels a billion dollar development deal in Orlando, and everybody's got their theories as to why. Also, more layoffs at Disney, and some clarification on the Parental Rights in Education Bill a.k.a the Don't Say Gay Bill
We make our way into the focal point of our season 3 debut, a right-wing documentary created by the Catholic League called Walt's Disenchanted Kingdom. Most of the time, I would encourage you to watch the source material that we're covering. This is not one of those times. I will spend the rest of my life atoning for the two dollars that I paid to rent this diabolical piece of shit.
They tried to keep us apart, but we found our way back to the virtual masturbatorium known as the Internet to bring you season 3 of Plussin' and Cussin'! Just a little disclaimer: Deefy's a little different since he moved to Lubbock. You'll see.. Also, we dive into the political and literal swamps of Florida to sort out what the hell's been going on between Disney and ol' Meatball Ron. Welcome back!
Kevin Corcoran joins Tim Q Mouse to hammer out another installment of Little Mouse on the Airie AND round out the saga of the Coates family and their canine companions. You've heard of dogs wrangling with rabies, but dogs wrangling with.. Native Americans? I'm sure that Walt Disney's 1963 Western will take a fair and balanced look at frontier life in all of its nuances. So send your squaw to fetch some firewood, stuff one cheek full o' chaw and chomp down on some mule jerky, cause it's about to ...
It's got Toyland in the name, but we ain't playin' around! For our final recording session in the stooge, long time listener/long time lurker Jack Spratarie joins the boys (aka Deef Be Nimble, Deef Be Quick and Little Boy Blown) for an exhaustive (and exhausting) tour of Mother Goose's village and its surrounding metro area. Colors! Schemes! Math! Mimes! Sheep! Choreography! And apparently something about Christmas somewhere in here? Tune in for Deefy's last in person episode!
We begin our last session in the Masturbatorium with special guest/long time lurker/first time caller Natarie Braulick. Some announcements regarding the future of our ignoble endeavor, and a lengthy and harrowing account of what Deefy left behind in a Schertz, TX, Valero for the carnies to clean up. Also, we touch briefly on two holiday programs that we DIDN'T cover: The Santa Clauses and The Hip Hop Nutcracker.
Long overdue, but big things are happening in the houses of Mouse and Deef. This here's our Thanksgiving DizDat where we dish out the stuffing and the gravy re: the changing of the Bobs and what exactly it takes for a middle class family to go to one of these astronomically priced parks in this foul year of our Lord. Folks, we're serving up the whole back end of PnC's 2022 in a walloping three-parter for your listening pleasure and leisure. Bon appedeef!
Wouldst thou like to live.. Fergaliciously?? It's 2022, and the witches, the witches, the witches are back to vape kids and kill Mayor Forky. (He just wants a caramel apple, for Pete's sake!) We get kiddie witches, millennial wannabe witches, savvy Gen Z witches, and the Sanderson sisters guzzling lotion in a Walgreens. Find out whether this relic from 1993 was worth digging up and reanimating on part two (boo?) of our Halloween Spooktacular! Power up your Rhoombas, cause it's about to get salty...
Grab your candy bags and hop on your Hoovers for a spooky flight to Salem, Massachusetts circa 1993, with your hosts Billy Bonerson and Thackery Deefs! We're gonna dig up and dissect your beloved Hallow's Eve favorite, Hocus Pocus! What happens when you turn three of the most talented actresses of the times into spooky three stooges? You parade them on Katie Couric's Good Morning America, that's what you do. God bless Kathy Najimy.
