Pinocchio
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Sep 13, 2026
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
So now Walt Disney comes along, and believe it or not, he made a small Cinderella cartoon in 1922 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs being a huge success.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
You had Fantasia, you had Pinocchio, you got Dumbo and Bambi.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
That led into the early 1940s.
Kevin O'KeefeHOST
But then World War II stopped production, and really the studio was really in a tailspin.
Pat PanettaHOST
Which Disney movie featured the song When You Wish Upon a Star? Little fella, the Disney.
Russell SetrightGUEST
Pinocchio.
Pat PanettaHOST
Pinocchio, correct, number 16.
Pat PanettaHOST
Number 17, which body organ produces insulin? The pancreas.
Pat PanettaHOST
Pancreas, it does.
Scott TailfordHOST
Like, which I never expected
Ewan PatersonHOST
... a Souls game about Pinocchio, man.
Ewan PatersonHOST
Like-
Scott TailfordHOST
I know.
Ewan PatersonHOST
Well, people, I mean, I'm not gonna say that it's a bad game, because I think it got, it got good reviews.
Scott TailfordHOST
Mm.
Ewan PatersonHOST
But it's just like, if you can put Pinocchio in a Souls context, like, what, what, what, what?
Scott TailfordHOST
That kind of reinforces why they do everything, 'cause it's like, "Well, we can make anything work."
LynnaeHOST
We're gonna find out.
CJHOST
Like Pinocchio-esque? Like a real-
LynnaeHOST
Was he a real boy? [laughs]
CJHOST
Was he? We don't know.
Gareth HigginsHOST
But one of the things that's established about Roy is that he is very much in touch with what you could call his inner child.
Gareth HigginsHOST
He wants to take the kids to see Pinocchio.
Gareth HigginsHOST
He has the train set and stuff like that.
Gareth HigginsHOST
But he can't connect with his kids.
16 MINS LATER
Gareth HigginsHOST
And while I don't know that it's my favorite in terms of the Spielberg film that I most want to rewatch, I think it's certainly his best film.
Gareth HigginsHOST
What do you think about AI, artificial intelligence, Dear Jet?
Jett LoeHOST
Like I said before we kicked in the theme music, it's interesting we picked these two films because, as you mentioned, Roy Neary at the beginning of Close Encounters wants to take his kids to Pinocchio.
Jett LoeHOST
And the whole narrative thrust of this movie of AI, colon, is there a colon, comma, just AI, artificial intelligence, little clunky title there, is a riff on Pinocchio explicitly.
Bilbo BartenderVOICE_ACTOR
Sometimes the best, sometimes the worst.
Bilbo BartenderVOICE_ACTOR
This week the boys look at Pinocchio Unstrung, the next in a line of pool diverse
DerekHOST
movies.
DerekHOST
So
13 MINS LATER
IsaacHOST
thinking that one was going to suck because the CGI deer looks pretty rough.
IsaacHOST
Again, I haven't seen the movie, but the reviews I was seeing about it at the time said it was pretty good.
IsaacHOST
But then you look over at Pinocchio Unstrung.
IsaacHOST
Good
JoeHOST
Yeah, he does whisper.
ToddHOST
My last one is a 2026 film I think Joe's watched only and it's Pinocchio.
ToddHOST
I'm a strong baby.
ToddHOST
I can't wait
JoeHOST
What the fuck is this kid?
ToddHOST
But so like he kind of gets bullied and shit.
ToddHOST
So anyway, he gets like this friend that's Pinocchio.
ToddHOST
Of course, he wants to be a real boy.
speaker_2HOST
Sorry, Jiminy.
speaker_2HOST
He's like, I could be guiding Pinocchio down the right path.
speaker_2HOST
You guys are playing me.
speaker_2HOST
And here I am.
Craig JohnsonHOST
What we're talking about now is the full metastasization of this.
Craig JohnsonHOST
Pinocchio has woken up.
Craig JohnsonHOST
I'm a real boy.
Craig JohnsonHOST
They're not pretending anymore.
Chanda Thomas WhitfieldHOST
Hubley's grandparents were animators.
Sam HubleyGUEST
And they made really amazing films, you know, starting with Disney and working on Pinocchio and Fantasia and Bambi.
Sam HubleyGUEST
Fascinating story about standing up for what they thought was right and getting, being part of the animator strike in the first half of the 20th century, ultimately getting blacklisted and founding the first independent animation studio in the U.S. And my grandparents made, they aimed to make one independent film per year.
Sam HubleyGUEST
And some of those films really touched on mental health issues and psychology.
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