Plussin' and Cussin'

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 workaholic.