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306 Horses with Horns

Obviously we had to talk the two big stories — the resurrection of Coyote vs ACME and all this ChatGPT Ghiblification nonsense — but we also have a go at another Live-Action-with-CG-Character-Hybrid-Disney-Remake trailer and of course... what's going on with A.I. lately. Suffice to say this is definitely an explicit episode so expect the swears.

Timestamps:

2:12 How You Doin’

6:46 Trailer Talk

7:28 Lilo and Stitch 2025

25:21 Animation News

25:56 Ketchup buys Coyote vs ACME

43:19 AI Watch

44:19 ChatGPT Ghibli

56:53 Ember

1:17:59 RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!!

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305 The Day the Earth Blew Up Movie Review

Know that movie that literally every animator won't shut up about? Listen to us talk about it for 80 minutes!

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304 Flowers in the Landfill

Always timely, we talk this years’ Oscars and 3 upcoming sequelboots!

Timestamps:

3:00 The Oscars 2025

14:48 Flow

30:20 TRAILER TALK…

30:50 Smurfs 2025

45:14 How to Train Your Dragon 2025

1:09:31 A.I WATCH...

1:10:39 Hank Azaria NYTimes

1:19:30 The Problem of A.I. Reporting

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303 Haunted House Gift Shop

As things go, one thing that wasn't really supposed to be a segment turned into a 20 min chat and something we thought we'd have a lot to say about was actually pretty straightforward. We talk some new series, new techniques, new closings, and award shows. Just another day in the life of the animation industry!

Timestamps:

3:13       How You Doin’

8:29      Common Side Effects

27:18     Creature Commandos

32:05     ANIMATION NEWS…

32:35     Annie Awards Winners

46:59     Return to Hairy Hill

56:16     Technicolor Goes Under

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302 The RubberOnion Guarantee

Keeping things moving we have quick (for us anyway) episode that actually covers a lot of topics. There's lawsuits, trailers, and two animation use cases of A.I. in the wild that have very different public reactions. Oh and it was my birthday not long ago so Rob prepared a little surprise for me that'll definitely get this auto-flagged on various platforms for copyright because they're always too aggressive and don't take fair use cases into account. Enjoy! 

Timestamps:

3:14       How You Doin’

19:18     ANIMATION NEWS…

20:01    Lawsuit over Moana IP

31:04    TRAILER TALK…

31:34      Win or Lose

41:423    Wander to Wonder

47:49.    A.I WATCH...

48:06     Japanese studio uses A.I. for inbetweens

1:02:27   Undergrads Indie project uses A.I. for inbetweens

1:08:05    RAPID FIRE!!!

1:13:14     Recs

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301 Butt Stuff

It's 2025 and we catch up on some of the major stories left on the table from 2024 and look forward to the rest of the year. We chat about WFH vs Remote in our How You Doin' segment and see the return (again) of a favorite segment that was definitely recorded before "fire" was a word we really don't want to say right now. Also just to give you all a sense of continuity, we record this episode in our respective homes which of course means there was a tech issue where Rob was recording on his computer mic and not the fancy podcast one so get ready for table taps, mouse clicks, and various other noises. Happy New Year!

Timestamps:

2:21       How You Doin’

14:30    ANIMATION NEWS…

15:02    Golden Globes

24:02    Popeye and Tin-Tin enter public domain

31:47    Upcoming Animated Films 2025

38:49    TRAILER TALK…

39:36    The Day the Earth Blew Up

52:46    Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man

1:01:38    RAPID FIRE!!!!

1:06:31    OUTRO

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300 Three Hundred

It's finally here! Our three hundredth episode... recorded way back in AUGUST. Listen... it's been a hell of a few months. We talk about the state of things and you know what? It still holds up like it was recorded yesterday.

From RubberOnion we wish you all a HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR... 2025, let's do this!!

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299 Gurgly Pirate

Almost to 300 episodes! This one we're calling an "Animation News" episode but it's really more like a "How You Doin'" or "Whatcha Watchin'" if you will... I put a little extra sauce on this one with the audio editing because we bring up a lot of songs. We were GOING to talk about news stories and just got caught up in conversation so we put them in a Rapid Fire at the end which I think was even more fun. Enjoy! Now back to editing our 300th!

Timestamps:

16:06 Sausage Party Foodtopia

23:44 Exploding Kittens

37:02 Smiling Friends

1:00:00 RAPID FIRE!!!!!

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298 Full Speed Ahead

We talk some things!

Check out Jacob Kafka’s Kickstarter “Beverly Bunny” Indie Animated Feature Length Film

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297 Harold and Kumar Go to Purple Castle

Another month, another episode! Earthquakes! Technical problems! Things on fire! Train horns! Puppy sounds! All the things that make a great show. And this episode's banner comes courtesy of Rob this time... really had his work cut out for him.

Timestamps:

5:15 HOW YOU DOIN'

11:54 X-Men '97

41:33 A Spider Within

1:02:05 TRAILER TALK

1:02:35 Harold and the Purple Crayon

1:22:52 Garfield

1:29:14 A.I. WATCH

1:29:31 Qianqui Shisong, Chinese Show Made with A.I.

1:53:59 Late Night with the Devil A.I. images

2:20:58 OUTRO

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296 Wile E Coyote Ugly

The big story this episode is obviously Coyote vs Acme but rather than just talk about how much of a bummer this all is we try to wrap our heads around the why of it all. We also start a new segment called "A.I. Watch" which I'm sure will be a regular thing as we check in on what's going on with all that. There's also a bunch of what we're calling "body sounds"... it's painfully make sense. Enjoy!

Timestamps:

4:33 ........... How You Doin

10:21 .......... Animation News of the Week...

11:08 .......... Annies

23:53 ......... Coyote vs Acme

1:35:33 ....... A.I. Watch

2:12:34 ....... RAPID FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!

2:28:20 ...... Recommended Reading

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295 10 Year Anniversary

Had a great time celebrating and chatting about the last 10 years of us doing this little ol' podcast on a live show with Patrons in chat... sampling many bourbons and rye in our collection. The actual anniversary is Oct 19th and we did in fact record on this day! I put timestamps down for this one since it's a three-hour show to make it easier to move about the episode but if you want the true experience just listen to it straight through and listen to Rob and my speech get slower and slurrier as the episode goes on, it's a delight. Cheers to 10 years!

  Timestamps:

9:14.......... How did this all start

22:28....... Our favorite episode titles

41:23........ The first year of the podcast

57:53....... "The Hundreds"

1:05:21...... Our favorite segments

1:15:33...... Failed and dropped bits

1:40:58..... 2017

2:03:30..... Episode count by year

2:05:29..... Wishlist and future plans

2:11:44....... Hot cocoa shows

2:28:10...... Production of the show

2:43:51...... Chat

2:51:15....... Outro

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294 Morning Zoom

Second day in a row of new podcast episode! We talk about the overlooked beginning of VFX Unions, Vivienne Medrano's Amazon Prime debut with "Hazbin Hotel," and of course the upcoming Procreate Dreams.

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293 Tiny Mermaid

Tiny Toons Looniversity and The Little Mermaid 2023. We didn't like either one of them. But it's a fun listen anyway!

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292 TMNT Mutant Mayhem Review

The time has come. We review a new TMNT movie! This is a clean review with spoilers saved for the end of the show. Obviously we talk about the story, style, acting and animation... but we also address the comparisons to Spider-Verse and more importantly what this all means for the future of animation as we see it today. Enjoy!

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291 Summer Ketchup

There is so much going on in the industry right now that we couldn't just stick to one topic because everything is pretty tangled up. So while we do bring up things like the AI open credits of Secret Invasion, the movie Nimona, the series reboot/new season of Clone High, Mushka and I'm Hip animated shorts from Disney vets, and other stories... we also thread it with discussions on the current strike (recorded before SAG-AFTRA made theirs official), state of streaming and jobs, what is happening to theater attendance, and also a bunch of other things.

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290 Across the Spider-Verse Review

This is a perfectly PG review with no spoilers that aren't in trailers. We mostly talk about story competence and satisfaction and of course the style and animation. Enjoy! (and then go see it for yourself if you haven't already!)

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