WEBVTT - 116: Pixar 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:05.800 Hello, welcome to another edition of Nerdificent. I am one 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.400 half of your host, Danny Fernandez. Sitting across from me 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:14.720 in the virtual space is if you want you yea, yeah, yeah, 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.360 here we are. If you look slick with your hair, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.680 and I got to see the process happening as you 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.040 were doing it, Yeah yeah, I got you got straight 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.640 and it got pressed. Every time I anyone puts a 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.040 pressing comb on a stove, I just get like tense 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:34.639 because there's so many memories of of burn marks right 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.320 on the forehead because that press and comb got too close. 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.640 But now you know my barber, she's a professional, and 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.880 she pressed my hair out and then braided it. Now 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:49.080 we're just living life. Yes, we have, um, we have 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.200 some news that we wanted to share with everybody. Yeah, yeah, 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.040 some big news. Go ahead and take a seat, you know, come, come, 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:01.200 come in, grab grab a coffee, because it's time for 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:04.840 us to tell y'all. You know there there there are 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:09.880 there are one pieces that go on for nine hundred 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:13.720 and thirty three episodes and sixteen movies. You have you 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:17.160 know in U Yasha, which I still never ends, you know, 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.640 even DBZ that go on forever and then you have 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.520 you know Gore and log On twenty six tight episodes. 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.360 You have megalo Box, another tight anime series. These are 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.000 the ones I like, even though I do like DBZ. 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.280 I think this is the way. What we're trying to 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:41.240 say is we're taking Nerdificent in for a landing, a 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:45.800 permanent land We're landing, putting in the hangar and closing 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.280 the door. We um. Yeah, if you and I you know, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.640 we've been doing the podcast for I think over two years. Actually. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.240 I think when we did our promos it was if 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:00.360 I remember when we first were recording, but um, yeah, 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.440 and this isn't uh, this isn't my heart's decision. I 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.240 just want to say that this was if then E's decision. Cut. 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.520 They didn't cut us. Honestly, they probably would rather we didn't. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.799 But yeah, we just felt that this was the good 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.280 conclusion to something that we've done. And if you were 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.400 with us before, we were doing krill in It for 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.679 however many years, and so it's been about you know, 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:29.359 six years, and so I think that we um are 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.679 just ready to to close the chapter of Nottificent. I 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.799 think that it will still exist. You can still listen 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:37.720 to all of the episodes. You can still point to 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.480 people if you are I don't know, going on a 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.400 panel and talking about Wonder Woman or Wonder Woman episode 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.680 is still great or Miles Morales episode is still great. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.200 If you're trying to get your niece or nephew into 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.880 this fandom, you can still send them these episodes, um, 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:54.640 and you can still hit us up to be on panels. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.800 But yeah, we just, uh, we decided that next episode 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.400 is going to be our last EPISOD, so so we're 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:04.119 gonna do some commemorative stuff with some past guests. Definitely 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.480 shout us out on our socials if you have good 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.959 Nerdive sent memories. Um. 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Yeah, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.680 but I did want to bring in our guest this 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.960 week we're talking about Pixar and she was actually on 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.240 our our Haunted Mansion episode. As she is the Queen 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:56.120 of Disney. It is Sabina Graves. Hey, everyone, thanks for 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.960 calling me the Queen of Disney like that. There many 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:05.560 There should be more Disney queens have um speaking of 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:10.520 who is your favorite Disney Princess, Sabina, it's Bell that 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.200 yeah you are. We're in goll right now. One of 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:18.200 my favorite things about her for the Disney Princess panel 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.120 I did last year that um Pedro Haara, who's a 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.640 voice of Bell, was on and that she was talking 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:25.440 about it was like this woman who was like, no, 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:26.920 I don't want to marry you. I just want to 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:29.320 read my books, like get out of here. Like it 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.760 was so funny to have this princess that was like 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:35.560 actively turning down, you know, not to not to go 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.800 after Ariel who I adore, but was chasing after a prince, 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.520 but um for her to be she was captured. She felt, 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:45.800 you know, Belle was captured and eventually fell in love 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.120 but to have this suitor and her be like, nah, 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.440 I'm I'm good, I'm not going to be your wife, 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:55.560 like l O L to that. I like how it 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.560 takes a look at a toxic masculinity and I think, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:00.840 you know, the beast grows out of it. And then 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.080 Gaston does not, even though he's seen as like you know, 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:10.359 the town hero and stuff like that, and spoiler spoilers, spoiler, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:15.799 he has a bit it's like twenty something Plussier spoiler alert. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.360 But yeah, today we are covering Pixar. I guess I'll 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.239 just go, like, what is everyone's favorite Pixar movie before 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:27.040 we I hop into it? What a what a good question? 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.279 I definitely say ahead. I was gonna say Sebina probably 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:35.360 has one rage. I had like a tie between Wally 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.120 and Coco, uh while he was my long time just 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:44.400 favorite Pixar film. You know, it's such a simple, like 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.480 like simple story that is told through like you know, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:53.960 this space and um the commentary about like protecting our planet, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:58.920 but also just the beauty in um like the exploration 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.680 of these emotion and through robots that you know, like 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.279 robots don't have emotions, but you know, Whilely and Eve 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:09.720 are so expressive and uh effective in uh, you know, 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.200 seeing a future we don't want to have, but also 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.880 seeing the importance of what is worth fighting for in life. Yeah, 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.680 that's yeah, it's so hard because they've done so many 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:25.800 just refreshing I'd say, I'd say before I would have 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.600 probably set the Toy Story series that probably would have 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.440 been mine to Toy Story for I felt was really strong. 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:34.040 But I think it I think you're right. I think 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.080 it's coca Cocoa is just so there's just so much 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.800 more flavor uh in that movie than than uh than 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.760 than in the other ones. And it and it's and 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.200 I hope it's something they take note of because I mean, uh, 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.120 you know, just in general, I think a lot of 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:56.240 the like very I guess you would say, like legend 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:01.120 esque movies are so eurocentric, you know your braves and 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.159 even um you know, uh, what's the what's the one 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:09.200 is that's not sorry because Pixar and Disney or so 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:11.920 neck and neck that I get afraid of like confusing 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.320 the two. But yeah, for them, whenever they step out 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:19.480 and like use like a cultural voice, it just makes 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:24.320 it so much stronger. Ratitui with the French, you know, yeah, mine, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:29.640 um are both of those. I would say Coco is 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.920 so representative obviously of my heritage that it was so anytime, Honestly, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.080 anytime I feel bad as a creator, like my voice 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.320 doesn't matter, I'm not doing enough for like I'm not 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.800 supposed to be here, or anytime I'm just feeling really down, 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.679 I'll watch it and be like hell, yeah, well through tears, 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.920 then I'll go and want to write. But Toy Story, 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.440 um was so groundbreaking at the time, like just to 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:59.320 have that type of animation style and the humor it was. 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:03.200 It's really funny and something that I think adults enjoyed 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.160 as well. It had a lot of adults like inside 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.080 jokes that I wouldn't have gotten until I was older. So, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:15.480 um yeah, Mine's definitely both of those two. Nemo is great. 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.640 I love how movies like Nemo and Toy Story informed 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.440 our senses of humor. I would say in very many ways. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:28.520 You know, we like, uh, he touched the butt, you know. 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:35.080 So let's talk about the start of Pixar. Pixar Animation 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:40.040 Studios is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California, 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.199 and a part of the Walt Disney Studios group. The 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.040 studio has earned twenties seven Academy Awards honestly thought it 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.960 was more than that, but eight Golden Globes, three Grammy Awards, 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.439 along with many other awards and acknowledgements. It's best known 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.080 for c g I animated feature films created with photo 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:02.560 realistic render Man, its own implementation of the industry standard 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:08.240 render Man image rendering application programming interface used to generate 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:12.480 high quality images. So Pixar actually began back in nineteen 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.560 seventy nine as the graphics group part of the computer 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:20.280 division of Lucasfilm, before it was acquired by Apple Computer 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.840 co founder Steve Jobs in nineteen eight six. The Walt 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.120 Disney Company bought Pixar in two thousand and six at 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:31.800 a valuation of seven point four billion dollars. The transaction 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.120 made Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney. A lot of 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.160 big names in there, from it being with Lucasfilm to 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:41.160 Steve Jobs, just people that were at the forefront also 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:44.960 of this type of technology in film, definitely, and it's 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.240 all these people who kind of knew each other coming up. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:50.640 So because I know that last setter had left Disney 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.520 when he had met up with Steve Jobs and it 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.360 Captain Roll in the early days of Pixar and that 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.600 they had set up to do some computer science stuff 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:02.880 ended up doing, you know, more of commuter animation for commercials, 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.840 and from there that kind of like snowballed into let's 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.160 make some short films in this style, which led to 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.199 Toy Story. And so now kind of like what you 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:13.160 were saying, if he is at their neck and neck 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:20.320 what what um so Walt Disney Animation Studios is in Burbank, California. However, 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.680 it's hard to tell the difference between the two because 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.200 it used to be three D animation, right, and then 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.800 the two D animation. So Toy Story was coming out 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.839 when say they were still making Partisan the Frog or 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:36.199 Pocahonas which was several years before, or Mulan, you know, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.080 they it was easy to differentiate between what was Pixar 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:44.000 and what was Disney or Walt Disney animation. Um now, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:49.280 Mowanna is Walt Disney Animation. Frozen is Walt Disney Animation. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.160 Ralph A lot of people will say, like, oh, your 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:54.280 Pixar character, I'm not I'm not. Ralph is not Pixar, 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.400 that's all. But it's very confusing now that they're using 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.360 three D animation. I would I would have said, yeah, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.040 I would have said that that was Pixar. That's why 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.679 I had to catch myself when I was saying the 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:11.000 Eurocentric because in my head, uh, frozen his Pixar, Because 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.520 you're right, it used to be that Pixar did all 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.600 the three D animation and then Walt Disney Animation did 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:21.000 the two D and now it's just they just do 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.599 what they do. It gets so confusing because there was 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:27.520 a point in time where Disney separately was trying to 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:31.120 do computer animation than Pixar, so they did Chicken Little 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.679 Meet the Robinson. To Meet the Robinson is actually one 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:37.720 of my favorite movies. It's not Disney. It is Disney, 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.719 but it has like the Pixar touch. They had some 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.360 of the story trust from Pixar come in and try 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.640 to kind of like, uh, fix that movie. Um, and 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:52.319 I love it for all it's imperfections, honestly. Um. But 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.480 it's based around one of my favorite Disney quotes, which 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.679 just keep moving forward, and that I take that with 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.319 me everywhere in my just like keep moving forward, keep 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.640 moving past things, working through it and stuff. Um. But yeah, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.920 So after those two films and then like Tangled and 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.640 like Too Onward. Basically, I guess it's like now it's 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.480 like there's it's just this big missimatch of like CG 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.000 feels like Pixar, but it's some some of its Pixar, 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:22.520 some of it's Disney. Um and uh yeah, I know 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.760 for a while it was very eurocentric and uh I 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:29.160 really like how with Onward, With Onward Pixar trying to 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:33.719 make a hero centric movie but with blue people. So 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.760 you know, we all know Pixar is this like huge 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.400 success and big you know, part of Disney history. But 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:42.520 I mean at first, I think one of the first 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.719 things is that it was they worked with Disney, but 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:49.080 they kind of because now technically Disney owns it, right, 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:51.200 but before it was like they were their own entity 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.880 and they and you know it c G I isn't 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.719 cheap and so uh so, like you know, they're the 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.480 first big con sept really, which was Toy Story. Uh 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.520 was was was kind of just touch and go, like 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.640 it wasn't the it was it wasn't like like we 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.600 look back and we're like, oh, yeah, that's a smash 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:14.520 hit of course, but getting it onto the screen was 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.520 was a challenge. I mean, despite uh the total income 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:23.199 from the projects before, they continue to lose money and jobs. 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.319 And as the chairman of the board and now at 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:31.840 the time of this full owner, uh, they like yes, 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:35.719 Steve Yes, Steve Jobs was considering selling it. Uh and 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:40.000 as late as it was, they were still trying to 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.559 figure out what they're gonna do. They're trying to sell 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.720 it to like Hallmark, Uh to Microsoft co founder Paul Allen, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.599 or Oracle, which what is that world Oracle makes like 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:54.280 Java that you that you use online and they do 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:58.319 a lot of cloud servers now, but you know, what 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:04.160 is the world in which they over Pixar or Hallmark? Wow, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.040 I mean they would make those movies a little bit better. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:15.079 But yeah. But so it was only after learning that 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.640 from the New York critics that Toy Story was probably 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:21.040 going to be a hit and confirming uh that Disney 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.240 was going to distribute it in the Christmas season, that 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.160 they decided to give Pixar one more chance, and for 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.320 the first time, uh, he was taking us. Jobs was 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.320 taking active leadership in the company and made himself CEO, 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:36.160 and Toy Story then went on a gross more than 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.120 three hundred and seventy three million worldwide. Uh. And that's 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.640 when Pixar held its first initial public offering, which was 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:48.880 in November twenty nine, and it exceeded Netscape. Uh. Y'all 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.840 remember Netscape of the biggest I p O of the year, 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.800 and only the first half hour of trading, Pixar stock 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.600 shot up from twenty two dollars to forty five dollars. Man, 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.880 if I could have no, I mean, I was a child, 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:09.960 put money in back then delaying trading because of unmatched 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.960 by orders. Shares climbed up to forty nine dollars before 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:18.080 closing at the day at thirty nine. Which, man, yeah, 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.080 it's always funny because like, of course now you're thinking, man, 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.240 I wish, But if you were like this animation studio 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:28.440 that's kind of new, you're you probably like, no, I'm good. Yeah. 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:31.120 One of the crazy things though, is that during this time, 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:34.320 Steve Jobs pulled, you know, some of the main people 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:36.880 at Pixar side and was like, you know, I make computers. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.520 You that computer reaches your doorstep, it's good for three 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.560 to five years. You have the potential to make things 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.000 that will be um, you know, immortal, that will just 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.920 go on and you know, open the hearts of like 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.840 families over the world, and that's essentially what pis are 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:57.360 ended up becoming. Yeah, so in the nineties and two thousands, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:01.200 they gradually developed the Pixar brain Trust, which if you're 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:02.960 a Disney person you've heard this quite a bit. I 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.640 think actually before do you remember Sabina the short that 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.600 they showed of this gosh what it was like before 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.400 a movie maybe Finding Nemo. It was like they showed, um, 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:15.920 some of the created the directors sitting around a table 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.200 and they were talking about how they essentially at this 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.280 one meeting came up with what would eventually be toy 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.640 Story and um monsters E and do you remember that 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.200 I'll have to send up. Yeah, I don't exactly remember 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.200 which one it was in front of, but I loved 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.520 when like movie studios would do that like behind the 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.600 scenes before the movie to kind of get you, like 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.360 interested in like this is how we make things. Um. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.480 But yeah, I know, like the brain Trust was originally 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.760 composed of the original filmmakers, you know, laster On Rich, Dr. 0:16:44.960 --> 0:16:48.920 Santon and Joe ramp who was their story supervisor. Um. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.000 But they basically all came together to you know, imagine 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.680 the house that Pixar would become. And I think that 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.760 it's definitely like originated by some of those conversations they 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.720 had early on with Steve Jobs about what they could 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.880 do as filmmakers. We have to take a really quick 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.480 break and then we're gonna hop back into more about 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:17.439 Pixar right after this, and we are back, we are 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.840 still talking about Pixar. And before mommy and Daddy got married, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:26.400 they had a bit of a feud together Disney and Pixar. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:34.200 Oh they had been married, they had entanglement. Pixar Pier 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.240 is in Disney's California Adventure at Disneyland across a little 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:43.439 across the way from Disneyland, proper um, and it is filled. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.200 I was there before. I mean I was there before 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.359 it was Pixar Pier. To be honest, um, I was 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:54.440 there before California Adventure existed. But um um it is 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.080 a great It has our favorite place to drink, which 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.640 and I go we drink just go a drink fair 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.960 and which is the Lamp Light, which is a restaurant. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.639 It's okay. So here's the thing I'm explaining to Pixar 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.680 fans who haven't been there, because it is really great. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:13.320 So it overlooks a Peer which has the Screaming the 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:20.920 Incredible and Credit Coaster has formerly known as Screaming then 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.920 Credit Coaster. Um. But it overlooks the water and the 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.600 Mickey Ferris Wheel and they have it's just decked out 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.040 in Pixar everything. So it has the toy story Ball 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.879 sorry if that has an official name. I forgot the 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.000 Pixar pal around, but it still has the Mickey face. Um. 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:43.640 But my favorite thing about lamp Light the actual places 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.760 that it's all decked out and picks our stuff. Everything 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.320 is Pixar. Like all the drinks, like for the adults, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:52.399 they have like monsters inc Like drinks. Yes, they have 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.080 drinks that like cold drink drink alcohol that like they 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.359 put something in it bubbles and you drink it and 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.359 can get you drunk. Um. I just love it because 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.520 it's my two favorite things. I sound like an alcoholic. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.560 What I'm saying is I love being an adult and 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:10.880 having the money to buy Pixar things like Disney things, 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.320 but also having fun with my adult friends. Um. And 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.320 so they have a ton of quotes and artwork, Like 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.280 they have a lot of art Pixar art inside the restaurant. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:22.840 It's really just beautiful and I adore it. Um. But 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.080 Pixar Pierre has a lot of the games, like Toy 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:30.359 Story Games, Monsters Inc. Um they now have Coco stuff 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.920 in there. They have an entire Coco mural actually there, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.320 so it's uh, yeah, did I do it? Justice Sabina. 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.840 So the Monsters Inc. Crede is actually separated from Pixar Pier, 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.720 but that was there before Pixar p Here happened. Um. Yeah, 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.680 and I love all the murals and yeah, the Lamplight 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.560 Lounge is so much fun to go to with friends 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:56.479 because we're having all these fun fizzy drinks that are 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.920 like very you know, on brand for Pixar, but we're 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:04.480 surrounded by you know, original art from the studios that 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:07.520 is stuff from pre production. On the walls. They have 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:11.320 those quotes. They also have like the crew shirts that 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.680 people get from working on the productions that are like 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:16.879 way cooler than some of the stuff we have that 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.880 I'm like looking at they have. They had at one point, 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.840 I think a Coco shirt that was a Day of 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:27.200 the Dead um skull but it was styled like Sid's 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:31.720 shirt from Toy Story And yeah, that is so rad. 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.840 When I need one. I need one of those in 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.360 my life. I think one of my friends actually got 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:39.600 one from going to Pixar Um. But yeah, like and 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:42.960 you're just like hanging out having drinks and having yeah yeah, 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.320 watching it get built out was wild too, because yeah, 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:50.159 I remember early the biggest Pixar kind of footprint that 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.920 you had in California Screaming or California Adventure. Sorry was 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.040 the Bugs Life. But then you had the things where 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.399 they did a full remodel. I think I was working 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:02.840 I was working at Disneyland at the time, but they 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:08.199 fully remodeled uh, California Adventure to look like um uh 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.040 car the carthe Circle, And that's when they started to 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.360 add in the Pixar Land. And one of the biggest 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.920 kind of turnouts that came and probably is my favorite 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.440 part of that is going to be the cars Land 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:25.000 because the ride is like pretty pretty cool, but they 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:31.600 like those cone the cone like chili. Yeah, yeah, it 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:36.879 is undefeated. Uh, probably my favorite. But yeah, that was 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.560 the biggest thing is that, uh and you know y'all 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:41.680 talking about the drink, but that was the biggest piece 0:21:41.720 --> 0:21:44.320 of trivia, is that that was the only place you 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.680 can drink in Disneyland because the only in the two 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:50.399 combined parts, because outside of that, the only place you 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:54.840 can drink in Disneyland was Club thirty three. Um, I 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:58.680 don't know if that's changed Disney Yeah, uh yeah, yeah, 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.040 like in in part now it's yeah, Paris Cantina a 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:07.080 galaxy also, you can those drinks are very overrated. Oh really, 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:12.119 that's yeah. I've heard people say the other just because 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.520 people like the tingly Mouth one I have. I haven't 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.920 seen any I haven't been the galaxies Edge. Yeah, but 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.359 I need the tingly Mouth drink. Going back to the 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:24.920 Cars Ride in cars Land, the Cars Ride is my 0:22:24.960 --> 0:22:29.959 favorite Cars movie. Yeah, oh wait, what can you? I'm 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:32.800 sorry say that again. The Car's Ride is my favorite 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:36.480 Cars movie. Okay, Okay, I was lost. I thought you 0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:38.879 were saying like that's your No. I thought you were 0:22:38.960 --> 0:22:41.760 saying that that's your favorite Okay, I understand you now. 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:43.800 I thought you were saying that Cars was your favorite 0:22:43.840 --> 0:22:47.840 Pixar movie. And I was like, ma'am, why, ma'am, why 0:22:47.920 --> 0:22:51.600 are you on this? It's great. No, it's just like 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:54.840 you're going through like, um, you know the what's it 0:22:54.880 --> 0:23:00.920 called the Ornament of the Radiator Spring's going through Radiator Springs. 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:02.840 But the ride is just so much fun. Like I 0:23:03.000 --> 0:23:06.680 liken it to the Pandora ride at Disney World where 0:23:06.720 --> 0:23:10.840 that is also my favorite Avatar movie is that ride. Um, 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:13.520 you know, just like they made some really great high 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:15.399 concept throw rights for some of the biggest I P 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:17.320 s you know, and some of the other ones they 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:19.560 kind of just slap the I P on the ride, 0:23:19.640 --> 0:23:24.200 like the incredi Coaster. Um. But yes, you know, like 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:26.000 you know, I think cars Land was like the biggest 0:23:26.280 --> 0:23:30.320 like sign for people to redirect them to California Adventure 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:35.639 because my girl, California Adventure was not doing good. It was. 0:23:36.119 --> 0:23:40.320 It was definitely high mid for a lot of people. 0:23:40.960 --> 0:23:43.359 The biggest highlight for a lot of people I spoke 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.760 to where was the soaring over because you've got the 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.320 smells blown at you. Um. But yeah, you could. I 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:55.000 could do a whole episode just on Disney Park culture 0:23:55.119 --> 0:23:58.280