Rehash· Staffel 6· Folge 2

Disney Adults

· 1 h 13

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<p>Ever heard of the Disney theme park for adults called “Pleasure Island”? No? Well now you have - sorry! Disney has always been understood as a company for children. But Pleasure Island closed in 2003, and people are having babies later and later (if ever at all), and so now the Disney theme parks have become a veritable playground for a whole new group of fans: grown ups. In this episode, Hannah and Maia talk about Disney adults - their malignment by the general public, their strange religiosity, and their unabashed love of a conglomerate that routinely tramples on the rights of its workers. But, after all, Disney was designed to be a a nostalgic teet from which lost adult souls may suck. So why is it that when adults like Disney, we hate them for it? Tangents include: Hannah’s dm correspondence with Deux Moi, and Maia’s millennial rights advocacy. </p>
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<p>SOURCES:</p>
<p>Johnny Oleksinski, “Sorry, childless millennials going to Disney World is weird.” <em>The New York Post.</em></p>
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<p>Zach Gass, “Pleasure Island: The Origins of Disney’s Nightlife” <em>Inside The Magic.</em></p>
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<p>Michael Sorkin, “See You in Disneyland” <em>Design Quarterly </em>(1992).</p>
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<p>Sarah Marshall, “The Magic Kingdom: The dark side of the Disney dream” <em>The Baffler </em>(2019).</p>
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<p>Xavier Guillaume Singh, “Becoming A ‘Disney Adult’ Might Be Cringe, But It Saved My Life” <em>Huffington Post </em>(2023).</p>
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<p>EJ Dickson, “How ‘Disney Adults’ Became The Most Hated Group On The Internet” <em>Rolling Stone</em> (2022).</p>
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<p>Jodi Eichler-Levine, “Don’t judge Disney adults. Try to understand them.” <em>NBC </em>(2022).</p>
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<p>Hannah Sampson, “Childless millennials are passionately defending their Disney fandom” <em>The Washington Post</em> (2019).<br/></p>
<p>K.J. Yossman, “Confessions of Disney Adults: Mouse House Superhans Talk Splurging on Merch, Keeping Execs in Check” <em>Variety </em>(2023).</p>
<p><br/>Todd Martens, “In defense of Disney adults” <em>Los Angeles Times </em>(2024).</p>
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<p>Amelia Tate, “The ‘Disney adult’ industrial complex” <em>The New Statesman </em>(2024).</p>
<p><br/>Lia Picard, “It’s Not Enough to Love Disney. They Want to Live Disney” <em>The New York Times </em>(2023).</p>
<p><br/>Savannah Martin, “We interviewed the genius girl behind DisneyBound - and she’s just as magical as you’d expect” <em>Hello Giggles </em>(2015).</p>
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