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Disney, Disney Plus, disney podcast, Haley Baker Callahan, Micah Hirsch, NatGeo, national geographic, national geographic special, podcast, television animation, television review, television series, The Emperor's New Podcast, the emperor's new school, tony goldmark, viking raid, vikings
Remember earlier this summer when I was on the podcast Channel KRT? Well this week I appeared on two MORE of my favorite podcasts, Escape From Vault Disney and The Emperor’s New Podcast!
For those who don’t know, Escape From Vault Disney is hosted by Tony Goldmark, whose work I’m a big fan of. EFVD’s Randomizer saw fit to bestow upon him, hilarious person Ryan Hipp, massively-smarter-than-the-material-given Haley Baker Callahan, and myself the NatGeo special Viking Warrior Women. It’s…not as exciting as it sounds, but we had a hell of a time talking about it.
Micah Hirsch, the internet’s biggest Emperor’s New Groove fan, brought me on to discuss an episode of the animated spinoff series, The Emperor’s New School, with Land Before Time-Land co-host Madeline Maye and gaming streamer DGil. Listen in awe as we ramble on about carnivals, Kuzco’s ego, and how much fun Patrick Warburton’s screams are.
Tony, Micah, thanks for having me on your shows! See you guys tomorrow when I drop the next Faerie Tale Theatre review!
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That’s amazing! I checked out the Escape from Vault Disney episode and it was exceptionally hilarious! And also the feeling of disappointment y’all had in it was very very understandable because that sounds like such a cool idea for a documentary but the actual execution sounds like it was such a slog! For a better Viking related media, I highly recommend the manga and anime Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura, it is one of the best researched pieces of fiction about the late Viking age (especially compared to the Vikings TV Show) and is just a really interesting and great story. One other thing to add onto what Hayley was saying in the podcast re: your questions about Viking funerals- from everything I’ve heard and read, the answer (as Hayley mentioned) seems to be yes and no as to them being a real thing. The best historical account we have of such a funeral is from the Arabic traveler and diplomat Ibn Fadlan, who recounts one such funeral (and the human sacrifices accompanying it) amongst the Slavic and Swedish communities on the Volga River. The general consensus seems to be that ship burials did occur…just not at sea and often what would happen is they would bring the ship to land, use it as a pyre, and then build a mound around the area. The idea about them happening at sea I think is a result of the description of Baldr’s funeral in the Prose Edda, where his body is set adrift on a boat that is then lit on fire. While it probably didn’t happen or happen frequently, it looks super cool so I get why it has become such a common trope and image in media depicting the Viking Age. While the Viking Age is not my specialty by any stretch (I may be a Medievalist, but it is purely by the transitive property due to studying stuff adjacent to Medieval Europe), I find it very cool and I am so happy to have gotten to hear y’all talk about this subject (albeit in relation to a piece of media not doing a good job covering it) and Escape from Vault Disney is just such a fun and funny podcast I am so glad you got a chance to appear on it (and I hope you get to appear on it again, and for something better next time!)
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Thank you Samuel! Glad you enjoyed it! I shall definitely check those out soon. Hopefully the Randomizer will be kinder to us next time Iām on š
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