Alright, finally got a chance to listen to all this and get caught up with all y'all that went to Seattle. My thoughts:
1. So, with the knowledge that all the characters in Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" To Drugs were named after the writer's children and other family members, I have to say I feel sorry for the real-life Latawnya.
"Here sweety, mommy wrote a book about you where you're a dumbshit horse that does drugs because you're too stupid to not imitate whatever anyone does in front of you! Happy Brithday!"
2. I also really love the fact that Ms Gibson went out of her way to make all the characters horses, in spit of the obvious logistical problems that arise from showing realistic horses smoking joints, and then doesn't do anything with it narratively. Absolutely nothing about the story would change if it were "Latawnya, the Naughty Pelican, Learns to Say "No" To Drugs".
3. What's the deal with Christian puppet shows? I mean I understand the basic concept ("Kids like puppets, use them for Jesus") but I feel like the only context in which I've seen puppet shows over the past decade has either been in the context of evangelism or those ironic puppet shows where all the puppets swear and fuck. What is it about the medium of puppetry that seems to draw hardcore Christians like moths to a flame?
4. In the same vein as Latawnya's horse-ness having no bearing on the narrative of her story I also really like how absolutely none of the puppet shows featured in the roster had any reason to actually be puppet shows. It's like, you have a fair deal of freedom about the types of stories you can tell when you're not constrained by needing to have human actors play all the parts but all the writers of those things could come up with was "Uh, basically some normal kids doing one of those educational skits they show you in health class...". At least make it about robots loving Jesus or something...
5. I am glad to see the Sasquatch people have recovered from the species-wide loss of IQ that came from their interactions with Joan Ocean.