Looking for the Ocean: A Pixar Journey

Join two friends Danny and Mark as they re-watch the entire Pixar catalog. That means features, shorts, tech demos, documentaries, and more. They’ll talk about the history of the company and its style and themes as well as their personal connections to the films they watch as cinema lovers who grew up in the early 2000s.
Episodes
Episodes



Friday Dec 12, 2025
113: Every Star Wars Movie Ranked: One Night in Miami… w/ Julius Jefferson
Friday Dec 12, 2025
Friday Dec 12, 2025
Regina King’s One Night in Miami… was released in the US in December 2020 and was based on Kemp Powers’ (Soul, Across the Spider-Verse) 2013 play.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
Check out Julius's podcast, The Good Music Show, and the mockumentary they edited, Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.



Friday Nov 28, 2025
112: Bunnysgiving: Zootopia
Friday Nov 28, 2025
Friday Nov 28, 2025
DANNY SPOILS GET OUT. To coincide with the release of Zootopia 2, we’re going back in the timeline to the original from 2016!
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.



Friday Nov 14, 2025
Friday Nov 14, 2025
Another short from Madeline Sharafian, Pixar’s first gay main character, and TV for cats and babies.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.



Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
110: FEMTOBER IV: HANGING FROM A CLIFF!!!
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Tuesday Nov 11, 2025
Sarah Knauf is back to talk about this year’s Femtober! Legacy sequels, student films, spoilers for Hamnet, Danny has Bane voice, found footage.
https://letterboxd.com/essgeekay/list/femtober-viii-i-know-what-you-did-last-femtober/
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.



Friday Oct 24, 2025
109. I’m Going to Become the Smashing Machine: Come Away
Friday Oct 24, 2025
Friday Oct 24, 2025
We talk about the first live action film from Brenda Chapman, the co-director of Brave and Prince of Egypt. I put a screenshot of Waffles in the thumbnail to make up for us mostly complaining about AI and capitalism instead.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.



Friday Sep 19, 2025
108. One Prank After Another: Pixar in Real Life
Friday Sep 19, 2025
Friday Sep 19, 2025
The NYC public spectacle group Improv Everywhere made 11 short prank films for Disney+. We basically agree on the quality of the shorts, then we get into it and realize our tastes are opposite.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.



Monday Sep 15, 2025
107. God Does Not Want Us to Podcast: We Bare Bears: The Movie w/ Kevin Lau
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
An electrical storm knocks out Kevin’s power, but he plugs into a battery and joins us to talk 2020’s We Bare Bears: The Movie, a charming and timely Cartoon Network TV movie from the director of 2026’s Hoppers.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.



Friday Aug 22, 2025
106. Kevin is Afraid: Onward w/ Kevin Lau
Friday Aug 22, 2025
Friday Aug 22, 2025
Filmmaker Kevin Lau arrives AGAINST ALL ODDS to discuss Onward, Pixar’s last theatrical release before Covid.
You can follow us on social media at Facebook at Lookingfortheocean and Instagram @lookingfortheoceanpod. You can also listen to episodes on our website lookingfortheoceanpixar.podbean.com.
You can find Mark at @myounginsta on Instagram and Danny at @blankments on Letterboxd.

Our Mission Statement
Mark Young (left) and Danny Vincent (right) are aiming to watch every single Pixar "thing" ever made. That includes features, shorts, tech demos, TV shows, documentaries and more. Moreover, our goal in watching these pieces of media is to discover just why Pixar has captured our mind, and track our own personal growth with Pixar as our timestamps in life.



