274: Free Willy
I Hate It But I Love It
Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Kids Movie Month continues with the unexpectedly devastating Free Willy! Kat and Jocelyn talk about how you simply MUST not allow babies to train whales, how strange it is to see Michael Madsen in a kids' film, and reveal their grim connection to the documentary Blackfish.
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| 0:00.0 | I hate it! But I love it! |
| 0:25.8 | I hide by all I everybody! I hide by all I want and all welcome to I hate it, but I love it! I am Jocelyn Getty! |
| 0:30.8 | I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously. |
| 0:35.6 | This week, we are continuing Kids Movie Month with Free Willy, a movie that is much |
| 0:41.1 | sadder than I remember. |
| 0:42.4 | No, dear! |
| 0:44.0 | Yes, please tell me about your experience revisiting this, because Kat texted me to be like, |
| 0:49.2 | I can't remember exactly what you said, but the basic gist of the text was like, |
| 0:53.1 | I have been watching this for 10 minutes and I have devastating emotions on me. |
| 0:57.3 | All I could think while watching it is, Jocelyn's going to have a bad time. |
| 1:01.3 | Ooh, well, we will get into my experience, but please tell me more about your experience. |
| 1:06.0 | I saw this movie when it came out in 1993. It was a big hit. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.1 | Um, and I just remember making me cry, but then feeling like, oh, but it ends so happily. |
| 1:19.0 | And like, I don't know, I like whales. |
| 1:21.7 | They're cool looking. |
| 1:22.7 | I like them. |
| 1:23.7 | Um, I did not remember that the protagonist of this film is a runaway child who has been |
| 1:32.6 | living on the street for a few days, but still upsetting. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm setting, absolutely. |
| 1:37.8 | Um, and that like, he's very troubled and has real pro, uh, misgivings about his foster |
| 1:47.7 | parents. Oh, and then beyond that, whales being kept in captivity when they shouldn't. |
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