753: Robot vs. Nature

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Blending classic Disney animals with a mysterious Miayazki forest, “The Wild Robot” is a story of overcoming your programming and not allowing yourself to become trapped in loops of behavior—whether you’re a robot or maybe even a human being....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 753, February 2025.
0:09.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I am your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	This episode is about a film, an animated film.
0:17.0	It's The Wild Robot from 2024, nominated for Animated Feature in the Oscars, in fact,
0:24.6	just recently. And we're talking about it because we hated it and we want the Oscars to,
0:33.0	no, that's not true. We're talking about it because the Oscars are right. It's a great movie.
0:36.6	And in fact, I think I wanted to win the Oscar. Anyway, let me introduce my panel who's going to be joining me to talk about I've given it away a movie that I really like, which is why I said, I watched it. And I said, hey, we should do an episode about the Wild Robot. And these people all agreed. Brian Warren is here. Hi, Brian. I'm so glad we're talking about this too. It was one of my picks from
0:54.7	2024 for the incomparable wrap-up show. Yeah, that's right. I'm all in. That's right.
0:59.9	Awesome. Very nice. Very nice. Sufficiently, Brian, but no, we won't stop there. Brian Hamilton is also
1:07.2	here. Hello, Brian. Also, Brian. Hello, I can also help out with banking and landscaping.
1:12.3	That's good. Can you plan in planning a vacation? Um, Annette Weistra is here. Hi, Annette.
1:19.3	Hello. I heard on the here on show. This was an awesome movie and thought, why not watch it with all of you?
1:26.1	That's, oh good. Just give Brian more and more credit.
1:29.6	Just what do you need?
1:30.3	More credit.
1:31.2	More credit.
1:31.8	Loat his head.
1:33.0	And always a pleasure when she joins us.
1:35.8	Katie Mack.
1:36.5	Hi, Katie.
1:38.0	Hello, I'm very happy to be here.
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