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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Castle in the Sky with Emily Yoshida

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.66.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

Emily Yoshida returns to discuss 1986's Castle in the Sky! But what is the appeal of a Miyazaki film? Is 'chaotic good' a Miyazaki character type? A kind moss robot we stan? Together with the #thetwofriends they examine large adult sky pirate sons, going ham and eggs, Angus the movie, the Studio Ghibli theme park and more!

Music selection by: "Digital Mk. 2" by Tri-Tachyon. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License.

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0:00.0

The podcast speaks to all of us and if we listen, we can understand.

0:26.6

All right. Okay. But I mean, I don't these are tough to do. The foreign

0:30.7

films are always tough to do. It's true. And I couldn't find a catchphrase, a tagline.

0:36.1

I mean, uh, no, no, I'm aware of a tagline. I feel like I guess spirit's just died.

0:42.2

I mean, she, you mean when she grows up, she's going to be like podcasts.

0:49.2

That's I'm trying to see if there was ever. I mean, me these, this, this, this,

0:55.7

is that a, is that a line from the dog? Are y'all watching the dub?

1:00.6

No, I was watching sub to this was saying it's an uncle, an uncle poem line where he says

1:04.7

they are speaks to all of us. And if we listen, yeah, yeah, uncle poems, cool guy,

1:10.2

uncle, yeah, cool guy. Yeah, he kind of just shows up. Yeah, he kind of just holds it.

1:16.6

He just leaves. He reacts really strongly. Really. I have seen the dub of this once and

1:22.7

it's I think the worst. It's pretty unlistenable. And it's, um, I watched this on the DVD

1:29.0

that I have of it that I've had since, I don't know since the first time Disney put it on

1:33.3

DVD. And, um, and so I was like struggling with the menu because it's still that like,

1:38.8

you didn't think where you're toggling through all these different audio tracks and stuff.

1:41.7

Like why? Well, it's going on every time we would accidentally toggle to the English

1:45.8

audio. I would go like, yeah, it's like James Van Vanden. And, um, and Mark Hamill

1:51.5

and Anna Patler and Clores Leach. Yeah, they age up the kids. Yeah, which is very strange.

1:57.3

Obviously being able to age up how they look. Yeah. Yeah. It's just off. Yeah. But I think

2:01.7

there are subtle dialogue changes to reference the fact that they're older. I was reading through

2:06.2

on the Wikipedia. I mean, there are like a lot of changes. They like, they made 90 minutes

2:11.2

of score rather than 60 minutes. That's the other thing. They changed the score to make

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