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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, Film Reviews, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 25 August 2019

ā±ļø 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. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod onĀ Instagram,Ā Threads,Ā FacebookĀ andĀ X! Buy some real nerdy merch. Connect with other Blankies on ourĀ RedditĀ orĀ Discord For anything else, check outĀ BlankCheckPod.comĀ  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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