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🗓️ 19 August 2024
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The Magic School Bus series, beloved of 80s and 90s kids as both a book series and a TV show, depicts a school where every day is a field trip and every field trip is actually a fantastical voyage through time and space. I don't want to think what these permission slips look like.
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0:04.0 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale, |
0:11.0 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
0:15.6 | Plus these are books you should have read by now. Oh, uh, uh, |
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0:45.8 | meaning to read my name is Craig my name is Andrew beep beep beep |
0:50.4 | hong hong beep be beep, beep, the school bus is backing up. |
0:56.0 | It's here to pick us up. |
0:57.0 | The stop sign has folded off of the side, |
1:00.0 | the red lights are flashing. |
1:02.0 | Oh, no, now we're shrinking or flying up into the stars or going back in time or something unusual. |
1:10.0 | Where are the things the magic school bus does? mostly a lot of shrinking and going into things I think and |
1:17.7 | and kind of traveling through charts |
1:31.0 | like how charts. How clear was it in your book that the things that the busted actually happened in real in real life? Because there's some pretty clear signs yeah pretty clear |
1:34.4 | though it did raise some questions at the end for me about what these kids say |
1:42.2 | when they go home and whether or not anyone else knows |
1:48.2 | about frizzle and the relationship to the bus's powers. |
1:54.0 | I think it's a little bit like a Barney situation where you can't tell you like |
1:58.8 | Barney, you go out in your garage and you play with Barney and then Barney tells you not to tell your parents about him. |
2:04.0 | Yeah, I have some thoughts on that based on this book. |
2:09.0 | Welcome to our book podcast where each week one of us reads a book and tells the other person about it and |
2:14.6 | sometimes we like to bend but not break the formula and sometimes we like to |
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