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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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The time has come...to become...Animorphs! We had a blast diving into this 90s sci-fi hit for Scholastic. The kids: they become animals. The stakes: they become apocalyptic!
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0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
0:05.6 | While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale, |
0:11.3 | they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary. |
0:16.2 | Plus, these are books you should have read by now. |
0:49.7 | Music These are books you should been meaning to read. My name is Craig. |
0:54.2 | My name is Andrew. And wait. Oh no. I'm a lizard. I used to be a man. |
0:55.9 | I hated the process of watching you turn into a lizard because I had to see every frame of the animation that happens when you turn from a man. |
1:04.8 | Yeah, I do it in 60 FPS, too. |
1:07.0 | So there's a lot of frames. |
1:09.1 | That's probably the thing I will take away from |
1:12.5 | this book animorphs by K.A. Applicate that we both read on the invasion number one. |
1:18.4 | The invasion, yes. The podcast where both of us or sometimes one of us reads a book that we've |
1:24.4 | never read before and then tells you about it. Yeah. |
1:30.2 | Every week we're back with another podcast and here we are again. |
1:35.6 | I will take away how gross some of the descriptions of the morphing process were. |
1:38.3 | Because I think you just... She's in it. |
1:39.1 | You expect it to just go quick. |
1:41.9 | You expect it to be like video game fast. |
1:44.5 | Yeah, like it's like, oh, and then you look away. |
1:46.5 | And I wouldn't be surprised if in later books maybe some of them get a little quick. |
1:53.4 | Maybe they get better at morphing. |
1:55.2 | And even in this book, the morphs at the end. |
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