Hey, everybody, it's your talking lady dragon wizard,en McNeely ah ha ha ha I'm flying through the air and I'm

fucking shit up with my dragon breath and it is I your esteemed Academy Award winner

wise mentor figure Jeremy Iles how dare you invoke the film this early in the episode? I mean, please, Jake. I'm Jeremy Hylands. And I, magic is, it's all, it'll kill you. Whatever you do, don't use magic before you're ready, unless it's the last act of the movie, and you have to heal a dragon with some bullshit. All right. Today we're talking about the wonderful book series.

Don't use the bullshit to heal me.

Use it to heal the dragon.

We're talking about the wonderful esteemed book series Aragon and the movie.

That is, first of all.

Book series Aragon today about a boy and his dragon.

No, we are talking about the 2006 whoopsie doodle of a major motion picture, the end result of a series of weird events that led to the sexiest woman alive, Rachel Wise, voicing a blue dragon while a lot of bullshit happens.

Holden, this is, this topic is a lot.

Yes.

It's a lot.

Aragon is a very divisive thing.

The author, Christopher Paulini is a very divisive guy.

Not in like, you know, the kind of ways that, you know, the Enders game guy is divisive.

It's just the entire phenomenon of this, like, you know, this Wunderkind who was plucked from obscurity,

whose gumption led to this multi-majillion dollar franchise, only to have it crash and burn in the box office is just something that is very

2000s.

You know, usually we deal with a lot of 80s, 90s nostalgia.

This is some millennial cusp memories right now.

And honestly, watching the movie, if we had gone in blind, I don't know how it would have felt about it, but watching it with all the criticisms, you know, going on good reads, going on all these old Tumblr blogs, going on just like all of these, these now adult tweens of the 2000s that grew up with Aragon kind of seeing it

for what it is is is kind of fascinating um I never thought we'd talk about this book or the

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