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Magical and Animal Friendships in Fantasy Stories With Mallory Rubin | What About Your Friends?

Ringer Dish

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

With Hayao Miyazaki’s new movie, ‘The Boy and the Heron,’ imminently coming to theaters, Erika sits down with The Ringer’s Mallory Rubin to talk about magical and animal friendships in fantasy stories. They talk about ‘The Never Ending Story,’ ‘E.T.,’ a whole host of Miyazaki films, and some of their favorite fantasy book series like ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘His Dark Materials,’ and ‘Lord of the Rings.’ Host: Erika Ramirez Guest: Mallory Rubin Producer: Sasha Ashall Theme Music: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Mallory Rubin and I am thrilled to tell you that House of Bar has a new podcast feed.

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Joanna Robinson and I will now be with you twice a week with more of the deep dives you've come to know and love on the ring ofers.

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In addition to exploring all of your favorite

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nerd culture new releases, we'll have nostalgic revisitations, height meters,

0:17.2

Hall of Fame inductions, tropes courses, drafts, and more. All bad babies are

0:21.2

welcome as we dive into Star Wars, Marvel, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, and beyond.

0:26.0

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0:32.0

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0:44.2

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0:48.6

It's on Prime.

0:49.7

Geographic restrictions and teasencies apply 18 plus.

0:54.0

Welcome back to What About Your Friends, a podcast dedicated to the many lives of friendship and how is portrayed in pop culture.

1:00.0

On this week's episode, I'm joined by the Ringer's most active imagination,

1:04.8

Mallory Rubin, to talk about magical friendships and fantasy and

1:08.8

imaginary friends. Mal, I'm so excited to finally have you on the pod, see your face. Again, like I said offline,

1:16.9

I'm a fan of your work and like I think we're internet friends, but've not but here you are first of all though how's your heart

1:27.2

my heart is full because I get to be here with you today talking about truly one of my favorite things in the world.

1:33.0

Magical friendships.

1:35.0

Yes.

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