Strange World
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In Disney's new animated adventure, Strange World, a family gets lost in a mysterious |
| 0:09.9 | land underground. |
| 0:11.6 | It's a story about discovery and intergenerational conflict with a cast that includes Jake |
| 0:16.2 | Gyllenhaal, Gabrielle Union, Jibuki Young White, and Dennis Quaid. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Stephen Thompson. |
| 0:21.3 | Today we are talking about the movie Strange World on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. |
| 0:32.0 | Joining me today is Ronald Young Jr. He's the host of the film and television review podcast |
| 0:36.2 | leaving the theater welcome back Ronald. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello Stephen, thanks for having me. |
| 0:39.9 | It is great to have you, so at the opening of Strange World, we are told about the |
| 0:45.1 | CLAID family and its patriarch, a legendary explorer named Yeager Claid. |
| 0:50.6 | He's voiced by Dennis Quaid, his son, searcher voiced by Jake Gyllenhaal, was supposed |
| 0:55.0 | to carry on in Yeager's tradition, but searcher is more interested in farming. |
| 0:59.5 | Both professions turn out to be important to their isolated homeland of Avalonia. |
| 1:04.0 | Yeager is always looking for a world beyond the mountains that surround Avalonia while |
| 1:08.2 | searcher uses farming as a way to modernize his community thanks to a mysterious plant-based |
| 1:14.4 | power source. |
| 1:15.4 | Soon, the whole CLAID family gets swept up in a quest when the aforementioned plant-based |
| 1:19.9 | power source is threatened. |
| 1:21.9 | Searcher is joined by his wife Meridian, a bold pilot voiced by Gabrielle Union, and |
| 1:26.4 | their son Ethan, a queer teenager voiced by Jibuki Young White. |
| 1:30.7 | Ethan finds himself torn between farming and exploring when he's not fretting over his |
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