The Iron Giant
WHAT WENT WRONG
Sad Boom Media
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
We are who we choose to be, and if Brad Bird hadn't chosen to be a pain in the ass, we'd never have The Iron Giant. This week, Chris & Lizzie are joined by Alex Steed of the You Are Good podcast to explore the complex history of The Iron Giant. From children's stories to profound loss, The Iron Giant's journey to our homes was one of falling apart and coming back together again.
*Please note that today's episode includes mention of suicide and domestic violence.
*CORRECTIONS: Chris mispronounces composer George Bruns' name as "Burns". The first Disney animated film to extensively use CGI was "The Great Mouse Detective" (1986).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and action, and action, |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, dear listeners, and welcome back to your favorite podcast, Full Stop, that just so happens to be about movies and how it's nearly impossible to make one, let alone a good one, let alone your child's favorite retro film about nuclear holocaust. |
| 0:35.5 | I'm one of your host, Lizzie Bassett, here as always with Chris, but Chris, |
| 0:39.7 | we've got a special guest with us today. We do have a very, very special guest. I am very |
| 0:46.6 | excited because we are joined by Alex Steed of the absolutely wonderful You Are Good podcast, which we had the pleasure of guesting on. |
| 0:56.1 | He's also the host of the O.C. Again rewatch podcast. So for all you guys look into head to |
| 1:02.6 | California sometime soon, check that one out. As I mentioned, we had the honor of joining Alex |
| 1:09.4 | on You Are Good to talk about Galaxy Quest, one of my favorite movies of all time. |
| 1:13.9 | And so I thought it only fitting to have Alex on What Went Wrong for another one of my favorite movies of all time, The Iron Giant, because it's all about me. |
| 1:23.2 | Alex, thank you for joining us on What Went Wrong. |
| 1:25.6 | It's perfect because I was a beat Nick Maynard child. |
| 1:29.3 | So this is a deeply resonant text. |
| 1:32.3 | I am excited. |
| 1:34.3 | Well, speaking of, so Alex, we'll let you go first and then Lizzie. |
| 1:39.3 | Had you seen the Iron Giant before, and what were your thoughts upon watching or re-watching it for today's |
| 1:45.5 | podcast? I loved the Iron Giant, and I, because I have a soul, and I, uh, I saw it originally |
| 1:55.1 | in the theater the day after I got my wisdom teeth out, and so I was chemically vulnerable. And I bawled for, |
| 2:06.6 | not just the last bit where it is the time to ball. I bawled for maybe the last full act of the movie. |
| 2:14.8 | And then later I would take like young, there were a couple screenings of this |
| 2:19.8 | a handful of years ago and I would take sort of like young family members to go see it who'd |
| 2:24.6 | never seen it before. Like this is a, I watched a behind the scene special about it and they said |
| 2:30.6 | something to the effect of if this is a movie that you love, this is a movie |
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