The NeverEnding Story (1984) - Safe Books, Loose Bones & a Power Ballad
That Aged Well
That Aged Well Podcast
4.9 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 136 minutes
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Summary
Fantasy February gets real this week, as Erika and Paul get all the way into 1984’s classic The NeverEnding Story, which has the three building blocks of any great fantasy story: horses, wolves, and dragons. Once you’ve got those, you’re pretty much 75% of the way to a great fantasy story…but does this one land the last 25%? Listen and find out!
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| 0:00.0 | I went with my dad to the Museum of Natural History. |
| 0:03.7 | A delight. |
| 0:04.3 | When he was visiting. |
| 0:05.6 | And he said something that he was just trying to be cute and start a fun conversation. |
| 0:11.3 | But I was like, the answer is so pathetic. |
| 0:14.2 | I can't even answer it. |
| 0:15.2 | He basically were standing in front of the dinosaur bones. |
| 0:17.7 | Sure. |
| 0:17.9 | And like the enormous T-Rex bones. |
| 0:21.3 | And he was like, wow, what would you do if he saw a T-Rex in real life? |
| 0:25.5 | And I was like, I turned up and I was like, you've seen my reaction to raccoons, right? |
| 0:34.1 | Like, we once saw a raccoon on the beach in Miami, and I flipped out. |
| 0:40.4 | Because I'm like, why is there a raccoon on the beach? |
| 0:43.4 | That's fucked up. |
| 0:45.3 | They're not a swimming animal. |
| 0:46.9 | And it's daylight. |
| 0:48.2 | They're nocturnal. |
| 0:49.3 | That is fucking rabid. |
| 0:50.5 | Get away from it. |
| 0:51.1 | Get away from it. |
| 0:51.7 | Don't feed it. |
| 0:52.3 | It'll die in the water. |
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