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S2:E9 - The Wild Robot (2024 Film)
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Welcome to April Adventures — our newest monthly theme where every story is a journey! And we're kicking things off with a tale that’s both heartwarming and wild: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown and its beautiful, animated film adaptation.
In this episode, we dive into the story of Roz, a robot who wakes up alone on a remote island and must learn how to survive in the wilderness... and maybe even find her place among the animals that live there. It's a sweet, surprisingly emotional journey of self-discovery, survival, and the meaning of family — even when that family is full of geese, bears, and squirrels.
Hosted by Keri with co-hosts Lindsey and Crystal.
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Question of the Episode:
- During Roz’s journey, she makes a lot of unexpected friends — from foxes and squirrels to deer and bears. If you could have any wild animal companion, which one would you choose and why?
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Chapters:
(00:00) Introductions
(2:30) Let’s Talk Ratings
(8:56) The Wild Robot Book vs. Movie Breakdown (SPOILERS)
(1:00:14) Final Verdicts
(1:01:32) Question of the Episode
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Transcript
Introduction to 'Based on a Book' Podcast
00:00:07
Speaker
Welcome to Based on a Book, the podcast that expertly whips you from high-action robot titles one week to deep psychological turmoil the next. And yes, this time we're talking about a kid's animated movie.
00:00:21
Speaker
Hello, my name is Keri, your emotional processing unit, here to assist you through this episode. I'm Lindsay, and most of my tasks can be completed by eating. And I'm Crystal, this group's empty nest expert.
00:00:38
Speaker
Our theme has officially begun.
April's Adventure Theme: 'The Wild Robot'
00:00:40
Speaker
And if you haven't already seen from our social media, April is for adventures and we picked titles that we thought best fit the theme. And we are starting our adventure theme with my pick, which is the wild robot by Peter Brown and it's 2024 animated adaptation directed by Chris Sanders, who did Lilo and stitch and how to train your dragon.
00:01:04
Speaker
This movie includes a pretty big cast and including Pedro Pascal, Kit Conner, and Lupita Nyong'o.
Exploring Peter Brown's Works
00:01:16
Speaker
Hopefully pronounced that correctly. And the author and illustrator Peter Brown, who illustrates the pictures that are in the book, has many other notable works as well, including The Curious Garden, Children Make Terrible Pets, You Will Be My Friend, Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, and as we know, the Wild Robot trilogy, which I will warn, it has a little bit of a cliffhanger in the book, the first book that we'll be covering.
Plot Overview of 'The Wild Robot'
00:01:47
Speaker
So for the first book, the Wild Robot is a blend of heartwarming, adventure, science fiction, family, motherhood, and nature. follows Roz, who is a robot who unexpectedly wakes up alone on a remote island surrounded by animals and no people around.
00:02:05
Speaker
This story is about Roz adapting to survive within the wildlife. She forms connections with animals and discovers her purpose in the world she feels she doesn't quite belong in, and during that she raises a baby goose.
00:02:20
Speaker
It's the kind of story that is thought-provoking for children and adults with balance between humor and making you feel all the feels.
Emotional Impact of Book and Movie
00:02:28
Speaker
So let's get into ratings. I'm excited for this one.
00:02:33
Speaker
Crystal, i want to start with you. o Lord. I'm just over here listening to your introduction and the only thing going through my head is emotional damage. Yes, that's exactly what it is.
00:02:45
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and This book messed me up. The movie messed me ah At one point, my kid was concerned.
00:02:56
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He was like, I'll make you happy, mom. And I'm like, I am happy. It was a lot. yeah However, I'm going to take a page from Carrie's book.
00:03:11
Speaker
um And I'm giving this six awkward introductions. This This transcends the five the one through five scale.
00:03:23
Speaker
This is a six. This is going to be a treasured family favorite for a long time to come. Oh, I'm going to cry. Why do I want to cry? this i something in me told me this is going to be a good one.
Personal Reactions and Family Favorites
00:03:37
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And it's a, it's, you know, it's a little, my son's a little young for this yet um to read on his own and to really understand it.
00:03:46
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um But I went out and I bought the um hardback box set because something in me said, this is going to be a good one. This is going to be a good one. And then I read
The Audiobook Experience
00:03:53
Speaker
it and I seriously, it's, it's,
00:03:59
Speaker
you i'm going to cry already. i know. Just the memories of reading it this first time and my son being a part of that because the audio book is amazing. I listened to the audio too because I happened to find it and I thought, let's give it a shot.
00:04:15
Speaker
And it's It's so beautiful. he like i was listening and he heard it and came in from the other room and wanted to listen with me and was talking to me. at I had to keep stopping it because he wanted to talk about what he was hearing and what was happening.
00:04:31
Speaker
And then when we watched the movie together, i mean, he this this this is a six. This is a six. And I'm good now. i'm not crying anymore.
00:04:42
Speaker
I do want to note that it is narrated by Kate Atwater, i think. Yes. So, may I mean, amazing job. I did do a little sneak peek into the audiobook and it sounded incredible. Because they have, it's not just, it's not just her reading. They have like the sounds of the ocean in the background and the birds and
Animation Style in the Movie
00:05:01
Speaker
the wildlife.
00:05:01
Speaker
And that's only for the first like 10 chapters. And when I say chapters, these this is a, It's a middle grade book. It's a it's a kid's book. These chapters and sometimes are only like one page. So like these aren't long chapters. But for the first 15 minutes of then the audio book, 15 to 20 minutes, they have like the animal sounds and the wilderness sounds. And that's what instantly drew my kid in.
00:05:24
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And when those sounds faded away and it was just the narration, he didn't even notice. He was still already sunk into the story and and ready for more. It was just so well done.
00:05:36
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it it
Book vs. Movie: Character and Emotional Differences
00:05:38
Speaker
It was an experience. If you have a kid who's not necessarily going to sit and listen to you read, the audiobook is just lovely. Absolutely lovely. Yeah.
00:05:49
Speaker
um Okay, Lindsay? ah So I gave it four and a half beeboops because every good robot needs a beeboop in their system.
00:06:01
Speaker
okay i I really did like the story. I also listened to the audio book and the movie was just absolutely fantastic. And basically there's there's a point in the movie where the tears started and they didn't stop until the end.
00:06:18
Speaker
But I didn't like how it made me feel. but get it. i get it. i get it Emotional damage. That was Yeah. that was it yeah I ended up giving it five acorns.
00:06:37
Speaker
Aww. I physically rather- I'm gonna get emotional. Yep. Oh my god. my god. I'm gonna get emotional. I didn't think I was gonna get emotional so early. Neither did I. I feel like Trisha meme where she's like, wow, I'm already crying.
00:06:53
Speaker
Yep. I don't know what it was about this book. I was like, wow, I'm crying over this robot mom taking care of her baby goose.
00:07:06
Speaker
This is crazy. and i it's like, I kind of talked to you guys about this little bit. And there's I never thought I'd be reading so much middle grade so much later in my life.
Universal Appeal Across Age Groups
00:07:20
Speaker
And There's something about reading it now where there's like an innocence to it. and Reading it as an adult. And I feel like it's just hitting me and impacting me so hard recently for some reason.
00:07:38
Speaker
And it's I feel like it's healing. Yeah, exactly. Like it's healing something. Talking to that inner child. Yeah. Yep. And I'm not even joking.
00:07:52
Speaker
I sobbed the second half of the book. I sobbed so much. I mean, I even sobbed like different parts of the first half of the book, but like continuous crying the second half of the book.
00:08:05
Speaker
And it wasn't even like super sad. It was just like emotional. Big feelings. Yeah. Big feelings. that's It's not that any of them were particularly bad.
00:08:18
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They were just big feelings. And I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
Animation and Emotional Tone Differences
00:08:23
Speaker
Absolutely. And I never thought I would be like, I can't wait to read that like the rest of the middle grade series. and And people are probably like, duh, like we already knew that this stuff was good.
00:08:34
Speaker
Like, hello, we've been reading this as adult well. Like, I'm just I'm just getting with the program. And I mean, you know, the movie won three Oscars this year. Which is insane.
00:08:45
Speaker
yeah Insane for an animated feature. Yeah. Movie, incredible. Yep. But let's get into all the spoilers because we got to get into everything. I'm holding my tissue.
00:08:58
Speaker
Yeah, I got my body. I need to prepare. if you haven't finished The Wild Robot yet, now's the time to pause because we're about to dive into all the spoilers.
00:09:09
Speaker
If you're ready to laugh with us or cry with us, then keep on listening. But I want to start with the content warnings. And let me know if I missed anything. But this book and movie has themes of survival and loss, death of characters, animals, those are the characters, um isolation and loneliness, and bullying.
00:09:35
Speaker
So, but let's go ahead. You can think of anything else. No, sounds good. Any other content? covers it, yeah. Storygraph is, ah we say this a lot, but Storygraph is an excellent place to look for additional content warnings if you want to double check before getting into the story.
00:09:52
Speaker
But first, let's get into our book versus movie breakdown. But I want to talk about the animation style first. Because I thought it was... Super interesting. Like, this is a DreamWorks movie.
00:10:07
Speaker
But there was, like, a different style to it that I've personally experienced. Right. Because when you think of DreamWorks, you think of, like, Shrek. Right? And this was not and all that style.
00:10:21
Speaker
Yeah. This was... softer? Is that... It almost had, like, a... I almost want to say... Like a comic book type feeling to it. like Almost. It kind of was giving like that the newest... Like the Spider-Man movie, the animated... like it kind of was giving me that feeling
Roz's Adaptation and Learning
00:10:44
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a little bit whenever I saw that.
00:10:45
Speaker
ah despite i was like yeah At first i was like, whoa. like The way that it was animated. i thought it was really interesting. I think that it was a little bit more simple. and not as Even like the color palette was not as incredibly...
00:11:00
Speaker
in-your-face vibrant as a lot of animated movies from, you you know, the big ones like DreamWorks and Pixar and stuff like that, like where you expect those bright, vibrant colors. This was more subdued. This was more wilderness. And I think keeping it a little more natural, a little more subtle allowed the story itself to stand out.
00:11:24
Speaker
And I really, i really liked that. I thought it was a little bit more like, it's time to sit down and be calm and listen to a story instead of be excited about a story. And yeah I mean, there were still excited moments. My kids still bounced off the walls through a few parts, but it was the kind of movie where we sit and watch.
00:11:41
Speaker
yeah and And it was obvious by the way it looked, you know, it it set the, the vibes were right. Yeah. Yeah. And it definitely, if you look at the illustrations in the book, it definitely has,
00:11:57
Speaker
different look about like Roz and things like that. yeah And, but I just think it was just done so well. Like, like you said, Crystal, it was like a softness to it with the animation. And I think it was just, it was done really well. And like you said, it's just, it set the tone for what we're about to get into.
00:12:18
Speaker
So in the beginning, Roz, which is the robot and which is based off like Roz brand robots. ah arrives on this island because there is a storm and a bunch of robots fell off a ship or something and then but Roz arrives in a crate and is you know arrives on this island and breaks out of our the crate opens and now Roz is on this island and basically Doesn't know, like, this is just where Roz is now here on this island has to learn to survive on this island.
00:12:57
Speaker
That's basically the setup here. And right from the beginning of the book and movie, Roz is, like, learning how to walk and learning how, like, learning her environment.
00:13:08
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And like, it's really cool because like Roz, the whole point of Roz is like, she observes and that's how she learns how to do something. Like right off the bat, she's observing how a crab walks up the cliff.
00:13:23
Speaker
So that's how she's going to get up the cliff and move to the next location to in order to understand her environment and where to go next. Because basically the whole point is that she's like wondering who ordered her and wondering what the her purpose is and what like her tasks are.
00:13:43
Speaker
And this is like kind of more subtle in the book, but in the movie, this part was hysterical. Yes. In the movie, this was, and the book and the movie are just different enough that they were both enjoyable separately. Exactly. Exactly.
00:14:00
Speaker
And i like i loved the way it was, again, soft and gentle in the in the book, kind of a slower. But in the movie, the humor just like punches you. I was cracking up.
00:14:15
Speaker
Yeah. this It was needed. was needed through this. Because we were going through it. We were we were going through it. Yeah. So we needed the Like, she is basically in the movie, because like you said, it's much slower in the book. It's a slower pace, but not to the point that you want to not want to continue. But no it's slower in the sense that, like, we're getting to know the character Ross a little more.
00:14:40
Speaker
This is more fast paced for, you know, to keep your attention a little bit more in the movie. But immediately she's wondering who ordered her and she's harassing these animals. Be like, did you order Roz robot?
00:14:51
Speaker
She's like, thank you. How may I assist you? Like taking their picture. Like the animals are like blinded for a second, like putting a sticker on them. Thank you for how may I assist you? What tasks do you need? There is aggressively helpful.
00:15:04
Speaker
The one, think it was the beaver or something. And she is literally sprinting a full sprint at this, like, beaver.
00:15:15
Speaker
Like, how may I assist you? Like, asking for, like, their, like, how... i You need your car's extended warranty or something. Like you're being harassed. Right. thought she was like a bony from Warm Bodies. Yes. Right.
00:15:29
Speaker
Yes. And I love how in the movie she like, she doesn't even like wait for an answer. She's just like, like oh, I see your problem, Mr. Beaver. And like, because she sees that the water is blocked up.
00:15:40
Speaker
So she destroys his dam. She's like, there you go. Yeah. And then gives him a sticker. like And all the animals are panicking. you make the completion of my task? I'm a seal of one to ten. And all the animals are panicking. They're like, what the hell is this? This is not normal.
00:15:58
Speaker
We don't know what you are. Get out of here. You're ruining everything. Stop. And, you know, that's kind of like the whole theme in, like, the beginning where she's just like, I'm just here to complete my task. Like, who ordered me? And, like, I need to figure out what I'm supposed to do next kind of thing.
00:16:12
Speaker
And I love this quote from, it's like right in the beginning, like page 24. It's like, as the robot looked out at the island, it never even occurred to her that she might not belong here. As far as Roz knew, she was home.
00:16:28
Speaker
So she does not know that she's supposed to be anywhere else, but on this island, this is home. This is where she has to be. And she's got to complete her daily tasks every day. And so we also see that like Roz sleeps to learn.
00:16:43
Speaker
So order, she sees that like things aren't going well with these animals. She's not, you know, becoming, building a good relationship with these animals. And the way that she learns is basically sitting there for a really long time and just watches She's just observed.
00:17:03
Speaker
Observes and puts it into her brain how each of them communicate with each other, how each of them, know, things their daily lives. This one of my favorite parts of the story. Yeah.
00:17:16
Speaker
having like when we stopped with my son to to talk about this part because again he's he wanted to talk about every single part But we talked about like sometimes you remember how we watch things and then we learn and we sometimes we just – and like kind of seeing that represented in a book so well.
00:17:37
Speaker
And then again in the movie, like reinforcing that like sometimes you
Roz's Integration with Island Animals
00:17:42
Speaker
just sit and watch. You don't have to talk. You don't have to ask. You don't have to touch. You just watch. Yeah. as As a parent, I need my kid to hear that a lot.
00:17:50
Speaker
So I was okay with that. like Yeah, and I also really love this part where like um she sees like an insect camouflaging themselves, and that's how she learns how to camouflage herself.
00:18:04
Speaker
And she's like she learns like immediately these different aspects of these animals, how they talk, and then she learns how to talk with the animals. But you know she's sitting in this one place, and like things are growing around her, because she's sitting there for a really, really long time.
00:18:18
Speaker
and these And all the animals around her, ah she's eventually being known as like this monster. On this island. Because everyone's like... They don't know what a robot is. All the animals talk, by the way. Yeah. And they're all like... They're gossiping like, who the hell is that? ah She don't look like us.
00:18:35
Speaker
Right. Yeah. So... And they freak out because, you know, eventually when she starts learning all ah these animal traits from all of them, she like gets up and she's like, all right, I'm ready. Like, I'm ready to...
00:18:50
Speaker
you know, do my task for everyone and all this stuff. And then they're like, oh my God, the monster's awake. Like we got to run. oh no, monster's here.
00:19:01
Speaker
Oh no.
00:19:04
Speaker
um So during Roz's like general curiosity on the island, she eventually, you know, she encounters a lot of animals. Like that's kind of like in the book, this is a much slower pace,
00:19:16
Speaker
event where like you get to see every single animal that she's like interacting with and it's super cute like she every single interaction like in the beginning when she's like having really bad interactions with these animals and then the slowly as the relationships build and get better throughout the book Movie, it's kind of like you get it for a second or you never get like the initial interaction and then you start building relationships later.
00:19:45
Speaker
But like we said, book is a much slower pace. But eventually during Roz's curiosity, one of those reactions are with a bear where she is chased by a bear. And the sequence of events in the book, in the movie, are a little different.
00:20:02
Speaker
But... What I thought was super interesting in the book, there's a quote that says the robot's programming would not allow her to be violent.
00:20:14
Speaker
Oh, what do you know? It's the first law of robotics. I know. i See, what I did. Look what did, Crystal. Are you proud of me? Also, are I'm very proud. Did you notice the third law in there too?
00:20:28
Speaker
Where she wasn't allowed her self-preservation protocols
Themes of Life and Death
00:20:32
Speaker
kicked in. Yes. Because she's not allowed to damage herself unless it violates the first or second law. Yep. I kept, I literally, it kept clicking in my head.
00:20:42
Speaker
It's everywhere. I'm telling you. It's clicking. It's clicking from me. Aren't you glad I made that one happen? I know that you all y'all only gave it 2.5, but it was a learning thing. You needed to know this stuff. You needed to know the origin story of these laws when we see them other places. Well, now we do. Now we do. Look at us. Look at us. You're welcome.
00:21:03
Speaker
So... Basically, during there's like I said, the sequence of events are very different. In the book movie, some characters are missing and some characters are more significant in the movie than they are in the book.
00:21:16
Speaker
But there is an accident that happens in both the book and the movie where...
00:21:23
Speaker
But in the movie specifically, a bear chase happens, and which causes Roz to fall on a nest of geese.
00:21:34
Speaker
And it causes an accident where a family of geese are killed except for one egg. But in the book, this is different, where Roz actually is like climbing a cliff.
00:21:45
Speaker
And accidentally falls. Because storm light blows in and blows her off yeah the cliff whatever. And falls on this nest of geese and kills them.
00:21:57
Speaker
I think it's interesting that they changed this. Yeah. Where I think it's changed on purpose to make it less... Of Ra's fault. Yeah. Yeah. Because honestly, like, when you read this book, it's a little brutal.
00:22:16
Speaker
It's brutal. and they So unexpected. and they But they talk about, like, nature can be ugly sometimes. Exactly. Like, the circle of life. That's, like, a big theme in this book. Which, again, was honestly, like, I'm comfortable talking to my my son about that right now because we have had deaths in the family. And so, like...
00:22:37
Speaker
trying to make more sense of that. Like this is a little, this is nature. Like this was a good kind of book for that. who But I understand why like at this age, if you haven't had that talk with your kids yet, if they haven't experienced that yet, this might be that caution point where maybe like it's a good introduction, but also you got to know your kid first, you
Parenting and Emotional Challenges
00:22:59
Speaker
know? Yeah. Yeah. And they definitely don't,
00:23:02
Speaker
In the book, it's a little more heavy-handed than it is in the movie. yeah For sure. Oh, yeah. I would definitely say in the movie, they make it much more lighter. Much lighter in the movie than they do in the book.
00:23:13
Speaker
The book is I'm not going to sit here and say the book is, like, graphic or anything. But, like, the topic is pretty present in the book. Yeah. But one egg is left in this nest.
00:23:27
Speaker
And... Roz, you know, picks up this egg and kind of, you know, it becomes the caretaker of this egg because there's still like a little baby goose still in this egg.
00:23:42
Speaker
And in the movie, this is very different than the book because Fink... Fink... Is that the right name? I was like, did I make that up?
00:23:54
Speaker
Nope. um Or Pedro. yeah pedro Pedro Pascal. Think the Fox is very present in the movie. Not very present in the book.
00:24:04
Speaker
As someone that helps Roz take care of this baby goose. and there And there's also a possum. Who's like a mom that has like a bunch of little babies.
00:24:17
Speaker
That also helps as well. Who's not very present. in the book either. But there is just this like really cute, funny sequence in the movie where Roz is like, kind of like, I don't really know what to do like with this baby goose because the baby goose hatches.
00:24:40
Speaker
And she's like, yeah I don't know what to do with this. So here you go. My task is complete. Put it on the ground. Okay, bye. And then like ready to go. And you know what's interesting? Something else that's very different in the movie in the book is that in the movie, she has this thing called like a transmitter that goes on top of her head.
00:24:57
Speaker
And she's constantly trying to get back where she's supposed to be, where she activates this transmitter and it'll take her back to whoever owns her or something like that.
00:25:10
Speaker
whoever made her. And in the book, that's not a thing. She's never like trying. She doesn't know who made her to get back to or anything or trying to locate anybody. She's just like, this is just what I do.
00:25:25
Speaker
I'm just on this Island. And so she's like, my task is complete. I'm start the transmitter. um I'm ready to go now. And like this little baby goose is like chasing her around because it's so attached to her now. And It is the most adorable thing in the entire world. It really is.
00:25:42
Speaker
And in the book, they don't do this in the movie, but in the book, the baby goose is calling her mama all the time. Because geese imprint on the first thing they see when they hatch. And the first thing that this goose saw was Roz.
00:25:57
Speaker
Yeah. And it was like my heart every time it was calling her mama. yeah This is when I started crying.
00:26:08
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. I was worried for you, Crystal. I ain't gonna lie. i was like, oh i was reading. I was like, oh, my gosh, Crystal's going to freak Well, you kept messaging us, telling us that, like, oh, gosh, I'm crying.
00:26:20
Speaker
Oh, gosh, i yes I am not okay. And I thought to myself, I'm screwed. but Yeah. Yeah. I. But I needed that warning. I appreciate you for that. I needed that. Yeah.
00:26:31
Speaker
I was a little panicked a little bit. But during, you read the book first and then you go into the movie, this sequence of meeting Fink the fox and the possum and Roz trying to figure out what she's going to do with this baby goose.
00:26:52
Speaker
It was a little jarring to me. I don't know if you both felt this way. It was not the same. Yeah, it felt a little jarring where like this baby goose almost dies like eight times.
00:27:03
Speaker
and like it was very like not she was not about this little goose and wasn't really caring caring for it like she was in the book in the beginning and was kind of like it was just being like thrown around a lot almost like dying like so many times by the fox by other yeah like creatures that it encounters and things like that and i was like I was a little panicked.
00:27:31
Speaker
I was like, oh my god, oh my god, stop, stop, stop. The goose, the goose. The, like, the biggest difference in the between the book and the movie to me was this part. Because, like, in the book, it's Roz's idea from from A to B, from the start, from from Go, that she is now responsible for this goose because of what happened to the nest and the goose's parents.
00:27:54
Speaker
Yeah. and And so, like, she initiates, I'm going to take care of this egg, this goose laying, this gosling for forever. this is This is my goose now.
00:28:06
Speaker
And in the movie, it was very much like, I have to protect the egg, but once the egg is hatched, I'm out. Yeah. and does not, like, and is constantly trying to get rid of the goose. Like, go away, you're you're fine, don't stop following me. And then comes across the possum, and the possum is like,
00:28:25
Speaker
This is your job now. And that's when Roz, like, the lake robot, I must take, like, the second like second law of robotics. i' I must complete any task that's given to me by a human. Well, obviously, there's no human. So now we're with possums.
00:28:39
Speaker
And the possum's like, this is your job now, honey. And that's when Roz decides, oh, I have to take care of yeah this goose. And we get the checklist of feed it teach it to swim, teach it to fly. Yeah.
00:28:51
Speaker
But if, like... like If Fink the Fox and I think Pingtail the Possum had not told Roz that, Roz told that as a command, then would Roz have done that?
00:29:06
Speaker
Because in the book, it was already her idea. She was already going to do that. she was She was actively looking for help from other people. Can you please help me? I want to take care of this goose. Yeah. Where in the movie it was, will someone take this freaking goose for me? Yeah.
00:29:21
Speaker
Yeah. Which, as a parent, I get both of those feelings. That's legit. I kind of... I identify as the possum. The possum that was like, what she heard like one of her kids like get eaten, and she's like,
00:29:37
Speaker
Well, oh, that's six now. Six now. no and then And then she realized one of them is still alive. She's like, oh, yay. was like, damn. Which, Pinktail is voiced by Catherine O'Hara. I love her. She's fantastic. Absolutely. She did amazing as Pinktail.
00:29:57
Speaker
yeah It was good. I guess the movie makes more sense. Like, the robot just, like, having a desire to take care of something would be like what we would want.
00:30:09
Speaker
But the movie had given a task and then eventually developing this yeah connection makes more sense. Yes. So I get that. Follows the three laws of robotics a little better. Yep. Cause we know that now. I get it.
00:30:26
Speaker
i got it. There you go. Got it. Okay. now I do. I also want to kind of touch on like what we think We kind of touched on this a little bit, but what we think the genre of the book is, as in where it falls in because I've seen it categorized as like children's, young adult, and middle grade due to the content of the book.
00:30:53
Speaker
Right. So I am curious what you both think of that. Like now, because, you know, we talk about how, especially right at that moment with like, there's a lot of like, you know,
00:31:05
Speaker
Death, talking about death in the circle of life, especially in that moment in the movie, in the book, and what both of you think. I think middle grade is like a good category for it. I think the younger side of middle grade.
00:31:21
Speaker
i i don't remember where I found it online where it said that it was recommended for 7 10 years old. And I feel like that's a solid fit. I feel like that's a – because it is a longer book, so obviously we don't have the little ones reading it.
00:31:34
Speaker
But if they're like a guided reading, like again, my kiddo's five right now and he handled this pretty well.
00:31:45
Speaker
Honestly, I was shocked that he stayed and listened to the whole thing over the course of a couple of days. so But I think the seven to ten range, that that younger side of middle grade is probably about right.
00:31:57
Speaker
Yeah. Lindsay, what do you think? Oh, I totally agree. Definitely younger side of middle grade. I don't know any teenagers that would want to read this, so I would not. Because they would be like, oh, it's too juvenile.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah. All teenagers are judgmental. And then you have to get into your like late 20s, early 30s to be like, oh, I appreciate it again. Exactly. You have to get through that hump of when you think you already know everything and you don't need to be taught anything.
00:32:23
Speaker
Yeah, true. Yeah, I totally get that. So at this point, the Gosling Roz now have this new task together.
00:32:35
Speaker
And, you know, the Gosling is super attached to Roz. And the Roz is now learning to be a mother to this new baby goose with the help in the movie, with the help of Finks the fox.
00:32:48
Speaker
And in the book, it's the help of another goose who I think is named Loudwing. hmm. so which And the beaver family. yeah and the beaver family so like we said in the book we see that there's connections that slowly build in the book like whenever she's like eventually building a home, she, like, builds a connection with the beavers, and they help her build this home.
00:33:15
Speaker
And then she eventually builds a connection with the a goose that helps her, like, raise this baby goose and giving her advice. And the deer that help her start the garden. Yeah. like it So it, like...
00:33:29
Speaker
Yeah, she starts to build, like, a family. you know. And I hated this about the movie, although I loved the movie. Yeah. The book focuses on that building of community.
00:33:39
Speaker
Like, it takes a village kind of... Right....feeling. the movie, and I understand they have to cut out things for time, but they... There was a lot more bullying happening in the movie than there was in the Yes, talk about
Community and Bullying Themes
00:33:53
Speaker
that.
00:33:53
Speaker
I want to talk about that. They really shunned, even though, like, here's Roz with this baby that she is actively trying to save. Her only friends are the fox that nobody else likes because the fox is a carnivore and is constantly stealing everybody's eggs and children and whatever.
00:34:12
Speaker
And Pingtail, who nobody likes because her and all of her kids fake dead all the time. So, like, yeah it's like this tiny little group of outcasts and then literally everyone else shuns them.
00:34:26
Speaker
her And it's like, that does not happen in the book. Like, the minute Roz takes on this gosling, it is like, okay, we, like, the whole community comes in like, we're not gonna let this baby goose die.
00:34:41
Speaker
Like, let's go. Yeah, because like we said before, like, the tasks are Feed the Gosling. Swim. Fly. That's the task that Roz is given. And Roz is like, boop, boop, boop.
00:34:54
Speaker
Like, okay. Like, this these are the tasks I'm given. I need to complete these tasks. And Anna's like, she's completing these tasks. She's developing a connection with this baby goose who she then names Bright Bill.
00:35:08
Speaker
And like we said, it's very different in the movie itself. And in the book, but as Brightbog is getting older, he's also the like the runt and he needs to learn how to swim. And it just feels very depressed, like more depressing in the movie and much more sad where, you know...
00:35:35
Speaker
There's much more like bullying on screen whenever he wants to go learn how to swim. And these other geese are like bullying him because it's I mean, this is super cute about the movie. We get to see it more in the movie is that he is taking on his mother's mannerisms as a robot.
00:35:55
Speaker
It's adorable. Yep. Sob, sob, sob, sob, sob. And he's like, hello, my name is Bright Bill. And he's like talking like a robot because he's been raised by a robot.
00:36:06
Speaker
And he's trying to swim. And they're watching diagrams of swimming as a human swimming and then going into the water to swim. Because in the book, he's also being helped.
00:36:19
Speaker
they being helped by other geese to learn how to swim. But here he's only got a fox and and a robot in a robot to help him swim. And there's so much bullying on screen it on the movie. And there is a bullying moment in the book.
00:36:36
Speaker
Yeah. It's like kind of alluded to. Yeah. You know, with the other, the other goslings. But like, it's, he says that like, Don't, you know don't, whatever, whatever. And then I guess Roz talks to like some of the other geese and it was like, hey, talk to your kids.
00:36:55
Speaker
And that's about it. But in the movie, like the whole flock, all the geese hate Bright Bill. Yeah. And that's when I started crying again in the movie.
00:37:08
Speaker
Yeah. There's a moment that really made me cry in the book. The stupid. I'm going to really hard not to cry right now. Okay. But the, ah we talk about how Brightville like takes on the mannerisms of his mom.
00:37:26
Speaker
Roz, I'm going to cry.
00:37:31
Speaker
Get that to shoot. Roz taking on like mom mannerisms from other characters yeah made me sob in the book.
00:37:42
Speaker
Like she was like not understanding different things about being a mom and then like if you would catch on with different quotes she would say eventually like saying it's okay you know how they are at this age because she knew other moms would say that and would eventually catch on to that and that that shit made me sob man yep like that was messed up didn't like that didn't like that at all
00:38:15
Speaker
Like, and it was, like, so... There was a lot of quotes. I marked so many of those. Every time she would do it, I'd start crying, and I'd mark it, like, I would tab it, because I was, like... I just, like... it was I don't know why. It just kept affecting me, where it was, like, she doesn't know, like, any of those quotes.
00:38:33
Speaker
Yep. Or, like, those mannerisms, and then eventually starts, like, building on to those. And then, like, I'm also thinking about, like... That's, like, the case for, like...
00:38:45
Speaker
anyone who like never who's never been a mom before like you don't know that's how well parenting is yeah you fake it by looking at all the other moms and seeing what they're doing yeah no for me the like the biggest cry Probably there's two really big ones, but the first one was that first swim when the pike is trying, is trying yeah like comes up and all the other goslings have their families to protect them and and they they leave.
00:39:17
Speaker
But Roz can't go into the water because she can't get wet. and And yet she's watching her son being chased by this pike who's trying to eat him.
00:39:28
Speaker
And she can't go get him. And in the movie, they make it like her foot gets stuck in the rocks and she can't go. But in the book, it's her programming. She's she's trying and she can't go forward.
00:39:40
Speaker
I sobbed because as a mom, there is nothing worse than knowing you can't help your kid than watching your kid. And I mean, I've never watched my kid get attacked by a pike.
00:39:53
Speaker
But like between my son and my daughter, who's grown and moved out, like there have been so many moments when it's like, this is a moment I i can't help them.
00:40:04
Speaker
This is a moment they have to do on their own. I look seriously sobbed. And this is when my son was like, I'll make you happy again, mommy. And I was like, you made it worse.
00:40:15
Speaker
Oh, no. ah no it hear My you. My Shayla. um tell it was It was so bad. Yeah, it was rough.
00:40:26
Speaker
And at this point, whenever all that bullying happens, another big difference between the book and the movie is that, you know, Bright Bill at this point, like, learns about his family's death and how it happened.
00:40:38
Speaker
And that Roz was a part of his family's death. anne huge difference between the book and the movie is that Bright Bill really resents Roz in the movie, in the book, learns about his family death, and they're like...
00:40:52
Speaker
He's like, so you're not actually like my mom? And Roz is like, no. And then he's literally quote from the book. He's like, I think I'll keep calling you mama.
00:41:03
Speaker
going to start crying again, man. He's like, I think I'll keep calling you mama. and then she goes, i think i will I will keep calling you son. And he goes, we're a strange family, but I kind of like it that way.
00:41:17
Speaker
yup Yep. Not in the movie. Nope. Nope. I was like, why are we putting this conflict in here? Like, that really upsets me. Like, can you imagine like what it would be like if they, if Bright Bill was just like, you know what?
00:41:31
Speaker
It's okay. Because, you know, i care about you and you're my mom. and and you mag why Oh my gosh. Could you imagine? That would
Non-Traditional Family Dynamics
00:41:40
Speaker
be so crazy. I feel like this was like a typical trope to put in here.
00:41:44
Speaker
and it was so much circle of life in the book. And even in parts of the movie that, all the animals accepted death as part of the process of life.
00:41:55
Speaker
So why would bright build be any different? Yeah. Why is this any different than suddenly like death is not okay now? Yeah. I mean, you know, there's like a whole, i get going through the grief of it and like trying to understand that and processing that stuff. I get that. And having to put, and putting that storyline in there.
00:42:20
Speaker
I get it. But I just feel like that storyline is it's predictable probably it's in it a lot. And I was like, can you imagine if you just were like, it's okay. like You're still my mom.
00:42:33
Speaker
And I love the acceptance in in the book because it really was this like strange family, I think is actually the title of the chapter. there's many non- there's so many like non you know, traditional families out there anymore. Like my family is non-traditional and, you know, the you know, between interracial families and step families and adopted families and found family, like they could have really made this ah moment that was like still accepting, still showing love.
00:43:12
Speaker
Like, yes, I have some strong feelings about what's happened, but I love you no matter what kind of thing. But instead they made it a conflict and that like the book did it so well and the movie just missed the mark there.
00:43:27
Speaker
hmm. Yeah. I was a little disappointed by that. And then after this in the book, there's like this button incident where Roz has a button on the back of her head that can, you know, reset her, turn her off and turn her back on.
00:43:41
Speaker
And, you know, they keep thinking about this button on the back of her head. They're like, should we test it Kind of thing. And Bright Bill like turns it off. Turns Roz off. The anxiety. Literally, my heart was about to jump of throat. was crying.
00:43:53
Speaker
i was crying. Especially that... He was like, I don't know if I even want to turn it back on because I'm so scared of what will happen. yeah But I also can't leave her off. What I And she literally like goes completely out and then eventually turns back on and she's like, what happened? How long was I out? she's And he's like, oh my God.
00:44:10
Speaker
Okay, good. like Everything's fine. That doesn't happen in the movie, but in the book it happened. it had me stressed. But eventually after this, at from this point on, the movie is out for blood.
00:44:22
Speaker
Okay. Just going to say that the movie is completely out for, I mean, the book is too, but the movie really is out for blood. And so we have basically the geese need to migrate and bright bill needs to learn how to fly.
00:44:36
Speaker
And, you know, Brightville in the movie is still really upset with his mom and in the movie, but they're like, Brightville really needs to learn how to fly. And she's like, i just need to help teach you how to fly.
00:44:49
Speaker
And Roz like connects with other people to help how to fly our help teach him how to fly. And at this point, Roz is missing a leg as well. I forget how it happens in the movie, but in the book it's due to like another bear attack.
00:45:05
Speaker
It was when the bear knocked her off the cliff. Okay. Okay. Yeah. But, ah yeah, so she's missing, like, part of her leg, and she, like, can't, like, run completely right. And so, and they're, like, pressed for time. Like, the geese are about to migrate, and Brightbill cannot fly correctly. he's a runt. He's got smaller wings. Yeah, and not very strong. Like, not, the wings are not super strong.
00:45:25
Speaker
The movie... was trying to ruin my life at this point. This was the point where the tears started for me. And don't stop to the end. You have to know to our our listeners, through while Carrie was reading and watching, she would message us and just be like, oh my gosh, I'm crying again. i am not okay. Oh my gosh, this movie got me. Whatever.
00:45:46
Speaker
And then I read it and i was like, holy cow, this is rough. And then I watched the movie and I was like, damn, this like I can't. well I can't. This is I can't.
00:45:57
Speaker
And then Lindsay was like, gosh, the book really didn't make me cry. You guys, I feel heartless. And then like we get a text a few hours later. is like the movie got me. Yeah. vietnam Yeah.
00:46:08
Speaker
We knew it was coming. We knew it. Yeah. I was watching with my family and they're like, Carrie, why are you doing this to us? Yup. it was hot like It was obviously so amazing and so incredible and so beautiful. It is. So emotional because ro is just like doing everything in her power to help her son- Fly into the air to go away on this migration.
00:46:34
Speaker
and it like doing absolutely everything. Eventually become like a Falcon comes and helps to get bright bill strong enough to fly on this migration. And eventually bright bill gets strong enough to leave and,
00:46:49
Speaker
And let me tell you one of the saddest scenes I ever seen in my whole life. And I'll tell you one more. That's equally as sad as if you've seen Jurassic World where they're leaving on the on the ship and there's one dinosaur that's left on the island and the whole island is burning. You know that scene? I'll tell you the same one that's just as bad. And it's this one right here.
00:47:10
Speaker
Okay? Bright Bill fought flying off in the distance with his migration. yeah And Roz literally saying goodbye and puts... Oh my god, I'm gonna cry again.
00:47:24
Speaker
gonna cry again. Shayla! My Shayla!
00:47:30
Speaker
but Well, all, while is teaching... ros is like teaching The beaver that's like the grumpy old beaver that like won't like who like Lily everyone is like makes fun of him. So he hates everybody like for good reason because everyone makes fun of him. and He's like, screw you guys.
00:47:46
Speaker
say Literally, he's like a grumpy guy and he notices that Ross can't walk right. So he built her a foot to help her. So she because he sees how hard she's working to help right bill.
00:47:57
Speaker
Sobbing. Sobbing. And so now she has like a wooden foot to help. And then I have goosebumps right now. i literally have chills. So then they they're like, you want to do one last like runoff because she's been practicing with him where she puts Brightbell on her shoulder and runs off with him.
00:48:14
Speaker
And so that he can have like a good takeoff run so he can fly off to the migration with every everyone, all the geese. And he's in the front with like the the best but the best flyer out there.
00:48:25
Speaker
And Loudwing tells him just before they take off that like you need to tell you to say goodbye to Roz. She gave you a gift. yeah Because we all know you're the runt. You wouldn't have made it naturally. If yeah your family hadn't died, you wouldn't have lived.
00:48:42
Speaker
yeah And I lost it. Because that part is not even in the book. I i i lost it. yeah Because every parent does this. They set their kids up. They teach their kids to leave. That's that's a sign of a good that's a sign of a great parent.
00:48:58
Speaker
yeah Oh, I'm going to cry again. My daughter is grown and married and has her own house and a great job. She works really hard. And I'm so proud of her. And she doesn't need me anymore. And I'm so proud of that.
00:49:15
Speaker
But that's the hardest thing of the world. So here, oh, I'm going to, this is the hardest part. And watching Roz run and give give him that boost at that very, because that's what a good mom does. That's what a good parent does. And I so i had to stop the movie.
00:49:32
Speaker
My kids yelling at me, like, why'd you stop the movie? And then he notices that I'm like gasping and just tears rolling and And I'm thinking to myself with this beautiful child next to me that like I have to do the same thing for him.
00:49:48
Speaker
And then I started all over again. It's like, that's, ah I can only imagine your parents lost it, didn't they, Carrie? Yep. Oh, yeah. Sobbing. Out loud, sobbing. Yep.
00:49:59
Speaker
I was, i it was, it was ugly crying. Yeah, we were all ugly crying. And there's a point where she like watches them all fly off and then she just has a moment and she runs to a tree and climbs I'm gonna stop again yes and she runs climbs to the top of the tree to watch all the geese fly away and like bright bill comes back to like fly past her do a flyby yeah and she just stays at the top of like this tree to watch and literally
00:50:33
Speaker
That part? Screw you guys for putting that part in that movie. Because that really messed me up. Wrecked me. And then she's sitting there for so long because she's so sad staring at the same time. She's doing the Bella from Twilight. It's a possibility. She's doing the Bella.
00:50:52
Speaker
Mm-hmm. And I'm sobbing again, sobbing constantly. I mean, honestly, I needed that part where she sat there because I needed to collect myself. Yeah. Now it's winter, you know, winter is here and she's, you know, still sitting there. And at this point she's like, has to go back to her like little house that she has.
00:51:12
Speaker
And she realizes that all like the animals are struggling. Cause it's like the worst winter they've ever had. And she kind of comes together. She's like, I need to do something because in the movie, she's like, all right, my tasks are done. Like I did all my tasks. Cause she did ah feeding, swimming, flying. she's like, tasks are done.
00:51:29
Speaker
so I'm going to do like, do my transmitter thing and leave. And then she's like, you know what? No, I need to see Brightville when he comes back. Like she's just having all these moments where, She's like, I need to see him when he comes back.
00:51:39
Speaker
And then there is a moment, we kind of skipped over it, but I just want to touch on it real quick, whenever she... goes back to the original scene where she was washed up and all like the robot parts are there.
00:51:52
Speaker
She does have this like amazing conversation with herself and with one of like the robots are like half alive in the movie only, not in the book about being a mom and like just having just like a mini like crisis about what the heck is going on is one of the best dialogue. was beautiful.
00:52:13
Speaker
Ever. I highly recommend men Watching the movie for that dialogue, it's incredible. And she speaks to Rosam 626, or 6262.
00:52:24
Speaker
And Chris Sanders, the director who directed Lilo and Stitch, Stitch was Experiment 6262. Oh, I didn't catch that. Interesting. And I love Lilo and Stitch. I'm surprised I didn't catch that. That's cool.
00:52:37
Speaker
Yeah. Lilo and Stitch was my daughter's favorite movie when she was five. So for this to be my son's new favorite is just when he's five is real. Oh, I'm going to cry again. Full circle. Full circle.
00:52:52
Speaker
So at this point, all like Roz is like keeping busy and stuff and getting all the animals into this house that she built with a fire and, you know, eat all the animals, all the predators, everything in this one little area to help them stay warm for the winter.
00:53:13
Speaker
and this part in the book is a little brutal. I'm not going to lie. It's a little brutal. Where like a lot of animals are dead that they're encountering and things like that because of the winter and stuff. Because that's what makes her want to do it is she keeps coming across dead animals. Yeah. And then she stands outside and says, if anybody can hear me, come to my place. Yeah. I have a fire.
00:53:33
Speaker
Yeah. So she does that and helps all of them. And, you know, there's like a rule in this home. It's like no one can eat each other kind of thing because, you know, everyone's in one area. The lodge truce.
00:53:45
Speaker
Yeah. whatever The nest. Because they call it the nest, the house. Yeah. So everyone is in this area and stays there to keep warm and they're there for the whole winter. And then, you know, at this point, Roz is like kind of powering down because there's no sun because she's also solar
Reunion and Bond with Bright Bill
00:54:00
Speaker
powered.
00:54:00
Speaker
And so she's kind of powering down and she for the rest until it's like springtime. And then she wakes up because. Yep. Because she hears the geese coming back.
00:54:13
Speaker
And then literally her like eyes like spring open. like she's like Literally, it's like the best day of her life. And she gets up and she runs to them because she hears the geese coming back. In the movie, we get everything that's happened while Bright Bill was gone.
00:54:29
Speaker
In the book, Bright Bill comes back and like tells her everything that's happened. like We don't get Bright Bill's perspective while um in the book. But basically, like, while Bright Bill was, during his migration, he was with the geese.
00:54:46
Speaker
Basically, the main, they encountered humans because they had to stay... Because it was like there was a really bad winter storm or something and they had to stay undercover. And they encountered a human and he also encountered other robots.
00:55:04
Speaker
And during this encounter, one the main goose, I can't remember what the main goose's name. Longneck. Longneck. Died, was shot. Literally in the book.
00:55:16
Speaker
Shot. Yeah. Also kind of in the movie, but not like fully shown. This part made me cry too in the movie because then Bright Bill takes over to help lead the migration and takes over to lead the entire migration through the whole thing and leads them back home.
00:55:30
Speaker
But during this entire process, like they finally get reunited and stuff. And in the movie, they don't really get reunited yet. Like, Roz kind of sees Bright Bill and is like, all right, I finally got to see him. He came home. He's alive.
00:55:45
Speaker
And right now he's got friendships with his flock. And so she's just like, okay, I've completed my tasks. He's safe. He's home.
Cliffhanger and Emotional Closure
00:55:54
Speaker
But eventually, the people that made her get signaled that they got a robot, random robot, on the island and come to get her.
00:56:05
Speaker
And they're known as, like, the Ricos or something. It's like R-E-C-O. And they arrive to come retrieve her. And in the book, she's like, I'm not going anywhere. Like, mm-mm.
00:56:19
Speaker
movie she's like all right time to go like she's about to be escorted into the ship to leave and bright bill's like yelling after her or no it's the fox the fox is yelling after her saying bright bill wants to talk to you and she jumps off the ship and she's like see ya i gotta go And there's like this whole sequence of events that happens where these Ricos are trying to get her onto the ship.
00:56:44
Speaker
And in the movie, like a whole forest fire happens and all this stuff. And this, the movie, making me emotional again, when she's running like the animals, yeah like running like the deer, running like the bears and stuff.
00:57:00
Speaker
And basically all the wildlife are, saying like protecting her and fighting these robots to keep her there. And it's like so emotional because they like it's finally... she's like They used to call her a monster, but she's a part of this family. She's part of the wilderness now. She is the wild robot.
00:57:20
Speaker
Title drop. Yep. And then in the book, it's a little more... I feel like it's little more brutal in the book. Because by the end of it like okay Also, I almost took off half...
00:57:33
Speaker
a star because um at the end the way one of the ricos die is from the geese carrying a rifle and shooting one of the robots with it i almost took off half a star for that because i was like no thank you that that's corny as hell that's that is so corny It's in a movie. I can't think. Open season. The movie open season. they Yeah, the geese and the deer get a rifle and start shooting the hunters. So yeah, it's it's corny. It doesn't quite I'll get over It's fine. It's fine.
00:58:07
Speaker
Yeah. But at the end of the whole fight sequence in the book, she has no arms, no legs. She's a torso and her head.
00:58:19
Speaker
and That was like really a little traumatizing. i'm not going lie. It was. Oh my God. It was a lot in the book. Yeah. And so they basically had to there. She's like, look, I can't survive out here this way.
00:58:32
Speaker
So I'm going to have to go on this ship and be taken back. And then I'll eventually find my way back to you. And that's kind of like how the cliffhanger is in the book. In the movie, we get this whole thing, which is even more emotional, of her getting taken on this ship, Bright Bill saving her on the ship,
00:58:55
Speaker
And, you know, she has this moment where she like puts Bright Bill like in her torso, like when she jumps out of the ship, there's like this whole thing. and it's just amazing.
00:59:06
Speaker
Yeah, bawling our eyes out. Started crying, didn't stop and until the end of the movie and even had to collect myself for a while after that. But eventually she does still decide that she still needs to leave because they're still going to keep coming after her, still going to be trying to find her.
00:59:24
Speaker
And so she was just like, you know what? I'm still going to leave. Still leaves. But, you you know, she has like this new job at the same place that Bright Bill used to, you know, travel to during the migration.
00:59:37
Speaker
And at the end of the movie, he, we see that Bright Bill visits her. While she's like wherever she is. Whenever he goes on his migration. Yep. I'm going to cry again. Don't do it. I'm good now. Okay.
00:59:53
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Yeah. And I like how the movie ended. i think the movie was good. i am super curious how the books are going to continue though. I mean, I'll find out. I got them. I'll let you know. So I do want to keep reading the books. Yeah.
01:00:08
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I think book two is called the lost robot. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yep. ah So what are our final verdicts? I am curious. Like if you had to pick between the book and the movie, like you have to, there's no, you have to decide. Can't say both?
01:00:24
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No. Oh. I hate that. Don't, don't like this game.
01:00:32
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Honestly, if I had to pick one, i would, I would choose the book. Yeah. I would choose the book. That was a very, very special thing for me. Henry henry and I have watched movies. We have not read ah ah big book together. And that was that was an experience I'll never forget. So yeah book.
01:00:53
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I'll go movie. Yeah, I don't know. Like the movie was really funny. Like it was hitting my funny bone. It hit. It really did. I loved the movie. I don't want to say no to the movie, but you told me I had to make a choice. so but Yeah, I did. I'm sorry.
01:01:08
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i think I'm still going go book though. I feel like a really good connection to the book. I like all the actors that were in the movie. So yeah, both are amazing though. Both those are amazing.
01:01:19
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And we do live in a world where we can have both. Yeah. gary Okay. So I was just being aggressive. It was one or the other now. right. So let's get into our question of the episode.
01:01:33
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During Roz's journey, she makes a lot of unexpected friends from foxes and squirrels to deers and bears. you could have any wild animal companion, which one would you choose and why?
01:01:45
Speaker
have a question to clarify because my answer depends on whether or not I can understand the animal. Because Roz could, but like, I'm not a robot.
01:01:57
Speaker
Uh, sure. I can? Ooh. Yeah. Okay. All right. I know. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. A fox. Because you know they're nosy and they've got the best gossip.
01:02:10
Speaker
Mm-hmm. I'm just saying. that's That's my kind of friend. Okay. We're going to be plotting together. We're going so many plans and it's going be great. All right.
01:02:20
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I like the vibes. Lindsay? i had to choose one, so I went with the otters. They're so cute. Those were so cute. I love them but Mine by so random.
01:02:37
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I would choose one of those, the sugar gliders. those are so cute. Okay. have always, like literally, I could pick, like, I'm not a big pet person, but if I could pick, like, any pet I could ever have my entire life, it would be a sugar glider.
01:02:54
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Because they're like super connected to you. And like also they, I have to have like a pet that's like super connected to me. Also, you can like carry them around with you. yeah heard they're like super annoying though, but I don't care. Like I just want them like on me all the time, hanging out with me. They're super social from what I understand. Like having more than one is always a good thing.
01:03:13
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Cause they like that way when they're being super annoying to you, you can go put them in their own room and just be like, leave me alone. like I've always wanted one of those. So I think that would be mine.
01:03:25
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Alright, so that's a wrap for today's episode of The Wild Robot. We hope you enjoyed this journey through the wild world of Roz and her adventure on the island. Don't forget to subscribe. Hello? Hello?
01:03:41
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01:03:55
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ah can't talk today. It's all the crying. i know. like, help, help.
01:04:02
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Until then, remember that Roz had learned many things on the island. But the most important lesson was this. Kindness is the key to survival.
01:04:13
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Thank you for joining us on this adventure. We'll meet you at our next stop of Face on Boat.