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Speaker 1: This is our lucky dip episodes, a little bite size
Speaker 1: one where we just dive into a little nugget of something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just for you to have a little nibble. This is
Speaker 1: the entree, so cheese platter.
Speaker 2: Let me reach in what you got today? Okay, I
Speaker 2: have got facts about this movie.
Speaker 1: One of the best.
Speaker 2: How many times do you reckon? You've seen Grease?
Speaker 1: Nine hundred thousand? When I was a kid, I could
Speaker 1: rewatch movies over and over. I could never rewatch a
Speaker 1: movie now.
Speaker 2: I almost liked Grease too bad.
Speaker 1: I was going to say Grease too was so shit
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: I loved it. Michelle Pfeifer, Oh God, Anyway, I'm going
Speaker 2: to tell you some facts that maybe you don't know.
Speaker 2: If you're a real hardcore Grease fan, you might, but
Speaker 2: I found these fascinating. Okay, So the first choice for
Speaker 2: Danny Zuko was actually Henry Winkler the Fonds.
Speaker 1: No, I can see, they've quite got a similar look.
Speaker 1: Key in John Travolta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he didn't. He didn't want to take it
Speaker 2: because he didn't want to be sort of type cast
Speaker 2: in that role like the leather jacket. Yes, the situation.
Speaker 2: Do you know how long John travolt has been a
Speaker 2: scientologist for?
Speaker 1: No, Was he a scientologist then? I thought scientology was
Speaker 1: like a more recent now I thought it started in
Speaker 1: like twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: So he was raised Catholic. He converted from Catholicism to
Speaker 2: scientology in nineteen seventy five. He was twenty one. Incredible.
Speaker 2: Sorry anyway, At the time of filming Greece, John Travolta
Speaker 2: was actually in serious mourning because he just lost his girlfriend,
Speaker 2: who was an actress named Diana Hyland, who died of
Speaker 2: breast cancer in nineteen seven seven. Yeah, and that is
Speaker 2: very sadly what his wife, Kelly Preston, will be gone
Speaker 2: to die from in twenty twenty. Okay, everyone knows. None
Speaker 2: of the cast were actually high school aged, right, like
Speaker 2: Olivia Newton John was twenty nine?
Speaker 1: Was she twenty nine?
Speaker 2: She was twenty nine when they filmed Grease.
Speaker 1: It isn't amazing when you look at them, like, what's
Speaker 1: her name? Rizzo?
Speaker 2: Rizzou was the oldest, so she looked old, thirty three,
Speaker 2: thirty three?
Speaker 1: Why did they cast such old people to play high.
Speaker 2: Get off playing a fucking seventeen year old at thirty three.
Speaker 1: And Kaniki he looked old. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Kinnicki was twenty six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he's not passing as a seventeen year old.
Speaker 2: John Travolta was twenty three. I thought Kaniki was hotter
Speaker 2: than Danny's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Kiniki was hot.
Speaker 2: Kiniki was the hot one. Yeah, Okay, Elvis Presley, I
Speaker 2: wish my name was Kaniki. It's a good name, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I always wanted a good nick.
Speaker 1: I wish my name was Katie Kaniki.
Speaker 2: Kati Kaniki is so good. That's never gonna happen for reasons.
Speaker 2: We will get to Alvis Presley, who generously provided us
Speaker 2: with our opening without knowing.
Speaker 1: Thanks Alf.
Speaker 2: He was actually the person who was first approached to
Speaker 2: play you know, the beauty school dropout bit Frankie Avalont. Yes,
Speaker 2: he didn't do it.
Speaker 1: He should have done it. It would have been amazing.
Speaker 2: The colonel probably didn't allow it. Yes, but listen to
Speaker 2: this one. Who's the colonel you know his manager? No, oh,
Speaker 2: that's a whole Maybe I'll do it, colonel, Yeah it will. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you know that scene the Sleepoversecene and Rizzou singing
Speaker 2: you know that look at me, I'm Sandra d And
Speaker 2: there's a line Elvis, keep your pelvis far from me.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 2: That scene was recorded on August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven,
Speaker 2: which was a day that Elvis died. Isn't that a cowinky.
Speaker 1: Dink winky dink dead Palvis?
Speaker 2: The hickey from Kiniki, Yes, was a real hickey. He insisted.
Speaker 2: His name's Jeff Conaway. Kiniky is way better. He insisted
Speaker 2: on giving her real life hickeys. And I never understood
Speaker 2: the concept of hickeys. What what is it? You just
Speaker 2: suck on someone's skin so hard that it leaves a mark?
Speaker 2: Is that sexy?
Speaker 1: Because no, it's not. But I remember when I was young,
Speaker 1: desperately wanting one.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I remember when I was young, before
Speaker 2: knowing a hickey was anything doing it.
Speaker 1: Sucker.
Speaker 2: Must have just been watching TV, just fucking sucking on
Speaker 2: my forearm, myself hickeys all up my forearm, and my
Speaker 2: mom goes, my god, what have you been doing? I
Speaker 2: said nothing, I think She goes one of those marks.
Speaker 2: What have you been doing? And I said, I was
Speaker 2: just sucking on my arms because don't.
Speaker 1: Do Yeah, they're disgusting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm not into a hickey. Okay. So the
Speaker 2: glad rap that the guys were throwing around in the
Speaker 2: worst song of all time, the Greased Lightning.
Speaker 1: Part because you don't like the community and everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he hate that song. The glad rap was actually
Speaker 2: like a reference to condoms.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, tricky.
Speaker 2: Tricky Jeff Conaway. kN Nikki actually injured his back during
Speaker 2: that Grease Lightning thing where I don't know, dancers dropped
Speaker 2: him or something and he fell on the car and
Speaker 2: it resulted in a back injury, then resulted in an
Speaker 2: addiction to pain medication. No, yes, that ultimately took his life.
Speaker 2: So he's died hinik Yeah in twenty eleven at age
Speaker 2: sixty after Yeah.
Speaker 1: So he would have seventy four if he was alive.
Speaker 2: Now, isn't that super?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Rip Kiniky also the gang leader of the Scorpions
Speaker 2: aka Creative Face.
Speaker 1: Oh, creative Face, I forgot greater face.
Speaker 2: Imagine going for that audition. We just need someone with
Speaker 2: really bad can you starring? You're perfect for the role.
Speaker 1: Really unbelief? But how his girlfriend was hot?
Speaker 2: Chatcha well? Creative Face His name was Leo Balmudo. He
Speaker 2: died in nineteen ninety four, aged forty six, from aids.
Speaker 2: He was actually a really talented like he was a
Speaker 2: dancer and whatever. Gay man man. Yeah, died at forty six. Wow,
Speaker 2: that is young. Anette Charles, who played his girlfriend Charcha,
Speaker 2: died of cancer twenty eleven at sixty three, just three
Speaker 2: months after Kinicki died.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Susan Buckner, who played Patty Simcox, remember like the dork,
Speaker 2: but I always remember thinking she was beautiful with the glasses,
Speaker 2: the real try hard. Yes. Yeah. She died in May
Speaker 2: of this year, age seventy two.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And we know our beloved Olivin Newton John has passed away.
Speaker 2: And this I found really interesting. Kinnicki was infatuated with
Speaker 2: Livin Newton John, like he used to get really nervous
Speaker 2: when she was around and stuff. I find this strange.
Speaker 2: He went on to marry her sister, Tea Rona Newton John,
Speaker 2: who is Toddy Goldsmith's mom. Ah, so he's not Toddy's
Speaker 2: dad of no, no, no, no, she passed away. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's a Totty's mom.
Speaker 1: So because they would because he died of a drug overdose.
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't a drug overdose, but it was related
Speaker 2: to years of drug addiction.
Speaker 1: And were they still together when he passed or.
Speaker 2: No, they were married from nineteen eighty to eighty five.
Speaker 2: That's always been a question in that if you were
Speaker 2: the sister.
Speaker 1: It's like Travis used to love Kim Kardashian and didn't
Speaker 1: they go out for a minute.
Speaker 2: It's very weird. We had a friend who originally pursued
Speaker 2: this girl and then ended up marrying the sister, and
Speaker 2: I like, I don't think I could get past that.
Speaker 2: It's very weird.
Speaker 1: It's like the Syrah stuff that's going on with Tish
Speaker 1: marrying that guy who apparently used to have sex with
Speaker 1: the daughter what's her name?
Speaker 2: Noah, No, it's too weird. I couldn't get past that.
Speaker 1: I couldn't either be on my mind all the time.
Speaker 2: You like, so I know that you're attracted to my sister.
Speaker 1: Yes, because you are? You were, you were, so there's
Speaker 1: a part of you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how many fights? How many times did you fight? Oh? Well,
Speaker 2: because I was the second choice because you couldn't fuck
Speaker 2: my sister. And the last little fact, which a lot
Speaker 2: of people probably already know, but there is this big
Speaker 2: fan conspiracy that the whole movie is a setup of Sandy.
Speaker 2: In that first scene at the beach where they originally meet,
Speaker 2: she drowned and the whole movie is her like transition
Speaker 2: to heaven, which is why in the car at the end,
Speaker 2: the car takes off and they're looking back going into
Speaker 2: the sky.
Speaker 1: That's definitely a conspiracy. Yeah, I know, but wow, I
Speaker 1: like it though, because it doesn't make any sense why
Speaker 1: they take off into the sky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
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