Speaker 1: Did you ever have a fort growing up? Yes?
Speaker 2: And you know what, Monroe is so into them right now.
Speaker 3: She loves like, well, this kind of fort she's doing
Speaker 3: is the chairs with the blankets and.
Speaker 2: Get under there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I made like forts outside. I created my dollhouse
Speaker 3: into more of a fort than a dollhouse. That when
Speaker 3: I was probably like seven, when I kind of got over,
Speaker 3: the dollhouse became a fort. Rocks, remember my rock bank
Speaker 3: rocks were everywhere.
Speaker 4: Hey, how big was your dollhouse to where you could
Speaker 4: make it a you could? You were it was a
Speaker 4: human sized dollhouse.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like a wooden one, a big one.
Speaker 3: At least five of my friends could fit in there
Speaker 3: with me. Wait wait I had a kitchen?
Speaker 1: And how big were the dolls?
Speaker 3: This is you know, kids can buy life sized dollhouses
Speaker 3: where you go in them and they're like in your backyard.
Speaker 4: Oh so okay, So it's not it's essentially a pre
Speaker 4: prefab fort for your backyard where.
Speaker 3: Doll but a lot of you know a lot of
Speaker 3: girls have you have like a kitchen sink in there
Speaker 3: and you know been you play in it.
Speaker 2: It's the size of you, not for your dolls.
Speaker 3: So yes, I converted that into a fort for myself
Speaker 3: and my girlfriend, my friend Lindsay Knuckles, and we.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, gonna stop you real quick. Is
Speaker 4: this a nickname like she's in the mob? Or is
Speaker 4: her last name really not?
Speaker 2: Her last name was Knuckles.
Speaker 1: Yes, her name was Lindsay Knuckles.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were on the soccer team together. She was
Speaker 2: like a tough chicky.
Speaker 4: Okay, well, thank you for joining us in Magical rewind
Speaker 4: We're gonna end the episode right there because it's never
Speaker 4: going to get any better than Lindsay Knuckles.
Speaker 1: Ever.
Speaker 2: I know, I love what's she's. She was awesome.
Speaker 3: But anyway, that was our hangout. You know, it's in
Speaker 3: my backyard. We decorated it with all my rocks that
Speaker 3: I told you.
Speaker 1: I love Knuckles still in your life?
Speaker 2: No not.
Speaker 3: We didn't end up going to the same high school,
Speaker 3: so we kind of, you know, drifted apart.
Speaker 2: I was into more dance.
Speaker 3: She did soccer and softball. But my dad did end
Speaker 3: up selling her a house later on in life when
Speaker 3: she was you know, an adult. So the Knuckles Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: so anyway, but yes, I had a four.
Speaker 2: I loved that thing. Yeah, I mean too I what
Speaker 2: was your fort?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: I know, my friends and I in the woods in
Speaker 4: Connecticut found an abandoned old chicken coop from like the
Speaker 4: eighteen hundreds and we rebuilt it up.
Speaker 1: It was two floors, we had a fireplace.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we ended up almost burning it down several times,
Speaker 4: I'm sure, but.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 4: We'd ride our motorcycles there we can't in the It
Speaker 4: was really a ton of funk.
Speaker 3: You would ride your moat what you are a deep
Speaker 3: You were just waiting to be a dcon, weren't you.
Speaker 1: We were.
Speaker 4: I always like to tell people without the coolness the
Speaker 4: women or the karate we were Johnny from the Karate
Speaker 4: Kid where he like all his friends are riding around.
Speaker 4: We had none of the cool factor. But we all advices,
Speaker 4: so we all had dirt bikes the whole time. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: our motorcycles.
Speaker 1: It was great. Oh yeah, we were at the chicken
Speaker 1: coop all the time.
Speaker 2: That is so cool? Is that what you guys called it?
Speaker 2: The chicken coop?
Speaker 1: Yeah coop or the chicken coo quot ah.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 4: I am, of course bringing this up, Sabrina, because our
Speaker 4: movie today has one of the coolest forts of all time. Anyway,
Speaker 4: Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you
Speaker 4: want to grab your friends, your pjs, then your popcorn,
Speaker 4: and go back to a time when all the houses
Speaker 4: were smart, the Waves, Tsunamis and the high School's Musical.
Speaker 4: I'm will Ford Dell.
Speaker 5: And I'm Sabrina Bryan, and We're gonna jump on our
Speaker 5: motorized skateboards today and meet in the bunker, which is
Speaker 5: the Ford I'm talking about because this week we are
Speaker 5: mounting a front against nineteen eighty six is Sunday Night
Speaker 5: movie Wonderful World at Disney Entry the Brett, and that
Speaker 5: is of course B period R period, A period T
Speaker 5: period Brat Patrol.
Speaker 4: It first aired strangely on ABC in a Halloween week
Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty six, and then reruns found their way
Speaker 4: to the Disney Channel over the years, very very quickly.
Speaker 1: Sabrina, how old were you in nineteen eighty six?
Speaker 2: Two? Let it sink in?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm letting it sink in. Luckily I'm old enough
Speaker 4: now to have already forgotten Moset. But this is one
Speaker 4: of the more obscure.
Speaker 1: Pieces of Disney media in general.
Speaker 4: Since it no longer airs on TV, and was only
Speaker 4: released in a very limited VHS for rentals.
Speaker 1: Now, how rare is this?
Speaker 4: So we know that our producers deep dive dig do everything.
Speaker 4: Apparently there hasn't even been a copy for sale on
Speaker 4: eBay in at least six years.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, which is crazy.
Speaker 4: You can get everything anything, yeah, including apparently human sized
Speaker 4: dollhouses and a shirt that says I'm friends with Lindsey Knuckles.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: The movie was filmed at California's El Toro Marine Corps
Speaker 4: air Station and was critically well received upon release. You
Speaker 4: can watch a movie today on YouTube where someone was
Speaker 4: nice enough to upload it and it's actually a.
Speaker 1: Pretty decent equality on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the equality is not bad and it's it's free
Speaker 4: to see, so you really have no excuses. So check
Speaker 4: it out now, or you could listen to us first,
Speaker 4: or flip a coin if you want. But whatever it
Speaker 4: lands on, you got to follow the rules of the
Speaker 4: coin flip.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows that exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, heads, you watch the movie Tales, you get Lindsay Knuckles.
Speaker 1: We see how many times we can say Lindsay's not
Speaker 1: to call her out. We want to call her out,
Speaker 1: We want to call out.
Speaker 4: She's a great person with the greatest name in the world.
Speaker 4: I want an email from her myself now. It is
Speaker 4: worth noting this movie is not about the Brat Pack,
Speaker 4: which you would think, calling it the Brat Patrol in
Speaker 4: the mid eighties, which of course was a group.
Speaker 1: Of young actors in the eighties that included.
Speaker 4: Molly Ringwald, Rob Low and Angew McCarthy, though there is
Speaker 4: a documentary about them just hitting streaming services now.
Speaker 1: But don't watch this movie for the wrong reason if
Speaker 1: you think that's this is did you?
Speaker 4: We always asked this question, have you ever heard of
Speaker 4: the Brat Patrol before going in?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Well, I thought it was the Brat dolls.
Speaker 1: Right that they were like they're they're like a band
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was thinking that's what I was prepared for.
Speaker 3: But other than that, but which I have not seen
Speaker 3: in so long, so that would be almost as if
Speaker 3: I was watching it for the first time, I'm.
Speaker 2: Sure, but that's what I thought it was.
Speaker 3: I thought it was maybe a newer movie that I
Speaker 3: hadn't seen of it or something.
Speaker 2: But okay, yeah, it took me a while. Brat is it? Brat? Oh,
Speaker 2: Army brats, navy brats? You know? Got it?
Speaker 4: Got I think I saw this back in the day,
Speaker 4: because I, like you, in eighty six, I was ten.
Speaker 2: This is right up here.
Speaker 4: I was like, perfect kind of age. Yeah, I believe
Speaker 4: I've seen this. I remembered nothing about it, but I
Speaker 4: remember the name. I kind of vaguely remember Sean Aston
Speaker 4: starring in it. Okay, which, of course we will get to.
Speaker 4: But before we try to win the Youth Service Award,
Speaker 4: let's get into.
Speaker 1: A synopsis of the film.
Speaker 4: Yes, marine based brats stumble upon a plot to steal
Speaker 4: top secret military hardware on their way to win an.
Speaker 1: Award for community outreach. What'd you think.
Speaker 2: From the top?
Speaker 3: I was so interested, And of course, you know, when
Speaker 3: they're doing the first kind of establishing shots of these
Speaker 3: new characters, you know, I was giggling already because I
Speaker 3: was assuming you were thinking when that little toothbrush thing
Speaker 3: came out, I was going to ask about it.
Speaker 2: But I knew that was not I knew you were
Speaker 2: going to go there. I knew it was not. It
Speaker 2: was just an invention, you know.
Speaker 3: You know, of course, there was lots of cool stuff
Speaker 3: that they were I loved the little buggy that squeak. Oh,
Speaker 3: I loved that. I thought it was so adorable. I
Speaker 3: liked a lot of it. I thought there was so
Speaker 3: many fun, adventurous and really creative things that to see,
Speaker 3: you know that kids were making these kinds of things up.
Speaker 3: It was cute. I thought it was super cute. Tons
Speaker 3: of questions of certain things. Of course, I don't know
Speaker 3: how Squeaks makes it through the movie without dying, because
Speaker 3: they are horrible older like sibling friends. To him, that
Speaker 3: was felt like kind of sort of how it was
Speaker 3: with me with my sister. Yeah, they were so like
Speaker 3: funny with me, So I kind of I kind of
Speaker 3: felt for Squeaks a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I thought the movie was really cute. I liked it.
Speaker 2: It was cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I felt the same way.
Speaker 4: I had a huge realization when I watched this movie
Speaker 4: because this movie, to me, I was ten years old,
Speaker 4: right in my wheelhouse. The actors were all actors from
Speaker 4: my youth. I recognize most of these people, and I
Speaker 4: realized the feelings that I got watching this movie are
Speaker 4: probably the feelings most people get when they watch the
Speaker 4: movies from their youth that are from like the Cheetah
Speaker 4: Girls era, like when they watched Brink, when they watched
Speaker 4: things from two thousand, two thousand and five, and they
Speaker 4: were that that's the feeling I got when I watched this,
Speaker 4: because these were my kid movies.
Speaker 1: Yes, so I it was like this light dawned and
Speaker 1: me were like, oh okay, I'm overlooking plot points because
Speaker 1: it's Shawn Aston riding around in a bike and they're
Speaker 1: on a cool base and all the wackiness that's happening,
Speaker 1: I'm down for. So I kind of I again for
Speaker 1: those reasons I liked it. It was. Yeah, it brought
Speaker 1: me right back to being ten years old.
Speaker 2: So that was It was a great kids movie.
Speaker 3: I imagine if I was when it first came out.
Speaker 3: I mean thinking of all the gadgets and getting on
Speaker 3: my bike and getting chased by bad guys and being
Speaker 3: so awesome on my bike.
Speaker 2: I can actually outride a car, you know kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: Was just so fun. It was like it had a
Speaker 2: lot of energy.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 4: It's fun and so oh man, so eighties right, this
Speaker 4: was again I say, we'll get into that a lot,
Speaker 4: but it's true, we will get into that because it
Speaker 4: was right after you know, it's only four years removed
Speaker 4: from Et with the kids riding all the bikes.
Speaker 1: After Goonies. There's a lot, a lot of cool kind
Speaker 1: of love that parallels to those movies.
Speaker 3: So feel like a movie made about Now you're gonna
Speaker 3: see kids in a dark room playing video games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, They're gonna be youtubing bikes. Yeah. Now, it's
Speaker 1: not the same. The movie stars Sean Aston as Leonard Kinsey.
Speaker 1: He's just fifteen years old and one year after his
Speaker 1: breakout performance in the Goonies, which is such a good movie.
Speaker 4: And this movie is obviously heavily influenced by having a
Speaker 4: group of ragtag friends that go on a bit of
Speaker 4: an adventure together against adults.
Speaker 1: All sounds very familiar, but I'm here for it.
Speaker 4: He is the son of legendary actress Patty Duke, and
Speaker 4: Aston would turn his child acting career into a massive homography,
Speaker 4: including Rudy Toy, Soldiers, Fifty First States, Stranger Things, and
Speaker 4: of course the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I am
Speaker 4: also going to add oh Whitewater Summer with Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: He was like our child actor for a long time.
Speaker 4: When you're watching Goonies and you're watching these movies, Sean
Speaker 4: Aston would hop up somewhere. This movie also marks the
Speaker 4: debut of a young Nia long as Darla Perkins, who's
Speaker 4: just sixteen and on her way to become a huge
Speaker 4: holliway star.
Speaker 3: Gorgeous all ready, this is one of the most stunning
Speaker 3: actresses and she is.
Speaker 2: She's good too, so young and so beautiful.
Speaker 4: You, of course have seen her in Boys in the Hood, Friday, Fresh,
Speaker 4: Prince of bel Air, Soul Food, Big Mama's House, You People,
Speaker 4: and so much more.
Speaker 2: Show so much more force in.
Speaker 4: The industry, and it's really fun to kind of see
Speaker 4: where it all started.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was suck Cue and she was I also.
Speaker 4: Have to give a big shout out to our second
Speaker 4: movie ever with Jason Preson. Yes, who again we talk
Speaker 4: about movies that matter to me, Explorers. Oh, he was
Speaker 4: so great. He was also in this. We've also covered
Speaker 4: him already in The Leftovers. He was the inventor in
Speaker 4: The Left was the inventor in The Left and The Leftovers. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he invented the newspaper cannon that you thought was real
Speaker 4: during all of the eighties, which.
Speaker 3: Hey, I mean, it was so impressive. It might have
Speaker 3: been you just didn't have one in Connecticut.
Speaker 1: It's true. That's also true. We just said hear ye,
Speaker 1: hear ye, and rang a big bell.
Speaker 2: Oh got it?
Speaker 4: So Jason another enormous child star. He was great in everything.
Speaker 4: Go check out his resume because he's another one who
Speaker 4: was around forever. Yes, the length of this movie really
Speaker 4: does differ depending on where you watch it, but we've
Speaker 4: confirmed it again. We've said double triple checked. It is
Speaker 4: ninety one minutes long.
Speaker 2: Oh night mark.
Speaker 1: The bulls Eye.
Speaker 4: It's the closest we've come, but still is not technically
Speaker 4: a bulls Eye. It was directed by Molly Miller, who
Speaker 4: only has a handful of credits, which include Parent Trap
Speaker 4: three and Parent Trap Hawaiian The Honeymoon, which I've never
Speaker 4: seen it.
Speaker 2: I had no idea they had more than two Parent Traps.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen the first Parent Trap.
Speaker 4: And the most noticeable reason this movie is still notable
Speaker 4: is because of who it was written by. It was
Speaker 4: written by then first time writer Chris Carter, which of
Speaker 4: course is a recognizable name to many, as he would
Speaker 4: later become the creator of The X Files, one of
Speaker 4: the most popular sci.
Speaker 1: Fi shows in the history of television.
Speaker 4: He also created the show Millennium, which proved how big
Speaker 4: a deal he was for Fox at the time, since
Speaker 4: he was given a month to shoot the pilot and
Speaker 4: in the contract made sure no network notes or interference
Speaker 4: was given during the process, which to get that into
Speaker 4: your contract is insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: After the unprecedented success of the X Files and the
Speaker 4: spinoff movies, Carter semi retired and now he surfs and
Speaker 4: makes multimedia art. He does share a credit on the
Speaker 4: script with someone named Michael Patrick Goodman, and this is
Speaker 4: just one of three credits for Michael. He really only
Speaker 4: worked in Hollywood as a writer for one year.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 4: Now, one question I do want to ask is have
Speaker 4: you ever been on a military base?
Speaker 1: No? Never, No, I have not. Interesting.
Speaker 4: I didn't know if the Cheetah girls had ever maybe toured,
Speaker 4: did something with the military, or something along those lines.
Speaker 2: We did it, and now I feel shafted.
Speaker 4: So my father is a retired captain in the Navy
Speaker 4: and in Connecticut. He was stationed when he was a
Speaker 4: Navy reserve but a high rank, so he was there
Speaker 4: quite a bit. And when he wasn't at the Pentagon,
Speaker 4: he was at the Groton sub Base in Groton, Connecticut.
Speaker 4: So I grew up getting to tour submarines and running
Speaker 4: around the base. It was really really cool. It was
Speaker 4: a ton of fun. It was just a great place
Speaker 4: to be. There was a bowling alley and I would
Speaker 4: be able to bring friends there and everyone saluting my
Speaker 4: dad everywhere we go, and they're saluting him when he
Speaker 4: comes onto the base and we locked down and see
Speaker 4: all the submarines in the docks, and it was really,
Speaker 4: really really cool. So while I'd never had the life
Speaker 4: of a brat, we didn't have to move around a lot,
Speaker 4: I still had the taste of the military bases.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was great.
Speaker 4: Like the First Golf War, my father was stationed Signal
Speaker 4: of Sicily, was doing a lot of legal the legal
Speaker 4: aspects for the war in Italy, so it was I
Speaker 4: had a taste of the military. My father loves the military. Wow,
Speaker 4: loved being in the military and retired a captain. But
Speaker 4: being on a base is it's completely enclosed city.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So that is one of my questions as
Speaker 3: we're getting into the early parts of the movie I
Speaker 3: know we're going to get there, is that for real,
Speaker 3: they have little arcade areas.
Speaker 1: Absolutely all of ales clubs.
Speaker 2: And you guys just get to run around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just got to just run around your.
Speaker 4: Own their own PX so they don't have to they
Speaker 4: can shut the PX is like a store, so you
Speaker 4: can shop and buy everything you need there. There's groceries,
Speaker 4: no need to leave, no completely inclosed city. I mean
Speaker 4: depending on the base obviously, but the at least the
Speaker 4: sub base in Gratten was a completely enclosed city. The
Speaker 4: gate would close behind you and whatever you needed was there.
Speaker 4: We will I think my dad did let me bring
Speaker 4: my bike a couple times. I could ride my bike
Speaker 4: around the base. It was really fun.
Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, oh man, I got the best of both words.
Speaker 2: Need to tour one of these now?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well I never I never had to move. Yes, I
Speaker 4: got to experience that, but I wasn't. That's a tough
Speaker 4: life where you're a year or two at a base,
Speaker 4: you try to make friends, and you're out in your So.
Speaker 3: My mother in law was like that for a while
Speaker 3: until she came to Orange County and figured out a
Speaker 3: way when she was here in high school to settle
Speaker 3: to be able to stay in high school while her
Speaker 3: her dad got again sent over to Hawaii and she
Speaker 3: she wanted to finish high school here, and she she
Speaker 3: talks about how tough it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are big moves.
Speaker 4: You will find people that are in Texas for a
Speaker 4: year and then the next year, they're in Germany for
Speaker 4: two years, and then you go and it's you're You're
Speaker 4: in Japan all of a sudden, You're all over the place.
Speaker 4: It is a tough life for a kid, but it
Speaker 4: was interesting how they captured that in the movie. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I can't say this right off the bat. I don't
Speaker 4: know if you noticed this, but the Brat Patrol is
Speaker 4: going to have no matter what we watch in the future,
Speaker 4: the worst sound ever the movie is filmed.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's because they filmed on a real
Speaker 3: base then? And it was the flying that I mean,
Speaker 3: it was voiceover, Like I mean in the movie.
Speaker 4: At least, yes, has got to be voiceover for the characters.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they're hidden off scream completely just to make it work.
Speaker 4: And a large portion of the movie just includes planes
Speaker 4: flying by, because when you're at an active military base,
Speaker 4: they're obviously not going to hold their sorties for the
Speaker 4: day so that you can.
Speaker 1: Film a movie.
Speaker 4: It's like, sure, you want to film movie, go ahead,
Speaker 4: but you're gonna have you know, military jets flying over
Speaker 4: you mostly right, right, So yeah, it has to be there,
Speaker 4: but it was hugely noticeable.
Speaker 2: Yes, the evolution of what it's become.
Speaker 3: Now, what was funny that I thought, Okay, sure, you've
Speaker 3: got to do another scene. But what I thought was
Speaker 3: interesting back then, what it seemed like they did is
Speaker 3: if it was just your line that needed to be redone,
Speaker 3: they would just do yours and then keep mine as films.
Speaker 2: And that's when it got really obvious.
Speaker 3: You could see it, which they would never do now
Speaker 3: if it was a scene, you would both have to
Speaker 3: go in and.
Speaker 2: Dub it to get you know, both of us would
Speaker 2: have to do it.
Speaker 1: But it was. It was noticeable in this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 4: The movie opens up at wake Up for the BRAT Patrol,
Speaker 4: which we learned stands by the way the BRAT stands
Speaker 4: for born, Raised and trapped, referencing the idea that they're
Speaker 4: stuck in the base because of their jobs. It's a
Speaker 4: small group of outcasts, including Nia Long, who wears a
Speaker 4: sweatshirt with her name Darla on it in case she
Speaker 4: doesn't know whose sweatshirt it is, and she's with three
Speaker 4: other misfits, Raymond, Squeak, and Bug, all on their way
Speaker 4: to school they're waiting for Aston's Leonard, who appears to
Speaker 4: be a bit of a slacker. He's a smart ass,
Speaker 4: he's very young. Sean Aston gets the great young Shahan
Speaker 4: Askon character. He's late because he slept in. Planes are
Speaker 4: taking off, which is where the sound issues are starting.
Speaker 4: And this is when every kid in nineteen eighty six
Speaker 4: who saw this movie went, oh my god, what is that.
Speaker 1: I need to get that immediately.
Speaker 4: And he says, let's go catch some waves and jumps
Speaker 4: on the first ever I think that we've ever seen
Speaker 4: motorized skateboard.
Speaker 3: Yes, and I loved what it was called. Later on
Speaker 3: it was this called the sidewalk Surfer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so cool, so cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're ten eleven years old and you see this
Speaker 4: kid zipping down.
Speaker 1: He's holding some control in his hand. It's going on.
Speaker 1: It looks so cool, going so fast.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: I would you think that they're had I mean, I
Speaker 3: feel safety wise, there had to have been someone else
Speaker 3: on that it could not think they didn't know that.
Speaker 4: They definitely then cut to a close up of him
Speaker 4: riding it, and it doesn't look like he's riding it,
Speaker 4: so it had to all.
Speaker 3: In as he is then that just looks so this
Speaker 3: would be up there for kids, though.
Speaker 4: I think with the first time you saw the hoverboard
Speaker 4: in Back to the Field, Back.
Speaker 1: To the Future, I need one of those Yes this
Speaker 1: was but this was real.
Speaker 4: It was so cool and somedays so will hoverboards fingers crossed.
Speaker 2: Well, these are real now, Oh these have.
Speaker 1: Been around since the eighties, but nobody had these things.
Speaker 2: No, okay, okay, so.
Speaker 1: Cool to see this cool, but yes, this was fully
Speaker 1: revolutionary in nineteen eighty six, and he surfed to school.
Speaker 1: It looked so cool. Safety in this movie was right
Speaker 1: out the window, though.
Speaker 4: I believe he's wearing a helmet at least as he's
Speaker 4: sidewalk surfing.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yeah, right, okay, yes, none of them do
Speaker 1: when they're riding their bikes. No, but a sidewalk surfing,
Speaker 1: he's doing that.
Speaker 4: We also now meet the Junior Marines, oh man, four
Speaker 4: very structured military school bullies who were UNI. But I
Speaker 4: will say some of the most polite bullies we've ever
Speaker 4: seen put on film.
Speaker 3: Oh my, Sabritases is just I was just freaking out
Speaker 3: about some of these confrontations and how they didn't go
Speaker 3: anywhere in real life. You throw a bucket of water
Speaker 3: on me. Homie is getting punched out right, I think.
Speaker 1: Those who would not hear they're being super played.
Speaker 4: And then if he's getting his team together, he's saying
Speaker 4: things like I want you to go down to the
Speaker 4: old folks home and help everybody. I like the nicest
Speaker 4: bullies that have ever been put on film. Obviously, there
Speaker 4: as the junior Marines on the base, but they're also
Speaker 4: part of the country club.
Speaker 2: There, very high class.
Speaker 1: I don't know if this is a thing, Okay, I think.
Speaker 3: It's probably I'm just gonna ask that now that I
Speaker 3: know you're an expert.
Speaker 4: Well, there's there's certainly things called officers clubs, which are
Speaker 4: clubs obviously specifically for officers, and enlisted personnel are not
Speaker 4: allowed to go there. However, it's usually like a bar
Speaker 4: club situation. It could there could be some bases that
Speaker 4: have golf courses or pools, maybe just for officers.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I never saw that, but it could possibly be a thing. Okay,
Speaker 4: they hate the brat patrollers, these junior Marines because Sean
Speaker 4: Aston and his crew the previous year won the Youth
Speaker 4: Service Award by throwing a tennis tournament and making sure
Speaker 4: the blind Kids won that. It is a movie where
Speaker 4: these two groups of kids are trying to out nice
Speaker 4: each other.
Speaker 2: I know, very strange.
Speaker 1: You think you could be good. We're gonna be twice
Speaker 1: as good as you.
Speaker 3: I want you to help seventeen grandmas across the street.
Speaker 2: Your quote.
Speaker 1: It was they were the nicest people in the world.
Speaker 4: I'd also like to point out that one of the
Speaker 4: junior Marines I don't have his name, is in a
Speaker 4: movie that I love so much as a kid that
Speaker 4: is the ultimate Holy cow?
Speaker 1: Does this movie not hold up? Now?
Speaker 4: Called Just one of the Guys. He played the brother
Speaker 4: in Just One of the Guys. He was hysterical, But man,
Speaker 4: does that movie not hold on?
Speaker 2: He wasn't the main junior marine. He was.
Speaker 1: He was the best friend.
Speaker 2: Okay, I recognized him too. I don't know what his
Speaker 2: name is.
Speaker 1: He's done a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: He's done a lot of works.
Speaker 4: It also believe we've talked about this show. I believe
Speaker 4: he played Koran Nemick's best friend. His name is Billy Jane.
Speaker 1: He played Koran Nemick's best friend in Parker Lewis Can't Lose,
Speaker 1: which is the show that you and I talked about
Speaker 1: where they break the fourth wall.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, pretty sure. He was in that as the
Speaker 4: best Friend too. He usually plays the brother of the
Speaker 4: best friend. Great actor. Man, just one of the guys
Speaker 4: does not hold up. But yes, he was also in
Speaker 4: Parker Lewis camp.
Speaker 2: Just one of the guys.
Speaker 1: All right, if you want to see I was in
Speaker 1: Kujo too.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 1: This guy was in everything Fujo.
Speaker 4: We got to get him on the show because he's Yes,
Speaker 4: what is not great is just one of the guys.
Speaker 1: It is great, It just doesn't hold it.
Speaker 4: So these tough guys, they don't want to lose again,
Speaker 4: so they end up confronting the brats in the bathroom
Speaker 4: and kind of threatening them. They don't nothing gets physical. No,
Speaker 4: it's more just don't be so good.
Speaker 3: Yes, And you don't get a sense that the brat
Speaker 3: patrol has any anxiety around these guys. There's no fear factor.
Speaker 3: They're not thinking they're going to get beat up. They're
Speaker 3: really just kind of chatty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, bullies is in the right.
Speaker 4: But the best part of this, the coolest, best part
Speaker 4: of the scene is how they all say goodbye and
Speaker 4: we actually have a clip.
Speaker 1: Comell boys, let's get wet. But that's come on, boys,
Speaker 1: let's get get what.
Speaker 3: It's not the last quote of this movie that is
Speaker 3: hilarious either.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
Speaker 3: Such good funny one liners that you're going what I.
Speaker 4: By the way, this is the only way in the
Speaker 4: future I will ever leave a room is by saying.
Speaker 2: Let's get wet. I love It's so good.
Speaker 4: Imagine saying that while trying to act tough as a
Speaker 4: young marine. Yes, Oh it was good. I'm also going
Speaker 4: to need a new T shirt that says just that.
Speaker 4: Now we had mentioned this movie has a lot in
Speaker 4: common with Shawn Aston's huge blockbuster from a year prior
Speaker 4: to The Goonies, with the kids fighting against the bullies,
Speaker 4: riding bikes stumbling into crime, but one that does differentiate them.
Speaker 1: This gang has We've talked about this his Shawn Aston gang.
Speaker 1: The Brats have the coolest little hangout.
Speaker 4: It is an abandoned bomb shelter where they hold their
Speaker 4: meetings and talk to each other using Morse code eyeblinks.
Speaker 2: Oh I hated it, did you?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: I couldn't stand it. Stop blinking Like.
Speaker 4: Here's what I loved about It's Marina just you.
Speaker 2: They look like when my contacts get dry.
Speaker 3: And I'm sitting here because the light I use while
Speaker 3: we're doing our podcast, and I'm like, my eyes are
Speaker 3: drying out.
Speaker 2: I'm looking crazy. I see them on the clips on Instagram.
Speaker 2: They're so embarrassed.
Speaker 4: It is just the blinky blinky for these guys, and
Speaker 4: I think it's supposed to be most coded obviously is
Speaker 4: did you now you had a fort?
Speaker 1: Did you ever have a secret language growing up? Your friends? Ever?
Speaker 1: Nothing ever swept your school?
Speaker 2: No, we learned, well, we learned that one language. I
Speaker 2: don't even remember what.
Speaker 3: It where you take the last letter and put in
Speaker 3: the front big Latin.
Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: That was a little bit to get into my fort.
Speaker 2: You had to know the handshake. That was one thing,
Speaker 2: like it was a hand You had a.
Speaker 1: Secret handshake to get into your fort. Oh yeah, what
Speaker 1: was it? You don't remember what it is?
Speaker 2: I can't tell you. You can't get into my fort.
Speaker 2: We're not friends like that.
Speaker 1: Yet, you believe we're not fort friends?
Speaker 2: That would you let me in the coop?
Speaker 1: Of course you would have let you in the coop,
Speaker 1: all right? Would have killed to have girls come in
Speaker 1: the coop? Are you kidding?
Speaker 3: I honestly don't even know if I could remember it,
Speaker 3: but I bet you Lindsay.
Speaker 2: If Lindsay was here, we could do it. Knuckles nuckles,
Speaker 2: Remember that's cool.
Speaker 4: We also had it was like Whittiga they called it
Speaker 4: something like that, which went around our school in high
Speaker 4: school for a year.
Speaker 1: Was like agari to do it again, and you do
Speaker 1: it early fat, something like that.
Speaker 2: I do remember I had.
Speaker 4: Friends that could just whip it off and it was like,
Speaker 4: what the hell are you saying?
Speaker 2: Oh man.
Speaker 4: There's also a kind of a fun moment here where
Speaker 4: seawn Aston actually calls the bad kids goonie birds, which
Speaker 4: I thought was kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Goonies had just come out.
Speaker 4: So the first conflict is they want to win this
Speaker 4: Youth Service Trophy again, right, But the Marines, the young Marines,
Speaker 4: really want it, so they're gonna out nice the Brat
Speaker 4: Patrol and essentially say stay out of our way because
Speaker 4: we're gonna meet.
Speaker 1: We're gonna out nice you.
Speaker 4: And so to get back at the junior Marines, the
Speaker 4: Brat Patrol decides to throw a pool party, but it
Speaker 4: isn't what you and I would consider a pool party.
Speaker 4: It means they attacked the junior marines with motorized tennis
Speaker 4: ball machines and water balloons filled with like a powder
Speaker 4: that I think it's mentos.
Speaker 1: Is that what they're going for? Because he just says
Speaker 1: bubbly doesn't bubbly.
Speaker 2: I wasn't sure. I thought this was an eighties thing
Speaker 2: that I didn't know.
Speaker 1: This was not an eighties wall. Everybody had Bubbly back
Speaker 1: in the day.
Speaker 3: Well, and I, yeah, this this wasn't really the greatest sabotage.
Speaker 1: Weird, it's a weird sabotage.
Speaker 3: First of all, why weren't they conspicuous, Like why they
Speaker 3: had a perfect place on the top of the roof to.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, why go down the slide?
Speaker 3: They could have really got them better and also poured
Speaker 3: water on them.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's so much more stuff they could have done.
Speaker 4: But I guess what it was was they so the
Speaker 4: first time they fired the balloons, so they're up on
Speaker 4: the roof, they sneak up on a roof, they fill
Speaker 4: balloons with water and this fizzy whatever it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I thought they were gonna Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to nail the guys below them,
Speaker 1: That's what I thought. But then they start shooting them
Speaker 1: into the pool. So I think they're trying to turn
Speaker 1: the pool busy right all then hitting the then they aim.
Speaker 4: It at the It's not a well conceived plan, right
Speaker 4: of sabotage if we're on no.
Speaker 3: And then this is the first time where you see
Speaker 3: Squeak almost dying on the roof because he fully trips.
Speaker 1: Did he Oh, I didn't see that. He's a trip
Speaker 1: on the Did they almost lose Squeak? Did they really.
Speaker 3: Literally trips? So that's what I'm thinking. I thought, Oh,
Speaker 3: this is when Squeak's gonna get hurt. But then all
Speaker 3: of a sudden he's back down with the tennis balls
Speaker 3: and then he wasn't really sure what he was how
Speaker 3: he was getting them up and over.
Speaker 2: I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't understand where the pool was to the tennis course.
Speaker 3: That whole part was just kind of it just it
Speaker 3: kind of just missed the beat, like it missed the
Speaker 3: punchline of it.
Speaker 4: Even the guys rolling off the backwards off the chairs
Speaker 4: in sync.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it did.
Speaker 2: Like that, but that's cue. I thought that was cute.
Speaker 1: I rolled my eyes.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, on really cover and after and.
Speaker 1: So they the war has begun.
Speaker 4: Then they steal the general of the base, they steal
Speaker 4: his golf cart and and do the worst getaway ever
Speaker 4: were First of all, they almost kill Squeak again.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed that. I didn't see
Speaker 1: the first time, but they.
Speaker 4: Almost ran this kid over, literally almost backed over Squeak.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: He was trying to catch up.
Speaker 2: I was like, get up, get up, buddy, you can
Speaker 2: do it, you.
Speaker 1: Can do it. It was the safety. The safety patrol
Speaker 1: was not there this day.
Speaker 3: No, there there was not one on this this movie
Speaker 3: at all, I don't think.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, there are so many planes flying overhead that you
Speaker 4: can barely hear what's.
Speaker 2: Happening, hear anything. I know.
Speaker 3: It was that was really I think the first time
Speaker 3: the planes happened at some point, and that seem to
Speaker 3: be the first time where you're going, oh, those have
Speaker 3: not been put in.
Speaker 4: The old there's just planes. There's nothing we can do.
Speaker 4: There are planes, and you know, they use the best take.
Speaker 4: So that's the best they got.
Speaker 2: That's all they got.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're never actually caught for any of these shenanigans,
Speaker 8: but they're still given community service, which I also found
Speaker 8: weird because all they're.
Speaker 4: Trying to do is win a trophy for doing community service.
Speaker 4: All the while, the Junior Marines are performing voluntary good
Speaker 4: deeds and hoping of winning the trophy that year, and
Speaker 4: we learn a very important senator is visiting that weekend
Speaker 4: to hand out the award. So everyone has to be
Speaker 4: on their best behavior. And they're learning this all through
Speaker 4: one of their allies on the base. They are friends
Speaker 4: with a major who was another big eighties actor, great
Speaker 4: movie called Volunteers.
Speaker 1: Check that out with Tom Hanks. He's done a ton
Speaker 1: of stuff.
Speaker 4: And after they finished their punishment, they accidentally This is
Speaker 4: where the movie then gets another little twist and more conflict.
Speaker 4: They stumble on what they believe is a clandestine business
Speaker 4: deal where a serviceman is secretly selling high tech equipment
Speaker 4: and confidential information to civilians. So now not only do
Speaker 4: they have the trophy to worry about, they need to
Speaker 4: save the entire country. But uh, the first thing they
Speaker 4: do so I was like, Okay, this is going to
Speaker 4: be an eighties movie. They are gonna fit. We gotta
Speaker 4: get them, We got to figure out how to do this. No,
Speaker 4: the first thing they do is they go and tell
Speaker 4: an adult it was the great I was like.
Speaker 1: Oh, they're doing it right.
Speaker 4: At several points during this movie, several different times they
Speaker 4: go and try to tell an adult what's happened, and
Speaker 4: they have.
Speaker 3: The reverse effect because from what the adults are saying,
Speaker 3: they're bringing up other situations that they've brought to them.
Speaker 4: That turned out to be fake or whatever. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: boy cried Wolfulllake.
Speaker 3: Talk about Leonard's imagination being very over the top and
Speaker 3: just too much.
Speaker 4: But still a movie where the kids do the right
Speaker 4: thing by several times to go and talk to the
Speaker 4: adults about this, the adults don't.
Speaker 1: Want to know.
Speaker 2: Every time they do, and the adults absolutely shut him down.
Speaker 4: And so one of the things they do is one
Speaker 4: of the adults finally says, I'll come with you. There
Speaker 4: was this a giant piece of loose fence that Jason
Speaker 4: Preston's character leans against and slams down.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a hard fall. Whoever get that far
Speaker 1: was that fall?
Speaker 4: That was a hard hard It knocked the wind out
Speaker 4: of me and I was watching the movie, so that
Speaker 4: was that was a big hard FALLT Yeah, they bring
Speaker 4: the major back with them and the fence has been
Speaker 4: repaired instantly.
Speaker 1: None of the.
Speaker 4: Tracks are there. This is where they saw the bad
Speaker 4: guys loitering were around.
Speaker 2: So, but this is where it started.
Speaker 3: I felt like the villain that was doing the exchange,
Speaker 3: he seemed to have a lot of information. Where how
Speaker 3: did he know that that was the fence that they
Speaker 3: were gonna take the major two? I don't know how
Speaker 3: did he know that?
Speaker 4: My guess is he's just because he's probably the one
Speaker 4: that that made the fence. Yeah, that helped cut open
Speaker 4: the fence. Okay, that's also a character actor. I will
Speaker 4: get his name for everybody who has played that same
Speaker 4: kind of role in everything he was.
Speaker 1: He was the bad guy, like the Bad Cop and
Speaker 1: RoboCop two.
Speaker 4: So this guy is always playing that kind of shifty
Speaker 4: guy who is constantly going against like his own team.
Speaker 4: So he was a bad cop and RoboCop two. He's
Speaker 4: a bad officer in this one. So at this point,
Speaker 4: it's really hurt their chances because they can't prove anything
Speaker 4: that's going on.
Speaker 1: So this trophy seems like it's way out of reach.
Speaker 4: That's when the Junior we realize the Junior Marines are
Speaker 4: in the lead for the trophy. They're lifeguarding, feeding pets,
Speaker 4: oiling wheelchairs local, they're hanging out in old folks homes.
Speaker 1: It's like they are really really digging it. The brats
Speaker 1: know they can't they can't keep up with them now.
Speaker 3: They they cannot keep doing They are having too much
Speaker 3: fun with all their inventions.
Speaker 2: And rights, so they don't have time.
Speaker 1: The thing that's strange is they decide the way to
Speaker 1: win the trophy is to catch the criminals and save
Speaker 1: the base and the country because it's like illegal weapons dealers,
Speaker 1: and then the general of the base and the senator
Speaker 1: coming will have no choice but to crown them.
Speaker 4: And all of this is barely being heard over the
Speaker 4: emags playing noises that are still happening as the.
Speaker 1: Movie goes on.
Speaker 3: It's so hard too, is it's hard to kind to
Speaker 3: rewind on YouTube, And so when I needed because I
Speaker 3: couldn't really hear it, I had to rewind that. I'm like,
Speaker 3: this movie's taking me not ninety one minutes, but one
Speaker 3: hundred and forty six to watch because I have to
Speaker 3: keep rewinding it to hear what the freaking audio.
Speaker 4: And it just goes right over their dialogue and you
Speaker 4: know they're just like, forget it, just put it in role,
Speaker 4: just going nothing we can do. They're doing touch and
Speaker 4: goes today, there's gonna be planes over us all day long.
Speaker 1: Let's just go So they figure out what they're gonna do.
Speaker 4: One of the things they do is they have Darla
Speaker 4: take candid photos of the possible criminals. And it's essentially
Speaker 4: all Nea Long does throughout the entire movie. She really
Speaker 4: doesn't help in any way shape form. They gave this
Speaker 4: careater nothing to do.
Speaker 2: Really, they didn't build her character at all. It was
Speaker 2: so disappointed.
Speaker 4: Stephen Lee, by the way, is the name of that
Speaker 4: character actor that was in this A bad cop, the
Speaker 4: bad cop.
Speaker 1: But he yes, So I would like to have seen
Speaker 1: Nia Long do something else.
Speaker 4: Also would like to have seen at some point her
Speaker 4: taking pictures. She's doing that from the cockpit of a plane.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: They're breaking into places and doing stuff all under the
Speaker 4: cover of bright daylight. Yes, it's two o'clock in the
Speaker 4: afternoon and she's in the cockpit of a play.
Speaker 2: The amount of times that these kids do things right
Speaker 2: in front of adults, right in front of.
Speaker 3: Them, and nobody even blinks an eye.
Speaker 1: Yes, maybe they couldn't shoot at night on the base. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like maybe that wasn't allowed I don't recall a single
Speaker 1: thing taking place at night in the.
Speaker 2: Whole movie, so yeah, maybe that was it.
Speaker 4: But Darla's taking the photos, Squeak and Bug steal data
Speaker 4: from military data banks and compute. Yeah, the computers are
Speaker 4: so old you can actually hear them thinking. And meanwhile,
Speaker 4: Leonard and Raymond are caught investigating an off limit security
Speaker 4: center by the Junior Marines who surround them on their
Speaker 4: mopeds and they look like a Kowanas club or like
Speaker 4: one of the elks, like driving around them and all
Speaker 4: wearing the same outfits on their little mopeds.
Speaker 1: That was all that was going through my head, was
Speaker 1: like the parades and the little cars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I yeah, the mopeds were hilarious to me.
Speaker 1: They were great.
Speaker 2: They were so good.
Speaker 3: Because they could have had a dirt bike type of motorcycle.
Speaker 4: Right, But this is apparently what they give the Junior
Speaker 4: Marines is junior mopeds.
Speaker 1: You get, you get a little bit kind of an
Speaker 1: inkling of the early workings of Chris Carter here with
Speaker 1: all the procedural work, all the questioning of authority.
Speaker 4: They even mentioned bigfoot and alien encounters. There's also then
Speaker 4: use of a chocolate grenade. Yes, so they throw a
Speaker 4: chocolate grenade at the guy. The Junior Marines to get away,
Speaker 4: then dive into a.
Speaker 1: Weirdly placed water bind It wasn't even like a pool.
Speaker 1: It was like a pool of water that just happened
Speaker 1: to be there.
Speaker 2: It looked like a trough that's pigs.
Speaker 1: Drink that just happened to be there. In case somebody
Speaker 1: throws a chocolate grenade at.
Speaker 3: Here randomly, just a little what would they consider that?
Speaker 3: A bunker of some sorts something like that.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
Speaker 4: I guess if somebody throws a chocolate grenade, you hit
Speaker 4: the first water source weirdly placed near you.
Speaker 3: I will say, throughout this entire movie, the Junior Marines
Speaker 3: get completely thrashed all the time, their poor moms and
Speaker 3: their laundry that they have to get to. It's the pools,
Speaker 3: it's the waters, it's it's just there's constant stuff on them.
Speaker 1: It's well, in all fairness, he left the room saying,
Speaker 1: let's get wet, and that's why.
Speaker 2: That's what he did all the whole movie.
Speaker 4: Every single time. Okay, so it's finally time for the
Speaker 4: Senator to visit. Every kid in the base needs to
Speaker 4: be on their best behavior and shocking. But they the
Speaker 4: Senator lands on a runway to ear piercing airplane noises
Speaker 4: again with then a band playing, so they're shouting over
Speaker 4: all this stuff.
Speaker 1: It's a very loud movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but thanks to all the brat patrols, hard work investigation,
Speaker 4: because again they've gone to adults three hundred times and
Speaker 4: nobody wants to listen to them. They find the civilians
Speaker 4: are two brothers at a nearby autobody shop, and they
Speaker 4: think those are the thugs that are involved in the
Speaker 4: illegal racket.
Speaker 1: But just as they discover this, they're in their fort.
Speaker 4: They're the underground bunker and they are attacked by the
Speaker 4: on base service guy, who is again we've talked about
Speaker 4: the Stephen Lee's character who bear hugs Leonard, and that's
Speaker 4: where the scene gets.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say but we can bleep, but
Speaker 1: it does.
Speaker 2: It is ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Squeak is on the floor in a ball crying behind.
Speaker 1: Such sque loss, Squeeze lost, Squeak. Squeak's lucky to be
Speaker 1: alive at this point and it's just looking for cover
Speaker 1: and so Squeak is just shouting the entire time.
Speaker 4: Then the blinking starts as he's blinking, blinking, your favorite.
Speaker 4: They start blinking back and forward at each other to
Speaker 4: send messages of what to do. As the guy is
Speaker 4: still holding Leonard, they then flash a light in the space,
Speaker 4: cut down a giant parachute.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a circus tent comes over again, yes, it and
Speaker 3: they tie him up.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: It was a strange kind of way to trap him
Speaker 1: in a tent.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you would think that that that circus tent would
Speaker 3: obviously limit his movement, but not the ability to take
Speaker 3: out these teenagers right that are attacking him.
Speaker 4: You would think, I mean, when one of them is squeak,
Speaker 4: is twenty seven pounds, soaking wet.
Speaker 1: So it was as it was a strange scene.
Speaker 3: Strange And again, how did he know where they were
Speaker 3: in the first place?
Speaker 4: I think he followed them because if you notice again
Speaker 4: under the cover of daylight, he had binoculars and is
Speaker 4: trying to follow everything.
Speaker 1: Okay, at this point, I think that's what they were
Speaker 1: alluding to.
Speaker 4: Now, they just need to lure the brothers to the base,
Speaker 4: the brothers, and so to do that, they say, the
Speaker 4: best way to lure them there is by having them
Speaker 4: think they're speaking to an adult and they want to
Speaker 4: get Jason Presson's character to do it, and he's like,
Speaker 4: this is a bridge too far, I'll be killed.
Speaker 1: I don't want to do this.
Speaker 4: So instead they have one of the inventions that one
Speaker 4: of his friends makes is deepens your voice slightly.
Speaker 1: It slightly deepens your voice.
Speaker 4: So Seawan Assen's character calls with the slightly deeper voice
Speaker 4: and says, they have this magical piece of equipment the
Speaker 4: baddies want to buy called data bursts, which apparently is
Speaker 4: like the mother load for terrorists. So yeah, so he's like,
Speaker 4: we've got him, and again instead of talking to him
Speaker 4: like this, he's talking to him like this.
Speaker 1: So they think he's an adult. A very risky play.
Speaker 2: So risky.
Speaker 4: See he's bad guys onto the base and you're just
Speaker 4: a bunch of kids that are going to pretend to
Speaker 4: be adults in the shadows. Yeah, very strange, But throughout
Speaker 4: all this it actually works.
Speaker 2: Yet somehow they get them, They get them, to get them.
Speaker 4: To agree, they rig the meeting place with traps and
Speaker 4: recording devices to prove the scheme and thus save the
Speaker 4: world and win the trophy.
Speaker 1: So at this point the movie just becomes a pattern
Speaker 1: over and over.
Speaker 4: The Brat Patrol makes some progress, then they have a
Speaker 4: running with the Junior Marines, then they get in trouble
Speaker 4: with the military higher ups.
Speaker 1: They have to fight their way back.
Speaker 4: It's that over and over again, covered with a ton
Speaker 4: of airplane sounds, and then a food fight. There's finally
Speaker 4: some sort of fight between the Junior Marines and the
Speaker 4: Brat Patrol and it becomes.
Speaker 1: A food fight.
Speaker 2: We don't even get to see the food fight though,
Speaker 2: we just.
Speaker 1: See the after math.
Speaker 3: Maath It's finally gonna happen something, and we see the aftermath.
Speaker 3: We don't even get to see the food thrown in
Speaker 3: the air.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been in a food fight? Have you
Speaker 1: ever done a food fight scene?
Speaker 3: So this was one of my favorite things I did
Speaker 3: when I was really little and I was just doing
Speaker 3: background work. I was in the movie Matilda and we
Speaker 3: got to do that at the kind of the end
Speaker 3: of it with the miss trunch.
Speaker 2: Bowl, that food fight.
Speaker 3: We did that food fight over and over and over
Speaker 3: again for two days. I mean it was just food fight,
Speaker 3: clean up, different angle, all this stuff.
Speaker 2: It was so fun.
Speaker 4: Yeah, starting on Nickelodeon then and going to Disney, I've
Speaker 4: been in many many food fights. And the thing they
Speaker 4: never prepare you for is not that the food's cold.
Speaker 4: It's not that it smells. It's not that it hurts
Speaker 4: if you take a meat ball in the face, which
Speaker 4: has happened to me. It's that the floors.
Speaker 6: Get ridiculously slippery to where it's dangerous on an ice
Speaker 6: skating rinks, you're trying to have fun, but you're also
Speaker 6: trying not to fall and take a table.
Speaker 4: To the side of the head. Totally, very, very dangerous.
Speaker 4: So even after being busted for the food fight and grounded,
Speaker 4: the Brat Patrol still sets up the sting to pull
Speaker 4: off their biggest adventure just in time for the trophy ceremony,
Speaker 4: which again is completely and totally muted by loud noises,
Speaker 4: So they pull the guys into the base. They are
Speaker 4: able to do it, Squeak messes up. They're pretending to
Speaker 4: be corrupt marines. They learn the body shop Brothers to
Speaker 4: buy the data Burst, but Squeak makes a mistake and
Speaker 4: exposes Leonard's real voice. They make a run for it.
Speaker 4: They're chased by the Scary Brothers, which is also the
Speaker 4: Scary Brothers chasing them is exactly like the goonies.
Speaker 1: So much, and then we get the DCM signature of
Speaker 1: clearly grown stunt men riding bikes pretending to be kids
Speaker 1: in a chase. Yeah, now you could tell Sean Aston
Speaker 1: is good on his bike.
Speaker 4: He's whipping around, he's flipping his bike ground but on
Speaker 4: the jumps and everything, it is clearly forty year old
Speaker 4: men playing and everyone including me along it seems.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, and they're able to outrun the villains.
Speaker 4: They make it to the awards ceremony with.
Speaker 1: The bad guy in tow. Why he wouldn't just take off.
Speaker 4: And not want to be around the General and the
Speaker 4: Senator and the Marines and everybody.
Speaker 1: Else, but he follows them in to the thing once again.
Speaker 4: Two of the junior Marines get thrown into giant celebratory cakes.
Speaker 4: They are just constantly covered in stuff during this entire thing,
Speaker 4: and the Brat Patrol, with the help of the Major,
Speaker 4: are able to expose the nefarious plans and the stolen goods,
Speaker 4: busting the thieves. Because the original thieves chase them through
Speaker 4: a tunnel in a van, the van gets wedge, they
Speaker 4: can't get out. They've essentially imprisoned themselves in this van.
Speaker 4: So after they go, and they go to the trophy ceremony.
Speaker 4: They go back and they are able to catch the batties,
Speaker 4: who also say, yeah, that guy the MP help, so
Speaker 4: they arrest the MP as well, and boom, now they've
Speaker 4: won the trophy. Leonard gives a long winded thank you
Speaker 4: speech and holds up the trophy to nobody because the
Speaker 4: entire place is emptied out.
Speaker 2: Everyone is gone, everyone's.
Speaker 4: Gone, and the and it just cuts right to the
Speaker 4: credits with an American flag waving and giant plain noises again,
Speaker 4: and there's your movie. It starts with a plain noise,
Speaker 4: as plain noises a little, and it ends with a
Speaker 4: plain noise. Did you like the ending of this movie?
Speaker 4: Did this feel heartwarming to you or did it feel
Speaker 4: a little el.
Speaker 3: It summed up Leonard's character for me, because the whole
Speaker 3: time I'm thinking, Gosh, this guy's kind of a douche.
Speaker 2: He's not a great friend. He's just you know, he's
Speaker 2: so cocky.
Speaker 3: He's not helping when they when they get in trouble
Speaker 3: because of his crazy ideas.
Speaker 2: And have to do community service.
Speaker 3: His little speech kind of summed it up as far
Speaker 3: as he's just you know.
Speaker 2: And finally, when squeak pulls the plug.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that moment. I agree to where his
Speaker 1: friends are just like enough of you.
Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, and you know again we get the full
Speaker 3: button of this trophy that they've apparently didn't seem to
Speaker 3: care about honestly, just but now do.
Speaker 1: And it is very strange.
Speaker 4: It's time for real reviews, Sabrica. I think it is
Speaker 4: your time to do the five star review. I believe
Speaker 4: what do we got today?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 3: Five star from Jerry am one of the best Disney
Speaker 3: movies of the eighties. Sean Aston is great and made
Speaker 3: me want to attach a motor to my skateboard.
Speaker 2: Chocolate grenades also rule agreed, I said.
Speaker 4: I will take the one star. This is from Joey p.
Speaker 4: Luckily it's not confusing at all. Okay, the one star
Speaker 4: review is what's the arcade game they take apart to
Speaker 4: make the alarm? Will change my score once I find out?
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, back to joe.
Speaker 1: We don't know what it is, Joey, uh, we'll find out.
Speaker 4: I think it's you know, since it was probably a
Speaker 4: game from eighty six, you'd probably have to use a
Speaker 4: different game now right, Speaking of games, we've got a
Speaker 4: new one this week. Our new feature is a game
Speaker 4: called acro HMMs. We all know that Brat acro acro
Speaker 4: hms because we all know that Bratt in brat Patrol
Speaker 4: is an acronym. But do you know some other random acronyms.
Speaker 4: We'll get a word and then we have to guess
Speaker 4: what the letters stand for. For example, yolo is you
Speaker 4: only live once?
Speaker 7: It is?
Speaker 1: I didn't know that?
Speaker 2: Why could that have been one? Jensen? I do that one?
Speaker 4: There you go and scuba as all the boy me
Speaker 4: worlt fans know, is something creepy underboat Andy, it's actually
Speaker 4: self contained underwater breathing apparats. Okay, so we have to
Speaker 4: write the letter of our answer and say them on three. Okay, Now,
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna do the first one with you because
Speaker 4: I already know the answer to this one. I've always
Speaker 4: known what the acronym for laser is. Okay, so I'll
Speaker 4: let you do the first one. Is it a light
Speaker 4: and sound emulation rounding B loose and safe entrance rays
Speaker 4: see light amplification by stimulated emissions of radiation or d
Speaker 4: lightened and amplified standard energy rates.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see C is correct?
Speaker 4: I can even it is light edification by stimulated emission
Speaker 4: of radiation.
Speaker 1: That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2: But now, Sabrina, maybe it was that Will is involved
Speaker 2: that made you so bad at this.
Speaker 1: That's that's what it is. It's my fault. Our second
Speaker 1: word is radar.
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Is it either a radio detection and ranging B riding
Speaker 4: and delayed amplification, radio ce ratio announcements defer to cross
Speaker 4: reaction or d roaming airwaves down or above rebound quickly?
Speaker 1: One two three B A. Well, Will's back. It's a.
Speaker 2: That doesn't it doesn't even spell raider. There's an a
Speaker 2: missing scene.
Speaker 1: You're right. That is kind of weird.
Speaker 2: I mean miss that you put in there as a jokester. One, No,
Speaker 2: that was that's serious.
Speaker 1: But it is true that it's.
Speaker 2: Missing at A. That one's garbage.
Speaker 4: It's not only an acronym, it's what is the other
Speaker 4: thing where it's it's spelled the same way frontwards and backwards.
Speaker 1: Technical term as slipsy doozy.
Speaker 4: That is not correct. I forget the name of it.
Speaker 4: But it's like race car. It's spelled the same way
Speaker 4: front with you spell it frontwards or backwards. It's all
Speaker 4: the same way. Okay, an easier one, but nice dad?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: Our third one p s L is it a proton
Speaker 4: simulation laboratory, B phaser, SONO lights, C prism, sun landing
Speaker 4: or D pumpkin spice latte?
Speaker 2: D oh? Sorry?
Speaker 1: One?
Speaker 5: Two?
Speaker 1: Three?
Speaker 2: Hey, man, I knew when I put pumpkin spice lott
Speaker 2: I should get it right, man.
Speaker 4: Okay, well I figured proton was going to be in
Speaker 4: there somewhere.
Speaker 1: By the way, if flipsy is a palindrome, palindrome, that's
Speaker 1: what it is, a palindrome. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Can we do a Shabrina sees, which, by the way,
Speaker 4: is not a palindrome?
Speaker 2: No, it's not.
Speaker 3: Yes, we can. Let's get into it. Okay, this is
Speaker 3: what I want to talk about, because we didn't go over.
Speaker 2: It at all.
Speaker 3: The scene where they are painting rocks and what we
Speaker 3: did talk about it. They come in their mopeds, but
Speaker 3: that's the first time where you're going. He gets a
Speaker 3: full bucket thrown on him and does nothing right, and
Speaker 3: then they start to get a little bit more hot
Speaker 3: and a little bit more angry, and Leonard goes, this
Speaker 3: is a quote. If you guys don't want to be
Speaker 3: the uncommon denominators. You better just back off.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, died.
Speaker 5: That was.
Speaker 3: It was almost as good, but probably not as good
Speaker 3: as come on, boys, Let's get wet.
Speaker 2: Let's I had, but I had both boys.
Speaker 3: Let's get wet sounds creepy.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Okay.
Speaker 3: And then I don't know if you caught this or not,
Speaker 3: but this is just the last one because we really
Speaker 3: went over so many of mine.
Speaker 2: But when they're in the the.
Speaker 3: They're four yea and they each give each other a
Speaker 3: high five. And then Leonard goes to high five the
Speaker 3: what's the guy that wears the hat and his character?
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't remember his character's name right now?
Speaker 4: What the best friend? Yes, yeah, that's Jason Presson. I
Speaker 4: don't know, I can't remember his character.
Speaker 2: Jason's character.
Speaker 3: Leonard goes to high five him and totally hits his head, Yes,
Speaker 3: hits his head, and he just it wasn't part. You
Speaker 3: could tell it was an accident, and he just like
Speaker 3: keeps going with the lines, like he doesn't even even acknowledged.
Speaker 1: Lamps in the face, So I didn't even see that.
Speaker 3: And then also I think the last one, I think
Speaker 3: this was not done on purpose.
Speaker 2: It didn't seem like it anyway.
Speaker 3: When Squeak almost dies from the smallest car that.
Speaker 2: Is the smallest little golf cart thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: The kids almost killed adults on it looked insane.
Speaker 3: They looked like they were in a clown car. But
Speaker 3: when the kids are in it and he does, I
Speaker 3: think he probably heard Squeak go, you almost killed me,
Speaker 3: or you're you're gonna you're killing me. Because he almost
Speaker 3: he runs into the jack. I don't think they meant
Speaker 3: to do that. I think that was that was the
Speaker 3: total outtake. It looked too good.
Speaker 2: It looked way.
Speaker 4: Too Also, hits hard, and I think it's because he
Speaker 4: almost ran over the six year old.
Speaker 1: That was Yes, I think he was.
Speaker 2: Just spazing out. It was.
Speaker 1: It did not look good, so.
Speaker 3: Good, not for Squeak, and then he's like, oh no,
Speaker 3: looks back, and then are in front of him. I
Speaker 3: don't think that was planned. I think that literally just happened.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm sticking.
Speaker 4: I gotta watch again. I can't wait to go. I
Speaker 4: missed the guys slapping in the face.
Speaker 3: Slapping in the face is pretty good. It's when they're
Speaker 3: divising their plan. It's towards the middle.
Speaker 4: Okay, that I have to see again. It's now the
Speaker 4: time where we rate the movie. Yes, we always rate
Speaker 4: one out of ten, one being the worst, ten being
Speaker 4: the best, of course, and this week, would you like
Speaker 4: to do one out of ten ear piercing plane noises,
Speaker 4: I mean blinking I code words, motorized skateboards. Let's go
Speaker 4: get wets one out of ten, arcade game parts one
Speaker 4: out of ten, never ending movie patterns. I'm also going
Speaker 4: to add one out of ten almost dead squeaks.
Speaker 2: Let's do that one.
Speaker 1: You want to do that one? Almost dead squeaks? All right,
Speaker 1: all right, pea squeaks, alrightp squeaks?
Speaker 4: One out of ten rip squeaks. I think I went
Speaker 4: first last time, didn't I? Yes, okay, I think so,
Speaker 4: I think so too. Go ahead, How many rip squeaks
Speaker 4: are you giving? Brat patrol?
Speaker 3: So you know this is not We haven't done a
Speaker 3: ton of the Disney movies for ABC versus the Disney Channel,
Speaker 3: so I kind of somewhat compare them versus the d coms.
Speaker 3: They kind of seem like there's a definite difference between
Speaker 3: the movies. So I'm going Haunted Mansion. Was it as
Speaker 3: good as Haunted Mansion. I think it was definitely better
Speaker 3: than the leftovers. I should write my my scores down
Speaker 3: because I don't remember. I'm going to go for I'm
Speaker 3: going to give this a seven point five.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed it. I thought it was really good.
Speaker 4: I you know, it's funny. I'm right there with you.
Speaker 4: I'm going to give it a seven rip squeaks.
Speaker 2: Rip seven point five irip squeaks.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it brought me back to the eighties, great
Speaker 4: young cast who all went on to be, you know,
Speaker 4: do amazing things. And I think you're right there were
Speaker 4: there's a especially for the eighties, you know, when you've
Speaker 4: got a wonderful world of Disney. In the eighties, they
Speaker 4: had good characters, good actors.
Speaker 1: It was a fun romp.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm gonna go with seven rip squeaks.
Speaker 2: Cleeks.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 4: And since we just watched a movie that took place
Speaker 4: on a military base, we have to shout out all
Speaker 4: of our men and women in uniform all across the
Speaker 4: world that are helping us out. Thank you so much
Speaker 4: for your service. And if you get the opportunity to
Speaker 4: go on to a military base, you really should check
Speaker 4: it out because, like I said, it is a small
Speaker 4: city into itself and it's really a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We also we have so this is really cool. We
Speaker 1: have a very interesting part Copper episode.
Speaker 4: This week, we sat down with the studio executive credited
Speaker 4: with creating the modern day d com.
Speaker 1: He is the reason why we are all here.
Speaker 4: His name is Michael Healy, and he talks all about
Speaker 4: the creation of franchises like High School Musical and The
Speaker 4: Chetah Girls.
Speaker 1: What went into making a successful dcom.
Speaker 4: It is a very candid and honest conversation you won't
Speaker 4: want to miss on our magical rewind feed. It really
Speaker 4: is a ton of fun. Let's hear a small snippet
Speaker 4: of that now.
Speaker 7: Disney Channel was always sort of torn between kind of
Speaker 7: good for you, high class, award winning things and popular entertainment.
Speaker 7: And I was on the popular entertainment side, but I
Speaker 7: wanted to make them good too. And I remember the
Speaker 7: first response I got when we wrote the script for
Speaker 7: che the Girls was a real big shot there said, oh,
Speaker 7: this is too linguoly for me, which I meant that
Speaker 7: it was in It was written in modern slang, which
Speaker 7: of course is one of the things that made it
Speaker 7: really good. Yeah, but she got over it when it
Speaker 7: did the numbers.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was so cool to hear the other side
Speaker 4: kind of how everything's made and the you know, the
Speaker 4: executives behind it.
Speaker 1: And yes, that was one of my favorite interviews we've
Speaker 1: ever done.
Speaker 3: And Michael, he was so invested, and to think of
Speaker 3: how many of the dcms were happening at once.
Speaker 2: He was just so awesome in such a great presence.
Speaker 3: He'd come on set multiple times to going to shoot,
Speaker 3: check out things. He always felt very supportive of us
Speaker 3: as actors, and he was just such a great guy.
Speaker 2: You could really just chat.
Speaker 3: And then of course it was always cool to go
Speaker 3: what else are you guys going on?
Speaker 2: You know what else is happening in the channel?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 2: Give us the scoop?
Speaker 3: So he wasn't amazing. It was so good to see him.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen him for so long, so I.
Speaker 4: Loved getting it was a great interview. Please check it
Speaker 4: out and check out Rap Patrol or don't again, this
Speaker 4: is America. You can do whatever you want. But it
Speaker 4: was a fun movie. It was a great little snippet
Speaker 4: of some cool eighties stuff at his It was like
Speaker 4: an eighties rop but really that man brought me right
Speaker 4: back to my childhood.
Speaker 2: So yes, it was so fun.
Speaker 1: It really was check.
Speaker 2: Adventurous and hilarious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and let's you know, let's get wet.
Speaker 4: Our next movie is a two thousand and eight time
Speaker 4: travel flick called Minute Men, which is available to watch
Speaker 4: right now on Disney Plus.
Speaker 1: So go and check that out. Remember to grib to our.
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Speaker 1: We'll see you next time.
Speaker 2: Bye everybody, Bye,