Speaker 1: Hi, Sabrina. Hey, will have you ever taken really powerful
Speaker 1: hallucinogenic drugs? Okay? I was just checking today. This was nuts.
Speaker 1: I mean I don't even know, I can't even this
Speaker 1: was nuts.
Speaker 2: Like I was in it for like a good while.
Speaker 1: Were you yes?
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, we got magic, Okay, we've
Speaker 2: got imagination. The hardest part for me, I will say,
Speaker 2: I guess kind of early thoughts was like if this
Speaker 2: was a cast of just children, it wouldn't be easy
Speaker 2: to easy to grasp this idea of these adults. This
Speaker 2: was into this absolute garbage.
Speaker 1: And like, yeah, it's the Ana Na. Yes, well you
Speaker 1: know what, I'm not even gonna hold off anymore. Welcome
Speaker 1: back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want
Speaker 1: to grab your friends, your PJS and your popcorn and
Speaker 1: go back to a time one all the houses are smart,
Speaker 1: the waves, tsunamis, and the LSD only lasted six hours.
Speaker 2: I will have Sabrina, Brian.
Speaker 1: Okay, everybody buckle up, because we go. We have hit
Speaker 1: the balloon movie.
Speaker 4: Mark.
Speaker 1: That's right. The tunnel of the Disney Original movies is long,
Speaker 1: but eventually we were always going to hit the balloon
Speaker 1: movie there's no way around it. So yes, the time
Speaker 1: has come. Today we recapped the nineteen ninety nine Fever
Speaker 1: Dream Fever, Dream LSD, Trip, meth induced coma, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. Balloon Farm. It premiered on March
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, nineteen ninety nine, on ABC as part of
Speaker 1: the Wonderful World of Disney series and was based on
Speaker 1: the Night ninety four kids book titled Harvey Potter's Balloon
Speaker 1: Farm Harvey Potter's Balloon Farm by I think it's Jaredan Nolan.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm saying that right or Jaredan Nolan. Nolan
Speaker 1: has written a ton of kid in young adult books,
Speaker 1: one about the life of Tony Morrison, another about the
Speaker 1: Underground Railroad, and most recently, she co wrote a children's
Speaker 1: book called Layla, The Last Black Unicorn with comedian Tiffany Adish. Now,
Speaker 1: the book that this movie was based on was much
Speaker 1: simpler and a very basic kid story, So the film
Speaker 1: added a bunch of magical elements and just added to
Speaker 1: the whole plot the talking balloons. I'm gonna say that again,
Speaker 1: so everybody's with me. The talking balloons and the evil
Speaker 1: corporation trying you buy land for a toxic dump. Those
Speaker 1: are added for the movie, and like most Wonderful Old
Speaker 1: Disney installments, had originally aired with an introduction from CEO
Speaker 1: Michael Eisner, who in this case talked about the history
Speaker 1: of hot air balloons. And that must have been a
Speaker 1: real barnburner of a segment, especially because there are no
Speaker 1: hot air balloons in the movie, all right.
Speaker 2: And I thought that was gonna be such a huge
Speaker 2: aspect of this.
Speaker 1: Nothing I didn't.
Speaker 2: My thing on YouTube didn't show any of that part,
Speaker 2: but just with the name being a balloon, like, I
Speaker 2: was thinking, like, this was gonna be a hot air balloon, going, wow,
Speaker 2: that's kind of been really hard.
Speaker 1: To Yeah, shoot that I figured the same thing, But nope,
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It was just a bunch of okay, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get into it, and it would eventually get the
Speaker 1: DVD Walt Disney Home Video treatment in two thousand and four.
Speaker 1: And of course, elephant in the Room here is that. Yes,
Speaker 1: the main character's name is Harvey Potter, early close to
Speaker 1: that famous wizard student. Now some trivia here, the main
Speaker 1: character in the movie Troll, a nineteen eighty six horror movie,
Speaker 1: is actually named Harry Potter, and that was well before
Speaker 1: the books existed. I'm not sure what you're gonna do
Speaker 1: with that trivia, but you have it, so do with
Speaker 1: it what you will. I'm gonna beat the bloom Farm
Speaker 1: on this one. I don't think I even have to
Speaker 1: ask had you heard of this movie before it came out?
Speaker 1: Not at all before we have to put it out
Speaker 1: for our homework meeting either.
Speaker 2: And this would really have been like Mara Wilson like,
Speaker 2: this would have been in my wheelhouse for sure, and
Speaker 2: I just happened to miss it.
Speaker 1: Dango, Well, that might not be the worst thing. You
Speaker 1: can get equated with Balloon Farm right now for free
Speaker 1: on YouTube, because like almost all the Wonderful World of
Speaker 1: Disney movies, it is not available on any streaming service.
Speaker 1: But just search for a Balloon Farm and click on
Speaker 1: the full movie option. Don't pick the half movie or
Speaker 1: the quarter movie option. Those won't help. But if they
Speaker 1: do offer the one tenth version, it's not an awful option.
Speaker 1: Just avoid the five tenths version because that's just another
Speaker 1: way of saying half. I learned that the hard way.
Speaker 1: So you can watch it now, watch it later, but again,
Speaker 1: watch it in full or maybe just don't watch it.
Speaker 1: So let's turn lemons into lemonade and listen closely to
Speaker 1: our corn. This is the synopsis. When Harvey s Potter
Speaker 1: descends upon a drought stricken farmland, he begins to grow
Speaker 1: a mysterious, beautiful crop of balloons. That's it, That's what
Speaker 1: we got, Sabrina, What did you think, girly thoughts? What
Speaker 1: do you think of the film?
Speaker 2: I mean, this movie was that crazy, yep, and I
Speaker 2: had high hopes for it. The cast where you know
Speaker 2: we're about to get into guys, you're gonna even gonna
Speaker 2: believe who's in this movie.
Speaker 4: It's great.
Speaker 2: The cast is insane, The movie is wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love how you avoided whether you actually liked
Speaker 1: it or not, I'm the same exact way. This was
Speaker 1: not a good movie. I will say it right out.
Speaker 2: It is no being negative.
Speaker 4: That's somebody.
Speaker 1: There's nothing there, there's nothing to be It's not about
Speaker 1: being negative. I mean, it's just it's it's this movie
Speaker 1: is so weird. Scenes that just end like this, they
Speaker 1: just stop scenes where it's hey, oh okay, we're doing
Speaker 1: something else now, and it's just the strangest Oh okay,
Speaker 1: we'll get into it. Yes, the cast is incredible, and
Speaker 1: we'll get into all that.
Speaker 4: It's just like it's great.
Speaker 1: Is wow.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to the point where I'm like, wow,
Speaker 2: wonderful world. It like, look at you booking these like
Speaker 2: big names, right, huge, huge, so awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean okay.
Speaker 2: I felt like almost the entire cast was recognizable, whether.
Speaker 1: You have the time, I feel like, did they read
Speaker 1: it and go, yeah, oh I'm in right because A right?
Speaker 2: That made it so strange? Or was the first script?
Speaker 1: Was it was? It brought some of the actors seemed
Speaker 1: like they were acting in a different movie than the
Speaker 1: other actors were, Like like the guy playing the sheriff
Speaker 1: was doing his whole thing all by himself, and the.
Speaker 2: Sheriff was a main was the main character that the
Speaker 2: movie was actually about.
Speaker 1: So weird anyway, okay. It was directed by William Deer,
Speaker 1: who began his career in TV and music videos, working
Speaker 1: with artists like Cheap Trick and Michael McDonald, and on
Speaker 1: the movie side, he directed the hit film Harry and
Speaker 1: the Henderson's then went on to helm the Richard Rico
Speaker 1: Great Awesome Richard Greco movie of Looks Could Kill, as
Speaker 1: well as two family favorites Disney's Angels in the Outfield
Speaker 1: and the JTT Vehicle Wild America. He also wrote a
Speaker 1: classic that really has withstood the test of time, The Rocketeer.
Speaker 1: So these wide world films really brought in some directing talent.
Speaker 1: And speaking of talent, here we go the movie stars.
Speaker 1: Rip Torn a comedy legend. He's probably best known to
Speaker 1: our audience as the supervisor Z in the Men in
Speaker 1: Black Movies. By the way, we have to put him
Speaker 1: in the Coleman Reynolds chair because he's just phenomenal. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: but he also played Arthur and The Larry Sanders Show
Speaker 1: and Jim Brody in The Insane Movie with Just a
Speaker 1: Horrible title Freddie got fingered. But his credits go on
Speaker 1: and on, from Defending Your Life, which is arguably the
Speaker 1: greatest movie ever made, to Thirty Rock, to Wonder Boys,
Speaker 1: to the Voice of Zeus and Hercules to Summer Rental.
Speaker 1: He was also nominated for Best Supporting Actor in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty four for the movie Cross Creek. Rip Torn was
Speaker 1: the best. I mean, his career is amazing, and he
Speaker 1: passed away in twenty nineteen at the age of eighty eight.
Speaker 1: And then Mara Wilson is Willow Johnson. Mara will forever
Speaker 1: be known as Matilda in the nineteen ninety six film
Speaker 1: adaptation of the role dull children's book, but she also
Speaker 1: starred in Missus, Doubtfire, and Miracle thirty fourth Street, the
Speaker 1: remake of that film. Of course, she was a very
Speaker 1: very recognizable child star in the nineteen nineties and the
Speaker 1: very talented in other words, talent after talent after talent.
Speaker 1: Laurie metcalf is Casey Johnson. She is a multi time
Speaker 1: award winning stage and screen actress, best known as Jackie
Speaker 1: on one of the most celebrated sitcoms of all time, Roseanne.
Speaker 1: She would reprise the role on the Connors reboot and
Speaker 1: is also the voice of Andy's mom in the Toy
Speaker 1: Story movies. She appeared in Scream two and returned for
Speaker 1: the recently released Scream seven. All she wasn't killed in
Speaker 1: any of those movies.
Speaker 2: She's also in one of my favorite shows and I'm like, planking.
Speaker 1: Nice, so good, that's how good it is.
Speaker 2: No Big Bang Theory. She plays Sheldon's mom and she's
Speaker 2: amazing in that.
Speaker 1: Okay, again, never seen Big Bang Theory, but I hear
Speaker 1: it's great.
Speaker 2: She's incredible, She's so funny.
Speaker 1: We've got Frederick Lane, a veteran character actor with a
Speaker 1: four decade career in Hollywood. He plays Jake Johnson. He's
Speaker 1: best known as the yellow eyed demon Azel in Supernatural,
Speaker 1: but was also in Ordinary People, Zero, Dark Thirty, Doctor Death,
Speaker 1: and Mancuzo FBI and beloved cult character actor Robert Blossom
Speaker 1: plays Weasel Mayfield. Blossom is best known to just about
Speaker 1: everyone in the world as the misunderstood, cranky neighbor Old
Speaker 1: Man Marley in Home Alone. Then we've got Neil McDonald,
Speaker 1: who plays the Sheriff. McDonald would go on to become
Speaker 1: a highly esteemed actor, most notably in HBO's Band of
Speaker 1: Brothers mini series, but he also appeared in Captain America,
Speaker 1: Arrow and Minority Report. And then we've got Ernie Lively
Speaker 1: as Tom Williams. And I love this decom connection because
Speaker 1: Ernie is the dad of Blake Lively and Robin Lively,
Speaker 1: a former Magical rewind guest who appeared in a wide
Speaker 1: world of movie just as weird as this one, Fuzzbucket.
Speaker 1: I don't know which one.
Speaker 2: It should should have. That is just too much's amazing
Speaker 2: it I Cannot Take It.
Speaker 1: I Love It. Lively appeared alongside his daughter Blake in
Speaker 1: the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and was seen on
Speaker 1: Hill Street Blues, The X Files, and Seinfeld. He passed
Speaker 1: away in twenty twenty one at the age of seventy four.
Speaker 1: And another familiar name to Magical rewind listeners, Adam Wiley,
Speaker 1: is Charles Adam was a guest here on the pod
Speaker 1: for his work in the first dcom ever, nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: seven's Under Wraps, and appeared in the recent Modern Day remake.
Speaker 1: He also starred in another dcom that was also that
Speaker 1: Crazy Can of Worms, just Nutsy movie after Nutsy. So
Speaker 1: we know this movie sounds weird, but does it run weird?
Speaker 1: And by that, I mean how long is it? We
Speaker 1: love the target number here on the podcast, and that
Speaker 1: number is ninety minutes, no more, no less. So Balloon
Speaker 1: Farm rings in at eighty nine minutes, one off the mark,
Speaker 1: but in the right direction, So we salute the film.
Speaker 1: It almost hit the target. Well we'll salute it for
Speaker 1: that anyway, because it almost knows the target. And on
Speaker 1: the writing side, author Gerdin Nolan got her story credit,
Speaker 1: but writer Stephen Karzinski I believe is how you say
Speaker 1: his name was the screenwriter. This was Stephen's own only
Speaker 1: writing credit. But I did find an article from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two about how he wrote a movie called Vent
Speaker 1: that was going to be made by acclaimed director Florian
Speaker 1: Henkle Von Doner's Mark from the Live of Others. But
Speaker 1: maybe that never came to fruition. I don't know because
Speaker 1: we haven't seen it. And now, oh, I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: speaking balloon but trust me, I said, let's get into
Speaker 1: Balloon Farm. We open with our title on the screen,
Speaker 1: and that's already kind of funny with our credits. We
Speaker 1: open on a truck driving by a sign that reads
Speaker 1: this is Waterston Grow with us population two fifty six,
Speaker 1: Where with the Johnson family in the fields outside their home.
Speaker 1: A young girl named Willow is sitting on a fence
Speaker 1: with her mom and her dad and they're fixing their tractor.
Speaker 1: Willow's mom, Casey, asked Willow, if the trees are pleasing purple,
Speaker 1: what color would the fields be. Willow responds, the fields
Speaker 1: are bloom and blue and the sky is yelling yellow.
Speaker 1: And yes, it's possible that they are also on acid.
Speaker 1: And this is when my tabs started to kick in.
Speaker 1: Casey now asks, and the people Willow's bond's grassy green,
Speaker 1: and they share a laugh. For dad, Jake steps in,
Speaker 1: I think you're talking about Weasel Mayfield there. Willow clarifies
Speaker 1: the green people aren't farmers, Daddy. They're different than us.
Speaker 1: Jake jokes they're rich. Then with that, Willow jumps off
Speaker 1: the fence to find mercy and Charles now alone. Casey
Speaker 1: asks her husband, so what do you think a concern?
Speaker 1: Jake answers, two maybe three weeks. If it don't rain
Speaker 1: by then, the seeds are not going to grow. And yes,
Speaker 1: we see the fields are very, very dry. Now with
Speaker 1: that in mind, we're at the city water reserve. Tom
Speaker 1: and Weasel noticed that the water level is just about
Speaker 1: to hit low. It's worse than they all thought. We're
Speaker 1: now at the local cafe. Maggie, the waitress is pouring
Speaker 1: coffee for customers, and the mayor, Gus Boyd, takes his cup.
Speaker 1: The sheriff is sitting in his booth eating pie when
Speaker 1: he sees a truck from earlier driving into town. He
Speaker 1: opens the blinds and closes them angrily. Miss Maggie, that'll
Speaker 1: be an iou on the pie, and then he rushes
Speaker 1: out to his car. And he's playing such a weird character.
Speaker 1: The truck it's so big again, it's like he's in
Speaker 1: a different movie. The truck passing the city water Reserve
Speaker 1: when the sheriff turns on his sirens. We're now on
Speaker 1: the side of the road. The over zealous sheriff gets
Speaker 1: out of his car just a few feet away. Willow
Speaker 1: finds Marcy and Charles hiding behind the rock watching everything
Speaker 1: go down. The sheriff caught a crook. The cop approaches
Speaker 1: the driver's side window. Willow goes further up the hill
Speaker 1: to get a closer look, and the driver IDs himself
Speaker 1: as Harvey H. Potter. It's either S Potter or H. Potter,
Speaker 1: but it's Harvey Potter. We see that he also spots
Speaker 1: Willow in the process. The sheriff explains that he's in
Speaker 1: an unregistered vehicle and will need to impound it. Willow
Speaker 1: is now standing right outside the other side of the car,
Speaker 1: and Harvey starts talking about his incredible Peacan pie while
Speaker 1: looking directly at Willow and with a little I guess
Speaker 1: magic which we never explain in any of this, which
Speaker 1: is fine he turns one pecan into a piping hot pie.
Speaker 1: Do you say pecan or pecan, Sabrina?
Speaker 2: Pecan?
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, I think, but I said p can.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hate pie anyway, so I don't care. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The sheriff, oblivious the whole time, hands over this. It
Speaker 1: smells the fresh peacan dessert. Harvey gives the pie to
Speaker 1: the sheriff, and in turn, since Harvey is new in town,
Speaker 1: the officer won't pound his car after all. He tells
Speaker 1: Harvey to have a nice pie. Huh, and the mystery
Speaker 1: man speeds off, with the sheriff realizing he's still holding
Speaker 1: the citation. We're now back in the fields. It impressed Willow,
Speaker 1: Charles and Marcy chase after Harvey's car. They don't believe
Speaker 1: Willow about the magical pie. Charles thinks that maybe he
Speaker 1: is inhuman, and Marcy wonders if he's an alien neighbor.
Speaker 1: Weasel greets Harvey and warns him there's nothing growing on
Speaker 1: their lands. Harvey still tries to introduce himself, but Weasel
Speaker 1: doesn't care. He has been in the mad mood ever
Speaker 1: since the drought, and this guy just always plays cranky
Speaker 1: old man Charles fills up a water balloon and dares
Speaker 1: Willow to throw it at Weasel. Willow accepts the challenge
Speaker 1: and throws it but misses horribly, like doesn't even come
Speaker 1: close and just hits Harvey dead center of the chest. Instead.
Speaker 1: Weasel yells at the kids and they run off. Weasel
Speaker 1: tells Harvey he doesn't know what he's doing in town,
Speaker 1: but it better not involve water. Harvey chuckles and examines
Speaker 1: the broken water balloon, And so did that give him
Speaker 1: the idea? Did he already know what he was going
Speaker 1: to do? What?
Speaker 2: I don't know? I mean at this point, what's so
Speaker 2: early on? You're kind of like, okay, we're going to
Speaker 2: find that out, just but we don't joke.
Speaker 1: Okay, sometimes it's like magic for magic's sake, but it's
Speaker 1: like at least explain it a bit anyway, right.
Speaker 2: And it's also like like the pecan pie kind of
Speaker 2: is irrelevant, Like he's not he does that with everything
Speaker 2: he does.
Speaker 4: Lemons he does it with the coffee thing.
Speaker 2: It's all kind of just.
Speaker 1: So why can't if he can take a lemon and
Speaker 1: make lemonade without water, and he can take a coffee
Speaker 1: bean and make coffee without water. And if he can
Speaker 1: make balloons without anything, why can't he just take a
Speaker 1: drop of water and make a lot of water?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Okay, why did it have to be
Speaker 2: this whole big shindig about balloons?
Speaker 1: Right? Yeah? Right, okay, Well, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: joining us in this episode of Magical rewind You can
Speaker 1: follow us on because.
Speaker 2: No joke.
Speaker 1: Serious doesn't Yeah it doesn't. I mean there's yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back at Willow's house, Willow's Willow finds her mom
Speaker 1: making a centennial banner for their farm. It's going to
Speaker 1: be one hundred years old in September. She tries to
Speaker 1: explain to her mom about Harvey and the pie, but
Speaker 1: her mom obviously doesn't believe her. Meanwhile, Willow's dad is
Speaker 1: on the phone with Weasel, hearing all about the water
Speaker 1: balloon incident. Willow tries to explain that Weasel was being
Speaker 1: a jerk to the new farmer, but her dad says
Speaker 1: it's no excuse. Next time he puts something other than
Speaker 1: water in those balloons, and don't miss and it's a
Speaker 1: nice little moment. Then we're at the gardening store. Harvey
Speaker 1: buys the best named tool you can a hand hoe
Speaker 1: from the cashier. He asks if Harvey is digging up
Speaker 1: a few weeds, but Harvey explains no, He's got a
Speaker 1: lot of plowing to do. The cashier suggests a bigger tool,
Speaker 1: but Harvey has already walked out. We're now back at
Speaker 1: that same cafe. Some of the customers note that Harvey,
Speaker 1: the new farmer, must be stupid. He sure picked the
Speaker 1: wrong town to move into. The gardening store clerk enters
Speaker 1: and tells him about the new guy's hand ho and
Speaker 1: basically calls him insane. One customer, Crystal, asks Maggie for
Speaker 1: another slice of pie, and Maggie wonders if she's still
Speaker 1: on a diet, which is hands down the meanest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever heard of waitress ever say to a cotomer. Ever,
Speaker 1: Maggie then offers only one last cup of coffee to
Speaker 1: the customers because of the drought, Tom coming from the reservoir,
Speaker 1: reveals the town doesn't have more than two or three
Speaker 1: months of drinking water left. The mayor steps in and
Speaker 1: tells everybody to tighten their belts more. They have to conserve,
Speaker 1: and everyone timidly says sure. Then we go to Earl's
Speaker 1: house and Earl stands in a bathroom debating on whether
Speaker 1: or not to take a bath, especially because his arthritis hurts.
Speaker 1: We're at Crystal's house. She wants to make iced tea,
Speaker 1: so she turns on her hose to fill up with
Speaker 1: the jar without a care in the world. And then
Speaker 1: at Tom's he looks around and maybe the most egregious
Speaker 1: of all of them, starts to wash his truck. It's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. But we're back at Earl's and he's
Speaker 1: soaking the tub, rubbing his hands. At least he has arthritis.
Speaker 1: The other girl wants to make something to drink. This
Speaker 1: guy just wants to wash his truck. It's like, wow, yikes,
Speaker 1: Do you are you a water waster? No?
Speaker 2: I think I'm pretty good about not wasting water. I
Speaker 2: take like, you know, like unless i'm like really like
Speaker 2: washing my hair. I take pretty quick showers and off
Speaker 2: my water every time, Like when I'm brushing my teeth,
Speaker 2: I don't keep it running. And I'm not convinced. I
Speaker 2: do hand wash dishes, and I've been told that it's
Speaker 2: better to just run your often. I don't believe it.
Speaker 2: My dishwasher runs for like three hours. Yeah, but it's
Speaker 2: the shortest time I can do.
Speaker 1: It always, does you get it uses like a certain
Speaker 1: amount of water? I think you do. I think it's
Speaker 1: true you save water by using this.
Speaker 2: It seems wild. I go back and forth because I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's still going like this. It irritates me that it
Speaker 2: takes that long, right, Like, yeah, the hand washing is
Speaker 2: just super quick, and I do I do like a
Speaker 2: certain amount of water, Like I feel like I do it.
Speaker 4: I kind of convince myself that I'm more, you're doing
Speaker 4: it better, gotcha?
Speaker 1: Gotcha. I used to be a horrible water waster. I
Speaker 1: used to take really two or three forty five minute
Speaker 1: shours a day a day, Yeah, a day. And that
Speaker 1: was years ago. And then when the drought got really bad, Like, I.
Speaker 2: Can't do this swimming in mud baths? Why would you need?
Speaker 1: No? I would. I would sit at the bottom and
Speaker 1: read a book. Have we never talked about my weird
Speaker 1: shower habits? Do we only talk about this on pod
Speaker 1: mets World? Yeah? So I would literally sit at the
Speaker 1: bottom of the shower and let it rain down on
Speaker 1: me and hang out the side and read a book.
Speaker 1: And I do that a couple times a day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't done that in years because I felt I
Speaker 1: just got felt guilty wasting the water. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: just don't do it anymore. Thank you, yeah, thank you for.
Speaker 2: I felt like you take a shower every once in
Speaker 2: a while.
Speaker 1: I felt like it was a balance though, because I
Speaker 1: have no grass, like my entire my whole yard is
Speaker 1: sustainable plants and rocks. So it's like I wasn't using
Speaker 1: water there. But my house is also surrounded by water,
Speaker 1: Like you walk over a pond to get into my house,
Speaker 1: and then the backyard there's a pool, Like I'm surrounded
Speaker 1: by water. Okay, so I was a water wasted for
Speaker 1: a long time. I've gotten way better, Like those those
Speaker 1: things used to come in the mail that are like
Speaker 1: in the red like you're using ten times the water
Speaker 1: most people you are.
Speaker 2: I've never been so oh yeah, and so know you goied,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, oh everybody does.
Speaker 1: You don't get to like where you are your water
Speaker 1: usage compared to other houses your size. And now I'm
Speaker 1: right down the middle, rotten where I'm supposed to be.
Speaker 1: But for years, back in like the early two thousands,
Speaker 1: I was not. I was not a good person with water.
Speaker 1: So I've made sure that now I take, like, you know,
Speaker 1: two ten minute showers a day. I take one in
Speaker 1: the morning if I work out, and one later. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't sit at the bottom anymore. I don't read
Speaker 1: books in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was fight somewhere else to read your dude.
Speaker 1: I did. It was a big change.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: Also, when you deal with anxiety, you look for the
Speaker 1: places that where you're like the most relaxed. And that
Speaker 1: to me like sitting in a warm shower or you know,
Speaker 1: if I take a hot tub something like that, that's
Speaker 1: like and I don't have a bathtub. I fight a bathtub.
Speaker 1: I take baths, but I don't have one. So anyway,
Speaker 1: we're off on a weird tangent.
Speaker 2: So but you know what not But yeah, the drought,
Speaker 2: the drought here is serious. Taking a bath is like.
Speaker 1: Taking a bath is in But washing your truck, Come on,
Speaker 1: washing your truck is just insane. And apparently he was
Speaker 1: doing it like every day. It's crazy. We're back in
Speaker 1: Harvey's field. The kids are hiding behind a man's truck
Speaker 1: to see what the new neighbor is up to. Marcy
Speaker 1: says he's probably planting alien pods. Harvey spots the voyeurs
Speaker 1: out of the corner of his eye, but just smirks
Speaker 1: and continues working. Mister Mayfield asked if he's digging for water,
Speaker 1: but Harvey says he's plowing. Mayfield is bothered by the
Speaker 1: weird response and says that he may have to put
Speaker 1: up a fence. Then he walks away. Well. Now Willow's house,
Speaker 1: Jake tells his wife that he has no idea how
Speaker 1: they're going to pay the bills plus the mortgages due
Speaker 1: Casey asks if they can get an extension, and Jake
Speaker 1: says he can talk to the bank. She's skeptical of
Speaker 1: selling the farm, but Jake says if they get foreclosed,
Speaker 1: then they have nothing. If they can get the bank
Speaker 1: to at least buy the land or part of it
Speaker 1: for half of what it's worth, then at least they
Speaker 1: can start over somewhere else. The farmer's been in their
Speaker 1: family for ninety nine years, eight months, and twelve days.
Speaker 1: They need to work this out because she's not going
Speaker 1: to give it up. Now. Back at Harvey's farm, Charles, Marcy,
Speaker 1: and Willow are walking alongside his new fence. Charles assumes
Speaker 1: he's building a fortress, and Marcy thinks he's hiding something
Speaker 1: like again alien pods and doesn't like it one bit. Inside,
Speaker 1: Harvey's putting the finish and touches on his fence and
Speaker 1: mister Mayfield once again asked what his new neighbor is doing.
Speaker 1: Harvey says he's installing a fence, just like Weasel a
Speaker 1: lot of them to. At the same time, the kids
Speaker 1: realize Harvey is planning on growing something in the yard.
Speaker 2: Do you have any weird neighbors or any No, I
Speaker 2: actually get along.
Speaker 1: No, I get along pretty well with my neighbors.
Speaker 2: Do you I have one neighbor. I wouldn't say she's
Speaker 2: weird or necessarily nosy, but she's very in the No,
Speaker 2: she is she knows everything.
Speaker 1: That's oh yeah we have those. Yeah, she's got.
Speaker 2: I've got there's a couple of them. I live in
Speaker 2: a track that has an older demo and yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean I love it. She's like it's like having a
Speaker 2: like a watcher around, you know, like, yeah, so if
Speaker 2: anything weird happens around my house, She's sending me text
Speaker 2: messages and I'm like, no, it's like it's okay, it's fine.
Speaker 2: Someone that yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we are very close. Neighborhood as well, like everybody
Speaker 1: knows everybody. We're all on a text chain like that
Speaker 1: kind of yes. Yeah, so everyone's in the nose. Everyone's
Speaker 1: in the No, not the nose, that'd be weird. We're
Speaker 1: back at Earl's shop. Earl is playing checkers with himself,
Speaker 1: which is not a euphemism. Harvey enters looking for corn seed.
Speaker 1: When he finds a bag, he pulls out just one kernel.
Speaker 1: He takes a long look at it, puts it by
Speaker 1: his ear and weaves it in his hands. I'll take
Speaker 1: this one. Earl's confused, you want to buy just one seed?
Speaker 1: Harvest's no, and then goes to the bag, one kernel
Speaker 1: at a time, separating what he thinks good from what
Speaker 1: he thinks is bad. Nosy people are starting to watch
Speaker 1: through the window. Later at Harvey's farm, Willow and Marcia
Speaker 1: are standing on Charles's back to look over the fence.
Speaker 1: Willo confirms he's getting ready to plant something, and then
Speaker 1: they all fall down. And when Willow gets up and
Speaker 1: reclaims her position of espionage, he's already finished. What it's like.
Speaker 1: Is he a wizard? We don't know, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you that we also don't ever find out at
Speaker 1: Maggie's cafe. The Crystal wonders what the seed business was
Speaker 1: all about yesterday, and Earl says the new guy is
Speaker 1: a lunatic and I'm cue. Harvey walks into the cafe.
Speaker 1: Maggie so startled she overfills Earl's coffee cup. Harvey then
Speaker 1: orders a black coffee to go with no sugar. Maggie
Speaker 1: says they don't have to go cups, but if Harvey
Speaker 1: promises to bring the regular cup back, he can take it.
Speaker 1: He promises, and then introduces himself. Tom gets right to
Speaker 1: the point and asks what his plans are in Waterton.
Speaker 1: Harvey says to farm, but Tom breaks it to him
Speaker 1: that'll be hard because of the drought. Harvey and Sissy
Speaker 1: won't be needing any water, and Maggie gives him coffee
Speaker 1: on the house, Welcome to Waterton. He thanks her, then leaves,
Speaker 1: and everyone else in the diner immediately starts gossiping. Maggie
Speaker 1: tells them to shush because she likes him. Then we
Speaker 1: see quick clips of Maggie, Earl, and Tom all ordering
Speaker 1: coffee with some food to go for Maggie. No one
Speaker 1: appears to be taking this water ration seriously at all. Meanwhile, Charles, Marcy,
Speaker 1: and Willow are walking to Harvey's farm. Willow just wants
Speaker 1: to figure out how he planted those seeds so fast.
Speaker 1: Charles and Marsty lift up Willow to look over the fence,
Speaker 1: and Mayfield immediately shoes them off the property. In the melee,
Speaker 1: Marcy and Charles fling Willow over the fence and she
Speaker 1: lands on Harvey's property, Now surrounded by growing stalks. She
Speaker 1: feverishly crawls to hide, but then lays eyes on mister Harvey,
Speaker 1: who's busy gardening. He just laughs and smiles. Then, of course,
Speaker 1: mister Mayfield knocks on the fence door looking for the
Speaker 1: little girl. Harvey says she ran out the other side
Speaker 1: of the fence, but invites Mayfiel inside to help with
Speaker 1: the gardening, but he says not in this lifetime and
Speaker 1: walks away. While still hiding, Willow looks up to see
Speaker 1: a gaggle of balloons covering the field. Yes, balloons have
Speaker 1: grown in the field, and you might be asking what,
Speaker 1: and you'd be right. Willow is shocked and starts spinning
Speaker 1: amongst the crops. Elated, she finds an orange balloon she
Speaker 1: really likes and then runs through the field only see
Speaker 1: Harvey sitting his porch really creepily rubbing a yellow balloon.
Speaker 1: Again not a euphemism. What were you thinking by this point?
Speaker 2: I was just gonna put him note down of I
Speaker 2: thought he just like tied the balloons on the cornstock
Speaker 2: and that this was like somehow helping the corn grow.
Speaker 2: I did not in any way understand that this was
Speaker 2: him growing balloons. It obviously looks like a cornstock, so
Speaker 2: I thought it was like this is a new way
Speaker 2: of growing balloons, Like you put these balloons on it
Speaker 2: and it helps pull them up. I don't know, but
Speaker 2: in no way will did I understand, realize or catch
Speaker 2: on that. I just slow over here. I don't think you,
Speaker 2: like literally, I didn't realize he was like growing balloons because,
Speaker 2: as it makes sense, why would you want to do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's grumballoons. He's grumbloons. Is what's is what's happening,
Speaker 1: It's what happened.
Speaker 2: What did you think this was?
Speaker 1: I thought? I thought, I the guy I bought my
Speaker 1: acid from really undersold it, like, oh, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: this is good. Oh that's what I thought. No, it
Speaker 1: was I was like, what what's actually happening, and like
Speaker 1: the scenes are, they're very clipped. You go back and
Speaker 1: you watch and then just like a scene will end
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, okay with the guess that scene's done.
Speaker 1: It's just it was really strange, really.
Speaker 2: Strange, and you didn't mention or ask. You usually ask
Speaker 2: when there's some type of like.
Speaker 4: Magical question effects.
Speaker 2: Thing, but like she did not in any way. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's just the time, but like
Speaker 2: her flying over and landing into the crops, like didn't
Speaker 2: look good at all. Oh, of course not, it was
Speaker 2: really not.
Speaker 1: Of course not. It looked better than it looks later,
Speaker 1: which we'll get into, but anyway, Uh, Willow walks right
Speaker 1: up and introduces herself. She asked if the balloon is
Speaker 1: a real plant. Harvey says, yes, but this one needs
Speaker 1: a little extra care. And this is when I went, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: he's wait, wait, he's growing, he's growing these Oh it's
Speaker 1: a balloon Far gets a balloon farm. He needs to
Speaker 1: replant this one and asks if Willow wants to help.
Speaker 1: Now out in the field, Willow emits it's the strangest
Speaker 1: thing she's ever seen. It puts missus Mayfield's two hundred
Speaker 1: pound watermelonto shame, especially since nothing really grows around Waterton anymore.
Speaker 1: Then she just asks him, are you an alien? He
Speaker 1: laughs and says no, so she asks if he's magic.
Speaker 1: He insists he's just a farmer. But Willow still doesn't
Speaker 1: get it. How did he grow balloons? Harvey says, sometimes
Speaker 1: you just have to use what you have, and then
Speaker 1: everything starts out as a seed. But the stuff he
Speaker 1: talks about where he's like like that tree, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: the tree started as a seed. A balloon does not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was a weird analogy. It's like everything starts
Speaker 1: as a seed. Well not balloons. They don't start his
Speaker 1: seeds everything. But seriously, yeah, she never thought of herself
Speaker 1: as a seed before, but it's true she's grown like
Speaker 1: a plant. Well of course, with that, Willow says goodbye
Speaker 1: to Harvey and asks what he's going to do with
Speaker 1: all those balloons, and he holds up aside that reads
Speaker 1: balloons sale tomorrow. Moments later, at Maggie's cafe, Willow runs
Speaker 1: inside shouting the good news, I saw all the colors
Speaker 1: of the rainbow at the new farmer's place. She has
Speaker 1: no idea how he did it without water. Tom's confused.
Speaker 1: He grew a new crop overnight without water? Yes, he
Speaker 1: grew balloons. Everyone laughs and she runs out in embarrassment.
Speaker 1: At Willow's house, she tells her and dad all about
Speaker 1: what's at Harvey's. Her dad jokes that he should bring
Speaker 1: his magic wand over to their field, because if he
Speaker 1: can grow balloons, plain corn should be no problem. Willow
Speaker 1: says he can see it for himself tomorrow at the
Speaker 1: balloon sale. The next day, at Maggie's cafe, Willow runs
Speaker 1: in to tell everyone about the balloon sale. She doesn't
Speaker 1: care if they believe her, because if they don't go,
Speaker 1: they'll miss out. Eventually, everyone leaves to go check it out,
Speaker 1: and now we're at the balloon farm sale. Willow arrives
Speaker 1: at the fence and Harvey lets everyone from the town inside.
Speaker 1: They're all flabbergasted by the field of balloons. Willow's dad
Speaker 1: admits his crops look like the county fair. The kids
Speaker 1: all are having a blast walking through the field, but
Speaker 1: Charles isn't sold. He thinks Harvey could have stayed up
Speaker 1: all night tying these balloons to the socks. Uh huh,
Speaker 1: that's it, right, Marcy still thinks he could be an
Speaker 1: alien and that these are pods, willow spots, and orange
Speaker 1: balloon and exclaims Orange Ray's son my favorite color. Tom
Speaker 1: notices that the leaves of the balloon are real. The
Speaker 1: sheriff even apologizes for pulling him over, then ask for
Speaker 1: another pecan pie. Everyone wants to know how much of
Speaker 1: the balloons cost. Nobody's talking about like, hey, did you
Speaker 1: grow balloons? No one asks how'd you grow balloons? And
Speaker 1: all they're.
Speaker 2: Acting like they they're the awe that they have about
Speaker 2: this is acting like there's like what what do you
Speaker 2: think that number would be? Like maybe like a hundred balloons?
Speaker 2: You think it's like one hundred.
Speaker 1: Yeah there, yeah, one hundred and fifty balloons.
Speaker 2: Maybe this like to I mean just in general, balloons
Speaker 2: in general, like it would take like hundreds of units,
Speaker 2: Like oh my, this is like, oh my, there's so many.
Speaker 2: There really was the like crop really wasn't.
Speaker 1: That big, No, but it was balloons. Sabrina, I think
Speaker 1: more of the point.
Speaker 2: I know, But I'm just sitting there going like this is.
Speaker 1: You're so jaded by how people growing balloons. You're like
Speaker 1: he only grew like a hundred balloons. That so late
Speaker 1: when you when you grow exactly. Wow, we have officially
Speaker 1: broken Sabrina for movies, which is like, yeah, call me
Speaker 1: when you grow like ten thousand balloons.
Speaker 2: This is easy, easy, Seriously, don't you think as far
Speaker 2: as the set goes, so they had.
Speaker 1: I was pretty impressed with the number of balloons they had.
Speaker 1: Sabrina did elevated.
Speaker 2: Show me a half a thousand, at least five hundred
Speaker 2: balloons when you get some real reactions.
Speaker 1: I'd also like to point out I've never ever heard
Speaker 1: of it five hundred called half a thousand before. At
Speaker 1: least show me half a thousand. I don't know where
Speaker 1: that came from. Show me three quarters of one thousand,
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk. So flabber you are. I think
Speaker 1: it's crazy. It's half a thousand. Everyone, of course wants
Speaker 1: to know how much the balloons cost, cause why not,
Speaker 1: and Harvey says ten dollars each, which everyone thinks is expensive,
Speaker 1: but Willow's mom still wants one even though money is tight.
Speaker 1: This is one of the most amazing things she's ever seen.
Speaker 1: Ten dollars for this type of magic is a good deal.
Speaker 1: And then others start to purchase balloons two, Earl buys
Speaker 1: one and the mayor buys three. Weasel Mayfield judges everyone,
Speaker 1: telling families they can't be throwing their money away, and
Speaker 1: then grabs a balloon and pops it. The balloon deflates,
Speaker 1: flying through the air and eventually knocking off Weasel's hat.
Speaker 1: Harvey says that'll be ten dollars, but Weasel says he'll
Speaker 1: have to sue him and walks out. The mayor announces
Speaker 1: he just got a call from a firm that's sending
Speaker 1: a rep to Waterton tomorrow. They'll need to meet at
Speaker 1: the church at noon. That night, we're in Willow's bedroom.
Speaker 1: Willow's playing with her balloon while her mother puts away
Speaker 1: some clothes. Her dad says it's time to go to bed,
Speaker 1: but will still confused about today. Her parents admit they
Speaker 1: don't know how the balloons grew there either, but let's
Speaker 1: buy them. As Willow falls asleep and her dad moves
Speaker 1: the balloon to the other side of the room, her
Speaker 1: mom says she still thinks it means Waterden is a
Speaker 1: very special place. Moments later, Willow's dad says these balloons
Speaker 1: don't make them feel special, they make them feel suspicious fair.
Speaker 1: Her mom argues that it's not every day that balloons grow,
Speaker 1: but brings her back down to earth by reminding her casey,
Speaker 1: balloons don't grow, and he said it right when I did.
Speaker 1: She's like, it's not every day they grow. And I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: they don't grow at all. And he said right when,
Speaker 1: right when I said the same thing. And they're like
Speaker 1: justifying it, like this is this is special. No, it's
Speaker 1: impossible and weird and it's weird and it's weird and
Speaker 1: it's weird and it's weird and it's weird. Uh. Back
Speaker 1: in Willow's bed. That's he's the guy that people go
Speaker 1: don't go to old man whatever Harvey's farm, like, don't
Speaker 1: let the kids anywhere near the balloon farmer. That's you know,
Speaker 1: and the idea that everyone's like, it's really special what
Speaker 1: he's doing. It was like what.
Speaker 2: But see watching him though in the way that he
Speaker 2: was like portraying this character, he was very likable. He
Speaker 2: wasn't really creepy.
Speaker 1: He's supposed to be like or something.
Speaker 2: Yes, he wasn't. It wasn't creepy.
Speaker 1: It's just it was a little creepy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a little it is in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, but in the nineties creepy for him to
Speaker 2: just be a nice like like he he wasn't mean
Speaker 2: to the kid. They're going onto his property, daring him,
Speaker 2: but like staring at her in the.
Speaker 1: Beginning while he like invents a pies like let me
Speaker 1: talk to you about my Peacan pie, and then like
Speaker 1: the Peacan pie appears, and it's just I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's a creepy factor of the whole thing. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I didn't you know what it is. Most of these
Speaker 1: movies I can buy into the magical elements, like I
Speaker 1: can buy into the mythos where it's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is incredible, what's happening? And this one I was like, Nope,
Speaker 1: don't buy it. Weird. I just I didn't. It didn't
Speaker 1: at me. Very yeah, very strange all.
Speaker 2: The way around because it never became magic. I think,
Speaker 2: if it's gonna be magic, you need to see him
Speaker 2: like not the magic butcan pie, Like it needs to
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, like we know there's something about him,
Speaker 2: like that heat is magic.
Speaker 1: They try to they try to cover it by him constantly.
Speaker 1: The line he says a couple of times, which is
Speaker 1: it's not what you see, it's what you believe. So
Speaker 1: they're trying to have their cake and eat it too,
Speaker 1: where it's like, we don't want you to see the magic.
Speaker 1: We want you to believe in the magic, so we
Speaker 1: don't have to show you the magic. And it's like
Speaker 1: I want, I want to want to, Yeah, I want
Speaker 1: to see the magic or else you're just the creepy
Speaker 1: guy growing.
Speaker 2: Balloon somehow, and it yes, I need it doesn't make sense,
Speaker 2: shows too weird.
Speaker 1: It's too weird, yes, but what's not weird? As Willow
Speaker 1: is sleeping when the balloon makes its way to Willow's bed,
Speaker 1: waking her up, she asked the balloon what's going on
Speaker 1: and how it got there? She assumes it was cold
Speaker 1: in the corner, and then the blue nods and quietly
Speaker 1: mumbles she shocked the balloon understander, Then it nods again.
Speaker 1: She knows they have to keep it a secret, so
Speaker 1: she tucks the balloon under the covers in bed with
Speaker 1: her and falls to sleep with her balloon.
Speaker 2: So the balloon is, I can't A balloon is now
Speaker 2: becoming like a comfort toy, a comfort like a dog.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and is in bed with her, and I will
Speaker 1: say this. I've I downloaded that new duelingo app to
Speaker 1: speak balloon because I'd like to know what they're saying.
Speaker 1: And so far I'm getting there. I'm pretty happy. I'm three.
Speaker 1: I'm three lessons in I can say my name is Will,
Speaker 1: where is the bathroom? And can I have another beer?
Speaker 1: All in balloon.
Speaker 4: I mean, I do think.
Speaker 2: Kids probably do stuff like weird, like you know what
Speaker 2: I mean with certain objects. A balloon is just really
Speaker 2: far out, Like my kids love balloons. I hate it.
Speaker 4: Doesn't like balloons.
Speaker 2: Yes, with my kids, I've never I will as soon
Speaker 2: as someone gives my like if it's only if they're
Speaker 2: only giving them one, I'm really irritated because now they're
Speaker 2: gonna fight. If they get two balloons, then it's like
Speaker 2: it's only a matter of time that Ledger pops his
Speaker 2: and he goes for Monroe's and then they're gonna fight.
Speaker 2: I ate a balloon.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get balloon. I'm gonna have a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of balloon stuck at your house. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have half a thousand sent to your house.
Speaker 2: Like and he is crazy with them. It is just
Speaker 2: like bouncing he hits him so hard and essentially he
Speaker 2: pops it and then he goes from and as soon
Speaker 2: as he does, you just see Monroe's face drop, like, well, he's.
Speaker 1: Gonna come for mine again. That's why I'm gonna send
Speaker 1: you half a thousand. It's gonna you're gonna get it.
Speaker 2: Well, that's the only way I'm gonna be impressed.
Speaker 1: Exactly, there's a half a thousand. Uh. The next morning,
Speaker 1: at Weasel's house, he's looking out the window at the
Speaker 1: balloon farm. He wonders, who does he think he is,
Speaker 1: some fancy schmancy farmer getting people all stirred up like fools.
Speaker 1: So he decides to call the FBI. They need send
Speaker 1: to send somebody down to investigate. On the other side
Speaker 1: of the phone, the operator whispers to a coworkers so
Speaker 1: he's calling again. He tries to explain there's a new
Speaker 1: armor growing things with no water. When he reveals its balloons,
Speaker 1: the operator hangs up. It's a meeting time now at
Speaker 1: the church. The townspeople have arrived and the mayor introduces
Speaker 1: mister Kindley, which again if you read it as mister
Speaker 1: Kindly and it's like, uh huh, a representative for a
Speaker 1: firm interested in purchasing their land. Kinley says that they
Speaker 1: can offer very competitive prices close to the original purchase value,
Speaker 1: but they need their decision by the end of the week.
Speaker 1: He leaves his business card so anyone can contact him.
Speaker 1: Now outside the church, everyone's wondering how much they can
Speaker 1: get for their properties. Something they're lucky to get anything.
Speaker 1: Casey reminds them balloons don't just grow, and yet they
Speaker 1: grow and water, and that's a sign of things that
Speaker 1: are about to change. Okay, Casey, sell your land.
Speaker 4: Get out, guys, get out.
Speaker 1: Now, get out. At Earl's shop, Harvey is going through
Speaker 1: the colonels again, deciding which ones are good and which
Speaker 1: ones are bad. Will is watching the process and asks
Speaker 1: how he knows the difference. Harvey says he can just
Speaker 1: feel it when he finds good kernels. As he leaves,
Speaker 1: gives Maggie hands him a to go cup of coffee
Speaker 1: it's still in the house. With that, he returns the
Speaker 1: original coffee cup and she thanks him with a kiss
Speaker 1: on the cheek. Harvey, was it on the cheek? Will?
Speaker 1: Was it on the cheek? She give him a little
Speaker 1: ki It looks.
Speaker 2: To me and I rewind it going what we're like
Speaker 2: kissing now, Like that's so weird, Like they got in
Speaker 2: a relationship, Like it looked like it did not look
Speaker 2: like kiss.
Speaker 4: It looked like a smooch.
Speaker 1: You know that leads to bloon jobs. Gotta be careful,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, don't get me started. Harvey leaves and
Speaker 1: everyone's now treating him like a celebrity. We're at Harvey's house.
Speaker 1: Willow asked if there's anything she can do to help.
Speaker 1: He says it's getting pretty late and she should head home.
Speaker 1: She's mad he won't let her help plant the seeds,
Speaker 1: but he explains again what I was saying. It's not
Speaker 1: about what you see, but what you believe, which is
Speaker 1: a nice way of saying, we're not gonna let you
Speaker 1: see any of the magic. You just have to imagine it.
Speaker 1: Show me the magic. Later at Willow's house, her and
Speaker 1: her family are eating dinner. Willow reveals that Harvey kicked
Speaker 1: her off the farm today, and her dad says he's
Speaker 1: probably just pulling a trick on everyone. Willi says it's
Speaker 1: not a trick, but her dad has already had it
Speaker 1: with this potter guy. He wishes he would just take
Speaker 1: his balloons and go away. He says it's stupid, and
Speaker 1: then Willow grabs her balloon and runs outside. Her dad
Speaker 1: follows her to the porch and says, look, he's sorry.
Speaker 1: The balloon isn't stupid, he's stupid. He asked for her forgiveness,
Speaker 1: and she asked if he can keep a secret. She
Speaker 1: reveals that her balloon is alive. It can fly around
Speaker 1: the room. It understands her when she talks. She asks
Speaker 1: her dad if he believes her, and he says, yeah,
Speaker 1: of course I believe. Would you believe your kids if
Speaker 1: they said they had a talking blue? I would say,
Speaker 1: oh wow, okay, fair enough, that's amazing, and then be
Speaker 1: like no, I don't believe.
Speaker 2: No, Like at the age right now, if Monroe told
Speaker 2: me her blue Maa is a little.
Speaker 1: Old, she's like twelve, twelve?
Speaker 2: Don't you think she's twelve?
Speaker 1: How long do you think she's nine? Really? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: think she's supposed to be nine or ten? Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but like.
Speaker 2: A little old to be like, okay, your balloon's talking.
Speaker 2: But if like Monroe said that right now.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what.
Speaker 2: Five o?
Speaker 1: Five?
Speaker 4: Okay, that's fine, Like she's five, so.
Speaker 2: It's like I would be like, what, wait, I can't
Speaker 2: understand how learn how to do balloon talks, Like I
Speaker 2: would like to do that. Yeah, isn't it. But like
Speaker 2: if she was the age of Maara, it'd be like.
Speaker 1: No, be like, yeah, we gotta call somebody, we gotta
Speaker 1: Oh no.
Speaker 2: I would just be like okay, yeah, okay, okay, already go.
Speaker 1: To your room. Later, in the parents' bedroom, Jake is
Speaker 1: pacing around. He can't believe Potter is telling Willow that
Speaker 1: the balloon is alive. He thinks his time. He had
Speaker 1: a little talk with the balloon farmer. The next day
Speaker 1: at the farm, Harvey hears knocking just as he drops
Speaker 1: a full lemon and a jar, and we hear a
Speaker 1: magical ring. He opens the gate and it's actually Casey,
Speaker 1: not Jake. She says she and her husband are concerned
Speaker 1: about what he's been telling Willow about the balloon being alive.
Speaker 1: He offers her a tastes of the sweetest, most tangy
Speaker 1: lemonade and they walk inside. She takes a sip and
Speaker 1: agrees it's incredible. Casey thanks him for all he's done
Speaker 1: to lift their spirits and give them some hope. They cheers,
Speaker 1: and he tells her to bring Jake next time, but
Speaker 1: she says he's more of a coffee man. Casey tells
Speaker 1: Jake all about the really good lemonade. He says, we'll
Speaker 1: see about that and heads to Harvey's himself. Moments later,
Speaker 1: back at the balloon farm, we see Harvey now drops
Speaker 1: a single coffee bean into a jar just as Jake
Speaker 1: is about to knock on the gate. So obviously the
Speaker 1: guy's magical. We just don't ever learn how Harvey beats
Speaker 1: him to it, and says hi. Jake's not quite sure
Speaker 1: what Harvey's up to, but he can't tell Willow that
Speaker 1: balloons are alive. But wait, what's that smell? Jake is
Speaker 1: intrigued by the aroma. They sit down to have some
Speaker 1: of the great smelling coffee, and Harvey reveals it just
Speaker 1: takes one special bean. That's when Jake admits it's the
Speaker 1: best cup of coffee that he's ever had. We're now
Speaker 1: at Earl's house. He's in the bathroom again, contemplating a bath.
Speaker 1: Still in arthritic pain, he sure could use a soak,
Speaker 1: and that's when the yellow balloon pops up and touches
Speaker 1: his hand and Suddenly he feels better. So the balloons
Speaker 1: also cure diseases. Yeah, apparently. We're now at Crystal's house.
Speaker 1: She's trying to turn on her frost, but balloon keeps
Speaker 1: getting the way. Crystal gets mad and follows it around
Speaker 1: the house, unable to catch it. The cat and mouse
Speaker 1: game becomes really fun and physical for Crystal. Is she
Speaker 1: ever going to catch it? And she's just chasing it
Speaker 1: around the house. Where Now at Tom Williams's house, his
Speaker 1: blue balloon floats right in front of his truck as
Speaker 1: he pulls into the driveway. When his wife greets him,
Speaker 1: she notices, Oh, you fixed your truck, but Tom says
Speaker 1: he didn't. He's confused. The balloon also can do mechanics.
Speaker 1: He's a mechanic the balloon as well. The old Where
Speaker 1: now at mister Mayfield's the old neighbors looking at Harvey's
Speaker 1: bloon farm and calls the FBI again. The operator jokes
Speaker 1: that the FBI is no longer handling balloon fared cases
Speaker 1: balloom farm cases. He should call the CIA, he said,
Speaker 1: He's already called the CIA. She says goodbye and hangs up,
Speaker 1: So weasel the sides. He'll handle it. Himself. It's bloom Farm,
Speaker 1: It's now night. Harvey's sleeping and storing in a chair
Speaker 1: on his porch. Mayfield removes a piece of fence and
Speaker 1: seeks out of the property. He tries to grab something
Speaker 1: from Harvey's shirt pocket, but Harvey smacks him away, yet
Speaker 1: continues to snore. Mister Mayfield tries again and grabs a
Speaker 1: corn kernel, but this time Harvey opens one eyes, opens
Speaker 1: one eye and sees the intruder. We hear a magical sound,
Speaker 1: and the balloons all start attacking Mayfield, pushing him back
Speaker 1: to the side of the fence. Once he's forced onto
Speaker 1: his property, he has no idea what just happens, but
Speaker 1: he still has a corn kernel in his hand. Why
Speaker 1: not grow puppies? I don't know. At Maggie's Cafe, Maggie's
Speaker 1: forced to limit everyone to two cups of coffee, while
Speaker 1: Jake wonders what everyone is thinking about the investor's offer.
Speaker 1: But everyone's still just thinking about the balloons. Orl says
Speaker 1: his balloon brushed against his knuckles and cured as arthritis.
Speaker 1: He hasn't felt this good in fifteen years. Chrystal says
Speaker 1: she's lost five pounds in two days and her balloon
Speaker 1: is the reason. Tom says his balloon fixed his car,
Speaker 1: and Maggie says she's a new woman who wants to party,
Speaker 1: which is quite a change. Then mister Mayfield enters with
Speaker 1: bandages all over his face. He says he was attacked
Speaker 1: by the balloons, and everyone laughs, assuming he grew more balloons.
Speaker 1: Everyone rushes out to get to Harvey's. Mister Mayfield thinks
Speaker 1: everyone is dumber than a bucket of mud, but no
Speaker 1: one cares about his opinion. Okay, so here's another question.
Speaker 1: If if one of your balloons can fix your car,
Speaker 1: your arthritis, everything, why do you need to go buy
Speaker 1: more balloons? Your balloon is still magic and doing everything
Speaker 1: you need. Why do you need to spend more money
Speaker 1: on balloons?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't I'm just so confused at
Speaker 2: this point, confused by this movie. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't either. I don't either. So we're back at
Speaker 1: thealloon farm. Everyone's buying more balloons, clearing out his crops again.
Speaker 1: Why do you need more? Crystal gets two dozen at
Speaker 1: ten dollars a pop, and then a mysterious person pops
Speaker 1: up and takes a polaroid from behind the fence. We're
Speaker 1: now outside the cafe. The mayor is standing on a
Speaker 1: podium next to Harvey. He presents the new local with
Speaker 1: a key to the city and thanks him for bringing
Speaker 1: joy and happiness back to Waterton. Everyone celebrates. We're now
Speaker 1: Willow's house. Willow's balloon is longingly watching Willow from the window.
Speaker 1: She says bye, see you later, goodbye, and this is
Speaker 1: becoming a really strange relationship and waves to her helium
Speaker 1: pet before running.
Speaker 2: Off her helium.
Speaker 1: Bet, that's so good, it's this is okay. So the balloon,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get through at people, and I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get through it like I was when I
Speaker 1: watched the movie. I'll be honest with you, you know
Speaker 1: that I'm not normally this openly negative, but this one
Speaker 1: was just weird. It was it was yeah, now alone.
Speaker 1: The balloon flies downstairs, undetected, just as Jake and Casey
Speaker 1: enter through the front door. Jake says, Casey is putting
Speaker 1: her silly thoughts in other people's heads just so she
Speaker 1: can achieve the house centennial birthday, and that's just selfish.
Speaker 1: She says, She's not try saying this line people. She says,
Speaker 1: she's not selfish and maybe it's a little crazy, but
Speaker 1: isn't that what hope is? When Jake opened hope of what,
Speaker 1: hope of what she is?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure like she why the
Speaker 2: balloons become so important to her, I don't I don't
Speaker 2: really know.
Speaker 1: I hope that something can grow because he's growing balloons,
Speaker 1: Hope that it's gonna make water.
Speaker 2: She's not talking about the balloons bringing back water in
Speaker 2: anything like. She's literally talking about just the balloons. And
Speaker 2: it's like, that's not still not going to help your
Speaker 2: farm and pay your bills, and.
Speaker 1: They're not doing It's not like they're the The other
Speaker 1: farmers are looking what he's done, and that's given the
Speaker 1: idea to try to use their land for other things.
Speaker 1: And now they're growing other stuff and wow, the town's booming. No,
Speaker 1: it's just it's giving us hope, hope for what that
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: The point, it's hope for the rain, hope which is
Speaker 2: never mentioned. No, it's not.
Speaker 1: No, it's a hope for what. I didn't get what
Speaker 1: the hope is. Jake then opens the fridge and the
Speaker 1: balloon sneaks into the refrigerator, and when he reopens it,
Speaker 1: it then sneaks out. Must have wanted a snack because
Speaker 1: it didn't do anything. Jake then leaves the house and
Speaker 1: the balloon is secretly following him, but the balloon stem
Speaker 1: gets stuck on the door. When he tries to pull away,
Speaker 1: the door makes a noise. Jake turns around, but the
Speaker 1: balloon just avoids detection. Jake's confused but walks away, only
Speaker 1: for the balloon to come out from a bush and
Speaker 1: float around to the back of the house. We're now
Speaker 1: at Harvey's house. We see an empty pitcher, now with
Speaker 1: a new lemon in and on the on the table.
Speaker 1: Harvey's inside on the phone while Willow peeks through the
Speaker 1: window listening in. Harvey is talking to somebody about the
Speaker 1: upcoming foreclosure, so Willow gets upset and walks away. We
Speaker 1: see that the picture is now filled with lemonade. We
Speaker 1: also see that Willow's escaped orange balloon is flying over
Speaker 1: an empty field. We're outside a neighbor's house now with
Speaker 1: and the investor is promising a fair offer to a family,
Speaker 1: but he keeps getting nudged by a blue balloon. He
Speaker 1: eventually walks away and tells his partner that by the
Speaker 1: end of the week, everyone is going to be selling.
Speaker 1: The partner hopes so because the waste companies won't wait
Speaker 1: forever to build their toxic garbage jumps. And then as
Speaker 1: they try to drive away, Willow's orange balloon blocks the
Speaker 1: car from leaving. What person stops their car because a
Speaker 1: balloon is in front of it?
Speaker 2: I think if a balloon came out of nowhere, it
Speaker 2: would make me make me stop my car.
Speaker 4: Just because like that's you'd stop for a balloon.
Speaker 2: Really, I wouldn't like stop, but if it if I
Speaker 2: was driving and maybe like looking over to the side
Speaker 2: or looking to possibly turn in like a balloon, I
Speaker 2: would maybe like it might be okay, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: be like yes exactly, I would.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's like a bird or something. But this is
Speaker 1: a guy who's like, damn balloon, get out of my way.
Speaker 2: And it's like just dry drive. Your windshield can go
Speaker 2: over your car like a balloon.
Speaker 4: Ry.
Speaker 2: I do get being startled because but.
Speaker 1: Then he's like sitting there and there like trying to
Speaker 1: get out of her way. He gets a balloon. Dude,
Speaker 1: just drive, just yes, hit the gas. Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: investor wonders what's up with the balloon and eventually finally
Speaker 1: runs it over, but the balloon doesn't pop. It just
Speaker 1: rolls underneath the car then flies back to Willow's house,
Speaker 1: where she's just entered her bedroom. She sees the orange balloon,
Speaker 1: now with a tire mark on it. She asked what happened,
Speaker 1: and then we see her playfully washing it in a
Speaker 1: bucket like it's a shaggy dog. We're back at the cafe. Willow, Charles,
Speaker 1: and Macy are playing with the gumball machine when Mayfield
Speaker 1: walks in and places a pot on the table. There
Speaker 1: it is take a good look. I got the seed
Speaker 1: off Potter himself. He says he planted it a few
Speaker 1: days ago and there have been no balloons. Potter's a fake.
Speaker 1: Maggie tells him not to spread nasty rumors in the cafe,
Speaker 1: but Mayfield thinks he's figured it out. Potter is scamming
Speaker 1: them in a dire time. Meanwhile, Willow reveals to Charles
Speaker 1: and Marcy that they heard Harvey on the phone with
Speaker 1: the bank saying something about it for closure. That's when
Speaker 1: Weasel overhears this and feels vindicated. I knew it, I
Speaker 1: knew it. Earl and Tom leave for an explanation. The
Speaker 1: noise in Tom's car appears again as he drives off,
Speaker 1: and Willow thinks this is all her fault. Then we
Speaker 1: see Earl, Crystal, and Maggie releasing and popping all of
Speaker 1: their balloons because the balloons didn't solve the problem of
Speaker 1: the town where now willows her dad tries to get
Speaker 1: rid of the orange balloon, but it just won't leave.
Speaker 1: It keeps coming back, but eventually it just flies off
Speaker 1: into the sky. And he's going like, go on, get
Speaker 1: out of here. I mean, they're all treating them like dogs.
Speaker 1: They're balloons. People outside Maggie's cafe, Charles tells Marcy and
Speaker 1: Willow he's going to pop all the balloons, but Willow
Speaker 1: says she won't and runs home, And when she gets
Speaker 1: to her bedroom, she realizes her balloon is gone and
Speaker 1: yells no. At the balloon farm, Harvey opens the gate
Speaker 1: to see all the neighbors have arrived. He informs them
Speaker 1: that he's sold out. Earl says they want their money back.
Speaker 1: Harvey says they can get a full refund, but they
Speaker 1: have to bring the balloons back. Tom tells them they
Speaker 1: don't have the balloons, and Harvey sticks to his policy,
Speaker 1: no balloons, no refunds. A sheriff says he'll take care
Speaker 1: of this, but Harvey just shuts the gate in his face.
Speaker 1: We're now at Willow's house. Casey tells Jake he didn't
Speaker 1: have to get rid of the balloon, but he thinks
Speaker 1: there are more pressing matters you think, like the offer
Speaker 1: they just got from the investor. They have no choice
Speaker 1: but to sell. She reminds him that her name is
Speaker 1: on the deed, so he doesn't have much of a say.
Speaker 1: He says he's focused on feeding his family all the while.
Speaker 1: Willow is listening at the top of the stairs, but
Speaker 1: she's hurt enough and runs to her room. She's laying
Speaker 1: on the bed when her dad enters. He's sorry about
Speaker 1: the balloon, but he didn't have a choice. What mister
Speaker 1: Potter did was wrong. Willow asks if he still loves Mama,
Speaker 1: and he says, of course, they just haven't been seeing
Speaker 1: eye to eye lately. Willow knows that they can make
Speaker 1: it as a family, no matter where they are and
Speaker 1: what happens, and her father wishes her sweet dreams. We
Speaker 1: see Harvey driving through Waterton and the sheriff pulls him
Speaker 1: over again. Again, the sheriff is in a completely different movie.
Speaker 1: The officer pulls out a sign and places it in
Speaker 1: front of mister Potter's truck. It reads road closed. He
Speaker 1: asks to see Potter's driver's license and notice that he
Speaker 1: still hasn't fixed his license plates, and mister Potter admits
Speaker 1: he doesn't have a driver's license and asks if the
Speaker 1: sheriff wants a pie. But the sheriff just wants the
Speaker 1: balloon farmer to leave and go far, far away. He
Speaker 1: claims no one wants there, and if they could throw
Speaker 1: him in jail, he would. Mister Potter takes the citation
Speaker 1: and says thank you. Back at the diner, Maggie marks
Speaker 1: another X on the calendar. There's only two days left.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, we're kidding. I wish I had
Speaker 1: my emotional support balloon to help me. Oh man, that'd
Speaker 1: be so great. And when I got into a fight
Speaker 1: because I couldn't bring my emotional support balloon on the
Speaker 1: plane and it was a hole, didn't have the right vest. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So Earl asked for another cup of coffee, but Maggie
Speaker 1: says he's already had his two. This turns into a
Speaker 1: bickering about how much water everyone's using, and Maggie warns
Speaker 1: them to stop fighting or get out. Willow, Charles and
Speaker 1: Marcy sit outside watching as everyone leaves, still fighting. Charles
Speaker 1: blames Potter he ruined everything and it's time they do
Speaker 1: something about it. Charles and Marcy run off, and Marcy
Speaker 1: has no idea what the plan is, because what's the plan?
Speaker 1: I mean? It's later at the bloom Farm, Charles is
Speaker 1: painting the word cheat on mister Potter's fence. It pans
Speaker 1: over to show the other kids writing other mean words
Speaker 1: like crooking, thief, and throwing tomatoes. Charles spots Potter's truck
Speaker 1: and yells it's him. The kids start throwing tomatoes at
Speaker 1: his car, so Charles and Marcy give Willow a tomato
Speaker 1: to throw. She's about to hurl it, then she puts
Speaker 1: it down. She insists Harvey's balloons are real, but now okay?
Speaker 1: Is she also the only one that can talk to
Speaker 1: the balloons? Is everyone else talking to their balloons? So
Speaker 1: if they were, then why would they pop them? Right? So?
Speaker 2: Maybe I don't know they nobody. It seems like people
Speaker 2: feel like the balloons are helping their lives, like with
Speaker 2: the weight loss and my arthritis and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: But they're because I guess they're adults. They're the only
Speaker 2: ones talking. We never see Do we ever see Charles
Speaker 2: and her other friend no with a balloon?
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: So it's just her that we get to see as
Speaker 2: a child. The adults don't have the talking thing. But
Speaker 2: like as a child, maybe you know, adults aren't as
Speaker 2: a tune to like childlike things like realizing anything like that.
Speaker 1: So I also think they're setting it up to where
Speaker 1: she's him because then well meaning she has the same
Speaker 1: powers that he does, because at the end she talks
Speaker 1: about she has one lemon and she can make lemonade,
Speaker 1: and so maybe she has kind of the same power
Speaker 1: he does, the power of being confused.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 2: We skipped it. Then we talked about it, but went
Speaker 2: right over it. When she goes to his window and
Speaker 2: hears him talking before she goes there on her way,
Speaker 2: she's the one that bumps the lemon into the picture.
Speaker 1: And then she's also got it. Got this weird magic, okay,
Speaker 1: is what it is, which is why she can talk
Speaker 1: to the balloon.
Speaker 2: She needs to find the magic though apparently I don't know.
Speaker 1: But it's all about hope, Sabrina, It's about hope. How
Speaker 1: do you not know that it's about.
Speaker 4: Hope because I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 1: Well, I have no idea what's happening either. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what's happening. And now my acids starting to
Speaker 1: really kick in, and I'm seeing like different collars and
Speaker 1: I'm just tripping balls at this point. So yeah, Charles
Speaker 1: realizes that she's on his side, the side of the
Speaker 1: old farmer, and he turns around and leaves her. Harvey
Speaker 1: walks into his house, and then Willow leaves defeated. At
Speaker 1: Sue and Tom Johnson's house, Casey arrives and asks what happens.
Speaker 1: Sue points to a foreclosure sign. They took everything. Sue
Speaker 1: blames Casey for being selfish about her centennial and telling
Speaker 1: people to spend their savings on balloons. How many balloons
Speaker 1: at ten dollars a piece did this family buy to
Speaker 1: lose their farm?
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was, and I didn't know if
Speaker 2: I saw them by more like when other people were
Speaker 2: getting more whatever. But like you're talking, I mean not listen,
Speaker 2: these people are going through a lot there, ten dollars
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 1: When you're when you're strapped.
Speaker 2: Understood totally, but like to blame someone else for the
Speaker 2: fact that you, as an adult, decided to buy these balloons,
Speaker 2: knowing your own budget. Why the hell are you mad
Speaker 2: at Casey?
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: The most ridiculous that I was almost screaming at me.
Speaker 1: I mean, because like, you buy ten thousand dollars worth
Speaker 1: of balloons? Did you buy it half a thousand balloons.
Speaker 2: And an crazy amount? Or even if you bought, you know,
Speaker 2: twenty balloons and you really only have five hundred in
Speaker 2: the bank right now? What are you doing?
Speaker 4: What are you doing doing?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Like, and if the balloons are magic and they're solving problems,
Speaker 1: why do you need more than one that fixes your
Speaker 1: car and fix it? It's like, I don't get it,
Speaker 1: and they weren't. They didn't show them doing anything with
Speaker 1: the balloons where it's like, oh, I tie it's the
Speaker 1: funniest thing. I tied one out front to our mailbox
Speaker 1: and I got a letter from my sister I haven't
Speaker 1: heard of in three years. You know that like us
Speaker 1: them talking about it, but they don't. They didn't do
Speaker 1: anything with them. They did nothing with the balloons except
Speaker 1: these three. It was like, what is happening? Yeah, So
Speaker 1: Casey gets back into the car upset, and Harvey walks
Speaker 1: up to ask if she's okay. She says she's not
Speaker 1: fine and asks why he did this to them. He
Speaker 1: says he just wanted to help, but she thinks he
Speaker 1: robbed them blind. Harvey asks if she really believes that,
Speaker 1: and she says, yes, he robbed them blind and now
Speaker 1: they have nothing. She drives away and Harvey says, no,
Speaker 1: you just don't realize what you've got. And again, why
Speaker 1: can't this guy take one quarter and put it in
Speaker 1: a thing, and now he's got a ton of money
Speaker 1: because he takes one thing and make a ton of things,
Speaker 1: and that would actually help the people. Jake and Casey
Speaker 1: are arguing again. Casey tells him to call the investors.
Speaker 1: They're gonna sell Jake and sists she'll thank him later.
Speaker 1: We're now at FBI headquarters. The operator that Mayfield keeps
Speaker 1: calling receives an envelope with polaroids of balloon Farm and
Speaker 1: even a popped balloon, which again.
Speaker 4: Why would the FBI I care about.
Speaker 1: This in any way, shape or form. She looks at
Speaker 1: it like, oh, my god, we found him, or we've
Speaker 1: been looking for him, or the balloon guy's back, or
Speaker 1: it's full of cocaine.
Speaker 3: Again.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's the balloon bandit's back and he's robbering another farm.
Speaker 1: It's like, what the hell's happening. The FBI's involved, By
Speaker 1: the way, apparently all of this was added for the movie, Like,
Speaker 1: this is not on the writer who probably wrote a
Speaker 1: very nice little children's book about a guy who farms balloons.
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, it's like they took Cloudy with a
Speaker 1: Chance of Meatballs and involved the CIA. You know. It's like, well,
Speaker 1: there's ten meatballs there. My god, that's Jason Bourne, Like
Speaker 1: what the hell are you doing? Yeah, so again, don't
Speaker 1: blame I'm sure you read the children's book and it's
Speaker 1: probably a very nice, very basic probably answers yes, and
Speaker 1: you turn the page and it's like and then Harvey
Speaker 1: planted balloons and the little kid was able to fly
Speaker 1: with them, and the kids clap and go to sleep
Speaker 1: at night. But no, now it's like that we're going
Speaker 1: to lose our farm, and oh, my god. Right, So
Speaker 1: at Willow's house, the investors at the house talking to
Speaker 1: Jake the upcoming offer. Casey watches from the window, and
Speaker 1: Willow encourages her mom not to give up and remembers
Speaker 1: what she said, balloons just don't grow in any old place.
Speaker 1: They're special. Balloons don't grow at all. You don't they
Speaker 1: don't grow. No. Willow asks, you don't believe them anymore,
Speaker 1: do you? Her mom doesn't say anything, she just gives
Speaker 1: her a hug. In Willow's bedroom, now, she's woking by
Speaker 1: a noise at her window. It's the orange balloon. He's
Speaker 1: obviously been out partying. He's tied one on. He had
Speaker 1: the uber back to the house and is tapping in
Speaker 1: her window, like, dude, let me in. She's so happy
Speaker 1: it's back and gives it a hug, but lets it know.
Speaker 1: They have some big problems now downs Thank god the
Speaker 1: balloon's back to solve over the problems. Downstairs, her mom's
Speaker 1: on the portra and her dad's watching TV. Willow asked
Speaker 1: what Harvey would do. She decides he would make lemonade
Speaker 1: or pie or grow something the balloon and again I
Speaker 1: didn't get this either. The balloon makes a weird noise,
Speaker 1: and Willow understands it. She yells, that's it and kisses
Speaker 1: the balloon, so she's fluent in balloon by this point.
Speaker 1: Now we're at earl shop. Willow is outside with the
Speaker 1: balloon doing a little b and e. That's right. The
Speaker 1: balloon and her are breaking and entering, and they're doing
Speaker 1: the right thing. A little benny, little sneak and peek.
Speaker 1: We see earl leaves and they sneak in before the
Speaker 1: door shuts. Willow struggles dragging a bat of kernels out
Speaker 1: of the shop. It's too heavy, they're never gonna make it.
Speaker 1: That's when the balloon helps by wrapping its stem around
Speaker 1: the bag and dragging the bag along for her. They
Speaker 1: make it all the way to the field and realize
Speaker 1: they lost the seeds along the way. They only have
Speaker 1: one left. She asked what Harvey would do with only
Speaker 1: one seed. She decides to use a hose, and the
Speaker 1: balloon unlocks the water to make it work. So the
Speaker 1: balloon also is a lock pick, so it uses its
Speaker 1: stem to and I literally went, I'm by myself watching,
Speaker 1: So when I watch YouTube, I watch on my computer
Speaker 1: because I don't watch on a screen. I watch on
Speaker 1: because it's just dark in here and I can watch it.
Speaker 1: And Sue was in the other room and she just
Speaker 1: heard from the other room, Oh my god. Now the
Speaker 1: balloon's a block pick and she's like, what what are
Speaker 1: you watch doing? It was I was like, so, yes,
Speaker 1: the balloon picks the lock. Uh, and then wraps its
Speaker 1: stem around and turns on the sprinklers. So now they
Speaker 1: need water to grow, because before they didn't need water
Speaker 1: to a point, and now they do.
Speaker 4: None of this makes any sense. I mean, it's I
Speaker 4: you have lost me.
Speaker 2: I am so far gone. I am just looking at
Speaker 2: the time or how much long I know, and this
Speaker 2: painful experience.
Speaker 1: I will accept that the older I get. When I've
Speaker 1: read some comments, I don't read a lot of comments,
Speaker 1: but I've read some that are like, why why are
Speaker 1: they bashing old Disney movies? They're just supposed to be fun.
Speaker 1: Come at me all you want for this movie, if
Speaker 1: you have any leg to stand on without any of
Speaker 1: this makes sense, I would love to hear it, because
Speaker 1: none of it does. Uh, it just doesn't.
Speaker 2: Well, they I mean again, now now we're out of rule.
Speaker 2: Now we've already seen They've they've established this rule that
Speaker 2: Harvey is able to grow something without water. That's a
Speaker 2: big aspect of the whole thing, the whole thing of
Speaker 2: him and his magic is to grow stuff without water,
Speaker 2: to just believe, and it grows on its own. But
Speaker 2: now they're using water.
Speaker 1: That's not well, this is no exactly, you just use
Speaker 1: all the water in the town when you didn't need
Speaker 1: the water.
Speaker 2: And especially since this character has now shown a few
Speaker 2: times that she also has the magic, So why couldn't
Speaker 2: she make it grow and do what? However, Harvey did
Speaker 2: it without growing using water.
Speaker 1: And why couldn't we Yeah, but the balloons are filled
Speaker 1: with water this time, but that it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: But then why not grow water balloons originally just to
Speaker 1: help everybody, to help everybody, if that's the thing again?
Speaker 1: That was producer Mikaela. Yes, Mikayla, jump on, Mikaela. If
Speaker 1: you want to defend it, don't just leave a comment,
Speaker 1: jump on.
Speaker 2: But I'm just like, that's the only thing I can
Speaker 2: think of why they need water this time where you're
Speaker 2: struggling just as much as yes, she's she's reaching, she's
Speaker 2: reaching as far as.
Speaker 1: You don't get to just drop a comment walk out.
Speaker 2: That's when everyone got the whole point of the Internet.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna drop this comment and then I'm gonna let
Speaker 2: you be, let you fester in it. I'm gonna drop
Speaker 2: it right there.
Speaker 1: And but if that's all it takes, then why did
Speaker 1: he not do that at the beginning and and make
Speaker 1: everybody because they had to find it on their own.
Speaker 2: I don't I know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, we got to just keep going. Uh. You know
Speaker 1: what's funny is I after I watched this movie, I
Speaker 1: watched the new Mortal Kombat too, which is not great,
Speaker 1: but it was like Citizen Kane compared to this. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, this is the best film
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. Uh, So we're
Speaker 1: in Earl's shop. Now. The sheriff sees that the door
Speaker 1: is open, so he goes inside with a bunch of
Speaker 1: corn kernels on the floor, and he goes Potter and
Speaker 1: mister Mayfield's Now he's looking out the window with his
Speaker 1: binoculars and sees the sprinklers shutting off now, so he
Speaker 1: decides to call the sheriff. Because he's a little nitch.
Speaker 1: He's just so nuts. He's awful and now we're in
Speaker 1: a Crystal's house thanks to Willow's hose. She turns on
Speaker 1: the water, but nothing comes out, and we're at Willows now.
Speaker 1: Jake realizes that they also don't have any water when
Speaker 1: he's brushing his teeth, Just in time. Willow runs downstairs
Speaker 1: with their balloons, celebrating its return. Her mom and dad
Speaker 1: both look very disappointed, especially after they got a call
Speaker 1: that someone drained the reservoir. Willow tells her it's not
Speaker 1: what you think, and start to explain when there's a
Speaker 1: knock at the door. It's the investor. All they have
Speaker 1: left to do is sign on the dotted line, so
Speaker 1: Casey signs and Jake tells Willow to go to a room.
Speaker 1: She yells no, grabs the paperwork, and runs away. Jake
Speaker 1: gets in his truck and tells Casey to hop in.
Speaker 1: They are chasing after their daughter and maybe to try
Speaker 1: to run her over, which at the end I'd be like, Hey,
Speaker 1: it's something to do. The sheriff joins in on the
Speaker 1: chase in what we're now going to call et with balloons.
Speaker 1: Willow is then lifted into the air by the balloon
Speaker 1: in one of the worst effects I've seen in a
Speaker 1: d com and carried over the field. She's like standing
Speaker 1: straight with a big smile on her face. It is
Speaker 1: the craziest scene in the midst of crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean, at this point, it's like the balloon has
Speaker 2: since within the last ten minutes or so, right, the
Speaker 2: balloon has been able to carry a big bag of corn.
Speaker 2: Now I've never held a big bag of corn, but
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's very heavy. Right, And a balloon, a
Speaker 2: single balloon, has done that. It has picked a lock
Speaker 2: and now has picked up a child yep, and flown
Speaker 2: her in the air.
Speaker 1: After by the way, telling her what to do, because
Speaker 1: it spoke to her and told her what to do.
Speaker 1: So this was like, this is what I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, OK, maybe this is the greatest film I've
Speaker 1: ever seen. Now this might have just become the best movie.
Speaker 1: This is a ten. However, we're going to rate it
Speaker 1: ten out of ten. It was like, what is going on?
Speaker 1: She sees a bunch of balloons have now congregated, and
Speaker 1: she lands in a field of balloons, realizing that whichever
Speaker 1: she did last night worked. She sees Harvey and runs
Speaker 1: to him, just as everyone from the town breaks through
Speaker 1: the gate Mayfield points to Harvey, there's the crook. The
Speaker 1: sheriff places Potter under arrest for illegal use of water
Speaker 1: and tells Willow she has him explaining to do. Willi says,
Speaker 1: Harvey's done nothing wrong. She was the one who drained
Speaker 1: the reservoir. She swears the balloons are what they've been
Speaker 1: waiting for, and just then and why it might be
Speaker 1: the craziest decom plot twist yet. The FBI crashes.
Speaker 4: Through the fence.
Speaker 1: None of this if you haven't seen this movie, Here
Speaker 1: comes the FBI for what.
Speaker 2: For one farm? What is because if they got a
Speaker 2: picture of the balloon farm like this polaroid, what does
Speaker 2: that mean?
Speaker 1: What's the crime?
Speaker 2: What's the crime?
Speaker 1: What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation with multiple teams
Speaker 1: and car and has Matt suits. Do they think it's
Speaker 1: an alien? Is that what it is? Is that what
Speaker 1: we're supposed to get is that they think it's otherworldly?
Speaker 1: It's so weird. They yeah, They get out of the
Speaker 1: cars and announce they're gonna take all the balloons from
Speaker 1: her people and has Matt Suits have begun wrapping caution
Speaker 1: tape around the bloom field and everyone's confused, including all
Speaker 1: the viewers of the movie. Willow's seen enough. She breaks
Speaker 1: the tape and runs into the field, and mercifully, the
Speaker 1: FBI shoots her dead. They roll credits end of movie. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not what happens. No, it's not, it's not. The
Speaker 1: FBI tells, uh, yeah, so she breaks the field. It does.
Speaker 1: It's worse releasing all the balloons into the air. Harvey
Speaker 1: loves what he sees. The FBI tell Willow to handover
Speaker 1: a orange balloon. It belongs to them now. She hands
Speaker 1: it to an agent who lifts him into the air
Speaker 1: for a second before popping, causing all the balloons to
Speaker 1: float away, then exploding and start leaking water. The broken
Speaker 1: balloons have created rain. Everyone's cheering, and Marcy finally acknowledges
Speaker 1: they weren't pods after all. Jake apologize it's Casey and
Speaker 1: they hug and kiss. Willow rubs it in everyone's face.
Speaker 1: She knew all along. These balloons were special. The investor
Speaker 1: has Casey signature and just needs Jake to have a deal,
Speaker 1: but he's changed his mind. Mister Potter looks at the
Speaker 1: contract and the rain has ruined the signature and turned
Speaker 1: into a big smudge so Jake sarcastically says sorry, and
Speaker 1: the investor freaks out. He has twenty different waist companies
Speaker 1: breathing down his neck, and just like that, the FBI
Speaker 1: takes the investors away for questioning. They're arresting somebody.
Speaker 2: Not leaving this farm empty handed.
Speaker 1: I'm arresting something.
Speaker 2: It's gotta go someone with line up. I'm gonna pick
Speaker 2: out of you. You don't look cool, get in.
Speaker 1: You're pretty cool. Uh. Mister Mayfield realizes it's not raining
Speaker 1: on his field, that it's upset. Maybe he should have
Speaker 1: believed to had not just been a mister Potter tells
Speaker 1: him to look up, and it starts raining on his
Speaker 1: side too, and the old man is grateful and happy.
Speaker 1: It's now nighttime and Potter announces he's leaving. It's time
Speaker 1: for him to move on. They don't need their balloons anymore,
Speaker 1: and that's when Willow announces she's pregnant with the balloons child.
Speaker 1: They have their farms back, and they also have each other.
Speaker 1: He tells Willow he's counting on her to keep things
Speaker 1: right around here, and she says she's gonna miss him.
Speaker 1: Harvey Han's casey a piece of paper it's for their friends,
Speaker 1: the Williams. He bought the farm back with the balloon money,
Speaker 1: and that's why he was on the phone with the bank.
Speaker 1: Then why charge them for the balloons and drain all
Speaker 1: their savings so they can't make their payments just to
Speaker 1: go back and make their payments and get the farm.
Speaker 2: Back from Because you have to believe, hope.
Speaker 1: Sabrina, hope.
Speaker 2: You have to believe and you have to have hope.
Speaker 1: She asked, why he didn't just tell them, But will
Speaker 1: it remembers, because sometimes it's not what you see, it's
Speaker 1: what you believe. They all wave and say goodbye to Harvey.
Speaker 1: We see the water reserve is finally refilling thanks to
Speaker 1: the magic balloon rain. Though William's house is where we
Speaker 1: are now. The family's car is stuck in the mud
Speaker 1: in front of their house. When Casey and Jake show up,
Speaker 1: Casey hands them the paper just a little something from everybody,
Speaker 1: but really it was Harvey. So it feels like a
Speaker 1: bit of stolen valor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you kind of yeah, you kind of trumped all
Speaker 2: over him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess, okay, I'm trying to just.
Speaker 2: Literally didn't do anything.
Speaker 1: No, no, I guess to justify what it was was
Speaker 1: he took a little bit of money from everybody to
Speaker 1: buy their farm for them. But now they still don't
Speaker 1: have money, but now that it's raining, they'll be able
Speaker 1: to grow crops. Weird. Oh please, I know, Oh God, yeah,
Speaker 1: it finally stop raining. We're at the Johnson's. We see
Speaker 1: a sign that says Johnson Family Farm Centennial Celebration eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety eightnineteen ninety eight, one hundred years. Everyone is there
Speaker 1: to celebrate, and Willow, Charles, and Marcy are out by
Speaker 1: a cornstalk. Charles asked Willow if she's finally going to
Speaker 1: tell them how to grow a balloon, but Willow reveals
Speaker 1: she just uses what she has. She's just holding one
Speaker 1: lemon though, and asked if they want lemonade. Charles says sure,
Speaker 1: but that's going to take more than one lemon, but
Speaker 1: Willow says not the way she makes it and runs off.
Speaker 1: So she's magic too. Apparently. Somehow all the kids follow
Speaker 1: her inside, and the camera rises over the house where
Speaker 1: we see a massive field of balloons. So apparently we
Speaker 1: still need balloons. They've returned and that's our movie credits.
Speaker 5: Exhausted, can we do some real reviews, and somehow I
Speaker 5: have a five star review.
Speaker 1: I don't know how producers were able to find it,
Speaker 1: but they did. This is from Atarie, but writing on
Speaker 1: behalf of someone else. In twenty twenty one, Cohen, who
Speaker 1: just turned six, is submitting her first review. First, Cohen
Speaker 1: wants to say it was crazy. This is because the
Speaker 1: balloons grew on stalks. Second, Cohen wants to say she
Speaker 1: liked it. She liked it because the girl had a
Speaker 1: balloon that could talk, which was her favorite scene. Five stars.
Speaker 2: Okay, I will take that from a six year old.
Speaker 1: Fine, that's fine, that's fine, that's fine. I believe the
Speaker 1: six year old was watching a different movie, because even
Speaker 1: a six year old.
Speaker 2: Would be like, no, but yeah, there's no way Monroe
Speaker 2: would have gotten through that whole movie. No, she would
Speaker 2: have been out probably a good twenty minutes, maybe maybe
Speaker 2: gave you twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: There we go.
Speaker 2: I've got the one star here. It's our friend unamid Yes,
Speaker 2: who is today on Rotten Tomatoes, where it sits at
Speaker 2: thirty seven percent.
Speaker 1: How thirty seven percent of people thought this was good?
Speaker 1: I would never understand.
Speaker 2: Thirty seven percent will on Rotten Tomatoes, which I think
Speaker 2: is a pretty good place revitable gauge like you know, right, Yep,
Speaker 2: even as a child, I knew this was once, and
Speaker 2: I think our producer Mickayla basically gave that same review
Speaker 2: before we started.
Speaker 1: Yep, sure did. All right, Well, now we're gonna get
Speaker 1: to Sabrina's favorite portion. I don't even know what we're
Speaker 1: doing here. Oh it's called crop talk. With the success
Speaker 1: of balloons for farmers, we figured we could play another
Speaker 1: game of high low. We will be given a fruit
Speaker 1: or vegetable and a weight. We have to guess if
Speaker 1: the number is higher or lower than the actual official
Speaker 1: world record for that food size. Three out of five wins.
Speaker 1: Who are we playing with today? Is is it Mikaela Today?
Speaker 1: It is Mikayla yay, our balloon farm champion. All right,
Speaker 1: here we go first, up the pumpkin higher or lower
Speaker 1: than sixteen hundred and fifty pounds.
Speaker 4: It has to be lower to say higher.
Speaker 1: Really, those things can get pretty pretty damn big like that.
Speaker 1: You brought him with forklifts and stuff. Have you ever
Speaker 1: been to a county fair? You never had a pie
Speaker 1: over there the county fair.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a pumpkin that isn't more than just like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: what's correct?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Two eight hundred and nineteen pounds.
Speaker 1: See, almost three thousand pounds for a pumpkin that is
Speaker 1: wild and that nuts. Whoa number two? We're gonna look
Speaker 1: that up, you should we Number two is a watermelon
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty point five pounds.
Speaker 2: I'd say higher. What what did she say? Their county
Speaker 2: one was two hundred?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to say I'm gonna stay higher. I
Speaker 1: mean four hundred and fifty point five. That's almost half
Speaker 1: a thousand. I'm going to say lower.
Speaker 2: God, I hope you forget that. Will is correct? It's lower?
Speaker 1: What is it?
Speaker 4: Three hundred and fifty point five pounds?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 4: Sound close to half a pounds, not.
Speaker 1: Even close to half a thousand. That's like a third
Speaker 1: of a thousand cucumber, seventeen point six pounds.
Speaker 2: A cucumber. Doesn't it become something else at that point?
Speaker 4: What is?
Speaker 1: It's still a cucumber. It's just a big old cucumber.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna i'll go first year. I think that's low.
Speaker 1: I think I think the number is higher than seventeen
Speaker 1: point six.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I can't even fathom this. I just can't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: That pumpkin really threw you that punkin thru me.
Speaker 2: I guess I'll go higher then, because oh yeah, it's higher.
Speaker 2: Twenty nine and a half pounds.
Speaker 1: A thirty pound cucumber. Yeah my god. Yeah, so I
Speaker 1: already won. By the way, I will kill it. A
Speaker 1: prop to number four, jackfruit forty three point one jackfruit
Speaker 1: is like that big one you see at the supermarket.
Speaker 1: It's like spiny and it smells. Okay, that's jackfruit, Okay,
Speaker 1: forty three point one pounds. No, it's gonna there's there's
Speaker 1: a bigger jackfruit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a bigger one than that. Yes, correct, higher
Speaker 2: seventy six point three pounds.
Speaker 1: Wow. And finally a strawberry. That's how I like say it.
Speaker 1: Strawberry eighteen pounds.
Speaker 2: That seems crazy. If it's eighteen and we got twenty
Speaker 2: nine of a cucumber, you're taking this so s carry
Speaker 2: carry the one I was gonna say, I would just
Speaker 2: say lower. I'm gonna have an eighteen pounds drive.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing there it's bigger. It's gonna be like twenty
Speaker 1: six pounds or something.
Speaker 2: No will is wrong.
Speaker 4: Sabrina is correct, it's lower.
Speaker 2: Okay, point nineteen pounds?
Speaker 1: Wow? Wow did you win? I won? I think it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Can we do a Sabrina ces please and
Speaker 1: just get over this episode and then everyone get on
Speaker 1: with their day.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me say we things that we didn't. You
Speaker 2: really didn't the scenes of the naked man in the tub,
Speaker 2: You really didn't mess.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I was just like, are you kidding? To me?
Speaker 2: It happened to us twice like once once is too many?
Speaker 2: Twice it happened in a d com, like in a
Speaker 2: dcom that was crazy. The Checkers by Yourself as more
Speaker 2: of a question, did you ever do that when you
Speaker 2: were little? I played Checkers by myself phone?
Speaker 1: No, I had friends, I guess I did it. Friends
Speaker 1: would like Checkers.
Speaker 2: I would play to like kind of practice. I think
Speaker 2: of like what I would do with this and changing
Speaker 2: like my my, what is it? Strategy? So that just
Speaker 2: made me think I wonder if anyone else did that,
Speaker 2: because it could looked weird.
Speaker 1: Ca Oh, it makes no sense.
Speaker 4: It doesn't.
Speaker 2: No that I told you about the kissing and I
Speaker 2: had already done that. I felt like the no balloon,
Speaker 2: no refund, they were so up justll it was like,
Speaker 2: of course, if you broke something, you don't get to,
Speaker 2: like or something happens malfunctions, any kind of product, you
Speaker 2: don't get to just say go to the person and
Speaker 2: say I want my refund, Like okay, fine, if it's
Speaker 2: a malfunctioning product, bring me it and I will give
Speaker 2: you your refund. They were so that was so dumb.
Speaker 4: That was just like a thing you did.
Speaker 1: Mention this.
Speaker 2: The cop towards the end says, you know, he goes
Speaker 2: license and registration or whatever, and he goes, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't have a license.
Speaker 1: Yeah, did he not? I think at the beginning he
Speaker 1: said I don't have a license, didn't he?
Speaker 2: You cannot drive without a license?
Speaker 1: You can?
Speaker 2: And that apparently, and the guy acting like, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't have one. I don't need a license. Yes
Speaker 2: you do, Yes, Yes you do, Yes you do. I
Speaker 2: talked about the savings like thing was like how much
Speaker 2: how many balloons did these people get for it to
Speaker 2: just like absolutely just drain their savings account. Last thing
Speaker 2: was and we didn't. We just brushed over it. But
Speaker 2: that fight that happens before the waitress kicks everyone out
Speaker 2: of the diner. Some of the things they were saying,
Speaker 2: like the woman that was eats cake and then the
Speaker 2: guy's like, oh and you have all that you need,
Speaker 2: all that lemonade to wash down your cage.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sir, Oh my gosh, that was.
Speaker 2: It was brutal. I mean, hard times make you a jerk,
Speaker 2: I understand.
Speaker 4: But damn, that's it.
Speaker 1: That's all I got.
Speaker 2: We covered all the other crazy Now it's.
Speaker 1: Movie. We still score it. We're gonna I'm not even
Speaker 1: make a joke. One to ten one's the worst. Do
Speaker 1: we even need to talk about ten? The options this week?
Speaker 1: One to ten hot air balloons. I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: guy's name, weasel one out of ten, hand hose, one
Speaker 1: out of ten, shaming people about their diets, one out
Speaker 1: of ten, solo checkers, one at a ten, Alien pods,
Speaker 1: FBI plot twists, really good lemonade, fence tomatoes, or one
Speaker 1: out of ten trucks to run over your daughter? Which
Speaker 1: one you you can go? You can pick? I'm over this.
Speaker 2: I'm going with the hand hose.
Speaker 1: You're going to the hand hose? Yeah? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Kayla's right. Mikhaela wrote, will would rather watch double Teamed
Speaker 1: over this? On a loop. I'd rather watch to have
Speaker 1: Double Team on a loop, just over and over and
Speaker 1: over again, be like, this is the nineteenth time I'm
Speaker 1: watching Double Team today. Who's rating first? It's me go
Speaker 1: for it? What do you listen?
Speaker 2: I think it's easy enough to say this was around
Speaker 2: that fuzz bucket world in the sense of just crazy
Speaker 2: and just I'm okay to go into that magical land
Speaker 2: and like, go there. I think for me and I
Speaker 2: talked about it briefly in the beginning. If this was
Speaker 2: a movie with children, and these children, like a child
Speaker 2: was was growing these balloons, the kids were buying it.
Speaker 2: If you changed the whole cast to just kids, I
Speaker 2: think I would have been okay.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree.
Speaker 2: I think I would have been fine. The fact that
Speaker 2: these were there was a predominantly adult cast with just
Speaker 2: one child who believed and one man who was making this.
Speaker 4: I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I just couldn't get myself to go there. It was
Speaker 2: too wild, too crazy. But again, I think if it
Speaker 2: was kids, I would have been fine. I would have
Speaker 2: not had as many notes in any way. But it wasn't.
Speaker 2: It was adults, and therefore this was just that crazy
Speaker 2: to me. It didn't make any sense there. I think
Speaker 2: there if I think the core of it, like what
Speaker 2: we said the book, there was no better way to
Speaker 2: do this book as a movie. And I I, you know, wait,
Speaker 2: I just I'm gonna leave it there. And I'm scoring
Speaker 2: this four hand hose.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, four hand hoses. That's generous. I've made it.
Speaker 1: I've made no secret of the fact that I did
Speaker 1: not like this movie. This movie is super weird. It
Speaker 1: makes no sense.
Speaker 2: Phenomenal cast, the phenomenal I was just thinking to myself, like,
Speaker 2: what a waste to have this cast together and phenomenal
Speaker 2: that had.
Speaker 4: A great movie.
Speaker 1: Ye love them all. No problems with the cast whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Everything it wasn't bad, nothing like it was everyone to
Speaker 2: all did their job. But they all did their job.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I didn't get anything about this movie.
Speaker 1: This might be my lowest score ever. I'm giving this
Speaker 1: two hand hose. Uh, this was not I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't get anything. I didn't get anything about this movie.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't understand it. I didn't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, like any part of it.
Speaker 2: I break it down.
Speaker 1: It's about hope, hope for what what are they hoping
Speaker 1: the balloons are gonna do? Yeah, in what way? It
Speaker 1: wasn't It was making their lives better in that Yes,
Speaker 1: it fixed your the balloon fixed your car. Let me
Speaker 1: say that again, the balloon fixed your car. But what
Speaker 1: what's happening? What's going I didn't understand this movie. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't understand how this got the green light that
Speaker 1: we made, how this was the script They went, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got it, let's start shooting. Like I don't, I
Speaker 1: don't get It's unfortunate.
Speaker 2: Like I said, because I was so like, so excited
Speaker 2: to watch these actors.
Speaker 1: The cast.
Speaker 2: Maara is one of the most adorable young actresses.
Speaker 4: That was out there.
Speaker 2: This is one of the best casts on a loop legit,
Speaker 2: one of the best casts we've had for one of
Speaker 2: the best casts.
Speaker 1: We've ever had in a movie. And this is what
Speaker 1: they used them for. And I was just like, I
Speaker 1: didn't and it could be somebody could write us and
Speaker 1: be like, you guys are so wrong. This movie was
Speaker 1: about blah blah. It was based on the n and
Speaker 1: maybe we missed it as justin movie where you sit
Speaker 1: down and you watch it. This was crap. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is really bad. None of the story made any sense.
Speaker 1: None of what they were doing made any sense. It
Speaker 1: was just and you know what, it kind of tried
Speaker 1: to be like. And I don't know which one came first.
Speaker 1: I think I think this probably came first. But there
Speaker 1: is like one of my favorite movies which is geared
Speaker 1: towards young people, which again has an amazing cast, which
Speaker 1: we have to do on this because it's a Disney
Speaker 1: movie is Holes with Shila buff Oh. That movie. The
Speaker 1: magic in that, the whimsy in that it's about rain.
Speaker 1: Do you know that it hasn't rained in the desert
Speaker 1: in forever and it rains again and they're cutting back.
Speaker 1: That movie is amazing, like a ten out of ten.
Speaker 1: Every time I see that movie, I'm like, Wow, kid's
Speaker 1: movie done right. The adults are great, there's this whimsy
Speaker 1: to it, it's magic. It was incredible. Then you do
Speaker 1: something like this and it's like what.
Speaker 3: What is this?
Speaker 1: And this week, ooh, we're gonna have to have a
Speaker 1: frank talk with this man. But he's a friend of mine,
Speaker 1: so I'll be able to talk to him as a friend.
Speaker 1: Returning guest from Balloon Farm, Adam Wiley himself is going
Speaker 1: to come on and tell us what the hell happened?
Speaker 1: Did you know? He can hopefully help and hopefully do
Speaker 1: some magic magic tricks for us too. Yeah, we love
Speaker 1: seeing that, so very excit. So make sure to check
Speaker 1: out Adam's return on the show. You're gonna hear more
Speaker 1: stuff like this.
Speaker 3: We shot it all on King's Ranch. We didn't not
Speaker 3: shoot in Canada at all. I moved down the street
Speaker 3: from there during the pandemic, so I go. There's still
Speaker 3: often because they have the pumpkin carving there now the
Speaker 3: Knights of the Jack every single year, so I get
Speaker 3: to revisit the set of Balloon Farm every single year
Speaker 3: if I want to, which is super cool. I drive
Speaker 3: by it all the time. There you go.
Speaker 1: He was awesome. And you can also check out our
Speaker 1: older park Opper bonus episode stuff like that exclusively on
Speaker 1: our dedicated magical rewind feed. Just search for us wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcast, and make sure to subscribe so
Speaker 1: you never min another episode. Go have the rest of
Speaker 1: your day now, because yike, drink some lemonade.
Speaker 2: Drink, enjoy the.
Speaker 1: Day and enjoy yourself. Balloon Farm.
Speaker 2: We made it well, We did it.
Speaker 1: Bye, every buddy,