Speaker 1: Look at am I ready?
Speaker 2: Am I ready?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: This isn't a Sparks It's at least.
Speaker 2: I'm ready, because says led Zeppelin, I am ready.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Like I called Jordan, I'm like, where's your Lakers jersey?
Speaker 3: He's obsessed with the Lakers. I'm like, he's like, I
Speaker 3: don't have one. I'm like, you don't have a Lakers jersey?
Speaker 1: What what?
Speaker 3: He's so obsessed with the team and doesn't have one. This,
Speaker 3: I'm like, this isn't even This is like a baseball.
Speaker 1: Jersey thing, right, don't well baseball, Yeah, it's like it's.
Speaker 3: For Yeah, anyway, I could believe it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I knew he wasn't gonna have a Sparks jersey,
Speaker 1: but at the same no, you never know.
Speaker 3: No, I knew he wouldn't have that, but you know, anyway,
Speaker 3: this is as ready as I could get. I was
Speaker 3: trying to get into some kind of costume.
Speaker 1: Well, I think back on my costume game. Season two
Speaker 1: is not getting the real Sabrina costume game.
Speaker 2: So hey, I didn't want to say anything. I wasn't
Speaker 2: going to bring it up.
Speaker 1: I mean, just a beanie for Ice Princess. It's just
Speaker 1: really not it it's not right.
Speaker 2: Why you were not in full ice princess regalia. I
Speaker 2: don't understand, but I'm not trying to hold it against you.
Speaker 1: I gotta think ahead a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I want several hours of makeup when we do the
Speaker 2: Zombies the next Zombies.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I wonder if I couldn't. I couldn't
Speaker 3: get The hard part is like it's fun at the beginning,
Speaker 3: but like I can't get through an entire episode with it.
Speaker 2: That's just yeah, I know, I get it, but it's
Speaker 2: also uh yeah, to dress up for today's you. What
Speaker 2: we were talking about is the possibility of just having
Speaker 2: somebody else slightly blonde sitting next to you but doesn't
Speaker 2: really look like you. But then you say you're twins?
Speaker 2: Could that work?
Speaker 1: I guess so.
Speaker 2: I guess it would have to. I think we would have to. Oh,
Speaker 2: welcome back to Magical Rewind the show that makes you
Speaker 2: want to grab your friends, your pjs, your popcorn and
Speaker 2: go back to a time when all the houses were smart.
Speaker 2: The Wave tsunamis in the high school's musical I'm WILFORDLL
Speaker 2: And I'm Sabrina Brian, I'm Home, Sabrina and I'm still sick,
Speaker 2: so I apologize that my voice sounds like this.
Speaker 1: It's better than last week. You do seem like you're
Speaker 1: a little bit better.
Speaker 2: I'm on the men, hopefully on the men, nuclear nuclear
Speaker 2: nuclear nuclear medication, so hopefully.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hitting everyone. This sign is going away. It's terrible,
Speaker 1: it's crazy, Okay.
Speaker 2: I was going to transition by saying speaking of awful,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to do that. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to do that. I am, however, going to say drive
Speaker 2: the lane and look for the open layup because we're
Speaker 2: twinning this week with the two thousand and two biographical
Speaker 2: sports drama Double Teamed, which a movie about twins called
Speaker 2: Double Teamed. I thought it was going to be something compared.
Speaker 1: I know this.
Speaker 3: I have a good feeling this podcast is going to
Speaker 3: make me very uncomfortable the entire time.
Speaker 1: Is the only one you are.
Speaker 3: About to say, I know, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2: I promise that is the only one.
Speaker 1: I'll make twins, two blonde twins to like.
Speaker 3: It's just it's gonna be. It's gonna be a doozy
Speaker 3: for me, but it's well, I'm here for it.
Speaker 2: I won't make any other I won't make any of
Speaker 2: the jokes, I promise, but I can't really promise promise
Speaker 2: that's true, though. We just keep hitting sports d coom
Speaker 2: after sports d com. We do have a rarity this week.
Speaker 2: It's based on a true story about athletes, which we
Speaker 2: haven't seen since well, going to the matt and gotta
Speaker 2: kick it up. Also, as I said, be careful when
Speaker 2: googling this movie, especially if you're around kids, because googling
Speaker 2: double teamed two blondes it could end up in a
Speaker 2: very bad place anyway. It debuted on the Disney Channel
Speaker 2: January eighteen, two thousand and two, and is based on
Speaker 2: two real life twin basketball players, Heidi and Heather Burge.
Speaker 2: At six foot five inches each, they were recognized by
Speaker 2: the Guinness Book of World Records in nineteen ninety one
Speaker 2: as the world's tallest twins. Both attended Palas Verdi's High
Speaker 2: School and were absolute athletics superstars, bringing championships to the
Speaker 2: school not only in basketball, but in soccer and for
Speaker 2: Team USA in the summers. They go on to attend
Speaker 2: the University of Virginia, leading the school to three Atlantic
Speaker 2: Coast Conference championships and three NCAA Final Four appearances. Heidi
Speaker 2: would go on to play in the WNBA for the
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Sparks and the Washington Mystics, while Heather spent
Speaker 2: one season on the Sacramento Monarchs, playing most of her
Speaker 2: professional career overseas. She also has a small cameo in
Speaker 2: the cinematic masterpiece Juwanna Mann, which seems like the real
Speaker 2: accomplishment here. And oddly, after college they were never able
Speaker 2: to play with or against each other again, but we
Speaker 2: will get into that later. After retirement, Heidi taught eighth
Speaker 2: grade Spanish at Mirror lest I believe it's pronounced Intermediate School,
Speaker 2: then created a Spanish pe curriculum that she continues to
Speaker 2: teach to four to fourteen year olds still in Palace Verdes.
Speaker 2: She also runs basketball camps, while Heidi went on to
Speaker 2: become a physical therapist inspired by a career ending back injury,
Speaker 2: and is also a youth basketball instructor in the Houston area.
Speaker 1: You're a basketball fan, right, I mean, how can you
Speaker 1: not be? Right now?
Speaker 3: It's March madness, and it's just my son has all
Speaker 3: of a sudden found basketball as being awesome. I've got
Speaker 3: basketballs all over my house right now.
Speaker 1: Yes, we just bought him his verse hoop because.
Speaker 3: He was playing. We could see him playing in like
Speaker 3: an area he could throw it and get the ball back.
Speaker 3: So literally I went on Amazon Boom got him a
Speaker 3: basketball hoop. He hasn't really stopped playing since.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Yeah, I'm actually you'll be able to see
Speaker 2: from the clips we will be showing that I am
Speaker 2: in my childhood home in Connecticut. I played basketball growing up,
Speaker 2: and I played because of my mom. My mom played
Speaker 2: in high school and she taught all of us boys
Speaker 2: how to play. So growing up, the University of Connecticut
Speaker 2: basketball teams, the men and women's were huge in our house,
Speaker 2: but mostly women's that we've been following forever and ever.
Speaker 2: They just got through the second round. I hope I
Speaker 2: didn't just jinx them. But we are big basketball fans
Speaker 2: again because of my mom. So this movie held a
Speaker 2: bit of a special place.
Speaker 3: My sister was an amazing basketball player in Really Yeah,
Speaker 3: she was awesome.
Speaker 2: And you danced see two athletes in the family. That's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's true. Now this movie going back to that was
Speaker 2: filmed in the hotbed of the d coms. Yes, everybody,
Speaker 2: we are back in Salt Lake City, Utah, sharing a
Speaker 2: lot of the same production staff as dcoms like Go Figure,
Speaker 2: Read It and Weep and cow Bells, and with the
Speaker 2: tagline they're different from everyone else and they have the
Speaker 2: jump shots to prove it. You knew exactly what you
Speaker 2: were gonna get. Now. One of the film's biggest hurtles
Speaker 2: was obviously casting the world's tallest twins, So it got
Speaker 2: much easier when they decided to just pad the stars
Speaker 2: shoes and make them appear much larger than everyone else
Speaker 2: in the movie, which is what we saw in the
Speaker 2: final product. And also, obviously, as you can tell, they
Speaker 2: didn't cast real twins, so no more sisters type of
Speaker 2: thing was needed. It was just too difficult to find.
Speaker 2: So what did you think about the height difference? Did
Speaker 2: you notice that they were padded? Yeah, it's hard to
Speaker 2: represent six foot five. Also, did it also look like
Speaker 2: they cast like the extras around them looked like they
Speaker 2: were nine.
Speaker 3: That's one of the biggest things I said for Sabrina
Speaker 3: Ceas was just there was there's one at the very
Speaker 3: beginning when they get to their first new school and
Speaker 3: she runs into a kid and I'm like, that kid
Speaker 3: looks like two years older.
Speaker 1: Than Monroe.
Speaker 3: That kid is not, no, not a freshman in high school.
Speaker 3: I know that they look younger, but no, no, no,
Speaker 3: they went a little far sometimes with the casting of
Speaker 3: the extras.
Speaker 2: I agree with you one hundred percent. It was a
Speaker 2: little off putting to see these two girls who looked
Speaker 2: like they were in their late twenties with these kids
Speaker 2: who looked like they were eight or night. I absolutely did, Yes,
Speaker 2: you did.
Speaker 1: You thought they were too they cast it too old?
Speaker 2: Oh wait, and we'll get into that, okay, yes, yes
Speaker 2: they do. It threw me it absolutely really, Oh god.
Speaker 1: I you know what, I didn't think that at all. Really.
Speaker 2: Oh man, Now I get that it's hard to represent
Speaker 2: six foot five in a movie, but you can. It was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was trying to find a fifteen year old
Speaker 3: that's going to be that hot, like that tall.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was tough. But anyway, because of the high concept,
Speaker 2: it's a very memorable dcom, but unfortunately not a big
Speaker 2: hit with the critics. Mark Sachs of the South Florida
Speaker 2: Sun Sentinel called it quote paint by numbers, unquote and
Speaker 2: full of sports cliches. But it did seem like everyone
Speaker 2: liked the ending and the idea of incorporating women's sports
Speaker 2: into the Disney mix. And also for everybody out there,
Speaker 2: this is not the nineteen ninety seven movie Double Team,
Speaker 2: though I would have loved that too, because that film
Speaker 2: stars Jean Claude van Dam, the Muscles from Brussels, and
Speaker 2: Dennis Rodman, which is a wonderful piece of bad cinema
Speaker 2: with a very similar name. It's a great movie if
Speaker 2: you've seen it, and by great, I'm awful.
Speaker 1: I was like, Jean Claude Vendam did a basketball.
Speaker 2: No, he does, no, of course not. It's like Sudden
Speaker 2: Sudden are a sudden death. That was a kind of
Speaker 2: a hockey movie, but not really.
Speaker 1: You imagine him in basketball shorts.
Speaker 2: Yes I can. He's the best actor in the history
Speaker 2: of Hollywood, So yes I can. You want to see
Speaker 2: Jean Claude Vandam and his first thing ever, go watch
Speaker 2: him as an extra in the big break dance off
Speaker 2: scene of Breakin', which is obviously the best movie ever.
Speaker 2: He's in a onesie in the middle of them as
Speaker 2: they're breaking and he's just dancing away. Jean Claude van Dam,
Speaker 2: the first time you ever see him on camera. Is No,
Speaker 2: he's just dancing along with him in the background. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's magic.
Speaker 1: I gotta find that. That's got to be on YouTube.
Speaker 2: It is, it is, Oh my god. This movie also
Speaker 2: got some very new attention over the past few years
Speaker 2: thanks to Haley and Hannah Cavender I think their name
Speaker 2: is or Cavender, identical twins who became social media superstars
Speaker 2: as players on the University of Miami women's basketball team.
Speaker 2: They got a ton of endorsement deals and even had
Speaker 2: an iHeart podcast called twin Talk, and once they even
Speaker 2: posted their very own double team homage on Instagram. As
Speaker 2: per usual the well, we like to say as per usual,
Speaker 2: but sometimes not. But this movie is currently available on
Speaker 2: Disney Plus. You can watch it now or watch it later.
Speaker 2: You can get with this or you can get with that.
Speaker 2: The choice is yours. Get it, you can get with
Speaker 2: it anyway. I'm trying to be him now before this
Speaker 2: podcast came into your life, or as I like to say,
Speaker 2: before your life really started, Sabrina. I know you have
Speaker 2: kids and everything, but really there's pre magical rewind and
Speaker 2: there's post magical rewind. As we prepped for this episode,
Speaker 2: what did you know about Double Teamed. And extra credit
Speaker 2: for you. If you knew about Double Team was Jean Claude,
Speaker 2: Van Damn, Dennis Robin.
Speaker 3: I did not know about Double Team was Jode Claude,
Speaker 3: But I did know about this movie. This was really
Speaker 3: honestly the time where I was watching this.
Speaker 1: This is, you know, before I became.
Speaker 3: Part of the Disney family, And like, I remember the
Speaker 3: movie and being very stoked about it because this two
Speaker 3: thousand and two was literally very close to when the
Speaker 3: WNBA started, and I remember that being just a giant,
Speaker 3: giant thing and I actually got to be a part
Speaker 3: of it as a sparkan Oh cool it was. That
Speaker 3: was like in my wheelhouse, and I was super excited
Speaker 3: for this movie. So I definitely definitely tuned into this one.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah again, we always get to this part and
Speaker 2: I was going, I never heard of it. Actually had
Speaker 2: heard of this movie. I don't think I saw it, okay,
Speaker 2: but this was kind of like this was one that
Speaker 2: was the name was in the zeitgeist, like, oh, the
Speaker 2: Twins basketball Double Team, Like right, I'd heard of this
Speaker 2: movie before.
Speaker 3: Somehow, I think a big it happened at such a
Speaker 3: great time. It was so perfect for everything that was
Speaker 3: happening when the w NBA was developing, Like.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's what it was. It was the whole synergy
Speaker 2: of everything going on.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was a big thing. It was because it
Speaker 1: was it was huge.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, like we were getting a women's pro basketball
Speaker 3: whole organization that this was such a big thing. It
Speaker 3: was a big thing for girls. I grew up playing soccer,
Speaker 3: so it was it was big for to feel like
Speaker 3: we were getting you know, we were taking the next step.
Speaker 3: We were getting noticed as as athletes with you know,
Speaker 3: for girls, and it was it was really really really
Speaker 3: empowering for a lot of girls out there. So I
Speaker 3: guess it was a big one. That's really cool.
Speaker 2: And having having known women's basketball as well as I did,
Speaker 2: I remember that the WNBA because it was all people
Speaker 2: that I loved. That was Sue Bird and Rebecca Lobo
Speaker 2: and everybody. Going into the early two thousand, especially with
Speaker 2: the Yukon women, you had Diana t Rossi and some
Speaker 2: of the best players every so knowing that they were
Speaker 2: gonna have a Yeah, it was it was really really cool.
Speaker 2: It was all right, But let's not let dad down.
Speaker 2: Let's get right into the synopsis. Based on the true
Speaker 2: story of the real life basketball playing twin sisters who,
Speaker 2: despite their differences and some difficult challenges, navigate intense competition,
Speaker 2: family pressure, and personal struggles to ultimately bond and rise
Speaker 2: to success. Sabrina Early thoughts, What did you think of
Speaker 2: Double Team with Dennis Rodman and John Claude Van d
Speaker 2: I'm kidding, what did you think of Double Teamed?
Speaker 3: You know, I I'm telling you, I feel bad because
Speaker 3: I probably spent the first fifteen minutes of this movie
Speaker 3: trying to figure out if they were actually twins. Going no,
Speaker 3: like because the beginning picture, like when you go on
Speaker 3: Disney that picture, I'm like, those girls don't even really
Speaker 3: look like identical twins or not because it's based off
Speaker 3: of you know, it says based off of identical, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, they're not identical, And so then I'm like, wait,
Speaker 3: are they even I like, honestly, That's where I got
Speaker 3: the early thoughts was.
Speaker 2: So, what did you think of the movie? Did you
Speaker 2: like it or not?
Speaker 3: Why did because I was like, you're not even paying
Speaker 3: attention right now. I you know, I think this was
Speaker 3: a I liked the movie. I really loved what why
Speaker 3: it was being made? The time of the where we
Speaker 3: were in life at this time with like I said,
Speaker 3: beginning of the WNBA, the movie itself just there was
Speaker 3: I was kind of I felt like I was a
Speaker 3: pinball machine, going, Oh no, this is where we're going.
Speaker 3: Oh no, this is where we're going. Oh wait, this
Speaker 3: is this person's storyline. Oh this secondary character. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: this secondary I mean I felt like I was a
Speaker 3: pin ball for a long time trying to figure out
Speaker 3: where the movie was actually going and where we were
Speaker 3: trying to end up.
Speaker 1: So it was a little overstimulated.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, and again the twins kept bothering the twins.
Speaker 2: We'll put them in quotes, the twins.
Speaker 3: It'd be me crazy, a little twins, Yeah, yours, let's
Speaker 3: be honest, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Again. Important movie for the time, Great that it's based
Speaker 2: on a true story. Great for what it did for
Speaker 2: women's basketball. Not a great movie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's really not feel like it's hard
Speaker 3: because we do not take breaks. We go a movie
Speaker 3: after movie and we are coming off of some heavy hitters.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. We've got We've had banger after banger,
Speaker 2: and this one felt like it was not in the
Speaker 2: same league as the lot of the movies we've watched recently.
Speaker 2: A lot of the sound mixing was off, some of
Speaker 2: the acting wasn't the best. Yes, some of that was.
Speaker 2: The basketball scenes are not good. I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: it's not a hugely strong movie.
Speaker 1: It isn't.
Speaker 3: And again, because of what this represents, it was a
Speaker 3: little disappointing for me to rewatch it. I don't I
Speaker 3: will say, back in two thousand and two, I don't
Speaker 3: remember it being a bad movie. So that kind of
Speaker 3: put it in perspective for me too, Like I don't
Speaker 3: remember thinking, oh, that was not great. I remember thinking
Speaker 3: that was awesome back in two thousand and two, right,
Speaker 3: Like being young, right, not having the expectations that I
Speaker 3: have now as an expert d coommer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, right exactly? Which is which, frankly, is what
Speaker 2: you are at this point. I'm sorry, my zoom is
Speaker 2: getting weird. I'm trying to.
Speaker 1: It's like seven hundred episodes in. I'm gonna give myself
Speaker 1: the title, You've.
Speaker 2: Got no play. We are now becoming expert d commerce
Speaker 2: and this is.
Speaker 1: It's this was not a great news.
Speaker 2: Sorry, I know that. And we already have producers going,
Speaker 2: I'm disappointed in you. How can you say that? And
Speaker 2: I can say that because it's not a great movie.
Speaker 2: Why it just wasn't. I mean, again, you were first
Speaker 2: of all, you were one hundred percent right. We are
Speaker 2: coming off of some really great movies and kind of
Speaker 2: one after another. Ice Princess was really really good. We
Speaker 2: really like true confessions. I mean, there's several in a
Speaker 2: row that have just seemed higher quality than this. I understand. Also,
Speaker 2: in all fairness, we got to kind of put Ice
Speaker 2: Princess in a different category because it was a twenty
Speaker 2: five million dollar budget and they put it in the theater.
Speaker 1: I guess it's absolutely absolutely a different.
Speaker 2: I get that, But this felt kind of like not
Speaker 2: a great dcom movie anyway, you know what.
Speaker 1: It felt like. It seemed like a young dcom.
Speaker 3: It feels it felt like before they found their niche,
Speaker 3: before they'd found their stride.
Speaker 1: It seemed like more of a newer one. And I
Speaker 1: don't know why that would be, but yes, it just did.
Speaker 3: It felt again. And also, one of the things that
Speaker 3: we say so many times is how good the acting
Speaker 3: is and so many of the dcoms, and unfortunately this
Speaker 3: didn't have those I counter channel.
Speaker 2: I agree, and and it's a decent cast too. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, but again, even the adult actors in this
Speaker 2: were doing what I would call Disney acting.
Speaker 3: Yes, I thought of that that I put it in,
Speaker 3: and I feel like when we've had our interviews with
Speaker 3: some of the adult actors from other ones, when they
Speaker 3: talk about like they've made comments like Disney channels where
Speaker 3: you go to, like you.
Speaker 2: When your career dies, You've got a couple of people
Speaker 2: say that.
Speaker 3: This is why the because of the adult acting that
Speaker 3: happened in this one, because it's like it looks like
Speaker 3: you are playing two kids versus it being playing it real.
Speaker 2: Look at the adults and true confessions compared to the
Speaker 2: adults in this and these by the way, these are
Speaker 2: two good adult actors.
Speaker 1: Great adult I love them, and so many things.
Speaker 3: That's just kind of like they've played it towards the
Speaker 3: channel versus playing it towards how they would and it
Speaker 3: comes off different.
Speaker 2: I agree, one hundred percent. Anyway. The movie is directed
Speaker 2: by Dwayne Dunham, who we have spoken about before because
Speaker 2: he directed Halloween Town and the Thirteenth Year At the
Speaker 2: bar mits of a movie we liked, but He's best
Speaker 2: known as an Emmy winning editor for Twin Peaks and
Speaker 2: movies like Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, Blue Velvet,
Speaker 2: and Wild at Heart. I mean, just talk about three
Speaker 2: hours row incredible. So let's get to the cast playing
Speaker 2: the twins. First up is Poppy Monroe, who plays Heather.
Speaker 2: Poppy also appeared in the Last Dawn TV mini series,
Speaker 2: The Terminator three video game, and the movie Tiger Cruz.
Speaker 2: Her last credit is from two thousand and six, which
Speaker 2: was a CSI Miami and we're gonna talk about that
Speaker 2: in a second. She appears to be living very happily
Speaker 2: now in Houston, which just like the other twin who's
Speaker 2: teaching basketball in Houston. I thought that was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Next up is Annie mcelawayane as Heidi. Annie also appeared
Speaker 2: on Say by the Bell, The New Class, Seventh, Heaven, Hangtime,
Speaker 2: and get this CSI Miami where she was in the
Speaker 2: same episode as Poppy. How did that happen? Who on
Speaker 2: the CSI staff choreographed a double team reunion? And you
Speaker 2: know they did? And he also left the business in
Speaker 2: two thousand and six and is a photographer living in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Yes, they were obviously fans CSI. Now, Okay,
Speaker 2: clearly they cut their hair to be the same and
Speaker 2: did some tricks to make them look alike. But we've
Speaker 2: talked about this. Do you think they pulled off being
Speaker 2: twins identical twins?
Speaker 1: Not identical, but yeah, I mean like twins.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I felt like they looked enough alike that they they
Speaker 3: would be like just you know, just regular twins, not identical.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fraternal twins. Yeah. I guess the only other thing
Speaker 2: you can do is you is you the best ones dife.
Speaker 2: You do what they did with the Winklevoss characters in
Speaker 2: Social Network, where it's the same actor plays both parts.
Speaker 2: But I mean that would have for Disney Channel. That
Speaker 2: would have just been so unbelievably difficult.
Speaker 1: Here's a tidbit.
Speaker 3: They were thinking about doing that with Keeley for Cheetah
Speaker 3: Girls because Aqua, her character, actually has an identical twin
Speaker 3: in the book series, right, So they at one point
Speaker 3: were thinking about having Aqua's ca. But it's like then
Speaker 3: it's like how much money are we getting?
Speaker 2: That's the thing. So it's just it's very difficult to do.
Speaker 2: You had to kind of let that go. I thought
Speaker 2: it was fine, but that's also not the biggest problem
Speaker 2: with their casting. We'll get to that in a second. Anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so I just you had to let that go. I
Speaker 2: was like, Okay, they're playing identical twins. They don't have
Speaker 2: one hundred million dollar budget. They've got a month to
Speaker 2: shoot this thing, or however long it was. This is
Speaker 2: what they had to go with. You've got Teal Redman,
Speaker 2: who plays Nicky Williams. Our listeners might know Teal from
Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls, where she played Luis Grant, one of Rory's
Speaker 2: classmates for thirty four episodes. I just said nine different names.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Nick Sears plays their father, Larry Burge.
Speaker 2: He is in a ton of stuff, most notably Unjustified
Speaker 2: as Art Bullin or from the Tom Hanks produced mini
Speaker 2: series From the Earth to the Moon, which is my
Speaker 2: favorite minute series of all time. He works with Tom
Speaker 2: Hanks a lot. He was also in Castaway. He also
Speaker 2: appeared in movies like Fried Green, Tomatoes, Nell, and The
Speaker 2: Shape of Water. He is this is what I was
Speaker 2: talking about about Disney acting, because Nick Sears is a
Speaker 2: legit good actor, insane.
Speaker 1: He's so good, he really is.
Speaker 2: We've got Joey Mayashima plays Coach Wendell. We saw him
Speaker 2: as a cop and Dad napped, a movie we all
Speaker 2: hope to soon forget. But he also plays principal Matt
Speaker 2: Suey in High School Musical, So he is another Disney legend.
Speaker 2: Love to get him on the pod, and we do
Speaker 2: have a Dabney Reynolds share in this one. Mary Burge,
Speaker 2: the mother of the twins, is played by Mackenzie Phillips.
Speaker 2: Mackenzie was Carol in the classic movie American Graffiti and
Speaker 2: Julie on the long running TV show One Day at
Speaker 2: a Time. Oh Great Show. Our listeners might know her
Speaker 2: from the Disney Channel series So Weird, but is also
Speaker 2: the daughter of singer songwriter John Phillips in real life
Speaker 2: and half sister of Bieshu Phillips and China Phillips, the
Speaker 2: latter from the band Wilson Phillips. I also said Phillips
Speaker 2: a whole bunch of times in a row right there,
Speaker 2: and a small fun cameo. Tammy Reese is the volleyball coach.
Speaker 2: She was a real teammate of the Berge Twins at
Speaker 2: the University of Virginia and when it comes to athletes, Sabrina,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask who is the best acting athlete ever.
Speaker 2: Here's I'm gonna throw out some ideas that you got
Speaker 2: the Rock Batista, Alex Grreris, Bob Ucker, Shack, Michael Jordan,
Speaker 2: Dan Marino, John Ceno. Who you got?
Speaker 1: He got the first one, right, the Rock? Oh, big fan, big.
Speaker 2: FD to what end?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 2: What do you hut? You up for? What?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Just to like go out to like dinner and hang
Speaker 3: out him and my dream dinner date would be him
Speaker 3: and who else?
Speaker 1: Do you think?
Speaker 2: I don't know who? Who are you?
Speaker 1: Katie?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Who? Oh my gosh, he's his best his best partner
Speaker 1: in crime.
Speaker 2: Oh oh is that? Oh you want Kevin Hart? Yes?
Speaker 3: Really, okay, the two of them, that would be like
Speaker 3: my dream dinner date.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: They are so funny, they are so I will watch
Speaker 3: them in anything they ever do, ever, ever, ever.
Speaker 2: First was the best movie of that year, by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh so good, so good.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. I think it's the Rock and Double
Speaker 2: Teamed runs one hundred and five minutes. Boy oh boy,
Speaker 2: I don't even know what to do with that. It
Speaker 2: feels like just way too much overtime to me.
Speaker 1: It was so much, so long.
Speaker 2: Fifteen minutes Beyond the Bulls. I might as well have
Speaker 2: had a halftime break, as we know, one hundred and
Speaker 2: five minutes too long. Sorry people. And we have another
Speaker 2: familiar Decom tradition here, the writing credit is split. Douglas
Speaker 2: Penn is listed as story by and this was his
Speaker 2: only writing credit ever. And then we have John Werrick,
Speaker 2: who wrote the script. John was a TV writer on
Speaker 2: shows like Evening Shade, The Family Man, and wrote thirty
Speaker 2: three episodes of Step by Step. In addition to Double Teamed,
Speaker 2: he also wrote Too Legit, the mc hammer Story, and
Speaker 2: a few Christmas movies. It sounds like what we've seen
Speaker 2: a bunch of times before. A very green writer with
Speaker 2: an idea was paid by Disney, then paired with a
Speaker 2: writer that they trusted. We've seen that time and time again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's undoubtedly what happened, and we mentioned this in
Speaker 2: passing last week. Double Teamed is often posted on TikTok
Speaker 2: for what many believe is the worst sports clip ever
Speaker 2: filmed and will clue you in, as if we're going
Speaker 2: to need to clue you in when not see him
Speaker 2: pops up? Okay, the shot clock is ticking. It's time
Speaker 2: to dribble, right, into double teamed. We open in a
Speaker 2: suburban neighborhood and a main character's bedroom. Yes, we've done
Speaker 2: it again. You love to see it. The room is
Speaker 2: filled with trophies and metals and knickknacks. Then boom, a
Speaker 2: new song starts and a blonde girl pops in a
Speaker 2: frame doing sit ups. She goes on to run in
Speaker 2: place and jump rope, making it shake downstairs, interrupting her
Speaker 2: mom's morning coffee. A nearby trophy. By the way, if
Speaker 2: there's trophies in her bedroom and in the kitchen, how
Speaker 2: many trophies do these girls have? It seems to be
Speaker 2: a ton And anyway, one of the downstairs trophies almost
Speaker 2: falls off the shelf is caught by her dad. He
Speaker 2: turns to his wife and points out, huh, right on time. Also,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you noticed this, but the dialogue
Speaker 2: is so low underneath any of all the music that
Speaker 2: I had to turn on the captions because I could
Speaker 2: not hear what the were saying the entire time because
Speaker 2: the music was so loud. Did you notice that at all?
Speaker 2: I did?
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: It's it's right, I mean, it just was like why
Speaker 3: and I kept trying to like put my volume up.
Speaker 3: My dad, I'm figuring out what's going on with my TV.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's actually the way this is.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was. It was badly mixed. It was very
Speaker 2: badly mixed. The dad yells volleyball practice starts in fifteen minutes,
Speaker 2: then kisses his wife goodbye. That blonde upstairs, who we
Speaker 2: learn is Heidi, throws on some biker shorts, a purple
Speaker 2: sweatshirt and sunglasses and makes her way downstairs. And then
Speaker 2: we see another blonde girl chilling at the fridge. This
Speaker 2: is Heather, her identical twin, wearing the exact same thing. Wait,
Speaker 2: what what they had heard? This happens a lot by accident,
Speaker 2: And I guess we're supposed to believe this happens in
Speaker 2: your life to twins, it must, right, you dress up,
Speaker 2: and I mean, this happens my wife and I all
Speaker 2: the time, where we'll come in and be like, why
Speaker 2: are we wearing the same time?
Speaker 1: I know, I know it does, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: to my knowledge.
Speaker 3: I mean, if they buy the same thing, yes, but
Speaker 3: most twins don't buy the same outfits when they're like
Speaker 3: in high.
Speaker 2: School, right. I think they're also really visually trying to
Speaker 2: establish right off the bat, totally identical twins. You can
Speaker 2: tell by the shirt they're wearing because their face doesn't
Speaker 2: do it. So so yeah, it's like you can tell
Speaker 2: our twins look at our shorts. Yeah, it's what it's it.
Speaker 2: And then uh, they answer their mom's question in unison
Speaker 2: three times in a row. So they're showing that these
Speaker 2: twins are very magical. Basically, they're they're just trying to
Speaker 2: really twins throw it in your head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, they're the best thing ever. You know
Speaker 3: that I wish I was one. I wish I had
Speaker 3: had them. My sister stole my dream by having twins herself,
Speaker 3: that jerk.
Speaker 2: So your dream?
Speaker 1: Oh no, yes, I wanted twin kids. They're the best
Speaker 1: thing ever. They're so cool, a bestie for life, are
Speaker 1: you kidding?
Speaker 2: Maybe, or someone you're gonna hate for life. At least
Speaker 2: you double your wardrobe because you can fit into all
Speaker 2: of their clothes. But that's yeah. To me, twins is
Speaker 2: three kids too many. And then we're at volleyball practice
Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty five and Radondo Beach. We get some
Speaker 2: fun action shots and notice the twins are very competitive
Speaker 2: with each other. Their dad, Larry explains to another dad
Speaker 2: that he can tell his daughter's apart because Heidi is
Speaker 2: the one who gives him a migraine. You can probably
Speaker 2: also tell them apart because they're clearly two different actors.
Speaker 3: This is when I was like, hold on, pause. So
Speaker 3: they're trying to Yes, what is the problem with just
Speaker 3: saying they're twins.
Speaker 2: Because they're based on it's based on a true story
Speaker 2: of identity.
Speaker 3: I understand it's based on it, but the whole are
Speaker 3: you telling me that those real twins had a best
Speaker 3: friend named Nikki at the end of the day with
Speaker 3: like a crazy raft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, if you're gonna take it right, if you're
Speaker 2: going to take liberties, why not use that.
Speaker 3: One right exactly, Like, they're not exactly the same, but
Speaker 3: they're twins, so they're they're still this is that.
Speaker 2: Would have been That would have been a better way
Speaker 2: to do it. Yeah, raft, I love that. I love that.
Speaker 2: The guy's like, hey, how do you tell them apart?
Speaker 2: I want it to be like, well, because I look
Speaker 2: at different people, one of them six two in blonde
Speaker 2: and the other one's five four and brunette, I can
Speaker 2: tell them apart.
Speaker 3: I've had two sets of identical twins. On my team coaching.
Speaker 3: And at first, of course, like when they come to
Speaker 3: try out, so it's a freshman, Yeah, you're kind of going, oh, wait,
Speaker 3: I don't know which one is which. But then once
Speaker 3: you get to know them, it's like, there's obvious ways
Speaker 3: to give me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One of my one of my best friends growing
Speaker 2: up is an identical twin. It took me about an
Speaker 2: hour to be like, oh, total, two entirely different people.
Speaker 2: That's just the way that it is.
Speaker 1: Their vice is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're just different. But we also see that, uh
Speaker 2: so wait, now I'm having trouble telling them apart Heidi
Speaker 2: is not as good as Heather. We can see that.
Speaker 2: We've we've set this up now through the dad that
Speaker 2: Heidi is not as good as Heather, and he says
Speaker 2: it's a lack of motivation thing. The other dad mentions
Speaker 2: college scouts and scholarships, but Larry thinks it's a little
Speaker 2: early to worry about that, but is it. And that's
Speaker 2: when I was like, well, they're in They got to
Speaker 2: be juniors in high school, so yeah, you've got to
Speaker 2: start worrying about that. Oh, hold the phone, because that's
Speaker 2: not the case. The truth is, school's like San Diego
Speaker 2: State or Hawaii are already looking for their next stars.
Speaker 2: The other dad is surprised that Larry hasn't seen any
Speaker 2: of these scouts for their twins, but it's probably because
Speaker 2: they go to Coast Christian, a small private school without
Speaker 2: an official volleyball team, so they don't even plan on
Speaker 2: an academic level. The other dad suggests getting the girls
Speaker 2: into a school with a competitive team. It's the only
Speaker 2: way they'll be seen. Now, this clearly weighs on Larry's mind. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: We cut to Heather and Heidi riding their bikes on
Speaker 2: the beach. Later, Heidi knows she's not as good as
Speaker 2: Heather and volleyball, but Heather chimes in she's not even
Speaker 2: sure that volleyball is what she's going to want to
Speaker 2: do when they enter high school. Okay, I don't want
Speaker 2: to swear, but what the are we supposed to believe
Speaker 2: that when we meet these two girls at the beginning,
Speaker 2: these two girls who are clearly in their mid to
Speaker 2: late twenties, are in the seventh or eighth grade. Really
Speaker 2: does that to me? I was like, you've got to
Speaker 2: be kidding me. We're supposed to believe these girls are
Speaker 2: in the eighth grade. This is where the casting insanity
Speaker 2: got to me, cause, first of all, Poppy was around
Speaker 2: twenty eight when she was in this movie Wow, and
Speaker 2: Annie was around twenty one. So imagine that that today
Speaker 2: would be Zendeia playing a thirteen year old.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: That to me where I was like, they're riding their
Speaker 2: little bike. They're riding their dual bikes with their little
Speaker 2: head things on because they're trying to make them look younger,
Speaker 2: and they're like, Oh, I can't wait to get to
Speaker 2: high school. I was like, what is happening right now?
Speaker 2: Are we supposed to believe this girl who looks like
Speaker 2: she could have kids is in the eighth grade?
Speaker 1: Yeah? That?
Speaker 3: See, I I don't Again I think I was like,
Speaker 3: I told you, I'm still in my what's happening with
Speaker 3: these twins situations? I don't think I was paying attention
Speaker 3: enough to understand. It took me forever to go, wait,
Speaker 3: what decade are they supposed to be in right now?
Speaker 3: Because their costuming didn't work for me at all to
Speaker 3: try to get them in like a certain decade of
Speaker 3: where they were.
Speaker 2: Trying to Oh, it didn't, it didn't smack.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't realize that we were in the eighties
Speaker 3: when they were doing this.
Speaker 1: I did it.
Speaker 3: So there was just like a like I said, I
Speaker 3: felt like my brain was kind of doing this pinball
Speaker 3: of like trying to figure.
Speaker 1: Out what we were doing here.
Speaker 3: And so I didn't even catch it. Took me a
Speaker 3: long time to go, Oh, they're supposed to be freshmen
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 2: Wow, they're supposed to be in the eighth grade when
Speaker 2: we met them. And to me, I'm looking at two
Speaker 2: actresses who are clearly in their twenties.
Speaker 3: I was going with that because again, we're trying to
Speaker 3: get the height thing. The height thing really makes it
Speaker 3: difficult to try to find two young kids that are
Speaker 3: that tall.
Speaker 2: Then cat then then have all the extras around them
Speaker 2: also look like they're twenty five, and then say everybody's.
Speaker 1: In there twenty five year olds, Like, you.
Speaker 2: Gotta do some. It was that I'm sorry. I was like,
Speaker 2: you've got I get this is a tough one for
Speaker 2: Disney because it's like, how do you cast to six
Speaker 2: foot tall or six because she says she's six feet
Speaker 2: in the movie, doesn't say six minutes like.
Speaker 1: That's not that tall as a girl. Of course it is,
Speaker 1: but it's not that tall.
Speaker 3: That's not like, oh they're so special, like a five
Speaker 3: eleven girl is tall. And trust me, I've gotten I've
Speaker 3: known a few of them along the way like that.
Speaker 3: I watch them and I see them kind of shrink
Speaker 3: down all the time when they're taking pictures. Sure, it
Speaker 3: is very awkward for them, but that's not.
Speaker 1: Like crazy tall where you see people go.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, this I get, I get. This was a
Speaker 2: tough one.
Speaker 3: For You need to just stick with the facts too,
Speaker 3: like we're six to five.
Speaker 2: Then start with them in high school. And the idea
Speaker 2: that these two girls, that these actresses are supposed to
Speaker 2: be twelve or thirteen years old is crazy anyway, It's true.
Speaker 2: We are back in the bikes because they aren't old
Speaker 2: enough to drive or anything else. Grown adult. Heather says.
Speaker 2: It must be hard always playing catch up with your
Speaker 2: sister in track, soccer, even piano lessons. She even kicked
Speaker 2: her button the delivery room boy. That seems like a
Speaker 2: real thing to say, because she wasn't even laughing when
Speaker 2: she said it. We are now back at home. Larry
Speaker 2: is barbecuing and talking to his wife Mary. Yes they
Speaker 2: are Larry and Mary. Since hearing about these scouts, he's
Speaker 2: already talking to local high school principles. He wants to
Speaker 2: move the girls to a new district. Mary is a
Speaker 2: little surprised and it feels rushed. There's more to life
Speaker 2: than volleyball. He says. This is not just about volleyball.
Speaker 2: It's about getting them into a good college. Mary then
Speaker 2: says something that truly should never be said about these
Speaker 2: two adult actresses. They're barely even teenagers.
Speaker 3: That this is the scene that I went, oh, wait,
Speaker 3: we're just entering high school. Now wait what hold the phone?
Speaker 2: Yeah, eighth grade. Eighth grade. Larry says, they're gifted and
Speaker 2: scholarships could go a long way. Again, I'm team Larry
Speaker 2: at this point, I get moving people is a lot
Speaker 2: to do. But if you are that tall and you've
Speaker 2: got a possibility of maybe paying for all of college
Speaker 2: with a ball in your hand, you do that. Yes,
Speaker 2: And that is when the Twins return. The girls sense
Speaker 2: they walked into an argument, so them in the Twins
Speaker 2: think it's time for the birds and the bees. Oh no,
Speaker 2: that's when Larry says he wants to make sure they
Speaker 2: take advantage of their athleticism and their height. So they're
Speaker 2: transferring to a new high school. He didn't even get
Speaker 2: his wife's permission. He just tells them, Ah the eighties.
Speaker 2: The girls are shocked. They are going to an athletically
Speaker 2: successful Palace Fores High. But the girls certainly aren't excited,
Speaker 2: especially the less skilled Heidi, who yells her dad and
Speaker 2: storms off. Now alone, Heather is also tearing up, but
Speaker 2: knows her dad is thinking about their future. This did
Speaker 2: not go well. Mary is amazed at how little Larry
Speaker 2: knows about his twins. Sabrina, are we calling it now?
Speaker 2: Do we have a yes? Dcom? Dad added, we got
Speaker 2: a triple date.
Speaker 3: It first started with this was like a small, tiny
Speaker 3: conversation with his wife, and within thirty seconds it's a
Speaker 3: done deal.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: To his kids. That pissed me off, so.
Speaker 3: You could we couldn't table this for a second. Talk
Speaker 3: to the kids, have welcomed them home.
Speaker 2: I mentioned it to you once.
Speaker 1: Like, gotta be kidding me, Larry, sit down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Larry's I think from now we just call it
Speaker 2: a triple d A dcom Dad, He's a triple ful d.
Speaker 2: I love it. It is the first day at Palace
Speaker 2: Verdes High. Heather gets into the car with her dad,
Speaker 2: Hide says goodbye to a neighbor friend who looks like
Speaker 2: she's going off to war. She swears they'll still hang
Speaker 2: on weekends, but no one's buying that. And this is
Speaker 2: when I was like, Okay, the kid she's talking to
Speaker 2: is twelve, and I'd be like, honey, why are you
Speaker 2: talking about adult Every day? When kids move away, they're
Speaker 2: basically dead to their friends. We know that is unfortunately true,
Speaker 2: but that's just the way it works. Also worth noting here,
Speaker 2: Heather sits in the front of the car, where real
Speaker 2: athletes sit. Heidi crams into the back, where the second
Speaker 2: best sits. We are now at Palace Verdes. We see
Speaker 2: expensive cars and hear surfery kind of music. The twin
Speaker 2: station wagon obviously stands out like a sore thumb. Larry
Speaker 2: drops off Heather and Heidi, who experienced a bit of
Speaker 2: a culture shock immediately, And I had a question for
Speaker 2: you here. I love cars, I always have, even though
Speaker 2: I don't actually own one right now. But I'm watching
Speaker 2: Ferraris and Porschas and all these cars of the day
Speaker 2: that these high school kids are driving. You went to
Speaker 2: a high school where there was some money, I think
Speaker 2: in oc right, so did you have friends driving like
Speaker 2: luxury sports cars to school.
Speaker 1: No, it was like ours was.
Speaker 3: You know, lots of girls had like brand new Jettas
Speaker 3: and Mustangs, the Ferraris. Fuck yeah, there are like a few,
Speaker 3: like you know, BMW's and things like that. The main
Speaker 3: thing was how much money parents would let the boys
Speaker 3: put into their trucks, like they've got they have like
Speaker 3: these lifted trucks and all that stuff. However, I coached
Speaker 3: at a private school not long ago, and that parking
Speaker 3: lot was filled with brand new Tesla's, brand new Maseratis.
Speaker 1: Like just these cars where you're like, your kids.
Speaker 3: Are gonna you're setting them up sure bad like accidents
Speaker 3: with these like sports cars. You know. I had a Mustang,
Speaker 3: but my parents wouldn't let me get the like the
Speaker 3: Mustang like GT, like the higher.
Speaker 2: Like your first car was a Mustang, Yeah.
Speaker 3: The convertible Musting, not like an old Mustang, like a
Speaker 3: convertible Mustang.
Speaker 1: Wow, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Get you were one of those You were one of
Speaker 2: those people.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I didn't get the like GT. Like my
Speaker 3: dad was like, no, you're got's your problem.
Speaker 2: You weren't allowed to have the GT convertible.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. It was.
Speaker 3: It was It was of course a mind of a
Speaker 3: sixteen year old. Yeah, I wanted the like cool hot
Speaker 3: sports car. But my dad was like, no, I will
Speaker 3: get you this car, but like reasonable, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to get you the fast thing to let you go
Speaker 3: ninety miles an hour on a street.
Speaker 1: Like you know.
Speaker 3: It was still super nice and I did appreciate it.
Speaker 3: It was just that was like a you know that
Speaker 3: that's a real thing. Understand what a GT was. I
Speaker 3: just wanted it because it was cool. Nothing that's so dumb.
Speaker 1: That's a real name about it.
Speaker 2: My first car is in nineteen eighty six Toyota Celica,
Speaker 2: and I still have it.
Speaker 3: Jordan had Jordan had a car it was It was
Speaker 3: a Lexus, but it was his mom's old one and
Speaker 3: every time it turned on, like like the Zautly it
Speaker 3: looked like that kid in the Charlie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like the Steko.
Speaker 1: Yes, we turned it on. It makes me laugh. So
Speaker 1: are just visualizing that is what my.
Speaker 2: First car should do. That is exactly what your first
Speaker 2: car exactly.
Speaker 3: That's honestly what I want for my kids. I want
Speaker 3: It's just good because then when you get a nice car,
Speaker 3: you appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I agree, I just the Ferraris were amazing anyway. Inside
Speaker 2: inside now the girls try to decide between taking Italian
Speaker 2: or Spanish, and a group of cheerleaders insult them for
Speaker 2: being so tall, and they are very tall, just sticking
Speaker 2: out like sore thumbs. But later Heidi is impressed with
Speaker 2: the amount of classes and clubs available that they can
Speaker 2: now take. It's insane how much taller they are in
Speaker 2: they're class mates who are just staring and for viewers,
Speaker 2: they look so old compared to I can't they could
Speaker 2: have been teachers in this school. I mean, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I cannot get over just I get the castings difficult,
Speaker 2: but man, and they also cast everybody to look so
Speaker 2: much younger than them around them that it looked like
Speaker 2: they were these adults walking through the hall of a
Speaker 2: elementary school. It was very off put.
Speaker 3: It's they stuck out so bad, and they were supposed to.
Speaker 3: But I don't think that, not that much.
Speaker 2: But still, Heidi's excited about all the things she can do.
Speaker 2: Leading up to the start of volleyball season, Heather just
Speaker 2: wants to work out, but Heidi clearly wants a social
Speaker 2: life and tells her sister not to have a cow.
Speaker 2: Very eighties. Now separating from her sister, Heidi helps a
Speaker 2: girl named Zoe try to hang up a drama club
Speaker 2: banner in the hall, you know, because she's tall. Zoe
Speaker 2: is the president of the club, so Hidi reveals she's
Speaker 2: always wanted to act, so she signs up there right
Speaker 2: on the spot. In the gym, Heather wants to practice volleyball,
Speaker 2: but because but causes a scene since towering over everyone
Speaker 2: as a new kid, so instead of dealing with that attention,
Speaker 2: she wheels away the volleyballs to go and play somewhere else,
Speaker 2: and so we enter a nearby girls basketball practice. They
Speaker 2: are a very good outside of one player named Nikki
Speaker 2: who can ball, and the coach, Wendell, is letting them
Speaker 2: have it. And just when he looks up to God
Speaker 2: for a little bit of help, in walks Heather looking
Speaker 2: for some alone time. Wendell and the entire team realize
Speaker 2: she is the size of a skyscraper and a twin,
Speaker 2: and he believes his prayers have been answered. Heather swears
Speaker 2: she's just a volleyball player, but he ends up convincing
Speaker 2: her to think about joining the team. Back at home,
Speaker 2: Heidi is obnoxiously gossiping on the phone and excited about
Speaker 2: a party on Friday night, all while her friends and
Speaker 2: family wait for her at the dinner table. Her dad
Speaker 2: threatens to cut the phone lines if she doesn't hang up,
Speaker 2: so she eventually pulls up a chair. School is going great,
Speaker 2: but the parents still need to find a place to live.
Speaker 2: The principal gave them two weeks, but Larry is convinced
Speaker 2: they'll have some leeway. The girls just need to keep
Speaker 2: a low profile, which is obviously impossible when you're the
Speaker 2: height of a tree and you look like you're thirty
Speaker 2: years old. Heather reveals she met the basketball coach and
Speaker 2: is thinking of trying out. Her dad instantly loves this idea,
Speaker 2: mostly just to tune up for volleyball, and suggests that
Speaker 2: maybe Heidi try it too. What's it like do you
Speaker 2: deal with involved parents, with parents that are like, my
Speaker 2: kid's gonna do this, my kid's gonna do that. I'm
Speaker 2: you know, why are you doing this? Why are you
Speaker 2: coaching them like that? When you're coaching your kids?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yes, oh every time. Choreography happens every year,
Speaker 3: every year, Even though it's like my kid's a senior.
Speaker 3: Why isn't she in front?
Speaker 1: You know why? And it's like it has nothing to
Speaker 1: do with.
Speaker 2: How your kids sucks. Why there's a reason she's in
Speaker 2: the back.
Speaker 3: With the routines evolved, they if even if they start
Speaker 3: in the front, you know, formation, changes happen. And yes, parents,
Speaker 3: they just can't help themselves. They want the best thing
Speaker 3: for their kids. They do, and I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: think it comes off like it shouldn't come off maliciously.
Speaker 3: I just think it sometimes they they just can't help themselves,
Speaker 3: get it. I just pray that's not how I end up.
Speaker 3: Every time it happens to me, I'm like, God, please
Speaker 3: remind me of this moment. I do not want to
Speaker 3: be this parent.
Speaker 2: I'll make sure. I'll just keep texting like, don't do.
Speaker 1: That, don't do that, cool, don't do that.
Speaker 2: She says that she can't play basketball. She's trying out
Speaker 2: for the musical Wizard of Oz. Her mom loves that,
Speaker 2: but her dad, the Triple D, not so much. And
Speaker 2: the next day Heather has joined basketball practice and she's
Speaker 2: draining jumper after jumper. The team is impressed, but not
Speaker 2: that one girl, Nicky, She tells Heather that this is
Speaker 2: her team, so don't step out of line.
Speaker 3: OOO.
Speaker 2: We also meet Madison, who seems like a much cooler teammate.
Speaker 2: Over at the Wizard of Oz audition. Heidi is the
Speaker 2: ten man running lines of the dudes stand in for Dorothy,
Speaker 2: but it's just not working. And then we're back at basketball.
Speaker 2: Nicky hip checks Heather and speeds past her to the basket.
Speaker 2: Nicky is already trash talking, and then she does it
Speaker 2: two more times. Not a great start for a new
Speaker 2: basketball recruit. And back in the auditorium, it looks like
Speaker 2: Heidi got the part. She celebrates with Zoe, who will
Speaker 2: see her tonight at the big party. So things are
Speaker 2: looking up for the more social sister too. It's like, okay,
Speaker 2: they both found their little spots there in the school.
Speaker 2: Heather continues to get school to basketball, though, until she
Speaker 2: eventually wakes up and swats Nicky shot like a vintage
Speaker 2: to Kembe Matumbo the old finger wag. Maybe don't count
Speaker 2: her out yet. Later that night, it is officially party
Speaker 2: time and Heidie's dad is dropping her off around the
Speaker 2: corner in the family station wagon. The house is huge.
Speaker 2: The point where the dad pulls up and he's like,
Speaker 2: is this a hotel and packed with partygoers? Zoe meets
Speaker 2: her at the door, and Heidi pretends she was driven
Speaker 2: in by a chauffeur. Ah another famous trope. There's an
Speaker 2: outdoor pool with hot guys and trays of food and
Speaker 2: label list Perrier bottles. Zoe introduces Heidi to the basketball Nicki,
Speaker 2: who actually lives in the mansion, but Nicky assumes she
Speaker 2: already knows this giant. It's her new teammate Heather, but
Speaker 2: Heidi explained she's actually Heather's twin and continues to pretend
Speaker 2: she's rich. So, okay, we're not gonna harpen the casting.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, did they have to keep saying like, oh,
Speaker 2: I thought she's on my team, Like, it's obviously a
Speaker 2: different person. So it's like, how are you confusing her?
Speaker 2: It's obviously a different.
Speaker 3: But this is where they're still trying to play off
Speaker 3: the fact that their ident twins.
Speaker 2: I know what I'm saying. If you cast two different people,
Speaker 2: don't keep playing off the fact they're identical twins. When
Speaker 2: it's like, hey, we have met, she's on my team. No,
Speaker 2: this is clearly a different human being.
Speaker 5: Yes, and so he could have done it. They just
Speaker 5: didn't just cut that line. Just cut that line anyway.
Speaker 5: Heidi explains she's Heather's twin, and she continues to pretend
Speaker 5: she's rich. She doesn't chill Nikki out at all, and
Speaker 5: she presses Heidi for where she lives, forcing Heidi to
Speaker 5: make up a quote ocean front address.
Speaker 2: On quote. We cut back home after the party, where
Speaker 2: Heather is asking why Heidi would have ever lied. Heidi
Speaker 2: blames nerves. She wants these kids to like her, but
Speaker 2: now Heather is nervous and mad. They're hardly laying low
Speaker 2: like their dad asked. The next day, in the basketball gym,
Speaker 2: reporters hounding a foxy boys basketball star named Galen Alderman
Speaker 2: about his college decision. He keeps spinning the ball on
Speaker 2: his finger, which is all the basketball we really get
Speaker 2: to see him play. Heather in the middle of her
Speaker 2: own basketball practice and notices him and is jokingly called
Speaker 2: out for drooling by her new friend Madison. But it's
Speaker 2: not just all hot dudes and drool. Nicki confronts Heather
Speaker 2: about the fake address or sister gave her at the party.
Speaker 2: It's a Winchules, which is a donut chop. Heather tries
Speaker 2: to cover, but Nicky knows and she's onto something. After school,
Speaker 2: Heidi and Zoe are getting into some dude's yellow convertible
Speaker 2: when Heather calls over to her sister. Heidi explains she
Speaker 2: is on her way to some boat crews around the harbor,
Speaker 2: but Heather is going to stay late and shoot free throws.
Speaker 2: Heather admits she misses her old friends and it feels
Speaker 2: weird for the Twins to be doing different things now,
Speaker 2: but Heidi likes finally having her own identity and takes
Speaker 2: off for the boat. Back at the Twins house, Larry
Speaker 2: has set up a whoop and goes one on one
Speaker 2: with Heidi. Returning from that awesome boat trip, he holds
Speaker 2: his own over a techno like dance song that just
Speaker 2: says go Go Go, over and over again. Yike's creating
Speaker 2: a massive panic attack for anyone watching, myself included. Now,
Speaker 2: out of breath, Larry tells her that there's been a
Speaker 2: change of plans. He's promised Heather's basketball coach that she'll
Speaker 2: also be joining the team this dad.
Speaker 1: And just making decisions for everywhere, like.
Speaker 3: Just God, Larry, Damn Larry, Larry cripple dam Larry.
Speaker 2: Heidi is rightfully mad that he didn't ask her, considering
Speaker 2: she's already in the play, but he says her future
Speaker 2: is in sports, and she angrily darts off like she's
Speaker 2: already in the play. She slams the door after passing Heather,
Speaker 2: who is writing her number thirty on a white high tops,
Speaker 2: something that literally no basketball player has ever done in
Speaker 2: the history of the world. Heidi assumes it was Heather's
Speaker 2: idea to force her on the team and back into
Speaker 2: her shadow, but we all know that's not the case,
Speaker 2: but of course she doesn't, and so the next day,
Speaker 2: Heidi has no choice but to quit the musical. So
Speaker 2: I think I was like, Oh, she's gonna go and
Speaker 2: say no, I'm gonna do both. I'm gonna do that.
Speaker 2: No ask to quit the musical. Zoe is bummed. Who
Speaker 2: will be the new tin Man? A question that feels
Speaker 2: like it's from a completely different movie, but anyway, the
Speaker 2: Twin Towers an hour officially together on the Palace Verdes
Speaker 2: High basketball team reunited in the gym for practice, Heather
Speaker 2: still swearing it was their dad's idea and Heidi not
Speaker 2: believing her, so they take their grievances out on each
Speaker 2: other during a scrimmage. Later, back at Nikki's big mansion,
Speaker 2: her dad is leaving in a limo. She reminds him
Speaker 2: about the game today and he says he'll try to
Speaker 2: make it, but it's obvious he will not in fact
Speaker 2: be there. The bully is neglected, a returning trope we've
Speaker 2: seen quite a few times on this podcast. You can
Speaker 2: see why she gets mean because her dad is a dragillionaire.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have anything to do with her. Now, the
Speaker 2: big first intro squad scrimmage, which is for some reason
Speaker 2: packed with fans. I thought about this. They they saved
Speaker 2: it a little bit with a line because he says
Speaker 2: this is like a tradition. So apparently like they two
Speaker 2: squads face off against each other to see who's gonna
Speaker 2: make the team, and they do it in front of
Speaker 2: the whole school, because not making a team isn't hard enough.
Speaker 2: You want to have the entire school watch you, right,
Speaker 2: make the team. Yeah, so yeah, for some reason, it's packed.
Speaker 2: I don't think you could pay people to go to
Speaker 2: one of these in real life, but apparently they did
Speaker 2: back in Palace Verdes in the day.
Speaker 3: Well, we do we do a thing called musting Madness
Speaker 3: where the teams they scrimmage each other and it's like
Speaker 3: a fundraiser type thing for their program.
Speaker 2: So do they then kick kids off the team afterwards?
Speaker 1: No, it's not a tryout. I thought about it.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I couldn't imagine if musting madness was
Speaker 3: like actually the final tryout that these kids had.
Speaker 2: Awful.
Speaker 3: But back in the day, to make a like a
Speaker 3: cheer team or a dance team, you had to perform
Speaker 3: in front of your student body, people voted. You had
Speaker 3: to get a certain amount of signatures from your student body.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, wild that they made these kids do all
Speaker 3: this stuff and then some just didn't make it.
Speaker 1: Because they didn't get enough signatures.
Speaker 2: That's just crazy. It is high school's like Lord of
Speaker 2: the Flies. It is the worst.
Speaker 1: Oh so bad.
Speaker 2: Oh Niki notices that her dad didn't make it, big shocker,
Speaker 2: and the game begins. We get a montage of fast
Speaker 2: paced warm ups and an announcer in a full band, even
Speaker 2: though again this is a preseason scrimmage between the teams.
Speaker 2: The Twins kick the game off and opposing teams and
Speaker 2: Heather immediately scores than Heidi than Heather, then Heidi from three,
Speaker 2: than Heather in the post. They have not missed a
Speaker 2: shot yet, and this continues basket after basket. You would
Speaker 2: assume they're both on paced to break Well. Chamberlain's hundred
Speaker 2: point game record, by the way, that was done by ryl.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: He's a big basketball player. Her brother U Reggie Miller
Speaker 2: Cheryl Miller. Cheryl Miller in high school broke a hundred points,
Speaker 2: the first woman to do it. Yep, she had one
Speaker 2: hundred and five points. Anyway, we also see the twins'
Speaker 2: parents in the bleachers and a very impressed hot Galen
Speaker 2: Alderman in the stands. Also worth noting in the movies
Speaker 2: there are the Palace Forride Sea Kings, which is the
Speaker 2: real name for the Palace Farrides Highst Sports team, so
Speaker 2: they kept it. Now. Nicky the former star guard already
Speaker 2: she's jealous. She ignores an open Heather and drains a jumper,
Speaker 2: infuriating coach Wendell, who pulls her out of the game.
Speaker 2: The twins continue to trashchalck each other and make every
Speaker 2: single basket they attempt. They might just be the greatest
Speaker 2: athletes to ever lace up their sneakers. They haven't missed
Speaker 2: a single shot. Then, with seconds left and down two points,
Speaker 2: Hide attempts a three pointer for the win, but it's
Speaker 2: dominantly blocked by her sister. Game over, heather squad wins.
Speaker 2: The crowd goes wild, except for Nicky, who looks like
Speaker 2: she may kill everyone on the team. The twins parents
Speaker 2: hug their daughters, congratulate Heather, and cansole Heidi, and that's
Speaker 2: our first game. Okay, great, Oh, they can only get
Speaker 2: better from here, can they? Nope. That next day, Nicki,
Speaker 2: still spurned by the new transfer, sneaks into the principal's
Speaker 2: office and leaves a confidential letter on his desk. She's
Speaker 2: dressed like she's gonna play tennis, but it appears she's
Speaker 2: trying to get the Twins in trouble. She leaves the
Speaker 2: scene of the crime and enters right into a Pepperrelli
Speaker 2: for the girls team, which sure is a very spirited
Speaker 2: affair for a sport the school has never been good
Speaker 2: at either way. The players are introduced, we notice that
Speaker 2: Heather gets an almost standing ovation for being one of
Speaker 2: the best players in the school's history, and Heidi gets
Speaker 2: kind of a clap at best. But the rivalry is continuing.
Speaker 2: Now we're in Principal Jensen's office, a character obviously named
Speaker 2: after our producer Larry, is asking for one more week.
Speaker 2: It's confirmed that the snake Nicki did in fact alert
Speaker 2: the school of the housing situation. Principal Jensen originally gave
Speaker 2: them two weeks to move and Larry ignored them, so
Speaker 2: now he's recommending they returned to their district school. Immediately,
Speaker 2: Larry apologizes, he admits he blew it, but begs one
Speaker 2: last time, just let them stay, And just like that,
Speaker 2: Principal Jensen agrees, find a house before the Christmas break
Speaker 2: and they can stay. And I was thinking to myself,
Speaker 2: that's probably actually what would happen if you've got two
Speaker 2: badass basketball players that can make your program better. They'd
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, we'll give you a little extra time.
Speaker 2: And then we cut to the Burgers moving. Their cute
Speaker 2: suburban house is up for sale, and the twins give
Speaker 2: it one last sad look as they pull away. Man,
Speaker 2: that was fast. These are nineteen eighty five realtors, moving
Speaker 2: very quickly. The family makes their way to the new
Speaker 2: house inside a complex called Sandy Shores. It doesn't look
Speaker 2: very nice. Their dad asks them to give it a chance,
Speaker 2: but the apartment looks tiny and it is a major
Speaker 2: downgrade for the girls. Later, while unpacking, Larry and Mary
Speaker 2: talk it out. The girls won't even talk to their dad,
Speaker 2: but he says this is all they can afford in
Speaker 2: the area. Mary tells her husband he needs to do
Speaker 2: something about this and to stop thinking of their future
Speaker 2: as a coach. Just be their father. Good advice. The
Speaker 2: twins are at the community park, sulking, how do you
Speaker 2: apologize for lying to Nikki and thinking her sister made
Speaker 2: her join the basketball team. She knows it was their dad.
Speaker 2: Heather says they might fight sometimes with their still sisters
Speaker 2: and best friends. They decide then to play a little
Speaker 2: one on one, once again, not missing a single shot.
Speaker 2: These girls are better than Angel Reese, and Heather debuts
Speaker 2: her signature move, the Heather Shuffle, which appears to be
Speaker 2: a bunch of fake out steps and pivots. It's hardly impressive.
Speaker 2: It's very weird anyway. The next day at school, Nicki
Speaker 2: tries to intimidate the twins of practice, even after they
Speaker 2: announce they've moved closer to the school. Their teammates say
Speaker 2: it was never about the money. The problem is they
Speaker 2: lied to them. Then practice starts and the whole team
Speaker 2: isn't passing to the twins. Nicky is taken over and
Speaker 2: it's becomeing Heather and Heidi versus everyone else. Coach Wendell
Speaker 2: is furious again and in the locker room he lets
Speaker 2: them have it. He's mad, yet the girls are still
Speaker 2: yet to miss a shot. He's basically coaching the nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety five ninety six Chicago Bulls. Wendell says he's inclined
Speaker 2: to tear up his invitation he got for a big
Speaker 2: tournament in New York, and the girls then freak out.
Speaker 2: They want to go to New York. They swell to
Speaker 2: learn how to play like a team, but they learn
Speaker 2: they need to pay their own way, which is easy
Speaker 2: for Nicky but might be a problem for the twins.
Speaker 2: We cut to Heather and Heidi cleaning boats. They found
Speaker 2: a way to raise money for the trip, but they're
Speaker 2: still short and their dad won't give them any money.
Speaker 2: So they do what every duo of jay gigantic twins
Speaker 2: would do. They bust at the local city center. We
Speaker 2: see jugglers and drummers and men on stilts, so palis
Speaker 2: Vernes is apparently the entertainment capital of California. Then we
Speaker 2: see the girls poorly tap dancing on the steps asking
Speaker 2: for money. I have to imagine. Okay, as I was
Speaker 2: watching this, I was just thinking to myself, this has
Speaker 2: to be real, Like the only reason to put this
Speaker 2: in there is because maybe this happened, because who would
Speaker 2: write that if it didn't?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I hated it, of course it was ridiculous, but it
Speaker 2: must have actually happened, because who would just come up
Speaker 2: with that or we're gonna have them with a hat
Speaker 2: badly dancing on a street corner.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so weird. It was so weird.
Speaker 2: It was so weird.
Speaker 1: If that really happened to these poor girls, I feel
Speaker 1: so bad.
Speaker 2: It had to have in my head. I'm like, this
Speaker 2: had to have really happened, because they would get them.
Speaker 1: On the podcast just to ask them that one.
Speaker 2: If that was I'll bet you my guess is that's real,
Speaker 2: because who would just put that in a show?
Speaker 1: It's I know, but it was. It was weird.
Speaker 2: Yes, totally done terribly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not tapping.
Speaker 3: They were just basically it was like watching what Monroe
Speaker 3: thinks is tapping.
Speaker 2: I bet you Monroe is better than that would have
Speaker 2: made more money. We are suddenly at Lax. It is
Speaker 2: the big New York trip. The girls have raised enough
Speaker 2: money with their terrible dancing for coach tickets, while Nikki
Speaker 2: and Madison have first class. Next thing you know, we
Speaker 2: were at the championship tournament game and possibly the most
Speaker 2: dimly lit jim ever. It looks like the final scene
Speaker 2: in a horror movie. It should have just been candles
Speaker 2: lit in the corner. I can't believe the girls can
Speaker 2: even see the ball. And it's even more shocking how
Speaker 2: they quickly jump into the tournament's final game right.
Speaker 3: There was no lapse time and listen, we're already at
Speaker 3: one hundred and five.
Speaker 1: I don't need any more. Don't give. Don't you dare
Speaker 1: throw a montage?
Speaker 2: I know, but the team was need it.
Speaker 1: We kind of needed it.
Speaker 2: That was so weird. The team was fighting, they didn't
Speaker 2: want to talk. Then they were going to want to go.
Speaker 3: Wait wait, I was thinking we were at the end
Speaker 3: of the movie.
Speaker 2: I hit a button. I sat on the remote and
Speaker 2: hit a button.
Speaker 3: Is this that.
Speaker 1: At the end of a tournament?
Speaker 2: Real found so strange. So there's the tournament's final game,
Speaker 2: Palas Ernies is down by two with fifteen seconds left.
Speaker 2: Heather steals the ball and hits a three. They're up
Speaker 2: by one and they start celebrating like they won, but
Speaker 2: the other team quickly inbounds, heaving across the court and
Speaker 2: miraculously scores a layup at the buzzer. Eh, Palette, that
Speaker 2: was my buzzer. Palas Verdes actually lost because they were
Speaker 2: celebrating a win too early. Their opponents, Saint Lazarus Academy,
Speaker 2: are the champions. Coach Wendell tells his girls to keep
Speaker 2: their chins up. They won a lot of games that
Speaker 2: week and should be proud of themselves, especially because, for
Speaker 2: the first time in tournament history, the MVP is on
Speaker 2: the losing team. It's Heather, and Heidi does not look
Speaker 2: thrilled about that. That night, though Heidi does look ecstatic.
Speaker 2: Walking on Broadway theatrical lights, she notices people leaving The Nutcracker,
Speaker 2: a musical she wishes she could be a part of,
Speaker 2: and guess who's yelling her name. It's the Drama Club
Speaker 2: president Zoe. She spends her Christmas break in New York
Speaker 2: seeing shows and suggests a summer drama camp for Heidi,
Speaker 2: adding insult to injury since she is now an involuntary
Speaker 2: basketball player for the rest of her life.
Speaker 1: Also, we're in a Hallmark movie. Now, now we're at
Speaker 1: a Christmas.
Speaker 2: It's like, is she going to dance the Nutcracker while
Speaker 2: busking on the street? What's going on?
Speaker 1: My brain was like, bid, I don't, don't we know what.
Speaker 2: I know? It was very difficult to follow. The team
Speaker 2: lands back in la on Christmas and are welcome by
Speaker 2: their families, Yet poor Nikki just walks by no one
Speaker 2: to greet her except a limo driver. On Christmas. As
Speaker 2: she sulks, the Twins try to talk to her and
Speaker 2: get the cold shoulder until she admits that her dad
Speaker 2: is in Chicago. Another Christmas ruined Nicki also apologizes she
Speaker 2: knows that she's been riding the Twins too hard and
Speaker 2: went crazy when she wasn't the star of the team anymore.
Speaker 2: Heather and Heidi inviter her over for Christmas dinner with
Speaker 2: their family, and she accepts, even sharing her limo. That night,
Speaker 2: Nicky and the Twins celebrate by eating Larry's weird bacon,
Speaker 2: bean and cheese sandwiches I try one, and shooting hoops
Speaker 2: at one am. It's all water under the bridge. Now,
Speaker 2: wouldn't you come on? Bacon, good bean, good geeze, good bread.
Speaker 2: Love it it's called it's called the triple D sandwich.
Speaker 2: It's the decon Dad sandwich.
Speaker 1: It's getting worse.
Speaker 2: It is getting worse. What is not is the sandwich.
Speaker 2: It's getting better. Outside of the court, Nicki tells them
Speaker 2: how lucky they are to have their loving family. She
Speaker 2: barely knows her dad at all, and that's when the
Speaker 2: dream boat Galen Alderman walks up. Gotta love that name.
Speaker 2: You have to say it like that, Galen Alderman. He
Speaker 2: lives there in the complex too, and is jokingly annoyed
Speaker 2: by them shooting at one am. By the way, they
Speaker 2: still haven't missed a basket in the entire movie. That's
Speaker 2: not true, there one or two, but it's they pretty
Speaker 2: much make it every time they shoot. The girls openly
Speaker 2: flirt with him like a piece of meat. While he
Speaker 2: says he's seen their games and they don't play like
Speaker 2: a team. He offers some pointers, including comparing Nicky to
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson and focusing on the girls. Twin intuition, they
Speaker 2: play three on one and you'll be shocked to hear
Speaker 2: no one ever misses, but they keep like just wanting
Speaker 2: to be touched by Galen and put me over here, Yala,
Speaker 2: move me over there, Yalen.
Speaker 3: A comfortable scene I think I've ever watched in a
Speaker 3: d com.
Speaker 2: Producer Makaela love this movie. I think this is her
Speaker 2: favorite scene. I'm telling you.
Speaker 1: She's like getting on heavy about it.
Speaker 3: She has to Mikayla, don't even come at.
Speaker 5: Mean, crazy girl, I knowing like all weird during this scene.
Speaker 3: You had to have been because it was so uncomfortable, like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, I was like, oh.
Speaker 2: Gaylan, should I should I be over here? Galan? Where
Speaker 2: am I supposed to stand? Gallant? Oh? Sho me again?
Speaker 1: Galen? Touch me again? Galic? Oh where? Oh?
Speaker 2: It was creepy. They should just cut back to them
Speaker 2: dancing on the street. We cutting out of the girl's
Speaker 2: next game, where Pallas Ernies is finally playing like a
Speaker 2: United squad. They all play at a pace where a
Speaker 2: final score would be around two hundred and fifty to
Speaker 2: two hundred and thirty five. But with your seconds left,
Speaker 2: the Sea Kings are down by two. Nikki dribbles up
Speaker 2: cour she passes to Heidi, who turns and shoots and
Speaker 2: you won't believe this. She misses. We have our first
Speaker 2: Palis Ferti's miss of the entire movie, one hour and
Speaker 2: seven minutes in. But before you assume realism, Heidi grabs
Speaker 2: her own rebound and puts it back in, tying the
Speaker 2: game with just two seconds left. The opposing team calls
Speaker 2: a timeout, but the coach won'ts stop arguing with the ref,
Speaker 2: which in a tie game is just an unreal and
Speaker 2: terrible move. The ref calls a technical foul on her,
Speaker 2: putting palas Forti's on the free throw line to win,
Speaker 2: and instead of Heather, the coach decides Heidi should take
Speaker 2: the shots and then just hold onto the ball once
Speaker 2: it's inbounded, not involving. Heather even confuses Larry, who runs
Speaker 2: down to the court to argue with the coach's decision,
Speaker 2: telling him not to blow this yikes, but the coach
Speaker 2: insists that Heidi has the hot hand, then tells Larry
Speaker 2: to go back to the bleachers and cool down with
Speaker 2: his hot head. Yeah, sit the down, Larry.
Speaker 5: Sorry.
Speaker 2: The coach is chatting for Heidi, who feels the pressure
Speaker 2: as she gets the ball. Nikki gives her words of
Speaker 2: encouragement and she shoots and misses. We have two misses.
Speaker 2: This movie has such change, it's changed all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: But she does make the second shot, so palas Fardi
Speaker 2: is up by one. The Sea King's inbound and run out.
Speaker 2: The clock just just is drawn up by the coach.
Speaker 2: They are going to the finals. Larry and Mary celebrate Heidi,
Speaker 2: then Heather. It's a big win for both sisters, but
Speaker 2: Heather now looks hurt by their dad's new interest in Heidi.
Speaker 2: What he has two kids. Later that night, Heather and
Speaker 2: hot ass Galen are playing one on one late into
Speaker 2: the night. Heather seems unhinged. They've been practicing for two
Speaker 2: hours and Galen wants to call it at night, but
Speaker 2: she's not hearing it. She's got mamba mentality, say there's
Speaker 2: your mamba. But while driving to the basket again, she
Speaker 2: lands at her ankle wrong and falls to the ground
Speaker 2: in massive pain. This is right after he told her
Speaker 2: she was gonna hurt herself. Mary was doing laundry nearby
Speaker 2: and runs over to help. It's already swelling. They carry
Speaker 2: her upstairs and she cries about how the scouts will
Speaker 2: be up the game tomorrow. And her dad is going
Speaker 2: to be really mad. That's the first thing she thinks.
Speaker 2: His dad is going to be mad. And if that's
Speaker 2: the first thing that goes through your head as the dad,
Speaker 2: maybe you think something's wrong with me. If the first
Speaker 2: thing my kid's gonna think is I'm gonna be mad
Speaker 2: at her because she hurt herself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Heather is now upstairs, icing her ankle in bed and
Speaker 2: talking to her mom. She says it's not fair. Basketball
Speaker 2: is supposed to be her thing, and maybe Heidi is
Speaker 2: a better player. Her mom says, there will always be
Speaker 2: someone better than her. Nice she had a rival like
Speaker 2: that when she was a swimming star. It's not always
Speaker 2: about winning or being better or living up to their
Speaker 2: dad's expectations. You should play because you love it. Heather
Speaker 2: asks her mom. If you love swimming so much, then
Speaker 2: why did you stop? And she says, because I'm forty
Speaker 2: five years old with two kids. What am I gonna
Speaker 2: be a professional swimmer? I'm kidding. She didn't say that
Speaker 2: at all, She says, because she found something she loved
Speaker 2: more being a mom.
Speaker 1: It was I loved that, lie, it.
Speaker 2: Was it was a very nice moment. Yep. And that
Speaker 2: was a decent scene. It is now. It was It
Speaker 2: was a decent scene. It is now. The final game.
Speaker 2: It's the Palasforni Sea Kings versus the Bixby Coach Panthers
Speaker 2: in a big, long beach arena. Everyone's family is there
Speaker 2: except Nicki's dad. Obviously, Heather is on crutches and will
Speaker 2: not play, but we do see a handful of scouts
Speaker 2: and attendance, and then the game begins. Heidi wins the
Speaker 2: jump ball and starts dominating with three quick baskets and
Speaker 2: a block shot, but then they quickly decide to double
Speaker 2: team Heidi and we see our first Sea King turnover. Ever,
Speaker 2: one hour and seventeen minutes in, Bixby goes on a
Speaker 2: big run, now leading by fourteen even Galen. Galen is
Speaker 2: fed up in the stands. We also know Mary is
Speaker 2: weirdly alone there. The coach tells the girls they need
Speaker 2: to step up. Heidi can't get open. Then Larry finally
Speaker 2: arrives at the game, accompanied by someone they assume is
Speaker 2: a scout, but then Nicky reveals it's her dad. He
Speaker 2: smiles and waves and Nicky can't believe her eyes. This
Speaker 2: is the first day he's actually met his daughter. I'm kidding,
Speaker 2: just seeing if you're all still with me. This puts
Speaker 2: a fire under Nicki. She scores an easy layup, then
Speaker 2: causes a turnover and scores two more quick baskets. We
Speaker 2: get a montage with the Sea Kings coming back. It
Speaker 2: is a full team effort over some sped up R
Speaker 2: and B. They tied it up before both teams start
Speaker 2: trading baskets and we're back to no one missing it
Speaker 2: all but Pallas Vernes is down by four. Then on
Speaker 2: a breakaway, Nicki scores a layup, but is fouled hard
Speaker 2: and slams into the basket. She's hurt, her left arm
Speaker 2: is numb, but she decides to stay in and take
Speaker 2: the foul shot. While Heather leaves the gym, she asks
Speaker 2: the coach to stall for her. Coach Wendall writes play
Speaker 2: make the shot, force a turnover, then call a quick timeout.
Speaker 2: Nikki eventually fights through the pain and makes the foul shot,
Speaker 2: so the Sea Kings are now down by one. Then
Speaker 2: again exactly is drawn up. Madison steals the ball and
Speaker 2: they quickly call a timeout. This coach is maybe the
Speaker 2: greatest play caller in the history of sports. Back on
Speaker 2: the bench. With just seven seconds left, there's enough time
Speaker 2: for one final play. The team huddles up for a strategy,
Speaker 2: but then we see Heather in uniform. She's ditched the
Speaker 2: crutches and is limping into the gym. The entire arena
Speaker 2: goes silent. Then we get oh Sabrina, We get a
Speaker 2: slow clap. I do love a good ninety even though
Speaker 2: it's two ninepening because it doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense, it doesn't make.
Speaker 2: Any none whatsoever.
Speaker 3: But I remember when Will ask me, have you did
Speaker 3: you ever get a chance to do a slow cup?
Speaker 1: And I said no. One he goes, I didn't.
Speaker 2: I didn't need it. No, I'd like to get a
Speaker 2: slow clap, but Heather got one. Heather tells the coach
Speaker 2: Yather got one, and she tells her coach that everyone
Speaker 2: knows the ball is going to Heidi. Defenders will be
Speaker 2: all over her, so put her in the game. The
Speaker 2: coach says that's a good idea. It's not, but anyway,
Speaker 2: She points out that she can't even walk. But Heather
Speaker 2: doesn't want to shoot. She'll be the decoy to confuse
Speaker 2: some defenders, and so then coach Wendell draws up the play,
Speaker 2: which somehow still might involve Heather taking the shot, which
Speaker 2: she just said she can't do. Okay, but she's got
Speaker 2: to do something because she just got a slow club.
Speaker 2: The Sea Kings walk back out of the court as
Speaker 2: the opposing coach tells his team to focus on Heidi
Speaker 2: and ignore Heather, who is grunting with every step because
Speaker 2: again she can't walk. So here we go. The ball
Speaker 2: is inbounded to Nikki, who finds Heather wide open. She
Speaker 2: looks for Heidi or really any other open player, but
Speaker 2: everyone is jammed up by a defender. Heather realizes what
Speaker 2: she must do. She looks to the basket, then the
Speaker 2: clock six seconds left. Heidie is screaming for her sister
Speaker 2: to shoot it. It's in slow mo. She starts to
Speaker 2: pivot her legs. It is that stupid Heather strut. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: And here's the scene that goes viral all the time,
Speaker 2: because first of all says it takes ninety seven seconds
Speaker 2: to play the last six seconds of the thing. She
Speaker 2: pivots back and forth over and over with no one
Speaker 2: covering her. The crowd thinks that she's having a seizure
Speaker 2: because that's what it looks like. She's eventually picked up
Speaker 2: by a girl on the other team, and Heather dribbles
Speaker 2: past her. She gets the key. Now double teams, so
Speaker 2: she behinds the back pass to her sister, who knew
Speaker 2: she'd be there first. Of all, the first thing you
Speaker 2: notice is the person who throws the ball behind her
Speaker 2: back is clearly not the actress. It is somebody so
Speaker 2: different that it wasn't even close. No, that's the fun part.
Speaker 2: But it's the intuition mentioned once before in the movie.
Speaker 2: Heidi barely catches the ball and shoots at the buzzer,
Speaker 2: and it is good. Palace Verdes wins. They are the
Speaker 2: new champions. Go watch this scene. It is ridiculous. It
Speaker 2: is weird. It's just somebody else throwing the balls. She's
Speaker 2: moving her feet back and forth, which, if you pick
Speaker 2: up your pivot foot, is actually traveling. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: so much wrong with this, so much wrong with this.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 3: I don't try to ever think that I really know
Speaker 3: much about basketball, but I was like, I think that's traveling.
Speaker 1: It was traveling.
Speaker 2: It absolutely was she It's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: We missed the bullseye guess.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this was God missed the bulls eye. Litt bet,
Speaker 2: Lit'll bet. After celebrating, Larry and Mary congratulate their daughters
Speaker 2: in the locker room. Even Nicky embraces her father, finally
Speaker 2: sharing an emotional moment, and Larry apologizes to Heather and Heidi.
Speaker 2: He knows he put too much pressure on Heather and
Speaker 2: he shouldn't have forced Heidi to play. While the twins
Speaker 2: admit that it was wrong to do that, they're very
Speaker 2: glad that he did. They hug one more time, and
Speaker 2: coach Wendell asked Larry who he thinks the money player
Speaker 2: now is? He lasts and says he has two money players,
Speaker 2: then apologizes for being a hothead. The coach accepts his apology,
Speaker 2: but makes him promise not to move until they graduate
Speaker 2: and suggest some summer ball. He reveals, you know, there's
Speaker 2: a talk of a women's professional league forming soon. Boom.
Speaker 2: Larry can't believe it a pro league. This could be
Speaker 2: big news for his twins. The girls bring him back
Speaker 2: down to earth, and he acknowledges there's plenty of time
Speaker 2: to think about the future, especially since Heidi already has
Speaker 2: summer plans drama camp. Hey, all right, so it gets
Speaker 2: to do what she wants. The family walks out, and
Speaker 2: then we're transported to the future that pro league did form.
Speaker 2: It's the WNBA. We see Heather walk onto the court
Speaker 2: now in a Sparks jersey. Then Heidi walks out for
Speaker 2: the opposing Monarchs. The twins are about to square off
Speaker 2: in a professional game, which we know never happened in
Speaker 2: real life, and then they give each other possibly the
Speaker 2: worst fist bump ever recorded in the history of movies.
Speaker 2: Did you notice the example of the opposite of twin intuition?
Speaker 2: Because it's like, how do we not even know how to? Anyway?
Speaker 2: We also see Larry and Mary in Attendants, proud as
Speaker 2: they could be. The sisters talk trash like the good
Speaker 2: old days and get ready for the jump ball. We
Speaker 2: freeze on their jumps and get some details about their career.
Speaker 2: Heidi and Heather got full basketball scholarships and played together
Speaker 2: at the University of Virginia. They were both signed to
Speaker 2: the WNBA for contracts at some point, and that is
Speaker 2: our movie. Who that was a journey? Can we do
Speaker 2: some real reviews? Sabrina, I think you have the five
Speaker 2: star this week?
Speaker 3: I do I've got a five star from Sixer Girl
Speaker 3: ninety one. I love basketball, so I don't know why
Speaker 3: I would like this movie. But even if you don't
Speaker 3: like basketball, check this movie out. Although it looks like
Speaker 3: this movie is only about basketball, the plot is much
Speaker 3: much more than basketball.
Speaker 2: Oh they said basketball an awful lot in that five
Speaker 2: star review, but I appreciate it.
Speaker 1: It's a sixer Girl, so I'm assuming for the.
Speaker 2: Sixers somebody who likes basketball already we have our I
Speaker 2: have the one what that? What was that sound? Do
Speaker 2: that again?
Speaker 1: It's one day. Play at the game all the time.
Speaker 2: Remember, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Have you not been to a basketball game? Somebody?
Speaker 2: Come on, I've never been, never been to a Lakers No, no, no,
Speaker 2: you're doing the Airhornparently, everybody's producer, Sabrina's doing the airhorn.
Speaker 2: I love it. Yikes. Oh okay, uh. I have the
Speaker 2: one star review this week, and it is from our
Speaker 2: old friend who nomen yes unnamed, is back one star.
Speaker 2: Here we go next to The Banger Sisters, easily the
Speaker 2: most misleading movie title in the history of cinema. Two
Speaker 2: cute blonde twins on the movie double teamed movie poster,
Speaker 2: and it's about basketball. What a letdown one star. Yikes.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that.
Speaker 1: Was a good fight, A good fight.
Speaker 2: Terrible. Okay, well, we're coming to a a Sabrina's favorite
Speaker 2: part of the program right now, which is of course
Speaker 2: our feature, and our feature this week is called based
Speaker 2: on a true Story. Double Team marks. Yes, I don't
Speaker 2: know what it is yet. Double Team marks another time
Speaker 2: that a dcom was actually based on a true story.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna get the name of another movie and
Speaker 2: we have to decide if it's based on a true
Speaker 2: story or completely fictitious. Three out of five wins. Producer
Speaker 2: Jensen or you with us today?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Oh no, he's not.
Speaker 2: With us, Okay, Mchaelka, okay, Michael, Now you can't lie
Speaker 2: to us, Mikaela. Even though we just bashed on your
Speaker 2: favorite movie of all time, this is your favorite, and this.
Speaker 4: Was one of my favorites. Like as a kid, I
Speaker 4: looked forward to this on Disney Channel every single time
Speaker 4: was on, like I needed to be home.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Have you did you watch it again? Research?
Speaker 1: I sure did, and I loved it.
Speaker 2: I don't care how I don't care.
Speaker 1: I think they looked so much older.
Speaker 2: But it didn't bother you that they were twenty eight
Speaker 2: years old and didn't.
Speaker 1: Look like other as much as it bothered you. But
Speaker 1: you know I watched it as a little kid.
Speaker 2: Again, it's fine, Yeah, all right, all right, that's fine.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Well this is how you can get
Speaker 2: back at us. So here we go. Remember, we're gonna
Speaker 2: list a movie, and we have to decide if this
Speaker 2: movie is based on a true story or not. Number
Speaker 2: one Ocean's eleven. It can't be. It can't. There can't
Speaker 2: be a cool team of badass robbers in the things.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say this is not based on a
Speaker 2: real movie.
Speaker 4: No, you're correct, that's not based on a true story.
Speaker 2: Okay, good that's where we're We're one for one. Number
Speaker 2: two good Will Hunting. This was written by Ben Affleck
Speaker 2: and Matt Damon. This isn't based on a true story.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm gonna say no again. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: say no again.
Speaker 1: No, you're wrong.
Speaker 4: It is And I looked it up too, and it
Speaker 4: is based on events, like real life events and themes.
Speaker 2: So so like some like some guy was actually a
Speaker 2: janitor who was actually smarter than everybody at the school.
Speaker 4: Not sure on all the details, but it does say,
Speaker 4: inspiration for.
Speaker 1: Real life events and beings.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so geez kind of like I'm gonna
Speaker 3: call Jensen out on this, especially if he's not on
Speaker 3: the phone.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, because you're not here, that's why
Speaker 2: you're calling Jensen out. Yeah, Like that's not.
Speaker 3: Really like based on a true story. Like it's a
Speaker 3: few like what they picked up a couple of ideas.
Speaker 2: Well, we don't know what. I love that number three,
Speaker 2: Cheaper by the dozen.
Speaker 1: I think this actually kind of I don't.
Speaker 2: I think. I think you're right. I think this is
Speaker 2: a real one. I don't know why I remember this
Speaker 2: being based on something real. So I'm gonna say, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes it is.
Speaker 4: It's based on a true story.
Speaker 2: There we go. Number four, fifty first Dates. Great movie.
Speaker 3: I've watched this movie over times, so kind of love.
Speaker 2: It's a great movie.
Speaker 1: This movie.
Speaker 2: It's certainly based on a real affliction.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say yes.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, yeah, yes, yes, you're correct.
Speaker 2: We won, we did, we won. But number five, I
Speaker 2: don't think I know this one. Which one is? There's
Speaker 2: so many girls. It's good, this is girl interrupted, but
Speaker 2: there's girl in a train. There's a girl with the
Speaker 2: Dragon tattoo, Girl with this Girl, which which.
Speaker 1: You seriously don't know this movie?
Speaker 2: No, what's girl interrupted?
Speaker 1: Angelina joel Lee is in this movie?
Speaker 2: Like does she just walk in and interrupt people all
Speaker 2: the time, like hey, hey, I'm Angelina Jolie. It's like,
Speaker 2: why does she keep interrupting?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I don't like Okay, the girls in an institute Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they're like, there's there. I mean this I
Speaker 3: guess could be off of a true story.
Speaker 2: I've never I've ever seen it was. So I'm gonna
Speaker 2: sit out because I've already won.
Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, uh dang it. Now that I'm on
Speaker 1: my own, I'm gonna lose.
Speaker 2: You don't know that going your gun?
Speaker 1: Do you ever? I'm gonna say, yeah, it might. Maybe
Speaker 1: it is. That would be wild if it was. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, yes, you're correct. It is based off the
Speaker 1: true story.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, So the only you won, Sabrina. But you know
Speaker 2: your you know what your handicap is is producer Jensen.
Speaker 1: Of course, he makes me so freaking nervous.
Speaker 2: That's what it is. It's producer Jensen. Thank you, Producer
Speaker 2: MICHAELA for helping us out today. Oh that's awesome and
Speaker 2: we won. We actually yes, awesome. Uh can we do
Speaker 2: some Sabrina.
Speaker 1: Sees we can?
Speaker 3: Okay, so yes, Like I said, I had to rewind.
Speaker 3: So it took me one hundred and twenty minutes to
Speaker 3: watch this movie. Because it took me the first fifty
Speaker 3: I had to go back and I wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 3: My first thing was why are the trophies in the kitchen?
Speaker 3: We braced over it very quickly, but I've never been
Speaker 3: in a house even with somebody who had like an
Speaker 3: older sibling who was just like amazing at a sport,
Speaker 3: have trophies in the kitchen.
Speaker 1: That felt so weird. I get it.
Speaker 3: This is when it started a lot of the stuff
Speaker 3: that Disney did on this movie that I think we
Speaker 3: didn't love was they put things like in our face
Speaker 3: instead of it just being like kids can pick up
Speaker 3: on stuff easily, easier than what.
Speaker 1: They did to us this movie.
Speaker 3: The the animated acting, like all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: Like I just feel like we know that this.
Speaker 1: Audience is smarter than what they allowed us to be.
Speaker 3: So like the the idea of like they're twins, they're
Speaker 3: wearing the same outfit, like that started to just kind
Speaker 3: of get on my nerves a little bit.
Speaker 1: Anyway, moving forward, the tandem bite killed me. Oh killed me.
Speaker 1: I couldn't get over.
Speaker 2: There also supposed to be twelve. There's supposed to be twelve.
Speaker 3: It made me also think when I looked at the
Speaker 3: station wagon, did you ever ride in one of the
Speaker 3: It was like a Voltswagen's station wagon or.
Speaker 2: Whatever we had. We had station wagons my whole time garding.
Speaker 1: Okay, did you did you have one? Where it?
Speaker 3: Was it part of my carpool It made me go
Speaker 3: back to my carpooling days when I was little, where
Speaker 3: one of the moms had the Voltswagen one and it
Speaker 3: was like you sat backwards the kids, No, I heard
Speaker 3: about this set the sit backwards.
Speaker 2: It's the throw up seat. Yeah, no, the backward seat. No,
Speaker 2: we never had one of those. Okay.
Speaker 1: We used to fight over it. It was like who
Speaker 1: got to sit in the backwards seat?
Speaker 3: And it made me think how unsafe was that if
Speaker 3: we ever got a fender bed, Well.
Speaker 2: Do you remember what your seat belt was in the
Speaker 2: seventies and the eighties, it was your mom going like this,
Speaker 2: Oh no, that's what it was.
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 2: Your mom would do that. That's that's what would happen.
Speaker 3: The first day outfit at the new school. The orange
Speaker 3: sweatshirts and the orange matching tops. That killed me. Who
Speaker 3: puts their kid in orange on the front. But then
Speaker 3: this was also, by the way, I was not in
Speaker 3: tune to the fact that we were in the eighties.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I did get it eighty five.
Speaker 1: I think, yes, I did not.
Speaker 3: That did not happen to me until I pushed I'm
Speaker 3: going down to the nineteen eighty four all district patch
Speaker 3: that was on the letterman jacket. Is when I went,
Speaker 3: wait a second, are we in the eighties? We're in
Speaker 3: the eighties right now?
Speaker 1: This them.
Speaker 3: I feel bad saying calling someone out on their job.
Speaker 3: But the costume designer of this, the wardrobe.
Speaker 1: Was not on point.
Speaker 2: It didn't scream eighties like they didn't. It wasn't overly eighties.
Speaker 3: Needed to be for a viewer to understand. It just
Speaker 3: was it was like they had an old car. Okay,
Speaker 3: they're driving a stationwik but it wasn't like. It didn't
Speaker 3: make me go, oh okay, we're none of it. And
Speaker 3: then I hope that theers will back me because you
Speaker 3: probably never saw this movie. But this house Party reminded me.
Speaker 3: It almost looked identical to me of She's all that
Speaker 3: House Party, the eighties style. All of it looked amazing.
Speaker 3: It was and I was like, oh, this looks like
Speaker 3: did they film in the house She's all that House Party?
Speaker 1: Because it was so good.
Speaker 3: So when viewers go back and look, because it's almost
Speaker 3: to the point. Last thing I'm gonna say is we
Speaker 3: got to talk about Nicky's voice.
Speaker 1: Her voice was way too sexy to be on the
Speaker 1: Disney Channel.
Speaker 2: For me, it was it seemed dubbed, like the first time.
Speaker 2: The first couple scenes, it looked weird.
Speaker 1: It wasn't just dubbed.
Speaker 3: It was and this actress's voice is very sexy and
Speaker 3: it's I but it just was too sexy for the channel.
Speaker 1: For me, it was like, hey, are you gonna hey?
Speaker 1: I got, oh, maybe gonna watch out on this one.
Speaker 1: Hey hey, I was like, are we gonna call now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It's see but it did. If you go back
Speaker 2: and watch watch the first couple of scenes with her, especially,
Speaker 2: it seemed like she had dubbed her entire performance.
Speaker 1: I think she did, but also it's because her voice
Speaker 1: was so you want to play basketball? You can play basketball.
Speaker 3: And it was just like, oh my god, this is
Speaker 3: taking me, especially in the scene with with what's his
Speaker 3: name the Galen with Gaelic.
Speaker 1: She was like, oh, Gaylan, should I stand here?
Speaker 3: No, Ni, don't stand there, don't ask for any more.
Speaker 2: My dad's never home.
Speaker 1: Terrible, so uncomfortable.
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: this has this scene has to stop stop talking.
Speaker 1: Nikki, all right, that's those are good. Hey, I want
Speaker 1: to play basketball.
Speaker 2: I want to play basketball.
Speaker 1: I don't stop it.
Speaker 2: Then I tell you what double teams really about.
Speaker 3: GA.
Speaker 2: So uh it is. It is time where we, of course,
Speaker 2: are going to do rate our film, and I think
Speaker 2: we do Let's no, no, let's do one to ten.
Speaker 2: Let's do one to ten and we'll make one the
Speaker 2: worst this time and tell the best. And I.
Speaker 1: New things are not my thing. I can't.
Speaker 2: Here's what we're gonna do, where it's gonna do our
Speaker 2: options this week. One out of ten grown women playing children,
Speaker 2: Larry's and Mary's Sea Kings label liss Periers. One out
Speaker 2: of ten songs that just say go go, go over
Speaker 2: and over until you panic and have to curl into
Speaker 2: a ball. One out of ten dimly lit gyms, one
Speaker 2: out of ten, bacon, bean and cheese sandwiches, one out
Speaker 2: of ten, heather shuffles, or one out of ten worst
Speaker 2: fist bumps? Ever, which one would you like this week?
Speaker 1: Sabrina, I think I'm gonna add.
Speaker 2: Come on, what are you gonna add? Sexy Galen voice?
Speaker 2: Come on the triple Oh yes, Triple D. Let's let's
Speaker 2: do it. Let's do one out of ten triple ds.
Speaker 1: But after that last conversation, now the Triple D starting
Speaker 1: it is?
Speaker 2: It is, Oh yeah, do you want my Triple D?
Speaker 2: Here you go. It's my My, My dcom My D
Speaker 2: com I think you you went first last time, so
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go first this time. This This was not
Speaker 2: a This was not a great movie. I know this
Speaker 2: movie meant a lot to people, and I know it
Speaker 2: means a lot in the zeitgeist of Disney and and
Speaker 2: the subject matter with the W N B A and
Speaker 2: based on a true story, super cool. I love that
Speaker 2: The actual execution, if we're talking about a movie, wasn't
Speaker 2: that good. Just the mix was weird. You pointed out,
Speaker 2: the costumes weren't great, the casting was odd, some of
Speaker 2: the acting was not the best. This just We've were
Speaker 2: coming off of like three or four bangers where we're
Speaker 2: seeing what Disney can do, and this just wasn't the
Speaker 2: best movie. But because I like the subject matter and
Speaker 2: the subject matter matter to me and all that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff, I'm gonna give this five point five Triple d's.
Speaker 2: How about you? What what do you got? Producer? Kayla's like,
Speaker 2: are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: I know, MICHAELA, I know you like it.
Speaker 2: This wasn't a great movie. It just wasn't a great movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, I you know. I'm so sorry, Mikayla. I'm right
Speaker 3: there with you. I honestly, to me, it just looked
Speaker 3: like one. It just looked like one of the movies
Speaker 3: that they It wasn't. They wasn't full swing Disney for me.
Speaker 3: They know how to do this, and I would love
Speaker 3: for them to do especially now, because what I did
Speaker 3: love about the subject matter is how much it's carrying
Speaker 3: over into twenty twenty five, where like our our pro
Speaker 3: pro basketball players are, they're getting paid better now.
Speaker 1: I mean they are.
Speaker 3: The fight is like on and they are doing just
Speaker 3: magical things in the world, which I know is inspiring.
Speaker 3: Such a beautiful young age of women athletes. So I
Speaker 3: love that the subject matter is right here.
Speaker 1: So I would love Disney does it again double Team.
Speaker 1: This time it's personal needs.
Speaker 2: To come out too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, because I think they could do it.
Speaker 3: They know how to do this, and they didn't do
Speaker 3: it in this one, and I was I was bummed
Speaker 3: watching it, just going. I remember loving it and I'm
Speaker 3: loving that this was happening, and I want I want
Speaker 3: Disney to do this one again because I think they
Speaker 3: this time really could just hit it and.
Speaker 1: Find and find.
Speaker 3: I mean, oh my god, could you imagine like the
Speaker 3: the little baby mamas out there that are just killing it,
Speaker 3: like find some and probably could act act their little agree.
Speaker 2: So are you what's your score? Then? I don't think
Speaker 2: you gave us a sport.
Speaker 1: I haven't yet because I'm scared going to show up
Speaker 1: to my house.
Speaker 3: But I'm just sure this one, this one is a
Speaker 3: I'm giving it a six.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah that's higher than me. Now, Producer Mikaela, are
Speaker 2: you sure you didn't remember Double Team the Jean Claude
Speaker 2: van Dam movie, because that might be the one that
Speaker 2: you love. I think it's the Muscles Brussels is the
Speaker 2: one that was because that one.
Speaker 3: He has not seen that one. She's talking about this one,
Speaker 3: and I get it. I think nostalgia wise, because it
Speaker 3: took me in and out. I just think when we're
Speaker 3: when we're really looking at it as a movie breaking
Speaker 3: it down, not great, it's not great, No, but.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not bad. It wasn't horrible.
Speaker 3: Were now watching these I love when I can actually
Speaker 3: let my brain just relax and go. And like I said,
Speaker 3: I was pinballing. I was trying to figure out where
Speaker 3: we were the whole time.
Speaker 2: I think you said it perfectly towards the beginning of
Speaker 2: the podcast where you said it seemed like this like
Speaker 2: Disney was still trying to figure out what they were
Speaker 2: doing with this one. It kind of had that vibe.
Speaker 2: But anyway, well, thank you everybody so much for joining us.
Speaker 2: Our next movie is our first with Sindeia. Yes, it's
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