Speaker 1: Were you.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's the same on the West
Speaker 2: Coast as it is in the East Coast. Were you a
Speaker 2: Girl Scout or a Brownie?
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 4: I was a Brownie for I think like two years
Speaker 4: and was obsessed with it. My mom loves she loves
Speaker 4: telling people.
Speaker 3: I remember it.
Speaker 4: I remember the meetings and the few things that we did.
Speaker 4: But my mom said, I was so proud of my uniform,
Speaker 4: like I loved it. I just I if I got
Speaker 4: a patch, it was a really big deal. She's like,
Speaker 4: you loved that uniform and just thought.
Speaker 3: You were everything.
Speaker 1: I get see that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, my I didn't realize it continued
Speaker 4: on once I was done.
Speaker 3: I thought it was kind of just done. I didn't realize, like.
Speaker 4: You can go through girls the Girl Scouts, yeah, I
Speaker 4: think all the way through high school.
Speaker 2: If I'm not, I think so because I don't know
Speaker 2: what the equivalent in the Girl Scouts is of an
Speaker 2: Eagle Scout for the Boy Scouts, which is like the
Speaker 2: highest level you can get to.
Speaker 1: Is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't, But was there anything like the Pinewood Derby
Speaker 2: for brownies. That's what I'm asked. That's where I'm going
Speaker 2: with this. I did you have to build little race cars?
Speaker 2: That's probably just the boy the cub.
Speaker 3: Scouts, Okay, I mean it could have been.
Speaker 4: Like I said, I was a Brownie, so I think
Speaker 4: I was probably like second and third grade.
Speaker 3: I think that's as high as I went.
Speaker 4: So but you loved it, yes, And I support the
Speaker 4: Girl Scout Nation every year.
Speaker 3: I buy lots and lots of your cookies, my.
Speaker 1: Girl Scout cookie go.
Speaker 3: They used to be Smoe's but I think they're called
Speaker 3: Caramel Delights.
Speaker 4: Not sure what happened with the name change, but they
Speaker 4: are delicious and I bought some from You know, what's.
Speaker 3: Great is they even take bedmo Now. I mean they're
Speaker 3: just so I know, because.
Speaker 1: There it's a racket. It's a mafia, are you kidding?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 4: The worst is when you see them going in and
Speaker 4: then you pay with your card and you really I
Speaker 4: don't ever have cash on me ever, But I was like,
Speaker 4: I don't have any cash on me, guys, and then
Speaker 4: the mom's like, who do you have?
Speaker 3: Venmo zelleties?
Speaker 4: My dad used to especially when I was younger, a
Speaker 4: lot of my friends continued.
Speaker 3: With girl Scouts. He used to have like six or.
Speaker 4: Seven girls that were big girl Scouts that all knew
Speaker 4: to call Fred because he was getting no less than
Speaker 4: ten boxes from you. Like he was a bit and
Speaker 4: so I'm not I don't live up to my dad's expectation.
Speaker 4: He just absolutely was so sad when all my friends
Speaker 4: like graduated.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you know, because he loved it. He loved
Speaker 3: feeling like he was helping them.
Speaker 4: And of course he loves the cookies well, by the
Speaker 4: wayway and Jordan just found them and was like, are
Speaker 4: you courting these?
Speaker 3: I was like, sure, no, I just forgot. They're just
Speaker 3: they're just right there.
Speaker 2: You're hoarding, by the way. The correct answers, of course,
Speaker 2: thin mints in the freezer. That is the correct answer
Speaker 2: to what is the best cookie?
Speaker 4: They are very good and they do well with many desserts.
Speaker 4: You put them in ice cream, you know you and the.
Speaker 1: Best red wine. Okay, there's you dip them. It's wonderful whiskey.
Speaker 2: Actually I used to have when I when I was
Speaker 2: sipping bourbon, which I don't do anymore.
Speaker 1: Excite the brown liquor. Brown liquor is fattening.
Speaker 2: Occasionally have one, but the the nice thin mint with
Speaker 2: like a nice whiskey.
Speaker 1: Very good bourbon.
Speaker 3: I have to tell Jordan that ye.
Speaker 2: Still the most brilliant thing I've ever seen, though, is
Speaker 2: the girl Scout table set up selling cookies outside the
Speaker 2: pot dispensary in l A. No brilliant, you are no
Speaker 2: hundred percent serious. You'd went in and you would get
Speaker 2: your weed, and then you'd come out and get your cookies.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely Geese genius.
Speaker 3: You know, there's an episode in Friends that he goes.
Speaker 4: Around, He goes into all the dorms, like totally, So.
Speaker 1: The Girl Scouts just did that.
Speaker 2: Well. Anyway, Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that
Speaker 2: makes you want to grab your friends, your pjs and
Speaker 2: your thin mints and go back to a time when
Speaker 2: all the houses are smart. The Wave tsunamis in the
Speaker 2: High School musical.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilfred Ell and I'm Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 1: On your Mark, Get Set Go.
Speaker 2: It is a new week of Magical Rewind and we
Speaker 2: are reviewing the Y TWK biographical sports drama Miracle in
Speaker 2: Lane two.
Speaker 1: Now it's worth noting there is no Miracle in Lane one.
Speaker 1: This is not a sequel.
Speaker 2: The dcom debuted on May thirteenth, two thousand and Like
Speaker 2: Double Team or Gotta Kick It Up, We've got an
Speaker 2: athletic portrait based upon a true story. This time the
Speaker 2: film was inspired by Justin Yoder, who was the first
Speaker 2: person with a disability to compete in the All American
Speaker 2: Soapbox Derby. Now you might be asking what is the
Speaker 2: All American Soapbox Derby. Well, it was founded in nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty four in Dayton, Ohio and has been called quote
Speaker 2: the greatest amateur racing event in the world unquote. The
Speaker 2: vehicles they race are called either soapbox cars or gravity racers.
Speaker 2: And these are vehicles that follow these rules. One they
Speaker 2: must have no motor, Two they must have four wheels,
Speaker 2: three they must have some type of brakes, and four
Speaker 2: you are not allowed to push it to start. They
Speaker 2: average around one hundred and fifty pounds and can reach
Speaker 2: speeds of twenty to thirty miles an hour using only
Speaker 2: the force of gravity on a somewhat slanted course. They
Speaker 2: were originally built from wooden soap or apple crates with
Speaker 2: roller skate wheels, mostly constructed by kids, but over time,
Speaker 2: like myself, it became more sophisticated. It's now common to
Speaker 2: see materials like aluminum and fiberglass used to build soapbox racers,
Speaker 2: a far cry from its very humble beginnings, and for
Speaker 2: the All American Derby competitors from all over the US, Canada,
Speaker 2: Germany and Japan come. It is the super Bowl of
Speaker 2: gravity propelled cars. Have you ever driven a soapbox.
Speaker 4: Sobriana, No, but I gotta tell you it was a
Speaker 4: dream of mine when I was a kid. I so
Speaker 4: fucking I think it came from watching Little Rascals.
Speaker 3: There's a scene.
Speaker 4: Where they have these, you know, these little kart things
Speaker 4: that they made, and they makeshifted themselves. I was never
Speaker 4: an engineer of any sort, had any business of putting
Speaker 4: something like that together. But yes, the idea of having
Speaker 4: a soapbox would have been unreal for me. I totally
Speaker 4: absolutely loved that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, me too.
Speaker 3: I think I didn't know the piny urn of it.
Speaker 4: I thought it was just something you did in your neighborhood.
Speaker 4: I didn't know it was like this big deal race thing.
Speaker 4: So this is what you really hear about.
Speaker 2: They can make anything competitive, so this is it was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's do this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 2: The movie was originally titled Wheelie's and was filmed in
Speaker 2: March of two thousand and it was turned around for
Speaker 2: a May premiere, So March to May. That might be
Speaker 2: a new record for us here on Magical Rewind. That
Speaker 2: is a very very quick turnaround. Yeah, the movie did
Speaker 2: win the Director's Guild of America Award in two thousand
Speaker 2: and one for Best Director and a Children's Program, as
Speaker 2: well as the Humanity Surprise in Children's Live Action category.
Speaker 2: So as far as Kudo's Miracle and L two was
Speaker 2: quite the success. Now, Justin Yoder, the racer the movie
Speaker 2: is based on, first caught the eye of screenwriters because
Speaker 2: they all went to the same Mennonite church. You can
Speaker 2: actually see the real life Yoda in the crowd at
Speaker 2: one of the races in the film, so we'll point
Speaker 2: that out when we get there. Yoder said, the movie
Speaker 2: is pretty true to his story, except that he never
Speaker 2: actually won the National Championship. He made the Nationals but
Speaker 2: didn't win, So spoiler alert a little bit there, but
Speaker 2: we did have to point that out. We now, unfortunately
Speaker 2: have a very sad update on the movie. Justin Yoda
Speaker 2: unfortunately passed away on September fifteenth, twenty twenty four, at
Speaker 2: the young age of thirty seven in a car accident.
Speaker 2: He tragically was the innocent bystander in a crash caused
Speaker 2: by a high speed chase. A terrible footnote to the film,
Speaker 2: especially considering everything he had survived in his life, but
Speaker 2: it's incredible that his inspiring story will live on forever.
Speaker 1: So thank you, Justin.
Speaker 2: Were you aware of the film of Miracle in Lane
Speaker 2: two before it became podcast material for us?
Speaker 3: Yes? I watched it.
Speaker 4: I thought it was great. I mean I think it
Speaker 4: was mainly I mean, you know, the main star. We
Speaker 4: haven't gotten there too, but you know, such an incredible
Speaker 4: actor and was in everything at that point.
Speaker 3: So and that was that.
Speaker 4: Two thousand mark is right around when I was auditioning
Speaker 4: a ton and wanted so bad to be on the channel.
Speaker 4: So I really watched everything. But watching it back, I
Speaker 4: will say it hit a whole lot different this time around.
Speaker 1: Okay, I did not know about this movie at all, But.
Speaker 4: Did you have did the did the title throw you
Speaker 4: off at all? Or did you kind of think I did.
Speaker 2: Truly had no idea what was about. I kind of
Speaker 2: had the inkling it had something to do with racing, okay,
Speaker 2: but I did not know what kind or what it was.
Speaker 2: For some reason, I thought maybe it was is it
Speaker 2: called stock car racing or funny car racing like the
Speaker 2: little It's not.
Speaker 1: It's like one step up from go karts.
Speaker 2: I don't know why I thought it was that, okay,
Speaker 2: and I didn't know anything about that. It had it
Speaker 2: was based on a true story or based on a
Speaker 2: character that had spined, but I didn't know anything about
Speaker 2: that whatsoever.
Speaker 4: I don't think I think that part pushed like I
Speaker 4: I missed the mark on that part. I don't think
Speaker 4: I had grasped that until this time around.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is cool.
Speaker 3: It's such a great story. It really is.
Speaker 2: Well, let's do our early thoughts here. What did you
Speaker 2: think of the movie?
Speaker 1: Did you like it?
Speaker 4: I loved this movie. This movie was I mean, I
Speaker 4: feel like I've been saying, like it's kind of like
Speaker 4: I could, you know, couldn't just sit down and relax
Speaker 4: and watch it.
Speaker 3: This movie.
Speaker 4: I was in like from start to finish. I thought
Speaker 4: this movie was so great in so many ways, and
Speaker 4: I really can't wait to deep dive it.
Speaker 2: I want to deep dive it too. This might be
Speaker 2: my favorite movie that we've watched. Really, this movie was incredible.
Speaker 2: I thought this was almost a perfect dcom. Wow, like
Speaker 2: everything a Disney Channel movie should do, this movie did.
Speaker 4: This movie for me was what puts Disney so far
Speaker 4: like not just on the map, but so ahead and
Speaker 4: on top of any of the other networks that caters
Speaker 4: towards kids like. Truly, this is what is a perfect
Speaker 4: example of what makes Disney Disney and why families are
Speaker 4: so locked in to this brand and everything they put out.
Speaker 1: Like, I could not agree more.
Speaker 2: This is pretty close to a faultless movie, especially for
Speaker 2: younger people.
Speaker 1: Younger people could watch it, adults could watch it. This was.
Speaker 3: This was better than Double Team.
Speaker 2: People admitting it was, but wow, thanks Mi Kaala, no,
Speaker 2: thank you. Yes, it's clearly better than Double Team. Well,
Speaker 2: you can know more about Miracle and Lane too, because
Speaker 2: it's streaming on Disney Plus. You can watch it now
Speaker 2: before listening to the podcast.
Speaker 1: Or check it out later.
Speaker 2: It's really fifty to fifty, it's sixty four, it's seventy thirty.
Speaker 2: Just don't go betting on it, no matter what Vegas says.
Speaker 2: It's a trap, all right, So get the ball bearings Warm,
Speaker 2: It's time for the synopsis, based on the true story
Speaker 2: of Justin Yoder, a young boy with spina bifida, becoming
Speaker 2: the first person with a disability to compete in a
Speaker 2: soapbox derby now. Spina biffida, for those who don't know,
Speaker 2: is a birth defect that occurs when the spine and
Speaker 2: spinal cord don't form properly, leaving part of the spinal
Speaker 2: or exposed. It can cause physical and neurological issues, ranging
Speaker 2: from the mild mobility problems to more serious complications like paralysis.
Speaker 2: Had you heard of the condition before the film? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: me too. I knew a little bit about Spider Biffit
Speaker 2: as well. This is a condition rarely depicted in movies
Speaker 2: or TV, so at this time this really did give
Speaker 2: some representation for a birth defect that occurs in one
Speaker 2: out of every twenty five hundred.
Speaker 1: Berths in the US.
Speaker 2: Miracle in Lane two was directed by Greg Beeman, a
Speaker 2: name we have heard before. His prolific directing career began
Speaker 2: with the Magical World of Disney two movies, The Richest
Speaker 2: Cat in the World.
Speaker 1: And Little Spies. We haven't watched either one yet, but.
Speaker 2: He followed it up with a very fun movie Starr
Speaker 2: and Corey Felman and Corey Haim Yes the Eighties, Corey's
Speaker 2: Licensed to Drive in nineteen eighty eight. He also directed
Speaker 2: a ton of television like The Wonder Years, Nash Bridges, Smallville,
Speaker 2: and Heroes, but his dcom lineup is also very impressive.
Speaker 2: He directed Horse Sense, Sprink and the very first dcom ever,
Speaker 2: under Wraps. The movie stars Frankie Munez as Justin Yoder.
Speaker 2: Munez was one of the biggest TV stars of the arts,
Speaker 2: starring as Malcolm Wilkerson in the long running comedy Malcolm
Speaker 2: in the Middle. He also started movies like My Dog Skip,
Speaker 2: Big Fat Liar and Agent Cody Banks, eventually deciding that
Speaker 2: Hollywood wouldn't be his only focus and turning his attention
Speaker 2: to NASCAR racing, which gives this movie some cool backstory.
Speaker 2: In my opinion, He's basically spent his adult life racing
Speaker 2: and learning more about the sport, which is a cool plan. B.
Speaker 2: But it was announced earlier this year that Muniez would
Speaker 2: be returning to his Malcolm roots for a new series
Speaker 2: currently getting ready to film. He was kind of the
Speaker 2: it kid star of his era. He was in everything,
Speaker 2: and he is great in the.
Speaker 3: He is the perfect kid actor.
Speaker 1: I said the same thing last night.
Speaker 4: Yep, you know he's he's good looking, but he's like
Speaker 4: cute and like you know what I mean, And he.
Speaker 3: Looks like such a great kid.
Speaker 1: He's his eyes, he's a phenomenal actor.
Speaker 3: That's what I mean.
Speaker 4: His eyes are so expressive and just like there, he's
Speaker 4: just adorable to watch.
Speaker 3: And he does.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you watch any one of the ones
Speaker 4: we've watched, are we just mentioned he's great in all
Speaker 4: of them, like they're all good movies.
Speaker 1: Is a very very legit child actor.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 2: And then there's one of the coolest men ever and
Speaker 2: loved the name. Rick Rossovich plays his dad, Myrin Yoda.
Speaker 2: Rossovich is best known as Slider in the classic film
Speaker 2: Top Gun, where he takes off his shirt to play
Speaker 2: volleyball and I went, wow, never gonna look like that guy,
Speaker 2: but also appeared in movies like The Terminator, Roxanne, and
Speaker 2: Streets of Fire. I'll take all the movies I liked
Speaker 2: growing up for a thousand. Alex Molly Hagen is his mom.
Speaker 2: Sheila Hagen is also in a ton of things. I
Speaker 2: don't even know where to start. She appeared in movies
Speaker 2: like Code of Silence alongside Chuck Norris, but also in
Speaker 2: Some kind of Wonderful Election and Sully. On TV, she
Speaker 2: was one of the stars of Herman's Head. That's the
Speaker 2: second time we said that great show, appeared on Seinfeld,
Speaker 2: and most recently was a regular on a TV show
Speaker 2: called Walker Fun. Note she is also a coach in
Speaker 2: the Air Buds Cinematic Universe or what we like to
Speaker 2: call the ABCU. Tuck Watkins is Bobby Wade or God.
Speaker 2: Tuck is most recognizable for his role in the Mummy,
Speaker 2: but for soap opera fans they may know him as
Speaker 2: David on One Life to Live. He's still working a ton,
Speaker 2: most recently seen on the TV show Paradise, in the
Speaker 2: movie The Electric State. And finally, we mentioned this guy
Speaker 2: before for having a five second Fisherman cameo in the
Speaker 2: Thirteenth Year The Barnet's from movie We talk About a
Speaker 2: Lot and now here he is again with another small part.
Speaker 1: Joe McKinnon.
Speaker 2: Miller plays Bill Guntman Joel and his very recognizable flat
Speaker 2: top played Scully on the show Brooklyn nine to nine
Speaker 2: and Don Embry in Big Love but has been in
Speaker 2: movies like The Truman Show, Galaxy Quest, and Super eight.
Speaker 2: He's also one of many actors in this movie that
Speaker 2: also appeared on Malcolm in the Middle, So it looks
Speaker 2: like Munez has a crew.
Speaker 1: This dcom is wait for it, everyone, eighty nine minutes.
Speaker 1: Wowie wow.
Speaker 3: We have been seeing.
Speaker 2: This a lot, so close, but admirably one minute in
Speaker 2: front of the target, which we'd much rather see than
Speaker 2: behind it. Kudos to the bran behind this movie. They
Speaker 2: knew what they were doing. I will give this movie
Speaker 2: any props they wanted. It could have been one hundred
Speaker 2: and ten minutes. I still would have said it wasn't
Speaker 2: long enough. I probably said it was too long.
Speaker 1: It was great.
Speaker 2: Miracle in Lane two has two very interesting writers, and
Speaker 2: as I said, they knew Justin and his family from
Speaker 2: their church.
Speaker 1: Donald C.
Speaker 2: Yost is the first writer and his only other credit
Speaker 2: is the two thousand and three d com Full Court Miracle,
Speaker 2: which I'm sure we'll get to at some point. And
Speaker 2: then we have his writing partner Joel Kaufman, who, in
Speaker 2: addition to the two d cooms, also wrote a religiously
Speaker 2: theme movie called The Radicals and was the man behind
Speaker 2: the religiously themed comic strip Punches Puddle. He passed away
Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen at only sixty five years old. Okay,
Speaker 2: here we go, people. I see the checker flag and
Speaker 2: a jealous brother. That could only mean one thing. It's
Speaker 2: time to dive into miracle. In lane two, we open
Speaker 2: with a group of three teams playing basketball in the
Speaker 2: front yard. This appears to be either a two on
Speaker 2: one or a one on one on one, which are
Speaker 2: two options that do not exists in.
Speaker 1: That sport at all.
Speaker 2: We quickly transition to inside the house. We see dozens
Speaker 2: of trophies, which we know is decom symbolism for someone
Speaker 2: being a true athlete. We then see a young boy
Speaker 2: in a wheelchair, Justin longingly looking out in the window,
Speaker 2: and we hear his narration. He knows that he shouldn't
Speaker 2: feel bad. He has a lot to be happy about.
Speaker 2: A cool dad, Myron, though he's hardly everr home because
Speaker 2: he paints houses and teaches. Justin says his mom, Sheila
Speaker 2: is the best. She's very protective of her kids and
Speaker 2: is currently arguing on the phone with a teacher making
Speaker 2: sure Justin isn't treated differently than any of the other kids.
Speaker 2: Justin lives in a good town with friendly neighbors except
Speaker 2: old man Vic, a crabby tow truck driver who lives
Speaker 2: a few houses down.
Speaker 1: And then there's his brother Seth.
Speaker 2: And we need to give out some more flowers here
Speaker 2: because Seth is played by Patrick Cannon Levis, who of
Speaker 2: course we all know from Brinkping, but he was also
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: Disney Channel series So Weird.
Speaker 2: So he is obviously even at this point at Disney
Speaker 2: Channel veteran, and I thought he also.
Speaker 1: Killed it in this movie.
Speaker 2: The whole cast literally from top to bottom in this
Speaker 2: movie this. When we do our award show, which we're
Speaker 2: gonna do, it would be hard pressed not to have
Speaker 2: this up there at least nominated as Best Ensemble Cast
Speaker 2: in any dcom. They were great, absolutely so we also
Speaker 2: find out that his older brother, this wonderful Seth, is
Speaker 2: awesome at everything he attempts to do. The family though,
Speaker 2: we find out is going to a funeral today for
Speaker 2: a great uncle, and Seth is not thrilled about it.
Speaker 2: Justin says he's still considered quote special, but he hates
Speaker 2: that word. It's what people say when they don't expect
Speaker 2: anything from him.
Speaker 1: And then we enter a dream.
Speaker 2: Sequence, something that'll happen constantly. In this postmodern script, which
Speaker 2: I actually really liked, we see an angelic man who
Speaker 2: Justin mentions looks like the famous race car driver Bobby Wade.
Speaker 1: He's in a white shirt with the word.
Speaker 2: God on his back and I don't make mistakes on
Speaker 2: the front. He's working on a red sports car and
Speaker 2: lit by stadium lighting. And no matter what his shirt says,
Speaker 2: Justin can help but think he does make mistakes. Yes,
Speaker 2: he has scenes with God. And I know some people
Speaker 2: are like, why would they bring in something religious, But
Speaker 2: when it's a kid in a wheelchair talking to God,
Speaker 2: it just worked.
Speaker 1: I will get into that.
Speaker 4: He doesn't do it very often. This was the thing
Speaker 4: that really worked. Not to mention God look like the
Speaker 4: X Men. Awesome his sidebirds.
Speaker 1: He was just like, you look like Wolverine.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, isn't that the X Men?
Speaker 1: Well, the x Men is a team?
Speaker 3: Oh God, Okay, sorry, okay, yeah, the Wolverine? Did you
Speaker 3: have the guy?
Speaker 1: X Men was one guy, isn't it?
Speaker 2: No? The x Men of the team, Wolverine is the guy. Oh,
Speaker 2: Sabrina talk.
Speaker 1: I thought I was.
Speaker 3: Gonna get points on that all right, I just have
Speaker 3: to cut that out.
Speaker 2: Then I know we're keeping that in and I am
Speaker 2: texting Jordan later he has some serious work to do.
Speaker 1: Wow, unbelievable. I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear.
Speaker 3: It isn't the watching that downstairs. I'd go upstairs.
Speaker 1: Oh, he and I have to talk anyway.
Speaker 2: He does believe that God makes mistakes because he's hardly
Speaker 2: twelve and had almost two dozen surgeries. His legs are
Speaker 2: linguini and he'd love miracle, but God does not have
Speaker 2: an answer. The dream is broken up by Justin's mom
Speaker 2: yelling it's time to go. Seth announces that their dad
Speaker 2: said he didn't have to go, and Justin thinks he
Speaker 2: shouldn't have to go either. Life just isn't fair. But
Speaker 2: we quick cut to a church and Justin is there
Speaker 2: with his parents. He acknowledges that life isn't fair. We
Speaker 2: hear about Maynard, his dead great uncle, a longtime counselman,
Speaker 2: a volunteer firefighter, a church elder. Everyone is crying, and
Speaker 2: that's when Justin wonders what the minister would say about him,
Speaker 2: and he literally imagines his own funeral, and when it
Speaker 2: comes to the minister, describing Justin, he's had a loss
Speaker 2: of words. He's saying things like he's, he's, he was twelve,
Speaker 2: he attended middle school, and the funeral goers are clearly
Speaker 2: just getting bored. Justin then pops out of the casket
Speaker 2: and yells say something good. So the official adds he
Speaker 2: was in a nice wheelchair, and then the wheelchair floats
Speaker 2: over the casket and they start going off on the
Speaker 2: wheelchair and they're gonna miss that chair.
Speaker 1: This is not what Justin was expecting.
Speaker 2: Mid daydreamed. Justin yells out in the real funeral, what
Speaker 2: about me? And everyone is disgusted by the outburst. It's
Speaker 2: so cool how they were cutting back and forth, but
Speaker 2: then it just kind of stopped. But then it worked
Speaker 2: for me. Back at home, Seth is ready for a
Speaker 2: championship soccer game, but his dad can't come. In some
Speaker 2: misdirected anger about his dad, Seth lashes out at Justin,
Speaker 2: blaming him. At the game, Seth scores a goal in
Speaker 2: a very muddy field and he is carried off the field.
Speaker 1: By his teammates. Obviously the winning goal.
Speaker 2: Justin is disappointed when his brother doesn't celebrate the goal
Speaker 2: with him, leaving him Once again saying hey, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: what about me. I also liked several times in this
Speaker 2: movie you could tell that it was just raining and
Speaker 2: they went, Okay, reins in real life, let's go film, right.
Speaker 1: You don't see that a lot. You don't that it's
Speaker 1: supposed to rain.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's because of where we film
Speaker 4: in the dcoms, but it feels like Paul Hoan so
Speaker 4: many of his movies. It feels like it just started
Speaker 4: to rain and they went with it.
Speaker 2: I don't, but we don't see it a ton. I
Speaker 2: mean a lot of times, I mean shooting in the
Speaker 2: pouring rain, or he's riding the soapbox racer down in
Speaker 2: the pouring rain. I feel like a lot of movies
Speaker 2: they'd be like, all right, it's pouring rain and we've
Speaker 2: got a racing scene today. We're just gonna cut it.
Speaker 4: Like definitely, it's definitely a burden on a set, you know. Yea,
Speaker 4: the rain kills it with the camera, with the wardo.
Speaker 1: Thing, with the mics, with everything. So but they're not prepared.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it definitely looks like they just rolled with it.
Speaker 1: Yep, keep rolling. Loved it.
Speaker 2: That's how it was a little later, we're now again
Speaker 2: in the full on rain. Seth wins MVP. Justin tries
Speaker 2: to wheel up closer. That's my brother, he yells, but
Speaker 2: again he is neglected. Later that night, at the house,
Speaker 2: Seth is sleeping, but Justin he's wide awake. He glances
Speaker 2: at his brother's trophies, then at his empty shelf. He
Speaker 2: just wants to know what it feels like to be
Speaker 2: a big shot. He wins a trophy once in his life.
Speaker 2: He knows getting a trophy won't be easy, especially since
Speaker 2: he's taking time bomb.
Speaker 1: It's what he calls himself.
Speaker 2: He has hydrocephalus, where the spinal fluid builds up in
Speaker 2: his head, which, again from the way he describes it
Speaker 2: just sounds like such a burden for any young person,
Speaker 2: especially to have it well one.
Speaker 4: His parents too, to like, sure, the anxiety to watch
Speaker 4: your kid and trying to see you know, if you
Speaker 4: can detect it while you're just looking at them. I mean, gosh,
Speaker 4: that that anxiety is just gone.
Speaker 1: But that's so hard.
Speaker 2: A whole other level of this film, that something you
Speaker 2: would get out of this that I wouldn't not being
Speaker 2: a parent. I mean, you then would take that to
Speaker 2: a whole nother level as a parent watching this movie,
Speaker 2: which is another layer for Disney. I mean, they're just
Speaker 2: I love this movie and I don't have kids. You
Speaker 2: love this movie. It was a different level for you.
Speaker 2: I mean, there was just another reason why this is
Speaker 2: just so good.
Speaker 4: Yes, And I will say, by the way, this couple,
Speaker 4: this married couple, is one of my favorite couples.
Speaker 1: We see a greed one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Handle so many of them, and this is just the start.
Speaker 4: We're just hearing just a little bit of things here
Speaker 4: and there, the way they handle it and like just
Speaker 4: hands down, such a good but.
Speaker 2: Also talking about how they're flawed and their mistakes. And
Speaker 2: I mean they were not perfect, but they were great.
Speaker 2: They were trying. They were a team.
Speaker 3: I mean, the dad had a little bit of a
Speaker 3: speed bump.
Speaker 2: He did, but I kind of liked, liked his speed book,
Speaker 2: like it was very real his speed boom.
Speaker 4: Again, parents, parents, adults, just because you're an adult does
Speaker 4: not mean you have all the right answers, nor do
Speaker 4: you know how to handle everything correctly. You're learning just
Speaker 4: as much as everyone else is, you know.
Speaker 2: So the first thing I really realized as an adult
Speaker 2: is that adults don't know. Kids think adults know everything
Speaker 2: and that's what keeps the world going.
Speaker 1: But when you're an.
Speaker 3: Adult and as a parent, that you do. It's a
Speaker 3: part of maulation.
Speaker 4: But you realize, like your parents, your parents are not superheroes.
Speaker 3: They do not know everything.
Speaker 4: They do not have every answer and every way to
Speaker 4: get out of situations.
Speaker 1: Everybody's stumbling through life every day. That's just how it works.
Speaker 1: We are now at breakfast in the morning.
Speaker 2: He tells his mom he has a headache, and then,
Speaker 2: just like Sabrina says, the whole family instantly becomes concerned.
Speaker 2: They start dramatically rushing around the house prepping for the hospital,
Speaker 2: but Justin stops them eventually. No, no, no, it's not that
Speaker 2: type of headache, he says, And he tried to tell
Speaker 2: them before.
Speaker 1: And he did.
Speaker 2: Later that day, Justin is walking the neighborhood with his brother,
Speaker 2: a newspaper delivering friend named Brad, and their blonde girlfriend, Cindy.
Speaker 2: Justin is still hung up on his trophy idea. How
Speaker 2: will he win one? What can he do? And that's
Speaker 2: when a newspaper goes rogue and some wind brings an
Speaker 2: advertisement for Little League right to Justin's wheelchair.
Speaker 1: That's it.
Speaker 2: He imagines a night game playing in the outfield. The
Speaker 2: ball is hit deep and he wheels quickly to the fence.
Speaker 2: The ball defies physics by freezing midair. As he puts
Speaker 2: on his glove, he eventually falls right into his mit. Also,
Speaker 2: the field was empty outside of just him and the batter, So,
Speaker 2: like the earlier basketball game, numbers are strange in this universe,
Speaker 2: but it's still work. Teammates then appear and hoist Justin
Speaker 2: on their shoulder with a trophy. We're now back on
Speaker 2: the street. In reality, the older kids stop at old
Speaker 2: man VI's house. Rumor is he kidnaps kids and chops
Speaker 2: them up in his shed. But most importantly, Justin reveals
Speaker 2: to the group has his new plan to sign up
Speaker 2: for baseball. Brad jokes, what's he going to play the bass?
Speaker 2: And oh, I loved how Right away his brother sticks
Speaker 2: up for him. He's like, don't you take that on
Speaker 2: my brother, but then turns around and reminds his little
Speaker 2: brother that the only reason he was allowed to play
Speaker 2: in the very little league in te ball was because
Speaker 2: his mom had them change the.
Speaker 1: Rules for him.
Speaker 2: Justin is still sure that he can play Seth says
Speaker 2: he'll help convince their parents just follow his cue. Later,
Speaker 2: we're then at the dinner table. Seth is leading the
Speaker 2: family prayer and also insulting his mom's cooking at the
Speaker 2: same time. But Justin is loving his mom's cooking, or
Speaker 2: at least pretending to. And then Seth, who can be
Speaker 2: a real jerk, calls Justin out he just instantly changed,
Speaker 2: because before we thought he was a cool dude. And
Speaker 2: then boom, he says he only likes the minister on
Speaker 2: his suit because he wants to play baseball, Thanks dude.
Speaker 2: His parents are a little taken back because it's a
Speaker 2: competitive hardball, but Justin says that all of his friends
Speaker 2: are signing up and a wheelchair shouldn't hold him back
Speaker 2: from anything. Then the dining room transforms into a family court.
Speaker 2: They're all wearing black robes and long white wigs. Seth
Speaker 2: is the judge. Dastardly dad is arguing against baseball and
Speaker 2: his magnificent mom is fighting for it. Dad said it's
Speaker 2: not physically possible, even if you're Jackie Robinson. His mom argues,
Speaker 2: this just has to do with what's right and wrong.
Speaker 2: She also thinks Jackie Robinson as a woman, but she
Speaker 2: wins the case. He will play baseball after all. And
Speaker 2: the next day the boys are with their mom and
Speaker 2: the van, excitedly singing take me out to the ballgame,
Speaker 2: and Justin is drinking a big blue slurpee, which looks
Speaker 2: really good right now.
Speaker 1: Favorite slurpee flavor, Sabrina go.
Speaker 3: I like the mix of the cherry and the blueberry.
Speaker 1: I was a coke man myself. I loved the good
Speaker 1: coke slurpy.
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, they were great until panic attacks started
Speaker 2: to set in.
Speaker 1: And then halfway through a slurpee, I just started freaking
Speaker 1: out with.
Speaker 3: The coke flavor. Actually was it was actual coke?
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. It's just kafe.
Speaker 3: I know, I tried it, but I don't think I.
Speaker 2: Ever that was like I like blue too. It knows
Speaker 2: how nobody knows the flavor. They're like, what's your favorite flavor?
Speaker 3: You're like blue, Yeah, isn't it blueberry? Or is it berry?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Blue?
Speaker 3: I feel like it would change. That's probably why probably
Speaker 3: were blueberry.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I think it's just blue.
Speaker 2: But the bubble burst when we cut to a coach
Speaker 2: at signe up saying absolutely not if something happens to Justin,
Speaker 2: they might have to shut the whole league down. We
Speaker 2: see a roaring bear. It's time for my grizzly to
Speaker 2: come out, she says. If Justin can't play, neither can Seth.
Speaker 2: And we know they don't want to lose their all
Speaker 2: star player. The coach wants to know how Justin will
Speaker 2: play the field or run the bases, putting Justin on
Speaker 2: the spot to answer. He stutters, thinking of the best
Speaker 2: coach response, and then just hurls blue slurpy all over
Speaker 2: the coach. He just throws up all over him.
Speaker 3: It's not ready for that.
Speaker 2: I was like, I knew it was coming. I knew
Speaker 2: that was coming. I could tell the way that they had.
Speaker 2: They kept cutting to him, drinking like this is not
Speaker 2: going to go well. I didn't know if he was
Speaker 2: going to pee or he was going to throw up,
Speaker 2: but I knew something was going to happen.
Speaker 1: But three strikes and you're out. After throwing up on
Speaker 1: the coach.
Speaker 2: On the ride home, Siel is not giving up. They
Speaker 2: just to dude, just things and Seth angrily compares it
Speaker 2: to how their dad has to work all the time
Speaker 2: to pay for Justin's medical bills, and uh, oh, we
Speaker 2: might have a jerk dcom brother.
Speaker 1: We're not quite sure yet. It makes sense why yeh,
Speaker 1: But I get the frustration, but we don't know where
Speaker 1: this is going.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I honestly, he I mean, especially up to
Speaker 4: this point in the movie, is really not. I was
Speaker 4: having a lot of empathy for him because he could
Speaker 4: only imagine how hard it would be and even how quick.
Speaker 4: Like you said earlier, when we cut from him sticking
Speaker 4: up to his brother than him being home at the house,
Speaker 4: the difference of him being out in the world with
Speaker 4: his brother and how protective. But then when he's home,
Speaker 4: he's more irritable because he gets away with a lot
Speaker 4: of stuff right there in front of his face with
Speaker 4: his parents like that is so, that seems like such
Speaker 4: a real thing. I agree, growing up in a family
Speaker 4: like that, we saw it with true confessions.
Speaker 3: Ye Like, it is hard. So my heart was like
Speaker 3: just so empathetic.
Speaker 4: I really couldn't even allow myself to look at him
Speaker 4: too harshly as a dick brother.
Speaker 3: But it definitely starts happening.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you to this point, he does,
Speaker 2: and up to this point I don't disagree with you,
Speaker 2: And they actually address it later which I love?
Speaker 1: Which is?
Speaker 3: And I love how? Yes?
Speaker 1: I love so good.
Speaker 2: Justin now imagines himself riding shotgun in a racing NASCAR
Speaker 2: with his pal god Or Bobby Wade. The the race
Speaker 2: car driver, Bobby yells over the engine that this is
Speaker 2: not the end of the world. Never say die, but
Speaker 2: he breaks it to him Justin might just not be
Speaker 2: cut out for baseball. He continues using cliches to raise
Speaker 2: his spirit, promising Justin his ship will eventually come in.
Speaker 2: Then Justin wakes up from the dream in a cold
Speaker 2: sweat and says chess. A few days later, he's already
Speaker 2: set to play in a tournament at the park. His
Speaker 2: mom drives him in the in the van while his
Speaker 2: dad drives Seth to a doctor's appointment. In the truck,
Speaker 2: Justin thinks something's up with his brother, but his mom
Speaker 2: said it's not an issue, it's just a doctor's visit.
Speaker 2: Once Justin is at the tournament, he lets a woman
Speaker 2: sign him up for the seven to ten division, even
Speaker 2: though he's twelve. Maybe it'll help him win the trophy.
Speaker 2: But in one game, he is crushed and eliminated by
Speaker 2: a larry little kid Like he's like a year. It's
Speaker 2: like a six year old to just goes to check mate.
Speaker 4: Hey, no, shade, there is no way I would be
Speaker 4: in any kind of chess tournament, any kind of great thing,
Speaker 4: especially of the kids that really know what they're doing. Yeh,
Speaker 4: a seven year old could totally kick my mind.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. You have a chess mind
Speaker 1: or you don't have a take it.
Speaker 3: Up, take it up and join it tournament.
Speaker 2: It's like waking up and going singing, I'm gonna be
Speaker 2: a singer. Like, no, that's not how that works. On
Speaker 2: his way out of the park, he passes another competition
Speaker 2: with a huge trophy. It's for an annual car show,
Speaker 2: and Justin notices old man Vic is participating with his Corvette.
Speaker 1: Oh that beautiful car. He told.
Speaker 2: He's told his car is one of the best ones there.
Speaker 2: But he's unlikely to win because local passerby votes is
Speaker 2: the only way to win, and he is not charming
Speaker 2: at all. So Justin decides to help by standing next
Speaker 2: to Vic and getting sympathy as the kid in the wheelchair,
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 1: Know what, it works.
Speaker 2: But at first, Vic isn't willing to trade the trophy
Speaker 2: for the support, but eventually realizes it's the only way
Speaker 2: he'll win.
Speaker 1: While hyping up.
Speaker 2: The cars to voters, he sees doctor Kwan, his family doctor.
Speaker 2: He asks if Seth's okay, but she says she hasn't
Speaker 2: seen him in a while, which in truth can just
Speaker 2: be abiding by the hippo laws I would imagine, but
Speaker 2: it also just confuses I don't have to say anything,
Speaker 2: but I get what she's doing.
Speaker 1: But a confused Justin why did his mom lie to him?
Speaker 2: Vic wins the car show and says they'll mail the
Speaker 2: trophy to him after they engrave Justin's name on it.
Speaker 2: He also explains he doesn't drive the car anymore because
Speaker 2: he gets too nervous it'll be damaged by the city's potholes,
Speaker 2: or by bird poop, or by anything else. And as
Speaker 2: somebody who grew up with a dad who loved cars
Speaker 2: that much, I totally understood what he was saying. The trophy,
Speaker 2: it turns out, I'll take about a week. So Justin
Speaker 2: watches with his binoculars every day as Vic gets his mailed,
Speaker 2: just to make sure he's not being bamboozled.
Speaker 1: Right word. Also, his brother.
Speaker 2: Keeps going to these quote unquote doctor's appointments, so Justin
Speaker 2: decides it's time to do some detective work. He snoops
Speaker 2: around for any doctor paperwork he can find and ends
Speaker 2: up finding strawberry scented massage oil in his parents' room.
Speaker 1: I'm glad it said scented and not flavored. That's all
Speaker 1: I'm going to say about that.
Speaker 2: He also finds the Rollodex and decides to call all
Speaker 2: the doctors in it.
Speaker 1: Until he figures out what his brother is doing. Favorite
Speaker 1: flavor of central massage oil. Go, I'm kidding. We won't
Speaker 1: even go there. We won't do it, so brain.
Speaker 2: Then we are at doctor Kwan's office. Justin is having
Speaker 2: his check up and no headaches. It looks like he
Speaker 2: is all good. Back home, old man Vick is looking
Speaker 2: for Seth, so Justin speeds over to his place, hoping
Speaker 2: for the trophy, but when Vic doesn't come to the door,
Speaker 2: Justin decides to snoop and sees a Bobby Wade poster
Speaker 2: in the garage. He also sees a box way high
Speaker 2: up on the shelf that's marked metal.
Speaker 1: Inside.
Speaker 2: Justin is sure that's the trophy. He finds a broom
Speaker 2: and slowly needles it down and the whole time, I'm
Speaker 2: going no, no, please, no, no, no, no, no please no.
Speaker 1: I mean just trying not to yell at the screen.
Speaker 4: I know it's like, oh my god, no, you cannot
Speaker 4: do this.
Speaker 1: You knew what was going to I knew where it
Speaker 1: was headed, and I just couldn't.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't want to see this happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh so anyway, in the process, what you think
Speaker 2: is going to happen absolutely happens, and the entire shelving
Speaker 2: unit falls, crashing into Vic's beautiful show Corvette and engaging
Speaker 2: a lift that rolls it down the driveway into the
Speaker 2: trash cans.
Speaker 1: I gasped.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh, as I watched this happening, for
Speaker 2: so many reasons, I want him to get in trouble.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to ruin the car. I didn't want
Speaker 1: old man Victim find out I was in it. I
Speaker 1: was in it.
Speaker 4: Oh, I know, I this is I mean again, you
Speaker 4: love this kid so much. Obviously the car is just beautiful,
Speaker 4: but like it's just there's so many things where you're going.
Speaker 3: You just don't want him to get in trouble. I
Speaker 3: know you know where it's going.
Speaker 4: And you're also like what were you thinking you were
Speaker 4: gonna be able to get that big box down At
Speaker 4: the very least, you're gonna like, you're gonna ruin your trophy.
Speaker 3: Your trophy is going to be broken, or.
Speaker 1: Drop it on your own head, or drop it on
Speaker 1: your legs, or drop.
Speaker 2: So many bad ideas all the way around. He's a kid,
Speaker 2: I get it, but those are bad ideas. And just
Speaker 2: like that, family court is back in session. Now it's
Speaker 2: mom and dad on the same side. There is no
Speaker 2: defense team. They double team him. This is a better
Speaker 2: movie than double Team, revealing that the box didn't have
Speaker 2: a trophy in it at all. The jury that appears
Speaker 2: to be just clones of his mom and dad over
Speaker 2: and over again, find him guilty and sentenced him to
Speaker 2: torture in a dungeon and getting burned at the stake.
Speaker 1: But way more importantly.
Speaker 2: He can no longer have Vic's trophy. He'll also work
Speaker 2: for Vic until he pays off all of his damages.
Speaker 2: He immediately starts in with a job, fixing things around
Speaker 2: the house and asking the mysterious neighbor about his shed.
Speaker 1: Vic angrily tells him to keep out of it.
Speaker 2: None of your business, And it's like telling a kid,
Speaker 2: do not go into my magical closet of mystery, where
Speaker 2: it's like, what do you think is going to happen?
Speaker 1: That night in the parents.
Speaker 2: Room, Sheila admits she's disappointed in Justin, but Myron says
Speaker 2: he's just a kid. These things happen. She's off to work,
Speaker 2: but Myron is all horned up. They we get some,
Speaker 2: We get that this is still kind of a young, fun,
Speaker 2: horned up couple since they're finally home alone, but she
Speaker 2: just doesn't have time.
Speaker 1: She got to go sell some buildings. Justin also talks to.
Speaker 2: His brother about the shed. Vic must be hiding something
Speaker 2: major in there. Maybe he is a mass murderer. He
Speaker 2: again fantasizes about visiting God slash Bobby Wade for answers
Speaker 2: or x man.
Speaker 1: I can't even say that.
Speaker 2: Justin admits he always thought that there was a rhyme
Speaker 2: and reason to everything, But why would God stick him
Speaker 2: at old man Vix. It's getting tougher and tougher to
Speaker 2: defend God. He needs something to work with here. The
Speaker 2: next morning, he's right back at Vic's on a hot day,
Speaker 2: and his new boss brings him milk and cookies as
Speaker 2: a snack.
Speaker 1: But Justin is scared to eat them.
Speaker 2: Justin explains his condition to Vic, revealing a laisse fair
Speaker 2: attitude about death, which actually kind of impresses Vic. Vic
Speaker 2: has some errands to run and trust Justin to keep
Speaker 2: things cool while he's gone, which he would, but that
Speaker 2: shed keeps calling to him. Once alone, Justin wheels his
Speaker 2: way over and looks inside, and we can see that
Speaker 2: it is filled with racing trophies. He can't believe his eyes.
Speaker 2: They're all for the Soapbox Derby Races and engrave with
Speaker 2: the name Rebecca Saunders. We see an actual soapbox car
Speaker 2: and pictures of his wife and daughter. There's also a
Speaker 2: perfectly set up projector for Justin to watch Vic's home movies.
Speaker 2: We see footage of races and a very animated Vic
Speaker 2: with his daughter, certainly a different man than we know today.
Speaker 1: And then Vic walks into the shed and screams, get
Speaker 1: off of my property. Oh and you knew it was
Speaker 1: going to be caught, and you knew it was coming,
Speaker 1: and I was nervous for him. And that's another reason
Speaker 1: I knew I was into this movie. I was like,
Speaker 1: don't get caught, don't get caught.
Speaker 4: Oh man, and then you see it's it's the whole
Speaker 4: visual too, where he's sitting there watching and you see
Speaker 4: Vic's big body right in the shadow. We go hide,
Speaker 4: but you can't.
Speaker 3: Justin can't easily hide.
Speaker 1: No, of course.
Speaker 3: Awful.
Speaker 2: He's very emotional, obviously, Vic and kicks Justin off of
Speaker 2: this property. At dinner, Justin suggests to the family that
Speaker 2: they take turns telling each other about their unusual days.
Speaker 2: But as his dad starts to explain about some giant
Speaker 2: science lab that they got, Justin can't contain himself anymore.
Speaker 2: He just wants to soap Bucks Derby race. If they
Speaker 2: say yes, he will never ask for anything again. His
Speaker 2: parents say they'll need to check it out make sure
Speaker 2: that it's safe, but no family court needed here.
Speaker 1: He can do it.
Speaker 2: Just admits he got the idea from Vic, and his
Speaker 2: parents suggest Vic mentor him. Justina greenes, but we know
Speaker 2: this might be a problem with the series of events
Speaker 2: that just took place at his house. While the kids
Speaker 2: clean up, Sheila says she's in the mood for strawberries.
Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. I was
Speaker 3: like gonna let it go. I put it down in
Speaker 3: Sabina seas, we've got strawberry lube in a d Comya's insane?
Speaker 1: Is it lube?
Speaker 2: Let's okay, let's break this gask No, I want to
Speaker 2: break Is it lub or is it massage oil?
Speaker 1: Because those are two different things?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like, because why would your lube need to
Speaker 2: be strawberry?
Speaker 3: I don't know why it would need to be strawberry.
Speaker 3: I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 4: I just it's just inappropriate and just not okay that
Speaker 4: it's in this dcom.
Speaker 3: It is the one flaw that actually ends up happening.
Speaker 4: And then if you didn't care and you just let
Speaker 4: it go, as I did. I cared, but like I
Speaker 4: was gonna let it go, and they brought it back
Speaker 4: up in a sexual way, like.
Speaker 3: They've been the mood for some strawberries, like.
Speaker 4: Ew, mom, oh, could you imagine after finding that, hearing
Speaker 4: your mom say that, let me barf everywhere?
Speaker 3: I will die.
Speaker 2: I'm dying to know what other flavors they went through
Speaker 2: first to land on strawberry. Anyway, Yes, we've still got
Speaker 2: very very horny parents and a very red sabrina.
Speaker 3: I mean they already had.
Speaker 4: I was in one of my I'm gonna say now,
Speaker 4: it was like that was the most like very overtly sexual.
Speaker 4: Brought me back to Chirsty Collins and Romano's kiss in
Speaker 4: her movie parents had at the very beginning, just like
Speaker 4: massive little makeout session.
Speaker 2: Oh there you go, Strawberry God, we'll move on. That night,
Speaker 2: cethswigs some medicine for his stomach aches. He blames pressure
Speaker 2: for the pain. He's stressed, but he doesn't want to
Speaker 2: talk about it. In the morning, Justin gets dressed up
Speaker 2: and borrows his mom's cookies to go to Vic's house.
Speaker 2: He immediately apologizes for sneaking into the shed and Vic
Speaker 2: very nicely forgives him, and then Justin broaches the subject
Speaker 2: of soapbox racing and Vic immediately says no. Justin explains
Speaker 2: this might be the only chance he has to be
Speaker 2: good at something and Vic can teach him. He just
Speaker 2: wants help getting started. Vic says he'll think about it.
Speaker 2: The next thing you know, we're at a neighborhood amateur soapbox race.
Speaker 2: Vic has brought Myron Seth and Justin to scope out
Speaker 2: the practice run.
Speaker 1: Seth thinks you just sit in the car and do nothing.
Speaker 2: That's not a sport, but Vic brings him to the
Speaker 2: pits and explains the complexity of steering and how conditions
Speaker 2: of the course and the weight of the driver are key.
Speaker 2: Since Seth isn't heavy, it gives him a lot of
Speaker 2: weight to play with. Vic knows all the intricate tricks
Speaker 2: and warns them don't ever inspect another racer's car.
Speaker 1: It's just not done.
Speaker 2: And this is another thing that I loved about this
Speaker 2: movie that they do in several other movies, and I'll
Speaker 2: talk about a little later too, but one of the
Speaker 2: things I love that Disney Channel can do is they
Speaker 2: find these micro worlds.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of microworlds. I love them.
Speaker 2: I've talked about them before and something like soapbox racing
Speaker 2: is a world where if you're in it, it's probably
Speaker 2: your whole life, and if you're not in it, you
Speaker 2: don't know anything about it, right, And so I love
Speaker 2: when they find these little microworlds, and then they spend
Speaker 2: a scene or two where somebody, as the audience surrogate,
Speaker 2: explains exactly what you need to know, and it's like,
Speaker 2: you don't do this, you don't do that, No, you
Speaker 2: want to do this. Here's the materials that are used,
Speaker 2: here's the stuff, and it was one again.
Speaker 1: Once again.
Speaker 2: I was just like, boom, check another box of how
Speaker 2: great this movie is microworld.
Speaker 1: Check explaining everything about it. Check you know what's.
Speaker 3: Great about it?
Speaker 4: Though, because this was exactly how we felt about jump
Speaker 4: in with that Microworld. Is that because you don't know anything,
Speaker 4: you're a very you don't question it either, right, they
Speaker 4: say it's one way. It makes it so easy to
Speaker 4: keep going because you don't know any better, so you
Speaker 4: just go with it, and it makes the watch just
Speaker 4: like seamless, which is what I really love about the
Speaker 4: microworlds that they've used here.
Speaker 1: I agree with you one thousand percent.
Speaker 4: This was I mean it could be different, Like could
Speaker 4: you imagine somebody who actually grew up in this world
Speaker 4: and mean like that's not how they do right, you know,
Speaker 4: you know, like like you like me and you feel
Speaker 4: like we know, like oh you don't get pushed At
Speaker 4: the beginning, we talk about the kids release like we
Speaker 4: we're pros now, we want one movie.
Speaker 1: One movie, right, we know everything, Like.
Speaker 4: There could be somebody who's like no, you fully like
Speaker 4: it's your person that's behind you has to be big
Speaker 4: in buff and brush you who knows?
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but having any.
Speaker 3: Idea makes it so easy, and I love it.
Speaker 1: I'm here.
Speaker 2: Justin finds his way over to a gravity car with
Speaker 2: flames on it. Really cool car being dusted off by
Speaker 2: a cute curl driver. She says she's not allowed to
Speaker 2: talk to the competition, but Justin explains he's.
Speaker 1: Not a driver yet. Her advice for winning, which is great,
Speaker 1: is never to face her. She's a bat.
Speaker 2: Seth calls the driver's losers spelled correctly in this movie,
Speaker 2: but his dad says it looks like a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Womp womp. Jerk. Brother Vic says he's love that. Vic
Speaker 1: says he.
Speaker 2: Got Justin started, the rest is up to him, but
Speaker 2: Justin doesn't want to just start.
Speaker 1: He wants to win.
Speaker 2: He has to win. Vic says he can't do it
Speaker 2: again and gets emotional when Justin pushed. He asked Justin
Speaker 2: to just let him be and leaves. Back at the house,
Speaker 2: Myron is helping Justin assemble a car and it's not easy.
Speaker 2: While over in vic shed Vick is watching the old
Speaker 2: film Reel Now and crying. He finally faces his own heartache.
Speaker 2: Great scene after great scene, Justin and his dad get
Speaker 2: into the groove and have started the rear axle. But
Speaker 2: guess who shows up. That's right, it's Vic. He says
Speaker 2: he's just returning the cookie tin and has things to do,
Speaker 2: but immediately has thoughts on how to drill the holes.
Speaker 2: He starts giving expert advice and grabs a tool.
Speaker 1: He is now in. Myron and Justin are so happy,
Speaker 1: but Seth, he watches from Afar.
Speaker 2: Snickers and shakes his head inside the house and again
Speaker 2: I was waiting for the scene, and I understood it.
Speaker 2: Seth complains to his mom. Suddenly his dad can postpone
Speaker 2: his painting jobs.
Speaker 1: It all stinks. Shila tells him.
Speaker 2: This is finally Justin's time to shine, and Seth kind
Speaker 2: of starts to understand. But I also get the he
Speaker 2: can give up everything to make a race car for
Speaker 2: my brother, but he can't come to a single.
Speaker 1: One of my games. I get that.
Speaker 2: Later that night, Myron is still working on sketches for
Speaker 2: the racer. He needs to figure out a way for
Speaker 2: Justin to break since he can't use his feet. Seth,
Speaker 2: who appears wearing his baseball uniform exactly like we're just
Speaker 2: talking about makes his dad promise to come to his
Speaker 2: big game, and of course Myron swears that he'll meet
Speaker 2: them there. And when Myron finally does give up work
Speaker 2: for the night and jumps in the van for the game,
Speaker 2: the parking break gives him an idea he's figured it out.
Speaker 2: At the same time, Seth is having a killer game
Speaker 2: but notices his dad isn't there. Myron is actually back
Speaker 2: at work with Vic in the garage on the handbreak,
Speaker 2: which is something that actually invented in real life for Justin.
Speaker 2: But I was sitting there going like, oh, dude, dude,
Speaker 2: come on, no, you promised your son will celebrating the idea,
Speaker 2: Myron realizes he's missing Seth's game, and by the time
Speaker 2: he gets.
Speaker 1: To the field, they've already left. It was so sad.
Speaker 1: How did you.
Speaker 3: Feel about that?
Speaker 4: I mean, it felt like you could obviously see it
Speaker 4: was coming, and it was like, you're about to really,
Speaker 4: this is not going to be good, dad, this is
Speaker 4: not And but at the same time you feel for
Speaker 4: the dad character because he's just so excited that his son,
Speaker 4: who has not really ever been able to fully participate
Speaker 4: in anything, finally has something, you know, right, and when
Speaker 4: he says, you know, Justin's counting on me, when he
Speaker 4: says that to his wife, it's like, I think at
Speaker 4: that point it would have been obviously this wouldn't havebeyed
Speaker 4: as great of a movie and had as much depth,
Speaker 4: But at that point it would have been like, all right,
Speaker 4: you know what, tonight, I'm not going to make it.
Speaker 3: And that's when you conquer and divide, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going to go to baseball.
Speaker 4: I'm going to do this, but your kids know you
Speaker 4: cannot show up for him, because it is just devastating,
Speaker 4: and it made me think, I don't think. I can't think.
Speaker 4: There's only one time of when my parents were no,
Speaker 4: not even one time they were out on a trip,
Speaker 4: a business trip. There's not very many times when my
Speaker 4: parents didn't show up. So it made me really that
Speaker 4: hit hard because I'm like, I had parents that were
Speaker 4: there all the time, no matter what busy schedules, they
Speaker 4: they got there.
Speaker 3: So it's just like to.
Speaker 4: Not have that for him, and he's already had such
Speaker 4: a hard time with his brother. I mean, I've got
Speaker 4: so much feelings for this kid.
Speaker 1: I I get it. You can see why he's why
Speaker 1: he's there and.
Speaker 4: Knowing that this is real life, like ye, like yeah,
Speaker 4: that people have to go through when they've got a
Speaker 4: sibling who's got a lot of things that their parents
Speaker 4: have to attend you.
Speaker 2: It seems like, and again I'm not speaking from any
Speaker 2: form of experience whatsoever, but from the people that have
Speaker 2: dealt with it, it seems like a lot of your
Speaker 2: childhood has to go away pretty quickly because you all
Speaker 2: have to live for somebody else, and it's selfless, and
Speaker 2: it's can be wonderful for the other person, but that's
Speaker 2: also got to.
Speaker 1: Be a really difficult thing. And they and they address it, which.
Speaker 3: I like, yes, because they're human. They're human, of.
Speaker 1: Course for everybody.
Speaker 2: That night, of course, Sheila is very disappointed in Myron.
Speaker 2: Seth pitched a no hitter. Myron tries to apologize to
Speaker 2: Seth and says he never knew if it would be
Speaker 2: harder being the kid in the wheelchair or being that kid's.
Speaker 1: Brother, which is exactly what we're just talking about.
Speaker 2: He always dreamt his kids would play ball and ride bikes,
Speaker 2: but all that changed when Justin was born. He wants
Speaker 2: to be the best dad, but it was all new territory.
Speaker 2: He always thought if he couldn't cheer for both his sons.
Speaker 2: He couldn't cheer for either, which is why he misses games.
Speaker 2: Seth is still offended in storms off. Great acting scene
Speaker 2: here by both of them. Rick Rossovich kills it again.
Speaker 2: We're watching a Disney Channel movie and it was just great,
Speaker 2: really really good.
Speaker 4: I mean, Dad, that seems like something you tell your therapist,
Speaker 4: not actually to your son.
Speaker 3: That was a harsh.
Speaker 2: It was, but I also get the vulnerability of I
Speaker 2: want to tell you what I've been going through, like
Speaker 2: this is why fourteen.
Speaker 3: That's a lot to put on your kid, Like, oh,
Speaker 3: I agree, I agree.
Speaker 4: Still, I mean it just made the movie so good.
Speaker 4: And again we hit that part that you were saying
Speaker 4: earlier of these two parents being vulnerable and opening up
Speaker 4: and showing like, look, I can look back on it
Speaker 4: now and see I might have not handled this correctly.
Speaker 1: And I'm doing my best. I'm figuring this.
Speaker 3: Same, I'm trying my hardest.
Speaker 1: Like agree.
Speaker 2: The next day, Myron puts Justin in the unpainted racer
Speaker 2: for the very first time. Vick and Schiller are set
Speaker 2: up with walkie talkies to help they push him off,
Speaker 2: and it's shaky from the start. He has trouble with
Speaker 2: the steering and crashes into a tree. Everyone rushing to
Speaker 2: the car, fearing he's injured. They carry him back to
Speaker 2: the wheelchair and realize it wasn't his fault. Someone crossed
Speaker 2: the wires, and of course Justin knows who did it.
Speaker 2: He confronts his brother, who's hanging with his friends. Justin
Speaker 2: knows he's the culprit, but Seth doesn't know what he's
Speaker 2: talking about. Justin calls him jealous, but Seth says his
Speaker 2: brother couldn't win even if he wanted. The argument intensifies
Speaker 2: when Justin says he may be crippled, but at least
Speaker 2: he's not crazy, exposing that the weekly doctor's appointments are
Speaker 2: actually to see a therapist. He says his brother is
Speaker 2: nuts and a cuckoo. There was such a stigma on
Speaker 2: even going to therapy back in the day. Go get
Speaker 2: your therapy on everybody, it's good for you.
Speaker 4: But this is the first time we've heard it at all.
Speaker 4: In any of the d coms we've watched, they've not
Speaker 4: touched on actually going to theybe you.
Speaker 3: Know, I mean, and you're going wow like that.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 2: Have we not even seen it in the newer ones
Speaker 2: like Prompact or any of the ones where obviously there's
Speaker 2: no stigma around going to a therapist anymore.
Speaker 1: Have they not addressed it in any of the new I.
Speaker 3: Could absolutely be wrong, I've.
Speaker 1: Got I don't think you are. I can't think of the.
Speaker 4: Whole memory, But I don't think that we've seen any
Speaker 4: of these movies talk about going to somewhere where you
Speaker 4: can discuss what's going on and get your help that way.
Speaker 3: So this is.
Speaker 4: Again here we are seeing Disney opening up and an
Speaker 4: option bringing something to the forefront for kids.
Speaker 3: How many parents were watching this?
Speaker 4: Yeah, going, you know, just bringing that to making it
Speaker 4: a normal, okay thing to do?
Speaker 1: It would have been nice.
Speaker 2: I had they added a couple of lines later on
Speaker 2: about needing it or it you know it's necessary, or
Speaker 2: you should go.
Speaker 1: They kind of brush it.
Speaker 4: But at the end, when when we see the end
Speaker 4: result of like that that had helped him come.
Speaker 1: To that, I agree, Yeah, which would have been.
Speaker 3: Really great and just hit it real hard, but I agree.
Speaker 2: So Seth is obviously very hurt that this is now
Speaker 2: public and tells his brother to shut up, eventually rushing
Speaker 2: at him. He's stopped by his friends, but blames Justin
Speaker 2: for bad vacations and always being broke. He says he
Speaker 2: hates his brother and wishes he was dead, and then
Speaker 2: runs inside of the house. Very intense, also a very
Speaker 2: real kind of fight. And my only criticism of this movie,
Speaker 2: and it is a criticism with the smallest ce in
Speaker 2: the world, is they never really address this fight.
Speaker 1: They have it and then they move on.
Speaker 2: And part of me says, that's true to life, Like
Speaker 2: between brothers, you fight like this and then you just
Speaker 2: wake up the next day and you pretend it never happens.
Speaker 2: So part of me is like, dude, that's the way
Speaker 2: it was. Part of me is like, man, they made
Speaker 2: a big deal of this scene. It would have been
Speaker 2: nice had they addressed it a bit, but they kind
Speaker 2: of do at the end in a way they address
Speaker 2: it without addressing it, and.
Speaker 1: It worked for me. So it's not even a criticism.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a little like, oh, okay, we're are now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it was that was a that was a
Speaker 2: lowed abrupt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a great scene.
Speaker 1: Great crazy See.
Speaker 4: I thought the friends were good in it too, like
Speaker 4: just they look so real, like so shocked.
Speaker 3: Like what the hell.
Speaker 2: Just I agree.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do right now. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm just going to stand here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, crazy.
Speaker 3: The scene was so good, so good.
Speaker 1: It was really really good.
Speaker 2: Justin knows his brother won't speak to him now, so
Speaker 2: he returns to god Slash Bobby Wade's garage, but he's
Speaker 2: nowhere to be found. We're now at the South Bend
Speaker 2: Local Race. Justin feels bad about what he said to Seth,
Speaker 2: especially since he realized the wire mix up was actually
Speaker 2: his dad's mistake. His confidence is low for the first competition.
Speaker 2: The car is now painted with a little red and
Speaker 2: candy cane. After dinner, Mint look looks kind of cool.
Speaker 2: The race starts in Justin speed's down the street. He
Speaker 2: thinks he's going to crash and wonders why he did
Speaker 2: all this at all, But in the end he does finish.
Speaker 2: He doesn't win, but he finishes. Everyone is very excited,
Speaker 2: especially Justin. Seth though is unmoved, apparently forced to attend
Speaker 2: and reading a book in the stands. And then we
Speaker 2: get my favorite, a good old fashioned montage. That's how
Speaker 2: we know someone is training and getting better. In a
Speaker 2: dcom Justin his family and Vic compete in race after race,
Speaker 2: getting better each time. Seth is just as Poudy in
Speaker 2: every city that they go to. Justin even ends up
Speaker 2: winning a race. Practice is making perfect, but he still
Speaker 2: doesn't have a trophy. It's the last race of the
Speaker 2: season and this is his last chance. If Justin wins today,
Speaker 2: he qualifies for nationals in Akron.
Speaker 1: That's Ohio people.
Speaker 2: While getting the Soapac's ready, Myron and Sheila talk about
Speaker 2: their expectations. She's worried he won't win, but Myron says,
Speaker 2: even if he doesn't win, it's his first year. Sheila
Speaker 2: just doesn't want it to be his last, and Myron
Speaker 2: promises to behave And I loved the every moment between
Speaker 2: the parents as well.
Speaker 1: The kid's stuff was great, the parents stuff was great.
Speaker 1: It was just good.
Speaker 2: It is now the Tri State Regional finals and there
Speaker 2: are some bad news. Justin is in a lot of pain.
Speaker 2: His head is hurting and he's trying to focus on
Speaker 2: the trophy. Vic is concerned, but nothing is going to
Speaker 2: stop Justin. It's time to race on your mark, get
Speaker 2: set go. Justin is speeding down the course, but now
Speaker 2: having vision issues, he's fading fast. And eventually passes out,
Speaker 2: crashing into some barrels of Hey. His parents rush to
Speaker 2: the car, and so does Seth. Justin is unconscious and
Speaker 2: they have to call an ambulance. My heart was in
Speaker 2: my chest. Well that makes no sense. My heart was
Speaker 2: in my throat. My heart is always in my chest.
Speaker 1: There you go. At the hospital, his family and Vic
Speaker 1: wait for word.
Speaker 2: Doctor Kuana arrives and says he's stable, and they drain
Speaker 2: the fluid, but his shunt needs to be replaced again.
Speaker 2: He's going to be all right. He got there just
Speaker 2: in time. But the doctor doesn't get why he ignored
Speaker 2: all the signs that his shunt and everything were malfunctioning
Speaker 2: and that he was in a pretty dangerous way.
Speaker 1: They all know it was due to his passion to win.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, in the hospital bed, Justin is visited by God
Speaker 2: or Bobby Ray or X Man.
Speaker 1: But this time it's I have to say it. But
Speaker 1: this time it's not an epiphany.
Speaker 2: It's actually him right there in the flesh, wearing a
Speaker 2: large leather jacket. Old man Vic was one of his
Speaker 2: old mechanics and told him Justin was a natural. Bobby
Speaker 2: plays along, asking for driving tips. Justin tells him to focus. Meanwhile,
Speaker 2: back at the Yoder's house, a maname Randall Gray from
Speaker 2: the All American Soapbox Derby calls and Seth answers while
Speaker 2: he's leaving a message. Myron and Sheila visit Justin at
Speaker 2: the hospital after what is now his twenty fifth surgery.
Speaker 2: He's happy to hear the doctor said he's as good
Speaker 2: as new, but bum that he lost the race. Justin
Speaker 2: knows he has to be safer, but says racing is
Speaker 2: the best thing that has ever happened to him. He
Speaker 2: was so close, and now at the tips Bobby Wade
Speaker 2: gave him, he's a lock. His parents are concerned Bobby Wade,
Speaker 2: he's hallucinating now what's going on? They don't believe Bobby
Speaker 2: Wade was ever at the hospital. Isn't this something they
Speaker 2: could just have asked a nurse about or somebody would
Speaker 2: have seen Anyway. When they do finally get Justin home,
Speaker 2: Seth tells him no one called because he's at this point,
Speaker 2: unfortunately acting like a big kind of jerk. We don't
Speaker 2: know why, but we're like, ooh, what's going on? Thank
Speaker 2: God though the beginning, or thank Bobby Wade that the
Speaker 2: beginning of Randall, Gray's message was still on the answering machine. Eventually,
Speaker 2: Seth admits the kid who beat Justin had to drop
Speaker 2: out and they want Justin to take his place. Myron
Speaker 2: and Sheila jump up and down. How glorious. Justin can't
Speaker 2: believe he's going to nash, but Seth can't believe they're
Speaker 2: letting him race again, and darts off for his room.
Speaker 2: He has followed close behind his dad, who barges into
Speaker 2: the room and yells at the top of his.
Speaker 1: Lungs Seth, what's going on. It's a good clip.
Speaker 2: Myron calls his older son selfish, and Seth says, fine,
Speaker 2: let him crash again. He reveals he's actually afraid he's
Speaker 2: going to die. Every time Justin goes to the hospital,
Speaker 2: he may never come back. It's very sad. It is
Speaker 2: a great scene. His dad hugs him and they cry together.
Speaker 2: Have you cried by nine times by this point in
Speaker 2: the movie?
Speaker 4: Yes, I was like, I mean, the crash was just
Speaker 4: it was like, oh my, I'm going this is gonna
Speaker 4: turn into such a crazy movie.
Speaker 3: I'm never gonna see this kid race again.
Speaker 4: I just oh and then and then you could see
Speaker 4: the gut wrenching just I mean, it was just so
Speaker 4: good in the hospital too, of his brother, like looking
Speaker 4: like he really thought that this could be it, you know,
Speaker 4: and having you know again, you would think in a
Speaker 4: real life situation that many kids go through, you have
Speaker 4: this anger and resentment and then things go down a
Speaker 4: bad path for their health and the amount of guilt
Speaker 4: and just man upsetness that kid would go through because
Speaker 4: of the last thing that you might have said to
Speaker 4: your sibling, just because you were frustrated, but you had.
Speaker 3: A reason to be, you know.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh my god, I'm just like all of
Speaker 4: the zabby mess. Jordan's down going what the hell are
Speaker 4: you watching?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, did you ever see this movie? Jordan?
Speaker 3: He goes, yeah, wasn't it good? Like I think the
Speaker 3: kid wins at the end. I'm like, I haven't gone
Speaker 3: there yet. I don't remember, but oh oh, it's crazy.
Speaker 1: It's such a good movie.
Speaker 2: It is now the morning of the regionals and we
Speaker 2: hear a honk. It's Vic and his vintage Corvette. He's
Speaker 2: finally driving it to escort justin to the race. A
Speaker 2: woman even passes by.
Speaker 1: And flirt with them.
Speaker 2: More hony parents Vic finally tells Justin the story of
Speaker 2: his daughter. She died a week before the Nationals in
Speaker 2: a swimming accident, and his wife died a year later
Speaker 2: from what he thinks is a broken heart.
Speaker 1: He wanted to die too, but never had the courage.
Speaker 1: He just closed himself off from the world. That is
Speaker 1: until Justin came along.
Speaker 2: It's the best thing that could have happened to him.
Speaker 2: Justin has been an inspiration for him. He's even driving
Speaker 2: his prize possession again.
Speaker 1: So sweet.
Speaker 2: They arrive at the big race and Akron and it
Speaker 2: is packed. They spot Bill Gunman, a three time champion
Speaker 2: coach who has a cool satin team jacket and yes,
Speaker 2: this is the small part played by Joel McKinnon Miller.
Speaker 2: Justin's racer is now painted purple with the name Justin
Speaker 2: Time printed on the side. Sheila also made him a uniform.
Speaker 2: It's time for practice and he only gets one trial heat,
Speaker 2: but lucky for him, he has the fastest time of
Speaker 2: the day. It's only a trial run, but it caught
Speaker 2: the attention of Gunman and his racer. His daughter, the
Speaker 2: cute girl from the beginning of the movie that Justin
Speaker 2: talked to so long ago, about racing. So Gunman does
Speaker 2: something we know is universally frowned upon in specs Justin's
Speaker 2: race car. His daughter's definitely not into it, but he
Speaker 2: says he didn't blow twenty grand to come in second.
Speaker 2: That night, the Yoda team drops golf balls down the
Speaker 2: course to see how they move. It helps him realize
Speaker 2: slopes and witch lanes to focus on.
Speaker 1: Very interesting.
Speaker 4: I don't know how because there were like seven thousand
Speaker 4: golf how could you even like, I couldn't have been
Speaker 4: concentrated on any sex section.
Speaker 2: No, but the scene they also kept yelling stay in
Speaker 2: your lane.
Speaker 1: So don't you have to stay in your own lane?
Speaker 1: You can't go across to the other lanes.
Speaker 3: Hey, why are they bouncing? Why wouldn't they roll them?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I was so confused.
Speaker 4: I'm like, listen, but again, I'm in this, Like it
Speaker 4: seems like obviously if they put it in the movie.
Speaker 1: It's gotta mean something little. We just don't know. This
Speaker 1: is like a thing agreed, you know, it's agreed.
Speaker 2: He equated it to reading a green in golf, which
Speaker 2: is which is really an interesting way.
Speaker 1: To do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in the morning, while the family is getting ready.
Speaker 2: Bobby Wade appears on the TV. A reporter asks the
Speaker 2: racing legend for his strategy, and he actually out the
Speaker 2: bedpen he took from Justin and shouts out Justin. He
Speaker 2: even wishes him luck at the Natural, even wishes him
Speaker 2: luck at the National. See he isn't crazy, Mom and Dad.
Speaker 2: Then there's a knock at the door. It's an official
Speaker 2: from the race. It's been brought to their attention that
Speaker 2: Justin's carr has a handbreak, and the rules clearly state
Speaker 2: that only foot breaks are permitted, even though Justin's paralyzed.
Speaker 1: They have strict rules. They're willing to take his special.
Speaker 2: Circumstances into consideration for a hearing, but they let you
Speaker 2: know that they're probably not going to root in his favor.
Speaker 2: The family has devastated and Vic is furious. Seth's stomach
Speaker 2: is bothering him again, so he decides to stay in
Speaker 2: the hotel room. Before Justin leaves for the hearing, he
Speaker 2: asks Seth if he's happy now. Justin just wanted one
Speaker 2: opportunity to be like him, and now it's not possible. Ugh.
Speaker 2: At the committee hearing, Vic and his family argue that
Speaker 2: the handbreak gives no advantage. You don't actually use the
Speaker 2: breaks until you cross the finish line. But the officials
Speaker 2: argue that if they let this slide, anything.
Speaker 1: Can be brought into question.
Speaker 2: Sheila argues for inclusivity, but the committee has heard enough.
Speaker 2: It's time to vote, and just they're about to outlaw
Speaker 2: the adjustment in walk seth with an objection. For the
Speaker 2: last two hours, he's called every newspaper, TV show, and
Speaker 2: news outlet in the area and they all are here
Speaker 2: for the decision. He opens the door and a ton
Speaker 2: of very busy cameramen walk in asking inaudible questions, and
Speaker 2: with that, of course, the committee allows the handbreak. And
Speaker 2: now it's the day of Justin's first race of the Nationals.
Speaker 2: On your mark, get set Goo. It's nose to nose
Speaker 2: until the end when Justin pulls off a win. One
Speaker 2: race down, twenty three to go, and then we get yeah,
Speaker 2: another montage my favorite, because there's just not enough time
Speaker 2: to show twenty three races. Justin continues to win, logging
Speaker 2: better and better times each race. But Gutman's car is
Speaker 2: also very impressive, and this is where we see the
Speaker 2: real life Justin Yoder cheering in the stands that you
Speaker 2: recognize him.
Speaker 1: I did you have me too? With both cars on
Speaker 1: winning streaks.
Speaker 2: Justin is now set to face Gutman's daughter in the finals,
Speaker 2: and he's crushing on her. When he finally approaches her,
Speaker 2: she remembers him and says he's awesome. He offers her
Speaker 2: a cookie, which I like to think we're actually poisoned.
Speaker 2: He was trying to level the field off, but she
Speaker 2: doesn't need it. Her dad calls her over, making sure
Speaker 2: she stays away from the enemy, and it's finally here,
Speaker 2: the last race, a chance for the trophy. Right before
Speaker 2: it starts, Seth walks over, leans down and lets Justin
Speaker 2: know in case you flame out and we never talk again.
Speaker 2: You're the most amazing person I know. You never complain
Speaker 2: with everything you faced, win or lose your my hero. Weirdly,
Speaker 2: Gutman's daughter also trash talks him once again, brainwashed by
Speaker 2: her dad, and I dead inside the robot that I
Speaker 2: am started to cry ridiculously.
Speaker 3: Oh that's the little brother.
Speaker 2: And you will Not only did I cry here and
Speaker 2: later in the movie. I cried later explaining to Sue
Speaker 2: why I was crying.
Speaker 1: I was RelA and we'll get to that.
Speaker 4: I was relaying, Oh my god, anyway, I was, I
Speaker 4: just on and I honestly, but then I had a
Speaker 4: good chuckle when she said you're, uh, you're gonna eat
Speaker 4: my dust or what was her line. I'll find it
Speaker 4: because I wrote it down because it was like, I'm like,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, she's such a cute, funny.
Speaker 1: Little she did.
Speaker 2: She's still trash shocking him. Uh, but oh it was
Speaker 2: so great. So the starting gate is yes, crying like
Speaker 2: a baby. Yet by this point, the starting gate is
Speaker 2: finally cleared and the cars are off. Barely an inch
Speaker 2: separates the two competitors. Justin is focused on what his
Speaker 2: brother told him. Even if he doesn't win the trophy.
Speaker 2: After hearing something as heartfelt as that, what does he care?
Speaker 2: But he does have that empty shelf. He speeds up
Speaker 2: and beats her in a photo finish. His car is
Speaker 2: surrounded by fans as the family celebrates and Gutman rubs
Speaker 2: his flat top in anger. Justin has announced as a
Speaker 2: new champion and handed his very first trophy. Even Gutman's
Speaker 2: daughter is clapping, promising she'll be back. Though we're now
Speaker 2: back at the Oder House, Myron is playing basketball.
Speaker 1: Seth By the way.
Speaker 2: This is another great thing that I thought that they
Speaker 2: did was very subtle in this.
Speaker 1: The movie opens with.
Speaker 2: Justin narrating about his family and his brother and closes
Speaker 2: out here with his brother narrating about his little brother
Speaker 2: in the race. And it was such a wonderful book.
Speaker 2: Nd it was such a little thing, but.
Speaker 1: It was awesome.
Speaker 2: So yes, we are back at the Oder House. Myron
Speaker 2: is playing basketball with Seth, with Justin once again watching
Speaker 2: from inside, but now he's not sad, He's smiling.
Speaker 1: He wheels over.
Speaker 2: To his shelf, now with a huge regional trophy taking
Speaker 2: up space, He once again transports himself back to God
Speaker 2: or Bobby Wade. He thanks his spiritual mentor for a
Speaker 2: great plan, but he has one more question. When people
Speaker 2: get to heaven, are they you know?
Speaker 1: Perfect?
Speaker 2: That's when God or Bobby Wade asks if he'd like
Speaker 2: to see then opens a huge silver door exposing tons
Speaker 2: of flying wheelchairs in heavenly sky.
Speaker 1: The effects aren't aren't great, but I didn't care.
Speaker 2: I was balling by that point, Justin says perfect, and
Speaker 2: before the credits roll, we see real home video footage
Speaker 2: of Justin. We learned because of Justin national clubs have
Speaker 2: pledged to include disabled and economically disadvantaged kids in their competitions,
Speaker 2: and the break that was allowed is now and forever
Speaker 2: known as the Justin Break, and that is our movie. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that when he opens the I'm trying to explain
Speaker 2: to Sue like I'm crying, and he opens the opens
Speaker 2: Heaven to show all these little kids in wheelchairs as angels,
Speaker 2: and I started crying again, and then Sue started crying as.
Speaker 1: I'm just explaining it to her. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go watch the football.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, so unbelievable. Let's do some real reviews before
Speaker 2: I start to cry again. So I have the five
Speaker 2: star review this week, and it is by well ironically
Speaker 2: Zaan O five.
Speaker 1: Since it's the five star review.
Speaker 2: Disney Channel has another winner. This was a cute family film.
Speaker 2: It shows that the underdog can rise to the top
Speaker 2: and win the prize. Of course, it didn't hurt to
Speaker 2: have Frankie Munez as a star. He is a likable
Speaker 2: and talented young actor. I agree with every word of
Speaker 2: that three word five star.
Speaker 1: Sabrina, you got the one star this week.
Speaker 4: I got the one star from our friend who named unnamed,
Speaker 4: but this was listed as super reviewer on Rotten Tomatoes. Okay,
Speaker 4: here we go the inspirational movie. The inspirational movies have
Speaker 4: a reverse effect on me. They make me lose hope
Speaker 4: for mankind.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm glad you stay. Do you stay? Do Nomad?
Speaker 2: Because you didn't want to put your name. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: rename you though, and it's just gonna be Dick. So
Speaker 2: thanks for the one star review, Dick.
Speaker 1: We are now coming to.
Speaker 2: Sabrina's favorite part of the program, of course, our feature presentation,
Speaker 2: or what we like to refer to as the Jensen Chronicles.
Speaker 2: This week we have one that's called Thank You for
Speaker 2: Our Sponsors. God Or Bobby Wade is depicted in this
Speaker 2: film as the world's best NASCAR driver. Sport is known
Speaker 2: for its warm embrace of sponsors, with most of the
Speaker 2: cars covered in dozens of corporate logos. We will get
Speaker 2: a company and we have to decide if they've ever
Speaker 2: been a NASCAR sponsor. It's just a yes or no.
Speaker 2: If we get three out of five, we win. First
Speaker 2: one depends undergarments. Yes, I'm gonna say yes too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is totally their demo. Like NASCAR, the answer
Speaker 3: is yes.
Speaker 1: Yay.
Speaker 2: By the way, we've got producer Kara helping us out
Speaker 2: this week because producer Jensen knows we're gonna Winensen. Number
Speaker 2: two Bordeaux butt paste that sounds made up?
Speaker 1: Is that a real thing? That's the thing.
Speaker 4: Yes, if it's the brand, I'm I actually buy it.
Speaker 4: Sometimes it's a brand that you use, like for diaper
Speaker 4: it's like a diaper paste.
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not for adults, it's not. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say no, what are you gonna say?
Speaker 3: This is like it's hard.
Speaker 4: So these are okay, go with your guts.
Speaker 3: It would it really makes sense. I'm gonna say no
Speaker 3: to Oh you should have sucks your answer it's yes. No.
Speaker 1: Number three the eighties band Poison.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: I hope it's yes.
Speaker 3: I bet you they did.
Speaker 1: I hope it's yes. Yes.
Speaker 3: The answers yes, yes, all.
Speaker 2: Right, so we're two for three. Number four Redneck Junk
Speaker 2: dot Com.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, gotta be a yes.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: No, that's like, isn't that like rude?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna go with no.
Speaker 2: No, I'm gonna go with yes, just to do the
Speaker 2: opposite of Sabrina.
Speaker 3: The answer is yes, because like that's like not nice. Oh,
Speaker 3: that's so funny.
Speaker 2: And the last one is federal premium ammunition. By the way,
Speaker 2: I want to read, yes, you did. This is for
Speaker 2: you to win, now, Sabrina, I'm going to say, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say no.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel like that's that's hidden, that's too much.
Speaker 1: The answer is no, we both won.
Speaker 3: I think Jensen right now, tell him to kick Jensen.
Speaker 1: Before we do. Sabrina sees, we do have a new sponsor.
Speaker 1: We have to shout out.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Sabrina knows about this, but we
Speaker 2: would like to shout out for magical rewind and wonderful
Speaker 2: new sponsor Strawberry Lube. Can we do a Sabrina sees,
Speaker 2: damn it will.
Speaker 4: I'm like, wait, this is how we do sponsors.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 4: Because you know I've got it in like wright bold letters,
Speaker 4: like hopefully we just had.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Okay.
Speaker 4: One of the first things that happens and hits you
Speaker 4: in the face, like three minutes into the movie is
Speaker 4: this passionate because the parents have that set us onto
Speaker 4: the lube journey that we find ourselves unfortunately in I
Speaker 4: have X men looking god.
Speaker 1: Oh oh it's so sad of Jordan. I know.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay, did you realize did you see?
Speaker 3: I'm sure you did.
Speaker 4: You're You're so good at picking up on things that
Speaker 4: when he has to go over to old man Vick's house,
Speaker 4: it's four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 3: It was when his alarm clock goes off.
Speaker 1: I saw that it was four thirty am, but it
Speaker 1: was light out.
Speaker 4: Yes, that number one didn't make sense, but like four
Speaker 4: thirty that is an awful, awful, awful.
Speaker 1: It was it four thirty or was it five thirty?
Speaker 1: Was it four thirty?
Speaker 3: I think it was four thirty. I had Jordan.
Speaker 4: Look, I'm like, babe, I'm right, that's a four thirty right,
Speaker 4: it's early. Poor kid when he is helping Vic in
Speaker 4: his his shed and he's got at one point he
Speaker 4: has the hammer. It's right before they have their nice
Speaker 4: little talk and Vic unfortunately thinks he's trustworthy enough to himself.
Speaker 4: He's got a hammer, and he's like this, Frankie has
Speaker 4: never hit a nail with a hammer in his life.
Speaker 3: He's like his like it's just like he's like whacking it.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like not in anywhere at all and
Speaker 4: then it's like in the mood for strawberries barf, Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, I couldn't handle that.
Speaker 3: And then what was it?
Speaker 4: We talked about really all of it because it was
Speaker 4: all just so good you couldn't. But then as soon
Speaker 4: as we saw and I know, you kind of prefaced
Speaker 4: it when we went through the the the the work
Speaker 4: of the certain actors that we wanted to highlight, but
Speaker 4: I said, oh, when you see a guy with a
Speaker 4: flat top buzz cut, you know, troubles on its way,
Speaker 4: because remember it's that shot of him from the back,
Speaker 4: and of course I knew exactly who that guy is,
Speaker 4: and he just he did such a good job of
Speaker 4: like kind of getting his own character in any movie
Speaker 4: that he has where he has that buzz cut, you
Speaker 4: know exactly who that.
Speaker 2: Got that famous. It's like the famous haircut. The second
Speaker 2: you see it, you know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: That's kind of cool, that's.
Speaker 3: Rare, it is. I think it's so cool.
Speaker 4: I really love that because there's only a few actors
Speaker 4: that really have that. Some people have really cool distinct glasses.
Speaker 4: That was just like such a great thing. And then
Speaker 4: the pan, the bedpan, and you didn't even say it
Speaker 4: when we were first talking about it.
Speaker 3: You brought it back up when he was on the TV.
Speaker 3: But who picks up someone's bedpan in a hospital?
Speaker 1: I didn't even think about that. That's actually kind of true.
Speaker 4: That is so gross, that is absolutely yeah, and then
Speaker 4: take it well, it was a gift so gross.
Speaker 3: I couldn't that was like just nasty to me.
Speaker 4: This is one of the cute things when I'm talking
Speaker 4: about how adorable Frankie Nunez is. His little eyes, got
Speaker 4: those gorgeous eyes right when they pop open after she
Speaker 4: says you're gonna eat dust loser.
Speaker 3: That was her thing, you're eating You're gonna be eating.
Speaker 4: Dust loser, and his little eyes his like those reactions
Speaker 4: are what make him just he was the best adorable
Speaker 4: little actor to this world. And then we did say
Speaker 4: that it was justin the real life, justin that when
Speaker 4: we when we catch him in that that kind of montage.
Speaker 4: But I think, and it would be interesting to know
Speaker 4: if it was his whole family, because there was a
Speaker 4: woman that looked pretty similar like they look together, and
Speaker 4: then right behind the actor that's playing the brother was
Speaker 4: a brother and a dad, and they all it looked
Speaker 4: like the fan camp it could be like that would
Speaker 4: have been. I mean, obviously it was amazing to have
Speaker 4: justin a part of the movie, for the whole family
Speaker 4: to be represented in that montage.
Speaker 3: I really hope that it is.
Speaker 4: Because we find out I bet you're based on their
Speaker 4: life and you know, wow, I'm sure they were so
Speaker 4: excited to have Disney a part of it and for
Speaker 4: their kids story to be out there. But how epic
Speaker 4: would it be to actually for them to get to set.
Speaker 3: That would be so cool.
Speaker 1: So that was right, wonderful, Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: We are now to the point of our program, of course,
Speaker 2: where we're going to rate and I always go, oh,
Speaker 2: what should we do? But this time I want to
Speaker 2: do one in ten. Okay, we'll do one as the
Speaker 2: worst and ten is the best. And our options for
Speaker 2: this week one out of ten air bud cinematic universes, one.
Speaker 1: At a ten, horny parents, one at a.
Speaker 2: Ten one on one on one basketball games, one out
Speaker 2: of ten blue slurp barfs, one out of ten I'm
Speaker 2: changing this one up strawberry scented lube, horned up parents.
Speaker 1: We did that all right?
Speaker 2: Wait?
Speaker 1: Sorry did horny parents? You can cut that.
Speaker 2: One large leather jackets, one out of ten NASCAR racer hallucinations,
Speaker 2: or one at a ten photoshop screen savers, I'm going
Speaker 2: to add one out of ten.
Speaker 1: Why are you touching those bedpans? What would you like.
Speaker 3: To do this time?
Speaker 1: Is it my turn?
Speaker 3: I think I got it last.
Speaker 2: Then, because I just know it makes you uncomfortable to
Speaker 2: say it, We're going to do one out of ten
Speaker 2: strawberry scented lubes for this episode. Now, is it my
Speaker 2: who goes first? I think I went first last time?
Speaker 1: Writer? Or did you remember?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so your turn should before we should. But
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. Figure out who we're only on episode
Speaker 3: five hundred. You shouldn't be able to remember.
Speaker 1: You should figure out what's going on.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I, like I said from the beginning early thoughts,
Speaker 4: I loved this movie. This movie, like I mean, it's
Speaker 4: just repeating everything. The actors, the ensemble there were such great.
Speaker 4: Everyone brought Everyone brought their a game to this movie,
Speaker 4: including the writers, the director there. This was not a
Speaker 4: script that had a bunch of holes in it, that
Speaker 4: had a bunch of things that needed to be tweaked.
Speaker 4: Nothing truly. The only thing that was off putting was
Speaker 4: the strawberry loop Like that was it everything else you
Speaker 4: could just really like just sit down and watch and
Speaker 4: know that your kids could be next to you, your
Speaker 4: grandparents could be.
Speaker 3: Everyone's gonna love this movie.
Speaker 4: It didn't Matt, who was in the room, and I
Speaker 4: thoroughly enjoyed it. You know, it was a knocked it
Speaker 4: out of the ballpark for me, and I am going
Speaker 4: right into that ten. I'm going for a ten.
Speaker 3: Strawberry scented loobs. Wow, you took me ten away from
Speaker 3: me like I had to. But I cried so much,
Speaker 3: I laughed. I just I was moved.
Speaker 4: It felt like just one of this is what you
Speaker 4: think about and what you know you're gonna get when
Speaker 4: you think of Disney, Like this is Disney right here.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree that I said I'd never give a ten,
Speaker 2: So I can't give it a ten because I said
Speaker 2: I was never going to.
Speaker 1: But I'm going to break my own rules and give
Speaker 1: it a nine point nine. It's a ten.
Speaker 2: Is It's just it's it's exactly what you said.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what a Disney movie should be.
Speaker 2: It's parents could watch it, kids could watch it, Adults
Speaker 2: without kids could watch it. It's just a good movie
Speaker 2: with great writing, great acting. It's well directed, You're involved
Speaker 2: in the story. It's got the micro world, it's got
Speaker 2: real uh situations happening between family members. It's just a
Speaker 2: good movie. It's not a good dcom. It's just a
Speaker 2: good movie.
Speaker 1: Yes, So that's I you know, it's a nine point
Speaker 1: nine for me, because I don't ever give it ten.
Speaker 1: But it's a ten.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a phenomenal. It is it's it
Speaker 2: should all be covered in Strawberry move because it is.
Speaker 2: That is for you, Sabrina, because it is all it
Speaker 2: really is. It really is an absolutely wonderful movie. So
Speaker 2: if you haven't seen it, you should watch it.
Speaker 3: Got to You've got to.
Speaker 4: And if you saw it when you were younger, you've
Speaker 4: got to see it now because I'm telling you it
Speaker 4: hits different.
Speaker 3: It's like it was a I bet you.
Speaker 4: I didn't think it was that as great of a
Speaker 4: movie as I do now, like because I think messaging
Speaker 4: as as more of like a mature audience. The messaging
Speaker 4: is just so much bigger and means so much more
Speaker 4: to an adult. And I just I mean, you've got
Speaker 4: to rewatch it. It's it's incredible. And man, Frankie munyiz ps.
Speaker 4: I went on his Instagram and he just he's got
Speaker 4: a kid now and his kids in his Instagram and
Speaker 4: there he's just getting back from a race, like a
Speaker 4: race that he did, and he's going on set. Well, no,
Speaker 4: you're just like right in his world, like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: he's going right back to acting.
Speaker 3: And it made me so.
Speaker 4: Excited because he was so amazing and I've missed seen him.
Speaker 3: He's great.
Speaker 2: Well, we gotta we gotta hopefully talk to somebody from
Speaker 2: this movie, because I would love to talk to Rick
Speaker 2: Rossovich or any anybody because it ends one of them.
Speaker 2: This was a great one. It really was our next movie.
Speaker 2: I feel bad. It's like, how are you gonna how
Speaker 2: you gonna follow?
Speaker 1: This one?
Speaker 2: Will be two thousand fives magician and reality TV show
Speaker 2: based d com Now you see it quite apparent you
Speaker 2: can prep by watch the movie. It's on Disney Plus thankfully.
Speaker 2: And this week over on our magical rewind feed, we
Speaker 2: are talking with a great one. We're talking to George Newburn,
Speaker 2: an actor you've seen and heard in so many things
Speaker 2: over the years, from Father of the Bride to Adventures
Speaker 2: and babysitting, but that's not where we're talking to him,
Speaker 2: and we talked to him about it, but we're talking
Speaker 2: to him about Buffalo Dreams and Dad napped. Let's check
Speaker 2: out a small snippet of our conversation.
Speaker 5: My kids were not younger at that point. They came
Speaker 5: out to Utah to watch this film and we played
Speaker 5: laser Tag one night, and it was they were right
Speaker 5: at the age of like, they were into all those
Speaker 5: the Disney Channel stars at the time, and we all
Speaker 5: got to play laser tag with the cool Disney Channel
Speaker 5: stars and my kids and they couldn't believe it. They
Speaker 5: believe they got to It was like me getting to
Speaker 5: play laser Tag with the Partridge Family.
Speaker 2: So you got great dad cred for that day. Huge, Huge,
Speaker 2: It was so much fun to talk to him.
Speaker 1: He was a blast.
Speaker 2: And we have interview after interview of some true legends
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Speaker 1: Now bye, everybody, bye,