Speaker 1: Well, this week was certainly a departure from the normal
Speaker 1: films that we watch.
Speaker 2: You're telling me, you are telling me, this was another
Speaker 2: week of like I guess, unexpected things to be on
Speaker 2: the channel. Yeah, which I'm actually digging it, Like, I'm
Speaker 2: like loving the changes that we're seeing a part of
Speaker 2: Disney that I had no idea until we started doing this,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, there's.
Speaker 1: These little these little kind of offshoots where it's like, wait,
Speaker 1: what is this one? What is this one? What is
Speaker 1: the way she's a gas bubble? Like, it's all these
Speaker 1: kind of you never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2: That one I probably could have done without. But that's
Speaker 2: all right.
Speaker 1: I agree. Well, let's find out if this week we
Speaker 1: could do with or without our movie. So, first of all,
Speaker 1: welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you
Speaker 1: want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn
Speaker 1: and go back to a time when all the houses
Speaker 1: were smart, the waves, tsunamis and the high School's musical.
Speaker 1: I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Brian Hilloam everyone, it's
Speaker 1: time to throw an alley up to God as we
Speaker 1: recap a wild honka sports movie. Yes, you heard that right,
Speaker 1: a wild Honka sports movie. It is the two thousand
Speaker 1: and three d COM Full Court Miracle. It debuted on
Speaker 1: November twenty first, two thousand and three, just in time
Speaker 1: for a Honka season. And yes, again, this is a
Speaker 1: Jewish sports movie. Not the largest of subsets of films
Speaker 1: in this genre, one that does immediately come to mind
Speaker 1: as school ties. But let's be honest, there aren't a
Speaker 1: lot of Honka movies either. Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
Speaker 1: is probably the most popular the few. But let's put
Speaker 1: Full Court Miracle very high on that list now, because
Speaker 1: it is a very short list. It was filmed in Toronto,
Speaker 1: our DCOM destination to the North Nose Prize there, Sarna.
Speaker 1: Are you a basketball fan?
Speaker 2: I am. I think, uh, football comes first, but I
Speaker 2: do like basketball. I do like basketball movies.
Speaker 1: I okay finding out I do. What's your favorite basketball
Speaker 1: movie of all time?
Speaker 2: Obviously Double Team?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Actually my favorite? No, I'm thinking I don't think I
Speaker 2: have a good oh A love in basketball?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Evan. Now have you have you ever seen Hoosiers?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Is it good?
Speaker 1: Gene Hackman?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, phenomen like the quintessential basketball movie small Town and
Speaker 1: yeah it's I mean, I think it won several Academy Awards,
Speaker 1: like it's wow. Yeah it's check out Hoosiers.
Speaker 2: I gotta, I gotta check it out.
Speaker 1: Now, this movie might not be Hoosier's, but let's see
Speaker 1: what we got, uh Gene Hackman, by the way, spoiler alert,
Speaker 1: not in Full Court Miracle, just that I'm sure they
Speaker 1: tried to get him. But busy, this, busy, busy man,
Speaker 1: busy this week. Now, we commonly point out when a
Speaker 1: film is a critical success, but sometimes we have to
Speaker 1: point out when it's exactly the opposite, which of course
Speaker 1: is the case with Full Court Miracle. Laura Fries may
Speaker 1: have a delicious name, but her feelings on this movie
Speaker 1: were not as golden, thank you very much. She wrote
Speaker 1: in Variety. The director missed a prime opportunity to present
Speaker 1: a poignant and entertaining multicultural alternative to the usual holiday viewing,
Speaker 1: and was inconsistent between comedy and meaningful drama and not
Speaker 1: even Jewish publications like this movie. Joe Esconazi of Jay
Speaker 1: Weekly found the adult characters to be one dimensional, and
Speaker 1: though he praised the young actors, he called this film
Speaker 1: cheesy boy yeah. On the bright side. However, this film
Speaker 1: is inspired by the true story of University of Virginia
Speaker 1: basketball player Lamont Carr and his postseason experience with coaching
Speaker 1: here at Magical rewind. Of course, we love a true story,
Speaker 1: so it can't be that bad, can it. Well, let's
Speaker 1: find out. It was also nominated for two very impressive awards.
Speaker 1: First up, of course, it was the Humanities Prize, a
Speaker 1: distinction we all know about because of the Color of Friendship,
Speaker 1: a DCM that did actually win the award. It was
Speaker 1: also nominated for Best Children in script at that year's
Speaker 1: Writers Guild of America Awards. So come on, critics, let's
Speaker 1: calm down the haters here people, And in case you
Speaker 1: were wondering, you can catch Full Court Miracle right now
Speaker 1: in Disney Plus. But it's up to you when your
Speaker 1: press play. You can watch right now before we get
Speaker 1: our own analysis, or listen after we wax poetic. Similarly,
Speaker 1: you can eat ice cream for breakfast. You have free will.
Speaker 1: It's time to exercise it. Become your own person. We well, me,
Speaker 1: I believe in you, Sabrina. It does not, so I
Speaker 1: feel like we can predict this answer before we even
Speaker 1: ask each other. But did you know about Full Court
Speaker 1: Miracle before the podcast sent us the spereau of knowledge?
Speaker 2: And I would like to say that feels an I
Speaker 2: again to me, it's right in that timeline. It certainly looked.
Speaker 2: I felt like the beginning looks so much like Cheetah
Speaker 2: Girls in New York.
Speaker 1: Two thousand and three is when Chetah Girls came out,
Speaker 1: isn't it right?
Speaker 2: So it is strange that I didn't know, But I
Speaker 2: guess also not strange because especially at that time, like basketball, well,
Speaker 2: I don't know if that would have been really like
Speaker 2: something that I would have tuned into if I did
Speaker 2: see like a promo for it.
Speaker 1: So but this is Disney again, that the Disney we
Speaker 1: know in love, especially at that time, kind of doing
Speaker 1: more niche movies like Color of Friendship kind of niche,
Speaker 1: and yes, this movie kind of niche, taking a small
Speaker 1: kind of subject and let's do a film about it,
Speaker 1: which is what they're great at.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think it also kind of represents them
Speaker 2: really searching for where their d coms like the where
Speaker 2: to hit that perfect spot, you know, but at the
Speaker 2: same time very very different idea and opening a new
Speaker 2: world to the viewers as well. Possibly you know more
Speaker 2: and more more detail of a world they might not
Speaker 2: know about.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sharing culture with kids all around the world, which
Speaker 1: is what Disney really does, which is great. Yes, are
Speaker 1: you gonna ask me?
Speaker 2: I I guess I'll ask you, but I mean we.
Speaker 1: All know might be surprised. No, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: view you might do anything. I did not know anything
Speaker 1: about this movie, so no, you were You're right to
Speaker 1: not be surprised, and I wouldn't trust me from this
Speaker 1: moment on frankly, but it is. It is. By the way,
Speaker 1: just a fun little side note. I was at a
Speaker 1: convention this weekend and so many people now are talking
Speaker 1: about Magical Rewine, and a woman came up to me
Speaker 1: and said, Hey, I've got an idea for you guys.
Speaker 1: And I said what she said, in the future, when
Speaker 1: you're rating the movies, one should be the lowest and
Speaker 1: ten should be the highest. And I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: great idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly what they're talking about.
Speaker 1: Because that was that's a good idea, and we're going
Speaker 1: to use it, but not right now, because right now
Speaker 1: we're going to strike up the generator. We're keeping the
Speaker 1: lights on for the synopsis. Alex A Young Jewish basketball
Speaker 1: star convinces it down on his luck former college star
Speaker 1: to coach his struggling team. Their journey mirrors the Hanika
Speaker 1: story as they discover perseverance, faith, and unexpected miracles both
Speaker 1: on and off the court. This movie is directed by
Speaker 1: Canadian local Stuart Gillard, best known for his work on
Speaker 1: Teenage Mutant Ninja, Turtles, three, Can't Believe, I Haven't Seen That,
Speaker 1: and two D coms Twitches and twenty twelves Girl Versus Monster.
Speaker 1: Don't know what that is, but let's get that on
Speaker 1: the list. He also directed TV shows like Charmed, One
Speaker 1: Tree Hill, and nine O two one O. And the
Speaker 1: movie stars Alex d Lintz as Alex Schlatsky, a name
Speaker 1: based on Carr's real life player Alex Barbag. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to touch that name, so it sounds a little
Speaker 1: like barf Bag, but we're not going to get into that.
Speaker 1: Lynce is best because the poor kid growing up must
Speaker 1: have gotten that all the time.
Speaker 2: I know, poor Alex, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Hey, when I say my name fast and I say
Speaker 1: I'm Wilford Dell, everyone thinks my name is Wilfred l
Speaker 1: So I was Wilfred for a lot of My Life.
Speaker 2: Oh Wow.
Speaker 1: Lynce is best known as Max Keeble in the movie
Speaker 1: Max Keeble's Coming Home. No, Sorry, that's not it. Max
Speaker 1: Keeble in the movie Max Keeble's Big Move, and as
Speaker 1: mccaullay Culkin's replacement in Home Alone. Three people just keep
Speaker 1: leaving these kids by themselves. You may also recognize him
Speaker 1: from the George Clooney movie One Fine Day, or is
Speaker 1: the voice of Young Tarzan and the popular Tarzan animated
Speaker 1: film from Disney. His last acting credit appears to have
Speaker 1: been in two thousand and seven. Also with the middle initial,
Speaker 1: we have Richard T. Jones as Coach Lamont. He's best
Speaker 1: known as Wayne Gray and the long running show The Rookie.
Speaker 1: He's a very recognizable character actor who's also been seen
Speaker 1: on Narcos, Santa Clarita, Diet and Judging Amy. And somehow
Speaker 1: we have actors with more initials. We've got a veteran
Speaker 1: Canadian actor R. H. Thompson plays Rabbi Lewis. Thompson is
Speaker 1: still working today and is best known for her movies
Speaker 1: Chloe and if you could See What, which is kind
Speaker 1: of a confusing title. Yeah, then you got Sheila McCarthy
Speaker 1: who plays the Cold Missus Kleine. She was in the
Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and
Speaker 1: two other dcoms, cow Bells and Zombies three as the
Speaker 1: hologram Alien Scout. We haven't seen Zombies three yet. Oh wait,
Speaker 1: Zombi's three. Yes, so Zombies three. See now I'm getting
Speaker 1: all confused that it was the Sendence three. So she's
Speaker 1: the Alien Scout, got it. She's also and this is
Speaker 1: what I know her from, in Diehard two playing Big Ben.
Speaker 1: One of Alex's teammates is Sean Marquette, known to our
Speaker 1: listeners as Johnny Atkins on The Golder and It's Been
Speaker 1: Off Schooled. He's also the voice of Mac on Foster's
Speaker 1: Home for Imaginary Friends and a comedy star in her
Speaker 1: own right. Linda Cash is Cynthia, Alex's mom. She's been
Speaker 1: in Christopher Guess's Illustrious Group of Actors in Waiting for
Speaker 1: Guffman and Best in Show, and she's in the Christy
Speaker 1: Carlson Romano dcom Cadet Kelly And we also mentioned this
Speaker 1: all the time on Podmets World anytime an actor does this.
Speaker 1: She was also on Seinfeld but no matter who appears
Speaker 1: in the film. We all know the most important part
Speaker 1: of any movie reviewed on Magical Rewind the run time
Speaker 1: Yes and full court Miracle comes in at I just
Speaker 1: I feel I need someone to hold me. I know,
Speaker 1: I say, amazing, ninety minutes, ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: Minutes, hitting it on the mark, ding ding ding ding.
Speaker 1: Ding ring, the alarm, set off the fireworks, scream for
Speaker 1: the mountaintops. We hit the target. Everybody close up shop,
Speaker 1: We can go home. Thank you so much for listening
Speaker 1: to Magical Rewind. We will not be back next week
Speaker 1: or any week.
Speaker 2: After because we've hit.
Speaker 1: Timing perfection, but congrats to all involved. We will of
Speaker 1: course be back next week because there'll be some other
Speaker 1: movie that'll be ninety three minutes that we have to
Speaker 1: bitch about. This movie was written by a team. We
Speaker 1: have Joel Silverman, writer of movies like Nailed Death to
Speaker 1: Supermodels and Surf School. I don't know several of those titles,
Speaker 1: but by god, I want to see them all. And
Speaker 1: then we have Joel Kaufman and Donald Yost, a legendary
Speaker 1: writing team here on the podcast because they wrote a
Speaker 1: possible Best dcom winner, Miracle in Lane two. So Obviously,
Speaker 1: anything they write has to have the word miracle.
Speaker 2: In the Oh, that's a good point, it's true.
Speaker 1: I wait till you see their third installment, which is
Speaker 1: just called Miracle of Miracles, The Miracle Story of Miracles.
Speaker 1: All right, it's Lions versus Warriors at East Hebrew Academy,
Speaker 1: the most important game in the history of humanity. But
Speaker 1: first let's get into full court miracle. Now, we may
Speaker 1: have shot the movie in Toronto, but we get some
Speaker 1: busy streets of Philadelphia establishing shots to start the movie.
Speaker 1: As my illustrious host pointed out, it looks exactly like
Speaker 1: the start of Cheetah Girls. It really does. It's kind
Speaker 1: of that moving camera, the skylines a little bit fuzzy.
Speaker 1: It is so early aughts it's not even funny.
Speaker 2: It's definitely a movie. Monroe did not watch this with me,
Speaker 2: but if she watches she'd be go, oh, mommy, this
Speaker 2: movie is old.
Speaker 1: Exactly does it looks like old home video? It shot
Speaker 1: in one of those giant camcorders. Yep. This is where
Speaker 1: we meet a young Alex Schlatsky who's wearing a yamaka
Speaker 1: and dribbling on the sidewalk. He's with his friend Julie,
Speaker 1: who reminds him his basketball team is so bad that
Speaker 1: even Alan Irison couldn't help them win a game. We
Speaker 1: find out they've lost nineteen in a row, but Alex
Speaker 1: thinks today is the day they could turn it around
Speaker 1: against the undefeated Warriors and their star player, Tyler Oo. Tyler,
Speaker 1: Julie says Austin Luego and Alex as Shlom in the
Speaker 1: most eighty yard conversation we maybe have ever seen in
Speaker 1: the history of our d coms. It's bad they obviously
Speaker 1: just recorded everything in a booth. It was too loud. Eventually,
Speaker 1: Alex makes it to his school, Hebrew Learning Academy, to
Speaker 1: meet up with his teammates. We learn Alex is the
Speaker 1: only good player on the team, and they'd at least
Speaker 1: win a game if they could just clone him for
Speaker 1: all five positions. We also meet our let's call her
Speaker 1: semi villain in missus Klein, a stern teacher who busts
Speaker 1: Alex for dribbling in the hallways. In all fairness, you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to dribble the ball in the hallways in
Speaker 1: any school. Everyone knows that. Now we're in a religious
Speaker 1: studies class taught by Rabbi Lewis. Alex and his friends
Speaker 1: are learning about Judah and the Maccabees and their treacherous
Speaker 1: battle in Israel, a story that helps explain Hanukkah mid lecture.
Speaker 1: Alex starts to daydream, placing himself on a very dusty
Speaker 1: basketball court and what we can assume is Israel in
Speaker 1: one sixty five BC. Alex, now dressed perfectly for the
Speaker 1: time period, is dramatically backed up by the rest of
Speaker 1: his ragtag team. They're representing Antioch, they are representing Antioch's army,
Speaker 1: and he's the great leader sent to save Israel. Surrounded
Speaker 1: by cheering locals, Alex steps up to play against Tyler
Speaker 1: and the Warriors, now all dressed like intimidated soldiers. I
Speaker 1: think they were trying to be Roman. I'm guess it
Speaker 1: looked to me. Yeah, and yes, this is as that
Speaker 1: crazy a scene as it sounds like it is. It
Speaker 1: was like, wait, huh no.
Speaker 2: I swear. I was like, on, is this how this
Speaker 2: movie is gonna go? I'm here. I mean.
Speaker 1: To just lean into any religion, doesn't matter what religion
Speaker 1: it is, but to really really really lean into it
Speaker 1: like this. I was like, oh wow, Oh they're they're
Speaker 1: going for it. Yeah, yeah, so yeah. Alex chucks the
Speaker 1: ball into the air and we're thrown back into the present.
Speaker 1: It's game day against the Warriors and the Hebrew Learning
Speaker 1: Academy Lions are down by more than twenty points. The
Speaker 1: players on the bench aren't even paying attention. They're doing homework.
Speaker 1: Even their coach, mister Simowitz, is grading papers. Julie and
Speaker 1: Alex's dad are in the stands watching the massacre, where
Speaker 1: Alex is becoming a bit of a ballhog. Another Lions player, TJ,
Speaker 1: trips a player and is thrown out of the game.
Speaker 1: As they conquer the Lions, Tyler turns to Alex and
Speaker 1: warns him if he thinks this is bad, wait until
Speaker 1: they play against each other in the upcoming tournament. Oh
Speaker 1: setting up some tournament stuff. Then the next day at school,
Speaker 1: Alex and his pals are talking about upcoming Hanukkah gifts,
Speaker 1: but one of the boys, lovingly names Stick says the
Speaker 1: focus of the holiday shouldn't be on gifts. It should
Speaker 1: be on the miracle of light and the victory of
Speaker 1: the Maccabees. But the guys don't fully believe in those
Speaker 1: miracles and call the whole thing a fairy tale. One
Speaker 1: day's worth of candle oil magically lasts for eight days.
Speaker 1: Come on, Okay, you live in Orange County. Yes, Orange
Speaker 1: County not necessarily known as having a huge Jewish community,
Speaker 1: Am I right?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 1: Now? Have you ever celebrated Hanukkah? No? Never? I know
Speaker 1: what about?
Speaker 2: I don't even know. No, I don't even know much about.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously I know the eight days and the
Speaker 2: lighting of the candles, but I don't even really know
Speaker 2: like the full Hanukkah story, right, So, and I because
Speaker 2: I didn't even know like it. There. It's not that
Speaker 2: there aren't Jewish people in Orange County or that I
Speaker 2: didn't necessarily grow up around them. I just didn't happen
Speaker 2: to have anyone that was like to the point where
Speaker 2: they'd ever like invite me over, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: to where I'd have an opportunity to really learn much
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Gotcha? Yeah? Every year. So my dad's best friends growing
Speaker 1: up were Jewish. So every year we'd go to pass
Speaker 1: Over dinner and they'd come to us for Christmas Eve. Ohkay,
Speaker 1: we learn all about the Jewish customs and they come
Speaker 1: help us decorate our tree. So yeah, I was reading
Speaker 1: the questions and searching for the Maza and doing all
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. So yes, I was familiar with this,
Speaker 1: but not, I mean not obviously the whole backstory of
Speaker 1: the Maccabees and all that kind of stuff. They really,
Speaker 1: again for Disney, really leaned into.
Speaker 2: It, I feel like, I mean, as we got more
Speaker 2: so at first, I feel like it kind of hits
Speaker 2: you right from the beginning, but then it really for me,
Speaker 2: seemed like it kind of became a lot more about
Speaker 2: the culture of the Jewish community as much more than
Speaker 2: like the religion religion aspect. It didn't feel at first
Speaker 2: I went, oh, they're really doing a religious movie, but
Speaker 2: then it didn't feel like it was super religious as
Speaker 2: we end ended up going on through.
Speaker 1: The yeah, it wasn't. I didn't they They didn't continue
Speaker 1: to use the kind of flashback thing. I think they
Speaker 1: do it one more time towards the end, but it's
Speaker 1: not it's not a go to in the film. I
Speaker 1: thought they were going to keep cutting to that kind
Speaker 1: of thing. But I mean, they do talk about religion
Speaker 1: quite a bit in this movie. I mean it is
Speaker 1: it's another character in this film, which again big swing
Speaker 1: for Disney to.
Speaker 2: Right into religion. But they as Disney does things like
Speaker 2: this very well. It had a nice softness to it
Speaker 2: too that it wasn't like jarring to where like if
Speaker 2: you weren't interested in that like that, you'd get annoyed
Speaker 2: and just turn it off. It was like it became
Speaker 2: a little bit more of just like an inspirational situation culture. Yeah,
Speaker 2: well yes, versus it being very religious like you know
Speaker 2: what I mean. It didn't hit too sharp to where
Speaker 2: if that were to be something that would trigger or
Speaker 2: you know, kind of rub you the wrong way you
Speaker 2: were you were out of the movie. It didn't to me.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that way.
Speaker 1: No, it was, but again it was it's what Disney
Speaker 1: does well, is hey, here's a culture you may not
Speaker 1: be familiar with. We're going to do a movie about
Speaker 1: it in a way you're you know, kids are going
Speaker 1: to relate to. And it's gonna be about It's a
Speaker 1: basketball movie, yes, set in the Jewish community. That's I mean.
Speaker 1: So it's yeah, so very Disney.
Speaker 2: I did have a question though, would is that to
Speaker 2: where like they're yamakas wearing them while playing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they would. I think they always wear
Speaker 1: them indoors.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I think I think I don't.
Speaker 2: Have speaking out of turn, but I guess it's it's
Speaker 2: not it's not adhering. I mean, you know, because some sports,
Speaker 2: you know, having like things that would maybe possibly be
Speaker 2: I guess unsafe. I don't know, but I'm like, what
Speaker 2: if what if the yamaka fell on the ground.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they're pinned on. I think they're always.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think that's part of it. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: I don't know nearly enough about the Jewish culture too
Speaker 1: to speak on that, but I'm pretty sure they always
Speaker 1: wear it indoors okay. The boys do give Alex some
Speaker 1: grief about not passing the ball, but he blames them
Speaker 1: for being too smart. To the athletes, he wants to
Speaker 1: finally win this Liberty Tournament, especially because it will be
Speaker 1: in their home gym. His teammates laugh and he His
Speaker 1: teammates laugh, and Alex angrily storms off. Back at home,
Speaker 1: Alex complains to his parents that his friends don't care
Speaker 1: about basketball. His mom, explaining how impossible it is to
Speaker 1: make it to the NBA, tries to shift his dreams
Speaker 1: to medicine or becoming a lawyer, which Honestly, it's pretty
Speaker 1: good advice. But at the same time, you still don't
Speaker 1: try to kill your kid's dream. We'll get into her later. Yes,
Speaker 1: then her pager goes off. She's been called to the hospital. God,
Speaker 1: I miss pager, Sabrina, Are you too young? I've had
Speaker 1: a page.
Speaker 2: I had your pager. Oh. I had a pager. Oh,
Speaker 2: and I I loved learning all the being able to
Speaker 2: write out. I miss you if you flipped it over
Speaker 2: or you know, all those different things that you won
Speaker 2: four to three.
Speaker 1: Oh, God, the coche you would do. I had a pager.
Speaker 1: What I did not have was friends. So the page
Speaker 1: I got most was low battery, low battery.
Speaker 2: And Mom.
Speaker 1: I got that quite No, I don't think my mom
Speaker 1: even paid me. She's like, I'll call him. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna bet my mom wouldn't have known how to page
Speaker 1: me come up. The next day at school, Rabbi Lewis
Speaker 1: is in his office when he crumples up some paperwork
Speaker 1: and slam dunks it into a nearby lampshade. Alex walks
Speaker 1: in just in time for the post basket celebration. He
Speaker 1: asks the teacher more about Judah Maccabee and how he
Speaker 1: led his outmatch team to victory. He knows they need
Speaker 1: a Judah maccabee and the current coach just isn't cutting it.
Speaker 1: The Rabbi suggests Alex talk to his mom, since she's
Speaker 1: the head of the board of directors, but Alex knows
Speaker 1: that won't go anywhere, so the Rabbi says he will
Speaker 1: get a new coach, but only when Judah Maccabee allows
Speaker 1: it to happen, which makes very little sense to the kid,
Speaker 1: or let's be honest, the viewer, thanks, dude. Yeah. That afternoon,
Speaker 1: Alex and Julie are playing one on one while Stick studies,
Speaker 1: and they're all trying to figure out what Rabbi Lewis meant.
Speaker 1: They assume it means a new coach will come when
Speaker 1: the time is right, but Alex argues they need that
Speaker 1: time to be now, and that's when he spots another
Speaker 1: guy practicing nearby. It's a tall adult making every shot
Speaker 1: and eventually slam dunking. Alex runs off to rebound for him.
Speaker 1: The man continues to sink everything but ignores Alex's question.
Speaker 1: Alex challenges him to a shootout. If the mystery man wins,
Speaker 1: he'll leave him alone, but if Alex wins he'll reveal
Speaker 1: his name, but instead the guy just threatens to stuff
Speaker 1: Alex into the hoop, then grabs his ball and leaves
Speaker 1: in a very sketchy van. But as he leaves, Alex
Speaker 1: takes note of the license plate and so back in
Speaker 1: his room, Alex is now teaching Stick how to stalk
Speaker 1: somebody on the Internet and learns it was a special
Speaker 1: University of Virginia booster plate on the back of a van,
Speaker 1: and so that leads him to checking the school's basketball alumni,
Speaker 1: eventually finding him former star point guard Lamar the Hammer Car.
Speaker 1: Stick thinks this man might just be their Judah maccabee,
Speaker 1: especially since they share a nickname and his license plate
Speaker 1: is j M one's sixty five Judah Maccabee's initials and
Speaker 1: one sixty five for the year the Maccabee's drove out
Speaker 1: the Invaders, and even though Alex isn't buying the jam connection,
Speaker 1: he does think this could be their angel. After school,
Speaker 1: Alex has convinced his friends to come and see the
Speaker 1: ghost of Judah Maccabee, even drawing the passing attention to
Speaker 1: missus Klein, who stands below a sign that reads Sugar
Speaker 1: and Video Games hazardous to your brain. And now back
Speaker 1: at the park, the boys watch Lamar practice and are
Speaker 1: blown away, but can't imagine the reincarnation of Judah Macabee
Speaker 1: being a six foot five black guy. Alex points out
Speaker 1: this man just showed up at their park exactly at
Speaker 1: the same time they need a coach, so it must
Speaker 1: mean something. Alex approaches the possible coach candidate again and
Speaker 1: the results aren't much better the second time, but this
Speaker 1: time Lamar notices just how bad the Lions are watching
Speaker 1: them practice from airball to air ball, but he's watching
Speaker 1: them from afar. Alex cuts right to the chase and
Speaker 1: asks Lamar for help. The man laughs it off he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the time, but Alex assures him he does.
Speaker 1: On the internet, it says he played for the CBA
Speaker 1: for five years until he needed three knee surgeries, but
Speaker 1: Lamar promises his knee is better and has an upcoming
Speaker 1: tryout with the Philadelphia seventy six ers. Coaching kids is
Speaker 1: for has beens and wannabes, but when Alex offers him
Speaker 1: some money, Lamar agrees to an hour long practice tomorrow
Speaker 1: at four and drives off in that same sketchy van.
Speaker 1: Back at Alex's.
Speaker 2: So it was really like a rundown, just sketch like sketch, like.
Speaker 1: Hey, honey, where'd you meet your coach in a van
Speaker 1: by the playground? Never an answer you want for anything.
Speaker 2: I would if that van was anywhere near the playground.
Speaker 2: I can't even tell you the like reroute of what
Speaker 2: I would do to walk as far away from that
Speaker 2: van as possible. I hate vans that look like that.
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I go out of my way.
Speaker 1: You would have dialed nine to one and had your
Speaker 1: finger over the other one.
Speaker 2: Just there's a van like that parked anywhere near my car,
Speaker 2: And I'm not like a mall or like a big
Speaker 2: thing like that. I am on the phone. Jordan's on
Speaker 2: the phone with me. I have my fingers with my keys.
Speaker 2: I am ready for battle.
Speaker 1: You like, are con prejudice against vans?
Speaker 2: Well, if you take any type of self defense or
Speaker 2: you know, anything like that, that's what they say.
Speaker 1: Like even Tyoh tells you to stay away from a van, yeah.
Speaker 2: Like that, especially one with no window. Holy cow, If
Speaker 2: that's happening to me, I am free.
Speaker 1: The hell out well, or or they're teaching your children
Speaker 1: how to play basketball, so never don't pigeonhole people.
Speaker 2: You know, to be fair, this one was green. I'm
Speaker 2: really scared of the white ones.
Speaker 1: Okay again, okay, it makes a difference. You've got you've
Speaker 1: got a color racism too, against believe.
Speaker 2: I just like honestly put that together because I was like, well,
Speaker 2: at least it wasn't a white one. A. Those ones
Speaker 2: are the worst. You know that they are.
Speaker 1: They might be the worst to you, but they're great
Speaker 1: when you want to rob a bank.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: Back at Alex's house, his mom, Cynthia, reveals a new
Speaker 1: program at her hospital where students shadow doctors to see
Speaker 1: if they like the profession. She wants Alex to participate.
Speaker 1: In other words, she wants them to give up the
Speaker 1: pipe dream of playing basketball. And the next day, though
Speaker 1: a little late, Lamar does arrive for practice, surprising the
Speaker 1: boys with a loud whistle and immediately putting them back
Speaker 1: to work with intense time sprints over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. By the end of practice, the boys are exhausted.
Speaker 1: Lamar explains he's not there to be liked, there to
Speaker 1: turn a bad team into a better one. Alex pays
Speaker 1: him the rest of his money and they set up
Speaker 1: another practice for the very next day. Back in his
Speaker 1: van Sabrina's favorite thing in the world, Lamar sends a
Speaker 1: letter back home to his kid, including the money he
Speaker 1: just made from coaching. The next day, Lamar arrives for
Speaker 1: day two, and the boys immediately question their new coach
Speaker 1: about his family, trying to figure out if he could
Speaker 1: be actually Judah. They learn his dad was called Skip
Speaker 1: and he has three brothers, but it was four, just
Speaker 1: like Judah, but one was killed while on duty as
Speaker 1: a cop. Although the boys are affected by this revelation,
Speaker 1: they're immediately put back to work, and during the rigorous
Speaker 1: sprints Guess who bikes by Tyler Tyler and the Warriors,
Speaker 1: Alex is distracted by their trash talking, but Lamar gets
Speaker 1: some refocus, but also realizes that these kids are being bullied,
Speaker 1: and once practice is over, the boys are concerned about
Speaker 1: spending all the money on Lamont. Their parents are starting
Speaker 1: to ask questions, but Alex says he can't directly ask
Speaker 1: his mom for money for basketball, so now he's tasked
Speaker 1: with finding all the cash he can on his own,
Speaker 1: so he decides to sell his prize Julia serving Basketball
Speaker 1: car Doctor j just as his mom reveals he's been
Speaker 1: accepted into the Doctor's Shadow program and it starts on Monday.
Speaker 1: She didn't even ask him. She's like, you're going to
Speaker 1: this thing and you're giving up basketball, like the one
Speaker 1: thing this kid loves. To me that was like, really,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna ask me to quit basketball. It took
Speaker 1: You're just you're done with basketball? Mm not okay, Not okay, mom.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna get into to the mom a little
Speaker 1: bit farther because she MAM's pissing me off. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest with you. Mom's pissing me off. And I
Speaker 1: get it's supposed to come from a good place. But
Speaker 1: the thing that was interesting to me, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is because again we don't know how
Speaker 1: much of this is based on true it's based on
Speaker 1: a true story, but you wonder how much is actually
Speaker 1: based on a true story. It's supposed to be based
Speaker 1: on the mont Car's life. But nine percent of these
Speaker 1: movies the bad Parent quote unquote, the one where who
Speaker 1: has the revelation who were always learning like, oh, should
Speaker 1: we put them in the Hall of fame? Is the dad?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Can you think of another one where it's the mom
Speaker 1: that we want to chuck into the Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: of dcom parent Hall of Fame double teamed Quints that mom.
Speaker 2: You know, but she was distracted with the other kids,
Speaker 2: which you know, understandably especially right, but she was because
Speaker 2: it was both of them. Like the thing is, when
Speaker 2: with the movies, there's usually one parent that's trying to
Speaker 2: pull the other parent that's maybe not making the best
Speaker 2: decisions and handling the situation the best, right, there's usually
Speaker 2: the other parent that's kind of trying to like come on, like,
Speaker 2: you know, but the two and Quince, they were just
Speaker 2: equally just like crap.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. I can't think of another just
Speaker 1: straight up mom though, where it's the dad being the
Speaker 1: good guy and the mom is like kind they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, This I think is a little bit of
Speaker 2: a first I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think maybe because again, wanting your kid to
Speaker 1: be a doctor or a lawyer, most parents want something
Speaker 1: like that for the kids. Grades.
Speaker 2: I think that's an obvious You cant do extracurricular things.
Speaker 1: But signing something, yeah, but signing up for something where
Speaker 1: it's like she hadn't even gotten the grades yet, but
Speaker 1: she's like it starts Monday, and hey, I'm literally in
Speaker 1: the middle of basketball season right now. She didn't ask him,
Speaker 1: doesn't do anything, just like that's it, You're done with this,
Speaker 1: and it's that I didn't didn't like that. No, So yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's funny.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I mean, not that you know, she's saying, like, oh,
Speaker 2: it's just so extreme of an idea that you would
Speaker 2: be an NBA. But being a doctor is a very
Speaker 2: giant goal and not easy to attain either, even getting
Speaker 2: into the right school that you want to get into
Speaker 2: to be that doctor, especially since they've said up incredibly difficult.
Speaker 1: They have clearly set up that Alex is like a
Speaker 1: B student, right, this is he's not.
Speaker 2: He's a student, so this is going to be a difficult.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's almost equally.
Speaker 1: It's just you can't you can't do something as hard
Speaker 1: as play basketball. You have to do something as easy
Speaker 1: as be a surgeon. Yeah, like wait what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, just even getting into the school
Speaker 2: of anything seems like it would be very difficult for
Speaker 2: our friend Alex, who's a B student.
Speaker 1: Yeah, unless you're going to Bob's upstairs medical college, then
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's going to be tough. But of course
Speaker 1: Alex says he can't go on Monday he has basketball practice,
Speaker 1: but his mom doesn't care. She needs him to get
Speaker 1: ready for the rest of his life. Okay, we talked
Speaker 1: about this, do we? I think, especially after most of
Speaker 1: this movie. Again, she's never going to his games, she's
Speaker 1: never there to support him, She's trying to stop him
Speaker 1: from his dream. I have to put her in the
Speaker 1: dcom Hall of Fame as bad parents, wouldn't you. I
Speaker 1: guess she learns that, but they all do. But you
Speaker 1: still got to go into the dcom Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, she's there.
Speaker 1: She Gossibel first woman entry love that might be.
Speaker 2: I know what, watch the first comment we get back
Speaker 2: on that one of the guys are and correct, Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's three or four of them.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised Producer Lisa somebody hasn't popped up and been like,
Speaker 1: are you kidding? What about blah blah blah blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. Right, Okay, and we'd missed the six that
Speaker 1: we're like, oh that's right, Oh that's right, Oh that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: But regardless, even if she's not the first, she's only one.
Speaker 1: She's in later, Alex is back with Julie, who can't
Speaker 1: believe he's selling his doctor J card. It was a
Speaker 1: Barmot's foot present from his parents, but he knows to
Speaker 1: win the tournament, his team needs to practice. Julie says
Speaker 1: she might not understand what basketball means to him, but
Speaker 1: she does know the Shadow program is awesome. So Alex
Speaker 1: has an idea. She can take his place and he'll
Speaker 1: handle his mom. Meanwhile, Lamar's very creepy van is overheated,
Speaker 1: probably from all the children he's been kidnapping. In the back,
Speaker 1: it weighed down. He's told he needs five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: to get it fixed. Just as Alex arrives with his
Speaker 1: doctor J money, but Lamar says the deal is off.
Speaker 1: He needs to find some serious cash to fix his car,
Speaker 1: but Alex isn't hearing it. He offers double the money
Speaker 1: to make it worth his while, but Lamar says he
Speaker 1: can't do that in the kids. He can't do that
Speaker 1: to the kids. Alex insists they need to practice in
Speaker 1: the tournament is just two weeks away. Lamar is thankful
Speaker 1: and accepts half the money up front, but Alex has
Speaker 1: one more problem. The other guys are starting to hate basketball.
Speaker 1: Lamar needs to ease up a bit and help them
Speaker 1: love the game. Good advice. And so practice time is back,
Speaker 1: and Lamar quickly shows that he's completely chilled out. Instead
Speaker 1: of running drills today, they're gonna shoot. Oh yes, I
Speaker 1: love shooting and that's the best part of practice, and
Speaker 1: he does it with a smile. The Lions are loving
Speaker 1: it and they're getting better. Lamar says they have potential
Speaker 1: and ask them to stop putting themselves in a box
Speaker 1: as just Jewish kids who can't play ball. He needs
Speaker 1: them to believe in themselves. That night, Alex is on
Speaker 1: the phone trying to figure out how they'll get Laman's money,
Speaker 1: and for some reason, he's asking for coffee mugs, and
Speaker 1: when his mom gets home, he lies and pretends he
Speaker 1: was at the hospital today the next morning, which, again,
Speaker 1: if she's a doctor at the hospital, wouldn't she know
Speaker 1: that he wasn't there?
Speaker 2: I mean yes, I mean when you figure.
Speaker 1: Her doctor colleague would be like, hey, your kid never
Speaker 1: showed up today, right, And.
Speaker 2: You would assume she'd be checking in on him, seeing
Speaker 2: that he's.
Speaker 1: Fourteen, you know, and he's a helicopter par Yeah.
Speaker 2: And she's yeah, so that seemed to be a little
Speaker 2: a little m a little stretched.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I also thought, if you're making up scenes for
Speaker 1: the movie, like the entire thing obviously has to be disnified.
Speaker 1: But what would have been great to get him out
Speaker 1: of the program is he's falling around the doctor for
Speaker 1: the first day. He knows he's got to get out.
Speaker 1: He goes to the first page in one little drop
Speaker 1: of blood and he pretends to faint. So it's like
Speaker 1: they know he's not going to be a doctor kind
Speaker 1: of thing. Yeah, which could have been funny, but again
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, we'll figure it out. The next morning,
Speaker 1: we as the wonderful audience learned what the mugs were for.
Speaker 1: The team is manning a little cart in front of
Speaker 1: their school, raising money by selling coffee to parents and
Speaker 1: the rabbis, but when missus Klein spots them, she's suspicious
Speaker 1: of their real intentions. Back at home, Cynthia is bragging
Speaker 1: at Alex's dad about her son following in her footsteps,
Speaker 1: and he's nervous about selling a condo. So we have
Speaker 1: a doctor in real estate agent, and just as they
Speaker 1: can't find their espresso machine, missus Klein calls. He's been
Speaker 1: busted for selling beverages, and now he must answer to
Speaker 1: Rabbi Lewis, who's disappointed with all the lies. And Cynthia
Speaker 1: has banned all strangers from coaching the basketball team, which again,
Speaker 1: it's five kids meeting at a park after school. How
Speaker 1: can you ban them from that?
Speaker 2: You absolutely cannot.
Speaker 1: Right, It's like I'm meeting up with my friends at
Speaker 1: a park and we're training with some guy. It's like saying.
Speaker 2: Yourself exactly, and anyone's dad could be like, hey, if
Speaker 2: anyone you know or just see, like my kid with
Speaker 2: me and my kid Robert are playing and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden his friends are there and the dad's
Speaker 2: like somewhat like helping, giving them tips.
Speaker 1: Like there's no, you can't ban them for that. You
Speaker 1: can't ban them for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but this, I mean this lady just yes, you know,
Speaker 2: missus Klein is just hard too. She is I mean
Speaker 2: what a just yeah, ruin, ruin are.
Speaker 1: A fun not good? Yeah, she's a She's a what
Speaker 1: they would call a traditional buzzkill.
Speaker 2: Buzzkill. There you go.
Speaker 1: Alex quotes the Torah to defend the new coach and
Speaker 1: Rabbi Lewitz kind of agrees, and that's why he's inviting Alex,
Speaker 1: Alex's parents and coach Lamont to his house for shoppis
Speaker 1: this Friday night. Oh, this could get tricky, and so
Speaker 1: we jumped to Shabas. Everyone is partaking in the festivities
Speaker 1: while Lamont experiences some culture shock like putting horse radish
Speaker 1: on your fish and lighting candles to prey. But he's
Speaker 1: being a trooper and loves the food. But when he
Speaker 1: asks for milk, he quickly learns about the Kosher lifestyle.
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to know more about Lamont and how he's
Speaker 1: making the team better. Alex's mom certainly isn't sold on
Speaker 1: this at all. She has some concerns, one being they
Speaker 1: practice out on the street. That can't be safe. Again,
Speaker 1: this is the park you let your kid go to
Speaker 1: every single day. And so Rabbi Lewis has a solution.
Speaker 1: He offers up the school jim for their practices. What
Speaker 1: a great idea, except when they cut to them later
Speaker 1: they're practicing outside still at the school, which made no
Speaker 1: sense to me. Lamot makes sure the rabbi knows he
Speaker 1: isn't Jewish, and the Rabbi jokes, yeah, he suspected that,
Speaker 1: but it's all about acceptance and inviting all faiths to
Speaker 1: join them in their teachings. And a little known fact,
Speaker 1: the NBA was started by mostly Jewish teams, including the Knicks.
Speaker 1: But Lamar still turns down the job. He's focused on
Speaker 1: making the sixers. I suggest they make the job temporary
Speaker 1: day to day. That way he can leave them when
Speaker 1: he has to join her roster. But back at home, Cynthia, Oh, Cynthia,
Speaker 1: the loving mom is of course furious. She tells Alex's dad, Marshall,
Speaker 1: that she wants Alex to focus on something realistic for
Speaker 1: his life. Again he's like thirteen, but his dad argues
Speaker 1: that this is his dream and you can't stop a
Speaker 1: kid from trying to achieve his dream, even if it's unlikely.
Speaker 1: Thank you, good advice, Thank you dad, Thank you dad.
Speaker 1: And so the next day, Alex arrives with the new
Speaker 1: basketball coach, LaMonte Carr, who sticks out like a sore thumb.
Speaker 1: We get a good line when he says he feels
Speaker 1: like quote a filter fish out of water unquote. Then, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: the first person they run into is Missus Klein. Happy, Happy,
Speaker 1: Missus Clyne. She's the fit. I'm not even gonna keep
Speaker 1: singing for missus clein. She's the worst. She's anything but
Speaker 1: welcoming and already mad about basketball being back in the hall.
Speaker 1: But the former basketball coach mister Simowitz is thrilled that
Speaker 1: they found in a replacement. He is off the hook
Speaker 1: and him running up like thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, thank you. If I ever had
Speaker 2: a coach that was just sitting doing grading papers or anything,
Speaker 2: Oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, yep. The Lions are getting better, but Alex is
Speaker 1: still ball hogging. Rabbi Lewis catches some of the practice
Speaker 1: and is already impressed with their growth, but Coach Lamont
Speaker 1: knows they have a lot of confidence to build if
Speaker 1: they want to beat the Warriors. Rabbi Lewis again mentions
Speaker 1: the ancient Maccabees and how they dealt with being out numbered,
Speaker 1: and it gives Lamon an idea. He immediately uses the
Speaker 1: Maccabee strategy, also known as the full court press to
Speaker 1: isolate and pressure the offense. After practice, Alex borrows TJ's bike.
Speaker 1: Borrows is a quote unquote basically steals it to follow
Speaker 1: Coach Lamont in his van Again little kid on a
Speaker 1: bike folling a guy in a van not always good,
Speaker 1: performing jumps and drifting to keep up. Eventually learning that
Speaker 1: his mentor is living out of his car under a
Speaker 1: bridge that doesn't make the van any better. Alex decides
Speaker 1: to get a closer look and is caught by Lamont.
Speaker 1: It's then that he reveals his team thinks he's the
Speaker 1: ghost of Judah. Lamont laughs it off and invites the
Speaker 1: boy to stay for dinner. While eating food on a bridge,
Speaker 1: Alex hears all about the coaches CBA career. Alex is
Speaker 1: jealous Lamont got a chance to follow his dreams, but
Speaker 1: he admits he misses his son terribly. He explains, to
Speaker 1: chase big dreams, you must make big sacrifices. He asked
Speaker 1: Alex not to tell anyone at school about his van.
Speaker 1: Good advice, and Alex agrees to keep quiet.
Speaker 2: I love Lamont. I think he's such a great character.
Speaker 2: Character's amazing in it. But I'm just going.
Speaker 1: This is getting worse. Yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 2: If this isn't like a movie that would be on
Speaker 2: like what like Hallmark right before the Little Kid gets
Speaker 2: stolen exactly.
Speaker 1: You change a couple things in this movie, and then
Speaker 1: the titles wears Alex. It becomes a whole different thing, Alex.
Speaker 2: It goes a very different direction. I mean, I'm just
Speaker 2: kind of like, I mean, but I'm in it. I'm there.
Speaker 2: I think I love Lamon's character.
Speaker 1: Were the title full court miracle, the miracle could be
Speaker 1: them finding Alex alive at the end of the movie
Speaker 1: in the van a basketball. That's what it is. Yes, exactly.
Speaker 2: I do love Lamont. I do love the depth they're
Speaker 2: giving his character.
Speaker 1: That he's also the by far the best actor in
Speaker 1: the movie, and there's some good ones in there, but
Speaker 1: he's killing it in this movie.
Speaker 2: He is killing it absolutely, and I but I do
Speaker 2: love like it's not he's not just like a selfish
Speaker 2: guy that's you know, irritated, still trying to, you know,
Speaker 2: figure out a way back to his dream that he had.
Speaker 2: He's not just selfish. This is more. This is about
Speaker 2: you know, his family too, you know, and providing so.
Speaker 1: And at first I was like, oh, he's going to
Speaker 1: keep taking money from the kids. I don't know how
Speaker 1: I feel about that. But then he's like, because obviously
Speaker 1: he needs the money, he's living in a broken down van.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it was like, I don't
Speaker 1: know how I feel about this, and then he started
Speaker 1: He's like, I can't keep taking this. I can't And
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, all right, good they're addressing that,
Speaker 1: which is yes, that was He's like, he just keeps
Speaker 1: packing the children's money to live in right. The next day,
Speaker 1: at school, missus Klein visits Lamont and asked why he's
Speaker 1: left the address section of his onboarding paperwork blank. He
Speaker 1: blames a recent move, but she's not buying it. He
Speaker 1: quickly makes up a number in street name by looking
Speaker 1: at presidential portraits around the office, So yes, he lives
Speaker 1: on Jefferson. That night, Alex's family lights a candle for
Speaker 1: the first night of Hanukah. Lamont is comfortable in his van,
Speaker 1: staring at his young son's art. Their situation could not
Speaker 1: be more different. Alex's night one gift is an is
Speaker 1: an Encyclopedia cd RAM. This pairs well with the pager.
Speaker 1: Alex pretends he's excited about it that has handed a
Speaker 1: replacement gift. It's the doctor j card. Julie told them
Speaker 1: he sold it and so they made sure he got
Speaker 1: it back. This is the thing I don't know about hannak.
Speaker 1: I know each night there's different gifts that are specific
Speaker 1: to the night, and I don't know what those are.
Speaker 1: It's like I know because I had Jewish friends going
Speaker 1: up there, like, oh, it's night whatever. Three. I'm making
Speaker 1: this up so I know I'm wrong, but it's night three.
Speaker 1: This is like the big night. This is where we
Speaker 1: get our big gift. So that you know, each night
Speaker 1: had something like a tradle was one night and I
Speaker 1: think they got money one night. It was all something different.
Speaker 2: I'm sure if you like really got into it, there's
Speaker 2: probably like a signifying reason.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure significance of the kind of gift that
Speaker 2: you're getting are like success or you know, it's.
Speaker 1: Got to mean something.
Speaker 2: It shows how it made me really like go. You know,
Speaker 2: it's crazy, like I know about quite a few religions
Speaker 2: and I've never really looked into things like this and
Speaker 2: getting specifics and made me kind of go again, here
Speaker 2: I am with Disney, like, oh, I want to travel to.
Speaker 1: This place exactly.
Speaker 2: I can learn more about jump roping.
Speaker 1: The history The history of religions is super interesting when you.
Speaker 2: Get absolutely so it's like, gosh, I really feel like
Speaker 2: I want to dive into learning more about it, you know,
Speaker 2: especially the traditions that they're still doing things that I
Speaker 2: really that.
Speaker 1: Lasts for thousands of years. Very yes. The next day,
Speaker 1: Rabbi Lewis notices Lamont's van in the school parking lot
Speaker 1: and realizes he's probably sleeping in it. The revelation to
Speaker 1: him just as missus Klein realizes the coach lied about
Speaker 1: his address. Rabbi Lewis covers for Lamont because missus Klein
Speaker 1: seems determined to get the coach fired, and she's also
Speaker 1: and as if things aren't stressful enough, Alex got a
Speaker 1: C minus god I'd be jumping for joy on his
Speaker 1: most recent history test in Rabbi Lewis's class. But more importantly,
Speaker 1: Rabbi Lewis warns Alex that missus Klein is going to
Speaker 1: follow Coach Lamont home from practice tonight. Soph he does
Speaker 1: something like, for instance, live in his van. He winks
Speaker 1: she can get him fired with the news. Alex rushes
Speaker 1: off to by the way, loves Rabbi Lewis loved him.
Speaker 1: He was he was great.
Speaker 2: He was the most like you just you just wanted
Speaker 2: to give.
Speaker 1: Him a high five. He was awesome.
Speaker 2: Thank you for looking thank you for supporting and looking
Speaker 2: out for these kids, because thanks for looking out, Robert
Speaker 2: the only freaking one there. Yep, we're really thinking about
Speaker 2: what these kids want, what's best.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true with this news. Alex rushes off to
Speaker 1: ask his dad about those condos he's been trying to sell,
Speaker 1: and then Alex leaves a note for Lamont. It includes
Speaker 1: an address and a warning to be careful because missus
Speaker 1: Klein will be falling behind him soon, and as warned,
Speaker 1: a sneaky climb tails the van, eventually landing at the
Speaker 1: Foresail condo. Alex secretly meets him at the door and
Speaker 1: Hans McKey. He set up a full plan to make
Speaker 1: it look like he lives there. Also missus Klein will
Speaker 1: get off his back and it works, even ending with
Speaker 1: Missus Klein soaked dinner convertible by a passing car splashing
Speaker 1: a puddle. No need to go into more detail about that.
Speaker 2: I have had such a similar situation. I've had two.
Speaker 2: I've had two convertible cars, and you've.
Speaker 1: Been splashed while you were tailing of a basketball coach
Speaker 1: who lived in a van. While trying to figure out
Speaker 1: if you're actually lived.
Speaker 2: In a place specific, but that like something has happened.
Speaker 2: When I've been on the side of the street taking
Speaker 2: my taking my top off of the car, you know,
Speaker 2: and like it's like ern and waiting for it to go,
Speaker 2: and this big truck came over and there just happened
Speaker 2: to be a puddle, and of course my window you
Speaker 2: have to have your windows down to do it. So
Speaker 2: I literally like it just I mean, thank god, I
Speaker 2: was looking like down a little bit, but it definitely
Speaker 2: just like swiped across my face and it was like,
Speaker 2: what the hell does happen?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's such a movie moment. That's such a movie moment.
Speaker 2: There's either like r waiting, waiting, waiting. I get it's
Speaker 2: such a great day. I should drive with the top down.
Speaker 2: And then like what I hate la.
Speaker 1: All right, well, you know what, We've got proof of concept.
Speaker 1: Now we've got proof of concept that can really happened.
Speaker 1: It's happened to Sabrina. I love that. Lamont says, of
Speaker 1: course he cannot afford that big condo, but Alex says
Speaker 1: he can stay there until his dad sells it. It
Speaker 1: even helps sell it if it looks like someone lives there.
Speaker 1: Alex offers to sell his doctor j card again if
Speaker 1: he needs money for utilities. Eventually, the coach agrees to
Speaker 1: staying there, but instead of Alex selling his card, La
Speaker 1: Motte will finish the painting and fixing the place up
Speaker 1: for potential buyers. And just like that, deal struck. That night,
Speaker 1: Alex's mom gets home from work and spots Alex's C
Speaker 1: minus and it's like he killed thousands of people. Oh
Speaker 1: my god. First, it's.
Speaker 2: Not I get it, not wrong, I get it. That's
Speaker 2: below average.
Speaker 1: She's not wrong, I get it, But come on to
Speaker 1: see minus. The kid didn't get an F. You got
Speaker 1: a C minus on one history quiz. But there's two
Speaker 1: weeks left until the tournament. Two weeks this kid, it's
Speaker 1: not Oh my god. The tournament's three years from now,
Speaker 1: and this is the rest of my life.
Speaker 2: It's fourteen days, okay, all right, I.
Speaker 1: Mean, come on, first thing. The next morning, she's in
Speaker 1: with the Rabbi Lewis and missus Kleine. She thinks her
Speaker 1: son can't juggle school work in basketball and is willing
Speaker 1: to evolve the board of directors if something isn't done,
Speaker 1: which really feels like way too quick of an escalation.
Speaker 1: I mean again, what she's saying is my son can't
Speaker 1: do both, so the coach needs to be fired, so
Speaker 1: none of the kids can play basketball.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is so relevant today now where how parents
Speaker 2: react to things. It was unbelievable to watch because truly
Speaker 2: it's like, this is the coach's fault, instead of it
Speaker 2: being like, no, your kid's not making good decisions. Why
Speaker 2: when he's home, he's not at practice all night? No,
Speaker 2: the coach isn't calling practice from the time they get
Speaker 2: out of school till nine ten o'clock at night. The
Speaker 2: practices are, let's be honest, probably an hour and a
Speaker 2: half two and a half hours most. What's your kids
Speaker 2: doing time you are at home or your family or
Speaker 2: whoever's watching him she's doing while he's at home? Like
Speaker 2: sounds like a you problem, lady, not like a coach's problem.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it. She's like, I want to cancel
Speaker 1: the whole thing because my kid got in.
Speaker 2: Mind, and I want everyone to say I want the
Speaker 2: whole team to suffer having the coach because my kid
Speaker 2: got to see. See, although she wasn't wrong with the sea,
Speaker 2: I do believe that you know, causes for a very
Speaker 2: stern talk, roping Alex back into what's important. No matter
Speaker 2: what school work, you gotta be, you gotta get there.
Speaker 2: But this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I agree, and that's why it's ridiculous. That's why she's
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Yeah before, Oh yeah, Now.
Speaker 2: She's got a letterman jacket exactly, and a letter and
Speaker 2: a trophy.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, Doc, you suck. Rabbi Lewis promises if Alex's grades
Speaker 1: don't turn around soon, he'll intervene personally. And now it's
Speaker 1: game time. Coach Lamont in a beautiful white suit by
Speaker 1: the way, is giving the team a pep talk in
Speaker 1: the locker room. He makes them bark like dogs to
Speaker 1: get ready. I guess you had to be there.
Speaker 2: Awkward.
Speaker 1: That's the night scene for nineties early two thousand. Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Are not comfortable.
Speaker 1: They were like raw, Yeah, they're they're they're getting there.
Speaker 1: They're getting there. They have to believe in theirselves. But
Speaker 1: the big shocker here Alex has to sit out because
Speaker 1: he's failing history class, which isn't because he got a
Speaker 1: C minus, which doesn't make you fail. So I don't
Speaker 1: know what's happening here anyway, The point is the Lions
Speaker 1: will be without their star player. During the game, Alex
Speaker 1: is sitting in the stands with Julie, still weirdly in
Speaker 1: full uniform. He can't believe he isn't playing, but everyone
Speaker 1: is playing better without him hogging the ball. He gets
Speaker 1: into a little spat with Julie when she points that out,
Speaker 1: and she leaves as a result. Also, the team loses. Also,
Speaker 1: are Julian and Alex supposed to be crushing on each other?
Speaker 1: I feel like there was an entire storyline removed from
Speaker 1: the film and this was pointless. Are they friends? Are
Speaker 1: they dating? Did she go to a different school? That
Speaker 1: is she also Jewish? What is happening?
Speaker 2: She goes to a different school? I mean they they
Speaker 2: set it up from the like, you know, Asta Luego
Speaker 2: or whatever, different they set up the different cultures. I
Speaker 2: do like that being the dynamic of like a friendship
Speaker 2: or possibly like a little you know, romance crush thing,
Speaker 2: but it never goes anywhere. And in this fight that
Speaker 2: we're seeing, they'd never talk about it after, so I
Speaker 2: either it was cut or this writing was just they
Speaker 2: I know what.
Speaker 1: I think it was. You know what I frankly think
Speaker 1: it was is they needed a girl his age exactly
Speaker 1: because the only thing you remove her from the film
Speaker 1: entirely and make every part she was doing one of
Speaker 1: his friends, like in the beginning walking through the city
Speaker 1: that stick, then you don't need her at all. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's completely superfluous to the entire movie.
Speaker 2: I think it was, like you said, Disney, wanting to
Speaker 2: make sure that the girl was some type of girl.
Speaker 2: But if she doesn't have a meaning or a purpose
Speaker 2: other than to take over his right workload at the hospital.
Speaker 1: That's it. Well, think about if she's not in the movie,
Speaker 1: think about the only two other females in the movie.
Speaker 1: It's missus Klein and his mom, who are both pretty awful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so unless you have some type of softer friend like
Speaker 1: female in the movie, then it really makes women look
Speaker 1: pretty terrible. It's because it's all men and the two
Speaker 1: women that are there are whiny and authoritarian, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to do something, but she just didn't give
Speaker 1: her anything.
Speaker 2: Just develop something for her, some kind of situation.
Speaker 1: Something, whatever it is. Well, later that week, Rabbi Lewis
Speaker 1: agrees to let Alex retake the history test, and so
Speaker 1: his teammates help him study, suggesting he dribble a ball
Speaker 1: while he memorizes facts since he's so good at remembering
Speaker 1: and analyzing plays in the court. This also made no
Speaker 1: sense to me because if he was a bad student,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't be surprised that he got a C minus
Speaker 1: and his grades wouldn't be slipping because of basketball. So
Speaker 1: it means he's actually a good student and wouldn't need
Speaker 1: his friend's help to have them study for the test.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it's more so about.
Speaker 1: I mean again, if he got to C minus and
Speaker 1: his grades were slipping, that means he's a B B
Speaker 1: plus student, So then why the hell of his friends
Speaker 1: need to help him study?
Speaker 2: So yes, so I think what the main reason was
Speaker 2: was to have the team rally again, like rally for
Speaker 2: him and be there to help him get his grade
Speaker 2: back up. That's what it seemed like to me.
Speaker 1: I mean that makes sense, but again, yeah, okay, I mean,
Speaker 1: and I get what they're doing, but it's like he's
Speaker 1: now then at the in the classroom pretending to bounce
Speaker 1: a basketball like he's a terrible student he's gonna remember,
Speaker 1: But he's not a terrible student. He's a good student
Speaker 1: who's grades are slipping, so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay that that was an eye roll for me. I know,
Speaker 2: if he actually was sitting there bouncing, I think it
Speaker 2: would have been a little bit easier. But he was like,
Speaker 2: are you petting a dog?
Speaker 1: Or yeah, it would and then the rabbi is doing
Speaker 1: it behind him too. It was, yeah, that was a
Speaker 1: little I don't know.
Speaker 2: I didn't like.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree, I don't disagree. But while at practice,
Speaker 1: the team is still down from the loss. They don't
Speaker 1: even know why they'd play without Alex, but Lamont convinces
Speaker 1: him it's a team game, not just dependent on one player,
Speaker 1: and so TJ will work on his technical foul issue,
Speaker 1: Stick will work on his hook shot. Another teammate, Joker,
Speaker 1: works on his trash talk, and when he instructs another
Speaker 1: player to be the butt of the team for rebounds
Speaker 1: and missus plyin overhears this weird suggestion, and mun's often
Speaker 1: discussed because of course the word butt. Lamont also teaches
Speaker 1: the squad a new, quote unquote downtown version of the
Speaker 1: school song, and It's not good. Soon after Alex arrived
Speaker 1: in the coach's office with his now graded makeup test,
Speaker 1: he got a B plus he passed. He's ready to play.
Speaker 1: Lamont cuts practice short to go play one on one
Speaker 1: against a friend who's wearing a Raptor's jersey. This is
Speaker 1: probably a nod to their location at Toronto, but worth
Speaker 1: remembering they're supposed to be in Philly. At his next practice,
Speaker 1: Lamont breaks some bad news. They're gonna have to play
Speaker 1: in the tournament without him. That guy in the Raptor's
Speaker 1: jersey was his friend who plays in the NBA and
Speaker 1: now the Sixers, So why was not wearing a Raptors jersey?
Speaker 1: Call him for a ten day contract, saying, just saying,
Speaker 1: the kid, you know what I do. I play for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, so I'm gonna wear an opposing team's jersey.
Speaker 1: The kids are devastated, but deep down they're happy for him.
Speaker 1: Missus Klein enters and sees their sadness. Alex tries to
Speaker 1: reason with Lemot in the hallway, but coach says he
Speaker 1: kept his word. He said he'd be there until the
Speaker 1: Sixers reached out, and now they did. The two friends
Speaker 1: call each other selfish. Alex wants him to focus on
Speaker 1: coaching and his family, Lamont wanting the NBA to offer
Speaker 1: a big contract money to help help his family. Lamont
Speaker 1: says after the tournament he'd be back in the streets
Speaker 1: since this gig is seasonal and the Sixers tryout is
Speaker 1: a big break. Yes, it's a tryout for an NBA team.
Speaker 2: See you to go and do that, I'm sorry and
Speaker 2: I love you. Yes, I would. I will come back
Speaker 2: and visit at times on my off season. I will
Speaker 2: come back, but I gotta go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come on, let's figure something out. I'm a professional
Speaker 1: basketball play.
Speaker 2: It's not hard to see or think that a teenager
Speaker 2: at that courge would not. I would have a hard
Speaker 2: time seeing the bigger picture.
Speaker 1: Of course I get it, but yeah, but I don't.
Speaker 1: Everybody else has got to be like dude.
Speaker 2: I don't blame Lamont. You gotta go pissed. If you didn't,
Speaker 2: you gotta go.
Speaker 1: Of course. Alex rushes off to ask his mom if
Speaker 1: the school can hire Lamont as a full time coach,
Speaker 1: but she says it's not something she can recommend. She
Speaker 1: blames money and priorities, but it's obviously about Alex and basketball.
Speaker 1: She says. Lamont ditched his family to chase an on
Speaker 1: a achievable goal, and she thinks he's just a stranger.
Speaker 1: With Rabbi Lewis recounting the lessons of Judah Maccabee in
Speaker 1: his office, Alex realizes he can't imagine victory without his
Speaker 1: own Judah to lead the way. But Rabbi Lewis suggests
Speaker 1: that perhaps Judas's strength isn't something to look for in others,
Speaker 1: it's something to uncover within yourself. Maybe Alex doesn't need
Speaker 1: to find Judah, maybe he can be one. And that night,
Speaker 1: another candle is lit for Hankah and Alex continues to
Speaker 1: practice in the school gym. Coach Lamont catches him on
Speaker 1: his way out and you can see his decision still
Speaker 1: weighs heavy. And now's time for the Big Liberty Tournament
Speaker 1: at the Hebrew Academy. There's lots of fans in the
Speaker 1: stands now, and Alex is now doubling as a coach
Speaker 1: for game one. The Lions take control early and they
Speaker 1: chalk up wins in the first three games, finding themselves
Speaker 1: in the semifinals. We see this during a montage. Okay,
Speaker 1: stop everything right now. The whole point of this was
Speaker 1: that they had not won a game in nineteen games.
Speaker 1: They don't even address their first win. No, you just
Speaker 1: won for the first time in forever, and it's just
Speaker 1: thrown into a montage. We don't get oh my god,
Speaker 1: we just won a game. They won. They just won
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 2: Nothing telling you. I literally was like, I mean, I
Speaker 2: get it. They're keeping it pushing because this isn't the
Speaker 2: big game, right, but there's acknowledge to be a moment
Speaker 2: like we did it like this is I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: they went through it so fast.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: We get to that ninety minute mark if they had
Speaker 2: gone if they had just.
Speaker 1: Added one, I know, I know, but they that's the sea.
Speaker 1: I mean, you cut the I hate to say this,
Speaker 1: you cut the girl scenes out because she's not necessary. Yes,
Speaker 1: and I get why she's there, but they've done nothing
Speaker 1: with their story wise, so she really doesn't need to
Speaker 1: be there.
Speaker 2: You cut that out, or they cut her stuff to
Speaker 2: make it ninety.
Speaker 1: Yes, and then you jump, but then you have something
Speaker 1: we just won there looking at each other like we
Speaker 1: want a game. This is amazing. That was the whole
Speaker 1: point is they were a winless team that just won,
Speaker 1: and they blew past that like it was just part
Speaker 1: of a montage. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's because they were still wanting to
Speaker 2: kind of hold back that excitement for the final.
Speaker 1: But then they do another game where Alex is at
Speaker 1: the free throw line and he's got to sync the
Speaker 1: last two and that's not the last game either, So
Speaker 1: what are they holding back? It's like, why, what the
Speaker 1: hell is happening? They yeah, anyway, even when Alex has
Speaker 1: put on the line, like I just said, to shoot
Speaker 1: two free throws for the win with basically every character
Speaker 1: in the gym, from Rabbi Lewis to Tyler to missus Klein,
Speaker 1: he scores effortlessly and now they're going to the finals
Speaker 1: to face their art rivals, the Warriors, which again I
Speaker 1: get why they did it. But come on the next day,
Speaker 1: Alex's mom walks into her office to find Alex staring
Speaker 1: out the window. He lets her know they made the finals,
Speaker 1: because of course, she hasn't been at a single game
Speaker 1: nice and wonders why she doesn't trust him. He admits
Speaker 1: will be almost impossible to make the NBA, but he
Speaker 1: still wants her support. Valid She explains that when he
Speaker 1: became a man at his bar mits foot was also
Speaker 1: a step for her and letting go, and it's been difficult.
Speaker 1: She want him to explain what basketball means to him,
Speaker 1: and so he says, when the ball's in his hand,
Speaker 1: everything around him just disappears. His entire life is right
Speaker 1: there in that moment. It seems like maybe Cynthia is
Speaker 1: finally possibly starting to understand, but I still hate her.
Speaker 1: And then back at the borrow condo, coach Lamont is
Speaker 1: icing his knees, still pining over his family. When he
Speaker 1: calls home, he admits he's been doing some hard thinking
Speaker 1: and he has an idea. And now it's a very
Speaker 1: rainy day for the finals. It's once again a packed
Speaker 1: house with Rabbi Lewis handing out school hats and this
Speaker 1: is I thought was an opportunity that could they miss
Speaker 1: to have school yamakas, but whatever, and then the Lions
Speaker 1: take the court while performing an absolutely unhinged synchronized dance
Speaker 1: to a dradal rap song. They made the Drado dradl
Speaker 1: drade song into a rap song. It's up there with
Speaker 1: the camp rock amphitheater move. So if anyone out there
Speaker 1: enjoys making memes, well there you go. That one's on us. Sabrina.
Speaker 1: I mean, legally, we have to ask because of our
Speaker 1: contract with iHeart, you're our resident dance expert by the
Speaker 1: Graham kidding, iHeart has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: I don't know where you go like, that's not in this.
Speaker 1: Scrit it's not at all. How where their dance moves
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 2: This was the most ridiculous. I was belly laughing, like
Speaker 2: the entire the song was so bad, and here it
Speaker 2: comes from normal, like out of nowhere. Up to this point,
Speaker 2: I was it was mainly just what like a you know,
Speaker 2: background noise up to this point, any kind of music
Speaker 2: that they've played, right, nothing stuck out, wasn't any It
Speaker 2: wasn't a part of the DCOM, which a lot of
Speaker 2: times we do feel like it's almost a big part
Speaker 2: of the DCOM is the style of style, trace and
Speaker 2: all of that. This was out of nowhere, the most
Speaker 2: ridiculous song, the most ridiculous scene. I had no idea
Speaker 2: what I was watching, why it was happening to us,
Speaker 2: Why did this have to happen. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was weird.
Speaker 2: Why and these poor kids doing it like, oh no,
Speaker 2: one looked comfortable. I can't imagine. It was comfortable on set,
Speaker 2: like it just was like why why why? Yeah, why,
Speaker 2: it's a basketball movie. Then no way did we need this,
Speaker 2: No nor want it. No, take it back, take it back,
Speaker 2: take it back.
Speaker 1: It was so weird. And again when I started to
Speaker 1: listening to the song, I was like, oh, it's dradl
Speaker 1: dradl dradell. I made you want to clay as a
Speaker 1: rap song. Yes, and then they're dancers. It was like, ooh,
Speaker 1: these are not.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Yeah it was not. You could have cut that and
Speaker 1: that would have given you plenty of time to then
Speaker 1: enjoy your win. There you go, there you go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: mister Simowitz gives the Lions some pregame praise, reminding us
Speaker 1: of their original terrible coach, and now here it is
Speaker 1: Warriors versus Lion. We get a bit of a flashback
Speaker 1: to the battle in Israel we saw at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the movie, and we know this is going to
Speaker 1: be a good one. And over at Alex's mom's office,
Speaker 1: because she's still not at the championship game, she's with Julie,
Speaker 1: who's apparently still in the shadow program. They're rushing out
Speaker 1: of the office to make the game okay. There we go,
Speaker 1: so at least they're going, but there's one thing that
Speaker 1: Cynthia has to do first. And speaking of the game,
Speaker 1: the lines are unfortunately down twelve early Tyler and their
Speaker 1: warriors are as good as advertised. Alex spots Julian in
Speaker 1: the stand. She's holding a sign that reads Miracles can happen,
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't even be in this movie, and then
Speaker 1: I'll that's not what the sign says. It just says
Speaker 1: miracles can happen. And then almost like miracles can happen,
Speaker 1: thunder and lightning storms up and ramps up. Outside we're
Speaker 1: transported to what is supposed to be the first Union
Speaker 1: Center of Philadelphia, but it's definitely not because they're filming
Speaker 1: in Canada. It's after a Sixers game and a visiting
Speaker 1: player is signing an autograph for a young fan. Cynthia
Speaker 1: pulls up in her card asks if she's seen Lamont.
Speaker 1: The player suggests looking inside, but she has one question
Speaker 1: for the random six foot nine pro. What would he
Speaker 1: say to a fourteen year old five foot tall kid
Speaker 1: who wants to play in the NBA? He answers sign
Speaker 1: him up. He's a big dreamer. She smiles and gets
Speaker 1: an autograph for Alex and.
Speaker 2: We're still wondering where the security guards are for security?
Speaker 1: This guy actually was Was he an actual basketball player?
Speaker 2: The guy on the card, That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 2: Was he Doctor J. Doctor J is that was on
Speaker 2: the card is a real NBA player.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm passive because I'm letting you. I'm letting you.
Speaker 1: Did you freeze again? Are you asking me if Julius
Speaker 1: Irving doctor J is a real basketball player? Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: doctor AULI. Yes, he's arguably, well not arguably, he's one
Speaker 1: of the best players that's ever played the game and
Speaker 1: one of the most Doctor J.
Speaker 2: He's not been in any of the documentaries that I've
Speaker 2: watched in basketball. They've never brought this guy up.
Speaker 1: So you know Magic Johnson is.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know who Magic Johnson is.
Speaker 1: He played with doctor J. It was the two of them.
Speaker 1: They were like Kobe and Shaq. Oh wow, yeah he was.
Speaker 1: He was the man. He was at Lisa, I don't
Speaker 1: watch basketball much and I even know who he is.
Speaker 1: Thank you, producer, Lisa. Doctor J. He's doctor J. Okay,
Speaker 1: So this guy wasn't him?
Speaker 2: Clearly?
Speaker 1: No? No, again, that's the the seventies and the eighties
Speaker 1: is when Doctor j played Okay, okay, And now back
Speaker 1: to reality. We are back in the gym. The Lions
Speaker 1: are now down eighteen and the storm is getting much worse.
Speaker 1: And that's when the electricity goes out in the gymnasium.
Speaker 1: That's how I'm gonna say it. Meanwhile, back at the
Speaker 1: fake First Union Center, which is what we're calling it,
Speaker 1: she finally tracks down Lamott, who's tending to his van
Speaker 1: now with the smoking engine. He says the car won't
Speaker 1: start and he's gotten rushed to the airport. He just
Speaker 1: had the engine fixed, so this doesn't make any sense,
Speaker 1: but Cynthia thinks it does. She asked him to try
Speaker 1: the engine again, and this time it does start. We're
Speaker 1: in the midst of what appears to be a divine
Speaker 1: intervention for a mid level high school basketball tournament in
Speaker 1: philadelp God certainly works in mysterious ways. Back at school,
Speaker 1: the staff is trying to get the power back on.
Speaker 1: If they can't resume the game, the Warriors will be
Speaker 1: crowned champions. But then an alternative is suggested. They could
Speaker 1: start the emergency generator and play until the fuel runs out, which,
Speaker 1: upon further investigation would be very quick. The school decides
Speaker 1: that no matter how much time is on the official clock,
Speaker 1: when the generator does run out, whoever's winning gets the trophy,
Speaker 1: which is an absolute stupid decision considering the Lions are
Speaker 1: getting blown out. This makes no sense.
Speaker 2: It makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Hate it.
Speaker 2: I hate the worst idea ever.
Speaker 1: Yep. But yet both teams agree and the power is
Speaker 1: temporarily back on with no idea how much is left.
Speaker 1: Mister Simmowitz is left in charge of the generator outside
Speaker 1: and the game resumes, which leads me to believe or
Speaker 1: not believe, but think, Okay, we've got a generator that's
Speaker 1: running out of fuel. Go get more fuel. You're in
Speaker 1: the middle of Philadelphia. You're probably three minutes from a
Speaker 1: gas station. Go get more fuel.
Speaker 2: Right, What is this like? Specific few? I mean, I
Speaker 2: know zero. I know nothing about a doctor basketball, I
Speaker 2: know zero about generators.
Speaker 1: See, it's either a regular gas or a diesel generator,
Speaker 1: in which case you go a gas station, you fill
Speaker 1: it up, fill up your stuff, and then you go.
Speaker 1: And it's also it's you know, I get what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Of course it's supposed to mirror Hanika and the maccabees.
Speaker 1: Of course I understand that, but address the fact that
Speaker 1: everything's closed. There's no power, so none of the gas
Speaker 1: stations are working something because it's like, you stay here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run and go get more fuel. That's it. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's it. Phone a friend, Yes, exactly. So it's not
Speaker 1: a good it's yeah right, I'd like to lifeline please,
Speaker 1: because it wasn't it's not a good idea to let
Speaker 1: them play when they're down by eighteen, and it's not
Speaker 1: a good idea to just not go get more fuel.
Speaker 1: But I get what they're doing right anyway. Like I said,
Speaker 1: mister Simowitz is left in charge and the generator outside,
Speaker 1: and the game resumes. The Lion's going to run quickly,
Speaker 1: cutting the lead to ten while the lights glitch sporadically
Speaker 1: fighting through the outage. Outside, Mister Simowits watches the fuel disappear,
Speaker 1: and then he realizes something. He rushes inside the gym
Speaker 1: and calls a time out, which apparently that's something anyone
Speaker 1: can do, so the next time you're on an NBA game,
Speaker 1: try it. I'd like to see how that works. Simowitz
Speaker 1: huddles the team together and says, thanks to algebra, he's
Speaker 1: figure out exactly how much time the Generator has left.
Speaker 1: They have two minutes and forty five well now forty
Speaker 1: three seconds left, and they spend an awful lot of
Speaker 1: time doing this. As the time is running out, the
Speaker 1: Lions hustle back on court, knowing their time is short,
Speaker 1: and just when the play resumes, Tyler thinks on his
Speaker 1: toes and calls a timeout for the Warriors. Their game
Speaker 1: plan is to stall and run the Generator to death, which,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, is the mindset of a champion, right?
Speaker 1: Really is? The Lions think this isn't fair, and it's
Speaker 1: not fair. It's a game, that's how it works. There
Speaker 1: are five minutes left in the game clock, but less
Speaker 1: than a minute left of fuel, and now totally defeated,
Speaker 1: Alex takes the bench, so much for the miracle, and
Speaker 1: then a beam of light appears at the gym door.
Speaker 1: It's Coach Lamont. He wonders if the whole story about
Speaker 1: the maccabe's was made up? How did the light and
Speaker 1: the temples they miraculously lit for eight days? The boys
Speaker 1: don't want to hear fairy tales. With less than fifteen
Speaker 1: seconds of fuel left, but Alex almost possessed by the
Speaker 1: spirit of Judah, walks onto the court as the Warriors
Speaker 1: count down in the last ten seconds of light, and
Speaker 1: right on cue, the generator stops and the lights go
Speaker 1: out once again. The Warriors celebrate their win, but then
Speaker 1: just as quickly as it's turned off, despite having no
Speaker 1: fuel left, the generator starts again. The gym now shines
Speaker 1: with no explanation, just like the lights that inspired Hanukkah,
Speaker 1: and no one questions it. The game starts back up.
Speaker 1: The Glides continue the game with Lamont coaching again, getting
Speaker 1: them within six points. Mister Simwitz is still outside, totally
Speaker 1: confused by the fuellless generator. From the stands, missus Klein
Speaker 1: yell shakes some booty for little to no reason at all,
Speaker 1: and now Alex makes it a one point game fifty
Speaker 1: four to fifty three, but the Generator is struggling once again.
Speaker 1: With ten seconds left in the game clock, Cynthia enters
Speaker 1: the gym just as Alex gets the ball. You have
Speaker 1: to wonder what the hell took her so long. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Alex is perfectly defended and can't find a shot, so
Speaker 1: instead of just forcing it like he used to, he
Speaker 1: decides to trust his teammates and passes to Stick, who
Speaker 1: attempts his hook shot. While the ball travels to the hoop,
Speaker 1: the generator dies again and the lights go out. The
Speaker 1: score erupts and sparks, leaving only a light to see
Speaker 1: the ball go in the hoop. The Lions went at
Speaker 1: the buzzer, and in the celebration, we notice Julie has
Speaker 1: changed her sign. It now reads miracles do happen and
Speaker 1: I still don't belong in this movie. The Lions hold
Speaker 1: up their trophy as coach Lamon explains he was able
Speaker 1: to speed to the game because Cynthia took care of
Speaker 1: what he needed to do at the airport. It's revealed
Speaker 1: that Lamont's family is now in town, and this is
Speaker 1: all thanks to Cynthia that they're there, and that's obviously
Speaker 1: why she was late to the game, so it's nice
Speaker 1: that she cared more about another family than her own.
Speaker 1: As Lamont regnites, it's true. As Lamont reunites with his family,
Speaker 1: Cynthia says she plans on convincing Rabbi Lewis to hire
Speaker 1: Lamont as a full time coach. He admits he has
Speaker 1: a new dream. He has bad neees and a boy
Speaker 1: who needs his dad around. So East Hebrew is looking
Speaker 1: pretty good to him. The movie ends with Alex and
Speaker 1: his family shooting hoops with Lamontz family outside of Alex's house.
Speaker 1: We get some quick narration about Hanukkah and that's our movie. Look, hi,
Speaker 1: I'm everyone, and now are real reviews. I've got the
Speaker 1: five star this week, Sabrina, which I'm very happy about.
Speaker 1: It's from Perfect Dark zero fan and it says, hallelujah,
Speaker 1: I'm Christian and I love this movie. Hey there we
Speaker 1: go right on? All right, who do you got this week?
Speaker 2: I've got the one star by our friend I feel
Speaker 2: like we haven't had in a while.
Speaker 1: Md Noma's back unnamed.
Speaker 2: One star here. I don't get Jewish stuff. All right? Then,
Speaker 2: thank you.
Speaker 1: Right on the money. Thank you very much for you know,
Speaker 1: not only saying that but also not even writing your
Speaker 1: name down. What a weird review.
Speaker 2: Anyways, of your own time.
Speaker 1: It is your and our time as well. Now, thank you, nomad.
Speaker 1: So now we are two. Sabrina's favorite part and I
Speaker 1: already see where this is going. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough week.
Speaker 2: I'm Jensen's not here today.
Speaker 1: I know we don't have producer Jensen here. Who's who's
Speaker 1: written up our our our feature. Who is going to
Speaker 1: be helping us this week?
Speaker 2: It's me?
Speaker 1: Okay, yay, So here we go. Our feature this week
Speaker 1: is called happy Hebrew to celebrate the inclusion of Judaism
Speaker 1: and Hanukkah in this week's d com. We have been
Speaker 1: given a Hebrew word, and for multiple choice options, we
Speaker 1: have to pick what it means three out of five wins.
Speaker 1: I am going to preface everything I say now by
Speaker 1: apologizing profusely for pronunciation. I'm sure I'm going to be
Speaker 1: getting all of these wrong, and I am so sorry.
Speaker 1: So here we go.
Speaker 2: Better better you than me, because I would absolutely butcher these.
Speaker 2: There's way I could.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have a much better success than I could have.
Speaker 1: The first one Producer Jensen wrote for us is not
Speaker 1: even part of the game. It's just to get us rolling,
Speaker 1: and it's be hatch latcha. I'm sure all that is wrong,
Speaker 1: but that apparently means good luck in Hebrew. And I
Speaker 1: again cannot apologize enough for my pronunciation. So here we go.
Speaker 1: Number one ah ah vah uh Java. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm saying that right. Is it a persistence B
Speaker 1: love or see you're welcome, go as c oh, I'm sorry?
Speaker 1: Or D slam dunk, which again we know it's not
Speaker 1: that A java. You're gonna say, see you're welcome. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go. I'm gonna agree with you. I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: see you're welcome.
Speaker 2: The answer is B love.
Speaker 1: Okay. Number two, this is gonna be a rough week.
Speaker 1: Number two, ma yim, ma yim. Is it a dream,
Speaker 1: B fire, seawater or D double dribble A dream. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it's.
Speaker 2: Seawater, it is cwater?
Speaker 1: Got one? Okay? Number three? Bay yeat, bay yeat? Is
Speaker 1: that a home? C car, C shoe or d alop?
Speaker 2: Do you think that any of these would be basketball?
Speaker 1: I don't think they have Jewish like they must. I mean,
Speaker 1: I imagine there's got to be Yiddish words for Hebrew, Yiddish
Speaker 1: words for basketball. I would imagine. I'm gonna say it's
Speaker 1: I'll go first this time. I'm gonna say it's a home.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with a home. Two It is a home. Yes,
Speaker 2: at least got one?
Speaker 1: I need I need one or two more to win.
Speaker 1: Number four yom y o h m yom. Again, I
Speaker 1: can just only apologize for how I'm sure I'm mispronouncing
Speaker 1: all of these. Is it a day, B night, C
Speaker 1: brunch or D free throw? Yom? Oh? Wait, oh wait, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think that's the sort of like yom kippor
Speaker 1: is that the same kind of thing without mean night?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say b night.
Speaker 2: I don't think that brunches is it?
Speaker 1: It's totally but I'm gonna say b night.
Speaker 2: It's a day, okay?
Speaker 1: Is that the same as you kipor? I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's how you started. And then number five is ave
Speaker 1: a ra ave ave ra, which is kind? Is that
Speaker 1: a clean a kind? See unhappy or de personal foul?
Speaker 1: You're saying be kind kind on five, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: I'm gonna agree. I'm gonna say be kind.
Speaker 2: So you asked if there are any basketball terms in here.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen man way to go, producer Jensen. So
Speaker 1: we both what's the what's the the Hebrew word for lost?
Speaker 1: Because that's what we just did. Uh, can we do
Speaker 1: some sabrinas?
Speaker 2: C's Oh my gosh, okay, yes, one thing we didn't
Speaker 2: talk about at all. And I think it's worth just
Speaker 2: speaking on this kid was tiny compared to every one.
Speaker 2: What I guess this is sort of more of just
Speaker 2: like you know, obviously it's not hard to not see that,
Speaker 2: But what do you think the significance and the reason why?
Speaker 2: Do you really think it was just because that's the
Speaker 2: actor that they wanted. Do you feel like it was
Speaker 2: to help make Lamont look taller?
Speaker 1: I think it's probably a combination. It's supposed to be
Speaker 1: the actor and it's supposed to be the ultimate underdog story.
Speaker 1: So obviously the smaller he is because all of his friends.
Speaker 2: And then that that brings me to the next do
Speaker 2: you honestly feel like these kids look like they were
Speaker 2: in high school?
Speaker 1: See, it's funny I freshmen, Yeah, freshmen.
Speaker 2: I think could be freshman. He did it look like
Speaker 2: a freshman though. But then at the same time, and
Speaker 2: a seventh eighth.
Speaker 1: Grader, nobody in the school looked particularly older, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Like it all worked all the atmosphere
Speaker 1: and everybody all kind of looked the same age. Ringe.
Speaker 1: But had they made this middle school, it seemed like
Speaker 1: it would have been it would have made more sense.
Speaker 1: But yeah, because they did, they all looked younger.
Speaker 2: I agree, because and you don't really get into it
Speaker 2: because I felt like it was a junior high knowing
Speaker 2: that like not a lot of the decoms of this
Speaker 2: time were set in a high school. They were mainly
Speaker 2: you know, junior high, right, And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: they're starting talking about pre s A t's and I went, wait, right,
Speaker 2: and then it was like, oh, they're in high school.
Speaker 2: So that kind of just was a little like, I
Speaker 2: really honestly don't know. Another thing that talking about bringing
Speaker 2: up our our mom again is when she cooks like
Speaker 2: the fastest cooking of of an egg go it goes
Speaker 2: in there for five seconds and then goes on. First
Speaker 2: of all, you're supposed to toast eggos.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the point is she can't cook it all.
Speaker 1: So she puts it in the microwave for like ten seconds,
Speaker 1: and that's why he drops it.
Speaker 2: Likedk okay, yeah, it's it's.
Speaker 1: It was supposed to be that she literally can't even
Speaker 1: cook an eggo waffle.
Speaker 2: But it was like so fast and just like holy cow. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so all right, so they made that one and then
Speaker 2: two more things. His bed that he had in this
Speaker 2: movie was hilarious. It was like it looked like a cobble.
Speaker 2: I mean it was this the cobblestone bed post that
Speaker 2: was like round arched. It was like this castle looking
Speaker 2: I'm trying to go for like a temple, like if
Speaker 2: we're going back into like what the like, you know.
Speaker 2: The flashbacks kind of were like of something like that,
Speaker 2: but it was like the most absurd.
Speaker 1: Bed I didn't even notice.
Speaker 2: The last thing or well there's two more. Sorry again,
Speaker 2: the last thing is did you notice? And I don't
Speaker 2: know if I was just I rewatched it a couple
Speaker 2: of times trying to figure out what was going on.
Speaker 2: When Lamont is having like he's icing his knee, he's
Speaker 2: he's been playing or whatever, and then the phone. He's
Speaker 2: on the phone at one point and the words are, hey, sweetie,
Speaker 2: how are you doing? But it's a man's voice, but
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be his wife, but it was like
Speaker 2: literally it sounded like it was like it was like
Speaker 2: the So I wasn't sure if it was like him
Speaker 2: saying that, but the voiceover didn't connector but it was
Speaker 2: definitely a man's voice. But then he's answering to it,
Speaker 2: so like I don't know it was very confusing. I
Speaker 2: rewatched it a couple of times to figure out what
Speaker 2: was going on because it just popped out like so crazy.
Speaker 2: And then my last thing is when you go on
Speaker 2: Disney Plus, do you ever watched the trailer?
Speaker 1: But occasionally I did not watch this one, but occasionally
Speaker 1: I will do it.
Speaker 2: The trailer for this movie gives you really not a
Speaker 2: lot of insight on what's going to happen. It says,
Speaker 2: I forget what the little quick one sentence of you know,
Speaker 2: like ex basketball star right coaches a Jewish you know,
Speaker 2: rundown team type thing. That's what it was. And then
Speaker 2: the actual trailer is the scene of them helping him study.
Speaker 2: Oh that's weird, Okay, Like, so I watched that first,
Speaker 2: which I normally don't. I don't always. I don't always
Speaker 2: like see the trailer. I don't know if it's always.
Speaker 1: An option occasionally do it, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: But I clicked on it and I was like, oh God,
Speaker 2: this is I'm not even like in it at all. Whatever,
Speaker 2: But it's just so funny because the trailer really doesn't
Speaker 2: say or show you anything. And the couple of trailers,
Speaker 2: even when I watched the Cheetah Girls trailer. It was like,
Speaker 2: that is the weirdest trailer because it's not and it's
Speaker 2: not even what was on the channel at the time
Speaker 2: to promote the movie either.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, you know, I don't know how Disney
Speaker 1: does it, but in a lot of different film companies,
Speaker 1: the actual director or people involved with the film don't
Speaker 1: cut the trailer right. So occasionally they will if they're
Speaker 1: allowed to, but a lot of times they'll bring in
Speaker 1: a company or they'll do something else and it's like,
Speaker 1: that's the trailer you cut together. Yeah, so yeah, you
Speaker 1: never know who's doing it.
Speaker 2: But it's like, I feel like more often on the
Speaker 2: Disney Plus, so I don't know if they're just they're
Speaker 2: going back and doing it like Disney pluses, so it's
Speaker 2: just kind of like after the fact or whatever. But
Speaker 2: the trailers don't always make sense, So I'm going to
Speaker 2: be making sure there's a trailer I love that. I
Speaker 2: also sort of rate the trailers because this one made zero.
Speaker 1: This is a bad rate, big zero, big old Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of rating, it's our time to now rate our film. Uh,
Speaker 1: And I'm going to go with what that fan that
Speaker 1: I met at the convention says, I think we should
Speaker 1: do this week one will be the least and ten
Speaker 1: will be the most.
Speaker 2: Pamely because they suggested, well, yeah.
Speaker 1: They suggested it. It makes sense, and we're going to
Speaker 1: do that. It's our fan fan shout out of the week.
Speaker 1: I also think it's you are rating first this time.
Speaker 1: I think I rated first last time. Yes, and so
Speaker 1: now it's up to you and let's figure out how
Speaker 1: we want to rate this. Do you want to do
Speaker 1: one out of ten actors with initials, one out of
Speaker 1: ten pagers, sugar in video games, one out of ten
Speaker 1: sketchy vans, horse Radish fish, butts of the team, one
Speaker 1: out of ten borrowed condos, or one one out of
Speaker 1: ten miracle generators. I'm also gonna add one out of ten.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just go get some gases? How about you, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: which one do you want to pick this week?
Speaker 2: I think because it was such a triggering point for me,
Speaker 2: I gotta go a sketchy van.
Speaker 1: Good. I was hoping you would pick it. We are
Speaker 1: doing one out of ten sketchy vans again for our fan.
Speaker 1: One's gonna be the least and ten's gonna be the most.
Speaker 1: What do you got for us this week, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: This week you know again. After watching that trailer, I
Speaker 2: was like, Ugh, this is gonna be a snooze fest.
Speaker 2: I actually and again I said it before the like
Speaker 2: religious aspect hits you right at the front. Now, not
Speaker 2: knowing a lot about it, I was like, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna learn quite a bit. And I did you got
Speaker 2: the dinner area, talked about the shot moods. Ye, yes,
Speaker 2: the you know, the Yamakas. There's certain things that we got.
Speaker 2: We got a little bit of that, like inspirational story
Speaker 2: with the Maccabees, and it was a good amount. It
Speaker 2: was balanced to me, along with a basketball right. And
Speaker 2: I love kids and sports movies. They're just fun to me.
Speaker 2: I think they're great, big dreams. I love it and
Speaker 2: I actually this movie wasn't one of my favorites, but
Speaker 2: it definitely wasn't at all even close to being a
Speaker 2: bad movie. Right. I actually ended up at the end going, hey,
Speaker 2: I actually really liked that movie.
Speaker 1: I was not.
Speaker 2: I did not have high hopes for it, and it
Speaker 2: actually was a good movie. I thought it was great.
Speaker 2: I thought the Lamont character was an awesome character. This
Speaker 2: didn't reinvent the wheel. You know, X Superstar comes back
Speaker 2: and helps. It's not a reinvention of a storyline, but
Speaker 2: I liked it. I thought that the twist of having
Speaker 2: the Hebrew culture was very cool and for me, a
Speaker 2: great way to kind of feel like I'm now interested
Speaker 2: and I'm actually probably gonna look into it and learn more.
Speaker 2: So I gave it this week a seven Sketchy Vans.
Speaker 1: Okay, you know, I'm kind of right there with you.
Speaker 1: There was parts of this movie I did not like.
Speaker 1: It might have been ninety minutes on the dot, but
Speaker 1: it played longer to me. It seemed like it was
Speaker 1: a little longer than ninety minutes. There were some serious
Speaker 1: sound issues with this movie. There was a lot of adr,
Speaker 1: a lot of things that, you know, again sound wise,
Speaker 1: weren't great. The only female character that was even semi
Speaker 1: likable didn't even have to be in the movie, so
Speaker 1: the whole point of her being there made no sense.
Speaker 1: Poor girl, that's poor girl.
Speaker 2: Yes, and again, I just know too. If we had
Speaker 2: a chance to like interview her, she probably would say
Speaker 2: I had like a whole storyline that got cut.
Speaker 1: Or she'd be like I was in that movie. I
Speaker 1: don't even remember shooting this. I was there for a
Speaker 1: day and a half. I don't remember. So yeah, this
Speaker 1: this movie to me. I love Disney taking a swing.
Speaker 1: I love. I'm always a big fan of cultures that
Speaker 1: I don't know a whole lot about. Of course, then
Speaker 1: set wrapped up in that Disney kind of esque way. Agreed.
Speaker 1: I love the Lamont character, the acting. I thought all
Speaker 1: the acting was good. I did, so I'm kind of
Speaker 1: right there with you. I'm gonna give it a soft
Speaker 1: I would give it a hard six point five, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it a soft seven as well, Sketchy
Speaker 1: Vanstch cause again, for you know, some of it didn't
Speaker 1: make sense, but a lot of these movies some of
Speaker 1: it doesn't make sense. But it's not, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's not a bad movie. We've seen way worse movies
Speaker 1: in this movie, way worse movies than this movie. So
Speaker 1: there you go. We are both gonna be at seven.
Speaker 1: Sketchy Vis, thank you so much for joining us this
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