Speaker 1: You got that husky kind of old school voice going
Speaker 1: on today, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: I've had it since the day after we did our
Speaker 2: last taping. I woke up the next day like, oh okay, wow,
Speaker 2: and Jordan's been like he's sick again.
Speaker 3: And I'm still sick. I literally am still sick. So
Speaker 3: they I.
Speaker 2: Don't know if my mine must just be laryngitis, because
Speaker 2: I'm not like sneezing or coffee or anything like that.
Speaker 2: I'm just sounding like.
Speaker 1: A Well luckily you don't use your slot machine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't use your voice for a living.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's it's good. Well, I hope you feel okay,
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: I do. I'm totally good. I'm tired. I feel like
Speaker 2: it's been a little bit of a whirlwind lately. Just
Speaker 2: one thing, ye another every day is like seven things
Speaker 2: to do, like seven events to get to type of
Speaker 2: thing is what it feels like. So I'm a little exhausted,
Speaker 2: but me too, seize the day. I have been bored,
Speaker 2: that's for sure, so I'd rather I love it crazy
Speaker 2: busy then bored as hell at home. I can't stand that.
Speaker 3: So I agree with you one hundred percent. Well you
Speaker 3: know one thing that's going to carry better. I sound better.
Speaker 1: I did not this morning. I'm better now, but I'm not.
Speaker 1: And so I've taken so many antibiotics that whatever biotics are,
Speaker 1: I don't have any left in my body because they're
Speaker 1: very anti biotic at this point. So I have no
Speaker 1: biotics left anywhere, and I just it's the worst.
Speaker 3: It's been two months. Two months of a sinus infection. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so it's been fun.
Speaker 2: Because you kind of felt better for a bit and
Speaker 2: then with slip.
Speaker 1: Well, when I go on to the antibiotics, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel okay, and then when the course is done, I
Speaker 1: get about forty eight hours before it just socks in again.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's something that's something bigger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: Glad you're starting to look into it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, I'm going to yet another doctor to
Speaker 3: figure it out.
Speaker 1: So this is, by the way, some of my most
Speaker 1: fun preshow chatter that we've ever done is just about
Speaker 1: sinuses and laryngitis and you chain smoking cigarettes while to
Speaker 1: a slot machine.
Speaker 2: I swear that's what it sounds like. The hard part
Speaker 2: is when people are like, well, do you have a
Speaker 2: sore throat? And I'm like, well, yeah, because can you
Speaker 2: hear how strenuous it is for me to yeah right now?
Speaker 2: And imagine I got to go to Wango Tango this
Speaker 2: last weekend for.
Speaker 3: Them, and you told me a little bit about it.
Speaker 3: What did you think?
Speaker 2: Okay, so for the first time now, like, honestly, I
Speaker 2: feel like Wango Tango over the years, I mean, it's
Speaker 2: been going on for it was going on when I
Speaker 2: was in high school. So you're talking like twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five years at the least, if it wasn't before that, right,
Speaker 2: And I remember, especially in high school, one group of
Speaker 2: girls and this was when you kind of knew whether
Speaker 2: you were in with this group or not. And they
Speaker 2: spelt out Wango Tango and added one exclamation mark at
Speaker 2: the end with their shirts. So then when they were
Speaker 2: in the stands, because it was at the Angel Stadium,
Speaker 2: you would see them. Okay, I didn't make from the
Speaker 2: W to the exclamation mark where there was no place
Speaker 2: to Sabrina, No.
Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna be like I was the end.
Speaker 2: No, I know, right, I'm like, we can't have like
Speaker 2: five exclamation marks. I'd be the fifth one.
Speaker 1: I totally.
Speaker 2: And so you know, it was such a big deal
Speaker 2: in high school for whatever reason, busy school whatever. And
Speaker 2: then after that, right after high schools went a lot
Speaker 2: of my stuff with career picked up. I know it
Speaker 2: was schedule wise. I've never been to Waygo Tango and this,
Speaker 2: And I listened to Kiss FM like ad bid like
Speaker 2: you do. I mean before Ryan Sea Chris was on it,
Speaker 2: I was listening to it. I always loved it and
Speaker 2: I still do. That's the number one station I listened
Speaker 2: to and hashtag I heart so. I literally I d SO.
Speaker 2: This was so exciting to go to. However, I had
Speaker 2: my daughter's little dance party tea party before and it
Speaker 2: was so hot. I was already melting trying to get
Speaker 2: myself ready for it. It just wasn't the dream day.
Speaker 2: But when we got down to Huntington, it was cool
Speaker 2: because this was the first time they've done it. You know,
Speaker 2: in Huntington on the beach, really, no one that worked
Speaker 2: for iHeart really knew what to expect for everyone. You know,
Speaker 2: they were kind of going, Okay, this is the you know,
Speaker 2: there was a gifting suite. There was such great products there.
Speaker 2: It was so fun, very chill, very ocy beach life,
Speaker 2: living right on the ocean. They had a gorgeous room
Speaker 2: at Pisa for us. Then we walked down to the
Speaker 2: red carpet and Tara, our producer, I got to hang
Speaker 2: out with her on our way there, and she was
Speaker 2: telling me, you know, Megan Trainer, I've heard from her
Speaker 2: publicist that she's actually a pretty big Cheena Girl fan.
Speaker 2: And I'm like, oh my gosh, I love Megan Trainer.
Speaker 2: She's a mom, she is kill, she looks amazing, and
Speaker 2: she's literally one of the best songwriters. She's so awesome.
Speaker 2: It's like, that's so awesome. She's like, yeah, that's what
Speaker 2: she told me. She's a pretty big Cheetah Girl fan.
Speaker 2: I'm like, wow. She As we're walking into the tent
Speaker 2: where the red carpet is, Megan's walking out will she
Speaker 2: notices me right away and it was just this most
Speaker 2: amazing moment. It's been so long since I've gone on
Speaker 2: her red carpet, and like people are excited really to
Speaker 2: like see me, like you know, they'll do the nostalgic
Speaker 2: thing with the Cheetah girls. But it was like it
Speaker 2: was just such an incredible moment. We hugged. I told
Speaker 2: her how much I loved like her work and everything,
Speaker 2: and she goes, oh, my gosh, you don't understand. I
Speaker 2: was always Derinda from the Cheetah Girls, Like that was me.
Speaker 2: All my friends knew I was Derenda, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: she has no idea, Like I'm trying to hold it together.
Speaker 2: I'm like inside, like freaking out. And then she I
Speaker 2: go well, and then she goes and I always wore orange,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, thank you, cause that's my biggest thing.
Speaker 2: People can't find orange floor suits, so they go yellow,
Speaker 2: and that's okay because it's hard. But the fact that
Speaker 2: she found herself an orange floor suit really makes me
Speaker 2: feel like.
Speaker 3: She's like a die hard.
Speaker 2: So you had fun at least ypt telling me yes.
Speaker 2: Then at the last bit she said, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I love you. You're the reason why I'm a pop star.
Speaker 3: What what she's giant?
Speaker 2: Well, she is giant and either her songs. She's also
Speaker 2: written so many songs for other artists, like she's so incredible.
Speaker 2: That was like the most biggest takeaway moment. Then I
Speaker 2: got to watch her on stage because she was performing.
Speaker 2: Then my girl went Stefani performed. I mean, the night
Speaker 2: just kept getting better cool. The only thing that was
Speaker 2: horrible was I hate sand, so I had to walk
Speaker 2: into sand a few times, and you know, I didn't
Speaker 2: let that get me down. But it was an amazing show.
Speaker 2: It was so fine. It was a great date night,
Speaker 2: great day night for Jordan and I to get all
Speaker 2: about the kids.
Speaker 3: And good for you. I'm glad.
Speaker 2: I love you a lot.
Speaker 1: For the record, Gwen Stefani is a pop star because
Speaker 1: she saw me as Eric Matthews and boy me world.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Uh, none of that. Why would
Speaker 3: not have anything with anything? Did I bet you? She didn't?
Speaker 2: I bet you, I bet you. She is a Disney fan.
Speaker 1: Well, if we've got a Disney fan, I say, we
Speaker 1: have Megan Trainer on the on the show.
Speaker 2: Then I asked her she'd love to come, so we'll have.
Speaker 1: Her pick her favorite. Maybe Cheatah Girls, maybe like we
Speaker 1: had Danielle on for Zombies. Maybe we'll do a Cheetah
Speaker 1: Girls with with her.
Speaker 2: Told her the exact thing she would love to and
Speaker 2: I said, even if we can't get it together for
Speaker 2: this Cheatah Girls, maybe the next one or if you
Speaker 2: have a different dcom. She goes, I loved all of them.
Speaker 2: That's great, this is great, So we'll find something mean
Speaker 2: fangirling for life over here, fangirling.
Speaker 3: For that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to Magical, 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 Meghan Trainer was dough.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilferdell, I'm Sabrina Bryant.
Speaker 1: Speaking of gambling, and Sabrina hooked to machines. It's time
Speaker 1: to hit on soft sixteen and bet on black because
Speaker 1: we're winning big with this week's nineteen eighty seven Magical
Speaker 1: World of Disney. Let me say that again, people, you
Speaker 1: heard that right, nineteen eighty seven Magical World of Disney
Speaker 1: TV movie. Again, Magical World of Disney movie, not even
Speaker 1: Wonderful World yet And the movie title you.
Speaker 3: Ruin my life.
Speaker 1: And of course I have to say it like that
Speaker 1: because it has an exclamation point. The movie debuted February first,
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, on ABC, the network for these films
Speaker 1: at the time. And once you know what the plot
Speaker 1: of the movie is about, you'll know why. But the
Speaker 1: movie is shot in Las Vegas. We haven't seen it, okay,
Speaker 1: we have to talk to see that I don't get
Speaker 1: that oh yet, but that is right. It is a
Speaker 1: brand new location, Utah and Canada. Each your hearts out, Sabrina.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite Vegas movie ever?
Speaker 2: Oh? Gosh, I really liked The Hangover.
Speaker 3: I I I a great movie.
Speaker 2: You watched that on repe It's just so funny. I
Speaker 2: think that's one I'm gonna I do like any movie
Speaker 2: because I love the man, any movie that goes ahead
Speaker 2: and gets a cameo with Wayne Newton. Okay, we'll also
Speaker 2: be watching because all of them are pretty pretty amazing.
Speaker 3: No, that's fair enough.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with I loved for different reasons Casino,
Speaker 1: brilliant movie, Leaving Las Vegas, brilliant movie, The Oceans movies
Speaker 1: I thought were a fun way to look at Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: which I've never seen before.
Speaker 2: Didn't even think of the ocean.
Speaker 1: Yes, And then for a whole different reason, Showgirls. So uh,
Speaker 1: how about all time Vegas?
Speaker 3: Casino? You say you love Vegas. Where do you go?
Speaker 3: Where do you stay when you're there?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Geez, well I got to perform with Dancer with the
Speaker 2: Stars live in Las Vegas at the Tropicana, and I
Speaker 2: get to live there. That was rad it's no longer there.
Speaker 3: It is not Canta.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was awesome to be on that stage just
Speaker 2: because of the history, legacy of course people that had
Speaker 2: performed on that and it was all it felt very
Speaker 2: old school. It was just awesome, and even though I
Speaker 2: was in like a newer tower, just felt like an
Speaker 2: older hotel. But it was amazing. And then I think, gosh,
Speaker 2: we well we've probably been we kind of jump around,
Speaker 2: but we've gone to the Aria quite a bit. But
Speaker 2: I'm I'm interested in seeing the new ones that are
Speaker 2: out there, right.
Speaker 3: That's what I was just gonna say.
Speaker 1: So we just well, we just did to two Vegas
Speaker 1: things in a row. We were just there last weekend
Speaker 1: for Danielle's birthday. We saw Dead and Co at the Sphere,
Speaker 1: which was unreal.
Speaker 2: Oh, I haven't been in this sphere yet.
Speaker 3: Both times.
Speaker 1: We stayed now at the new Fountain Blue and it's incredible.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 1: It's huge and massive and clean, and the food's incredible
Speaker 1: and it's quiet.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, is that farther down?
Speaker 3: I think so.
Speaker 1: I don't like Las Vegas or not particularly well, so
Speaker 1: I think it's on the strip farther down.
Speaker 3: But I don't anyway.
Speaker 1: We know that the ABC movies were able to get
Speaker 1: a little bit riskier with their subject matter. But do
Speaker 1: you think that modern day Disney would make a movie
Speaker 1: with kids about gambling?
Speaker 3: You think this would happen.
Speaker 2: I think they would do something, possibly like within a Casino.
Speaker 2: I don't know if it would be. I don't know
Speaker 2: if this movie was really a round gambling. It was
Speaker 2: more I mean, yeah, I need to pay off his debt,
Speaker 2: but it was more about like the teaching aspect. I
Speaker 2: saw it as you know, it's kind of just like
Speaker 2: the pre up into what the strange.
Speaker 3: It was a strange balance.
Speaker 2: But it would not be there would not be you know,
Speaker 2: the level of how much it was very I guess, yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess you're right. You're right, You're right, you're right.
Speaker 1: So, in addition to this movie airing on ABC, this
Speaker 1: one did make its way to home video.
Speaker 3: Kids.
Speaker 1: Home video, you used to go to the store and
Speaker 1: actually pick up a video, making for a popular rental
Speaker 1: back in its day.
Speaker 3: Do you gamble?
Speaker 2: I do?
Speaker 3: What's your game?
Speaker 2: I like craps?
Speaker 3: Okay, we killed it that one night. It was so
Speaker 3: much fun. We'll hold the craps table. One night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so fun. I can't do blackjack. I get
Speaker 2: nervous when people are around me, and I'm like having
Speaker 2: to add And I know i'd like have the rules.
Speaker 2: Jordan's taught me it, but I can't move that fast.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, And dealers are, especially in Vegas, are so fast. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very quick at the blackjack table.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they're just pumping it out. Yeah. I'm not
Speaker 3: much of a gambler, but it was fun that one night. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, since this is not an actual dcom, this one
Speaker 1: is not viewable on Disney Plus, but it's on the YouTube,
Speaker 1: so you can go watch it right now for free,
Speaker 1: or watch it after listening to our opinions. I would
Speaker 1: never tell you what to do, but let's put it
Speaker 1: this way. Even if you turn this podcast off right now,
Speaker 1: I'm going to keep talking, and then you're.
Speaker 3: Never going to know what we're saying.
Speaker 1: We're committed to this thing and we're going to see
Speaker 1: it through with or without your help. Uh, Sabrina, did
Speaker 1: you know anything about ruined my life? You ruined you
Speaker 1: ruined my life before it's inclusion.
Speaker 2: I'm actor We've got it on the last episode, no idea,
Speaker 2: and honestly, nothing about this title really gives you an
Speaker 2: idea what this is going to be.
Speaker 3: No, there's nothing. This is going to put this up
Speaker 3: there with the thirteenth Year.
Speaker 2: I know who was in it.
Speaker 3: Nothing. I'm not even gonna.
Speaker 1: Say thirteenth year, because at least that they explained why
Speaker 1: it was called the thirteenth year.
Speaker 3: You figured it out during the movie. This one, I
Speaker 3: didn't actually get Who's ruining whose life? Why? Why is
Speaker 3: the exclamation point necessary? There's a lot.
Speaker 1: Okay, call room service, everybody, because it's time for the
Speaker 1: official synopsis. Minerva, a mischievous and privileged young girl, is
Speaker 1: sent to live with her uncle Howie, who runs a
Speaker 1: Las Vegas hotel, and when a down on his luck
Speaker 1: teacher finds himself in a gambling debt, he must form
Speaker 1: an unlikely bond with the girl to help her get
Speaker 1: accepted at a prestigious boarding school to clear his financial crisis.
Speaker 1: Taking a deep breath now, because yikes, that synopsis is
Speaker 1: as long and confusing as this film was to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like adding in it's like a
Speaker 1: prestigious boarding school, this financial crisis to the airplane.
Speaker 2: It was like wait, well, even the first like scene
Speaker 2: with them him in what room were they in? Where
Speaker 2: were they? What I don't know was that I don't know,
Speaker 2: no idea was a teacher in the school. I was like,
Speaker 2: what is going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was? It was. The whole thing is strange.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It's also worth stating up top here the title
Speaker 1: you in my Life, as we talked about, is never
Speaker 1: actually said or referenced in dialogue in any way, shape
Speaker 1: or form. It's kind of a random title for being honest.
Speaker 1: That makes no sense. Whose life is ruined? Is it
Speaker 1: her life that's ruined? Is it his life? Is everybody's
Speaker 1: life ruined? We just don't know either way. You ruin
Speaker 1: My Life is directed by David Ashwell. Ashwell was a
Speaker 1: successful commercial director, but this is his only credit in movies.
Speaker 3: Yes, his only one. No more movies, no more TV.
Speaker 3: This was it at all.
Speaker 1: In two thousand and one, he appeared to have turned
Speaker 1: his focus to painting full time, where he mostly recreates
Speaker 1: Malibu landscapes and lives back in England. That's how I
Speaker 1: like to pronounce it. The movie stars, so let Moonfry
Speaker 1: as Minerva, sort of unrelated.
Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of the name Minerva before?
Speaker 2: That was one of my very first Sabrina Seas. Once
Speaker 2: we figured out what her name, What in the good
Speaker 2: god is that name?
Speaker 1: I can okay, So Minerva is a is a Greek god.
Speaker 3: But I'm gonna go one more with you.
Speaker 1: I think because we had Minerva and Hermione in this one,
Speaker 1: who were both huge characters in Harry Potter. And this
Speaker 1: is Minerva mcgarnicle was Missus mcgarnigal's name, and Hermione Granger
Speaker 1: is Harry's name. Then we have Howie that sounds like Harry.
Speaker 1: And this was nineteen eighty seven, so I'm guessing JK.
Speaker 1: Rowling was actually a fan of this movie and she
Speaker 1: took a number of the names from this movie.
Speaker 2: Oh you, I thought you were gonna say the books.
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna do the opposite of it.
Speaker 1: No, this is nineteen eighty seven. This came out well
Speaker 1: for any of the books or anything.
Speaker 2: I do not know that way. Oh yeah, for this
Speaker 2: many times? Oh no, I did those books could be
Speaker 2: out for one hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, no, no, this is no, this is this
Speaker 1: was all pre Harry Potter. As I'm getting one Harry
Speaker 1: Potter name after another, I'm going like, Howie sounds like Harry,
Speaker 1: Minerva Hermione, It's like wow, We've got a bunch, Oh wow,
Speaker 1: Minerva Minerva mcgarnicle. Anyway, so Let is of course best
Speaker 1: known as the iconic character Punky Brewster, a show she
Speaker 1: started as a child that ran for four seasons in
Speaker 1: the eighties. She was a pop culture juggernaut, but Soley
Speaker 1: would also go on to play Roxy on Sabrina the
Speaker 1: Teenage Witch and appeared in The Rider's Strong Vehicles Summertime Switch,
Speaker 1: which of course we recapped on Podmeat's World. She has
Speaker 1: since transitioned into directing documentaries, her first two being Kid ninety,
Speaker 1: the story of her journey through Hollywood and the young
Speaker 1: adult she met along the way, and now The Carter's
Speaker 1: Hurts to Love You, the story of a family torn
Speaker 1: of art by fame, addiction, and mental illness. Soley is
Speaker 1: also somebody who is very, very nice, and I thought
Speaker 1: everybody should know that.
Speaker 3: Were you too young for Bunkie Brewster?
Speaker 2: I was when they were airing, I think, But I
Speaker 2: definitely watched a lot of the reruns. Okay, whether they
Speaker 2: were back on ABC or they were if they I
Speaker 2: don't know if they ever transitioned into Disney Channel.
Speaker 3: But I don't think it was Disney Channel, but they
Speaker 3: showed him somewhere.
Speaker 2: Man, she was just so cute and I just like,
Speaker 2: I absolutely loved watching any time I got a chance
Speaker 2: to watch that.
Speaker 1: I told I told Sole, she's on the list for
Speaker 1: me of reasons why I became an actor, because Punky Brewster,
Speaker 1: that's right in my age, right in my range. And
Speaker 1: and you watched this girl who was my age at
Speaker 1: the time, six or seven when she started starring on TV,
Speaker 1: and it was like that, I need to do that.
Speaker 1: I've said that too bunch of people, But she's on
Speaker 1: that list.
Speaker 2: I swear it popped in my head so many times.
Speaker 2: If Monroe got a chance to see this little girl,
Speaker 2: she would.
Speaker 3: Be She'd love it, she'd love it hooked.
Speaker 2: Because there's just so much of that personality that Moelle has.
Speaker 2: I was like, oh no, she would just that would
Speaker 2: be it. Mom punkin Agent, I'm Punky to be Punky.
Speaker 1: We've also got the great Paul Riser is Dexter Bunch
Speaker 1: great name. Riser began his career as a stand up
Speaker 1: comedian in New York, but would appear in amazing movies
Speaker 1: like this, just this, this list, Diner, Aliens, Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: Cop and Whiplash, will just stop there. But as best
Speaker 1: known as the Emmy winning star and co creator of
Speaker 1: the TV show Mad About You. We are big Paul
Speaker 1: Riser fans in this family over here incredible.
Speaker 3: And then we have Mimi Rogers. She plays Charlotte Rogers.
Speaker 1: Appeared in movies like Gung Ho, The Rapture in Austin,
Speaker 1: Powers and TV shows like Two and a Half Men, Bosh,
Speaker 1: and Madmen, but she is probably best known as Tom Cruise,
Speaker 1: his wife from nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety. She's
Speaker 1: also a very accomplished poker player, even serving on the
Speaker 1: board of Directors for the World Poker Tour. Crazy and
Speaker 1: a recognizable face, a real oh that guy. Actor Alan
Speaker 1: Garfield plays Howie Harry. Garfield appeared in Beverly Hills Cop two,
Speaker 1: The Conversation Nashville, and Woody Allen's Bananas.
Speaker 3: Great movie.
Speaker 1: A great character actor who's also just superbness. He passed
Speaker 1: away unfortunately in twenty twenty from COVID complications, and he
Speaker 1: was put at high risk after suffering a stroke back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and two. And I'm sad to report
Speaker 1: that even if we think we have a winning hand
Speaker 1: with this movie, this movie is one hundred minutes long,
Speaker 1: ten minutes off target, which is, without hyperbole, disgusting people.
Speaker 3: So as a result, I will say this movie is.
Speaker 1: Say it with me, Sabrina too long.
Speaker 3: It's time.
Speaker 2: If you watch it on YouTube, they have all of
Speaker 2: the commercials made it was awesome much longer. But the
Speaker 2: commercials were awesome. Would it made it that much longer?
Speaker 2: And it made me think, well, I'll go I'll do
Speaker 2: that at the Greatesease because it really was like I
Speaker 2: had just pause aka quick moment went wow, okay yeow.
Speaker 1: I did not skip a single commercial though. These commercials
Speaker 1: brought me right back to my childhood. I knew all
Speaker 1: of the I knew all of the songs. I knew
Speaker 1: the juicy fruit jingle, I knew all of them.
Speaker 2: Nickers one killed Me.
Speaker 1: Nickers, the little sticklets, sticklets gum, I remember that where
Speaker 1: they're like for some reason they thought thinner gum and
Speaker 1: more pieces nine slim sticks instead of seven wide ones.
Speaker 1: What the fuck?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I didn't go out. I watched it all and
Speaker 1: the writer is Robin Sweetcord.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that writer swy Cord, Now, let's talk about
Speaker 1: humble beginnings. This was only her second movie, but she
Speaker 1: went on to write this list is Staggering, nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: four is Little Women, nineteen ninety six is Matilda cult hit,
Speaker 1: Practical Magic, Memoirs of a Geisha, and The Curious Case
Speaker 1: of Benjamin Button, a script that got her nominated for
Speaker 1: an Oscar and a Colden Globe. Some huge credits for
Speaker 1: swy Cord ors record, I hope and saying, I think
Speaker 1: it's swy Cord a much more impressive list than what
Speaker 1: we're used to for actual Disney Channel movies. They get
Speaker 1: great writers on d COM's absolutely not saying they don't,
Speaker 1: but it is a different caliber of writer when you're
Speaker 1: going on to then win Academy Awards and Golden Globes
Speaker 1: and nominated for all this different kind of stuff.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, he just announced Practical Magic too is possibly
Speaker 2: in the works. Both of the actress, Sandra Bullock and
Speaker 2: Nicole Kidman have confirmed there's one in the work, So
Speaker 2: we're for this. So that movie was, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, it was so bad.
Speaker 3: Well, she's got the banger after banger this one.
Speaker 4: Oh wow, all right, so let's get this line of
Speaker 4: credit and start.
Speaker 3: You ruined My life.
Speaker 1: The movie opens with a stretched white limo driving into Vegas.
Speaker 1: Before sunset, we see the magical nineteen eighty skyline of
Speaker 1: the strip, eventually giving us some shots of hotels that
Speaker 1: are just memories in twenty twenty five, the Dunes, Oasis, Stardust, Frontier,
Speaker 1: Imperial Palace, all since demolished and replaced. Delimmo eventually pulls
Speaker 1: up to one of the hotels that's actually still there,
Speaker 1: Caesar's Palace. Two hotel employees congregate to announce she's coming back,
Speaker 1: even though she was just here. She's coming back. Apparently
Speaker 1: things are going to liven up soon. But inside the hotel,
Speaker 1: a cashier isn't as happy. He wants her kept away
Speaker 1: from his bank. A security guard even gets on the
Speaker 1: loudspeaker it's a Minerva alert. One cocktail waitress is thrilled
Speaker 1: with the news, and Jake the bartender hides his cherries.
Speaker 1: That sounded strange, but that's what happens. Inside his large office,
Speaker 1: a big wig named Howie can't believe she's coming back
Speaker 1: after only four weeks. His receptionist Charlotte eventually brings him
Speaker 1: a milk, which obviously would have been alcohol if it
Speaker 1: wasn't Disney, But you know, they got to give him
Speaker 1: a little stomach problem, so they're giving him milk instead.
Speaker 1: How he instructs Charlotte to buy Minerva a present and
Speaker 1: fill out a loving card and market from Uncle Howie. Also,
Speaker 1: he says, if aunt Hermione, Harry Potter calls, say nothing.
Speaker 1: I assume it's because she's at a wizarding school again
Speaker 1: and he's scared of her powers. But it's too late anyway,
Speaker 1: Charlotte breaks the news Hermione already knows. The limo finally
Speaker 1: pulls up to Caesar's right in front of the sign
Speaker 1: advertising cool in the Gang performing Soon, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: The valet guy helps Minerva out of the limo and
Speaker 1: we see she's dressed in a schoolgirl outfit, roller skates,
Speaker 1: long red gloves, and a red feather boa. She skates off,
Speaker 1: leaving a piece of chocolate as a tip. Now in
Speaker 1: the hotel, Minerva screams out hey everybody, I'm back, and
Speaker 1: is instantly embraced by Lorraine, the cocktail waitress, who catches
Speaker 1: her up on her recent soap opera storylines. Minerva then
Speaker 1: visits Jake, the bartender, who lovingly sprays them all with water.
Speaker 1: Minerva immediately notices that the cherries are gone. Yep, still
Speaker 1: sounds weird, Serena.
Speaker 3: Have your kids ever been to Vegas? You ever take
Speaker 3: them there? Or is it just like this, This is
Speaker 3: just for my husband and I.
Speaker 2: No, they have not been to Vegas. Jordan and I
Speaker 2: actually that's where we kind of said we fell in
Speaker 2: love because I met him really close to when I
Speaker 2: actually had to be there for four months. Oh, key
Speaker 2: and I have been in Vegas. That's a really awesome place.
Speaker 2: We ended up getting married there, but Mary Vegas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we got married at Wayne Newton's house, like.
Speaker 3: Newton there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Him and I were on the Dancing with the Stars
Speaker 2: show the first time I was on together, and we
Speaker 2: went on tour. So I've been close with his family
Speaker 2: for a long time. And when he met Jordan, he's
Speaker 2: the one. He opened a business. We went into opening.
Speaker 2: He met Jordan that night and said this guy's the one,
Speaker 2: this is the one right here, and he found out
Speaker 2: we got engaged. He's like, I'd love to host you guys.
Speaker 2: How else would be amazing, and like.
Speaker 6: Uh, dude, you got married A wait, I would I
Speaker 6: would argue, and this is a tough argument to make,
Speaker 6: but I could argue Wayne Newton is even better than
Speaker 6: fig Newton's And I know that's tough.
Speaker 2: But a great definitely better than fig Newton.
Speaker 3: All right. I love that. Then a security guard named Mustache.
Speaker 1: Without any explanation outside of him having one, gives her
Speaker 1: a bear hug and carries her to see.
Speaker 3: Quote unquote the boss, Uncle Howie.
Speaker 1: Now we're in his office. How he's upset with Minerva.
Speaker 1: Ten schools in five years is a disaster. He loves
Speaker 1: his niece, but this is embarrassing. He'll get her anything
Speaker 1: if she just stays in school. Minerva apologizes she is
Speaker 1: not made for school. She wants to stay at the
Speaker 1: hotel and talk about Lorraine's divorce. This kid right on
Speaker 1: cue on Hermione storms in, she can't believe Minerva was
Speaker 1: kicked out of it yet another school. She's demanding full
Speaker 1: custody to get her away from the shady Vegas crowd.
Speaker 1: Minerva says she wants to live with Howie, but on
Speaker 1: Hermione says she's too young to make her own decisions.
Speaker 3: And with that, Minerva.
Speaker 1: Falls off of her roller skates, taking some drapes down
Speaker 1: along the way. She's okay, but she is way too
Speaker 1: young to be making your own decisions. She should not
Speaker 1: be at that hotel, she should not be in that situation,
Speaker 1: and she should be at a school.
Speaker 3: With a loving family.
Speaker 1: Right away, I was like, Nope, she's wrong, the uncle's wrong,
Speaker 1: and aun't Hermione, who's the villain, seems to be the
Speaker 1: only one actually looking out for.
Speaker 3: This child's well being. Absolutely so yeah.
Speaker 1: We then cut to EI or the Eastern Institute of
Speaker 1: Technology in Boston, which is supposed to be MIT, but
Speaker 1: just in another part of town. We see a group
Speaker 1: of police there entering the lab, and inside is a
Speaker 1: pretty active scene. Men are lined up standing in front
Speaker 1: of computers, which I'm putting computers in quotes because this
Speaker 1: is computers in nineteen eighty seven, so these are still
Speaker 1: kind of new, while a professor named Dexter walks up
Speaker 1: and down the line taking bets. It's blackjack, and there's
Speaker 1: a different game on every screen. But just as the
Speaker 1: hands are dealt in walks the cops and the dean.
Speaker 3: It's a raid.
Speaker 1: Dexter tries to say it's a top secret research project,
Speaker 1: but he's deemed a disgrace to the institution. The next day,
Speaker 1: Dexter's at the bank talking to his friend, one of
Speaker 1: the branches employees. Dexter says he doesn't care if he
Speaker 1: gets reprimanded. He doesn't want to teach anymore. He's going
Speaker 1: to take a year sabbatical and then write a book
Speaker 1: in Fiji. But first he's stopping in Vegas for a
Speaker 1: little financial help. He reveals a box with flickering lights
Speaker 1: strapped to his stomach.
Speaker 3: Now nine out of ten people in a bank would
Speaker 3: have assumed this was a bomb, so not good planning, Bud.
Speaker 1: It's also the most giant computer thing I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life, just strapped to a thing. But Dexter
Speaker 1: calls it the ultimate blackjack system. It'll count cards and
Speaker 1: tell him what to do through his watch. He just
Speaker 1: needs a line of credit from the bank, but he
Speaker 1: only has fifty dollars as collateral, so Dexter spills some
Speaker 1: of a soda on his friend, forcing him to run
Speaker 1: to the bathroom. While he's gone, Dexter decides to creep
Speaker 1: under the computer and change his fifty dollars balance to fifty.
Speaker 3: Thousand, you know, just some casual, enormous bank front and jump. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, yikes. Now, did you have any concerns about
Speaker 3: Dexter at this point?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was very strange to me. Again, like I said,
Speaker 2: I don't feel like it was set up enough to
Speaker 2: know that he was a teacher. You really had to
Speaker 2: pay attention. I felt to like the dialogue that he
Speaker 2: was talking about then he was just like he had
Speaker 2: everything planned out this Like you said, it looked like
Speaker 2: a bomb. He had just a little bit. He was
Speaker 2: a little like kind of shady, sketchy, sketchy to me,
Speaker 2: you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I agree they were trying to they It was weird.
Speaker 1: It was almost like for the first part of the
Speaker 1: movie they almost had to rewrite his character because Paul
Speaker 1: Riser doesn't come off as a bank robber, gonna rob
Speaker 1: a casino guy, no, but comes off as a great
Speaker 1: teaure So it was like he was he miscast?
Speaker 3: Was he properly cast? I don't know.
Speaker 1: It was It was strange to me what they were
Speaker 1: going because I love Paul Riser, but I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't buy him as bank robber guy.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I just don't he wasn't doing a bankrupt
Speaker 2: he was kind I mean.
Speaker 1: He stole fifty thousand dollars from a bank and then
Speaker 1: tried to screw a casino with a giant cheating machine.
Speaker 2: Seeing things like this, though, like I'm like, is it
Speaker 2: could have really honestly been that easy to do stuff
Speaker 2: like this back then?
Speaker 1: Like I know, no, although the one they show in casino,
Speaker 1: have you seen that where it's like there's it takes
Speaker 1: two guys and one of them like taps on his leg,
Speaker 1: and then there's the other one has like a thing
Speaker 1: on his leg where a pencil taps him and it's
Speaker 1: like Morse code and all that kind of stuff, so
Speaker 1: they can get into some pretty involved stuff to rob
Speaker 1: these It was.
Speaker 2: Literally like let me fake a glass of coke or diet. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was little, and it was literally like let me
Speaker 2: just reach over and click the zero a few times.
Speaker 2: I'm like, is that like where bank tellers just like
Speaker 2: I get it?
Speaker 1: So maybe when were new I don't know either, but
Speaker 1: anywhere now back at the hotel, Minerva orders carts and
Speaker 1: carts and carts of room service because kids love room service. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's such a treat. Although when I was just there.
Speaker 1: I got two bagels, my wife and I got This
Speaker 1: is not a joke. We were at the hotel. My
Speaker 1: wife and I got two bagels, two orange juices, and
Speaker 1: two coffees, and it was one hundred and twenty three dollars.
Speaker 1: It's got robbery. It's insane. It's absolutely insane. We were laughing,
Speaker 1: like this can't be right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: When I go on vacation, my favorite thing. I love
Speaker 2: to go to brunch. I don't really eat breakfast a
Speaker 2: ton in real life. I love to go to a
Speaker 2: brunch and I love to have room service. But h
Speaker 2: I it's crazy, especially in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I just can't we it's we were at the at
Speaker 1: the gift shop waiting for our car.
Speaker 3: We were at the gift shops. I only drive to Vegas.
Speaker 3: I hate that flight. It's too bumpy.
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, I can't handle that drive.
Speaker 3: Oh I love the drive.
Speaker 1: So we're there, and on May twenty seventh is my
Speaker 1: eleven year anniversary without smoking a cigarette. So it's been
Speaker 1: a very long time that I haven't smoked. And we're
Speaker 1: sitting down there and I look behind the cashier and
Speaker 1: I see packs of cigarettes and I said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's been so long, and we're in Vegas. I said,
Speaker 1: it's been so long, I'm just curious. How much is
Speaker 1: a pack of cigarettes? And the woman dead straight said
Speaker 1: twenty seven dollars? What it was to the point where
Speaker 1: the other four people in the story had exactly are
Speaker 1: people we hadn't even talked to you around, Like.
Speaker 3: What did you just say? Twenty seven dollars?
Speaker 1: How you remember it was when I started smoking, it
Speaker 1: was a dollar ninety.
Speaker 2: Well that seems crazy too.
Speaker 1: Twenty seven dollars a pack, isn't that insane? So if
Speaker 1: you're a packa day smoker, which I was, is thirty
Speaker 1: dollars a day.
Speaker 2: Especially though now I don't. You don't see people smoking
Speaker 2: actual cigarettes anymore.
Speaker 3: Every no, no, thank god, it's going away. It's going away.
Speaker 3: It's going twenty seven dollars a pack. Yep, there you go.
Speaker 2: It's an expense of how much would a carton be?
Speaker 3: You'd have to call Zurich and move move some money around.
Speaker 3: It'd be crazy.
Speaker 1: There is now a knock at the door, and it's
Speaker 1: another kid named Yaki. He's celebrating his birthday and wearing
Speaker 1: a leather jacket. It's a bomber jacket. That's how you
Speaker 1: know he's a bad ass. He invites Minerva onto a
Speaker 1: boat ride and she immediately accepts. We cut today, Foulton,
Speaker 1: he does the little baby bad ass. We cut to
Speaker 1: the fountains in front of Caesar's Palace, where Yaki and
Speaker 1: Minerva are rowing in a boat.
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a nice little rowboat, wearing pirate and sailing hats.
Speaker 1: Just as Uncle Howie drives by and he can't believe
Speaker 1: what he sees, but apparently does nothing about it, just
Speaker 1: keeps on driving. Minerva decides to make Yaki's birthday cake
Speaker 1: in the casino kitchen. So now the two kids try
Speaker 1: their hardest to mimic a nearby chef, and it's beautiful
Speaker 1: cake making, but Minerva adds gumballs to their concoction and
Speaker 1: odd decision for pastry. The kids leave their creation to
Speaker 1: find more frosting, and while they're gone, a waiter accidentally
Speaker 1: picks up the cake for the dining room.
Speaker 3: When Minerva and Yaki return, they.
Speaker 1: Realize what's happened, and they run off, and we never
Speaker 1: find anything about this. Nobody takes a cut of the cake,
Speaker 1: no one sees a piece, no one bites into, but
Speaker 1: it just that's it.
Speaker 3: There was a lot of things in this.
Speaker 1: Movie were just scenes that meant nothing, that went nowhere.
Speaker 1: There's a couple more coming up where I was like,
Speaker 1: why do they have that?
Speaker 2: Didn't this cut straight to her getting in trouble?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, no, Later he mentions no in passing how
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, and then the cake with the gumballs.
Speaker 2: It's like, oh, they didn't get in trouble yet. Yeah.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the hotel, Howie and receptionist Charlotte are talking
Speaker 1: about her job. She wants to work in pr and
Speaker 1: build a spot to attract a younger crowd, but how
Speaker 1: He says she's a good secretary and needs to stay
Speaker 1: that way. Little misogyny in the nineteen eighty seven that's
Speaker 1: just how it was, and that's what we see his
Speaker 1: niece Minerva laying out by the pool being served to
Speaker 1: drink by Lorraine. How He begs Minerva it go back
Speaker 1: to her room because people don't like seeing kids at
Speaker 1: the pool. It makes them feel guilty about their families
Speaker 1: back home. She follows his order, and Uncle Howie wonders
Speaker 1: if Hermione was right, maybe she should be in a
Speaker 1: big home with rules A bedtime and a loving family.
Speaker 3: Of course she should, Howie.
Speaker 1: Howie says she doesn't want her to end up being
Speaker 1: like him. He just runs around stress trying to keep
Speaker 1: his heart ulcer in check. He professes his love for her,
Speaker 1: but they must work out this behavior before Hermione returns.
Speaker 1: Now it's nighttime and Dexter's checking into the hotel. His
Speaker 1: Blackjack's stomach computer, his giant Blackjack stomach computer, is already
Speaker 1: beeping for some reason. Why you'd build this machine yourself
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be a secret Vegas thing and yet make.
Speaker 2: It beep the loudest and most beat It's like.
Speaker 1: You would have gone to what was called radio shack
Speaker 1: back in the day kids and ask for a loud
Speaker 1: beeping machine.
Speaker 3: Yikes.
Speaker 1: He asks for a line of credit from the cashier
Speaker 1: when Charlotte pops up. She's doing a survey for the
Speaker 1: hotel and offers help if he has any questions. Dexter
Speaker 1: is obviously very attracted to this receptionist, and the banker
Speaker 1: returns to give him a line of credit for that
Speaker 1: fifty grand. Remember this figure is based on the earlier
Speaker 1: bank fraud changing his life savings while his friend was
Speaker 1: away now committing a crime or not. Dexter's room is
Speaker 1: massive and very nineteen eighties. It has stares in a
Speaker 1: jacuzzi overlooking the entire strip. He lasts to himself and
Speaker 1: dances onto a leather sofa, probably because he's got all
Speaker 1: this for just taking out a line of credit. After
Speaker 1: a quick rest, he puts on his nicest suit and
Speaker 1: readies the giant blackjack stomach machine. He's very confident he'll
Speaker 1: make oodles and noodles of cash, giving himself a pep
Speaker 1: talk and singing around the room. Dexter wastes no time
Speaker 1: and walks down to the Casino Florida, scout the situation
Speaker 1: and tests the massive blinking loud box under his jacket.
Speaker 1: He eventually decides on a blackjack table and puts down
Speaker 1: his first bet. His hand is a dismal five and
Speaker 1: a ten or a fifteen. His watch then tells him
Speaker 1: to hit and boom, he gets a twenty great hand.
Speaker 1: How would the computer know what card is next if
Speaker 1: he just sat down?
Speaker 3: How would that be possible? Anyway?
Speaker 2: I imagine it was like he's counting cards.
Speaker 1: Right, but he just sat down, so he hasn't counted
Speaker 1: anything yet. That is true, Yeah, there's nothing to count,
Speaker 1: he just and again, you need the computer to tell
Speaker 1: you to stand on fifteen.
Speaker 3: Come on, It all depends on what they did anyway.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Dexter wins the first hand and goes on a
Speaker 1: massive streak thanks to his computer and watch.
Speaker 3: This guy cannot lose.
Speaker 1: Upstairs, Minerva is in a cocktail dress and pearls, giving
Speaker 1: herself a full face of makeup and perfume. She looks
Speaker 1: like she's about to perform in New Year's.
Speaker 3: Eve Vegas Show.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Dexter's constant blackjack wins have a master crowd and
Speaker 1: also the attention of casino security. The quote I in
Speaker 1: the sky unquote watches on, noticing he's been looking at
Speaker 1: his watch every hand. They think he's counting cards, so
Speaker 1: Mustache again. Mustache wants to see it first hand. At
Speaker 1: the table, Lorraine takes Dexter's drink order and thinks Dexter
Speaker 1: is really cute.
Speaker 3: She calls him the Brady type, but in.
Speaker 1: Reality, Dexter is really stupid, so stupid that he decides
Speaker 1: to put all of his winnings in for one hand.
Speaker 1: Mustache watches on as Dexter's dealt another crappy fifteen. Lorraine
Speaker 1: returns with the champagne, and an onlooker accidentally pushes Dexter's
Speaker 1: hand into the ice bucket.
Speaker 3: Uh oh, it's shorted out the watch. Dexter doesn't know
Speaker 3: what to do.
Speaker 1: He asks for a break, and a suspicious mustache tells
Speaker 1: him to take his time, which seems insane to me.
Speaker 1: That literally, there's cards on the table and they just
Speaker 1: let him walk away in the middle of the hand.
Speaker 1: It seems it didn't see no, it didn't seem no. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Minerva's having a candle lit dinner by herself. It seems
Speaker 1: like we should have been getting the idea that maybe
Speaker 1: this she didn't really love this lifestyle.
Speaker 3: She's lonely, she's that stuff. But no, she's digging it.
Speaker 1: She's watching a chorus line of girls rehearse for Howie
Speaker 1: and all of Howie's creepy friends. Dexter is now in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. He's trying to drive off his watch, begging
Speaker 1: it to work. He eventually makes his way back to
Speaker 1: the table after again a loud beeping exchange where he's
Speaker 1: in the toilet and the things beeping and the genitor's
Speaker 1: there and you didn't need that scene at all. Another
Speaker 1: scene where it was like, well, does anything happen? No,
Speaker 1: he just runs by the janitor and the beeping is stop,
Speaker 1: so why even do it?
Speaker 3: But he makes his way back to the table.
Speaker 1: He has no confidence in his invention now, and when
Speaker 1: he returns his cards, the dealer, the other players, they're
Speaker 1: all just waiting for him midhand.
Speaker 3: That seems like fun.
Speaker 1: And then at the same time, the cashier gets a call.
Speaker 1: It's about Dexter and is fifty grand.
Speaker 3: It looks like the j is up.
Speaker 1: Dexter, now, without the help of his magical, large, huge
Speaker 1: counting machine, decides to stand on fifteen, and then the
Speaker 1: dealer hits on her fifteen and gets a six. She
Speaker 1: has twenty one. Dexter's lost everything. He crawls away with
Speaker 1: his tail between his legs. We're now back at the
Speaker 1: course line. Minerva has now joined the girls dancing. When
Speaker 1: Yaki runs in. He wants to show her something. It's
Speaker 1: a computer at the front desk that also won't stop beeping. Apparently,
Speaker 1: in the mid to late eighties there was just a
Speaker 1: lot of beeping computers. Yaki jumps over the counter, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure is not a safe thing.
Speaker 3: To do at a Vegas casino. The two kids.
Speaker 1: Start pounding on the keyboard, making everything beep more. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: two ladies are having trouble opening their room door. It
Speaker 1: appears the kids playing on the computer have stripped the
Speaker 1: key cards of access, causing a major security issue.
Speaker 3: No one can get into the rooms.
Speaker 1: And if that wasn't enough, Mustache confronts a pouting Dexter
Speaker 1: at the bar.
Speaker 3: We're now in Howie's office.
Speaker 1: Minerva and Yaki are getting an earfull about their little
Speaker 1: computer gag. Yaki gets banned from the hotel and Minerva
Speaker 1: is being sent to her on her mind about Tom
Speaker 1: And just as the kids are taking away, Mustache walks
Speaker 1: in with a handcuffed Dexter. How he reveals he knows
Speaker 1: all about Dexter scam and even though he lost it all,
Speaker 1: he still stole from the casino to even play in
Speaker 1: the first place.
Speaker 3: Dexter tries to talk this way out of it, but.
Speaker 1: How he wants the original fifty k back and Dexter
Speaker 1: has no money to pay it off. Mustache also exposes
Speaker 1: the enormous blackjack computer and now how he swears he'll
Speaker 1: get that fifty thousand dollars even if he has to
Speaker 1: sell Dexter's teeth fillings. Dexter suggests he works it off
Speaker 1: in the casino, maybe by washing dishes, but how he
Speaker 1: points out that'll take fifty to sixty years.
Speaker 3: But how He then says, and this is where I
Speaker 3: was like, Okay, I get where they're going.
Speaker 1: But really how He then says he does have an
Speaker 1: idea for the teacher. Soon after, Dexter has moved to
Speaker 1: his new much smaller room under the garage and near
Speaker 1: the boiler room.
Speaker 3: He's then walked to meet his new student, Minerva. Yes,
Speaker 3: to pay off his debt, he has to become her teacher. Okay,
Speaker 3: he's blasting music, swinging a room which is filled with
Speaker 3: stuffed animals in a jukebox.
Speaker 1: It's a real Tom Hanks and Big vibe. It was
Speaker 1: a very eighties trope.
Speaker 3: It was loved it rich.
Speaker 1: It was what Silver Spoons did this, Big did this,
Speaker 1: the toy did this. It was all just was Richie Rich,
Speaker 1: Richie rich shirt. But no, but it was an eighties cartoon.
Speaker 1: I think the movie was in the early nineties, but
Speaker 1: it was an eighties cartoon. So yes, the kid with
Speaker 1: the awesome stuff in his room was a total eighties trope.
Speaker 1: But what did you feel about gambler guy who steals
Speaker 1: from casino having to pay it off by teaching the girl.
Speaker 2: Because he did not come off like truly didn't like
Speaker 2: you said, like just who he is as an actor
Speaker 2: is so like just girl guy next door type thing.
Speaker 2: He wasn't like, So it was a little bit easier.
Speaker 2: But when you think about it, it's like, okay, uncle,
Speaker 2: all right, fine, you find a teacher. You're not gonna
Speaker 2: have anyone else supervising this stranger you just got cheating
Speaker 2: who yeah, who you already know has a somewhat of
Speaker 2: a questionable situation and is in a questionable predicament of
Speaker 2: why he's there gambling and cheating. You're gonna have no
Speaker 2: supervision with this adorable kid.
Speaker 1: Dexter introduces himself, and she doesn't seem to be interested,
Speaker 1: but still sits down to gage her level of education.
Speaker 1: It becomes very obvious that she's way behind where she
Speaker 1: should be, with entire subjects completely missed. All she knows
Speaker 1: is what she's learned from the hotel, knowing what kind
Speaker 1: of work is ahead of them. Dexter talks to mid
Speaker 1: massage Uncle Hollie Dexter explains her education or lack thereof,
Speaker 1: can't be fixed quickly, which is true, but how he
Speaker 1: doesn't care. He wants Minerva to be like Princess Die
Speaker 1: and ready for a new boarding school in the fall.
Speaker 3: Dexter's job is to get her ready for.
Speaker 1: The exam in a few weeks, where she'll need to
Speaker 1: score eighty percent or better to get accepted. And they
Speaker 1: really set it up where this girl didn't know anything.
Speaker 1: Dexter says he's a teacher, not a magician, but if
Speaker 1: he can get her to pass, his debt will be erased.
Speaker 1: We're now back in my nervous room. Dexter immediately gets
Speaker 1: to work, but she's not listening. She's jumping on a
Speaker 1: trampoline and ordering room service. And once the food gets there,
Speaker 1: Yaki was hiding in one of the carts to hang out.
Speaker 3: Hashtag Yaki forever.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, once Day one is finished, Charlotte checks in with
Speaker 1: Dexter on his boiler room. She notices he's packing his
Speaker 1: bags and reminds him how he will find him no
Speaker 1: matter where he goes. Dexter admits gambling was stupid, but
Speaker 1: he's a human being, not someone here to reform someone
Speaker 1: else's kid, but Charlotte grew up on the strip too
Speaker 1: without parents and feels bad for Minerva. Dexter calls the
Speaker 1: kid unteachable, but also Charlotte tells Dexter she.
Speaker 3: Likes his feet. That wasn't that wasn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't skip anything there, dear listeners, That's basically what happens,
Speaker 1: he says. It's the girl's un teachable. He's like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe she's not unteachable. And she looks down. She's like,
Speaker 1: you've got nice toes or whatever, and it was like
Speaker 1: what And so the flirting between these two heats up,
Speaker 1: and they set up a time to get a drink together.
Speaker 1: Dexter also says he will try again with Minerva tomorrow,
Speaker 1: Sabrina feet yes or no?
Speaker 3: Oh no, okay, me too.
Speaker 1: However, the next day, when he arrives to Minerva's room,
Speaker 1: she's gone. She's left a note behind that reads, no
Speaker 1: lesson today had to work and thankfully all the words
Speaker 1: were spelled correctly. Dexter finds Minerva down at the bar
Speaker 1: getting her soap opera update from Lorraine.
Speaker 3: Dexter acts casual with her.
Speaker 1: He knows he can't force her to learn, but if
Speaker 1: she knows everything about the hotel.
Speaker 3: Why can't she do that with her schoolwork?
Speaker 1: So this is where I was like, Okay, I wonder
Speaker 1: how like he's gonna incorporate, how he's gonna mister Miagi
Speaker 1: her like, incorporate the whatever to get her to learn.
Speaker 3: And this is where we.
Speaker 2: See he does know the stuff she's interested in.
Speaker 1: Write her to learn, talk to her on her level.
Speaker 1: So he starts teaching her about former presidents by using
Speaker 1: money to point out their portraits, and it works. She
Speaker 1: seems excited, but that night, when he tries to drop
Speaker 1: off some textbooks to her room, she's focused on beauty
Speaker 1: Hour with Lorraine and some of the other hotel employees.
Speaker 1: She doesn't intend to study and tells Dexter to get lost.
Speaker 1: In turn, he admits his situation to the girl. He
Speaker 1: owes her uncle Howie fifty grand and this is how
Speaker 1: he'll survive the predicament. If not for the debt, he'd
Speaker 1: be out the door. But he's desperate open to help,
Speaker 1: so she leaves for his date with Charlotte, and it
Speaker 1: was very discompopulated by this point. Yes now alone, Minerva
Speaker 1: meets up with Yaki because you know hashtag Yaki forever.
Speaker 1: She tells him she's looking to raise fifty grand to
Speaker 1: get Dexter out of debt and out of her life.
Speaker 1: She'll even sell her famous nail polish collection and trumpets
Speaker 1: which all kids love trumpets.
Speaker 2: And famous nail ball Nobody's.
Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, did you just didn't know what Nice seven
Speaker 3: was like?
Speaker 2: Putn't know, but I need to know if a nail
Speaker 2: polish collection.
Speaker 3: Huge in the eighties was a.
Speaker 2: Thing to actually take it to a pawnshop, of.
Speaker 1: Course not no, even I know that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: That was just no.
Speaker 1: I know, but that that didn't happen, never happened.
Speaker 3: I promise you, that promised you. That wasn't a thing.
Speaker 1: Over at his fancy date, Dexter tells Charlotte that he
Speaker 1: feed one at Black Jackie would have bought a boat
Speaker 1: for Fiji, and says that they both have a lot
Speaker 1: in common. They're both anxious to change their lives, and
Speaker 1: they both feel trapped. Then how he arrives, he's happy
Speaker 1: to hear things went well with Minerva today and abruptly
Speaker 1: joins them for dinner without the invite.
Speaker 3: Downstairs, Minerva calls for her limo.
Speaker 1: She says she has to help Yaki Yaki Forever get home.
Speaker 1: They trust her, but the limo actually takes the two
Speaker 1: kids to a nearby sketchy pawn shop. The terrifying owner
Speaker 1: tries to hide some illegal business taking place in the
Speaker 1: back and laughs when Minerva asks for fifty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: minus three hundred dollars that she's already collected, and that's
Speaker 1: when we hear sirens. Cops has surrounded the shop and
Speaker 1: we get our second raid of the film. The sketchy
Speaker 1: pawnshop guys try to hide the money, but the police
Speaker 1: eventually detain everyone, even the kids.
Speaker 3: And this was another weird scene that just didn't seem necessary.
Speaker 2: But she was so cute. Yeah, when they're standing there
Speaker 2: all where she's standing there, she was.
Speaker 3: They were both just arrested. Adorable.
Speaker 1: The cast, the kids, they were great And just like
Speaker 1: that Mustache is marching Dexter right back to Howie's office,
Speaker 1: where aunt Hermione has also returned. How he can't believe
Speaker 1: the trouble his niece gotten into, and he's blamed her
Speaker 1: new teacher.
Speaker 3: Why he's blaming the teacher, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Dexter will need to watch over her twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven if that's what's needed, Because of course he's a
Speaker 1: strange her because if she doesn't pass the test, she'll
Speaker 1: become the property of Entremine, who then would take her
Speaker 1: and raise her properly and have her study, and then
Speaker 1: she'd actually be able.
Speaker 3: To showers the test. Well, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: The next day, Dexter arrives early to Minerva's room to
Speaker 1: start quote spring cleaning. He says a cluttered room can
Speaker 1: create a cluttered mind. He's now very motivated to help her,
Speaker 1: and he's decided to change his approach. They start all
Speaker 1: over using blackjack, a game she knows well to learn numbers,
Speaker 1: and later Dexter takes Minerva to a truck stop to
Speaker 1: get her out of the hotel and around other people.
Speaker 1: He's trying to teach her about etiquette, but this place
Speaker 1: doesn't even have soup spoons or clean forks, so they
Speaker 1: agree to leave, and the scene did absolutely nothing to
Speaker 1: further the movie. Not only that, but then it ends
Speaker 1: with two other guys who aren't in the movie at all,
Speaker 1: doing this little side of after year.
Speaker 2: John, are we getting a sidebar story or are.
Speaker 3: They going to rob? Yes?
Speaker 2: I thought she had trust fun baby, Is she the
Speaker 2: one that actually owns the hotel? Like I started going
Speaker 2: into all these different.
Speaker 1: Yep and you know what that what actually happened was
Speaker 1: You're like, not a thing is what actually happened. At
Speaker 1: the end of the day, back at the hotel, Dexter
Speaker 1: runs into Charlotte, who's been too busy to see him lately.
Speaker 1: She invites him to a party, but says it's not
Speaker 1: really an invite, it's a demand. Per how he's orders,
Speaker 1: Dexter must take Minerva to the benefit to prove her progress,
Speaker 1: which is an awful lot of pressure. That night, Dexter
Speaker 1: reads a sad book to Minerva, and things seem to
Speaker 1: be getting better, especially when Dexter explains the history of
Speaker 1: France in World War One in a fun, captivating way
Speaker 1: as a history buff. I liked the way he talked
Speaker 1: about Alsace Lorrain, and I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 1: Uh so again, mister Miggie kind of teaching. So as
Speaker 1: a break, Dexter takes her out to the desert for
Speaker 1: a picnic she's wanted to go on, and they're finally bonding,
Speaker 1: even holding hands and learning about Cinderella by wearing costumes
Speaker 1: and dancing new music and again this man has just
Speaker 1: given this girl over to a complete and total stranger.
Speaker 3: And now it's now.
Speaker 2: From the sand dunes.
Speaker 3: It's now in the middle of the desert. Yep. Now
Speaker 3: in the middle of the desert, in the middle of Nevada,
Speaker 3: and nothing weird about that at all. And it's like,
Speaker 3: this is where I bury my last three people like.
Speaker 2: She Then he got a car from the hotel to
Speaker 2: take her.
Speaker 3: Oh man, it's the whole thing is weird.
Speaker 2: We're wild now.
Speaker 1: We are it was, it's kind of going in a
Speaker 1: little nuts. Now now it's time for that famous benefit event.
Speaker 1: Dexter and Minerva walking together, both a little intimidated and
Speaker 1: nervous she won't remember the etiquette lessons. They take their
Speaker 1: seats for dinner, and Minerva is doing great talking to
Speaker 1: the adults she's really learned a lot, and pressing Howie
Speaker 1: and Hermione until she starts eating her food with her
Speaker 1: hands like an animal. In all fairness, she does that
Speaker 1: because nobody can cut the food that's in front of her.
Speaker 1: Instead of reacting negatively, Dexter and Charlotte decide to join her.
Speaker 1: The cornish game hen was tough anyway, and then the
Speaker 1: whole table, joins in she had a very good idea.
Speaker 1: Minerva eventually retreats to the kitchen to pretend hyperventilating into
Speaker 1: a bag. Dexter finds her and announces that he's very
Speaker 1: proud of her. She's doing a great job and even
Speaker 1: Uncle Howie is impressed. In response, he gave Dexter his
Speaker 1: plane ticket back to him, and now Minerva wants to celebrate.
Speaker 1: She even tells Dexter she loves him. Eventually, Charlotte tracks
Speaker 1: him down. Howie wants to talk to Dexter again, so
Speaker 1: Howie and Dexter share a drink celebrating what they saw
Speaker 1: from Minerva tonight. But how He reminds the teacher Minerva
Speaker 1: not only has to get accepted into the school, she
Speaker 1: also has to want to be there. If she drops out,
Speaker 1: the debt stands, but either way, the test is tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so buckle up. Later that night, Charlotte and Dexter decide
Speaker 1: to share a drink before he leaves, and when Minerva
Speaker 1: comes down to the boiler room with surprise for Dexter,
Speaker 1: he's not there, and when Minerva does find the couple,
Speaker 1: she sees them kiss. Minerva shocked, maybe even hurt, but
Speaker 1: she goes undetected when the new couple walks outside for
Speaker 1: some air.
Speaker 2: Was she.
Speaker 3: Did she like dexter?
Speaker 2: Okay, but you got it back up because when she
Speaker 2: she wanted to celebrate, did she feel like she made
Speaker 2: plans with him? And now he canceled the plan?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 3: Is that what they're talking about?
Speaker 2: He canceled the plans and went with Charlotte, and that's
Speaker 2: why she was so hurt. Now I'm like, she had
Speaker 2: just said that she loved him. Did that line means
Speaker 2: she was in love with him?
Speaker 3: And they didn't there really cancel plans. They didn't have any.
Speaker 2: Plans for sure. Yeah, it was. It was.
Speaker 3: And what is she doing by herself in the boiler
Speaker 3: room at like eleven o'clock at night?
Speaker 2: Yeah it was.
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess she's supposed to kind of run
Speaker 3: of the hotel.
Speaker 2: But because she, yeah, runs amuck. But like, I mean,
Speaker 2: I know it was. It was at this point again,
Speaker 2: I'm still stuck on who are those other two guys?
Speaker 3: Yeah, who's the guy? The two guys in the dinery?
Speaker 3: No reason for it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're coming down the hallway any minute, I know it.
Speaker 2: There when they're gonna this is when they're gonna kidnap her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's gonna be another storyline, and then they
Speaker 1: have to save her.
Speaker 3: No, not that, And.
Speaker 2: Then we had like four or five different commercial breaks
Speaker 2: in between.
Speaker 3: All the truths. I love them, just.
Speaker 2: Like you got to get back because I'm confused.
Speaker 3: Juicy food is going to move. Yeah, it's use soft,
Speaker 3: it gets right through. Ye, juicy fruit. The taste, the taste,
Speaker 3: the taste is gonna move. Yeah, juicy fruit.
Speaker 1: Hell Yes, nineteen eighty seven, baby now walking together. Shearlotte
Speaker 1: tells Dexter she's inspired by what he's done with Minerva.
Speaker 1: Charlotte feels like she needs to do something with her
Speaker 1: life too. They both wish she wasn't leaving, and so
Speaker 1: they kiss again. Luckily no kid was.
Speaker 3: Watching this time. She's back in her room. Actually, Minerva
Speaker 3: is devastated.
Speaker 1: She decides to call Yaki, which is also exactly what
Speaker 1: I do call the one man party Yaki forever. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Yaki's been grounded since the pawnshop incident because he has
Speaker 1: oh what are those called? Parents that care about him?
Speaker 1: She had no she got into no trouble for getting
Speaker 1: arrested at a pawnshop. Minerva says, she feels like she's
Speaker 1: running away, so Yaki invites her over take this one.
Speaker 1: Say it with me, Sabrina, Yaki forever.
Speaker 3: Say it with me, Yaki.
Speaker 2: Forever, Yaki forever.
Speaker 3: That's right, yeahs Yaki forever.
Speaker 1: She writes down his address with a comically large pencil
Speaker 1: and leaves for his place.
Speaker 3: She arrives at Yaki's, but it's def Con five.
Speaker 1: Back at the hotel, everyone's freaking out that Minerva is
Speaker 1: missing and they're involving the police now, which I thought
Speaker 1: was a quick jump. She's been gone like twenty minutes anyway.
Speaker 1: Howie is screaming about kidnapping and blaming Dexter, but Exeter
Speaker 1: finally fights back. He says that how he pretends that
Speaker 1: the kid is his life, but the hotel and his
Speaker 1: business deals that's actually his life. As they argue, how
Speaker 1: he begs everyone not to tell Hermione, but guess what,
Speaker 1: just like good old Hermione Granger using the time turner
Speaker 1: she already knows. Now defeated, Dexter walks into Minerva's bedroom,
Speaker 1: scoping out all of their study materials. You can tell
Speaker 1: he feels like it all meant nothing now, but then
Speaker 1: he notices something. It's a red flag poked onto their
Speaker 1: map right on Boston. He rushes to how he knows
Speaker 1: where she is. He wants to go get her himself.
Speaker 1: No police, no sirens. Dexter says, if he's wrong, he'll
Speaker 1: come back and face the music. But he cares about
Speaker 1: Minerva and he's got to find her before Hermione does.
Speaker 1: Everybody's treating this Hermione like she's the worst person in
Speaker 1: the world. The only person who's like, you know, what
Speaker 1: I would love for her to do is have a family,
Speaker 1: have some structure, go to school. And everyone's like she's
Speaker 1: the evil step brother, like they.
Speaker 2: It should have been seem like she's very kind.
Speaker 1: No, but who cares At that point, You've got a
Speaker 1: child who is completely educated, spoiled, running amuck all over
Speaker 1: the place, eating everything inside.
Speaker 2: The backstory, she has no parents there.
Speaker 1: They go, well, we know she's an orphan. We said,
Speaker 1: they said that she's an orphan.
Speaker 8: I get the traumauma. No one's trying to deal with that.
Speaker 8: They should have I'm sorry, I know this should have
Speaker 8: would it could? A game is never good, but they
Speaker 8: they should have. It should have been.
Speaker 1: Something like we saw that in the one movie what
Speaker 1: was it where they were like, oh my god, she's
Speaker 1: literally talking about killing or killing the nephew. Remember the
Speaker 1: the was it Ghost of Buxley Hall. I forget which
Speaker 1: one it was, don't you remember? There was one where
Speaker 1: it was like they were trying to control the kid's money,
Speaker 1: and so if they got control. I think it was
Speaker 1: Ghost of Buxley Hall. I think if they got control
Speaker 1: of the kid and they were like, well, then we'll
Speaker 1: just kill the kid. I thought if they added something
Speaker 1: like Hermione only wants you because then you get control
Speaker 1: of the trust fund your parents left you, something like
Speaker 1: that where it's like they literally, yes, she's a curmudgeon.
Speaker 1: Living at her mind is gonna suck, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: actually grow up and learn something. It's like the equivalent
Speaker 1: of going to military school, which this girl needed. So
Speaker 1: it was like to me, is like, make her actually evil,
Speaker 1: make it to where she does. She's gonna control the money,
Speaker 1: She's gonna something's gonna happen, not just I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: you learn where it's like, okay, that's geez It's this
Speaker 1: girl needs some structure in her life. Anyway, This from
Speaker 1: the guy who doesn't have kids, and we'll never have
Speaker 1: to deal with it himself.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Eventually, how he agrees, giving Dexter permission to leave for
Speaker 1: a temporary task, finally leaving Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: Ooh, leaving Las Vegas. Good name for a movie.
Speaker 1: I did a jot down and getting another great look
Speaker 1: at eighties Vegas. Dexter eventually just appears in Boston. We
Speaker 1: see him drive to the airport. It says it says
Speaker 1: Vegas airport, but he's just there now all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: We also kind of don't really get how she got there.
Speaker 1: Even the guy says to her, she came with three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. She came with three one hundred dollars bills.
Speaker 1: She had me change one. I just thought maybe she'd
Speaker 1: want to get something at the gift shop at the airport.
Speaker 3: So did he know she was going to the airport?
Speaker 1: The guy that works at the casino, I was now
Speaker 1: going like, wait, what the hell's going on?
Speaker 2: Well, it's the same thing as the limo driver taking
Speaker 2: her to a pawn shop, Like how is how is
Speaker 2: this eleven year old talking adults into getting her places
Speaker 2: that she should not be by herself.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's also just the whole, the whole.
Speaker 1: It's like, so did they know she hopped a plane,
Speaker 1: this girl obviously that she was in Vegas?
Speaker 2: She gift shop?
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Who that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's very strange, like yeah, yeah, anyway, uh yeah. So
Speaker 1: we now see Dexter arriving at the boarding school she
Speaker 1: said to attend and rooms around the campus trying to
Speaker 1: find Mi Nerva, but instead he stumbles on an attractive
Speaker 1: lady that flirts with him for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Speaker 3: It's like, this is another one of those why why
Speaker 3: do they even that? What was the point of this
Speaker 3: random lady just coming up and flirting.
Speaker 2: With this guy? Every Dexter was like a hot commodity
Speaker 2: in this movie. Remember we've got the waitress at the beginning,
Speaker 2: who thinks he's so who's so handsome?
Speaker 3: And then we got Charlotte.
Speaker 2: And then Charlotte and now this guy. And it's like,
Speaker 2: I'm not saying he's not a good looking guy. Oh
Speaker 2: but this is not. First of all, it just doesn't
Speaker 2: need to be anything, Like he's not using it to
Speaker 2: get anything for himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's Player Riser, he ain't Paul Riiser. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: but yeah, what's going on? He's just you're right, But
Speaker 1: it was just such a weird scene. It was like,
Speaker 1: what why is this here? Eventually he does find Minerva
Speaker 1: though she's in a classroom taking the entrance exam. He
Speaker 1: smiles to himself and calls, Howie he found her, and
Speaker 1: she's okay, she's taking the test. Eventually she completes the exam,
Speaker 1: and Minerva is so excited to see Dexter jumping into
Speaker 1: his arms and completely forgetting that he's straight up all
Speaker 1: after Charlotte, but also that she was supposed to be
Speaker 1: mad at him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she was just at him, but yeah, because he
Speaker 2: showed up, because he's an adult that I actually shows
Speaker 2: up for her. Yeah, her uncle does it. Her uncle
Speaker 2: does no hands things like after the fact, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess then, but why didn't she not want
Speaker 1: him there? Anyway, When we're back at the hotel, now
Speaker 1: how he congratulates his niece over the phone. He says
Speaker 1: he knew she could do it. Meanwhile, Charlotte finally gets
Speaker 1: the confidence to quit. She's been poached by another hotel's
Speaker 1: PR department, but when how He offers her a similar
Speaker 1: job at Caesar's, it looks like maybe she'll stay and
Speaker 1: think it over. So what kind of lesson was that
Speaker 1: We are now back at the boarding school. Dexter wants
Speaker 1: to know why my Nerva ran away was the wrong
Speaker 1: thing to do. Valid question. She explains that she wanted
Speaker 1: to do this alone, all by herself, which again doesn't
Speaker 1: really make a whole lot of sense, and it seems
Speaker 1: like she's already making friends at her new school. Dexter
Speaker 1: lets her know he lives only twenty minutes from the school,
Speaker 1: and they decide he'll visit her sometimes. She suggests he
Speaker 1: looks into teaching again. He says it's crossed his mind.
Speaker 1: She begs him for a picnic and they hold hands
Speaker 1: and walk together. He explains he knows a perfect spot
Speaker 1: for Swan Lake. In the end, it appears they both
Speaker 1: rediscovered their purpose in life. And that's our movie.
Speaker 3: Okay, real reviews.
Speaker 1: I think I have the five star review this week.
Speaker 1: I do, and this five star is from Cassidy g
Speaker 1: and it reads as thus, this is totally cute and
Speaker 1: I loved everything between Paul Reiser and the kid. But
Speaker 1: I watched this on YouTube with the original commercials, and
Speaker 1: let me just say how startling it was when all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the news bulletin cut in about an
Speaker 1: escaped serial rapist.
Speaker 3: I thought the same thing. I'm totally honest with you.
Speaker 3: Uh it was. It was like magical world of Disney.
Speaker 1: Serial rapists on the loosers like whoa yeah, all right, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: you've got the one star review.
Speaker 3: What do you got?
Speaker 2: I got a one star from Frankie B. Should we
Speaker 2: be teaching kids?
Speaker 5: Sorry?
Speaker 3: Sorry, stop? Just the way you said, Frankie P is
Speaker 3: my new favorite of Frankie B. It was my new
Speaker 3: favorite thing ever. I apologize for interrupting.
Speaker 1: I just Frankie P made me laugh the way you
Speaker 1: said anyway, p franky peeky pee?
Speaker 2: All right? Should we be teaching kids about gambling? Get
Speaker 2: with it? Disney?
Speaker 3: One star? All right, one star?
Speaker 1: We now are approaching something that, of course is Sabrina's favorite. Uh.
Speaker 1: Part of today is even more I think, well, it's blackjack,
Speaker 1: So is what we're doing. And she just told us
Speaker 1: how she gets scared a little bit. What we've done, though,
Speaker 1: to make the game a little easier is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have eleven strangers come in to your house right now
Speaker 1: and surround you as you are playing Blackjack. No, okay,
Speaker 1: so our feature is called Blackjack.
Speaker 3: Of course.
Speaker 1: Producer Jensen put this together for I like to say us,
Speaker 1: but it's really for Sabrina.
Speaker 3: You ruin My Life.
Speaker 1: Is obviously set in Las Vegas and the casinos that
Speaker 1: the city is known for, but as far as gambling,
Speaker 1: we only see Dexter's obsession with beating blackjack. So to
Speaker 1: find out how much we actually know about the movie's
Speaker 1: favorite table game, we will be given a scenario out
Speaker 1: of a hand, and we have to decide if we
Speaker 1: should hit stand, double down, or split three out of
Speaker 1: five correct answers as dictated by.
Speaker 3: The Book of Blackjack odds wins. So here we go
Speaker 3: first hand.
Speaker 7: And also, you don't have a ton of time. I'm
Speaker 7: going to give you about ten seconds each.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, you have okay, wait, and so hit yeah,
Speaker 1: hit stand, double downer slip. So the first hand we
Speaker 1: have is a king and a four and the dealer
Speaker 1: showing a nine. I'm gonna say, oh, fourteen, the dealer's
Speaker 1: got a nine.
Speaker 7: You have to hit yeah, you have to Okay, that's
Speaker 7: the first one, right, I mean I also think like
Speaker 7: maybe you should count to three and then both say
Speaker 7: it at the same time.
Speaker 3: But oh, okay, that's fair, that's fair. Okay, let'll do
Speaker 3: one good Okay, first, we're good. We have a five
Speaker 3: and a four.
Speaker 1: The dealer is showing a seven, right, yeah, one, two.
Speaker 7: Three hit all right? I would have also accepted double okay, yeah,
Speaker 7: also just a double? Great okay, two for two?
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: You have a king and an eight. The dealer is
Speaker 1: showing a jack. Stand all right, we are already in
Speaker 1: the lead. That's it, that's you will Yeah, eights, have
Speaker 1: two for fun. I'd look at Sabrina sanction like a gamble.
Speaker 1: She's probably in at.
Speaker 2: I know, but my heart is beating so hard up
Speaker 2: for you, and my palms are sweety.
Speaker 3: I just love that. That's the best.
Speaker 1: And it's like I just want to see a random
Speaker 1: waitress walk by and like you want to drink onme.
Speaker 3: You have two eights. The dealer is showing a four
Speaker 3: one two three split.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: I mean you guys both know this game very well.
Speaker 7: Is this going to be a double five for five?
Speaker 7: This would be our first double five are easy?
Speaker 2: These are easier.
Speaker 5: Let's see.
Speaker 3: Here we go.
Speaker 1: You have an ace and a six. The dealer has
Speaker 1: an eight, one two, three hit.
Speaker 7: Wow, five for five our first ever please enter like
Speaker 7: a party sound effect here, Yes.
Speaker 3: Yes, to change, to change change.
Speaker 7: Little did we know this would be the one.
Speaker 3: That's the best.
Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, by the way, like never get these hands,
Speaker 2: I get like a like a like a two and
Speaker 2: like a six.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: I never get good hands.
Speaker 3: We did it. We got five for five.
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, Producer Jensen. I'm sorry to do that
Speaker 1: to you. You need to go to SAP now can
Speaker 1: we do some Sabrina seas?
Speaker 2: So there's obviously there's so many things say about the commercials,
Speaker 2: but it's not about the movie. I gotta stay focused.
Speaker 2: But before we didn't mention that we got another one,
Speaker 2: and I can't remember if we've gotten them on all
Speaker 2: of them or if it's just been one. But of
Speaker 2: the like Michael Eisner with like the cast, like it's
Speaker 2: like a whole introuzz buck it was it. Oh I
Speaker 2: saw her, she was that way go tango anyway?
Speaker 3: Did you say hi? Yes?
Speaker 2: I did, And her husband was there too, so it
Speaker 2: was really nice to see them. So fuzz Buckle was
Speaker 2: the last time, so I was like, oh, I was
Speaker 2: like super excited to see this. However, we got the
Speaker 2: same or similar Mickey voice. Yeah, like in no way
Speaker 2: it sounds like Mickey. I just was like, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: Will's gonna have to say something. I can't believe you
Speaker 2: didn't say anything. And then I actually kind of liked
Speaker 2: the crazy inventions. I it was a giant thing to me.
Speaker 2: It's so eighties. It was so big, so was everything,
Speaker 2: like the computers are big. Like everything was just like
Speaker 2: so giant back then, right, So it's like his little
Speaker 2: like contraption. But I also loved the fact that we
Speaker 2: got another look into some future actual things that we
Speaker 2: have nowadays, like a smart watch yep saw. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know if this key card thing was already
Speaker 2: happening or whatever. But I liked the key cards, and
Speaker 2: then I liked the idea of how they malfunctioned, because
Speaker 2: they always seem sketchy and the first time like I
Speaker 2: really thought about a key card, going, how do I
Speaker 2: know that the person before me didn't have this same card? Like,
Speaker 2: how do you really.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: So anyway, it just made me kind of think like,
Speaker 2: oh wow, I guess they were made at this time
Speaker 2: in the eighties. Moving back a little bit, did it
Speaker 2: throw you off at all? Why he had a solo
Speaker 2: cup in the bank while he was banking.
Speaker 3: Like Joe, Oh, I didn't even notice it. It's because
Speaker 3: he had to he had to spill it.
Speaker 2: Well, he had to spill it. But I was going
Speaker 2: to does he have this yellow solo cup like it's
Speaker 2: like a full blown like so he just came.
Speaker 3: From a fraternity party, right.
Speaker 2: Bryant, giant, big, old bright and solo cup and then
Speaker 2: then he spills it and I went, oh, I guess that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was it.
Speaker 1: But that's how that's all bank fraud took in the
Speaker 1: in the eighties. Was just a solo cup full of diet.
Speaker 2: Coke and then just the last one. Oh, how did
Speaker 2: he get the room? How did he get that giant suite?
Speaker 3: Was it back? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Back in the day, especially if you went in, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you get a good room now, But if you
Speaker 1: went in back in the day and you got a
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars line of credit, they probably would have
Speaker 1: put you in pretty fast.
Speaker 7: But because that is too Sabrina, Yeah, so he only
Speaker 7: has fifty thousand dollars basically because they've seen the bank number.
Speaker 2: How much would that room be? Like that room was giant.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you're telling me that if someone proved they
Speaker 7: had fifty thousand dollars, they got the ball or sweet,
Speaker 7: that's weird.
Speaker 1: It was what would fifty thousand dollars in the eighties
Speaker 1: would be what like one hundred and twenty grand? Now
Speaker 1: maybe a lot, but at I mean it's a lot
Speaker 1: to drop it a casino, right. If I walked in
Speaker 1: with one hundred and twenty thousand dollars line of credit,
Speaker 1: they probably put me in a nice room with them.
Speaker 7: But you're weird because they see you have that number
Speaker 7: and they're just willing to just give it all to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: I guess they don't understand the line of credit. I've
Speaker 2: never gone in with like and gotten a line of credit.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's like you give them your whole.
Speaker 3: Out passion, you get cap Yeah. Do they still do
Speaker 3: lines of credit?
Speaker 7: Or is that an old Simol Vegas thing. We were
Speaker 7: in Vegas and I saw it happen a lot.
Speaker 2: Really had no idea what that was. I've never done
Speaker 2: Vegas that way. It's like you just more so get
Speaker 2: you know, pay thirty dollars to get your money out
Speaker 2: of the ATM.
Speaker 1: It was nine to ninety nine for me to get
Speaker 1: money out of the ATM. It cost me ten dollars
Speaker 1: to get my money exactly.
Speaker 2: And then the last thing was you did mention one
Speaker 2: the foot thing. They had a really weird way of
Speaker 2: flirty because when they're out by the pool and she
Speaker 2: sits down, he then rarely says like, oh, I thought
Speaker 2: you were so much taller than that.
Speaker 3: And I can eat spaghetti off your head.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like that's because I'm sitting down. He goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: well from here, I can eat the spaghetti off your head,
Speaker 2: and she goes, I guess that's what she.
Speaker 7: What can I tell you my thoughts on that? I
Speaker 7: actually have kind of a hot.
Speaker 3: Like do you wait, well, how can you have a
Speaker 3: hot take on that? Right?
Speaker 7: Here's my hot take. Paul Riser, big star, you know,
Speaker 7: getting a bunch of offers, is told that he's going
Speaker 7: to be working across from Tom Cruise's ex wife, Mimi Rodgers,
Speaker 7: who's absolutely stunning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he says.
Speaker 7: No one's going to believe it, And so they add
Speaker 7: in all these things about women just randomly talking to
Speaker 7: him and making sure that we know he's very attractive.
Speaker 3: Oh, maybe that that's it.
Speaker 7: He was given in a bunch of like flirty things
Speaker 7: to prove that he would actually get Mimi Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Oh god, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Actually, this wasn't Tom Cruise's ex wife. This at the
Speaker 1: time in nineteen eighty seven wife current wife.
Speaker 3: She was married to Tom Cruise at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's okay, interesting, that's totally interesting. Yeah, that's definitely
Speaker 1: could be it because it was weird.
Speaker 2: It was the flirting was so weird. The eating spaghetti
Speaker 2: off her head. Yeah, she was kind of like, if
Speaker 2: that's what.
Speaker 1: You well, that was really you did. Have you never
Speaker 1: heard that was really sexy in the eighties?
Speaker 3: Spaghetti eating? Oh my god, No.
Speaker 2: You're not getting me on this.
Speaker 7: Isn't there a thing for that? Will come on movie history?
Speaker 7: Isn't nine and a half have food stuff in it?
Speaker 3: Nine and a half weeks had had a huge food thing. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was like their thing.
Speaker 2: The only thing I've ever seen was spaghetti and adorable
Speaker 2: cuteness is from Lady in the Tramp with the kid
Speaker 2: with the two dogs. Like, other than that, spaghetti's not sexy.
Speaker 1: It's because it's because you ain't eating the Rise of
Speaker 1: That's all I gotta say. I don't want to any
Speaker 1: It is, now, of course, time to rate our film.
Speaker 1: I think you're going first this time, souse. I think
Speaker 1: I went first last time? Or no, No, I think
Speaker 1: Yell went Yell went first, and then you went second.
Speaker 3: I think so I go first. I go first.
Speaker 1: Our options for this week again, let's do one out
Speaker 1: of ten. No, let's do one out of fifteen. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna make ten the highest is what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1: Uh do we want to do one out of ten
Speaker 1: Las Vegas wizarding students, one out of ten cool in
Speaker 1: the Gang performances, giant blackjack, stomach computers, casual bank frauds,
Speaker 1: one out of ten, useless diner scenes, one out of ten,
Speaker 1: Howie's creepy.
Speaker 3: Friends, one on a ten tough cornish.
Speaker 1: Game, hen one at a ten Dexter's Feet, or one
Speaker 1: out of ten forever yackeys. I think I'm gonna pick
Speaker 1: this time. It's my turn, right, because I want to
Speaker 1: hear you say it. We're gonna do one out of ten.
Speaker 1: Dexter's Feet is what we're coming off with, ye you No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do Dexter's Feet because it's creepy and weird.
Speaker 3: I let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: Yaki is so cool he doesn't need our help. So
Speaker 1: if I'm rating first, then this was a strange movie
Speaker 1: for me. It was again great cast, especially in its day,
Speaker 1: looks cool because you're in Vegas, you get to see
Speaker 1: Vegas of the eighties. But the story to me made
Speaker 1: very little sense. I found the relationship to be a
Speaker 1: little bit creepy. I thought the bad lady was frankly
Speaker 1: the lady that anybody should have given this child to A.
Speaker 3: Huge Paul Reiser fan, big solet moon Fry fan.
Speaker 1: So you know, I can't go more than five point
Speaker 1: five Dexter's Feet for this movie.
Speaker 3: Again not an awful movie.
Speaker 1: Watching it with the commercials from the eighties made it
Speaker 1: like kind of an all around experience, which made it cooler.
Speaker 1: Without those, it probably wouldn't have been a five point five.
Speaker 1: I think the point five came from just being able
Speaker 1: to watch the commercials. But this was just the story
Speaker 1: was very muddled in this movie. Great eighties cast, looked cool,
Speaker 1: muddled story five point five Dexter's Feet, Yeah, what do
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 2: I'm right around that as well. I thought there was
Speaker 2: like a lot of holes, a lot of questions, not
Speaker 2: sure where we were going, like we've said, unnecessary scenes
Speaker 2: all together. Like we said, we didn't hit the ninety
Speaker 2: minute mark. We could have cut those scenes, gotten a
Speaker 2: little bit closer. Yeah, but in all honesty, I really
Speaker 2: love watching movies from this era. And yeah, truly the
Speaker 2: commercials just it made it worth the watch for me.
Speaker 2: It I remembered a few of them, didn't remember a
Speaker 2: lot of them, but like, it was definitely if you're
Speaker 2: looking for kind of a nostalgic night, like this isn't
Speaker 2: the best movie, but you definitely still get that really
Speaker 2: great level of nostalgia, and that I think is something
Speaker 2: everyone's wanting. And they made me like the movie more,
Speaker 2: made me kind of forget, made me push back because
Speaker 2: I was thinking about being in that era and you know,
Speaker 2: their relationship didn't I because I allowed myself to go there,
Speaker 2: it didn't bother me. If that was a movie now
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five that would drive the hell like
Speaker 2: me crazy, I would just it would just I would
Speaker 2: hate it. Right, So it bumped mine up a little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm going with six point five, Okay, Dexter's Food. There
Speaker 2: you go because of that nostalgia aspect, and I think
Speaker 2: that's really what our podcast is about is finding like
Speaker 2: that nostalgia And truly it's weird to say, but the
Speaker 2: commercials held its own.
Speaker 3: That's I agree. The commercials are the best part for me,
Speaker 3: and it really was.
Speaker 2: It was it was fun. And of course I mean
Speaker 2: watching so like she's on her elements. She's just absolutely adorable,
Speaker 2: and she is adorable.
Speaker 1: She was an icon, she was and she certainly has
Speaker 1: an energy when she's on screen.
Speaker 2: Absolutely she She's just so cute. And I did love
Speaker 2: the little bit of over the top Disney the boat
Speaker 2: in the fountain, the ice, the cake that they made,
Speaker 2: like all that, the her bedroom, all that stuff is
Speaker 2: what I was looking for when I was watching those
Speaker 2: movies back in the day, still do today. So I'm
Speaker 2: going with that. Six point five.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go, everybody.
Speaker 1: I think it's fair you ruin My life is again
Speaker 1: available on the youtubes if you want to go and
Speaker 1: check it out.
Speaker 3: And our next movie, Sabrina It's Time. Yes, we're taking.
Speaker 1: On Cheetah Girls too, and I couldn't be more excited.
Speaker 3: We're gonna cheatah chatter all about it.
Speaker 1: So you can watch it on Disney Plus for a
Speaker 1: little research if you want and this week on the
Speaker 1: dedicated magical Rewine Feed, We've got a Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: guest back on the show. It's one of our dcom daddies. Ooh,
Speaker 1: sounds strange even when I say it. Writer Stu Krieger
Speaker 1: is coming back, That's right. He penned basically every movie
Speaker 1: we love, Going to the Matt Smart House, Zenn True Confessions,
Speaker 1: The poof Point, Gotta Kick It Up, cow Bells, Freaky Friday,
Speaker 1: I've run out of breath because the man has done
Speaker 1: so many things.
Speaker 3: The list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to what you can expect from
Speaker 1: our return Rendezvous with a Disney Channel legend.
Speaker 5: Here's how it would play out as a series, and
Speaker 5: the idea is going to be that Xena was sent
Speaker 5: down to Earth to run a space camp to train
Speaker 5: the kids who are going to be going to space. Okay,
Speaker 5: And part of that was so it was much more
Speaker 5: sustainable on a series budget.
Speaker 3: Tonight we're on Earth. Yeah, So we sold that.
Speaker 5: That's what they bought. That's what we're doing. Come in
Speaker 5: Friday morning for a production meeting. Before I ever got
Speaker 5: to the production meeting, I got a call and said
Speaker 5: the series has been canceled.
Speaker 3: It was so much fun.
Speaker 1: He is full of stories and anecdotes and honestly, he's
Speaker 1: just a real OJ So don't miss our new long
Speaker 1: form talk with him, available this week on the Magical
Speaker 1: Rewind podcast feed, and for more info, you can follow
Speaker 1: us at the Magical Rewind pod on the Instagram Machine.
Speaker 3: Now Cheetah girls too. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: You have no idea how excited I am to see this.
Speaker 1: I know, and like this is all your dancing stuff
Speaker 1: like you Oh, I'm oh, I'm so excited for this.
Speaker 1: I have not been this excited a movie in a
Speaker 1: while that we've been watching zombies too, all that stuff.
Speaker 3: I'm really looking forward to that, but seeing you kicking it,
Speaker 3: forget it. I can't wait. So please join us next time.
Speaker 3: Bye everybody,