Speaker 1: I have a question okay that I've been thinking about,
Speaker 1: and I thought about it when I started watching the
Speaker 1: film that we're going to be recapping today.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I know you have a.
Speaker 1: Musical background, and so excluding Cheetah Girls, forget Cheetah Girls,
Speaker 1: have you ever been in a band?
Speaker 3: You mean, like a rock band?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Like a band?
Speaker 1: Like did you and your friends get together and try
Speaker 1: to form a group or form a band or a
Speaker 1: garage band or did you ever do any of that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff?
Speaker 3: I did, Actually, it was so quick. It was really
Speaker 3: early on. I want to say it was in the beginning.
Speaker 3: I was a freshman or sophomore in high school. I
Speaker 3: was a part of sort of. It was a manager
Speaker 3: that knew a bunch of dancers that also sang a
Speaker 3: bit okay, and tried to form it. But that was
Speaker 3: really quick and nothing happened. Absolutely nothing happened from it.
Speaker 2: So no, growing up, did you, like, did you dream
Speaker 2: of being in one? Where? Did you come up with
Speaker 2: a name for your own band? Ever a name?
Speaker 1: No? Yeah, you never got to the naming stage. See,
Speaker 1: I never learned the music. I just instantly jumped to
Speaker 1: naming the band I would be in. I never learned
Speaker 1: how to sing or play instrument, but naming the band I.
Speaker 4: Was good at.
Speaker 3: Okay, do you have a couple of them? Are you
Speaker 3: gonna share it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well no, the one my friend and I.
Speaker 1: So I was going to sing and I don't sing,
Speaker 1: And then I was also gonna play bass, and I
Speaker 1: also don't play bass, nor did I own one at
Speaker 1: the time, so it was just all right, you're gonna
Speaker 1: play bass. But we got as far as coming up
Speaker 1: with the name Rude Awakening.
Speaker 3: Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah, I do love that. See,
Speaker 3: we never could agree on anything when I played rock
Speaker 3: band for a while. I mean, this was a an obsession.
Speaker 3: That's the way I'm looking for every night occurrence pretty
Speaker 3: much at my place in LA. I have to say,
Speaker 3: I gotta throw out a name. And I know it
Speaker 3: sounds so dumb to do this, but Robert Kardashian was
Speaker 3: in my band.
Speaker 2: That's I think you said that before he.
Speaker 3: Was in my band.
Speaker 2: It's a great band.
Speaker 3: I just have some friends that we would go over,
Speaker 3: you know, after going out to dinner or whatever while
Speaker 3: I was living in LA that would come over and
Speaker 3: I had the whole setup. I had the drums, the bass,
Speaker 3: the main guitar, the mic, the I think at some
Speaker 3: point there was a piano playing situation, or I might
Speaker 3: be making that up in my head.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was a while ago, but it was so fun
Speaker 3: and I cannot pass by in an arcade. If that,
Speaker 3: like guitar hero or rock band is ever there, I can't.
Speaker 2: You're in.
Speaker 3: But it's so frustrating now because I used to be
Speaker 3: on the hard level and I can barely get through
Speaker 3: the easy level now. I mean even on the easiest
Speaker 3: of easy songs, I'm terrible at it. It took a
Speaker 3: lot of work to get good at that game.
Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to just propose that if you do
Speaker 1: put the band back together, you call it the cheap Dashians. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Welcome to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want
Speaker 1: I grab your friends, your PJS, and your popcorn and
Speaker 1: go back to a time when all the houses were smart,
Speaker 1: the waves, tsunamis and the high School's musical.
Speaker 2: I'm WILFORDE and.
Speaker 3: I'm Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 1: Oh, strike up the satellites, folks and check your frequencies,
Speaker 1: because we're taking it to the airwaves with twenty twelve's
Speaker 1: Disney Channel movie Radio Rebel, Yes, and possibly the only
Speaker 1: one we can recap that includes the word podcast. And
Speaker 1: that's very true, right because everything else is too early.
Speaker 1: Based on the debut novel Shrinking Violet by author Daniel Joseph,
Speaker 1: is first aired February seventeenth, twenty twelve, to four point
Speaker 1: three million viewers, which is an impressive number, especially over
Speaker 1: ten years ago. Now, some of the differences between the
Speaker 1: book and the movie we will recap, like the book
Speaker 1: takes place in Miami and her DJ name was Sweet Tea.
Speaker 1: But as is the case with every Disney film, it's
Speaker 1: either got sports or music, and this one, of course,
Speaker 1: is all about music and radio personalities and all that stuff. So,
Speaker 1: as you can probably guess, Disney Records put out the
Speaker 1: pop punk Influence soundtrack with three Debbie Ryan who was
Speaker 1: the star, three DeBie Ryan songs, including a cover of
Speaker 1: We Got the Beat which was great, and another contributor
Speaker 1: named Fat Sue.
Speaker 2: It was shot in Vancouver, Canada, beautiful place.
Speaker 1: And it's also worth noting this is different than any
Speaker 1: of the other movies we've covered so far in that
Speaker 1: it's produced by a third party company. So this was
Speaker 1: not done in house. This was not a Disney Channel
Speaker 1: like made at Disney for Disney. This was made by
Speaker 1: a company called mar Vista and two for the Money Media,
Speaker 1: and then they sold it to Disney to air in
Speaker 1: the United States. So very different than the normal kind
Speaker 1: of Disney machine pumping something out. This movie was made
Speaker 1: and then sold to Disney for Disney Channel. Also, it's
Speaker 1: not on Disney Plus, which it was on Disney Plus
Speaker 1: when we were originally starting to outline what we were
Speaker 1: going to do and look in and put our list together.
Speaker 1: It was on Disney Plus then, and then because of
Speaker 1: all this production stuff, with it being a third party,
Speaker 1: it probably had a finite life on the Disney Channel.
Speaker 1: And it is now currently on Peacock and it's on
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime for free. So you can either watch it
Speaker 1: there now or take a look look after you listen
Speaker 1: to us.
Speaker 2: That's up to you.
Speaker 1: So first normal question we always asked, had you heard
Speaker 1: of Radio Rebel before we did this?
Speaker 3: I had not. I had no idea about it. I did.
Speaker 3: I obviously assumed we were going to be doing something
Speaker 3: with the radio station, which I'm so excited. It's always
Speaker 3: been a dream to do radio station be a DJ,
Speaker 3: that would be so incredible, But no, I was excited
Speaker 3: to find out what it was about. Obviously, DeBie Ryan,
Speaker 3: she's a queen on Disney Channel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, huge on Disney Channel.
Speaker 3: Oh and she's she's actually very comedic, her timing on
Speaker 3: her the shows where she's very funny, she's awesome. So
Speaker 3: I was excited, but just had never heard of this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I had neither.
Speaker 1: I went in completely cold, and then instantly I realized
Speaker 1: it was a modern day take on Pump Up the Volume.
Speaker 2: Are you familiar with Pump Up the Volume?
Speaker 1: No, pump up the volume, Pump up the Christian Slater
Speaker 1: underground pirate DJ. High school kid. I think it was
Speaker 1: hig school, high school, early college. Pretty sure it was
Speaker 1: high school. And it's this same kind of premise, and
Speaker 1: you know it's Christian Slaters. He's got the kind of
Speaker 1: come on everybody, you know, he's got that kind of
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson vibe about it. And he's the cool guy
Speaker 1: who's who's is overlooked in school.
Speaker 2: It's it's this that's awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, I would argue a better version of this, but
Speaker 1: then again, it's a Christian Slater movie. He was the
Speaker 1: biggest one of the biggest stars of the eighties and
Speaker 1: had a ton of money, so it was it was
Speaker 1: really really good. But before we make our debut on
Speaker 1: Seattle's number one destination for rockx slam FM, uh.
Speaker 2: Let's get into the synopsis.
Speaker 1: So when high school shy and I'm underlining shy, really
Speaker 1: really shy girl Ryan goes undercover with a pirate radio
Speaker 1: persona that allows her to express her true feelings, things
Speaker 1: get out of hand, putting her prom and true identity
Speaker 1: at risk.
Speaker 2: Did you like it?
Speaker 3: I did? I actually did.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Debbie's just so adorable. It's hard to believe that she
Speaker 3: is so shy and and you know, being put into
Speaker 3: this position of not a cool girl because I just
Speaker 3: find everything about her so cute and adorable and she's
Speaker 3: the coolest person in the world exactly, and so you know,
Speaker 3: that was a little bit unbelievable. But yeah, I thought
Speaker 3: it was. I thought it was really a cute movie.
Speaker 3: Cute Okay, Okay, I thought it was. Okay, it wasn't
Speaker 3: my favorite, It wasn't awful. The acting, obviously was very good.
Speaker 1: The acting we've seen is getting kind of better in
Speaker 1: a lot of the movies that were going on. Usually
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with the acting. The acting
Speaker 1: was fine. I thought some of the characters were way
Speaker 1: over the top. I mean, like way way way over
Speaker 1: the top. But how mean can a bully get? I mean,
Speaker 1: is are there really girls in school that are that
Speaker 1: horribly mean as her bully was in this movie?
Speaker 2: I think a little much.
Speaker 3: Yes, I mean her outright, like basically calling people peasants
Speaker 3: and not the not absolutely not. But I think some
Speaker 3: of the things that she did trapping her in a closet,
Speaker 3: I don't know if that would happen, but to get
Speaker 3: back at her through a boy, that's so typical. There's
Speaker 3: some stuff, but the extreme things of the things she
Speaker 3: was willing to say outright, she's not whispering them to
Speaker 3: her friends, she's literally saying it to anyone that's in
Speaker 3: the room. Are just that that was crazy to me.
Speaker 1: I thought they were a lot of the anciliary characters
Speaker 1: went very cartoony.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the principle was the one for me that just
Speaker 3: I could not stand. I just had such a hard
Speaker 3: time with her. Yeah, what they gave her to do too,
Speaker 3: it was tough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree, And again I didn't dislike it.
Speaker 2: It just wasn't. It didn't tonally, it didn't seem to
Speaker 2: know what it was to me.
Speaker 1: It wasn't really a comedy with wacky characters, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't really like a it was. You could tell the
Speaker 1: time this was released seemed to be kind of around
Speaker 1: the mean girls.
Speaker 2: Yes, clueless, kind.
Speaker 1: Of like I know, Clueless was way before that, but
Speaker 1: it tried to catch that vibe, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it necessarily did. But anyway, the movie stars a Disney
Speaker 1: staple and absolutely, as Sabrina said at the beginning, Disney Legend,
Speaker 1: Debbie Ryan. She plays the painfully shy Tara Adams aka
Speaker 1: Radio Rebel. This was her third d com with Sixteen
Speaker 1: Wishes and The Sweet Life Movie in twenty ten and
Speaker 1: twenty eleven, respectively. She also guest starred on shows like
Speaker 1: Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverley Place, and Austin and Ally,
Speaker 1: and starred in Jesse with Peyton List and Cameron Boyce
Speaker 1: for four seasons on the Disney Channel. So again, Absolute
Speaker 1: Disney Royalty. And then there's Adam DeMarco. He's Gavin. He's
Speaker 1: a member of the G's Not Quite Rude Awakening, who
Speaker 1: is Smack dab in the middle of a prom or morp,
Speaker 1: we'll get into that love triangle as the radio rebel
Speaker 1: love interest. He's also known most recently as Randall on
Speaker 1: The Order and I'll Be on season two of the
Speaker 1: hit show White Lotus, so has gone on to a
Speaker 1: pretty great career. Merritt Patterson plays Stacey, the school's queen
Speaker 1: bee and mean girl who's obsessed with being the prom queen.
Speaker 1: And then we have Serena Palmer as Audrey. That's Tara's
Speaker 1: best friend who helps hide her secret idea wh who I
Speaker 1: thought was very funny.
Speaker 2: And then Martin Cummins is Rob lynch Adams.
Speaker 1: He's TERA's stepfather who runs Slam FM, and he was
Speaker 1: Mayor Kelly in almost eighty episodes of Riverdale.
Speaker 2: And I liked what they did with his character.
Speaker 3: I did too. I liked their relationship.
Speaker 1: Yes, that that to me was actually one of the
Speaker 1: nicer relationships of the film, is watching that kind of
Speaker 1: them learn each other and grow and then she's able
Speaker 1: to open up to him.
Speaker 2: It was I liked that. I liked how they went.
Speaker 3: It's one of our first step relationships. Yeah, they've done
Speaker 3: the dad one a bunch of times. We've always had
Speaker 3: a lot to say about this, so I wasn't expecting
Speaker 3: it to be great, and then it turned out to
Speaker 3: be a really nice transition, different kind of relationship for
Speaker 3: us to see. I enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: I agree the easy writing thing would have made it
Speaker 1: where he doesn't care about her. She's successful, so we
Speaker 1: want to keep it going. It's all about slam FM
Speaker 1: and he was like, you're my stepdaughter.
Speaker 2: First. I liked that question. Yes, there's a lot.
Speaker 1: Of other people in this one, with a large majority
Speaker 1: being local Canadian actors, which you will see a lot
Speaker 1: of because of lower budgets and rules productions have to
Speaker 1: follow and shooting U in Canada, you have to do
Speaker 1: a certain percentage of your cast has to be Canadian
Speaker 1: actors and that's absolutely the way it should be.
Speaker 3: Well, it's also cheaper not having them come fly.
Speaker 1: Stay sure, but it's also like, if you're going to
Speaker 1: come shoot a movie in our country, you've got to
Speaker 1: use a group of actors.
Speaker 2: I think that's I think that's fair.
Speaker 3: I do too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this movie runs just eighty five minutes, five below
Speaker 1: the target, a number we continue to flirt with, unlike
Speaker 1: something like say.
Speaker 2: Fuzzbucket which was nine minutes long.
Speaker 1: It was directed by Peter Howitt, who directed the nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty eight Gwyneth Paltrow hit Sliding Doors, also the Julian
Speaker 1: Moore Pierce Brosnan rom com Laws of Attraction, and the
Speaker 1: Mister Bean movie Johnny English. If you look at this
Speaker 1: man's IMDb, it is so strange where it's like you
Speaker 1: go from Sliding Doors and movies with Pierce Brosen into
Speaker 1: kind of d cooms and stuff. It is.
Speaker 2: It's a wild ride in this man's career.
Speaker 1: It really is. Outside of the original novels writer. The
Speaker 1: script was written by Eric Patterson and Jessica Scott, who
Speaker 1: wrote Another Cinderella Story and a Cinderella story Once Upon
Speaker 1: a Song. So first, I think the way we have
Speaker 1: to get into this for some of our younger listeners, okay,
Speaker 1: who are joining our show, let's first discuss what radio is.
Speaker 2: So radio kids.
Speaker 1: No, I'm kidding, but I think that in twenty twelve
Speaker 1: this might have been the last kind of year could
Speaker 1: have pulled off a movie about radio.
Speaker 2: Did the girls on your dance team? Does anybody listen
Speaker 2: to the radio? Do they have favorite DJs? Is this
Speaker 2: a thing anymore?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: I think everything is basically on Pandora or where you know, Spotify, Apple,
Speaker 3: iHeart I Heart is probably I would say the biggest.
Speaker 2: The one that's still going the most, that.
Speaker 3: Feels most like a radio station type thing.
Speaker 1: You got Ryan Seacrest thing people like that are still
Speaker 1: doing and Mario Lopez and.
Speaker 3: Stuff, but it's still streaming. You still do not have
Speaker 3: to turn on a radio. You know specifically you can,
Speaker 3: but you don't have to. You can stream it on
Speaker 3: your phone, you know, anywhere you are, your computer, anywhere,
Speaker 3: which is so different than having to be at either
Speaker 3: your car or in your your house to like tune
Speaker 3: into a radio station.
Speaker 1: It's my wife and I were on a walk this morning.
Speaker 1: It took two of us to answer a text on
Speaker 1: her watch. Oh that's all I have to say about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's what You're absolutely right. It was all streaming
Speaker 1: and everything. So so then yes, this is probably the
Speaker 1: last year that they can pull off a movie about
Speaker 1: an actual DJ or what would be DJ If they
Speaker 1: were going to make the monitor equivalent of this, it
Speaker 1: would be something like a podcast, right, or you know,
Speaker 1: a podcast that all the kids are listening to, or
Speaker 1: something they can stream. But then a lot of the
Speaker 1: instant we oh, it has to go live, you need
Speaker 1: to be here at such and such a time, that
Speaker 1: kind of goes away. Yes, a lot of the problems
Speaker 1: and difficulties that she finds during this film wouldn't exist
Speaker 1: because she could prerecord a bunch of stuff and do
Speaker 1: ten podcast episodes and walk away, which you can't do anymore.
Speaker 1: It's what we, my friends and I call the public
Speaker 1: phone problem, where in the eighties there are so many
Speaker 1: eighties movies just about we can't find a telephone that works.
Speaker 3: Yes, and you said you that those movies now would
Speaker 3: be five minutes long at the most.
Speaker 2: They would you pick up your cell phone and you
Speaker 2: call somebody and you're done.
Speaker 3: Or back when I was younger, it was the pager.
Speaker 3: You could you had a pager so your parents could
Speaker 3: could get a hold of you. They'd send a certain
Speaker 3: message to call back them when they needed you, and
Speaker 3: you had to find a phone so you were at
Speaker 3: your friend's house or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, nobody does that anymore, no one.
Speaker 1: There is a whole thing about how kids no longer
Speaker 1: have to speak to their friend's parents anymore. Because you
Speaker 1: used to call the house and say hello, mister Johnson
Speaker 1: is john there? Can I please talk to him? Although
Speaker 1: that'd be terrible for his name is actually Johnson, but
Speaker 1: it is they don't have to do that anymore. You
Speaker 1: just call your friend, you hit your friend up, and
Speaker 1: that's right. So they've they've skipped a step. Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you have trouble buying it? So the premise you have
Speaker 1: to buy into right away with this movie, and they
Speaker 1: really pushed it far and I get it is that
Speaker 1: Tara is so shot that she can't speak to most people.
Speaker 1: And that's not hyperbole. She literally can't speak. She can
Speaker 1: talk to her best friend, right, and the two twins
Speaker 1: that are there, but she can't talk to any of
Speaker 1: the other kids in school, her stepdad. She literally can't
Speaker 1: form words.
Speaker 2: Were you okay with that?
Speaker 3: I watched Big Bang Theory, and there's a character in
Speaker 3: Big Bang that can't. I think it would need so
Speaker 3: much more of a pre story type thing to actually
Speaker 3: believe it, or to see it happen over and over again.
Speaker 3: And I think it doesn't happen enough, you know, I
Speaker 3: think it like it needs to be a lot more.
Speaker 3: It needs to be where you can really realize. I
Speaker 3: didn't understand that until a second time I watched it.
Speaker 3: I just thought she was shy, and I thought she
Speaker 3: was shy around boys. Okay, that's normal. But the idea
Speaker 3: that this character cannot speak who she basically freezes completely
Speaker 3: shuts down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's a real thing, but it's I
Speaker 1: would I agree with you. I would like to have
Speaker 1: seen that set up a little because like thirty to
Speaker 1: forty percent of this film is convincing people that she's
Speaker 1: so shy, right, that she couldn't be Radio rebel because
Speaker 1: she literally can't.
Speaker 3: And you don't get that again, She's just I mean,
Speaker 3: it's just hard to believe with just that just was tough.
Speaker 3: That was really hard to put in to my brain that, oh,
Speaker 3: she's not speaking at all. Yeah, she must she might
Speaker 3: have only she might need to get rid of the
Speaker 3: twin friends. It really just be one friend, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the twin friend with those were that was another
Speaker 1: very cartoony pair of it was I'm a cartoony.
Speaker 2: A lot of the extra characters.
Speaker 3: They showed up in the elevator with the outfit, the
Speaker 3: red alphant I died.
Speaker 1: Oh, they were very funny. I love the dewey Can
Speaker 1: you tell us apart? It's like you are fraternal Twitter, you're.
Speaker 5: Not even near again identical, but one extras agree with
Speaker 5: you one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: One extra scene of her mom may be saying like,
Speaker 1: why don't you try to talk to somebody today, or
Speaker 1: sitting with a counselor saying I want you to say
Speaker 1: one thing to one person today.
Speaker 2: That's your whole goal today.
Speaker 1: Because then it that contrast between her when she then
Speaker 1: becomes Radio Rebel, where she puts she instantly snaps into Okay,
Speaker 1: this is my happy place, and when I'm in front
Speaker 1: of the microphone, I'm in my bedroom. This is my
Speaker 1: happy place. I can say all the things I couldn't
Speaker 1: say today. I would just love to have seen a
Speaker 1: little more of that than just I can't talk to
Speaker 1: this guy.
Speaker 2: To Gavin, you know it did it didn't really.
Speaker 3: I don't think it read as well as it There
Speaker 3: might have been another way to do it, to make
Speaker 3: it read and be understood just a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I agree.
Speaker 1: And so of course the show she's doing, which she
Speaker 1: does live from her bedroom, takes off in popularity. Everybody
Speaker 1: is starting to love this show. They're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out who Radio Rebel is, and she's obviously staying as
Speaker 1: anonymous as she can, and it's easy to overlook her.
Speaker 1: That's they've set that up, because this person who talks
Speaker 1: so eloquently on the radio every week, who it seems
Speaker 1: to get us, knows exactly what we're going through, speaking
Speaker 1: right to us, can't possibly be the girl who can't
Speaker 1: form words in front of anybody. It turns out, of course,
Speaker 1: that her stepdad, which is we talked about a little
Speaker 1: bit before there runs or is a like a managing
Speaker 1: director at the biggest radio station in Seattle, SLAMM huge,
Speaker 1: and so again, I found it interesting that she let
Speaker 1: the persona drop, so she instantly the first real scene
Speaker 1: that we have with the stepfather and her, she gives
Speaker 1: up that she's radio rebels cut out.
Speaker 2: It's so fast.
Speaker 3: I was not ready for that. I thought this was
Speaker 3: going to go on for a while. We're five minutes
Speaker 3: into the movie. She has to, you know, he comes
Speaker 3: to her door. She doesn't. Again, she doesn't look like
Speaker 3: she doesn't want It didn't come off that she could
Speaker 3: not talk to him. It was like she was uncomfortable
Speaker 3: and just didn't want to talk to him, which most
Speaker 3: teenagers are. I feel that's what I hear at that age,
Speaker 3: they get out of my room. This is my personal space,
Speaker 3: this is my safe I don't be in here. But
Speaker 3: it's I mean, that happens so fast. That happened so
Speaker 3: so fast, I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: But I also like, you know, how I read it,
Speaker 2: which I kind of liked.
Speaker 1: I read it to where she would rather give up
Speaker 1: her identity in front of her new stepdad than than
Speaker 1: leave dead air on her radio show. True, like it
Speaker 1: was more important to get to speak to the listeners
Speaker 1: than it was for this guy, not to realize. And
Speaker 1: of course he, you know, offers her a slot at
Speaker 1: the station, because why not. She's hugely popular, she's hip,
Speaker 1: everybody's loving her so great.
Speaker 2: She is now going to be on.
Speaker 3: The radio.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we mentioned in the book that
Speaker 1: her DJ name was Sweet Tea. I asked you at
Speaker 1: the beginning what your band name would be? Do you
Speaker 1: have a persona? You'd be like, what would your DJ
Speaker 1: name be?
Speaker 3: I don't see, I don't know, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was younger, So my nickname when I was younger
Speaker 3: was Brie. I got called like when I was really
Speaker 3: little by my family, and my family still calls me
Speaker 3: Brie A lot of times. Some of my close friends
Speaker 3: call me Bri, so it'd probably maybe be along the
Speaker 3: lines of something with Bri in it.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, well, I got depending on when your
Speaker 1: time slot is, if you're at three, then it's be
Speaker 1: with Brie at three.
Speaker 2: Would be incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that, I love that.
Speaker 2: I love come on, I would be Will the Will
Speaker 2: for dell.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: It's just easier for people to run, right. But she
Speaker 1: quickly builds her audience up, so she starts the show,
Speaker 1: so she moves over there again. They show her in
Speaker 1: the booth for the first time ever, and she's very,
Speaker 1: very nervous. The thing that threw me was her engineer
Speaker 1: who's now her best friend, saying down you're on in fifteen.
Speaker 1: I assumed that was fifteen minutes and she had some time,
Speaker 1: and she starts pounding down fourteen thirteen. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3: She doesn't have a lot of time and she just
Speaker 3: just had told her to practice. That was one of
Speaker 3: my sees. Ye, the British sees. You literally told me
Speaker 3: to practice and she said, okay, I'm going to try
Speaker 3: to do put on a music and she's like, great.
Speaker 1: You're on in fifteen fourteen Wait wait wait, she hit
Speaker 1: one button and then it's like, you're on in fifteen
Speaker 1: go what?
Speaker 2: But she ends up again. The audience is starting to build.
Speaker 1: The kids in school are starting to really get into this,
Speaker 1: The kids all over Seattle are starting to really get
Speaker 1: into us. And she is now starting to drop little
Speaker 1: what we would call easter eggs into her show to say,
Speaker 1: like to affect what's going on in her life. So
Speaker 1: let's everybody wear red tomorrow because that'll show that we're
Speaker 1: all in this together. And then the whole school is
Speaker 1: filled with red. You know, let's all do that. We're
Speaker 1: having a dance party. So they're all kind of doing
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But one of the things she
Speaker 1: does is the guy she has a crush on leaves
Speaker 1: a demo CD and she picks it up, which is
Speaker 1: again by the horribly named band the G's, and plays
Speaker 1: it and they start to become very, very big. It
Speaker 1: leads to a spontaneous dance mid class to release all
Speaker 1: these pent up emotions, and of course this catches the
Speaker 1: attention of the most animated principle and it seemed like
Speaker 1: she was in a movie for like seven year olds.
Speaker 1: It really did like the wacky principle, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: that she was unfunny, it just seemed like she was
Speaker 1: in a completely different movie, principal movie.
Speaker 3: Besides the Twins. No one was really at that quirky animated. Yes,
Speaker 3: you know, no one's characters really seem like that. Maybe
Speaker 3: the one that helps out our villain.
Speaker 2: Oh, the bad Girl's.
Speaker 3: Stacy's best friend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe she was a little big, but not really, you know,
Speaker 3: everyone was. She just was over over the top.
Speaker 2: They're over the top.
Speaker 1: I agree, and that's her best friend. That the best
Speaker 1: Stacy's best friend could be a very fun character. A
Speaker 1: girl who has her own personal assistant in school is
Speaker 1: very fun. But again, everything was just kind of outlandish.
Speaker 1: So so eventually Radio Rebel has to come clean because
Speaker 1: even her best friend Audrey doesn't know who she is.
Speaker 1: Eventually she comes clean, and now so she's got somebody
Speaker 1: else on her side who's helping her out with everything,
Speaker 1: and the team is now in place to keep her
Speaker 1: anonymity while she is also growing in popularity and starting
Speaker 1: to affect the school around her.
Speaker 3: Stepdad has said that he wants to keep that together right,
Speaker 3: which is great, which was big, but also a lot
Speaker 3: of pressure because now it's not just her because she's embarrassed,
Speaker 3: and now it's he goes through this whole like little
Speaker 3: teeny tiny monolog of saying like, you know, I could
Speaker 3: lose my job, no big deal, no pressure.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, yeah, but it's like it's but it's
Speaker 1: like you're more important, and I like that that you
Speaker 1: are more important. You're more important than being able to
Speaker 1: feed the family if I was with it, which is fine. Uh,
Speaker 1: another question for you, did you find the voice that
Speaker 1: she was talking with and then the voice that went
Speaker 1: out on the radio were that different?
Speaker 3: No, you mean as far as it is it concealing
Speaker 3: who she was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she uses a voice modulator, and it didn't seem
Speaker 2: like it was all that.
Speaker 3: That was one of the things that I saw too.
Speaker 3: That's okay, because I wanted to make sure I'm glad
Speaker 3: that you're hearing it too, because she was supposed to
Speaker 3: be using something to make her voice sound different so
Speaker 3: much that when her her twin best friends have some
Speaker 3: kind of you know, they've they're computer guys.
Speaker 2: They built a program or sign something, yeah.
Speaker 3: Program something to try to expose her. There's a moment
Speaker 3: where that's when I went, oh, wow, okay, so she's
Speaker 3: supposed to sound a lot different, and she really does it.
Speaker 3: I agree, her voice might be a little bit more
Speaker 3: raspy on the radio than it was.
Speaker 1: They made it a little more sultry, a little more raspy,
Speaker 1: which I also kind of thought was a weird choice
Speaker 1: to make her almost like a like a sexy DJ.
Speaker 2: It was a little strange, it was, But I yes,
Speaker 2: I didn't think the voice was was different enough. But
Speaker 2: and again, why she's now she's on buses.
Speaker 1: There's pictures, not pictures of her, but who is Radio
Speaker 1: rebel is kind of everywhere, And you figure you could
Speaker 1: just stand outside the station and watch her walk in,
Speaker 1: which they tried to do later I think, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, didn't.
Speaker 1: She was hiding her identity, But it wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: that difficult to find out because she says, I'm recording
Speaker 1: here at such a right time exactly. It's like you
Speaker 1: would know when she was there. But things even get
Speaker 1: worse for Tara as radio rebel, who's just spilling all
Speaker 1: of her emo feelings on the air, making the principal
Speaker 1: even angrier. She then the Principle threatens to expell any
Speaker 1: students for listening to the show or anyone involved in
Speaker 1: concealing the host's identity. And if that's not hard enough,
Speaker 1: prom is also coming up, and Tara's arch nemesis, Stacy
Speaker 1: is already taking Gavin right, who Tara obviously likes, and
Speaker 1: Gavin is a cool guy, and it seems like Gavin
Speaker 1: and Tara have a lot in common. They like talking
Speaker 1: about kind of obscure bands or into indie stuff, and
Speaker 1: you can see Stacy doesn't like that. And I think
Speaker 1: one of the other reasons that Gavin and Stacey wouldn't
Speaker 1: work is because that's also the name of a very
Speaker 1: popular Welsh sitcom Gavin and Stacey look it up, great show,
Speaker 1: It's true. So, again making things worse, Principal Mareno decides
Speaker 1: if Rebel, if somebody doesn't come forward and say who
Speaker 1: Radio Rebel is, or if Radio Rebel doesn't give herself up,
Speaker 1: she's canceling the prom. Yes, which the only thing going
Speaker 1: through my head, as the son of two lawyers, is
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's legal. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: cancel a school event based on something not happening on
Speaker 1: school ground. So I'm going and making a radio show
Speaker 1: that kids are listening to good point at home at
Speaker 1: six pm or whatever. You can't now cancel school functions
Speaker 1: because you don't like something that's not taking place on
Speaker 1: school grounds.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're allowed to do that. I could
Speaker 2: be wrong. And if you are a lawyer in the
Speaker 2: prom world.
Speaker 3: Let us know it not happening on school grounds. Yes,
Speaker 3: I think that's a huge thing. You also cannot confiscate
Speaker 3: items from a kid and never give them back, which
Speaker 3: is what it seems like. I got my cell phone
Speaker 3: taken away from me almost every day in second period
Speaker 3: my senior year, and every day I had to go
Speaker 3: and get it back at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: and it got so bad that my mom had to
Speaker 3: And at that point it.
Speaker 2: Was why were you on what was second period? What
Speaker 2: were you learning? And why were you on your phone
Speaker 2: the whole time?
Speaker 3: Sabrina economics class and my boyfriend at the time always
Speaker 3: called me during.
Speaker 2: That time, so he got me in trouble, and you
Speaker 2: would answer.
Speaker 3: No, I would just forget to turn my phone on
Speaker 3: ring like, oh, it would be on either vibrate or
Speaker 3: I wouldn't turn it off, which I should have just
Speaker 3: turned it off. So still my bad. I was a knucklehead.
Speaker 3: But you can't just take somebody's actual phone away, nor
Speaker 3: can you do what however, they're listening to the radio there.
Speaker 1: Oh no, she had several thousand dollars worth of iPods
Speaker 1: and earbuds and every other thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, which is which is nuts? So but this
Speaker 2: this works.
Speaker 3: But this lady's on a power trip regardless, and it works.
Speaker 2: Yes, and it works.
Speaker 1: The student body is now has turned on Radio Radio Rebel.
Speaker 1: They are furious, they want their prom. Tara is now
Speaker 1: completely defeated. She's taking calls from angry classmates and she's
Speaker 1: ready to give it up and drop the whole act.
Speaker 2: But then so bad for her. She has a plan,
Speaker 2: so yeah, there's a plan.
Speaker 3: There's a plan, and that plan there's a plan is morp.
Speaker 2: Yes, the plan is more and MORP, of course is
Speaker 2: prom backwards.
Speaker 1: So students can wear casual clothes, they can dance however
Speaker 1: they want, and most importantly, they can listen to any
Speaker 1: radio show their heart desires. And add to this pressure,
Speaker 1: Radio Rebel has now been nominated Radio Rebel not terrible,
Speaker 1: but Radio Rebel has been nominated for prom Queen against
Speaker 1: her number one enemy, Stacey, who has been.
Speaker 2: Lobbying and lobbying and lobbying to.
Speaker 1: Get I mean, just man, did she just like Sean
Speaker 1: Young trying to be catwoman? She is lobbying to be
Speaker 1: prom queen.
Speaker 2: I'm telling you yeah, and so who's going to be
Speaker 2: more queen?
Speaker 1: And she even says, well, if radio Rebel wins, who's
Speaker 1: going to accept the crown? I could be expelled. And
Speaker 1: it's like, well, then don't just don't accept the crowns
Speaker 1: You're you're anonymous.
Speaker 3: That seems like an easy answer to me.
Speaker 2: Will answer, yes. Okay.
Speaker 1: So one thing we haven't mentioned yet through the entire conversation.
Speaker 1: We've talked about her stepdad, who we both really liked
Speaker 1: what they did in that character.
Speaker 2: We haven't talked about her mom, No, who was what
Speaker 2: a quack I mean just overly involved mom, which is
Speaker 2: a new Decom trope we haven't seen yet, like like
Speaker 2: overly overly, overly involved in her life, to.
Speaker 3: The point where she says she's so excited that she, well,
Speaker 3: not Tara, but her persona radio rebel, has been nominated
Speaker 3: that she says she doesn't even care if she gets expelled.
Speaker 1: Okay, Mom, yo, I don't care if you're kicked out
Speaker 1: of school. I care about prom that's your mom.
Speaker 3: I care about you getting a crown at a dance. Yes,
Speaker 3: oh my goodness, that knocked me off my feet a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: I could.
Speaker 3: I wasn't ready for that. I thought maybe she'd bring
Speaker 3: the idea that you and I both had easily. Well,
Speaker 3: why don't you just maybe you'll win. You just don't
Speaker 3: have to accept the award.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just go to the problem, enjoy yourself, be anonymous.
Speaker 3: Have fun, have a good time, like keep it moving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean so I get her mom. It's like
Speaker 1: shows up at places and eavesdrops on her conversations.
Speaker 2: Very very involved mom.
Speaker 3: Also, I didn't another thing to go back to the
Speaker 3: characters just being a little funky and weird. There's a
Speaker 3: part of her like the second I saw oatmeal or
Speaker 3: whatever it was on her face, and then when Stacy
Speaker 3: comes to the door and she's got some like cherry
Speaker 3: things on her fingers or whatever those were for cuticle,
Speaker 3: that whole thing was pushed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very character.
Speaker 3: You're much and didn't really understand why that was really
Speaker 3: that necessary.
Speaker 2: But no, again, very cartoony.
Speaker 1: They took every other character and I guess you could
Speaker 1: even say they took Tara cartoony with not being able
Speaker 1: to speak in front of people.
Speaker 2: I mean they were very pronounced characters. Let's say that. Yes,
Speaker 2: so Stacey and her minions are hot on the trail
Speaker 2: of terror.
Speaker 1: They're trying to figure out obviously who radio rebel is
Speaker 1: a because their radio rebel is now up against her
Speaker 1: at prom but be also because the norms are coming
Speaker 1: up and talking to her like they think that, you know,
Speaker 1: she's made everyone equal.
Speaker 2: The pops they call it here are.
Speaker 1: Coming up and talking to us. It's crazy, and they
Speaker 1: even so at one point they have her kind of
Speaker 1: cornered in the radio station and to get out, a
Speaker 1: giant sandwich shows up, A guy in a sandwich sho
Speaker 1: shows up to deliver the food and not all no,
Speaker 1: and it's also everybody. Even in twenty twelve, I've never
Speaker 1: never saw a delivery person come to your house dressed
Speaker 1: as the mascot of the restaurant that you were going.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe out in front of the store there's
Speaker 1: a giant sandwich with a flippy sign or something like that,
Speaker 1: but the guy delivering it to your house and the
Speaker 1: person delivering to isn't dressed like a sand.
Speaker 3: Right, how do they get in and out of their
Speaker 3: car so often?
Speaker 1: Okay or yeah, or on their little moped. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine seeing a giant sandwich? That would be just a
Speaker 1: big sale that would blow him right off the moment
Speaker 1: the entire.
Speaker 3: Time, all right, exactly, we are not here drive vehicles
Speaker 3: with full blown exactly.
Speaker 2: Stacy now thinks it could be Terra.
Speaker 1: So what she does is she holds a pre more
Speaker 1: party at her house so she can keep an eye
Speaker 1: on everybody, because of course she invited twenty three people
Speaker 1: in a school of one thousands, so she can keep
Speaker 1: an eye on everybody while the show goes on live
Speaker 1: and she and she essentially says to Terror. She actually says, Tara,
Speaker 1: if you're not there, I'm going to know that your
Speaker 1: radio river, So they don't pre record a show, which
Speaker 1: they should have obviously to play.
Speaker 2: While Terra's at this party, they have.
Speaker 1: Old clips of her that are trying to answer questions
Speaker 1: from callers, and of course Stacey calls in, but it's
Speaker 1: going badly, so Tara grabs her phone from the party
Speaker 1: and is running around the house while Stacy's trying to
Speaker 1: find her and doing her radio show.
Speaker 2: The only thing missing was the Benny Hill theme song.
Speaker 3: Tara slips out quickly yeah, but then starts to have
Speaker 3: to do this whole and we see all of Stacy's parents' house,
Speaker 3: including a coat close and.
Speaker 5: Again there's two hundred extras that could work, but there
Speaker 5: was Yeah, there wasn't, no, there was it.
Speaker 2: There's twenty five people there, so you're gonna notice that.
Speaker 1: And it's also Stacy's staring at her on the couch
Speaker 1: and then she gets up and walks away, and then
Speaker 1: the guy comes in. He's like, hey, can I have
Speaker 1: my coat? And you can hear that on the radio,
Speaker 1: and it's Stacy going what is that? And it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: this this didn't work even a little bit. Also, the
Speaker 1: Gees perform at the party. Again terrible band name from
Speaker 1: now and I'm not calling rude. Awakening performs at the party.
Speaker 3: Awakening was not there, well, not there.
Speaker 1: The she Dashians perform at the part. Even though they
Speaker 1: just formed a couple of weeks ago. They're technically like,
Speaker 1: they're really polished, they're already working on His friend wants
Speaker 1: to drop them from the band because he wants to
Speaker 1: play real music.
Speaker 2: Even though they are playing.
Speaker 3: Real That party was very I didn't see the difference
Speaker 3: much besides more of an acoustic set than what they
Speaker 3: played normally at the party. You know, later on what
Speaker 3: they played was good. Yes, I kept going, wow, these
Speaker 3: are great songs. They were going to free there. But
Speaker 3: when he's going, you know, we could talk about so
Speaker 3: much more, it's it's kind of sure.
Speaker 2: We can, but yeah, but that's not the band we're These.
Speaker 3: Are also fun party anthems, like you know, that's kind
Speaker 3: of what we're gonna do first, and then maybe on
Speaker 3: our second album. We'll get a little deeper.
Speaker 1: All right, on the sophomore album, after we've hit that
Speaker 1: mom down Gavin, juniors in high school, maybe we could
Speaker 1: just play Stacy's party and not worry about anything.
Speaker 3: Else of this way need to solve the world problems
Speaker 3: on track number one.
Speaker 2: We will do imagine on our second album.
Speaker 3: Gea girls do that enough. What's solving the world.
Speaker 2: Problem is that this song is called so Flies. That's
Speaker 2: that's the extent of what we're doing right now.
Speaker 3: Get in your zone, Gavin, exactly, Stay in your lane, Gav.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, you're you're you're already going uh rockstar
Speaker 1: persona here, You've had one song play one time on
Speaker 1: one radio station. But it's fine anyway. None of this
Speaker 1: matters because MORP has finally arrived. Gavin has left the
Speaker 1: band again for difficult reasons to explain, Radio Rebel does
Speaker 1: win more Queen, and then Tara walks out to accept
Speaker 1: she's made the decision to walk out and accept the award.
Speaker 1: Did you find it weird that she did it on
Speaker 1: her own? That it wasn't like through a random series
Speaker 1: of events she got outed as Radio Rebel, but she
Speaker 1: actually makes the state, like, dresses up and walks out
Speaker 1: on stage.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's weird how they did it. Was it
Speaker 3: a recording? Was that a recording that was going on right?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 2: Did she have a micropho?
Speaker 3: But then she shows up with a mic? I don't know,
Speaker 3: a lot of it was confusing to me. I you
Speaker 3: know that ending was a little.
Speaker 2: Funky, so strange.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I agree, because the principal then walks out
Speaker 1: and claps like a cartoon character and then expels Tara
Speaker 1: and then the entire student body one by one, and
Speaker 1: of course her mother, her mom's there. But all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, everybody starts saying I am spartan, so I
Speaker 1: am radio revel.
Speaker 2: So they don't know. So she can't expel everyone, but yes,
Speaker 2: apparently she can.
Speaker 1: And also she seems to like, obviously it's Terra, so
Speaker 1: why wouldn't she just expel terr it's it was kind
Speaker 1: of thrown away.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: But then and then she wins the crown, but then
Speaker 2: gives the crown.
Speaker 1: To Stacy because Stacey was the one who really wanted
Speaker 1: to win anyway.
Speaker 3: As long as Stacy said she was radio rebel.
Speaker 2: Right you I I hear your so you have to
Speaker 2: admit your radio rebel.
Speaker 3: As well, which means she's part of the rest of
Speaker 3: the peasant. Yes, she's a pop now.
Speaker 2: It was really weird.
Speaker 1: And then to ratchet up the weirdness even one kind
Speaker 1: of step farther, Gavin gets on stage with justin acoustic guitar,
Speaker 1: because of course he's no longer in the Gens.
Speaker 2: He's just Gavin.
Speaker 3: He's yeah, He's not Genes, He's.
Speaker 2: Just g Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we imagine that this is a song he's had
Speaker 1: in his arsenal that he didn't play for his bandmates
Speaker 1: for some reason that we don't understand. He starts playing,
Speaker 1: but then his bandmates get up on stage and play
Speaker 1: with him. So obviously they'd had some rehearsal time.
Speaker 3: If you think about it, bands, from what I hear,
Speaker 3: they you know, practice in their girl rag all the time.
Speaker 3: So it's just the fact that they all had their
Speaker 3: instruments there.
Speaker 1: Well that too, But it's also like it if this
Speaker 1: was the song you wanted to play, if this is
Speaker 1: the song that your heart song that you really wanted
Speaker 1: to really say something the band, You've obviously rehearsed this
Speaker 1: with the band.
Speaker 3: So it's not obviously it's not fully full blown Disney,
Speaker 3: but this is the idea of that you a band
Speaker 3: can just pick up and pick up and play and
Speaker 3: follow along. Oh, I can hear the I can hear
Speaker 3: the melody. Here's my little adding into it here, you
Speaker 3: know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: All right, that's fair Okay, I was I was gonna
Speaker 1: say fair enough, but I don't think it's fair enough.
Speaker 2: It's weird, but it's a Disney trope, but I guess.
Speaker 3: The TV version of what could actually really happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know this scene, so everybody gets a crown,
Speaker 2: everybody wins. It's great. But this scene also became famous
Speaker 2: because as the you know as e.
Speaker 1: But Debbie is watching the performance at More. She makes
Speaker 1: this very saucy kind of grin at Gavin on stage
Speaker 1: and it has become a really famous meme.
Speaker 3: When she moves her bang and gives the eyes, I.
Speaker 2: Think we have it? Do we we have it?
Speaker 1: Do we actually have said meme? Because this is uh,
Speaker 1: this is one that has become famous. There it is,
Speaker 1: So that's become.
Speaker 2: The gaze.
Speaker 1: That is the Debbie Ryan radio rebel gaze. You never
Speaker 1: know what somebody's gonna grab. It becomes a meme.
Speaker 3: I know she's the Queen of Disney memes, right is
Speaker 3: that is that? When we found out the queen of
Speaker 3: Disney memes?
Speaker 6: She is?
Speaker 3: It is a good one. Again, I don't know, didn't
Speaker 3: know the movie before this. See that little segment pop up,
Speaker 3: and it was like, recognize it right away, right, that's
Speaker 3: where from. Wasn't sure what it would come from.
Speaker 2: Yes, there we go, Yeah, there you go. That is
Speaker 2: the famous meme.
Speaker 1: Now she's obviously as she's she's reacting to Gavin singing,
Speaker 1: singing his song as she's doing this little hair flip.
Speaker 3: Yes, did you like the.
Speaker 2: Music that was in the movie.
Speaker 5: I did?
Speaker 3: I really did. I thought it was I thought it
Speaker 3: was some of the best music we've heard from as
Speaker 3: far as band goes. With them playing, I agree. They
Speaker 3: also didn't just we've seen some really bad guitar playing,
Speaker 3: and they didn't show a lot of them actually.
Speaker 2: Playing the guitar, or they cut to close up of hands, so.
Speaker 3: Yes, they don't make it to where the actor is
Speaker 3: obviously not well advanced within the guitar playing levels, so
Speaker 3: instead of doing that, they do close up on the
Speaker 3: face with them singing, and then close up on the hands.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that. Not everyone can play the guitar.
Speaker 3: I sure as hell can't, so I'm alright with it.
Speaker 2: It was fine. I agree. I liked the movie. But
Speaker 2: in the end we find out that Gavin was.
Speaker 1: In fact the Sandwich mascot said help it Tara escaped,
Speaker 1: so he always knew Tara was radio rebel, and then
Speaker 1: you know, he kisses her on the cheek because their
Speaker 1: official war updates. But the thing that's cool is in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, Debbie revealed on Facebook that they shot an
Speaker 1: alternate ending where they actually kissed, but it wasn't you right.
Speaker 3: Which upset me even more After the kiss on the cheek.
Speaker 3: I thought that was garbage. These are finally we've got
Speaker 3: two kids that are high school age, so it would
Speaker 3: not be too inappropriate. Yeah, inappropriate anyway. Why can't we
Speaker 3: just get a little peck? Why? Yeah, the kissing on
Speaker 3: the cheek was so awkward. They've gone through this whole
Speaker 3: little journey together and you're gonna kiss her on the cheek,
Speaker 3: and then to find out they actually did film it
Speaker 3: and didn't you.
Speaker 2: So you're asking for an all you're asking for.
Speaker 3: I want to remake. I want them to redo that.
Speaker 3: See for me, the alternate ending, okay, because to me,
Speaker 3: a kiss on the cheek is just so awkward. Okay,
Speaker 3: I guess, especially at that age, I don't think boys
Speaker 3: are going around kissing girls on the cheek.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you you're well, I'm gonna get you a
Speaker 1: shirt that just says release the kiss cut. Okay, So no,
Speaker 1: I think if you're not gonna have them kiss, I
Speaker 1: agree that to me, a kiss on the cheek is
Speaker 1: like swearing without swearing in movies where they say things
Speaker 1: like crud yeah exactly, where it just doesn't work. So
Speaker 1: you have them look at each other, the lights behind them,
Speaker 1: and then freeze on them looking at each other. You
Speaker 1: don't need any contact if that's what you're gonna do.
Speaker 3: Exactly, I gotcha. Yeah, all right, that that part annoyed me,
Speaker 3: and then it was even more they actually filmed it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, release the kiss cut. I'm giving you
Speaker 1: the shirt, release the kiss cut. Let's do some real Sabrina,
Speaker 1: whyn't you start with our five star?
Speaker 3: I will because I really did like this little movie.
Speaker 3: It was fun for me. Loved. This is from Nicholas p.
Speaker 3: Five stars. Okay, love this movie since I was eight
Speaker 3: and now I'm nineteen. Such an amazing positive approach that
Speaker 3: helps kids and adults see good in life. Also, the
Speaker 3: music is amazing. The movie is worth a try for anyone,
Speaker 3: So if you haven't watched it, go for it. You
Speaker 3: won't be sorry. Solid five star reviews, Solid five. The
Speaker 3: one star review is from Olivia.
Speaker 1: W Olivia's Pisted Olivia's Pet Gotter read this has written
Speaker 1: this film is corrupt and dishonorable. The premise of Morp
Speaker 1: is ludicrous. What happened at tradition promise something that under
Speaker 1: no circumstances should be compromised or altered. There is no
Speaker 1: doubt in my mind that MORP is leftist propaganda made
Speaker 1: to insert the idea of rebellion in our young teens,
Speaker 1: developing minds that said, unless you want your child to
Speaker 1: grow up a loopy, eggheaded liberal, let them watch Radio Rebel.
Speaker 2: Very specific.
Speaker 3: To calm down for five seconds. MORP is something that
Speaker 3: is at so many high schools nowadays.
Speaker 2: So you're yes, wait, Morp's the real thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, don't worry. I'll getting toes because I knew that
Speaker 3: you've been aware of the don't worry.
Speaker 2: Oh no, of course not. You know, Olivia had some
Speaker 2: yeah issues there with the film.
Speaker 3: You know what, I think Olivia was actually the real
Speaker 3: life Stacy.
Speaker 2: That's what I think it is. Yes, I want to
Speaker 2: release the Olivia of the movie.
Speaker 3: The book was written about her and she is still.
Speaker 2: Not with it.
Speaker 1: We're also going to be doing a new feature this week,
Speaker 1: we're calling the even more Warped Tour. So there's a
Speaker 1: bunch of bands that are mentioned this movie, like the G's.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to name a band and you got
Speaker 1: to tell me if it's mentioned as a fictitious band
Speaker 1: in Radio Rebel or someone who played on the infamous
Speaker 1: Warped Tour In twenty twelve, the year the movie was released. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, first band, name you first Radio Rebel. I'm
Speaker 1: I think it was Radio Rebel as well, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: That is Radio Rebel. It's the first band on the
Speaker 4: T shirt. That that one, That one I gave you
Speaker 4: kind of an easy.
Speaker 2: One, that's what I thought. Okay, really, well you are.
Speaker 2: We're one for one all right.
Speaker 1: The second band, oh, Sleeper, I'm gonna say that's warped
Speaker 1: I don't remember that in the movie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, two for two. That's a warped tour band on
Speaker 4: a street.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, all right. Band number three, the Smugglers I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Warped Tour again. That sounds warped Tour.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say warped Tour to Nope, that's a poster
Speaker 4: in the radio station. That's Radio.
Speaker 1: Radio Rebel poster. Okay, uh, Beabs and Her Moneymakers.
Speaker 2: That's a great name.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I hope that's a real band. I feel like I
Speaker 2: just because I hope it's real. I'm gonna say warped Tour.
Speaker 4: That's right. They did a handful of dates of Warped Tour.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Beabs and Her money Maker's great band name nan Cougar.
Speaker 3: Nan Cougar. I didn't see that anywhere either.
Speaker 4: I didn't either, So warp warp to you didn't see
Speaker 4: it because you didn't use AI to enhance her bedroom.
Speaker 4: Because there is a poster for Nan Cougar that I,
Speaker 4: thank god had to do work to find in her bedroom.
Speaker 3: It's a poster in her bedroom. Okay, yeah, this.
Speaker 2: Is what AI should be used. By the way, this,
Speaker 2: this is why we have it.
Speaker 4: Brilliant Enhancing a dcon is worth using AI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And I think I know the last one
Speaker 1: because he mentions Red Letter Day.
Speaker 2: Yes, doesn't he talk about Red Letter Day?
Speaker 3: No, she introduces the band Red Letter Day when she
Speaker 3: tells everyone to wear red.
Speaker 4: Right, Well no, she okay, red Letter Day is from
Speaker 4: is from radio?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's because he's he says it to her.
Speaker 4: Correct. He suggests, if you like you first, you'll like
Speaker 4: Red Letter Deck.
Speaker 2: You love Red Letter Day?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, that's that's when Stacey then walks over. It's like,
Speaker 1: no band talk because I'm a juror.
Speaker 3: That's not the band that she introduces on the radio though. Yea,
Speaker 3: so it is the same same Okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yes, he tells her about it and then
Speaker 2: she plays it.
Speaker 4: On the Okay, yeah, I'm going to go enhance more dcoms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go go ai more d cooms because that's awesome Jensen,
Speaker 1: thank you.
Speaker 4: I'll just keep checking posters.
Speaker 3: What's wonderful.
Speaker 2: Beabes and her money Makers is now my favorite thing ever.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to google and listen to the music
Speaker 1: because I'm gonna let's do Sabrina seas.
Speaker 3: All right, Okay, so I've got the main one is
Speaker 3: to talk about more, but I'm gonna go through real
Speaker 3: quick and see which ones. Okay. One thing that hit
Speaker 3: me right from the start, especially since you hated the
Speaker 3: name Gez so much. Did you see the G shirt
Speaker 3: he was wearing in the beginning. It was a pac
Speaker 3: Man shirt. Yes, we're gonna go with his mom. His
Speaker 3: mom ryingstoned with these silver studs, just the G. They
Speaker 3: tried to make the pac Man look like G. That
Speaker 3: was the most hilarious shirt. I mean, I love the
Speaker 3: wardrobe in these movies all the time.
Speaker 2: There's so few.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they are so funny you have to just stop
Speaker 3: and like soak it in. That was one of the
Speaker 3: best shirts ever. And then I do have to say
Speaker 3: this one moment in the movie with her best friend
Speaker 3: where she's out on the grass and she does the
Speaker 3: screaming thing that like a toddler does, where she's like,
Speaker 3: she's gonna scream, and she did. I was appalled for her.
Speaker 3: That would have made me not be your friend for
Speaker 3: at least a three or four day span, because that's
Speaker 3: embarrassing for a mom to have to go through with
Speaker 3: a five year old, but a best friend to go
Speaker 3: through with somebody her own age, that was so so embarrassing.
Speaker 2: I love that you would have sentenced her to three
Speaker 2: or four days of not being your friend.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's just so you understood that that could never
Speaker 3: happen again. We are going to just have some space
Speaker 3: for a good three to four days because really that
Speaker 3: that would have embarrassed me so much, and she did it.
Speaker 2: I can't wait in public together against I'm gonna just yell.
Speaker 4: Something.
Speaker 3: I will take a hiatus from the show. Without a
Speaker 3: doubt you would not do that. That was awful. Okay,
Speaker 3: more so I knew that. I'm like, I can't wait
Speaker 3: to explain more because I don't. I bet you will's
Speaker 3: not going to really actually know that this was a thing.
Speaker 3: This this happened when I was in high school, the
Speaker 3: way they do it here in Orange County, and of
Speaker 3: course there's other ways. I loved the spin that they
Speaker 3: did it where everything was there saying we're gonna flip
Speaker 3: everything upside down, and in the movie the chairs were
Speaker 3: hanging from the ceiling, like they really went to a
Speaker 3: great like extent to do the creation of morp, which
Speaker 3: I love. Morp is obviously prom spelled backwards. So here
Speaker 3: it's the first dance of the year because you end
Speaker 3: with brace, yes, you end with problem, you start with morp.
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of a back to school date. So
Speaker 3: I will send you the two Morphs that I went to.
Speaker 3: One was my freshman year and it's like I had
Speaker 3: all these little butterflies in our hair and we had
Speaker 3: this cute, kind of cute outfit. Right we're freshmen. And
Speaker 3: then the next year when I find when we find
Speaker 3: ourselves and we're not caring to be cute and adorable
Speaker 3: or whatever, we're really just going for fun. Because really
Speaker 3: at my school it was mainly girls that went to it.
Speaker 4: The guys.
Speaker 3: It wasn't a date dance, it was just a group dance.
Speaker 3: It kind of became a group dance. So I went
Speaker 3: with all my girls and we all dressed up like
Speaker 3: our boyfriends. So we all had our big their big
Speaker 3: cargo pants on with socks and their vans and you know,
Speaker 3: their their bats and whatever, and we had the best time.
Speaker 3: It was such a fun time with just the girls.
Speaker 3: So more was one of my favorite dances in high school.
Speaker 2: So I have to ask, did did this movie invent
Speaker 2: morep or was more of a thing considering.
Speaker 3: I graduated ten years earlier than this movie.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, okay, right, that's right. I keep forgetting that. Yes,
Speaker 2: you're right, Okay, it did not.
Speaker 3: Okay, Morpe was definitely very new when I was in
Speaker 3: high school. For our high school, at least, it wasn't
Speaker 3: done very many times before I was actually in high school.
Speaker 3: So my freshman year, I want to say, it was
Speaker 3: one of the first times it was done, and it
Speaker 3: was a really fun dance and I loved it. And
Speaker 3: I loved it because it wasn't a dance that was
Speaker 3: just for, you know, the date aspect, which all the
Speaker 3: other dances are. This ended up being more of a
Speaker 3: group dance. You don't go with the date, you go
Speaker 3: with a group of people. So it could be a
Speaker 3: group of mix of girls and guys, or there were
Speaker 3: guy groups that went as well. But uh, it was
Speaker 3: so fun. I will send the pictures for you and
Speaker 3: leave the chat so you could see because it's definitely vibes,
Speaker 3: it's cute, and then it's look at us where like
Speaker 3: we're being a lot more funny.
Speaker 2: So okay, I like that. At my school we had bloors,
Speaker 2: but I'm not going to explain what it is.
Speaker 3: So uh.
Speaker 2: We okay, did you have any more sites?
Speaker 3: That's all I already go to you today.
Speaker 2: I love the morphing. So now we have to rate
Speaker 2: the movie one out of ten. And here are the
Speaker 2: options we've got this week.
Speaker 1: Voice distortion, filters, dancing sandwiches, morps, sherry o, terry lookalike, principles,
Speaker 1: over involved moms, or I'm going to add beabs and
Speaker 1: the money makers.
Speaker 3: Let's do beabs and the moneymakers.
Speaker 2: Okay, so how many beabs and the money makers do
Speaker 2: you give this film?
Speaker 3: I felt this movie was an easy watch. It wasn't
Speaker 3: super I got caught up on a few things, you know,
Speaker 3: but mainly the principal drove me nuts. Right, So because
Speaker 3: of her, I'm going to take it down to A seven.
Speaker 1: A seven, okay, not too far apart. I had some
Speaker 1: I had some issues with a lot of the caricatures. Yeah,
Speaker 1: were just very kind of over the top. The end
Speaker 1: didn't make any real sense to me at all.
Speaker 2: I didn't kind of get that. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: give this. I'm going to give it six Beads and
Speaker 2: the money Makers.
Speaker 3: Seven beads and the money makers versus the six beads in.
Speaker 2: The money six bees the money Maker. Yeah, I might
Speaker 2: even go six point five again because the acting was good.
Speaker 3: That that's what kept me going.
Speaker 2: The characters weren't great, but the with the acting was
Speaker 2: not bad.
Speaker 3: The characters that I liked was good. I really really
Speaker 3: loved the way the actors did it. One of my
Speaker 3: favorite things was her best friend when she did her
Speaker 3: monologue for their acting class.
Speaker 2: Great, wasn't she so good?
Speaker 1: They were that the whole I mean again, the characters
Speaker 1: were over the top, but they were written and directed
Speaker 1: that way. The actors were good at pulling them off.
Speaker 1: So I might even go six point five to seven,
Speaker 1: could be seven. Now I'm gonna stick her to six
Speaker 1: point five six point five. I've Beabes and the Money
Speaker 1: you're changing it from.
Speaker 3: The six to six point five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go to six point five. I kind
Speaker 1: of go up to six point because of the actors. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that. I think that's good.
Speaker 2: So there you have it.
Speaker 1: We we have put another one in the books, and
Speaker 1: I know everybody's going to be very excited because one
Speaker 1: of the most asked for and I mean far and
Speaker 1: away most asked for films is coming up next. We
Speaker 1: are going to be doing nineteen ninety nine's Xenon Girl
Speaker 1: of the twenty first Century. Yes, we are doing it,
Speaker 1: but before we get to it, we want to kind
Speaker 1: of wet your appetites, and we are talk about Disney Royalty.
Speaker 1: But from the other side of the camera, we're going
Speaker 1: to be talking to Stu Krieger. Now, Stu wrote all
Speaker 1: of the Xenon movies. Yes, he also wrote Going to
Speaker 1: the Mat, Gotta Kick It Up, Smart House, Phantom of
Speaker 1: the Megaplex. I mean, it's like, this guy is responsible
Speaker 1: for a ridiculous number of these d coms, huge, huge,
Speaker 1: huge dcoms. It was a great ada and it's going to.
Speaker 3: Be so exciting to have his take on what it's
Speaker 3: like to be a part of you know this the
Speaker 3: Xenon franchise, you know, watching it from the very beginning.
Speaker 3: We get to talk to the actors after it's already written,
Speaker 3: things have been produced, you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: This is from the very beginning, starting starting with just
Speaker 3: page one. That's incredible. What a different ride we're gonna
Speaker 3: hear about. I'm so excited, I cannot wait. It was
Speaker 3: a great interview.
Speaker 1: Actually, we want to play a little bit for you now,
Speaker 1: so check out this little moment with Stu Kreeger.
Speaker 6: Xenon is Eloise at the Plaza on the Space Station.
Speaker 6: And if you know that emblematic kid's book from the fifties,
Speaker 6: it was a kid living at the Plaza Hotel in
Speaker 6: New York, creating mischief and wreaking havoc and getting into
Speaker 6: places she shouldn't be. And I said it's Eloise at
Speaker 6: the Plaza on the Space Station, and they went, you're hired.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: The reason you were hired is eighteen writers before you
Speaker 6: came in and said it's They said it was a
Speaker 6: variation over and over again of its nine O two
Speaker 6: one oh meets Star Trek. Disney Channel would not do
Speaker 6: nine O two one oh Disney Channel would not do
Speaker 6: Star Trek. No, thank you, and you came in and said,
Speaker 6: eloie's at the applause of this on the Space station.
Speaker 4: That's who we are, that's what we do. Boom, let's go.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There is plenty more of that and that is going
Speaker 1: to be Monday on the Magical Rewind feed, So go
Speaker 1: and check that out because some of the insights you
Speaker 1: had into some of the biggest dcoms of all time
Speaker 1: were really, really cool, and it was amazing to hear.
Speaker 2: From the beginning. You're exactly what you said, how how
Speaker 2: it all started.
Speaker 1: Yes, so appreciate you sticking with us. Remember to subscribe
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Speaker 3: Bye bye,