Speaker 1: When you were growing up, did you ever have or
Speaker 1: consider becoming an exchange student.
Speaker 2: I thought about this exchange student that I knew didn't
Speaker 2: go to my high school, but went to my best
Speaker 2: friend's high school. And it actually started with her friend
Speaker 2: went to Germany and did an exchange program, met the family.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they started dating or not, but
Speaker 2: the teenage boy that was the same age as her
Speaker 2: came in did an exchange system with her family in
Speaker 2: the States, and then he stayed and they got.
Speaker 1: Married, so then they were dating. My guess is if
Speaker 1: they ended up married, they were probably dating.
Speaker 3: They dated definitely when they're here.
Speaker 2: I don't know if she started dating him while he
Speaker 2: was in German, But I thought about them throughout so
Speaker 2: much of this movie because I.
Speaker 3: Just kept thinking.
Speaker 2: And obviously there's a difference within the seventies versus early
Speaker 2: two thousands, but how scary it would be for both
Speaker 2: the individual and their parents for your child to be
Speaker 2: across in a different country with the family that you
Speaker 2: don't really know. I mean, it was just I just
Speaker 2: could not, like, my brain kept swirling. I had to
Speaker 2: keep rewinding it because my brain started spinning off and
Speaker 2: off of what it would be like to either be
Speaker 2: an exchange student, have an exchange student, or be parents
Speaker 2: of either of those situations.
Speaker 1: While my cousin lived with us, he was from Germany
Speaker 1: and he lived with us for a year and went
Speaker 1: to high school. Oh, it was awesome because he was
Speaker 1: super popular.
Speaker 2: So he did he up your social game?
Speaker 1: He did well? Yeah, so because I was in eighth grade.
Speaker 1: So then by the time I moved freshman year, all
Speaker 1: his friends were senior so I got it, like I
Speaker 1: figured it out out. So it was like they all
Speaker 1: knew me by the time I got there. So I
Speaker 1: had friends my freshman year. It was the only time
Speaker 1: I had friends in high school. But it was fun
Speaker 1: that one time, my time.
Speaker 2: You say something like that, I just want you to
Speaker 2: know me, and the rest of the audience do not
Speaker 2: believe you.
Speaker 1: That's great, I love that. The sad thing is it's its.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent chance you were not super cool in
Speaker 2: high school. I just don't believe it.
Speaker 1: We had the same thing on pod Metro when my
Speaker 1: dad came and and was one of the guests and
Speaker 1: writer and Danielle. Danielle was like, Okay, we can finally
Speaker 1: put this to rest. Can you please tell us how
Speaker 1: many girlfriends Will had, and my dad's like, Will didn't
Speaker 1: have any girlfriends, and it just shut them down because
Speaker 1: it's true. I was not popular and had no girlfriends.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely fat is insanity to me.
Speaker 1: I just it's absolutely believe.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm not sure if I'm there yet. I might
Speaker 2: have to actually meet your dad.
Speaker 1: That's funny. You will, you will, he'll explain. And uh,
Speaker 1: they were my best friends. So that's who I was
Speaker 1: hanging out with the whole time in high school. So cool.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you
Speaker 1: want to grab your friends, your pjs, and your popcorn
Speaker 1: and go back to a time when all the houses
Speaker 1: were smart. The waves are tsunamis and the high school's musical.
Speaker 3: I'm Wilfordell and I'm Sabrina Brian, and.
Speaker 1: It is time to look beyond black and white, because
Speaker 1: this week we're talking about a very special Disney Channel
Speaker 1: original movie from the year two thousand, our second based
Speaker 1: on actual events. Sabrina, do you remember the first one,
Speaker 1: No Gotta Kick it Up?
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, gotta kick it up.
Speaker 2: Yes that's true.
Speaker 1: So this is number two, and this week's movie is
Speaker 1: the Color of Friendship. It first aired on February fifth
Speaker 1: of two thousand, purposefully debuting during Black History Month. It
Speaker 1: would be released on VHS two years later, and it
Speaker 1: is one of the best review d cooms of all time.
Speaker 1: The La Times calling the film surprisingly compelling and stated
Speaker 1: that although it is frequently predictable, it quote delves unexpectedly
Speaker 1: deeper quote. The Seattle Times wrote that the film breaks
Speaker 1: the nauseatingly simple after school special mold of most child
Speaker 1: friendly Teleflix and that it is certainly one of the
Speaker 1: better films you'll se on the Disney Channel, which again
Speaker 1: I agree with all that, but we'll get into it.
Speaker 1: Ben a while since we've had a movie that made
Speaker 1: this list, but Complex had it as number ten on
Speaker 1: the top twenty five d COM's list, and Collider ranked
Speaker 1: it at number fifteen. And I hate to bury the
Speaker 1: lead here, but it is also our first Emmy winner ever.
Speaker 1: We thought Going to the Mat could have could have
Speaker 1: been one, seriously could have been one. But this is
Speaker 1: our first ever Emmy winner. It won the Award for
Speaker 1: Outstanding Children's Program in two thousand. It also won the
Speaker 1: Humanities Prize and NAACP Image Award. A WJA Award and
Speaker 1: was nominated for a DGA Award. It is safe to
Speaker 1: say that neither Luck of the Irish or I'm going
Speaker 1: to throw in Fuzzbucket had a chance of winning it.
Speaker 3: A slightly slightly missed the mark on those, so.
Speaker 1: We are definitely entering a different type of category today.
Speaker 1: It is viewable on Disney Plus, so you can check
Speaker 1: it out there, or maybe you already have. We're not
Speaker 1: keeping track. You do you now? Amongst the critical and
Speaker 1: industry praise, Sabrina, did you know about the Color of
Speaker 1: Friendship before we watched it here on our Wonderful podcast?
Speaker 2: I did. I was excited for this like this one.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 2: I really did like this one. I was excited to
Speaker 2: rewatch it again. It's crazy how I will remember loving
Speaker 2: a movie and then when it starts, I just have
Speaker 2: no recollection of where things are going to.
Speaker 3: Start because it's just been so long.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's been twenty four years.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I remember, and I still felt the same
Speaker 2: way watching this of Wow, Disney took such a beautiful
Speaker 2: leap into and exploring and explaining something that is super important,
Speaker 2: but they did it in an amazing Disney way.
Speaker 3: I just thought it.
Speaker 2: It was done so well and you know it, but
Speaker 2: also a risk for them, right, critics and everything are
Speaker 2: talking about this is not a typical thing for Disney
Speaker 2: to dive into something that is very controversial, you know,
Speaker 2: So I thought it was they just Disney blows.
Speaker 3: My mind again, Disney Channel.
Speaker 1: Jeez, you know what, I think this will surprise nobody
Speaker 1: when I say that I knew nothing of it. I
Speaker 1: am starting to realize that I've heard of maybe three.
Speaker 2: Things, see three different I've.
Speaker 1: Seen like i'd heard that, I'd heard of the Cheetah Girls, obviously,
Speaker 1: I'd heard of high school musical. I've heard of my
Speaker 1: date with the President's daughter because I was in it.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I really hadn't heard it. So yes,
Speaker 1: so everybody out there, don't lock yourself in a room.
Speaker 1: Just that a room that's not even yours, by the way,
Speaker 1: Just yet, it's time for the synopsis.
Speaker 2: Here we go.
Speaker 1: A white South African girl finds herself in a difficult
Speaker 1: situation when she is sent to spend a term with
Speaker 1: a black family in America. So I think we just
Speaker 1: got your early thoughts. You loved it, right, Yes.
Speaker 2: I was almost nervous how they were going to handle
Speaker 2: certain things though. I was kind of going, oh, here
Speaker 2: we go, oh, and then it turned out it just
Speaker 2: just was done really well.
Speaker 1: This is one of those movies. So first of all,
Speaker 1: I thought this movie was phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.
Speaker 3: I knew you were going to love it.
Speaker 1: I loved this movie. I loved basically everything about it,
Speaker 1: down to the music. I mean, I loved everything about
Speaker 1: this movie. I really did. This one surprised the hell
Speaker 1: out of me how much I liked it. That being said,
Speaker 1: I would love to have originally seen this in two thousand,
Speaker 1: to have watched it then, because you know, we live
Speaker 1: in a different time now, a different contry. Twenty four
Speaker 1: years is a very very different time. I would love
Speaker 1: to have seen it first then to add initial thoughts,
Speaker 1: and then seen it now because there are some things
Speaker 1: that you know, some language and things like that that
Speaker 1: would never pass muster nowadays. But that were I think
Speaker 1: was necessary and powerful and it was so this movie
Speaker 1: blew me away. I absolutely thought it was great.
Speaker 3: The cast was wonderful.
Speaker 1: Oh, so let's get into that. To say it's an
Speaker 1: impressive cast of actors is an Understatementally. Vindseay Hahn plays
Speaker 1: Maury Bach the white South African exchange student. It was
Speaker 1: an incredibly challenging and nuanced role that she I thought
Speaker 1: knocked out of the park. The two leads, the two
Speaker 1: girls that really headlined this movie. We'll get into the adults,
Speaker 1: but the two girls were so good, yes, and so layered,
Speaker 1: and oh, it was absolutely wonderful. You've seen Lindsay most
Speaker 1: notably on True Blood, where she played Hadley Hale, but
Speaker 1: you've also seen her on Melrose play star Trek Voyager
Speaker 1: and her father. I know it's all about her, but dude,
Speaker 1: her father is the guitarist for Air Supply, and I
Speaker 1: know we can't afford it, but I'm still gonna sit
Speaker 1: here and say I'm all out of love. I'm so
Speaker 1: else with you. Sorry song. I knew every word too,
Speaker 1: I think I was three.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Air Supply very important in Wilfordell's life, so that was
Speaker 1: just an awesome thing to learn. Shaddya Simmons plays Piper Dellums,
Speaker 1: the daughter of the family Maury will be staying with,
Speaker 1: and she is so optimistic and happy about possibly gaining
Speaker 1: a sister in the process of all of this. She
Speaker 1: is a Canadian actress who has already appeared in another
Speaker 1: dcon by this time A Saintly Switch, which again I
Speaker 1: have not heard of.
Speaker 3: I have not heard of that one.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sure we'll get to it. She also appeared
Speaker 1: in Xenon the zequel yet and also a movie called HS.
Speaker 1: But we're going to get more into that lady.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: She is married to legendary soccer player Freddie Adou, who,
Speaker 1: at the age of fourteen, became the youngest player ever
Speaker 1: signed to Major League Soccer. He was a phenomenon. He
Speaker 1: was everywhere. They were hailing him as the Michael Jordan
Speaker 1: of soccer. He was it. He put soccer on the
Speaker 1: map for a lot of people, and what he accomplished
Speaker 1: at his age is really amazing. And Shadia has since
Speaker 1: retired from acting and she is a teacher in Canada.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Carl Lumley plays the father of the House Congressman Ron Dellams.
Speaker 1: He made his acting Give You in the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: nine movie Oh Wait for It Escape from Alcatraz. Awesome movie,
Speaker 1: and hasn't looked back since. His recent appearance in This
Speaker 1: Is Us and Marvel's The Falcon and Winter Soldier might
Speaker 1: be the most recognizable, but there's also Supergirl, Doctor Sleep,
Speaker 1: The Fall of the House of Usher, Obliterated, the shy
Speaker 1: and opposite Robert Niro in Men of Honor. He is
Speaker 1: an incredible actor. He also plays or is the voice
Speaker 1: of Martian Man Huh in Justice League and Justice League unlmited.
Speaker 1: I've gotten to work with him fifty times. He's the
Speaker 1: nicest guy you will ever meet in your life. Phenomenally talented.
Speaker 2: He was so good.
Speaker 1: He is so good in this movie.
Speaker 2: I loved his character.
Speaker 3: I mean it was awesome.
Speaker 1: There was not There was not a week link in
Speaker 1: this cast anywhere. I mean usually there's like one or
Speaker 1: two you point to and you go like, yeah, that
Speaker 1: wasn't the bit nowhere. They were all amazing.
Speaker 2: Even the annoying brother I thought, you're curious, were so good.
Speaker 2: I loved him.
Speaker 1: They were the whole group of friends she had together.
Speaker 1: Oh Penny Johnson Gerald is his wife, Roscoe Dellums. She
Speaker 1: is already well known as Beverly Barnes on The Larry
Speaker 1: Sanders Show, with appearances on Er and Star Trek Deep
Speaker 1: Spase nine DSN, but she later on became a very
Speaker 1: big star on the show twenty four Castle and the Orville,
Speaker 1: another just actress who has been working forever and is
Speaker 1: amazingly talented. Another actor worth mentioning is a mod Stoner
Speaker 1: who plays Daniel, Piper's friend. He's in the other two
Speaker 1: story d com Gotta Kick It Up, so he is
Speaker 1: in both of them and was no nap of the
Speaker 1: Lost Boys in hook He was also on a little
Speaker 1: known show called Boy Meets World. Ah, I'm on Good
Speaker 1: Guy and the other thing we were talking about the
Speaker 1: brother that's Ron Dellam's actual son and Piper's brother in
Speaker 1: real life, Eric, who does appear in the movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's very cool, super cool.
Speaker 1: This film clocks in at eighty seven minutes.
Speaker 2: Ah, we're so close, three minutes, three.
Speaker 1: Minutes away from the bull's eyes. Someday we are going
Speaker 1: to watch the worst d common history. But we're not
Speaker 1: gonna care. We're gonna give it ten nineties because it
Speaker 1: made ninety minutes long. But that seems like a small
Speaker 1: little complaint when this thing is an Emmy winner. It
Speaker 1: was directed by Kevin Hooks, who received obviously very high
Speaker 1: praise for this film and reviews. He's another person involved
Speaker 1: in this movie with just an outstanding career. He started
Speaker 1: as a director on TV shows like Sainte Elsewhere with
Speaker 1: mister Bill Daniels, twenty one, Jump Street with mister Johnny
Speaker 1: Depp twenty one, Jump Street, and er, then shifting to
Speaker 1: movies like the Tommy Davison comedy Strictly Business and the
Speaker 1: Wesley Snipes action film Passenger fifty seven. Great movie. He's
Speaker 1: still a massive figure in TV directing with episodes of Lost,
Speaker 1: This Is Us, ex Files, and Prison Break all on
Speaker 1: his resume. It is written by Paris. I think it's
Speaker 1: qualas is how you say it might be Qualls, who
Speaker 1: was a writer on Quantum, Leap and Lewis and Clark
Speaker 1: and moved on from this to The Rosa Park Story
Speaker 1: starring Angela Bassett and a more recent rendition of Raisin
Speaker 1: in the Sun, the TV movie. One other crew member
Speaker 1: that is certainly worth pointing out is Stanley Clark, and
Speaker 1: we need to talk about mister Clark because he is
Speaker 1: a five time Grammy winner who's considered a living legend
Speaker 1: when it comes to the bass and the birth of
Speaker 1: jazz fusion. He played with Miles Davis, Jeff Beck, Ronnie
Speaker 1: Wood and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones and George Duke.
Speaker 1: He is I mean, probably easiest to predict. He was
Speaker 1: the lead of the Stanley Clark Band, makes sense since
Speaker 1: his name is Stanley Clark, perfectly named and was given
Speaker 1: what seems to be free reign to be the most
Speaker 1: Clark he could be for this movie. He did the
Speaker 1: music for Boys in the Hood, Romeo Must Die, and
Speaker 1: the TV show Soul Food. So he is a real
Speaker 1: bass genius. And I think that since the movie is
Speaker 1: set in the seventies, it plays a big part. So
Speaker 1: I think we should talk first of a little bit
Speaker 1: about the music, because it was amazing. I mean the music,
Speaker 1: every song that came on was had so much personality
Speaker 1: in this movie. Yes, I am one of those people.
Speaker 1: As much as I would love to sit here and
Speaker 1: be like, oh man, I hear the music in every
Speaker 1: movie I watch, I don't. Sometimes, No, it's just kind
Speaker 1: of in the background right for a lot of people,
Speaker 1: it is this was right there in your face. Amazing.
Speaker 1: I felt the music. It was really really cool.
Speaker 2: It was and it set like you said, it's set
Speaker 2: the tone of the seventies. It also brought in, you know,
Speaker 2: the African drum. Like there was so many times where
Speaker 2: you felt the cultural aspect that you needed to everything
Speaker 2: really and everything really flow. Didn't feel sometimes you know,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you hear a song and you're
Speaker 2: actually hearing it because it just comes out of nowhere.
Speaker 2: The way the music is introduced and flows throughout this
Speaker 2: whole movie is just it's easy.
Speaker 3: It's an easy listen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, it was very organic. It just kind of
Speaker 1: it worked throughout the entire thing. But it's also good
Speaker 1: time to talk about when the movie was set. So
Speaker 1: the real story was in nineteen seventy seven, and so
Speaker 1: your Disney in two thousand is not only taking a
Speaker 1: swing at subject matter that is very adult, very real,
Speaker 1: very important, but they're also doing a period piece. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: did you like the seventies vibe?
Speaker 2: I felt the wardrobe could.
Speaker 3: Have been better.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, I didn't love everything. There were some aspects,
Speaker 2: so I'm thinking specifically about, you know, when they're in
Speaker 2: the mall going getting ready for school, you know, the
Speaker 2: first day of school, they're.
Speaker 3: Doing this this.
Speaker 2: In and out of dressing room type thing. I didn't
Speaker 2: really love any of that. Out those outfits they either
Speaker 2: were so kind of basic. And maybe it's because the
Speaker 2: seventies has come back.
Speaker 3: In a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: And fashion. Well, it's you know when you see bell
Speaker 2: bottoms and things like that, you're.
Speaker 1: Saying, you know, like I'm going to know that fashion
Speaker 1: is coming back. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm saying this is what I'm thinking. Because it
Speaker 2: either looked basic or it looked very cartoony, like I didn't.
Speaker 2: There was no middle mountain or feeling of really authentic
Speaker 2: seventies where compared to other movies. But then again, it's
Speaker 2: the Disney channel that you know, you think about what
Speaker 2: what the budget was right and things like that. But
Speaker 2: then like I loved what Piper's mom was always wearing.
Speaker 2: She always was dressed so beautifully, and so there was
Speaker 2: aspects of it that were great, but I feel the
Speaker 2: age the kids stuff didn't really look that great. La
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have loved that wardrobe for myself.
Speaker 1: So my dad is a big car guy and he's
Speaker 1: passed that on to me. So one of the things
Speaker 1: we used to do every time we watch period pieces
Speaker 1: is you look in the background to see if they
Speaker 1: messed up any of the cars, Like, wait, the seventies
Speaker 1: and there's a nineteen ninety Dodge Dart behind whatever it.
Speaker 3: Is oh my, you know cars that well.
Speaker 1: Enough there, I mean enough to know if it's in
Speaker 1: the right decade anyway, and I wasn't wasn't able to
Speaker 1: spot any mistakes. So I though pretty impressive. And again
Speaker 1: there's probably people watching that's like I saw six I
Speaker 1: don't know, but I wasn't able to spot any mistake.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I did the cars, actually I did notice,
Speaker 2: you know, when they were in the driveway and things
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: It looked great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So we opened the film with shots that, of course
Speaker 1: immediately caught my attention because it looked like My Date
Speaker 1: with President's daughter.
Speaker 2: First thing on my Sabrina Sea Bill's movie makes sake cameo.
Speaker 1: It does look like My Date with the President's Daughter.
Speaker 1: Establishing shots at d C where the movie is supposed
Speaker 1: to take place. But of course it's a dcom, so
Speaker 1: it's either shot in Canada or in Utah. I think
Speaker 1: they just flip a coin to decide where it's going
Speaker 1: to be shot. This one was shot in Canada. It
Speaker 1: was difficult to see some of the monuments without seeing
Speaker 1: me green screen poorly in front of them, trying to
Speaker 1: awkwardly kiss Elizabeth Arnoaugh, if I'm honest, right there in the.
Speaker 2: Beginning, I did think they're establishing shots were a little
Speaker 2: bit better than than that green screen.
Speaker 1: That's true, that's very much a little better. It was
Speaker 1: by that point it had been three years, and three
Speaker 1: years in film makes a big difference, you could tell
Speaker 1: it does. So there's the killer seventies music playing, and
Speaker 1: we joined the Dolom family in their home. Now, this
Speaker 1: is interesting because one thing that was really considered groundbreaking
Speaker 1: at the time, and we love that this is based
Speaker 1: on a true story, is depicting a black family as
Speaker 1: financially well off. There they're the family of power. And
Speaker 1: in these movies and in a lot of movies that
Speaker 1: we've seen, it's an adjustment from what you normally see
Speaker 1: in the media. Like we talked about during Got to
Speaker 1: Kick It Up, it's a common trope of the white
Speaker 1: savior and you know that, oh that it's an underprivileged
Speaker 1: minority group, the white teacher, white whoever comes in and
Speaker 1: saves the day, and that is you know, this is
Speaker 1: literally the exact opposite. They took the trope, they flipped
Speaker 1: it upside down. It felt fresh and real, and because
Speaker 1: it's based on a true story, it also lends it
Speaker 1: to the fact to like, well, why are we only
Speaker 1: depicting them one way when this is based on a
Speaker 1: true story, And this is how it what you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, it was it was great. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we learn right off the bat that the daughter of
Speaker 1: the family, Piper, is dead set on getting an African
Speaker 1: transfer student, and her father, the congressman, is not so
Speaker 1: keen on the idea. He eventually gives in. They talk
Speaker 1: about it, and we're immediately then cut to South Africa,
Speaker 1: where we meet Maury, who is part of the very
Speaker 1: like fancy white family, at a dinner that you can
Speaker 1: tell it is for upschedule country club whites in South Africa.
Speaker 1: She also wants to be part of the transfer program.
Speaker 1: They show something very interesting with the family dynamic right
Speaker 1: away because it's her talking to her mom and she says,
Speaker 1: I want to do this. I really want to do this.
Speaker 1: Can I go? And her mom literally says, your father
Speaker 1: will make the decision. Yes, it's not up to me.
Speaker 1: I don't get to decide this year, and she's like,
Speaker 1: but he listens to you. So they're really setting it
Speaker 1: up that it is a patriarchal this their dynamic in
Speaker 1: that family is what the dad says, goes, he makes
Speaker 1: the decisions. That's how it's gonna be right. How did
Speaker 1: all that sit with you?
Speaker 4: Just curious?
Speaker 2: Oh that smacked me in the face. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I hated it. I wrote it down immediately for a
Speaker 2: Sabrina sees whether or we talked about it. I wanted
Speaker 2: to bring it up because it just was. It just
Speaker 2: makes me so grateful that I didn't grow up in
Speaker 2: that era, because that would be so hard to That's
Speaker 2: not the way my parents, you know, raised me. That
Speaker 2: that wasn't the family household that I lived in. And
Speaker 2: to it to be also not just said, but said
Speaker 2: specifically to her daughter, meaning setting up the next generation
Speaker 2: to to have their family handle that was just oh gosh,
Speaker 2: it just it just it.
Speaker 3: It was sad.
Speaker 2: It was already set up this situation of you know,
Speaker 2: she doesn't even have a chance to see what it
Speaker 2: could be to have a different lifestyle. You know, this
Speaker 2: is what she's growing up in and that's all she has.
Speaker 1: That's what this movie does so well though, that we
Speaker 1: to get into it later where it's like you can't
Speaker 1: blame the children for how their parents are raising them
Speaker 1: and the system that they're raised in You can only
Speaker 1: hope to break that with the next generation and make
Speaker 1: it better. So I thought that that was interesting too,
Speaker 1: is maybe they're trying to break that as well of
Speaker 1: kind of the patriarchy of her family. The whole thing
Speaker 1: just worked on a whole bunch of different This is
Speaker 1: one of those movies. This is why I loved it
Speaker 1: so much, as it worked on so many levels.
Speaker 2: It's brought up so many different topics. Really did to
Speaker 2: be discuss, need to be learned from, need to change, evolve,
Speaker 2: so many different things.
Speaker 3: It was amazing.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, she wants to go to the US to
Speaker 1: be part of the transfer program. Her parents are also
Speaker 1: having well, her dad especially having trouble with the idea.
Speaker 1: But her dad comes in. He's a police officer and
Speaker 1: he's very excited because they caught an activist, Steve Beko,
Speaker 1: Stephen Bico and they put him in jail, which is
Speaker 1: of course part of a much larger race issue in
Speaker 1: the country with apartheid, which is practiced at the time
Speaker 1: of legalized racial separation, depriving black people of political and
Speaker 1: civil rights. Something we see immediately when a white restaurant
Speaker 1: patron kicks a poor bus boy spilled his plate and
Speaker 1: calls him a horrible, horrible name. Oh my, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're showing this horrible system and they bring it back
Speaker 1: later in America the same kind of situation that happens,
Speaker 1: but right that. I mean, it makes you physically ill
Speaker 1: when you see and I.
Speaker 2: Don't remember it being as serious and to the point
Speaker 2: when I watched it when I was younger, I think
Speaker 2: it was more interested in the dynamic of the two
Speaker 2: friendships of the teenagers versus the actual worldly issues of
Speaker 2: what was going on and how heavy it was, and
Speaker 2: it was like, whoa, okay, I'm not remembering, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: and wow, what a what a not great scene.
Speaker 3: To have to sit there.
Speaker 1: It also shows how good a movie this is, though,
Speaker 1: when you can watch it and get one thing out
Speaker 1: of it when you're a kid and you're watching the
Speaker 1: kids and you're still learning lessons, But when you watch
Speaker 1: it as an adult, it's a whole other level.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We talk about that with things like Born Meet's World,
Speaker 1: where you know, bad movies. If you watch if it's
Speaker 1: a kid's movie and just a kid's movie, adults watch
Speaker 1: it and they hate it. They're never going to get
Speaker 1: anything out of it and vice versa if it's an
Speaker 1: adult movie. But you get these movies and shows occasionally
Speaker 1: that every generation gets something different when they watch totally
Speaker 1: this was one of them. Really really worked. Did you
Speaker 1: know about apartheid and the system and everything before the
Speaker 1: film or.
Speaker 2: No, No, I know that that was like I had
Speaker 2: a lot of questions when I first watched it.
Speaker 1: After sure, well, it also shows the power of movies.
Speaker 1: I know it sounds ridiculous, but for people of my
Speaker 1: generation and a little younger than me, are a little
Speaker 1: older than me, I should say. One of the ways
Speaker 1: we learned about South Africa was they were the bad
Speaker 1: guys in Lethal Weapon two. Wow. And it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where you then see it, you hear about it,
Speaker 1: and then hopefully you go and you study it, which
Speaker 1: is what I was googling things the entire time I
Speaker 1: was watching this movie. To have that kind of information
Speaker 1: at my fingertips. Yeah, just about the whole system and
Speaker 1: about Stephen Bikoe and all the kind of stuff that
Speaker 1: was going on is really incredible, right, So yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: That was It's a tough it's a tough watch, it
Speaker 1: really is. Yeah, in a wonderful way, though, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to explain.
Speaker 2: No, it's exactly it's it's tough because you, like I said,
Speaker 2: it's a heavier set of storylines than what.
Speaker 3: We're used to. It's not just that feel good, easy going.
Speaker 2: We're talking about a love interest and a difference of
Speaker 2: home life.
Speaker 3: We're talking about worldly issues.
Speaker 2: We're talking about there's so much, so much weight on
Speaker 2: this that it's not it's not the same of as
Speaker 2: your every every other day Disney Channel original movie.
Speaker 1: No, like this, this is another one of those that
Speaker 1: I feel like they could have Disney could have watched
Speaker 1: and said, this is not a dcom. We should release
Speaker 1: this in theaters. Like I could see I could see
Speaker 1: that conversation happening somewhere. Yes, we are now back in Washington.
Speaker 1: Piper is very very excited about the African visitor coming soon.
Speaker 1: She's clearly expecting a new best friend. She talks about
Speaker 1: having a black sister, even after she learns of apartheid
Speaker 1: from her friend, a term she's heard her congressman dad
Speaker 1: talk about a lot, because it is an issue that
Speaker 1: is very very important to him. They talk about not
Speaker 1: knowing what tribe she's going to be a part of
Speaker 1: how different the African cultures are. She's asking her friend
Speaker 1: from Nigeria who says something really interesting where she's like, well,
Speaker 1: tell me about South Africa. He's like, I'm Nigerian. He
Speaker 1: goes as far as I know, that's as far away
Speaker 1: from like New York and London. He's like, these are it's.
Speaker 2: Completely different cultures.
Speaker 1: Different things. So he's trying to explain stuff to them,
Speaker 1: but not knowing himself a whole lot about it with
Speaker 1: their whole friend group, so they don't know what tribe
Speaker 1: she's part of, but they are just she's so excited
Speaker 1: about meeting her and bringing her to her school and
Speaker 1: they're setting all that up. Then we go back to
Speaker 1: South Africa and Maury is also getting ready to come
Speaker 1: to America. She's very excited. Her little brother ends up
Speaker 1: bringing a caged bird that he has found, which is
Speaker 1: the new family pet, and there's some keep that in
Speaker 1: mind because there's some foreshadowing there, and Marie's nanny recognizes
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, So Maury's talking to her and says,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to America. I'm so excited, But
Speaker 1: she's in her mind saying, I hope I get to
Speaker 1: go to New York or la, I think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be a ton of fun. She's like, she literally says,
Speaker 1: I'm not there to learn anything. I'm there to have
Speaker 1: a good time.
Speaker 2: Let's have a good time.
Speaker 1: I'm a kid, I'm gonna have fun, right, And she
Speaker 1: says the name of the family that she's going to
Speaker 1: live with, she says, but she says instead of the Dellum,
Speaker 1: she says Dilom. She says it's the Deloms, and that
Speaker 1: triggers something in her Nanny's mind, who's kind of saying, okay, Delom,
Speaker 1: I kind of know the name, and.
Speaker 2: That she doesn't really know, and she's like, it's so
Speaker 2: insistent of no, it's not Delham, it's just a Loom,
Speaker 2: Like you don't actually know, you aren't there, really.
Speaker 3: Di Loom.
Speaker 1: So she's adamant about it. But yeah, what the thing
Speaker 1: is is you come to find out that nanny actually
Speaker 1: has press clippings from the congressman because he is so
Speaker 1: anti apartheidan and and one of the leaders of the fight,
Speaker 1: that she has press. So she knows beforehand that she's
Speaker 1: going Maury is going to be staying with a black
Speaker 1: family and is all for It is essentially like, just
Speaker 1: keep your eyes open. I think this is going to
Speaker 1: be really really good for you. So she gets on
Speaker 1: the plane, she arrives the not the Deloms. The Dellums
Speaker 1: go to pick her up at the airport, and they're
Speaker 1: doing this kind of thing with like, oh, that's got
Speaker 1: to be her. And a young girl gets off the
Speaker 1: plane wearing a full African dress who walks right by
Speaker 1: her and hugs another family like, okay, I guess she's
Speaker 1: not on the plane, and they say they go to
Speaker 1: excuse me, where's Maury Bach, And you hear I'm Maury
Speaker 1: back and you turn around and there's of course this
Speaker 1: white girl standing there, and instantly Mary gives the worst
Speaker 1: for impression.
Speaker 2: Instantly assumes they're the help, assumes they're you know, they're
Speaker 2: they work for the congressman, and just, I mean, the
Speaker 2: worst first impression.
Speaker 1: He hands her, hands them tickets and says, I have
Speaker 1: two bags. I'll point them out to you. Yeah, just not.
Speaker 2: A crappy house guest.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she says, Now I want to go meet
Speaker 1: the congressman. They're like, okay, we're going to go meet
Speaker 1: the congress. They're playing it very the Dellams are playing
Speaker 1: it very cool because they're just as shocked as anybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a great scene where they're leaving the airport and
Speaker 1: Piper says to her mom, like, how did this happen?
Speaker 1: And her mom says, assumptions. She assumed we were going
Speaker 1: to be white, and we assumed she was going to
Speaker 1: be black. We both assume. But when we get her home,
Speaker 1: everything's going to be great, right.
Speaker 3: I loved that teaching moment.
Speaker 2: Loved it. Awesome assumptions because you come across that every
Speaker 2: day in your life, with things eaten on so many
Speaker 2: different spectrums. No, I just I really loved that.
Speaker 3: I love a good mom teaching moment.
Speaker 1: Yep, And it was great, And I love also still
Speaker 1: the optimism, like, it'll be fine when we get her home,
Speaker 1: and she's gonna be great, she's gonna fit in with
Speaker 1: her family. We're not gonna have a problem, right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna roll with this no matter what, we'll
Speaker 1: work through it. So obviously, this is not what Maury
Speaker 1: was expecting. It is nothing like South Africa. She's she's
Speaker 1: completely taken out of the situation. She goes to the congressman,
Speaker 1: he's she's surrounded by by black people. She doesn't know
Speaker 1: what to do, She can't believe she's there. She gets
Speaker 1: back home to the uh Dellham's home and runs upstairs
Speaker 1: and locks herself into the first bedroom she can find.
Speaker 2: Which could that be any more of a weird cho
Speaker 2: as weird as in any horror film when the bad
Speaker 2: guy comes in and you instantly run upstairs and then
Speaker 2: also not into like a restroom, you're gonna go into
Speaker 2: someone's bedroom.
Speaker 1: And just lock yourself in there. And she chose a
Speaker 1: room that.
Speaker 2: Was the strangest choice, no vags, you know what's funny.
Speaker 1: And again we have to keep in mind that this
Speaker 1: was based on a true story. It's such a strange
Speaker 1: thing that I can't wait to read the book because
Speaker 1: it seems like that came right from life. Like, it's
Speaker 1: so weird that the writer of the script wouldn't be like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have her just run in and lock herself.
Speaker 1: I feel like when Piper was writing or whoever wrote
Speaker 1: the book, was like, and then she just ran into
Speaker 1: the house and locked herself into a room. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. We got to check that out.
Speaker 3: So it seems so strange.
Speaker 1: Yes, So the movie delves into a lot of difficult
Speaker 1: topics we've talked about. We've also talked about there's several
Speaker 1: racial slurs that are said throughout the movie, some of
Speaker 1: them as teaching moments, some of them simply as hate
Speaker 1: filled speeches. Do you think they would do this movie
Speaker 1: now with the same dialogue in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: I don't think they. I don't think they could.
Speaker 1: I don't think it would.
Speaker 2: It would pass through. You know, Disney really does do
Speaker 2: a lot of you know, diving into things that are appropriate.
Speaker 1: And sure, we've diversity and everything out that with.
Speaker 2: Wardrobe as well as dialogue and stuff, and I just
Speaker 2: feel they would have a harder time getting selling, you know,
Speaker 2: it to everyone to approve and give it a green light.
Speaker 3: Because it is.
Speaker 2: It was I feel the roughest of dialogue that I
Speaker 2: think I've ever recognized on the Channel.
Speaker 1: Well, the casual way that they both used the N
Speaker 1: word I in one scene. It was so casual that
Speaker 1: it was like, ooh, I mean, it's to hear that
Speaker 1: at all anymore, but to hear it from two children
Speaker 1: right in regular conversation on a Disney movie.
Speaker 2: A Disney Channel movie, it's you know, but it also
Speaker 2: for me watching it, it seems very normal as far
Speaker 2: as how two teenagers would handle that, you know means
Speaker 2: either one of them then yeah, right right, that's true.
Speaker 3: But I still.
Speaker 2: Feel that teenagers have when they're comfortable enough with each other.
Speaker 2: And when that dialogue started happening, they had set the
Speaker 2: tone that they were getting closer and closer, you know.
Speaker 2: And I because I hear girls talking about different things
Speaker 2: all the time, you know, with my song girls, they
Speaker 2: always forget to know that I'm in the room with them,
Speaker 2: and you know, I just hear them talking.
Speaker 3: And the way they handle.
Speaker 2: Things that they're not they're learning from you each other
Speaker 2: and they're not quite sure. It was as simple as that,
Speaker 2: you know, talking about it, saying it, and one person
Speaker 2: saying no, no, no, no, I would never say that,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: And the way that they went.
Speaker 2: Back that exchange to me was how I feel kids
Speaker 2: can learn sometimes, you know, having a conversation. If you
Speaker 2: don't ask questions, then you're not going to know how,
Speaker 2: You're not going to know what's right now.
Speaker 1: It was a very real conversation.
Speaker 3: It was so I.
Speaker 2: Think that the conversation was tough, but I liked how
Speaker 2: it opened the door of you know, when you find
Speaker 2: somebody comfortable that you can talk and actually ask questions.
Speaker 2: Was great, you know, and the aftermath but got a
Speaker 2: little nerve wracking because obviously, when she's talking to her
Speaker 2: dad about what she's learning as a parent, you're going
Speaker 2: to obviously want to defend, You're going to want to protect,
Speaker 2: of course, but it was also it got I mean
Speaker 2: I was i because again there's parts of the movie
Speaker 2: that I wasn't. I don't really one hundred percent remember
Speaker 2: from watching it so many years ago.
Speaker 3: It was like, oh gosh, what's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, is he got you know it's on this
Speaker 2: little tea.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, there are tense moments. There are tense moments
Speaker 1: watching this movie. So yeah, the family is obviously offended
Speaker 1: that she's locked herself in the room. Uh. The congressman,
Speaker 1: who spent you know a lot of his political weight
Speaker 1: fighting this type of racist ways and segregation doesn't want
Speaker 1: her around anymore. But again, Maury's father in South Africa
Speaker 1: has set it up essentially like and he did it jokingly,
Speaker 1: but it was like, you're gonna hate this. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be back in a week because you're a weak little girls.
Speaker 1: How it kind of red and.
Speaker 2: He challenges her. He challenges her.
Speaker 1: And like kind of tussling her hair, like you're gonna
Speaker 1: be back in a week because you're gonna hate this
Speaker 1: and be homesick. So she picks up the phone to
Speaker 1: call her father or parents to kind of say, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna believe where I am or what's going on,
Speaker 1: and he reminds her, I told you so, and so
Speaker 1: she's like, I'm not gonna say anything. I Am going
Speaker 1: to stick it out, even if I'm just stuck in
Speaker 1: the bedroom for a while. Right Meanwhile, the the Dellms
Speaker 1: are how having a conversation about getting rid of her.
Speaker 1: What do they do till finally the mom says, she's
Speaker 1: got to eat, but I'm not going to bring in
Speaker 1: the food. Piper, you bring in the food. Piper goes up,
Speaker 1: picks the lock, pops the door open, and it is
Speaker 1: essentially like, because it's.
Speaker 2: You're in my room, this is there because it's her room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, She's like, I think I know I've locked myself
Speaker 1: out of my room enough to know how to get in,
Speaker 1: but you're in my room, dude.
Speaker 2: Which is also funny to me that a teenager has
Speaker 2: a door that they can lock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that seems kind of scary.
Speaker 1: It's also strange. I get they're trying to get her
Speaker 1: out of the bedroom, but the only food they bring
Speaker 1: her is what French fries in a milkshit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just that's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: Not even a burger. Come on. It's like it's like
Speaker 1: they got her at number one, but somebody ate the
Speaker 1: big mac in the way. So she changed, She changed
Speaker 1: her changes her mind. She doesn't want to admit defeat
Speaker 1: in front of her her family, so Maury changes her mind.
Speaker 1: She's going to stay, and they slowly start to build
Speaker 1: a relationship as friends. Because one thing about kids, no
Speaker 1: matter where you're from, what you learn, kids are very malleable.
Speaker 1: They adapt very quickly, and they both start to do that,
Speaker 1: which is which is a nice thing to say. So
Speaker 1: they start to hit it off, even coincidentally finally giving
Speaker 1: each other a gift. They it's like, you were coming,
Speaker 1: I bought you this while I was coming here, so
Speaker 1: I bought you this, And they were essentially the same thing.
Speaker 1: They both bought them like these really nice little necklaces
Speaker 1: as a welcome gift. The congressman is still very stressed
Speaker 1: out about going on. He hears that her father is
Speaker 1: a police officer in South Africa and this is kind
Speaker 1: of exactly who he's fighting against at the time. He
Speaker 1: essentially says this line, He's like, I get that apartheid
Speaker 1: is very complicated, racism is not, which was an interesting
Speaker 1: take on it, where yes, the system itself is very
Speaker 1: very complicated. The actual acts behind racism and the thoughts
Speaker 1: behind racism that's not complicated at all. That's just you
Speaker 1: judging based solely on race. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: those really kind of deep, interesting conversations that happened throughout
Speaker 1: this movie. And the thing that always struck me as
Speaker 1: I was watching it was it's so easy to get
Speaker 1: out of the Disney Channel realm and make this really
Speaker 1: heavy and really, I don't want to watch this. There's
Speaker 1: nothing enjoyable about this. It's just two hours of teaching
Speaker 1: and it's not that at all. It's still at all
Speaker 1: still Disney and still young, and times are light and
Speaker 1: you're still are rooting for both these kids and really good.
Speaker 2: I feel like the mom is really what helps keep
Speaker 2: pulling it back into that light. You know, let's make
Speaker 2: this a good, a good experience because again I think
Speaker 2: she's thinking of her daughter, her kids growing from this.
Speaker 2: She sees an opportunity for her husband, for the whole
Speaker 2: family to grow from this experience of welcoming somebody who
Speaker 2: who has been differently, who has different thought processes, and
Speaker 2: hopefully do a nice positive spin on everything. You know,
Speaker 2: she seems to for me of the movie, she was
Speaker 2: kind of the center of, you know, keeping the family,
Speaker 2: keeping things on a good positive track with what the
Speaker 2: storyline and you know what her mission was for her
Speaker 2: as her family.
Speaker 1: With Mariy too, because she comes down for she when
Speaker 1: she finally decides that she wants to stay, she kind
Speaker 1: of apologizes, but not really. It's just like I was
Speaker 1: obviously overwhelmed, I want to say. She sits down a
Speaker 1: breakfast and orders all this random stuff at the breakfast table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want breakfast, sausage, eggs, something called bringel rusks. She's
Speaker 1: ordering all this stuff, and the mom very nicely is like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm going to do the best thing I
Speaker 1: can for you. I'm gonna treat you just like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna treat my kids, no better, no worse. You're having
Speaker 1: cheerios this morning of course they can't say that, so
Speaker 1: like Generico's, it was sugars, sugaros or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's really great. They are still accepting her into
Speaker 1: the family and now she's learning to be closer to
Speaker 1: the pam. They show the kids getting closer as friends,
Speaker 1: and then of course they go to exactly what you
Speaker 1: were talking about, the lovely stereotypical, because it worked perfectly
Speaker 1: here changing room montage.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, this is where we heard a lot of
Speaker 2: the music. Yes, they did it. They had a whole
Speaker 2: little dance session in the bedroom together. They had the
Speaker 2: clothing change montage. Yeah, and we got to hear some
Speaker 2: great music during all of these different little scenes. That
Speaker 2: shows the girls getting closer and closer, which I always
Speaker 2: love because I think music really brings the whole world together.
Speaker 3: It does, that.
Speaker 2: Is my take.
Speaker 1: I agree, have music, food, and com Yes, so they're
Speaker 1: getting together and they finish with an ice cream day
Speaker 1: at Barrels. Have you heard of Barrels?
Speaker 2: No, but I've My dad's favorite ice cream place was
Speaker 2: a place called Farrels.
Speaker 1: Okay, So is I think farrels and barrels are related?
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 3: Okay, so of the same chain.
Speaker 1: What is, so what was Farrell's.
Speaker 2: So Farrell's was like a big ice cream place that
Speaker 2: you'd go.
Speaker 1: They changed their name.
Speaker 3: They changed it, Okay, so that makes sense. So that
Speaker 3: was the thing.
Speaker 2: My dad has this amazing story from when my sister
Speaker 2: was really young that he had to take by himself
Speaker 2: seven or eight kids that were like six or seven
Speaker 2: years old. And he didn't know, but I think it
Speaker 2: was a Bible study or something my mom had going
Speaker 2: on and she needed all the kids, all the friends'
Speaker 2: kids to go and basically just put it in my
Speaker 2: dad's lap, like get figure something out, and he took
Speaker 2: them to this ice cream place. So his so he
Speaker 2: has a great story. But my dad is a huge
Speaker 2: ice cream lover. Banana splits are his love language to
Speaker 2: no belief, and so this was his favorite place. That
Speaker 2: is it gonexist the one that's here in California or
Speaker 2: down in Like it's not necessarily oh see, I think
Speaker 2: it's just right out side of it. It was in Downy, Okay.
Speaker 2: I think it's considered La County that one's gone. So
Speaker 2: that's the one that I think I think it was,
Speaker 2: or maybe I don't. I don't remember what city was
Speaker 2: in but it's no longer.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be like ed Debevics, where we're going to
Speaker 1: find one left in someplace and have to fly there.
Speaker 1: Yeahs say, we went to the one in Chicago. It
Speaker 1: was great.
Speaker 2: Oh I went to the one in La so fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh no, that's well, that's We originally went to
Speaker 1: the one in Los Angeles, but then it closed down
Speaker 1: and there's one left in Chicago we went last year. No, uh, yes,
Speaker 1: so that's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's great. Ah, right,
Speaker 1: But it's it's at Farrells or Barrels that we see
Speaker 1: a replay of the same spilling incident that we saw
Speaker 1: in South Africa, and another young black waiter spills on
Speaker 1: a white customer who's like, dude, don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: not your fault. And the guy's like, can I bring
Speaker 1: you anything? And he's like, bring me one of these
Speaker 1: Sundays because they're good, and so she gets to see
Speaker 1: essentially the same exact thing happened. Happened. Then, by the way,
Speaker 1: we just heard sadly that Farrell's closed their last location
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, which is a shame because I just
Speaker 1: heard about it and now I can't eat any and
Speaker 1: now I'm.
Speaker 2: Sad found out what you were missing, and we'll still
Speaker 2: miss exactly.
Speaker 1: So Mariy is starting to get more into the family.
Speaker 1: She's learning more about their culture. They're trying to learn
Speaker 1: a little bit about her culture, and she is walking
Speaker 1: around the house and she finds the book Roots, So
Speaker 1: she's starting to see kind of the importance of everything
Speaker 1: going on. And this is where I think we need
Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about some of the differences
Speaker 1: between the real life book and the movie, one being
Speaker 1: that these scenes were actually from two visits from two
Speaker 1: different foreign exchange students, so they took the two different
Speaker 1: and combined them into one character for the script. Both
Speaker 1: were surprised by the Delems being a black family. For
Speaker 1: one of them, it was an absolutely life changing experience
Speaker 1: that they show in the movie, but even to a
Speaker 1: more extreme because first of all, according to the book,
Speaker 1: the girl's name was not Maury, it was Carrie, which
Speaker 1: was most likely changed to give her kind of the
Speaker 1: ambiguously racial name. They didn't they you didn't want to
Speaker 1: know who she was getting off the plane. The family
Speaker 1: didn't want to know who she was getting off the plane.
Speaker 1: But this one the actual story and this is from
Speaker 1: the real life. Piper's account is that Carrie went back
Speaker 1: to South Africa and became the first student underground activist
Speaker 1: to want to fight to abolish partheid. She then lost
Speaker 1: contact with her and fears that she was actually arrested
Speaker 1: or killed for her actions, which we also learned later
Speaker 1: in the movie is what happened to the actual, real
Speaker 1: life what they call agitator, what we would obviously call
Speaker 1: movement leader Stephen Bill, activist Stephen Bilco. Thank you, now,
Speaker 1: none of this, we should say, none of this story
Speaker 1: has been confirmed outside of Piper's story, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of confusion around it when you actually try to
Speaker 1: do some of the research. So take that story for
Speaker 1: what it's worth. Hopefully. Of course, this young girl, Carrie
Speaker 1: was not arrested or killed back in South Africa, but
Speaker 1: apparently Piper did lose contact with her. But it does
Speaker 1: it showed the importance of what was going on in
Speaker 1: the country, the danger of what was going on in
Speaker 1: the country at the time. So back to the movie itself,
Speaker 1: the girls are now getting closer and closer, even with
Speaker 1: the conversation you and I were having about the racial
Speaker 1: slur where she Piper mistakenly tells her dad that she
Speaker 1: thinks that called her a bad name when she actually didn't.
Speaker 2: She couldn't remember which one she actually used. Was having
Speaker 2: a hard time because there was a lot of you know,
Speaker 2: the main point was and I thought that was really interesting.
Speaker 3: They had all these names.
Speaker 2: But when she said, well, what do they call white people?
Speaker 3: Ast like, they just call them white people. They're just white.
Speaker 2: And it was just so crazy that there was she
Speaker 2: blurts out six different ways to explain and yet for
Speaker 2: you know, so that's kind of where she was.
Speaker 3: So she was sort of reeling and not remembering.
Speaker 2: Every single name and what it was for which ones
Speaker 2: were good and which ones were bad, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: So miscommunication.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she was overwhelmed with the fact that
Speaker 1: we're all It's like, why are there so many categories
Speaker 1: and you're just white?
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm so crazy.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was so they're working through their differences, and they
Speaker 1: teach her a lot. They even they go to sea
Speaker 1: Freaky Friday in the theaters. I mean, they loved that.
Speaker 1: They're having fun. They're sharing hot dogs, they're riding bikes,
Speaker 1: they're dancing, they're kids.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're they're learning from each other. She tells them
Speaker 2: how what they she couldn't understand what she meant by
Speaker 2: movie that kind. They're teaching each other ling on a
Speaker 2: different level as well. You know, it's not all heavy, No,
Speaker 2: they're just learning each other's lives and how different they aren't.
Speaker 1: Comparing kids, just becoming friends, Yeah, getting to know each
Speaker 1: other despite all their differences, which is what happens when
Speaker 1: you throw two kids together. Ninety percent of the time,
Speaker 1: they just become friends, right, which is what's so great about.
Speaker 1: Everything's looking great until all of a sudden, the member
Speaker 1: of the South African Embassy show up at the Doloom's
Speaker 1: house and they take her away. She's going home where
Speaker 1: it's not safe for you here. We don't like it.
Speaker 1: We're sending you home. And she's like, what, I don't
Speaker 1: want to leave. I'm having a great time. And they're like,
Speaker 1: don't care, you're leaving.
Speaker 2: This is where my mama bear heart is starting to
Speaker 2: fall apart and freak out.
Speaker 3: My brain is going what no, what?
Speaker 2: No? Everybody pas pas, yeah, this is insane.
Speaker 1: Well it's because back in South Africa Stephen Bilko had
Speaker 1: been killed. They which is all this is real. They
Speaker 1: announced that he had killed himself, I believe when it
Speaker 1: turned out that he was actually beaten to death by
Speaker 1: the police. So they were afraid that things were international
Speaker 1: relations were going to get crazy, that there was going
Speaker 1: to be some sort of reprisal, and so they take
Speaker 1: her away. Now this is where there's another great turn
Speaker 1: where Congressom Jellums is like, no, that's okay with me.
Speaker 1: You don't just get to come into my home and
Speaker 1: take this girl who we now consider part of our family,
Speaker 1: who we love having around, out of my house, and
Speaker 1: you're sending her home if she doesn't want to go home.
Speaker 1: So he uses his pull and is able to get
Speaker 1: her back, which leads to actually an argument between the
Speaker 1: two girls about what's going on in South Africa. It's
Speaker 1: not going on in South Africa. It's another great level
Speaker 1: of not always being able to see a broken system
Speaker 1: when you're in the system right, And so there's that
Speaker 1: conversation about what's happening there. Again, it's just it's this
Speaker 1: for a Disney Channel movie. It really is on another level,
Speaker 1: it really is.
Speaker 2: And this scene was done so well by these two
Speaker 2: young actors.
Speaker 1: Oh they're so good. Because Peper just says, can I
Speaker 1: well why can't I come visit you? Yeah, it's like
Speaker 1: you can come here, but I can't go to you
Speaker 1: and your country. Don't you find that a little weird? Right?
Speaker 1: How is that not odd to you that I can't
Speaker 1: go there?
Speaker 2: And Maury, she's not it's not necessarily that she doesn't
Speaker 2: want her to come. She just doesn't see how that
Speaker 2: would be a good place for her to come. And
Speaker 2: she's not really one hundred percent sure why, you know
Speaker 2: what it's. It's you can tell she is trying to
Speaker 2: figure it out in her own brain, you know, remembering
Speaker 2: that she's a teenager. She loves this girl, she loves
Speaker 2: this new best friend. Yeah, and how to explain what
Speaker 2: she doesn't? I don't, like you said, she's in the
Speaker 2: system herself. She's not really actually seen everything.
Speaker 3: For what it is.
Speaker 2: And she's a kid, and she's a little one.
Speaker 1: She's the kid is supposed to be able to understand
Speaker 1: these nuances.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure not everything's one hundred percent explained to her.
Speaker 3: Even this is the.
Speaker 1: Way it is, especially in that family with the day.
Speaker 3: This is how it's always been, you know, that's.
Speaker 1: How it's going to be in my family, And this
Speaker 1: is how it's always going to be. Maury runs off
Speaker 1: crying and has a great scene with the congressman who
Speaker 1: explains that she can't change how her country is running,
Speaker 1: but she can change herself to help to change the future,
Speaker 1: which is just great. The girls makeup. Maury returns to
Speaker 1: South Africa now as an ally. She runs up to
Speaker 1: her housekeeper and this time she opens the inside of
Speaker 1: her jacket and she has the flag that represents the
Speaker 1: new South Africa that they want sewn inside her vest.
Speaker 1: Really really cool. It's the it's a freedom flag. And
Speaker 1: she goes and she frees that bird from the cage
Speaker 1: that her brother brought home. At the end of the movie.
Speaker 1: It was very moving. It was really cool, doubly so
Speaker 1: because you know that it's based on a true story.
Speaker 1: Just totally cool. Yeah, So, I mean that's the film. Now,
Speaker 1: did you have a favorite scene.
Speaker 2: I did love it because I, you know, obviously paying
Speaker 2: attention with the different storylines and things that were said.
Speaker 2: I loved the nanny's story and how it came full
Speaker 2: circle to the end, and honestly was watching it and
Speaker 2: when Maury's explaining it is when I caught on of
Speaker 2: you know, I took it as the community of the
Speaker 2: birds in the nest, right, I did not take on
Speaker 2: until Morey talks about the different colors of the birds
Speaker 2: and them all living together. I just took on the community.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of birds. It's not just one family
Speaker 2: in a nest. There's a bunch of them. I took
Speaker 2: on the community aspect. I loved that full circle moment
Speaker 2: and that it even made more to me in the
Speaker 2: end than it did in the beginning. I really loved that,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 2: I loved the congressman Congress Delham when he came in
Speaker 2: to fight for her into the embassy. That was such
Speaker 2: an awesome moment because, like you said, this isn't the
Speaker 2: This is a totally different trope than what we normally see,
Speaker 2: and it was just amazing for him to really end
Speaker 2: up being her personal hero, you know, in this movie
Speaker 2: was so great. Obviously Piper is a big hero as
Speaker 2: well for her, you know, with their friendship, but him
Speaker 2: having his own transformation with her and how he viewed
Speaker 2: the importance of her and in his family now was
Speaker 2: something that I felt was so moving. I loved that part.
Speaker 2: That's probably my favorite scene.
Speaker 1: My favorite scene is still I mean, I loved. I
Speaker 1: loved all that stuff. I loved every time it was
Speaker 1: the two of them together. But the scene of the
Speaker 1: mom walking out of the airport, just saying, we all
Speaker 1: made assumptions. Yes, it was so quick, but there was
Speaker 1: something about that scene that was so like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: roll with it, we all. I loved it.
Speaker 2: However, though, when they leave the Congressman's building whatever that
Speaker 2: was where he was, I can't remember what it's called.
Speaker 2: She is kind of walking just her and Piper this
Speaker 2: is some of thees and leaving her really far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like to catch up.
Speaker 2: I wanted to say one of my favorite things to
Speaker 2: say when people start whispering around me, excuse me. It's
Speaker 2: hard for me to eavesdrop when you lower your voice. Yeah,
Speaker 2: are there talking about me a little bit? Could you
Speaker 2: guys just slow down a little bit so I.
Speaker 1: Could hear a little easy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think they need the uh yeah, I need they
Speaker 1: needed the moment alone.
Speaker 4: Mother and daughter.
Speaker 3: They totally did.
Speaker 2: But it was just funny because I mean, I feel
Speaker 2: as a parent, I wouldn't leave a kid behind that right,
Speaker 2: who doesn't know where she's going, She'll she'll just follow us.
Speaker 1: Let's do our real reviews. I think I will. Why
Speaker 1: don't I take the five star one this time? Because
Speaker 1: I think I had the one star last time. I
Speaker 1: believe Yes, So our five star review is from big
Speaker 1: Boy and so the Color Bike Boy. The Color of
Speaker 1: Friendship is an amazing movie that teaches so many lessons,
Speaker 1: like the horrors of racism, never judging a book by
Speaker 1: its cover, and the importance of knowing history. On top
Speaker 1: of that, the acting is great. A great film for
Speaker 1: the whole family to enjoy. Couldn't agree with that?
Speaker 3: More awesome? Nice one?
Speaker 1: This is This is an interesting review.
Speaker 3: Is seen one star.
Speaker 2: I was confused. It's short, but it feels very cool,
Speaker 2: so weird. This is by Lilian DS. This movie was
Speaker 2: a great movie. I've never seen it, but it's good
Speaker 2: or bad.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: There you go, all right, love Bank and it covers
Speaker 1: all the bases. Thank you, Lillian.
Speaker 2: Not a wrong answer in that.
Speaker 1: Yes, its Lillian is a politician who likes to ride
Speaker 1: the fence. That's what we can tell about Lilian.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Lilian.
Speaker 1: We are now going to do as we like to
Speaker 1: play new fun games on our show. We are going
Speaker 1: to do any love these games called based on a
Speaker 1: true question. Now we know that the Color of Friendship
Speaker 1: and Got to kick it up for that matter, is
Speaker 1: based on a true story, which is awesome. So we're
Speaker 1: going to get in some other movies and we have
Speaker 1: to guess if it's based on a true story or
Speaker 1: it's completely made up. An example would be Titanic that's
Speaker 1: based on a true story, while say, Ernest goes to
Speaker 1: Jail is only half based on a true story. Okay,
Speaker 1: did you know that half of Ernest Goes to Jails
Speaker 1: based on a true story?
Speaker 3: I did not know that.
Speaker 1: It's because I'm lying to you, and once again you're gullible.
Speaker 1: Ernest goes to Jail be based on a true story.
Speaker 2: It sometimes you bring up lots of movies I haven't seen.
Speaker 1: But do you know the earnest movies?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, okay, we're gonna We're gonna do an Earnest movie night.
Speaker 1: We're not because we'd never make it through. For Again,
Speaker 1: as we've said every time with these games, we do
Speaker 1: not know the answers to any of these. We really don't.
Speaker 1: So we are going to jump in and uh, a
Speaker 1: producer will tell us if we're right or not. So
Speaker 1: the first movie Number one, one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 3: Great movies.
Speaker 2: I love this movie.
Speaker 1: Love this movie. Fifty First Dates starring Drew Berrymore and
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler, where a man falls in love with a
Speaker 1: woman that suffers from short term memory loss, so every
Speaker 1: morning the man is forced to make or fall in
Speaker 1: love with him all over again. I know it's based
Speaker 1: on a real syndrome, like short term memory loss is
Speaker 1: absolutely a real thing.
Speaker 2: No, I want to say this is this is based
Speaker 2: on a real story.
Speaker 1: I so want it to be based on a true story.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to agree with you because I want
Speaker 1: it to be real.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go as far as like I feel
Speaker 2: like I remember when they were doing press for it,
Speaker 2: Adams mentioned something, I.
Speaker 3: Feel like you've heard this before.
Speaker 1: Oh I hope you're right.
Speaker 3: It's probably gonna ruin my life right now.
Speaker 4: No, it's a true story.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, I love that. The next one is
Speaker 1: another is a different type of romantic comedy. It's called
Speaker 1: the Texas Chainsaw.
Speaker 3: Massacre, Super Romantic.
Speaker 1: On their way to see their grandfather's grave, Sally and
Speaker 1: her paraplegic brother run into a group of crazed, murderous
Speaker 1: outcasts and are attacked by a chainsaw wielding man with
Speaker 1: a mask made of human skin. No, I'm hoping it's No.
Speaker 1: I think it's an amalgam, amalgamation of a bunch of things,
Speaker 1: so like the mass made of human skin I think
Speaker 1: is ed gean. I think it's at so, But I
Speaker 1: also feel like I've heard that maybe it's real. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say based on my I'm gonna say, based on
Speaker 1: a true story.
Speaker 4: Well, good luck sleeping tonight, Sabrina, it's a true story.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, no, Yes.
Speaker 1: And now our third movie is Cocaine Bear. A giant
Speaker 1: black bear consumes a significant amount of cocaine and embarks
Speaker 1: on a drug field rampage through a Georgia forest, endangering
Speaker 1: the lives of cops, criminals, and tourists.
Speaker 2: I could totally see that happening. I would feel so
Speaker 2: terrible for the bear.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I read something that this is based
Speaker 1: on a true story.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think so too.
Speaker 4: It is a true story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bear had something had to have happened to that
Speaker 2: for Bear, though, Do you have any idea how clean
Speaker 2: that bear's den would be?
Speaker 1: Oh, I've been up for four days cleaning. Okay, Number
Speaker 1: four cheaper by the dozen the Bakers? Was it really
Speaker 1: the Baker's There was a Baker's dozen? Wow? I never
Speaker 1: got that the Bakers have compromised their careers to raise
Speaker 1: twelve children. But when the mom writes a parenting memoir
Speaker 1: and goes on a book tour, the dad is in
Speaker 1: charge of the children and the household falls into chaos.
Speaker 2: True, I'm gonna say this seems like it could easily happen.
Speaker 1: But that's why. Don't you think producer Jensen threw one
Speaker 1: in to mess us up? I'm gonna say false.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm thinking it's a true story.
Speaker 1: Oh man, yikes, yikes.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh.
Speaker 1: And finally number five, Oh.
Speaker 3: My worst enemy. I hate this movie.
Speaker 1: Oh it's such a good movie. Completely the local beach,
Speaker 1: killing beach goers and sending a group of fishermen on
Speaker 1: a journey to protect the city Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Well, you can see how that could be pulled from anything, right,
Speaker 2: because there's so many shark attacks. The ocean is not
Speaker 2: your friend. You should not just go in the ocean.
Speaker 2: I'm so scared of sharks. I'm gonna say true, No,
Speaker 2: it can't.
Speaker 1: Be no, Okay, So I happen to know for a
Speaker 1: fact that Peter Bench wrote this book based on seeing
Speaker 1: a twenty five to thirty foot great white shark hanging
Speaker 1: that fisherman caught it off of the coast.
Speaker 2: That's not a true story. That's just saying, oh wow,
Speaker 2: there's big sharks out there.
Speaker 1: Well, let's see what accounts as so Jensen.
Speaker 4: They are all true stories.
Speaker 2: Yeah, talk about a score, talk about something that will
Speaker 2: live with you forever.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh wow. Oh Texas chainsaw maskers real. No, I
Speaker 1: think I would rather face cocaine bear than the Texas
Speaker 1: chainsaw massacre people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you kidding me? Oh my gosh, I would unbelieve.
Speaker 2: I mean, the cocaine bear would be very scary.
Speaker 1: It would be well again, it's just oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: crazy man on the street, se vcr and everything. All right,
Speaker 1: so so.
Speaker 2: Much anxiety now, thank you, Jensen, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Let's do some Sabrina seas this time.
Speaker 3: Oh man today. Okay.
Speaker 2: So one of the first things that happened, right, and
Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna because it was just so.
Speaker 3: Funny, the little kid.
Speaker 2: That's as soon as the dad Cornerson Della is coming up.
Speaker 2: When the little kid's looking out the window and he's
Speaker 2: got that. Is it like a little telescope because it
Speaker 2: wasn't binocular? Okay, little he's got that going, and it's
Speaker 2: like the street.
Speaker 3: Is right there.
Speaker 2: He was so funny because it was.
Speaker 3: So cute, like the little little kid thing.
Speaker 2: That was just funny, like why do you need that
Speaker 2: the street is right out in front of your door?
Speaker 3: It's not way down there.
Speaker 2: I did say the fleeing up the stairs that was
Speaker 2: part of it because I thought that was kind of funny.
Speaker 2: Before that, the nanny when she has that when remember
Speaker 2: Maury's brother finds the flagg the flag and she grabs it,
Speaker 2: puts it away. You obviously know it's hers, you know,
Speaker 2: right from then the car is all of two feet
Speaker 2: away from her when she pulls it out, like it
Speaker 2: was the timing, And obviously that's just because of what
Speaker 2: they were needing for the scene and everything, But it
Speaker 2: was just kind of funny to me that she is
Speaker 2: trying to hide it but then pulls it out as
Speaker 2: soon as people could.
Speaker 3: They're not even far away.
Speaker 2: And then I wanted to see because I know you
Speaker 2: do click into the voiceover type stuff that happens. It
Speaker 2: was almost nauseating during the time where they were going
Speaker 2: from the dance to the dancing together. It was the
Speaker 2: montage sequence, right, like the multiple montages the dancing into
Speaker 2: the changing of outfits into that following scene.
Speaker 3: So it's three montage scenes that happened.
Speaker 2: The amount of the voiceover giggling started to irritate me, So, okay,
Speaker 2: get it, they're out of fun. Please stop making them.
Speaker 2: It's like they're showing them giggle bonding. I love to laugh,
Speaker 2: So I don't know why irritated me, but it was
Speaker 2: just for so long.
Speaker 3: It was a good four or five minutes. It felt
Speaker 3: like it kept going on and on.
Speaker 2: And then I did see Oh, the South African Embassy.
Speaker 2: That whole section was just kind of crazy to me.
Speaker 2: How they had this young girl who it was such
Speaker 2: a big deal. First of all, I can't believe she
Speaker 2: was able to leave, and I know this is a movie,
Speaker 2: but the fact that they were letting her leave when
Speaker 2: she's in their care, right, that whole situation was just
Speaker 2: so crazy and wild to me that you know, they've
Speaker 2: got this young girl who's in their care. They don't
Speaker 2: know these embassy people. There's no identification check, there was nothing.
Speaker 2: And then now they're going to take her to a
Speaker 2: building and just didn't seem like there was enough questions
Speaker 2: that were happening. And then my overall thing with this
Speaker 2: movie again, I loved this movie. This is me just
Speaker 2: really trying to find sure, right because there was so
Speaker 2: much that was so epic, the idea, like I said
Speaker 2: at the beginning, having an exchange student, really thinking about
Speaker 2: what that meant. In the seventies, it was wild to
Speaker 2: let your kid go right, you're talking, because there's no internet,
Speaker 2: you're talking. They did they obviously, I would think there
Speaker 2: was at least a picture of the family or something,
Speaker 2: and you got at least some kind of packet of paper.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was just written down. It's a
Speaker 1: congressman's family. That's probably all they needed to know.
Speaker 2: It's so crazy to allow your kid to go live
Speaker 2: somewhere where you don't know anything about them, right, And
Speaker 2: nowadays you could get someone's name, you could look them up,
Speaker 2: you can, you can have conversations back and forth, way
Speaker 2: before you they go anywhere.
Speaker 1: It was the seventies though.
Speaker 2: It was the seventies and the way that that there
Speaker 2: was only a limited amount, right, Yeah, every time she
Speaker 2: makes a call, she's you know, for we'll talk about
Speaker 2: their their phone bill.
Speaker 1: Oh, the bill would have been crazy. Yeah, bill would
Speaker 1: have been crazy.
Speaker 2: Every time she makes the calls, it's like a collect
Speaker 2: call to get back to her, you know.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh.
Speaker 1: Just keep in mind in the seventies, it was like wait,
Speaker 1: by the time you were ten, you ran outside and
Speaker 1: your mom went be back by dinner. Yes, that was it.
Speaker 2: When the lights come on, right, yeah, the street lights
Speaker 2: come on, your lights come out right.
Speaker 1: See in twelve hours how it was. And if you
Speaker 1: wanted to drink, he found somebody's hoes. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: And now we must rate our film. As you know,
Speaker 1: we always read our movies based one of ten, one
Speaker 1: being the worst, ten being the best. I don't know
Speaker 1: why we do it the other way around. That wouldn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. And so we have to figure out
Speaker 1: should this be one out of ten d com Emmys Washington,
Speaker 1: DC based Establishing Shots, seventies based jams, Barrel's Ice Cream Sundays,
Speaker 1: Disco Dancing montages, or Freaky Friday cross promotions? What do
Speaker 1: you like?
Speaker 2: I think we got to go because it is just
Speaker 2: so incredible that this dcom one an Emmy.
Speaker 3: I think we got to go dcom Emmys.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got it. So how many out of ten
Speaker 1: dcom Emmys do you give this movie?
Speaker 2: I mean, I feel this was right up there to
Speaker 2: the last one that I gave attend to.
Speaker 3: I loved this movie.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was so moving and it's It's
Speaker 2: definitely a movie you know, when Monroe is at a
Speaker 2: good age to have some kind of learning experience, I
Speaker 2: will love I will want to show her this movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, so you get you get a ten.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going with a ten.
Speaker 1: Now you know me, I will never give a ten.
Speaker 1: I can't tend to me as perfection. But this is
Speaker 1: the most solid nine point five dcom Emmys that you
Speaker 1: can give it. I mean, this was This movie really
Speaker 1: surprised me because I knew nothing about it. It so
Speaker 1: easily could have gone the quote unquote stereo tip called
Speaker 1: decom route. Even with the same subject matter, they could
Speaker 1: have gone much lighter with it than they did. Much
Speaker 1: less about the parents, much less about, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the actual system of racism in place in South Africa,
Speaker 1: and more of the wacky white girl lives what's going on?
Speaker 1: You know, lives in is living with a black family
Speaker 1: in America. They could have gone that route and they didn't.
Speaker 1: I love that they played against that. This is a
Speaker 1: solid nine point five for me. This movie really surprised me.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I loved this movie far more than what I loved
Speaker 2: when I loved it back when it first came up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean watching it at a different level.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yes, such a better appreciation for everything that this
Speaker 2: movie rings, you know to the audience. Yes, it was wonderful.
Speaker 2: I love loved.
Speaker 1: This is one everybody. You really if you have not
Speaker 1: seen it, you should watch it. It is really really good. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us on another episode
Speaker 1: of Magical Rewind. The next movie is an other film
Speaker 1: with Shaddya Simmons that we're doing two thousands Quints, which
Speaker 1: is a movie about Quinn tuplets. And I'm assuming she
Speaker 1: plays four roles or I don't know. We'll find out.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to. I'm excited to even find
Speaker 1: out because I have no idea. Well, Quints is five,
Speaker 1: no quiz, Yeah, you're right, Quad's is four? Yeah, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, she plays five different roles. I was never
Speaker 1: good with math when it comes in word form. So
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Speaker 1: and on our Park Copper episode. This week, we get
Speaker 1: to have a great conversation I'm so excited with one
Speaker 1: of the stars of the Color of Friendship, Lindsay Hahn.
Speaker 1: So make sure you go over there and check it
Speaker 1: out because the interview is amazing. Here's a clip.
Speaker 5: At that point, there wasn't really a lot of touchstones
Speaker 5: for the accent. You know, we didn't have Trevor Noah,
Speaker 5: we didn't have like a lot of South African stuff.
Speaker 5: So I tracked down this movie from Hollywood Video called
Speaker 5: If the Gods Were Monsters, because that was really the
Speaker 5: only way that you could listen to an authentic South
Speaker 5: African accent if you didn't know anyone. And it was,
Speaker 5: first of all, great movie and I never returned it, and.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: VHS or a DVD HS. Back in the day, it
Speaker 2: was the only copy they had.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us, and we will
Speaker 1: see you times five next time. Bye everybody.
Speaker 2: Bye,