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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to movie Mike's Movie podcast. I am

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Speaker 1: movie Mike on Twitter and Instagram at Mike destro and

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Speaker 1: on this episode we're talking all about Disney Channel original

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Speaker 1: movies and coming up, I am talking to Christy Carlson Romano,

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Speaker 1: who you would know as Wren on Even Stevens. She

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Speaker 1: was also in Cadet Kelly and the Voice of Kim Possible.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask her all about her biggest Disney

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Speaker 1: roles some of her famous co stars like Hilary Duff

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Speaker 1: and Chila Buff Really excited to get to talk to her,

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Speaker 1: and then after that we'll kind of just get into

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Speaker 1: what I considered to be the top five greatest Disney

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Speaker 1: Channel original movies of all time. If you're checking out

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Speaker 1: the podcast for the very first time, first of all,

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Speaker 1: I just want to say welcome, hope you stick around

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Speaker 1: for a while. What this podcast is all about is

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Speaker 1: I'm just the guy who loves movies, and every single

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Speaker 1: week I bring a movie topic. I give the latest

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Speaker 1: movie reviews, always spoiler free, and talk about movie news.

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Speaker 1: If you're someone who loves movies or just wants to

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Speaker 1: learn about what's new out what to watch, that's what

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Speaker 1: this podcast is all about. So I hope you stick

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Speaker 1: around subscribe wherever you're listening to this right now. But

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Speaker 1: I am just a big fan of this era of

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Speaker 1: Disney and I want to get all into it without

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Speaker 1: any further ado. Let's get started. In a world where

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Speaker 1: everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands

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Speaker 1: to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in

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Speaker 1: a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge.

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Speaker 1: He's basically like a walking Audi MTV with glasses from

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Speaker 1: the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. All right, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to welcome now to the podcast a very special guest,

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Speaker 1: Christy Carlson Romano. How are you doing. I'm good? How

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Speaker 1: are you? I am so good. It's so great to

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Speaker 1: talk to you. And I posted online that you're coming

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Speaker 1: on the podcast, and I haven't seen this bigger reaction

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Speaker 1: really cool to have you on. That makes me really happy.

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Speaker 1: It really does, thank you. So I kind of want

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Speaker 1: to start at the beginning of that is I was like,

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Speaker 1: reading through comment it just seems like people have such

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Speaker 1: a connection with like these early two thousands Disney Channel

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Speaker 1: you about today, and just kind of why do you

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Speaker 1: think that is that right now people are kind of

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Speaker 1: going back and kind of reliving these movies. It's interesting.

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Speaker 1: I do feel as though nostalgia is way more of

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Speaker 1: something that is focused on with millennials and I, you know,

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Speaker 1: our generation in general. I think that the shows that

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Speaker 1: the content that we have now. You kind of had

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Speaker 1: to watch the things, watch the programs, and kind of

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Speaker 1: attach yourself to the characters that you saw, and so

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Speaker 1: people ended up with those you know, sort of limitations

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Speaker 1: really still vibing with certain programs, even Stevens, Kim Possible, Kelly, Like,

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Speaker 1: these things were watched in real time. They weren't streams,

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Speaker 1: They didn't have huge budgets like they have to have now.

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Speaker 1: Also that they're you know, these huge franchises like Descendants

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Speaker 1: I'm really proud that that's the legacy that I'm a

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Speaker 1: part of it is that kind of what inspired you

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Speaker 1: like that nostalgia feeling to have everybody kind of come

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Speaker 1: back and reunite and talk about those movies. Absolutely, I

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Speaker 1: But now I'm looking at you know, Candice, Cameron, Beret

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Speaker 1: to go, if it's cool with you, go through some

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Speaker 1: first in two thousand two with Cadet Kelly. How did

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Speaker 1: Kim possible hadn't started until after Kittet Kelly, which I

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Speaker 1: Hillary Duff's show, which was Lizzie McGuire, it was very popular,

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Speaker 1: Weirdly enough, Even Steven's had a cult following still has

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Speaker 1: you're saying, if they made like a Honeyboy style version

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Speaker 1: Oh right, totally? I mean yeah, Unfortunately, I actually really

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Speaker 1: And so that just shows you how different of a

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Speaker 1: thanks Christy, Yeah, thank you. That was awesome. Thanks so much.

430
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Speaker 1: All Right, I'll talk to you to all right, have

431
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:33,520
Speaker 1: a good one, Okay, bye, all right. I gotta said

432
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,480
Speaker 1: that was super cool getting to talk to Christy Carlson Romano.

433
00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 1: And I was a really big fan of the show,

434
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,719
Speaker 1: even Stevens growing up, and a really big fan of

435
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,640
Speaker 1: Disney Channel original movies. And that's what we're talking about

436
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:47,679
Speaker 1: on this episode. So now that we kind of heard

437
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,719
Speaker 1: from a Disney Channel star, I just want to talk

438
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 1: about Disney Channel movies and kind of what made them special.

439
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:57,480
Speaker 1: I'll give you my kind of top five movies of

440
00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: all time. And then I also asked you, guys one mine,

441
00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:04,240
Speaker 1: what were some of your favorites, which I think everybody

442
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:08,880
Speaker 1: kind of has a different favorite movie depending on when

443
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,160
Speaker 1: you grew up. Now, I was born in the nineties.

444
00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm twenty nine years old now, so the early two

445
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:20,080
Speaker 1: thousands for me, we're very formative of what I loved

446
00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:22,719
Speaker 1: about the Disney Channel and what I loved about their movies.

447
00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,800
Speaker 1: So first of all, let's just talk about what makes

448
00:22:26,800 --> 00:22:29,879
Speaker 1: a Disney Channel movie great. And the thing that's different

449
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:33,320
Speaker 1: about Disney Channel movies is that they weren't really like

450
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 1: or high budget productions like a normal movie would be.

451
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: They're basically making a movie on a TV show budget.

452
00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: So I think that was a little bit of the

453
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 1: charm of them too, because you're not watching anything super flashy.

454
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,280
Speaker 1: It was just about kids and about families, and I

455
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:51,959
Speaker 1: think that's what made them great in the end. That

456
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,560
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't have all the special effects or big

457
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,240
Speaker 1: name actors really, but there were just something about the

458
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:01,320
Speaker 1: way they were particgether and what they were about that

459
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:05,400
Speaker 1: really made them great. Aside from that, I felt more

460
00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:09,720
Speaker 1: so like you know, normal box office movies, that they

461
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,400
Speaker 1: almost felt like they were movies made by kids for kids,

462
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: and I know that wasn't the case. They were still

463
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,640
Speaker 1: adult writers writing on these shows, but they just had

464
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,239
Speaker 1: this kind of appeal to where it felt like they

465
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: were making movies for me at the time. And I

466
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: think that's why whenever you were a kid is the

467
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 1: era that kind of you identify with when it comes

468
00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: to these movies. So for kids now, I mean it's

469
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,719
Speaker 1: all like about the Descendance movies, and other kids it's

470
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:39,880
Speaker 1: about high school musical but for me, it was really

471
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: those early two thousands movies. So I think that's why

472
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: my list is kind of geared where it is. And

473
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: doing some research on these, I kind of found out

474
00:23:48,359 --> 00:23:51,199
Speaker 1: that even before, like I thought, I was watching the

475
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,600
Speaker 1: original ones, but it turns out they started making these

476
00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: in nineteen eight three, but they didn't really call them,

477
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:58,439
Speaker 1: you know, their original movies. They were just kind of

478
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: pushing out this content and being like, Okay, these are

479
00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: movies for us. But it was right around and the

480
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:08,080
Speaker 1: first real Disney Channel original movie was in called Whish

481
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,439
Speaker 1: Upon a Star that started yes a young Katherine Nigel

482
00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,400
Speaker 1: and Daniel Harris and with one of my favorite ones

483
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,880
Speaker 1: didn't make my list, but that's kind of the very

484
00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,399
Speaker 1: first one that started at all. And then you go

485
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,919
Speaker 1: throughout the late nineties, the Yearly, two thousands, the twenty tens,

486
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,639
Speaker 1: and even now they're still making them, so they're still around.

487
00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: So there's a kid out there now that ten years

488
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 1: down the line will have their favorite. So if I

489
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: don't mention yours in my list, it's nothing personal against you.

490
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: This is just what I felt like had all encompassing

491
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: what made a great Disney Channel with movies. So at

492
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: number five, I am putting Cadet Kelly, which I talked

493
00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:48,480
Speaker 1: with Christie Carlson Romano earlier, and I just felt like

494
00:24:48,720 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 1: and I just felt like it was her and Hillary

495
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: duff it kind of the height at their Disney career.

496
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: And I remember being so excited for this movie because

497
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:58,199
Speaker 1: I did like Lizie McGuire, I loved even Stevens, and

498
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 1: having them kind of crossed over together. It felt like

499
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 1: a crossover movie. And I thought it was interesting that

500
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 1: she said that it was Disney kind of trying to

501
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,160
Speaker 1: take their number one show and their number two show

502
00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: and put them together in a movie, and I think

503
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,719
Speaker 1: that actually ended up working for them really well. So

504
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: I'm putting that at number five. At number four, I'm

505
00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:18,919
Speaker 1: going with the Luck of the Irish Now Disney Channel

506
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:22,159
Speaker 1: was really big on making movies about sports, and I

507
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,679
Speaker 1: think they did every single sport known demand. They probably

508
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: been made up some sports there in somewhere in these movies.

509
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: But I felt like this one was a really great one.

510
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:34,439
Speaker 1: Was about basketball, there's an evil leopard, con there's a

511
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: budding romance. It has all the things that make a

512
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 1: great Disney Channel movie. So I'm putting this one at

513
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,919
Speaker 1: number four. At number three. It's tough when you get

514
00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 1: to number three because there's so many great movies, but

515
00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: I'm going with Brink again. They made every single sport

516
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:52,199
Speaker 1: into a movie. But around this time, I felt like

517
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:55,439
Speaker 1: extreme sports were very popular among you know, kids my

518
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 1: age at the time. Myself, I was really big into skateboarding,

519
00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: although my par went let me skateboard because my cousin

520
00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:03,520
Speaker 1: broke his ankle and then I was like, oh, you're

521
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 1: not skateboarding, and I was upset about that, but I

522
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: would watch it on TV. I would play video games,

523
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: and this movie was about rollerblading, which I was terrible at.

524
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: But what I loved about this movie was for the

525
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: first time there was the character that I kind of

526
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 1: related to, and in the movie, her name is Gabriella.

527
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: And the problem I had with Disney Channel and Disney

528
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: Channel movies was they always showed kids that had really

529
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: nice houses, and that was a weird thing for me

530
00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: because I grew up in a trailer park and I

531
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 1: never saw that represented in anything on TV. And you

532
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:37,919
Speaker 1: would see these kids and these really big two story

533
00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: houses and bonus rooms, and I was like, what kind

534
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,120
Speaker 1: of life are they living? And in this movie when

535
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: they go to Gabriella's house, I was like, that's like

536
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: the closest that ever looked to my house or anything

537
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: in my life ever depicted on the Disney Channel. And

538
00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,080
Speaker 1: for some reason that always stood out to me. But

539
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: aside from that, I felt like this was always a

540
00:26:57,080 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 1: great movie and one I even rewatched once I got

541
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,720
Speaker 1: Disney Plus. And yes, it's a little bit cheesy, but

542
00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: that's what what made these movies great. The action sequences

543
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: where you know, you see them rollerblading and it's clearly

544
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:12,240
Speaker 1: a stunt double, and that's a classic underdog story of

545
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:15,359
Speaker 1: you know, the rollerbladers with no sponsors going up against

546
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: the big corporate team and beating them in the end.

547
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,119
Speaker 1: You also have a story about a friendship here and

548
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: him kind of going behind their back to work, Like

549
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: there were just so many things going on in this movie.

550
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: And it's a movie that always reminded me as a

551
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: kid to go big or go home. So I'm putting

552
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,680
Speaker 1: it at number three. At number two is a movie

553
00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: that I felt easily could have been a theatrical release

554
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 1: as far as these movies went, I felt like it

555
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: had the most cinematic qualities and the best story and

556
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: the most entertaining and it was very close to being

557
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 1: my number one movie. And the movie I'm talking about

558
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:52,040
Speaker 1: is Johnny Tsunami, which is all about Johnny who was

559
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: living in Hawaii as a surfer. His Grandpaa is a

560
00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,520
Speaker 1: super cool, laid back guy who was also in Mortal Kombat.

561
00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: Not actually in the movie, but he actually did play

562
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 1: schang Son in the Mortal Kombat movies, and I couldn't

563
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: really see him as anybody else, but he was a

564
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,040
Speaker 1: super cool, laid back guy. Meanwhile, his actual dad in

565
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 1: the movie is a really straight laced computer programmer guy.

566
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: So it's all these kind of personalities clashing. He takes

567
00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 1: a job and moves him from the nice beaches of

568
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: Hawaii to cold Vermont where there's nothing but snow and

569
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 1: it's all about him trying to find his identity, being

570
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: the weirdo for some reason in a new school, only

571
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,639
Speaker 1: because he likes Hawaiian things, like he asked for pineapple

572
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,959
Speaker 1: and they're just giving him a hard time calling him Hawaii.

573
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: But he makes some friends and he learns how to snowboard,

574
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: meets up with the girl, which was always a plotline

575
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: in these movies. But overall, just a really great movie.

576
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: One thing that doesn't make sense that I have to

577
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: call him out for is how were they able to

578
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: fly back to Hawaii, Because there's a whole scene where

579
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: they run away from home, they get on a flight

580
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: and then or back in Hawaii and their parents just

581
00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 1: kind of let him stay there and write it out

582
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: like that would never happen. Now, that would be all

583
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: over the news that they were able to pull that off.

584
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: But I'll let it slide. It's a movie. And then

585
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:11,080
Speaker 1: at number one, a movie I rewatched just for this episode.

586
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: My favorite Disney Channel show of all time and really

587
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: formative of kind of my preteen years was Even Stevens

588
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: and the Even Steamers movie was just my favorite because

589
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: it served as the season finale of that show. And

590
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: kind of rewatching it now as an adult, you kind

591
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: of realize there's some more themes there that I didn't

592
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,480
Speaker 1: really pick up on as a kid, everything from you know,

593
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: the parents kind of going back and forth battling of

594
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: him being out of work and then his mom bringing

595
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: home the money. Now you have Ran dealing with boy

596
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: issues and kind of discovering how to be yourself, and

597
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: also that her family is kind of the most important

598
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: thing to her. And then you have Louis played by

599
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 1: Shyla Buff just kind of being himself in this movie.

600
00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: I just think for me overall, it's the funniest movie.

601
00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: I like the characters the best, and I felt I

602
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: just kind of grew with them the most, and kind

603
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: of seeing it all come to an end in this

604
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: movie was at the time kind of emotional. And it's

605
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: hard to believe that these early shows only had three

606
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,600
Speaker 1: seasons each, and I just remember them being such a

607
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: big part of my life for so long, it feels like,

608
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:19,680
Speaker 1: but they were only on for like three years. So

609
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: it was just an easy favorite for me. So those

610
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: are my top five. I stand by those, and I

611
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: asked all of you guys as well online what your

612
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:31,280
Speaker 1: favorite Disney Channel vision of movies, because again, whenever you

613
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: kind of grew up with the Disney Channel is what

614
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: are going to be your favorite? So some honorable mentions.

615
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: Halloween Town from is a great movie. I kind of

616
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: classify it more as being a Halloween movie, but that's

617
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:47,520
Speaker 1: also very high up there on the list. Zenon Girl

618
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,479
Speaker 1: in the twenty first Century. I gotta admit I was

619
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: really a big fan of Zenon, but there's some die

620
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:56,120
Speaker 1: hard fans out there, so I will recognize it as

621
00:30:56,160 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 1: being a great movie, just not one of my favorites.

622
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: My Date with the President's Utter, which I remember mostly

623
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 1: from the theme song, Ma Day with the President's Daughter,

624
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,239
Speaker 1: Like that's still embedded in my head. And that's kind

625
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: of what Disney Channel did a really great job of

626
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: incorporating some kind of music into every single movie, which

627
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: I guess what they kind of did, Like the mid

628
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: two thousands was really where they were kind of focused

629
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: on making everybody into a music star. So once the

630
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: high school musical movies came out, that was where they

631
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: were kind of gearing everything towards. So you have High

632
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,640
Speaker 1: School Musical one, High School Musical two, and what was

633
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: so big about those movies is I almost didn't even

634
00:31:37,600 --> 00:31:40,200
Speaker 1: classify those as Disney Channel movies. I just felt like

635
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: those were just regular theatrical release movies. Just how much

636
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: viewership they had and kind of how big of an

637
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: impact they had on pop culture. It's crazy to think

638
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: that those were just on Disney Channel. Kind of the

639
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: same thing with the camp Rock movies and even with

640
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: like The Cheetah Girls. All those kind of movies almost

641
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: transcended the Disney Channel and just kind of made their

642
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,680
Speaker 1: way to pop culture as just being those actors kind

643
00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 1: of biggest movies. Again, for me, the heyday of it

644
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: was kind of the early two thousands. So you gotta

645
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Speaker 1: throw in rip Girls, Quints get a Clue with the

646
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: very young Lindsay Lohan in two thousand two Edies Million

647
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: Dollar Cookoff, which was a great one, almost also made

648
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: the list. It's just a classic Disney movie. And that's

649
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: what I loved about them is they were just so

650
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,240
Speaker 1: kind of like, why would they even make a movie

651
00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: about this? Well, here it is also stuck in the

652
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: suburbs with a very young tar and kill Him from

653
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,800
Speaker 1: SNL Pixel Perfect, which was basically a Black Mirror episode

654
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: before Black Mirror existed. And kind of a travesty here

655
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: is they never made a Fill of the Future movie,

656
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: which was a great show. Ricky Ollman is Feel of

657
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: the Future. They should have had a movie on him.

658
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: And then in the later years, once I was kind

659
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: of checked out of Disney Channel, he had, you know,

660
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: all the series kind of making their own movies. From

661
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,320
Speaker 1: Wizards the Way, really Place Phineas and ferb the movie,

662
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: and really big right now where the Descendants movies. They've

663
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,480
Speaker 1: made three of those already, and then the Zombies movies

664
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,120
Speaker 1: are really big right now, which you're all music based.

665
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 1: They have all the sing along so that's kind of

666
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,959
Speaker 1: now where they're gearing their movies towards. And then the

667
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: final one I think I had the most tweets about

668
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: was Smart House, which was basically a movie about personifying

669
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Speaker 1: what we now know as Alexa. And most of these

670
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: movies are now available on Disney So if you want

671
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: to go back and relive some moments and feel that nostalgia,

672
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 1: all you have to do is click on and search

673
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: whichever one is your favorite. Maybe throw some bagel bites

674
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Speaker 1: in the microwave and relive your days as a kid.

675
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Speaker 1: And I just hope you enjoyed this exploration of Disney

676
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: Channel original movies, a genre I just feel overall is underrated.

677
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Speaker 1: And also just thanks again to Christy Carlson Romano for

678
00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: coming on and talking about these movies with me. All Right,

679
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 1: so this is the part of the podcast where we

680
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: just talking about movie news and I bring on my

681
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: fiance and co host Kelsey. How's it going, Kelsey, I'm good,

682
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: and you are currently back in Nashville and I am

683
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and I can't wait to get back,

684
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: and luckily it is very soon. I'm going crazy out

685
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: here home. So did you see all the Disney announcements online?

686
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,640
Speaker 1: I did. I didn't like read in depth. I just

687
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:07,400
Speaker 1: saw that there was a lot of things aunt. So

688
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: they had what's called their Investor Day, which is basically

689
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: them kind of giving all their projects for the next

690
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: few years. And the thing about it that I was

691
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: a little bit let down by is a lot of

692
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: it is TV shows, and I'm like, I don't really

693
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 1: care about their TV shows. And there were some cool

694
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: movie announcements, but I mean, they made like over seventy

695
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: announcements and it was hard to keep track of all these.

696
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: So I just don't want to give some of the highlights,

697
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,760
Speaker 1: and I think they're going really hard on Disney Plus

698
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: right now. I think they're spending fourteen to sixteen billion

699
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,480
Speaker 1: dollars on new streaming content, which is a lot, So

700
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: they're coming in hard a lot of money. It's a

701
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:45,120
Speaker 1: lot of money. And I think the coolest announcement they

702
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: had is that Chris Evans is going to voice buzz

703
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:50,879
Speaker 1: light Year in a new movie. It's like a toy

704
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,759
Speaker 1: story spinoff, kind of like a prequel. So what I

705
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 1: saw people online kind of debating is like, how are

706
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: they going to make a young buzz Lightyear movie? And

707
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,759
Speaker 1: he had to tweet that. Basically, what it is is

708
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 1: that they're saying that buzz Lightyear, the toy, was based

709
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: on a real buzz light Year person, so this is

710
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: kind of his story of how he became buzz Lightyear.

711
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,160
Speaker 1: So I guess that's where they're going with that. But

712
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:13,960
Speaker 1: I think out of everything they kind of announced, this

713
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: one kind of has the most appeal to me because

714
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: it kind of while it is a toy story movie,

715
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:22,760
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of cool to have an origin

716
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 1: story like this, which I mean, Disney really hasn't done

717
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,400
Speaker 1: a whole lot of their kind of getting into that

718
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: superhero genre of doing origin stories. Would you be excited

719
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: to watch this movie? I would watch that. I will say,

720
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:36,080
Speaker 1: I feel like the only like plotlines that people who

721
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: do not are either a remaker an origin story, like

722
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,440
Speaker 1: those are your two lanes. That's kind of what they

723
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,960
Speaker 1: do though. So that's supposed to come out on June two,

724
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: And that was the other thing that kind of I mean,

725
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 1: not bugged me about this announcement, but a lot of

726
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 1: the stuff that they're getting people excited about aren't coming

727
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 1: out for at least two years. So it's hard for

728
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:58,480
Speaker 1: me to look at something and be like, oh, yeah,

729
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: that's that's great, but we're not gonna be able to

730
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,320
Speaker 1: see it for two years. Like I don't even know

731
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,840
Speaker 1: if I'll keep Disney Plus for that long? Does it

732
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: kind of we will, We will keep Disney Plus for

733
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: that long. Don't be dramatic, but my thing is like

734
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: I could be dead by then, Like these movies could

735
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: come out and I could be dead by then. Why

736
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 1: would you say that? That is an incredibly morbid thing

737
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: to say, Like I won't even go off on my

738
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: damn jin about why you just said that. That's just

739
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,879
Speaker 1: how I feel like. I kind of like that's why

740
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: I like surprise albums. When they announced it a couple

741
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: of days out, like Taylor Swift just did it again,

742
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: like hey, I got it now I'm coming out. It's

743
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,680
Speaker 1: coming out Friday. You're like, all right, you have that

744
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: time to get excited, but then there it is right

745
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:36,280
Speaker 1: already ready for you, like you don't have to wait forever.

746
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: And I think the way we are now consuming things

747
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: so rapidly, and we can literally go on the Internet

748
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,920
Speaker 1: and find anything we want to be entertained, and just

749
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: like that flick of a light switch, all the things

750
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:50,839
Speaker 1: that we were supposed to see this year we won't

751
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: see until one So we already have plenty of content

752
00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: for next year. Is not that far away to get

753
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: new things. Think about everything that was supposed to be

754
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: released to this year and it's got got pushed back

755
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: to next year, so we have things to see next year.

756
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:06,160
Speaker 1: So I don't think is that far off? You're right there.

757
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: I could get behind that. The other thing I'm excited

758
00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,759
Speaker 1: about is they announced the third ant Man film, which

759
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: will be called ant Man in the Wasp Quantum Mania.

760
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 1: I think aunt Man is a very underrated franchise in

761
00:37:18,520 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: the Marvel universe, because while maybe the story of ant

762
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,879
Speaker 1: Man isn't as great as all the other superheroes, there's

763
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 1: something that's just a little bit funnier about these movies,

764
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 1: and I feel they kind of go under the radar.

765
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: Are you a fan of the ant Man movies? Is

766
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: this a good time to admit I don't think I've

767
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: actually seen them? You've never seen I don't think I have.

768
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: I don't remember it. I think you would like the

769
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: first one. The second one isn't as great, But I

770
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,959
Speaker 1: just really like Paul Rudd. And while it's not like

771
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: as funny as the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, it's

772
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: a little more like Paul Rudd's humor I feel in it,

773
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: and it's almost kind of like a I would almost

774
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,080
Speaker 1: say if Judd Apataw was making a Marvel movie. It

775
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: kind of has that appeal to it. I mean, it's

776
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: not my homework for the weekend. Sure, yeah, check it out.

777
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: You can review it next time. Um. The other thing

778
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: I'm interested about from this announcement is that they are

779
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: developing a new Fantastic Four movie, which I feel like

780
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: everybody has been let down by every single Fantastic Four movie,

781
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: and I don't know why they can't get this movie

782
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: right because twice they've done it twice, yes, and they've

783
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:30,800
Speaker 1: all been terrible. And you have these really great superheroes

784
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: with all these cool I mean, it's four superheroes in

785
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: one movie, and they can't quite get it down right.

786
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: So I'm just kind of at the point to where

787
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: like there has to be a little bit something more

788
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,040
Speaker 1: here that they're bringing bringing something back that has failed

789
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: twice and now trying it again. So I'm going to

790
00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: give it one last chance and that's it. Then I'm

791
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: done with Fantastic Four. So it's coming from the same

792
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 1: guy who's made the New Spider Man movies, so maybe

793
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,240
Speaker 1: there's something there. The other things I'm kind of excited

794
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: about is I mean, I don't know if I'm excited

795
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: about them at this point, but they're doing more live

796
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: action remakes. They're doing Pinocchio, Peter Pain and Wendy and

797
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 1: then also Chippendale Rescue Rangers. But that has it's like,

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00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,080
Speaker 1: I guess it's a hybrid between live action and like

799
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: real people because Andy Samberg and John mulaney are a

800
00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: part of it, which I'm big fans of so that

801
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: could be good. But I just don't really love all

802
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 1: the live action ones. I just they don't have the

803
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: same kind of appeal or charm as the original animated ones.

804
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm over the live action they haven't.

805
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: They just haven't been that great. Yeah, and they're all

806
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: I mean, they're also doing now a Lion King prequel,

807
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: so kind of, like we saidly or they're I think

808
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: they're basically out of ideas and they're kind of banking

809
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 1: on the fact that, all right, let's just do movies

810
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: that people already know and love and do them in

811
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: a different way. I feel they're a little bit of

812
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: a cash grab at this point. In other movie news,

813
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,479
Speaker 1: the new Spider Man three, which there isn't a great

814
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: track history with Spider Man three. They kind of fail

815
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: on that one. But I guess what they're trying to do,

816
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: and it's been the rumor now for a while, is

817
00:40:05,440 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 1: bringing all the Spider Man into this one, so Toby maguire,

818
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 1: Andrew Garfield and then Tom Holland. But they did announce

819
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 1: that's not confirmed yet. There's kind of just rumors about

820
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: that right now, but they did confirm that Alfred Molina

821
00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,319
Speaker 1: is coming back as Doc Cock, which you would know

822
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: from what movie? Nothing like The Holidays, that's right, one

823
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 1: of your favorite Christmas movies, and we're watching that. I

824
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,880
Speaker 1: was like, I know, I recognized that guy from somewhere,

825
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,960
Speaker 1: but I couldn't quite put it together. And then I

826
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: found out that he is Doc. I think there's enough

827
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: hype around this and all these rumors that it's going

828
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Speaker 1: to be all the Spider Man in this movie. I

829
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Speaker 1: just don't know if they'll be able to get it right,

830
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: because while the concept is cool, why the idea of

831
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: having them all together on screen is cool? I think

832
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: it could be more about the idea of making that

833
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: happen than them actually thinking about making a good movie here.

834
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:56,319
Speaker 1: Would you think that would be cool to see them

835
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: all together? I mean, I'm just trying to picture how

836
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:02,759
Speaker 1: they're gonna corporate everyone into that. I mean, I think

837
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: it could be interesting. I feel like there's been other

838
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: movies where they've brought in like original actors and like

839
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: other parts. Well. I think where they got the inspiration

840
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,200
Speaker 1: from this was with the success of Spider Man into

841
00:41:13,239 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: the Spider Verse, where he has those other Spider Men

842
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: from all the other different dimensions, and I think that's

843
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: kind of how they're gonna turn it into this movie.

844
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 1: So I don't know how they're going to make that happen,

845
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: but that seems like a really expensive movie to make,

846
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: because I think Tobey maguire is asking for a minimum

847
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,960
Speaker 1: of like fifteen million dollars just to be in this movie,

848
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: So gonna be a very expensive movie for them to make.

849
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,839
Speaker 1: And then finally, here in movie news, sadly Debot from

850
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,840
Speaker 1: Friday has passed away Tom Lister. He died he was

851
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: sixty two years old, And I guess I was always

852
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: holding on to the idea that maybe someday they would

853
00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: make a reboot of Friday or a Friday After After Next.

854
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:56,280
Speaker 1: And since John Witherspoon, who played Pops, has passed away,

855
00:41:56,680 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: and now Debo has passed away, it's looking less and

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Speaker 1: less like it'll ever happened. But Friday is one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite movies of all time, a movie I can

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Speaker 1: quote like no other, and not only that, my mom

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Speaker 1: can quote it like NonStop, which is always cool to hear.

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Speaker 1: But I thought that was pretty sad he was only

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Speaker 1: sixty two, Not to end it on the downer, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think that would hit me a little bit. It

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Speaker 1: was just sad to see. I mean, that's not that

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Speaker 1: old and everybody kind of knew him from that character.

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Speaker 1: I would see him going out to conventions and you know,

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Speaker 1: taking pictures of the fans. So that was a sad

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Speaker 1: one to see. Any uplifting news that you have on

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Speaker 1: your end, I did not come prepared with anything uplifting. Well,

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Speaker 1: if I told you they were making a final and

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Speaker 1: fifth Indiana Jones movie with Harrison Ford, does that do

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Speaker 1: anything for you? Not really? You know, I was never

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Speaker 1: really a big fan of Indiana Jones either, but Harrison

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Speaker 1: Ford like pushing eighty doing this movie. I think for

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Speaker 1: that reason alone, I would be interested to watch it.

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Speaker 1: But that's gonna do it here for movie news. Thanks

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Speaker 1: Kelsey for hanging out with me. You are welcome. I

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Speaker 1: gotta give my shout out of the week. All you

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Speaker 1: have to do to get a shout out and just

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Speaker 1: send me your tweet or Instagram message or comment on

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Speaker 1: my Facebook page, Facebook dot com slash Mike Destro I'm

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Speaker 1: at Mike Destro on all the socials and just say

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Speaker 1: you're listening to the episode, post a screenshot or a

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Speaker 1: picture of your car Dash listening to an episode and

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Speaker 1: I'll give you a shout out. And this week we're

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Speaker 1: going to John G on Twitter. He is at John

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Speaker 1: G five and he tweeted the link and said he

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Speaker 1: was listening to the interview I did with Jonathan Lipniki,

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Speaker 1: which I don't do a whole lot of interviews. I'm

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Speaker 1: not great at them, and I usually only bring people

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Speaker 1: on that i'm really kind of was a fan of

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Speaker 1: as a kid or as a fan of something they're

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Speaker 1: doing now. So if you guys are liking the interviews

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Speaker 1: and are enjoying those, let me know and I'll try

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Speaker 1: to book some more of those. So thanks John for listening,

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Speaker 1: and thanks for that tweet. I will talk to you

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Speaker 1: guys again next Monday here on the podcast. Be sure

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Speaker 1: to subscribe, like follow wherever you're listening to this right now,

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Speaker 1: and I will talk to you guys as Monday later