Speaker 1: Sabrina, it's another musical.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It's another musical, which we're going to get.
Speaker 2: Into a different kind of musical.
Speaker 1: Though Disney loves just breaking into song.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen this kind of musical.
Speaker 1: I have not, we have I can't. First of all,
Speaker 1: I love them, but you got to keep them on
Speaker 1: the entire time. You can't take them off. I need
Speaker 1: you to. Oh my god, so bad. I can't. Can't
Speaker 1: your your your costume.
Speaker 2: I can only wear for like the first second and
Speaker 2: then it's gotta go.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. But did we love
Speaker 1: the movie? Well, we'll get into that. First of all,
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you
Speaker 1: want to grab your friends, your pj's and your popcorn
Speaker 1: and go back to your time and all the houses
Speaker 1: were smart, the Waves, Tsunamis and the high School's Musical.
Speaker 1: I'm Wilford Delle and.
Speaker 2: And I'm Sabrina Bryan.
Speaker 1: Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity to
Speaker 1: seize everything you ever wanted, the girl of your dreams,
Speaker 1: would you capture it or did you just let it slip?
Speaker 3: Yo?
Speaker 1: No, it's not eight mile, but this week we are
Speaker 1: recapping the twenty twelve romantic hip hop musical Let It Shine.
Speaker 1: The Decom debut on June fifteen, twenty twelve, and believe
Speaker 1: it or not, it is a retelling of eighteen ninety
Speaker 1: sevens Sira Noda Bergerac, a classic play by Edmund Rostand.
Speaker 1: While it is nowhere near the only modern piece of
Speaker 1: media that has pulled inspiration from this specific source material,
Speaker 1: We've got nineteen eighty seven, Steve Martin comedy Rock Sane,
Speaker 1: Great Movie nineteen ninety six is rom com The Truth
Speaker 1: About Cats and Dogs, and Netflix's Sierra Burgess Is a Loser.
Speaker 1: Those are just three examples of other movies with the
Speaker 1: exact same cribbed premise, while TV shows like The Brady Bunch, Cheers, Fraser,
Speaker 1: and even a little show called Boy Meets World have
Speaker 1: stolen this plot. Yeah, it might be actually one of
Speaker 1: the most used tropes in all of Hollywood. Popular or
Speaker 1: good looking suitor is fed lines either uglier or near
Speaker 1: to your friend to capture the interest of a girl
Speaker 1: or a guy. Eventually, of course, the plan is exposed
Speaker 1: and everything blows up, only to still work out in
Speaker 1: the end for the nerd and the cool love interest.
Speaker 1: And it's a journey. That always makes for quite a script. Hey,
Speaker 1: you get a good story, you can see it over
Speaker 1: and over and over again. That's why the hero's journey
Speaker 1: will always work. Whether it's Luke Skywalker or Odysseus, it
Speaker 1: will constantly work. Now. Did you know about Syra oder
Speaker 1: Bergack before this one?
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 1: I did not. Do you ever see Roxanne with Steve Martin? No, Oh,
Speaker 1: great movie. You gotta go see Roxanne.
Speaker 2: I will put it on the list you should.
Speaker 1: With the tagline the Truth is in the music. Let
Speaker 1: It Shine. Is filmed in Atlanta and Marietta, Georgia, which
Speaker 1: are new locations to us, so they must have lost
Speaker 1: the coin that week to flip between Utah and I swear.
Speaker 4: I was looking, going, can I find any type of
Speaker 4: Toronto scene?
Speaker 2: No, it was our new stuff.
Speaker 1: I was going, Wow, Toronto can look like Atlanta too,
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Nope, I loved it.
Speaker 2: It looked great. I thought they SAIDs were so good.
Speaker 1: They are and they. These are not only new locations
Speaker 1: for us, but played heavily into the film itself. Frankly,
Speaker 1: it also had a soundtrack with thirteen original songs. Some
Speaker 1: of the producers and songwriters involved include David Banner, Rock Mafia,
Speaker 1: Toby Gadd, Lindy Robbins, and Adam Hicks, who together have
Speaker 1: created hits for musicians like Justin Bieber, Young thug Selena Gomez,
Speaker 1: Jason Derulo, Beyonce, One Direction, and many others. For the record,
Speaker 1: I have heard of two of those people on that list. No,
Speaker 1: I've heard of Bieber, Okay, I've never heard of Okay. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people I don't know. And the
Speaker 1: movie was seriously successful for the channel. The premiere pulled
Speaker 1: in five point seven million viewers, which is a massive
Speaker 1: number for twenty twelve, and at the time it became
Speaker 1: the most watch dcom of twenty twelve. It had such
Speaker 1: a popular debut that a sequel script was written, according
Speaker 1: to one of its stars, but eventually was scrapped. So
Speaker 1: what rhymes with disappointment? Ointment? But doint I'll keep thinking
Speaker 1: of it. Let Shine was also released on DVD in
Speaker 1: August of the same year, marking a fast two month
Speaker 1: turnaround for Disney, especially since a special Rap Battle edition
Speaker 1: aired on June thirtieth, raaking in over four point five
Speaker 1: million viewers on its own. It is also worth noting
Speaker 1: and this should in no way, shape or form effect
Speaker 1: our eventual ratings, but the movie does have one of
Speaker 1: the higher Rotten Tomato scores we've ever seen, with eighty
Speaker 1: four percent. So okay. Sabrina Resident expert for singing and Dancing.
Speaker 1: We do this for every musical film that we tackle.
Speaker 1: What did you think? How is the dancing? Was Chris good?
Speaker 1: How's the singing? How are we doing?
Speaker 4: I thought the dancing was great, Honestly, I the choreography
Speaker 4: was really good. I thought the way that the staging
Speaker 4: happened it felt very Paulhan to me, the way he
Speaker 4: filmed it.
Speaker 2: Everything. I loved all of that.
Speaker 4: It was a hit or miss for music for me.
Speaker 4: Some stuff I liked, some stuff I didn't. There seemed
Speaker 4: to be a lot of musical numbers in this, and
Speaker 4: I get it.
Speaker 2: It's it's about music. But it started to like halfway through.
Speaker 4: I'm like, oh my god, we're going again. I feel
Speaker 4: like we just finished the last song. So that I
Speaker 4: will say was it was a lot. I feel like
Speaker 4: there's probably at least two of the routines that were
Speaker 4: maybe not necessary or did it need to be as long,
Speaker 4: But we'll obviously get into those and when they pop up.
Speaker 2: I will let you know which ones I would have scrapped.
Speaker 1: I would have taken out. Did you know about Let
Speaker 1: It Shine before we did this?
Speaker 2: I did not. I'm starting to feel a lot more
Speaker 2: like you will. Yes, I have not heard of this
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the olds. Do you want to you want
Speaker 1: to guess if i'd heard of it.
Speaker 2: I think this one is actually one that is your favorite.
Speaker 1: I had not heard of it. Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1: I had not heard of it. Okay, well, it's the
Speaker 1: moment of truth. Tonight's the night. Let's get in some
Speaker 1: joyful noise. Me and you need to get into The synopsis,
Speaker 1: a teenage boy hides his rapping from family and friends,
Speaker 1: but when his best friend uses his lyrics to get
Speaker 1: close to a girl, he must battle to win her
Speaker 1: affection while struggling against pressure from his father Sabrina early thoughts.
Speaker 1: Did you like the movie? I?
Speaker 4: I mean starting in the church where I'm going, Oh,
Speaker 4: we've got sister act.
Speaker 2: Meeting eight mile. I'm kind of interested on what's going.
Speaker 4: At the beginning of it, I was like, ah, I wasn't,
Speaker 4: cause again Let It Shine give gave me as a title.
Speaker 2: No, look into what this movie was going to of course,
Speaker 2: not at all.
Speaker 1: So the thirteenth Year of Musicals.
Speaker 2: Yes, so it was.
Speaker 4: I mean, I get it at the end, I get it.
Speaker 4: We get it finally at the end. Why that was
Speaker 4: the title. But so for me, I'm going, oh wow.
Speaker 4: I thought the music right away. I loved it.
Speaker 2: It was cool. I'm a huge Sister Rac fan.
Speaker 4: This is awesome bringing a new generation into the Sister
Speaker 4: Act loving fans base. So I was like, okay, I
Speaker 4: liked it. And then took a little bit of a
Speaker 4: slow turn and then eventually we'll get to where I land.
Speaker 4: But at the beginning, I was in I liked it.
Speaker 2: Sister Rac means me eight mile. I was into it.
Speaker 4: I was like, this is so different than anything we've
Speaker 4: seen thus far on all of our movie rewatches.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Okay, I loved this movie.
Speaker 2: Did you I did?
Speaker 1: I loved this movie. I you know why, because first
Speaker 1: of all, all of the singing is appropriate, meaning it's
Speaker 1: not a bunch of kids pulling up to a gas
Speaker 1: station all of a sudden going like we're getting unleded.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, they're they're singing in places they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be singing. They have musical numbers in church on stage.
Speaker 1: They made it a musical, but it's like it makes
Speaker 1: sense as a musical.
Speaker 4: And the times that they do break in And I
Speaker 4: knew I was hoping that you were gonna like this
Speaker 4: because the times that they do break into just random.
Speaker 4: He's supposed to be riffing correct, Yes, as a as.
Speaker 2: A rapper, he does that. He starts just going off.
Speaker 1: Of it is also and we will get into it
Speaker 1: as we get more into the breakdown. But it is
Speaker 1: also arguably the best cast of any dcom we've seen
Speaker 1: a good cast. The cast so good in this movie.
Speaker 1: They've all gone on to essentially control Hollywood right now,
Speaker 1: but they are from the lead to some of the
Speaker 1: smallest roles in the film. This movie was cast so
Speaker 1: well that it was no. I fully enjoyed it. I
Speaker 1: really did. I thought this was a great movie. Let
Speaker 1: It Shine. Is of course directed by friend of the
Speaker 1: podcast and a man who makes the D in d
Speaker 1: com stand for direction, Yes, Paul Hoan. Paul is currently
Speaker 1: the mastermind behind the incredibly successful Disney Music franchise Zombies,
Speaker 1: which at times does have wrap in it, but make
Speaker 1: no mistake, his decom roots are very strong, much like
Speaker 1: the Force with Luke Skywalker, He's got Luck of the Irish.
Speaker 1: You wish read it and weep jump in, Cheetah Girls,
Speaker 1: One World, and Dad Napped, which is well, we're going
Speaker 1: to get into that, just to name a few. If
Speaker 1: you want to learn about Paul and his prolific career,
Speaker 1: check out our interview with him a few months back
Speaker 1: on our dedicated magical rewind feed. And if you haven't
Speaker 1: heard it yet, because I know some people listen to
Speaker 1: this feed but they don't listen to the interviews, you
Speaker 1: really should go and check it out because it was
Speaker 1: really an incredible interview and just you get a lot
Speaker 1: of behind the scenes of how this stuff was all
Speaker 1: put together. It was really really cool. But as I
Speaker 1: was saying, the cast is spectacular, maybe the most names
Speaker 1: we've ever mentioned. And you can tell how great the
Speaker 1: casting was by seeing all of their recent success. So
Speaker 1: let's start with its star Tyler James Williams, who just
Speaker 1: pops off the screen. He plays Cyrus, a play on Syrah. No.
Speaker 1: Of course, Tyler is best known for his time as
Speaker 1: young Chris Rock on the TV show Everybody Hates Chris,
Speaker 1: which ran from two thousand and five to two thousand
Speaker 1: and nine, he became the youngest person ever to win
Speaker 1: an NAACP Image Award at just fourteen, and before that
Speaker 1: he spent five years as a kid on Sesame Street. Yes,
Speaker 1: he's been working his entire life and rightfully so. That
Speaker 1: is someone who is born to be on the screen.
Speaker 1: You also saw him on shows like Dear White People,
Speaker 1: Criminal Minds, Beyond Borders, Walking Dead, and now you can
Speaker 1: see him weekly on the incredibly successful Emmy wining sitcom
Speaker 1: Abbott Elementary as Gregory Eddie. He's just working on Hilarious.
Speaker 1: And then we've got Coco Jones as Roxy. This was
Speaker 1: her first movie ever. She was seen in episodes of
Speaker 1: Good Luck Charlie before this, and starred as Coco Blue
Speaker 1: on the Disney show So Random. She has a singer herself,
Speaker 1: formally signed to Hollywood Records, and it's a five time
Speaker 1: Grammy nominee and one once in twenty twenty four for
Speaker 1: her song Ice You. But she is also known as
Speaker 1: Hillary Banks in the Fresh Prince reboot bel Air and
Speaker 1: for those keeping score at home, she was also the
Speaker 1: star who back in twenty twenty said during a YouTube
Speaker 1: live stream there was a sequel in the works but
Speaker 1: was scrapped. And while I don't normally mention things like
Speaker 1: this because these are normally teenagers that we're talking about
Speaker 1: and it gets creepy, she was distractingly pretty, just absolutely
Speaker 1: beautiful in this.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know who did she look like? Anyone?
Speaker 3: To you?
Speaker 1: I couldn't place who she looked like.
Speaker 4: She looked like, I mean, I know we knew her,
Speaker 4: she wasn't. I don't know how old Jennifer Hudson was
Speaker 4: when she came out.
Speaker 1: But she she look like is Jennifer.
Speaker 4: She looks so much like Jennifer Hudson and like as
Speaker 4: like what I would see if, I mean she would
Speaker 4: be would have been the perfect like the movie of
Speaker 4: her life right to be her as like, I mean,
Speaker 4: she was so beautiful.
Speaker 1: She's stunning, absolutely like.
Speaker 4: You're right, I mean, I couldn't. I couldn't take when
Speaker 4: she was on screen. You just can't take care of her.
Speaker 1: This is truly a cast from top to bottom that
Speaker 1: commands the screen. Yes, I mean it really does. You
Speaker 1: just see they talk about getting through the lens this cast, uh,
Speaker 1: And we're getting more and more into him. For instance,
Speaker 1: Trevor Jackson is Chris. He is also a musician. He
Speaker 1: has songs with Kelley Row and Sierra Ramirez Okay, but
Speaker 1: has also been seen on TV shows like Eureka, Austin
Speaker 1: and Ally and Casey Undercover. He also starred in the
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen super Fly remake, but it's best known now
Speaker 1: as Aaron Jackson on the shows Blackish and Grownish. Everybody
Speaker 1: is just still killing it, Killing It. And then we
Speaker 1: have Brandon Michael Smith is Lord of de Bling, which
Speaker 1: is also my nickname in high school. Thank you Producer
Speaker 1: Jensen for putting that in. Brandon had already been seen
Speaker 1: on That's So Raven, ten episodes of Fill in the
Speaker 1: Future and Nixon Fabulous, but is best known as one
Speaker 1: of the stars of So Random, alongside Coco. He'd later
Speaker 1: play Little Richard and the James Brown biopick Get On Up.
Speaker 1: And he's the voice of Michelangelo in the New Rise
Speaker 1: of the Teenage Ninja Girtles TV shows and movies Ah
Speaker 1: So Jealous, also for Magical rewind Purposes. He's in another
Speaker 1: DCM called starstra and then we have Don Lewis as Gail.
Speaker 1: She is a TV legend best known as Jalisa on
Speaker 1: a Different World. She also appears in the movie's Dreamgirls,
Speaker 1: and is in incredibly busy voiceover actor for shows like
Speaker 1: The Simpsons, Futurama, Star Trek, Lower Decks, and Fairly Odd Parents.
Speaker 1: She is also in one of the greatest films of
Speaker 1: all time, Keenan Ivory Wayan's very first big movie, I'm
Speaker 1: Gonna Get Jasuka, which is still one of the funniest
Speaker 1: movies of all time, and she is hysterical and a
Speaker 1: name very familiar to me. My friend Alex Desier plays Levi,
Speaker 1: Alex's first off, the coolest human being on the planet.
Speaker 1: He is seriously the coolest person who's ever lived. But professionally,
Speaker 1: he played Jake on the long running show Becker and
Speaker 1: Eli Williams on Boy Meets World. He's probably most recognizable
Speaker 1: for one movie role, though, even though he was only
Speaker 1: in maybe four or five scenes tops. But he's Charles
Speaker 1: in Swingers, the guy willing to leave a very crowded
Speaker 1: party because his place is dead anyway. He is now
Speaker 1: a very busy voiceover actor in twenty twenty five as
Speaker 1: the new voice of Carl and others on The Simpsons,
Speaker 1: and he's the lead singer of the hepcats, a SKA
Speaker 1: mainstay in the LA music scene since the nineties, and
Speaker 1: We're not done yet. Nicole Sullivan is Leilah. You might
Speaker 1: know her as a Mad TV cast member, or as
Speaker 1: Janine on Blackish, or as Holly on the King of Queens,
Speaker 1: or as she go on a little show called Kim Possible,
Speaker 1: but she currently plays Carol Finkel on The Sex Lives
Speaker 1: of College Girls, a show I've never heard of and
Speaker 1: probably will not be watching. Sorry, I love you, but
Speaker 1: it just doesn't seem like it's made for me. Two
Speaker 1: time Emmy winner Courtney B. Vance Man is Jacob, a
Speaker 1: veteran character actor from movies like The Hunt for October,
Speaker 1: Dangerous Minds, and Space Cowboys. He's also started over one
Speaker 1: hundred episodes of Law and Order Criminal Intent, but it
Speaker 1: was his two high profile guest star roles one on
Speaker 1: the HBO show Lovecraft Country and then, most infamously as
Speaker 1: Johnny Cochrane in The O. J. Simpson American Crime Story
Speaker 1: that won him the Emmy. He's an incredible actor. Just
Speaker 1: this cast, it's again, it's one after another of amazing actors. Yes,
Speaker 1: and finally featured background choir girl Number one and choir
Speaker 1: Girl Number two are played by Chloe and he Baily,
Speaker 1: two kids at the time who have become massive stars.
Speaker 1: The sisters are a hit R and B duo sign
Speaker 1: to Beyonce, who've been nominated for five Grammys and were
Speaker 1: stars of the show Grownish. Hallie also played the new
Speaker 1: Arial in the recent Little Mermaid Live Action remake? Did
Speaker 1: you notice them, Sabrina?
Speaker 4: I did not notice them. I've got to go back
Speaker 4: and look at those scenes because Hallie, I mean, she
Speaker 4: was amazing as aerial, so good. This is such a cool,
Speaker 4: cool thing to find out that like one of her
Speaker 4: first things probably was right there.
Speaker 2: On the ditch Disney Channel and this dcon. This is
Speaker 2: so rad me being.
Speaker 1: Old and still not knowing any of these people. I've
Speaker 1: heard of.
Speaker 2: Gronish, you know that the remake they did.
Speaker 1: The like with which I know of it, but I've
Speaker 1: never seen Okay, yeah, yes, And I've heard of Beyonce
Speaker 1: and she is gorgeous.
Speaker 2: And I've heard of Beyonce. You don't live completely.
Speaker 1: Under I don't think I've ever heard of Beyonce song,
Speaker 1: but I've heard of Beyonce. This is seriously arguably the
Speaker 1: most impressive cast. Don't you think I'm amazing, incredible. Now
Speaker 1: we get to the bad news. Let It Shine is
Speaker 1: one hundred and four minutes. Even with a cast like that,
Speaker 1: it is say it with me too long?
Speaker 2: Long, Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: And again we go back to the numerous of musical
Speaker 4: portions of Yeah, we could have exactly cut them down
Speaker 4: if not taken them out there.
Speaker 1: We're looking for ninety minutes, people, ninety minutes only, so
Speaker 1: instead of let it shine, more like let it end?
Speaker 1: Am I right? And I loved it. It's written by
Speaker 1: Eric Daniel, whose only other writing credit is the Wesley
Speaker 1: Snipes comedy Back on the Strip. However, he was a
Speaker 1: production assistant on Do the Right Thing and New Jack City,
Speaker 1: so that's very impressive. And he shared the credit with
Speaker 1: Dondee Scott, who found incredible success as the writer of
Speaker 1: Barbershop one and two and In the Room of the
Speaker 1: TV show The Neighborhood. Okay, enough for the opening act.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the Grand Slam and get into Let
Speaker 1: It Shine. We open at a large and beautiful black church.
Speaker 1: The sun shines through stained glass, illuminating a service taking place.
Speaker 1: The choir is singing while a man sits in a
Speaker 1: large chair at the center of the pew. Then the
Speaker 1: piano player, a young man in a sweater and a tie,
Speaker 1: presses play for a hip hop beat to blast over
Speaker 1: the speakers. The choir and full band love what they hear,
Speaker 1: busting into an upbeat gospel tune and dance routine, but
Speaker 1: the man in the chair is not feeling it, especially
Speaker 1: when the choir throws off their gowns to expose pastel
Speaker 1: gap looking outfits. They close out on the movie's first
Speaker 1: song with a big war of approval from the church.
Speaker 1: The piano player, Cyrus celebrates until he locks eyes with Jacob,
Speaker 1: the important man in the chair, who's also his dad.
Speaker 1: Cyrus knows he's in trouble, and I have to say,
Speaker 1: if church was like this growing up, I would have
Speaker 1: enjoyed it a lot more than I did.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, right, so fun.
Speaker 1: Back at home, he's hearing it from his mom and dad.
Speaker 1: When he was appointed choir leader, he was supposed to
Speaker 1: focus on praising the Lord. Jacob considers wrap the Devil's music,
Speaker 1: but as he heats up, Cyrus's mom, Gail, jumps into comment.
Speaker 1: Down Jacob makes his son promise that this will never happen. Again,
Speaker 1: is that still a thing even in twenty twelve people
Speaker 1: thinking that that there's the Devil's music.
Speaker 4: No, but I think I mean, in twenty twelve, rap
Speaker 4: was really really at I mean it was, it was everywhere,
Speaker 4: and a lot of times it has that negative undertone
Speaker 4: to I get that.
Speaker 1: I feel like that should have gone more like that
Speaker 1: than being like it was the Devil's music. That just
Speaker 1: seems like such a trip from there.
Speaker 4: I mean, yes, but truly, I was in the state
Speaker 4: of Disney Channels doing a religious aspect of anything right
Speaker 4: in it right now, we haven't seen this at all.
Speaker 1: And talking about the Lord and talking about Jesus and yeah, yeah, really.
Speaker 4: Was like whoa, So, I mean they leaned into it.
Speaker 4: So I think already that was kind of a little
Speaker 4: like what to me? But I mean, yeah, it is
Speaker 4: a it's an old school one, but I think that's kind.
Speaker 2: Of what he was.
Speaker 4: They were stettying this church up to be. Was an
Speaker 4: old school type Baptist church.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you're right.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Jake makes his son promise it'll never happen again. Later
Speaker 1: that night, Cyrus is in his room working on beats
Speaker 1: while on the phone with a friend they'll see each
Speaker 1: other later that night at the club. Even though Cyrus
Speaker 1: isn't excited that Bling will be rapping tonight, he brags
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have to sneak out, but we quickly
Speaker 1: cut to him sneaking out of the house. Sabrina, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: did you ever sneak out of your house when you're
Speaker 1: a kid, when you're growing up?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, come on, I'm telling you out. No, I was
Speaker 2: too chicken. First of all, my mom is a ninja.
Speaker 4: Okay, so even like, even if I was downstairs on
Speaker 4: the couch with my boyfriend, all of a sudden, like
Speaker 4: she'd just be like hate.
Speaker 1: So she can write from behind the couch.
Speaker 4: Here's we're squeaky. You could hear everyone come. I don't
Speaker 4: know if she like slid down the banister or what,
Speaker 4: but she was a ninja.
Speaker 2: She scared the crap out of me.
Speaker 4: There was no way I was getting out of the
Speaker 4: house and being able to do anything like that. My
Speaker 4: friends would, and most of the houses, if it was
Speaker 4: two story, all the bedrooms are upstairs.
Speaker 2: I'm like, how do you like? Oh, I go out
Speaker 2: my thing, my and then hop down the garage. There's
Speaker 2: like a part where I can put my foot on
Speaker 2: the tree and.
Speaker 1: What exactly now, what maw no, no no. I distinctly remember.
Speaker 1: Of course I would sneak out, but it was usually
Speaker 1: just to go like sit on the roof and smoke
Speaker 1: a cigarette or something, because.
Speaker 2: A stay at your house to do that occasionally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but the biggest sneak out night was from Steve
Speaker 1: Soako's house when it was seventh or eighth grade, and
Speaker 1: we snuck out because that night Shannon Chipley told me
Speaker 1: she kissed me at a party they were having a sleepover,
Speaker 1: and then we went in the woods. Yeah, Shannon Shipley,
Speaker 1: we got lost in the woods and I never got
Speaker 1: that kiss because we were just then wandering the woods randomly,
Speaker 1: and then Steve Socko's mom caught us. It was a
Speaker 1: whole yeah, uh, it was a whole thing. But anyway, Uh.
Speaker 1: Cyrus tiptoes through the front yard, but then trips, making
Speaker 1: enough noise to concern his dad, who is reading in
Speaker 1: the living room. It's a close call, but Cyrus eventually
Speaker 1: hops onto his mo ped and makes it to Off
Speaker 1: the Street, which is a club that apparently does not
Speaker 1: check ideas because no one is twenty one, it has
Speaker 1: to be an under under eighteen clubs what I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: because I don't think they're serving alcohol.
Speaker 2: But it brings me to this ridiculous point with Disney.
Speaker 4: Why do they keep creating putting this figment, like this
Speaker 4: imaginative situation that there are clubs out there that will
Speaker 4: host parties without other without anyone's parent for like fifteen
Speaker 4: year olds.
Speaker 1: Don't they Isn't there they had those in LA. Weren't
Speaker 1: there under eighteen clubs? Yeah?
Speaker 2: But they never lasted because they're this I can't even
Speaker 2: imagine why.
Speaker 1: They I mean, it's there was a big one in
Speaker 1: LA that.
Speaker 2: It was called like one seven or something. I went
Speaker 2: to it. I know it was not great and it
Speaker 2: was just like it you.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to sneak into the real club, which you
Speaker 1: didn't do because you never did anything wrong, never broke
Speaker 1: a role in the entire life, did you agree?
Speaker 4: But don't you think how many times have we seen
Speaker 4: this that there's these like little club bop areas.
Speaker 2: And it's making kids all around the country.
Speaker 4: Think like, there's the things that happened that they just
Speaker 4: don't have access to and they don't exist.
Speaker 2: Disney stopped putting it in their heads.
Speaker 1: Let's go open one, let's go open.
Speaker 2: I don't want it. Are you kidding? Kids nowadays are crazy.
Speaker 2: I don't responsible for anything they're doing. They're like they
Speaker 2: just to smoke vaate pens.
Speaker 4: They'll do like it with like vanilla extrap They're not
Speaker 4: even just it's they're so rebellious.
Speaker 2: No, no, that is a big lawsuit.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait till your kids are teenagers.
Speaker 2: I know it's gonna be horrible.
Speaker 1: Cyrus then runs into talk about being in ninja. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have it all scoped out.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Cyrus everywhere.
Speaker 1: Cyrus runs into Chris in the middle of the club,
Speaker 1: his best friends in kindergarten, who's telling two girls how
Speaker 1: great of a rapper he is. He just likes to
Speaker 1: keep it on the down low. We get a feeling
Speaker 1: that maybe he's not that great a rapper, but the
Speaker 1: girls are loving his riz anyway. Thank you Daniel Fisher
Speaker 1: for teaching me what that means. Once the girls are gone,
Speaker 1: Cyrus tells Chris they aren't his type. He's looking for
Speaker 1: a girl with some substance when he can take to
Speaker 1: the Lanta Jazz Museum. Chris is more concerned with the
Speaker 1: new beats, which Cyrus hands over. Then the club manager,
Speaker 1: Levi runs over and barks at Cyrus to bust some table.
Speaker 1: So he's got a secret night job, So is he is?
Speaker 1: He's literally sneaking out of his house every single night.
Speaker 2: To work at I don't know if it's every night,
Speaker 2: but it's often, and it's.
Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna be the weekend nights. I imagine that's
Speaker 1: the only time these underage clubs are open. So he's
Speaker 1: probably sneaking out Friday and Saturday nights. I'm guessing.
Speaker 4: Well, they do mention later on that it's a Saturday
Speaker 4: night situation because that's why the kids.
Speaker 2: Aren't wanting to come to church.
Speaker 1: Church the next time, Remember, Levi gets on the mic
Speaker 1: and welcomes the crowd. They're gonna crown this month's rap king.
Speaker 1: They started with eight and now they're down to two.
Speaker 1: And first up his newcomer, De Boss. Although I personally
Speaker 1: had wish Bruce Springsteen was gonna pop out, it wasn't him.
Speaker 1: And now for their reigning champ month after month, Lord
Speaker 1: of to Bling, the entire club breaks into song, exclaiming
Speaker 1: the club is on fire and leading right into Deboss's
Speaker 1: scathing battle lyrics. And this is again where I was like, Okay, musical,
Speaker 1: but appropriate musical. They're on a stage, they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be singing here. They it makes sense. They all know
Speaker 1: the words, they all know the dances. It was like,
Speaker 1: it's not just like in the cafeteria.
Speaker 4: And even when there is a moment when he's, like
Speaker 4: I said, busting the tables and he's singing along with his.
Speaker 2: So it's you know, it's not the kind of stuff
Speaker 2: you hate.
Speaker 1: And I loved loved it. You did, You loved it?
Speaker 1: All right? Then let's I know because you.
Speaker 2: Hay, but I love I love it.
Speaker 1: But I'm just gonna sit here and justly, Hey, please
Speaker 1: made sense. It made sense. We're back to Deboss's scathing
Speaker 1: battle lyrics. He claims blings chain is fake, his hat
Speaker 1: is too small, and his breast smells bad. The crowd
Speaker 1: loves it, and everyone is still synchronized dancing. It's now
Speaker 1: Bling's turn, and he turns and he says that Deboss
Speaker 1: is poor, his pants are too tight and they should
Speaker 1: call him a ghost. The way he gets booed, and
Speaker 1: this is getting good in the crowd. We see Chris
Speaker 1: getting down with the moves and Cyrus is rapping to
Speaker 1: himself as we were talking about while busting the tables
Speaker 1: and frankly, his raps were better. He knows he could
Speaker 1: be a champ, but he's stuck with this job. He's
Speaker 1: working for minimum wage when he should be up there
Speaker 1: on stage. The song comes to a close and Levi,
Speaker 1: who says he gives the kids beats to keep them
Speaker 1: off the streets, proclaims Lord of the Bling has won again.
Speaker 1: While celebrating, Bling announces he'll be winning the Rap Grand
Speaker 1: Slam title this year as Cyrus watches on, wishing it
Speaker 1: was him, and once lorda to Bling is off stage,
Speaker 1: it gets even worse for Cyrus. He bumps into the champ,
Speaker 1: dropping a drink on his new shoes. Bling tries to
Speaker 1: shame Cyrus, but to a surprise, Cyrus stands up to
Speaker 1: him and he says his raps weren't that hot anyway.
Speaker 1: Bling is of course furious and starts battling Cyrus right there,
Speaker 1: but Cyrus still isn't impressed. Cyrus says Bling has some skill,
Speaker 1: but he ain't quote all that the rhymes unquote. Lord
Speaker 1: of to Bling hops back on stage and calls out
Speaker 1: rkle that's the bus pots, but he calls uh uh,
Speaker 1: Cyrus a little hack there on my friend Jalil a
Speaker 1: busboy to battle the crowd chants erkle, but Cyrus walks
Speaker 1: right out, leaving the crowd and Chris disappointed. On their
Speaker 1: walk home, where's his moped?
Speaker 2: Well, they've they're that was a Sabrina seas.
Speaker 4: But they're holding the helmets as if they rode that
Speaker 4: moped together and.
Speaker 1: Then just left.
Speaker 4: No, they must have parked it somewhere, because they're they
Speaker 4: purposely are holding the helmets to say, like they took
Speaker 4: that home.
Speaker 1: We just don't see them, can't everybody knows that.
Speaker 2: I don't know any teenagers that drive moped.
Speaker 1: So I drove a motor cycle. I love mopeds, but no,
Speaker 1: it's not the same. By the way, all these new
Speaker 1: electric bikes are just fancy ways of having mopeds. That's
Speaker 1: basically what was Yeah, so Chris says he knows that
Speaker 1: Cyrus has mad skills and dope. Why won't he just rap?
Speaker 1: Are you laughing because I'm saying things like mad skills
Speaker 1: and dope rimes? I'm trying to be sorry.
Speaker 2: Just mute my audio. I can't stop.
Speaker 1: You got a problem with me saying mad skills and
Speaker 1: dope rimes. Is that what's a huge problem? I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: do you have a problem with Come on, Serna, come.
Speaker 2: On sorry, I'm trying my rhyme screen.
Speaker 1: What's your problem? Oh my god? Okay, all right, so
Speaker 1: I have to say it again. Cyrus has mad skills
Speaker 1: and dope rhymes? Why won't he just rap? Cyrus doesn't know.
Speaker 1: It's just easier alone in his room. We are now
Speaker 1: back in the house and apparently not afraid to wake
Speaker 1: up his parents anymore. They turn on the TV to
Speaker 1: watch On the Beat, a show that claims to be
Speaker 1: the best urban music showcase on the planet. This is based,
Speaker 1: of course, on b ET's one oh six in Park.
Speaker 1: The hosts are interviewing Roxy, a singer that was in
Speaker 1: the same third grade class as Cyrus and Chris. They
Speaker 1: both think she's fine as hell. She is so pretty
Speaker 1: Coco Jones forever again, and I can't take your eyes
Speaker 1: off of her.
Speaker 2: They're not wrong, They're not wrong.
Speaker 1: Stunning, I mean just a stunning girl. And again, I
Speaker 1: know that's creepy to say, because she's probably like seventeen
Speaker 1: when she shot this movie. On the show, they talk
Speaker 1: about a group of critics that have been harsh on Roxy.
Speaker 1: They call her outfits too provocative, But again, what should
Speaker 1: she wear a parka? She's a singer, and by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty conservative when it comes to what I think
Speaker 1: younger people should wear. And I didn't think she was
Speaker 1: wearing anything that was all that crazy in this movie.
Speaker 4: No, if anything needed to be toned down. It was
Speaker 4: like the brightness of color.
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 2: Can we get Can we get a neutral yere? Just
Speaker 2: a nice neutral color?
Speaker 1: Can we get brown? Can someone wear brown or a beige? Once?
Speaker 4: It's just one part of it?
Speaker 2: So much color?
Speaker 1: Seriously, But yeah, so I don't understand how she should
Speaker 1: address But she has big news that day. She's working
Speaker 1: with Atlanta Records on a contest where one amateur artist
Speaker 1: will get their song produced by her label and their
Speaker 1: own music video. She says, you just send in the
Speaker 1: song and a recent picture of yourself to enter. Cyrus
Speaker 1: announces he's going to enter and win, but Chris says
Speaker 1: that's impossible because he's gonna have the winning song, and
Speaker 1: they're very playful about this. That night, Cyrus already gets
Speaker 1: to work, retreating to his room and makeshift studio to
Speaker 1: produce a love rap called Don't Run Away. This kid
Speaker 1: apparently never sleeps. He's either working at the club, working
Speaker 1: at church, or producing his own music. And one lyric
Speaker 1: is you are what is that tetradacal fly? Am I
Speaker 1: saying that wrong? What's happening?
Speaker 2: I don't know? I know what's happening.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are a tetradacal fly. Apparently. He burns a
Speaker 1: song onto a disc and puts it in the mail,
Speaker 1: including a picture of him and Chris together. Dropping it
Speaker 1: in the mailbox, which is literally directly in front of
Speaker 1: his house, he steps out the front door and drops
Speaker 1: into the mailbox, so very well position. The next morning,
Speaker 1: he realizes that he's late for church, which is also
Speaker 1: directly next door to his house. He late is this
Speaker 1: kid doesn't have to go anywhere. His whole life is
Speaker 1: a total of ten steps and a few drives on
Speaker 1: his now lost mopen. He walks into the church late,
Speaker 1: opening a very squeaky door and interrupting his dad's sermon.
Speaker 1: Cyrus sits at the piano and listens to his dad,
Speaker 1: who goes on a tirade about loud music, high skirts,
Speaker 1: sagging pants, and rap music. He mentions that downtown rap
Speaker 1: club keeping their kids up too late for church the
Speaker 1: next day, and says he wouldn't allow his kid to go.
Speaker 1: He wants to stop hip hop and the most powerful
Speaker 1: grip it has on the youth. But little does he
Speaker 1: know his kid actually works there. Meanwhile, we see Roxy
Speaker 1: looking through contest entries while her road manager Lilah spots
Speaker 1: a bad headline regarding Roxy's voice. It says she depends
Speaker 1: on a vocoder which is auto tune too much, and
Speaker 1: it feels like Roxy might actually agree. While checking out tracks,
Speaker 1: Roxy has made it to Cyrus's song and recognizes Cyrus
Speaker 1: and Chris from their photos he sent. Roxy does find
Speaker 1: out about the critical headline and doesn't get why she's
Speaker 1: so picked on. Lila says it comes with being famous.
Speaker 1: But on better news, they've picked a contest winner. It's
Speaker 1: Cyrus and Chris. She says. He calls himself truth and
Speaker 1: he's making real, thoughtful music, which she loves. Lyla assumes
Speaker 1: it is, of course, the better looking Chris making the
Speaker 1: music and calls him Acutie. But oh no, they have
Speaker 1: the wrong guy because they think Cyrus looks like a dork,
Speaker 1: which is a shame. But it's also don't send in
Speaker 1: a picture of you with somebody else, just send in
Speaker 1: your photo.
Speaker 2: Yes, cut it that picture in half.
Speaker 1: Probably just put a picture of just you up. You
Speaker 1: gotta have a photo of just you, something like a
Speaker 1: I mean something. That night at Off the Street, the
Speaker 1: film crew from on the Beat. I don't know why
Speaker 1: the names had to rhyme, but they do shows up
Speaker 1: to announce a rapper name Truth from this Club won
Speaker 1: their contest. Lyle says he's never heard that name, but
Speaker 1: the TV host spots Chris and proclaims him the winner.
Speaker 1: Chris runs to Cyrus to celebrate, but Cyrus looks shocked.
Speaker 1: He didn't even hear Chris's song, but that doesn't change
Speaker 1: that he is in fact the winner, and now it's
Speaker 1: to meet pop star Roxy from back in the day.
Speaker 1: She arrives with Layla and hugs the boys. She says
Speaker 1: Chris looks great and Cyrus, while being very awkward, looks
Speaker 1: well the same as he did in third grade. Roxy
Speaker 1: congratulates Chris. She felt like that song might have been
Speaker 1: about her. Chris is a little confused but agrees. The
Speaker 1: crowd starts to chant Roxy's name, so she takes the
Speaker 1: stage to perform again, makes sense why there would be
Speaker 1: a song here. But even after a killer song on
Speaker 1: the show, she pushes the attention back to the contest winner.
Speaker 1: She says the MC's name finally, and that name is Truth. Truth. Wait,
Speaker 1: that's not Chris's rap name, that's Cyrus's name. Oh no,
Speaker 1: it's because the photo he sent in was of them both,
Speaker 1: and they assumed it was the more studley Chris. And
Speaker 1: then Lord of a Blaine. This guy finds a new target, Chris.
Speaker 1: He battles him, now calling him a garbage and a rookie.
Speaker 1: Rocky suggests that Truth doesn't even bring himself down a
Speaker 1: Bling's level. In turn, he starts battling Roxy, and Lilah
Speaker 1: quickly gets her out of the club. Hot take. Lord
Speaker 1: of the Blaine is the most talented musician in the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah your nay, what do you believe? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I thought he was really good.
Speaker 1: He was great. He was great. I frankly thought he
Speaker 1: won the rap battle at the end. Why I was
Speaker 1: always so bad with these step up movies because I'd
Speaker 1: see the rival team and I'd be like, I think
Speaker 1: that one was rudder.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've found out from this movie and I remember
Speaker 4: still sort of being confused in eight mile that I
Speaker 4: just don't really understand the voting process that happens within
Speaker 4: these battles.
Speaker 1: I am not sure. Yeah, I don't get it. Yell
Speaker 1: or yell louder, Yeah, the loudest yell.
Speaker 4: But if you just have the more most amount of
Speaker 4: people in the audience, like it's I don't know, I
Speaker 4: don't really get it.
Speaker 1: I don't either.
Speaker 2: There's no machine that like actually even like measures the
Speaker 2: level of loudness, Like I just know.
Speaker 1: Your Apple Watch will say loud environment, be careful. Maybe
Speaker 1: that was it. Chris then storms out too, and Levi
Speaker 1: tells Cyrus he can't believe Chris is now the King
Speaker 1: of Rap, but Cyrus tells the truth to his boss.
Speaker 1: The song was his. Cyrus decides to tell Rocky about
Speaker 1: to mix up himself, but he sees her posing for
Speaker 1: pictures with Chris and kissing him on the cheek. They
Speaker 1: seem to really be hitting it off, so Chris begs
Speaker 1: him not to tell her. He wants to see where
Speaker 1: things will go, even if it was all Cyrus's deep thoughts,
Speaker 1: so they need a plan. Cyrus says he'll teach Chris's
Speaker 1: flow and stay in the background as his DJ. They agree,
Speaker 1: and Chris is very optimistic until Roxy tells Chris he
Speaker 1: needs him to re record his song for the video
Speaker 1: shoot tomorrow, and that, of course creates quite a predicament.
Speaker 1: Did you meet cool rappers as a Cheetah Girl? You
Speaker 1: must have?
Speaker 2: I did. Actually, it was early on in the Cheetah days.
Speaker 2: That was my favorite meeting. Was Keeley and Adrian.
Speaker 4: Were still doing three O W, which was another girl
Speaker 4: group that was like a real girl group.
Speaker 2: This was back when The Cheetah Girls was just going
Speaker 2: to be a movie.
Speaker 4: There was no toxic right making a girl group out
Speaker 4: of it at that time, so they were in a
Speaker 4: real girl group, three l W. And they were filming
Speaker 4: while we were in the rehearsal process here in La.
Speaker 4: They were filming their music video for Never Get Enough,
Speaker 4: and they invited me to come and be on set
Speaker 4: with them, and Lil Wayne was.
Speaker 1: In the movie music videos favorite.
Speaker 4: Oh my God, and I just remember being so excited
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 2: I went.
Speaker 4: We went after rehearsal and I got to sit around
Speaker 4: the thing and there was like a scene that they
Speaker 4: were thinking I would be joining them, but we never
Speaker 4: ended up filming it. Because they were focused on this
Speaker 4: you know, dance sequence that Chili had. Anyway, So I'm
Speaker 4: working for a Disney movie, right, working like you know,
Speaker 4: squeaky clean whatever. And then there's I'm on now a
Speaker 4: music video of like with big Rappers, right, Lil Wayne
Speaker 4: and his whole posse's in this trailer that they have
Speaker 4: and I just happened to be walking right by it,
Speaker 4: going with the girls from hair and makeup to set,
Speaker 4: and the trailer door flies open because Little Wayne's gonna
Speaker 4: come out and do his performance, and it was.
Speaker 2: Like the biggest bust of smoke just like pillows out
Speaker 2: and I'm like, oh my god.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get can tack Hi Like there's no way, Like, oh,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna drive tonight, Like I was so worried because
Speaker 4: it was so thick that just billowed out and it
Speaker 4: was just like wow, Like this is a different world
Speaker 4: than what I'm gonna be filming in Toronto.
Speaker 1: You are such a rule follower, you don't even want
Speaker 1: to walk through somebody else's cloud, don't.
Speaker 2: Well, it just like tackled me. I wasn't ready for it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I knew he.
Speaker 4: Was there, and I obviously know like about that, But
Speaker 4: I just in me thinking a kid actor too, thinking
Speaker 4: like you're on set.
Speaker 2: Of course they wouldn't be doing that on set. This
Speaker 2: is like a professional environment. What I did the rap
Speaker 2: world was not meant for Suprin Bright. I mean something
Speaker 2: that I was ever going to get into.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's my favorite one.
Speaker 1: Lil Wayne. Lil Wayne is great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now the next morning, the boys make their way to
Speaker 1: a professional recording studio. Chris is scared because Roxy and
Speaker 1: Laila will be in the studio and see that Cyrus
Speaker 1: is actually rapping it, but Lila interrupts them practicing in
Speaker 1: an elevator. Roxy and the engineer are running late. This
Speaker 1: is great news for Chris. He says he wants to
Speaker 1: work alone with Cyrus, his DJ slash engineer. Cyrus says
Speaker 1: he's half the price of her engineer, so of course
Speaker 1: she approves the idea. With Laila out the way, Cyrus
Speaker 1: gets the song, but mid session, Roxy arrives, so Cyrus
Speaker 1: quickly has to hide, but it works as Roxy flirts
Speaker 1: with Chris, who she thinks, of course is truth, even
Speaker 1: offering him a song on her next album, but she
Speaker 1: wants to hear him freestyle first. Oh, no, Chris panics
Speaker 1: she wants intelligent and romantic lyrics. He starts by rapping
Speaker 1: about having babes in every city, and she is, of
Speaker 1: course not feeling it. He pretends he was joking, and
Speaker 1: Cyrus saves the day. He grabs a mic and starts
Speaker 1: whispering into it, playing only into Chris's headphones, which are
Speaker 1: actually around his neck and probably very hard to hear,
Speaker 1: but it was a cool way to do it either way.
Speaker 1: He feeds him the lines, all deep and love infused,
Speaker 1: totally impressing Roxy. Cyrus knows they can't keep this up, though,
Speaker 1: but he pops up and performs for her in the
Speaker 1: dark in the vocal booth, covering his face, pretending to
Speaker 1: be Chris for a new song, you Belong to Me.
Speaker 1: She says it's the most beautiful song she's ever heard.
Speaker 1: She comes into the booth to see him, and the
Speaker 1: boys switch spots. It's all working. She's about to kiss Chris,
Speaker 1: but Cyrus interrupts with an engineering question. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 1: gotta let's call it rap blocking for this, okay? Is
Speaker 1: that better? Is that easier for you to deal with?
Speaker 1: Because what's it? What's it? Normally called to brine? I
Speaker 1: can't remember what's the normous?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Uh huh cheos Wow, it's called Later at church, Cyrus
Speaker 1: is late for his choir practice. His mom had covered
Speaker 1: for him, but the group wants more hip hop inspired jams.
Speaker 1: His dad is nearby, though, and shares his disapproval, so
Speaker 1: no guyce. We are now back at the studio. Roxy
Speaker 1: stops by to see Cyrus working on a new track
Speaker 1: for her and Chris, and when Chris arrives, he wants
Speaker 1: to hear the song too. Cyrus lays out his vision.
Speaker 1: He thinks it'll be like the Beatles, all you need
Speaker 1: is love, even though what we end up hearing is
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing like that. Chris pretends to like the Beatles,
Speaker 1: and he says his favorite album is the greatest Hits album.
Speaker 1: Either way, the song is coming together, and Lilah thinks
Speaker 1: Truth is the next big star. She also reveals that
Speaker 1: Roxy is gonna headline the Grand Slam, but Roxy isn't
Speaker 1: so sure this is a good idea because they usually
Speaker 1: book more traditional singers, not the ones who use the
Speaker 1: auto tuning vocoder. I think it's called the vocoder, by
Speaker 1: the way, I'm probably wrong with all this hip lingo,
Speaker 1: but I'm doing my best. Later that day, at off
Speaker 1: the Street, Cyrus is greeted by an angry Levi. Cyrus
Speaker 1: missed work last night and it was a full house.
Speaker 1: Levi also asked if he's told Roxy the truth yet.
Speaker 1: Cyrus explains the whole switchero thing that they're doing, and
Speaker 1: Levi is not impressed. He suggests telling her the truth,
Speaker 1: but Cyrus doesn't want to sell out as best friend.
Speaker 1: But Levi sees right through this, this is just an
Speaker 1: excuse to avoid being rejected himself. Cyrus says Chris has
Speaker 1: the swagger for Roxy, but Levi says he just needs
Speaker 1: to speak for himself. How can anyone call themselves truth
Speaker 1: when they're living one big lie? Very good question and
Speaker 1: a good line. We are now alone in the club.
Speaker 1: Cyrus surveys the scene leading into our next song. It
Speaker 1: becomes a bit of a montage Cyrus cleaning, performing writing
Speaker 1: new lyrics, and his parents cuddling on the couch. For
Speaker 1: some reason, we make no sense. I'm guessing this is
Speaker 1: one of the ones he would have cut. Would you
Speaker 1: cut this one?
Speaker 4: This one could have I think it was like a
Speaker 4: six minute song and it could have been cut down before.
Speaker 1: It was like it was like Indigota de Vito or
Speaker 1: Stairway to Heaven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just like, okay, all right, Oh we're
Speaker 2: still going.
Speaker 1: Okay, We're still Oh We're still We're still going. Then
Speaker 1: Roxy's limo pulls up. Chris is late for their date,
Speaker 1: but she hears music coming from inside. She enters to
Speaker 1: see Cyrus performing, and she cannot believe what she's seeing.
Speaker 1: He sounds just like Chris.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: Cyrus pretends he was just lip syncing, and she buys it.
Speaker 1: Chris flakes on her, and now she's stranded and starving,
Speaker 1: so Cyrus suggests they eat together, which ends up being
Speaker 1: a perfect time to share his thoughts with Roxy. He
Speaker 1: thinks the vocoder she uses is cool, it's on trend,
Speaker 1: but he also encourages her to show off her real voice.
Speaker 1: He remembers Roxy singing in church. She can do it,
Speaker 1: even if Lylah advises her not to do it. Later,
Speaker 1: Cyrus and Roxy are eating some barbecue in the rain
Speaker 1: and talking music. Cyrus likes all kinds, even opera, Roxy too.
Speaker 1: Roxy admits they seem to have way more in common
Speaker 1: than she does with Chris, and there I thought these
Speaker 1: were all very sweet scenes between the two of them.
Speaker 1: They really have had some great chemistry they did, and
Speaker 1: they just it was a wonderful kind of a relationship
Speaker 1: to watch. On their walk home, they stumble, as you
Speaker 1: do often, onto a rap battle and the first guy
Speaker 1: looks a lot like Theo Vaughn. Roxy and Cyrus are
Speaker 1: impressed when the rapper revelation wins, and when it's time
Speaker 1: for the new competitors step up, King of de bling
Speaker 1: Oh takes the mic and sees Roxy with Cyrus. But
Speaker 1: before battle, he does this guy's everywhere. He's like your
Speaker 1: mom when you're trying to sit with your boyfriend. He
Speaker 1: makes fun of the geek she's with, and Cyrus, as usual,
Speaker 1: wants to avoid all conflict. Eventually, Cyrus pulls Roxy away
Speaker 1: and they let the Cipher get back on track. On
Speaker 1: their way home, Roxy says she should visit their church
Speaker 1: one day. It would be great to see his parents.
Speaker 1: And the next day we're at church again and Roxy
Speaker 1: does just that. She shows up in a very shiny
Speaker 1: gold jacket and causes quite a stir amongst the congregation,
Speaker 1: especially Cyrus, who's happy to see her. He convinces her
Speaker 1: to sing with the choir for a song called good
Speaker 1: to Be Home. There's no vocoder on her now, and
Speaker 1: she sounds amazing. Once finished, Cyrus's dad, Oh, I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe this begins. This is oh, I was like irrationally angry,
Speaker 1: begins his sermon, mentioning that a few at the service
Speaker 1: have lost their way. They may have been raised with God,
Speaker 1: but they walked with the devil now and only come
Speaker 1: back when it's convenient. It's obviously he's talking about Roxy.
Speaker 1: He mentions hipocrisy or more like hip hopci see hip
Speaker 1: hop hip hop hip hoprisy, more like hip hopy? Can
Speaker 1: you wait to do it again?
Speaker 2: Hip hop?
Speaker 1: Hip hop? Hip hop ocracy? Hip hop ocrasy there hip
Speaker 1: hop hop see it's hard. Roxy starts crying and rightfully so,
Speaker 1: being called out at church after just see.
Speaker 4: She's like a teenagers yep, I was so mad.
Speaker 1: I nobody puts Roxy in a corner and then storms out.
Speaker 1: Later that night at the reverend's house, his wife obviously
Speaker 1: feels the way Sabrina and I do and says he'll
Speaker 1: be sleeping on the sofa tonight after what he did
Speaker 1: to poor Roxanne. Jacob defends his actions. She's what's wrong
Speaker 1: with music today, but her wife is still disgusted with him.
Speaker 1: The next morning, Cyrus leaves for some quote unquote Errand's
Speaker 1: and Gail reads in the newspaper that Roxy's new rap
Speaker 1: artist is filming a music video in town today. This
Speaker 1: could be the perfect time for Jacob to go and
Speaker 1: apologize to her. Then we're over at the club. The
Speaker 1: video shoot has begun. Roxy arrives to fanfare, and Cyrus
Speaker 1: quickly apologizes to her for what his dad did. She
Speaker 1: says he's entitled opinion, but Cyrus argues it was wrong
Speaker 1: and unfair. Good for you, Cyrus, yes. When Chris arrives,
Speaker 1: Roxy invites him to a Middle Eastern art exhibit that night,
Speaker 1: but America's Funniest Home Videos is having a four hour marathon,
Speaker 1: and he says he can't miss the dancing baby you
Speaker 1: can tell. This obviously irritates Cyrus. Once inside the club,
Speaker 1: Lata says she's convinced the Grand Slam to let Chris
Speaker 1: perform with Roxy. He's excited, but again this irritates Cyrus,
Speaker 1: especially when it's revealed that there is a no lip
Speaker 1: sync policy. He'll need to rap live. Cyrus pulls Chris aside,
Speaker 1: how's he gonna do this. He has no clue but
Speaker 1: assume Cyrus will come up with something. That's all he's saying.
Speaker 1: He's like, you'll figure it out. He's already looking forward
Speaker 1: to having a hit song and going on tour because
Speaker 1: then he'll be around all kinds of honeys. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: trying not to be tied down. Cyrus asks about Roxy.
Speaker 1: He says that she's good for now, and again you'll
Speaker 1: be shocked to hear that. Cyrus is once again irritating.
Speaker 1: Chris Lip syncs to the Truth song for the video
Speaker 1: and actually kind of kills it. Am I right? Dancing?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: The video? It was good, It was good. Yeah. Well.
Speaker 1: Roxy is impressed with Truth, but admits to Cyrus that
Speaker 1: their relationship kind of sucks. Maybe she's not the girl
Speaker 1: he deserves, which I was like, wait, huh, Cyrus has
Speaker 1: disturbed that she thinks she's not good enough for him. Yes, Cyrus,
Speaker 1: She rolls her eyes. Just as Reverend Jacob enters looking
Speaker 1: for Roxy, he earnestly apologizes to Roxy, and again, even
Speaker 1: in this apology, the gravitas that Courtney b Vance had
Speaker 1: as an actor, even the apology like shut up the
Speaker 1: whole room, and he's just got this presence when he's
Speaker 1: on stage. That was just it was awesome anyway. So
Speaker 1: he's apologizing to Roxy and then once he's done that,
Speaker 1: he turns his attention to Oh, his son, What is
Speaker 1: he doing here?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Then? Levi walks in and asks for Cyrus's help cleaning
Speaker 1: up the place. Oh wow, now this is bad. His
Speaker 1: dad knows that he works there, which still seems like
Speaker 1: it had been a very tough secret to keep. He's
Speaker 1: been working there for years, but who knows.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Jacob of course feels disrespected by his son and demands
Speaker 1: his son come home with him right now. But Cyrus
Speaker 1: finally stands up and just says no. And again it's
Speaker 1: the quiet dad. He turns around and just says, like,
Speaker 1: excuse me. Jacob is shocked. Cyrus is not willing to
Speaker 1: let down Levi. Jacob says they'll deal with this later
Speaker 1: and leaves. Even I got a chill. I was like, yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the quiet dad, Like we'll talk about this later,
Speaker 1: like oh geez. Back at home, Jacob returns and tells
Speaker 1: his wife he apologized to Roxanne. She's happy to hear it,
Speaker 1: but then reveals what he learned about Cyrus. Gale admits
Speaker 1: she knew about it all along, which also angers the
Speaker 1: reverend yikes. And then guess what. Cyrus arrives home on
Speaker 1: his moped. He got it back. Whoo, three cheers for
Speaker 1: the moped. That's the real movie here, by the way,
Speaker 1: is what happened to his mopen. He is greeted by
Speaker 1: his mom and dad on the patio, and his dad
Speaker 1: is more than just a little upset. He's disappointed again
Speaker 1: as the he says he failed a test from Jesus.
Speaker 1: Cyrus declares he's a songwriter, but Jacob doesn't care. He
Speaker 1: is forbidden from re entering the club, and once Jacob
Speaker 1: goes inside, Gil lets her husband have it. What does
Speaker 1: it matter what type of music he's into, it is
Speaker 1: his passion. The next morning, while leaving the house, Cyrus
Speaker 1: spots an ad for Truth on a taxi cab. That's
Speaker 1: a very fast promotional department considering they just shot it yesterday.
Speaker 1: But the bigger news is who's driving the cab. It
Speaker 1: is Lorda to blame. We just get a quick glimpse
Speaker 1: of that. We then enter a montage Chris is sworn
Speaker 1: by fans on the street. Truth has a number one
Speaker 1: hit on the charts, and he's with Roxy on TV.
Speaker 1: We also see Jacob stumble onto his son's lyric book.
Speaker 1: The next morning, while Cyrus is writing new stuff, someone
Speaker 1: is there to see him. It's Roxy. She wanted to
Speaker 1: check in on him. Very sweet, and reveals Lord of
Speaker 1: to Blame made the finals of the Grand Slam. She
Speaker 1: also needs relationship advice, she says the lyrics. Chris writes
Speaker 1: a write up a rally, but in person he just
Speaker 1: feels very, very different. They end up in a record
Speaker 1: store and connect on even a deeper level on old
Speaker 1: school music and tracks that they love. He wants her
Speaker 1: to sound more like this stuff. She has her own suggestion,
Speaker 1: maybe he turned on his mic and stop lip syncing.
Speaker 1: Good advice, and then they almost kiss, but Roxy snaps
Speaker 1: out of it. Chris is taking her to a jazz museum,
Speaker 1: which was Cyrus's dream date. He's now stealing this whole
Speaker 1: kid's life. But before she can leave, she thanks Cyrus
Speaker 1: for just being there for her. It's like, you're like
Speaker 1: my brother, and Pat's my list.
Speaker 2: I'm in the friend zone so hard. Oh oh man,
Speaker 2: no available.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like new Kids on the Block. It was rough.
Speaker 1: Thank you I'm glad you got that. Later, Cyrus decides
Speaker 1: to visit the club. It is the night before the
Speaker 1: Grand Slam, and Chris is chatting with a bunch of honeys.
Speaker 1: Yes that's right, I said it one again, I said it. Yes.
Speaker 1: One girl is so excited that he'll be singing live tomorrow,
Speaker 1: which makes visibly nervous, and that's when Cyrus arrives. He
Speaker 1: is on a mission. He asks how the Jazz Museum
Speaker 1: date was, thank you, and Chris quickly pulls him away
Speaker 1: from the other ladies. Cyrus is not happy. He accuses
Speaker 1: Chris of not having an original idea in his body
Speaker 1: and is mad that he's playing with Roxy's emotions. Chris
Speaker 1: fights back, they're both in this together. It's been that
Speaker 1: way from the start. But Cyrus prish's back again. Chris
Speaker 1: couldn't wrap a present with a bow and some scotch tape.
Speaker 1: Everyone in the club is starting to pay attention. Chris
Speaker 1: calls him a hater, which, let's be honest, is kind
Speaker 1: of true. Chris adds that Cyrus is one of the
Speaker 1: best rappers he's ever heard, yet he's scared to be himself.
Speaker 1: He has no guts or heart and then they start fighting,
Speaker 1: like a physical fight. I know I sucked a couple
Speaker 1: things that happen in this movie that were like what, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they start fighting. Levi breaks it up and tells him
Speaker 1: to go home and get their mind right, or don't
Speaker 1: come back at all. He does not allow fighting in
Speaker 1: his club. Cyrus tells Chris he's on his own tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and Chris says he doesn't need anyone anyway. That night,
Speaker 1: Gail leaves the local newspaper on her sun's bed. It's
Speaker 1: ever tizing tomorrow's grand Slam. Cyrus catches her on the
Speaker 1: way out and decides to tell her the truth. He's truth.
Speaker 1: He tells her the story It admits he can't just
Speaker 1: leave his best friend alone on stage. He'll be humiliated
Speaker 1: beyond belief. She asks what he's gonna do about it,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't know yet. The next day, Reverend Jacob
Speaker 1: wants to know where his son is off to. Cyrus
Speaker 1: knows he's on punishment, but today is important for his
Speaker 1: friend and he can't miss it, And instead of being mad,
Speaker 1: his dad says he knows about the show and he's
Speaker 1: been reading his lyrics. Once he got past the fact
Speaker 1: that there were rap songs. He loved the message of caring, sacrifice,
Speaker 1: and devotion good Christian values. Maybe he's been too harsh
Speaker 1: and he's sorry. Another very nice scene they hug in
Speaker 1: the front yard as Gail watches on with a smile.
Speaker 1: His parents say they're running late and they're going to
Speaker 1: the show too. Cyrus is shocked, but sure is is
Speaker 1: the rap show in the morning? When's the rap show? Like?
Speaker 2: So what it's seeming like?
Speaker 4: And that felt so awkward because most of everything else
Speaker 4: with this club has been during the night time.
Speaker 1: When he has to sneak out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so why? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess it's a separate thing in the club that
Speaker 4: they're doing. Maybe they want to hold their regular hours.
Speaker 1: At eleven A.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it didn't make sense at all.
Speaker 1: It didn't, But anyway, I guess, no matter what, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to shoot it during the day. So no
Speaker 1: matter what time of day it is, tons of people
Speaker 1: are at the club for the Grand Slam. Lilah is
Speaker 1: with Roxy, who is dressed actually like an insane person.
Speaker 1: She's in big silver boots now matched with a blue leotard,
Speaker 1: a pink wig, and see through balls taped all over
Speaker 1: the top. Roxy decides she cannot hide behind the gimmicks anymore.
Speaker 1: She wants people to know the real hurt. She loves Lilah,
Speaker 1: but she's done with it. She's starting fresh tonight, Thank god,
Speaker 1: because that was rough. Chris is on in five minutes
Speaker 1: and he's nervously running in and out of his dressing
Speaker 1: room I imagine, horribly vomiting. And that's when Cyrus shows up.
Speaker 1: Cyrus says he would never leave his friend high and dry,
Speaker 1: and they hug. They apologize to each other, and Chris
Speaker 1: admits he's jealous, he's not truth. He also admits that
Speaker 1: Roxy should be with Cyrus. They decide tonight is the
Speaker 1: night to make it right. Yeah, that's right. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw on some rap when I can. They're eventually interrupted
Speaker 1: by the Lord of to blaying this mother, being his
Speaker 1: normal cocky self, calling them both but this guy just
Speaker 1: keeps popping up. I know he does. It's just like,
Speaker 1: oh there is again, calling them both busters. Chris calms
Speaker 1: Cyrus down and tells him to focus on what he
Speaker 1: came here to do. And by this point I was
Speaker 1: seriously like he would pop up and be like, come
Speaker 1: on this guy again, right, now I know he was
Speaker 1: supposed to be there, but still, it's almost time for
Speaker 1: the Grand Slam Battle Finals Revelation versus Lord of to Blame. Backstage,
Speaker 1: Cyrus is hyping himself up. He needs to just tell
Speaker 1: Roxy the truth, and that's when he sees her. She's
Speaker 1: ditched all the pop star gimmicks. She looks like the
Speaker 1: church girl he remembers, and he loves it. And before
Speaker 1: the battle it's time for Rocks Truth to perform. She
Speaker 1: comes out, guns blazing with a new song and the
Speaker 1: crowd loves it. Backstage, Lylah asked Chrisphy's ready to go
Speaker 1: on stage, and he says yes, But then he turns
Speaker 1: and hands the mic to Cyrus. Whoa, And as the
Speaker 1: track continues, out walks the real truth. Cyrus. Roxy's figured
Speaker 1: it all out too, and she seems really mad, right,
Speaker 1: so missed and should be. She weaves her emotions into
Speaker 1: the lyrics of the song. I guess was he playing
Speaker 1: her weight? Were these now the original lyrics of the
Speaker 1: song that just really work with what's happening or she
Speaker 1: making them up as they go. I don't know which
Speaker 1: one it is.
Speaker 4: I think that this is the part where you would
Speaker 4: kind of start turning towards like how you normally do
Speaker 4: with musicals, and it seemed as if they were trying
Speaker 4: to play in like they were both riffing through song.
Speaker 1: Like right, But Kocoaye nothing wrong. So it worked perfectly
Speaker 1: and it was the best thing I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Okay, it was Okay.
Speaker 1: So, as I've always said to you from the beginning
Speaker 1: of this podcast, I love when people just randomly break
Speaker 1: into song like this, and when Coco does it, it works perfectly.
Speaker 1: That's all I have to say about that.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Sarru's either starts rapping or making it up as he's
Speaker 1: going along now too, explaining he did it for her
Speaker 1: and that he's sorry. He wants the truth, and he
Speaker 1: says she's all he ever wanted. Now again, it all
Speaker 1: fits perfectly in the song. He gets down on his
Speaker 1: knees and apologizes, but she runs off. But the crowd,
Speaker 1: of course loves the song, so I guess that's a
Speaker 1: good thing. The emc of the night ask the crowd
Speaker 1: to give it up for Roxy and Truth or whoever
Speaker 1: that guy was, which is very funny. And now it
Speaker 1: is battle time. Backstage, Christ and Cyrus sprint to Roxy's
Speaker 1: dressing room. She immediately and this was another big first
Speaker 1: for Disney slaps Cyrus. She slaps him in the face
Speaker 1: and calls them one big lie. I've never seen Disney.
Speaker 4: Slap around the Burbig building of Disney Child. This is
Speaker 4: a first. I don't even know if we'll ever see
Speaker 4: another one hit.
Speaker 2: It was a great slap by. It was done so well.
Speaker 2: But I literally went, oh, what she hit him? You
Speaker 2: would never expect that. The most we get is what
Speaker 2: we've seen before where they're pushing. Even this movie was
Speaker 2: a lot more of an aggressive push than.
Speaker 4: We've seen most full in the face, straight slap in
Speaker 4: the face, like, yep, I had some heat on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah I did. Seriously, She says he is one big lie.
Speaker 1: Cyrus says it's all his fault. He should have been
Speaker 1: up front. He just knew he wasn't a hot guy.
Speaker 1: But she says it wasn't about his looks. It was
Speaker 1: about his words and being real. But it wasn't really. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was kind of.
Speaker 2: She's kind of lying there, because let's be honest.
Speaker 4: Rocks Chris, Yeah, you like Chris because he's the hot one.
Speaker 1: That was your fault and you put and you put
Speaker 1: him right in the friend category right away. You're right,
Speaker 1: so you weren't you know, you weren't part You weren't
Speaker 1: totally innocent in this as I guess, No, you were not.
Speaker 2: Let's just own what we've done. Let's just own what
Speaker 2: we've done.
Speaker 1: Yep. But she says none of this was real and
Speaker 1: she doesn't want to have anything to do with either
Speaker 1: of them. She leaves without even handing out the battle trophy.
Speaker 1: So they give it to Cyrus and he has to
Speaker 1: give it out and go and crown the winner. So
Speaker 1: we're back on stage. Lord of to Bling becomes the
Speaker 1: new Grand Slam champ. H so True Lord of the Bling,
Speaker 1: so Truth aka Cyrus must hand over the title. But
Speaker 1: Blin can't believe what he's seeing. Why is this bus
Speaker 1: boy holding the trophy? The crowd erupts. Cyrus ignores the
Speaker 1: dis and congratulates him. Very stand up guy. But Bling
Speaker 1: isn't done. He tells Cyrus to polish it for him
Speaker 1: and calls him baby Ruth, and that's when Cyrus hits
Speaker 1: his breaking point. He says Bling doesn't deserve the trophy.
Speaker 1: He's not good enough. Lord of to Bling challenges him
Speaker 1: to battle rap and Cyrus accepts it is on. Blink
Speaker 1: starts off, calling him a loser that's never kissed a girl,
Speaker 1: and that's when we see Roxy is in the crowd.
Speaker 1: She's still there. Bling attacks Cyrus's dad, who's also there.
Speaker 1: It seems like nothing's off limits, and then it ends
Speaker 1: with Lord of to Bling telling Truth to go get
Speaker 1: his mop, and then it's Cyrus's turn. He's confident. He's
Speaker 1: calling him a horse without a saddle. He's telling him
Speaker 1: to skidaddle, which doesn't feel very hip hop at all.
Speaker 1: But we are now back to Bling. He's back on
Speaker 1: the attack, calling Cyrus a lightweight who should be in
Speaker 1: high heeled shoes. He ends his verse by throwing money
Speaker 1: at Cyrus, telling him to go buy a new outfit.
Speaker 1: Even Levi, who's watching on thinks that was a good one,
Speaker 1: and then Cyrus's final verse begins. He says Bling doesn't
Speaker 1: have a stack of cash or a flashy pad. He
Speaker 1: actually saw him last week driving a cab. What the
Speaker 1: secret's out, So if anyone needs a ride of the airport,
Speaker 1: call Lord of de Bluff. Cyrus throws the money back
Speaker 1: at him, calling it a tip. He says Blin can
Speaker 1: keep the trophy that he doesn't deserve. He might just
Speaker 1: be a bus boy. But you just got served bail.
Speaker 1: So lesson learn don't drive a cab or you'll lose
Speaker 1: a rap battle. By the way, this is where I
Speaker 1: realized I had no idea what was going on, because
Speaker 1: I thought Lord de Blinge was better and then Cyrus,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't know if I'm wrong, but I
Speaker 1: thought it was better.
Speaker 2: I don't know who they need to know what the
Speaker 2: rules are with the voting.
Speaker 1: I know there aren't any get it, you know me
Speaker 1: though I don't care about rules. Yes, the way it is.
Speaker 1: Truth is crowned the new Grand Slam champ, but Roxy
Speaker 1: still leaves without saying a word. Now outside and Worth
Speaker 1: noting it might still be morning. I'm confused about the
Speaker 1: time of day when the event happened. We don't know
Speaker 1: what's happening now. In a limo, Chris runs up to
Speaker 1: the window and asks for just a minute of her time.
Speaker 1: She agrees, and he apologizes. Cyrus did everything for him.
Speaker 1: Chris was the one who said they should tricker. If
Speaker 1: it's real that she's looking for, it is Cyrus. Lila
Speaker 1: says they have to go, and Roxy drives off. It's
Speaker 1: now Sunday morning again ish or still we don't know
Speaker 1: what's happening time wise. This is where the time gets
Speaker 1: really weird. So the event was before church or it
Speaker 1: was the next day, Sabrina, can you help me with this?
Speaker 1: Do you know what it was?
Speaker 4: I couldn't figure it out either because it wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I guess.
Speaker 4: I guess it was that early, because it definitely wasn't
Speaker 4: at nighttime when she was leaving, So I guess.
Speaker 1: And Chris, we then see him. Is he wearing the
Speaker 1: same outfit that he wore at the Grand Slam? He is, right?
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, And she wasn't wearing the same outfit she
Speaker 4: was wearing in the right.
Speaker 1: Was it a twenty four hour rap battle? What happened?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure it happening was a
Speaker 2: little weird.
Speaker 1: I agree, yeah, it was confusing. So yes, so he's
Speaker 1: wearing the same outfit at the Grand Slam. He stops
Speaker 1: Cyrus and his family on their way into church. He
Speaker 1: wants to join them. Reverend Jacobs thrilled, he who was
Speaker 1: lost is now found, and that's when they see it,
Speaker 1: a limo pulling up. So it has to be the
Speaker 1: same day then, because she's in the limo still, but
Speaker 1: she had.
Speaker 2: The limo everywhere. That's the only transportation.
Speaker 1: You're right, it's okay, it's it's the timing was confusing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And there she is. It's Roxy, looking beautiful for church.
Speaker 1: She introduces herself to Cyrus as Roxanne, Andrews may he
Speaker 1: remembers her from elementary school. He says he does, and
Speaker 1: it's nice to see her again. They embrace and we
Speaker 1: fade into the church, where Cyrus and Roxy are now
Speaker 1: performing an upbeat gospel track about being yourself called let
Speaker 1: It Shine. The church goers and even Reverend Jacob love it.
Speaker 1: Chris pops and locks in the aisle, eventually joining them
Speaker 1: on stage. The song comes to a big finish. We
Speaker 1: even see Lila in the audience. We freeze on Cyrus
Speaker 1: and Roxanne arm in arm, and then we get some bloopers.
Speaker 1: It's a classic pcom trope, but it's just a few
Speaker 1: alternate takes from Nicole Sullivan calling Cyrus other names like
Speaker 1: Cyclone and Sinus. And that is our movie, Sabrina. Let's
Speaker 1: do some real reviews. We know what we thought about it,
Speaker 1: but what did other people think about it? And I think
Speaker 1: this week, You've got the one star.
Speaker 4: I've got the one star. My one star review comes
Speaker 4: from Bryce f. The thumbnail on Disney Plus looks ugly.
Speaker 4: Hey Bryce, thank you that that's not even a but okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, you know when you're leaving a review, Bryce,
Speaker 1: maybe roll the dice because I'm sorry. I'm still in
Speaker 1: my rap phase. I've now got I have two rap
Speaker 1: videos Outrina. That's not even a joke. I have, so
Speaker 1: I kind of know what I'm doing. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: a big deal. In the wrap, i have a five
Speaker 1: star review from Taylor S. And it says this is
Speaker 1: the greatest movie of all time. It changed me for
Speaker 1: the better as a person. I was disgusting before this,
Speaker 1: Taylor s. There's a lot lot going on under that.
Speaker 1: It's that's like at the pod the light.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you have found the light.
Speaker 1: And now we are coming to our favorite portion. Well
Speaker 1: Sabrina's favorite portion of the podcast. That is our featured
Speaker 1: game of the week. The game this week is called
Speaker 1: the Government Name Game. So by the end of let
Speaker 1: a Chine, we know that Truth's real name is Cyrus DeBarge.
Speaker 1: It was quite a journey to get to that point.
Speaker 1: But facts are facts. We will get five birth names,
Speaker 1: and we have to decide from multiple choice what aliases
Speaker 1: they took to rock the mic. So, for example, if
Speaker 1: we're given Marshall Mathers, that's Eminem Again, that was gonna
Speaker 1: be I know me too, because that would have been
Speaker 1: the only one I would have known. If we get
Speaker 1: three out of five, we win, all right, So here
Speaker 1: we go number one and I'm sure, Oh, Producer Jensen
Speaker 1: just loved this. Number one, Earl Simmons. Is the name?
Speaker 1: Is that a notorious Big B, Mystical, c DMX or
Speaker 1: D Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: I think I have my answer.
Speaker 2: I think I'm gonna go with D Vanilla Ice.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know it's not Vanilla Ice, so you've already
Speaker 1: got one wrong. I'm going with c DMX.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's the one I was really gonna go for.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling she's gonna say that after every
Speaker 3: one of them, this is CX.
Speaker 1: I got one, yes, okay, because I knew it wasn't
Speaker 1: notorious big I've never heard of mystical, and I knew
Speaker 1: it wasn't Vanilla Ees. Number two, we've got George Albery Stone.
Speaker 1: The third? Is that a chief Keif, b E STG,
Speaker 1: c Redman or D Vanilla Ice. Oh my god, I'll
Speaker 1: pick first this time. The only two I've never heard
Speaker 1: of A or B, So I'm gonna say it's c Redman.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm going with.
Speaker 3: Two, that's Reggie. No, so it's B E, s TG
Speaker 3: es TG.
Speaker 1: Okay, Serena. Have you heard of the STG?
Speaker 2: I don't know who that is.
Speaker 1: Jensen knows every rapper that has ever rhymed two words together,
Speaker 1: even if they did it in their bathroom when they
Speaker 1: were twelve. He knows every single one of them.
Speaker 4: Just so you know.
Speaker 3: Listen, Normally I would know if a kid drops some
Speaker 3: mixtape and boise, but these are big names.
Speaker 2: They are big names.
Speaker 1: EStG and and Chief Keif are two big rappers.
Speaker 3: Listen, you are you are? You are a boomer at heart.
Speaker 3: But Keith and E s TG very big?
Speaker 1: Ye Okay, okay, fair enough.
Speaker 2: I've heard of Chief Keif, but I haven't heard that
Speaker 2: number three.
Speaker 1: Jacques Webster. Is that A Travis Scott, B Fat Joe C.
Speaker 1: Little Webby or De Vanilla Ice? Doesn't Travis Scott just
Speaker 1: rhyme rap under Travis Scott. Oh no, I'm saying, oh,
Speaker 1: they picked traviscot. Ah, I'm gonna say, well, I mean
Speaker 1: Webster and Webby, but that'd be three seasons. I'm going
Speaker 1: to say, be fat Joe.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go see a little Webby.
Speaker 3: It is a Travis Scott. To be honest, I also was,
Speaker 3: as much as I know so much, I did kind
Speaker 3: of forget that he just picked a normal human name
Speaker 3: as his rap name.
Speaker 1: Okay, Number four, Clifford Smith, is that a method man?
Speaker 1: B L O Cool j C two Chains or Vanilla Ice?
Speaker 1: Heard of all four? Now at this point, is it
Speaker 1: all right?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with a method man.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with method man two.
Speaker 3: Glifford is method man.
Speaker 4: First?
Speaker 3: Will second?
Speaker 1: This is this is a big ender here, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, no, no, I got red Man. You got
Speaker 2: red Man.
Speaker 3: It wasn't Man's name.
Speaker 1: Reggie, Yeah, Reggie, No, it wasn't Redman. It was E. S. T. G.
Speaker 1: And now number five, damn you're gonna pick first, Sabrina.
Speaker 1: Robert van Winkle? Is that a kid Cutty b Action
Speaker 1: Bronson Ce little Bowow or Vanilla Ice?
Speaker 2: Vanilla Ice?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 3: It is d Will Weasels his way in the three
Speaker 3: really good two. And I only knew he'd get Vanilla ice.
Speaker 3: That is to his that's his.
Speaker 4: Wheelhoup, that's option for every.
Speaker 3: Doesn't do in the back of his mind. He's like
Speaker 3: once Robert.
Speaker 1: Van Win, I had to stop collaborate and listen. Okay,
Speaker 1: I need to know what was going on. Well, thank
Speaker 1: you once again, Producer Jensen for making it so much fun.
Speaker 1: And now can we do some sabrinases?
Speaker 2: Yes we can.
Speaker 4: So we've talked about the religious portion of this of
Speaker 4: this movie, which is obviously not what we're normally used
Speaker 4: to with Disney. This isn't something we've come across so
Speaker 4: far anyway. And I did think that they did an
Speaker 4: interesting way of doing it without saying Jesus a ton,
Speaker 4: God a ton like. They didn't do that, they but
Speaker 4: they did it in an interesting way to like tiptoe
Speaker 4: around it by spelling g oh D.
Speaker 2: So they weren't saying God, but they were like.
Speaker 1: Spelling it out.
Speaker 2: I thought they did, like to where it wasn't too
Speaker 2: much in your face.
Speaker 4: You got the idea of where this background of this
Speaker 4: family comes from, but it wasn't you know, based on
Speaker 4: that even everything around, like if you were looking at
Speaker 4: the set. There wasn't a lot of like crosses and
Speaker 4: like things like that on the set. It was still
Speaker 4: just very like Plaine. You understood where they were without
Speaker 4: it being like shoved down someone's throat, which I thought
Speaker 4: was great for Disney because it opens up this world
Speaker 4: without it feeling like it's also being pushed on on anything.
Speaker 4: So Disney always does stuff like that, so well they Okay,
Speaker 4: so if there was a drinking game with this movie,
Speaker 4: it would have to be every time you saw a
Speaker 4: freaking fedora.
Speaker 2: There were so many of.
Speaker 4: These hats in year it started to irritate the crap.
Speaker 2: Out of me.
Speaker 4: That and all of the pieces of hair, and you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes like they like with things that are considered edgy,
Speaker 4: and at the channel least, when my experience was it
Speaker 4: was like that was for me, like let's have her
Speaker 4: hair really blonde and then put some chunky dark pieces
Speaker 4: in it and throw on a spiky belt. Ooh, she's
Speaker 4: edgy now, and give her one glove, not too just one.
Speaker 4: She's an edgy girl. Like That's what it was. And
Speaker 4: this was for some reason to be in the rap world.
Speaker 4: It was like, let's throw in color in their hair. Okay,
Speaker 4: wear wigs all the time, Like it was just kind
Speaker 4: of and Papa Fedora on anyone that we could. And
Speaker 4: even if it wasn't the main actors wearing fedoras, there
Speaker 4: was someone in the background somewhere on that set.
Speaker 1: By the way, not to interrupt, but you just picked
Speaker 1: my rap name. I'm going to be Papa Fedora from
Speaker 1: now on. That is my awesome name.
Speaker 2: That's a really good one.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Oh my gosh. Some of the things
Speaker 4: that they were saying that was just kind of funny
Speaker 4: with you know, like I said the vocoder or whatever
Speaker 4: and then saying like, oh, I'm going to put you
Speaker 4: on my next CD, Like no one says that. Well,
Speaker 4: when I was in it was always like my next album,
Speaker 4: Well keep saying CD. There was a lot of funny
Speaker 4: like little lingos that didn't seem that great and then
Speaker 4: what was it? And then again, I we just got
Speaker 4: to shed some more life on that slap because that
Speaker 4: shocked me too.
Speaker 1: Violence.
Speaker 4: It was a violent, violent moment that I don't know
Speaker 4: if it was warranted.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's why it shocked me so much,
Speaker 2: but it was just like wow, and it was a
Speaker 2: connect I don't even I mean it seemed like there
Speaker 2: might have been a bad day on the set that day.
Speaker 1: She just let it and she's like, oh, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to be able to hit him. Yeah, shining it up.
Speaker 4: Damn it was Yeah, she cracked him, cracked him. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I had to say, that had to be talked about,
Speaker 4: and that was all my Sabrina say.
Speaker 1: This week, Thank you so much. And now, of course
Speaker 1: we have to rate our film. Uh, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: five as the best, seven is the worst. Oh, two
Speaker 1: is middle. No, we're gonna do one is the worst,
Speaker 1: ten being the best, and our options this week, and
Speaker 1: you get to pick this week, Smrina. We've got one
Speaker 1: out of ten, King of the Blings one out of ten,
Speaker 1: and pterodactyl flies. That's what it is.
Speaker 2: It's no taridactyl.
Speaker 1: There, No, that's not what it is. Tetradactyl. Tetradactyl. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's pterodactyl anyway. Uh, don't pick that one, please,
Speaker 1: because it's too hard to say. One out of ten
Speaker 1: mailboxes right outside your house, one out of ten abandoned mopeds,
Speaker 1: one out of ten, honeys of America's Funniest home video
Speaker 1: marathons one out of ten fast promotion departments, lose your
Speaker 1: cab drivers, or one out of ten skid. What do
Speaker 1: you want to pick for this week, Sabrina.
Speaker 2: I think we got to add in fedoras just because they.
Speaker 1: Okay, picket should we do misplaced Fedoras? Misplaced Fedoras? I
Speaker 1: love it. I think am I going first this week?
Speaker 2: You're going first this week?
Speaker 1: I am going first this week. And I really liked
Speaker 1: this movie. I liked the cast. I like that it
Speaker 1: was a little long. I thought they could have been trimmed,
Speaker 1: but I liked the cast. I thought the music was appropriate. Again,
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, everyone's breaking in a song because they're
Speaker 1: supposed to performances. So I liked all that stuff. This
Speaker 1: is gonna get a high number for me. This is
Speaker 1: getting eight point five wow, placed for doors for me.
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed this movie, really enjoyed the cast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this was a fun hundred and four minutes for me.
Speaker 2: I mean, I agree, I did. I liked the movie.
Speaker 4: I started to sway here and there again because of
Speaker 4: the link there was between his song that you had
Speaker 4: mentioned of when he was bussying the tables and whatever
Speaker 4: and that one she stumbles into between that one, and
Speaker 4: then although I loved the song, it was when she
Speaker 4: got back out to which she was at the church
Speaker 4: again for the first time before she got reamed by
Speaker 4: the reverend.
Speaker 2: That song.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to see in my notes what it was called,
Speaker 4: because I know I wrote it down, but I can't
Speaker 4: find it.
Speaker 2: Between those two songs. Although I love that song, it
Speaker 2: just was long.
Speaker 4: So those moments for me started making me kind of
Speaker 4: a little out of tune and not caring as much.
Speaker 4: But really that was the biggest critique I had. Other
Speaker 4: than that, I thought the actors were amazing too. You know,
Speaker 4: not every song did I love, but there were definitely
Speaker 4: songs that I did.
Speaker 2: And then just I loved again.
Speaker 1: I love seeing a new location that was so fun,
Speaker 1: and it looked Atlanta looked great.
Speaker 2: Looked amazing like I thought.
Speaker 4: Visually all of the sets were so great too, and
Speaker 4: I again the cast carried this into great places for me.
Speaker 4: So I'm giving this an eight misplaced medoras.
Speaker 1: Okay, and kind of on the same page there, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is awesome. Well, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 1: us for this great movie. Let it Shine, and what
Speaker 1: a fun movie. If you want to see people singing
Speaker 1: when they're supposed to. This is one I would absolutely recommend.
Speaker 1: Our next movie is another Paul howand joint. It is
Speaker 1: two thoy thirteen's Let It Shine to Cyrus's Moped. I'm
Speaker 1: kidding it is two thousand and nine Dad Napped, with
Speaker 1: some very familiar decom names involved. So we were looking
Speaker 1: forward to that one. But before we hear that, this
Speaker 1: week we've got a park hopper, perfect to listen to
Speaker 1: well bowling or dancing to some swing music. We got
Speaker 1: to chat with Mimmy Paley, who, though now grown up
Speaker 1: and has kids of her own, was the adorable little
Speaker 1: girl in our recently reviewed Ali Cat Strike, and we
Speaker 1: hear all about her time filming around strikes and spares.
Speaker 1: So why don't we get a little bit of a
Speaker 1: preview of what we're in for.
Speaker 5: There was a period of time where like I'd be
Speaker 5: in a volleyball game and like my opponents, you know,
Speaker 5: on the other side of the net, We're like, like
Speaker 5: that's the you know, like that or my parents. I
Speaker 5: went to sleep away camp and they were sending me video.
Speaker 5: Well they you couldn't send videos on a phone then,
Speaker 5: but they had taken videos or pictures of people trying
Speaker 5: to do like the bowling move. It became this phenomenon
Speaker 5: and I was like, I don't know her stamp like
Speaker 5: it's a Disney Channel movie, but I didn't know that
Speaker 5: they played these movies like five times a day every yes, yeah,
Speaker 5: er month, So like I'd had no idea what I
Speaker 5: was in for.
Speaker 1: There is no way you should miss that. It was
Speaker 1: really a ton of fun to hear just about how
Speaker 1: she got into the business and her strange connection with
Speaker 1: not only Sabrina but also Ben and Fred Savage. Yes,
Speaker 1: go check that one out. Make sure you subscribe to
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Speaker 2: Bye everybody, Bye,