Speaker 1: We got an interesting one today, Yeah it was. This
Speaker 1: is an interesting one. And this is going to sound strange,
Speaker 1: but I was looking forward to this movie because I
Speaker 1: know it sounds so bizarre, But here's why. Because I
Speaker 1: seem to like the ones that are about more serious
Speaker 1: subject matters. Sure, you know Color of Friendship and Selma,
Speaker 1: Lord Selma, I mean these there are There are a
Speaker 1: number of these movies we've seen going to the mat
Speaker 1: a number of these movies we've seen now that kind
Speaker 1: of tackle more serious subject matter but done disnified, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense, through the eyes of a child, and
Speaker 1: they I like kind of like the way they tackle
Speaker 1: the more.
Speaker 2: And it's one of those things where you go, oh God, Disney,
Speaker 2: did it again right to be able to hit heavy topics,
Speaker 2: like you said, through the eyes of a child, get
Speaker 2: it to where you see the level of like the
Speaker 2: weight of it. But it also isn't so much that
Speaker 2: like you got to shield your kid from you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like it's done so elegant and perfectly
Speaker 2: that you just go wow. Because I actually was going
Speaker 2: I mean this, you know, I feel like the Color
Speaker 2: of Friendship and Selma were things that were so were
Speaker 2: far before I was around. This was a topic that
Speaker 2: I was not even a kid when it happened. I
Speaker 2: was like a senior in high school, you know, about
Speaker 2: to venture into quote unquote like the big world, and
Speaker 2: this giant thing happens, and it was kind of like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I don't know if I'm ready, Like
Speaker 2: how far are we going to go? You know, and
Speaker 2: again I'm just going, Wow Disney.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, here we go.
Speaker 2: Oh I did trust you.
Speaker 1: Well, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes
Speaker 1: you want to grab your friends, your pjs and your
Speaker 1: popcorn and go back to a time when all the
Speaker 1: houses are smart, the Wave Tsunamis and the high School's musical.
Speaker 2: I'm Wilford Dell and I'm Sabrina Brian Well Serena.
Speaker 1: As we were talking about if you ever thought to yourself,
Speaker 1: A man, I love dcoms, but I wish there was
Speaker 1: more about nine to eleven. Well you're in luck, because
Speaker 1: today we're looking at the two thousand and four family
Speaker 1: drama inspired by real life events, Tiger Cruz, which I
Speaker 1: knew nothing of this movie going in, and man, it
Speaker 1: was not what I expected it to be. I know,
Speaker 1: joke thought it was going to be about tigers. I
Speaker 1: thought there was going to be something with nine to
Speaker 1: eleven and saving animals or something like that. Okay, even slightly.
Speaker 2: I know, I only from seeing it now recently. This
Speaker 2: movie actually got placed on Disney Plus well after we
Speaker 2: started this.
Speaker 1: Oh really okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: Because I remember this is a big one with obviously
Speaker 2: a big cast, a notable cast and checast, and the
Speaker 2: producer is going, we can't find it anywhere. It's not
Speaker 2: on YouTube, it's not on this it's not on So
Speaker 2: it was not on Disney plas before when we first
Speaker 2: started our podcast, and it's since been been released on it.
Speaker 1: Well, we are back, yes, and it was as Sabrina
Speaker 1: was saying, it was released on August six, two thousand
Speaker 1: and four, originally just about three years after the September
Speaker 1: eleventh terrorist attacks. And again, as Sabrina said, this one
Speaker 1: had some serious star power behind it, which is always
Speaker 1: nice to see. And yes, the story of the film
Speaker 1: is intertwined with real life events where the USS Constellation
Speaker 1: did return from two thousand and one Western deployment after
Speaker 1: the planes hit the World Trade Center with quote unquote
Speaker 1: tigers on board, which is code for family and friends
Speaker 1: in military terms. Now, despite the film being set on
Speaker 1: the USS Constellation, the movie was actually shot on board
Speaker 1: the USS John C. Stennis, a nuclear powered Navy supercarrier,
Speaker 1: and the USS Mimics, which is well one of the
Speaker 1: largest warships in the world. The movie was also shot
Speaker 1: on location in San Diego, a favorite West Coast harbor town,
Speaker 1: and with a ton of awful, awful green screen. Am
Speaker 1: I right? I mean it was distractingly.
Speaker 2: Bad, unfortunately, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Which they shot him on board these ships, so it's like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? I honestly on stage, but.
Speaker 2: I understand that. But yes, Yikes is right, Wikes is right.
Speaker 1: It was bad. But anyway, now, with a subject matter
Speaker 1: that involves one of the biggest tragedies in American history,
Speaker 1: critics noticed a change in the decom tone, of course,
Speaker 1: but with many of the tropes still intact. Variety's Laura Fries,
Speaker 1: which is a delicious name. It might be Freeze, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Fries. By the way, she wrote that
Speaker 1: Tiger Cruz carried many Disney hallmarks, teen queen star, catchy
Speaker 1: theme song, predictable subplots, but it departed from the channel's
Speaker 1: usual fairy tale formula without diluting the message, while the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Gazettes Barbara Pizza Slice, I'm kidding, everybody's still with me.
Speaker 1: Her name is actually Barbara van Cherry. I believe Hey Cherry.
Speaker 1: She said it was a veritable recruitment film. But it's
Speaker 1: a pretty good movie with solid leading performances. Tiger Cruz
Speaker 1: is also one of the only three Disney Channel original
Speaker 1: movies to bear a viewer discretion warning at the start,
Speaker 1: purely based on conversations you might have to have with
Speaker 1: your child around nine to eleven after viewing it. We've
Speaker 1: talked about these warnings once before. Do you remember the
Speaker 1: other two movies? Sabrina No, Don't Look Under the Bed
Speaker 1: was one of them, and Wendy Wu was the other one.
Speaker 2: Wendy Wu.
Speaker 1: I imagine it was for the violent, for the quote
Speaker 1: unquote violence the fight scene.
Speaker 2: Oh, the fight scene, okay, which.
Speaker 1: We were again we said violent are action, not violence.
Speaker 1: But still for Disney, I could see why they would
Speaker 1: throw something up there. And musically, the theme song my
Speaker 1: Hero is You plays during the end credits, and it's
Speaker 1: performed by the star of the movie. I'm Gonna say
Speaker 1: her name wrong? Every time people, But I will try it.
Speaker 1: Hayden Panetier, does it right?
Speaker 2: Hey, all right, that's right.
Speaker 1: I knew I got it, Hayden PANATONI and is. And
Speaker 1: as is commonly the case, Tiger is available now to
Speaker 1: stream on Disney Plus. Go watch it within the next
Speaker 1: eight hours, though, because after that it starts to spoil. Sabrina,
Speaker 1: I have to ask, it's a legal requirement of our show.
Speaker 1: Did you know of Tiger Cruse before it became part
Speaker 1: of our job?
Speaker 2: I not before it became part of our job.
Speaker 1: No neither, okay, no.
Speaker 2: Very quickly after I booked this gig.
Speaker 1: I love how you booked it. We called and we're like, Sabrina,
Speaker 1: will you do a show with me? And that's you
Speaker 1: is booking the gig?
Speaker 2: Say it every time. I quickly found out about it,
Speaker 2: because you know, of course, I went on socials and
Speaker 2: was like, give me all the good ones, and this
Speaker 2: one came up quite a bit, quite a bit. What
Speaker 2: is luck of the Irish? But hey, how do you
Speaker 2: beat luck of the Irish?
Speaker 1: Or brink? But I can see why. Well, now let's
Speaker 1: inferral the massive flag of this awesome country, because it's
Speaker 1: time for the synopsis. A teen girl joins her navy
Speaker 1: pilot father for a special friends and family sailing expedition
Speaker 1: on the USS Constellation, but the experience turned serious when
Speaker 1: the events of September eleventh, two thousand and one unfold
Speaker 1: and the ship is suddenly called into action. Sabrina, what
Speaker 1: were your early thoughts on the film?
Speaker 2: Well, I again, I was a little nervous, and of course, I,
Speaker 2: like I said, was surprisingly like, Wow, it was to
Speaker 2: me done very very well. I think that the subject
Speaker 2: matter is tough. I think also looking back and we
Speaker 2: kind of got a chance to see a link of
Speaker 2: like the interstitials that Disney was doing, it was like
Speaker 2: they were really giving a place for kids to kind
Speaker 2: of soak this in and see the world as it
Speaker 2: was actually happening. And I thought it was done really well.
Speaker 2: That was my first What about you.
Speaker 1: Will, I agree? You know, I agree, I'm I'm My
Speaker 1: father was in the Navy for twenty five years, might
Speaker 1: even be more than that thirty years, so I mean,
Speaker 1: while I know nothing of the world of being an
Speaker 1: actual sailor on the ocean, and my father was based
Speaker 1: out of he was reservist, but a very high rank
Speaker 1: in the reserves. So he was, yet he loved being
Speaker 1: in the military. It was just the joy of his
Speaker 1: life is defending his country. And so we were. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Connecticut and I spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time at the Grotten Nuclear sub base. So my dad like,
Speaker 1: I would go there with friends, and my dad would
Speaker 1: go to one of the people and like, can hey,
Speaker 1: can my boy just walk around the submarine. So I
Speaker 1: grew up like walking on walking through submarines and going
Speaker 1: on two ships and stuff like that. So this was
Speaker 1: I have been on a super aircraft carrier before, and
Speaker 1: it's literally a floating city. There's like five thousand people,
Speaker 1: five or six thousand people on there, one of them now.
Speaker 1: And I could be wrong, so check me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: But I believe one of them literally has a McDonald's
Speaker 1: on board. I mean, they're incredible. So we always talk
Speaker 1: about the worlds that people are not always familiar with,
Speaker 1: so this is certainly an interesting world to do it.
Speaker 1: To then know that it's a true story based around, again,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest tragedies in our country, and to
Speaker 1: do it through the eyes of a kid, I agreed
Speaker 1: with you. I was like, here we go, Disney Man,
Speaker 1: this could really be bad, but then I know their
Speaker 1: track record to where I'm like, yeah, they seem to do.
Speaker 1: When you when Disney for a dcom takes real story
Speaker 1: with something that's happened historically that is usually not great
Speaker 1: or very terrible, it usually works out pretty well. They
Speaker 1: do it pretty pretty well. Couple that with then real
Speaker 1: story sports that maybe we wouldn't know about double teamed
Speaker 1: or you know, the Ender sisters in right on track,
Speaker 1: things like that also seems to work out. They know
Speaker 1: what they're doing when it comes to these lanes. But man,
Speaker 1: you are swinging when it comes to September eleventh and
Speaker 1: a d coom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to know exactly how to handle this
Speaker 2: subject matter because you're not talking like I said, It's
Speaker 2: not like Selma. It's not like Color of Friendship where
Speaker 2: you're talking about the past. You are talking right now
Speaker 2: out about what is happening within like people actually experienced this.
Speaker 1: So it came out three years after nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: This was not, like you said, not twenty years after
Speaker 1: the event. This is right, very much still fresh in
Speaker 1: the minds of everyone in our country, and.
Speaker 2: People literally still even after three years going through the
Speaker 2: repercussions that were actually involved or actually had family members
Speaker 2: that you know, were happening. So it was very very much,
Speaker 2: but I wish it was longer. Honestly I was.
Speaker 1: I wish anybuddy that was lost in nine to.
Speaker 2: Eleven, I know, I didn't. I felt it felt weird
Speaker 2: because I felt so like connected within being a kid
Speaker 2: wanting to be like a connected but but not having
Speaker 2: anyone actually actually involved. It wasn't until I did the
Speaker 2: Cheetah Girls and met Adriane and Keighley who Adrian lived
Speaker 2: in New York, Kiley lived in and was in New Jersey.
Speaker 2: But like Adrian telling me, you know, stories of her
Speaker 2: family members and having you know, ash all over their bodies, says,
Speaker 2: they were in the streets when it happened, you know,
Speaker 2: and going to school, having friends, like on their way
Speaker 2: to school while this happened. So how was the closest
Speaker 2: that I had gotten? How about you?
Speaker 1: I did? Yeah, there was there was a girl in
Speaker 1: my high school and I grew up in a very
Speaker 1: small town. So she was the year behind me in
Speaker 1: high school and name was Amy Toyan. I knew her
Speaker 1: with a small k everybody knew everybody, but so yes,
Speaker 1: I did know her, and she the story. I since
Speaker 1: kind of deep dived her story, and she was like
Speaker 1: the next day going to try on her wedding dress
Speaker 1: because she was going to be married and didn't want
Speaker 1: to go to the meeting that morning in the World
Speaker 1: Trade Center and was thinking of canceling. It's like all
Speaker 1: the horrible things you hear about of maybe almost wasn't there,
Speaker 1: then decided to go last minute, then was there, and
Speaker 1: right before her wedding. It was like all the awfulness
Speaker 1: that you hear about in every one of these stories.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody who was affected by this had one
Speaker 1: of these stories. And so yeah, I did. In our town.
Speaker 1: Now there's a she was a voracious reader, and so
Speaker 1: in front of the Avon Public Library, where all the
Speaker 1: kids spent a ton of time. It's where we would
Speaker 1: go and hang out. There's a bronze statue of her
Speaker 1: at like six or seven, just reading a book, just
Speaker 1: sitting there reading a book. So I go and I
Speaker 1: visit it. When i'm there's it still chokes me up.
Speaker 1: So yes, it was. I and my brother worked in
Speaker 1: New York City and you couldn't get in touch with anybody,
Speaker 1: and it was just it was horrible it was the uncertainty,
Speaker 1: and it was such a just a crazy time. And
Speaker 1: I had friends that were my age that were like, like,
Speaker 1: I'm going in enlist right now, and what I mean
Speaker 1: it was it was a time like anything that anybody
Speaker 1: our age had ever experienced in this country. Because you
Speaker 1: heard about things obviously like Pearl Harbor in school and
Speaker 1: the day that would live an infamy, and these were
Speaker 1: abstract concepts that were in your history book, and then
Speaker 1: you wake up one morning and it had happened, and
Speaker 1: you're of it, and you know people directly affected, and
Speaker 1: you're watching it all live on television. You're watching the
Speaker 1: second plane hit, you're watching the towers collapse. It was
Speaker 1: like nothing God willing, anybody will ever experience again or
Speaker 1: had experienced since, unless you were very old and had
Speaker 1: been you know, around in for the time of Pearl Harbor,
Speaker 1: which was you know, nineteen forty two, unless you were
Speaker 1: a veteran at that point, you hadn't experienced anything like this.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was to then couple that with we're
Speaker 1: gonna now do a d coom about it. Three years later,
Speaker 1: again Disney was swinging for the fences and well, let's
Speaker 1: get back into it and see how they did. And
Speaker 1: like I mentioned the movie stars, Hayden Pennantier nailed it
Speaker 1: as Maddie Dolan, a child actress who began her career
Speaker 1: on One Life to Live, then bounced around to some
Speaker 1: very big projects. She was the voice of Dot in
Speaker 1: A Bug's Life Not Ants, Don't get them confused, and
Speaker 1: appeared on Ally McBeal, But it was her role as
Speaker 1: Claire on Heroes that broke her into the mainstream. Would
Speaker 1: later start in the cult hit TV show Nashville, which
Speaker 1: of course takes place in Texas. And I'm kidding, it's
Speaker 1: Nashville and we've already seen Hayden on Magical Rewind for
Speaker 1: the Disney movie Ice Princess, meaning we've talked about her,
Speaker 1: but she's I don't think she'll visit. I'd like her
Speaker 1: to visit, but I don't think she will. Were you
Speaker 1: a Heroes fan? Did you watch Heroes?
Speaker 2: I wasn't, but I was a giant Nashville fan.
Speaker 1: Well there you go. I should be a Heroes fan
Speaker 1: because I'm such a nerd. I own the entire series
Speaker 1: and I've never seen it. I should pop it in
Speaker 1: and watch it. You like, I literally bought them at
Speaker 1: a garage sale, so and I was like, I'm going
Speaker 1: to watch this when I get home. That was like fourteen,
Speaker 1: fifteen years ago whatever. Never actually seen it, but I
Speaker 1: should watch here. It's great, especially for nerds.
Speaker 2: It Yeah, I heard it's awesome.
Speaker 1: I actually heard the first season is awesome.
Speaker 2: Okay, how many seasons were there?
Speaker 1: Three? I want to say, or two. It was one
Speaker 1: of those that like ended on a cliffhanger and then
Speaker 1: they didn't pick up, so everyone was like, like the
Speaker 1: fans were like, wait, what the hell was that one.
Speaker 1: Then we've got another familiar face and one that I
Speaker 1: say as an underrated actor even though he's been in everything.
Speaker 1: Bill Pullman plays her dad, Commander Gary Dolan. Almost all
Speaker 1: of us know him as the president and Independence Day
Speaker 1: today will be our Independence Day. It was a classic role.
Speaker 1: But he also played Lone Star in Spaceballs. He was
Speaker 1: in The Grudge, Casper, Sleepless in Seattle, A League of
Speaker 1: their Own, and David Lynch's Lost Highway. Also, I'm throwing
Speaker 1: another one on here. If you want to see an
Speaker 1: absolutely underrated film with an amazing cast where he is incredible,
Speaker 1: go watch him in Zero Effect, absolutely great, and you'll
Speaker 1: see him soon in the big twenty twenty seven release
Speaker 1: Spaceballs Too. This was a big get for Disney at
Speaker 1: any time because he is and was the man Troy
Speaker 1: Evans plays Chuck Horner. He's an always working character actor
Speaker 1: who's played a cop or serviceman maybe one hundred times.
Speaker 1: You've seen him in Fear and Loathing, in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: under Siege, the Frighteners, demolition Man Bosh, and over one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five episodes of Er as Officer Martin,
Speaker 1: and his biggest claim to fame ever, of course, he
Speaker 1: appeared in two episodes of Boy Meets World, most famously
Speaker 1: as park Ranger and City Slackers A most Can't be
Speaker 1: a Ranger and a security guard in the episode security Guard.
Speaker 1: Two other names worth mentioning our Jeanette McCurdy is Kylie Dolan.
Speaker 1: McCurdy was a child actress who later became a Nickelodeon
Speaker 1: star on the show I Carly. She'd also star in
Speaker 1: the show Sam and Kat and is now known for
Speaker 1: her best selling memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died, currently
Speaker 1: being developed for TV with Jennifer Aniston and her recently
Speaker 1: released debut novel Half His Age and Finally, Janson Penetier
Speaker 1: plays Joey Hayden's real life brother. Also appeared as an
Speaker 1: actor on Even Stevens, Blues Clues, Robots, and How High Too. Tragically,
Speaker 1: Jansen passed away in twenty twenty three from an enlarged
Speaker 1: heart and aortic valve complications. He was just twenty eight
Speaker 1: years old. Rest in peace. Familiar name directed this one
Speaker 1: one we've talked about many times on this podcast. Dwayne Dunham.
Speaker 1: He's best known as the editor of Star Wars Return
Speaker 1: of the Jedi and who was a frequent collaborator with
Speaker 1: David Lynch, most notably on Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks,
Speaker 1: which won him an Emmy in nineteen ninety. Now a
Speaker 1: fun stat about dun him In nineteen seventy eight, at
Speaker 1: the San Andcelmo County Fair in California, he was the
Speaker 1: first person to ever portray Star Wars bounty hunter Boba Fet.
Speaker 1: It was the character's public debut. Sibrita laughs, to me,
Speaker 1: it was like if I had a time machine, that'd
Speaker 1: be on my list of things to see. Just the
Speaker 1: nerd in me is like what people must have thought
Speaker 1: when they first time they saw Boba Fet. Are you
Speaker 1: kidding me? Yeah, So he'd already filmed a screen test
Speaker 1: in the costume, so it made sense that he'd be
Speaker 1: the one who actually debuted and on the directing side
Speaker 1: done him was behind some classic d coms. You can
Speaker 1: probably list him right along with their With us, he
Speaker 1: would certainly be in the Hall of Fame for us
Speaker 1: and would love to talk to him. Halloween Town, Right
Speaker 1: on Track in the thirteenth year, plus some outside the
Speaker 1: channel flicks like Homeward Bound, The Incredible Journey and Little
Speaker 1: Giants Amazing, Amazing resume. And on the writer's front, we
Speaker 1: have Anna Sandor, the creator of a Canadian show called
Speaker 1: Hanging in Man. Does that sound like a kid's Canadian show,
Speaker 1: doesn't it? It should just be called Hanging in Ah
Speaker 1: And she was Emmy nominated for writing the nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: two TV movie Miss Rose White, starring Kira Sedgwick and
Speaker 1: Amanda Plumber. Sadly, Sandor died from melanoma in November of
Speaker 1: last year at the age of seventy three, and she's
Speaker 1: joined by Bruce Graham, whose past credits include movies like
Speaker 1: Dunstan Checks In Anastasia and two other dcoms. Right on
Speaker 1: track and a ring of endless light. Okay, kids, enough
Speaker 1: of all this, let's get down to what matters. How
Speaker 1: long is Tiger Cruz. Could this be a quick jount
Speaker 1: or is it a three hour tour? A three hour tour? Yes,
Speaker 1: I said it right. If you know, you know, and
Speaker 1: if you don't, God, you're young. We're hoping for ninety minutes,
Speaker 1: as we always do, and this movie is eighty eight
Speaker 1: minutes too short of the target, but a very respectful
Speaker 1: number on the right side. We appreciate the ability to
Speaker 1: creatively express yourself in under an hour and a half.
Speaker 1: Blessings to you and your family. All right, y'all, let's
Speaker 1: report to the mess hall and show some courage. It's
Speaker 1: time to review Tiger Cruise. We open at the NAS
Speaker 1: North Island Naval Air Station. We passed military servicemen, fighter planes,
Speaker 1: and aircraft hangers, eventually landing on a street of on
Speaker 1: base housing. It's September two thousand and one, and young
Speaker 1: Mattie Dolan is packing her bags to go on a
Speaker 1: Tiger Cruise, an annual sea voyage for families with relatives
Speaker 1: in the Navy. Her little sister Kylie, who of course,
Speaker 1: has gone on a few Tiger cruises, jealous of her
Speaker 1: sister's upcoming trip on the USS Constellation. This will be
Speaker 1: her first ever. Their dad he's in Hawaii, so Maddie
Speaker 1: is flying there to meet him, then getting on the ship,
Speaker 1: where she'll share a room with another Navy brat, although
Speaker 1: she doesn't like that term. Before they leave, Mattie's mom
Speaker 1: make sure she's actually excited to go on this trip,
Speaker 1: because for years she has declined the invitation. Mattie tells
Speaker 1: her mom to just drop it. And we can assume
Speaker 1: that she has a strained relationship with her dad, and
Speaker 1: we think it's because of his career in the Navy,
Speaker 1: but we're not quite sure yet. And now we're in
Speaker 1: New York City with a very sad clear view of
Speaker 1: the World Trade Center. We're in the with a young
Speaker 1: boy named Anthony and his dad. Anthony is also on
Speaker 1: his way to the Tiger Cruise to visit his older
Speaker 1: brother Kenny. He's nervous, but is also constantly drumming with
Speaker 1: his sticks he brings with him everywhere. Yes, he's got
Speaker 1: drumsticks and he ain't afraid to use them. Now we're
Speaker 1: at the Saint Louis Airport. Another young boy Joey is
Speaker 1: leaving to join the cruise to see his mom. His
Speaker 1: dad says goodbye and says he'll meet them when they
Speaker 1: dock in San Diego. And we're racking up even more
Speaker 1: frequent flyer miles here because now we're in Seattle. We
Speaker 1: meet another Tiger who's on her way, Tina Torres, who
Speaker 1: will be joining her sister Grace on the ship. She
Speaker 1: is a true military brat who wants to follow in
Speaker 1: her sister's footsteps, saluting and pretending to be a soldier.
Speaker 1: In the mirror. It's now September ninth, two thousand and one,
Speaker 1: day one, and the Tigers are on their way to
Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor. We see Maddie and Anthony on the plane chatting,
Speaker 1: but Maddie gets annoyed by his constant drumming on the seatback.
Speaker 1: Tina is sitting next to an older woman, constantly talking
Speaker 1: about the Tiger crews and the massive USS constellation. She
Speaker 1: is very proud of her older sister. Maddie's still feeling
Speaker 1: Anthony's percussion problem, decides to take the seat next to Tina,
Speaker 1: and now we have the diarrhea mouth with our main character.
Speaker 1: While Tina is honored to be a Navy brat. Maddie
Speaker 1: is offended by the grouping and eventually worn out by
Speaker 1: this girl's and says it yapping, as is the older
Speaker 1: woman sitting next to her. They're like, they just want
Speaker 1: this girl to shut up. You go from drumming and talking.
Speaker 1: I don't know which would we be were.
Speaker 2: On a flight, Oh either, I was like, oh, well, like, oh.
Speaker 1: Man, this is going to be a lot. It's also
Speaker 1: San Diego wai. So you guys six hours of this
Speaker 1: ooh that is not Yeah, that is not a quick jaunt.
Speaker 1: You're not going San Diego to San Francisco now land
Speaker 1: it to Hawaii. The kids have taken a bus to
Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor. Are you You're a big Kawaii person, right
Speaker 1: are you? Yes? Okay, So have you been to the
Speaker 1: Pearl Harbor exhibit?
Speaker 2: Uh? No, actually we have never. I my parents have gone,
Speaker 2: but every time that we were there on that island,
Speaker 2: for whatever reason, we never went. And it's something that
Speaker 2: I would love to go do now, especially as an
Speaker 2: older like just more of like you know, I can
Speaker 2: appreciate you buff then yeah, and be able to appreciate
Speaker 2: it more. I would love to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never I've only been Hawaii once and it
Speaker 1: was for like three days, four days, so I haven't
Speaker 1: had a chance to go. I'd like to see it
Speaker 1: as well. I hear it's very moving when you get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's what I heard too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Maddie has moved seats again, now sitting next to Joey,
Speaker 1: who is nervous his mom won't be there when they arrive.
Speaker 1: I feel like they skipped the scene because it was
Speaker 1: it was weird. She's sitting next to one on the
Speaker 1: bus like caressing his hair like we're gonna find your mom,
Speaker 1: And I was like, wait, have they met?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was and it was interesting to see because
Speaker 2: I obviously recognized this little boy is Hayden's brother, and I.
Speaker 1: Knew that you knew that was her brother, Okay, yes.
Speaker 2: And I was like, wow, she in no way is
Speaker 2: like putting that like actor barrier in the fact, you
Speaker 2: like literally like this is her little brother. And she
Speaker 2: just was like he's on set with me, protecting him,
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean. Like it was like
Speaker 2: pretty pretty cute. I did actually love that part of it.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I would like to have had one more scene of
Speaker 1: them meeting on the plane or something like that. It
Speaker 1: felt like they cut some thing, but but seems like
Speaker 1: it is obviously there.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, it seemed like they've even though yeah, I was,
Speaker 2: it was very kind of confusing at first.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they see the USS constellation for the first time,
Speaker 1: and it is massive, and unless you have actually been
Speaker 1: next to one of these warships, it is, you can't
Speaker 1: comprehend the scope.
Speaker 2: Have you been on a crew Have you been on
Speaker 2: a cruise ship, like on a bigger cruise ship? Okay,
Speaker 2: because I really was trying to lock in because we've
Speaker 2: I've done a lot of cruising and in my head still,
Speaker 2: even though cruise ships are so big, I still put
Speaker 2: this kind of ship even bigger. Like so I'm thinking
Speaker 2: that I wonder how much bigger than like a giant
Speaker 2: I've been on really big cruise ships, Like how much bigger?
Speaker 1: Maybe the cruise ships now are getting so big that
Speaker 1: they're they're starting to maximularizing at the time. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's literally a working airport. So it's a floating, working
Speaker 1: airport in the middle of the ocean with thousands of
Speaker 1: people on board one hundreds of planes, helicopters. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is a massive, massive thing. You do. You stand
Speaker 1: next to one and you're like, this can't be human made.
Speaker 1: I mean that it can't be. It's too big and
Speaker 1: engineering feet And then you get on here you realize
Speaker 1: it's like, wow, this is insane.
Speaker 2: Well not to mention when you're standing next to it, right,
Speaker 2: there's like levels and levels and levels that go even
Speaker 2: farther into it.
Speaker 1: I think there's no decks below the water, damn. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really really amazing. The I think it's
Speaker 1: called the draft size, which is how much wake the
Speaker 1: boat puts out and how much underwater it goes with
Speaker 1: the keel. I think it's called the draft size. It's massive.
Speaker 1: When it comes to one of these these vehicles. It's really,
Speaker 1: oh credible, that is, So it's you should be on
Speaker 1: what they're really they're really incredible. And I've been on
Speaker 1: them when they do this. I haven't seen the bombing
Speaker 1: runs that they do, but I've seen the Coastguard rescue.
Speaker 1: So the helicopter will take off from the deck and
Speaker 1: they'll drop sailors into the water that then retrieve like
Speaker 1: a dummy that they attach to the thing and it
Speaker 1: goes up. It's really quite a film of it. It's
Speaker 1: really quite remarkable to watch this, just to see this
Speaker 1: coordinated team and how every single person is so important,
Speaker 1: and it's just it's really really amazing. I've always said
Speaker 1: the military. When you see these actions, you see what
Speaker 1: can happen when people decide to work together. It's really Yeah.
Speaker 1: So yes, it's huge. Thanks Tatina. We know it has
Speaker 1: a one hundred aircraft on board and even its own church.
Speaker 1: But man, I wish you would just shut up because
Speaker 1: she's now been talking for like twenty minutes in this film.
Speaker 1: And you like her, you do, but it's like, dude, yeah,
Speaker 1: give me a break. Once off the bus, the Tigers
Speaker 1: are sent to the forward Bow, which is just the bow.
Speaker 1: I love how part of this you can tell is
Speaker 1: written by somebody who doesn't know the boats. So they're
Speaker 1: sent to the bow, which is in the front, to
Speaker 1: see their family members, and Maddie has taken to watching
Speaker 1: after Joey. After reuniting, Kenny rushes in, eager to hug
Speaker 1: his little brother, but Anthony barely reacts, dodging the embrace
Speaker 1: and keeping his distance. It's obvious that he does not
Speaker 1: want to be there. Another serviceman, Danny, meets up with
Speaker 1: his dad, an elder Tiger named Chuck, who quickly reminds
Speaker 1: his son that he's due for a promote, especially with
Speaker 1: an uncle who works in the Pentagon. The USS constellation
Speaker 1: has been deployed in the Goal for six months, so
Speaker 1: this five day cruise to San Diego is a great
Speaker 1: opportunity for family members to check in. Tina finds her
Speaker 1: sister Grace, and they excitedly embrace and also dance and
Speaker 1: Grace was a bad it's so cool in this movie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I mentioned this up at the top of this
Speaker 1: is truly by this point I thought it was a mistake.
Speaker 1: How bad the green screen was. We've never seen green
Speaker 1: screen this bad in a dcom, have we?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I mean the people they were fuzzy, see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is that what you mean? Like you can see
Speaker 2: the coletion.
Speaker 1: Were like super imposed and people were bigger in the bat.
Speaker 1: I mean it was bad. It was really bad. This CGI.
Speaker 2: It was pretty shocking because we had even CGI.
Speaker 1: Sorry green screen, it's.
Speaker 2: Not even c Yeah, no, it just was like it
Speaker 2: was pretty shocking, and also because such a big amount
Speaker 2: of it looked like they really were filming on a ship.
Speaker 2: It was kind of like why.
Speaker 1: So here's one of the things I was thinking of
Speaker 1: because I thought about this as I was watching the movie.
Speaker 1: When I would go on those those sub submarines with
Speaker 1: my dad, when my dad would let me walk on board,
Speaker 1: or the captain of that ship would take my dad
Speaker 1: and I on board, they would cover things on the
Speaker 1: ship like, you're not allowed to see this. This is classified.
Speaker 1: It's whatever. Whatever it is, whether it's certain armaments or
Speaker 1: there's panels on the ship, which I'm sure had to
Speaker 1: do with, whether it's radar systems or whatever. You civilians
Speaker 1: are not allowed to see this. This is either code
Speaker 1: word or higher but you can't see this. So I'm
Speaker 1: wondering if there are certain I'm sure not wondering. There
Speaker 1: had to been parts of the ship where they're like,
Speaker 1: you're not filming, can film here? Yeah, you know, we
Speaker 1: give you as much access as possible, but there's certain
Speaker 1: things you're just you can't set up a camera crew here.
Speaker 1: So I'm guessing there are certain parts of the ship
Speaker 1: where they're just like but then it was like it
Speaker 1: was like the ship.
Speaker 2: And where they were it looked like they were like
Speaker 2: off of just like a balcony, like it didn't look
Speaker 2: like they were necessarily like I could understand the actors
Speaker 2: also at being unsafe for them to be around like
Speaker 2: the actual planes or uh what were they, Well, I
Speaker 2: guess planes. The jets there were like in front of them,
Speaker 2: like there was like also a safety issue type thing,
Speaker 2: but like there were things where it looked like it
Speaker 2: was just like ocean in the background.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The only other thing I thought was size, Like
Speaker 1: again like if you're in his office, for instance, they
Speaker 1: do a lot of scenes in his office which are
Speaker 1: clearly green screen. That might be such a small area
Speaker 1: on the actual ship that they couldn't get a camera
Speaker 1: around to do the angles that they needed. So maybe
Speaker 1: they needed to build it bigger on a sound stage
Speaker 1: to then shoot it as an actual actual scene. But
Speaker 1: I don't know, because they're man there. It was just
Speaker 1: it was bad. They're clearly on a sound stage and
Speaker 1: it just it just didn't look good. Anyway, Joey does
Speaker 1: find his mom and they reunite in a very big way,
Speaker 1: just as Maddie's dad, Commander Gary Dolan, arrives. He's happy
Speaker 1: to see her, but as a second in command of
Speaker 1: the ship or the Exo, he has some serious work
Speaker 1: to do. They'll meet back up later. By the way,
Speaker 1: my dad was the same rank as the guy who
Speaker 1: runs the whole boat as the captain.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but a lawyer, so not quite on ships. My
Speaker 1: dad was in the jag quart, but that was his rank.
Speaker 1: Cool Chuck. Danny's dad, who is in a marine back
Speaker 1: in his day, has found his bunk or his rack,
Speaker 1: that's what they call it. On the ocean below. Little
Speaker 1: Joey Maddie arrives and realizes she's bumped with chatty Tina,
Speaker 1: who is with her sister talking about the importance of enlisting.
Speaker 1: We have a real odd couple here, one girl who
Speaker 1: absolutely loves the idea of being there and another who
Speaker 1: resents being a navy brat. And though this is dichotomy
Speaker 1: seems to be great on paper, it's awful kind of
Speaker 1: never mentioned again. They announced the flight deck is open,
Speaker 1: and Tina grabs her new friend to check it out.
Speaker 1: And now we are no longer dependent on that brutal
Speaker 1: green screen where atop the aircraft carrier surrounded by fighter planes.
Speaker 1: Family members are very excited to tour the base, except
Speaker 1: for Anthony, who are already looks bored. Maddie is an
Speaker 1: incredibly good artist sketching the USS Arizona memorial. As they
Speaker 1: go by on the captain's bridge, Matti's dad is hard
Speaker 1: at work, ready to start the trek. They pull the
Speaker 1: anchor and start the engine and do whatever else ships
Speaker 1: need to do to depart. We get a small history
Speaker 1: lesson from Chuck the Dad, all about Pearl Harbor. He
Speaker 1: tells Matti and Tina about the morning our country was
Speaker 1: attacked and that eleven hundred crew members died in this
Speaker 1: very harbor. It is quote unquote a date that will
Speaker 1: live in infamy, is what he says. Servicemen and tigers
Speaker 1: together all salute the crash site as they pass. Now
Speaker 1: at sea, planes take off in an air power show
Speaker 1: where rescue tactics are on full display. Also, there's a
Speaker 1: kid's wreck room with tons of activity, including caricature drawings
Speaker 1: from Mattie. I love that word caricature. We get a
Speaker 1: glimpse of the kitchen with hundreds of meals being prepped
Speaker 1: with Danny's help, and on the mess deck his dad
Speaker 1: Chuck is reliving his glory days in the service. Little
Speaker 1: Joey is just thrilled to be eating saucer of ice cream,
Speaker 1: which they have this machine called the Dog, which nobody
Speaker 1: knows why it's called that. But it's just twenty four
Speaker 1: hours officer and Mattie and Tina are getting to know
Speaker 1: each other a little bit better Mora's friends. Mattie says
Speaker 1: she's never thought about joining the Navy because someday she'd
Speaker 1: like to have kids who aren't quote unquote brats. But
Speaker 1: then a cute lieutenant named Tom arrives to alert Maddie
Speaker 1: that her dad can now see her, and then Tina
Speaker 1: flirts with him. She loves a man in the uniform,
Speaker 1: which is fine. I get the younger kids seeing the
Speaker 1: older guy kind of flirting, but the way he looked
Speaker 1: back creeped the hell out of him, and I was like,
Speaker 1: please tell me this is not going to be part
Speaker 1: of the story. Am I wrong? Wasn't that just that
Speaker 1: it never happens again?
Speaker 2: Like you said, at first, it's like oh cute, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course, yeah, of course, like good looking guy, uniform whatever.
Speaker 2: But then he it's like, oh oh sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he like lingered and smiled, and I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: what walk Away fourteen? Yeah, Kay's super weird.
Speaker 2: I did the same thing, super weird.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm glad that didn't happen, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: it was just a take they used, but they used
Speaker 1: a weird take where it looked like this was going
Speaker 1: to go somewhere, and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, oh my god, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: What is happening. So thank god that was the only
Speaker 1: time that happened. Was super weird. Tina joins Maddie on
Speaker 1: the command deck to visit the commander, and oddly, there
Speaker 1: is no introduction to the girl now glued to his
Speaker 1: daughter's side. Instead, Tina just goes off with hot Tom.
Speaker 1: We enter another really bad green screen, with Maddie being
Speaker 1: shown her dad's command station, where he normally can be found.
Speaker 1: They catch up, but it's obvious he doesn't know much
Speaker 1: about his daughter. She makes him feel guilty about how
Speaker 1: many times they had to move and the fact that
Speaker 1: she went to five different elementary schools. It goes without
Speaker 1: saying that their small talk is well, let's just say,
Speaker 1: very awkward. He knows our relationship is strained, so he
Speaker 1: wonders why she finally volunteered to join the Tiger Crews.
Speaker 1: Before she can answer, there's an announcement about a paper
Speaker 1: airplane contest, and Maddie scurries off, and in her rush,
Speaker 1: she left behind her sketchbook. Now over at this paper
Speaker 1: airplane festival, it is all out chaos. Kids trying to
Speaker 1: catch him, fly them, compete with them, and yet Anthony
Speaker 1: is still bored sitting by himself. He decides to walk
Speaker 1: off on his zone and bumps into a no hats area.
Speaker 1: Guys like, dude, you can't wear your hat out there,
Speaker 1: and it just aggravates him even more. Seems like he
Speaker 1: has a big chip on his shoulder. He ignores the
Speaker 1: warning and once outside, immediately, of course, loses his hat
Speaker 1: to the wind. That'll show him there's a reason we
Speaker 1: have rules, sir and boy. Just when you think you've
Speaker 1: seen the worst green screening, we're outside with Maddy and Tina,
Speaker 1: who spot the hatless Anthony dancing around with hard gusts
Speaker 1: of wind, and I was like, what is happening. He's
Speaker 1: having a lot of fun, but he's it's dangerous and
Speaker 1: he's like getting closer to the edge. It's unhinged, and
Speaker 1: then he trips and rolls off the aircraft carrier. The
Speaker 1: girls sprint after him, screaming for help. They assume he's
Speaker 1: falling into the ocean. But when they peer over the edge,
Speaker 1: they'd see that he's been caught by a safety net,
Speaker 1: which is like two feet wide. This is not like
Speaker 1: he could have jumped ten feet and still hit the net. No,
Speaker 1: one more role and that guy's dead. Yes.
Speaker 2: Yes, And when you've been on any kind of ship,
Speaker 2: like I said, I've been on cruise ships, Like when
Speaker 2: you go to the edge of a cruise ship and
Speaker 2: you're so high up from the water, all you can
Speaker 2: think of is this is dangerous. Looks so dangerous. And
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my gosh, where was the railing.
Speaker 1: Like what dude, Because most of the soldiers know not
Speaker 1: to jump up and let the wind jacket like you're
Speaker 1: in a wingsuit take you off the back of the boat.
Speaker 1: Oh so dangerous. Oh he thought it was cool, of course, which, Hey,
Speaker 1: that's what we do when we're kids. We do stupid, right,
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, hey, look happen now. Later in
Speaker 1: the day, the kids are playing foosball and table hockey
Speaker 1: in the game room when Maddie's dad spots her looking
Speaker 1: out over the sunset. He returns her sketchbook and was
Speaker 1: very impressed with her skills. Seeing a drawing of their
Speaker 1: dog made him miss home, and I swear to god,
Speaker 1: my head went when he's like, ah, man, I missed that.
Speaker 1: Mut I thought she was gonna be like, he's dead,
Speaker 1: like and you don't know that because you're not. It's
Speaker 1: where in my head right. I was like, he's about
Speaker 1: to say it. She's to say like, we had to
Speaker 1: put the dog down and you don't know.
Speaker 2: You know why because we know this is a true
Speaker 2: story about an actual very sad like we are ready for.
Speaker 1: We're prepared to be sad. Yes, And I was like,
Speaker 1: that's what she's gonna say.
Speaker 2: When he left, I thought, oh my god, he just
Speaker 2: got sucked under the thing. We're starting this off with
Speaker 2: a kid was awful.
Speaker 1: We're ready to we're really like bed.
Speaker 2: That everyone's up up for grass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but oh god, I thought that's where she was
Speaker 1: going to go and he's gonna be like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I didn't know that. But then yeah, oh thank god, jeez.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 1: She very emotionally asked him when he'll be home for
Speaker 1: good and he explains that this is his job. Now
Speaker 1: I imagine again, I say, my dad was in the Navy,
Speaker 1: he was in the reserve. He did have to go
Speaker 1: for the First Golf War. He was stationed in Italy
Speaker 1: for a while, but we never had to move around
Speaker 1: or do any of that stuff. And I know it
Speaker 1: can be a or. I have heard from other brats,
Speaker 1: and I don't say other I'm not a Navy rat
Speaker 1: by any stretch, but heard from Navy brats on those bases,
Speaker 1: how difficult it is where it's you're moving all the time,
Speaker 1: you have no connections the second. The thing you always
Speaker 1: heard was the second you made a friend, you're pulled out.
Speaker 1: And I just kept hearing that over and over again.
Speaker 1: So I've heard this could be difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's like it's put on display on like
Speaker 2: TV shows of the same thing. That's why a lot
Speaker 2: of them are shown. Their characters that are Navy brats
Speaker 2: quote unquote are very distant. They don't like to make
Speaker 2: friends because it's just there's no second Yep, terrible, so hard.
Speaker 1: A tough life. Yeah, were you a Navy brat, Lisa
Speaker 1: Air Force? Okay, so same thing. How many bases did
Speaker 1: you go to when you were growing up? Exactly? Oh man,
Speaker 1: oh man, Wow, Yeah, that's yeah, it's got to be
Speaker 1: very very difficult. I couldn't I couldn't imagine three elementary schools,
Speaker 1: three middle schools and two high schools.
Speaker 2: Three middle schools, middle schools, like two or three years.
Speaker 1: That is tough, but it makes sense why you loved
Speaker 1: then things like Disney and because those are constants wherever
Speaker 1: he goes staples. Ye, so yeah, that makes TV was
Speaker 1: your friend. Yeah, oh god, it makes total sense. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you can take that with you anywhere you go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Very tough life. I've been I've been told. So. She
Speaker 1: obviously begs him to take a different job, but he
Speaker 1: explains that the Navy is his way of life and
Speaker 1: it comes with many, many sacrifices. Maddie argues that he's
Speaker 1: defending strangers and she's been made fun of at school
Speaker 1: for being quote unquote the new navy brat. He says
Speaker 1: after Friday he'll be home for a while, but she
Speaker 1: wants something permanent. The commander admits he doesn't know what
Speaker 1: to think, but he's willing to keep talking about it.
Speaker 1: It's now day two at sea, September tenth, two thousand
Speaker 1: and one. We're thrown right into the kitchen to witness
Speaker 1: the intense amount of cooking needed to feed the ship.
Speaker 1: Fifteen thousand meals every day, and Danny is one of
Speaker 1: the hard working cooks. His dad, Chuck is observing and
Speaker 1: again pitching that his uncle in the Pentagon can get
Speaker 1: his son in promotion, but Danny likes his job, so
Speaker 1: back off, Dad. Meanwhile, Joey has become addicted to the
Speaker 1: soft serf machine, which again he realizes why they call
Speaker 1: the dog because it just looks like hug poop, which
Speaker 1: is a terrible thing, but he thinks that yeah. Maddie
Speaker 1: and Tina are learning about the fighter planes from Grace,
Speaker 1: but are relegated to a faraway observation deck for when
Speaker 1: they take off, and this of course makes Tina mad
Speaker 1: because she loves the military and wants a real experience,
Speaker 1: but her sister isn't having it. It's not safe and
Speaker 1: these there's a reason there are rules like this on
Speaker 1: a ship. But Mattie thinks maybe her dad can get
Speaker 1: them even closer. So at the flight deck control center,
Speaker 1: Commander Gary is showing off a large map to the kids,
Speaker 1: dealing with Anthony's disinterest and explaining the importance of the ship. Eventually,
Speaker 1: the girls arrive and ask if they can be on
Speaker 1: the flight deck for the takeoffs. But even Gary calls
Speaker 1: it too dangerous and there are no exceptions. That is
Speaker 1: strike three. But guess who does have an idea? Anthony,
Speaker 1: that little.
Speaker 2: The one that almost died. Let's go with his lea.
Speaker 2: Let's guy's gonna take us.
Speaker 1: Oh, that guy seems to know what's up. And so
Speaker 1: as the air show is starting, Anthony's sneaks to the
Speaker 1: girls to a hidden, clearly not safe area on the
Speaker 1: deck after getting dressed up like they belong there, which
Speaker 1: is like a double yikes. The planes perform some impressive
Speaker 1: water bombings and flybys and other cool things that Tom
Speaker 1: Cruise doesn't top. Gun Anthony, Mattie, and Tina are in
Speaker 1: full flight attire right there on the runway. Tina is
Speaker 1: feevishly taking photos, but Maddie knows this is not a
Speaker 1: great idea. And then the kids are spotted by a soldier,
Speaker 1: so they sprint off and hide below deck, and right
Speaker 1: when we think the coast is clear, they of course
Speaker 1: get caught. Now in the captain's quarters, accompanied by their
Speaker 1: family members. They're being reprimanded and have been given a
Speaker 1: very final warning. If they fall out a line again,
Speaker 1: they will be confined to their rooms for the rest
Speaker 1: of the trip. Mattie's dad doesn't know how to discipline
Speaker 1: his daughter because he thinks this was just a way
Speaker 1: to get his attention. He lost a pilot seven weeks
Speaker 1: ago during a practice maneuver and they could have lost
Speaker 1: her and other people. Today, this is not a game.
Speaker 1: Anthony's brother is even angrier. He says it was his
Speaker 1: idea for the Tigers cruise and now he regrets it.
Speaker 1: He demands his little brother stay out of trouble for
Speaker 1: the rest of the trip, but their relationship is more
Speaker 1: on the rocks than have and rightfully so it is
Speaker 1: now time for the Tiger Cruz talent show, and I'd
Speaker 1: like to point out we're an hour in and there's
Speaker 1: still no nine to eleven. They're really building it up
Speaker 1: so and you're just kind of on edge waiting for
Speaker 1: it to happen. Some officers are kind of doing hip
Speaker 1: hop dance move for the Tigers, and Anthony apologizes to
Speaker 1: Tina and Maddie for getting them into trouble, so at
Speaker 1: least he knows that he did bad, but they all
Speaker 1: take the blame, and Maddie admits her dad's response was
Speaker 1: more disappointed than angry, and that kind of hurt her
Speaker 1: more than being yelled at. I think as kids, we
Speaker 1: all know what that means. Small note, Joey is still
Speaker 1: eating ice cream and making himself sick. Later that day,
Speaker 1: Maddie is checking out a crew photo taken for New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve on y two K and realizing that her
Speaker 1: dad was having a blast with his work family his
Speaker 1: real family was in a cheap motel at the same time.
Speaker 1: That hurts the hot Lieutenant Tom just keeps popping up,
Speaker 1: reminds her he just keeps hi. Tom just keeps hot.
Speaker 1: Tom keeps popping in and keeps reminding her that these
Speaker 1: cruises are lonely and dangerous, and her dad makes them
Speaker 1: bearable because he's actually quote unquote like a father to
Speaker 1: the soldiers, which act absolutely the wrong thing to say
Speaker 1: to his actual daughter.
Speaker 2: Read the room hot too hot, Tom, Like, come on,
Speaker 2: that was just like ouch. I mean I felt for
Speaker 2: her on the in this moment too, Like he was really.
Speaker 1: Being Tom deaf. Ha huh. I will show myself out.
Speaker 1: But yes, thank you over you take over from here.
Speaker 1: I'm out everybody like drop But yes, it's true. But
Speaker 1: the guilt still sends her back to her dad's command center.
Speaker 1: She apologizes for earlier and he explains it's all behind
Speaker 1: them now, but many of the things she said when
Speaker 1: she was angry are actually true. He knows he's basically
Speaker 1: a stranger who's missed out of much of her life.
Speaker 1: If he could, he'd go back in time to catch up.
Speaker 1: But he's in line to take over his own ship soon,
Speaker 1: the thing he's worked his entire life for. And if
Speaker 1: you know anything about the military, being in the command
Speaker 1: of a ship that size, it's there's like ten people
Speaker 1: that do that in the military, twenty people that do
Speaker 1: It's impossible and something you do work from the time
Speaker 1: you're like seventeen to do. So, yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: massively big step for him for the EXO to become
Speaker 1: the CEO. It takes thirty year. I mean it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's huge.
Speaker 2: I can't imagine what it would be to be a
Speaker 2: family man as well. Oh, it's got to be a
Speaker 2: brutal job, brutal, brutal, brutal, But he.
Speaker 1: Says his family means the world to him, so he's
Speaker 1: not going to re up. He's coming home for good.
Speaker 1: He had a long talk with his wife the night
Speaker 1: before and that's when he was like okay, So he
Speaker 1: would have known if the dog was dead, so he talked.
Speaker 1: He talks to his wife all the time, so long
Speaker 1: talk with her. He's going to be coming home for good.
Speaker 1: Maddie is, of course thrilled, embracing him in yet another
Speaker 1: terrible green screen shot. But now the chiron read It's
Speaker 1: September eleventh, two thousand and one, day three at sea,
Speaker 1: and I assume those smiles are going to fade very soon.
Speaker 1: Maddie is awoken by a loud ship alarm at five
Speaker 1: pin fifteen in the morning. Planes are taking off and
Speaker 1: soldiers are running to their stations. Mattie sees her dad
Speaker 1: in the hall in full emergency mode. She sees Tina's sister,
Speaker 1: who's also too busy to respond. The control room is
Speaker 1: packed and working at full tilt with Commander Gary at
Speaker 1: the helm. And that's when the second plane hits the
Speaker 1: tower and you just if you were there, watched it anything,
Speaker 1: it brings you right back. We see our first footage
Speaker 1: of nine to eleven in a nearby TV, and Gary
Speaker 1: knows he has to inform the Tigers of what's going on.
Speaker 1: Back in the bunks, Maddie wakes up Tina just as
Speaker 1: all the tigers are asked to report to the forecastle,
Speaker 1: so all the kids and Chuck the dad, they feverishly
Speaker 1: pour out of the barracks. They know it's some sort
Speaker 1: of an emergency. The commander knows that the family members
Speaker 1: will be reaching out to make sure the ship and
Speaker 1: their tigers are safe, but the USS constellation is in
Speaker 1: a holding pattern. They don't know if they're staying in
Speaker 1: the United States or if they'll be sent on a mission.
Speaker 1: They have to get ready for battle any moment, which
Speaker 1: is hard to do with eight hundred civilians on board.
Speaker 1: It is unprecedented in the history of the Navy. Apparently crazy.
Speaker 1: The tigers have all congregated together, and Maddie attends to
Speaker 1: young Joey, who's totally freaking out rightfully, so Matti's dad
Speaker 1: speaks to the tigers, asking them to react as calmly
Speaker 1: as possible. He announces the airline hijackings and says the
Speaker 1: nation is on full alert. In real life at this time,
Speaker 1: no one had any idea at this point who was
Speaker 1: behind the attacks or if there'd be more. It was
Speaker 1: just an insane feeling. You had to have been there,
Speaker 1: and the people that were know exactly what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: Do you remember where so you said you were a senior,
Speaker 1: what a senior in high school? Do you remember where
Speaker 1: you were when you heard.
Speaker 2: I was coming down the stairs when my parents were
Speaker 2: in our family room downstairs, and they never are they're
Speaker 2: always you know, walking around getting ready to like head out,
Speaker 2: and they were just in shock and watching the TV
Speaker 2: and the t like I said, the TV's never on, like,
Speaker 2: but they were watching the news and that was the
Speaker 2: first tower had been hit. And then it was like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh. And so I still went to school,
Speaker 2: went into school. My first period happened to be my
Speaker 2: government slash econ and that the TVs were out, you know,
Speaker 2: the TV was out. We were just watching again. So
Speaker 2: I actually we watched the second tower get hit while
Speaker 2: in class, and it was just like everyone looking around
Speaker 2: going what the hell? Yeah, never again being being young,
Speaker 2: still never ever thinking our country could be under a
Speaker 2: tack like this, like like who would do that? Like
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like it was so unbelievable that,
Speaker 2: you know, it was a very scary moment, like oh
Speaker 2: my gosh. And then it was like what is next?
Speaker 2: And so being in that government class it was like,
Speaker 2: there's options now that these are and so it was
Speaker 2: a very like open talk. It wasn't obviously not planned
Speaker 2: anything like that. And I feel really lucky to have
Speaker 2: such a great teacher to like he handled all of
Speaker 2: our questions really well and gave us very honest answers.
Speaker 2: You know. So he had done some time in the military,
Speaker 2: and it was just like, there are big changes that
Speaker 2: are going to happen, and you guys, are you know
Speaker 2: this is this is something that going to change. It's
Speaker 2: never going to be the same again. And he called
Speaker 2: it to flying will not be the same going to
Speaker 2: the airport, nothing like that will ever be the way
Speaker 2: you guys have lived your life so far, And it
Speaker 2: was like whoa, you know, it just it was such
Speaker 2: a heavy day. Where were you were? You were out
Speaker 2: here in La or I was out here in La No.
Speaker 1: I was out here in La And I was living
Speaker 1: with my brother at the time. And he woke up
Speaker 1: a lot earlier than I did. And he so he
Speaker 1: woke me up early, early five thirty in the morning
Speaker 1: whatever it was, and said, you know, a plane crashed
Speaker 1: into the World Trade Center. I think we might be
Speaker 1: under it. Haack. And so we were then up and
Speaker 1: watching the TV as the second plane hit. And then
Speaker 1: as the second plane hit, we both knew. We were like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is this is a coordinated attack, right, and so
Speaker 1: it was. And then you just sit there at numb
Speaker 1: for the rest of the day. I mean, you also know,
Speaker 1: so my generation, we all remember where we were when
Speaker 1: the Challenger exploded because that was our moment of either
Speaker 1: you were in school or you were watching it with
Speaker 1: other kids, because they literally they wield a TV in
Speaker 1: because CHRISTA mccauliffe was the first a teacher that was
Speaker 1: going into space, so it was supposed to be a
Speaker 1: teaching moment. So we're all sitting there as kids. I
Speaker 1: was actually homesick that day, but my brother and I
Speaker 1: were watching. It was such a big thing. So everybody
Speaker 1: watched this live, and everybody remembers where they were at
Speaker 1: that time. And I instantly knew like, oh, for this generation,
Speaker 1: that's this. Yeah, everybody's going to remember. But the kids,
Speaker 1: the kids that are in eighty six when when christ
Speaker 1: mcauliff died and the all seven astronauts died. Of course
Speaker 1: I was ten, and so I knew. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is that's this for this generation, and for the
Speaker 1: generation before that, it was when Kennedy was killed. So
Speaker 1: you all had those horrible markers in your life of
Speaker 1: you're going to remember where you were when and you
Speaker 1: knew it was this one, and this is one where
Speaker 1: it was like I knew instantly nothing was ever going
Speaker 1: to be saying, like country's different forever and it has
Speaker 1: been so Yeah. While the commander announces everything, you know, soldiers,
Speaker 1: crew members and the kids, especially Maddie, everybody of course
Speaker 1: tears up and starts to cry. He assures everyone they'll
Speaker 1: be safe, but his speech is interrupted by news that
Speaker 1: the Pentagon was also hit. He runs off to attend
Speaker 1: to this new development, leaving his daughter behind, of course,
Speaker 1: very scared. In the kitchen, Danny sees the newly destroyed
Speaker 1: Pentagon wing. His dad runs in. He can't believe that
Speaker 1: this ship may be going into battle, and his son
Speaker 1: is stuck making cookies. Danny defends his job again, but
Speaker 1: when loss of life is confirmed at the Pentagon, Chuck
Speaker 1: realizes his brother may actually be gone. Maddie is still
Speaker 1: watching the day unfold on TV when her dad finds
Speaker 1: out about the fourth down plane in Pennsylvania and that
Speaker 1: the White House has been evacuated. Anthony is also watching
Speaker 1: coverage of the destruction, terrified that his hometown of New
Speaker 1: York is under attack. Chuck the Dad is ready to
Speaker 1: bomb whoever he thinks is responsible, even without any evidence,
Speaker 1: but mostly he wants to know if his brother is
Speaker 1: safe at the Pentagon, but all communication to and from
Speaker 1: the ship is suspended until further notice. Chuck, get you
Speaker 1: do you? Apparently you isolate yourself. You are a moving island.
Speaker 1: You are completely isolated. The only thing coming in his messages,
Speaker 1: that's it from the higher ups. That's it. No messages out.
Speaker 2: My girlfriend is just she just married someone in the
Speaker 2: Navy and is now going through the process of understanding
Speaker 2: what it is like life.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yes, he just got deployed for ten months, and it's
Speaker 2: like that's just like there's gonna be times where I
Speaker 2: won't talk to him for like weeks. I'm like, Oh,
Speaker 2: when Jordan goes on like a work trip and I
Speaker 2: don't hear it from him for like three hours, I'm
Speaker 2: freaking out, Like I'm like, what happened? You haven't responded
Speaker 2: to a text? And it's like I was in eating
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I can't imagine how hard it is
Speaker 2: for these families. I kept thinking this over and over
Speaker 2: during this movie, like it's.
Speaker 1: One of those things where, ye, you fall in love
Speaker 1: with a person and you're marrying a person, but you're
Speaker 1: also marrying a lifestyle. Yes, and it is a complete
Speaker 1: change of lifestyle. This is going to be like unless
Speaker 1: you've experienced it, it's like, which I have not to
Speaker 1: this extent in any way, Unless you've experienced it, you
Speaker 1: don't know what's up. I mean, Lisa would be able
Speaker 1: to tell you don't know what it's like unless you're right.
Speaker 2: The more you find out about it, for me and
Speaker 2: I hope everyone else, the more you have so much
Speaker 2: appreciation for the people that do take this on as
Speaker 2: a job, Like, oh my goodness, we are so lucky
Speaker 2: because it is huge sacrifices.
Speaker 1: They're doing this so we can be free and safe.
Speaker 1: That's why they're doing this, and they're it's insane. That's
Speaker 1: why whenever I hear anybody bashing the military, I'm like,
Speaker 1: you don't know, You do not know what these men
Speaker 1: and women go through. So yeah, it's uh yeah, there,
Speaker 1: it's a whole lifestyle that is one that Thank god
Speaker 1: they're there. That's all I can say yes, so Chuck
Speaker 1: gets loud. He needs to check on his brother, but
Speaker 1: Commander Gary gives him a final know and orders him
Speaker 1: to stand down. With all the Tiger activities canceled, he
Speaker 1: also minimizes the news coverage on the TVs so kids
Speaker 1: can watch movies instead. Smart he makes Maddie the liaison
Speaker 1: for the young Tigers, since he needs to keep updated
Speaker 1: on what he should be doing to keep everyone calm.
Speaker 1: Maddie is willing and ready to help, but Chuck will
Speaker 1: not give up about this one phone call. His brother
Speaker 1: was in the wing that was hit by the plane.
Speaker 1: He's completely breaking down. Matti's dad gets his brother's name
Speaker 1: and rank. He'll let Chuck know if he hears anything
Speaker 1: back with the Tigers. Maddie knows the scene is bleak.
Speaker 1: Some kids are obviously crying, and there's also boredom now
Speaker 1: mixed with fear. She quickly takes the lead and hugs
Speaker 1: the kids who need comforting. Commander Gary is told that
Speaker 1: all air traffic has been suspended, so even if he
Speaker 1: could get the eight hundred civilians back to San Diego,
Speaker 1: he couldn't get him home anyway. He asked Maddie to
Speaker 1: get all the kids to go to bed, but she
Speaker 1: tells him they're scared and they want to stay together
Speaker 1: in the mess hall. He appreciates her advice and gives
Speaker 1: them another half hour, and it looks like they're finally
Speaker 1: on the same page and working together. Before he leaves, though,
Speaker 1: she wants to know one thing. Is there anything he's
Speaker 1: not telling them? He says he doesn't know a lot
Speaker 1: of the facts, just so they must stay ready. She
Speaker 1: admits she's scared and starts crying herself. He holds her
Speaker 1: and tells her it's going to be fine, and before
Speaker 1: she can fully break down, she's called back by one
Speaker 1: of the little kids. She wipes her tears and gets
Speaker 1: back to her job. And it was a nice little
Speaker 1: moment of her being the captain, like she's the commander
Speaker 1: of the kids, and now I got to get back
Speaker 1: to work, and it was a very nice little moment.
Speaker 1: It's now September twelfth, day four, and they're just five
Speaker 1: hundred miles from San Diego. The ship is planning on
Speaker 1: rearming in two hours and the civilians must be below
Speaker 1: deck for the procedure. Mattie is back in the mess
Speaker 1: hall with the kids and she's drawing Anthony, who's still
Speaker 1: captivated by the footage. He can't look away. Other kids
Speaker 1: are angry that he's hogging the TV. They just want
Speaker 1: to watch a movie. Mattie steps in degrees the kids
Speaker 1: should watch a movie. Anthony storms off to the kitchen.
Speaker 1: Mattie eventually joins him at a new TV to give
Speaker 1: him her drawing. He says he's watching the coverage because
Speaker 1: he's from Staten Island. He saw the towers every day
Speaker 1: and his friend's parents worked in those buildings. He's also
Speaker 1: worried about his grandfather. He never thought the towers could
Speaker 1: just disappear. Life will be different from now on. Out
Speaker 1: at sea, an escort boat arrives with weapons, and Chuck
Speaker 1: notices the and Chuck notices the delivery. The Tigers are
Speaker 1: taking below deck to basically avoid seeing warheads, but Chuck
Speaker 1: tells the older tigers what he saw and scares everyone
Speaker 1: into believing they're all on their way to war. Maddie's
Speaker 1: dad explains that the ship always carries munitions. This is
Speaker 1: just in prep in case they have to go to battle.
Speaker 1: He needs everyone to stay calm and to take care
Speaker 1: of the kids. Commander Gary tells Maddi. They're on course
Speaker 1: to arrive in San Diego a day early, but they
Speaker 1: have to slip into the port unannounced because their whereabouts
Speaker 1: are secrets, so it won't be easy. Also, there won't
Speaker 1: be anyone there to meet them since the base is
Speaker 1: on lockdown. And then the worst news. He won't be
Speaker 1: returning home after all. He's returning to see because of
Speaker 1: what happens, his crew counts on him. He promises he
Speaker 1: will be home for now, he has a duty to complete.
Speaker 1: She kind of understands at this point, but still isn't
Speaker 1: happy about it. Chuck and Danny arrive to see if
Speaker 1: there's any news out of the Pentagon. Gary lets Chuck
Speaker 1: know his brother is missing, which of course is not
Speaker 1: a good sign. Chuck hugs his son and they start
Speaker 1: to cry together. Mattie joins Chuck out in the deck
Speaker 1: to say she's sorry about his little brother. He thought
Speaker 1: the Pentagon was the safest place on Earth. It makes
Speaker 1: him wonder what life will be like back on land.
Speaker 1: He asked Maddie to apologize to the commander for him.
Speaker 1: Her dad does a job that not many people would do,
Speaker 1: and Chuck would be too, and Chuck was being too
Speaker 1: aggressive with him earlier, but the truth is he feels
Speaker 1: safer with the commander on duty. Later on, Maddie is
Speaker 1: still looking out at sea, now drawing a distinguished portrait
Speaker 1: of her dad. She decides to take it to him,
Speaker 1: walking into the still buzzing control room, but there's Lieutenant
Speaker 1: hot Tom who cuts her off. It's not a good time,
Speaker 1: but the Tigers will be in San Diego soon. He
Speaker 1: compliments her dad. He compliments her dad, compliments her dad.
Speaker 1: He didn't it's weird. Okay, let me just change it.
Speaker 1: He compliments her dad on the incredible job on making
Speaker 1: all of this happen. She says she'll get him the
Speaker 1: drawing later and leave. Okay, I'm sorry, I want to
Speaker 1: rewrite this. He compliments her dad on the amazing job
Speaker 1: he did trying to get all the civilians home when
Speaker 1: nothing is essentially running in the country. She says she'll
Speaker 1: get him the drawing later, and she leaves him to
Speaker 1: do his work. In the kitchen, Maddie and Andy, Tina
Speaker 1: and Joey visit Danny, who's making cookies well and actually
Speaker 1: tons of muffins. As you can tell, he's keeping busy,
Speaker 1: so who doesn't have to think about his uncle. The
Speaker 1: Tigers all help him out, and Anthony finally gets to
Speaker 1: play some drums, and this is when we're all thinking
Speaker 1: about Sabrina, who knows that we don't like when they
Speaker 1: just start tapping on things and then a band forms.
Speaker 1: But this was this one was better than them, Like
Speaker 1: they were all doing different hodgepodge things. It wasn't like
Speaker 1: they made this amazing song and became a band. Really
Speaker 1: still not okay, Oh it wasn't.
Speaker 2: And I was just so happy that it was so
Speaker 2: short lived. Thank Godeous, because I'm going, oh god, we
Speaker 2: are going to do this. We're going to go into
Speaker 2: sing song format like they didn't go. But it's just
Speaker 2: with some banging there. We'll get into it with Sabrina
Speaker 2: seas okay, not your favorite.
Speaker 1: We know, not your favorite started to twitch. It was
Speaker 1: like I know, so they're banging on pots and pans.
Speaker 1: Eventually everyone joins in. They find some fun and laughs
Speaker 1: during a very dark time. Mattie realizes there must be
Speaker 1: something ever everyone on board can do to lighten the mood.
Speaker 1: And now it's September thirteenth, day five, and they're right
Speaker 1: off the coast of San Diego, Madison knows that Madison
Speaker 1: Maddie knows that all the Tiger activities were canceled, but
Speaker 1: she tells the captain she has an idea, and with that,
Speaker 1: everyone in the ship walks out to a humongous flag
Speaker 1: that takes up the entire aircre to a humongous flag
Speaker 1: that takes up the entire aircraft carrier, and they unfurl
Speaker 1: it for display. Once laid out, the kids run under
Speaker 1: it and play tag. Commander Gary watches on, proud of
Speaker 1: his daughter's leadership. They arrive in San Diego, and the
Speaker 1: commander speaks to everyone before they touch the ground. He
Speaker 1: talks about the core values of the Navy and how
Speaker 1: each of the Tigers have also shown that type of
Speaker 1: courage and selflessness over the past few days. He calls
Speaker 1: their actions exemplary and mentions the unfurling of the flag
Speaker 1: as an important moment for the crew. Now on land,
Speaker 1: Chuck and Danny say they're goodbyes. Danny's been given time
Speaker 1: off to deal with his uncle's death, but decides to
Speaker 1: stay with the crew and make sure they're fed. Chuck
Speaker 1: is finally really proud of them, saying, sailors got to
Speaker 1: eat our main tigers exchange phone numbers. They plan on
Speaker 1: keeping in touch. They'll need to stay with military families
Speaker 1: on base until their relatives rot, till their relatives are
Speaker 1: allowed to come and get them. Joey says goodbye to
Speaker 1: his mom and is still scared. They decide to get
Speaker 1: some ice cream before she has to return to the ship.
Speaker 1: Anthony says goodbye to his brother, finally showing some love,
Speaker 1: thanking him for everything. Tina salutes Grace and they also
Speaker 1: exchange one last hug, and finally, Matti gives her dad
Speaker 1: the portrait. He loves it and says he'll frame it
Speaker 1: when he gets home. She's scared, what if something else happens,
Speaker 1: What if they have to go to war. He promises
Speaker 1: they'll be ready, but admits everything is different now. He
Speaker 1: says he remembers his promise to return home, but now
Speaker 1: Mattie doesn't want him to quit. She thinks he should stay.
Speaker 1: She'll be okay. He gives her one last hug and
Speaker 1: asks her to stop growing so fast, and with that
Speaker 1: he returns to the ship. A passing soldier asks if
Speaker 1: the commander is her dad and wonders if she's a
Speaker 1: brat before answering She salutes her dad, then proudly says, Yep,
Speaker 1: I'm a brat. She smiles, and we see the huge
Speaker 1: flag unfurled one more time. And that is our movie, Sabrina.
Speaker 1: That was a journey. Can we do some real reviews?
Speaker 1: And I think I think this week I have the
Speaker 1: one star and this is from Nick the Trojan. The
Speaker 1: only thing funnier than this obvious propaganda, which makes up
Speaker 1: the bulk of the film is the fact that the
Speaker 1: Disney watching American public bought it, hook line and sinker.
Speaker 1: The film is a real dog, although I do leave
Speaker 1: it with the disconcerting urge to unfurl an enormous flag
Speaker 1: on my way to the recruitment office. One star from Nick,
Speaker 1: which is the new official name, Sabrina, What do you got?
Speaker 2: I've got the five star this week and it's mdw
Speaker 2: ob d.
Speaker 1: I think let's make it doctor woddu Okay, doctor here
Speaker 1: you go?
Speaker 2: All right? Not bad. Reminded me about nine to eleven,
Speaker 2: which is good because I was told to never forget
Speaker 2: it again.
Speaker 1: Right, five stars?
Speaker 2: All right? Kind of just wow, jerks, I just can't.
Speaker 2: I can't do it.
Speaker 1: Ed. Can we have Sabrina's favorite portion of our program,
Speaker 1: which is our game that we play feature game every week,
Speaker 1: and this one is called Pull Rank. To honor the
Speaker 1: brave Navy scene in the film and making sacrifices every
Speaker 1: day for our country, we will be given different ranks.
Speaker 1: We're tasked with putting them in order. If we can
Speaker 1: correctly place them lowest to highest, we win. Here's how
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it even worse for you, Sabrina O.
Speaker 2: Great, thanks, because this isn't going to be hard enough.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to play because I know the answers.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know the answer.
Speaker 1: So here's the list and we're going to see if
Speaker 1: you can put them in order. Who are we playing
Speaker 1: with today? I mean, I can do it, but I'd
Speaker 1: like to to make sure I'm right. Who are we
Speaker 1: playing with you?
Speaker 2: Mikhayela?
Speaker 1: All right, Mikaela, here we go. So Commander petty officer,
Speaker 1: first class, warren officer, fourth class, Vice admiral, chief petty officer,
Speaker 1: and captain. What do you got? What do you think?
Speaker 1: Let's start low to high, low to high. What's the
Speaker 1: lowest rank on that list? Commander petty officer, first class
Speaker 1: warrant officer, fourth vice admiral, Chief petty officer or captain?
Speaker 2: What's they all sound so like? I don't think as
Speaker 2: the name, but like some very cool Yes, they all
Speaker 2: sound so like.
Speaker 1: Wow. So what do you think is the lowest?
Speaker 2: I guess I'm gonna have to go with petty officer
Speaker 2: first class would be the lowest.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is the MICHAELA? Is that correct? That's correct? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That is correct?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay?
Speaker 1: What is what is the next one?
Speaker 2: Chief? Petty officer? Then?
Speaker 1: Wowes correct?
Speaker 2: What would be third warrant officer?
Speaker 1: Four? Correct? What would be fifth?
Speaker 2: Captain?
Speaker 1: Not correct? What would be fifth?
Speaker 2: Vice admiral?
Speaker 1: What would be fifth commander? Correct? You're killing it? What
Speaker 1: would be six? Well?
Speaker 2: Now I don't know which one? Then okay, uh, I
Speaker 2: think it'd be vice admiral?
Speaker 1: What would be sixth?
Speaker 2: Is this the top one?
Speaker 1: No? No, you still got to get six? Six is captain?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 1: Without it, without a single mistake. You got him all
Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned, And your prize for winning
Speaker 1: is a Sabrina sees what do we got? All? Right?
Speaker 2: There we go? Okay, So really, all I had to
Speaker 2: say as far as nitpicking this apart the green screen
Speaker 2: was just it never it's awful. It was continuously just
Speaker 2: jarring the whole movie. I just couldn't couldn't, I couldn't
Speaker 2: take it. There was one part where it felt like
Speaker 2: there was a scene that was put in like out
Speaker 2: of order, like they redid it during like editing it
Speaker 2: for some reason. And it was she starts off in
Speaker 2: this yellow top and then there's a scene where she's
Speaker 2: like drawing caricatures of the like little kids, kids, and
Speaker 2: then she ends up back in that yellow top. So
Speaker 2: it seems like that was filmed but like not really
Speaker 2: meant to be where it was placed. It was like
Speaker 2: out of order, like she's just kind of drawing these characters,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I wonder if it was later on
Speaker 2: in the movie, part of the original filming would have been.
Speaker 2: It would have made sense for it to be during
Speaker 2: the time where they're kind of trying to keep the
Speaker 2: kids busy and like off the TV, like after everything
Speaker 2: it happen.
Speaker 1: I don't know. They seem very very happy, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were happy.
Speaker 2: But I don't know, it was just strange for her
Speaker 2: to be for it to be where it was. It
Speaker 2: was kind of throwing me off. The ninety or the
Speaker 2: two thousand's hair that was in this movie was pretty epic.
Speaker 2: I felt very well done. And then I had two
Speaker 2: things that I felt like there was zero reason to
Speaker 2: have in this movie. The talent show.
Speaker 1: Why Yeah. I think it was probably just to show
Speaker 1: what actually happens during these Tiger cruises, I imagine, but
Speaker 1: a talent show.
Speaker 2: Is one of them. It's like, hey, let's get the
Speaker 2: who everybody who knows how to break dance? That we're
Speaker 2: going to be entertaining. We're going to be entertaining the
Speaker 2: guests here.
Speaker 1: Really, I'll bet you that's exactly what it is. They
Speaker 1: say to everybody on all the crew members on the ship,
Speaker 1: where Hey, the Tiger cruise, we're going to have eight
Speaker 1: hundred kids can juggle? Yeah, exactly, who can juggle? Who
Speaker 1: can sing? Let's do? Because they you're on an island
Speaker 1: with five thousand people sometimes for months at a time.
Speaker 1: So I will bet you stuff like dance parties and
Speaker 1: and you know, comedy shows like yeah, let's do. I
Speaker 1: will bet you like who can you stand up? Who
Speaker 1: wants to do five minutes? I'll bet you that happens.
Speaker 1: I bet you that happens. I will guarantee it.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, Okay, all right, well then I stayed corrected.
Speaker 2: This one. I do not. There was absolutely no reason
Speaker 2: to be doing some banging and popping and all that
Speaker 2: stuff on the pots and the pants. It didn't need
Speaker 2: to happen. It made me feel like we were about
Speaker 2: to jump into a random I mean, after seeing the
Speaker 2: Random Talent Show, I'm like, oh God, now we're gonna
Speaker 2: just jump into some random music situation.
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it.
Speaker 2: But it was an idea of like the kids laughing
Speaker 2: and then them saying like, this is the first time
Speaker 2: I've actually laughed. And I do remember it going back
Speaker 2: to even though I was so separated from what was happening,
Speaker 2: I didn't have anyone that even lived in New York.
Speaker 2: I had never been to New York at that point,
Speaker 2: you know, of my life. Like there was just this
Speaker 2: moment where I feel like we were all kind of
Speaker 2: just like holding our breaths for so long, and then
Speaker 2: not long after, you know, or when the time came
Speaker 2: to feel like happiness again was so far, you know,
Speaker 2: from the devastation that you just felt like our entire
Speaker 2: country was going through. So it was somewhat although I
Speaker 2: know our listeners know how much I hate that kind
Speaker 2: of stuff. It was kind of ended up being like
Speaker 2: a nice moment because it was like these kids that
Speaker 2: were scared, and how scary it would be to be
Speaker 2: on this ship, right, like going for the crew too,
Speaker 2: like thinking about even just what we saw so much
Speaker 2: we were in the kitchen in this movie so often,
Speaker 2: and it being like how are we How long are
Speaker 2: we going to have these extra eight hundred people on
Speaker 2: the ship with us? How long do we have enough
Speaker 2: supplies for them to feed them as much as we're
Speaker 2: going to have to feed them for extra days or whatever?
Speaker 1: You know, just you also, I'm sure didn't know it.
Speaker 1: Are we fully underttacked? Is someone going to try to
Speaker 1: fly a plane into it?
Speaker 2: I mean? Right?
Speaker 1: You know what, like what is happen? Just nobody knew
Speaker 1: anything going on?
Speaker 2: Yes, especially to be a part like none of us
Speaker 2: civilians didn't know, but to actually be on a ship
Speaker 2: of going what is the next step? Where is this
Speaker 2: going from here on out? And just how again how
Speaker 2: terrifying that that time of it.
Speaker 1: And if you're a kid, you're nine or ten, and
Speaker 1: you see the adults freaking out, and you might be like,
Speaker 1: does this mean we're going to war? Like are they
Speaker 1: just going to turn the boat around and go off
Speaker 1: to fight somebody with us still on board. I mean
Speaker 1: just you wouldn't know, you didn't have the idea to know.
Speaker 1: So it was yeah, I can't I can't imagine.
Speaker 2: Very scary time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, well, thank you? Did you have more?
Speaker 2: That was it? All right?
Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much. We now come to the
Speaker 1: portion of our program where we score our film, and
Speaker 1: that's score rate. Let's say rdar film. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: one out of ten, one being the least unlike what
Speaker 1: we're going to do from petty officer first class to
Speaker 1: Vice admiral. So one out of ten low to high.
Speaker 1: And here are options for the week. You want to
Speaker 1: do one at a ten terrible green screens, one out
Speaker 1: of ten Laura fries one and at ten Boba fet costumes.
Speaker 1: One at ten diarrhea mouths. Please don't pick that one.
Speaker 1: One and attend Anthony's in very small safety nets. Or
Speaker 1: one out of ten poop chocolates. Please don't pick that
Speaker 1: one either. Which one you want, I'll leave it up
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll have to do terrible green screens.
Speaker 1: Because it was so prevalent in the movie.
Speaker 2: It just kept happening. It just kept coming back and
Speaker 2: you wanted to forget it, because you know you wanted
Speaker 2: to forget it.
Speaker 1: I agree. I can't remember who which one of us
Speaker 1: goes first this week.
Speaker 2: I actually feel like you went first for because our
Speaker 2: last one was back on the board, So I feel
Speaker 2: like you did go first, right or did I.
Speaker 1: It's back on board. You did it again. I gave you.
Speaker 1: I gave you my the because I was saying it
Speaker 1: all the time. I gave you a case of the douz.
Speaker 1: I did you because that's the under my sabrinas seas.
Speaker 2: I've got that right under and I've got it written down.
Speaker 1: The full name is Johnny Cappajala Back on the Board
Speaker 1: that never took off that you can't buy anywhere else
Speaker 1: because nobody does land boarding or whatever it's called. Is
Speaker 1: the name is the name of that film. So then okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you go first, take it away, all right?
Speaker 2: Uh. I liked this movie. I again, this was the
Speaker 2: first for me to see it, and it was the
Speaker 2: first for me to feel like these you know, real
Speaker 2: based on real stories. I was actually a part of
Speaker 2: understanding what was happening in the world at the time,
Speaker 2: and I was nervous, but again as it came and went,
Speaker 2: it was It was a good watch, and it was
Speaker 2: something that I'm going, you know, when there's a ride
Speaker 2: age to kind of talk to Monroe about this would
Speaker 2: be a great movie for her to see a little
Speaker 2: bit more knowledge. You know. It doesn't go too far
Speaker 2: into it, but it goes into the eyes of a
Speaker 2: child going through a devastating situation and scary. But it
Speaker 2: wasn't overly scary. I don't think it would frighten her.
Speaker 2: I think it would just give her a lot of
Speaker 2: empathy of like seeing what it would have been like
Speaker 2: had she been around during this time. So that's how
Speaker 2: I'm watching this movie now as a mom, and I
Speaker 2: really liked it. I thought it was a great Disney
Speaker 2: once again did a great job showing us the eyes
Speaker 2: of a child going through a very hard situation. And
Speaker 2: I'm going to give it nine terrible green screen.
Speaker 1: I like that, which is hard terrible green screens.
Speaker 2: It's hard to say for nine of them, nine terrible
Speaker 2: green screens, because there's probably at least nine in this matter.
Speaker 1: More, I agree with everything you said. Look, I am
Speaker 1: unabashedly biased towards the Navy. I saw the pride my
Speaker 1: father had every time he put on his uniform and
Speaker 1: how much it meant to him to defend his country.
Speaker 1: I grew up with that same pride in my country.
Speaker 1: Do we have problems, of course, we have problems. I've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. This country is an idea, but
Speaker 1: it's the best idea that's ever been here for the
Speaker 1: history of humans, and we're working on it, and it's
Speaker 1: we're going to hate each other and we're going to
Speaker 1: love each other. And there are times where we hate
Speaker 1: each other so much, and then something like this day
Speaker 1: of two thousand and one happens and we come together
Speaker 1: and for a moment we all feel like we're in
Speaker 1: this together, and we look at each other differently, and
Speaker 1: we act differently towards one another. And there's people out
Speaker 1: there now that disagree with you and are always going
Speaker 1: to disagree with you, and it doesn't mean that your
Speaker 1: first response needs to be hatred towards them. The second
Speaker 1: we stop talking is the second you look for other
Speaker 1: ways to confront people. And if you stop using dialogue,
Speaker 1: you start using other things. And it's horrible. And it's
Speaker 1: days like this in the history of our country. That
Speaker 1: remind us that we're all in this together and we
Speaker 1: all want the same things. No matter what you think,
Speaker 1: we all want. I think it was Kennedy who said,
Speaker 1: we all want to breathe clean air, we all want
Speaker 1: to drink fresh water. We all want our children to
Speaker 1: have better lives than us. We all want the same things. Yes,
Speaker 1: we might disagree on how we get there. And that's
Speaker 1: what this country is about, is electing people who agree
Speaker 1: with you. And even if you disagree with the people
Speaker 1: that are elected, that's what the next election cycle is for,
Speaker 1: and that's how you speak, and that's what we need.
Speaker 1: And so again I am totally biased for movies like this.
Speaker 1: What the men and women who put their lives on
Speaker 1: the line every day for our freedom, for the things
Speaker 1: to do. So I really enjoyed watching this movie. Maybe
Speaker 1: it was propaganda based. Do people always say after they
Speaker 1: watch Top Gun, Oh, it's just recruiting fight er plive.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe that's the side effect of films like this
Speaker 1: is more people want to go and sacrifice for their country.
Speaker 1: And you know, we saw the lives a little bit
Speaker 1: of the lives that these men and women live and
Speaker 1: the families they have to give up to go and
Speaker 1: make sure we're all free and so that I'm down
Speaker 1: for that all the time. As a film, of course,
Speaker 1: there are problems with it. The green screen is terrible.
Speaker 1: It's one of the worst green screens I've ever seen,
Speaker 1: And I just don't care because exactly what you said,
Speaker 1: this is Disney doing what Disney does, which is taking
Speaker 1: a very difficult subject matter making it palatable and not
Speaker 1: too scary for children, while not completely watering down what
Speaker 1: actually happened. Selma, Lord Selma, it wasn't we're going to
Speaker 1: give you a cookie cutter version of what happened. It
Speaker 1: was just what happened through the eyes of a child.
Speaker 1: And this, to me is when Disney is at their best,
Speaker 1: is when they do stuff like this. So I agree
Speaker 1: with you one hundred percent. I'm the only reason I'm
Speaker 1: digging at the one point is because of the film
Speaker 1: problems which were glaring, and there were a ton of them,
Speaker 1: and there were times it was slightly slow. I get it.
Speaker 1: I don't care. So I with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Where I gave this nine terrible green screens, it is, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: It's a great example of what Disney, I really love
Speaker 2: does is gives us an insight to a world that
Speaker 2: we would not necessarily know very much about, right, and
Speaker 2: being a family member of somebody who serves our country
Speaker 2: isn't something that everyone knows, you know, So it's it's
Speaker 2: a great way to open that question, open that topic,
Speaker 2: to ask questions, to look into, to research after you watch.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure during this time, like people that
Speaker 2: kids were starting to ask more questions. You saw on
Speaker 2: the interstitials of the care of the actors on Disney Channel,
Speaker 2: opening the book, opening that page of asking questions and
Speaker 2: talking about family time. You know, during the as as
Speaker 2: our nation was mourning.
Speaker 1: You know, I agree with you one hundred percent. So
Speaker 1: just next time you're gonna have a conversation with somebody
Speaker 1: that you know completely disagrees with you, you have two
Speaker 1: completely opposing views of whatever, maybe have a ten minute
Speaker 1: conversation about something you agree with to start. It's a
Speaker 1: great place to begin, even if it's Hey, you you
Speaker 1: like vanilla ice cream, So do I start there and
Speaker 1: then maybe go from something that you disagree with, because again,
Speaker 1: we're all in this together, whether you like to think
Speaker 1: it or not. And one of the things that's going
Speaker 1: to keep us together is something like our next movie,
Speaker 1: because it's a big one. People. Yes, we're finally doing it.
Speaker 1: We're getting into something that to me sounds well vaguely sexual,
Speaker 1: A three quel that's right and might be the biggest
Speaker 1: one ever on the channel.
Speaker 2: You're watching, ready, because you just said all in this
Speaker 2: together choice and I didn't.
Speaker 1: Even realize it, my.
Speaker 2: Guys, and I'm just sitting there going, I can see Kayla,
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Even realize I said it. But that's how perfect it is. Is. Yes, perfect.
Speaker 1: We are watching what I just like to call HSM
Speaker 1: three people, that's high school three. I'm sweet or whatever
Speaker 1: the kids are saying. Now there's words that I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Writer and Danielle try to take me. Yes, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, but you can buy Disney's now yet.
Speaker 1: MICHAELA and at List are now saying we've taken over
Speaker 1: my brain. I think that's true.
Speaker 2: You are in it officially.
Speaker 1: Yes, you can watch it early and prep for the
Speaker 1: recap because it's available to stream now on Disney Plus.
Speaker 2: Of course, of course.
Speaker 1: But first, before we get there, we're going to dive
Speaker 1: into a very vital component of the classic dcom formula
Speaker 1: and that's the musical synergy. So many of these Disney
Speaker 1: films feature original songs, of course, performed by the actors
Speaker 1: in them or musicians signed to the Disney label, and
Speaker 1: a major avenue to get to these songs was one
Speaker 1: of Sabrina's favorite things ever. Radio Disney. Yes, Radio Disney
Speaker 1: so cool. I loved it myself. So we are going
Speaker 1: maybe not to listen to because I didn't listen to it,
Speaker 1: but I went on a bunch of times and it
Speaker 1: was cool. So we are gonna be talking to Robin Jones,
Speaker 1: the vice president of Programming at Radio Disney from what
Speaker 1: we like to call the Golden Yearsteen ninety six to
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, she was instrumental in helping develop
Speaker 1: and break high school musical So yeah, obviously it was
Speaker 1: pretty awesome. We heard some great stories for her. Here's
Speaker 1: a little taste of what's to come.
Speaker 3: He said, I got this girl and he showed me
Speaker 3: her head shot or something and he said, I promise
Speaker 3: you know, she's Billy Ray Cyrus's daughter, Like, are you kidding?
Speaker 2: And he said, I think I have something.
Speaker 3: So that was when we really started to get stuff
Speaker 3: in advance, and really, you know, understand how we could
Speaker 3: work together.
Speaker 1: Man. That was cool. The only problem with the interview
Speaker 1: is she said some things that Sabrina is going to
Speaker 1: walk away, just like, Oh so I basically started the
Speaker 1: whole channel. Yeah, uh yeah. It seems Sabrina is a
Speaker 1: little more instrumental in some stuff than I even realized.
Speaker 1: But it makes perfect sense because Chetah girls kind of
Speaker 1: changed the whole ballgame. So you are going to love
Speaker 1: that interview, and you know, we really love getting kind
Speaker 1: of the deeper, behind the scenes stuff and she was
Speaker 1: there for all of it. So make sure to check
Speaker 1: out the park Opper episode later this week on Magical
Speaker 1: Rewind dedicated feed and for more info. Of course, you
Speaker 1: can follow us at Magical Rewind Pod on the Instagram Machine.
Speaker 1: Bye everybody, Ye