Speaker 1: Sabrina, do you like going fast?
Speaker 2: I do if I'm driving. I do not like being
Speaker 2: like on the back of a seado or even when
Speaker 2: Jordan drives his car really fast, I get really nervous.
Speaker 2: But if I'm driving, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Do you I mean, are you one of those speeding tickets?
Speaker 1: Oh do you do you have speel?
Speaker 3: Are you a speeding ticket?
Speaker 1: Lady?
Speaker 2: So many? It's crazy, It's crazy, really, yeah, what is
Speaker 2: so My insurance is.
Speaker 1: Just I'm curious? What is so many?
Speaker 2: I think I am like pretty much constantly at that.
Speaker 2: What do you get three points?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't think I've got one
Speaker 1: speeding ticket fifteen years ago?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, no, I swear. I it's like whenever
Speaker 2: one drops off, it's like not long after that, I
Speaker 2: I'm the worst. Wow, it's bad. It's okay bad, And
Speaker 2: it's been like that. I think I got my license
Speaker 2: and then I got my first ticket within probably that
Speaker 2: first year, Like.
Speaker 3: Oh man, yeah, well maybe Tim put off the right
Speaker 3: the right thing.
Speaker 2: I know to. To be honest, I just don't like
Speaker 2: driving anymore because I just because.
Speaker 1: You just assume you're going to be pulled over.
Speaker 2: I've gotten a ticket for not start like being at
Speaker 2: a red light and kind of being dazed, I guess,
Speaker 2: and not going and I got pulled over for not
Speaker 2: going like as fast as I should have. Like I'm just.
Speaker 3: I'm also convinced that certain people are just to track
Speaker 3: the police. That's me Rider Strong, same way, Rider Strong.
Speaker 3: It gets tickets. And he's not. He's by no means
Speaker 3: a bad driver nor speed demon. It's just every time
Speaker 3: you're in the car with him, you assume you're going
Speaker 3: to be pulled over.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm like a combination of both because I am
Speaker 2: a terrible driver and the cops loved correct and I've
Speaker 2: tried all of the excuses like you know, late for
Speaker 2: work or I have to go to the bathroom. I'm
Speaker 2: just and it's like they don't care. But there's other
Speaker 2: friends that get out of them so easily, Yeah, so easily.
Speaker 3: Well, next time you get pulled over, tell them you're late.
Speaker 3: For Magical Rewinding. Yes, welcome back to the show people,
Speaker 3: We are here once again. It's Magical Rewind, the show
Speaker 3: that makes you want to grab your friends, your PJS,
Speaker 3: and your popcorn and go back to a time when
Speaker 3: all the Housers are smart the waves, Tsunamis and Sabrina
Speaker 3: slowed down a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm Wilfredell and I'm Sabrina.
Speaker 2: Probably not gonna be slowing down. Probably, I've got.
Speaker 1: Nice women and gentlemen. Start your engines because.
Speaker 3: We're talking about the two thousand and three sports d
Speaker 3: com right on track. Yes, a story about teenage sisters
Speaker 3: and their absolute favorite pastime, hot dog racing.
Speaker 1: Is that hot rod racing? It's it's it's technically hot rod,
Speaker 1: but it's not really a hot rod. It's it's a
Speaker 1: drag racing is really what it is.
Speaker 3: That's what it looks, specialty drag racing cars.
Speaker 1: It's it's another Microworld. We love it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so did you ever want to start racing dangerous
Speaker 3: drag Starce?
Speaker 2: No, It's never been my thing. However, I did get
Speaker 2: a chance to go to the Indy five hundred in
Speaker 2: one of the cars and do a lap around the car,
Speaker 2: not the draft, like not the Indy car, but on
Speaker 2: like a convertible corvette or something, and got to sit
Speaker 2: on the back and do it. And it was like,
Speaker 2: I couldn't understand why people would get addicted to wanting this.
Speaker 2: This is like the energy the crowd, the sound.
Speaker 1: I've heard, it's just really truly amazing.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's it's unreal.
Speaker 3: I've never been a car racer guy, but I love cars,
Speaker 3: so who knows anyway. This film originally aired on March
Speaker 3: twenty first, two thousand and three, and whether Sabrina wanted
Speaker 3: to race doesn't matter because this one is based on
Speaker 3: a true story. Yes, we've got another double team situation
Speaker 3: going on here.
Speaker 1: Everybody's favorite movie.
Speaker 3: Courtney and Erica Enders, whose childhood dream was to race
Speaker 3: in the NHR Junior Dragster Nationals and break the glass
Speaker 3: ceiling in the boys dominated sport. It's all real people, Yes,
Speaker 3: and a bit of a spoiler here. Erica did end
Speaker 3: up turning pro in two thousand and five by participating
Speaker 3: in nhr's Power Aid series. Then in twenty twelve, she
Speaker 3: became the first woman to win it All when she
Speaker 3: defeated Greg Anderson on Live TV, and she'd go on
Speaker 3: to become one of the sport's premier names, now a
Speaker 3: six time eliminator national champ.
Speaker 1: Totally cool.
Speaker 3: Her sister, Courtney no longer races, but has a career
Speaker 3: in the sport. She is Erica's brand manager, and works
Speaker 3: for Elliott Motorsports and Flow Racing, which is a media
Speaker 3: company focused on well, very fast cars. Now, let's not
Speaker 3: get this movie confused with one of our favorites, if
Speaker 3: not our favorite, which is Miracle and Lane two. That
Speaker 3: is soapbox Racing, and that's the dcom starring Frankie Munez.
Speaker 3: Though the sports are similar, drag racing is the one
Speaker 3: that will get you killed and many, many, many fatal accidents.
Speaker 3: The worst thing that really can happen in soapbox racing
Speaker 3: is you find out, well you're allergic to the soap.
Speaker 3: I'm kidding, You'll probably just get bruised if you crash,
Speaker 3: which is which we saw, which we saw Frankie Minaz do.
Speaker 3: The Ender Sisters first caught national attention as kids when
Speaker 3: People magazine wrote a feature about them. Then the movie
Speaker 3: was made with the teenagers, and yes they did all
Speaker 3: the stunt driving you see in the film, which is
Speaker 3: pretty awesome. I figured as much, but that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: They also show up in the film in cameos and
Speaker 3: a really neat stat here is that when this decom
Speaker 3: first came out, twenty five percent of drag racers were women,
Speaker 3: and now today it is fifty.
Speaker 1: Percent half of all drag racers are.
Speaker 3: Women, and as usual, this movie's available to stream on
Speaker 3: Disney Plus. Whether you decide to turn off the podcast right
Speaker 3: now to watch or decide to listen to us first,
Speaker 3: that's not really any of our business. To be honest,
Speaker 3: we're kind of offended that you even asked us to
Speaker 3: be involved in the process. Have some boundaries for Christ's sake.
Speaker 3: And now let's get into the very fun cast. There
Speaker 3: are some really recognizable names up top, which is always
Speaker 3: fun and a reason that this one is still talked about.
Speaker 3: But first, before the big race, to participate in a
Speaker 3: little time trial we call a synopsis. Sisters Erica and
Speaker 3: Coordney enders break barriers in the male dominated world drag racing.
Speaker 3: But as family tensions rise and competition intensifies, the young
Speaker 3: girls must prove their talent, resilience, and belief in themselves
Speaker 3: to succeed on and off the track. Sabrina, let's push
Speaker 3: the pedal of the metal here. What are your early
Speaker 3: thoughts would you think of the film?
Speaker 2: I was actually very excited to watch this. I don't
Speaker 2: remember really watching it. I obviously knew what it was about,
Speaker 2: but the cast itself was something that I was really
Speaker 2: excited to see how they did with the d com.
Speaker 2: So I was excited, and to me, I love the
Speaker 2: very beginning where it starts off as our main character
Speaker 2: as a little girl watching her dad and then swiftly
Speaker 2: going into starting to make her dreams come true. I
Speaker 2: was in it from the beginning, like literally locked in
Speaker 2: ready to watch a great dcom.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel the same way.
Speaker 3: This to me is the ultimate model of dcom based
Speaker 3: on a true story, sports related, probably better than Tamed Like.
Speaker 2: So I was good and I felt I love that.
Speaker 2: It felt, like you said, like a true d coom,
Speaker 2: like what the d coms were formulated as. There was
Speaker 2: no like musical moment that gave it its own sparkle.
Speaker 2: It was really focused on the storyline and you know,
Speaker 2: the drama, the commitment, the dedication, the passion. I'm in
Speaker 2: let's go wheels are turning, ready to roll.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 3: I agree, old school Disney kind of concept. We're gonna
Speaker 3: take young We're gonna find kids that are in a
Speaker 3: microworld where they're excelling, and we're gonna make a movie
Speaker 3: about them.
Speaker 1: Dig it. Yes.
Speaker 3: Now, for the director, we have a somewhat familiar name,
Speaker 3: Dwayne Dunham. He's best known as the acclaimed editor on
Speaker 3: movies like Return of the Jedi. We talked about this
Speaker 3: guy all the time, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, and
Speaker 3: Twin Peaks, which you want an Emmy four. But we
Speaker 3: know him as the director of Halloween Town, the thirteenth
Speaker 3: Year Double teamed. Yes, and now you see it. A
Speaker 3: great dcom second stringer if you ask. And as I mentioned,
Speaker 3: we have an exciting cast here. First up a power
Speaker 3: name in twenty twenty six Hollywood bre Larson. Yes, Larsen
Speaker 3: was a child actor who we've seen in similar dcom roles,
Speaker 3: but now she plays younger sister Courtney. Larson is now
Speaker 3: an Oscar winner for her part in twenty sixteen's Room,
Speaker 3: and has been seen in a lot of movies with
Speaker 3: numbers in their titles, like twenty one, Jump Street, Short
Speaker 3: Term twelve, and Fast ten. But she also appeared in
Speaker 3: TV show's Lesson in Chemistry and soon she'll be the
Speaker 3: voice of Rosalina in the Super Mario sequel. But nowadays
Speaker 3: she's most recognizable as Captain Marvel from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Speaker 3: Let's add her to the list of possibly most famous
Speaker 3: to have ever been in a d coom.
Speaker 1: Are you a Brie Larson fan?
Speaker 2: You know I didn't recognize her at first, and then
Speaker 2: halfway through the movie, I went, Oh, my gosh, yes,
Speaker 2: and I just saw the Super Mario Brother preview, I think,
Speaker 2: and that makes me really excited to know that her
Speaker 2: voice is going to be included in it.
Speaker 1: That's really cool. Well I can know her, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean shocking to me.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 3: But I can tell you I can be the first
Speaker 3: one to say that Bree Larsen herself will, under no
Speaker 3: circumstances ever be coming on our podcast.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that's like never gonna happen.
Speaker 3: So a little bit will Yeah, I wish you would. No,
Speaker 3: sometimes you do. And then my old friend Beverly Mitchell,
Speaker 3: and I ask who I do know. Beverly Mitchell is
Speaker 3: the lead as Erica Enders. Beverly was very popular at
Speaker 3: the time for her work as Lucy Camden on the
Speaker 3: long running TV drama Seventh Heaven. She also appeared in
Speaker 3: Saw to the Crow, City of Angels and a slew.
Speaker 1: Of Christmas movies.
Speaker 3: But right now she's one of our podcast peers, she
Speaker 3: recaps Seventh Heaven on Catching Up with the Camdens. Also,
Speaker 3: Beverly in this movie is playing Erica, a fifteen year old,
Speaker 3: and in real life she was twenty two. But Beverly
Speaker 3: looked so young it really didn't bump, you know, which
Speaker 3: is rare for a daco.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: I know. That's one of the things about this movie
Speaker 2: that I just couldn't get over. I kept going, I
Speaker 2: wonder how old she really is because I remember in
Speaker 2: Seventh Heaven she was playing younger. She's older than Jessica
Speaker 2: bial right, Yes, I think, yeah, I think that was
Speaker 2: a thing. Like she played the younger.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and three, she was twenty two. I was
Speaker 3: twenty five. Yeah, so yeah, she's not that much younger
Speaker 3: than me.
Speaker 1: Oh. We won't get too much into her age though.
Speaker 2: Oh no, but I'm just saying just she just looks
Speaker 2: so amazing and plays It's great because she's got she
Speaker 2: brings a maturity level she does and her acting abilities
Speaker 2: to so great, and she she does this so well well.
Speaker 3: Also, the thing that's amazing is Bree was playing was thirteen,
Speaker 3: playing an eleven year old, so the two co stars
Speaker 3: were twenty two and thirteen, so probably didn't hang out
Speaker 3: a whole lot. And then we've got veteran actor John
Speaker 3: Linstrom plays dad Greg with two g's Enders. Lyndstrom has
Speaker 3: shown up on General Hospital as doctor Kevin Collins and
Speaker 3: on and off for forty years, wow, on't off for
Speaker 3: forty years, and somehow starred in nine hundred and eighteen
Speaker 3: episodes of another soap opera called Port Charles. And as
Speaker 3: we all know, anybody who's been on soap opera's, nine
Speaker 3: hundred and eighteen episodes of a soap opera is three
Speaker 3: months worth of work.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: But his first role ever was in the TV movie
Speaker 3: Facts of Life Goes to Paris.
Speaker 1: How I've never seen that. I don't understand.
Speaker 2: I've never known about that one. Well, we've got to
Speaker 2: look at that one.
Speaker 3: Then you take the good, you take the bad, you
Speaker 3: take them all to Paris.
Speaker 1: Yes, I want to see that.
Speaker 3: More recently, you've seen him in BOSH n cis Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Beyond the Gates and True Detective Jody Russell is
Speaker 3: mom Janet Lee, and she is no stranger to Magical rewinders.
Speaker 1: You know her from Go Figure.
Speaker 3: She also played the sports mom in that one, so
Speaker 3: Disney has a real plan to type cast her and
Speaker 3: a familiar face for me and Podmets World listeners.
Speaker 1: It's Marcus Toji as Randy Jones.
Speaker 3: Marcus was a busy child actor, most famously in Karina
Speaker 3: Karina or is it Karina Corinna? It's two names, either
Speaker 3: Karina Karna or Karina Carina, but there's two and Little Giants.
Speaker 3: But would also appear on TV shows like Family Matters,
Speaker 3: Party of Five, and two episodisodes of Boy Meets World.
Speaker 3: He is still showing up in Patriot and Workaholics, but
Speaker 3: most of his work is in the field of voiceovers
Speaker 3: like me on shows like Rainbow, Bright Moon Girl and
Speaker 3: Devil Dinosaur and the Legend of Cora. Now, sure drag
Speaker 3: races are fast, but what about this movie fast lane
Speaker 3: or slow lane? What are we talking about when it
Speaker 3: comes to runtime people? The only thing that matters when
Speaker 3: it comes to films, well right on track is the
Speaker 3: perfect title.
Speaker 1: Because it's eighty nine minutes Bingo baby.
Speaker 3: Sure it's off the target, but it's one short, not long.
Speaker 3: Thrilled to see it and I approve for the script.
Speaker 3: We have two writers. Firstus Sally Nemath. She was predominantly
Speaker 3: a law and order writer.
Speaker 1: Dun dung, dun, dun dun dud duh.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm in the middle of watching a bunch of
Speaker 3: law and orders right now, so you have to wonder
Speaker 3: how she was thrown into the Disney Rolodex. No clue,
Speaker 3: but Sally, if you're out there listening, let us know.
Speaker 3: But the other credited writer is a little more obvious
Speaker 3: for a dcom. It's Bruce Graham, who also wrote Anastasia,
Speaker 3: A Ring of Endless Light, and Tiger Cruz for the studio.
Speaker 3: He was also the mind behind the Monkey Hotel Clerk movie,
Speaker 3: Dunston Checks in It Has to Be a Fever Dream,
Speaker 3: and the nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: Christian Slater film Twisted.
Speaker 3: So let's get out the checker flag because we're taking
Speaker 3: into the Nationals.
Speaker 1: It's time to get right on track. We open at dawn.
Speaker 3: A suburban garage door opens to reveal a hot rod
Speaker 3: drag racer being everybody's gonna be like, it's not a
Speaker 3: hot rod, but it's a hot rod drag racer for us.
Speaker 3: Being wheeled out, a dad is pushing his young daughter
Speaker 3: in the driver's seat while narrating a fictional race. She's
Speaker 3: pretending to drive and win, but now it's time for
Speaker 3: her dad to go. She begs him to tag along,
Speaker 3: but she can't this time, and so he drives off
Speaker 3: in a truck towing the hot rod, and Erica waves goodbye,
Speaker 3: yelling rock and roll.
Speaker 1: Daddy stick him, and then we get our title right
Speaker 1: on track.
Speaker 3: Now at the track with the dad, Greg Enders getting
Speaker 3: ready to compete on well Track's lane. Two Yes, back
Speaker 3: at the house credits tell us that it's based on
Speaker 3: the life of the Ender sisters, while two chuds yes
Speaker 3: I'm saying chuds on bicycles bully Erica about having train wheels,
Speaker 3: but she's not having it. She tells the thug she
Speaker 3: can beat them anytime in a race, and so they
Speaker 3: find themselves the starting line just at the same time
Speaker 3: her father finds himself in the same situation. The green
Speaker 3: flag flies and everyone is off to the races. Greg
Speaker 3: hits the afterburners just as Erica's training wheels pop off.
Speaker 1: They both speed off.
Speaker 3: Winning their races, then celebrating, and then we jump to
Speaker 3: four years later. There's a lot of time jumps at
Speaker 3: the beginning. Here, a group of high school students is
Speaker 3: working with Clay, and now we see a young lady
Speaker 3: making a perfectly sculpted hot rod. It's Erica, now older,
Speaker 3: but just is obsessed with racing. And this is when
Speaker 3: I ask myself.
Speaker 1: Isn't this movie about sisters? We hadn't seen any sisters yet.
Speaker 3: That night, Erica begs her mom to join a new
Speaker 3: racing league in her area called the Junior Dragsters. She
Speaker 3: swears it's safe for dad kind of agrees the cars
Speaker 3: only go sixty miles an hour and when you're you know,
Speaker 3: eleven sixties not that much, and she'll be in.
Speaker 1: A fire suit and harness.
Speaker 3: But I always told the fire suits are just there
Speaker 3: to keep all your organs in for when you crash.
Speaker 1: But her mom, genetly isn't having it.
Speaker 3: And then we meet her little sister, Courtney, Yes, sister's here,
Speaker 3: who acts like a little snitch and.
Speaker 1: Calls racing dangerous while eating ice cream.
Speaker 3: Both girls go off to bed so the parents can
Speaker 3: talk out the racing situation alone. Janet knows that racers
Speaker 3: can die, which you know they can, and isn't sure
Speaker 3: what to do. But next were just thrown into her
Speaker 3: first ever NHR junior drag racing event. The track is packed,
Speaker 3: and now kids eight to sixteen will finally get the
Speaker 3: chance to race, just like pros. Erica's there so obviously
Speaker 3: her mom folded like a futon. Everything's coming together, but
Speaker 3: her dad is confronted by a redneck blue acid.
Speaker 1: Letting a little girl race is a good addia.
Speaker 2: Oh jeez, my gosh.
Speaker 3: And just in case you didn't know she was a
Speaker 3: little girl, her hot rod is pink with enders racing.
Speaker 1: Written on the side, and frankly, I thought it was
Speaker 1: the coolest looking one there.
Speaker 2: I did too. I loved hers. I thought it was awesome,
Speaker 2: except for I think they took it one step too
Speaker 2: far with what they had, like gold sequence in the inline,
Speaker 2: like the in like the inside of the car deck.
Speaker 2: Bro oh no, that was just like one step Like yeah,
Speaker 2: I think we could have waited, like you just passed
Speaker 2: on that. The pink, everything pink and black. She looks chic,
Speaker 2: she looks ready.
Speaker 3: That was cool great. I thought she had the best
Speaker 3: looking car there. Mine, by the way, would be green.
Speaker 3: I decided I had a long conversation with my wife
Speaker 3: last night that if I was ever thrown into a
Speaker 3: drag racing car.
Speaker 1: I'd want to speak green because it's my favorite color.
Speaker 2: Noted, No, there you go.
Speaker 3: People are even oh, by the way, if you are
Speaker 3: going to get me a late Christmas gift, green hot run, okay,
Speaker 3: people are even heckling. As she walks to the starting
Speaker 3: line to prep the engine, her dad gives her some
Speaker 3: last words of encouragement and tells her if she loses,
Speaker 3: she's no longer part.
Speaker 1: Of the family. I'm kidding, I added that, and.
Speaker 3: The announcers accidentally call her Eric because there's no way
Speaker 3: it's a girl.
Speaker 1: That would be nuts.
Speaker 3: A girl driver genetly is filming it all with her
Speaker 3: giant camcorder, and Erica is about to face Randy Jones.
Speaker 3: He's a cute boy who's a little nervous that he'll
Speaker 3: lose to a girl. But then we get red light,
Speaker 3: yellow light, green light, and young Randy does.
Speaker 1: Lose to a girl. Erica wins.
Speaker 3: Later that day at the track, Eric and her dad
Speaker 3: are celebrating with a little trophy when she notices a
Speaker 3: much bigger one. It's for the winner of the Nationals,
Speaker 3: and she tells her dad one day she's gonna win it.
Speaker 3: Her dad keeps her expectations in line, but thinks she
Speaker 3: could win it one day. But any kid who gets
Speaker 3: behind the wheel wants to win the Nationals, and there's
Speaker 3: a difference between wanting something and actually getting it, so
Speaker 3: she has to stay strong, which is exactly what I
Speaker 3: say about eating an entire pumpkin pie in one sitting,
Speaker 3: which someday I'll be able to do. I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: looking off pretending I'm thinking about eating a whole pumpkin pie.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, as a social clip, if just one
Speaker 2: from Costco. I'm really going to have some feelings there. Giant.
Speaker 3: They are giant, and someday I can do it, and
Speaker 3: I don't like you stepping on my dreams.
Speaker 2: All right, well we'll see.
Speaker 3: But you know who is in stepping on Erica's dreams
Speaker 3: her dad, because Erica knows that she'll win the Nationals
Speaker 3: one day, even though Sabena doesn't think I can finish
Speaker 3: the whole pie, but she's going to wait and see.
Speaker 3: And then we jumped to seven years later. I did
Speaker 3: not know i'd be doing math for this movie. But fine,
Speaker 3: they're now in their forties.
Speaker 1: I am not.
Speaker 3: Following what's happening with the jumping, but we are back
Speaker 3: in the garage and excited. Erica is behind the wheel
Speaker 3: of a brand new hot rod, and also Courtney's there
Speaker 3: finally behind the wheel of the old pink one, still
Speaker 3: being a little brat, but now she's racing too. Eric
Speaker 3: is moving up an age group and her dad warns
Speaker 3: her that means more work and more traveling. The girls
Speaker 3: that need to keep straight a's if they want to
Speaker 3: travel to the race, and if they get seized, the
Speaker 3: cars will be taken away. A deal is made and
Speaker 3: we officially have two kid racers and their girls.
Speaker 1: Did you know that their girls? Could you tell they
Speaker 1: were girls? That wasn't pointed out at all in the film.
Speaker 2: I did actually enjoy this teaching moment or a parent
Speaker 2: moment of like a if you can stay in, we're
Speaker 2: all in b we take away state chance like state
Speaker 2: state travels. See you're out altogether. That that sets some
Speaker 2: goals and it keeps things in perspective. It was great.
Speaker 1: I thought it was great till a little bit later.
Speaker 2: Yes, and.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like come on, dude, but any yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: get in wet.
Speaker 2: This is better than some of the most of my
Speaker 2: friends were encouraged to get good grades by getting money.
Speaker 2: I think it was like fifty bucks for an A,
Speaker 2: Oh my god, buy for a B. And if you
Speaker 2: got a C you owed your parents twenty five. It
Speaker 2: was like this crazy, oh my god. I think I
Speaker 2: got like maybe ten dollars for an A or something.
Speaker 3: Hence why you got money for a's. I got, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you should be getting a's. You're smart enough to get a's.
Speaker 3: Little to your potential get a's.
Speaker 1: I never did. I just always we won't get into migraine.
Speaker 2: I think this was a better thing, like, you know,
Speaker 2: because it's it's keeping you in line of like this
Speaker 2: isn't going to get out of control and your studies
Speaker 2: go away.
Speaker 3: I think the principle of it when you're first starting
Speaker 3: something like this, yeah makes sense.
Speaker 1: But then we'll get into a little later what I
Speaker 1: actually think about it.
Speaker 3: So we cut to Houston, Texas. It's a big junior
Speaker 3: tournament and Eric has made the finals. Did you think
Speaker 3: kids this age who literally can't drive on the street
Speaker 3: should be able to drive these fast cars?
Speaker 2: At first, I was in it, But then when we
Speaker 2: get to a part where it does become very like
Speaker 2: clear that like there's no driver's license, I'm like there's
Speaker 2: got to be some kind of courses that they go
Speaker 2: through and enable I'm sure in order to do some
Speaker 2: type of licensing, is what I was assuming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeremy a friend of Jerremy in high school who
Speaker 3: raced like the high high power go karts, like the
Speaker 3: things that did one hundred miles an hour and slid
Speaker 3: around the track, and he was doing that from the
Speaker 3: time he was like twelve.
Speaker 1: So I I'm cool with it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I get the idea that it's like, if
Speaker 3: you're really good at something, you're really good at something.
Speaker 1: But it does mean weird a.
Speaker 2: Lot of training. That's what I'm saying. There's got to
Speaker 2: be some type of they have to take certain training courses, sure,
Speaker 2: And in that case, that's what driver's license like training
Speaker 2: is too, So it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But we also live in a country where there
Speaker 3: are ages that are just completely and totally arbitrary, Like
Speaker 3: you can go to war and get married, but you
Speaker 3: can't have a beer at your wedding. So there are
Speaker 3: ages where they're just like, we're going to pick this
Speaker 3: number for one age in this age, right, So it's
Speaker 3: you know, if you're at thirteen and I think there's
Speaker 3: place I could be wrong, so please write Sabrina all
Speaker 3: the emails because I don't want to read.
Speaker 1: Them if I'm wrong.
Speaker 3: But I think there's certain places in the country still
Speaker 3: where like, especially if you work on a farm as
Speaker 3: a kid, you can get certain licenses at thirteen and
Speaker 3: fourteen to like drive the big equipment and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So I think that's still a thing. But yeah, it
Speaker 3: didn't bother me. It's such a cool little microworld that
Speaker 3: again it didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I and I assume because safety is
Speaker 2: such a big issue in the micro world that there are,
Speaker 2: like I said, some type of classes that they have
Speaker 2: to like they have to pass some kind of tests
Speaker 2: and able to like actually.
Speaker 1: Race you sure it would be fun, especially.
Speaker 2: And knowing the age classes goes up, the cars go up,
Speaker 2: the muscle you get, like, yeah, they get more muscle.
Speaker 2: So I'm assuming there's got to be some kind of protocol.
Speaker 2: They just don't go into it.
Speaker 1: Well, it is time for the finals.
Speaker 3: It's Erica versus Jordan Nolton, who may have a gender
Speaker 3: neutral first name, but it's a dude. His crew chief
Speaker 3: is his dad, a former Top Fuel National runner up,
Speaker 3: and despite just being a runner up.
Speaker 1: He's a champion face.
Speaker 3: Already trash talking to Greg about his daughter needing Kleenex
Speaker 3: when she I mean, this guy was such an and
Speaker 3: I was yelling at the screen. You came in second twice, Yeah,
Speaker 3: what high horse are you traveling on?
Speaker 2: And Also the thing that pissed me off is just knowing,
Speaker 2: like my micro world, like dance parents and stuff like
Speaker 2: this is not an over exaggeration a characterization of how
Speaker 2: their parents can be when they're way too invested in
Speaker 2: their kid's hobby. It's like this is real and not
Speaker 2: just it. I instantly hated this.
Speaker 1: Man, like me too.
Speaker 2: I hated everything. I just it was so easy to
Speaker 2: dislike him knowing that there are actual parents out there
Speaker 2: that would say something like that about a child in
Speaker 2: front of a child in.
Speaker 1: Front of them. Yes, no, it was infuriating.
Speaker 3: Also, if you're gonna make fun of Greg about anything,
Speaker 3: make fun of the fact that he spells his name
Speaker 3: with two g's.
Speaker 2: Or maybe something else. We shall get into that.
Speaker 3: Okay, both cars are now ready and set, so the
Speaker 3: only thing left is a green light. They're both off
Speaker 3: to a great start, positioning back and forth, but in
Speaker 3: the end Jordi wins, and his jerkass.
Speaker 1: Dad rubs it in greg'ss.
Speaker 3: A little later, Eric is forced to watch Jordi celebrate
Speaker 3: while she wallows. Her dad encourages her to go and
Speaker 3: shake Jordie's hand, even if he's a jerk, so they
Speaker 3: decide to approach him together. This is a great message,
Speaker 3: you got to learn how to lose to The two
Speaker 3: racers do shake hands, but Jordie's dad still calls her
Speaker 3: a loser and says racing isn't for little girls because
Speaker 3: of course his son won by what two milliseconds, so
Speaker 3: you shouldn't be in the sport at all. He encourages
Speaker 3: her to quit once again, and Greg, being the proud dad,
Speaker 3: does absolutely nothing, literally doesn't even say.
Speaker 2: Any Greg, you're getting there on my list, sir.
Speaker 3: So I get you don't have to swing it the
Speaker 3: guy for something like that, but call him a or
Speaker 3: say something about his kids, say something you're only a run.
Speaker 2: Grow up your family up a little bit. Yes, it
Speaker 2: didn't have to be as nasty in any sense, because
Speaker 2: I do like he's like the moral compass of this
Speaker 2: movie and very helpful in that way for his daughter. However,
Speaker 2: you gotta say something you don't not, I mean, otherwise,
Speaker 2: this douche is just gonna keep doing it. That's the
Speaker 2: hard part. You gotta put your foot down in some way.
Speaker 1: And this is the perfect thing.
Speaker 3: Would have been for him to turn to his daughter
Speaker 3: right in front of the guy and be like, see,
Speaker 3: this is what I'm talking about, good winners, bad winners,
Speaker 3: good losers, bad losers.
Speaker 1: This is a bad winner.
Speaker 2: And can't blame this the idiot because he's never won
Speaker 2: so exactly, and I would go I would have gotten
Speaker 2: a little I mean, bear would be real hot.
Speaker 3: This, by the way, is now the third instance of
Speaker 3: someone pushing them around without any repercussions whatsoever. That night,
Speaker 3: Eric is doing some race prep, working on a green
Speaker 3: light reaction time with a little computer. I want this
Speaker 3: when her sister annoys her with a feather, I just
Speaker 3: want to see how I.
Speaker 1: Do you know me?
Speaker 2: Every time a d com brings out some kind of
Speaker 2: mechanical thing, I'm like, first of all, is that real?
Speaker 1: It's gotta be I imagine that's right.
Speaker 2: It was such a cool little gadget. I was like
Speaker 2: interested into it.
Speaker 3: And so what I'm guessing it is for the people
Speaker 3: that haven't maybe watched the movie or whatever, So it's
Speaker 3: it's the light that they have that starts the race.
Speaker 3: And I think the button she pushes at the end
Speaker 3: is the button you push. I don't think you just
Speaker 3: hit the gas. I think there's other things you have
Speaker 3: to do in the car. I don't know, Oh really,
Speaker 3: I think you have to hit So she's like doing
Speaker 3: her reaction. Time to do what you actually have to
Speaker 3: do in the car, I could again send all your
Speaker 3: I don't know if there was.
Speaker 2: An extra button, but it definitely is like getting on
Speaker 2: that light, not going before it. You know, that would
Speaker 2: be one hundred percent where I would lose, like every
Speaker 2: race you jump starting. Yeah, there's no way I'd be
Speaker 2: able to sit or I'd just be so well like.
Speaker 1: Figure it out, but figure it out. You'd figure it out.
Speaker 3: You're a dancer. Timing is so important in dancing. I
Speaker 3: think you would.
Speaker 1: Figure it out.
Speaker 2: That is a good point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think you'd figure it out.
Speaker 2: Thank you always got my back here.
Speaker 3: Of course not Courtney wants to try, uh this little
Speaker 3: thing she's playing with, and of course the very first
Speaker 3: time beats Erica's time. These girls are starting to look
Speaker 3: like the Mannings. Of junior hot rod racing, but Courtney
Speaker 3: doesn't seem as into the sport as their sister. She's
Speaker 3: just a natural talent, apparently, and even though it's bedtime,
Speaker 3: Erica wants to stay up practicing. She hates losing and
Speaker 3: hates Jordi even more. Her mom warns her about being obsessed.
Speaker 3: Are these trophies really worth it? Eric admits it's not
Speaker 3: just the trophy. She likes inside a hot rod where
Speaker 3: she belongs. And also, this is where I'm I have
Speaker 3: no problem as long as it doesn't become an obsession.
Speaker 3: That's horrible. I have no problem with somebody wanting to
Speaker 3: excel and be the best at what they do, and
Speaker 3: I'm going to do what I have to do to
Speaker 3: be the best at what we need more of that.
Speaker 2: Not like I would be so stoked if that was
Speaker 2: my kid, like yeah, sure, okay, ten more minutes. You know,
Speaker 2: if that was what my kid was doing, oh, I'd
Speaker 2: be saying.
Speaker 1: And your grades are up anyway, and you're doing anything else. Yeah.
Speaker 3: We want more of the younger generation to want.
Speaker 2: To call it an obsession. I think it's more so
Speaker 2: just you know, I get you wanting to make sure
Speaker 2: that's not the only focus in the world. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I would be so stoked if my kid was like
Speaker 2: excelling at something and wanted nothing more than to just practice, practice, practice.
Speaker 3: And apparently there's an old saying that a true champion
Speaker 3: is somebody that hates losing more than they likes winning
Speaker 3: more than they like winning, right, And I think that's
Speaker 3: that's important. Again, it doesn't have to be the end all,
Speaker 3: be all of your life, but it do. We if
Speaker 3: you're gonna do something, do it right. Yes, So anyway,
Speaker 3: she belongs in the hot rod. She calls herself an
Speaker 3: alien because all she wants to do is race. Her
Speaker 3: mom encourages her to be nicer to herself and says
Speaker 3: she's not an alien. But what if she said she was,
Speaker 3: then it'd be a totally different movie. And maybe she
Speaker 3: turned into a bubble.
Speaker 2: It'd be Zenon or no, the Bubble.
Speaker 1: Movie where they they just turn into gas bubbles.
Speaker 2: God, No, I can't do the bubble again.
Speaker 1: You could just turn into gas bubbles.
Speaker 3: We're doing it again. We're rewatching Gas Bubble movie. Next day,
Speaker 3: Erica catches Courtney in the hot rod, pretending to race.
Speaker 3: Courtney says she can't wait until she gets to drive
Speaker 3: a real hot rod and doesn't get why her sister
Speaker 3: takes it all so seriously. We have a real difference
Speaker 3: in approach here, and it feels like this is going
Speaker 3: to be the crux of the film.
Speaker 1: Now we're in French class.
Speaker 3: We Erica is passing notes with a friend named Luanne,
Speaker 3: and it's an invite to a party on Saturday with
Speaker 3: lots of chocolate and hot guys. You know those old
Speaker 3: famous high school chocolate hot guy parties.
Speaker 1: My favorite kind of party, your favorite kind of parties.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you a chocolate fountain.
Speaker 3: And some guy named Doug. But Erica can't because she
Speaker 3: has a race. And the next thing you know, we're
Speaker 3: on another raceway in Dallas, but this time it's Courtney
Speaker 3: in the pink car. She gets the green light and
Speaker 3: easily wins. Her dad and Erica are thrilled, but when
Speaker 3: it's announced that she's broken a record previously set by
Speaker 3: her sister, Erica, her older sister is annoyed.
Speaker 1: Erica does congratulate her, but it's pretty hollow.
Speaker 3: We're back in the family RV now, and Courtney wonders
Speaker 3: why Erica wears makeup to the race. When she's just
Speaker 3: gonna wear a helmet anyway. We don't get an answer
Speaker 3: and it never comes up again, but we do get
Speaker 3: a knock on the door from a Jerry Trammel from
Speaker 3: National Dragster Magazine, big fan the National Drags NDM.
Speaker 1: So what I used to call it? Eric, I've never
Speaker 1: heard of National Drags.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's a real what god it must be.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing National Dragster Magazine is probably a or was
Speaker 3: back in the day. I'm guessing that was probably a
Speaker 3: real magazine. They had magazines for everything back in the
Speaker 3: day because there was no website.
Speaker 1: Erica assumes he wants to talk to her, but he
Speaker 1: wants to talk to Courtney. Yes, a rivalry is brewing.
Speaker 3: Later on, Erica is complaining to her friend and former
Speaker 3: racing opponent Randy Jones. She's happy for her sister, but
Speaker 3: it drives her crazy how well she's doing.
Speaker 1: And that's not a pun. She's even jealous of how
Speaker 1: natural Courtney is.
Speaker 3: In all the interviews, Erica admits talking about racing makes
Speaker 3: her nervous and tongue tied. Everything including racing, just comes
Speaker 3: easier for her. Randy says some nice stuff to Erica,
Speaker 3: but seems intimidated by some.
Speaker 1: Cute girls nearby.
Speaker 3: Erica wonders if she's cramping his style, but he admits
Speaker 3: his love life is non existent. They talk about both
Speaker 3: being single, and Randy says boys are intimidated by her
Speaker 3: ability to win, and Randy says that boys are intimidated
Speaker 3: by Erica and her ability to win races.
Speaker 1: We're now back at school.
Speaker 3: Eric's in the gym warming up for volleyball, watching cute
Speaker 3: guys play basketball.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they're at the chocolate party.
Speaker 3: But then some other girls bully Erica about racing her
Speaker 3: friends from earlier, the one with the chocolate and hot
Speaker 3: boy party. That one lu Anne tells her not to worry,
Speaker 3: they're just jealous. Then during hitting drills, the bullies don't
Speaker 3: let up. They say drag racing is in a real sport,
Speaker 3: and then, unlike her dad, Erica actually stands up for herself.
Speaker 3: And it was I think at this point where I
Speaker 3: realized just how much bullying was actually in this movie,
Speaker 3: which frankly was probably par for the course in the
Speaker 3: early nineties, was probably real.
Speaker 2: I it would be real now I would assume.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh god, it's awful.
Speaker 3: The two girls say sitting on your button a car
Speaker 3: doesn't take any athletic ability, but Erica mentions the g
Speaker 3: forces and the lung pressure, schooling them on the coordination
Speaker 3: and how one mistake could lead to well death. She
Speaker 3: spikes the volleyball and proves her point. That night, Erica
Speaker 3: complains for her dad, even though she has the same
Speaker 3: time as Geordie. He has tons of sponsors and she
Speaker 3: can't even get one.
Speaker 1: It's just not fair.
Speaker 3: She knows that her dad spends a lot of money
Speaker 3: on her car and wants to help. Greg admits that
Speaker 3: it's not fair and decides to find sponsors himself.
Speaker 1: She just needs to focus on the racing.
Speaker 3: And the next day, well, they didn't have to wait
Speaker 3: very long because Greg, with two g's, has bad news.
Speaker 3: He couldn't get his boss to chip in money because
Speaker 3: people around town are upset.
Speaker 1: Erica keeps beating the boys.
Speaker 3: He promises that once she's in the nationals, though, they'll
Speaker 3: have to pay attention. We're now back at volleyball. Erica
Speaker 3: slams into a ball bin shoulder first. She's clearly injured,
Speaker 3: but doesn't want to see a doctor. If she tells
Speaker 3: her parents, she won't be able to race that night.
Speaker 3: Erica falls asleep while studying and her mom noticed this
Speaker 3: is the volleyball bruise while tucking her in. She immediately
Speaker 3: tells Greg and he's worried that he's pushing her too
Speaker 3: hard for the Nationals.
Speaker 1: Is this for her or is this for him?
Speaker 3: Is kind of what she's wondering, and he admits he
Speaker 3: was a little jealous at first, but her passion for
Speaker 3: racing is undeniable. She has natural instincts which he doesn't
Speaker 3: want to ignore. Her talent handed down from God. Jened
Speaker 3: also worries both Erica and Courtney are missing out on
Speaker 3: normal kid stuff and now is time for the weekend's race.
Speaker 3: Jordie is talking to Jerry Trammel from that Dragster magazine,
Speaker 3: a beat reporter who apparently is very involved in regional
Speaker 3: junior drag racing. Erica and Randy, who is now her
Speaker 3: pit crew or in her pit crew and wearing very
Speaker 3: cool nineties oakly shades, walk by and notice Jordie. Erica
Speaker 3: is determined to beat him this time, and with his
Speaker 3: time trial run at eight point nine to one seconds,
Speaker 3: she proves she can, finishing with eight point eight nine
Speaker 3: On her way back to the RV, she decides to
Speaker 3: say hello to Jordy and his dad. She throws him
Speaker 3: some Kleenex for when she wumps him in the finals.
Speaker 3: This girl has a real mamba mentality, and her dad
Speaker 3: is disappointed with her attitude. He was embarrassed and she
Speaker 3: shouldn't down to their level as a store winner. He
Speaker 3: admits he wanted to stand up to them in the past,
Speaker 3: but it cheapens them. They eventually make up and the
Speaker 3: lesson was learned. And this is where to me, the
Speaker 3: d com really kind of shines through, because he has
Speaker 3: these little messages of like, you got to learn how
Speaker 3: to lose. It's almost more important to learn how to
Speaker 3: lose than it is to learn how to win. You
Speaker 3: got to learn how to do both. And I thought
Speaker 3: the scenes like this were really great.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I think that's what has always been something
Speaker 2: that I've loved about the d coms in generals, Like
Speaker 2: a good dcom has these great messages that aren't like
Speaker 2: constantly shoved in your face, but are like right there underlining.
Speaker 2: And I love this aspect because it is true, you
Speaker 2: know you can't. I teach that to my dancers a
Speaker 2: lot when you win, it's not. I mean, obviously, share
Speaker 2: your moment with your teammates, but you don't turn around
Speaker 2: and like scoff or look down at anyone else, because
Speaker 2: any other given day, the scores could change, because you
Speaker 2: could go out there and trip or do something that
Speaker 2: takes that trophy away. And it's just as important to
Speaker 2: be a good winner as it is to be a
Speaker 2: good loser. Give everyone the chobs that they deserve when
Speaker 2: they win. You know, I agree, And it's a hard
Speaker 2: thing at this age of this character in the movie
Speaker 2: to really grasp and to really put into their lifestyle.
Speaker 2: It is a tough one to do. It takes a
Speaker 2: while to sink in.
Speaker 3: I agree one hundred percent. And now it's time for
Speaker 3: the finals, and as you could predict it, it's Erica
Speaker 3: versus Jordi. It's the one we've all been waiting for.
Speaker 3: And then Erica hits the gas before the green light,
Speaker 3: disqualifying her before the races even started.
Speaker 1: Womp.
Speaker 3: Jordi is the winner in a very anti climactic ending,
Speaker 3: and it was like damn, now Erica is back in
Speaker 3: French class, not paying attention. It's that she has her
Speaker 3: little reaction time machine is trying her best to beat
Speaker 3: a record. She's caught by the teacher mid lecturer, who
Speaker 3: takes the gadget away and says, that's not ball, that's
Speaker 3: French for good.
Speaker 1: I think anyway, I don't know. I don't either. And
Speaker 1: now it's another racing weekend.
Speaker 3: Courtney and Gregor are working on a car when they're
Speaker 3: approached by a man named Will Coleman from Team penz Oil.
Speaker 1: They all have names like that.
Speaker 3: His daughter is a huge fan of Erica's and if
Speaker 3: she can show some talent today, he may be able
Speaker 3: to convince his bosses to sponsor her.
Speaker 1: Greg makes Courtney promise not to tell her sister.
Speaker 3: She's already put enough pressure on herself, but they know
Speaker 3: this is a great possibility for them, and now write
Speaker 3: At race time with Team Penzoil watching on, Randy notices
Speaker 3: a clutch bolt is loose on Erica's car. The crew
Speaker 3: tries to stop her, but once she sees the green light,
Speaker 3: Erica takes off. Her dad uses their communication device to
Speaker 3: tell her to stop the car, but the engine won't
Speaker 3: shut off and she can't stop the drag racer.
Speaker 1: Okay, so.
Speaker 3: She takes off and he then uses this thing to say,
Speaker 3: stop the car, Stop the car, Stop the car. Why
Speaker 3: when the clutch bolt and they're like, it's a clutch bolt.
Speaker 3: Why are they yelling to stop the race? Why doesn't
Speaker 3: he just go in and go your clutch bolts out,
Speaker 3: don't hit the gas.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Sheer panic, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Shabe and you need a better cuche.
Speaker 2: Because I also was thinking too this whole time, her
Speaker 2: buddy's kind of young to be having the job that
Speaker 2: he has.
Speaker 1: In this movie's young to be having the job.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, but I'm just saying like that could just
Speaker 2: have been like pure panic, Like you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I know him pretty competent though.
Speaker 3: That that was the whole point is that he's like,
Speaker 3: he's pretty damn good at what he does. Randy's like,
Speaker 3: Randy's arguably the most competent one in the film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So she takes off.
Speaker 3: She can't stop the drag race, and Greg tries to
Speaker 3: calm her down as emergency vehicles get into place. Her
Speaker 3: Mama Courtney watch on with baited breath as she bursts
Speaker 3: through the track safety nets at full speed. She eventually
Speaker 3: crashes into a rope netting and is knocked out. Sirens wail,
Speaker 3: and when the first responders arrived, the emergency crew removes
Speaker 3: her from her car with the jaws of life. Her
Speaker 3: dad arrives and is immediately supporting her. She's awake and conversing,
Speaker 3: but is obviously hurt and possibly concussed. She's airlifted out
Speaker 3: to a nearby hospital. We also get very dramatic music,
Speaker 3: and that was if I had one serious criticism of
Speaker 3: this film, it was the music. Real music in this
Speaker 3: movie was so high handed, so just.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it brought me in.
Speaker 3: Oh god, the music was just like and now we're
Speaker 3: having a special moment.
Speaker 1: It was just like, okay, it was it's really high handed.
Speaker 1: This new music brought me.
Speaker 2: And there's some some notable uh songs in the soundtrack
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 3: Are there Okay? I just it was more the score
Speaker 3: than the sound, than the than the song. The score
Speaker 3: was the thing where it was just like, there's times
Speaker 3: that sounded like a Boy Meets World episode where it
Speaker 3: was just like and it worked for a boy, it
Speaker 3: worked for like a Friday night TGIF show, but for
Speaker 3: a movie about drag racing, it was a little yeah
Speaker 3: got it, okay later yeah later At the hospital. As
Speaker 3: her family waits for an update, Janet is beating herself up.
Speaker 3: She doesn't intend on seeing her daughter crash ever again.
Speaker 3: Then a doctor arrives and informs them that she is dead.
Speaker 3: Everybody's still with me, and I'm kidding. She has no
Speaker 3: broken bones or signs of a concussion. She's just going
Speaker 3: to be sore for a little while.
Speaker 2: I will say this scene was a little with it,
Speaker 2: with it not being anything like she just has bruises.
Speaker 3: You did just see your kid crash it like eighty
Speaker 3: miles an hour though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but like Courtney's in the window, like it's like
Speaker 2: you would have known something. You would have known something
Speaker 2: that it was. We're looking into it. We're just making
Speaker 2: sure there's no internal damage, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like it was like awake, going I'm okay, yeah, she's
Speaker 2: up like doing.
Speaker 1: Jumping jacks in I'm fine going by it.
Speaker 2: Totally fine. But it was a little over the top
Speaker 2: as far as I really was like, wait, nothing's wrong.
Speaker 2: I thought this was where we were gonna get an
Speaker 2: actual like injury. Honestly, I thought this was when Courtney
Speaker 2: was gonna pick the reins up and start being the
Speaker 2: main character, Like, oh, yeah, and then there was just nothing.
Speaker 2: It was like, oh, she's got some bruises, like yeah,
Speaker 2: but it's fine. This would have been the end for
Speaker 2: me as a mom that one crash. Sorry, Monroe, I
Speaker 2: get it. That's your dream.
Speaker 3: We're out here, Yeah, that's this is where it's like,
Speaker 3: you can't throw somebody into their dream and then pull
Speaker 3: it from them. No, but that's the problems and we'll
Speaker 3: get into that later. So no broken bones or signs
Speaker 3: of a concussion. She's just going to be sore for
Speaker 3: a while. Everyone's happy, especially Courtney, who finally shows some
Speaker 3: of that sisterly love we've been hoping for. And back
Speaker 3: in the track, Randy is fixing her crashed out car.
Speaker 3: More impressive than a teenage drag race champion is another
Speaker 3: teenager who can replace a front end and well to
Speaker 3: rollcage within an hour. Mad respect for Randy my favorite
Speaker 3: character of the movie. With the car fixed, Erica is
Speaker 3: determined to make a run, but the races are over
Speaker 3: for the day, but she doesn't care. She just wants
Speaker 3: one run to beat whatever fear she has, and which
Speaker 3: is great. Her mom allows it, and you know, the
Speaker 3: shaking driver gets into her car. It's obviously a big
Speaker 3: moment for Erica, even if it means nothing in the
Speaker 3: overall race. In the end, she conquers her nerves and
Speaker 3: has her best time yet and guess what Team Pennzoil
Speaker 3: saw it all that night While eating in the RV,
Speaker 3: Courtney is ready to pick out her next car. She'll
Speaker 3: be moving up into Erica's division soon and has some
Speaker 3: ideas for what she wants. But Erica says, if anyone's
Speaker 3: get a new car as her, Courtney can have her
Speaker 3: old one. Meanwhile, Randy is just eating baked beans and
Speaker 3: wants with Sabbi on his burger up at the top
Speaker 3: of the RV. And then mister Coleman from Team Pennzoil
Speaker 3: arrives with the generous sponsorship offer, but instead of immediately accepting,
Speaker 3: Erica has a question. Why ask her today after the accident?
Speaker 3: He says, when she climbed back into her car, that
Speaker 3: showed him something. So she accepts the offer under one condition.
Speaker 3: They also have to sponsor Courtney. He says, yes, and
Speaker 3: Team pennzo Oil forever. And so we got our first
Speaker 3: professional photoshoot for Pennzoil. And while Erica is stiff and
Speaker 3: angry in her shots. Courtney is a natural, dancing around
Speaker 3: and being very cool. Both girls have new spiffy cars.
Speaker 3: That weirdo will oh, come on, she's hell yeah, she
Speaker 3: did the walk like an Egyptian.
Speaker 1: You can't not be cool doing that.
Speaker 2: She was the cool part for you.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can't be cool when you do the walk
Speaker 3: like an Egyptian. Come on, it's the early nineties. Walk
Speaker 3: like an Egyptian was the pinnacle of cool.
Speaker 1: That weirdo reporter.
Speaker 3: Comes back and wants to know when the sisters will
Speaker 3: race each other, and Erica says never, while Courtney says soon,
Speaker 3: but first.
Speaker 1: It's Courtney's first big race.
Speaker 3: She's unfocused as always and it infuriates Erica, who is
Speaker 3: part of her pit crew. But it should come as
Speaker 3: no surprise that Courtney is naturally a superstar and wins.
Speaker 3: We get a montage of the sisters winning over and over,
Speaker 3: making Team Pennzoil proud, and even signing autographs for little
Speaker 3: girls who want to drive some day to very Cool,
Speaker 3: and a few days later, of all places, we're at
Speaker 3: the DMV. It's time for Erica to turn sixteen and
Speaker 3: take her driver's test. The instructor takes a seat without
Speaker 3: any knowledge of who he's about to drive with.
Speaker 1: She takes the.
Speaker 3: Parking lot, turns at high speeds and spins out while reversing,
Speaker 3: weaving in and out of cones.
Speaker 1: It seems like she should have not gotten her license.
Speaker 2: For driving recklessly gotten her license. No, she did.
Speaker 1: It's a dcom.
Speaker 3: She comes to a screeching halt. The instructor loved it,
Speaker 3: and she passed with flying colors.
Speaker 2: However, parallel parking that giant truck was incredibly impressive.
Speaker 1: That's hey, I don't even I don't.
Speaker 2: Even parallel park my suv if it's not like the biggest.
Speaker 3: Spaces she's Erica enders it was.
Speaker 2: It was impressive. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: It was. We are now back at school.
Speaker 3: It's time for a volleyball game, and Erica is still
Speaker 3: mesmerized by the boys. Lou Ane wants to know if
Speaker 3: she'll be at Ice Tracks on Friday night, but Erica
Speaker 3: doesn't have a date.
Speaker 1: Lew Anne encourages her.
Speaker 3: To ask Hotty Hot hots and hots and hotty Hot
Speaker 3: basketball player Todd, but Erica's nervous, and just then Todd
Speaker 3: starts to walk toward her, but is intercepted by those
Speaker 3: two girl volleyball. Those floozies, bullies, bullies and floozies, they're Bluesy's.
Speaker 1: Thank you TM.
Speaker 3: Then it's Friday night at Erica's house and there's someone
Speaker 3: at the door.
Speaker 1: It's Randy.
Speaker 3: He's her date tonight and he's freaking out. He's never
Speaker 3: skated before. Erica assures him she hasn't either, so he'll
Speaker 3: be fine. And do we love this couple?
Speaker 2: I did love their friendship and I love the line
Speaker 2: before says I want to take somebody. I like somebody
Speaker 2: I can have fun with, and then boom we see
Speaker 2: Randy and it was like, this is this is great,
Speaker 2: this is a great friendship.
Speaker 1: I wanted them to be a couple. I just wanted
Speaker 1: them to be a couple, really did. But not with
Speaker 1: Todd around.
Speaker 2: God.
Speaker 3: My guess is Todd was front and center at chocolate
Speaker 3: party and Randy was not.
Speaker 1: Erica drives him to the rink in her truck and.
Speaker 3: We noticed her license plate frame reads this is not
Speaker 3: my boyfriend's truck. Now we're at the rink, Randy is
Speaker 3: still very nervous and shaky on the ice. Todd the
Speaker 3: smoke show basketball players melting all the ice around him,
Speaker 3: just being there and he's a regular Gretzky on skates.
Speaker 3: He says, Hi, but is you know, still with those chicks.
Speaker 3: Luanne arrives dateless. Her dude showed up to her house
Speaker 3: smelling like beer, so she ditched him. A shocking beer
Speaker 3: and underage drinking reference in a dcom is the one
Speaker 3: with the girl who literally dies in the car accident.
Speaker 1: The only other one where there's been underage drinking.
Speaker 2: No prom packed, prom packed, and then was it just
Speaker 2: there was one where they had like solo cups they
Speaker 2: did commented, yes, regardless, is very rare a d com
Speaker 2: to get a beer drinking? Okay, somewhat of a topic.
Speaker 3: You're gonna say that the thing I'm saying right now
Speaker 3: is a lie to bring you in, like like one
Speaker 3: of your gullible things.
Speaker 1: But this is the truth. You can google it, you know.
Speaker 3: The lines on solo cups are actually the measurements. So
Speaker 3: like the bottom line is an ounce that's a shot,
Speaker 3: and then the next line is I forget.
Speaker 1: What it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's like three or four lines on a solo
Speaker 3: cup and the top line is like the full can
Speaker 3: of beer. So that's not a pint? Is it a
Speaker 3: pint of whatever eight ounces. Yeah, but they're all it's
Speaker 3: those are all the actual measurement.
Speaker 1: It's twelve. I don't know, but yeah, those are actual measurements.
Speaker 2: Is if I know there was lines in there?
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's lines on there. You go. That's for you.
Speaker 1: And that's true. The date looks like it's super fun,
Speaker 1: even if.
Speaker 2: Rand it's true.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 1: It's true. At least even Row it's true. I just googled,
Speaker 1: thank you. I'm true. Everybody's checking the fact for.
Speaker 2: Having my back. Don't let one over on me.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 3: It's okay, thank you. The date looks super fun, even
Speaker 3: if Randy and Erica ended up on their butts all
Speaker 3: night after skating. Eric and Randy planning go get something
Speaker 3: to eat, but Todd and those volleyball jerkfaces that's better
Speaker 3: are having car trouble. The girls call over their arch nemesis,
Speaker 3: Erica and ask a favor. She quickly fixes their engine,
Speaker 3: and now it seems like they're patching things up between
Speaker 3: the girls for good kind of nice. Todd invites her
Speaker 3: and Randy to a party at his house, but she
Speaker 3: says they already have plans playing hard to get No
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: It was that was like Moore of like preface, after
Speaker 2: hearing about drinking, She's like, not a kid that goes
Speaker 2: to parties and wants to.
Speaker 1: Be No way, I think it was that.
Speaker 3: I think it was that she already had plans with
Speaker 3: her friends to go get something with Randy, to get
Speaker 3: something to eat. I think she I don't think it
Speaker 3: was about the drinking. I mean, you're in high.
Speaker 2: Spot, Okay, all right. I think, well then if that
Speaker 2: was the case, then like, I don't know, maybe, and why.
Speaker 3: Would she date Todd If Todd's gonna throw parties at
Speaker 3: his house with drinking, she would never date the guy.
Speaker 1: That's what it was about.
Speaker 3: That's true, And she's all in on Todd.
Speaker 1: She is, Yeah, it seemed like a nice guy. But anyway.
Speaker 3: When Erica drops Randy off at home, he assures her
Speaker 3: she could have gone to the party, but she says,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of sheet and heath. When Erica
Speaker 3: drops Randy off at home, he assures her that she
Speaker 3: could have gone to the party, but she says she
Speaker 3: didn't want to, which makes.
Speaker 1: Him wonder could they date for real?
Speaker 3: The question shocks Erica, who responds in the worst possible way,
Speaker 3: saying it'd be like dating your brother.
Speaker 1: There's nothing worse a guy could say.
Speaker 3: And as you seriously watch the soul leave this man's body,
Speaker 3: it was so sad, but he puts a smile on right.
Speaker 1: I didn't want to anyway, I was kidding.
Speaker 2: Did I even say that?
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, as he was dying inside, and I
Speaker 3: loved him. Team Randy forever, She says she had a
Speaker 3: great time, and on his way out, he jokingly ass
Speaker 3: so she can set him.
Speaker 1: Up, but Lunn, maybe Luann would like me. Oh Randy,
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 3: We're now back in French class, Erica is not happy
Speaker 3: about her B average progress report, so she stays after
Speaker 3: class to talk to the teacher. He explains that in
Speaker 3: order to get an A, she'll need to do extra
Speaker 3: credit and get an A on the final exam. But
Speaker 3: even with this planet place. Back at home, her parents
Speaker 3: are not satisfied. Based on their earlier deal, this means
Speaker 3: she can only race in Houston, but the Nationals are
Speaker 3: in Salt Lake City, coincidentally, the decom capital the United States.
Speaker 3: Erica tries to convince her dad to let her race,
Speaker 3: but he's not budging. A deal's a deal, and she
Speaker 3: must get her grades up. And I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: you've now been racing for years, you've moved it up
Speaker 3: to where you can be the national champion, and you're
Speaker 3: gonna not let her go because she has a B
Speaker 3: in French. Really, she's not failing anything. She has a
Speaker 3: bunny in French.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I feel like I would assume on apparent level,
Speaker 2: it's like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds like my parents.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna stick to my because again she mentions like,
Speaker 2: this is not this is not in cement. Just yet,
Speaker 2: I have to get an A on the final and
Speaker 2: then I'll have an A.
Speaker 3: I understand, but as the way they're setting it up
Speaker 3: is she literally has an A in.
Speaker 1: Every single class but a B in French.
Speaker 3: So we're pulling the chance for you to do the
Speaker 3: thing that literally could make.
Speaker 1: You millions of dollars in sponsorship money.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: What are you going to use more the money you're
Speaker 3: gonna get for sponsorship or the grade in French in
Speaker 3: your life?
Speaker 1: It's like, come all.
Speaker 2: My parents were like that with me, with acting and
Speaker 2: doing all the other things that I was doing, Like
Speaker 2: I had to keep my grades up because my dad said,
Speaker 2: I love that you have this dream, we are going
Speaker 2: to do everything we can to help you and support you. However,
Speaker 2: it is very important you have a plan B and
Speaker 2: your plan B to school. So I had to keep
Speaker 2: my grades up.
Speaker 3: I did too, But there's no way in hell my
Speaker 3: parents would ever have said, oh, you booked this commercial
Speaker 3: or television show or something you have to do, but
Speaker 3: you just got to b in class, so we're not
Speaker 3: going to let you do that thing you just booked.
Speaker 3: They would never have done that in ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 3: because it's ridiculous that. I mean to literally, you're doing
Speaker 3: something that is life changing, that you're one of the best,
Speaker 3: you can be the best in the country at ya,
Speaker 3: but you're not going to do.
Speaker 2: It because you have a extreme I would think that
Speaker 2: my parents, if I was like failing a class, would
Speaker 2: be like, yeah, no, that's that's totally different time.
Speaker 3: Or if she's got she's a cd S student and
Speaker 3: she's failing at every No, they've set it up to
Speaker 3: where she has a's in every class but a B
Speaker 3: in French.
Speaker 1: So now you can't go be the best at what
Speaker 1: you do.
Speaker 2: Hey, Holidays, that would be one hundred percent sure. You
Speaker 2: have to have like a four point seven to get
Speaker 2: into anywhere. Yeah, now so I'm guessing being insane.
Speaker 3: I'm guessing most colleges would be pretty impressed if you
Speaker 3: were the national champion at something. I'm guessing that's going
Speaker 3: to look better on a resume than a B in French.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's true.
Speaker 2: I mean I do think booking the Girls might have
Speaker 2: helped me.
Speaker 1: You think, no, of course it did. Of course it did.
Speaker 3: I booked, I was I was an okay student in
Speaker 3: high school. It was not a good student by any
Speaker 3: stretch of the imagination. Yeah, here you go, interesting thoughts.
Speaker 3: She's more likely to get into college by winning the
Speaker 3: race and getting an A. Absolutely hundred percent that's true.
Speaker 3: I was not a good student. I did the best
Speaker 3: I could, but it was all about acting for me,
Speaker 3: and I still got into amazing colleges because I was
Speaker 3: on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1: That's why it wasn't my grades.
Speaker 2: I didn't have the particular stuff yet. But yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean you go in and you're like, this is what
Speaker 2: my passion is, this is what I'm wanting to do,
Speaker 2: but I still want to get a degree. Like that's
Speaker 2: still something I'm wanting to.
Speaker 1: Again, what do you think is going to sound better.
Speaker 3: I had six a's, or I had five a's and
Speaker 3: a B and was the national champion dragonship.
Speaker 1: Come on, that's not.
Speaker 3: Even a question, by the way, saying something and seeing
Speaker 3: and saying in your kitchen, hey, you've got to do this.
Speaker 3: This is the deal we've made. Not sure that's legally binding.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Anyway, back at school, Erica is all alone in the library,
Speaker 3: feverishly studying French because God forbid.
Speaker 1: She only gets a beat when that.
Speaker 3: Hardy Hart throb Hardy Heart HOTSI hots and hotson guy
Speaker 3: Todd arrives again. They have a flirty conversation that ends
Speaker 3: with him offering to tutor her. So apparently he's also bilingual,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. So we get a montage
Speaker 3: of the various vocabulary work and touching each other's noses.
Speaker 2: It starts to get this is another d com rarity.
Speaker 2: It starts, I mean the touching. Oh yeah, he's a
Speaker 2: great actor in the way of like playing that like
Speaker 2: smoozer and I mean the French words. It just is
Speaker 2: starting to right.
Speaker 3: I thought he was gonna teach you some French kiss
Speaker 3: And I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 2: I did do I thought this was gonna be where
Speaker 2: we get a kiss.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did, but it's fine.
Speaker 2: I'm not that close.
Speaker 1: I don't want him together anyway because it's gonna hurt Randy,
Speaker 1: and I'm all about Randy.
Speaker 3: Randy's good, Randy's great, Randy's not good. Randy's great.
Speaker 2: Randy and Courtney to get together.
Speaker 1: It's fine, Oh, it'd be great.
Speaker 3: And after a full day of work, he asked her
Speaker 3: out to a movie, but her weekends are just so
Speaker 3: busy with racing.
Speaker 1: She can't find an open day.
Speaker 3: Todd thinks she's just blowing him off, and now she's
Speaker 3: going to die alone. She's bummed and about to drive
Speaker 3: off when Lune stops her. She's got last year's French
Speaker 3: final and the teacher never changes the test. Erica doesn't
Speaker 3: want to cheat, but leu Anne promises her it's.
Speaker 1: Just a study aid. No, lu Anne, that's flat out cheating. Yes.
Speaker 3: The next day, it's a girl's volleyball game and we
Speaker 3: see Erica performing a game winning spike. Congrats to her,
Speaker 3: but hilariously, it's executed by one of the worst body
Speaker 3: doubles that we've ever seen on Magical rewind because Beverly
Speaker 3: in real life is five to two, so there's no
Speaker 3: way in the world she's spiking a volleyball either way.
Speaker 3: The team celebrates because they are going to the volleyball
Speaker 3: finals this Saturday at nine am. Luckily, Erica only has
Speaker 3: a race the night before and knows that they leave
Speaker 3: right away, they could still make it back in time,
Speaker 3: so now we're back on the track. Erica's racing that weekend,
Speaker 3: then continuing to win as planned. The family leaves at night,
Speaker 3: but on their way home, the RV breaks down, leaving
Speaker 3: them stranded on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: Erica's stressing while her dad works on the engine.
Speaker 3: She needs to see it back for volleyball, but he's
Speaker 3: not sure they're going to make it in time. The
Speaker 3: next morning, we see the RV arrive at school. I
Speaker 3: swear to God, I thought they were going to make
Speaker 3: it just in time to see her team lose. She
Speaker 3: spins it to the gym, but it's too late, and
Speaker 3: now her coaching teammates are mad at her.
Speaker 1: They got crushed.
Speaker 3: Even her coach is like, coach, way to go, you
Speaker 3: stupid jer It was like, oh my god, no, it was.
Speaker 2: I mean if the family obviously the family would have
Speaker 2: you know, the dad or the mom would have let
Speaker 2: the coach know, like, hey, we've got this. This is
Speaker 2: her main priority. We have this even if we make
Speaker 2: it back like it's going to be cutting it close.
Speaker 3: Also, how good is your team if the entire team
Speaker 3: revolves around the five foot two member.
Speaker 2: One team, join the one person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your team sucks, coach. It's not her fault.
Speaker 2: That's insane.
Speaker 1: That's insane insane.
Speaker 3: That night, Eric is still tirelessly studying for finals, still
Speaker 3: unsure if she can pull this off.
Speaker 1: With the pressure of her nearby racing trophies, she knows
Speaker 1: what she has to do.
Speaker 3: She pulls out Luene's French Final, but instead of cheating,
Speaker 3: she decides to just tear it up, and when her
Speaker 3: dad gets home from work he hears metal being tossed around.
Speaker 3: It's Erica putting her trophies in storage. She's quitting racing.
Speaker 3: She tells her dad she has no friends and can't
Speaker 3: seem to get her life in order. With the French
Speaker 3: Final tomorrow, she just doesn't feel any of this is
Speaker 3: worth it anymore. Her dad admits he gets where she's
Speaker 3: coming from and that it's okay if she wants to quit.
Speaker 1: Another good act.
Speaker 3: I was shocked, but I guess a good message, especially
Speaker 3: if you're young, Like, if you're truly not having fun anymore,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to force you to do this.
Speaker 2: Yes, that I agree with. However, I think this would
Speaker 2: have been the moment he could have said, look, we
Speaker 2: know that we've put a lot of pressure on you
Speaker 2: about your grades, that it's not worth it for you
Speaker 2: to go ahead and just give this all up. If
Speaker 2: you get a B, that's okay, we can still rape
Speaker 2: you got a three point that we could have had it.
Speaker 2: You know, if there was a moment instead he's like, hey,
Speaker 2: you want to give up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yess she can. That's true. He did let her
Speaker 1: quit awfully fast.
Speaker 2: Because it's not just about her, and now she's got
Speaker 2: a sponsor, she has a yes contract. We assume, like,
Speaker 2: can you imagine just quit tonight, let's write about it
Speaker 2: in the morning, let's let's go over it, get some rest.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine calling penns Oil and saying, thank you
Speaker 3: for the multimillions of dollars you give me, but my
Speaker 3: daughter got a B, so we're not gonna let her race.
Speaker 2: I mean that's what he would have backed off.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm telling her, is your test.
Speaker 2: No matter how should it matter? Nothing should be stressing
Speaker 2: you out this month.
Speaker 3: So not only not only do I have to be
Speaker 3: a racer and a national champion, but I need to
Speaker 3: have perfect grades. Yeah, that's the standard you're setting for me.
Speaker 3: That's insane. Oh my god, and it's yeah. Anyway, she's
Speaker 3: quitting racing. She tells her that she has no friends
Speaker 3: and can't seem to get her life in order with
Speaker 3: the French final tomorrow, she just doesn't feel like any
Speaker 3: of it's worth any anything anymore, which is a lot
Speaker 3: of emphasis on French. Her dad admits he gets where
Speaker 3: she's coming from and it's okay if she wants to quit.
Speaker 3: Erica is shocked. She expected him to be mad, but
Speaker 3: he's just surprised. She's a really talented driver. But he
Speaker 3: has her back and loves her no matter what. He
Speaker 3: gusses her forehead and tells her to get some rest
Speaker 3: for the big day tomorrow, obviously meaning French because it's
Speaker 3: so important in that family. The next morning, on her
Speaker 3: way into school, Erica bumps into Desert Island Dreamboat Todd.
Speaker 2: Todd Desert Islands Short. He's on one of these reality
Speaker 2: shows on his island.
Speaker 3: I don't know why. The only thing I know how
Speaker 3: to say is my pencil is big. And that's literally
Speaker 3: what I just said was bone crayon as large. Isn't
Speaker 3: that awful that for some reason that's the only thing
Speaker 3: I know to say in French?
Speaker 1: My god, what do you mean exactly?
Speaker 3: I guess from a movie that I grew up watching
Speaker 3: called Gotcha with Anthony Edwards, and he's learning French, and
Speaker 3: all I can say is my pencil.
Speaker 1: Is big and yellow. He says, bon bon or something
Speaker 1: like that. It's my pencil is big and yellow. It's
Speaker 1: all he knows how to say.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's oh my gosh, that's my French list.
Speaker 1: And I can do the cuchet thing, but who does
Speaker 1: that anymore? Anyway.
Speaker 3: He's wearing his letterman jacket, which he appears to wear
Speaker 3: day and night. He probably bathes in it. She apologizes
Speaker 3: for the other day. She wasn't trying to be rude,
Speaker 3: but he's obviously still bothered by it. She does want
Speaker 3: to go out with him, and now that she's quit racing,
Speaker 3: she has free time. He thinks it's crazy she quit, obviously,
Speaker 3: and promises to call her later, we rejoin Erica as
Speaker 3: she finishes up her French final Super Important, and she
Speaker 3: seems pretty confident with her performance. Back at home, Erica
Speaker 3: is watching Courtney leave for the race with Randy and
Speaker 3: her dad. She's obviously bummed but wishes him luck. Now,
Speaker 3: with a rare free weekend, she has no idea what
Speaker 3: to do with herself. She's just bored and sad and
Speaker 3: laying around the house. At the racetrack, Courtney continues her
Speaker 3: winning streaking Randy and Greg to perform a celebration that
Speaker 3: includes the running Man and a chest bump, and once
Speaker 3: the weekend's over, they return home to Erica, asking Courtney
Speaker 3: how she did, but instead of an answer, her little
Speaker 3: sister gives her some real sass, and that night, while
Speaker 3: getting ready for bed, the girls finally talk it out.
Speaker 3: Courtney is mad that Erica quit because now racing isn't
Speaker 3: fun without her. Eric explained she quit because of reasons
Speaker 3: that are hard to explain, which isn't explaining anything, but
Speaker 3: Courtney thinks it's because she's scared she'll lose to someone,
Speaker 3: maybe even her. And now back at school, Erica got
Speaker 3: her French final back. Because now this film is just
Speaker 3: about French, and she got an a hey, she did it.
Speaker 3: She jumps up and squeals, yes, we in class, startling
Speaker 3: everyone in the process, And just like that, she's unpacking
Speaker 3: her trophies and returning to racing. She's back on the
Speaker 3: track like she didn't miss a day. So she qualifies
Speaker 3: for the national impressive eight point eight seven. She quit
Speaker 3: for a weekend.
Speaker 1: That was it. She literally quit for forty eight hours.
Speaker 2: I'm sure I haven't raised one yet, but I'm sure
Speaker 2: very quickly how things change within a teenager.
Speaker 1: It's actually very teenager to be like I'm back.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, I'm good, and I'm good yeah, And
Speaker 3: then she wants to take another trial run.
Speaker 1: She notices her name isn't scheduled.
Speaker 3: The national official has a sketchy reason about someone getting
Speaker 3: scratched and making an odd number of racers in her
Speaker 3: age bracket, but since she has her time now, it
Speaker 3: shouldn't be an issue, but she definitely.
Speaker 1: Wants to practice.
Speaker 3: Courtney overhears the issue and volunteers to race her sister,
Speaker 3: since they have the same type of car. Erica is hesitant,
Speaker 3: but as long as their parents don't eject, they allow
Speaker 3: it outside of competition. And now we have the race
Speaker 3: we've wanted people enders versus enders. The girls' cars make
Speaker 3: their way to the starting line, and okay, they obviously
Speaker 3: do this to warm up the tires, but it's to
Speaker 3: me one of the coolest things is seeing how they
Speaker 3: like push the car sideways and they like throw it
Speaker 3: sideways and then you jam it back the other way
Speaker 3: with the thing.
Speaker 1: That was like, you need control of the car to
Speaker 1: do that. That was super good.
Speaker 2: It took me a while to realize they were doing
Speaker 2: it on purpose.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like, it's like, what's happening?
Speaker 2: And then I I'm like, oh, I think it's like
Speaker 2: a warm up thing.
Speaker 3: Yes, they warm up the tires and they're like throw
Speaker 3: in the back end one way and you got a
Speaker 3: jam at the other way. It was you need super
Speaker 3: amazing control of that vehicle to do that, and it
Speaker 3: was really cool.
Speaker 2: I try to do something like that and like a
Speaker 2: go kart and I'm in the wall a go krt.
Speaker 1: You would have been pulled over on your drive to
Speaker 1: the go kart track. That's what you said. True.
Speaker 3: The girls cars make their way to the starting line,
Speaker 3: and even though it's just practice, the crowd is interested
Speaker 3: in this first ever sibling rivalry battle. Randy is put
Speaker 3: in charge of both racers, even though hopefully, as Sabrina said,
Speaker 3: he's gonna end up with Courtney because I don't like
Speaker 3: this guy with I don't like Erica with Todd, and as.
Speaker 1: Her parents realize, no matter who wins, it's going to
Speaker 1: be a long drive home.
Speaker 3: And then we get a green light and the race
Speaker 3: is on their neck and neck the whole race, but
Speaker 3: Courtney pulls it off, winning by just a few milliseconds.
Speaker 3: She's concerned her older sister let her win, but Erica
Speaker 3: ashers or she just got a bad start, so Courtney
Speaker 3: suggests she loosens up, and in return, Erica challenges her
Speaker 3: to the grudge batch again, and this time Erica does
Speaker 3: relax and becus is on her breathing, leading her to
Speaker 3: a big breakaway victory. She may have just cracked the code.
Speaker 3: That night, the family drives home, but Erica can't sleep.
Speaker 3: She wakes up her sister to thank her for the advice.
Speaker 3: She's going to relax now when she faces Jordy in
Speaker 3: the trial. This is what was something that I thought
Speaker 3: was really interesting When she says to her, the only
Speaker 3: time you lose is when you really want to win. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I thought that was kind of a good message, like,
Speaker 3: when you really want to win, you lose, so relax.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you overthink, you hesitate, you do certain things for sure.
Speaker 1: And you're not fluent in French, so how good are you?
Speaker 3: The next morning, while making breakfast, Erica sees an ESPN
Speaker 3: report or an ESPEN report as I call it, about
Speaker 3: the weekend's event in Phoenix. The anchor highlights a promising
Speaker 3: race between Erica and that NEPO baby Jordi in the
Speaker 3: teenage division, which is cool but also unlikely.
Speaker 1: Something you'd got to actually see on Sports Center.
Speaker 3: Right then, Beefy, Beefcake, Beefcake Beeferson Todd shows up at
Speaker 3: the house with a good.
Speaker 1: Luck Teddy bear, come on Todd.
Speaker 3: Erica runs down to say hi, all while Dad watches
Speaker 3: on from the garage.
Speaker 1: He's concerned.
Speaker 3: Genantly convinces him to chill Todd, because that's one thing
Speaker 3: this girl needs in her life is more stuff, more
Speaker 3: stuff to worry about.
Speaker 1: Now, let's get her dating.
Speaker 3: Tom promises to watch the race with some friends at
Speaker 3: his house, and the relationship is also off to the races,
Speaker 3: And I just heard.
Speaker 1: Randy die in the background, and so that I'm team Randy.
Speaker 1: I'm always team Randy.
Speaker 3: And so next thing you know, we're at Nationals, an
Speaker 3: event with tens of thousands in attendance and the best
Speaker 3: junior races in the world competing. We see the enders
Speaker 3: truck arrive and it looks like they filmed this at
Speaker 3: a real race. I mean, there's no way these are
Speaker 3: all extras. There's no way this. I mean it was
Speaker 3: also the image got blurrier, so it's obviously from a
Speaker 3: different camera. I mean, this was stock footage of a
Speaker 3: real race, or they filmed this part at a real race.
Speaker 1: You really got the feeling it was. You felt the
Speaker 1: vibe for sure.
Speaker 2: There was heightened fork. You've definitely felt like the emphasis
Speaker 2: on this race totally.
Speaker 3: Now, Erica can't believe how many of the fans there are,
Speaker 3: young girls holding up signs and excited to see her race.
Speaker 3: Reporters are even interviewing her, but only asking what it
Speaker 3: feels like to be the only girl on the track.
Speaker 1: She's like, Hey, everybody else here, I'm just a racer.
Speaker 1: Leave me alone.
Speaker 3: We rejoin her later with two impressive wins already under
Speaker 3: her belt. It's the semifinals and the will and the
Speaker 3: winner will face Jordi tomorrow in the finals.
Speaker 1: She wins easily, and now the stage is set.
Speaker 3: Jordy and his dad were watching on too, and now
Speaker 3: feel like they have to do something about this. Running
Speaker 3: off to the commissioner, What a bunch of dicks, we
Speaker 3: find out they're accusing Greg of having.
Speaker 1: Too many g's in his name.
Speaker 3: I'm kidding of cheating because Erica had a dozen perfect
Speaker 3: starts in a row, and he's a computer genius.
Speaker 1: He must be up to something.
Speaker 3: Erica argues she's been practicing her reaction time with every
Speaker 3: free minute she has, but Jordie's dad has filed an
Speaker 3: official protest.
Speaker 1: Now she's on hold until the matter is investigated properly.
Speaker 3: Randy oversees the committee search for illegal items on her car,
Speaker 3: which continues through the night, when all of a sudden
Speaker 3: done obviously there's no evidence of cheating. She wouldn't even
Speaker 3: cheat on a French test. The protest has been dismissed.
Speaker 3: Jordie's dad wants to appeal, but he already wants him
Speaker 3: to drop it. They end up agreeing that this will
Speaker 3: be solved at the race tomorrow, which is how it
Speaker 3: should be.
Speaker 1: That night Erica can dance off. I mean, oh now
Speaker 1: I wanted it to be a dance off. Damn it,
Speaker 1: you just ruined the movie for me.
Speaker 3: That night, Erica can't sleep again, but this time it's
Speaker 3: Courtney that strikes up a conversation. She says, even though
Speaker 3: they fight sometimes, she could never race without her big sister.
Speaker 3: The sport was for boys, but then Erica had the
Speaker 3: guts to race anyway, and now it's easier for everyone,
Speaker 3: no matter what happens against Jordie.
Speaker 1: She's very proud of her big sister. It was a
Speaker 1: nice moment.
Speaker 3: So the sun rises on the final day of racing
Speaker 3: and Erica is up early. She goes searching for Randy,
Speaker 3: because Randy's the heart of everything, and finds him sleeping
Speaker 3: inside the car. He was up all night making sure
Speaker 3: the officials put everything back together correctly. He only trusts himself.
Speaker 3: What a cutie pie. He's also stuck inside the car,
Speaker 3: which is yeah, It's like, did they build it around him?
Speaker 3: He fell asleep and they just built the car around him.
Speaker 3: He wakes up on the starting line.
Speaker 1: What the hell? It is?
Speaker 3: Time for the big race and Piggy perfect ten. Todd
Speaker 3: is at his watch party with dozens of other kids
Speaker 3: from the school and the French teacher if you noticed,
Speaker 3: cheering her on. Jordy and Erica make it to the
Speaker 3: starting line, just in time for these sisters to share
Speaker 3: an awkward secret handshake. The drivers put on their helmets
Speaker 3: and it's time to put the pedal to the middle.
Speaker 3: Greg gives his daughter one last rock and roll stick
Speaker 3: them as the engines per. Erica readies herself for the
Speaker 3: green light and hears all the haters in her head.
Speaker 3: They never thought the little girl could make it to
Speaker 3: the finals, and yet here she is, and she's always
Speaker 3: been nervous to lose to Jordi, with all the repeated thoughts.
Speaker 3: In doubts, she accidentally hits the gas and almost false
Speaker 3: starts again. She quickly regains her composure and remembers her
Speaker 3: sister's advice, take a deep breath, relax and think of Randy.
Speaker 3: I added the last part, and instead of intrusive thoughts,
Speaker 3: Erica hears words of passion and encouragement, and within the calm,
Speaker 3: the lights turn green, the races are off, and they're
Speaker 3: trading off the lead back and forth. Jordi Thenica Erica,
Speaker 3: then Jordy, and at the finished line, Erica takes over
Speaker 3: and wins her family Randy Todd watch party.
Speaker 1: Everyone's ecstatic. Erica can't believe it. Her dreams have come true.
Speaker 1: Now Loan.
Speaker 3: At the finish line, Jordi puts aside his frustration and
Speaker 3: congratulates Erica. Hey, maybe he's not as much of it
Speaker 3: as his dad. They compliment each other in agree on
Speaker 3: a rematch soon. Erica reunites with her crew for the
Speaker 3: trophy ceremony where she's crowned the new NHR Junior Champion.
Speaker 3: She kisses the trophy and holds it above her head
Speaker 3: as she basks in the applause, she invites Courtney to
Speaker 3: share the stage with her.
Speaker 1: She tells her to get used to it. She's next.
Speaker 3: We assume in on the trophy one last time, and
Speaker 3: we get some updates about Erica, who was the NHRA
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year in two thousand and one while
Speaker 3: winning thirty seven junior drag racing championships and attending Texas
Speaker 3: A and M.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing the drag racing got her in more than
Speaker 1: the A and French And.
Speaker 3: In addition to that, Courtney has won twenty six Junior
Speaker 3: drag Racing championships as well. We get to see a
Speaker 3: picture of the real pioneers Erica and Courtney Enders. And
Speaker 3: that's our movie.
Speaker 1: Real reviews. What do you got? I think you got
Speaker 1: the five.
Speaker 2: Stars, got the five star hope It.
Speaker 1: Just says I love Randy, Randy forever. Five stars.
Speaker 2: This was a good one. Actually five star here from
Speaker 2: nine Bros.
Speaker 1: Nine something like that.
Speaker 2: Sounds like a bro because it goes Beverly Mitchell is
Speaker 2: so so so hot, hot hot. It was the coolest
Speaker 2: movie ever because it had racing and Beverly Mitchell in it.
Speaker 2: She is really hot, so so is the other girl
Speaker 2: in it. I also like it because it is a
Speaker 2: real story about a girl and what happened to her
Speaker 2: and all that. This is why I really like the movie.
Speaker 1: Five stars.
Speaker 2: Okay and all that and all that and all that,
Speaker 2: all the stuff that roast nine.
Speaker 1: Thank you brost nine. I have the one star.
Speaker 3: It's from our old friend who Nomad, yes that's right,
Speaker 3: unnamed is back again and says simply, very cheaply done.
Speaker 1: Should have had more crashes.
Speaker 3: Oh, Nomad, wherever you are, think about why you'd want.
Speaker 1: To do something like that. You strange, strange man or woman.
Speaker 3: Okay, now we're to Sabrina's favorite part of the program.
Speaker 3: But again I don't think producer Jensen is here, so
Speaker 3: we'll probably do fine. Yeah, it is one we're familiar with.
Speaker 3: It's hang four. It's a reoccurring game we haven't seen
Speaker 3: in a while. We originally played for Team Beach. I
Speaker 3: think Johnny Tsunami and motocrossed will be given four terms
Speaker 3: directly from the recapped Niche DCM sport.
Speaker 1: In this case drag racing with multiple choice options. We
Speaker 1: have to pick.
Speaker 3: The correct definition is given to us from the website
Speaker 3: race I RP dot com racerp dot com. Three out
Speaker 3: of four wins? Are we ready?
Speaker 1: Sabrina and I believe we're playing with producer Lisa today.
Speaker 1: Am I right?
Speaker 2: You are correct?
Speaker 1: All right? Here we go. Number one.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, producer Lisa. See at least we
Speaker 3: got we got a good luck from producer.
Speaker 2: Lisa Tex Yeah, Lisa, absolutely not.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 3: Number one Christmas tree. Is that a colorful glow from
Speaker 3: your lead cars? Break lights? B the colors omitted from
Speaker 3: sirens after a crash see the colorful device at the
Speaker 3: starting line or D a decorated tree you display in
Speaker 3: your house during Christmas?
Speaker 1: What do you got, Sabrina, I.
Speaker 2: Would say it would be the colorful device at the
Speaker 2: starting line.
Speaker 1: I know that.
Speaker 3: I know that for a fact that in a race
Speaker 3: that's called the Christmas tree. So I'm going to say
Speaker 3: C as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, it is C, all right? There were one for
Speaker 1: one A good start.
Speaker 3: Number two e t is that A the time it
Speaker 3: takes a vehicle to travel from start to finish? B
Speaker 3: the emergency vehicle used to transport drivers after a crash,
Speaker 3: see the measured torque of a race tire. Or be
Speaker 3: a friendly alien who befriends the neighborhood boy, only to
Speaker 3: be harassed and captured by the government.
Speaker 1: In all fairness, it is D. But that's not going
Speaker 1: to count.
Speaker 2: I would say A the time it takes a vehicle
Speaker 2: to travel from start to finish.
Speaker 3: I'm going to gine, I'm going to agree with you.
Speaker 3: I'm going to say A.
Speaker 2: It's obviously D. No, I'm just kidding. A it stands for.
Speaker 1: A lap, A laps time there we go?
Speaker 3: Or two for tien Number three shoe is it a
Speaker 3: a protective cover placed around a tire while not racing.
Speaker 3: Be a quick turn see another name for a driver,
Speaker 3: or D a piece of footwear designed to protect and.
Speaker 1: Support the foot while walking or running.
Speaker 3: I'd like to point out if we just pick D
Speaker 3: every time we technically go for.
Speaker 1: Do you want me to go first this time? Sure?
Speaker 2: I'm kind of not sure.
Speaker 3: I would normally say it's a a protective cover placed
Speaker 3: around a tire while not racing, because I know that
Speaker 3: they do that to keep the tires warm.
Speaker 1: But I feel like he wouldn't do two a's in
Speaker 1: a row. He might. I'm gonna stick with you. Oh
Speaker 1: maybe that would be a boot.
Speaker 3: But then it's not a quick turn because they're going
Speaker 3: straight right there, you go on. But maybe that's what
Speaker 3: it is. Maybe that's why they call it that. It's
Speaker 3: like if you show out or something. I think I'm over,
Speaker 3: you're gonna go with.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with. Be a quick turn.
Speaker 2: I have it down a C.
Speaker 1: It's another name for a driver. Okay, so we need
Speaker 1: this one win. Here we go.
Speaker 3: Number four bubble is it a the nickname giving to
Speaker 3: the netting used to stop a runaway car? Be the
Speaker 3: last place in a qualifying round. See the top layer
Speaker 3: of protection on a drag car or d thin hollow
Speaker 3: sphere of liquid and closing air or gas.
Speaker 1: Again, if I go with D we.
Speaker 2: Win, I'm going to do see the top layer of
Speaker 2: the protection on the drag car.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say, be the last place in a qualifying
Speaker 3: round because you're onto the bubble.
Speaker 2: It is b it is BA. Yes, yes, we'll wink you.
Speaker 1: Producer Lisa appreciate it.
Speaker 3: And now can we do a Sabrina ceas.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so we you know, went through quite
Speaker 2: a bit of them, but didn't really the questions I
Speaker 2: have on this when at the very beginning of the
Speaker 2: movie and she has training wheels, what is the property
Speaker 2: because Monroe has them? Right, she's five, and I'm so
Speaker 2: antsy to get those things off because I think she
Speaker 2: should be riding a bike. I agree, this girl was
Speaker 2: not five even she looked like she was.
Speaker 1: Like you have three Oh really, you thought you looked older.
Speaker 1: I thought she looked younger.
Speaker 2: No, she looked like she was like six or seven.
Speaker 2: She just seems really old to have those training wheels,
Speaker 2: which not that you should bully anyone, but I mean
Speaker 2: there's kind of like reason to have the like a
Speaker 2: little bit of like you take a little bit of justification,
Speaker 2: just not too much. Then we like fast forward a
Speaker 2: little bit and they're in class playing with Plato. I'm going,
Speaker 2: am I crazy right now? Or like I'm getting stuck
Speaker 2: on these This is why there's Sabrina Seas because I'm
Speaker 2: like Plato at their age for during class time, Like
Speaker 2: I feel like Plato gets done after like kindergarten, Like
Speaker 2: I don't think I use Plato in class during first
Speaker 2: grade and on. So we're just kind of feel like
Speaker 2: the like.
Speaker 3: Age of I also not a little questionable not to
Speaker 3: jump in on your Sabrina Seas, but did it? Did
Speaker 3: it also throw you at all? Like it took me
Speaker 3: a second to realize that the young girl in the
Speaker 3: training wheels was then supposed to be the same girl
Speaker 3: ye building the Plato thing, Like I thought that was
Speaker 3: the two sisters at first, and I was like, oh wait,
Speaker 3: that's now that's supposed to be the same girl.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, because that was like kind of too close
Speaker 2: an age to be doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was an act.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. And then I just really
Speaker 2: got hung up on I had to know what this
Speaker 2: guy's name was. The hillbilly at the beginning I don't
Speaker 2: know his name was. I stopped and like zoomed in
Speaker 2: as much as I could, got on my phone, and
Speaker 2: it's like Charles, which we know obviously this douche goes
Speaker 2: by Chaz like obviously like, oh I hated that guy.
Speaker 2: That's so meant or Chuck, Chuck or Chaz.
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably was not Charles Wendington the third.
Speaker 2: So he annoyed me a lot right from the start.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh man, we are really going to push
Speaker 2: this whole like girls can't do stuff, which of insane.
Speaker 2: This is not my favorite comment. But for some reason,
Speaker 2: Greg with the two g's his hair drove me crazy.
Speaker 2: This whole movie did it?
Speaker 1: Really it did.
Speaker 2: I don't know what. I just felt like, I don't
Speaker 2: know why it needed. I don't know it looked I
Speaker 2: just couldn't. I was like, he's such a good looking guy,
Speaker 2: he was a great dad. His hair, I just the
Speaker 2: hair people on this show should have had him do
Speaker 2: something different. I couldn't handle it. The volleyball accident handle it.
Speaker 2: I couldn't.
Speaker 1: The ball accident.
Speaker 2: Was that not so? I mean she just kind of
Speaker 2: fell like yeah, like but like it was like by
Speaker 2: the time her mom sees it. It's like this just
Speaker 2: using wound eating surgery, like needing some sutures or whatever.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, oh man, the amount of ugly glasses. Now.
Speaker 2: I know we are set in a different time, but man,
Speaker 2: where the glasses horrible back then and the fact that
Speaker 2: they're coming back into style now irks me so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're those Oakley wrap rounds. Are they were a
Speaker 1: specific look?
Speaker 2: Yes, well, and I feel like drivers tend to have
Speaker 2: those kinds of glasses still, no matter what decade we're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 3: The like, I think it's because it cod but I
Speaker 3: think it's because they wrap around here. It blocks off
Speaker 3: the periphery sun as well for when you're driving.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, but they wear goggles, they're not wearing them.
Speaker 2: That's true too.
Speaker 1: This is yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 2: They always seem to have these just weird Oakley glass
Speaker 2: that's true too. We talked about Okay, this was a
Speaker 2: thing of me too that just kept catching my eye,
Speaker 2: and only because we watched so many of these movies
Speaker 2: that are are filmed in Utah. But I had a
Speaker 2: hard time of knowing when they were and weren't supposed
Speaker 2: to be in Utah because there was UTAs stuff everywhere,
Speaker 2: Like the helicopter that comes in was like Utah Emergency Center.
Speaker 2: Like there was just so much like does not does
Speaker 2: did not any of these races happen anywhere else?
Speaker 1: It was all like I mean, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: It just was everywhere. Every single race there was. There
Speaker 2: was UTAs stuff everywhere, which we've seen like when they
Speaker 2: were supposed to be in something and they were like
Speaker 2: there was like a Toronto flag somewhere, you know, we've
Speaker 2: seen that. I don't think like they paid as much
Speaker 2: attention as they could have to that.
Speaker 1: I would agree.
Speaker 2: And then my last thing was, and this is the
Speaker 2: Cheetah Girl in me, girl power all the way. There
Speaker 2: was a miss messaged moment that could have really been
Speaker 2: strong and good for the d COM. Was she had
Speaker 2: this like I'm just I'm just another race, I'm just
Speaker 2: another racer, which part of me understands she wants to
Speaker 2: be treated as everyone else. However, the Cheetah Girl and
Speaker 2: me could not handle this. The message should have been
Speaker 2: I'm just into every other raciser out there, but yes,
Speaker 2: I am excited to be a girl racer out there,
Speaker 2: and I hope this sets the tone and changes the
Speaker 2: minds of all young girls like you can do anything
Speaker 2: like that was like a moment where she could have
Speaker 2: had that strength. Yes she's a teenager, but like that
Speaker 2: would have been such an empowering moment. I am just
Speaker 2: like everyone. But at the end of the day, it
Speaker 2: is true, I'm a girl and I'm just as good
Speaker 2: as these other boys. So this should be a moment
Speaker 2: that changes everyone else's mind, like some kind of great messaging.
Speaker 2: There would have been the only thing I was missing,
Speaker 2: because the whole it is there right at the end
Speaker 2: it says girls can race too, like it's there. But
Speaker 2: for her to stand up and take that moment, yeah,
Speaker 2: was what I needed a little bit from the movie,
Speaker 2: and it didn't give it to me. That was the
Speaker 2: perfect time when all of those press was coming at her.
Speaker 3: I think it's also it's it's it's supposed to take
Speaker 3: place what in ninety one, ninety two, something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right when the Spice Girls were out.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, it's kind of like, it's not yet.
Speaker 3: I think it's a little pre girl Power, like right
Speaker 3: pre girl Power, where it was still like I just
Speaker 3: want to be treated like like this the same way
Speaker 3: everybody else is treated.
Speaker 2: Which is fine, but that's the only part that I
Speaker 2: really kind of love.
Speaker 1: The cheetah in you.
Speaker 2: The cheetah in me just couldn't.
Speaker 1: Like it was just like, just I love it.
Speaker 2: Dang it. We could have had that girl power moment
Speaker 2: because this movie was definitely about girl power. I loved it,
Speaker 2: like I said it did. By the way, it didn't
Speaker 2: really affect my score much.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, nor me. Uh yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of which, it's now time to rate our
Speaker 3: film and all options for this week. We're going to
Speaker 3: do because it's racing, We're going to do one to ten,
Speaker 3: with one being the least.
Speaker 1: I know we might have to do just the first one.
Speaker 3: It's one to ten Chuds on bikes, Jerk Dad Crew Chiefs,
Speaker 3: one to ten Chocolate and Hot Guys, teenage car repairman
Speaker 3: Randy's Baked Beans, one to ten, Weirdo youth dragcar reporters,
Speaker 3: one to ten brother dates, one to ten cans of
Speaker 3: pens oil, or one to ten short Beverly Metro volleyball spikes.
Speaker 1: I think I get to pick this week, and how
Speaker 1: do you not go with chuds on bikes.
Speaker 2: On bikes is just so good.
Speaker 3: It sounds like an eighties techno band from Germany Chuds
Speaker 3: on Bikes.
Speaker 2: So am I wrong? It does?
Speaker 1: So here we go. I don't know who votes now,
Speaker 1: like who's first?
Speaker 2: I forget you made me go first on my movie. Okay,
Speaker 2: I sorry about it.
Speaker 1: I know then it's my turn.
Speaker 3: You know. I liked this movie. I did it to me.
Speaker 3: It's kind of like exactly what a dec is supposed
Speaker 3: to be. He brings you into a little micro world.
Speaker 3: I love that it's based on a true story. It
Speaker 3: does show the girl power in a different way, but
Speaker 3: it does show the girl power.
Speaker 1: Beverly Mitchell is Beverly.
Speaker 3: I mean, she's a very, very competent actress, young Brie Larson.
Speaker 1: I thought. The only big thing I have is the score,
Speaker 1: which to me was just very heavy handed. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I liked this movie.
Speaker 2: I disagree on that score.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know again. I liked the music. I didn't
Speaker 3: like the score. It was just too much. But I overall,
Speaker 3: I like this movie. I'm gonna give this movie a
Speaker 3: solid eight. Chuds on Bikes. I thought this was a
Speaker 3: fun dcom. It was a fast, easy watch. The acting
Speaker 3: is good. I loved learning about the world. The whole
Speaker 3: French thing was stupid. Obviously, but that's more about the
Speaker 3: family than it is about the like the priorities of
Speaker 3: the family, than it is about the movie itself, because
Speaker 3: I'm guessing they probably took that from real life, and
Speaker 3: it's like, really, you're gonna pull the nationals from her
Speaker 3: because she's got to be Come on, what's French?
Speaker 1: For Give me a break?
Speaker 2: Eh?
Speaker 3: So yeah, So I am sticking with you right exactly.
Speaker 3: I am sticking with a solid eight chuds on bikes.
Speaker 2: What do you got? I, like I said, I liked
Speaker 2: this movie. If we had what are we should make
Speaker 2: some kind of bulletin board of the points of what
Speaker 2: make a good d com? This checks all the boxes
Speaker 2: for me. I agree, And I thought, you know, like
Speaker 2: I said, the messaging there, the girl power. If there
Speaker 2: was any tiny thing for me, it would have been
Speaker 2: her to be a little bit more of an advocate
Speaker 2: of it herself. But for most part, maybe that wasn't
Speaker 2: her story. Like she just did it in the Proof
Speaker 2: of the Pudding, you know what I mean, she just
Speaker 2: really like she did it with her scores, with her wins.
Speaker 2: She didn't need to. Wasn't a person that felt like
Speaker 2: she had to say that, you know, publicly, which is
Speaker 2: okay too. I thought, like you said, the speed of this,
Speaker 2: like every I never was. There was never a moment
Speaker 2: where I was like, Okay, I gotta take a bathroom
Speaker 2: break like. There was never a moment I was. I
Speaker 2: was locked in. I was searching for Sabrina Seas because
Speaker 2: so much of it was so good. Nothing really really
Speaker 2: crazy popped out at me. So I'm also going to
Speaker 2: give it and but I'm going to bump it up
Speaker 2: a little bit more because I needed this, like good
Speaker 2: dcom that wasn't a musical, that was literally just story driven.
Speaker 2: I needed it. And it's an eight point five hud
Speaker 2: By Bikes for me. It's such a good movie. If
Speaker 2: you have not watched it in a while, it is
Speaker 2: worth worth worth going back and rewatching this.
Speaker 1: Yes, shit, definitely. This was my first watch, obviously, and
Speaker 1: it was good.
Speaker 2: I forgot the Sabrina Seas. I forgot a Sabrina Seats.
Speaker 2: Hold on. I've got it up on my computer too,
Speaker 2: because I went ahead and made sure I knew what
Speaker 2: I was talking about. Because I heard the voice, I
Speaker 2: could tell it was my girl, Hillary Duff performing one
Speaker 2: of the songs within the soundtrack on the movie and
Speaker 2: I looked it up and it is. It's called I
Speaker 2: Can't Wait, written by somebody I got to work with
Speaker 2: very well, along others. But his name is Matthew Gerard.
Speaker 2: He was a epic. He would be great for the
Speaker 2: podcast because he has written so many of dcom movies,
Speaker 2: okay songs. And I listened to it and I was like,
Speaker 2: that's Hillary Duff. That's Hillary Duff, which I think at
Speaker 2: this time was a great get for this movie too.
Speaker 2: I'm sure that really helped push the drive in this movie.
Speaker 1: I'm sure good one. Well, thank you everybody for joining
Speaker 1: us this time. It was a good movie. It very
Speaker 1: much was. You gotta go check it out.
Speaker 3: But our next movie, I don't know if the next
Speaker 3: one's gonna be as good, but it has even more
Speaker 3: recognizable names. We're watching two thousand and one's dcom Hounded,
Speaker 3: starring Taj Maury, Shia, La Buff, Sarah Paxton, and Ed
Speaker 3: Bagley Junior, who I just hung out with not that
Speaker 3: long ago, who could not have been a nicer human being. Seriously,
Speaker 3: I was like, everything you hope Ed Bagley is. He
Speaker 3: was that and more. The school focused comedy of available
Speaker 3: now to watch on Disney. Plus, I know nothing about
Speaker 3: this this movie. I'm guessing Hounded. They turn into dogs
Speaker 3: something with dogs.
Speaker 2: Oh, I hope it's not like the last Dog one
Speaker 2: we watch oh.
Speaker 1: With Kirk Cameron.
Speaker 3: God, that movie was good. I've seen it ten times since. No,
Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
Speaker 1: It was awful and my eyes burned afterwards. So you've
Speaker 1: got your homework.
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Speaker 3: by the way, we are very happy to tell you
Speaker 3: that we're not done yet. We just found out we're
Speaker 3: doing a lot more of these, so we're not going
Speaker 3: anywhere soon. People, so enjoy watching with us. As I said,
Speaker 3: we're like over one hundred dcoms now and there's still
Speaker 3: like eight billion left to go.
Speaker 1: So not get rid of us yet. Thanks everybody, see
Speaker 1: you next time.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.