A new teacher helps the school's dance team work together while they help her push through fears of failure to follow her passion.
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[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast.
[00:00:06] Merry Christmas to you! Merry Christmas!
[00:00:19] We're recording this a week before Christmas, Bramble. If you're watching this, you got it early.
[00:00:23] You got it early. We selected you to preview this Christmas episode early.
[00:00:28] But how? Don't worry about it. Don't ask this questions.
[00:00:31] Just know that if you're watching this on YouTube, right now, and it's before the week before Christmas,
[00:00:37] you have somehow gone and gotten something from the future.
[00:00:40] So if you're watching this in October...
[00:00:42] If you're watching this before Halloween, you're special.
[00:00:44] And we hate what happened in New Jersey, but it's over and we're trying to move forward.
[00:00:50] What happened in New Jersey?
[00:00:51] You know, Bramble. It was you.
[00:00:54] It was me?
[00:00:55] Yeah.
[00:00:55] That's a gross summary.
[00:00:57] It was gross. Yeah, it was gross.
[00:01:00] You are summarizing things and making it seem like I was the main culprit.
[00:01:07] Oh, I feel like you were.
[00:01:10] Agree to disagree.
[00:01:11] We're talking about Gotta Kick It Up today, everybody.
[00:01:13] Kick it up.
[00:01:14] Which is very exciting.
[00:01:16] And I'm excited about a lot of things, but I'm mainly excited to find out about the reviews
[00:01:21] we have, which I know, Dan, you have those reviews pulled up.
[00:01:23] I got them pulled up.
[00:01:24] We're up to 130-something.
[00:01:28] Whoa!
[00:01:29] Whoa!
[00:01:29] 137, guys.
[00:01:31] We're never going to make 300, and that doesn't make me upset at all.
[00:01:33] I felt like we were at like 138 last week.
[00:01:35] Did we lose one?
[00:01:36] Someone went in and said no.
[00:01:38] Ashley K123.
[00:01:41] The title is Hallmark Boys plus Aaron have done it again.
[00:01:44] It says, I could listen to Bramble and Dan talk about anything.
[00:01:47] And I have.
[00:01:48] But combining them with DCOMs?
[00:01:49] Perfection.
[00:01:50] Heart, Bram, plus reason, Dan, plus bits, equals guaranteed good time.
[00:01:56] Aaron is the perfect mix of the boys and an excellent mediator.
[00:02:00] All in on this one.
[00:02:01] P.S. I was one of the people who saw Can of Worms when it first aired, and my dad loved
[00:02:06] it so much he bought the VHS.
[00:02:08] Whoa!
[00:02:08] And eventually the DVD, which he still has.
[00:02:12] Wow.
[00:02:12] Please leave us a review.
[00:02:13] I'll read it on the air if I remember.
[00:02:15] And the ratings are great too.
[00:02:16] A lot of five stars in there.
[00:02:18] Here's .9 average, Brandon.
[00:02:19] Big fan of the VHS tape.
[00:02:20] Pretty good.
[00:02:21] Here's a Spotify comment on the True Confessions episode, which got some good buzz, apparently.
[00:02:28] Someone brought the take it to the tape of True Confessions as well.
[00:02:31] Take the tape.com if you're interested in that.
[00:02:33] Or just sign up for Bramble and Dan Plus at the all access tier, and you'll get to watch
[00:02:36] us or listen to us.
[00:02:38] Watch the movies in real time.
[00:02:39] And you can, it's like you're in the room with us.
[00:02:41] But Taylor says, Taylor says, I've been waiting for this one.
[00:02:44] It was one of the most memorable DCOMs for me growing up.
[00:02:48] And I rewatched it recently simply because I was already crying.
[00:02:53] But I teared up driving today as Aaron recapped the library scene.
[00:02:57] Crying emoji.
[00:02:58] Heartbreak emoji.
[00:02:59] Wow.
[00:03:00] So Taylor's all of us.
[00:03:01] Taylor is all of us.
[00:03:02] Sorry, Taylor.
[00:03:02] Sorry for my thoughts on that movie.
[00:03:04] I've moved past it, but now I'm back.
[00:03:07] Yeah, now I'm thinking about that scene.
[00:03:10] My brother listened to that episode, and we had a really sweet moment where he was just
[00:03:15] like, thanks for the shout out.
[00:03:16] And he's like, it's so cool seeing you.
[00:03:18] What brother are you shouting out today?
[00:03:19] Thanks for asking.
[00:03:21] Shout out to Pat.
[00:03:22] Go Magic.
[00:03:23] The magic season's upon us.
[00:03:25] I could have also shouted out Jesse in this moment, but I'm not going to.
[00:03:29] You really have been hard on Jesse.
[00:03:31] I want to stay mainly focused on Patrick in this moment because he's going to be with
[00:03:35] me watching the magic on opening night.
[00:03:37] And Jesse's not.
[00:03:38] Shout out to my favorite brother, JJ.
[00:03:40] Shout out to Jim, my favorite brother as well.
[00:03:42] It's pretty easy over here.
[00:03:43] Yeah, you have one.
[00:03:46] When you only have a couple that matter, it's time for the delish.
[00:03:51] It's where we, Aaron, you have brought something inspired by.
[00:03:55] Yeah.
[00:03:56] Gotta kick it up.
[00:03:57] Si se puede to you.
[00:03:58] Si se puede.
[00:03:59] What do we.
[00:04:00] Middle school dance.
[00:04:00] This looks like alcohol.
[00:04:03] What?
[00:04:04] I was inspired by middle school.
[00:04:06] Brown milk.
[00:04:07] What do we have here today?
[00:04:09] Yikes.
[00:04:09] What's up?
[00:04:10] Thanks for that intro.
[00:04:12] Yeah.
[00:04:13] So I was really hoping that they would like at the block party scene, that there would be
[00:04:18] a good bake sale or something that I could pull a delish from.
[00:04:21] Sure.
[00:04:22] And instead they were just barbecuing, which is really hard to do in here on a morning.
[00:04:26] We do it sometimes, but yeah.
[00:04:29] Your lack of commitment to the delish segments hurts.
[00:04:32] Well, here's this for commitment.
[00:04:34] So I went and watched, uh, Christy Carlson Romano had a YouTube show.
[00:04:40] Yes.
[00:04:41] The star of gotta kick it up.
[00:04:42] Camille was on there.
[00:04:44] Amazing.
[00:04:45] Talking about her family's favorite Christmas treats.
[00:04:47] Wow.
[00:04:49] Merry Christmas.
[00:04:49] We've gone a long way to get here, but we got here.
[00:04:51] And remember everybody, this is recorded the week before Christmas.
[00:04:54] That's right.
[00:04:54] Merry Christmas, everybody.
[00:04:56] If you're getting it early, you got it early.
[00:04:59] But if you're watching it before then, you got it early and you need to know that.
[00:05:03] So Camille is, her family loves to make empanadas and drink coquito.
[00:05:08] And so I brought some coquito.
[00:05:10] Is this what you were going to make, but then you found out that Bauhausren's sells it?
[00:05:16] Yes.
[00:05:16] So coquito is like an eggnog.
[00:05:18] Vanessa Dial brought some down to Brambleclay.
[00:05:19] Yeah.
[00:05:19] And I'm just going to say, disclaimer, this is not as good as Vanessa's.
[00:05:23] So Vanessa, I apologize to you and your entire family, but I am doing my best.
[00:05:28] So this is basically an alcoholic eggnog.
[00:05:30] Is that what you're saying?
[00:05:31] There's like some cinnamon.
[00:05:33] It's got a different flavor base to it.
[00:05:34] You're not going to like it.
[00:05:35] Cheers, everybody.
[00:05:36] It's Wednesday morning somewhere.
[00:05:42] Yep.
[00:05:43] I'm not mad at that at all.
[00:05:44] I don't hate that.
[00:05:45] If you use a little bit more spice.
[00:05:46] Yeah.
[00:05:47] Yeah.
[00:05:47] But it's got a good texture.
[00:05:50] What's the proof on that?
[00:05:51] I don't want to know.
[00:05:54] I don't hate this.
[00:05:55] I don't hate it.
[00:05:56] Does that mean I'm coming around on eggnog?
[00:05:57] Yes, it does actually.
[00:05:58] Really?
[00:05:59] Right?
[00:05:59] I think this combines eggnog with all the things Brandon likes about a chocolate martini.
[00:06:07] Yeah.
[00:06:07] A chocolate martini.
[00:06:08] Yeah.
[00:06:08] That's why he likes it.
[00:06:09] So we're going to get him on eggnog.
[00:06:10] We're getting him.
[00:06:11] You might get me on Naga.
[00:06:12] You might get him on the Naga clock.
[00:06:16] He's already been on the Naga clock.
[00:06:18] Man, what's the proof on this?
[00:06:19] Yes.
[00:06:23] Yeah.
[00:06:24] You might get me on Naga clock this year.
[00:06:26] All right, man.
[00:06:27] We're not going to wait around for you.
[00:06:29] If you can't do it, we do it Tuesdays at noon.
[00:06:31] Every Tuesday at noon.
[00:06:32] Every Tuesday at noon.
[00:06:33] We're never late or early.
[00:06:34] I may schedule around you, Brandon.
[00:06:35] Gotta be honest, you will probably rarely get me at noon on a Tuesday, but we'll find
[00:06:41] out.
[00:06:41] Yeah.
[00:06:42] Yeah.
[00:06:42] Yeah.
[00:06:43] So that was D for delish.
[00:06:44] That's D-com.
[00:06:45] Yeah.
[00:06:46] So shout out Camille and Christy Carlson Romano for bringing that YouTube video into my life
[00:06:51] and reminding me what a great treat Cokito is.
[00:06:54] The music's playing.
[00:06:55] We'll be right back.
[00:06:56] I pressed it too early.
[00:06:57] D-com descendants.
[00:06:58] D-com descendants.
[00:07:00] He doesn't want to let us just live.
[00:07:02] Yeah.
[00:07:03] He doesn't even like us.
[00:07:05] Welcome back, everybody.
[00:07:06] Trying to silence us.
[00:07:07] It's just, I gotta make a decision sometimes and I make the wrong one.
[00:07:11] It's the week before Christmas, man.
[00:07:13] I know.
[00:07:13] I'm ready to get out of here.
[00:07:14] I want to go celebrate.
[00:07:15] Have a little cheer.
[00:07:16] Have a little spirit.
[00:07:16] I want to get this in and get it out so we can go on Christmas break.
[00:07:20] This is our last thing before Christmas break, man.
[00:07:22] Interesting.
[00:07:23] That's, wow.
[00:07:24] I know.
[00:07:24] What a take.
[00:07:25] In that case, let's really pick it up here.
[00:07:28] That's what I'm saying.
[00:07:29] We're gonna kick it up a notch.
[00:07:30] I thought you knew that.
[00:07:31] I thought you would be more on board.
[00:07:33] Yeah.
[00:07:33] No, I wasn't aware.
[00:07:34] I gotta kick it up, everybody, is what we're talking about today.
[00:07:38] July 26, 2002 is when this movie premiered on the Disney Channel, viewed by myself, viewed
[00:07:45] by Aaron.
[00:07:46] I know what we were doing on July 26, 2002.
[00:07:48] We were kicking it up.
[00:07:50] Bramble Fest.
[00:07:50] We were kicking it up.
[00:07:52] And it was directed by Ramon Menendez.
[00:07:59] Menendez is not correct.
[00:08:01] Menendez.
[00:08:02] Yes.
[00:08:02] Menendez.
[00:08:04] Menendez?
[00:08:05] No.
[00:08:05] Menendez.
[00:08:05] Menendez.
[00:08:06] Menendez.
[00:08:07] No, no, no.
[00:08:08] No, he's not.
[00:08:09] No, he's not.
[00:08:10] We don't know.
[00:08:11] I mean, I think we're probably saying that.
[00:08:12] He might have brothers, but he's not.
[00:08:13] We do know that he's not one of those Menendez brothers.
[00:08:15] I wasn't saying that.
[00:08:17] I was saying he's a Menendez brother, which is true, if he has a sibling.
[00:08:21] You don't even...
[00:08:23] Let's see.
[00:08:23] Does he have any siblings?
[00:08:24] We don't have time for this.
[00:08:26] I'll look it up.
[00:08:27] You keep going.
[00:08:27] Sir, we have places to be.
[00:08:28] Yes, you're right.
[00:08:29] Sorry, Christmas.
[00:08:30] This is the last movie he directed.
[00:08:32] He directed this and then he hung it up.
[00:08:35] He was done.
[00:08:35] Okay.
[00:08:36] He also directed Tales from the Crypts, an episode of that.
[00:08:42] Ooh.
[00:08:43] He also, of course...
[00:08:44] Perversions of Science.
[00:08:45] He directed that in 1994 and 1997, respectively.
[00:08:48] Right before this, he directed Tortilla Soup.
[00:08:51] Oh, so he's a screamer.
[00:08:52] He won two Independent Spirit Awards for his work on Stand and Deliver.
[00:08:55] There you go.
[00:08:56] How many awards did he win for God to Kick It Up?
[00:08:59] None.
[00:08:59] It's a good question.
[00:09:00] But also, I don't have any personal life info about Ramon, so we do not know if he is
[00:09:05] a Menendez brother or not.
[00:09:07] Um, starring Camille Guati, who I guess was the one that was with Christy Carlson, America
[00:09:13] Ferrara, Susan Egan, and some others.
[00:09:17] Are we ready to dive in?
[00:09:18] Let's do it.
[00:09:19] Um, we are at Marshall Middle School.
[00:09:24] Sure.
[00:09:25] Yeah.
[00:09:25] They're in ninth grade, but yeah, sure.
[00:09:27] It's middle school.
[00:09:28] And, um, it becomes very clear early on in this movie.
[00:09:32] Sipping on alcoholic knock.
[00:09:32] Yeah.
[00:09:33] It becomes very clear early on in this movie that this is...
[00:09:36] Isn't Egan...
[00:09:37] She's been around.
[00:09:37] ...about dance.
[00:09:38] This is a dance movie.
[00:09:40] They are dancing.
[00:09:41] They are...
[00:09:41] I think you could say they are popping.
[00:09:43] They are locking.
[00:09:45] Yeah.
[00:09:45] Um, and they are dancing.
[00:09:47] Uh, we then meet new biology teacher, Miss Bartlett.
[00:09:53] She is serious.
[00:09:54] You can tell by her clothes.
[00:09:55] She is a professional.
[00:09:57] By her demeanor, by the principal's demeanor to the colonel.
[00:10:00] Yes.
[00:10:00] Of course.
[00:10:01] They're very serious, and this is a big day.
[00:10:03] Now, she's young though.
[00:10:04] This is her first teaching gig, and the principal, um, is convinced she's going to fail.
[00:10:10] Uh, which is always good.
[00:10:12] Fair.
[00:10:12] You know, before your first day of school, you want to hear from the principal.
[00:10:15] You're not going to make it.
[00:10:17] Um...
[00:10:17] I'm not going to make it.
[00:10:18] Hey, hey, hey, hey.
[00:10:20] Um, so...
[00:10:20] I'm not going to make it.
[00:10:21] I'm not going to make it.
[00:10:22] So, she goes in to the class, and immediately a dance party breaks out.
[00:10:26] Yeah.
[00:10:26] And she doesn't know what to do.
[00:10:27] How do I do this?
[00:10:28] Well, first she says, I miss Bartlett, and they boo.
[00:10:30] They go, boo!
[00:10:31] Yeah.
[00:10:31] Which is crazy.
[00:10:33] Which is really weird.
[00:10:34] Like, a similar thing happens.
[00:10:35] They just immediately boo her and make fun of her.
[00:10:37] On our show, we have a crowd.
[00:10:38] We have them behind a glass.
[00:10:40] That's right.
[00:10:40] You can't hear them.
[00:10:41] That's true.
[00:10:42] And it's weird, because they're like, why are you here?
[00:10:44] Yeah.
[00:10:45] Why are you here?
[00:10:46] Right before Christmas.
[00:10:47] Christmas Eve, actually.
[00:10:49] Christmas Eve.
[00:10:49] Wow.
[00:10:49] I know.
[00:10:50] You didn't know that?
[00:10:51] I said it was a week before.
[00:10:52] You said Christmas Eve.
[00:10:53] Do we have different calendars?
[00:10:54] Are you on the Orthodox?
[00:10:55] Yes.
[00:10:56] The Julian?
[00:10:57] What are you?
[00:10:57] Are you a Julian boy?
[00:10:59] Yeah.
[00:10:59] Yeah.
[00:11:00] Isn't Orthodox, don't they celebrate in January?
[00:11:02] January.
[00:11:03] Yeah.
[00:11:04] So, do it that way you will.
[00:11:06] You're a Julian boy.
[00:11:07] It is Orthodox Christmas Eve.
[00:11:09] For me.
[00:11:10] For you.
[00:11:10] Rest in peace.
[00:11:11] Obviously.
[00:11:12] So, Dan's party begins to break out.
[00:11:14] The principal walks in and is like, see?
[00:11:16] I knew it.
[00:11:17] And then he's like, shut it down.
[00:11:20] You're getting detention.
[00:11:21] You're getting detention.
[00:11:22] Everybody's getting detention.
[00:11:24] So, one of the students finds out that Miss Bartlett went to Juilliard for dance because
[00:11:33] she was snooping around her records.
[00:11:34] The fly-by-night art institution in New York.
[00:11:36] Yeah.
[00:11:36] No, she wasn't snooping.
[00:11:37] The folder just happened to open on its own while she was holding it.
[00:11:41] Yeah.
[00:11:41] She definitely didn't open it and look at it.
[00:11:43] And so, she's like, oh my gosh, we should get the dance team back together because they
[00:11:51] didn't have one this year for some reason.
[00:11:54] Yeah.
[00:11:54] And we should try to convince her to coach us.
[00:11:58] And all of the other girls at the time are like, no, whatever, Miss Bartlett.
[00:12:03] Look at her.
[00:12:04] Boom.
[00:12:05] But they do ask her and she reluctantly agrees to at least come and see what they have.
[00:12:12] So, they do tryouts.
[00:12:13] They first try tryouts in the gym.
[00:12:15] Then the basketball team comes in so they have to move tryouts to the shop.
[00:12:22] Did you have a shop at yours?
[00:12:25] No, you didn't, Dan.
[00:12:25] No.
[00:12:25] Did you have a shop at your school?
[00:12:29] Um, no.
[00:12:30] I don't think we had like auto shop.
[00:12:32] Yeah, we had auto shop.
[00:12:32] We had other like shop type classes but not cars.
[00:12:36] It's the one class I regret not taking.
[00:12:40] I wish we'd had one.
[00:12:41] I wish I would've done that.
[00:12:42] Yeah, I think down south we just, you just learn that stuff.
[00:12:46] You know what I mean?
[00:12:46] Well, I think there were, I'm sure there's public schools down there.
[00:12:49] Yeah, that had shop for sure.
[00:12:50] But I think that that is, that is one thing I'm grateful for is I just, I did learn that.
[00:12:54] But I can imagine if I didn't have that, then I would've wanted to take it.
[00:12:57] You're not grateful for much.
[00:12:58] You are grateful for that.
[00:12:59] That's right.
[00:12:59] If there's one thing.
[00:13:01] I don't have a grateful heart.
[00:13:02] I've said that for years.
[00:13:03] And don't make me grateful.
[00:13:04] No.
[00:13:05] Not this time of year at least.
[00:13:09] So they do the route, they start doing their tryouts.
[00:13:13] They're in the auto shop and you know, they all make the team, but it's clear that they
[00:13:19] all have different styles of dance.
[00:13:22] That's right.
[00:13:22] They all try out to different music and all that good stuff.
[00:13:25] Different compacts.
[00:13:25] So when they all get together.
[00:13:26] I mean, we learned that when we, we all tried out for the.
[00:13:28] We did.
[00:13:29] 100%.
[00:13:30] You're right.
[00:13:30] It was a mess.
[00:13:31] It was a mess.
[00:13:32] You have to have one, you know, central identity.
[00:13:34] That's why we're podcasting instead of dancing.
[00:13:36] That's right.
[00:13:36] So that's the only reason.
[00:13:38] The only.
[00:13:38] It's not because of the passion.
[00:13:40] We have passion for about.
[00:13:40] No, our passion is for dance.
[00:13:42] Probably more passion for dance than podcasting at this point.
[00:13:45] Two to one.
[00:13:46] We didn't quite work together as a team.
[00:13:48] Wow.
[00:13:48] Two to one.
[00:13:49] Yeah.
[00:13:50] That's amazing.
[00:13:51] But, and I would say early on, they don't really work as a team because they're out there
[00:13:55] on the track and they just kind of are trying to do stuff, but none of it's really
[00:13:59] flowing together.
[00:14:00] And so that doesn't stop them though, from going to their first competition.
[00:14:05] No, they go, they are competition ready.
[00:14:08] They have to wear their PE uniforms because they don't have the money.
[00:14:12] Yeah.
[00:14:12] Somehow dance team happened at the school the previous year and it was just over the
[00:14:18] summer, the coach retired.
[00:14:19] And so they were like, we don't have a coach anymore, but somehow in the, we'll be generous
[00:14:24] in say three months in between school years, all of the dance team uniforms and pom poms,
[00:14:30] which were stored in separate locations, went missing.
[00:14:33] You would never store the pom poms in the uniforms.
[00:14:35] If you knew anything, Aaron, you have to store those in different locations.
[00:14:38] You have to.
[00:14:39] They have different temperature requirements.
[00:14:40] Brian talks about this all the time.
[00:14:42] Are you the one that keeps moving it back to the same location?
[00:14:44] Pom poms, uniforms cannot be together.
[00:14:46] I walk into storage.
[00:14:47] Are you trying to ruin everything?
[00:14:48] I walk into storage and I see them together and I say, who keeps doing this?
[00:14:51] And I move it into a different storage unit.
[00:14:54] It's you.
[00:14:55] It's been used this whole time.
[00:14:56] I keep taking the pom poms out of our pom poms storage unit and putting them into our
[00:14:59] uniform storage unit.
[00:15:01] It says pom poms clearly on it.
[00:15:02] The only reason we have a second unit is for the pom poms.
[00:15:05] Brian wrote PPs only on it.
[00:15:07] I'm just here for some chaos.
[00:15:11] Yeah.
[00:15:11] So disorganized.
[00:15:12] It said PPs only.
[00:15:14] But most of the intro, you know what I mean?
[00:15:16] But you ignore it.
[00:15:18] So introverted.
[00:15:19] Yeah.
[00:15:19] Well, you know, like then that's how they lost them is someone kept moving them out of
[00:15:24] the pom poms storage unit.
[00:15:25] The PPU.
[00:15:27] The PPU.
[00:15:29] The PPU.
[00:15:30] Anyway, they've lost them in three months.
[00:15:31] They've lost everything.
[00:15:32] Yeah.
[00:15:33] And I think this is a perfect example as to why the PPU unit is essential.
[00:15:38] It says PPs only on there.
[00:15:39] It says PPs only on the door.
[00:15:42] He wrote it in big letters.
[00:15:44] I don't know how you messed this up.
[00:15:45] We're going to lose the deposit on it because I wrote PPs.
[00:15:50] Specifically said PPs only.
[00:15:52] I wrote it on there, but it was a risk I was willing to take because I thought we were
[00:15:56] all on the same page about storing the PPs in the PPs only storage unit.
[00:16:02] But apparently we're not.
[00:16:03] We didn't have a roof of pom pom.
[00:16:03] There's nothing he can do about it.
[00:16:05] They get to the first.
[00:16:06] Sorry guys, that's on me.
[00:16:07] My B.
[00:16:07] It is.
[00:16:08] Thank you.
[00:16:09] It's definitely not your PEP.
[00:16:11] So they get to the first competition and it is a disaster.
[00:16:15] What is in this cookie dough?
[00:16:17] A lot.
[00:16:19] It's good.
[00:16:20] What is the proof on this?
[00:16:22] I think the proof's in the pudding.
[00:16:25] So they get to the first competition.
[00:16:27] It is a mess.
[00:16:29] Well, they start counting on two, Brian.
[00:16:31] Two, three, four, five.
[00:16:33] You can't do that.
[00:16:35] If you do that, everything falls apart.
[00:16:37] Our universe doesn't exist if you go from two to five and count.
[00:16:40] No, it doesn't.
[00:16:41] And it shows.
[00:16:41] I think you go like two, three, four.
[00:16:43] You can do that.
[00:16:44] You can go five, six, seven, eight.
[00:16:46] You can't go two, three, four, five.
[00:16:48] Everything is ruined.
[00:16:49] Two, three, four, five.
[00:16:50] Nothing works anymore.
[00:16:51] One, two, three.
[00:16:52] People don't know how to drive on the highways.
[00:16:54] Everything is ruined.
[00:16:55] All your counts are off for the rest of it.
[00:16:56] Yes, it's like what they thought was going to happen at Y2K really happens if you go
[00:17:00] two, three, four, five.
[00:17:01] That's true.
[00:17:01] That's true.
[00:17:03] So afterwards, Daisy goes back to the school.
[00:17:05] She forgot something.
[00:17:07] And so she goes into the locker room.
[00:17:08] With her middle school boyfriend.
[00:17:09] With her middle school.
[00:17:10] It's about bored.
[00:17:11] He's 16.
[00:17:12] He's at least 16.
[00:17:14] He's going on 17.
[00:17:15] Yes.
[00:17:15] Going on 30.
[00:17:16] Yes.
[00:17:18] He drives.
[00:17:19] In his defense, they're all going on 30.
[00:17:21] They are all older.
[00:17:23] Yes.
[00:17:23] So Daisy then hears some music, the music from, I can only describe it as the Napoleon Dynamite
[00:17:29] music from his dance number.
[00:17:35] And she goes in, she sees Miss Bartlett dancing.
[00:17:40] And she's amazing.
[00:17:42] So they want us to believe.
[00:17:45] And she's like, oh my gosh, I didn't know that Miss Bartlett was actually this good.
[00:17:48] This is crazy.
[00:17:48] Daisy confronts her and is like, yo, I saw you dance.
[00:17:51] Why are you holding out on us?
[00:17:53] Why aren't you like, show us these moves?
[00:17:55] At the end of her dancing though, she cries.
[00:17:56] She does cry.
[00:17:57] She cries.
[00:17:57] That's right.
[00:17:58] And she's like, listen, I haven't danced in a long time.
[00:18:01] This is the first time I danced.
[00:18:02] And so, you know, I had to get all that out.
[00:18:05] So next practice comes and they just start crushing.
[00:18:08] Yeah.
[00:18:09] They start learning all the moves.
[00:18:10] They're doing all the stuff.
[00:18:11] They're feeling themselves.
[00:18:12] It's a real montage.
[00:18:13] Early in the movie.
[00:18:14] It is.
[00:18:14] It's an early movie montage.
[00:18:16] They start feeling themselves and they're like, we are ready for the next competition.
[00:18:19] Miss Bartlett is like, over my dead body, you're ready for the next competition.
[00:18:22] We've got to get better.
[00:18:23] After that first performance, we have to make sure that we are perfect before we go to this
[00:18:29] next competition.
[00:18:30] And the girls, the team are like, no.
[00:18:34] Excuse me, si se puede?
[00:18:36] Si se puede?
[00:18:37] Si se puede?
[00:18:38] Si se puede.
[00:18:38] You got it.
[00:18:39] I, we're not going to stand back, stand by.
[00:18:43] We are going to go forward.
[00:18:45] We are going to compete.
[00:18:46] So they show up to the competition after making their uniforms a little bit more bedazzled.
[00:18:53] They put Christmas garland on it.
[00:18:56] Merry Christmas, by the way.
[00:18:57] Early or late.
[00:18:58] Yeah.
[00:18:58] Depending on when you are.
[00:18:59] Yeah.
[00:19:00] And they begin to, they go into the competition.
[00:19:05] They're like, where's your teacher?
[00:19:06] They're like, she's in the pee pee room.
[00:19:07] It is.
[00:19:09] It is the most like ridiculous and suspicious behavior by a bunch of middle school girls
[00:19:17] you've ever met.
[00:19:18] Who are all, they're getting asked like, Hey, just wear.
[00:19:20] And it's not even like a grilling.
[00:19:22] It's just like, Oh, we just need your coach to sign in.
[00:19:23] They're like, Oh, it's virtually hijink free, but it does have a bunch of middle schoolers.
[00:19:32] You could have maybe convinced me that they murdered their coach for their, like, they
[00:19:35] were like, what?
[00:19:36] A coach?
[00:19:37] Who's a coach?
[00:19:37] We've never heard of a coach.
[00:19:39] It has a middle school, a middle school dance team somehow transporting themselves and registering
[00:19:44] and signing up for a dance competition in it, but not from a hijink standpoint, just from
[00:19:48] a, they're doing it.
[00:19:50] Which is wild.
[00:19:51] And I know this is a different experience from you two.
[00:19:53] You two were not ever middle school girls.
[00:19:55] Um, I just can't imagine.
[00:19:58] Sorry to.
[00:19:58] No.
[00:19:59] Don't make assumptions first.
[00:20:00] Why do you label me?
[00:20:00] This is our story.
[00:20:01] Why do you label me?
[00:20:02] It's so weird.
[00:20:03] You're right.
[00:20:03] But again, I don't know where the PPs go, but you do know.
[00:20:08] Dan has talked about his middle school experience and I know he wasn't a middle school girl.
[00:20:10] That's true.
[00:20:11] Um, I think if one of us, you shave that beard.
[00:20:16] I mean, it is like good as good as new.
[00:20:21] Anyway, I just can't like, I think if I was on stage in front of a crowd, what proof
[00:20:27] so much proof, so much for us, the burden of proof is met.
[00:20:31] It's a preponderance.
[00:20:32] If I had like embarrassed myself that badly, I don't know if one week is all it would take
[00:20:39] to be like, you know what?
[00:20:40] I'm over that embarrassment.
[00:20:42] Let's hit it again.
[00:20:43] With no coach.
[00:20:44] Yes.
[00:20:44] Well, I think the key is you gotta kick it up.
[00:20:46] You gotta kick it up.
[00:20:47] And they do kick it up.
[00:20:48] And they're good.
[00:20:49] They're good.
[00:20:49] Without a coach, they're good.
[00:20:51] They're way better.
[00:20:51] They finished third place.
[00:20:53] Third place.
[00:20:53] Well, they had made a better routine with the coaches.
[00:20:55] That's right.
[00:20:56] But yeah, I think if the coach had been like, I think we should just take one more week
[00:21:00] and practice.
[00:21:00] And after that embarrassment, I would have been like, you're probably right.
[00:21:04] Yeah.
[00:21:05] But don't make me.
[00:21:06] This leads to my favorite scene of the movie.
[00:21:08] I don't want to miss it where Daisy goes to the coach's house.
[00:21:11] That's right.
[00:21:11] And the coach has the opportunity to get mad at them.
[00:21:13] Right.
[00:21:13] Because every, all the parents are mad when they find out that this happened.
[00:21:17] Well, it's just Alyssa's parents so far.
[00:21:19] Okay.
[00:21:19] Apparently none of the other.
[00:21:20] Well, I think there's another side of the parents.
[00:21:23] Yeah.
[00:21:24] Yeah.
[00:21:25] Daisy's mom is a Yolanda's parents are not happy.
[00:21:28] Okay.
[00:21:28] Yeah.
[00:21:29] I mean, but they didn't really notice until after their kids had disappeared for eight
[00:21:34] hours into cars with random 16 year old boys.
[00:21:37] It's a different time.
[00:21:38] Different time.
[00:21:39] But Daisy gets over to the coach's house and the coach has a chance to put this all
[00:21:43] on the kid and say that I can't believe you did this.
[00:21:46] You went behind my back.
[00:21:46] And instead the coach says, I have had things in my life and fears in my life that have
[00:21:52] caused me to be the person I am today.
[00:21:54] And I'm taking that out on you.
[00:21:55] And that's my problem, not your problem, which is quite a conversation for a 2002 D-Com.
[00:22:01] It was heavy.
[00:22:02] It was a good conversation.
[00:22:02] It was heavy stuff.
[00:22:03] Yeah, for sure.
[00:22:04] And so.
[00:22:05] Oh, and the coach also admitted to like basically failing.
[00:22:08] Correct.
[00:22:09] She'd only been to Juilliard for two weeks, I think.
[00:22:11] They're all like, yeah, you went to Dudo on our dance scholarship.
[00:22:12] And she's like, yeah, I was only there for two weeks.
[00:22:14] And then I left because I got scared.
[00:22:15] And I, I said it during the take it to the tape, but I think that's a really important
[00:22:19] conversation.
[00:22:20] And it would have been really instrumental in my life to have an adult.
[00:22:23] I mean, you see it in a movie and you're like, yeah, sure, whatever.
[00:22:25] But to have an adult that I physically knew, like in my own life, say it's okay to fail
[00:22:31] and it's okay to have fears, but you can't let those fears.
[00:22:34] I mean, I think for like Dan and I, like we've never, we've never failed.
[00:22:40] And that is the one dance competition.
[00:22:43] And you took the blame for.
[00:22:45] You and Newark two weeks ago, which I don't want to keep bringing it up, but it is, you
[00:22:50] could call that, it was disgusting, but it was also a fail.
[00:22:52] You're right.
[00:22:53] I don't, I, I would say actually though it was a big success.
[00:22:57] Okay.
[00:22:57] Personally.
[00:22:58] But again, we have different recollections of that.
[00:23:00] And the dance competition we were in was on me.
[00:23:02] I did fail and I'm, that's fine.
[00:23:04] Yeah.
[00:23:04] But I have not failed since.
[00:23:05] Hey, there is a difference between dancing the best and dancing your best.
[00:23:08] And I think you did dance your best and we're all proud of you.
[00:23:11] Um, so now that they're all on the same page, Ms. Bartlett is like, you know what?
[00:23:16] We're going to do our best.
[00:23:17] We're going to try and we're going to do that.
[00:23:18] We don't have to be the best.
[00:23:19] We just have to be our best.
[00:23:21] We're gonna see Se Pue De.
[00:23:23] Um, and, um, so they start dancing.
[00:23:26] They're learning the routines.
[00:23:27] They're doing all this stuff, but they find that they're start winning competitions and
[00:23:31] whatnot and they're going to make it to regionals.
[00:23:33] But in order to get to regionals, they're going to have to pay $1,200.
[00:23:38] Oh, 1,200.
[00:23:39] One, two, zero, zero.
[00:23:40] Um, for the, for the competition that starts in two weeks.
[00:23:44] Right.
[00:23:44] And while that's happening, what?
[00:23:46] And they haven't registered or paid yet.
[00:23:47] So yeah, but whatever.
[00:23:48] When they're dealing with that.
[00:23:50] We also haven't bought uniforms.
[00:23:51] So don't worry, there's a tight turnaround on a dozen uniforms.
[00:23:55] Yeah.
[00:23:55] Well, they, in their defense, we do find out they get the generic ones.
[00:23:58] So I think those are.
[00:23:59] In my head, I thought like it is one of the bigger disappointments in a D comments.
[00:24:03] And they're like, we're getting standard voice.
[00:24:05] At least the other ones were had like gold.
[00:24:08] Yeah.
[00:24:08] A little flashy.
[00:24:08] And then they walk into the new uniforms.
[00:24:11] And I remember just being like, those are standard, standard, uh, standard fits there.
[00:24:15] Yeah.
[00:24:15] Um, while they are, uh, you know, grappling with the fact that they are going to have to
[00:24:20] find $1,200.
[00:24:22] Ms. Bartlett gets a job offer at a big .com.
[00:24:28] Yeah.
[00:24:28] Oh, she has.
[00:24:29] She had a .com.
[00:24:30] Yeah.
[00:24:30] And it crashed.
[00:24:31] Yeah.
[00:24:32] You know how those early tech companies.
[00:24:35] So they, uh, she gets this offer.
[00:24:38] It's like a teen, teen gossip.
[00:24:41] Like Apple, you know.
[00:24:41] .com.
[00:24:42] Um, I'm making it.
[00:24:43] Yeah.
[00:24:43] And so, uh, they offer her a job and, uh, with more money and she goes in and she's
[00:24:51] like, dance crew, I got a job offer and they offered me more money and everyone starts
[00:24:57] getting mad.
[00:24:57] They're like, Oh, goodbye.
[00:24:59] Good riddance.
[00:24:59] We don't need you.
[00:25:01] Of course at the first offer you would leave us.
[00:25:02] You're nothing.
[00:25:03] Yeah.
[00:25:03] And then she's like, can I finish?
[00:25:05] I didn't take the job.
[00:25:07] Didn't.
[00:25:07] Now we always believed in you.
[00:25:10] The way that you're responding is making me wish that I did.
[00:25:14] First of all, rude, but I didn't take the job.
[00:25:17] We got to kick it up.
[00:25:19] They decide they're going to throw a block party to raise money.
[00:25:23] They are a hundred dollars short.
[00:25:24] And that's when Chewy, who we haven't talked about, but Chewy is.
[00:25:28] Chewy is Daisy's boyfriend.
[00:25:30] Chewy, but we didn't say it.
[00:25:31] Yeah.
[00:25:31] Ninth grade, 14 year old.
[00:25:33] Going on 40.
[00:25:34] Yes.
[00:25:34] Uh, is dating 16 going on 30.
[00:25:37] Chewy.
[00:25:38] That's right.
[00:25:38] Yeah.
[00:25:38] Who is driving, uh, brings all of his buddies.
[00:25:41] They're going to get car washes.
[00:25:43] They get.
[00:25:44] Is it eight cars in a van?
[00:25:46] Nine cars in a van.
[00:25:47] Nine cars in a van for $85.
[00:25:49] Yeah.
[00:25:49] But then he tips the 15.
[00:25:51] So good to go.
[00:25:52] 100.
[00:25:53] They are.
[00:25:54] He just had that 15 ready to go.
[00:25:55] He had all of it ready.
[00:25:56] He had 85 in one stack and 15 in another.
[00:25:58] It is as if he was listening in on the conversation.
[00:26:01] That's unbelievable.
[00:26:02] Yeah.
[00:26:02] Um, what if it wasn't the correct amount of buddy?
[00:26:05] He's just like, I got you.
[00:26:06] No, that's $22 Chewy.
[00:26:09] Chewy, be better.
[00:26:10] Also, another part that we didn't talk about while watching this movie is Yolanda is failing
[00:26:14] math.
[00:26:15] And if you get below a D, you can't be on the dance team.
[00:26:18] That's right.
[00:26:19] Um, and so Miss Bartlett works out with the principal who is also the coach of everything,
[00:26:24] but the dance team.
[00:26:25] He couldn't, he doesn't know.
[00:26:26] He doesn't know dance.
[00:26:27] He's probably teaching math too.
[00:26:29] Um, works it out that as long as Yolanda counts the money correctly at this event, she
[00:26:34] can stay on the dance team.
[00:26:35] Ninth grade, everybody.
[00:26:36] They did it.
[00:26:36] This is, this is the problem right here.
[00:26:39] And I remember being so impressed with that when they were talking about it and then like
[00:26:42] as a kid and then watching this scene and being like, she's not doing any accounting.
[00:26:46] She's literally just counting.
[00:26:48] Late elementary school skill.
[00:26:49] One.
[00:26:50] Yeah.
[00:26:50] Two.
[00:26:51] She did it guys.
[00:26:52] Um, I bet she can even count tens and twenties.
[00:26:55] So, so I remember like, God forbid there's a $50 bill thrown in there.
[00:26:59] This is a really great project.
[00:27:00] And then being like, Oh, there's not actually any like budgeting or accounting here.
[00:27:03] She just has counting cash.
[00:27:05] Can you count to 1200?
[00:27:06] So can you do it?
[00:27:07] I mean, um, what a great school you can get out of detention by dancing.
[00:27:10] You can get out of a failing grade by counting to 1200.
[00:27:15] So it is, uh, it's time.
[00:27:18] That was my big thing.
[00:27:19] It's time for regionals where you say another word.
[00:27:21] Yeah.
[00:27:21] Can you count to 1200?
[00:27:23] Do it.
[00:27:23] You know what?
[00:27:24] Diploma now.
[00:27:25] You have three minutes.
[00:27:28] Whoa.
[00:27:28] I know.
[00:27:29] Right.
[00:27:29] That is tricky.
[00:27:30] And then you can change the, the, the, the, how they're counting.
[00:27:35] So you can be like tens fifties.
[00:27:38] You can change the way at any point in time.
[00:27:39] You can yell at them.
[00:27:41] Yeah.
[00:27:41] Brian, you're so good at words.
[00:27:42] The denomination.
[00:27:43] You want to try it?
[00:27:44] How about that?
[00:27:45] Okay.
[00:27:45] One, two, 12, 22, 33, 33.
[00:27:51] You mean 32?
[00:27:52] Dang it.
[00:27:53] Yeah.
[00:27:54] Dear God in heaven.
[00:27:55] So harder than it seems.
[00:27:57] A lot of people said that it wasn't good.
[00:28:00] What proof is this?
[00:28:00] A lot of people said that it wasn't a good way for her to pass the class.
[00:28:05] I beg to differ.
[00:28:06] 12, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66.
[00:28:10] Everyone knows the $11 bill.
[00:28:12] Shove off.
[00:28:14] Um, this is a really good episode of Deacon.
[00:28:16] I'm sorry.
[00:28:17] This is really good stuff.
[00:28:19] Uh, you got the PP room.
[00:28:20] Maybe watch this on YouTube.
[00:28:22] It's probably more fun.
[00:28:23] Yeah.
[00:28:23] You're getting it early, which is crazy.
[00:28:26] Merry Christmas.
[00:28:27] Yeah.
[00:28:28] You time traveled.
[00:28:29] You time traveled.
[00:28:30] Just don't time travel to the day in New Jersey.
[00:28:33] No.
[00:28:34] Uh, don't watch it on that.
[00:28:35] That was again.
[00:28:36] I'm proud of it personally.
[00:28:38] Uh, so they get to regionals and a couple of things happen.
[00:28:43] One, they lose the pom poms.
[00:28:44] They lose the peepees.
[00:28:45] Yeah.
[00:28:46] Um, that is not as big of a deal as it seems.
[00:28:51] They actually end up finding them.
[00:28:52] No problem.
[00:28:53] Really?
[00:28:53] Someone put up underneath a table.
[00:28:56] Daisy though is nervous because there's a scout there.
[00:28:57] Daisy's nervous.
[00:28:58] That's right.
[00:28:59] And, uh, Daisy goes and she talks to Ms. Bartlett and Ms. Bartlett gives this whole speech
[00:29:03] about like, I always thought that I had to be perfect.
[00:29:06] Um,
[00:29:06] Cause we lost it all.
[00:29:07] And that's how my, like my parents were always like,
[00:29:10] You're not good enough.
[00:29:11] Sorry.
[00:29:12] I can't be perfect.
[00:29:16] And, um, but you don't have to be perfect.
[00:29:18] You just gotta do your best.
[00:29:19] Right.
[00:29:19] You know, at the end of the day.
[00:29:20] It's too late.
[00:29:21] We didn't do great at a dance team, but should we do like acapella?
[00:29:25] I think so.
[00:29:26] Can't go back.
[00:29:27] I'm sorry.
[00:29:28] I can't be perfect.
[00:29:33] Um, so.
[00:29:34] We'll think about it.
[00:29:35] She's now, she's now.
[00:29:36] YouTube's gonna pull this clip.
[00:29:37] There's no way around it.
[00:29:38] That's a copyright.
[00:29:38] Sorry.
[00:29:39] Hopefully that'll give us a strike.
[00:29:41] Um, so she goes on stage.
[00:29:44] They go on stage.
[00:29:45] The music hits track three this time.
[00:29:47] Yeah.
[00:29:47] And it is the same as track two.
[00:29:49] Uh, but a little bit different.
[00:29:51] Um, and at first, the first like 15 seconds, she's frozen.
[00:29:55] She can't move.
[00:29:55] She's, she's also out there.
[00:29:58] What's that?
[00:29:58] Kick it up.
[00:30:00] That's exactly right.
[00:30:02] And she does kick it up.
[00:30:03] Si se puede.
[00:30:03] Si se puede.
[00:30:04] They dance.
[00:30:06] We get, and it is, it is inspirational.
[00:30:09] It is.
[00:30:09] Sure.
[00:30:10] It is a lot of close ups.
[00:30:12] It is a lot of fast camera angles.
[00:30:14] It is edited.
[00:30:15] Beautifully.
[00:30:16] I mean, it is edited so much.
[00:30:18] Yeah.
[00:30:18] In the best way possible.
[00:30:20] Um, but we.
[00:30:21] No, it looks like a real impressive dance until you start watching like one specific dancer
[00:30:25] and realizing that they're just shaking their pom-poms.
[00:30:27] Yeah.
[00:30:28] Um, but they do, uh, they get done.
[00:30:31] They get together.
[00:30:32] They're super.
[00:30:32] Yeah.
[00:30:33] We did it.
[00:30:33] Congratulations.
[00:30:34] Um, and they take a picture and then they do free.
[00:30:38] I thought the picture was going to be the freeze frame.
[00:30:40] It wasn't actually, which is a different freeze frame.
[00:30:43] That's worse.
[00:30:44] And they throw the toss to pom-poms.
[00:30:46] And then it says, toss it.
[00:30:47] And then it says that they got second.
[00:30:50] I believe.
[00:30:51] Second.
[00:30:51] Second at regionals.
[00:30:52] And then they went to nationals.
[00:30:54] Don't ask about it.
[00:30:55] And that's the true story of the Marshall middle school dance team.
[00:30:58] We are.
[00:30:59] 100%.
[00:30:59] Marshall.
[00:31:02] Uh, no, we're going to take a quick break.
[00:31:04] You were wrong that time.
[00:31:05] We're going to take a quick break.
[00:31:06] We're going to come back.
[00:31:07] We're going to get to, uh, some overtime.
[00:31:09] We're going to make our list.
[00:31:10] Sam's already checking it.
[00:31:11] We'll be right back.
[00:31:12] Everybody.
[00:31:14] Merry Christmas.
[00:31:21] Bop, bop, bop.
[00:31:22] Welcome back, everybody.
[00:31:24] Um, I am reading that this is based on a true story.
[00:31:28] Holy moly.
[00:31:29] And I just want to know why.
[00:31:32] That makes this movie worse to me.
[00:31:34] Oh, interesting.
[00:31:35] In so many ways.
[00:31:36] Uh, what about this?
[00:31:37] They were like, this seems like a, of all of the inspirational stories out there.
[00:31:42] I just realized I, I just realized double teamed.
[00:31:45] I'm comparing this movie a lot to double teams and I, I've got to redo my list.
[00:31:50] Cause they're in the wrong order.
[00:31:51] Go ahead, brand.
[00:31:51] Uh, let's get to over.
[00:31:53] Let's get to overtime.
[00:31:54] It's where we talk about how this movie aged over time.
[00:31:55] Whether you saw it back then and you watch it again now, or you watch it for the first
[00:31:59] time in 2024.
[00:32:00] Um, how's it age?
[00:32:01] How is it?
[00:32:02] What are our thoughts on it?
[00:32:03] First?
[00:32:03] Let me give you some letterboxd reviews.
[00:32:04] I've been waiting.
[00:32:06] Um, Mar, uh, Macy said, uh, my girl Macy said, uh, five stars.
[00:32:12] Who's making assumptions now?
[00:32:14] Uh, fair enough.
[00:32:15] Uh, sorry.
[00:32:16] I wish that I was alive in the 1980s so I could jazzercise and get into Juilliard.
[00:32:22] Thank you.
[00:32:23] Uh, that is a good description for what Ms.
[00:32:27] Farley does.
[00:32:28] Yeah.
[00:32:28] That's it.
[00:32:29] It's jazzercise.
[00:32:31] Um, CC Lou says three stars.
[00:32:33] This is, this was my favorite as a child.
[00:32:36] However, you're telling me a guy old enough to drive is dating a middle schooler.
[00:32:40] Disney.
[00:32:41] What you doing?
[00:32:41] What you doing?
[00:32:43] Cass says, I, we don't have stars for Cass.
[00:32:45] I don't know what she rated it.
[00:32:47] Um, but Cass says freedom writers, but make it dancing.
[00:32:50] Yes.
[00:32:52] Um, David Rob says three stars.
[00:32:54] Kathy Griffin was a really good coach.
[00:32:57] Um, Owen says, uh, three stars.
[00:33:00] Gotta get me one of them internet jobs.
[00:33:03] And Haley cook says three stars.
[00:33:05] D comes are so good at trying to make mediocre dancing.
[00:33:09] Look like the coolest, best thing.
[00:33:11] Yeah.
[00:33:12] Uh, what are our thoughts on it?
[00:33:14] I'll start with you, Aaron.
[00:33:15] You saw it back in the day.
[00:33:16] You've seen it now.
[00:33:17] What are your thoughts?
[00:33:18] Yeah.
[00:33:18] I've seen it many times since back in the day in 2002.
[00:33:21] Many times.
[00:33:23] It is one of those movies that like, when I think of a D com, if you asked me to list
[00:33:27] like off the top of my head, 10 D coms, it would probably be one of the first
[00:33:30] ones I list.
[00:33:31] Like it's, it's for some reason, just one of those iconic Disney movies to me.
[00:33:35] Um, and then watching it today, I don't know why.
[00:33:39] Um, a lot of it, like that last letterbox review where it's like, it makes it seem, makes
[00:33:44] mediocre dancing seem extraordinary.
[00:33:46] That is how I remember feeling like watching it.
[00:33:48] Like I remember the big reveal that Miss Bartlett is a dancer.
[00:33:52] Exhilarating.
[00:33:52] And I remember like, I'm like, I can do all those moves and I am not a dancer.
[00:33:56] I've never taken a dance class.
[00:33:57] Like she's just kind of like throwing her hands up in the, in the gym and everyone's
[00:34:00] like, Oh my God, she can dance.
[00:34:02] And the big reveal to the dance team that she can dance.
[00:34:06] She's like, all right guys, we're going to do like a shuffle to the left and a shuffle
[00:34:09] to the right.
[00:34:09] And then she does a spin and they're all like, Oh my God, she can dance.
[00:34:12] And I'm like, you got into Juilliard.
[00:34:16] Yes.
[00:34:17] You quit two weeks later, but you gotta give us something.
[00:34:20] Yeah.
[00:34:21] Um, and those uniforms, I don't know.
[00:34:23] It's still a good movie.
[00:34:24] I would still watch it.
[00:34:26] I would rather watch it.
[00:34:27] And then like half of the D comes we've seen so far.
[00:34:31] Um, but yeah, it's not as good as I thought it was.
[00:34:34] I also thought like America Ferreira had a much bigger part.
[00:34:37] She doesn't have much going on in this movie.
[00:34:40] Like I know she was Daisy's best friend.
[00:34:42] And so in my head, I thought she was like the number two on the dance team, but she's
[00:34:45] really like the third or fourth, maybe even fifth.
[00:34:49] I don't know.
[00:34:50] It's a good movie.
[00:34:51] I had a good time would still watch again.
[00:34:53] It just, yeah.
[00:34:54] If you take away all the flashy editing, there's not a whole lot here.
[00:34:58] And I hate that.
[00:34:59] I said that I'm with you, Aaron.
[00:35:02] I, this is the first, uh, one that I remember really liking as a kid.
[00:35:07] Okay.
[00:35:08] That doesn't quite hit as an adult.
[00:35:11] This one, um, you see just how, uh, bad the script is.
[00:35:16] There are a lot of scenes that are just really tough.
[00:35:19] Um, the dancing, not good.
[00:35:22] Um, the, like, I just, I just remember it being so like, this is I, we can do anything.
[00:35:29] Like so iconic.
[00:35:31] Like, um, like not lying became a part of my life.
[00:35:36] Like, like, see, say, wait, like I was inspired by this movie.
[00:35:39] You gotta kick it up.
[00:35:40] And I was a white boy, a little boy.
[00:35:43] So, uh, you're saying you were a middle school boy.
[00:35:45] I was a middle school boy.
[00:35:46] Yes.
[00:35:46] Confirmed.
[00:35:46] Can confirm.
[00:35:47] And, uh, so this movie back then hits.
[00:35:51] Hit hard.
[00:35:52] Now doesn't quite hit as well.
[00:35:55] And that's unfortunate.
[00:35:56] It hurts my feelings.
[00:35:57] I have a feeling that I might, uh, mess with the ranking where this one is going to end
[00:36:03] up a little bit more.
[00:36:05] So my gut reaction, my, I, my, my guess is I'm going to have it lower to start with and
[00:36:11] it might work its way up, but we'll see what happens.
[00:36:13] Oh, I think I'm the reverse.
[00:36:14] You think they're the reverse.
[00:36:15] Okay.
[00:36:15] I think it has a spot on the list because of how I felt about it when I was 12.
[00:36:19] Okay.
[00:36:19] We'll see what happens.
[00:36:21] Definitely an A not great situation.
[00:36:22] Dan?
[00:36:23] Definitely.
[00:36:23] Like this movie's not good.
[00:36:26] I can see how it would be good if you were 10.
[00:36:28] I don't see how it could possibly be good.
[00:36:31] Now scripts trash acting by and large is not great.
[00:36:34] Maybe one of the worst scripts.
[00:36:36] It is a terrible script.
[00:36:37] There's nothing there.
[00:36:38] It is.
[00:36:38] I said this in take of the tape over and over again, but it's a classic.
[00:36:41] Thank God for white people movie.
[00:36:42] This is an actual trope called the white savior trope.
[00:36:45] Look it up on Wikipedia.
[00:36:46] I listed a bunch of movies during the take of the tape that fall into this category.
[00:36:49] Some of them good movies, but it is a classic, like this person teaching this
[00:36:55] dance team.
[00:36:56] Like, even if it's a true story, they could have been someone that was a part of that
[00:37:00] culture beforehand and is the only white person in the movie who's there to make sure
[00:37:04] they all can actually accomplish the thing they're supposed to be able to accomplish
[00:37:08] on their own.
[00:37:08] She's the only white person in the whole movie.
[00:37:10] Yes.
[00:37:10] It, which makes it like a thousand times worse for a number of reasons.
[00:37:14] Uh, so that's like, you see that and you know what's happening and don't get me wrong.
[00:37:18] Like glory road basketball movie.
[00:37:21] There's like one white guy in that movie.
[00:37:22] And I thought I, I remember loving that movie as a kid, but I, I, I remember loving that
[00:37:25] I do also love freedom writers.
[00:37:27] Freedom writers is a terrible movie.
[00:37:29] Like it's also based on true story.
[00:37:30] Also based on true story, but the way that they make it's like the green book, the green
[00:37:34] book, it won best picture.
[00:37:36] It is just an offensive movie for people of color.
[00:37:39] Oh, I never saw it cause the trailer seemed offensive to me.
[00:37:41] It was best.
[00:37:42] It won the best picture because white people felt guilty.
[00:37:45] Oscar's so white.
[00:37:46] Yeah.
[00:37:47] It's so, it's, it's so crazy.
[00:37:49] That's the ultimate current white savior movie.
[00:37:51] There's plenty of them out there.
[00:37:52] Add this one to the list.
[00:37:54] I'm fine.
[00:37:54] Never watching this again.
[00:37:55] I had it ahead of double teamed and realized I did.
[00:37:59] And I'm like double teamed is a app empirically to me.
[00:38:02] It's a better movie than this movie.
[00:38:04] So I went back and re-ranked this movie to make sure that double team was ahead of it
[00:38:08] because double teamed is better on a number of fronts than this movie and better acting.
[00:38:13] The dad and double team does a great job.
[00:38:15] Both of the leads do a great job and a much better girl power.
[00:38:19] Like women can do anything guys can do story to me for me anyway.
[00:38:23] Uh, so yeah, not a fan of this one.
[00:38:25] Yeah.
[00:38:26] Um, when you were, when we were ranking them, um, you made a comment about how you were comparing
[00:38:30] it to double teamed.
[00:38:31] Um, and that's, that's kind of how I ranked it too.
[00:38:33] It's a very similar type movie.
[00:38:36] Um, but I did have double teamed ahead of this.
[00:38:38] Yeah, I do too.
[00:38:39] No, but I did it from the, from the get go.
[00:38:41] So for me, that was kind of like my war room thoughts and prayers where I was like, yeah.
[00:38:46] Yeah.
[00:38:46] I remember I, as a kid, as a kid, I would have said, gotta kick it up was a better movie
[00:38:50] because it's more fun.
[00:38:51] Of course I think double teamed has some more like emotional scenes.
[00:38:55] Um, but especially now I'm like, still has that weird scene with the dudes out there
[00:38:59] two in the morning lifting girls to play, play some different spots, but it's a better
[00:39:04] movie than this movie.
[00:39:05] I mean, I think if I was ever in a situation where I don't know why I'd be in this situation,
[00:39:11] but if like Disney channel was on and gotta kick it up came on, I don't think I'd change
[00:39:15] the channel, but I don't know how much I'm going to like actively seek out this movie.
[00:39:19] This is when that happens this week and you let us know how it happens.
[00:39:22] Yeah.
[00:39:22] I'll come babysit and show your kids.
[00:39:24] We're going to watch Disney channel live.
[00:39:27] Uh, it's around the live.
[00:39:28] Hey kids, remember how you loved high school musical?
[00:39:31] Let me show you something worse.
[00:39:33] Gotta kick it up.
[00:39:34] Uh, and then they gotta kick me.
[00:39:36] And well, we keep talking about the list.
[00:39:38] So let's talk about, uh, our list and where we have this movie.
[00:39:41] Yeah.
[00:39:41] Um, and then we'll get to our top 10 as well.
[00:39:44] See if anything has shifted.
[00:39:46] Uh, I mean, I don't want to make any assumptions about this.
[00:39:48] My list has shifted.
[00:39:49] Not being in anybody's top 10, but if it isn't, uh, let us know where it is and then let
[00:39:54] us know what your current top 10 is.
[00:39:54] So the thing we've been doing every episode.
[00:39:56] Yes.
[00:39:57] I don't listen.
[00:39:58] I don't want to make assumptions for decom.
[00:39:59] People, people listen, uh, all out of order all the time.
[00:40:03] Um, so this movie is not airing in my top 10.
[00:40:07] I do think it's a little high, so we'll, we'll think about it, but it is premiering
[00:40:12] at number 16 for me right below double teamed at 15.
[00:40:17] Okay.
[00:40:17] Okay.
[00:40:19] Um, last week I told you all that I would spend some time in my war room, do some
[00:40:23] thoughts and prayers on my top 10 list.
[00:40:25] Maybe have luck of the Irish more in the eight, nine, 10 range instead of the four, five,
[00:40:28] six range.
[00:40:29] Yep.
[00:40:29] Yeah.
[00:40:29] I think you knew it.
[00:40:30] I think you just, you wait.
[00:40:32] Okay.
[00:40:33] I'm ready.
[00:40:34] 10.
[00:40:34] Look at the Irish.
[00:40:35] Okay.
[00:40:38] Nine.
[00:40:39] Luck of the Irish.
[00:40:40] Yeah.
[00:40:41] Come on.
[00:40:42] I got lucky to the Irish at 13.
[00:40:44] 8.
[00:40:45] Halloween town.
[00:40:46] 7.
[00:40:47] Get a clue.
[00:40:48] 6.
[00:40:49] Phantom of the Megaplex.
[00:40:50] Let's go.
[00:40:51] 5.
[00:40:52] Smart House.
[00:40:53] 4.
[00:40:53] Meal Curling 2.
[00:40:54] 3.
[00:40:55] Johnny's Tsunami.
[00:40:55] 2.
[00:40:56] Cadet Kelly and 1.
[00:40:57] Motocrossed.
[00:40:58] Aside from Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire, we have the same 10 movies in there.
[00:41:03] Yeah.
[00:41:03] No, no, that's not true.
[00:41:05] Cause I've got break in there too.
[00:41:06] Why?
[00:41:07] It's getting, it's getting, it's getting to be a play.
[00:41:09] I'm just kidding.
[00:41:09] It's a great movie.
[00:41:11] Best movie of all time.
[00:41:11] I've got to kick it up, uh, debuting at number 23.
[00:41:15] Me too.
[00:41:16] Hey.
[00:41:16] 23.
[00:41:17] I have it behind ultimate Christmas present and in front of Halloween town 2 is where I
[00:41:23] have this.
[00:41:23] I've got, I also have it near Halloween town 2.
[00:41:25] Halloween town 2 I have worse than this movie.
[00:41:27] Yeah.
[00:41:27] But it's close.
[00:41:28] Yeah.
[00:41:29] That's what I'm saying.
[00:41:29] Yeah.
[00:41:30] Halloween town worse.
[00:41:31] Um, I have a, clearly I think double teamed is better because I have double team at number
[00:41:36] 10 still.
[00:41:36] Oh my gosh.
[00:41:37] Uh, Phantom of the Megaplex at nine.
[00:41:39] Mom's got a date at eight.
[00:41:40] Luck of the Irish, seven smart house, six cadet Kelly, five, get a clue at number four motocross
[00:41:47] three, Johnny tsunami number two, and the greatest movie of all time.
[00:41:51] Brink number one.
[00:41:52] This is just ridiculous.
[00:41:53] I have, uh, got to kick it up at 23 as well.
[00:41:57] One spot ahead at 22.
[00:41:58] I have double teamed and then a spot ahead of that is ultimate Christmas present.
[00:42:01] So real close to you there, brand.
[00:42:02] And then worse than got to kick it up jumping ship alley cat strike Halloween town
[00:42:08] too.
[00:42:08] So that's kind of where we're, we're featuring there.
[00:42:10] Uh, my top 10, 10 quince smart house out.
[00:42:14] Quince in nine, brink, brink eight miracle in lane to seven.
[00:42:20] Get a clue.
[00:42:21] Six.
[00:42:21] Halloween town five cadet Kelly, four phantom of the Megaplex three.
[00:42:25] Mom's got a date with a vampire to Johnny tsunami and number one best decom by far moto
[00:42:31] cross.
[00:42:33] Yeah.
[00:42:34] There we are.
[00:42:34] I definitely, I mean, it's a better movie, but against almost any other decom, I think
[00:42:39] I would choose to watch motocross again.
[00:42:41] Yeah.
[00:42:41] Oh yeah, for sure.
[00:42:43] Oh yeah.
[00:42:43] I'm thinking that get a clue might jump ahead of Halloween town.
[00:42:46] I think you want to do it right now.
[00:42:48] I didn't see it.
[00:42:48] I like I, I had to really think about like, I think cadet Kelly is a better movie than
[00:42:52] get a clue.
[00:42:53] I think it's fundamentally a better movie.
[00:42:55] I do have a cadet Kelly ahead of it, but that was one of my big things is Halloween town
[00:42:59] has always been really high for me because it is so iconic and I said this to you earlier,
[00:43:03] but I had to have a talk with myself or just because the movie is not my top 10 doesn't
[00:43:07] mean I don't love it.
[00:43:08] And you're going to love movies, not in your top 10.
[00:43:09] That's just how it works.
[00:43:10] Right.
[00:43:10] Like watching more than 10 decom.
[00:43:12] Yes.
[00:43:12] And so I'm like, I love Halloween town.
[00:43:15] I do watch it most every Halloween, like, but compared to some of these other movies,
[00:43:19] there's just not a whole lot.
[00:43:21] I just did it.
[00:43:22] I made the switch.
[00:43:22] Get a clue.
[00:43:23] Moved up to six.
[00:43:24] Halloween town down to seven.
[00:43:25] Real time.
[00:43:26] Wow.
[00:43:27] Well, Merry Christmas, everybody.
[00:43:29] Hope you have a wonderful holiday.
[00:43:30] We are going to be back next week with a ring of endless light.
[00:43:35] Sounds terrible.
[00:43:37] It's got a great cast, but it's a movie I've only seen once.
[00:43:41] Okay.
[00:43:42] We'll see what happens.
[00:43:42] Super encouraged.
[00:43:43] Until then.
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[00:43:47] Decom all the way.
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