Minutemen (2008)

[00:00:03] This is a Bramble Jam Podcast

[00:00:45] I'm so good at briskets that I just have a feeling and that feeling is I can be here recording this right now. That's my feeling. And then we're all just gonna follow you home. That's right. When you're good, you're good. So happy 4th of July everybody. Yeah, happy 4th. What better way to celebrate than with Minutemen, the time traveling DCOM from 2008. And you wish you could time travel because if you're watching this live and you're in Greenville, South Carolina, you've missed the fireworks. They were last night.

[00:01:15] Yeah, I'm ready. They're doing the Unity Park fireworks last night. On the 3rd? Yeah. Are you serious? They wanted to give the first responders a day off. But like, which, fine. I love it. Can I be honest? Kind of love it. And just the one thing. Yeah, Bram doesn't want you to F with tradition unless it's extending Christmas to year round. Then he's all about it. That's correct.

[00:01:42] I was like, there's like a whole post on the Greenville website about we wanted, you know, it was like, give everyone the day off. You know, it's a holiday. Take the third off. Rather than paying people to come in on the holiday, take the day off, be with your family and friends. And Bram read that statement and was like, hmm. But what's wild is that, is it because it fell on a Friday? Why not do that every year? But also, like, it's not always on the 4th. So it's not always on the Friday. It isn't. That's what I'm saying.

[00:02:12] Like, why did they do that this year? I don't know why they did it this year. I would agree with that complaint. If it's a holiday and you're going into work, you're probably almost definitely getting some double time. Yes. They're going to make this sound like it's nice. They're saving money. They're saving money. But also, to give people the actual day off they want with their family is pretty great. I mean, July 4th is this weird thing.

[00:02:38] No, it's like every other holiday, though. But no other holiday. You can choose to work if you want to work and get the double pay. But no other holiday has a pyrotechnics explosion organized by the city. That's why they need the fireman. But it's happening on the 3rd anyway. I didn't think this discussion was going to be this long. Some firemen are going to work the 4th regardless, right? They have to in case there is a fire. No, they're all taking the day off. They're going to work the 4th. Nobody light a fire. Right.

[00:03:07] And then they put it out there and say we need this amount of slots filled and double pay. And bada bing, some people maybe need that money. Yeah. And we're taking it from them by doing it on the 3rd. I think that you've created a straw man that does not exist here. Oh, this straw man is as real as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz. Okay. The Scarecrow? Yeah. Hey, we got a bunch of new reviews. We got a bunch of new? Bunch of new reviews. Absolutely. Give me one of them. Read one for us.

[00:03:37] Aaron for Office Queen. Did I read that one yet? I don't think so. I don't think so. You did or didn't? Read it again. I feel like there's been an Office Queen comment. Read it again. I think we've read that one. That was June 24th. But last time we did this show, I specifically only read one. Yes. And it wasn't Aaron for Office Queen. I don't think. I think it was Friday Fun Times that I read. Sure. Yeah. I've not read this yet. Yeah. Perfect. This is from Ash Story 6. We love Ash. Yes. Yes. In parentheses, it says this is actually Aaron's brother, JJ.

[00:04:06] No, I'm just kidding. He already gave a review early on. Of course he did. Shout out to JJ. Brother of the week. Brother of the week. Shout out to. It's not going to. He's got a look in his eye that it's going to be Jesse. I am going to go with Pat today. Wow. Okay. Still not Jesse. Cool. It's Jim for me. Hey, buddy. Hey, JJ. Aaron for Office Queen. I love listening to this podcast. I did not grow up with a Disney channel or watching all the movies, but have watched some.

[00:04:36] I enjoy hearing from Aaron, Bran, and Dan on their takes about the movies. My kids love to play the song Cotton Eye Joe, and I now cannot hear it without all the commentary from y'all coming to my head. Thanks for keeping me laughing. Here's to getting to 300. Thank you so much, Ash Story 6. We definitely did not read that review. No, we did. I hate that we ruined Cotton Eye Joe for people or made it better or enhanced it. I don't know. Can I read one more? Yeah, let's go one more. It's the fourth. Yeah. Soon to be angel. Someone's got to work today.

[00:05:06] Soon to be angel. Or soon to be angel. Soon to be angel's really dark. Yeah, that's dark. Soon to be angel says keep it going to the 13th. I don't know what that means. We're going to keep it going to the 13th. Don't you worry. Keep it going to the 13th. I still haven't seen High School Musical, but Dan has, and that gives me life. Yeah. So you're welcome. Soon to be angel. Hey, soon to be angel. Our condolences. You still have so much to live for, angel. Hey, soon to be angel.

[00:05:36] Not only has Dan seen High School Musical, he's seen it twice. Shut up. That's true. That's true. He has seen it twice. He has seen it twice. It's time for Delish. Aaron, you got a full cake here today. Yeah. On top. People like you. They want you for office queen. On top of the cake. And I don't want to. Yeah, I don't want to move it either because it's not. It's a clock. It looks like a clock. It's 7 o'clock. I'll post a picture. It's 2 o'clock. Yeah. Why'd you go at 2 o'clock?

[00:06:06] I was decorating it this morning. At 2 o'clock? Had. 2 a.m.? I was running out of time and I just made a little hand. Man, running out of time. Wow. Wow. Thematic. Sometimes you're running out of time while icing the time on a clake about time. All right, spoken word. Let's calm it down over there. I don't love that. Yeah. Yeah. So the recipe I had picked for today, I was going to make little cookie pops that were each decorated like a clock.

[00:06:36] Okay. And I thought this is great. And then what happened last week was I was looking for snickerdoodle recipes and I found. Snickerdoodle! Snickerdoodles! Snickerdoodles! And I found two that I really, really liked. One was the snickerdoodle pancakes that I made and we enjoyed for Twitch's too. And the other was a snickerdoodle cheesecake. God almighty. Just the best. Sounds like the best thing ever. Which I didn't make because it's really only for me and Dan. That's right. And Dan was sick last week. So I said, well, I'm going to save this cheesecake. I'll make it at another time. Fair.

[00:07:05] And now I'm just really aware of how often I say time and I hate it. And that time was now. Is this a snickerdoodle cheesecake? Yeah. Wow. Hell yeah it is. Last week you texted me and I was like, listen, I'm still not great, but I'll power through for snickerdoodle cheesecake. But boy, I was like, of the desserts to make, it's a very heavy dessert and you weren't feeling well. And I was like, I would hate to make this. Dan, suffer through a bite. Tell me I'm not eating a whole piece of this right now because I am.

[00:07:35] I 100% am. So I hope it's great. Me too. I haven't tasted the final product, but every step along the way has been delicious. Man. And I would love to bake one of these every day in my house because it smelled so good. Oh yeah. Absolutely. So we're going to. The brand loves cheesecake too. I'm going to give it a bite. How do we cut it? I don't know. I brought it. I think Aaron's probably. Nope. I'll cut it. The good thing is, is there is a bullseye there. There's a thing in the middle where you don't have to worry about where the middle is because Aaron already eyeballed that pretty well.

[00:08:04] I will say this though. Be careful with that knife because all the first responders are off today. Yeah, careful. They gave him the day off. They're not off. No. They gave everybody the day off. Brand's mad that he doesn't get to see big loud explosions on the day he's supposed to be. Oh, you're going to have some. Okay. The music's done. Very exciting. Wow. Give him that whole quarter. Give him a quarter. No, no.

[00:08:34] No, no. It's not a quarter of a cheesecake. All right. We're going to take a break. We're going to come back. We're going to actually try this thing. It's going to be a lot of fun. So come on back for that here on. Decom descendants. Thanks Aaron. It's like you're doing something. Ba, ba, ba, ba. Welcome back everybody. Decom descendants. Aaron is, I know that felt like a long break. It felt like a long break.

[00:09:03] You'd think it was done by him. But it's not. Guys, I'm not going to try to lie. No, it's not going to work. Uh-oh. Do you need to get like a spatula? Dan, just hand Dan the fork and let him go at it. Let him cook. Let him go at it. Oh, dear God. It's going to be, you've got icing. What if frosting? What if I get you a napkin or something? It's too late. There's tissues beside you. Yeah, it's just messy. I should have cut it beforehand. But then it messed up the aesthetics. Give me that knife.

[00:09:32] Give me that knife and a plate. Oh, this is great. Minutemen is what we're talking about today. January 25th, 2008. The first movie from 2008 to be released, which is exciting. And apparently a budget of $5 million. So just 20 mil less than Twitch's 2 for those of you that are just for that are counting at home. Yeah.

[00:10:00] This movie is directed by Lev L. Spyro. Lev L. Spyro. And it is written by David Diamond and David Weissman. They said, if your name is not David, get out of here. Shove off. Not interested. Movie is starring Jason Dolly, Luke Binward, Nicholas Braun, the Nicholas Braun, Chelsea Staub, and some others. You really did it there, buddy.

[00:10:31] What? You read them all. You crushed it. All right, Lev. It's Lev. You want to get a bite of this one so you don't have to cut your own? How was it? Oh, my God. It's so good. Oh, he's excited. It's so good. How long did this take you, Aaron? It's so good. New fave. The cake itself takes like an hour and 45. Okay. Oh, my God. Are you ready to dive into Minutemen? No, I'm going to dive into this cake.

[00:10:57] All right, I'll talk about Minutemen, and you guys just kind of hang out there and eat the cheesecake. We are at Somerton High School. Home of the Rams. Go Rams! Go Rams! Go Rams! Go Rams! Go Rams! And the kids are showing up for their first day of school. Best friends Virgil, Derek, and Stephanie are excited about all the potential. And who isn't? You remember that first day of school, Dan? First day of school. First day of school. You're excited. Take on the world. Take on the world. You feel like the opportunity, anything could happen.

[00:11:27] What happened to Aaron? I don't know. That's weird. Did she time travel? I'm crazy. It's nuts. She left. Were you ever nervous on the first day of school? Dan? Hold on. Don't answer it yet. Oh my gosh. Sorry. I switched schools in between sixth and seventh grade. Yeah. First day of school, seventh grade. I was nervous. Okay. Middle school. Did you get nervous on the first day of school? Yeah. Yeah. Middle school.

[00:11:57] But it was more like, did I pick out the right outfit? Right. Do I look okay? And then when you get to the, you know, as you get older and you have to start switching classes, it was like, am I going to get lost? Yeah. Do I know where I'm going? You would lay out your clothes the night before? First day of school. Yeah. Dan, did you ever do that? Hell no. I didn't know I was wearing until I literally still to this day. I don't know what I'm wearing until I get out of the shower. I'm just like, what am I wearing tonight? Yeah. Fair. Black shirt. Yeah. It's tough for you.

[00:12:27] This is so good. How do I decide? So Derek and Stephanie, they try out. Derek's going to try for the football team. She's going to try for the cheerleading team. Virgil is there just to make jokes. The football players are laughing. He's yucking it up. It's fun. And suddenly a rocket cart goes onto the field and it is being driven by Charlie. Charlie is. Do we know why? It's an experiment because he's a young genius. He's a young genius scientist. Yeah.

[00:12:56] He's like in high school, even though he's like three years younger. He's cool. So the football team. Yeah. He's 11. Yeah. Football team sees this happen and then proceeds to like bump them around. They surround him and they're like, hey, got him. Virgil comes to his defense. They start bumping him as well. And then the football team proceeds. And all adults on the field are just like, oh, it's just some light hazing. Classic bullying. We love it. We love it.

[00:13:26] And they put them in cheerleading outfits, put makeup on them, hang them on the horns of the ramp. Hang them on the horns. And again, adults, not around. Doesn't matter. They love the bully. Yeah. And that is how their high school careers start. That's a tough way to start. I mean, spoiler, we will meet the vice principal later. And I think he does love the bully. He loves the bully. He loves the bully. We love the bully. Fast forward three years. No kidding.

[00:13:54] Fast forward three years and we find out that Virgil and Charlie, they are best buddies. But they hang out with the nerds, right? And but Virgil isn't really friends with Derek and Stephanie anymore. Derek is the hot shot football player. He doesn't hang out with nerds. And Stephanie's dating Derek. And so therefore, obviously, hangs out with all the popular kids are all hanging out together. What can you do? And so that's tough, you know.

[00:14:20] But it is clear, by the way, that Virgil is just looking at Stephanie that he still has quite the crush on Stephanie. And she is at least nice enough to, like, talk to him when they have the opportunity to talk. Like, hey, Virgil, how you doing? Stuff like that. You know, that's really good, Stephanie. Thank you. Hey, Charlie pulls Virgil out of class one day to show him something on a computer that he's been working on. AV club emergency. It's an AV club emergency.

[00:14:45] My favorite part is they bust into the AV room and everyone stands and salutes Charlie. Yeah, I love that. And Virgil says, I'm not doing that. Well, it's, listen, Charlie, you salute Charlie. He says that he pulls it up on their computer and what they're looking at is a practical simulation of time travel. Of course, practical simulation. The idea of time travel is it's right here for the take it. And we just have to execute it.

[00:15:14] He wants Virgil to help build this time machine that clearly will work. But neither of them are very, like, mechanical, you know? Luckily, there's a new student in school who rides in on a motorcycle. And if you're riding on a motorcycle, you're immediately mechanical. You know how to work on stuff. And you got muscles. And so they go up to Zeke is his name. And they're like, hey, Zeke, will you help us out with this time travel project? And he's like, yeah, sure. Whatever.

[00:15:45] Yeah. Whatever. Whatever. I'm just saying, whatever. I'm brooding. Whatever. But I'll help you with your dumb project. Played by Nicholas Braun, who goes on to be in succession. And his comedic timing is unparalleled. And I don't know what he's doing in this movie. He got that training here on the Disney Channel. Yes, on the set of Minutemen. And gosh, the Letterboxd reviews about him. Dude, he's so much taller than everyone else. Were just not safe for work. Really? Not safe for this show. About Nicholas Braun?

[00:16:14] People, the things people wrote about this man. I would, I need to know. It's not. All right, you keep reading. I'm going to go to Letterboxd and figure this out. People really like him. People really like him is all I'm saying. Oh, they really like him. Yeah, they really like him. Oh, I thought they were. They really like him. And they would like for him to do things to them. And then return the favor. All right, I think we got it. A lot of that. So they work together in the school basement, I guess, to build this time machine.

[00:16:44] They turn it on. And they test it with a cat. The cat comes back. The cat's wearing a little wrist watch. And it says the cat is now one minute behind. Clearly, that means that it works. Right? And so, oh, you found the reviews. No, I found a different one. Oh, okay. The one about Endgame. Yeah. So they work together and they decide, here's what we're going to do.

[00:17:13] We're going to go back. That's funny. I want Brain to read that one. We have, I read one, I think, similar. But sure, I can read that one. Anyway, they decide, cat time traveled good enough for us. We can do this. They go back in time with the lottery ticket, the winning lottery numbers, to try to get rich quick, right? And it's there at the gas station that they find out that they need an ID in order to purchase said lottery ticket.

[00:17:43] So they go up to this guy who is outside of the gas station who is doing performative art as a statue. Of course. You know how you do. It's a freeze boy. It's a freeze boy situation in front of the gas station. Don't worry about it. And they're like, hey, will you go in and buy the lottery ticket for us? And he's, you know, yes, thumbs up. But they have to run back in order to make it back in time, I guess. And so when they come back in,

[00:18:11] when they come back the next day, they find out that he bought it. He's going to keep it for himself. This statue guy is now very rich. Get out. No kidding. Of course he is. And this is the worst part of their entire plan. It's the worst part. Buy a lottery ticket. We'll come back at noon tomorrow. Yeah. Stupid. He was, if you win. Letterboxd loves him. They love him. Letterboxd loves Nicholas Braun. That's all I'm saying. I didn't see it coming. That's all I'm saying. Every comment is about him. It's a lot. Nothing in that movie said, oh, well, the ladies are going to really like Nicholas Braun.

[00:18:41] I didn't see it coming. I had to take a shower after reading those reads. I'm a big fan of Nicholas Braun. I think he's hysterical, but this is crazy. Yeah. People really like him. That's all I'm going to say. And so now they're like, well, what are we, what are we going to use this power for? We can time travel. What are we going to do? Well, they tried to make millions and that didn't work. It didn't work. And so it finally all clicks in for them after they see one of their fellow nerds getting bullied.

[00:19:07] Derek and his football buddies stole the clothes of one of the nerds. No, they weren't the football buddies. They were, um, they weren't, they weren't football kids. They were just like random bullies because they get bullied later. And it's yeah. Okay. Him and his bully buddies, his BBs. Um, and they steal the clothes from the locker of one of the nerd kids. And he has to run around the school naked. And then they steal his towel.

[00:19:34] The vice principal is like, I can't believe you're naked. You're going to get in trouble for this. He's like, they're standing right there with my clothes. And he's like, giggling. My hands are tied. I don't know the rules. So they decided they're going to use their time travel skills for good. So they get, I can't get over these reviews. They're wild. This is, it's a lot. This is crazy.

[00:19:57] I know we're supposed to be in com chat, not the next one, but, but this is wild. People really like them. People love Zeke. They love Zeke. Uh, ladies, especially. Oh my goodness. So, uh, they decide one, we want to do this, but we don't want people to know that it's us. So they get these snow suits because it's cold time traveling with these masks to make sure

[00:20:26] that their identity is, uh, hidden. And then they bring clothes and they put it in the kid's locker. And he now has these cool clothes that he can wear. And he, and the, and the, all the bullies are like, what, how does this happen? And then they, the, the snowsuit guys, they go running down the hallway and everybody's like, Whoa, who are these guys? And that's kind of their whole thing.

[00:20:51] They're going to help people not get bullied, which is nice, right? They go and they help this kid not slip while he's delivering the food. Um, they go and they help this girl with her drool issue. They are local heroes and they're local heroes. And everybody wants to know who the snowsuit guys are. Snowsuit guys. We're the minute men. Yes. Well, clearly it's easy for me.

[00:21:19] It's easy to figure out who one of the snowsuit guys is. He's six, seven in high school. How many kids in that school are six? Yeah. Man. Who's the one tall gangly looking fella? Like you can't listen when you're, I know there are a group of three kids in this school. One really tall, one really short. And like, literally the, no one in this movie talks about the height. Six, five as a senior in high school, I 60 kids in my graduating class.

[00:21:46] I walked the halls and could just see everyone. But down the whole hallway, no one in my class was as tall as I was in 60 people. This guy's six, seven. That is, you're going to see him. You're going to notice him. He's a foot taller than the other two snowsuit guys. He's a big boy. He's a big boy. We have no way of knowing. There's no way to know. That's crazy. We can suspect. There's no way to know.

[00:22:13] So you might be wondering to yourself, self, what could possibly go wrong? They are saving the day. They are helping kids that are getting bullied. Well, here's the problem. The feds begin to check them out because they're getting some weird readings and stuff. And Charlie comes clean to his buddies. Some of the files that they used for the machine and the whole theory of time travel, he may have stolen them. They robbed NASA. They robbed NASA. They robbed NASA.

[00:22:43] We robbed NASA. And the best part of this is that Charlie didn't copy the files from NASA. He took them. Straight up stole them. Stole them. Stole them. At one point, Virgil's like, aren't they going to notice they're missing? And I just feel like, buddy, you just copy those files. Yeah, because then you won't know. Then they'll never notice anything's missing. They may be able to detect that somebody was poking around in their system, but. He'd copy. He copied them. You just took them. You just took them. You just robbed NASA.

[00:23:11] He copied them to his hard drive and then deleted them from their computer. NASA's never going to know it. Yeah. So. What are you doing? Virgil is like. Touching bare knees over here. This isn't workplace appropriate. No. I don't like. What are you like? Maybe we really should have been like the first responders and taking a day off. Should we call it a day? Yeah. Everyone else is. I got a hair. I'm just trying to take the hair off. Everyone else is calling it a day. I'm sorry that your bare knee is right there. My left leg doesn't bend. You know that.

[00:23:41] Man. You know what? This is your fault. Your knees should be covered. Your knees should be covered. You're telling me it's what I wore? Yeah. That was the problem? I am. I'm telling you it's what you wore. I should have thought about what I wore before I left the house? Yeah. Okay. Your knee's asking. Finally, I'm not the only one that's made that argument in the office. It's one of those things where you go like this and it makes a design and you expect us not to touch it. Yeah. You just.

[00:24:11] You just. No consent. Touched her jacket. That's true. It was one of those. You know. Yeah. Yeah. You can check out our Xenon episode for that. Sheesh. Clearly it stuck with you because you remember the episode. How many times have I worn that jacket? That's true. It was a Xenon specific jacket. Yeah. It was a Xenon specific jacket. It was themed. It was themed. My shorts are just what I wear every day. Yeah. And you know that. And you. Added to the list.

[00:24:41] I mean, you already made him a cheesecake, Aaron. That's right. Like. Just because you made me a cheesecake doesn't mean you can touch my bare knee. God. God. It's not transactional. You know what? I'm going to take tomorrow off. You do that. Think about what I do. Yes. Do you like the first responders? So. Just think about what I do. They are. No EMTs are getting the day off tomorrow or today or whatever. Not happening. Then still do the fireworks. So.

[00:25:11] Virgil is like, I'm sure it's not a big deal. You know what? Like, we're just helping people. Right. But they're like, maybe we should take pump the brakes on time travel. Maybe we should just give it a little bit of a hiatus. But then Virgil sees that Stephanie broke her leg. They have to. Yeah. They have. Stephanie broke her leg. It's Stephanie. She's the top of the cheerleading pyramid. She broke her leg.

[00:25:39] Just the day before she had told Virgil that she had gotten accepted to her dream school. Yes. And we all know the name of it. We all remember it because it was not. V for Vendetta or something. I don't remember. Williams. I don't know. And. But she was like a finalist or she was waiting to hear about some like cheerleading scholarship. That would have really sealed the deal. And so by breaking her leg, she loses out on the scholarship, I guess. So they do go back. They do save her.

[00:26:09] And right after he catches her to stop her. What does he say? What's the thing he says? That's like the giveaway for her that that's Virgil. It's like. Don't. I'm Virgil. Like go away. It's like don't blink. Something. Like it's something only Virgil would say. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And so she has to say. Doesn't he say like get off me or something? Like something. Something where it's like. She basically. I think. Back off or something. Yeah. There's some world where she like kisses him to say thank you. And he is just like get off me.

[00:26:38] And she's just like that was you. He. She has a knowing look on her face when he runs off. And so. Which fair. They've been best friends since they were young children. That's right. Yeah. I would imagine that close up you would. You would probably figure it out. Well and Zeke. I mean also there's a six seven. And you've been hanging out with Zeke. And you could start to put those pieces together. Virgil's been hanging out with Zeke. And I see. This guy looks and sounds a lot like my best friend from childhood. Yeah. And he's hanging out.

[00:27:06] The snowman is hanging out with the six seven guy. And Virgil's also. Yeah. There's just pieces all over. Even without the weird whatever it is that he said. She figures it out. Yeah. She figures it out. And we're just going to. I'm going to do a little call back to a bad movie. Green Lantern starring Ryan Reynolds. Oh. And Blake Lively. The worst. The only part of that. But we love the couple. Do we? The only part of that movie that I like is where he shows up at her house. All in his superhero costume trying to impress her.

[00:27:36] And she's like I know it's you. And he's like how could you know it's me? I'm a superhero. And she's like we've been best friends forever. You think a mask is going to stop me from recognizing you? Probably is the best part of that movie. It's the best part of the movie. Because like Superman and Lois Lane. Girl you work with him every single day. He takes off his glasses. And now you don't like stop it. So I really like I enjoyed that part. You know what's crazy is in the new Superman which comes out next week. The trailers now are showcasing.

[00:28:05] Like there's a scene in the new trailer where somebody. I think Jimmy at the Daily Planet goes. You're getting a lot of articles on Superman somehow. And then Lois Lane is at Superman's house. Clark's house. And she goes people are going to put it together. Like they're acknowledging that in the trailer. It's just so hard. Because like you're telling me that Lois Lane is supposed to be this like top notch journalist. Like the best in her field. And she can't recognize someone without glasses. It's hard. It's tough. It's tough out there. Good job.

[00:28:34] I already forgot her name. Stephanie. Good job on you recognizing your best friend. A mask guys is not all it's going to take. Especially when the mask is just goggles. Yep. Yes. And so when they get back she does confront him and is like I know it's you. Blah blah blah. All that stuff. And he's like how would I do that? And she's like that's what I want to know. Yeah. But how could I possibly time travel? They also begin to realize that people's lives that they have saved have begun to change but not for the better.

[00:29:03] Butterfly effect. Robot guy who won the lottery suing an old lady. And we don't get any more information about that. We just know he's a millionaire that wants to sue old ladies. That's all we know. We don't know what those old ladies did though. We don't know. We don't know all of the back story. No. The guy who got his clothes taken now he's a bully. He got one fresh fit. He got one new set of clothes. Which he has worn every day. So cool. With his flat bill hat and his one outfit. He's now just making fun of the jocks and the whole social order.

[00:29:33] And that's what tips the vice principal off. That's right. Because he's like you know the bullies used to be the bullies but now the nerds are bullying the bullies. How dare they? I don't like this. We have an ecosystem. Yeah. He's okay with bullies as long as there's certain bullies. As long as the bullies are not at the bottom. And it just so happens that this nerd is of a different race than all the other bullies. It does. It just so happens. I'm cool with the white jocks bullying. Yeah. But the black nerds we can't have this. Yeah. It's not the best look for the Minutemen movie. It's not.

[00:30:03] It's not. But here we are. Decoldis. That nerd turned bully ends up running around the football field in his underwear. High school streaking. He's comfortable now in his own skin. And distracts the players in the field. Derek ends up fumbling the ball and the cost of the game. Six seconds left. Yep. So Stephanie. This guy decides to go streaking with six seconds left in the championship game. That's Bolt. That's Bolt.

[00:30:33] That is the ultimate bully job though. That's the ultimate bully job. You tried to make me walk out of here in my underwear. Look what I'm doing to you. I'm going to ruin everybody's day. Honestly, pretty cool. That's a BA move. Pretty cool. That is a next. The confidence of this guy went from a zero to an a thousand out of 10. They didn't show the previous scene wasn't Chester bullying people. Yeah. Chester would be the hero of this movie. Yeah. That's the ultimate like. Yeah. That's the ultimate. But we don't. No. We don't get that.

[00:31:02] He was bullying people. So. This is like a villain origin story for this guy. It is. Chester is like the mastermind villain. Yeah. Yeah. So Stephanie asks Virgil to help. Like I know that you can time travel. Can you go help? Well before she asks, she tells Derek everything. So now Derek knows. Yeah. Which is tough. And they do invite Virgil to a party. Yes. After that. I think they tell him and he's like, okay, I'll help or whatever.

[00:31:32] And he does. And they invite him to the party. And Virgil's like, I'm conflicted because I had plans to go to Charlie's house and watch the top 10 hailstorms of all time on the Weather Channel. Which we took a vote here in studio. Dan and I went to the party. Bran did go hang out with Charlie. I got to be honest. I wasn't a huge fan of going to parties in high school.

[00:31:56] Having said that, I am never choosing the top 10 anything on the Weather Channel over going to the parties. You're missing out. No, I'm not. You're flat out missing out. Yeah. I'm going to go to that party and pull a Virgil. I'm just going to stand in front of the window doing the sprinkler. Before my wife and I were dating. Have I told this story? My wife and I were hanging out but not dating in high school. I left a party where we were hanging out together because CSI was coming on.

[00:32:25] That's fair. We're literally like getting fairly serious. This is before like DVR. Before DVR. Yeah, you had to get that. It was CSI's first season. It was a big deal. I literally, I didn't say that but there was an actual party. You know, a few dozen people but we are hanging out and I said, I'm taking off. I got to go. It's just, I'm going to take off. I've been here a few hours and I got home in time for CSI. Like, that's a real thing that I did. And you still got the girl. So like win-win. Win-win for everyone. That's right. Yeah.

[00:32:55] And did they still CSI? Say what? Did they still CSI? Did they still CSI? Yeah. Yeah. They still CSI'd. Great. So I got everything. So it's a win-win. Yeah. When we started dating, we were watching, we started watching CSI on Friday nights together. Oh, so you could leave parties together. Yeah. To go watch it. You get it. That's the dream. Isn't that nice? Sometimes we recorded it. All you really want in life is to find that person you can ditch out on parties and watch CSI with. Sometimes we record it on a VHS tape. That's how old we are. That's a homework movie right there. That's right. It's just like, you like CSI too? Love at the crime scene.

[00:33:25] It's a five-minute movie. Love at the crime scene. It's a short. The homework's getting in the short. Yeah. Okay.

[00:33:59] The whole time, Charlie's just standing there staring at me. This party, guys, I want to be clear. This high school rager starts at daytime. It goes to nighttime. And then we find out at the very end, it is directly across the street. That's wild. Which actually upset me because it made me want, you guys remember that Boy Meets World episode where they have to, Corey and Sean have to keep running between the party and the wrestling match? To pay his 16th birthday? Yes.

[00:34:28] We could have had that fun. Like, I could have been running back. Oh, it's a commercial. I got to go to the bathroom. Why were you in the bathroom so long? It would have been great. Great time. We didn't get that. We just get Derek. He just blows them up all together. We just get Charlie looking across the street. Like, why is this even a problem if it's across the street? How long could the top 10 hailstorms last? Brand, how long does that last? That's probably an hour special. It's an hour special. You stay with him for an hour and you go back to the party. I don't like, this was easy.

[00:34:57] It's a literal one minute walk. Yeah. Honestly, couldn't have worked out better for him. Yeah. In that case. He just forgot. He just forgot. He had been partying for at least three straight hours. The only thing that would have made that seem better is- He was like, I need to call Charlie. And he kept saying that over and over again and never- Never did it. To be fair, I mean, listen, buddy, just cancel those plans. But sorry, I just touched him. God almighty. One heck of a cheeseburger. I have been known to be like, oh, I have to text this person.

[00:35:25] And then I just straight up don't. And I want to be clear, I didn't touch his bare knee. I was in my swivel chair. That was a swivel. That was a shoe. Yes, that was a shoe on bare leg. I wish to see what had ended with Charlie looking across the street at Virgil dancing. And he's dancing. And then he sees him across the street. And he just goes, hey, baby. Virgil doesn't notice. Virgil is too into his dancing. He's a dancer. And that's sad.

[00:35:53] So then Derek ends up cheating on Stephanie. That's sad. And Virgil runs over to comfort her once again, bailing on Charlie. Charlie's starting to feel real bad. Charlie. And then things go from bad to worse because the FBI picks up Charlie, Virgil, and Zeke. And they end up letting them go. And they're like, okay, whatever. Go your own way. Go your own way. And they end up, you know, and that's fine for the friends. It would have been a great moment for us to all break into the Vanessa Hudgens song, Gotta Go My Own Way.

[00:36:22] Gotta go my own way. Guys. How dare you? In the same sentence as Fleetwood Mac, how dare you? What about everything we've been through? But what about hell? Oh, boy. You know it never wanted to hurt you. We're having fun. Are we? And so they're basically not friends anymore is what it comes down to. They gotta go their own ways.

[00:36:54] So Charlie is concerned over what they've done. So he runs some more. He runs the numbers. And he figures out that he has created a dark hole, a warm hole. It's another great part. A warm hole. Is it warm? Is that cool? They've warmed it up a little bit? It's a warm hole. A warm hole. I believe it's a black hole. Are you European? It's a warm hole. It's a warm hole. Look at that war wealth over there. Oh. The best part of this scene is he's showing. There's this girl who's just been in love with Charlie the whole time. So she's been helping him out.

[00:37:23] And he is showing her this diagnostic. It's showing the time travel loop. But now it's like flashing red. Yeah. And that's how you know it's bad. I gotta be honest. I don't know what this means. Of course. Yeah. Of course. And I'm like, yeah, Charlie, it just looks like your diagram is now red instead of white. Yeah. Use your words, buddy. So he runs to the FBI and he's like, I did steal from NASA and it's not good. Things are good. Like here's you can see it's flashing red. It's not good. Yeah. And you guys are scientists. You know what red means.

[00:37:53] Virgil and Stephanie go to the sock hop dance together. And they win king and queen of the sock hop thanks to Virgil time traveling to stuff the ballot box. And he's out of control. You can't time travel to stuff the ballot box. You can't do that. You can't do that. They are dancing. They're about to kiss, but Derek interrupts him to go through with their plan. Derek is trying to get Virgil to time travel to stop Derek from cheating on Stephanie basically.

[00:38:22] And so that they can stay together and all that good stuff. And so, or at least at the very least stop her from finding out that he's doing. I'm sure he's fine with still continuing with the kiss as long as she doesn't find out about it. So Charlie ends up showing up and is like, you can't time travel again. We have less than an hour to save the world or else we're all going to be pulled into this warm hole. That's a warm hole. You can just call it a black hole. I'll call it a black hole. That's a black hole.

[00:38:49] So all of the authorities show up and they're like, show us your gear so that we can fix things. Show us your gear. It's gear talk. Gear talk with the boys. But the Minutemen decide, you know what? This is our problem. We're going to fix it. We're going to jump through the black hole and we are going to save the day. So they do. And they slow-mo walk down several halls in a scene that lasts ages. Yeah, it's a very long time is of the essence.

[00:39:18] They're getting applauded for like their astronauts going to space. It is the weirdest scene of this movie, in my opinion. Yeah, it is. But there's Nicholas Braun stands out there getting an eye. They love the slow-mo walk from Braun. It's a slow-mo Braun. Slow-mo Braun situation. So it shoots them out back at the first day of high school. Do you remember the day? Yep. And they get to the football field. They see that they're about to be bullied. And Virgil is like, awesome.

[00:39:47] I can stop this from happening so that we never have to be bullied and all that stuff. Well, no. He's not going to stop the bullying from happening. He's going to stop himself from standing up for Charlie. He's going to let Charlie get bullied. Yes. He's going to stop himself from standing up so that he can stay friends with Derek and Stephanie. And Charlie gives his whole speech about how I don't want anybody to stop it because it's the day that we became friends.

[00:40:12] Even though it was a hard day, it's also the best day because I found my best buddy. But you do what you have to do. And so Virgil ultimately decides, you know what, he's right. And so that's nice. He goes and he picks him up in the rocket cart and they decide. Charlie and Zeke are running out of time. I guess our job here is done. They get back to the black hole. I don't know what they did. I don't know what they did either. They fixed it. They chose friendship.

[00:40:43] Yep. Nailed it. So they get through the, they go back through the black hole and it shoots them back out on the school football field. And everything seems normal, which is great, but they don't know what day it is. It turns out it's the day that they first time traveled, which is wonderful. And I guess that means they saved a day. Virgil tells Derek, hey, go kick rocks. And also, why don't you go kiss that girl? He's like, how'd you know about that?

[00:41:12] And then he talks to Stephanie. He shoots his shot. She's not upset about it, even though her and Derek are, they didn't break up yet. And the Minutemen are off to have another weird experiment. And that's the Minutemen. That's the Minutemen, everybody. We're going to take a break. We're going to come back and we are going to talk about this movie a little bit more. Here on... Decom Descendants. Nailed it. Welcome back, everybody.

[00:41:42] We're talking Minutemen today. It's time for overtime. I'm going to do my best, everybody. I'm going to do my best to find reviews that are... Appropriate. Above board. I mean, you could read some fun ones. Minutemen walked so that Endgame could eat my ass. Is that the one you wanted me to read? Yes, it was. All right.

[00:42:12] Well... Just... Right out of the gate. I'm so glad we have a PG-13 podcast here at Bramble Gym. Sarah says... Lee, clip it, Lee. Clip it. You can take out the Minutemen part. Just Avengers can from there. That's all we need from Lee. Come on, Lee. Sarah says Interstellar wants what Minutemen has. Oh, my God. Now let's hold on a damn second.

[00:42:42] Frog Jail says five stars. Anybody who rates this lower than five stars is a coward. Plap says five stars. The girls who fawn over Nicholas Braun's character out of nowhere are credited as Zeke freaks. And ladies, I have to agree. Zeke freaks. Jayden was funny. Says one star. They're actually calling him Verge to make fun of him for getting no ass. Mac says four stars. Why didn't they stop the Kennedy assassination? Oh, boy.

[00:43:12] And then Taylor says four stars. Christopher Nolan would be nothing without this film. Oh, my goodness. It's time to share our thoughts on this movie. I'll start with you, Aaron. Aaron, if I recall correctly, this is a movie that you didn't watch because boys. Is that right? This was a boy movie. There's one more that I'm just going to read. It just says, I love Tenet. I love Tenet. That's funny. That's funny. Oh, I love Tenet. Oh, man.

[00:43:43] Yeah. Now you have seen it. Now I have seen it. And boys. And boys. What are your thoughts on Miniman? Yeah. I mean, I understand why at the time 17 year old Aaron didn't watch this movie. I think the first 40 minutes of this movie are awful. They just drag by. I, at one point, checked the time and realized that we weren't even halfway through and could not believe it. I thought we were heading into the all is lost moment. We weren't. We weren't there yet. I had another 20.

[00:44:13] I had another 20 just to get to that moment. Yes. We still had like 45 minutes in the movie. And so that, I was like, this movie is just boring. I was playing on my phone. I mean, once they start the time travel and then there's like some hijinks, the movie does pick up and I really enjoyed it. I don't think it quite landed the plane. I'm, as you can tell. Very fuzzy. We're very unclear of what they went back in time. And did. And did. To save the world.

[00:44:42] I don't think we're, we have a pretty good grasp on what they showed us. They didn't do anything. They didn't do anything. But that thing is like the movie didn't know what to do. It's not like we missed it. Unless going back to the original moment was all they needed to do. Which is not a great explanation, but that's the only one I can think of. So somehow they had to go back in time to the first day of school. Just so Virgil could have this crisis of faith. And then they had to time travel. Then they went back to the first day they time traveled and just like didn't time travel. Yeah.

[00:45:12] So now are they living in that timeline as the only people who know what could have happened? They are. Yeah. Great. Sure. I have a lot of questions. I'm like Dan and I will let Dan talk about his love of time travel in his own overtime. Um, I don't love time travel movies. Um, when they are done like this where you're not sure what the rules are. You're not sure what like it's fuzzy and it's hazy and it makes me uncomfortable.

[00:45:41] Um, I think there are movies that do it well and that's, you know, and I do enjoy those. Because this one, the middle part of it, loved it. I had a great time. Hijinks. We're going back in time. We're saving people. Great premise. I just don't think it took off well and I don't think it landed well. But there was, there was like a good 30 minutes in the middle where I had a great time. Uh, I think that this movie slaps by and large.

[00:46:10] Um, I think that's really fun. I think you have this one, uh, really fun group of friends. The, the, the three guys here are really fun. You have a romantic storyline that for like once in a D-com wasn't creepy. It didn't really feel like as. They had good chemistry. As weird as some of the other romantic storylines that D-coms have tried to like throw into it. Well, that's why we had to have at the very end where he shoots his shot and she accepts that she's still dating Derek. Yeah. They had to make it creepy somehow. They had to do something to make it a little. Yeah.

[00:46:40] The, for me, this is very close to being a top 10 movie if not for the ending where they really fumble how to save it. Um, and that's a bit like, that's a, it's such a big part of the movie. The time travel element is the movie. And so to not have a good explanation for how they save it really, it hinders the movie and it makes it, uh, takes it from being great to being for me really good.

[00:47:07] And so, uh, unfortunately I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit. It's not going to be in my top 10 for that reason. Oh, spoiler up until the end. It's right there, right? It's knocking out the door on top 10, but not having any sort of real good explanation for why, how they save the day is tough, is tough. And, um, for a movie that's all about time travel. And up until that point, like they, I felt, did they, did they nail it all?

[00:47:37] No, but they did a really fun job of, uh, of doing time travel for kids. Like kids using time travel to stop bullies is great and very fun. Um, and unfortunately they fumbled it a bit at the end. And so, uh, I'm bummed by that, but overall really, really enjoyed the movie. Um, I, I'm glad you're both sitting down cause I'm going to pitch something to you. That's going to be, it's going to rock your world.

[00:48:06] A Minutemen tiger cruise sequel where the Minutemen go to the aircraft carrier and talk Bill Pullman and Hayden Panthier into stopping nine 11. I'm so here for this idea. Yeah. I'm so here for this idea for so many reasons. I just love the idea of kids tackling Al Qaeda in 2001.

[00:48:35] And I, I'm sorry if you're offended by that, never forget. I understand. But the idea of these teenagers banding together with Bill Pullman given speeches and then finding a way to stop the terrorist attacks of nine 11. And to that point, Dan, do you know what's better than never forgetting? Not having, not having to remember the night they played the Titans. That's exactly right. Oh, really strong idea. Really?

[00:49:01] And I do like, I love the idea of these kids who this is 2008. Like, yes, it's still close enough to where surely one of them mentioned it. Right. You would say, Hey, my thing is like, whenever we do time travel, go bigger, whenever there's time travel movies, there's always like the review. Why didn't they stop the Kennedy assassination? Why didn't they go kill Hitler? Like, why not Disney channel? If you're going to make a completely tone deaf, like just do it, just go all the way. Offensive movie like Tiger Cruz. Just go all the way.

[00:49:31] Why not do it and do it right? Like, I'm not saying the movie tonally is great. What I'm saying is, is you made Tiger Cruz and it's an, it's an abhorrent experience for all involved. Why not do it and fix it? Is it because if everything that they did turned bad, everything that they went back to change for the good ended up being bad. But you posit that, that not everything, because he does finally like get the girl. Right.

[00:50:01] And he wouldn't have gotten the girl if he didn't time travel. Well, they had to go back and undo all the time travel. I would say everybody they saved ended up being worse. So I love, I love, that's true. That's true. They do have a butterfly effect where, so this operates on the same. Do we stop 9-11, but then we get something even worse? Like what? If, I don't think the movie guarantees something worse every time. I don't think it does that. I think it guarantees different.

[00:50:25] Like them bullying the dude in the bathroom versus the dude bullying them. I don't think that's worse. I think what he's doing is kind of vindicated. I don't think it promises something worse. I do think it promises. And we don't know what that old lady did. Different. We don't know what that old lady did. We don't know what she did. Like, obviously we don't want, no, we don't want anyone to get sued. Here's what I'm saying. I love time travel stuff. I unabashedly love it. If you have a time travel podcast and you're listening, please invite me on your podcast. I love it. I don't want to get time travel nerdy here.

[00:50:56] Their premise of time travel. Do it. Get time travel nerdy. Their premise of time travel is single timeline, multiple versions, butterfly effect. That is the same premise of prisoner of Azkaban. Same timeline, multiple versions, butterfly effect. But the difference is the butterfly effect in prisoner of Azkaban is positive. It's not negative. It's positive. Hermione and Harry go back and they play a second version of themselves that helps their other version. That's what they do in this movie.

[00:51:25] The problem is I really liked this movie. I like time travel. If I was 12, I would have freaking loved this movie, but Aaron's not wrong. They don't land the plane. And I don't think it's about what brand had a problem with. Like the fact that they didn't explain what they did. It's a decom. I would, I would be able to forgive that. My problem is, is that it's overstuffed. Like when you do anything time travel, this is not a pun.

[00:51:54] Like time is of the essence. And so you have to determine that was just not worthy of a giggle. I wasn't trying to make a joke. Okay. You have to determine and prioritize what, what the thing is you're ultimately trying to stop. And they throw in this wormhole, as brand said, they throw in this wormhole. At the very end, instead of like the better version of this movie is, is the wormhole appears immediately.

[00:52:23] And they, they're so addicted to time travel and doing their little fix them ups that they just don't deal with it. And so instead of that, we get a plot that is, it's like, everybody has kind of a love interest. Even Zeke has two girls that are just fawning over the freaks. The Zeke freaks. I like, there's just the breadth of what this movie is trying to accomplish is not sustainable for a 90 minute decom.

[00:52:48] And so for Erin, when she looked and it was 44 minutes in and 46 minutes left, that's the weight of a movie for someone that doesn't like time travel. That's what that is. For me, if the wormhole starts at the beginning and then you can put some of these things on the back burner or maybe delete one of those storylines or two, this is one of the best movies that I think decom. I think if we've gotten into the hijinks a little sooner. Yes. Yeah. I would agree with that. But we just had so much of like laying the groundwork of they were friends. They're not friends.

[00:53:18] Now he's a nerd. I just think there was too many plates that they were trying to spin. Yes. There was just a lot. There is a really good movie in here. Yes. And I think when I enjoyed it. And maybe if I'd watched it, you know, maybe if I was a 12 year old boy in 2008, different story, but I was a 17 year old girl and I said, no. And that's fair. I mean, if I like, I would be curious as to how my kids would feel about this movie being nine years old.

[00:53:47] I, I do think from a watchability standpoint, Sharon, come over. This is, yeah, you should, well, you don't even lie. You didn't, you know, I don't know if you would choose high school musical. Yeah. I just think high school musical. I think from a watchability, from a watchability perspective, this movie's up there. Is it the movies in the top in my top 10 are all pretty much even 11 because high school musical gets a 10 of 10 at doing what it set out to do.

[00:54:14] All of my top 10 gets a 10 of 10 at doing what it set out to do. This movie tries to do a lot. It doesn't always accomplish it when it does. It really works for me, but when it doesn't, it's unfortunate. And I think they could have really made, I didn't think you have to lessen the runtime. I think they could have reworked some story stuff and made a really, really fun movie that works for all ages. But I'm not mad at it. I had, I was entertained. So there's that.

[00:54:42] Let's get to our rankings. Let's make that list. The muh of DCOM. Yep. Erin, where are you putting Minutemen? I have moved Minutemen around a lot because the parts of this movie that I enjoyed, I really enjoyed. And so if you took like the middle 40 or whatever, like that movie's going to rank probably in my top 20. Um, but unfortunately I'm grading this as a whole.

[00:55:10] Um, and so this is going to premiere on my list at 30, uh, right ahead of full court miracle and right behind the cheater girls. Um, cause the cheater girls is also a train wreck, but overall I enjoy more of that full court miracle boys. Yeah. It's going to be right there with the, it's the boys movies, the boys movies where I get it. You were trying to reach a demographic and I didn't care. Sometimes you got to pour one out for the boys. It wasn't for you then. It wasn't for you now. Saturday is for the boys. You get it brother.

[00:55:41] How dumb is that idea? Saturday is for the boys. It's still a thing. It's hilarious. It started when I was in college. That literally, even when I was in college, I was like, this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Yeah. Because every day is for the boys. Are you so afraid of conflict that you have come up with a saying? So you don't have to communicate with people about your plans. Um, I dated a guy that we could only date during the week because Saturdays were for the boys and you dated him a couple of times. We went out a couple of times.

[00:56:10] And then when I realized we couldn't go out on a weekend, I was like, you'll never see me again. Insane people either don't let you have other friends or they carve out a day that's for the boys. Both of those groups of people are not well and need to seek help. Saturdays are for the boys. Are you 12? For Dan and I, every day is for the boys. That's right. How many times do we look at each other over the fence and we go, it's a Saturday. And we leave our families. Yeah. And we're like, sorry, suckers.

[00:56:40] For the boys. Saturdays are for the boys. Well, I mean, I think Saturdays are for the boys, but the boys are your children. There are boys. Yeah. There are boys. Or like maybe just be like, just plan things. Maybe just plan things. What Saturdays for the boys are saying is like, I can't deal with you right now, woman. Actually, for you, Saturdays are for the farmer's market. Saturdays are for the farmer's market and there are boys there. Saturdays are for the farmers. That's right. Shout out to all the farmers out there. Minutemen coming in at 30.

[00:57:09] Top 10 has not changed. 10, Halloween Town. 9, Get a Clue. 8, Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off. 7, Phantom of the Megaplex. 6, Smart House. 5, Johnny Tsunami. 4, Right on Track. 3, Cadet Kelly. 2, High School Musical. And number 1, Motocross. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. I got Minutemen sliding in at 14. Hey. Just ahead of Windy Woo.

[00:57:36] And just behind Mom's Got a Date with that vampire. Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire is not in your top 10? I mean, I say my top 10 every week. I always forget. I don't get it. It's three for me. Yeah, I've got 10 movies that I like a lot. Yeah. There was another time where I also had Minutemen coming in at 23 on my list, which would have put it in between Jump In and Windy Woo. Yeah. Jump In really high. Jump In, I have at 16. Jump In really high. Oh my God. Yeah. Because we like our-

[00:58:05] You guys, your love of Corbin Blue because of High School Musical is- Well, Corbin- It clouds your judgment of anything else he's in. It's so crazy. If I'm clouded, then I don't want to be in the sky. That's not correct. You guys get what I'm saying. 10, Full Court Miracle. 9, Smart House. 8, Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off. 7, Cadet Kelly. 6, Get a Clue. 5, High School Musical. 4, Motocross. 3, Johnny Thunami. 2, High School Musical 2. And number 1, The Greatest Movie of Our Time. And anytime- So stupid. Brink.

[00:58:35] If someone will make a just in Courier New font, if I'm clouded, then I don't want to be in the sky. You know what I mean? Dash Brandon Gray, and it's in quotes. I will wear that. If it's black, and it was white Courier New, I will wear that shirt. You just send it on over. I'll wear it. It's easy. It's done. I have Minute Minute 15. Okay, we're all right there. Yeah. Well, you're not. And the way that I- The boys are. Saturdays are for the boys. Saturdays are for the boys. Minute Men is for the boys. Saturdays are for the boys. I've said it a thousand times.

[00:59:04] Minute Men is behind Quince. So for me, the 14 movies ahead of it, to varying degrees, all do exactly what they say they're going to do. So Quince, Miracle in Lane 2, Brink, High School Musical. Those four movies are not in my top 10, but they are complete, in my opinion. Minute Men, not quite complete. It is one ahead of Smart House, a movie that, had it leaned into being a horror movie or had

[00:59:33] any sort of consistency with what it meant to be a Smart House, I would have much higher. Smart House is perfect. Minute Men was more entertaining to me than Smart House. Do the dance. Do the dance. Do the dance. More than Smart House. So like movies after that could be entertaining, but they don't, like luck of the Irish. Movies a mess. It's not not fun, right? Twas the night. Movies a mess. Not not fun, right? So that's where I have it at 15. I feel really good about that. My top 10 has not changed.

[01:00:01] Halloween Town, Full Court Miracle, Scream Team, Get a Clue, Eddie's Million Dollar Cook-Off, Phantom of the Megaplex, Johnny Tsunami, Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire, Cadet Kelly, Moto Crossed, best movie by a mile. Also gets a shout out in The Bear, season four, in a really funny scene. Saturdays for the Boys. Hey, this cake, best thing that Aaron's ever made for this program, and it's not even particularly close. Not that everything else was bad. It's just that good. It was that good. You realize how it sounded? So is this? Immediately. Saturdays for the Boys.

[01:00:31] And then the Reese's Cups? The Reese's Cups were amazing. My problem with the Reese's Cups is I ate them like I would eat grocery store Reese's Cups, and I got sick. Well, they're a lot bigger. Because they were so rich and so big. But one Reese's Cup and this, fighting it out, but this wins. There is, we're out of stock right now because I think I bought them all. At the cook station, we carry these gourmet Reese's Cups that are mixed with a little bit of chocolate liqueur.

[01:00:59] They are the, hands down, the best Reese's Cup I've ever had. It's the only time in my life where I've preferred the dark chocolate version over the milk chocolate version. Boy, howdy. We sold out of the dark chocolate within like a couple days because literally every shift I would just buy five. So send us those and the brand shirt. Yeah, every time I walk in, I check to make sure to see if we've got them back in stock. Once we do, I'll buy a bunch, bring them in. But they are phenomenal. I love it.

[01:01:27] Next week, everybody, we're heading to summer camp for Camp Rock. Camp Rock. Yes. We did it. This is real, everybody. This is real. This is me. Okay. I can't wait for that. I'm so excited for Camp Rock. I'm very excited for Camp Rock. Great. You want to end the show or you want to say it again? I want to watch Camp Rock. We'll be back to them. But next time, happy sports, everybody. Decom! Let's see the fireworks after shooting them off.

[01:01:55] Shoot off your own because the first responders have the day off. Risk, it's going to be great. I just know it. Decom Descendants is a Bramble Jam podcast produced in Yeah That Greenville, the Bramble Jam Podcast Network Studios by Brandon Gray. For more information on Decom Descendants, go to the web, decompodcast.com. Go to the socials, Decom Descendants, with an at sign in front of it. To watch us watch these movies live, go to takethetape.com. Or you can go to bramblejamplus.com. And don't forget, we're on the way to 300.

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