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BONUS: The Movie Guys - "The Sandlot Kids" (Patreon Exclusive) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Hey, you knowing everybody Dando here, I'm just letting you all know that.
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As you can probably tell from the title of this podcast, this is
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once again not going to be a regular episode of four Fingered Discount still over
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in the UK, so we're chucking up a Patreon exclusive one as a freebie
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now figure since it's still just a second and just in time. It's still
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just summer in the States and over here in the UK, I thought I
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would throw up our Movie Guys episode where we went back and revisited one of
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my favorite films from when I was a kid. It was released in nineteen
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ninety three. Here in Australia, we know it as The Sandlot Kids.
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Over in the States and probably the rest of the world, no, it
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is just the Sundlot but it's always been the Sandlot Kids to me and every
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other nineties azzy kid would know it as The Sandlot Kids. Absolutely adore this
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film, one of my all time favorites. As I said, one of
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my favorite soundtracks of all time. Can you believe the guy had never seen
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it, So you're going to hear guys first impression of The Sundlot Kids and
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he enjoyed it. But I absolutely loved it. So The Sundlot Kids is
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going to be what you're hearing today. Have you want more access to our
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of the Sandloit Kids. Catch you all next week. The Movie Guys is
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brought to you by the four figure Discount Network. I want you to make
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some friends this summer. They were nine great kids, having one great summer.
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They'll become friends. Just stand there, let's stick your glove are I'll
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take care of it. They'll become a team. Yeah, all right,
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and one of them, the best, will become a legend. Two thumbs
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up, says Siskel and Ebert the Sundline rated PG. They'll play at theaters
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everywhere. Have you ever bought or rented a video tape that wasn't quite right?
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It may have been a pirate copy? And the league and now our
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feature presentation. All right, mister Davis, I think there's only really one
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true way we can start off this podcast, and it's with one question.
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I have to ask you this. Are you a hero or a legend?
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Oh? Here is get remembered that legends last forever is our own. Legends
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never die, Legends never die. I can only respond to that with you're
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killing me. Dan. We are, of course here to review a film
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that I hold very near and dear to my heart, a film that I
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loved as a child. Released in nineteen ninety three. It is coming of
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age film that you don't necessarily see as many people talking about these days,
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and honestly, at the time weren't really talking about at all. It's almost
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like a film that kids felt that it was their film that adults didn't really
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know about. It was in Australia known as The Sandlot Kids, and I
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understand it's the Sandlot but here it's the Sandlot Kids, and I'm very excited
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to get into it. This is, of course, mister Davis, is
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first time ever seeing this film. The way we're gonna be doing the movie
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Guys now is each month I'm going to pick a film, and then Guy's
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going to pick a film. So The Sandlot Kids, mister Davis, give
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me your first impressions of this film. Obviously, this film is targeted at
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eight to fourteen year olds. Primarily, put yourself in the mind of an
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eight to fourteen year old. What did you think of this film? Well,
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I got the film if I was an eight to fourteen year old,
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and by the way, before I begin I was of the impression that we
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should have flipped this around, because you know, the movie Guys up until
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now has generally started with Dan and saying God tell us about there's your thoughts
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and recollections of this movie. I watched this movie for the first time like
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maybe two or three days ago, even though it came out nearly thirty years
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ago. That's right, now, nearly thirty years ago. Well, well,
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yeah, that's correct. Yeah, we're in oh my god, we're
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in the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty three. So I was gonna
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use your impression, but I'll give you my quick take on it and what
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I sort of knew about it thirty years ago when I was in my early
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twenties. You know, I'm trying to be a cool dude. It's like,
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well, I don't really have time to watch some you know, sch
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multi American movie about a bunch of kids playing playing baseball. I gotta go
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out and get drunk and take party drugs at the Nut Club. Well you
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were twenty four when this was released, right at the start of nineteen ninety
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three. I would have been sixty nine year one, right, that's correct.
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Yes, so you've been twenty three, yeah, twenty three, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. So yeah. Look, I knew about it,
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and there were certain aspects of it that interest me. I mean, I
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like a good coming of a story as much as the next person. And
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I'm like, oh, well, this is apparently based on writer director David
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Mickey Evans's own recollections of his childhood and you know, as a as a
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baseball fan, and you know, non too talented baseball player, so that's
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that's not too bad. I also knew about Evans, and sorry, I'm
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going to be a bit nerdy here, but he was quite hot in Hollywood.
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He had written a script called Radio Flyer. I don't know if you've
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ever seen that movie. It's got uncredited performance by Tom Hanks, young Elijah
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Woods in it. It's again it's another coming of age story with a bit
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more of a fantasy element. And I remember reading that script had sold for
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like one point two million bucks or something, and you know, this was
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a guy who was relatively unknown. It's like living the dream. And then
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heard about this And it also had had by man Dennis Leary in it,
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who was a huge, huge fan of in the in the early nineties.
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Bill from this film Bill, Yeah, yeah, our Scotty Smalls. Smalls
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a stepfather. Yeah, all aspects of them that could be interesting. But
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at the same time, I think this is for a younger audience, not
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really for me. I wasn't reviewing full on at that stage, so I
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don't think I went to see it to review it, so, yeah,
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I this was the first time that I caught it was just a few days
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ago, so I knew about But my interest in it wasn't that that intense,
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So I'd be more interested in hearing about how it came, how you
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came to it. So the sound like Kids for me wasn't a film that
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I have any recollection of being at the movies. I never went to the
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movies to see this film. I'm assuming you got to the actual release in
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Australia. Do you remember it being at the movies? Was it was it
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promote like was it a movie that people were talking about or was it just
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sort of as one of those kids films. I think it was regarded as
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a kids film. Yeah, and you know, of course Baseball wasn't necessarily
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that huge in Australia. That's it it had. Yeah, it had enough
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of a crowd pleasing and kid pleasing elament, I think because you know the
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baseball aspect aside it's you know, kids hanging out and getting in the high
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jinks. You know a bit of a nostalgia aspect to it as well,
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given that it takes place in nineteen sixty two. Oh yeah, people love
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the sixties. People love the sixties, so yeah, not necessarily a huge
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it, but I no, I do recall that it did play in cinemas
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here, So for me, I remember this being a film. This is
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one of those films where I had to call these with the ones where you
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know, you took a chance at the video shop. You know, they
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saw the videos and Mum said, you're five weeks for ten bucks, go
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pick five movies, right, and you'd spend the next two hours perusing through
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the shelves because he had five movies you can choose from, but you took
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for every like it's very important I choose the five. It would be a
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good combination. You can't all be family movies. Is going to one action
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in there that's not two action because m went't allow you. No one wrestling,
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one, one animated one. Good A good festival of film rights.
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That's really smart, Dan, that's great. I remember just being like,
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you know, you look at the sound like kids, and I was like
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this, I actually know what No fuck, it's just come back to me
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right now. I remember the moment video easy Kario being there and Mom saying
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this one looks good like the Sandlot kids. I remember being like not impressed.
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Could mum would be like that, She'd be like, how about you
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get this one? This one looks good. I'm like, man, how
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was your mum? Mud Simpson and your cup? But I also imagine,
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I mean, how old were you at this stage? I reckon I first
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saw this film about ninety four, ninety five, okay, would have been
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six six ish? Okay, then, so you're not that old that having
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kids in the title is automatically a turn off, because I mean, I
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think once you maybe hit around eleven or twelve or something. It's like the
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Sandler Kids, Spy Kids. I'm not a kid, so you know,
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how can I relate to this? But I don't know if you If you're
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that age, then I can maybe see how you might be interested. But
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I can also see how seeing her kids maybe not. Yeah, And I
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just remember a mom because like your parents, your mom suggesting a movie to
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you at the video store, and you've been given an option of five.
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It's like getting fucking socks for Christmas when you're a kid. But I remember,
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I've only got five choices here, don't be cutting off one of my
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fingers. I've got five choices until next week. It's very important, Mum,
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So I would you know? I went home and bore was this film
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and I remember like being halfway through thinking this might be the greatest film I've
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ever seen in my life. It just felt like a film that was made
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what starred kids, right. There weren't many adults in the film, which
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I think was important as well. You had his mum and his stepdad with
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any other adults in the film besides mister Myrtle at the end, not really,
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but she was not really an adult. She was, but I'm wondering
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how much older she was than the Sundlock kids because the sound kids are meant
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to be what they're meant to be, like twelve thirteen, perhaps i'd say
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that, yeah, tweens, Yeah, at least you'd say at least early
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teens. You'd eything, I guess. But Benny the Jets probably about thirteen
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or fourteen, and he looks the oldest out of the good doesn't he does?
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Yeah, And we get to Benny in a moment, but it just
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almost it was made by kids, four kids. But the soundtrack as well.
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I remember loving the music, but it just felt like these kids were
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experiencing and going through things that despite the fact that it was in the sixties,
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I think just coming of age films, there's something timeless about them,
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where it doesn't matter what era of they're set in. The stuff that kids
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go through in those films, it's just something that you just go through in
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life, and it's very it's very relatable. And I remember he's finding this
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film so relatable and I loved it, and I remember saying to Mum,
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this is great. My Mum's like I told you about, Like, hey
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man, it's all coming back to me now. And then I do remember
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though, really enjoying it so much and saying to Mum, can we borrowed
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again, and the guy at the shop saying, no, you can't.
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Someone else has already requested it, right, So then it was close to
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close to my birthday. I've got it for my birthday one year. It
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must been not ninety five, ninety four Mum bought out. And you know
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this is before the streaming. So when you when you were able to get
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a video as a kid, it was like the greatest thing in the world.
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You can watch at home whenever you wanted to. That was like a
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privilege being able to watch this film and I was sort of became known as
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the kid that had The Sundlo Kids on video, and like friends would come
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over to watch the movie, and it just it just became a film where
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it's just like none of us really talked about it at school, but then
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your friend would come over and go, I am at that movie. It's
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like it's like we share a bondit for something else. We loved this movie.
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So I've always just had that connection with this film. It was just
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like a movie that it never disappointed me. I always enjoyed it. Plus
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it was a movie I could put on with my mum and dad, and
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my dad particularly enjoyed it as well. And my dad and I didn't really
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like the same stuff all that often, but he loved The Soundlock Kids.
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So I knew if Dad was at home, I could put the Sundlock Kids
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on and you sit down and watch it with me. So I sort of
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had that kind as well. So The Sound Like Kids was a movie that
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we all enjoyed, but it was never really talked about all that often,
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Like it was never a movie you saw promoted on posters or no one at
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school was talking about the Sound Like Kids. No one was quoting the sound
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like kids except four You're killing me Small. That became a thing. Well,
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I can understand why it holds such a you know, a warm place
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in your heart given all that you know, I mean, it's it sounds
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like a very reliable movie and one that's very uniting. You know, your
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mum recommends it and turns out you like it. Your dad enjoys as well.
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You can watch it together. Your friends are into it. But you
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know it's but it's not necessary. But it's also like a little bit of
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a secret. That's the thing it was. It was a film that was
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like, no one else knows about this movie. I've found this movie and
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it's the greatest movie ever. Yeah. But if someone said, you know,
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if someone drops a line at some stage it's like you're killing me small
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and that, Yeah, rewind you've made a new buddy. Do you have
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a film that not necessarily many people talk about or no of, no of,
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But it's not talked about all that often, but someone's quoted it,
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and you've gone you and I are going to be best friends going forward.
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Oh yeah, look, well let me tell a story into but because there's
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something similar that my my very good friend JP and I we really love the
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movie Wall Streets. Yeah yeah, not Wolf of Wall Street, but Wall
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Street with Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen. And for some reason, you know,
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we ended up with a copy at his place, and invariably, you
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know, at the end of the night, you know, after we'd shot
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some pool and had a few beers, we'd invariably end up watching Wall Street
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and just sort of quoting it, and you know, lines from that would
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end up in our everyday conversation. But Wall Streets a fairly well known one.
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There is another movie in nineteen ninety crime movie called King of New York,
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which I may have mentioned on the show in the past, not much
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time when you're talking with the guy who goes past that he doesn't mentioned King
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in New York. And my good friend Anthony and I we're huge fans of
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this. When we were working together at four to the Street Paper in Geelong
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back in the back in the early nineties, Anthony I used to travel up
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and down to Melbourne together a lot because we were reviewing movies. Invariably a
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line from King of New York would end up in our conversation somewhere along the
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line. You know, you'd see something and you'd be able to, you
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know, fold a quote from the movie into it, or a bit from
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the movie into it. So yeah, and the more time that a social
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media got bigger, you drop, oh, you don't, what's a really
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good movie this? And then people just start banging out lines from oh,
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I've found my people. It's so great. It's it's a you know,
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a really great bonding experience when something that's one of the great things about social
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media is like, for example, this podcast here. I started this podcast
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when none of my friends were watching The Simpsons anymore, and then I started
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doing this show and it's like, ah, I found I've made new friends.
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I don't need my old friends anymore. By suckers. But as I
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was getting, as I was mentioning earlier, so this to me and from
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my friends at the time. Growing up in the nineties, for anyone who
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grew up in the early nineties, it almost felt like our well, what's
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what's the what's the coming of age film? With the eighties like stand By
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Me? Maybe it's look yeah, I mean I've written and it looks stand
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by Me is really still the ultimate version of this kind of story. Yeah,
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but this one felt like ours. This was like our coming of age
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film. You know, it's just we'd all have seen and heard of stand
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By Me. But that was an old movie, it is, yea,
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even though it was only a few years, like maybe what six years earlier,
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it was eighty six, eighty seven, I think, yeah, yeah,
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I mean, I remember, I remember seeing that of the movies,
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even though I was in my late teens, because I'd read the Stephen King
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short story that was based on the Body out of the Different Seasons anthology and
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just thought it was fantastic. And yeah, I mean I sort of made
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a even though I was a few years older than the characters, and stand
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By Me, I was like, no, no, I really want to
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see this, and you know, it really hit home. It's a really
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well done movie and a great story. So by the time The Sandlot Kids
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had come around in ninety three, like I said, I was a bit
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too old for it, and yeah, that didn't really I didn't really relate
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to it as much. Although you know, watching it, you know a
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little while ago, I could see that there's a lot of the archetypes and
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tripes and what have you of coming of age stories that this movie does.
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I mean, I don't think this movie really exists. With our stand By
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Me being a huge success, I'm pretty sure that the studio is probably like,
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we want some of that stand by Me, Man air Well and David
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Mickey Evans drop some of it. Well, you iced to play ball with
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a bunch of kids back in the day and it was a bit like that,
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and you know, we can put some sixties stuff on the soundtrack.
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Sold. So yeah, I think Avans you have done it again what idea?
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Yeah, But I don't think this. I think stand By Me sort
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of set, not even set the template for this, because every generation's got
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it's coming of age story or you know some of that changed our lives story
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or whatever, and not just for boys as well. I mean there's a
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whole, you know, army of young women out there who you know will
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swear by the movie. Is it now now? And then? Do you
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know that one? I've heard of it. I've seen that. I think
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it came out at roughly the same time as the Sundlock Kids. Yeah,
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where you've got for tween or teen girls and they reunited as adults and they're
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played by like dem Moore and Melanie griffithin few and you know, that's that's
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huge. I mean, everyone loves a remember when we were kids story and
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or like they say, and stand by me. I never had any friends
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like I did when I was twelve years old. So that's you can basically
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make a whole industry around that. And that's what and that's what the Sandlot
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fits into. Well. What I loved about this was that I was a
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big fan of like family sports films in the nineties, right, So you
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had and there were so many of them too. Yeah, the Mighty Ducks,
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The Mighty Ducks Herees was big in the nineties. You had there was
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a film that you don't really hear me people talk about anymore. Do you
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have a Little Giants? I know of it with it O'Neill and Rick Moranus,
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right, Yeah, loved that media as a kid as well. So
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this though, to me, had the elements of you know, like like
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a coming of age kind of film, but also had the sport involved as
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well, so it was like the best of both worlds. But I just
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found the character of Small so relatable because it came this movie was rested the
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time when you're still trying to work yourself out. You've got the anxieties of
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friends and clicks at school and that kind of thing, and being feeling uncool
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and feeling unpopular. So I just found small. It's just like it almost
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felt like I was watching myself on screen. No. No, he's a
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very relatable central character. All the stuff about I'm not good at anything,
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and then yeah, everyone, I think everyone goes to that stuff. And
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also, I mean they kind of not stack the deck against him, but
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I mean he's got a fear that going on. As the story opens,
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I mean, he's moved to a new new town, new neighborhood, got
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a new dad, and he's still working himself out. You know, he's
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one of these kids who says, oh, I'm just an egghead or whatever,
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and you know it's going to be an interesting journey watching him maybe bump
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up against his stepdad or you know, will they come to will they come
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to him? The stepdad clearly is still working it out as well, and
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I'm thinking going to be a bit intimidating of Dennis lear easier stepdad. He
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kind of looks even when he's trying to seem nice, it's like, yeah,
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I don't know, he's an asshole. He's an asshole, and you
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know, and even the early stage where he you know, he's sort of
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hanging around the edges of the Sandlot and he's found this group that's clearly very
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tight knit. Once something Evans does really well and the sort of build that
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legend of the Sandlot and the Sandlot Kids. This film's built a lot on
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the legend. I love the legends in this movie. Yeah, yeah,
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yeah, and even small scale legends, like you know, they weren't playing
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a game, they were just playing baseball and it just never stopped. You
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know. That's that's something you can sort of here filled through memories like maybe
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they did play games, so they just felt like a game that never ended,
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and that's that's for us. It was like, you know, kick
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to kick, playing footy in a show, but yeah, you didn't score.
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You just you know, you had teams and you're kicking goals and stuff,
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but it didn't matter what the score was. At the end, You're
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just you're just playing footy. Yeah, you're just playing footy to the set
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for the sake of playing footy. And it gets you know, baseball is
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the thing that initially sort of binds them, but then they're you know,
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expands more and more. You know, you've got the Wendy Wendy peppercorn.
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Yeah yeah, the lifeguard of the pool and all that kind of business and
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yeah, other stuff like that. I like, how and you know,
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the gradually you've got the Shenanigans. I'm trying to retrieve all the lost balls
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and all that kind of business. Uh. Yeah, It's it's a story
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that sort of grows and expands as it goes along, and it becomes pretty
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entertaining and pretty just comfortable. I mean, I can see why a young
21:30
Dando really dug it and revisit it again again, and why it holds such
21:33
a sort of a like I said, a warm spot in your heart.
21:34
I mean, it's it's that kind of movie. It feels like a very
21:37
comfortable movie. I have this theory of who's Squint's right, Squints he tells
21:45
the story about I think it was his grandfather who was a cop. It's
21:47
fever like. That's that's one of the things. That's one of the quotes
21:49
as are stuck in my head still to the say four ver right and then
21:52
it's obviously it's coming clean. You know, it's just a dog you could.
21:55
It's nothing the doory would have got it for. And mister Myrtles actually
21:56
is nice ex baseball player. I love the idea that his grandfather so he
22:03
went home one day and he was like, mom, Dad, you should
22:04
we hit the ball of the fence. We couldn't get the ball back.
22:07
And then his Grandfather's like, I've got a story for your kid, and
22:10
his granddad told the story, and the legends just evolved from Mike Squins retelling
22:15
his story over and over again. And I loved that that theory that,
22:19
you know, his granddad just for shifting Geeks told me the story about mister
22:22
myrtle Man that obviously never happened. But it's just kids believe shit. Mate.
22:26
You tell him that, They're like, I'm going to run with this.
22:29
Yeah. Well there's a whole larger than life aspect to parts of the
22:33
story as well. I mean, something I've written down in my notes is
22:37
sort of like totems of childhood and adulthood. I mean, like the Babe
22:41
Ruth ball is, you know this thing that's got a bit of a larger
22:45
than life kind of story around it. So well, you know there's baseball
22:51
cards as well, and even the PF Flyers that Benny the Jet puts on
22:55
when he has to when he's doing the pickle run or whatever it is.
22:59
You know, there's a there's a time when you're a kid when it's like
23:02
these things that you own, these little toys or whatever, they have more
23:03
meaning than they actually do in the real world. It's like, no,
23:07
these are actually going to make me go faster or you know, I mean,
23:11
the ball actually is pretty valuable. It means signed by the Bambino.
23:15
Better your carrots, kids, that make you see better, Yeah, all
23:19
that kind of stuff. So, I mean, I think that's something that
23:22
the movie does really well, just that time when when you're very young,
23:27
when they're a kind of again legends, the things that matter in your world
23:33
don't really mean all that much, but I mean everything to you very much
23:36
though, very much. I mean, the sam Lot takes on a you
23:38
know, it's because it's their universe. It's their universe. Yeah, and
23:45
you know the over the fence at Mister Myrtles is kind of like the Forbidden
23:48
Zone and it's the Elephant Graveyard. Yeah, It's that's something that the movie
23:52
does pretty well. I mean, I won't I won't lie to you.
23:56
I mean there's a fair bit in this movie that was kind of there's it's
24:00
good enough to make, it's good enough to make to make me wish it
24:03
was better in some ways. I mean, I think the Evans Evans this
24:07
is Evan's first time directing, and I don't know the aspect of it,
24:11
like, oh this is a these are kind of rookie mistakes, or it
24:14
could use a little bitfulness in some ways. I mean, Evans himself is
24:17
the voice over guy. He's voicing grown up smalls, and I was thinking,
24:22
I wish you'd had a few more bucks and sprung for like a legit
24:25
actor to do that. I mean, you couldn't have got Kevin Costner at
24:27
that stage, because Kevin Costant was making, you know, twenty million dollars
24:30
a movie or whatever. But someone with his voice, or like Jeff Bridges
24:33
or someone like that who had a really good narrate of voice. I don't
24:37
know, but I just think that's that's one issue. The other thing is,
24:40
and I mentioned stand By Me before, I mean, that's got a
24:41
quartet of young actors at the core of it. Ayal's got key for Sutherland,
24:45
it's some other good actors in supporting roles. But those four actors in
24:48
stand By Me are just you know, they're perfect for their roles and they're
24:52
perfect with each other. And I don't want to dis the kids of the
24:56
Sandlot, but they're not quite as good. There's also just a few too
25:00
many of them where you need to have them for a baseball team, though
25:03
I guess you do, though, I understand that completely, So you're not
25:07
you know, the twins aren't necessarily all the big and you're really just focusing
25:10
on small Benny Ham and essentially Ham and Squints. I guess little little sex
25:15
best. And look, the kid actors are fine, but yeah, they're
25:22
fine. So I think that's for me though, that that kind of works
25:26
for the movie. Now, because there was a star in that cast,
25:32
they would stand out. I don't. I don't think they necessarily need to
25:34
be a star. I just think they need to be maybe better actors.
25:37
But at the same time, they've also got this incredible youthful exuberance and enthusiasm
25:41
that does work in their favor. So you've got to know you've got to
25:45
balance it that one way or another. I like the kind of I've got
25:48
my notes. I kind of like the riff raff nature to this, because
25:51
I wouldn't say that are the losers of the neighborhood, but when it came
25:55
to baseball, they were. They seem good at baseball because they play all
25:57
the time. But it's almost like they weren't the jocks. They were like
26:00
the nerds of baseball in the town. Well, the kids from the wrong
26:03
side of the tracks as well, because I mean, you see the other
26:07
team rock up and they've all got there, you know, they've got cool
26:08
bikes, and they've all got uniforms. And the kid playing was it Phillips,
26:14
you know, who seemed like the little captain of the other team.
26:18
And yeah, and he gets into the sledging match with with Ham plays ballock
26:22
a girl. Yeah, and it eventually escalates to the worst insult of all
26:26
in the nineteen sixty two It's funny. I was, I was, you
26:30
know, doing a little bit of wikipediaing about the movie, and you know,
26:33
there's a couple of sequels. There's there's definitely the Sandlot too, and
26:37
looking at it on Disney Plus, which is where I watched it, the
26:40
little blurb comes up and goes, we're going back to the sandlot with the
26:42
Boys and Girls of the Sand, and I'm like, yeah, it's definitely
26:45
done to be a bit more inclusive. I've never seen the sequels, I
26:51
know, I never have either. The Perry is in one of them,
26:53
though, Yeah, isn't the third one, I think, because what happens
26:56
is he gets like transported back in time or something something like that. Yeah,
27:00
yeah, yes, maybe it's worth checking that out. I'm not too
27:00
sure, but but yeah, I liked the refraf nature of the film.
27:04
I did see a couple of articles when I was looking this up, and
27:07
it's like the reasons why the sand like kids or the sound is now problematic,
27:10
And I was like, can we just leave it alone? Not like,
27:15
oh god, fuck off. I'm not going to give that article anything.
27:18
I'm not going to explain it. But yeah, no, I don't
27:19
think it. Yeah, ignore that nonsense. I mean, the film even
27:23
acknowledges it's quote unquote problem at he asthmts. I mean, the really the
27:27
only one is that, like I said, squint a little sex best and
27:32
you know, fakes drowning so he can lay a kiss on Wendy the lifeguard.
27:37
Call me crazy, call me a misogynist. I fucking was in tears.
27:42
I just thought as a kid, like, I love the acting of
27:45
oh he's in deep shit, Like kid, you know what it was because
27:49
I knew what was coming, right. So when he's like walking to the
27:52
to the diving board and he has his big grin on his face knowing what
27:56
he's about to do, it just makes it funnier. But the fact that
27:59
this kid and the narrator, he's just like, you know, that day
28:02
he became a man, just like h but the narrator, the narrator even
28:06
acknowledges. It's like it was pretty shady what he did or pretty skeezy what
28:10
he did, but it was also pretty daring. I just I was in
28:12
absolute tears. But then there was a line I can't remember what it was.
28:15
Oh yeah, so you plant I've been planning it for years. That's
28:22
ending. Yeah, given that you know Squinn's Mary Wendy Peppercorn nine kids.
28:29
Yeah, she's like, you know, she like waves him would never will
28:30
be banned forever from that day, but every day we will passed. And
28:33
she waved to him. I don't even fuck you think it's bad to the
28:37
tip. I think that's that scene. Just I love that scene. It
28:41
makes me so happy, but also too in that that pool scene. So
28:47
Ham's the obnoxious, over confident one hiding he's sort of I guess he's insecurities
28:51
by being over confident, But just when he walks into the pool and he's
28:55
like calling himself sexy and doing the fucking hug Hogan, MA gets me.
29:00
He's probably my He's probably my favorite out of the great he was. Still
29:06
It's still very funny, isn't it. Yeah, he's had a bit of
29:08
a I think the actor's name is Patrick Renner, and I think he went
29:11
on and did a few other things. I think he was I think he
29:15
replayed Ham under a different name in various other movies, various other teen movies
29:21
and things like that. Well, Benny Benny was in the Mighty Ducks sequel
29:23
D two. I think he was in D three as well. Yeah,
29:26
he's a Louise. Louise was his last Louise. He's the kid that can't
29:30
break. He can't sort of stop with his breaks with his skates, so
29:33
he's always crashing into things. Yeah, he's a really good I mean,
29:34
he plays an athlete really well. I wouldn't be surprised if he was an
29:38
athlete when he wasn't acting, so he was he was picked out of a
29:41
lineup basically, so he was seen by a talent scout lining up for a
29:45
right at affair and it was just and then he retired from acting in nineteenenty
29:49
seven. He did like the Two Mighty Ducks films and he was like,
29:52
I'm out. I don't want to do this anymore. He checked out,
29:55
and now he's a fineman. But I did read that unfortunately unfortunately. In
29:59
twenty eighteen, I think it was he was part of a group of people
30:02
who like attacked a guy, like choked him out and he nearly died and
30:04
stuff. So you're like, she caught. I was like, ah,
30:07
shit, okay, that's sort of well, it's funny. There's also a
30:11
story about Thomas Geary, who played Smalls. He allegedly had butted at an
30:19
airport cop back in twenty thirteen. Wow and yeah, yeah, apparently was
30:23
uncharged with domestic violence as well. Oh my god, Oh Sundlock kids,
30:30
they're gon have to make a sequel to get that fucking money to pay their
30:33
bail to the bail And they did do a reunion. I think it was
30:38
just prior to these domestic charges. In twenty eighteen, where it was to
30:41
celebrate the twenty fifth anniversary of the film, they went to as the Jets
30:45
that he plays for. At the end, I think they went to a
30:47
Jets game La Jets or whatever, and and they all they're wearing their own
30:52
jobbers, but Benny wasn't there. And it's like, if you're doing a
30:55
sound like kids reunion, I'm pretty sure. But anyway, Yeah, but
31:02
no, he's very well cast. And that's it. You know, later
31:06
on in the film, when that's they flashed forward to the present day and
31:10
small As is working as the commentator for the for the baseball I think that's
31:14
that's Mike, Mike Vadale, Mike vadal I think that's his actual dad playing
31:18
grown up Benny, his older brother. Is it his older brother? Yeah,
31:22
oh I can. But anyway, it looks just liking it, doesn't
31:26
It's it's really good. It's very good casting. And I think I think
31:30
young Benny's incredibly good casting as well. He seems like the kind of he
31:34
so believable, wasn't he. Yeah, capable, charismatic kid that you would
31:37
look up to and that you hope would take under your wing, because I
31:41
mean he's not. He sort of rags on him. It's like, hey,
31:44
you don't know shit about baseball or whatever, but he's also willing to
31:47
teach him because he's Benny seems like a genuinely good guy, but also someone
31:51
who loves baseball so much that he really wants to bring more people into the
31:55
fold, you know. And I think he I think he digs being a
31:57
teacher and a mentor, even at that young age. That's something that came
32:00
through it to me at least, which which I really liked. And also
32:04
something about sport. I mean, I'm not really much of a sportsman.
32:07
I never really have been. But if you get your confidence up, you
32:10
know, the one time you like kick a really good drop punt in footy,
32:15
or the first time you you know, you catch a long fly into
32:19
the outfield or whatever. I mean, it's like, oh, okay,
32:22
well if I did it once, I can do it again. Yeah,
32:23
I mean yeah, so, And I like the momentum that's sort of gathered
32:27
from that. It's something that the movie does pretty well, I think.
32:29
And as we're referring to earlier kick to Kick, right, you play kick
32:31
the kick or whatever like footy at lunchtime at school. You did something during
32:37
that game. It was talked about all week like you were like a big
32:39
guy, you know, you kick the goal from the boundary line or whatever
32:42
like that. It's like, you see what it was great. You took
32:45
a specky, you took a fantastic yark and it was like war man.
32:52
But yeah, I just had my notes here. Benny I think was my
32:54
first man crush. I think you know, I would have been six or
32:57
seven at the time. As you were saying, Benny is the kind of
32:59
guy that you wanted in your life when you were You either want if you
33:04
I mean you don't have any brothers dying, Yeah, but it's either someone
33:08
you want as your brother or as your bestie. Like this guy was showing
33:13
me the ropes. And it's almost like a good role model as well for
33:15
younger viewers to say, be more like this guy. Yeah, yeah,
33:20
I mean by all means, you know, laugh at hand, being you
33:23
know a braggers or admire squintss. You know, bravado in putting the moves
33:30
on Wendy Pepagorn, don't do it, admire the bravado if not the actual
33:35
deed, but yeah, Benny is like, oh yeah, this is a
33:38
good young masculine role model. Now, what did you think of the various
33:44
relationships in this film? So we've touched on earlier with Bill and Smalls and
33:46
how that develops throughout the film. I did have here. Bill's a scary
33:51
guy, like when he was first play in Cash the catch. I'm like
33:53
it made small smallst anxiety that much more believable. It's like I would be
33:58
anxious being around the well, that's yeah, I mean, And and he's
34:02
fear and he's fear of fucking up at baseball stems from his fear of fucking
34:06
up for Bill. Yeah, very much. So. I mean, Dennis
34:09
Lawyer looks like an intimidating guy. Doesn't exactly look warm and cuddly even when
34:14
he's sort of playing not necessarily, he's not even trying to be threatening,
34:17
but he's just like, I don't want to mess up in front of this
34:22
guy, or I get the feeling if if I screw up too much,
34:24
he's either just going to disengage completely or just diss me right to my face,
34:30
like you suck it, Let's never do this again. And you know
34:34
he's been sort of pressuring him to say, can you come out and teach
34:36
me how to catch? And then when you do that, you sort of
34:38
want to be like, I really want to learn how to do it,
34:39
but you keep sucking at it. That's it's it's it sucks to suck in
34:45
front of people that you're trying to win press or trying to I don't know,
34:50
be part of the group or be this guy's son. Yeah, I
34:53
mean that's it's tough. It's tough. Absolutely, did Bobby ever teach you
34:57
how to kick a footie? Was there ever a thing did Bobby? Did
35:00
Bobby have? For those who aren't aware of you listening now, guys,
35:04
Dad was on the greatest AFL footballs of all time, you want, team
35:07
of the century? Was did he ever try and incorporate football into your life
35:10
or was it just he kept those lives separate, Not that he kept it
35:14
separate. I mean there was a bit of kick kick and all that,
35:19
all that kind of stuff. One thing that you have to remember is,
35:21
you know Dad's ankles got really messed up playing and as he got older,
35:27
you know they weren't properly seen to and you know he had a fair bit
35:29
of issue with him, So he wasn't really racing around the backyard with me
35:31
ornything like that. But we'd have kicked to kick occasionally, but I mean
35:35
more often than not. And because first of all, not once that I
35:39
was an only child, but there was eight years between me and my sister,
35:42
and I was the only boy. I didn't have any brothers. And
35:45
yeah, I had friends, but not really friends in the neighborhood that I
35:47
was living in. So you know, when I was playing kick to kick,
35:50
I was essentially going to the park kick, go, get the ball,
35:52
kick all that kind of ye you know, and which means I always
35:57
enjoyed playing footy when I was playing footy with my friends at school or whatever.
36:01
So you know, I mean it's not like I was like, no,
36:04
I'm not teaching it to do kick to kick or anything like that.
36:07
Just there were various aspects that made it not something to happen all that often.
36:13
It's not something that I'm sort of losing sleepover anything like that. It's
36:15
just been another way it was. But no, I've been I always enjoyed
36:21
doing kick to kick or just having sort of practice matches or whatever with just
36:24
a small group of maze. He didn't You didn't have a full team or
36:27
anything like that. You're just sort of played footy. You played six positions
36:30
on the field essentially. One of my favorite memories of my dad and I
36:37
growing up was him take me to the footio just to play teach me how
36:39
to kick or footy basically so I could and that that idea of not wanting
36:45
to not be able to do it at first. It always like I'm one
36:47
of those people who I can't pick it up straight away. I get really
36:50
angry. I just expect to be able to learn something straight away. And
36:52
it's always ever since I was a kid, Dad said, you see it
36:54
really angry when you couldn't kick in It's like, we just got to keep
36:57
practicing and keep practicing. And really it's the same I try and teaching to
37:00
kick a football. He gets angry and he can't do my okay, mate,
37:02
relax, we'll get there. He's going to keep practicing. But the
37:05
scene where he goes down to the to the soundlot for the first time and
37:09
he's like, don't be a Goophers, don't be a Goophers, and he's
37:13
so anxious and he throws it. They all laugh at him. I'm like,
37:15
that just sums up they epitomizes that, just that the rawness of childhood.
37:21
They're not horrible kids, but kids are just horrible, if that makes
37:23
any sense. Like they're not trying to be mean. They haven't. They
37:27
haven't got that filter yet. No, no. Yeah. So but that
37:30
scene though, when he so he's so scared to throw the ball that he
37:36
runs the ball up and puts in the glove. Yeah, your heartbreaks for
37:38
him because you can just imagine what's going through his head that at that moment.
37:40
It's like and then he gets back and whoever's playing Smalls at the time,
37:44
he's just he's sort of he sort of his shoulders sinking, he puts
37:46
his head down. He's like, I know, embarrassing, but it's the
37:50
only way I'm not going to be potentially laughed out of this place. But
37:53
it's it's so great that he gets that gets that wisdom from from betting.
37:59
He's just like either thrown a newspaper on your paper on when you don't just
38:00
throw them back and you let go there. That's it. Yeah, you
38:04
know, there was actually another baseball movie that I really loved as a kid.
38:07
You just reminded me then called Rookie of the Year. I was thinking
38:10
of that one. Yeah, yeah, which is the kid that that that
38:13
one is very unrealistic, you know, it joins the Chicago Cubs and that
38:15
that's like your wacky sports story. This one just felt more real and grounded.
38:21
Yeah. I mean, it's, like I said, essentially coming of
38:23
age story with baseball as the backdrop. What do you think of the dog
38:28
story? That's why I think I like this one so much because it combined
38:30
a good sense of wackiness with the Beast, with just sort of realism with
38:34
the with the soundlot and the relationships as well. Yeah, that's right.
38:37
I mean I hate to keep coming back to stand by Me, but you
38:40
know that feels lifted from that as well. Even though I'm sure that you
38:45
know, pretty much everyone has a story about the you know, the mad
38:46
dog in the neighborhood or the big dog that you always avoided. I mean,
38:51
stand by Me, he's got the story of Chopper, who will you
38:52
know, sick balls, that kind of stuff. I like the Beast fine,
38:58
I mean there were parts of it it went unrealistic, but you know,
39:01
sort of the effects and you know, yeah, the big mouth slobbering
39:06
mouth and all that kind of stuff, and then you actually see the dog
39:07
and you realize it's just you know, it's all it's been on the head
39:10
things this entire time. But always the kid confused me. I was like,
39:15
but they saw this dog and they saw it was this gigantic robotic They
39:19
saw it was this giant monster dog. They saw it as Coo Joe.
39:22
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so the idea m I had to try and
39:24
explain to me. Now that's just what they were seeing in their minds.
39:27
I'm like, what what so that always can't get it that that always confused
39:32
me. But a nice surprise to get James L. Jones at the end
39:36
though, isn't it that that is good my man, Jimmy Jones and his
39:39
cool he's cool sunglasses. Yeah. I don't know. I think that was
39:45
a yeah, really nice that. It was a really good get to get
39:46
him as the act. I mean something else I really enjoyed. Well.
39:50
I liked that, you know, he played with them with Babe Ruth and
39:53
all that kind of stuff and had story and wanted to, you know,
39:58
tell you what you get this fan Hasti ball signed by Murderer's Rowe fired,
40:01
you come back and talk baseball. It was that's nice. You know the
40:05
world's opening up a bit more and all that kind of stuff. I thought
40:08
that was great. But something I really dug was the whole the Babe Ruth
40:12
dream that Benny has with one of my one of my favorite that guy actors
40:17
playing playing Babe Ruth, this guy named Art la Flour. He's no longer
40:21
with us, he died last year. I believe that man was built in
40:23
a lab to play Fred flint Stone. As far as it really doesn't.
40:28
Yeah, but he's an actor I really like, and I think he did
40:30
a really good job playing the Babe. I'd like to know more about Babe
40:35
Ruth. He sounds like a really interesting character. But I love that story.
40:37
How they you know, he's at the bottom of the ninth or whatever,
40:40
he calls his shot and then he just went fucking calls his shot.
40:44
Isn't it? This the funniest thing? Yeah, yeah, so you call
40:50
that pictures. It does catch. The movie does capture that whole You really
41:00
rag on your mates, and that's how you know your mates. It felt
41:02
like a very usy vibe that didn't because we take the piss out of our
41:06
mates and you got to other countries and you make fun of someone, like,
41:08
what do you be mean for? It was like, oh no,
41:09
it's because I like you, so that the aspect here I enjoyed that.
41:15
Yeah, I mean maybe it's something that I imagine something that American kids would
41:17
do as well, but or maybe it's just the sort of scrappy wrong side
41:22
of the tracks kids but they grow out of eventually. But I remember after
41:24
watching this film too, I'm like, can go it into the shop and
41:28
get me some cracks and some tim tans Peas decided to make Small because I
41:32
imagine this is where a lot of people learned about small. Yeah, not
41:36
just small exactly, but the way sorry who plays Hamm what's the actor's name
41:39
again? Sorry? Patrick Renner? Is the way he feels like a kid
41:44
who loves smores and he's having a great time explaining smores, like he's like
41:47
he is so into it. Well, I'm thinking everybody's got there something in
41:52
this movie. Yeah, Benny will teach you how to play baseballs and ham
41:57
will teach you how to make smalls. Yeah. I was just like,
41:59
I've always particularly loved that scene. Yeah, we're just explained it a small
42:01
as it's so much fun, but also can we just touch on the soundtrack
42:06
before we get into some questions from that from the listeners. But I've just
42:08
think this is one of my favorite Maybe you got music from the sixties is
42:12
always going to be good, but I've just think this has like every song
42:15
on this film as a banker, it's good. It's it's a good jukebox
42:17
movie, isn't it is? Yeah, And I think it's got the perfect
42:21
use of the song magic moment, just as this kid thing where that song
42:25
is like the perfect to that scene for me anyway. But when I can't
42:30
hear the song Tequila without or wipe out for that matter, and in the
42:35
finals of Tequila whatever I want to ride in my head, I'm going do
42:42
all. And although, so anything else you want to discuss about this film
42:44
before we getting some questions? What do you think about the Mum? I
42:46
like the mum tongue just go out and get into trouble, not too much,
42:50
but some yeah, yeah, I mean I like Karen Allen. Of
42:52
course she's marrying from Raisers the Last Dark and been a bunch of other stuff.
42:57
It's look, it's not much of a role, but she does what
43:00
she can with it, and yeah, yeah small as his mum seems like
43:05
a nice lady. I do like that she's like, yeah, no,
43:07
mum's gonna tell you this, so yeah, take advantage of this as she
43:10
knows that she needs to be there for him with Bill as well, because
43:15
she obviously can tell Bill's not we obviously got no kids of his own.
43:17
I'm assuming Bill still work No, Bill is still working it out as well.
43:21
Yeah, he loves her and he's like the actra that comes with it
43:23
kind of thing. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, but even
43:28
though he's played by Dennis Leary, I mean, he's not a prick.
43:30
He's just working it out as much as as small as working it out.
43:35
Yeah, yeah, one final thing before we move on. I just had
43:37
the quote here that I want to make sure that we get out of there
43:39
squints as quotes. So I think it's my favorite joke of the movie about
43:43
time Benny mclothes are going out of style. That's that is the best line.
43:47
I've wrote that one down myself. It's like that's a that's a pretty
43:50
good sledge. I mean, this is a movie with some good sledging in
43:54
it, but that's that's probably the best line. Yeah, that's one you
43:57
could use today like I was going side. I just yeah, that and
44:00
the fucking pool scene squints, squints and hand are the funniest in the movie
44:04
by far. Oh yeah yeah. Yeah. All right, let's get into
44:07
some questions now from our listeners, so we put it out on Twitter as
44:09
well as in our Patreon exquisitive group. Nora Cooca says he's so excited for
44:15
this for this review. It's based on much of a thing in Australia.
44:16
Did you grow up knowing about it and or playing it? I still don't
44:20
know anything about baseball. It's one of those films that one of those sports
44:22
that I'd love to get into it. And if I go to America again,
44:25
I would want to go to a game because they called America's past time
44:28
for a reason. It's like it's traditional, you know. But I've just
44:31
never really understood it all that much. Me neither. No. I mean,
44:37
when they say bottom of the ninth, I'm like, oh, well
44:38
that means something, right because I've heard it so many times, But you're
44:43
right in it leads to it's something that I did want to talk about when
44:46
it comes to American sports, particularly how they're shown in movies. You know,
44:52
American football gridline is almost shown as like this real gladiatorial contest. It's
44:57
very it's almost like you're making an action movie when you're making a football movie,
45:01
and when you're making an ice hockey movie, or that's even more damn
45:07
and dirty because it's usually just fighting. Basketball is usually very graceful or it's
45:13
like holy shit, and you've seen what these guys can do, or you
45:15
know, it shows like a real athleticism and you can hear di di di
45:20
di di. That's true. But baseball really feels like you know, the
45:28
American legend. You know, there's like a really it's really steeped in history,
45:34
you know. When yeah, all there's that, But when you're talking
45:37
about proper baseball movies, yeah, yeah, when you're talking about baseball movies,
45:42
there's always kind of like this is a real tradition. It can be
45:45
huge, you know, stadiums and things like, but generally it's like small
45:49
towns and it's a sport that gives it's a sport that gives a film time
45:52
to breathe when it's covering it as well. That's right, yeah, yeah,
45:54
And I mean I can, of course have you know, great moments
45:58
of athleticism and that kind of thing. That's so a real bonding experience,
46:00
a real team experience, and it has like a real philosophy behind it.
46:05
I never really understood the real sort of like power of it. But the
46:07
idea of stealing a base just seems like the big legend, Like you can
46:10
steal a base, It's like the greatest thing in the world. Well,
46:15
yeah, I mean so many aspects of baseball seemed to require so many different
46:17
disciplines and skills. I mean, I imagine it takes a great deal of
46:22
courage to sort of stand at the plate with it with a bat in your
46:25
hand and someone so on a pretty hard ball, actually pretty damn fast.
46:30
So what happened to James E. L. Jones got hit in the head
46:31
and now he's blind? Yeah, but you know, or being able to
46:37
hit that and you know a ball is being thrown at you that quickly and
46:39
being able to knock it out of the park or knock the knock the skin
46:42
off it like Benny does. You know, it requires speed, that requires
46:46
all these different things. You know. I remember having a little baseball bat
46:51
when I was a kid. I don't know where it came from, but
46:54
yeah, I remember being just fascinated by I'd get, you know, tennis
46:59
balls and just try and whack him with this, with this baseball bat,
47:02
and did a fair for you? I was like, well, Baseball's fan.
47:07
Zach has asked he's never seen the soundler, is it worth watching as
47:09
an adult first timer, as someone who doesn't really have a love for baseball
47:14
or did he miss the shot? No, it's definitely worth watching. And
47:15
from what I've known of a conversation, Zach, I think you would be
47:20
a fan of this movie. It's hard not to at least enjoy this film.
47:22
You would never committed this film feeling like I've wasted my time. I
47:27
don't think. Yeah. But like I said, Zach, it's not I
47:30
mean, it's got baseball in it, but it's not necessarily a baseball movie.
47:32
It's more moving about you know, the friends you have when you're when
47:37
you're a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, and everyone can
47:39
relate to that. Becky Manners says, oh, my guy, who's my
47:42
favorite film? I found it by accident once when I was a kid and
47:44
just watched it all the time afterwards exactly, I feel like it's just one
47:46
of those films that you didn't go to the movies and see it. You
47:49
just found it the video shop and then you're like, this movie is great.
47:52
They just spread the love to everybody into it, because if you've seen
47:53
this movie, that's that's what it felt like for me anyway. But she
47:55
says, have either of you done anything as shocking as pretend dranning to impress
47:59
a girl or just even get a kiss out of it's? What's the most
48:01
damn thing you've done to get a kiss from a girl? I'll tell a
48:06
story that's not. It paints me in a terrible light. Well not a
48:08
terrible light, but not the most masculine light. I was about thirteen or
48:14
so and I was at you know, like a teenage Pony and you know,
48:17
full of young teenagers who were starting this. I'm like, boys and
48:22
girls they're interesting and different from one another. And I decided to hold like
48:27
a kissing competition. I'm like, who's judging this and what are the criteria?
48:31
Needless to say, everyone else was kissing and I was not so and
48:37
I was like, I'm hideous and we'll never kiss a girl as long as
48:42
I live, and I got a bit sad about it, as you do,
48:44
as you do when you're a teenager. A young woman that I had
48:47
an enormous crush on performed the greatest charitable act that I've ever ever known by
48:54
taking me aside and kissing me that night. Not a huge pash, but
48:59
I was just, you know, kiss on the lips from the most beautiful
49:01
girl that i'd seen up on the lad point. And I was like,
49:05
well, I didn't do anything brave or bold to earn their kids. I
49:07
was just like, sick, don't never get to kids. And she kissed
49:12
me, which you I thought was really very, very sweeter Gavin Gavin David
49:15
says, am I there anyone who knew very little about baseball then and still
49:17
knows very little about baseball now? Yeah. I still always enjoyed this movie.
49:21
Maybe it's because I can relate to playing footy in the park as having
49:23
the ball go over and ever's fence and being terrified with their dog. Actually,
49:27
it's the funny thing you bring up there. So when I used to
49:30
live in or Lane here growing up, we spent a lot of backyard cricket,
49:31
right We had a big backyards back in the day. You know,
49:35
hit the back fence on the four or six, so it always hit the
49:37
side fences. It was four, so you'd always trying to hit the fence,
49:38
but never over because on the right side. So if you're looking at
49:42
their house on the right hand side. Danny had a small dog. It
49:45
was like a jack russell, but like a bit bigger than a normal jack
49:46
russell. It's called socks because he was all like a tan color. We
49:51
had white feet, so it was called socks. Motherfucker of like a nipper.
49:53
Right, the ball would go over the fence and he just bought for
49:58
the ball and run straight to the back porch like fuck me, like he's
50:00
just taking another ball day. Yeah, remember one day we hit the ball
50:05
over and you know, it was like, oh man, then we can't
50:07
play cricket anymore. What are we supposed to do all day? Now the
50:10
day's ruined if I come over to play cricket and now we can't play.
50:14
I remember I was like I'm going for it, like don't do it,
50:16
don't do it. And it's like you could hear his little feet like scuttering
50:20
on the inside of the porch and I'm like, I'm doing this now that
50:22
they'd a pretty bit back out to it, and I'm like, all right,
50:23
it would be a good twenty to thirty meters from the back porch.
50:28
I reckon, I've got enough time to jump this fence, get over,
50:30
grab this ball, and get back. And I remember like I jumped over
50:35
climbed of a very keft, didn't jump over this climber very carefully, put
50:37
my foot down, and it's like I was out of a film. I
50:40
picked the ball up through what over the fence, and I was like,
50:43
I'm safe. As I'm walking back, I step on this stick and it's
50:45
like and I hear like he's collago and I was like fuck, and like
50:50
this fucking dog just bolts out of the porch and I was like jumping up
50:52
and remember bit me on the ankle, not my huge bite, but I
50:57
remember my dad being furious about that. But I'm like, Dad, I
51:00
was in their yard. But like I was a hero that day because I
51:06
jumped the fence and I took on socks one on one. I was Benny.
51:10
I got the ball back. Fantastic story. But just that let that
51:15
comment just reminded me of that. But let's head to the Twitter now and
51:16
see if anyone sent anything through. All right, So, Cat Piano Guy
51:21
says, what were some of the best memories made during the summers of your
51:22
youth? For him? Uh? Well the guy, so yeah, for
51:27
him, I'll always remember camping with my uncle and cousin, not swimming with
51:30
my friends, and taking my dad's boat out to the river or the ocean
51:31
and inner tubing. Wow, sounds like a pretty adventurous childhood. Cat Piano
51:35
Guy, that sounds thread. I just the other is the summers, just
51:38
for me was going out to the bike like like bike jumps, like taking
51:43
your bike down there. We all go our bikes, but just the idea
51:45
of just going to each other's houses on our bikes, being in like a
51:49
group of like a gang. We went like reckless, but just cruising the
51:52
streets, feeling so independent on it by ourselves on our bikes. Now,
51:57
you've said before, when you get your first bike, you feel so free,
52:00
don't you. You've got the ability to go here, there and everywhere.
52:02
But you know, playing cricket in the backyard was huge for us to
52:06
play kick the kickers while down at the park. But I was pretty sporty
52:08
kid. What about you. I wasn't necessarily that sporty, but I think
52:14
you bang on with the having your gang, your little core group of buds
52:19
that you're sort of hanging out with, particularly during summers, when you know
52:22
that period between the end of one school year in the start of the next
52:27
just feels like it's forever. And it's really that much in the overall,
52:30
in the overall scheme of things, but it honestly feels like because you're changing
52:35
all the time as well. Yeah, I mean you might come back,
52:37
you know after summer holiday. It's like, oh my god, someone says
52:40
a different person. But yeah, not really specific memories, just sort of
52:46
a vibe, just sort of a feeling that you end as I playing scalectrics
52:52
BA yourself all summer. That's true. It's written comic books, No,
52:57
just down around Eastern Beach or I don't know, just getting up to getting
53:02
up the stuff. Stuff that felt that felt like it had so much meaning
53:07
at the time, and you look back and and we weren't really doing that
53:09
much, but it meant everything getting into trouble, but not too much,
53:13
that's correct. I liked this comment here from Captain Wolf they say, I
53:16
used to have a five movie DVD set. We used to get the sets,
53:19
but you're like five movies that holes muscles kind of similar, and the
53:22
other four were bush Whacked, Baby's Day Out, Rusty the Great Rescue,
53:27
and have filmed it. I have not thought of since I was a kid.
53:30
Dunston checks in, Oh my god, Dunston in the Orang and dang
53:34
yeah wow wait I remember being like big at the time everyone was talking about
53:37
this. Dunston checks in, I think Jason Alexander isn't maybe, yeah,
53:43
yeah, I can't quite remember, but yeah. So I just love that.
53:46
It was like the cheaper way of getting There was like two or three
53:49
films in that set that you wanted. The other two were just like,
53:51
I don't even like you're getting it. You're getting them cheap enough where you
53:53
could justify getting two ship films and having three good ones. What a deal,
53:58
Yeah, what a deal. But thank do everyone who are senting questions
54:00
and comments on our Twitter feed and the Patrion group. But yes, the
54:05
sound like kids, I'm going to be finally got a chance to revisit this.
54:07
I'm glad you didn't hate it. I was. I was really worried
54:08
on like, man guy disliked this. If he really didn't like this film,
54:13
I'm gonna be so disappointed. I'm glad you at least enjoyed it for
54:15
what it was I did. Indeed. Yeah, a nice trip back to
54:19
nineteen sixty two. Yes, And if you haven't already, guys, check
54:22
out out other movie reviews so far we've covered this season. We've got a
54:24
Starship Troopers. Gremlins was another film we tackled. Hen the other ones we've
54:29
reviewed so far, I don't I think the only two for this season so
54:30
far recent Memories, I think so yeah, yeah, yeah, So what
54:34
do you think? Any ideas for what next month's review is going to be?
54:37
Mister Davis, You've got a new ideas for me. It's gonna be
54:38
a film that people know. I'm really keen to do tremors. I think
54:43
that's you want to tremors. Yeah cool, I'm happy to go back and
54:46
use it. I remember seen as like a fifteen year old ish because it
54:50
was like it was a film that you looked at the cover as a kid.
54:52
You're like that looks spoken. The videos to the covers used to be
54:54
so cool, you know, and some covers just stick with like I always
54:58
think of the Evil Dea two one with the skull. Oh, yeah,
55:01
that's just it was so memorable that cover. But yeah, Tremors was a
55:04
great one as well as Kritters. Kritters was always really literally cool as well.
55:08
But yeah, Tremors. Remember it was just the Tremor looking up at
55:10
at the house. Wasn't it the big old grab boyd coming up to get
55:14
Kevin Bacon. Yeah, so let's check out Tremors, right, that'll be
55:17
the February review here on the movie guys, make sure you look out for
55:22
that one. Thank you so much, guys for your ongoing support here on
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55:37
All right, mister Davis, This has been our review of the Sound
55:38
Like Kids. Thank you so much for joining us. Next month's going to
55:40
be more expertise from yourself because the film that you actually know one loves so
55:45
much, and Tremors, I'm excited to actually taggle that one. But I've
55:47
been excited to just sit down with this film with you as well. It's
55:51
been fun. Got any final words for those amazing listeners out there too.
55:54
Cruel Dando doesn't know what he's doing.