Rip Girls

She came, she surfed, she conquered… Will and Sabrina are watching “Rip Girls” starring Camilla Belle and Dwier Brown.

This film premiere in 2000 as a Disney Channel Original Movie. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Do you surf? Have we talked about this? Do we
talk about this during johnny Tsunami? We no?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I think we mainly talked about snowboarding because he didn't
he really really didn't see a lot of surfing in Johnny'sunami,
And we.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Haven't seen back on the board yet, which is probably, Oh, we've.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Got to it's coming to summertime. We got to put
that on the list. So my parents had like a
timeshare in Hawaii, So that was our summer trip that
we did for a lot of years. And so I
would do a lot of surfing there and I was,
you know, being in southern California. I actually had a
friend who's I didn't have a ton but I had

(00:51):
one friend, Crystal, whose dad was a surfer like right,
like Lloyd was a big surfer guy. And her brother
also I mean total just like you know, Rip Curl
felt like the family was sponsored by them type of
thing like okay, and they would surf all I'd get
to go out with her and learn a lot from

(01:12):
her dad and her brother who was so cute and
I had a giant crush on Oh yeah, he would
that That was my type in that in that day
like that surfer, like sandy haired, crazy tan, you know.
And then I remember it being so cool because he
actually moved out after high school to Hawaii and he

(01:33):
lived in a treehouse. He lived in a treehouse and
was he animated?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Was this a real guy?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
So cool? No, it was my friend Crystal's big brother,
like it was that living in southern California. That was
like a thing, like you know, like the man I
married Jordan. He was a surfer like you know, like
it when I met him, Like his backboard of his
bed was a big surf board. So that was know

(02:00):
something that I loved. I did it. I can't say
I never got past along board, so I was not
I don't consider myself a surfer because I was not
a great surfer. I didn't get to do it a ton,
but I did love to get out in the water.
Now you you will have to cut my right hot
hand off. In the ocean. I hate the ocean. I'm
so scared of sharks.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
And oh really, yeah, they're more scared of you than
you are.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Then, Oh, okay, I'm sure that's true. Really, you know
a lot of sharks they've told of.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Course, friends with a bunch of sharks. They're ye pretty skinnish.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Now now the ocean and the beach it's sandy. It's
I mean, even wango tango. I didn't go out into
the actual audience. I stayed on the platform.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Can't do the sand.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Oh my.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
I've only been Hawaii once. It was in twenty nineteen.
Is the first time I've ever been at first Hawaii. Okay,
I tried surfing once. I stood up once. I'm basically
a pro. I don't ever need to do it again.
I'm sure I even have a video of it, so
that's all I need.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Is so fun, It's so but it's it's what people
don't realize until you actually get on the board. How
hard is it? Like your shoulders, your your body is
scraped up from the wax and the sand and the
salt water and all that. I mean, it is so
much harder than what you would ever really imagine, even
just getting out there. I mean, it's like stuff you

(03:21):
to work out. You paddle, and you paddle and then
you ride, especially when you're like a beginner, which I
don't think I ever advanced from that state.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
I did, I didn't do it enough.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
But you ride one wave in then and you look
back and you're like, I gotta go the way back.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, that's that's that's the old seinfeld joke. Seinfeldt said
that surfing is just the ocean continuously kicking you out
of it, like I want you in here, keep getting out.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Take your ass over and over again, and for some
reason you just need to get back out and try
to do one more wave, and you're.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Still not good one. I was great. I was a
pro when you were pro. I love video. That's all
I need.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
That's the thing about you, Will is that you just
like you just master everything I do.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I conquer. I do things once, I'm professional at it,
and I never have to do them again. And I
try to go.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
You'll never surf again.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I don't need your good I surfed a wave. I've
got it on video.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
You got the award, got the medal.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
On video, exactly. Thank you very much. On to the
next as we are onto the next film. Look at
that brought it right back. Welcome back to Magical, rewind
the show that makes you want to grab your friends,
your pj's and your popcorn and go back to a
time when all the houses are smart. The waves. Tsunamis
and the High School's musical. I'm Wilford Dell.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
And I'm Sabrina ready to rip it up?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
Nice? Oh, I like it. I like it. Well, it's
eating up here people, because summer's here and we're celebrating
at the beach with our newest d com. It's two
thousand surf family drama, rip Girls, or as we've been
calling it here Julie Tsunami. Yes, I had joked about
that last week when I teased up. But reality, rip
Girls not a good title. We've seen this a few

(04:59):
times now, Sabrina, Am I right here? This I didn't
get it. I thought it made me think. So I'm
not going to get into what we thought about the
movie yet, but it made me I'm just gonna put
it this way. It made me think the movie was
going to be one thing and then it was something else,
which always disappoints me in a way.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Oh, well, of course that's incredibly disappointing. But what did
it make you think it was gonna?

Speaker 1 (05:21):
I thought I was going to be watching a surf movie,
a good ROMP surf movie, a kid Disney Channel surf movie,
which this was at all.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
You don't think that was it?

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I do all God, No, surfing had almost nothing to
do with this movie was about surfing.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, I let me be okay, let me be clear
of this. I auditioned for this movie. And if you
saw Sabrina and this era with my brown hair and
I was always tan.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
But they cast that other guy to play ConA, you
would have been great.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I would have been great as ConA. I swear to god, ConA.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
You would have been great. But they cast out.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
So I auditioned for it. And this is one of
the Channel movies that I got like I kind of
got down the line, you know, close to it. Remember
watching it super excited. Like I said, although I wasn't
a surfer, surfer, surfing was a big part of just
being in so Calend growing up. Sure loved it and
I remember going there wasn't that much surfing. And this

(06:17):
was at a time when this big surf movies came.
I'm trying to think of the names of them, like
the Blue Crush. Blue Crush was out. This was during
that era that like especially girls surfing rocks. It was
a huge brand that was like, yeah, killing it in
the game. And I remember going, well, this Disney's take

(06:37):
on it like kind of hit or miss, kind of
you know, just not a great one. It was not
soon Johnny.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
I just no, I just want I just thought it
was going to be a surfing movie and it kind
of wasn't a surfing movie, which again it wasn't. I
didn't mind the direction it went. I just don't like
if something's called Johnny and the Ghost Squad and there's
no Ghost Squad, then you've mistitled your thing. You know
what I mean? If I go to a Hamburger joint
and they only serve spaghetti, then.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
It's not actually a Hamburger j and girl cheese. Yes, okay, okay.
So I went into rig done, like what would this
have been?

Speaker 1 (07:13):
I don't know, it would have been something more of
you know, the Yeah Hawaii or or something with your
history or something with a mom relationship. I mean, something
that did Rip Girls makes it sound like, you know,
if it's called BMX Bandits and there's no bmxing in it,
it's misnamed. So Ripped Girls to me, I was like
expecting a surfing movie. It was coming in going like, Oh,

(07:35):
it's gonna be those great water shots, it's gonna be
tons of really beautiful surfing it's going to be the
good team of surfers against the bad team of surfers.
There's going to be some kind of competition. There's obviously
gonna be version exactly at the end, and they both
got a chance for the waves and.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Had a ton of snowboarding. So yes, me think it
makes me think, though, what is it? Was it the
difficulty of being able to try to because again, surfing
is a tough sport, and maybe it was like a
difficulty of trying to find young enough.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
I just think I was misnamed. I think this was
always the movie and always the attention. They just they
they and I don't again, I don't know how this
was touted back in the day. I don't know how
they actually promoted it. But I mean, if they promoted
it as it's just shots of surfing and then you
see this movie, it's disappointing. If they promoted it as
a young girl going a kind of fish out of water,

(08:30):
going to a new place and struggling internally with her
family and learning about that kind of journey, then it's
a great movie. But if you go and expecting a
surfing movie, yeah, so yeah, again, if it's called Milton
in the Parachute Gang, and there's no parachuting. It's misnamed.
So anyways, Jo, by the way, don't you want to
see Milton in the Parachute Game? Now, great film, We're

(08:50):
gonna have to watch that. Yeah, ironically, no parachutes in
the entire movie. It's exactly like that. This movie debut
on the Disney Channel on April twenty second, two thousand,
and was filmed in Queensland, Australia, Doublings, Hawaii. It is
a rare international film location, but I guess it makes
sense if you're looking for some beautiful beaches. But I
never understand it's got to be a money thing, because

(09:12):
I don't understand how flying everybody, the whole cast, the
whole everybody to Australia is cheaper than doing it to Hawaii.
But I don't know. It's obviously things in the industry
that I know nothing about, tax stuff and where they
can shoot, and obviously it makes a difference. But it
seems like could be more expensive to go to Australia.
But what do I know.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
I feel like it's got to be location areas something
to film.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
And another rarity. Much like the original Zombies movie, this
one did not include any previous Disney stars in the cast.
They employed all unknown actors and I think they all
did a pretty good job, and frankly so to our
friends at Complex. On their list one that we commonly reference,
Rip Girls placed number twelve on their list of the
twenty five best d Coms, and we've got more here.

(09:53):
It's number twenty nine on Entertainment Weekly's list of Top
thirty and number fifty four on Collider. All impressive place,
especially for a movie you don't really hear mentioned as
one of the greats. And to add to that, it
has never been released on VHS or DVD, which is amazing.
But on the other side of the spectrum, Tim Ryan
of the Honolulu Star Bulletin called it unrealistic, and we

(10:14):
kind of have to give his opinion some weight, considering
Hawaii is supposed to be location for the film and
its culture plays a major part in the story. So
when somebody from Hawaii goes not so much, you gotta listen.
So you talked about this. You grew up in Orange County,
you were around surfers, all that kind of stuff. Was
your friend's older brother your kna.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
I mean no, because he did not talk to me.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Ah, okay, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Was a lot older from Afar. From Afar, Yeah, he
was much older. I mean okay, she was a year
older than I am, and he was probably three, four
or five years older. So he was like, yeah, does
he still in tree house? No, he does it, I think,
but he did live in Australia. Like his whole life

(11:06):
is still like was for a long time last time
I checked in, still very much around surfing his serfs
and he's total life. It's a total lifetle baby surfers.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, for sure, it's a total life style. One of
my favorite shows ever is one hundred Foot Wave. Go
check that out, yo, It's amazing. And yes, like most
films we watch, Rip Girls is available to stream on
Disney Plus right now, so you can watch it before
listening to our recap or wait until after and see
how much we got right. We're just wringing it here,
so honestly, the fact that we nail any of the
details is just a blessing. Let us know in the comments,

(11:35):
although we have disabled our comments and we'll never ever
see them. All right, Sabrina, did you know Rip Girls
was well? Of course, we talked about this auditioned, so
of course, you know, rip Girls.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I very much aware of this movie and was very
excited when it came out to see Like again, okay,
what was you know when I auditioned? How you know,
it's like you start kind of like using them as
like education for yourself when you're trying to nil one
of these roles? What could I have done better?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
You know, you gotta let us do what your audition
scene was?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Okay, So I remember I auditioned for the lead, and
then I also did audition for Gia too. Once they
once I went in, they said, also, can we would
love to hear you? So I know her audition scene.
I don't remember what the leads auditions.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Okay, gotcha?

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Gotcha didn't spark a memory? No, I uh, when you
auditioned for ConA.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
When I auditioned for ConA, my frosted tips apparently were
too frosted. I was told mine was like frosted flakes,
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
And I thought, I from here, I want to make statement.
Thought she did a great job.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Thought did the cat The acting was not? Again, if
I knew what I was getting into a little more
with the title.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
You would know I irritated. Was it like a little irritated.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Like you just go in expecting.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
A little bit.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
I just you go in expecting one thing and you
end up with something else. Again, if I go to
a burger joint and all they have is spaghetti, even
the best plate of spaghetti is not going to change
the fact that I was expecting a burger. Yes, so
I was expecting Rip Girls to be exactly what I
even said to Sue. I'm like, oh, man, tonight's movie.
I don't know what it's going to be about, but

(13:20):
it's surfing. There's going to be some sort of contest.
There's going to be the bad team, there's going to
be the good team. None of that happens. So I
was like, oh, okay, I get it. But now let's
paddle out into the waves. And it's actually called duck
diving to go under the waves. See, I'm a professional
server and we're going to get into the synopsis, thirteen
year old Sidney Miller must travel to Hawaii with her
father and stepmother to settle the estate of her deceased mom.

(13:41):
By connecting with the island, learning how to surf, and
making new friends, she discovers a deeper connection with her
heritage and must decide between selling her mom's land or
preserving it for generations to come cultivating in a giant
contest at the end, where we get to see some
awesome surfing between a good team and a bad team.
I'm kidding. I added that last part, which would have
been you wanted, Yeah, Well, we know you've been to
Hawaii lot. Have you been to Australia.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
I haven't, and it's definitely on our list of places
we want to go. I've heard such funny things about Australia.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's fun. It depends where you go. I enjoyed it.
The people are super friendly. A lot of it's very pretty.
But I remember distinctly being on a plane for fourteen
days landing and being like I just was on a
plane forever. To land back in California is kind of
like what it seems like, but again it really is where.
It seemed very much like we were in a city
in California, super nice people. It was a lot of fun,

(14:35):
it really was. I'm glad I went. It was a
lot of fun. But I need to see more of
the country, is what I.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Okay, problem, one thing I did hear and know that
I would never drive there because they are very crazy
about their like getting a ticket in Australia is so
likely if you Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
Well, it's also everything in the country wants you dead.
Have you not seen these videos where it's like people
have to flush their toilets because the spiders are the
size of your head and there's just in your cereal bowl.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
And like that, like its spiders.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah that build their own houses and knock on your
door to try to lure you out. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
No, that is the part of it that I would
I mean I have friends. There was a huge like
you know, study abroad things at Chapman and Australia was
like a big thing, and they came home with these
like insane stories. But they were also living like in
someone's like back house, like where there was like no
like legitimate like walls.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I'm like what, Yeah, it's everything.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
I travel and go to oaked El's like I'm not
going into a cabin of any.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Sort, especially there. It seems like, yeah, everything wants you
to do. Yeah, the people are super friendly.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
The movie is directed by a new name to us,
a woman, yet another rare occurrence for Decom's her name
is Joyce Chopra and right after college, all these stories
are so cool. Chopra and her first husband opened a
European style coffee shop in New York that turned into
a music nightclub called Club forty seven. Everyone from Bob
Dylan to Joan Bias performed there and would later get
its own documentary called for the Love of a Music The.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Club of forty seven.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Right, Oh my godness, It's amazing, wasn't it. Joyce Chopper
was a feminist filmmaker focusing on documentaries. One from nineteen
seventy four was an autobiographical film about her own pregnancy
and how it affected her career in movie making. The
labor also put her in the record books as the
first person to ever give birth on live TV. Crazy.

(16:26):
I don't even want to know who sponsored that. She
transitioned into full length narrative movies like The Lemon Sisters
starring Diane Keaton and Carol Kane. She also direct TV
shows like Law and Order, Crossing Jordan, and Everwood. And
then Camilla Bell plays Sidney Miller, the main character of
Rip Girls, part of the good team that's got to
fight the bad team for note none of that happened.
Camilla had the most experience on the set, having already

(16:48):
appeared in movies like Practical Magic, where she played Inn
eleven year old Sandra Bullock, The Lost World, and a
Steven Sigall movie called The Patriot. Must be one of
his later ones, because I've never heard of it, But
being the lead character of anything was new territory for
She would go on to appear in movies like two
thousand and six Is When a Stranger Calls Push and
ten thousand BC. Dwyer Brown plays Ben Miller. He's best

(17:08):
known as playing Kevin Costner's dad in Field of Dreams,
but he also appeared in movies like To Live and
Die in La Great Chase, Scene, The Cutting Edge, Red Dragon,
and cult horror classics House and House two. This time
it's personal, that's right. I added that part. And this
guy did a ton of TV from Er to Rozolian Isles,
and his last credit was from twenty sixteen. And honestly,
everyone else was a total newcomer, well except for one actor,

(17:31):
someone who we recently interviewed for a awesome Pod Meets
World episode. He's character actor legend Keone Young, who plays
bo Keoni was not only on Boy Mets World, but
has hundreds of TV and movie credits. If we seriously,
if we started his IMDb back when we started Podmeets World,
we would still be listing his credits. Just Ben and Everything,
Men in Black, Three, The Crank Movies, Honeymoon in Vegas,

(17:54):
TV shows like The Golden Girls, Websters, Cheers, plus all
of the above. He is a voiceover Legendarah, if I
read ten percent of what he voiced, we'd be here
for three hours. But to highlight a few Gi Joe,
World of Warcraft, Miss of Panderia, Star Wars, Rebels, and
high high puffy Ammy. Umi. Okay, let's get this out
of the way right now, because it's important. The movie
runs eighty seven minutes, three below the ninety target, so

(18:17):
they could have held a shot of a wave maybe
for three more minutes, or had some kind of surfing
contest that would have been fine.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Congrats to them, though three minutes contest, heys.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Three minutes more than they had. Historya will look back
on them positively and the movie was written by Jan Rosenberg,
who has kind of a crazy career, making for a
very rare female director and writer team. Rosenberg wrote a
Disney Live action classic starring a young Meredith Salinger and
John Cusack called Journey of Natty Gan. She also directed
nineteen ninety one's White Fang and eventually Bambi two. This

(18:48):
time It's Personal, a movie that recently surprised us both
during one of our games about sequels. I've never seen it.
Hopefully Bambi's dad doesn't die in the start of this one,
like his mom died in the start of the first one.
It's still traumatized. She also was the script supervisor on
the original Piranha movies Rock and Roll High School with
the Ramones So Cool and the Howling. Okay, it's time

(19:15):
to make a decision. Are we selling the land for millions,
honoring a Hawaiian tradition by keeping the house, or just
getting into the movie. I say we start with rip
Girls and go from there. Here we go. We open
with our main character, Sidney, flying into Hawaii, peeking out
the window at some amazing island views. She's coming home,
well sort of. She was born there but doesn't remember
anything because she left when she was really young. And

(19:35):
her dad, Ben, who we also learned as a bit
of a worry wart with his daughter never wanted to
come back after her mom died. Sydney isn't sure she
even remembers her mom anymore without thinking of a photo.
But also she has a new step mom she likes
very much, named Elizabeth. The family eventually lands and they
drive through the island as the opening credits role. When
they eventually arrive, we see a quick POV from someone
hiding in the bushes watching them with binoculars. And so far,

(19:59):
this could be a pretty good horror film where Sydney
and her family are haunted by the ghost of her
mother hell bent on killing the new stepmom. Also, keep
this stalker in mind, we're gonna talk about him later.
Sidney then walks around the beautiful house in the woods
around it, taking photos. She stumbles onto a beach where
she sees kids surfing and takes pictures of them shredding too,
And I was still optimistic at this point. She admits

(20:20):
she's more into art and computers, so she normally wouldn't
try something like hanging ten Back in the house, Sidney
is cautious when entering. She finds her way into her
dusty bedroom, which seems untouched for quite some time, except
for a stray black cat that gives us a little
jump scare see horror movie. And then a colorful local
named Bo enters. He's impressed with Sidney and puts a
lay around her neck. He's the lawyer of Sydney's grandma's will,

(20:43):
who has recently died. He explains, since Sydney is the
last living heir, everything including the entire plantation, goes to her,
but the only condition is she must stay in Hawaii
for two weeks. Bo explains the Mackai Kuau and I'm
apologizing to everybody through this entire episode for all the misprenunciations,
because there will be a ton. The Mackai Kuau have

(21:03):
been ranching on the property for five generations, and even
though the house is run down, the land is very fertile.
But Ben doesn't get it. This is high end beachfront property.
Why would they keep it for farming? Bo tries to explain,
even though there have already been offers on the land,
there is still value in tradition. As the old argument
of value over money begins, Sidney finds her way to
a cabinet that magically opens by itself, clearly still in

(21:24):
a horror movie, none of that made sense. Inside, she
spots a bound book which looks very similar to the
necronomicon Ex Mortis from the Evil Dead. It's an album
filled with old timy pictures of her family. She runs
it over to her dad, who instantly notices a picture
of his deceased wife, Sidney's bomb, holding a surfboard. He's
clearly stung with sadness, and Sidney is very interested to
learn more. That night, amidst the storm, Sydney unpacks her

(21:47):
room and returns to looking at the photo. She decides
to put it on her vanity mirror. The next morning,
landscapers are already working on the property and Sidney sees
that stray cat again. It runs off, so she follows
it into the jungle like you do. Eventually right to
a wooden She opens the door, awakening an owl and
getting her first glimpse inside. It's run down and filled
with sharp tools. Then she jumps and reveals a surfboard,

(22:09):
just before another jump scare from the owl. So this
is it's basically a Stephen King book. At this point,
Sidney decides to take the surfboard, which is let's not
be a you know, it's theft it's petty theft. She
runs off, stumbling into it, which she doesn't pretty well,
that's come on, she doesn't know all the stuff that's
in there. Come on, can't just be taking stuff? Was
the truck hers too? I guess? So, yes, she does,

(22:29):
I guess it is hers. She runs off, stumbling into
a girl on a bike, causing a brutal crash. It's
a local girl named Gia, who for good reason, is
mad about the run in, but she quickly changes her
tune when she sees Sydney's sick board quote unquote. When
the now healed Gia ask how it rides, Sidney fibbs,
implying it's awesome. The local quickly realizes who Sidney is,

(22:49):
the long lost relative here to read the will the
island a small and news travels fast. Later that night,
Ben says he was thinking about taking a hike tomorrow,
but Elizabeth suggests a nearby quilt exhibit, which, yeah, awesome,
sounds like a blast for a kid. Sidney revealed she
was thinking about maybe going to the beach alone. She
wants to meet up with Gia and her friends, but
Ben is clearly not comfortable with this. Sidney prophi says

(23:10):
she'll be careful, but he says no, she argues, she's thirteen,
not a baby. By the way, for the first time
in a good long while, look thirteen, Yes, actor, look thirteen.
Everybody seemed to be very appropriately age wise cast. It
wasn't like, wait, she's supposed to be eight or you
know something. It was all very They all yeah, looked

(23:31):
their ages, which is great.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
And by and by the way, I don't hate Sydney's
dad going I like, you're too young to go.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Off, but especially when your mom died the same way,
I could see being freaked out about going to the beach,
which even just going to the beach in general.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
But still we're on like an island. We don't know anyone.
You certainly don't know anyone little girl, Like, no, you, no,
you might not act.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Thirteen when walking down to the beach. Be that big
a deal for a kid you're thirteen. I'd been sued
by the time I was thirteen.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
No, honestly, yes, I that is not I feel like
they're no no really no, no, I mean maybe I'll
feel different, but at this point, no.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
At thirteen, you you weren't able to just like walk
to a beach. Again, we're talking about kind of a
closed off island. You're walking, She's not like grabbing a snorkel.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I was allowed to like ride my bike up to
like the shopping center that was, you know, outside of
the neighborhood and across like one major street.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
And that's way more dangerous than going to the beach.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
But will, what were you doing at thirteen when you
had time on your own? I already know because you
have told me.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Okay, I'm not a good example. I'm a very good example.
What were you doing that at thirteen when.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
You would that I was around people that that were
but you did definitely, Yeah, but that's because I was.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
I was a bust, like I'd been smoking for years
by thirteen.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
That's what I mean. But like the beach to me again,
the ocean puts a whole other factor in it, Like
how would I ever know if you went into the
ocean and got like he was not being mean? Like honestly, like,
how am I gonna know?

Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't think he was being mean. I think though
he was being overly cautious. I think a thirteen year
old on a small island walking to a beach by
his again.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
If he was with the friend. Okay, but no, no,
I don't even like when my song leaders when we're
at Disney World go to the restroom on their own.
Take a buddy, okay, take somebody with you to make
sure that you don't venture off and die somewhere.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
Well, and nobody takes you, And nobody takes you because
you're cute. Okay, people are looking to take you. Got
a cute things.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
Maybe it's different with girls, because I mean again, at thirteen,
we were riding our motorcycles in the woods and camping
out all the time.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
And we knew where you were at. This is different.
She doesn't know where she is.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
We will disagree agree. She's kinna knock because it's like
right down anyway. Okay. Sabrinas is clearly team her dad,
Team Ben. She argues, though, that she's thirteen, not a baby.
I would argue that as well. Elizabeth even tries to
get Vince Ben, but he's scared of riptides and currents. Okay,
that's fair. Sidney tries to compromise. She won't go in

(26:25):
the water, she'll just take pictures. And so the next
day we see the plan. She's given a cell phone
and case on emergency in two thousand, which I'm surprised
didn't have to be carried in a backpack. Sydney leaves
for the beach just as two real estate agents arrived
to talk about selling the house. While they're busy with introductions,
she sneaks into the shed and takes the found surfboard
with her. Uh oh, she might be a rule breaker.

(26:46):
When she arrives at the beach, Ga and the gang
are already catching some waves. Happy to see her, Gia
encourage her sort to jump, but Sidney wants to hang
out a little and survey their little homemade beach house.
Sydney meets Gia's pals Linnea and Malay, then they're joined
by some cute surfer boys, including one frosted tip punk
named ConA, who broke his arm trying a skateboard trick.
He's stuck in the sand for now, so Sydney immediately

(27:07):
starts taking pictures of him, and he explains everyone surfs
on the island unless they're a major dork. Okay, question
do you think do you remember reading the script?

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Do you remember most things about the script?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Uh? Not most things? I remember this.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Did ConA have a broken arm in the script? Yes
he did, Yes, you're sure.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Yeah, I'm almost positive because what kept him on the sand.
Otherwise he would have been out in the ocean and
she wouldn't have right.

Speaker 1 (27:44):
But but he's still skateboarding, he's still swimming after her,
all that kind of stuff. It just seemed like, like
why he could have still stayed and had a conversation
where the fact that he had a broken arm meant
nothing to the story.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Later Yeah, yeah, he just didn't need to.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
And so in my head, I was like, does he did?
They have to change it because the actor broke his
arm right before they were going to start.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Oh, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
You remember he had a broken arm in the script, Okay,
Because to me, I was like, it makes no sense
that this kid has a broken arm, Like it just
it did nothing for the story. He's still doing all
his skateboarding stuff. So they want to keep him on
the beach. That's fine. They can keep them there to
talk with her and he can still run in and
catch a wave or two. Yeah, because it just didn't
I didn't understand why he had a broken arm. It
just was completely and totally unnecessary, right.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
I mean, I mean feel like I remember friends that
would break their arms and they would still skate versus like,
you can't go in the water with your count.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
He went in several times. I guess he's trying to
save people, but still I don't get that I understood.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
I mean, I feel like it's like he's not going
to not go in to save someone, but like, I know,
it just.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Didn't Yeah, it didn't seem it didn't seem like it
did anything for the story that the guy had a
broken arm. Frankly, I just.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
What beached him, Like, yeah, I mean to go into
the water and get them to be able to have
time away from the friends.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Which easily could have done that without him with the
weird story of having a broken arm. Anyway, he says
longboards like Sydney's are for relaxing cruises, but a short
board is extreme. She's impressed and calls him a poet,
which honestly seems undeserves His words weren't poetic at all.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
But I thought she was going to finish the sentence.
It's like, you're a poet. You don't even know.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I don't even know. I swear.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
I was like, oh God, oh, oh, oh, is.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
That where we're going? Oh my god, Yeah, I didn't
think it was poetic, but to each his own. He
also quickly realizes she's never served before, so she admits
a little secret between Chicago and her nervous dad. She's
never even thought about surfing before. We cut it later
and the girls are having a small tutorial for Sydney,
and now she's ready. Uh, you didn't lose sound in
your podcast. I'm just pausing because I have no idea

(29:51):
how long the scene was supposed to represent in real life.
But in the run of the movie they teach her
for about four seconds. I don't see how. And then
Ga says having fear is part of the fun, and
Sydney gives in and walks into the water. And guess
who we see as now after the quickest montage in
film history as she walks in the water, the creeper

(30:12):
from the beginning of the movie, still with binoculars. And
then this is something again. I wanted you to keep
this in mind that everyone forgot existed. And then guess what.
It never happens again. We never see this again. It's
never dressed again. It's it's this guy's broken arm. Why
the hell would they even do this?

Speaker 2 (30:30):
It never very Sabrina sees what happened to the box?

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Where's where's Johnny binoculars? Like?

Speaker 2 (30:40):
What happened? Did we ever find was that the real
estate people don't know her mom's best friend that we
find later? Was it?

Speaker 1 (30:50):
I don't know, it's a guy on the other side
of the beach where there are surfing competitions. Yeah, because
it was so weird and he just never comes up again,
was it?

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I mean, do you think that there was a scene
that ends up getting explained and that's just what hit
the floor? That was the three minutes we lost for me?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Maybe it's three minutes about binocular john Like, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
I don't know either.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Never happens again. Sidney now paddles out into the ocean
and falls off, then gets back up and tries again.
At the end of the day, She's frustrated, but Gia
tells her not to worry. She'll get it, but Sidney
reveals she's only in Hawaii for two weeks. She is confused.
What about the house, isn't it hers?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Now?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Sidney says they can't move because of her parents' jobs.
But you can tell she wishes that they could back
at home. Elizabeth asked Sidney about her day. Sidney says
taking pictures went great, but she's concerned about how weird
her dad has been acting lately. Elizabeth is as sure
Sydney it's not her Adults sometimes get lost in their
own boring adult problems. Sidney thinks he's worried too much,
especially because she's very careful in life. Elizabeth actually agrees

(31:51):
and praises her, and it's a very nice parenting scene,
something we really see in d com So congrats to
keep saying rip girls. Can we please buy the end
of this podcast? Come up? They better name than I
will say.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
This stepmom dynamic has been one of my favorite parenting relationship.
She was a great character seeing she was a great
character all the way through the movie. Loved this character
and I was so great, so so grateful that this
relationship was represented. And this is one of the things

(32:25):
that I love about Disney, and y'all know this even
listening to this podcast. This kind of representation of being
seen is why Disney had such great fans, is because
this spoke to a very big group of people and kids.
And how I think I mean it was awesome, like
the step parent awesome in this.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
I agree percent. Could it be something with Home Coming,
Home Waves Home. I don't know. Oh I don't ride,
but it's even that it's like you're still that it's
a surfing movie. I don't know, because there was.

Speaker 2 (32:59):
A little bit of surf. There's a little and they
talk about culture and why of course.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
But they didn't show it. Why not call it skateboarding
ConA skateboarding movie. There's basically as much of that as
there is a surfing. I mean like two or three
little surfing scenes. That's it. This was not a surfing.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Movie to be called rip girls, right right.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Anyway, We cut to Ben and Sydney now with Bo
at the real estate office. The agent's explained that the
current offers from someone who wanted to buy the property
years ago, but Sydney's grandma wasn't interested in selling. She
loved her land and didn't even look at the proposal.
But Sydney and her dad do want to look at it.
It's from a company looking to build a new resort,
but the historical house and shed would have to be demolished,
but they'll keep the name Horden Resort. At Plantation Mackay.

(33:51):
The agents say they can talk to Horden about keeping
the structure, but also the beach is currently set to
be for just resort guests. It's all very concerning to Sydney.
What do you think the offer was for? I mean beach.
It's supposed to be two thousand, talking.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
Two thousands, your two thousand, But.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
It's probably in the millions, don't you reckon? I mean, like, oh,
for sure two million bucks? Maybe No, I bet you
one point five.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
No, I would think it'd be closer to.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Ten even in two thousand you think, I guess it's
beach front.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
It's a plantation and it's beach front.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Yeah, I guess that's true. So ten to fifteen mil. Yeah,
that it's tough to turn down.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
It could have been called rich girls have been called
rich girls. Yeah girls, Yeah exactly. You're offering me twenty
five million dollars. It was nice to meet you, Johnny.
It's gum whatever.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
So to like again, I'm on this dad's side so
hard because it's also Liken your team. Ben Ben is like,
I'm like, okay, because you put me on, you give
me a resort or you give me this big piece
of land that I have zero idea of how to maintain,

(35:11):
like the mountain.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
You just give me a farm, can't do it.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Myself, Like my my cousin bought a two hundred acres
in uh West Virginia, and I like my first thing
was like, how do you.

Speaker 1 (35:23):
Gonna do who?

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Who does it? Like? Who do you do? Who does
that for you? And she's like We're gonna do it?

Speaker 1 (35:28):
And I'm like, yeah, you work the land? No, all right?
So that's the movie would have ended right there with
just Sabrina signing the papers exactly.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Would be yes sign sign sign like also, like it
didn't look like they had staff doing it, like who
is maintaining this land?

Speaker 1 (35:48):
That well, they had some people that were out there.
They did show the people cleaning up the resort and
cleaning up the land. They showed a kind of a
crew out there cleaning up. So that part my.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
If it was people had jobs, I'm not trying to
get anyone's like livelihood and situation, so then like that
might be a part. But like ten million dollars.

Speaker 1 (36:06):
I thought you're called seriously, the movie would have been
it would have been a short film about Sabrina going
and signing papers to become rich.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
I would love to inherit something. Let me tell you
when Sabrina Brian is not inheriting anything. But if it was,
it was worth.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
Ten million signing on the dotted line.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Thank you very much, stamp nails, son.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
And movie over, thank you very much. Nice. You wouldn't
have met any of the other people on the island.
I would have gone, I would have gotten a sandwich.
I would have signed the papers. I would have been,
We'll find you a nice boy somewhere else. We're now
worth twenty five million dollars.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
We have just upped our auntie. Wow.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Later, well, some people who don't think on that, don't
think like that, are staying on the island. So later,
Gia and the girls are back out surfing kind of.
When Sydney returns longboarded hand, Gia encourages her she'll own
waves today and as a result, this is another thing.
We get a loud song and said the nervously paddles
out and catches a wave. She gets up and almost
makes it all the way to the shore before wiping out.

(37:08):
She's thrilled, what a success. Great. Did the mix of
this movie seem really off? To you. There was background
music that was so loud at times that I had
to put on the subtitles.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Oh really, because it was like, wow, I could.

Speaker 1 (37:25):
I was like, I can't hear some of the dialogue.
The background music is so loud.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Oh I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't, but I did.
Like this was like a true right in there with
Brink and Johnny's Sunami, like the vibe of the ska music.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, and show us more of that as you're studying.
You're about to do the final surf off, like I'm
wait on god, why is that not happening?

Speaker 2 (37:51):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, there's the big race down Death Valley Hill or whatever.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Anyway, I already saw that in Brink. They can't do
but we saw it and everything and break my god.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
If they had the even Buffalo Dreams had a race,
it's like, oh my god. So anyway, even ConA saw
it while carefully skateboarding nearby with his broken arm for
no reason. Ga says ConA is her best friend and
realizes Sydney likes likes him, oh double. Like time she
encourages Sidney to say something to him, he'll be stoked.

(38:21):
She says, ConA is a good listener and an incredible artist,
and now I kind of want to date ConA. But
for now, they've got waves to catch. Sydney paddles out
again and ready's for the next wave. But at the
last minute, g yells don't catch this one, but it's
too late. Sydney has thrown off the board immediately and
thrown underwater. Ga and ConA are concerned and rushed to
save her. She's still struggling in the current when ConA,

(38:42):
who's underwater cast and all pulls her out, saves her life.
Back on land, Sydney's bleeding. She's cut her head. How's
she going to explain this to her parents? Gea has
ConA get her mom for help, and then Sidney finds
herself lying in a hammock in a small house filled
with scary looking masks. It's been a while since we've
been in a horror movie, so this is a welcome return.
And they really they shot it like that, I mean

(39:02):
they shot it it was like scary, Matt It's like, wait,
aren't these these are like historical religious almost artifacts? And
the way they shot it was almost like scary scary,
and it's like, I get she's supposed to be waking
up from it, but these are also supposed to be
like their ancestors, spirits. I think so. I feel like
they made it a little scary for no kind of reason.
But yeah, yes, we are back in a horror movie.

(39:25):
Gia's mom, Malia, helps Sidney up and gives her a
secret cure ta Sidney admits she doesn't remember much. Malia
says to Sidney, you're so much like her, but before
she can explain what she meant, Gia returns. She says
Cona's cast is soggy because it got all wet, but
he's a hero. Now he wants to know when she'll
be back surfing, But Sydney's instinct is to quit, good instinct.
Something's hard just quit, especially when she notices her surfboard

(39:48):
is wrecked. But Gia's mom can fix it, just like
she can make healing tea. And now I want to
date She's mom. Who Frankly, I love these kind of characters.
It's the slightly older, still really good looking. It's kind
of a trope. It's really good looking, slightly spiritual. Uh,
you know, guide for lack of a better turn, Tea

(40:11):
makes weed. Yeah, first of all straight up by aahuasca.
She was tripping balls for hours. That's a woman. So yeah,
because you're a woman that's a big, big crush on her,
big crush on her.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Does make weed tea for you?

Speaker 1 (40:23):
She does not? So does not make weed tea for me?
Nor do I drink weed tea? She does? She does not.
But that kind of spiritual like I love that almost
hippie vibe. You know, I grew up in a town
with a lot of hippies, so like almost hippie vibe.
Older woman probably smells like pechuli. She's gorgeous. She yeah knows,
is like connected to the land. Big fan of that.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
I can't handle that. You assume what people smell.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Like, Oh yeah, but I'm also right. That's the thing.
I'm also right. I know exactly how she smells. She
smells like it's like kind of lavender, kind of petuli
and happiness.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
We bring our guests on. When now I'm going to
ask from here on out, what do you think they smell?

Speaker 1 (41:03):
What do you think that? I'd be happy to, I'd
be happy to. Malia reveals the surfboard was Sidney's mom's.
They were best friends since childhood and that's who she meant.
Sidney looks so much like Malia wants to show her something,
so they drive off on an ATV to hike up
a mountain, finding a beautiful view of another beach. Malia says,

(41:25):
this time every year, whales land here with their young
and it's a sacred event. The first time she saw
the whales was with Gia's mom at a magical ceremony.
Sidney hopes the whales arrived during her trip so she
can go to the ceremony herself. Malia brings Sidney back home,
where her parents were scared sick, but only Elizabeth is there.
Her dad is actually out looking for her. Still. Elizabeth
notices the cut, but Sydney hides how she got injured,

(41:47):
and that's when Ben returns. He's happy she's alive, of course,
but very concerned and she can't lie. She admits she
wants to be part of something always has, and so
she went surfing. Now her dad is furious, I understand this,
it's literally how we live wife. He sends Sidney to
her room and blames Malia. There, old friend, It's actually
not Malia's fault so much as Gia's. But anyway, old friends,

(42:08):
Ben and Malia argue as Sidney leaves her room. Ben
thinks Malia's encouraging her to serve, but Malya's focus on
how little she knows about her mother. Good adult conversation
where they're both kind of right. She thinks the ocean
is a great healer and Ben thinks it's a great destroyer.
On her way out, Malia encourages Ben to live again.
He needs to heal and now a long with her husband.
Elizabeth agrees. Ben says once they're back in Chicago, everything

(42:28):
will be better, but Elizabeth knows he's wrong. If you
end this speech she gave was really great. If you
and so adult, If he was having an affair, she'd
know what to do with that and fight through it
because she believes in them as a couple. But the
grief is too much. How can she fight a ghost?
And to top it all off, Sydney has heard everything.
And it was another really good scene between adults, very

(42:50):
well written, very well active.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
It wasn't too heated, It wasn't it was literally to
the point.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
And it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (42:58):
Yeah, this was so good for people like again Disney
showing like there are other people out there going through
this same situation of how do you how do you
mourn the loss of one person and move on? Like
all of this was just so good.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
It really was, And it's one of those things where
it does best they do, they do it great, and
it's it was. It wasn't man's plaining, It wasn't woman's plaining.
It was a real conversation between adults and very well written,
very well acted.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
And how it would be as a young person to
listen to your your parents having this conversation.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
Yeah, and the complexity too, yes, grief and the guilt
you feel when you move on and you can't fully
move on and I'm not I can't be in love
with somebody else when the person I love is gone.
It's very very deep and really well done.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
I would like, do you do you think we'll come
across a dcom that goes through not at being someone
has died, but like literally just a divorce and a
new relationship.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Maybe that could be world's richest ca at. You never know,
it could just be there could be another poorly named
d coom that's really about this horrible divorce and the struggles.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Because I hope we do. I hope you'll do the
like a positive.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Yeah, maybe in some of the newer ones, because in
the older ones they don't do that. They don't do that.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
It has the one one side has to be gone.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
What was the one that we saw not too long
ago with the co parenting that they were divorced. He
dropped the dad is kind of has to learn to
be a better dad. She lives with her mom. We
just saw it. I can't remember what it was. He's
coming to pick her up at the house. He's always
doing other stuff. Oh, I can't remember. We'll remember what
it is. Yeah, we gotta do a rewatch rewatch. Yeah,

(44:49):
we'll have to do that. Later that night, out on
the patio, Sidney looks through one of her mom's old
yearbooks and sees pictures of her in front of another
house named Kala Loa. The next morning, she rushes up
to Gia and the girls in the each who are
meditating praying to the quote unquote original surfer Chick above
while braiding each other's hair to bring better waves. While
they concentrate, the surferboards playfully attack them with super soakers

(45:10):
and guess who's backskating. It's Hero pretty boy. Kona Sidney
finally gets a chance to thank him for saving her life,
which I was like, yeah, it's about time you go
over and be like, hey, thanks for saving my life.
And he made something for her. It's a theme park
like caricature drawing of her surfing and taking photos at
the same time. Did you get one of these done
as a kid where they take the thing you hate

(45:31):
most about yourself and make it three times the size
form nineteen dollars?

Speaker 2 (45:34):
I have. I've gotten it done a couple times. But
the craziest part when I watched it, because I watched
it last night. We just went to SeaWorld and passed
one of those, and my mom's like, you should get
that done at the kids, I'm like, you and Jordan,
the four of you should do it. And I was like, no,
they always make my nose look so like this because
it's not super Why I beat every time I've done it,

(45:57):
how they do my nose like it's so annoying. I
will not do it again.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
That's how I look when I get photographed, So I
don't even forget somebody drawing me. It's just not bad.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Uh do?

Speaker 1 (46:08):
What do you think this drawing still exists in real life.
Do you think somebody has this drawing frame somewhere because
I would love to have this, Yes, actual drawing from
the movie.

Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yeah, I'm sure, I bet, I hope. I hope that
Camille has it.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
So we're gonna have to find out because I want
to get I want to get somebody to send one
of us an awesome dcom Memorabiliay. I mean you have
some because you're in it, but and I have some
from my wonderful World of Disney days, but I'd like
something like, you know, super yeah, skateboard I do is?

Speaker 2 (46:36):
Ask Lisa.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
She's got some.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
She's got too crazy. We got to wear the camp
rock hats. Hope.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Yeah, us, Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
We'll figure out some cool memorabilia out there, for sure.

Speaker 1 (46:46):
There is. Sydney asked ConA about this Kaalaalola house in
her mom's picture, and he knows all about it. He
says it's on the plantation, abandoned and kind of spooky.
She's determined, but he has one question, how well do
you ride? And we cut to Sydney, Conah and Gea
on horse. It's the only way to get to this plantation. Apparently,
we get some beautiful scenery shots, and eventually they get
to the house, which is not only apparently haunted, it's

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where all the cool parties used to be. Once they enter,
Sidney immediately feels the presence of her mom. She stumbles
into her mom's childhood bedroom. Back at the realtor's office,
the agents have called in Sydney, her parents and Bo
the Hordens have upped their offer. Now, see, Sabrina, had
you not signed, you would have gotten more money with
a seventy two hour window for response, and it's apparently
such a good offer. It's an easy decision to sell.

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But back at home, Sydney still seems torn. See. I
would have added the line to show how much money
it is. When they say to her, hey, I hope
you've picked your IVY league college, I would have had
the other realtors say, because now you can afford to
buy it, just to show that it's a ton of money. Yes,
because I get it's a tough you know, it's supposed

(47:51):
to be a tough decision. But if you make it
so ridiculously life altering in money that the decision is crazy,
then it makes it for a tougher decision. But anyway, yes,
I think it would be good.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
I mean, it wasn't tough for me to begin with.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
No. I know again, you would have sold it in
the phone call. You never would have even been on
the plane, been like who died? Yeah, fact, fact it's
two thousand, Fax me the stuff. I'll sign right now,
right back, man, We're not even done with the conversation.

Speaker 2 (48:17):
Yeah, now I can afford the good paper.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
The see, had you just held out a little bit,
you would have gotten a better offer. But back at home,
Sidney still torn, and while thinking it over, she hears
some noise outside. It's Gia and Kona. They were sent
by Malia. It's time. We're now at the big Whale
ceremony at the beach and what looks like a very
festive luau, very pretty scene. Upon arrival, Sydney is greeted
by Malia with a flower for her ear, taught how

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to hula by Kia, and treated to Hawaiian delicacies. One
elder is telling the story to a group of kids
about a boy and a girl and a tsunami and
forbidden love. And not only is there a happy ending
this story, but ConA and Sidney.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Kiss, and it was a kiss.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
It was good, but it was like it was age appropriate.
I thought, yes, again, it was not what I think
we should start referring to as a c C. K.
It was not a Christy Carlson kiss.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Not a Christy Carlson because Christy Carlson is the only
person in Disney history to get a makeout such and
which she took it to the next level.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
I mean, she took it to the next level. This
was a nice kiss, though, the next level. I also
really liked this scene. It's been done in a bunch
of movies, but I like the scene where the guy
is kind of or girl is translating and whispering the
story into the ear as somebody else tells it. It's
just very sweet. I'm a big fan of that and
I love it. So it was very very nice. But
there's no time. There's no time to celebrate here because

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the whales are here. Sydney watches on with Malia. It's
very impressed by the beauty of just a horribly computer
graphic single whale.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
What you didn't think that was all it was? I
thought it was.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
I only had the money to do one. It was
like supposed to be this big thing one whale.

Speaker 2 (50:00):
And then the Lincoln memorial.

Speaker 1 (50:07):
Exactly suddenly I'm in the movie again.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Suddenly Will pops up.

Speaker 1 (50:11):
It was not good.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
It was it was, it was.

Speaker 1 (50:16):
It was again.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
We're on a Disney Channel budget.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
You can't cut to just stock footage of whales.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
That's the one they found.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
But I mean, there's I could cut. You could google
whales right now, and even in two thousand, you could
have just gone to stock footage of whales. They had
to have had it. This was just this was not good.
But she has one big question for her mom's friend.
Was she there for the accident. Malia says that she was,
and it was on a perfect day in the ocean.

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They took their first waves together with huge miles on
their faces, But when they got tired and started coming
back to the beach, a huge swell with waves stacking
up on top of each other, caught her off guard
and swept her towards the rocks. Melia says her dad
didn't even want to know the story. He just wanted
to leave and take Sydney with him. But Malia wants
Sidney to know her mom fought through those waves. As
hard as she could to get back to her daughter,

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but Sidney's still angry her mom should have been there
for her. Now, Malia wants her and her dad to
release that anger for their own sakes. And then we
see the fake whale again doing exactly the same jump
with exactly the same thing. They just hit repeat again
on the same bad shot, and after a very nice
scene there was that, and it was like, man, there

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we go.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
You just kind of like wonder Like when the editors,
the director, all of that are like watching this back, Wow,
can we know what?

Speaker 1 (51:44):
I'm sure they did, but it was like, what do
we do? What can we do? It's like just pre
hit return and run it again.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
I didn't repeat? Yeah pretty much so close together, there's
not even enough time to get it the first time
you can.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
It's even the whale was like in bear.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yeah, that whale was like I'm sorry, I'm ready to
do this again.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
Sorry it's me again. The next morning, Sydney returns home
once again to find an angry father. She left him
a note, but he still seems worried. She doesn't have
much to say to him other than you should have
told me. It shouldn't have been some deep, dark secret,
which is true, and he knows she's talking about the accident.
She storms off to her room and rips up the
picture of her mom that was on the vanity.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
I hurt.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Yeah, it hurt me too. In the kitchen, benis spiraling.
He tells Elizabeth he keeps thinking he should have saved Leilani,
his wife that day. He didn't think he could ever
love anyone again, but then he found Elizabeth. It never
seemed fair to him that he can be so happy
now and yet she's dead. But Elizabeth knows she would
want him and Sydney and even her to be happy.
And this might be the most loving character in the

(52:45):
history of dcom She's a great character. And now I
just want to date Elizabeth.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
And she never makes it about her, No, she really
does it. Like what an amazing I mean, how hard
it would be to have to do this situation with
your husband who you know, it's such a sensitive thing
and you're also helping raising their child, and like it's.

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Just yeah, wow, yeah, great character.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Was an amazing character, A great character. Love to get
some of that great characters.

Speaker 1 (53:14):
Yes, she was great, she was great. Your sign check
Yeah again you Sidney wouldn't have been allowed. Your daughter
wouldn't have been not allowed out of the house. You're
not you are. We are here for one reason. You're
gonna sit in that room until I signed the papers
and then we are out. I can't believe we even
have to be here. I've called door dash. Sit you
here out there, We'll be right back. That is a

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much different movie starring Elizabeth.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I'm so sorry. I wish I could be you, but
I can't.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Great character. Ben takes his advice and asks Sidney on
a walk. Sidney says she just doesn't understand why she
knows nothing about her mom, But now Ben is an
open book. He tells Sidney how beautiful her mom was
and how similar they are, the way she moved, the
way she laughed. Being in Hawaiia has made him think
things through. Makai is her heritage, and so the decision
to sell the property is hers and hers alone, even

(54:01):
though she's a kid. She needs to find it in herself.
And this I love this other conversation too, because she's like, well,
we could use the money, right, and he's like, yeah, yeah,
we could definitely use the money. But you know, but
some people Disney a typical Disney thing would be like, hey,
don't think about money, it's not about that. You've got
to follow your heart. But he was like, yeah, no,
we could really use the money, like we that would

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be helpful. Yes, but that's not important. Whatever Sidney decides,
Ben and Elizabeth will be there for her. But let's
be honest, Elizabeth is really the important part here. Sidney
wonders if they could live in Hawaii, and Ben actually
appears to be open to the idea. Back home, Sydney
uses photoshop and the most perfect tape job in the
history of the world. She puts one piece of tape

(54:43):
on and the picture looks I mean, I was like,
oh my god, she's a tape champion. She is. It's incredible.
She's That's what it should have been called. That's what
it should have been called. Tape Champion Girls. She uses photoshop,
which might be one of the first times in two
thousand we get to see photoshop early you on her mom,
and they created an image of the two of them together.
It was very, very sweet. The next day, Sydney finds

(55:05):
Gia's friends near the beach, and now everyone's ignoring or
even says she smells like dead fish.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Which I felt was like a really harsh.

Speaker 1 (55:15):
That's super harsh.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Like you can't to me, I would assume, I don't
think I had a friend at all or anyone close
to me that had a parent that had passed away,
But I would assume using that word around them at all.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Is just inappropriate, not cool. I agree, I agree, And
you just met her.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
That says she smells like fish, I guess if you're
trying to hit but she doesn't need to be a
dead fit.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
Like that is like gorsh Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
I wanted to pop this girl in the face, like, yeah,
come on, get get a little little bit of grace back,
Give her a little bit of grace Like that's.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Now, with the millions of dollars you just got from
selling the plantation, you can hire someone.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
To friends to be honest. Exactly see what your name is,
knew you for two minutes by now check get out
with wealthy.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
Sydney does not get what's going on. Then she sees
a newspaper headline about the resort buying the property, so
everyone thinks she's already sold it. Sidney runs off to
talk to Gia and Malia. Instead, she finds ConA clearing
a surf cleaning a surfboard and listening to Hawaiian rap music.
Gia isn't home, and ConA doesn't seem to be mad
at her. He's shaping and painting a surfboard for her.
It has that theme park image of her surfing and

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taking photos on it. Very cool. She tells ConA that
she hasn't even decided on selling yet, and ConA reveals
that Gia has been standing up for her to everyone
and is currently at the beach. Sydney runs off and
finds her in a quiet place sitting on a rock
watching the waves. We learned that Gia's dad is a
deadbeat businessman who doesn't even call her for a birthday,
so she sees surfing as a release. By the way,
if this movie was called talking about Surfing, perfect title,

(56:51):
They talk about surfing an awful lot chat, surf Chat.
There you go, surf chicks Chat, something.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Like that surf chicks Chat.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
So she uses surfing as a really Sydney reveals that
the resort has promised to add preserves for the whales
and regulations to the purchase so that a lot of
the plantation will actually stay intact, but Gia isn't sold.
It's becoming a resort, so everything will change. The whales
won't come back once the lagoon is filled with tourists.
It was, in all fairness, one whale, and it was
badly computer generated, so she could just hit a button
and have that whale back anytime she wants. Sidney says

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she's worried that Gia and Malia are only friends with
her because of the inheritance, and the whole thing was
planned out to save the land. Gia admits that that
was sort of the original idea. I was like, oh
it was, but it changed once they got to know
each other. But Sidney doesn't believe her. She thinks she's
been worked, which she kind of has. Gia brings up
the lies Sidney told too, like being a surfer chick,

(57:41):
but that seemed a bit like gas lighting, But Sidney
points out an important technicality. She never actually lied. She
just admitted the truth and let her assume, which is
never really a good argument. They're both kind of wrong,
but one seems like, hey can you surf? And you're
like well, and the other one is like, I'm going
to pretend to be friends with you. So you don't
sell this important land, don't seem it seems like Apple's

(58:02):
and I'm going to be friends with you, So you
don't intel this important land. It's just like yikes, yeah, anyway, Yeah,
I'm one of those. I thought Ga was wrong there, frankly, yes.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
And it got escalated very quickly. Yes, girls around thirteen.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Boys too, fan so quick like boys too.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
You're like, oh man, it's it's a rough.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Age, it is, but you know what was missing, which
is more exciting is a good on the beach fight
scene like in point Break. Yeah. Something in point Break
they're smashing each other's surfboards.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Just running. Yeah, so hit the shoulder.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Eana Reeves fights back like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
The beach sands flying everywhere.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
That's I'm in for that. But it all escalates. Gia
calls her a fool and a stupid love sick puppy,
eluding to the idea that KNA was also in on
the plan, and so Sidney says she is going to
sell the land and hurries back home. Yikes. I hate you, yeah,
and I hate the people I met here, and I
mean it.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Was like everyone can go suck it. I'm out, sign
the check, give me a pens.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
Go suck it nice. But that night in bed, she's
unable to sleep. She wakes up early to get to
the real estate office with the agents, have the contract
ready as well as some sparkling cider.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Didn't look like sparkerling cider? Is that look that they
were that minor yep alcohol? I agree, and that is
a no no on Disney Channel.

Speaker 1 (59:27):
On any channel, don't serve miner's alcohol.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
But especially Disney Channel. That did not look like sparkling cider.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
That wasn't good.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
Wait, that look like Shandan. You are out of here, guys,
get you gotstal That's right some dom betti on? Are
you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (59:46):
As the paperwork is prepped, she sees Gia, Malia and
friends hopping into a van and she's still obviously weighing
the whole thing out. They toast the sale and all
that's left is the first thing Sabrina would have done
the movie, and that's the sign. She takes the pen
ready to complete the purchase when she sees ConA skating
alongside the van and then she moves pen to paper.
We cut to Sydney running to Gia's house. Malia is

(01:00:08):
there painting why are all these people so artistically talented?
Malia assumed Sidney would be packing by now, but Sydney
has news. Malita doesn't want to hear the details. Sidney
did what she had to do. She gets it, but
thought that maybe if she came home and saw it
all again, then it would touch her and connect her
to her mom and the land. And with that, she
hands Sydney a locket and encourages her to open it.
It's her mom's necklace with pictures of them together inside.

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The next thing we see is Sydney running up to
someone she thinks is Gia at the skate ramp. The
person ends up being it was it a guy? It
looked like a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
The oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
It was a guy, right, yeah. I think it was
a guy that from the from behind looked like Gia.
So that was they cast somebody that looked like Gia
from behind, but it was I think actually a guy.
Apologize if it wasn't, but I think it was. And
then ConA arrives and he seems pretty frustrated with everything
that's been going on. He says Gia was really mad
at Sydney, and yet still doesn't just blurred out her
news instead, she storms off. She's concerned that Gia is

(01:01:03):
surfing alone, so her and Coda decide to go search
for her and make sure she's safe. After slowly climbing
down a hill, Sidney spots of Gia's closed near her
quiet place from earlier, and then spots her surfboard no
longer attached to her friend. Uh oh, and then the
movie turns into Baywatch. Sidney grabs a board and takes
to the ocean to save Gia. She's immediately slammed by
the waves, but notices Gia's arms flailing in the distance.

(01:01:24):
Perfect timing, Sidney dives under water and grabs her, picks
her up out of the board, and saves her life.
Gia's arm is really torn up from the reef, so
Sydney helps her swim back to shore, where COONa is
waiting again and gets his cast alsagi again. This thing
is never gonna heal, so they helped Gia walk back
to the beach. Now resting on the sand, Gio wonders
why Sidney even came back first. Sidney says she didn't

(01:01:45):
mean it when she said she hated Gia or Hawaii,
and Gina says she didn't mean all the things she
said to her either And now finally Sidney has one
more thing to announce. And for some reason, I get
why they're doing this, but it was unnecessary. She pulls
out the contract. She actually brought it with her to
show that she didn't sign. She could have just said
I didn't sign kind it's like, and let me show
you the entire cut. So if you look at page
sixty two.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Here, I also wait right here, I'm gonna go run
three blocks down.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Yeah, look at page sixty two, subset B. You'll notice
I did an initial line sixty one right, just say
you didn't sign it. She won't be selling Makayah after all.
Her family is going to stay there. Gia and ConA celebrate,
running down the beach screaming and apparently Gia's arm is fine.
Now back at the house, Ben, Elizabeth and Malia are
on the patio talking about what's next for the family.

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He's got to look for a job because they just
gave up twenty five million dollars. Or he's going to
write a novel. HM always a good plan. He doesn't
really know he'll figure it out, but he knows. He's
proud of Sydney, which is very nice. We now cut
back to Sydney sitting on her board in the ocean. Oh,
that's right, surfing movie. She places a lay in the
water to float away. She says she's not sure if
she's saying hello or goodbye, but she knows her mother

(01:02:52):
is watching over, so either way, it's all aloha. And
then she joins her friends for another day of surfing
and taking photos to a loud guitar solo again, And
that is our film. Can we do some real reviews, Sabrina,
you've got the five star this week? What do you

(01:03:14):
what do you got for us?

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
I've got a five star from Sophia l. I loved
it and I want to own it. In other words,
it's good, thank.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
You, sure to the point, and right away I have
the one star review. It's from It's einhard one, but
I was hoping the one was actually an exclamation port
and it was einhard, but it's not. It's einhard one
and reads as follows, dear God, could it be any worse?
Having three kids, I've seen more Disney Channel movies than
probably any man alive. I'm guessing I'm in that category

(01:03:47):
now with you einheart and I should sue the Walt
Disney Company for the time wasted watching this Turkey. My
daughters even thought this movie was bad. The acting was
stuff I bet you meant stiff, the writing was poor
and it isn't even bad enough to make fun of
while watching like Plan nine from Outer Space or they
Saved Hitler's Brain. Wow, yikes. We've got our feature presentation

(01:04:08):
this week, Sabrina's favorite and it's from producer Jensen once again,
and this one is called Hawaii. Five yes or no.
We will be given a question about our beautiful fiftieth state, Hawaii.
We have to guess with multiple choice answers. If it's
what's one's correct, we get three out of five right,
we win. Producer Jensen, are you with us today?

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Yes, I am here.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Okay. I'd like to also thank you for me having
to pronounce a lot of these words, which there's no
way in how I'm gonna get right. And I'm gonna
get hate mail because I'm mispronouncing these.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
Beautiful words they are.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
They're gorgeous words, and I'm gonna get them wrong and
I feel bad. Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Number one best well, and you're so much better than
I am, so we'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
I doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
I mean, they did make Australia Hawaii here, so we're
not We're not like trying to.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
I know, fair enough, okay. Number one, which island is
the only one with a royal palace in the United States?
Is it a maui b o wahu see Kawhi or
d killigans. I'll guess first. I'm gonna I'm gonna say
it's a wahoo.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
A royal palace.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
Yeah, because there was a royal family in Hawaii, so
there's obviously there's no royalty in the United States, and
you've been there.

Speaker 3 (01:05:16):
It's b O Pallas is located here.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Like the tone and the happiness he gets when it's
someone I'm wrong, It's just I mean, it's just like.

Speaker 1 (01:05:30):
What happiness when you can.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Get it get if I can't. I can't hide a smile.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
I know you can't. I can literally hear your smile
in your tone, like it's just it's just so rude.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
I just I love it. Number two, What is the
meaning of the word Hawaii in the Hawaiian language?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
So many luls I should.

Speaker 1 (01:05:53):
Probably I would think a homeland be eternal paradise, see
Place of the Gods or D Howie oh oh.

Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
I think we're gonna I'm gonna go with the Eternal Paradise.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
I'm gonna go with A Homeland.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
It's C Place of God.

Speaker 1 (01:06:16):
Okay, Okay, okay, gotcha. What is the name of the
channel between the islands of Maui and Molokai. Is it
A Kowala Kai channel, b Ellen Huhaha channel, Paleolo channel,
or the E channel? Nice Jensen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
I'm gonna go with A because that's the only one
I recognize.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
I'm gonna go with A.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
Two getting destroyed. It is cy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
Palolo Paleolo Lolo. Okay, yeah, channel channel, that's pay Lolo okay.
Number four. What astronomical facility is located atop Mona, Kia
taking advantage of the mountains, high elevation and clear skies.
Is it A the Ford Solar Observatory, be the Mazda Observatory,

(01:07:05):
see the super Telescope, or D the Toyota Observatory.

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
I'm gonna go with the A.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
I think it's D the Toyota Observatory.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
You guys are getting destroyed. It is C Suberu Telescope.
I'm so excited. I also thought that just making that
wh the telescope was gonna Thrownna.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
Okay, what is what is? Finally? Just thankfully ending this
number five? What is Hawaii's official state tree? Is it
a the CoA tree? B the monkey pod tree, see
a Banyan tree? Or d the giving tree. It's a
CoA tree, right? Isn't it a a co tree?

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
It might be the monkey pod tree? Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:07:45):
It's a The will comes out on top.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Neither of you win.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
It's a good change up from you winning all these though.
I'm happy about that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Ah. That was that was hard.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
That was good information to find out about our great
state of Hawaii. To favorite places to visit. I love
all the islands.

Speaker 1 (01:08:03):
Can I ask a question, Producer Jensen number two alan Oui,
haha channel Is that a real Hawaiian word? Yes? It is?

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Okay, wow, I.

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
Can say humhumunukua. That counts.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:08:16):
Can we do some Sabrina sease?

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Yeah? So we I unfortunately said quite a few of
them already, so that's not great. But one of the
first things that hits me at the very beginning is like,
how distant was this? Mom? And you kind of this
is again this comment that I'm making is at the
very very beginning, we're talking a couple of minutes in
when we when she looks at this picture and doesn't

(01:08:45):
recognize her at all, Yeah, Like, is this mom? I mean,
I feel like, I mean, my mom looked incredibly different.
She had bright, like bleach blonde hair like you know.
But like, there's no picture that someone would put, even
a baby picture of my mom that I wouldn't be
able to go that's my mom right there, right.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
I think they're trying to really say that he never
spoke about her ever. But it's weird that there's no photos.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
There's photos, and it's not again, it isn't a divorce
that was you know, angry and awful. Right, this is
a woman who has passed. This is her mother, and
she doesn't know pictures. But then like later on, then
she recognizes a room that she was in at one point,
which was just feel just by the feel of it,

(01:09:32):
and she remembers it a two year old remembering anything
as a little big of a stretch. I feel like,
but okay, but this picture that really bothered me, Like,
how is this possible? I again, binocular is coming out.
My worst nightmare.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Especially where this person is.

Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
And then again we saw them twice and I went
at the very end, my very last one was what
happened with the binoculars? No, it was crazy. There was
a couple of times where this is one of the
things that they do because I remember, you know, lines
being thrown at us and trying to make them feel

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natural or whatever when it's just kind of not how
kids really talked a lot. But there was a couple
of them when they were first getting initially into the
group and was like, go boy, like and you could
tell that the actor that threw it out it was
her friend, Like you could tell she wasn't comfortable saying
it either way.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
I don't like this, go boy?

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Oh? Was that well it's like this like you just
kind of like, yeah, what I don't want to know?

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
Say here?

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Yeah, uncomfortable. And then like the information for me that
they were kind of throwing back and forth at the
beginning was just a little off. I was having a
hard time at the beginning like that. There was some
information that was clearly obvious known when you're like, wait,
how did we know that?

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Things? Throughout the movie they were kind of just like
throwing at us, like we that that everyone's understanding and
that didn't make sense, And it was a lot about
again this like history with the mom, history with the plantation.
Like I also was thrown off of how this is

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the only ancestor that's getting this entire plantation, Like it
just to me with the line yeah, yeah, she's the
last of the line. But also like again, this woman
passed away, so like in a trust, we just did
our trust. So I know a little bit more. I'm
feeling a little a little bit diny bit educated on it,
diny diny that they're so difficult and complex, but like

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it was like, but they were married, so then the
trust would go to him, but also to her. So
like in my opinion, like he would have My assumption
would be that he would have the dad, Ben would
add a little bit more of a say than just
this thirteen year old girl, right, like I.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
Think he did. I think they kind of set it
up where it's like again he then said, we're going
to leave it up.

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
To you, okay, but okay, so yeah, because I mean
it was like yeah thirteen first of all, too, in
most trust, nothing gets done until you're like the miners
eighteen oh.

Speaker 1 (01:12:17):
Yeah, no, she wouldn't have been able to sign any
kind again as the parent of the son of two lawyers.
As they hand her the pen, it's like if thirteen
year olds can't sign anything, their parents have to sign
it's a Disney movie.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
Yeah, they're going wait a minute, like that's not actually whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
They're not going to hand the pen to the thirteen
year old. They also handed her champagne.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
So that's my last one. I go, well, we're handing
miners champagne nowadays, So like, okay, yay, Disney Channel just
threw the rolls up in the air. There's paper flying everywhere.
We're just gonna just wing it everything not masse.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Oh yeah, I'm so happy.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
We'll say this this movie I on Like I remember again,
this was in the time where I was watching DCOM
after decommination, sure, loving them, loving most of them to
be honest at that time. And this movie again, like
you said, like there was enough enough of the surfing
tiny bit, but even when we see her friend who's struggling,

(01:13:19):
like how first of all, what was going on because
she was treading water? But was she stuck under.

Speaker 1 (01:13:25):
Her I don't they don't, they don't explain it. I
think there's see I think she's supposed to be in
the what I think she's supposed to be in the
rip current, I think is what they're kind of showing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
And I guess because it's not an animation movie, it's
like definitely hard to like film something like that. But
like she's not moving, she's so if you.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
Go back and you watch it again, I'm not I
think they show I know, but fair enough. I think
they show her being sucked under the water, as if
she's being held under by the rip and then they
cut to the rocks, which is how her mom died. Oh,
so I think they're showing they're trying to show that
Gia is essentially in exactly the same position her mom

(01:14:06):
was and she was able to save my momn.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Have you ever been stuck in a ripra I have,
and you're like humbling, You're like tumbling. It's the waves
coming oceans, the waves coming over and you're getting pulled
in like it's like you're like going like that's what's
the scariest part of it is your feet, your legs
are going over you and you're doing these like summersaults
in the water and.

Speaker 1 (01:14:29):
That's just to spin you closer to a shark's mouth.
That's it. Yeah, I know, but the she was just like, yeah,
it wasn't. I also, honestly, the the the picture she
was taking, especially at the beginning during the movie, where
they just freeze frame and it was usually kind of
out of focus and bad. I was like, Okay, they're
just showing bad pictures. And then there's some that are

(01:14:49):
clearly taken from the water where she's supposed to be
in the water looking up at the surfers, and then
they cut to her like still only in like half
an inch of water, and I'm like, okay, who took
that shot? Yeah, so there were some interesting choice. Yeah,
there was some interesting acting choice directing choices.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Yeah, And again I think it's like, to me, I
just kind of equivalate it to just being like the
limitations of what they had.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
I've got to imagine they went through this with Johnny Ssunami,
and they went through this with all all their movies.
Like this, shooting in the water just adds a whole
nother aspect of shooting a film. I feel like that's.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Gotta be the biggest reason of why they did not
have more surfing elements. Now they could have thought of
a better name.

Speaker 1 (01:15:35):
I guess you don't make it a surfing movie.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
Yes, And then like I said, the last thing was
you know that that part was my last thing with
the friend, Like I didn't understand the drama of like
trying to reach out and go get her, like obviously
she was underwater, but it was like we could have had.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
I think it was too tough to show because they
wanted to show that, so I think they also tried
to explain it because she hit the re so she
couldn't use her arm, so she couldn't swim with her arm.
But then afterwards she's like jumping up on the beach
and grabbing hard. Then she's fine. So yeah, it was
there was some anyway. Okay, well, thank you Sabrina. It's
now time to rate the film, and I think I

(01:16:15):
go first this time, do I not? Yes? We went first? Okay,
all right, our options this week, and I say we
do one out of ten. Okay, let's just will keep
it easy and we'll make one the worst and ten
the best. Our option this week. One out of ten
horror movie d coms, one out of ten sick Boards
enthralling quilt exhibits one out of ten, soggy casts which

(01:16:40):
sounds like a sex thing, one out of ten. Julie tsunamis,
one out of ten computer graphic whales, dead fish smells,
or one out of ten unexplained peeping toms. Which would
you like to do this week's Brina, I'm gonna let you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Pay think it, you know, give a little nod to
my fave, my favor movie. Let's dude you Julisnami's.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
Okay, you got it. We're gonna do one to attend.
Julie sunamis, okay, I go first, you go first. The
title threw me. I can't get over it. I'm gonna
be totally honest. I can't. Don't set me up for
a surfing movie. If it's not a surfing movie, do
not call it BMX bandit's if they're neither bmxing nor
bandits in the movie. That's not you know again, that's

(01:17:22):
if call it something else. If you're not going to
show war amongst the stars, don't call it star wars.
So I was expecting a surfing movie. I was expecting
a Disney Channel typical Girl out of Water comes and
joins this cool click in Hawaii, they teach you how
to surf. There's the good surfer, there's the bad surfer,

(01:17:44):
there's the locals that don't want to have everything. It
ends in the big surfing competition DCOM. That's what I'm expecting.
It wasn't that. No, it wasn't bad. The first of
all the good things. It was pretty to watch. The
the the landscape looked incredible. The acting was good. I
thought some of the characters were very well written. The

(01:18:04):
adults were great. I loved the relationships. Was not expecting
this movie. That being said, I think I'm being fair
all the way around in giving this movie a six
point five. Julie Tsunamis. I think that's a pretty fair score.
They had I known what was going to happen, and

(01:18:27):
it was going to be this and not a surfing movie,
it probably could have been a seven or a seven
and a half. But some of the stuff, the whale
thing was really bad. Not her not knowing anything about
her mom was really strange. Yeah, so yes, I think
I'm fair at a six point five. I could go
a soft seven, but I'm going to keep it a
six point five. Julie tsunamis what about you?

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
So for me, I'm literally just a tiny bit above.
You agreed there were not necessarily just things kind of
just like brushed over very quickly that I would have
loved a little bit more explaining or you know, things
here in Yeah, Well, that I think was if they

(01:19:13):
if they if there there was something that led up
to it that they decided to cut, they should have
cut those. It's not like it was it would have
taken much. I mean it would have been to like
eighty one minutes or whatever, sorry, eighty five, eighty four
minutes or whatever. So it sound like they would have
really cut a ton. It's just kind of weird. Again,
I thought, I thought all the kids. To me, this

(01:19:34):
was if you see this movie and then go, okay,
put it in the timeframe of where Disney was, It's
perfectly where it was shot and filmed and everything. It's
right in that that that mecca. You can see it.
Of course, we've seen Disney just explode and just build
and be so much better than this. So this isn't

(01:19:55):
one of the best d coms. But for me, it
was the nostalgia. It was sure. It was the movies
that I was watching all the time, and you know,
there they aren't always great. Like I said, or like
you said, I think what would have made this even
better would have been more surfing, you know. But then
I just don't know where they would have found those
child actors to be able to do that, or because

(01:20:18):
this was really well casted in her being thirteen, find
doubles that age. Yeah, maybe you know what I mean, Like, we.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
Know there's got to be some thirteen year old killer
surfers in Hawaii, in Australia, Ortia.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
There should there could have been, but that's not where
we know that. That's not Disney's like place. They don't
do a lot, so they don't have a lot of intel,
I guess. So anyway, I thought it was good and
it was really fun to rewatch because it was a
movie that I saw when I was younger, and I
enjoyed it, and the auditioned for and I auditioned for it,

(01:20:53):
and I remember being bummed when it came out, going, Man,
that would have been cool. I would have loved to
like learn how to surfn more than what I know
right now, and YadA, YadA whatever. I'm going to give
it a seven. Julie Tsunamis because I did like it.
I remember liking it. There were definitely some flaws. I

(01:21:14):
wanted more. I would have loved to give this an
eight and a half time.

Speaker 1 (01:21:17):
I agree, I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
I couldn't because I wanted more surfing.

Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Yep, I agree with you one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
But I could go to movie.

Speaker 1 (01:21:24):
I'm actually gonna change I'm going to change my vote.
I'm going to change my number, which I don't think
I've ever done before. And I'm gonna agree with you
at a seven because the kids were good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
The kids were and for the time how much adults
we got in it too. It wasn't too adults, and
it wasn't two kids where the adults just weren't involved.
They were. The storylines of the adults were awesome.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
Yeah, no, you're right. I could give it a seven
and live with that. So it's going to be seven.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
Guys, I'm starting to rub off on the you are
you are?

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
I'm telling you, Hey, I'm rubbing off on you. You dropped.

Speaker 2 (01:21:55):
Things are happened here on Magical Now, I'm telling you,
we're rubbing off on each other. And I gave him
a math bomb. Let's just let's just say that that's
what it was.

Speaker 1 (01:22:06):
It did it boosted it up. Thank god. Our next
movie O people, we are doing our first threequel ever.
We're gearing up for the debut of Zombies four with
our recap of Zombies three. We can't wait any longer.
We need to catch up on the franchise. It is
time for the newest installment and obviously this one is
available to stream now in Disney Plus, so you can
get ahead of the podcast now and check it out,

(01:22:29):
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