January 31, 2024 • 56 mins
Will and Sabrina are getting Cheetah-licious with "The Cheetah Girls" starring Raven-Symone, Adrianne Bailon, Kiely Williams and Sabrina Bryan.The film premiered in 2003 as a Disney Channel Original Movie.
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Curiously because I know you're such a fan. What's your
favorite ride at Disney at Disneyland, Yeah, at Land or
World anything Disney, Like, what's your jam?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, you know, really, I don't go on adult rides
that much anymore because I've got Monroe with me, and
I really love this summary of Finding Nemo. It's like,
first of all, I stay cool in there, nice, and
I just think it's so cute. And Monroe's like in
the little circle just like and she rides it almost
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every single time and still is amazed by this ride.
Her new one, her new one. I love that it's her,
not me always. Her new one is Autotopia because she
really thinks that she's driving her car, Like really she's
in that Wait.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
A second, I'm sorry, you're you're you're ruining this for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm not actually driving the car when I'm at Autotopia.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well you are, okay, but like the track what I mean?
So I have to like sort of very quietly and
like not let her know that I'm like helping her
with the wheel because otherwise we're like bang bang, like
just right left right left right left against that track.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, did you ever try to get to pop it
off the track. When you were younger driving at Autotopia,
did you ever have that moment of you slam back
and forth to try to actually pop it off the track?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Why? No, I did.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, you gotta get's like you crack. You go back
and forth, and occasional you'll have somebody come out to you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And be like you got it. You gotta see you
gotta sum down. Well, yeah, comment down, calm it down.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I had not been to Disneyland in a while, and
I just went on that Star Wars ride where you
end up in like the the enemy base, okay, and
there's eighty eighties everywhere, like full size walkers around, and
that was insane, like the Rise of the Resistance, Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't know the difference between the two of them,
to be honest. There's twoo of them.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
One of them takes place in the Millennium Falcon and
I would throw up all over everybody, And the other
one is like an actual ride where it's not motion simulator.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, so you don't do motion simulating OOO.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The only thing that's simulating is me vomiting. I do
start Towars with my friend Spencer. I get horribly horribly nauseous,
but I make it through the ride. I usually just
shut my eyes. I do that on Harry Potter too.
My wife and I yell back and forth. Is it over?
So I'm walking out with my friend Spencer and the
guy and we're walking behind this guy and his girlfriend,
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and the guy turns to his girlfriend and absolutely honestly says,
that's not what hyperspace is. Like it was the greatest.
He was so earnest where he was just conveyed. He's like,
they that's not that's not how it was.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Wow, what a joke.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It was so funny because he was just so.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Real and irritated, like irritated because they did not do
that correct.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now they got it wrong. It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Welcome back to Magical Rewind. I'm Wilfredell, I'm Sabrina Bryan,
and oh boy, I just want to say this. So
today we were reviewing a very special movie to not
only my friend and co host Sabrina here, but also
to an entire generation of especially girls all over the world. Now,
at the time, this was by far the highest rated
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movie in the history of d com, so much so
that it arguably changed the entire way Disney saw their
original movies forever. Now, all I really have to say
about this film is bubbles, choucci, aqua and do Now.
I'm not trying to get crunched like cornships here, So
let's jump into this jiggy jungle together because we don't
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want to open this box behind your backs.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Let's just hope we don't look tore up and.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
JANKI as we do whatever's clever to keep the Cheetah
Girls on the prowl.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Wow. Oh well, I knew you were gonna love the
Cheetah Chata. I knew it. I'm so happy to blow.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Your mind amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Before we deep dive into it, let's do a very
quick synopsis A four as if we need to for
anybody out there listening.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
A four member girl.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Group named the Cheetah Girls hope to become the first
freshman to win their high school's talent show. But during
the auditions, they're discovered by a big time producer who
wants to turn the girls into superstars. Will the prospect
of fame break best friends apart or make.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Them closer than ever?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We can get into the stars and all that stuff,
because it's star studded especially in the world of young actors.
I mean, it's Raven Simone as Galleria. We raven icon
in the Disney Channel world. That's so Raven's Home, which
is the reboot. But she started on Cosby Show hanging
with mister Cooper. I mean, she is truly a television icon.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Absolutely, and that was one of my favorite things, honestly.
To rewatch this movie was to just I mean, she
blew me away. She's just so good, so good, and
she nails this character like in just an unreal level.
Like literally I loved it. I mean, I'm a fan
from The Cosby Show me Too, and she was by
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far the cue like I wanted one day a little
girl that looked just like her, Like I just wanted
her personality, her sass, and she was just so cute.
And then this movie she killed Well.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
See here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The Cosby Show fell into that trope that television shows
often fall into. You see it all the time. We
saw it on Family Ties, you see it everywhere where.
The kids grow up aren't as cute, so they bring
on another kid, and a lot of times it doesn't work.
The kid is just kind of there and doesn't really
fit into a cast that's already there. Raven came on
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as this little kid and stole the show.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
As I was sitting there watching her, her facial expressions,
the way that she was selling everything, it reminded me
of the first time I saw Claire Danes on My
So Called Life, where everything's written on her face in
such a way that you could just follow all the
little She was awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So that's Raven.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And then we've got Adrian Bilone is Chanelle Simmons.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Or Choucci, which is great.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
She was a member of the actual girl group three
l W and later became a co host on the
daytime talk show The Real and He News.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes and she won an Emmy. On the reel they
won an Emmy?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Did they really? Yes? Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Then there was some girl named Sabrina Bryan who played
Dorinda Thomas Ordeaux.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Rush off the streets of Orge County and slaying a
New Yorker.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hiding a secret that she's kept from her girls the
entire time. But Sabrina was also on The Bold and Beautiful.
She was a Cheetah Girl's mainstay. The first Dancing with
the Stars contestant to get a perfect score from her
season where she was robbed.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I'm gonna say it of making the finals.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
In my completely and totally unbiased opinion, Keey Williams aka Aqua,
who herself was another member of three l W, leaving
only one three l W member not in the movie,
and now that third member, Naurie Naughton, is on the
show Power.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I want to We'll get into everything that you know.
I'll do the basics very quickly. It was directed by
Oz Scott. It was written by Alison Taylor, based on
a very successful book series by Debora Gregory.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Did I say that right? Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And most importantly though, and the coolest thing, and I didn't.
I'm sure everyone else in the world knew this and
I didn't. This movie was produced by Whitney Houston.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yup, did you meet Did you meet her? No?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Is sh No, I didn't, but I did. So this
was like the first job I had ever done as
an eighteen year old, meaning I was on set by myself. Right.
So I show up in Toronto and two things happened
in and there's a newspaper on the table that says
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the Anahe'm Angels, which is you know from Orange County
won the World Series. Okay, very cool. The next thing,
I look over and there's a gorgeous bouquet of flowers
with a note from Whitney Houston. So she knew she
wasn't going to be able to make you know, the
tape beings. I think she was on tour. I can't remember,
but she was obviously very busy, but she did. And
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I still have it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You still have the note? Really?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh yeah? Oh yeah? And you know it's funny. I
do things like that that are really important to me.
I put them in different places, like when I find it,
I'll put it somewhere else, and then I'll find it
again and it's like, oh, I still have this. This
is so cool. So yeah, that's definitely something I will
always hold on to. And it's just so grateful to even,
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you know, get the opportunity to be in her movie.
One of her best friends is Deborah Martin Chase, who
did Cinderella or Disney with her. They produced it together
as well as Sister of the Tribling Pants. I mean,
she was all girl power, girl you know, storylines. It
was about getting more and more women to the frontline
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of the storylines. That's like what she's done, and obviously
she's done an incredible time. She princessed Diaries with Well.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's the thing is most people don't realize how big.
I mean they know her from her singing and everything,
but she was a huge movie producer as well.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh yeah, well Deborah Martin Chase was the backing of
all that. So, I mean we had heavy hitters that
brought that this project to the Channel that were so
inspired and wanted to make this big and they did.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It well yeah, I mean, talk about a perfect ip
to bring to Disney Channel. I mean it was like
this was you can see Disney executives as this film
is screening, as the numbers are coming in, you can
see them going, oh, oh, this is what we're supposed
to be doing. A bunch of young women who are
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you know, fighting for themselves, that are fighting the way
in the world, that are also musical and dancing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It was just the perfect combination.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I mean multicultural, yeah, every single one of us. You know,
it was such a great setting the stage of really
pushing the world and girl power and that whole movement
forward that was and it was strategically done and you know,
it was it was awesome. It was really really awesome.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It was also done way before anybody else was doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I mean, this is two thousand and three, so the
diverse Disney was ahead of the curve when it came
to diversity and everything else, and watching this film you
could see it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, And they did that with the whole franchise with
us because the next one goes to Spain, so we
brought a lot of like Flamina, don't.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Ruin it, don't ruin it. I want to. I haven't
seen the second one yet.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, I mean it takes two seconds to know that
the third one, by the way, is in India.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh man, you're killing me, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But it just it's they were so good about and
that's wow. The Channel was actually expanding into those territories
as well, right, So the Channel was pushing It was
synergy and it you know, it made sense time wise
for them. But it also being musical, brought in different
cultures as we move along with the Cheetah Girls and we'll.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Get that walking out yeah, yeah, which is an amazing idea.
So just to talk a little bit about how huge
this film was. It debuted on August fifteenth, two thousand
and three, to six point five million viewers. Now that's
on it, like the Disney Channel. That's insane. That's an
unheard of number at the time. Yeah, and one that
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you can't get anywhere nowadays, just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And there was a huge blackout the night of our
premiere in New York. Really do you remember that big
blackout happened and people were walking across.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
The bridge the bridge. Yeah, that was the.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Night of our movie. So we got that number without
like a bit like New York, like, oh man, you
couldn't even see it that night.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The DVD would go to sell over a million copies,
and to this day it's still regularly considered the number
one Disney Channel movie of all time because it was
just so successful. It was the most successful debut ever.
So you're eighteen years old, this is the first job
you've done where you're there by yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It's this kind of success right away.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
How did your life change from August four fifteenth to
August sixteenth?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Not really much. I was in college working at a
tan being salon selling my tanny packages and it was
like when I booked it, as we know and are
going to find out how many Disney Channel original movies
there are right, there was one at that time, like
once a month. So we went and we rehearsed for
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about three weeks in La shot in Toronto. For I
want to say, the hardest part for me with all
of that was juggling college. So I came home, had
to do my midterms one week, then the next week
I had to do my finals. So I was still studying
and doing stuff like that while we were filming. And
then the movie premiered, and of course I was excited
because that was a dream job. Once you got on,
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I knew I looked young enough to play high school
for a while. And once you got a Disney Channel movie,
synergy goes a lot of times they pulled you into
their shows. So I was thinking this was an opportunity
of a lifetime for me to hopefully my dream was
to be on the Disney Channel. So this is what
I was so excited about. I didn't find out and
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I will never forget. Deborah Martin Chase, producer, calls me.
I'm working at my Danning salon. She calls me about
I don't even know how long it took, but she said,
I just wanted to let you know you're a platinum
selling artist, and I was like what, I had no
idea that it was selling that well. I knew it
was doing pretty well, but Disney didn't even really do
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a lot of like marketing at the time for it.
They kind of just put it out on the shelves,
didn't advertise a lot, and just went to see if
it would work. And it did.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Now, but wait a second, I want to go back.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're in college, you're working at a tanning salon, you're
in a sorority.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Did anybody I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I loved telling people.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Because it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's how we're I mean, that's the dream is you're
working one job and then you get your break. So
but did any of your friends at college? Did they
know you were going to do this thing? Or did
you just bounce?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
They knew, you know, but again, like the friends that
I was really close to and really knew what I
was going through, but no one was ready for what
happened my sophomore year when it came out and just
like exploded, like.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well that's I mean, did you did you come back
and were you like, you know, the big person on
campus where all of a sudden, everybody knew who you were.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I didn't do that. I would like if it was
until anything was out. I didn't do that. Did you
ever have jobs that like didn't work out?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Basically every single one I had, except I can pick
one or two that were awesome and the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Are you just do your job? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, I mean, like, like I booked a Christina Aguilera
music video, right, I was like the head person of
one of her vignettes. She had three, and I was
so excited. I couldn't This was in high school. I
couldn't keep it in. I had to tell people, this
was so cool. This was like Christina right, Big Days.
It was her second album, was I think Extina was
what she went by at that time. Huge, And the
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video came out and my vignette got cut, So after
that it was like I didn't tell anyone really much
of anything until it came out.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's probably gu's probably the best way to do it
those VideA Yeah, and you never know when you're gonna
end up on the coking. Ironically, I was in the
other two vignettes, Oh my Heart out with Christina.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So you're the one that stole my screen time.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I told everybody, and it just worked out like a charm.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
When we talk about, for instance, when we were on
Boy Mets World and you're in school, you have a
mandatory numberumber of hours you have to do school every day.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You know, you do the hours whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's the worst it is.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
But at the same time, at least you're getting your
stuff done.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh yeah, but it's like doing homework for three you're
not Yeah, you're not listening to a lecture.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
But you're an adult now, you're eighteen and in college,
so it's just on you to just keep up your grades. Right.
You know, there's no allocated time on your set for
you to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Did you have trouble juggling both?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, Now for the cheat of fan based and all
the you know, grolpower and keeping your head in the game.
I would love to say yes, but no, I didn't.
I procrastinated and just like didn't sleep for a few
weeks towards the end when I was about to go
back to school and start doing my test. Okay, I
was just having way too fun on set and offset
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we were doing, you know, we were all going to
dinners together and you know what I mean, it was
just like I knew again, thinking this was going to
be you know, a few months and then I'm probably
never going to get to hang out with these girls again,
like this is this is?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Had you met any of them before you got the part?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We all auditioned together except for Keighley. So originally Solange Knowles,
Beyonce's little sister, was cast as Aqua Kiley's character. Okay,
and then I our fans are going to know the
Disney Channel building floor twenty one was the audition floor
that you go to course the part that they had.
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So they had booked Solange, Adrian and Raven those were
already like done deals. They were looking for my part.
So I walk in and it's all different ethnicities, like
no one looked really like the same sure, and they
were looking for this last missing person. So we were
all getting it was like the especially the last call
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was us getting pulled in with the three of them
to seek chemistry to see what we look like on screen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So was it instant? I mean, did you know right
away that you had Adrian?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I mean, I was a huge thrill that would be
a fan. So Adrian passed me and I was like,
and then Raven comes in and I'm like, and then
of course, but be keeping.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It totally cool, freaking out in my head.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Like and then Solange because she was really starting to
like be on a lot of like Beyonce's stuff, and
you know what I mean, she was just really starting
to get a lot of a lot of limelight. And
she walked in and I was like, that cannot be.
That can't be Beyonce's sister. There's just no way. There's
no way, There's no way. And then I walk in
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and I read one of the scenes we're going to
talk about. That's the audition piece that I had, which
was a really fun experience. But then they make me dance.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's what I'm gonna say. Is it just acting like
you have to sing and dance too? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah? And back then that's when you brought your KARAOKEI tape.
Those were auditions. Yeah, the stape recorder boom press.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Play What'd you sing?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
City Lights? By Judy Garland.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's got this high note in it that I used
to be able to hit. There's probably no way I
haven't done that song. It's so long, but yeah, it's
like a Broadway vibe, which is not what the music
and the two girls is. It's all but that was
really what I studied a lot, you know, growing up.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay, so you get the part and now you go
to three weeks worth rehearsal. What are you rehearsing the routine?
It's all dancing and singing the whole time, right, all dancing,
so just physical all day long? Is it eight hours
of dancing and singing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well that's when Raven and Keeley, because they were still
in school, that's when they had to do school. So
it was a lot of downtime so that me and
Adrian weren't like just dancing without them, you know what
I mean. So they we did have like breaks, a
lot of breaks and stuff like that because they had
to get those three hours in. But yeah, dancing, I
mean all of the movies took three weeks of rehearsal,
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all three of them, because it's a lot stage gen
you know, learning choreography. It's not like they most choreographers
that we worked with didn't necessarily come with it like done.
It was like they were building on it, you know.
So yeah, it was it was and the choreographer of
the movie ended up being in the movie. He had
he had a little spot. He was the one that
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was doing the audition.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's what I figured for for that. Yeah, the gold
Power whatever they were. Yeah, oh I love that. Okay, Well,
you not only had to learn singing and dancy, but
you also had to learn basically an entire language.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Did you know any of the lingo going in.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And you no, no, so only from Kighley. Now, Keighley's
like a bookworm, so she read all of the Cheetah books.
That was one of the things she was doing in
her school time, and so she'd come out and like
obviously when we read the script, we we saw that stuff,
but she was like, I mean, she could just jabber
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in that cheetah language like so well, and she would
just sit and crack me up because it was like,
what are you trying to even say?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Did you please tell me you started talking like that
off the set that you were all doing the Cheetah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh yeah, especially when we were talking to fans, like
we would bring up that, like, I mean, everything was cheatahlelicious. Obviously,
Groul Power we had a grow Power Productions. When we
started doing tours, like we put you know. Yeah, we
we embraced the Cheetah life, and that includes the Cheetah chatter.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The Cheetah chatter is there, Cheatah? Do you still slip
into Cheetah chatter in your regular daily Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And I swear Cheetah constantly.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I do.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
My daughter wore a lot of it, my poor son,
my carrier. Yeah, it's Cheetah.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Have they seen the movie yet?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So when I went to rewatch it, Monroe was popping in. Now.
She did at some point leave and turn her eyepat
on it and go watch Mahana. I was bury upsetting.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It was wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Off. I kind of was like, wow, okay, that was rude,
but year three, so I'll give you a pass. Then
she ended up coming back and at the very end
will she looks at me and goes, Mommy, I want
to be a Chetah girl in there. I'm like, what
do you mean? She's like, I want to be a
Chetah girl and do Cheetah movies.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
There you go? How awesome? Is that?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Anything you want, baby, I'll get you an acting coach
right now. I just picked up my phone like, okay,
here we go. Who's in orange Cown? Just no, literally,
it was just like the best moment because she's never
watched them. She's just now getting to be able to
sit down. Like I said, she laughed. She doesn't have
that attention to being one hundred percent, But when the
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music came on, she was always guy. She loves dancing,
So that was definitely a moment I'll never forget. And
I'm so glad that we you know, this new thing
I'm doing is watching this kind of stuff. But she's
gonna get.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
To watch all the movies, all the movies.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Well, you mentioned getting a random call from the producer
and finding out that you're a platinum selling artist. So
all the auditions are all the times the Cheetah Girls sing,
or even when the Sonic Band sings at the end,
they all become you break the fourth wall, and they
all become music videos.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
That was one of the things I was going to
talk about that I've found that odd. How did you
find it?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I found it odd, but I got it.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I got why Disney did it, because you know, we
talk about the synergy. They could just lift it out
of the film if they wanted to and just throw
it up as a video. Oh okay, Yeah, And you
know you went and you recorded all the music, right,
you're all singing together.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We recorded separately, Oh you did?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
You didn't record together?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No, okay, well, at different times that we go in
with the different producers we were working with, and everyone
had their own you know times. I was a lot
of times hooked in with like Raven's time, because the
two girls were in the same group, so they had
a lot of the same scheduling.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I would come either before or after Raven so, and
they had in the script it was already divvied out
who was singing, what line, all that. That was all
written ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
It was also yeah, but you so.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
The album not only went platinum, it went double platinum.
It charted number one on the Billboard Kids Album Chart
and spent a total of sixty five weeks on the chart.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
That's nuts. Now, there's one.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Song obviously that's still everywhere and has been living on forever,
and that's Cinderella.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do you remember the first time you actually heard the song?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yes, I mean it was obviously during rehearsal, because recording
process happened like on days that we weren't rehearsing or
we could leave early. That kind of stuff. So we
were doing that as well schedule, and so yeah, we
heard like the demo, we were dancing to the demo
before it was us, and it just was so catchy
and so, you know, it was a great song. But
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I didn't realize how amazing it was going to be
until we filmed it and we were in those costumes
and it just like, I don't know, it just it
felt so magical, like more than obviously the first song
right where we're like, we don't look polished, and it's kind.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Of like whereverywhere stuck? I mean, this is this is
a yeah I fall you know, yeah, that's where you first.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Grem with seven year olds or whatever whoever's watching your
your breakdown here right.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So yeah, So it definitely was a different feeling recording
that one, right, and and a different feeling filming it
for sure, Like it just felt slick and felt it
felt really awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You do the flippy thing right there at the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yes, that's called an aerial.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Were you a gymnast? Like where'd you learn to do
all the flippy stuff? Was this from dancing or were
you actually into gymnastics?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's from dancing, Yeah, I did. I did like tumbling
and dance, so I would go to like a y
m c A or a different you know, kIPS or
gymnastics studio where it was they had everything, but I
only focused on like the floor tumbling. So you would
do that when I was like competitively dancing, like I had,
I had more than what we filmed at that time,
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Like I had decent trick, nothing crazy, but like, you know, yeah,
I definitely knew how to do that gymnastics, but never
the bars or that thing you run at so fast
and it looks like.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh the pommel is that the pommel horse or the
yeah whatever, you run full speed into a wall exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
As I would trip every time. There's a zero chance
I could have done that. But yeah, but I could
do the tumbling, and you know, as a dancer when
you're in the industry, that's one of the things that
like sets you apart. Like I'm sure that was helpful,
and I'm sure I did it in the little tiny
room of my audition. I probably make sure that they
knew I could do that.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You know, were you you did?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You really just do it on the street with no
matt in the scene where they're you're all in the
very beginning.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You just busted them.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, they're really easy.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
They're really not. I'm guessing no, they are.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
They are the group of girls that I coached. I
have twenty two of them. They can all do right, Aeriel,
every single one one, like on cue on time. It's
not it's not as hard of a trick as it looks.
It's scary because you're not you don't put your hands down,
but it's not as hard.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, I hurt myself with you talking about it, so
I'm guessing it's probably hard.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know what, I haven't done one since I've I
have had my first baby, so I think I'm gonna
have to video it and see if I can still
do that.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Area you go a post baby aerial, let's give itba.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I haven't done it at all, So I think it's time.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Maybe throw Matt down. I would think just to kind
of maybe just oh casey, it wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
So you guys go on tour. Is this right?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Miley Cyrus Cyrus's hand in Montana open for you guys.
The Jonas brothers were there, Vanessa Hudgens, I mean yeah,
but you were. You were the headliners, right, And you
know what's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I just watched them the Jonas Brothers documentary and they
talk about driving around in this twelve person white van.
That's what they drove behind our bus in. They were
still really new to the label, so they were, you know,
an opening.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Act following the Cheetah Girls.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Or were so sweet. They were the best guys. They
were so awesome and really all throughout their career when
we would see them over and over again as they
got bigger and bigger, and they mean they were like
the Beatles at some point. Yeah, considered that like that
the most down to earth, so fun, so sweet, I mean,
just the best.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well, as you know, we often do here, and by often,
I mean this is the second time you've done it,
because it's our second episode, but we're going.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
To keep doing it. Is we do real reviews.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So we do a five star review that is a
real review from the internet machine, and then we also
do a one star review. I think last last week
you did the one star, so I'm going to take
the one star that time you take the five star.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Let's do the good review first. What do you got?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
All right? It says five out of five stars. Absolutely
the best movie of all time, no comparison. It's so
inspiring to me as a person and a man, as
I want to become a cheetah one day night.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's a great review. Five out of five stars.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yes, and I mean i'd like him to know he
is if you're a fan and you feel the essence
of Cheetah.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So I'm a Cheetah?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Oh Raoul Love?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Oh I rawl love.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Did I do that right? Here's a review that's not
as good. This is from Kaylin. It is one out
of five stars. And every time my voice gets highed,
it's because it's in caps. Okay, he says, I watched
the Cheetah Girls Marathon with my cousin and it was
the worst thing I've ever experienced, and it made my
head hurt so much.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Frownie face.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Maybe maybe split them up. Don't watch Jamal in a row.
I mean even the Star Wars movies in a row.
You start to get a headache halfway through Empire, so
I mean, come on, you break it up. The first
movie was great. I haven't seen the second one yet.
I'm not trying to to rain on anybody's parade. Maybe
the second one is not as good. I don't know,
but the first one is great.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, in my opinion, the second one's better.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
But really so yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
But there's also like if it's not your jam, Like
if you're like somebody who doesn't really like music or
you prefer a different genre of music, you're obviously like
you know what I mean, And it's like it's okay
to not like it, just you.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Know, in all fairness, I am not a musical guy.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like I don't like when I'm watching a movie and
then everybody suddenly breaks into song like they've sat around
and rehearsed.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
But The Cheetah Girls is about a band, So every
time you break into song, you're supposed to break into song.
You're a band singing a song. It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yet it's not like you're sitting at a bank and
all of a sudden, everybody in line knows the same
song and dance.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Oh it drives me crazy. But this is so great.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That's what I'll say about this movie. There the performances
routines that are done with this one is definitely that way.
It's set up as a performance.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, right, exactly when the.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Channel started moving along with their with their musicals. It
definitely went away with that. So that's what something I
noticed rewatching this that I never really thought about is
they must have seen ours and went, now, we don't
like it that way. We wanted to be more like
a musical where you do just break out into song.
Our second movie, i'd say, is like a combo of.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh, it's a hybrid. Oh okay, so sometimes their breakout okay, well, but.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
If you watch, you know, if you watch like high
School musical, I know you haven't seen that yet. I
haven't seen that one yet either, but it's gonna be.
It's definitely not a set group because they're you know,
they're all from different breaks.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Right, It's like Glee where they just break in the song.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Talking about the talent auditions, because that's we're talking about
just breaking into song.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
But you walk down as a band.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Now you're auditioning for the first time to Cheetah moms
sneak in to watch the audition. They sneak in under
the cover of scarves, which I always see the cheetash
scarves the interesting way to go. They are unobtrusive as
the only two people in the entire auditorium other than
drink a champagne.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
So, which isn't that so funny that that name it
drinks champagne on the channel?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You know what it reminded me of.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
It reminded me of a James Bond girl like woman
likes James Bond. Women all have those terrible names and
uh yeah, Zenya on the top and I won't even
say some of them. But it did drink a champagne
sounded like an evil James Bond villain. But we're sitting
there and then we get to meet one of the
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creepiest producers who doesn't look like a producer at all.
He looks like a random drug kingpin, Jackal Johnson.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Was he is there outfit in the scene? I'm thinking
yes he was.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I think he was in velor for most of the
film the whole time.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yes, But you know what, I will say, many music
producers dressed like that. That was back in the day
with the like are they really well were the brands
like boo boo oh u p Did he had a
brand that what you know, those like bigger, baggier, matching, top, matching,
Sean John Jacket, Yes, Sewn John, Yes, Yes, there you go.
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I mean so a lot of producers actually did look
like that. I thought he did so well with the bar.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He's great, Oh it was, He's great, you know instantly.
First of all, it's like, why would you trust this
guy off the bat, even though he went to the
school he knows Drinka just going from now on, even
know no one's behind me and no one knows about me,
but all the producers, everybody knows.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I'm not great with scheduling. I'm still trying.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
So from now on, I just want to start going
schedule and just have somebody hand me now that Jack, that.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Guy, every line he has was like just made me
corrac I don't know why, if it was his delivery,
if it was what he was having to say, but
every time he just popped in, it was schedule.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Schedule.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's gonna start doing that and hope somebody hands me
a gigantic cell phone or BlackBerry that he has to
uh to check his actual schedule. Yes, now, did you
have a problem with how much of a Hater's not
the right word, but standing in the way of Bubbles's dreams?
(34:37):
Her mom was like, right away, you figure you want
to build into that a little bit like, hey, there's
an opportunity. But she came in off the bat, like,
you're not doing this under no circumstances? Am I going
to allow you your record contract?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
So there is a whole and I think it happens
in the books. There is a whole backstory of bubbles
and chew cheese mop Like, are they general Cheetah girls?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
They were the original Cheetah Girls, Like they were as
an actual band called the Cheetah Girls that the moms
were a part of.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
No, but they were. They are in the industry in
some form.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, she says modeling. She says, my modeling career.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That's where Galleria and Chanel get this.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, so she talks.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
She talks about the career, but doesn't talk about how
big it was. You can tell something happened with her
career that made she feels we're bad decisions right, like right,
detrimental to the rest of her other decisions. So you
see a little bit. But yeah, it's like, whoa, we
can't have a conversation.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Like right yo.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Then her dad with the most cartoony Italian voice ever.
Some of the voices again, the woman who does the
hair too, who just has the thick Russian accent out
of nowhere. Yeah, some of the accents are pretty funny. Yes,
he comes in with the please don't allow you.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Know what did you say? He sees Mario.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Kind of sounds a little like super Mario.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
But first of all, I'm pitching right now, and I'm
taking credit for the pitch, and I'm sure it's one
of the books, but I'm pitching the prequel where it's
the mom's doing the Cheetah girls.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Okay, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Pitching because it would take place in the eighties. It
would be or the seventies of the eighties. It would
be a period piece. Think about the cheetah, then the cheetah,
then the music. Then that would be like eighty like
seventies or eighties kind of power.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I'm pitching that right now, trademark. But you've got the
people coming in, You've got the mom who's kind of
wanting to stop her from doing. But then there's a
line that he comes in with that I wrote down
that is so great, where she says I don't want
her making the same mistakes I did, and he says
she's not gonna She's gonna make all new mistakes that
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are her own and that's gonna make her her And I.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Was like, that's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
The Disney magic right, the right. That's the moment where
it's like it's true, like you can't protect your kids
things that there's lessons they need to learn on their own,
you know, and it's better for them to learn it
on their own rather than you to tell them there's
gonna happen, you know. And again it's like, can we,
(37:15):
you know, Dorothea, can we just have a conversation, can
we just we can't do it because it's terrible, we won't,
but let's just have a conversation with this jackal guy.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I love the moms. I love the relationships.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I love the fact that Chucci's mom leaves her the
best named credit card in the history of the world.
She leaves her her gold platinum card. Yes, I love
that it's the gold platinum card. They're either gold or platinum,
not this one. It's the gold platinum card.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I found that crazy. I when it was I was
in high school. There was no chance that any of
my friend's moms, we're going to give us a credit card. Oh,
go get something for yourself. My mom did that once
my freshman year. She gave me money when we were
going back to school once and said, here's the money.
Let my friend and I go to South Coast Plazas
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where all the great stores at.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Was my wife's favorite mall in the world because she's
from Warren County, YEP.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And get my back to school clothes. Homie got one
outfit with them. My mom. I was like, okay, that
was a mistake, but one outfit. So the fact that
she gave her a credit card like pretty much an
endless amount of money.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Gold platinum card, a.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Gold and platinum card.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
All right, let's go to what do you think is
the movie's best quote? There's three options here, and I'm
not sure that it's on here, but we've got it.
Was drama and Kaflama, which is pretty great. You better
stash the sauce next time you see Jackal.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Which is pretty great.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
And the Cheetah girls do not run with wolves or
hang with hyenas, which is pretty great. But this movie,
and I say this because my brother's and I speak
in movie quotes, this.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Movie is crazy quotable.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, so I still love I said
it in my opening I still love how oh Man
Bubbles goes to Doe and she hands her the outfits
that she needs to go by and she says, I
don't want you looking janky and Tora up oh so harsh.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I do love these ones again, there's so many. My
favorite if he doesn't love my art, he can't have
my heart. I love that one because then she actually
does go ooh lyric moment.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
I love that. I love it. I also loved you
all saying he wants to be your boom.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I know those two because we did them obviously, like
back to back. Those two cafeteria scenes were so fun.
They were so fun, like we had the blast doing those.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Can we talk a little bit about the smartest dumb
dog in the history of films? Because the dog can up,
goes right to bed when asked, gets up and dances
to all the music, but then jumps in a hole
and then can't get out.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I don't it threw me a little bit. I'm gonna
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
The the and then for some reason I get why
they're doing it, but the firefighter who's in the hole
can't seem to reach the dog unless the dog dances.
And yet in front of him has a giant bottle
of baby oil.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Did you notice this baby So he's obviously covering that.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
He can reach the dog to cover it with baby oil,
but he can't get the dog until the dog dances
to him.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
This is where the movie fell apart a little bit
for me, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
It's like, you get why it had to be set
up that way, But it was really just, I mean,
the urgency in the from the first time she tells
the first cop. I was like, I don't think I've
ever seen a cop move so so quickly, especially for
a dog.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I'm calling it back up. And then the nation was riveted.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Everybody's watching as the new comes down, the school empties out.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
It was that was the most the scene in the
part of the storyline.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
That was just kind of like, what are you doing here?
We are in a fairydale land.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Yes, you'd have to be. You have to suspend a little.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Bit, pulls you back to going we're watching a Disney
g General movie. This is how we're gonna pull everyone
out and get back together. I mean and all and
all dressed the same.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
You're all dressed in your cheetahuse.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I will say, that's probably the iconic costume of the
show more than the Cinderella one.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
With the headband.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
With all of us wearing those just mass I mean
they were massive that you know why we had to
wear them. We were, you know, laying that we were
in the fall, like the beginning of school right in
Toronto in the like wintertime, like November. Like we were
there filming that scene in November. It was freezing like
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when they did cut, like there were people on set
that would just wrap us with jackets and they had
hot pockets in the barget It was so cold and raining.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I will say that, I uh, that scene took me
out of it a little bit. It then, of course
becomes an entire musical number with no actual microphones, but
everyone can still hear what's going on. And I still
do not understand why a dog falls in a hole
and they scent an ambulance. Yes, yeah, who who's the
ambulance for? I'm just curious, is it for the dog?
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Because no people were.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Involved, firefighter that's in there. It doesn't seem that smarty either.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
You sent an ambulance?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Oh my okay, so yeah, well we're I'd like to
jump right ahead if we can. Yes, let's do our
three and a half facts, because there are some great
yes Cheetah Girl facts here.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Why don't you tell us what that is? Yeah, yes,
it's where.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
We find three facts and one we found on the
internet that cannot be confirmed. Right, So these are good
because they would be awesome if but we don't know
if they're true.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Or we don't know. We think they might be.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Everyone talks about it like they are, but we're not
quite sure.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Right, we can't put our stamp on the fact that
it's real. Right, give us the first one.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
The Cheetah Girls merchandise while touring was so popular that
at the time they became or we became the highest
selling act at their merchandise company, even beating the Rolling Stone.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
And that's not the fake fact, that's real.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
That's real.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
What's the next one?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
All right? So this half for that we got for you,
the half fact, the half fact. The Cheetah Girls is
Obama's daughter's favorite movie. It's a half fact. We'll say
that they were at our concert really when we were
on tour, and them like Faith Hill and Tim mcgross
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kids were there. But you know, to beat the rush
home and all of that our meet and greets for
the first and second tour were at the end of
the show, and so they wouldn't stay all the way,
so they'd leave, So we didn't get to do that.
And we can actually ask my girl Keeley about that
because she was so upset. It was. We were so stoked.
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I mean, think about it. You're on stage performing for
the president.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Yeah, I mean that's so was the President there or
just the kids? The kid?
Speaker 2 (44:26):
No? So that that's the thing too, is it would
be booked under the you know person that you would
be recognized, but we didn't always mean that that person
was there, of course, but there was a possibility, so
we would be like lighting that stage up on fire
just in the case the President was there watching.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Other confirmed fans are the Kardashian kids who dressed in
treated Girl sweatshirts as past Halloween, Quenta Bronson, who just
sang a Cheatah Girl song on the Golden Glors Red Carpets,
and Cartie b who professor Cheatah Love on IG Live.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I mean this is huge, yes, yes, I mean it
just like to know that those kinds of celebrities know
the work that you've done. It's just is like wow.
I mean it's it's so cool. I mean the Kardashian
Halloween out that happened just this Halloween.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, I mean, so it's saying it's the twentieth anniversary.
We should say that. So it's still not only alive
in kicking, but hugely popular.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
I can't wait to see and the new generation like
it just keeps gaining the next generation of young cheetahs.
It's awesome. It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
The let's add Amori.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Uh, we don't really even have to do that, because
if I read something, that's very interesting. So in the
original books, there were twins that were then cut from
the books, and Tia and Tamara were actually considered to
play those parts and were considered at the time I
think too maybe too old or something. I can't remember
what it was, but they were not able to do
the project. But so we could have had a Mori
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in there from the original original books.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
So there you go. That's how you do it.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
Yes, I off another option because the brother is he's younger.
It could have worked to make him like a little
brother of one of the girls.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
That would have worked too, that's great. Or your foster brothers.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Which the twin factor and it not be two girls,
and it'd be like Aqua's twin.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Great idea.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
There you go, you know what I mean, making it,
make it a little bit different, bringing a little bit
different vibe. I mean he could have been like our
main producer. There could have been.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Like like something like that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Yes, I think I really like him because that's the first.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Person you always go to how to put Taj in
the movie. You're a big TA.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Fan, Sabrina sees what did I miss?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Okay, so first of all, you took quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Oh so I saw quite a bit this week. Saw
a lot.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
You saw a lot, which was awesome. The ones that
I really loved was there's like I'm going to go
through them really fast because they don't need a lot
of explanation. The giant home phones that bubbles and chootch
she had. I can't remember in the early two thousands
did we have that big of phones.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
I think so phones went through a big phase, then
they went through a really big phase.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Okay, because her cell phone was also giant.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, but she had that great flip phone, which I
would still have right now if I could.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yes, doesn't close it. After the the conversation on the phone.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
She just puts it down. I know, yeah, she doesn't,
she does. That's interesting. I noticed that as well.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Any Fuddy. My next one is we talked about how
all the music, all the music that we did was
like a music video style. I found that jarring. I
didn't really love that part. You loved it because I.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Got how you want to watch it. I got it,
I got how they did it. I didn't love it,
but I got Okay.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
So Kyle Schmid's chacter Derek, Yeah, gallerya's love interest. Right, Yeah,
when he comes out with this, you know he's going
to do something. When he comes out with his performance,
did you expect a hit wrap routine.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
No, he's carrying a guitar half the movie. It's like
what and then he plays at the end. But it's
like I wasn't expressed.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
That felt like so what why why is he? What
is that song? He doesn't look at at all like
that would be his interest. So there's that.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
I thought he'd go out to Kyle though, I do.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Love him so much. He's such a sweetheart. Derek was
dreamy though, Yes, and he's gone on to do a
lot of work, a.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
Ton of stuff. Yeah, and he's married to Katie Katie Loakes.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yes, but the slammed, like the tray goes all over him,
and even the girls are like even the embarrassing stuff
is cute.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
He has this like kind of like accent a little
bit as he was.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Yeah, we don't know what exactly where he's from. Yeah,
it's it's very.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Easy, but he was. He was awesome. I loved his
moments too, with him pulling the friendship back together. He
was really the one that pulled back together.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
And there was especially the piano scene, which I shout
out to Raven, but not not great fake piano playing
at all.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Okay, I did want to put that in my Serena
season because I'll say it. I mean, but when she
was singing, I focused on her face because she.
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Wasn't any great. But they had nice chemistry.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
They did.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
They had very nice chemistry the two of them.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Great chemistry worked.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
And now we come to the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
We've got to rate the movie, and I think today's
one out of ten trapped p seanfre says, which as
as Raven says, that is not zal dressing.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
That gets confused. That's Madonna.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
That's such a funny line.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
So that's a great line. So one out of ten.
Do you want me to start? Do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (49:52):
You start, you start.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
I'll start, Okay. I really liked this movie. I thought
it is a great Disney Channel movie. You've got the music,
You've got its own little language, it's its own encapsulated world.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
It is a really good movie. You lost me with
the dog at the end.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
It's a weird kind of way to get the band
back together. And then a couple things here and there.
But I'm gonna give this a solid eight. Trapped Pean
for says, and I could go, I could go eight
point five and not look back. It would have been
(50:31):
a full on nine if the dog didn't get trapped
in a hole at the end. It really, you know,
which is for me, pretty close to perfection, because I
don't know I'll ever give a ten. But I was entertained.
You were all phenomenal. The music was catchy. Even the
cheesy parts are Disney cheesy, so they're the way they're
supposed to be. Yes, the acting's great, the singing's great.
(50:54):
So yeah, I'm gonna say I mean, I'm gonna up it.
I'm gonna say eight and a half and be happy
with eight and a half oiled up trapped peanfre says,
which which again will be put into an ambulance for
some reason after they are taken out of the ground.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
How about you.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
So I was nervous to go watch this again. Nervous.
I mean you're talking, I'm eighteen, you know. I was
so worried about what it was gonna look and feel like.
And you know, and I actually it just brought me
back to how much fun we had out on that
out in Toronto. The experience was just incredible the movie.
(51:35):
I also was worried about that cheese factor being way
more than what it was. And you know, again, watching
Raven and Adrian and Kihley, you know, with their dancing
and performance, I really loved it more than I thought
I was good. I was ready to give this like
a four and a half.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Really knowing, well, you know, it's hard to watch yourself
any This is the kind of acting that you do
that is over the top.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
You know, there's times where I'm like, oh gosh, top down,
shrimpy and white like Norilla acts. But you know, again,
I think I'm gonna give it a seven, a seven Okay,
knowing where it's gonna go to.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
See, that's the thing that's hard.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Part. You don't know.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
I don't know yet. I don't I haven't seen Empire
Strikes Back yet. I haven't seen the second part. I
don't know where we're going, right.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
I also you just mentioned something that I think I'd
like to add a new category to to and I'd
like to get a sponsor for it. Okay, whether it's
Sargento or it's Velveta. But we're gonna need a cheese factor.
You just said to cheese. We're gonna need a cheese
factor category. Okay, especially for Disney Channel because I thought
this was again I thought it was cheesy in all
(52:51):
the right places, which is it's they're Disney Channel movies.
They're all gonna be cheesy somewhere somehow, right.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yes, I mean that's what brings the demo back to
what we're where it's supposed to be, right, impactly, Adults,
it can't be too serious. There's some good serious moments
in there, like Chanelle and her Mom's dynamic.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
You and the Master Kid and all that kid.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Yeah, there's that, but not too you know, there was
a lot more crying. I did not realize you did.
You kind of always just thought it was I guess
because I was on set for Chanelle's or for Adrian's
crime moment at that at the end of the movie.
But I forgot that Raven had a good one too.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Yeah, Whitfield, so that we're also gonna have to add
than the Johnson and Johnson no more tears category. Okay,
I get that there was there was some crying, but again,
all earned. I thought it was all all your acting
was great. I wow, thoroughly enjoyed this. I can't wait
to see the second one. Thank you for sharing your
film with me, because it was really good. I watched
(53:56):
it the first time with my wife. We both liked it.
I watched the second time on myself.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
Uh, are you happy with what I saw.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
With the Cheetah I really love being able to kind
of crack up at myself of course, and us and
what we were doing and what we were wearing. But
we are going to absolutely get into that because we
are so thrilled to have a park Hopper episode for
you on the Magical rewind Feet with my Cheetah Girl
(54:21):
co star and bestie Keeley Williams. Yes, just search for
Magical Rewind anywhere you get podcasts, as this is a
special one that will not be on the pod meets
World Feet.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Yes and our I'm so excited to say this. First
of all, again, thank you Cheetah girls. Great, go watch
it again. It is on Disney Plus right now. Check
it out. It is absolutely worth it. You're gonna love
every second of it, except maybe the dog falling in
the hole at the end. You'll probably also go, wait,
and why is he playing guitar when there's drums and
there's no drums there. It's got some issues, people, but
it's a Disney Channel movie and it was good. So
(54:56):
our next movie, we're just hitting on all cylinders because
our next movie also haven't seen. But I've heard so many,
so many people have told me this is one of
their favorite movies. We are watching nineteen ninety eight Break
with an exclamation point, of course, and it's viewable on
Disney Plus. So go get your rollerblades and your helmets ready.
(55:17):
I'm so excited for this one because this is so
in my wheelhouse of movies that I grew up watching.
So this was such a fun episode. Don't forget again.
As Sabrina said, go to the park Hopper episode where
we talked to Keeley Williams. I'm just gonna watch, sit
back and watch the two of you reminisce about a
pretty great film that started an absolutely amazing franchise, and
we will be watching the next ones further down the line.
(55:38):
But thank you so much for joining us, and remember
to subscribe to our feed and you can follow us
that magical rewind pod on Instagram. Growl Powell, Growl Powell.
I still can't get it right, will grawl Power.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
It is a spinoff of Girl Power. Growl Power, Growl Power.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah, I feel like an official Cheetah I really do.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
H is always room for more Cheetah boys always we
love it.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
I will take that all day. Thanks for joining us
for the Cheetah chatter. This episode's been cheat delicious.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
Join us next time
Curiously because I know you're such a fan. What's your
favorite ride at Disney at Disneyland, Yeah, at Land or
World anything Disney, Like, what's your jam?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well, you know, really, I don't go on adult rides
that much anymore because I've got Monroe with me, and
I really love this summary of Finding Nemo. It's like,
first of all, I stay cool in there, nice, and
I just think it's so cute. And Monroe's like in
the little circle just like and she rides it almost
(00:47):
every single time and still is amazed by this ride.
Her new one, her new one. I love that it's her,
not me always. Her new one is Autotopia because she
really thinks that she's driving her car, Like really she's
in that Wait.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
A second, I'm sorry, you're you're you're ruining this for me.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
I'm not actually driving the car when I'm at Autotopia.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well you are, okay, but like the track what I mean?
So I have to like sort of very quietly and
like not let her know that I'm like helping her
with the wheel because otherwise we're like bang bang, like
just right left right left right left against that track.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well, did you ever try to get to pop it
off the track. When you were younger driving at Autotopia,
did you ever have that moment of you slam back
and forth to try to actually pop it off the track?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Why? No, I did.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yes, you gotta get's like you crack. You go back
and forth, and occasional you'll have somebody come out to you.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
And be like you got it. You gotta see you
gotta sum down. Well, yeah, comment down, calm it down.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
I had not been to Disneyland in a while, and
I just went on that Star Wars ride where you
end up in like the the enemy base, okay, and
there's eighty eighties everywhere, like full size walkers around, and
that was insane, like the Rise of the Resistance, Okay.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
I don't know the difference between the two of them,
to be honest. There's twoo of them.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
One of them takes place in the Millennium Falcon and
I would throw up all over everybody, And the other
one is like an actual ride where it's not motion simulator.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Okay, so you don't do motion simulating OOO.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The only thing that's simulating is me vomiting. I do
start Towars with my friend Spencer. I get horribly horribly nauseous,
but I make it through the ride. I usually just
shut my eyes. I do that on Harry Potter too.
My wife and I yell back and forth. Is it over?
So I'm walking out with my friend Spencer and the
guy and we're walking behind this guy and his girlfriend,
(02:43):
and the guy turns to his girlfriend and absolutely honestly says,
that's not what hyperspace is. Like it was the greatest.
He was so earnest where he was just conveyed. He's like,
they that's not that's not how it was.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Wow, what a joke.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
It was so funny because he was just so.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Real and irritated, like irritated because they did not do
that correct.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Now they got it wrong. It was so funny.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Welcome back to Magical Rewind. I'm Wilfredell, I'm Sabrina Bryan,
and oh boy, I just want to say this. So
today we were reviewing a very special movie to not
only my friend and co host Sabrina here, but also
to an entire generation of especially girls all over the world. Now,
at the time, this was by far the highest rated
(03:32):
movie in the history of d com, so much so
that it arguably changed the entire way Disney saw their
original movies forever. Now, all I really have to say
about this film is bubbles, choucci, aqua and do Now.
I'm not trying to get crunched like cornships here, So
let's jump into this jiggy jungle together because we don't
(03:53):
want to open this box behind your backs.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Let's just hope we don't look tore up and.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
JANKI as we do whatever's clever to keep the Cheetah
Girls on the prowl.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Wow. Oh well, I knew you were gonna love the
Cheetah Chata. I knew it. I'm so happy to blow.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Your mind amazing.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Before we deep dive into it, let's do a very
quick synopsis A four as if we need to for
anybody out there listening.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
A four member girl.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Group named the Cheetah Girls hope to become the first
freshman to win their high school's talent show. But during
the auditions, they're discovered by a big time producer who
wants to turn the girls into superstars. Will the prospect
of fame break best friends apart or make.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Them closer than ever?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
We can get into the stars and all that stuff,
because it's star studded especially in the world of young actors.
I mean, it's Raven Simone as Galleria. We raven icon
in the Disney Channel world. That's so Raven's Home, which
is the reboot. But she started on Cosby Show hanging
with mister Cooper. I mean, she is truly a television icon.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Absolutely, and that was one of my favorite things, honestly.
To rewatch this movie was to just I mean, she
blew me away. She's just so good, so good, and
she nails this character like in just an unreal level.
Like literally I loved it. I mean, I'm a fan
from The Cosby Show me Too, and she was by
(05:19):
far the cue like I wanted one day a little
girl that looked just like her, Like I just wanted
her personality, her sass, and she was just so cute.
And then this movie she killed Well.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
See here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The Cosby Show fell into that trope that television shows
often fall into. You see it all the time. We
saw it on Family Ties, you see it everywhere where.
The kids grow up aren't as cute, so they bring
on another kid, and a lot of times it doesn't work.
The kid is just kind of there and doesn't really
fit into a cast that's already there. Raven came on
(05:54):
as this little kid and stole the show.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
As I was sitting there watching her, her facial expressions,
the way that she was selling everything, it reminded me
of the first time I saw Claire Danes on My
So Called Life, where everything's written on her face in
such a way that you could just follow all the
little She was awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
So that's Raven.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
And then we've got Adrian Bilone is Chanelle Simmons.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Or Choucci, which is great.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
She was a member of the actual girl group three
l W and later became a co host on the
daytime talk show The Real and He News.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes and she won an Emmy. On the reel they
won an Emmy?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Did they really? Yes? Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Then there was some girl named Sabrina Bryan who played
Dorinda Thomas Ordeaux.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Rush off the streets of Orge County and slaying a
New Yorker.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Hiding a secret that she's kept from her girls the
entire time. But Sabrina was also on The Bold and Beautiful.
She was a Cheetah Girl's mainstay. The first Dancing with
the Stars contestant to get a perfect score from her
season where she was robbed.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I'm gonna say it of making the finals.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
In my completely and totally unbiased opinion, Keey Williams aka Aqua,
who herself was another member of three l W, leaving
only one three l W member not in the movie,
and now that third member, Naurie Naughton, is on the
show Power.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
So this is.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I want to We'll get into everything that you know.
I'll do the basics very quickly. It was directed by
Oz Scott. It was written by Alison Taylor, based on
a very successful book series by Debora Gregory.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Did I say that right? Yes?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
And most importantly though, and the coolest thing, and I didn't.
I'm sure everyone else in the world knew this and
I didn't. This movie was produced by Whitney Houston.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Yup, did you meet Did you meet her? No?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Is sh No, I didn't, but I did. So this
was like the first job I had ever done as
an eighteen year old, meaning I was on set by myself. Right.
So I show up in Toronto and two things happened
in and there's a newspaper on the table that says
(08:05):
the Anahe'm Angels, which is you know from Orange County
won the World Series. Okay, very cool. The next thing,
I look over and there's a gorgeous bouquet of flowers
with a note from Whitney Houston. So she knew she
wasn't going to be able to make you know, the
tape beings. I think she was on tour. I can't remember,
but she was obviously very busy, but she did. And
(08:26):
I still have it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
You still have the note? Really?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh yeah? Oh yeah? And you know it's funny. I
do things like that that are really important to me.
I put them in different places, like when I find it,
I'll put it somewhere else, and then I'll find it
again and it's like, oh, I still have this. This
is so cool. So yeah, that's definitely something I will
always hold on to. And it's just so grateful to even,
(08:50):
you know, get the opportunity to be in her movie.
One of her best friends is Deborah Martin Chase, who
did Cinderella or Disney with her. They produced it together
as well as Sister of the Tribling Pants. I mean,
she was all girl power, girl you know, storylines. It
was about getting more and more women to the frontline
(09:11):
of the storylines. That's like what she's done, and obviously
she's done an incredible time. She princessed Diaries with Well.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That's the thing is most people don't realize how big.
I mean they know her from her singing and everything,
but she was a huge movie producer as well.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Oh yeah, well Deborah Martin Chase was the backing of
all that. So, I mean we had heavy hitters that
brought that this project to the Channel that were so
inspired and wanted to make this big and they did.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
It well yeah, I mean, talk about a perfect ip
to bring to Disney Channel. I mean it was like
this was you can see Disney executives as this film
is screening, as the numbers are coming in, you can
see them going, oh, oh, this is what we're supposed
to be doing. A bunch of young women who are
(10:02):
you know, fighting for themselves, that are fighting the way
in the world, that are also musical and dancing.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
It was just the perfect combination.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I mean multicultural, yeah, every single one of us. You know,
it was such a great setting the stage of really
pushing the world and girl power and that whole movement
forward that was and it was strategically done and you know,
it was it was awesome. It was really really awesome.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
It was also done way before anybody else was doing it.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
I mean, this is two thousand and three, so the
diverse Disney was ahead of the curve when it came
to diversity and everything else, and watching this film you
could see it.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, And they did that with the whole franchise with
us because the next one goes to Spain, so we
brought a lot of like Flamina, don't.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Ruin it, don't ruin it. I want to. I haven't
seen the second one yet.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Well, I mean it takes two seconds to know that
the third one, by the way, is in India.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh man, you're killing me, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But it just it's they were so good about and
that's wow. The Channel was actually expanding into those territories
as well, right, So the Channel was pushing It was
synergy and it you know, it made sense time wise
for them. But it also being musical, brought in different
cultures as we move along with the Cheetah Girls and we'll.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Get that walking out yeah, yeah, which is an amazing idea.
So just to talk a little bit about how huge
this film was. It debuted on August fifteenth, two thousand
and three, to six point five million viewers. Now that's
on it, like the Disney Channel. That's insane. That's an
unheard of number at the time. Yeah, and one that
(11:40):
you can't get anywhere nowadays, just doesn't happen.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And there was a huge blackout the night of our
premiere in New York. Really do you remember that big
blackout happened and people were walking across.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
The bridge the bridge. Yeah, that was the.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Night of our movie. So we got that number without
like a bit like New York, like, oh man, you
couldn't even see it that night.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The DVD would go to sell over a million copies,
and to this day it's still regularly considered the number
one Disney Channel movie of all time because it was
just so successful. It was the most successful debut ever.
So you're eighteen years old, this is the first job
you've done where you're there by yourself.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
It's this kind of success right away.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
How did your life change from August four fifteenth to
August sixteenth?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Not really much. I was in college working at a
tan being salon selling my tanny packages and it was
like when I booked it, as we know and are
going to find out how many Disney Channel original movies
there are right, there was one at that time, like
once a month. So we went and we rehearsed for
(12:55):
about three weeks in La shot in Toronto. For I
want to say, the hardest part for me with all
of that was juggling college. So I came home, had
to do my midterms one week, then the next week
I had to do my finals. So I was still studying
and doing stuff like that while we were filming. And
then the movie premiered, and of course I was excited
because that was a dream job. Once you got on,
(13:18):
I knew I looked young enough to play high school
for a while. And once you got a Disney Channel movie,
synergy goes a lot of times they pulled you into
their shows. So I was thinking this was an opportunity
of a lifetime for me to hopefully my dream was
to be on the Disney Channel. So this is what
I was so excited about. I didn't find out and
(13:39):
I will never forget. Deborah Martin Chase, producer, calls me.
I'm working at my Danning salon. She calls me about
I don't even know how long it took, but she said,
I just wanted to let you know you're a platinum
selling artist, and I was like what, I had no
idea that it was selling that well. I knew it
was doing pretty well, but Disney didn't even really do
(14:01):
a lot of like marketing at the time for it.
They kind of just put it out on the shelves,
didn't advertise a lot, and just went to see if
it would work. And it did.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Now, but wait a second, I want to go back.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
You're in college, you're working at a tanning salon, you're
in a sorority.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Did anybody I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I loved telling people.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Because it's awesome.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's how we're I mean, that's the dream is you're
working one job and then you get your break. So
but did any of your friends at college? Did they
know you were going to do this thing? Or did
you just bounce?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
They knew, you know, but again, like the friends that
I was really close to and really knew what I
was going through, but no one was ready for what
happened my sophomore year when it came out and just
like exploded, like.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Well that's I mean, did you did you come back
and were you like, you know, the big person on
campus where all of a sudden, everybody knew who you were.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
I didn't do that. I would like if it was
until anything was out. I didn't do that. Did you
ever have jobs that like didn't work out?
Speaker 1 (15:01):
Basically every single one I had, except I can pick
one or two that were awesome and the rest of them.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Are you just do your job? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Well, I mean, like, like I booked a Christina Aguilera
music video, right, I was like the head person of
one of her vignettes. She had three, and I was
so excited. I couldn't This was in high school. I
couldn't keep it in. I had to tell people, this
was so cool. This was like Christina right, Big Days.
It was her second album, was I think Extina was
what she went by at that time. Huge, And the
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video came out and my vignette got cut, So after
that it was like I didn't tell anyone really much
of anything until it came out.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's probably gu's probably the best way to do it
those VideA Yeah, and you never know when you're gonna
end up on the coking. Ironically, I was in the
other two vignettes, Oh my Heart out with Christina.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
So you're the one that stole my screen time.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
I told everybody, and it just worked out like a charm.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
When we talk about, for instance, when we were on
Boy Mets World and you're in school, you have a
mandatory numberumber of hours you have to do school every day.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You know, you do the hours whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
It's the worst it is.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
But at the same time, at least you're getting your
stuff done.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Oh yeah, but it's like doing homework for three you're
not Yeah, you're not listening to a lecture.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
It's a lot.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
But you're an adult now, you're eighteen and in college,
so it's just on you to just keep up your grades. Right.
You know, there's no allocated time on your set for
you to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Did you have trouble juggling both?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No, Now for the cheat of fan based and all
the you know, grolpower and keeping your head in the game.
I would love to say yes, but no, I didn't.
I procrastinated and just like didn't sleep for a few
weeks towards the end when I was about to go
back to school and start doing my test. Okay, I
was just having way too fun on set and offset
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we were doing, you know, we were all going to
dinners together and you know what I mean, it was
just like I knew again, thinking this was going to
be you know, a few months and then I'm probably
never going to get to hang out with these girls again,
like this is this is?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Had you met any of them before you got the part?
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We all auditioned together except for Keighley. So originally Solange Knowles,
Beyonce's little sister, was cast as Aqua Kiley's character. Okay,
and then I our fans are going to know the
Disney Channel building floor twenty one was the audition floor
that you go to course the part that they had.
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So they had booked Solange, Adrian and Raven those were
already like done deals. They were looking for my part.
So I walk in and it's all different ethnicities, like
no one looked really like the same sure, and they
were looking for this last missing person. So we were
all getting it was like the especially the last call
(17:50):
was us getting pulled in with the three of them
to seek chemistry to see what we look like on screen.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So was it instant? I mean, did you know right
away that you had Adrian?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I mean, I was a huge thrill that would be
a fan. So Adrian passed me and I was like,
and then Raven comes in and I'm like, and then
of course, but be keeping.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
It totally cool, freaking out in my head.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Like and then Solange because she was really starting to
like be on a lot of like Beyonce's stuff, and
you know what I mean, she was just really starting
to get a lot of a lot of limelight. And
she walked in and I was like, that cannot be.
That can't be Beyonce's sister. There's just no way. There's
no way, There's no way. And then I walk in
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and I read one of the scenes we're going to
talk about. That's the audition piece that I had, which
was a really fun experience. But then they make me dance.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
That's what I'm gonna say. Is it just acting like
you have to sing and dance too? Right?
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yeah? And back then that's when you brought your KARAOKEI tape.
Those were auditions. Yeah, the stape recorder boom press.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Play What'd you sing?
Speaker 2 (18:58):
City Lights? By Judy Garland.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Hi.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
It's got this high note in it that I used
to be able to hit. There's probably no way I
haven't done that song. It's so long, but yeah, it's
like a Broadway vibe, which is not what the music
and the two girls is. It's all but that was
really what I studied a lot, you know, growing up.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Okay, so you get the part and now you go
to three weeks worth rehearsal. What are you rehearsing the routine?
It's all dancing and singing the whole time, right, all dancing,
so just physical all day long? Is it eight hours
of dancing and singing.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Well that's when Raven and Keeley, because they were still
in school, that's when they had to do school. So
it was a lot of downtime so that me and
Adrian weren't like just dancing without them, you know what
I mean. So they we did have like breaks, a
lot of breaks and stuff like that because they had
to get those three hours in. But yeah, dancing, I
mean all of the movies took three weeks of rehearsal,
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all three of them, because it's a lot stage gen
you know, learning choreography. It's not like they most choreographers
that we worked with didn't necessarily come with it like done.
It was like they were building on it, you know.
So yeah, it was it was and the choreographer of
the movie ended up being in the movie. He had
he had a little spot. He was the one that
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was doing the audition.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
That's what I figured for for that. Yeah, the gold
Power whatever they were. Yeah, oh I love that. Okay, Well,
you not only had to learn singing and dancy, but
you also had to learn basically an entire language.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Did you know any of the lingo going in.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
And you no, no, so only from Kighley. Now, Keighley's
like a bookworm, so she read all of the Cheetah books.
That was one of the things she was doing in
her school time, and so she'd come out and like
obviously when we read the script, we we saw that stuff,
but she was like, I mean, she could just jabber
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in that cheetah language like so well, and she would
just sit and crack me up because it was like,
what are you trying to even say?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Did you please tell me you started talking like that
off the set that you were all doing the Cheetah.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Oh yeah, especially when we were talking to fans, like
we would bring up that, like, I mean, everything was cheatahlelicious. Obviously,
Groul Power we had a grow Power Productions. When we
started doing tours, like we put you know. Yeah, we
we embraced the Cheetah life, and that includes the Cheetah chatter.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
The Cheetah chatter is there, Cheatah? Do you still slip
into Cheetah chatter in your regular daily Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:34):
And I swear Cheetah constantly.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
I do.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
My daughter wore a lot of it, my poor son,
my carrier. Yeah, it's Cheetah.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Have they seen the movie yet?
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So when I went to rewatch it, Monroe was popping in. Now.
She did at some point leave and turn her eyepat
on it and go watch Mahana. I was bury upsetting.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
It was wrong.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Off. I kind of was like, wow, okay, that was rude,
but year three, so I'll give you a pass. Then
she ended up coming back and at the very end
will she looks at me and goes, Mommy, I want
to be a Chetah girl in there. I'm like, what
do you mean? She's like, I want to be a
Chetah girl and do Cheetah movies.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
There you go? How awesome? Is that?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Anything you want, baby, I'll get you an acting coach
right now. I just picked up my phone like, okay,
here we go. Who's in orange Cown? Just no, literally,
it was just like the best moment because she's never
watched them. She's just now getting to be able to
sit down. Like I said, she laughed. She doesn't have
that attention to being one hundred percent, But when the
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music came on, she was always guy. She loves dancing,
So that was definitely a moment I'll never forget. And
I'm so glad that we you know, this new thing
I'm doing is watching this kind of stuff. But she's
gonna get.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
To watch all the movies, all the movies.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I'm so excited.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Well, you mentioned getting a random call from the producer
and finding out that you're a platinum selling artist. So
all the auditions are all the times the Cheetah Girls sing,
or even when the Sonic Band sings at the end,
they all become you break the fourth wall, and they
all become music videos.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
That was one of the things I was going to
talk about that I've found that odd. How did you
find it?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I found it odd, but I got it.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
I got why Disney did it, because you know, we
talk about the synergy. They could just lift it out
of the film if they wanted to and just throw
it up as a video. Oh okay, Yeah, And you
know you went and you recorded all the music, right,
you're all singing together.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
We recorded separately, Oh you did?
Speaker 3 (23:43):
You didn't record together?
Speaker 2 (23:45):
No, okay, well, at different times that we go in
with the different producers we were working with, and everyone
had their own you know times. I was a lot
of times hooked in with like Raven's time, because the
two girls were in the same group, so they had
a lot of the same scheduling.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
So that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
I would come either before or after Raven so, and
they had in the script it was already divvied out
who was singing, what line, all that. That was all
written ahead of time.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
It was also yeah, but you so.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
The album not only went platinum, it went double platinum.
It charted number one on the Billboard Kids Album Chart
and spent a total of sixty five weeks on the chart.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
That's nuts. Now, there's one.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Song obviously that's still everywhere and has been living on forever,
and that's Cinderella.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
Do you remember the first time you actually heard the song?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Yes, I mean it was obviously during rehearsal, because recording
process happened like on days that we weren't rehearsing or
we could leave early. That kind of stuff. So we
were doing that as well schedule, and so yeah, we
heard like the demo, we were dancing to the demo
before it was us, and it just was so catchy
and so, you know, it was a great song. But
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I didn't realize how amazing it was going to be
until we filmed it and we were in those costumes
and it just like, I don't know, it just it
felt so magical, like more than obviously the first song
right where we're like, we don't look polished, and it's kind.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Of like whereverywhere stuck? I mean, this is this is
a yeah I fall you know, yeah, that's where you first.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Grem with seven year olds or whatever whoever's watching your
your breakdown here right.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So yeah, So it definitely was a different feeling recording
that one, right, and and a different feeling filming it
for sure, Like it just felt slick and felt it
felt really awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
You do the flippy thing right there at the very beginning.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Yes, that's called an aerial.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Were you a gymnast? Like where'd you learn to do
all the flippy stuff? Was this from dancing or were
you actually into gymnastics?
Speaker 2 (25:56):
It's from dancing, Yeah, I did. I did like tumbling
and dance, so I would go to like a y
m c A or a different you know, kIPS or
gymnastics studio where it was they had everything, but I
only focused on like the floor tumbling. So you would
do that when I was like competitively dancing, like I had,
I had more than what we filmed at that time,
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Like I had decent trick, nothing crazy, but like, you know, yeah,
I definitely knew how to do that gymnastics, but never
the bars or that thing you run at so fast
and it looks like.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh the pommel is that the pommel horse or the
yeah whatever, you run full speed into a wall exactly.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
As I would trip every time. There's a zero chance
I could have done that. But yeah, but I could
do the tumbling, and you know, as a dancer when
you're in the industry, that's one of the things that
like sets you apart. Like I'm sure that was helpful,
and I'm sure I did it in the little tiny
room of my audition. I probably make sure that they
knew I could do that.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
You know, were you you did?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
You really just do it on the street with no
matt in the scene where they're you're all in the
very beginning.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
You just busted them.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Yeah, they're really easy.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
They're really not. I'm guessing no, they are.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
They are the group of girls that I coached. I
have twenty two of them. They can all do right, Aeriel,
every single one one, like on cue on time. It's
not it's not as hard of a trick as it looks.
It's scary because you're not you don't put your hands down,
but it's not as hard.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Yeah, I hurt myself with you talking about it, so
I'm guessing it's probably hard.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know what, I haven't done one since I've I
have had my first baby, so I think I'm gonna
have to video it and see if I can still
do that.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Area you go a post baby aerial, let's give itba.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
I haven't done it at all, So I think it's time.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Maybe throw Matt down. I would think just to kind
of maybe just oh casey, it wouldn't be bad.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
So you guys go on tour. Is this right?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Miley Cyrus Cyrus's hand in Montana open for you guys.
The Jonas brothers were there, Vanessa Hudgens, I mean yeah,
but you were. You were the headliners, right, And you
know what's funny.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
I just watched them the Jonas Brothers documentary and they
talk about driving around in this twelve person white van.
That's what they drove behind our bus in. They were
still really new to the label, so they were, you know,
an opening.
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Act following the Cheetah Girls.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Or were so sweet. They were the best guys. They
were so awesome and really all throughout their career when
we would see them over and over again as they
got bigger and bigger, and they mean they were like
the Beatles at some point. Yeah, considered that like that
the most down to earth, so fun, so sweet, I mean,
just the best.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Well, as you know, we often do here, and by often,
I mean this is the second time you've done it,
because it's our second episode, but we're going.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
To keep doing it. Is we do real reviews.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
So we do a five star review that is a
real review from the internet machine, and then we also
do a one star review. I think last last week
you did the one star, so I'm going to take
the one star that time you take the five star.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Let's do the good review first. What do you got?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
All right? It says five out of five stars. Absolutely
the best movie of all time, no comparison. It's so
inspiring to me as a person and a man, as
I want to become a cheetah one day night.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's a great review. Five out of five stars.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yes, and I mean i'd like him to know he
is if you're a fan and you feel the essence
of Cheetah.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So I'm a Cheetah?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Oh Raoul Love?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Oh I rawl love.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Did I do that right? Here's a review that's not
as good. This is from Kaylin. It is one out
of five stars. And every time my voice gets highed,
it's because it's in caps. Okay, he says, I watched
the Cheetah Girls Marathon with my cousin and it was
the worst thing I've ever experienced, and it made my
head hurt so much.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Frownie face.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Maybe maybe split them up. Don't watch Jamal in a row.
I mean even the Star Wars movies in a row.
You start to get a headache halfway through Empire, so
I mean, come on, you break it up. The first
movie was great. I haven't seen the second one yet.
I'm not trying to to rain on anybody's parade. Maybe
the second one is not as good. I don't know,
but the first one is great.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, in my opinion, the second one's better.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
But really so yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
But there's also like if it's not your jam, Like
if you're like somebody who doesn't really like music or
you prefer a different genre of music, you're obviously like
you know what I mean, And it's like it's okay
to not like it, just you.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Know, in all fairness, I am not a musical guy.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Like I don't like when I'm watching a movie and
then everybody suddenly breaks into song like they've sat around
and rehearsed.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
But The Cheetah Girls is about a band, So every
time you break into song, you're supposed to break into song.
You're a band singing a song. It makes sense.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yet it's not like you're sitting at a bank and
all of a sudden, everybody in line knows the same
song and dance.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Oh it drives me crazy. But this is so great.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
That's what I'll say about this movie. There the performances
routines that are done with this one is definitely that way.
It's set up as a performance.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
Yeah, right, exactly when the.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Channel started moving along with their with their musicals. It
definitely went away with that. So that's what something I
noticed rewatching this that I never really thought about is
they must have seen ours and went, now, we don't
like it that way. We wanted to be more like
a musical where you do just break out into song.
Our second movie, i'd say, is like a combo of.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Oh, it's a hybrid. Oh okay, so sometimes their breakout okay, well, but.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
If you watch, you know, if you watch like high
School musical, I know you haven't seen that yet. I
haven't seen that one yet either, but it's gonna be.
It's definitely not a set group because they're you know,
they're all from different breaks.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Right, It's like Glee where they just break in the song.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Talking about the talent auditions, because that's we're talking about
just breaking into song.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
But you walk down as a band.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Now you're auditioning for the first time to Cheetah moms
sneak in to watch the audition. They sneak in under
the cover of scarves, which I always see the cheetash
scarves the interesting way to go. They are unobtrusive as
the only two people in the entire auditorium other than
drink a champagne.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
So, which isn't that so funny that that name it
drinks champagne on the channel?
Speaker 3 (32:31):
You know what it reminded me of.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
It reminded me of a James Bond girl like woman
likes James Bond. Women all have those terrible names and
uh yeah, Zenya on the top and I won't even
say some of them. But it did drink a champagne
sounded like an evil James Bond villain. But we're sitting
there and then we get to meet one of the
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creepiest producers who doesn't look like a producer at all.
He looks like a random drug kingpin, Jackal Johnson.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Was he is there outfit in the scene? I'm thinking
yes he was.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
I think he was in velor for most of the
film the whole time.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Yes, But you know what, I will say, many music
producers dressed like that. That was back in the day
with the like are they really well were the brands
like boo boo oh u p Did he had a
brand that what you know, those like bigger, baggier, matching, top, matching,
Sean John Jacket, Yes, Sewn John, Yes, Yes, there you go.
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I mean so a lot of producers actually did look
like that. I thought he did so well with the bar.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
He's great, Oh it was, He's great, you know instantly.
First of all, it's like, why would you trust this
guy off the bat, even though he went to the
school he knows Drinka just going from now on, even
know no one's behind me and no one knows about me,
but all the producers, everybody knows.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
I'm not great with scheduling. I'm still trying.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
So from now on, I just want to start going
schedule and just have somebody hand me now that Jack, that.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Guy, every line he has was like just made me
corrac I don't know why, if it was his delivery,
if it was what he was having to say, but
every time he just popped in, it was schedule.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Schedule.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
It's gonna start doing that and hope somebody hands me
a gigantic cell phone or BlackBerry that he has to
uh to check his actual schedule. Yes, now, did you
have a problem with how much of a Hater's not
the right word, but standing in the way of Bubbles's dreams?
(34:37):
Her mom was like, right away, you figure you want
to build into that a little bit like, hey, there's
an opportunity. But she came in off the bat, like,
you're not doing this under no circumstances? Am I going
to allow you your record contract?
Speaker 2 (34:51):
So there is a whole and I think it happens
in the books. There is a whole backstory of bubbles
and chew cheese mop Like, are they general Cheetah girls?
Speaker 1 (35:01):
They were the original Cheetah Girls, Like they were as
an actual band called the Cheetah Girls that the moms
were a part of.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
No, but they were. They are in the industry in
some form.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
Well, she says modeling. She says, my modeling career.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
That's where Galleria and Chanel get this.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, so she talks.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
She talks about the career, but doesn't talk about how
big it was. You can tell something happened with her
career that made she feels we're bad decisions right, like right,
detrimental to the rest of her other decisions. So you
see a little bit. But yeah, it's like, whoa, we
can't have a conversation.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Like right yo.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
Then her dad with the most cartoony Italian voice ever.
Some of the voices again, the woman who does the
hair too, who just has the thick Russian accent out
of nowhere. Yeah, some of the accents are pretty funny. Yes,
he comes in with the please don't allow you.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Know what did you say? He sees Mario.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Kind of sounds a little like super Mario.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
But first of all, I'm pitching right now, and I'm
taking credit for the pitch, and I'm sure it's one
of the books, but I'm pitching the prequel where it's
the mom's doing the Cheetah girls.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Okay, so I'm.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Pitching because it would take place in the eighties. It
would be or the seventies of the eighties. It would
be a period piece. Think about the cheetah, then the cheetah,
then the music. Then that would be like eighty like
seventies or eighties kind of power.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Forget it.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
I'm pitching that right now, trademark. But you've got the
people coming in, You've got the mom who's kind of
wanting to stop her from doing. But then there's a
line that he comes in with that I wrote down
that is so great, where she says I don't want
her making the same mistakes I did, and he says
she's not gonna She's gonna make all new mistakes that
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are her own and that's gonna make her her And I.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Was like, that's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
The Disney magic right, the right. That's the moment where
it's like it's true, like you can't protect your kids
things that there's lessons they need to learn on their own,
you know, and it's better for them to learn it
on their own rather than you to tell them there's
gonna happen, you know. And again it's like, can we,
(37:15):
you know, Dorothea, can we just have a conversation, can
we just we can't do it because it's terrible, we won't,
but let's just have a conversation with this jackal guy.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
I love the moms. I love the relationships.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
I love the fact that Chucci's mom leaves her the
best named credit card in the history of the world.
She leaves her her gold platinum card. Yes, I love
that it's the gold platinum card. They're either gold or platinum,
not this one. It's the gold platinum card.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
I found that crazy. I when it was I was
in high school. There was no chance that any of
my friend's moms, we're going to give us a credit card. Oh,
go get something for yourself. My mom did that once
my freshman year. She gave me money when we were
going back to school once and said, here's the money.
Let my friend and I go to South Coast Plazas
(38:07):
where all the great stores at.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Was my wife's favorite mall in the world because she's
from Warren County, YEP.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
And get my back to school clothes. Homie got one
outfit with them. My mom. I was like, okay, that
was a mistake, but one outfit. So the fact that
she gave her a credit card like pretty much an
endless amount of money.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
Gold platinum card, a.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Gold and platinum card.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Crazy.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
All right, let's go to what do you think is
the movie's best quote? There's three options here, and I'm
not sure that it's on here, but we've got it.
Was drama and Kaflama, which is pretty great. You better
stash the sauce next time you see Jackal.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Which is pretty great.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
And the Cheetah girls do not run with wolves or
hang with hyenas, which is pretty great. But this movie,
and I say this because my brother's and I speak
in movie quotes, this.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
Movie is crazy quotable.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, so I still love I said
it in my opening I still love how oh Man
Bubbles goes to Doe and she hands her the outfits
that she needs to go by and she says, I
don't want you looking janky and Tora up oh so harsh.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I do love these ones again, there's so many. My
favorite if he doesn't love my art, he can't have
my heart. I love that one because then she actually
does go ooh lyric moment.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
I love that. I love it. I also loved you
all saying he wants to be your boom.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
I know those two because we did them obviously, like
back to back. Those two cafeteria scenes were so fun.
They were so fun, like we had the blast doing those.
Speaker 1 (39:52):
Can we talk a little bit about the smartest dumb
dog in the history of films? Because the dog can up,
goes right to bed when asked, gets up and dances
to all the music, but then jumps in a hole
and then can't get out.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
I don't it threw me a little bit. I'm gonna
be honest with you.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
The the and then for some reason I get why
they're doing it, but the firefighter who's in the hole
can't seem to reach the dog unless the dog dances.
And yet in front of him has a giant bottle
of baby oil.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
Did you notice this baby So he's obviously covering that.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
He can reach the dog to cover it with baby oil,
but he can't get the dog until the dog dances
to him.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
This is where the movie fell apart a little bit
for me, a little bit.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
It's like, you get why it had to be set
up that way, But it was really just, I mean,
the urgency in the from the first time she tells
the first cop. I was like, I don't think I've
ever seen a cop move so so quickly, especially for
a dog.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
I'm calling it back up. And then the nation was riveted.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
Everybody's watching as the new comes down, the school empties out.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
It was that was the most the scene in the
part of the storyline.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
That was just kind of like, what are you doing here?
We are in a fairydale land.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Yes, you'd have to be. You have to suspend a little.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
Bit, pulls you back to going we're watching a Disney
g General movie. This is how we're gonna pull everyone
out and get back together. I mean and all and
all dressed the same.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
You're all dressed in your cheetahuse.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
I will say, that's probably the iconic costume of the
show more than the Cinderella one.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
With the headband.
Speaker 2 (41:38):
With all of us wearing those just mass I mean
they were massive that you know why we had to
wear them. We were, you know, laying that we were
in the fall, like the beginning of school right in
Toronto in the like wintertime, like November. Like we were
there filming that scene in November. It was freezing like
(42:00):
when they did cut, like there were people on set
that would just wrap us with jackets and they had
hot pockets in the barget It was so cold and raining.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I will say that, I uh, that scene took me
out of it a little bit. It then, of course
becomes an entire musical number with no actual microphones, but
everyone can still hear what's going on. And I still
do not understand why a dog falls in a hole
and they scent an ambulance. Yes, yeah, who who's the
ambulance for? I'm just curious, is it for the dog?
(42:31):
Because no people were.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
Involved, firefighter that's in there. It doesn't seem that smarty either.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
You sent an ambulance?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Oh my okay, so yeah, well we're I'd like to
jump right ahead if we can. Yes, let's do our
three and a half facts, because there are some great
yes Cheetah Girl facts here.
Speaker 3 (42:47):
Why don't you tell us what that is? Yeah, yes,
it's where.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
We find three facts and one we found on the
internet that cannot be confirmed. Right, So these are good
because they would be awesome if but we don't know
if they're true.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Or we don't know. We think they might be.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Everyone talks about it like they are, but we're not
quite sure.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Right, we can't put our stamp on the fact that
it's real. Right, give us the first one.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
The Cheetah Girls merchandise while touring was so popular that
at the time they became or we became the highest
selling act at their merchandise company, even beating the Rolling Stone.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
And that's not the fake fact, that's real.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
That's real.
Speaker 3 (43:32):
What's the next one?
Speaker 2 (43:34):
All right? So this half for that we got for you,
the half fact, the half fact. The Cheetah Girls is
Obama's daughter's favorite movie. It's a half fact. We'll say
that they were at our concert really when we were
on tour, and them like Faith Hill and Tim mcgross
(43:56):
kids were there. But you know, to beat the rush
home and all of that our meet and greets for
the first and second tour were at the end of
the show, and so they wouldn't stay all the way,
so they'd leave, So we didn't get to do that.
And we can actually ask my girl Keeley about that
because she was so upset. It was. We were so stoked.
(44:19):
I mean, think about it. You're on stage performing for
the president.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Yeah, I mean that's so was the President there or
just the kids? The kid?
Speaker 2 (44:26):
No? So that that's the thing too, is it would
be booked under the you know person that you would
be recognized, but we didn't always mean that that person
was there, of course, but there was a possibility, so
we would be like lighting that stage up on fire
just in the case the President was there watching.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
Other confirmed fans are the Kardashian kids who dressed in
treated Girl sweatshirts as past Halloween, Quenta Bronson, who just
sang a Cheatah Girl song on the Golden Glors Red Carpets,
and Cartie b who professor Cheatah Love on IG Live.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
I mean this is huge, yes, yes, I mean it
just like to know that those kinds of celebrities know
the work that you've done. It's just is like wow.
I mean it's it's so cool. I mean the Kardashian
Halloween out that happened just this Halloween.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
Yeah, I mean, so it's saying it's the twentieth anniversary.
We should say that. So it's still not only alive
in kicking, but hugely popular.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
I can't wait to see and the new generation like
it just keeps gaining the next generation of young cheetahs.
It's awesome. It's awesome.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
The let's add Amori.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Uh, we don't really even have to do that, because
if I read something, that's very interesting. So in the
original books, there were twins that were then cut from
the books, and Tia and Tamara were actually considered to
play those parts and were considered at the time I
think too maybe too old or something. I can't remember
what it was, but they were not able to do
the project. But so we could have had a Mori
(46:06):
in there from the original original books.
Speaker 3 (46:09):
So there you go. That's how you do it.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
Yes, I off another option because the brother is he's younger.
It could have worked to make him like a little
brother of one of the girls.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
That would have worked too, that's great. Or your foster brothers.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Which the twin factor and it not be two girls,
and it'd be like Aqua's twin.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Great idea.
Speaker 2 (46:30):
There you go, you know what I mean, making it,
make it a little bit different, bringing a little bit
different vibe. I mean he could have been like our
main producer. There could have been.
Speaker 3 (46:38):
Like like something like that is awesome.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
Yes, I think I really like him because that's the first.
Speaker 3 (46:43):
Person you always go to how to put Taj in
the movie. You're a big TA.
Speaker 1 (46:47):
Fan, Sabrina sees what did I miss?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Okay, so first of all, you took quite a bit.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
Oh so I saw quite a bit this week. Saw
a lot.
Speaker 2 (47:02):
You saw a lot, which was awesome. The ones that
I really loved was there's like I'm going to go
through them really fast because they don't need a lot
of explanation. The giant home phones that bubbles and chootch
she had. I can't remember in the early two thousands
did we have that big of phones.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
I think so phones went through a big phase, then
they went through a really big phase.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
Okay, because her cell phone was also giant.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, but she had that great flip phone, which I
would still have right now if I could.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
Yes, doesn't close it. After the the conversation on the phone.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
She just puts it down. I know, yeah, she doesn't,
she does. That's interesting. I noticed that as well.
Speaker 2 (47:41):
Any Fuddy. My next one is we talked about how
all the music, all the music that we did was
like a music video style. I found that jarring. I
didn't really love that part. You loved it because I.
Speaker 3 (47:54):
Got how you want to watch it. I got it,
I got how they did it. I didn't love it,
but I got Okay.
Speaker 2 (47:58):
So Kyle Schmid's chacter Derek, Yeah, gallerya's love interest. Right, Yeah,
when he comes out with this, you know he's going
to do something. When he comes out with his performance,
did you expect a hit wrap routine.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
No, he's carrying a guitar half the movie. It's like
what and then he plays at the end. But it's
like I wasn't expressed.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
That felt like so what why why is he? What
is that song? He doesn't look at at all like
that would be his interest. So there's that.
Speaker 3 (48:33):
I thought he'd go out to Kyle though, I do.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
Love him so much. He's such a sweetheart. Derek was
dreamy though, Yes, and he's gone on to do a
lot of work, a.
Speaker 3 (48:42):
Ton of stuff. Yeah, and he's married to Katie Katie Loakes.
Speaker 1 (48:45):
Yes, but the slammed, like the tray goes all over him,
and even the girls are like even the embarrassing stuff
is cute.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
He has this like kind of like accent a little
bit as he was.
Speaker 3 (48:56):
Yeah, we don't know what exactly where he's from. Yeah,
it's it's very.
Speaker 2 (49:01):
Easy, but he was. He was awesome. I loved his
moments too, with him pulling the friendship back together. He
was really the one that pulled back together.
Speaker 1 (49:09):
And there was especially the piano scene, which I shout
out to Raven, but not not great fake piano playing
at all.
Speaker 2 (49:16):
Okay, I did want to put that in my Serena
season because I'll say it. I mean, but when she
was singing, I focused on her face because she.
Speaker 3 (49:24):
Wasn't any great. But they had nice chemistry.
Speaker 2 (49:27):
They did.
Speaker 3 (49:28):
They had very nice chemistry the two of them.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Great chemistry worked.
Speaker 3 (49:32):
And now we come to the biggest thing.
Speaker 1 (49:34):
We've got to rate the movie, and I think today's
one out of ten trapped p seanfre says, which as
as Raven says, that is not zal dressing.
Speaker 3 (49:43):
That gets confused. That's Madonna.
Speaker 2 (49:45):
That's such a funny line.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
So that's a great line. So one out of ten.
Do you want me to start? Do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (49:52):
You start, you start.
Speaker 1 (49:53):
I'll start, Okay. I really liked this movie. I thought
it is a great Disney Channel movie. You've got the music,
You've got its own little language, it's its own encapsulated world.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
It is a really good movie. You lost me with
the dog at the end.
Speaker 1 (50:11):
It's a weird kind of way to get the band
back together. And then a couple things here and there.
But I'm gonna give this a solid eight. Trapped Pean
for says, and I could go, I could go eight
point five and not look back. It would have been
(50:31):
a full on nine if the dog didn't get trapped
in a hole at the end. It really, you know,
which is for me, pretty close to perfection, because I
don't know I'll ever give a ten. But I was entertained.
You were all phenomenal. The music was catchy. Even the
cheesy parts are Disney cheesy, so they're the way they're
supposed to be. Yes, the acting's great, the singing's great.
(50:54):
So yeah, I'm gonna say I mean, I'm gonna up it.
I'm gonna say eight and a half and be happy
with eight and a half oiled up trapped peanfre says,
which which again will be put into an ambulance for
some reason after they are taken out of the ground.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
How about you.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
So I was nervous to go watch this again. Nervous.
I mean you're talking, I'm eighteen, you know. I was
so worried about what it was gonna look and feel like.
And you know, and I actually it just brought me
back to how much fun we had out on that
out in Toronto. The experience was just incredible the movie.
(51:35):
I also was worried about that cheese factor being way
more than what it was. And you know, again, watching
Raven and Adrian and Kihley, you know, with their dancing
and performance, I really loved it more than I thought
I was good. I was ready to give this like
a four and a half.
Speaker 4 (51:55):
Really knowing, well, you know, it's hard to watch yourself
any This is the kind of acting that you do
that is over the top.
Speaker 2 (52:05):
You know, there's times where I'm like, oh gosh, top down,
shrimpy and white like Norilla acts. But you know, again,
I think I'm gonna give it a seven, a seven Okay,
knowing where it's gonna go to.
Speaker 3 (52:21):
See, that's the thing that's hard.
Speaker 2 (52:22):
Part. You don't know.
Speaker 1 (52:24):
I don't know yet. I don't I haven't seen Empire
Strikes Back yet. I haven't seen the second part. I
don't know where we're going, right.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
I also you just mentioned something that I think I'd
like to add a new category to to and I'd
like to get a sponsor for it. Okay, whether it's
Sargento or it's Velveta. But we're gonna need a cheese factor.
You just said to cheese. We're gonna need a cheese
factor category. Okay, especially for Disney Channel because I thought
this was again I thought it was cheesy in all
(52:51):
the right places, which is it's they're Disney Channel movies.
They're all gonna be cheesy somewhere somehow, right.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
Yes, I mean that's what brings the demo back to
what we're where it's supposed to be, right, impactly, Adults,
it can't be too serious. There's some good serious moments
in there, like Chanelle and her Mom's dynamic.
Speaker 3 (53:13):
You and the Master Kid and all that kid.
Speaker 2 (53:16):
Yeah, there's that, but not too you know, there was
a lot more crying. I did not realize you did.
You kind of always just thought it was I guess
because I was on set for Chanelle's or for Adrian's
crime moment at that at the end of the movie.
But I forgot that Raven had a good one too.
Speaker 1 (53:34):
Yeah, Whitfield, so that we're also gonna have to add
than the Johnson and Johnson no more tears category. Okay,
I get that there was there was some crying, but again,
all earned. I thought it was all all your acting
was great. I wow, thoroughly enjoyed this. I can't wait
to see the second one. Thank you for sharing your
film with me, because it was really good. I watched
(53:56):
it the first time with my wife. We both liked it.
I watched the second time on myself.
Speaker 3 (53:59):
Uh, are you happy with what I saw.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
With the Cheetah I really love being able to kind
of crack up at myself of course, and us and
what we were doing and what we were wearing. But
we are going to absolutely get into that because we
are so thrilled to have a park Hopper episode for
you on the Magical rewind Feet with my Cheetah Girl
(54:21):
co star and bestie Keeley Williams. Yes, just search for
Magical Rewind anywhere you get podcasts, as this is a
special one that will not be on the pod meets
World Feet.
Speaker 1 (54:34):
Yes and our I'm so excited to say this. First
of all, again, thank you Cheetah girls. Great, go watch
it again. It is on Disney Plus right now. Check
it out. It is absolutely worth it. You're gonna love
every second of it, except maybe the dog falling in
the hole at the end. You'll probably also go, wait,
and why is he playing guitar when there's drums and
there's no drums there. It's got some issues, people, but
it's a Disney Channel movie and it was good. So
(54:56):
our next movie, we're just hitting on all cylinders because
our next movie also haven't seen. But I've heard so many,
so many people have told me this is one of
their favorite movies. We are watching nineteen ninety eight Break
with an exclamation point, of course, and it's viewable on
Disney Plus. So go get your rollerblades and your helmets ready.
(55:17):
I'm so excited for this one because this is so
in my wheelhouse of movies that I grew up watching.
So this was such a fun episode. Don't forget again.
As Sabrina said, go to the park Hopper episode where
we talked to Keeley Williams. I'm just gonna watch, sit
back and watch the two of you reminisce about a
pretty great film that started an absolutely amazing franchise, and
we will be watching the next ones further down the line.
(55:38):
But thank you so much for joining us, and remember
to subscribe to our feed and you can follow us
that magical rewind pod on Instagram. Growl Powell, Growl Powell.
I still can't get it right, will grawl Power.
Speaker 2 (55:51):
It is a spinoff of Girl Power. Growl Power, Growl Power.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
Yeah, I feel like an official Cheetah I really do.
Speaker 2 (55:58):
H is always room for more Cheetah boys always we
love it.
Speaker 1 (56:02):
I will take that all day. Thanks for joining us
for the Cheetah chatter. This episode's been cheat delicious.
Speaker 3 (56:09):
Join us next time
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