Air Bud (1997) Disney Dog Basketball with Michael Jeter & Kevin Zegers

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M hm, Hey boy, Josh fram thought his dog was
almost human.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Keep until he hit the chord, boy and became a
real animal. On August first, that dog is in the house,
the dog can't play.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Basketball, and someone cover that dog.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Exusney stare Buck does they travel? Nobody in my drool
A little bit starts Friday, August first.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
In a world where podcasts reigned Supreme Two Friends Dare
to Ask, Do You Even? Movie hosted by filmmaker Enrique
Kuto and movie officionado David Denyer. Spoiler alert, So what

(01:08):
did we see?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Dave?

Speaker 1 (01:10):
We went to see Weapons, the new Zach Kreeger movie
from the guy that did Barbarian a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
It was last year at this point, I can't remember.
It was a couple of years ago. I think, yeah,
I think so, yeah, that's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I enjoyed it. No, I had a great I had
a good time with it. I enjoyed Barbarian and also
grew up watching Zach on the Whitest Kid, you know,
so seeing him get into horror and have two banger
flicks has been pretty awesome so far.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I have to see Weapons.
A couple more times a little too slow for you. Uh, well, yeah,
it was pretty slow in the opening. Yeah, but I
Barbarian was really slow in the opening too.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, because you had that initial like twenty to thirty
minutes or so, I want to say, and then got
into Yeah, with weapons, it was like about forty five
minutes to an hour.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah. I think it could have lost twenty minutes and
it wouldn't have been too bad. Yeah, I mean it
crossed like the whole thing, not like in one specific part. No,
I gotcha.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, and then, like we said, off Mike the
non linear storytelling that he does both in Barbarian as
well as Weapons.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
But yeah, I mean, it definitely does make you wait
for the payoff. But there was definitely a payoff with weapons.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah, I would. I would definitely agree. Yeah. No, it
definitely doesn't make you wait for nothing. It's not an
Aria Astro movie, no, so that is definitely fair. I think.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
Honestly, my favorite part of it was you and me
both we were talking in the theater that I can't
think of her name, but let me find her name
real quick. But she plays Shanin in Uncle Buck, and
she turned out to be a character in this that
caught me off card because I'd seen pictures floating around.
Without going into spoilers too much, I'd seen pictures floating
around of the character she plays, had no idea that

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that was her.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Well, she's definitely a lot older. Yeah, who Amy madd again. Yeah. Yeah,
and she did a great job.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, she's fantastic because she popped up in something a while.
But I mean, she's the mom in Field of Dreams.
If you don't know that, she's also in the Streets of Fire. Oh,
she was an antler. She was Antlers. She was the
principal Antlers. Oh okay, that's why I was trying to
think it saw her recently. It recently isn't four years ago.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
But oh well yeah, but who's counting.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh and she's also the chicken the Hunt Convene store.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Oh yeah, yeah, she's actually been in a lot of
stuff for she has.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah, but I know weapons. I would highly recommend, definitely
worth the trip to the theater for it. Our showing
was a little low, it felt like or maybe maybe
the mixer.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I thought the movie was just quiet. That might be it,
because when it was loud, it was very loud. Yeah,
but the movie is I thought there were long stretches
of quiet.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, no, absolutely purposeful purpose So definitely. At one point
we didn't know if the ambience of the rain pummeling
down on our theater was actually part of the soundtrack
or actually raining outside, And it turned out we just
had a really big storm moved through.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Well, you know, in the in the movie, it's told
from I think five perspectives, Yeah, and each one of
them they're they're relatively the same span of time, and
each one of them it rained. So yeah, when when
I would hear like rain ambience, I was like, oh,
is this the part where it rains in this segment?

(04:29):
So I didn't know, really I didn't. I didn't really
know for sure until we walked out into the parking
lot and it was what out Yeah.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
But no weapons. I would highly recommend check it out
if you can. I think this is what it's first
full week, because I think it just came out last weekend.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
Yeah, it came out, yeah, prior weekend, so it's already
a hit. Yeah, so good on them, I mean, well earned.
I'm really curious to see what's next. Yeah, because you know,
there's always the possibility of a sophomore slump. Yeah, and
this one was pretty good. I mean, it's hard to
to top Barbarian.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Barbarian was such a was such a surprise to begin with.
The trailers gave you really nothing when that movie came out,
and then when even when I went, when you and
I went to see it, I thought for sure that
scars Guard was going to be some part of evil
but turned out not.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
I mean I think that's why they cast him. Yeah,
well absolutely, I mean that in the Eye and the
Weird Eye. They were just like, feel bad for him
to give them a little bit of money.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
But I mean, we're having a fucking banger of a
year for horror, I'm onney.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
So far, Yeah, it's been a pretty good year for it. Yeah,
I mean, well we started early. We started early.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Yeah, but I mean, like compare, everybody was curious if
we could match up to like Long Legs and everything
that happened last year, because last year was super strong too,
and so far, I think, honestly, this year might even
be topping last year in my opinion.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Well, and we haven't even gotten to Osgod Perkins mov.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
For the year as that Keeper Yep, yeah, Keeper, it
comes out in November, so he's got to this year.
He's got the Monkey and Keeper.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah. Wow. Remember at the end of Monkey they showed it, Yeah,
and it said coming this year.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
I still need to see even though it's not him,
but they showed the trailer. Will move in to see.
I still need to watch The Woman in the Yard.
It's on Peacock now, but I haven't a chance to
check it out yet.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I loved it. Nobody else seemed to care, but I
loved it.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
I saw a couple of people saying it was pretty decent.
Presence was one that I was still one that I
did not expect to be blown away by.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Was that this year? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Pretty sure it was cold, it could be let me
check not He wasn't sure it was.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Let's see. Presence was.

Speaker 1 (06:29):
Listed as twenty twenty four, but I think that's when
it was made. I think it was released this year though,
and it'll check. Yeah, released January twenty fourth of twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, okay, that makes sense. I mean that wasn't really
a horror movie. No, No, it was more but not thriller.
But it was like a mystery drama kind of thing. Yeah,
just but it did it did feature ghosts, yeah, psychological heavily. Yeah, yeah,
I mean I just did. There wasn't anything particularly horrific.
It was very very tense, yeah, and mysterious. So I

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really enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
And it's currently on Hulu in the States, So if
you have not seen Presence yet, make sure you check
out Presence on Hulu because that is definitely worth a watch.
Eighty four minute runtime too. I forgot about that.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
It is. Yeah, pretty much zoomed right by.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
So have you watch anything with your Joe Bob recently?

Speaker 2 (07:18):
And all?

Speaker 1 (07:19):
Uh, you talked about the one what was it that
had the criminals that were together? Oh? God, damn, what's
his face? Michael Peree, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh you're talking about World Gone wide? Well gone wild? Yeah,
Bruce Dern, Yeah, yeah, it was pretty pretty interesting, not
at all what I would expect. It was just kind
of a very very dark, humor like post apocalyptic sci
fi movie.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Curious you said, and you said, it's like nowhere right
except it on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (07:50):
There's a good transfer on YouTube which might be legitimate.
It's hard to tell, huh. And that's about it.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
That actually kind of leads us into Tonight's movie because
I found out it's legitimately on YouTube under Airbud's channel.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well that doesn't surprise me because it's a mainstream movie,
but it's older.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, but yeah, the entire movie. It just surprised me
because Disney. I mean, it's a Disney movie, and I
didn't think they normally gave stuff for free.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
I don't know. I mean they don't keep all of
their stuff only on their app. Yeah that's true. I
mean they have a decent amount of exclusives, but a
lot of their stuff is elsewhere. A lot of stuff's
on Netflix, and and all YouTube really is is the
largest video on demand platform in the world. Yeah, so
I mean, if you have the views, it'll make you

(08:36):
just as much money as to Be or Pluto or anybody. What.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
I just found out too that Airbud and its sequels
only hit Disney Plus like back in twenty twenty three,
according to Wikipedia at least.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, Disney Plus is still somewhat someone knewish, Yeah, didn't
didn't it launch right at covid.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Right around I think maybe was it before? I think
it was like maybe right before, but I could be wrong.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
November twelve, twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Twenty nineteen yeah, so right before Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
So, I mean in the grand scheme of things, it's
it's relatively young.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Yeah, but yeah, we are talking about nineteen ninety seven's Airbud.
Tonight's one hour and thirty eight minutes rated PG for
brief mild language, the only one of the series rated PG.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
By the way, they're all GG after that, all thirteen.
That sounds right, because like, yeah, PG, the PG Disney
era was I don't know, I feel like it was
much more during the theatrical era.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Yeah, I mean, because you had like the ones that
come to mine are like flubber Angels in the outfield.
I mean some of the most of the ones are
that I'm thinking of her nineties. But I mean there
was definitely someone there that were in the eighties of
REPG two, I think, I.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Mean, I don't know when G was introduced. That might
have been an original, but I'm not for sure, possibly yet,
But I mean there were just a lot of PG
kids movies. I mean Hook was PG, and Bushwhacked. Bushwhacked
was PG. I think Little Giants's PG two actually Home
Alone was PG.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
So I mean there was always the edge, but I
would say that without the extensive knowledge you have, Yeah,
of the Airbud cinematic universe, that they probably leaned into
the g after the first one because they were really
going for their for their target market, which was like
really young, Yeah, really young.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
We'll talk about it when we get the trivia, obviously,
but the first one was a big hit theatrically, so
the second one was theatrical. Airbud Golden Receiver was theatrical,
but it did so poorly that then from that point on,
the three Airbud sequels after that were all direct to video,
and then basically every single air Buddies, which I'll talk
about also was also straight to video.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
Some of them may even premiered on Disney Channel. I
can't remember, but yeah, I watched.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I watched.

Speaker 1 (10:49):
According to my letterbox, I watched twenty hours of Airbud
movies in the last two and a half weeks.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Oh did you did you keep track by just writing
with feces on the wall or I had to break
them up?

Speaker 1 (11:03):
I mean I did towards the end because I just
wanted to get them done. About the last three four
days ago. I did mainline about five within a day,
and that was that was.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
A lot sounds like a lot.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
The IVTB synopsis of Airbud says, an unexpected player joins
the basketball team a circus dog who escaped from a
cruel master. What an unexpected player joins the basketball team
a circus dog who escaped from a cruel master.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
As a weirdly arranged sentence.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
Considering not really a circus dog, more so just a
performer dog for the clown.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
But I mean, I mean, you can be a circus performer. Yeah,
if you perform something traditionally from the circus. That makes sense.
So I mean in clowns are traditionally from the circus.
Also true.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
So my synopsis says, when Josh and his family moved
to a new town, Josh discovers a stray Golden retriever
who can play basketball.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I mean, that's pretty pretty pretty straight.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
We have two tag lines this week, one of which
he sits, he stays, he shoots, he scores.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
It's pretty solid that the very nineties, solidly nineties.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
And the other one is the dog is in the house.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Okay, fair enough.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Airbud currently on Disney Plus, also on Fowsome, rentable on
Private Fandango, and as I mentioned, there is an exclusive
YouTube link for the entire movie up as well, so
you can find it in multiple places. Our director of
the film is Charles Martin Smith, who gets his start
in nineteen eighty six directing Trick or Treat.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
That one Sammy Kerr. That was the first movie I
was the director of. Airbud. Yes was Trick or Treat.
I'm glad to see he moved up because.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
Then he goes on to do Boris Natasha in ninety one.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
I always liked that movie he did.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Yeah, he's a think well, I came up recently, I think,
and then fifty to fifty and ninety two. He does
Space Above and Beyond in ninety six, an episode of
Buffy the Vampire Slayer in nineteen eighty seven, also the
same year he directs Airbud. Then he goes and does
Roughing It in two thousand and two, The snow Walk
in two thousand and three, which is also the writer
on Da Vinci's Inquest in two thousand and four, Icon

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in two thousand and five, The Vincy City Hall in
two thousand and six, Intelligence in two thousand and six,
Stone of Desty in eight which he is the writer
on Dolphin Tail in twenty eleven, Dolphin Tail two and
twenty fourteen, which he's the writer on. Then you got
Motive A Dog's Way Home in twenty nineteen, a Christmas
gift from Bob in twenty twenty are his last on
his resume.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Wow, so he was still going with the kids movies.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
Yeah, still going for him writer on the film. We
have three this week. First one is Paul Tamsey. He
gets his start as a writer on Kindred the Embrace
nineteen ninety six, the TV show, The Vampire TV show.
I don't remember that that was a I believe it's
like maybe thirteen episodes or so.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
What's his face?

Speaker 1 (13:43):
Brian Thompson plays a vampire on it. From Kids in
the Hall, No, Brian Thompson the big Face guy in Cobra,
the slasher guy. I can't think it was as killer's
name in that movie. Then there was air Bud in
ninety seven, which is the writer on Airbud Golden Receiver
in ninety eight. He also writes Walking Across Egypt in
ninety nine. Airbud World Puppy gets character credit on Airbud

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seventh Inning fetched into two thousand and two, it gets
character credit airbud Spikes Back gets character credit Air Buddies
in two thousand and six. Gi, it's character credit.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
I have a feeling he's gonna get character credit in
all of.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
The Snow Buddies, Santa Buddies, the Search for Santa Pause.
Then he also writes The Fighter with Christian Bale and
Mark Wahlberg in twenty ten, basa on Mickey what's his
name Mickey Collins? I think is his name?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Boxing? Boxing? Yeah? Boxing.

Speaker 1 (14:30):
Then he goes and does a character credit for Spooky Buddies,
Treasure Buddies, Santa Pause to the Santa Pups Super Buddies
in twenty thirteen. He gets character credit on He writes
The Finest Hours in twenty sixteen, follows that up the
same year with Patriots.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
Day in twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
Oh yeah, then goes to write The Outpost in twenty nineteen,
and Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare in twenty twenty four, and
most recently wrote and directed Depravity in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Mm. That sounds familiar, it does, Yeah, I did.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
I looked it up, and I don't know if we
maybe saw a tree Tyler Ford or whatnot, but I
haven't seen it, But it looks is that.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Other one, that the gentlemanly yamba thing that was in
the theater for like a second.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
I think it's a guy Ritchie if I'm not mistaken,
I think he directed that.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
It sounds like his kind of exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Other writer on the film is Aaron Mendelssohn. He gets
his start in nineteen ninety six with Kindred the Embraced
as well, goes on to write Airbud in ninety seven,
A Change of Heart in ninety eight, Airbud Golden Receiver,
Chapter zero, Airbud World Puppet, gets character credit on Seventh Inning. Fetch,
gets character credit on Buddies, Snow Buddies, Space Buddies. Then
he does The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror

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Castle in two thousand and nine. He writes and gets
character credit on Santa Buddies and Spooky Buddies, then does
Twelve Dates of Christmas in twenty eleven, Treasure Buddy character
credit in twenty eleven, as well Secret Diary of an
American Cheerleader in twenty twelve, Like Cats and Dogs in
twenty seventeen. He also is a writer on Monkey King
reloaded in twenty seventeen. And Esme and Roy and then

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our final writer is Kevin Dakko. He gets his start
in ninety seven as creating air Bud the character. So
he aided the dog playing basketball.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
It wasn't a part of anything before. I guess he
just came up with the concept. Yeah, sure, he gets
the trainer. I don't know he gets carried.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
He gets character credit for Airbud on every single incarnation
basically incarnation cardation, thank you? What was an incantation? But
I knew that wasn't right.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
That doesn't sound right. What was his name?

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Kevin Dickkko d I C I C c O.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Says he's an actor. Yeah, he did have like a
pretty heavy acting resume. I once said, yeah, I don't know. Uh. Uh.
Buddy was found by Yeah it was his owner, okay.
Uh And he was found as a stray dog in
Sierra Nevada. Did you did you find any of that
in trivia?

Speaker 1 (16:43):
I didn't not that one. Yeah, that one wasn't mentioned.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh yeah, that's the story of Buddy the dog. He
was founded in Yeah, and uh Sierra in the Sierra Nevada.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Yeah, because I've got he's in Airbud Fluke and he
was also comment on Full House temporarily because he unfortunate
I'll talk about at the end of the show as well,
but he unfortunately passed after Airbud. Cinematographer on the movie
is Mike Southton. He gets his start in nineteen eighty
with a change of sex. He also does the DP
as Mattahari in eighty two, So the Cannon film with

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what's her name? Oh man, what is her name?

Speaker 2 (17:18):
It's gonna bug me. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (17:21):
She's the one that got addicted to coke. They talk
about on the Documentary's Sylvia Crystal Sheez.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
So.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
He shoots Mattahari in eighty two. All the World's a
Stage in eighty four, Give Us a Break in eighty four,
He shoots the Frankie Goes to Hollywood video for Welcome
to the Pleasure Dome Arena in eighty five, Gothic in
eighty six, Ken Russell's Gothic It's pretty solid, flick captive
in eighty six. He shoots the video for George Michael's
I Want Your Sex in eighty seven, are Ya in
eighty seven, Banana ram I heard a rumor video In

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eighty seven George Michael's Faith video in eighty seven, paper
House in eighty eight, Queen of Hearts in eighty nine.
He shoots Spymaker, The Secret Life of Ian Fleming in
nineteen ninety, Chicago, Joe and the Showgirl in nineteen ninety
Heart All I Want to Do Is Make Up to
You music video in nineteen ninety. Then he also in
nineteen ninety one shoots a Kiss Before Dying, the one
you watched recently?

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh yeah, Yes, it's a really good one.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Solid Nea Noir if you have not seen it, Matt
Dillon and Sean Young, really really good remake of a
noir from the fifties.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
Then he does.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Little Man Tate in nineteen ninety one, Prisoner of Hope
in ninety one, Prince Diamond and Pearls video in ninety one,
Prince Cream in ninety one, Weathering Heights in ninety two.
He shoots the November Rain video for Guns and Roses
in ninety two, Seal Prayer for the Dying in ninety four,
Tori Amos, Pretty Good Year in ninety four, Roommates in
ninety six, The Run of the Country in ninety five,
The Final Cut in ninety five, Little Red Riding Hood

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in ninety five, Snow White, Tale of Terror in ninety seven,
Airbud in ninety seven, Then he shoots Golden Retriever Our
Golden Receiver in ninety eight, as well The Duke in
ninety nine, r KO two eight one and ninety nine,
John Claudevan Dam's Replicant in two thousand and one, He
shoots Airbud, Spikes Back in two thousand and three, MXP
Most Extreme Primate in two thousand and three, he shoots
Pursued Bandido, Spymate, the Mermaid Chair neath Air Buddies in

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two thousand and six, Lifeline in two thousand and seven,
You Be Dead in two thousand and nine, The Nutcracker,
Unted Story in twenty ten, Little House in twenty ten,
Spooky Buddies in twenty eleven, and Doctor Who episodes in
twenty thirteen.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
Quite a career, yeah, he does.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Moving down to our cast, we have Michael Jeter, who
plays Norm Shivley in the film. He gets a start
in nineteen seventy nine starring in Hair, goes on to
be in lou Grant in nineteen eighty, From Here to Eternity,
The Mating Season, Ragtime in eighty one, Soup for One,
Search for Tomorrow, Zellig Sentimental Journey, episodes of Night Court
in eighty four, The Money Pit in eighty six, Designing Women,

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Crime Story, Another World, Dead Bang in eighty nine, Tango
and Cash in eighty nine, Miller's Crossing in nineteen ninety,
Fisher King in ninety one, which he is fantastic in.
If you have not seen The Fisher King, Robin Williams
and Jeff Bridges along with Jeter and I believe a
Manda Plumber Isn't it as well? Fantastic movie? I cannot
recommend the Enough one. He also does When Love Kills

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the Selection of John Hearns in ninety three, Tales of
the City in ninety three, Bank Rob in ninety three,
Sister Act two, Back in the Habit, Gypsy Evening Shade
a Latin series, Drop Zone, Picket Fences, Water World, Chicago, Hope,
Sesame Street, Can't Hurry Love, The Boys next Door, dream
On in ninety six, Missus Santa Claus in ninety six,

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Murphy Brown in ninety seven, Duckman that he does airbut
in ninety seven, same year he also is on Johnny Bravo,
Mouse Hunt, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Ransom
of the Red Chief in ninety eight, Thursday in ninety eight,
underrated movie You cannot recommend enough, Zach and Reeba in
ninety eight, Patch Adam Is in ninety eight, Touched by
an Angel in ninety nine, True Crime, The Naked Man,
The Wild, Thornberry's Jacob the Liar, Green Mile in ninety

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nine because he's the owner of Mister Jangles. Oh yeah, yeah,
he's fantastic, and Green Mile, South of Heaven, West of
Hell in two thousand, The Gift, Jurassic Park three, Hey Arnold,
Welcome to Colin Wood, taken in two thousand and two,
Open Range in two thousand and three, Polar Express, and four. Unfortunately,
we did lose him back in two thousand and three
March thirtieth, he passed at age fifty from an epileptic

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seizar in X Fifiationeez. Yeah, he was taken out very young,
and it's very sack as he had a held a
resume and was on his way up big time.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
We also have Kevin Zeckers in the cast, who plays
Josh Fram. He gets to start in nineteen ninety two
with Street Legal, goes on to be with Life with
Mikey in ninety three, Thicker than Blood in ninety four,
in the Mouth of Madness in ninety four, Oh credit, kid,
I mean that checks out. There's a lot of kids
in that movie. Free Willy in ninety four, Tales of
the Crypkeeper in ninety four, Avelina in ninety five, The

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X Files, Cold Heart of a Killer Specimen, Little Bear,
Goosebumps TV series in ninety five.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
He's in the episode Let's Get Invisible. Okay, I remember
that one.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
That one, Yeah, that's when I I think that is
one of the ones that traumatized me and I was
a kid. It's either that one or it's the Headless Ghost,
because I think both of them had a mansion scenes
that were pretty chilling in that movie. In that show
Rose Hill in ninety seven. Does Airbudd in ninety seven,
Magic School Bus Traders, shadow Builder returns for Airbud, Golden
Retriever in ninety eight, Nico the Unicorn and Treasure Island

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It Came from the Sky. Does Comodo in ninety nine,
Twice in a Lifetime ninety nine, So Weird, the Acting
Class MVP Most Vertical Primate in two thousand. Airbud World
Pop in two thousand, Sex Lies and Obsession, Airbud, Seventh Inning,
Fetch Virginia's Run, Wrong Turn in two thousand and three.
He is the one I believe that gets the really
brutal kill with the barbed wire, or at least one

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of them, because I remember like his ear is a
one that they find on the ground because it has
the piercings, because he's the kid with the piercings in
that movie, The Incredible Missus Ritchie in two thousand and three,
If You're the Dark, Smallville, Dawn of the Dead remake,
The Hollow in two thousand and four, Runaway Home House,
trans America, Felicity, and American Girl Adventure Zoom, It's a
Boy Girl Thing, The Jane Austen Book Club, Normal, The Narrows,

(22:45):
Fifty Dead Men, Walking Gossip Girl, Frozen with Adam Green
in twenty ten, Oh Really. Then he does Vampire in
twenty eleven, The Entitled in twenty eleven, Titanic, Blood and Steel,
The Colony, Mortal Instrument, City of Bones, Grace Point, Curse
of downers Grove, Into twenty fifteen, Sleepwalker, Aftermath, Fear, The
Walking Dead, Dirty John in twenty nineteen, Power Rebel the

(23:06):
Rookie in twenty twenty two, and most recently Doctor Odyssey in.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Twenty twenty four, still working. Yeah, he is.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
I remember he when he showed up. I think it's
is at One Tree Hill that he pops up in
because my sister was watching that. He's also on Gossip Girl,
I believe too. Yeah, and that was where I remember
seeing him. But there's a movie, the one I sat
on there, the entitled which is him, Rayleiota and a
couple other people. That was like one of those Anchor
Bay titles they put out really really good about these
rich kids end up getting kidnapped, and it turns out

(23:34):
there's this scheme going on that's bigger than what they
put out to be originally.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
So they're in over their heads. They're in over their heads.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Indeed, we also have Bill Cobbs in the cast, who
plays Arthur Channey in the film. He gets a start
in nineteen seventy four It's the Taking of Pelm one
two three, goes on to be in Good Times in
seventy six, Grease, Lightning, Baby, I'm Back, The Hitter, Rage
of Angels Trading places Silkwood Brother from Another Planet. The
Cotton Club, Compromising Positions, The Equal One, Life to Live,

(24:01):
Color of Money, Streets of Gold, Sesame Street, Kate and Alley,
Spencer for Hire, Five Corners, Suspect in eighty seven, Dominic
in Eugene, La Law, The Slap Maxwell Story in eighty eight,
Bird January Man Home Room, Designing Women, Let's See Married People,
Gabriel's Fire Decoration Day. He's also in New Jack City
in ninety one, The Hard Way in ninety one, True Colors,

(24:23):
The People Under the Stairs in ninety one. He's also
in Roadside Profits, Exiled in America, The Bodyguard, All Flyaway Coach,
Demolition Man, Fatal Instinct, Hudsucker, Proxy, Empty Nest, Northern Exposure,
Things to Do in Denver when You're Dead, Fluke, Diva's
ed Er, That thing you do first Kid, Mohave Moon
goes to Mississippi, Walker, Texas Rangers, Soulmates, Wayne's Brothers, that

(24:46):
he does, Airbud in ninety seven, follows it up with
Polly Hope Floats in ninety eight, which I just found
out recently.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Do you know who directed Hope Floats? By the way,
I do not force Whitaker? Really? Yeah? Oh okay, no,
he directed He directed a couple of others. Maybe you
directed some TV I remember.

Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, he directed Hope Floats and a couple others because
I found out recently listening to a podcast. Then he's
in the wild Thornberrys. I still know what you did
last summer returning to the show. Yes, then you got
four Year Love, Gregory Hines Show, The Outer Limits, Random Hearts, Sopranos,
The Practice, Touched by An Angel, Rugrats, West Wing, Enough,
My Wife and Kids, A Mighty Wind, NYPD, Blue Jag,
Drew Carey Show, The Ultimate Gift, Hard Luck Now at

(25:23):
the Museum, October Road, Army Wives, CSI, Get Low, The Glades,
The Muppets, Oz the Great and Powerful, The Bay Rake,
Hand of God, Dino Dana, Agents of Shield in twenty
twenty and Broken Church in twenty twenty five. He did
unfortunately pass last year June twenty fifth and twenty twenty four,
age ninety.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
From natural causes. Wow. Yeah, but I mean hell of
a resume, I would I would agree.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
So what was your first time watching air Bud?

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Apparently I had never seen it all the way through, okay,
because I did not remember a massive portion of the film. Yeah,
so I must have seen it on television and thought
that I'd seen all of it because it would have
been when I was like eleven years old. Yeah, yeah,
somewhere in that neighborhood. So yeah, I don't remember watching

(26:10):
it per se. No, that's fair. I was surprised. I
really only remembered playing basketball. Well. I remembered like the
kid moving, yeah, and stuff like that. I remember some
of the sentimental stuff. I didn't remember the court scene
at all. Yeah, like not, did not recall that at all.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
The one thing that I've always distinctly remembered because of
just how haunting it was to me is the coach
throwing the balls at the kid.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Yeah that was pretty brutal.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, but uh, my first time watching it, I'm not
a one hundred percent sure. I remember they showed it
to us in school. I know we rented it from
the library, showed it to you in school, and like
monthly Movie.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
You guys watched a movie every month.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
Monthly movie that was basically our reward at the end
of the month for having good attendance, good assignments, not
being a piece of shit, that.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Sort of thing. But oh wow, okay, oh dude.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Like monthly Movie, that's how I saw all hook Gunther
in the Paper, Brigade, Angels in the Outfield. I mean
I already seen some of these, but yeah, there was
a large portion. We also premiered was it Elf? Which
I think Elf was in sixth grade of I'm honestly.

Speaker 2 (27:13):
And they made us anything we watched had to have
educational value. Shit.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
At my school, we got to watch like Princess Bride.
I mean this was like later in the years, but yeah,
I mean we had monthly movie I think like from
third grade on.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
I would say, Man, we didn't even have any movies
till middle school, and then they had to be related
to what we were learning. Yeah, yeah, because that's how
I saw. I mean I saw some interesting stuff, it's all.
I saw Mister Holland's Opus and some movies that were
about like the French and Indian War and stuff. Yeah.
But yeah, they like even like a Christmas Story was

(27:49):
only shown because it was the social studies gotcha, because
it was about the past. Yeah. So we'd watch like
movie movie adaptations of books we read in in and
you know, English class and stuff. But yeah, we didn't
just watch movies for fun.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Yeah, Latin three, I had to get a permission slip
sign so we could watch Gladiator.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
We watched Gladiator in Latin. Three Did they speak Latin
and Gladiator.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
At some point? At some points they do. I think
it's more so just the timing and place. Okay, we
also watched when I was in junior high. We had
it was like towards the end of the year. They
it was like the last week of school, I want
to say, so we all got to like there was
different movies being shown in a different classrooms. So like
one classroom was showing Napoleon Dynamite, one classroom was showing

(28:38):
was the other one it was.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Heavy Weights or something like that.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
But one of our teachers picked Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure,
and two teachers took their classes outside because that movie
was too adult.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I mean, it had some historical relevance, but that was
kind of the joke. Yeah, it was that they were,
you know, kidnapping historical figures in order to write their
school assignment.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
From what I understand, the straw that broke the camel's
back was Napoleon slamming on the bowling ball court, going
ship ship ship ship.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Shit. Well you're saying, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
There's that and then I think there was the sixty
nine joke also did not set well the teachers apparently.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Hah, funny internet number.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
But yeah, No, Airbud was a movie that I we
had rented it. I'd seen it before. It's not one
I go back to often. I probably hadn't seen it
probably fifteen years until this episode.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Well, I would assume it's the kind of movie that
if it hits you in that sweet spot, then you'll
watch it again and again. Yeah, kind of like I
mean for me, I had like Indian in the Cupboard and.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Beethoven, yeah, which I just watched Beethoven for the first
time this year.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
That's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
It is kind of crazy, honestly because I saw trailers
for it a lot growing up and also knew that
they existed.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Plus there's like, I think eight of.

Speaker 1 (29:52):
Them now if I'm not mistaken, it's gotta be plenty, yeah,
because I know there's at least seven, because I have
at least seven or eight my voodoo.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Ye. But I think, yeah, I think that if like,
if it had hit me at the timing of like
a like Beethoven or Little Giants or something, yeah, it
probably would have been in the rotation a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
I feel like there's more of a of a recollection
that there's more animals playing sports movies than there actually are,
because like, trying to get my recommendations for this episode
was a little like I was trying to like see
if I could find something like that, because for some
reason in my mind, I thought that there were multiple
movies of animals playing sports, but I really couldn't find any.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I thought there were like monkeys, Ed, That's about it.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Like, Ed's the one that I think of, which I
think is a monkey playing baseball?

Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, right, but yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Mean, other than that, it's mostly the Earbud movies. And
then like most vertical primate was a skateboarding monkey.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
I remember that.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
I think a lot of more monkeys.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Now, Yeah. Yeah, Ed chimpanzee named Ed Sullivan joins a
minor league baseball team with Matt LeBlanc of Friends as
his teammate. Holy shit, he's initially a mascot but proves
his talent on the field yield. God.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, I was hoping to find more than what I remembered,
but yeah, I couldn't really locate too many that I
could recall.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
I mean, unfortunately, most of them are just gonna be
airbudsque probably yeah, oh yeah, yeah, MVP Most Valuable Primate,
tons of air bud movies. Oh, Gus, Gus struggling California
Adams seek the help of a ball kicking mule from Yugoslavia. Yes,
for nineteen seventy eight. Yeah, remember now, I do remember, Gus.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
I just didn't.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
It was that old MXP Most Extreme Prime.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
That's the skateboarding one.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Yeah, snowboarding. I mean, is it snowboarding? Yeah, that's okay, stood, well,
you might skateboard as well.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
As I said, I remember, there's one that there was
one MVP MXP one of those that there was a
skateboarding monkey or rollerblading monkey, even because I think it
was around that time.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Then there was Soccer Dog, the movie, Oh yeah, Soccer Dog.
And then another MVP movie, The Karate Dog. If you
count karate, I do, talking karate chopping dog teams of
the police detective to solve the murder of his owner.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
That sounds intense.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
I think it's like really goofy uh oh yeah, Matilda
the boxing Kangaroo. Holy shit, there are more than I realized. Yeah,
I just I just searched animal movies where animals play baseball,
and that was one of the first lists that came up. Yeah,
Game Spot has one too, But most of these are
air bud movies.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Because Dunstan throws a frisbee. But I don't think Dunstan
really plays sport. Well, actually, there may be a scene
where they're playing baseball the hotel room now to think
about it.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Oh, the original Bonzo Goes to College from nineteen fifty two.
There We Go was Ronnie Reagan in middle. Yes, he
was about an ape and a college professor and an
experiment about genetic theory. Yeah, there's quite a few animal Yeah,
the Soccer Dog the movie. I don't think I'm gonna
find any that I haven't.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
Are there any that come to mind?

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Oh, there's a second soccer dog movie called Soccer Dog
European Cup Go from twenty thirteen, a film about the
very first gorilla playing in the Korean Baseball League.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Some of these sound awesome. I that checks on his out.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yep, your your brain is mush from all of the
air buddies.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Oh, don't worry, I got plenty of details on those.
So we start in regards to air Bud we meet
Norman Shivley, who is getting ready to go to a
birthday gig as a clown, and he has Buddy with them.
And what is Buddy's name in the beginning?

Speaker 2 (33:27):
Is it? He didn't have a name. He didn't have it,
that's why he had to make it on the dogcats right, No, well, yeah,
because he he names him old Blue when he sees
blue paints. Yeah, but yeah, he had no name. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
So he is getting the dog ready for a show.
They pull into the driveway and he basically threatens the
dog with a newspaper, telling him that he's got to
behave or else. He knows what's gonna happen this time.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Yep, he's gonna whoop him.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
So they go into the party and everything's going fine
so far.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
There.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
It's a children's party, a small gathering for the most
part of kids, and they seem to be entertained with
the dog, and then something goes wrong something Yeah, and
the dog basically starts making a mess of the house
and pissing off the mother and Norm and the dog
get thrown out and he basically tells the dog that
this was its last chance, puts it in a crate,

(34:12):
puts it in the back of the truck and goes
driving off down the road unaware that he forgot to
shut Did he forget to shut the back of it
or he just didn't tie it down basically.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, it just fell out, Yeah, the truck.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
So he's driving on the rim on the road and
the dog's crate literally falls out, almost gets hit by
a van and truck semi truck.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
And then that is when we also meet Josh, his mom, Jackie,
and her daughter as they are driving into Fernfield moving
into a new place. They're relocating to Fernfield, Washington.

Speaker 3 (34:41):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
And we do find out that a little later on,
but they have just recently lost their father about like
a year or so ago.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Yeah. Yep, that's the heart strings of Airbud. It really
is though.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
So Josh is a new kid in town. They move
into a giant house, which I was Didn't his mom
say that she got a job at like a napkin
factory or something along those.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Lines, Well, I mean the third largest napkin producer in
North America. Yeah, I mean I assume by the fact
that she had like pantsuits and stuff, that she was
some kind of a higher up.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Oh and she's talking about on the phone. Through the movie,
She's talking about like pricing and whatnot on things.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
So yeah, I think she's Yeah, I'm pretty sure she's
some kind of a manager or something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
So they end up actually pulling they about miss Buddy's crate,
and by this point Buddy is also out of the
crate and standing on the side of the road and
his little clown costume too, which is really sad.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Yeah. Yeah, and I can't imagine how awful be for
a dog to wear a clown knows, no, no kidding.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
So we also then go over, Like I said, we
go over to their house, and that is when Josh
is getting into the new place. We're seeing that he's
also going to be going to the new school and
he's going to be in the band. He's also going
to be trying not exactly but trying out for the
team or at least trying to be friendly with the
basketball team at the school.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Yeah, he seems to have an interest in basketball. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
So that is when he ends up having a really
really bad day at class. He's kind of made fun
of in the class for playing the trombone, and he
doesn't really make friends exactly right away, and he ends
up walking home from school that day and comes to
this old, abandoned church where he actually finds Buddy in
hiding in the back, like in the back of forest
like area where this basketball court is. No.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Well, he goes past the fence and there's an old,
like overgrown basketball court. Yeah, so he goes in there
and tries to practice basketball where nobody will laugh at him.
And then the bushes start growling, just.

Speaker 1 (36:29):
To start growling, and he tries to get Buddy out
of the bushes by using a pudding cup.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
I think I would like to think it was Tapa Yoka,
but I think it was butterscotch. Yeah, I think it
was all. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
So he finds out that the dog honestly can watch
him play basketball, but also follows the ball, and he
starts bouncing the ball off of Buddy's nose, but he
doesn't start taking shots just yet.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
He's just playing with the dog basically. Yeah, well, most
kids don't prior to this movie coming out, don't assume
a dog can play back basketball. I mean, they're not
just throwing a basketball to a dog. There is that.
There is that indeed.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
So yeah, he starts seeing that the dog can can
hit the ball, but he's not shooting any hoops yet.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
But they have a good time.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
And that's when he decides that he wants to bring
Buddy home because Buddy's a bandon. He's astray and he
wants to try and see if he can sneak the
dog home.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
At this point, well, sneak is a strong word. He
takes him home to clean him up, to try and
put the best foot forward to his mom. It's so good.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
So he literally leaves a trail of pudding cups from
the church almost to the house, like a large trail
of pudding cups. And yeah, the next scene is he
gets Buddy inside and Buddy is Buddy is put into
the tub. I love it because Josh is like dressed
in like a yellow rain slicker at this point, and
it's a really cute scene.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Yeah, and the tub is just overflowing with SuDS and
he just throws the dog right in. Yeah. Do you
ever have to give a dog a bath when you
were little?

Speaker 1 (37:52):
Uh? When I was little? No, not that I can recall.
When my sister's dog, Sydney was still alive, I give
Sydney a bath a couple times and always laughed because
you look like Dobby and the Harry Potter movies.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
When she was wet. Yeah, dogs get real small. Yeah
when you get them wet. I used to have to
give my Karen terrier a bath, and he was not
a fan. That's how I learned the trick. You probably
don't even know the trick. What's the trick? You hold
one of their front legs up by the paw. Yeah,
and then they can't shake a balance, so that way

(38:24):
they won't blast you with shaking until you're ready. That
makes sense, So yeah, buddy.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Also, while this is happening, so Buddy, Buddy has been
brought home at this point, and Josh is trying to
be on his best behavior with his mom. But then
Buddy ends up coming out a little prematurely and starts
wrecking the dining well.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
I mean, he just spills like a five gallon jug
of wallpaper glue. Yeah, you know which, I'm sure it's
not that sticky, No, not at all. So yeah, Josh
tries to hide Buddy.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
That doesn't go well, so his mom basically gives him
an ultimatum that if they can, they're gonna put up posters.
They're going to look for his owner and if his
owner doesn't claim him in three weeks. Josh tries to
Will whittled that down to like two weeks in a day.
Ends up being that she'd agrees to the holidays.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
Well she said one week. Yeah, and he negotiated all
the way up till after Christmas. Yeah. I did like
that line because she says like, oh, you're going to
be a lawyer.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
Also, we forgot to mention too that Josh tries to
Josh tries to get on the basketball team, but the
and the coach takes notice of him and he goes,
you're the new kid. I'm looking for a team manager,
you know. Does that sound like something you'd be interested in?
And he agrees to do.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
It reluctantly if he's told you have to be here
before the team gets here and leave after the team left. Yep, yeah, yeah,
sounds like a great opportunity to be bored.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
So Josh goes about putting posters up downtown. They're trying
to get Buddy's face out there and everything, and Buddy's
making friendly with the home. There's at one point he
goes out of the window of the second floor, gets
onto the roof to retrieve the newspaper, which he then
buries in the backyard because Norm threatens him with newspapers.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
So funny fan of newspaper, but he is not a
fan of them. The whole sequence where Buddy climbs the
trellis and gets up there and stuff is really impressive
to watch.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
No, it really is, and I love it to you
because his mom starts wondering where all the newspapers are
going to.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah, she's like calling the newspaper and saying like, I
don't I haven't gotten a paper in weeks. I do
like that part where she comes out to get her
paper and the neighbor's just like, what's new and she's like,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:24):
So then by this point, Josh is also realizing that
one of the maintenance guys at his school, which is
mister Art Cheney, matches a basketball player card of one
of his dad's, Arthur Cheney.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Well he notices it after he breaks into the guy's
by accent he's taking all the sweaty clothes to the laundry. Yeah,
and he ends up just kind of sneaking around the
janitorial station or whatever playing basketball. Right. Well, that's way
later later yeah. Yeah, No. He goes in there and
he finds a jersey for the Knicks that's like number eight.

(40:58):
I think that's what makes him think to go home
and look at his dad's baseball basketball card collection. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
So he actually ends up taking the card to Art
to even try to get him to sign it, and
he puts it through this little grate and he's like,
you know, do you think this is me? And he's
like yeah, He's like is it and he's like, no,
that man died a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Yeah, not sad at all. No.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
But luckily a happy scene comes because we end up
getting into the holidays. It's Christmas morning. Josh goes downstairs
and his mom has put a bow on Buddy.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Well, the way they fake you out is pretty great
because Buddy's just gone on yeh, because he's been sneaking
into his bedroom upstairs bedroom window every night. Yeah, and
uh yeah, you think that they've just take him Buddy
away or something. And then he comes downstairs and Buddy's
wrapped in a bow and it's a very sweet little scene.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
And this leads us into the big scene because I
think it's like forty five minutes in that we actually
see that Buddy can play basketball in regards of actually
shooting a.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Ball if it was that late, But it was definitely
later than I.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Think it's forty five is because I think I clocked
it when I was watch But yeah, he he goes
to the basketball court, the overgrown basketball court. He's playing around,
and the ball gets away from Josh, it gets over
to Buddy, and Buddy literally jumps up, takes a shot,
and the ball goes into the hoop.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Yeah, And it's important to point out the even point
out in the credits that every time Buddy made a hoop,
it was no there were no special effects used. He
was legitimately scoring hoops. Yes, he was. He was.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
He was a train dog and could do it. And
so that leads Josh to try and try to persuade
the team to kind of accept Buddy. But that is
that right here.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
I think, Well, first one of the there ends up
being an opening on the team. Yeah, one of the
kids moves away. Yeah, so he gets a mysterious offer
to join the team, which I'm assuming the janitor put
in his locker probably yeah, although yeah, probably the janitor. Yeah.
But so he goes to try out for the team. Yep,

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that's that's what happens before before Buddy makes his appearance.

Speaker 1 (42:59):
Yeah, because they up having their first game, or the
first game for Josh, and he's playing on the court
and Buddy is left at home. Except he ends up
getting out, going to the school, getting on the court
during gameplay and starts making a fuss with everybody.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
But everybody is loving it. Yeah, because Buddy is a
damn fine basketballer.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Yeah, he gets the attention of everybody in the audience.
They even somebody is filming it. At one point they're
trying to get Buddy off the court, but everybody is
just amazed that this dog can play basketball.

Speaker 2 (43:26):
I mean, it would be surprising. I would be surprised,
even having seen Airbud, if a dog started playing basketball
in front of me.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
So yeah, he ends up making a big splash at
the event that night. It's the end of the game
and everybody is meeting Buddy in the lobby.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
And this leads Buddy to get away.

Speaker 1 (43:43):
From them for a second, and he ends up going
into the gym where we find a really unfortunate scene
that I mentioned earlier. The coach had one of the team,
one of the team players, Tommy could not catch the ball.
Anytime the ball was thrown to him, he would drop it.
So the coach, in his stupor, is deciding to just
hurl basketball that Tommy. Well, no one is in the
gym except those two. Yeah, that's pretty sad, except the

(44:04):
principal catches him.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Well, because Airbud takes them all to to see what's happening. Yeah, so,
which is an interesting little reveal of Airbud's kind of
empathetic nature.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
It is so this leads, obviously for the coach to
end up getting released from the team. He ends up
getting fired, and so Josh goes to see the principal
and he asked, you know, do you have anybody in
mind to replace the coach? And she's like, no, I don't.
And he's like, well I do. And now we have
mister Arthur Chaney taking over the team.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Yes, and his team style is very different because he's
actually concerned with the team and not just their star player.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
Well, and I love it because the first thing he
does is he essentially takes away a physical basketball from
the team because he wants them to work on their teamwork.
He wants them to get comfortable with the ball. So
they have a air ball.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
Yeah, that way they have to pass it, have to
pay attention to each other. Yeah, because you're not catching
a literal ball. Yeah. So it's a pretty clever way
to point out that you know that their star player
especially is just not interested in his teammates. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Well, and I love it too because Larry, who is
the star player of the team, he does not go
for this at first, like he or actually really at all.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
No, he's livid. He hates it.

Speaker 1 (45:14):
He hates it, and even his father hates it. So
this leads them to the next game where they're playing
and Larry does something some showmanship stuff. He doesn't pass
the ball, so Cheney pulls him out, and Larry's father
gets pissed, and he's just like, all right, well fine,
then I'm taking my son and we're going to another team.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
By Yeah, they just get up and leave the game entirely. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
So then by this point, Buddy kind of becomes the
mascot of the school's basketball team. He also appears in
halftime shows, which is what unfortunately gets him back in
front of Norm's eyes.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Yes, Buddy becomes very popular because he shoots hoops during
the halftime show. Which is uh, yeah, it becomes I mean, obviously,
especially in a small town, it would become a massive story.
It makes sense.

Speaker 1 (45:55):
So they end up the Timberwolves lose one game, but
they do end up qualifying for the Star eight Finals.
But again, while I mentioned, Norm has now seen that
Buddy is a star and he's like, hey, that's my dog.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
I'm gonna come back for it.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Yeah, he's uh, he's quite the chooch. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
So they're getting ready for the championship game and Norm
goes to Buddy's house and after seeing him on on television,
and he tries to reason with Jackie that that is
his dog because he has the papers, he has everything
to prove it. And unfortunately his mom can't fight him.
I mean, he's got the papers, that.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
His evidence, and they knew that the dog had to
have had an owner, especially if it was trained. Yeah.
So yeah, so she hands him over and we get
the heartbreaking, you know, taking the dog away from the
kids scene, which was so popular in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
Well, and also, I mean Norm does not hide at
all in front of this kid that he's that he's abusive.
I mean, he's already showing Buddy a newspaper when he
puts him in the car.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Oh yeah, yeah, no, he has no reason to to
hide anything. He's a he's a real sack of shit. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
So Josh obviously gets depressed. He goes to the court
and he just finds himself just being extremely sad, of course,
with Buddy missing, so he decides that he is going
to try and get Buddy back, yeah, and he sneaks
over into Norm's house. Norm is on the phone talking
with a new gig, and I love the scene because
he's he's talking about, you know, the popularity of him
and Buddy, and also that all these gigs and everything

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over a mountain of beer cans.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
He's literally, look, I don't want my dog to promote beer. Yeah,
I mean, and then he's like, you know, we have
an image. And then he's like, but how much money
would it? What are we talking? And then he's like, oh,
well that's a lot of money. Yeah. So I love
that though it's over a mountain of beer cans.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah no, it totally is. So yeah, a mount of
beer cans in the windows. So Josh sneaks up. At first,
he tries to get Buddy to come with them via
pudding cups, but Buddy, unfortunately, he's chained up in the backyard,
so Josh realizes that he has to sneak in. He
gets Buddy unchained, but Norm catches him right away, chases
him out, gets into his truck and is going after them,
except Norm completely loses control of his truck as he's
hanging out.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
His truck is falling hard as he as he goes,
he goes open, the door of the door falls off.
Door falls off. Yeah, the whole thing is just falling apart.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
And he ends up smashing through the fern wheeled washing
Fernfield Washington sign as right before he heads into a lake.
So the truck is now completely plummeted into the lake.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Yeah, what was left of it was larring will came off.
Everything was just flying off of that thing. The brakes
came off. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
So Josh realizing that he can't keep Buddy, he realizes
that he has to he has to set him free,
at least he can't keep the dogs.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
So he's afraid that if he keeps Buddy, that guy'll
just keep coming and taking him, and he doesn't want
him to get hurt. No, so he he pulls a
Harry and the Hendersons tries to make Buddy leave him
and go live somewhere else. He takes him across the
island or whatever, gives him.

Speaker 1 (48:36):
A pudding cup and tries to get him to go
away and throwing at one point, well.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
That's the thing is he throws the ball knowing Buddy
he'll chase it. But that's the ball as dad gave him,
which is really, you know, a major emotional cornerstone because
we see there's a photo of him and his dad
playing with that basketball. So him throwing it to let Buddy,
you know, chase after it is is pretty intense emotionally.

Speaker 1 (48:57):
Yeah, So he decides, Buddy, and that is when we
get into the championship game with the tender Wolves at
Timberwolves and it's not going well. There is an injury
on the team. They're down some points, and honestly, the
injury ends up leaving them with only four players to play.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
But but luckily.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
But luckily, somehow Buddy finds his way to the school,
runs onto the court with his mom leading him, if
I remember correctly, and now we are given the opportunity
for Buddy to join the team because it turns out
there is no rule preventing a dog from playing basketball.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
Which did you check if that's true?

Speaker 1 (49:35):
There is no rule technically, but there's stipulations that would
disqualify him. Unfortunately, Oh what what racial I see somebody?
So somebody did an entire Reddit post about it, and
literally people apparently were like not into the the fact
of like airbud because they were just like, what the
fuck question is this? This is really stupid?

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Well, I mean, so is throwing a ball into a
basket and everybody cheering. But yeah, I mean it's impressive
when you're a dog. He doesn't have any thumbs.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
So Buddy is added to the roster of the team.
And that is when the other coaches are just kind
of befunneled at this, and they're also just like this
is you can't allow us and love it because Cheney's like,
what's the matter, guys afraid to lose in basketball.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
To a bowl to a dog? Well?

Speaker 1 (50:19):
I mean maybe, I mean we and we also get
the classic does he dribble? No?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
But he might drool a little bit. Yeah, that was
the trailer.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
That was the trailer line that and there's no rule
that the dog can't play basketball?

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Well, that became legendary. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
So, long story short, Buddy ends up leading the team
to victory.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
They end up winning.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Buddy again is a hero for this, but unfortunately Norm
shows up at the end of the game ready to
get the dog back again.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Of course, this time he reveals his papers, which are ruined,
ruined entirely. Yeses.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
So this leads them into the finale of the movie,
which is a court case.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Yeah, I was not expecting that. Yes.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
So Cheney suggests that Buddy chooses his owner, and that
is when we have Judge Cranfield is the judge of
the town, and he accepts this proposal. Because but by
the time we get we get into the courtroom, it's
very funny because Norm shows up in complete clown outfit
because he wants to show like what his profession is well, and.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
To pay off the joke where the judge finds out
the details of the case and says, I want to
have my courtroom turned into a circus, and then clown
walks in.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Yeah, because there's a whole joke too, because the dog
keeps barking and he's just like what what what did
he say?

Speaker 2 (51:27):
Yeah? I keep saying speak speak. Yeah. The dog keeps
barking at the gavel. No, it's it's a pretty solid
like vaudeville gag. I like to think that the clown
guy just didn't have any other clothes clean that day,
and probably he just forgot and he was like, well,
it look like a crazy person if I wear all
these clown clothes without makeup.

Speaker 1 (51:47):
So they move the court outside and that is when
Josh is at one side and Norman is at the other.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Well, they decided the judge decide. Well, the judge is
convinced that since Buddy is three years old, yeah and
thereby in a alt and human years, that he should
just choose his owner, which is which I do like.
But the part that threw me was this the whole
like they tried to play it for like suspense, like
Buddy pick like yeah, like why would we why would

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we even he goes and picks Nor Yeah, if he
just picked norm you know that, Like then I guess
instead of the movie being that like you know, Friendship
and and the and Joy conquer All, it would just
be like dogs are dumb, would be the would be the.

Speaker 1 (52:28):
The credits are just Josh and his family balling, just.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Just crying and and then like and then adopting another
dog and it bites him and you know.

Speaker 1 (52:38):
Cuts to Arthur Chaney just shooting hoops of the court.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
Yeah, just alone.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
So yeah, so Buddy is placed between the middle of them,
both of them called a buddy at the same time.
We get a fake out, as Enrique said, because Buddy
goes to Norm because he's holding a fucking newspaper and
he thinks is he's threat threatened by it, and Buddy
barks at him, steals the newspaper, rips it up right
in a Norm and then runs back to Josh, cementing
that that is now Josh's.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Dog, which was a solid gag. It really, I mean,
I mean that he rips up the newspaper, it's almost like, uh,
you know, just completely destroying his his binds.

Speaker 1 (53:15):
Yeah, it absolutely is. So naturally, Norm starts freaking out.
He charges the family, but the judges like, have somebody
take care of that clown. So Norm is arrested, taken
away by the police. Well, well the bailiffs, bayliffs.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Yeah, yeah, he's probably, he's probably, I mean, this small town,
they probably took him out back and beat the shit
out of him and just left him in the puddle.
Was on your end, that's very possible. I mean, small
town Washington in the nineties.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
I mean, could you imagine a clown being put in
the jail cell? Would that go well for him?

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Uh? I? Well, in that town, I imagine the only
other person would be like hipster otis the drunk for
the Andy Griffith shows. Yeah, so you'd just be sitting
there like really into beanie babies. But yeah, I don't know.
I don't know who would get held in contempt of
court in that little town. Yeah, that's a good point.

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Oh yeah, everybody rejoices.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Buddy is now with Josh and that is nineteen ninety
seven's air Bud. It sure is, it sure is indeed,
And naturally that is not where we stopped though, no
it is not. But before we get there, would you
like to know some interesting things about the movie?

Speaker 2 (54:18):
I mean, sure, you don't even know Buddy's backstory, geez.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
I mean, it wasn't in the IMDb trivia. So I
apologize you look up all the other actors. Bro I
went so deep on this goddamn sequel hunt that I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Were you talking to yourself there? Maybe that's fair?

Speaker 1 (54:38):
All right, So the budget was three million dollars.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
Yeah, that's really pretty pretty spelt. Yeah, although Disney was
still like hurting as far as family movies go, they
were still hurting a bit. I mean they were on
the upswing, but they were still they were still having
a hard time.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Because the slump in Disney was basically eighty seven to
ninety four in that neighborhoo.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
And then when they started having the cartoons for their
big thing, but then they had these little moments like
air but Er Mighty Ducks that really brought them back
to prominence fully.

Speaker 1 (55:09):
Yeah, because I Betman Out the House probably wasn't a
big hit, or maybe it was.

Speaker 2 (55:13):
I don't I don't know. That's when I want to readsit.
I haven't seen that forever. I don't know if I've
ever seen that one.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Chivy Chase and Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Oh oh yeah, I've seen that.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Yeah. I played at HBO modest hit twenty two million
dollar budget, forty million dollar box. Not bad, it did okay,
But uh was that Disney though? And it was yeah,
that was that was Disney because Touchstone was there was
their bread and pictures.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Yeah, so budget of three million dollars. Opening weekend takes
in basically about five million. It's four million, four million,
eight hundred and seventy eight thousand dollars Wow. Which was
August third of nineteen ninety seven, grossing in US and
Canada twenty three million dollars grossing worldwide twenty eight million dollars.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
That's a pretty pretty big hit for a three million
dollar movie.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Shooting started October twenty ninth of nineteen ninety six and
went through December first of ninety six. It was shot
in Vancouver, Port Moody, Rocky Point Park, British Columbia, Canada.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Okay, you meant that was all one place?

Speaker 1 (56:06):
That was all one place? Yeah yeah, yeah yeah uh.
Finished filming in less than a month. Despite receiving top billing,
Michael Jeter has less than twenty minutes of screen time.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Damn surprised he got top billing.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Norm Shivley's phone number is five five five seven eight
three three. On his business card, it appears as five
five five rough are u ff because seven eight three.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Three oh man seven eight three and three mm hm
h I got you.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
The movie is set in Washington State, but a lot
of cars have British Columbia license plates on them.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
Well, you know, back then you did even need a
passport to drive across the border.

Speaker 1 (56:43):
So I suppose the dog who plays Buddy also played
comet in Full House. Bill Cobbs previously appeared in Fluke
nineteen eighty five, which featured the same dog, Buddy as
the lead role. In principal Pepper calls Buddy air Bud
during Buddy's introduction to the school's first time in the franchise.
He has referred to that by his real name. Huh. Miramax,
then owned by Disney, initially picked up distribution rights for

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the first film and any sequel that production company Keystone
Entertainment would produce. Airbud ultimately ended up being released under
regular regular Disney branding. When Golden Receiver hit theaters, it
moved over to Mirramax's Dimension Film's label, only to go
back to Disney Banner for its home video release. This
back and forth continued until Airbuddy spinoffs, at which point
the series became a regular Disney property, keeping it out

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of Miramax's reach.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
Wait, so they were like Airbud two Golden Receiver. That's
that's the Dimension, not just Miramax. It's gotta be Dimension. Yeah,
that is a bizarre choice to release that Dimension was
like the genre label of Mirramax. Yeah. No, it was.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
Out of the five Airbud films, this is the only
film in the series to be rated PG. The original
VHS release was mislabeled with a PG thirteen rating from
the MPAA.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
Oh that's a printing mess up. Yeah, I would say so.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
The film boosted the popularity of the already pretty popular
Golden retriever Breed to New Heights. Buddy unfortunately passed from
cancer in nineteen ninety eight, a year after filming this movie.
The movie has now spawned twelve sequels and a production company,
Airbud Entertainment. And before I get into those sequels, we
do have a very timed, perfectly timed announcement. On July

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twenty fourth, sources confirmed via Airbud Entertainment and Cineverse that
a metasequel would release in twenty twenty six called Airbud Returns.
Twelve year old Jacob has always dreamt of being a
basketball star player. An official description says after the passing
of his father that dream felt even more possible impossible,
But everything changes when he and his mom move into
his dad's childhood home in Fernfield. There, Jacob discovers an

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original VHS of the Airbud movie in his father's belongings
and has a chance meeting of a stray golden retriever
he names Buddy. Together, they embark on a journey of healing,
united team of misfits and chase a championship. Through it all,
they learned to play from the heart, believe in each other,
and always take the shot. A search is current underway
to cast the new Buddy.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
Oh wow, that's interesting. Yeah, I feel that.

Speaker 1 (59:08):
So, as I said, we are going to just briefly
go through these these all these fucking sequels that I
ended up watching. So we go into Airbud Golden Receiver,
which was ninety eight. Josh is now an eighth grader.
He tries out for the football team, only to discover
that Buddy can also play football.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
Which one is this? That Airbud Golden Receiver. Yeah, okay,
I didn't realize he went straight to I mean, I
know it was a different dog. Yeah, I didn't realize
they went straight to another sport immediately.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, So Airbud Golden receiver. Yeah, he
can play football now. An evil duo of Russian circus
managers kidnaped Buddy, but a chimpanzee that is also kept
by the circus performers releases Buddy and he makes it
to the game with the help of veterinarian Patrick, who
is dating Josh's mom in this movie, and Josh actually
tries to like investigate him at one point, like trying
to make sure that his mom is not getting swindled

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by this guy.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Right right, Well, it makes sense that they would know
of that, yause they've got Airbud to take care of.

Speaker 1 (59:59):
And Buddy ends up getting injured in the big game
that Patrick returns him to, but Josh and his team
end up taking home the championship without the help of
Airbud for the final, but he did help in the beginning.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
Well yeah, well that's I mean the first Airbud movie.
I mean the kid makes the final shot. Yeah, it's
more that Airbud is like builds his confidence.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
I think what's crazy, though, is so the coach is
the guy in ah shit, Die Hard to Merry Christmas.
Oh yeah, yeah, I can't think of what his name is.
Give me a second one.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
Of those character actors.

Speaker 1 (01:00:29):
Yeah, but he is legitimately see where is Robert Costanzo.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Okay, he's legitimately.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Eating in every scene he's in in that movie.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Good for him, food's free. I mean that's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
But yeah, that is Airbud Golden Receiver in ninety eight.
Then in two thousand we got Airbud World Pup, which
is Jackie and Patrick. So that is now Josh's family.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
They have married.

Speaker 1 (01:00:52):
Josh meets a young girl, Emma, who has moved to
Fernfield from England, who plays on the soccer team with him,
but also has a Golden Retriever named.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Josh.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
Then discovers that Buddy can play soccer and convinces his
coach to let him join the Timberwolves. So Buddy gets
to join the soccer team.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
It says the same name as the base basketball team.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Yeah, every single team they play for in the air
Bud movies are Timberwolves.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Oh okay.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
So this then leads a rival team that convinces the
soccer committee to ban the Timberwolves because of Buddy playing.
Either they have to kick kick the Dog off of
the team or they have to start their own team.
So that is what's going to happen, so the rival
team convinces the Soccer committee to do that. Buddy is
now also the father as Molly gives birth to six puppies.

Speaker 2 (01:01:38):
Ah, here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
So not only can the dog play basketball, football, and
now soccer, it also fucks.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
I mean that checks out. Yeah, I mean that's how
pro athletes are. I mean that's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
So the committee has a change of heart because one
of the star players on the opposing team basically goes
to their father and is just like WTF, Like why
did you kick the Timberwolves off? Like why are you
so afraid of this dog playing us? So the committee
decides to overturn that their decision. But also while this happens,
there's also people that kidnap the puppies because they're wanted
for experiments because they are all athletically you know, gifted

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gifted basically, which is done by an insider that works
as a butler inside Emma's home, but eventually he gets
worked over and gives them the information is where to
find the puppies. The Timberwolves then win the championship, and
Buddy also helps the US women's national soccer team win
the FIFA Women's World Cup against Norway.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
At the end, well, that escalated quickly, yes.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Which then leads us into Air Bud's seventh inning fetch.
In two thousand and two, Josh is leaving for college,
but Buddy stays behind. Jackie and Patrick now have a
baby of their own, Noah, and Josh's sister Andrea plays baseball,
which she discovers Buddy can also play.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Does he actually use a bat? He does? Is? I'm
assuming it's special effects? I yes, that's just my it's
gotta be, I thought. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Also, there's an evil scientist that is now kidnapping the
puppies again because they are wanting to get their athletic
ability and whatnot, with the help of Rocky Raccoon. So
there is a raccoon that tricks the dogs into following
them as they're caught by the dog knapper. Buddy then
wins Rocky over and they locate the missing dogs, helping
Andrea win the championship, which Josh surprises the family and
shows up at. This is the last movie that Kevin

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Zeggers appears in. Okay, yeah, then that takes us into
Air Bud spikes back in two thousand and three.

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Oh god, so that's volleyball. That is volleyball.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
So Andrea has her best friend Tanny unfortunately moved to California,
so she is left without her best friend and that
feels her leaves her feeling really sad. Obviously, of course,
so she decides that she wants to raise money to
go and see Andrea in California, even mine they're in Washington,
so it's gonna be a hell of a flight.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
Oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:52):
So by that point, then she decides that she's going
to go ahead and open up a pet sitting service,
and it actually goes really well. She starts making money.
She's got a lot of dogs she's walking on one
point keeps them all in the backyard, except one day
the little brother accidentally leaves the gate open and all
the dogs get out. They go into the town's local
flea market and wreak havoc. So then Andrea has to
give back all the money that she's made on her

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trip so far.

Speaker 2 (01:04:16):
Of course, But luckily, there's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:17):
A new kid in town, Connor, who is a volleyball
player for the local team, and he tells her that
if she joins his team, because they need one more
player to compete in the championship. If they win the championship,
it's going to take place in California.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Whoa.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
So then with the help of Buddy, who suddenly can
play volleyball, they do end up winning.

Speaker 2 (01:04:35):
I mean suddenly, he just suddenly. Oh, volleyball feels like
not as big of a story reveals.

Speaker 1 (01:04:39):
The reveal in spikes back of Buddy playing volleyball is
Connor is on the other side of the fence because
he's the next door neighbor and he just accidentally hits
the ball over and then Buddy hits it back, So
then Connor hits it back again, Buddy hits it back.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
He thinks it's the little brother next door, is what
Andrew ends up telling him because that's who it is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
But yeah, Buddy ends up taking a spot on the team,
and yeah, they win the championship and she gets a
visit her friend fair enough. So that was the final
of the air Bud samples at least. So then this
leads us into Air Buddies in two.

Speaker 2 (01:05:06):
Thousand and six.

Speaker 1 (01:05:08):
All right, are you ready, because I I this is
a lot sure, So Air Buddies introduces us to the
five children of air Bud. Even though there was six
puppies in World Cup. Don't ask me how, but we
have Rosebud, who is the lone girl, the only sister
of the youngest buddies. And we also have Butterball, who

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is the chubbiest, biggest and oldest of the buddies. We
have mud Bud, who is the dirt loving dude of
the buddies. Be Dog, the rapping pup of the buddies.
And yes he does rap in multiple movies.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Because they talk.

Speaker 1 (01:05:41):
Yeah, oh yeah, and Buddy talks now too, by the way,
Oh okay, yeah, Buddy and Molly both talked now, and
now all the buddies talk. And Buddha, who is the
peaceful Buddhist of the buddies. So that is Rosebud, Butterball,
Mud Bud, be Dog, and Buddha. Okay, So this leads
us into we meet Air budd in Molly's five Puppies.

(01:06:01):
They are still in Fernfield. The puppies get into trouble
because they are left alone while the family fran family
goes out and does their sporting events. So the buddies
end up causing havoc. They end up tying their housekeeper,
missus Niggles, to a chair okay and causing havoc. So
then they decide to put the buddies up for adoption
because they're just too much to handle.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
So all the buddies go up for adoption. Well, I mean,
that's a lot of dogs. It's a lot of dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
Meanwhile, this is happening though, a rich kid wants to
have Airbud so he can play basketball with them, and
he goes to his father who offers this crazy guy
who is the father in Donnie Darko, five hundred thousand
dollars to kidnap Airbud so that his son can have
an awesome birthday gift. So he sends out two inept
guys to go ahead and capture these and they end

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up getting they end up deciding The pups end up
deciding to run away because they don't want to be adopted.
So this leads Buddy and Molly to go after them.
Because the puppies are then caught by the dog nappers,
but they use them as bait to catch Molly and Buddy,
which they do, so then the buddies go have to
rescue their parents, which leads them into this whole chase
of going after them leads them to a farm at
one point. At one point, there's also where the buddies

(01:07:08):
are trapped on a trapped at a drive in and
the two people come at them, and then these bikers
come and beat the other two guys up because they're
going after the puppies.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
I mean bikers like dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:07:19):
Also, Michael Clark Duncan plays a giant dog named Wolf.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
Who teaches me I'm assuming he's the voice. Yes, they
didn't just put him in a suit of okay, just
making sure.

Speaker 1 (01:07:30):
But he leads them to a farm of safety, where
they also meet a goat voice by Wallace Seawan and
a cow voiced by Debor Joe Rupp who is Kiddy
in that seventy show. Yeah yeah, yeah, Long story short.
They end up saving their parents and they are introduced
to their new family. So they do end up getting
adopted by the kids. So that's the first Air Buddies
moving Snow Buddies. In two thousand and eight, the buddies

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playing hide and seek in a park end up hiding
in an ice cream truck and end up in.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Alaska, I mean, why not, right? Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
So they meet an Alaskan husky puppy named Shasta and
he is trying to help his eleven year old owner Adam,
win a dog sled race that his father lost a
year prior when he tragically died because the ice broke
underneath him while they were dog racing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
That's uh, this is a heavy one. Yeah, yeah, that
sounds a bit heavy. No, this is a really heavy one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
So with the help of the legendary Alaskan Malmont Talon
voiced by Chris Christofferson.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
I mean that checks out.

Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
He gives the dogs courage and teaches them how to
be proper sled dogs. So they end up leading Adam
to victory, which he fights a evil French steward at
one point. That is another rival racer.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
That's also sounds right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
And then also Muddy and Molly and Buddy are tipped
off by a cat that saw the dogs playing in
the park before they got into the ice cream truck,
leading them to Alaska. So the whole family goes to
Alaska to get the pups. They're reunited, they win the race,
and then the very end of the movie is we
see Shasta and Adam now all both grown up, being
professional dog racers sleds. Oh yeah, okay, so that's snow Buddies. Okay,

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then we move into Space Buddies from two thousand and nine.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
So ice cream truck, but they end up in space.

Speaker 1 (01:09:09):
Buddha is owned by Sam who loves stargazing, and he
ends up having a field trip at Vision Enterprises, which
is apparently a local space shuttle, and they want to
watch the test launch of the new Vision one space crap.
So Buddha and the Buddies end up hiding on the
school bus so that they can go to the space station,
of course, and that is when they actually end up

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getting on the shuttle that is being tested, and the
shuttle ends up launching off with all the Buddies on it.
Now I'm gonna stop for a second because at this
point I was like, huh, this is already giving me
armageddon vies. And sure a ship they have to refuel
at a Russian space station where Ddrich Bator playing Yuri
of course, has his dog Sputnick with him. Of course, yeah,

(01:09:52):
And one thing leads to another and Uri ends up
seeing the puppies. He thinks that he's going to have
company on the thing, but the puppies obviously have to
get on the space ship and get back home, so
Uri tries to stop them. This leads to him separating
the fuel line, so the Russian space station explodes as
Yuri and the space and the space Buddies escape.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
So a lot of destruction.

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
So they end up getting to the Moon, of course,
and by this point the people back at the space station,
which is the voice of Patrick Starr and Lochlin Monroe,
are the guys running it, and they end up seeing
that the puppies are on the Space Shuttle, so they
decide that the puppies obviously want to go back, but
they grab some space rocks they get back into the shuttle.
They're trying to get the puppies back to Earth this point.

(01:10:33):
Also by this point information leaks that the puppies are
on the Space Shuttle and in space. So the kids
come to the space station being like, WTF, where why
are our dogs get launched into space?

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
It would be a question worth asking, it would say, so,
I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but I would probably
want to know. So they attempt to return to Earth.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
Unfortunately, they get sideswiped by a meteor which takes out
the antenna on their ship, so they have to have
some navigation stuff taken care of by a ferret that
also works at the space station, which guides them back
into Earth's Yuri also lands and he's fine as well,
so they end up returning to Earth safely and their
owners are happy. So that's Space Buddies aka Puppy Armageddon.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
Okay, I wish it was actually called Puppy Armageddon me too.

Speaker 1 (01:11:12):
This leads us into my least favorite, which is Santa Buddies.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Wow, Dave hates Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
Oh no, no, that's not true. See there's three Christmas movies
in this lineup, and I liked the other two, especially
one of them. But this is Santa Buddy's and Santa
Claus and Santa Pause, which is Santa's dog, discover that
nobody believes in Christmas anymore as the magic Christmas Icicle
is melting. So that is when we also meet Puppy Pause,
the son of Santa Pause, and he is a bit
of a troublemaker inside the toy shop at Christmas time,

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and he ends up getting exiled from the toy shop
because he causes some issues. So he goes to look
at the magic icicle and basically says that he wishes
that Christmas would disappear, and that is when he also
notices the naughty list. He sees Butterball is on the
list because Butterball ate the entire Thanksgiving Turkey along with
the other dogs that have done some mischief stuff. So
he decides that he's going to go to Fernfield and

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meet these puppies because he wants to learn how to
be a dog and not be Santa's helper. So this
leads us into him making a wish about, like I
said in regards to Christ, would disappear. This leads into
the icicle cracking, which takes out the North Pole's power entirely.
The Reindeer gets sick, they can't make toys anymore. So yeah,
that's going on. Okay, So Puppy Pause they think that

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Puppy Pause is their father in disguise.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
The buddies do.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
They think that it's Airbud in disguise for them to behave,
so they start just being completely reckless, which also leads
into them at one point having a break dancing competition.

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
With Puppy Pause. Well what else would you do?

Speaker 1 (01:12:34):
I mean again at that point, So the Buddies then
continue to misbehave. They end up ejecting Puppy Pause from
their own home, which then he ends up getting kidnapped
by a dog napper played by the Great Christopher Lloyd
who is mister Grunge, and mister Grunge ends up kidnapping,
like I said, takes the dog and he is held
in the pound. At this point, the Buddies along with
an elf dog named Eddie who is voiced by He
was voiced by Richard Kind. They make their way to

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the pound and one of the dogs ends up singing
a song mister Crunge, who was Chrisopher Lloyd, about the
true meaning of Christmas and how he always wanted a
dog and this is not the way to be, so
they warm his heart over they start bringing Christmas here
to the entire town of Fernfield. Christmas is saved, and
we all end up seeing silent Night and the heart
of Fernfield around the Christmas tree at the end of
Santa Buddies Okay. Then this led us into a prequel

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to Santa Buddy's The Search for Santa Pause in twenty
ten Okay, which is basically Santa's head Elf Eli brings
him a stuffed dog, and the stuff dog is brought
to life, which he calls Pause Pause then basically goes
into this town, which I believe is Fernfield. Again, there's
a little girl in an orphanage that is run by
Wendy from The Goldberg's The Mom Oh okay, yeah, she

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plays an evil orphanage owner. Of course, there's a whole
thing in regards to Santa and Pause going into the
town and there's a toy shop. There's a lot going
on here. But basically the main gist is that we
get the backstory of Santa Pause, which is really really
awesome in regards to how they execut through the human characters.
There's a lot to go into that I can't because

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it's just it would be lengthy and I'd have to
read the entire Wikipedia almost.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Oh oh, you didn't write your own notes? Oh I did.
I did. I'm reading them right now.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
Okay, But the search for Santa Pause is basically the
backstory of Santa Paus. We learn how Santa Paus came
to be, which leads us into the next actual sequel,
into the Buddies franchise, which is Spooky Buddies Ah, which
is the one that was probably my favorite because it's
basically a giant ripoff of hocus Pocus, but with puppies.
With puppies because we have Warwick. The warlock played by

(01:14:34):
Harlan Williams in nineteen thirty seven kidnaps five dogs to
sacrifice them so he can release the Halloween Hound, which
is this dog at its dark Yeah, that is this
giant black dog is that lives in this mirror until
it is actually summoned forward. He ends up sacrificing four
of No, he sacrifices the five of them. On the
fifth one, it turns into a ghost. Right does the

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townspeople break into the mansion and stop him. So that's
nineteen thirty seven. Now we're back into current time. The
house has been boarded up and Pip, the ghost dog
is still around the mansion. So the puppies decide that
they're going to go into the mansion on Halloween because
their owners are on a fern Field Halloween field trip.
Of course, one thing leads to another and Pip ends
up befriending them. But also one of the kids is

(01:15:17):
doing a report on the house and he ends up
going into the police lock up evidence room, where they
just so happen to still have Warwick's staff. So the kid,
thinking that it's just a costume piece, takes the staff,
ends up resurrecting Warwick and now he is out to
completely complete this thing again and release the Halloween Hound,
so he has to sacrifice more puppies aka the air
Buddies at this point of course. Yeah, so this then

(01:15:39):
leads into a lot of hocus pocus things ripped off.
We have a great scene where we go into the
town Halloween dance, which is then all the adults are
possessed by Warwick and go after the puppies.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Of course, there is a spell.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Book mix up at one point they defeat the Halloween
Hound by one of the I think it's Mudbud farts
at him. Okay, defeats the Halloween houm.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
Well, I mean what else would.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Warwick catches up with the kid that has a staff,
He gets a staff back, he causes havoc on the town,
but the Buddies in up defeating him, and we also
find out that Pip is then reunited as well with
the Buddies and mister Johnson, which was his original owner
who was a kid in the nineteen thirty seven flashback.
So that is when the film ends with the kids
waving goodbye to mister Johnson as he drives off with
the caravan and the puppies to return them to their

(01:16:26):
owners because he brought the nineteen thirty seven puppies backs.
That's going to be really confusing to those owners.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
Yeah, yeah, that would be.

Speaker 1 (01:16:35):
So that's that's Spooky Buddies. That is the that's the
highly recommended one of these. As we get into the
last three, which is twenty twelve's Treasure Buddies, okay, which
is Fernfield is now having a museum that has historic
things to it about Cleakatra, which was this whole Cleopatra
spinoff thing that's actually a cat.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Well, I mean the Egyptians and cats. Yeah, yeah, it's
the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Richard Real plays the museum attendant, but he's also going
to be retiring, and he ends up getting brought onto
an excursion via Edward Hermann and his evil cat that
talks me to the Buddies. So the Buddies end up
going along with the Grandfather and the and the Boy
into Egypt, and one thing leads to another. They end
up going to clear Cat's tomb, they find the lost Treasure,

(01:17:20):
one of the dogs, has a hypnotism contest with a snake.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
At one point.

Speaker 1 (01:17:23):
Okay, yeah, and also there's a cursed necklace that turns
one of the buddies into a cat, but not a
complete cat, it's just like a cat dog. And at
one point the dog of the dog is like saying
me ow and like chasing mice inside of the tomb
and everything. So this leads into them completely finding out
that Edward Herman's character is evil, so he ends up
getting taken out by a camel and some other people
as well, in a hilarious Disney way. Of course, the

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buddies find the treasure and it's returned to the museum
and the uncle gets to keep his job, and that's
Treasure Buddies.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Well there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:17:53):
And then last the last two, we have a sequel
to the prequel of Santa Pause, which was Santa to
Pause to the Santa Pups, which is that the Santa
paus children. The Santa Pups end up stealing a magic
crystal because they have powers of the magic crystal, which
is you know how we have the magic icicle and
Santa Pause, right, So they end deciding that they're grown
enough that they can take control of a crystal, so

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they end up stealing one and going to Pineville, which
is one of the happiest Christmas towns in the world,
and they start granting everybody's wishes for Christmas to make
them happier, except these two kids that are struggling. One
of them just as I wish, everybody would forget about
the Christmas spirit. So now the whole town's apped of
Christmas spirit.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
That's always some one person who ruins it for everybody else.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
So this leads into missus Claus having to come into
town and she's trying to save the Christmas spirit as well.
She ends up getting arrested at one point because she's
trying to help the pups out. Long story short, the
pups end up getting the magic back. They end up
having somebody make a wish again, and the Christmas spirit
is brought back into the village and everybody lives happily
for after. Okay, And then we have my least favorite
and final which was Superbuddies from twenty thirteen oh Man

(01:18:57):
and Superbuddies is the story of the Buddies are now
living on a farm with one with one kid who
is having his birthday. His grandfather played by the great Oh,
I just blanked on his name, Shit Ratzenburg, the guy
from Cheers. Is it Ratzenberg?

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
I think, yeah, I don't know. Two seconds here, HANGHI yeah,
John Ratzenberg. Yeah, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:22):
It's one year after the events of the previous film
and Bartleby and his dog Butterball are spending the summer
at the grandfather's farm. They end up having a really
cool birthday for the kid, and he's really into superheroes,
specifically this one that's Captain Canine and Kid Courageous, which
is a dog and his human superhero person. They also
have this whole thing with these Rings of Experion that
are collected and bring the power. But it turns out

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there's this evil alien named Drex that is looking for
these rings and ends up coming to Earth and taking
over a bunch of human bodies to try and find
these rings. The pups end up getting power from the
rings and all end up getting superpowers, so they end
up having this huge battle at the end in regards
to going against Dres, who is complete taken over the
town taken over bodies. He steals a cop car as
a as a police officer at one point, leading to

(01:20:06):
a showdown on the farm where John Ratzenberger as Grandpa Man,
superhero costume and everything, fights against him as best as
he can along with the pups. And then it's also
revealed that Captain Canine turns out to be an alien
this entire time, along with his wife, that he's been
looking for most of the galaxy through. Okay, and that
is super Buddies from twenty thirteen, and that is all

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of the Air Buddies sequels.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Wow. Yeah, yeah, it's a lot of them. It is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:33):
They're twenty and a half hours of my life. I'm
never getting back.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
Yep, that's gone forever.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
So with that in mind, what are your final thoughts
on airbud.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
That's a stream it. I mean, it was a perfectly
fun movie. I think if you have a lot of
nostalgia for it, it'll hit really really well. Yeah, it's
you know, it's very like that Disney era. You got
like the the kid who like doesn't have a parent
and befriends thing unusual and learns to believe in himself.
So I mean it means well, and it had some

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legitimately very funny scenes and the dog is just a buddy,
is just incredible.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Oh, absolutely to watch. Yeah, it's a streamer for me
as well. It's one of those movies that I think
it's very well known in the zeit guys, because there's
always the joke about dog can't play basketball and all
that stuff. So I mean people know about it. If
you haven't seen it in a while, it's absolutely worth
a watch. I think it's got a lot of heart
to it. It's a lot of fun, and honestly, it's
less than one hundred minutes, so you're pretty quick.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
In and out.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
And the great Michael Jeter, who, like I said, was
taken so soon. He's fantastic in this even as the villain.
He's so good in this movie.

Speaker 2 (01:21:35):
Yeah, he's very memorable. Lots of slapstick. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:21:38):
So do we have any emails this week?

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
I think so. Oh, let's see what we got. We
got two? Okay, first ones from our buddy Mike Birdman
is a long one, Okay, all right. Subject Loved the
Blade Show. Hey, guys, been going through a lot these
last few weeks, and you two have really cheered me up.
Loved the latest Blade Show. Saw this at the drive

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in many times when I was in high school. One
of the best video game memories, oddly enough, connects to blade.
Was playing Tom Clancy's Rainbow six Ravenshield and was playing
a multiplayer match. An entire team had their back to
me and were overlooking a portion of the map, and
I'd snuck up on the stairs behind them, and I
knew my moment had come early days of Xbox Live

(01:22:25):
no Less. Switched on my mic at the appropriate time
and then in quotes says, catch you fuckers at a
bad time. I hear one kid go huh as he
turns around, unloaded a full machine gun into six guys
and team wipe. Not gonna lie. Felt pretty good, but
pretty beautiful moment. LOL. So you kept mentioning Mortal Kombat.

(01:22:46):
What about a video game movie month? But try ones
off the beaten path? So no Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, etc.
Here are some suggestions Mortal Kombat twenty twenty one. I
feel like that one is not off the beaten path.
It was a hit it, but I loved it. That's
great street Fighter too. The anime or street fighter legend
of Chun Lee Wing Commander Okay Doom from two thousand

(01:23:09):
and five, Need for Speedy Assassin's Creed I've never seen
that hit Man. There are two actually a forty seven
hit Man uncharted solid in theaters. Yeah, that was pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
Tekan, I've not seen it, but I've heard mixed things
on it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:26):
I didn't know about Techan and border Lands, which I
feel like somebody's seen it somewhere, yes said not me. Yeah, Yeah,
it kind of just came out and zoomed right by.
It was the weirdest thing. I'll admit that most of
these suck though, but could be fun. Random idea as well.
The cinematic salute to Ouve bowl and call it let's

(01:23:47):
go Ouve Bowling, followed by bowling ball sound effects fair
fair love the show, keep up the amazing work. Mike Eshkwi,
thank you bird Man.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
We always love hearing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:59):
From your brother. Yeah, some of those would be pretty fun.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Absolutely, I mean Uve Bowl. I would go ahead and
say right now to the Rampage, probably one of his
best movies.

Speaker 2 (01:24:07):
Just hit Voodoo.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Yeah, Rampage is awesome. Dango, So that's the first on
h d's been available.

Speaker 2 (01:24:13):
I think. Wasn't that based on the Rampage video game? Yes?
It was. Ah. This next one is from Jake subject
line some motherfuckers are always trying to movie uphill. Enrique
and David loved the Blade episode and was happy to
hear it since not going to Trauma Dump. But I
really needed it. I have a lot of nostalgia for
the movie and hearing you guys talk about it was

(01:24:35):
very fun. I love the character in the comics and
was introduced to him through the movie and the Spider
Man cartoon. Yeah. Same, yep. One of my favorite Wesley
Snipes movies is New Jack City, and I'm curious if
you guys would ever consider doing an episode on it
since I think it's a pretty enjoyable crime film. Yeah,
I would totally do. Not absolutely looking forward to the
next episode and your thoughts on weapons since I saw

(01:24:56):
it recently as well. Take care well you got that
at the beginning of the show.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
You did, yes, So yeah, New Jack City would definitely
be one. Uh like, just off the top of my head,
New Jack City, King of New York.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
I would even do Meta Society.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
I love mena society and I haven't seen that in
a while, so yeah, those would definitely be ones that
we would cover in the future, I would imagine. Yeah,
those would all be really good, So We always like
to end the show with a couple of recommendations. My
first one this week is from nineteen ninety six, and
that is Shiloh, currently available on Prime, Peacock Plex, Pluto,
Roku two B and rentable on Prime and Voodoo. A
small town Southern boy named Marty Preston must rescue a

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young beagle from his abusive owner, jud Travers, of course,
based on a very popular book, one that I watched
a lot when I was a kid. I've not seen
it in a bit curious how holds up? And then
my second one is gonna be twenty twenty three's Strays
currently on Stars, rentable on Prime and Fandango as well,
and abandon dog teams up with other strays to get
revenge on his former owner.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
That was a surprisingly hilarious movie. Not kids movie, No,
it's not say that out loud. Yeah, very very surprised.
How much I like that one. That was a lot
of fun. My suggestion is my all time favorite dog
movie nineteen ninety two is Beethoven. Yes, I mentioned it earlier,
and by the way I looked at the box office,
Beethoven was like a ungodly hit. It was like one

(01:26:12):
hundred and forty something million. Yeah, I'll pull that up again.

Speaker 1 (01:26:16):
It was a huge Hughes wrote it, yeah, but he
had his name taken off it because he'd left Universal
Studios at that point.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
No budget is listed, but one hundred and forty seven
point two million dollars. God damn. So it was a
friggin massive hit. It to be what like five ten
at the most, I would say, because there were some
big names in it. Yeah. A slobbering Saint Bernard becomes
the center of attention for Georgie and Alice Newton's loving
family who must contend with dog napping local veterinarian with

(01:26:44):
dog napping local veterinarian doctor Herman Varnick and his henchman
Harvey and Vernon. Unfortunately, it's it's only to rent right now.
You can rent it on Prime and Fandango. But it's
a classic, very very funny. The other writer was a
holding Joe's Jones of Slumber Party Massacre fame. Yep, so
that helps. It never hurts, But I I just love

(01:27:06):
that one. It always makes me cry. I've revisited it many,
many times.

Speaker 1 (01:27:09):
Yeah, I'm getting redy to work my way through the sequels.
Because I just watched like the first one for the
first time, So I got six more seventh sequels.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
Goch I mean they're pretty fun. I'd say, like the
first four, yeah, pretty pretty solid. And the second one
Groden's back and everything.

Speaker 1 (01:27:22):
Yeah, it looks like the first three. He's still in.
I want to say, Oh, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Just the first two if I'm remembering correctly. Okay, it's
been a while, but I'm pretty sure I'm right fair enough?

Speaker 1 (01:27:31):
Would you like to know what we are talking about
next week? Is August is coming to a close? Sure,
So we are going to be going back to two
thousand and five for a very underrated movie that I
think is somewhat finally getting it's due, and that is
red Eye, the Wes Craven airplane thriller.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
That is a great film, highly underrated. I saw it
in the theater and I was so glad I didn't
miss it.

Speaker 1 (01:27:52):
Yeah, currently on Paramount Plus, Netflix, Pluto and Rentable on
Prime and Fandango as well. So we're gonna be talking
about red Eye next week with Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams.
A really really good time on that one. I actually
got to see out the theaters.

Speaker 2 (01:28:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, it was a really cool experience. And
that four K looks amazing. I bet it does, so
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