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with Hamilton Mustangs.

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I got to play junior from

everything to play pro.

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All the Scouts are going to be there.

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Dean young blood scored

92 goals this year.

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So far.

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For the Stanton tires, gentlemen uniform.

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The doctor is here.

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New uniforms for the playoffs.

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When I go, pretty boy.

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Oh, come on.

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You gotta play it

according to their rules.

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I made mistake about you.

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What do you think.

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Lauren center pro contract

next couple of years.

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And through.

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What is it?

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Superstar.

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Rob Lowe.

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Cindy give.

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Patrick Swayze.

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Young blood.

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Katie: Hello, hello.

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I'm Katie and welcome to Retro

Made, your pop culture rewind.

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Today, we're going to go back to

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Youngblood with our everyman Patrick

Swayze, but this time he's in more

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of a supporting role to supporting.

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Another extreme smoke show, Rob Lowe.

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Lucky for you.

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I own this movie because it

does not stream anywhere.

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So I'm going to be solo today.

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If you are new to the show.

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Welcome.

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I do cover retro movies and this.

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Season's theme is The Ultimate Everyman,

Patrick Swayze, and Kurt Russell.

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As we're covering the movie to

set the stage, I cover the TV,

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music, pop culture of the time.

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So, if you have been with me

along this journey, I can't

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thank you enough for tuning in.

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And this is the time where I urge

you, if you haven't, to tune in.

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This is your official reminder and also in

case you have not subscribed on YouTube,

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head on over there to do that as well.

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All right, so the time capsule today

is going to be a little different,

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but let's open the time capsule

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Now, if you recall, we

covered this exact same week.

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So Youngblood came out

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We covered the best of times.

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With Kurt Russell and that

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So if you want to relive the TV

goodness and the music and current

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events cartoons and all of that good

stuff from that particular week.

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Go listen to the best of times episode.

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So, since we've literally covered

the exact same week before, I do

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want to expand on 1 particular show.

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1 notable TV show that actually

premiered this season is 227.

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So I would love to hear from listeners

who watched this show, or if this is

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unfamiliar, it's very familiar to me.

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I grew up watching the show.

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Love the reruns.

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Just some kind of iconic characters.

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So 227 is a sitcom and it

followed the lives of people in a

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middle class apartment building.

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The, and 227 comes from the

address of the apartment building

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and it's 227 Lexington place.

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That's actually in

Northeast Washington, D.

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C.

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Which is a little different.

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We don't usually get that.

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We have , Mary Jenkins is

our main character here.

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That's who the show is centered around.

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She's really nosy.

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I suppose, tart tongued, but very

loving housewife, Mary to her husband.

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Lester, and he's a construction worker

and they have a teenage daughter, Brenda.

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Now, some of the neighbors in the

building, we have Pearl, Pearl Shea.

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She's the grandma and she's

kind of, annoying, but.

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Considered open minded and she likes

to gossip a lot with Mary and Rose Lee

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Holloway, who is Mary's best friend.

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So these are all characters

who live in the building.

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Right.

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And then for part of the show,

she's only in the early seasons.

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Rosalie Holloway has a daughter named

Tiffany and she's friends with Brenda.

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The landlord dies in the pilot episode

and so rose takes over the place until

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season 4 and then we get you're probably

wondering, well, what about Sandra?

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She's the very attractive

and sassy kind of vampy.

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Dresses really provocatively big, like,

she's always man, hungry, always trying

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to like, that's Sandra and she and

the way she speaks is kind of iconic.

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But so her name is Sandra

Clark and she shows up also.

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Now, I didn't know this until I was

doing the research, but this series

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was actually adapted from a stage

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Houston, and it's about the lives of

women in a predominantly black apartment

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building in the 1950s that in Chicago,

but the show for the TV show, it was

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changed to present day, Washington, D.

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C.

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right?

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So, 2 to 7 ran for.

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For five Seasons, 116 episodes from

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Now, one of the things I did

wanna point out, yes, the,

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the cast is primarily black.

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In fact, I think there's only one

white character that shows up like

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one white main character and he

doesn't show up until the last season.

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So that's.

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Pretty different for this time on,

on like a main network show and with

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the exception of the Cosby show and a

different world, 227 achieved higher

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ratings than any other sitcoms airing

at this particular time that had a

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predominantly African American cast.

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During at least the 1st, 2 seasons

of its original run on NBC.

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I very much remember the theme song.

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No.

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You don't need to do wrong.

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No.

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With

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no.

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You don't need to enroll them.

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I mean.

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Katie: So the theme song,

it's very recognizable.

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There's no place like home

and it's actually performed

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by Marla Gibbs who plays Mary.

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So she's, you know, from the Florence from

Jeff, the Jeffersons and she's in a ton

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of things, but that's Marla Gibbs actually

Sings it, but we have a famous theme song

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person who composed it named Ray Colcord.

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He actually won an award for

this particular theme song.

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The BMI TV music award for 227 in 1987.

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I didn't recall the name, but you

definitely know his other work.

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He composed other themes for Dinosaurs,

Boy Meets World, My Two Dads,

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The Facts of Life, Silver Spoons,

et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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So the show was created by, I think this

is also an interesting little tidbit.

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So Michael G.

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Moy is the creator's name.

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Actually, I think he's

a co creator Michael G.

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Moy.

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He was credited under the pseudonym C.

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J.

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Banks, so that's, that's the name

that's credited for creating the show,

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because he actually disagreed with

the producers over the series tone and

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didn't want his real name in the credits.

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And he came up with the name CJ

because it was the name of his

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college theater professor, I guess.

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So a little bit of drama.

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He wanted it to kind of

remain more just like comedic.

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I believe if I'm recalling correctly,

which makes sense when we talk about

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some of the other stuff that he created.

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Whereas some of the other

producers, and I think Marla

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Gibbs wanted it to be more topical.

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So they kind of butted heads over.

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The subject matter and the

tone of the show, but C.

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J.

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Banks, the pseudonym, a.

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K.

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Michael G.

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Moy, he also created married with

children silver spoons, and he

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wrote on the Jefferson's good

times and different strokes.

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Amongst some other things.

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And then the other co

creator is Bill Boulware.

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And he also created and or produced The

Fresh Prince of Bel Air and The Parkers.

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So, all right, you guys

with me so far on 227.

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So we talked about Marla Gibbs.

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She's the main character.

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She plays Mary and then how Williams

plays her husband, Lester Jenkins.

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And then we talked about

her best friend that ends up

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owning the apartment building.

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Rosalie Holloway is

played by Elena Reed Hall.

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And so she's she's very level headed.

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And often the voice of reason among

the residents in 2 to 7, and they're

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like, a lot of scenes are set on

the stoop and I kind of love that.

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We don't really get that anymore.

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We got it a little bit, I guess,

in the cause we show, but so

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Rose and Mary are often seen.

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Sitting on the front stoop of the

building exchanging gossip and

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rumors and then also with Pearl, but

Pearl's usually just out her window

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and she's like the old lady, very.

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Very specific haircut on Pearl, but

she's the grandma and she must live

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on the first floor because she's just

talking to them through her window.

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Usually, which I think is just hilarious.

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It's just kind of a signature of the show.

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And then we talked about the

kind of vampy Sandra Clark.

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She's played by Jack.

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And I think later she drops her

last name and just is known by Jack.

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Hey, you guys know who

I'm talking about, right?

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And it's J.

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A.

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C.

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K.

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E.

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E.

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And the first he has that,

that little accent on it.

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So Jack.

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Hey, you, you all know who she is.

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And she was the breakout

star for 227 playing Sandra.

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And she was always you know, You know,

the way she would say Mary and just the

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way she spoke and walked with her, like,

shaking her hips and kind of her waddle

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and always dressed really provocatively,

always done up, very man, crazy.

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And she would always

say Mary in a funny way.

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She'd be like, Mary,

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What you want, honey?

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Hi, Lester.

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Hey, man.

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Let's bury the hatchet.

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Our team made almost 1, 000.

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I think we should share it with everybody.

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Really?

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Well, that's very generous of you.

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I guess I owe you an apology.

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I accept.

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Now, I did have to deduct

some team expenses.

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What team expenses?

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My hairdo, my manicure, my new dress.

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Um, so the way I figure it,

you each owe me about, um, 7.

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83.

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Let's play that other game.

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Katie: but anyway, so she's younger.

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Then Mary and Rose and she and Mary at

1st the 1st, few seasons, especially

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they're like, they bicker all the time.

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They're kind of at each other throwing

jabs, not literal jobs, verbal jobs

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and, you know, they just differ about

how how life should be you know, so.

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Their lives are very different, right?

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So Mary is this happily married housewife.

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She's got a stable lifestyle and

Sandra is seen as very stylish.

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I don't know, maybe a

little, they say loose.

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I don't know.

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That's a weird word, but

that's how it's described.

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In the show's description, very

man, hungry, somewhat ditzy.

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Although she's not, she's actually very

smart diva type and she's a serial dater.

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And yeah, her dresses are always very,

very shapely to show off her, her shape.

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So that's Sandra.

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And then the most famous person

from the show is Brenda, the

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daughter, Marion Lester's teenage

daughter, Brenda, Brenda Jenkins.

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She is played by Regina King, and

this is her very first TV role.

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I love Regina King.

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You guys, she's in everything and

she would go on to win an Oscar.

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For if Beale street could talk in

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I can't believe this is her first TV role.

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And then the other teenage girl,

Tiffany, who's Rose's daughter.

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So Tiffany Holloway is played

by Kia Goodwin and she's

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later written out of the show.

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I think I read like her mom didn't like

living in LA, so they wanted to move

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and they wrote her out of the show.

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And then we talked about

the, the older lady.

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Is she's the grandma, her name's Pearl

Shea and she's played by Helen Martin.

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Very recognizable.

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You guys know her.

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And then her grandson Calvin

lives with her and Calvin

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is played by Curtis Baldwin.

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And then another young actor, actress,

I should say, is Countess Vaughn

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and she plays Alexandria DeWitt,

but she was only in season four.

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And she at the time she was playing an

11 year old prodigy who came to live

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with the Jenkins while her father was

on an archeological dig in the Amazon.

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So that was an interesting way to

have her come and then she leaves.

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So she's only in the 4th season.

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Then I think the way they explain

away her not being there anymore

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is that she goes her dad's back.

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I don't know, goes to

live with him in London.

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Then there's a ton of guest

stars regulars and recurring

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characters in the 5th season.

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So, in the show's final season,

we have people like Tookie Smith,

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Barry Sobel, Stoney Jackson, Kevin

Peter Hall, and Paul Winfield.

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They joined in the final season, I

suppose in an effort to, To stop or to

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slow down the declining ratings in that

final season but the cast additions

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did prove fruitless because it ended.

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Its run in the spring of 1990,

and also there's a mailman

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that I didn't talk about.

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He's actually an 18 episodes.

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So he's throughout the show, but not

like a main character, but he's kind of a

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mainstay and he's played by Rinaldo Ray.

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There's a ton of guest stars,

which I always find fun because.

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I didn't know who they were

probably when they were on the show.

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And now only, you know, looking

back, you're like, Oh, wow.

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Everybody was in this.

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So run DMC Della Reese, Vanessa Bell,

Armstrong, Brian Stokes, Mitchell,

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Jane Kennedy, flip Wilson, Ron

glass, Nipsey Russell, Bobby Brown,

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Peewee Herman, Phyllis Diller, Joan

Rivers, Charlotte Ray that's Mrs.

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Garrett.

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Just as an FYI, Kim Fields, also

from Facts of Life, Ted Lang,

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Tim Reed, Robert Hooks, Denise

Nicholas, John Hausman, Reginald

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Bell Johnson, and Jo Marie Payton.

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That's the mom and dad from

Family Matters, but they did not

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play husband and wife in this.

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Kelsey Grammer, Nell Carter,

Richard Maul, Rita Wilson, and A

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young friend, Rusher, who I adore.

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I'll get into some other little

like trivia type tidbits, but I did

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want to point out that this show

did win some awards or at least the

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actors and actresses did so Jack.

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Hey, Harry she won the Emmy

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And she was nominated in 1988

for outstanding supporting

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actress in a comedy series.

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She also was nominated in 1989 for that.

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Supporting role for golden globe.

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And then the Young Artists Award,

Regina King, Curtis Baldwin and

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Countess Vaughn were all nominated.

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And then Regina King was also

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Actress for the NAACP Image Award.

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So, the Young Actresses and Jack A.

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Harry cleaned up with the awards

over the other mainstays, which I

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thought was really interesting that

Marla Gibbs didn't get anything.

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Anyway as I talked about this being in D.

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C.

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you almost never see a

comedy or a sitcom set in D.

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C.

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if things are in D.

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C.

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it's usually political

or government oriented.

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And I actually don't even think

I realized when I was a kid

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watching this that it was in D.

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C.

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Until I, you know, got a little older

and started watching it in syndication.

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So I find that very interesting.

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The next one is kind of wild because it

flies in the face of normal, I guess,

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like retro aging in that, you know,

how in the 80s and then 70s and 80s,

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or just back in the day, people that

weren't that old looked really old.

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I, we talk about this a lot.

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Well, this is kind of the reverse.

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So Marla Gibbs playing Mary, the

main character was 54 years old.

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When the show started, and I just think

that's a really odd example because I

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think she looks way younger than that I

would have I would have guessed her to be

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in her 40s playing like a 40s housewife

And maybe that's actually don't know

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how old her character is supposed to be

but Marla was 54 when the show started.

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And then Sondra Clark was never

intended to be a regular character.

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She was added to the cast after she

tested really positively with audiences

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and she ended up going on to win the

awards and became the breakout star.

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And to that point, and it's

funny cause their characters

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would verbally jab each other.

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And so there was a lot of rumor, I

guess, that Marla and Jack Hay did

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not get along, but Marla has said

in an interview that there wasn't

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actually , any feud despite those rumors.

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I didn't realize this either.

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So in 1987, when she won the Emmy, she was

actually the first African American to win

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a supporting actress in a comedy series.

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Emmy 1987.

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Interesting.

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Hmm.

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So yes, Rose Holloway's daughter,

Tiffany, played by Kia Goodwin.

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She was a regular cast

member in season one.

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And then in season two, her

role was significantly reduced.

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And then by season four, she.

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Inexplicably disappeared and was

never seen or referred to again

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in the show, which is weird.

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I don't know why they didn't because

later that countess Vaughn character,

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they wrote into the storyline

why she wasn't there anymore.

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So it's really weird.

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And this is reminiscent of where

they're just, like, not there

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anymore and nothing is said about it.

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Chuck Cunningham on happy days and

Judy Winslow on family matters.

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Do you remember how there

just wasn't a younger.

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Another younger sister anymore

after a while same same story.

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Well, they thought that Jackie Harry had

enough cache to give her a spinoff series.

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So there was a pilot for it, but , it

failed that series didn't ever air.

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I don't think, but that episode,

the pilot episode for Jack.

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Hey, that's what the show is

called is included in the package,

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like the syndication package.

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So that's interesting.

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I don't think I've seen that episode.

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And then the woman who plays Rose, Elena

Reed Hall, is actually married to, in

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real life, or was Kevin Peter Hall, and

he played a recurring character, Warren

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Merriweather, in the final season.

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So they're a real life married couple.

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Yeah.

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227, you guys, just wanted to

share some memories of that.

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And my, my biggest memory of this

show, and why I kind of wanted to cover

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it, is that it I think it was on the

same night as Golden Girls, Saturday

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nights for a while I think both shows

probably moved around their nights a

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little bit, but when I was little, and

my parents went out of town, I stayed

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at my grandma and grandpa's house.

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And yeah, so it would

have been over a weekend.

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So Saturday night, you know, I was

like, camped out in like blankets

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or sleeping bags on the living

room floor and watching whatever

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my grandparents were watching that.

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That night.

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So the NBC lineup included

both 227 and golden girls.

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And I vividly remember watching both

of those shows all cozy on the living

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room floor of my grandparents house and

them laughing at, you know, the sitcom

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stuff and me, not probably getting most

of the sexual innuendo in either show.

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So, yeah, that's my memory.

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What's yours of 227?

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If you want to, you know, relive

some of it, it is currently airing.

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You can watch it on Tubi and

Pluto, and those are both free.

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And then I think if you have a

subscription, you can also watch

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it on Hulu and Disney plus.

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So that's two to seven, you guys.

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Now, shall we get into Youngblood?

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Okay, now, the elephant in the

room is that I am shocked that no

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guest has chosen this movie yet.

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And we're nearing the end of season two.

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1 with Patrick and Kurt, so there's

probably only a handful of episodes left

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and this is 1 of them and I'm shocked

because I grew up watching young blood and

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then regular guest and host of the show.

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Of one more round, the Rocky series

podcast, Ryan Rebalkin, he's never

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seen it, nor has a co host Kyle.

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They're both Canadian and super into

hockey and this movie is about hockey.

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So it's wild to me.

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Plus Rob Lowe's in it.

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Patrick, I mean, and Cynthia Gibb, if

you're a dude, I guess everyone loves her.

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She's very like girl next door y.

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She has that like sweet,

innocent, cute look to her.

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I wouldn't, I wouldn't say hot.

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I'd say she's cute.

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Anyway, I am shocked that no

one has chosen Youngblood.

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So here I am covering it solo.

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And maybe that's why,

cause nobody can watch it.

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It's hard to watch.

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Meaning it's not streaming anywhere.

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It's actually very easy to

watch and I highly recommend it.

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You guys, if you haven't seen

Youngblood, watch it and then come

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back because there will be spoilers.

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I'm going to talk about it, but it was

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rated R and the IMDB rating here is a 6.

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2 out of 10.

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I feel like a lot of stuff has

been hovering in that range.

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The last several episodes, like high

fives, low sixes, a lot of stuff

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seems to be in that range lately.

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All right.

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Well, if you haven't seen young

blood, or if it's been nearly.

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Oh, my God.

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Nearly 40 years.

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A 17 year old farm boy is

offered an ice hockey tryout.

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His brother drives him to Canada.

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He has fast legs, slow

fists, but is chosen.

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Will he learn to use his

fists and play ice hockey?

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The Canuck way?

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Will he get the coach's cute daughter?

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All right.

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The director here.

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Is Peter Markle and he he was also one

of the writers but he, I didn't realize

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this was a former pro hockey player.

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We'll talk, we'll touch on

that in, in a little bit.

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And then not a lot of like major

motion picture directing, but

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he has a lot of credits that are

TV episodes and also TV movies.

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So credits for directing those.

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And then, like I mentioned,

he was one of the writers.

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The other writer was John Whitman,

and this is his only writing credit.

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I always find that really interesting.

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What, what happened?

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What's what's up?

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All right.

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So technically, like I mentioned,

Patrick is not our main lead.

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It's Rob Lowe.

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So no complaints here.

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He plays Dean Youngblood, the 17 year old.

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I wonder how I, it, he had

to have been in his 20s.

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Actually.

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Yeah, his, I think he was 1986.

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He would have been like, I don't

know, 22, 23 playing a 17 year

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old, which, you know, whatever.

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It's the 80s.

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That's how it went.

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And then Cynthia Gibb

plays his love interest.

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She plays Jesse.

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And what's interesting about her is that

she's known and everybody knows who she

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is, but she's not really been in a lot.

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I think she never really got like super

famous, but she was in the TV series fame

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and also the movie short circuit too.

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But otherwise known for the

cute girl in young blood.

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I don't know.

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I'm sure she's in a bunch of other stuff.

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I just, she's not famous.

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But Patrick Swayze is in a ton of stuff.

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He's one of our ultimate every men.

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I'm season one of a retro maid.

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He plays Derek Sutton and he's kind of

the I don't know if they ever say it, but

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I would say he's the captain of the team.

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He's the best player basically in the

league and he's probably the captain.

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But Derek Sutton is Patrick Swayze.

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Now he and Rob Lowe also.

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We're in another movie together.

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Does anybody remember?

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They played brothers just a few

years prior in The Outsiders.

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I like it.

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I mean, they're both very handsome.

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Okay.

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So the coach, Cynthia Gibb,

who plays Jesse, is the coach's

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daughter and also love interests

of the rookie hockey player.

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So, you know, there's gonna

be some stuff going on there.

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Ed Lauder plays the

coach, Murray Chadwick.

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Yes.

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So he's the coach and also Jesse's dad.

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You all very much know who he is.

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He's super recognizable guy.

475

Although it's weird, you can't

pinpoint what you've seen him

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in, but you definitely know him.

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He has over 200 credits

going back to the sixties.

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Yeah, one of his major

credits was Cujo, but

479

I've only seen it once and

it was a long time ago.

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Okay.

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Also this movie is just, it's great

for the ladies because there are three.

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Prominent, super hot dudes.

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The third one is Jim Youngs, who plays

Kelly Youngblood, Dean's older brother.

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And I always remembered watching

Youngblood and thinking that the brother

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was super hot, but never realizing

until now, doing the research for

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today's show, why he looks familiar.

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His other most famous credit is

playing Chuck, the dickhead boyfriend

488

of Laurie Singer in Footloose.

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You guys he really is, he has

that, that look to him, but

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it's, he's very nice looking.

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And then the boy's dad, so

Dean and Kelly's father's his

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name is Blaine Youngblood.

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He is played by Eric Nesterenko.

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Does that sound familiar to anyone?

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It didn't to me because

I'm not into hockey.

496

I don't dislike it.

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I actually like watching it.

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I just don't know that much about it.

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He is an actual

professional hockey player.

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So he played 21 seasons in the NHL

with mostly for the Chicago Blackhawks,

501

but also the Toronto Maple Leafs.

502

And I noted that, so he

503

In Colorado, so Eric Nesterenko, now

the kind of the bad guy of the movie,

504

Racky, he's the rival team's enforcer

and he's like a super rough like cheap

505

shots doesn't necessarily play by the,

anyway, we'll get into it, but his name

506

is Racky, Carl Racky, and he's played by

George Finn, and he only has two credits.

507

This and 1981's The Dozens, which

probably was another hockey movie because

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he was a former major junior player.

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And enforcer in the O.

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H.

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L.

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is that Ontario Hockley?

513

What is that?

514

Anyway?

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Okay.

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So then there's some fun

scenes with Miss Miguel.

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She is the owner of the boarding

house where a lot of the young

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recruits stay while they're living

in this little town in Canada.

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She's played by

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Fionnuala Flanagan.

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Yep, she's an Irish actress.

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Definitely.

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And she won an Emmy for 1976

is a rich man, poor man.

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And she was also in the movie for

brothers, and I can picture who she is.

525

I think she's like, they're

like adopted mother.

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You guys have seen 4 brothers, right?

527

Yeah, Tyrese and Mark

Wahlberg, who else is in it?

528

Anyway, it's 4 adopted

brothers and she's the mom.

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I think.

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And she was also in The Others.

531

Did I mention that?

532

Okay.

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Then a character who I kind of

liked in the movie Frasier, he's the

534

trainer and acts as like the doctor.

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Cause there's no doctor.

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So he stitches them up.

537

He shoots them up with cortisone.

538

He fixes them up.

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He's the trainer and

he can't see very well.

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So that's fun.

541

He's played by Ken James and the last

movie that he was in was Cinderella.

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Man.

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He didn't look familiar

to me, but he was good.

544

He was really good.

545

And then some of the other players

we have Huey Hewitt, he was one

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of the main players on the team.

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He was played by Peter Fot

and not really well known.

548

I, but he looks familiar for some reason.

549

And Heaver is the goalie, and

he is played by anyone, anyone

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who's seen this, Keanu Reeves!

551

In his very first feature film role,

and he and Patrick would go on later to

552

star in Point Break from 1991 together.

553

We covered that, so go listen to that

episode too, in addition to The Outsiders.

554

And let's see, what was the

other rec I had for you?

555

Oh, the same, that came out in

the same week The Best of Times.

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So if you guys haven't listened to those

episodes, please do so then one more

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person that we'll talk about the assistant

coach The reason I want to talk about him

558

because he voiced Mario so the assistant

coach is played by Walker Boone and he

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voiced Mario in 1990s the adventures of

560

Mario World TV series I did not watch

those, but I thought that was interesting.

561

The music here

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is William Orbit.

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Composer and record producer.

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I would say he's more famous for

his record producing than his like

565

composing on movies probably, but he

did compose this he's famous for his

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collaborations and productions with

a ton of people, including Prince,

567

Belinda Carlisle, Madonna Britney

Spears, Pink U2, Ricky Martin, Sarah

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McLachlan, Queen, and Robbie Williams.

569

And, oh, he worked with back, they

wrote a song for pink called feel good

570

time which I guess William orbit then

571

film, Charlie's angels, full throttle

and then Madonna's multi grammy winning.

572

Seventh album.

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I didn't realize that was her

seventh album, Ray of Light.

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He produced that.

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So he's a legit dude, this William Orbit.

576

All right.

577

So Youngblood cost 8 million

to make and It made 15.

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5 million at the box office.

579

So I would say that's mediocre and

the, the critics didn't love it.

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They said it was derivative.

581

It sounds very critically to say, right.

582

But it did become a very popular VHS

rental and had a quite the cable TV run.

583

And that's how I came upon it.

584

Right.

585

So in our handy dandy Memorex.

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VHS cabinet with all of our taped movies.

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That was one of them.

588

So I grew up watching

and loving this movie.

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Oh, you guys, I'm going to talk about it.

590

So I suggest you watch it, or if

you don't mind spoilers, here we go.

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It's quite cute how it opens because

we're seeing through like a grainy

592

you know, 19, well, I guess it would

have been in the seventies video,

593

like home video camera of little kids.

594

little boys playing ice hockey

on just like a local pond.

595

So that's how we open on this frozen pond.

596

Then we cut to an eighties super synthy

music and a closeup of a skate on ice.

597

And then we see that it's Rob Lowe.

598

And it's dark, he's just

playing like by himself.

599

He's just like, I don't

know what you call it.

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He's scooting, scooting, puck around

with a stick skating like solo though.

601

And so that's where we

get our opening credits.

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Kelly, the older brother, we, we

meet him right away because Dean and

603

Kelly live on a farm in New York.

604

And I can't believe I never

realized that he was Lori Slinger's

605

boyfriend until now, but this

movie's super stacked with the hots.

606

So Kelly, the older brother,

you're like, well, why is he not?

607

He did, and his career ended

because he got an injury to the eye,

608

causing him to be blind in one eye.

609

So Dean is talking to his dad and

his brother, at the breakfast

610

table, saying that he wants

to go to this tryout in Canada.

611

You know, I'm never going to get

in the pros if I don't get on

612

this minor league team first.

613

But the dad's like, No so there's no mom.

614

We learned later.

615

She, she left them some time ago.

616

He's like, I can't afford to

hire somebody to take your place.

617

So the older brother offers

to pick up a slack and then.

618

Okay.

619

Well, now they're off

in this blue GTO across.

620

We see them cross the bridge over Niagara

Falls and he drops them off in, this

621

little town in Canada where the mustangs

tryouts are apparently the mustangs only

622

need one player So there's an entire

tryout for one player and it's down

623

to Rocky who we learn is six feet tall

weighs a hundred ninety eight pounds Super

624

rough dirty player and we also learned

so they're like telling us his stats.

625

He has a shit ton of penalty time Then

it's between Racky and then major contrast

626

with Dean, who is 5 feet 10, 160 pounds

and has like hardly any penalty time.

627

He can't fight to save his

life, but he's very, very fast.

628

So, he's not used to being roughed up.

629

So, which do they choose?

630

Of course, they pick Dean.

631

He gets the spot, which

royally pisses Racky off.

632

And so, for some reason,

this was kind of confused.

633

So, Racky comes in, he's telling them off.

634

And then he , rushes out the,

into the hallway, out the door.

635

And Dean follows him

and he's in his towel.

636

He's just in a towel.

637

For some reason, he, Steps

out into the hallway.

638

The reason is because we need this next

scene, which I'm going to tell you guys

639

about, he's in a towel and it falls off.

640

He does have a jock strap on, but

he's facing like away from us.

641

And here comes Jesse.

642

So she can see him and his

beautifulness with just as jockstrap on.

643

And so they have a cute little interplay.

644

That's how they meet.

645

He doesn't yet know who she is.

646

So she is the cute daughter of

the coach as he learns later.

647

So yeah, wouldn't you know it?

648

That's what happened.

649

So that's why it was written that way.

650

I'm pretty sure.

651

Then, We cut back to the locker room.

652

The existing team is doing their

thing in the locker room, working

653

out showering, all the things.

654

And we see Patrick Swayze in

the locker room or weight room

655

or whatever it was, aka Derek.

656

His name's Derek.

657

And he's lifting weights shirtless.

658

So, so far, so good.

659

This movie is hitting all

the buttons for the ladies.

660

I guess Cynthia Gibb for the

men, but also hockey, I guess.

661

So who doesn't love this movie?

662

I can't believe you guys haven't seen it.

663

If you haven't seen it, if

you have, you must tell me.

664

Okay.

665

So the other thing is that in this tryout,

so while Dean does get picked, he gets

666

his ass kicked by Racky and needs like

like six stitches above his eyebrow.

667

And there's no doc.

668

It's just the, the trainer and he picks

like a sewing pin cushion to find the

669

the right needle for stitching someone

up and he can't thread the needle.

670

He's I'm fine once I thread the

needle, but you're going to have

671

to thread the needle for me.

672

And he's like, Oh, P.

673

S.

674

It's going to hurt because

I'm out of Novocaine.

675

So these are the fun little

scenes that add , to the movies.

676

Charm, I think.

677

Okay, so now he's on the team and wouldn't

you know, there's some hazing to be done.

678

He gets his balls shaved with

a straight razor by the team.

679

I guess that's 1 of the things they do.

680

I don't I don't know.

681

I mean, good for Cynthia get later.

682

Maybe I don't know.

683

Next, we're joining Rob Lowe,

aka Dean Youngblood's world.

684

Now he's a 17 year old kid.

685

I keep forgetting because

he doesn't look 17.

686

He goes to the boarding house

where he's going to stay.

687

And Miss McGill who, who owns it and

she, Miss McGill she's like a very

688

sexy, sexual, like she's dressed in

short shorts, showing him up the stairs,

689

but she's probably supposed to be.

690

In her forties, I think she

looks a little older than that.

691

But again, this is in the eighties.

692

So she's prop could even be late thirties,

but she's probably in her forties.

693

And so she shows them to

his room and she brings tea.

694

And this is a thing that apparently

she does with all the players to

695

welcome them is they have tea with

Miss McGill and that includes sex.

696

So that's also fun.

697

And then they tease him later at the

bar that, oh, you know, nothing's

698

better than tea with Miss McGill other

than hockey or something like that.

699

So it's really fun.

700

And then now they're at the bar,

having beer with the team, and

701

they do tequila shots and he coughs

they're like, God, you need to like,

702

grow up or something like that.

703

They keep doing more and

more and more tequila shots.

704

So they get him wasted so that he has a

really hard time at practice the next day.

705

Like they're all like throwing

after a certain point, they're

706

all throwing their shots over

their shoulder, not drinking them.

707

But Dean is, so he's super wasted.

708

They also invite, well, they, by

they, I mean the leader of the group.

709

Derek, he, yeah, he's very

much the leader of these guys.

710

And he's probably the

oldest one too, as we learn.

711

He, one of the guys has.

712

Dentures.

713

And so they invite these girls over to sit

with them and the girls have Bloody Marys.

714

They distract the girls and put

one of the players dentures in the

715

Bloody Marys so that she drinks it.

716

Ew.

717

Ew.

718

Ugh.

719

I'm still really grossed out by it.

720

But so they're playing pranks.

721

We see, prankiness and just

the antics of this hockey team.

722

And they're pretty close.

723

But.

724

The next morning practice is poor Dean

is like, major struggle bus, and he

725

kind of gets in trouble with the coach.

726

Like, oh, why did I pick you?

727

If this is the best you can do.

728

The other thing I noted at this,

we don't really get, we get maybe

729

like 2 lines from Keanu Reeves.

730

In this, and he says, I can't even

really remember what he says, but

731

it's a French accent and it's awful.

732

So, yeah, it's a good thing.

733

You didn't have more lines

because it's, it's really bad.

734

After this 1st practice, now, we're at

a scene at night again, very small town.

735

He walks by the movie theater and here

comes Jesse coming out of the theater.

736

So they talk, they meet and they

go into this bookstore together.

737

And she's like, oh, I'll buy you a book.

738

She buys him Moby Dick.

739

1st, I don't know why and he also when

they're checking out she doesn't see this,

740

but he picks like a pornographic book.

741

It's called info.

742

He's get this 1 to, he

says to the cashier.

743

So now he's got like a bag with his

books and they come back out in the

744

street and and, the dad, the coach

is there and that's when he learns

745

that Jesse is the coach's daughter

and he's like, oh, yeah, she bought

746

me a book and he grabs in his bag and

holds up a book and it's not Moby Dick.

747

It's the nympho book.

748

So that's really embarrassing.

749

It's cute.

750

Again.

751

There's all these cute

little things like that.

752

And she okay, so then it is,

there's a lot predictable in this

753

movie, but I still quite enjoy it.

754

She goes, I don't think it's a

good idea if we see each other.

755

Yeah.

756

Which automatically makes their

romance to be part of the movie

757

when somebody says that in a movie

and then the next the next scene.

758

I love I love this kind

of stuff in sports movies.

759

We get a scene before a big game, like

their 1st game that Dean's going to be in.

760

It's the locker room scene of just the

reality of, of how this is in junior

761

hockey the trainers shooting up 1 of

them, like an injury with a cortisone

762

shot, there's fans like lady fans.

763

So, Derek is, he eats the flower

off of a rose that a fan gave him.

764

And you know, the game's going well,

Dean is proving he plays really well

765

in the game and he's proving himself to

the team, but the coach does bench him

766

for dating the daughter, even though

technically they're not dating yet.

767

And, but, of course, they

end up dating and there's a,

768

there's a sex scene in his room.

769

So they.

770

They go out ice skating together.

771

That's their date and kind of

get in trouble, like ice skating

772

amongst like elderly people.

773

And anyway, they go back to

his room and sit on his bed.

774

And it's super squeaky.

775

Like the springs, the frame of

the bed makes it super squeaky.

776

So they just take the mattress off

the frame, put it on the floor and

777

somehow his room in this boarding

house has its own private fireplace.

778

So it's like this perfect.

779

Stage for their sex scene and they have

a it's a it's a pretty good sex scene.

780

I guess Yeah, I thought

it was pretty good.

781

Like they're very into each other

but what's funny about it is that

782

we keep cutting back and forth

between them It's essential.

783

It's not, yeah, it's

like a central sex scene.

784

And miss McGill is all excitedly

downstairs getting a tea tray ready.

785

Cause she wants to go have sex with him.

786

So she's getting tea ready.

787

She's all dolled up in a sexy, I

don't know, nightgown or something.

788

And so we keep cutting back and forth.

789

So we're in anticipating

what's going to happen.

790

So she comes up with the

tea even has a cherry.

791

In some whipped cream on the tea tray for

some reason and that's the cherry on top.

792

She doesn't knock or anything.

793

She just walks in the room and sees them

together and is super disappointed and

794

it's, it takes her like a really long

time to process it and then she just.

795

She doesn't say anything.

796

She just sets the tray down and

leaves and then they notice and yeah,

797

they're like, oh, sweet room service.

798

So then Dean is telling Patrick's

character, Derek, about this the next

799

day at Derek's, I guess, apartment, which

is hilarious because it's super bachelor

800

patty it has outdoor furniture it's huge.

801

It's this very 80s open space.

802

Just an open concept kind of

industrial type, and it even has this

803

hockey game where they're playing

hitting goals against this goalie.

804

But so they're bonding, we're just

showing they're getting close,

805

becoming friends, they're bonding,

talking about this and Dean still

806

has the stitches and they apparently

have a game against their rival.

807

The Bay City bombers, I want to

say, and that's we'll learn who's

808

on that team, but they're known

for being really rough players.

809

And if they see the stitches,

they'll try and open it up again.

810

So, derek is like, oh, let

me take your stitches out.

811

I've only had a couple of cases of air.

812

No worries.

813

He takes the stitches out.

814

This is also where we learn that

Derek is talking to Dean, they're

815

talking about their love of

hockey, how they got into it.

816

And Derek expects to be the number

one draft pick for the NHL because

817

he's been busting his ass in

this minor league for four years.

818

So, again.

819

Learning this him saying that that is

never a good omen in a sports movie

820

when the best player is just, you know,

doom, doom, doom, doom, doom to come.

821

Right?

822

All right.

823

So now we're at this away game

with the Bay City Bombers.

824

So it's, it's funny the

crowd is super hostile.

825

They're like throwing things at the coach.

826

They're super trash talking

the players and everything.

827

Oh, and it turns out, guess

who's on this team now?

828

Guess who picked up Racky?

829

The Base Lady Bombers did.

830

So if they weren't a rough enough team

already, now they have this dirty player

831

Racky that is known for his penalty time.

832

So, I I kind of know, but don't know

that fighting is a part of hockey

833

or at least it may be used to be.

834

I don't know if it still is I

wish I knew more about hockey.

835

I do like it.

836

I just don't go to games very often,

but apparently fighting must, or at

837

least in movies, I don't know, or

maybe back in the day, it was very much

838

encouraged seemingly because once a

fight does break out, the coaches are

839

like, they like signal to their bench.

840

Like everybody get out there.

841

So both benches get out and it's just

for how, I don't understand how this

842

works, like how long do they let it go?

843

Cause the refs are just like.

844

Do do do, do do do, like letting

the teams fight for however long.

845

So, I don't know.

846

It's fun.

847

I find that fun.

848

, the fans are throwing trash on the ice.

849

And then they're trash talking.

850

Coach Chadwick actually gets in

a, an actual fist fight with a fan

851

and gets thrown out of the game.

852

Alright, so, the doomy music

comes on when Rocky gets put in.

853

He immediately goes after Derek.

854

Cause he's like, he's their main player.

855

He's like the center or whatever,

but he's also the best player.

856

And Rocky's playing super dirty,

but the refs don't call anything.

857

They either don't see it

or they don't call it.

858

I guess it proves the point, or

makes all the more sense when earlier

859

when , we are meeting , this team,

this rink, the coaches see the 3 refs

860

come skating into the arena and they're

like, oh, there's the 3 blind mice.

861

And I learned later that

that's an actual thing that.

862

People used to say, or maybe

they still do about refs.

863

But 1 in particular they know

these people, they play often

864

and these are the same reps.

865

And so they know them by name at any rate.

866

There's a growing animosity between

rocky and Derek during this game.

867

And at 1 point after, I think,

, actually, after young blood.

868

Scores a goal and it's not during

gameplay it's there's just the

869

team is like, celebrating the goal.

870

Rocky blindsides.

871

Derek, and then sweeps his feet

from under him with his stick.

872

And so, and then that causes Derek to

fall backwards and hit his head hard on

873

the ice because, because he pushes him

forward, then he sweeps him back, and

874

in doing that, his helmet had come off,

so he's laying there, not moving, blood.

875

Not good.

876

And so he's now in the hospital

with a metal plate in his head.

877

And now we come back to the home there.

878

So this was an away game.

879

So we see like it's at night,

they're on their bus, they're

880

getting back to the locker room and

they're all like, they're pissed.

881

They clearly lost.

882

Or I don't even know if they lost, but

their teammate got seriously injured and

883

could have died and ended his career.

884

So they're all bummed out,

putting their gear , on the

885

hooks and the coach comes in.

886

He's like, no guys.

887

Don't put it away.

888

Put it on.

889

Get back on the ice.

890

We're going to practice because he's

not happy with their How they played

891

and he just let the, essentially

they got pushed around by this other

892

team and Dean is like, what the hell?

893

Why?

894

Why would no, and for the 1st time, he

doesn't actually want to play for the 1st

895

time in his life is what he tells Jesse.

896

He doesn't want to play and he walks off.

897

He quits the team.

898

He has all this guilt about not,

you know, he hasn't been fighting

899

and he, he hasn't really, I guess

he could have gotten to Iraqi.

900

This is, you know, in his head, his guilt.

901

He feels like he could have gotten

to Racky before Racky got to Derek,

902

et cetera, but he's now off the team.

903

So now we're back at the

farm, which is great.

904

Cause now we get some Kelly scenes.

905

And he, Kelly gives him a really hard time

because Kelly would do anything to have

906

the opportunity that Dean has, but he's,

he only has one eye, one working eye.

907

They won't let him play.

908

He's like, I would do

anything to have your spot.

909

So he gives them a really hard time

for throwing that opportunity away.

910

And, for a little bit, we see them

just doing , farming things, some

911

really great scenes of them being

hot, doing those farming things.

912

Kelly, especially he looks like he

belongs on he looks like a hot farm

913

hand, but Dean does look out of

place and he's not very good at it.

914

So they're reading in the paper about how

their team is now losing without their

915

2 star players without Dean or Derek.

916

So Kelly now takes it upon himself to

teach Dean how to fight there's some the

917

barn has a heavy bag and there's a speed

bag and so that we get a little rocky

918

montage cutting between rocky drills.

919

Not rocky drills, hockey drills and

sequences of him, learning how to

920

fight on the speed bag and the heavy

bag, but he doesn't actually get any

921

practice fighting a person until.

922

The dad comes to show him how to

handle himself on in a rink on on

923

the ice and he's like, you know,

it's 1 thing to hit the heavy bag.

924

It's another thing to survive on the ice

when you're on your skates when they're

925

fighting back when they have their sticks.

926

Real opponents, et cetera.

927

So Dean's like.

928

Why didn't you help me before?

929

And the dad admits that he doesn't want

yet another son to get seriously injured.

930

So that's the end of the 2nd act montage.

931

Now, we see Dean just

shows up at the final game.

932

So , this final game, it was a

series against the bay City Bombers,

933

I think, like a three game series.

934

So it's the final.

935

So only a few days must have

passed while he's back at the

936

farm learning to fight, right?

937

Only a couple days between

games or something.

938

So he shows back up at the final game.

939

And asks if he can play you know, well, I

guess he gets to so I did notice though.

940

You guys I want to point out

a movie mistake at this point.

941

So while he is in the hallway

of the arena with with coach

942

begging him to let him suit up.

943

We hear the loudspeaker of the.

944

The lineup announced being announced,

and it does announce 2 players that

945

aren't actually playing it announces.

946

Number 9, Derek Sutton in whatever

position he plays and also

947

Hewitt, the other main player.

948

He was disqualified.

949

Somehow, Racky was not

disqualified, but Hewitt was.

950

For oh, yeah, I think he

threw a puck at the ref for.

951

Like being a shitty ref.

952

Anyway, he got disqualified

and is sitting out the game.

953

He's watching from the stands, but Sutton,

Derek Sutton, he says he's not going

954

to watch the game because he's never

watched a game of hockey before in his

955

life and he doesn't want to start now

956

I think the game has already

started when Dean sees his dad and

957

his brother come into the stands.

958

So that makes him smile.

959

But he is benched.

960

So the coach is like, trying

to, , teach him a lesson I get it.

961

If I were a coach, I'd probably do

the same thing, but into well into

962

the 2nd period, Dean is benched.

963

But when he gets in, he

does score right away.

964

And Rocky gets in immediately and goes

straight after him with a super cheap shot

965

and he knocks a tooth loose or something.

966

Like his mouth is bleeding.

967

So they, the, the doc, a.

968

k.

969

a.

970

the trainer is like, oh,

there's no nerve damage.

971

We'll just put a cap on it.

972

So you can keep playing.

973

So now we're in the 3rd period and

everyone is growing pretty frustrated.

974

That so far, Dean still has not

used his newfound fighting skills

975

to keep Rocky off his back.

976

He does score tying up the game.

977

So now the game is tied just when Rocky

comes in and trips him with the stick.

978

And for once, the ref actually

calls it giving him a penalty shot.

979

With three seconds left in the game, I

love this kind of stuff in sports movies.

980

So he of course makes it

981

so now they're winning the

game, but they're technically

982

still three seconds left.

983

So there's a final play and it

would be Racky up against Dean.

984

Puck off, whatever it's called.

985

And the coach is like, no, no, no, no.

986

He sends somebody else in because he

doesn't want Dean to get hurt either.

987

But

988

dean feels like he still

has something to prove.

989

He's like, the game's not over.

990

It's not over for me.

991

So he insists on staying in the game

to play those last three seconds.

992

Of course, there's a fight that

happens between Dean and Racky.

993

They're like, let's go.

994

Essentially, that's all of the final.

995

Three seconds of the game is, is that

they just throw their, their, their

996

fighting out and Dean sure went from

zero to hero pretty fast because now

997

he's inexplicably able to knock down

Rocky, who is notorious for his fighting

998

abilities and also has 40 pounds on

him anyway, the fight, instead of both

999

teams engaging and fighting against each

other, it's sort of just like a match.

00:57:06,446 --> 00:57:11,046

Between Dean and Racky, everybody's just

got a circle around them, the Mustangs

00:57:11,046 --> 00:57:15,786

Dean's team does when he scored the

actually, I think he scored all 3 goals.

00:57:16,316 --> 00:57:17,816

Which should have been a hat trick, right?

00:57:18,506 --> 00:57:19,636

It wasn't mentioned anyway.

00:57:19,766 --> 00:57:21,416

So they carry him off the ice.

00:57:21,546 --> 00:57:22,196

Yay.

00:57:22,196 --> 00:57:22,866

Sports movie.

00:57:22,866 --> 00:57:23,856

They carry him off the ice.

00:57:24,956 --> 00:57:29,176

In victory, and he sees Jesse

calls her name and then we kind of

00:57:29,176 --> 00:57:32,516

cut to a scene where everybody's

gone and it's just him on the ice.

00:57:32,556 --> 00:57:33,936

It's like evening time.

00:57:34,386 --> 00:57:38,906

And then some little boys come in

to play hockey in the empty arena.

00:57:40,441 --> 00:57:43,101

And they ask for Mr.

00:57:43,121 --> 00:57:44,671

Youngblood's autograph.

00:57:45,191 --> 00:57:47,961

And he's really sweet with

them, asking them questions.

00:57:48,001 --> 00:57:50,381

And Jesse sees this adorable scene.

00:57:51,101 --> 00:57:53,751

And it's a happily ever after with a kiss.

00:57:53,751 --> 00:57:55,841

She tells him that she loves him.

00:57:56,011 --> 00:57:58,071

So, end credits roll.

00:57:58,771 --> 00:57:59,361

There we go.

00:57:59,721 --> 00:58:01,821

That's that's Youngblood.

00:58:02,951 --> 00:58:04,211

I did learn a few things.

00:58:05,336 --> 00:58:07,236

I didn't realize that the

writer and director of Peter

00:58:07,246 --> 00:58:09,416

Markle used to be a player.

00:58:09,446 --> 00:58:16,296

Well, I guess this was loosely based

on some of his experiences and when.

00:58:16,811 --> 00:58:19,511

He filmed the ice hockey scenes.

00:58:19,771 --> 00:58:22,121

He worked while on ice skates.

00:58:22,131 --> 00:58:23,281

So that's kind of fun.

00:58:24,231 --> 00:58:30,111

The filming took place in the east

00:58:31,291 --> 00:58:36,861

Cinematographer Mark Irwin wore skates

also and a helmet and devised a special

00:58:36,861 --> 00:58:39,271

rig for shooting hockey scenes on the ice.

00:58:40,001 --> 00:58:41,461

Something that hadn't been done before.

00:58:41,461 --> 00:58:45,641

So it was, I guess, pretty novel

how they shot some of the scenes.

00:58:46,061 --> 00:58:49,101

Now, you're probably wondering, do

these people really play hockey?

00:58:49,151 --> 00:58:49,971

Can they really skate?

00:58:49,971 --> 00:58:50,991

Or was it all body doubles?

00:58:51,011 --> 00:58:53,631

Well, Keanu Reeves, who played.

00:58:53,761 --> 00:58:59,841

The goalie, he does have hockey

experience upon being cast.

00:58:59,941 --> 00:59:07,381

He was the MVP for it's either 2 different

sources, either a high school in

00:59:07,381 --> 00:59:10,881

Toronto, or day LaSalle's college team.

00:59:11,201 --> 00:59:15,411

He was also goaltender there and

he got the nickname the wall.

00:59:16,936 --> 00:59:21,606

Oh, I did also want to point out, I forgot

one thing that when Dean is doing his.

00:59:22,406 --> 00:59:28,286

Penalty shot the goalie, there's a cool

scene of the goalie, like stretching

00:59:28,286 --> 00:59:33,606

and warming up, getting ready for this

penalty shot and, you know, he's in I

00:59:33,606 --> 00:59:38,296

don't even know if they still, you know,

Are geared up like this, the super big

00:59:38,306 --> 00:59:40,846

pads and he's doing splits on the ice.

00:59:41,056 --> 00:59:41,596

It's kind of cool.

00:59:41,626 --> 00:59:42,936

Anyway, I thought that was cool.

00:59:42,936 --> 00:59:46,496

I don't know if that's normal

if all goalies do that, but I

00:59:46,496 --> 00:59:47,326

thought that was pretty cool.

00:59:47,356 --> 00:59:48,126

Somebody let me know.

00:59:48,616 --> 00:59:52,636

So Keanu Reeves could play hockey

clearly Patrick Swayze had been

00:59:52,636 --> 00:59:57,686

trained as a figure skater,

but he had never played hockey.

00:59:58,016 --> 01:00:00,096

But yeah, I mean that he can do anything.

01:00:00,106 --> 01:00:00,776

So P.

01:00:00,776 --> 01:00:01,006

S.

01:00:01,781 --> 01:00:07,241

If you want to check out my coverage

from him in a roller skating movie,

01:00:07,241 --> 01:00:10,341

his 1st roll ever skate town USA.

01:00:10,571 --> 01:00:11,811

It's quite wild.

01:00:12,341 --> 01:00:16,531

Rob Lowe though, odd that the

main character in this movie.

01:00:17,216 --> 01:00:18,696

Didn't he had to learn how to ice skate.

01:00:18,696 --> 01:00:19,736

He didn't know how to before.

01:00:20,276 --> 01:00:21,946

And he did say later that he hated it.

01:00:22,926 --> 01:00:25,786

He says, I don't like any sport

where you're already exhausted when

01:00:25,786 --> 01:00:27,276

you're done putting on the equipment.

01:00:27,876 --> 01:00:31,956

But that said, once I got the equipment

on and was out on the ice, I loved that.

01:00:32,196 --> 01:00:34,256

I loved hitting people being hit skating.

01:00:34,536 --> 01:00:36,776

I loved the exertion and the competition.

01:00:37,016 --> 01:00:40,766

So that was all great, but it's a

lot of work putting all that shit on.

01:00:41,056 --> 01:00:43,216

Give me a surfboard and let

me just paddle into the ocean.

01:00:43,526 --> 01:00:43,896

So.

01:00:44,231 --> 01:00:45,611

Yeah, I concur.

01:00:45,611 --> 01:00:46,521

I agree, Rob.

01:00:46,871 --> 01:00:48,061

Although I can't surf, so.

01:00:48,511 --> 01:00:49,901

Well, maybe I can, I've never tried.

01:00:50,351 --> 01:00:55,721

Now we did talk a little bit about

the dad who Eric Nesterenko that

01:00:55,721 --> 01:00:57,441

he was a former Blackhawk center.

01:00:57,971 --> 01:01:02,901

He wasn't originally cast to

play Dean and Kelly's dad.

01:01:03,511 --> 01:01:07,881

Another actor was actually cast

and he dropped out of the film and.

01:01:07,961 --> 01:01:12,501

Eric Nesteranko was actually the

hockey consultant on the movie.

01:01:12,501 --> 01:01:14,481

And so they were like, well,

do you want to play the dad?

01:01:14,481 --> 01:01:14,931

So he did.

01:01:15,061 --> 01:01:16,021

And I thought it was really good.

01:01:16,421 --> 01:01:17,181

I quite liked him.

01:01:18,051 --> 01:01:24,571

And I also learned that the scene where

Racky jumps Sutton, Patrick Swayze, on

01:01:24,571 --> 01:01:28,871

the ice, that was actually based on a

real life incident where a Minnesota

01:01:28,871 --> 01:01:33,141

North Stars player cracked his head

open on the ice and tragically died.

01:01:35,266 --> 01:01:40,296

In the film, Sutton also suffers a skull

fracture with his career uncertain after.

01:01:42,126 --> 01:01:45,886

And you guys, again, Patrick

says he can do everything.

01:01:45,916 --> 01:01:49,016

And we talked about in the dirty

dancing episode that he sings.

01:01:49,036 --> 01:01:53,196

Actually, he had some songs in

Roadhouse too, but Rob Lowe said

01:01:53,196 --> 01:01:54,676

in a recent Joe Rogan interview.

01:01:54,986 --> 01:02:00,066

Interview that Patrick Swayze

begged him to put the song.

01:02:00,116 --> 01:02:02,286

She's like the wind in young blood.

01:02:02,286 --> 01:02:02,496

Okay.

01:02:02,496 --> 01:02:09,106

I mean, this is a hockey movie, so

01:02:09,106 --> 01:02:12,926

I'm not really sure it fits, but

he said he wasn't surprised at all

01:02:12,926 --> 01:02:16,666

when it did finally pop up in dirty

dancing just a couple years later.

01:02:17,296 --> 01:02:20,266

He also wasn't surprised that

it went to number one on the

01:02:20,266 --> 01:02:22,366

hot billboard 100 charts.

01:02:24,256 --> 01:02:25,806

There was also a woman.

01:02:26,306 --> 01:02:30,696

That played Derek's girlfriend in

this movie and the actress that played

01:02:30,696 --> 01:02:35,596

her Jessica Steen, I guess she spent

two weeks filming scenes playing his

01:02:35,596 --> 01:02:40,956

girlfriend, but all of those were

cut in the final release of the film.

01:02:41,616 --> 01:02:42,246

I wonder why.

01:02:42,456 --> 01:02:43,426

I, that's curious.

01:02:44,026 --> 01:02:45,006

Oh, yeah, it's the.

01:02:45,706 --> 01:02:47,106

I said the Bay City Bombers.

01:02:47,116 --> 01:02:48,696

It's the Thunder Bay Bombers.

01:02:48,696 --> 01:02:49,516

I apologize.

01:02:49,786 --> 01:02:52,756

Is the name of the rival

team featured in this film?

01:02:53,706 --> 01:03:02,096

Well, this is A fictional depiction of

the Philadelphia Flyers, I guess, whose

01:03:02,096 --> 01:03:07,666

nickname was the broad street bullies

01:03:08,176 --> 01:03:10,536

an inspiration for the movie as well.

01:03:10,816 --> 01:03:16,236

And I do remember hearing about

the, I don't know if it was

01:03:16,246 --> 01:03:22,046

Kyle, who is a co host with me.

01:03:22,371 --> 01:03:27,331

And Ryan, the main host on the Rocky

series podcast, one more round and

01:03:27,331 --> 01:03:28,891

he has brought this up before that.

01:03:28,891 --> 01:03:33,421

They were known for playing really

rough and some team, maybe it

01:03:33,421 --> 01:03:37,401

was Russia or some team refused

to come out for the 3rd period.

01:03:37,851 --> 01:03:39,161

But yeah, broad street bullies.

01:03:39,991 --> 01:03:43,871

Philadelphia Flyers, who knew you all

probably didn't know that I didn't.

01:03:44,371 --> 01:03:49,761

And then I, so Rob Lowe, who's very pretty

and does not look at all like a hockey

01:03:49,761 --> 01:03:53,191

player, but I'm glad he's in this movie.

01:03:53,221 --> 01:03:56,941

But Mark, all director and writer

did not want him in this movie.

01:03:56,961 --> 01:03:58,841

Not that he had anything against Rob Lowe.

01:03:59,151 --> 01:04:00,071

It's just, he's.

01:04:00,296 --> 01:04:02,766

Too pretty, and I think

he gets that a lot.

01:04:02,776 --> 01:04:04,476

He's considered too pretty.

01:04:04,826 --> 01:04:08,916

He actually wanted to have a real

hockey player in the movie instead,

01:04:08,926 --> 01:04:14,496

which I could see both points of

view on this MGM is who insisted

01:04:14,496 --> 01:04:15,796

on Rob Lowe being in the movie.

01:04:17,106 --> 01:04:22,056

It probably does get more butts in the

seats, but because of that, because

01:04:22,056 --> 01:04:28,206

he's very pretty, and he thought Rob

Lowe is more suited to more, lighter.

01:04:28,406 --> 01:04:29,736

Comedic type role.

01:04:29,756 --> 01:04:32,866

, the movie was originally a

lot harder with rougher edges.

01:04:32,926 --> 01:04:37,056

So Markle had to soften the movie adding,

, lighter moments, which I actually

01:04:37,066 --> 01:04:40,456

appreciated a lot of the lighter moments

it really added to the movie and, you

01:04:40,456 --> 01:04:45,046

know, more romance, some, some inner lewds

to make it fit low a little bit better

01:04:45,576 --> 01:04:51,886

, evidently players and coaches going into

the stands and getting into fights was

01:04:51,886 --> 01:04:57,436

not an uncommon occurrence, during hockey

games through the 70s and 80s, which

01:04:57,456 --> 01:05:03,116

we see when coach Chadwick beats up the

heckler in stands for throwing garbage.

01:05:04,706 --> 01:05:06,156

This is a fun tidbit.

01:05:06,306 --> 01:05:12,006

I didn't catch it, but actor

Adam Baldwin He's actually in

01:05:12,006 --> 01:05:13,686

a short scene in this movie.

01:05:14,316 --> 01:05:17,576

And again, this is now I gonna,

this is maybe my 5th recommendation

01:05:17,576 --> 01:05:21,226

for other episodes to go listen to,

but we talked about Adam Baldwin

01:05:21,236 --> 01:05:24,456

in next of kin that episode.

01:05:24,736 --> 01:05:30,476

So I guess he is A member of the Mustangs

coaching staff, because he can be seen

01:05:30,476 --> 01:05:36,176

wearing a hat, a Mustang's hat and trying

to hold back Racky after he punches

01:05:36,176 --> 01:05:41,486

Youngblood in the face during tryouts,

but he's not credited in the role.

01:05:42,701 --> 01:05:47,081

And wouldn't you know it, do you guys have

any idea where I'm going to go with this?

01:05:48,951 --> 01:05:51,541

There was supposed to be

a remake of Youngblood.

01:05:53,381 --> 01:05:57,021

Aircraft Pictures and Dolphin

Entertainment were to produce Charles

01:05:57,061 --> 01:06:02,271

Officer's remake of Youngblood with

Photon Films handling the distribution.

01:06:02,801 --> 01:06:08,271

Filming was actually set

01:06:09,321 --> 01:06:11,801

Maybe you guys know I

could not find any updates.

01:06:11,811 --> 01:06:13,601

So I'm assuming that this never happened.

01:06:13,941 --> 01:06:16,591

But if anybody knows,

otherwise, please let me know.

01:06:18,091 --> 01:06:20,861

All right, you guys young

blood man, who else loves it?

01:06:21,121 --> 01:06:22,531

It's so fun.

01:06:22,541 --> 01:06:23,811

It's really good.

01:06:24,141 --> 01:06:25,851

There's something for everyone.

01:06:26,781 --> 01:06:31,911

Hockey, sports, Patrick Swayze,

Rob Lowe, dude that plays Kelly,

01:06:32,131 --> 01:06:34,361

Keanu's in it, Cynthia Gibb.

01:06:34,621 --> 01:06:35,711

It's so fun.

01:06:35,711 --> 01:06:36,161

I love it.

01:06:36,926 --> 01:06:37,936

Who else loves it?

01:06:38,196 --> 01:06:39,916

Please, please, please let me know.

01:06:39,916 --> 01:06:40,726

Don't forget.

01:06:41,096 --> 01:06:44,346

You can do that by emailing

me retromadepodcast.

01:06:44,426 --> 01:06:44,876

gmail.

01:06:44,876 --> 01:06:47,286

com or you can let's see.

01:06:47,286 --> 01:06:48,596

There's comments on YouTube.

01:06:48,856 --> 01:06:50,026

You raining in review.

01:06:50,056 --> 01:06:51,836

There's a lot of ways you

can get in touch with me.

01:06:51,956 --> 01:06:52,936

So please do so.

01:06:53,226 --> 01:06:58,086

And like I said, I did love seeing the

abundance of pretty men in this movie.

01:06:58,401 --> 01:07:03,041

It is now time to return to

the present day reality until

01:07:03,041 --> 01:07:06,701

next time, be kind, rewind.