Baby-Sitters Club (1995)

This is Free with Ads, the podcast that asked the question: why pay Netflix eight bucks a month to watch the new Babysitters Club show when you can go online for free and watch the 1995 movie, which is inherently superior because it helps you remember the 90s.

Hey, remember the 90s?

I hope we never stop remembering the 90s.

I can remember the 90s all day.

Remember them?

The 90s?

I'm Jordan Morris.

And I'm Emily Fleming.

Today's movie is the Babysitters Club, the light-hearted family romp about absentee dads and zoning laws concerning small businesses.

With us, as always, is the super producer, the he freak, Matt Lieb, hitting us with those wholesome ass drops.

The brain, the brain, the center of the chain.

Truly, truly

an epic historical moment in hip-hop history.

I love when kids rap.

Yes, and do a dance to the rap.

I always told kids in the 90s, have you thought of bopping more?

And that's how they invented kids' bop.

Here, here's what you do to rap.

You have to go poo-poo-chi, poo-poo-poo-chi.

Okay, but can we talk about there's this song in the babysitters club that keeps happening over and over and is seems a little bit more problematic than the first rendition of the White Lotus's theme song.

Yes, yes.

There is sort of a Paul Simon.

Hey, nah, hey, yeah, there's a

music perhaps made by white people that is meant to sound like world music.

Yes,

that is yep.

Yes.

I feel like when I listened to it, I was like, you know, Paul Simon kind of accidentally made a whole vibe.

Oh, oh, no, but Sting did it too.

Yeah, Sting did it.

I mean, Sting and the police, because the police did this whole kind of

steel drum

thing.

That's why I've always said, fuck the police.

Thank you.

Oh, so that's what you've been talking about this whole time.

The baby.

What did you think I meant?

Oh, you, okay.

What did you think I meant?

That makes your thin blue line shirt make a little bit more sense.

Yeah, right.

Now, hang on, now hang on.

Wouldn't you argue that all of these elements kind of contributed to ska?

Oh, sure, yes.

Like, listen, we could sit here and discuss how white people stole black music all night.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, for sure.

And also, who's more qualified?

Oh, well, I think that's the thieves.

Us, sure.

The babysitters club.

Sure, yes.

But let's

pivot away from the problematic history of pop music in America to the Babysitters Club.

Well, actually, we do have something to discuss before we talk about this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads.

We want to talk about something else we saw for free on the internet this week.

Other free stuff.

Emily, this is an article in Rolling Stone magazine.

Yes.

The title of which is Bros, Budweisers, and Divorced Dads.

Butt Rock is Back, Baby.

Yes.

To summarize, apparently, bands who were formerly punchlines, Creed, Nickelback, etc.,

they're all back.

It's cool to like them again.

Yeah.

So, can you,

what about this sparked your interest?

Okay, because we love New Metal, I feel like butt rock was kind of, there's an overlap with butt lock.

Buttlock?

Well, that's what I've got right now.

I get that butt lock.

Oh my god, it's crazy.

Oh, prunes.

Yes, prunes will clear up that button.

Yeah, it sure will.

A little black coffee and antifreeze.

Fuck.

Anyway, so I do feel like there is a little bit of a

overlap between New Metal and Butt Rock.

And I think Kid Rock is the line.

Like, Kid Rock is the Coke line between the two.

But, like, it's true.

But I

really loved Nickelback and Creed.

Yes.

But sometimes I get confused as to what is considered alternative rock from the 90s and early 2000s and what is butt rock.

So, and they don't really seem to,

define it other than these definitions or the person that likes it.

Yeah, I think they're more talking about the fans.

Although, yeah, it's like

this era of music really was a very specific sound.

It was a moment in time.

Matt,

would you prepare Mr.

Eddie Redmain, please?

I hate this music.

This is maybe my least favorite popular music.

It is.

And listen, I don't want to cast stones.

Obviously, taste is subjective.

I like a lot of music that people would consider very annoying.

So

I'm sympathetic.

Does Mr.

Redmain have a comment, Matt?

He absolutely does.

What it says.

Yeah, Eddie Redmain,

huge three doors down fan, apparently.

Oh, no.

But yeah,

this stuff really drives me up a wall.

And it being back,

I'm trying not to be judgmental.

I'm trying to let each have their own.

But yeah, the thought of hearing this in public again makes me shudder.

Okay.

Well, there's one band that I think

is on the line of new metal and butt rock, and that's Papa Roach, baby.

Yeah.

Hard-pressed to find.

That might be my least favorite of them.

Yeah, maybe.

Fuck.

Yeah.

And, you know, and I'm oh.

Are you kidding?

You don't like Papa Roach?

I really hate Papa Roach.

Oh.

Those songs were everywhere in high school.

Yeah, it drives me up a wall.

I kind of get it.

No.

Listen, Emily,

this is a genre of music that you're supposed to take pride in the fact that people just hate it out of hand.

Yeah, and maybe that's always kind of seems to be what's happening is people going like, hey, this stuff was a punchline.

I mean, I mean, how many lazy nickelback jokes have I made in

tons?

They were just a punchline, and now I think what people are doing is saying, like, I love this shit.

Yes.

Laugh at me if you want to.

I'm going to chug this fucking Budweiser.

I'm not going to call my kids that I don't have custody of.

I'm going to go head out to the county fair and fucking rock out like it's 2020.

What the fuck is wrong with a county fair?

That's what I got to say.

Nothing.

You're right.

You're right.

Here's the thing.

I liked this music at the same time that I liked corn and limp biscuit, honestly, that's butt rock, bitch.

I don't care what anybody says, but that is butt rock for sure.

Look at that man's face, red as a butt.

It's a baboon's butt.

Baboon's ass on that face, and there's nothing wrong with that.

I loved it.

I liked it.

And I will say,

to bring it back even further, I think the first time I heard butt rock, it was referring to like poison and like motley crew.

So I think like butt rock is for.

That's air metal.

Sure, yeah.

I think at the time, that's, you know, that was a similar punchline to the creeds of the world.

It became just like, this is what aggro dudes listen to.

Right, right, right.

And I think that's what butt rock is trying to say.

It's a pejorative meaning rock you don't like versus rock you do like like alternative rock.

Sure, it's like maybe these guys were pro scrunch or something.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, I think it was happening at the same time, and it was kind of the last, like the last gasp of hair metal because all of them had long hair, and all of them were pretty cute.

Like Jonathan Davis, like, God bless, but like,

not hung.

There's a lot of jewelry on all these dudes, too.

A lot of statement necklaces.

Well, that means they have taste.

There you go.

Sure.

Yeah.

And then maybe they'll buy me a ring.

God damn it.

I think maybe

what

needs to happen for me to appreciate this stuff.

It's like seeing it live.

There's been a bunch of stuff that I

loved.

And listen, if you're out there,

don't invite me to things.

Don't invite me to things.

I don't want to go to it with you.

No, hey, if somebody's out there, if you have a line on free tickets to see filter

or hinder,

let me know if I'm free.

Or stained.

Hey, if you have free stained, let me know and I will go with an open mind.

Give me some buck cherry tickets, baby.

But also, all of these lead singers are pretty hunky.

Like,

they're kind of sex symboly-looking dudes.

Oh, yeah.

Kind of like hair metal does.

And they can't grow facial hair and they don't fucking care.

They're gay.

Which makes them grow it anyway.

This is kind of interesting that we're saying that this is what aggro dudes listen to when this is

for women.

Like, at least what I think, or gay men.

Like, I think that, or ladies, it depends on the band.

It depends on the band.

But, like, the idea that this was, I'm like, there's something soft about butt rock.

Sure.

I feel like there's something kind of like feminine about butt rock.

It is like, yeah, it does have to do with feelings.

It is, you know, there are big.

I mean, Creed, that's a very, you know,

puddle of mud.

That's what's happening in my pants.

Sure.

I shit in my pants.

I shit my pants.

I'm corny.

I shit.

I come.

I come and shit.

Oh, man.

Well, Butt Rock, it's back.

Question mark.

Yeah.

Coming soon to.

What up, breaking Benjamin lead singer?

You got a ring.

Fairground near you.

Put it under.

I have 14 that I wear to all my concerts.

I am desperate.

Well, hey,

Butt Rock, I think we solved it.

And now we're going to talk about the Babysitters Club from 1995.

Emily, you were really stoked about this one when we brought it up.

Sorry.

What was your relationship to this property, this movie?

I hate to read.

Okay.

So you didn't read the books as a kid?

I didn't read the books.

Did people give them to you a lot for like gifts?

Did like thoughtless aunts be like, okay, here's the babysitters?

No, nobody gave it.

They knew better.

They knew you didn't like to read.

I didn't like to read.

I was like Claudia from the Babysitters Club.

Terrible grades, love to paint and draw.

But I

there was there was a tv series in the 90s okay that i i can't remember but i believe it was on a network that was not basic cable so i think it was like hbo showtime like something so i couldn't watch it but i wanted to and a lot of my friends all watched it so it was like read books have rich parents those were the things okay and then

The movie came out and I was like, oh, cool.

I get to kind of know what everybody's obsession was about.

So I saw it, and I was like, and you know me, I love anything about little girls owning a business

or little girls in a school where they're like having little secret, like

babies that are

the first girl bosses, some say.

I mean, the

way that they talk about like city ordinance and stuff, like there's so much actual, like businessy stuff that's really interesting in this movie, but that's it.

Everything else is like, oh my God, why are we letting these these little girls do this shit?

But like,

yeah, no, I loved it because there were girls on my street, the older girls on my street who did have a summer camp thing.

They ran out of their house in their yard and they did little skits and all this stuff.

And then I babysat a lot, but I never organized like this.

So it was, I don't know, it's a fantasy of having a bunch of girlfriends, a clubhouse,

and having all this stuff.

But this shit had so much stress on these little girls.

I know.

And it was like, I would rather die than live in the babysitters club.

This seems like a nightmare.

This movie is a nightmare, but you got a bunch of like iconic actresses and stuff.

I mean, come on.

The next door neighbor is, was this before or after Requiem for a Dream?

Like,

it was before.

It was before.

Ellen Burston.

I've never seen Requiem for a Dream.

Don't.

It'll fuck you up.

It's a big, like, dorm room.

This is some fucked up shit we're going to put on my DVD TV combo.

It's pretty fucked up, dog.

So, Matt,

did you have any relationship to the Babysitters Club going in this?

Were these around your house growing up?

Yeah, it was something my twin sister was into.

Okay.

And, you know, it was just, she would read the books and she

would like nerd.

Yeah,

she was a nerd.

She liked the series, too.

And I think, you know, for her, this is what distinguished us, you know, in terms of gender norms.

Because we were the books, when she started reading them, that was at the time where we didn't share everything.

Okay.

Because we were twins, so we shared a lot of shit.

We watched a lot of the same girly cartoons.

And I was like, I'm into them.

She's into them.

What's wrong with playing with Barbie?

Stuff like that.

Once you started reading Babysitters Club, I was like, this is too girly for me.

So this is my first ever foray into this.

Yeah, I knew about this series.

And I know that, you know, for people around our age, it's catnip.

And yeah, but we never had any of these books growing up.

We were a boxcar children family.

Yes.

Oh, can I tell you that a fan on tour for Mythical gave me a boxcar children cookbook?

Oh, nice.

Now, was that your kids' adventure book series growing up?

No, they gave it to Josh because he was poor.

Oh, okay.

But you got one too.

No, he gave, they gave it to Josh, and Josh didn't want it, so I wanted it.

There was stuff about cooking squirrels, and he thought I would benefit from it.

And he's right.

He knew.

I have questions.

We need to move on.

Let's talk about the...

Josh doesn't give a fuck.

He knows.

But he's poor?

Well, he grew up like poor.

So they were like teasing him.

Like, here's your hillbilly book.

Well, I'm Gator.

But here's the thing.

He's like, the thing about Josh is like a lot of his legacy is about making...

things affordable that wouldn't otherwise be affordable.

Like that's or the opposite for YouTube, but but that's kind of his background.

So it was kind of weird to be like, you might like the boxcar children.

And Josh is like, I do not have an identity with this.

Like, and I was like, I do.

Please give me a book.

I won't read it.

Someone else will for me.

So the boxcar, or sorry, the babysitters club.

Look at me.

Confusing my boxcar babies.

The boxcar babies.

Oh, just quick aside.

When I was searching for how to watch this, just in the smart TVA, I typed in babysitter.

I started by typing in baby.

Sure.

And it auto-filled to Rosemary's Baby.

No.

The Rosemary's Babysitters Club.

If

Funny or Die was still around, that would get a million views if Don Cheadle was in it.

Oh, yeah.

That does sound really good.

Honestly, we can do it.

Them just babysitting kids who have demons inside.

I love it.

You've got a kid, right?

Yeah.

We've already got one actor on lock.

Can we shake it around?

Absolutely.

Especially if you say it.

Yeah.

So

it's the Babysitters Club.

And what I like about this is that we are coming into a world where the Babysitters Club exists.

We're starting in the middle.

It's what they did so well with that Superman movie.

You don't get a big origin story.

You're just there.

Superman exists.

The Babysitters Club exists.

I like this.

Me too.

They're a group of gals and they babysit.

And we got, we intro to all the gals.

We learn their names and they're one quality.

They have names and they have one quality.

Oh, I know.

There's Christy.

She's the tomboy.

You know, she's the tomboy because she's wearing Converse All-Stars and Sissy Space's daughter.

Out of the carton.

Yeah, Sissy Spacey's kid, and she looks exactly like her.

That's how you knew a kid was tough in the 90s.

They were drinking milk right out of the carton.

And overalls.

Oh, yeah, overalls too.

You got Stacey.

She's from New York City.

She's a little prissy.

You have Mary Ann, who is kind of quiet and serious.

You have Dawn.

She's from California and loves crazy stuff like hummus.

Yes.

This crazy California kook ball.

Which is really interesting because after living in California, I didn't realize these stereotypes existed in the 90s.

Like that it was like, oh, she cares about the environment.

I was like, I thought everybody cared about the environment

when I was a kid, but this is kind of like, okay.

There's a bit of a trope, I think, in girlhood

where they make girls one thing, like spice girls.

You've got, she's

scary, you're a baby.

And I think it's just so that we can have a starting off point

sometimes where it's just like, okay, I know what she likes.

I know what I could get her for her birthday.

Sure.

It's kind of what it is.

You like horses.

Here's a horse thing.

Exactly.

I think that that's how girls work.

We're like, I want to know what you're into immediately, and then I will get to know you after.

And I think that's kind of girlhood in a nutshell, but there is a lot of that.

I feel like everything is like, okay, we got twins.

This one's British.

This one's not.

We got the Spice Girls.

We got Babysitters Club.

We got American Girl dolls.

This one's from this time period.

This time period.

There is something about organization.

and labels and girlhood that just mashed together.

So that's just an observation I had.

So Dawn, Dawn's from California.

She loves the environment.

Claudia's the artist.

She's having trouble with her grades.

That's me.

Mallory's a kid writer.

And there's Jesse.

She loves to dance.

If she could, they say, if Jesse says, if you can walk somewhere, why are you not dancing?

We see Jesse dancing in one frame and then she never dances again or does anything else.

Yeah, well, can I also add, Jesse's the only person who looks like a child?

Yeah,

the whole thing.

Everybody else looks like they're the oldest teen.

Yeah.

Can we do it?

Yes.

Oldest teen there are so many oldest teens in this situation um dawn is also from the secret world of alex mac yesa olenik god and she you guys don't know her first and last name like i do wow man okay that's too bad i was because i was in love with her you were yes you were because of alex mac yeah because she turned she turned into like the same thing like and then naked

Well, you never get to see her naked, but...

But it was implied.

Yeah, she turns into what the cool kids turn into in capri sun commercials that's right just like t1000 liquid mercury style whoa do you think that the capri sun commercials are why alex mac exists it could be

i mean there's i bet it's all terminator 2 i bet they all saw that effect and said let's do it and then that and then they went well the two things combined it makes her yeah but yeah there was a weird thing on nickelodeon when they did alex mac where it's like for some reason she could turn into the pool yeah but then when she re um coagulates there's no clothes I remember there being clothes but I could be wrong about that no it could it would explain why I still know her first and last name well she also was in 10 things I hate about you I know great movie I can't believe we have madmen yeah she was in mad men that's right

yeah so yeah everybody in here like who's the most famous person here oh probably uh Rachel Lee Cook I mean

but yeah everybody in this like went on to be like a working actor with uh who's in a a bunch of great stuff.

Well, I mean, the neighbor next door from Requiem for a Dream,

yes.

I'd say movie that I've been told is very fucked up by many people in my dorm.

Yeah.

So everybody's got a little story going on.

The Babysitters Club, as a unit, they are doing like a day camp for all the kids in the neighborhood.

Yes.

All the kids are getting together.

They're like doing summer camp in a backyard.

Very dangerous.

Why do the parents of the neighborhood like

that?

Did you guys go to camp?

I did one

like summer of like Christian camp.

What did they do at Christian camp?

Was it overnight?

It was overnight.

Yeah,

co-ed?

Yes, different dorms, though.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, yeah.

I did that too.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it was pretty down the middle.

We did a little archery, some crafts, and a lot of

people talking about what hell is like.

Did you do that?

God is great, God is good, let him thank us for a few.

It wasn't ours.

That's cute.

That's very good, though.

though.

God said to Noah, there's going to be a flood, flooding.

Oh, no.

Yeah.

I remember it being mostly discussions as to what hell was going to be like.

Why is, like, you're from California.

Why is your shit so much hellfire and brimstone?

I don't know.

That's a good question.

It's supposed to be chill over there.

I know.

Well, yeah, mine was Camp Cedar Crest, and I got sent home because I made a dirty little joke and they called my parents.

Oh, man.

And I did this joke.

I did this.

Making a penis out of macaroni at the craft tent.

Kind of.

I just went, you guys want to see a scene from the Nutcracker?

And they go, yeah.

And then I'd hold my crotch and go, oh,

that's a great job.

That's just funny.

What do they know about comedy over there?

Call my parents.

Yeah, no, I went to Wilderness Adventure Camp.

I went to Girl Scout camp.

I went to a lot of camp.

What about you, Matt?

What was it happening?

I went to a sleepaway camp in Griffith Park.

It was kind of cool.

Yeah, you were homeless.

Yeah, I was homeless.

Yeah, it wasn't so much a sleep away camp as a place that I slept during the summer.

We did all the activities asking for change.

Asking for change, heroin.

And no, it was pretty.

fun not religious at all.

I did

secular camp.

Yeah, very secular.

I was a camp counselor at a Jewish day camp, which is sounds, it's like similar to what you guys are describing in terms of songs, but all of the songs were in Hebrew Hebrew for the most part.

And it was more, I feel like this is a, you know, day camp that they're running, not a sleepaway camp.

Well, yeah, but I guess that a lot of us think about camp and we think about the fantasy of summer camp.

What's interesting, though, is as a parent now, I'm watching this and I go like, well, this is a useless camp.

The whole point of camp is so that your kids will be somewhere safe with adult supervision that isn't you during the summer so you can just chill.

Yeah, Matt, as the only parent, would you send your kids to babysitters clubs?

Absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

I was just like,

these little girls are not responsible enough.

They're trying to fuck 16-year-olds when they're clearly 13.

I know, but also, like, when a kid wanders into the street at one point.

Nightmare.

So we've got a, we've got, everybody's got a little plot.

We have this kind of overarching camp thing that's happening.

And, oh, gosh, I forget the name.

What's the name of the girl who has the thing with the guy from the foreign country?

Which one is she?

Stacey.

Stacy.

Stacy.

Stacy, Stacy.

So Stacey goes to babysit one of her regular kids, and he's got a cousin there, a foreigner from Europeburg.

Yeah, I know.

Did they say Europe?

No, they say where it is, but he's such a very just generic person.

He also did not have an accent.

Terrible accent.

I had no idea what was going on.

I missed the part where they explicitly said he was foreign, and the whole time I'm going, what accent is he doing?

He's not doing one.

He's just hot and he barely talks.

Yeah.

So, yeah, so they are, they're flirting.

They're having a little summertime romance.

But she has a secret, a terrible, shameless

fucked-up secret that he cannot know about.

And that filthy fucking secret is she has diabetes

and doesn't want him to know.

So embarrassing.

So that's going on.

Which I remember this movie was the first time I'd ever heard about diabetes.

Oh.

So, yeah, maybe this was doing some work.

So

that's going on for Stacey.

The babysitters, they have a big meeting at this very cute burger joint.

I definitely wanted to eat at the burger joint.

They all sit around the booth, last supper style, because there's a lot of people standing and sitting in a semicircle in this movie because that's easier to shoot.

There's too many girls in the club, I'll be honest.

for a movie.

It's too many shoes.

Yeah, there are some people who have plots, some people who don't, some people who are said to dance and then do not dance.

Yep.

But yeah, we go into her.

The bedroom, what do you think about our main character's bedroom, Emily?

Any thoughts?

Pretty killer.

Pretty cool bedroom.

This is a quintessential 90s girl bedroom.

Maximalist is kind of how I would describe it.

There are, there's fringe on the bed, like what is it called where it's like, you know, fluffy.

A skirt.

Skirt.

A bed skirt.

A bed skirt.

I wish I could have bed skirts, but we live in major cities and bed bugs exist.

I know.

And I've heard it's a big risk.

But there's that, and then stuffed animals, and the curtains that are way too billowy for a teen girl, and like stuff that existed for when you were a little girl, but you won't be able to change until you're out of the house.

I love it.

I love the aesthetic.

Yeah, the bedroom is cool.

There's not a lot of like noticeable like consumer products.

It's all kind of like homemade stuff.

There is a Mr.

Bucket though.

I didn't notice a Mr.

Bucket.

I love Mr.

Bucket.

Mr.

Bucket is buckets of fun.

I gotta tell you.

It's buckets of fun.

I've never had it.

They say it in the jingle.

They do.

I mean, the commercial is lit.

The commercials we got for, did you guys ever play Don't Wake Daddy?

No.

No, but I do.

I remember the commercial.

I remember not waking daddy because he would yell at me.

Well, the funny thing is.

It's a game about that, Matt.

Oh, it's a game about being afraid of your abusive father.

That sounds horrible.

I don't want to pay for it.

I'm living it.

We had Don't Wake Daddy as a kid, and he looks just like my dad.

Oh, yeah.

I love it.

And it's so

good, dude.

Don't wake Mike.

But honestly, we should play these games sometimes

and film it because Don't Wake Daddy would be a little bit more.

Mousetrap.

Skip it.

Listen, Mousetrap is complicated as fuck.

I would get so frustrated setting it up.

I hated it.

I vote no on Mousetrap.

I wanted Mousetrap so bad when I was a kid, I still have never played it.

The commercials were just like, it's a Rube Goldberg machine.

I was like, I want that.

It really was.

So they,

you know, they're going to have a big summer.

They're going to make a bunch of money.

Someone's like, we can get a fax machine.

Oh, God.

Great joke.

Very good joke.

So, oh, and there's also some, like, we get introduced to kind of the mean rich kids.

One of them's names Cokie.

Cokie is like the head rich kid.

Whoa, I don't remember that being her name.

They like to say what her real name is, and she's like, don't call me that.

And then they, I guess, cokey can be.

Her dad just went, that's what I was doing when you were conceived.

Now ride a horse, bitch.

We were going to call you eight ball, but people thought it was too on the nose.

So I decided to go in the nose.

Hey, I don't want any drugs.

The court says, I can't see you.

I just want my kids back.

Nickelback is back.

Did you hear?

It's okay to like Hinder again.

I miss my kids, Cokie.

Now, hang on smacky don't don't and weedy don't insult tonic

um

if you can only

see

the way that song fucking rules i don't care what anyone says

i will say that i like these bully girls yeah

because they're overall harmless a lot of movies the mean girls actually do something mean at some point they do something mean but these girls are like most mean girls in your childhood which which are just, we're all being dicks, and then it fucking blows over.

They're throwing in smoke bombs, and they tempt one of the guys that one of the babysitters club likes.

She's like, I got smashing pumpkins tickets.

So that was a very cool reference at the time.

Yeah.

Very cool reference.

I'm sure they changed that 10 times.

Well, I can't imagine, like...

At that, they're 13.

My parents would never let me go to a smashing pumpkin ticket.

But the rich kids, they could.

Right.

Well, there's a lot of people's parents letting them do stuff in this movie.

Like start a fucking babysitters club.

So the so Christie's story in this, that's kind of

the main plot.

So Christy has a stepdad that we meet, very down-the-middle, regular-ass stepdad.

He's the one who got turned into water in the X-Men movies.

That's how I know him, too.

Yeah, that's how I know him too.

See, there you go.

What a fucking cast.

I know.

So this guy.

So she has a stepdad.

We meet him.

He will eventually get turned into water in the X-Men movies.

But her real dad is this charming fuck-up who rolls into town in his fucking VW van.

He's got an interview for a job at the newspaper and he's going to be a sports writer and he wants to reconnect with his daughter.

And

he's secret.

He's like, don't tell your mom I'm in town.

And so he and like, he and Christy are having these like secret hangouts.

Yeah.

And he's like buying her a dress and she puts it on, even though she's a tomboy and doesn't wear dresses except to funerals.

And they play catch and they do all this kind of dad-daughter stuff, but like in secret.

And so everybody thinks like she has a secret boyfriend and wonders why she's like neglecting her babysitters club duties, but it's because she's hanging out with this like charming fuck-up of a dad.

Yes, but the other thing that I did like this because it does kind of teach you as a young girl when you should be honest with adults.

Sure.

I liked this example as a don't fucking let, like, don't, it sucks that this dad is putting you in this situation.

Yeah.

But it also puts her best friend in the situation.

So Rachel Lee Cook is her bestie

and

is the only one who knows the secret.

She's the only one who knows the secret.

She swore her to secrecy and she will not tell the other babysitters about the situation, even though she starts to feel like she should.

But it's like,

eventually she does reveal it.

And it's like, you, there's a difference between keeping

a safe secret for your friend and keeping your friend safe.

Yeah.

So I liked this.

This is a fucked up story.

No, it's a great plot.

It's like it's to me, it was the only story in this movie that I think I was like, oh, it's the only story.

What's the only story?

Well, there's a diabetes thing.

Will she reveal the diabetes?

And will Claudia do well on her test?

A girl with diabetes who hangs out with a pedophile.

Yeah, yeah.

It was very mature, and I thought, I was like, you know what, this is actually, I think, a good lesson for kids.

Maybe these books aren't so bad.

Yeah,

when we get to the resolution of this, I have some like big thoughts about this plot, and I do think it is like, is like

strangely sophisticated for this movie, which is like

really, you know, this is a pretty simple, light, fluffy movie.

It's like very funny in parts, but like, this thing has some big ideas in it.

Anyway, well, can I say one more thing about watching this as an adult adult woman i start thinking back about um movies from girlhood and a lot of it is about

you should be a like a a pillar of society you should be a good girl who lifts up like your neighbors and you know does things that benefits you know everyone around you a caregiver even when you're a little girl kind of thing there's that and then also be wary of men sure it's like immediately what it is and And I'm like, God, as a little girl, I was just constantly told, be wary of men.

Even your dad.

Even your fucking dad.

And it just made me go, wow, maybe

we should do more of these movies.

No one is safe.

No one.

I mean, it's crazy.

Anyway.

So Claudia's kind of, her story is happening.

She's the artist.

She's doing bad in school.

She's having trouble in science.

So what does the gang do for her?

They create a rap about the brain.

I think this is the most famous meme from this movie.

We played a little bit of it up top.

Let's hear a little bit more of this brain rap, Matt.

Here we go.

If you wanna run, if you wanna jump, you gotta get your left to right ventricle to pop through the heart to center of it.

Yeah, motherfucker.

Oh, that's Matt.

That's not in the movie.

Now,

it's no top that.

No.

It's no top that.

No, it's not.

But very charming.

And yes,

in the 90s,

if you had never heard rap music, you assumed it all had poop poo chip, poop, poop, poo chip.

Poop poo chip.

Poop poop poo chip.

Well, my name is Stacy and I'm here

with the brains in your head, and that's the way.

You gotta

put it on your test.

Don't mean to be cruel.

Don't mean to be mean.

I like this boy even though I'm 13.

That's pretty good.

I do.

Stop all the love and stop all the hate.

I just figure out I'm intrue.

Oh,

I feel like.

I do think what's interesting is

I was always afraid of going to summer school as a kid because my grades were so bad.

Yeah, that was the threat.

If you stay in school, you'd have to go to summer

school.

Not believe that I voluntarily

have an extra elective.

Oh, I want to beat you up.

I wanted to do choir with my friends.

I went to summer school because you did?

Yeah, because I didn't do good in school.

What grades?

Eighth grade and ninth grade.

Wow.

Yeah.

But then after that, I figured it out.

Yeah.

Yeah, I was very close.

I remember it being terrifying.

I think my mom talked my way out of it.

I think that my mom is very charming.

Wow.

And just

found a way.

My mom had a thank you in the algebra book from my freshman year.

They have acknowledgments in algebra.

Well, my algebra teacher, Mr.

Gorham, R.I.P., nice to see you.

He's a real one.

Father Iron High School.

He wrote his own algebra textbook.

Okay.

And my mom.

Like Terrence Howard style.

I guess.

He has his own math.

Two plus two equals sky.

Right.

But no, I think my mom is like a good editor and like all that.

So she has a special thank you in the front of

the game, which I was in tons of tutoring after school, but I was like, I'm passing this shit.

Fuck you.

He's going to pass me.

I don't know.

I got to

write the book.

But yeah.

I got friends in high places in algebra.

Every day, Lois writes the book.

I'm an algebra nepo, baby.

Yeah, that's true.

So, so now, okay, so that's kind of like what's going on with

Claudia's plot.

She passes her test thanks to the rap.

She's the coolest.

She's really cool.

Yeah, her art, not that good.

I mean, she is

mean, like, but she's cool.

So in Stacey's plot, she has like confessed the diabetes, and

it doesn't make him hate her.

In fact, it makes him love her all the more, and he invites her to New York City with her.

The New York City scene they do is so funny.

And Claudia comes, and Claudia comes.

Um, it's so funny because they're talking about things in New York City and they show stock footage.

They clearly did not shoot there, and no one from the movie went there.

It's just like Central Park, and then showing Central Park with none of the characters in it.

The Eiffel, not the Eiffel Tower, not the Eiffel Tower.

You might as well just do that because no one went anywhere.

The Center for Saturday Liberty.

Well, what was confusing about it is like, whose dad is taking them?

Like, so she's clearly rich.

Stacy's in this, like, that crazy big, like, white column type house.

God, I knew girls that lived in those houses and I was never invited in and I wanted to go,

but she was clearly rich.

You never see what her, like, you see her mom, super blonde, also good mom.

Did you eat before a crazy fucking hike, you diabetic?

What are you doing?

And she's just like, no.

And it's like, oh my God, this mom is, I would die if I were this mom.

I'd be like, my daughter's so hot and stupid.

I definitely wouldn't let her go to New York with a random person.

She almost died with this guy

in the woods.

This is, he, he is, that's, I mean, and this is the like part of the movie that like has aged the worst.

He is 17.

Oh, God.

They find out when they go to a 16 and up club in New York with a bouncer, a legitimate bouncer checking checking ID.

What ID are you checking for?

Let me see.

Let me see your school ID and or meal tickets.

You got a library schedule.

Yeah,

let me see the library card.

Let me see your

punch card for school lunch.

Do you have a Scruff McGruff crime dog ID?

A school asterisk.

Are you a member of the Captain Planet Planeteers?

Oh, my

card.

Let me see your Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper and then I'll let you know what I'm saying.

This is such a little kid fantasy that you'll go to New York and there will be a bouncer who will like interrogate you.

It's like, well, did you not ever go to teen clubs?

Did you guys ever go?

I went to one.

I went to a club in Hollywood called Club 17.

The, what do you call them?

I'm 17 and up.

Yeah, what were those girls?

The two, they looked the same.

The Olson twins.

The Olson twins.

Yeah, the Olson twins, I think, used to go there a lot or founded it or whatever.

Wow.

I went there one time and I was like, I do not understand club culture.

because I was like, am I supposed to go up there, girls, and dance?

Yes.

I refuse.

I refuse.

And to this day, I refuse.

Well, I went to Rocket Town, which I told y'all that I had a sketch group that I was in.

Michael W.

Smith, I think, is the Christian

artist.

Big Christian artist.

Founded Rocket Town.

It was an oasis center for teens.

There was a skate park, an indoor skate park with like...

whatever.

And then there was a huge venue and there'd be like bands.

There were two venues and a coffee house and everything.

And it was teens like up to 18.

So I think you could be there at 13.

But I definitely

sucked dick at Rocket Town.

Okay.

Hell yeah.

Not at Rocket Town.

No, but

you met someone at Rocket Town.

He was in the improv troop that I was in.

Of course he was.

And I water improv group.

But I was only two years younger than him.

He was like 17 and I was like 15.

But they got real mad at us for like making out in the parking lot once Improvis 4.

And they almost kicked us out, but then they realized they needed us to keep paying for the classes.

So

I love that.

But there it was.

So yeah, so this, you know, so we find out that she's 13 and he's 17.

He's like appropriately grossed out, which I'm glad for.

Yeah,

fair enough.

So yeah, so you know, that's not as icky as it could be.

Also, why didn't her parents ask how old this boy is?

And then end of the end of this thing is even worse they like reconcile they kiss and he's like i'll be back next year when you're 18

that's worse i know yeah so it was part of the movie like can i tell you the

kept that i know no no but the dialogue was i'll be back next year and she goes i'll be 14 and he goes i know and then kisses her it's worse it's so much worse one of the weirdest moments i've ever seen oh my god So let's wrap up.

So that's kind of the end of like that story.

We'll wrap up Christy's story with dad.

It's her birthday.

She goes to meet him at a like carnival.

He does not show up.

Doesn't show up.

She gets lost.

Oh, and kind of while this is happening, like she's neglecting the babysitters club and there's like a kid, I think it's her brother, like wanders out in the street.

And there's this moment where you just see him doing it, and they cut away.

And I'm like, oh, my God, is this going to become pet cemetery?

Yeah, right.

Are they going to fucking have to bury this kid and he has to come up with her?

Or my girl or something.

Yeah, I know.

Thankfully, it doesn't happen.

It's just kind of this thing where they're like, now he could have wandered off.

And she learns the lesson.

Anyway, she's out waiting for dad.

He doesn't come.

It starts to rain.

She's lost.

And they play a daddy song.

This is by an artist named Lisa Sarka

Dark, who I had never heard of.

But this song plays while she's running around the carnival.

I want to be daddy's girl.

So gross.

Yeah, bitch.

Well, I'm talking about poop-punchy, poop-bunch.

And then it's also, but this scene is like about a dad neglecting a kit anyway.

Can I tell you something really funny that, Matt, could you go ahead and look up a song called Daddy's Hands?

Absolutely.

By Holly Dunn.

Okay.

My dad played for this woman named Holly Dunn as I was growing up.

He was on the road a lot.

Holly Dunn was a closeted lesbian, country singer.

Every woman in the band was also a lesbian, but people didn't know that.

And my dad was on the road, and people would go, Lois, aren't you worried about your husband being on the road with all these women?

She's like, We really trust each other.

But this is a song.

Girls are on the the road so much you can't find husbands.

On my way to work.

But this song is just called...

A little tape copy of it and sent it to him in a Father's Day card.

She's passed away, by the way.

This is her big hit.

All right, you don't have to play the whole thing.

I wonder, I genuinely wonder if they wanted to get this song and it was too expensive.

And they're like, ah, fine, get the least.

It's country.

But like, daddy's girl, like, oh my God.

It's like, I'm sure that they thought it was a sweet song at one point.

It's kind of like that song, Butterfly Kisses

at a midnight, which is like, ew.

I don't know.

I would, I heard that song and I was like, my dad would listen to the song and go, pussy.

Yeah, there's something about songs where

daddy's in it that give me the ick.

Daddy's girl.

Yeah.

If I had a song, I'd be like, I appreciate my father's opinion.

I love you, father.

Thank you for the money.

Thank you for the walk and cash you gave me at the airport.

I'm going to invest this savings bond.

I enjoyed the book you sent me for my birthday.

And thanks for paying for the check it out, man.

Your favorite restaurant.

Thanks for the firm handshake.

That's the father song we need to sing.

Exactly.

I respect you.

Yeah, daddy is for the bedroom, you fucking sickos.

Thank you.

So there's this whole other plot where they're trying to get a new clubhouse.

They fix up this greenhouse and this

committee comes.

That's pretty boring.

Lame clubhouse, by the way.

Doesn't look good.

So

yeah, so that's happening, but also, you know,

the babysitters realize that Christie is lost.

They, like, she has, like, enough money for like

a payphone call that cuts out.

She should have called 10-10-220.

I'm trying to have done a collection.

Come on, man.

Thank you.

Remember the Carrot Top commercial?

Exactly.

Oh, my God.

It's fun to remember.

Remember the 90s.

Oh, I want to remember them.

I want them back.

Things weren't as bad, or at least they were bad in different ways.

Maybe they were at it.

It's hard with memory to know.

Were we just more connected now?

I don't know.

President play the saxophone.

President play the saxophone.

Anyway,

remember the 90s.

Listen, if Trump could play a clarinet or something, things would be better.

Yeah, we could forgive him for the Epstein stuff.

Get a recorder.

Get a recorder.

Play My Heart will go on.

Sure.

The only song a recorder plays is Hot Cross Buns.

That's right.

That's the only song you can play.

So, yeah, so then, so the babysitters like save her.

They get this fucking old-ass

European guy to like drive the car and get her and and pick her up.

It's a pretty like

small, slight, you know, climax.

So yeah, so then we have a big learning moment at the end of the movie and we're going to talk about it when we come back.

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We're talking about the final act of the babysitters club.

So the babysitters, they've saved their friend and she has this conversation with her mom

about how dad like stood her up at the thing, and they get a like letter in the mailbox from dad about, like, hey, sorry, I stood you up.

The job didn't work out, but I maybe have a job in another town.

Bullshit.

And yeah, I know, like, totally.

Like, this guy will never get it together.

Right.

But mom is like, mom doesn't shit on him.

Yeah.

Mom is like, hey, you know what?

And, you know, and mom tries to like make it better.

And they are, like, optimistic that he'll change right and I am like you know Matt we need a new we need a new sting can you do it can you do it can you do an impromptu sting for me of course it's called TMI oh

TMI love it okay so this is my dad my dad is a charming fuck-up who you could not depend on and like you know, and I'm sure it's so hard for the other parent not to just go like, fuck them, you know, but you don't.

You want your kid to have a relationship with them.

And this is such a like interesting, like, way to look at a

problematic family member.

What do you do?

Do you just cut them out of your life?

Maybe you do.

I mean, this guy kind of deserves it.

But they're like, hey, you know what?

He's a fuck-up.

We get it.

We want him in our lives, so we will be open to him changing.

It's so nuanced for this kids' movie that is like dumb, dumb, dumb throughout.

It just has this like weird, thoughtful thing that, like, I don't know.

It's really mature.

Like,

in a dumber version of this plot, dad would just, like, fuck up, and then his pants would fall down, and a horse would kick.

And then,

yeah, you know, I also want to see that.

I also want to see that.

That would be funny and good.

But also, yeah, so it has this kind of thing where it's like, hey, you know, sometimes you have a fucked up family member and you can jettison them from your life or you can try and make it work.

Yeah.

The dialogue in that scene is really pretty spectacular.

Like, that actress, I do recognize her from other things, but like, I do think that it was this,

I was worried about the safety of my daughter, but she's fine.

And she also seems to have this like,

you know, happy

like memory type thing of some time that she spent.

So I don't want to ruin that.

Right.

Yeah.

She's like, that was fun, you know, when she was like wearing the dress and stuff.

And yeah, it was like traumatic.

But also the daughter.

clearly learned on her own the lesson, but also because they own a small business and are super responsible, her mom's like, I kind of trust you with a bunch of stuff, which is a bad idea.

Yeah, but like, I don't know.

I thought her mom was like, oh, I raise a very smart daughter who she can navigate stuff, which, God, that's what I wanted my parents to think about me.

So it was, although they were wrong not to.

Yeah, yeah.

There was a lot of, there was nuance to it.

I really enjoyed,

you know, the exact points that you're making.

I think in a more standard movie, it would have shown him being a bad guy.

Yeah.

It didn't show him being, like, the worst thing he did.

Irresponsible.

Yeah, it showed him being irresponsible.

He doesn't show up to the.

A little manipulative.

Yeah, he's manipulative.

He tells her not to, you know, tell her mom, and then he stands her up.

And to me, I was like,

you know, that's very real for this movie.

You know what I mean?

It was,

I really liked that part.

Yeah.

I thought it was pretty Yeah, I did too.

I mean, the dad put her in a terrible situation.

Terrible situation.

He's a bad guy, but also

he clearly loves his daughter.

Yeah, exactly.

Which is the bare minimum that a dad could do.

And they didn't do the thing where he's like, oh, he's also a drug addict or he's also this or that.

He's just a fuck up.

He's just a fuck-up.

I do appreciate that.

Yeah, he's just a guy who is like, he clearly is not sensitive to anyone else but himself.

He's clearly annoyed.

He's a selfish guy.

Yeah, which is like, that's a hard childlike to write.

Right.

Well, there's also movies like Now and Then is another movie that came out around this time, but it took place in the 70s.

Right.

And a lot of these kind of girlhood friendship movies deal with like hard situations, but the safety of like nice neighborhoods.

And this is another movie like that.

Yeah.

Yeah, and that's the Babysitters Club.

We're going to rank it on a scale of one to ten Super Lab commercials, but first, we got to do the hunk watch.

It's hunk watch.

Yeah, let's go around the horn.

I'm kind of interested to hear what people say about the hunks in this film.

Emily, you want to start using it?

It's the dad, the dead beat dad.

I mean, cute, cute.

He also was just, I think they could have cast the guy just a little bit older.

Sure, sure.

But he was, he had that floppy kind of butt cut, blonde hair, very Carrie Elwas, like very that.

But when I was a kid, I had a crush on the guy who was into into Alex Mack, who had the like

the dark brown butt cut who reminded you of Benny and June.

Right.

Like, do you remember Benny and June?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

It had very like, I like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

And I've got like, so I thought that boy when I was a kid was cute, but in this movie, I was like, I hate this guy.

Well, he's very annoying in this.

And this starts walking like a bird for no reason.

And I was like, I don't like this kid.

I hate it.

But he was like artsy fartsy guy, which that was the hunk when I was a teen.

Yeah, he was proto-Chalamay.

Oh, for sure.

Oh, my God.

You're totally right.

First rat boy, perhaps.

Yeah, yeah, very first rat boy.

Maybe, yeah, maybe so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe a little tall to be a rat boy.

Yeah, that's true.

Matt, any thoughts on hunks?

You know, for me, I'm going with the classics.

Ellen Burston.

In this movie, I love her.

She's a great actress.

We didn't talk about her much, but she's a neighbor, and it's really nice.

The little tie-in with her.

She's really good.

She starts off kind of like hating the kids, and then she kind of...

Not really.

Well, she's a throw a stink bomb at her.

Classic Frank, classic Frank.

Oh my god.

Did you guys ever throw a stink bomb?

No, I would never.

Do they actually exist?

Yes.

It's funny.

I only know them.

They're just like tropes in kids' movies.

No, they're really.

You could get them from Spencer's Gibbs.

Yeah, or you could get them from like a really shady ice cream truck guy.

Well, but also, I remember them being in, you could order them through Mad Magazine.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That was the thing kids did, but they were horrible.

They smelled so bad.

So, yeah.

And Ellen Bernston's character is really good.

I like at the end, she has this really great moment with the kids.

Do you guys remember that moment?

I'll play it for you.

I have to know when I'm going to be on television.

Oh, don't.

Stop.

Matt.

I don't know what's wrong.

I don't know what it's from.

It's a requiem pressure.

That movie's really fucked up.

A guy in my dorm told me.

Stop.

I don't like it.

Get it out of there.

I just want to be on my shit.

This is just her when, like, this is just us,

Matt.

I swear to fucking Christ.

I don't give a fuck if there's glass here.

I will find a way to bust through it.

Anyway, this is Babysitters Club.

Well, she's also from Exorcist.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

She and I.

That's right.

She's had a hard time.

She deserves

a babysitter's club.

Yeah.

She's a great actress.

She really is.

But also, her saying that, it's just like you and I trying to bang on a CVS to get our medication.

Yeah, I know.

Like, please order it.

Is it just going to take five business days?

How long?

Every single comedian that I've ever gone to an open mic with has Sarah Goldfarb energy from that movie where they just go, I'm going to be on television.

Oh, God.

That's how it is.

Anyways, Jordan, who do you like?

Oh, the dad's absolutely.

Oh, yeah, and yeah, so brilliant.

Because this guy,

he does have to be charming for this to work, and he totally is.

Yeah.

It's such a yeah, this is such a, such a, such a cool, well-observed well-observed character.

Also his little trailer is cute.

Little van he lives in.

I know.

All right.

That's the hunks, but we got to rank the movie after we come back.

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Oh, my God.

Hey, baby, I hear the blues are calling.

Toss salads and scramble.

Yes!

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It made, but I got you pegged.

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Babysitters Club.

We're ranking it on a scale of one to ten super loud commercials.

Emily, you have the most connection to this thing.

What did you think?

I got to say that I was kind of mortified when I watched this because I was so passionate about it last week when I was when we were like, oh, yeah, this movie.

I'm

going to give it a four.

I really like the

mature kind of handling of certain issues, but there are

a PSA vibe to it

that does not read entertainment to me.

Sure.

And I it is like a it does have the like production values of a movie you watch in class.

Like the voyage of the meme or something.

I also think that like if I haven't watched the TV series, but I know that all of these themes are within individual episodes.

So they decided to squish a bunch of stuff into one movie.

It felt like it didn't do service to the other characters.

it only did service to two girls pretty much and we lost out on a bunch of other cool stuff so it's a four i'm i appreciate the effort uh matt what'd you think uh i'm giving this the same i think i give it a four i i mean it was a movie that i was surprised by how much i was able to stomach because

uh which because like as i was watching it i was like okay like

i'll i'll i'll watch the next scene then, you know, one thing led to another, and I finished the whole movie.

And it had just enough really

wild shit in it that it kept my attention.

Uh, and it had one really, really good storyline.

Yeah.

And so, yeah, that's a four.

Yeah, I'm going a little higher.

I think this is a six for me.

Listen, if you're a 43-year-old man with no kids, there's no reason to watch this movie unless you have to talk about it on a podcast.

Yeah, fair.

But I think that if you do need to put something on for a kid i think this is a pretty good this is a pretty good option it's that's true yeah it is it is it's fun other than the age gap stuff it has it has pretty good values it does have some legitimate funny parts and some good actors so yeah and especially if you like your kid is crazy for the books like definitely like show this to them and if they like the netflix series which i haven't watched yet but i know oh i just found out that there's a fucking netflix series yeah yeah so yeah this is a good thing to watch with a kid if they're into all that stuff i i do think it is a pretty good kids movie uh from this era.

I will say that I was a girl who at 12 was secretly dating a 16 year old boy.

Okay.

And my parents hated it, but I did it anyway.

I hate it.

So this was kind of relatable, but they were like somehow okay with it.

So I hope that if you watch this with your kids, you're able to talk about it.

Yes.

Yes.

And maybe it will bring up that subject in a delicate way.

Yeah, I think if you're watching anything from the 90s, you will have to have some sort of conversation with your kid about how times are different.

Listen, he was foreign.

They do things differently over in

Europist.

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Well, yeah, that is our review of the Babysitters Club.

We'll do some personal plug-in.

Matt, you got anything coming up?

Yes, please, if you are listening to this podcast, which you are.

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Emily, got anything?

As always, I'm going to ask if you can to join Mythical Society, second and third degree i have my own show called emily have you seen this it's a clip show i love it so much it comes out once a month i look really cute and all of it i wear like 80s like cool business attire you gotta see it the titties are amazing anyway mythicalsociety.com second third degree i love you so much all right and if you are in the bay area i will be at cape and cowl con at faction brewing uh sunday august 24th i'm gonna be be there all day.

It is a free ass fucking Comic-Con at a brewery, and it is so much fun.

I'm going to be there getting drunk, talking about comics.

Where is that again?

That is an Alameda.

It's at Faction Brewing in the Bay Area.

I went last year.

It is so, so much fun.

That sounds fun as hell.

It's fun as hell.

It's the most fun Comic-Con.

Stacked lineup at this thing.

Patton Oswald's going to be there.

Brian Possane's going to be there.

All kinds of awesome comics people.

It is so, so fun.

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Hell yeah.

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Okay,

next week, very exciting, a theme month that we are very excited about.

A, A, A, Animals Attack August.

We are doing a whole month of fucked up animal attack movies

for you.

We got some cool guests lined up.

It's going to be a fun, fun month.

So tune in next week when our movie will be Anaconda.

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