WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:07.639 This is Jeff Johnson from the Film by podcast. Last week, 2 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:11.039 Dean Jason began a nostalgic journey back to a more 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:15.800 innocent time with two coming of age stories from Scary 4 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:22.320 Junkyards and Surprising Swims, Legendary Dogs and train Dodges, Baseballs 5 00:00:22.359 --> 00:00:26.480 and Barfaramas. There is much to debate between stand By 6 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.879 Me and The Sandlot, but what cannot be denied is 7 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:34.759 that both films teach us about the value of real friendship. 8 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:38.320 I never had any friends like the ones I have that. 9 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:42.000 Listen to the Shirley You Can't Be Serious podcast, Jesus 10 00:00:42.600 --> 00:00:50.960 does anyone. 11 00:00:49.280 --> 00:00:51.640 All right, d I got a real question for you, Yes, 12 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:54.840 as today as we discuss The Sandlot. 13 00:00:54.799 --> 00:00:58.079 Sandlot, is this a kids movie? Yes? 14 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.159 Or is this a sports movie? 15 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.200 One hundred percent of kids movie? Really? Yes? 16 00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:04.359 Interesting? 17 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:06.760 Okay, So you want to know my reasoning for this? 18 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:07.200 Yeah? 19 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.120 Okay, so yeah, So the with a sports movie, there 20 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:13.319 is always the competition, like that's the big thing, Like 21 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:16.480 that's the driving force behind it. You know, You've got 22 00:01:17.159 --> 00:01:20.159 you've got Major League where you know they've got to 23 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:22.879 win just to keep her from doing stuff. You've got 24 00:01:23.040 --> 00:01:26.400 Miracle where the underdog wins I mean it's always an 25 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:29.879 underdog Rocky, Like they're always like there's this big obstacle 26 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.000 to overcome it. I mean, Rocky is a love story, 27 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:34.239 but I think it's still a sports movie because it 28 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:37.159 follows that pattern. But I mean, the only time that 29 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:41.760 they actually play a game against another team in this 30 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.680 movie is about this tiny little bit of the movie. 31 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.879 You know, it's not you don't even really see the score, 32 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.040 you don't see who you know. I guess you can 33 00:01:50.040 --> 00:01:51.920 tell it from their reaction that they win, but it's 34 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:54.719 not like this nail biting moment. It's not you know, 35 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:58.560 Rudy gets into play or whatever. Right, it's the sports 36 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:02.640 is just the through line for the friendship that these 37 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:03.040 boys have. 38 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:03.719 That's my thought. 39 00:02:03.799 --> 00:02:06.840 Okay, so my tendency is to agree with what you 40 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:09.680 just said. Yeah, However, David Wright, who is a friend 41 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:12.639 of the show Deaf Dave, he leading up to this 42 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:13.639 he had never seen this. 43 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:16.120 Movie, right, he didn't. He say something like that it 44 00:02:16.159 --> 00:02:17.840 was like going to be some Mighty Ducks or something 45 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:18.159 like that. 46 00:02:18.280 --> 00:02:22.080 Yeah, he was averse to watching it because he thought 47 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:23.960 it would be like Little Giants. 48 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:25.759 Or were these were a couple of these guys in 49 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:26.840 Little Giants. 50 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:27.840 Yes, we'll talk about that. 51 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:29.319 I was like, okay, all right. I was like, wait 52 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.479 a minute, I remembering this, right, Okay, okay. 53 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.120 So he was like, I don't know, it looks kind 54 00:02:34.159 --> 00:02:37.560 of like Little Big League or Angels in the Outfield 55 00:02:37.879 --> 00:02:41.680 or some of these much more kitty sports movies. Yeah, 56 00:02:41.840 --> 00:02:44.800 and for whatever reason, yeah, this time in history, you 57 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:49.199 had a crapload of kitty sports movies, right. And I 58 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.199 said to him, I'm like, no, it really doesn't fit 59 00:02:53.240 --> 00:02:54.000 in that category. 60 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:54.560 It doesn't. 61 00:02:54.639 --> 00:02:58.000 So while I agree with you it's a kid's movie, 62 00:02:58.400 --> 00:03:00.599 it's not as much a sports movie, but it really 63 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:02.080 is above those kids. 64 00:03:01.879 --> 00:03:03.400 Movie, right, it's coming of age movie. 65 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.919 I mean there's a difference between a movie for kids, yeah, 66 00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:08.759 which I mean I think kids would definitely. I think 67 00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:09.680 kids love this movie. 68 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:10.759 I think this was this movie. 69 00:03:10.759 --> 00:03:13.159 And that's the beautiful part about a coming of age 70 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:15.560 movie is that the kids who are the same age 71 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:19.360 appreciate it, and the adults who can remember what it 72 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:21.960 was like to go through that can appreciate it. 73 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:22.639 Yeah. 74 00:03:22.639 --> 00:03:24.919 I mean like it's like the Wonder Years or Christmas Story. 75 00:03:24.960 --> 00:03:27.599 You know, it's like you're reminiscing about those best times 76 00:03:27.599 --> 00:03:28.080 in your life. 77 00:03:28.120 --> 00:03:30.240 I think you're right. I think A Christmas Story is 78 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:33.240 probably the best example for this category. 79 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:33.919 Yeah, for sure. 80 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:36.319 Stand by I mean, unquestionably not a kid's movie. 81 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:40.759 Well, but again, I mean I think if you're I 82 00:03:40.759 --> 00:03:42.680 think maybe a little bit older. It's supposed to be 83 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.599 an eleven or twelve. Man, I don't know, like when 84 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:47.560 I was. I think I was thirteen or so when 85 00:03:47.560 --> 00:03:49.199 I saw it. I'm trying to think it came out 86 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:51.639 in eighty six and so that would have been ten 87 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:53.759 turning eleven. I know I didn't see in the theater 88 00:03:53.759 --> 00:03:57.240 because it's rated R or whatever. But my buddy's Yeah, 89 00:03:57.360 --> 00:03:59.919 I mean, we would go camping and I can remember 90 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:03.479 one of my buddies going have gun Will travels The 91 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:05.120 hard of a Man, And I'm. 92 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:06.000 Like, what is this? 93 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:08.159 Yeah, like you don't know, stand by me, and we 94 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:10.840 like got the VHS and we watched it that night. 95 00:04:11.639 --> 00:04:13.840 Yeah, well that's good for me. The same thing happened. 96 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:16.439 I think both of these movies. I watched one for 97 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:19.639 the first time on HBO probably uh huh, stand by 98 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:22.040 Me I watched an HBO Yeah, and The Sandlot I 99 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:23.319 think we rented the DVD. 100 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:25.959 Yeah, I feel that it was a similar situation with 101 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:28.240 the Sandlot for me. Like it was somebody said, you're 102 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:31.360 killing me Smalls and I'm like what and they're like, 103 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:32.920 you haven't seen the Sandlot. 104 00:04:32.959 --> 00:04:35.839 I'm like, eh, yeah, I don't. I don't remember, but 105 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.439 I know that it was not in the theater for 106 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:38.319 either one of these movies. 107 00:04:38.319 --> 00:04:41.040 For me, by the way, I put my Shirley stamp 108 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.639 on the Sandlot. I told Dave, I'm like, I promise you, 109 00:04:43.959 --> 00:04:46.199 even though Dave is not a big baseball guy, I'm like, 110 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.480 you will love this movie absolutely. And he was captured 111 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:50.160 by the magic. 112 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:50.839 Yeah. 113 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:53.839 All right, by the way, welcome back everybody. This is 114 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.079 surely you can't be serious podcast. We are here for 115 00:04:56.199 --> 00:04:59.759 part two of the comparison of The Sandlot versus stand 116 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:02.040 By Me, and we are going to start talking about 117 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:05.079 the casting on the Sandlot now right. That's so, if 118 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.120 you didn't catch the first part, go back and check 119 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:09.560 it out. We talked about casting for stand By Me 120 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:11.920 and the backstory for both of these movies and how 121 00:05:11.959 --> 00:05:13.879 they got made and some other fun stuff, So go 122 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:15.680 check that out, but then follow up with this. 123 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:16.240 Here we go. 124 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.519 Okay, before we get into casting, real quick, do you 125 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:21.920 know the original title of the Sandlot. 126 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.800 Dang I did, but it's not it's not hitting the 127 00:05:23.800 --> 00:05:24.319 memory banks. 128 00:05:24.319 --> 00:05:27.240 I'll give you a hint. Okay, one of these days 129 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:29.920 we're going to cover Don Henley's building a perfect down. 130 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:30.199 Yeah. 131 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:33.759 It is the Boys of Summer, Boys of Summer, that's right. Yeah. 132 00:05:33.800 --> 00:05:37.959 They shot this movie in sequence, and David Mickey Evans 133 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.319 has talked about how all of these boys have basically 134 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:43.519 come to him and said, this was the best summer 135 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:44.040 of my life. 136 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.639 Yeah, you know, they were in Salt Lake City instead 137 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:50.240 of in California because even though his I mean David 138 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:55.120 Mickey Evans story, his childhood story was in LA and 139 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:58.319 then the Sandlots in LA that he went through a 140 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.279 similar experience, which included to a scary dog named. 141 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:03.000 Hercules too, by the way, is that right? Yeah? 142 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:05.680 But anyway, it was you know, they had a lower 143 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:07.360 budget for this movie. I think it was like seven 144 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.079 million dollars or something, and they didn't have you know, 145 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:12.839 they had a few names in it. They've got Dennis Leary, 146 00:06:12.879 --> 00:06:15.680 They've got Karen Allen, They've got James Earl Jones, who 147 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.240 I think came into the movie later, like I think 148 00:06:18.279 --> 00:06:19.360 he just read it. 149 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:20.639 And was like, yeah, I'll do this. 150 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:22.199 They one day on set. 151 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:25.360 Yeah, yeah, but anyway, we'll get to him in just 152 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:28.720 a second. But they decided to film in Salt Lake City, Utah. 153 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:32.959 They're flying in a helicopter just trying to find locations 154 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:36.720 to shoot and they see a shared backyard of several 155 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.560 different houses that's essentially an empty lot, and so they 156 00:06:41.079 --> 00:06:44.120 fenced it off and that's where they made their sandlot. 157 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:47.399 It's still vacant to this day. I think we need 158 00:06:47.439 --> 00:06:47.600 to go. 159 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:50.040 You and I were talking beforehand. I was like, we 160 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:52.600 we gotta go, man, we gotta go go. 161 00:06:52.600 --> 00:06:55.759 Visit the filming locations for the sandlot and for Dumb 162 00:06:55.759 --> 00:06:56.680 and Dumb, Dumb and Dummer. 163 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:01.800 That's right, by the way, when they filmed in sequence, yeah, 164 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.959 many days over one hundred degrees right, scorching hot. 165 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.040 Tragically, not the day they shot the pool set. 166 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:10.639 That's the one day it was cold and you could 167 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:12.480 actually see their teeth chattering on. 168 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:16.360 Yes, Squintz's quinces, I can't take it anymore. 169 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:16.680 Yeah. 170 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.560 By the way, the one direct, the one direction he 171 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:22.519 got from the director on this one, no tongue, no 172 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.079 time I will. I've noticed this every single first and 173 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:26.879 it's the first time I saw it, and I think 174 00:07:26.879 --> 00:07:29.319 about it every time when I watch it again. I mean, 175 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:31.519 that guy, the kid is what he's like twelve thirteen 176 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:32.360 years old, right. 177 00:07:32.480 --> 00:07:33.120 He's little? 178 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.480 Yeah yeah, but I mean you're still you're ready for 179 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:40.160 girls at this point. Sure, when they pull him out 180 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:44.240 of the pool, he's supposed to be limp as a 181 00:07:44.279 --> 00:07:49.240 dead body, right, but he's got his hand right where 182 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:52.399 her boob is about to be. And she leans down 183 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:55.279 and she pushes his hand out of the way. She 184 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.399 pushes his hand out of the way to give him 185 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:57.959 out the mouth. 186 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:00.720 That's hilarious. That's fine, squint. 187 00:08:01.439 --> 00:08:04.480 I love squints. We'll talk here in a minute about 188 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.480 the real Michael Polydoros. 189 00:08:06.600 --> 00:08:08.639 Okay, all right, yeah, before we get to. 190 00:08:08.600 --> 00:08:11.199 The cast the English mastiff at the end of the 191 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:13.319 movie that licked Scottie Smalls. 192 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:15.879 Yes, over two hundred pounds. That's a big boy. 193 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:17.079 That's a massive dog. 194 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:18.519 Yeah, that's my size of a dog. 195 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:19.519 Yeah, that's a big dog. 196 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:19.759 Yeah. 197 00:08:19.759 --> 00:08:23.560 All right, let's talk about Tom Gery who plays Scottie Smalls. 198 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:26.279 I'm gonna go play some ball. When you need an extra guy, 199 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:30.439 you want to go, thanks, Why not look like baseball? 200 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:38.200 Oh yeah, but but what but my glove is busted, 201 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:44.480 so you no, I can't go. Thanks, though, It's okay, 202 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:46.320 I got a. 203 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:46.919 Next Jork. 204 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:50.240 Co on. 205 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:53.480 Let's go, right. 206 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:59.320 So Tom and Mike Vitar they spent two weeks together, 207 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:02.240 much like Stand By Me. They had spent time together 208 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:05.039 before they met with the other boys before everything got started, 209 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.279 because he wanted them to have that close bond. And 210 00:09:08.320 --> 00:09:10.840 he said the other boys when they finally did start filming, 211 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:12.840 the other boys thought they had been friends for years. 212 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.320 It works magically, it does. It's funny how a week 213 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:20.039 in summer camp can change somebody's life. Sure, and filming 214 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:21.000 is like summer camp. 215 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:21.919 Yeah. 216 00:09:21.960 --> 00:09:26.440 Tom Griy has also been in Mister River, Yeah, The Revenant, 217 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:29.000 Tiger Land, and Blackhawk Down. 218 00:09:29.440 --> 00:09:31.840 Oh wow, I mean he's. 219 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:32.120 Not done nothing. 220 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:34.000 Yeah. Yeah. 221 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:36.399 The other thing that he and Mike Vitar have in 222 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:38.200 common is they both have criminal records. 223 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:39.399 I guess I know. 224 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:42.519 This really breaks my heart. There are a lot of 225 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:44.879 people in this cast been in trouble with the law 226 00:09:44.919 --> 00:09:48.840 before Tom Griy got arrested in twenty thirteen for headbutting 227 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:52.279 an officer. And then I sent you a video this week. Yeah, 228 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:54.080 and I guess he lives in South Carolina. 229 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.840 Yeah, if I remember right, it was like he thought 230 00:09:56.919 --> 00:09:59.600 that his wife had been over at his neighbor's house 231 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:02.120 full around or whatever, and so he's you got a 232 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:05.559 little ring camera or he's yelling and banging on the 233 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:06.639 door with a. 234 00:10:06.679 --> 00:10:09.000 Knife in his hand. Uh huh, with a knife in 235 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:09.639 his hand. 236 00:10:09.440 --> 00:10:11.879 And then he goes and gets a like a thirty 237 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.759 five pound dumbbell and chunks it through the guy's wind shield. 238 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:22.120 Yeah, he was had charges of assault, disorderly conduct, and 239 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.559 malicious damaging of property. 240 00:10:24.840 --> 00:10:27.600 Yes, And judging by what I saw on the film, 241 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:30.960 I think that it was not just a broken heart 242 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.039 that was infiltrating his blood veins at that point, I 243 00:10:35.080 --> 00:10:36.360 think he definitely was on something. 244 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:37.559 Yeah. 245 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:38.159 I think you're right. 246 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:39.120 Yeah, I think you're right. 247 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:46.320 So, Okay, Tom Gary plays Scottie Small's brilliantly in this movie. 248 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.879 His transformation, I think is great. He goes from the 249 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:53.440 left out dork wimp to hitting home run yeah with 250 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.480 a Babe Ruth ball, a Ruth signed ball. 251 00:10:55.679 --> 00:10:56.480 Yeah. Yeah. 252 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.639 Before we go any further, what do you think about 253 00:10:58.639 --> 00:10:59.960 the baseball played in this. 254 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:03.759 I mean it's kind of one of those things where 255 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:07.360 They've done a good job with the editing so that 256 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:10.279 you don't see the kids flubbing the ball too much. 257 00:11:10.519 --> 00:11:12.879 Like they look like they can play ball, and they 258 00:11:12.919 --> 00:11:15.720 may have. They may have played ball a little bit 259 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:20.159 before acting or whatever, or you know, as kids. But 260 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:23.000 I can you know, I'm not a good ball player. 261 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.840 I was an awkward kid. I can see the awkwardness 262 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.360 in some of the scenes that I could see like, Okay, 263 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:30.600 well they've they've cut this just the right moment so 264 00:11:30.639 --> 00:11:32.879 you don't see it's kind of you know, noodle alarm. 265 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:37.799 Yeah, the there's only one one thing I have problem with, 266 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:39.840 And as a former baseball player, I think I feel 267 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:41.440 like I can kind of see some things. 268 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:41.960 Go for it. 269 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:44.879 I do think they did a good job because the 270 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:48.200 kids went to baseball camp for a couple of weeks, yeah, 271 00:11:48.639 --> 00:11:51.120 where they hit and fielded in through and learn how 272 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:51.919 to do all that stuff. 273 00:11:51.960 --> 00:11:54.440 They I mean, because they're kid actors. They couldn't film 274 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:56.759 more than eight hours a day. They all lived in 275 00:11:56.799 --> 00:11:59.360 the same apartment complex. While they were filming, they would 276 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:01.240 go to the batting cages and they would go play 277 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:01.919 catch together. 278 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.840 That sounds like heaven, hanging out with my friends all 279 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:10.240 summer long, swimming at the pool, playing baseball, causing mischief. Yeah, 280 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:12.879 there's only one scene that I have problem with. It's 281 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:16.639 when Ham hits the home run where they lose the 282 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:18.320 ball and they're all throwing their gloves at him. They're like, 283 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:21.480 you idiot, now we got no ball, we can't play anymore. 284 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:26.480 And he's like low and outside, just like I like it. 285 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:36.120 Long ballater mandas, Yes. 286 00:12:44.279 --> 00:12:45.759 Whoa go? 287 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:54.720 That pitching tennis tis rocking mething a hit? All right, em, 288 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:56.279 this is my haater. 289 00:12:56.559 --> 00:12:57.960 I dare you did it? 290 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:00.200 You'll be sorry. 291 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:01.000 What the heater? 292 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:14.440 I'll cot. 293 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.639 When he hits that ball on screen, like that's a 294 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:24.679 pop up to right field that came off his bat 295 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:26.600 straight up into the side. 296 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:30.440 But you know movie magic, fine exactly. 297 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.320 Okay, all right, So you talked about Mike Vitar who 298 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:40.039 plays Benjamin Franklin Benny the Jet Rodriguez. He was in 299 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:43.840 The Mighty Ducks Part two and part three and then 300 00:13:44.279 --> 00:13:47.559 has moved on. He's a fireman now, Okay. He also 301 00:13:47.639 --> 00:13:53.639 got arrested. He and some friends were arrested for assault 302 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:56.879 with a deadly weapon. No word on what that weapon was, 303 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:58.159 but they got in a fight with a guy at 304 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.720 a bar and nearly be him to death. 305 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:04.360 Well sometimes this happened something something. Yeah. 306 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:10.120 Anyway, so I always growing up noticed that, like, man, 307 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.919 they got the perfect actor to play the adult Benny 308 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.399 the Jet Rodriguez because they look. 309 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:16.799 So much like. 310 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:18.720 I'm like, it can't be the same guy, because the 311 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:21.120 guy has got a real mustag. Right, it's not the 312 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.559 same guy, but they look so much alike. 313 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:25.200 It was his older brother. 314 00:14:25.320 --> 00:14:28.279 The older brother, Yeah, Pablo Vtar genius. 315 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:31.240 Oh yeah, perfect, And they're both listen. 316 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:34.679 I have complained before, mainly when we watched Bull Durham. 317 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.879 I'm like, Tim Robbins cannot throw a ninety eight mile 318 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.440 off an hour fastball, There's no way. Yeah, both of 319 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:44.320 those guys are athletic. You can tell both actors in 320 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:45.600 real life are athletic. 321 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:46.039 Yeah. 322 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:49.320 And when Benny the Jet steals home, I'm like, yep, 323 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:50.159 looks good to me. 324 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:54.879 Well, you said that that Mike becomes the becomes an 325 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:58.080 LA firefighter, right, his older brother is LAPD There you go, 326 00:14:58.200 --> 00:15:02.080 tragically passed away at forty one from cancer. But you 327 00:15:02.159 --> 00:15:04.840 have to be in shape to at least get those jobs, right. 328 00:15:04.960 --> 00:15:09.279 Yeah, I have one small plot problem talking about Benny 329 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:11.240 of the jet. Okay, I just want to throw it 330 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:12.679 out right now so we can address it. 331 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:14.919 Okay, timeline wise. 332 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:17.360 How old do you think he is in nineteen sixty two? 333 00:15:17.720 --> 00:15:19.440 We're talking fourteen? 334 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:21.279 Yeah, fourteen, yeah, fourteen. 335 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.000 So that would mean that he was born in nineteen 336 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.799 forty eight. Yes, So if he's playing baseball for the 337 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:31.960 Dodgers present day nineteen ninety three, yeah, that would mean 338 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:36.720 that he was forty five. Yeah, stealing home at forty 339 00:15:36.759 --> 00:15:38.600 five and looking twenty five. 340 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:43.360 Well, the thing is is that, I mean, does that 341 00:15:43.519 --> 00:15:45.840 have to be nineteen ninety three Dodgers or could that 342 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:47.000 be eighty three Dodgers? 343 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:48.039 Could it be twenty five? 344 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:49.559 I guess it could be. 345 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:50.360 Right. 346 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.720 I feel like that is meant to be modern day, 347 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:54.279 but maybe not. 348 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:55.840 Yeah, all right. 349 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:58.960 What is troubling to me is the guy who's playing 350 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:01.960 the adult Scottie Small Sarlos Howard. He looks like he's 351 00:16:01.960 --> 00:16:05.080 forty five, that's the thing. Yeah, yeah, he does. He 352 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:07.480 looks like he's forty five. So I don't know, well, 353 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:09.679 like how old. I don't know how old was Pete 354 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:10.679 rose Put when he was? 355 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.240 I mean there are exceptions. Ricky Anderson played he was 356 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:14.279 nearly fifty. 357 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:16.559 So and he stole some bases. 358 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:18.519 But he was a bass dealer. Yeah, no doubt about it. 359 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:23.720 All right, So Mike Vitar Patrick Renna steals every single 360 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:24.879 scene that he is in. 361 00:16:25.159 --> 00:16:30.240 He wants more small, No, no, you want to small? 362 00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:34.320 I have you had anything yet? So how can I 363 00:16:34.360 --> 00:16:35.080 have some more of nothing? 364 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:39.759 You're killing me small? I love this? Yeah. 365 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:42.279 And you know what's great is that he's he's come 366 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.639 back in like he I'm seeing him on TV and stuff, 367 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.120 like he's doing a Hershey's commercial teaching his kid how 368 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:50.759 to make s'mores genius. 369 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:51.480 By the way, on the Mummy. 370 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:51.919 Yeah, yep. 371 00:16:52.440 --> 00:16:54.960 And I guess he's written a book. You know what 372 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:58.519 I learned from making the Sandlot and all this other stuff. 373 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.480 And one of the things that he talks about in 374 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:04.039 the book, one of the rules that he has come 375 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:08.119 up with is based on that scene where it's the 376 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:11.160 confrontation between him and the rich kid out on the 377 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.119 sandlot before they you know, you throw like a girl 378 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:15.559 that one. 379 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.279 Yeah, you play. 380 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:19.440 Ball like a girl. 381 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:23.640 He's like he's going through it and he he's talking 382 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.640 about his how you have to be ready to make 383 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:31.000 a transition at any time because Apparently in that scene, 384 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:33.640 Benny was the one that was supposed to be saying 385 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:37.000 all of those things. That's right, And it was just 386 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:40.839 at that moment the day of that, they're like, Benny 387 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:42.920 wouldn't be a guy who was trash talking like this. 388 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:45.480 This would be something that Ham was doing, and so 389 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.160 he had to be able to he had to be 390 00:17:47.200 --> 00:17:50.680 able to rattle those lines off quickly, and wasn't prepared 391 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:52.720 for it. And I see him talking. He's doing a 392 00:17:52.880 --> 00:17:55.599 you know, a walk and talk Facebook reel or whatever, 393 00:17:55.920 --> 00:17:58.400 and he's like, all of a sudden, I thought to myself, 394 00:17:58.759 --> 00:18:01.720 have I been wrong about this? Have I been wrong 395 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:04.799 the whole time? Was this a made up memory? Because 396 00:18:04.839 --> 00:18:06.799 we do we have these made up memories, you know, And. 397 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:07.319 He said so. 398 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:10.240 Fortunately, now I have the Internet and so I could 399 00:18:10.279 --> 00:18:13.000 pull the original script and I looked it up and 400 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:16.599 I was like, oh no, it says Ham says these lines, 401 00:18:16.680 --> 00:18:19.799