Speaker 1: And this episode The Creek.
Speaker 2: What's up, guys, Welcome to Dinner with the Healers. My
name is Eric, and with me as always are my
lovely wife Amanda Hi, guys, my beautiful daughter Stella Hi,
and my super handsome son Henry.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 2: If this is your first time listening to us, we
are an episode by episode Blue Podcast where we watch
an episode of Blue and then talk about it and
the lessons we learned. Does that sound right to you, guys?
Speaker 4: It sure does.
Speaker 2: In this episode, we are rewatching season one, episode twenty nine,
The Creek and talking about how we feel about it now,
three years later after we watched it the first time,
and it is going to be super fun.
Speaker 4: Yes, it will be.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of things that are awesome, we just got done
rewatching the creek.
Speaker 1: What help we got the creek blue? He's dead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll take.
Speaker 2: You down to the creek. He scrats king for that. Yay, Stella?
Could you tell us what was going on? At the
beginning of this.
Speaker 5: Episode, Bluie, Bingo and Mackenzie are all at the park
and it shows them playing on the swings and stuff,
all looking really bored. So they go up and ask
a bandit if he'll play with them. He tells them
to just go and play on the swings again, so
they do, and they're still bored.
Speaker 2: When they go back to bandit. What is he doing?
Speaker 3: He is laying on the slide.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's hogging the slide. He's laying on the party
slide down to relax.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Did you notice anything about the top of the slide.
Speaker 3: I noticed that there's a kid sitting up there and
he decided to pick his nose and he was holding
his finger out. Didn't know what to do. With the booger,
So he just wiped down the side of the slide
and could see the yellow churn just a little darker
in that area because the pugger, And then the other
time he's falling asleep because he was waiting for Bandit.
Speaker 4: The move.
Speaker 2: Your attention to detail just then was astounding. My goodness,
it's time for honesty. Did we all get a good
laugh about that?
Speaker 3: I gotta chuckle. I found it funny. You guys are
so immature.
Speaker 2: That may be true, but it was still funny. It's
definitely true, Amanda. What do the kids want to do next?
Speaker 4: They asked Bandit if they can go play by the creek,
and Bandit says yes, and he's going to start leading
them to the creek. As they're taking off, though Blue
becomes a little hesitant. She's not sure she actually wants
to walk through the woods to go to the creek.
She decides she'd rather stay on the playground, but Mackenzie
told her, come on, Blue, let's go, and she went
with them.
Speaker 2: Mackenzie was balancing on these posts and Blue was frustrated
that she couldn't do it, and that's sort of what
led to her thinking that maybe she didn't want to
go to the creek. It might be a little too
difficult for but Mackenzie tells her the creek is beautiful
and you have to go. She's ready to go, but
she's definitely nervous. Henry, what's happening. When they start their trip, they.
Speaker 3: Start walking around. Blue is all nervous about everything because
she's never been there before. And Bannett tells Blue everything's
going to be all right. But then you watch out
for drop bears?
Speaker 2: What is a drop bear?
Speaker 5: They're like koalas, but like evil koala is something different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, carnivorous koalas. They're not real.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's sortless.
Speaker 2: In the US, when I was young and a bunch
of people would go camping, they would take the young
kids on a snipe hunt. Yes, and there's no such thing,
but they would make it out like it was this
completely dangerous thing that everybody had to be on the
lookout for. Bandit assured them there were no drop bears. However,
there was something they were gonna need to watch out for, Henry,
and what was that?
Speaker 4: It was snakes.
Speaker 2: I don't think any of us would be too excited
to have to run into a snake while we're out
in the woods.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't be excited at all.
Speaker 4: Definitely not.
Speaker 2: Something happens to Bluie while she's walking that. I think
anybody who's ever spent any amount of time outdoors can
relate to Stella. What does she walk into?
Speaker 3: She walks into a spiderweb?
Speaker 2: Is oh my gosh, Stella, has that ever happened to you?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 4: Really, You've never walked into the spider web.
Speaker 3: That's what I remember.
Speaker 2: We need to go hiking more.
Speaker 3: I don't like hiking. Hiking to gross.
Speaker 2: You used to like it, didn't you?
Speaker 5: When we go hiking, you walk too fast? Like why
don't you just let us stop and appreciate things? You
like speeding through it? Mom, you agree with me?
Speaker 2: Has that happened to anybody else but me?
Speaker 4: Me for sure?
Speaker 2: And I screamed, Yeah, it's not a particularly great feeling
because you don't see it and then suddenly you walk
right into I spent a lot of time in the
woods whenever I was young, and no, Stella, I wasn't
raised there.
Speaker 3: So are you sure?
Speaker 2: Yes? When they get past that, Stella, Bluey sees something
that she thinks as a snake, but what is it?
Speaker 5: It is a leech on Louie's arm. She is freaking out,
so Bandit takes off her arm and then he pretends
to eat it, which makes them all laugh, but Blue
is still freaked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean leeches can be pretty gross. Usually you
think of getting them, like in water, but it's just
kind of like a slug looking thing that one's to
attached to you. But no, thank you. They keep walking, Amanda,
what happens to Bluey? Next?
Speaker 4: They're walking along in the woods and the ground is
pretty bumpy here and there, and Blue slips and she
slides down aways and as she does, she hurts her knee.
Speaker 2: She's pretty concerned, but luckily bandits there to reassure her.
Speaker 4: Give us a look.
Speaker 1: Ah, yeah, okay, I'll just have to chump the leg off.
Speaker 2: You don't need to, man, I used to try to
do stuff like that to these kids. What they saw
right through my shenanigans.
Speaker 4: Yes they did.
Speaker 2: Blue keeps repeating something to herself to reassure herself. Henry,
what is she saying?
Speaker 3: She is saying the creek is beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's beautiful, and that's why they're there to experience it.
The next thing they're gonna do is hop across some rock.
Mackenzie's great at it, but Blue is nervous. What advice
does he give her? Henry.
Speaker 3: The advice he gave Blue was some are wobbly and
the green ones are slippery. And Blue managed to escape
a wobbly one, but then she immediately slipped on a
green one and went to some mud like mud.
Speaker 2: That'll be good, Poor Blue. She was really upset about that. Henry,
has anything like that ever happened to you?
Speaker 3: Well, not mud going into my mouth, but one time
I did slip in a mud puddle.
Speaker 2: Listen, When I was a kid, we probably ate dirt
on a dare and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Plus when it would rain it would get muddy. We
would make mud pies, so I'm sure some of that
dirt went in our mouths.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, now, just for everybody to understand, you
made mud pies. She didn't eat them, right, You just
played in the mud. Head's ever played in the mud
like that?
Speaker 3: I probably have, Like I have played in mud, but
I don't think i've really like done that a bunch.
Speaker 2: I don't think you made mud pies or eaten mud intentionally?
Neither of you have done that.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe let's go to the archives. I'm just kidding. Bluey
gives herself a pep talk about how beautiful the creek
is to give herself the courage and the desire to
keep going. They make it to a little waterfall and
everybody's jumping over. Bluie is scared to go across Stella.
What happens.
Speaker 5: Mackenzie tells her that it's just like jumping from sheep
to sheep, and he's shocked when he realizes that none
of them have ever done that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to him, it's completely normal because he's a sheep dog.
But they have never done that. When you guys were young,
were you surprised to find out that not everybody had
piles of Star Wars toys at their house that belonged
to the dad instead of the kids.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2: You thought it was just normal that all dads had
that run Yeah, obviously, Yeah, but were you surprised to
find out they didn't?
Speaker 3: Well, I guess not everybody's as cool as you, dad.
Speaker 2: I don't think that's what your mom thinks about my
Star Wars toys. Blue manages to jump across and feels
great that she did. Amanda. When they get to the creek,
what happens.
Speaker 4: When Bannet gets to the creek, he is just overwhelmed
by how beautiful it is, and he says it's just
as beautiful as what he remembered from when he was
a kid and he played there with his friends.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he hadn't been there in forever. And I love
how everything kind of slows down and the way the
lighting looks and music. The music really fills you up
with that peaceful, sweet nostalgia feel. It's so beautiful, the
visuals the music together. The kids are trying to figure
out what are we supposed to play? Henry, what does
bandit tell him?
Speaker 3: He tells them, I don't know. It's the creek. You
just smuck around. And then right after you said that,
he immediately laid down the water.
Speaker 2: You could tell that it took him right back to
when he was young. I remember I played in a
creek like that when I was a kid, and I
thought it was amazing. I felt like I was on
a huge adventure and I was hundreds of miles from home,
and I wasn't My parents were like right over there,
but I would come out just filthy. But oh my gosh,
it was so beautiful. Henry, did that look fun to you?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It did look fun.
Speaker 2: I don't know that I would have laid down in
the water, but hey, bandit, he knows what he's doing. Stella,
what happens to Blueie? Right away?
Speaker 5: Tadpooles come up to her feet in the water and
they started nibbling on her feet, and she thinks it's funny.
She starts to laugh and kind of relax.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 2: Everything goes into this slow motion thing. What were some
of the things that we saw during that.
Speaker 4: I remember they saw a beautiful dragonfly fly by, and
I think it was like a crawfish or craw dad
that was in the creek.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it saw them and was hesitant to scoot. It's
a little head out anymore. But those kids were being
super respectful of the environment. Well, blue is in love
with the place now and wants to stay, and so
they have a whole bunch of fun. I mean, what
were some of the things they did.
Speaker 4: They built a dam with the rocks blocking the waterfall.
They also made little boats and had boat races.
Speaker 2: That looks so fun. Henry. What else were they doing?
Speaker 3: They were skipping rocks also.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that looked pretty fun. Bluey picked up a big,
ginormous one though, and there was no way she was
gonna skip that, and she just tossed it in there
for a big splash. But they all got a good
laugh out of that. What was the next thing we
see them playing?
Speaker 3: Henry, they're playing a game to where they're running a
spa and Bandit is going there and he's getting his
nails done.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're doing all kinds of treatments to him. Stella,
what else is he getting?
Speaker 3: Bingo is putting a mud pack on his face?
Speaker 2: Do you remember what Bingo's name was? She's the one
who always has names whenever they play these games.
Speaker 3: Her name was Cassiopia.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what a pretty pretty name. Yeah, Bandit is being
such a good sport about it, and all the kids
are having fun. Bluey goes off by herself to get
some more mud, and an amazing thing happens. Amanda, What
does blue experience?
Speaker 4: She looks up from collecting her mud and she sees
a wallaby across the creek from her, and the wallaby
is just so cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're hypnotized by each other, kind of blue
doesn't know what to do. The wallaby doesn't know what to.
Speaker 4: Do right.
Speaker 1: Beautiful.
Speaker 2: It really really struck a chord with her. She will
probably remember that forever. They head back to the playground
and Amanda, what do they see there?
Speaker 4: They see that the playground is completely empty, nobody else
is there, and Bandit asked them if they want to
have another go on the swings before they head home.
But Mackenzie said that he's actually kind of tired, and
Bandit said, I didn't think you ever got tired.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he does seem to have a lot of energy.
You know, they must have had a really good day
if none of them wanted to play on the playground
once they got back right.
Speaker 4: And did you notice how muddy all their feet were?
And they had sticks and leaves and I don't know
what else in their first So they had a really
good time in that creek.
Speaker 2: Yeah they did. Henry Bandit mentions that they didn't see
something while they were there. What was it?
Speaker 3: He was talking about? Gazanta pedes and Bingo asked them
are those actually real? And Bandit said, no, they're not.
But we seriously need to check for ticks.
Speaker 2: And that was the episode. Henry, did we forget anything?
Speaker 3: Nope, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what it's time for.
Speaker 4: Did we learn anything today?
Speaker 2: Could anyone tell us what did you learn today?
Speaker 3: I learned that sometimes the first time for an experience
can be kind of scary, but once you get used
to it, you learned to like it and you realize
that it's pretty awesome. Just like how Bluey went to
the creek for the first time and sheel was nervous.
B at the end she was okay with it.
Speaker 2: Very good. Yeah, she would have missed out on an
amazing experience if she didn't overcome her nervousness about doing
something she had never tried before.
Speaker 4: I agree with Henry, he said it very well. But yeah,
sometimes you gotta not necessarily let your guard down, but
you just got to kind of be brave and let
yourself try new things and you could have the best time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I can definitely relate to that of experiences where
I wish I would have been more of a free
spirit about it and allowed myself to relax and have
fun in a situation.
Speaker 3: I agree with Henry. I think he said it pretty well.
Speaker 2: Have you ever had an experience where you were nervous
going in but were so glad that you stuck through
it and did it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5: Before I had ever really went to an amusement park,
I was terrified of going on big rides and stuff
because I'd never been on them before. And then I
ended up going to Disneyland for the first time, and
I just completely forgot about that fear the first time
I went on a ride because it's really not that scary,
and now I really enjoy going to theme parks and
going on rides and stuff.
Speaker 2: That's a good example, because yeah, it can seem scary
to ride a roller coaster or do anything else, but
if you let that stop you from doing it, you
may miss out on something that it turns out you
really really like it. I really liked the way bandit
was reliving his childhood going to this place because it
struck a chord with me because of the similarities of
the things I had done whenever I was a little guy.
And I love that he joked with the kids about
the gazantipedes and the drop bears, because that's just the
sort of thing that I went to.
Speaker 4: Now, Yeah, that was pretty funny how he was trying
to trick the kids.
Speaker 2: I think it's even cuter that they know he's full
of it. Yeah, does anyone have any parting thoughts about
the episode?
Speaker 3: I really liked.
Speaker 5: The scenery in this episode, Like when they were at
the creek and everything.
Speaker 3: I just think it looked really pretty.
Speaker 2: It was beautiful. The combination of the visuals and the music,
Oh just perfect. Clap clap clap, all the way around.
Speaker 3: The visuals looked really good and it makes me kind
of one visual place like that someday.
Speaker 4: I thought the creek was really beautiful too. And the
part where Bluey encountered the wallaby, I thought that was
really cool. That was such a special moment for her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was really sweet, and we probably all thought
about how we would react in that moment, and it
was so pure and so real. And there's things like
that that can happen to you even as an adult,
where you're still awe struck by it and it takes
you back to kind of that wonderment of when you
were a kid. If I was in the woods and
I encountered an animal like that, it would take my
breathway and I would probably be right back to little
eight year old me being wowed by everything that I saw. Yeah,
an excellent episode all the way around. Well, guys, we
think Bluie is awesome. And speaking of things that we
think are awesome, Henry, what should we do next?
Speaker 3: The hell out?
Speaker 2: Okay, listen up, everyone has to clap and go whoa yet?
All right, that's awesome, got it.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 2: We have the best fans ever, and we're so thankful
for you guys. All of the voice messages, the emails,
the comments, the five star reviews, we read all of
them and we can't possibly thank you guys enough.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys are so great. We just thank you
so much.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at the comments on Spotify. We
heard from Jesse Ivy Daisy Charlotte, who said that people
make fun of her for liking Blue, but listening to
our podcast helps her feel like it's totally cool to
watch Blue.
Speaker 4: Oh, Charlotte, thank you so much for saying that.
Speaker 2: And you know what we always say, Blue is for everybody.
Speaker 4: Right, absolutely, it sure is.
Speaker 2: And I have this goofy saying that's ace job liking
what you like. Don't be afraid to like the things
that you like. We heard from Tish, Jaden keylor vv Gabriella,
our buddy Alex, who had a fun fact about the
Granny's episode. Henry, are you ready for this?
Speaker 3: I'm ready?
Speaker 2: And Janet's carhorn is the same sound as the red
fire cart from the Mario Kart Double Dash, the two
thousand and three game cube game.
Speaker 3: That's pretty neat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, isn't that wild? I've never played that game, but
it is cool to know that that sound sample lived
on to see another project.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's cool.
Speaker 2: We heard from Disco Cat and our buddy Grant, Hey Grant,
Hi Grant on Instagram. We heard from Jacob, We got
some emails, We heard from our friend Teddy, and we
got a voice message from Marley.
Speaker 3: Hi did it?
Speaker 4: What the heel is?
Speaker 6: It's Molly and this is my third voice fails to
the show. I love the show and I really like
a helout and shout out to my sister Indy, who
is really lovely and also loves the show. Love the show,
Love man Stella, Eric and Harry love you ool and
have a great rest of you.
Speaker 1: Pay bye everyone.
Speaker 4: Marley, thank you so much for your message. It was
so great to hear from you, and we're giving you
a shout out and your sister Indy. You guys sound awesome.
Thank you. We're so glad you love the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, Marley. We heard from Penelope. She
is five. She's from Manchester in the UK. Her favorite
character is Bingo and her favorite episode is Hospital.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 2: It sure is. We got an email from Oscar who
asks about the theme song to our podcast, and he
knew that I played the guitars on it, but he
asked about the drums and he wondered maybe if Amanda
played the drums.
Speaker 4: Oh, Oscar, I wish I could play an instrument, but
I'm just not that talented enough to play one. But
thanks for thinking that it was me.
Speaker 2: Maybe a friend of mine who has a recording studio.
He plays drums and he took care of the drums
on that for us. So a huge shout out to
my buddy Mike. We got a voice message from Lucas.
Speaker 7: I didn't do it with the healers. Hi, so you're
my favorite? Po I hear it to you. I mean,
well except some nights, but love the night. Say do
so you're my favorite.
Speaker 1: I love you so much.
Speaker 7: I'll be your friends forever.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, Lucas. Thank you so much for your message. We're
so glad you loved the podcast and love listening to it,
and you know what, will be your friend forever too.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Lucas for the kind words.
Speaker 4: You're awesome.
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feel free to leave us a five star review on
Apple Podcasts. All of our listeners are the best and
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that people would embrace this podcast the way they have,
and it means the world too us. So thank you, guys.
Speaker 4: Thank you guys so much. You all are so amazing.
Speaker 2: Thank you well, guys. Until next time, we are out
of here.
Speaker 3: Bye guys, Bye bye.
Speaker 2: Once again,