Speaker 1: And this episode is called Cricket.
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Speaker 3: Welcome to season three, episode forty seven of Dinner with
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Speaker 3: We got some emails. We got a voice message from
Speaker 3: our friend Brandon.
Speaker 6: Greetings, dinner with the Healers. This is your friend Brendan
Speaker 6: speaking to you once again. So I have another Bluey
Speaker 6: moment to share with you from the episode Mini Bluey,
Speaker 6: I big Bingo.
Speaker 1: I was in sure which bed to sit on you. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a dad one two of yous. I don't want
Speaker 1: any of me it's very mude. It's because I'm annoying
Speaker 1: and you're not annoying at all.
Speaker 4: Yes I am.
Speaker 1: I'm super annoying. Really yeah, I'm just different annoying.
Speaker 6: B Louie Christine Healer. I love you with all my
Speaker 6: heart to say this to you. You are so not annoying.
Speaker 6: You are awesome. Keep that in mind if you please,
Speaker 6: all right, talk to you again soon, Bye bye, Brendan.
Speaker 5: I agree with you, Bluuie is awesome, and I don't
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Speaker 5: is annoying either. She's pretty awesome too, just like you, buddy.
Speaker 2: Let me counter with this.
Speaker 3: I would say that there are times when Bluie is annoying.
Speaker 1: I sort to just talk all the time. It doesn't
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Speaker 3: That doesn't mean she's not awesome. I suspect that you
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Speaker 2: Would I be correct in that?
Speaker 5: Yes, you would be, That's what I thought. But yes,
Speaker 5: you are pretty.
Speaker 3: Awesome, Brendan. Thank you for that, and you are right.
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Speaker 4: Hello, jennerythe Healers.
Speaker 1: I just wanted you to know that from the episode
Speaker 1: Turtle Boy, Dougie's Mom's name is Daisy.
Speaker 7: Bye.
Speaker 4: How do you stop this thing?
Speaker 5: That's cute? Margot. Thank you so much for sending us
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I had no idea. Did either of you guys know?
Speaker 4: No, I didn't. I didn't know the name.
Speaker 3: But that's really cool. Thank you so oh so much.
Speaker 3: We got an email from Jack Jack, We hope you're
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Speaker 7: Hi, Dinner with the Healers. My name is Lisa and
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Speaker 7: my favorite minisode is Banni Bear. I have two sisters,
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Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Well, guys, we just got done watching cricket.
Speaker 1: Cricket is just about hitting a bull around the gross.
Speaker 3: Crickets about more than that, kid, Could you tell us
Speaker 3: what was going on at the beginning of this episode.
Speaker 4: At the beginning of the episode, Bandit was talking about
Speaker 4: when they were playing cricket and he sales out somebody's birthday,
Speaker 4: but he couldn't remember whose birthday it was. Blue. He
Speaker 4: got Bingo out. But then when Stripe came up the bat,
Speaker 4: Bandit told everybody the coming close.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he didn't think his brother was going to
Speaker 3: be able to hit it very far, did he?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he didn't think he could. And what happened It
Speaker 4: went really far.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all the way over the fence. Now listen, we
Speaker 3: need to put something out there. First thing. While we
Speaker 3: talk about this. We don't know very much about the
Speaker 3: sport cricket, do we.
Speaker 2: No, we don't, Yeah, we do.
Speaker 3: Not, but it sure seems cool and we really really
Speaker 3: loved this episode. Lucky's dad Pat asks who hasn't had
Speaker 3: a turn at bat? And there's only one person, Stella,
Speaker 3: who is it?
Speaker 4: The only person who hadn't had to turn the bat
Speaker 4: yet was Rusty.
Speaker 3: In the meanwhile, Blue is talking about how she is
Speaker 3: bored with cricket and she wants to play something else.
Speaker 2: Stella, do you remember what she said?
Speaker 4: I'm pretty sure Blue said that she wants to play
Speaker 4: a game called tiggy.
Speaker 2: Do you guys know what that is?
Speaker 5: I have no clue, No, I don't.
Speaker 2: It's tag.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, in Australia, that's what they call tag is tigy.
Speaker 5: Cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Bandit tells Blue that as soon as he gets Rusty out,
Speaker 3: they can play something else, Amanda, What did Blue tell Bandit?
Speaker 5: Blue told Bandit that he will not get Rusty out?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Never, And what happens when he pitches to him, He does.
Speaker 5: Not get him out.
Speaker 4: I think I can handle it.
Speaker 2: Bull Bits.
Speaker 5: Blewie was right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Bennett starts telling the story about how Rusty got to
Speaker 3: be so good at cricket, and it shows him playing
Speaker 3: and he plays all day with his brothers. What does
Speaker 3: he do when they're not around, Amanda?
Speaker 5: He plays by himself by hitting the ball up against
Speaker 5: the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: During all these times we see Bandit and everyone else
Speaker 3: trying to get a ball pass Rusty. And I loved
Speaker 3: when Rusty sent it sailing and it went to somebody, Amanda,
Speaker 3: who's one of your favorites?
Speaker 2: Who was it?
Speaker 5: It went right over to Snickers, and Snickers was having
Speaker 5: a hard time catching it, and then it fell to
Speaker 5: the ground and he was having a hard time bending
Speaker 5: over to pick it up.
Speaker 3: Because he's a big, tall Wiener dog. Exactly, Henry, how
Speaker 3: did Snickers do it throwing?
Speaker 4: He just throw it that far at all?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he probably hasn't had much practice throwing. He just
Speaker 3: needs to work at it, doesn't.
Speaker 4: He Yeah, he just needs to work at it.
Speaker 3: They come up with a plan to get Rusty out,
Speaker 3: pat and Stripe stand in one spot and bandit is
Speaker 3: gonna pitch. And they said he had worked on something. Henry,
Speaker 3: do you remember what it was?
Speaker 4: Did they say square cut? I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not sure either, but I think it must
Speaker 3: have something to do with hitting it at a certain
Speaker 3: angle because they tell the story about Rusty's house, Amanda.
Speaker 2: What was it?
Speaker 5: Rusty was playing cricket with his dad and his brother
Speaker 5: and sometimes when they would hit the ball, it would
Speaker 5: go through the window right to his mom in the
Speaker 5: case kitchen while she was doing dishes. So then Rusty
Speaker 5: practice and practice where he could hit the ball and
Speaker 5: it would go in between the windows of the house,
Speaker 5: avoiding going through the window and the kitchen where his
Speaker 5: mom was.
Speaker 3: Exactly, Henry, how did it go for Stripe and pat.
Speaker 4: Well, they didn't get the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Rusty hit it right between them. He has got
Speaker 3: some laser accuracy, doesn't he. Yeah, Stripe is going to pitch,
Speaker 3: and now they're starting to want to play dirty on
Speaker 3: him to get him out. Henry, what were they planning
Speaker 3: on doing.
Speaker 4: They're gonna throw it, Sodell hit a crack, Sudell mess
Speaker 4: him up.
Speaker 3: I love that Bandit had some things to say about
Speaker 3: his brother's athletic ability.
Speaker 6: Stripe couldn't spend to save himself.
Speaker 3: A lot of these terms I only understand from context
Speaker 3: of seeing what's happened on the screen, because, like I said, Stella,
Speaker 3: do we know all these cricket terms?
Speaker 4: No, we don't.
Speaker 2: No, but it seems cool, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it does.
Speaker 3: Bennett tells the story about how Rusty, while his dad
Speaker 3: was deployed in the Armed Services, played at Jack's house. Stella,
Speaker 3: what was going on at Jack's house?
Speaker 4: At Jack's house, Rusty had trouble playing because his yard
Speaker 4: was more bumpy than smooth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lots of tree roots sticking out and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. Yeah, but he got good at hitting it,
Speaker 3: even when it would take a surprise bounce, didn't he. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he did what happened to the ball that Stripe pitched
Speaker 3: at him?
Speaker 4: Rusty was able to hit it and it went really
Speaker 4: far by.
Speaker 3: Now the guys are starting to take this personally, that
Speaker 3: this little kid is getting the best of them at
Speaker 3: this sport, and they're trying to come up with a
Speaker 3: new plan.
Speaker 2: Every batsman has a week's.
Speaker 5: Bock, that's it to him for a pisce attack and
Speaker 5: Rusty's tie.
Speaker 2: Okay, if I have a guy.
Speaker 3: Rusty, Amanda, what were they planning on doing?
Speaker 5: Their next plan was to try to throw the cricket
Speaker 5: ball hard and.
Speaker 3: Fast, Yeah, so that he wouldn't be able to get it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but what story does Bandit tell about Rusty?
Speaker 5: Bandit is telling the story about how Rusty was watching
Speaker 5: his older brother play cricket and he wanted a turn
Speaker 5: to hit as well, But with it being his older brother,
Speaker 5: the big boys play a little differently. They don't use
Speaker 5: a tennis ball like what they're playing with today. They
Speaker 5: use an actual cricket ball, which is much harder. Rusty's
Speaker 5: older brother tells him he can have a turn as
Speaker 5: he's putting some protection gear on him, but he tells
Speaker 5: Rusty don't expect them to go easy on you, just
Speaker 5: because you're my little brother. Rusty gets up there to
Speaker 5: hit and he misses because the boy that is pitching
Speaker 5: he throws the ball fast and hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tiny was that guy's name. He sent one burning
Speaker 3: down the pitch and Rusty got beamed. And we see
Speaker 3: him limping home with his brother and I heard you
Speaker 3: go all because it was it was so relatable and
Speaker 3: so cute, and he could not go to sleep thinking
Speaker 3: about it in the bunk bed, and his brother tells him,
Speaker 3: maybe wait until you're older. But we see him with
Speaker 3: his eyes wide open, trying to figure out how he
Speaker 3: was going to handle this, Henry, What do we see
Speaker 3: after that?
Speaker 4: We see him go back again again, but he can't
Speaker 4: hit the ball because he's afraid of Tiny.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Tiny's pitches are so fast and so scary that he
Speaker 3: couldn't get past. Asked his fear of it?
Speaker 2: Could he?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he couldn't.
Speaker 3: I was starting to feel bad for Rusty at this point,
Speaker 3: because we see how much he loves cricket. Now what
Speaker 3: was going on then, Henry? What happens at Rusty's house
Speaker 3: right after that?
Speaker 4: Did they get a letter from Rusty's dad?
Speaker 3: Yeah, his dad is in the Army, I guess. And
Speaker 3: he sends the family a letter and it is really sweet,
Speaker 3: telling him how much he misses them. And all of that,
Speaker 3: Rusty is out front, sitting on the fence, staring off
Speaker 3: into space. Stella, what does Rusty's mom tell him?
Speaker 4: Rusty's mom tells him that there was a PS on
Speaker 4: the note for Rusty from his dad. Can you read it?
Speaker 8: This?
Speaker 6: Tawny sounds like he's got some pace on him.
Speaker 4: He does.
Speaker 6: I wish I could be.
Speaker 8: There to bawl a few at you, but I can't
Speaker 8: right now, Mike. But look, as you grow up, you'll
Speaker 8: face hot things than a cricket ball, and you'll have
Speaker 8: two choices back and white. I get out, whose is it?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 8: He's stepping front and the play a pole shop. Just
Speaker 8: kick your eye on the bowl and take care of
Speaker 8: your little sister fully.
Speaker 2: Love dad.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that was the sweetest thing. And I
Speaker 3: bet that meant the world to Rusty. What do you think, Stella?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it probably meant a lot to him to hear
Speaker 4: that from his dad.
Speaker 2: Stella.
Speaker 3: When we see Rusty at bat against Pat, what happens?
Speaker 5: He hits the.
Speaker 4: Ball and it goes super super far.
Speaker 3: The guys cannot believe it, and all they want to
Speaker 3: do is get Rusty out so that they can go
Speaker 3: eat now is what they're trying to do. I think,
Speaker 3: was that right, Amanda?
Speaker 5: Yes, they wanted to go eat their hot dogs.
Speaker 2: Nah, hang on, Rusty one more.
Speaker 1: I tell you wouldn't get Rusty out.
Speaker 2: Come on, Pat, This one's for dignity.
Speaker 3: Pat sends one burning down as fast as he can.
Speaker 2: Amanda. What happens?
Speaker 5: Rusty hits the ball, but he does something special with
Speaker 5: this ball. When he hits it, he makes it pop
Speaker 5: up in the air and it goes right over towards
Speaker 5: his sister and she catches.
Speaker 2: It and it made her day.
Speaker 5: It did.
Speaker 3: He had so much control that he could take that
Speaker 3: fast pitch and just lob it to her. I thought
Speaker 3: that was so sweet, that popfly.
Speaker 5: It really was sweet. It made her smile so big.
Speaker 1: I love you out why.
Speaker 2: I can't believe it?
Speaker 3: What a catch. As they're walking towards the house, Henry,
Speaker 3: what do we see happen with Rusty?
Speaker 4: He walks past his older self, which is a professional
Speaker 4: cricket player.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we see the background dissolve and it is stands
Speaker 3: with tons of people in him, and we get to
Speaker 3: see a glimpse of Rusty's future, and that was the episode. Henry,
Speaker 3: did we forget anything?
Speaker 4: Nope, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what it's time for.
Speaker 5: Did we learn anything today?
Speaker 2: Amanda?
Speaker 3: Could you tell us what were we supposed to learn today?
Speaker 5: Practicing something that you love to do over and over
Speaker 5: will have a good payoff later because we see Rusty
Speaker 5: just practicing playing cricket that he loves so much, and
Speaker 5: at the end of the show we see him being
Speaker 5: a professional cricket player.
Speaker 3: And that doesn't mean that that could just happen to everyone,
Speaker 3: but it does take all that work to get to
Speaker 3: where he is. That's right, Amanda. What about you, Henry?
Speaker 4: Well, I think the lesson is is that sometimes you
Speaker 4: have to make a choice, either you back out or
Speaker 4: either you go all in, and you should go all
Speaker 4: in most of the time.
Speaker 3: That's really good, Henry. Yeah, that's what Rusty's dad was
Speaker 3: telling them in the letter, wasn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: What about you, Stella?
Speaker 4: I think they both said it really well.
Speaker 2: You're right.
Speaker 3: I think Mom and Henry did a really good job
Speaker 3: with it. One thing I would add in this case
Speaker 3: is that a lot of these things we see Rusty doing.
Speaker 3: He's very passionate about cricket, and these things apply to cricket,
Speaker 3: but they also apply to so many things in life,
Speaker 3: problem solving, how to handle emotional or difficult situations. These
Speaker 3: lessons he's learning through cricket also apply to all kinds
Speaker 3: of lessons in life.
Speaker 2: The thing Henry.
Speaker 3: Said with you either back away or you step out
Speaker 3: and go all in, that applies to so many things
Speaker 3: in life. And all of these lessons really helped form
Speaker 3: Rusty into who he is, and who he is is
Speaker 3: not only a great athlete, but a really, really kind person.
Speaker 3: When you see the way he wanted his sister to
Speaker 3: feel good because he wanted to do what his dad
Speaker 3: asked and take care of his little sister, and that's
Speaker 3: how he did it. That was so so cute.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was so very sweet.
Speaker 3: Does anybody have any parting thoughts about the episode? Yes, Henry,
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 4: That this is a really good episode.
Speaker 2: I do too. I love it.
Speaker 3: I wish I understood all of the cricket terminology better,
Speaker 3: but I do really love it.
Speaker 4: I really like Kelly talked about Rusty in this episode,
Speaker 4: just because I feel like we haven't only seen a
Speaker 4: lot of him in the series.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not too much, just in the Army episode, and
Speaker 3: we only see him be kind of rigid, and we
Speaker 3: don't really know much about what drives him and what
Speaker 3: motivates him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I thought it was cute how Blue kept telling your dad,
Speaker 5: you'll never get Rusty out.
Speaker 3: I think it's neat too, how it was matter of fact.
Speaker 3: They all know Rusty's amazing, and that's just how it is. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's such a thing that they're not even impressed by it.
Speaker 3: They're like, no, that's Rusty. He's the best, and he
Speaker 3: really was the best. This episode is surprisingly emotional for me,
Speaker 3: and I'm not exactly sure why. I think Amanda and
Speaker 3: the kids were looking at me weird when I was
Speaker 3: getting all teary eyed during it. But something it does
Speaker 3: remind me of is Bannett's telling this story, and we're
Speaker 3: imagining he's telling this years later, once Rusty really is
Speaker 3: a professional cricket player by that point. Ban it's reminiscing
Speaker 3: about how they tried to get Rusty out and couldn't,
Speaker 3: and it makes me think of this time with playing
Speaker 3: the guitar. I remember my dad. I wasn't ever sure
Speaker 3: that he really thought my guitar playing was that cool
Speaker 3: or that good. And he had a friend of his
Speaker 3: that played guitar in a band, and he asked him
Speaker 3: to come to our house one time and see if
Speaker 3: he could give me any pointers. I played my guitar
Speaker 3: for him and he went back and told my dad
Speaker 3: I can't show him anything.
Speaker 2: He's awesome.
Speaker 3: And my dad looked at my guitar playing differently, and
Speaker 3: it meant the world to me because all it took
Speaker 3: was for somebody he respected in that area to say,
Speaker 3: your kid can play the guitar really well, and that
Speaker 3: changed the dynamic of it. And interestingly enough, not that
Speaker 3: long ago, I got a message from that guy Facebook
Speaker 3: and he asked me, Hey, remember that time, And I
Speaker 3: told your dad man, there's nothing I can show him,
Speaker 3: And it blew my mind that that stuck out to
Speaker 3: him the same way that sticks out to me.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's very cool.
Speaker 2: It was really something. It was really something. Anyway, Sorry
Speaker 2: about that. I don't mean to get so emotional. It's
Speaker 2: just really sweet.
Speaker 3: And this episode makes me think of that, and I
Speaker 3: think it's cool to see. I'm imagining how all the
Speaker 3: old men now in the neighborhood because you're thinking this
Speaker 3: is twenty years later. How they're all proud of this kid.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: Anyway, sorry guys, we think Bluuie is awesome and until
Speaker 3: next time, we are out of here.
Speaker 5: Bye guys, Bye bye,