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#56: Take Us Out To The Ball Game
53 Plays10 months ago
The boys are back and absolutely ready for the MLB season to begin. We start out this episode catching up and chatting about WWE. Our main topic this week is our favorite Baseball movies throughout our lives regardless of their scores.
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Transcript
Introductions and Humorous Banter
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Kendahl
ah Hello, everybody out there in streaming pi
00:00:45
Julian Contreras Jr
the world and you said i forgot last week
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Kendahl
like caught podcast land, the world. ah This is Shut Off, Turn On. I am your host today. This is Kendall, and that is my good friend, Julian.
00:00:59
Julian Contreras Jr
julian yep just just waiting to get in there yeah oh man okay that's what we're doing now that's what we're doing now
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Kendahl
I didn't forget his name. I was just looking at him, and he was looking down. That's what she said. oh Oh, you got to throw it in there every once in a while.
00:01:14
Julian Contreras Jr
There goes that PG rating.
00:01:16
Kendahl
Hey, we're still keeping it PG-ish. We're keeping it PG in the Do you remember that?
00:01:22
Julian Contreras Jr
All right.
00:01:23
Kendahl
Okay, PG in the 90s.
00:01:23
Julian Contreras Jr
ah PG in the 80s. This is iffy.
00:01:25
Kendahl
Well, PG in the 80s. Okay, okay.
00:01:27
Julian Contreras Jr
Uh-oh.
00:01:28
Kendahl
Hold up.
Nostalgic Movie Ratings and School Stories
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Kendahl
Story time, people. I am in seventh, let's see. Yeah, seventh grade English class. This is ish 90s. We're not going to give dates, people. You don't have to know how old we are exactly.
00:01:44
Julian Contreras Jr
I like how you just yell at them.
00:01:44
Kendahl
So so we are we are in seventh grade English class in the 90s. And my teacher describes this movie that we're going to be watching. And we're like, what? And she's trying to get us to figure it out.
00:01:59
Kendahl
Well, we...
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Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, please tell me. I think I know where you're going with this
00:02:03
Kendahl
ah Maybe. I don't know. So we end up watching Romeo and Juliet.
00:02:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Yep. Yeah, i know exactly what you're talking about.
00:02:08
Kendahl
But this is like the 70s version of Romeo and Juliet.
00:02:12
Julian Contreras Jr
That one scene.
00:02:13
Kendahl
And oh, man, it is full frontal nudity, my people. Full frontal nudity. And this is a bunch of seventh grade kids.
00:02:19
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
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Kendahl
And all of a sudden we all see it and we're like, oh, did you did you see that? Did you see her?
00:02:26
Julian Contreras Jr
That must have been the curriculum because he he left the room ah to do something and then he was trying to hurry back and he's like, did I make it?
00:02:27
Kendahl
Oh, my gosh. What? Right.
00:02:31
Kendahl
Ha ha ha.
00:02:35
Julian Contreras Jr
And we all just like, nope.
00:02:38
Kendahl
was just like, what was that? Hold up. And the thing is, this is rated G. It was G.
00:02:43
Julian Contreras Jr
Is it G?
00:02:44
Kendahl
It was g or PG. Right.
00:02:46
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay, yeah.
00:02:47
Kendahl
i mean, I'm going to look this up just for the sake of looking it up.
00:02:51
Kendahl
I'm not kidding you people.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
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Kendahl
This thing was rated like G or PG. And so there was no there was no like precautionary like, OK, be careful. There's going to be a full frontal young girl nudity straight up in the middle of this film.
00:03:04
Kendahl
It just happened.
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Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
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Kendahl
And we're all like, oh, and then next thing I know, we get a letter from the principal.
00:03:08
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
00:03:12
Kendahl
due to an an inaccurate understanding of the film or something like that. It was so bad.
00:03:17
Julian Contreras Jr
No, it was it was explained to us that there was going to be a scene he would either have to come and stand in front of the screen and fast forward or whatever, but he had left the room for a minute and didn't make it back.
00:03:28
Julian Contreras Jr
And to this day, I can see the movie cover of this movie, and I know exactly which Romeo and Juliet it is.
00:03:29
Kendahl
And see.
00:03:34
Kendahl
Oh, it is. Okay. So hold up. um I'm going to pull it up on. I got to find it on IMDb. It is from 1968. It is Romeo and Juliet.
00:03:46
Kendahl
It is rated PG.
00:03:48
Julian Contreras Jr
PG, okay.
00:03:50
Kendahl
But, um you know, in today's world, we can actually look up, ah hey, what's going on? And in the... um very brief explanation of sexuality and nudity.
00:04:01
Kendahl
It says there is a brief partial nudity shown when Romeo is naked from behind in a few seconds. And Juliet is, I won't describe what they're saying.
00:04:10
Julian Contreras Jr
She like sits up from bed, right?
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Kendahl
What's that?
00:04:13
Julian Contreras Jr
I think she sits up from bed with like a sheet.
00:04:14
Kendahl
When
TV Show Insights: 'Invincible'
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Kendahl
she, yep. It says when she, she's briefly visible when getting out of bed.
00:04:19
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah how is it
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Kendahl
Oh my gosh.
00:04:20
Julian Contreras Jr
How is that still a core memory?
00:04:20
Kendahl
Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. I just read something. That's terrible. Do you know what her age was?
00:04:26
Julian Contreras Jr
No, you're not going to say it because I figure it's going to be bad.
00:04:29
Kendahl
Oh, it is, it's terrible. We all should be seeking Jesus.
00:04:35
Julian Contreras Jr
No, it's one of those Daenerys situations where in Game of Thrones that she was supposed to be 12. Emilia Clarke is not 12 in the series. She is of legal age.
00:04:47
Kendahl
No, the actress's age.
00:04:50
Julian Contreras Jr
No, I know what you're talking about. I don't want to know it.
00:04:51
Kendahl
Okay, yeah, I, o okay. Anyhow, moving on. Hey, Julian, how you doing?
00:04:59
Julian Contreras Jr
Hey, good. Did you know a movie's rated PG for Pretty Great?
00:05:02
Kendahl
Pretty, pretty great. ah Welcome to our show, people, where we discuss inappropriate actions.
00:05:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. Hey, how's it going over there?
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Kendahl
Okay, so we're not even going to go into like Blue Lagoon.
00:05:12
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. No, we're not.
00:05:16
Kendahl
me Okay.
00:05:17
Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, no. but Since we're way off topic, what have you been watching?
00:05:22
Kendahl
Oh my gosh. Not even, not even at all.
00:05:24
Julian Contreras Jr
And if you say Blue Lagoon Romoia Juliet...
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Kendahl
No, no, not at all. Okay. Hey, you know what? I got to ask you, have you watched Invincible?
00:05:31
Julian Contreras Jr
No!
00:05:32
Kendahl
Oh, gosh. Okay. Okay, everybody, he texted me the other day. He's like, this is this is like that this is like that moment that you just blow somebody off and you never go back. Okay, im I'm telling you, i watched I watched the fourth episode last night.
00:05:47
Kendahl
And I will say, okay, I will say it follows suit as the second season.
00:05:47
Julian Contreras Jr
okay
00:05:53
Kendahl
Was it great? No. But was it better than the first three? Sort of.
00:06:01
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah Somebody told me it gets good 5 again.
00:06:05
Kendahl
Okay.
00:06:05
Julian Contreras Jr
And it's not because I don't want to go back. I did lose access to one of our fire sticks that decided to die on Saturday. That was our main living room one.
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Kendahl
Okay.
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Julian Contreras Jr
So I've just been playing like down there and and doing homework and watching these other movies for our topic today.
00:06:16
Kendahl
I got you. Yeah.
00:06:22
Kendahl
Okay.
00:06:23
Julian Contreras Jr
haven't had any really extra time to do it.
00:06:26
Kendahl
Okay. Well, I will tell you, I um and i watched it.
00:06:27
Julian Contreras Jr
oh
00:06:31
Kendahl
It was good. There's kind of a little of twist in the middle of four. um And then it does that thing where it like drops out and then goes back to the storyline of Alan the alien.
00:06:43
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
00:06:43
Kendahl
Right. so So now you're going back to that thing with um why why did my brain just blink out of who his dad is?
00:06:53
Julian Contreras Jr
Omni-Man?
00:06:54
Kendahl
Omni-Man, thank you. So it's the whole storyline of him at that prison, right?
00:06:58
Kendahl
and That part is great. The Al and the Alien part of with him, ah great.
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Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:07:04
Julian Contreras Jr
Are they still speaking through telekinesis?
00:07:04
Kendahl
It's good. They sure are.
00:07:07
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
00:07:07
Kendahl
Absolutely.
00:07:07
Julian Contreras Jr
Just making sure.
00:07:09
Kendahl
Absolutely. ah there's And there's a couple of random characters that have no relevance to the storyline that come in. I like them. They're fun. They're kind of cool.
00:07:17
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
00:07:18
Kendahl
It's good. Yeah, I mean, honestly, it is.
00:07:20
Julian Contreras Jr
Keep adding more characters.
00:07:20
Kendahl
And then there's kind of this big... What's that?
00:07:23
Julian Contreras Jr
Just keep adding more characters. fine.
00:07:25
Kendahl
Nah, This character's gone. He doesn't exist. he's No. he's There's no more of this character after that moment.
00:07:31
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay.
00:07:32
Kendahl
But, um... No, no, no, no. I mean, then then there's a big reveal of why Al and the Alien and Omni-Man can take on the Viltrumites after this. So, I'm not going to give it away because I think you should watch it
Passion for Wrestling and Memorable Moments
00:07:44
Kendahl
I'm not going to give it away to our listeners either.
00:07:44
Julian Contreras Jr
ah Okay. I will watch it.
00:07:46
Kendahl
So...
00:07:47
Julian Contreras Jr
I promise. It's on my list.
00:07:49
Kendahl
i
00:07:49
Julian Contreras Jr
I mean, if I can stick with the whole cast from Fast and Furious and how in-depth that is, I can manage this.
00:07:55
Kendahl
it four does get better than the first three, admittingly. It is pretty decent. It kind of goes off in a weird tangent for like... 20 minutes of this episode.
00:08:08
Kendahl
And I didn't understand why they were doing it, but I think it was to build a part of Invincible, like to build part of his character. It has no relevance to the storyline yet. If it does later, i don't know, but I think it builds a part of Invincible that we're looking to, to go on.
00:08:26
Kendahl
And so you'll, you'll understand when you see it, I'm just going to say he goes into the future. he well, he gets stolen and taken to the future.
00:08:36
Julian Contreras Jr
Isn't that called kidnapping?
00:08:37
Kendahl
Yeah, well, he goes along with it after a certain point, so no.
00:08:41
Julian Contreras Jr
All right. All right.
00:08:42
Kendahl
um So it's it's it's weird. It doesn't make sense at first, but then when he when he comes back, it makes sense. um And you kind of see why they're building it up for him. But anyway, so yeah, it's it's better than the first three.
00:08:57
Kendahl
I still want to get better to the fifth one. I've got to watch that one. I'll probably watch it tonight.
00:09:02
Julian Contreras Jr
right
00:09:02
Kendahl
um But... So outside of not watching Invincible and then doing some homework for these shows, what else did you get into this week?
00:09:12
Julian Contreras Jr
Oh, buddy. Saturday. Saturday was... I'm going to go into wrestling talk just because this is my platform, so I'm just going to do it.
00:09:20
Kendahl
Hey, you do it. and it's You do you, boo. You do you.
00:09:23
Julian Contreras Jr
For all the listeners that follow wrestling, you know exactly what I'm talking about. This already happened in the past.
00:09:30
Julian Contreras Jr
It came out at the very end of Elimination Chamber, which is a great show. ah Cody Rhodes and The Rock are there. ah John Cena had just won his match. And one of the greatest heel turns ever.
00:09:45
Julian Contreras Jr
You know what that means, right? I don't have to go into it.
00:09:46
Kendahl
No, you got you. I got umm I'm with it.
00:09:48
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. John Cena finally decided to be a bad guy. I know he started as a bad guy a little bit.
00:09:56
Kendahl
Okay.
00:09:57
Julian Contreras Jr
But he is full on heel. He's on The Rocks team. And so it's like Luke Hobbs and Jacob Toretto are on the same team now.
00:10:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Even though Jacob Toretto died in the movie.
00:10:09
Kendahl
Okay.
00:10:11
Julian Contreras Jr
Well, probably not. He'll probably be back. But it's it's incredible, dude. WrestleMania is going to be insane. I'm so excited for it. I'm so glad
Listener Feedback and Show Improvements
00:10:23
Julian Contreras Jr
my wife wants me to have fun and go down there and have a great time.
00:10:28
Kendahl
I wish I had the passion you do for it.
00:10:30
Julian Contreras Jr
I wish you did too.
00:10:32
Kendahl
i just, I don't know, man. I can't get into it.
00:10:34
Julian Contreras Jr
A few of my other friends have the passion, but don't know.
00:10:35
Kendahl
Sorry.
00:10:40
Kendahl
So I got it.
00:10:40
Julian Contreras Jr
It's fun to text people during the show and be like, oh my gosh.
00:10:42
Kendahl
There you go.
00:10:45
Julian Contreras Jr
Like I'm a grown man, grown, all right? When this was going down, I jumped off the couch, hands were on my head and I ah yelled no, i think twice maybe?
00:10:50
Kendahl
i think it's debatable.
00:10:58
Julian Contreras Jr
it kind of blacked out. My son's on the couch watching me and like he's like, is this real?
00:11:00
Kendahl
ah
00:11:03
Julian Contreras Jr
Is this fake? What's going on? Why is dad standing up and yelling?
00:11:07
Kendahl
Nice.
00:11:07
Julian Contreras Jr
Wife's upstairs in bed. She's texting me like, why are you yelling? What is happening? It's only the greatest moment. Well, okay. One of the greatest moments in WWE w history.
00:11:18
Kendahl
Oh, well.
00:11:18
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:11:20
Kendahl
I... I'm, I, I, it's good to know that they're, um, they're keeping it real because I think I, well, no, mean, as in, as in the fact that it's like, want to say it fell out for a little while because it seemed like they were really struggling to keep the viewership.
00:11:26
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. Oh, yeah. There go.
00:11:38
Kendahl
And so there were a lot of things that they were trying to pull to keep people entertained with this entire genre of, of sport, entertainment, whatever you want to call it.
00:11:42
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
00:11:49
Kendahl
And, um And then i I feel like it was like three years ago, three or four years ago, it really started to build back up again. And then now it's I mean, now it's it's gotten so big that Netflix is like, yeah, let's take this on.
00:11:58
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah yeah i'm surprised you haven't seen it on instagram or tiktok or anything like that like It got over 104 million views in one night.
00:12:13
Kendahl
Wow.
00:12:13
Julian Contreras Jr
It was that big of an event.
00:12:16
Kendahl
That's cool. No, i did see I did see a couple things in it. um There was a... Somebody... i i want to say it was a girl that came out and she was like booed.
00:12:28
Kendahl
And people were freaking out. like I don't know. Somebody... don't know.
00:12:31
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:12:31
Kendahl
One of the characters.
00:12:33
Julian Contreras Jr
It's probably Charlotte.
00:12:33
Kendahl
a
00:12:34
Julian Contreras Jr
It's probably you're talking about.
00:12:35
Kendahl
ah Maybe.
00:12:36
Julian Contreras Jr
But it's okay.
00:12:37
Kendahl
It's all good.
00:12:37
Julian Contreras Jr
That's enough about wrestling. It's it's fantastic.
00:12:38
Kendahl
Okay. Okay.
00:12:40
Julian Contreras Jr
It's what my other friends call it's a grown man soap opera. And I totally agree with it. It totally is.
00:12:47
Kendahl
Okay.
00:12:47
Julian Contreras Jr
and Just let us have it. It's still real to us.
00:12:49
Kendahl
and
00:12:50
Julian Contreras Jr
All
00:12:51
Kendahl
Hey, you know what? It's, I guess that you do you. So good.
00:12:55
Julian Contreras Jr
right.
00:12:56
Kendahl
So
00:12:57
Julian Contreras Jr
before i go on i want to mention this text i shared with you a little while ago as a few weeks ago when we asked listeners to like write in or text us if they know us do you remember that text i sent you from listener ashley was like a long three paragraph and she explained like what she loves about the show
00:13:04
Kendahl
hmm.
00:13:17
Kendahl
I get Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah
00:13:23
Julian Contreras Jr
I totally dropped the ball on that one and I apologize. I should have mentioned it. Thank you so much, Ashley, for writing in. That was amazing. I loved reading that text and just how in-depth and actual thought you put into it. You didn't just write, yeah, you're great.
00:13:40
Kendahl
yeah
00:13:40
Julian Contreras Jr
It was like built very nice.
00:13:44
Kendahl
Well, and it talked about, I mean, I liked it because it talked about how like she, you know, she gets the the the sense of how like how much of our friendship is involved in this and how like how much we know each other.
00:13:54
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:13:57
Kendahl
And, you know, she said really nice things about both of us and and what we bring to the show.
00:14:02
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:14:02
Kendahl
And so, yeah, that was awesome.
00:14:02
Julian Contreras Jr
And she doesn't even know you. so
00:14:04
Kendahl
What's that?
00:14:05
Julian Contreras Jr
how And she doesn't even know you. So that was really cool.
00:14:06
Kendahl
Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:09
Julian Contreras Jr
But thank you, Ashley. I just wanted to make sure I said that before I completely forgot about it in general.
00:14:15
Kendahl
Yeah. Thank you. No, and, and, and, the you know, I've had a few people reach out to me in the past of, you know, just little things, but it is, it's typically like, Oh yeah, I like your show. You know, I listened to this episode or that episode and didn't really give much detail of what was enjoyable about it.
00:14:31
Kendahl
And so I, I mean, I would encourage everybody, anybody that listens to the show, just reach out to us because those kinds of things can help us.
00:14:31
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:14:38
Kendahl
I mean, I remember, In the very beginning of this, one of the things that was brought up from my own family was they they said that I said, um, an ah and and they could hear the the hesitation in my voice or the almost like the lack of confidence in what I was saying, because I almost, they said, you almost feel like you're you're scared to talk or that you were worried about saying something wrong.
00:15:03
Kendahl
and And it really helped. it i mean It made me kind of think about, okay, what am I saying? How am I going to say How am I going to present myself? And i realized that I got to just stop trying to talk to what people want to hear and just talk to you.
00:15:16
Kendahl
And I think, and I think you kind of had that same feeling when we were first beginning, it was hard to deal with the change in the way we discuss, you know, these topics, but those, those little bits and things that people would suggest has helped me, I think, or built me up from where I was to being better at this. At least I feel like I'm better.
00:15:16
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:15:37
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:15:37
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, it exactly. It makes you feel like you can lean into some of the parts where somebody actually enjoys it.
00:15:44
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:15:44
Julian Contreras Jr
It's your's your own personality because that's what we are. We're 100% real. But having somebody say that makes you feel more comfortable in what you can lean into, like the banter between the two of us and going back and forth and making jokes. Like, I know I'm not going to hurt your feelings. We've been through way more ribbing than this.
00:16:04
Julian Contreras Jr
But, and I, when I do listen back, I realized that I myself do say yeah a lot. It's like one of my words to agree with you and keep going.
00:16:16
Julian Contreras Jr
I understand that I've been trying to stop, but now every time I say it, i was like, why did you just say something else?
00:16:23
Kendahl
it Triggers. Yeah. No, thank you guys. I mean, honestly, that's the thing is we, we appreciate everybody that, you know, likes says anything on Instagram, the reviews we get on, on Spotify, just as a, I'm going to throw that out there. If you ever have a chance and you're listening to us through Spotify, take the chance to go out there and put a rating on us for, for that alone. Cause that, that also helps.
00:16:44
Kendahl
It pushes us up a little bit further. gets more people to listen. when it, especially, i and know we don't have a ton of listeners, but, you know, to to get more listeners, push the algorithm a little bit more, the reviews help.
00:16:58
Julian Contreras Jr
Exactly. I absolutely hearing love hearing from, you remember Jay? He texts me every now and then like, I can't believe you guys said this or forgot about this or he'll say some joke about you or be careful who's actually listening.
00:17:03
Kendahl
Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:17:07
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:17:13
Julian Contreras Jr
You don't want to end up on a list somewhere. And I'm like, I'm on a um on a list about talking about movies.
00:17:15
Kendahl
ah
00:17:18
Julian Contreras Jr
This list is very specific.
00:17:20
Kendahl
Right.
00:17:22
Julian Contreras Jr
But that brings us right into our topic.
Baseball Season Excitement and Movie Discussions
00:17:24
Julian Contreras Jr
As you can tell from the title of this episode, sometimes I forget that the title is there as soon as they download the episode.
00:17:24
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:17:32
Kendahl
Yeah. Well, because we we, I mean, we haven't put the title up yet because we haven't finished the show yet, but we'll, we'll get the title once you hear this.
00:17:38
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:17:39
Kendahl
So.
00:17:40
Julian Contreras Jr
So the topic of today now bear with me, hold on I've been waiting so long to use this soundbite, you don't even know. So here we go. Ready for it?
00:17:56
Julian Contreras Jr
Welcome to baseball. Opening day is just around the corner.
00:17:58
Kendahl
Oh, man.
00:18:01
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:18:02
Julian Contreras Jr
Cubs and Dodgers are going first in their overseas series. That one is on March 18th.
00:18:08
Kendahl
huh
00:18:11
Kendahl
That's like two weeks.
00:18:11
Julian Contreras Jr
The rest of the league is March 27th and twenty eight
00:18:15
Kendahl
Yep.
00:18:16
Julian Contreras Jr
So I know in the last episode, we said that spring training doesn't really matter, which it really doesn't.
00:18:21
Kendahl
It does.
00:18:21
Julian Contreras Jr
It knows who's going to be on the team. You get confidence in who he's pitching, who's on a hitting streak.
00:18:29
Kendahl
Right.
00:18:30
Julian Contreras Jr
But then you got to move into the big stadiums.
00:18:32
Kendahl
Yep. Nerve starts setting in
00:18:34
Julian Contreras Jr
Bigger crowds. Yeah.
00:18:35
Kendahl
oh
00:18:36
Julian Contreras Jr
And I know these guys are professionals. They get paid millions of millions of dollars for a game that I would just love to play outside on a regular basis for free.
00:18:40
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:18:45
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:18:47
Julian Contreras Jr
So we decided that we were going to go down and make a list of our top five favorite baseball movies.
00:18:56
Kendahl
Yep.
00:18:56
Julian Contreras Jr
And I did cheat a little bit. I did ask for Kendall's list so I could be 100% opposite
00:19:03
Kendahl
Yep. And I did, and I had a couple other movies that i wanted to put on here, but it's like, I'll still talk about them, but these are going to be the ones that I've watched.
00:19:15
Kendahl
Oh my gosh. So many times. So many times.
00:19:18
Julian Contreras Jr
All right. And then I have some that I watched back when I was a kid. And let's just jump into it. Do you want to go first?
00:19:24
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:19:25
Julian Contreras Jr
I'll go first. Strike one, strike two.
00:19:26
Kendahl
ah You go first. You go first.
00:19:28
Julian Contreras Jr
right. going to go with one that I haven't watched in a while. it was on my list. I found the DVD down on my collection. I'm going to go for Love of the Game, 1999.
00:19:39
Kendahl
Oh, OK. Yeah.
00:19:42
Julian Contreras Jr
This is Rotten Tomatoes score. only has a forty seven percent rotten tomato score
00:19:47
Kendahl
Really?
00:19:48
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah it was just surprising on a lot of these actually
00:19:52
Kendahl
Oh, yeah. most of Most of these were were a little bit low, but that's okay.
00:19:56
Julian Contreras Jr
i don't know if that's just because it's specifically a sports movie or what it is i'm not going to go into it but these are just movies that i personally like that involve baseball so of course this has kevin costner kelly preston and john c reilly This one's about Billy Chappell pitching the game of his life against the Yankees in Yankee Stadium.
00:20:21
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:20:23
Julian Contreras Jr
This has flashbacks. This has the actual game going on. It makes me feel feelings like when it gets close because pitching a perfect game is hard enough.
00:20:35
Julian Contreras Jr
But to do it against professionals is insane. That's why there's only... i didn't look up to see how many perfect games there were, but it's not a ton.
00:20:44
Kendahl
Oh yeah, I know.
00:20:46
Julian Contreras Jr
So that's why I like this movie.
00:20:46
Kendahl
um
00:20:48
Julian Contreras Jr
John C. Reilly is a great catcher. i love when he goes up and gives him little pep talks and he's like, huh? You know, like the John C. Reilly face.
00:20:56
Kendahl
yeah um I mean, so we haven't talked about it very much, but so I used to pitch. That was one of my that was what I used to do was I used to pitch. And I played all the way up through high school.
00:21:08
Kendahl
And my i think I don't know if I mentioned this before, but my high school history teacher was a recruit scout for the Blue Jays. And um i i try I went to go try out for um the high school team.
00:21:25
Kendahl
And he was my history teacher. So he didn't like me because I slept in his class maybe too much. When I say too much, I mean all the time. Because I worked an overnight shift as a waiter. And so I was just often super tired.
00:21:42
Kendahl
And anyhow... um i I went and I tried out and I talked to him and he said, yeah, you're good. you know I'd love to have you on your team, but I'll never put you on there.
00:21:55
Kendahl
i was like, what? He's like, no, I'll never put you on there. He goes, you're lazy. and i just went down the list, right? i was like, ah what?
00:22:02
Julian Contreras Jr
Wow.
00:22:03
Kendahl
Oh, he was so like, just absolutely upset to me because he was the baseball coach. And so ah it was so it it kind of ruined my career in baseball.
00:22:07
Julian Contreras Jr
Anti Kendall.
00:22:11
Kendahl
I stopped after that. But up till that point, I was I mean, I was a pretty I was a pretty heavy a baseball guy. i at the time i had a 73 mile an hour fastball. It was pretty cool.
00:22:23
Kendahl
I was really good. And then when I wasn't pitching, I played right field. So, yeah.
00:22:30
Julian Contreras Jr
Good story.
00:22:30
Kendahl
But, so, yeah, it was cool. I mean, that was my, that was my, that was my experience in baseball. So pitching, yeah, pitching a perfect game, that was always kind of a, ooh, if you could do it.
00:22:41
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. And see there, I just said, yeah, again, but I didn't pitch or play baseball very, when I was young, I got into it when my buddy, Mike started a softball team and he's like, Hey, do you want to play catcher?
00:22:57
Julian Contreras Jr
And I was like, uh, I've never played softball before, but sure.
00:22:58
Kendahl
okay
00:23:01
Julian Contreras Jr
I like hanging out with you guys. I'll play.
00:23:05
Julian Contreras Jr
For lack of better words, the love of the game showed up in just a little city softball league. Absolutely loved it. Started on one team. I think at one season I was on five different teams.
00:23:17
Kendahl
geez okay yeah yep yep I'm over
00:23:19
Julian Contreras Jr
ah I think you worked with me when I had games I had to go to and...
00:23:25
Julian Contreras Jr
Eventually moved up to being able two pitch. i mean, it was no 73 mile hour. It was basically underhand soft toss. But you can put different spin on the ball and throw like a weird knuckleball when it's windy.
00:23:36
Kendahl
Oh, sure. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:23:39
Julian Contreras Jr
So i get it. Like just having that tiny, tiny bit of experience, which is like minuscule compared to what everybody else does in the major leagues.
00:23:48
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:23:49
Julian Contreras Jr
I could see this movie and get the feels of him shutting off the crowd. Like when he goes to pitch that first pitch and he goes, shut off the something, the mechanism.
00:24:04
Julian Contreras Jr
And you just see the background behind him go blurry and it goes quiet. Because he just tunes out all that stuff and now it's just him and the batter and the catcher.
00:24:12
Kendahl
You just focused in the box. Yep.
00:24:14
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:24:15
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:24:15
Julian Contreras Jr
So cool. Such a great movie.
00:24:16
Kendahl
Yep. Yep. All right. I'm going to go on the opposite scale of um of types of movies and mine is rookie of the year.
00:24:27
Julian Contreras Jr
right
00:24:29
Kendahl
And right.
00:24:29
Julian Contreras Jr
Watch this one a lot.
00:24:32
Kendahl
So this was 93 rotten tomato score, 41%. it's, it's a pretty good movie. So, you know, yeah the whole movie is based on this kid slips when he like always wants to play baseball, but he's terrible at it.
00:24:47
Kendahl
And he's in, is he in the outfield and he's running towards, uh, to, to like catch a pitch or something or catch catch a hit. And he slips and falls off of something. And like,
00:24:57
Julian Contreras Jr
i He slipped on a baseball.
00:24:59
Kendahl
Oh, that's what it is. And he like slips all the way up. he comes back down and like separates his the muscle in his shoulder. And so, you know, they they put him back and they they they put him in a cast. He heals.
00:25:15
Kendahl
And when they take the cast off, they realize that he's got like this crazy rubber band effect on his arm and he can throw like 100 mile an hour fastball now.
00:25:23
Julian Contreras Jr
Right.
00:25:24
Kendahl
So this kid ends up going all the way up to the major leagues playing for the Chicago for the Chicago Cubs and. Yeah, I just, it's it's just, it's a dumb movie.
00:25:36
Kendahl
It knows what it is. kid's squeaking halfway through the movie because he can't, like, you know, he's in that moment of life where every other voice is a crack and, yeah.
00:25:40
Julian Contreras Jr
yeah
00:25:45
Julian Contreras Jr
I love when the doctor takes the cast off and it's like stuck up there and he tells him to lower it down slowly and it just whips and he hits the doctor in the nose.
00:25:50
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:25:54
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, something like that.
00:25:55
Kendahl
Funky butt lover. Yeah.
00:25:58
Julian Contreras Jr
And then doing Pepsi commercials singing the Ray Charles theme
00:26:00
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:26:02
Kendahl
Right. It's just, I mean, the the movie knows what it is, but it's a good, it's a good laugh. It's just, it's, it's a fun one to watch every once in a while. And yeah, I like it.
00:26:13
Kendahl
ah It's one of those, I ah talking about softball, his mom was like this big softball, um you you know, pitcher. And so that was kind of the it was, I'm not going to ruin the movie, but it kind of has a big play towards the end of the movie.
00:26:25
Julian Contreras Jr
i don't think you need to worry about ruining this movie what he's talking about is you he loses the power during a big game because he slips on a ball again yeah or just before the world series i can't remember yeah so he slips on a ball again that was thrown out to the mound and when he gets up it's gone
00:26:27
Kendahl
I know. us The movie's 30 years old.
00:26:36
Kendahl
Isn't it the World Series? Yeah. Yeah, or like a playoff game or something.
00:26:50
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:26:50
Julian Contreras Jr
the muscle is now back to normal and he can't throw any, he can't even get it to the plate. Remember that first pitch when he thinks he can do it.
00:26:56
Kendahl
Right? Yeah.
00:27:00
Julian Contreras Jr
And he pulls the glove and it's his mom's name.
00:27:01
Kendahl
His mom...
00:27:04
Julian Contreras Jr
And she had been telling him all these stories about his dad being ah major thing in baseball.
00:27:09
Kendahl
this right.
00:27:10
Julian Contreras Jr
And they were all stories about her. She just changed it for him to have what, like some hope and look up to ah dad that was never there.
00:27:19
Kendahl
Right. And so she like he like looks up to her in the stands and she like makes this motion like her her softball throw. Right. So he I don't know. it's It's good. It's fun. It's cheesy. But that's definitely one of those movies that it knows it knows the the dumb elements of it that are completely untrue.
00:27:39
Kendahl
Like the hot ice. mean, it's hot, but it's ice.
00:27:42
Julian Contreras Jr
Now that one is, it is Disney, right?
00:27:45
Kendahl
Yeah, pretty sure.
00:27:47
Julian Contreras Jr
Okay. Just making sure. All
00:27:49
Kendahl
Yeah. Alright, man. What do you got?
00:27:52
Julian Contreras Jr
right. I'm going to go with another Kevin Costner movie.
00:27:57
Kendahl
Oh, okay. Okay.
00:27:58
Julian Contreras Jr
You know where this one is?
00:27:59
Kendahl
Yeah, I do.
00:28:00
Julian Contreras Jr
this
00:28:00
Kendahl
If you build it, they will come.
00:28:02
Julian Contreras Jr
Nope. Nope.
00:28:03
Kendahl
What?
00:28:03
Julian Contreras Jr
Nope. nope Not that one.
00:28:05
Kendahl
Okay.
00:28:05
Julian Contreras Jr
I left that one off my list specifically.
00:28:07
Kendahl
I... I did too.
00:28:10
Julian Contreras Jr
i we Of course we're talking about Field of Dreams. That's not my movie. I like Field of Dreams, but I feel like it's too long.
00:28:18
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:28:20
Julian Contreras Jr
Ray Liotta does a great job.
00:28:20
Kendahl
It's not a big it's not. Yeah, it's not a baseball movie. It's a baseball movie towards like it's a baseball movie for like 10 minutes of the whole movie type thing.
00:28:28
Julian Contreras Jr
I feel like it's more of a movie about faith and believing in something and
00:28:33
Kendahl
Yeah, I gotcha.
00:28:34
Julian Contreras Jr
the ghosts come out of the corn to play i get all that i like it i love the premise destroying the cornfield to build the baseball field yeah people do show up it's cool right that's not my choice my choice is still kevin costner susan sarandon tim robbins bull durham 1988
00:28:36
Kendahl
Mm hmm. Mm
00:28:43
Kendahl
hmm.
00:28:46
Kendahl
OK. All right.
00:28:56
Julian Contreras Jr
nineteen eighty eight
00:28:56
Kendahl
Oh, okay. i was wondering if that's what it was. Okay.
00:29:00
Julian Contreras Jr
This one has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes.
00:29:04
Kendahl
Didn't it it wasn't up for an Oscar that year or something like that?
00:29:07
Julian Contreras Jr
I was six, so I have no idea.
00:29:12
Kendahl
Okay.
00:29:12
Julian Contreras Jr
this This one is rated r While it is about baseball and baseball positions and players, it's more so about Susan Sarandon choosing which one of these guys that is on the team that she is going to have a summer affair with.
00:29:14
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:29:28
Kendahl
huh
00:29:29
Julian Contreras Jr
She ends up choosing, well, choosing, playing both of those guys.
00:29:34
Kendahl
Right.
00:29:35
Julian Contreras Jr
So there is a lot of...
00:29:38
Kendahl
First 10 minutes of that movie makes it rated R.
00:29:41
Julian Contreras Jr
I have it. It's in my DVD player right now. I have not looked at it yet, but I will watch it.
00:29:47
Kendahl
Okay. a Yeah.
00:29:50
Julian Contreras Jr
But I do remember, and I watched the trailer.
00:29:50
Kendahl
Good movie.
00:29:52
Julian Contreras Jr
So this one is... 97% is really good for the baseball movies. That's by far the highest that I have.
00:29:57
Kendahl
Yep.
00:29:59
Kendahl
ah All right. I'll go with my next one because it's pretty high. It's actually the highest one on there. um And it's 2011, Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Moneyball.
00:30:09
Julian Contreras Jr
Moneyball.
00:30:11
Kendahl
So if you don't know what this movie is about, this is a kind of semi-biopic of um how you have um this guy who basically says, hey, let's fix the Oakland A's because they're... What's that?
00:30:28
Kendahl
so there um there are anyway So they're they're this know-nothing team at the time, right? So the Oakland A's are suffering. They can't figure out. They're not making playoffs. They're not winning games.
00:30:40
Kendahl
And so Brad Pitt's character comes in and is like, hey, let's look at this from a data point of view. So let's look at this as not just um players. Let's not build a team based off players. Let's build a ah team off of stats, right?
00:30:54
Kendahl
It's just stats alone. And so he does this basic like idea of looking at everything in an Excel sheet, essentially, and builds a team. And that's where Jonah Hill comes in because Jonah Hill is some like crazy savant when it comes to looking at these stats.
00:31:11
Kendahl
And he starts telling them who to get and who not to get. And they pick up these people that are like... terrible at bat, but they, they, they don't, they've never missed a pitch type thing, or they're, you know, they're, they're terrible at throwing and they, they miss every ball they catch, but they hit home runs like there's no tomorrow.
00:31:30
Kendahl
And so the idea is just build a whole team off of, you know, what their best quality is. And it, it kind of changed the face of baseball in some way when they, about the time that they started doing this, because at the time the A's were considered an underdog team. And so everybody just didn't want to,
00:31:47
Kendahl
put them in in the line of any type of light of getting to the playoffs. And then Brad Pitt's character takes, yeah or not his character, but um the the character that Brad Pitt plays ended up taking the A's all the way up to the playoffs, if I remember right.
00:32:02
Kendahl
Was it
00:32:04
Julian Contreras Jr
Billy Bean is his name.
00:32:05
Kendahl
Billy Bean. There you go.
00:32:06
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:32:06
Kendahl
ah I was trying to remember his name. And yeah, so i mean, you've also got philip Philip Seymour Hoffman. This is like one of his later movies before he passed away. And then I forgot Chris Pratt played in this.
00:32:19
Kendahl
I forgot about that.
00:32:19
Julian Contreras Jr
ah He was the pitcher?
00:32:22
Kendahl
ah
00:32:22
Julian Contreras Jr
I can't remember. I only saw this movie once in the theater and then I bought it and I think I watched it one more time but that's about it.
00:32:27
Kendahl
Yeah. So yeah. And and so yeah, 94% are Rotten Tomatoes. It's pretty good.
00:32:33
Julian Contreras Jr
I do like how it is a very true story.
00:32:35
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:32:35
Julian Contreras Jr
i don't know if it's like 100% true, but a lot of it is.
00:32:37
Kendahl
No, that's what I said. i don I can't, I don't know if you can call it a biopic, but it definitely is close to. So.
00:32:44
Julian Contreras Jr
Great choice.
00:32:45
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:32:46
Julian Contreras Jr
What do I go with? Do I go with the lowest or with the highest? I'm going to go with a PG movie.
00:32:52
Kendahl
Okay.
00:32:52
Julian Contreras Jr
I believe it is also Disney. It might not be. It's got our boy JGL, Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
00:32:59
Kendahl
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:33:02
Julian Contreras Jr
Danny Glover, Tony Danza, and Christopher Lloyd, Angels in the Outfield.
00:33:03
Kendahl
Oh, oh yeah. Yep.
00:33:08
Kendahl
Angels in the Outfield. Yep.
00:33:12
Julian Contreras Jr
31% Rotten Tomatoes.
00:33:13
Kendahl
Oh, really? It's such a good movie.
00:33:18
Julian Contreras Jr
This one is Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Roger. He's lost his mom and his dad's not really in the picture. And all he really wants is to be adopted and have a family to live with.
00:33:32
Julian Contreras Jr
And he also loves the angels.
00:33:36
Kendahl
Mm hmm. Mm
00:33:37
Julian Contreras Jr
And this is when he meets Christopher Lloyd. ah His hat says AL, which he just starts to call him Al.
00:33:42
Kendahl
hmm.
00:33:45
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:33:47
Julian Contreras Jr
i I don't remember this movie 100%, but I do know that it's family friendly.
00:33:54
Kendahl
Oh, yeah.
00:33:54
Julian Contreras Jr
It's completely about baseball and outlandish entertainment. Angels helping people jump or hit just so they can try to win for this one kid.
00:34:03
Kendahl
Yeah, it's pretty good.
00:34:04
Julian Contreras Jr
And I feel like that's how people start making wishes is that kids and like one of these days I'll be the Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
00:34:14
Julian Contreras Jr
All my players will start jumping 15 feet to catch a fly ball.
00:34:15
Kendahl
um
00:34:19
Kendahl
I know like when the angel like grabs the guy and like lifts him all the way up and he's flapping his wings. Yeah.
00:34:27
Kendahl
It's totally outlandish, but it's good.
00:34:27
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:34:28
Kendahl
It's good.
00:34:29
Julian Contreras Jr
It's a great family one. It's on Disney Plus if you want to check that one out. 31% seems ah touch low, but yeah I'll rewatch it and see if it still holds up this many years ago.
00:34:36
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:34:39
Kendahl
Um... So my next one I'll do a family one too. Mine's 1993. And um this has actually got um almost no one in this film.
00:34:53
Kendahl
There's like absolutely no one in this film that does anything anymore except for only only one person in this film was famous. It was James Earl Jones.
00:35:00
Julian Contreras Jr
Darth Vader.
00:35:03
Kendahl
So, Sandlot.
00:35:03
Julian Contreras Jr
Yep.
00:35:05
Kendahl
Great movie.
00:35:05
Julian Contreras Jr
Love it.
00:35:06
Kendahl
Fun movie. A little connection to my family. um my My wife's uncle is actually in this film as a background firefighter. during the scene when they when they're talking about what's his name's dog.
00:35:22
Kendahl
It's James Earl Jones's dog. And he because he's he's like eating stuff, whatever. And so it's like a total made up fantasy story situation. And he have firefighters in the background that one of them was was my my uncle or my wife's uncle.
00:35:36
Julian Contreras Jr
ah Okay, now I know what scene you're talking about.
00:35:37
Kendahl
So.
00:35:38
Julian Contreras Jr
It's when he... forever.
00:35:40
Kendahl
Right. Yeah, yeah.
00:35:41
Julian Contreras Jr
The black and white scene? Okay.
00:35:42
Kendahl
Yep.
00:35:43
Kendahl
Yep. So. um 65% are Rotten Tomatoes. So not not a Rotten Tomato, but not always, not that great either.
00:35:43
Julian Contreras Jr
I was having a hard time piecing that piece together, but...
00:35:55
Julian Contreras Jr
Right, but if you're a kid, that that movie is amazing.
00:35:55
Kendahl
So...
00:35:59
Kendahl
Oh, it's so good. Everything is relatable. And the Great Bambino? What? He doesn't know he is.
00:36:05
Julian Contreras Jr
The Great Bambi?
00:36:06
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:36:08
Julian Contreras Jr
That wimpy deer?
00:36:08
Kendahl
So... It's it's it's one of those great movies, the one of the greatest lines of all times. You're killing me, Smalls.
00:36:16
Julian Contreras Jr
Right.
00:36:16
Kendahl
Use it all the time.
00:36:18
Julian Contreras Jr
There's so many shirts out there you see during
Personal Connections and Movie Memories
00:36:20
Julian Contreras Jr
springtime when baseball's starting that people have just gotten that shirt.
00:36:23
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:36:24
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, it's great.
00:36:25
Kendahl
Right. Yeah. So many so many good, good lines from that movie.
00:36:27
Julian Contreras Jr
i
00:36:30
Julian Contreras Jr
So, funny story. When I was at physical therapy, he has trivia on the wall. And there was about baseball trivia. And he was had my arm above my head and he was stretching it out.
00:36:43
Julian Contreras Jr
And he asked me the question. He's like, what was the lifeguard's name in the Sandlot? And through the pain of my arm being stretched back, I said, Wendy Peppercorn.
00:36:57
Julian Contreras Jr
And he's like, no hesitation. You knew exactly who that was. I said, yes, sir. I've seen that movie a few times.
00:37:05
Kendahl
ah I know, right? That moment we all wanted to be saved by Wendy Peppercorn.
00:37:10
Julian Contreras Jr
Squints.
00:37:11
Kendahl
Okay. All right. ah Next one. What do you got?
00:37:17
Julian Contreras Jr
I kind of figured out which one I want save for last. Okay, I figured it out. I'm going to go with a 2001, 8% Rotten Tomatoes, PG-13, you're going to know it, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jessica Biel, Matthew Lillard, and the great Fred Ward.
00:37:26
Kendahl
Oh, my gosh.
00:37:42
Kendahl
No, I can't think of it.
00:37:43
Julian Contreras Jr
You don't know this movie? Summer Catch.
00:37:46
Kendahl
I have never seen this one. Okay.
00:37:48
Julian Contreras Jr
All right, well, I'll ship you the DVD because I like this movie a lot. I feel like 8% is disrespectful.
00:37:53
Kendahl
All right.
00:37:56
Kendahl
okay all right
00:37:59
Julian Contreras Jr
It's not a great movie by any means, but I mean, the summer of 2001 when this came out, I'm at 18 years old. Jessica Biel's at the peak of her Bielness.
00:38:10
Kendahl
Okay. Okay. speak be
00:38:12
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, Freddie Prince is Princeton.
00:38:16
Julian Contreras Jr
It's just, it's so good. Freddie Prince Jr. plays a pitcher that has grown up in this, ah right next to the stadium where these Chatham A's play.
00:38:29
Julian Contreras Jr
That's the name of the team.
00:38:29
Kendahl
okay okay
00:38:31
Julian Contreras Jr
He's finally invited to play for the team. he had They don't ever go on into ah specifics of what happened at junior college, but something happened and he got kicked out of there and had to come back home.
00:38:44
Julian Contreras Jr
His dad drinks a little bit. They mow lawns for all these rich houses that are around Chatham.
00:38:55
Julian Contreras Jr
And it's him trying to get out of his own head to try to pitch. Like every time he starts to do something good, something in his head, he just kind of shuts himself down.
00:39:03
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:39:06
Julian Contreras Jr
He's very negative towards himself.
00:39:08
Kendahl
Okay.
00:39:08
Julian Contreras Jr
And that's where Jessica Biel comes in.
00:39:13
Julian Contreras Jr
I can't believe you haven't seen this movie. When he's mowing the lawn and she's doing swimming laps and she gets out, she's got the pink purple bikini on and he's got the...
00:39:14
Kendahl
No.
00:39:22
Kendahl
No, man.
00:39:24
Julian Contreras Jr
shirt wrapped around his head and he's on the riding lawnmower and he completely like wipes out the roses and then runs right into the birdhouse just stops the lawnmower yeah
00:39:34
Kendahl
Oh my gosh. yeah um I don't know. I've never even seen it. It's funny.
00:39:39
Julian Contreras Jr
well it's it's good one go ahead and give that a shot just remember eight percent so that's summer catch
00:39:41
Kendahl
and All right. um I'm with you. Okay. All right. I'll remember that. All right. i know what going to do for my last one.
00:39:54
Kendahl
um But this one is ah not my last. This is 1989 movie.
00:40:02
Kendahl
83% of Rotten Tomatoes. It was a little higher than I expected. There were a couple of sequels. They did not do so well.
00:40:08
Julian Contreras Jr
No, even part two is down in the dumps, but I like two.
00:40:09
Kendahl
Do you know? oh Okay. You know what I'm talking about? Charlie Sheen.
00:40:15
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, Major League.
00:40:16
Kendahl
Yeah. Major leagues. So this, it's just as dumb as it gets when it comes to baseball movies. But it's so out there. But it's it's it's fun. It's crass. I think it's i think this one's rated R.
00:40:31
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, pretty sure it is.
00:40:31
Kendahl
I'm pretty sure it is, but um it's, it's fun. It's a good movie. I love it when they like, they finally figured out why he can't throw very well and they put glasses on him and he's just like ridiculous and he gets all frustrated with it.
00:40:45
Julian Contreras Jr
Hey, but all those wild pitches got him that nickname.
00:40:48
Kendahl
Yeah, exactly.
00:40:50
Kendahl
So wow thing. Yeah. So, but
00:40:50
Julian Contreras Jr
Coming out to start playing wild thing.
00:40:55
Julian Contreras Jr
all The whole supporting cast in there is great.
00:41:00
Kendahl
yeah, I mean,
00:41:00
Julian Contreras Jr
They all work so well together.
00:41:02
Kendahl
And that's the thing is, I mean, it's, it feels like a real team at times, but because it's just a bunch of misfits. And I mean, that's what the whole movie is about. Just a bunch of misfits making the Cleveland Indians a good team. And, um and, you know, just, I don't know. It's good. And like, and then the whole idea of the, um the, the team owner being this like sultry woman that's trying to get all of them to do what she wants. And.
00:41:28
Julian Contreras Jr
Well, yeah, she wants them to lose. It's why they're not very good and they don't get along.
00:41:31
Kendahl
hmm.
00:41:33
Kendahl
Right.
00:41:34
Julian Contreras Jr
Because she's purposely brought them in so fans will stop going to the game so she can move it to, I believe, Florida?
00:41:42
Kendahl
Yeah, she wants to change the team and all that. Yeah.
00:41:45
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. So they won't let her move the team on a whim.
00:41:46
Kendahl
So.
00:41:49
Julian Contreras Jr
They have to meet these stipulations. And so she's trying to hit them all in one season.
00:41:53
Kendahl
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:41:55
Julian Contreras Jr
So...
00:41:56
Kendahl
So, yeah, good. It's good. Odd movie, but yeah.
00:42:02
Julian Contreras Jr
I personally like one and two together.
00:42:02
Kendahl
Definitely recommend it. This is back when, I was gonna say, this is back when Charlie Sheen was good.
00:42:09
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah, I mean, he had his time, but I think he's okay-ish now, right? He's done some things lately.
00:42:14
Kendahl
He's getting better.
00:42:16
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:42:17
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:42:18
Julian Contreras Jr
Everybody deserves a second chance, third chance, whatever.
00:42:19
Kendahl
All right.
00:42:21
Julian Contreras Jr
Look at the positive side of everything. That's how I live.
00:42:23
Kendahl
All right, um what do you got?
00:42:27
Julian Contreras Jr
My last one, 2005, 66% Rotten rotten Tomato, PG-13, Jimmy Fallon, and Drew Barrymore.
00:42:38
Kendahl
Oh, I knew this was going on there.
00:42:39
Julian Contreras Jr
Of course it is. cor It's Fever Pitch.
00:42:43
Kendahl
I know, man. Being the Red Sox. Yeah, absolutely. Mm hmm.
00:42:47
Julian Contreras Jr
i I loved it for what it was as a comedy movie, but being the fact that it was filmed in 05... And so I've talked about it before.
00:42:58
Julian Contreras Jr
This movie was about Jimmy Fallon absolutely loving the Boston Red Sox. He moved to Boston when he was seven, I believe. And his uncle got him out of the house by taking him to Fenway Park.
00:43:11
Kendahl
Mm-hmm.
00:43:12
Julian Contreras Jr
So he absolutely fell in love with the green monster and the stadium and the players. And he just never gave it up.
00:43:19
Kendahl
Right.
00:43:19
Julian Contreras Jr
So when he moot meets Drew Barrymore, he's in winter. She calls him the winter guy. Because there's no baseball. He's got full attention is on her and they're having a lot of fun. They're starting to fall in love.
00:43:34
Julian Contreras Jr
She invites them somewhere for Easter to meet her parents or something. He's like, Oh, actually have a prior commitment.
00:43:39
Kendahl
Yeah. yeah
00:43:42
Julian Contreras Jr
This is when spring guy comes in when he's absolutely red socks. Crazy.
00:43:49
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:43:50
Julian Contreras Jr
It's a funny movie. I love those two's chemistry and the,
00:43:53
Kendahl
And they they filmed it like at Real Games.
00:43:56
Julian Contreras Jr
At real games, yeah.
00:43:57
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:43:58
Julian Contreras Jr
It was in between innings and stuff when they got their lines in. And the fact that they had to rewrite the ending of this movie because of what happened in 04.
00:44:07
Kendahl
Right. that was and
00:44:09
Julian Contreras Jr
So the...
00:44:10
Kendahl
That was the best part about it, right?
00:44:12
Julian Contreras Jr
For me, yeah.
00:44:13
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:44:14
Julian Contreras Jr
Because it got... ah For love of the game for the Red Sox...
00:44:18
Kendahl
Yep. Mm-hmm.
00:44:19
Julian Contreras Jr
Love it. And if you watch the movie ah towards the end, you can see that they just kind of put stuff in because they didn't have time to film at all.
00:44:30
Kendahl
yeah
00:44:30
Julian Contreras Jr
They beat the Yankees, of course. And then they go on to St. Louis. They had to get permission for Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore to get on the field.
00:44:42
Julian Contreras Jr
Did they expect them to sweep that series? They didn't. But they sent them to St. Louis games. to get that footage for the ending of the movie. And then they just dubbed in the narration at the end. Like, as you all know what happened, this happened. And of course they had to be there. And the other ticket holders gave us their seats so we could be at the world series to keep the magic going.
00:45:06
Julian Contreras Jr
Super cool. I love what the Farrelly brothers did.
00:45:06
Kendahl
It's cool.
00:45:09
Kendahl
Yeah, it was I mean, it's a good movie. It's a good movie. For sure. All right. You ready for my last one?
00:45:17
Julian Contreras Jr
I am.
00:45:19
Kendahl
Okay, this is one of Chadwick Boseman's last movies.
00:45:24
Julian Contreras Jr
Black Panther.
00:45:24
Kendahl
So he did, not last movies. This probably one of his greatest movies because his last movie was The Avengers, right?
00:45:32
Julian Contreras Jr
I think it was one of those.
00:45:32
Kendahl
think it was one of his last, yeah. Anyway, 2013, this actually has 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. Just 42. The movie is called 42. This is about Jackie Robinson and his ah coming into the major leagues.
00:45:46
Kendahl
but breaking those barriers that were at the time um kind of you know struggling. And so being ah a guy of color and joining into the major leagues was kind of a no-no, but he was just an amazing player. So he was one of the very first to do so.
00:46:02
Kendahl
And i think Chadwick Boseman does an amazing job in this film. um it's It is a great movie, just an absolutely great movie. um There's a lot more to this movie than baseball, but it's this is not a particularly ordered of like my favorite, but this was one of this is one of my favorite baseball movies of all time.
00:46:22
Julian Contreras Jr
i don't think I saw this in theaters, but I did buy the Blu-ray and absolutely loved it when I watched it.
00:46:26
Kendahl
Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I didn't, I didn't have a chance to watch it in theaters because it was right around the time that my wife was pregnant and with one of our kids. And so um by the time I did get to see it is it was, we we just bought the, we just bought the Blu-ray. was one of those. Everybody kept telling me, Oh, it's great, it's great. It's great. So we just bought it, watched it.
00:46:46
Kendahl
No regrets.
00:46:47
Julian Contreras Jr
No, not at all.
00:46:48
Kendahl
So.
00:46:49
Julian Contreras Jr
Super great movie. Loved and learned a lot, actually. Stuff I didn't even know and just took for granted.
00:46:54
Kendahl
Yep.
00:46:54
Julian Contreras Jr
That it was all baseball lore and this happened and this happened, but not knowing what the person had actually gone through and how good he was.
00:47:02
Kendahl
Yeah. Yeah. So, ah so we talked about Field of Dreams kind of being a we'll call it a runner up in there out there.
00:47:06
Julian Contreras Jr
So, I'm...
00:47:11
Kendahl
um And then a league of their own. That was the other one that i debated on putting on this one. So
00:47:17
Julian Contreras Jr
I like that one. Georgia Peaches.
00:47:19
Kendahl
Yeah.
00:47:20
Julian Contreras Jr
Tom Hanks.
00:47:20
Kendahl
Yeah. And I, the only reason I didn't put it on there is I, there's a few movies that are like too obvious, you know, and that was one of those to me. I just felt like it was too obvious that was going to be on the list. And I wanted to put other movies that I've, that are maybe our listeners haven't seen, or maybe they have, but they forgot about.
00:47:38
Kendahl
So, and we've talked about a league of their own a few times.
00:47:39
Julian Contreras Jr
Right, like Summer Catch, you've never even seen or heard of it.
00:47:42
Kendahl
ah Exactly. Yeah, exactly. So, all right, man. That was, yeah, that's my list. That was, you know, I, I love baseball. I, it's still one of those sports that I catch quite often.
00:47:54
Kendahl
Love watching the world series every year. So.
00:47:58
Julian Contreras Jr
All right, I'm asking you this today. Who
Baseball Season Predictions and Debates
00:48:02
Julian Contreras Jr
do you have? I know it's super early, but you're going on record.
00:48:05
Kendahl
Oh, geez.
00:48:05
Julian Contreras Jr
Who do you have winning the World Series this year?
00:48:07
Kendahl
This year?
00:48:08
Julian Contreras Jr
Because I have my answer right now.
00:48:08
Kendahl
oh my gosh. i have I have no idea. Oh
00:48:17
Kendahl
gosh. Okay, in my heart, in my heart, i want I want the Giants to go again. I really do.
00:48:26
Kendahl
i would love... Yeah, I know. I would love for the Giants to go. um Who do I think is going to do... like i don't know. Um...
00:48:26
Julian Contreras Jr
In my heart, I want the Red Sox to win all the time.
00:48:41
Kendahl
don't I don't know. i don't know.
00:48:43
Julian Contreras Jr
I'm going to say it right now. It's going to be the Dodgers.
00:48:47
Kendahl
You think?
00:48:48
Julian Contreras Jr
They're going repeat. no promise in the bag.
00:48:50
Kendahl
See, okay, so i that was that's on the tip of my tongue, only because they they have such a good lineup for this year. And I feel like...
00:48:58
Julian Contreras Jr
They just added to it.
00:49:00
Kendahl
Well, I know. That's what I'm saying. like I just feel like i feel like where they were last year and then where they're going this year, yeah like that's what I want to say, but at the same time, I think there's a couple other teams that could put some pressure on them.
00:49:02
Julian Contreras Jr
That's insane.
00:49:13
Kendahl
um Yeah, I don't know. i I don't know. I'm, that's one of those things where i don't want to put, I don't want to put any words out there. And then I'm just like, Oh yeah, yeah let me eat that a little bit harder.
00:49:33
Kendahl
Um, I don't know. i that's my thing. I think, I don't know. I, I feel like the Dodgers could do really well. um I,
00:49:49
Kendahl
I, well,
00:49:49
Julian Contreras Jr
mean, you could just say the Giants.
00:49:51
Kendahl
Well, it is. i don't, but they're not going to do it, dude. They're not. No way. um What? Let's see. That's my thing. I'm trying to think of when, when I think of like this year, the hard part for me is I, I don't, there wasn't a lot of the teams that looked at what their lineups are.
00:50:13
Kendahl
And so I, like the Dodgers is my first is really my first pick. My heart says the giants. um I think, um I think the Yankees are going to give them a pretty good run.
00:50:26
Kendahl
um Only because I feel like,
00:50:33
Kendahl
I know I, I know I dog on the Yankees a lot, but, um, I feel like there's a lot of pressure on them to put some more like actual good players in play that could put some pressure on some of the bigger teams that have come out the last couple years. So.
00:50:45
Julian Contreras Jr
um They have some pretty great players that just kind of fumbled when it counted. So I'm not counting them out. And it might even be a rematch.
00:50:56
Kendahl
Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't put it past them. Um, I'm literally doing like a quick sweep on a couple of teams that i'm thinking about, but, um,
00:51:06
Julian Contreras Jr
Do you think that we will ever, or is it pretty much guaranteed that in baseball, there will never be a team ever, ever, ever, That goes undefeated.
00:51:17
Julian Contreras Jr
There's just too many games.
00:51:19
Kendahl
Oh wait. Yeah, no, there's too much. There's just way too much.
00:51:23
Kendahl
Especially, especially when you think about the travel time and some of these on some of these teams. no, Yeah. I mean, it'd be amazing, but no.
00:51:23
Julian Contreras Jr
I'd love to see it though.
00:51:32
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. I get weary when a team is like 12-0 and you're like, alright, here we go.
00:51:38
Kendahl
he
00:51:39
Julian Contreras Jr
But you still have 160-something games to go.
00:51:41
Kendahl
Right. I was going to say, still got 100 plus games on a series to go, and that's not even counting if they end up in the playoffs, you know? So, yeah.
00:51:50
Julian Contreras Jr
All right, so no no definitive answer from Kendall.
00:51:53
Kendahl
No. I don't have it yet.
00:51:55
Julian Contreras Jr
All right. Okay, that's totally fine. All right. I hope that all you listeners out there loved the baseball talk, had some movies on here you could watch, go and rent for $4.99, $5.99.
00:52:10
Julian Contreras Jr
Maybe some old ones that you saw clear back in the past. You're like, oh yeah, I totally love that movie. just doesn't come across anymore. And the fact that Kevin Costner's done that many baseball movies kind of threw me for a loop.
00:52:26
Kendahl
yeah well and I think there's I think there's a lot of good movies out there we probably didn't even mention I mean like I can think of a couple other ones like the rookie that one's another one that's out there it's pretty decent you know um the natural that one's really good too uh
00:52:36
Julian Contreras Jr
The Natural.
00:52:39
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. That one's another true-ish story, right?
00:52:42
Kendahl
Robert Redford right
00:52:44
Julian Contreras Jr
ah Randy. Randy. Not Randy Quaid. Dennis Quaid.
00:52:47
Kendahl
Oh, Dennis Quaid. That's I'm thinking about. Yeah.
00:52:49
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah. Not his brother.
00:52:51
Kendahl
Yeah. No, that guy cannot. No. Uncle Eddie.
00:52:55
Julian Contreras Jr
That guy can act, but not not in that role.
00:52:56
Kendahl
That's Uncle Eddie. um
00:52:58
Julian Contreras Jr
Yeah.
00:52:59
Kendahl
So, yeah, I mean, i think i think there's a lot of movies we didn't talk about um that are definitely decent. There's a lot of baseball movies out there, to be honest with you. There's a lot. But, yeah.
00:53:08
Julian Contreras Jr
That's great sport.
00:53:11
Julian Contreras Jr
All right.
00:53:11
Kendahl
So...
00:53:12
Julian Contreras Jr
and Until next time. well i'm Well, hold on. I'm not going to waste this opportunity. going to play this one more time.
00:53:22
Julian Contreras Jr
ah Until next time, let yourself be great.
00:53:27
Kendahl
And don't forget, turn on something good.