Air Bud: Our First Time Watching - Kinda Funny In Review

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Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick Nick.

That's right.

I'm fit return ladies and gentlemen of Nick Scar Pino's in review.

Welcome back everyone.

I am the titular host Nick Scar Pino alongside the tsar of NAR,

the master of disaster, the man from Tahoe.

Mr. Snow bicycle, my cycle.

This is my first time.

No, my first time on a Nick in review.

Nope, hope fiction.

Oh shit, I'm pretty black now when I'm out.

I think we got it back.

And the man correcting everyone over there, Mr. Roger PCOR.

I am so, so excited for this one.

I'm like, I'm like radiating energy right now.

I'm, I could not be more excited to do this piece of content

with you right now, Roger, because of course today

we are reviewing Air Bud, the 1997 classic

and boy, oh frickin' boy.

I had a realization about five minutes into this film.

I've never seen it before.

Yeah, wow.

I don't believe I ever watched it.

That's the first for you on this whole thing.

It is.

It's the first for me in general.

Usually I have some context for a movie, but this movie

completely took me by surprise.

We're going to talk about that in a little bit.

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We're each and every week.

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We've done pull fiction.

We've done, it's our worst attack of the clones.

We've done a bunch of plays.

We've done Air Bud.

We've done Air Bud now.

So that is live as well.

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Or I'll forget.

Well, this is spoiler free because it's left over from my

my screen doc.

Yeah.

This is full spoilers.

Let's get into the text back.

Text back.

The movie's name Air Bud released August 1st, 1997 with a

runtime of one hour and 38 minutes.

Crawls by some time.

There's some.

There's some moments where you look around.

You're like, man, we got five more minutes left in this movie.

No, you got 35, bro.

It literally has movements.

Yeah.

This movie has movements.

Normal movies have acts.

Oh, yeah.

This has like, we're in a different vibe.

Yeah.

We're in a different movie.

We're in a different house now.

Yeah.

Now this has become to kill a mockingbird.

I'll talk about it.

If I was to do, remember that one guy that we all told for

Grace, he did the Star Wars recut, right?

Wow.

Yeah.

You know that my fucking.

Yeah.

That's good.

If I was to do the Air Bud recut, my condition.

Yeah.

I could cut down 20 minutes out of this.

Easy.

Because there's a lot of starting stops.

Yeah.

There's a lot of moments.

That's 20 minutes out of this.

Yeah.

Make it feel like a brand new movie, buddy.

I would love for you to do that.

I would pay so much money.

I would give you classes.

Whatever you want.

Just like that is your whole life.

This movie was directed by Charles Martin Smith, who I was not

aware of until I googled what else he was in.

He's an actor.

Kevin, could you do me a favor and pull up Charles Martin Smith?

Just pull up a picture of this guy.

I want to see if either Roger or Mike have any touchstone to him whatsoever.

Because I've seen him in a bunch of shit throughout the evening.

Charles Martin Smith.

Charles Martin Smith.

Of course, music done by Bram Wenger.

Okay.

I know this guy's face.

You've seen his face, right?

He was an American graffiti.

He was an untouchables, which I know him from, which you can see right there.

He was the accountant and untouchables.

Okay.

And of course, he was in an episode of Psych.

Okay.

So that's where you know him from.

No, I know.

I legitimately know him.

He's just been a character actor in movies.

Can I see, like, you have an IMDB?

Can you go to the main page if there's anything?

No.

I mean, I checked.

I don't know how to sound with this.

But all really quick.

I mean, he's got the dolphins tail too.

Dolphins tailed.

Dolphins tailed too.

Yeah.

Maybe I have not seen this man.

I think he just looks like.

Well, either way, I was blown away.

I was like, oh, I know him as an actor, but he's directed quite a few things.

That's pretty cool.

I always love that.

Music done by Bram Wenger, who, of course, you know, from Santa Paz too.

Santa Paz.

We'll talk about Santa Paz.

And you know what?

Music, music, low key, hitting all the 90s vibes.

I'm a goated.

You know what?

Would have preferred a little more licensed music in this.

Yeah.

You're a little splish, but a little splish blast.

I was thinking about that.

I feel like all wrong in Robin.

Yeah.

I mean, like give me a little bit of that.

You know, they had a couple more 90s bangers.

Yeah.

Budget.

Rocket Robin.

Budget of $3 million.

Box office.

Any guesses?

I think I know, but I don't know what the truth is.

We'll start with Roger.

I'm going to go like, I'm going to go like 25.

25.

Mike, what do you think?

I believe the fact that I saw was 30 million, but I would assume it's a little bit higher,

but I don't know.

Guestimates have this estimated anywhere between 23 and 28 million.

Box office, Mojo has $23 million.

Not bad.

And it's also the $3 million.

That's also not with inflation.

That's not with inflation.

Yeah.

Anything with inflation.

Yeah.

In your lever.

You're so anti it that you don't.

I've got $10.

My bank account.

I'm going to retire.

Was that the opposite?

I don't know.

That works.

This movie stars, of course, Dot Billing, Michael Jeter, who was in the green mile.

He was also in a drop zone, which I love.

He's another character actor that you've seen a bunch of stuff.

He's the clown.

But Josh.

About that in a second frame.

I was played by Kevin Zegger, so I don't really know for anything.

And Wendy, his mother, Jackie, is played by Wendy McKenna.

Now, I, when we were doing the movie commentary, I was like,

I've never seen this woman in another film, and I was so unbelievably wrong.

I said, the deep dive into her.

And by that, I mean, I, I just went to her IMD meat page.

She was one of the nuns in sister act.

Oh.

Yeah.

Sister Mary Roberts or something like that.

Yes.

Sister act three.

Hopefully she'll reprise her role.

Gentlemen, little spoiler for the next couple.

I think she's the best mom.

Just so you know, Roger.

Oh, there's more mom or an onward.

We recast the mom and sister.

So I think she's the best mom when we talk about the airbus.

Guys, we, we might be doing an entire airbus in review.

If you do that, you know the show is about it.

The next airbus, the airbus movies have just the best names ever.

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

The second one is incredible.

What's the second one, Michael?

Golden receiver receiver.

Receiver.

Receiver.

Oh, golden receiver.

Yeah.

You're correct.

Play out with golden retriever.

Yeah.

We got.

Okay.

Let's look at this.

We got.

Let's see all of these.

We got airbud.

The next movie is airbud golden receiver where he plays football, which is like that sucks,

by the way.

Like I haven't seen the movie.

So I can't judge it for its merits.

Maybe there's a great reason why he's playing football.

Maybe like there was some injury with it.

No, the kid goes into high school and plays football.

I think that sucks.

I think this is a whole type of sport athlete.

No.

No.

That is different.

That is a different set of abilities.

You can't tell you that airbud golden receiver is the best one.

Wow.

Low key.

The same cast or not the same cast.

No, no.

Well, same boy.

Different mom.

Different mom.

I'm about this.

I'm just going to call it audible right now.

Next.

The second one after this after a galaxy is supposed to be Lord of the Rings.

Fuck Lord of the Rings.

If this episode does above 12,000 views, we will do golden receiver.

I'm telling you guys right now.

I love that.

If you can get 12,000 for the 10 people watching this.

If you can get 11,000 more people.

Okay.

To the matter right now.

You kind of did it.

Yeah.

To watch this fucking thing.

We'll do airbud golden receiver.

We want it up everybody.

Tell your mom and dad go to the sprint store and put on.

Put every laptop on.

Now give us some more.

What's number three, four and five?

Because he's a five sport athlete.

Now Roger.

Any guesses for the next one?

That's right.

Well, I'm looking at it right now.

Yeah.

Airbud World Cup.

World Cup.

A little World Cup soccer.

That's good though.

But I like that.

I mean, it makes, again, the soccer makes more sense with the basketball, but the fucking football

that's an oblong shape.

Okay.

Well, he's catching it.

Yeah.

Okay.

They deflated just like Tom Brady.

Hey.

He deflated balls.

That was good.

Airbud.

Seventh inning fetch.

No.

You don't like that.

Now this, a fucking fastball would knock all the teeth out of this fucking dog.

You watched him catch balls during this.

Not that fast.

A hundred mile power fastball.

I want you to know that Kevin DeChico, his trainer, who found buddy, he's whipping balls

at that dog.

A hundred miles per hour.

Not whipping a hundred, buddy.

I'm saying that.

I'm just saying this dog can't do it.

This dog may be a soft bump.

Maybe underhanded.

In his mouth on the cover with a raccoon.

He's got a fucking raccoon friend, Roger.

We have 2006 airbuddies.

That's all of this kids.

No, sorry.

2003.

I missed it.

Airbud spikes back.

Bikes back.

No.

Volleyball.

That's really bad.

Volleyball.

That's a real.

First of all, plus needs to wash that one.

Yes.

We need to get him involved on that.

And then this is not included in the airbud franchise, but because it came up, I'm also going

to note that there was a 2000 film called MVP, most valuable primate.

Yes.

Uh-huh.

Yes.

The monkey.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a chimpanzee plan.

Looks like hockey plays hockey.

Okay.

I have seen that one.

They want to keep it going.

Yeah.

I have seen that one.

That's nice.

We have space puppies, snow buddies, space jam.

There's lots of great men.

Where does Beverly Hill, Chihuahua's laid on this part of this universe?

I'm not sure.

But it's like Disney property.

There is.

And I've seen this twice now when Googling air buds.

I'm sure I'll get nothing but ads in this from airbud studios.

Airbud returns.

Yes.

2020.

That's the reason we're doing this.

Another one.

Yeah.

And I'm so excited for that.

Dude, you've now seen it.

So you'll be ready for it.

What else is this, folks?

That we love having this company.

And we love keeping everyone gainfully employed.

And we love making content that really resonates with people, helps grow the brand, and

really helps grow our, you know, our, our, and strengthens our community out there so

that we can, in fact, you know, enjoy everyone's time and have a long, long relationship

and career with each other.

I say we throw all that shit out.

And before Tim's back, we do nothing but airbud in review.

I've never been more aligned.

Six days.

We just backed up at, we get our asses in the movie content.

I'm a Terry Booth right now.

Oh my God.

We order some Taco Bell and we fucking airbud into our brains and eyeballs bleed.

I have cool G.

I sync up the video for him.

I'm like, you just get his clip out all day of just us watching all these movies.

I would fucking love nothing.

I gave you they did like 12 to 14 movies in like 15 years or something like that.

It's an insane number that they did.

And because it goes from bud to buddy, you see that's, but that's, there's so many issues

at this, right?

I haven't seen the newer ones.

We've seen the trailer for snow puppies or whatever the fuck like snow paws, where it's

like they're truly doing like the CGI amounts and stuff like that.

That's the thing about this.

Like there's so much quality and airbud when it comes to the acting of these dogs, the

dog is great.

This dog is incredible.

And they clearly have like a lot of the better actor than McCulloch and was in home

alone.

Yeah.

We'll show out.

We'll show out.

Don't don't say anything bad about the cult.

But there's so much great acting here and like so much like care clearly in like dealing

with this dog and making sure it does the right things.

I don't believe for a fact that like the fifth airbud, the fucking volleyball one is doing

the same thing.

You know, it's just going to be cuts of things.

It's going to be weird like animation and stuff.

Maybe I'm wrong.

But that's my biggest fear when it comes to going down the list of these things.

Roger.

I'm going to start with you.

What is your touchstone to this?

Did you grow up watching this?

Did you love it?

And then what do you think of the 1997 movie airbud?

So I was born in 99.

Okay.

At the time I was cognizant and watching these things or watching just movies in general.

We've already passed.

We've already jumped the shark.

You know what I mean?

When it comes to airbud.

So I saw airbud as like a joke of itself.

I never saw the original one.

It was a Disney movie, but weirdly enough, they never showed it in school.

Even though school would show like all these random, you know, they would show like the

101 Dalmatians all the time.

They never showed airbud.

So I just completely missed it.

Never saw any of those.

See this conspiracy against airbud in school.

I do think so.

I do think so.

I think it was an anti-dog propaganda.

That's why they showed a hundred bottles.

Can you maybe paint the picture for all of us?

Yeah.

What sports films then did you grow up with?

Because everybody has a touchdown to a kid sports film.

Do you have one that you grew up with that?

Many.

I'm trying to think.

I mean, I saw some of the, I don't, I don't name some.

Let's name some of them.

Well, it's like, I know me and Nick will touch on, I'm like, Sandlot, the, I saw that later

in my life.

Major league.

Major league.

Major league.

I saw bad news.

Bears.

Like Mike.

Oh, I like Mike.

I did watch that one.

What was the one where we went?

Bad news bears.

Bad news bears.

I saw the remake of Billy Bob Thornton.

Billy Bob Thornton.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But oh, you know what?

You're going to like this one.

The Will Ferrell movie kicking screaming.

That's what I want.

That's the correct answer, Roger.

That's the answer.

That's a real right there.

Everybody.

Never watched Space Jam.

I watched that later in life too.

Yeah.

No.

But I think kicking a screaming was the close act.

It's another good one.

Yeah.

I think I think it was a weird place.

Again, two thousands like growing up.

They're like, I think I miss all of like, I think the 90s were like, hey, we love

going outside.

Yeah.

I mean, the sports, 2000s was like, you stay inside Motherfucker, you playing called

me.

Yeah.

That's what, that's what, you know, the fluoride and my tooth is telling me.

Yeah.

I mean, that makes sense.

It tells you exactly what it is to tell you.

Yeah.

Mike, what did you think, Airbud?

Yeah, Airbud's a special movie to me.

And I think a lot of 90s kids right there because Airbud is the, I just want to say the

dream of a child, right?

Sharing these moments with your partner, aka your pet, right?

Like everybody had that pet that they grew up with as a kid that wished they could experience

everything in life with them, right?

Fun road trips, awesome vacations, going to school together, playing sports together in

the backyard, kicking the soccer ball around like, Airbud is that to me as a 90s kid, right?

And as a 90s kid, I grew up with the mighty ducks, the little giants, big green, right?

Like those were the kids sports films that you attached yourselves to.

And Airbud was kind of the perfect mix of like everyone has that loving family pet that

they love.

Everybody dreams of playing sports with them, games with them, living life to the folds

with them.

And that's what Airbud was for me, right?

And so Airbud back in the day was special, right?

Do I remember making it to Airbud spikes back or Airbud the seventh ending fetch?

No.

But I definitely, distinctly remember the first three Airbud 100 percent first two came

to theaters.

I know I was in the theater for both of them.

Yeah.

And then VHS home demand.

And you're like, that's done with that, yeah, that we're never bought.

I mean, but that was like, those were some special ones too, because you never knew about

them.

Tell you what the blockbuster and you're like, oh my god, they made another Aladdin.

And it's like, yeah, led to 4.5.

They were turned up.

They were turned up.

They were turned up.

Yeah.

And so yeah, like there's movies like that.

And so for me, as a, like a key two point as well, support as kid that loved these movies.

And then I grew into movies like, remember the Titans coach Carter, hard ball with Keanu

Reeves, right?

Like those are those like hard ball kind of like moving forward as a kid into a, a teen

of like the kind of road map.

Did you see the Keanu Reeves movie, the replacements with him and Gene Hackman, where I love the replacements?

Joe Falco or whatever they was.

Yeah, I was always confused with that because there's a cartoon called the replacements.

Very different show.

Very different show.

The promise of that show is that a bunch of kids, kids worked for an agency where they

can just call on the phone and say, I want you to replace this person in my life.

And somebody knew would come in.

That was the whole promise.

Thank Paul duty replace her.

Yes.

Exactly.

So there's be like, oh, I don't like my substitute teacher and then a new substitute teacher

would come through.

It's just like that was the whole fucking show.

We did anything about that.

It's just a time back then.

And so yeah, this one is special to me, Nick, of like looking back on it.

I think maybe Tim might share similar sentiment to me of like these.

I don't know how much he's a sports guy, but it was more like brink.

Yeah.

I don't think he was an airbud, little giants mighty ducks guy like I was, but like, yeah,

for sure.

A special one, I'll always remember the timber wolves jersey.

Everyone loves that.

Just bright blue and yellow timber wolves jerseys sick.

He's called the answers.

Yeah.

Tim Gettys.

This is Nick Scarpino.

You're live on air, but Nick Scarpino's air, but in review.

The question is come up.

The question is come up.

What does Tim think about air, but oh, man, I saw air, but one and two in theaters.

Okay.

Of course.

I also have a fun fact Naomi Kyle's first crush growing up was the boy from air.

Oh, I thought you were going to say it was bud.

I thought about himself, but of course, I haven't seen it since, you know, 1998 or whatever.

Oh, my God.

You guys are actually watching it.

I didn't expect you guys to go through with this one.

If you know what?

I thought it was a typo.

Yeah.

No.

Yeah.

Well, we'll do Lord of the Rings at some point to make up for it.

Thank you, Tim.

I appreciate it.

Go back to being a fan of that.

Bye.

Yeah.

Tim, just like me exactly what I did there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I never saw this film.

I would have swore that I had seen this film because I've seen all of the movies that

are sort of like it.

You know, the, the, the, the, the kid that breaks his arm, you know, get out of here,

get out of here.

You go.

Run.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you know, normally I have a really, really like great ability to recall films, even

if I've never really seen them over the years, I know if I've seen a movie.

I'll be like, oh, I have seen this.

The first scene I'll see and there's just something in my brain that goes, you've seen

this film, right?

You might not be able to remember the details.

This movie, I don't think I've ever watched in my entire life.

And I'm glad about that because I think that going in completely blind to this film was

an experience I would have, I would have bet dollars to donuts that this dog started

playing basketball within 15, 20 minutes of this film.

It is 48 minutes until we see this dog touch a fucking basketball.

And then I was like, oh, I swear to God, he plays for the team the whole time.

He has, but he comes in for the last play of the film with his little booties on.

It is a fucking bonkers film, not good, not a good film.

Could have used a lot of editing.

The acting is questionable.

But I'll tell you what.

And I never thought I'd hear these words come out of my mouth in my entire life.

This movie is largely carried by the talents of Bud, of the dog, who was trained by Kevin

DeChico, who is Kevin DeChico, was the writer and creator of Airbus looking for a pass

away.

Two days ago, as of two days ago, Kevin DeChico did pass away at 63 years old.

We talked about it on the movie commentary, who is Kevin DeChico ran out of money, was

homeless, and was battling a strong stage of COVID two years ago was the report looking

for help.

And his friends had to make him a go fund me to support him.

And it was kind of like one of those of like Disney helped this guy out on what they

gave you.

But what's up?

And so it was one of those of like, we talked about Buddy, right?

Buddy was a dog that was rescued out of your semity.

Kevin found this dog on a camping trip, took it home with him, fell in love with basketball

and sports together.

They started training and doing this whole act.

Buddy actually surprisingly dies after the first film.

I saw you.

He's credited in the second film, RIP Buddy.

And so crazy enough, that dog died.

And then now Kevin DeChico died of all right, I'll tell you what though, in a lighter

note, can you name one other role that buddy the dog did?

On television or movies?

No.

He was in fact a dog comet on full house.

Whoa.

How long?

For the whole run until the price passed away, I imagine.

That's incredible.

Isn't that incredible?

It's incredible.

If you watch it, right around season three, Buddy just doesn't show up anymore.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

I made that part up.

But I was going to be like, nice.

That doesn't do.

That doesn't.

But isn't that crazy?

That's awesome.

That's incredible.

It makes a lot of sense.

All right.

I thought you didn't let me go.

I thought you wouldn't already.

No, I didn't tell you.

You talked about how you, you stayed inside, you never saw it.

I started it.

I started it.

What do you think, Aaron, Buddy?

I was so, so happy that I was able to watch this movie in 27 years of age.

I, the whole movie kind of plays like a horror picture.

Like it's like, you know that this dog is going to play basketball at some point, but

you don't know when.

You don't know how it went.

I heard it for a whole entire movie.

You're watching, you're like, is this the moment this dog plays?

No, it's not.

Is this the moment?

Is this it?

They even play into it with like the, like the, the, the putting cups where this dog is

like in the bushes and he's like luring out the thing and it's like penny wise.

And you're like, when the fuck is this dog going to do it?

And finally, when this dog plays basketball, I've never been happier in my life.

My life.

This dog is not just playing basketball.

He's fucking crushing.

This dog is so talented.

He's incredible in the acting on this dog, but also just the talent of this dog being

able to just fucking grip onto this ball and just throw it around.

Get the hoops.

It is, it is magnificent.

I was so happy watching this movie the entire time and I, I'll even go as far to say.

He was like, oh, it's not a good movie.

This is a good movie, guys.

We gotta have a car.

This is a good movie.

How can you call it?

It's a good movie.

Not a good movie.

It is long.

For sure.

But it hits all the notes.

It is so small.

It is so out there, but it, it's good.

It's a solid movie.

This is one I bought.

I bought on Amazon.

Really?

And then I bought it just, it was like a dollar more.

So I bought it.

And then I, after I finished, I looked at the end, I said one day our children are going

to watch this copy that I purchased and I'm so happy.

I think the kids, I think all parents should be showing the, do you think parents show the

kids these movies?

No, they do.

They show cool runnings.

It's called Mel and Alder.

Little giants, right?

Maybe a little giants.

Okay.

I hope they are.

Maybe a little giant.

I, I would be really saddened to hear like people like Greg or Tim Kevin now with kids.

Like when they hit that age of like four show them arrow, are these movies to show them

like see it.

It can be fun.

Sports are fun.

I just don't think that air bud is going to keep a kids attention because you don't have

the dog doing the basketball in the first five minutes of the move, but it starts off

really strong with the terrifying clast.

Yes.

No, genuinely, like they wrote this for children.

I'm like, you start off in this clown, he fucking hates kids and he says it out loud.

And then everybody's all mad about that.

Those kids in those theaters were probably like, fuck that clown.

And they were in a meeting.

It's a cute, it's a cute little dog.

It's some fun.

You know, the kids going through some things.

Sure.

I think kids would like this.

Yeah, he's moving.

Yeah.

He needs to make new friends.

He lost his father.

It's very related.

Mother's working overtime for the tissue company.

Mike.

It's the napkin company.

That sounds like the plot.

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Mike, how does this film start?

Nick, this film does start off with slapping the clown, arriving to a child's birthday thick

in the 90s.

Yeah.

It was in the thick of it with the 90s.

Everyone there had the 90s wardrobe, the outfits, the mom with the hair cut, the home,

oh man.

What a great time.

It just looks like the carpet.

Yeah.

And so you can just feel that the carpet has aged so much that it's got that layer of

crust on top of it that's no longer comfortable for you.

Every kid in the party had that face, you'll get it ready for this home alone.

Having goes down to get the pizza with the dinner and he pans across the whole family

and there's the one kid with the glasses that just mouth open.

Like that?

Every kid in the party got a lot of water.

Yeah.

Like this is the 90s, right here, you know?

And so yeah, we start off with, of course, slapping the clowns, showing up for the birthday

party.

Something about this clown that was immediately hit for me is that I've known this person,

this actor, my entire life, because he's Mr. Noodle in Elmo.

Oh.

So he, this is him.

So he was, there was an interstitial at the ending of Sesame Street where it would be

like Elmo's world and he would then cut to Mr. Noodle and he'd be dancing and doing

his little fun little thing.

I don't think he ever spoke in the, in the show, but it was just wild to me like again,

you can do anything in the 90s.

Like you have him play the villain in air, but a famous show of movie that kids were watching

around the same time.

And then also he would then show up in Elmo and be a cute little guy.

Sure.

And that's like, that's crazy to that duality.

Like I feel like that would not happen nowadays.

I say I love show like that.

Yeah.

I love it.

It's great because because now it's so easy to follow people's careers and we have IMDB.

We have these things.

But back in the 90s, you were like, holy shit.

That's a real person and he gets to do other shit outside of it.

He sounds like this.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's cool.

That's dope.

So Mike, take me through the plot.

What happens?

Yeah.

I mean, of course, during the party, things take a wicked turn as buddy, maybe gets off

of the plan and causes a bunch of destruction inside the party and just, we, it's so

easy.

But is he actually causing the destruction?

Yeah.

Because if you really look at it, it's this dog running around and all these people go

like slipping on banana peels, like trying to stop this dog for what reason?

And we've had, we, well, later, future spoilers, we'll have another moment like that.

We're just hilarious.

It's the dog walking and never was like, whoa, so slapping the clown is going to get tossed

out of the home.

Right.

After that big party.

And a 90s tossed out.

Like he's getting thrown off like a little smith.

Like a little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

A little smith.

Yes.

And then we go and we see slapping the clown.

He's all uptight.

He's got cake all over him.

He washes himself off in the fountain and then puts the dog in the back seats.

Tailgate down.

Mind you.

That's how little he cares about putting a little crate in the back of the truck.

Yeah.

Doesn't put the truck bed back up and they start driving.

Yeah.

And as he's cursed, he gets another, he's taking himself what's next, what's next.

I'm going to leave this dog and the dog slides out of the bed.

It's great stuff.

And we pan over to a bunch of cows in a pasture just looking at, but before we do that,

yeah, we pan over right.

And then to your earlier point, is this a horror movie or not, which I'm still convinced

that it might still be a horror movie, a fucking Mac truck almost runs him over.

Yeah.

Right at that moment.

Yes.

The moving truck.

That's the moving truck.

That's right.

That's right.

That's right.

Who shows up our main character and mom and the daughter roll right up with the

four butter, almost kill buddy.

And then they just leave him.

Buddy gets out of the cage.

The best part is the mom does not get out of the car to say, oh my God, almost murdered

something.

What did I hit?

Doesn't check anything.

Just says, the kid too.

The kid didn't say anything.

He didn't say, hey, mom, that's a dog.

Hey, yeah, by the way, there's a dog over there.

Let's figure out something.

No, this kid's just so sad that he just looks at this dog.

He looks at that dog and he recognizes the clown outfit and he'll remember that for

the future.

I know this dog.

And then again, back to whether or not this is a Stephen King written book, the dog just

stares at them in a clown outfit as they go down the road and menacing them as cows

are over in the corner like, what's this dog going to do?

And then there's actually, if you watch the extended cut, he takes out just a little bit

of a knife, just a little like Halloween fucking two or three when they do the, the

all pause ended.

Oh, that's so funny.

That's just what you see.

This is the fake dog problem.

Real talking with the flame.

This dog in this outfit reminds me of the little girl.

I think it's Halloween two or three.

Remember, she's the killer.

She comes with the clown mask at the end and she's wearing the clown outfit.

That's what this reminded me of.

For sure.

So then they roll out to a Fernfield, the new town that they will be moving through.

Of course, mom has landed the sweet job with the napkin company.

Napkin company.

She's big time at the napkin company.

They've bought a new home.

They've lost, of course, our father.

She's widowed now and they have a new big home.

How did he die?

Airplane accent.

You want to use a test pilot?

Do you want to hear the funniest thing?

I do.

I do.

I'm watching this with Leanza.

And she says, quote, his dad was a pilot.

So you know, airpot.

So she thought that his name was going to become airpot because his dad died and was

a, it was a fighter pilot or whatever.

Yep.

And I was like, hey, babe, no, it's air Jordan.

Like that's like the connection there.

That's like basketball.

She didn't know.

No, you watch it.

You watch it.

It's going to come back.

This guy is at the end of this movie, get a look at airbud, a bud and be like, you know

what?

My dad died in the air.

So now you're airbud.

Yeah.

No, but it's sad.

We do get a moment where they see the dog play basketball and somebody says something

to the, a candle like, oh, he's like a regular Michael swish dog Jordan or something

like that.

Yeah.

Michael air.

Possum or something like that.

Something stupid.

I should have been like, oh, and what they should have said was the titular line that

they say in all these dumb movies, oh my God, he's a regular airbud.

Yeah.

And we just never get this.

Never did.

They just started calling him airbud.

Yeah.

That's fine.

Yeah.

Airbud comes from inside the NBA.

So before this movie was shot, they did six months of training before he ever made his own

first shots just so you know, when Kevin DeChico saved this dog from your 70 out there,

they came down to San Diego.

They were, you know, living together, fell in love with playing with the ball.

And Kevin started showing him basketball, which he was banging into and tennis balls.

Six months of training, four thousand shots before he made his first baskets.

Then they sent it out to a bunch of places.

Airbud actually did six years of being on the circuit, half time shows, David Letterman,

either American's home, money's home videos.

Then they got to the point where they're going to make the movie.

Yep.

So airbud here has already been thrown around the globe around the globe.

Yeah.

That was just perfect time of like, if you watch interviews with Kevin DeChico, I was telling

that this guy saw the vision, the moment that him and this dog started making baskets,

he clearly understood like, well, this is what I have to do with this dog.

This is my life.

Wow.

And that's where they got.

That's beautiful.

And so yeah, he got the name airbud from inside the NBA because I saw him jumping over

the free throw line.

They were like, that dog is getting there.

Yeah.

Airbud.

There is not the fighter pilot dying.

No.

No.

No, every single time you say Kevin DeChico, though, and even even even in the in the commentary,

I started giggling.

And me and Kevin earlier were giggling about this because it reminds us of the scene in

coneheads where Adam Sandler has the best cameo ever recorded was given.

Have you seen coneheads?

No, no.

He's given the coneheads who are aliens, obviously, because they have giant coneheads or

but that's the whole point.

He's given them new identities so that they can get away from immigration, the immigration

services.

And he gives them the immigrate.

He gives them the name Donald R DeChico.

And every single time I hear DeChico, I think about that thing, which is what just a banger

was saying.

What happens?

And then, fun enough, of course, we see that our main character here, name is Alan, I believe,

right?

Double check.

Josh.

No one is.

Josh.

I always get it wrong.

I try so hard.

Josh, of course, is lonely and sad.

His sister is a very young girl.

Yeah.

So she didn't need to be in this movie.

Yeah.

Sister's just a baby.

Could it just happen?

There was a nice moment where he kisses her on the forehead, I'll tell you.

Sure.

But it's not basic.

Yeah.

And so we see Josh go to school.

Of course, Josh now has to make new friends.

Right.

And he's going to play the flow of a new school.

But what do we see up on the big board?

Basketball.

Cohen soccer.

We can call off to the kids.

Hey, basketball triads right around the corner.

Yeah.

He tries to know Josh is going to try, he tries trombone, which I did trombone.

Hey, let me remind them of that.

They teach you in front of the entire class and embarrass you.

I told the story on this.

Have you ever heard the story?

No.

So we did trombone.

We did music was forced upon kids in fifth grade.

OK.

You had to stick to seventh grade.

It's definitely so.

choice. In fifth grade, you could either do choir, you could do strings, or you can

do the winds. Of course, I wasn't singing at the time, so I wasn't going to do choir.

Oh, they would have loved to inquire about it. I should have done violin or something,

but my friends did trump it. And so when I did the brass, they gave me a trombone, bad decision.

Okay, shout the Nick Chandler. Nick Chandler's father ran the used music store. So all the kids would

go to Nikki Nick's father store, got a big ass trombone, had to carry that around all the time.

That was sad. And so I knew right away from the first blow and the move that I never was going

to dig with this, the spit valve and everything I needed. Yeah. Seventh and eighth grade. Now you go

on six and seventh grade, you go to middle school with it now. They do solo moment. They

videotape you solo and Victor Smith hummed my part for me as I didn't blow into it. He just did this

and the teacher pulled his mouth aside. It was like, what is this? And I had to

get out of the truth. I said, for three years, I haven't been blowing in this thing. I don't like

it at all. And that was the end. I never picked up an instrument again. Wait, I have to call Tim.

I have to call everyone out of do a solo on camera for this guy to see and I kind of give you

ways to get better. And I swear to God, Victor hummed into the camera. How did you get away from

not doing this for so long? Oh, because there's so many kids that don't really care. You know,

there's just so many kids in a room. It's it's six, seven and eighth grade. And the price

not paying attention. Everyone's bad at that age. But how did you get out of it after that?

They just said that was an eighth grade didn't make you do it. Okay. So like an eighth grade was the

end unless you were like into it, you would have kept going out to band and high school and things

like that. But like it was three years guaranteed you had a new so similar to when you pick up a

second language, right? Spanish. Yeah. We had French and then we had a Japanese in high school.

Wow. You could learn those. I chose Spanish hated Spanish all the way to failed every single time.

Never wanted to just wanted to get out of it. Wait, so they never gave you tests before that

or anything like that for what band? No, yeah. No band isn't like that. No one was not like band is

very difficult. Like just get the kids to play one song. Yeah. I never looked at you and said,

hey, Mike, why don't you do this? There's like four of us. He wants to point to me. Oh,

you're just dodgeable. I went, I remember I started playing trumpet when I was in like the fifth

grade. Yeah. It was the fifth or sixth grade. And the junior high teacher, Mr. Usher came to our

elementary school to start the program there because we were a feeder school into his program.

And he was like, oh, we'll start in a couple years earlier and get him a little, you know,

so that when they come to me, I actually have a decent band because he was very competitive about

that. But it was like literally me and two other people. And it wasn't even we weren't even playing

songs. We're just literally doing lessons together. There was no fucking way I could have hidden

from him if I didn't like this instrument. You're a deviant. Yeah, I'll never forget. I'll always

remember fifth grade, especially going into lunchroom. And there's 30 kids in a giant circle. We're

all spread out. And everybody's blowing into it. It's just a concoffity of noise. So it's just like,

when I was your lover, I was just like, this has gave up. You're one of those, you're one of those

guys in the movie that at the beginning of the movie, you put more effort into not doing it.

Yes. Then it would take you to just do the thing and get great at the thing. If I could rewind time,

I want to be with the bell people. You know, when every, every, every, every highway break,

they would bring the big bells and she'd be like, you have to wear the glove. Please fifth graders,

don't smash these bells. And we'd all bang the bell. Well, you should have done, you should have

done chorus because I don't know about your school, but like we only had like three guys in the

entire class. So we were treated like royalty. Like we would fall asleep in the middle of class.

They were like, we desperately need you. We need these guys. We need the base. Yeah. Exactly.

We need the lower tone. We need to just show Mike. So funny. Back to the plot. I keep

him to go and trying to remember this. Well, what happens next is there, we get to the crux of it,

which is he goes to try out for basketball. And without even trying out, the guys just like,

oh, you'll be the, you'll be the, you'll be my dad at your water boy.

First of all, the kid just stays in the back. Wish. Well, we showed him. Yeah.

He's got the killer win breaker on. He's like basketball is life and discipline is going to

get you far right. He's talking about this team is made up of champions. We're, we have had two

years in a row of being the various. Yes. I plan on five returners here. We're going to pick up

some new ones. We're going to win again. You're like, oh, wow, this is a, this is a real deal for

graders here. And what does Josh do? He sits up at the top. It does nothing. He doesn't.

That's a, that's a, that's an old Roger move. That's a, that's a middle school Roger move for sure.

But like the fact that the coach never looks at me as a, hey, bud, why don't you come down here?

Like you just let the kid just set up there. And we know that we know that he likes basketball

already because he has, I think we've already had the scene where he discovers the basketball,

like poop outside of the church. It's the eerie church. The eerie weird church, which I can't

for the life of me decide why the production sounded just put that like kind of right outside of

his house. I don't know. But with the most epic view ever, when he tears down that fence,

yeah, the most incredible view of the huge and sound joy. Yeah, they just do the coolest

numbers, right? So he, yeah, so he doesn't make it strong. The guys like, we would just be the

system manager. It would be one of the managers would be ball boy. This water boy is like, I guess

that's going to be him. I mean, again, I asked Mike. I was like, how competitive was middle school

basketball? And Michael's like, it's cutthroat. So this kid just didn't have the stuff.

He did not have. We made two teams. In my middle school, we had so many people play basketball.

We made two teams. There was teammate team B. And we would split up. One team would go travel

one week. The other team would stay home. And we had you one team A. I'll never forget.

Team A 12 and one lost once. Mr. Adams, who we all made fun of because he used to shave his legs.

We are teams. I'll tell you what, it's on eighth grader.

Mr. Adams, a super athlete. My dude, this man, this man was running marathons. This man was

peak athleticism. Eighth graders find out that each shaved his legs. She's done all the time time.

Yeah, that's how he did. He didn't need one fact.

And he said, if you guys go, you guys go 13, you know, I'll put you up on the weight room wall.

And we lost one game that season. We had the best time. Wow.

The other team they sucked. That was the beat team. That's where John's would have been.

Yeah, yeah. John's would have been.

So the kids like fuck, whatever, I go home. And then of course, he meets air bud.

Right. He's got air buds in the bushes. And he's like, I can't get air bud out.

So I'm going to go home and take all of my mom's pudding. She's not going to ask.

Mom would for sure figure that out.

Mom would for sure figure it out. Putting is not inexpensive.

What the fuck happened to the pudding?

One time I ate my neighbor's house, my mom came back immediately.

It was like, where the fuck are all the eggs? Yeah.

Where are the eggs? Where'd they go? Putting comes in like four and eight packs.

Yeah. Kid took 12. That means he took three packs from her.

Like, he would look different. I don't know. We're all thinking the same thing.

Someone took all the plays. It was like a bunch of carrots or some shit.

Like, who gives a fuck? Well, it's like, these are putting cups.

Like, those are super valuable, especially in the 90s.

I know how like, let me ask you this question. Let me ask you this question.

Tell me. And this goes out to both of you.

When you were in the 90s, did you pack your lunch for school?

Me first. Did your mom pack it? Yeah, mom packed it for 100% in that.

Was there ever a pudding cup or some sort of cup that was like the dessert cup?

Putting cup, but you know what it's which too? What is that?

Go Gertz for the pudding cup. Yeah. Everyone had go.

Now, let me follow up this question. Was the pudding cup and or the gogert cup

or the vanilla pudding? Was that not the single most important item in your

life? That's all you look forward to. That's all you look.

That's yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you ate the salami out of the sandwich.

Did that and then got a cup of space so you had a lunch or bowl of all I

cared about was the candy and the Capri Sun.

Yeah. I didn't want the ham and the turkey and the cheese.

Yeah. You would trade. You would trade.

I just want the Capri Sun and the candy.

God, our, our youth of America, we're so out of show Obama changed that though.

She did. She gave us all my good. I was so lucky.

I was telling a story. Yeah. I got that show Obama.

I was the final year of like high schoolers that had the vending machines

full of candy. No, we had the lunch lady.

She was selling dollar giant cookies at 830 in the morning.

I start my day with a giant cookie this big.

Then they've all been just giving cookie dough out the kids because they just wanted to

say like we just need and then they're like three years later.

They were like, oh yeah, big plays only big plays only that we had.

Yeah, that was it. We got like the little bags of famous Amos,

but like it was like literally like four cookies for like dollar 40.

That's crazy. That's insane. I digress.

So we meet air butt and now we're all shenanigans guys.

We got all sorts of shenanigans right now.

Airbud wants to come out of the house. Airbud's dirty.

Airbud needs a bath.

Airbud. We're going to hide airbud from mom.

Airbud comes home at five airbud. We got a house.

And that's yeah, he cleans the dog.

He does a good job, you know, this dog.

He gets the leaf blower out. That's a funny thing.

That's a funny thing.

And then we go downstairs and then the mom's here.

And he's acting all cute and nice.

And the mom's like, some's up here right now.

And then the basketball starts to roll down the stairs into the living room

where there is not one, not two, not three,

but approximately 1800 open paint cans.

That's on mom's point. That's on mom.

Precariously please. That's on mom.

You got a toddler lady.

Yeah, you got to figure it out, girl.

You got a you got a teenage boy who's good and all over the fucking house.

Goon and you got a toddler who might just learn how to walk and start not.

You can't be leaving paint cans per eight.

Elevator to be open.

You know what I mean?

Kids must take their first steps.

They don't take their first steps.

They don't have kids.

They go, they grab shit.

I know they're like, grab it, grab it.

But it's just like any moment this kid can just start walking.

That's how it works.

At one moment, Roger, when you have a child of it,

at one moment, they just start rolling it up and walking.

That's how it works out.

You never fucking know.

It's just like they say, you don't know when the last hug is.

You don't know when the last time you're going to fucking

let your child make, make me the cry right now.

You walk up to them go, you have a thing about the last hug

you're going to have with your son.

Boom.

Well, fucking well, dying cry right now.

But we get out of work early.

Yeah, exactly.

Oh, we can do it to Tim and Greg and Kevin and then boom.

Wow.

So the, so oh my god, this dog's been here the whole time.

You can't keep the dog.

You can't keep the dog.

But then she gets the primer on top of him.

Yeah, the glue on top.

So that's when we get the, that's when we get the state.

By the way, it's not primer.

It's glue that you use to put wallpaper on walls.

Yeah, that would have probably killed this dog.

We'd have to shave this dog to get the dog.

But this dog is so fucking cute, though.

This dog is so fucking cute.

Run around.

I'm cold and retriever.

They're fantastic.

So mom goes, all right, I'll make you a fucking deal.

He can hang out, but just till Christmas, a couple weeks, whatever.

Can I keep him for two weeks?

He's like three weeks, two weeks.

Two weeks.

Christmas.

Yeah.

You get to Christmas.

And then they do the thing where they start walking around.

They put up the posters for the dog.

The dogs ripping down everything.

Adorable.

This dog is an athlete.

This dog is killing it.

Just doesn't want to go home.

Yeah, I love this kid wants to stay here

because Ned's neveliest fucking home.

Mind you, we never, we never see slapping the clown.

No, during all this.

Yeah, probably is not worried about his dog.

We forget about slapping the clown for way too long.

Again, I always think about these movies

and I think to myself, like, what would this movie have been like

if like Steven Spielberg had directed it?

And it would have just not too far off, honestly.

I don't, I think well, it would have been better.

But I do think that they would have focused a little bit more

on the story and like the emotional connection

that he had with Airbud ahead of time.

But instead, we get a lot of like different side stories, right?

We get the whole coaches story.

Oh, we have to, we haven't even introduced one of the other main characters

of this, which is the janitor who used to be pleased

to play for the New York Knicks and doubt himself.

It doesn't want to play basketball anymore until randomly.

The kid goes, well, now you're going to be the basketball coach.

And then he fucking activates, which is insane.

We got the Johnny Lawrence character whose dad is just the

diehard basketball fan.

It thinks that his tiny little scrawny, short ass white kid son

is ever going to fucking make it an ad.

Not enough of this annoying ass fucking kid though.

I feel like we should have had more of him.

Like he just does like the light bullying.

Like he's not really like the bully.

Yeah, but he's bullying him, right?

He's making fun of him called him the water boy.

Yeah, I know.

He's pushing him over at the locker.

But you know, like he's not like Johnny Lawrence.

You know, I mean, Johnny Lawrence is like a foe.

You know, I mean, this kid is just kind of an asshole.

But he has Johnny Lawrence a part of you.

Good shuck it.

Yeah, that's true.

I'm the bad guy.

Yeah, I hate you.

Y'all said just buddy, the trash man.

We enjoy the trash man.

The trash we got garbage kids.

This is the bull cut.

Scotty Pippin's orange slice, right?

Like that's fun.

Yeah, that's right.

Bill Cobb, of course.

People in the chat lately.

He's popping off for Bill Cobb in the chat.

Arthur Cheney, who was who was the janitor.

And also one of my favorite roles was in demolition man as well.

I love Bill Cobb.

So we're establishing all these things.

The coach is super fucking mean.

And they lose the game.

And he tortures this poor kid.

And then the principal fires him.

And he goes, we need another coach.

He goes, I know the guy.

Get Bill Cobb.

Because I was like, I don't play basketball anymore, man.

Not my thing anymore.

And he's like, well, why don't you play?

He goes, okay, yeah, I'll teach.

I'll teach you guys.

I didn't expect an abuse substory of like this coach.

There's so many substory.

Like this, this coach is like fucking like it's like a scare.

Like that would have been shot.

Talk about Steven Spielberg moment of it.

Like that would have been like a huge town scandal.

Like that would have been a big deal.

This kid is just like, they're all loaned together.

He's like, fucking throw the ball in him and everything.

I mean, it's really dark.

It's really dark.

I got to know where.

And Air Bud saves the day.

Air Buds Air Buds the one that Air Buds the one that calls next to you.

It wasn't for Air Bud.

We never wouldn't know.

Yeah, he gets no abuse.

You know, he knows because Air Bud is abuse.

He's been abused.

That is true.

He is abused.

Connecting the dots.

Connecting the dots.

Air Bud, what's funny about this is like,

is Air Bud, this is actually a question I want the chat to answer as well.

Is Air Bud a dog or is he a hyper-advanced being from another planet that just happens

to look like a dog?

Because this fucking dog is figuring shit out that no human being can figure out.

Air Bud is teaching Josh our main character about confidence and getting back out there and

trying.

They're shooting hoops together.

Josh is cleaning up that church basketball.

Clean up those back walls.

A push is down the fence that we all know is just the recipe for the ball to go in the

fucking future sound.

What are you doing?

He's resetting the hoops.

He's cleaning everything up.

Realizes that Air Bud can make the shot.

And then Air Bud, he finds out Air Bud can make the shot.

And then midway through one of the games, what happens, Mike?

So because Josh makes the team,

Buddy comes home and goes, where's my, where's my owner?

Where's he at?

He's barking at the window.

Favorite stuff was that dog shimmying up.

Sneaking out and getting the.

Just fucking parkouring all over the, the, the lattice work.

And what was the secret thing that we learned about another story thing?

Newspapers always grab the newspaper.

We'll talk about that.

Oh, yeah.

Why is it keep taking the news?

Why is he taking the news paper?

Why is mom so layered up?

Exactly.

Why is mom kind of a baddie?

Mom's kind of a baddie.

She wears a lot of cool.

Put it out there.

We'll talk about that.

We'll talk about that in a second.

And so Buddy goes, where's my owner?

Somehow.

Somehow.

I've done this twice.

I've done this twice and both of them are just extraordinary.

Rise at the school.

Climes underneath the ticket sales table.

And it's now watching the basketball game unfold.

And who gets the call?

Josh gets the call because that kid was hacking.

Not a reach.

Not a push.

Nothing at all.

Hacking they call it for.

And the big old game goes, what're you talking about?

I'm wrapping it.

You're like, don't yell at the breath.

I do yell at the breath.

And so they go, Josh, you're up.

And Josh comes out.

The ball starts to bounce and Buddy can't resist.

Buddy has to go out there.

Yeah.

Act the fool.

Bumps it with his nose and hilarity and shoes.

A layer.

And he makes the shot right.

So he then becomes the mascot for the team

the halftime show dog.

And that's the funniest element of this movie.

And this is like such a kid's movie moment.

Of like, he's finally like the mascot of the dog

and he has the halftime moment.

Why the fuck does this dog have anxiety for two seconds?

Like, it's like a, the weirdest scene.

I'm like, it's like, oh, you're nervous.

Oh, you're like, oh, it's okay.

Buddy, it's okay.

And then just, it just goes away.

Yeah, it goes away immediately.

Now again, I want to, I want you guys to know

like, this is minute, like, hour.

This is like 50 minutes.

That's 55 minutes and yeah.

This is pretty deeper to the moon.

I want to contrast that with like, rookie of the year

where the kid breaks his arm in the first five minutes

of the movie and is playing for the fucking Dodgers

of the angels, like, maybe 20 minutes.

Like Mike, the halftime show calls.

And they go, ticket number this.

Bowel comes down from halftime, gets his shoes,

becomes Michael Jordan, like, 20 minutes into this.

Yeah, but this is good though,

because we get like, the bond between him and the dog.

You know what I mean?

You really get it.

You really kind of build up.

And then like the, the air side of bud is not as important.

It's bud and this kid.

Yeah, that's what's important.

What I would have, open your heart.

I'm in my heart to open my man.

And I like this dog's little boots.

This dog's little part of this fucking ass.

The principal comes out and she goes,

oh my god, that dog's so amazing.

A natural Michael Paws of Jordan.

Paws of George George.

And he goes, well, you do the halftime show.

And then also goes, this is my daughter, Katrina, whatever.

And Josh just goes, hello.

And just, oh yeah, they dropped that.

Just immediately drops any sort of romance.

And then, wow, it is.

It's probably, yeah, he's a little crush on her.

And then we just move on from that.

Well, of course, don't forget.

Nick, I told you air bud three is all about romance.

Oh, Josh does fall in love.

So does bud.

Oh, so Josh, it's the whole thing.

Okay.

The whole thing is about.

Don't spoil this future spoiler.

Yeah, and that's when the abuse happens.

With the, with the abuse, yeah.

We got all that fire to coaches out.

Then we get the new coach.

And then, yeah, and the new coach says,

we're going to practice, but without a ball.

And the main thing, the main character is like,

I'm not doing that.

We're playing basketball, right?

He goes, well, you didn't, you didn't have the ball.

You can't shoot.

And that's a great life.

And I was like, bring in the team together.

Because then what happens?

We immediately go to game time.

And the team is passionate.

The team is crushing it.

They're actually playing well.

And this is the moment where I'm watching this movie.

I'm like, okay, this is the air bud moment.

You know, I mean, it's the game.

You know, I mean, we're having a thing.

No, no, no, we got two more games.

Because we have to have Josh miss, right?

We need two things to happen here.

We need the arrogant kid and his father to be kicked off the team.

So Josh can start playing more.

They move to the rival team.

Of course, they have to.

Yeah, they got to do it.

It makes no sense.

But yeah, he's rich.

He's well, all we didn't even talk about.

Josh was the manager.

Then the coach, two kids moved to Canada,

which means he needs a second tryout, right?

That's right.

And he invites only this tryout.

And garbage is one of the kids that makes the team, right?

Somehow Josh gets this invite.

No, garbage is the kid that got abused.

Okay.

Garbage is always been on the team.

The ball.

So somehow Josh gets this flyer, which he was not supposed to get.

But you know who the coach was like, hey, you're not supposed to be in here.

He's like, well, I'd like to try out any ways.

Coach puts on one hell of a show to make the kids he's been practicing with.

And the coach is like, oh, shit, this kid's got game.

I don't know what I'm doing, right?

And so he puts them on the team.

But then we needed to have new coach comes in, arrogant kid and his father booted off

the team because they don't want to pass.

They don't want to play ball.

And Josh has to have a last second shot, five seconds left.

Looking up at the three point line, he's got to do it.

He looks to pass.

No, Josh, this is your moment.

You're our hero.

Kids running out at him with the clothes out.

Josh Airball coach comes over and goes, don't worry about it.

You'll get another one.

You'll get another one.

You'll get another one because we know we get another one.

Well, no, we get another one.

Air Buds to buy.

I understand that the plot device here of Josh being like, oh, he's the, he's the little kid who does,

we don't want him part of the team, right?

This kid looks exactly the same like all the other kids.

You know what I mean?

He's not like, like to monster like, like shorter or weaker or anything.

He looks like he's the same height as everybody else.

Like for some reason, they don't want this fucking kid to be on the same for no reason.

Also, and again, he can't even try out.

Like he's like, no, no, we can't let that.

But yeah, he walks into school, right?

He walks into school immediately gets bullied by all these kids.

Immediately.

Now, grandson, you could say, yeah, he's the new kid, right?

I guess.

Usually you get bullied because you're the new kid or let's be honest.

You look a little different, right?

Sure, yeah.

Uh, karate kid.

He got bullied because he was scrawnyer than everyone else.

Yeah.

And you know, he had brown hair.

He looked like an Italian.

Yeah, exactly.

And all these brown hair, California kids who were in the, you know,

being trained to fucking be killers, we're like, we don't like this guy.

But they, you know, they were cool with them at first.

Yeah.

Actually, Johnny Lawrence didn't really have a problem with Daniela Russo

until Daniel started hitting on Ali at the fucking soccer game.

And then he was like, this, this little fucking Italian kid

is squeezing on my lady, right?

But you contrast that to air bud.

It's just this range.

No, she's not nothing.

He's not talking with nobody.

He wasn't like it.

He looks like all the other white kids.

All these little white kids, she's been like, hey, man.

You are just us.

Can we end it?

Awesome.

By the way, by the way, he fucking, he hits a fucking nasty layup.

Nasty layup.

You're just awesome.

You're just awesome.

Why would they, but why would they, see, Steven Spielberg was out here

by like, we need a little bit more difference between this kid.

Exactly.

So really, we push it about, you know what I mean?

Am I wrong?

I'm like, why are they pulling this fucking?

It's so weird.

They should be in each other's sleepovers, right?

You're so right.

You're so right.

You're so right.

I'll say this, this movie obviously is a classic for reason.

But it's just so off.

Every element of this film is just a little bit off.

Yeah.

Just a little bit off where it should be.

And so we start tearing it up.

Buddy is now doing the halftime show.

Of course, we've seen Buddy do about two to three halftime shows,

which now is picked up by the news.

Yeah.

And the news.

Local news loves everybody.

Local news is like, hey, just so you know,

over at the local middle school,

they're about to make the state finals.

And Buddy, airbud is doing the halftime show.

He's amazing.

Now, and who sees that?

Who hears it?

Now, what should have happened the entire time was that this,

the clown was making all of his money off airbud

and has now been searching for him for the last hour and 10 minutes.

He'll live as a cutscene.

And there's been near misses.

He got him once and Josh realizes this and goes,

no, you can't have him.

So we're, we constantly have an antagonist

who's not the hyper realistic abusive coach

or the janitor who's obviously running from a past

that we don't even know about right now, right?

We have to have an antagonist in this film.

He doesn't come back for another two hours into this,

but boy, when he does come back, it's great.

It's great.

And they're in the backyard.

And he goes, this is my dog, lady.

I got the papers.

Here's my phone.

That's the papers.

And Josh walks in and goes, no.

That was like, no, really?

He knows.

He's like, he's like, that guy's gone.

Yeah, exactly.

Or my mom's banging him, either one worse, either one's bad.

I will say also, and again,

if this movie were made later,

future spoilers wait till the mom starts banging someone

and see how Josh reacts to a new father.

This mom is mom started banging the coach?

No, mom starts banging a doctor with a, with a yacht.

Oh, and Josh is too happy about the, okay.

We'll talk about that.

Well, next week,

yeah, air buds back.

Yeah, air buds, air buds.

So the clown comes back and he takes air,

but and immediately just change about starts

abusing him because he likes to stack old fucking Budweiser

cans, get hammered.

Yeah, that was a good, that was a good scene though

of him talking on the phone, trying to get like sponsorships.

And then he's like, oh, beer commercial, I would never do that.

Let's sell a moral.

Yes, no, no moral.

Also, how much is it?

Yeah, and then it goes, I immediately sell out.

Josh, or yeah, yeah, yeah, Josh sneaks back there

and it goes to unhook him.

And it's just the dumbest fucking way possible.

Literally, you look at the chain

and there's a little, one of those little clippy things

you can unclip.

No, we're not going to do that.

We're going to have, because hilarity and sense.

Yeah, just a Benny Hill fucking theme song

in the background.

And then we chase after these, this kid and the dog in this truck.

And for no reason, the truck just starts falling apart.

And look, again, it's a kid's movie, but you know,

you still have to, it's some to some degree,

have your hero defeat the villain.

Yeah.

And in this, he doesn't really do anything

other than run away.

And then the villain's car just kind of explodes on him.

That's pretty much the villain is all over the road.

He's in a park now.

He's chasing him up to the docks.

So he can get on the water tax, I remember.

And it's like, this is insane.

This guy's got to kill the whole community right now.

And Josh over here running for his life with Bud,

when they get on the water taxi.

And what happens?

He can't break anymore because the car's so broke down.

Things flies into the river.

Guys, so funny.

So good.

It flies into the river.

And I thought he was dead for a second.

There was a moment where I was like, there's a pause

where he doesn't, he doesn't get up.

And I'm like, oh, he's dead now.

That's all I for sure thought it was going to be like,

oh, you're going to get arrested now for attempted murder.

Because there was a couple that was having a picnic in your

murder.

It does not exist in these 90s.

But child abuse does.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Which is crazy.

And dog abuse does as well, but not attempted murder.

So that's not the last we've seen of old Norm Snively.

But it is a last, a moment where poor Josh has to have a

come to Jesus.

If I keep Bud in my life, I keep him in my life, the clown will

just keep coming back.

Can't get off this hamster wheel.

So I can't get off this hamster wheel.

So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take him out to

this deserted island where there isn't a food or shelter.

Exactly.

And I'm going to force this poor fucking dog to stay there

because we have to have our, of course,

Harry and the Henderson's moment, where in order to save the

poor dumb fucking animal that doesn't understand what's going

on, I have to break it's heart.

I got a brochure at it.

Tell it to get, get live.

I don't want you anymore.

But we're going to play basketball like we used to, right?

Got you.

And that's it.

It hurts, man.

If you get in the 90s and you got those moments in these

movies, they hurt every time.

Right.

I can't be your friend.

We can't be together.

You got to leave me.

And you're like, no, don't do that.

The buddy.

Come on, John.

Yeah.

So he takes the, the tattoo.

And by the way, this taxi driver.

No questions.

Just wait for one.

Oh, that's the funniest part.

Is that like, are you going to leave your fucking dog there?

That is the funniest part.

Is him running through that?

He's throwing it, running away from it and then just hop it

on a boat.

And looking at him while he's on the boat and the boat driver

is just backing up.

Yeah.

It's like, what the fuck?

I will say, if you're with Mike's point, it did affect me.

Of course.

I actually kind of getting teared up.

I was like, this is good because I love this dog.

I'm not even a dog guy.

I should have said this at the top.

I'm not a dog guy.

I don't hate dogs.

I never had one.

I love this dog.

I want a dog.

That's the power of airbud.

It is the power of airbud.

So then we go to the championship game, right, Mike?

Yes.

Now I know we're against Johnny Lawrence and the dad.

We ditch the dog.

I don't know what's going on in the universe because for some

reason, the coach knows that we're missing airbud and no one.

Does everyone know that airbud is the mascot?

Airbud has been the halftime guy.

Yeah, but I know everybody knows everybody's like, oh, where's Buddy, right?

Like, but they don't ask that.

You know what I mean?

They just kind of they just know.

Well, it's like, Buddy's not part of the team.

He's just the mascot, right?

So it's not like, oh, I need Nick here because like, we need five to play.

It's like, when I was the high school mascot, Roger, and if I didn't show up, they wouldn't

have been like, where's Mike?

They wouldn't have.

He's like, oh, who cares?

Not high school middle school.

Yeah.

He's not in high school.

But I'm just saying like, because like the coach does say like, oh, like some people that

are here or some people that aren't here, like clearly referring to Bud.

So like, does everybody know in the community that Bud was shaken by fucking Mr. Neural?

Well, I imagine the news got around.

It's a small community, right?

Okay.

And so he had papers.

Okay.

Well, I think they don't know about that because at the end of the at the end of the game,

they'll have a moment where they're like, oh, you got to back off.

Do you remember that?

Oh, right.

So like how it goes is he shows up.

We have the game again.

Spoke.

Like we're going into the subjects.

We're breaking down like a book in English class.

That's this movie though, man.

So many things has like a Shakespearean play.

And so they're playing against Spokane where the rival kid has moved to.

They're going to have a good game back and forth.

We go three quarters through this game.

Now, mind you, during this game, who shows up slapping the clown is in the audience.

Yeah, he shows up.

He doesn't think the thought of like, if this kid got away with me with the dog,

I'm going to go here.

Yeah, I'm going to be here, right?

And so he sits down.

They're having a game.

They're going back and forth with Spokane.

They're down by 10.

And it's half time.

You're like, surely buddy will show up by then.

Yeah.

No, but he doesn't show up until the final five minutes of this.

It's a very strong.

He has to swim.

He has to swim the entire way.

It's really bad for him.

He's tired.

He does show up for the game.

And he does show up.

Which is hilarious.

It's hilarious that they do it twice in this movie.

Find this fucking school and show up right at the ending on two games.

And buddy shows up.

And guess what?

This is when we were introduced to the Golden Rule of Air Bud.

Right.

This is the rule that will carry on for 15 films.

One kid.

Hacks.

He.

He's out of the game.

Out of the game.

Two kids go up for a last fall on each other.

Two kids get injured.

We started with seven.

Now we only have four.

What is the key to do?

We can't beat these guys with only four people.

Oh my god.

Buddy has shown up.

And he's ready to check in.

The ref goes.

What?

The opponent's coach goes.

He can't play.

That's a dog.

He can't play basketball.

The ref walks up to a rule book.

Flips to the pages.

And the golden rule.

It doesn't say a dog camp.

There's no rule that says a dog can't play.

He adds another great quote from Leanza.

She looked at me during that moment or just all of this moment of him.

I'm trying to check in.

Bud says, is this a metaphor for racism?

It might be.

It might be.

It might be.

Do they still do that series on YouTube?

How it should have ended?

Is that still?

I think so.

I don't know if they still do.

They should have done one for this where they go, hey, the dog's going to play it out.

Everyone was like, no.

No.

Yeah.

That's not it.

No, we all walk out.

Yeah, I'll forfeit.

I don't care.

If I'm on the other team, I think that I will never live that down.

Oh, losing to a dog.

Losing to a dog.

Losing to a dog.

The fact that that happened.

You can't event in your life.

That's all happened.

Yeah.

I think truly like that would be like the peak of my existence and then just the drop down.

Like I would drug abuse everything.

All of it.

Yeah.

It would be so bad for me.

I'm a lot of quest.

Ain't no rule says a dog can't play basketball.

Yeah.

And that will be the golden roof for all the films.

So now we have four minutes left down by 10.

Yeah.

Bud comes in and he's making baskets.

He's stealing the ball.

We're bouncing it off.

He's getting more ahead of you.

It's like this is the shit to watch with this dog.

And then the fuck ass kid, Tanner over here.

He actually guards the dog with the way you should really guard the dog.

You're really playing basketball.

And he gets fouled out.

Yeah.

We're not going to play.

We got to play.

Yeah.

But they're like, well, we got to see the dog make a couple shots.