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

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That's right, I'm fit return, ladies and gentlemen of Nick Scarpinos in review. Welcome back

everyone.

I am the titular host Nick Scarpino alongside the Zara of NAR, the master of disaster, the

man from Tahoe, Mr. Snow Bicycle, Mycicle.

This is my first time.

No, my first time on a Nick in review.

Nope.

Hope fiction.

Oh shit.

I'm ready to black that one out.

I think we got it back.

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

I am so, so excited for this one.

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

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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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.

This is full spoilers.

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.

This movie has movements, movements, normal movies have acts.

Oh, this has like, we're in a different vibe.

Yeah, exactly.

We're in a different movie.

We're in a different house now.

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, yeah, yeah.

You know that, my fucking.

Yeah.

I was good.

I was good.

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

Yeah.

I could cut down 20 minutes out of this film.

Easy.

Because there's a lot of start and stops.

There's a lot of moments.

I didn't have 20 minutes out of this.

I 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 was an actor.

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

of the 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 year.

Charles Martin Smith.

Charles Martin Smith, of course, music done by Bram Wanger.

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 know him.

He's just been a character actor in movies.

Can I see you?

You have an IMDB.

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

No, I mean, I checked.

I don't know.

I'm going to all really quick.

I mean, he's got.

He's got the Dolphins tale too.

Dolphins tale.

Dolphins tale 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 Wanger, who of course, you know, from Santa Paws too.

Santa Paws.

We'll talk about Santa Paws.

I hit all the 90s vibes.

I'm a goated.

You know what?

Would have preferred a little more licensed music in this.

Yeah.

Well, you're a little splish, but a little splish blast.

I feel like I'll be like a rock and a rock.

Yeah.

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

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

Yeah.

Budget.

Rock and roll.

Budget of $3 million box office.

Any guesses?

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

Let's start with Rolls-Out with Roger.

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

25.

Mike, what do you think?

Mike, 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-hit 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.

He's the clown.

I'm slapping the clown.

But Josh.

I thought about that in a second.

Fram.

I just played by Kevin Zegger.

So I don't really know for anything.

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

Now, 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.

It's a deep dive into her.

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

She was one of the nuns in sister act.

Oh, sister act.

Mary Roberts.

Something like that.

Yes.

Sister act three.

Hopefully she'll reprise her role.

Yeah.

That's gentlemen.

Little spoiler for the next couple.

I think she's the best mom to see you know, Rodgerand.

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 might be doing an entire airbus in review.

You do that.

You know the show's 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?

Golden receiver.

Receiver.

Receiver.

Isn't it golden 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.

Yeah.

Or 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.

He's doing 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 sports athlete.

No, no, the 5 or 5 that's pie 4, that's a basketball dog.

We can't be having a football.

No, that is different.

That is a different set of abilities.

He got to 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's 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 max, not right now. You kind of did it. To watch this fucking

big, we'll do air butt gold. Everybody tell your mom and dad go to the sprint store and

put on every laptop on now. Give him some more one, which number three, four and five,

because he's a five sport athlete. Now Roger, and he guesses for the next one.

Well, I'm looking at it right now. Airbud, world pup, world pup, 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, they deflated it just like Tom Brady. Hey, that's good. Airbud seventh inning fetch.

No, you don't like that. This dog, 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. I'm saying that I'm just saying this dog can't do it. This dog

maybe a softball. He's got a fucking raccoon friend, Roger. We have 2006 air buddies that

call this kids. No, sorry, 2003. I missed it. Airbud spikes back. No, volleyball. That's

really bad. volleyball. That's a real. First of all, plus needs to watch 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. This is the monkey. You're talking about. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it's

the chimpanzee plan. Looks like hockey plays hockey. Okay. I have seen that. They want to keep

a going. Yeah. I have seen that one. That's nice. We have space puppies, snow buddies, space jam.

There's lots of great. Where does Beverly Hill Chihuahua's lane on this part of this universe?

I'm not sure, but there is. There is. And I've seen this twice now when Googling air buds.

I'm sure I'll get nothing but ads and miss from airbud studios. Airbud returns about this

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 what else is this folks? You know 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,

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 about. We get our asses in the movie commentary 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, because we got to see that's, but that's there's so many issues

at this, right? I haven't seen the newer ones. Actually, I have seen we 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 legitimate is great. This dog is incredible.

And they clearly have like a lot of the better actor than McCulloch and was okay, and home along.

Yeah, let's show out. Let's show out. Don't don't say anything bad about the coke.

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 with 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. So by the time I was cognizant

and watching these things or watching just movies in general, we've already passed. We've very

jumped the shark. You know what I mean? When it comes to airbud. So I saw airbud is 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. I do think so. I do think so. I think

it was an anti-dog propaganda. That's why they showed a hundred more. 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 don't mean Nick will touch on. I'm like, Sandlot. The bit. I saw that later in my life.

Major league. Major league. I saw bad news bears like Mike. Oh, I liked like Mike. I did watch

that one. What was the one where bad news bears? I saw the remake. Yeah. I saw the remake of

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 was the correct answer. 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 to acts. Yeah. I think I think it was

in 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. We love sports. Two thousands was like,

you stay inside Motherfucker playing called. Yeah. That's what, that's what, you know,

the fluoride my two things was telling me. 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? Sure. 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. And everybody dreams

of playing sports with them, games with them, living life to the fullest 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 air buds, 100%. First two came to theaters. I know I was in the

theater for both of them. Yeah. And then VHS home demand. And you know, like that's done with that.

We're never bound. I mean, but that was like, those were some special ones too, because you never

knew about them. Tell you what the blockbuster, they're like, oh my god, they made another

landed. And it's like, yeah, led 2.5. They were turned up to far. Yeah, like 2.5.

And so yeah, like there's movies like that. And so for me, as a two point as well,

sports kid that loved these movies. And then I grew into movies like, remember the Titans,

Coach Carter, hardball with Keanu Reeves, right? Like those are those like hardball kind of like

moving forward as a kid into a teen of like the kind of road map. Did you see the Keanu Reeves

movie, the replacements with him and Jean Hackman? Of course. I'd 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 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 then somebody knew would come in. That was the

whole premise. I call duty replace her. Yes. Exactly. It's supposed to replace you.

What are what? So there should be like, Oh, I don't like my substitute teacher. And then a new

substitute teacher would come through. It's like, that was the whole fucking show. We did anything

about that. This is the time back, man. 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 giant's mighty duck sky like I was, but like, yeah, for sure, airbud is a special one.

I'll always remember the timber wolves Jersey. Everyone loves that. Just bright blue and yellow timber

wolves. Jersey's sick. He's calling them answers.

Yo, Tim Gennies. This is Nick Scarpan on your live on airbud. Nick Scarpan was airbud in review.

The question is come up. The question is come up. What does Tim think about airbud?

Oh, man. I saw airbud one and two in theaters. Of course.

Huge fan. Very formative to my life. 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.

Not 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 for being on. You know what? I thought it was a typo.

It was good. Yeah. No. Yeah. Well, we'll do Lord of the Rings at some point to make

out for it. All right. 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 kid that breaks his arm, you know,

get out of here. Get out of here. You go run.

Yeah. I hear the head of some small and all stuff. 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, yes, 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 wasn't

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. 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,

the dog who was trained by Kevin DeCicco, who is Kevin DeCicco is the writer and creator of Airbus.

I was looking for a pass away. Two days ago, as of two days ago, Kevin DeCicco did pass away

at 63 years old, who is Kevin DeCicco ran out of money, was homeless and was battling a strong

stage of COVID two years ago, was the reports 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 did, but what's up? And so it was one of those of like, we talked about buddy,

right? And 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, but he actually surprisingly dies after the first film.

I saw you credit it in the second film, RIP buddy. And so crazy enough, that dog died. And then

now Kevin DeCicco died. 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? Oh, he was in fact, the dog comment

on full house for the whole run until the price. 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

but isn't that crazy? That's awesome. That's incredible. It makes a lot of sense. All right. Well,

that was our that was our top level five. No, you didn't let me go. I thought you would already.

No, I didn't tell you. You talked about how you that you stayed inside. You never saw it.

I started it. But I started it. And then you know, what do you think, Aaron, bud?

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

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 I went.

Or for who? The entire movie. You're watching. You're like, is this the moment this dog

plays? No, it's not. Is this the? They even play into it with like the like the the putting cups

where this dog is like in the bushes and he's like, luring out the thing and it's like Pennywise.

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 is 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 don't even go as far to say. He's 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 not a good movie. It is

long for sure, but it hits all the notes. It is so small. See, it is so out there, but it's good.

It's a solid movie. It's this is one that I bought. I bought on Amazon. Really? And then I bought

it just it was like a dollar more. Sure. So I bought it. And then I after I finished, I looked

at Leanne's, I said, one day, our children are going to watch this copy that I purchased. And I'm

so happy. Yeah. I think the kids, I think all parents should be showing the, do you think parents

show the kids these movies? No, they know. They show cool runnings. No, they go well. Mel and all

little giants, right? Maybe a little giants. Okay. I hope they are. Maybe a little giant. I would

be really saddened to hear like people like Greg or Tim Kevin now with kids of like when they

hit that age of like four show marathon, are these movies to show them like see? It can be fun.

Sports are fun. I just don't think that airbud 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,

but it starts off really strong with a terrifying clown. Yes. And I think that's perfect. No,

genuinely, like they wrote this four children. I'm like, you start with 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. He needs to make new friends. He lost his father. He's very related.

Mother's working overtime for the tissue company. Mike is the napkin company. That sounds like

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you can't control. Terms apply. 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. It was in the thick of it

with the 90s. Everyone there had the 90s wardrobe. The outfits, the mom with the haircut, the home.

Man, what a great time. It just looks like the carpet. Yeah. 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

everybody. Every kid in the party had that face. You'll get it ready for this. Home alone.

Kevin goes down to get the pizza with the dinner. Yeah. And he pans across the whole family.

And there's the one kid with the glasses that just mouth open like that. Every kid had a lot of water.

Just that like this is the 90s. Yeah. It's 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's my entire life.

Yeah. Because he's Mr. Noodle in Elmo. So he, this is him. So he was there was the interstitial

at the ending of a 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. That's duality. Like I feel like that would not happen.

No, it is. I say I love shit 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. Sounds like this. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking wild. That's cool. That's cool. 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 woo. It's actually causing the destruction. 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, well, later's future spoilers.

Well, I 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 fresh prince of

bill there. Jazz gets thrown out of the house by Uncle Crull. And then it cuts to the mob.

Buck 10. Yeah. Maybe so could wet this lady's tidy. And she's spuckin' a hurled this guy,

like an Olympic lover athlete. Who would do it? The movie commentator and it goes, who's

through that guy? The big fans of the mob. All the kids at once lined up with a bunch of

Pikmin. And so 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. Put them in the little crate and then

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

Yeah. And as he's cursing, he gets another, he's stinging 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.

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. There's one. Oh, yes, the moving truck. That's right. That's

mom always kills them because then afterwards, who shows up our main character and mom and the

daughter roll right up with the four butter almost killed 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. Right. What did I hit? And doesn't check anything just says,

and the kid to the kid didn't say anything to say him on that's a dog. Hey, yeah, by the way,

there's a dog over there. Let's figure out something now. This kid is 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, 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. That's just what you see. This is the fake dog

problem. Real talking with the plane. 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, Mama 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.

He died. Airplane accent. He was a test pilot. Do you want to hear the funniest thing? I do.

I'm watching this with Lee. And she says, quote, his dad was a pilot. So you know, airpot.

So she thought that his name was going to become airbot because his dad died and was a, it was a

fighter pilot or whatever. And I was like, Hey, babe, no, it's air Jordan. Like that's like the

connection there. It's like basketball. She had no, no, no, you watch it. You watch it. It's going

to come back. This guy is at the end of this movie going to look at airbot and be like, you know

what? My dad died in the air. So now you're airbud. No, but it's dead. We do get a moment

where they see the dog play basketball and somebody says something to the, to a candle like,

oh, he's like a regular Michael swoosh dog Jordan or something like that. Yeah. Michael

air possum or something like that. That's the where they 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 there. Never did. They just are calling

everybody. Yeah. That's fine. Yeah. Airbud comes from inside the NBA. So before this movie was

shots, 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. Then Kevin started showing him

basketball, which he was banging into in 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 on the globe around the globe. That was just perfect time of like,

if you watch interviews with Kevin DeChico, I was telling Nick, this guy saw the vision.

The moment that him and this dog started making baskets, he clearly understood like,

this is what I have to do with this dog. This is my life call. And that's where they got that's

beautiful. 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's getting there. Yeah. Airbud. There is not the fighter

pilot dying. No, no, every single time you say Kevin DeChico, though, and 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.

Where's given? Have you seen coneheads? No, no. He's given the coneheads who are aliens,

obviously, they have giant coneheads. 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, Mike, what happens?

Then fun enough, of course, we see that's our main character here. Name is Alan, I believe,

right? Double check. Yeah, Josh. Yeah, I always get it wrong. I try so hard. Josh, of course,

is lonely and sad. His sister is a very young girl. So she didn't need to be in this movie.

All sisters just the baby could have just not been where he kisses her on the forehead.

I'll say sure, but not basic. Yeah. And so we see Josh go to school. Of course, Josh now

has to make new friends, right? He has to kind of get in the flow of a new school. But what do we

see up on the big board basketball? Cohen soccer. We're getting a call out to the kids of like,

hey, basketball tryouts right around the corner. He tries to know that Josh is going to try.

He tries trombone, which I did trombone. Yeah, they teach you in front of the entire class and

embarrass you. I told the story on this. I've never heard this story. So we did trombone. We did

music was forced upon kids in fifth grade. Okay. And you had to stick to seventh grade. It's

definitely. No choice. In fifth grade, you can either do choir, you could do strings,

or you can do the wins. 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 trumpet. And so when I did the brass, they gave me a trombone. Bad decision. Okay,

shout the Nick canler. 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. Yeah. Seventh and eighth grade. Now you go or six and seventh

grade. You go to middle school with it now. They do solo moment. They video tape 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 have a 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'd 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 they probably not paying attention. Everyone's bad at

that age. Yeah. But how did you get out of it after that? They just said that was at eighth grade

didn't make you do it. Okay. So like at eighth grade, it was the end unless you were like

into it, you would have kept going on to band and high school and things like that. But like

it was three years guaranteed you had it. It's so funny. Similar to when you pick up a second

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

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. Uh, 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. But they never

looked at you and said, Hey, Mike, why don't you do this? And you know, there's like four of us.

He wants to point to me. Oh, you're just dodgeable. But would you go into like with fear

every single day? Oh, every time. 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 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

me. 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, but I was your lover. I just 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.

And if I could rewind time, I want to be with the bell people. You know, with every

every everyday 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

sleep in the middle of class. They were like, we desperately need you. 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.

Keeping it going. 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 we'll be the we'll be Mike. Yeah, did they want your water.

First of all, the kid just stays in the back. Wish. Well, we showed you no way out. Yeah.

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

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

years in a row of being the various. 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

his graders here. And what does Josh do? He sits up at the top and does nothing. He doesn't even run.

That's a, that's a old Roger move. 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 what the most epic view ever when he tears down that fence.

Yeah, the most incredible view of the huge and sound joy. Yeah, this is the coolest.

Yeah. So he, yeah. So he doesn't even get tired of the guys like, we'll 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 Michael. 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 team A team B. And we would split up. One team would go travel

one week. The other team would stay home, and we had 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. That's right. Adams. A super athlete,

my dude. This man with the Adams was running marathons. This man was peak athleticism.

He's great. It's fine. Out that each shaved his legs. He's done all the time time.

Yeah, that's not a matter of fact. He didn't see one fact. It's on the point. 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 God would have been. Yeah, yeah. 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 but 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 out putting is not in expensive.

You know, I mean, 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? Where are the eggs?

Where'd they go? Putting comes in like four and eight packs. Yeah. Kid took 12. He took three packs

from her. He's like, he would look different. I don't know. We're all thinking the same thing.

Someone took all the place. 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?

Meet first. Did your mom pack it? Yeah, mom packed it. 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-Gurts for the pudding. Everyone at Go-Gurts. Now, let me follow up this question.

Was the pudding cup and or the Go-Gurts 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.

Sometimes you ate the salami out of the sandwich. Did that and then got a couple of piece of pizza.

You had a lunch or bowl of all I cared about was the candy and the Capri-Son of

me. I didn't want the ham and the turkey and the cheese. Yeah, you would trade. I just want the

Capri-Son and the candy. God, our, our youth of America, we're so out of show Obama changed that

though. She did. She gave it to us. Oh my god. I'm 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 want it. They're like, we just need. Yeah, 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 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's on me.

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 scene right now. And then we

go downstairs and then the mom's here and he's acting all cute and nice and the mom's like,

someone'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

our point. That's on mom precariously. That's on mom. You got a toddler lady. Yeah,

if 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, I mean, kids might

take their first time. They grab shit. I know they're like, but it's just like any moment,

but this can't just start walking. That's how it works. At one moment, Roger, when you have a

child of it, at one point, I just start rolling it up and walk. That's how it works. 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 break. Don't want to make Craig Miller cry right now. You

walk up to him go, you have a thing about the last hug you're going to have with your son. Boom.

Well, fuck about dying cry right now. We get out of work early. Yeah, exactly.

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

So the, so oh my god, this dog's been here the whole time. He can't keep the dog. He keeps 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 wall. Yeah, that would have probably killed this dog. We'd have to shave this dog to get

this dog. But this dog is so fucking cute, though. This dog is so fucking cute. Run around.

Golden retrievers. 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 them for two

weeks? She's like three weeks, two weeks. Two weeks. Christmas. Yeah. You get to Christmas.

And then you do the thing when they start walking around, they put up the, 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

kneeblee is fucking home. Mind you, we never, we never see slapping the clown. No, during all this.

Probably is not worried about his dog. We forget about slapping the clown for way too long.

Yes, 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 and 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 the water boy. Yeah, 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 the

good shuck it. Yeah. Yeah. I'm the bad guy. I hate you. Y'all trash is buddy. The trash man.

We enjoy the trash man. The trash we got garbage kids. This is the bulk cut. Scotty Pippin's

orange slice, right? That's fun. That was right. Bill Cobb, of course, people in the chat,

lately. He's popping out 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 the

support 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 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 sub story of like this coach. So many sub story. Like this, this coach is like,

fucking, like it's like a scare. Like that would have been shot top of the 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 alone together. He's like, fuck, I told 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 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's what he said. That is true. He is abused. Connecting the dots, everybody.

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 their shooting hoops together. Josh is

cleaning up that church basketball. Pushing down the fence that we all know is just the

recipe for the ball to go in. He's resetting the hoops. He's cleaning everything up.

He 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 and getting the, just fucking parkouring all

over 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 newspaper? Why is mom so layered up? Why is mom kind of a batty? Mom's kind of a batty.

She wears a lot of cool hat. Put it out there. We'll talk about that. And so Buddy goes, where's my

owner? Somehow I've done this twice and both of them are just extraordinary. I've said the

school climbs underneath the ticket sales table and is 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 least hacking. They call it. And the big old game goes, what's

you talking about? He's 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.

Oh, Larry makes the shot. Right. So he then becomes the mascot for the team. The half-time show

dog. And that's the funniest element of this movie. And this is like such a kids movie moment.

Of like he's finally like the mascot of the dog. And he has the half-time moment.

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

Like it's like the weirdest scene of like, oh, you're nervous. Oh, it's okay.

Buddy, it's okay. And then just it just goes away. Now again, 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 than that. 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 half-time show calls. And they go,

ticket number this. Bowel comes down from half-time, gets the shoes, becomes Michael Jordan, like,

20 minutes. Yeah, but this is good though, because we get like the bond between him and the dog.

You know, I mean, you really get it. You really kind of build up. And then like 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. The principal comes out and she goes, oh my god, that dog. So amazing. A natural

Michael, Paul some Jordan, some pause door, Jordan goes, well, you do the half-time show. And then

also goes, this is my daughter Katrina, whatever. And Josh just goes, hello. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

They drop that just immediately drops any sort of romance in this. Wow. It is. It's probably

a little crush on her. And then we just move on from that. Well, of course, don't forget.

I told you air, but three is all about romance. Josh does fall in love. So does Bud. Oh,

so Josh is a whole thing. Okay. Don't spoil the speeches.

Yeah. And that's when the abuse happens with the abuse. Yeah. The coaches out. Then we get

the new coach. And then the new coach says, we're going to practice, but without a ball.

And the main thing is like, I'm not doing that. We're playing that ball. 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

passing 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 airbug 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. Yeah, they're gone. Josh can start. Of course, they move to the rival team.

Of course, they have to. Yeah, they got to make 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 invite only this tryout and garbage

is one of the kids that makes the team 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 what you know. 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

and they 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 close outs. Josh air ball. 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. Cause we know we get another one. Well, no, we got another one. I understand the plot

device here of Josh being like, oh, he's the, he's the little kid who doesn't, we don't want

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

team for no reason. Also, again, he can't even try out. Like he's, no, no, no, we can't let that.

But yeah, he walks into school, right? He walks into school. He immediately gets bullied by

obviously. Immediately. Now, grandson, you could say, yeah, he's the new kid, right? I guess

usually you get bullied because you're a new kid. Or let's be honest, you look a little different.

Sure. Yeah. 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

person. Yeah, exactly. And all these blonde 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 then 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. Oh. And then he

was like, this, this little fucking Italian kid is squeezing on my lady, right? But you contrast

that to airbud. It's just this rain. It's not nothing. He's not talking with nobody. He

wants to get it. Looks like all the other white kids. All these little white bitches were like,

hey, man, you are just us. Can we end it? Also, by the way, by the way, he's fucking,

he hits a fucking nasty layup. Nasty layup. You're just us. Why would they, but why would they?

See, Steve's filming was out here, but we need a little bit more difference between this kid.

To really be pushing about. You know what I mean? Am I wrong? I'm like, why are they pulling

this fucking kid? It's so weird. They should be in each other's sleepovers, 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 half time show.

Of course, we've seen Buddy do about two to three half time shows, which now is picked up by

the news. Yeah. And the news love their local news is like, hey, just so you know,

over the local middle school, they're about to make the state finals. And buddy,

airbud is doing the half time 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. 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. And he doesn't come back for another two hours

into this. But boy, when he does come back, it's great. It's great back. And they're in the back,

y'all. And he goes, this is my dog, lady. I got the papers. Here's my photo of the papers.

And Josh walks in and goes, no, that was not really. He knows. 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. And Josh is too happy about

the. Okay, we'll talk about that. Well, next week, air buds back. Yeah, air buds. So the clown

comes back and he takes air, but he immediately just changed about what 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,

uh, beer commercial. I would never do that. That's a moral. Yes, no, no, more.

How much is it? Yeah, then it goes. I immediately sell out. Uh, Josh, uh, yeah, uh,

yeah, Josh sneaks back there and it goes to unhook him. And it's just the dumbest fucking way possible.

Yeah. 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

see. 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 already falling apart. It's a kid's movie. Yes, but you know,

you still have to add 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 it. That's pretty. The villain is all over the all over the road. He's in a park now.

He's chasing them up to the docks. So you can get on the water tax, I remember. 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, where 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. I thought he was dead first. 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.

Yeah, there was a couple that was having a picnic. The murder does not exist in these 90s. But

child abuse does. 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. Uh, but it is a last a moment where

poor Josh has to have a come to Jesus. If I keep Bud in my life, this is my life. The clown will

just keep coming back. Yeah, we 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 is no

food or shelter. 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. Yeah, where in order to save the poor dumb

fucking animal, it doesn't understand what's going on. I have to break its heart. I got a

brochure at it. Yeah, get live. I don't want you anymore. But like, we're going to play best. Well,

like we used to right. Got you. And that hurts. Man, if you get in the 90s and you got those

moments in these movies, they hurt every time. These I can't be your friend. We can't be together.

You gotta leave me. And you're like, no, don't do that. The buddy. Come on, Josh. Yeah. So he takes

the the tattoo. And by the way, this taxi driver, no question. Just wait. Oh, that's the funniest part.

Is that right? 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.

Yeah, I'm looking at him while he's on the boat. And the boat driver's just backing up. Yeah,

the dog's like, what the fuck? I will say I would agree 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 don't I never had one. I love this dog. I want a dog. That's the power of airbud. It is the power

of air. So let me go to the championship game, right, Mike? Yes. Now I know we're against Johnny

Lawrence and the dad. 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 like does everyone know that airbud is the

mascot. Airbud has been the halftime guy. Yeah, but I know everybody know everybody's like,

oh, where's buddy? Right? Like, but they don't ask that. You know what I mean? Like 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 a, 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. He's like, oh, who cares? Not high school middle school. Yeah. He's

not just saying like because like the coach does say like, oh, like some people that are here,

some people that aren't here, like literally referring to bud. So like does everybody know in

the community that bud was taken by fucking Mr. Noodle? Well, I imagine the news got around. It's

a small community, right? Okay. And so he had papers. Okay. 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,

go, you got to back off. Do you remember that? All 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. There's 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 to go back and forth with Spokane. They're

down by 10. It's half time. You're like, surely, buddy, we'll show up by then. Yeah, no,

but it doesn't show until the final five minutes of this. It's very far. He has to swim. He has

to swim the entire way. It's really bad for him. He's tired. Yeah. 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 we'll carry on for 15 films. One kid hacks. He he's out of the game. Found it. Two

kids go up for a later fall on each other. Two kids get injured. We started with seven. Now,

we only have four. What is the deal? 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. 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. Another great quote from Leanza. She looked at me and during that moment or

just all this moment of him. I'm trying to check in. Bud and 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 that. Remember that? So

there's there's an all 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, the fact that that happened, the can event in your life,

that's all happened. I think like 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. It would be so bad for me.

Yeah, you know, melodic quest. Ain't no rule says a dog can't play basketball and that will be

the Golden Rule for all the films. So now we have four minutes left down by 10. Bud comes in and

he's making baskets. He's stealing the ball. We're bouncing it off. It's like, this is

to watch with this dog. And then the fuck as kid Tanner over here, he actually guards the dog

with the way you should really guard the dog and really play in basketball. And he gets fouled

out. Yeah, it's like, bro, we're not going to play. We got to play. But they're like, well,

we got to see the dog make a couple shots. How do we do that? Oh, okay, he's good. He gets

couple and free throws to hold it to NBA. The dog does get found and goes for free.

Like what is he doing? And just so you know, Roger, the rule is your feet can't cross the line

on the free throw line. They held up to it. They said the dog's feet will not cross the line when

he shoots the dog. They purposely show that the dog takes one little step back. Never goes over

the free throw line. Those are official free throws that he makes, right? I do. We did. We

gloss over it, but I do want to call attention to the fact that before we started playing with the

dog, we did do the over the head shot with all the hands. Yes. Oh my god. It's so good.

That's what I thought the whole movie was going to feel. That's what I thought that was one part.

I thought it was going to be zany and silly and fun. I thought it was going to be team wolf. And

that's where the dog starts playing fucking 20 minutes in. And then it's like, well, they like

the dog more than me. And the dog fakes an injuries to that Josh can play. You know, all that

you know, we get this dog to like one quarter of a game at the end of this round. How long

the fucking moving? Well, that's why you're going to like two and three because he's really a part

right away. He's he's ballin. We might. Yeah, we might. He's with the US women's national team

for the world cup playing goalie. He's a lot. He's not allowed me a hand brainy chest stain.

We're talking legends. And they got. They got fucking air, but showing up to play goalie with

the women's national soccer team. Oh my god. So, bud, not take us to free toes. And Roger,

fun factfully, just so you know, bud made 20,000 baskets in its lifetime. 20,000 baskets.

LeBron James currently has 16,000 made baskets in the NBA career. Yeah, just so you know,

airbud made 20,000 in his life. The go pretty amazing. Okay. But what is it come down to?

The final shots. There's Josh. Mom is in the stands going. Shoot it, Josh. He's looking to pass.

He's going to pass it to the air. But he's going to pass it to his other buddy. It says no,

no. This is your shot. And Josh has been training for this moment because he knew in this movie,

anything is possible. And the kid comes up with the clothes out that he hates. A switch makes it

to win the state title for the national. I thought it was going to be like a layup situation,

where he was not going to get it in an air, but got him. He goes and hits his nose, gets it right

in for him. It's like, oh, man, we did it together. No, it's just Josh. Josh has. And then you would

think this would be the end of the movie. Right. End of the movie, right? No, no, no, no, we have to go

to the court. Wait a minute. It's love this fucking movie. We have to go to court everybody.

There's no reality where if this is the funniest shit in the world, where if this were made today,

that it would not just cut right in front of here. And so slapping the clown comes up to the court.

Just give me back my dog because you're not taking this dog. The mom shows up and goes,

the dog doesn't watch you. You're not with the dog. He goes, I got the papers. They're all wet.

So he can't prove that there's his dog. And it's the whole town would have been like,

fuck you. Get out of here. And then the cops go, we're going to rest you for all attempt

the murder. And then what does he say? What is the guy? He says, I'll see you in court.

Yeah. And then you're like, oh, that's a funny line. That'll be the end of the movie.

We go to court. It's equal. We go to court. The principal and the basketball coach all come up

and go, no, no, get out of here. That's when we go to that's when we go to court.

Hard cut. Hard cuts court. To court. Real life court. And we're sick. I never want to know.

This is a real court. This is not like a puppy court or some sort of stupid thing. This is my

cousin, Vinnie. Yes, a few good men. This is fucking to kill him. I'm out of town.

Is there nobody has no lawyer? So nobody has no lawyers and the judge is not happy about this.

Why am I proceeding on a dog case? I am an old judge who has done a lot for this town. Yeah.

Why am I getting going? I said, I'm murder judge type thing. Okay. I'm a big deal here. And he

sits down. He goes, where the hell is the plaintiff? Right? Slap me the clown shows up in full

clown makeup. And he's not happy. The judge is like, what the hell is that clown here?

Yeah. And that was it. And that was it. No, it's not. It's the so it's way more.

I forget who introduces it. Well, they're like, hey,

Arthur shows up. And he's a big New York. And he just let him talk. And they're like,

they're like, judge, all these people are here for what they're here for this dog because they

love him. And the clown's like, no, that's my dog. We got photos like, I got evidence.

And Arthur walks in. And what happens? The judge was at the game that Arthur made the

360 behind the back shot made him spill his beer on his wife. He tells the story because I've

never forgot that moment. You're a real man. And he goes judge judge. I'd let the dog decide

who's its owner. And the judge goes, well, because of dog year math, he's eight over 18 years old.

So he's an adult. So he gets to pick who he wants to live with. And then we go outside and

it's fear versus love. And we finally realized we reconnect why he hates those goddamn

years. He was beaten by the newspapers. And so sneakily he's like, we're going to fucking be,

I'm going to beat you if you don't come over here. So airbud cows down to him. And then,

but then Josh is like, and what I thought was going to happen was that Josh is going to be like,

oh, I'm going to he's showing you something you fear. I'm going to show you something you love.

Basketball, which is the basketball. But that's not what happens, right? No. What happens, Mike?

He walks up to slap of the clown and rips apart the newspaper and a sign of like, I'm never coming

back with you and runs back to Josh and the whole the whole town. And this is outside, by the way.

Yeah, outside. They had to bring him a chair and a gaffle. Remember the dog was barking inside

the courtroom. He's like, what is that noise? And they're like, sir, it's the dog. And he's like,

what is that noise? And the way it's a proper great point. She's like, does he have jurisdiction

outside of the court room? This is a great philosophical question. Can he do court outside?

Can you have an outdoor game? Actually, you can. And I'll tell you why because the last time I had

to go in for jury duty, they made, and this is the first time I've ever seen this before. They

were like, they took two groups. One went to the courthouse, like the courtroom itself where the judge

was. And the other one, they're like, hey, we're just going to turn this into the courtroom. And

the judge came in and did the whole thing there. Wow. Just a random. They just like,

gavill, like dude was there. Of course, they're like, we're turning this room into a courthouse.

So this is all accurate. This is all accurate. You can all do this. What an insane way to end this.

And I don't, was that the ending ending? I think there's more, but you know, it's gotta be

fine. I don't know what it is. But there's definitely five more minutes after that. We got a

lot of time. I'm so this movie is lost media. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is air bud. The 1997

classic. It was crazy. It's probably the best interview ever. This was a good one. As you

guys know, we don't do rag-a-bag or anything like for that. We could talk about the villains

for this versus the villains. The other movies, but I don't think you guys have been on the other

movies. I've been on some of them, but it's, well, we've slapped the clown eventually when we do

more air buds. Slapy will go up against the villains. He's back. Oh, well, on the way. Oh,

okay. I was like, there's no way he's the main villain of all these. There are more villains

in the air bud. 12,000 views, everybody. 12,000 views. We will change things. That's what we need

to get to. Tell all your friends. Tell all your relatives. Get them all over there. Please,

watch the blue sky this. Yeah, tell Tim to and tell Tim definitely blue sky to Tim.

You ladies, oh, thank you guys so much for joining us for air bud. This has been a fun one. I've

loved doing this series. We'll be back next week with the real in-review. Well, shouldn't

say the real in-review. But normal in-review will be returned to the Mario Galaxy universe with

one Tim Gettys potentially. Until next time, ladies, gentlemen, stay high. Stay up there.

Air bud. Air bud. Ain't no rule. Ain't no rule since the dog can't fight.

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