The Confused Breakfast

BRUNCH: Airborne x Brink (Double Feature)

71 min
Apr 13, 20268 days ago
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Summary

The Confused Breakfast hosts revisit two 1990s action sports films—Airborne (1993) and Brink (1998)—in a double feature episode, analyzing their storytelling, stunts, character development, and cultural impact. The discussion covers everything from practical filmmaking details to thematic comparisons, with particular focus on how both films handle the tension between pursuing passion versus commercial success in extreme sports.

Insights
  • 1990s action sports films prioritized practical stunts and real skating footage over CGI, creating authentic visual spectacle that remains compelling decades later
  • Both Airborne and Brink use the 'soul vs. sellout' narrative as a core moral framework, inadvertently teaching audiences that monetizing passion is inherently corrupt—a problematic message for young viewers
  • Character development and motivation clarity matter more than plot originality; Brink's more explicit exploration of family conflict and financial pressure resonates stronger than Airborne's simpler setup
  • Casting age mismatches (Walter Emanuel Jones at 32 playing a high schooler) were common in DCOMs but don't necessarily break immersion if the actor commits to the role
  • Practical filmmaking constraints (shooting in Cincinnati, San Diego) became aesthetic strengths when filmmakers leaned into location authenticity rather than hiding it
Trends
Nostalgia-driven podcast content analyzing 1990s media is gaining traction with millennial audiences seeking cultural re-evaluationDisney Channel Original Movies are being critically reassessed by adult audiences, elevating their cultural status beyond children's programmingPractical stunt work in sports films is being retrospectively valued as superior to modern CGI alternatives by contemporary viewersThe 'soul skater vs. sponsored athlete' moral binary in 1990s youth media reflects broader anti-commercialism sentiment that may have negatively influenced career attitudesDouble-feature podcast formats (pairing thematically similar films) are emerging as effective content strategy for deeper analysis and audience engagement
Topics
1990s action sports filmmaking techniquesPractical stunts vs. CGI in sports filmsCharacter motivation and narrative clarity in youth cinemaMonetization ethics in passion-driven industriesDisney Channel Original Movie cultural legacyLocation authenticity in film productionCasting age mismatches in youth-oriented mediaInline skating and rollerblading cultureSports film narrative tropes and clichésFather-son conflict in coming-of-age narrativesSponsorship and commercialism in youth sportsStunt double coordination and safety1990s youth culture and valuesFilm editing and pacing in action sequencesCompetitive sports tournament climax structures
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People
Shane McDermott
Played Mitchell Goosen in Airborne; hosts interviewed him previously and praised his performance and stunt work
Seth Green
Played Wiley in Airborne; hosts discussed his distinctive appearance and comedic role in the film
Chris Conrad
Played Jack in Airborne; previously appeared in Mortal Kombat Annihilation and Karate Kid; hosts praised his antagoni...
Edie McClurg
Played Mitchell's host mother in Airborne; hosts praised her performance as a tough Midwest parent
Chris Edwards
Famous inline skater who served as stunt double for Shane McDermott in Airborne's major skating sequences
Walter Emanuel Jones
Played Boomer in Brink; previously known as Black Ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers; was 32 years old playing a ...
Eric Von Detten
Played Brink in the 1998 DCOM; hosts praised his performance and character development
Greg Beeman
Directed Brink; also directed License to Drive and other Disney Channel original movies
Firefighter Suez
Patreon member who recommended the Airborne and Brink double feature pairing
Quotes
"I truthfully believe that the character of Mitchell Guzen is one of the greatest characters of all time of the high school age, especially of the nineties. This man is so inspiring."
Host (AJ or Ricky)~1:15:00
"The whole middle of this movie is just montages. You've got the montages of them mistreating him. You've got the rollerblading adventure montage when he finally gets his roller blades in the mail."
Host~45:00
"This is what's wrong with kids' movies. The idea of, like, when you're a kid, it makes so much sense. Yeah, soul skaters, skating for fun. We only do it because we love it. And it's like, sellouts, ew, you get paid to do what you love. Ew, god, you suck."
Host (Mike)~1:35:00
"It's basically the same movie. He just happened to get to stay in California. You know what I mean? And he's just dealing with the trials and tribulations of just being a kid who likes to skate."
Host~1:25:00
"1993's Airborne into 1998's Brink is essentially, this is Mitchell Goosan's brother. It's basically the same movie."
Host~1:24:00
Full Transcript
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Oh yeah, you can try some of these beers that I've just described on this ad right now. And many more. If you go to biggrove.com and order some for yourself or stop in at any location in Iowa, including Seoul and Iowa City, Des Moines, or Cedar Rapids, and Omaha, Nebraska, and soon to be Kansas City. Everything's fine when you're drinking from the vine that the hops come off of. Do hops come from a vine? I don't know, doesn't matter. Drink responsibly, sorry for the slurping noises, and thank you, Big Rove Brewery. 500 orders a month was manageable. 5,000 is madness. Embrace intelligent order fulfillment with ShipStation. The only platform combining order management, warehouse workflows, inventory, returns, and analytics in one place. What used to take five separate tools, ShipStation does in one. Go to ShipStation.com and use code START to try ShipStation free for 60 days. It's Ashley and Ricky from the Reality Receipts Podcast. Get ready to grab your favorite drink and settle in because we're here to bring you all the latest, juiciest gossip from the world of reality TV. Our podcast brings you an unfiltered, no-holds barred take on everything happening in the reality TV universe. We bring you weekly recaps and gossip from all your favorite reality TV shows. So listen to the Reality Receipts Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ["Caribbean Euphoria"] Well, welcome everybody back. We got a special brunch for you today. We did this maybe a month or two ago and people loved it. We're calling it our double feature where we're revisiting an old movie that we did a while back on the show, but then we're adding in a second movie that we haven't done yet that maybe we'll never get around to but kind of matches the vibe. What did we do last time we did? It was karate kit, or sorry, sidekicks. Sidekicks and three ninjas. Yeah, that was fun. Oh my God, today we're hitting airborne and brink. I know just based on our audience, I know you guys have all seen these movies and I know you love them more than life itself. I'll say right off the bat, I think this is one of the best double features that you could ever do. Like this is just so much fun. Oh dude. And props to Firefighter Seuss on our Patreon for actually recommending these two specific movies. So thank you for the idea, because this is fucking awesome. There you go, you see, all you got to do is just be there and give us great ideas and then boom. Patreon.com slash confused breakfast. We're gonna get into 30 minutes talking about airborne and then we're gonna actually be able to give it a re-ranking, then we'll hit brink. Guys, I popped in my DVD, because I own this. I've been thinking about airborne a lot, especially since this was recorded back, our original episode was back in June of 23 and the next day we interviewed Shane McDermott, who plays Mitchell Goosin in this. And it's one of our most viewed YouTube episodes. And I think it was actually one of the first interviews we actually did. And I think about it quite a bit because this movie, as I told you when we first watched it, is one of my favorite absolute movies of my childhood. It's really fun. That was the first time I had seen it. And just the shocking nature of when Seth Green shows up. It's just shocking still to this day. It's just like, whoa, dude. It's just really off hand. I think what we say, like he looked like a Bratz doll or he looked like a dog. A dog funny sister. Yeah, it looks like this Judy from Doug. It's just like, I mean, to a tee. Like the creators of Doug saw this and was like, oh, that's Doug's sister. I'm having creative blocks. I just don't know what to do. And then he saw that he was like, done. The one thing that hit me harder this time than it ever has, I've seen this movie 50 times, is how much this really actually sucks for Mitchell Goosin. I mean, I know it's implied that this sucks, but my man who is just so happy where he lives, he gets to surf every day, surfing in the rain, purple sunsets. Anyway, he loves his life and he now has to move mid-high school. We're thinking he's like a senior. He has to move to Cincinnati for six months to live with a family he doesn't even know. He doesn't know. He's never met these guys. It's like some weird family, student exchange program that he's got to do, except there's no upside. Except there's no foreign, Australia, Cincinnati. Yeah. And by the way, he gets this kind of preface to him as if like, well, it feels like we have to go and do our exploration thing. We're going off to do this thing. Awesome, that sounds great. She does. You're not. It's like, okay. They're going to Australia, right? For six months. Yeah, for six months. And like the, like obviously we know from any movie that's ever been made that's got surfing, got to do with surfing like Point Break, especially it's like, that's where the devil wave is. That's where like you're going to shred the most in our dude. I'll tell you what, the Sheila's down in Australia. I've been there. Mitchell McGoozen would have done well in Australia. Yeah, makes sense. I feel like it's a pretty easy transplant for him. All things considered. He does well anywhere he goes. I mean, except for Cincinnati. Well, apparently he just wasn't about that life. You know what I mean? He's got to adjust a little bit. I do want to say that he does go to Cincinnati with a family he's never met. Keep that in mind with what I'm about to say next. Edie McClurg as the mom, fucking incredible. But she hits him like 15 minutes into this movie. She smacks him in the face for scaring her. You got to set your ground rules. It's like, you know, Sean, when you got a new dog, you know, you're like, hey, this is my house. Listen, we're not this fucking leftist California bullshit. Kid, man, this is the Midwest. This is red state. This is the Midwest. You hit your kid. Yeah, respect me. We listen to Randy Newman here. But also, what is his name? No, that's who it is. Is that okay? Cleveland. Cleveland. Welcome to Cleveland. Here's a car on the road. We ain't got no surfing. We ain't got no sun. We got some hills and that's about it. But if you like to skate, we got some ice. This is pre-911 and you stand on the tarmac and wait for your surf board. Yeah. The fact that he does bring a surfboard everywhere he goes. It's a stick. It's a stick. I'm naked with that. It's upsetting. My American side. Go back to his parents though. We do have to reiterate that these are two of the coolest parents ever. Edie McClurg as the mom. This dad, I don't have his name. Patrick Thomas O'Brien. Maybe one of my favorite people, because he's so chill, he gets home and immediately walks in and gets the newspaper out and gets a hockey game on TV. Later on, when all the rival guys come over and she's like, honey, we should give him some space. He stands up, looks at the TV one more time and then walks away. It's one of my favorite moments in this entire movie. It's like, come on, come on, come on. What's this, David? Get it? It's Ted or something like that. Just calls him father. Uncle Lewis. Uncle Lewis. Father? Oh, I'm feeling kind of frisky. But it is. It's just like, come on, come on, come on, father. Go help me in the kitchen. He's like, yeah, yeah. Stands up one more glance at the hockey game. Move along. It's like your body leaves, but your head stays. Yeah. But rewatching this movie, I think it's what I love about the 90s so much is that these movies are 90 minutes long and they waste zero time. We get this killer montage. Then we find out the problem. Then he's in Cincinnati. He's met the family. He's at school already getting hated on within about 10 minutes. Yeah. Isn't it wild? It's so good. It's so good. It's like, you know, look, I'm guilty of it too, right? Like when I first met Mike, I was like, that guy probably sucks because he's like, oh, he's good looking and he's successful and he's really nice to everybody. I bet he's a piece of shit. And then. Did you say that? No, I never said that. But maybe in my internal monologue or something. But I was just like, I just had that like idea of like, if you're good looking or something, I bet you're a dick. You know what I mean? Is that why they hate him? I think it's just like your positive attitude and your good looking and everything and why you're intruding on my turf. Do you think if Jack's shitty girlfriend didn't hit on him right away, that it would have been okay? Absolutely. It was the one catalyst of the whole big problems. Like he needs to get rid of her. She sucks. Yeah. I mean, like as soon as a new guy walks in who is sparkly and cute and's got swoopy hair, you know, she's like, oh my God. Finally someone that can compete with my swoop of hair. Which looks like something about Mary, by the way. It does. It's a straight, like it's very vert style. If they, I mean. It looks like a wave. If they did get together and made out, their hair would just be entangled. I mean, it would just be a mess. It'd be a perfect half-life. The fucking, yeah. I mean, I agree with you. It's kind of like a John DeLorentz situation where it's like, she's like, oh my God, I'm in love. And yeah, I'd be fucking pissed if like, what the hell are you doing? Yeah. Like my ego, what the hell? I got, you know, like that's a personal issue, I think, with him, he's got to figure that out. But also get rid of her. Yeah, everybody, look, you're in high school, even though these guys look like they're like mid-20s. That's fine. Which is what I'm gonna bring up when we go to Brink eventually. Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna, I got a thought on that, yes. Perfect. So, but like, you know, in high school, you got your ego and like, it's eventually that girl is looking down the way from the, on the bleachers and it's like, basically like, yeah. Just, if you heard that audio, I hope you did. That's exactly what it was. Got, got, got, from down the way. And it's like, why wouldn't he be upset about that? Yeah. So he's got every right, but then again, it's kind of like, focus your energy on breaking up with her and not breaking the new guys' nose. Yeah, there you go. I do, I do a little bit more on Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen. Seth Green. I don't know if I said it in, when we did their episode originally, but his room is so fucking sick. His room, and he knows it. He knows it. Dose as fuck, dude. Like he's, he's got like AC DC posters. He's got like Metallica posters and shit. Hey, don't let the old lady fool you, man. It's so awesome. I'm just a little bit nervous of how it probably smells down there. Yeah. You know what I mean? That's a wet Midwest basement too. Block foundation. There's moisture down there. It's a little unfinished. And, and I feel like he's got a lot of these things fresh from Hot Topic. And I feel like that smell is coming in and kind of permeating Spencer's gifts, you know, the back of that store. I don't mind that smell. Yeah, I know you don't. And it's, it's like the inside of a trench coat. It's very homie for Sean. For me, it's not me in high school. I'm sports guy now. Sean is sports guy now. Sean is the sports guy on this show. Talk about that on Patreon, I think. Go back to Jack though. Like I used to hate Jack cause he is your antagonist in the story for the most part. But like on this rewatch, Jack is his name is Chris Conrad. How did he not do more? He's maybe the best actor in this movie. And do you know what I learned? He was, he played Johnny Cage in Mortal Kombat Annihilation. I was like, where the fuck do I know But remember, doesn't he get killed off like right in the first scene? It's like, holy shit, he could have been, if they would have let Johnny Cage stay in that movie, it might have changed some things for him. I would agree. If he made it like an impact as that character, he'd probably be like the one that people prefer, I would imagine. You know what I mean? He's a really great bad guy. When he gets up there and he sits and he's like, you know, surf is not a real sport. Then he starts doing the hockey talk and like everybody jacked up. That dude, that dude's a, he's very much a Johnny Lawrence. You gotta have this guy on your side. Yes, you gotta have this guy on your side. I like the dynamic too, that it's pretty cliche and both these movies are pretty cliche. We'll just get that out of the way right now. But it's a cliche that works, I think. The like, the jock, I guess, character, the bully-esque character, and then our main character falling for his sister. It happens all the fucking time, you know? And at least they don't, they don't telegraph it right from the beginning though. The reveal of the sister thing takes place much later and is impactful in the story. But if it would have been like, oh shit, you're his sister, right off the beginning, it wouldn't have been as good. I'm sorry, I was looking to see why I recognized him. I had to confirm it that he is the guy in the next Karate Kid, the Hillary Swank version. And he's actually really great in that. And then while looking that up, he's apparently in DTF St. Louis on right now. Oh, okay. Let's call him up. We just gotta get him on the show, I think. So he's doing some things. He's great, man. He landed in the roles that should have been huge for him, but unfortunately weren't because they made dumb changes. Like Mortal Kombat 1, fuck yeah, I'm going in two. Nevermind, we're kinda gonna fuck this one up. It's not gonna be that great. Karate Kid, we're gonna do it real well. We're gonna do the next Karate Kid. And it's like, you're not the Karate Kid. It's a girl this time. It's like saying, hey dude, I landed a role in Ghostbusters. No shit, the girl one. The girl five. Ah. Shit. Okay, well, nevermind. Dude, I landed a Marvel movie. It's the Blue Beetle. It's the, yeah. Even with the Cobra Kai guy, yeah, it's still done. Okay, all right, well, it'd be something, right? I mean, you know. You can make something happen. You can platform off of that, you know. How many Instagram fans you get? We got about 2,000 more. All right. After that movie came out. Sounds good, sounds good. Pretty good, you know. At least we went up, we didn't go down. Can I bring something up about this hockey game? First of all, we said it on the episode. I'm gonna reiterate it so someone can help us out. This is not a school-sanctioned hockey game, right? Right. This is just them deciding that they're gonna play against another school with zero refs. They even said something later on about like six, oh yeah, they go, we're a man short and they have five people there. So like, are they playing with six skaters? What are the rules? There's no refs. They play till three, play until three scores, three goals. And there's chain link fence for glass. Like, what is going on here? Yeah, this is like the quidditch of hockey games, you know. That doesn't make any sense. You don't really understand what's going on. Normal rules are out the door and it ends when they decide it ends. And so, okay. I think watching this game and watching them, like that they're gonna bring in... Sess Wiley. Wiley. It doesn't make much sense. Like you just, just to put a body on the ice, wouldn't it almost be better to like play a man down? It's like with Luis Mendoza. This man, you're better off without him on the ice. Cause if he goes down and falls, you're basically a man down. Like don't even worry about it. Don't even put him out there. You're just putting in an obstacle on the ice that you have to get around. You know what I mean? Yeah, he's a broken stick. Yeah, exactly. Of a human being. Exactly. I thought you said he played hockey. Nintendo! And it seems like this like ice rink is like a part of the school. Did you guys get that vibe? No, I felt like this was a community center that they just went to. It just always seemed to me like it was adjacent to the school, like the school is gonna renovate it someday. And how do all these people know about it and show up to it? It's like, it's like... How do they know about anything that goes on in this story? The race at the end. How the fuck do we know about this? Someone handed out flyers. It feels like, it feels like this, it's like, yeah, we're going down to the abandoned ice arena, but someone still maintains it. Because to anybody out there that doesn't understand, if there's perfect ice, within 10 minutes, the ice is shit and will never be good again until you reform it. So there has to be a Zamboni there. That's why the Zamboni driver from Happy Gilmore is also moonlighting at this place. Like he takes care of it, listens to endless love, and takes off. Can I at least throw out that? And this love for the ice. That this goal, yes, Mitchell Goosens an idiot for hitting in the game winning goal on his own net. But this is on Jack Black. Jack Black is, the puck is in play and he's just not even standing in his net. When he slap shots that back at him, he's standing outside of the goal to the side. And has to like, run over it. And real hockey, even when your own player like brings it behind your net, they're still like playing it. The goalies are. Yes, this is on Jack Black. You always protect your net. If there's a puck around you, you're protecting it. You don't want it to get in behind you. That's the whole point of it. That's embarrassing. A-F's, okay. I imagine it is. But anyways, no. It is. Oh, good. Sean knows. But I wanted to, we did confirm that this is just a completely different school. That yeah, it's the preps. It's like, well, actually we don't even know. This could just be the preppy kids in their school. In the school, right? We seriously don't know cause they all seem to know each other pretty well. Chocolate stain, blame. And he just says, he just says like when they're in this, we're playing the preps. And I ain't graduating being a loser and stuff. And it's like a loser in the pickup hockey game. That nobody knows. It's like, what is this? Mystery Alaska? Like that's how serious it is. And also Jack isn't a prep. I don't believe it for a second. I know. It sure seems like a prep here. Hey man, he's from the other side of the tracks. You see that flannel he's wearing? Well, yeah. I mean, that is don't wear flannel. That is kind of a cool aspect to the movie where it is like our like protagonist or antagonist is like an outsider technically. We don't like, you guys are saying we don't get, we don't really get that. But if you did, if you think about it and dig a little deeper, that's what's actually going on. Like Jack is the bad, it's Jack's the bad guy until we realized that maybe Blaine and his crew are the worst bad guys. Friday kid, Johnny, Johnny's the bad guy until we realize it's more the sense that it's sort of a formula of these kinds of movies. But it's bad ass. Like it still holds up for me. I mean, this montage of them all doing bad things to him is pretty, it's pretty sucks man. Like the, first of all, have you ever been in a place where they chain toilet paper to the ceiling? No. Doesn't make much sense to me that you got to stand up to get your toilet paper. Like it's a requirement to stand up to get your toilet paper. It's like, it's not very ADA. No. It's sensible. Yeah. Jack, I'm just saying. This place has barracks instead of just it's like a locker room. That's a pretty sick thing to do on the handicap stall. You know what I mean? And that's maybe the worst prank they pull on him is when they walk by and water every single bit of toilet paper. Yeah. It grosses me out. It does. It grosses me out. Like a soaked paper, or yeah, toilet paper roll. That's just like icky to me. You don't want that. Do you think they just had hand, I mean, this place isn't that up to date. Updated. They didn't have like hand dryers. They had to have paper towels in there. He could have found. Well, well, I'm just saying. Well, saying. How did they get the sand in his locker? It's way day at Wayfair. From April 25th through the 27th, you can score the best deals for in and around your home, guys, like up to 80% off with free shipping on everything. 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Simon says, I got you, you ready? How do you get sand in a lock? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay, so get an actual bag of sand, pick the lock, put it inside the locker, rig it with like a zipper that as you open the locker, it pulls the zipper up and all the sand falls out. It's gonna be sick, bro. It's gonna be the best prank of 2027. It's like Kevin McAllister of Locker Pranks. It's just wild. Maybe this is why we yearn so much for the 90s because the whole middle of this movie is just montages. You've got the montages of them mistreating him. You've got the rollerblading adventure montage when he finally gets his roller blades in the mail. You've got the Seth Green getting ready montage to I'm too sexy for my shirt. Gotta have it. Every one of these is just like, this is a pure delight for me right now. I'm enjoying this. It's so much fun. And like it, the main issue I have with it is like the editing. And it's like a little tiny like, especially when they're, when he just arrives to the school, like they're all making fun, or they all give speeches, which that bothered me too. Like no one does that. Is this the first day of school? Yeah, exactly. It's like first day of speech class or something. But it's not the first day of school. But there's little timing stuff. Like just like you should have cut that a little earlier, should have cut that a little earlier, or like make that a little longer or something like that. It's, it, I just notice it and I don't want to notice it. That's really my only issue with this movie other than it's just like, you know, it's not the best movie ever made, but it's like, it's so entertaining. It's so much fun. And I do consider this like a sports movie. Of 100%. This is one of the greatest action sports movies ever made. Yeah. Like it really is. It's better than Brink when it comes to the actual footage of the things happening. Chris Edwards, very famous inline skater from that era, plays the dorky, The dorky prep. The dorky prep. He is the stunt double for Mitchell Gouzen on this and he is fucking perfect. Looks like it. It really does. Does the stunts and like, listen to our interview with Shane. He talked about how Shane did a lot of the things, but then on the real big stuff, that's when Chris would jump in. Perfect blending of adding a stunt double, but having a person that can do it correctly. It's fucking awesome. The devil's backbone sequence is like actually riveting. It is. And I, I was going back to this when I, when it got to this point, I was, I was in the kitchen. Is it devil's backbone? Yes. Devil's backbone. Oh, the last guy who walked down it, it was a wheelchair. Like, but like, I came back around to the living room and started watching this sequence of them starting. And I'm like, this is terrifying. Like going down this hill and like watching Snake and like the lead group, Snake and the other two guys is like got my heart pounding. Like my anxiety was through the roof watching this. I was like, there's no way, dude. Like, and then some of those crashes, we talked about that too. Some of those crashes are, I mean, stunt doubles need to get paid more. You know what I mean? It's the, it's the, not so much like the road burn because there are a lot of them are pretty covered as far as that, but the, the like tumbling over themselves. Like just getting their legs wrapped up in themselves that freaks me out. I'm like, fuck my knee. Oh yeah. Oh dude, I know. The guy that rolls into the car that's like, that looks like they kind of messed up on that. Honestly. I don't know. Like that guy probably got hurt. Yeah. I can't imagine that like he didn't. Number one, the other part that always geeked me out too was when you see the guys and they're kind of using their stoppers and it's just like, just going away like dust. Just, it's just smoke at that point. And like they're just disappearing underneath their feet. Like what is going to stop these guys? Nothing. There's minimal music too. And other than like that, just like strikes here and there which I don't like, but it's, it is a pretty long sequence. It's very long. And it could like really overstay its welcome. And I don't, I do, I don't think it does. But my only question is like, how did everyone know the route? That is my line. How, how was, how could you ever know this exact route? Yeah. Without a map. Without some sort of map. Yeah. You got, you got. It's crazy. Like I know how you could maybe know the top part because it sounds like people skate that. That's the thing they do. The amount of turns they take at the bottom. Yeah. What? What are we talking about here? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. And like the stairs at one point. It's like, yeah, cause you're going to go across like the skywalk thing. And then you've got to go down the stairs. It's like, seriously? Like that sucks. Or it's just a, we're starting here and you know where we're ending. Try to get there. Okay. Maybe that's, maybe that's what it is. And there's no easy way to get there. No. And that's why he gets tripped up too. He's like, where do those guys go? You know, cause at one point he's kind of by himself after he's shaken off a couple of the preps. And he, he, he kind of looks around. He's just like, where the heck are those guys? And then he sees them and like, I feel like I've had dreams like this where you can see something, but you can't get to it. You know what I mean? Maybe this whole thing's a dream. Maybe Mitchell Goosan wiped out when he was in Santa Monica, hit his head on a scag on a board, hit his head. And this was his shitty dream. Yeah. We know that he daydreams in like, in dreams, vividly at night. Vividly. Have you ever? Barry wary from sidekicks. Have you ever had someone wake you up to tell you about their dream and just be like, so annoyed that someone's trying to explain a dream to you? Oh yeah. That is, that is Wiley's face in this. Cause like any, I used to have a roommate that would tell me about his dreams in the morning while I'm eating cereal. I'm like, bro, this is the worst fucking story I've ever heard anyone say. It's like, I just, I'm still hung up on the fact that there was only this much milk left in the thing. And why somebody didn't just drink it. And I have to deal with this right now if my cereal, and you're telling me about your dream. And I don't care. I just don't care. I could not care more about your dream than I care about my milk situation. That's how insignificant our dreams are. Go write it in a journal and that's it. I hallucinate in the morning, I think too. My wife gets up for school and leaves like super early and only an hour before I get up. But she wakes me up, kiss me goodbye. And this morning she woke me up, kiss me goodbye. And I thought I saw her dressed as like an airman for the US Navy. Of course. And she wasn't. She wasn't at all. It's Navy Day at the dental hygienist place. When she got back home, she was just wearing regular shit. Yeah, it's a, it's homecoming week. I don't know. And we're dressing up as our favorite. Maybe it was a fantasy of mine. Nice. I want to say one more thing. I truthfully believe that the character of Mitchell Guzen is one of the greatest characters of all time of the high school age, especially of the nineties. This man is so inspiring. He talks to his rollerblades and thanks him after they have a great day. He brings his surfboard with him to Cincinnati, calls it his stick. He's passionate about what he loves. He's confident. He's not scared of this shitty situation he gets put into. He's recovered from an angry past that we don't dive into. Like this man was apparently a shitbag. Yeah. Dude, this, he was, he was war child and sunflower from fucking point break, dude. And he feather bonnet. Feather bonnet, yeah. He recovered from that. He's supportive of his cousin Wiley, who he doesn't even know and sucks, invites him. He gets asked on a date and he goes, I can't go cause I got my cousin Wiley. Like he thinks about that. He stands up for himself against the preps. Even when he's not wanted by this group of people, he helps Jack out, even though Jack hates his guts at the end. I think Mitchell Goosan is one of the most inspiring characters of the nineties. Every time I watch this movie, I'm like, I love you. I like him a lot. I think he's a little underwritten in my opinion. I think, I think, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think Shane McDermott does a hell of a job portraying him, but I think he's a little underwritten. And I do, I would like to see those, those ideas flesh out a little bit more. Like maybe like some of his past because, or like the anger management kind of level of the whole angle to living in Cincinnati. Beautiful. Yeah, that was the only thing I was gonna say is like, if we got a little bit more of his past, I would have liked to see him be a little bit more of a war child, Bodie, like kind of, you know, kid, if you will, and see what that was really mounting to. I'm gonna give you guys an opportunity to potentially re-rank this if you want. AJ, you gave this a 7.1. I gave this a 7.51. Sean, you gave this a 5.4 back when we reviewed this back in 2023. Do you feel confident after re-watching this in your rating? Or do you feel like you want to make any changes to it? 5.4. I'll go, let's go. Fuck it. Let's just go six solid six. Straight up six on that. AJ, what are you thinking? You said I gave it a what? 7.1. A 7.1. You know, I feel like that's pretty darn, I feel like that's pretty darn accurate, to be honest. Yeah. I'm very happy with my 7.51. I love this movie so much. I cannot wait to show my kids this movie. It's like, it's so 90s and it's so perfect. That's gonna change our ranking overall to a 6.62. If you go to all the movies we've done, a 6.62 is going to move airborne up. It's gonna pass these movies. You ready? It's gonna pass over Airheads, Crocodile Dundee, Basekip Ball, Mallrats, Euro Trip, Red Dawn, Evil Dead, Speed and Air Force One. Bring it back down. Sorry, bro. We're stuck. You're gonna have to re-rank that, man. The jump 10 spots. Not as good as Air Force One. Oh, thank God. I think it is actually. It's got air in the name. Well, go back and listen to our episode. Check out our interview with Mitchell Goosan. We'll put them in the notes. Shane McDermott. Next movie on the list. This is Brink. Oh, by the way, that's Shane McDermott's art right there. You're right. Yep. I bought some art from his website, and it's pretty dope. I'll text him. I got his number. I'll say, hey, talk, talk to you again. Anyway, how's real estate going? How's real estate? How's real estate, biz? That's why I have his number. Just in case I got a referral for you. How is it being you, man? How's it just being beautiful at age 50? Hey, man, you get me waves lately? Or you were. Or. How's. Oh, man. Oh, man. All right, part two of the double feature. This made so much sense, guys, throwing 1998's Brink into the mix with this. Because it's basically the same movie. It's basically the same movie. I was so excited that this was the perfect mash-up. When that suggestion came through, I was like, I want this so bad. 1993's Airborne into 1998's Brink is essentially, this is Mitchell Goosan's brother. It's basically the same movie. He just happened to get to stay in California. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? And he's just dealing with the trials and tribulations of just being a kid who likes to skate. It's a tough life, dude. Tough one. I mean, this is highly ranked from the Disney Channel original movies. Brother, this is a 7.0 on IMDB when Airborne is a 6.3. Yeah, that's really crazy, actually. I mean, I appreciate these movies. What's, give me your experience with DCOM, Mike. DCOM? Yeah, Disney Channel original movies. Not good, because I had never seen Brink. OK. Because think about this. 1993, I'm 11 years old, like getting into rollerblading, being a teen, like, or like moving into that era. But 98, when this came out, I'm like getting into, I'm a mid-high school. Disney Channel's not for me. Even though I very much loved rollerblading still at the time, X Games is huge for me. This felt, just watching this feels like a kid's version of Airborne. You know, because Airborne, the characters, they look older, they feel older, they seem to have more real world experience. This feels like, I know they're supposed to be probably what? Freshman sophomores, 15, 16. It feels more like they're 12, 13, 14. So this, it was not for me when it came out. But probably for you guys, it was huge. It was like right in the sweet spot, you know? This movie coming out, and you know, I want to say this right off the bat. This is exactly what I think is wrong with kids' movies, though. Like, we'll get into it a little deeper. But the idea of, like, when you're a kid, it makes so much sense. Yeah, soul skaters, skating for fun. We only do it because we love it. And it's like, sellouts, ew, you get paid to do what you love. Ew, god, you suck. It's just like, it's like, this is what's wrong. We are brainwashing kids the wrong fucking way, dude. I'm telling you. The equivalent of being like, we do a podcast, but then we delete the recording right after. Yeah. Because we don't want anyone to hear it. And by the way, we want to be an inline skate magazine. Oh, we do. We want the whole world to know about our podcast, but we refuse to put it out there. Dude, the way they notice that guy is crazy. It's the smallest text on his head. And it's backwards. I know. The chance of you seeing it because he's pointing a camera at you. That's the worst hat I've ever seen in my life. I don't know. Prop, honestly. Inline skating magazine. It was like in dot com format. It's like inline.com.format.rollerblades. What? The guy has internet? The chance of them spotting that is like 0.1. And it's not even like bold. It's like a mute gray hat with a slightly darker mute gray font. That guy. Why is he not taking pictures of us? It's like Sean being like, that guy's from like CCM magazine. It's just like from across the friggin' valley. But like the whole movie in premise starts out of him like, oh man, gotta go. Can't eat this enormous breakfast kind of a thing. Airborne. Airborne. And then it's like he's late for the bus stop. And by the way, this bus never stops for these kids. The three that are there on time. The way I read that was that don't they go, oh, it's Saturday or something like that. Meaning like the bus doesn't stop on Saturdays at that location, but they're too dumb to know that. Right. Like what's the name? I didn't get this at all. It's like, oh, we didn't make the bus because he's late. It's like, no, the bus didn't stop at all. He's late because he ran to the bus stop. When they get there and the bus passes, they're like, now let's put on our skates and skate to the skate park. You know the thing we love to do that actually gets us going 30 to 40 miles an hour. Let's not do that. OK. Let's run with an awkward backpack on. Hey, we got to save our energy for, you know, and use the bus and for the pit. Let's get to the pit. I don't know how you guys watch this. Was it Disney Plus? Disney. Yeah, Disney app has it. It just starts. Oh, yeah. And I was like, fuck it. I loved it. What are we doing wrong nowadays? These movies are so just get into it. Yeah, they just do it. They get you right into it. And by the way, every single time music kicks in in this, it's some sort of like 90s skate banger that's just ah, gonna get it. It's a dip in. Some of it wasn't bad. Sooner or later. That's catchy. That's a great song. That's really catchy. And like it's just like jamming out the whole time that they're skating. I think the music hits and the needle drops are pretty awesome. I agree with you. To be honest. And on top of that, the skating's fucking sick too. I believe a lot of it. These stunt people are a little more egregious in this and some spots. But a lot of it I didn't notice. You know, like what's her name? Motor, Mouth Jones. I can't remember. No, that's not it. So sooner or later was actually fastball, the band Fastball. It was fastball? Yeah. And then there's that really ter- See, like you guys are off while you're looking at that name. The suicide machines do that song Give, the reggae one, that like the guys got a horrible voice. And then it slows down and nobody's on beat. And then it goes faster again. This is this movie has the worst soundtrack I've ever heard. Oh, come on. Dude, when they get- No, it does not. No, when they're doing the street skating montage. And it's like a slow song. That is bad. Then they do like a great, dead instrumental type song during the vert montage. The song for the- We just talked about Airborne when they're going on the streets and it's just like no music, the wheels. When they're doing the downhill race at the end, it's like, you got to know yourself. No, move yourself. No matter. No matter. No, I love that. I just named you three things that were terrible about this. I think you just named three things that I love and wish were in Airborne. I think the problem is is there was only four songs in the movie and they put them in, they had to be like, okay, put that one there. Like Clarissa, Apology by Clarissa is when- That's the street. Yeah, and he visits Gabriella. That's the first time we hear that song. So we hear it twice. So it is a little bit of a somber moment because she's injured at that point. But then yeah, it does do like the- They played again at like an action sequence. And so- Okay, so picture this guys. Picture your just climax of action. We're feeling- this is our soul skating moment, dude. It's so fucking bad. But they're showing all the other skaters. This is like when the X-blades, who by the way- X-blads. X-blads, thank you. I don't know if it was supposed to be cool. You guys were young. Tell me if this was cool. It was fucking awesome. They're wearing basketball jerseys. Oh yeah, dude. Overlong sleeves. Overlong sleeves. They made the look of the Irish before this. They had the- they had the- The costuming budget for basketball jerseys. Correct. And then one of the guys on the rival team has like a soccer jersey on. Yes. What the fuck are we doing Disney Channel? Dude, is this what kids were like back then? Dude, they're sports guys, okay? They love sports like Sean. Yeah. Thanks man. They're big sports guys, okay? I'm gonna say this, okay? Because I don't want to get off the music like too fast. The other part of this, it's like all the music is basically put together like in a video game, you know, when you enter into a specific area, like a song starts playing. Like well, when he goes to this first X-Blade's try out or something. And it's like that song is Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. That's the song. And then like- You think that's good. And then it comes back. When he's a part of Team X-Blade's. That song's playing again. When he's skating. It's like they only skate to one song in this building. Well, listen, when you're making money doing something, there are rules and there's probably some rule where this is the only song you can listen to because we pay you money. It's like figure skating. They skate to their own track, you know what I mean? It's like figure skating. In a world of noise and uncertainty, IG is the investment platform that backs you. Take a reflexable stock size, which gives you the freedom to withdraw funds anytime and replace them in the same tax year, all without losing your £20,000 tax-free allowance. And if that's not enough, pay no commission on your stock shares and ETFs when you invest with IG. IG, trade, invest, progress. Your capital's at risk, other fees may apply, tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and is subject to change. There is a moment in this movie. So this movie is directed by Steven Spielberg? No, it's not. Greg Beeman. Did license to drive, Mike. Okay. He just wasn't very in tune with the youth of this time period. Tales of the Unknown. Mom and Dad Saved the World, which has Terry Gar and the principal from... Or Jeffrey Jones. Jeffrey Jones, yeah. Bushwacked with Daniel Stern. Those are like the only features he's done. But then he did Underwraps, which is another great Disney Channel original movie. But there's a moment in this where I'm like, holy shit, this movie's really well directed. The worm scene. Brother. It's written down like, how did they do this? This is incredible. Like legitimately, this is a runner, starts on Val, like doing his little smart will get to Val. He's a soul skater, that's his problem. Yes, it starts right there. And swoops around, like the camera swoops around, you see Guy with milk, spill the milk, Jordy spilled the milk and Gabriella come in, take his sandwich away. Then the camera moves across her path. She's already gone past the camera, to Brink doing the worms around their table. Real worms, these are real worms. Real worms around the table, back into like kind of the original spot where the camera first started off. And not only does all of that blocking have to be perfect, but the take of him taking the bite of the sandwich has to be, they wanna see the stringiness, you know? But that's gotta work really, really well. I don't know how many times they did this, but they pulled this shit off. Where did they make the switch? Cause the sandwich switches, he's not eating the worms, but those are real worms that get put on there. So at some point, I watched it three times. At some point, they're like basically like off camera, like handing a sandwich away and grabbing another one. And it's fucking brilliant. I was like, whoa, it's really impressive. It's actually really well done. And I think that is a great place to also talk about our main antagonists. For sure. Val Hornig. You mean the most punchable face in the history of movies? It's damn close up there, brother. I'm serious, it's bad. You guys sent me a picture of him that he looks like today. I was like, who the fuck is that? He's in front of like a helicopter with like, it's rain, it has to be AI because it's like raining on him. And there's a helicopter in the background and the man doesn't have the money to afford a helicopter from his shoot. Those are his head shots. The AI head shots. It's epic. I mean, it's like he wanted, it's like his head shot audition for James Bond or something in a weird way. And I finally figured out who he looks like. He looks like an alternate universe version of like Chris Klein, if Chris Klein had not been cool and had like gone away. He's got those dark eyes. Very, very good villain look to him. And I like it, it's charming in a way, but like the way he does a villain is like, he always says something while he's taking, or he's exhaling. He's always like, soul surfers will never work. You know, that kind of shit. Like he's always running out of breath and always shaking his head and he's got a smirk on. You just don't get it, do you? And you never will. And being a sponsor, skaters cool. Got my picture in every magazine. Jesus Christ. It looks like though, it looks like he's doing some of these stunts. Oh, or they got the most perfect stunt double ever. Cause some of these you're like, damn. It's definitely him. I mean, there are times like some of these guys had to have at least been doing the back and forth. Maybe not all the big tricks, but they had to been going up and down this ramp cause he comes up off that vert ramp in the end. He lands it. He does a grind down a railing and it's like, that's him. Yes. It's his face. Like they don't have the CGI budget on a DCOM for this. Are you kidding? Like, and it made me wonder, I tried to look it up to see how many of these stunts were done by some of the actual actors and how much were stunt doubles. And you just can't get any information on it. There's no, like it's almost like they didn't credit any stunt double skaters on this movie. It's, yeah. Which is researching these movies as a nightmare. Yeah. Because there's nothing. There's not even a rotten tomato score of this cause not enough people. There was only like four critical reviews of this movie. Really? Yeah. Apparently you need five to get a, you know, to make it a middle of the year. Man, I'll tell you right now. The thing that stands out the most about this double feature of airborne and brink is the place of the sense of place that we're in. This feels like a great sort of LA sort of, I'm like maybe like San Diego, what'd they say the competition place, Huntington Beach, something like that. Like it looks like this is where rock of power got all of their aesthetics. Yes. And then airborne being set totally in Cincinnati and being proud that it's in Cincinnati. I love when movies are just like, they're not trying to hide it. Like we could only afford to shoot in Cincinnati or we could only afford to shoot in San Diego or like LA or whatever. But they're like, what's, let's make the most of it. Let's make it look awesome. And they make it their town, but then they actually film in that town. Yeah. Like some of our friends on the podcast, long time friends live in Cincinnati. And they said, yeah, like it was a big deal when they filmed that here and all the scenery and the landmarks, that greenhouse, the upside down heart, it's there. Like you can go to it. It's great. Yeah. I'm gonna blow your mind real quick. Please. Walter Emanuel Jones. He was the black ranger in the original power. Dude, boomer. Plays boomer. This is my, this is the most mind blowing fact that I've discovered on this podcast. Most of these actors in this movie, they were 15, 16 years old. Brink, the actor was 16 years old. Walter Emanuel Jones was 32 years old in this movie. On with a ring on. He was married. And he refused to take his ring off for the movie. Really? I didn't even see that. That's funny. Oh, I thought you were pointing at it like he had a ring on. No, I don't know. I just know that he was married at the time. The man was 15 to 17 years older than everyone in this movie. Yeah. Crazy. Does not, I could. It doesn't look like it. You doesn't look that. Yeah. He looks a little older. Yes. That is mind blowing only because it works. Are you 32 years old? 34. The equivalent of you right now. Yes. Pretending like you're a rollerblading high school guy. Hire me for a D-com. No, don't. Look at Sean and tell me he's 16. He's not even close. Sports, man. That's all I do is drink beer and watch sports. I'm not 15. Let me put that into perspective. That means he was born in 1966. How does that add to that? So. It's just wild to me. The Manson family massacre hadn't happened yet. Well, he was alive for that. Guys, they hadn't even gone to the moon yet. No. I don't think we ever did, but you know. Oh, God, you're virtual. All right. The other thing about Boomer is the fucking haircut. Oh yeah. It's like. It's insane. It's like they took the outline of his helmet and just did that. Like it's not a bull cut. It's a helmet cut. Like a skating helmet cut. I saw him on, it was like established in the 90s or made in the 90s podcast or something like that. Shout out them. I don't know if they like us or not, but he was on their show and he described the story about that. They like, when he got on set, they just like did a buzz against the grain for his hair and like right down the middle. And he's like, what the fuck? And so they, I think they messed it up. And so they just shaved it all off, but they needed him to have hair. So they're spray painted basically. Are you serious? A line. Cause it's like not too far from his eyebrows. It's shocking. It's like the, it's like the St. Louis arch on his head. It's just goes. Crazy. The man, and it's actually kind of sucks cause I like him a lot. I wish he would have been in this movie more. And it, I thought for sure. They really tried to get him in this movie a lot. It still wasn't enough. They cut to him so many times when it's not necessary. Like to be honest, it's like, like when he goes up, he's like, you us outback right now. And then it cuts to boomer. He's just like, yeah. And it's just like, why? Whatever he says, man. Yeah. He's my friend for now. I'm number two. I thought for sure he was going to join their team. That's what I thought was going to happen. I wish he would have. Instead it's like, I'm cheering with my wife and kids in the crowd. It sure looks like he's got a family with him. I just like to think that he was a, he was a power ranger at what you call high, that whatever Angel Grove high, he was a power ranger there. And he got transferred to another school. And in transferring, he lost his power range. Zordon kicked off the rent, the power rangers team. Yes. Yes. And he had to get off of the skydiving team, all that good stuff. But now he's a rollerblader. Cool. No big deal. He just used his abilities for that. The dad in this is really great. High tower from police Academy. Okay. Nice. Or Huckleberry. I can't remember which one it was. Something graph. Great dad. David graph or something. Yeah. Pretty annoying at times. Like the whole skating thing. Like we've kind of described in the beginning of this, but like you're not skating for money. Fuck that. Even his dad is against it. But. Tackleberry. Tackleberry. Thank you. Very great performance. Like one of the best dads in like one of these team movies I think it's a great dad performance. I totally agree with you. Like he, he does it. And he's got some great little lines. He's got some of the best lines in the movie, I think. He's like, I just don't get it. He's like, nobody should be that happy all the time. He's like, he's a teenager. He's like, what's wrong being happy? He's like, you should be sad a little. And then later on he's like, I don't know, just don't get it. No one should be sad that much all the time. He's just like. It's a middle ground. It's like, I thought he'd find land somewhere in the middle. You know? And again, here we are. Dad's having a rough go of it. The car breaks down after he gets suspended. And it's like, well, maybe just don't drive a car from 1966 when Boomer was born. You know what I mean? Maybe you just don't do that. But then after all this is said and done, the idea of like, hey dad, I can go and I could do what I love. And like they're sponsoring literal kids from school to make $200 a week. He should have just been honest right there. He should have been like, I got hired. Yeah. This money is coming in. Yeah. It's just like they already did it. And like, hey, here's my first $200. Yep. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, just do that. And then dad comes back and just, he's like, no, I have to work for my money. You don't get to have fun for yours. And it's just, that's the most annoying part of these movies and I think somebody said it once before. The whole trope of a disagreement, not or being solely based on one party, not being willing to listen to the protagonist's reasoning is the most frustrating part of any narrative. But also the protagonist's not giving full context. Correct. Like they're saying as well. The protagonist's brink here. He's a weird character because like at this point, he should have just been honest with his dad. Yes. He isn't. So then now his workload's crazy because he's trying to balance these two teams. Then his dad throws a job in the mix, a legitimate job. Where now he can quit. He can say, no, I'm not going to do your skateboarding team because now we've got the money coming in and I don't like your team anyway, but he still keeps doing all the things. So he's the perfect 15 year old kid who just really has no fucking clue what he's actually wanting out of life and what he's wanting to do. And doesn't know how to say no and doesn't know how to say what he probably really wants other than the fact that he wants to skate. I get to quit X-Blades. I hate this team. And now, but now I've got a job. That's going to make money for the family. Now I can skate with my friends. Yeah. Now I got to do them all. It's true. Well, you know. The idea is like, because you're right, when you're thinking about this as a kid, you're like, well, yeah, he should just skate with team X-Blades and he could, he should just live the double life between that and his friends. It's like, it's like, come what you think because he gets to skate. It's like, no, this is the wrong movie. No, it's like, or he could have told, he could have gone straight to his friends and been like, here's the deal. Yeah, exactly. This is what I'm talking about. Guys, I'm, I have, just give me a second. I'm your fearless leader. I have to do this. My family's in rough shape. I get to do this for the next like two weeks, but then come real tournament time. I'm back on your squad. Like, please support me in this. I'm so sorry that I have to do this, but also get some inside tactics for X-Blades. Like, fuck yeah, dude. Like you could spin it so well. You didn't have to do it that way. Just lies to everybody. No, guys, you don't understand. Like my family needs money. And then like when he does explain it to Gabby later, like when she's bedridden from a scratch on her arm. She, What you mean when she's going and she sees rocks and then dives over the rocks? So trying to be like, cause she's a girl she can't handle the fucking pain. And she can't see. Dude, no, hey, bitch. She's a girl. Okay. She's got something to prove. All right. Cause everyone else is a guy and she can skate over rocks. She's a, she's a girl from a foreign country. Yeah. Of a different race. This is tough for you girl. I'm sorry. And I'm just saying, okay. For real. Yeah. She's got it really bad. All right. And had a crush on her and had a crush on a mom. The mom. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Smoked. Yeah. Who didn't have a crush on Gabby? You saw this movie, right? Absolutely. It's just like, I wish I had a cool friend that was a girl that skated. Yeah. By the way, Peter's totally trying to get with her. The whole movie. I thought the way they played this out, I'm like, oh, they're going to kiss at the end. And they, no. No, I know. Decom, sorry. No, no, we don't do that here. Okay. She's from Peru. It's Disney. Sorry. No. I just want to say that make the point, he tries to tell it to Gabby. It's like, my family really needed the money. And she's just like, well, everybody needs the money. It's like, okay, you're just not even trying to understand. Yeah. You're like, No, you're the one who is still soul skating into me. Okay. You're the one who told me about soul skating. I had to be told about it because I'm a woman. All right. That is actually genius because I never told that story about our buddy, Kale Henderson, went to a drop kick Murphy's show. On St. Patrick's Day in Boston. And they got so torn up that Kale had to puke. And so he goes to the bathroom. There's a line of like 50 dudes starts walking past them and the guy goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, where are you going? But he goes, I got to throw up. He goes, we all got to throw up. Get in line. Like that's exactly what she's like. He's like, we need the money. So like we all need the money. We all need the money. Okay. This is not making you special. And then it's just like, I feel like at one point it does kind of come out in the idea of like, everyone need the money, Brink. But you fucking lied to us, man. And just like, yeah, that was the shitty part. I think you're getting a little hung up on the fact that you needed the money that you just decided to lie to like three different parties. Okay. There's not a single person in your life right now that you're being honest with. Okay. That's the problem, Brink. The sort of like message of the movie is obviously like what the dad says. It's kind of hammered into your face a little bit. You are Andy Brink. Yes. And actually it's a very touching moment. No, it is. It is actually a great sentiment. They're very good together. And Guy as Brink. Brink. That is Eric Von Denton. I think he's pretty good. I do too. Definitely. I mean, if we're gonna compare, we're doing our double feature. If we're gonna compare him to Shane McDermott and doesn't know how to candle. But definitely like as a DCOM actor, Disney sort of actor, really, really pulls this off really well. But yeah, comparing these two again is like, I do think that the character motivations and the character moments are a little more well fleshed out and Brink than they are in Airborne for me at least. I really do, even though it's like maybe a little cheesy some places, but like a lot of what I get out of it is like not growing up so fast. That's what a lot of these movies are, but they don't really hammer that point in. They hammer the like, you know, doing things because of your soul or like doing, you know, having your hobbies be just hobbies and not trying to make them like your life goal or whatever. But if we're gonna compare the last sort of tournaments as well, what do we think of the whole championship here? It's such an interesting like take on it. And I do actually like the fact that they didn't put it all on Brink's shoulders. They actually let him mess up during the street run. You know, he gets the lower score. He's the one who kind of puts it at ends for them. But there was kind of no way in no world that this wasn't gonna come out the way it did. You know what I mean? They do a pretty good job of like building the, you know, building the tension of it. But I also, I don't like the idea that it's like team competition, team competition, team competition, team competition, one skater from two teams is now gonna be in the final. It's one deciding factor. It's just like, it just seemed a little bit to like, I don't know, on the nose of like, we need to stick it to Val. I fell asleep during the climax of this movie. Like, cause it was the music mixed with the weird montages. Like, I had to try it three different times. I kept waking up at the end being like, what the fuck? And then I'd start, I'd fall asleep. The downhill race is so bad compared to airborne. Oh, we're all out. Dude, the, like when she goes, it's a blind turn. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? What's a blind turn? So a blind turn means that we don't have camera coverage and no one's standing in the streets observing what's happening during this quarter of a mile down a street. And Val knows. Val knows. And Val fucking knows it. And then they, at the end, they're all like calling him Val a cheater and he's off the team already. He's like, what did he, what cheating did he do? Well, he, he pulled him and he did that whole thing. That's not cheating. It's not necessarily cheating because like he faked the injury. Nothing in that is cheating whatsoever. In fact, fucking Brink cheat, Brink cheats. Yeah. Brink cheats later. And goes off the course. Yes. Oh, what? Someone explained this as a red. The movie red. He pulls a red. He cheats a red. He cheats an airborne too. Mitchell Goosendos. It goes off the ramp. It doesn't go. So I mean, I guess all we're doing is promoting that if you're doing extreme sports for fun and for like in competitions, just cheat. And in life, take shortcuts. Just take shortcuts, man. Just follow your soul. Like and just cheat. That's that, that whole sentiment, like throughout this entire movie drives me up a wall because it's like, I don't want that to be like how I like kids should not be told that. Okay. So airborne, he cheat, Mitchell Goosend cheats at the end and Brink, Brink cheats at the end. In karate kid, it's an illegal kick to the face for Ralph Machio. What's the other one we just said? Red. Red and red. Crew Jones cheats and goes off course and rad. Hey, it's all right to cheat as long as you've been cheated against Mike. So there you go. 1990s. Bye for an eye. Late 80s into early 90s. This is the theme. Yeah. Do it because you love it. Don't do it for money. And cheat. As long as somebody cheats against, yeah, but if your intentions are good. Yeah. Yes. If you like take a small business and take them for all their worth. Right. It's fine. Make them buy you all the skates and all the. Make them buy you a lot and then probably just don't ever show up to that place ever again. Probably not. Yeah. Because you're good now. Because you're going to be the next big thing in in line skating because you won the largest national competition as you say in the country. We're just getting it out. Yeah. It's a formula. It always works. And by the way, you're always good enough and there's always somebody with a camera from it, like from such and such skating or such and such important magazine in your thing. Just look at their backwards hat and try to read the words. Yeah. And they're ready to film you at any turn. Any turn. People are always willing to sign you and ready to sign you at your club show. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty much it. The last thing I wanted to say on this guys is did you guys recognize who Jimmy is? Yes. The bad guy. Yes. The coach. The coach, if you will. I know who he is. I'm in 10,000 outlets nationwide. I move $10 million with the merchandise all because of Team X plays. OK. That is fucking Wesley. Wesley from Forest Gump. Jenny's like boyfriend that's in the Black Panthers. Oh, really? Yeah. I knew bringing you here would just be a hassle, that guy. Wow. Weird. Like I saw him in the movie and I go, who is this? Yeah. Who is this? Yes. I know this man. Yeah, the dark hair throws you off. And the glasses. He had like darker rim glasses or something. Yeah. And by the way, I don't think Jimmy is a bad guy in this whole thing. Of course he's not. He's not. He's running the business. He's looking for talent. And hey, he ditched out on the bad guy. He kicked the bad guy off the team. Yeah. He's got all the best intentions of the world for his business and for the company he keeps. He's like, the cheating. It's a bad thing. He vows out. We want you. You're the new face of Team X plays, man. We want you. And he turns it down. You fucking fascist. It's like, yeah. He turns it down. Things are not going to work out good for bringing his team. No. By the way, he could have been like, cool. Yeah, I'll definitely be the new team. And by the way, these guys are coming with me. That's all he needed to say. Hey, you got room for four people? We'll take Team X Blades to the next level because we'll keep. Now we've got two squads. Worm and BJ. Turns out those guys are actually really nice guys. And they were just following Val's bad example. Put Boomer back on the team. Now you have seven dudes. Now you got a girl. Now you got a girl. From another country. Dude. Inclusivity. We're so inclusive. You're going to sell $20 million with merchandise, Jimmy. And Jimmy's going to be all about it. And then they'll all put their hands in and on top will be a peace sign. That's right. This was based off a story in Holland. Like a book in Holland. The author is Mary Mapes Dodge, which by the way, Mapes is an underused name nowadays, I think. Totally. It's the novels called Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates. It's like, are you afraid of the dark episode? Yeah. It's pretty much a story of Brink. Like he's ice skating in Hans Brinker to try and save his dad from, or try to save up for his dad to like punch a hole in his head because of the pressure. Or like he got an injury or something like that. That's what this book is about. I'm so glad. I'm so glad that we didn't get that. And we got this. It seems like that should be an old like 1940s Disney cartoon movie. Yes. In a clamshell now. I'm just saying. With Steamboat Willie. With Steamboat Willie. With. Yeah. Boop, boop, boop, boop. Well, we've done our double feature. We've done Airborne. We've done Brink. It's the spiritual sequel to Airborne. I really think it is. I think it's Mitchell Goosens' younger brother. Yeah. And that's a fun double watch. I think you guys should check it out. It is fun. Super, super fun. I think it's one of the top DCOMs up there and a perfect pairing for Airborne. Watch the double feature, guys. It will take you all of two hours and 20 minutes. Perfect. Yeah. If you got any ideas for double features, let us know. The next one up on our list is Heavy Weights and Camp Nowhere. Yeah. Another great recommendation. That's going to be an awesome one. So if you got, you got to pick one of our old movies that we've done, and then you got to pair it with something. Yeah. It was what you got to do. Again, thank you to Firefighter Suze for the recommendation. Boom. That's it for us. We'll catch you next time. Bye. Later. It's Wayday Wayfair. From April 25th through the 27th, you can score the best deals for in and around your home, guys, like up to 80% off with free shipping on everything. Wayfair makes it super easy, guys, to find exactly what fits your style and your needs, from furniture and decor to home improvement and outdoor essentials. 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