Told you in the open, I was going to talk about a documentary that was released on Hulu. I believe it came out earlier this week.
It might’ve came out at the end of last week when I was in Vegas, I was pretty much lost all track of time when I was in Vegas, but it’s called Bratz it’s on Hulu and it’s directed by Andrew McCarthy. We all remember him from the eighties movies, animals, fire. Pretty in Pink, Mannequin, Mannequin was great like one of those great bad movies, I mean a mannequin comes to life in a store, look, come on, yet it gave us one of the greatest 80s sappy songs ever, REO Speedwagons, Build This Thing Forever?
Nothing’s going to stop us now. What’s the name of the, what’s the title of that song? I think it’s nothing’s going to stop us now. I wanted to say the title was build this thing forever, but no, nothing’s going to stop us now came from mannequin anyway, so it’s called brats. It’s on Hulu directed by Andrew McCarthy.
And basically what it is, if for those that don’t remember the origin of this, and if you’re in your twenties, you have no idea what the fuck I’m talking about right now. But if you’re in your late thirties, early forties, you remember the brat and the brat pack was literally just. A writer, I believe it was for the New York times.
He’s actually in this documentary because Andrew goes to visit him because he’s the one who penned the phrase. He basically was doing a piece on Emilio Estevez and he was following him around one night. And during the course of that night, he just felt that Emilio Estevez felt a little entitled because of who he was at that point.
He was very up and coming star. He’d been in some movies in Hollywood and. He just laid and he hung out with him and I think Judd Nelson and Rob Lowe. And he just called them the Brat Pack. It was just a simple line. It was like one line in a whole piece about Emilio Estevez. And then the very next day, it just turned into this headline that this was now the Brat Pack.
And it basically consisted of Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, Ali Sheedy, Molly Ringwald. I think there might’ve been a S a seventh. I can’t, I’m, I’m Oh, Demi Moore, Demi Moore. They were just labeled the brat pack because in the mid eighties, so many movies were being made with those combination of, of actors and actresses in those movies, and they just got this label and Andrew McCarthy, 35 years later is like, you realize we didn’t appreciate that label.
We didn’t think it was accurate and we’re not really thrilled about it. And how it affected our careers and our lives since then. The one thing that the documentary to me was missing was exactly what made that writer call them the brat pack. Like what exactly he saw, what Xavier, what, what Xavier behavior did those people that he hung out with that night when he was following them around for a piece, what behavior did they exhibit that made him call them the brat pack?
Like, did they chew out a server? Were they just stuck up? Entitled like it never goes into detail about why I think through the years I’ve heard he just thought they acted very entitled and whatever and they thought that they deserve everything But it’s never hit on in the documentary I wish they would have dove into that a little bit deeper But so during the course of this documentary Andrew McCarthy goes and interviews Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Leah Thompson, Timothy Hutton, John Cryer, writers, directors.
There’s a lot of clips, and you know me, I’m a big 80s guy, love the nostalgia clips from Pretty in Pinks and Almost Fire, Breakfast Club. Those are the ones that get the most clips shown from their movies, but The two he didn’t get were Molly Ringwald and Judd Nelson. Now there is something about Judd Nelson at the very end.
I don’t want to ruin it for you. It’s nothing major, but he does not sit down with Judd Nelson, but we do get something. The one that I really wanted to hear from was Molly Ringwald and Molly Ringwald was reached out to. For this piece. And he says in the documentary, he basically said she said, she think about it, but that she probably would just like to keep moving forward.
Basically. She doesn’t want to relive it fine. I mean, that’s her prerogative. I’m not going to get mad at her for it. Would I have liked to have seen her in this documentary? Of course, because I grew up on Molly Ringwald movies along with Judd Nelson. I mean, breakfast club is one of the most transformational videos.
My videos, movies, I think it still holds up today. It’s a really, really good movie. I think every high schooler or coming of age teenager should watch that movie. Cause I think it’s still relevant in 2024. Yes, there’s no social media and there’s no computers and there’s no cell phones and stuff like that.
I’m just talking about the story and the writing and how I know that there are people in high school, teenagers that can relate to every single character in that movie. Whether you were the jock, whether you were the prom queen, whether you were the criminal, whether you were the basket case or the nerd, everybody can relate to somebody in that movie from their high school years.
And I would have loved to have seen her in this documentary. We’d love to see her talk to Andrew McCarthy because we all know one of my also favorite movies from the eighties is pretty in pink. It’s where you hear the theme song for the daily roundup comes from that movie. The theme song for the weekly podcast comes from pretty in pink, pretty in pink.
Molly Ringwald ends up with Andrew McCarthy at the end, which they do talk about. I’ve talked about it numerous times on this podcast, but we all know that that was not the original ending and he ends up with ducky at the end of that movie. And when they tested it amongst audiences. The audience booed, they hated it so bad that they had to go back three months later and shoot them ending.
The whole prom scene was shot three months after the fact. So she could end up with, with Blaine. And at the time, Andrew McCarthy had already moved on to moved on to Broadway and had to shave his head for a play. So if you rewatch. The actual prom scene from pretty in pink. Andrew McCarthy has on one of the worst wigs you’ll ever see in your life.
You look at his hair, the rest of the movie, every scene before the prom, and then you look at his hair in the prom and you’re like, Oh wow, yeah, that’s a horrible wig. He even talks about it in the documentary, how much he hated that wig and how bad it was. But I’d give it a B plus a minus. I really enjoyed it.
A lot of it is nostalgia for me. I love anything that talks about 80s stuff that I grew up on. So if you’re interested, it’s called Bratz. It’s on Hulu. If you grew up around the time that I did, and you were into all those 80s movies, I think you would enjoy hearing these people talk about it. And finally, just want to talk about Jason Tardik and his new girlfriend, Kat Stickler.
Kat Stickler posted on Instagram last night a story. And this is what she wrote. I was just going through photos and I’ll never forget this night. I’m sorry. I have to share the day after our first kiss. I’m sorry. Jason wrote this. Duh. The day after our first kiss, Kat was supposed to leave town and I was leaving the following day.
She FaceTimed me when she got on the plane and said, should I get off this plane and go to you? Is that too much? I should stay on, right? But it would be pretty romantic. I think, what do you think? I told her to do it since she didn’t have MK that weekend, her daughter, and she didn’t have And she didn’t even hesitate.
She got all her things from the overhead. And at this point, everyone on the plane was sitting down. Flight attendant asked where she was going. And all she said was, I’m going to go see a boy I just met. And then all the passengers started clapping and cheering. And she left the plane. And that night we had our first dinner where it was just us.
I’ll never forget the feeling I had taking this picture right before that first date night. And it’s a picture of cat on the bed and before their, their first date. Okay. It’s just my opinion. I don’t know. I don’t think that either of them are bad individuals. They’re not horrible people, nothing like that.
I just think that story is a little bit exaggerated. It sounds way too romantic comedy for me. I don’t know what part is exaggerated. I don’t know the extent of the exaggeration. It’s just something tells me like, Oh, she was set to leave. She was on the plane sitting down. The plane’s about to take off and she stands up and says, I’m going to go see a boy that I met.
Everybody claps for her. I mean, that’s literally straight out of a rom com. I just, I don’t know. I just don’t necessarily buy it. I don’t think the whole thing is made up. I just think they might’ve, he might’ve taken a few liberties with people on the plane, clapping for her. Cause she said it loud enough on a plane that I’m going to go meet a boy when the flight attendant asked her, where are you going?
You know, just seems a little bit much. However, minutes, I don’t want to say minutes. I don’t know how long it was after the fact, but it was after the fact that Jason posted that Instagram story. We got four Instagram stories from Caitlin Bristow. First one said this people make fucking sick thinks she meant to say people make me fucking sick, but she forgot the word means that people make me fucking sick next Instagram story.
If you only knew in all caps next Instagram story, what people will do for attention is making me want to exit the internet forever. Last Instagram story says goodnight set to Taylor Swift’s. The smallest man who ever lived. Now she deleted the first two within 10 or 15 minutes. People make me fucking sick.
And if you only knew, so the only thing that was up there last time I checked, she might’ve deleted the last two are what people will do for attention is making me want to exit the internet forever and goodbye with the smallest man who ever lived set to that Instagram story again, obviously a lot of people are looking into this, giving their assumptions that this is somehow about Jason.
The timing of it clearly seems to think it would be Jason. Like, why would she write this 30 minutes after Jason makes that post again? I don’t, I don’t know. I don’t know if we’ll ever get a true answer, but I I’m, I’m almost at a loss because one of these two or both of them probably needs to do a podcast and they both have a podcast and maybe let out some grievances and maybe really let, maybe really be a little bit more vulnerable because.
You know, when couples break up, it’s like, please give us our space. Please respect our privacy, all that. But these two have taken enough subtle jabs at each other on social media, since this all ended, where it’s just like, maybe, maybe come forward and say what you really feel as opposed to the subtle jabs, unless they’re doing this strictly for engagement, because they know people will talk about it and I guarantee you, there’s going to be think pieces about it.
There’s already stuff online on us weekly today, last night. About it, about Jason’s post about cat and their first date and Caitlin’s subsequent Instagram stories that went up within the hour of the Jason’s post going up and you know, here she is posting an Instagram story set to, you know, the smallest man who ever lived.
It’s like, okay, is, is, is Kate, are we supposed to believe that Caitlin’s talking about really just some random guy that we don’t know about? I mean, I don’t know. Maybe she is, like I said, I, I don’t know anything about this. It just seems like once a week or once every couple of weeks, one of these two is taking a subtle jab at the other one.
So I just say, have it out, not go on each other’s podcast. That’s not going to happen, but maybe someone be a little more forthcoming about why things are the way they are between them probably won’t happen. But we all can dream anyway. Thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me on Apple podcasts also rate and review, but you got to hit play.
It’s the only way it counts as a download. I really appreciate all the support this week. I’m glad I could support Clayton and I’m glad I could form you a little bit more on the Clayton and Laura Owens trial. Trust me when the verdict comes down, you will know immediately and we will be talking about it the next day.
And probably for a couple of days after that. So hopefully the judge in Arizona, judge Mata takes everything into consideration and rules accordingly. I think we all know where she’s probably leaning, but while she could be leaning in Clayton’s favor, what do the sanctions end up being? And like you heard Megan Fox say, is a prosecutor going to take up this case for a woman who lied multiple times under oath and perjured herself?
Probably not. You never know. Anyway. Thanks again for listening. Sports Daily will be up in an hour from now. I appreciate everybody. And I will talk to you on Monday.
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