Free With Ads - Grease 2

Episode Date: April 2, 2024

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Welcome Welcome to Free With Ads, the podcast that asks the question, why pay Disney Plus eight bucks a month to watch high school musical when you can go on Pluto TV for free and watch an almost as good musical set in high school starring cigarette-smoking 35-year-olds. I'm Jordan Morris. And I'm Emily Fleming. Today's movie is Grease 2, the 1982 sequel that takes the basic plot of the original, flips a few genders, and crams in more sexual bowling metaphors than you can shake a thick,

juicy pin at. We're going to get into this movie, which is, as of this recording, streaming free with ads. But first, we wanted to talk about some other stuff we saw for free on the Internet this week. Other free stuff. Emily, mine is from Reddit. This is a Reddit post from r slash oh no consequences. Their description is, you know how there are people who are genuinely shocked by the consequences for their words and actions? Even when the consequences

are really obvious? Share the stories here. So that's the premise of this subreddit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And this is a Facebook post someone snapped a shot of from a like rave Facebook group. This is someone who goes to raves, but has a complaint about it that she's putting on Facebook. Great.

I love it. Just a little reminder. If you ever go to a show and see a child or baby there, I don't care how lost you are. Have some respect. Last night I went to Zed's Dead here in Spokane at the Knit, and it was an awful experience. People kept bumping into my 10-month-old son.

One guy spilled his drink on me and would not stop bumping me. Raving should be a safe and enjoyable environment for everyone, not a place for people to go to be rude and hurt each other. Plur always, bass fam. That's how we take care of each other. Peace emoji, love emoji. Plur, of course, is peace, love, understanding, and respect. Oh, okay.

But all the members of the bass fam know that. Oh, right. So this is a woman who is mad because people kept bumping into her when she brought her 10-month-old to a rave. Now, she mentions the act that was playing was Zedd's Dead.

Who's that? So that's a reference to Pulp Fiction. Okay. Zedd's Dead, baby. Because isn't there an artist Zedd, Z-E-D-D? Some dubstep kind of thing. So maybe this is related. So I had to look up Zedd's dead. Just to give you an idea of what this 10-month-old was experiencing.

Matt, play a little Zedd's dead for us. Yes, please. What 10-month-old wouldn't love this? That's true. I mean, so obviously. What 10-month-old wouldn't love this? That's true. I mean, so obviously, obviously people are mad at this poster, but like, she's going to have a cool baby. Yeah, for sure. This baby's going to be fucking cool.

And when you're at a rave, babies just act like they're on ecstasy, right? What is being a baby but always being on ecstasy? That's true. Everything's heightened. You love to suck. Honestly, you know, everybody, like, sucks on those pacifiers at raves. Now this person, you guys are culturally appropriating this baby. The baby's like, my culture's not your costume, says the baby. So, honestly, the baby's the only one who belongs there.

Y'all are just trespassing. You know what? People are complaining they brought this baby to a rave. I'm saying from now on, babies only at raves. Yes, from now on. That is who, and later in the post she talks about how she's been taking him since he was four months old. Whoa!

Anyway, yeah, so yeah, leave your baby at the rave and go to a nice wine bar. Adults. Emily, what do you got? yeah, so yeah, leave your baby at the rave and go to a nice wine bar, adults. Emily, what do you got? Okay, so I saw this really fun, you know I love thrift stores. We love cheap things. Oh, yeah, sure. We love cheap, free things, and I love a thrift store.

I am a thrifting swimsuit girl. Okay, so you'll thrift a... So I would imagine that the swimsuit is something that people would draw the line at. Uh-uh. I'm not judging either way.

I'm just saying some people might say, I'll thrift a pant. Well, I'll wash it. Yeah, of course. You wash everything. I'm not doing panties. Okay.

Because swimsuits, you're wearing like, what? Ten times a year tops? Mm-hmm. Like, panties, you're wearing them all the time not me man i live in that fucking i'm on day two of these panties actually so make it a lot of jewelry have you gotten uh have you gotten you've gotten swimsuits via thrift stores yes okay and i bought them used

on ebay and stuff like that all right yeah but um yeah so but this guy uh he made a little song about the panties that you see at the thrift store. Oh, good. I think it's great. Have you ever been at the thrift store and you walk by that? Thrift shop panty rack, holding panties of the past. Whispers linger on the panty rack of panties outcast. What stories do they tell?

These one bikini briefs. Strangers turn into myths, thoughts soaked in grief. Do you ever think of these panties on the street? Beautiful. I love it. But you personally, does this make you want to try a thrift store panty? No, it's just something I think about a lot when I go to a thrift store and I see the panties. Yeah, they're always in a bin. They're always in a plastic bin. No, no, no.

These were hung up. There's some places that they do hang them up and they hang up bras because I donate a lot of stuff. Right. You know, things I can't quite accept that I've grown out of. That I'm too big for. But the panties are like part of it.

Sometimes you get too big for your britches. You know what I mean? Sure. But it's like. It's like me when I won that Nobel Prize. I had to throw out all my underwear. But yeah. So I'm always like can I donate these things? And then you're like throwing away perfectly good panties.

I do. I make them dish. Not dust rags. I just. Here's what I do. I sell mine to podcast fans. Oh my God. Oh yeah. Maybe that is what I should do. It's good merch. Good merch. It's good money do. I sell mine to podcast fans. Oh, my God. Oh, yeah.

Maybe that is what I should do. It's good merch. Good merch. It's good money. I hate to put on my producer's cap. But I'll make sure they're real tiny so you guys will think I'm a teeny tiny girl. Try it. If you want to make some money, you got to sell panties to the fans.

All right. Well, I mean, I don't know. I'll jog in them, too. I'll jog. Yeah, you'll jog. You'll swim in them. Now, I don't know. You'll use it as a duster like Emily does I use it as a dust rag on my like wood you know

polish wood with it but yeah I don't know how I feel about selling my panties no you're donating them that's good I think donating them is the right way to go well hey speaking of despicable things that people have done for money, a lot of people were in Grease 2. Yes.

You know, I do want to talk about Grease 2. Can I circle back to last week's movie very briefly? Please do. It takes two. Something I have been thinking about that I just wanted to bring up that took me back to my childhood. Something I have been thinking about that I just wanted to bring up that took me back to my childhood. Remember when all kids' movies had a moment where the kid would do a prank and then pump their fist and go, yes! Yes!

That movie had like five of those. I loved it. Every time it happened, I'm like, yes! Oh, man. Can we start implementing that in our adult lives? Yeah, absolutely. Like when somebody buys my nasty shorts. Yes! Oh. Yes.

Oh. Yes. They buy my nasty shorts. When I get that little stain out of my vanity. Yes. Yes. With my panties. It's hard to do as an adult because I only do that now when a politician I didn't like dies.

Yes. Like Henry Kissinger died. Yes. Just like Macaulay Culkin when that paint can hits Joe Pesci. Yeah, exactly. All right, Grease 2. This is kind of a famous bad movie that I think has been reappraised in recent years. There is a hive of people that will say Grease 2 is better than Grease.

We'll say where we come down on that argument. But first, Emily, I wanted to ask, had you seen this movie before and what was the context? I saw it in high school. Yes, same here. I remember I was very active in the church choir. Yes. And sometimes we'd have like lock-ins in the church. We watched it there.

Yeah, the lock-in. That is a youth group activity. Totally. The lock-in is like, it's one of those things where they try and convince you it's more fun than going out and drinking. They're like, oh, you could go out and drink, but you could come to the youth group one where we lock you in and you watch all the Back to the Future movies and you can have as much Dr. Prepper as you want. If you're Emily Fleming, you could get fingered underneath the pews. Wow. My mom's going to hear this. Fingered underneath the pews wow because it was my mom's gonna finger in the pews the emily fleming story i mean under under excuse me

not in the pews not in the pews no but no you could because our respect for the lord yeah hide under the pews where the lord cannot see yes because for some reason like everything was pretty carpeted but underneath the pews was like stone, like slick kind of stone situation. That's a good place to get fingered. So if you're playing hide and go seek in the sanctuary, which is kind of what we did, you could slide under the pews to the front of the church. You just keep kind of sliding and hope they don't see you.

But then you kind of find a spot under the pews. Sure, you find a spot. And do some other you kind of find a spot under the pews. Sure, you find a spot. And do some other stuff. You find a spot. So wait, so they played this movie, Grease 2, for y'all. Yeah, I was fingered through the whole thing. Wow.

No, I'm kidding. She's like, we're going to watch Grease 2, the best movie ever made? Except for when they were singing Reproduction because I was like, no. Two on the nose. You can't make me. Get it out of there. I'm not learning and getting fingered at the same time. That's so interesting

because it is a very naughty movie. Pretty, yeah. It's pretty naughty. I saw it at like a cast party for like a high school drama club thing.

Love it. Were you in high school drama? Yeah, of course. Tell me more. Really? What were your big roles in high school?

I went to Catholic private school. I'm not Catholic. My mom worked there. Okay. And I needed to go there because I was a bad student. I needed help. Okay. And she needed to oversee me.

And you just needed a lot of pews to get fingered under. Well, that was the Methodist church. That's where they let you get finger blasted. They're not letting me do it. Thank you. I'm going to start writing all this down. Although, in Catholic school, I did find quite a few storage closets where I could do things. But one day I'll just go through every place I've ever been fingered.

That's a whole other podcast, isn't it? I hope you got a fucking week. Sure. Yeah, it'll be a marathon. No, it was really fun, actually, but you can't do Greece. We could not do Greece in Catholic school. Right, yeah. And we couldn't even do Shakespeare.

It's too racy. That's so funny. So we did, like, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Okay. We did Godspell. Right. Oh, right, there's all those, like, religious musicals from the 70s. Yeah, we also did Cotton Patch Gospel.

Okay. like religious musicals from the 70s yeah we also did cotton patch gospel okay which is a bluegrass version of you know the new testament like it's godspell but country okay and we did it in a tent with hay bales and people sat on hay bales my dad's cute my dad directed the band oh come on yeah it was pretty fun um and but i have done cotton patch Gospel twice and Godspell twice because my church also did productions oh right and as soon as we did

Cotton Patch Gospel they were like oh man we gotta do that and then I've done Godspell so many times I fucking hate those plays like I can't do it

ever again and then we did The Music Man I played the lead oh nice I was married in Peru hey really I was

my mom got me a vocal coach and everything it was super The Music Man. I played the lead. Oh, nice. I was Mary in Peru. Hey, really? I was. My mom got me a vocal coach and everything. It was super fun. Music Man's awesome. It is awesome. I can't dance, though. I was pretty stiff. Right.

And I think that, like, you know, in high school, you can be in these things without being a triple threat. And I will say that in this movie, not a lot of triple threats. There's some single threats. There's some single threats. There's some double threats. But there's some beauty. There is. Yeah. There's some lookers in this movie. But yeah, no one in this movie can do all three singing, dancing, acting like the cast of Grease 1.

Right, right. I'll say in my opinion. I agree. But yeah, I saw this movie as part of high school drama club. I think that's where you should see it for the first time, ideally. Wait, what did you do? Oh, okay. Let's see.

What did we do? We did Noises Off one year. And I got to have a British accent. And I loved it because I was a silly goose. And I loved to be a silly goose for everyone. That is one of my favorite plays. It's great, isn't it? That is not an easy play to do. Yeah, it's like a door

slamming farce. So, you know, it has to be like, I'm upstairs. And then, you know, one of the female leads got to be in a nightgown on stage. Oh my gosh. Very scandalous. Sarah Hansen, she told me about Tori Amos. I go over to Sarah Hansen's house and listen

to Tori Amos. Cornflake Girl. Yeah Hansen's house and listen to Tori Amos. Cornflake Girl. Yeah, right. I love that song. Me too. Cornflake Girl is great. Tori's a legend. She is.

Anyway, yeah, so we did, oh, and we also did Once on this Island, which is a Caribbean set musical. Ooh. Guess how much of the cast was white? Most.

So yes, I'm canceling my high school drama club here on the show. Uh-oh, you heard it here first. Yeah. Capo Valley High, class of 99. Yeah, canceled. Done. Anyway. We didn't know what we were doing. It was a different time.

But yeah, I really loved my, I joke about it, but I really loved my high school drama experience and we were goofballs and you know, we would, yes. So yeah, like those drama parties are where I watched a lot of like, you know, kind of big important movies. Grease 2, maybe not one of them. But like it's where I saw Rocky Horror for the first time.

So I saw The Craft for the first time. Oh, okay. So, yeah, a lot of my favorites were like at high school drama like sleepover parties. Totally. So, yeah, let's get into this thing. So it's the first day of school, 1961. They mentioned that the Russians have gone to space. There's a lot of weird historical stuff in this movie

that doesn't, that makes no difference at all. And there doesn't seem to be any commentary on, but it's just like, history's happening, huh? But there's like a bomb drill. Yeah, there's a bomb shelter in this. And it's, yeah, it doesn't really do anything. It's just kind of thrown in there. But it's 1961.

They're raising the flag. It's the first day of school. And we get those two familiar Grease subgroups, the T-Birds and the Pink Ladies. The T-Birds, they're Greaser guys. The Pink Ladies, they're tough chicks and they can only date each other because of some code or whatever. But I was also wondering,

do they get new jackets every year or do they just pass them down? That's an amazing question. Where do the jackets come from? Right. Because also the pink car that the pink ladies were driving, I'm pretty sure that that's the car

Marty was driving in Greece. Oh, maybe it is. So part of it is like, we've relinquished this car and our old clothes to you, young children. Sure. And then they walk into the sea. Yeah, yeah. They do. Rizzo just sets herself on fire.

They go out on an ice floe and the principal shoots a fire arrow. Let's have a Viking funeral for Kinnicky and Rizzo and the whole gang burning alive. We go together like. Oh, God, I'm burning. I'm burning. I'm burning. It burns. Take me to Valhalla.

My eyes. I live, I die, I live again. Anyway, that's the end of Grease 2. They just shoot a fire arrow at the flying car and burn them alive as they head to Valhalla. Anyway, so we got the T-Birds, we got the Pink Ladies. The main characters of each are in T-Birds. You got...

We got a guy who's like a Kanicki situation. Sure. There's people who are pretty much filling in the, you know, roles of the last thing. Sure, yeah. Also, Frenchie's there. Oh, yeah. So here's the thing.

So there's some cameos from the old cast, not John Travolta, not Olivia Newton-John, but like... The ladies who, the principal... The principal's there. Some of the coaches are there. And then Frenchie is there in what capacity? Is she a teacher? The ladies who, the principal. The principal's there. Some of the coaches are there. And then Frenchie is there in what capacity?

Is she a teacher? She's a flunky. No, she's like retaking school. Remember she dropped out of high school in the first movie. And then went to beauty school and then she sucked at beauty school. So she's come back to finish high school. She's going to study chemistry because she wants to create her own cosmetics. And I was like, oh my God, she's like an entrepreneur. I love Frenchie.

The original girl boss. She really is. Frenchie can have it all. Yeah, but the main reason I think she's there is to clarify that our new Sandy, who is Sandy's cousin, who is not Australian, he's British now. Makes no difference to the movie.

It's just the dumbest detail. It's Sandy's cousin! Well, what's funny to me is, in Greece, her being Australian was not part of the plot. She just couldn't change her accent. Right. So they said she was from Australia,

and then you get another guy who can't do an Australian accent, so you make him from Britain. And it's like, all right. Yeah. I don't know. Let's fuck it. And it's like, all right. Yeah. I don't know. Let's fuck it. Fuck it.

Yeah, at least they're not trying to do weird American accents, but whatever. It's true. But he's there. I don't know why, but he's hot as fuck. So the leader of the Pink Ladies is Michelle Pfeiffer. Woo! In one of her first roles. She was billed as a newcomer in this.

Yep. Looking great. She's like the Rizzo is what's cool. She's kind of like the Rizzo. Yeah, she's kind of a tough chick. She's not a, you know, she's a, I'll kiss who I want when I want. And I'll smoke all the time. Pretty much.

She's like the tough girl. Like, everybody wants to be Rizzo. Like, in the first one, Rizzo was the shit, you know? So it's like, what if Rizzo is the main girl? And I feel like that's kind of the vibe. Yeah. And she has this thing with, like, the Kineki guy whose thing is he mispronounces words. He calls albums albumins.

And use. He says use, use guys. I'm one of these guys. Yeah, yeah. And in the T-Birds, interestingly, you have Christopher McDonald who goes on to play the asshole in all the Adam Sandler movies. Yes. Like he's Shooter McGavin.

Yeah, he eats shit for breakfast. Yeah. Yeah. I love this guy. I love this actor. I was so glad to see him. And I think he's the tallest person in the movie. Tallest guy.

Woo! So, yeah, and he's really fun. And everybody's giving a big, big musical theater performance, except Sandy's cousin. His name's Michael. It rhymes with motorcycle. That'll come up a bunch. Oh, yeah. And he is,

I know a lot of people have affection for this guy, Emily. He is, of course, in Empire Records. My second favorite movie of all time. One of the greatest movies. He plays Rex Manning, which is a great part. In this movie,

he's just, he's, he's. Aloof. He's a void. He's a blank void. Yeah. He makes Kristen Stewart look like Nicolas Cage. Oh, wow. He's got negative emoting.

He's so blank in this. And you know what? That's how I like it. You love him? I don't want to know what he's thinking. Every time they cut to him, I just think of his internal monologue being like, I like rice. Yeah. I like rice.

I like being warm. I like being warm, too. Yeah. We all do. Let's do that together. So, yes, he's not giving a lot. He is giving a lot of handsomeness. Yes.

But, so, yeah, it's the first day of school. We're kind of going around in the classes. In the chemistry class, they're already mid-experiment. It is hour one on the first day, and they're already blowing stuff up with chemicals. I love that. Like, all right, start mixing them together, kids. We go out on the field. Some of the football players are, like, pushing those dummies and the coaches on top.

And then he falls into a pit. Why is there a pit? You don't have a pit? You didn't have a pit? I didn't have a pit. Everybody has a pit. No, I guess my high school was underfunded. We can't afford a pit.

We can't afford a shovel to dig in the high school pit. Yeah, I don't know what the fuck that was, honestly. This is kind of a funny piece of trivia. One of the runners running track, his ball comes out of his shorts if you pause it at the right moment. Why did you know that? Did you just see it? I looked on IMDb Trivia and a million people have clipped it out on YouTube. So if you want to see this extra's ball in Greece too.

Of course I do. Well, people have slow-moded for you on YouTube. Well, why don't they just screenshot that shit and send it to me? You're right. Don't make me work for it. Hey, you know, we have an email. Yeah, send it in the email. Free with ads at MaximumFun.org.

Here's the deal. I'm going to say this. Emily wants to see the ball. I want to see the ball. But also, Pluto, we usually do things via YouTube, free movies. Please don't make me do Pluto. You don't love the interface on Pluto. I don't because I

A, like on the laptop it's a pain in the ass. I don't want to and that's how I watch these things. And then I try to do it on a TV. It's a lot of I don't know. You got to sign in.

I know it's a little bit. Yeah, I don't want to. And then like the stopping and starting like imagine how many things are going to pop up when I'm trying to look at that nut. Sure. You're going to probably throw a few more ads at you while you're trying to look at a ball.

Also, the Pluto ads bum me the fuck out. It's just St. Jude's. Oh, yeah. That's all it is. Or it's Ashley Furniture. I don't have a house. I'm never going to have a house. I'm getting a lot of Marriott Bonvoy stuff.

Oh, okay. Rich. That's true. I can stay at a Marriott Bonvoy stuff. Oh, okay. Rich. That's true. I can stay at a Marriott. Fuck you, dude. And I can collect Bonvoy points. I was so bummed out while watching this movie because of those ads. Anyway.

So, yeah. The coach is in a pit. And we've alluded to this. And I think this is a popular joke about this movie. But everybody looks so fucking old. And I know. In high school stuff, you're usually dealing with actors who are in their 20s or whatever.

These people look 36. Yeah. And there's something about the film quality. Yeah. Like, you know, HD is the kiss of death right now. I hate HD. I think this movie is meant to be watched on a VHS tape. Right.

On a TV VCR combo. There's something about the first Grease, which I think it was filmed in the 70s. There's this kind of nice, hazy, fun... Filmy, yellowy. Yeah, and it makes people look less old. They still look old, but less so. But this one, it's like crispy.

I guess the director of this movie, according to IMDb Trivia, they wanted Tom Cruise to play one of the leads. And she said, I want someone taller and older. He was too short. And so she clearly was casting for like, I want old high school students. So she wanted Tom Cruise for Sandy's cousin? I don't know who she wanted him to play.

Maybe one of the T-Birds? I don't know. He would have been a good T-Bird. He would have been a good T-Bird. So yeah, now that we've kind of introduced you to the main cast, let's do our famous segment that we're doing for the first time, Oldest Teen. Woo! Oldest Teen.

Sorry, I had to do that one live. Emily, here's what we're going to do. We're all going to guess, and Matt, if you want to play too, you can. We're all going to guess who we think the oldest teen is in this movie. And while we chat, Matt, if you would, if you would look up everyone's ages and tell us who has picked the oldest teen. Emily, who do you think the oldest teen is? We have Lorna Luft as Paulette. She's got a full Golden Girls wig on and the most makeup I've ever seen.

Okay. Oh, golden girl's, yeah, you've snapchatted a photo of her here in our doc. Yeah. Very golden girl's.

It is. And not like, it's Betty White hair. She's blanching over there. She's blanching. Mm-hmm. I think it is Christopher McDonald.

And again, love this guy, love this guy in this movie, but he looks like your dad's divorced friend who has to sleep on your couch for a week. That's his appeal. Yeah, no, I know.

But this man not only isn't in high school here, but I don't think he's ever been to high school. This guy has just been a fucking manager of a big five for his entire life. Oh, I love him. I want to be the female equivalent to his career. This guy has just been a fucking manager of a big five for his entire life. I love him. I want to be the female equivalent to his career. Just be the waspy asshole and things?

That's going to be an amazing career. Amazing. If I could pick a Hollywood career, this is a pretty good one. You're just going to be a dick to Adam Sandler your whole life? That's great. But also, he pops up in everything. He sure does. And he's also always been hot. Yeah. He's been

just as attractive the older he's gotten. He's good looking. I don't know. Matt, so do you have a guess or do you want to just officiate this? I'll just officiate. Yeah. So yeah, Matt, do you have their ages here? I do. Oh my gosh. So who is the oldest teen? The oldest teen,

Lorna Luff. Hey! 28 years old. 28. She's 28? 28 years old. Ooh, girl. At the time of this movie, at least.

Yes, at the time of this. So she's younger than the people were in the first Grease, because the first Grease, they were 30-something year olds. Were they? I'm pretty sure. And how old was Christopher McDonald? Christopher McDonald was 26 years old. Okay.

He just has one of those faces. He's got one of those faces. It's his old man face. Very effective. Timeless. Yeah. And so there's a- Didi Cohn, of course, is the oldest of all the teens in the movie.

Didi Cohn played Frenchie. Okay. Well, right. She's not even supposed to be a teen at this point. But at this point, she's taking continuation classes. I. Well, right. She's not even supposed to be a teen at this point. But at this point, she's taking continuation classes. I want to say this. So Lorna Luft plays Paulette

and she has a little sister played by a little baby Pamela Adlon. I know. The voice of Bobby Hill. Yes. Yeah, I love that. She's so cute

and it's like I kind of wasn't paying attention. Sometimes I was like, why is this little girl with ringlet pigtails running around with these smoking fucking. Right. And she does actually look like a kid. Oh, yeah. It is shocking when she's like in the bowling alley smoking with them. So I think we should call her the youngest teen.

That's right. Hold on. Youngest teen. That's right. Hold on. Youngest teen. These are going to become beloved segments, I'm sure. Luckily, I have the music ready to go. Yeah, but she plays Lorna, the oldest teen's little sister. So they're all at school. First day, they're out on the track.

And like an evil motorcycle gang comes. Who are they and what do they do? No idea. They're all at school. First day, they're out on the track. And like an evil motorcycle gang comes. Yeah. Who are they and what do they do? No idea. They're just bad. But I think they're the same guys from the first movie who were the drag racing guys. Oh, really? Yeah.

I'm pretty sure the lead guy in that is the one. Because in this movie. Yeah. I feel like someone who just sat down like to the fifth Marvel movie without having seen the other ones. I'm like, who's that? What's an infinity stone? I accept things that I don't understand in movies because I have a hard time paying attention. And so if I don't know what's going on, I just go, okay. Because if I stop and ask questions, then I won't notice the next thing.

It's kind of like how when we all have ADHD, when we were in school and then you'd ask a question, but you were so proud of yourself that you asked the question that you forgot what the answer was. Yeah. And then you were behind anyway. So you just accept it and then go, I'll just pay attention to whatever else is going on. Sure.

And I'll get back there eventually. That's kind of like what I do with movies. I don't, in this case, I think if you spaced out, I don't think you missed an explanation as to who these guys are. But I'm pretty sure that those are the guys because they were into drag racing in the first movie. It was cars, you know, Grease Lightning.

But in this movie, it is motorcycles. Gotcha. Yes, this is a big old motorcycle movie. As we mentioned, Michael and Motorcycle Rhyme. We are reminded of that constantly. So the motorcycle gang comes. They kind of hassle the kids. There's a rivalry. I'm not sure why.

And then everyone agrees it's time to go bowling! Can I? Hang on one sec. This is my favorite thing. So the first movie, there's a dance competition. Right. We're drag racing. Uh-huh. That's it. Like, kind of. And there's slumber

parties. In this movie, we got a talent show. Got a talent show. We're really into bowling and motorcycles. Right. It's like the college essays that could come from these people, so much extracurriculars. Like, I love it. Yeah. It's like if the kids from Riverdale weren't fighting bears and taking down the mafia,

they'd all be getting into Harvard. Yes. When is anyone doing homework? Oh, that's so true. So they go bowling and they do this big bowling dance number, which is very cheesy, but I do think it is the most impressive thing in the movie. The dancing is very cool and the choreography is very cool. Yes, the dancers are cool.

I just was watching it going, everybody is giving it everything they have. They are. And I just looked at Michelle Pfeiffer going, fuck.

Yeah. Like, she's giving it everything she can, but I could just hear saying the words from this and going, these words are so bad. Yeah.

Like, I can't. She's like, I'm going to be such a good actor someday. Oh, I'm going to be so embarrassed of this. I will say that, like, all the lyrics from this movie do sound like they were written by AI. Yeah. They're like, we bowl and then we score and then we score in the car later.

So the movie is very horny, but no one in the movie seems to have ever had sex or understand it. And it's like everyone just like humps the air. Like I would like to see the characters pair off and try to have sex and see what they would do. I know. They would probably just like mash their hair together. Well also they're wearing so much leather. I would love to see a sweaty

teen get leather pants off to fuck. Everyone's sweaty and smells like cigarettes in this. Sex is when you pop your collar next to a girl. It's when you go to the malt shop and give her a comb and you comb her malt. What? Can I tell you about, okay, this is weird. I was babysitting this little boy once.

He was like seven. And I could tell he kind of thought I was, he had a crush on me. But I was like 16 or 17. And he was like, would you like to sex with me? And I was like, what? And he goes, sex with me. And I'm like, what is that? And he goes, it's when we both go sit on a blanket outside naked.

So he went upstairs and wrote this movie that night? Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And his parents paid me in tea candles. Oh. Scented. That's fun.

The ones where it was like a little thing where you put a tea candle in the base of a clay thing and then you put the wax in the top. Oh, yeah, that's neat. No. Okay. Just buy a fucking scented candle. Like, what are we doing? Perfect for sexing, though. Perfect for sitting on a blanket naked.

I mean, I just, oh, God. So there's another flaw that I find with this bowling scene. So it's a very, everyone's sexed up. They're going to score. We're going to score tonight. Has bowling ever made anyone horny? Yes. Okay.

I've been fingered at a bowling alley. But it was. It is a place, of course, after all. And the funny thing is, our youth group took us there. Wow. This is a very finger-heavy episode. Okay, okay.

I love it. Okay, wait, wait, wait. I love it. Keep it going. You want to clarify? It wasn't in the bowling alley. It was on the bus on the way to the bowling alley. Okay.

Well, it was, okay, on the way. Yeah. So the bowling alley, seeing the bowling didn't make you hornier. No, it was just, you just do it wherever you can get access. I understand. I understand. But, yeah. In a pinch, you know.

Nacho fingers don't sound great with a PH. Like, if someone's good atH Like if someone's good at bowling If someone's good at bowling That's like a warning sign, right? That's not like, ooh, good at bowling It's like, mm, they're good at bowling No, I don't know Your fingers are in there

I mean, you gotta have some kind of dexterity or something You know what? Great point Thank you Great point Matt is so ashamed by this conversation but no match is out there reading dilbert comics he's not listening most of being a horny teenager is finding a place to fool around okay without your parents finding out you're right and no one would suspect yeah maybe you're right shit like nobody would suspect it's the perfect crime although

i did get in trouble a lot crime a Although I did get in trouble a lot. It's the perfect crime. A lot. I did get in trouble a lot. It's the perfect crime, Emily. Whatever. I regret nothing. I think God is horny.

Sure. He made all this. He made bowling alleys. Yeah, he's watching us all the time. He's got to like it. Nasty motherfucker. Yeah. Have fun jacking off, Lord.

Anyway. Unjackin' off, Lord. Anyway. So Michael is coming to the bowling alley to try and relate to American teens. And on the way in, he's reading a book on, I guess, bowling etiquette. He's like, okay, so he's reading this little book. You left the pinky when you. Yes. He's like, ask to have a game.

Ask if you can share the lane. I'm like, who wrote a book about that? Anyway. And I guess they gave it to him at the airport before he came to America. Probably an Australian. He had to have it imported from where his cousin was. You're probably right. So he's coming in just as Michelle Pfeiffer is like telling her boyfriend or ex-boyfriend off.

And she's like, I'll kiss whoever I want. I'll kiss the next guy who walks in that door. We get a funny little shot of an old man. Ha, ha, ha. But then Michael walks in and they kiss and he is immediately obsessed. He is immediately obsessed with her. Well, I mean, you know, and who can blame him?

It's Michelle Pfeiffer. Who can blame him? So, you know, so that kind of starts the rom-com portion of this. And then we learn later at school that there's a talent show! Yay! Another thing to be doing. The only thing that makes singing relevant in a musical.

Right, yeah, the only way you can sing and it kind of makes sense. And the prize is 100 albums. You get 100 record albums. Isn't that a treat? And so we see some of the auditioning and rehearsing. The Pink Ladies are doing a season song, I'll Be Your Girl for All Seasons. Love that tune.

I really liked the costumes. I liked one of their rehearsal costumes. She's supposed to be like fall or something, and she just has a box that says tree written on it. I love that it's not a tree costume. It was just a box with a tree written on it. I thought that it's not a tree costume. It's just a box with a tree written on it. I thought that was funny. It's rehearsal. It's rehearsal. You just put on a box

and you write tree so people know you're going to be a tree. That's right. And so Michael kind of goes up to Michelle Pfeiffer backstage and that's where we get the Cool Writer song. Which is maybe my favorite song. Cool Writer's great. Cool Writer's amazing. Michelle Pfeiffer is amazing. She's great in this.

I hear that she had a tough time after this movie, like in auditions, she was kind of like, oh fuck, everybody knows me as the girl from this failed movie. Yeah, I know, I know. It was a huge bomb and I think they canceled like two Grease sequels because of this movie. Good move. Yeah. There shouldn't have been the first one. But yeah, but then she got like Scarface right after this. Oh, okay. Wow, she went from this like Scarface right after this oh okay

wow she went from this to Scarface well I mean you can see her face and her talent it's like that woman I know she is great

she comes out of this movie looking great I mean you know mixed results for everybody else but she is like totally a star she's great and in that shit later on

where she's like straddling him on the motorcycle she's doing that that's like not a stunt double she like did those stunts. But my favorite line in Cool Rider, I was listening to it. I was watching this with my good friend,

Caitlin Riley, who if you ever go on Instagram, you should check out King Margo. She's an artist. She does these little paintings on matchbooks. Please check her out. They're great. She's so great.

But yeah, there's a line that's just give me a black motorcycle with a man growing out of the seat. Yeah. Everyone is so into motorcycles and just like motorcycle ownership is all they care about. I mean, not only does that line sound like it was written by A.I., I dare you to put that into A.I. and see what happens. Nightmare. A.I. is like, I have some notes. There's just a creepy man who's like a centaur with like, you know, a half. Oh, yeah. Kill me.

Kill me. Kill me. My penis is in the engine. My penis. You know, he sounds like a penis. He's a Honda. So what Michael's takeaway from this is sounds like a motorcycle. He's a Honda. So what Michael's takeaway from this is, I need a motorcycle. And he starts doing everyone in town's homework so he can earn money.

This is one of the other gags I really liked in this. There's lots of little gags in this, and some of them are funny. So the Christopher McDonald's character is called The Goose. He's The Goose. And when he's doing his homework, under the name, he just writes The Goose, which I like. I love that. He just uses that name in all his classes. That's funny.

So, yeah. So we've got a couple of songs that this movie is known for. But I think Cool Rider, of course, the bowling song. But I think there's no song more associated with this movie than Reproduction. It's the best. It's not my favorite, but than Reproduction. It's the best. It's not my favorite, but it's pretty great. It is pretty great. It is a classic in its own weird way.

And I wanted to just use this moment before we talk about Reproduction, the sex ed sing-along. We should probably talk about Hunkwatch. Yay! It's Hunkwatch. And so I think my hunk of the movie is the substitute teacher who has to lead this sex ed class. It's played by Tab Hunter, who is a really interesting character.

That's a sexy name. Fucking great name, right? Is it real? I don't know. Who cares? Tab Hunter, great name. He was like a he was like a hunk in the 50s who was like kind of in the closet. And then John Waters rediscovered him and put him in a bunch of John Waters movies.unk in the 50s who was like kind of in the closet and then john waters rediscovered him and put him in a bunch of john waters movies so in the 80s he was cool again oh so that's kind

of why they put him in this i think is because he was kind of coming off that like john waters like punk rock counterculture coolness and uh yeah and he he is he's a real charmer in this he absolutely cannot sing, but I do want to play some of his bad talk singing because I think it's the best bad singing in the movie. Okay. The parts of a flower are so constructed that very, very often the wind will cause pollination.

If not, then a bee or any other nectar-gathering creature can create the same situation. It's great, isn't it? He's good. If there's anything that gets the pollen to the pistols right on the list, I'll try to make it crystal clear. A flower's insatiable passion turns its life into a circus of debauchery. Ooh. Now you see just how the stamen gets its dust on through the stamen. Power's insatiable passion turns its life into a circus of debauchery. Woo! Now you see just how this name gets its dust on through the stick. But I think one of the horniest, like, it's so horny, that song.

Oh, absolutely. But also, can I say that I really do enjoy that segment because they talk about a woman's cycle, which I feel like no one really teaches us anymore of understanding the actual dates and everything. I mean, I went to Catholic school and like- It's all about the pull out method. Rhythm. Well, rhythm method.

But they were not good at explaining it. The lady who taught it, her name was Mrs. Hoots, and she was pregnant with her eighth child while teaching us. Mrs. Hoots to be Tab Hunter. Mrs. Hoots. So he is my personal hunk of the movie. Do you have a different

hunk, Emily? I mean, it can't be nobody else but Maxwell Caulfield. Okay. Michael, our cousin of Sandy.

Our British cousin from an Australian lady who has never had an emotion. Also, we don't know if Danny and Sandy are doing well. Yeah, they don't really address it. We just know her cousin. Yeah, I wonder if they said no to cameos in this. For sure they did.

But Maxwell Caulfield, also known as Rex Manning from Empire Records. Also, Rex Manning Day, April 8th. Put it on your calendar. Get your Rex Manning costumes Manning Day, April 8th. Get your, put it on your calendar. Get your Rex Manning costumes ready. Monday, April 8th. I will be celebrating. He's so hot young, but I also think he's hot older. But I mean, I think there's a lot of good looking people in this movie for sure.

So yeah, that's a reason to kind of throw on the movie in the background. We have the reproduction song. It is a, it's a reason to kind of throw on the movie in the background. We have the reproduction song. It is a... A banger. It's a banger. How about the indoor plants in this school, huh? Right? They're beautiful.

The indoor plants really look great. It makes me want to cultivate my indoor plants more. I don't because I know mine would get moldy. I got to dust my taxidermy and shit. I don't have time to be doing stuff with plants. I understand completely. They're a lot of work. So this is interesting.

This is my little Mandela effect. I experienced rewatching this movie. I had always thought the lyric in this movie was, how does your garden grow? Okay. But the lyric, I guess, is, where does the pollen go? The answer to that, in the pussy. Anyway, but, and when I was watching this, I'm like, when are they going to say, how does your garden grow?

But they never said it. Is it possible that I saw like a TV edit where they thought pollen was too dirty? No, I think that probably the word garden is in there and grow is in there and you just kinda mashed them all together. But all I could think of is pubes when you say that. Oh yeah, sure. Yes, the garden of the crotch. The nasty Eden where horny God is looking for apples.

Yes, God. Yeah, I feel like when people like when Grease 2 comes up in conversation, I'm always like, oh yeah, where does your garden grow? People are like, that's not in the movie. No, that's not the line. Make my stamen go berserk. Great line. That song, that part

is great. Great line. Go berserk. Okay, so after so that's the reproduction song. Spoiler alert, it's all down here from here movie-wise. I need to take a break and go to the bathroom and make my stamen go berserk. Well, Emily, enjoy your stamen and we'll see you in a little bit. Okay. We're back. Truth adds.

We're talking about Greece, too. So. The best song is over. The best song is over. And everything else is. And everything else is. And everything else is kind of whatever from there. We should say that, so our guy gets his motorcycle and rides it around. He, I guess, saves all the characters from the evil motorcycle gang.

I don't know how or why. The evil guys are riding around in a circle and he like taunts them. And then he saves, and then the motorcycle evil guys don't like that. So they leave. I don't know what happened in that scene. Yeah, I don't get,

all that we know is that he showed off and Michelle Pfeiffer went bananas. She loved it. And he's got like his face kind of covered. So he's kind of like a Zorro motorcycle guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who is this masked man? Yes.

And there's a little nod to it. He asks her, when's the last time you read a Superman comic? Just to kind of nod to us that like, yeah, we know. It's just Clark Kent taking off the glasses. In this case, he's putting on motorcycle goggles. Right, right. So they're into each other now, but she doesn't know who it is. Right.

There's a fallout shelter song. Wait, did he have an accent when he was talking to her about the Superman comic? Honestly, I do not know what this guy sounds like. He's British, but it's just like, there's nobody else British in wherever the fuck this school is.

Duh, bitch. Right. Yeah, that too. Yeah, you're in New Jersey or wherever. Or wherever, yeah. Anyway, so there's a song in a fallout shelter. That's a little nod to it being kind of like in the 60s. There's like a bomb drill where they tell everybody to... Yeah, there's an air raid siren.

Yeah, and then two characters that we don't really know that much go and fuck for America. Yes, but they don't actually do it because in this movie no one actually knows how to have sex or what sex is. They don't do it? I thought they did it. No, she finds out that he's like tricking her. Oh, women love to be tricked with fake nuclear war. Nothing against ladies hornier. That's right. He's like, the song is Let's Do It For Our Country.

Right. And it's like, the song is, let's do it for our country. Right. And it's like, well. And he's tricking her into thinking, like, they steal the air raid siren. And she's like, oh, no, the bombs are dropping. Well, he's like, I'm going to. What a horrific prank, by the way. Well, just like the manipulation. Of sure.

But just like, I'm going to have to go to war soon. So you owe me sex. Yeah, got it. We got it. Yeah. Let me get you pregnant and then die yeah leaving you with a baby honestly that's a better scenario than living with honestly great great point yeah uh so so so the leader of the t-birds finds out that she's been hanging around with mystery

motorcycle guy she being michelle pfeiffer and she gets kicked out of the pink lady. She's got to turn in her jacket. And so our guy sees this and he's really heartbroken, Michael. And just to drive home how generic a guy he is, to illustrate how he's sad, they just show him drawing hearts on a piece of paper. Like it's so on the nose. It's so first draft. And he's drawing hearts. I don't know. And then they just kept that in.

Heart is love. I feel heart. Must draw heart. That's the most character development we've had from that guy. He can draw. He can draw a heart. There we go. He feels love.

He's drawing that heart. There's a thing where the T-Birds chase him up dead man's curve. I like that there's dead man's curve. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. And they think he crashes his motorcycle. Oh, no. And dies.

Yes. Oh, no. Is he dead? And everyone's just kind of fine with it. Except for Michelle Pfeiffer. Except for Michelle Pfeiffer, who's bummed out. Everyone else is cool and just does the talent show. Yep.

The talent show is pretty fun. We get to see everybody's crazy costumes. The calendar costumes are really cool. My favorite one was there's a woman who is dressed as a quarter and she's wearing like a leotard with George Washington's face and the quarter is around her. It's so funny and weird. That's the biggest laugh I got from the movie was this woman's quarter outfit. It really is high production value. Yeah, it's a really.

I bet this is where I bet. I feel like Mean Girls is super inspired by this movie. Oh, for sure. I feel like the color palette and like, yeah, I don't know. I feel like Mean Girls is like stealing its vibes from Grease 2. My favorite thing is like these kids who are you know, criminals

are also like involved with theater. Right. In the talent show. No matter how tough you are, you're still in an acapella group. Yeah, they're like, this guy died, but we also like bowling. Oh, doop, doop, doop,

doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, doop, we're tough, tough, tough, in a gang. In a gang. Fucking acapella dork. But, yeah. And so Michelle Pfeiffer

is really sad, and she starts just going off script and singing her own boring ass song. And she's wearing like a Christmas tree outfit. She's a sad Christmas tree. And she imagines herself singing to him on a pile of ghost motorcycles. There's all these painted white motorcycles in her dream.

And I'm like, are they dead? I guess she just thinks motorcycles are guys. Well, I think that was just the ditch from the football field. And that's like where that's what happens. Yes, that's where a motorcycle goes when it dies. The school pit. But also, I want to bring up there's a million different good costumes in this talent show. But I think I have the worst slash best hat.

The worst hat. Okay. So in one of the scenes, I think it's supposed to be girl of all seasons is the song. I think that these are all supposed to be seasons. So maybe this is summer. But there's a girl who is basically wearing a giant baseball mitt on her head with a ball attached to it. And I had never noticed it before her her so on her head she's wearing a baseball mitt giant on the bottom it looks like street chun lee from street

fighter it is like the weirdest combination but then she has a giant well actually the baseball bat looks like it's regular size oh yeah it looks like it's coming out of her butt. What is going on? Yeah, this is an insane talent show. You would think they could divert some of this money to fill in the pits that are in their football field. Yeah, and my favorite thing is that the T-Birds are like helping out their stagehands. You can see them in the background of that photo.

And it's like, you know, this motorcycle gang that pretty much committed murder the night before is like, all right, I'll be in the wings. I'll help you do a quick change. Yeah, exactly. Everyone just loves theater. The love of theater is palpable in this school. Yeah. So the talent show happens.

Michelle Pfeiffer and the Goonie T-Bird guy are crowned king and queen of the luau that's coming up. Why? Is there a luau? She says there has to be another thing that happens. Well, it's basically the hand jive song. Yeah. But then they fit this luau thing in there. I know, yeah.

I feel like maybe like our beach movies kind of having a resurgence. There's that Back to the Beach movie with Frankie and Annette that came out around this time. I don't know. I don't know. There's an all-white person luau. God.

It feels like, you know, people have themes for prom. Right. I guess that luaus are sometimes the theme. It's like that's their deal. But there's a giant, like, pool that they all, like, swim in. There's, like, boats in the pool. It's not even that giant. They just put this, like,. There's like boats in the pool. It's not even that giant. They just put this like Viking death like raft with Michelle Pfeiffer and then what's his fuck.

And they just float them out in there. Yeah. And she's miserable. She hates that guy. She hates that guy. And so the evil motorcycle guys attack. And we finally get to see them do kind of something bad. They're like smashing stuff.

They're really bad. So I'm like finally we're going to see these bad guys be bad. And it was kind of scary. I was like this is dangerous. It is dangerous. You're right. You're like smashing stuff. They're really bad. So I'm like, finally, we're going to see these bad guys be bad. And it was kind of scary. I was like, this is dangerous. It is dangerous. You're right. You're right. They were being unsafe, riding their motorcycles through the luau. Yes. And then so our dude shows up. He's alive. He chases them off. Again, I'm not

sure how he's defeating them or what he's doing. I don't think. I think we just accept it. Yeah. It's like he's there and he won because he's good and they're bad. He won. He beats the guys somehow. Everybody falls in the pool. They make him an honorary T-bird and they put a leather jacket on him. He's already wearing a leather jacket. They just put, imagine wearing two leather jackets out in the hot sun. Honestly, I dream about it every

fucking day. It's going to happen for you, Emily. Thank you. I know it is. So that's kind of the end of the movie. They do a thing at the end where everybody jumps at the camera and they freeze. And we see the credits. It's like yearbook style credits. And that's kind of fun.

And that's it. That's Grease 2. We're going to tell you what we thought about it. But first we want to talk about the best lines in the movie. Here's mine. This is one of those just like little throwaway gags that I do genuinely like, and I like the style that this is presented in. This is after the reproduction song.

Okay. Speak to you, Miss McGee. Yes, dear. What about? I'm a little worried. I've missed my last two periods. That's all right, dear. You can make them up after school.

Where does the pollen go? Boink! She has an unwanted pregnancy. Boink! I just love punctuating jokes with a boink. Matt, if we could get a boink, that'd be great. Yeah, that's no problem. I can get you guys a boink.

I can get you a boink in like five minutes, too. My favorite thing is there's one of us who knows where the pollen goes. He has a kid. That's right. Matt, where does the pollen go? It goes inside the lady. Whoa. And how does your garden grow?

That's not in the movie. Boink. Boink. Boink. What's your favorite line in the movie? So my favorite line, the opening number, the back to school again. What a mess. The pink ladies come up.

And I don't know if there was a pink ladies pledge in the first movie. But apparently there is in this song. So if you could play the pink ladies pledge. Pink ladies pledge to act cool. To look cool and to be cool till death do us part think pink just

you know what they're right cool does rhyme with cool act cool look cool just be cool yeah what belief system are we forming this gang around also that is like a pretty um

complex thing to be you know what you're absolutely right you know what is cool what is cool god fucking great question

Emily thank you what is cool what is cool what is cool we're all millennials I don't think we know anymore we don't

it's rock and roll music. I'll show you something cool. That rock and roll bowling. Searching for the best SFX. I have a doink. There's an ad. There's an ad before the doink? So even our sound effects

are free with ads? We can't even afford to pay for a doink? We can't pay for a movie. We can't even afford to pay for a doink? We can't pay for a movie. We can't... You're laughing over my doink. Doink in. That wasn't even a good doink. All right, now let's watch a progressive ad.

Hi, I'm Flo. What's up, Flo? All right, so we're going to give this movie a rating, but first we need to take a little break and doink our doinks. We'll be right back. It's Free With Ads. We're going to tell you what we thought of Grease 2. We are going to rank this movie on a scale of 1 to 10 super loud commercials.

Emily, you want to go first? Sure. I'm going to give it a three. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Especially the Pluto ads. I hope that Pluto doesn't listen to this.

But like, woof. Every time they came up, I was like, ugh. And the movie took like, I think, like, I don't know, a half hour longer to get through. Like, it was such a slog. I think it like, I don't know, a half hour longer to get through. Like, it was such a slog. I think it was fun. It was good to see it again. It's just, number one, the pacing when you're getting cut off by ads so much, it doesn't keep you in it.

I can't stay in it. You weren't in it. I wasn't in it to win it. I'm glad I watched it, though, and now the songs won't get the fuck out of my head. Okay. And that's pissing me off. I'll go a tad higher than you

what I'm gonna say this is a four for me okay okay I it's a bad movie

it is a famous bad movie for a reason right it is kind of fun in the way that like fun bad movies are

yeah I think if you want to like enjoy this movie but don't want to waste a shit ton of time watching it, look up Cool Writer on YouTube. Yeah, look up the music videos. Look up Reproduction, look up the Bowling Song,

and then don't waste your time with the other stuff. It's inconsistent. Not all the songs are great. The acting's all over the place. Yeah, not a great movie, but some charm in there that you can absolutely get from watching clips and then just watch another movie.

And the funny thing is when I was watching it, I was like, there are too many songs in this movie. A lot of songs. It's the exact same amount as the first movie. It feels like a lot of songs. It feels like way more. So that's Grease movie. It feels like a lot of songs. It feels like way more. So that's Grease 2. It exists.

You can watch it if you want to. Let's talk about some plugs. Emily, you got anything going on? Oh, another episode of Meals of History is coming soon. Yes. Make sure you're subscribed. Yes, yes. I don't think I want to spoil it yet.

It's a good one. It's a more modern day one. We don't do modern ones very often, but this is a historical event that happened post-2000. Okay. So subscribe to that Mythical Kitchen channel over there on YouTube. Hey, if you're in the Southern California area, May 3rd and 4th, I will be at the Y'all West YA Book Festival over there in Santa Monica, yallwest.com. It is a festival for YA authors. They have an insanely cool lineup that you can

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