Newcomers: Scorsese, with Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus - A League of Their Own (w/ Molly Kearney and Melanie Field)

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

Lauren and Nicole are back covering the baseball classic A League of Their Own with very special guests from the eponymous Amazon series, Molly Kearney and Melanie Field! Along with BTS tea from the fan-beloved series, the gang also gets into the intricacies and hurdles of women’s sports in the 20th century, whether they love or fear the ocean, as well as shining a deserving light on Rosie O’Donnell’s hit-after-hit acting career in the 90s. Batter up! Follow Molly: Instagram, TwitterFollow Melanie: InstagramJoin us next week for our episode covering Rocky! Like the show? Rate Newcomers 5 stars on Spotify and Apple Podcasts and leave a review for Nicole and Lauren to read on the pod!Follow the podcast on Letterboxd.Advertise on Newcomers via Gumball.fmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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audiobook is free. Visit audible.ca to sign up. I'd like to lead you all in a little prayer. Dear Lord, may our feet be swift, may our bats be mighty, may our balls be plentiful. And Lord, I'd just like to thank you for that waitress in South Bend. You know who she is. She kept calling your name. This summer, Tom Hanks is managing the impossible. The Rockford Peaches. Go, Peaches!

Who says girls can't play baseball? Who says women can't throw? Slide! Slide! Thank you! Give them a league of their own to play Then stand back and get out of their way That sounded good. So that's all root for the girls' team.

Let's give the four coach a break. You're still missing the cutoff man. That's something that I would like you to work on before next season. Cause it's Flash, Flash. We're having a bash at the old ballgame. Ha-ha-ha-ha! Got him! Columbia Pictures would like to take you out to the ballgame

for an all-star comedy. They'll pay you $75 a week. We only make $30 at the dairy. Well, then, this would be more, wouldn't it? The manager, Tom Hanks. Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball.

The catcher, Gina Davis. What do you say we slip in the back seat and you make a man out of me? What if I smack you around for a while? Can't we do both? The pitcher, Lori Petty. I made it. I'm a Pete! A Rockford Pete. The scout, John Lovitz. Laurie Petty I made it! I'm a peach!

A Rockford peach! The Scout, John Lovitz Are you coming? See how it works is, the train moves, not the station. And batting clean-up, Madonna What if my uniform bursts open and oops, my bosoms come flying out? You think there are men in this country who ain't seen your bosoms? A league of their own Alright, God knows we have a game.

It's not like any of this helps, believe me. Directed by Penny Marshall. Wow, welcome to newcomers! Playing for the home team, it's me, Nicole Byer. And me, Laura Lapkus. And of course, we have Coach Allie watching along from the sidelines. And guess what? This season, we're covering 10 of the sports movies that we feel like, or our producers feel like, are cultural home runs and win in the proverbial World Series.

Oh, we love these plays on words. Play ball! Today, we'll be watching the iconic baseball film starring Gina Davis, Tom Hanks, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, and Madonna. 1992's A League of Their Own. And guess what? A League of Their Own is streaming on the Roku channel. I don't think I have Roku because I paid a fee. And it is available for a fee on any of the

other major streamers. And guess what? We're going to fucking spoil this movie. So if you don't want that, you got to watch the movie first. Yes. And I also paid a fee, but it was worth it for the emotional highs and lows the film offered to me. lows the film offered to me. Well, playing for the visiting team today, we are so excited to have Molly Kearney and Melanie Field. Molly is a standup comedian and actor known for their work as a cast member on a little show called Saturday Night Live. She's tiny.

Molly also played the role of Fern Danilly in the Amazon series, A League of Their Own. And Melanie is an actor known for her work in Killing It, Florida Girls, Heather's and also fitting for today, played Joe DeLuca in the Amazon series. I love it. Welcome, Molly and Melanie. We are so excited to have you here to talk about this movie because you're more of an expert than we are. Yeah, very much.

I'm very, very much experts. That's what I was going to say. It works. Very experts. Molly, Melanie, what is your relationship to the sport of baseball and to this film? Well, because I'm gay, people think I'm really good at it. Are you not? And I'm gay, people think I'm really good at it. Um... Are you not?

And I'm left-handed. I never played, like, in an organized league, but I can throw a ball quite well, I'd say. And I like baseball. When girls play it better, I can't speak either. when girls play it better. Well, I can't speak either. Yeah. You prefer when girls play baseball versus instead of men or just girls who play?

I mean, don't we all? I mean, I'd love to. Don't you love to see them throw those balls? Oh, my God. I like baseball, too. No, I grew up, I guess, playing softball, which for those of you who don't know is basically baseball, but the balls are bigger

and the rules are basically the same. I don't really know. And it's so funny because I didn't even know that girls played baseball until I did the League of Their Own Series and we were coached by these incredible female identifying baseball players. Like, full baseball.

Yeah, our coach, Justine... I don't think I'm aware of this outside of the movie and there is obviously history there, but I feel like you never hear about women playing baseball. Yeah, there's like this organization called Baseball for All that actually like our coach started or is in charge of and These incredible baseball players came to coach us and they were fucking badass

That's so cool Yeah, so I was like, oh this so speaking to what Molly said like it is cool when girls do it and they were so good I mean like We were in camp with them, you know, so they were teaching us but showing us a lot of stuff and I'm like Oh, so that's what we're supposed to look like. Oh my God. Did you feel scared of that? Because when I, when I, I watched your show, which you both were great on, I like, that's the most intimidating part as an actor is that you're like,

I have to portray a baseball player and make it believable. Right. Yes. And everyone was like, you know, we were a cast of like really intense hardcore overachievers and we were all like really passionate about it. So we were like, the most important thing is that these women look awesome doing baseball. Like they need to look like incredible athletes. And so we were like working our butts off in camp, but there's only you know, so much you could teach and then the rest of it is kind of like. Wait, how long was camp?

Oh my God, so we did, Molly, I'm so sad you missed out on this chapter of League of Their Own, the camp section. I didn't go to camp because I was only in the part where we had to be feminine. So. Yeah, it's such a shame there was no baseball involved in the feminine part. I was only in the feminine part.

It was only in the part where we had to be feminine. Yeah, like I was literally learning from what the character was going through. I was like, oh, it's blush, okay. We really missed out. You missed out, but we missed out not having you there, especially with your strong arm that you just told us about. What a look, great on camera. We did, let's see, we did like a week of training, I think it was about a week of training before the pilot.

And then a lot of time went by before we shot the series and they put us back in training. That was a week or two weeks, I think. And yeah, it was just like learning, for people who didn't know anything about baseball, it was like learning the basics, the rules. And then a lot of it was like trying to learn practical skills, but also learning for camera.

So this is how you throw the ball when it's gonna be CGI. This is how, you know, that kind of stuff. CGI didn't cross my mind. No, it really didn't. Oh, I guess that blew my mind. I was only there for a short stint. And I remember, I'm like, I think I started to, I'm like, where's the ball?

Yeah. It's like, there is no ball. I'm like, so you I started to like, where's the ball? Yeah, like there is no ball. I'm like, there's never there's never a ball. Well, well, it sounds like this is bull. I think there was sometimes a ball, like if it was like a quick like flip, you know, sometimes you like flip the ball to first or like, yeah, if there were like very easily shootable moments of like a quick throw or something or a grounder or something. But a lot of times it was like you've you had a ball in your hand and you like caught the ball and then like threw the ball but never let go of it kind of thing.

Yeah. Which was like really hard. That is hard. That really took me a minute. It's like hard enough to make it look good when you're actually throwing it and then to be like I'm not really throwing like obviously I don't know if anyone can see what I'm doing right now, but I look very dumb doing it. But like, I feel like I wouldn't be able to throw. I would throw definitely worse if I had to keep holding on to it. Yeah. Like I think I would look really, really stupid. To be really counterintuitive.

I also have another. OK, so I'm not an athlete. I don't really like running. I don't really like being outside unless I'm sitting. So you have to like run to bases and stuff. And then camera will be fucked up or lighting will be fucked up. So did you have to run a lot? And were you mad about it? Definitely had to run a lot. Um, was definitely not mad about it, but was definitely like, oh, we're doing this again. You know what I mean? And sometimes it was like, you know, heads up,

I have like two more in me, that kind of thing. Like, let them know. There was one running scene I remember very specifically, which was the coach Dove, played by Nick Offerman, brilliantly, by the way, he like punishes my character by making her run suicides in one of the episodes. And so I was doing it.

And they have like a stunt double for me, which was great. And she was wonderful. But I was like watching her on the monitor and I was like, wait, like that doesn't look like me. That's not like how I run. Like it doesn't look like my body, not my body, but like how I run. And I was like, I'll do it.'t look like me. That's not like how I run. Like it doesn't look like my body, like not my body, but like how I run.

And I was like, I'll do it, like put me in, I'll do it. And then I was like, why did I do this? But I definitely respect that. No, I respect that though, because I feel like as the viewer, that's like, sometimes you're like, oh, that's not her. You know, it's like, Well it would have just bothered me.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, I don't want to watch it back and be like, that's not me. You know what I mean? Yeah, like it's nice to just go like, oh yeah. It feels more realistic. I mean, it would've just bothered me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, I don't wanna watch it back and be like, that's not me, you know what I mean? Yeah, like it's nice to just go like, oh yeah, it feels more realistic, I mean, it is. I appreciate that. Well, okay, we have a segment called The Shot Clock. And now each of us are going to have 10 seconds

on the clock to summarize the film. So Allie's gonna count us down, she's gonna start the clock and then we're gonna hear a buzzer when we run out of time. So each person's gonna get 10 seconds to say the plot of A League of Their Own as fast as you can. Okay? Who wants to go first? Do we do it all at once?

Oh, no. No, that would be great, though. That would be wild. She's like... RARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARARAR Okay, would anybody like, I'll go first. I'll go first. Okay. Okay, ready? Three, two, one, go.

Two sisters live on a farm, then they get to go play in the baseball league and one of them gets to be on the special team and then she wins and then they go, they get old and they all die. Amazing. Okay, who wants to go Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Who wants to go next? I'll go.

Okay. Oh, go. Oh, no, no, you go. You go. No, no, no. I insist you go. Oh, shit. Okay.

Okay. Okay. Three, two, one, go. There's these two sisters that are milking cows and John Levitt's coming in and she's like, get over here and play some baseball. You can make more money. And they play and they travel and the big sister gets better.

And then Tom Hanks cries. Dying. I only got two verse. Oh my God. Okay, I'll go. Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Old lady starts remembering her and her sister go play baseball, John Lovett kicks a chicken,

and then they play, and then Tom Hanks is drunk, and then he's undrunk, and then everyone is happy. Old lady remembers. Right, and she goes and she's like, the whole thing's a memory. I have so much to say about all of that. Okay, I can't wait. Okay, Melanie, your turn.

Okay. Three, two, one, go. It's World War II, the men are off at war. Someone has a really great idea to make the women play the baseball. Isn't that crazy? We'll make them wear skirts and it'll be wild and fun. Oh my God.

That was good. That was really good. Cause that got the historical context that we were all missing. I was really focused on John Lovett. I mean, I wanted more. Your description was mainly about John Lovett, but yes, he was the main character.

Who's the real star, you know? He had it. Okay, we got to take a timeout. We are going to be back with all of a league of their own afterward from our sponsor. Ready? Break! Break! Ha ha ha!

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And it was written by Kelly Cannadale, Kim Wilson, and Lowell Gans. And it was directed by Penny Marshall. I love Penny Marshall. Me too! And Gary was directed by Penny Marshall. I love Penny Marshall. Me too. And Gary was all up in there. Gary was all up in there.

Rip indeed. Yeah, very good 4th of July film. I think that was a great move. We're gonna jump into the plot. Everyone can jump in, say your thoughts on the film whenever you want. So in 1988, Dottie Hinson, Lin Cartwright, now already my mind's blown because I thought

that was Jada Davis in old age makeup. So did I. They used her, I looked it up because I was like, I had thoughts about it and then I looked it up and it's like, it's not even her and it was her voice coming through. Like they dubbed her voice over her. Okay, that's what I thought.

That freaked me out. I was like, this feels like this was 80 yard. But then I was like, but I think she's an old lady makeup? I was like, this feels like this was 80 yard. But then I was like, but I think she's in old lady makeup. I was real confused. But she looked so much like Gina Davis in old lady makeup. It made so much sense. It was amazing casting, but that blew my mind

when I didn't know until the end. And I was making all these jokes that I was gonna talk to you about, about like, oh, they should have put the kid in old age makeup when he comes back at the end. And I was like, no one's in old age makeup. No one is. They're all just old ladies.

Anyway, so she attends the opening of the new All American Girls Professional Baseball League Exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. And she sees so many of her former teammates and friends and it prompts a flashback to 1943. And I gotta say, this is a long flashback. Yeah, it's the whole thing.

I've never had a thought that was two hours long. I feel like you and I cap out at like 10 seconds. Yeah, truly. Okay, when World War II threatens to shut down Major League Baseball, a candy magnet, is that the word? And Cubs owner, Walter Harvey, Gary Marshall, who I love, persuades his fellow owners to bankroll a women's team. Ira Lowenstein, David Strahler,

is put in charge at Ernie Cubs. Okay, Melanie Molly, I'm not good at reading names especially. So we're having fun. And Ernie Capodino, John Lovitz is sent out to recruit. Oh, my God, I can't read normal words. Recruit players. I want it more. John Lovitz. He was so funny. Yeah, he was. Do you think he was improvising? I felt like he was.

I feel like he had a couple of moments where he was like, you shut up and. Yeah, I believe that. I who wouldn't let him do it? Let him improvise, right? You got to let him go free. Have you ever heard of a leash? He laughed so hard.

He really I don't know why I'm so focused on him, but I do. He killed it.'t know why I'm so focused on him, but I do. He killed it. Oh, yeah, you put him in your 10 second. You put him like by name in your. Melonies like Melonies 10 seconds was like the most like overview, like actual important information about it. And Molly was like John Lovitz is in this.

I loved what he was like, doesn't that hurt the cows? His voice is so silly. I know. I don't want to hurt a ball. So he attends an industrial league softball game in rural Oregon and likes what he sees in Dottie, now played by Gina Davis, who is like so gorgeous, the catcher for a local dairy team. Dottie turns down Cappadino's offer, happy with her simple farm life while waiting for her husband Bob, Bill Pullman, to come back from the war. Her sister and teammate Kit, her sister and teammate Kit, Lori Petty, who's incredible, however, is desperate to get away

and make something of herself. Cappadino is not impressed by Kit's hitting performance and refuses to evaluate her pitching, but agrees to take her along if she can change Dottie's mind. And Dottie agrees, but only for her sister's sake. Lori Petty, so amazing. Love her. Yeah, she's great. So my favorite.

I love her too. Mostly because of her work in Free Willy. Oh, my God. What a throwaway. Wow. As a child, that movie really touched my soul, which is hilarious because I have now as an adult, I have a pretty deep seated fear of sea life,

but I don't remember being afraid of Free Willy, the movie. And I just remember Lori Petty being like, she was the kid's like BFF and she was like so nice to him. Oh, my God. I need to like remember this because I forgot she was in that movie. Me too. I was really focused on the song. No, she's that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I just had a moment of like, oh, my God. No, she's like the whale trainer and stuff.

Yes, 100% of course, yeah. Why are you afraid of sea life? I am too. Really? How afraid? How afraid? Like, can you look at pictures? One of my dreams is a dolphin comes to visit me and like takes me into the ocean.

No. Like, Avatar 2, Way of the Water, I was so into it. And people's criticism is like the middle of the movie is just them talking to whales and swimming. And there is no story. And I was like, yes, give me more of that. I love the ocean. Have you ever seen the movie The Shallows,

I'm getting off topic, the movie The Shallows with Blake Lively when she gets stuck and she's using the whale carcass to survive? Oh no. No, see, whales help, dead or alive. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Melanie, are you, Melanie?

I just don't like the idea of not being able to breathe there and they can breathe there. You know, it's like, we're not supposed to be there. Like we weren't in, we're not supposed to be there. And like my vision is that I'm underwater, You know, it's like, we're not supposed to be there. Like we weren't in, we're not supposed to be there. And like my vision is that I'm underwater. For some reason I'm scuba diving, which is crazy, cause I would never do that in a million years,

but I'm like scuba diving and I'm like looking at, such a specific fear, but I'm like looking at the coral reef or whatever. And then I don't know, but there's a huge, huge whale. It's always a whale for some reason at a coral reef. Don't get me started. But if there's a whale and like, I don't know the whales behind me, but I like feel a presence and I turn around and I see this like huge sort of like black bob in the distance.

And then it just like slowly comes up and reveals itself. And I'm just trapped there. Don't watch Pinocchio. Yeah, absolutely not. Absolutely not. That'll really give you the rules. So for some reason, that's my fearocchio. Yeah, absolutely not. Absolutely not. That'll really give me the rules.

For some reason, that's my fear. Yeah, yeah. It's the distance, like not knowing that they're there and then they slowly come in frame. That's like the dream of mine. I want to go scuba diving. I want to make friends with a whale. Cause I'm like Delulu.

Like I truly think a whale or a dolphin would be like, this lady's so nice. I want to be her friend. And then I'll be friends with a whale. I just saw a picture of a shark that was 360 years old and has been swimming since the 1600s or something. Oh my God. Think of the wisdom in that shark.

Talk about a bread. Stories you could tell. Yeah. Oh my God. Think of the wisdom in that shark. Talk about a brag. Yeah. My God. It looked disgusting. Probably hooking up with mermaids and stuff. Probably. Or at least watching. They were back then.

Watching. How do we get to whale? I forget. Lori Petty. Free whaling. But back to the summary. Lorie Petty. Yes. Oh, freewheeling. Yeah. But back to the summary. So Dottie and Kit head out to Harvey Field in Chicago for the tryout.

They meet a pair of New Yorkers, a taxi dancer, may, taxi dancer? What's a taxi dancer? So I learned this from watching Taxi Driver last season. And it's like, she's not a stripper, but she is a dancer that entertains taxi drivers specifically while they're on breaks, I think. I haven't looked at her since last season.

We have Strayed, why don't we have that anymore? Why isn't there an Uber dancer? Do you think it was like a drive-in movie and the strippers would come out in front of the car and be like, diddle-dee-dee-dee? Oh my God. Diddle-dee-dee-dee, diddle-dee-dee-dee. Oh, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha and her best friend is a bouncer named Doris Murphy, Rosie O'Donnell, who I love. I love Rosie O'Donnell. Rosie was everything.

Wait, this is like a moment in time where Rosie was in like every movie and she was so amazing in all these different roles, like so many different types of characters. I mean, I'm thinking about now and then, which was one of my favorites. Like she was just doing it all. Flintstones, hilarious.

And we loved her so much. And I feel like we don't give her the cultural respect that she deserves from that time period of being like our movie star. I agree. I also agree. She was bankable. She was in it.

She's great. There's also a soft spoken right fielder, Evelyn Gardner. Ooh, Biddy Sharam, a literate shy left fielder, Shirley Baker and Cusack, pitcher, shortstop and former Miss Georgia beauty queen, Ellen Sue Gottlander. These names are wild. Freddie Simpson, gentle left fielder, relief pitcher, Betty Spaghetti Horn, Tracy Reiner Ryan second baseman, Marla.

I have all the names of Marla hooch. Megan Cavanaugh who was scouted by Ernie dot and kit in Fort Collins, Colorado, a gentle first baseman, uh, Helen Haley and Ramsey and superstitious Sacko Sacko Sacko, a GM native Alice Skeeter, gaspers, Renee Coleman. Boy, you really just had that was tough for me. Okay, Marla is not ugly, and I hated that. I know. I know. That's just like being silly though, right?

I mean, it's fun. But she really played that weird, desperate part, like... Yes. She inhabited it so well, yeah. Tracy Reiner, now I just saw this name, and I'm like, is she Rob Reiner's daughter? I just Googled this. She's it so well, yeah. Tracy Reiner, now I just saw this name and I'm like, is she Rob Reiner's daughter? I just Googled this. She's Gary Marshall's niece.

She was raised by her mother who married Rob Reiner and adopted her as his own for the 10 years that he was married and then be... Wow. So that's cool. And Anne Cusack, I also didn't realize that was a Cusack. She looked like her, but I didn't, looked like Joan Cusack, but I didn't put that was a Cusack. She looked like her, but I didn't look like Joan Cusack, but I didn't put it together.

Yeah, I didn't know that either. A lot of legacy in this cast. Yes. It's great. Nepo babies, a cast of Nepo babies. Yeah, I was gonna say, is it legacy or? It's all the same. Yeah, but they probably wanna be called legacy babies.

I think they would like that. Legacy babies is nicer than nepo baby. But Marla, I thought Marla was pretty. She has big, beautiful eyes and it made me mad. But also I get it. It's ha ha ha. Everyone goes, ah, we're scared of you. But then I did love when she was singing to that man

when she got drunk at the bar. Yes, yes, she was maybe my favorite character. Yeah, no, she was really great. I mean, I also feel like that's the character I would be. And so I'm like, she's wonderful how she is. I'm like, she's perfect. If I got cast and you're the ugly freak, whoever one hates. I'm like, got it. Got it.

They don't have to do with you. Yeah. Yeah. But then her dad's like, I raised her as a son. And I was like, I don't think that's people's problem. I don't think that's what they're talking about. And then when John Lovitz was like, no, no, she's ugly. I was like, but you're so ugly.

Like, it's just so funny when ugly men are like, no, no, she's ugly. I was like, but you're so ugly. Like, it's just so funny when ugly men are like, ew. And it's like, do you have a mirror? Do you? Right. When John Lovitz was like, I'm going to slip my wife the pickle. I was like, wait, oh my God. I was like, this is like most of the movie is pretty wholesome. And he says the wildest lie.

That's why Molly couldn't let it out of their mind. I know, I couldn't let him out of my head. Molly's like, I like it. I like it. Well, I want to say the part where they're getting makeovers. I've been watching the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader show. Me too. Oh, no, I've been missing it.

Nicole, you need this. It's all these young girls who are desperate to be Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders, which I didn't know you could want if you're not from Texas. But there are many people from across the country who dream their whole life of cheerleading for this team. That's right. A bunch of Rudy's. Yeah, yes. Yes. They couldn't get it out of their head. And the two women who run the cheerleader squad or whatever, they give makeovers to

all the women. And it's first of all, it's kind of awesome because they get their hair and everything done for free and like it all they look most of them look better, I would say some of the choices I wasn't crazy about changing hair color. Yeah. But they look they get like a free awesome makeover. And the same thing happens here, which I just thought was like an interesting part of this sport that these women are like,

they're like, you have a unibrow, you can't play baseball. Oh my God. And then they told some of them, they're perfect how they are. I'm like, okay. No, the makeover thing is crazy. And obviously that was like a huge part of the show,

the TV show too, like that storyline or whatever. And just like researching it and learning about it. Like it wasn't just done for like the movie, like, oh, this will be like a really cool storyline. It's like legit. Like they, it literally happened. They were like analyzed based on their face shape. Wow.

And like, these are the face shapes that are acceptable and these are the face shapes that are not acceptable. And like, so you have to do your makeup to make this face shape, which is like, you know, modern-day contouring, guys. Like, we're still doing it. Oh, yeah, I guess so. Yeah, it's crazy. Didn't they have the real posters in the scene?

Yeah, they had like the face shape posters. Yeah, I remember. Oh! That was my first time, I think, ever being on set, and I was like, kept talking with the makeup in front of me before the director said action. And that was pretty humiliating for me. I don't remember that.

But I made it. Like you kept starting the scene. I was like bug eyes, I was like what do I do? She's like wait till she says action. I'm like I had some what's it called? Imposter syndrome, that's for sure. I'm like, I had some, I had some, what's it called, imposter syndrome, that's for sure. You fooled everyone, you fooled everyone. I didn't notice, maybe.

That is so funny. I've done that before too, where I'm just talking before action and they're like, we are not going. And I'm like, oh, okay. And then also I've been in scenes where the other actors, like, very good. And I responded like a norm, like, like we were in conversation. I was like, oh, my God, I'm so sorry. You're doing lines.

I know. I know. And someone's like, so convincing. Yeah. You're like, oh, I thought you were just saying that. OK. It's like so specific to the scene. Yeah. I just thought you wanted to talk about cups of coffee and. Whatever. So, OK, here's where we get Tom Hanks. The peaches are managed by former marquee Cubs slugger Jim Dugan, Tom Hanks, a cynical alcoholic who's abrasive toward his players.

The league attracts little interest at first, and the peaches must adjust to traveling with Evelyn's young and troublemaking son, still well and tightly wound team chaperone Miss Cuthbert Pauline Brailsford. Tom Hanks was so great. He never really gets to play that angry drunk. That's like no. We don't see him there. Yeah. It's so out of character. Although I'm kind of remembering, I think he might have been doing that. He might have done that on Family Ties. Hold on. I think he was a drunk uncle. Family Ties, hold on. I think he was a drunk uncle. Family Ties? Yes, yes.

He is a raging alcoholic. I remember, on an episode of Family Ties, it was a very special episode. Sounds like it. They have to have a talk. I remember watching clips from this a while ago. Yeah, so I guess he's done it before, but this was a little more important.

I liked the kind of drunk he was, because I was like, he is ornery, but also kind of fun. He's weirdly hot. It's like, it was one of those things we were doing, and I was like, oh, I think he and Gina Davis have like a thing going on. And then I went to a groupie. That's not good though for her.

But it's fine, her husband's away at war, you know? So maybe you start a little something, then you get that letter and you mourn and you're like, I'm gonna have my new boo. Also, that kid was very funny to me. I really liked that kid. Perfectly cast. Yeah, he was.

He reminded me of Augustus Glump. Nope. You know, a little fatty from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sure, could never forget. Augustus Gloop. I think he had a butt. Stuck in the chocolate tube.

Would have been my heaven. Yeah, truly. I would have loved it. But then, you know, did the children die? They went away. Yeah, there was like, there was speculation in the movie, right? Like, where did he go? Is he ever coming back? Or like when she turns into a blueberry, like, yeah, they come take him away and then like fix him up, I think.

That's such an optimistic view. Yeah, I feel like those kids die. You know, they don't know. No, we never know. I don like those kids die. You know, they took them away. Well, don't you see them again? No, we never see them again. No, I don't think you see them. After they get the boot, you don't see them again. And honestly, if the last thing I saw was like an orange person,

and then I died, I'd be like, what did I do in this life to deserve this? Oh my God. That's so bleak. That's fucking haunting. Oh, I did. I love that Melanie watched that and she was like, they took them away and they gave them a better life.

Well, I thought they'd take them away and at least like rehabilitate them and then like. Yeah, yeah, they popped the blueberry. They're not really dying, right? Like we can't, that can't be the story. They're dying, they're dead. Roald Dahl was fucked dying, they're dead. Roald Dahl was fucked up.

Was very dark. Yeah. Anyway, Lowenstein begged the players to do something spectacular when a life magazine photographer comes to a game. Dottie catches a pop-up ball behind home plate while doing the splits. I loved this.

Making the magazine cover. A publicity campaign draws more people to the ball games, but the owners, they said, we hate women and they remain unconvinced. Can we talk about Madonna in this movie? She's so great when there's that scene where they're dancing and she is obviously an incredible dancer. And you're just, I just was like,

she really had it all at this period. She still does, but it's like to be like, in this, she's acting in a movie, she's a good actor. She's a singer who's amazing. And then she's dancing in a different time period style. Like it was like the whatever 40s style dancing. And you're like, this is so cute and fun to watch her do this because we never see her do that.

I just loved it. But then I was thinking, this is like what Lady Gaga is doing, isn't it? Yes. I was just going to say that. I was just going to say that. Because I feel like right now we're going like, Lady Gaga's in movies? Like, what? And then it's like, no, this has been always a thing.

Like, famous pop stars in acting roles. But not just like in acting roles, but like really good actors. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? A Star is Born is one of my favorite movies. I saw it twice in theaters. I couldn't agree more.

I really liked it. It's a good movie. And the soundtrack, ooh wee. That's my only song I sing in karaoke. Oh, really? Which one? Shallow? Of course. But you're singing a...

Molly, do you do both parts? When you sing Shallow, you're singing about Blake Lively movie? Okay, sorry. You know what? I sing... I sing the Shallow part with Fortune Feimster at a fundraiser. Wow. What a dream. I couldn't find anybody to sing with me. And Fortune just saw my puppy eyes and got up and I was like,

really, brother? We were like, wait, who plays, who gets to play the guy? I played the lady. I wasn't going to ask, but I did want to know. I wanted to know. I was like, how's this going to end? Thank you, Fortune, wherever you are today. Wait, wherever you are, Fortune, do you have video of this? Is it on the internet? It was like in a small hotel room at Kansas City fundraiser. I think somebody might have a video of it somewhere. I would like to see it. It really sounds like a nice treat. It does.

It was beautiful. Back to Madonna. She was great. What do you do? Yeah, back to Madonna. Beautiful, funny. I love that her and Rosie were best friends. That was yeah.

They were just like a yin and yang. That was so cute. But then when she went out later and Rosie O'Donnell, I was like, oh, is Rosie in love with Madonna? And I was like, Oh, I really I want to see more of that. Yeah, 100%. Rosie was so funny. Like, we were taught Rosie did a little cameo on the show and we were just like picking

her brain like crazy about like what it was like to shoot the original and all that. And she was like, Oh, yeah, like I knew Doris was gay. Like it was so obvious to me and I played her that way. But, you know, and she said that she would like do a scene or do something and Penny would scream from behind the monitor, do it less gay, Rosie! And she was like, okay. Oh, my God. Just in Penny Marshall's voice, that's iconic.

What a dream. Do it less gay, do it less gay. That's so funny. That's so funny. Penny, more voice, that's iconic. What a dream. Yeah, do it less gay, do it less gay. That's so funny. That's so funny. But also, Penny, more gay, please. Yeah, come on. Well, that's what the series aimed to do.

Now we'll watch the series. I held off on it because I was like, I haven't seen the movie. I won't understand what's happening. But that seems stupid in hindsight. You don't need to know, because it tells you what happens. Yeah. Yeah, basically. That's why I'm like, it seems stupid in hindsight. You don't need to know because it tells you what happens. Yeah.

That's why I'm like, it seems stupid in hindsight. And it's just like a lot gay, a lot more gay. Yeah. There's just like a lot of kissing and stuff, which like, do we see titties? I'm a little horn dog. I don't think there are in my memory. No, there's no titties. There's like, I think there's the suggestion of clothes coming off or

some shoulders. I'll take it. OK, I don't think I'll. Yeah, I guess I'll just leave that right on my Amazon. You were not seeing titties. I'm a sit down. I'm OK. That's interesting.

OK, the Peaches experience success on the field while forming a tight sisterhood off the field. Marla marries a man she meets on a wild and covert team outing at a local roadhouse. Mae teaches Shirley to read using one of her erotic novels. And Evelyn writes a team song. As Dottie becomes one of the league's brightest stars, Kit becomes resentful and their sibling rivalry intensifies, culminating in Kit's trade, the Peaches rival, the Racine Bells. Oh, she was jealous. She was. Yeah, Kit. I was like, why can't you just like be happy that your sister's a star

and that you also play? Yeah, I think she holds that grudge because she had to convince her. And then, yeah, yeah. Yeah, she has like nothing going for her. And and Dottie's like married and it's like, I love my farm life. And it's like, no, like, let's get out there and do something. So I think that there's that tension. Yeah. Yeah.

But can't if you want to get out, go do it on your own. You're like mad that your sister doesn't want to like get out with you. And then you're mad that she when she gets out with you, she's a star. And then she helped you on a train. She put you on the train before her. If anything. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, the peaches in the season, qualifying for the the League's World Series in the locker room, Jimmy gives Betty a telegram

saying that her husband was killed in action in the Pacific Theater. The grief stricken Betty leaves the team. That was sad, that was really fucked up. Yeah, so sad. And the build up there where you're like, is it gonna be Gina Davis' husband? Yeah. Yeah.

That was intense. And then the guy, yeah, the telegram reader, like not reading it, cause it didn't have a name on it. And I love Tom Hanks just grabbing it and pushing him out of the room. That was like him showing protection. Now he cares about the girls. Like, I like that.

I am a good guy. I just drink a lot of whiskey. Yeah. Yeah. I just pee for 10 minutes. That was funny to me. I like this scene where he drinks the Coke and he's like, I guess this is what I'm gonna do.

Drink Coca-Cola instead of booze. Yeah. It was cute. Later that evening, Dottie's surprised when Bob shows up wounded and discharged from the army. The following morning, Jimmy discovers that Dottie's going home with Bob. Unable to persuade her to at least play in the World Series,

he tells her she will regret her decision. We didn't see Bob in the beginning, right? No, he's in reveal. Okay, good, cause I gasped. I was like, Bill! I love Bill Poulver. I love him too. He's so, he's so authentic.

He's so natural. He's just like a great actor. Yeah. While you were sleeping, boy, oh boy, oh boy. That's one of my favorite movies. It's so good. I love that movie. It's so good.

Oh God. He's great. Casper, obviously. Oh, right. Independence Day. Oh, yes. I've never seen that. You haven't?

Lauren, I think you would like it. Will Smith is so charismatic. It's a great movie. Like, yeah. Well, I haven't seen it in a while. Does it like does it hold up? It is a classic and it does hold up. Truly, Will Smith.

I mean, they don't make them like they make them. What? They don't make them like they make them anymore. No, I'm with you. But they don't make them like that anymore. There we go. Thank you. I've been having trouble with phrases lately. Anyway, the Peaches and the Bells meet in the World Series, which reaches a seventh and deciding game.

What? Seven games in a World Series? Yeah, that's a series. Seems like too many games. I thought it was one big game. I guess I would have thought it might have been one. But a series implies more than one. Yes, seven games. Critical thinking.

That's good. That's how I got through school. Dottie having reconsidered during the drive back to Oregon shows up dressed to play as a catcher for the peaches while Kit is the starting pitcher for the Bells, with the Bells leading by a run at the top of the ninth. So there's nine innings in baseball. These games, that seven games, nine innings,

they be playing for, that's too long. It's, that's. It's long. Baseball is long. Well, out of curiosity, do you like not know the rules of baseball? This isn't like a read, I'm just curious. Oh, you can read me all you want. No, I know there's bases and you run around them,

you hit the ball and then you go, oh, no, you're out. It's so funny because I didn't... I have had two people in my life who just like never came across baseball, like didn't really know the rules, and I took them on separate occasions to baseball games, and I was like, oh, it's so simple. You know, I'm trying to explain the

game to them. Like it's so simple. So there's, you know, and I start the process and then I'm like, Oh, but then, you know, if there's 3000 or, you know, if there's, you know, if it's grounded in the infield and you don't touch back on the date and like going through all the rules and I'm like, this is actually an extremely complicated game. Like it's actually not simple at all. It's an extremely complicated game. Like it's actually not simple at all. So you're telling me it's more than three strikes, that person's out and then wait,

how many people have to be out before they switch sides? Is it one person, three outs, and then everybody switches? Three outs. It's three outs. Yeah. Okay. And it's-

But there's like so many ways to get outs and like- You can get balls. So many, like, yeah get balls. Like, yeah. Wait. So, OK, if you get four balls and you walk, you walk. Yeah, if I had four balls, I couldn't walk. That was good. Yes.

Oh, my God. Wait. That was so God. Wait. Oh, that was so funny. Wait. So, OK. So if I if I hit the ball, Molly hits the ball and then Lauren. OK, don't do this. And then Melanie gets another strike. That team is now out.

No. So let's see. This is what I'm saying. Like honestly, you're displaying so perfectly what I was just saying. It's actually like so strange. So there's a couple different ways to get outs. One is striking out. You know that like three strikes you're out. You swung and you didn't hit it or it was a strike and you didn't swing. A pop fly, which is like you hit the ball, but someone caught it before it hit the ground. Yeah, that's out. Like it was in the air. That's out. And then you hit it, but they threw the ball to the base before you got there.

That's another out. Or you hit it and you were running to the next base and they tagged you because you didn't have to go to that base because there wasn't someone behind you. That's the confusing one to me, I think. So there's like all these different ways to get out. And you can mix and match people? Yeah, three of those. Yeah, if I had if I had a ball and we have no outs and it pops like to the outfield and they catch it, then I'm out and then they can throw the ball. They can throw the ball fast enough to someone running the second,

get them out. That's two outs. And then someone's running home and throws it to home. That's two outs. And then someone's running home and throws it to home. That's three hours and one double play, triple play. And then you have to switch. That's the word. And then, yeah. And then that would be like, so let's say that was like the red team was up. That was the top of the first inning. Then after the outs, they go to the bottom of the first inning and now the blue team is up at bat. So it's separated by.

The inning is just two separate teams, the two is up at bat. So it's separated by- So an inning is just two separate teams, the two teams switching at bat? Each of them gets a chance to bat, that's right. But that can go on for a long time. Well, they do it nine times. That's why there's a seventh inning stretch. Yeah, it's a long game. Seventh inning stretch.

That's what it is. Oh, I don't know what the fuck I thought a seventh inning stretch was. I thought it was like a jing. You just get up and you stretch. You just stretch. Is that true? Uh-huh.

For me. I guess I thought it was like the seventh ending stretch was like, this is the part where it gets stretched out. It's like long. Yes. Yeah, I thought maybe you throw the ball a little bit more. My mind is actually blown. You get up and you stretch.

Like that's. Look, I have been to baseball games that I don't know. I just am like, now there's a song. Now there's this. Now I'm like, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not really. I've never been to a baseball game. It's so fun. I go to a Dodger game.

Oh, that's fun. It is fun. Yeah, go. It's kind of about the snacks for me, honestly. Like, I love the snacks. and it's like a slow game. So you can like get up and go. Amazing. Dodger dogs. You got to get a Dodger dog. OK, I'll go. Yeah. I did just throw the first pitch out for the people.

Guardians game. Yeah. Wow. It was cool. Cool. Did you do a good job? Yes, I think I did. My younger cousin built me a mound. My younger cousin built me a mound in our yard and I practiced all week. They forced me. Wow.

Oh yeah. I like that. You know how there's like the dirt? There's like around the base, where you run the bases, it's like, you know, they make it all professional and you're not technically supposed to step on it. But like when you're not a player, so you have to hop over and I hopped,

but I didn't make the hop. That was pretty embarrassing. But I mean, I made the hop, but I didn't. You're not supposed to touch it. No, I didn't. But the pitch made it to the catcher. I think it's because of the white powder that they lay down that's the line.

Mm-hmm. You're right. And if you mess it up. You can't scuff it up. You suck. All right. All right. Well, let's see.

Oh, top of the ninth, Dottie drives in the go ahead run. Kit is distraughtught but gets a second chance when she comes to bat with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. She gets a hit, ignoring the third base coaches signed to stop, scores the winning run by knocking her sister over at the plate

and dislodging the ball from Dottie's hand. I don't know, I think Dottie dropped it. The sellout crowd, right? She drops it, like she lets her sister win. Yeah, but then she's so salty about it. I don't feel like she, you know, I don't know. The sellout crowd, right? Doesn't she drops it? Like she lets her sister win. Yeah. Yeah, but then she's so salty about it. I don't feel like she, you know, I don't know. I don't know either.

The sellout crowd convinces Harvey to give Loewenstein the owner's support. After the game, the sisters are reconciled before Dottie leaves with bub bub. Bubby. Bub bub. Now here's where it gets really intense. So I was kind of like, yay, this is fun.

Now we're back in the present. She's old again. Dottie's reunited with several other players, including Kit. I was like, have they never seen each other in a long time? Well, so Dottie was like, you'll come up for Christmas. And she was like, nah, brah, I'm fucking done. I know, and she was like, I'm not going to be in your family anymore. Like she was like, she's like, I play baseball now.

You'll never see me again. I don't know. I thought that was weird. Because at the end, when they're like reuniting, it seems like it's so important that they're seeing each other. But I'm like, or is it just because it's it's momentous because of where they are? The memories. Yeah. I don't know. But it seemed a little bit like unexplained. Like I was kind of like, say like, oh, my God, it's been six months,

but look how amazing. Yeah. I agree. The fates of several of the characters are revealed, of course, that means the deaths. This was so... Watching this, I was like, okay, they're dead, they're dead. They're all dead, they're all dead.

Jimmy, Bob, and Evelyn have died. Marla has been married to Nelson, the man she met in the bar for over 40 years. That was sweet. May and Doris are still best friends. And Kit is a mother and grandmother many times over. Many times. The original peaches sing Evelyn's team song

and pose for a group photo. That was really cute. Okay, when they, everyone was dead and I was like, got it, got it, got it. And then she stands in front of the Tom Hanks picture and then it zoomed in on death time. Like it was like it was like it was like his bio. And then it just like the camera like zooms down and pans over.

And it's like born 1902, died 1955. Whatever. I was like, OK, like it was like, yes, he died. I can assume no questions. I know this man is D.E-A-D dead. He's not there because he's dead. Got it, okay. And then when they're like, let's take a picture. They're like, let's take a picture.

All the originals, there was something about that where I was like, are some people not allowed in this picture? Or was it like, they were just saying, we're all here? Like, I don't know, they're like, just the original peaches. And then I was like, everyone was crowding in, and I was like, are some people not in the picture? Because they're not original peaches. Probably.

Or maybe they couldn't find an old person to be them. Oh. Casting had some issues. That's why all the characters, they're like, kill that one off because we don't have someone who looks like her. We can't find her. They did a good job. They're like, kill that one off because we don't have someone who looks like her. We can't find her. We've looked at every mission home. Didn't they do a good job? I feel like all the other people were really well cast.

Yeah. And I have to just really shout from the rooftops again that Dottie's casting was incredible. I literally thought that was her. So good. Same. So good. I'm going to relook it up because I can't remember it off the top of my head. Yeah. Look at what she looks like. It was amazing. So good. Same. So good. I'm going to relook it up because I can't remember it off the top of my head. Look at what she looks like. It was amazing. And then using her voice was really good.

But you know what I was thinking, Nicole? There was a point in the beginning when the Lynn Cartwright, the actress who's playing her when she's older, is moving around. I thought it was Gina Davis in makeup. And I was remembering how we learned about how in um, in the Scorsese season, how, who was it? Uh, Al Pacino when they were all aged up, they had to learn from a movement and they had to learn from a coach how to move their bodies age appropriately because it's like, Oh, you wouldn't be able to go out on the stairs like that. And this woman

was moving so fluidly that I actually was like, Gina Davison, get comfortable how to move. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It's amazing. It's wild. Yeah. Now are they all cast with older people and not just makeup? Yes, they were all older people. Which is wild. Like how do you find that? What a great casting director. And you look.

Just look, look, look. Go from nursing home to nursing home. I'm always looking for my old lady in case I need her one day. Mm-hmm. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Do you think old ladies, like when she was walking onto the field and her hair was all short,

that's how my grandma had her hair, and I was thinking like, when do you decide to like do your hair like that? Or is our generation not gonna do that? I think our generation is gonna be the generation of a bob. Like, I don't think we're going to go super short and like flared out. I think we'll be bobs and pixies. Oh, yeah, that makes sense.

Because you just get old enough and you're like, I don't want all this hair on me. I don't want to do my hair every day. Yeah. Yeah. You know, what's funny, my mom has always had, like, short hair, like a, I guess you'd describe it as a pixie. And she recently has decided she wants to grow her hair out. And it's like, okay, Mom. And she's like, yeah, my goal is to be able to get it

into a ponytail. Oh, I love that. And is her hair gray or does she dye it? Full gray, full gray. Ooh, I love gray hair. Yeah. Oh, I love gray. And it's like silvery.

It's beautiful. It's silver. It's the best, best color. And she's like in the process of growing it out, but it's, you know, and I used to have really short hair, so I know what she's going through. There's like, it's a forever awkward stage where it's like, it's not short, it's not long.

She's like experimenting with parts, you know, parting it and like kind of, and there's a little curl to it. It's a whole process and's like experimenting with parts, you know, parting it and like kind of... And there's a little curl to it. It's a whole process and I'm really proud of her. That's great. I love this journey for your mom. It's cute. I can't wait till she can fit it in a pony.

That'll be so cute. Yeah. Well, the reception of A League of Their Own is the highest grossing baseball film of all time. It made $132.4 million at the box office, which is more than Field of Dreams. And Bill Durham, which is a movie people keep mentioning, I still don't know what it is. And it holds at 81% on Rotten Tomatoes and

is preserved in the United States National Film Registry in 2012. Now, I'm personally astounded that it made more money than Angels in the Outfield. I love that movie. I was waiting for someone to bring up Angels in the Outfield. That movie changed my life. Yep. I haven't thought about Angels in the Outfield in forever.

Yes. Well, when I was thinking about this podcast, and I was like, oh, the theme is sports movies. I'm like, well, Dada, League of their own. And then I was like, what other sports movies are there? And truly the only one I could conjure was the Angels in the Outfield. I was like, yes, I remember having that VHS tape. And only as a 32 percent. And then the other one that I loved was Rookie of the Year. That one I watched so much as a kid.

And he also looks like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, kind of as kids. That kid was so cute, Thomas Ian Nicholas. And he's an American guy. That's not Jordan, what's his name? Right! I thought it was, wait, that's not him? No.

That blows my mind. Yes it is, yes it is. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. No it is. Joseph Gordon Levitt. No, Joseph Gordon Levitt is an angel in the outfield. Thomas Ian Nicklaus is a rookie of the year. But they look the same as kids in my opinion. They have the same vibe. Oh, okay, it is Joseph.

Oh yeah, he's, what's his name, from the Sandlot? Yes, another great baseball. I love the Sandlot. Oh no, that's a different kid. That's a different kid. Yeah, that's... Wow the Sandlot. Oh no, that's a different kid. That's a different kid. Yeah, that's, wow. Sandlot was one of them. We would call Sandlot a sports movie, right?

Like that, undeniably. 1,000%. Wait, I have to tell you a story. When I was in, when I was like 10, so I grew up in Evanston, Illinois, which is where Northwestern University is. And there was, one of my friends was like doing these things for like a Northwestern student,

where they would put like brain, like they'd put like little tabs on your head and like look at your brain waves. And so we, and I got, I got hooked into this. You get paid to do it and you would like play little games and they would like watch your brain. And then sometimes you would just sit and watch a movie with all these things attached to your head.

And I remember, which is such a weird thing that I did, but I remember watching the Sandlot and then I was wondering if they could tell that I had a crush on one of the characters. Oh, which one? It was probably the, what's his name? Benny the, the Jem.

Benny the Jem. Yeah, Benny the Jem, Rodriguez. Yeah. Oh, so hot. Yeah, but the Jed, Rodriguez. Yeah. Oh, so hot. Yeah, but I remember being like, oh no, I have to pretend I don't care. That's so funny. Also, I need to re-cant my statement. He was so hot as a kid and I was a kid too.

I'm not saying he's hot now. Yes. Of course. We were children who thought a peer was attractive. And of course. Naturally. You know, sometimes people are like, you can't say that. I'm like, but I was a child then.

Yes. These are my child eyes. Yes. Okay. Let's do some trivia from this movie. So not even Tom Hanks knew when he was going to be done peeing. Penny Marshall was in a stall with a hose and a bucket making the noise. That's so fun. I love noise. That's so fun.

I love that. That's really fun. I love that. So John Lovitz was so into one scene that he didn't notice a cow giving birth off camera while filming. The farm named the cow after Marshall. That's really funny.

Oh, it should have been after John. Lovitz the cow. The characters of the baseball Hall of Fame and seen playing as the credits role are real original players from the league portrayed in the film. Oh, that's nice. That's cool. Rosie O'Donnell can actually throw two balls at the same time. Can she? Prove it. two balls at the same time. I was... I was... I was like... I was like...

I was like... Can she? Can she? Prove it. Prove it. Prove it. Do it right now. Do it right now.

Rosie O'Donnell, when, was it her character who throws the ball so hard and then Gina Davis catches it? I'm curious now how that was done and wonder if that was CGI. Cause I'm like, how do you do that? She really caught a very fast ball. Yeah.

They had to have done CGI, at least for some of it. Cause also it's like, you'll be playing all day to get the exact thing you need to happen. Like it's just, it sounds terrible. It's a time constraint. Draw the ball, wait for the ball. AD says you gotta go. So there's a brief scene in which Dottie and Ellen Sue are playing catch. The ball is overthrown and ends up near the small section for people of color in the segregated stadium.

An unnamed black woman, DeLisa Chin Tyler, picks up the ball and throws it over Dottie's head to Ellen Sue who catches it. Ellen Sue's reaction indicates that the woman has an extremely powerful arm. The woman wordlessly nods to Dottie and walks away. This scene reflects the historical reality that the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League only allowed white players,

even after Jackie Robinson desegregated Major League Baseball in 1947. In a 2017 interview with Buzzfeed, the movie's co-screenwriter, Lulgan, said, It did bother us that in order to be historically accurate about the A.A.G.P.B.L., we cannot have a diverse cast. We came upon that scene as a way to make the point. A lot of people have commented on Over the Years, and I'm very glad we included it in the film.

Wow. That's I mean, and your show obviously touches on much more of that than absolutely. That's like the big changeable side plot. Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. All right. Maybe I'm back in. It's a great it's like it covers everything. But Nicole, there's a lot of lady kissing. I'll tell you. But there's black people.

And I guess I love black people more than titties. There's black people. there's lady kissing. There's old people, there's young people. A few, man. Boo. Just kidding, I love guys. I mean, I respect, I respect. It's falling apart. Oh, God. I mean, I respect, I respect.

It's falling apart. So we have another time out and we'll be back with more of a league of their own. After this, ready, break. Whistle. Whistle. Whistle. Whistle. Whistle.

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Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! Oh, no! that's kind of a similar. Yeah, that's gonna be hard not to do that. But yeah, who would you put in this? Who would be Gina Davis? Who would be that? Sorry, I mean, yeah, who would be Gina and Kit?

Let's focus on that. Okay, let's see. Um, my brain is going. Well, we've already cast Madonna as Gaga, right? Yes, it would be Gaga. Yeah, yeah. It has to be Gaga. And then Dottie could be Kim Kardashian.

That's very fun. I would pay very good money to watch Kim Kardashian try to throw a ball and run. I would love that. Oh my God. Her butt is so big. It would be so fun. That's funny to me. Just. Oh my God.

I would throw Emma Stone up in there. Maybe Aubrey Plaza. Ooh, Aubrey's good. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Someone like has that old Hollywood glam kind of like classic look about them. Yeah. Honestly, this might be biased, but I'd put Eggo Wodem in there too. Yes.

Ooh, yes. I love Eggo. I love Eggo. What about Tom Hanks part? Who's a good drunk? He was kind of young to Steve. Steve from Stranger Things. Who's Joe Keery? Oh, the big guy. Oh, yeah. The cop. Oh, him. That's David Harbor. Maybe Steve is too young. Oh, David Harbor. David Harbor would be good. Yeah. Okay, I amend it.

Angry, drunk. Yeah, he's better. Yeah. But kind also, a little bit of kindness. I would put all of the Stranger Things kids as a team. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's perfect.

We did it. Oh, I love this game. We did it. We did it. We did it. Did we do Kit? Yeah. Don't cast.

Oh, we didn't do Kit. No, we did it. That's, that's, oh no, we didn't do Kit. We didn't do Kit. Maybe that's where I throw Emma Stone. Jojo Siwa. Ah, Jojo Siwa. Molly, let me tell you, I am obsessed with Jojo Siwa's arc.

It is iconic. I can't look away. That, the, the, her like stomp dance. Molly, you have to play, Molly, you have to play Jojo on SNL. Is that coming? Chloe Feynman did it. And she was in the run-up. Okay, well, you need to do it too.

You need to do it too, exactly. I want to play Jelly Roll. You need to do it too. Who's Jelly Roll? Jelly Roll is great. That's very fun. I need to look up who Jelly Roll is. Jelly Roll is a country singer with like face tags.

You obviously have to do that. He's so sweet. That would be so funny. He's very chats. You obviously have to do that. He's so sweet. That would be so funny. He's very sweet. I would, oh, that's so good. Molly, you gotta write it up. That's great.

It's a waste of a name though too. I still feel like, you know, people play, I know that the characters kind of get like, the impressions kind of get owned by certain people, but then other people do do them from time to time. I think if there's room for you to be Jojo, doing the drinking the Tito's, drinking Tito's on stage. That's true.

You guys drinking the fireball and the Tito's on stage and like calling out haters in the audience and being like- Apparently that was all staged. Like JoJo's on this like press thing where she's staging things so people talk about it. That's why she's doing all the face jewelry stuff and like humping people. Okay, Molly, here's my pitch.

Okay, so Chloe, you can look. Wait, Nicole, I'm not done with that. Hold on, I'm not done with what you're saying. That's all fake? Yeah. It's fake. That's what I had heard. I can't really deal with this. She's kind of really smart.

She's really trying to like- But did she like decide that she created a genre of music called gay pop. Am I correct? Queer pop. I love it. Queer pop. Okay. Okay.

It's great. I love it. People have never made music before, but they never know there's no such thing as queer pop out there. Wow. Okay. Molly. So Chloe plays Jojo Siwa as Jojo Siwa auditioning people on SNL to impersonate her as Jojo Siwa.

And then your audition is where you play Jojo Siwa. Yes, that's really good. That's fantastic. It's like when Adele goes undercover. Yes. Yes. All the Adele impersonators. Molly, do it up.

And she's like, I'm Adele. And don't give me credit. And I'm like. Do it. Dull impersonators. Molly, do it up and don't give me credit. Do it. All the impersonators are like, she's really good, ain't she? That's the sketch, do it. That's really good.

I'm doing it. How annoying. I'm sure people do that to you all the time. They're like, here's a sketch for you. My family does it all the time, but now we have a suggestion box on my cousins and stuff. Okay, but Nicole, isn't it better if it's coming from people who do sketch comedy

as opposed to like just somebody on the street being like, you should do a joke about me. Like. Now I'm like actually like gonna hit you up when we get back to season. Hey, remember when you said, could I do it? You just wrap it up real it? Please do it. My cousin keeps asking me to write jokes about, because we're, I'm half my family's from Barbados and she keeps asking me to

write Bayesian specific jokes. And I was, I keep saying, nobody's going to get them except for you and a couple other people from Barbados. And I don't even know if people in Barbados know who I am. And she's like, no, you can do a joke about walking, which is just a dance. And I was like, I don't think I can. They'll know who you are after you do that step down there.

Yeah, right? They'll be like, oh, she's definitely from Barbados. Yeah. Now I say do that. I'll still laugh. I don't know what she's talking about. It's fun. I don't know.

I don't know what's going on. I love it. I'm laughing. Now it's time for kiss cam. Name the best smooch from the movie or who you wish you saw smooch on the big screen. Wait, was there any smooches? I mean, did she kiss her husband when he came back? I guess maybe.

I don't even know if she did. Did Marla kiss her husband after they got married? No. Oh, as they were walking to the car. I feel like obviously we needed like Rosie and Madonna to kiss. Yeah, nice. Yeah. I would've watched that for sure. Life changing for me as a kid.

I would have definitely watched that. I would not have turned away. Okay. Time for the scoreboard. It's time for reviews. We will be reading reviews from Letterboxd and then we will each give a one sentence review ourselves of the film and a star rating. And so for anyone who doesn't know, Letterboxd is a social platform where people can write reviews of films

and you can see all of the reviews that Nicole and I have given of all the movies we've done on Letterboxd and newcomers and it's great. This first one comes from Fran Hepfner. She gives it four stars. Madonna teaching the illiterate woman to read erotica is the same thing as being an adjunct English professor. That's funny. That's funny. I like that. Okay, so does anybody want to go and Ali's gonna give hers as well? Anyone want to go first?

I'll go first. I didn't think I was gonna like this movie because I'm not a baseball head, but maybe I am a baseball head now. I really liked it. Everything was good. Petty Marshall, what a dream. Four stars. Maybe four and a half stars? I really like this movie. I think it was really solid.

Yeah, it was fun. Is five the most amount of stars you can get? Five is the most. Yeah. I'm gonna give it four. Four feels fair. I'll go. Stand your ground. Okay, I'm gonna say about this movie,

a lovely tale of sisterhood and baseball. Two of America's favorite pastimes. Sisterhood and baseball. Rosie is the star we didn't know we had. And Madonna is the star we always deserved. I don't know what I'm saying. No, this is great. This is maybe my favorite review you've ever given.

This is so... Tom Hanks killed it as a drunk alcoholic. And... I, you know, we don't, here's one, we don't, we don't need it, we don't, I don't need the part where they're old. Okay? No offense to anybody, but that part made me sad.

Okay, I thought it was sweet, it was touching, but it also made the movie feel sad in a way that I don't know that I wanted. But I guess you do need it. You can leave all that in my review. Okay, great. Done. How many stars?

Oh, I give this a solid four stars. Like it's not my favorite movie. Like I'd say five stars for like, if one of these movies really like blows my fucking socks off, but I feel like four stars, yeah, release solid movie. I could watch this again. Great, loved it. Okay.

Molly, Melanie. Honestly, my stomach's kind of nervous. Okay. Molly, Melanie? Honestly, my stomach's kind of nervous. Okay. I would say the cast alone, it deserves a five for casting. It's like buying a bag of apples at a grocery store in LA and not a bruise on any of them. It's just the best cast ever. In John Lennix. I liked that.

To Madonna. I love that. To to Rosie to Gene. And, you know, there could have been more kids. There could have been smooches. I agree the old lady part kind of reminds me of when the old lady comes in on Titanic, which I didn't like and kind of haunting really. And but the camaraderie and the turnaround of Tom Hanks' character and the sister rivalry

and the adventure and them on the bus. Talk about camp. And I'm gonna give it a 4.6. Nice! Ooh! Okay, but Molly, in Titanic, if we didn't have the old lady, you wouldn't get that line where she goes, wasn't I a dish?

Did she say that? Yes, she's looking at a nude picture of herself and goes, wasn't I a dish? And when I tell you, I, as a child, cackled in the theater. I said, that's so funny that this old lady looked at a young picture of her. I was like, maybe I should take pictures of myself while I still look like this so I could, you know,

say I'm a dish to somebody later. Oh, my god. Wasn't I a dish? Yeah, kind of haunting that lady, though. Wasn't I a dish? Maybe it's just the actress. Oh, I will. I love.

That was haunting. I love when she throws the jewelry. She goes, ah! What is that? What is that? Like it's so heavy or it's so emotional. She makes wild choices and I loved it. Do you want to hear the story or not Mr. Lovett?

Okay, I've seen too much. Okay, but she lived to be a hundred, which is awesome. Oh, I'm happy for her. She was born in 1910 and died in 2010. That's such a nice round number. Was that the real lady? Yes. No, that wasn't the real old lady in the movie.

Oh, no, no, no. No, that was a fictional story. Oh, my God. I'm like, oh. No, I meant she was real and that the actor is the one who was 100. Yeah. But I liked that. That was really her. Here's the thing. I just looked her up and she was a dish.

Also, spoiler alert, she's not Kate Winslet in old people makeup. Right. It was just past. But you know what? It was cast that way. In my memory, she is like a like a fake old person. Like I feel like when I saw it when I was a kid, I thought that it was like not real. They really put a lot of makeup on the rings. Yeah. On the ring.

Well, she does look haunting because she does have she has long hair when she's dropping the thing in the ocean. And I feel like long hair on an old person. Yeah, give her, yeah. Just a little trim. Give her a trim. Yeah. Come on. She's in the movies. Give her a goddamn trim.

Oh my God. She's really pretty in her youth. She's in the movies. Wait, Melanie, what is your review? We really got derailed on Titanic. We sure did. Sorry about that. Okay, my review. Let's see. We'll start with four stars. I'm with you guys. I think it's a solid four star movie. Here's my review. Highest grossing sports film of all time, question mark, further proof that everything is better when women do it. Colon, even movies, even sports, even in the 1990s period.

Wow. Okay, so man. If I had a lighter, I would light it. That was the most coherent fucking review we've ever had. I did. Well, I did get to go forth and I was mulling it over and I was like, this is what I think. You were like, don't do what Lauren did. I should have mulled.

I do hope when it's printed that like the colon isn't used, but it's spelled out colon. Yeah. Sure. That's one question mark also. Yes. Oh, Allie, what is your review? Sure. That's what we're gonna move. And question mark also. Yes. Ooh, Allie, what is your review?

I'll give it four and a half stars, and I will watch this anytime, anywhere. Marla Hooch, what a hitter. Yes. I love this. What a fun time. This was so fun. Thank you both for being here. This is awesome. Thank you for having us.

Do you have anything you would like to plug? Thanks for having me. Yeah. Are there any plugs? Absolutely not. At the moment. Well, we can watch Molly on SNL. My current plug is you want to come visit Philly. Fishtown is a great place to live.

It's hot. Fishtown. Summer. Yeah Philly. Fishtown is a great place to live. It's hot summer. Yeah, come to Fishtown. I'm going to plug the Fishtown. Why not? Wait, there we go. There's a place in Philly called Fishtown. That's right. It's a neighborhood. Great restaurants, some of the best in the world. I shouldn't say world.

They've made like top top best in the US, let's say. Yeah, US, you know, and it's like it kind of looks like Sesame Street. It's a bunch of like row homes in old style. And it's really cool. It's a cool, cool place. That sounds awesome. It does sound awesome. But also you can watch a league of their own on Amazon

and give Melanie some residues and Molly. Yeah. How dare me not catch a ring of their own. Watch a ring of their own. Oh yeah. On Amazon. What's wrong with me? I do stand up. So if you want to know where I'm doing stand up,

Meet Brick Molly is my screen, not my screen name. Talk to Molly on AOL Messenger. Yeah. Yeah. But what was your screen name, honestly? Rambo Jambo. That's funny. Mine was Hot Chocolate 808. Because I was trying to catfish older gentlemen. Let's go.

You know, having a nice time. Lauren, what was yours? Mine was Lappy 13 UTT. So it looked like Lappy, but because my last name is Lapkus. I love that. She's been funny a long time. She's been funny for so long. That's funny.

Mine was Melbell to 18, but only one L with the bell. So it's like Melbel, which in hindsight is like, why didn't I just add another L? I don't know. That's cute though. That's a cute C1. That's great. Did really well in the chat rooms with the older men as well. That's where we all were.

What are you guys doing on there? Molly missed out. ASL. A-S-L. A-S-L. And then they would like ask your bra size. Did you ever have that? I don't know.

I'm not wearing a bra. 34B. I don't fucking know. I was just leaving dashboard confessional lyrics on my way messages. Oh my God. Screaming infidelities. Oh my goodness.

Those were the days. What do kids do now? Anyway, so you could write a review for newcomers on Apple Podcasts and you could rate it on Spotify. And, yeah, we'll be back next week with Rocky, a movie that I don't know if I'm excited to watch. I've never seen that. It's great. It's so suspenseful.

It was not filmed in Fishtown, but there's a Rocky statue in Philadelphia. It's, like, classic, iconic. The art jam steps. He runs up classic, iconic. The art museum steps. He runs up. Another reason to visit. I know stairs, but I didn't know there was a statue. Wow, this means that this movie, everyone likes it. This is so wild when I haven't seen a movie,

but there's like an actual statue of a character. Right, that is crazy. In your series finale of this season, you got to tell us which one at that episode, which movie was your favorite that you watched? Yeah, I mean, I feel like with Rocky, that's such a good point, Nicole, because I would not have. I'm like, yeah, there's a statue.

I'm like, no, wait, it's not every day. There's a fucking statue of a movie. Statue from a movie. Yeah. I mean, there is a Batman statue at the AMC in Burbank. Is there? There is, I found it and I sent it to Lauren. I was like, can you believe? That's good.

That's crazy. Well, the steps from the movie are so iconic, like him running up the steps that people from all over come to Philly to run up the art museum steps and then like go at the top and be Rocky. So they put a statue at the bottom, like right next to the museum. That's cute. That is nice. Listen, the only thing I have to say is,

you're never going to think of a gray jumpsuit, sweatsuit, the same after you watch this movie. And that's the last thing I'll say. Yeah. I know what gray sweatpants mean, but gray sweatsuit. I said the original gray sweatpants. Rocky's the original gray sweatpants. Do doink do doink doink doink doink doink.

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