Newcomers: Sports, 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.

This is a HeadGum Original. 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. Lord, I 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 let's all root for the girls' team

Let's give the poor coach a break You're still missing the cutoff, man. Now 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 ball game Ha ha 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 do you say 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. Are you coming? See how it works here. The train moves, not the station. And batting cleanup, 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. All right. 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-a 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.

Well, playing for the visiting team today, we are so excited to have Molly Kearney and Melanie Field. Molly is a stand-up comedian and actor known for their work as a cast member on a little show called Saturday Night Live. Teeny tiny. Molly also played the role of Fern Danley in the Amazon series A League of Their Own.

And Melanie is an actor known for her work in Killing It, Florida Girls, Heathers, and also fitting for today, played Joe DeLuca in the Amazon series A League of Their Own. 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. Very much.

I'm pumped. 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 left-handed.

I never played 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. You prefer when girls play baseball

versus instead of men or just girls who play? 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.

Why? 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 um yeah our coach i don't think i'm aware of this outside of the movie and there is obviously history there but i feel like i 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. So good. That's so cool. Yeah. So I was like, oh, this, so speaking to what Molly said, like, yeah, 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 watched your show, which you both were great on, I'm 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, 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 um so we were like working our butts off in camp but there's only you know so much you could teach and the rest of it is kind of like wait how long was camp 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. Wait, Molly, you didn't go to camp? 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. Yeah, I feel like. In the feminine part. I was only in the part where we had to be feminine. Yeah, like I had to do, I was like literally learning from what the character was going through.

I was like, oh, it was 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.

Would have looked great on camera. Yeah. No, we did, we did, let's see, we did like a week of training. I think it was about 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. Um, and yeah, it was just like learning for, for people who didn't know anything about baseball. It was like learning the basics, the rules, like, and then, um, a lot of it was like trying to learn practical skills, but also learning like for camera. So like this is how you throw the ball when it's going to 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 like a short stint. And I remember I'm like, I think I started, I'm like, where's the ball? Yeah. Like there is no ball. I'm like, there's never, there's never a ball. Well, well, I was like, where's the ball? Yeah. Like there is no ball. I'm like, there's never, there's never a ball. Well, I was 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, which was like really 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 it. Like, obviously I don't know if anyone can see what I'm doing right now. But I look very dumb doing it. I 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. I also have another. Okay, 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 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, she was wonderful, but I was like watching her on the, 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 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 you sometimes you're like oh that's not her you know it's like it's just bothered me yeah yeah i was like i don't want to watch it back and be like that's not me you know yeah like it's nice to just go, like, oh, yeah, it feels more realistic. I mean, and 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 going to count us down. She's going to start the clock. And then we're going to hear a buzzer when we run out of time. So each person's going to 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.

It's just like... It'd sound like The View. Okay, would anybody like... I'll go first. I'll go first. I'll go first. Okay. Okay, ready? Okay. 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 next? I'll go. Okay, I'll go. Oh, no, Mal, you go. You go. No, who wants to go next? I'll go. Okay, I'll go. Oh, no, Mel, you go. You go. No, no, no, I insist you go.

Oh, shit. Okay. Okay. Three, two, one, go. There's these two sisters that are milking cows, and John Levitt's coming, and she's like, get over here, 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 the first half. Okay, I'll go. Okay, ready? Three, two, one. Old lady

starts remembering her and her sister go play baseball. John Levitt's 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 ryan she like goes and she's 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 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 good.

That was really good because that got the historical context that we were all missing. She was really focused on John Lovitz. I mean, I wanted more. Your description was mainly about John Lovitz, but yes, he was the main character. Who's the real star, you know?

He had it. Okay, we got to take a time out. We are going to be back with all of A League of Their Own after a word from our sponsor. Ready? Break! We're back! A League of Their Own was released July 1st, ooh, right before the 4th in 1992. And it was written by Kelly

Canadale, Kim Wilson, and Lowell Gans. And it 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 going to jump into the plot. Everyone can jump in, say your thoughts on the film whenever you want um so in 1988 dotty hinson lynn cartwright now already my mind's blown because i thought that was jada davis in old age so did i they used her i looked it up because i was like i had thoughts about it and then i looked up and it's like it's not even her and it was her voice coming through like they dubbed her voice okay that's what i thought i was like 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 real confused but she looked so much like gina davis in old lady make 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 i was making all these jokes that i was going to talk to you about about like oh they should have put the kid in old age makeup when he comes back at the end 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.

And Ernie Capadino. Okay. Melanie, Molly, I'm not good at reading names, especially. So we're having fun. And Ernie Capadino, John Lovitz, is sent out to recruit. Oh, my God. I can't read normal words. Recruit players.

I wanted more John Lovitz. He was so funny. Yeah. He was. Do you feel like he was improvising? I felt like he was. I feel like he had a couple moments where he was like, you shut up. Yeah, I believe that.

Who wouldn't let him do it? Let him improvise, right? You gotta let him go free. Have you ever heard of a leash? That made me laugh so hard. He he really i don't know why i'm so focused on him but i do yeah he killed it yeah you put him in your 10 second you put him like by name in your 10 seconds like melanie's 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 when he was like, doesn't that hurt the cows? His voice is so silly. I know. So he attends an industrial league softball game in rural Oregon and likes what he sees in dotty now played by gina davis who is like so gorgeous the catcher for a local dairy team dotty turns down cappadino's offer happy with her simple farm life while waiting for her husband bob

bill palman to come back from the war her sister and teammate, Kit. Just kidding. Her sister and teammate, Kit, Lori Petty, who's incredible, however, is desperate to get away and make something of herself. Capodino 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 throw. Wow. Yes. As a child, that movie really touched my soul, which is hilarious because I have now, as an adult,

have a pretty deep-seated fear of sea life. But I don't remember being afraid of Free Willy, the movie. Yeah. And I just remember Lori Petty being like, she was the kid's BFF, and she was so nice to him. Oh, my God. I need to remember this because I forgot she was in that movie. Me too.

I was really focused on the song. She definitely is, right? 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. Oh my God. 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 like avatar 2 way of the water i was i was so into it and people's like 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 love the ocean. Have you ever seen the movie The Shallows? I'm getting off topic, but the movie The Shallows with Blake Lively, when she gets stuck and she's using the whale carcass to survive. No, see, whales help. Dead or alive. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. 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, we're 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 and 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 because 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 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'm just trapped there don't watch pinocchio yeah absolutely not absolutely not that'll really 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 yeah the dream of mine i want to go scuba diving i want to make friends with a whale i because 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

i just saw a picture i just saw a picture of a shark that was 360 years old and has been swimming since the 1600s or something oh Oh my God. Think of the wisdom in that shark. Talk about a bread. The stories I could tell. Yeah. Oh my God. It looked disgusting.

Probably hooking up with mermaids and stuff. Probably. Or at least watching. They were back then. Watching. How did we get to Whale? I forget.

Lori Petty. Yes. Freewheeling. 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 it up 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, Oh my God. Well, she's all the way May, which I guess implies she'll fuck you. And that's played by Madonna. 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. Yes. 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. Yeah. There's also a soft-spoken right fielder evelyn gardner oh bitty sharam illiterate shy left fielder shirley baker and cusack pitcher shortstop and former miss georgia beauty queen ellen sue gotlander these names are wild freddie simpson gentle left fielder relief pitcher bet, Betty Spaghetti Horn, Tracy Reiner, second baseman Marla. I have all the names. Marla Hooch, Megan Cavanaugh,

who was scouted by Ernie Dott and Kit in Fort Collins, Colorado. Gentle first baseman, Helen Haley, Ann Ramsey, and superstitious Sacavagian native Alice Skeeter Gaspers Renee Coleman. Boy, oh boy, 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 weirdness part like so well. 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 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. Wow. So that's cool. And Anne Cusack. I also didn't realize that he was married and then. Wow. So that's cool. And, um, and Cusack.

I also didn't realize 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.

Um, it's great. Nepo babies. A cast. Yeah. I was going to say, I'm like, is it legacy?

It's all the same. Yeah. But they probably want to be called Legacy Babies. I think they would like that more. 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 i 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 like you're the ugly freak whoever one hates i'm like got it got it they don't know what 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 can't right i don't think that's what

they're talking about um 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 ew and it's like do you have a mirror do you right when john lovitz was like i'm gonna 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 line 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 um well i want to say the part where they're getting makeovers um i've been watching the dallas cowboys cheerleader show. Me too. Yes. Oh, no. I've been missing it.

Oh, my God, Nicole, you need this. Okay. 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. It's a bunch of rooties.

Yes. Yes. They couldn't get it out of their head and the the two women who run the 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 and stuff. But they get a free awesome makeover.

And the same thing happens here, which I just thought was 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 I told some of them they were 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 shape wow and like oh these are the 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 but so yeah it's crazy that is 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 kept looking at Darcy, I was like, baby. I was like, bug eyes. I was like, what do I do? She's like, wait until she says action. I'm like, I had some, what's it called?

Imposter syndrome, that's for sure. Well, 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 actor 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 were very good, and I responded like we were in conversation. I was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry, you're doing lines. I know. I know, when someone's so convincing, yeah. You're like, oh, I thought you were just saying that.

Okay. It's so specific to the scene yep i just thought you wanted to talk about cups of coffee and um whatever so okay 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. It's so, yeah, it's so out of character. Although I'm kind of remembering, I think he might have been doing, he might have done that on Family Ties. Hold on on I think he was a drunk uncle family ties yes yes he he is a raging alcoholic I remember is like on a episode of family ties it was a very special episode and sounds like it they have to like they have to like have a talk I remember watching clips from this a while ago um yeah so i guess

he's done it before but this was a little more important um i like 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 yes it's it's like it was one of those things where during and i was like oh i think he and gina davis have like a thing going on and then i went to that's not that's not good though for her but it's fine her husband's away at war you know maybe you start a little something something then you get that letter and you mourn and you're like my new boo um also that kid was very funny to me. He was great. I really liked that kid. Perfectly cast. Yeah, he was.

He reminded me of Augustus Glump. Nope. You know, the little fatty from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Sure, could never forget. Augustus Gloop? I think he had him a bunch. Stuck in the chocolate tube. Would have been my heaven.

Yeah, truly. I 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 see them again or no we never see no i don't think you see them after they get after they 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 right that's so haunting i love that melanie watched that and she was like they took them away and they gave them a better life well i thought i thought they'd take him away and at least like rehabilitate them and then like yeah yeah they pop the blueberry they 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 up. Was very dark. Yeah. Anyway, Lowenstein begs 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. 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 i mean 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. Wow. I was just going to say that. Because, like, 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 but like really good actors yeah yeah like you know i mean a star is born is one of my favorite movies and i saw it twice in theaters i couldn't agree more i liked it it's a good movie and the soundtrack oh wait that's my only song i sing in karaoke. Really? Wait, which one? Shallow? Of course. But you're singing... Molly, do you do both parts?

When you sing Shallow, you're singing about Blake Lively movie? Okay, sorry. You know what? 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 like got up and I was like

Really brother? We were like wait Who gets to play the guy? I played the lady I wasn't gonna ask But I did wanna know I wanted to know I was like how is this gonna end

thank you Fortune wherever you are today 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 sound good. Back to Madonna. She was great. Yeah, back to Madonna. Beautiful, funny. I love that her and Rosie were best friends. They were just like 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 percent. Rosie, it 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 and she was like, Oh yeah. Like I knew Doris was gay. Um,

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. Oh my God. She was like 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 gay please yeah come on well that's what the series aimed to do and now we'll watch the series i i held off on it because i was like i haven't seen the movie i I won't understand what's happening. But that was, that seems stupid in hindsight.

You don't need to know because it tells you what happened. 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, yeah. 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 the, I think there's the suggestion of clothes coming off or something. You know, shoulders. I'll take it. Oh, okay. I don't think I'll want.

Yeah, I guess I'll just leave that right on my Amazon queue. If we're not seeing titties, I'm going to sit it out. I'm okay. That's interesting. Okay. 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. 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 to the Peach's rival, the Racine Bells.

Oh, she was jealous. She was, yeah. Kit, I was like, why can't you just 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 dotty's like married and it's like i love my farm life and kit's like no like let's get out

there and do something so i think that there's that tension so yeah yeah but kit 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 end 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 and the build-up there where you're like is it gonna be gina davis's husband yeah yeah that was intense and then the guy,

yeah, the telegram reader like not reading it because 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. I like that. I am a good guy. I just drink a lot of whiskey. I just pee for 10 minutes. That was funny to me. I like the scene where he drinks the Coke

and he's like, I guess this is what I'm going to 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. Un 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 a reveal good because i gasped i was like bill i love bill 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. Oh, it's so good. I love that movie. It's so good. Oh, God. He's great. Casper, obviously. Mm-hmm.

Oh, right. Independence Day. Oh, yes. I've never seen that. Oh, yes. You haven't? Lauren, I think you would like it. Will Smith is so charismatic.

It's a great movie. Yeah. Well, I haven't seen it in a while. A classic. 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. They don't make them like that make them anymore? No. 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. Yeah, 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, Oh, that's too long. It's that's it's long. Do you like not know the rules of baseball? It's this isn't like a read.

I'm just curious. Oh, you can read me all you want. No, I just, 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, 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 three fouls or, you know, if there's, you know, if it's grounded in the infield and you don't touch back on the base, I'm 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. So you're telling me it's more than three strikes, that person's out. And then wait, how many, how many people have to be out before they switch sides? Is it one person,

three outs and then everybody's three outs. Three outs. Yeah. Okay. And it's, but there's like so many ways to get outs and like, you can get balls. Like,

yeah. Wait. So, okay. 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. Oh, that was good. Yes. Oh my God. Wait. That was so funny. Wait. So,

okay. So if I, if I hit the ball, Molly hits the ball and then Lauren. Okay. Don't do this to us. And then Melanie gets another strike. That team is now out.

No. So let's see. 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. Da, da, da. A pop fly, which is like you hit the ball, but someone caught it before it hit the ground. Yeah, that's 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. So three of those and you can mix and match people? Yeah, three of those. Yeah, if I hit 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. If they can throw the ball fast enough to someone running to second, get them out. That's two outs.

And then someone's running home and throws it to home. That's three outs in 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... 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. It's a long stretch. That's what it is. I don't know what the fuck I thought a seventh inning stretch was. I thought it was like a gym.

You stretch. Is that true? Uh-huh. I thought it was like the seventh inning stretch was like this is the part where it gets stretched out. It's like long. Yeah, I thought maybe you throw the ball a little bit more. My mind is they play a song you get

up and you stretch like that yeah i have been to baseball games that i don't know i just i'm like now there's a song now there's a this now that's like i'm like i'm not like yeah i'm not really i've never been to a baseball game it's so fun oh. You gotta go to a Dodgers 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 gotta get a Dodger dog. Okay. I'll go. Yeah. I did just throw the first pitch out for the Guardians. You did?

The Guardians game. Yeah. Wow. It was cool. That's cool. did you do a good job yes my i think i did my younger cousin built me a mound there is my younger cousin built me a mound in our yard and i practiced all week they forced wow oh yeah you know there's like the dirt there's like um 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 um when you're not a player so you have to hop over and i hopped

but i didn't make the hop oh no that's pretty embarrassing but i mean i made the hop. Oh, no. 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. Yeah. I think it's because of the white powder that they lay down that marks the, like, 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 distraught 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 coach's sign 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. I don't know either. The sellout crowd convinces Harvey to give Lowenstein the owner's support. After the game, the sisters reconcile before Dottie leaves with Bob Bob. Bobby. Bob Bob. Bobby.

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? Dottie was like, you'll come up for Christmas. And she was like, nah, brah,

I'm fucking done. I'm not going to be in your family anymore like she was yeah she's like i play baseball now you'll never see me again i don't know i thought that was weird because like 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 unexplained. I was kind of like, say, oh my God, it's been six months. But look how amazing.

Yeah. 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, got it, got it. And then she stands in front of the Tom Hanks picture and then it zoomed in on death time. It was like his bio. And then it just like, the camera zooms down and pans over and it's like, born 1902, died 1955.

Or whatever, I was like, okay. Like it was like, yes, he died. I can assume. Penny't assume no questions i need to know this man is d-e-a-d dead he's not there because he's dead got it okay and like 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 maybe they couldn't find an old person to be them 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 nursing home didn't they do a good job I feel like all the I was impressed

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 I'm going to re-look it up because I can't remember it off the top of my head 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 re-look it up because I can't remember it off the top of my head. Yeah. 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 Geena Davison in makeup.

And I was remembering how we learned about how um in the scorsese season how who was it uh al pacino when they were all aged up they had to yeah learn from a movement and they had to learn from a movement 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 davis didn't get cursed on how to move you're not really an old lady zippy and i'm like that's actually her she's that age that's how you move it's fine whoa were you looking at it you're right. The resemblance is uncanny. It's amazing. It's wild. Yeah. Now, are they all cast with older people and not just makeup? Yes.

Is that the idea? It was all older people. Ah. Which is wild. Like, how do you find that? What a great casting director. You look and you look. You 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. 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 going to do that? I think our generation is going to 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 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. Um, and she recently has decided she wants to grow her hair out and it's like, okay, mom. And she's like, yeah, my, 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. I love gray hair. I love that. Yeah. Oh, I love it. It's like silvery. It's silver.

She's the, it's the best, best color. And, 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 I'm really proud of her. That's great. I love this journey

for your mom. It's cute. I can't wait until she can fit in a pony. That'll be so cute. Yeah. Aw. Well,

the reception of A League of Their Own is the highest grossing baseball film of all time it made 132.4 million dollars 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. 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, duh, League of Their Own.

And then I was like, what other sports movies are there? And truly, the only one I could conjure was Angels in the Outfield. I was like, I remember having that VHS tape. And it only has a 32%. 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.

That kid was so cute. Thomas Ian Nicholas. Oh, 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 was. Wait, that's not him? No.

That blows my mind. Yes, it is. Joseph Gordon-Levitt. No, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's in Angels in the Outfield. Thomas Ian Nicklaus is in 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. Sandlot was one of we would call Sandlot 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 put like little tabs on your head and like, look at your brainwaves. And so we and I got I got hooked to 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 which one well It was probably the... What's his name? Benny the... Benny the Jet. Benny the Jet, Rodriguez. So hot. But I remember being like, oh no. I have to pretend I don't care. That's so funny. Also, I need to recant 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's hot now yes of course we were just wanted to clarify a peer was a drug of course you know sometimes people are like you can't say that i'm like but i was a child then yes he's my child eyes yes okay let's do some trivia from this movie so oh gosh 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 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, should have been after John. Lovitz the cow after Marshall. That's really funny. Oh, it should have been after John. Love it's the cow. The characters at 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. Rosie O'Donnell can actually throw two balls

at the same time. That's cool. Rosie O'Donnell can actually throw two balls at the same time. I was... Can she? 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 Geena Davis catches it? I'm curious now how that was how that was done and wonder if that was CGI. I mean, how do you do that? She really caught a very fast ball. Yeah. I don't know. They had to have done CGI, at least for some of it. Because 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. 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 being near the small, 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, Lowell Gann said, it did bother us that in order to be historically accurate about the A-A-G-P-B-L, we could not have a diverse cast. We came upon that scene as a way to make the point. A lot of people have commented on it over the years,

and I'm very glad we included it in the film. Wow. That's, I mean mean and your show obviously touches on much more of that than absolutely it's like the big change of the whole side plot yeah yeah which is great um 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 more than titties there's black people there's lady kissing there's old people there's young people a few men just kidding i love guys I mean, I respect

I respect It's falling apart Oh god So we have another time out And we'll be back with more of A League of Their Own After this Ready, break. And we're back.

It's time for the newcomer's draft. If we're going to recast this movie with present day actors, who would we all pick? I mean, yeah, ignoring the show, because I guess that's kind of similar. It's going to be hard not to do that. Who would you put in this? Who would be Geena Davis? Who would be that? Sorry. Who would be Geena and Kit? Let's focus on that. Okay, let's see.

My brain is going. Well, we've already cast Madonna as Gaga, right? Yes. It would be Gaga. 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. Oh my God. I would is so big. It would be so fun. It's funny to me. 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 Wodum in there, too. Yes. Ooh, yes. I love Ego. I love Ego.

What about Tom Hanks' part? Who's a good drunk? He was kind of young, too. You know, Steve. Steve from Stranger Things. Who's Steve? Joe Keery. Oh, the big guy.

Oh, yeah. The cop. Oh, him. That's David Harbour. Maybe Steve is too young. Oh, David Harbour. David Harbour would be good. Yeah.

Okay, I amend it. Angry drunk. Yeah, he's better. Yeah. But like 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. Oh, I love this game. We did it. We did it. We did it. Did we do Kit? Yeah.

Oh, we didn't do Kit. No, we did it. Oh, no, we didn't do Kit. 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 threw up Miss Stone Jojo Siwa

oh 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 Molly you have to play Molly you have to play JoJo on SNL. Is that coming? Chloe Fineman did it. Okay, well, you need to do it, too. You need to do it, too. I want to play Jelly Roll. You need to do it, too.

Who's Jelly Roll? Jelly Roll is great. That's very fun. Wait, I need to look up who Jelly Roll is. Jelly Roll is a country singer with FaceTag. He's so sweet. He's very sweet.

Oh, that's so good. Molly, you gotta write it up. That's great. It's Waste of an Angel, too. I still feel like, you know, people play... I know that characters kind of get... 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 apparently that was all staged. Like Jojo is 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 wait nicole i'm not done with that hold on i'm not done with what you're saying that's all that's all fake

yeah that's what i had heard i can't deal with that. 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? She sure did. Am I correct? Yeah, queer pop. I love it. Queer pop.

Okay, okay. It's great. I love it. I know gay people have never made music before, but yes. They never have. No, 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.

Do it. Oh no, I'm giving you credit. And 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. Now I'm like actually like going to hit you up when we get back to season. Hey, remember when you said, could I do it? You gonna hit you up when we get back to season hey remember when you said could I do it no please do it my cousin keeps asking me to write jokes about cause half my family is 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 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 of 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. Yeah. Down there. Yeah.

Right. She's definitely the biggest Barbados. Yeah. Yeah. Now I say do that set down there. Yeah, right? They'll be like, gosh, she's definitely the biggest star. You could be from Barbados. Yeah. Now I say do that. I'll still laugh. I'll be like, I don't know what she's talking about. It's funny. I don't know.

I don't know what's going on. I love it. I love 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 a single smooch. 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, I think that would have been nice.

Yeah. I would have 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 Hefner. 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 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? 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. Stand your ground. Okay. I am going to 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. 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 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 um but I guess you do need it you You can leave all that in my review. Okay, great. How many stars? Oh, I give this, I give this a solid four stars. Like it's not my favorite movie. Like I've, I've, 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. Really solid movie.

I could watch this again. Great. Loved it. Okay. Molly, Melanie. Honestly, my Great. Loved it. 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 L.A. and not a bruise on any of them. It's just the best cast ever. From John Lennon to Tom Hanks. I liked that. To Madonna. I love that. To Rosie.

To Jean. 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. 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 going to give it a 4.6. Nice! Ooh! I'm clapping. 6.6. Nice. Okay. 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 new picture of herself and goes, wasn't that a dish? And when I tell you, I, as a child cackled in the theater yes 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 yeah kind of haunting that lady though maybe it's just the actress. Oh, I love. That was haunting. I love when she throws the, 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?

I, okay. I've seen Titanic maybe too much. Okay. But she lived to be, she lived to be a hundred, which is awesome. Oh, I'm seen Titanic maybe too much. Okay, but she lived to be 100, 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. Hey, 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. Rose did not exist. No, I meant she was real in 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. What? Also, spoiler alert. She's really pretty. She's not Kate Winslet in old people makeup.

Right. It was just cast. But you know what? It was cast that way. In my memory, she is 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 rinks. Yeah.

On the rinks. put a lot of makeup on the rinks yeah on the ring well she does look 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 yeah just a little trim yeah 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 had a lighter, I would light it. That was the most coherent fucking review we've ever had. 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 a question mark also. Yes.

Oh, 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 perfect what a fun time

this was so fun thank you both for being here this was 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's a great place to live.

It's hot in the summer. Yeah, come to Fishtown. I'm going to plug 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 U.S., let's say. best in the world or i shouldn't say world they've made like you can say world top best in the u.s let's say best in the u.s um 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 um 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 resigies and Molly.

Yeah, how dare me not catch A League of Their Own? Watch A League of Their Own on Amazon. What's wrong with me? I do stand-up, so if you want to know where I'm doing stand-up, Meatbrick Molly is my screen, or not my screen name. Meatbrick Molly is my Instagram. Talk to Molly on AOL Messenger. 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 oh well mine was mine was lappy 13 utt so it looked like lappy butt because my last name is latkes i love that she's been funny a long time she's been funny for so long that's funny mine was mel bell 218 but only one l with the bell.

So it was like M-E-L-B-E-L, which in hindsight is like, why didn't I just add another L? I don't know. That's cute, though. I like that choice. That's a cute C-L-L-218. That's great, yeah. Did really well in the chat rooms with the older men as well.

That's where we all were. What were you guys doing on there? Molly missed out. Just being like, ASL. Access location. And then they would like ask your bra size. Did you ever have that? Molly missed out ASL location and then they would like ask your bra size did you ever have that? I don't know

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 what do kids do now anyway so you can write a review for newcomers screaming infidelities. Oh my goodness. Those were the days.

What do kids do now? Anyway, so you can write a review for Newcomers on Apple Podcasts and you can rate it on Spotify and yeah,

we'll be back next week with Rocky. Whoa. A movie that I don't know if I'm excited to watch. I've never seen it. Was it filmed in Fishtown? It's so suspenseful.

It was not filmed in Fis fishtown but there's a rocky statue in philadelphia it's like classic iconic the arts the art no i jam steps he runs up the stairs i know another reason to visit yeah i know stairs but i didn't know there was a uh 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 character. Statue from a movie. Yeah. I mean, there's a statue. I'm like, no, wait, it's not every day there's a fucking statue of a movie character. 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 go at the top and be Rocky.

So they put a statue at the bottom, right next to the museum. Wow. 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 all the last thing I'll say. Yeah.

Huh. I know what gray sweatpants mean. I said the original gray sweatpants. Rocky's the original gray sweatpants. Do-doink, do-doink, doink, doink, doink, doink. Okay. Let's all say newcomers on three. One, two, three.

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