# Aca-awesome (Pitch Perfect)

An episode of [And That's What You REALLY Missed](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1645980188), 12 Jan 2026, 38 min.

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It's about aca-time! Kevin and Jenna are back with a look at the musical comedy that premiered during the height of Glee madness ... Pitch Perfect! Right off the bat, Kevin admits he wasn't feeling the movie back in the day, but shares what he thinks after rewatching it! They also break down their favorite performances, thoughts on the casting choices, jokes that did not age well, Glee similarities, and the scene that gave Jenna chills! For fun, exclusive content, and behind-the-scenes clips, follow us on Instagram @andthatswhatyoureallymissedpod & TikTok @thatswhatyoureallymissed! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: And That's what You Really Missed with Jenna.
[0:04] Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
[0:09] Speaker 3: Welcome to and That's What You Really miss podcast. It's
[0:12] Speaker 3: recap time.
[0:14] Speaker 2: Yes, I'm very excited for this, Jenna.
[0:18] Speaker 3: So am I and you guys really wanted this one,
[0:22] Speaker 3: so we were very excited to bring this one. Put
[0:27] Speaker 3: this one on the list, bring it, Yes, added to
[0:30] Speaker 3: the added to the list.
[0:31] Speaker 2: She has a way with words ladies and gentlemen.
[0:33] Speaker 1: No really, I was like, what am I like? What
[0:35] Speaker 1: do I want to.
[0:35] Speaker 2: Say right now? Because in the world of Glee, this
[0:39] Speaker 2: is the closest thing yes in movie form. This is
[0:45] Speaker 2: pitch Perfect, which originally premiered October fifth, twenty twelve, right
[0:50] Speaker 2: in the middle of all the Glee madness.
[0:53] Speaker 3: Okay, we're going to talk about oh about it in
[0:56] Speaker 3: the news.
[0:57] Speaker 1: At this time.
[0:58] Speaker 3: The number the number one song was One More Night
[1:00] Speaker 3: by Maroon five.
[1:03] Speaker 2: The number one movie was Hotel Transylvania.
[1:07] Speaker 3: It opened at number three, behind Perfect, Yes, pitch Perfect, sorry,
[1:12] Speaker 3: behind that and Taken two.
[1:14] Speaker 1: I did not see Hotel Transylvania.
[1:16] Speaker 2: Neither did I taste it. Taken to no.
[1:21] Speaker 3: Ge News this week because there was Glee News Season four,
[1:24] Speaker 3: Episode four the break of what a big one, damn,
[1:30] Speaker 3: and then Glee then went on a month long hiatus.
[1:33] Speaker 1: I can't believe they did that to you, guys.
[1:36] Speaker 3: When the next episode, The Role You Were Born to Play,
[1:39] Speaker 3: airing on November.
[1:40] Speaker 2: This was just like a really gay, nerdy month for everyone,
[1:44] Speaker 2: the breakup happening and then Pitch Perfect coming out. Oh
[1:48] Speaker 2: my gosh, Like, how many people did we force to
[1:51] Speaker 2: be gay with this? Wow? This is wonderful? No, I
[1:56] Speaker 2: know the agenda is alive and well do.
[1:59] Speaker 1: You remember seeing this in the theater or for the
[2:01] Speaker 1: first time? Do you remember?
[2:03] Speaker 2: Look, I was not into it. I think I shared
[2:09] Speaker 2: a lot of the same sentiment that I did with
[2:10] Speaker 2: Smash as I did with Pitch.
[2:12] Speaker 1: Did you see it though? Or you didn't want to
[2:13] Speaker 1: see it?
[2:14] Speaker 2: I didn't want to see it interesting because I don't
[2:18] Speaker 2: know what that was like, I'm just being honest here.
[2:21] Speaker 1: Yeah, I added this like really a version.
[2:24] Speaker 2: In a version or like competitive spirit where I'm like,
[2:26] Speaker 2: you guys are benefiting off of like what Ryan and co.
[2:31] Speaker 2: Have created here, Like there's mashups, there's current music as
[2:36] Speaker 2: opposed to being like there is room for everybody and
[2:39] Speaker 2: like more and more and it's all great and positive.
[2:43] Speaker 2: So I was being a little Debbie downer about it
[2:47] Speaker 2: or something.
[2:47] Speaker 1: I don't know. That's fair, that's fair.
[2:49] Speaker 3: That makes total sense to me. I think the reason
[2:51] Speaker 3: I saw was partially because of Skylar. Yeah, and can
[2:57] Speaker 3: we talk about the hero Ben Platt, Tiny Blue Pat
[3:01] Speaker 3: Ben Platt before it was Ben Platt. But I remember
[3:07] Speaker 3: seeing this. I don't remember if it was in the
[3:09] Speaker 3: theater or if it was a screening or if it
[3:12] Speaker 3: was and I must have been because we weren't streaming
[3:16] Speaker 3: movies like that yet, so it must have been in
[3:18] Speaker 3: the theater, and I do remember, I don't know if
[3:23] Speaker 3: it was just TV then I had the version too,
[3:25] Speaker 3: because like I remember seeing this for the first time,
[3:29] Speaker 3: and as I was watching it last night, like it
[3:31] Speaker 3: jogged my memory like it was the first time I
[3:35] Speaker 3: had seen a musical on screen, a musical genre, you know,
[3:41] Speaker 3: piece of film, TV world again, she has a way
[3:46] Speaker 3: with words people, and thinking, this is the first time
[3:52] Speaker 3: I think that they've got it right.
[3:54] Speaker 1: Yeah. I was like the tone, the like they were
[3:59] Speaker 1: making fun of themselves. It was campy.
[4:02] Speaker 3: It was like it was slightly satirical in some ways.
[4:07] Speaker 3: I think it was like a little dark, and it
[4:11] Speaker 3: was like, in the context of the world in which
[4:14] Speaker 3: they were competing, like it was all ugly but not
[4:18] Speaker 3: it actually felt more realistic thingly in some ways with
[4:22] Speaker 3: the competitions and the things. But again like you come
[4:26] Speaker 3: out of the gate with somebody like vomiting on stage.
[4:29] Speaker 3: Like they set the tone for what this was right.
[4:32] Speaker 3: This was not going to be a serious musical show
[4:36] Speaker 3: or film. And the characters were developed and well it
[4:44] Speaker 3: stilled they needed to be and you know, I was like, oh,
[4:49] Speaker 3: you know, this is gonna be fun. And then has
[4:51] Speaker 3: got into it with the whole like breakfast coupling, and
[4:53] Speaker 3: like Skyler really just freaking selling it.
[4:56] Speaker 1: I mean, my god, he really sold it.
[5:00] Speaker 2: The whole time. I'm just like, Skyler, honestly is the best.
[5:03] Speaker 1: Part of this entire movie sold it for me.
[5:06] Speaker 2: I don't know what it is, but Skyler can straddle
[5:09] Speaker 2: that line of the campiness the pop ness of it,
[5:14] Speaker 2: but also just being genuine and grounded. Like every time
[5:17] Speaker 2: he was in a scene, I was like, oh this,
[5:20] Speaker 2: I feel like he and Brittany Snow especially like we're
[5:23] Speaker 2: really nailing this movie.
[5:26] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, it was like grounded yet so elevated.
[5:30] Speaker 3: And and then you know, like of course at a
[5:33] Speaker 3: camp is her character is just kind of like beyond
[5:36] Speaker 3: oh yeah, but you have these other characters like Skyler
[5:39] Speaker 3: and especially Brittany, like they were really good. And then
[5:43] Speaker 3: Rebel Wilson also like one of her earlier films, right.
[5:49] Speaker 2: And they like you can tell like they're just letting
[5:51] Speaker 2: her play, Like there are so many takes where like
[5:54] Speaker 2: it just she just goes on and on and I'm like, oh,
[5:57] Speaker 2: they all they must have all been dying just filming.
[6:00] Speaker 1: Yeah, like a full party with her. She's so funny.
[6:05] Speaker 1: I feel like so funny.
[6:06] Speaker 2: What I really feel like that you can tell this
[6:09] Speaker 2: at the same time as Glee is like the things
[6:12] Speaker 2: that have not aged well are the exact same things, yes,
[6:16] Speaker 2: like the jokes and characterizations of stereotypes of certain people,
[6:23] Speaker 2: So are the exact same, for better or for worse
[6:27] Speaker 2: or for worse. And it's like, oh yeah, this is
[6:30] Speaker 2: definitely the same time as Glee, you know where.
[6:34] Speaker 3: But the music and the music too, I'm curious to
[6:37] Speaker 3: hear what you thought about What did you think about
[6:40] Speaker 3: like the production and the music, like given that it
[6:43] Speaker 3: was a cappella, Like I I really liked the sound,
[6:47] Speaker 3: and I thought it was it was done well, and
[6:49] Speaker 3: I thought it was They sounded good, especially Anna Kendric
[6:53] Speaker 3: sounded really good. Her tone sounded so good on all
[6:56] Speaker 3: these songs and of course klor But like I thought,
[7:02] Speaker 3: every time something came on this, like when they started
[7:07] Speaker 3: doing a song, like I started to get chills and
[7:08] Speaker 3: I was like, oh, they got me, Like the music
[7:11] Speaker 3: alone got me. Even if the story was like weaning
[7:14] Speaker 3: a little bit, like it brought me right back in.
[7:17] Speaker 2: Because they were not afraid. The whole movie in the
[7:20] Speaker 2: story is like anti cringe in the way of like
[7:25] Speaker 2: these kids unabashedly love what they're doing.
[7:29] Speaker 1: Yeah, And so like.
[7:30] Speaker 2: When you're on the bus and you just start singing
[7:36] Speaker 2: and you see Anna Kendrick sort of speaking for the
[7:38] Speaker 2: audience watching of like I can't believe this is happening,
[7:42] Speaker 2: and I kind of want to join in because it
[7:44] Speaker 2: is like kind of irresistible where that works every time
[7:50] Speaker 2: they start doing it, because like it doesn't seem forced,
[7:54] Speaker 2: like these kids are just dorks and the best way
[7:57] Speaker 2: possible and.
[7:58] Speaker 3: The iconic shower scene Brittany Snow like literally like hunting
[8:03] Speaker 3: and Kendrick is so funny and so quintessentially that movie like.
[8:08] Speaker 2: But also like another shower scene with somebody discovering somebody singing.
[8:12] Speaker 3: Well, yes, that's right, but insane. She looked insane doing it,
[8:16] Speaker 3: and it was so funny to me. I thought, it's
[8:20] Speaker 3: one of my favorite scenes in the whole film.
[8:22] Speaker 2: Brittany Snow, I feel like does not get enough credit
[8:26] Speaker 2: for I don't know what was going on the American
[8:28] Speaker 2: Dreams set, because her and Vanessa both have the same
[8:31] Speaker 2: ability to do like these really heightened things. Yes, like
[8:36] Speaker 2: her being completely naked in front of somebody else and
[8:39] Speaker 2: like going it is deadpan, it's serious like they but
[8:44] Speaker 2: they both can do it all.
[8:46] Speaker 3: Yes, yes, the versatile but yeah, I think they just
[8:50] Speaker 3: fully believe and are fully committed. Like Vanessa Lunjie's like
[8:54] Speaker 3: doesn't do anything in her whole life half ass, and
[8:59] Speaker 3: I think Brittany is probably long the same lines, like yeah,
[9:02] Speaker 3: it's like nothing is half It's always one hundred and
[9:07] Speaker 3: ninety percent.
[9:08] Speaker 2: So if you haven't seen this movie, here's a little
[9:11] Speaker 2: recap of Like the official universal summary is college freshman
[9:16] Speaker 2: Becca with one Si joins the bard In bellas the
[9:19] Speaker 2: school's all girl a cappella singing group, as Becca leads
[9:22] Speaker 2: them out of their traditional arrangements and perfect harmonies into
[9:26] Speaker 2: all new mashups they fight to climb their way to
[9:28] Speaker 2: the top of the college music competitions. That was the
[9:34] Speaker 2: other thing, like they you know, you brought up how
[9:35] Speaker 2: good the music is utilized. I thought the arrangements were
[9:39] Speaker 2: really special. Everyone sounds great, Like how it was recorded
[9:43] Speaker 2: was really wonderful. The transitions from speaking into music was
[9:47] Speaker 2: all really good. And they used so much music so much,
[9:52] Speaker 2: and it's all hits, like huge songs.
[9:55] Speaker 1: And just like snippets and things in the right amount.
[9:58] Speaker 1: Like I think with the.
[9:59] Speaker 3: Akapa element to it, you don't have to do full songs.
[10:04] Speaker 1: You can do these little pieces.
[10:06] Speaker 3: They can they do the riff off like in the
[10:09] Speaker 3: in the pool, just touch points of like oh, just
[10:13] Speaker 3: let me bring this person in and this person who
[10:15] Speaker 3: likes this eighties music and this person who likes you know,
[10:19] Speaker 3: I don't know, Like it was just it ran the
[10:22] Speaker 3: gap and it was so.
[10:25] Speaker 1: Something for everybody. Yeah, and different. So we did have
[10:30] Speaker 1: Anna Camp.
[10:30] Speaker 3: On Glee very early on as the guest star, I
[10:34] Speaker 3: do remember, and ironically she didn't sing on it. She
[10:37] Speaker 3: was the judge for sectionals. But I remember us meeting
[10:41] Speaker 3: her very briefly and you being like true Blood.
[10:45] Speaker 2: Yes, because she had just been she showed up on
[10:48] Speaker 2: true Wood and just like was incredible, so so good,
[10:53] Speaker 2: insane and so good.
[10:55] Speaker 3: And then of course we have Skylar Aston, who is
[10:57] Speaker 3: also on Glee. Yes, our friend, and he was a
[11:02] Speaker 3: speller recently.
[11:03] Speaker 1: Right.
[11:04] Speaker 2: Also, I know we talked about Zoe's a shordinary playlist.
[11:09] Speaker 2: Anybody who can show up in a scene that is
[11:14] Speaker 2: as awkward as singing in the backseat of a car,
[11:17] Speaker 2: you know, of breaking into song like that and have
[11:22] Speaker 2: it not be uncomfortable to watch is so impressive. I
[11:28] Speaker 2: will never know that feeling of this skill to be
[11:30] Speaker 2: able to do that. And also him just like you know,
[11:33] Speaker 2: in a scene with Ben when they see the acapella
[11:35] Speaker 2: group for the first time and Ben's like, oh, can
[11:38] Speaker 2: you sing? And he just starts singing and he's wonderful.
[11:41] Speaker 2: And by the way, so Skyler came to see spelling me.
[11:43] Speaker 1: The other day. Yeah, he was a speller.
[11:46] Speaker 2: Yeah, but I was just like talking to him about
[11:47] Speaker 2: his voice and like I was saying, how he's a
[11:51] Speaker 2: tenor and he's like, no, no, I'm not a tenor.
[11:54] Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Every time he opens his mouth to sing
[11:57] Speaker 2: in this movie, he has this beautifully puer voice.
[12:01] Speaker 1: I do love that when he was like since you began,
[12:04] Speaker 1: he was like in the middle of it.
[12:05] Speaker 3: I don't know if that was Skyler or if that
[12:07] Speaker 3: was the character, but he was like, wow, this is
[12:09] Speaker 3: high yeah.
[12:10] Speaker 2: Like so I was one of my favorite bits of
[12:13] Speaker 2: the whole movie.
[12:14] Speaker 1: He's a tenor, but are you kidding?
[12:15] Speaker 2: I don't know, but I love his voice. There was
[12:19] Speaker 2: also John Michael Higgins was one of the commentators, which
[12:24] Speaker 2: is also just oh great. He was also in Glee.
[12:30] Speaker 2: He was in season one episode nineteen dream On. He
[12:32] Speaker 2: played Russell, who was part of Brian Ryan choqueer conversion.
[12:36] Speaker 3: Group We Love We Love Yeah.
[12:39] Speaker 2: Also fun fact, during the riff off scene, one of
[12:41] Speaker 2: the categories on the wheel was songs ruined by Glee.
[12:46] Speaker 1: I want to like make the you know what I mean.
[12:49] Speaker 2: I wish. I think it's probably like you know, we
[12:51] Speaker 2: were filming all the time and didn't have time to
[12:53] Speaker 2: like go do things, But I do wish we like
[12:55] Speaker 2: embraced pitch perfect more like if this happened in twenty
[13:01] Speaker 2: twenty six, there would have been like a concerted effort
[13:04] Speaker 2: to like do things together, you know, like put us
[13:08] Speaker 2: together in some ways. And I do wish because like
[13:12] Speaker 2: it's great that this really niche thing like was being
[13:17] Speaker 2: produced on Fox TV and by Universal as a movie.
[13:22] Speaker 2: Like that's just wonderful.
[13:24] Speaker 3: Everything we had said in all of our it's just
[13:27] Speaker 3: like bringing more music to people, more artists to people,
[13:31] Speaker 3: more exposure for these artists. It was just it's I
[13:35] Speaker 3: don't know, it's all it's all good.
[13:37] Speaker 2: It's all show I show Elizabeth Banks, because like this
[13:41] Speaker 2: was the second production that her production company she produced,
[13:51] Speaker 2: picks them well, and she you know, she said in
[13:55] Speaker 2: interviews that, like there was very little room for error
[13:57] Speaker 2: because this was made for a relatively small budget seventeen million,
[14:01] Speaker 2: which I do find really shocking because to get some
[14:04] Speaker 2: music rights alone is very very expensive. But on a
[14:08] Speaker 2: seventeen million dollar budget, this made one hundred and fifteen
[14:10] Speaker 2: million dollars. And then she went on to direct the sequels,
[14:14] Speaker 2: which is just amazing. Get a girl, Yeah, And like
[14:18] Speaker 2: her type of comedy obviously is all over this, and
[14:21] Speaker 2: it's like she really, I don't know, fought for it
[14:27] Speaker 2: and found a home for it, which is also just great.
[14:30] Speaker 2: Like love that she's using her power to do something.
[14:35] Speaker 3: They like, Yeah, they're the two of them together. And
[14:41] Speaker 3: the quipie lines that they had crazy very Glee, very Glee.
[14:48] Speaker 1: It felt like Ian. No, it just felt like Ian
[14:51] Speaker 1: wrote those.
[14:53] Speaker 3: But yet like it was, they were so clever and
[14:57] Speaker 3: so well, I don't know, it was just really well executed. Okay,
[15:09] Speaker 3: so just an overview like a pitch perfect premiere. In
[15:13] Speaker 3: twenty twelve, it became a hit. It was the first
[15:16] Speaker 3: feature for director Jason Moore. Wow, very good, the big
[15:22] Speaker 3: it's a it's a different kind of film to take
[15:24] Speaker 3: on for your victorial debut, and.
[15:28] Speaker 1: A screenwriter k Canon as well.
[15:30] Speaker 2: The soundtracks went platinum. Oh it was the best selling
[15:33] Speaker 2: soundtrack of twenty thirteen.
[15:37] Speaker 1: Wow. Wow.
[15:39] Speaker 3: And I will say, like, I think that was also
[15:42] Speaker 3: like people were getting Glee, right, we were. They were
[15:46] Speaker 3: being they're like used to getting that kind of music. Yes,
[15:50] Speaker 3: it was on the charts.
[15:51] Speaker 2: I mean they said some of the casts even said that.
[15:53] Speaker 2: I think the success of Glee helped to show the
[15:56] Speaker 2: movie at Greenlit totally.
[15:57] Speaker 1: But like that's great, Yes, that's where we're here for. Yeah,
[16:02] Speaker 1: well let's open some more doors.
[16:03] Speaker 2: Well that's what's crazy to me is like I just
[16:06] Speaker 2: kept being reminded not to toot or on horn, but
[16:09] Speaker 2: I just kept being reminded of like how how like
[16:18] Speaker 2: Odds defying Glee wasn't so many ways, and like how
[16:22] Speaker 2: Ryan was able to create this very specific type of
[16:28] Speaker 2: show with mashups with popular music, yes, and get the
[16:32] Speaker 2: general public to be really into it. It's like, I mean,
[16:36] Speaker 2: like we sold something like fifty million singles or something
[16:39] Speaker 2: like that, and like that's absurd and then to you know,
[16:47] Speaker 2: get the public's appetite wet for that and be able
[16:50] Speaker 2: to thent A movie franchise like this, three movies about
[16:53] Speaker 2: a cappella singing. It's just it's wonderful, really, I think.
[17:00] Speaker 2: And I think the thing that really makes it work
[17:03] Speaker 2: is that they're both, you know, self referential and self deprecating. Yeah,
[17:08] Speaker 2: because it is such like a silly I wonder if,
[17:11] Speaker 2: like you.
[17:11] Speaker 3: If today, if somebody was trying to create something like
[17:13] Speaker 3: this again, if this would be the time. I don't
[17:16] Speaker 3: think it is, and I don't think people would. I mean,
[17:18] Speaker 3: it always is the time for me, but I just
[17:21] Speaker 3: don't think that in the time of what's being put
[17:24] Speaker 3: out there and what's being made and what kind of
[17:26] Speaker 3: risks are being taken, Like, I don't think right now,
[17:29] Speaker 3: if this were to be made like it would be like.
[17:32] Speaker 1: I don't know that anybody would green light it right
[17:34] Speaker 1: right now.
[17:35] Speaker 2: I don't know. In terms of like how music is consumed. Well,
[17:39] Speaker 2: back then, yes, the sales were hotter because it was
[17:42] Speaker 2: more concentrated. Yes, Like streaming wasn't as big as it
[17:45] Speaker 2: is now. Yes, and like when people get desensitized to like,
[17:51] Speaker 2: oh yeah they're doing accapila, like they're doing mashups. We
[17:54] Speaker 2: know what this is sort of going to be. But
[17:56] Speaker 2: like cups for example, was like a runaway because that
[18:00] Speaker 2: was a little different.
[18:01] Speaker 3: Yes, and that was actually based on her audition. So
[18:05] Speaker 3: instead of a typical pop song, she's saying a folk
[18:08] Speaker 3: tune while creating a rhythm using a plastic cup in
[18:11] Speaker 3: her audition genius something she learned on YouTube.
[18:14] Speaker 1: So genius.
[18:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I see. I still think I don't
[18:21] Speaker 2: think you're going to get you know, like a soundtrack
[18:24] Speaker 2: to sell a million copies or like we were selling
[18:26] Speaker 2: millions of singles. I don't think you're going to get
[18:30] Speaker 2: that type of response anymore. I don't think that's possible
[18:34] Speaker 2: because of the landscape. But I think something like this
[18:37] Speaker 2: already at Greenlit today, there's absolutely like room for something
[18:41] Speaker 2: to have an unexpected like runaway hit like cups, like
[18:47] Speaker 2: something can go.
[18:47] Speaker 1: Big on TikTok or right.
[18:49] Speaker 2: I just think it's just a different way of us
[18:51] Speaker 2: consuming media. So I don't know. I think it would
[18:55] Speaker 2: still work today. I think we don't. We don't know
[18:57] Speaker 2: these things are going to work until they do. Like
[19:00] Speaker 2: it was a risk for this movie at green Lit.
[19:02] Speaker 2: It was a risk for gleating at green Lit. So
[19:05] Speaker 2: until you see it, you don't know that it's possible.
[19:08] Speaker 2: You know, now there's just going to be a billion
[19:10] Speaker 2: gay hockey shows because pat rivalry. Literally I have a friend,
[19:14] Speaker 2: by the way, this is how it's so cliche, how
[19:16] Speaker 2: this works.
[19:18] Speaker 1: What but.
[19:21] Speaker 2: These two friends of mine are a gay couple who
[19:23] Speaker 2: make excellent movies. The writers and directors, like they were
[19:26] Speaker 2: saying there, studios are going around now being like, what's
[19:29] Speaker 2: the next book that's like eat a rivalry with a
[19:32] Speaker 2: secret gay love story in sports. So this is like
[19:35] Speaker 2: how that works. So it's like proof of concept, Glee works,
[19:38] Speaker 2: pitch perfect. You know there's an audience for it.
[19:40] Speaker 3: Yeah, ye, So here we go yes, So okay, so
[19:45] Speaker 3: had you not seen this at all?
[19:46] Speaker 2: I had. I've seen it once before, okay.
[19:48] Speaker 1: Just not around the time that it came out.
[19:50] Speaker 2: No, eventually I got over myself during the pandemic. I'm
[19:55] Speaker 2: not sure, but it wasn't.
[19:57] Speaker 1: I haven't seen two or three.
[19:59] Speaker 2: Saying but this again makes me watch?
[20:06] Speaker 1: Yes? What what did? What did you think?
[20:12] Speaker 2: I really liked it, Like, okay, something's bummed me out,
[20:16] Speaker 2: Like what like the treatment of Asian characters.
[20:20] Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it's just like that they knew.
[20:25] Speaker 2: No, it's not fat Amy being called fat Amy like
[20:28] Speaker 2: that having to be the butt of the joke. I
[20:30] Speaker 2: get a different time. Trust me, I.
[20:32] Speaker 3: Understand, you know, I do like it's not appropriate and
[20:40] Speaker 3: it wasn't appropriate, and it still isn't. But the fact
[20:42] Speaker 3: that Anna Camp had said, did they do you call
[20:46] Speaker 3: yourself that? Like a lot of the time in this movie,
[20:49] Speaker 3: at least in this particular movie, like they call.
[20:52] Speaker 1: Themselves on it, which I was like, okay, we are
[20:55] Speaker 1: aware and we are well.
[20:58] Speaker 2: I was just like, how are you going to introduce
[21:00] Speaker 2: another Asian female character and also have her not speak?
[21:07] Speaker 2: I'm like, so so they they're not allowed to talk?
[21:11] Speaker 4: I know, it felt weirdly familiar, uh huh, and it's
[21:17] Speaker 4: like as if they didn't quite know what to do
[21:19] Speaker 4: with her, but they had to have her there.
[21:24] Speaker 2: And it was like the two tropes of like ones,
[21:26] Speaker 2: like presumably a good student, she's always doing homework, she
[21:31] Speaker 2: only hang out with Asian people, yep. And then you
[21:34] Speaker 2: have the other one who is like silent and like quirky,
[21:37] Speaker 2: cool girl.
[21:38] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, like gudies.
[21:45] Speaker 3: But these girls were very fun and I liked the
[21:48] Speaker 3: chemistry and the dynamic of the new you know group
[21:52] Speaker 3: and then also your favorite you mentioned your favorite little
[21:56] Speaker 3: bit with the auditions.
[21:58] Speaker 1: They get to pick the song and they that really good.
[22:02] Speaker 2: The audition sequence was phenomenal, really good, phenomenal. I also
[22:07] Speaker 2: shout out to Esterdeine, who was like the lesbian in it. Esterdeine,
[22:12] Speaker 2: by the way, is like an incredibly incredibly successful songwriter.
[22:19] Speaker 1: Oh really oh.
[22:21] Speaker 2: Like I kept thinking any of those songs that they
[22:23] Speaker 2: were singing could have been hers. She has written entire
[22:25] Speaker 2: albums for Rihanna, Chris Brown, Nicki Minaj, Like Superbass, that's
[22:30] Speaker 2: her singing the hook she wrote super Bass.
[22:32] Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
[22:33] Speaker 2: Oh she's gigantic and so like wow, I love that
[22:37] Speaker 2: she was in this and also doing like Rihanna songs
[22:39] Speaker 2: that she didn't write.
[22:41] Speaker 1: Wow, like she's doing all.
[22:42] Speaker 2: These gigantic pop songs like girl, the songs you've written
[22:45] Speaker 2: are bigger than these songs.
[22:47] Speaker 1: Cuckuck cuckoo, like if you just go look up Esterdean. Yes, okay,
[22:52] Speaker 1: this is crazy, which I was doing.
[22:55] Speaker 2: In on Wikipedia, it says that she wrote a song
[22:57] Speaker 2: for me that is a typo I wish. I believe
[23:00] Speaker 2: it was the artist Kevin McCall. Kevin McHale.
[23:04] Speaker 1: Wow, that's funny too.
[23:06] Speaker 2: When did this happened? I've never met her, but a
[23:09] Speaker 2: big fan of hers, and she has written You could
[23:13] Speaker 2: have just used Esther Dean songs in a Pitch Perfect
[23:15] Speaker 2: movie and you still would have known every single song.
[23:19] Speaker 1: Yes, yes, okay, okay, okay.
[23:21] Speaker 2: I love that she was in this. I also like
[23:24] Speaker 2: all of their chemistry. All these girls are so wonderful together.
[23:28] Speaker 2: I also think the choreography was really great.
[23:30] Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to a J.
[23:34] Speaker 2: Jones, Like it all felt really cohesive and just like
[23:40] Speaker 2: they all everybody got it. Yes, I was trying to
[23:43] Speaker 2: do too.
[23:44] Speaker 3: Much, I know, and I think that's like that was
[23:49] Speaker 3: probably the direction and you know, setting the tone properly,
[23:55] Speaker 3: but also what's on the page and I don't know
[23:58] Speaker 3: it's it's a very but.
[24:00] Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt very cohesive.
[24:02] Speaker 3: However they set that for them, everybody did get it
[24:06] Speaker 3: and like dropped right in.
[24:08] Speaker 1: And that's casting too, right, finding these people I loved.
[24:14] Speaker 3: I remember watching this for the first time, not expecting
[24:18] Speaker 3: Ben Platt to come out and sing at the end
[24:21] Speaker 3: like that. Also, no, so I didn't know this was Ben.
[24:26] Speaker 3: I didn't know who Ben was. This was pre Evan
[24:29] Speaker 3: Hanson and I knew Jonah, I didn't know Ben. And
[24:34] Speaker 3: I I remember watching this and just falling in love
[24:41] Speaker 3: with this kid being like the hero of the film. Yeah,
[24:47] Speaker 3: it was adorable. And then his voice it's very minimal,
[24:52] Speaker 3: but yet is he and the other ones I don't know.
[24:56] Speaker 2: We're gonna have to watch to find out, because I
[24:58] Speaker 2: know we're them what we know about Ben Platt? I
[25:05] Speaker 2: was like, oh, God, that's all we're getting his voice?
[25:09] Speaker 1: No, give me everything?
[25:13] Speaker 3: Uh but yes, I I you know from the jump
[25:18] Speaker 3: loved this film. The music elements and then the comedy
[25:23] Speaker 3: and the timing of all of these people was impeccable.
[25:26] Speaker 3: And that's editing too, but like also just the performances
[25:30] Speaker 3: that the timing was perfect. Everybody was just dropped. It
[25:40] Speaker 3: was so funny.
[25:41] Speaker 2: I think we think, like what you said, casting was
[25:43] Speaker 2: just perfect. Knowing now what rebel is possible, like what
[25:47] Speaker 2: her career has been, like obviously she is perfect. Annae Kendrick,
[25:52] Speaker 2: Anna Kendrick Skyler, Anna camp Ben, and Adam Devine all
[25:56] Speaker 2: walked that line. These are all experts at walking that
[26:00] Speaker 2: line of sincerity and camp like that's what they do.
[26:03] Speaker 2: That's all of their like that is their bread and butter,
[26:06] Speaker 2: and you put all them in a movie together and like,
[26:09] Speaker 2: of course it's going to work.
[26:11] Speaker 1: Yes, I would have loved to be in Pitch Perfect.
[26:13] Speaker 2: Same the whole time, I was like, I'm furious this
[26:16] Speaker 2: is my movie.
[26:17] Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to be in this, Like of
[26:21] Speaker 3: course we get this.
[26:22] Speaker 2: This is our brand. Like Christopher Min's boss who was
[26:29] Speaker 2: mclove it and super Bad, He's in it, and I'm
[26:30] Speaker 2: just like, damn it.
[26:32] Speaker 1: I know, yeah, well that's you. Yeah.
[26:35] Speaker 2: I was like, obviously none of us could have been
[26:37] Speaker 2: in this, but I'm actually surprised none of us are.
[26:42] Speaker 1: Somebody some Bad.
[26:58] Speaker 3: What was your favorite to mashup song from the movie.
[27:03] Speaker 2: You know what, I'm furious. I kept wanting them to
[27:05] Speaker 2: do the titanium mashup that we.
[27:07] Speaker 1: Heard Thank You. So my favorite part.
[27:13] Speaker 3: Was in the competition when Anna decides that she's going
[27:19] Speaker 3: to go ahead and put.
[27:21] Speaker 1: Her song in.
[27:22] Speaker 2: She sounds in her tone, her voice is stupid.
[27:27] Speaker 1: Is so good.
[27:29] Speaker 3: I had chills and I was like, do not end
[27:32] Speaker 3: this song right now, please keep going. It was so
[27:35] Speaker 3: good that the mashup was good. She sounded perfect, it fits.
[27:39] Speaker 3: She sounded so good thin with them. It was like,
[27:42] Speaker 3: I was like, that's that's my favorite thing.
[27:44] Speaker 2: The mashups in this movie are incredible, really like really
[27:50] Speaker 2: really really really good, really good. I mean I think
[27:54] Speaker 2: I think they're winning performance at the end, Don't you
[27:59] Speaker 2: forget about Me? They did price tag, don't you forget
[28:03] Speaker 2: about me? Give me everything, just the way you are
[28:05] Speaker 2: part of the USA. Turn the beat around. I have that,
[28:09] Speaker 2: and it is happening flawlessly. You know, like when we
[28:11] Speaker 2: had Adam Manderson, where like Ryan would be like making
[28:15] Speaker 2: mashup between these two songs and they just don't go together.
[28:18] Speaker 2: I know, when you pick songs that do go together.
[28:22] Speaker 1: It was winning combo.
[28:24] Speaker 2: Yeah, it was unbelievable. I really liked No Diggity in
[28:28] Speaker 2: the riff Off. I really loved that. Was like that
[28:33] Speaker 2: was like one of those moments in the movie We're like, oh, chills,
[28:37] Speaker 2: and this is what it can feel like. Yes, and
[28:40] Speaker 2: it's just so effective. And I love that they're in
[28:42] Speaker 2: this like abandoned pool. It's so silly.
[28:45] Speaker 1: I love the abandoned Pool. I thought it was brilliant.
[28:50] Speaker 2: I was just thinking about like the random sets when
[28:53] Speaker 2: Adam Devine comes in and saying he's gonna go be
[28:56] Speaker 2: John Mayer's background singer, and all the boys are in
[28:58] Speaker 2: a hot tub together inside these was like, cramp, what
[29:02] Speaker 2: is this stupid as movie?
[29:05] Speaker 1: The Boss, the bus, Oh my god, the bus.
[29:08] Speaker 3: The rebel Wilson when she gets hit by the sausage.
[29:12] Speaker 2: I've been shot.
[29:13] Speaker 1: I've just shot. I've been shot. It is really gold,
[29:18] Speaker 1: it's gold.
[29:19] Speaker 2: She has all my favorite lines in this movie.
[29:23] Speaker 3: David, I've never seen it, and we were watching halfway
[29:25] Speaker 3: through and I was like, you have to watch this movie.
[29:27] Speaker 1: You would love this movie.
[29:30] Speaker 2: What are some of your favorite like performances should be great.
[29:34] Speaker 2: Some of these performances.
[29:35] Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, let's go through a few of them and
[29:38] Speaker 3: talk about it so obviously, Uh, since You've been Gone
[29:42] Speaker 3: was one of the yes, my best moments.
[29:46] Speaker 2: And it's honestly because of the Skylart. Yes this is
[29:52] Speaker 2: I wish it was eight hours longer.
[29:55] Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, so good. Obviously we said the riff.
[29:58] Speaker 3: Off plus plus plus plus plus plus. The sign Eternal
[30:06] Speaker 3: Flame trying to be around is just very funny, like
[30:08] Speaker 3: it's it's so it's very anti created and they look
[30:12] Speaker 3: like flight attendants and it's just it's great. I didn't
[30:17] Speaker 3: love party in the essay, but I like the the
[30:20] Speaker 3: purpose that it needed to.
[30:23] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[30:23] Speaker 2: I think like the number itself was like I would
[30:26] Speaker 2: give it an A.
[30:27] Speaker 1: Yeah your hater all that much.
[30:30] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[30:32] Speaker 3: The trouble Makers also just had great numbers right round,
[30:37] Speaker 3: very good obviously. The sign Bulletproof A plus, give me,
[30:42] Speaker 3: give me the full I love just.
[30:44] Speaker 2: The way you are just a dream so good. That
[30:47] Speaker 2: was great's a plus for me.
[30:50] Speaker 3: And then the fun you know, the final, the finale
[30:53] Speaker 3: or the finals with the Troubles do the finals and
[30:57] Speaker 3: she does, don't you forget about me? As like it
[31:00] Speaker 3: doesn't get better than that.
[31:01] Speaker 2: I love I love the trouble Makers using each other's
[31:04] Speaker 2: bodies as instruments.
[31:05] Speaker 3: Was hilariously stupid, very clever plus plus very clever. Okay,
[31:12] Speaker 3: let's do some tarty takes. Okay, cringe moments, I mean, look.
[31:19] Speaker 1: Very much a uh glee glee time.
[31:25] Speaker 2: Fat Amy, the racist jokes, the racist characterization of the
[31:30] Speaker 2: Asian girls, it.
[31:32] Speaker 3: Just doesn't it doesn't work, the slutshaming, the deaf juice.
[31:37] Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, that was wild.
[31:39] Speaker 1: No no.
[31:40] Speaker 2: I was like, oh, they're.
[31:41] Speaker 3: Really okay, different time, different times, best dance move.
[31:49] Speaker 2: Honestly, I think when the treble makers were using each
[31:53] Speaker 2: other's bodies as instruments.
[31:54] Speaker 3: I also think Amy's Amy's solo in terms of incredible circles.
[32:01] Speaker 2: Incredible stuff also hurt Mermaid dancing.
[32:08] Speaker 3: Like when you look back on your career as Rebel Wilson,
[32:11] Speaker 3: you go like, what the people thinking?
[32:14] Speaker 1: They let me do this? But it's so funny, Like
[32:17] Speaker 1: it's so good.
[32:20] Speaker 3: It right, that's the hope you have. And you go like,
[32:22] Speaker 3: they let me do that, and and it were and
[32:25] Speaker 3: you made people laugh around the world. You know, it's
[32:27] Speaker 3: so funny. Okay, best song. If Titanium were in.
[32:33] Speaker 1: The full form, that would be my favorite.
[32:36] Speaker 3: But I think the finale they're their final song is
[32:41] Speaker 3: my favorite?
[32:41] Speaker 2: Yeah that or just the way you are just a
[32:43] Speaker 2: dream mashup.
[32:44] Speaker 1: Oh that's a good one too. Okay, that's a yeah.
[32:46] Speaker 3: Good point, good point, best performance, my prop so much. God,
[32:58] Speaker 3: Benji's magic pops.
[33:00] Speaker 2: O, God, poor Ben.
[33:03] Speaker 1: It's very I don't.
[33:05] Speaker 3: Know though, like there's just like college is a weird
[33:07] Speaker 3: hodgepodge of people and you'd be surprised. So I do
[33:11] Speaker 3: think there's like some fun reality in this like hodgepodge
[33:15] Speaker 3: of like all the different kinds of kids that were
[33:18] Speaker 3: went to school. But oh, definitely that or the pin.
[33:24] Speaker 2: The pitch pipe.
[33:30] Speaker 1: Oh god, best line.
[33:34] Speaker 2: As sometimes I have a feeling I can do crystal meth.
[33:36] Speaker 2: But then I think better.
[33:37] Speaker 1: Than I did not.
[33:41] Speaker 3: Oh God, even though some of you are pretty thin,
[33:45] Speaker 3: I think that you all have fat arts.
[33:51] Speaker 1: Amy Amy for the win.
[33:53] Speaker 2: So Freddy's Stroma who played the DJing this, I believe
[33:57] Speaker 2: a little bit of Glee lore. It was down to
[33:58] Speaker 2: Freddy strama in Cordo Sam.
[34:03] Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, he's you know, a lot of stuff.
[34:06] Speaker 3: He's so hot, he's so good, so good. He was
[34:11] Speaker 3: in the show Unreal. Did you ever watch that? Yes,
[34:13] Speaker 3: I watched unrel loved, unrel Okay performance MVP.
[34:18] Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I mean I think I think I
[34:21] Speaker 1: gotta go with Skyler.
[34:22] Speaker 3: I think Skyler too, and then I mean everybody was
[34:30] Speaker 3: so good and Rebel Wilson. I think it's everyone Everybody ensemble. Yeah, yeah,
[34:36] Speaker 3: definitely like it was.
[34:37] Speaker 2: A Smash, Speaking of which, I'm halfway through season one
[34:43] Speaker 2: of Smash.
[34:44] Speaker 1: Oh, Kevin.
[34:50] Speaker 2: One show Austin and I now watched together.
[34:53] Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that was so funny.
[34:57] Speaker 2: So there I am. I've been influenced by us.
[35:03] Speaker 1: Wow.
[35:04] Speaker 2: Okay, should we found on TikTok Jenna. Yeah, there is
[35:08] Speaker 2: a twenty three minute long tribute excuse me to Santana
[35:15] Speaker 2: and Brittany.
[35:16] Speaker 3: Oh literally, I'm scrubbing through this twenty.
[35:21] Speaker 2: Three somebody made a twenty three minute edit and honestly
[35:26] Speaker 2: not even long enough. It is so good. Wow Taysay, Yeah, yeah,
[35:39] Speaker 2: made a twenty three minute.
[35:40] Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, wow, absolutely insane.
[35:46] Speaker 2: I mean their whole account is dedicated.
[35:48] Speaker 1: To take the time, taking the time.
[35:51] Speaker 2: Yeah, but just I mean it has two point seven
[35:54] Speaker 2: million views, so you know, it's what the people want.
[35:58] Speaker 2: It's what the people to see.
[36:00] Speaker 1: No, I mean, that's definitely people need that and watch that.
[36:04] Speaker 2: You know, there's creative, dedicated people out there better than us.
[36:09] Speaker 2: And then there's reactions. There's reactions. There's people like where
[36:14] Speaker 2: my Gleek's at that just got their life change. For
[36:17] Speaker 2: the twenty three minute Brittany and Santana edit, this one said,
[36:21] Speaker 2: all my homies have been changed. You're reparably by the
[36:23] Speaker 2: twenty three minute Longly edit. Yeah, it's absolutely incredible. Thank
[36:29] Speaker 2: you for making that.
[36:30] Speaker 1: Yes, all of them, making all of your posts.
[36:33] Speaker 2: Jenna, what are we doing next week?
[36:35] Speaker 1: We're watching Hamilton. You get Hambledon and you get hobled
[36:41] Speaker 1: in and you get an Aremberg. We're doing it.
[36:43] Speaker 3: We're watching the pro shot and we're so excited. I
[36:48] Speaker 3: I'm very excited.
[36:50] Speaker 2: Lynn is coming to the show.
[36:52] Speaker 1: Is he going to be a speller? Yeah?
[36:55] Speaker 2: Yesterday on Sunday.
[36:57] Speaker 1: So jealous. He's going to be a special So that's
[37:00] Speaker 1: going to be huge. Your audience is going to go nuts.
[37:03] Speaker 1: So yeah, wow wow.
[37:07] Speaker 2: So I'll tell him we're watching Hamilton on Monday. Wow
[37:11] Speaker 2: wow wow wow. Okay, see if we see if we
[37:15] Speaker 2: can get him on here. I love but I'm just
[37:17] Speaker 2: so happy to the show.
[37:18] Speaker 1: He's so sweet, very well have fun. Yeah.
[37:23] Speaker 3: Thanks, Okay, everybody, go go do it and maybe take
[37:27] Speaker 3: some time to do it, because it may take more
[37:29] Speaker 3: than one sitting.
[37:29] Speaker 1: So go watch Hamilton come back, Go watch.
[37:34] Speaker 2: Pitch Perfect, Go watch your pitch Perfect too, because we're
[37:36] Speaker 2: going to do that soon. Thanks for joining us, and
[37:39] Speaker 2: that's what you really missed.
[37:40] Speaker 1: Bye.
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