Zombies 2

Summary

Pod Meets World: Zombies 2 Episode Summary

Introduction

In this episode of Pod Meets World, hosted by Will Friedle alongside co-hosts Danielle Fishel and Sabrina Bryan, the trio delves deep into the Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM) Zombies 2. Released on May 14, 2025, this sequel continues the vibrant and musical saga of Seabrook, exploring new dynamics with the introduction of werewolves alongside the beloved zombies and cheerleaders.

Plot Recap

The hosts begin by summarizing the plot of Zombies 2. The movie starts with an animated sequence that sets the backstory of Seabrook, highlighting an energy source hidden by settlers and the accidental creation of zombies due to an explosion at the energy plant. The sequel introduces werewolves to the town, creating a new layer of harmony and conflict.

Notable Quote:
Danielle Fishel (04:37) – "I'm so excited to have you here."

Character Analysis

Danielle Fishel, known for her role as Topanga on Boy Meets World, joins the discussion to provide her insights into the characters and their development in Zombies 2. The introduction of new characters like Willa and Wyatt, the werewolves, adds complexity to the existing relationships. The hosts particularly praise the performances of Milo Manheim (Zed) and new additions like Ariel Martin (Winter).

Notable Quote:
Sabrina Bryan (20:29) – "I am obsessed with all things Willa."

Music and Choreography

A significant focus of the episode is the film's soundtrack and dance sequences. The hosts express their enthusiasm for songs like "We Own the Night" and "Call to the Wild," highlighting the high-energy dance numbers that blend hip-hop and R&B styles. Danielle notes the impressive choreography involving props like bamboo sticks, while Sabrina appreciates the modern musical elements that differentiate the film from traditional musicals like High School Musical.

Notable Quote:
Sabrina Bryan (23:00) – "We own the night is like the number one song I think of. I wanna dance to at my parents club."

Special Effects and Production Values

The hosts discuss the enhanced production values in the sequel, particularly the special effects used in the explosion scenes and the transformation sequences. While they commend the visual improvements, there are critiques regarding certain plot elements, such as the rushed integration of the moonstone and the believability of characters like Shrimpy driving a bus.

Notable Quote:
Danielle Fishel (37:30) – "She was like, damn it, Zed. What a po. I cannot believe this."

Critical Reception

Comparing Zombies 2 to its predecessor, the hosts acknowledge that while the sequel maintains the charm and appeal of the original, it introduces new challenges in storytelling and character development. They note that the sequel garnered a better critical response, with a Rotten Tomatoes average of 7.5 out of 10, indicating growth in quality despite similar viewership numbers.

Notable Quote:
Will Friedle (11:18) – "A Rotten Tomatoes average of 7.5 out of 10, which is actually pretty damn good."

Personal Opinions and Ratings

The co-hosts share their personal ratings for Zombies 2. Sabrina gives it a solid nine out of ten, praising the integration of werewolves and the dynamic dance sequences. Danielle, while appreciative of the film's strengths, assigns it an eight and a half due to minor plot inconsistencies and over-the-top character moments. Will rates it an eight, acknowledging its entertainment value while recognizing areas that could have been refined.

Notable Quotes:
Sabrina Bryan (95:35) – "I'm going to give it a nine."
Danielle Fishel (108:05) – "Mine's going to be an 8.5."
Will Friedle (108:37) – "I'm going to give it a solid eight."

Conclusion

Pod Meets World wraps up the episode by reflecting on the enduring appeal of the Zombies franchise and its ability to evolve by introducing new elements such as werewolves. The hosts express excitement for future installments and commend the film for its blend of music, dance, and heartfelt storytelling. They also tease upcoming interviews and episodes, inviting listeners to stay tuned for more nostalgic and insightful discussions.

Notable Quote:
Will Friedle (110:00) – "We are going all the way back to 1987's gambling adventure. You ruined my..."

Key Takeaways

• Zombies 2 successfully introduces werewolves, adding depth to the Seabrook community.
• The film's soundtrack and choreography are standout elements, blending modern musical styles with traditional DCOM flair.
• While the sequel maintains the original's charm, it faces minor critiques regarding plot execution and character development.
• Personal ratings from the hosts range from eight to nine, indicating overall positive reception.

This episode of Pod Meets World offers a comprehensive and engaging analysis of Zombies 2, making it an excellent listen for fans of the franchise and newcomers alike.

Transcript

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[Sabrina Bryan]

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[Sabrina Bryan]

Sabrina yes, Will.

[Will Friedle]

It's a special one today. It's a special one for a number of reasons today. I know I'm pretty excited. I just want to jump in. Do you just want to jump in? Both feet get splashed in.

[Danielle Fishel]

I want to hear all about how your love of musicals is just gaining week by week as we go through these movies.

[Will Friedle]

You know me.

[Danielle Fishel]

You just need to know how much like you are now. Like I want to be John Travolta.

[Will Friedle]

Exactly. Again, I just love where a whole group of people get together and for some reason know the dance, know the song, and it's like they've all just rehearsed without rehearsing. You know, that's my fave.

[Danielle Fishel]

I have actually, when we get into made me realize there are different kinds of musicals, and I can't wait to figure out which ones are best suited for you.

[Will Friedle]

Yes, I agree.

[Danielle Fishel]

This was different than the first one.

[Will Friedle]

In many ways, it was. Well, we will talk about that. So first, welcome back to Magical Rewind, the show that makes you want to grab your friends, your PJs and your popcorn and go back to a time when all the houses were smart, the wave tsunamis, and the high school's musical. I'm Will Friedle.

[Danielle Fishel]

And I'm Sabrina Bryan.

[Will Friedle]

Guys, next up is Sequel Town. Yes, we're tackling a movie we've been waiting to address for quite some time on the pod. Some might even say that we're howling at the moon for it. Yes, that's right. This week, we own the night with 2018's Zombies 2. It's the second installment in what is currently jockeying for the number one position for the channel's top movie franchise. It's neck and neck with Descendants. But if you ask our very special guest, her thoughts, this sits at number one all by itself. And to think, it all started with a failed pilot. Now joining us this week to recap this dcom is my fellow Pod meets world co host, one of the nation's top adult zombies fans, or zomheads as I'm calling them. You probably know her as Rachel on Friends, Diane on Cheers. She was also Sybil shepherd on Moonlighting. No, she was, of course, TV's Topanga. Yes, it is. Danielle Fishel joining us this week. Danielle, thank you for coming on Magic week.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes. I'm so excited to have you here.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Thrilled to join you guys. I'm a big fan of your pod.

[Will Friedle]

And so you didn't even know we were doing this. You didn't even know.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Who are you? Who are you, sir?

[Danielle Fishel]

Gonna be like watching siblings bicker the whole time.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, I would know nothing about that. I would know nothing.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Well, I know you. You ish on. You poop. You poo poo on the musical. I do there. In my opinion, there is no way you can poo poo the zombies.

[Will Friedle]

You just wait. I can poo poo anything. I know. You're right.

[Danielle Fishel]

That's not true. The first time he loved one of his highest ratings.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm telling you, it's so good.

[Danielle Fishel]

Actually admitted on the podcast that he is now, like, a zombie head. Yes, he. Well, yes, he. He definitely is, like, about the musicals, because we do have a huge issue for. From him on how these musicals handle themselves. And I'm a little nervous to hear about it because in my opinion, I think we went back a couple steps of what Will enjoys from a musical. While I was watching this, I went, oh, no. Oh, God. And Danielle's gonna be on this with us.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, my God. She loves me. Oh, we'll get into it. We'll get into it all. But. So we have talked, obviously, a lot about how both you and Ryder Strong helped to launch this podcast for us and immediately both started fighting over Zombies movie. You would come on and recap with.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Us the day you guys announced the podcast. Writer and I were like, we got into it. But, you know, writer and I, we are nothing if not adults. That's true.

[Will Friedle]

That's very true.

[Danielle Fishel]

I was. My first question for you, though, is, how did you get in? Both of you guys, how did you really get into watching the zombie movies? It had to have been with your kids.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Of course it was with my kids. And my oldest son has liked being scared. He has liked horror. He has liked Halloween. The absolute antithesis of me. I do not like being scared. I do not like horror. I do. Did not like Halloween. But then you have a child, and they are just their own little person. And he saw the zombies advertisement on Disney plus and we. He saw it was for zombies too, because Adler was born in 2019, so it was like, Zombies 2 was already out for a while. I don't even know. You know, he was like. He was young, but he saw it and he was like, what is that? And it looked intriguing to him. He wanted to watch it, so we did. And I immediately was like, this is a banger. Anyone who has kids knows that your children like to watch the same thing over and over and over again. So when you, as a parent find something you like, you're regularly swaying them to that thing. Like, you turn on the TV and you're like, are we watching zombies? Zombies, Zombies. We're zombie, right? We're gonna zombie today. And that was me with these movies.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, is now. Is 2 your favorite of the. Of the. Because the fourth one's about to be released or was just released.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I know it's coming out soon.

[Danielle Fishel]

Coming out.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's coming out May 23rd. I think so.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, May 23rd. I have a dear friend, Malachi, who's in Zombies 4.

[Danielle Fishel]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Very excited for Z4. You know what? Z1 and Z2, as I'm going to call them. Oh, Tara just said July 10th. You know, May 23rd. July 10th.

[Will Friedle]

We like to announce it here.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Is there any difference between those two things?

[Will Friedle]

No, it's coming out July 10th here, but July 10th in the south, just so everybody knows.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Exactly. Or May 23rd in my mind.

[Will Friedle]

Or we're May 23rd in Danielle's house.

[Sabrina Bryan]

The good news is if it comes out May 23rd, I wouldn't get around to it till July 10th anyway, so it's totally fine. So I love Zombies 1. And then I was very nervous for Zombies 2. I was like, oh, no, how could this possibly. And I think it's, at the very least, just as good.

[Will Friedle]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I think I prefer the music of zombies 2 to zombies 1.

[Danielle Fishel]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So music alone.

[Will Friedle]

Bold statement.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, I think. I think music alone. Zombies 2 wins for me.

[Will Friedle]

Okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

I think as fans, like, for some reason, we feel like we have to decide which one's better.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We don't.

[Danielle Fishel]

Just like, they can't. You don't have to, but you do. You. You're looking at the music. I mean, because now for me, I was just in shock and awe. I loved the first one. So.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

And so it was like I literally just kind of just sat and watched it and enjoyed it versus this one. I. I knew what to expect. I didn't know what to expect. But last time I knew what to expect. I was a ginormous fan of the choreography the first time. So now I'm looking at that. And, you know, it's just like you have a little bit more of a. An ability to kind of feel like you're critiquing, especially if you were a big fan of the first one. And that was me.

[Will Friedle]

Well, let's see. Let's see how we're gonna do here, people. By the way, Danielle, I talk very fast and we just over each other, so when you want to jump in with your expertise, please just jump in with your.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay, sure. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

That's how we. That's how we roll here.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I can't believe I don't have to leave lead this podcast. I just get to sit back.

[Will Friedle]

You get to sit back nice. And let us entertain you.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Thank you.

[Will Friedle]

So Zombies two or Zombies, duh, as they say in France, debuted on February 14, 2020. Yes. Valentine's Day, which is exactly the zombie, ish, most zombie, I guess, holiday you could have almost exactly two years after the original, which as we know was a big hit for the studio, bringing in just over 2.5 million viewers on premiere night. Now we've talked about the different numbers, how nowadays 2.5 is really good. Where some of these early high school musicals were pulling in 18, 19, 20 million. But nowadays with the kids and their little iPads and the stuff, their focus going all over the place, 2.5 million on premiere night, still pretty damn good. And now with a sequel, the channel knew what they had on their hands and promoted it beyond belief. And yet it attracted almost exactly the same number of viewers for its debut. They clocked 2.47 million viewers. So just under the 2.5 million zombies one attracted. But it did perform better than the original with young adults between the ages of 18 and 49, which is very important. So you win some and you lose some. And also zombies 2 had a better critical response than its predecessor. So, Danielle, you might be onto something.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm telling you, I could be a critic, you know.

[Will Friedle]

You absolutely could. The Rotten Tomatoes average is 7.5 out of 10, which is actually pretty damn good. A DCOM. It's no dad Napped, but it's up.

[Danielle Fishel]

It is no dad Napped.

[Sabrina Bryan]

What was the score of dad Napped?

[Will Friedle]

It was negative 60. Got it to the point where the star of dad Nap, George Newbern, came on and the first thing he asked was, why did you review dad Napped? Oh, I love it.

[Danielle Fishel]

I love it.

[Will Friedle]

Exactly. This movie was shot over a two month period in. Wait for it people. No shock here. Toronto. And we're going to get in the cast and crew in a bit. But they were lucky, frankly to get everyone back. One thing that makes Zombies so unique, other than the fact that, well, they're singing and dancing zombies. And we talked about this for the original. The movie features no prior Disney Channel stars, which really hadn't been done before. They started from scratch with a lot of unknowns at the time. So I'm sure that helped with scheduling and booking the follow up with all the same actors because again, you're not booking Zendaya and everybody else right now. We talked about this a little on Pod Meets World, Danielle, but you're relationship with DCOMs, how were you never asked to star in a Disney Channel or were you and you turned it down?

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, I was never asked to star in a dcom. I'll tell you why. I was like an ugly stepchild to Disney and abc. I. The whole time we were on Boy Meets World, I was paid significantly less than every other cast member. Everybody just acted like I was lucky to be there. Nobody. Nobody gave a about me, so I flew real under the radar.

[Will Friedle]

It's so true and so weird because you are clearly the most famous character and person from Boy Meets World now. I mean, clear. I mean, there's no.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't know about that. I may be the most recognizable, but.

[Will Friedle]

I mean, when people think about Boy Meets World, they think, topanga, people don't.

[Danielle Fishel]

Pass by you without knowing who you are. Oh, no.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, you're right. Yes. Hair is. Hair is a big one. If I have my hair in, like, a braid and a hat, I can possibly skate.

[Will Friedle]

People then go, wow, there's Topanga in a braid and a hat.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And a hat.

[Will Friedle]

Is what happens again. Can verify. Okay. Yes. Now, per usual, everybody, Zombies 2 is available to stream right now on Disney. Watch it now, watch it later. Do a little dance, Make a little love. Get down tonight.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Get down tonight.

[Will Friedle]

You know, whatever you want to do. Did you watch it later?

[Sabrina Bryan]

So Z2 came out in 2020. Adler was born in 2019. So when Z2 came out and it was all over Disney, Adler was like, I want to watch that. So then we were like, okay. And I don't think we started with Z2. I think we were like. But we may have. We may have watched it first and then been like, oh, there's others. Let's. Once he loved it and we watched. So we may have watched him out of order. I don't remember. It's okay.

[Will Friedle]

You can kind of jump into two and figure out what's going on. I mean, it's not, like, too craz.

[Danielle Fishel]

Especially in the beginning. Like, they do so much to kind of give you backstory of what's happened.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Correct.

[Danielle Fishel]

Not necessarily what happened in the first movie, but what happened within their world.

[Will Friedle]

Seabrook and everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is. Which is kind of cool. Sabrina, were you as excited to get to the sequel after you watch?

[Danielle Fishel]

I was. I'm dying to get to so many of these sequels and see how they compare to each other. But also, like I said, I loved. This was so super creative. This in Descendants, blew me away of how creative they are to do these very cool storylines. And then, my God, the acting and dancing and just talent that these kids have, it just is, like, magical.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

So I couldn't wait to see how these storylines evolved. And because we interviewed so many of them, we knew that they were going to be introducing new, I guess, groups of characters or whatever cast on the.

[Will Friedle]

Show at this point.

[Danielle Fishel]

This Is the original cast. We've had at least four of them. Yeah, we've had a lot.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So zombies for me is like Godfather one. One is great.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Two maybe even better than one and three.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. Yeah. We haven't seen the third one yet. Oh, geez.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You know, I like. I still. You know, you gotta finish it up. You gotta finish it up. You gotta. But. But still great.

[Will Friedle]

But just not quite as if you.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Didn'T ever get to it. It would be okay.

[Will Friedle]

That would be okay. Fair enough. Okay, well, okay, now I can't wait to see the third one.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Now let's get into our synopsis, though. Cheerleader Addison and zombie Zed face a new challenge to their school's harmony when mysterious werewolves arrive in Seabrook. Werewolves. Was this exciting? Were you guys both excited that they threw werewolves in?

[Danielle Fishel]

Loved it. Thrilled. Loved it, Loved it. And thought they did the werewolves in such a good way, too.

[Will Friedle]

Well, especially for dancing, singing werewolves, which are, like, the least normal of the werewolves.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Sexy. Sexy.

[Will Friedle]

Well, sexy werewolves.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I never in my whole life have thought, well, I'd like to be a werewolf. Watching this movie, I'm like, all right, if I had to be from the undead, I would be a werewolf.

[Danielle Fishel]

They do talk. They do talk about how they have great hair. So I think this is the monster for you.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They also still get, like, vampire teeth, which I know were supposed to be, like, dog, like, canine, but it wasn't. Yeah, I love it.

[Will Friedle]

This is sexier to you than Twilight wolves.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes. Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, fair enough.

[Danielle Fishel]

In Twilight, they actually turn into wolves. So I actually liked that. This was just. Yeah, it was easy to, like, just bit.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're still humans.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, they were still humans. That they just had, like, these werewolf qualities that, like, would come out, especially when they were being fierce and then.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, we gotta.

[Will Friedle]

No, it was better in Twilight. The whole time they're walking around with their shirts off in the rain, I just kept thinking, how are you not getting sick every day? That's all that was going through my head.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's just because you've been sick for a year.

[Danielle Fishel]

Not with the rest of the fan base. Was thinking.

[Will Friedle]

Well, that's what I was thinking. Different Zombies 2 was directed by dcom master Paul Hoen, which we've talked about. We've just been dominated by his filmography lately. But to remind you, he started on Kids Incorporated, I won't sing the theme song, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Alex Mack, and then eventually got into the channel's movie biz with. And you could recite this list with me by now. Luck of the Irish. You wish. Read it and weep. Jump in. Cheetah Girls One World. Camp Rock 2. Let it shine. And now the entire Zombies franchise. What a frickin legend. The movie stars the returning Milo Manheim as Zed. We love Milo so much. And unknown when he was cast in Zombies, he's since appeared on the Conners in the somewhat adult dcom which we also love. Prom packed Eli Ross Thanksgiving, which I'm guessing is a scary Thanksgiving. And in the Sabrina Carpenter music video for Feathers, which is a whole bunch of words I don't understand in a row.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's just feather, not feathers.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, is it feather?

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's just feather.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. There you go. Is that okay? Does she do that with cappuccino? I don't know. It's espresso. I don't know what's going on, old man.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Will it is she just.

[Will Friedle]

She just needs to. We need to talk about how she's dressing. He is the only son, of course of Emmy and Golden Globe winner Cameron Manheim.

[Danielle Fishel]

Madonna never mentioned him on Dancing with the Stars.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, was he on Dancing and he was on Dancing with the Stars. Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Sorry.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes he was. And he was so good. I mean I thought this was same.

[Will Friedle]

Thing when I watched him.

[Danielle Fishel]

Big fan.

[Will Friedle]

I never watched Dancing with the Stars. Meg Donnelly, friend of the show is Addison. She was also a new name when she entered the zombie universe and has since released pop music of her own and played Taylor Otto on the show American Housewife. Friend of the show Trevor Torchman plays Bucky. He is hilarious and we interviewed him for this very podcast as we did Meg. So you can go find those on our dedicated feed. He is an incredible dancer who was on the Next step for over 130 episodes and recently appeared in the new hilarious Seth Rogen show the Studio. Then we've got Chandler Kinney. She's a new addition to Zombies. She played Willa. Chandler had already been on some Disney TV shows that I'm sure you're aware of. One of them called Girl Meets World. Not familiar with it. And Casey Undercover but also starred in the television version of Lethal Weapon. She also later played Tabby on Pretty Little Liars. Original Sin. She was also on Dancing with the Stars producer Lisa.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Thank you.

[Will Friedle]

Also on Dancing with the Stars, Ariel Martin, known as Baby Ariel is also a new addition as Winter. Ariel's career began with popular lip sync videos on an app called Music Lee which would turn into a little something called the TikTok. Her massive following turned into a Real Hollywood career appearing on Bizaardvark. And it's just musically not music ly as old man Will said. And I'm saying TikTok. Am I saying that correctly? Thank you. Appeared on Bisvark and Henry Danger then getting the call for zombies 2. She also recently appeared in the movie Suncoast. Danielle, shooting it at you is Bizaardvark. It's what it is. It's a strange name. Danielle, favorite character in Zombies.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Go Willa.

[Will Friedle]

Bam. Answers it like that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I am obsessed with all things Willa. I think her dancing. She is so stunningly beautiful. I cannot keep my eyes off her. Her singing is amazing. She definitely has a lot of good character development and like I understand her motivations. I understand why. I understand everything that's going on for her. I think she's. I just absolutely in Zombies to Willa is my favorite. Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Love that.

[Danielle Fishel]

She was great.

[Will Friedle]

Zombies 2 runs. Oh. Oh geez people. 94 minutes. This is awkward because we're big Zombies fans here, but four minutes past.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Four minutes past. The perfect movie.

[Will Friedle]

I know we can all agree is say it with me, Sabrina.

[Danielle Fishel]

Too long.

[Will Friedle]

Well, let's see if we can get over it. But a bad decision by a beloved film franchise here. Four minutes. Too long. It's okay. We're gonna stick with it.

[Danielle Fishel]

Four minutes is better than like eight or 12.

[Will Friedle]

It's. Hey, we've had some that are 100 something minutes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Probably could tell you where they could cut those four minutes. I'm sure you could have some of those dance numbers where there's like not even words happening. There's just dancing and like.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And like. Yeah. And we're.

[Will Friedle]

I'm like we could have just trim.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Trimmed those out.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Trim it a little bit. We would have been 90 minutes. We'll talk to Paul about doing a Director's cut that's 90 minutes long.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Thank you.

[Will Friedle]

We will. Zombies 2 is or again Zombies Duh is written by David Light and Joseph Rasso and we talked about this during Zombies one. But this whole franchise is based on a pilot they shot for Disney called Zombies vs. Cheerleaders. The show was not picked up by the channel, but when it came time to think about dcom ideas, this once again popped up and the rest is history. Just now in a different format, the longer format. It's a nine hour pilot now and of course we can't talk about a Zombies movie without the mention of the Disney record soundtrack. It was released in conjunction with the film's debut and featured new original songs by the cast. The first single was we got this. An incredibly savvy move by the company. They also dropped a mashup of we own the night from this movie and night film falls from their also recently released Descendants 3 Synergy at its best, people. And it got obviously a ton of Disney radio air.

[Danielle Fishel]

God, they are so smart.

[Will Friedle]

Smart people. The soundtrack has garnered over 200 million streams and sold over 250,000 records. Favorite song right now. What were your favorites? Danielle, Sabrina, Go.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We own the night.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Give it all the Grammys. Give it the Grammys. Give it the Oscars. Give it an Emmy. We. Tonight is a bop.

[Will Friedle]

I agree.

[Danielle Fishel]

I didn't go back and re watch it, but when they were at the prom. Sorry, I'm skipping forward. That song came back, right? That was from the first movie.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, that was kind of a.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes. The love song is a crossover. Correct. Yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

Okay.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They bring that one back Someday.

[Will Friedle]

Someday. Yep.

[Danielle Fishel]

Thank you, Jess.

[Will Friedle]

They do.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes. I loved it. That part. I was like. Oh, yes. Because it's. To me still. I think that's still the best song.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And I. Oh, you like the romance song. I normally don't.

[Danielle Fishel]

I am very sappy, but I normally don't. I normally like the high energy one. But that song to me is just so good. It stands out.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're harmonizing and that song is gorgeous. I do like that song. But no, I gotta dance. I want to shake my booty. That song can come out when I. I've made several comments about wanting to do parents night out dance club where it starts at 6 and goes till 9 and everyone's asleep by 10. But the music that needs to be played has to be a mix of modern day and 90s like stuff that people our age love. But also because we all have kids or most of us have kids, it has to include some of our kids favorite music. Cause honestly, some of those are bops too. We own the night is like the number one song I think of. I wanna dance to at my. My parents club. It's just the best.

[Will Friedle]

It is a great song. I would also need Let it go in there somewhere. Just because.

[Sabrina Bryan]

From. From Frozen.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Great song. I sing it all the time.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't care. Literally my least favorite song of all time.

[Will Friedle]

Then I know what I'm getting you for your birthday. It's just gonna be me singing the.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Songs in the world. Let it go.

[Danielle Fishel]

Really?

[Will Friedle]

I'm not only gonna sing that for you on tape, but I'm gonna sing it with this sinus infection. So it sounds even better. And you just like it's just gonna be played on a loop. You're going to love it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Bom Han]

Yo, K Pop fans. It's your boy Bom Han, and I'm bringing you something epic. Introducing the K Factor, the podcast that takes you straight into the heart of K Pop. We're talking music reviews, exclusive interviews, and deep dives into the industry like never before. From producers and choreographers to idols and trainees, we're bringing you the real stories behind the music that you love. And yeah, we're kicking discussing everything from comebacks and concepts to the mental health side of the business. Because K Pop isn't just a genre. It's a whole world and we're exploring every corner of it. And here's the best part. Fans get to call in, drop opinions, and even join us live at events. You never know where we might pop up next. So listen to the K factor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

[Will Friedle]

Podcast?

[Bom Han]

This isn't just a podcast. It's a movement.

[Will Friedle]

Are you ready? Let's go. Let's go.

[Kristin Davis]

Hi, I'm Kristin Davis, host of the podcast Are you a Charlotte? What we have all been waiting for, Sarah Jessica Parker is here and she is sharing stories from the very beginning. Like the time she forgot we filmed the pilot episode.

[Unknown]

I remember some things about shooting the pilot.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right.

[Kristin Davis]

I have some memories I can fill in and that.

[Unknown]

You're going to fill me in.

[Kristin Davis]

Yes, but then you forgot about it in the very long time they took forgot about it. And she reveals what she thought when she read the script for Sex and the City the very first time he.

[Unknown]

Said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting.

[Kristin Davis]

And does she think Carrie is too good for Mr. Big?

[Unknown]

She had inexplicable feelings. It is the human being that can't explain to her friends why somebody that might be beneath her is dictating the hunt.

[Kristin Davis]

You can't miss this. Listen to Are youe a Charlotte on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Danielle Fishel]

Here's the deal. We gotta set ourselves up. See, retirement is the long game. We gotta make moves and make them early, set up goals. Don't worry about us setting back. Just save up and stack up to reach them. Let's put ourselves in the right position pregame to greater things.

[Will Friedle]

Start building your retirement [e-mail] brought to.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You by AARP and the Ad Council.

[Will Friedle]

Okay everybody, let's get the moonstone because it's time for a recharge and let's get into this movie. We open on an animated sequence with Zed and Addison telling us how great life has been between humans and zombies. Seabrook now. But it wasn't always like that. Legend has it when settlers first arrived, they found wild beasts with sharp claws. The settlers had to fight off an attack and in the process found a precious energy source to hide it from the beast forever. They protected it by hiding it in a secret spot. And now the town is rich from harnessing the energy and the beasts are a distant memory. The town forgot monsters even existed until there was an explosion at the energy plant years ago, creating zombies and the premise for our franchise. And then we get the title, Zombies 2. We're thrown onto the beach where Zedd emerges from the sand mimicking a zombies return from the grave. A handful of nearby kids scream, but he is just playing around. Zombies in Seabrook are now just part of the community. Joined by his little sister Zoe, who is adorable, Zedd explains all of the old anti monster laws were abolished and the once segregated and now upgraded zombie town is now open to everyone, including Zed's football coach who just opened a froyo cart during the off season as a side hustle.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Is this the number one movie to talk about Froyo? Is this. I can't think of another movie that mentions froyo.

[Danielle Fishel]

I mean it's like part of like a sort of part of the storyline too. It's not just like an offset. Like they bring it back and talk about it so many times and the.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wolves are like, also they have froyo. It's like, really? I was wondering if maybe they were going to do a froyo spin off.

[Will Friedle]

You never know. Yeah, there's that one Western. Yeah, that one Western. Froyo Johnson and the Rump Riders. That was different it. But this could be it.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, I was trying to think of back in 2020, like, was that the start of I'm like no Yogurt land. And all of this have been around for Pinkberry and all those.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I used to eat Froyo lunch in the 90s.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. That was dinner. Sometimes it was.

[Will Friedle]

That's how it was.

[Danielle Fishel]

Weird. It was such a big thing. Talked about.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. By the way, out in la, Pinkberry still not as good as Pink Dot. Just for the record.

[Sabrina Bryan]

True.

[Will Friedle]

Thank you. We also learned that in a few days they'll be tearing down the long defunct Seabrook power plant to make way for a cheer pavilion as the accidental birthplace of the town zombies. This is a major step for the city and Zed has no problem taking credit for it. And Zed's dad has been hired as a foreman for the demo crew. So it's coming up roses for everybody. And then we enter cheer camp. Dozens of pink clad tumblers and gymnasts and the school's mascot, Shrimpy, eagerly practice for a week of activities. Addison and her best friend Bri could not be more excited. Addison claims the cheer squad is now unified. But cheer captain Bucky. Oh, Bucky. Addison's cousin still runs a very tight and anal. Danielle, do you love Bucky as much as we do?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Listen, I really. I like Bucky. There are a few moments where I think Bucky allowed. Someone told him how funny he was. And someone was like, you are hilarious. And then there are a couple of moments where he was like, if I just push a little bit, it'll be even funnier because everything I do is great. And I wish to maybe somebody had said, you're doing a little much. You're at a 10, we need you at an 8.

[Will Friedle]

I thought exactly the same thing in this movie. It was like, ooh, he's pushing a little harder, a little hard.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He is still so funny. But there are a couple of moments that I think could have been even funnier if he wasn't. So. Wink, wink.

[Will Friedle]

Agreed 100%.

[Danielle Fishel]

But I think I do see how from the first movie he was given that feedback.

[Will Friedle]

He was correct.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Danielle Fishel]

He was correct. In the first movie he did the same. He did the perfect amount. The first movie, he really did. He was over the top. But it wasn't too much.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was great. It was correct feedback. He then just. It's like, I wish somebody had said, listen, you can't believe all the good, because if you do, then you have to believe all of the bad. And so just. Just keep being. You don't allow what the feedback you've heard to change anything about what you're doing.

[Will Friedle]

I couldn't Agree more. And for the record, it happens to the best of us. I've have episodes of Boy Meets World where I did exactly the same thing. I was told I was the funniest guy in the room, and I pushed too hard. It just happened.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It just happens. Yeah, it does.

[Danielle Fishel]

I do love that we have an interview with him and how he came up with this character and, like, his. His girlfriend was filming him for his audition piece, and, you know, like, he just kind of saw it and just went for it. And I love that they were not expecting him to be that kind of character when, oh, I love his thing. So it was. It was great in the first movie, for sure.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Agree. Bucky, alongside Shrimpy, tells the squad about the bloodthirsty monsters that used to live in the Seabrook woods, who reportedly would eat cheerleaders, but calls those stories silly and make believe. He points out top squad members Lacy, Stacy, and J.C. known collectively as the Aces, to lead the A team veterans, then assigns Addison and Brie as leaders of the Z team newbies, which includes Zombies for the first time ever. Danielle, were you a cheerleader?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, man, I wanted to be a cheerleader so bad.

[Danielle Fishel]

You were working, right?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I was on Boy Meets World, so I. I couldn't be a cheerleader, but all of my girlfriends were cheerleaders.

[Will Friedle]

Sue was a cheerleader.

[Sabrina Bryan]

My mom was a song leader in high school, and so I like, that was so cool. She went to Loera in Anaheim. Okay, so my mom was a song leader in high school. I went to Calabasas High, and all my friends were cheerleaders. And it was like I would think to myself, yes, if. If I were not working, I would.

[Will Friedle]

Have been not on this television show.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I just want to be a television show. I would have been a forgotten cheerleader for Calabasas High.

[Danielle Fishel]

A forgotten one. Oh, nice.

[Will Friedle]

We are now back at the power plant. Zed runs into his best friend Eliza, who, God, I love so much, who is protesting the demolition. She says it's an important part of zombie history, but Zed sees it as progress. This Zombies can even go to the high school prawn now tying in Shrimpy. Shrimpy.

[Sabrina Bryan]

There's also maybe a little too much shrimpy in this movie.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, a lot too much shrimpy.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I was afraid one of you was gonna be like, a big shrimp head. Okay, too much shellfish in this one.

[Will Friedle]

I get it. It was like. It was. It took. Well, we'll get into the original.

[Danielle Fishel]

It became its own character for no reason.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Also, who is allowing Shrimpy to drive a bus.

[Will Friedle]

Well, we'll get into that because that I don't. I didn't understand that at all. But it's also it parts of this movie. It was like it took. The first movie was tongue in cheek and this was tongue in cheekier and a little bit far at times for me.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

But anyway, yes. The prawn now of course is the prom. It is a super sized prom. On Saturday. On Saturday night. But Eliza isn't sold. She returns to protesting like she's in rage against the machine. Zed also reminds us of the Z band. The bracelet technology that keeps zombies rage at bay, helping their species coexist with humans. We're now back at cheer camp. The veterans and the newbies will compete for the cheer camp cup, something the vets always win. But with Addison and her Z squad ready for the competition, hey, anything can happen. Addison also reminds us all about her hair, which is still bright white. A reveal at the end of Zombies 1 when she removed her wig and debuted a unique birth defect that's the. The perfect target for bullying. One of our other favorite zombies from the first movie, Meathead Bonzo is also a camper ready to stop the competition, which is starting now. Addison leads her group into a routine and cheer. Also kicking off our first song, Better than Ever. It's a duet with the cheer team and Zedd and Eliza over at the plant. The gist of the song. Addison praises her squad. Bucky disses it. Zedd praises the plant demolition. And Eliza fears it. And Zed announces his plan to take Addison to prawn and make the school's wall of fame together. What did we think of the first song? Better Than Ever.

[Danielle Fishel]

I was like, yes, finally. Why did it take so damn long for them to start dancing and doing what I need them to do?

[Sabrina Bryan]

You're right. It was a slow burn getting here.

[Will Friedle]

It was, it was.

[Danielle Fishel]

Finally, however, then I'm going because I, I've got Will now. I have Will in the back of my head here, always talking, always. Right. And the rules of this competition were non existent and I didn't understand.

[Will Friedle]

I'm big on rules, as you know.

[Danielle Fishel]

Really big on rules. And I'm like, I mean the first team goes and does a completely different obstacle and then all of a sudden our zombies are just allowed to zipline like that's bullshit. They didn't win the cup. They took a different direction. You can't do that. However, the dancing was, was great and I loved this song. It was, it got me.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, I love that I'm in Sabrina's head to the point where she's now questioning.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah. I'm like, this is garbage.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It didn't bump me. Didn't bother me.

[Will Friedle]

No.

[Danielle Fishel]

Even with the wall changed. The wall changed, Daniel. I mean.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They prepared. They were like, listen, if we're gonna win this, we have to do an obstacle course.

[Will Friedle]

And.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And honestly, they were right. If you were to just compare those two things. Yeah. One is better than the other.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

So great.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, man.

[Will Friedle]

This is also where we get our first sign of the extra money spent on the sequel because Bucky shoots a new cheerleader through the air with a large water cannon.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh.

[Will Friedle]

And nothing says big budget. Oh, yeah, we've got a water cannon budget. You know, you're doing good. By the way. I don't know if you're aware of this, Danielle, but the budget for Zombies 4 was $40 million for a DCOM. $40 million for the. For Z4. That's where the DCOM is nowadays. $40 million.

[Sabrina Bryan]

How much are the. How much of that do you think went to Paul?

[Will Friedle]

38 million.

[Danielle Fishel]

And well deserved. Yes, exactly, because he took some. Some hits with some of the other movies.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Again, dad nap. It is now the last day of cheer camp and time for the final challenge. The newbies would have to crush the final course in order to win, but Z Squad, they're not giving up. Okay, we talked about this. Sabrina, you're the resident dance judge. Good dancing. What do you think are we seeing in the sequel? Is it a step up from the first one?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, I see what you did there.

[Will Friedle]

Ah, dance joke.

[Danielle Fishel]

I feel like I was more. There's a thing about it. It's a thing I was gonna say at Sabrina Sees, but I'll just say it now. I was distracted by the age of the dancers this movie so much that I could really. I had to rewind and watch the.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Everyone was 18 to play younger.

[Danielle Fishel]

No, like 25, 28.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's what I. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

It was like they were a lot older looking and it was off putting because the rest of the cast, I think, is cast really well.

[Will Friedle]

They age appropriate.

[Danielle Fishel]

They're all age appropriate. Every single one of them. Well, the. The main, main one. Some of the. The B characters, not so much. But I was a little distracted. This first one, though, I was in. I start to get more and more. By the time we get into werewolf.

[Will Friedle]

Stuff, the possibility that if they didn't spend so much time dancing, they would do better at school and they've just been held back because all they're doing is dancing. Maybe study and you can have graduated. Yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

At any point, because we know how much you love to study. So they really should have taken some tips.

[Will Friedle]

Just study. The song ends with the Z team making the ultimate comeback and winning the trophy. But to Bucky's dismay, he didn't want that to happen. We also see Zed leaving zombie town to meet Addison, set now to return from camp as a champion. At the camp, Bucky also announces he'll be running forward, most likely winning the position of school class president, which means they'll need a new cheer captain. The acs want to take over, but Bree suggests that Addison is the perfect candidate because she would unify the team. We are now on the bus back home, which, as Daniel pointed out, was driven by Shrimpy. Okay. Bree reveals she wants Bonzo to ask her to prawn, but he can't even look at her. But he. He's carving an apple with her perfect likeness. Addison wonders if Zed just flat out forgot about asking her, but he definitely hasn't. In fact, he's working on something down the road with his sister. The bus passes a tripwire, triggering a sign that says, addison, will you go to the prawn with. And then, bam. The bus crashes into Zed, who is working on finishing his big prawn posal. He's been flung onto the top of the bus as it speeds down the road for miles. As if there aren't brakes in the.

[Danielle Fishel]

Bus while it's being driven by a mascot who cannot see out of his mascot.

[Will Friedle]

You can't know where the brake is.

[Danielle Fishel]

He doesn't know. No, he can't look down. He only can look straight, and he can't find it.

[Will Friedle]

That's all I'm thinking is, hit the brake.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I know. How hard is it? He doesn't even slow down. It's like, what is going on here? Yeah, that part. That's the one thing I didn't believe.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I didn't believe it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I didn't believe it.

[Danielle Fishel]

I didn't buy it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Didn't buy it.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I get. I get you have to end up in the forbidden forest, but come on, you're nine miles with this guy on the top. He.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We're four minutes long. Guess what? I don't need this stunt. He. You crash into Zed. He's on top. The guy slams onto Shrimpy, slams on his brakes. Zed goes flying off, and we continue. Thank you. Save at least a minute.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, but they wanted to end up in the forbidden Forest is the point.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But that's.

[Will Friedle]

But it's like there's better ways to do it than not hitting the brakes.

[Danielle Fishel]

But we also highlight on how Disney, when they come across these like very dangerous things. And I put like 13 minutes and we've almost killed Zed and a bus full of children.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes, correct.

[Danielle Fishel]

Because only 13 minutes in.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Guys with a head is watching is driving it. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Every time you work for Disney, they always S and P is like, make sure the kids are buckled up. Everyone has to be wearing seatbelt. But the giant shrimp can drive the bus. Come on.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I mean, one of my favorite, one of my favorite, favorite notes from Girl Meets World, which took place in New York, and there was a line where someone asked, one of the kids said, come on, let's go grab a slice after school. And Disney was wondering if maybe we could say a fruit bowl instead.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, my gosh.

[Will Friedle]

Well, you gotta make sense.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You want to go grab a fruit bowl?

[Will Friedle]

You want to grab like we do in New York, like all kids do. Let's go grab a fruit bowl.

[Danielle Fishel]

New York, of all places.

[Will Friedle]

Love that. And step over the needles to buy a fruit bowl. So that was a very strange thing. He's flung on the top of the bus. It speeds down the road. Everyone's screaming as he's holding on for dear life. Eventually, he jumps off just as the bus, of course, crashes into the woods. Don't let shrimp drive, people. Addison tries to check on Zed, but instead finds herself in the very scary part of the forest with whispering all around her. She tears her uniform on a passing tree and quickly surrounded by growling and howling high school age kids, she's grabbed by the arm, instinctually punches, only to see that was Zed. She apologizes. They embrace. They're very, very happy to see each other.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

Such a good hit.

[Will Friedle]

It's great.

[Danielle Fishel]

Such a good one.

[Will Friedle]

Addison tells the cheer squad they're surrounded by werewolves. As a result, Bucky races to the school. Him jumping off the the bus was. That was a laugh out loud moment for me. Just dives off the bus.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Correct.

[Will Friedle]

That was funny. But he races to the school to let everyone know their discovery and calls an emergency school meeting. Because he's the cheer captain, so of course he can do that. Addison tells her aunt Missy, mayor of Seabrook, and her Uncle Dale, the principal of the school, that everything's fine. But Aunt Missy isn't hearing it. She's got to do something about. She starts the meeting by reinstating the anti monster laws. I have questions. The zombies are Devastated. But the humans applaud. Well, everyone except Addison, who calls it unfair. Okay, so now the monster laws, they're still allowed to go to school. They just can't go to the prom.

[Danielle Fishel]

This does not correlate with the first movie. It drove me crazy the entire movie.

[Will Friedle]

He can't play football and he can't go to the prom.

[Sabrina Bryan]

There's a curfew. You have to be in at a certain.

[Will Friedle]

Allowed to go to the high school, right?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Well, yeah, because you have to educate them.

[Will Friedle]

But they. In the first movie, the anti monster laws, they weren't allowed to go to school with them. That drove me nuts. This is where the rules were out the window.

[Danielle Fishel]

And I'm like, oh, hell, Will is going to lose it.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. I just. I was like, what? I don't understand. Is this a municipal law? Is this a county law? Like, I didn't understand what was going on. So they lost me little.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Anyway, they're now reunited. Zed throws a little attitude at Addison. Why didn't she write or respond to any of his letters? She insists she did. Actually, she did a lot. But the AC's shredded all of their letters to make pom poms. With that, Zed bends down in one knee and asks her to prawn, but she quickly says, no. I love. She's like, no, no, no. Because the anti monster laws ban zombies from going to prawn, but not anything else, apparently.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You know what? This is one of my f. This is one. I have two notes on this in this movie about places where it's a 80 yard. This is the first one when Addison is smiling at him after she says no. And he's like, he's bummed. And then he realizes, oh, that's why you said no. And then he's like, oh, we just have to get rid of these bloodthirsty werewolves. And she smile. She smiles. At the end. They added her going. They added a chuckle through her smile, but you can totally tell it's adr. So she's just like this. And we'll get to the next one when it comes up. But this is my. This is my first ADR moment.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, that's a great one, but yes. Hey. If the werewolves, though, Zed says are all that stand in the way of them going as a couple, then he promises he's gonna fix it, which is with a big smile on his face, which is very funny. Meanwhile, it is chaos in Seabrook as word of the reinstated monster laws and werewolves make the rounds. Zombies are rushing back to Zombie town to make curfew. Even coaches froyo card is closed for good. It's hitting everybody. But little Zoe isn't afraid of the werewolves. She tells a very suspicious plant worker she wants to find one because she wants a were friend. But of course, that plant worker is actually an undercover scout, a werewolf named Wyatt, who has returned to the forest with a glowing necklace. His eyes turn red and his fangs sharpen as he returns the gem back to his neck. He breaks the news to another werewolf, his sister Willa. They have been exposed, but Willa isn't concerned. But Wyatt knows they need to find the great White Alpha to lead them to the moonstone. And this is where my fantasy head was going. Okay, I love. I love a quest.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Werewolves need energy for the necklaces or they will die without it. Wyatt needs to find the girl with the white hair. Oh, but Will, it doubts an Alpha even exists. Wyatt has that piece of Addison's uniform she snagged on the tree and notices it from Seabrook High. He's. I knew where this joke was going, and I was so happy. I thought when one of them was like, yes, we can smell her out. And he's like, well, her name's on the back. Like, that's kind of where I thought it was going.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This is the second moment of big time adr.

[Will Friedle]

Is it really? I love.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So it does. It happens very fast in this scene where she's like, I don't even think the Alpha exists. And he says, she's real and she's going to lead us to the moonstone. Then there is. There are at least three rather long shots where Wyatt is not on camera at all while he says, and you know, we don't have much time. Our pack is getting sick. Our necklaces are almost out power. We need to find the moonstone. All through. He's not on camera for a moment of that. It's all behind him while they're doing reaction shots of everyone else. And then the other female wolf, not Willa, she says, and then when she does, we can recharge our necklaces. And so I know that what happened was they went from him saying, she's real and she's gonna lead us to the moonstone, to that girl saying, and when she does, we can recharge our necklaces. But they were. Were like, we need more.

[Will Friedle]

Didn't explain anything.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Didn't explain that the moonstones need to be recharged. So they did it all in adr. And I was like, oh, man, this ADR is Doing some work.

[Will Friedle]

The ADR had to ADR the entire plot of the film. Oh, that's so funny. That's true. Yes. So, yeah, they've been exposed. But Willa, she's not concerned. They have to find the great alpha, the moonstone, all this stuff. The girl with the white hair, Wyatt, has a piece of Addison's uniform, as we said, snagged on the tree and notices it's from Seabrook High. He's ready to go find her and Willa will join him tonight. And this is when we get our collective favorite song and big set piece. We own the night. A big introduction song for the newest addition to the zombie universe, Werewolves. We didn't even have to talk about this song because we love it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

We love it.

[Will Friedle]

This was a great song. This was a great song.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was a great performance.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, it's like the werewolf gang. It was so cool.

[Danielle Fishel]

The werewolves, all those actors are above 28, 30. They are brilliant and wonderful dancers. They really were. They were. Were so good. They took on that character of being a werewolf and they just. They hit the mark. It was so good. So good.

[Will Friedle]

Did. Am I the only one who kind of wished they added a little bit of sound effect or some kind of gravitas to their howls?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Instead of just.

[Danielle Fishel]

They were a little weak. They were a little weak, yes.

[Will Friedle]

Something electronic, something kind of cool to give that howl a little more umph. Would have been. Would have been great. That was my only problem was like, oh, they're. They're just kind of doing a howl. Anyway. The werewolves, with their children in tow because they're all 30, have now arrived at school, where they decide to hide an event and wait until morning. And the next day, when Zed and Addison arrive at school, she's still bummed about Prawn, but he knows he's going to save the day. He doesn't want her to skip prawn. I keep saying prawn, and it's just now sounds weird in my head. So he has an idea. We fast forward to a big school president nomination pep rally. The band starts playing, a large banner is rolled out, and Bucky's presidential campaign has begun to great fanfare. But what he didn't expect is that Zed is also going to announce his candidacy, which of course infuriates the cheer captain. Even with the newly reinstated anti monster laws, which make no sense, Zed can officially run for president. If he wins, he will allow zombies to go to prawn, take Addison, and then be immortalized on The Prawn Wall of Fame. And with that, the battle for school president has been set. Which is the moment, of course, that the werewolves finally emerge from the air vent. They know the Alpha is near, and they're afraid of nothing. Well, except silver and ticks and rabies. But back at the pep rally, in the middle of Zed's announcement, the werewolves enter the auditorium, and everyone goes running, even the zombies. The wolves immediately make a beeline for Addison, but Zed and his football teammates surround her, creating a very gnarly face off. Willa demands the moonstone from Addison, but she has no idea what the hell they're talking about. But Eliza has an idea. If they remove their Z bands and zombie out, they can, you know, get rid of the zombies. No, they can ward the wolves away. But Zed, of course, isn't having it. They are not monsters. And just as the werewolves are about to attack, Wyatt realizes they can't attack the whole town. They'll never get the moonstone if everyone is on high alert. Willa agrees, and everyone stands down for now. Willa apologizes and lies, claiming that since the forbidden forces in the school district, they just want to enroll, which then it's Zed and Addison going, okay, you're now in the school. As if they have the power to enroll an entire pack of werewolves.

[Sabrina Bryan]

That's okay.

[Will Friedle]

High school.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Come on.

[Danielle Fishel]

They're very powerful in this movie.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Zed and Addison have so much power from this first movie, they were just like, no one's gonna. No one's gonna argue.

[Will Friedle]

Congratulations. You are now officially in school. Here you go. Yes. Later that same day, Zed, Eliza, and even Bonzo are now actively campaigning in the quad. Zed knows zombies will vote for him. Humans will vote for Bucky. They had split right down the middle of the school. The werewolves are now the swing vote because, of course, they've been there for a day. They are, in fact, Ohio. He knows he can win the werewolves over. He just needs to teach him how to fit in, which, of course, is not going to be easy. And then Addison arrives and announces she is officially in the running for cheer captain and is running the practice tomorrow, which is a very big deal. But this causes a major problem, because the only way Addison can. Oh, follow me here, people, because this is where it gets crazy. Only way Addison can become cheer captain is if Bucky wins the election, and that would mean Zed lost. So it's a real catch 22. But they both agree right there. They can live with the results either way as long as they have each other. Yeah, that's love, people.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Love.

[Will Friedle]

In the library, Addison notices Wyatt is spying on her and another werewolf. Quirky Winter tries to intimidate Brie by eating her homework. The dog ate my homework. Very funny joke. And Willa has her own issues. She's read the school's history books, and it claims werewolves attacked the Seabrook settlers. But she knows that's a lie we actually learned the settlers struck versed and stole the moonstone. Wow. History is written by the winner, people. That's just how it is. A gem that we also learn messes with electronics. Foreshadowing. I would say. So much foreshadowing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Remember this, people. This comes back. Yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

This is six Shadowing. It's not even five.

[Danielle Fishel]

Shadowing.

[Will Friedle]

It's so much.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Bom Han]

Yo, Kiba fans. It's your boy Bomhan, and I'm bringing you something epic. Introducing the K Factor, the podcast that takes you straight into the heart of K Pop. We're talking music reviews, exclusive interviews, and deep dives into the industry like never before. From producers and choreographers to idols and trainees, we're bringing you the real stories behind the music that you love. And, yeah, we're keeping it 100, discussing everything from comebacks and concepts to the mental health side of the business. Because K Pop isn't just a genre. It's a whole world. And we're exploring every corner of it. And here's the best part. Fans get to call in, drop opinions, and even join us live at events. You never know where we might pop up next. So listen to the K factor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This isn't just a podcast. It's a movement.

[Will Friedle]

Are you ready? Let's go.

[Kristin Davis]

Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, host of the podcast Are youe a Charlotte? What we have all been waiting for. Sarah Jessica Parker is here, and she is sharing stories from the very beginning. Like the time she forgot we filmed the pilot episode.

[Unknown]

I remember some things about shooting the pilot.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right.

[Kristin Davis]

I have some memories I can fill.

[Unknown]

In and that you're going to fill me in.

[Kristin Davis]

Yes, but then you forgot about it in the very long time they took about it. And she reveals what she thought when she read the script for Sex and the City the very first time he.

[Unknown]

Said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting.

[Kristin Davis]

And does she think Carrie is too good for Mr. Big?

[Unknown]

She had inexplicable feelings. It is a human being that can't explain to her friends why somebody that might be beneath her is dictating the hunt.

[Kristin Davis]

You can't miss this. Listen to Are you a Charlotte? On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Danielle Fishel]

We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

[Will Friedle]

We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family.

[Bom Han]

They showcased a sense of love that.

[Will Friedle]

I never had before. I mean, he's not only my parent.

[Bom Han]

Like, he's like my best friend.

[Will Friedle]

At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change thing about our lives.

[Danielle Fishel]

Learn about adopting a teen from foster care. Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more. Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, and the Ad Council.

[Will Friedle]

Later on, the wolves are hanging out in zombie town, complaining about the way that they've been treated so far. When Zed and Eliza approach to pander for votes, Eliza promises that a zombie president will represent them as newcomers in the town. Zedd's done it before, but Winter says they don't need more friends. Eliza points out that zombies and werewolves are a lot alike. The Moonstone Necklace is a lot like their Z band, but actually it's the opposite. That's what we come to learn. Zed suggests they try to fit in like the zombies did. Join a club, play football. Just lighten up. And we get our third song, a very Bruno Mars Uptown Funk inspired track called like the Zombies Do. This is Zed's advice to the werewolves for fitting in, but it doesn't seem like it's working. What'd you think of song number three?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Go ahead, Sabrina.

[Danielle Fishel]

I really liked it. I like how they end up going. It's like a battle and then it's combined and it goes back and forth like I loved I loved this movie or I love this part of it. I also think I am not as big of a fan of the cheerleading dancing in this movie. I didn't like it in the first movie either. So when it's the zombies and the werewolves now. Okay.

[Will Friedle]

All in.

[Danielle Fishel]

So good. All in. Hands down. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This reminded me so much of like a Michael Jackson music video. Like, you know, the dance off the two. A dance off. A cool dance off with great music. And I love that the werewolves, we. We get their personality. They're, like, kind of sarcastic, where, you know, they put on the hat. They're like, it's invaluable to us. Right. Then we see them, like, throw the hats on the ground. Like, I just love all that. I love the way they incorporate their personalities into the lyrics. It's just.

[Danielle Fishel]

I love. They showcase the.

[Will Friedle]

The.

[Danielle Fishel]

The way the zombies move with their arms versus the way that the. You know how they've got more of like a growl effect for the. The Werewolves. You can definitely see the style choice, which is so good for this choreographer to do. This choreographer was good. Really good.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. This is also a perfect, perfect Disney being Disney in that it's a song about the differences between doing what you have to do to fit in and staying true to yourself.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Which is just such a Disney thing. It's still teaching a lesson, but doing it in their fun kind of way.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Absolutely.

[Will Friedle]

We are now back at school. Zedd knows his polling numbers are bad. Eliza says he needs to deliver a killer speech tomorrow. But Zedd's strategy is a little different. He's hanging pictures all over campus depicting him as more human, forcing voters to forget he's a zombie. And this, of course, does not make Eliza. And now it's time for the big Addison led cheer practice. She's ready to start, but the team is distracted and scared. The entire pack of werewolves menacingly watch on from the bleachers. And instead of kicking them out, Addison invites the group to join in on the fun. And as a result, we get a dance number with both the cheer team and the new werewolves. And yes, everyone knows the same dancer team immediately, without practicing and talking about it in any way, shape or form, it ends with a big finish. Making the cheerleaders and werewolves new friends that piss off anybody else or that just.

[Danielle Fishel]

I will say this is where the change starts to happen. And you start to realize that they're talking in these musical numbers more than they're actually singing words. It. Because of the difference of style, it's more of like a hip hop R B zone to where they're doing more talking. So that's where people can start, like going. That's not the kind of musical I like. I like it when it's an Actual song versus like there's.

[Will Friedle]

I am a modern major general or general event.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah. They're speaking lines with more of just like a melody versus an actual song. So this is when I started going. This was the first time I went, oh, this is different for me. And I'm not sure if I like it. I'm starting to question do I like this or not?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I. As someone who generally leans more toward will with my feeling of musicals, I actually prefer this. I prefer the. The kind of do to hip hop version of it where it's. It's rhythmic and musical. Like music. Ish. Without being like full song and dance. Yeah, exactly. I like it.

[Danielle Fishel]

This is what I see, the biggest difference between this franchise and High School Musical.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

Very big. Different style of High school.

[Will Friedle]

And I think I like. I prefer this style of musical to the High School Musical musical.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

I like it because there are moments. Moment still that we get both of it, you know.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. No. Yeah, yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's a nice. This one's a nice hybrid.

[Will Friedle]

It is. It definitely is. Zed and Eliza enter just as the dance ends and they notice Wyatt is really into Addison. Zed thinks she's just trying to win some votes, so he's not threatened. Spoiler alert. He's threatened. Meanwhile, Wyatt tells out it's true. Wyatt tells Addison that wolves work well together. And when she reminds him she's not a wolf for some reason, he doesn't seem very sold on this, that maybe she is. Bucky also announces that Addison will be his official replacement when he wins the election. She's thrilled. But Wyatt reminds her she's a born leader and there are things greater than cheer. He touches her hand in a passionate way just to drive the point home. And that's when she notices poor Zed saw it all. He's clearly butthurt, so she runs after him. He complains about how easy the werewolves have been able to fit in while it was just so difficult for the zombies. He just wants to win the election and take Addison to promote, but she faults him for having to lose his identity in the process. He then delivers a touche, reminding her that she wore a wig for the entire first movie and I audibly yelled oh, snap while watching that, which I think is something the kids still say. But let's be honest, this relationship is fading fast. Addison admits her current identity crisis and runs off just in time for a new song. Yes, and this is the quiet this is now become a trope that we've noticed in in the musicals of Breaking off and having a ballad.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Silent reflection.

[Will Friedle]

Yes. But always in the high school hallway. We've seen him in High School Musical, and it's just. I'm walking down. This one is called Gotta Find Where I Belong, and they sing it as Addison and Zed separately roam the school, pouting about how they feel alone and can't connect with anybody or each other. This is more of a ballad. Did you. Did you both like this kind of song, or was it a little.

[Danielle Fishel]

This wasn't my favorite favorite. I don't.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't love it either.

[Danielle Fishel]

I don't know why.

[Will Friedle]

Because four minutes comes for me.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah. Okay, that's fair. Because we do. Like. We do know already. And I've already seen Addison and Zed slam down just like the best ballad together in the first movie. This one didn't. To me. This one didn't live up to that one.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I agree that this song does not live up to the. To the someday song from the first and especially what we see later with it. But what I'll say from a relatability standpoint is that it totally makes sense that, first of all, there need to be some higher stakes between the two of them. If their relationship is just always rock solid and they're always connected and they're always together, then you get that scene earlier in the movie where it goes, well, no matter what happens, we're okay because we have each other, and we had to. We had to show. Ooh, there's some cracks in this.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

In this relationship.

[Danielle Fishel]

40 minutes into this powerhouse couple not being so damn perfect.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Exactly. And so from that standpoint, I kind of liked it. I liked that they both have their solo journeys where they're. And they're. They're struggling. But I don't necessarily know that this song is my favorite.

[Danielle Fishel]

Right. Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Favorite song.

[Will Friedle]

But I like.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I see. I see the importance of it to the movie, that it was needed.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

We've seen this before. And if. Just ask Bella. If you want to ruin a relationship relationship, throw a werewolf in. That's just always the way that it ends.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Try to have a throuple with a werewolf.

[Will Friedle]

Good luck, because after you do what you got to do in bed, he'll just sleep at the foot. That's the perfect way to do it. Once that emo song ends, which is what it is, Addison is at home and hears something at her front door. She expects it to be Zed, but no one's there. Just a large scratch, most likely left by a werewolf. She then looks up to see Wyatt and his whole pack of werewolves just staring at her. Her. She needs to go with them. It's important. And the only thing going through my head was like, you couldn't knock. You actually had to ruin my door.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Why ruin the door?

[Danielle Fishel]

Did you guys get scream vibes from this? I instantly went, oh, my God.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. What's gonna happen?

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah. Like, she was Drew Barrymore. I mean, with the wig and everything as well. I was like, this is reminding me of Scream a little bit. Don't go outside. Shut the door.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But that is another thing I like kind of about this movie. The. The danger of the werewolves. They do a good job of keeping it through the entire thing. You're always like, I'm not sure I trust you. Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

When are you gonna snap?

[Sabrina Bryan]

You're gonna be a part of us. That's what I kept waiting to happen. Like, when are you. When are we all gonna. But no, they are. Like, at any point, we're gonna eat you all. It's pretty good.

[Will Friedle]

It's great. Great. I love that. We're going to rip you apart and kill you while singing and dancing.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

That's where they really get.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So you're going to enjoy it.

[Will Friedle]

Yes, exactly. We are now walking with her into the dark forbidden forest. Winter is clearly getting sicker. The wolves really need this moonstone to heal everybody. Meanwhile, just as curfew is announced, Zed finds Eliza and Bonzo and tells them he needs to find Addison to apologize. And just in time. Brie appears panicked. Addison texted her that she needs help, but she can't find her and she's not picking up her her phone. Also, somehow, while worried that her best friend is dead, Bree still finds time to flirt with Bono. Luckily, Eliza is able to track Addison's phone to the forest. And this can't be good, because it's called the forbidden forest, but it actually is kind of cool. Addison has been introduced to the Wolf's Den, the werewolf headquarters that also looks kind of like a cool speakeasy. She's welcomed by all the werewolves except Willa, who still doesn't trust her because she's human. But Wyatt has a vision. It's Addison as a werewolf, and more specifically, as the great alpha that can lead them to the moonstone. But first, another song. A. Before we get to the song, this might be because the first movie when they were kind of at the zombie, it was, I think the building where the zombies were created, where they did that first great dance scene where it was the real hip hop one. Yeah, it looked like that club was my first. That was my coolest scene set until this one. This is a really cool set.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, yeah, it's this one with all the light coming through the trees and the light flare. I know.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah. It was the them walking into it that you're going, okay, I'm starting to see where this upgraded budget's going and I'm loving it. Loving it.

[Will Friedle]

Very cool. Now, what did you think of the song, which is Call to the Wild, a track about the great Alpha and the werewolf community, or were we fans of this?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I love it. I love this.

[Danielle Fishel]

I love this. It's a good song too, Job.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, it's great. This is another one of those bops that you can put on and. And dance to and have at the club.

[Will Friedle]

You could close your club down at 8:45.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You're right. We could start with We Own the Night and. And this is. This is how we end it. You're absolutely right.

[Will Friedle]

With Call to the Wild, as long as the call is very early in the night, we are fine.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Exactly.

[Danielle Fishel]

We're all good with it. We're all good with the early call time.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. Because I normally don't answer the phone after dark. Willa chimes in with her hating ways as well. There's a very cool dance routine, involves large sticks of bamboo in a cross between hopscotch and kind of limbo. Sabrina, you do a lot of dancing. Have you ever bamboo danced?

[Danielle Fishel]

No, I haven't, but, oh, my gosh, I was watching it going. That looks like it was so sketchy to learn to. I mean, one false move and you're getting an ankle cracked, you know, But I. I thought it was cool and I thought it, you know, I do love. We've seen this. We saw it in the beach movie that. Oh, yeah, Teen Beach. We saw it in, you know, High School Musical, Descendants, where they're using props. I'm always down for a prop and it always puts it on another level because props are so hard to dance with. They are just so difficult. So this was pretty, like, pretty impressive. I was really liking.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, I liked it too.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm no pro about dancing, but I. I completely agree. Watching it, you're like, wow, this. Oh, look at this number.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, it was very, very cool. Props are harder to dance with. I'm even harder. The song ends with Addison accepting her possible werewolf roots and transforming into a version of the Great Alpha. Now with this beautiful flowing hair and bohemian kind of wardrobe, she looked really cool.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I love this transformation.

[Danielle Fishel]

I could not wait for her to get of those awful uniforms. These cheer uniforms are so hideous, and.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This is so gross.

[Danielle Fishel]

So cool looking. She looked red. She looked like Khaleesi. Like, she just looks so good.

[Will Friedle]

She looks like a superhero.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah. The braids in the hair. Oh, it's so cool.

[Danielle Fishel]

It's makeup all just, like, dramatic. O. I was all about.

[Will Friedle]

It was.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I agreed.

[Will Friedle]

And right then, Zed and the gang find the den. They assume she's been kidnapped, and Zed rushes in to save the. He rips off his Z band, hoping he can do some damage by zombieing out for a battle. Now transformed, Zed kicks it off by tossing a wolf like 20ft in the air. But before anything get out of hand, Addison slaps the band back onto Zed, calming him down immediately. She says this is actually where she wants to be. This may be her pack. That help text that she sent Brie was actually about chemistry homework. Oops. Willa, now convinced Addison is one of them, reveals the great Alpha necklace. It's been set aside for centuries, so when she puts it on, if she fully transforms, then she is the leader they've been looking for. Instead of trying it on immediately, she wants to think about it. And they give her a day to make the decision, which I thought was kind of weird in the movie, but. But if where she's. They're like, you are the great Alpha. She's like, yes. Could I take a day?

[Danielle Fishel]

Can I just get a moment? I think I'm gonna. I just need some time to meditate.

[Sabrina Bryan]

On this and make sure it sounds reasonable.

[Will Friedle]

It was so strange.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And they're like, that sounds reasonable. Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

I can jump on board with.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I think. I think 24 hours is the appropriate amount of time.

[Will Friedle]

The way they built it up, though, it's like. And you're the alpha. Yeah. Yeah. I'll decide tomorrow.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's like if someone proposes to you and you're like, oh, wow.

[Will Friedle]

Could I.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I just want to talk it over with some people. Talk it over just to sleep on it.

[Will Friedle]

Okay. We sold on this necklace. Maybe we can get a different one.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, exactly. Does it come in any other. Do I have to live in the den, or do I just get free access to the den anytime I want?

[Will Friedle]

I. Can I stay den adjacent. Exactly.

[Danielle Fishel]

I really enjoy a bed. I had file over there. Not my jam. Maybe we can hit a middle ground. Maybe we can get to a middle ground.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Ryan Seacrest]

Hey, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway this spring. Take care of your entire home, including the air you breathe, and save $5 when you buy $25 worth of participating products in store or online. Shop for items like Glade Plugins, Airwick Plugins, Glade Auto Sprays, Airwick diffusers, and Glade refills. And save $5 when you spend $25 on participating products. Offer ends May 20th. Restrictions apply. Promotions may vary. Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details.

[Bom Han]

Yo, K Pop fans, it's your boy Bom Han, and I'm bringing you something epic. Introducing the K Factor, the podcast that takes you straight into the heart of K Pop. We're talking music reviews, exclusive interviews, and deep dives into the industry like never before. From producers and choreographers to idols and trainees, we're bringing you the real stories behind the music that you love. And yeah, we're keeping it 100, discussing everything from company facts and concepts to the mental health side of the business. Because K Pop isn't just a genre, it's a whole world and we're exploring every corner of it. And here's the best part. Fans get to call in, drop opinions, and even join us live at events. You never know where we might pop up next. So listen to the K factor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This isn't just a podcast. It's a movement.

[Will Friedle]

Are you ready? Let's go. Let's go.

[Kristin Davis]

Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, host of the podcast Are you a Charlotte? What we have all been waiting for. Sarah Jessica Parker is here and she is sharing stories from the very beginning. Like the time she forgot we filmed the pilot episode.

[Unknown]

I remember some things about shooting the pilot rather.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right.

[Kristin Davis]

I have some memories I can fill.

[Unknown]

In and that you're going to fill me in.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Kristin Davis]

But then you forgot about it in the very long time they took about it. And she reveals what she thought when she read the script for Sex and the City the very first time he.

[Unknown]

Said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting.

[Kristin Davis]

And does she think Carrie is too good for Mr. Big?

[Unknown]

She had inexplicable feelings. It is a human being that can't explain to her friends why somebody that might be beneath her is dictating the hunt.

[Kristin Davis]

You can't miss this. Listen to Are you a Charlotte? On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts, we asked.

[Danielle Fishel]

Parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

[Will Friedle]

We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family.

[Bom Han]

They showcased a sense of love that.

[Will Friedle]

I never had before. I mean he's not only my parent.

[Bom Han]

Like, he's like my best friend.

[Will Friedle]

At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change thing about our lives.

[Danielle Fishel]

Learn about adopting a teen from foster care. Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more. Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, and the Ad Council.

[Will Friedle]

The group then of course like you do feels an earthquake. But it's just a test charge for the plant demolition tomorrow because of course they test explosives first. The zombies are still concerned that their birthplace is being destroyed, but the wolves don't care until Addison explains that Seabrook Power was always fueled by a mysterious energy source. What if the source is the moonstone they've been meeting? Which again, if the entire town is based on a strange power source and everybody knows about that, then how the wolves did not know. Anyway, I'm letting it go. There's good singing and dancing and they're using bamboo. I'm in. The wolves buy into this and are now focused on saving the power plant and its possible moonstone will. It takes control of the pack, at least until Addison decides her future. The next day, Addison's still in werewolf attire, eats breakfast with her parents, who obviously have a lot of questions about her new look. Then at school on the day of the big school president debate, Addison's new look is like it would be in high school, the talk of the town. Zed finds Addison to tell her he's been up all night. She can't be a werewolf, but she loves that she found her people. Finally she shows him the glowing moonstone necklace and she says she's going to miss the debate to go find the wolves. She wishes said good luck and takes off. And this is the first time he's lost a face Off a boyfriend face off. It's like okay, go find your wolves. I guess I'll just go debate Bucky myself. Thanks for the support lady. The power plant demolition is set for 5pm so the werewolves have gathered to set a strategy. Willa and Wyatt continue to have a power struggle until Addison shows up. It's time she accepts her destiny as a foe wolf. But when she reaches for the necklace, it's gone. She lost it. Now I don't know why she thought she lost it cuz she just showed it to Zed. It was obviously in there. Now she doesn't have it. Why wouldn't the first thing you think be.

[Danielle Fishel]

Damn it.

[Will Friedle]

Zed stole my my my necklace.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'll Tell you why. How dare you.

[Danielle Fishel]

What? Are you serious? You gotta be serious right now. Zed obviously has it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I think Zed stole it.

[Will Friedle]

That would be the first thing you would think, Danielle.

[Sabrina Bryan]

But Danielle's very suspicious. Absolutely, Daddy.

[Danielle Fishel]

Way more trusting.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, no, Danielle would be like, which one of you.

[Danielle Fishel]

Which one of you took it?

[Sabrina Bryan]

But no, Addison and Zed.

[Danielle Fishel]

You.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Addison.

[Danielle Fishel]

I immediately was like, like, damn it, Zed. What a po. I cannot believe this.

[Will Friedle]

Wow. She's very trusting. Then that. Cuz she lost it apparently in the. The 35ft from where she was before.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He would never.

[Danielle Fishel]

It wasn't like there was a big time elapse. It was like I just showed him.

[Will Friedle]

I just showed this.

[Danielle Fishel]

Even if it wasn't okay, Zed did it, I would at least go back and retra. I lose all the time. So I know exactly what you need to do. You need to retrain your stuff steps. Go back to the hallway that you were at when you opened the box.

[Sabrina Bryan]

100 right there with you.

[Danielle Fishel]

And it might be on the ground.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Still think she needs to. If you. You know that saying, if you have to hire a private investigator, it's already over.

[Will Friedle]

It's already.

[Sabrina Bryan]

If you. If you think immediately. I bet Zed took it.

[Danielle Fishel]

Guess what?

[Sabrina Bryan]

You. You might as well just let the guy go.

[Will Friedle]

That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. Okay. Yeah, that's fair.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

Just because we want you to come back one day, we're going to agree.

[Will Friedle]

With Danielle because we still have zombies three and four.

[Danielle Fishel]

We have two more to go.

[Will Friedle]

We're now back at the debate. Zed tells Eliza that he stole Addison's necklace.

[Sabrina Bryan]

What?

[Will Friedle]

Danielle's shocked. He says he just can't let her change into a werewolf and puts the necklace back into his pocket. And then there's no time to waste. Bucky and Zed are introduced for the debate, leading us straight into our next song. Also noting that Bonzo is DJing here because of course, every debate has a DJ. And the song is called I'm Winning, which is a rap battle between the two candidates, which is clearly stolen right from Hamilton. The presidential debate from. From Hamilton.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I think to be generous, the generous way of saying it is heavily influenced. To be fair, it would be impossible for their. Like Hamilton was such a cultural phenomenon. It's impossible to not see media as. As before Hamilton and after Hamilton.

[Will Friedle]

That's very true.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And so this is just post Hamilton.

[Will Friedle]

Yep.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Musical men, rap battle thing. That's great.

[Will Friedle]

Now I have to ask you because you are a former winner on the TV show. Drop the mic. Were you?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Absolutely.

[Will Friedle]

I have Nikki. So you.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Had I known this was going to come up, I would have my award here. Yes. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

So what as, as a rap battle champion. Literally.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

What did you think of this rap.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I really like this rap battle. I'm, I'm very impressed with Milo as a rap battler. I think he does is great. Everything he does can this. Is there anything this guy can do?

[Danielle Fishel]

Corbin Blue. I mean they literally run the world. It's crazy.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Will Friedle]

As the battle gets more and more intense, Zed's Z band now with the moonstone. Remember people, it messes with technology stuck on starts malfunctioning and quickly turns him into a zombie. Oh. The terrified student, Bonnie runs in every different direction while Zed tries his to fight the urge. He can't let the school see him as a monster. Eliza tries her hardest to talk some sense into him, but he throws a podium in anger. In a last ditch effort, she tries to make him remove the moonstone from his band. And yep, that does the trick. Even though he's back to normal, the damage has been done. Bucky is now a lock to win the election. Z's furious, but he knows what he has to do. Meanwhile, the werewolves are met with power plant security. When they arrive to stop the demolition, Addison didn't go with them. Bri finds her and she's pouting in the school hallway about losing the necklace and letting her pack down. Her is only interrupted by the Z alarm, which we haven't heard in a while. There's monster activity at the power plant and Addison knows it's the wolves now. She knows she's going to need everyone's help to go and save them. And she's right. The standoff at the power plant has gotten more and more dangerous. Addison's dad, the mayor, and Zed's dad, the site's foreman, have both arrived to tell the pack they're trespassing. But the wolves explain they can't trespass on land that's supposed to be theirs. And just right when there's going to be a throwdown, there's another song. And more singing and dancing.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh yeah, this one involves water on the floor.

[Will Friedle]

Yes, flesh and bone. It's a song about werewolf pride and how they won't be stopped. Which sounds great, but of course that's a lie because they are then quickly stopped by police tear gas. What did we think of this song and all the water and everything going on?

[Danielle Fishel]

I. I mean, I mean, I don't Know if it was needed. Honestly.

[Will Friedle]

Interesting.

[Danielle Fishel]

It was good. A great production. I just don't think it was necessarily needed in the storyline at this point. We're at like, are we on song number 16 or 17 now? Yeah, a lot of songs.

[Will Friedle]

We're on the B side at this point. A lot of tracks.

[Danielle Fishel]

A lot of them. So if there was maybe another one that maybe just cut in half or something. To me it just was like. Not that it wasn't great. And it was the production and the water. You know me again, I tell you any you now we're doing water. We've got props. Water, all this stuff.

[Will Friedle]

Have you danced in water? Have you ever done a water dance scene?

[Danielle Fishel]

Not like a raining scene. It was okay, but we weren't like splish. Splashing around in the rain wasn't like stepping. It wasn't choreographed. Yeah, that was.

[Will Friedle]

The final took place in the rain. Everybody knows that.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Everyone. Everyone knows everyone.

[Will Friedle]

I literally watched it again after this movie last night. Not even a joke. I went right to the. The big splashy scene at the end. It was awesome.

[Danielle Fishel]

But this one was good. I thought it was good. I just. I'm at the point where I'm kind of like, I don't know if we need how many more.

[Will Friedle]

I like. I liked this one though. I liked when they had the rest of them came in. So the werewolves are arrested one by one and the demolition process begins. The power plant, the moonstone, it's set on pace for destruction. But then Addison and the Z team cheerleaders arrive alongside the zombies, including Zed. They join into the flesh and bone song, arguing to save the plant. Mid song, Bonzo sets off the fire extinguisher. Sprinklers. Fire sprinklers. And this is the cool dance routine. Flash dance style. I. When they were all in it at the end, I kind of thought this was a cool thing.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

This is exactly what we needed. It may. It could have maybe been a little shortened. It seemed like there was like a full song as part one and then a full song with them together.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

And maybe we could have one song with everything. Yeah, one song. Maybe 20 seconds of one. And then surprise, we're here too and we're on your team because obviously we've got to merge the. The wolves and the Z's. Like, we've got to get them to be unified against the man and boy. Is the man, the mayor and the dad doing some work with their reactions?

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, they are. Oh, they are. They're.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They're.

[Will Friedle]

They're living their lives on their face.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, they certainly are just really like, ah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I guess we gotta look at these kids. How do I feel? They use.

[Will Friedle]

And it's like they're no longer trespassing because they're dancing. They're still trespassing. It's just now they're doing it with.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Choreography, but they're just more impressed with how good it looks.

[Will Friedle]

Exactly.

[Danielle Fishel]

I wasn't sure how they were holding the werewolves down either. Like in the. They were. Was it like an electricity?

[Will Friedle]

No, I think they. They. They put the silver bracelets on them. Isn't that what it was? They had silver.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, like the Z. Okay, I missed that.

[Will Friedle]

But they silvered them up.

[Danielle Fishel]

Like controlling them. Yeah. Okay.

[Will Friedle]

Because it was first the silver gas.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's like to a vampire is the silver to a werewolf.

[Will Friedle]

To me, yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

It was just that. That was just what it was. It wasn't like electrical. I thought I. It seemed like it was going to be a lot like you. You're about to electrocute these kids.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, well, they had shock collars on.

[Danielle Fishel]

I was, like, a little confused. Like, this seems a little over the top, guys. I mean, they're trespassing. I get it. But they're also high school kids. Like.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, no, we were good. I think it was the. I think it was the bracelets. They give me silver bracelets.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, right. Which still burns them, but okay. I guess we're okay with that.

[Will Friedle]

We're good. They're dying. Anyway. We get a flashback here to Zed being persecuted for being a zombie in the first movie. He sings about knowing the struggle firsthand. They can't make this mistake again. We get a big final dance number here. Everyone together dancing in front of confused police officers. Which they would be. As the track ends, Zed begs his dad to stop the demolition. He thinks about it, and then he agrees with his son. He tells his crew to shut it down and announces to start looking for the moonstone tomorrow. And apparently the foreman has more power than the mayor and anybody else else because he shuts down the entire project. The zombies and werewolves celebrate their big win together. But Zed isn't happy. He's going to lose the election and he can't take Addison to Prawn, even though she promises him it's not a big deal. Zed knows it's bigger than that. He hands her the moonstone necklace and admits he stole it. She can't believe he'd do that. And now doesn't want to go to prom with him anyway. So what do you think of that, Zed? See, she puts on the necklace and after a few seconds, when she turns around to how Howell. Nothing changed. And did anybody else when you first saw this, see this twist coming? I knew she wasn't going to be a werewolf. They said it out. I was like, there's no way she's going to be the werewolf. It's too set up.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I agree.

[Danielle Fishel]

Well, and we also know there's four movies and I feel like that. Where are we going?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, yeah. But, you know, again, thinking about this as being a relatable kid trying to figure out where you fit in. The thing that I will say is, although I knew for sure she was not going to be a werewolf, I believed that she believed it was possible.

[Will Friedle]

That's true. And wanted it. I think she wanted it too.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Just to. If for nothing else, just to have the answer, where do I belong? And so there's a part of you that's almost rooting for it. Even though I knew it wasn't going to. I also do just want her to have that sense of. Of relief.

[Will Friedle]

Yes, I agree. Good. Because it's a good character. We like Addison.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, we like her.

[Will Friedle]

Yep. But like Maury telling someone, you're not the father, she is not the Alpha. She has not yet found her true identity. But before she can grieve, a construction workers found an issue. The remote that controls the entire demolition is shorted out. Remember, because the moonstone messes with technology, something we definitely have all forgotten by this point in the film. And then, in a shocking turn of events, the power plant explodes and crumbles to the ground. First, whoa. And second, what did we think of the special effects here?

[Danielle Fishel]

I thought they were good. I would not have expected them to be as good as they were the first one. And then when we get like a wider shot and the whole thing goes down, I was like, not bad. Wow.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Take better than it had to be. Could have been worse and still would have passed better than it had.

[Danielle Fishel]

Absolutely.

[Will Friedle]

Could not agree more. The werewolves, of course, are devastated and they all start coughing immediately, which is the universal sign for dying in the dcom. This is, of course, the worst case scenario. The next day at school, the news is good. I guess Bri and Bonzo are now in a handholding couple, which is decom for sex. But because Bucky won the election, the prawn is tomorrow night and it's still humans only. And in the forest, the werewolves have retreated, all slowly dying again. There's some coughing. So, you know, they're dying.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Zed visits to help and admits he was wrong about the werewolf. Werewolves at prawn. Bucky arrives with the acs in a big pink stretch limo. They walk in slow motion, which means they're ready to party. But then they're followed by the zombies and the werewolves together, all in formal wear. Bucky blocks the entrance. It's humans only. But Zed explains bad laws are meant to be broken and monsters don't follow rules.

[Danielle Fishel]

How cool did this group look?

[Will Friedle]

It really did. Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

Their wardrobe. I literally paused it and looked at every single one of them as they were walking, like the wardrobe was so good.

[Will Friedle]

It was.

[Danielle Fishel]

They look like they. Again going back to a Michael Jackson music video. Bad. They look so good. I loved it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Love the melding of the song we saw earlier about what do you do? Do you go along to get along or do you behave like you know you do? Stay true to yourself. And now the zombies have learned there's a better benefit to what the werewolves were saying. And the werewolves, it's just, what a perfect. What a perfect lesson.

[Will Friedle]

They have got it. They know what's up. So yeah, Bucky knows he's outnumbered, so he gives in. And apparently there was just one giant switch to shut off the entire prawn. Nobody mentioned that. Notice he walked over to a switch. But we're not going to talk about the on off prawn switch.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Better than a little light switch.

[Will Friedle]

He's got a giant dying to. Prom's over. Yeah. So he gives in. He's re reuniting Bri and Bonzo. The true love story of the entire film. Actually, Zed and Addison spot each other as well, meeting in the middle of the dance floor for a big apology from Zed. He knows he was wrong to steal the necklace. And this leads us to a song call back from the first movies Someday, the tune that kicked off their relationship in the first place. But just when they're about to kiss, the building starts shaking. There's something emerging from the ground, creating a fault line all the way to the school. The werewolves decide to dive into the tunnel, knowing they only have a short amount of time and it could hold the moonstone. And guess what? They find the moonstone. What luck. The werewolves quickly recharge their necklaces on it. It all feels very rushed. Like they just put this on at the end. Like all of a sudden, oh, there's the moonstone. Now we just have to touch our necklaces to it. And now everything's okay. It just. It was like they. They finished the script and went, oh, we forgot the moonstone.

[Sabrina Bryan]

No, you're right. They finished. They finished it and they were like, we're already four minutes over. 90 minutes. Okay, well, you know what? You just touch it and it recharges.

[Will Friedle]

It and we move on. If you say moonstone three times, you're healthy again. Like, it was just very strange. It did just kind of seem like it was tacked on there.

[Danielle Fishel]

And this, I will say, was not the greatest, like, effect. Like effect. Slash prop. Like, the moonstone did not look great. Like, you're right. When they were grabbing it and they're all trying to go, it, like, was.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Like, with some wider shots.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes, wider shot.

[Will Friedle]

I agree, I agree. But either way, it worked. The werewolves are healthy again, but they know they don't have a lot of time. They try to move the moonstone, but it's just too heavy. So Addison, the zombies joining to help. Now the whole school is trying to move the stone, but it's a process, and all of a sudden, their exit is blocked by a giant boulder. Without any other options, Eliza encourages Zed to take off his Z band to move the stone. Though he's nervous about it, Zedd agrees and removes the band. Now zombied out, he clears the pathway for the moonstone, but drops the boulder before he can get out. He's now stuck in the tunnel forever, where he dies. Roll credits. I'm kidding. I was just seeing if everybody is still.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wait, what?

[Will Friedle]

And just when we think we've lost him for good, he emerges from the smoke, adjusting his Z band. He made it out safely and controlled his zombie urges. He embraces Addison, posing perfectly for the wall of fame. Human, zombies and werewolves are now all living together in harmony. Harmony. We're now back at the prawn. With the nearby moonstone safely accounted for, the parties in full swing, we get one last song and dance number one for all. It's a big choreographed dance track, uniting moves from every Seabrook species, even Bucky, who crowns Addison the new cheer captain and hug Zed. It's time for everyone to accept who they are while clapping on beat. The party moves to the wolf's den, where Zed's dad brings pizza and the coach has set up his froyo cardigan. Everyone's happy.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Froyo.

[Will Friedle]

The song ends with a big kiss between Zed and Addison. And this is where we think the film's over. But it's not. We cut to later that night. Addison is fast asleep, and we see from her window a meteor hits Seabrook and A glowing blue light awakens her, zaps through her white hair. And that's the end of our movie. Setting us up for what Daniel has already told us is zombies 3, which isn't that great, so we will have to see when we get there. But that is zombies 2.

[Ryan Seacrest]

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[Bom Han]

Yo, K Pop fans, it's your boy Bom Han, and I'm bringing you something epic.

[Will Friedle]

Epic.

[Bom Han]

Introducing the K Factor, the podcast that takes you straight into the heart of K Pop. We're talking music reviews, exclusive interviews, and deep dives into the industry like never before. From producers and choreographers to idols and trainees, we're bringing you the real stories behind the music that you love. And yeah, we're keeping it 100, discussing everything from coming and concepts to the mental health side of the business. Because K Pop isn't just a genre, it's a whole world and we're exploring every corner of it. And here's the best part. Fans get to call in, drop opinions, and even join us live at events. You never know where we might pop up next. So listen to the K factor on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. This isn't just a podcast. It's a movement.

[Will Friedle]

Are you ready? Let's go. Let's go.

[Kristin Davis]

Hi, I'm Kristen Davis, host of the podcast Are youe a Charlotte? What we have All Been Waiting For. Sarah Jessica Parker is here and she is sharing stories from the very beginning. Like the time she forgot we filmed the pilot episode.

[Unknown]

I remember some things about shooting the pilot.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right.

[Kristin Davis]

I have some memories I can fill in and that.

[Unknown]

You're going to fill me in.

[Kristin Davis]

Yes, but then you forgot about it in the very long time they took.

[Unknown]

Me back about it.

[Kristin Davis]

And she reveals what she thought when she read the script for Sex and the City the very first time he.

[Unknown]

Said he wrote this like I was in his head in some way, which I found really interesting.

[Kristin Davis]

And does she think Carrie is too good for Mr. Big?

[Unknown]

She had inexplicable feelings. It is a human being that carries explain to her friends why somebody that might be beneath her is dictating the hunt.

[Kristin Davis]

You can't miss this. Listen to are you a Charlotte? On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

[Danielle Fishel]

We asked parents who adopted teens to share their journey.

[Will Friedle]

We just kind of knew from the beginning that we were family.

[Bom Han]

They showcased a sense of love that I never.

[Will Friedle]

I mean, he's not only my parent.

[Bom Han]

Like, he's like my best friend.

[Will Friedle]

At the end of the day, it's all been worth it. I wouldn't change thing about our lives.

[Danielle Fishel]

Learn about adopting a teen from foster care. Visit adoptuskids.org to learn more. Brought to you by Adopt Us Kids, the U.S. department of Health and Human Services and the Ad Council.

[Will Friedle]

Danielle, thank you so much for joining us. The question is, do you want to stick around for real reviews in our game or do you want to go.

[Danielle Fishel]

Like to see what your husband tortm?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yeah, I feel like maybe I should. I feel like, yeah, it's really fun.

[Will Friedle]

To see him torture Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, no. What does he do?

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, no. It's all fun and it's pretty good.

[Will Friedle]

First of all, we'll do our real reviews. I've got the one star this week. This is from Space Quazar, who says if you're older than 16, this is probably not for you. The music's not too bad, but it isn't good either. I wouldn't listen to it on the radio. Thank you, Space Quasar. I disagree entirely. Sabrina. You've got the five star this week.

[Danielle Fishel]

I do, and it's with Hannah W. A brilliant film which again explores the complex issue of when and how to protest with nuance and sensitivity, presenting different options as all having value.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, very specific 5 star review mentions no music, no movie, nothing about the.

[Danielle Fishel]

Dancing, I think, but it's just saying the message, trying to again, find yourself, find where you.

[Will Friedle]

That's a good message.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, it's good.

[Will Friedle]

It's a good message. We are now to Sabrina's favorite part of the program every week, which is our feature presentation, the Jensen Corner, which we change every week. Producer Jensen, of course, comes up with a different game every week and tries to stump us and normally does. This week it's called now you sequel. Now you don't. Oh, please. Danielle, we'd love you to play along with with us. Celebration of a sequel. On this week's magical rewind, we'll be given the name of a movie and we have to decide if that movie Was given a sequel or not?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Ooh.

[Will Friedle]

If we get three out of five, we win. We also know producer Jensen goes deep and dark with these things. He spends hours and hours. So our first movie, Prasa. Jensen, are you with us? Oh, yeah. I. I'm going to be quieter because my wife's here and I don't want to embarrass myself. Okay, fair enough. Also, like, this is a movie related one and she knows how many blu rays and 4Ks I own.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It's just I'm looking at them right now. Guys.

[Will Friedle]

Ye rather be less talk. Well, I look at it this way, Jensen. When our wives eventually leave us, we are going to be very, very happy together.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Such great movies to watch.

[Will Friedle]

We are our number one movie from 1995, Congo. Okay, so I know Congo was a Michael Crichton book. I don't think there was a second Michael Crichton book. Did they make a second Congo? I'm going to say no.

[Danielle Fishel]

I'm gonna say yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm gonna say yes. Congo had a part two.

[Will Friedle]

Congo did not have a part two. No, there was no Sabrina.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I was with you.

[Danielle Fishel]

I know. Just so, by the way, it's always best to not go with me.

[Will Friedle]

You should let Danielle know the rule. Don't ever vote with Sabrina. It when all else fails, just pick the opposite of what Sabrina did. Yeah. Let her go first.

[Danielle Fishel]

Let her go first.

[Will Friedle]

Number two, 2001's Donnie Darko.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes. Yes.

[Will Friedle]

I'm gonna say yes as well. It did 2009's S. Darko. Oh, okay, good. So I'm, I'm almost winning here. Number three. Oh, I hope they didn't make one in 1984's Splash.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

I wanna say yes because I feel like I remember, remember seeing it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was like worse than Grease 2.

[Will Friedle]

Yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

It was not good.

[Sabrina Bryan]

It was not good.

[Will Friedle]

No. Number one, Grease two is pretty good. There's some pretty good parts of Greece too. Splash 2, 1988. But it's spelled. It's spelled T o o. T o O. Right? Was it? No. No. My God. I can't believe they made a splash too. Number four, Bambi 1942. And this one opened with the sequel. Opens with Bambi's father being shot first. No. Did they make a sequel to Bam?

[Danielle Fishel]

I feel like on Disney plus there's sequels of all those damn movies and you just never knew.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I know.

[Will Friedle]

I'll start then. I'm going to say yes.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You're.

[Will Friedle]

I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes.

[Danielle Fishel]

I'm going to say yes too, because I like it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I think you're right, Sabrina, that there's a sequel, even if we've just never heard of it. I'm gonna go with yes.

[Will Friedle]

It's. It's called Bamboo First Blood. The. The second. It is Bambi 2 from 2006.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

How many years later? 1942.

[Will Friedle]

I can't believe there's a Bambi sequel, but go on. My God. And number five, 1968. Rosemary's Baby. Baby. I hope so. I'm gonna say yes just because I would love there to be a second Rosemary's Baby. No, no, this is true. There is a second Rosemary's Baby from 1976 and it is called look what's happened to Rosemary's Baby.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You've got to be kidding me. Is it a short?

[Will Friedle]

No, it's a full length movie.

[Danielle Fishel]

Not.

[Will Friedle]

Not Polanski.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Just show me a picture. What. What's happened to Rosemary's Baby? Just give me, give me two minutes.

[Will Friedle]

She's actually grown up. She's the editor at Vogue. Oh, well, I won yet again. Thank you, producer Jensen. I won two.

[Danielle Fishel]

I got three out of five.

[Will Friedle]

I think they all got it. I think everyone got it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I don't think we should got two wrong.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, well, Sabrina still gets. I got one wrong.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh, see, then you did win. Sabrina and I both got two wrong.

[Will Friedle]

There you go.

[Danielle Fishel]

And now if you look up the, the, the actual directions say three out of five wins. I'm taking the win.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Take away from me.

[Danielle Fishel]

Danielle, I never get. Get it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay, it's yours.

[Will Friedle]

Take the win and depart the field. And now since you're still here, I'd first like to do some Sabrina sees. Sabrina, take it away.

[Danielle Fishel]

These are actually I, I've put them into more questions for Danielle because there were a couple of things that were very confusing for me that I felt like the rules, maybe I just didn't remember them from the first one or what. But I want to give a shout out to Kylie because now after interviewing her and then now seeing her dance again in the second movie, Danielle, if you can believe it, she actually said she wasn't a dancer and she really didn't feel comfortable going into rehearsals. And I'm like, I watched her and I'm like, girl, you are a fantastic dancer. So have to give a shout out to her first. Then we're going to go into the questions I have. So Bonzo, okay. He doesn't speak English, I guess, right?

[Sabrina Bryan]

He only speaks zombie.

[Danielle Fishel]

Zombie. So I guess maybe it makes sense. But There's a part where they're. They're chanting. I think if they were saying not. I think they were saying Addie when they were wanting to her to go ahead and go for cheer captain.

[Will Friedle]

Right.

[Danielle Fishel]

And he's sitting there right along with her chanting. And I looked at him like, wait, I didn't think that character could actually talk. So he can.

[Sabrina Bryan]

He can speak sound. So I guess he may be mimicking just Addy. Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

Because this is it here. I am watching a sequel now. I'm gonna be a little bit more nitpicky. Like, wait a minute.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I get it.

[Will Friedle]

I'm in her head.

[Danielle Fishel]

You are in my head. It's the worst. And then I had. The next question was.

[Sabrina Bryan]

So.

[Danielle Fishel]

It happens a lot when we see the debate. And then when he goes, you know, aggro. He goes into zombie, he zombifies out. And the Z. The other zombies that are at school are scared. Does this go along with the rules? Like, they're scared when they could do the same thing if they took their bracelet off.

[Will Friedle]

But that's why they're scared.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I always take it as in, whoa. They're scared of the ramifications of this. That this is bad news for us, that he's hulking out, basically.

[Danielle Fishel]

Okay, okay. So that's what it is. Because in. Throughout the movie, then as things are happening, they're acting a lot more like, you know, the other species. They're not acting like zombies in the sense of having that, like, empathy of somebody else. So I was just kind of confused. Wasn't sure if just that's how it would be or if that was like the extras in the movie not realizing that they're supposed to be a different species. It was kind of confusing to me. Right.

[Will Friedle]

It's probably a little from column A and a little from column B.

[Sabrina Bryan]

You're right.

[Danielle Fishel]

That's true. And then my last question. And then I have one more thing that just. I kept seeing, and it was crazy. The kiss that doesn't happen. Did we get a kiss in the first movie? Because in my head, I'm thinking of actually making a comment that I couldn't believe we did. I didn't get my rom com.

[Sabrina Bryan]

There's no rom com kiss in one. Because I thought in Raw. In zombies too, how are they gonna stop this kiss? And then when they didn't, I was like, whoa, we finally get the kiss.

[Danielle Fishel]

Okay. And then the end. Okay, so that. That was. I. I couldn't remember from the first movie, so I needed you to clear that up. The last thing is, did anyone else notice that there were, like, 24,565 pastel giant and all sizes actually potted plants throughout this entire set?

[Will Friedle]

There was a lot of potted plants. I noticed that as well.

[Sabrina Bryan]

They were a big one.

[Danielle Fishel]

You first really see them when the. The werewolves come in. They're in the. Like, that columns, and they're like. Hide behind them.

[Will Friedle]

And they hide behind them. Yep.

[Danielle Fishel]

But then you start noticing. I don't remember them in the last set, but you see them everywhere. They are past the plants, just. It's like if they needed a small little space of the screen filled up, they just.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Through a plant there. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

That's Seabrook, though. You've never been to space.

[Danielle Fishel]

That was it. I didn't know if anyone else saw that, but the potted plants were overwhelming. Like, overwhelming.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I honestly, I did notice it, and I also thought, I wonder if they're trying to say that somehow the moonstone, because it's. It's a life force.

[Will Friedle]

If even.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Even the plants are like. You know what I mean? Everything is green growing. So I. I even thought maybe they were somewhere some. The director, Paul, was like, listen, we've got to fill some space over there. And it's because of the moonstone. It's the moonstone. It's giving life force to the plants. And if anybody questions me, that's my answer.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, that's. I like that.

[Danielle Fishel]

There we go. Okay. Well, I was questioning him, and I'm glad I got an answer.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah. No, the guy who created Batman beyond always said, batman and Batman Beyond. He said, when anytime I get a question I don't know the answer to, I just say it's magic. It's like, okay, perfect. You got it?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Got it. Thanks.

[Will Friedle]

And now we'd like to have you join us today, Danielle, in rating our film. So we do a little different here. We do one out of ten, one being the lowest and ten being the biggest.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right, Right, right. Ten being the best.

[Will Friedle]

Right. So that's different than a lot of people do it.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Right. I was gonna say. I. I've only heard it. The other way would be great.

[Will Friedle]

Correct. We switched around. So we're going to let you pick how we're going to rate it this week, though. Danielle, do you want to do one out of ten froyo side hustles?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Oh.

[Will Friedle]

One out of ten big budget water cannons, werewolf swing states. One out of ten glowing necklaces, bamboo dances, water dances. One out of ten debate DJs, or one out of ten VIFs or very important. Foreman's. You can also throw in any of your own if you'd like to.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'd like to give it one out of ten. Out.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, done and done. Okay, who would like to go first?

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, man, I don't know. Danielle, do you want to do the honors or do you want to wrap it up and go?

[Will Friedle]

Yeah, it's up to you. You're the guest.

[Danielle Fishel]

You get to chat.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'll tell you first because you guys, I think are going to maybe I, you already know I love it. So I'm going to give it nine out of ten. Oh, wow.

[Will Friedle]

A solid nine.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I'm going to give it a nine. Yeah.

[Will Friedle]

Sabrina, do you want to wrap it up or do you want me to go? Go next.

[Danielle Fishel]

I'll go next because you're probably down lower than I am.

[Will Friedle]

What do you got?

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, again, I, I loved the first movie. I still am a giant fan of this franchise. There were just a little couple of things that again, I feel like kind of slipped through the cracks. Just as if we said, you know, the acting was a little, it was a little too gimmicky, too cheeky here and there a little bit pushed it a little bit. Versus I've just felt that first one just was like nailing it out of the park. I mean, they just hit a home run with it. So I did pull it back down, but it's still incredible. Dancing, the songs, everything. I did really love a lot of it. Mine's going to be an 8.5o.

[Will Friedle]

Like that. I am kind of right there with both of you. I, I, the first one's better in my opinion.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Okay.

[Will Friedle]

It was kind of pushed a little bit, but it's fun, it's bright, it's well directed. Milo and Meg are phenomenal. They're great to see the difference between a dcom now or even a 2020 decom. And you know, 1994 DCOM is just night and day, so I'm going to give it a solid eight.

[Danielle Fishel]

Right?

[Sabrina Bryan]

Wow. Between an eight and a nine.

[Will Friedle]

Yeah.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Eight, eight and a half and a nine.

[Will Friedle]

Guys, it is a, a very fun movie franchise. It really is. And again, I'm trying to watch him more as a 12 year old. And if I'm 12 or 13 and I come home and I get to watch this, Are you kidding? I would be the greatest thing ever.

[Sabrina Bryan]

Imagine being my five and three year old.

[Will Friedle]

Oh, my God. I couldn't.

[Sabrina Bryan]

I mean, incredible.

[Will Friedle]

So cool. And it's just what you were saying before, Sabrina. Just the, it's so clever. To take zombies and werewolves, and I think the next one's aliens. And then I think they do vampire. I mean, it's like, it's really clever to do it like this, so.

[Danielle Fishel]

And I think it. I mean, that's what I loved about this one was the, like, we talked a lot about introducing this new group and wow, those actors were incredible and brought so much to where, like, it didn't feel like a. Ugh. What? I was basically the same. Same. Because it wasn't. It was a totally different movie and had a huge, great new dynamic that came in with them.

[Will Friedle]

I loved it.

[Danielle Fishel]

That part was great.

[Will Friedle]

Well, thank you, everybody. I hope you loved it and you loved our episode, but we really first need to thank the great Danielle Fishel, who is not only my co star on Boy Meets World, which aired on the Disney Channel, but she's now one of the channel's busiest sitcom directors. What shows do you have coming up for the people who are glued to Disney?

[Sabrina Bryan]

I am about ready to start directing for Vampirina, which I'm very excited about. They took the cartoon from Disney Channel, the Vampirina cartoon, and they made it live action. So I start directing there in a couple of weeks. And then Shifting Gears was picked up. Fingers crossed I'm gonna get to do a couple of those for abc. And I'm still waiting to hear about Lopez versus Lopez. Fingers crossed that season four gets picked up, and a show I directed a couple of months is going to be premiering in July for Disney Channel. It is called Electric Bloom, and it's amazing.

[Will Friedle]

Okay, so tons of Disney Channel stuff coming up. Synergy, folks. We keep saying it. We just want to keep pumping out the Disney stuff. And our next movie will be a Magical World of Disney entry. Yes, that's right. We're going all the way back to 1987's gambling adventure. You ruined my. Yes. Every. All those words I just said. I don't understand them either. Quite a cast in this one, though. And this one is on the YouTubes for free, so go and check it out there. And this week, over on our magical rewind feed, we're speaking with Jane Sibbett, an incredible actress you may know from Friends or Herman's Head or dozens of other TV shows. But we know her as the mom in Buffalo Dreams, and we talked to her all about her experience on that movie and letting her movie son go out into the woods on a vision quest. Here's a small snippet of that.

[Kristin Davis]

Here's a little tiny thing and I again, a nugget that I've taken from this. There was a woman that was was atmosphere and she was wearing these beautiful turquoise earrings and I just complimented like.

[Will Friedle]

Those are so beautiful.

[Kristin Davis]

And she just looks at me, she's thank you.

[Will Friedle]

And then she hands them to me. Geez, wow.

[Kristin Davis]

And I said oh no, no no no. I just was complimenting. She said no, that's our tradition. If you compliment, you must give that like.

[Danielle Fishel]

Well, I'm super careful about what I compliment right now.

[Will Friedle]

You can check that out this week when it's released on our dedicated Magical Rewind feed. Just search Magical Rewind wherever you get your podcast and you can hear all of the incredible decom related interviews we've done. And for more info you can follow us at Magical Rewind Pod on the Instagram machine right now. Thanks everybody. Bye. As a renter, do you ever feel like you're just throwing money away? Think you'll never be able to save enough to buy your own home? Then check out Rent Rewards from Rocket Morgan Mortgage. They're helping you put your monthly rent payments towards homeownership. Now for the first time, you can save up to $5,000 off the cost of your home just by paying rent. Only at Rocket Mortgage. Learn more today at 804Rocket or visit Rocket.com Rocket Mortgage LLC license in all 50 states nmlsconsumeraccess.org Number 3030 Tucson is.

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