Bring It On: Part 1
It’s time to bring the spirit and travel through time with Erin Cline, Ben Silverio, and Ansel Burch. They’re pop culture observers/ zany podcasters/ excellent friends who know spirit fingers when they see them. What could bring Erin back from her hiatus? Why the movie that spawned an unlikely franchise and decades’ worth of memes, Bring It On
Kick off your month like it’s a Friday night in autumn and your school activity makes you watch the football team lose every game they play. This week we’re setting things up for you to watch or re-watch this classic from the year 2000 which we are sad to report was twenty-three years ago. To help you cope with that, we’ve got drinking and smoking rules for you to help ease into the comedy of the turn of the millennium.
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Erin Cline is @nyderngenc on Instagram.
Ben Silverio is @Bsilverio20 on Twitter and IG.
Ansel Burch is @Indecisionist on Twitter and @TheIndecisionist on IG.
Join us next month for Erin and Ben’s review of the movie and the following week as we reminisce over 28 movies worth of time travel goodness and the fun we had making them. So, make sure you’re subscribed because all month long, it’s #Time2Party
Episode Transcript
Ben Silverio 0:05
Hey, I'm Ben Silverio.
Erin Cline 0:06
And I'm Erin Cline.
Ansel Burch 0:07
And I'm Ansel Burch
Ben Silverio 0:08
and it's Time 2 Party.
Ansel Burch 0:13
This month's episodes on Bring it on. We're recorded on March 26 2023. We don't give medical advice, Please drink responsibly. I
Ben Silverio 0:22
don't know why. But my first instinct was to be like, are we having fun yet?
Erin Cline 0:25
Oh my god. Hey,
Ansel Burch 0:29
those aren't spirit fingers.
Erin Cline 0:31
These are Spirit Fingers. But I think his complaints about watching this movie as a as a rewatch as an older person who's taken a lot more dance is that spirit fingers or just Fosse fingers and it makes me mad. They're just doing shitty lazy Fosse fingers like at least good Fosse fingers. Personal gripes. Anyway, hi.
Ansel Burch 0:50
It's a real thing.
Erin Cline 0:53
Fingers are hard. They're like purposely weird looking. Anyway, hi, Ben.
Ben Silverio 0:57
Hello, party people. Welcome back to Time 2 Party where we take a look at all of the great time travel movies and media throughout time. And hey, we have a blast from our own past with us today. What up Erin?
Erin Cline 1:15
It's me. I'm the time traveler. Hello. I've appeared from your past. In your in your present. It's me. Erin Cline, the original co host of the show. I've returned for one glorious episode. Glad to be back. Hello.
Ben Silverio 1:28
Yeah.
Erin Cline 1:29
Yeah. Let's see if I remember how to do this.
Ben Silverio 1:34
Well, it's great to have you on this episode. Because you know, one of the one of the all time great time travel movies.
Erin Cline 1:42
Bring It On, a classic time travel movie. I mean, you got all the tropes. I don't we don't even need to name them. You all know all the tropes that bring in a time travel movie. I mean, you've got young people
Ansel Burch 1:55
every time travel of movie should be about coming of age. And that's definitely, absolutely
Erin Cline 2:00
anyway, we don't need to talk more about the time travel elements. It's true. Again, never everyone already knows all about them. So let's just move on.
Ben Silverio 2:08
Yeah, this is gonna be one of the easiest episodes we've ever done. Because, you know, we don't have to explain anything. Yeah,
Erin Cline 2:13
I know. Everyone just knows. It's just such a classic time travel movie in so many ways. That I mean, why spoil it by having to like enumerate on it, even as a podcast covering time travel. No, like you. I mean, you've watched the movie, you know?
Ansel Burch 2:29
You know, it's amazing. It took us this long I know. Do either of you have like a close personal connection to bring it on?
Erin Cline 2:38
Well, I was I do not die with a super often but I was a cheerleader. And for two seasons, one football, one basketball. Wow. And it was that those two seasons spanned when this movie was released in theaters. So I saw this with my entire cheerleading squad. It was quite an experience. Honestly, I'm really glad. This very weird moment in my life happened to perfectly pair up with this very weird cheerleading movie. So yeah, I've seen this movie a lot.
Ansel Burch 3:12
That's amazing. What a unique connection. Yeah,
Erin Cline 3:15
it's i Yes, cheerleading is a I'm glad that I did it. And I'm glad that I tried it because it was very outside of my character, then. And now. I've tried cheerleading. But I really was interested in the like tosses and throws because I had seen some competitive cheerleading competitions before, because my stepdad watched a lot of ESPN. And so it would like come on after golf or whatever. And so I was interested in that part of it. And I had danced for a long time. And so it was also weird because there's that joke about gymnasts or dancers who have, you know, the Arcelor that's used, yeah. Which is very funny and was very funny at the time. But now it's like, that doesn't hold up in the same way that it did before. But that was how I felt at the time, too, was that I felt more like a dancer than a cheerleader. And so it was weird to watch this movie with all these girls who were like defensive about it. I was like, this isn't my tribe. That's my personal connection to bring it on.
Ben Silverio 4:19
Yeah, my cousin was a competitive cheerleader. So I was familiar with those competitions already. So like the ESPN stuff was definitely stuff that I had gone to because I would go and cheer the cheerleaders.
Ansel Burch 4:34
That's cool. So your cousin like made it to the national level to be on the televised version, right?
Ben Silverio 4:42
Yeah. And she continued into college also. Yeah, when she was at Louisville. I believe she was on TV more than a few times. But also when I was you know, the same age as the braided on casts are well The characters not the cast. So now, yeah, right. So like now I know like, in high school I dated a number of cheerleaders, surprisingly enough. So yeah, I don't think that's
Ansel Burch 5:18
terribly surprising.
Ben Silverio 5:21
But they, yeah, some of the, the people that I dated were, were more familiar with that world than I was. So through them by osmosis. I understood it more, you know,
Erin Cline 5:35
it's a very bizarre world when I was I was actually in Palm Springs this past February. And the day that we were leaving, we were at the airport. And we're just surrounded by cheerleaders. And we were like, oh, there must have been a competition here we did not know about and never interacted with at any point. But they were all leaving at the same time as us. And all I could think about was the spirit stick. And I was just looking around, like, who's got one. And there were so many of them. And it was like, oh, boy, this is I'm glad I never really got into this world because it was wild, especially seeing now as an adult, seeing the parents and like associated family, family members of that. It's like, Man, that's a lot to have to drag your whole fucking family across the country to see to go to like a cheerleading camp. Basically, it's just wild. I think it's awesome that they do it. But it's also just like, whoa, this this is overwhelming. It's cool, but it's overwhelming.
Ansel Burch 6:29
Was there a spirit stick when you were in cheerleading? Or was that sort of an invention of the movie? Do you think
Erin Cline 6:36
there wasn't I was young enough that I wasn't part of like the varsity squad. I was on like a middle grade squad. I don't Gotcha. We didn't have one. But I don't know if there was one that the high school had. I honestly have no idea. I feel like there was, but I didn't make it far enough. I was like, Yeah, I'm just gonna believe that this propaganda is true.
Ben Silverio 7:00
I mean, like, a bunch of high school clubs had their own, you know, little Yeah, lore, you know, like, yeah. Like, I remember stuff from stage crew, where the graduating seniors would would leave, like a tag backstage. Like, they'd write their name somewhere, like, with some art, or, you know, somewhere, obviously, you couldn't see from the audience, but like, off in the wings. But like, God, the there is some real dumb ones. Just people writing stupid shit. And you know, since I went to an all boys school, you can only imagine how stupid this shit truly was.
But I kind of miss having group traditions like that, you know, like, when you were more around groups, that kind of became your community. You know, you had your own rituals and everything. And like, to a certain extent, I have that still. But like, you know, we're older now. And we all have lives. And we have to be adults. For some reason. scam.
Ansel Burch 8:12
Yeah. adult groups with rituals tend to be a different vibe. Yeah.
Ben Silverio 8:18
Exactly. I'm not trying to get a red hat as a token, so
Ansel Burch 8:25
yeah, I'm good. Good. But yeah, it is it is interesting to think about, like the, the stuff you do as an adolescent that comes with a ritual, you know, I did, I did. Boy Scouts, I did, you know, I was in a fraternity. Those, the rituals of those groups that are designed to sort of like, tie you together and force you to become a cohesive unit are so necessary when you've got a bunch of teenagers who don't want to deal with anything, and you have to get them to do something together. Otherwise, it doesn't work. And it is interesting that we, we don't we don't have like, a lot of legitimate adult situations where that comes up. Yeah, I feel like
Erin Cline 9:13
part of it is that you have to
Ben Silverio 9:14
because we're too busy worrying about health insurance and shit.
Erin Cline 9:17
Yeah, exactly. You to devote so much time in order to have those kinds of bonds over like a short amount of time. Like, that's what happens over, like when you're in a show, and People form all these showmances and then you the show ends and then you're like, oh, actually, it was much more situational than I realized. Like that's not always the case. But like, that's a lot of that. That energy of everybody's just like working their ass off together. And like that's, you see that a lot in this in the like, grind that has to go into putting something together of this scale, and this like technical necessity for it in like six weeks basically. It's like watching a show get thrown together that it's like we didn't think this was gonna get approved. Oh, fuck. Everybody got
Ansel Burch 10:07
in there Yeah.
Ben Silverio 10:10
God, have you ever had to build a car out of wood? That's not great?
Erin Cline 10:14
Yes, I have How awful? It goes
Ansel Burch 10:16
badly. Terrible. So Ben, what do we do in this first episode?
Ben Silverio 10:21
Oh yes, for those of us who don't remember, you know, for the benefit of those who, who haven't done this in a long time, let's review what we do here. Our first episode, we like to give our audience a drinking or smoking game so that you can rewatch or watch for the first time. But I mean, obviously, everyone's seen Bring it on. Right. So
Erin Cline 10:45
yeah, obviously. Yeah.
Ben Silverio 10:49
Yeah. But yeah, to give you another reason to rewatch we have a drinking and smoking game for you with a number of rules that are hopefully fun and entertaining. And, you know, clever, because sometimes we
Erin Cline 11:08
get clever with such dark intentions
All right, you're gonna
Ansel Burch 11:18
question our choices on this one? Yeah, I
Erin Cline 11:22
can't imagine why.
Ben Silverio 11:25
And, you know, this month, you know, while we're doing Bring it on, we also just a teaser we got going on. For the second episode, we're gonna review the movie like we usually do. But for our third episode, come back and reminisce about time to party with us for a little while, you know, we're gonna educate you about ourselves
Ansel Burch 11:52
the history of this three year old podcast?
Ben Silverio 11:57
Yes. So be sure to tune in for that stuff down the line. Because you know, we like you and stuff. So come on.
Unknown Speaker 12:07
Yeah, we'd love to have a little party in your ears with you. All right, then hit me with your first rule.
Ben Silverio 12:14
Oh, okay. So, we'll start off super easy, you know, something simple, easy to remember. Take a drink whenever someone says, Toros ooh, oh, dear
Unknown Speaker 12:29
God, take a small drink or have that be the only thing you do.
Ben Silverio 12:34
It's mostly in the beginning and towards the end, sprinkled out to the middle. Like I was going to make this one time. It's not the whole time. It's just the beginning. No, but like, it's not like an in Bruges rule, you know, where it's like so much. Like die, right? Yeah. I thought I was going to make it one of the like, those rules where if you do that, this is gonna be your only role. But like, yeah, you have some respite in the middle.
Unknown Speaker 13:06
You're gonna have some, you're gonna have like, another role. one, maybe two?
Ben Silverio 13:10
Yeah, exactly.
Ansel Burch 13:11
How about you, Aaron? Okay,
Unknown Speaker 13:12
I say we're getting into some of the issues we're going to talk about in episode two that I have with this movie, but take a drink every time there's a gay joke. Oh, some of them are funny. Yeah, some of them are not funny. Some of them do not. But there are a couple that I was like, Okay, this is this holds up. And mostly they're at the expense of the football players. I felt like that narrative of the football players actually worked much better than I was expecting. But they've made a lot of gay jokes. So take a drink and dial the edge on that one.
Ben Silverio 13:44
Yeah, that actually kind of connects to my next role. Because like, I guess I was thinking on the more innocent side of that coin, because I was my role was drink when someone dunks on the football team. Yeah, that is a nicer version of that. Yeah. Because, you know, football players tend to be the focal point of movies like this. You know, they're seen as the top of the food chain on high school hierarchies. And seeing them get knocked down a few pegs, because they suck as a football team is very funny. Yeah, it's a very clever, very good,
Unknown Speaker 14:21
it's a very clever piece of of plot structure to that you don't have any reason to pay attention to the football team because they are literally the worst possible team. Like, it's really smart. So I think I like that. I think that's a good one. That's a good nod to the good writing. I said, to the bad writing, you should finish your drink while rolling your eyes at the two very lazy trans jokes. It only happens twice the right at the beginning and they're both super fucking lazy. And I rolled my eyes very hard at both of them. And honestly, I thought there were gonna be more I remember there being more and I guess I was just thinking of all the gay jokes because I was expecting there to be a lot more terrible trans jokes that didn't hold up weren't funny at the time and didn't hold up but there were two. And they were both the lazy but not malicious in a way that I was like actually kind of surprised by so I'd say Finish your drink for both of those and, you know, double pane on that a little
Ben Silverio 15:16
good. Yeah, agree. Another thing that doesn't hold up in the movie for me was Jan, because I remember laughing at Jan a lot more when I was younger. Because he was, you know, the straight male cheerleader, but like, he's kind of a creeper. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of. I mean, yeah, he's,
Erin Cline 15:38
he's super. There's like,
Ansel Burch 15:41
it only kind of works because the person he's paired with seems to be into it. Yeah, I agree. The only reason that I didn't like, yes, it's absolutely skeeved out and nope, the movie,
Erin Cline 15:51
right? It's like, okay, this is like a weird sexual assault. But also, yes, she is into it and is like expressing consent. It's very bizarre. It does not hold up. It's not doing what they wanted it to do. Not now and 2023 like it does not hold up at all in the same way. It is very weird. I agree.
Ben Silverio 16:12
Yeah, so take a drink whenever jam is inappropriate, because it happens a bunch.
Erin Cline 16:21
I said you should take a drink every time someone hits the younger brother. First time because it's the mom that does it. And then it happens enough times that I'm like, this kid deserves that sucks.
Ben Silverio 16:32
So I couldn't decide which way I wanted to take this rule. Cuz I wrote it down one way and then I wrote it down again another way. So the first way was drink for for sassy clap backs. You know, like, put the ass massive and lewd and deluded and stuff like that. But the flip side to that is take a drink when someone is super judgy. Yeah,
Erin Cline 17:00
that's I almost made a rule about that, too. And I was like, I don't know if I want to get it.
Ben Silverio 17:04
Yeah, that's exactly why I wrote it both ways. And I was like, huh, yeah, this be a fun role.
Erin Cline 17:13
Right? Yeah, we will talk more about this in the second episode, but those characters are super weird, because they're, they say horrible things. Right. But it's also very clear that they're, they're supposed to be awful. And so it's weird. I feel like you can kind of take it either way, where it's like, oh, we're laughing at them specifically in the like, clap backs that they're making. But also, like, yeah, they make a lot of the jokes that do not hold up. Anyway, we'll talk about that in the second episode. So yeah, I feel like you could take that either way. Take a drink anytime, whatever you want. classify that? Yeah, yeah. I have in throwbacks to my old rules I have two smoking rules actually. Next should take a hit every time someone says spirit because that's another one that I don't think that you should drink when you do that because they say a lot. A lot so don't die every time so it says spirit. And also in that same vein, take a hit every time you take a hit every time you are impressed by one of the stunts because there are a lot of very very cool gymnastic stunts in this and so I don't think you should be drinking every time one of those happens but I think that that's a good like light smoking role so I've provided my smoking rolls now
Ben Silverio 18:29
nice good yeah we we definitely had a lot of drinking girls always because you know swinging rules are very different beast you know? Yeah, you
Erin Cline 18:39
it's like it needs to happen at a different cadence and also it needs to be something that's not i Rowley in the same way because like you know, when a harsher Busby
Ben Silverio 18:52
Yeah, the smoking rule that I considered but like did not include was take a hit every time a white girl uses slang they probably shouldn't be. They'll probably harsher buzz so don't do that.
Erin Cline 19:07
That would harsher buzz. I would not recommend doing that one. Yeah, that's there's a lot of there's a lot of that. There's a lot of that. Yeah. Do you have any other drinking rules? I have more.
Ben Silverio 19:19
I have one more. I did take a shot rule. Speaking of spirit, okay, cuz we've got it yes, we do. Take a shot for spirit fingers.
Erin Cline 19:33
All right. Yeah.
Ben Silverio 19:34
What's nice just a general one. Not whenever they say it, because, you know, Sparky says
Erin Cline 19:42
Yeah, whenever you feel the most moved by the Spirit Fingers energy to take a spare finger shot. I support that. And that's a great idea. Actually. Speaking of that, I have a companion rule to that. You should take a drink everyone someone every time someone says the name Sparky. It doesn't happen as much Did you think that it does, but it is sort of concentrated in the middle, and then again towards like the middle end. So take a drink every time. And so it says Sparky. And then I have one more. Do you have any more? Or nope, was that? Okay?
Ansel Burch 20:12
I've actually got I've got two I can throw. My first drinking rule was to take a sip. Every time Torrance starts a scene in a costume other than her cheerleading uniform. Interesting.
Erin Cline 20:29
I made a note that there, she's in that uniform a lot.
Ansel Burch 20:33
Like so much
Erin Cline 20:35
what she's like, rolls up to their house to beg her to be on the team in her uniform, like, girl, you couldn't get changed. Like maybe things are
Ansel Burch 20:46
different. Remember the cheerleaders in high school wearing their uniforms that often? So?
Erin Cline 20:52
I don't know every game but not for like, practice that that was
Ansel Burch 20:56
not to get to and from the, like,
Erin Cline 20:59
competition? Yes. Because you have to like do your hair in a very specific way. And you all like take a bus together. But that's different. That's not like, maybe things are different in California. I don't know.
Ansel Burch 21:11
Maybe? Well, and I remember like for homecoming, everybody wore their uniforms to school. So like, the the team, the football team wear their uniforms, the cheerleaders wear the uniforms. The band for whatever reason, we did not participate in this particular ritual. All day. Yeah, it would be terrible. It would be terrible.
Erin Cline 21:36
Rolling up to Cam and like outdoor gear
Ansel Burch 21:40
polyester suit. Yeah.
Ben Silverio 21:44
It'd be funny.
Ansel Burch 21:45
We had the helmets with the big plume.
Ben Silverio 21:47
It'd be funny if other clubs like participated in that, you know, like the stage crews were the theater blacks. And
Erin Cline 21:53
we had to we did that
Ansel Burch 21:54
hell yeah.
Erin Cline 21:55
When we were not for well, we kind of started to do it for the musicals, because for my school for the musicals, we would tour to the elementary schools. And so we would have to be in costume all day. And so we would go back and do like, an hour or two in between each stop. And so we would have to do classes dressed up in this fucking costumes. Wow. Yeah, which was not great all the time. And then when I was, I want to say a junior and a senior. When we did the straight plays, we had a day where everyone came to school dressed in their costumes, and we spent the whole day in character, which was rough. Like, we had to wear like 1940s wigs for one of them and get them like pinned down at like seven in the morning. It was a fucking nightmare. I'm glad that I did it. Because I wasn't at a sports team. But also like what a nightmare. No, that's my that was my immediate thought when Ansel when you said about the marching uniforms like that's what it was like was sitting in these high as costumes in like, math class so stupid.
Ansel Burch 22:56
That also just feels like asking for somebody just spilled chocolate milk.
Erin Cline 23:02
As someone who later worked in a costume department and then did theater for a long time afterwards, like I cannot believe they trust these costumes all nuts. Bring it back tomorrow for the performance. Sure, no problem.
Ansel Burch 23:20
Yeah, don't drink anything while you're in this costume unless it's water but wear it all day including at lunch.
Ben Silverio 23:28
Stupid things that you select kids do.
Erin Cline 23:34
For real. Okay,
Ansel Burch 23:36
so what what's your last rule? All
Erin Cline 23:37
right. Take a drink every time the romantic subplot makes you cringe.
Ansel Burch 23:45
But that works perfectly with my last take a big drink every time you want to. You hope that a scene ends with Aaron getting hit with a brick.
Erin Cline 23:56
Yeah, so every scene he's like God. Big Red turtleneck.
Ben Silverio 24:06
Oh my god.
Ansel Burch 24:09
That fucking guy.
Ben Silverio 24:11
Fucking I definitely have more to say about Aaron later.
Erin Cline 24:15
But do I? Yes, I agree. All right. I think that's the last of the drinking rules then I'm glad that they entered on Aaron that douchebag
Ansel Burch 24:25
well, then that seems like a great opportunity for us to transition into that second episode. So let's put this one to bed.
Ben Silverio 24:34
You can find this on the internet. I am @BSilverio20 on Instagram, Twitter and hive.
Erin Cline 24:39
I'm @NYDergenc on Instagram.
Ansel Burch 24:44
I am @indecisionist on Twitter and @theindecisionist on Instagram Special thanks to April Meralco for our podcast art and to Marlon longet of Marlon and the sheiks for our amazing theme song This has been an Indecisionist production transcripts and show notes are available at Indecisionist.com/time2party
Ben Silverio 25:02
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Ansel Burch 25:08
we are also accepting time the number two party all spelled out
Ben Silverio 25:13
thanks for work of course it was hilarious check out Erin's all their podcasts.
Erin Cline 25:24
Oh yeah, that's right. I guess I can put my other stuff. You should yeah, you should listen to extracts which is a podcast that I co host with Stella cheeks where she teaches me about Star Trek The Original Series, and I teach her about the X Files we are into our third season. So we are about a season and a half away from finishing all of Star Trek The Original Series, we have a lot of episodes you can go back and listen to. We pair up each episode The cinematic theme that matches each other from the X Files and Star Trek The Original Series, so we're not watching them in order. So if you've got a favorite, go check out and see if we have an episode for that. We've got some stuff going on in the works, but you can check out more about what we're doing at NYPD productions. You can find us on Twitter and Instagram. I think I'm supposed to have your codes for those do I? I don't know why you should check those
Ansel Burch 26:16
out @NYDproductions on both
Erin Cline 26:19
Yes, I believe that you're correct. I know these things for sure. Anyway, thank you very much for having me. This was super fun. I am looking forward to doing the next
Ansel Burch 26:30
steps that extracts is legitimately one of my favorite podcasts to listen to so
Erin Cline 26:35
I love it it's fun to do and I'm glad that people like it it's it's such a weird little niche thing but I really enjoyed doing it
Ben Silverio 26:42
well partly people you can go check out extracts right now but make sure to come back for next episode. When Aaron Antoine I started digging in to the time travel classic known as bring it on let's see if I tell them the excellent to each other
Erin Cline 26:59
and party on dudes!
Ben Silverio 27:10
Don't know why not
Ansel Burch 27:11
bring it back to Airemin.
Ben Silverio 27:14
Bringing it all back
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