Bring It On: Part 3

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

We’re going to get a little self indulgent this week because it’s our show and we make the rules. Since Erin is back with us this month, we’re going to take the opportunity to retrospect on the show progress since the first season and how things stand as we look forward to some pretty exciting changes for the fall.

Find us online!

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 week for a selection of our finest bloopers from this recording session. So, make sure you’re subscribed because all month long, it’s #Time2Party

Episode Transcript

Ben Silverio 0:04

Hey, I'm Ben Saverio.

Erin Cline 0:06

I'm Aaron Klein.

Ansel Burch 0:07

And I'm Ansel Burch.

Ben Silverio 0:08

And it's

Ansel Burch 0:09

time to say this month's episodes on bring it on we recorded on March 26 2023. We don't give medical advice. Drink responsibly.

Ben Silverio 0:23

I'm not very good at the air Theramin anymore. About a product process.

Ansel Burch 0:27

Yeah, it's it's not an intuitive instrument.

Ben Silverio 0:33

True. It's true that if you don't use it, you're losing.

Erin Cline 0:39

Muscle that must be constantly worked out.

Ben Silverio 0:44

PARTY PEOPLE. Welcome to the third episode in our Bring It On series. If you're just joining us, spoiler alert. April Fool's.

Erin Cline 1:01

What a strange episode you have picked up let's do first, but also congratulations.

Ben Silverio 1:05

Yeah. Yeah, typically, we would be presenting you with our edutainment selections for the month. But a surprisingly, there's not a ton of technology in Bring it on. So he just decided to forego it. Forget it. Because this time around.

Ansel Burch 1:33

Pom Pom was invented in the 30s. That's all I got for you.

Ben Silverio 1:39

I was joking with Aaron and I was like, Oh God, what would I do for entertainment? The loser sneeze?

That I mean, isn't that from the 1900s? It kind of is because it is this is from the year 2000. That that section of the movie, would you feel super old?

Erin Cline 2:07

You Yeah. There are definitely some parts that I was like I'm ancient. I'm an ancient person.

Ben Silverio 2:15

Instead of edutainment December out, since we have all three of us the the OG three, if you will. Yeah. I wanted to take a look back on this time to party journey that we've been on. It's been three years since we came up with this whole mess. And we've been having a great time ever since. Yeah. A few things have changed. Clearly. Yes, some

Erin Cline 2:42

things are different. Yeah.

Ben Silverio 2:45

I mean, let's start there. Aaron, you've gone through a lot of changes since we started this podcast. That's true. That's absolutely right. I mean, I guess the one of the big ones before your biggest one. We sort of we're we're still alive after a global pandemic has started.

Erin Cline 3:03

Dude, for real. Remember when we first started recording this, and we're like making jokes about by the time you hear this The pandemics probably over.

Ben Silverio 3:14

Summer children

Erin Cline 3:16

oh my god, we had no idea. We had no idea what was ahead of us. When we originally came up with the idea for this podcast and the very first, like two tests or episodes that we did, we tried to do it in person. And that was like the original plan was to watch the movies together and to do as much of it as we could in person. And then the pandemic happened it was like Well, this is an internet podcast.

Ben Silverio 3:39

And then we tried to record outside

Erin Cline 3:41

Oh my god. Yeah. Nightmare. absolute nightmare.

Ansel Burch 3:46

The worst the the unholy things I had to do to that audio.

Erin Cline 3:50

Oh my God, just insane.

Ben Silverio 3:54

Thanks for watching Jefferson Park.

Erin Cline 3:56

Right you just like don't realize how many airplanes go over your house when when they become white noise. Just white noise you don't think about it. And then when you try to record outside you can like see the underbelly of the plane passing over you. It's like oh, yeah, this is really loud.

Ansel Burch 4:12

You it was like, when when you're a kid and you're playing like games in the street, and you have to wait car to get out of the street was like that, but for airplanes. Yeah, man.

Ben Silverio 4:29

But I mean, what wasn't a nightmare with some of the other cool stuff that happened to Aaron. That's true. started this.

Erin Cline 4:35

That's true. The reason that I left the show was because I was pregnant at the time and I have since I had that kid and my kid is now a little over a year old. It's pretty awesome. He does not like time travel movies. Yeah, we're not there yet. But he's like a weird old man baby because he loves Gene Kelly. First and foremost and Frank Sinatra and also Paul Simon and James Taylor and is just the oldest little man baby of all time, which is very exciting. He doesn't like cartoons not interested in them at all wants to watch Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire dance Babbitt and the bromide eight times a day. And that's actually not true. His favorite video is Frank Sinatra reunited with Jean Kelly 1973, which is a clip from a show that Frank Sinatra did where they reunite and sing. We're too old to do that anymore, basically, and it's incredible. I highly recommend watching it. But my son, straight up if he's having a meltdown, that's what we put on. Is this weird Frank Sinatra Gene Kelly reunion. That's where my life is. Classy, baby. He's a very classy baby.

Ben Silverio 5:48

Jealous of the day that you guys were just having a Dick Van Dyke day.

Erin Cline 5:51

Oh my god. Yeah, it's in like, that's the funny thing is like he likes he liked Mary Poppins, but totally lost interested all the animated stuff. Like does not give us single shout about it. He loved Fantasia. We watched it a lot over the summer, but he liked the real people orchestra and love Diems Taylor, not interested in the animation at all? Because he's a weird old man, baby. Yeah, so that's my life. That's what I've been teaching this old man to walk but he

Ansel Burch 6:24

didn't give you a like a Benjamin Button at the hospital,

Erin Cline 6:27

bro. I guess I don't know. It's like, yeah, he's he's pretty funny. He's got a lot of personality. Not surprising, I guess knowing who both of his parents are.

Ben Silverio 6:41

I'm glad that he does kinda like the the plushy time machine that I got him from future.

Erin Cline 6:48

We put all of his like, automobile type toys by his bed. And he like reached in and yanked that out and was like, well, I'll be playing with this now. Okay. Sure, whatever. So we'll get there. We'll get there eventually.

Ben Silverio 7:05

Love it. Ansel, did you think that time to party would end up where it is? Now? Back when we had our first meetings with you about

Ansel Burch 7:19

I want to be generous and say, Yeah, I think I did. I don't know. I guess the beauty. And the compromise of that question is that I mean, time to party has has remained really steady over the past few years, with the exception of changing up the posting, you know, we haven't done a whole lot to shift the format. We haven't done a whole lot to change the like, genre of the thing. You know, we're we're still holding the course in a lot of ways, which has been nice. It's nice that we kind of nailed it at the outset. You know, when we had that first meeting, and we talked about what we wanted the show to be and what we wanted each segment to look like that hasn't needed to be revised heavily. You know, the biggest change we made for season three was reading different recaps instead of all IMDb all the time.

Ben Silverio 8:11

That's true. That is that is the biggest pretty minor shift.

Erin Cline 8:16

That is nice. It's it feels like we really nailed the format right away. Like we really hammered that out in the beginning. And it's it's an easy format that you guys have been able to stick with. In the two years since I've left the show. Like, I love that, that it's been able to endure like that. I'm glad that the three of us came up with this idea. And it's it's still running strong. I like that a lot. Yeah,

Ansel Burch 8:40

it's especially interesting now that we are, you know, sort of cycling through guests hosts to see how the different guests interpret the prompt that they're given, you know, like, what, what do they do when they're asked to look up something for edutainment. And so we've gotten some really wildly different you know, levels of of levels of research, we've gotten wildly different levels of weirdness, you know, and all of that has been really, really fabulous. And I hope that the I hope the folks at home are enjoying that as well, the sort of journey through different interpretations of what what edutainment means and what makes it good drinking rule. And, you know, I I will say I think Aaron, you you may have been the best drinking rule creator that we're ever gonna get.

Ben Silverio 9:36

Hard to top the

Ansel Burch 9:36

wheels on the ground wheels on the ground selling Yeah, that old chestnut. But yeah, it's been really gratifying to go on that journey.

Ben Silverio 9:48

Aaron, do you have a favorite entertainment? That has happened?

Erin Cline 9:54

Oh, man, I don't know. I mean, I have a soft spot in my heart for all the entertainment ones. because that was the one that I've really insisted on. Like, we've really got to do the edutainment, I think it's a really good idea. You know, actually, the one that really stands out to me was one that I did. I fucking loved doing research into water beds, which we

Ansel Burch 10:16

did. That was a good one. Because

Erin Cline 10:19

I think about it all the time. Like I, when we were in Palm Springs, I saw a place that sold water breads. And that was like, all I could think about was like, man, they started manufacturing those in 1980. And it really took a plateau and then a steep dive after that. It was like, Why do I know?

Ben Silverio 10:36

I was watching licorice pizza. And there's a big section of it about waterbeds. And I couldn't help but think of all of your facts.

Erin Cline 10:46

It was just like surprisingly interesting information. Also, that that was part of what appealed to me about the idea of an entertainment section is that you can take almost anything and make it interesting and like everything has a little bit of interesting background. And if you're not trying to, like teach a graduate level course on like, Walkman players or whatever, like there's a lot of interesting information that can fit into like a 20 minute episode, so but that's the one that I think of the most. A lot surprisingly, encountering zero waterbeds in my normal day to day life. I think of

Ansel Burch 11:23

it similar to Wikipedia diving. Do you guys remember when there was like a maybe it's still there. And I just haven't seen it in a while. But the like, show me a random article. pedia? Yeah. It feels very much like that. We're like, okay, yeah, I mean, I didn't know what I was getting into. But it's interesting that pom poms were invented in the 1930s. Or yeah, Lucky's lucky rabbit's feet were, you know, whenever those were brought in?

Erin Cline 11:52

Yeah, it's, there's, there's just so much information about like weird shit you wouldn't think to look up. So I feel like comparing it to a wiki dive is is a really good comparison. Because that is it's like, let me just read this whole page about how this thing got made.

Ben Silverio 12:11

And there's something really useful about that. Like, when you were a kid, you would find out a new fun fact, and share it with everyone you possibly could. And like, this is like our version of that now.

Erin Cline 12:24

Hey, you want to hear a cool way to put it? Yeah, like I've got some great facts you want to hear?

Ben Silverio 12:31

Like, I remember when my my nieces and nephews were like, super young, and they'd be like, Oh my god, Uncle Ben, did you watch this thing? And this guy did this thing. And then oh my god. And that's like, that's like what we do now? For fun with each other. Yeah.

Ansel Burch 12:49

It does make me wonder if any of our listeners ever are watching one of these movies with their friends after the fact. And and are brought to mind any of the edutainment cop topics that we've brought up in the past. You know how like when when you're watching Lord of the Rings, you have to go oh, you know, he broke his toe when he kicked that helmet. I wonder if that there's like a level of trivia that's now tied to this movie. For any of our listeners.

Erin Cline 13:19

Oh, interesting. I hope so. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, exam. I feel like I even not doing the podcast regularly anymore. I feel like I still look for that stuff. When I'm watching things like I mentioned in the last episode, the second one about watching last and seeing all the flip phones and like the weird technology. Like I still totally think of that, like, Huh, I wonder was to do an entertainment dive on this what I would find out about this weird piece of technology. So it's, I like it still. I think it's still a really good part of this podcast. I'm really glad you guys continued to do it.

Ansel Burch 13:51

Do you find yourself indulging that urge?

Erin Cline 13:55

Sometimes Sometimes I do. There are definitely times where I'm like, I cannot I will do this for eight hours. I but there are definitely times where I'll look. I'll see something and be like, Huh, I wonder how the blue mats at cheerleading competition started to be invented like it I feel like it makes me ask questions about pieces of, of technology that I didn't before we did time to party.

Ben Silverio 14:21

God like yeah, I I keep all my notes in this notebook. You know, so it's like, just going back on some of the stuff that we talked about, like

Ansel Burch 14:36

are your notebook notes, notebook notes in that notebook.

Ben Silverio 14:40

My notebook notes?

Ansel Burch 14:43

Yeah. When you did composition books.

Ben Silverio 14:45

Oh my god. Yes. You're right.

Erin Cline 14:48

Notebooks. I literally was like the notebook. That's not a time travel. I was really confused for

Ansel Burch 14:59

you If I did write in my notes for this one flashbacks that's like time travel right? Yeah.

Erin Cline 15:06

This time traveling we as the audience time

Ben Silverio 15:08

travel. Yeah. You know that the Toros and the clovers traveled through time, like the rest of us will say one second per second. Oh, one more bring it on question real quick. Why would clovers or Toros be in the atmosphere? Who's watching?

Ansel Burch 15:27

I had that same question.

Erin Cline 15:29

Golfers cold. Why are the toilets cold? I also don't understand that at all.

Ben Silverio 15:35

You're all in California.

Erin Cline 15:37

Right? Do they not understand?

Education? Yeah,

Ben Silverio 15:47

right. Um, for either view, were there any movies that you particularly enjoyed revisiting with this new lens of the podcast?

Erin Cline 16:02

I'm glad that we watched Terminator, that one. I feel like I really enjoyed doing as part of this because that's not a movie. I'm like, super into and it was nice to have to sit down and look carefully watch it. I really enjoyed that. Not a rewatch, but still probably one of my favorite movies that that we watched on this. And maybe in my like, top 20 movies of all time is Palm Springs. Oh, yeah. I was gonna say, Oh, yeah. ruled. It's so good. So good.

Ben Silverio 16:29

Oh, my God. Palm Springs is so good. And I don't even like Jesse Eisenberg.

Erin Cline 16:35

Either, either. It's just like, it just worked. It was just such a good movie.

Ansel Burch 16:44

I'm sorry. The right name of the person.

Ben Silverio 16:47

I don't even like Andy Sandberg.

Erin Cline 16:50

Oh my god. I didn't. I was just like, yeah, totally Jesse Eisenberg. That's that man's name?

Ansel Burch 17:02

And what a great one to be our second one ever. Yeah, totally managed to go from the Terminator to Palm Springs like so. Yeah. So great.

Erin Cline 17:11

It was such a good like, this podcast could be whatever, because time travel movies can be whatever. Like it was a really good back to back and demonstration of time travel movies span so many more genres than just time travel science fiction movie.

Ben Silverio 17:28

Oh, yeah. I do love how time travel has kind of seeped into all of these other genres over time, you know, like rom coms and teen movies and everything, you know. But one of the highlights for me was spotlighting Back to the Future three. Because it's like it doesn't get enough love. You know?

Ansel Burch 17:52

Yeah, that one. Yeah, that one was very special. Yeah.

Erin Cline 17:55

Yeah, I would agree. It's, and I'm glad that I rewatched it for this because it's something that like, I always think of three is my least favorite of those. But it's because I don't like westerns. I'm not I'm typically not into westerns, though. Maybe as an adult. Now, I would be but as growing up with the Back to the Future movies, I was like, the Western and then revisiting it for this. It was like, this is a great movie. This is a very well, like I love this trilogy, but like it stands on its own. And I can see why older people enjoyed it more when I was younger in a way that I just didn't understand. Yeah.

Ansel Burch 18:34

Good way to put it. Yeah,

Ben Silverio 18:35

definitely. We're coming up on the on the time here. You know, first, I did want to say that I first brought this up to you too, because I wanted to spend more time with you both. Because we weren't. I mean, we're all friends. But we weren't really, like actively hanging out at the time. Yeah. And it was just like, What can I do to spend more time with these people that I enjoy? And I'm glad that something so fun. hat was born out of it? Yeah, I

Ansel Burch 19:07

agree. Well, and I appreciate that. Now it's become more of a broad, like, I'm sad that we don't get to spend time with Aaron as often as we did. And and, you know, when when the time comes for us to be more social together, I am very excited for it. But the fact that now we're like every other month or so we've got to we've got a chance to talk to Hellena again or get Stella back in here and and that's been rewarding in a similar way to still have that outlet for our larger friend circle.

Ben Silverio 19:44

And even new friends you know, like I didn't know your friend Ben. Before this. Oh, yeah. So it's, it's letting us expand our friend group also.

Ansel Burch 19:56

Yeah, well, and now that you're going across cross the country, we'll be able to do even more expansion. It's true, we're gonna have to do all of them digitally. So we can you know, get more folks from from Philly and New York and LA Yeah,

Ben Silverio 20:11

that is the future, right? Because now with my lease ending here in Chicago at the end of May I'm, I'm out of here, Pisa now.

Erin Cline 20:23

I will miss you, but I'm very excited for you.

Ben Silverio 20:26

I am so sad but also very excited because like, when I moved to Chicago, I thought it was going to be just like a stepping stone in my career to like, fill up my resume before going to California again. And now I've been here for since 2017. Unintentionally and like sure, I've had some terrible terrible experiences with like, you know, some personal stuff, the the pandemic, the polar vortex, but like, I've met some really awesome people here like you guys, so gonna miss people, especially friendship,

Erin Cline 21:05

friendship.

Ansel Burch 21:08

Word has it. It's magic. Yeah.

Erin Cline 21:10

The real time travel was the friends we made along the way. It's true.

Ben Silverio 21:13

Exactly what it is. So I mean, last question, since we end most of our podcasts with it. Ansel Aaron, has time to party been worth your time?

Erin Cline 21:30

Yeah, definitely. It's like hazel said, I'm sad. I don't get to spend as much time with you guys anymore. But like I do look back on that season. That first one finally. I'm glad that we did it. And I'm glad that we like put a lot of time and effort into to figuring out how to make this format work. And like, I'm very gratified that you guys have done this for two more seasons after I left. Like I love that. I think it's fantastic.

Ansel Burch 21:58

Well, and I hope we are able to get you back on more often in the future.

Ben Silverio 22:02

Yes. Or the past

Erin Cline 22:05

or the past. clever, clever, clever. Bringing it back around.

Ben Silverio 22:15

We're so good at that.

Erin Cline 22:18

We're so good at podcasting.

Ben Silverio 22:21

Podcasting. All right.

Ansel Burch 22:26

For me, it has absolutely been worth the time. It's been a delightful experience to do conversation based podcast as a producer, for those of you who aren't familiar with the rest of my oeuvre. I've done a lot of narrative based podcasts in the past but this was my first like real extended conversational podcast. So it's been it's been really nice to get experience in that style as well as just getting to spend time with the two of you. It's been it's been wonderful traveling through time with you might have one second per second. Yes.

Ben Silverio 23:01

That was really sweet. Oh, God, guys, I'm gonna be here for like another couple months, so we can't get all of this out to too early. Oh,

Ansel Burch 23:12

right. We got to eat lumpia tickets. True, dude,

Erin Cline 23:14

I'm fucking excited about that.

Ben Silverio 23:16

You're goddamn right. But for all your party people who don't get to have lumpia with us, we're sorry. Maybe one day but you can find us on the internet. I'm at diesel Vario 20 on Instagram, Twitter and hive.

Erin Cline 23:34

And I'm at NYPD urgency on Instagram. I

Ansel Burch 23:38

am at indecision EST on Twitter and at the indecision hast on Instagram Special thanks to April Meralco for our podcast art and to Marlon longet of Marlon and the shakes for our amazing theme song This has been an Indecision is production transcripts and show notes are available at indecision as.com/time to party you can

Ben Silverio 23:55

join in the conversation by using the hashtag time to party that's time the number to party or time

Ansel Burch 24:02

the number to party. Thanks to work.

Unknown Speaker 24:05

all spelled out.

Ansel Burch 24:06

Let's build out one very long word. Very long hash

Ben Silverio 24:11

hashtag and, you know, we're gonna keep going kids maybe till the wheels fall off, but who knows?

Ansel Burch 24:25

Hey, there's there's a lot more time travel movies and even more movies we can do April Fool's episode.

Erin Cline 24:30

Totally. The next one the notebook. Oh, God,

Ben Silverio 24:34

here we go. Oh, my God. depressing, so depressing. But better than Time Traveler's Wife maybe.

Erin Cline 24:43

Oh, that's you know what? I look back pretty fondly on that entertainment section too, because I was just baffled to learn that it was like our highest rated episode for a lot. Oh, crazy. It's still don't understand. Whatever. Yeah, I'm happy about it. I'm traveling feetoes Who doesn't want to learn about Pool

Ben Silverio 25:07

Party people you're crazy bunch and we love it. So please until next time be excellent to each other party on dudes do boo. Yeah, yeah,

Ansel Burch 25:27

well, without crying It was lovely potting with you both

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