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Welcome back to double play i am here with Nick today we are talking about the ringer and miracle to Olympic films to the big films you selected these two yeah i thought uh they have a lot in common.

They do they they do and they don't yes.

Um ones a true story ones not.

Mm hmm both well we don't know if the ringer's true or not there i'm sure there there could have been somebody there someone's tried to try to infiltrate.

What do you want to talk about first.

This is your show that you run the showman alright usually we do the first movie first you'll just move first so we talk about the ringer for okay 2005.

Yes doesn't five um gin ox movie if you haven't seen it it's pretty simple premise gin oxville is a guy who's down in his lock financially.

His uncle's a horrible person who um tells him to basically fix you know go compete in the special Olympics he's not mentally challenged he's not physically.

Uh disabled in any way but what he does to disguise himself as mentally challenged as he wears his shorts high right and like it's a dead giveaway and speaks in the third person yeah he calls himself Stevie.

Jeffie Jeffie his real name Steve yes one stick last night.

Jeffie you actually did this Jeffie I actually did that and that for some reason tricks these people this movie is interesting in that um so you know right about you can a gin oxville.

You know special Olympics you probably get all they're making fun of people with disabilities that's really not the cases movie at all so I thought I haven't seen it since I actually saw in theaters me and my dad went to go see it because we thought it looked funny we accidentally walked into memoirs of a geisha.

So we had to flip we had a pivot I think yeah and um.

I don't I didn't remember anything okay and I thought it would be problematic I was talking to some guys I was just like yeah that's one of those like you know Steve

Corrella rain will so be like yeah the office couldn't be made today that's never true I thought this was the one thing like couldn't be made today.

The only butt of jokes was towards Johnny Knoxville really yeah it was surprisingly wholesome as towards the uh the guys that weren't acting.

Right no I thought it actually you know I was shocked to see this afterwards but the special Olympics um basically kind of gave this to see

approval yeah it took years so this was a fairly brother's idea fairly brothers course most famous for uh there's something about Mary and Kingpin and uh dumb and

Dumber and they want they had the idea to make this movie and for a long time special Olympics would not agree to it.

Finally they did it since along as we have uh basically the last look at the script.

Mm-hmm so we will have the last look we can make any change we want to uh send a script they were happy with it I give them a lot of credit because um

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