Northern Lights
Magical Rewind
My Cultura and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
It’s rumored to be the unofficial first DCOM ever… Will and Sabrina are watching “Northern Lights” starring Diane Keaton, Maury Chaykin and Joseph Cross.
This film premiered in 1997 on the Disney Channel.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:19.3 | So I'm not going to start this the way I wanted to start this, which was I was going to ask you if you've ever dropped acid, which I think is probably in keeping a little bit with the movie we have to talk about today. |
| 0:34.4 | So I won't ask you that question because I kind of know the answer to that already. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah, I think you can pretty much. I think I can. What would you do if I was like, yeah, |
| 0:44.8 | I have. I would be, I would be like, great. Then we have a frame of reference to start |
| 0:49.8 | with this film. I think that's all we need to say. I think we jump right into it. First of all, welcome 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 are smart, the waves tsunamis, and the high school's musical. I'm Wilfredel. And I'm Sabrina Bryant. It is a controversial week here on Magical Rewind as we deal with what may or may not be the |
| 1:17.1 | first decomm ever produced. |
| 1:19.8 | And I will explain what I'm talking about this. |
| 1:22.0 | So this is 1997's drama inspired by death and cigarettes. |
| 1:27.0 | Northern Lights with the legendary actress Diane Keaton. |
| 1:30.7 | Now, you might be wondering, how has a harmless Disney Channel movie from the 90s |
| 1:35.1 | caused so much controversy? |
| 1:36.6 | Well, you have 2016 celebration of hitting 100 decoms to thank for this controversy. |
| 1:43.4 | Yes, you see, back when Disney decided to create an event |
| 1:46.1 | out of the production milestone and air every entry into the series back to back, followed by |
| 1:51.1 | the debut of The Swap, which we saw, it didn't take along for historians to see a very glaring |
| 1:57.3 | problem. The marathon began with what was being heralded as the first decal ever, |
| 2:02.1 | but the truth is, it wasn't the first. They aired under wraps, but it's this movie, Northern Lights, |
| 2:09.3 | that first checked all the boxes and was originally considered the debut of the decom. |
| 2:14.1 | Now, why would they do that? No one really knows. But to make sure the total was still |
| 2:18.7 | 100 to adjust for Northern Lights erasure, they inexplicably added the high school musical |
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