Ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes details of your favorite Thanksgiving classic, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?" Well, you're in for a treat! This episode is all about that very movie. We'll be chatting about the film's budget, cast, and filming locations. Hear about the easily excitable Neil Page, portrayed by Steve Martin, and his unlikely travel companion, the talkative and annoying Dale Griffith, played by John Candy. It's a joyful journey down memory lane, and we guarantee you'll see this hilarious holiday classic in a whole new light.
But we're not stopping there. Buckle up as we delve into something you might not know about this celebrated film - the luxury watch worn by Steve Martin's character. With its current value hovering around $8,000 for a used one, we speculate how much it might have been worth back in 1987! Did you know that the automatic movement of watches back then made them not just a luxury item, but also a valuable investment? Get ready to learn fascinating facts and trivia about "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" that will make your next viewing even more enjoyable.
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Ever wondered about the behind-the-scenes details of your favorite Thanksgiving classic, "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles?" Well, you're in for a treat! This episode is all about that very movie. We'll be chatting about the film's budget, cast, and filming locations. Hear about the easily excitable Neil Page, portrayed by Steve Martin, and his unlikely travel companion, the talkative and annoying Dale Griffith, played by John Candy. It's a joyful journey down memory lane, and we guarantee you'll see this hilarious holiday classic in a whole new light.
But we're not stopping there. Buckle up as we delve into something you might not know about this celebrated film - the luxury watch worn by Steve Martin's character. With its current value hovering around $8,000 for a used one, we speculate how much it might have been worth back in 1987! Did you know that the automatic movement of watches back then made them not just a luxury item, but also a valuable investment? Get ready to learn fascinating facts and trivia about "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" that will make your next viewing even more enjoyable.
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https://freesound.org/people/Sami_Hiltunen/sounds/527187/ Eerie intro music
https://freesound.org/people/jack126guy/sounds/361346/ Slot machine
https://freesound.org/people/Zott820/sounds/209578/ Cash register
https://freesound.org/people/Exchanger/sounds/415504/ Fun Facts Jingle
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Thanks for tuning in to the vintage cinema review on today's episode. We're covering a special edition from 1987, plane strains and automobiles.
Speaker 2:Happy Thanksgiving everybody. This is a story of ups and downs, peaks and valleys, family and friendship.
Speaker 3:Yeah, shout out to Zap for mentioning this one. I didn't even think I'd like to win this for a vintage cinema review, but great movie, good time.
Speaker 1:You definitely enjoyed this. Speaking of which, if you're enjoying the podcast, hit that five star rating on Spotify. On Apple, you can leave a five star rating and a written review and sit back, relax and enjoy plane strains and automobiles. Hey, this is Dave. Matt and Zap, and welcome to the vintage cinema review where, every week, we review some of our favorite films from the past.
Speaker 3:Hey, there ain't no late fees here.
Speaker 2:Silence is golden and be kind Rewind.
Speaker 3:Good evening, gentlemen.
Speaker 2:What's going on? Hey everybody, happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we got something up Thanksgiving alleyway today.
Speaker 2:Sure, do what's in the oven today Special a dish just for our fans Get it dish, thanksgiving dish.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Planes, trains and automobiles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is Zap's pick.
Speaker 3:Automobile. That's the movie. We're not talking about how you travel during Thanksgiving, nope.
Speaker 4:It's an actual movie.
Speaker 2:Right Right. Although this movie did go on to be instilled to this day is a Thanksgiving tradition for many.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I thank you, zap, for pointing this one out. I haven't seen this movie since back then and I didn't remember any of it. I didn't even know it was a Thanksgiving movie. I don't know if I'm missing out on something, matt saying how it's on TV all the time.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like TVS carries it like it's a Christmas story or what's the other one, home alone. It's kind of like that They've run it.
Speaker 1:I guess I'm probably because I'm watching football all day on Thanksgiving day, I probably miss out on it, but I was like pleasantly surprised to watch it. I'm like what a great movie and I totally forgot about it. I should say I forgot about it. I'm aware of the movie, I just didn't know any storyline or anything.
Speaker 3:John Hughes. What can he do?
Speaker 1:Yeah, am I wife the same way? Huge John Candy fan. Never saw this. Yeah, well, let's get into it, shall we? Yeah, so planes, trains and automobiles 1987. This came out and this was an hour and 45 minutes rated R. Yeah, we'll find out why. Oh, yeah. Release date on this November 25th 1987, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. How about? Yeah, directed, written and produced by John Hughes.
Speaker 2:The man who made the 80s.
Speaker 1:Yeah, once again he pops up budget on this movie 15 million, box office 49.5 million.
Speaker 2:Nice yeah.
Speaker 1:And juice was worth the squeeze on that for sure, and it says that over the first through the first weekend it grossed over 7 million. That was a quick 7 million to make. Okay, you know, must have your money back. Filming began on this February of 87 and lasted 85 days in Batavia.
Speaker 1:Batavia in Batavia, new York, and South Dayton, new York. There was a scene that takes place in St Louis that was filmed at the Lambert International Airport and there was also a scene in Braydwood, illinois, at the Sun Motel. So yeah, there was a lot of footage that was cut out of this movie.
Speaker 3:It was actually a very so it was a four hour movie, something crazy like that. Three, almost three, yeah.
Speaker 1:They cut a lot out. So, that's pretty much it for the budget, filming locations and all that. So I'll turn it over to zap for the cast.
Speaker 3:That's what they used to say before they drank. In the movie they said Batavia.
Speaker 2:I'm curious now is it Batavia or Batavia? Either one? We're sorry, new York, we're not from Batavia.
Speaker 1:Batavia, not from either one. Yeah, I haven't seen any downloads there.
Speaker 3:So you got to be upstate New York. That doesn't sound like towards the city, jersey area.
Speaker 1:Sounds like a drug, like they have a commercial for.
Speaker 3:Batavia yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Side effects may include gaining weight, nausea, burning heart, diarrhea, weight gain.
Speaker 2:All right, the cast on this, john. We've got Steve Martin as Neil Page, john Candy as Del Griffith, lila Robbins as Susan Page, olivia Burnett as Marty Page, matthew Lawrence as Neil Page Jr, edie McClurg as a car rental agent, ben Stein as a Wichita Airport representative, dylan Baker as Owen Luley, newcomb as Owen's wife, charles Tyner as Gus Mooney, michael McKean as a state trooper, gary Riley as the thief who robs Neil and Del while they're sleeping and Kevin Bacon as the man racing Neil to a taxi.
Speaker 1:Kevin Bacon again.
Speaker 2:Now there's two in there that I included. That indie version available did not have speaking roles.
Speaker 1:Oh, Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 2:Again. They filmed three hours and change on this. What we saw were cuts of it Were ultimately cuts, but these guys were included in the top billing Right, so maybe at some point they did have speaking roles.
Speaker 1:Could have been. Yeah, that's a lot of extra film.
Speaker 3:Kevin Bacon may have been in this twice.
Speaker 2:May have, ooh Four shadow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the one kind of right. So I guess that's it for the cast that will turn over to Matt for the brief synapses.
Speaker 3:Yes, we have a brief synapses of planes, trains and automobiles, Easily excitable, Neil Page. Steve Martin is somewhat of a control freak. Trying to get home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his wife, Laila Robbins, and kids. His flight is rerouted to a distant city in Kansas because of a freak snowstorm and his sanity begins to fray Worse. Yet he is forced to bunk out with talkative Dale Griffith, John Candy, whom he finds extremely annoying. Together they must overcome the insanity of holiday travel to reach their intended destination through planes, trains or automobiles.
Speaker 4:Nice Nice Well done.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very good, thank you, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:That's it in an eggshell.
Speaker 3:That's the movie. Thanks guys, that was happy, thanks, happy. Thanksgiving. Love you all yeah.
Speaker 1:So I guess that now we'll walk through this movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's walk it through and let's do this together. Man, this is a family affair. We're going to go through this together. Voltron, that's right, coming together like Voltron.
Speaker 3:All right, it's in arms.
Speaker 2:So it is. It's New York City and we're just two days away from Thanksgiving. Neil Page, an advertising executive, needs to get home to Chicago.
Speaker 1:However, would you get there?
Speaker 3:I don't know, but you could. There's no walking involved.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how long would a car ride be from there, from New York to Chicago?
Speaker 2:Yeah, straight through. Give me a second. I know from here to Chicago it's like eight hours.
Speaker 1:It's eight hours, yeah, so probably similar.
Speaker 3:Maybe a little longer, yeah, a little longer, yeah, 10 hours Could have done it.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but I know this guy got stuck in the beginning at the longest client meeting ever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was tripping out in the very beginning. I always like to catch little cool things and I was checking out his watch and I don't know how we're going to pronounce this. Much like Batavia or whatever New York, but Pi-J.
Speaker 3:Pi-J.
Speaker 1:Pi-J. Pi-j.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Polo, Is that about it playing like Forts? Huh.
Speaker 1:Pi-J.
Speaker 3:Pi-J.
Speaker 1:Polo watch. So that's like a luxury brand watch, sure, and if you look it up online now, that watch that Steve Martin's wearing in the meeting in the very beginning, it's around $8,000 online right now Like a used one. Their newer watches are upwards of $30,000 $30,000.
Speaker 3:This was 1980, what Seven, seven. So this dude's like mad business.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess he's like a show You're making some money in.
Speaker 3:That's probably like a $20,000 watch then Same brand new.
Speaker 4:Right back then. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Like.
Speaker 3:I wonder if it actually went up in value that automatic movement stuff back then was pretty hard to get it's expensive.
Speaker 2:I mean, I've got a guy that's in the biz. He buys and sells watches. I'd love to ask him next time about Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J, pi-j Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J Pi-J.
Speaker 3:Pi-J Pi-J. Pi-j Pi-J.
Speaker 2:Pi-J.
Speaker 3:Pi-J nice like fake Rolexes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've been New York, up in New York yeah.
Speaker 3:That's right. They're called clean If anybody's in the business you can find one clean. It's pretty spot on.
Speaker 1:Just the brand.
Speaker 3:No, it's it's. They make the Rolex, but it's a company in uh.
Speaker 1:Japan, so it has.
Speaker 3:Japan movement, but they put Swiss movement on it. You really can't tell the difference. The jewels in the back you can't tell unless you open them up. But like the whole thing, like face to face, they're spot on Interesting. You're talking like 10, $15,000 to like 1200.
Speaker 2:So meanwhile, back in our movie with his watch on, I mean, dude's got to get to the airport, right, right Flight leaves at six, so this poor guy's got to find himself a cab in rush hour traffic. Oh, what do we see Him racing of all people? Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there he is again.
Speaker 2:Doesn't say a word, but these two dudes are running and running, and running.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're eyeing each other up. They're like I'm getting there before you buddy.
Speaker 2:Yep, they don't get there. Unfortunately for Neil, he trips over this dude's trunk just covered in stickers. Who could it be, I wonder?
Speaker 1:Reminded me of OJ running through the airport.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got you know when they're racing and stuff, or running through the or running from the cops Running through.
Speaker 1:Brentwood Running through.
Speaker 2:Brentwood.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with gloves on. It wasn't him.
Speaker 2:No, no, thought I caught you in Brentwood, wasn't me, wasn't me oh God, so okay, so he didn't get that cab, kevin got that cab, so he sees another one. In fact, this guy, this wealthy apparently some wealthy businessman or somebody- your typical 80s business villain that guy, that's right. He ends up having to bribe him 75 bucks for the cab. It starts at what? 25? Something like that, yeah, and it just keeps upping and upping.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:The guy said, all right, fine, 75 or some shit.
Speaker 3:What are those coats called Trench?
Speaker 2:coat. Yeah, but like the isn't there a name for like the wool Burberry or what Is that? Like a Burberry, so that's a brand.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, but like that that's just the regular, like gray trench or okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, those are sharp. Yeah, I want one of them in the worst way.
Speaker 3:Shit yeah.
Speaker 2:It was a very businessy.
Speaker 2:Amazingly enough, poor Neil doesn't get this cab either. While he's arguing and fighting with the guy to pay him 75 bucks, somebody swipes his cab and what's in the back of that cab? The same trunk that he had tripped over. Yeah, that dumb trunk. Hmm, oh well, neil makes his way to the airport, right, and who is he sitting across from the guy that owns that goddamn trunk Trunk man? It is, in fact, del Griffith Shower, curtain ring salesman extraordinaire and an overly talkative fellow. Do you guys ever run into that Like if you're sitting in airports?
Speaker 2:or train station it's like dude shut the fuck up Like, leave me alone.
Speaker 3:I'm not your friend, I just want to listen to my music. I don't care about your kids.
Speaker 2:I don't care about your job. I don't care anything about you. I don't know, you Don't talk to me.
Speaker 1:I was just thinking about this guy's line of work. He's a salesman, so he loves to talk. So I'm sure that's just his personality, because salesmen are usually good talkers. They can talk to anybody and you know, so it makes sense that he'd be like that.
Speaker 3:That's a good good.
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, but Steve Martin works in marketing, I'm assuming, right. Is that what they kind of? That's what I would assume from their advertising, marketing and stuff.
Speaker 1:I would think for that line of work you have to be a talker like that, but maybe not as much as sales. I don't know, I'm not in that world so I don't know if those personalities are different. Actually, I was talking to that about a guy. When my son wants to go into business and, zapp, we talked to you too, based on your personality, like my son's, more of an introvert, quiet, like he might be better suited for, like we were talking about the guy. Actually Mike, shout out to Mike if he's listening.
Speaker 3:Thanks.
Speaker 1:Mike Supply chain logistics. Sure, he said it's something where, basically, you don't really have to have much interaction. You're not like you know, you are in sales or any of this other stuff where you have to be constantly.
Speaker 3:You have to be a people person, people person, right, right.
Speaker 4:That's right in the scenes.
Speaker 1:Right. So with this guy's personality I could see that he's probably a good talker. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Sure, but yeah, I was just on a train a couple of months ago so I had to go into Baltimore for a conference and I was coming home and ran into people that I knew from the conference. So they were sitting by me on the train and that's what they were just like, talking, while I was like sitting there with my earbuds in, you know, just like with eyes closed, and it just kept on. And then it got to the point where they were tapping me on the shoulder. So when the train, it kind of like went to like another stop, so I got up and moved and got back on the train.
Speaker 3:No, I got up and just moved a couple of seats down. That's hilarious, because I didn't know these people from whatever.
Speaker 2:I met them for four days. You know, they can still see you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, they looked right at me, god damn. But then this older lady sat next to me and it was nice, she was quiet, I did her thing.
Speaker 2:It's nice when they're quiet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's beautiful. What do?
Speaker 2:you mean Well, unfortunately for this guy, he just can't get away from Dell Mm. Hmm, I mean, he had apparently he had booked a seat in first class that was overbooked, so he ends up having to sit next to this guy.
Speaker 3:He was not happy either about the first class man. Oh my god, no.
Speaker 1:And who was that dude that was like good looking dude and she's like, oh yeah, go ahead. Was he like another pilot or something? Yeah, it was a pilot. He was like cutting by, was he? I thought it was just a common, didn't he have like a? I thought he had like the stuff on, his the stuff on his thing Maybe not, though, but I was just like, why, like I thought he might have been maybe a freak or a flyer, unless he was a yacht captain.
Speaker 1:Maybe he should have been the captain or something, but she was like, oh, like it was funny.
Speaker 3:Like hey, go, you go through.
Speaker 1:It's good looking guy. You know what I mean. He was that prototypical 80s Good looking guy, yeah.
Speaker 3:But Steve Martin was a good looking yuppie guy, older good looking yuppie guy. Right right, he had money, though that's the first class ticket.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Which they did not accept. No, you don't do that.
Speaker 2:He got the D and I.
Speaker 3:I'd be pissed too, because back then too, I think a first class ticket was like $10,000 or something, I don't know. All right, who knows. Crazy, really. No, look up a first class ticket today compared to like regular boarding.
Speaker 1:I know it's a lot now it's insane yeah.
Speaker 2:Is it? I'm pretty sure. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I've flown first class a couple of times Through business, or was it your own personal ticket?
Speaker 2:I mean, isn't it all the same?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Oh, you're saying did some other company pay for it?
Speaker 3:Yes, did a company pay for it? Or did you go like say and I'm flying first class? The answer is yes, you paid for first class tickets Sure.
Speaker 1:Baller Damn.
Speaker 2:What do I want to do? Sit next to you. How much did you pay? It's not cheap, but it's not $10,000.
Speaker 3:I usually try to get underneath, like in, where they put the Sneaking with the luggage.
Speaker 2:You can get away with a first class ticket for a few thousand dollars.
Speaker 1:We flew on an airline I'll just say it's a budget airline, the Disney. It was horrible, like the smells and the oh you gotta love the Disney kid smells. Well, was it supposed to be? It was like a chartered flight, Like you know what I mean, but I well, no, I'm sorry this time. No, Usually we do do a chartered flight through Baskoff's travel. This last time we decided to book a home.
Speaker 3:They have that anymore.
Speaker 1:I think they still do Wow. Did you boss coughs today. Yeah, did you shout out to boss guys. Yeah, they have a good deal to Disney. We usually do that. This last time, like now, we'll book all their own stuff. Got on his airline. I'm not going to name any names but, the smells, the experience Not good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you have to do first class once, but I was like 12 with my dad.
Speaker 1:It wasn't first class Because my first ass.
Speaker 3:No, my, my uncle had like extra tickets or whatever.
Speaker 4:but it was, it was cool.
Speaker 1:Like once they close them curtains.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:They were giving us like fluffier blankets, like the people in the back were fighting over pillows.
Speaker 2:Yep, I was like oh, so nowadays you get meals and I mean good food in first, while the people in not first get nothing.
Speaker 4:And I mean nothing.
Speaker 3:They might get a bag of peanuts. They got a bag of peanuts. Yeah, that's what we were, and the drinks are free.
Speaker 2:You don't got to worry about paying $11 for a which is nice For a rum and coke, which is very nice, well, speaking of the smells. So this guy's back in coach and again, del's now sitting next to him and he's taking off his shoes and socks and, oh, my dogs are barking.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:He says dogs are working. Could you imagine, dude? That would just be so nasty.
Speaker 1:Oh, not in first class.
Speaker 2:Flight goes on, which I'm surprised that it took this much time or at least the movie leads you to believe it's this much time Because the old guy that's sitting next to him falls asleep on him, and Del pretends to sleep, but again, this is just from New York to Chicago. Is what an hour? Two tops, Two tops. Yeah, I don't know Either way. Ultimately six bucks in my right nut says we're not landing in Chicago, Says Del.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because that flight's getting diverted.
Speaker 3:I was stranded in Chicago.
Speaker 1:Really. Yeah, I remember that story.
Speaker 2:It snows a lot there it snows a hell of a lot there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that was with the family trip too. I was also going to New Mexico for the holidays FedEx story came up.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2:That's right. So, as I'm thinking about this just my own little you know, looking back and whatnot, so as Neil, aka Steve Martin, is racing and racing and racing to make his way to the airport, I was reminded of the joys of flying before 9-11. Like, especially in. So where we're at right, harrisburg, you can still to this day, like, forget that showing up two hours early, forget that shit. At HIA, you can show up 40 minutes, 40 minutes yeah 40, 45 minutes before the plane is to take off.
Speaker 2:And be good and you'll be fine.
Speaker 1:See, you know, I got a.
Speaker 2:That's HIA.
Speaker 1:No, I know that, I know that.
Speaker 2:But they're nobody there. But I take so small.
Speaker 1:you go through so quickly. I take my in-laws there Like I'm the designated driver to drop them off.
Speaker 3:They drink him beforehand. Yeah, no, they just don't want to park down there. I know this. But they have to explain.
Speaker 1:They were. They were flying to Punta Conta or wherever they went, I don't know, but they had to be there like two and a half hours, some crazy amount early, and I had to take them there at like 3.30 in the morning. And I bet they sat there for an hour and a half doing nothing, probably, but I'm going to let them know that Zapp said I promise you.
Speaker 2:All right, I promise you If you're there an hour.
Speaker 3:you have plenty of time, Plenty.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:You can even grab a coffee and like McDonald's.
Speaker 2:So FAA is going to lock that door of the plane 10 minutes before the thing takes off.
Speaker 1:What else to do with the check through right Like the, how about your bag? So that's why they want you there. So, like Zapp said before 9-11.
Speaker 3:Right, you didn't even. I mean you could, your family would walk you up.
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't. I have to be honest. The first time I was ever on a plane was after 9-11.
Speaker 3:So yeah, so I didn't have any experience.
Speaker 1:I didn't have no idea what I was missing.
Speaker 3:Gotcha Shoot. My sister and I took a flight and we were I was 10, she was eight. And we just, my parents just gave us some flight attendant.
Speaker 2:I went to California in the summer of 77, I'm sorry, summer of 86.
Speaker 4:So I was 10 years old. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And again only child. So I was just giving away. But there's this thing where they're like hey, stuart, you know you got.
Speaker 3:There's some kind of program or some shit, where they look after you. You're the first seats, like right up front, where that little wall is, where you can't do anything, yeah, and you got to go to the cockpit, though, and I remember they give you the wings. It's very cool. It's a very cool experience.
Speaker 1:I was always scared to fly. Once I did it, I loved it and I'm, you know, past that now, but I was like petrified to fly, mostly because my parents never flew and they were always like, oh you know, they say flying is safer than driving and all that stuff. But I didn't know.
Speaker 4:I was scared.
Speaker 1:I'll never forget. There was a girl that we went to high school with. I don't know if her dad worked at the airport. Ninth grade she had a birthday birthday party there. Were you at that party?
Speaker 2:I sure was, because she also. I met her before ninth grade because she was at a party with Matt and I while we were still in grade school.
Speaker 1:So they, we went out and they I remember them taking us on the plane and I was like scared that we were going to go fly somewhere.
Speaker 2:It was like, I was like I was like oh shit. My parents are going to be picking me up in two hours, yeah.
Speaker 1:Like they were like oh, we're going to go on a plane. I'm like I was getting nervous, Like my heart was beating and shit, but they were just torn to plane. But I was at that party, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't enjoy flying like two rum and coax and a couple of the Raza pants. I remember we talked about that. I'm sweet, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1:I actually kind of enjoy it. But I'd get that I'm claustrophobic. But for some reason on a plane it's not as bad, it's weird.
Speaker 3:So no private jets for Dave. Yeah, cause that's that's like that side no.
Speaker 1:I mean I like I said the planes to me aren't. I don't know why. I just don't have that Like elevators. I hate elevators. Like I don't like to be closed in anywhere. I can do it, I just don't enjoy it. But flying you at any rate Interesting.
Speaker 2:So I was definitely at that party. I was hanging out with the headbangers at that party.
Speaker 1:Oh, for real, I didn't realize there was. There was that many people there. I like I'm trying to remember, yeah.
Speaker 2:There was a group of long hairs.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah All right.
Speaker 2:So, as Dell had was clearly aware, the funky homo sapien, the funky homo sapien. The flight to O'Hare is diverted to Wichita. There's no chance of making their way to Chicago tonight With sleeping on the floor in the airport as his only other option. Neil accepts Dell's invitation to tag along for the night at a hotel, in exchange for paying for the cab to the hotel, of course.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that cab ride was funny, that dude, dude. So, that was a Kona Duby. Duby taxiola or something Taxiola On the topic of that car.
Speaker 2:So I'm watching this just the other day and I'm reminded so that car was a 1968 Pontiac Bonneville hardtop sedan. So back in the day, when the difference between a sedan and a coupe is four versus two doors, all right, so it is visually identical to my first car, which was a 1968 Pontiac Catalina. Of course mine didn't have hydraulics like this one, no, or the little things hanging down, correct you just?
Speaker 3:had horns Correct.
Speaker 2:But looking at which I stupidly put on in hindsight, that was a stupid thing to do.
Speaker 1:That looked cool, though it was very Texas. Yeah, sure, yeah, I mean it was cool, yeah, I mean it was yeah, dude.
Speaker 2:So watching that man I miss that car so bad. And some of the research look up like 1968 Pontiac Catalina. People have done great things with those cars. Again, it's an antique by now, for Christ's sake. I mean, that's a 50 year old car. Did you sell that? Yeah, I would have sell it.
Speaker 3:I traded it in, traded it in. You should have held on to that.
Speaker 1:This guy had like naked pictures hanging up in there, yeah, Like like there were a set of boobs on the dashboard. You know what I mean. Like I don't know if this guy I'm assuming he was a business that he would go pick people up, that's his business.
Speaker 3:That was just his car. Yeah, he was like the first Uber the first Uber yeah, the first.
Speaker 1:Uber. Yeah, could I say that same thing for sure. I'm sure he would get complaints nowadays for having all that. Oh, you can't have pictures like that up and you can't have this and that, but that car just had everything it was. To me it was cool. Well, that's fun to ride in, but for sure.
Speaker 2:So did either of you notice that Neil inadvertently ended up paying for that room that they got to Like there was a switcheroo, like almost a shell game with the credit cards, oh the credit cards, yeah, and the old swipe, correct as was the style at the time Old school. These poor dudes get one room, one bed. That's beat.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That, as soon as they walked in that room, made me think of senior week.
Speaker 2:Oh God, congress, yeah For that, yes, absolutely so. Dell used all the towels Right. Dell goes in showers, he does whatever first All. And I mean you look on that floor, everything's sopping wet, everything's everywhere.
Speaker 3:All you get because you didn't pull the curtain correctly. I hate when people do that Dude, that's a pep heave.
Speaker 2:All he left for Neil was a damn washcloth to dry himself.
Speaker 1:That little one. That was hilarious. Put his back and there's mold on the floor. Yeah, it's just nasty.
Speaker 2:Beer cans had exploded on the bed. We don't discover why, though. No, oh yeah, we don't know why, or do we? In the meantime? Oh, matt, you had a lot of fun. You had mentioned this earlier, or alluded to it earlier, that when Neil calls Susan, his wife, his wife, yeah, she's at home watching a movie. Do you know what movie she's watching?
Speaker 3:It's a movie starring Kevin Bacon, indeed it is.
Speaker 2:Is she's having a baby. She's having a baby is correct.
Speaker 1:What year did that come?
Speaker 2:out.
Speaker 3:It actually. They said that was part of. The fun fact was the movie came out actually after.
Speaker 1:After planes, trains and automobiles Really.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:Because John Hughes was working on it was one that he had before they released it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 3:That's amazing.
Speaker 2:Yes, fun fact. Yeah, I didn't know that shit at all. So in the meantime, so Neil's got to sleep with Dell in the wet bed, and before Dell's trying to get himself to sleep, he's clearing his throat, right, so he doesn't snore that was so nasty, that was so nasty and of course, like anyone else is going to do, neil lays into and I mean just lays into oh, let's imagine Like just completely demolishes that guy's any kind of confidence, any kind of. Was that with the Chattie Cathy, correct?
Speaker 3:He was like wow, wow, he pulled the string, pull the string.
Speaker 1:Oh God, that was so good. Yeah, my wife really doesn't have patience for like annoying people, and watching this movie she was like annoyed that by that whole scene. She was like, oh, I was like man, you're just like Steve Martin.
Speaker 3:Oh, she was Steve Martin or John Candy. No, no, John.
Speaker 1:Candy. She's like oh my God. And I was like oh, you're just like Steve Martin, and this is like no tolerance for any nonsense.
Speaker 3:And he didn't have like. He seemed kind of like like how do you say it? Like he wasn't dumb or anything. He just like not slow, I don't know what the word.
Speaker 1:He just seemed like he was, like he's just overly talkative. Well, that and just like no.
Speaker 3:but like some of the stuff with, like the beer in the bed with the the thing, like he didn't he don't really think. Or with the towels, like when somebody with there's a common courtesy or a common sense. Common sense Oblivious. He was oblivious to other people.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It strikes me that this guy spends a lot of time alone. Oh, I'm just saying just because, like, if you're using the way he's acting. If you're using all the towels.
Speaker 3:like you don't think to For others, leave towels for others, or even that it's kind of you would know better that there's another guy there staying with you. You don't know this guy. You know what I mean, out of courtesy.
Speaker 4:He's a slob.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's an easy way to say it too.
Speaker 3:He's just sloppy. He's just a slob.
Speaker 1:He's sloppy fat, as my grandma would say but that vibrating bed, so 25 cents. We actually just bought new beds. There's a new, new vibrate.
Speaker 2:Yeah, is that a? Is that an upcharge to get the quarter accepting?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and actually not just comes with a remote now.
Speaker 3:Well, you got one of those beds that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're like dual and you can recline them and do that, but they have a feature. It's a massage feature, but it's just like that vibrating it's a commasutra bed Pretty much. That's awesome. You get some use out of it.
Speaker 2:That's a baller bed, by the way, yeah.
Speaker 3:Hold on, honey, I'll be right there. Hold on, I mean it sounds. Give me a minute, dude, it's loud, I'm ready.
Speaker 1:It's loud as hell, Like when I'm downstairs. It sounds like I'm at HIA. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:They're shit taken off.
Speaker 4:They're like Mom, stop it. That's it yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm right here.
Speaker 3:He said HIA, I'm home by the way, it sounds like it's warming up. Yeah, the whole house vibrates in the windows
Speaker 1:and stuff, jesus, but yeah, you can get them at your house now.
Speaker 2:That's a hefty bed man.
Speaker 1:Big time.
Speaker 3:So I thought those ones like when you're on hospice. Oh my God, that's what I'm thinking in my head.
Speaker 1:Well, like those Craftmatic Back in the 80s oh my God, the Craftmatic beds that you get. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:That's what they're like, like Dave getting up in the morning for work. He's like I know I get the feet Well no shit.
Speaker 1:There's a button on there that's like a TV button, that like props you up so that you can sit up and watch TV. So sometimes at night I'll lay the remote there and roll over and forget I'll be half asleep and I'll roll over in my sleep and hit that button and it'll like like it's almost like I'm raising from the dead.
Speaker 3:Now you're all kinked up backwards on your stomach Exactly Between first class flights over there and Craftmatic super adjustable. I realize I'm the poorest guy on the podcast.
Speaker 2:It's interesting to hear, it's interesting to hear one or all of us continue to use the term Craftmatic Now nowadays, I can promise you there are dozens of players in the markets of adjustable, whatever kind of bed Sleep number but we use Craftmatic because, I'm not mistaken, they were first to market. Oh hell yeah, craftmatic adjustable, just like Uber was the first to market in this.
Speaker 2:You know, private courier of people bringing your food there was there's a number of other ride share services, but people now use the term Uber to explain all of them. For the same reason, people use the term Q tip instead of cotton swab or clean X instead of tissue or look at something out and Google it using Google as a verb. Jesus Christ, yes, just like that. It's called marketing, it's called awful or stupidity, right, but either way. So these guys, after their fight and after whatever they got to kiss and make up, they got to sleep together.
Speaker 2:They didn't do that in the movie they did not kiss in the movie.
Speaker 3:Sleep together in the sense of sleeping in a bed together.
Speaker 2:They are sleeping together in the same bed. No spoilers. Sleeping in the same bed together. So while they sleep, thief breaks in, steals all of our money Just jams. That lock right open, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, could that happen with a knife? Could you pick a lock with a knife like that?
Speaker 4:I'm sure in a hotel like that back in the 80s Well.
Speaker 1:I have a friend that's a locksmith and I wanted to get a hold of him before the episode to find out if that could be real, because basically he has, like one of them, a Swiss army knife looking things and he's just like prying it In the door lock and boom, it pops open. I'm like could you do that?
Speaker 2:You would have to, I think. Doing that, you're actually breaking the tumblers. So those tumblers go on different levels, right? Just think of a skyscraper like a length of a street. You see, one tall one short one, tall one short one. I mean, that's basically what a key does is it pushes them down to all the same level so that you can twist the the john inside, open it up.
Speaker 3:You get them on the internet. You can get like kits and stuff to practice. You can buy the whole set of how to. I mean, it's not illegal if you're breaking into your own stuff, but you can use it for other things, all right.
Speaker 2:I'm thinking a knife or anything forcefully into there is just going to bust all the tumblers out of their space. They're just these little pins, so I don't know. You bust them all out, it's you can open anything.
Speaker 1:You get rough it off.
Speaker 3:Yeah that hotel or motel. They weren't paying holiday Holiday. High dollars for security.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely Well, after their night of sleep and victim of thievery, they wait the next morning all over each other. Right, they're just spooning. Yeah you got a little spoon and big spoon. I'll never forget this. This quote is just great. When Neil says oh Del, why did you kiss my ear? Del responds why are you holding my hand? Neil says well, where's your other hand? Del responds between two pillows.
Speaker 3:Those aren't pillows Right.
Speaker 2:Then he get up and talk about oh, I was a good game last night.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's where you guys go to that. Yeah, they're like the cubs cubs with great.
Speaker 3:But yeah, bears bears bears, bears, bears.
Speaker 4:It's not.
Speaker 2:Bears bears. It's not until they go to the Dynavix morning for breakfast that they both realize they've been robbed. But of course that's after Neil accuses Del of stealing his money, and I think it's only because Neil was the first one to open his wallet.
Speaker 3:Was it a diners club card or something? Was that what he was called Diners?
Speaker 2:club. There was a thing, yeah, diner's club was a card.
Speaker 3:That thing is what he said. He took his diners club card.
Speaker 1:They stole it.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I noticed something too on the nightstand. When they woke up the next morning they had some Trident gum and Zappa thought you'd appreciate this Kent cigarettes. So did you ever hear of that brand? Oh, yeah, yeah, kent. I never did, so I looked it up. Kent cigarettes were actually the first cigarette to market. Many people say to popular.
Speaker 3:Popular a lot Popularize filtered cigarettes Popularize filtered cigarettes. They were filtered.
Speaker 1:They were the first manufacturer.
Speaker 3:That's like a Palm.
Speaker 1:all this was in like 1952 when they came out with it, and there was like an article out in like one of the magazines about how cigarettes have all these toxins in them and if you put a filter on it it's going to protect them. Yeah, they were one of the first ones to market with the filtered cigarette. The filtered cigarette which did Thank you, kent, did do some good. But then they said a lot of these filters were worse than just smoking. The regular, the early filters were worse than them as the regular cigarettes.
Speaker 3:But yeah, kent, who was also from real genius.
Speaker 1:Also true. Yeah, I think maybe that's where he starts Kent cigarettes.
Speaker 3:That's all I think about right away. Kent, kent, kent. I know this is.
Speaker 1:God Kent, make a filter.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Fun fact, though Fun fact.
Speaker 2:Nice. Well, all right, after all of that, having been let down with planes, maybe a train will be a suitable mode of transport to Chicago. Go for it. Maybe I don't know. Yeah, maybe they got to make their way to the train though. So it's a good thing that Dell knew the owner of that hotel, because the hotel sends his son, owen, to go collect these two from the hotel and take them to the train station. So, owen, right, this is a truck driver, right. So he's got that bad nasally wheezing thing. Like every breath, it's either exhale or inhale. It's just like this. I can't even mimic the sound. It's just awful, although Owen's wife is the best.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she's a good woman.
Speaker 2:Silent the whole time. Get your lazy behind out here and put that trunk up into back. Yeah, and they're correct. I'm like no, no, no, it's OK, man, look she's holding the baby.
Speaker 3:She's, you know she's pregnant, pregnant, holding the baby.
Speaker 2:So she was pregnant, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, she was pregnant, all right.
Speaker 2:So Owen says she don't mind, she's short and skinny but she's strong. Her first baby it came out sideways. She didn't scream or nothing.
Speaker 3:Now, quick, I don't know if this is like a fun fact to take away a fun fact, but it's set up so grand here In this movie they did this scene a couple times and the one there like the guy was saying Owen needed to be like real dirty nasty. He's like do something to make Steve Martin like feel like gross, right that's where he spit in his hand.
Speaker 1:Remember, he should shake his hand Correct.
Speaker 3:That's the face of Steve Martin was like like that and he was like perfect.
Speaker 2:So he had. He had spit his chewing tobacco out and then he wiped the side of his mouth in the same motion. As he's finishing, wiping his hand off of his mouth, he reaches out for a handshake. Yeah.
Speaker 3:It's just like yeah, and they said Steve Martin was like good gnarly, for damn sure Good gnarly.
Speaker 1:I like those two in those scenes and I don't know if they started that in the 80s. I'm sure they did in a lot of movies where they show a person get out of the car All you see is their feet and they play dramatic music and you see these feet walking these boots, and then it zooms up to the. You know what I mean.
Speaker 3:You see the person in it kind of like pans back.
Speaker 1:So the first time you see her, like oh, what are you going to look like? Who's it going to be Like? I'm just that surprise. Like you know which is guy was quite a character.
Speaker 3:So it was like beat up rubbers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Now, where did they want to go to? They wanted to go to I forget the town they wanted to go to. They thought it was in Wichita, so they wanted to go to Wichita proper to catch a train, but of course Owen corrects them no, that's where they send the animals out at.
Speaker 1:Right, you got to go to.
Speaker 2:You want a people train, you got to go to Steubenville. Yeah, the people train right out of Steubenville.
Speaker 3:And weren't they the back of this guy's pickup? Yeah, just freezing their ass off.
Speaker 2:40 for 40 some miles. They're driving in a freezing cold in Kansas in the middle of well, in middle of November and in November.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nobody is not that bad.
Speaker 1:Hey, back out. That was cool. Back in the 80s I used to do that to baseball games.
Speaker 3:Oh, my God yeah.
Speaker 1:That's illegal. Back in the truck they took all that far away, yeah.
Speaker 2:Thanks the law, yeah Right. Oh, once again, neil's on the hook, though he's got to pay for train tickets, I mean. So so far he paid for all meals, he's paid for the hotel and he's now paying for train tickets, of course in separate cars.
Speaker 3:Well, dell's going to pay him back. Don't worry about it. I got you. Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2:That's right Well of course, just their luck. The train breaks down. Of course, as they're all exiting, everyone's exiting the train making their way to the closest bus station. Which is what? Three or four miles away?
Speaker 1:They're all walking across the fields of Kansas, the cornfields.
Speaker 2:Neil sees Dell struggling carrying his trunk, offers the you know. Come on, man, you see some duties. Carrying his heavy ass trunk, you're going to do something. You know who the guy is. So again, despite their, differences the break up. Yeah, despite the towel incident and the beer incident, the whatever incident, he goes and hops them and they make their way to the bus. Much like the Muppets, they're together again, just together again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that way Right along. I'm sorry, no, real quick. That the way this guy never really paid for it.
Speaker 2:Never real quick it is.
Speaker 1:This one won't be too bad. It's like reminding me of a friend, a mutual friend that Matt knows him, to a guy that he's he always had that friend that never has money, Like back in the day in the 90s it was always this guy never had his Mac. I forgot my Mac card. We'd be out late at night drinking and we'd want to go to the diner or we'd go to sheets to get food and the guy never had it. Just conveniently I don't have my Mac card broke ass.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which Mac cards were the ATM cards?
Speaker 3:Sure, Of course. Are you sure Like hey, I'm running to grab some cigarettes and like Well, there's that guy too.
Speaker 1:I know who you're thinking of, but there was another guy later on in the 90s.
Speaker 3:Oh, in the 90s.
Speaker 1:That we'd always end up at Colonial Park diner. I love the guy to death and I would never want the money back. But I know I bought him late, or I should say early morning dinners or lunches or not lunches, but early morning 24,000 dollars of him in the park. And that the guy I paid for him over all those years.
Speaker 3:But yeah, no, there's the other guy too, a friend of ours, but yeah, he'd always be like oh, if you're going to the store, do you mind getting me, and it'll be anything you might stop at a Burger King grabbing me a Whopper and then maybe stopping at the giant there real quick. And all these errands there. Hey, do you mind going to Sheets, then Picking up a pack of cigarettes? For me that's beat, yeah, happens.
Speaker 2:Beat.
Speaker 4:He sounds oaky.
Speaker 2:Well, so far, the plane failed, the train failed. Surely a bus to St Louis will help them along. Surely you would think, you would think Sutter on the bus. I mean, you see that you know a head banging couple just.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, it's just disgusting PDA.
Speaker 1:That dude reminded me of Joey, Joey. You know, Joey. He went to school with him.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course. I think he listens to our podcast.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, I saw he liked a couple of the posts, but I'm looking at that and remind me of Joey. Yeah, actually, first time I met Joey was on a bus like that in ninth grade, and I never forget like he had the Guns N' Roses cassette and we were going like a field trip or something like that With the inside, with the knives, the girl, that's being correct. Yeah, the ninth grade In ninth grade.
Speaker 2:it would have been appetite for destruction, so I'm not at that time.
Speaker 1:I'm all rap all day. You know what I mean? I don't listen to rock. Really, I knew their songs on the radio and he was like listening to it and he was talking about it. He let me borrow that tape and I was like, oh yeah. And then I was like, what a great album. You know what I mean. But yeah, I thank him for getting me in the guns, and which they were huge by then. Oh yeah, but not in my world. No, but yeah, that dude reminded me of Joey. Back to the original thought 100%.
Speaker 2:I can, I can absolutely see that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Absolutely see that. Oh, they had a sing along on the bus. I mean, Steve just got Steve. I see Neil play by Steve Martin. He just gets shut down. He sings this song. I have no idea.
Speaker 3:Yeah, what song was that? Three coins in a fountain. Each one seeking happiness. You don't know that song. Wait a second.
Speaker 2:You know that one. Yeah, you are the only person I've ever met who knows that song. It's with the exception of Steve.
Speaker 3:Martin, it was like a Neil Sedakis or something like that. Neil Sedakis, I don't know who like exactly it was, but I think my, my Pat, would listen to stuff like that on the radio. There's like a station that played songs like that. Was it like folksy?
Speaker 2:Was it like the most of its?
Speaker 3:time he was like, not Dean Martin. Who's the other guy, old Blue Eyes was. Frank Sinatra Like a Frank Sinatra type like a crooner.
Speaker 4:Yeah, my mom knows that song too.
Speaker 1:Three coins in a fountain. So you knew that. And the Cajun chef. What Cajun chef and that way your grandfather watch out to. Oh yeah, oh we.
Speaker 3:I get a little old leaves. They had a spice of pepper.
Speaker 2:We all right. So let's see, let's see, let's see, all right, oh, so they make their way to the bus station, you know, after the ride. And he gets everybody up to beat now with singing the Flintstone song.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because nobody wanted to sing three coins in a fountain, he ruined the whole vibe.
Speaker 2:And never heard that song ever. Now I have to look that up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, to listen to it.
Speaker 2:And it's great one. You should play that during the synapses.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll play it during the. That should be the intro, the intro or the outro.
Speaker 3:Yeah that'd be great.
Speaker 1:Well, I can put it on our social media when I put, when I put these out and tie music to it. Yeah, I can put that in there, you know please do.
Speaker 2:I'll pay the fines. There's not going to be. It's not going to be fine. It's like I said, I'm just messing with you. I'm just messing with you, there's not going to be fine. I would encourage you to do that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there will be no fun, like a lot of the stuff that we think of nobody's looking at.
Speaker 2:Nobody cares the.
Speaker 3:ODB podcast. I'm going to be like they used my song Just do it.
Speaker 1:I want three, ninety nine, not yet, not yet. Let me check with JW on that. All right, see what he says.
Speaker 2:So these guys got no money Again, they got robbed.
Speaker 4:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 2:They were absolutely robbed, but they didn't take the credit card, so they got no cash, no, whatever, but in true form. Now Dell shows his his best stuff here. This guy's walking around the bus station selling showering, telling them that they're earrings like high fashion. This, or it was Darrell strawberry. Sign this one.
Speaker 3:Darrell strawberry sign. He was the hell of a salesman, though, dude, the dude could sell.
Speaker 2:This was some ancient Chinese zing dynasty yeah.
Speaker 3:This is made of ivory coast off the elephant of whatever. This is Czechoslovakian ivory.
Speaker 1:And who was the one girl that's on like the not to today show, but something Diane Sawyer or something like that? Okay, like one of them, and he was like, oh, diane Sawyer, this is you know, she wore this or I don't know. Yeah, but he was using all these things to like. Put value on these shower rings.
Speaker 2:People were buying them, yeah, selling them to. There was a group of young girls these make you look at least 20, 21 years. Oh yeah, much older. They all just start working out cash. So it is interesting. So right after that, like they're going to have a, they have this meal, and at lunch, I should say while they're having this meal, if you look around though, one reaches and I think one of the waiters or the hostess are. Both are both wearing shower rings in their ears.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it became like a fashion thing.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so it's. It was big in the Kansas area.
Speaker 2:They for one day.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:They. There's a foreshadow in this. There's a quote that Dell says you know they're talking about oh man, you know, I can't wait to be home. I can't wait to be home. And Dell says, you know, I haven't been home in years. And he quickly, you know, brushes it off. It's oh well, no, it's because I travel so much, or I travel so much I don't know what home even feels like anymore.
Speaker 2:You know, just kind of blows it off. Alas, Neil's ready to, you know, break these guys up. He's like, look, you know, it's probably better if we go our separate ways, right?
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 2:No, they do. So they split now on his own. Neil seeks out a rental car. Surely, nothing could be easier than renting a car and driving home Right.
Speaker 1:Back to that. I don't know if it was that restaurant or a later on scene, but made me think of that when I saw in the background there was a huge mural on the back, brown, like the backdrop as they're eating and they're like a family restaurant. Or when you're in a restaurant and I see that you just know the food's going to be good. I was thinking it was like a big fall foliage looking mural. You ever go in a restaurant and like the whole wall is like a mural.
Speaker 3:It's usually like upstate Pennsylvania. Well, just any like family home cooking restaurant.
Speaker 2:You'll see that if you go to Outback Steakhouse is one of Australia. If you go to Outback Steakhouse there's a mural that goes it cascades through the entire place.
Speaker 1:Oh really.
Speaker 2:Now this is the Outback that's in on my shorts by the capital city mall. Okay, it's in the parking lot, but it is a scape of, I want to say, pittsburgh or possibly Philadelphia, but I want to say it looks like Pittsburgh. But yeah, it just wraps around the entire old thing.
Speaker 1:So the old thing is like that, yeah.
Speaker 2:Perbanese has that.
Speaker 1:But I'm talking about these, like these mom pot type, like home cooking restaurants.
Speaker 3:I used to get. Old man was up there painting it years ago.
Speaker 1:It's just like a mural on the wall. It's just like it has that home Like I don't know. I just saw it and it made me think of like I know you've had to be in restaurants like that where you saw this murals on the wall.
Speaker 3:It's just like you just know the food's going to be good and hell yeah, A buddy. Uh, lou Borelli, oh God, rest his soul. Yeah, man. But I remember his house. He had that big mural of Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, that was fantastic.
Speaker 3:That was fantastic. There was like the palm trees and stuff like the ocean.
Speaker 1:Like in his living room. Yeah.
Speaker 3:That was like what they had on the wall.
Speaker 1:Well, he lived down the street from me, Like yeah, he'd lock down like when we were real little, but it took me out.
Speaker 3:I was in there.
Speaker 1:I was like man, you put a towel out. Yeah, I was like what's your guys?
Speaker 3:missing, like you put like birds in the background and stuff that was ridiculous yeah. It was absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 2:All right. So this poor dude wants to rent a car, right, All right. So he gets the car you know, goes through all the process and he goes to get dropped off to his car. There's no fucking car, it's just an empty parking spot. I mean, that bites right. So he's got to make his way back and find out what happens to his car. I'm sure that happened a lot in the 80s, like that.
Speaker 3:I think yeah, because they didn't have their shit together.
Speaker 1:No, Did you catch it? I don't know if you've seen this movie many times, and I don't know, Matt. You said you have, but have you? Did you watch it again, like right before this?
Speaker 2:Yeah, just do it.
Speaker 1:Did you catch the bus driver when he drops him off the voice that he uses and did you make a connection to that Anthony and Michael Hall impersonation, the real jazzy kind of like from weird signs he was like. I think he said to him uh, is a white Lincoln town car. Like you know how the voice is, space V five. If you listen to that voice, you don't see the driver, you just hear the voice.
Speaker 2:He even got it Like it's that whole voice.
Speaker 1:So, John Hughes, I'm just thinking, did they use? Was it Anthony Michael Hall?
Speaker 3:Maybe they told him that. Based on that, yeah.
Speaker 1:But if you listen back, compare the two, they're almost identical.
Speaker 2:I thought he sounded like the one Harlem Globe Trotter, the guy that was in um.
Speaker 3:Oh God but like curly the ones that are always in them.
Speaker 4:Like Scooby Doo, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like hey, I can bounce this too. Look at this. Yeah, space V five. Yeah, scooby, you got a, don't you drive a cab? Oh, that's, that's dooby Dooby, sorry, uh. So, yeah, dude. So the dangerously has to make his way like off the beaten path, or he chooses the shortest distance between two points Sliding down in the snow, in the mud.
Speaker 3:Dude, I know man, you could get hit by cars.
Speaker 1:Well, that's a big ass airport Like that made me think like we're talking about HIA, sure. These airports are like totally different scale.
Speaker 2:Oh my God.
Speaker 1:They're miniature cities. We were down actually, when we did that Disney trip we went to out of BWI, which is a massive airport, much bigger than HIA, but I don't know if it's well, where was this one out in St Louis?
Speaker 3:Yup, st Louis is a big airport yeah.
Speaker 1:So I've never been there, but it seemed like it took forever to get back to the terminal. You know, Sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, they got the BWI.
Speaker 2:All right. So now we've been to HIA, so we also surely all of us have driven by or to HIA. I mean, matt, and I know for damn sure, you know, coming up in that area, that airport, at least at one point, was surrounded by rental car places.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And I mean that were miles, miles away from the actual airport itself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I mean I can see that my hair's percly again.
Speaker 2:So basically, like basically imagine getting dropped off at the McDonald's in Highspire and then having to walk to HIA, hia is the trip and he took the back way, and if you did the back way from McDonald's, you're walking on train tracks.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the whole way, yeah, and like going through just swampy, funky.
Speaker 1:Swampy, yeah, swampy line, and then a bit the sunburst.
Speaker 2:I miss that place so much.
Speaker 1:Oh my. God, their clams were so good they had that special there I used to have to go there for my birthday.
Speaker 3:I think I might have mentioned that before. The sunburst they go in that basement. It just smelled like smoke and clam strips.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember that place, Just smoke and memories. They had a mural on the wall.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then, if you get drunk enough, you could have got a room there. True, yeah, they don't want nobody driving. Fuck it, dave.
Speaker 2:They had a mural on the wall.
Speaker 1:I think they did, I don't know. I was there a couple times I know they did, it was a big sun.
Speaker 4:Yeah, told you.
Speaker 3:Over Puerto Rico. No, no, I think it was over the Burst Motel.
Speaker 1:I bet if we ask officer of events up in Meadville if there's a good family restaurant, I bet you they have a mural.
Speaker 3:Nobody knows three. Yeah, they probably know the mall, at least.
Speaker 2:All right, so eventually Neil makes his way back. He's good. He's like I want my fucking car and he goes off on this dire drive and I mean it's just F-bomb after F-bomb, after F-bomb. With the poor rental agreement lady, yeah, that's great. I mean, dude, he wouldn't stop with that.
Speaker 3:So go. Oh no, they said about that part too. They said I forget the actress's name. You have it on here. She was Mrs Pool, Eddie ED McClure.
Speaker 2:Eddie McClure. Eddie McClure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and people might know her best from what Ferris.
Speaker 2:Bieler's name, ferris Bieler's name, or from Valerie.
Speaker 1:Oh, valerie, yeah, Valerie.
Speaker 3:What Valerie? Who's Valerie TV?
Speaker 2:show. Yeah, TV show Was Valerie, then it was Valerie's family or some shit like that.
Speaker 1:The actress that that Baton was in that right, that's correct.
Speaker 2:She died, valerie died, the actual actress.
Speaker 4:Oh, she's the redheaded Valerie Harper. Valerie Harper, valerie Harper, yeah.
Speaker 2:Brunette, Brunette Reddish, whatever she died. And then Sandy Duncan.
Speaker 4:That's what took over.
Speaker 1:That's what took over.
Speaker 2:She had a fake eye.
Speaker 3:Sandy Duncan, yeah, like the little Sammy Davis junior. Sammy Davis Shammer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, good one, david.
Speaker 2:Old glass eye.
Speaker 3:But anyway, this McClure yeah, they were saying that she was filming it and trying to be or do something and like like Hughes was like that's stupid, I don't like that. So when she was talking about like Thanksgiving dinner and that was just something that she came up with, that was on the phone. Yeah, yeah, before she did this whole part, how? About that and they said that the your fucked part she came up with too.
Speaker 2:That was good, so that was ad-libbed. Yes, that was ad-libbed. Well done, edie, that was really good.
Speaker 3:And there you guys go with the rated, the R rating.
Speaker 1:That's all from this.
Speaker 3:That's right, just one part.
Speaker 2:It's because of that, let's see. All right, so he's gotten a rental car because he threw his agreement away. So now he just says you know, fuck it, I want to get a cab from St Louis, chicago, why not? That's not out of the question.
Speaker 4:No absolutely not.
Speaker 2:That is not beyond the scope of possibility. I mean it's 300 miles away, that's an easy Like here to Pittsburgh, sure and I three hours. I know dudes like I have in my phone, dudes that will drive that.
Speaker 1:You're doing 100 mile an hour there Three hours.
Speaker 3:Three hours and 20 minutes Pittsburgh from here. Okay.
Speaker 2:So wait, it's four.
Speaker 4:Four yeah.
Speaker 2:I would say Pittsburgh area code, maybe Johnstown.
Speaker 1:You got Batmobile or something Johnstown yeah, I take a. You got a Delorean, I got I know a way around the terrain playing I was like damn.
Speaker 2:See, that only works, if he did that this past weekend during daylight savings time.
Speaker 1:That's when you know you don't drive for a living. When you can make times like that, I thought it'd be a thing I can't mess around. It's like three hours.
Speaker 3:man, that's true. I was just there last year. It took me three hours and 15 minutes.
Speaker 1:I'm riding with you.
Speaker 2:I go to a Steelers game then it's for damn sure I'm not driving.
Speaker 3:I have. I have a Viper.
Speaker 1:My Jeep.
Speaker 3:It's like slow down, slow down. Yep Metal do they can't, they can't, they can't even pick those out anymore.
Speaker 2:Nope, but you could find one. Ebay Picks out the fuzz, though no no, they've changed. They've changed from analog or whatever it's all digitized. Digital. Yeah. So with no chance at all of getting a rental, neil attempts to get a car. The cab pisses off the dispatcher, who ends up knocking him to the ground where he's almost run over by. Of all people, ray Charles. Del Griffith, yeah, Ray Charles like almost runs over his fucking great man yeah.
Speaker 1:That dude that knocked him out of like the kid in Christmas story, but like growing up with that like that hat. And you know he just had that look with the scarf and the what was it?
Speaker 2:He had green eyes.
Speaker 3:Red eyes, ray McCracken.
Speaker 1:And Christmas story is like yeah, and then he had a little toadie, yeah, toadie. The little guy with him that was talking shit. You know what I mean, but he couldn't do anything. Scott Farkas, Scott Farkas there you go.
Speaker 4:He's a grown up.
Speaker 1:Scott Farkas.
Speaker 2:So Del has saved the day by offering Neil a ride in his rental car. Look, Chicago's only a mere 300 miles away. What's this around like a dodge? What it was a dodge something.
Speaker 1:It's like a Chrysler or dodge yeah.
Speaker 3:Dodge and signal is all I remember, but it was.
Speaker 2:It's an 86 dodge something and it was made to look like as close as it could resemble the vacation car, vacation car.
Speaker 1:I think it was like a LeBaron, like a Chrysler, whatever the equivalent. Plymouth or Dodge would lead to that yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, the bit of luck, they'll be in Chicago before you know it, 300 miles away. Come on, you can do it, you can do that, but with these two there's no such thing as luck, right? Not surprisingly, they end up arguing during their drive. And look, you've seen it Like there's going to be that guy, that passenger that won't stop fidgeting around with a goddamn seat.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 2:He and this is a I don't want to say he's, he's not physically fit this, this Del grandpa.
Speaker 1:No, he's a large gentleman. Yeah, I like how his voice changed too, from Gavin is nuts.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 4:That's right.
Speaker 1:So they was that like a girl's voice, I guess they dubbed it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Was it? I guess, assuming it sounded almost like he was talking on helium.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, while he was on helium or had to ingest helium in some way. Oh, they're the classic Ray Charles version of mess around. I mean, del killed it. Matt's doing it now, like he's just playing the keys on the. On the dashboard he's playing saxophone. After you know, at some point he flicks his cigarette butt into the back of a, into the back seat, which that happens regularly.
Speaker 3:I remember, like all the time. Yeah, being younger, you're always like shit, I get that in the back. Yeah, when you throw a cigarette out, yeah, the window, especially when it's cold, cause you just do the cracks. But sometimes you have friends in the back. They crack the window cause they're back there smoking.
Speaker 2:Right. So yeah, it messes up the airflow. I see what you're saying. That thing will blow right back in.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like a suction.
Speaker 2:It was fortunate to have the 1968 Pontiac Catalina I'd had.
Speaker 1:It had cigarette windows, what's that mean so the the front the front tri so.
Speaker 2:Oh you could push it out. The window was a square and in the front of that window was a triangle.
Speaker 3:to that would angle to the to the windshield and then a little push it, little knobby on it, you just push it out that was in the Dodge Ram charger also.
Speaker 2:Oh nice, yes, yeah, that thing was awesome, that's cool. Shit yeah, shit yeah. We need old cars with dosing. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Cigarette windows.
Speaker 2:So how did they get going the wrong way? Was he always trying to take his coat off?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so he twirled around and then he started driving. That's right. Because he was getting hot, because his back seat was on fire.
Speaker 2:That's right, I forgot about that, that's right. I just saw this the other day. Yeah, so ultimately, what they're driving down the road and this couple, this kind couple, is like honking, trying to tell like dude, you're going the wrong way, you're getting pissed, you're going the wrong no, he's drunk. How do you know where we're going?
Speaker 4:Yeah, that was the one that I remember this part like all the time.
Speaker 3:I use it all. You know how you said about these movies that we watch Absolutely Like he's going the wrong way. How do you know which way? How do they know which way we're going? That's yeah, that's funny, that's hilarious, yeah.
Speaker 2:So of course, these two are nearly killed by these two tractor trailers that are coming in the appropriate direction. They're, these guys. Just drive right between them. They pull over. You know, try to catch their breath, calm down a little bit. All of a sudden, as they're sitting there talking, the car catches on fire from that goddamn cigarette. Just to go, that's funny.
Speaker 3:They're in between the two tractor trailers Like they're turning like skeletons. Oh yeah, he's looking at the door. He's like the door is like ah, ah ah, ah, ah ah ah ah, so good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was funny. It was, of course, Neil Glotz. What he sees is Dell's liability for the total vehicle. Oh, but it was your credit card. Yeah, Dell tells him he'd used his credit card, which he'd found in his wallet, which is that was the switch up. That had to have happened at the first hotel. Yes, had to be it's a diners club card.
Speaker 3:Diner's club.
Speaker 1:He had a card for Chalmers. He said oh, I have a credit card for Chalmers department store or something like that. He was like yeah, he's like, but you can't, that's not good anywhere. Yeah, I made me think of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Superintendent, Superintendent.
Speaker 3:Chalmers Super.
Speaker 1:Nintendo Chalmers. Yeah, super Nintendo Chalmers.
Speaker 2:Super Nintendo. Only Ralph Wickham calls him Super Nintendo. Yeah, all right. So with their rental car now, but a shell of what it used to be. The two make their way to a hotel for what will hopefully be their last night away from home. So what, they're checking in, right? They got no cash.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 2:How are they gonna get a hotel room? There's watches.
Speaker 4:There's that watch we talked about.
Speaker 2:Yeah was it 17 bucks in a watch?
Speaker 1:Yeah, 17 bucks in a watch and he had some quarters in there. There's like a five, a ten and and one, and it was a PSJA. They had that PSJA polo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the PSJA polo poor, poor Dell doesn't have that sort of a Jewelry.
Speaker 1:No, he had a Casio.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but she displays so nicely.
Speaker 1:He's like put it over. Yeah, he's a salesman.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he is I would have took the Casio.
Speaker 2:It didn't work on this hotel, clerk, although I'm who was that guy?
Speaker 1:I've seen him before. I was gonna ask you guys if you know him. For damn sure I've seen him before. Yeah, it looks very familiar.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like the toothpick, like that. Was that the first guy?
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. It's got like this guy had a very familiar look to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think I know you're talking about yeah, oh man, let's see when I was up. So Now you got me thinking about that guy. God damn it, I got to get that out of my head get it in a mailbag.
Speaker 2:Yeah so it'll be a mailbag item Well, poor Dell got nothing, so he's got to sleep in the car and, of course, while he's sitting out there in the colds that, getting snowed on or just freezing his ass I freeze he's just talking to himself. But he's talking to himself as if, like you know, he's talking to his wife. He's like ah, you were right, you know right.
Speaker 2:You're always right. Anything you tell me, you know I'm gonna talk somebody's ear off or I'm gonna. You know I isolate mice or I'm sorry, make. Make people, you know, go away from me drive my way. Well, that's it. Well, you know, of course takes pity.
Speaker 4:Which is nice yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean you'll sit in all comfy in his jammies in the warm. Yeah the war, I don't care how cold already are.
Speaker 1:unless you're Ted Bundy, I mean you're not gonna buddy wouldn't bite you in. Yeah, true like, come on, yeah, but you couldn't do that. Let somebody sit out in the cold, no matter how annoying they are, it's true.
Speaker 3:Well, that's what they were showing, like it was just a part of the movie, just to show how pissed he was at this guy. It's like every freaking time, yeah, like we try to do something and you're always ending up here with me and always Screwing something up, yeah right. So it was like that point where he's like you know, fuck this guy, I'm tired of his bullshit. And then you know you get the heart warming thing then the next interaction was good.
Speaker 2:Yes, of course. Well, what? When he comes in in there, they go through the, the bottles and the Doritos, yep. So yeah, that's. That was actually. All of that shit was in Dell's trunk like that was his collection of food.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he does to stay at hotels. So when he goes these different hotels he just takes the mini bottles that are left which was nice.
Speaker 2:I thought that was really redeeming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was cool, and that this bag of Doritos that took me back, that that classic style. They look different the bagging, the packaging back down. I love looking at packaging back in the day Because, like, oh shit, I remember that again ever they're sitting there having a good time.
Speaker 2:They didn't use foil bags back then.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3:Well, these guys, I mean, they've been through a lot together so far right, that's why? Yeah, they're like have a couple. Nothing brings guys together, like then drinks and Doritos or some pizza they could add to that'll do it.
Speaker 1:Yep with grande.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, Must be grande, grande. Well, it's the next morning, it's now Thanksgiving Day. Look, it's Homer bust. It is time for Neil and Dell to finish their shared journey to Chicago. Come on, man, mm-hmm, time to go home. Yeah, I think. I mean they gotta be racing out of that hotel, right, gotta be?
Speaker 1:yeah, how about that Roy Olberson painting? I forgot to mention that in the hotel that I was cool.
Speaker 2:Was that the lobby or in their room? It was in his room.
Speaker 1:Okay, he sat down there. I thought that was cool.
Speaker 4:I just don't want to forget that is that or that was.
Speaker 3:That was Roy Olberson, yeah do you have like the sunglasses on it? Roy with the. I thought it was Johnny.
Speaker 2:Cash. I thought it was David Bowie.
Speaker 3:Oh, no, no, no, no, no no, swear to God, really three different people.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had no idea who that was and I'm sitting there look watching like who is that? Who is that? That's Roy Olberson.
Speaker 3:Hmm I thought it was one of the Ramones.
Speaker 1:He's gonna make a really remote.
Speaker 2:I need to get a bigger television.
Speaker 1:Yeah for really yeah. I mean I guess because I knew that actually by looking stuff up about the movie. Maybe if I would have known that I want to cut. But I'm, Roy, Olberson has a look.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:I could. I could see where maybe I have to go back and look at it.
Speaker 3:Keep saying look a lot. You shouldn't be saying that when you talk about Roy Olberson, it's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's true. Is he blind? Yeah, yeah oh, he was blind, that's right.
Speaker 3:Like Sammy Davis Jr, yeah, I went when, when guys are walking around with sunglasses on at night Usually there is.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's not because they're cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was. That was highest high-end stuff there. Sports oh, speaking of Roy Olberson, it was Frank Sinatra. That's saying three coins in a fountain. How about that?
Speaker 1:I didn't know. Frank Sinatra Yep.
Speaker 2:Hmm, roy Olberson, you ain't never met no Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 1:I like warpers and a lot of his songs, but I like a band you won. When they had, it was him, george Harrison.
Speaker 3:The travel, the travel will be. That's a great Tom Petty.
Speaker 1:Yep, that's a good album. So anyway, I'm sorry, we don't want to go back to that painting, though, but then we, so we're past the hotel now we're on our way back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're going to Chicago.
Speaker 2:We're hopping in the beat-ass vehicle after they beat the shit out of hotel. So they they're stuck in the, stuck in the snow, right they're trying to rock their way out and he hits it reverse and just blasts through the wall. The whole right, let's get the fuck out of here.
Speaker 3:So this car that they're in that has no like missing doors, it has no roof, it is four wheels and steering wheel.
Speaker 2:Four wheels and a steering wheel, although, surprisingly, the radio works, and I only know that the radio works because they get pulled over by that state trooper who ends up impounding their car. Yes, yeah, who's that? I wait, michael McKean. Michael McKean.
Speaker 3:There you are, mr.
Speaker 1:Green.
Speaker 3:Yeah, mr Green, from clue, turn it to 11.
Speaker 1:He was also in Laverne, Shirley right.
Speaker 2:Correct. Yeah, he was Lenny. Lenny, not to be confused with squiggy and spinal tap spinal tap there ever saw
Speaker 1:it I haven't either.
Speaker 3:You've never saw spinal tap. No, you've never saw spinal.
Speaker 2:I've never seen spinal tap.
Speaker 3:I are you.
Speaker 2:You gotta be I swear to God and sunny Jesus, I've never seen it. How by not watching it.
Speaker 3:That's a great movie, inadvertently just never you being like in the music, like zeppelin and stuff, like I thought that I'm clearly.
Speaker 4:I've clearly wasted my life.
Speaker 3:We should have not, not not life, have life, but it's, it's what it had we considered making.
Speaker 2:This is spinal tap, one of the movies for us to Do a podcast.
Speaker 1:I'd be open to it because I've never seen it and McKean be like.
Speaker 3:You should have a set of 11.
Speaker 1:It has only hemp.
Speaker 3:I know that part yeah.
Speaker 1:I never saw the movie, though, hmm.
Speaker 3:He's like no, some people play on 10. He's like we play 11.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was like a documentary it is, it's a documentary of a made-up band.
Speaker 3:I need to watch this movie.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3:It'll make you giggle.
Speaker 2:It's, it's funny so to get pulled over, car gets impounded. There was no way for them to avoid being grounded as they're walking around or hanging out Deciding what they're gonna do next. Of course, dell once again saves a day with his smooth talking, silver tongue, deviled ways. He convinces a truck driver to give him a ride to Chicago right now. But the truck drivers like well, but you, he's real antsy or weird.
Speaker 2:You know, like people in the cab sitting in the cab so you got to go into the trailer, which happens to be a refrigerated trailer. It's carrying which I had noticed Ashkenagon cheese.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's all that.
Speaker 2:That's a fake brand, right, it's not real.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's real. I can't say I've ever heard of it.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's big. In the Midwest it might be.
Speaker 3:I know on the you don't know what's going up in, like Chicago, wisconsin, it's true, michigan area, they got some weird stuff just like we got cheese like Middlesworth, people like. If they said Middlesworth like, is that?
Speaker 2:a real.
Speaker 3:Is that a real chip place? What is it?
Speaker 2:Look, we've got we've got we've got chips and we got some pretzels. Here in Pennsylvania. Maybe they just got a lot of cheeses out there.
Speaker 1:I'm sure they do. But there you, my gosh.
Speaker 2:It's Ashkenagon, all right. So now Neil and Dell are but a local commuter train ride away from home. They've been through quite an adventure, but all good things must come to an end. They depart as friends. It's time for each of them to return to their respective families, or is it so? Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:I mean, that's a touching part, like when they they they split right some meals on the train just alone, thinking about it, thinking about the past two days of an adventure he had with this random stranger. You know the ups and downs, peaks and valleys and whatnot. And it's it's during this time Right, where he's starting to pick up on some of the things that Dell had said, especially like that one thing I pointed out during the diner when Dell said you know I why I haven't been home in years. So you know he gets this. You know he's actually worried about this guy now, thinking about it. Yeah, something has definitely arrived. Dude goes back to the train station To find Dell just sitting there alone. Dude, that's, and this just sucks, and this is drunk and do this just alone.
Speaker 2:Was he drunk?
Speaker 3:No, no, no, he's drunk drunk, drunk, drunk, drunk, drunk, drunk, drunk the only things that he had in life.
Speaker 2:That's true. He finds out that Dell is homeless and his wife Marie had been dead for eight years.
Speaker 1:Yes, like I told you, I didn't remember this movie really at all. I didn't know the storyline and this actually made me tear up a little bit watching the movie. It kind of got to me emotionally and maybe it's too because John Candy's dead and I'm equating it to like that he's gone and I'm thinking of Steve Martin and John Candy as friends when he's on the train and he's thinking about his friend Sure and I'm equating it to real life, like John Candy's gone and I don't know. It got me in a way but also that sympathy feeling for somebody like oh my god, this poor guy was gonna be alone on the holidays and all that not just alone, like he had nowhere.
Speaker 1:He had nowhere to go and it just hit me like and this is a great movie for Thanksgiving. You should be thankful for what you got and treat people well, and I mean I think that's where it is movie at the end really got me. I'm like great movie with great message like be tolerant of people you know and just cuz somebody's a little bit different.
Speaker 2:Yeah, everybody has good redeeming qualities you just got to find it could not agree more what we we've talked about this movie in varying podcast we've done. I End up getting teary every time at that part.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, it's every time you go away.
Speaker 2:Walking into the house is where it gets me so Maybe, but I don't like the version they use in the movie Wait, what which part Matt?
Speaker 3:every time you go away. Oh well that I was still like that, because when they open the door and like the kids and everybody's happy, and his wife comes down the steps that ending.
Speaker 1:Well, we'll get there.
Speaker 3:Okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he hasn't jumped the gun here.
Speaker 2:He again hasn't been home years. Wife's been dead for eight years. He's homeless. So I mean that we just now basically Basically fast forward here to the end where we're kneeling. Dell are next scene. You know they're just walking their back, the baggage and Dell's trunk down the street down to the walk to Neil's house. They get there and doors open wide, holy shit. Dad's home, oh my gosh, it's as great as time ever we, we meet his extended family. Like his, his parents is in laws is whatever his own kids. And now you know there's. There's his wife, susan, who's losing her fucking mind now that he's finally made his way home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so that part where they're kissing and all that, like I get it, like they haven't seen each other. But I almost felt like it was uncomfortable in front of John Candy, like I felt pity on him because, like his wife's going and here's this guy, like all up on his wife.
Speaker 3:I got my kids here.
Speaker 1:Here's my wife. Let me like make out whether, in front of you, to me it just seemed like maybe they're like hugging her. I don't know. I just felt like more bad for John Candy and it ended it right there, and you see it.
Speaker 2:You see John Candy that he's wrenching his hat in his hands like you can see, like it's at that very moment that John Candy or Dell grip. It had never Realized how much he missed his wife, that much like right until that moment.
Speaker 3:Yeah maybe it was like that. I think that was just part of, like, the heartwarming ending of the movie, not like me. There's some cuckolding or something later. I know, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1:I would have liked to see you're on the bottom. It was a perfect movie. I think it was great, yeah, and I really enjoyed it and I'm so glad you Recommended it, but I would have liked to see them at dinner together and it may be shown them. Oh, and then in the coming years we did this every. It was a tradition almost like a happy ending for John.
Speaker 2:Candy. Maybe they'll moved on. Got a new wife.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so.
Speaker 2:I'm like.
Speaker 3:So what? What happened to Dell? Got a dog.
Speaker 1:That's what you wonder, yeah what happened to Dell.
Speaker 3:Maybe we should come up with that like the the origin story origin sequel. Yeah, I just what I like to.
Speaker 1:I mean, like I said, I thought it was a great movie. I really, really, really enjoyed it. Yeah, I just that left me kind of bummed, a little bit happy, but bummed yeah wait for the hot, like coming up in the next Week.
Speaker 3:Just put on any channel like you'll see it.
Speaker 2:Just Rewriting it, dave, I I'm with you, man, like it's, you are left wanting at the end of that movie and in my, in my case, I just felt so, so bad for Dell, like just so bad, like God. That was so what Steve Martin made his way home, good job. Yeah, you know you're the one with the great wife and the great house and the great kids in the great family. What happened to poor Dell? Maybe he moved in the basement? He's just standing in the doorway. Did what? Start a podcast? Yeah.
Speaker 3:He, they, they got him a job. Maybe, maybe Steve Martin got him a job.
Speaker 1:I would I like to see. I would like to see that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but you don't like. These movies are made like that. A lot of 80s movie like I wonder what happened. It's that, that's what your mind plays out. No, that's. That's for you to decide.
Speaker 1:But his thanksgiving just show him passing the plates around. I hear here yeah, maybe don't, maybe don't rob them the next morning. Kills everybody in the movie. Yeah, or eight them, or eight them. Yeah, he's a big dude based on that neighborhood. Maybe you joined the wet bandits could get over.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that house, I believe, was only a block away from home alone speaking of which wait, damn it.
Speaker 3:No, that's what happened. The movie speaking of that before I, before I go.
Speaker 2:All right, so did anyone notice that when, when Susan here's, you know Neil and Dell arrive, mm-hmm, like her, her look of the look of relief on her, like she's, it looked like she had been Balling her eyes out, or she's just about to ball her eyes out, or she basically like she just found out that her I don't know her the doctor, found a cure for her kids cancer or some shit, like this look that this washes over her faces.
Speaker 3:To me it was just too much she was glad he was home because she would have to gotten a job, because maybe they didn't have much money. Oh yeah, it's, true, yeah yeah, like I hope he gets home soon, because we really can't afford this. When we talk about how much the life insurance wasn't, he didn't have the top policy at the time.
Speaker 4:Maybe he did.
Speaker 2:I'm sure he did yeah we talk about how much was cut from this movie I also so when we would think of the awkwardness of that moment, like when, again, there's Neil and Susan. They're all kissy, kissy, husband, wife, he, and there's poor Dell. When Dell walks in and, you know, neil says I'd like to meet my friend here. Here's Dell. Susan says, you know, hello, mr Griffith. And his response was hello, mrs Page.
Speaker 1:But I was like they knew each other. Yeah, like why Dell?
Speaker 2:why, mrs, you know why not, susan?
Speaker 3:they're showing that the the friendship, the relationship that those two have made. Like she's probably heard so much about him in their quick phone conversations, or she feels like she knows him already because, they went through so much together, with her husband being with him. So they were. I dug that part like they were kind of showing that they knew each other somehow.
Speaker 1:Good point bringing up all that extra footage which I forgot about we brought up in the beginning. Maybe there's a lot more that they show us and if we see the extended cut, yeah, that would explain a lot of that. And maybe there's a scene at the dinner table.
Speaker 2:This, this, this movie is, it's. It gets you down. It leaves you questioning at the end. If only there was something you know uplifting that we could talk about.
Speaker 4:Oh good, yeah, that was.
Speaker 2:Time to wrap it up already. Yeah, yeah, geez, thank God. All right, shoot. What do you got?
Speaker 1:Did you know? Now, this is according to the internet, which could be wrong, but this is the favorite film there of their own, of John Candy and Steve Martin, that they were in, of all the ones that they've done now. Who knows, this is all online. Yeah, could be made up.
Speaker 3:I did hear that John Candy was having like a little difficulty with like breathing Stuff over a wall, so so they moved a bunch of like equipment to like his hotel room that they were saying that they spent like.
Speaker 1:I was like wait and stuff and, yes, weights.
Speaker 3:They brought a treadmill and all this stuff to his room really to keep him like kind of get him to work out and in shape A little bit because he was rather happy. He was having difficulty with a lot of the scenes.
Speaker 2:He was a fat dude.
Speaker 3:Yes, you gotta watch it.
Speaker 2:Look, and Chris Farley went the same way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so they didn't use it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so he says Steve Martin said he didn't touch it one time.
Speaker 2:It's hilarious, let's see. Oh, fun fact. Oh, the parts of Neil and Dell respectively were originally intended for Tom Hanks and John Travolta. Wow, I did read that Hanks was busy filming Big at the time and Travolta was considered box office poison at the time.
Speaker 1:I thought Big was a great movie, though I would have stayed with Big Before Pulp Fiction and all that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that clearly by far and away resurrected his career.
Speaker 1:Do you have any other mystery cast member or possible cast member? I do not.
Speaker 2:I just don't want to take any from anybody. Dude jump in.
Speaker 1:So there again internet. Who knows, Rick Moranis for the role of Neil John Goodman was considered for Dell. Here's some more for Dell, Dudley Moore, Bill Murray or Robin Williams and lastly for Neil Chevy Chaser. Michael Keaton, Did you say one of them?
Speaker 2:I did not. I could definitely see Rick Moranis as Neil for sure Like basically he'd be playing a role like he did in Honey I Shrunk the Kids or something. Just a straight dude. I could definitely see Michael Keaton doing it and I would love to see Michael Keaton, but he pissed off at Dell. Michael Keaton would have been good. Yeah, those are good thinkers.
Speaker 1:It would have been good. I think all these would have been good. Yeah, I mean Dudley Moore.
Speaker 2:I'm glad that Dell did not go to Bill Murray. Yeah no, there's a point at which he just gets so annoying, like as a, for example, the Groundhog Day. I love that movie.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Not Groundhog Day, the wrong one? What about Bob?
Speaker 4:Oh I love what about a movie so?
Speaker 2:great movie. It's hilarious, but there are some points where I want to reach through the television and strangle him.
Speaker 1:Don't ask me. I'm local. Yeah, that's on the shirt. I want that shirt.
Speaker 2:Let's see. Oh, we were talking about the song earlier. So every time you go away was originally written and recorded by Hall and Oats. Oh, for real. It is included on their 1980 album Voices.
Speaker 1:Was that man Eater on there too?
Speaker 3:I can't know that was the H2O. Was man Eater?
Speaker 1:Damn, you know your shit on that.
Speaker 3:My dad grew up with huge Hall and Oats guy.
Speaker 2:Blue Eyes Hole Dude. That's a fantastic duo of those two, Although it's really the Daryl Hall show Right Like Oats is just along for the ride.
Speaker 3:Oats is a good little. He's a good rhythm guitar. He plays his guitar and he has good background vocals, sure does.
Speaker 1:Oats is the one that looks like Baba Buoy right.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 2:That is correct.
Speaker 1:And then Daryl has the thing now, daryl's house.
Speaker 2:Daryl's basement, yeah, daryl's house.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 3:I think you're right, daryl's house. I don't think they do that anymore. I think you got rid of the house.
Speaker 1:They're bringing it back, Are they PS?
Speaker 2:the episode with CeeLo Green. Oh yeah, God, don't sleep on that if you haven't seen it.
Speaker 1:So, good, I have to check that out.
Speaker 3:No, but all of these things are good, Like whenever his he gets weird guests on. Sometimes too, You're like who's this guy? And they play really well.
Speaker 2:Oh, hell, no, who's that bitch? So the song now all right. So Daryl Hall and John Oates did that in 80. Both from Pennsylvania, then singing around oh, wow, yeah.
Speaker 3:Filly.
Speaker 2:Filly. They were like if you see you watch Rocky, you see these guys singing around a fire 50 gallon drum, would fire come out of it? Yeah, that's what they would do, yeah that was that song in Rocky.
Speaker 1:It was like take me back.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's George and a flee.
Speaker 2:Yeah With the shades, yeah, so the cover, I'm sorry, the cover that became the most popular single, the like, if you ever hear it on the radio, that one was done by Paul Young. And that was on his 1985 album the Secret of Association. The version you hear in the movie was recorded by a group called Blue Room. Oh, is that?
Speaker 1:why it was different. Yeah, yeah, it was different. I was going to say I didn't recognize the voice. I knew the song. It was some chick. Yeah, I didn't recognize the garbage version in the movie.
Speaker 2:I wish they would have used the Paul Oates or the Paul Young version.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like kids. Paul Young was the one they played on the radio. A lot Correct, yes.
Speaker 1:It's like kids, like kids bop. You know where they take him songs. You know me? Yeah, it's no good.
Speaker 3:What was the one like it wasn't, it wasn't me. What was the one you showed us? Oh yeah, the kids bop version of Alcass. Alcass. Yeah, sorry, miss Jackson, sorry Miss.
Speaker 2:Jackson, that's terrible. I think that's an abusive Like. That's those kids, those parents should be held to task for that.
Speaker 3:Whatever, whatever you said, the movie was going to be longer. There was a strip club scene or whatever they had to take out. Yeah, they said it was a was a little much too racy.
Speaker 1:Well, it was already rated R.
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah, but they said it was a little little too much, so they had the strip club that they cut out. I'd like to see that that was getting a little frisky.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. So talking about the music in this. So originally Elton John was asked to compose the theme song for this and it was never released, right, Are they are?
Speaker 1:they all completed and good to go. And then there was an issue with like who controlled the like, the rights to it and who would get you know if it was on records and whatever else. So they had an issue and he didn't release it. So it's never been released, but he had. He had the theme song done and ready to go. I think it was a polygram, was the record company Elton John was with and, yeah, it couldn't work it out. Then you talked about the Paul Young's every time you go away. That was used instead. So yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2:I was a good. I mean it's a good choice of song. I just didn't like the artists that covered it.
Speaker 3:The blue room, blue room, don't know them.
Speaker 2:Oh, so we were talking about the cut scene with the strip John. There was another cut scene, a whole actually a sub plot of the movie that involved Neil's wife thinking that he was having an affair and was just out on some kind of dalliance with this girlfriend of his someplace again for days on end. Look honey, I'm on my way.
Speaker 3:Like what do you mean?
Speaker 2:you can't come home. What do you mean? You're not home, yet you tell me you can't find a car or a train or something that can't get you home.
Speaker 3:Like really what's going on here?
Speaker 2:Neil, like that was a whole sub plot that was cut and I think it's actually that that that leads to the look on her face at the end when he gets home, like all there you go Like baby.
Speaker 3:The train broke down, Like what yeah?
Speaker 4:Yeah, the rental car was not there.
Speaker 3:Right Like come on man, but it's a movie.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's fun, so I don't know if this is true or not, as well as most of these are. But it says you know, when Dell, he says, turn me over, I'm done, and he's talking about that. He was quoting St Lawrence. He made the same joke as he was being martyred.
Speaker 3:St Lawrence, st Lawrence is not his own club, and still in PA.
Speaker 2:St Lawrence does have his own club.
Speaker 3:Good job, St Lawrence it said.
Speaker 1:St Lawrence is known as the patron saint of comedians.
Speaker 2:Yeah Is that for real. Well, yeah, he was in bad boys, bad boys too. Yeah, st Lawrence, he had his own show he did, martin.
Speaker 1:It was a good one. Matt, you got anything I like.
Speaker 2:Matt. Good catch on that. He owns a club and still and that was good- yes, he does.
Speaker 3:A lot of people go there.
Speaker 2:So again on the cut scenes, and I would love to have seen this in its full three hour plus glory it's in a vault somewhere, they said Well, I don't have the keys to that vault, but what I do know another scene that was cut that would have explained so much there was a scene that was cut was a pizza delivery to their, their first hotel room. Keep the change. So yeah, so the delivery dude brings a pizza and the beer that's where the beer came from. So there's, the pizza delivery comes and Dell gives him a dollar tip like $1. And it is because he gets shorted that $1. I'm sorry. So the pizza delivery guy was in fact the thief that came in later on and stole their ship because he'd only given them a dollar tip.
Speaker 2:That would have been great for them to include that. So also fun fact, the guy that plays that that the well, the thief that you see in the movie. Also a pizza delivery guy that you. That was cut. He was in summer school. I love that movie.
Speaker 1:That's what I want to do. He was Dave.
Speaker 4:Chainsaw and.
Speaker 1:Dave.
Speaker 3:They're the best.
Speaker 1:Do the dance for me, baby, and leather face.
Speaker 3:I love that. What year was that?
Speaker 1:87, 88.
Speaker 3:Or the parents, come they're only dead.
Speaker 1:It's the best. I love that movie. I want to do that one.
Speaker 3:It was the girl from from Cheers Back when she was attracted.
Speaker 2:Alas, she's dead. Yeah, she is. She is so early, but, dude, when she was on Cheers, oh my God she was so hot, she was super hot Mark Harman's in that too.
Speaker 3:Mark Harman yeah, that's back when he had like a career.
Speaker 1:My doctor, who's since retired, looked just like Mark Harman. It was crazy Dental, dental. So I got one last one.
Speaker 3:One last one.
Speaker 1:So you know we talked about the house that he lived in. It was like it very much reminded me of the Home Alone House.
Speaker 3:It was yeah, same neighborhood.
Speaker 1:It must be in these Illinois Chicago suburbs, these houses look all the same Like $10 million home today. Yeah, it's not more so the house they used for Neal's family home was in Kenilworth, Illinois, and the Home Alone House was on Lincoln Avenue. And when? When? A neck guy? I guess he's here, I don't know.
Speaker 3:We're trying.
Speaker 1:It's one town over, so they're basically like be like Middletown High Spire you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:I said one block over earlier. It is one town, you are correct.
Speaker 3:It's a town. I thought it was a block.
Speaker 2:It's the neighboring town, all right, I got one more quick one, yep. And then I want to close with a group discussion. So this movie was in fact rated R because in that one minute scene with the tie rate with the rental lady, the word fuck was used 19 times, 19 times 19 times.
Speaker 3:One more quick fun fact that big chest that Del carried around the whole time, that chest that they had throughout the movie, there was actually nothing in it For real.
Speaker 1:Is that for real or no?
Speaker 3:Yeah, because they're filming with it.
Speaker 2:They're not going to make these guys carry honor patterns. Oh, yeah, that might go against the screen actors guild. It was supposed to be a funny fact.
Speaker 1:Funny fact Dave ruined the whole thing Like really Really, like what's supposed to be in there, had even something Just for realism when they're carrying it, yeah, when they're carrying it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, anyway.
Speaker 2:All right so we talked on this before and I I guess we don't need to go too deeply into it. But like what are your takeaways from this movie? Like Dave, especially just having recently seen this after so long?
Speaker 1:Right, like I said, I don't, I didn't remember it all. I kind of vaguely remember the airport scene. That kind of sparked a little bit of memory. But this movie at that time, when I was that young, I didn't really mean much to me, I guess as an adult now, dealing with families and having a family and all that Like I can relate, I guess, more to the characters in it. And what I took away from is like what I said earlier be thankful for what you have, treat people, which I do, all these things anyhow.
Speaker 1:but this movie just kind of reinforces all that and it makes you remind you to like you never know what people are going through treat them with respect and dignity, try to be patient, try to be, you know, give people the benefit of the doubt, and that's just kind of a motto that you know way I try to live my life. And what I took away from that movie is just kind of reinforces all that and I thought it was very touching movie and really kind of hard hitting. And I mean it's because they're around the same age, that which actually, like I said, candy was like in his 30s, but they feel like they're around our age. You know what I mean. And then, yeah, just really took that away from it. Very nice.
Speaker 2:Any thoughts I don't know Following following St Dave there.
Speaker 3:That was good. Not St Lawrence, but St Dave, st Dave, st Lawrence own club mentioned earlier.
Speaker 3:I think it's a it's a fun yet serious type. It's a good holiday movie. I think it's something like I said. It's on a lot of channels. If you haven't seen this, like Dave was saying, you might have seen it, but they don't remember it. Zapp, you're saying it's one of your, you're the one that brought it up Like great movie to cover. I just I enjoyed seeing like these guys work together, the friendship they had in the movie just from. It's kind of like being forced to be friends, but they had similarities that they were completely different. I like what you did with the. Yeah, I like your thoughts on this, but yeah, I thought it was a good movie.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed it. It was great, yeah yeah. So certainly I. I love this movie. I happen to pick it for this. It's just a great holiday to bring everybody to together, great movie to watch. I think it's about truly the, the human condition, to the extent that you know, when you're stuck with some one person, despite how you may or like them or not like them, you're going to strike up a conversation, you're going to end up talking to them. It's just what people do, humanity, and I think it's about no matter who you are or how big your family might be. I think, as life goes on, family doesn't necessarily need to be blood per se. I think family is whatever you make of it.
Speaker 2:You know your, your, your friends, your, I don't know people you might help out here and there, people you just might know. Yeah, that's my, my takeaway from this. Like maybe that's just me being an only child Didn't come from a large family, so I I know that, just as years have gone on, like I'll, you know just if I'm clinging to groups or if I'm hanging out with certain groups for a long enough time, they are like family to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely so just like Dell in this case. I mean he didn't have shit and at the end you know he's welcomed, you know open arms, into Neil and Susan's family. So you know, in this time, circle yeah in this time of Thanksgiving. This is really like you. You had both said. This is a movie that really reminds you what you should be thankful for, no matter what that is to you. So, yeah, that's my takeaway from this one. It's not.
Speaker 3:It's not my poor show, my million dollar home it's. It's like friends and family.
Speaker 1:That's right. That's the stuff that matters most. You know, what I mean. I mean this movie, I think, reminds you of that. In the end, that's what I got out of it, but I don't know. Do we do the return burn or, like to me? I don't know. I think we ended on like a nice yeah, because this is on TV all the time, so I guess you wouldn't really have to rent it.
Speaker 3:No, it's like Christmas story. You're not renting it, You're just going to watch it. I say I say we ended how we do now. Just you know hey guys, enjoy, enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday and yeah watch this movie.
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Speaker 3:No, I'm just. I'm getting teared up now.
Speaker 2:I got it. I got one last one. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody Happy.
Speaker 3:Thanksgiving. God bless you all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, enjoy, enjoy your meals, all right, so I guess that's it for now.
Speaker 2:We'll catch you where I want the flip side If we don't see you sooner, we'll see you later.
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