Welcome to another episode of Vintage Cinema Review, where we unbox the magic of the timeless holiday classic - Home Alone! Joining us for this fun-filled ride is a true fan and connoisseur of the film, Cory, who not only loves the movie but also helps run a family business, the Jackson House, adding a unique layer to our conversation. Strap in as we embark on a jolly ride down memory lane, dissecting everything from the movie's unexpected box office success, to John Williams' iconic music, and the numerous other treasures from the John Hughes vault that we've examined in the past.
Ready to relive your childhood Christmases and rediscover the joy of Kevin McCallister's shenanigans? We've got you covered! Together, we reminisce about our favorite scenes, laugh once more at the comedic elements, and even dive deep into the meaning behind the film's title. We analyze Kevin's role as the "misunderstood" member of the family and marvel at how a mere 8-year-old concocted elaborate traps to fend off burglars. Brace yourselves as we also draw parallels between the opulent house in the film and a friend's house, and dissect the symbolic significance of the spilled milk scene and the somewhat overlooked detail of Kevin's discarded ticket.
But that's not all! We also pull back the curtain and let you in on some fascinating behind-the-scenes tidbits! From the tumultuous budget negotiations to the intriguing casting choices, we leave no stone unturned. Our conversation naturally veers towards the mastermind, John Hughes, and how his Midas touch contributed to Home Alone's monumental success. As we reach the end of our trip down memory lane, we wander into our personal experiences and musings about rewatching films and the evolution of our opinions over time. So, join us for this nostalgic journey into Home Alone, its cultural impact, and a lively debate on who wore the Batman suit best. Trust us, you don't want to miss this!
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Welcome to another episode of Vintage Cinema Review, where we unbox the magic of the timeless holiday classic - Home Alone! Joining us for this fun-filled ride is a true fan and connoisseur of the film, Cory, who not only loves the movie but also helps run a family business, the Jackson House, adding a unique layer to our conversation. Strap in as we embark on a jolly ride down memory lane, dissecting everything from the movie's unexpected box office success, to John Williams' iconic music, and the numerous other treasures from the John Hughes vault that we've examined in the past.
Ready to relive your childhood Christmases and rediscover the joy of Kevin McCallister's shenanigans? We've got you covered! Together, we reminisce about our favorite scenes, laugh once more at the comedic elements, and even dive deep into the meaning behind the film's title. We analyze Kevin's role as the "misunderstood" member of the family and marvel at how a mere 8-year-old concocted elaborate traps to fend off burglars. Brace yourselves as we also draw parallels between the opulent house in the film and a friend's house, and dissect the symbolic significance of the spilled milk scene and the somewhat overlooked detail of Kevin's discarded ticket.
But that's not all! We also pull back the curtain and let you in on some fascinating behind-the-scenes tidbits! From the tumultuous budget negotiations to the intriguing casting choices, we leave no stone unturned. Our conversation naturally veers towards the mastermind, John Hughes, and how his Midas touch contributed to Home Alone's monumental success. As we reach the end of our trip down memory lane, we wander into our personal experiences and musings about rewatching films and the evolution of our opinions over time. So, join us for this nostalgic journey into Home Alone, its cultural impact, and a lively debate on who wore the Batman suit best. Trust us, you don't want to miss this!
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https://freesound.org/people/Sami_Hiltunen/sounds/527187/ Eerie intro music
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https://freesound.org/people/Exchanger/sounds/415504/ Fun Facts Jingle
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Thanks for tuning in to the Vintage Cinema Review on this week's episode.
Speaker 2:We're covering from 1990 home alone, starring Macaulay Caulkin, who took Vincent Van Gogh's the Screen, painting just a little too far.
Speaker 3:Yeah, instead of decking the halls with the Tinsel and Holly, it's more like booby traps.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we got a special guest here, corey. What's going on, corey?
Speaker 4:Nothing, just excited to be here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so he's here for the review, one of his favorite movies, so we hope you enjoy. Speaking of which, if you are, leave that fire star rating on Spotify, on Apple, you can leave a written review, sit back, relax and enjoy home alone.
Speaker 4:And keep the change. You filthy animal.
Speaker 1: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, silence is golden and be kind rewind. Hey guys, how's it going? What's going on? Hey, long time no see yeah we're back here in the basement and it looks like you got a special guest in here tonight.
Speaker 2:We got a special cellar dweller this evening.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my brother-in-law, corey's in the house. What's going on, corey?
Speaker 4:Nothing, guys. Thanks for having me honored to be on the ODB podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, when this movie came up, you're the first one I thought of, just because this guy quotes movies like nobody ever heard.
Speaker 3:Other than maybe Zap Upstairs. Yeah, you were kicking some lines up there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I somehow useless information sticks in my head like that.
Speaker 3:You fit in very fine down there you come to the right place.
Speaker 1:Perfect for sure. So yeah, corey's family owns the Jackson house, and not because we're brother-in-laws, but to me definitely the best sandwich is around, probably the best sub I've ever had. Best burger 100%.
Speaker 3:See, everybody says the burgers and it's like the subs is also very good.
Speaker 2:I'm going to leave the burger. It's a good burger, but I'm going to go. Mrs Andrea Oli and I'm going to go to 9th in Washington.
Speaker 4:Sharp provolone man.
Speaker 2:All day with the peppers on top.
Speaker 4:Those red peppers, yep.
Speaker 2:Every time one of those two, and it's a struggle to decide On a filly roll On a filly roll, you've got to have the filly roll Absolutely the pizza dough stuff around here is no, yeah, that's not a sub.
Speaker 3:People don't know that in no way With the yeah. It's just like the rolled dough on the yeah. They're in like the little balls. You don't need that, I'm curious.
Speaker 2:I mean, you guys have been around for years, decades, the rolls. That's a longstanding relationship, I'm guessing yes. So bodies of mine are in the biz. They go through a what is it? The baker's exchange or something like that, where they can pick from six to a dozen different vendors and it'll just come out to them however they order. But I mean, you've been direct for again forever.
Speaker 4:Yep, since I can remember, I mean 41 years in November. Actually my dad had it and he goes through what's called Philadelphia Bakery Merchants where you can. They go to different bakeries around filly, take a whole bunch of orders in, drive it down to Harrisburg, make six in the morning and drop them off all over the place.
Speaker 3:That is so when you get rid of like Japanese old ones, you probably go through so many. You know we sell out.
Speaker 4:but I do have day old sometimes that I sell for like I put four in a bag for a buck Okay. But, by then they make a garlic bread or croutons or something like that. Yeah, but they're still good.
Speaker 1:I can speak to that. We had some before and did that, made croutons and stuff out of it or make garlic bread, like you said. My favorite is the New Yorker. I get New Yorker with bacon, but I love a Jackson burger.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Jackson burger Jackson sauce is like top notch.
Speaker 1:Now I was going to the Jackson house before I knew Corey like that. I've loved it forever. Definitely, if you're in Harrisburg, you got to go to Jackson house. Sixth and boas.
Speaker 4:I'll be the man taking your order.
Speaker 1:Yeah, corey you heard you on ODB podcast, let him know. But Corey's here today because we're going to talk about Home Alone. So Home Alone rated PG hour and 43 minute runtime on this release date, on this November 10th 1990 in Chicago, which makes sense because that's where it was takes place, and then World, or worldwide, I should say United in the United States, released on November 16th 1990. So right before Thanksgiving, I didn't realize this. The music in this was done by John Williams. I don't know if you know that name. Star Wars yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So if you didn't know John Williams, he did Star Wars, and there was Indiana Jones. I mean the list goes on and on, directed by Chris Columbus. This was written by John Hughes and produced by John Hughes. He comes up a lot in the basement.
Speaker 5:I feel like we've done pretty much every John Hughes movie.
Speaker 1:Budget on this 18 million box office 476.7 million God damn, I'm killing them. That's a lot.
Speaker 3:What you said like yeah too, like worldwide too. This thing was like nuts Prestige Worldwide.
Speaker 1:And they didn't think, they didn't expect it. You know, that's what the crazy part was. They're like oh, it'll be a nice little holiday movie. It's a lot of Jackson burgers.
Speaker 4:That's a lot of J burgers for sure.
Speaker 3:So is that the cool like? Is that what you call them? Then, like, if I go and order a J burger, you can order that way.
Speaker 4:I just want to communicate with my dad who's making them. I say, this one's a J burger.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, yeah, I'm going to use that. That's a swing, yeah.
Speaker 2:Inside lingo inside baseball. Yeah, that's it Like that Inside baseball.
Speaker 1:So filming dates on this February 14th 1990 through May 14th 1990. This was filmed primarily in Winnetka, illinois, which is like a Chicago suburb, and they did some scenes at O'Hare International Airport and actually the scene in France at that era was actually in O'Hare. They just changed the sign out. I'm sure they inflated France for that.
Speaker 3:No, that's how you make that big money yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's pretty much it for the budget and all that fun stuff. I'll turn it over to Zap for the cast.
Speaker 2:Sure, now this is a long one because there's a shit ton of cousins for the cast. We've got Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McAllister, john Hurd as Peter McAllister, kevin's father. Catherine O'Hara as Kate McAllister, kevin's mother. Angela Goethals as Linny McAllister, kevin's older sister Hilary Wolfe as Megan McAllister, kevin's oldest sister Michael Marona as Jeff McAllister, kevin's older brother Devin Retray as Buzz McAllister, kevin's oldest brother Jerry Bamman as Uncle Frank McAllister.
Speaker 4:Cheapskate yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, diana Campanou as Sandra, kevin's cousin. Kristen Minter as Heather McAllister, kevin's cousin. Jedediah Cohen as Rod, kevin's cousin, jedediah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, jedediah. What form did they find him on?
Speaker 2:Santa Moses as Tracy, kevin's cousin, anna Slotke as Brooke, kevin's cousin, matt Doherty as Stefan Kevin's cousin, kieran Calkin as Fuller McAllister, kevin's youngest cousin, jeffrey Wiseman as Mitch Murphy, joe Pesci as Harry, daniel Stern as Marv Roberts, blossom as Old man, marley John Candy as Gus Polinsky, ralph Foodie as Johnny the gangster, michael Guido as Snakes the gangster and finally, kenneth Hudson Campbell as Santa.
Speaker 3:Wait, the guy's last name is Guido and he plays a gangster.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, yeah right. That's his cool typecasting. Why didn't?
Speaker 3:he play like Pesci's part. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2:Fun fact and I'll spit it out now. Oh cool, yeah, fun facts. Ralph Foodie, who played Johnny, you know, get out of here, you feel the animal. Michael Guido, the one Snakes who died. Their roles were supposed to be flip-flopped.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Guido, Snakes was supposed to be Johnny and Johnny was supposed to be Snakes. However, Foodie who played Johnny, he'd had knee surgery, Yep bad knees or something. Yeah, and he was recovering from that so he couldn't fall to the ground to act dead, so he played Johnny. How about that? And the rest is his joke.
Speaker 1:There it is See. Back then I thought that was an actual old school movie. I didn't even know that they actually shot that for Home Alone.
Speaker 3:Just as a kid. Yeah, that was a made up movie to me.
Speaker 4:Angels with filthy souls yes, yeah, and then the second one it's Angels with even filthy souls.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because my dad would watch stuff like that on Turner Classic or whatever, and I'd just be like, oh that's, my dad probably seen this movie you know, what I mean. But I guess that's it for the cast, so we'll turn it over to Matt for the brief synapses.
Speaker 3:All right, this is for everyone who has not seen Home Alone. Well, it's six of you.
Speaker 4:Oh, it may be even less, maybe even less, I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't want to give the whole movie away but there's no way to not do that.
Speaker 3:So spoilers in here. Yeah, when Kevin's family left for vacation, they forgot one minor detail. Kevin, oh, eight-year-old Kevin McAllister, has become the man of the house overnight, accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas feast. Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays, but he's not decking the halls with Tinsel and Holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in and Kevin's rigging became bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them. The All Star Supporting Cast includes Catherine O'Hara and John Hurd as Kevin's parents, joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the burglars and John Candy as the polka king of the Midwest. Written and produced by John Hughes, uncle Buck, the Madcap Slapstick Adventure is one of the top three box office hits of all time. Ladies and gentlemen, home alone.
Speaker 1:Nice, nice, that was a good one.
Speaker 2:It's interesting to hear the dating on that synapsis, the dating. What do you?
Speaker 3:mean Like the movie dates itself.
Speaker 2:Correct when you read. So that's from the back of a VHS cover Con. To be absolutely clear Now with that. If that movie came out in 90, let's pretend, let's just pretend that the VHS that came out in 91. Right. So you're talking long time ago, 32 years Maybe. Back then it was one of the top three grossing movies of all time. That has since been surpassed, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:I'm sure it's that quote about liars, yeah.
Speaker 1:I wonder why at that time we probably say Star Wars right Home Alone. Then what do you think? The third one is Indiana Jones. That's a good guess, I don't know. What do you think, corey?
Speaker 2:Jaws, jaws, jaws. That's up there. What do you think? Do you know the answer?
Speaker 3:I don't, oh you're just acting like an antique. No, I don't know. I don't know, that's a mail bag event. Yeah, that's a mail bag Send that in Real genius.
Speaker 1:Real genius had to be. Yeah, that one's up there.
Speaker 3:Either that or better off dead Could have been. John Hughes was not in either of those. No.
Speaker 1:So, corey, when's the first time you remember seeing this movie and like, did you love it or did you off the bat?
Speaker 4:Me and my brother used to watch it all the time when I was like five years old and we just and especially more the second one because he liked the Walkman or the Tulk Boy he had in the second one. But I still at first, when I watched it all the time, enough to know like pretty much every line. Every line I'd probably say when I was about five years old.
Speaker 1:So Corey's a little younger. Well, you know what year were you born 87.
Speaker 4:87. Good Lord, god damn it Young. But so when this came out.
Speaker 1:You're like three.
Speaker 3:Corey's like 22.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know right. Oh man, I wish so. When this came out, you're like three, so this is a couple of years after you probably caught it on the like VHS copy.
Speaker 4:We had the VHS watched it all the time. Word out word out.
Speaker 3:See, I was thinking about like about us here in the basement, the three of us, Dave and Zapp I don't remember like going to see this movie.
Speaker 1:I thought it was because I think, do you? I went twice to see this because I loved it. Dear God, did you?
Speaker 2:go with two different jokes, dude, I was going to say that Same one twice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just thought the movie was great, Like I enjoyed it. I know it was in ninth grade, but I was like this movie is like great.
Speaker 2:I thought it was good. I don't know, For you alone did you take a chick?
Speaker 1:No, no, I went with like a girl I had a date.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you should have gone with Dave twice.
Speaker 1:I went with it twice yeah.
Speaker 2:With the same chick yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, because it was just kind of like there was nothing else out. I don't know I mean it was like. I was this or Rocky V, so I'm like Rocky V.
Speaker 2:I'm not one to say anything because I mean I've been to the theater to see the same movie a couple of times too. I mean there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1:Right Now we went to see. I mean, we used to go to that same theater East Five, over by the mall. And there's limited, you know. I know it says five theaters, but you know it'd be limited on what was out like four theaters, the size of this basement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, right, I mean I was 14 at the time, whatever I mean. I think at just the time it was just like, ah, let's go see that again. Like I enjoy it, like I know, looking back it seems like maybe a little childish movie in some ways, but I thought I think, well, I don't want to foreshadow what I think about the movie, but I remember like thoroughly enjoying it.
Speaker 2:I know I did not see this in the theaters. No, nor did I. No.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:I know I see commercial.
Speaker 3:I remember commercials and things for it. You definitely didn't. You were 30 years old.
Speaker 1:Yeah, does it make it better? I was on a date.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:Dude it's cool Again.
Speaker 3:It's cool Again so, but I know I, this will not even be in my rotation of date movies.
Speaker 1:No, what would you go see Like with a check? I'm kind of like I know dances with wolves because of how long it was. So you get like yeah, because that was your chance to go. You know, make out or do whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you're like a four hour. I remember a group went to see dances with wolves. Were you, you were there, I wasn't there.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you were in there.
Speaker 2:The Ice Ice Baby Movie that was a big one, cool was Ice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cool was Ice.
Speaker 2:Did we see dances with wolves at the Eric on Dairy Street, on the Eric on dairy?
Speaker 4:their theater right there by Petsmark. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no.
Speaker 3:I was that at the five, or were you there? Did you go there? I think there was a group like 30 people that went one night.
Speaker 1:I remember seeing zap at a theater and you were seeing free bully or something. You made a joke about free and Willie, what?
Speaker 3:are they gonna say he's like major your popcorn?
Speaker 1:I was on a date with the, the other girlfriend. I had yeah and you were coming out of a theater and so it's something about free and Willie, mmm, it was at the colonial commons, I believe, theater possible or out that way. But yeah, this movie I definitely saw in the theater and I liked it somebody better get their fishnets.
Speaker 3:You had to get dropped off.
Speaker 1:To that though for a free Willie For home alone yeah, 14.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you're parents, or her parents dropped you off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my parents are 14. What was I might?
Speaker 2:have walked there, you could have yeah, look, I'll crush this all right now, just to make you feel better All right, okay, yeah, definitely so 1990, that movie there's, this movie home alone was the number one grossing movie domestically yep Worldwide, and I do you know what the number one grossing movie of 1991 was, I'm sorry, 1990 of the, the whole ball, the whole marble dude 1990, that wasn't it. No, it was ghost.
Speaker 4:Oh, Patrick's way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can't mess with Swayze. Now fun fact. Mm-hmm. I went to see that movie. I had no idea what it was about. We had some time on our hands. I want to see that movie with Jeremy Thomas. Oh for swear to God.
Speaker 1:Did you read?
Speaker 2:No idea. It was a stupid ass. Love story had no idea. I mean going to see whoopee Goldberg. I'm gonna have her right. Yeah, yeah, had no idea. Walk that are, like you know, like like John Candy and Steve Martin in.
Speaker 4:About the Bears leave a seat in between you guys.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3:Popcorn, that was like yeah, like the elk theater in Middletown he would just go. I don't they had there. Whatever was playing was playing.
Speaker 4:You just want to get out of the house or fly here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you like meet some friends out Mm-hmm, I get it. Yeah, I just I didn't think you. I would have thought you saw it after it's. Yeah, I know, I think I saw it sometime after high school, so I've had to been oh for real. And I remember when, um, when my oldest daughter was like into movies, I remember we would watch it like every Christmas. That's where it really could you just see it over and over and over again.
Speaker 1:I took off after that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they haven't yet 24 hours of a of home alone, yet in Poland. Oh, that's nice. I'll come on the fun fact yeah we're premature, but they have already done 24 hours of elf.
Speaker 2:I know that They've done Christmas story, so I'm saying already this year oh okay, just Thanksgiving week, I didn't even know that. So they did 24 hours of plane, trains and automobiles. They did 24 hours of elf. Hey, I mean, they had a Harry Potter marathon that lasted four fucking days.
Speaker 3:And that was Star Wars. Star Wars just went. They had all the Star Wars in order.
Speaker 2:They played that over and over they played the Lord of the Rings on. Rotation they played back to the futures in rotation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I guess we'll steer our audience to the movie and talk a little bit about yeah. Yeah, I've been to home alone.
Speaker 2:Let's brush some broad strokes and just talk and be tweaked. So the night before the McAllister's and their extended family are set to travel to Paris for Christmas, kevin, the youngest of the residents at the house, is forced to endure seemingly constant torment from his entire family. After being sent to the attic bedroom as punishment for fighting with his older brother, buzz, kevin curses his entire family's existence and wishes they would all just disappear. The next morning Kevin's wish comes true, as he's left behind while his family makes their way to Paris without him.
Speaker 4:Hmm, hmm, I made my family Disappear. Yeah, it was a his dream.
Speaker 3:They're all full of white privilege. Yeah, these kids come on, there's a foreshadow that.
Speaker 2:So I mean, like Kevin's running around the house right, the house is teaming. I mean I named them. There's like a dozen cousin, 25, some people in the house crazy yeah and a partridge in a paratry.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, Doesn't Pesci make a joke about it being a like a?
Speaker 4:Parents like an orphan.
Speaker 3:It's in it oh dude nailed it Absolutely quick fun fact into that. They were saying that Joe Pesci, he was like cussing this whole because he was like trying to say these lines and he was so used to the characters, yeah so they kept saying look man, you got it. He's fucking kids in here. And they're like no Joe, like it's a kids movie. Yeah, you got a mellow out. I'm ready to like shoot people.
Speaker 4:Mr Macalester said go get your fucking shine box. Yeah, I'll be back.
Speaker 2:I'll be back, just keep him here. So Kevin actually foreshadows that when he's again. All these goddamn kids are running around it and nobody's paying attention to him, or they're pushing him around or doing whatever.
Speaker 4:Oh, they're eating this pizza.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And he says the plane yeah, when I grow up and get married. I'm living alone. Yeah, yeah, lo and behold, he just knew it was coming.
Speaker 1:What do you think? In the title of the home alone, did you notice the? The e is Lowercase. Yes, why?
Speaker 2:because it's to me as I see that you see all these capital letters and then you see just the little e. You also have all of these Adults, adults and or more important people than Kevin, and then you just have a little old Kevin hanging out.
Speaker 1:All right, there you go. I was thinking about that. Looking at the title, I'm like what's with the lowercase e? That makes sense.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so they bought how many pizzas? And had one cheese pizza, knowing he likes pizza and 12 pizzas. Oh good cuz, somebody owes me 120 was it 12 or was it 10? I think it was. No, it's 10 pizzas for 12 bucks. Oh, there it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah total cost of pizza was 12250 that's it again.
Speaker 3:Goes to like nobody wanted to pay for it. Mr McAllister, yeah, money bags. Whatever he did like I think there's a comedian that does jokes about it. Yeah, living in that house and yeah, a pan for everybody to go to Paris for big for Christmas. True, yeah, like the most pizzas are I remember like my dad getting.
Speaker 3:If I had like a like a birthday party, they'd be like three and then when they're going, they're going, yeah, like some chips dominoes do none of that, yeah, none of that fancy stuff, no, no. Heroes, yeah, and a little nearest little heroes.
Speaker 2:So even then. So we're talking 1990, $12 a pie. That's a expensive pizza. Chicago man, yeah, but these were just flat hand-tossed pizzas. This wasn't deep dish, yeah, right, but yeah, I see what you're saying. Maybe the cost of living in Chicago was that high. But damn, 1990, $12, maybe marked it out because of the house.
Speaker 1:Maybe that's baller house speaking of that house.
Speaker 2:So I got a Very long dear friend of mine, long time dear friend of mine, his house. I think you said just bought that house.
Speaker 3:I got no problem, tell you he's Relatively wealthy.
Speaker 2:His house Mirror image of the home alone house around here, yeah. West Shore. West Shore, it is an incredible, incredible house and you, just as soon as you drive up to it, yep, I've had Macaulay. I could see Macaulay caulking from here.
Speaker 3:So your friend lives at Wegmans.
Speaker 2:Okay, something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's awesome and that brother buzz I never really thought about to a watching any kind of Reminds me a biff.
Speaker 2:See it, that villain. Now true, the French babes don't shave their pits, yeah but they got nude beaches.
Speaker 4:In the winter when our time yeah, I had.
Speaker 3:Kevin was like the bully in the family. It's like all prickish yeah, like spilling shit. Spoil little kid yeah.
Speaker 1:Did you notice when the milk spilled and they were wiping stuff in the trash? Did? You see his Ticket away.
Speaker 3:Yeah it was in there. Yeah, they kind of kind of pointed that to me oh.
Speaker 2:Oh, so nowadays with that, what's that show on HBO? What's the section?
Speaker 3:Thank you Six, six, brother Kieran with Succession, kieran.
Speaker 2:to see Kieran is that little baby? Oh, caulk, and yeah, did he do anything?
Speaker 4:in between, he was also in Waco on Netflix.
Speaker 2:Okay, watch that.
Speaker 4:He was one of the dudes in that.
Speaker 1:Was it the. Waco with the David Koresh.
Speaker 4:Yeah, the Koresh thing was he one of the he was one of the kids who, like one of the outsiders that went to look like there to live there. Okay and then he started to like this girl and then he kind Of like wanted to stay. But he didn't want to stay. That was him, oh.
Speaker 3:Hmm, but isn't his character in that session? Succession is.
Speaker 2:It's pretty cool. It's weird. The dialogue in that, in that show, is just weird. Like they think really quickly or they're led to believe that they think on the fly just so quickly. But I mean, hats off to them. They have to memorize a lot of dialogue to get all of that out in that show.
Speaker 2:If you're familiar, but I think they try to do, give a shot, they try to do like billionaire speak to they should they use words and stuff that if you're like that's what you're like, what the hell's he told you yeah yeah, when buzz said, when buzz told Kevin and the other cousin the story about Old man Marley the notorious you know shovel slayer, yeah, did he do that on the fly or was that just because you hear it later? Like, oh, you might have heard a lot of stories about me, says the Marley dude. Yeah, is that the whole neighborhood talking or is that just buzz messing?
Speaker 4:with him. I think it's the whole neighborhood, because he just was like check it out, old man Marley, and then they're like they go to the window and he tells him a story and like he just, and then the church. Later he's like you know, there's a lot of rumors going around about me.
Speaker 3:I think it's like the whole town. I think, right, okay, it's like they know that's how I'll which lady at the corner house on the street.
Speaker 4:Like he can fit six bodies in that little trash, can he's?
Speaker 3:right.
Speaker 2:So that neighborhood kid I should say the neighborhood kid is played by Jeffrey Weisman. Mm-hmm that kid is from one of my particular favorite movies overboard.
Speaker 1:You tell my the original over and they count when they're counting them gas mileage.
Speaker 4:Of the van driver, that's right always doing is asking a million questions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that kid, he was the one, the one of the Suns in overboard the og, not the fucking new one, but the og right, he talked like peewee Herman. Oh, okay. He was, you know, member of the gruesome ghouls and whatever.
Speaker 1:Right, he was initially gonna. I think he was out going for the part of Kevin in that too.
Speaker 2:Is that right yeah?
Speaker 1:yeah, but he, they already kind of had Macaulay caulking in mind for this was Mac and anything else before this.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Uncle Buck, Uncle Buck. Oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he was younger in that Uncle Buck it was even the one where he got like stung by the bees and died my girl.
Speaker 4:That was later, okay, and then the good son was later. I think he can't see without his glasses.
Speaker 2:You, should have won an Oscar for that. So, fun fact, I have never seen either of those two movies.
Speaker 3:Oh, for real.
Speaker 2:I've never seen my girl. I've never seen Uncle Buck.
Speaker 3:How'd you know about the damn glasses?
Speaker 2:My wife has said that quote about a hundred times.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you have to see.
Speaker 3:All right, also in this too, I guess he was the only one. I guess is I don't know if it's a fun fact or not, but he's the only one that they didn't give any kind of script.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:He did the whole, the whole shit on his own.
Speaker 2:He is the king. All right back to. Meanwhile, back on track here. For a while. Everything is as Kevin had hoped. The whole house and its contents are his to enjoy. But after an attempted burglary of the house by the wet bandits and a run-in with old man Marley, kevin realizes his fears and vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, kevin's mom discovered his absence mid-flight and is now frantic to reach her son, kevin. And while the wet bandits are burglarizing a neighborhood home, they learned that Kevin's family has in fact traveled to Paris.
Speaker 1:First-class, they ran. Yeah, kids and I do.
Speaker 2:When they're ripping off the house. They hear the.
Speaker 4:Machine. He calls the Murphy's and says hey, warm Paris. Let me give you the number here.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that scene, to that fun fact, was actually filmed in a pool, in a high school pool.
Speaker 1:They built, they built the oh yeah, so yeah, okay it's pretty neat.
Speaker 3:I thought that was. That was kind of cool. Yeah, can we?
Speaker 4:just talk about how inept the cops are in this movie. Oh yeah, oh my god, you want us to go to your house just to check on him?
Speaker 3:Yeah, he's a see. That's. The movie should have been over.
Speaker 4:Cops are called like there's no one home.
Speaker 3:The house looks secure. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1:You gotta suspend this belief.
Speaker 2:I guess you know I was dude, I was just watching this last night I was thinking the exact same thing, so a smart kid, or at least a kid that's taught well, don't answer the door if we're not home. Just don't answer the goddamn door. Mm-hmm, in this case it's a cop.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I.
Speaker 3:Mean what he was. He was worried about the cops already and his defense remember would there be something like anything?
Speaker 1:Well, wasn't that the scene right after they were trying to break in? Yeah, he was worried about the cops.
Speaker 3:But the cop would have listened to the mom. The mom was going through the radio.
Speaker 4:She. He would have said they would get in the house and get him.
Speaker 3:He was like well, I don't know if he's left here, there's everything's here. Like you said, secure or whatever. Like the movie would have been over. There would have been like a all-points bulletin out looking for this kid. Oh, like they would have shut down the airport. Like we need to find this kid.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right, though, about that Looking out for the cops, because earlier that day he had shoplifted a toothbrush.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:That's where they tried to melt it in and try to fix it in is like oh, he's afraid of the cops, as cops you know.
Speaker 1:Oh that's right, cuz they chased and by the way, the dude that works there, jimmy's totally lost.
Speaker 4:Like you couldn't Catch a second grader bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, come on a break. You aren't from the city, bro, so buzzes, trunk of goodies, huh? Hmm, playboys, playboys, off firecrackers. That'll save for later when Kevin is shooting that gun at the little sports figurines. What is the name of those figurines? We, we had them as kids.
Speaker 1:It was like all sports or I know or some shit. Yeah, the one was a Larry bird.
Speaker 2:Larry. I couldn't make out the other two they were these figurines, you, and they were Hugely collectible and they were awesome and everybody loved them late 80s, early 90s, that was before McFarland and all that, the real good ones the real good ones, like I have some like farland ones, yeah, but I don't remember what they were.
Speaker 3:I know you're on the right track. Everybody opened, by the way, too. They weren't like a collectors. Then they are today, yeah, but then it was just something you like opened up and played with you're on the right track.
Speaker 1:With pro in the name, it is all pro like yeah, bro, there it is all pro Yep. There you go.
Speaker 2:That's the one all pro figurines. Yeah, dude, I mean damn, they had hundreds, while they had every. Literally everybody on every team.
Speaker 1:Well, there's definitely Larry bird, water Peyton, one guy, look like a Yankees guy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, I didn't even look into it like that much who would have been like early 90s Yankee star.
Speaker 3:Maybe as mad it could have been, a maddingly yeah was it. Number was like 30, something I could make out a number.
Speaker 1:I just can make out the uniform. I look like a Yankees uniform.
Speaker 3:One was definitely gold, white socks or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it could have been. It was Yankees yeah.
Speaker 4:I always wanted that BB gun when I was little hell. Yeah anything for that dude? Hell yeah man.
Speaker 3:See, we did that. Um, I don't know if you remember right, grammles the colonels, grandma's house like her basement, but we he had a BB going we go down there and set those up, shoot things all the time, dude, all the time couple, couples, couple Mickey's big mouths.
Speaker 2:And now I'm like a BB gun. Now I'm left to shoot the squirrels in my backyard.
Speaker 1:Did you notice? The one officer's name was Sergeant Ball Zach.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I did.
Speaker 3:Oh, he's the one that answers with the doughnuts dropping it on the.
Speaker 4:Sergeant balls act just reading the canned lunch. As a child been involved in a violent altercation with a member of his immediate family.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean a break and also noticed that a brand I've heard in a while on the TV was a Emerson.
Speaker 4:Yeah, emerson, yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't think they're around anymore.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 3:They made on, they made stereos too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, emerson, they made all that stuff.
Speaker 2:It's funny when you're talking about the Emerson or the Stereos or the tellies or whatever, when Marv and Harry are sitting out in the van and they're talking about, yeah man, you know the reason why we came to this neighborhood like I want that house, I want that house. They're rattling off all the things that might be inside worth value and Harry the first thing he says oh, they got stereos, vcr. I guess they were that expensive. They were like 300 bucks. 300 bucks back in a day was a lot of money. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:And it comes full circle. Now they're Expensive, again sometime they are.
Speaker 2:This is our in this little segment here. This is our first glimpse of angels with filthy souls. Yeah, that part, so that the dude that played snake, the guy that dies forever, and I mean up until I swear to God, just yesterday I thought that actor was Joe Azuzu. Oh, for real. You remember Joe?
Speaker 1:Azuzu the commercial guy. He would lie all the time. Yeah, this gets 140 miles per gallon, it's the best.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I swear to God. I thought that was him.
Speaker 2:It looks like no it's dude Guido, oh we Michael Guido, michael Guido.
Speaker 4:Hey, I love it. I love it Speaking as a Guido. I love it. Yeah, how?
Speaker 2:about how about? Oh, kevin, at the end of this here he runs up, he's almost run over by the wet band it's, and he's chased down and shit like that. He ends up hiding in the nativity scene Like he's, like you know, mary, or one of the wise men just hanging out with Jesus, right, come on. How could you tell, and where did he get the blanket that quick.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, you got the blanket and the shepherd staff.
Speaker 3:He's sitting there Like showing dry they came up with that after they figured out the cops would have like done something different. So they're like we'll just throw whatever. Yeah, we don't give a shit. Enjoy the movie.
Speaker 2:It was a spare, all right. So that night, anticipating the wet bandits returned to his house, kevin stages a party scene, temporarily throwing them off track. The next day, christmas Eve, kevin carries on with domestic duties and once again foils the band its efforts. Desperate to return to her son, kevin's mom finds her way onto a flight to Scranton, pa, where she meets Gus Polinsky who, along with his polka band, offers her a ride to Chicago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the polka kings, Polka polka.
Speaker 3:Polka, polka. You never heard that. We had a couple hits in the night.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I'm rambling on here.
Speaker 1:That's the part that was improv, I think. All that part, he just kind of went off on. I had a question, though like I didn't notice any accordions in that, Did you Nope and that part of polka music, I thought?
Speaker 4:I think in the truck. There is one, oh, is there one?
Speaker 3:When they're sitting in the back of the truck, I think so, okay, I don't think you can be considered polka music without an accordion Not in steel, no, not in steel, definitely not in steel.
Speaker 2:Matt, what were you gonna say?
Speaker 3:Oh no, I was just talking about like. That scene is iconic. They still use that in commercials and everything today with the the party scene yeah, the party scene, oh yeah. The car out the mannequins Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was pretty inventive for an eight year old to come out, or nine year old, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Why wasn't this guy in Yale or some shit Like? This kid is like like come on man.
Speaker 2:I think about again. I'm willing to go with you know suspended disbelief here. But me, if I had to do that at my house, dude, that would take me like two days at least To set it up, hell yeah, tying the strings and everything. My God yeah, tying the strings, making sure the train's doing the thing, right Laying the track out the turntable going. Making sure that, when Michael Jordan's on top of the train, that Michael Jordan doesn't follow off with a train.
Speaker 3:Yeah, where'd he get that shit? Like he robbed a foot locker or something like that.
Speaker 4:I think Buzz had it yeah, Buzz, Buzz had it okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they're rich kids so they get whatever they want. True, I was like having a fat head Like nobody had, like a cart or a thing back then.
Speaker 1:No, but those Jordan things were. His cutouts were big back then. I think I remember seeing them everywhere.
Speaker 3:Where would you get that? I know they were like at stores, but I don't see. I never knew of anybody having one in their house.
Speaker 2:So you can actually buy the wow shit. That's the Michael Jordan one. I was gonna say a woman with whom I used to work years ago. She had cutouts of life-sized things of four Captain America, but she had gotten those, I think, from the theater.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I guess that makes sense whenever they're done with a movie.
Speaker 2:Maybe they did get them from Foot Locking because this was before the internet.
Speaker 3:Yeah, Well, I mean with money, like that. I'd be like how much is one of the guys like, I don't know, I want three of them, yeah. Yeah, give me whatever.
Speaker 4:I spent 1983 at the store for milk tide bread like all that stuff I'm like damn, I'm jealous.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the good old days. Geez, I know, geez, geez, geez.
Speaker 3:But anyway too, like going to the Joe Pesci's character and the other guy, like you would see that, like you're looking at two, like that looks so cheesy, like you wouldn't be, like that's some fake shit. Man, let's get in there, this guy's terrible.
Speaker 2:The pizza guy came back with that single cheese pizza, that's all. Kevin Wanneman came in my god damn cheese pizza, scared him off. Scared him off, I guess, the bill was 20 cents. It was 1180, that's right. It was 1180, 12 bucks. Keep to change. You felt the animal like the timing was right on with that.
Speaker 4:Oh he's money. I can never do that with the remote control.
Speaker 2:Oh, the timing.
Speaker 4:Imagine how bad he, how good you have to be with the pause in it.
Speaker 2:Oh, my god On.
Speaker 3:VHS.
Speaker 4:On VHS Again.
Speaker 3:yeah you could never stop anything one time in a minute, and then it would be all fuzzy, you couldn't even see it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he kept knocking at yard, jockey over too Every time he pulled the car out, dude, yes, okay, how many times was a yard jockey knocked over in total?
Speaker 4:Well, let's see, once by the pizza guy in the beginning, once by the air guys he come to pick them up, and then another time by the pizza guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I counted three. As well, I'm gonna say three yeah, I counted three. Damn, I put it.
Speaker 4:I don't think you see the guys from the airport knocking over. I think you see him just putting it back up. That's correct.
Speaker 2:You see him putting it back up, all right. So polka, polka, polka was the single. It was big and shabuigan.
Speaker 4:It was big and shabuigan.
Speaker 2:Huge and shabuigan. What is all right, so we're shabuigan, is what.
Speaker 3:Wisconsin. Where's we're shabuigan?
Speaker 2:Wisconsin, Wisconsin. We are gonna do one quick trivia question here with Corey. What is the name of Gus Polinsky's band?
Speaker 4:The Kenosha kickers.
Speaker 2:Well done, nice Well done.
Speaker 3:I thought they were the polka quads.
Speaker 2:Five points, griffin Dors, well done. The polka quads yeah, the polka quads. They're from around here, right? Steeldon? Yeah, well, I don't know if they're from Steeldon, but I know for damn sure they play in Steeldon. They perform their polka quads. The happy slovenes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they said. The Bresler picnic that's like a polka band is not a polka band, unless they play the Bresler, correct.
Speaker 1:That's like the Red Rocks yeah.
Speaker 3:They're like oh, we did it, Joey, we made it.
Speaker 2:Yours truly played at a Bresler picnic once oh shit, I got to sit in with the happy slovenes.
Speaker 1:Oh, for real, yeah Is that plays the accordion.
Speaker 2:To be clear played.
Speaker 1:Played.
Speaker 2:A little rusty.
Speaker 3:Don't hate on the accordion. I just saw a show Dude. The Bacon Brothers had a whole accordion, they had a solo.
Speaker 2:The guy had a solo. So unless you're in either a John Cougar Mellon camp backing band or the Bacon Brothers backing band, once you get to high school it's all of a sudden not. Grade school is awesome, but once you get to high school it's not so cool to play the accordion, Promise you.
Speaker 3:Promise, but it helps you learn music.
Speaker 2:You got to read music again 100%, then you pick up guitar.
Speaker 3:You can play guitar, all of that.
Speaker 1:It's unique man it's different. Yeah, For sure.
Speaker 4:That reminds me of that line he says to Marley, where he's like I could have sweater with a kitten there or something knitted on and he's like a guy could get beat up in the second grade for wearing that. Yeah right.
Speaker 2:It's true.
Speaker 3:It's true Is that Kieran Kalkins' character, who said that.
Speaker 4:No, macaulay said it, macaulay said it, marley in the church.
Speaker 1:Later on he was sitting in the church, the old man yeah.
Speaker 2:All right. Well, the jig is up. The wet bandits have figured out that Kevin is home alone and they plan on robbing the house that night. Meanwhile, kevin begins to have a change of heart. Seeing other families sharing Christmas Eve in the neighborhood and learning the true story of old man Marley. From the old man himself, kevin realizes the importance of family. So that's just a little quick, little interlude, right? So this is where he's, at the church, talking to Marley about the shirt. What else, oh? He talks to the Santa. He talks to the Santa. He says no, no, no, I understand how this works. All you guys just dress up like Santa that pulls his beard up, and then you send the message. What does it send it off?
Speaker 4:to the real life. I know, did you work for him?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's he get at? Like three tic-tacs.
Speaker 4:Tic-tacs, don't spoil your supper, he says.
Speaker 2:Oh god damn, that's good.
Speaker 3:Again, nobody figures this kid just hanging out by himself hanging out at church at midnight, Nobody's questioning it.
Speaker 4:The cashier tried to press him and he was like he just slapped her down. He just had an answer for everything.
Speaker 3:I'm off to the car. I can't tell you yeah, come on Like a lady.
Speaker 2:I'm eight years old. Do you really think I'm here alone? I don't think so, right, do you really think I'd be left here alone?
Speaker 1:Fun fact on that, santa Claus. I mean it was a fun fact, but I'll bring it up now. You know who's going to play that part, who was to play that part? I do Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Chris Farley, that's it. Oh man, that would have been perfect. He was rejected.
Speaker 3:Really yeah, they said no to him oh.
Speaker 1:I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you didn't read that yeah.
Speaker 1:I didn't read it. He got rejected. I just thought he just didn't do it.
Speaker 2:It was either John Hughes or Chris Columbus said you just don't gel with what we're doing here.
Speaker 3:I think it was too much Saturday Night Live I think he was too big about it. I was going to say he was big by then. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:I think he even played it on SNL.
Speaker 3:I think it was just too much for the movie, just over the top they didn't want to take, I don't know, make the movie any cheesier than it already was, I guess.
Speaker 2:So they never discussed what ever happened with Marley and his son. I mean, I know they had a falling out, but they never talked about what was said.
Speaker 4:Yeah, he just says. I think he says to him in the church. He's like we had some exchange words and I told him I didn't care to see him anymore and he said he felt the same and that was it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a shame, disagreement or something, and it's so sad seeing the grandfather sitting there with his granddaughter in the choir and he can't say shit too, that's a shame, man. He's not welcome there.
Speaker 3:Should we call the cops on him?
Speaker 4:So life coach Kevin McAllister he's like some straight like he does with the pigeon lady in the second one.
Speaker 3:I need to see his SAT scores like this guy.
Speaker 1:Freaking Kevin Boy genius.
Speaker 2:So it's interesting. So we showed up here in the house proper of the basement and the Christmas tree is already up, already decorated, and all that stuff. Not a single tree in the McAllister house, not a single decoration, nothing. Now I get it that they were going to be away for Christmas, but they only left two days before Christmas. A house like that, all those kids of their own, mcallister proper, you'd think you'd have something up.
Speaker 1:Isn't it that old school way where people used to do that the night before?
Speaker 2:The night before yeah, christmas Eve so that's, I think, where Matt and I are coming from. There's no way I would be willing to put up my tree now, because I would get Christmas out.
Speaker 1:I think it's two or three, I agree, this is not me upstairs. I get you, I get you, I get you, my wife's the same way.
Speaker 2:No, I think they do it. I think we try to do it like two weeks, three weeks before Christmas and that's like the max.
Speaker 3:You got to get into December, like right after Thanksgiving, as early.
Speaker 1:She wanted to do it before Thanksgiving. I'm like absolutely not. I was like I'm not doing that, I'm putting the foot down.
Speaker 4:I'm telling that.
Speaker 3:But I think the McAllisters gave the nanny the week off before so they could go on their trip, because they weren't setting shit up themselves. That's a house. The dude got too much money, man, it's true, he ain't doing that. He ain't getting a tree, he's like he's in a group.
Speaker 1:His mom definitely ain't cleaning that house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mom ain't cleaning that shit up Wait did we ever? Conclude, what does Mr McAllister do for a living?
Speaker 1:We have no clue. We don't know. Nobody ever knows. He's a drug dealer probably.
Speaker 2:There is an old tale told by wives about his involvement with the Sopranos.
Speaker 1:A mafia.
Speaker 2:There's a guy. So there's a guy in the Sopranos in one of the episodes where you see him and you're like, yep, that's him. That's him, like it's definitely that actor. And years later they tie that back and say, yeah, well, of course, that's how he afforded that house. He was working with the.
Speaker 3:Sopranos, Chicago mom was huge.
Speaker 1:You would think, though, those guys, if that would be the case, that they would know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they wouldn't mess with them. Yeah, they just got out of jail and stuff.
Speaker 2:Marvin Harry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, are they low? They're too low on them.
Speaker 2:They're too low.
Speaker 1:To know who's the boss.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're not. They're not in the circle Right right, right Joe Pesci is.
Speaker 3:he would have known.
Speaker 4:He kills main men. Yeah yeah. Right right.
Speaker 1:He does.
Speaker 3:And he's like oh oh. I'm thinking he got him. He's like oh.
Speaker 2:All right, let's get back to this one. So Kevin ready himself for the wet bandits arrival with a barrage of booby traps. After more than a dozen injuries, the bandits are led by Kevin to a neighboring house, an address for which Kevin had called the police and reported a burglary. In process, as the bandits prepare to exact their revenge on Kevin, old man Marley saves the day by knocking them out. The police arrive not long after and arrest the bandits.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that guy in that shovel man, he's always carrying that around.
Speaker 3:It's a thing I don't know, I don't get these booby traps that he had, because when I was that age I couldn't set a mousetrap properly.
Speaker 1:I was afraid I'd break my finger or something the micro machine.
Speaker 4:Well, they allude to that, dave, in the beginning. His dad says, hey, all these micro machines and whatever, nearly stepped on one and broke her neck. So that's the kind of thing and like oh, he planted the seed. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Is that guy still alive? Micro machines guy.
Speaker 1:I haven't seen him in a while Because he had a quick talking guy, like that was the thing back then.
Speaker 3:So it was the guy that made all the black dude from police academy. Oh Mike, that was the whole career, like the late 80s, early 90s.
Speaker 2:Fun fact, he was also the quick talker for FedEx.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, yeah, that guy was Yep.
Speaker 3:You have one of the first yeah, the first big FedEx.
Speaker 1:I would think Michael Winslow is still alive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he is?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I don't know if he is.
Speaker 3:He was fighting as like mid 40s, 50s then. Who Micro machines guy. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Not to be confused with the Winslow from Family Matters.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what that's.
Speaker 4:Carl Winslow.
Speaker 2:Carl Winslow there you go there, you go, big guy.
Speaker 1:Big guy TGI Friday.
Speaker 3:Do you see there was a thing coming out on Erkel. He sells weed. Now Erkel does Really. Jella.
Speaker 2:White. He's got, he's got Erkel. It's what was his like. There's an Erkel brand of weed. What was his like?
Speaker 3:Is that like a thing that you can get at the like, the stores Like? I want some. I want some. Erkel.
Speaker 1:Shit yeah Did you watch?
Speaker 4:that show I'm going to get you all. Oh must be spent. All that Family Matters money, I guess Geeks you out.
Speaker 2:Did I watch Family Matters? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what was the smooth version, erkel?
Speaker 4:or Stefan Erkel yeah, when he got into the machine. Yeah, yeah, I liked him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like oh, stefan.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's like it's the same dude. Yeah, it's the same dude without glasses.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Without glasses.
Speaker 1:I wonder if, even though he was famous in that Jella White playing Erkel, like if it hurt his game?
Speaker 3:outside of the show. They said they have a whole thing on E coming out about that. Like how, when he was like being the only like black nerd on television, like like he, what like girls be like? Oh, you're Erkel, I'm not, yeah, but he would have like dude, would have like mental breakdowns and shit. What'd you say?
Speaker 4:I said he got so much ass Really.
Speaker 2:Fuck, of course he did. Of course he did Say it again.
Speaker 4:Say it again. Can I do that? Yeah, he'd be at a bar late at night in New York.
Speaker 3:He was like, oh man, that's great, I love this guy, yeah, but like he was having like nervous breakdowns and stuff According to this whole E thing coming out on him.
Speaker 1:How can I only imagine? Yeah, oh man, because that's your character.
Speaker 3:He'd be like 20 years old, like still playing like a 14 year old nerd yeah.
Speaker 2:In honor of our special guest, I'm looking for the. I'm looking for the total number, and what they are, of all booby traps, and Kevin inflicted pains on the wet bandits.
Speaker 4:OK, well, let's see.
Speaker 2:This includes I'll even give you the first one and the last one. The first one is Kevin shooting them with the BB gun through the dog door OK. The last one is Kevin cut in the zip line with the pruning shears. Ok, if you can give me the other ones in between. You are a super fan.
Speaker 4:Let's see In between that we have Marv sliding down the ice steps.
Speaker 2:Ice Basement door Yep.
Speaker 4:We have Harry touching the hot knob with the M on his palm. Yep, then Marv comes in and Let me see he steps on the nail was that the wait? No, is that it was in the basement. Yeah, he's.
Speaker 2:That's that that all these count.
Speaker 4:Harry opens the door with the blowtorch on his head. Yep Kicks the door and let me see here Marv hits the nail, comes up front. Harry gets the feathers in the face with the.
Speaker 2:Rarely dressed like a chicken. Yeah, take your shoes off. Yes, fun fact, that was the only time the term hell was used in that movie.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, uh-huh, oh. And then buzz says ass. He said I wouldn't let you sleep in the same bed with me if you were growing on my ass.
Speaker 1:There was a shit in there too.
Speaker 2:There was yeah, that's right. One shit, two hells, one ass. Yes, all right, so I had that.
Speaker 4:So one of my serum stepping on the ornaments through the window, yep. Slipping on the micro machines Yep, where he loses his gold tooth. Oh no, the paint cans where he loses his gold tooth.
Speaker 2:Yep paint can't.
Speaker 4:Let's hear the string that they trip over and I guess we can count the tarantula he puts one that is correct.
Speaker 2:We can count that, and then you miss two in the big, yet too much to in the big.
Speaker 4:Yeah, let me see here, let me go back here.
Speaker 2:Yet icy basement stairs, mm-hmm. Oh, you're missing it when he steps.
Speaker 4:Oh the iron.
Speaker 2:More of the iron on his face, the iron on the face, but there was icy basement stairs. But there was also.
Speaker 4:Oh yeah, I see front steps, I see that is, in fact, all of them.
Speaker 2:That is a total of 14 booby traps, and Kevin inflicted wounds. What about?
Speaker 3:the window, the. Oh, that's the rope. No, no, no, the. They were made out of candy, but the ornaments oh yeah, crush the ornaments.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's my favorite scene, dude that was heroic. Well, that's great.
Speaker 3:Like why? Why? Home alone is just like you having your own kids now or before that. You know, it's just a movie.
Speaker 4:I watched when I was little and it's things like that stick with me, like when I hear something like that, I I remember it. If I watch it once or twice, like I just remember it. It's weird, like that. I mean I can do it with a lot of dude, he's phenomenal at it.
Speaker 1:That's why I thought of him when he because we quote this all the time home alone. We'll quote like I say something and it'll hold like say a quote to me.
Speaker 3:I'll just come out with the quote in any movie like maybe the fourth on the on the reviews man, come out with the. With the one-liners I'm having a blast.
Speaker 1:This guy here with like Lyrics to rap lyrics or music whatever, he'll just retain it. It's amazing. But this movie especially. I thought him because we talk about it all the time. Speaking of which my favorite part when he gets up and he's going over the tree house, he says to him he's gonna call the cops and what he's not calling the cops from a tree house.
Speaker 2:That's. I was gonna actually just point that out next. That could never happen today, because all these kids got phones.
Speaker 3:One of the whole movie wouldn't happen with this off right, mom you take you take away the whole movie.
Speaker 2:That's right, right, you left me home.
Speaker 3:Yeah, mom, I'm home. They would have turned around. I still don't see how they didn't. Kevin's like the biggest prick in the family.
Speaker 4:I know no one knew it. Yeah, no one even cared about him. Yeah, just on the head count, she counted that kid by mistake. That's it.
Speaker 1:It's definitely hard to believe that a mother would not Like. Mothers are usually so on top of that stuff, that's why home alone, too, blew me away.
Speaker 3:I was like really.
Speaker 1:Well, look how much money in me Trying this again.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm again. Yeah, exactly that's what I was like, really you're gonna forget him again.
Speaker 2:So, it's I. I came up always hearing that you, you never want to have the most expensive house on the block. I can promise you that the mccalisters had the most expensive house on the block. The the clear evidence of that when you look across the street at the Murphy's house a little blue two-story piece of Trailer park trash yeah man compared to this mccalister mansion.
Speaker 4:Right Damn with the big fence and the Long driveway and the detached driveway tremendous.
Speaker 3:They're doing that shit in Hershey. Now if you drive, if you drive down Hershey, you know where they have like the um, the mason's place there on the corner, like going to the right hand side, do you have like that fruit stand and yourself?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, down there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, if you go left down that road take. They're knocking out like those old, like Hershey homes. Yeah, I did, I did uh yeah, they're like knocking houses out completely and building brand new homes on them. So, like you see, like these old home, old home, three million dollar.
Speaker 2:Old home. I have seen that.
Speaker 3:Do you see those little Hershey house? I mean they're like two bedroom, little Cape.
Speaker 1:Cod, yeah little Cape. Cod tiny. Cape Cod and they'll add out and add all into them and do, but I did want to like. I for my side business, I do home theater stuff and uh, I did work for a couple that have a house that roads called um I think it's, is it oak avenue or maple maple?
Speaker 3:maple. Maybe they're all tree related. We were just there on that parade of homes.
Speaker 1:So these people bought this house? Hmm, a hoi paloi, yeah right, these people bought this house for probably 700 800,000 and gutted it and then put another, probably five or 600,000 at least it's like we're doing.
Speaker 2:Look, this is simple. The the dirt in Hershey is worth it for many people For that exclusivity, but it's. It's the same as it's going down to the shore, or if I'm from Philly down the shore down the shore. So you go to any one of these beaches long beach island, avalon, stone harbor, you name it they buy the dirt and they knock that shit down completely, just so they can build their own. They want it for the dirt. They don't give a shit about the house.
Speaker 1:Right, but there is some rule in that area that with Hershey that you cannot change the exterior too much. It has to keep that.
Speaker 2:That feel that feel and that look, so I know that exists on chocolate avenue, on the main drag.
Speaker 1:Well, this road that they're on that's that matt's talking about it's like a wider road that runs through parallel with like chocolate, but down kind of on an angle, and if you, if you knock down and build, you have to like submit your plans and it has to match the. The architecture of the time, architecture of the time, so that's why that house, they left the exterior the same and then all the interiors all updated and modern. But is that ton of money?
Speaker 2:I'll give you another quick fun fact on those Hershey huts. So those houses, let's not forget those houses were originally built for and given to Hershey employees.
Speaker 2:It was like it was a town for her she was like a mining town, yeah, but you work for me, I'll give you a house, yeah, which was absolutely true. So there was a thing there's still, to this day, deed restrictions, because Hershey didn't die I mean relatively all that long ago, so there are still families just now dying out that still had deed restrictions. That were basically If you, if you no longer, so that's the thing. Like you work at Hershey and you retire from Hershey, you get to live in this house the rest of your life. However, when you or your Wife or whatever the hell whoever's left, dies, hershey proper gets the trust, or the Hershey cow cow gets first dibs at if they want to buy that house or not Like it's. I should say they, they get first right a refusal.
Speaker 3:Are you saying, like the family that works for Hershey, like the one that when they die, like they can't give it to their relatives, or anything like that?
Speaker 2:Correct. They can't will it down With. They can't will it down without Hershey's consent, saying you know what? No, it's, it's yours. It's been long enough. You keep it. It's fine. Like hershey has first right, a refusal to say fuck off, get out of that house. That's our property. He's the one brand for Hershey and then we just gonna go on.
Speaker 3:That's some baller as shit. Yeah, that's really baller.
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Speaker 4:Oh, I've never tried the pronios meat. I love meatloaf.
Speaker 2:Do not sleep on this now, not the stuff they already cooked and is in the deli case. I'm talking about it's. It's prepped and cold in a little roll. It would a one pound pan in the meat case. Fun fact, they got a meat grinder there specific for the meatloaf. So they take the three meats and the spices Into the grinder and it extrudes all at once so you get that super smooth. Uh, just that perfect consistency of meatloaf. Like you can overwork meat. I mean, look, you make a burger. For too long You're working that thing until in a boulder right.
Speaker 2:So soft, so amazing. Pronios meatloaf ready to cook in the meat case. Don't sleep on that. Yeah. Delish Yep, always coated with one slice of bacon.
Speaker 3:Oh right, so what mccallister worked for Hershey then?
Speaker 4:Sounds like he lost him. He used to have a Chicago branch, yeah.
Speaker 3:Chicago branch Surprise, they didn't open one there.
Speaker 2:So, uh, oh, I'm sorry. Before we move on, I guess marv gave it away with the the wet bandits.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I knew every house you did. Yeah, we know every house you did, because you left the goddamn sink going, you idiot dumbass. All right, well, it's christmas day. Kevin's christmas wish comes true when his mom arrives home after a long ride with the polka guys. The rest of his family returns not but minutes later. Despite his father finding harry's gold tooth on the floor, kevin keeps the tail of the wet bandits to himself. Across the street we find old man marley reuniting with his son and his family, and right before the credits roll, our movie ends with buzz yelling to kevin as to what happened to his room. Hmm.
Speaker 2:So the the polka guys right, this ride back is great. So kevin's mom's losing her mind like on the worst parent of all time, the worst parent of all time. And Gus is like no, no, no, no, no. You want to talk about bad parents, joe, over there, he forgets his kid's name, ziggy. He's never met his kids, eddie. Well, let's just hope none of them ever write a book about them. And Gus left his kid in a funeral parlor. I love that.
Speaker 4:He's like, oh, he came around after a couple weeks started talking again. After seven weeks he started talking again.
Speaker 3:Tom shit I guess that was good then. I guess that was he came up with all that then too, maybe off top of his head.
Speaker 1:He would shock me one bit. As talented as he was.
Speaker 4:Yeah, john, can, he was.
Speaker 3:When did he die?
Speaker 1:He was young, like 40 or not even 43, 43, not not the picture of health, but no, no, no no, we talked about that in planes, trains and automobiles, which we just did that he he was having problems during that filming. Yeah, like.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they told him to work out. They brought in exercise equipment for me, he said yeah thanks, but no thanks, yeah, I didn't even use it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they said he never touched it or Steve.
Speaker 1:Martin said you know he would go there.
Speaker 3:He's like I ain't touching that shit Like I think he did. He smoked who John candy? Shit, yeah, absolutely. And.
Speaker 1:I'm sure he didn't like leave the bourbon alone, or?
Speaker 3:anything, I'm sure either.
Speaker 4:No no he might have had maybe one or two may.
Speaker 2:Jackson house burgers Maybe, maybe One or one area, because that's a hearty hearty burger half.
Speaker 4:Oh my god, is that what it is? Half?
Speaker 2:pound.
Speaker 1:Half pound. Yes, sir, I had his eight ounces of beefy goodness.
Speaker 2:Interesting to find that the family arrives home minutes, yeah, literally minutes later wasted all that. Yeah, all they had to do was all she had to do was call the hell down and wait. To the next day. No really, that shows the love of a mother. That's what they were trying to. I think she would Brought she would, she would you know deep over buildings to get home to her kid that she never should have left in the first place.
Speaker 3:Kevin's playing all tough.
Speaker 4:He's like mean mugging her until she's like I'm sorry, and then he's just like okay, I forgive you. Look, he was a kid, he's just learning how to act, second grader yeah. Yeah, that made his career though.
Speaker 3:Sure did, made his career.
Speaker 2:Fun facts. Oh, it's about that time.
Speaker 1:Yes, we love fun facts. We were throwing some in here and there we were premature fun facting.
Speaker 3:But that's always fun.
Speaker 4:Back appetizer ladies love that, yeah, so I thought this was an interesting one.
Speaker 1:I didn't really ever look at this movie this way, but some people considered us to be a kid's version of diehard. Do you ever think about that? What one of the best Christmas movies of all time. One of the best.
Speaker 3:Christmas movies of all time.
Speaker 1:I'm not getting into this argument I.
Speaker 4:I will remain neutral.
Speaker 1:If you think about it, similar as diehard with a kid.
Speaker 3:Diehard came out with 89, so I was before this you could tie a lot of movies together with anything if you reach, but I see that I could see that. Yeah, Bruce. Willis the man, poor Bruce Willis. Yeah, god, that is such a shame that is such a shame dude.
Speaker 4:I know man I saw that video of his daughter with him like holding their hand. It's like he just looks like a shell. Yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 1:What are they saying he?
Speaker 3:can't remember like lines, or he can't remember shit. It's going away, man, not for nothing.
Speaker 2:I don't need to see that you know what I know man. The world doesn't need to see that like leave the man alone, leave his family alone. I don't know, that's just messed up, man, I don't need this month by month catch up on.
Speaker 4:Bruce Willis as to how he's withering away. That's awful, I know right, maybe just don't want to work anymore.
Speaker 3:He's just a little like lied about it.
Speaker 1:He thinks I don't know like Bruce man. No, I don't know, they're like Bruce man I don't want to remember that.
Speaker 2:So, fun fact, this film was originally financed by Warner Brothers. Yes. And when the budget got to be too big, huge ran to. Hughes actually had 20th Century Fox like on Standby on the back burner. Yeah, Is that legal?
Speaker 1:No, like they weren't allowed to see the script. I guess or know about. I guess there was some. I watched the thing on that. I don't know if it's the same thing you.
Speaker 2:It was on Netflix, the movies that made us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had referenced that. They had left the script lay somewhere that they kind of stumbled upon, but it was put there as kind of like sure. So there was definitely a gray area there was.
Speaker 4:I left my script here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, was anyone seen it Just walking by this table at a restaurant? Oh whoops, this fell out of my pocket.
Speaker 1:You can keep it. Chris Columbus was on there and the one guy from 20th Century Fox was there on this documentary and they were talking about how I guess they got to talking at the commissary or something the one day. He said, hey, how's that home alone movie going? He's like, oh, it's going alright, but they're like fighting me on the budget. And he pitched it to him verbally there like what's it about? And they were. He was like man, I love this movie, like we would do it for that price and it was kind of a non. There was nothing in writing. But he's like hey, if they back out verbal thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, calm and that's what it was. But I think the budget Warner Brothers said 13.5 million is what will give you. They were looking for 14.7, damn. So it was like 1.2 million apart, get so close, yeah, and I believe 20th Century, according to this, if this number is right even went over that to 18 million and at the time they were saying that was like a cheap, cheap movie because, like some movies like I forget which ones they were referencing like 7 million, 60 million, you know. I mean these numbers were high, so it was really wasn't like they were asking a ton, but they didn't think this movie was going to be what it was.
Speaker 2:The thing is it's a John Hughes movie, right like this guy was gold yeah so it was everything you touch man.
Speaker 4:I sure thing, man, I sure thing.
Speaker 1:I would say probably for sure. This was probably the best at the box office, but all those other movies did well, I'm sure as well. You know what I mean. After this, though I don't know that they were saying that some of the John Hughes John Hughes, certainly it wasn't like was curly Sue and Max, or what was the one career opportunities and there was a couple other ones, like he never caught that success that he had from home alone, or even the ones before we really don't know.
Speaker 3:I think that's why they make so many movies, because some like you just put something out there and just you know, it might be a home alone in the dark and it might be nothing right for you what, what two guys from good fellows could have been teamed back up together for this, for this movie.
Speaker 4:Well done, matt well, man, as far as like the bandits to be the yeah, you have Joe Pesci, who could have been the other one.
Speaker 3:With him. From good, from good, fellas uh, probably deniro that's true, that's correct?
Speaker 1:was there another one to from good fellas or no? I?
Speaker 3:just think it was page they asked, they asked deniro, and I think you know what. The fuck, little kid crazy for Pesci's role.
Speaker 2:They approached two guys. The first one was deniro. He turned it down. He said hell, no. They also approached John love it's oh was love.
Speaker 3:It's supposed to be one of that, that's right, yeah, he was, he was also supposed to be.
Speaker 2:He was the second choice for Harry and he turned it down. Finally, they offered it to Pesci and he said yes, sure, why not?
Speaker 3:did it, did it, did it love us through that liar thing.
Speaker 5:Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the ticket yeah, yeah, yeah back when.
Speaker 3:I was a burglar, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I was, yeah yeah, yeah, that's, I used to love that that was a good. Yeah, that was great man so Chris Columbus as a kid, his biggest fear was burglars and that's part of the why.
Speaker 2:Why interesting? Yeah, he wanted to make this movie so he actually, I think he secretly rewrote some of this script like it came to him from Hughes and then he said, alright, thanks, I'll give this a once over, and. But he didn't take credit for it, like he's not credited for the writing this, for writing this. But he did made significant changes to this to actually make it work, like he added Marley yes and he did, he did some other tweaks to it to just to really smooth it out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, make it all just cohesive one of the big parts that he added was the, the whole back story about the, the kid, the son and the family turmoil with Marley and that church scene he was like hey, we want to make this like a more touching part, and it added that to at the end. Then with the, you know, the redemption or whatever, because why have one family reuniting when you could have two right right right.
Speaker 3:What a beautiful story. Two beautiful stories. Yes, could have been three that's the three yeah, yeah. I'm on 2.5 Kelsey grammar was originally written to be Uncle Frank. True, they wrote it for the Fraser star oh, really, what you did, you little jerk? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah like Kelsey grammar is going to be like I ain't showing up for that shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah that was I'm. That was a half a days worth of work at best, and then includes the time to get makeup on. Yeah, I read that too. Kelsey was unavailable it's something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, frazier, really or he didn't have time or whatever, like a lot of this stuff in Hollywood, I think, like it's people owing people favors, like hey, can you hop in this movie? It's a real quick scene, isn't that? A couple guys are like you know, I got other stuff going on right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah speaking of that, that's what John Candy stepped in as a favorite of John Hughes. He got it was he made less than they were saying, than the pizza boy. The pizza boy made $500 a day for his filming. Now, john Candy only worked for one day, but he made like $400, some dollars $414. That's what it was and it was 23 hours of work. Yeah, yeah, which is crazy, doesn't surprise me with.
Speaker 3:John Candy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's just like a level head of.
Speaker 3:God yeah sure, come, do it well fun he was already in his movies, though too like like Uncle Buck will make some toys and some peanut butter. Yeah, he's asked him for a favor and he delivered a favor yeah he did it and it's a stand up guy yeah, that Hollywood stuff is a lot of like people saying hey, man, you're a buddy of mine, can you just step in like this one of the? What kind of wrote it for you?
Speaker 1:like, some guys are available, some guys are not and then you know, it's kind of like me, like with you guys, like one more, one more thing, one more thing, and you keep more work, like when we're doing the podcast real quick joke real quick guys real quick let's never hey
Speaker 4:hey, just one more thing we're still waiting for our first paycheck?
Speaker 3:yeah, he has like it is like I'm gonna frame it for 375 yeah, yeah right, yeah, yeah, right now we're here, milton, yeah you said there'd be
Speaker 2:pictures, that's right have you guys ever seen the fugitive?
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's been years, all right, so there's the best Christmas movies.
Speaker 1:Is that the one in Lancaster County?
Speaker 2:No, that's witness witness.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's what the Witness fugitive what?
Speaker 3:it's the same movie, pretty much so there's an actor in that movie.
Speaker 2:His name is Daniel Robach.
Speaker 2:Yes and he was actually. So I'll take that a step back. Just, I always look at these actors and I think of the movies that I've seen them in and that's just how I know them. So in the fugitive, he, he was the actor. Just, he kept using this word. Hinky was his word, a tinky, tinky, it's like it's off, it's weird, it's obscure, it's whatever. It's hinky.
Speaker 2:He was actually hired to replace Marv. Yes, so the guy who played Marv quit because he was only paid. He was go. His part would have taken eight weeks to film, but they only wanted to pay him for six, right? So he's ugly and about dude, I want my two weeks of pay, or you know, fuck off, I quit, mm-hmm. So he quit. So they started doing this stuff with this, this Daniel Robach, and he just didn't gel well with with with Pesci, he didn't do well with the rest of the cast. So they find, after spending the money on him to do that and the time on him, they said okay, come back, original Marv, we're gonna pay you those, those extra two weeks and then he finally came back.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, they had to. Yeah, because actually I found that out too, that him and Pesci actually worked together stern and stern. Thank you stern on a movie years ago. So they were friends. So a lot of times that Familiarity, you know, you work chemistry chemistry.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there was no guy too like you're pissing Pesci over, for the guy's gonna kill you. So get this easy animal out of you. Mm-hmm, get all mad.
Speaker 1:Speaking of that, you hear that story about Pesci during this production is like an assistant. Somebody on set, basically, was telling him, hey, I need you here tomorrow at seven and he's like, no, I'll be here at nine because he'd like to play nine holes of golf.
Speaker 2:Yeah every morning. Every morning, before he had to act, before he had to go to work, he had to shoot nine or play nine holes. I was off.
Speaker 1:So he grabbed the guy by the collar and drug him in that like like he's good fellas, you know he's like tell this guy I'm not coming in and he's alright, he's not coming in before nine.
Speaker 3:Well, he went played in his nine holes of golf. You see, he too, he wouldn't. He wouldn't interact with McCauley-Cawkin at all because he wanted him to be like a. Yeah, cuz it's just what he knew from him.
Speaker 2:Are like oh, that makes sense.
Speaker 3:Like not be friendly, yeah, when he did the stuff with him like he would be like when he yelled or did stuff I'm calling cock was kind of yeah, this guy's extra menacing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's guys weird, minister caulkin.
Speaker 1:We talked about that with. Now we didn't do a vintage cinema review on this movie but miracle we went did the event for the ice hockey movie about the USA Olympic team. Now Kurt Russell was in that. He played coach her Brooks. The gentleman we talked to, patrick O'Brien Dempsey, was one of the players and it was like, oh, we're gonna get to meet Kurt Russell. They never really got to meet him. He stayed away from the players because he was saying the same type thing. He wanted those players to kind of respect him and almost be scared and he kept that.
Speaker 4:So I can see that plus, he was such a big star too, so like they would be like oh I gotta really try to act yeah right, so that makes sense it does, so I got a fun fact on this oh yeah, it's about time that house. Now you know you can live in, like stay in that house, like you can rent it out and like stay in it for. Okay, airbnb but the inside is totally it's. The inside was a set. Oh yeah, so the outside was only legit and the garage my brother actually, like two years ago he went, he was in Chicago and he drove down that street and drove right by it.
Speaker 4:There's your garage is going now. Oh, it's just. Yes, just leveled on the side, it looks the exact same.
Speaker 1:I saw like a quick video clip of it and it looks like they put a fence around it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they changed a couple things, but yeah, you're right, I did.
Speaker 1:I did hear that about the the interior shots, the only. I think they shot one or two parts inside. It was like the landing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, just the flare, that's it. The foyer is that what it was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wonder what it cost to stay there. You said you can stay.
Speaker 4:I yeah, I don't know. I have to look it up.
Speaker 3:But you can say but you know.
Speaker 4:I'm gonna stay in the home alone house and you go in and say this doesn't look like this, is it? Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Matt, this is something you had touched on earlier. So, as we're talking about this, nearly the only interior scene of that house is just basically maybe what you can get from that foyer, but they built the rest of that set for that how they built that house, all the rooms of that house, in a local gym Asium and in a high school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's right, and they did the airplane scene. That was also built in a gymnasium, on the on the basketball court, yes, and the, the flooded basement. Did you say that was in a pool? Yes, in the basement pool that was in the pool of that high school. All of all this in a, you know, a high school that was not going. You know it was unused.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was the same high school they used for a breakfast club. Oh, is it yeah cool and a couple other John Hughes movies they used it for was the high school in use or is it?
Speaker 3:was it abandoned? I think at that time it was abandoned using it.
Speaker 1:It looks like now, like according to that documentary, they were going through it and it's being used now. Yeah, school, probably his population exploded.
Speaker 4:But look at the quality of the movies back then, when you had to build the sets and you didn't have CGI just to do everything. Oh yeah, like you had to actually go build the sets and go there and do it, make sure it was not right and everything. I feel like the movie qualities were just so much better back.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I agree, that's why I personally I mean, we feel that way as well. That's why we love doing these.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's a cop out, it is me, it's beat green screens really ruining cinema.
Speaker 2:No, it's no work. It's like that AI bullshit, but you save you save so much money and that's all that's all about these days?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the bottom line just bottom line the same thing, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2:Juicy squeeze man. The juicy squeeze this movie was. The juice was certainly worth the squeeze for this movie. Absolutely damn sure.
Speaker 1:Talking about that, the, the CGI and all that. Those stunts were all done by, like you know, stunt stunt.
Speaker 3:It wasn't a guy like 20 years old.
Speaker 1:Oh, I call it cock and stunt double was 30.
Speaker 3:I was gonna say yeah.
Speaker 2:He's an old dude. There's a dwarf, 30 year old.
Speaker 3:Well, you can tell when he's going across on the, going toward the, the fun house over there or his tree house Like a big grown dude. I was like man that's terrible smoking a cigar when he's sliding down the steps.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I mean he had to thread that needle perfectly down the steps or he just smashed into the wall.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, hell yeah. Was that on Spaceballs? Yeah, the stunt, double the guys.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let me get another princess, yeah, he's got a goatee. Macaulay caulk, I just grown ass man.
Speaker 3:Yep, let's do that one again. I wasn't satisfied with that off topic fun fact.
Speaker 2:So we did that interview with what's dr McSteamy but O'Brien.
Speaker 1:Patrick O'Brien Dempsey.
Speaker 2:Patrick O'Brien Dempsey.
Speaker 1:Thank you.
Speaker 2:I had a brain fart. So Patrick O'Brien Dempsey, when he's not acting, works on sets. He builds sets, he builds, he builds props. He does all kinds of shit.
Speaker 1:You were telling me about that. I get to talk to him about that, but I remember you telling me he's gotta earn money.
Speaker 2:It's not exactly.
Speaker 4:Like.
Speaker 2:Patrick O'Brien Dempsey.
Speaker 4:I was wondering why you're saying I'm thinking, did that guy change his?
Speaker 2:name.
Speaker 1:That's the only one joke.
Speaker 2:It's like the same person. They just changed their names. But it's not. It is in fact two separate people.
Speaker 1:Is. This guy was in the miracle movie and then he was actually in Thor.
Speaker 2:Yep, he was a it was a I don't want to say a bit part, but he was one of the Agents or such as like agents of shield.
Speaker 1:You know it's crazy. What he was telling us is that they him and his buddy filmed hours and out, like I don't hours, but a ton, a ton of film. He was like man, we're gonna be all in this movie and you go to see the movie and they're like two scenes or something.
Speaker 2:Dude. We've seen that happen in a number of these movies. I see Matt shaking. He has had for damn sure like these people will come up as we're reading through fun facts and we read through all these movies we do. There are countless, you know, actors that will go in thinking, hey man, it's great, I'm gonna go to the premiere, I'm gonna see myself, they'll sit through the premiere. There's not a damn stitch of them in that movie.
Speaker 3:Yeah, not a bit but that's what Patrick O'Brien Dempsey was saying. Now they're paying. They don't have to pay actors. They just use old footage or they use the images and just put them in the background. That we don't pay anybody.
Speaker 1:No extras, yeah, no extras. No, nothing crazy.
Speaker 3:Stupid cinema, mm-hmm, that's all I got on the fun facts.
Speaker 1:I got a couple other funny fun. I never heard about this. There was a legend shit of Elvis Presley being in this movie. People said, in the one background or the one scene at the airport, the guy there like that's Elvis and in a sonat.
Speaker 4:But yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1:Elvis is dead. You know, people come up with conspiracy theories.
Speaker 2:These are the people. These are the people that say that Elvis is alive and kicking and he's on an island with Jim Morrison and Bob. Marley yeah yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1:Right, but there was like a theory running around on the internet. People were like oh oh, did you see Elvis in Home Alone? And he's still alive? But finally somebody came forward and confirmed it was an, actually just an extra.
Speaker 4:Oh good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, less than anyone think. Yeah, there's a guy there in central PA used to drive around like the Cadillac. Did you ever see the Elvis? Guy here yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have two here to Gilbert Gottfried and Kevin Pollack were considered for the role of Harry Lyme.
Speaker 4:Can see Gilbert Gottfried doing that it was a little up all night.
Speaker 1:And, and here's a list of now. We never know because this is just from the internet, so who knows if these are for real or not, but they're fun to think about. So Joe Pesci, there was saying, wasn't the first for Harry, we talked about the Nero, love it.
Speaker 3:Christopher Lloyd, bob Hoskins, dudley Moore, danny DeVito, rowan Atkinson what the hell is the veto supposed to Macaulay Culkin's character?
Speaker 1:James con Jimmy, con Stamos. Stamos yeah, that would be good. No.
Speaker 3:Jesse, he's too young for that. Yeah, kurt Russell, jean Hachman.
Speaker 1:Yeah, kurt Jean Hachman, kurt Russell, ray Romano, tommy Lee Jones.
Speaker 2:I think people are just making us up. Yeah, this is true. Yeah, john's app.
Speaker 1:Yeah, John's app was in there Peter McAllister, that was the father Tim Allen. They were saying Michael Keaton, cranston Keaton, which would have been cool. Oh yeah, I don't think Cranston was as big back then.
Speaker 3:He wasn't even looking for roles.
Speaker 1:He was in like a Seinfeld episodes and a couple things like that. Ted Danson, richard gear.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 1:No not on this budget. I'll be there getting these guys terrible. Yeah. Fun fact. Last one, suppose it nice, according to the internet, favorite film of President Gerald Ford.
Speaker 3:I could see that Well, for he was probably soft in the head at the time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3:Ford had it been 90.
Speaker 1:It was him and I. Hey, this Dave.
Speaker 4:Double Dayton yeah that's funny to think of Actors that you read off that say we could have played this role would change the whole movie. Like I think back to movies I love and I'm thinking, oh, this good dude could have played this or this dude could have played that, and I'm thinking that Would have ruined the whole movie for me, but I would have never known because I'd been like, well, this is the original.
Speaker 1:That's just the way it was. Yeah, well, we talked about that, we backed it future and they filmed it with Eric Stoltz. Mm-hmm, I Wouldn't have been the same. Nope, I mean Marty McFly is you know, michael?
Speaker 3:Fox yeah.
Speaker 1:I just couldn't picture it any other way.
Speaker 3:I do got kind of a lame fun fact, but they were saying that they didn't intend for the snow to be like throughout the movie Mm-hmm, but they'd had like a huge snowstorm. There's a huge blizzard, so like as the movies going on, there's a lot of scenes they had to take like to make like fake snow right or they use, like what the fake potato flakes.
Speaker 2:Yes put down everywhere, started to spoil then yeah, yeah, you're saying, oh, you're saying, just to keep it consistent with yeah, they wanted to keep it consistent.
Speaker 3:What was there from the storm? Yeah, so they had they had to keep filming with like snow places, damn I want interesting Chicago.
Speaker 2:I probably would have done that backwards. I was it All right. Well, look, we're just gonna film everything else.
Speaker 3:Wait for the shit to melt and then there's this stuff without the snow. Right, they're like the, the Chicago snow like feel to it. So I guess they like to maintain the snowage. Christmasy, yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 1:So, corey, usually at the end of the show we do a rating system. So it's late fee return or burn. So late fee is like. I really love this movie. I'm keeping it. You know I'm gonna pay the late fee return is like I watched it, it was good. I'm just returning it like it's just okay, and then burn is like I hate it, so we'll let you start it off.
Speaker 4:Oh, late fee for me. Late fee, you're keeping it. You're paying the late fee. I will rewind, but I'll bring it back.
Speaker 1:Right, right, right. You'll rewind, but you'll pay the late fee on it yeah, blockbuster blockbuster Okay, it's classy. What do you got that we got?
Speaker 2:that I would absolutely. It's tough to say that now because I've seen this so many times. I would return it may return, I'm not burning it, but I'm not hanging on to it just because it I don't know it's, it's that, it's that holiday one that you can. You know it's good, it was a good feel, it's all right, I'm done with it now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's one of. I think it's hard with a lot of these movies because you've we've seen them so many times. It's kind of like you can't.
Speaker 3:As for everybody listening also what's that I said.
Speaker 1:As for everybody listening also have probably yeah so many times what I'm saying is is like to rate a movie based on what you think now versus the first time you saw A movie change us so much Sure Like, yeah, obviously I'm not paying a late fee for.
Speaker 1:Whatever, but, granted, you saw it in the theaters twice, right, right, I would tell you what my answer is probably gonna be, but Like to put yourself in that, like the first time you saw it and you probably can't remember, but like what? What your feeling would be? Because there's movies I mean most these movies I'm not paying a really good fellas or something like.
Speaker 3:I remember seeing it then to actually sit down and like Watch it like, take it in. Yeah, like a lot of the characters and just like absorb Actual movie, what we do on the vintage cinema, like I think it is hard. It really is like sit there and see a movie again. Right the one, um, what was the one with Sean Penn and the other? Guy at close range at close like that's one I've really never seen.
Speaker 3:I just saw that on like to be and I was just like to sit there and watch that move. I was pretty pretty good yeah, but um yeah, like for this movie, I'd return it like I'd see it, you know, enjoy it and then take it back.
Speaker 2:But I'll caveat. At the same time, I'll return it to avoid the late fee, but I will watch it as many times as I can within that one day, two day, yeah, I might get your money's worth Absolutely. I would definitely rewatch it as many times as I could within the window, but I wouldn't Putting myself back in the back in the day when that late fee was oh my god, it's like five fucking dollars. Jesus Christ. Yeah, I would return it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can appreciate that for me. Like I said, I remember, but obviously I paid to go see it. Yeah, I really enjoyed. I think I like back then I'm 14, I like the whole ending scene with Pesci getting all jacked up and all that and I just thought it was a good movie. So I'd I'd pay the late fee. But I'm putting myself as 14 year old.
Speaker 1:Dating thinking oh, like I love that. I want to see it again. You know what I mean. Same thing with diehard. I feel the same way about that. I remember back then my dad and I rented that, watched it, rewound it and watched it again.
Speaker 3:Oh sure, you have to like take it out, put it in like the rewind. Because it took like so much faster. Yeah, they just put it back.
Speaker 2:Well, there was always the scare that rewinding so much would burn out your, your VCR.
Speaker 1:You're taking a straight.
Speaker 2:I think so. I think that was just something. Now, it was a way to sell VHS rewinding machines, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, somebody, yeah, somebody who were sitting around in a boardroom just like this. Be like. You know how we can make more money? Yeah, put it out there.
Speaker 2:Scare people into thinking that their VCRs will fail if they rewind too much.
Speaker 1:But you also think about it. There was also times where you had to rent five and you had to watch them all, like before you know, I thought it was three get one free.
Speaker 1:I'm saying so you couldn't waste time rewind it. A pop-ed other movie in. Yeah, I used to. I remember sitting watching like two, three movies in a night just to get them in, you know before you had to take them back, or you know you'd have two-day rentals or whatever. But at one time it was like you'd run them like one day, like overnight, initially, yeah.
Speaker 3:The new releases a couple of them I think you could have. That's true, there's three nights, that's right. All the new releases, that's where you like. Sat there, waited at the bin for somebody like.
Speaker 1:And you we were talking about that before we came down you got to experience all that. Even though you're younger. That was still a thing for you growing up love blockbuster.
Speaker 4:There's nothing like that's memories are going to blockbuster. Mom, can I go to blockbuster retina game or retina movie? Sure and just going nuts on it.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, see, we don't have games. There was no games when I think we started going to like a blockbuster. I have the games, yet it was just like the, the, the movies and stuff, yeah it's.
Speaker 2:Uh, it was cool to know somebody at the movie plays like amen. You know, let me know when that that when that Titanic comes back.
Speaker 4:That's right. Yeah, double VHS, that's right.
Speaker 3:Let me know that that was just as good as knowing somebody out of McDonald's. We're like I'll take the cheeseburger and then they just start banging your bag.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was that guy.
Speaker 3:Yes so it was a friend of ours, so was your cousin, actually was also.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 3:But he would. I think he was like an assistant manager or something.
Speaker 2:He moved his way.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cuz he was like yo, Like I'll take. He's like want a cheeseburger.
Speaker 2:The secret code is McChicken with extra pickles.
Speaker 3:You that mean that you'll know it's me, yeah, and then it was just like I get my bag like you know, you know.
Speaker 1:It's better than that knowing somebody at Jackson house.
Speaker 2:Truth, man, that's.
Speaker 1:That is something you feel like you're in good fell as you get pushed to the front of the line.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What do you do for a living? What's me right up front.
Speaker 3:Hey, what do you say? You Union yeah.
Speaker 2:I got admit, though, you got. You've got that Down, and I mean like so again, I'm one of those schmucks. It's just in line, waiting. But you, you got your right, because I'm not in there often enough as often as I'd like to be. There are people that come into your shop and I mean, like you could set your watch to when they're coming in yeah and I've seen you do a man Bra.
Speaker 2:You look down the line of 20 people stand on like oh hey, joey, yeah, come up here, we got your thing for you, we got it, we got it, we got it up. Oh hey, tony, yeah, it's over here, it's over, dude, every day like you've got your regulars man. My hats off to you, man, you got man, I appreciate such a great. Great system and just incredible food, incredible food.
Speaker 4:Thanks, man, what do you?
Speaker 2:say for 40 years 41 years, november this.
Speaker 4:November, 41 years. My dad I was negative five when he opened it up in 82 dang, that's crazy.
Speaker 3:That's just all he has big volumes for for the quality, quality of the yeah it's, I mean, just a little hole in the wall.
Speaker 4:But my dad's real funny about using the best stuff and not cutting any corners and everything and like you like you said about I work hard in there he won't take nothing less. I get a foot up my ass. Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:The consistency is what it is his family own. It's always the same people in there. Everything's just consistent. I mean I loved it. Like I said before, I even knew him.
Speaker 1:I've gone, I found out about it I didn't find out about it until, you know, probably in the. I guess it would have been early 2000. Well, I guess it would have been. Would have been like mid 2000s or something like that. So once I found out about it, I found out through my job. Yeah, guys, that would deliver down in that area and I was like I've never heard of that. I went down, I was hooked.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was out of school working. I was out of college working downtown at whatever, and I heard about it 2000 like 99 2000 man, I was just hooked, absolutely hooked. It's just, man, I don't know what kind of crack you are putting in that food.
Speaker 4:I get that a lot, it is so good God damn.
Speaker 3:Yeah, still saying like the 41 years around here, like you see so many places that's their food. It's called, like you know, Anthony's finest. You go in there.
Speaker 4:I was like I don't see Anthony.
Speaker 3:Don't you know Tony in here. Like yeah, they changed names so many times. You're just like man. This is saying Italian's finest.
Speaker 2:Mariachi song Making pizza.
Speaker 1:I agree, but yeah, man, I guess that's it. You guys got anything else that we missed?
Speaker 3:I mean, we reviewed it, we gave our yeah, we gave it our all to home alone.
Speaker 1:I think, yeah, I think we gave it.
Speaker 2:We gave it our best effort.
Speaker 3:I want to thank Corey for coming.
Speaker 4:Yeah, absolutely Awesome but it embarrass you on your knowledge is deep on this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you'll be, you'll be back for some movies.
Speaker 3:I got a couple of movies that I can even deeper than this Nice.
Speaker 4:I'm upset. I missed the Batman one.
Speaker 2:That's my, that's my oh yeah, that sounds like a three-to-one vote there for best, best Batman.
Speaker 4:Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 3:Are you kidding me? Look they're saying about yeah it is the best.
Speaker 1:The best, that's what I think, michael Keaton, but how many Batman's other?
Speaker 3:like 27 Batman's now, including, like all the Lego ones.
Speaker 2:I don't know how and 89 was number one.
Speaker 4:Who is your Joker? Because I like ledger, but I love Nicholson too. I feel like it was like Kobe and MJ. Like MJ and his pran.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know level. You don't think Nicholson was cheesy in that?
Speaker 4:No, I was he was he meant to?
Speaker 3:like act, like act kind of that way.
Speaker 4:He was like the pimp Joker I was thought the first one was just I'm going with Nicholson I was cheese, absolutely.
Speaker 1:I like ledger, but I mean tying it to the because I like Michael Keaton. I would say I like that as a whole, but what I what? What? Being that you're younger, mm-hmm, I would automatically think that your Christian Bale is my Batman and Christian Bale is darker yeah and I always used to think, like maybe I just like Michael Keaton because I'm 1415 when I came out.
Speaker 3:But I love Michael. See Batman, do you know what's? Who surprised me was a dude who played the vampire, like I was like oh yeah, it was a pretty dope movie. I was like he did already man which one? The dude to play the vampire, the true blood, what? What the hell's that guy's?
Speaker 1:name. Oh, norseman, are you not true blood?
Speaker 3:No, not true blood, the dude that played the last Batman. Oh you talk.
Speaker 2:Yeah, rob Pattison, oh.
Speaker 1:Rob Pattison.
Speaker 4:He did pretty good in that movie when he comes out in the beginning and they're like who are you supposed to be? He just levels that dude and he's like I'm vengeance.
Speaker 3:I was like but he did all right.
Speaker 4:I was surprised by that, but yeah, but he's no Michael.
Speaker 2:Keaton, he's nobody.
Speaker 4:I want you to tell all your friends about me, what are you, he was in.
Speaker 3:He was the original. Batman was in flash, which was cool.
Speaker 1:Flash movie was pretty cool that surprised me too. No, I'm gonna for anybody like. So what's the name? Bert? Who's a first? They were.
Speaker 2:Tim Burton, no man, bert Ward.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, that was.
Speaker 4:Robin Bert Ward was Rob no, who was Adam West.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Adam West.
Speaker 4:Dad.
Speaker 3:There was no penguin was kind of cool too, burgess Meredith.
Speaker 2:So look any of these newer Batman, starting with Heath Ledger, it's you're get, you're delving into the psychotherapy. Just weird, weird fuckers with a bad, weird funky background. Man, just like, just leave it with Nicholson man, it's just like, it's a simple character. Just, he's a bad guy, he's a gangster. Dude fell in Nevada shit and he came out with, you know, white face and green hair.
Speaker 3:Yeah, he wanted everybody look like him. So you know, feel that towel.
Speaker 1:There you go, batman 2.0.
Speaker 3:We'll go through a whole, the whole Batman series but definitely Corey, awesome man, you did great.
Speaker 1:Maybe, Napoleon dynamite. I don't know. We're talking about that upstairs.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it'll be a good one.
Speaker 2:Can we post it, man? It might make the the 2003 it would.
Speaker 1:I looked into it. All right that's a movie I like what year was it?
Speaker 2:when we do it, we'll bring it back. Oh for okay, I'm there, you go for sure.
Speaker 1:So I guess that's it for now.
Speaker 2:So we'll catch you where on the flip side if we don't see you sooner, we'll see you later. Peace, peace.
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