Speaker 1: You are listening to The Dan Patrick Show on Fox
Speaker 1: Sports Radio Final Hour. On this Tuesday, Dan and The
Speaker 1: Dan H. Dan Patrick Show, we'll talk to the man
Speaker 1: who portrayed Ralphie and Christmas story. Peter Billingsley will join us.
Speaker 1: Coming up, Brock Purty gets his first start for the
Speaker 1: forty nine ers, and his first start is going to
Speaker 1: be against Tom Brady. Here's the niners new starting quarterback. Like,
Speaker 1: your first start will be against Tom Brady. Yeah, that's that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's cool. I think it's really cool. Um,
Speaker 1: they's been playing football, are that I've been alive, So yeah,
Speaker 1: to have a first start against you know, the goat,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be pretty cool. But it's just any other game, man.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be efficient to do my thing and play football.
Speaker 1: It's not just any other game. But you gotta take
Speaker 1: advantage of what you have. You got a great play
Speaker 1: caller in Kyle Shanahan, you have a good offensive line,
Speaker 1: you have skilled position players, and you have a great defense.
Speaker 1: Just go in and try to manage a game. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be a hero. You're not back in
Speaker 1: college and that'll take you a long way. But your
Speaker 1: first matchup against Tom Brady. Tom Brady has six hundred
Speaker 1: and forty touchdown passes. Brock Purty has won that of
Speaker 1: the day, that of the day. Here comes the stat
Speaker 1: of the day, as that of the day of the day,
Speaker 1: he incomes the stat of the day. If I'm brock Purty,
Speaker 1: I go to my press conference and I say, you know,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and I have combined for six hundred and
Speaker 1: forty one touchdown passes in our career. I swear I
Speaker 1: thought he was the intern. Check in the microphone, you know,
Speaker 1: the sound quality when he was up there. And then
Speaker 1: I realized that brock Purty, who's what twenty two years
Speaker 1: of age, gonna be starting for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess he gets carded wherever he goes. He
Speaker 1: probably gets stopped when he goes into the building, like
Speaker 1: I am, I'm the new starting quarterback. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, Jimmy Lipper, sure you are. Sunday night, it'll
Speaker 1: be Tuah and the Dolphins in Los Angeles to battle
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert and the Chargers. That's seven Eastern on NBC,
Speaker 1: and Peacock will get phone calls coming up. We have
Speaker 1: an Aaron Judge, Bet and we have an idea for
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Also, the transfer portal this week over a
Speaker 1: thousand players, over a thousand yesterday, all from Colorado. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean too Colorado. Ye. No, I think both Dion's
Speaker 1: gonna have that revolving door there. It's like come on in,
Speaker 1: you're leaving, yeah, Paul. It's kind of a unique transfer
Speaker 1: portal because of COVID. A lot of guys got the
Speaker 1: bonus year of eligibility, a lot took it, so there
Speaker 1: is a kind of a backlog of players and maybe
Speaker 1: not enough spots in college football, so a lot of
Speaker 1: the trans reporter kids might be uh, sol you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, and not have a scholarship and the
Speaker 1: transper portal kids, yes, morv Yeah. Yesterday a Kada Trey
Speaker 1: Sanders wide receiver at Alabama tweeted at you got room
Speaker 1: for me? Unc wow oh wow, Oh now there's an
Speaker 1: opening at Alabama. Yea wide receiver room though. Yeah. Uh.
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Speaker 1: the errand Judge bets. Okay, here are the odds for
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge's next team. They've been updating every day, but
Speaker 1: they've been pretty consistent. There's a thirty three percent odds
Speaker 1: chance that he goes to San Francisco Giants. Twenty six
Speaker 1: point seven percent is the Yankees, The Dodgers are sixteen percent,
Speaker 1: the Mets are twelve percent, the Astro of twelve percent.
Speaker 1: Then there's a bunch of teams. If I gave you this,
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants or the field, who would you take? Giants?
Speaker 1: Are they not heavy favorites? Semi heavy favorite? I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I don't know. Oh, I'm being told that Rock Purtty
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady have combined for six hundred forty two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Brock Purtty had two touchdown throws last week. No, I
Speaker 1: screwed it up, so you can't. I can't have that
Speaker 1: as stat of the day, Correction of the day, correction
Speaker 1: of the day. Our buddy Matt Jenkins just corrected me
Speaker 1: there that Rock pretty had two touchdowns. Therefore they have
Speaker 1: combined for six hundred and forty two. Oh, would I
Speaker 1: take the Giants to the field. I guess if it
Speaker 1: was the Giants of the field, I'd take the field.
Speaker 1: Just that seems like I got more opportunities. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Dodgers are involved in this um. It
Speaker 1: just feels like it's the Yankees or the Giants. Yes, Hunter,
Speaker 1: I think it's the Giants. I don't have any inside information.
Speaker 1: I just got this feeling. You don't have any inside
Speaker 1: He's been there, done that as far as the pin stripes,
Speaker 1: unless he has this major desire to spend his whole
Speaker 1: life as a Yankee. But that's where he grew up.
Speaker 1: I guess right, that's his favorite. Why didn't you get
Speaker 1: some insight in for nobody cares if you'd go. I
Speaker 1: think he's going to the Giants that I don't know anything.
Speaker 1: I understand why he would be the Giants to be
Speaker 1: the favorite, because he already did the Yankees thing and
Speaker 1: now he wants to go home and doesn't want to
Speaker 1: be a Yankee for life. No, I think I don't
Speaker 1: think he wants to be a Giant, now the team
Speaker 1: he grew up with. All right, thank you to welcome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be great for baseball if he joined the
Speaker 1: Mets just for the storyline. There are eleven sent chance
Speaker 1: I think, just because they spend like their nuts. That'd
Speaker 1: be just good for baseballs to have him go cross that.
Speaker 1: Yeah again, justin Verlander, he launched to Grom. The Yankees
Speaker 1: don't have him. Could let's be cool, like remember when
Speaker 1: everyone was going to the nets? Nope, no, I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody went to the nets. Nothing. There's never nothing.
Speaker 1: This whole idea that the Mets are going to be
Speaker 1: good and popular, it never happens. What does not exist,
Speaker 1: It always feels good. It's like the Jets, like you go,
Speaker 1: here's the Jets. Here they come, and then they're still
Speaker 1: the same old Jets. I'll take it right in reyz
Speaker 1: over over Jeter a ron better left side of the endfield.
Speaker 1: Shut up. Yeah. Yeah. The California Angels, I still call
Speaker 1: him California Angels, the Los Angeles Angels. They have Votani
Speaker 1: and Trout and they can't. I don't know if they
Speaker 1: can compete public sentiment with the Dodgers. No, no, they
Speaker 1: have the most world famous player and the best player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they and even that, but they have no hist
Speaker 1: The Dodgers have history, they have tradition, they win, right.
Speaker 1: The Angels are curiosity. But what I want Aaron Judge
Speaker 1: second half of his career for what he's going to
Speaker 1: make the answers. Now, if you're the Yankees, it feels
Speaker 1: like you need to keep him. Can the you know,
Speaker 1: the Giants spend that money and now you have a
Speaker 1: face for the franchise. I certainly understand that. But you
Speaker 1: know he's gonna be thirty one years of age, and
Speaker 1: if you didn't think that he was going to be
Speaker 1: this great, now you think he's going to continue to
Speaker 1: be great because the Yankees could assigned him and got
Speaker 1: him at what would be considered a bargain, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: What is it that they saw or didn't see where
Speaker 1: they go? I don't know. Let's just let this play out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pull the one thing that bothers him about Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1: He's had two monster seasons and four good seasons and
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay full boat for that. Yeah. His first
Speaker 1: year was gigantic. Then he meandered around twenty seven home
Speaker 1: runs twenty seven home runs nine He was injured that season,
Speaker 1: but a year ago he two eighty seven with thirty
Speaker 1: nine home runs, which is very good. Great, Yeah, but
Speaker 1: then this year he went ballistic. Yeah. But if you're
Speaker 1: gonna say, is he gonna be more like this year
Speaker 1: or last year or the year before that? As you
Speaker 1: get older, somebody of that size, you know, those holes
Speaker 1: in your swing get a little bit bigger because you
Speaker 1: don't your bat speed slows down. But he had a
Speaker 1: wonderful year, great year, one of the great years that
Speaker 1: we've ever seen. Is that worth giving him three hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars? You're already overpaying for Giancarlos Stanton,
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole. I mean you know they that Giancarlos Stanton contract.
Speaker 1: Good God. First of all, I couldn't understand the Marlins
Speaker 1: giving it to him, and then you've found somebody to
Speaker 1: take him off your hands, and I'm like, God, that
Speaker 1: that's the worst move in the best to move by
Speaker 1: the same franchise there that they they they got rid
Speaker 1: of him after they had signed him to that huge deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: poling the Yankees, Oh, gen Carlos Stanton thirty two million dollars,
Speaker 1: a year for the next five seasons. And yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a way out of it. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at it. I think he twelve. I think they all
Speaker 1: want buck fifty. A buck fifty for five seasons. Yeah, yeah, more.
Speaker 1: But if Aaron Jets signs with the Mets, pole question,
Speaker 1: is this a Metstown? Yes? Or no? I hate that
Speaker 1: so much. It's a Metstown, It's a Jetstown? Yeah? Is
Speaker 1: it a Metstown? Oh? The media just desperately wants it
Speaker 1: to be a Mets town. Just desperate was I just
Speaker 1: have these memories of doing the show at the ESPN
Speaker 1: Zone in Times Square with you, Dan, Yeah, when we
Speaker 1: were still at ESPN, and we would go there and
Speaker 1: every everybody had to wear Mets jerseys because this was
Speaker 1: a Mets town. Now get out of here. Uh, Dicky
Speaker 1: in Iowa? Hi, Dickie, what's on your mind today? Hey? Dan,
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking the call. I just wanted to say
Speaker 1: that I'm really enjoying the Heisman slash Oscar winner comparison,
Speaker 1: and so as I'm listening, it reminded me of a
Speaker 1: story that you've told on air before. I believe it
Speaker 1: was a saving private Ryan, Yes, Oscar party, Yes, and
Speaker 1: it seemed as though it was a slam dunk for
Speaker 1: Best Picture winner. Yes, and I believe it was. Was
Speaker 1: it Shakespeare in Love that one that year? Yes? And
Speaker 1: the mood in the room was not what it should
Speaker 1: have been. No, because Tom Hanks won for Saving Private Ryan.
Speaker 1: But we thought we could have picked whatever movie party
Speaker 1: to go to. My wife and I because I wanted
Speaker 1: to take her to the Academy Awards. And I said, hun,
Speaker 1: Saving Private Ryan is supposed to win all these awards.
Speaker 1: Do you want to go to that? Or we can
Speaker 1: go too? And I started mentioning, and she goes, why
Speaker 1: did love Shakespeare in Love? I said, but yeah, but
Speaker 1: they're not winning. You know I'm winning, Gwyneth A. Pountner
Speaker 1: are not winning. Oh my god changed filmmaking with this movie.
Speaker 1: It's definitely I know. And the winner is Shakespeare in Love.
Speaker 1: It's a new world. And my wife goes, can we
Speaker 1: get into that? I go, no, no, we we got
Speaker 1: an invitation. We have a ticket to get us in
Speaker 1: Saving We went into Saving Private Ryan and it felt
Speaker 1: like they were all coming back from war that you know,
Speaker 1: they were defeated. There were casualties because nobody was having
Speaker 1: a good time and then Tom Hanks had his Oscar
Speaker 1: and everybody's like yeah, and then that was it. There
Speaker 1: was no real celebrating there. So Shakespeare in Love. Yeahs bar,
Speaker 1: that's probably like going to the Atlanta Falcon super Bowl party.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's go there, all right, Robert in La Hi, Robert,
Speaker 1: what's on your mind today? Hey? Dan? First time, long time,
Speaker 1: six foot three and a four ever fluctuating two hundred pounds. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think I have the year that is going
Speaker 1: to put this debate between the Heisman Trophy and the
Speaker 1: Oscar to the to the full test. Okay, is this
Speaker 1: best supporting best supporting actor? This? No, no, no, this
Speaker 1: is best actor? Oh okay, all right, let me here,
Speaker 1: So here we go. Two thousand and two Friend of
Speaker 1: the Show Heisman Trophy winner Carson Palmer or Best Actor
Speaker 1: Denzel Washington for a training day. I would say Denzel
Speaker 1: for training day, although I have argued that he wasn't
Speaker 1: the best actor in that movie. Yeah, po, if Carson
Speaker 1: Palmer would have won a super Bowl with the Bengals, you, Michael,
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer to do with that franchise, that would Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta go Denzel on that one. And then his
Speaker 1: uh partner in that movie. Ethan Hawk was so great
Speaker 1: in that movie. He got overshadowed because it's Denzel, But
Speaker 1: Denzel played his character was you know, limited. It was
Speaker 1: like he was this guy, you know, Ethan Hawk had
Speaker 1: to be tough guy soft, uh you know, on drugs,
Speaker 1: nearly getting killed like his His range in that movie
Speaker 1: is spectacular. And I don't even know if he got
Speaker 1: nominated for he should have for Best Supporting Actor. He
Speaker 1: was wonderful. Yeah, py Colin Firth Best Actor, King's Speech
Speaker 1: or Cam Newton at Auburn one hit wonder Monster year
Speaker 1: MVP took him to the super Bowl. I think Colin
Speaker 1: first gonna lose that one. Yeah, I think I'd go
Speaker 1: Cameron Newton Junior the third Yeah, yes, just to follow
Speaker 1: up yah yah Best Actor. Denzel Washington won Best Supporting Actor.
Speaker 1: Ethan Hawk just nominated, didn't win. He was great. He
Speaker 1: was great. I didn't like the last scene in Training
Speaker 1: Day where he got shot by the Russians like, you know,
Speaker 1: a hundred times. I wasn't big on them. They could
Speaker 1: have killed him, but he didn't have to shoot him
Speaker 1: like a hundred times. And you know, it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: come on. He'd love the movie. I love the bathtub
Speaker 1: scene when he goes over there and he's playing cards. Smoke.
Speaker 1: When Ethan Hawk is playing cards, he realized Denzel has
Speaker 1: left him when it dawns on him. Oh oh that is.
Speaker 1: And and you know, the one guy was really slow,
Speaker 1: and you know he would always say these stupid things.
Speaker 1: And then the other guy who had the shotgun, big time,
Speaker 1: big time. Bro. Don't forget. Oh I don't. That was
Speaker 1: Eva Mendes is coming out party. I think that we're
Speaker 1: there for it. Yeah, coming out party with nothing on
Speaker 1: Eva Mendes. Yes, yes, yes, indeed. All right, let's take
Speaker 1: a break, we'll talk acting. He was Ralphie and Christmas Story.
Speaker 1: Christmas Story. Peter Billingsley will join us coming up next
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Speaker 1: I didn't say say here we go all together? Now
Speaker 1: want to take me home? Okay, that's a great song,
Speaker 1: that is, But I think doesn't Tom Waits do a
Speaker 1: song about closing time, but it's not called Closing Time. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's an album called Closing Time by Tom Waits and
Speaker 1: they have a bunch of songs on it. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: the album not the song. Now, what's that song that
Speaker 1: he sings one of his most famous songs, Hoodie and
Speaker 1: the Blowfish covered it, grow Up? Is that your Tom
Speaker 1: Wasting person? I hope I don't fall in love? Yes,
Speaker 1: from nineteen seventy sties Closing Time. That is a great song,
Speaker 1: great song. Just don't let's Seaton sing it? I know.
Speaker 1: Come on coach to boy. Wait are you you're coaching
Speaker 1: ed ors? You're on there. Peter Billingsley, actor, filmmaker, producer.
Speaker 1: You can bail if you want to, Peter, but it's
Speaker 1: great to have you back. A Christmas Story Christmas currently
Speaker 1: streaming on HBO Max and Uh. Peter is a producer,
Speaker 1: co writer, actor in the movie and Uh, the top
Speaker 1: movie on the platform since premiering on November seventeenth. You're so,
Speaker 1: you're in two of the biggest Christmas movies of all time,
Speaker 1: two of the most famous ones, Christmas Story and then ELF. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what questions do you get asked more about Christmas Story
Speaker 1: or Elf? Uh? Definitely Christmas Story. The interesting thing on ELF.
Speaker 1: Um Favreau asked me to come in and do a
Speaker 1: little partner and a. I didn't take credit. I just said,
Speaker 1: let me not take credit in the role. And so
Speaker 1: it's been fun to see people realize that I'm in
Speaker 1: health and they make this connection and then they're like, well,
Speaker 1: why didn't you take credit? And I said, well, it's
Speaker 1: kind of more fun to see your face like this
Speaker 1: now when you realize it. What question do you get
Speaker 1: about Christmas Story? Well, I'll tell you. For me, Dan,
Speaker 1: it's nice to be back with you because it actually,
Speaker 1: I think there's our third time. Doesn't really feel like
Speaker 1: the Christmas season for me personally until I get a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to you. You're like the Christmas story
Speaker 1: whisperer for me. You've pulled out a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of good stories. I think probably most is it's
Speaker 1: more a statement, which is like people wanting me to
Speaker 1: understand how much the Parker family means to them and
Speaker 1: is their family. It's just like you don't understand that's
Speaker 1: my dad, that's my brother, that's my family, that's my life.
Speaker 1: And this film is touched on such a deeply personal connection.
Speaker 1: It's been thirty nine years, Dan since we made the movie.
Speaker 1: But why do certain movies take on a life of
Speaker 1: their own long after, like a slow burn Shawshank Redemption.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, for sure, I mean did okay? I
Speaker 1: think was Oscar Contender. But then it's just one of
Speaker 1: those movies. When you turn it on Shawshank, I have
Speaker 1: the same reaction. That's late at night and I turn on.
Speaker 1: I'm like a damn, Now I have to finish it.
Speaker 1: It's like you can't turn it at all, but you're
Speaker 1: not in Shawshank. Just to let it exactly. But when
Speaker 1: you go back and take us back when you first
Speaker 1: audition for Ralphie. So I'll tell you a funny story
Speaker 1: about that um which Bob Clark, the director told me about.
Speaker 1: So as a kid at the time I was I
Speaker 1: think it was around eleven years old. You get all
Speaker 1: these auditions and it's kind of a circuit. You have
Speaker 1: many of them a week. You go when you read,
Speaker 1: and then maybe you get a call back. So I
Speaker 1: went to read for Bob Clark. You read your scenes,
Speaker 1: and I heard nothing. About three months later, I went
Speaker 1: out to do a screen test in Canada where they
Speaker 1: do all this mixing and matching, and so we had
Speaker 1: to read for I had to read for Flick and
Speaker 1: Schwartz and everybody else, and they do these chemistry reads
Speaker 1: and so all the kids learn their lines. And it's
Speaker 1: funny because they always say to you, now, don't worry
Speaker 1: if we tell you to leave early. It's not a
Speaker 1: bad thing. But we know that's not what you want.
Speaker 1: You want to survive to the end. And I got
Speaker 1: through the end, got the part. Bob later told me
Speaker 1: I was, and it's just how the schedule fell. I
Speaker 1: was the first kid he ever read, and he thought
Speaker 1: in that moment, oh my gosh, this is Ralphie, this
Speaker 1: is my guy. But I can't obviously hire the first
Speaker 1: guy that I read. So he went on a three
Speaker 1: month journey of reading and seeing kids, and it kind
Speaker 1: of led back to me, you have to wait three
Speaker 1: months to find out that you were the right person. Sometimes, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just sort of the way it falls. And a
Speaker 1: lot of those auditions, you do them, then you figure,
Speaker 1: all right, well that's gone. You know, you just sort
Speaker 1: of you just sort of move on. But nobody knew
Speaker 1: Dan at that time. I mean about how these things
Speaker 1: take a life. This movie, you know, it took twelve
Speaker 1: years to get made. Bob Clark, the director, had to
Speaker 1: throw his salary in to get it done. Nobody wanted
Speaker 1: to do this movie. Full of voiceover said in nineteen forty,
Speaker 1: you know it was not a sexy leap off the
Speaker 1: page script. How do you act with your eyes as Ralphie?
Speaker 1: Because your eyes are so important in telling the story
Speaker 1: where you don't want to say anything, as much as
Speaker 1: it felt like you were telling a story without saying anything.
Speaker 1: A lot of people have asked if you know, or
Speaker 1: even said, oh, those glasses, what a great idea, what
Speaker 1: a great prop Look, I cannot I cannot see you now.
Speaker 1: I was born with a horrible vision. I was diagnosed
Speaker 1: because I was a front row student without the front
Speaker 1: row student brain. The teacher said, I don't think he
Speaker 1: can see because you still have the glasses from a
Speaker 1: Christmas story. I do. I have some of those, yeah,
Speaker 1: And I mean these are even similar. So but I
Speaker 1: think one of the things I love about Ralphie is
Speaker 1: a character, and one thing that we really pulled forward
Speaker 1: to the sequel was that he's a dreamer, you know,
Speaker 1: and he lives in his head and so much of
Speaker 1: and I think that's relatable. We all are we, whether
Speaker 1: we admit it or not. We fantasize about where our
Speaker 1: life could be, where we might want it. And by
Speaker 1: the same token, he's kind of a Nightmarr in the
Speaker 1: sense that he envisions things going horribly wrong, so he
Speaker 1: kind of lives in his head. So I think the
Speaker 1: expressiveness of the eyes comes out of the fact that
Speaker 1: he's in there and all that voiceover. He's just constantly thinking.
Speaker 1: How long you've been sitting on trying to make a sequel.
Speaker 1: I've thought about it for a while, for sure, but
Speaker 1: it's been about four years that we've actively been developing it.
Speaker 1: And the kind of impetus was listened as I said,
Speaker 1: thirty nine as a little now or never. I think
Speaker 1: we're not getting any younger. So to get the band
Speaker 1: back together, we had to kind of do it now.
Speaker 1: And it started with Nick Shank, who's written a lot
Speaker 1: of movies for Clint Eastwood, is a friend, and we
Speaker 1: started kind of breaking the story. And Nick has such
Speaker 1: a great tone, and we wanted to start with that
Speaker 1: greediness of the world in the tone. But you're reconnecting
Speaker 1: with your childhood friends one hundred percent. Yeah, Ralph, he's
Speaker 1: a father now. He's sort of an unsuccessful writer, so
Speaker 1: he's in a place where he's not really where he
Speaker 1: wants to be in. It kind of starts with the
Speaker 1: passing of the old man and he's forced to go
Speaker 1: back home and try to put on a Christmas like
Speaker 1: he had growing up in the face of all that,
Speaker 1: so he reconnects. He moved through town. It takes place
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy three, so we had to grow sideburns,
Speaker 1: which was nice. And I'll tell you Flick played by
Speaker 1: Scotch Schwartz, won that contest. He's got some real solid muttons.
Speaker 1: But you know, you try to do that and I
Speaker 1: don't know if you try to distance yourself from Ralphie
Speaker 1: as you were growing up. Not really. I mean I've
Speaker 1: had the good fortune of being able to do a
Speaker 1: lot of other things and kind of have another career
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. A lot of people run from that.
Speaker 1: I think you and I have talked about this. You'll
Speaker 1: have kind of somebody that has a wildly iconic role
Speaker 1: and they'll just say, oh, I don't ever talk about that.
Speaker 1: You know, we can talk about anything else, but not that.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, we kind of want to talk about that,
Speaker 1: just for a moment at least. But I didn't have that. Plus,
Speaker 1: as I said, all the approach of fans to me
Speaker 1: with this movie, it's pure joy Dad. I mean people
Speaker 1: like if you don't like receiving that, you're in the
Speaker 1: wrong business. The original you're in Indiana, but you shoot
Speaker 1: it in Ohio, that's right. Yes, we shot in Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Canada. Both. We shot the exterior in Cleveland and
Speaker 1: then the interiors were in the studio in Canada. This
Speaker 1: one we shot in Bulgaria, which I know, like why
Speaker 1: the economy I mean world, I mean Christmas in bulgarias
Speaker 1: the Midwest like Bulgaria, but actually interestingly looked like it
Speaker 1: when you when it is sort of the leaves are
Speaker 1: off the trees and the snows on the ground. But
Speaker 1: it actually allowed us we built eleven houses, so we
Speaker 1: built the Parker House, the pump, this house next door,
Speaker 1: and then eleven houses on what's the old Cleveland street
Speaker 1: in the movie. So it really feels like you're transformed
Speaker 1: back into the world. And that was sort of another
Speaker 1: reason of why do this movie. We had to have
Speaker 1: the resources to be able to do it right. I
Speaker 1: describe it as we had to play offense. We wanted
Speaker 1: it to be great, but you gotta play defense. You
Speaker 1: got to protect obviously against something that's become borderline sacred
Speaker 1: now in the first movie, and so he had the
Speaker 1: right resources. Also got to produce with Vince Vaughn, my
Speaker 1: good buddy, which was great, and we had just really
Speaker 1: a great team um and so the weight was worth
Speaker 1: it and we're really really happy with how the movie
Speaker 1: turned out. He's Peter Billingsley, actor, filmmaker, producer. Christmas Story
Speaker 1: Christmas currently streaming on HBO Max. When did that lamp
Speaker 1: become in vogue that people had to have? That? Were you? No?
Speaker 1: That was that was sort of Gene Shephard, who wrote
Speaker 1: all the source material and was a radio host UM
Speaker 1: for WRS where he started and did the narration in
Speaker 1: the movie. He was his brainchild. I mean, what a
Speaker 1: wildly creative concept. And what I love about it is
Speaker 1: it's like the old band doesn't care what it is.
Speaker 1: He just won something. He's going to make it a win.
Speaker 1: It didn't matter what was in that. So at first
Speaker 1: he goes it's a statue, he could care less, and
Speaker 1: then it's like, oh no, it's a lamp even better,
Speaker 1: and that thing people started replicating them, and you know,
Speaker 1: now They're everywhere I see them. You drive around, you
Speaker 1: see him in people's front room window. Even fred Gila,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's my favorite line in the movie. He
Speaker 1: was such a brilliant comedian playing the straight role. But he, Darren,
Speaker 1: was so funny, so funny, but also so dramatic, so intense.
Speaker 1: And you look at that dad, right, that feels like
Speaker 1: a dad. He feels like he's an inch away from
Speaker 1: just snapping or breaking into violence. You know, it's cold.
Speaker 1: You can tell his work sucks. Whatever he does. He's
Speaker 1: filling up ana freeze, changing bald tires. I mean, but
Speaker 1: with all that, you also never doubt the love in
Speaker 1: the home, you know what I mean, Like it's it's
Speaker 1: just there, that kind of loyalty and love. And so
Speaker 1: that's what I think makes it feel very real. I
Speaker 1: just I'm starting a podcast and so I and I'm
Speaker 1: breaking down Christmas movies. You've inspired me, Dan, I think
Speaker 1: all of our Christmas Story conversations have given me the
Speaker 1: confidence to make the leap. And we were breaking down
Speaker 1: Christmas Story is actually one of the movies. How much
Speaker 1: ad libbing took place in the original A very very little,
Speaker 1: so little in fact that even the swearing that I
Speaker 1: did when I'm beating up Scott Farcas was scripted on
Speaker 1: note cards by Jane Shephard. What do you mean note cards?
Speaker 1: Like little note cards like this? So he long hand
Speaker 1: wrote on the front and back and I think it
Speaker 1: was three note cards. And I was given them a
Speaker 1: couple weeks before and said commit these to memory, and
Speaker 1: I had to memorize them. And it was gibberish. But
Speaker 1: you know, when you're filming, you have multiple angles, so
Speaker 1: they wanted it to be consistent when we covered it.
Speaker 1: So I mean even it wasn't just like yeah, just
Speaker 1: kind of mumble something and be angry and start screaming.
Speaker 1: It was no, you need to say this. It was
Speaker 1: like a very precise script. They've been working on it
Speaker 1: for twelve years, so by the time we went, the
Speaker 1: level of preparation was unlike anything I'd ever seen, I
Speaker 1: know at that time. So you're eleven or twelve and
Speaker 1: you're getting into dangerous territory of now kids can make
Speaker 1: fun of you, or you're at an awkward time. I
Speaker 1: didn't know if if school was tough. You're wearing the
Speaker 1: bunny outfit and you know there's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: things that they either embrace you because you're a star,
Speaker 1: or they make fun of you. What was school like
Speaker 1: for you? It's, yeah, some people embrace you, a lot
Speaker 1: of them make fun of you. But I was a
Speaker 1: homeschool kid because you're traveling somewhere, okay, So I tried to.
Speaker 1: I mean, I unceremoniously got left back in the eighth grade,
Speaker 1: partly because of my grades, but mostly because I just
Speaker 1: wasn't there. So I took my g ed when I
Speaker 1: was I think fifteen, and then was a high school
Speaker 1: graduate at that point, so it was really a sort
Speaker 1: of a life of tutors and classroom and you know,
Speaker 1: on set school teachers, and then was doing homeschooling at home.
Speaker 1: I was traveling a ton, so that that probably helped
Speaker 1: cushion a little bit. You still have the bb gun
Speaker 1: I do, Bob Clark, the director gave me, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I might be the only original one and has a
Speaker 1: nice plaque on it. And the other prize possession is
Speaker 1: and this is the only one that was ever made
Speaker 1: as the original Bundy suit, and those were in a
Speaker 1: climate controlled vault that I keep. They're actually valuable now
Speaker 1: nobody thoughts we just you do. You always take a
Speaker 1: little something, you know, when they're wrapping out in the
Speaker 1: costume departments and disarray, you're like, oh can I have this?
Speaker 1: Sure you hung out with Vince Vaughan and the Swingers era,
Speaker 1: didn't you. Yeah, yeah, I'm at Vincent nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: That feels like that's that's the real Vince Vaughan is
Speaker 1: who we see in Swingers. So many great sights to Vince,
Speaker 1: but for sure just that charming, funny, great loyal friend
Speaker 1: who loves to go out and have a great night. Um.
Speaker 1: And there's also no one better to get you out
Speaker 1: of a funk if you're in one. You know, he's
Speaker 1: just got a contagious energy. Um, it's fun. And is
Speaker 1: Anne was great at not taking no for an answer. Uh,
Speaker 1: you didn't take no for an answer because you you
Speaker 1: got the sequel made. And it's great to talk to
Speaker 1: you again. It's always great to reminisce there, and uh,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. Yeah, thanks Dan. Always always good
Speaker 1: to see Mary at Christmas here. Yep, you two, Pete.
Speaker 1: That's Peter Billings, actor, filmmaker, producer, a Christmas Story, Christmas
Speaker 1: and also as a podcast, cinematic Journey on Spotify, which
Speaker 1: focuses on holiday films. He was also in Iron Man,
Speaker 1: I Believe, Yeah, Small Roll, Iron the Breakup. He produced
Speaker 1: and was in the Breakup. Yeah, he's friends. He's good
Speaker 1: friends with Jon Favreau. And then Peter was also part
Speaker 1: of Elf. Yes, Polly, you know that's not the first
Speaker 1: time we've had him on and you did a deep
Speaker 1: dive interview with him a few years ago when he
Speaker 1: wasn't really talking about a Christmas story. I have so
Speaker 1: much respect for a guy like this who can give
Speaker 1: the fans what they want and tell stories about this
Speaker 1: this classic movie that he may have told many times before,
Speaker 1: and he has the energy to do it, and it
Speaker 1: takes a lot to do that, I would bet. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had to really nudge him to do an interview
Speaker 1: with me a couple of years ago where it just
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, he's he's a producer, he's a writer,
Speaker 1: and you want to move on from being Ralphie and
Speaker 1: I said, no, you can't get out. I gotta bring
Speaker 1: you back. Yeah. See, yeah, It's very much like a
Speaker 1: band who has a hit single that didn't want to
Speaker 1: play it anymore. It's like, I don't know about your house. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I heard an interview years ago with Paul McCartney and
Speaker 1: he said, they asked me, did you ever get sick
Speaker 1: of talk about the Beatles? He goes, well, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna answer that, yes, but I'll tell you this. I'm
Speaker 1: aware that when people meet me, it's a really important
Speaker 1: moment for them, and I don't want to ruin their
Speaker 1: moment because they love the Beals. They grew up on
Speaker 1: the Beals. Whatever, he goes, and if someone comes up
Speaker 1: and says, oh, I love doing the Beatles, I'll take
Speaker 1: a picture, shake their hand and give them a little
Speaker 1: story if I can, because I could take ninety seconds
Speaker 1: out of my day to not ruin everything that they
Speaker 1: built up. It doesn't cost anything to be nice time.
Speaker 1: That is quite true. I tell you that all the
Speaker 1: time I have at least minimal kindness from minimal kindness.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a break, last call for phone calls.
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Speaker 1: a hell yeah. Marvin picking the songs, closing time songs.
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's this group of music that I
Speaker 1: played so much when I was on the radio as
Speaker 1: a DJ, and then you hate those songs, and then
Speaker 1: it takes a while. I still haven't come back around
Speaker 1: to go. You know, I'm gonna I'm gonna embrace Journey Boston.
Speaker 1: Don't look back that album Molly Hatchett, the Cars. There
Speaker 1: was probably fifteen of these bands. Where you go? I
Speaker 1: could do without playing that song ever again. Yeah, Paul,
Speaker 1: that was big in my wheelhouse journey seventh eighth grade
Speaker 1: school dances Faithfully Lisa Kur dancing. Yeah, gotta do what
Speaker 1: you gotta do? Yeah, yeah, yes, Marv. Yeah. I could
Speaker 1: just see people at Huskies right now, strangers. So that's
Speaker 1: the Yukon bar Huskies. Yeah, Huskies, thirsty dog sports bar.
Speaker 1: WILLI manic? Come on? I was all over? Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course you were. H Did you find Tom Waits? I hope,
Speaker 1: but I don't fall in love with you? Who's Tom Waits?
Speaker 1: He's one of the great songwriters. Now Tom Waits playlist
Speaker 1: all day tomorrow? No, just Tom Waits Now, I hope
Speaker 1: I don't fall in love with you. Let's go. We
Speaker 1: got three minutes. It's bringing. It's a great song, wonderfully written. Uh.
Speaker 1: This dame in sports history? What we learned? Uh March
Speaker 1: Sebi Swiley Dat dude will be on the program tomorrow.
Speaker 1: What to watch for tonight? We don't we have to
Speaker 1: watch for tonight. This is tough, Dan. No Mac football
Speaker 1: seasons over and they should keep going they should just
Speaker 1: keep playing Mac games. That's true, they're not. I have
Speaker 1: a game you should actually watch tonight, Lakers at Cavaliers,
Speaker 1: seven thirty pm Eastern on tin NT. Cavaliers are favored
Speaker 1: in that game, correct, fair by five. They're fifteen to nine.
Speaker 1: But the Lakers have headed very good two weeks. Yes
Speaker 1: they have. I'm gonna tune in for the entire stretching. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is Tom Waits, It's falling in love makes well.
Speaker 1: The music plays, you display your hard for me. See
Speaker 1: I had a beer now here. You're call enough for me.
Speaker 1: Just sounds like whiskey and that's a good song. All right. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're not doing home. No. Hey, no, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you take a laugh kid. No, no, no.
Speaker 1: I thought we were in trouble too. We started out
Speaker 1: with bon Jovie. We didn't even get Tiger Way weird.
Speaker 1: You're a treat Trent in Virginia, Hi, Trent, what's on
Speaker 1: your mind today? Hey, Depie, how's it going on? Quick
Speaker 1: thought on the air Aaron Judge situation. I'd love the
Speaker 1: Yankees to keep him, but I don't think he's done
Speaker 1: enough in the playoffs to make it worth it. And
Speaker 1: then little Peter Billias like kid bit uh little note,
Speaker 1: we'd be called the dirt bite kid. I remember watching
Speaker 1: my grandma tell him she recorded on VHS. Okay what
Speaker 1: I remember him for? Yeah, I didn't bring that up
Speaker 1: that scene where Yeah, I didn't bring it up to him.
Speaker 1: But he was also in commercials. Wasn't the Messrs Marvin?
Speaker 1: He's very famous for that. I see Marvin this day
Speaker 1: in sports history Poeming not a lot Dan, but you
Speaker 1: know what the actor Geane Autry, the Cowboy. He was
Speaker 1: granted the LA Baseball franchise by the American League. That's
Speaker 1: how the LA Angels started. Nineteen sixty, nineteen sixty and
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety. The National Hockey League granted membership to the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Lightning and the Ottawa Senators. Okay, that's all
Speaker 1: um on this state. Nineteen seventy nine, Darrel Dawkins shatters
Speaker 1: his second backboard in a month that I think was
Speaker 1: Bill Robin Zene was underneath the basket and it might
Speaker 1: have been in Kansas City with the Kansas City Omahawk Kings. Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see anything else. Anything else that's about it are
Speaker 1: final results of the poll. Question Seaton, Yeah, we put
Speaker 1: one up hour three goat Christmas movie? All right? And
Speaker 1: your chances were National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Elf
Speaker 1: or Christmas Story You want to guess? Uh No, National
Speaker 1: Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Yeah, is that forty seven percent of
Speaker 1: the vote, followed by Home Alone, then Christmas Story Elf
Speaker 1: coming in last Todd, would you learn today if your
Speaker 1: greeting children at Santa Claus you might scare the children
Speaker 1: if you do the third strike ump call in their face.
Speaker 1: He see O'Connor. Would you learn Peter Billingsley's Cool with
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