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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special holiday episode

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Speaker 1: of Dirnis Guys. It's a production of iHeartRadio. This is

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Speaker 1: the podcast where you take a deep dive into America's

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Speaker 1: shared consciousness. Usually for the holidays, we take a deep

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Speaker 1: dive into America's shared Christmas spirit, the Christmas Geist in German.

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Speaker 1: That's a direct pronunciation translation.

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Speaker 2: The format of these episodes is something Jack and I

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Speaker 2: have talked about for maybe since we met Chris and

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Speaker 2: we realized he hasn't seen nothing, he hasn't seen shit.

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Speaker 2: Man from the we.

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Speaker 3: Were talking about you doing a yeah, like a podcast

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Speaker 3: where I watch old.

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Speaker 1: Movies and like just talking to you.

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Speaker 2: You mean ship like alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that

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Speaker 2: was big jo.

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Speaker 3: I got to watch it.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien and I'm joined, as it was,

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Speaker 1: by my co host, mister Miles.

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Speaker 2: Yes sure, yes, yes, here we are, here we are,

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Speaker 2: and for.

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Speaker 1: This very special holiday episode, we're calling Christmas blind Spots.

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Speaker 1: We've got a hilarious stand up comedian, actor, musician, one

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Speaker 1: of the very faces on Mountain Zeitemore. You can listen

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Speaker 1: to his podcast, Coldbrew Got Me Like anywhere. The poetry

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Speaker 1: window is open because it's Chris, motherfucker craft, Chris, what's

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Speaker 1: up the.

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Speaker 3: Mother?

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Speaker 2: Correct, Chris, you haven't seen a lot of movies. You've

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Speaker 2: had a you've had a life. Maybe you've had a life.

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Speaker 2: Life was lifing. Every time I feel like I've been

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Speaker 2: we've referenced a movie and you like, haven't seen it.

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Speaker 2: You're like I was. I was drinking and thought being

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Speaker 2: a rock star was cool. It's some version of that

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 3: Yes, like during the nineties I was doing Charles Bukowski

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Speaker 3: in the sense that I was like, the meaning is

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Speaker 3: in bars, not in theaters, Like everyone knows what's gonna

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Speaker 3: happen in the theater or in a bar. You never

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Speaker 3: know what kind of random poetry is going to go

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Speaker 3: down or whatever. You know, which, of course you know

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Speaker 3: it's not true. Really, I mean, you know.

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Speaker 2: Did you have like an idealized thing you thought would

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Speaker 2: happen at the bar? They'd be like, this is fucking why, man.

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Speaker 3: It happened, but then you didn't remember it if you've

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Speaker 3: usually missed it like or somehow forgot it. If it

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Speaker 3: wasn't and it just turns out, it's like the revelations

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Speaker 3: in a bar are fairly repetitive. Repetitive, even more repetitive

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Speaker 3: than movies, you know what I mean. So it's like

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm drinking, and you like start hanging around

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Speaker 1: people who are drinking, you do the repetition. You're like,

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Speaker 1: oh man, you guys say the same shit over and

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Speaker 1: over and over again. Yes, wild and not like.

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Speaker 3: Just like drinking, like having a drink, like I mean,

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Speaker 3: like going out every night and getting drunk because you

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Speaker 3: think that there's something mystical about that, and you know

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Speaker 3: it always ends up with frozen pizza and you know

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Speaker 3: it's not that mystical. Really, it's just not. And so

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Speaker 3: but I did, like I was like, oh, you go

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Speaker 3: to the movies, you sell out piece of shit, you know,

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Speaker 3: like have a fun time at the movies. You basic bitch.

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Speaker 3: They didn't invented that term basic bitch yet.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, but that was the vibe.

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Speaker 1: But then you forgot that you invented it. You never

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Speaker 1: trade mine.

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Speaker 3: I invented basic bitch in nineteen ninety.

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Speaker 1: But so to turn you around on on this misguided

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Speaker 1: idea that people go into the movies were sell out capitalists,

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Speaker 1: we thought we would show you a home alone, a

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Speaker 1: movie with really good politics and no weird capitalist messaging

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Speaker 1: at all. Just a quick background. I mean, everybody knows it,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know that people quite know that. So

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Speaker 1: when it came out, it was a massive hit, to

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Speaker 1: the point that so it came out in November, it

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Speaker 1: stayed in theaters until Easter. People were like seeing it

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Speaker 1: shit in the spring, going to see it, like well

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Speaker 1: after the Christmas season.

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Speaker 2: That's like having your Christmas lights up until Easter. Basically

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Speaker 2: like the movie at Cleveland, like yeah, you know what,

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Speaker 1: You can all right, I feel attacked now.

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Speaker 3: I was at the FAZI concert.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that yeah, yeah, you were doing

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Speaker 1: But I think that's what's exciting to us about this

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Speaker 3: Like burned in your brain. You say it to your

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Speaker 1: I say all the time to my kids.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I say that ship to my friends. Still we

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Speaker 2: still say that ship to it. Oh you're such a disease.

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Speaker 2: We'll say, like you did, you little jerk. I don't

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Speaker 2: even know when it comes out, but this shit comes out.

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Speaker 2: That's why it's so funny, because like on this side

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Speaker 2: of the equation, Chris, it's it's so ingrained in our

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Speaker 2: I think, at least for me specifically too, I was

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Speaker 2: six years old when this came out, and this was

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Speaker 2: like a film that was like being a fucking wild

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Speaker 2: shit out of adults because you're smarter because you're a

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Speaker 2: fun kid. And it was just Kevin mccallison was like

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Speaker 2: my fucking idol for like years.

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Speaker 1: Wow. The number one thing I would do if my

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Speaker 2: Gone, ah hell yeah, dude.

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Speaker 1: I will say at the time that it came out

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Speaker 1: because it has been adopted as a Christmas classic, Like

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Speaker 1: it's just one of those movies that people like put

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Speaker 1: on lists of like the top Christmas movies. At the

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Speaker 1: time it came out, reviews were mixed. I remember that

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Speaker 1: because I was a weird kid who like read movie

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Speaker 2: Oh so you're like ten years old when this comes out,

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Speaker 2: ten years old through the calendar section.

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Speaker 1: Nine years old and thumbing through the life section of

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Speaker 1: the Dayton Daily News that was just like, get get

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Speaker 1: Weekly accused the film of adult bashing, which is what

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Speaker 2: Trying that one on adults. Yeah, that's.

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Speaker 3: That's like Russ. That's kind of stuff Russ doubt at

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly right, right, But like there are on the

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Speaker 1: Wikipedia page for Home Alone, you learned that like in

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Speaker 1: Poland and Romania, the holiday tradition is that like the

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Speaker 1: show it. There was like a outraged Facebook hit, like

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Speaker 1: ninety thousand people protested, like online, And it's the same

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Speaker 3: That's like when people get mad in America because like,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sending in angry letters to fucking network TV. When

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Speaker 3: when the finale of Game of Thrones sucked, right, So, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean there was an age different. I was forty

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Speaker 3: I was twenty one. I was twenty one. Oh, so

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, god, you were dude. I can only imagine

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Speaker 2: how fuck home alone you were at this point when

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Speaker 3: I was just sort of leaving the home alone demographic

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Speaker 2: That Repeater just came out. Yeah, what's that said? Repeater

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And it was like that. I was just like

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Speaker 3: It feels like you're rich while you're watching it.

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Speaker 1: his brother who like that. There's been articles speculating like

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Speaker 3: Was the first thing I noticed. I mean I was

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Speaker 3: just like, they have so they're burning so much electricity

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: But those guys Santa, the smoking Santa, mall Santa. The

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Speaker 1: Brian's point that all of this is if you are white,

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if we're going to go through it,

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe we should go in this movie because it

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Speaker 3: Well, it's it's already like it's already been I'm I'm already.

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Speaker 3: Now I know what to watch if I ever feel like,

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Speaker 1: We'll start going through the movie. Uh, and yeah, we'll

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Speaker 2: And we're back. We're back, Hello, hello, hello. Uh to

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Speaker 1: Slash along this episode. Go go, yep, go donate to Wikipedia.

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Speaker 2: Here we go. The Mcalliser family prepares to spend Christmas

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Speaker 1: So in that opening scene, there's a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: And they're just like, stay home, safe in your giant house. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Like really he tries, he tries to deal with these

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Speaker 2: And I think that's a laugh line.

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Speaker 2: What are you?

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Speaker 1: Seven? Joe Peshy the burglar is brazenly casing the joint

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Speaker 1: Ah, you're going out of town, all right, I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about Okay, you adults are fucking idiots. Only Kevin knows

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna read you some notes from this first seat.

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Speaker 3: I wrote Pepsi.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I was so, I wrote the five year old.

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Speaker 3: I was like, there's something wrong with his family right

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Speaker 1: Were you not a pepsi family? I was a Pepsi family.

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Speaker 1: I just like, I think I liked that there was

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Speaker 1: blue in the logo. I like the logo better. I

439
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:34,720
Speaker 1: was a big Michael Jackson fan.

440
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:37,280
Speaker 3: Well, I was. I was a we were coke people.

441
00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 3: But I also like just just noticed, like Pepsi obviously,

442
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 3: you know, product placement was was, yes, you.

443
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:45,399
Speaker 1: Know, I can't believe they had to go with little

444
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,640
Speaker 1: neros instead of like Dominoes, you know, because the pad

445
00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 1: kind of looked good to be honest.

446
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, I wrote down twenty pizzas for one

447
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:54,840
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty two dollars.

448
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,159
Speaker 2: Yeah. But do you also think because right hearing Colkin

449
00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:01,399
Speaker 2: plays Fuller the younger cousin in Yeah, where they're like

450
00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:04,280
Speaker 2: he's drinking PEPs He's gonna pee the bed, that in

451
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:06,679
Speaker 2: my mind, I really have a strong connection with pepsi

452
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 2: and pissing the bed for whatever. I'm like, bro, I

453
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:10,560
Speaker 2: don't know, man, you drink.

454
00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 3: One to Bede didn't go through the movie.

455
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:15,720
Speaker 2: Fuller Buckminster Fuller.

456
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Speaker 1: I didn't wet my bed at two later, like probably

457
00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 1: like seven, I wet my bed after going to a

458
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:26,719
Speaker 1: party and drinking like so much soda. And I've always

459
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,439
Speaker 1: I've always wondered if it had something to do it,

460
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,720
Speaker 1: like you know, sugar like kind of will make you

461
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:35,960
Speaker 1: not go to the bathroom. But then like all that,

462
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:37,959
Speaker 1: like what is released later or something.

463
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: I don't know.

464
00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:40,560
Speaker 1: I haven't quite figured it out.

465
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, were you at a sleep a sleepover?

466
00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,359
Speaker 1: No? No, it was like we were at a family party.

467
00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:54,160
Speaker 1: Drink came home, so many sodas came has just.

468
00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:58,320
Speaker 2: Gotten ripped at a family party? Come on, man, Taylor's

469
00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 2: oldest time.

470
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Speaker 3: That's American too, like you know, like thinking about some

471
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,240
Speaker 3: one time you pissed the bed and still trying to

472
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 3: think of an excuse, like fifty years later like that.

473
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 2: So I don't know if it was sugar, you know sugar, Yeah,

474
00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 2: failure every human function is like I was just that

475
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 2: all the time when I was seven, that thought.

476
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 3: I was like sugar, I only did that once.

477
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 1: Shouldn't let me drag all the sugar?

478
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 2: It is wild?

479
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,879
Speaker 1: How like I don't think many people let kids drink

480
00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: PEPSI or coke like at age five these days, you.

481
00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:32,960
Speaker 2: Know, no, not in Biden's America.

482
00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:38,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, exactly, So PEPSI, no phones, educated children, friendly

483
00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:44,239
Speaker 3: cop huge amount of electricity, middle class, twenty pizzas, one

484
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty two dollars, America's dumb attitude toward other countries.

485
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 3: And then I wrote Christmas with the Trumps.

486
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:56,560
Speaker 1: The which Donald Trump. Uh. Probably his most famous media

487
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,520
Speaker 1: hit up to The Apprentice was his appearance and Home alone.

488
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Speaker 2: Two. Wait did you write down? So they got twenty

489
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 2: pizzas for one hundred that's what that pizza?

490
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: I don't know, ten pizzas for one hundred and twenty dollars,

491
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: so twelve dollars per pizza. And but they're like, what

492
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,679
Speaker 1: the fuck is this hotway robbery?

493
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 3: But I think pizza is probably the same price now,

494
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:17,679
Speaker 3: it's just that wages are so low or wages are

495
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 3: no sorry, what am I saying? Pizza's higher? Yeah, like

496
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 3: you'd never be able to get way higher and wages

497
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:23,840
Speaker 3: would be the same.

498
00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,879
Speaker 2: Probably you could find a twelve dollars pizza though, you

499
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like you get you can get

500
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Speaker 2: a little Caesars.

501
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 1: Not for the hot from a little neros that place,

502
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: Hi not shit, and the delivery people drive it to

503
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: you ship faced it would appear I do the electricity.

504
00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: How brightly lit the houses are is such a good call.

505
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 1: Like I still remember. That's the thing I remember about

506
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 1: the fake party. He throws with a cutout Michael Jordan

507
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,160
Speaker 1: is like every house in every light in the house

508
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 1: is like turned on. The place is fucking glowing like

509
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: a Christmas tree, and it just seems so happy. It

510
00:26:04,119 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: is a celebration of just burning electricity as much as

511
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: you can.

512
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 2: Absolutely it's you know, like we didn't know much about

513
00:26:11,520 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 2: climate or anything like that, so yeah, just run your

514
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 2: incandescent bulbs because like that shit probably costs a lot

515
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 2: too when you think about how energy and efficient that is.

516
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 2: But it their flexes all around.

517
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 1: The pizza guy treated like kind of a dipshit when

518
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: we first see him. I could I can never read.

519
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,280
Speaker 1: Do you guys think he's being sarcastic when he says

520
00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: nice tip? He kind of delivers its leg.

521
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:34,080
Speaker 2: I've always taken it.

522
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:35,639
Speaker 3: I thought it.

523
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know it because it totally could be bad acting.

524
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 2: But I always thought I was being a dick.

525
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, it seems like nice, I thought they were just

526
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 3: trying to establish that these people were generous.

527
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,960
Speaker 1: I thought it was yeah to be acting bad. Yeah,

528
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,399
Speaker 1: and he's an asshole. But then Kevin later makes him

529
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 1: think that he's about to be murdered, which like with

530
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: no real justification other than like, I guess he needs

531
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: to eat. But again they're just like, hey, he's a

532
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: fucking stupid pizza delivery man who gives a ship.

533
00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:07,800
Speaker 3: Well, why did the pizza guy keep running into that

534
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 3: lawn jockey? And why was there a lawn jockey? But

535
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 3: why was there a lawn jockey? I mean even in

536
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety lawn jockeys were.

537
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,320
Speaker 2: Let me just see what he says from the niceness, how.

538
00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 3: Come you bring more Chief pizzas?

539
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 2: Nice tip?

540
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.

541
00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:24,359
Speaker 1: Thanks?

542
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:28,040
Speaker 2: He might be yes, actually just a bad actor. Yeah,

543
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 2: there's they're supposed to be that tip thanks a lot.

544
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 3: Wow. These people are using most of the resources of

545
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 3: this country, but they tip.

546
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:39,399
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, every light in the whole fucking house is

547
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: on at all.

548
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 3: Our department loaded it up too much, like it had

549
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 3: everything in there.

550
00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:49,680
Speaker 1: Increasingly that will be what people notice about this movie.

551
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:52,640
Speaker 1: Like as we get further further into a world where

552
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: like you have to pay so much money for electricity

553
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: because they're using it all on AI and shit, people

554
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: are just gonna be like wow, wow, Wow, people are living.

555
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 3: Probably didn't mean to make him seem so rich. I

556
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 3: think it probably just didn't look as abnormal well back then.

557
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:10,719
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean it's just that thing that all

558
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 2: media did was like it was this very high level

559
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 2: version of what normal was. So you're like, damn, Like

560
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 2: you know, just like the same way on like TV

561
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 2: shows people they're never gonna it's never gonna actually reflect

562
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 2: what the living conditions are for most.

563
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was all whi fulfilm and it was like

564
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: Friends or you know, this is a John Hughes movie.

565
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: Like he's the same person who made Ferris Bueller's Day Off,

566
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: where like the kid you're supposed to the two kids

567
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: you're supposed to like identify with as like the protagonists

568
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: of the movie are like incredibly well, that's true, Like

569
00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: she didn't be any richer.

570
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 2: Like Cameron's house. I'm like, what the fuck your parents

571
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 2: they fucking own black Rock or something.

572
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: But his dad, his dad has to work really hard,

573
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,000
Speaker 1: so he's like not always that black rock back then?

574
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 3: Was he probably his dad probably down a gas station. Yeah,

575
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 3: like the economy was so different, like it was there

576
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 3: were no billionaires around. They were just like there was

577
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 3: so much less resentment. I am old enough to remember that. Like,

578
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 3: I mean, you you knew these kind of people were rich,

579
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 3: but you didn't necessarily want to burn their fucking house,

580
00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 3: you did, because.

581
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 2: They weren't to your disenfranchisement.

582
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,080
Speaker 3: They weren't like they hadn't quite figured out. The monopolies

583
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 3: were still building. You know, we're at the moment where

584
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 3: they've all like fully bloomed, you know, But back then,

585
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 3: like there was such a thing as a middle class

586
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 3: that sort of was happy enough that they didn't want

587
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,200
Speaker 3: to strangle these people when they delivered their pizza, Like

588
00:29:29,240 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 3: they would knock over their lawn jockey, but they put

589
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 3: it back up for real, you know what I mean,

590
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 3: Like as now they'd piss on the long jockey after

591
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 3: they and so they should be pissing on lawn jockeys

592
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 3: because lawn jockeys are racist. And I didn't understand why

593
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,400
Speaker 3: they wanted to establish this family was racist right out

594
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 3: of the gate, because that's one of the first things

595
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 3: that happens. It is supposed to be wacky, and I

596
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 3: just couldn't figure out if it was a statement. But

597
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 3: I don't think it was any kind of statement. I

598
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 3: think it was just supposed to be somebody hitting a lock.

599
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 2: These idiotic wage workers yet my lawn jockey.

600
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know how much I paid for that lawn jockey.

601
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 2: You know much I paid for this airport shuttle van.

602
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, But those people could go back to their part

603
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 3: of town and like have a fucking pot luck and

604
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 3: everybody could get laid and smoke cigarettes or whatever. And

605
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 3: they were not that mad at the electricity gobblers across town.

606
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 3: We're going to France because they thought they were idiots anyway,

607
00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 3: because they're like, who needs France? And we got this

608
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:21,800
Speaker 3: keg of beer and these cigarettes. So I just think, like,

609
00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 3: there's like this show, this movie, show this whatever, show's stability.

610
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 3: You know, it's exaggerated, but there was, you know, unless

611
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:32,200
Speaker 3: you I mean, of course, you have the factor in

612
00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 3: like it's never for white people. I guess I would

613
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 3: say everybody in this movie's white. So I'm you know,

614
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 3: as far as white people went, things were definitely more

615
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 3: stable for white people in nineteen ninety.

616
00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think just general the class consciousness to

617
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 2: your point, broadly also just wasn't really there in that

618
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 2: sense either. It's like some people are rich, and some people.

619
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:56,520
Speaker 3: Will take away people's fucking ability to pay rent. It's

620
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,640
Speaker 3: on you know, you take away. If someone could pay

621
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 3: the rent even and have a dart board, you know

622
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 3: they're gonna be okay. You know, they can house, yes

623
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 3: they need a house, a dart you know, or an

624
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 3: apartment doesn't even have to be a house, just something

625
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 3: they can pay off without losing their ship, you know,

626
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 3: and enough money, you know, then you have you know,

627
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 3: you can have those kinds of relationships where you don't

628
00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 3: want to just you know, knock these people out. But now,

629
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 3: like the airport shuttle guy, if somebody makes a joke

630
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:29,200
Speaker 3: about the mileage, probably fucking abandons the wheels, starts jumps

631
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 3: in the back seat and starts trying to kill.

632
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: Everyone, or just jump jump out the driver's seat on

633
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:35,800
Speaker 2: pH and like good luck, yeah something, you know.

634
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:36,080
Speaker 1: What I mean.

635
00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 3: And then people will be like, man, society's gone downhill.

636
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 3: I remember when he used to be able to make

637
00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 3: jokes to these wage workers and they didn't go berserk.

638
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: But that's that's what It's not their fault. It's just

639
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 3: that they're hanging by a fucking thread.

640
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 2: Now, all right, So the next section of plot, if

641
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 2: there's anything, so now Kevin's been left behind, He's like,

642
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 2: what the fuck happened? Kevin wakes up to find the

643
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: house empty and the family cars still in the garage,

644
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 2: unaware that they had rented vans from poor people to

645
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: take them to the airport. Thinking that his wish has

646
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,960
Speaker 2: come true, he's overjoyed with his newfound freedom. Later, Kevin

647
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 2: becomes frightened by his eccentric next door neighbor, old Man Marley,

648
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,560
Speaker 2: rumored to be a serial killer nicknamed the South Bend

649
00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 2: shovel Slayer, a murdered his own family agent mccowster. Home

650
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 2: is soon stocked by the Wet Bandits Harry and Marv,

651
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 2: a pair of burglars who have been breaking into the

652
00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: other houses in the neighborhood where the families are on vacation.

653
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 2: Kevin tricks them into thinking that his family is still home,

654
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: forcing them to postpone their plans to rob the mcollister house.

655
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,240
Speaker 1: The shot where they like go up to break into

656
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 1: the back door and he turns on the light and

657
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,160
Speaker 1: they're like, hey, someone's here, let's get out. Of here

658
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: and scurry away is like that. I just remember seeing

659
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: that in so many like alarm system commercials where it

660
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: was like, oh, you know, lights that turn turn on,

661
00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 1: and like it's created a genre of like alarm system commercials,

662
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: like that's exactly how every Burglar dressed that, just like

663
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,160
Speaker 1: the nit cap with yeah right, and if it wasn't wintertime,

664
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: crow bar, you have that a crow bar.

665
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 2: You gotta have a nit cap. You gotta be wearing

666
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 2: all black. Yeah, And that's like a little yeah exactly

667
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,720
Speaker 2: the way Growar DJ.

668
00:33:21,640 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 1: Is dressed like Burglar's wet bandit core. Let's what the

669
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: kids are doing these days. Yeah.

670
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 2: The Old Man. When you first saw the film Old

671
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: Man Mark, I remember being like, oh, this guy's a

672
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 2: fucking murderer. I remember that for the right. I'm like,

673
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 2: this guy's a fucking sick murder and he killed his family,

674
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 2: and like what he's doing, he.

675
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: Saw a lot of just questionable decisions to just glare

676
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: at children while standing there something without saying anything. As

677
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 1: I stream and run away from him, he doesn't, he doesn't.

678
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,280
Speaker 1: And then when you see him later when he finally

679
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,000
Speaker 1: explains him off, he's like, hey.

680
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 3: You yeah, less dramatic pauses.

681
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 2: Buddy, Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't give don't give kids a

682
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 2: thousand yards stare for.

683
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: The I do.

684
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 3: That guy is me, Like, I'm like I could. I

685
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 3: felt bad for that guy because I was like, this

686
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 3: is me. I'm that guy with the shovel at this age,

687
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 3: not when I watched him. I never saw at this age.

688
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,160
Speaker 3: Right now, I'm like, I'm like that, they better stop

689
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 3: yelling at that guy. He's probably got some stuff going on.

690
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: Old neighbors all have legends about you.

691
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. The only difference with me is I talk

692
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,279
Speaker 3: immediately and a lot.

693
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 2: He turns his victims into cold brew and he drinks it.

694
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, but I'd be like, no, I don't what

695
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 3: the hell, but that guy, I felt bad for you

696
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,799
Speaker 3: because I was like, this is more of this ship

697
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 3: or the other you know, othering of like you know,

698
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,959
Speaker 3: i mean sure he was like acting creepy, but still

699
00:34:48,080 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 3: it's just like all these things that used to be innocent.

700
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 3: Now I'm like, Oh, teach people to be afraid of

701
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 3: old guys.

702
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:58,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, adult bashing the stand for it.

703
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 3: Old people are yeah, yeah, oh great, well that's half

704
00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 3: your life, So have a nice time, everybody.

705
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 2: Chris any loose notes up until the point where the

706
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 2: mom realizes Kevin has gone.

707
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 3: And what no, there's got some thoughts about the mom

708
00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 3: okay at the airport, But we can get to that.

709
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 2: We're going to get to that then.

710
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 3: Other than that, just the shoveler I wrote down. The

711
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 3: shoveler guy is sewing fear of the other. He is

712
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 3: the poor or the elderly.

713
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, dude. So then Kate McAllister realizes mid flight

714
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 2: that Kevin was left behind, and upon arrival in Paris,

715
00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 2: Kate plans to return home immediately due to Kevin being

716
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:44,840
Speaker 2: home alone. That all nailed it, but the family discovers

717
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 2: that all flights of the next two days are booked

718
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,399
Speaker 2: and that the phone lines are still down back home

719
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 2: in Chicago. How whimsical the phone line no way to

720
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: contact that part of the world. Oh well, I guess

721
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 2: people just died. Like it's just terribly fucked up. Ways

722
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: when the phone lines went down, you like these like really.

723
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 3: Thought about that?

724
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: You want story about that?

725
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 2: Man?

726
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: You drink?

727
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 3: You just drink. And when the boone lines were up,

728
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 3: you also drink.

729
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:13,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, right good?

730
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,800
Speaker 1: What if Kevin had gotten ship faced the second his parents.

731
00:36:16,600 --> 00:36:19,920
Speaker 2: Are Oh my god, right, he was pretending with that

732
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 2: after shave. I'm surprised at it.

733
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 3: Very whimsical. I know people i've met in AA you

734
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 3: started drinking when they were eight. He was a very

735
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:31,319
Speaker 3: whimsical eight year old, I know, just Dray Clean, living

736
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 3: popcorn and singing.

737
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 2: He was more Yeah, traumatic brain injuries he could put

738
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,520
Speaker 2: due to adults with paint cans.

739
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 1: The one example of like middle class people being fucking

740
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:44,920
Speaker 1: idiots and terrible at their job that I feel like

741
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,239
Speaker 1: this movie my nail is the police being completely helpless. Uh,

742
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: they're so bad. There's like, all right, she says, their

743
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:57,719
Speaker 1: kids home alone. She also again like a convenient uh

744
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: inability to talk at certain point is just like my

745
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: child is home alone. Instead of telling the whole detail

746
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: of like he's definitely there, we are in pair like

747
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 1: just explaining it. She would just be like, my child

748
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: is home alone, would you please go check on him?

749
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: Is like not enough information you need to be like

750
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: he's eight, he's there all by himself, right, and that

751
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,440
Speaker 1: the person just knocks on the door and then doesn't

752
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: and then is like, I don't know what this lady's

753
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: talking about. This is a completely empty house with all

754
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: the lights on.

755
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, sometimes they got to do that. Yeah, they

756
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 3: got to do that in the movies. Yeah, I mean

757
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 3: say less than they normally would.

758
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 2: Yes, I mean yeah, I'm glad that they at least

759
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,839
Speaker 2: made the police look completely incompetent at their job.

760
00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:43,200
Speaker 1: Right, So would not be the case for a for

761
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: a cop who is a documentary part of them? Yeah yeah, right,

762
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: not not for this class of family. Though this story

763
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,960
Speaker 1: would have been on the local news the first night

764
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:57,160
Speaker 1: that they left, like they they would have been handlelight

765
00:37:57,280 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: vigil Yes, exactly, every o the South.

766
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 3: Side of Chicago. They wouldn't have shown up at all.

767
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:04,720
Speaker 2: It wouldn't shown up at all, exactly.

768
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have been able to get through to the cops. Uh.

769
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 2: So we go back to the plot here, the phone

770
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:12,319
Speaker 2: mines are down, Peter and the rest of the family

771
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,640
Speaker 2: stay at his brother Rob's apartment in Paris, while Kate

772
00:38:15,719 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 2: stays at the airport and hopes of finding a seat

773
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 2: on an outbound flight to Chicago. More quickly, Kate is understed,

774
00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 2: been stanky, but this was a wild part. Remember this

775
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 2: is a couple ticket trades. Later, she's able to get

776
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 2: to Dallas, Texas, and then Flats, Dallas, Texas. Yes, I

777
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 2: convinces a couple to trade tickets to Dallas with her,

778
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 2: and then then she flies to Scranton and meets Gus

779
00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: Polinski John Candy.

780
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:45,959
Speaker 1: The only leader of the po we call her people

781
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:46,479
Speaker 1: in the movie.

782
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 3: He's barely in He's in it so little. I was

783
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: surprised they didn't give him much.

784
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: He wasn't supposed to be in it, right, Yeah, he

785
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: appeared in this movie as a favorite to John Hughes'

786
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: I guess in exchange for like Uncle Buck, and he

787
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,959
Speaker 1: like did his role in Home Alone. He was paid

788
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: like a little over one thousand dollars for like the

789
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 1: Wikipedia is like in exchange for that, he was allowed

790
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 1: to improvise his whole like everyone dialogue, not learn any

791
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: of I know you could tell right. It is also

792
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: interesting there's a I just noticed it for the first

793
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: time this time that she literally says, like I would

794
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: do a deal with the devil to go back and

795
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,320
Speaker 1: to get to Chicago. And that's when he like taps

796
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: on her shoulder. I was setting it up because she

797
00:39:33,200 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: is like getting into a van with a bunch of

798
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: men who like could do anything, and they kind of

799
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 1: set it up as if it could go in that

800
00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: direction where she's like, I'll do a deal with the

801
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: devil and then he's like, hey, hey hello, then he's

802
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:48,800
Speaker 1: he's just John Candy.

803
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the devil and.

804
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 3: This if this movie was directed by your ghosts, whatever

805
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 3: is to become a horror movie. At that point, noverybody

806
00:39:59,520 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 3: was like, he's genius. Oh my gosh, you're kidnapped. My

807
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 3: oh god, this is we have ever seen in my life.

808
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:06,480
Speaker 2: Look what a mother's desperation.

809
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 3: He changed tone with no warning. He's a genius. I

810
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 3: fucking saw that movie Pogonia, and I want to oh god,

811
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 3: oh that holy well. If I know that guy directed

812
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,319
Speaker 3: the Lobster, I never would have walked in the theater.

813
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 3: I just didn't know. The Lobster made me madder than

814
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 3: almost anything in the world.

815
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: Uh is dog Tooth if you've ever seen dog Tooth?

816
00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 3: Anyway, Begonia made me mad because it was one of

817
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 3: those things where it's like a surprise ending or whatever.

818
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 3: After you go through a whole movie where you're supposed

819
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 3: to be you think you're supposed to be learning something.

820
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 2: Anyway, well, what did you learn about Kate McAllister? You

821
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 2: said you had a couple of notes about the mother

822
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:45,280
Speaker 2: at this point.

823
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 3: Uh, white ladies trying to make their problems into other

824
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: people's problems, a little pandemic preview. I demand, I demand

825
00:40:57,280 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 3: the supply chain work for me immediately.

826
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: She just happens, Like I feel like the way the

827
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 1: writers were thinking of it is like she's using everything

828
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: on her. She's like being resourceful to like get back.

829
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: She's trading her ear rings and a Rolex and all

830
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: these different things to these people for their tickets. And

831
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, but she like has fucking thousand dollars

832
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: earrings and a Rolex and like all this shit on her.

833
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's able to make it work, you know.

834
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, just I need a plane ticket right now because

835
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 3: of a mistake that I made. You Who do I

836
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 3: talk to to fix my timeline? Anyway? That's the dark

837
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 3: I mean. And then as it's just to mention though,

838
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,560
Speaker 3: at the end of this movie, I could see watching

839
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 3: it again because it does have a comfort food sort

840
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 3: of quality to it that I did not pick up

841
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 3: on while I was analyzing it because I was analyzing

842
00:41:56,920 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 3: it and seeing capitalism and all this stuff. But also

843
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 3: I did understand why, you know, it is like a

844
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 3: way of like accessing the American dream through a VCR,

845
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 3: you know.

846
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 2: True, Yeah, no, I think that's especially now as I

847
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 2: become an adult. It's truly just to regress and like

848
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,080
Speaker 2: go to some other like to feel six and I

849
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 2: knew fuck all about how fucked everything was. Yeah. Yeah,

850
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 2: it's sort of sort of like where you land.

851
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,520
Speaker 1: Let's take one more break, all right, then we'll come back.

852
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: We'll get to the murder house part of the uh

853
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: oh baby of the movie and uh and then some

854
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: trivia and.

855
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 3: I forgot about that's fucking insane.

856
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 2: Go ahead, we'll be.

857
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: Right that.

858
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 3: And we're back.

859
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 2: We're back.

860
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 1: And this is kind of like an Equalizer shaped movie.

861
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:53,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen the Denzel movie Equalizer,

862
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: but it's it's basically the same thing where you like

863
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 1: see this person, like you know, developing like teasing at

864
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: their skills a little bit throughout, and then in the

865
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,359
Speaker 1: final like thirty minutes, you get to see him pull

866
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:13,360
Speaker 1: it all together into just like a fucking murder gauntlet.

867
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 2: You see it with the fake party. He can hook

868
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,680
Speaker 2: gadgets up to make it look like people are moving around.

869
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 2: He knows how to use firecrackers. To scare a poor

870
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,239
Speaker 2: pizza delivery guy with an old timy gangster movie and

871
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 2: now like, yeah, he's putting it together. So it's Christmas Eve.

872
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 2: At this point, Harry and Marv now realize that it

873
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 2: is only freaking Kevin in there's just a little kid

874
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 2: in there, and Kevin over heres by a kindy garden

875
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 2: he over hears yeah discussing plans to break into their

876
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,920
Speaker 2: house that night. He starts to miss his family and

877
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 2: ask the local Santa Claus impersonator if he could bring

878
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,760
Speaker 2: them back for Christmas. Kevin attends a church choir performance,

879
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 2: eventually re encountering Marley, who proves the rumors about himself

880
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 2: to be false. Mary point just.

881
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:02,360
Speaker 1: Crams himself to be a very charismatic yeah exactly, no

882
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: such thing as a murderer who makes himself seem nice

883
00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: and yeah warm and cudley.

884
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:08,879
Speaker 2: But he also points out he goes, hey, you see

885
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,480
Speaker 2: that girl there, that's my granddaughter in the choir and

886
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 2: I've never met her since I am as strange from

887
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: my son. And Kevin's like, oh, you should probably figure

888
00:44:17,600 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 2: that out, man, with your kid. I don't know. I'm

889
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 2: about to go fuck these guys up now, sorry, I

890
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 2: got to go kill some guys. I gotta go fucking

891
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 2: try and kill these two fucks.

892
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: This is I think the the scene of the movie.

893
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: It's not the most memorable scene. Definitely wasn't the one

894
00:44:33,320 --> 00:44:35,320
Speaker 1: I liked the best of a kid, But like, the

895
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:39,640
Speaker 1: two performances by old Man Marley and McCauley culkin in

896
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: the church are really good. Like that s really fucking works.

897
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: It's very heartfelt, for sure, It's very heartfelt, and like

898
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:52,200
Speaker 1: it's the one like McCauley Culkin's performance for the rest

899
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: of the movie is a lot of just being like,

900
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: look surprised, Kevin. Okay, look surprised again, Yeah, do like

901
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: a yes, But that one he you know, it's like

902
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: the precocious part of his character, but like you kind

903
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: of believe it, and he's pretty cute. So that's a

904
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: good scene.

905
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 2: So that was for you.

906
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 3: That was Jack, Sorry, that was the scene that for you.

907
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 3: That was like Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando and Apocalypse Now.

908
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, heavyweights at the top of their game. Yeah,

909
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:31,480
Speaker 1: throwing haymaker. It was the one that definitely, uh, I thought,

910
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,360
Speaker 1: I was like, oh this, I see why. This is

911
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: like a Christmas class that's got the oscar?

912
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, why not have he was robbed? He was

913
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 2: so the booby trap scene comes. Now Kevin returns home,

914
00:45:47,719 --> 00:45:50,279
Speaker 2: rigs the house with handmade booby traps. Herring Marv break in,

915
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 2: spring the traps and suffer various injuries. I love this

916
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 2: distillation of this entire various injuries. And then Kevin calls

917
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 2: the police and lures a into a neighboring house that

918
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: had previously been broken into. Harry Marv ambush Kevin to

919
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 2: prepare to get their revenge, and then Marley intervenes the house.

920
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 2: The booby trap scene, the suspense that builds when he's like,

921
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:15,399
Speaker 2: it's time to fuck fuck these guys up, and I'm

922
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 2: going to turn my house into a kill room.

923
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: And the music that's playing there where it isn't it,

924
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: And then they like start the drums come in and

925
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: it really gets he pumped off. Something I noticed this

926
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: time was that it's eight o'clock when he leaves the

927
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: church and he hasn't said any of the booby traps,

928
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:41,720
Speaker 1: and they're coming at nine house murder murdered.

929
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 2: Well, he was like setting machines off. Try have you

930
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 2: seen a gid try to use tools earnestly. There's no

931
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:50,919
Speaker 2: fucking way.

932
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: But it is also as when I was seventh, that

933
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: is about the amount of time I would have given

934
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: myself that I would have just got our gutting, fucking

935
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: bludgeon bludgeoned to death. I was setting the Christmas ornaments

936
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:08,280
Speaker 1: up by the window.

937
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 2: Hold on, this is the paint can. You'd throw the

938
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 2: paint can, but you don't know how to tie a nott,

939
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:17,880
Speaker 2: so it just falls right off the string and you're like, fuck,

940
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 2: all right, just bludgeed me, Chris, your notes for everything

941
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: up until this point where the various injuries, the ingenious

942
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 2: engineering feats.

943
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,239
Speaker 3: All I wrote was, here's what I wrote on this,

944
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 3: this is this is I'm starting to fall off at

945
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,840
Speaker 3: the end here McCauley has McCauley has lipstick on the

946
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 3: whole MOVIEU paint cans equal FMW deathmatch wrestling.

947
00:47:48,040 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 1: Uh. And that was that.

948
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 3: I was just into death match wrestling in the nineties

949
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 3: and I was thinking it appealed to the same you know,

950
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 3: it appeals to the same like you know. It was

951
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 3: only a few years a few years later that wrestlers

952
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 3: were literally getting hit in the head with paint Kansas

953
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 3: stepping on nails. So I thought that. But but aside

954
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 3: from that, I just thought that I realized that the

955
00:48:07,400 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 3: burglars were the good guys, and they were Antifa, and

956
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 3: that these guys are deserved to get their hands on

957
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 3: this money and electricity, and and McCaulay, for some reason,

958
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 3: is a damn Jedi. Yeah, yeah, and you know, just

959
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 3: just humiliates them even though they were the good guys.

960
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: And in the sense that he can control them, control

961
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,320
Speaker 1: their brains, so they go the exact route that he

962
00:48:29,440 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: wanted them to in every case.

963
00:48:31,600 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 2: In this exact sequence.

964
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: The nail that was when I realized nail McCauley was

965
00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: the nail is the one he was just going to say,

966
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: which one sticks with you the most? And while the

967
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: the one with the blowtorch that could have easily just

968
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:50,279
Speaker 1: killed saying yeah, like unless it was not if if

969
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: it was tipped down five percent, it would have murdered him.

970
00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: Your hair off by far the most visceral one, Like

971
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if they do something with the sound effect,

972
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: but his like foot goes down into it slowly and

973
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: you like hear a little something and then Daniel's reaction

974
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: physical performance.

975
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 2: It has to be said, Daniel Stearn's physical reactions are

976
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:18,359
Speaker 2: pretty amazing in the film, like he sells so much

977
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:20,800
Speaker 2: of it was like crossing and it's just his like

978
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 2: screaming for me, honestly, the paint can is the one

979
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 2: that I remember when I like rewatched it again when

980
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 2: I was like nineteen. Yeah, I was like, dude, that

981
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 2: would have because I think at the time I was

982
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 2: really into jackass type shit and like hurting myself for

983
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 2: fun and seeing that I was like, dude, no, you

984
00:49:41,239 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 2: would die. You die, Like I remember this really odd

985
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,800
Speaker 2: realization because I'd lived enough, like like that's not actually

986
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 2: really that should have killed them, and I don't know.

987
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,479
Speaker 1: That was actually not cool, Kevin True. For some reason,

988
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:59,479
Speaker 1: the paint can has not bothered me because every paint

989
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: can that we ever had at our house would be

990
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,480
Speaker 1: half empty and also dented, so it seemed like it

991
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: was like made of like I don't know, it was

992
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 1: like soft, like don't.

993
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 2: Think, I guess I'm thinking of a full paint can,

994
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:14,680
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean, right, beating up a

995
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 2: full paint can.

996
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:18,440
Speaker 1: That's I've never been hit with one of those. Also,

997
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: you must try, you simply must you must get fucked

998
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,120
Speaker 1: up in Kentucky.

999
00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 3: I guess I was just wondering, Yeah, how much of

1000
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 3: an influence. I didn't think of Jackass, but whether this

1001
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 3: scene influenced death match wrestling or Jackass, Like, I mean,

1002
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 3: they were the right age to see it and be like,

1003
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 3: what if we did that to each other all day long,

1004
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 3: every day until Steve O went to rehab.

1005
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 2: Well, I'm also just thinking of like when when was

1006
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 2: a film giving you this kind of like stunt shit

1007
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:50,080
Speaker 2: with like like gag and injuries, you know what i mean, Like,

1008
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 2: because it was pretty wild inness that, Like I remember

1009
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 2: half the appeal too was like dude, he focks these

1010
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:58,480
Speaker 2: guys up pretty bad. Yeah, Like there the guy's burning

1011
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 2: his hand, he's getting his head blow torched off, he's

1012
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 2: taking paint cans to the face. Like I don't I

1013
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 2: can't think of a thing before that that was anything

1014
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 2: like that in terms of like the physical it was.

1015
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: I mean, it was Tom and Jerry. It was like cartoons. Yeah,

1016
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 1: which it's interesting that like the first entertainment that they

1017
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: made for kids, they were just like, well, i'll tell

1018
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,439
Speaker 1: you what kids want to see. They want to see

1019
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: two people like just beating the living shit out of it.

1020
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,919
Speaker 1: Sull they die, but they don't die from their injuries. Yeah,

1021
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: and then it became like not cool for a while,

1022
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: and then they were smart to bring it back, I think.

1023
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. So then Christmas Day comes, Kevin is initially disappointed

1024
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 2: after waking to find that his family is still gone. However,

1025
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,200
Speaker 2: Kate arrives home a few minutes later and they reconcile.

1026
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 2: The rest of the family, then returns only a few

1027
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,880
Speaker 2: minutes after that, having waited in Paris for a direct

1028
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 2: flight to Chicago. Kevin keeps silent about his encounter with

1029
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 2: Harry and Marv, although Peter finds Harry's knocked out gold Tooth.

1030
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 2: Kevin then watches Marley reuniting with his family. That's the

1031
00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 2: i thing we don't talk about was the clean up.

1032
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: The cleanup. Yeah, he's he's got some cat in the

1033
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: hat in him that he's able to set things up

1034
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: and clean things up incredibly quickly. I thought that the dad,

1035
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: after he was like, Okay, what's this with the gold Tooths,

1036
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,760
Speaker 1: was was going to be like, are you fucking cheating

1037
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 1: on me?

1038
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:29,760
Speaker 3: That's a whole nother sequel.

1039
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because you're right whose gold tooth is this? Hey, Hey,

1040
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: whose fucking gold tooth is this? When did you get home?

1041
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: I will say, Uh, Joe Pasche and Macaulay Culkin didn't

1042
00:52:41,840 --> 00:52:45,479
Speaker 1: get along on the set. Joe Peshi was pissed because

1043
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: they had to like get there or like start shooting

1044
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: at seven am in the morning because like the rules

1045
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: are like the kid can't shoot too late. And he

1046
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: was like, uh, that doesn't work for me. I like

1047
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: I golf, I got to get nine holes in And

1048
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,400
Speaker 1: it's just funny. It's like you read about it and

1049
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: it's like the subtext is basically like the set wasn't

1050
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,400
Speaker 1: big enough for these two egos. Like Joe Pesci was

1051
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:12,800
Speaker 1: like threatened and like annoyed that he wasn't allowed to

1052
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,919
Speaker 1: cuss on the set and stuff. But you think about

1053
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: the spread of like classics from this period that Joe

1054
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 1: Peschi was in, because they tried to give this role

1055
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: to de Niro and then John love It and then

1056
00:53:27,239 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: Peschi was the third choice. But he had home alone. Goodfellas.

1057
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: You know my cousin Vinnie, like he was really he

1058
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:36,320
Speaker 1: was on a heater.

1059
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, my cousin Vinnie, Come on, Jack, lethal weapon

1060
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 2: three Lethal Weapon.

1061
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: He just like shows up and is like, you know,

1062
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: suddenly a big you know, Okay, you remember I saw

1063
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:50,239
Speaker 1: that movie.

1064
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:51,279
Speaker 2: There you go, Chris.

1065
00:53:51,360 --> 00:53:52,960
Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of movies I was making

1066
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:54,919
Speaker 3: exceptions for, but I saw Lethal Weapon three.

1067
00:53:55,280 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 2: I think it makes sense because you're like, yeah, that

1068
00:53:57,640 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 2: looks like it's for adults.

1069
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 3: I wouldn't say yeah, I mean, this is There's no reason.

1070
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 3: There's a lot of movies I did see that were

1071
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 3: aimed at adults that like Forrest Gump. I mean that

1072
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 3: I didn't see like Forrest Gump. That was something I

1073
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 3: was supposed to see. But this would have been crazy

1074
00:54:11,600 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 3: for me to take time out from you know, f

1075
00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 3: Gazzi to see Home alone. But uh, what I was

1076
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,720
Speaker 3: thinking about, you know what movies just like this fucking movie,

1077
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 3: which was a great movie at least I remember.

1078
00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean I saw this movie when I was young.

1079
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:32,040
Speaker 1: Risky Business. Yeah, it's like the same story as Risky Business,

1080
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 1: except it is Risky Business except instead.

1081
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 3: Of like you know, having a popcorn party, that he

1082
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:42,400
Speaker 3: had sex with a yeah, a sex worker. And that's like,

1083
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 3: that's more of my kind of movie, you know, more

1084
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 3: more poetry, right deep deep ship doesn't Risky Business take

1085
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:51,120
Speaker 3: place in Chicago?

1086
00:54:51,239 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: Also, I feel like it's like it could be in

1087
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:56,719
Speaker 1: the same neighborhood. Again, It's just like rich kid gets

1088
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 1: to be alone and I just never the same talking

1089
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

1090
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the.

1091
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 3: Same movie, except they just crack. He cracks that egg,

1092
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 3: you know, they find the crack in the egg. What

1093
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 3: if this rich kid actually had some freedom and those

1094
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 3: risky business parents were more realistic as far as the

1095
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 3: kind of parents that would have a house that was

1096
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 3: that opulent, because they were they were truly frightening. Whereas

1097
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 3: like to have the kind of money that McCauley's parents had,

1098
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:24,239
Speaker 3: these guys were pretty benevolent. You can't. I mean, I

1099
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 3: was just like everything in there, like you're just looking

1100
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,760
Speaker 3: at man. You know, they got a rhododendrum every three feet,

1101
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 3: they got, they got you know, every goddamn pillows fluffed,

1102
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,480
Speaker 3: every damn I mean, each room is just a pageant

1103
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,920
Speaker 3: of consumerism. And then the parents are are have a

1104
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:43,440
Speaker 3: sense of humor, and those two things do not go

1105
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:48,560
Speaker 3: together normally unless they won their money from a lottery

1106
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:50,239
Speaker 3: or you know, something like that. I would imagine then

1107
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 3: they'd be nice.

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00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 1: But I do think to your point about capitalism and

1109
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:56,759
Speaker 1: like consumerism being like ultimately the main message of this

1110
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: It is interesting that when everybody gets home and they're like, Kevin,

1111
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:04,239
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty cool you didn't burn the house down, man,

1112
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: because that was That's the other thing that like literally stops,

1113
00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 1: Like everybody stops and is like hmm. When they're like, honey,

1114
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: we got to go get milk because honey, the milk

1115
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 1: is gonna be spoiled, and Kevin, Kevin's like, I went shopping.

1116
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: I got milk and tyre surgeon and everyone's like you

1117
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:32,480
Speaker 1: are the best dude. They're like, he did food shopping

1118
00:56:32,600 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: the ultimate.

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00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:34,919
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's also you know, consumerism is the best

1121
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:41,640
Speaker 1: thing that you can possibly do. Go to the grocery store.

1122
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 3: The promise of capitalism is that you you know everything

1123
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 3: in this movie, it's like, oh, this is it, this

1124
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 3: is this is this is your dream. Here you are

1125
00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:51,520
Speaker 3: the dream and you're so fully been fucked over into

1126
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 3: caring about products that you forget your own child.

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00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's really a cautionary to of all.

1129
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 3: It's a tragedy, it's a mirable tragedy.

1130
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:06,919
Speaker 1: Is that when they get on the plane and they're

1131
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,799
Speaker 1: like I did notice an eighty yard line where they're like, okay, kids,

1132
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: you're in coach, we're in first class. The parents are

1133
00:57:12,640 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: in first class, and the kids go back into coach,

1134
00:57:15,360 --> 00:57:18,160
Speaker 1: which like, so you're right, like this is symbolic of

1135
00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: an overall like they like part of how they parent,

1136
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: which is like out of sight, out of mind, you

1137
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, the fuck out of here, and

1138
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: I am obsessed with that I and I didn't think

1139
00:57:30,840 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: of this. I mean I think of this movie as

1140
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,520
Speaker 1: probably not really thinking that deeply about these things. They

1141
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 1: were probably just making a movie to some extent, you know,

1142
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety things were like it was looking like maybe

1143
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:46,280
Speaker 1: it is possible for you know, all of us to

1144
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:48,960
Speaker 1: coexist while some of us have all the electricity. They

1145
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 1: might have really thought that that was possible, because it

1146
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: didn't seem possible.

1147
00:57:52,040 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 3: At that time.

1148
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: It didn't.

1149
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,840
Speaker 3: It was not as dark as as it is now,

1150
00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 3: so you just didn't. But but yeah, the idea like

1151
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 3: those those sort of relationships like as long as you

1152
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,800
Speaker 3: can keep the food and the products coming, then you

1153
00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 3: can basically get away with a yeah, you don't have

1154
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 3: to see each other. But then what happens is I

1155
00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:16,880
Speaker 3: do think a lot about people like Tucker, just because

1156
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,360
Speaker 3: they ended up being so powerful and so empty, and

1157
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 3: it's because they really were. And these are the people

1158
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:25,720
Speaker 3: I grew up with who were left behind when their

1159
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 3: parents went on vacation and they had all their needs met,

1160
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 3: like they had often had servants that took care of them,

1161
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 3: like like, for real, this is a level of shit.

1162
00:58:34,120 --> 00:58:35,480
Speaker 3: I grew up and that's why I thought our house

1163
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:37,320
Speaker 3: looked like shit. Our house was a normal house, but

1164
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 3: I was like, we live in a shack, you know

1165
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 3: what I mean, like because we didn't have servants or

1166
00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 3: you know whatever, a prototype microwave or one of these

1167
00:58:45,240 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 3: fun people. I went over to their house, they had

1168
00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 3: like uh, you know whatever, there's ship they had.

1169
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:52,000
Speaker 1: But anyway, this realistic part of this movie, by the way,

1170
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: is that they don't have like a nanny or a maid,

1171
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: you know, like that would up the plot.

1172
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:59,560
Speaker 3: But sure, yeah, but then then the problem is like, yeah,

1173
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 3: you get these you know, it turns out a kid

1174
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 3: needs more than a nanny, and you know whatever they

1175
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 3: had in that house, a big fat couch or whatever

1176
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 3: in a big TV, like a kid needs more than

1177
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 3: that you can't and then the kid ends up like

1178
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:15,680
Speaker 3: this Macauley guy. This character probably ended up being a

1179
00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:18,320
Speaker 3: right wing monster when he grew up because maybe the

1180
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 3: family's fortune went away and he didn't know who to

1181
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 3: blame and he had no resources inside because his own

1182
00:59:23,520 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 3: mother forgot him on a vacation and anyway, but you know,

1183
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 3: this is what I bring to the table. This reminds me,

1184
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 3: This reminds me of and you can maybe cut this

1185
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 3: this maybe too. I hate saying it, but it's like

1186
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 3: I saw this kid at an ice cream store, like

1187
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 3: throwing a tantrum like because and his dad was like,

1188
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 3: get him the ice cream that he wants. Get him.

1189
00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 3: He's like three years old, and he's like the kid

1190
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 3: was like throwing sample spoons on the floor and stuff.

1191
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 3: And I went and did stand up that night and

1192
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 3: I said, listen, I saw this kid, you know, and

1193
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 3: his dad kept going, get him another flavor, get him

1194
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 3: another flavor.

1195
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Oh my god, you know, And and

1196
00:59:58,200 --> 00:59:59,840
Speaker 4: I was like, you know, if you if you never

1197
01:00:00,040 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 4: say no to a kid, especially a male kid, when

1198
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,200
Speaker 4: do you when do you think the first time he

1199
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 4: hears no is gonna be yea you know dead series, right,

1200
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 4: and then the host came up and said, ladies and gentlemen.

1201
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:13,480
Speaker 3: Chris crofton some people see a three year old, he

1202
01:00:13,520 --> 01:00:19,680
Speaker 3: sees a rapist, So yeah, he probably have to cut that.

1203
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 3: But anyway, that's that's along the lines of like I do,

1204
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 3: I can't ruin any party. It was like me going

1205
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 3: to Disneyland. Remember when I told you about that. Oh yeah,

1206
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 3: I didn't do accid Disneyland, and it's a good things.

1207
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 3: I would have ruined everybody's truck. Caribbean was like you know,

1208
01:00:34,200 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos' anus or whatever. You know, Yeah, because I'm

1209
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 3: a spoiler.

1210
01:00:39,560 --> 01:00:42,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, just a couple of stray things that you learn

1211
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:47,200
Speaker 1: from the Wikipedia page. The Old Gangster Movie, which I

1212
01:00:47,240 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 1: always assumed as a kid, was a real old gangster

1213
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,920
Speaker 1: movie that that's probably the best piece of filmmaking in

1214
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 1: the movie. They they like went and got old cameras

1215
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 1: and old film stock and shot that. That was the

1216
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 1: last thing they shot before they started actual production. And

1217
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 1: I it does like come across as an old movie,

1218
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: like it was a real old movie. No, it wasn't

1219
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:08,760
Speaker 1: a real old movie. They shot it just for this,

1220
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: but they actually like kind of nail the look of

1221
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: like old gangster movies, which I will say that we

1222
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,880
Speaker 1: owed this movie to Chevy Chase being a complete asshole,

1223
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 1: because Chris Columbus was actually supposed to be making National

1224
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when this movie filmed, but chevy Chase

1225
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: was such an asshole that he quit that and became

1226
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:31,840
Speaker 1: available to make a Home alone. Wow. Yeah, so that's

1227
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,440
Speaker 1: the reason that we get Chris Columbus, who is I

1228
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 1: think the perfect person to make this movie, you know,

1229
01:01:39,040 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: like he just like his sensibility is like so right

1230
01:01:42,560 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: down the middle for sure. I think one of the

1231
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: big reasons that this became so popular and iconic is

1232
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 1: because it was one of the first videos that was sold.

1233
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,400
Speaker 1: There was like a big war of like we you know,

1234
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: we shouldn't sell videos because that'll ruin movies and like

1235
01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: theater going things, so we can only rent them, and

1236
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:05,080
Speaker 1: like so only a few movies were sold, and this

1237
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:08,320
Speaker 1: was the second highest selling video of all time behind

1238
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: et Like, so they were I think Disney sold movies

1239
01:02:12,080 --> 01:02:14,080
Speaker 1: every once in a while, but it was like kind

1240
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:15,919
Speaker 1: of rare, and this was one of the first ones

1241
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: that was like sold wide and like everybody owned it,

1242
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 1: and then it's Gerald Ford's favorite movie for the reason

1243
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: the old old dipshit ex president is like this fucking

1244
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 1: movie rules.

1245
01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:32,560
Speaker 2: It looks like my house. Oh my, just pissing himself laughing.

1246
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,000
Speaker 3: I remember my parents left me behind for four weeks,

1247
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 3: but that was on purpose.

1248
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,480
Speaker 1: And then this blew my mind. They wanted to audition

1249
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:43,960
Speaker 1: a person who's like a famous comedian now after seeing

1250
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 1: him in a sketch comedy show, like a children's sketch

1251
01:02:47,760 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 1: comedy show, but his parents wouldn't let him. Do you

1252
01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:54,040
Speaker 1: know who that young man is? No, John Mulaney. They

1253
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: wanted John mulaney to audition for the McAuley culkinroll, and

1254
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,240
Speaker 1: his parents were like, no, no, thanks.

1255
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 2: Holy ship, Yeah John mulaney. No, that's that's a fucking

1256
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:07,120
Speaker 2: weird timeline.

1257
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be Also, I don't think the movie

1258
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: where like just he still has the energy of like

1259
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 1: kind of a wise ass little kid. Uh, but like

1260
01:03:16,840 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: I feel like not the right type of wise ass

1261
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: little No.

1262
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:22,400
Speaker 2: And also if he was if he had a cocaine

1263
01:03:22,480 --> 01:03:25,760
Speaker 2: problem as an adult a child actor like that, we

1264
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 2: would John mulaney would not be here.

1265
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all I got for home alone. Chris crofton

1266
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: thank you for watching Home Alone for us, No.

1267
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:38,520
Speaker 3: Problem was fun. I I'm living in this house with

1268
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,920
Speaker 3: all these roommates, and so it's like a I normally

1269
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 3: don't have a laser projector or whatever they are those

1270
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 3: projectors projector lasers. So I got to watch it on

1271
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 3: this big one of my roommates has like a big night. Yeah,

1272
01:03:55,080 --> 01:03:56,880
Speaker 3: like we projected. I projected it on the wall, so

1273
01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,800
Speaker 3: I got a good look at all this opulence.

1274
01:03:59,680 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 2: That like tricity.

1275
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was really fun and it was really

1276
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 3: fun and uh and yeah, I actually did have affection

1277
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 3: for it. After it was done, I kind of wanted

1278
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 3: to go back in that pulls in that house.

1279
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: Well, well, we'll be back for another edition of this.

1280
01:04:17,440 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 1: When Miles and I watch a Christmas classic that Chris

1281
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,120
Speaker 1: has seen and that we've never seen.

1282
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:24,600
Speaker 3: You've both never seen. It's a wonderful life.

1283
01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 2: We've both never seen a wonderful I mean I know

1284
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 2: that it's I knew that it was on TV, and

1285
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 2: I immediately went like, what the fuck, No, bro, it's

1286
01:04:33,560 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 2: black and white.

1287
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:37,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, that immediately, I do. I agree. That makes sense

1288
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 3: to me, Yes totally.

1289
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,040
Speaker 1: If it's so good, why is it in black and white.

1290
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:46,080
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas everyone, and we'll be back. Happy Holidays,

1291
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: Happy Holidays, Happy holidays.

1292
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 2: Woke. No, we're not saying Merry Christmas here no, not here,

1293
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 2: no no no Mary Capitalism, Donnie will have you killed.

1294
01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:00,480
Speaker 3: I gotta go to the Huffington Post. I gotta check

1295
01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:01,520
Speaker 3: the Uffing to post.

1296
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:05,200
Speaker 1: In all right, we'll be back tomorrow with another holiday episode,

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Speaker 1: or back on the next weekday. Until then, Happy Holidays, bye.

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Speaker 1: The Daily Zeitgeist is executive produced by Catherine Law, co

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Speaker 1: produced by Bebe Wayne.

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Speaker 2: Co produced by Victor Wright

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Speaker 3: Co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered

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Speaker 3: by Brian Jefferies.