WEBVTT - Crofton's Media Blackout: Home Alone 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.359 Hello the Internet, and welcome to this special holiday episode 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:11.920 of Dirnis Guys. It's a production of iHeartRadio. This is 0:00:11.960 --> 0:00:14.000 the podcast where you take a deep dive into America's 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:18.799 shared consciousness. Usually for the holidays, we take a deep 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:25.160 dive into America's shared Christmas spirit, the Christmas Geist in German. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.720 That's a direct pronunciation translation. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.000 The format of these episodes is something Jack and I 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:36.000 have talked about for maybe since we met Chris and 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.760 we realized he hasn't seen nothing, he hasn't seen shit. 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.320 Man from the we. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.519 Were talking about you doing a yeah, like a podcast 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:46.479 where I watch old. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:48.360 Movies and like just talking to you. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:54.440 You mean ship like alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that 0:00:54.560 --> 0:00:55.520 was big jo. 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:56.720 I got to watch it. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:00:59.320 My name is Jack O'Brien and I'm joined, as it was, 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.280 by my co host, mister Miles. 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:05.399 Yes sure, yes, yes, here we are, here we are, 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:06.119 and for. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:09.640 This very special holiday episode, we're calling Christmas blind Spots. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.760 We've got a hilarious stand up comedian, actor, musician, one 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.520 of the very faces on Mountain Zeitemore. You can listen 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:20.200 to his podcast, Coldbrew Got Me Like anywhere. The poetry 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:26.400 window is open because it's Chris, motherfucker craft, Chris, what's 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:27.280 up the. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:29.280 Mother? 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.280 Correct, Chris, you haven't seen a lot of movies. You've 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.600 had a you've had a life. Maybe you've had a life. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.679 Life was lifing. Every time I feel like I've been 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:41.560 we've referenced a movie and you like, haven't seen it. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.160 You're like I was. I was drinking and thought being 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.680 a rock star was cool. It's some version of that 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:47.119 as well. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.800 Yes, like during the nineties I was doing Charles Bukowski 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.200 in the sense that I was like, the meaning is 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:59.120 in bars, not in theaters, Like everyone knows what's gonna 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.080 happen in the theater or in a bar. You never 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.440 know what kind of random poetry is going to go 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.680 down or whatever. You know, which, of course you know 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.720 it's not true. Really, I mean, you know. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.839 Did you have like an idealized thing you thought would 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.000 happen at the bar? They'd be like, this is fucking why, man. 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.400 It happened, but then you didn't remember it if you've 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.040 usually missed it like or somehow forgot it. If it 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.399 wasn't and it just turns out, it's like the revelations 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.079 in a bar are fairly repetitive. Repetitive, even more repetitive 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:29.600 than movies, you know what I mean. So it's like 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:30.480 it turns out. 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.040 You know, I'm drinking, and you like start hanging around 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:39.680 people who are drinking, you do the repetition. You're like, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.080 oh man, you guys say the same shit over and 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:45.240 over and over again. Yes, wild and not like. 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.359 Just like drinking, like having a drink, like I mean, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.800 like going out every night and getting drunk because you 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:54.680 think that there's something mystical about that, and you know 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:59.600 it always ends up with frozen pizza and you know 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.640 it's not that mystical. Really, it's just not. And so 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.280 but I did, like I was like, oh, you go 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.120 to the movies, you sell out piece of shit, you know, 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.720 like have a fun time at the movies. You basic bitch. 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.960 They didn't invented that term basic bitch yet. 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:13.960 But yeah, but that was the vibe. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.359 But then you forgot that you invented it. You never 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:16.840 trade mine. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:18.919 I invented basic bitch in nineteen ninety. 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.399 But so to turn you around on on this misguided 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:30.080 idea that people go into the movies were sell out capitalists, 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.400 we thought we would show you a home alone, a 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:38.800 movie with really good politics and no weird capitalist messaging 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:43.760 at all. Just a quick background. I mean, everybody knows it, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:47.800 but I don't know that people quite know that. So 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.000 when it came out, it was a massive hit, to 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.520 the point that so it came out in November, it 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.640 was like the number one movie at the box office 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.680 leg every week for a number of weeks. But it 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:02.000 stayed in theaters until Easter. People were like seeing it 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.800 shit in the spring, going to see it, like well 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:06.280 after the Christmas season. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.240 That's like having your Christmas lights up until Easter. Basically 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.240 like the movie at Cleveland, like yeah, you know what, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.640 fuck it, let's watch a Christmas movie. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.479 You can all right, I feel attacked now. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.480 I was at the FAZI concert. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.480 Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that yeah, yeah, you were doing 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.800 you were out doing cool shit. So you missed this. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.400 But I think that's what's exciting to us about this 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:30.400 premise is that, like you're coming to this movie that 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.440 I've seen so many times that things like his cousin 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:40.800 calling him you're what the French call les is like 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.520 so burned in my fucking brain that like it's like 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:45.480 a part of me. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:47.800 Like burned in your brain. You say it to your 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:48.359 own kids. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.440 I say all the time to my kids. 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.520 Yeah, I say that ship to my friends. Still we 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:57.720 still say that ship to it. Oh you're such a disease. 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:03.000 We'll say, like you did, you little jerk. I don't 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.160 even know when it comes out, but this shit comes out. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.440 That's why it's so funny, because like on this side 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.839 of the equation, Chris, it's it's so ingrained in our 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.240 brains that we don't realize how much it is. Because also, 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.240 I think, at least for me specifically too, I was 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.680 six years old when this came out, and this was 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:23.200 like a film that was like being a fucking wild 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.640 kid is sick as fuck and you can beat the 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.240 shit out of adults because you're smarter because you're a 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.160 fun kid. And it was just Kevin mccallison was like 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:32.680 my fucking idol for like years. 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:35.440 Wow. The number one thing I would do if my 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.000 parents weren't around is I would run around my house 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.560 with my hands over my head. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.799 Gone, ah hell yeah, dude. 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:44.160 I will say at the time that it came out 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:49.120 because it has been adopted as a Christmas classic, Like 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.960 it's just one of those movies that people like put 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.960 on lists of like the top Christmas movies. At the 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.000 time it came out, reviews were mixed. I remember that 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.359 because I was a weird kid who like read movie 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.800 reviews before, like even of movies I wouldn't see. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:06.239 Oh so you're like ten years old when this comes out, 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.040 ten years old through the calendar section. 0:06:08.920 --> 0:06:12.599 Nine years old and thumbing through the life section of 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:15.960 the Dayton Daily News that was just like, get get 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:17.720 this front page news out of my way. I want 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.000 to see. It was like a little magazine shaped insert. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.120 It would like give you the movie reviews of the 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.279 latest movies, and I remember this one getting like two 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:31.400 stars or something, and looking back, Owen Gleibman from Entertainment 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:36.279 Weekly accused the film of adult bashing, which is what 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.960 is an adults or like a persecutive minority group. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:46.719 Trying that one on adults. Yeah, that's. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.360 That's like Russ. That's kind of stuff Russ doubt at 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:51.080 does now. 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:56.440 Yes, exactly right, right, But like there are on the 0:06:56.440 --> 0:07:00.200 Wikipedia page for Home Alone, you learned that like in 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.720 Poland and Romania, the holiday tradition is that like the 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:09.560 main TV channel shows it every Christmas Eve. There's like, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.080 you know, everybody watches Home Alone one year they didn't 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.600 show it. There was like a outraged Facebook hit, like 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:21.679 ninety thousand people protested, like online, And it's the same 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.440 similar in Romania, like people are. 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.080 That's like when people get mad in America because like, 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:30.240 like the only kind of activism Americans do is when 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.360 they like cancel their favorite TV show. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:38.200 Yeah, sending in angry letters to fucking network TV. When 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.720 Janet Jackson's boob gets exposed. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.200 The closest we came to like a social revolution was 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:54.080 when the finale of Game of Thrones sucked, right, So, yeah, 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:56.800 I was much older, So I mean obviously, like you know, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.920 I feel the same way, like I love John Denver 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:00.520 because I heard him when I was you know, if 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.640 I was seventeen when John Denver was putting out records, 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.800 I would have been listening to like, you know, Steppenwolf 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:09.240 or something and thought John Denver is for losers. So 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.280 I mean there was an age different. I was forty 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:18.960 eight when this film came out, but so no, was 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.160 I was twenty one. I was twenty one. Oh, so 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:22.360 it was a whole different. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.320 Oh yeah, god, you were dude. I can only imagine 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.360 how fuck home alone you were at this point when 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.880 you said you were really getting fuck getting drunk and 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:32.240 anti everything. 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.319 I was just sort of leaving the home alone demographic 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:37.760 in New Canaan that. I mean, this movie made me 0:08:37.800 --> 0:08:40.560 think of where I grew up, except like to have 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.160 a house this nice, your family wouldn't be this nice, 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:49.320 you know. So like, you know, I was just leaving 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.360 this andto I had only seen Peugazi like that. That 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.520 year I saw Melvin's for the first time. 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.880 That Repeater just came out. Yeah, what's that said? Repeater 0:08:58.040 --> 0:08:58.880 just came out that year. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.560 Yeah, And it was like that. I was just like 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:04.720 sort of leaving the just deciding like, oh wait, like 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:07.240 I don't know what. I don't know that I would 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.400 have would have gotten some heavy capitalist message out of 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.440 it or anything seeing this movie, but it was just 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.240 like I was just in the middle of So I 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:18.079 understand why you guys, you know, saw it and and 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.320 and you know probably loved it. You know, I can 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:22.920 see how you would love it. It's got certain qualities 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.240 to it. It actually feels like you're in a big 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.480 It feels like you're rich while you're watching it. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:31.440 I feel like that is that is what it does. 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.800 It makes you feel like you're rich. And also I 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:39.120 will say the people who aren't rich in this movie 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:44.240 are fucking idiots. They're like always the bad guy, Like 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.880 they're always like like the people who work at the 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.600 store when he accidentally shoplifts the toothbrush, or like you know, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:57.160 the mall, Santa any anybody who's like, we're you know, 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.400 the people who work at the airline, airline attend and cops, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:04.080 the pizza guy. They're just like, look at this friend 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:08.439 jufist the entire nation of France. The shuttle driver of 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:10.800 this little kid's like, what kind of gas mile did 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.440 you get on that? An objectively cute question. He's just like, 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:16.520 beat it, kid, I'm fuck out of here, you little shit. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.840 It's it does seem to have a certain view of 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.920 basically even like there's an uncle who's like kind of 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:31.360 the poor asshole for being poor, Like he's just like, 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.360 you know, cheap and won't spend money, and then like 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.240 his brother who like that. There's been articles speculating like 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.600 how the fuck are these people making their money? 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:45.199 Yeah, automating France, right, that. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:46.680 Was the first thing I noticed. I mean I was 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:50.640 just like, they have so they're burning so much electricity 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.480 in this house. That's the first thing I noticed. I mean, 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.080 that house is lit up like I mean like they're 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.680 trying to throw money out the window. And you start 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.640 to think, wow, houses are pretty and they're lit up 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.720 like that, and then you think how deranged that is? 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:03.520 Right? 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.360 I mean, if you go back and watch the movie, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.480 which I watched yesterday for the first time, the first 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:09.440 thing I was like, I was like, this is an 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:15.240 advertisement for excessive electricity use first and foremost, and it 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.480 makes you feel likes electricity use would make you feel better, 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.360 like spiritually. And that's the thing is that house is 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:27.120 like a beacon of capitalism, and I don't like that 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.360 is really what it reminded me of being in a 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:33.199 house like in my hometown of New Canaan, Connecticut, where 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.200 I would go over to the ultra wealthy's house and 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:36.760 our house was fine. You know, it was not a 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.199 bad house, but it was not one of these kind 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.320 of houses where it's just like everything's brand new. 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.800 It's like a monument to Christmas, and yeah, everything's brand 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.240 fucking use the rugs match. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.280 You're like, wait, you just buy all your rugs at 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.400 the same time to match in your house. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.560 These were kind of houses where they would run out 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.560 of a box of cereal when I was there, and 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.520 then they would go into this pantry and there'd be 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.360 like five boxes of that same cereal on backup. Like 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:07.280 our family, we definitely only had one box or one 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.199 item of whatever we had. We had to go get 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:13.880 another one after we ran out. Yes, this family, and 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.679 it does. I wanted to go to those people's houses 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:18.880 because I felt safe. It was the only place I 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:23.440 felt safe, you know, Like you know, like imagine if 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.400 you spilled as much milk as as Macaulay Culkin does 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.240 in that scene in my house, that was like enough 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.160 to like cause a divorce. But you know what I mean, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.640 Like in their house, they were like just get someone 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.840 to clean it up or whatever was hire somebody to 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.560 clean up the milk. I mean, it's like it feels 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:41.480 good and the like I remember as a kid though, 0:12:41.520 --> 0:12:44.600 being in those houses, and that's what I felt like 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.200 this movie. Actually, I could see revisiting this movie as 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.640 a tradition because it makes you feel safe. It shows 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.200 you the America you wish or you thought or you 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.120 wanted to exist, you know. And but the thing is, 0:12:57.160 --> 0:12:59.080 that's what's funny about it to me, is I knew 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:00.920 the houses that were like I was in them, but 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.240 the people inside were not nice because to get that 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.240 kind of money, you're not going to be like playful. 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:06.840 Or he might leave your. 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:08.640 Kid behind, but then you blame it on your kid, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.440 or you just like, you know, like we're gonna stay 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.080 away extra because you're such an irresponsible Actually. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.680 We're going to go to France. Why don't you stay here? 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:17.520 Yeah, I mean. 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:20.120 Really, Yeah. I think I talked about this on last 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.920 year's Christmas episodes, but I do think she left him 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.200 on purpose, Like there's I don't think she consciously knew 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.520 she was doing it, but she does realize she's doing 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.240 it on some level, because when she has the revelation, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.800 it's not like she goes back and counts the kids. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.600 She there's a nagging thought in the back of her mind. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:43.480 And during those opening scenes, she fucking hates him so much. Yeah, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.360 everybody hates him so much in those opening scenes, and 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.520 it does feel like there's a part of her unconscious 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.560 that was like, we should just fucking leave this kid, 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:54.760 and like that was going. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.320 To Tucker Carlson and those scenes, yeah, those are the way. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:00.719 That's the way Tucker Carlson grew up and dad was like, yeah, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.720 we left you behind on purpose because we're warming you up. Yeah, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:04.720 boarding school. 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.280 But his mom did leave is the one I think 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:12.720 is the one who left France for France. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:15.359 Oh my god alone. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.240 We need to look up what Tuger Carlson thinks of 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.200 the movie Home Alone left by his mom. 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.200 To go to France for France. You must hate that ship, 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.000 hot Tucker. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.080 But also like living probably this wasn't weren't they like 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.320 the Air to the Ons, the Swans and. 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.440 Oh yeah, yeah, I grew up surrounded by those fucks 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.360 and uh and uh you know I saw I saw, 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:46.360 like you know, just like they leave their kids alone 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.480 from for weeks while they went to like Saint Bart's 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.120 and stuff like you know, like I mean they so 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:55.640 this is like such a benevolent version of that, Like 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.360 I mean, this family at least. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:00.080 You know, gives to bring the kids, yeah. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.400 Gives a ship about it, like you know. But yeah, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.200 just just the wealth was the first thing that stood 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.320 out to me. I was like, this is like, this 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.240 is crazy, and yeah, all the people who are in 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.240 the middle class still like in a decent mood, you know, 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.080 taking ship from kids about what the mileage is or whatever, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.680 you know, because they're like still have like. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.560 A yeah job, could you could survive off of those 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:22.560 wages somewhat? 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:24.720 Yeah, and you can go to the local bar and 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.520 have some self esteem like because you had a good 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.800 blue collar job and a nice mustache. Then that's all gone, 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:30.040 you know. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:35.040 But those guys Santa, the smoking Santa, mall Santa. The 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.000 person who tried out for that and didn't get it 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.480 was Chris Farley. He was actually tried out for that 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.280 role and shri Chris Columbus was like, no, thank you, 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.400 but yeah, he's just like, kid, I don't know, here's 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.920 a here's a fucking tic tac. You know. It's like 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.040 it is like a cautionary tale of like he's safe 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.040 and protecting this like warm cocoon of like capitalist wealth 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:02.400 and consumption. And then like he like goes out into 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.640 the scary world and like interacts with these middle class 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:10.160 like wage workers, and they're all just like here you go. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.320 This is what I give my kid for Christmas? A 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:16.440 fucking tick tac. Oh. Yeah. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.160 Yeah. 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.200 Brian's point that all of this is if you are white, 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.440 there's a there's a big if you're a white thing 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.280 going on in this movie. There are no people of 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.280 color in this movie except for the life size cutout 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.800 of Michael Jordan that he uses to trick the trick. 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.040 I noticed that too, like it. Like usually they would 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:41.200 be even in nineteen ninety, they'd be like, we should 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:45.440 probably put someone on one like. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:52.280 Michael Jordan, but the on paper as a print out. 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.760 But you're right that like the people who are you know, 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:01.960 lower class, they're at least somewhat helpful and like get 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.879 you know, doing their job. And the one group that 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.600 is the robbers, you know, the robbers who are like 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.199 I'm I'm going to break the rules and go in 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:14.960 and steal all this good stuff is that's even though 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:19.399 I didn't work for it, looking low class dental work. 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.040 Well, I don't know if we're going to go through it, 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:23.760 but since you bring up the robbers, I'm just going 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:26.959 to say I realized that the robbers are Antifa. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.879 Well, maybe we should go in this movie because it 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.680 sounds like you've got notes, Chris, and I'm I think 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.439 we're fascinated to know what lies within those notes. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.520 Well, it's it's already like it's already been I'm I'm already. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.439 Now I know what to watch if I ever feel like, 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.040 if I want to feel safe, I watched this movie, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.639 and I feel like I'm in a big brick house 0:17:49.640 --> 0:17:52.199 where the worst thing that could happen is like some 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.480 people who are going to France forget me and then 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.240 come back and yeah. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:56.160 And. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.800 A wheel of brie or whatever they brought back to France. 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.360 All right, let's take a quick break, we'll come back. 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.640 We'll start going through the movie. Uh, and yeah, we'll 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:06.200 be right back. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:21.280 And we're back. We're back, Hello, hello, hello. Uh to 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.480 go through it should maybe just I can I can 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.199 just read a bit a chunk of plot and you 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.640 can see what what what's drummed up? Does that work 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.359 for you, Chris, just so we can kind of stay chronological, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:36.640 because I know you've gotten notes script. Yeah, so let's 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.080 just go with plot from Wikipedia, dot com, dot org, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:40.680 dot net. 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:46.040 Slash along this episode. Go go, yep, go donate to Wikipedia. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.760 Here we go. The Mcalliser family prepares to spend Christmas 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.200 in Paris, gathering at Kate and Peter's home in Wineka, 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.680 a Chicago suburb, on the night before their departure. Kate 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.440 and Peter's youngest son, Kevin, is ridiculed by his siblings 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.080 and cousins due to his immature Kevin inadvertently ruins the 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.639 family dinner after a scuffle with his oldest brother, Buzz, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:07.320 resulting in Kate punishing him by sending him up to 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.840 the attic. Frustrated with Kate for allowing the rest of 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.679 the family to pick on him, Kevin wishes that his 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:16.199 family would disappear. During the night, heavy winds damage electricity 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.600 and phone lines to the house, disabling the alarm clocks 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.199 and causing the family to oversleep. In the confusion and 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.960 rush to get to O'Hare airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind. 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.679 So in that opening scene, there's a lot going on. 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:27.959 I do. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.280 I feel like this is anti tourism propagant, Like it's 0:19:32.280 --> 0:19:36.000 the anti travel propaganda. It makes travel seem so fucking stressful. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.040 And they're just like, stay home, safe in your giant house. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.760 it's good, stay home and consume, don't go out there. 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.040 Cultural France. I don't know why there trying to create 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.240 a fear of France. They are, yeah, they I feel 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.159 like I know in the second one, they go to 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.080 Florida and like they cut to them, just like sitting 0:19:56.080 --> 0:20:00.480 in a shit hotel room. Well yeah, yeah, while it's reigning. 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:06.639 We ever see them in Paris? In this, I feel 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.960 like it's very maybe very briefly and again it's just 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:11.320 everybody like stuck in a hotel. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.600 No, because it immediately becomes about his mom by the 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.720 time she turns, and then you kind of hear about 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.479 what's happening. But no, there's no like I don't think 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.080 there's any like Parisian scene. 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:22.800 No, there's just that scene in the hotel room, and 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.200 there's this and then John Hurd isn't his name of 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.560 the father? Yeah, he yells like he's trying to find 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.920 his son on the phone. Oh do you speak English? 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:31.679 Yeah? 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:34.840 Like really he tries, he tries to deal with these 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.040