Episode 44

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26th Feb 2025

Uncle Buck | S2E2

Join us as we travel back to August 1989 to investigate Uncle Buck, the John Hughes comedy that gave us John Candy at his finest, a young Macaulay Culkin, and one unforgettable giant pancake. We'll dive into the film’s impact as well as the time capsule memories of 1989!

I'm joined by returning guests, Scott & Steve from The Cheeky Basterds Podcast: Men of Action & Dropping a Bruce. They are also both on the Last of the Action Heroes Podcast Network.

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Where do you live?

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The city.

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Do you have a house, apartment owner?

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Rent.

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Rent?

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What do you do for a living?

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Lots of things.

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Where's your office?

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I don't have one.

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How come?

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I don't need one.

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Where's your wife?

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Don't have one.

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How come?

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It's a long story.

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Do you have kids?

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No, I don't.

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How come?

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It's an even longer story.

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Wait, my dad's brother.

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I'm your dad's brother already now.

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Buck.

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Russer had always been the black sheep of the family.

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I'm stunned that I'm related to you until one night Buck.

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We have a problem with the kids.

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We're stuck for somebody to watch them.

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Oh, please not that Can I trust him, my brother, for God's sake.

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I won't let him get into that Satan stuff or any of the new chicks.

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I'll leave that for me.

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Wow.

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I'm kidding.

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Now he's making them breakfast.

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Cigar, no thanks.

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Making them lunch

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and making them crazy.

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What did you do?

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He is irresistible, and I wanna ask you why I'm so attracted to you.

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I, I wouldn't even guess at that.

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Whoa.

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Oh, he's unbelievable.

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I'm Anita or God.

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I'm Buck melanoma.

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Molly Russell's wart.

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He's would you, John Candy as Uncle Buck.

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What does he like to drink?

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I've been leaving the toilet seats up.

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Is that what the blue water is?

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It's not good for him, huh?

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Uncle Buck.

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The new comedy from John Hughes.

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You have much more hair than your nose than my dad.

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Nice of you to notice I'm a kid.

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That's my job.

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Coming soon to a theater near you.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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I'm Katie and this is Retro Made, your pop culture rewind.

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is season two and you are in for an epic ride.

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John Hughes, Shermer High and beyond.

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Today I have two returning guests from last season, Scott and Steve.

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Thank you for coming back to do this John Hughes season with me on Retro Made.

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Tell us what's new with you guys and

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thank you for asking us.

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Yeah,

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Oh my friend over there, the older, the older gentleman.

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across the pond.

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Go first.

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Go ahead, Steve.

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Give her a little information.

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We're halfway through, we're just over halfway through dropping a Bruce.

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Our Bruce Willis straight to video, or straight to disc,

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straight to streaming extravaganza.

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as we

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The STD, the Bruce Willis STDs, so we're just, we're just

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over halfway through on that.

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Which is Been a bit of an ordeal, Scott?

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I think it's

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Yeah, it's yeah.

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You know, I think we've, I've said it on a couple of places.

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It's sad because we're watching a hero of both of ours as a kid, you know, grow up.

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I mean, Steve and I've talked about it on our men of action where, you know, whether

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good or bad, the, the movies of the 80s kind of informed what male role models and

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what we thought men were supposed to be.

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And Willis as John McClane is probably the biggest example of

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Stallone's awesome, but Rambo and Schwarzenegger, those guys aren't real.

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That's, that's like, it's like an action figure type of life that you're,

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you know, only very few can attain.

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John McClane from Bruce Willis felt like we could actually be John McClane.

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And to then, obviously, obviously I do Church with Tarantino, then to have

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him in Pulp Fiction, and now to see, you know, now that he's longer able

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to act anymore, And now we're really at the point where we're watching

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the aphasia really peek through.

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It is like watching it's, you know, I know probably some of your listeners

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or even people, maybe yourself, but dementia sucks for the people

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who are obviously going through.

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We have no idea how they feel, but to watch a loved one disappear

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before your eyes is very tough.

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And that's kind of like what Steve and I are going through.

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We're having a good time watching the movies and, you know,

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having our fun times with it.

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But at the same time, we're watching our hero disappear before our eyes.

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Like just, just disappear before our eyes and that's kind of a sad melancholy

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kind of trip, you know, I mean,

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Yeah, it's bittersweet.

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it, but you're kind of like, man, you know, I mean, it's like somebody

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is going to be like, Oh my God, it's John McClane at the end.

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I'll say it's like, do I've been faking it the whole time.

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You know, I'm not, I'm being meta.

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I'm a, he's Andy coughing it where he's just like, you know, it's a whole bit.

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It's just.

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Bruce Willis is now kind of gone,

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Yeah, it's bittersweet.

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It's bittersweet.

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Definitely.

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through, I mean, I

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We're just just over, aren't we?

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to be like, you know,

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if they're anything like where we're in shit show centrals, what

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they are, they are, they've been

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There's been some we've had a few surprises this week.

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You know, currently, but it's been a rough, it's been,

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two was

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it's getting rougher and rougher as it goes, but You never

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know what you're gonna get,

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never

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you know, you never know, so.

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Or who's going to be in them.

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That's the fun part too.

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It's like, you're like, how did this person, you, you kind of find

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like these careers of what I would say, like CW stars or the WB or,

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you know, shows over in America.

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You're like, Oh, those guys were popular back in the early two thousands.

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And now you're like, what did they ever do?

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were

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This is what they did.

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That's what they were in.

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They found a new life there.

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Super fun.

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Yeah.

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Awesome.

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Oh, my

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yeah.

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yes, Scott.

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You said you have a church of Tarantino.

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Oh,

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in season four.

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Now it's basically a weekly podcast because I've got psychological problems.

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It's the only way to get through what we're going through.

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You and I, Katie here and

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Ignorance.

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It's a, just kind of put your head down and

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true.

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that your little bubble is all that's around you and you just

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hmm.

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grin and bear it, white knuckle it.

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hmm.

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You know what?

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I'll be honest with you.

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This is not to be glib.

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I sometimes right now, I kind of wish I was in Bruce Willis's shoes.

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He's having a great time.

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He doesn't know what's going on and it's probably the best way to live right now.

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I know this sounds terrible, but he's not.

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Yeah, it is.

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But you know, so that's going really well and then Steve and I also,

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we also have the men of action and we are halfway through season

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three,

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but season two of the, of the shift to the men of action and

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we've been having fun with that.

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So,

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We're going through some, we're doing a lot of sequels at the moment.

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yeah,

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them against each other, you know, not That's that's been surprising as well.

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I've had some

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kind of doing some, what you do.

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We just so far February episode.

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We have to Eddie Murphy's where we did another 48 hours and we did,

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Beverly Hills Cop too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Mmm.

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it's that nostalgia.

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You we've learned that sometimes how we remember the movies.

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We'll probably talk about from good luck and what really happens in the movie.

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sometimes not the same anymore after 30 plus years of of remembering them.

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So yeah, fun journeys, fun journeys.

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We, we enjoy it.

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It's, it's always been about the conversation for us.

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So we just kind of enjoy each other's balls, busting the balls that people made

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these films and having fun with them.

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And then like it.

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Awesome.

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If not

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you all should tune in.

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All their stuff will be in the show notes.

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So

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Oh, thank you.

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So we're going to go back to 1989 for the time capsule.

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wish we could.

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Is this real?

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Am I being sucked through my computer?

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Please.

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This is really good.

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We're going to 89.

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Oh

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to 89 and I have put a new spin pun intended on the time capsule.

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So let's start by opening it from August 1989.

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OkaY.

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Ooh.

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This is high tech.

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12

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Categories in the retro made time capsule for season 2.

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So, I'm going to, I'm going to spend on your behalf, you guys

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Thank you.

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see what we come up with here.

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What did we get?

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Oh, it's on

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Oh, oh, stars and scandals,

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Ooh.

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OKay.

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Their rise was meteoric.

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Their downfall even swifter.

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One moment they were winning awards.

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The next their voices were called into question.

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A single technical mishap exposed a truth they could never recover from.

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Who were they?

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Milli Vanilli.

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All

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Yes.

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All

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your hand if you actually saw Millie Vanilli concert.

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I know.

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I did My father

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Oh.

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and they came around here in the summer one time and he had tickets.

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So, you know, this is before we knew that they were, there was the rumors that they

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were lip syncing, but at the same time, most pop bands at that time, because

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they had so many choreographed stuff.

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A lot of it seemed like they were lip syncing anyways, you know, was it was

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hard to tell if you're getting, yeah.

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And so we went to see them and I think young mc opened for them.

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young emcee

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I

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Respect to young MC.

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I'm a fan.

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so yes, I have seen here's the thing.

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Whatever happened to the real people saying

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Right?

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Like the people who sang, the real voices was what won, the guys pretending to be

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didn't, shouldn't, what about the people, I mean, where's the real Milli Vanilli?

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That's the, that's the E!

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News special I want to see, is what happened to the real people who sang?

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They were, they should have won all these awards.

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They just, were they that ugly?

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How ugly are the people who sing?

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friends you guys smelly cat smelly cat

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Yes.

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are they feeding you?

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Yeah.

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like I said, who's where are those people?

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Those people should be making millions of dollars.

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They want awards.

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They had award winning voices.

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Mm

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Are they that ugly and deformed that they can't be seen in public?

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Deformed?

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That's

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I don't know, man.

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why?

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I mean, you've got, you've got platinum

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Yeah.

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who also, you know, winning Grammys and all that stuff.

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And they were selling millions of records.

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I'm more

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to be them did.

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concerned with the fact that you went to see Milly Vanilli more than anything.

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I feel like I don't know you anymore.

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I don't know myself either.

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You know what?

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I was the first domino that started America's downfall.

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Oh, man.

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Batman?

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to

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have some bangers, they do, they have some bangers.

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Whoever they are, they were good.

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Yeah, they were, that was fun.

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That was a fun time back then.

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right, you guys, this is the next one.

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Fad flashback.

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Okay, so in 99, several fads and cultural phenomena left

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a lasting impact on society.

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What movie premiering in June 23rd, 1989, became the highest

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grossing movie of the year.

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It's success was a lot of merchandise and kind of ushered

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in an era of blockbusters, Batman.

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That's good.

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When?

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Yeah, that's right.

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Batman.

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Yeah.

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The PR and the Prince as the did the whole album.

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Yeah, that's right.

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album.

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I, I, the Prince has,

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Oh,

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I got, to see Prince.

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That should, that should balance things out.

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But he didn't do a single song and this was like early nineties.

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Not a single song from the bat out from the Batman album.

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got some pretty good songs on there.

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He just said

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I realized Prince did that album.

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album.

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All I know is,

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album is him.

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I think, I know Sean from Sean of the Dead did not like that album.

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Didn't they use that to throw at the zombies?

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Sean from Sean, then go fuck himself.

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All right.

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How dare he besmirch the great prince.

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All right.

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No, I love Prince.

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today.

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Yes.

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I saw that.

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The dirtiest song that ever got past the FCC.

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Mm hmm.

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When you think about the lyrics in that song, sometimes you go,

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What song?

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Little Red Corvette.

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Oh, right, yeah.

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Yeah, I do.

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I'm aware.

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I

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in her pockets.

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Some of them used,

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Pocket full of

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pickers.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Sorry.

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Pocket full of horses.

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Some of them use, she's

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of

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got pictures of the drackies that been here before.

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Prince was a genius at writing

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Mm

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lyrics that people didn't realize.

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You know, you're like, Hey, in the back of the car, singing the song.

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And as I got older, I'm like, Oh my God, it's disgusting.

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right.

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Let's see what else we got, you guys.

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Oh, tasty

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Is that

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89, maybe.

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This snack offered a three foot long roll of fruity, chewy candy

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providing a playful and tasty treat.

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the,

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that are very

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similar.

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is that the fruit roll up footlong or is that something else?

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So what I know of is fruit.

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The fruit roll up had the foot long rollout thing.

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Fruit by

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is this something?

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Oh, okay.

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Okay.

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Fruit by the foot.

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and then similarly

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You're not missing out, Steve.

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It, it'll destroy your intestines.

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this gum became a favorite among kids for its unique packaging.

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And fun factor, very similar.

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What was it called?

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Is this Big League Chew?

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No, it was like, it was

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Or the candy cigarettes?

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no, the long it's similar to fruit by the foot,

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oh, is that the bubble tape?

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Bubble

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tape.

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Bubble tape by Bubble Yum or whatever it was?

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Bubble tape.

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Listen Steve, we're the king of sugar over here in

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know, I'm just a, I'm just a spectator here.

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I don't know, I'm not familiar with these, I'm afraid.

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on our flag are made of?

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Fucking sugar, bitch.

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That's why it's white.

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It's fine.

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It's fine.

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All right, let's let's go.

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Let's do what?

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Let's do

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You

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1 more.

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should make a whole episode of just doing these to the 12 questions.

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Oh, we already did flat

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We already did a fat flashback.

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on, man.

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Unbelievable.

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It's rigged.

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Elon Musk is messing with it.

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Oh,

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prime time rewind

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this is perfect because in 1989, I'm a couple years

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younger than Steve, but I'm in.

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14, 15 years old now.

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So now, you know, like I'm a little bit older, so I can start

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staying up a little bit later.

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You know, I know a little bit more about the TV at this point.

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Then I like 1983, I'm a little kid.

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I don't

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yeah

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still don't know enough.

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okay, patriarch in colorful attire kept his household in check a sharp witted

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matriarch led her working class brood a familiar gathering spot thrived on

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laughter and loyalty , young minds sought wisdom with historic walls.

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And everyday blunders became must see TV.

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What 5 shows kept audiences hooked in

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I, the last one is Oh my God.

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Why it's AMV America's funniest videos.

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My funniest home videos.

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Is the Cosby show in there?

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it was the first one, the Cosby show.

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Yeah.

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was the second one?

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Sorry.

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I thought you were reading one whole show.

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So what was the second?

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sorry.

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You're good.

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A patriarch and colorful attire.

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We got that 1 sharp witted matriarch, let her working class brood familiar

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gathering spot thrived on laughter and loyalty young minds thought

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wisdom within historic walls.

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Roseanne's second one?

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Roseanne, yes.

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Third one cheers

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Yep.

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There's

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and then the fourth one.

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Is that a I feel like this is a game on Nickelodeon

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Prime time.

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No, it's prime

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Oh Prime time, okay

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Prime time.

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So young minds first in historic

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Jesus Is this young Indiana Jones?

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No, it is not.

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Steve, rethink.

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What was the is

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Historical and what was it?

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Sorry.

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it the

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We're

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different

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Young minds sought wisdom within historic walls.

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Steve is getting there.

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different world?

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No?

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That was

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from the Cosby show,

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the Cosby show.

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All right.

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Hey,

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that show.

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I know some things.

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Yeah.

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I,

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Nice, nice.

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That was good.

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That was good.

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That was fun.

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You did pretty good.

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You did pretty

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We got up our game now, Steve.

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We got to have some kind of game now.

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All right, damn it.

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Season

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I I like that.

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I, I dug that.

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That was fun.

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Season four, we're gonna have to have some, some games.

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Mm

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We're gonna, we're totally gonna steal from you.

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I'm just gonna

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You might well trademark that.

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give you a little hint.

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This is from Katie from the RetroMade.

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It's a lot more work to to

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yes.

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Yeah,

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I

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Steve can do it.

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He's gonna do something around here.

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Huh?

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What, what, what, what?

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shot myself on the foot.

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All right, you guys, this season is John Hughes.

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So I got to

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Good choice.

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at what point did you realize that John Hughes was the mastermind behind so

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many of these iconic 80s and 90s movies?

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Probably mid to late nineties I think, again, I'm not trying to

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it feels like, in the nineties.

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We started to realize that there's directors

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Mm

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as opposed, because I feel like a lot of the times in the nineties

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or the eighties, it was actors that were kind of leading everything now.

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Of course, we know Spielberg, right?

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So Spielberg was like the mainstay, but you're also younger.

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So that's how, you know, Spielberg, Scorsese.

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I didn't know who that was until I was in In the nineties, Coppola, you know,

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I learned about these guys because now it's, you know, the all tours.

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I think a lot of the Tarantino esque people with the, the independence

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movement in the nineties helped us now to appreciate directors and not just go

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to movies for Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, you know, because that was

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kind of how everything was made back in the eighties, at least the adult fair.

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So I didn't know what, you know, I knew the John Hughes movies.

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I didn't know it was just John Hughes, right?

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It's like,

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Mm

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Ferris Bueller and all these ones.

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You don't know that it's him until a certain time.

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So I think I learned in the early 90s.

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the movies I liked from John Hughes, as opposed to knowing when I went

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to the movie, Oh, it's this John Hughes, his new movie, you know,

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that kind of, that kind of feeling,

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What about you, Steve?

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Did you

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or?

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so at the time of Uncle Buck, I was 17.

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I'm trying to think.

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Let me just, I think probably I think I was probably aware at that

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time, but only just, I mean, 'cause we'd add I think with Ad Ferris

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Buhler and a few other things, so

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I'm not trying to be a smarty pants.

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But, I think at that time, I was quite aware, I think,

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make sense.

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And he had already by this time, because he was really known for when you

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think of John Hughes, a lot of people think of the Brat Pack type movies,

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his earlier teen, teen type movies.

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And then he, he transitioned into more like family friendly

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yeah, so so yeah, and Breakfast Club,

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aware then, but I think by Uncle, by Uncle Buck time, I say, you know, I mean, maybe

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it came out in 89, I might not have seen it in 89, I might have seen it in 1990, so

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I was like 18, 17, 18, I think by then I would have put the pieces together, so to

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speak, but that's just, yeah, I think so.

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a lie, but it's fine.

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We can lie to the

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I, I didn't know he directed Dunkle Buck, to be quite honest with

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you, I'm just, I'm just riffing.

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No,

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when,

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that would have,

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at some of this stuff, you realize that he actually wrote

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more than he directed, which is

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right.

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I think the, a thing that not a lot of people probably realized is that,

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yeah, he, known for a lot, but a lot of it is as a writer, you know,

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we just assume he's always been the director of these things when you're

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like, Oh, no, he's actually written.

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I mean, I'm looking at this thing right now.

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He is the 1980s teen movie, right?

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Like it's, what's the 16 candles breakfast club, weird science pre

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and pick Ferris Bueller's day off.

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Some kind of wonderful.

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She's having a baby, you know, and then he starts to move into as

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you were saying Steve like Planes trains and automobiles the great

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classic.

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Yeah,

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or if which was vacation He writes that home alone, you know, he starts

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to slowly more into that I mean some flubber like there's some of them.

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I'm like he did that,

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know, Dennis the menace like you go What he wrote those so

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I mean, I'm mainly, I was mainly talking about him as a director.

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I, you know,

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yeah, but yeah,

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as John Hughes, right?

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Like it's

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yeah, he didn't direct it.

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But can you tell me who the director of some of these are?

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You're kind of like you go, John Hughes, you know what I mean?

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That

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Yeah.

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for you.

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John, John Hughes, right.

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Or a director.

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What'd you want to be like?

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There's only like a handful that he wrote and directed

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Yeah.

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this

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is Uncle Buck is so let's let's get into Uncle Buck

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Hmm.

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August 16th, 1989.

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is PG.

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Yeah, it's PG.

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I don't know.

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We'll talk about that.

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7. 1 IMDB.

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And yep, he wrote and directed.

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If you guys have not seen Uncle Buck in a while, first of all, go watch it.

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Come back.

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Yes.

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it follows the story of Buck Russell, a carefree, unemployed bachelor

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who is unexpectedly called upon to babysit his brother's three kids

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when a family emergency arises.

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Initially seen as irresponsible and out of place Buck struggles to connect

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with his teenage niece, Tia, while managing the antics of her younger

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siblings, miles and Maisie through his unconventional but well-meaning ways,

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but gradually wins them over proving his loyalty and love for the family.

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So it's very, like a kind of a movie trope, but I don't know,

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again, in 89, I don't know.

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Like Mr. Mom, also written by John Hughes, but there's a lot of movies that followed

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this similar , classic fish out of water

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where there's an unlikely caregiver.

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But I think maybe it was this one of the earlier ones that we watched anyway.

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If it's not one of the early ones, it's one of the best ones.

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That's for sure.

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And then.

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John Candy.

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And I mean, I've watched it again today and I've probably watched

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it in probably three decades.

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It's probably been almost that long.

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I forgot how funny this thing was.

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Hilarious.

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Like I remember watching it going, why are we making more comedies like this?

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Like all the comedies we have nowadays kind of suck a lot.

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And this was, I mean, just brilliant.

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It was just funny from start to finish.

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I forgot some of the gags that were in it.

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we'll get into home, but like with the clown, there's just

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certain things that happened.

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Just kind of like, Oh my God, I forgot that happened.

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Oh my God.

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And McCauley Culkin.

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my God.

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my, this is, I mean, this is where he, anyone who thinks he just,

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you know, started home alone.

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No, no, no.

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You got to see uncle buck.

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McCauley Culkin earns uncle buck, of that through uncle buck

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there was so much it's hard to because it was the next year home

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90.

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1990,

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we'll cover on

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this show.

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But several points.

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I was like, oh, my God, that's so similar.

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Beat for beat.

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Home Alone stuff, like where he's washing the dishes, where he's like

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that rapid fire Q and A with John Candy.

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Was there, there was another one too, where he's I'm a kid.

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That's my job or something like that.

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It was very

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He doesn't know the word for balls and he goes

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nuts.

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It's just, Oh my God.

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It was just so funny.

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I mean, it was so good.

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I forgot they were just so much fun.

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Those movies are just so much fun.

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And now that you're an adult you know, Disney has done this for forever.

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And my kids are now of an age where they now have realized the adult

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theme jokes that are slid into a kid's movies that they have no clue.

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just some of the, the

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The washing machine bit.

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machine bit.

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And even at the beginning where they're talking about the word crap and shit,

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with, it's just so much fun is happening in this film that I, I kind of, it made

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me really nostalgic for the eighties.

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I really was like, I miss these kinds of movies and I miss John Candy.

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think, think know, I know a lot of our, cause you know, he's, I guess

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you'd be boomer generation really.

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He's not technically Gen X and everyone always, you know, laments

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about Chris Farley dying too soon.

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John Candy.

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Is a genius comedian oh, I mean, you didn't realize, you don't

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realize how big a hole is left in the universe you see him again.

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You go, my God, this man was just.

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know, you'd have to do anything special.

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It didn't do any Pratt falls.

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He's a big guy.

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You'd have to fall down and break a chair.

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You know what I mean?

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And, you know, play on the fat roll.

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He just was like, he just had great

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I mean, every, every second, every second he's on the screen, is just

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joy.

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Just fun and amusing.

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He doesn't,

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It's effortless.

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yeah, when he, even when he's doing natural things, there's just

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something about the guy that we all, yeah, we had a terrible loss really.

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Cause some of my favorites, you know, he was, he, he did a couple of,

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yeah,

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did a couple of dramatic, he did,

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yeah.

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you know, he did a couple of.

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Home

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I mean, that's my, that's my.

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Plain strange.

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So is there a modern equivalent to John Candy?

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Do you guys think?

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I know Chris Farley, to your point, probably got

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but more of a pratfall guy, you know, I think John that was his big

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claim to fame and he was good at it There's no doubt about it, but

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I don't know that there's a guy who

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is this warm and inviting as a funny

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I think, I think comedy is suffering right now though, right?

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love to have an uncle buck.

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Mm

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I wish I was an uncle But you know to me like I'm kind of

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like I'm gonna I want to be

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I think,

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you know I mean, I want to be on the buck.

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I've got to be honest with you, when I was watching it today as well, and

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I hadn't seen it much like Scott, I probably hadn't, I'll say, it's been

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at least 20 years since I've seen it,

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but yeah, I think there's, there's, comedy is suffering right now,

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and I don't think there's anyone really like him, of his calibre.

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Right now but then I would say that in general comedy is

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not in good shape right now

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Maybe there's not as good a writer as John Hughes either

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Mm

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know,

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That's it.

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you know, I mean, you know, as you and I will talk about, or I talk about

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mine, Tarantino and the muses he has, sometimes you get the best performances

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out of certain actors and then they go into another movie and you're like,

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Jesus, this person was in the same movie.

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And when you, I mean, John Candy in and of himself, he doesn't need John

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Hughes, but when you get a guy who's amazing at writing comedy and you've

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got a guy who knows how to deliver comedy and you put them together,

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you're going to get gold and you got fricking gold from almost everything

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John Candy and John Hughes do together.

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Right.

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Agreed.

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You know,

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I, I agree.

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I think it depicted, I hadn't seen it in a while when I watched it

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yesterday, I forgot how it opened and it's just a very ordinary family.

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It depicts family dynamics and like bratty teenagers and

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and

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today because I went through that with my daughter in the late 2010s and it's

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just, I mean, I was like, holy shit.

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There's my daughter on the fucking screen.

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Like it's, mean, you know, I did notice this when she walks down

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the opening shot of her walking.

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She's in leggings.

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That's an outfit that except for the hat, maybe.

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That's an outfit that you would see kids wearing today, right?

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I was kind of like, Jesus, this doesn't really age too poorly because

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that's kind of like what some kids are wearing nowadays.

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Although,

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point.

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the fun about John Hughes movies is he always has these Chicago suburbs

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and I like how the daughter's like, we had to move from Indianapolis because

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mom and dad couldn't afford things.

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I'm thinking, you actually moved up because I think mom

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and dad are making more money.

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I've been to Indianapolis and the suburbs of Chicago are not cheap and

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you're in this giant fucking house.

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I'm thinking, I think you're doing pretty okay there, Tia.

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I think you better stop being such a bitch.

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You're doing really good.

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they also depict the the parents are so focused on their jobs

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Yeah,

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present.

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that's the 1980s, right?

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Like it was kind of like, that's my parents

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So,

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when the kids, when the hockey season ended.

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oh, my God, that's right.

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I forgot about that.

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And then they get, I would have loved to get take out more, but we didn't

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like, we, we had home cooked meals.

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God forbid,

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Yeah.

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Hmm.

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Hmm.

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what a, what a wonderful dinner.

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Mom take

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I think

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out

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I think saying it I think we probably watched a hell of

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a lot when we were younger.

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I think

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I do.

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in that

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quoting this quite a

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in the sort of home

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came back,

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In the sort of home video area, I think and at the age we were all roughly out

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at that time We probably did rewatch.

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That's why I mean when I

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I hadn't seen it yet for over 20 years, but I felt like I Watched it a week ago

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That was so familiar.

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I was waiting for all the moments that, that I remember.

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I knew they were coming, you know, because that's, that's

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sort of ingrained in my mind.

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So we must've seen these films a lot when we were younger.

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So, but yeah, it was John Candy though.

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I mean, like I say, every minute he's on screen, he's just gold.

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He really is and he's like, he's 1 of those guys.

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No.

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Seems like a genuinely nice person to, you know, not scandal, no scandals

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Yeah, I've never heard anything to the contrary.

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You know what I mean?

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You've never hear anything like, Oh, Jesus, what a drunker, what a

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Mm hmm.

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was, you know, he just,

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it's John Candy.

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Candy.

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of Canada's great exports.

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yeah.

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Wow.

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Oh, don't

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There's no tariff on him.

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So he plays Buck Russell.

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Let's talk about some of the other cast.

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So the teenager Tia, so she's a bratty teenager, and she's really who he.

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The, for the most part of the movie is really butting heads with

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Tia played by Jean Louisa Kelly.

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did you guys recognize her from anything else?

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Like she wasn't in a lot.

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I

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I know she's been in some things I couldn't place her because the movie I

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know her definitely from is obviously Uncle Buck, you know I mean, I know

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she's she's one of those kids like even her boyfriend bug in there I know I've

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seen him before in some 80s movies But if you put him in a lineup, I couldn't

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tell you which one, you know, so

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It's funny because she also, aside from this, she's most

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known for playing the mom.

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Named Kim in the TV series.

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Yes, dear.

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hmm.

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Mm

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early mid 2000s.

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And so now I was trying to look for it yesterday when I rewatched it.

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So that's who she is.

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Maisie, the daughter.

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Like this, so, so

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the teenage daughter Tia is like 15 then Maisie is 6 and she's played by Gabby,

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Gabby Hoffman and , she has gone on to

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Yes, she did

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quite a few things, but she was also in field of dreams now and then

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200 cigarettes in the, a couple of TV series girls and transparent.

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She's in a number of other things, but she has gone on to have.

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Fairly well known career.

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And then Macaulay Culkin

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Who?

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the

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Who's this guy?

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I don't remember him.

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He

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Is He related to Kieran?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I think, I think it's his brother.

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Yeah.

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Quintessential 80s, 90s kid is

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I can't stand him.

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really?

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Steve?

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Oh, fuck it.

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as a kid actor?

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I just hate him.

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I just don't like him.

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My heart.

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Do you know what?

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I'll be honest with he,

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to hang out with Michael Jackson and you didn't?

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Is that what this

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he,

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Is there some selfishness?

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I'm certainly not.

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I dunno.

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I dunno what it is.

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I just do You know what I actually, I actually, one thing I didn't remember

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about this movie was that he was in it.

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And

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Really?

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I love

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I,

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it.

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and as soon as I saw him

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I was like, oh no.

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like

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I don't know.

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But hey, you know,

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Macaulay Culkin.

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probably, yeah.

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It's

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I loved him in this.

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Yeah.

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noted, I do not, I, I also don't have kids and just generally,

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they kind of annoy me, but

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IT.

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oh, my God, I don't bless you, Scott.

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I don't know how you do it.

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I don't know either.

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I must be on some kind of drugs I don't know what I'm taking.

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What age kids do you teach?

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Fucking middle school 12 to 14.

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Yeah, it is.

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It really is.

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It's tough.

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It's it's a tough go

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Oh,

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That's why I have no hair.

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I mean I knew early on I was like not gonna need this

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This will do me no good.

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I think it's an 80s thing.

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And again, I always feel like, like the cranky old lady that is like,

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oh, things were better in my day.

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But like the kids in this, I actually noted because I am largely annoyed

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by children in movies and TV.

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Generally, and in the world, they were good.

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I was

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I thought so.

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I thought the two younger.

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I thought candy and the two youngest ones Their interactions, I thought

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were a really, really great.

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I mean, you know, it's sometimes you, you know, you get some kids in movies.

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And like you said, you're like dragging planks of wood.

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You're like, why is this kid even in this fucking movie?

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Who do they know to get him in this film?

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especially when it's not a kid's movie, steve hates this movie, but

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like the Goonies, that's a kid's movie.

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And so these kid actors are acting together.

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So that might be easier for them.

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But when you've got John Candy you've got to know at the time to nobody's and

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they're going to act with him, I thought,

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I mean,

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good.

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I

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back and forth with candy and Macaulay Culkin at the table, do you have a job?

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Would you live in a house?

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No, I probably wouldn't have a job.

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It's just, you go to the back and forth.

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You really, my brother, dad's brother, you got more hair.

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It's just kind of like the rapid fire was really a fun, you know, thing.

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And then the little girl with her sister comes in.

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You said a bad word.

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Crap.

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No, it's shit.

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You know, the whole back and forth with them.

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I thought they were really good.

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Steve probably hates him, you know, he hates everybody.

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So it's okay.

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No, no.

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I dunno what it is.

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I, I just don't like that kid.

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And, having said that, I mean, he's, he's fine, he's good at what he

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does, don't get me, I just, there's just something about him, just,

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you.

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not for me.

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Mm hmm.

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What did you think of Shanice who plays John Candy's girlfriend?

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Or, I mean, Shanice is the character's

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Yeah.

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Who has she been in?

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I've seen her before.

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She's been, she feels like, feels like she's been in everything.

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She's such a familiar face.

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Yeah.

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She's one of those eighties.

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Just, Hey, that's that person again.

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Madigan is her name and, and she's a, I believe on Irish.

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I mean, her last name is Irish, but I think she's like from Ireland.

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Okay.

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she was also in field of dreams

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Yeah, she's been in a hell of a lot.

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his wife.

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and

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Yes,

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gone baby gone.

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Like

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Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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And she was nominated for an Oscar.

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I haven't seen this, but she was nominated for her supporting role

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in twice in a lifetime in 1986.

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Six.

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I know that one.

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she's married to?

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Very famous actor.

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And they've been married since 1983.

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And I did not know this.

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This makes

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No, I do not know.

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It's not Kevin Costner.

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No.

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Let's see the Gene Hackman.

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No.

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He just turned 95 the other day.

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Oh, no, no.

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no.

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It's somebody her age range.

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Dan Aykroyd.

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the eighties out.

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Ed Harris, who I dig.

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I

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Oh,

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yeah.

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yeah.

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Ed Harris.

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Wow.

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Isn't

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He's also in Gone Baby Gone.

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Yes.

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is he one of the police officers?

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Yeah.

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one of the people.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I don't wanna give away for those who haven't seen it.

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Mm hmm.

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But

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really like

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it

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It's a great movie.

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Mm hmm.

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one of Ben Affleck's first directorial debuts, if I'm not mistaken.

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that was his first, I think.

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And I like

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Great.

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Affleck more than

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he's had some, he's had some off the, off the field issues, but

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Oh,

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Steve and I like to separate, Steve and I like to sep,

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he?

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when that Me Too movie came out, he got a few things, but, Steve and I like to,

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you know, we separate, we separate what, listen, I know Michael Jackson has done

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some terrible things, I know he has.

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There's levels to this stuff, though.

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music

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I mean,

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but I love his music.

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So I don't, I don't want to have any, you know, he's dead.

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He's long gone, but, and what he did is horrible, but his music is still, it's

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Yeah,

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good.

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But, but Kay, but Kay, Casey Affleck, I mean, Manchester by

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the Sea is just an amazing film.

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He's done some good stuff.

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He's good.

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He's, actually, he's great in Gone Baby Gone.

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he and Ben Affleck will be in the new Dunkin commercial.

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I know Steve doesn't care, but they've already talked about

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it, so that looks pretty funny.

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I did like his spoof.

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Oh, that was great.

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Vanilla, what was it?

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Vanilla Nuts, Vanilla Nut Taps.

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I know some things.

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I know some things.

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I just, I know, tangents all over the place of us, we're a nightmare.

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I like a tangent.

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But, but getting back from the

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Yes,

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Just kidding.

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Uncle Bok, not the Affleck Brothers.

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So the parents in this didn't look familiar to me, really,

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The only person who looked familiar was the brother, the one with the curly hair.

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He'd been like a father in another Movie or two he looked for me.

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I couldn't tell you his name, but the mother not but Buck's brother had

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been to some things I know in the 80s.

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I just can't

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can't place him.

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his name is Garrett M. Brown, and he did a lot of TV work, so he was

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Okay,

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Sisters Trouble, I don't know what that is, and then the movies Kick

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Ass and Kick Ass 2, and then the

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he was in kick ass.

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Really?

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Huh?

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I'm

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know.

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Elaine Bromka plays Cindy the mom.

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She also has, she's more known for a lot of her TV work, most notably playing Dr.

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Reicher on Days of our Lives.

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That's who she is.

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And then one

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probably knows her

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I adore Lori McDuff.

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She plays the the they're

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the unhinged neighbor

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She's from Roseanne, she's Roseanne's sister, right, in the,

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yeah, yeah, yeah.

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that's

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she is

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She is great in this.

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I love her.

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This was one of her first movie roles.

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I was

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She kills it.

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her name in the movie is Marcy

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Marcy.

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And I loved the little frost is my, my married name, but we got

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divorced, but I kept the hyphen.

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Everyone loves the hyphen.

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Yeah like we says, I didn't, I haven't dropped the frost and he's kind of looking

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there because she's kind of frosting.

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She was going, he's going, seems seems to track

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Oh, my God, she was awesome in this.

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I loved her outfits were I was, I was like, I would wear those.

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She had some great outfits in this movie

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the fashion.

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It's weird.

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You know, things, as I say, things come around.

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because now 90s

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some of the fashion still stays on point a little bit.

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I think we've kind of the circle back around, you know,

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Yeah, it happens.

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cars and certain things would definitely give off, but you could definitely,

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you could sell some of this as a modern day movie and be hard for

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some people to tell us, you know, right off the, right off the bat.

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And then you had mentioned, you're like I've seen bug to his boyfriend in things

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before he's played by Jay Underwood he's most known for the boy who could fly.

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okay.

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All right,

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And apparently you guys will think this is funny.

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I did anyway.

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He's not an actor anymore, I don't think.

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He is a megachurch pastor.

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Tracks.

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That's

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has a mega church pastor face.

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He may be on the same track as Michael Jordan or Michael Jackson, not Jordan.

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does have a megachurch pastor face.

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that.

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Yeah, we'll just leave it there.

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I don't need to go sidetrack anymore.

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Yep.

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And then just getting through the stats here.

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The music was done by Ira newborn, which I not heard that name before, but apparently

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he collabs quite often with John Hughes.

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so he did a lot of songs for movies, like 16 candles, weird science,

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Ferris Bueller's day off planes, trains, nominal automobiles, and

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then some very nineties movies, mall rats, and Ace Ventura, pet detective.

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I love Mallrats.

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And it's for George Floyd Detective.

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I really, I really enjoyed the music.

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It really worked.

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This R& B, blues infused, fused thing he was doing.

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I really, really enjoyed it.

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You know, uncle buck has this like little, like a Tom drum thing that

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almost like young and see that room doom, doom, doom, and just, I don't

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know, worked, worked really well

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It?

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was

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as as his like thing.

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Yeah.

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That was Tone Loke, yeah.

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Actually, there's some of the old songs.

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I mean, being someone who, I kind of grew up really into hip hop.

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And there's quite a lot of songs in the movement.

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I'm like, that's a sample from this song.

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That's a sample from that.

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That's quite sort of, but, you know, 89.

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That was pretty sort of on point.

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You know, he's pretty on track with some decent stuff.

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I was thinking that while I was watching it today.

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I was like, Oh, I recognize a lot of these songs that have

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now been sampled, you know?

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And then, yeah, that's the tone loke things.

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Yeah.

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15 million to make this movie.

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And it grossed nearly 80 million worldwide.

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in 1989 for a comedy.

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That's really

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Not bad.

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Yeah.

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summertime to about that.

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Cause it came on August.

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Yeah,

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I mean, we're in summertime, you know, American cinemas,

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I mean the world now, but.

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tentpole season, especially in the eighties,

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Yeah.

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I was trying to remember,

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setting up, we're sending out, you know, whatever to whatever the new

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Schwarzenegger, whatever movies supposed to be coming out that timeframe before,

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you know, the superhero takeover we've

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yeah, I was trying to, I was,

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it to go to 80 million

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I was trying to remember if it, I can't even remember that hitting

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cinemas here personally, but I'm, I'm going back a long way.

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So I don't know if I, if it was, if it was straight to video here is what

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I'm thinking that might have been.

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I'm not, if it, you know, sometimes I talk about this with Scott where

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I live in a quite small town.

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I don't live in London.

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We don't all live, you know, we're not all London.

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of

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No, no, I know, but it's

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tiny.

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not far from the truth, but sometimes I'm like, yeah, certain things don't

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make it to my neck of the woods.

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So, and I can't really remember if that hit there is here.

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Plus

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I say here,

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I mean, what a, what a suburban movie about, you know, Chicago family drama,

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you know, really land in England.

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Like what, what a movie from your

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yeah, I'm sure maybe in,

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hit

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maybe in the cities, it was maybe on for a week or two, but I don't remember it.

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I grew up in a small town too in Nebraska.

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So like middle of the country.

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So by the time things got to me, It was

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a decade had

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Oh, okay.

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Oh, no, you can, you can relate then.

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Mm hmm.

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Mm hmm.

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Yeah, sometimes I mention things and people are like, what?

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Really?

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It didn't?

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And I'm like, yeah, maybe in, maybe in London, but we're not all from London.

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That's like when I say I'm from New York, everyone

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Yeah.

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So, you know, Manhattan.

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Yeah.

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city and just, Yeah.

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I'm from New York.

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The city whereabouts

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Yeah, not the same.

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It's not the same thing.

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But yeah, I was trying to think, I couldn't remember

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if that hit theaters there.

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Yeah.

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That's still not bad, 80 mil.

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1989. Like I said, in the summertime

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you,

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a family comedy,

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know, you go, you,

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movie

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Maybe so you go with inflation, that's probably a few hundred

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million probably, I guess.

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I mean, in American inflation, I was like 3 billion.

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I think they would have made

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a couple of, a couple of

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eggs or 19.

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All right.

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I'm just saying if eggs were 25 cents.

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I've only been hearing about this today, I mean, I've only

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been hearing about the egg thing,

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in

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only been hearing about the egg thing today, I don't really

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know what the deal is there.

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you.

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Don't worry about it.

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Just be glad you're in England.

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Be glad that

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Steve?

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glad you cut because they have better news than us.

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He's

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only heard about, I only, I don't know what the egg thing is, I,

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I actually only heard about it today, so I don't really know what,

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this point.

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Oh, price the eggs.

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the smart people with the red hats voted for the hot dog skinned guy she was

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brazier eggs and they've actually gone through the roof in this three weeks.

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So

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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racism is costly.

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And America's finding that out the hard way

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Oh man, foamed up a can of eggs here.

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I

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eggs in the can might be a smart thing if you got that If

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egg.

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There's or tofu.

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You don't need eggs.

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don't

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Anyway.

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Always noticed the fashion cause I already brought up Lori Metcalf's

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Did you notice Uncle Bucks?

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This is the first time I really noticed it.

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His rings

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Yes, you had like the big old class rings and stuff

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and

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I didn't know this.

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Yes the old the old elvis the old elvis horseshoe

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hmm.

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Mm hmm.

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I just there's just so much the attention to detail that They have on these

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films, especially, you know, even the whether he's the writer director You

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It's, know, it, you just don't realize it until you go back and watch it again,

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and I think it's what informs, now that Steve and I are on the SDD

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journey, you can, you can instantly find a movie that's just direct to video.

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No one gave a shit about it because it's missing.

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All the accoutrements that come with a really great designed film from that,

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that the plate, the China plates, the way they have everything hanging over

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the sink or, I mean, over the stoves, little thing, the way he dresses,

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the stuff they do, everything has a place and it means something like.

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When Marcy comes over, or when they catch, or yeah, she first comes to the

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door, the toys on the stairs going up.

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There's just this thing that says that, that, that one, mom and dad are gone.

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Buck is there and he's not exactly a clean freak.

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And so you could start to see the home slip into this decay of like clutter.

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And that is really smart.

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Most, you know, crappy shoots would just wouldn't even think about that.

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It would just make this real clean, sterile environment.

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And they'd walk in, you'd be like, Oh, this feels like a play at a high school.

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And it's, it's just, there's just even when she's talking with them, there's

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little crumbs on the counter from him, not cleaning up after breakfast.

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There's just these little touches.

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That as you watch it more you start to see the real craftsmanship and why these

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kind of movies last the test of time And you just are like they just feel

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like a warm blanket sometimes because it reminds me of like watch it today I

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felt like I was back in the 80s Like I felt like my parents like I was in my

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living room watching this on a VHS Like it just felt like a Sunday morning 1980s.

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And this is what I was going to watch and just, I don't know.

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They're just man, it was a nice, you know, what we're going through.

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It's a nice warm blanket to kind of forget about for about two hours.

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It really was.

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you're brought back to that.

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Yeah.

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Like Chicago Suburbs, the house.

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Like it, yeah.

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It's very comforting.

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It's like you're in this world now you're in the John Hughes world and

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Yeah.

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is on a diet at the moment.

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They're massive pancakes.

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They look good.

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Oh, my

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I forgot that he uses the snow shot for God, he flips with a snow shovel.

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What?

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I couldn't

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I don't know what that

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the griddle part?

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a fun things like Blackstone things.

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They've got in the market.

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May uncle buck was first.

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God damn it.

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I don't know where he got this griddle.

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The griddle took up the Island.

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I don't know where this was made.

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know what that was.

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Was that a car door or something?

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I didn't recall.

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I remember that scene that he flips a pancake, with the shovel and the gag

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of that, but then I totally forgot that there was an entire stack.

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Giant

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Yeah, yeah,

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on

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the table.

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That was awesome.

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So

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I was just like, oh man,

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sausages for days, you

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yeah, I

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on the

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mean the amount of eggs he must have used for them pancakes, guys.

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God.

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And

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Oh!

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prices as

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Sorry guys, I didn't mean to upset you.

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there's thousands of dollars in groceries right there.

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Oh my God.

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I'd be for it

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now.

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I loved

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the

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tiny urinals

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Oh, I was going to say that when he needs takes a knee, I forgot.

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He's

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the funny thing is, is, is nowadays.

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If a grown man walked into a little kid's bathroom, what a

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fucking alarm bell would go off.

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But he just kind of like looks down, sees his little feet dangling.

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He's like, I think he's in the bathroom.

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He doesn't know where to put his cigar.

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He's

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Was that urinal thing really an issue though?

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Couldn't he have just

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He's in an elementary school.

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So

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No, but you could just, you just,

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he's a big guy.

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What is he?

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Six, four, three 50.

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Like

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It would

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I

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just, here's the thing.

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It was just a great gag, right?

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It's a

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No, no, I get the gag, I was just a bit like, wait a minute, can't he just

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Aim.

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aim?

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True.

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Use the sink like a real man.

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take a sh take a shit in the sink like a normal person would.

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Come on.

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Jesus, what is this?

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Do schools have tiny, you know, I literally, I've never been in a

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Yes, if you're

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If you're

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little,

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Yeah, especially like when they have kindergarten like that.

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They do have lower because they can't gonna clean pee off the floor

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I

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The little boys aren't making higher urinals

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if the stall, like the toilet stall, you

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so some of the schools around where I'm at they

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that's what I use for the griddle.

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That's it is the bathroom inside the classroom, but

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they have little tiny toilets

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Oh,

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it's still, it's still at their height because again, you're going to be

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cleaning the pee for days or poop.

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I mean, it's just these kids can't get an inch up under the seat.

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You're in trouble.

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You're going to have of a lot of yeah, a lot of janitors

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coming in every five minutes.

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that

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just use a urine.

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Look, Ken, it looks like Niagara Falls broke in there.

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I love speaking of that.

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I love when they're on the phone or he's talking to us to ask a few questions.

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How's your plumbing there?

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Do you have a blunt shirt?

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Yeah.

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She's just like, Oh God.

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I

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That's before she's even left.

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Think that's before they've even left.

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I think he says that before they've even left.

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Oh,

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allergy?

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an allergy?

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Oh my God, I can't believe I have to leave my children with you

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that's what the blue water's for.

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Oh, my God.

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Leaving the

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and she's crying.

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I'm so glad you're there with them.

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Oh, that, that, I

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toilet seat up for the dog.

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I love the fact that how they decide to, you know, to do the, the whole

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interchange where he asked, you know, how many times you feed a dog?

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And she could have just said it, but the best part is when she

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goes how many times do you think you're supposed to feed a dog?

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I just love that.

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Just, it's just a great way of how you just change your dialogue

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to add for the comedy, right?

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Because we know that he's, when he asked it, we already

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know he's overfeeding the dog.

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We all know that's what it's leading to, but her than having him tell

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her how much he thinks he should be the dog is where we get the fun.

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It's like four times.

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It's just one, just one.

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Oh, that'll, that'll explain it.

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And it's like the pee in the lawn.

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Which

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of the blue water.

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It's so good.

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also a time because I have a feeling, I don't know, maybe it's just me,

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but I think most people feed their dogs twice a day, at least now,

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I think they say that you're supposed to feed your dog when you eat.

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I think that, you know, like some experts say like you're, so if your

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dog's on a schedule and you sit down to eat, the dog eats, that's where

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there's no begging at the table.

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When you're done, then the dog learns that, okay, now they're done.

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Kind of, kind of thing.

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So you, the two dads would grab breakfast.

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Dinner and then, you know, people could stay home I guess three times.

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But that in the 80s, I feel like it was really normal.

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You fed your dog once a day, you just

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Yeah.

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food in the

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bowl.

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And Yeah.

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I

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Yeah.

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The dog was cute.

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Also with him sleeping with the kids and from

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Yeah.

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to the

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floor, everybody, including the dog ends up like on him cute stuff.

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a great uncle.

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Like he may not know anything about kids, but like he is really his street wise

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is really kind of what these kids need.

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Like he's, you know, look, he's doing the great thing where he's making McCulloch

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cook and wash the dishes and, you know, just put a hair in your chest kind of

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thing, you know, that kind of mentality.

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But at the end of the day, he really is building thing.

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He's more involved with them than his, their own parents have been.

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Oh,

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And I think that's what really ends up.

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And eventually what finally brings Tia around, because she's just

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angry that they left in Minneapolis.

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She's just pissed that at her age, she has to start over,

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but yet she's also learned how to be.

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She's also learned how to take care of her brothers and sisters,

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Mm

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this it's funny, it almost feels like Tia was the oops.

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Child the other two are the ones they plan like it was like to you.

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Oh, we

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That's,

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made it out of high school

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She's why they got married.

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Yes, exactly the other two are like hey, let's have kids

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Yeah.

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That's a really good

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Cuz she's like what a junior in high school, whatever it is.

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And these kids like kindergarten or first grade you're like boy Those kids

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good with them.

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I noticed that too because I related to the, I related to Buck because I

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don't have, I'm kind of the crazy aunt like Buck oh, I'm hung over today, but

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I made it to your game or whatever.

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play with some scissors go run around

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But I wouldn't be as good as but like he's so good at relating to them because he's

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kind of a big kid himself I suppose but

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He,

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I'm the same.

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I think I'm a bit like that.

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mm

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Candy's

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I'd be a bit, I'm a bit like Look, I get shit done, you know?

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Mm

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not do it the

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May not do with

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the

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on, but it gets done,

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Hey!

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No, I no, but I I get stuff I get stuff

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to mow your lawn without pants?

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Listen, all

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It's hard as balls out here.

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balls are sweating, oh dear lady.

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I mean my nuts!

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Sorry, sorry, we're sidetracking

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Crap!

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No, I think John Candy, I don't know.

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He just feels like that.

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Every man that you would look at was supposed to believe is inept

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to be able to watch his kids, but he's the perfect person.

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He's the perfect person to race.

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He's like the original.

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What's the one with Robin Williams?

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He pretends to be the nanny.

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Why am I blanking?

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Missed out fire.

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He's like the Mr. Doubtfire is like, Hey,

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Mm

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I'm just going to do this.

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I don't know if this is the right way to do it, but we're going to do it.

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And he's making a breakfast.

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He's, I mean, for this kid's birthday, they don't even know when

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his birthday is, what he wants.

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I guess getting them sticks.

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Not like Jesus Christ.

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They put your ass.

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I did

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Pancakes more pancakes than even the neighborhood could eat,

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you're just kind of like, man, what a fucking awesome uncle.

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He's

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kind of like I did kind of like the drying the clothes in the microwave.

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Fancy it.

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Cause he,

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as the girl goes,

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He

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can't get open the goddamn drive.

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Oh, it's a quarter.

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Why don't you go down to the corner and get a retina of that thing off your face?

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Oh, fuck melanoma.

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No, because that was

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about

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Yeah

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Yeah,

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because when I said that to you, I was like, that is from that, right?

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Because if it wasn't, you'd have been like, what the hell is he talking about?

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I

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But,

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proof, but I feel like the mole thing from this movie is what led to the

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joke of the mole on Fred Savage's face.

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In the Austin powers movies where he just can't stop saying mole.

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yeah,

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like this was the Genesis from it.

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Like I just really do.

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Cause one of the most memorable scenes is him flipping that quarter to her and

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tell her to get it not off her face.

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yeah.

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But that sort of thing,

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of that joke.

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that's like the thing in the Steve Martin movie, Roxanne, as well,

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where they're like, don't look at his nose, you know, and then You can't

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not look at his nose sort of thing.

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That's the same sort of joke, but, but yeah, when I said that to you,

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cause same, I hadn't seen the movie for like over 20 years, that was the

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first thing I thought of when you said uncle Buck was Buck Melanoma.

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I thought,

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completely forgotten about it.

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yeah, but that is, that's a great, that's a great scene though, as well, talking

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about what a great uncle he is and what a sort of good provider he really is and

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his, you know, his character says a lot about his character when he stands up to

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the teacher and says, Gives his little speech about her being a dreamer and all

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that, you know, she's like, she's six.

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boyfriend.

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Oh, yeah, but when he says like she's six, you know,

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yeah,

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she's cool.

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She's a dreamer.

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Of course, she's a chatty little girl.

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She's six,

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I know.

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you know, so

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There's a lot, there's that type of scene in a lot of this kind

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of a movie, like the, you know, the unprepared child care has to

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yeah,

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then they stand

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up to some, you know, what's going on.

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authority figure.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah,

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her school career.

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Seriously.

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He's like, she's

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love it.

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I'll go in there and soften her up for ya.

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Oh,

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he's just sat there

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And Scott, you were going to bring up what he does to Tia's boyfriend.

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I mean, now, granted, that would probably land him in jail.

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Right?

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Maybe, but you know what, what parent is going to disagree with that?

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Right?

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What a dick, what a douche, you know, it kind of taught him a lesson

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kind of thing, you know, he knew.

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Look, we all, it's funny when we're in that age group, right?

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When we're, we are teenagers, we know exactly how we're thinking.

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Now we get older.

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That's like when we become protective look, I know what the wolf is like.

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I was the wolf.

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I know how to watch out for this.

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You know what I mean?

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You need to watch out who this kind of person is.

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And you know, she's going to T is always going to fight it because she

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is pissed off rightfully so I get it.

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Especially for girls, you go through a lot and in that 10 year

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period of like anywhere from 12 to 25, that's a 13 year precious.

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It's a, it's a tough go.

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It's you, you know, you, you start to go to battle with each other

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over boys and who looks good.

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And you have so much more pressure put on you in those ages as you're

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developing, not only physically, but mentally, like it's yeah.

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Most boys are just like, you know, just let's throw rocks at each other.

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You know,

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jokes

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jokes and throw rocks at each other.

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Like we don't, we still, we haven't matured.

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Look at Steve.

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we're still doing it now.

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still doing it now.

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so to then at the move across country and also be responsible to not really

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the cross country, it's only a couple hours away, but to then be responsible

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for your brothers and sisters.

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But also I think listeners should remember.

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No cell phones, no internet phone is all you knew each other.

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And once you moved out of town, you were pretty much forgotten about.

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Cause someone else knew came around.

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Like you, you weren't calling long distance to talk for

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hours in the eighties.

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You out of your mind, how long that much that costs.

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So for her to have to go through all this and then feel this disconnected,

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her parents have kind of only forgot about her, but are not forgetting about

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the brothers and sister, know, and.

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So T is obviously going to push, push, push, but Buck steps up for, because

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he's just a good, he's a good guy.

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He's the funny thing about the whole movie is we open up with him.

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I'm not ready to be a father.

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I'd like my own life.

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I don't think I'd be good with kids.

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And he completely proves that no, you are the one person in the movie

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who probably should have kids.

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Cause you actually a pretty good rapport with them and also a good idea what it

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is to bring them up and be there for him.

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And that was, I think that's what makes the movie so endearing.

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Yeah, and I like that moment,

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it, it's great.

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I like that little moment when he was on his own with the dog and he's smoking

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a cigar and he's sort of talking about what people, you know, people used to say

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about him having the freedom and being a fun guy and all this and now they, they

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don't say it anymore and sort of like

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something a bit touching to that.

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he's realizing,

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I mean, how old is the oldest daughter supposed to be in it,

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by the way, because I'm 15.

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I think he says

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Yeah, so I, so I think obviously she's, so she's in that, every,

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every kid that age is in that thing, especially having two very, two brother

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and sister a lot younger, is on one hand, you're supposed to be looking

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after them, but then your parents are treating you like a kid as well.

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So she's got that, that angst, that teenage angst thing going on.

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And, so I think Buck kind of, he knows,

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He pretty much reads the signals.

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he does

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He knows what's going on,

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straight away.

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You can get pregnant on, on your parents time, but when I'm here,

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you know, something to that effect.

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And she's like, he's like, I don't care what you think.

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I'm,

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Yeah.

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He's going to be honest.

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He's given it to her straight.

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Like when he says about bowling, it's been proven.

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It's very unlikely to get pregnant at a bowling alley.

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Yeah.

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Or something like that.

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And then his girlfriend has been wanting to get married

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and have kids this whole time.

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And then finally, by the end, he's like, why didn't we do this earlier?

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And she's like, oh, my God, I want to murder you

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Yeah.

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I think it just took him to realize that he, I think he was afraid.

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I think there's a part of it that, you know, you can read into as you get older.

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He knows he's, he loves his freedom, but he knows he hasn't amounted to much.

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Although I will say, I will say this, apartment across from Wrigley

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field, he's making some good money.

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Like nowadays, that's an expensive piece of property to have in

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shock in the Chicago area to be across from Wrigley field.

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He could have, if he owned that, he could, he's making millions

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of dollars if he sold that.

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But anyways so I think he realizes that.

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He hasn't grown up to be much and he's afraid that if he has kids, they're going

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to grow up to be nothing because of him.

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So I think there's this real I don't, you know, he can, he

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bullshits that I don't need to, I don't, you know, I like my freedom.

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I can be able to just put my golf clubs in the car and go

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play golf or bowl or whatever.

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At the end of the day, it's a fear that he realizes he hasn't amounted to much.

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And he doesn't want to bring kids into the equation and let them down

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and then them not amount to much.

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But then he realizes that, actually, he's the most suited person for it.

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Cause yeah, his brother's doing better than him.

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His brother doesn't even know when his fucking kid's hockey's over with

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or what to get him for his birthday.

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Meanwhile, he's making pancakes the size of fucking Buicks

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and knocking out drunk clowns.

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Which I fucking love.

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Yeah, and protecting the, I mean, he, yeah, protecting Tia from that shitty bug,

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Yep.

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You had mentioned something about before cell phones.

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And

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Yeah.

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times that he, he, you know, he really wants to go to the racetrack and he's

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always out kind of trying to protect Tia and he has to bring the little

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kids and they're, it's hilarious.

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Their conversations,

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Yes.

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There was, there was little adults themselves.

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They're just little adults in car seats.

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That's really what they are.

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but Buck, they're driving around looking for Tia.

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How did he know where this party in the woods was?

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Bucks been to that party in the woods because bucks been

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to that party in the woods.

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I

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This isn't bucks.

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First time he knows, he knows where people are partying, you know, where

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dad is probably more straight laced.

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Hmm.

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Buck is definitely he smokes.

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He drank like the buck has had his time.

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He knows, you know, he's been a fun guy.

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He even said that.

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No,

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Doesn't he ask some people?

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Doesn't he?

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forget.

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Yeah.

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Does it, does he ask whatever friends that was the party?

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That's right.

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which was even funnier.

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He's like, got a cigar and then he gets somewhere along the line, he gets a

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right.

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Yeah.

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you guys know T guys He's like drinking with him, and they're

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like, what the fuck's going on here?

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Yeah,

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Oh God, love Buck.

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God.

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God, I love Buck so much.

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I forgot how much I really liked this movie.

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he's a great, yeah.

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And the clown,

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sorry.

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with the

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The clown, Mike Starr who plays the clown.

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He's been in, he's in Goodfellas.

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He's in a ton of stuff.

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Cause I actually had to look him up.

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Yeah.

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Obviously I could recognize him with all that makeup, but

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minute, I think I know this

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yeah, I was like, I know that guy, so I had to look that up, but he's been in a,

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I could kind of tell

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he's one of those character actors, he's been in Dumb and Dumber,

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he's in loads of stuff, isn't he?

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But sorry, yeah, that was just, I just wanted to,

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but my favorite part is it's again, it's just this direction is he gets

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punched and he goes back out of frame, but comes back into frame to get pumped.

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and get punched again, yeah,

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me laugh.

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I forgot how much fun.

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I forgot the clown until he shows up in the mouse car.

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I remember, I remember what was about to happen.

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And I just, I laughed like I did back in 1989, where I thought it was hilarious.

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He's just punched him and he goes backwards and the, Oh, comes right back.

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Almost like a weeble

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punch him again.

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Yeah,

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There were a

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a drunk,

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like that

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a drunk clown though, you know, it's classic.

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God, it was so good.

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it was so much fun.

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do that anymore.

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Like, when he gets hit by the bowling ball there's a few times where they do that.

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Very, it's like a style of the 80s comedy that we don't,

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we don't really get anymore.

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but a good, but a good one too.

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It wasn't, it didn't feel like old or oh it was just a nice trope that, that lands.

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It's a good comedy bit that lands as opposed to you know,

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the old, oh, kick in the nuts.

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You know, that's always funny, but you know, certain things like

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pies in the face aren't funny.

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Yeah.

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you're in the context like older films, like you can watch the Three Stooges

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do it and it's hilarious because it's of a time and you just love it.

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But, you know, if I was watching Adam Sandler hit Rob Schneider

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in the face with a pie, I'd be like, what the fuck are we doing?

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This is 2025, you know what I mean?

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But this Uncle Buck thing, this punch in the face, go back and go back, it works.

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It would work now in a movie if we saw that.

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You'd laugh your ass off because it's just really good comedic timing.

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And,

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hmm.

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oh God, Hughes, and he's dead too.

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God damn, we lost both Johns.

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yeah,

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that's why, that's, yeah, that's why America's, that's

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why America's gone to shit.

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Yeah, we

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lost our threat.

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Oh

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You're the only parent.

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what parenting, like if this movie were made now, what are like

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some parenting trends that, that, that Uncle Buck would like butt

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geez.

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Do you think?

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it's funny, him attacking the teacher is very reminiscent of

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what things happened today, but he had a very reason for it, right?

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Like she was being overly dramatic with that principal about a six year old.

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Nowadays, kids aren't responsible for anything.

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And so now it's like the parent will ask you, what did you do?

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What did I do to cause your student to try to stab someone with scissors?

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I don't know.

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You're a psycho.

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I don't know which one you want the answer to be.

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So, It would be different.

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Would the kids be, would they do anything fun if this movie was made today?

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They'll be on their iPhones are playing video games, right?

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Like uncle buck would probably be getting into trouble.

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He's probably doing drugs in the

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It would

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He's just,

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would probably

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be like the

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he'd be at the race.

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He'd take, he'd go to the racehorse.

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He'd be like, look, kids, here's some TV.

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Here's some games.

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Good luck.

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I'm going to be going to play the horses.

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would be a different movie today.

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It, I don't think it would work.

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I mean, I'm sure we could move it, but I don't, would it have the heart?

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Would it have the story?

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That we need for today, you know, would, would we get the message at all?

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Because everyone's all the time.

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Like it literally is a screen epidemic that is ruining kids.

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Like it's generation coming up.

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I try to warn my students.

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I know I'm so old man shakes business guy, but with AI and robotics that

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are advancing at lightning speed, if students don't have skills, They're gonna

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live with their parents for forever.

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that's really the truth.

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They have no skills.

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A lot of things are going away.

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I would call fallback jobs, right?

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Working at working at Walmart or working at a grocery store working.

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Anything that has like a register nowadays is being replaced already by either

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self checkout or gonna be replaced.

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Over here in America, at least, McDonald's in California is

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already testing out robots with ai.

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So you'll need three people to work there, the manager, to

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make sure no one robs the joint.

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And then some guy who can fix robots and maybe a programmer, and that's it.

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So if you don't like school and you quit, what are you going to do?

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And kids these days don't want to do hard labor.

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So they're not going to join somebody's or, you know, they're not going to go

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do the old blue collar work because they don't actually want to do labor work.

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So.

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This film would be different.

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It'd be a lot different.

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It'd be like Uncle Robot Buck or something like that.

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You know what I mean?

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I don't,

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that

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don't know.

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Trying to get Insta famous or, you know,

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Yeah.

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And yeah, and you know, probably Tia's probably trying to do that.

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And then we get some boyfriend who's trying to get her an

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OnlyFans or something like that.

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You know, you could probably move it that way.

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You probably could, but yeah, I mean, even with Buck, would, would we allow

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a, you know, he couldn't he wouldn't just be able to walk into a school.

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There'd be, it would be a different type of film.

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And I just don't think would still have the same heart And comedic timing

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that uncle Buck in 1989 did because I, it's one of those last few generations

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where you're a latchkey kid, where you going outside is something you

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do going places like a Chuck E.

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Cheese, or I don't know if they have the equivalent over in the UK, but

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going places with your like bowling with your, your family was something you did.

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Like it was a thing we always did.

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Like you go out and you want to do things being stuck in the house.

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Wasn't, you know, if you're stuck in the house, you played a few video games.

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Yeah.

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you watch movies and, you know, you, you play with your toys and your friends,

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and that's not the thing kids want to do.

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They just want to go home and play video games and they just

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want to stay on the screens.

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And so the fun that we get from the film of them going places, even kids don't,

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I guess it's probably a good thing.

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They don't sneak out to try to drink much anymore.

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Like it's just, everyone just stays home.

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know what I mean?

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Everyone's social without being social.

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They're on social media, but they're not actually Interacting with one another.

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Mm

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And so it'd be a different kind of movie.

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Like I'll go back when I have go far, use this, find a, find a phone.

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Yeah.

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yeah,

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her in a minute.

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She would be able to sneak out anywhere.

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wouldn't have to drive around in

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No.

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to try

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and

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And the

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woods.

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generation's gone away, right?

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I think we were the last generation, at least in America.

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I know it's a bit more of American thing.

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We're the last of the mall generation.

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Really?

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Maybe millennials, maybe some, you know, probably some millennials, but after that.

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the mall culture is going where everyone shops on Amazon.

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I mean, the malls are starting to disappear.

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So that, that, that thing.

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mall culture growing up.

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I

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Oh well, you're in

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that had like a mall.

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Like, That was the thing

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Can't spell Mawesome.

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Steve.

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It's it's they've corn and that corn and Jesus.

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I'm just kidding.

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I'm not getting into this.

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movies but I didn't like, hang out at the mall because I

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just didn't live in a big enough city to

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Yeah.

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a cool

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mall like that.

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But yeah.

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But even that's, you know, it's gone away.

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You know what I mean?

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Like the, the, the culture that we see in the film of students and the

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teenagers and even the young kids.

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Yeah.

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It's a, it's almost like we're on Mars now on the opposite side.

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Like kids these days don't have any idea what that is like.

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So it'd be a very, I mean, you know what, if someone could make a new uncle

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buck and make it as good and relatable as today, they should win the Academy

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Award because that is a stretch, right?

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Right.

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Like some parents going to flip out about, you're trying to make

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my kid fat with all these pancakes.

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Like someone's going to have an issue with something like that.

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Like where it's shot, that lady walks in, maybe there's a homeowner

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with a gun, she gets shot.

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Uncle Buck's got an AR 15 and shoots her.

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mean, he's smoking everywhere.

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Yes he would be vaping now.

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Yeah,

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it'd be.

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It'd be a big vapor.

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I love, oh, speaking of the, the smoking thing, he's like,

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oh, I used to smoke cigarette.

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I'm on I'm on a 5 year something I used

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Brilliant.

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and now

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I smoke cigars and then after this, it's going to be a pipe and then it's going to

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Chewing tobacco.

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Then the gum.

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Yeah,

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the gum, yeah.

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I'm on a five year plan, yeah.

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And

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The worst thing to, yeah, I

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looking at him like, horrified.

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think she's just you have a five year plan, but it's about smoking.

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What's your, by your financial point

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there was not a ton of trivia that I found about this movie, but exterior

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of the house was an actual house.

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But the inside was like all of the sets were built in a school gym, their home.

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Wow.

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was

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a set, built in a school gymnasium.

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That is such good lighting.

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Mm-hmm

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know.

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I know.

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It sounds kind of put on my beret and smoke a cigar, but cause if you, cause

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you know, you can, when you see a set on a TV show, you know they're on a stage.

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Like you can just feel even no matter what, the lighting is, you just know.

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if you had told me that if I would have guessed a hundred percent that

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that was in someone's home and they just, you know, they rented it out for

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whatever amount of time they needed to shoot, I would not have said that

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that was a set that's really well lit.

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They did a great job of making that feel like that was in the suburbs of Chicago.

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I would have

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Yeah, looks like a home.

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guaranteed that

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like you're inside, you get that feel.

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That you're in someone's home.

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too.

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Yeah

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so there's some lost in translation.

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You know how they rename movies for other countries?

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right.

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title, Alone with Our Uncle.

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Ooh,

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sounds pretty sinister.

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how about

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I was

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that?

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Yeah, that's, that's now it is a horror movie in 1989.

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Ah, no big deal.

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don't know what countries, but I think that got lost in translation.

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The reverse.

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Mm hmm.

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Alone with her.

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She couldn't just say Buck?

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Or just Uncle?

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That's weird, Alone with her

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our, alone with our uncle.

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I missed it, I think, but I guess there's a, the freeze frame of John

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Candy in the ending scene is also used in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

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yes, yeah, yeah, I remember.

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I did not know that.

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I'm gonna have to note of that when I watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

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Yeah,

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Did Winona Ryder ever be in any one of John Hughes movies?

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Or does he have a thing with her?

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Because this could just be pure coincidence.

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But I noticed the elementary school's name was Winona.

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I

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And I thought that way.

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I was like, that's gotta be something.

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Winona, that's like a very specific name.

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Right?

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Scott, that

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felt it.

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Felt it.

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I just, I just thought that today.

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Ryder was the first choice for the role of Tia.

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Mm

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look at that.

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Every now and again, the old man brings something up.

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Oh,

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even, I didn't even see that.

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her in Beetlejuice the year before, but she was working on Heathers, so she

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okay.

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I think she did the right thing.

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Mm

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Yeah.

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And I think the girl played Tia was great.

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I think she, you know, that may be the only role she ever was really known for.

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And, you know, That we all remember.

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I thought she was really good as this bratty fucking holy

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I thought she was horrible till the last five minutes, so.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but I'm good, but that's, that's a good role, right?

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It's just like

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Yeah, yeah, no.

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you're like, fuck this bitch.

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I hope McGregor, I hope they throw her out the window.

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Then you're like, man, that's a really good acting job.

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If I, if I have a visceral feeling about an actress, I want her dead on set.

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You're like, you're doing a great job, ma'am.

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His other muses were also considered, I guess, for that role.

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Allie Sheedy and Molly Ringwald.

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Oh, it makes sense.

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but yeah.

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Yeah, Yeah,

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Makes

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could have seen that.

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Rick Moran has turned down the role of the dad.

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Hmm.

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You know what?

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You've been under used in

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not much of a role, is it?

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yeah.

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I, that makes sense.

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So, you know, that's just, yeah, you need someone who's cause you

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want, I want to remember John Candy, who cares about the dad, right?

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Cause John can is, you know, I'm like, Oh wait, was Rick Moranis going to pop

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back in here at any time or, you know, like what if Bill Murray was the dead?

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You're like, is Bill showing up any moment?

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Cause we can have a little comedy here

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However, Steve Martin was also considered.

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the

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for the

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Jesus Christ.

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What a waste.

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dad.

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I know but

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I guess they'd have got done more with it if

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right.

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You're

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That,

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fun tongue in cheek moment about playing strange in automobiles.

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In that, in the, if he was the father there for

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yeah.

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That could have been fun.

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Yeah, that could have been fun.

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Literally every actor under the Sun.

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It seems was thrown around for the role of buck Like literally like Bill Murray

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Jim Belushi Dudley Moore Danny DeVito Dan Aykroyd George went Michael Keaton Ed

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O'Neill Williams Jack Nicholson Joe Pesci Tom Hanks Kurt Russell and, oh, I took

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Kurt,

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Russell.

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Kurt Russell.

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and

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Martin Short were considered and which is weird.

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They were in Captain Ron together,

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Joe Pesci, a short Italian.

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Hey, hey, hey.

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Just

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to the

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kidding.

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Hey,

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Okay, okay, okay, okay.

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you ever see a fucking hatchet, huh?

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You little piece of shit.

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That would've been great.

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Joe Pesci's the best, the best option because it's different, right?

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John Candy's what, 6'4 350?

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Joe Pesci's 2'2

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2.

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foot 2.

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pounds, you know what I mean?

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DeVito too.

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Like he was

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And Dudley, and, and you say, did you say Dudley Moore?

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Dudley

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Wow.

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Kurt Russell seems out of place.

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How does Kurt Russell as Snake Blizzcon if he comes in with the

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Mr. Relia Mr. Reliable, though, and he could have, it had

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just done it, wouldn't it?

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It would have been great.

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Yeah, I can't say it, but

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I can see him as you know, Like the Jack Burton, irresponsible,

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fun uncle,

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Good point, yeah.

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something like that.

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But there was 1 actor that they were pretty seriously

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considering and he's very similar.

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I'm curious if you guys can guess it.

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They, they were going to actually.

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John was considered for another 1 of this actor's roles, but

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died before he could do it.

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So the, the role I'm referring to is

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This is Tom Deluise.

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Oh, oh.

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Is it Louis,

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who's the other heavy white guy named Louis, what's his last name?

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He just recently passed away.

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Oh.

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oh.

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clearly not because you would have already told me.

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That's him.

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not him, It's not him, but he was in,

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You know who I'm talking about, right?

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to America.

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yes, yes.

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Louis Anderson, Louis Anderson.

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It's not him, but it is a heavy white guy,

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It's not Dom DeLuise.

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So who's the other heavy white guy?

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two TV show from 1989.

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Oh, John Goodman.

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Sean

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No?

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Mm-hmm

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okay, okay.

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Yeah, because he was heavy set that time.

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He, you know, he might've been, he, he

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Yeah, he's good.

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He's another reliable guy that

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don't think any of the people we've named outside of maybe some funny

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things that could have changed.

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I don't think anyone's better than John Candy.

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And

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No.

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Hmm.

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that was the, that was the, right role.

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I think John Candy was the right, perfect person for it.

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percent there were TV shows.

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There was actually

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did see this.

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2 2 TV shows.

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Did you guys know that?

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I only knew cause I was looking it up today.

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I was like, holy shit.

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They made an uncle buck TV show.

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Like Holy cow.

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Hmm.

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Hmm.

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Hmm.

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that was on CBS and it starred Kevin Meaney as Buck, a

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slob who drinks and smokes.

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I don't even think I know who Kevin Meaney is, then there was a more recent 1.

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With like famous people in it, a 2016 version on ABC.

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was another, it was an adaptation with a black cast with

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Hmm.

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Oh, Mike, I,

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again, I still think he needs someone heavy, right?

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I still just, you need,

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Epps

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need someone who's, you know, you know, like someone's with

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some stature, a little bit of,

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And

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some weight to them.

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I think that's what sells the uncle buck personality, right?

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Like it just, you know, he, you know, he's not taking care of himself too

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much, but it's just, I don't know what that, the heavier set funny uncle.

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I think that works a little bit better.

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Not that Mike Epps isn't a funny guy, but I just don't see Mike Epps

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is, you know, You know what I mean?

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Neither of these were successful, but, and James Leisure and Nia Long,

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like all three of those are like very well known black actors, but

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neither one of those were successful.

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You

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You know, this, and this is, you know, not against, I think, you know, I think.

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I have no problem with that option, but it is, it's a different, we talk about

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because Tarantino wanted to redo his last movie being Reservoir Dogs with an all

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black cast, which changes the entire,

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Oh,

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line of what Reservoir Dogs would be, right?

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Cause you're now telling it from a completely different perspective.

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Set of circumstances that the I don't know what I'm trying to side to into But

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when we're shooting at cops white people shooting at cops is different than if we

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would we have waited Till Joe shot like there's things that now change the tone

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of the film when you change the race So but does Uncle Buck land the same?

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Cause it's a different experience in the suburbs for black people in America.

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It's not the same, you know, it's

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hmm.

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maybe when you're selling Uncle Buck one, does a black audience

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care about the movie Uncle Buck?

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It's not a story that probably really reaches out to them.

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Cause it's all white.

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There's, is there any black people in Uncle Buck?

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I can't remember.

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Maybe in the bowling alley.

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I don't think there was.

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people in hardly like most of this is this is actually a criticism.

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Oh, is it

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just not necessarily Uncle Buck, but now that I'm thinking through

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Hughes films?

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John Hughes.

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black people.

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of

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I, yeah.

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I

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Well, the 80s, I guess.

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Mm-hmm

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and I think, okay, so now we got so one is the story going to land with

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a black audience because now it's what you're selling it to and as a

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white audience going to want to watch.

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A story that they know, but it's completely different.

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Like now it's foreign to them as well.

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Not that they can't coincide,

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Right?

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You're

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No.

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Yeah.

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Although

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sucking John candy.

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And then, you know, nothing gets my guts.

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That's those are big shoes to fill,

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Yeah.

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right?

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Those are just big shoes to fill.

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The story isn't super unique.

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There have been several,

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Mm.

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Yeah.

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That'd be nostalgia,

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alone with our uncle and they turn into a horror movie.

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Uncle Buck.

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And now,

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yeah, you'd be making it, you'd be making it as on a, that'd be a

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nostalgic trip for the adults really, more than it would be aimed at

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Yeah.

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kids at that time.

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I mean, we're gonna have to start wrapping things up, you guys.

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I can't thank you enough for

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Thank you for letting

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Thanks for having us.

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your show.

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Yeah, that's what we do.

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it.

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What, you guys have closing thoughts on Uncle Bok?

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Oh, my esteemed gentlemen from the UK go first.

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Yeah, I mean, it's a classic slice of 80s nostalgia, it's

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happy people with happy problems.

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So it's that comforting kind of movie.

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There's nothing too, nothing too edgy, nothing overly raunchy about it.

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It's a family movie, it's a family comedy, which I'm not

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sure they even make now, really.

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You you're not wrong.

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I don't

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You know, and I don't, I think you, you genuinely could sit together

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as a family and watch this, and the adults aren't chewing their nails,

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thinking, oh, here comes that scene.

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Or, you know, I mean, even, even the The washing machine scene would just go over

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people's, it doesn't matter, it's, it's irreverent, it's not like everyone's going

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to suddenly be like, you know, the movies, you know, we've all sat there with our

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parents and watched a movie and suddenly there's nudity or there's something

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and everyone feels completely awkward.

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I mean, even in like Ghostbusters, there's a scene where a ghost

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is giving Dan Aykroyd I mean?

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So that you can, there are movies, there are movies where

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That's the

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there are,

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baby

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but there are movies where there's that awkwardness and because I, but

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I think this is one of those movies where there's something for everyone.

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Like Fatal Attraction

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Yeah.

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You know, you sit down with your

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Hey, yeah, exactly.

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But you know, but there's something for everyone in there.

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You know, you've got the little kids, you've got the teenager, and

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you've got the adults, and then, and you've got, The uncles and

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aunties like, ah, so, just, so yeah,

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I'm like, I'm

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something, something for us too, I am uncle, yeah

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real

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so yeah,

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Steve, to your point about the 1 of the things I had kind of forgotten until you

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were talking about, oh, there's stuff for the adults, the, the sequence where he's

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talking with his girlfriend on the phone, I think, and they have names for her.

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Yes.

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and he's no,

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that's what we called your boobs.

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And then

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Felix, And then we jump to the cat outside.

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Brilliant.

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It's the Little Red Corvette.

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what it is.

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It's, it's, it's, it's how you, you make an innuendo without hitting

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people with the head with a hammer and

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Yeah, that's it, yeah, yeah,

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moments that everyone's going to laugh at, but you don't have to just be

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like, we're going to see the P word.

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You just, you just got to who let, who let the cat out?

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We don't have a cat.

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Get out of here.

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It's

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just a

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so,

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it

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yeah, so that's the thing about it, you know, you, there

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is something for everyone.

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And it's not uncomfortable for anyone, and it's, it's just a fun time.

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And that's why

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it stood the test of time, probably.

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Because I don't think I've ever met anyone who hasn't seen it and doesn't like it.

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It's not,

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Good point.

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yeah, it's one of those movies that we all sort of It's not necessarily

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nostalgic, because I bet you there's kids who could watch it today and enjoy it.

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Mm hmm.

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You know, so yeah, for me that's just a solid bit of family entertainment,

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and that's very rare these days.

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That's no wonder we look back.

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Mm hmm.

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Well said, sir. Said indeed.

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Anything to add Scott or,

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being a child of an eighties, being a child of the eighties

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This is just such a great movie.

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I said earlier, John Candy, this is brilliant.

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of Macaulay Culkin as a little kid.

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I know Steve doesn't like him, but he hates kids anyways.

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But this is, it's, it's like when Steve and I talk about action movies, right?

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Like you, you know, You want your, your movies to kind of move quick.

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This movie does exactly what it's supposed to.

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We go, we, we, we get to tell a story.

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We go on a journey, but the jokes keep coming and we, and it doesn't

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feel like you're just like, is this thing going to fucking end?

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Like it just keeps moving from a beat to a beat, funny stuff,

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innuendos, things here, things there.

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By the time you're done, you're like, Oh my God, that was a lot of fun.

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You forget how good this kind of movie is.

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And you start to realize, Oh my God.

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Of all the blueprints we've taken in Hollywood, where all we do is

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now superhero movies out the ass.

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aren't movies like, why aren't we looking back at movies like this and not

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remaking them, but taking their beats and their structure and go, now we can

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try to, this is how you're supposed to make, this is how the sausage should be

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made for comedies, for family comedies.

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And we don't do that anymore.

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And that's kind of a disappointment and a disservice to people because this

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is the, this is the, like Steve said, this is the perfect movie for a family.

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I could show this to my grandkids.

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hmm.

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And not worry about it.

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And I know if I show it to them young, like McCulloch, they're going

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to laugh at the kid stuff and the adults can laugh at the adult stuff.

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And we're all going to have a good time, have some popcorn.

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And we're all going to be like, night.

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You know, like they'll laugh at Oh, he said shit.

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Like we all, they were the kids.

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He said nuts and balls.

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Of course, you know, you're going to laugh.

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But then when you get to the kiddie part, the adults will

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laugh and think that's funny.

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And the kids were like, wait a minute.

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I don't worry about it.

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It's the cat joke.

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You know what I mean?

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Like it's, it's fun for everybody.

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And I just, I don't know that you miss.

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The star magnetism of people like a John Candy.

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We don't have that anymore.

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We don't, we're missing some of these star people who command a scene.

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Like when you, you know, you see a John Candy would be like, man, that was fun.

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Like plane, trains, and all will be as you go watch that completely different.

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Even when he does his little cameo in the end of Home Alone, he's, you know,

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the, the polka band driving her home.

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He's just great in everything he does.

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And then of course the great outdoors with Dan Aykroyd.

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I mean, fucking such a good Fun time of these movies with an amazing guy.

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And it's a slice of our youth, but I really feel like it's a missing piece in

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today's cinema that has not been filled.

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And no one is filling this, this void of the comedy that would bring families

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together to go to a movie together.

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There's just, it's either watching kids movies like a Disney

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movies or you're, that's it.

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You know, you're not getting

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John Hughes types.

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these are low budget movies too.

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Hmm.

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know

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why they aren't,

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I don't know.

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I guess, sort of a double thing here where, I mean, you, you,

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you did have like School of Rock

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Okay.

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But

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and you could almost say Jack Black would be a good Uncle Buck,

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that's a great pick right there.

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Good

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you know, so it could, it's, I think a lot of these comedy guys, they just,

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they just milked it so quickly with, you know, Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart, all these

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guys, they just milked it so quickly that even they didn't want to do it anymore.

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And

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you look at what Will Ferrell's doing now, you know, he's

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trying to distance himself from.

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You know, he's doing, he's trying to spread his wings and

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do other things because they just milk the comedy thing so much.

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So yeah,

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would, yeah.

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I mean, I guess we don't know because we lost John Candy,

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mm

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but you know, what would, what would he have gone on to do?

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I don't know, you know, but also this type of person, we don't have obese stars.

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True.

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very, That's an, that kind of thing.

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You have to be very pretty and not really that good of an actor

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Yeah.

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You know what?

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I think Bill

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hmm.

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something recently interview about what funny is.

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It's not about trying to be funny.

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It's about playing straight.

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Mm hmm.

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is playing straight and John Candy plays it straight.

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Bill Murray plays it straight.

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That's what makes them funny

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mm

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when you react to something with some sarcasm, but you're doing it straight

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That's why people laugh because you're like, oh my god, that's cut like

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Steve Carell a little bit does, you know unless he's doing you know, the

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The movies with Will Ferrell, they're just losing their minds in the tea.

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That's those are funny, too

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yeah.

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Mm-hmm

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know, we don't, everyone's trying to play things for huge laughs or being no

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slapstick stuff, and you don't necessarily

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You don't need it.

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don't have, we're going to lose Bill Murray soon.

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We're going to lose some of these, these greats, and they're

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going to be gone forever.

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And there's no one to fill the void.

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Yeah, and that's that.

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fill that.

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void for, for that kind of comedy.

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You know what I mean?

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At least, at least in America, I don't

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Yeah,

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some good English, you know, comedians could do it, but American

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really.

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feel like we have anybody to fill the void of these comedic

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actors on screen you know, even Jim Carrey's pulled himself away.

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You know what I mean?

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I mean, again, he was great at all the stuff he does, but we don't have.

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left really who's going to fill these voids of the people who we

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could have a john candy or a bill murray or a Dan akra we we're losing

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them because there's that's not the style of comedy we do anymore

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There's actually, I can think of a fair number of, again, they're not young.

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They're like middle aged now, but like the Kristen Wiggs and the

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Yeah,

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Amy Poehler, like those kind of

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but they don't get roles much anymore because we're losing because we don't

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everyone wants like unfortunately Everyone wants the dick and fart jokes,

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which they work at times But not if everyone's doing them if everyone's

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doing them you lose everything Any of the fun that used to be what an Adam

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Sandler movie used to be because he was one of the, you know, the few people

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who, who are in that realm of comedy.

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But if everyone's doing that,

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Yeah, but these

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the same thing.

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It's just a retread.

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Now you're like,

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yeah

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Dick and fart joke.

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But then I think also with the climate we're in in Hollywood Those, these movies,

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they're not, they don't make enough money.

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people are kind of scared to, to, you know, I don't know.

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It's funny though, because it doesn't like this movie made.

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was made for 15 million dollars.

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The Breakfast Club, 1 million dollars.

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I know, crazy.

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insane.

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These, these films, these sort of films can't, they can't make,

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they can't make the money now.

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That's why we have, that's why we're in the situation we're in with,

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with Blockbusters and Marvel and all this stuff, is because they need

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that billion, they want to hit that billion dollar mark and they've,

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and they, but they haven't got them guarantees anymore, fortunately.

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Fortunately, they're losing money.

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you know, so what I'm saying,

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with streaming, we'd be able to least do it on those, right?

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If you're

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yeah, I think people are turning their backs on that bit as well.

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it's such a poor product coming out

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yeah, exactly.

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You know, but you know, a comedy movie that costs 11 million making 800 million

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just is not going to happen anymore,

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You're

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you know, and I think, and then, and they can't even, they can't even

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make that money with a sure bet now,

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Yeah.

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know, like the Superman movie that's coming out this year.

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I mean.

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Part of me is I hope it, I hope it fails, so we can bring it down,

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bring it down,

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let's

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making movies that cost less money.

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Yeah, that's, we need it, because you know, the well's running dry on

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all them ideas, and you're gonna have to sort of start listening to people

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who've got I don't know, ideas and stories and stuff, you know, maybe.

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I know it's a bit naive of me to think that we could do that, but

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Yeah, I mean, do you really think as a society, we're moving towards

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listening to the smart people, or?

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I wasn't going there, but,

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in America.

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We fucking aren't.

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your point about Oh, listen, you know, people that have

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creative ideas and this and that

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I think the wrong people run Hollywood.

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Mm

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oh yeah,

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Mm

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Hollywood should do this.

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If you're going to run a studio, run it like a football team.

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own it.

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So run it, but put people in place who know what the fuck they're doing.

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Dallas Cowboys.

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That's this going to go receive said Dallas Cowboys have a shitty owner

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in Jerry Jones and I hate the Cowboys anyway, so I'm glad they're doing bad,

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but they always hire somebody who kisses Jerry's ass and he basically runs it

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and he's out of touch with the game.

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you have someone who was like in the Patriots, you own it.

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you let someone like Bill Belichick run it and look what the production is.

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So get someone in there who, you know, can smooze and get money and yada,

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yada, yada, but no, you're fucking lame.

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Let the real people know what they're doing, do the job and let them create

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and stay the fuck out of their way.

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But they don't, they keep getting in the way.

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And that's why we get terrible product.

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That's why we remake 20, 000 things.

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What news begging for any remakes?

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Thankfully they were, it was a joke, but someone, they were going to remake

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American psycho with Austin Butler.

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We don't need a remake.

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It was perfect the way it is.

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I

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I don't think that's a joke, though.

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it was, it ended up being a joke, but at the time for a while, people

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were like, there's been talk of Kurt Russell's son reprising his role in

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a remake of escape from New York.

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I don't need an escape from New York remake.

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I am happy with escape from New York.

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it

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Yeah,

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not need to remake it.

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of these movies, find something new.

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Give me something new.

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What's what else can you come up with besides escape from New York?

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What else you got in your well there?

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hmm.

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yeah spend,

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new

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yeah, spend less, spend less but make more,

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Mm hmm.

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let people in with some ideas, but, you know, that's a whole tangent

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because all the creatives are working in gaming now, they're not working

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in Hollywood, and so that, that's just another, but that's a whole,

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Yeah.

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Oh god, we could

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Or they're working in television too.

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Some of the streaming TV is a lot better than some of the movies we get nowadays.

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Yeah, I

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just think we're in a very time of mediocre product and

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everyone's sitting at home.

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Movies are found at the cinema.

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Mm hmm

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You know, films that are critically well received aren't making

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the money, so they're flops.

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Right.

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But they're not flops because they suck.

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They flop because no one's going to the cinema.

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Which is a whole nother thing, but, when you've gone to see, you can only

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watch a caped guy throw someone into a building so many times, before it

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just becomes completely redundant.

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However,

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that's why you're not,

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a movie for an hour and a half of a guy just picking up people and thread

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it through just, that's his whole

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You can, you can do,

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just,

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do that, you can do that every week, you can do that every week now,

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but what you can't do is go see films like Uncle Buck, is my point.

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Uncle

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right.

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Yeah.

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And I like like, yeah, 89.

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It was I mean, listeners, if you haven't seen Uncle Buck in a minute,

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I would consider this your sign to

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Mm hmm.

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all need some

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Do so.

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in our lives.

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Yes.

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And John Hughes is a great comedic writer.

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He really is.

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I mean, he has some other issues, obviously we've kind of unearthed a little

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bit, but his writing is for comedy is

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it, it really is.

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Yeah.

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He's it feels effortless, right?

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Like just, you know, you're in certain hands of certain directors,

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writers, you it's effortless.

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You don't even realize how good they are.

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That's how good they are at it.

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Right?

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Like you just sit there and you go, you laugh, you go,

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it's in that after you've watched it's in that retro.

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When you go back, you go, holy shit.

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That's really, I mean, they really nailed this.

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This was almost ahead of its time.

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This guy is killing it on all levels.

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And.

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You know, so yeah, if your listeners definitely, definitely

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give a, you know, I know a lot of people are like, John Hughes.

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Oh my God.

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It's all those teen movies.

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Let me tell you what, I'll go buck.

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I'll go bucks.

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Pretty fucking good.

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he, that's kind of where he got, he started his fame and

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then he kind of turned a corner with it with these family ones.

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But

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He got older.

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He got older himself, I guess, and different things became

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More important to him.

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Yeah.

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Or,

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I mean, you don't want to be a

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we talked about it in the breakfast club episode as to that.

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looking for that one.

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yeah as there were, that was, there was a couple of events that happened,

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Mm.

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That kind of started that.

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That was his sign, probably combination to your point.

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Like he was getting older, but a sign that he started doing this

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kind of stuff, which I will take it

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all day, every day.

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I'll have your guys's links and stuff in the show

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Thank you.

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that you

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want to tell people to go?

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For our for the two podcasts we to do together as the cheeky bastards We have

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the men of action we have dropping a Bruce You can go to the last of the action

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heroes podcast network, which you're also a part of with some of your other shows

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Mm

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the easiest way to probably find us there because our links

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are there and then for me.

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I'm just at the church of Qtpod you can type that into any one of

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the I'll be on Twitter much longer.

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I think we'll go over to the blue, the blue thing.

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What's the blue

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I'm out.

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I'm out.

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blue

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I just got to move to

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I'm on Blue Sky, yeah.

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Okay.

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So I'm moving there.

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But yeah, other than that yeah, we, we dropped something every.

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Every other Tuesday basically is how we do it over for ours.

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Yeah.

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First up is the men of action and we are doing sequels from action movies that were

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put pit to it against, against each other.

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And there's a theme.

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And then we are just about to start season three, the final

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full season of dropping a Bruce.

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So

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we've got the awards ceremony for the

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Bruce's birthday, which is in March 19th.

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Yes.

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And then we start.

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The

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Our tuxes are pressed and we're ready to go.

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yes,

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got,

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it.

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going to,

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lined up and everything.

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got a couple of STDs to hand out.

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Oof.

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to spread

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Yes,

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Yeah.

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now, so we're, it's 16 more to go, so we're almost there, but yeah.

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if you do if you guys liked this episode, please drop a review It could be the

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podcast version of a giant pancake consider it that to bring it back to uncle

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buck It does help more retro fans You us.

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So please do that.

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And until next time, be kind, rewind.

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About the Podcast

Retromade
Your pop culture rewind
Welcome to the Retromade Podcast, where we take a nostalgic trip down memory lane and explore the best of the 80s and 90s pop culture.

Join us as we dive into the iconic movies, TV shows, music, fashion, cartoons, toys, and other cultural trends that defined these two decades. From the classic coming-of-age films of John Hughes to the unforgettable TV shows like The Cosby Show, Cheers, The Golden Girls, Friends, and Seinfeld; we’ll explore the moments that shaped our childhoods and continue to resonate with us today.

Get ready to reminisce about the music that dominated the charts, from the hair metal of Guns N’ Roses to the pop hits of Madonna and Michael Jackson. We’ll also take a look at the fads and trends that defined the era, from the neon colors of fashion to the boombox on every street corner.

But it’s not just about the big names and big moments. We’ll also dive deep into the lesser-known corners of 80s and 90s culture, from cult classic movies like The Breakfast Club and Big Trouble in Little China to underground bands that never quite made it big. And of course, we can’t forget the deliciously retro snacks & cereals that were a staple of our childhoods.

Join us as we explore the pop culture of the past, and discover how it still shapes our lives today. Whether you’re a child of the 80s, 90s, or just a fan of retro culture, this podcast is for you. So grab a slice of pizza, put on your favorite band t-shirt, and tune in to the Retromade Podcast.
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