December 25, 2023 • 45 mins
Snuggle up by the fire with our special holiday episode celebrating the 90s Christmas classic 'Home Alone.'
We are joined by two members of the McCallister family, Senta Moses and Hillary Wolf who gift us with the most amazing behind-the-scenes stories!
From Michael Jackson casually crashing the set, to sharing a first kiss with Macaulay Culkin's older brother, to the scenes John Candy totally improvised!
Merry Christmas dudes!!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey Dude, The Nineties Called with Christine Taylor and David Lasher. Hey, everybody,
welcome back to Hey Do the Nineties Called Podcast Holiday Edition.
I'm Christine Taylor, one of your co hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm David.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hi David, what's up? So this is our end of
the year episode. This is our twenty twenty three finale episode,
which is normally just supposed to be you and me chatting,
so we kind of have this is almost like a
bonus episode that we've got which is very exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And very relevant to the holiday season. I mean this
home alone kids, I mean, what better way? Do you?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yes, that's what. So that's what I wanted to ask you,
because what what are some of the holiday traditions that
the Lasher family? Like do you guys, have you or
is there movies you watch together? Do you bake? I
know you're going to Are you going to Miami?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yes? That is Yeah, that's our family trip. We meet
my wife's sister, Nicole and her kids. Mike. We have
three kids, and Nicole has three kids and each one
has a partner about the same age, you know, like
my son and perfect and they're like they're almost like
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brothers and sisters and our one guaranteed time of year
to all get together is at my brother in law,
Scott's house, and I think we've been doing it their
entire lives.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh that's so fun. And I love a tropical holiday escape.
We used to go to Hawaii all the time for
Christmas and it was so like it was not traditional
Christmas or winter break, but you would go into like
you be in Hawaii and everyone's in flip flops and sandals,
and there's like Hawaiian trees and like these special trees
(01:52):
from Hawaiian palm trees decorated and then you'd hear like
the ukulele Christmas music. And I just love tropical holidays.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's first because we grew up with the snow and ice,
skary and all that, but once you get used to
the beach tropical holiday, it's it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I think the older we get, the more I enjoy
warmer weather. But you know, we're I have to say,
there's like a wind storm like it was pouring rain
here in New York and it's a crazy, crazy winds
right now, but it is mild. It's like fifty degrees
like I would much. I would rather the snow right
now this time of year than the rain, like nestling
(02:33):
up and.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, like a winter Wonderlands.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yes, yes, I yes, and that those are some of
our traditions. Like we do the full on Chris certain
Christmas movies. My kids have their little sort of you know,
when they get back together after their breaks and they come,
you know, Ellen Quinn elf is there, Oh my gosh,
(02:58):
top Christmas movie. But then we do things like Charlie
Brown Christmas and a Year without a Santa Claus. The
ones that I grew up watching on TV was that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
One that was like an animation. It was The Abominable.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well there's that one, yes, Rudolph the Red Nose Rain Mirror,
which has the Abominable, and then there's the Year Without
a Santa Claus and that has heat miser and cold
Miser and they have a whole song and we're obsessed
with it. I'm going to send it to you because
I know you're looking at me blankly like you have
no idea what I'm going if I.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Know you know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And Mickey Rooney is the voice of Santa So it's
a classic classic. Yeah, no, it's old. It's from this
like the seventies.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What about this one? You're a mean one, always.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The best, the best. Yes, So we are going to
go on our winter break. So we're going to do
this this fun episode one of the daughters from Home
Alone and the other was because like the Hillary Wolf
and sent to Moses and I just recently, I want
to say, rewatched Home Alone. But I realized when I
(04:08):
was watching it, never watched it straight through as a movie.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, what never.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I realized, like I know so much of it from
seeing my like all of the stuff with Macaulay Culkin
and Joe Peshey, I remember all of those set pieces
and the Michael Jordan stand up and stuff. But I
realized I'd never watched the whole movie, like start to finish.
And it's a classic.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes, I mean Katherine O'Hara and John.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Hurd and John Candy, we're gonna we're gonna talk to
the girls all about this. But what what a heartfelt
in the traditional John hughes like it's crazy chaos and
then it ends on a note where everyone's crying and
you just feel happy.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Joe and Daniel Stern, Oh, I know those are all the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Scenes I remember. I didn't remember all of the stuff
of like then there's an old man neighbor who they're
all treat but he's scary, but then they become friends
because he's alone. Like it's so sweet, but no, the
physical joke actually with the gold tooth, I.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Think it's a rite of passage for every kid you
know going forward has to see that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Movie, right, right, And I watched it to think, Like
I was thinking to myself, like, how do you get
away with Luke forgetting a kid? And they set it up.
It's so well written, like it's set up so beautifully
that from minute one there's so much chaos and everyone
no one's paying attention to him, but they account for
like a head and it's the neighbor, like when they're
(05:41):
doing a head count, but they oversleep, so that's why
they get in, Like the airport shuttles and he's still
asleep at home, but they counted the neighbor a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It does. It makes it right. You would you would
think that that's impossible to leave a child home, but
it actually.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
All tracks he would know as a right David, Right,
it tracks. Well, let's invite on these gals in and
let's talk all about this iconic movie. So Hillary Wolfin
sent to Moses are with us. Welcome both of you.
This is so cool. Did you ever in a million
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years think that thirty plus years later you'd still be
talking about this movie.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, No, when you were telling it, you didn't realize
that you had no clue this would become a classic forever.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
No, I don't think. I mean, I don't want to
speak for you, Hillary, but I certainly had no idea
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I think the only reason people might have hit an
inkling but not the people necessarily in the movie was
because it was a John Hughes movie. But I will
say my mom read the script and she said, I
think you should do this movie. It's the most ridiculous
script I've ever read. It's probably not going to do well.
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But it's John Hughes movie. And I was from downtown
Chicago and he does all his stuff in the suburbs
of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So I got to stay at home, which.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Was fantastic, ridiculous. Why like it? No one would believe
that some that a family left a kid home alone.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Basically yeah, well, this was back in like the late eighties,
so maybe you know. I mean, I'm from a generation
where you know, you've got a key around your neck
and you're just sent out into the world exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And I said that to David when I watched it.
I really wanted to see what the okay, Like, how
much is do you believe? How plausible is this that
they would end? I was saying to David before you
guys came on. It's written so perfectly that you both
fully believe it because it's chaos in the house like
it is, and there's all the cousins because at first
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I was like, wait, do they have this many kids?
But that means two families, so you guys play cousins.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It's actually a three family. It's three because yeah, because
Jed and Christian who played Oh God, Hillary helped me.
What were their character names. They're from the French family,
the family that's in Paris that we're going to visit.
So there's three families happening. No, we have like a
family bush.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I did not even connect that at all. It just
like that, which is what was great because it just
seemed like total chaos where and the oversleeping and the
phone lines being repaid. Like he didn't miss a beat.
He totally set it up so that it's fully and
you know, no cell phones know anything. They wouldn't, right,
and the passport being like and like the Melkon miscounting
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the kids, like I mean they really John Hughes, he's good,
he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He's good. Oh questioning the kids, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, he's just like looming in the house as this,
which is.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
So funny nowadays, Like nobody Lincoln either. There's like a
cop standing like a creepy cop too.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I've got a good Joe Pese story. Oh God, action
with Joe PAESHI was when he came in as the cop.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I think it was for all of us kids, and
I was one of the ones who either passed by
him or said something to him.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
But he definitely is what you would think he is
as far as the way he comes off like he's
super tough.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
He's a little guy, but he's tough.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And I'm also a little girl who thinks she's tough,
and so I was, and I was like thirteen at
the time, and I was like, oh, yeah, you're super tough.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Where are you from?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And he's like the Bronx and I'm like, oh, north
side of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Win. You win that one.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm playing with the gold tooth.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Put the little sparkle on it every time you show
it up close. But Hillary, you you were tough. I
was looking you were you were a judo master at thirteen?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Are on your way to Yeah, well I was doing
judo the entire time I was acting. I started when
I was five, and then I started judo when I
was seven, and yeah, when I was I did Home
Alone one and two, and I did a ton of stuff,
like throughout I did one big thing a year. I
had like very normal parents, so they're like, we're not
moving to LA, We're not doing You're not like leaving
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your normal school, you know, all of that, so which
I'm grateful for. And then I did a movie called
Big Girls Don't Cry, which I started after Home Alone two,
and I was the star. And then William Moore assigned
me as my agent, and then I at the same
time went to the Senior Nationals in judo. I was
literally fourteen, but it was a non Olympic weight. I
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was really small, and I won, and so I went
up to my parents shortly after William morri As signed me,
and I said, actually, I think I want to quit
acting and I want to try to go to the Olympics,
and they're like, Okay, I guess this is what we're
doing now. So that's basically what happened. I ended up
making two Olympic teams and won the Junior Worlds and
(11:01):
what I married my husband, who's a wrestler, and now
I have two little boy wrestlers and I'm full athlete mode,
the athlete acting thing, and I'm full. Yeah, it's way
more my I think that's always who I was at heart. Yeah,
the acting thing was just a cool thing that I did.
I never took acting lessons, never studied. I mean, I
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think that was kind of the benefit of me, was
that I wasn't trained. And sometimes with kids, it's nice
to have an actor who doesn't try. Sometimes kids can
try too hard. So I didn't try because I didn't
know what I was doing. So I just kind of
acted like myself.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And just you know, remembered the lines.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And but you were in seduced by the glamour of acting,
and William.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
The glamour where was that at.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I mean, wasn't the premiere the.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Second premiere was different? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I mean for me, that's not my speed. I mean,
I'm really impressed. I'm really impressed by good people.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
To be honest, I'm not really that impressed by anybody
who's necessarily accomplished things, or certainly not somebody who has
a lot of money. It's definitely somebody who's a good person.
And then if they're also successful, then I'm really impressed, because,
you know, to be a good person and not get
you know, jaded, I think is important.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
But I'm way more impressed. I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Only because I'm such an athlete when I meet like
a high level, especially wrestlers.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
We're very into wrestling.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
My husband and I you know, support USA Wrestling a ton.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
We're very involved.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We donate money every year, our kids wrestle, We ran
our kids Wrestling Club, all of that. Like if I
meet a Jordan Burrows or a Kyle Dake, which means
nothing to you, guys, these guys are like the.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Best athletes in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I mean, wrestling's got to be one of the toughest
sports in the world. And I know I did judo,
but they're very similar. And because I married a wrestler
and my kids wrestle, I'm kind of like an honorary wrestler.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Now, so cool. Your parents, I'm more impressed with that.
I guess that's great.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And your parents didn't you They didn't say, look at
these opportunities, are you crazy? Because there's a lot of
stage parents out there would be like, you got to
keep trying this, but they were just like yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
The parents was like carelessly through their kids. Yeah. But
my parents were very similar to Hillars where they kept
me super grounded and didn't you know when I was seven,
I got invited to Studio fifty four and my mom
was like, yeah, no, she's not doing that.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Wait were you guys New Yorkers? Where did you know?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I grew up in Chicago. Oh my god, but in Chicago.
But I was in Annie when I was seven, and
like the orphans were a big thing and it was
one of the you know offers, and my mother was like, no, no,
we're not going to do that. We're all set.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Were most of the kids other than Collie the cast
locally were most of it was like a Chicago cast
and call yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, Janet, Janet Hershinton and Jane Jakins cast out of Chicago,
and I think, yeah, I think the majority of us
were other than the Culkin brothers. Karen and right here.
I watched a session and I'm traumatized and like, that's my.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, he's a little kid that Joe Pashy's corners and
says where are you going?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
How long are you looking up at him? All of it?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, exactly. Wait, So the other thing I read which
kind of blew my mind. And I don't know why
it blew my mind because I've been you know, I've
been working in show business a long time. So so
but like all of it so stupid. This is going
to sound so stupid. I had no idea all of
those interiors were so they gutted or they rented out
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of school.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So I gymnasium, Yes, oh my god, the house that
everybody's visiting now in Winnetka is just the exteriors. Like
he never shut anything inside the house. It was all
in a gym.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So it wasn't in the sound stages. It was just
a high school.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But they built the interior of the house in a
in a gym.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It was New Trier, right, Hillary was in the new
high school, New Chrier High School. It was down that's exactly.
But they've shot a lot of job Keues movies there.
I feel like it was the the exterior. It was
all that same area, right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So that was his stomping ground, right.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
It was yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, And how old were you? You were thirteen? Hillary six?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I think it was twelve and thirteen okay, like for
one and two.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Oh, I was sixteen for the first and eighteen for
the second.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Okay, twelve and fourteen something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, just and what were those scenes light? I mean,
you guys get asked this a million bazillion times, but
just you know, it's it seems so kid centric, like
did it it was fun?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Was it? Just? Like?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That was it?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The chaos that it was pay off? Those shots of
the running through the airport, just the way the camera is, like,
it's so fun, it's so visceral, Like it's.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That sequence when we were running through O'Hare Airport the
American Terminal took a few days to shoot, and I
sort of equated to like a well choreo U choreographed ballet,
because like we had all the atmosphere walking in front
of the camera as we were passing through, and to
my knowledge, it didn't turn into a total disaster and
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no one died.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But it was a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Like it was a lot, and we did it multiple times.
And now every time I go back to Chicago and
I travel American airlines, I have memories of us running
at full speed through that terminal. But I mean, it
was the whole shoot was chaos. You've got that many kids,
you know, it was just it was not.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That must have been EXTENSI it was extensive.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, there was a lot of rehearsing, like they did it.
They did it with the atmosphere first, and then they
brought in I believe, didn't they bring in the adults
first and then they brought us in behind them or
something like. There was sort of like a progress of
rehearsal and shooting.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Did they shut down that hole right there?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
They did?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
They did that, seriously, shut down a terminal at your hair?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Ohsh you do that now? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, Well back then he was like Ques was like,
you know Chicago, so I would imagine anything, right, yeah,
but like the crooked nose mob way the other.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Way exactly in the good way anyway. And did you guys,
what what time of year did you shoot it? Because
you always like it's never was it actually the holiday times.
The year before was it wasn't it January or February? Hillary,
I think the rest?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Are you guys serious? It was thirty one years ago.
I don't remember what month it was.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It was no, I think it was January. It was cold.
It was definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Sometimes they do these Christmas things where it's like summertime
and you're having to pretend you're so in other words,
it was real.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
There was no acting, Christine. We were all freezing our asses.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Of not good.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, I was looking.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I was.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That was the other part that I thought was so
perfect was the scene when you're all when everyone's overslept
and the shuttles come to take the kids, and the
head count happens, right, and it's the neighbor kid who's
just kind of you know, and he looks like I
was thet Yes, it's so perfect, you buy it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So a fun story from when we were shooting outside
the house, you know, counting getting on the vans to
go to the airport and everybody's heard this by now,
but this van rolls up with no windows.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
We shut the second one yeah too, Yeah, okay, okay, and.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
My mom goes, oh, look there's Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Impersonator and I look and it was not an impersonator.
It was Michael Jackson. And he spent the next what
was it like an hour to two hours just.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
He was there a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He started with the kids with mccaully, no.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Interest in interacting with the adults or like forced awkward conversations.
He just like went up to McCauley and all of
us were there and he just turned out with us
for a couple hours, and he.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Was giggling and very sweet, and he was very awkward
long but it was weird, very nice. Yeah, it was
very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
And had he been invited to the SAT.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I don't think so. I think he probably just communicated
with McCauley's mom.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Dad. If you're Michael Jackson, I kind of feel like,
I don't think you need to be I think you.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Just go where you want.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That just sounds strange. He just rolls up to the
set and all alone too, to hang out with the kids.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, okaying, was that for all of you? Were you
all just kind of like, oh my god, this, Like
did you have a because.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
He was huge yea, I was a huge fan, so
it was it was a big deal. Yeah, it was
a really big deal. I mean I even had a glove.
It was it was went that far.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah one glove.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah you did, you did? You had red jacket.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I had a couple of posters on the The Jackson
Michael Jackson and the Jackson five was my first concert.
It was I was seventh grade. I was such a
music nerd. So that was my first in Philly at
the Spectrum. That was my big first concert. I was
a Pennsylvania girl. But uh wow, that is so surreal.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, there was a lot of that, a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It was interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
He let Devin Retree, who played buzz Big Brother you,
let him record him. He was like basically interviewing him
for a while. I don't even remember the questions at
this point, but he humored him. He like answered his questions,
and he seemed like not threatened, more comfortable with us
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for sure. But yeah, like he had no interest in
meeting the director, the producers or any like.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
He was just not all.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
About the kids.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah. Wow wow. And I have to say, Hillary, because
that scene that you have with Devon is such a
standout moment because there's it's so rare. You don't see
the kids really caring that much. You know, you've obviously
Catherine that is so great when she stays and it's
like mom needs to save the day. But that moment
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that you have with Devon where it's like, don't you
even aren't you worried at all? It's so and he's not,
and he's such a jerk about it, but he's so funny,
like he's the quintessential horrible brother. Yes, with the tarantula and.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
More realistic you know, I mean, yes, kids, you know
their sibling rivalry and stuff, but come on, like if
you if your little brother, I mean he was little,
if your little brother is like by himself, yes, you're
gonna be worried about it, especially a girl especially.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yes, So I thought that it's that's the classic John
Hughes also where it's that yeah, oh it's high jinks.
It's it's bigger, broader than anything. But then there's this
there's so much heart there. It's just so much.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
True, like he always gets to the truth of it,
and in moments that you don't expect, like you're you're
laughing and then all of a sudden something really happens
and you just yeah, you're brought into it.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yes, yeah, and that old thing where like if a
kid was left home alone, he'd be so excited for
a while and then start to get sad and like
where's my fanily?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Absolutely, what was macaulay like? Because between Home Alone one
and two, I'm sure he had gone on and he
was probably one of the biggest stars in the world.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
There was just a shift in terms of like the
way we shot Home Alone and the way we shot
Home Alone Too. By the we did Home Alone Too,
mac had like a security detail like it was. It
was a lot, I mean even and also like when
we shot the first one, we went to Paris, which was,
you know, just the gymnasium a little bit further down,
where in the second one we actually went to New
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York and State in the plaza. Like it was a
total different experience on every level. Between the two movies.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Much bigger budget probably yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, you earned it, earned the bigger budget for the sequel.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
They made it rain on the second one.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
The first movie production budget was eighteen million dollars and
it grows five hundred million worldwide. Who that's nice? Nice?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And was that back was that like the nineties money?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Like that was?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
That was I guess when it came.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Out half a million in the nineties. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Half a billion, half.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
A building of a billion. Yeah, in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It was massive.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean it was that was McCaulay had been working
all the time, right, but this was the one that catapulted.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Because he had that scene in Uncle Buck John. Yeah,
I mean here un so good, so good. And then
John Candy came and did him and did ours too,
which was amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Improvised.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
That whole scene, like that whole scene with him and
Catherine in the truck was totally improvised.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Oh my god, amazing. Every time I see him, I
just want to cry, like we lost him too soon.
We just lost John like any of the and he's
in so many of the John Hughes movies and set
b and everything. We you know, we we we still
have him forever. But it's just like, oh, what a
big teddy bear, and it just a relationship with the greatest.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, he was, he was.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Do you guys know what the budget was for Home
Alone two? By chance? I wonder how much more it was.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
If you guys, if you went actually to New York
and didn't film in a high school gym, it must be.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
It was a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, gosh, and I actually remember sent to remind me
if you know this Home Alone two. I remember going
to hang out with McCauley's family. They were staying at
the Drake, which is right on Michigan Avenue and downtown Chicago,
and I feel like they had kind of I don't know,
(25:21):
it wasn't the whole floor, but it was nobody had close.
They had like a ton of rooms.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, and all of the kids were there, all the
Culcans were there, right yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
So yeah, And I'm also embarrassed to admit to you,
I do not remember his oldest brother's name.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Is it Shane? I think it was Shane.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He was my first real life kiss older brother guess
my best friend.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I was on the set of Home Alone Too.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Home Alone Too. Yeah, so I was my scene.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, my first kiss. So we went one of my
best friends from home. Since I was home, we went
multiple times to hang out with McCauley, but it was
because of his brother being there because he was my
age and uh and I remember being at the Drake
and uh, yes, had my first kiss.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Very romantic, it's not, but it's.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So remember it you always remember.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I totally remember it, totally remember it. And mcaulay was
like on the ground like gorilla, you know, crawling to
try to see us.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I like being a little brother, like being an annoying brother.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, my description of him would be even the difference
between Home Alone one and two. He was like a
typical little boy, like he wanted to do all the
little boy stuff. Like we went to River North where
they had this place where you could record yourself lip
syncing songs, and like recorded.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
A bunch of us.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
There, like the parents sent us with the security guard,
you know, and we did a ton of fun stuff.
I think it was fun for him because sometimes movie
sets can be really grown up places, and because there
was so many of us, it was kind of like
you said, it's kid centric, Like they were fine with
the chaos because it was a chaotic movie, right.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
And Chris definitely like he encouraged all that. He wanted
us to be kids. He wanted us to play, Like
I remember Devin who played Buzz In between takes, he'd
be sitting at the piano playing Do you remember that,
Hillary were he was playing music on the piano in
between setups and stuff Like I remember Catherine O'Hara was
making dolphin sounds. Did you know that ability she does?
(27:37):
She does when she really asked her. Yeah, she's really good.
But it was it was just goofy and fun and playful,
and Chris did not shy away from that or try
and wash it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And she went on
to do very well too.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
He did, all right, he did.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
We're not going to worry about Chris to us.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh my god, the greatest comedians ever.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Oh so funny.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Did you really all stay connected like you do two
movies together? And I, you know, I because I'm trying
to think like I did the Brady Bunch movie and
a real live Brady Bunch. We did it all the same.
It was sort of like the first one came out
and very quickly we went into doing the second one.
So we all got so close and we were different
ages too, like similar to you guys. And then because
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it was the nineties and when we all parted ways,
it was like we didn't all have cell phones, we
didn't have that way to stay like we have emails,
like we all had home phone numbers for each other
and then went on with our lives. So we really
like lost. We kind of touch, you lose touch and
then find out, you know, find your way back.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I don't know if it's because we're all getting older
and we're getting sentimental, which tends to happen with age,
and we're also social media, Like we have these chats
going on in Facebook where all of the kids and
Terry's snow who played my mother in the movie Who,
and a lovely hysterical so we you know, we communicate
(29:07):
through there. We're going to do a zoom with all
of the kids or a bunch of the kids, and
I say, kids, kids, We're going to go with that,
A bunch of the kids.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You still are the kids. You still are the kids
of the bunch.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Thank you. We're going to do like a group zoom
in January. We're all going to catch up. And we
just started doing that a few years ago. I think, Yeah, No,
we shared this moment in time and it has gone
on to be so much more than I think any
of us ever expected. And it's fun just to get
together and talk about it. And we did. I did
my very first like official autograph signing where they passed
(29:44):
a bunch of stuff like around the country to all
of us and that was crazy to those memories and
like see those photos because you forget, you know, you
forget about it, especially when you're young.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That is so cool and it is true. It's like
with technology in the way, like that's even you know, David,
like how our group and even just doing this podcast
from the series David and I did together when we
were teenagers. We've all just recon very recently. I mean
we connected for a reunion years ago, but now like
now we had this and we've got you know, group
(30:18):
chats and all kinds of and it's just you're right,
it's as we get older, we get a little bit
more nostalgic. You realize. Yeah, you realize how special though
if you weren't realizing it in the moment, which I
it sounds like you guys were, like you were enjoying
it all, but you still can't know until right you have,
but you have something like that.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yeah, and you're bonded with those people for life because
you had that shared experience, you know, and then when
people tell you about their experience of the film or
the television show, you have that together kind of Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, it's so true. It is a bond twenty years.
Could you go by and you guys know each other,
you know, like no time has gone by? Yeah, this
whole thing together. It's nice. Social media has brought it's
making It's made it easier for people to reconnect. There
is a lot of positive.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Stuff about yes, for all the stuff we say, there's
a lot of negative stuff too, which yes, yes we.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Will, but there are some silver linings.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Will mind the good from it, right, yep?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yees.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Do you guys have kids.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Well, yeah, Hillary, two boys.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I have a thirteen and sixteen year old boys. They're
little badass wrestlers, right, they're Yeah, they're doing great, They're awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Have they seen the movies?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Do they love the movies?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You know, it's so funny because I feel like because
I switched focus so like so different, you go from
acting to athletics. I really never talked about my past,
you know, acting experience when I was younger, or that
I was in home alone.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I mean people knew me for a long time and
did not know. And then as I.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Got older then, like sent to said, you do get
nostalgic and we've already reconnected, which is so cool and
it is awesome I mean, it's thirty years when this
movie has still got such saying power, and so of
course I showed my kids eventually, In fact, when it
came back to the theaters, for it came to the
(32:22):
theaters here, at least for one night.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
I don't remember when that was sent.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
To Do you remember the twentieth There was the twentieth
or twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I think I was.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Twenty, Yes, So I took the boys, and I thought
they were going to be like too cool for school,
But there is something about seeing another little boy do
all the things that you wish you could do.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I mean, they were laughing hysterically.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh yeah, it holds up. In fact, it's.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Twenty Last night, my husband and I were watching a
movie at home and my sixteen year old he drives now,
he went with one of his best friends and they
had a couple of girls over and they came just
to hang out, and they came, I've never met these girls,
and he must told them on the way to the house,
this is my old son.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
He's way more impressed with me and my youngest son.
My younger son's too cool for that.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
But this girl walked up to me and she goes,
oh my god, you were in home alone?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Can I hug you?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And I was like, I mean, yeah, it's not that special,
but yes you can use you. But I was like,
maybe he's trying to get a leg up. I don't
know if you thought maybe.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I want a crazy experience. Last weekend, Anna who plays
my sister in the movie Brook, her and I went
to this local theater called Vidiots, which is an Eagle
Rock It's my new favorite theater in Los Angeles. Is
a nonprofit but they screen old movies and they were
screening Home Alone, and I sent her message. I was like,
(33:43):
do you want to go? And just because I had
never seen it, I saw it at the premiere right,
but I had never seen it with people that weren't
involved in the movie. So Anna and I went in
like we're like just walking in right, and we sat
there and we watched the movie with a theater full
of families. And it was so cool because there were
(34:03):
some kids in that theater that I'd never seen the movie.
There were some kids who had never even been to
a theater before, like this is their first movie going
on right the pandela right, and then to see it
with these kids and to experience it through them was
pretty awesome. That was a cool way to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You know, it was very so awesome.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Later it's still the audience is still.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I mean, I truly forgot how genius Joe Peshei and
Daniel Stern were. I mean, they're like cartoon characters and
the way that they I mean, they're just so so
so funny. And the kids loved it. And one of
my really good friends called me a couple of years
ago and said, do you need to have a talk
with my son? And I said, okay, that's a little awkward,
(34:50):
but all right. I guess he had watched Home alone
and they left the house and before they left the house,
he went up to use the bathroom and they came
back and there house was flooded. He had turned on no,
yes he wanted to flood.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
No, there should have been a disclaimer, don't try any
of this.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yes, this is it.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
So I had to have a conversation with her a
sound and go okay, so movie magic, Like, no houses
were destroyed, nothing was flooded. There was plastic underneath, but like, yeah,
it was like thousand dollars in an insurance.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Oh my god, that is hysterical. I have to say
I treated myself to a night by myself watching the
movie for the first time straight through, where I'd seen
bits and pieces of it, probably most of it over
(35:48):
the years, but never just like a full watch. And
now I'm I'm going to treat myself over this holiday
to Home Alone too, and I might be able to
list my kids for that one. But I'm it's so special.
I just feel like it's there's something so magical about
the movie. And it's in the classic sort of John
(36:08):
Hughes ending you leap.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
It's like you're.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Welling up with tears. The neighbor, the old man that
even he looks like the window. I mean, oh, it's
just it's beautiful. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Can we talk about John Hughes for one second, because
I know our listeners would strategic Has there ever been
I mean, let's talk about the movies. There was Breakfast Club,
sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Home Alone. Wonder, I mean,
how did the guy write a movie a year? And
(36:45):
they're all classics.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
They're all classics, and they all speak to like the character.
When you look at the Breakfast Club and you watch
the Breakfast Club again, everybody knows those people, like characters
that were so true and so honest. You could find
someone that you identified within every one of his movies,
and I'm just yeah, I mean I grew up on
all of those sixteen candles Breakfast some kind of wonderful.
(37:09):
I mean I started playing the drums because of that
damn movie. Yeah, I mean it was like a.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Song, that song that because that's running a lot on
cable now too, And I turned it on and I
was like, I can't turn this off. Now, it's some
kind of wonderful.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Johnny shape all of our who we are today. Honestly,
Like I feel bad as kids today. I don't think
they don't have a John Hughes.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
There's really not a lot of movies made.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, not in the way that just like one after
another after another after another.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah, we could identify with someone in each of his
films and it helped shape who we were.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
He was.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Who did you identify with in the Breakfast Club? Dated?
Still it.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I guess I would have been the jock, but not
as hardcore, you know, But yeah, I knew I knew
someone in my high school like each one of those
people and probably wouldn't have talked to any of them
or had an open mind about any of them. Yeah,
until I saw The Breakfast Club and like you learn,
like you might not think you have anything in common
(38:13):
with someone, but I mean that movie is just another level.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Well you realize it holds up like when I when
my teenage kids watched it, and you think it's sort
of like, Okay, now I'm going to put this through
their filter. This is they're living in a different world
with social media, with the whole different you know, like
things have to be buicker and flashier. They're both obsessed
with that movie, so they just hold up. It's they
(38:36):
just defined a generation. But literally that that generation that
keeps on coming. Like it doesn't matter what year you're
that age, you can watch that movie and lock right.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Identify with those feelings and what they were going through.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, you do, you guys get I mean, I'm sure
you met John Hughes, but do you have any memories
of what he was like and interactions.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I remember him being really quiet and to himself, Like
I don't remember him talking a lot. I remember seeing him,
you know, sitting off to the side or talking with
Chris or whatever. But I don't remember. I mean, I don't,
although that might have been on me too. I didn't
go and talk to him because I didn't feel like
I could actually form a sentence around the man because
I was walking into a huge fan. So there was that.
(39:18):
But I feel like he was really quiet and to himself,
and he was probably watching Like I feel like part
of the reason why his writing was so good is
he probably just sat back and watched humans watch people
and then wrote.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
A great I agree, a quiet man writes this larger
than life, spectacular stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, well, thank you, we have to we can't keep you,
and we just like this was this is like a
holiday bonus episode for us too, Like we normally don't
even get guests for holiday episod Like they're like, oh,
just record a holiday greeting because so, we're so thankful
for both of you to come on and spend some
(39:59):
time talking to us.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You're so this is so fun, Yeah, really fun.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
What a great way to go into the holidays.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
We'll be watching I'll be watching you both in home
alone too, which was.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Not even the original title, but there it is.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, happy holidays to you to all of you guys,
to your families, and and good luck and everything.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Thank you guys, thanks for joining us. Love to see
you guys.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yes bye. How adorable were they?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
They were so cool and they really had such great
memories of those movies.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, imagine that because Santa
was around like I'm trying to think. She said she
was around sixteen when she did the first movie, so
that was like around the time you started, hey dude,
and like around the time we started it. Imagine being
on a joant like where you were already a fan.
You you've already seen Sixteen Candles and you'd already seen
(41:02):
Breakfast Club, and then you're in a John Hughes movie.
Like I understood what she was saying, like you're just
sort of in a hawe on this person sitting off
to the site.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
But they also said they didn't realize obviously, no one.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Well you don't realize you're in a movie like that.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
It's going to be a classic, right people. But people
in John Hughes movies, whether it's Peris Bueller or Breakfast Club,
I mean, these you're in a piece of work that
is living on for generations and is not going to stop.
I mean, these movies are fantastic and they speak to
different generations and they hold up Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, it's such a sweet movie. It really is. It's
like the perfect get you into the holiday spirit. It's
so picturesque too. That's the other thing is those the
houses in the John Hughes movies, the exteriors, those streets.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
I read somebody saying the other day I think it
was on Instagram and they showed a picture of the
house with the whole family and they were like, I
want to know what the father did for a living
to be able to afford this house and take twenty
five people to Paris. Like you know when you watch movies,
even in TV shows, everyone's got these giant houses that
(42:15):
going on crazy Like what did you do? How do
you make that kind of money? I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
It was so it was like it was like, you know,
perfect suburbia. It was, Yes, it was, you know. I
remember it even in sixteen Candles thinking that I was like,
there's so many kids running around. They've got this great house.
There's she's got the whole attic bedroom. Molly Ringwald.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Remember the house in sixteen Candles that they trash, Yes.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
The party, Oh.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
My god, no shot Chicago, like John Hughes, he obviously
loves his hometown.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I think we really will.
My Quinn actually told me he watched Home Alone to
fairly recent because it was just on you know how
they just are running holiday movies this time of year,
so you just click on something and and he was like,
it's actually really like he hadn't seen it, and he's like,
it's actually really cute.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
We should watch it.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
So I've been going to put that one on the list. Hey,
what what are some of your favorite holiday movies?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Well? She mentioned Elf? Honestly that or you did? Yeah,
I mentioned Elf is seriously one of my kids, and
I can quote the entire movie.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Do you consider this is the great debate? And I
don't think we've talked about the sun here, but everybody
talks about this. Do you consider die Hard a Christmas movie?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Same, No, it's we're in the minority. You realize that
most people considered it's an action movie.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
It's an action movie that happens to take place during Christmas.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yes, thank you, David, thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
I think it's a wonderful life. Honestly, I hadn't seen
it really until maybe ten years ago. I was a
full on adult before I watched that through and that
is the most moving in spying movie about the holidays
and learning what's important, and it's magical.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Ben Ben said he can't wait. He's he's out of
town working. He said, I cannot wait to come back
and watch It's a Wonderful Life, which we did a
couple of years ago. And I think both kids fellows
sleep through like the middle hour, and then they watched
the me and then we're like and they're like, that's perfect.
I'll even if I fall asleep during the middle that's
fine because it's like the happiest ending, that the best feeling.
(44:26):
What about Scrooge, Scrooge, it's the best Scrooge. I'm going
to throw in Family Stone is one.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Of the It's so good with Jesseicah Parker.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Sarah, Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Diane Keaton. It's so good,
But all right, we have to wrap up. This was
our bonus holiday episode, and happy holidaysbody, get your holiday
movies on, get your home alone on, get your baking on.
David Enjoy Miami, get a good sun.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Tan.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
I expect to see you tanned I need to.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Send you a photo from the beach, and you enjoy
your family and being together and yes, yeah, happy holidays, everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Give everybody a hug. Happy holidays to you, guys, and
we'll see you back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Woo yep, bye bye, guys.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Thanks for listening. Make sure to subscribe and give us
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Speaker 2 (45:21):
And please follow us on Instagram at Hey Dude. The
nineties called see you next time.
Hey Dude, The Nineties Called with Christine Taylor and David Lasher. Hey, everybody,
welcome back to Hey Do the Nineties Called Podcast Holiday Edition.
I'm Christine Taylor, one of your co hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I'm David.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hi David, what's up? So this is our end of
the year episode. This is our twenty twenty three finale episode,
which is normally just supposed to be you and me chatting,
so we kind of have this is almost like a
bonus episode that we've got which is very exciting.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
And very relevant to the holiday season. I mean this
home alone kids, I mean, what better way? Do you?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yes, that's what. So that's what I wanted to ask you,
because what what are some of the holiday traditions that
the Lasher family? Like do you guys, have you or
is there movies you watch together? Do you bake? I
know you're going to Are you going to Miami?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yes? That is Yeah, that's our family trip. We meet
my wife's sister, Nicole and her kids. Mike. We have
three kids, and Nicole has three kids and each one
has a partner about the same age, you know, like
my son and perfect and they're like they're almost like
(01:20):
brothers and sisters and our one guaranteed time of year
to all get together is at my brother in law,
Scott's house, and I think we've been doing it their
entire lives.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh that's so fun. And I love a tropical holiday escape.
We used to go to Hawaii all the time for
Christmas and it was so like it was not traditional
Christmas or winter break, but you would go into like
you be in Hawaii and everyone's in flip flops and sandals,
and there's like Hawaiian trees and like these special trees
(01:52):
from Hawaiian palm trees decorated and then you'd hear like
the ukulele Christmas music. And I just love tropical holidays.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's first because we grew up with the snow and ice,
skary and all that, but once you get used to
the beach tropical holiday, it's it's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
I think the older we get, the more I enjoy
warmer weather. But you know, we're I have to say,
there's like a wind storm like it was pouring rain
here in New York and it's a crazy, crazy winds
right now, but it is mild. It's like fifty degrees
like I would much. I would rather the snow right
now this time of year than the rain, like nestling
(02:33):
up and.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Yeah, like a winter Wonderlands.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yes, yes, I yes, and that those are some of
our traditions. Like we do the full on Chris certain
Christmas movies. My kids have their little sort of you know,
when they get back together after their breaks and they come,
you know, Ellen Quinn elf is there, Oh my gosh,
(02:58):
top Christmas movie. But then we do things like Charlie
Brown Christmas and a Year without a Santa Claus. The
ones that I grew up watching on TV was that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
One that was like an animation. It was The Abominable.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well there's that one, yes, Rudolph the Red Nose Rain Mirror,
which has the Abominable, and then there's the Year Without
a Santa Claus and that has heat miser and cold
Miser and they have a whole song and we're obsessed
with it. I'm going to send it to you because
I know you're looking at me blankly like you have
no idea what I'm going if I.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Know you know.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And Mickey Rooney is the voice of Santa So it's
a classic classic. Yeah, no, it's old. It's from this
like the seventies.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
What about this one? You're a mean one, always.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
The best, the best. Yes, So we are going to
go on our winter break. So we're going to do
this this fun episode one of the daughters from Home
Alone and the other was because like the Hillary Wolf
and sent to Moses and I just recently, I want
to say, rewatched Home Alone. But I realized when I
(04:08):
was watching it, never watched it straight through as a movie.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No, what never.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
I realized, like I know so much of it from
seeing my like all of the stuff with Macaulay Culkin
and Joe Peshey, I remember all of those set pieces
and the Michael Jordan stand up and stuff. But I
realized I'd never watched the whole movie, like start to finish.
And it's a classic.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yes, I mean Katherine O'Hara and John.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Hurd and John Candy, we're gonna we're gonna talk to
the girls all about this. But what what a heartfelt
in the traditional John hughes like it's crazy chaos and
then it ends on a note where everyone's crying and
you just feel happy.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Joe and Daniel Stern, Oh, I know those are all the.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Scenes I remember. I didn't remember all of the stuff
of like then there's an old man neighbor who they're
all treat but he's scary, but then they become friends
because he's alone. Like it's so sweet, but no, the
physical joke actually with the gold tooth, I.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Think it's a rite of passage for every kid you
know going forward has to see that.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Movie, right, right, And I watched it to think, Like
I was thinking to myself, like, how do you get
away with Luke forgetting a kid? And they set it up.
It's so well written, like it's set up so beautifully
that from minute one there's so much chaos and everyone
no one's paying attention to him, but they account for
like a head and it's the neighbor, like when they're
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doing a head count, but they oversleep, so that's why
they get in, Like the airport shuttles and he's still
asleep at home, but they counted the neighbor a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It does. It makes it right. You would you would
think that that's impossible to leave a child home, but
it actually.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
All tracks he would know as a right David, Right,
it tracks. Well, let's invite on these gals in and
let's talk all about this iconic movie. So Hillary Wolfin
sent to Moses are with us. Welcome both of you.
This is so cool. Did you ever in a million
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years think that thirty plus years later you'd still be
talking about this movie.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
No, No, when you were telling it, you didn't realize
that you had no clue this would become a classic forever.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
No, I don't think. I mean, I don't want to
speak for you, Hillary, but I certainly had no idea
at all.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I think the only reason people might have hit an
inkling but not the people necessarily in the movie was
because it was a John Hughes movie. But I will
say my mom read the script and she said, I
think you should do this movie. It's the most ridiculous
script I've ever read. It's probably not going to do well.
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But it's John Hughes movie. And I was from downtown
Chicago and he does all his stuff in the suburbs
of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
So I got to stay at home, which.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Was fantastic, ridiculous. Why like it? No one would believe
that some that a family left a kid home alone.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Basically yeah, well, this was back in like the late eighties,
so maybe you know. I mean, I'm from a generation
where you know, you've got a key around your neck
and you're just sent out into the world exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
And I said that to David when I watched it.
I really wanted to see what the okay, Like, how
much is do you believe? How plausible is this that
they would end? I was saying to David before you
guys came on. It's written so perfectly that you both
fully believe it because it's chaos in the house like
it is, and there's all the cousins because at first
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I was like, wait, do they have this many kids?
But that means two families, so you guys play cousins.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It's actually a three family. It's three because yeah, because
Jed and Christian who played Oh God, Hillary helped me.
What were their character names. They're from the French family,
the family that's in Paris that we're going to visit.
So there's three families happening. No, we have like a
family bush.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I did not even connect that at all. It just
like that, which is what was great because it just
seemed like total chaos where and the oversleeping and the
phone lines being repaid. Like he didn't miss a beat.
He totally set it up so that it's fully and
you know, no cell phones know anything. They wouldn't, right,
and the passport being like and like the Melkon miscounting
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the kids, like I mean they really John Hughes, he's good,
he knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
He's good. Oh questioning the kids, where are you going?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Yeah, he's just like looming in the house as this,
which is.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
So funny nowadays, Like nobody Lincoln either. There's like a
cop standing like a creepy cop too.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
I've got a good Joe Pese story. Oh God, action
with Joe PAESHI was when he came in as the cop.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I think it was for all of us kids, and
I was one of the ones who either passed by
him or said something to him.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
I can't remember.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
But he definitely is what you would think he is
as far as the way he comes off like he's
super tough.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
He's a little guy, but he's tough.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
And I'm also a little girl who thinks she's tough,
and so I was, and I was like thirteen at
the time, and I was like, oh, yeah, you're super tough.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
Where are you from?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
And he's like the Bronx and I'm like, oh, north
side of Chicago.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Win. You win that one.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I'm playing with the gold tooth.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
Put the little sparkle on it every time you show
it up close. But Hillary, you you were tough. I
was looking you were you were a judo master at thirteen?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Are on your way to Yeah, well I was doing
judo the entire time I was acting. I started when
I was five, and then I started judo when I
was seven, and yeah, when I was I did Home
Alone one and two, and I did a ton of stuff,
like throughout I did one big thing a year. I
had like very normal parents, so they're like, we're not
moving to LA, We're not doing You're not like leaving
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your normal school, you know, all of that, so which
I'm grateful for. And then I did a movie called
Big Girls Don't Cry, which I started after Home Alone two,
and I was the star. And then William Moore assigned
me as my agent, and then I at the same
time went to the Senior Nationals in judo. I was
literally fourteen, but it was a non Olympic weight. I
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was really small, and I won, and so I went
up to my parents shortly after William morri As signed me,
and I said, actually, I think I want to quit
acting and I want to try to go to the Olympics,
and they're like, Okay, I guess this is what we're
doing now. So that's basically what happened. I ended up
making two Olympic teams and won the Junior Worlds and
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what I married my husband, who's a wrestler, and now
I have two little boy wrestlers and I'm full athlete mode,
the athlete acting thing, and I'm full. Yeah, it's way
more my I think that's always who I was at heart. Yeah,
the acting thing was just a cool thing that I did.
I never took acting lessons, never studied. I mean, I
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think that was kind of the benefit of me, was
that I wasn't trained. And sometimes with kids, it's nice
to have an actor who doesn't try. Sometimes kids can
try too hard. So I didn't try because I didn't
know what I was doing. So I just kind of
acted like myself.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
And just you know, remembered the lines.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And but you were in seduced by the glamour of acting,
and William.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
The glamour where was that at.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
I mean, wasn't the premiere the.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Second premiere was different? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
I mean for me, that's not my speed. I mean,
I'm really impressed. I'm really impressed by good people.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
To be honest, I'm not really that impressed by anybody
who's necessarily accomplished things, or certainly not somebody who has
a lot of money. It's definitely somebody who's a good person.
And then if they're also successful, then I'm really impressed, because,
you know, to be a good person and not get
you know, jaded, I think is important.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
But I'm way more impressed. I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Only because I'm such an athlete when I meet like
a high level, especially wrestlers.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
We're very into wrestling.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
My husband and I you know, support USA Wrestling a ton.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
We're very involved.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
We donate money every year, our kids wrestle, We ran
our kids Wrestling Club, all of that. Like if I
meet a Jordan Burrows or a Kyle Dake, which means
nothing to you, guys, these guys are like the.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Best athletes in the world.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
I mean, wrestling's got to be one of the toughest
sports in the world. And I know I did judo,
but they're very similar. And because I married a wrestler
and my kids wrestle, I'm kind of like an honorary wrestler.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Now, so cool. Your parents, I'm more impressed with that.
I guess that's great.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
And your parents didn't you They didn't say, look at
these opportunities, are you crazy? Because there's a lot of
stage parents out there would be like, you got to
keep trying this, but they were just like yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
The parents was like carelessly through their kids. Yeah. But
my parents were very similar to Hillars where they kept
me super grounded and didn't you know when I was seven,
I got invited to Studio fifty four and my mom
was like, yeah, no, she's not doing that.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Wait were you guys New Yorkers? Where did you know?
Speaker 4 (13:34):
I grew up in Chicago. Oh my god, but in Chicago.
But I was in Annie when I was seven, and
like the orphans were a big thing and it was
one of the you know offers, and my mother was like, no, no,
we're not going to do that. We're all set.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Were most of the kids other than Collie the cast
locally were most of it was like a Chicago cast
and call yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
Yeah, Janet, Janet Hershinton and Jane Jakins cast out of Chicago,
and I think, yeah, I think the majority of us
were other than the Culkin brothers. Karen and right here.
I watched a session and I'm traumatized and like, that's my.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, he's a little kid that Joe Pashy's corners and
says where are you going?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
How long are you looking up at him? All of it?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yeah, exactly. Wait, So the other thing I read which
kind of blew my mind. And I don't know why
it blew my mind because I've been you know, I've
been working in show business a long time. So so
but like all of it so stupid. This is going
to sound so stupid. I had no idea all of
those interiors were so they gutted or they rented out
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of school.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
So I gymnasium, Yes, oh my god, the house that
everybody's visiting now in Winnetka is just the exteriors. Like
he never shut anything inside the house. It was all
in a gym.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So it wasn't in the sound stages. It was just
a high school.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
But they built the interior of the house in a
in a gym.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
It was New Trier, right, Hillary was in the new
high school, New Chrier High School. It was down that's exactly.
But they've shot a lot of job Keues movies there.
I feel like it was the the exterior. It was
all that same area, right.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So that was his stomping ground, right.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
It was yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah, And how old were you? You were thirteen? Hillary six?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
I think it was twelve and thirteen okay, like for
one and two.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Oh, I was sixteen for the first and eighteen for
the second.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
Okay, twelve and fourteen something like that.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Yeah, just and what were those scenes light? I mean,
you guys get asked this a million bazillion times, but
just you know, it's it seems so kid centric, like
did it it was fun?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Was it? Just? Like?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
That was it?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
The chaos that it was pay off? Those shots of
the running through the airport, just the way the camera is, like,
it's so fun, it's so visceral, Like it's.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
That sequence when we were running through O'Hare Airport the
American Terminal took a few days to shoot, and I
sort of equated to like a well choreo U choreographed ballet,
because like we had all the atmosphere walking in front
of the camera as we were passing through, and to
my knowledge, it didn't turn into a total disaster and
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no one died.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
But it was a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Like it was a lot, and we did it multiple times.
And now every time I go back to Chicago and
I travel American airlines, I have memories of us running
at full speed through that terminal. But I mean, it
was the whole shoot was chaos. You've got that many kids,
you know, it was just it was not.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That must have been EXTENSI it was extensive.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
Yeah, there was a lot of rehearsing, like they did it.
They did it with the atmosphere first, and then they
brought in I believe, didn't they bring in the adults
first and then they brought us in behind them or
something like. There was sort of like a progress of
rehearsal and shooting.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
Did they shut down that hole right there?
Speaker 4 (17:20):
They did?
Speaker 2 (17:20):
They did that, seriously, shut down a terminal at your hair?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Ohsh you do that now? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Right right?
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Yeah, Well back then he was like Ques was like,
you know Chicago, so I would imagine anything, right, yeah,
but like the crooked nose mob way the other.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Way exactly in the good way anyway. And did you guys,
what what time of year did you shoot it? Because
you always like it's never was it actually the holiday times.
The year before was it wasn't it January or February? Hillary,
I think the rest?
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Are you guys serious? It was thirty one years ago.
I don't remember what month it was.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
It was no, I think it was January. It was cold.
It was definitely.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Sometimes they do these Christmas things where it's like summertime
and you're having to pretend you're so in other words,
it was real.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
There was no acting, Christine. We were all freezing our asses.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
Of not good.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Yeah, I was looking.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I was.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
That was the other part that I thought was so
perfect was the scene when you're all when everyone's overslept
and the shuttles come to take the kids, and the
head count happens, right, and it's the neighbor kid who's
just kind of you know, and he looks like I
was thet Yes, it's so perfect, you buy it.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
So a fun story from when we were shooting outside
the house, you know, counting getting on the vans to
go to the airport and everybody's heard this by now,
but this van rolls up with no windows.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
We shut the second one yeah too, Yeah, okay, okay, and.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
My mom goes, oh, look there's Michael Jackson.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
Impersonator and I look and it was not an impersonator.
It was Michael Jackson. And he spent the next what
was it like an hour to two hours just.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
He was there a long time.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
He started with the kids with mccaully, no.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Interest in interacting with the adults or like forced awkward conversations.
He just like went up to McCauley and all of
us were there and he just turned out with us
for a couple hours, and he.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Was giggling and very sweet, and he was very awkward
long but it was weird, very nice. Yeah, it was
very nice. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
And had he been invited to the SAT.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I don't think so. I think he probably just communicated
with McCauley's mom.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Dad. If you're Michael Jackson, I kind of feel like,
I don't think you need to be I think you.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
Just go where you want.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
That just sounds strange. He just rolls up to the
set and all alone too, to hang out with the kids.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah, okaying, was that for all of you? Were you
all just kind of like, oh my god, this, Like
did you have a because.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
He was huge yea, I was a huge fan, so
it was it was a big deal. Yeah, it was
a really big deal. I mean I even had a glove.
It was it was went that far.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Yeah one glove.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Yeah you did, you did? You had red jacket.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I had a couple of posters on the The Jackson
Michael Jackson and the Jackson five was my first concert.
It was I was seventh grade. I was such a
music nerd. So that was my first in Philly at
the Spectrum. That was my big first concert. I was
a Pennsylvania girl. But uh wow, that is so surreal.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, there was a lot of that, a lot of them.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
It was interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
He let Devin Retree, who played buzz Big Brother you,
let him record him. He was like basically interviewing him
for a while. I don't even remember the questions at
this point, but he humored him. He like answered his questions,
and he seemed like not threatened, more comfortable with us
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for sure. But yeah, like he had no interest in
meeting the director, the producers or any like.
Speaker 5 (21:14):
He was just not all.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
About the kids.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah. Wow wow. And I have to say, Hillary, because
that scene that you have with Devon is such a
standout moment because there's it's so rare. You don't see
the kids really caring that much. You know, you've obviously
Catherine that is so great when she stays and it's
like mom needs to save the day. But that moment
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that you have with Devon where it's like, don't you
even aren't you worried at all? It's so and he's not,
and he's such a jerk about it, but he's so funny,
like he's the quintessential horrible brother. Yes, with the tarantula and.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
More realistic you know, I mean, yes, kids, you know
their sibling rivalry and stuff, but come on, like if
you if your little brother, I mean he was little,
if your little brother is like by himself, yes, you're
gonna be worried about it, especially a girl especially.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Yes, So I thought that it's that's the classic John
Hughes also where it's that yeah, oh it's high jinks.
It's it's bigger, broader than anything. But then there's this
there's so much heart there. It's just so much.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
True, like he always gets to the truth of it,
and in moments that you don't expect, like you're you're
laughing and then all of a sudden something really happens
and you just yeah, you're brought into it.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yes, yeah, and that old thing where like if a
kid was left home alone, he'd be so excited for
a while and then start to get sad and like
where's my fanily?
Speaker 4 (22:44):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Absolutely, what was macaulay like? Because between Home Alone one
and two, I'm sure he had gone on and he
was probably one of the biggest stars in the world.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
There was just a shift in terms of like the
way we shot Home Alone and the way we shot
Home Alone Too. By the we did Home Alone Too,
mac had like a security detail like it was. It
was a lot, I mean even and also like when
we shot the first one, we went to Paris, which was,
you know, just the gymnasium a little bit further down,
where in the second one we actually went to New
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York and State in the plaza. Like it was a
total different experience on every level. Between the two movies.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
Much bigger budget probably yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Yeah, you earned it, earned the bigger budget for the sequel.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
They made it rain on the second one.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
The first movie production budget was eighteen million dollars and
it grows five hundred million worldwide. Who that's nice? Nice?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And was that back was that like the nineties money?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
Like that was?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
That was I guess when it came.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Out half a million in the nineties. That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Half a billion, half.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
A building of a billion. Yeah, in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
It was massive.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
I mean it was that was McCaulay had been working
all the time, right, but this was the one that catapulted.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
Because he had that scene in Uncle Buck John. Yeah,
I mean here un so good, so good. And then
John Candy came and did him and did ours too,
which was amazing.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Improvised.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
That whole scene, like that whole scene with him and
Catherine in the truck was totally improvised.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Oh my god, amazing. Every time I see him, I
just want to cry, like we lost him too soon.
We just lost John like any of the and he's
in so many of the John Hughes movies and set
b and everything. We you know, we we we still
have him forever. But it's just like, oh, what a
big teddy bear, and it just a relationship with the greatest.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, he was, he was.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
Do you guys know what the budget was for Home
Alone two? By chance? I wonder how much more it was.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
If you guys, if you went actually to New York
and didn't film in a high school gym, it must be.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
It was a little bit more.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Yeah, gosh, and I actually remember sent to remind me
if you know this Home Alone two. I remember going
to hang out with McCauley's family. They were staying at
the Drake, which is right on Michigan Avenue and downtown Chicago,
and I feel like they had kind of I don't know,
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it wasn't the whole floor, but it was nobody had close.
They had like a ton of rooms.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, and all of the kids were there, all the
Culcans were there, right yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
So yeah, And I'm also embarrassed to admit to you,
I do not remember his oldest brother's name.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Is it Shane? I think it was Shane.
Speaker 3 (25:39):
He was my first real life kiss older brother guess
my best friend.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
I was on the set of Home Alone Too.
Speaker 5 (25:48):
Home Alone Too. Yeah, so I was my scene.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yeah, my first kiss. So we went one of my
best friends from home. Since I was home, we went
multiple times to hang out with McCauley, but it was
because of his brother being there because he was my
age and uh and I remember being at the Drake
and uh, yes, had my first kiss.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
Very romantic, it's not, but it's.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
So remember it you always remember.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I totally remember it, totally remember it. And mcaulay was
like on the ground like gorilla, you know, crawling to
try to see us.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I like being a little brother, like being an annoying brother.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, my description of him would be even the difference
between Home Alone one and two. He was like a
typical little boy, like he wanted to do all the
little boy stuff. Like we went to River North where
they had this place where you could record yourself lip
syncing songs, and like recorded.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
A bunch of us.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
There, like the parents sent us with the security guard,
you know, and we did a ton of fun stuff.
I think it was fun for him because sometimes movie
sets can be really grown up places, and because there
was so many of us, it was kind of like
you said, it's kid centric, Like they were fine with
the chaos because it was a chaotic movie, right.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
And Chris definitely like he encouraged all that. He wanted
us to be kids. He wanted us to play, Like
I remember Devin who played Buzz In between takes, he'd
be sitting at the piano playing Do you remember that,
Hillary were he was playing music on the piano in
between setups and stuff Like I remember Catherine O'Hara was
making dolphin sounds. Did you know that ability she does?
(27:37):
She does when she really asked her. Yeah, she's really good.
But it was it was just goofy and fun and playful,
and Chris did not shy away from that or try
and wash it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And she went on
to do very well too.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
He did, all right, he did.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
We're not going to worry about Chris to us.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Oh my god, the greatest comedians ever.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Oh so funny.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Did you really all stay connected like you do two
movies together? And I, you know, I because I'm trying
to think like I did the Brady Bunch movie and
a real live Brady Bunch. We did it all the same.
It was sort of like the first one came out
and very quickly we went into doing the second one.
So we all got so close and we were different
ages too, like similar to you guys. And then because
(28:27):
it was the nineties and when we all parted ways,
it was like we didn't all have cell phones, we
didn't have that way to stay like we have emails,
like we all had home phone numbers for each other
and then went on with our lives. So we really
like lost. We kind of touch, you lose touch and
then find out, you know, find your way back.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
I don't know if it's because we're all getting older
and we're getting sentimental, which tends to happen with age,
and we're also social media, Like we have these chats
going on in Facebook where all of the kids and
Terry's snow who played my mother in the movie Who,
and a lovely hysterical so we you know, we communicate
(29:07):
through there. We're going to do a zoom with all
of the kids or a bunch of the kids, and
I say, kids, kids, We're going to go with that,
A bunch of the kids.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You still are the kids. You still are the kids
of the bunch.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Thank you. We're going to do like a group zoom
in January. We're all going to catch up. And we
just started doing that a few years ago. I think, Yeah, No,
we shared this moment in time and it has gone
on to be so much more than I think any
of us ever expected. And it's fun just to get
together and talk about it. And we did. I did
my very first like official autograph signing where they passed
(29:44):
a bunch of stuff like around the country to all
of us and that was crazy to those memories and
like see those photos because you forget, you know, you
forget about it, especially when you're young.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
That is so cool and it is true. It's like
with technology in the way, like that's even you know, David,
like how our group and even just doing this podcast
from the series David and I did together when we
were teenagers. We've all just recon very recently. I mean
we connected for a reunion years ago, but now like
now we had this and we've got you know, group
(30:18):
chats and all kinds of and it's just you're right,
it's as we get older, we get a little bit
more nostalgic. You realize. Yeah, you realize how special though
if you weren't realizing it in the moment, which I
it sounds like you guys were, like you were enjoying
it all, but you still can't know until right you have,
but you have something like that.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Yeah, and you're bonded with those people for life because
you had that shared experience, you know, and then when
people tell you about their experience of the film or
the television show, you have that together kind of Yeah, amazing.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah, it's so true. It is a bond twenty years.
Could you go by and you guys know each other,
you know, like no time has gone by? Yeah, this
whole thing together. It's nice. Social media has brought it's
making It's made it easier for people to reconnect. There
is a lot of positive.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
Stuff about yes, for all the stuff we say, there's
a lot of negative stuff too, which yes, yes we.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
Will, but there are some silver linings.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Will mind the good from it, right, yep?
Speaker 4 (31:23):
Yees.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Do you guys have kids.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Well, yeah, Hillary, two boys.
Speaker 5 (31:27):
I have a thirteen and sixteen year old boys. They're
little badass wrestlers, right, they're Yeah, they're doing great, They're awesome.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Have they seen the movies?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Do they love the movies?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You know, it's so funny because I feel like because
I switched focus so like so different, you go from
acting to athletics. I really never talked about my past,
you know, acting experience when I was younger, or that
I was in home alone.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I mean people knew me for a long time and
did not know. And then as I.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Got older then, like sent to said, you do get
nostalgic and we've already reconnected, which is so cool and
it is awesome I mean, it's thirty years when this
movie has still got such saying power, and so of
course I showed my kids eventually, In fact, when it
came back to the theaters, for it came to the
(32:22):
theaters here, at least for one night.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
I don't remember when that was sent.
Speaker 4 (32:24):
To Do you remember the twentieth There was the twentieth
or twenty fifth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I think I was.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Twenty, Yes, So I took the boys, and I thought
they were going to be like too cool for school,
But there is something about seeing another little boy do
all the things that you wish you could do.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
I mean, they were laughing hysterically.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh yeah, it holds up. In fact, it's.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Twenty Last night, my husband and I were watching a
movie at home and my sixteen year old he drives now,
he went with one of his best friends and they
had a couple of girls over and they came just
to hang out, and they came, I've never met these girls,
and he must told them on the way to the house,
this is my old son.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
He's way more impressed with me and my youngest son.
My younger son's too cool for that.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
But this girl walked up to me and she goes,
oh my god, you were in home alone?
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Can I hug you?
Speaker 3 (33:12):
And I was like, I mean, yeah, it's not that special,
but yes you can use you. But I was like,
maybe he's trying to get a leg up. I don't
know if you thought maybe.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
I want a crazy experience. Last weekend, Anna who plays
my sister in the movie Brook, her and I went
to this local theater called Vidiots, which is an Eagle
Rock It's my new favorite theater in Los Angeles. Is
a nonprofit but they screen old movies and they were
screening Home Alone, and I sent her message. I was like,
(33:43):
do you want to go? And just because I had
never seen it, I saw it at the premiere right,
but I had never seen it with people that weren't
involved in the movie. So Anna and I went in
like we're like just walking in right, and we sat
there and we watched the movie with a theater full
of families. And it was so cool because there were
(34:03):
some kids in that theater that I'd never seen the movie.
There were some kids who had never even been to
a theater before, like this is their first movie going
on right the pandela right, and then to see it
with these kids and to experience it through them was
pretty awesome. That was a cool way to do it.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
You know, it was very so awesome.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Later it's still the audience is still.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
I mean, I truly forgot how genius Joe Peshei and
Daniel Stern were. I mean, they're like cartoon characters and
the way that they I mean, they're just so so
so funny. And the kids loved it. And one of
my really good friends called me a couple of years
ago and said, do you need to have a talk
with my son? And I said, okay, that's a little awkward,
(34:50):
but all right. I guess he had watched Home alone
and they left the house and before they left the house,
he went up to use the bathroom and they came
back and there house was flooded. He had turned on no,
yes he wanted to flood.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
No, there should have been a disclaimer, don't try any
of this.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yes, this is it.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
So I had to have a conversation with her a
sound and go okay, so movie magic, Like, no houses
were destroyed, nothing was flooded. There was plastic underneath, but like, yeah,
it was like thousand dollars in an insurance.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Oh my god, that is hysterical. I have to say
I treated myself to a night by myself watching the
movie for the first time straight through, where I'd seen
bits and pieces of it, probably most of it over
(35:48):
the years, but never just like a full watch. And
now I'm I'm going to treat myself over this holiday
to Home Alone too, and I might be able to
list my kids for that one. But I'm it's so special.
I just feel like it's there's something so magical about
the movie. And it's in the classic sort of John
(36:08):
Hughes ending you leap.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
It's like you're.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Welling up with tears. The neighbor, the old man that
even he looks like the window. I mean, oh, it's
just it's beautiful. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Can we talk about John Hughes for one second, because
I know our listeners would strategic Has there ever been
I mean, let's talk about the movies. There was Breakfast Club,
sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Home Alone. Wonder, I mean,
how did the guy write a movie a year? And
(36:45):
they're all classics.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
They're all classics, and they all speak to like the character.
When you look at the Breakfast Club and you watch
the Breakfast Club again, everybody knows those people, like characters
that were so true and so honest. You could find
someone that you identified within every one of his movies,
and I'm just yeah, I mean I grew up on
all of those sixteen candles Breakfast some kind of wonderful.
(37:09):
I mean I started playing the drums because of that
damn movie. Yeah, I mean it was like a.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Song, that song that because that's running a lot on
cable now too, And I turned it on and I
was like, I can't turn this off. Now, it's some
kind of wonderful.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Johnny shape all of our who we are today. Honestly,
Like I feel bad as kids today. I don't think
they don't have a John Hughes.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Now.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
There's really not a lot of movies made.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Yeah, not in the way that just like one after
another after another after another.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah, we could identify with someone in each of his
films and it helped shape who we were.
Speaker 5 (37:46):
He was.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Who did you identify with in the Breakfast Club? Dated?
Still it.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I guess I would have been the jock, but not
as hardcore, you know, But yeah, I knew I knew
someone in my high school like each one of those
people and probably wouldn't have talked to any of them
or had an open mind about any of them. Yeah,
until I saw The Breakfast Club and like you learn,
like you might not think you have anything in common
(38:13):
with someone, but I mean that movie is just another level.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Well you realize it holds up like when I when
my teenage kids watched it, and you think it's sort
of like, Okay, now I'm going to put this through
their filter. This is they're living in a different world
with social media, with the whole different you know, like
things have to be buicker and flashier. They're both obsessed
with that movie, so they just hold up. It's they
(38:36):
just defined a generation. But literally that that generation that
keeps on coming. Like it doesn't matter what year you're
that age, you can watch that movie and lock right.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
Identify with those feelings and what they were going through.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Yeah, you do, you guys get I mean, I'm sure
you met John Hughes, but do you have any memories
of what he was like and interactions.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I remember him being really quiet and to himself, Like
I don't remember him talking a lot. I remember seeing him,
you know, sitting off to the side or talking with
Chris or whatever. But I don't remember. I mean, I don't,
although that might have been on me too. I didn't
go and talk to him because I didn't feel like
I could actually form a sentence around the man because
I was walking into a huge fan. So there was that.
(39:18):
But I feel like he was really quiet and to himself,
and he was probably watching Like I feel like part
of the reason why his writing was so good is
he probably just sat back and watched humans watch people
and then wrote.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
A great I agree, a quiet man writes this larger
than life, spectacular stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Yeah, well, thank you, we have to we can't keep you,
and we just like this was this is like a
holiday bonus episode for us too, Like we normally don't
even get guests for holiday episod Like they're like, oh,
just record a holiday greeting because so, we're so thankful
for both of you to come on and spend some
(39:59):
time talking to us.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
You're so this is so fun, Yeah, really fun.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
What a great way to go into the holidays.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
We'll be watching I'll be watching you both in home
alone too, which was.
Speaker 4 (40:16):
Not even the original title, but there it is.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well, happy holidays to you to all of you guys,
to your families, and and good luck and everything.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
Thank you guys, thanks for joining us. Love to see
you guys.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Yes bye. How adorable were they?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
They were so cool and they really had such great
memories of those movies.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, I mean, I you know, imagine that because Santa
was around like I'm trying to think. She said she
was around sixteen when she did the first movie, so
that was like around the time you started, hey dude,
and like around the time we started it. Imagine being
on a joant like where you were already a fan.
You you've already seen Sixteen Candles and you'd already seen
(41:02):
Breakfast Club, and then you're in a John Hughes movie.
Like I understood what she was saying, like you're just
sort of in a hawe on this person sitting off
to the site.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
But they also said they didn't realize obviously, no one.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Well you don't realize you're in a movie like that.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
It's going to be a classic, right people. But people
in John Hughes movies, whether it's Peris Bueller or Breakfast Club,
I mean, these you're in a piece of work that
is living on for generations and is not going to stop.
I mean, these movies are fantastic and they speak to
different generations and they hold up Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah, it's such a sweet movie. It really is. It's
like the perfect get you into the holiday spirit. It's
so picturesque too. That's the other thing is those the
houses in the John Hughes movies, the exteriors, those streets.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
I read somebody saying the other day I think it
was on Instagram and they showed a picture of the
house with the whole family and they were like, I
want to know what the father did for a living
to be able to afford this house and take twenty
five people to Paris. Like you know when you watch movies,
even in TV shows, everyone's got these giant houses that
(42:15):
going on crazy Like what did you do? How do
you make that kind of money? I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (42:20):
It was so it was like it was like, you know,
perfect suburbia. It was, Yes, it was, you know. I
remember it even in sixteen Candles thinking that I was like,
there's so many kids running around. They've got this great house.
There's she's got the whole attic bedroom. Molly Ringwald.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Remember the house in sixteen Candles that they trash, Yes.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
The party, Oh.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
My god, no shot Chicago, like John Hughes, he obviously
loves his hometown.
Speaker 1 (42:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I think we really will.
My Quinn actually told me he watched Home Alone to
fairly recent because it was just on you know how
they just are running holiday movies this time of year,
so you just click on something and and he was like,
it's actually really like he hadn't seen it, and he's like,
it's actually really cute.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
We should watch it.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
So I've been going to put that one on the list. Hey,
what what are some of your favorite holiday movies?
Speaker 2 (43:18):
Well? She mentioned Elf? Honestly that or you did? Yeah,
I mentioned Elf is seriously one of my kids, and
I can quote the entire movie.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Do you consider this is the great debate? And I
don't think we've talked about the sun here, but everybody
talks about this. Do you consider die Hard a Christmas movie?
Speaker 2 (43:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Same, No, it's we're in the minority. You realize that
most people considered it's an action movie.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
It's an action movie that happens to take place during Christmas.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yes, thank you, David, thank you.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
I think it's a wonderful life. Honestly, I hadn't seen
it really until maybe ten years ago. I was a
full on adult before I watched that through and that
is the most moving in spying movie about the holidays
and learning what's important, and it's magical.
Speaker 1 (44:05):
Ben Ben said he can't wait. He's he's out of
town working. He said, I cannot wait to come back
and watch It's a Wonderful Life, which we did a
couple of years ago. And I think both kids fellows
sleep through like the middle hour, and then they watched
the me and then we're like and they're like, that's perfect.
I'll even if I fall asleep during the middle that's
fine because it's like the happiest ending, that the best feeling.
(44:26):
What about Scrooge, Scrooge, it's the best Scrooge. I'm going
to throw in Family Stone is one.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Of the It's so good with Jesseicah Parker.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Sarah, Jessica Parker, Luke Wilson, Diane Keaton. It's so good,
But all right, we have to wrap up. This was
our bonus holiday episode, and happy holidaysbody, get your holiday
movies on, get your home alone on, get your baking on.
David Enjoy Miami, get a good sun.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Tan.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
I expect to see you tanned I need to.
Speaker 2 (45:00):
Send you a photo from the beach, and you enjoy
your family and being together and yes, yeah, happy holidays, everybody.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
Give everybody a hug. Happy holidays to you, guys, and
we'll see you back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Woo yep, bye bye, guys.
Speaker 1 (45:18):
Thanks for listening. Make sure to subscribe and give us
five stars.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
And please follow us on Instagram at Hey Dude. The
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