The Goonies w/ James from Bad Movies Rule

Strap on your treasure map and grab some Baby Ruths as we dive deep into The Goonies. We're joined by James from the podcast Bad Movies Rule as we revist the ultimate 80s adventure film. Goonies never say die!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
They might come the mout one night.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Really, my dad told me all about it. Why Willy
stole treasure once and then he got into this cave
has been there ever since.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Jack, You guys, just what if this mac can lead
to one eyed Willly's rich stuff.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm steady, goody trash. You mean booby trust, That's what
I said, Leody Tramp, I want to go home. Don't
say that. Goonies never say die. Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
From Steven Spielberg, the Goonies do the trouble shuffle, Come
on do it.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Coming up next, we've got a new episode of Children
of the Eighties, so stick around as we discuss the Goonies.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am Lindsey,
and with me today is my co host Jim, who
always makes me call him data.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Oh no, I am kind of a data ahead over here.
So guess what what. I am not your only person
here that you're introducing.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Uh, you're not the only James in the room.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I am not the only James in the room. I
am going to introduce a fellow who comes to us
from Wisconsin who's got his own fantastic podcast himself and
is a big fan of us, as we are a
huge fan of him. Welcome James from Bad Movies Rule.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Oh thanks, I'm fantastic. This I feel like has been
many many months, if not a year plus in the making,
so I'm thrilled to be here. Guys.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Hey, we are happy to have you.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
We're very, very excited to have you. And you did
us a huge favor recently with our one hundredth episode
and we are still getting feedback from listeners on that
and we appreciate you doing it.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
That was a ton of fun.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
That was a ton of fun for us.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Yes, you're the one who had to work, but we
had fun with that.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Oh it's barely work. It's barely work.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
So James, tell us about your podcast.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, so I gather three of my friends every week
around this table and we say all kinds of stupid
things into these microphones, and for some reason, people seem
to enjoy it. I still, after four years, have not
quite figured out why. But if you like dumb people
saying dumb things, listen to Bad Movies Rule. It's really
one of the worst movie podcasts ever recorded, and you

(03:03):
can find it on pretty much any platform out there.
We just riff through bad Movies scene by scene?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
So what led to you deciding that this was a
podcast you wanted to do.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oddly enough, we to me and this group this is
about ten to twelve people, and I host every episode,
but the other three spots kind of rotate out of
this group. We used to do stand up comedy, sketch comedy,
short films, full length films. We were very creative together
during the early aughts, and then people started having kids
and getting married and having jobs, and suddenly we didn't

(03:36):
have time to do that stuff anymore. And then when
COVID hit, we're like, well, we've got a lot more
time on our hands. What's something we could do to
get the band back together? So to speak? But not
the you know, the arduous schedules of making a film
or doing something like stage show. And that's how we
ended up doing this. And everything we've always done is comedy,
and we're like, what could we have fun doing? And

(03:57):
let's like, let's make fun of us dumb movies. That's
kind of how it started.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah, it's very entertaining. It is you all are very funny,
and I enjoy it so but bad movies rule isn't
the only podcast that you do, is it?

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Well, so we've got all kinds of side shows that
we do on our Patreon, like good Movies, Rule and
Trash or Piece Theater for really really, really bad ones.
But we're also launching a new show, a whole separate
public podcast feed called Watcher Texas Ranger, where we watch
Walker Texas Ranger. No way, Yes to me.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
That is one of the most iconic TV shows of
the nineties. I think that is awesome.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah, we've the three of us that are doing it's
gonna be the same three people this time, not instead
of rotating. But none of us have ever watched a
single episode. I used to watch a lot of eighties.
I know, I used to watch a lot of eighties,
you know, Invasion USA, Missing in Action, Eighties, Chuck Norris.
But by the time the nineties came around, I was
off the Chuck Norris train and never saw the show.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
So, okay, so I have to ask, do you think
that Eddie and the Cruisers. Is that a bad movie
or a good movie?

Speaker 3 (05:09):
So I've never I've heard you talk about it, but
I've never seen Eddie and the Cruisers, believe it or not.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Well, you know, I know what you need to do
this weekend, whatever you else you've got planed.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Stop, Oh well, I have to Every weekend is watching trash.
That's all I do.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
So, you know, I just like to hear people laugh.
And what cracks me up is you guys aren't just funny,
but you crack each other up, right.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
That's all we're trying to do is make really if
like if the audience laughs, it's a byproduct. We're really
just I'm trying to get the guys across the table
for me to break right right, okay.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, And it usually devolves into chaos, and you have
very tight, short episodes around thirty thirty five minutes or so.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Is that Look, we like to get people in and
out of there. You know, we don't want them wasting
their time, so we try to keep it real. Lean
Man of Steele was an episode that just came out
and tight, two hours and fifty minutes, you know. Yeah, Yeah, it's.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Fair to say that sometimes your podcasts run longer than
the actual movie that you're reviewing.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
On a regular basis, on a regular basis, but that's okay.
You don't have to listen to the whole thing, you know,
it all counts.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Well, you are joining us today to talk about one
of the eighties classics, certainly one of the kids classics,
but to me, one of the best movies of the eighties,
and that is The Goonies. Yes, before we jump into that,
Lindsey doesn't know this, and she gets all nervous when
I put her on the spot. But I'm putting you
on the spot as well. I got a little bit
of trivia for you for The Goonies. It's just four

(06:49):
or five simple questions, and if you get them, you
get them, and if you don't, you don't. And we're
just gonna have fun with it.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Is this first one to get it? Or are we
taking turns? Or what are we?

Speaker 1 (06:58):
You just just shout it out if you know it.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Either one? Okay?

Speaker 1 (07:02):
What was one eyed? Willie Ship's name?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
The Independent?

Speaker 1 (07:07):
You're close. It does start with an eye institutionalized.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
That what I need to be? No, no, no, the
Inferno correct?

Speaker 1 (07:24):
What was Chunk's given name?

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Clarence?

Speaker 1 (07:31):
You're very close.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I was going to say, Matthew, that's not.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Ends up in Rinse for sure. Lawrence, it's Lawrence, Lawrence.
That is correct. All right. This one's a little bit tougher.
What was mouse middle name.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Toothless?

Speaker 1 (07:48):
Not middle name, I mean given name, I mean given name.
It's only said once or twice right at they say it.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
It doesn't doesn't right, mom said.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yep, Mikey's mom calls him by his real name.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Yes, it's not Brian, and that is a name I remember.
I don't know Michael Clark Clark Clark.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
And then finally I saved the best or the easiest
for last. What was the name of the guy who
went looking for one Eyed Willie in the nineteen thirties,
who they eventually found dead?

Speaker 3 (08:25):
And bonus points if you say it in Data's accent,
this is Chester.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeh, that's yes, Okay Chester.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, I loved it.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
After they see him and Data goes, he's dead for sure?

Speaker 3 (08:42):
For sure. Yeah, I'm not a doctor. I'm not a doctor.
But yeah, you.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
Did stay on a holiday in Last Night. That's right,
that's right, all right, So lindsay, why don't you give
us a rundown of the movie.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Okay, let's see see how I did here. Let me know.
When a group of misfit kids from the Goondock's neighborhood
of Astoria, Oregon, learn their homes are about to be foreclosed,
they stumble upon a century's old treasure map in Mikey's attic.
Determined to save their families from eviction, they set off

(09:18):
on a wild underground adventure in search of the long
lost fortune of the Pirates of the Pirate One Eyed Willie.
Along the way, they face booby traps, secret tunnels, and
the criminal Fratelli family, who are hot on their trail
and want the treasure for themselves. With humor, heart and
a lot of yelling, the Goonies rely on their friendship, courage,

(09:40):
and a little bit of luck to try to beat
the bad guys and uncover the treasure that could change
their lives forever.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
All right, good Synopolis, I do, James, how'd you do?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
You left out? Also have to navigate difficult real estate transactions.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
But that, yes, that's the part that confused me, is
kid right. I don't understand what's going on.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
I'm still not sure why they why they had to
sell their houses houses, do you know that, James?

Speaker 3 (10:09):
No, Like they can't foreclose. It's not like imminent domain.
I used to work in real estate where the government
can just say you know, this is ours now, it's
it's a country club. They can't just force a bank
to foreclose.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
I feel so much better that I thought that I
just wasn't smart enough.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
I feel like the guy who was part of the
country club was somehow related to Ray's brother in law
and Field of Dreams, or they just want to come
foreclothes on your home and take everything right.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
They had to have been As a kid. I just
like you said, I was like whatever, But then once
I worked in, you know, an adult job and knew
what a mortgage was, I was like, hold on a second,
makes fictional? Is this fictional?

Speaker 1 (10:52):
It is not a documentary?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Bang?

Speaker 1 (10:55):
Okay? All right, So Lindsey, why don't you give some
of the stats now about the movie?

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Okay? So movie was written by Christopher Columbus right.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
After he came over on the Nina, the Pinta and
the Santa Maria.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Well that's where I was going. What'd you still got? Okay?
Directed by Richard Donner, who also did Superman Lethal Weapon
Scrooged in Conspiracy Theory.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
So stop right there. So, James, what are your thoughts
on Richard Donner?

Speaker 3 (11:23):
She left off Maverick. Maverick is one of my favorite
Richard Donner movies.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
You've warned that one on me. I wrote the copy.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh, Lindsay's fault, No, I think. I think he's fantastic.
I know, right up until he worked until he died
and was still working on new projects and I well
into his nineties. I just a great director.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Yeah, absolutely fantastic and some of my favorite movies. You
and I have talked online about how much we love
Superman too, and I know that he kind of got
fired for that, but he did the original Superman and
then Lethal Weapon, which might be my favorite action movie
of the eighties. Yeah, don't go to sleep on Conspiracy Theory,
which is a sneaky good movie from the nineties.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
We get Patrick Stewart being a scenery chewing bad guy.
It's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah, all right, Lindsay, go ahead, Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
So a story was written by Steven Spielberg. The release
date was July twenty ninth, nineteen eighty three. The runtime
is ninety eight minutes.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
I messed that up. The run times actually one hundred
and fourteen minutes.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
That's a big difference.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
That is a big difference.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
Yeah, so is that my fault.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'll take that one. I'll give that one a, Jim,
I'll fill Er Dade.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Box office budget of fifteen million with a box office
gross of sixty one point four million, So it made
a little bit of money.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
James thoughts on any of that, any anything you want
to throw in there.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, that's like seven hundred million today, right, isn't it.
I think Yeah, I've a mathematician, but I mean I would.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
Have thought it would have cost fifteen million just to
make a pirate ship.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Well they made it out of balsa wood, so that's
how they got around that.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
There you go. There.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Is that your fun fact for the door or is
that just knowledge that you have.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I don't do research, so I'm just shooting from the
hip here.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Okay, So we're going to get to the cast. But
before we get to the cast, I got to ask
you something, James, about some of the great runs in
movie histories when it comes to actors. So I want
to know which of these is better and you can
probably figure out who this actor is. Ninety two, A
League of their Own ninety three, Sleepless in Seattle and
Philadelphia ninety four, Forrest Gump ninety five, Apollo thirteen, and

(13:39):
Toy Story ninety six. That thing you Do, ninety eight,
Saving Private Ryan, You've Got Mail in ninety nine, Toy
Story two in the Green Mile.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Thank you so much for putting a league there on there.
Most people say that Tom Hanks's renaissance started with Philadelphia,
but not you. I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
No, yeah, You're not going to get by me with
a baseball movie for sure. So yeah, So that's Tom
Hanks's run in the nineties, which is maybe the best
run ever or could it be this guy Mysterious Actor
b eighty four, Grimlins and Friday the Thirteenth, Part four,
eighty five, The Goonies and Friday the Thirteenth, The Final Chapter,

(14:19):
I mean Part five, eighty six, stand By Me eighty seven,
The Lost Boys, eighty eight, Licensed to Drive, eighty nine,
The Burbs and Dream A Little Dream, and ninety Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles. That is one. Mister Corey Feldman. Yeah,
I rank Feldman right up there with Hanks, James.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Hold On, wo nobody, No you could no, right, that's great.
It's a great run, a great run. But two of
those movies Tom Hanks won Academy Awards for, and one
of the ones you said for, Corey was licensed to drive.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
I would say that. I would say that Corey ham
got robbed of an Academy award and licensed to drive
and Feldman as a supporting actor.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
That is a thing that someone could say.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Sure, you could say it. Yeah you'd be wrong.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
But you know, Friday the thirteenth, Part five, it will
go down as one of the movies that Corey Feldman
was in. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, he was just in for a split second, almost
like if I remember correctly, it was almost like they
were covering it again what happened in part four, kind
of like what Sylvester Stallone does with all his rocky
movies exactly.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
So you know he Feldman, Well, when you lay it
out like that, he really was all over the eighties,
wasn't he?

Speaker 1 (15:37):
He really was. And so next week after this show airs,
next week we'll be doing a show comparing the corries
Corey Hayman, Corey Feldman. Oh nice, I like that, breaking
down the court. Yeah, breaking down the corries. So with
that being said, lindsay, why don't you go ahead and
give us the cast?

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Okay, sewn Aston, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Corey Feldman, Key, Okay,
here we go, Key he Kwan you call him Joles, Doll,
Carry Green, Martha Blimpton, John Matusak, Robert Dobby, Joe Pantaliono,

(16:19):
and Anne Ramsey.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
I do with that pretty good. There's some tough names
in there.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
So you know that they're going to all be at
like a fan con in Orlando in the next couple
of months.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Are they really you want to make a We may
have to make a rundown to Orlando. It's only about
seven hours from here, so I'll work on those names.
If we're going, Ann Ramsey will not be there. No
rest in peace?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yes, uh so.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Any thoughts on the cast either of you? I mean,
I think the cast is brilliant, I think, but you know,
I mean I think.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
It's the perfect eighties cast and their roles in the storm,
I don't know if you didn't hear that thunder, but
here it comes.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, I was just gonna say, that's all Spielberg. As
far as the kids, I mean, he he didn't direct
the movie, but he picked out those kids and did
the casting, and he nailed it.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
He nailed it, he did he certainly did. I think,
you know, this was our our first look at Shawn Aston.
I think obviously Corey Feldman had been a couple of things,
but he was big. But you know, uh, Data had
been in Indiana Jones the year before. Also Spielberg, right,
so uh he knew him. But yeah, I love this cast.
I think it's fantastic.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
My mind was blown when I found out Sean Aston
was a NEPO baby, though I had no idea. Oh yeah,
oh you didn't know that was Patty Duke's kid, Yes,
no idea.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Andel Gomez Adams.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Right, what a weird How did those two meet?

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Which about turns out he's really not his dad, but
he did.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Raise him, so oh okay, I was gonna say, yeah,
meet in the back loot. She walked off the Patty
Duke said he was dressed film as coming at lunchtime.
You know they're and they got their trays and everything.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
The rest is his did grab her hand and start
kissing up her arm? I think so, as if she
were Titia.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Ah, man, we're having a Goonies type storm here in Georgia.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I mean, I'm looking for one eyed Willie to come
rolling down the street here outside the window.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
All right, time for a fun fact about the topic.
As our guest James I'll let you go first. What
do you got?

Speaker 3 (18:29):
So my favorite story that I've ever heard about a
behind the scenes story from Goonies. And let me know
if you guys have heard this. But Josh Brolin has
been doing a couple of interviews and he tells this
story about his interaction that he had with Steven Spielberg
while they were making this film, and Josh was had
fancied himself a serious actor, and one day while they

(18:51):
were shooting, he goes to Spielberg with his big actor
brain and says, you know, do you feel like these
tunnels that were going through for my character, aren't they
kind of like his mother's womb? And yeah, and could
we shoot a scene where, like, you know, I we're
crawling out of the tunnels, but I'm really trying to
like cut the emotional mbilical cord and I could be

(19:11):
crying and like emerging from the shadow of my mother.
And he goes to this whole thing, and Spielberg's just
nodding along, So Josh is getting excited, and then when
he finally finishes, he Spielberg just taps him on the
shoulder and says, why don't you just try acting? Just
say the lines. Yeah, just say the lines on the page.
You'll be all right.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, come on, dude, Like, this is an adventure movie.
It's not a super serious movie.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
So every time I see him running through these tunnels,
I think about that story.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
That is so funny and why does that just sound
like him to me? Like that, you could just overthink
and overanalyze absolutely everything that's ever.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Been Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, it's kind of like, just
come on, dude, You're you're sliding down a tunnel, like
pretend like you're at a water slide at a water park, right,
and then you're gonna come out and you're gonna see
this big, massive pirate ship.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah. That's what's acting required, right, I guess. So, yeah,
that's that kind of movie.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
Lindsey, your term? What fun fact?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Okay, I got a fun fact for you. There was
a deleted octopus scene.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
If you notice at the end they talked about the octopus, right,
and I'm like, what are they talking about?

Speaker 2 (20:25):
So in the original cut, the Goonies fight off a
giant octopus near the end. It was cut, but Data
still references it in the final film. He says something
about that octopus was very scary.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
Uh, a quick, quick, James. Whatever early eighties movie involved
an octopus?

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh oh uh Popeye?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yes, yeah, nineteen eighty Popeye.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Yeah, that movie slept On. I loved that when I
was a kid.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
I did too. That in Superman two or two of
the first movies, and Empire strikes back, So I'll go
all three of them.

Speaker 3 (21:03):
When he goes torpedo mode and just rams his fist
right into that octopus.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yes, yes, awesome stuff. Even though I hear the movies terrible,
I'm not gonna believe it. I'm just gonna stick with
what six year old Jim saw in the theater.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
We'll probably end up doing it at some point. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
Oh oh, I can't wait. I can't wait. I'll be
first thing Friday morning on that one. All right, So
you guys probably know this, but I'm just gonna throw
this out there for any audience members that don't. Sean
Aston actually snuck home the treasure map, the one Eyed
Willy Treasure Map. I did not know that, but Patty

(21:37):
Duke thought it was junk and threw it away.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I am not making that up.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
Such a mom thing. My mom threw away all my
he man toys. Yes, it made me so angry. I
come home to find Castle Grayskull in the garbage. She's like,
you don't play with him anymore. You know how much
money they'd be worth it?

Speaker 1 (21:57):
Right? Oh? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
I mean not as much as Goonies map. But I
just I connect with that on an emotional level, is
all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
So my mom was so offended by the garbage pale
kids she tossed all my garbage palos.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Those things are worth money too.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
I don't say that it, but.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Can you imagine in their opulent, beautiful, gold encrusted home
that nasty map. It needed to be tossed out.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
That's the only way I can picture Patty Duke living.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
Isn't a house like that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:29):
Right?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I think you guys nailed it. Okay, So, uh, James,
when was the first time you saw Goonies? Oh?

Speaker 3 (22:37):
I saw it on home video. I didn't go to
the theater, but you know, probably as soon as it
was able to be viewed at my house, I probably
saw it. My dad used to rent movies all the
time and bring them home, and I remember I remember
vividly sitting in my basement watching that movie.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
So yeah, the same for me. Uh, as soon as
it was available on home video. Again, I didn't go
see it in the theater, but as soon as a
available on home video, and we'd have Friday night videos
or Saturday night you know, movie rentals, and I remember
seeing that, and then of course it would come on
cable and we probably recordated on VCR and watched it
dozens of times.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Once you edit on a scratch tape, then you were golden.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
I don't understand how The Goonies didn't become a classic
in my family, but it didn't the first time I
saw it, very similar to you guys. We rented it,
and it was kind of a one off until I
got to be an adult. And I still don't I
don't know, I don't understand that now you love it,
Oh yeah, Now it's my fave.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
So to me, it's one of those quintessential eighties movies
and really one of the best movies ever made for kids.
I've always called it like Indiana Jones for kids. Yes,
and it's something that we can all relate to. And
I still think. I mean, we're at the forty year
anniversary now and it still holds up today. I agree.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I can't picture a better eighties cast or a better
eighties script. It just it all came together perfectly.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
And the one thing it does is it encapsulates that
thing about eighties kids movies that I feel like it's
missing today for children's entertainment is that they didn't have
to dumb it down for children, and they could make
things where there's real peril and actually scary bad guys
and it's like realistic and it's not just pandering and
talking down to them. And I loved that about eighties

(24:29):
kids movies and goonies was like that to a tea. Yep.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
They never really had to explain anything to you, right,
They were just like, here's the movie and here you go.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
You know.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
I know Sean Aston tells the story about one i'd Willie,
but I think that's necessary for to explain why they're
going out to hunt for this treasure. But other than that,
they don't explain it to you, like, oh, these are
the bad guys.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
I mean, they don't even explain the real estate issue,
like we needed that explained. There was no explaining.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Nope, all right, so let's get into the meat of
the movie. Let's talk about the movie a little bit.
What are some of your favorite things about the movie.
And there is no limit here. You can talk as
long or as little as you like. You know, let
the guests go finot always let the guests go first.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
My So, the dynamic between and I think this is
because of my own life, right, Like I grew up
riding bikes all through town. It's like ending up on
the trails back behind the neighborhood, looking through the woods,
you know, and this is like what we all wanted
to happen to us at some point, right, like find
a treasure map, dig through some tunnels in town, find

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something cool. And so to me, that my favorite thing
about the movie is just the dynamic between the kids.
And that's what I connected to the most, right, this
idea of going on an adventure with friends, and they
nail that.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
That holds up.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Still to this day when I watch.

Speaker 1 (25:48):
So I would say that I was about their age.
I think they were probably middle schoolers right right when
this came out in nineteen eighty five. I was came
out the summer of eighty five, so I was heading
from fifth grade into sixth grade, into middle school. So
they may have been a year or two older than me.
And you remember when you were a little kid, you
always looked up to the older kids right like they
were cooler than you could ever imagine being. And so

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to me, this just kind of hit home because it
was like, oh, wow, like they're in middle school, they
got a bunch of friends. I got a bunch of
friends here in the neighborhood. Maybe we can get into
something like that at some point.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
We never did find that treasure map, did we?

Speaker 1 (26:24):
No, never did.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Yeah, the scene where they all hop on their bikes
and they all take off, I mean I was like, oh,
I remember that that feeling of like what are we
going to go get into? We don't know, but it's
gonna be something awesome. Yeah, And I don't even know
really that this generation now gets that. But we were

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the generation where you went out to play and you
came home when the street light came on, and so
there we never knew every day what were we gonna find?
And I was always looking for the treasure. Again, I'm
still looking for the treasure. Never found it, but maybe
one day.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
Yeah, sometime my mom would just lock the door and
you're like, you can't come back. In that until it's
unlocked again, and this will be unlocked at dusk.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Right. There was no coming home for lunch. There was
no you need to have three meals a day.

Speaker 3 (27:15):
Right.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
It was like you wake up, you may get breakfast,
and then they're throwing you out of the house and
it's like get out of here and don't bother me.
And it was like, okay, well, let's go out and
find whatever adventure we have or whatever sport we're playing,
or whatever it is we're doing. But you're hanging out
with a bunch of friends from the neighborhood, and you
may come home for lunch if you're really hungry, but
your I never came home for lunch, and then I'd

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be home for dinner. I wish I didn't come home
for lunch. Now I'd probably be a lot of skinnier.
So one of the things I like about the movie
is I love the beginning where the Fortellies are escaping
from jail. Right, And as they're escaping, we get to
meet each of the characters from the movie as we're

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getting the least chase.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Right.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
It's almost kind of done organically. It's not like, okay, well,
here's this person, you know, and this person comes out
of nowhere.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Right.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
They're all experienced in this except for Mike Mikey and
his brother brand you know, because they're at home. That
those are really the only two characters that we kind
of get forced introduced to. Everything else is just kind
of like you see them through the eyes of the
police chase and you kind of get an idea of
what those characters are, like.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, yeah, and watching it now though the scene you're
mentioning through twenty twenty five eyes, it is rather jarring
to say, hey, let's start off this kid's movie with
a jailhouse suicide.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I know, I noticed when we were watching it preparing
for this episode. I don't even remember thinking that that
was unusual or dark.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
No, no, it was just like, okay, this is life. Yeah, yeah,
that's a great point, James, you know, but I'm thinking,
so it's Spielberg, right, yeah, So his previous movie was Grimlins,
where he scared the crap out of kids, right, and
parents were mad because they were thinking they were gonna
go see this cute little movie about fuzzy little gizmos

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and they get this horror film and et well e
t would you know was kind of a kid's movie,
but you had that horrorfic scene where ET's dying and
Elliott struggling too.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
But also Poltergeist, you know, Oh polter geis so.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Spielberg wasn't afraid to scare the crap out of kids
in the early eighties.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
You moved the stones, but you didn't move the bodies.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Exactly.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Got anything else you'll you'll like here?

Speaker 2 (29:39):
I mean, of all the Spielberg movies, I know y'all
are probably gonna laugh me out of the room. I'm
of the ones we've just named. I feel like The
Goonies might be his best one.

Speaker 3 (29:53):
H Spielberg's best movie, or just out of the ones
we just.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
Ones that we the ones that we've just named.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
The okay Et and what was the other one we said.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
See Poulter, Guys, Gremlins and the Goodies.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Yeah, I'd say out of those, yes, I had one
hundred percent agree with you. But he made a movie
called Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Arc and Jurassic Park.
In Jurassic Park couple films. Yeah, when are you gonna
make the big one?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
You know, find success one day?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah? Yeah, no, but you're right, I think you're right
out of those kids. We're talking about Spielberg having his
fingers as a producer or director on kids entertainment in
the eighties. I think Goonies is the cream of.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
The crop for sure, kid centric movies. I feel like
that's the perfect one.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
No, I'm down with that. But it wasn't the only
Spielberg movie I was watching as a kid. I was
I was gathering in all of them.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
You were watching Jaws for that, heyo.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
I think the thing I like, I really like about
the movie is that it's actually funny and it's for
kids for adults. And when you can do that and
make a kid's movie that kids like, but also the
parents aren't going to groan every time they want to
put it on, I think that's a big positive too.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Absolutely. Yeah, I made a quick list. I'm I like
my list, James. I'm sorry your data. Things things that
I saw, mouth wearing a member's only jacket. That's right,
Ann Ramsey or or Mama for Teley asking how long
have you kids been standing here, and mouth saying long

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enough to see you need about four hundred roach motels.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
That's a the hell scene is great? Hey, I got
pictures of your mom.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
Real uh sloth saving the day. I always like that, right, data,
If we keep going, we'll reach China. Now do you
remember that as a kid, like digging a hole and
thinking that you might be able to reach China.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (31:58):
I remember my aunt one day she came outside and
she's like, what are you doing. I'm like digg into China.
I stopped for lunch. They were like, what are you
doing this afternoon? Got to finish getting to China.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well, good thing we never made it. We would have
ended up coming out in the middle of the Indian
Ocean and drowning.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah, the uh Lou Garritt baseball card and Chester copper
Pot's wallet. Right, if they just take that right there
and leave, they don't almost get killed. And that card
is probably worth about five hundred thousand dollars and they
can save all their houses.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
Right. Oh, that's such a great point. That's such a
great point.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Those idiots, those idiot children. That was probably about the
time I think that baseball cards started getting really big, though,
don't you think, James, I don't know if you collected
him or not.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
I did well, I did. Towards the end of the eighties.
I remember I had like a lot of eighty eight
and eighty nine's tops cards, lots.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Of them, and lindsay, I know you collected baseball cards.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I did, and Jim made me sell them ay yardsale
a couple of years ago. Jam a whole lot, Like,
I just had to sell the whole lot. He wouldn't
let me pick and choose. He was like, no, they're
going we got.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
A lot of money for that.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
How'd you do? Hopefully?

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Well, okay, good.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Not as well as we could have if we would
have sold them one one at a time.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
Let's really dig into this. I feel like there's more.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Yeah, there's something there, something there, all right?

Speaker 1 (33:29):
Moving on, Is there any part of the movie that
you still talk about today? Used today? Quote in some
other context?

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Hey, why why? Yes? I quote tons of it. That's
that's the classic line, right. But the thing that there's
a meme that I started seeing around like a few
years ago that still kills me. Basically, it's the scene
where they're on the beach and Chunk says to lat
you're gonna live with me now? And it cuts this

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law going like you know what, his ears are wiggling.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Years He's Yoda all of a sudden.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
And the meme has always been like Chunk is like
my wife when she found me, you know right, like
you're gonna get with me now that I'm just there,
and that that just I say this day, whenever I
see that, it kills me.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
That's awesome, fantastic.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
That's my wife and my love story.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Basically, she found you and said you're gonna me now. Okay,
your wiggle.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Pretty much?

Speaker 1 (34:37):
What about you?

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Oh? I think there's so many parts of this movie
to quote. The truffle shuffle yep.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
I mean that's the one thing I had written down.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
I love that. It's ridiculous. So basically it's what pull
your shirt up and just kind of do a little
jig there they don't move.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
They make me do that at work every now and then.
I don't really like it.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
I do have one more, but I want to save
it when we talk about most iconic scenes because it's
kind of the same.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
Yeah yeah, yeah, so yeah yeah, okay, yeah, and I've
got one more too, other than treffle shuffle. But I'm
going to save that for quotes because I used that.
I used to quote all the time. Okay, So even
though you've seen it a hundred times. What still makes
you laugh today.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
For the right like for the right reasons or no
any reason, because I laugh at how bad this one
acting take every time to this day when they send
that bucket back up to Troy with her sweater on it,
and he yells, Anie, you goody. It's the stupidest line

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reading of all time. It's terrible the way he does it,
and it makes me laugh every single time.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
And it and it echoes yes right and echo throughout
the whole city of Astoria. Right.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I mean I still laugh at Data and the fact
that I still don't know really all the time what
he's saying.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
I have.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
When we were watching it this week, I kept saying, now,
what did he say?

Speaker 1 (36:14):
So, James, one thing you got to know about Lindsay
is is she struggles with accents.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Oh no, struggles.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
With accents, and like we meet people out and she's like,
now what they say? I have to interpret for her.
And so this last time we were watching Goodies, I
was interpreting everything Data said subtitles.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Yeah, well he's It's hard. And one of the funniest
parts always laugh at is when Data is like talking
to himself, like I don't even know exactly what he says,
but something like you're all doing this that other thing
while Data's falling, you know, yeah, right, that whole kills
me every time. But I don't know what he's saying.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Yeah, so I love Data. That's what I said, Booby
traps what I said. I still laugh at that. I
can laugh at anything about Data. I love the fact
that mouth is messing with the lady who can only
speak Spanish.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
And that such a great scene.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
The herrowing goes here and the cocaine goes here.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
And they're like sexual torture devices. Yes, yes, you're a
sixth grader. Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
The Chunk fake puking in.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Him up, that gets me every time.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well, his whole story about the puke that started going
around right, Yes, it is hysterical. Everyone was puking all
over each other. This is the worst.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
This is what I feel really bad about.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
I'm starting to like this kid.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yes, I uh, I'll get a little bit more to
Chunk a little bit later. But I love that character.
That's good, all right. If you had any kind of
nitpick about this movie, what would it be? Hmmm?

Speaker 3 (38:10):
It's hard. It's hard to nitpick this this film because
it's it's pretty rock solid. I think. If anything, I
think they went a little schmaltzy. There's that one scene
where they're in the wishing well and it's like everyone's
doing their best. Here's my clip for the Oscars, you know,
acting moment right where whether it's mouth going well, this

(38:31):
is my wish and this is my dream and it
didn't come true, and that whole thing's acting so hard.
And then right up to Sean Aston's speech about it's
our time to this day, what are you talking about?
I don't even know what that means. Dude, what do
you mean? It's their time, it's our time. It's our
time down here.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
I don't understand that up there, it's our time down here,
So what are we talking about?

Speaker 1 (38:56):
That's his let's win one for the Gipper speech for
this movie, right, But it just doesn't hit for no.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Yeah it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (39:05):
But that is a quote that I use all the
time whenever we're somewhere, whether we're on vacation or if
we're down in a basement or something, I always say,
it's our time down here.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Out in basements all the time. What basement are we
going to?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
How many basements do you like to hang out besides
your own.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
It places the lotion in the basket, or else it
could lose. Again.

Speaker 3 (39:31):
I always think of Joe Dirt when somebody quotes that.
I know you're supposed to think the lambs.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Yeah, I mean again, I keep harping on the real
estate thing. I nitpicked that a little bit. I also
nitpicked the fact that that whole labyrinth of underground tunnels
and caves and elaborate piano organ like, all of that
stayed intact and no one else ever found it, and

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it was just way for them.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
They didn't have the treasure map.

Speaker 3 (40:02):
The pirates did that all with a toothbrush and a
pick axe and built better water slides than they have
at Wizark in the Wisconsin Dells. Yeah, got it.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Okay, So my major nitpick is that there's no way
that that pirate ship lasts for three hundred years without
wood rot.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Oh and those ropes would afraid now, they.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
Would have started at some point. I think some kind
of like, I don't know, some kind of wet rot
would have kicked in. I don't know, is that a word.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
They glazed the hell out of them boards. Man, I
don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
Yeah, all right, anything else you want to say about
the movie, it rules.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
It's a good one.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
So they don't call them the best colored men in
the business for nothing, folks. So here's my take on Chunk.
He's kind of like a little tiny John Candy. That's
if you compare his mannerisms to the security Garden vacation.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Yes, where had you come up with this?

Speaker 1 (41:20):
That's very good where they're both a little uptight and
they're both a little nervous, you know, and they're both
a little scared.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Now, now Chunk doesn't speak through you know, a half
inch mouth like like John Candy did.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
But I'm just sorry, folks. Pirate ships close skeleton outside.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yes, exactly. No, I literally came up with that last
night as we were watching it again before recording this.
I'm watching him and he's cracking me up, and I'm like,
he's John Candy.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
I'm really sad that John Candy never did the truffle shuffle.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Oh all right, are we ready, as you say James
in your show, are we ready to get to the
awards section of the show. Let's do it before we
get there. If you had to pick your will Patton
award winner James.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
Who would it be who was the most intense master
in this movie? That's you know what. I don't remember
what I said, because we did cover this movie on
Good Movies Rule on our Patreon, and I would have
given a vote for Will Patten, but it was so
long ago, I don't remember what I said. So if
anyone is listening that goes, hey, wait a second, you

(42:39):
said somebody else last time. I don't care. Here's what
I'll say. You know what, I'm gonna give it to
Robert Dobby. I'm gonna give it to Robert Dobby. I
thought he was terrifying when he flicks on the light
in his car and starts singing opera to Chunk like
that was scary when you're a kid. And I thought

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he really was the most menacing of the bad guys.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
I was just curious, because that is an award for
your show. I was wondering who really went for it
with their intensity.

Speaker 3 (43:10):
I think it was Robert.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
I think you hit the nail on the head there.
All right, Okay, so let's go with the most iconic
moments or scenes from the movie our first category. Lindsey,
what do you got most iconic. Yeah, you could nominate
more than one if you wish, because we don't have
eighty three people on our show like James does, so

(43:34):
they've got to narrow it down.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
Yeah, I'm gonna have to say the first time that
they see the ship, okay, I also have that, really
I do?

Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, you got anything else? Ah?

Speaker 2 (43:53):
And then did you hear that the first time they
saw it.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Again?

Speaker 2 (43:59):
I love when they make him do the truffle shuffle
to get into the house and he was like, oh, guys,
like no, come on, just let me in. I love
that scene. Might have to think if I've got a
third one, So let's let James go and I'll think
if I've got something else?

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, I think I think the to me and I
know it's I mean, there's the treffle shuffle, there's the
sliding down, the sale with the knife, and all these
moments that people would think about. But to me, the
most iconic moment in this movie is when the brothers
are trying to tie a rope around Sloth and he

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rips his shirt open to reveal the Superman symbol.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Yes, how did I forget that?

Speaker 3 (44:44):
And the John Williams theme comes on for just a
few notes, and I just thought that was and it's
to this and so the thing I was going to
say before with quotes, because this is the line I
use all the time is we're in deep shit, Francis
all the time. It's such a great moment.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
All right. I had I also had seeing the pirate
ship for the first time, James. I also had Sloss
sticking the knife in the sail and sliding down like
Errol Flynn and Robin Hood. Yeah, and then I had
Chunks confession. Yes, So did.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
You know that that scene was improvised?

Speaker 1 (45:24):
The confession?

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Yes, they let him improvise.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Really, yes, that's it comes off naturally. So it seems
that makes sense to me.

Speaker 1 (45:32):
It really does, and that that's genius for what twelve
thirteen year old kids? Right, yeah, all right, So if
we're voting after hearing every what everybody said, I think
I'm voting for James's, you know, ripping the shirt open and.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Seeing the we have to that's. Once he said it,
I'm like.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah, yeah, that wasn't something that I thought of, But
once he said I'm.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Like, yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
Tough to be so pretty great. All right, What do
you think was the funniest part of the movie. It
can be a quote, or it can be a scene
of what have you? But but what do you got James?

Speaker 3 (46:09):
It's when when she makes out with his little brother
and thinks it's him, which I mean some would argue
maybe that's the most absurd part of the movie, but
I think it's the funniest part of the movie. Or
maybe I was just a little kid that wanted to
make out with a hot high school guess.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Yes, the swagger he had.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
I was like, way to go, Mikey.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
I mean, how on earth do you not realize how?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
She wanted to kiss Mikey. She knew exactly what she
was doing, and she just didn't want to see him
like a creep. That's what I think.

Speaker 1 (46:48):
She wanted to kiss Mikey. She needed to kiss Mikey.
You want me on that wall. You need me on
that wall.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
And I have neither the time or the inclination to
explain myself to other people that don't want to make
out with middle schoolers. Say just say thank you, go
on your way, Lindsey.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
That's fantastic. If this Behind Me isn't my favorite movie,
then that is love it, Lindsey, what do you got
funniest part of the movie.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
I mean, I think what we just talked about when
when Chunk's improvising and he just goes on and on
and he amps it up again, and he ramps it
up again and again and he just like just keeps
taking it just a little bit farther, just a little bit.
To me, it's hysterical.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
I love how Joey Pants is like, all right, kids
spill everything, and so he literally he tells everything bad
and he's done in his life. I My part also
involves Chunk, and it's when he's going into the freezer
to get the ice cream and the dead person's in
there and falls out. They all start freaking out and stuff,

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and Chunks starts screaming it's a.

Speaker 3 (48:01):
And then a bass silent. The silent screams right yes.

Speaker 1 (48:06):
And then eventually gets shoved back into the freezer and
they all forget about them, which leads to the part
that Lindsey talked about about the yes hand there. So
that would be my vote, all.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Right, yeah, I would say, but if we were voting, voting,
I think the his confession scene's got to be the
funniest part. Movie.

Speaker 1 (48:25):
Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that too. Yeah, all right, James,
as you mentioned, the most absurd part of the movie.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
Oh gosh, I look, guys, this isn't how plumbing works. Okay, Yes,
the pipes and the country club and the all over
the city and oh my gosh, it's so stupid. It's
so absurd.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
It is literally the first thing I wrote down.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Grab out of the pipes and start shaking, and it's
just oh, it's rough. It's rough. I love it. It's hilarious,
but it's absolutely absurd.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yes, So the very end, as they're all standing on
shore and they look up and the pirate ship somehow
has come out from under the route from the cave
and it's floating off. And to me, at that point,
I'm just like really and I mean and actually, when
we were watching it, I was like trying to gauge.

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Could I swim from the shore to where that ship is?
I mean, I'm pretty sure I'd go for it.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Somebody get a jet ski or something.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
What do we st Darren watched it float off?

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Yeah, let's go get some more money. They acted like
it floated off and nobody ever saw it again.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
Well, that's exactly because if it was or something, Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
It will floating out there today.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Yes, it went straight to the Bermuda triangle, speaking of
eighty stuff. It went straight to the Boom trangle and
it disappeared into a new dimension.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
I thought the Brema triangle was gonna be a much
bigger problem turned out. Yes, absolutely, are this somebody get
on this please.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
I had the part that you said about the pipes, James.
I also had Data saving himself with those false teeth
as he's falling down. That's some Indiana Jones stuff there.
But I think since both of us first thought of
the pipes, I think that's got to be the winner.
All right, all right, I agree.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
So what's your.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
Best quote or best quotes?

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Look, to me, it's We're a deep shit, Francis, not
to keep casting on your show. But that's to me,
my favorite quote in the entire movie. I know it's
not the best one, probably, but it's the one that
stuck with me the longest for sure.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Okay, So I don't know that this is the best quote,
but I feel like this is just iconic, and it's
down here, It's our time, It's our time, down here.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
You mean this, but down here down here. You see,
it's odd time. It's odd time down here.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
That's it.

Speaker 3 (51:06):
I forgot that was even one of the lines I
did for that. Uh yeah. So imagine if they'd gone
down that that well, and Arnold Schwarzenegger was just down
in there like like Gollum just scooping up the times
and Nichols get out of here, stop, it'd be great.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
Uh So I've got that, I've got it's our time
down here, and I've also got this one.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Yes, and I love the little laugh at the end.

Speaker 1 (51:46):
So it's probably I guess since two of us picked it,
It's our time down here. But you know, I could
get behind anything. I think that's probably right, probably the
easiest category of the night.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Best.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
I mean, there's only one song.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Yeah, it's Cindy Lapper, right, that's right?

Speaker 2 (52:09):
Yeah, fun fact. You ready she hated it.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
She hated that song.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
You hated that song?

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Well, here you go Cindy.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
In that video.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Yes, okay, so that's what I was going to say.
What is her fascination with wrestlers?

Speaker 3 (52:39):
I guess she likes cool things. I don't know. Pretty awesome,
was it.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Lou Albano, Roddy Piper.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
You don't understand that. I mean, I guess if it's
not broke, don't fix it.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
She's always been fascinated with the rock and wrestling connection, James,
I'm not sure why.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
I love it and through what who was it Liberaci
in there? Like?

Speaker 1 (53:03):
Oh and wrestle in the first WrestleMania.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
Yeah, they were just trying to get anybody they could
for that first Wrestleman.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, anybody they could name. They all right,
next category, best character quirks, Lindsey.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
What you got, I'm going to go with Data and
all of his wacky little gadgets reminded me of a
inspector gadget.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
So that brings up the question who was the worst inventor?
Data and his dad or the dad from the Grimlins.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Oh wow, yeah, sorry, go ahead, the dad from the Grimlins.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
Data stuff worked.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
I mean it is ridiculous and and and stupid as
it looked. I mean they everything that Data used worked
for him.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
Right the first time?

Speaker 3 (53:57):
Well right, yes, the boxing, glove work, the greasing, the
log they call wrecked their nuts on that work, the teeth,
the lights.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Yeah, saved his life.

Speaker 3 (54:07):
Yeah, yeah, all right, jamesone cares about the smokeless the
smokeless ash tray. No, not even the smokers wanted it.
They were like, get this out of here.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
Yeah. Sorry. Not even those of us who inhaled their
parents secondhand smoke in the eighties wanted that.

Speaker 3 (54:27):
Oh gosh, no.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
My dad had one of those, though.

Speaker 1 (54:31):
I hope it worked better than it did in the Grimlins.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
Splip that thing on and you couldn't talk over the motor.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
For me, my favorite quirk was also data, like I
think I mentioned earlier, just when he would talk to himself.
You know that that. I just love that.

Speaker 1 (54:47):
Yeah. So my original thought was Mikey always saying something wrong,
getting corrected and then saying that's what I said. Yes, yes,
but you both said data, so and I love data,
So we've got to go with data perfect.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Did you do that as a kid? I did that
as a kid, like miss misspeak or stumble. Yeah, that's
what I said, Like, no, leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
What do you mean as a kid. I do that
at work when it's in writing in an email. All right,
So who's your favorite character overall in the movie.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Oh, that's easy for me.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
So if I was a kid, I would have said data.
He was my favorite, but now as an adult watching it,
it's it's brand Brand. It's a Josh Brolin's character. Really yeah,
because I I grew up so the time I first
watched it, I didn't have a little brother. But then
when I was nine years old, my little brother was

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born way later than me, and so he's much much,
much younger, and I had this like tag along hang
on little brother throughout my teenage years. That drove me crazy,
and I now relate more to Brand than anybody else
in that movie.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Oh how cool is that?

Speaker 1 (56:07):
That makes sense? That makes sense? And brand short for Brandon.
You know what their last name was, Brandon?

Speaker 3 (56:15):
No Walsh, Oh it was Walsh.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
Brandon Walsh. Anybody recognize that name?

Speaker 3 (56:22):
Yeah? Look at that? Wow? Mind blown. I had no
idea all.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Right for me?

Speaker 1 (56:29):
My favorite character, it's very close. It's between Data and
Chunk Mouth with a close third, but I would say
it's Chunk.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
Chunk is my favorite character because.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Chunk has that that catches you off gud because he
has that sweet little heart what you're not that I'm
not expecting and his bond that he quickly makes sloth.
It's just precious. I love it is as a Mama.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Now I'm like, oh, so, Chunk's the one that makes
me laugh, you know, with the truffle shuffle, with the
with the it's a stiff, with the confession that he makes. Right,
So that's why I chose him. But you know, I
really like Data too, you know, I can't. I can't

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go without saying that.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
So I'm shocked you didn't pick Data after all the
times he said how much you love Data?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
Yeah, you know, I bet before last night I probably
would have said Data. But there was something about watching
it last night that drew me into Chunk.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
I respect that.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
So all right, So I don't know what you consider
non main characters. I don't know if you consider the
Fortelli's main characters or do you consider them side characters.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
No, I think they're side characters. I think the Gang
of Kids is the main characters of the movie.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Okay, then for best non main character, I'm going with Mama.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
For Telly, and you would be valid to do so
that's good. But personally, I think the the housekeeper what
I can't remember what her name is. You is that
who you were going to pick?

Speaker 2 (58:08):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (58:08):
Yeah, oh yeah, let's go Linda.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Let's yeah, let's let's go with ro I love Mama
for Telly.

Speaker 3 (58:15):
I want it.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
I want to I don't know how to do that.
I'm on practice. I want to talk like her. It's
so weird.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
She's also thrown mama from the trade.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Yeah, so she cracks me up.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Wait a second, could you try that one more time?
It was like a man, I was just transported there
for a second.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
Was that good?

Speaker 3 (58:38):
That was incredible? I can't do it either, So I'm
not even gonna try that.

Speaker 1 (58:42):
Was that was nice.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
But Rose Alita just I don't know, just something about
her always being like this this face of just shocking
horror and.

Speaker 3 (58:52):
At the end she's like, uh whatever she's saying, right
no pen uh no no sign.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Yeah, yeah, I get that. Maybe the best actor or
actress in the movie because she had to act with
just her face. We're facial expressions, right right.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
Yeah, she was great, even her reactions to all the
horrible things the mouth was telling her everything. She killed it.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Oh why did he always play characters that he seemed
to know too much for his age?

Speaker 3 (59:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Oh yeah, I feel like that may have really been him.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
Yeah so I so, James, that's something that I need
to ask you because I've always said this, but you're
the movie guy, right, You've you've actually done them. Do
actors a lot of times? They they're almost kind of
themselves in the movies, right, I mean, I know there's
there's obviously Tom Hanks isn't Forrest Gump, Yeah, right, But

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to Tom Hanks is a little bit of boosom buddies
and a little bit of a league of their own
and a little bit of you've got mail.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
You'll often find that there's there's kind of two types
of actors. There's types and then there's character actors, right,
and so you know your Stallone's, your Rocks, your Ryan Reynolds.
The guys that kind of seem to play themselves in
every movie are your types. You cast them for a
type of person, like you're not gonna have Stallongo play
an accountant in a movie because he's not the right type, right,

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And they can That's not a knock on those guys.
They can do very well have incredible careers playing that type.
Arnold was a type. But then there's a people that
can be more chameleons and disappear into things and their
character actors. But even those type of actors are at
least partly, and they'll say it themselves playing themselves to
a certain extent, or you know, you'll find out. Like

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you know, Billy Bob Thornton, they asked him about a
recently about a iconic movie he did, not sling Blade,
but something else, and he said, yeah, that was I
was just that was my brother. I was literally just
being my brother in that, you know. And so they'll
draw from people they've met or they know in their
life and they're just you know, imitating their best friend
or whatever. And you think they generated this great character,
but it was just them telling somebody they knew.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Yeah, so I'm a little worried. Like Joaquin Phoenix.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
He's seen some things as they like something you mentioned
a countenant and sly as an accountant, what would Arnold
sound like as an accountant?

Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
Listen, is this ridiculous? You didn't do it, You didn't
do all your deductibles here because you've got all these
things in the red and the black. Stop it. Listen
to me. You take this and you come back when
you got your numbers right. And then no, rather it's
I'm supposed to be forget it. I'll be back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
You stay here, I'll be.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
You stay here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:48):
That's fantastic, all right. Are there any questions that you
thought of while watching the movie that you could not
think of an answer to, or that you would like
clarification on any unanswerable questions that you have out there?

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
I got one.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
I really don't. I feel like not that I haven't
already said. I feel like my WTF things have been voiced.
There's not really any other questions that I had about.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
I just need to know that the homes were saved.
I mean, I know, listen, every movie leaves something hanging,
but I just need some confirmation everything worked out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
They tore up the contract.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
There's nothing like, well, I don't contract for what.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
They were like, I.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
So I just want to know that they went on
and lived there until they all grew up and went
to college. And I just wish I just have some
clarification on that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:41):
I think what probably happened is there was a yeah,
you tore up a piece of paper, but there was
still like an eighteen month court battle that this ultimately
bankrupt all the families anyway, because I couldn't pay lawyer
fees and they all had to move. That's probably what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Well, I think that we will get our answers when
we get to see Goonies Too come out next year.
Oh I hope not.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Are they do?

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
I've I've read the headlines. But is that true? Because
sometimes you'll see a headline and it's really like and
they say, oh, Goony's Too coming out in the summer
of twenty twenty seven, and turns out no, it's just
a little Netflix commercial that they I mean, is it
a real movie?

Speaker 1 (01:03:22):
You know, they've been trying to They've been hinting at
this for years. I don't know if it's true. I
heard there's a script it is.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
Yeah, the the cast recently talked about it that there
it is a real thing that's happening, and they don't
know how much they'll be involved with it though.

Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Let's just let it be.

Speaker 1 (01:03:39):
So here's here's my two questions. And they're, you know,
so far out there that nobody's really gonna know. But hey,
when they all started riding their bikes, why did Chunk
have a super tall orange flag on his bike? Like
what kid rode around with a tall orange flag on it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
I love that so when he rides through the cornfields,
they can find it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
And then two, remember when Brand goes out and picks
up the little girl and gets on her bike with
the training wheels with that Data's sister because they were neighbors, right,
remember because Data flew over from across the street and
broke the screen door and the girl looked like she
may have been Asian.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
It had to have been his syses.

Speaker 1 (01:04:26):
Yeah, all right, well, then answer my questions.

Speaker 3 (01:04:29):
I've never thought about that once.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
I've got one more. Okay, this is I don't know
if this falls in this category. Afresh. Should have brought
it up earlier when we were talking about nitpicking. Why
had no one started packing?

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Thank you, that's what they hired Rosalita for.

Speaker 2 (01:04:48):
But it was one little elderly lady.

Speaker 3 (01:04:51):
But it sounds like it was happening tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Yes, it was. They had to be out the door
tomorrow and like nothing, they had even packed up the
naked statue. I mean, like you couldn't have like already
had that packed away, Like that still needed to.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Be out right, she needs that out to the end.
It's her favorite thing to look at.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Yeah, they were like you going on vacation.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Oh, I know, I start packing when Jim and Emmy
are in the car.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
Oh, what's going on here? Like I'm packed like the
week before.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
That's my wife. She packs last year when we were
going somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
Yeah, all right, final category.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
I do. I'm sorry, I do have one. Now let
we keep going.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:05:32):
One question. When Chunk in the beginning is in the
arcade in the pizza shop and he sees them run by,
why does he smash his food and drink on the window.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Yes, it's hysterical, makes no sense, but it was so funny.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
If anybody would treat that like something valuable, not to destroy,
it would be Chunk. He wouldn't waste a piece of pizza.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Yes, yes, I mean who said he wasted it? He
may have went ahead and finished it. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Kind of a window liquor. I do for sure a
window liquor. We all know those kids that are like, yeah,
he probably licks windows.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Are so we're gonna do. Uh. Three stars of the movie.
So James not. You live up in Wisconsin, you're probably
a hockey fan, even though there's no hockey team there
in Milwaukee. Blackhops believe that I'm not you're not a
hockey fan, not a.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Big hockey guy. I'm a big sports guy, but just
not hockey.

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Hockey has the three stars of the game, right they
get they any three stars. They can come from the
winning team more than losing team. So this can literally
be anything. Can be the actor, the writer, the director,
the pirate ship I think we had when we did Vacation.
I think I picked the family truckster as the number
one star of the movie or a number two star
of the movie. So can literally be anything. So James,

(01:06:52):
I'll let you go first. Give us your third star.
This is hard.

Speaker 3 (01:06:58):
This is really really hard because I'm not a I'm
not a big fan of the guy personally. But Corey
Feldman I think is my top. If you're doing like
the three MVPs of the movie, I think he's number three.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Okay, I also have Corey Feldman as number three. I
think he really shines in this movie. He does, whereas
he had kind of more bit parts in Grimlins in
Friday the Thirteenth, even though he's the one who finally
put Jason down.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
But really he started the whole thing, didn't he spill
the water on?

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:07:36):
Well, yes, sure.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Now does it surprise you that A Corey was the
one that started a national tragedy? No, it doesn't, It
really doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
Are we talking star? Can it be a character?

Speaker 1 (01:07:48):
It can be a character, It can be a can
it can be an actor whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Top three players of the game, so to speak.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Yeah, so I'm gonna I gotta go with the Sloth.
I don't think we've talked enough about him.

Speaker 1 (01:08:00):
I would agree with that, we haven't talked enough about Flaw.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Like every time I watched this movie. The first time
I see Sloth on the screen, I kind of like,
look away real fast, like it kind of it. It's
still he catches me off guard a little bit, and
I don't totally understand what happened to the poor guy
and what's wrong with him, And especially when his little
ears start kind of flapping like.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
He's like Yoda.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
I don't know, like he's Yoda, but they allude that
he was dropped on his head a few times, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
And stepped on I don't. But then it just he
quickly he develops such a sweet little heart and he's
just out there to help the kids and save the day.
I don't know. I love him that character is just
priceless to me.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Love it.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
So.

Speaker 1 (01:08:51):
One of our putdowns in high school used to be
that dude or that girl looks like Sloth.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
I mean, I mean that's a pretty pretty bad that pretty.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Much ended any any argument, conversation, whatever. That was the
bomb drop.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
It's a pretty sick burn.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Uh yeah, So, yeah, I liked Sloth. And you know
you mentioned memes earlier, James. The first meme I ever
remember seeing was back in two thousand and six, two
thousand and seven, after Ben Roethlisberger got into his motorcycle accident.
A picture of Sloth and a Steelers jersey.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
That's genius.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
Love So that's the first meme I remember from almost
twenty years ago. Love that. So, so yours of Sloth,
James and I for number three, we both have Corey Feldman.
All right, what's your number two?

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
My number two is key Hu kwan as Data. I
think he's an MVP of this game, of this game
at least what I'm talking like at sports. Yeah, he
really especially in the second half there, he really brought
his a game. I just felt like he was taking
it one play at a time. I'm out there and
really just playing to win.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
I love it. I'm gonna go with sewn Aston.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
I think he was the friend that kind of tied
them all together and he kind of kept the story moving.
I've always been a big seawan Aston fan.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
She almost cried when he spoiler alert when he when
he bit the dust and Stranger things.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Oh that my heart.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
That worked my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
So yeah, that's who I'm going with number two.

Speaker 1 (01:10:29):
My number two is going to be the man who
discovered America, Chris Columbus, and it's because he followed up
his Grimlin's writing credit with this one, which pretty much
solidified him as a Hollywood writer, director, producer, whatever. Yeah,

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all right, number one star.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
This might shock you, but I'm going Josh Brolin. I
I think he does. Specifically when it comes to Goonies.
He's one of the last people ever talked about and
I think that dynamic of having the capable older brother
there that they're not all, you know, eleven year olds,
that he's there looking out for his little brother, trying

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to help him get through this. And he played that
part perfectly, and the whole stuff with him and Annie
was really great, and I think he I don't think
the movie works as well, without as good of a
performance as he gave.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
I don't necessarily disagree with that, James, And you're right,
he's not talked about a lot. We haven't talked about
him a lot here. But yeah, I think you need
that older figure right because it makes it a just
a tad bit more believable if you've been a sixteen
year old there. That's kind of keeping an eye out
on the younger ones. It's kind of there as a protector. Yeah,

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so this is number one, This is your number one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:54):
I think I'm I'm gonna piggyback off of you. I'm
gonna go with Chris Columbus. Okay, you know, it's really
really great eighties movie.

Speaker 1 (01:12:05):
It's a great screenplay. Yep, all right. My number one
is Lindsey's number two. It's Sean Aston. This made him
a star. America loved him. But more importantly, this allowed
him to go on and starring in Sino Man, which
was the first Bad Movies Rule podcast episode that I

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ever listened to.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Well then you heard us absolutely dog Sean Aston in
that Yes you did, as he deserved it. His character
was terrible in that movie, yes, oh but yes, not
him personally he's great.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
But yeah, I wanted to I wanted to tie this
all together. That's how I got to listening to James
and then reached out to him.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
And well, then I have a question for you. Yeah,
about Sean As you've thrown some questions by way for
a long time, I think people would have said that
Mikey is Sean Aston's most iconic character. But is that
still true?

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
No, you think it's he was in Lord of the Rings.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
Do you think Sam Wise is now the role he's
defined by and not Mikey from the game?

Speaker 1 (01:13:17):
I do. I mean not for me because I'm a
child of the eighties, but I think just in general, Yeah,
I think more people recognize him as Sam Wise than
is Mikey.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Interesting, I'll always think of him as Mikey first, but
I think that, yeah, once he was Sam Wise, that
became his iconic known for a role.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Yeah, yeah, I will always think of him as Mikey. Yeah,
Lin's any final thoughts.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
I feel like we need to go back and give
Mama just a little.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Bit more Mama for Telly.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
Mama needs a little bit more credit.

Speaker 1 (01:13:51):
But you know, and we didn't even really talk about
Joey Pants, who is probably maybe the biggest star in
this whole movie. I mean, not in the movie, but
by name, by name, after all, you know, he's been
in the Sopranos, He's I mean, I can't even begin
to name all the things he's been in. But n't

(01:14:11):
wear a hair piece, Yes, exactly, the Fugitive. You know,
he's just fantastic. So he's probably was the biggest star.
We haven't even talked about him. We haven't talked about
a whole lot about Mom or for Telly. We've spent
most of our time talking about Chunk and Data and
a little bit about Mikey and a little bit about
Josh Brolin, and that's it. Nobody even mentioned they thought

(01:14:32):
Carry Green was terrible. And I know she gets a
lot of flack from a lot of people. I didn't
think she was that bad. I don't really mind her,
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:39):
And Martha Plimpton too, I thought they were both great.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Yeah, well that's the first mention of Martha Plimton other
than we They read the cast and she went on
to do bigger and better things. But yeah, I thought
she was fantastic too.

Speaker 3 (01:14:50):
I will say this as I know we're sliding into
home here. But I was I've always thought it was
a little weird. They tried to at the last second
shoehorn this mouth and Martha Plimpton relationship.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
Yeah, that was strange, right, Yeah, I thought that was
a little strange. They could have just left it it
at what it was. I know that they kind of
seemed to hate each other throughout most of the movie,
but I didn't. I felt like they could have made it,
you know, made up without making it seem like there
was anything romantic there or any any kind of feelings there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
Right, agreed, But she was great, And I don't think
there's a weak member of the cast except for Troy,
and uh, you know that was it really.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
Yeah, And.

Speaker 3 (01:15:38):
If I had a trash can somebody, I would trash
can Troy for sure. In fact, one time I had
this idea. I had it in my head. I was
gonna make this T shirt, a Gooney's T shirt with
just the bucket with the sweater hanging off it, and it
was gonna say, never ride up Troy's bucket.

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
That's fantastic. Podcast Lane will do that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
Yeah, somebody do. I never got around doing it, but yeah,
it's just so that's good. Life advice. Never ride up
Troy's bucket.

Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Never. Yeah, I I kind of agree with you. I
think this is a perfect movie. There's there's several of them.
I don't know several of them. There's a handful of
them for sure in the eighties. But I would put
this up against Back to the Future, Karate Kid, that
kind of thing. Those, to me, are the perfect movies
of the eighties.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
Oh, pump, pump your breaks there, Jim uh you just
said Back to the Future. That that is the nothing
comes close to Back to the Future.

Speaker 1 (01:16:34):
Really nothing, not No.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
That's the only movie I've ever given a perfect ten to.
It's the only perfect movie to me. I'd give Goonies
a solid like eight or nine. But yeah, back to
the Future to me is in a league of their own.

Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
There are a lot of people out there that would
agree with you. All Right, Well, this has been a
lot of fun. Yeah, James, thank you so much for
joining us. Thank you for what you did for one
hundredth episode first, but thanks so much for joining us.
It's been a long time coming, and I'm glad we
could finally make this happen.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Yeah, I'm through. Let me just say how much this
has meant to me. You guys. I probably don't realize this,
but there was a trip I was making back. I
was driving back from Orlando. I had taken the family
to Disney World, and we had a twenty one hour
drive to get back to Wisconsin. And it was late
and everyone in the van is sleeping. I'm stressed out

(01:17:30):
like crazy, and I find your guys' podcast. I don't
even remember how I found it or how I came
across it, but you guys literally took me from Georgia
to Wisconsin. And there's something so awesome about your dynamic
the two of you have. It's very comforting. It's like
you guys have become like my comfort podcast.

Speaker 1 (01:17:48):
And why thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Really appreciate that, And so I think I might have
messaged probably Jim, I don't know who it was, the
man's the accounts, But when I got back from that
trip was probably the first time I had reached out
to just say, you guys are awesome. But yeah, that
that trip meant a lot to me, and you guys
are awesome, and this is a big thrill for me
to get.

Speaker 1 (01:18:04):
To be on Oh wow, thank you so much. That's
that's about the best compliment we ever get. Yes, yeah,
thank you, James, No really, yeah, it was me that
you reached out to, and I was blown away then
and even more blown away now than I get to
talk to you and hear that story. But yeah, I'm
glad that you got home safe. I feel the same.
Not that your podcast is the comfort podcast for me,

(01:18:27):
but it's the podcast if I just want to laugh
my butt off, that's the podcast I listened to.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
We could never be a comfort podcast. It's too stressful.
What we do is too stressful. But yeah, it's good,
all right. So what you got coming up Wednesday, July
ninth is going to be the premiere of Watcher Texas Rangers,
So you could find that on whatever platforms. That's our
brand new show we're launching. And then on all those
same podcast platforms every Friday you can find a new

(01:18:52):
episode of Bad Movies Rule. We got towards the end
of July, beginning of August. We got a big one coming.
We're doing Star Wars episode two, Attack of the Clones,
which we've overcovered before. So yeah, excited for that one
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:19:06):
That's definitely and I'm a huge Star Wars fan. That's
definitely a bad movie.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
There's only four Star Wars movies that qualify for our
show because it's got to be rotten on either audience
score or critics score, and episode one and two and
then eight and nine, just the two bookends on the
nine movies are the only ones that qualify.

Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Makes sense. So ironically enough, this episode will air on
July the ninth, So get out. After you listen to this,
go check out watching Texas Ranger.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
Watch your Texas Rangers.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
Tevin Finger.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
Yeah, I think we're gonna release two episodes that launched,
so there should be at least two out there for
you to listen to.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
I love it all right, Well, thanks again, James, we
appreciate it, Lindsay.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Any final thoughts, I would say, if you haven't subscribe
to go ahead and click that little subscribe button so
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Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
Of course, always, you can reach out to us on
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Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
Until next time, I'm Jim and I'm Lindsay, and we
are Children of eight