December 23, 2025 • 17 mins
Clark celebrates 35 years of the Christmas classic Home Alone. From Kevin’s booby traps to the unforgettable one liners, this movie has become a holiday tradition for generations. For most of the show, it is hands down their favorite Christmas movie of all time. Is Home Alone at the top of your holiday watch list too? Let us know in the comments. Get more show at MZNOW
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're a bound to enter the world of Michael Zavalla.
Now your turn back, Michael those.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Red Bull do uh or something like this.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Wow, I'm just bain that's what you're thinking about.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is m Z now. Thirty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Uh, they released Home Alone, one of the best, I
would say, the best Christmas movie of all time.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh hang on, Clark, there you go. Top five definitely, okay,
without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
His number one is courses Diehard sound Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh, I mean he has a song on Spotify about it. Yeah,
but you do.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, there's a well I mean I don't but
there's a great song about die Hard on.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
No you have a song.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You and oh yeah, I forget Oh my gosh, I
love that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I drank a lot and son, so don't forget that
terrible song so terrible.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It was great. Uh, it was all right.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He did a whole thing with his Uh let me see,
I can find it. I forgot all about it. That
was pre pre AI reset.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, it's gone south since then, but possibly this was
like the pinnacle of Clark and Clark AI.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah, without a doubt, where is it? I want
to I mean I don't have Spotify. I looked for
it all day today. It's an upside down swear. It
was called is die Hard a christmash?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It was by Clark and Clark. Yeah, but I can't
find it on there. I don't know my phone is.
Oh here it is, Uh, I'll find it. Maybe I
pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I had. I had a dispute with my distribution compod probably,
so I pulled.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A bunch of stuff. That's my lawyer about to know
this song.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
No, it was about Uh, it was about a Diddy song.
I'll talk about it.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was a whole thing. Let's not talk about it.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, I don't want Diddy coming after me. H. Clark
wanted to do this whole thing about home alone. So
I'll turn it over to Clark and uh see where
it goes.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So November tenth, nineteen ninety, soon this film was date. Well,
it's weird. That's also my sister's sixteenth birthday. But whatever
I get off mic now.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I was released nineteen ninety. I remember being eight years old,
and I think this was an error where they were
still releasing films like films would have this massive marketing campaign,
and I remember thinking that Home Alone was it felt
like it was a much bigger movie than what you
felt like you were going to see. And I know
(02:58):
that sounds kind of weird, convolute of what I just said,
because I thought we were just gonna go see a
funny movie about Christmas, and it actually ended up being
number one in the box office almost until Easter. So
if you think about, like how crazy that is for
a movie to be popular, oh, I well, yes it is.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It is.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Let me explain it to you in the form of
a Christmiss time in la and there's no snow inside.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's on Spotify because yeah, what's the name is Diehard?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
A Christmas First Time by Clark and Clark? Any other
hits by Clark and Clark? That was your only one hit?
Wonder I didn't get anything out of it either, right,
neither did I.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I still screamed in meetings that were run up place.
So uh. But going back to the Home Alone thing,
I don't think that there was ever a Christmas movie
that remains so popular that you were watching it an
Easter time and apparently, well, but I mean usually like
(03:59):
even now and then, like Christmas movies ever ever, hardly
ever released.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
In the Christmas time anymore.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
They used to be in the eighties and nineties, there
was always something that came out Christmas Day without a doubt,
because that was like a tradition me and my family
used to do, is on Christmas Day, we'd go see
whatever movie is coming out that day.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right by the way, that reminds me, I might go
watch die Hard Christmas Day at the Texts Theater.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I was talking.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I was at there the other day and I was
talking to those guys, and it's a tradition apparently, so
I thought that'd be kind of.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
A cool thing to do for that be cool if
they did at midnight it's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's well, it's like seven o'clock in the evening.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And then they pay people to take over the theater. Yeah,
the lucky winner gets the free themselves. But yeah, the
home alone thing. I'll tell you this. Like soundtrack, John Williams, fantastic.
Chris Columbus always makes a great movie. It's sett in
a great great probably one of the better settings. You know,
(04:55):
you got suburban rich Chicago. It's snowing. The comedy with
just with the the bumbling Burglars, The Wet Bandits, Joe Peshy,
Daniel Stern. I mean, it's a it's a listen. It's
not the greatest movie ever made, but it might be
one of the better kind of happy, go lucky Christmas
films where you don't have to sit there and think
(05:16):
about anything being so serious other than a missing child.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So and no one thinks about that, even the people
in the movie.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, And that's the other great thing about this movie
is that it's literally about someone that left their kid
at home and that those parents would be would be
written up by child Protective Services if that movie was
made today, which lends credence to the other. The other
thing about this movie. You could not make home alone today, no,
like no chance, Like you're facetiming your kid. As soon
(05:48):
as you realize what's going on, you're probably even if
you call the police department said like, hey, my child
is home alone, they will jump up to protect that
child quicker than anything. Not like the way it would
was predicted or foretold in the movie.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
It would have been a thirty minute TV show instead
of a movie.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Then yeah, it would have been or it would have
been an America's most wanted episode possibly, But here's the thing, like,
I don't think that there was ever a Christmas movie
in my opinion, that had that kind of popularity tour.
They were able to produce a sequel within two years
that also still maintained that level of popularity. Because there's
(06:30):
a lot of times like as what do you think, Mike,
is hommeblone one better or Home Alone two better?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I like them both and some I've already seen homelone
one twice this year already, so I'm looking forward to
Home Alone two, and sometimes I well like homelone two's
this year, homelone ones next year.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're great. I love.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Part of why we wanted to do this is because
you went and saw it at the Texas Theater with mcauleay.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Culkame, Well, it wasn't the text theater was a wasn't
a Grand Prairie whatever that place is.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
How was that? Though? It was good?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Uh So McCauley called and did this tour. I think
he just wrapped it last week. But they would go
around and they would show the movie and then he
would come out and do like A Q and A
and it would be twenty minutes and it's mostly for kids,
because you know, I didn't realize, you know, people our
age and now probably you know usually have kids. I
forgot about that, and they're getting them into the movie, right,
and so you know they would do all that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It was really cool.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
They did a great job except for the My only
complaint was the screen in which they're showing the movie.
The stage is like, you know, really wide, and then
a quarter of the stage is the screen.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So they got a bunch of curtains and stuff just
a small screen. They just had it right there.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The Yeah, and I'm like, you could have made the
screen any smaller. But I thought it was good. I
wish they did like a meet and greet with They
probably did. I just I didn't buy the package.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You're going to talk to him about DMX?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I was, yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna do.
I say, Hey, remember when you had that pizza band
and we watched DMX together and yeah, we would have
probably poured one out for the homie. Yeah, me and
Mack doing that? Sure, Mac and Me is actually a
movie I met working on. No, No, don't don't go that, right,
they might get sued. I don't know about that. They
(08:10):
gots an original idea called Mac and Me. It's about
me and mccullay cull can watching DMX together. Okay, it
was a lot of It was a lot of fun.
So anyway, No, I thought it was good. I would say,
tell people to go see it, but it's over so.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well there's well, there's one thing though that like, and
I kind of brought this up the last time we
talked about I think Stranger Things and why it's popular
and why maybe kids would find Home Alone to be popular,
is that they don't live.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That life the kids. Yeah, no, not at all, not
like I mean, did we at the time though I.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Don't know, man, because I could I can remember now,
not me going to the grocery store to do the
weekly shopping, but I can remember being eight years old
and going into a grocery store, purchasing things, walking out
with them, and then walking.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Home with cigarettes for your parents. I never did no,
that was no, I never did that.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
But but the whole thing is that, like you know
the picture of him, the video him walking down the
street with two or three four and then just the
bags just explode. Like that's not I don't I don't
know how like maybe a kid could find that funny
because they're like, Wow, look at that poor kid walking
around doing work.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then do you.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Ever think about how they got the bags to open
like that? Will know, I've been thinking about that a lot.
How did they time it's just right? I'd be long
the bet they probably like put slits of like, you know,
just you know, but then to have them actually split at.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The right time, put squibs in there.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Maybe, Yeah, that was their whole special effects budget. Yeah,
I was right there. That was back tripping.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, forget the forget the home evasion.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And lighting Joe Pesci's head on fire. Yeah, like that
was the whole special effect budget.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We have a Joe Pesci up here somewhere that maybe
it's that one.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Where there's two of them up there.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Actually, I mean they did go wildly over budget with
this film.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, so, but I love it. I love so.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I kind of think that there would not be a
Home Alone without Diehard.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What I tole with that?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Think about it? I mean it's kind of the same movie.
I mean, sure, it's not takes place during like a
Christmas party, but they come into a building. He's kind
of like, you know, meandering or well not me and her,
but he's like.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Exactly Kevin mccowis is offensive exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So I mean they're just both kind of like you're
wheeling around the house or the structure and they don't
know where he's at. And and then there's like a
you know, yeah, actually in P.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Five violence violence Christmas plus violence.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Okay, well what if you well, what if you flip
the roles? What if you put Kevin McAllister at the
Nakotomy Plaza?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I would wat, Yeah, that might be fun. Kevin McAllister
could do the plaza, but what's his name? Can't do
Bruce will dude alone. I agree with that. I agree
with that.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
You don't think you think John McLean couldn't take down
the Wet BANDA No, that's he would have.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He would have done.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It been a shorter movie. He would have just shot
him and that would be done. Yeah, that's it. It'd
be like the Clark version of Taken. Now I got
a machine gun until the authority show.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, now I got a machine gun. You filled
the animal. It would have been good.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I think I think McLean would have done all right,
would have done all right, we'll film it later. Okay,
good deal, good deal. So yeah, thirtieth fifth anniversary alone.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I just yeah, well I would have asked, Uh, you know,
we were talking a little before this that Clark and
Brenda have both been to the home alone house?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Right, Yes? Is it? How far is it from downtown?
That was probably about seven hours.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I don't remember how far it was from downtown downtown Chicago.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yeah, it's I swear that some of my has talked
about every time he goes to Chicago, but he never goes.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It was a bit of a drive from what I
remember why, but not too far, maybe an hour.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I'll never see it now because like is like.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was it closer, very close? I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's because it's in the same kind of neighborhood or
area of the world that like the Ferris Bueler House
is in. Yes, like even Ferris Bueler's like high school.
Uh John Hughes or no, it was a Chris Columbus
I forget it was.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yes, yeah, John Hughes was the part of I think
he'll write it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I mean all the all like Uncle Buck, like his
was all like suburban neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I want to say that like the Uncle Buck house
was the same house from Ferris Bueler, but I could
be wrong on that, but it's all they're all in
Winneca or Neighborville, that part of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, they're very.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yeah, you don't have not an hour drive, but definitely
like you go into I don't know, Holland Park or
Frisco maybe at the very most so. But it's a
nice house. Not as big as it seems on the camera,
that's the thing. Not nearly as big as it looks
like on camera.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
A lot further set back from the road than I thought,
well from what I remember.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
But it's also was twenty five years ago when I
went and saw or thirty years you watching theaters, Well
he was talking about the house.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
No, the house gott oh no.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I remember going seeing it in the theater and that
was just a I don't think I've ever been in
a movie theater where I had heard that much laughter.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I mean, I just I got to think about like
the funniest movie where everybody in that theater is like
laughing about the pist pants is home alone?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
What what? What movie was? It was?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, I've ever walked out of PE's big adventure. But
you know, so, which was your favorite Clark? Between one
and two? Man, I have to go one. Okay, I
have to go one because I just kind of feel
like a child wandering around New York City talism. This
is svench to disbelief, Like I just but you're okay
(14:02):
with like a child setting up really advanced traps.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well he did that in New York, so he would
have been trafficked in the second one.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That that's true. Yeah, Brenda, which was your favorite?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
One?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Or two?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Gosh?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I love how nobody's asking. Also, three doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I never saw It's not Cannon. I will say, me
and my siblings loved three growing up.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We watched that, and I'm gonna have to watch it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I would say, I don't know, I really I like too,
but I just love movies set New york Y. Yeah,
Like I think New York has such like a beautiful
like vibe during Christmas. Yes, so I would say too.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I've been trying to find a reason to go to
New York during Christmas, but it's like I just can't
justify it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You have to go.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
You have to do a documentary on mugging.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I mean, we were walking the streets of New York
at four a m. And nobody, nobody was on the streets.
We were the people they say, New York's the city
that never sleeps, and it was aep. They were all asleep.
We were the ones and we're from Texas and we're like,
where's everything at? Where's everything? You couldn't even get to
a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I was.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I was like, Hey, where can I go to the bathroom.
He's like, he can find out, buddy. Yeah, I love
New York. I've been really also trying. This is totally
off subject here, but I've been watching Dick Van Dyke's instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Years old man, one hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And whenever they have because him and his wife will
throw these little parties in at their house and you
can it's like four or five hundred bucks. He looks
the same too. Wait a minute. They charged to go
to his party. Oh yeah, for the at the house.
It's like a big thing, like they do a performance
on his wife and.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Then let people come to your house for free. M
And it's Dick Van Dyke, you know what I mean.
It's a legend.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So they did one a few weeks ago, and I
couldn't make it. It was like they announced it like
three days before. There's no way I can get up
there that time. So I I'm waiting to tip for
them to do another one because I'd love to be
Even if I don't get to meet him, it'd be
cool to see a show or whatever they're going to
do at his house, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Before he passes away. Hope lives another you know, one
hundred years.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But it looks awesome, man. Yeah, I mean you can
see all like the veins and stuff and oh my god,
but he looks good for one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Is that the real name? Yeah? Does stage name? No? Sure,
it's from Holland.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Okay, Catherine, which one's your favorite? Oh yeah, we don't even.
Catherine just sitting there stoic.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I like the I don't like the first one.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I'll have.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, if if they're both come on, Like, if the
first one comes on, I'm putting it on.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm leaving it on the second one. I'm questionable about.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I think one thing I always wanted from the Home
Alone movie go ahead, and I always wanted I always wanted,
uh like Kevin Mcaller's Kevin McAllister's battle plan, you know,
when you like lay it out.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, I always.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Would you have framed, like, yeah, that would be that
would be a cool thing to probably have like on yeah,
framed and everything, because I thought that was your house.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You would have Declaration of Independence my house. Yeah, right,
Kevin Callister's master plan. Lewis Lewis forget what else?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Donald Trump on January sixth? Oh that picture you took
of Donald Trump? And no, it's it's him like give
him the fist pump after being shot. Yeah, that's that's frame.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And then uh and that's it. Right, Let's see addiction letter.
Maybe frame the Actually they don't frame them. They because
they want you to be able to read them to
get him out of the frame. Jamaican flag maybe yeah, okay,
and that's it. Yeah all right. Anything else before we go.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I should probably hire a decorator. Well, I think Brent
is really good atashion. We can talk about that afterwards. Fast.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Red Bull do uh or something like this.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I can't hear you.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Wow, I'm just bain that's what you're thinking about.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
This is m Z now. Thirty five years ago.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Uh, they released Home Alone, one of the best, I
would say, the best Christmas movie of all time.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Oh hang on, Clark, there you go. Top five definitely, okay,
without a doubt.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
His number one is courses Diehard sound Oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh, I mean he has a song on Spotify about it. Yeah,
but you do.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah, yeah, there's a well I mean I don't but
there's a great song about die Hard on.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
No you have a song.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
You and oh yeah, I forget Oh my gosh, I
love that.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I totally forgot about that.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I drank a lot and son, so don't forget that
terrible song so terrible.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
It was great. Uh, it was all right.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
He did a whole thing with his Uh let me see,
I can find it. I forgot all about it. That
was pre pre AI reset.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, it's gone south since then, but possibly this was
like the pinnacle of Clark and Clark AI.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah, without a doubt, where is it? I want
to I mean I don't have Spotify. I looked for
it all day today. It's an upside down swear. It
was called is die Hard a christmash?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:52):
It was by Clark and Clark. Yeah, but I can't
find it on there. I don't know my phone is.
Oh here it is, Uh, I'll find it. Maybe I
pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I had. I had a dispute with my distribution compod probably,
so I pulled.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
A bunch of stuff. That's my lawyer about to know
this song.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
No, it was about Uh, it was about a Diddy song.
I'll talk about it.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was a whole thing. Let's not talk about it.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Yeah, I don't want Diddy coming after me. H. Clark
wanted to do this whole thing about home alone. So
I'll turn it over to Clark and uh see where
it goes.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
So November tenth, nineteen ninety, soon this film was date. Well,
it's weird. That's also my sister's sixteenth birthday. But whatever
I get off mic now.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I was released nineteen ninety. I remember being eight years old,
and I think this was an error where they were
still releasing films like films would have this massive marketing campaign,
and I remember thinking that Home Alone was it felt
like it was a much bigger movie than what you
felt like you were going to see. And I know
(02:58):
that sounds kind of weird, convolute of what I just said,
because I thought we were just gonna go see a
funny movie about Christmas, and it actually ended up being
number one in the box office almost until Easter. So
if you think about, like how crazy that is for
a movie to be popular, oh, I well, yes it is.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
It is.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Let me explain it to you in the form of
a Christmiss time in la and there's no snow inside.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
It's on Spotify because yeah, what's the name is Diehard?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
A Christmas First Time by Clark and Clark? Any other
hits by Clark and Clark? That was your only one hit?
Wonder I didn't get anything out of it either, right,
neither did I.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I still screamed in meetings that were run up place.
So uh. But going back to the Home Alone thing,
I don't think that there was ever a Christmas movie
that remains so popular that you were watching it an
Easter time and apparently, well, but I mean usually like
(03:59):
even now and then, like Christmas movies ever ever, hardly
ever released.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
In the Christmas time anymore.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
They used to be in the eighties and nineties, there
was always something that came out Christmas Day without a doubt,
because that was like a tradition me and my family
used to do, is on Christmas Day, we'd go see
whatever movie is coming out that day.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Right by the way, that reminds me, I might go
watch die Hard Christmas Day at the Texts Theater.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I was talking.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I was at there the other day and I was
talking to those guys, and it's a tradition apparently, so
I thought that'd be kind of.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
A cool thing to do for that be cool if
they did at midnight it's Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It's well, it's like seven o'clock in the evening.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
And then they pay people to take over the theater. Yeah,
the lucky winner gets the free themselves. But yeah, the
home alone thing. I'll tell you this. Like soundtrack, John Williams, fantastic.
Chris Columbus always makes a great movie. It's sett in
a great great probably one of the better settings. You know,
(04:55):
you got suburban rich Chicago. It's snowing. The comedy with
just with the the bumbling Burglars, The Wet Bandits, Joe Peshy,
Daniel Stern. I mean, it's a it's a listen. It's
not the greatest movie ever made, but it might be
one of the better kind of happy, go lucky Christmas
films where you don't have to sit there and think
(05:16):
about anything being so serious other than a missing child.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
So and no one thinks about that, even the people
in the movie.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Yeah, And that's the other great thing about this movie
is that it's literally about someone that left their kid
at home and that those parents would be would be
written up by child Protective Services if that movie was
made today, which lends credence to the other. The other
thing about this movie. You could not make home alone today, no,
like no chance, Like you're facetiming your kid. As soon
(05:48):
as you realize what's going on, you're probably even if
you call the police department said like, hey, my child
is home alone, they will jump up to protect that
child quicker than anything. Not like the way it would
was predicted or foretold in the movie.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
It would have been a thirty minute TV show instead
of a movie.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Then yeah, it would have been or it would have
been an America's most wanted episode possibly, But here's the thing, like,
I don't think that there was ever a Christmas movie
in my opinion, that had that kind of popularity tour.
They were able to produce a sequel within two years
that also still maintained that level of popularity. Because there's
(06:30):
a lot of times like as what do you think, Mike,
is hommeblone one better or Home Alone two better?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I like them both and some I've already seen homelone
one twice this year already, so I'm looking forward to
Home Alone two, and sometimes I well like homelone two's
this year, homelone ones next year.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
They're great. I love.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Part of why we wanted to do this is because
you went and saw it at the Texas Theater with mcauleay.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Culkame, Well, it wasn't the text theater was a wasn't
a Grand Prairie whatever that place is.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
How was that? Though? It was good?
Speaker 3 (06:57):
Uh So McCauley called and did this tour. I think
he just wrapped it last week. But they would go
around and they would show the movie and then he
would come out and do like A Q and A
and it would be twenty minutes and it's mostly for kids,
because you know, I didn't realize, you know, people our
age and now probably you know usually have kids. I
forgot about that, and they're getting them into the movie, right,
and so you know they would do all that.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It was really cool.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
They did a great job except for the My only
complaint was the screen in which they're showing the movie.
The stage is like, you know, really wide, and then
a quarter of the stage is the screen.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So they got a bunch of curtains and stuff just
a small screen. They just had it right there.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
The Yeah, and I'm like, you could have made the
screen any smaller. But I thought it was good. I
wish they did like a meet and greet with They
probably did. I just I didn't buy the package.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You're going to talk to him about DMX?
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I was, yeah, that's exactly what I was gonna do.
I say, Hey, remember when you had that pizza band
and we watched DMX together and yeah, we would have
probably poured one out for the homie. Yeah, me and
Mack doing that? Sure, Mac and Me is actually a
movie I met working on. No, No, don't don't go that, right,
they might get sued. I don't know about that. They
(08:10):
gots an original idea called Mac and Me. It's about
me and mccullay cull can watching DMX together. Okay, it
was a lot of It was a lot of fun.
So anyway, No, I thought it was good. I would say,
tell people to go see it, but it's over so.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well there's well, there's one thing though that like, and
I kind of brought this up the last time we
talked about I think Stranger Things and why it's popular
and why maybe kids would find Home Alone to be popular,
is that they don't live.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That life the kids. Yeah, no, not at all, not
like I mean, did we at the time though I.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Don't know, man, because I could I can remember now,
not me going to the grocery store to do the
weekly shopping, but I can remember being eight years old
and going into a grocery store, purchasing things, walking out
with them, and then walking.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
Home with cigarettes for your parents. I never did no,
that was no, I never did that.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
But but the whole thing is that, like you know
the picture of him, the video him walking down the
street with two or three four and then just the
bags just explode. Like that's not I don't I don't
know how like maybe a kid could find that funny
because they're like, Wow, look at that poor kid walking
around doing work.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
And then do you.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Ever think about how they got the bags to open
like that? Will know, I've been thinking about that a lot.
How did they time it's just right? I'd be long
the bet they probably like put slits of like, you know,
just you know, but then to have them actually split at.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
The right time, put squibs in there.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Maybe, Yeah, that was their whole special effects budget. Yeah,
I was right there. That was back tripping.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah, forget the forget the home evasion.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
And lighting Joe Pesci's head on fire. Yeah, like that
was the whole special effect budget.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
We have a Joe Pesci up here somewhere that maybe
it's that one.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Where there's two of them up there.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Actually, I mean they did go wildly over budget with
this film.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Yeah, so, but I love it. I love so.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
I kind of think that there would not be a
Home Alone without Diehard.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What I tole with that?
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Think about it? I mean it's kind of the same movie.
I mean, sure, it's not takes place during like a
Christmas party, but they come into a building. He's kind
of like, you know, meandering or well not me and her,
but he's like.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Exactly Kevin mccowis is offensive exactly.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
So I mean they're just both kind of like you're
wheeling around the house or the structure and they don't
know where he's at. And and then there's like a
you know, yeah, actually in P.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Five violence violence Christmas plus violence.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Okay, well what if you well, what if you flip
the roles? What if you put Kevin McAllister at the
Nakotomy Plaza?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I would wat, Yeah, that might be fun. Kevin McAllister
could do the plaza, but what's his name? Can't do
Bruce will dude alone. I agree with that. I agree
with that.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
You don't think you think John McLean couldn't take down
the Wet BANDA No, that's he would have.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
He would have done.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
It been a shorter movie. He would have just shot
him and that would be done. Yeah, that's it. It'd
be like the Clark version of Taken. Now I got
a machine gun until the authority show.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, yeah, now I got a machine gun. You filled
the animal. It would have been good.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I think I think McLean would have done all right,
would have done all right, we'll film it later. Okay,
good deal, good deal. So yeah, thirtieth fifth anniversary alone.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
I just yeah, well I would have asked, Uh, you know,
we were talking a little before this that Clark and
Brenda have both been to the home alone house?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Right, Yes? Is it? How far is it from downtown?
That was probably about seven hours.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
I don't remember how far it was from downtown downtown Chicago.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
Yeah, it's I swear that some of my has talked
about every time he goes to Chicago, but he never goes.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It was a bit of a drive from what I
remember why, but not too far, maybe an hour.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
I'll never see it now because like is like.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
It was it closer, very close? I can't remember.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's because it's in the same kind of neighborhood or
area of the world that like the Ferris Bueler House
is in. Yes, like even Ferris Bueler's like high school.
Uh John Hughes or no, it was a Chris Columbus
I forget it was.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Yes, yeah, John Hughes was the part of I think
he'll write it.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
I mean all the all like Uncle Buck, like his
was all like suburban neighborhood.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
I want to say that like the Uncle Buck house
was the same house from Ferris Bueler, but I could
be wrong on that, but it's all they're all in
Winneca or Neighborville, that part of Chicago.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Yeah, they're very.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Yeah, you don't have not an hour drive, but definitely
like you go into I don't know, Holland Park or
Frisco maybe at the very most so. But it's a
nice house. Not as big as it seems on the camera,
that's the thing. Not nearly as big as it looks
like on camera.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
A lot further set back from the road than I thought,
well from what I remember.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
But it's also was twenty five years ago when I
went and saw or thirty years you watching theaters, Well
he was talking about the house.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
No, the house gott oh no.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
I remember going seeing it in the theater and that
was just a I don't think I've ever been in
a movie theater where I had heard that much laughter.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
I mean, I just I got to think about like
the funniest movie where everybody in that theater is like
laughing about the pist pants is home alone?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
What what? What movie was? It was?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, I've ever walked out of PE's big adventure. But
you know, so, which was your favorite Clark? Between one
and two? Man, I have to go one. Okay, I
have to go one because I just kind of feel
like a child wandering around New York City talism. This
is svench to disbelief, Like I just but you're okay
(14:02):
with like a child setting up really advanced traps.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Well he did that in New York, so he would
have been trafficked in the second one.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
That that's true. Yeah, Brenda, which was your favorite?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
One?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Or two?
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Gosh?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I love how nobody's asking. Also, three doesn't exist.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I never saw It's not Cannon. I will say, me
and my siblings loved three growing up.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
We watched that, and I'm gonna have to watch it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I would say, I don't know, I really I like too,
but I just love movies set New york Y. Yeah,
Like I think New York has such like a beautiful
like vibe during Christmas. Yes, so I would say too.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I've been trying to find a reason to go to
New York during Christmas, but it's like I just can't
justify it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
You have to go.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
You have to do a documentary on mugging.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
I mean, we were walking the streets of New York
at four a m. And nobody, nobody was on the streets.
We were the people they say, New York's the city
that never sleeps, and it was aep. They were all asleep.
We were the ones and we're from Texas and we're like,
where's everything at? Where's everything? You couldn't even get to
a bathroom.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
I was.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I was like, Hey, where can I go to the bathroom.
He's like, he can find out, buddy. Yeah, I love
New York. I've been really also trying. This is totally
off subject here, but I've been watching Dick Van Dyke's instagram.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Years old man, one hundred years old.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
And whenever they have because him and his wife will
throw these little parties in at their house and you
can it's like four or five hundred bucks. He looks
the same too. Wait a minute. They charged to go
to his party. Oh yeah, for the at the house.
It's like a big thing, like they do a performance
on his wife and.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Then let people come to your house for free. M
And it's Dick Van Dyke, you know what I mean.
It's a legend.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So they did one a few weeks ago, and I
couldn't make it. It was like they announced it like
three days before. There's no way I can get up
there that time. So I I'm waiting to tip for
them to do another one because I'd love to be
Even if I don't get to meet him, it'd be
cool to see a show or whatever they're going to
do at his house, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Before he passes away. Hope lives another you know, one
hundred years.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
But it looks awesome, man. Yeah, I mean you can
see all like the veins and stuff and oh my god,
but he looks good for one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Is that the real name? Yeah? Does stage name? No? Sure,
it's from Holland.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Okay, Catherine, which one's your favorite? Oh yeah, we don't even.
Catherine just sitting there stoic.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
I like the I don't like the first one.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I'll have.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Yeah, if if they're both come on, Like, if the
first one comes on, I'm putting it on.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I'm leaving it on the second one. I'm questionable about.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
I think one thing I always wanted from the Home
Alone movie go ahead, and I always wanted I always wanted,
uh like Kevin Mcaller's Kevin McAllister's battle plan, you know,
when you like lay it out.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Yeah, I always.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
Would you have framed, like, yeah, that would be that
would be a cool thing to probably have like on yeah,
framed and everything, because I thought that was your house.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
You would have Declaration of Independence my house. Yeah, right,
Kevin Callister's master plan. Lewis Lewis forget what else?
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Donald Trump on January sixth? Oh that picture you took
of Donald Trump? And no, it's it's him like give
him the fist pump after being shot. Yeah, that's that's frame.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
And then uh and that's it. Right, Let's see addiction letter.
Maybe frame the Actually they don't frame them. They because
they want you to be able to read them to
get him out of the frame. Jamaican flag maybe yeah, okay,
and that's it. Yeah all right. Anything else before we go.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I should probably hire a decorator. Well, I think Brent
is really good atashion. We can talk about that afterwards. Fast.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
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