The Latch Key Kids
We are two guys, who were latch key kids growing up. Our Mission is to explore different genres of the big and small screens, and peel back the what, how, and why. We will discuss this through the lens of two Gen X dads. So sit back and relax Mom & Dad won't be back for at least another hour!
Episodes
45 episodes
My Favorite Year Part III: Secret Of My Success
By the Spring of 1987 it was evident that the tides were shifting all around us - leaders, music, television, and of course motion pictures Behind us already in ‘87 was Stallone, Freddy Kruger, Woody Allen, The Coen Brothers, S...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:27:07
My Favorite Year (Special Edition) Planes Trains Automobiles
They say things happen in threes and in 1987 three of the best Hollywood had to offer joined together to tell a story that even now, 35 years after its release leaves a lasting impact. John Hughes, Steve Martin, and John Candy were quite ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:26:22
My Favorite Year Part I: Dead Of Winter
Somewhere in the middle of the 20th century’s most eclectic decade one year helped define the world through its movies, music, TV, and sports. I asked many would say that year was 1984 or 1989 – and while they might not be wrong The Latch...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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1:50:26
Ready For Prime Time Players Part XI: What Is That Velvet?
The 1970’s had been a time of great upheaval and nowhere was this more apparent than The United States of America the times were so turbulent that even a stuffy, censored, and money hungry industry such as television took a chance on group of i...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:56:01
Ready For Prime Time Players Part X: Tuesday’s Gone
By 1980 the last TV show to have started in the 1960’s Hawaii 5-0 was ending its run and shooting had already started in Hawaii on its replacement Magnum P.I. By 1980 the path was clear for a one time B movie actor to broker his way throu...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:36:36
Ready For Prime Time Players Part IX: It’s In The Hole
In August 1978 on the shores of beautiful Hurricane Lake in picturesque Ontario Canada sat Camp White Pine. Also sitting on the shores of beautiful Hurricane Lake in picturesque Ontario Canada at Camp White Pine were Ivan Reitman and...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:34:21
Ready For Prime Time Players Part VIII: The Pepsi Syndrome
By 1978 New York was changing - The city was broke - Billy Martin got fired - Studio 54 was making more money than the mafia. While down at Studio 8H things were changing for our “Not Ready For Prime Time Players” - in fact they weren’t even ca...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:03:17
Ready For Prime Time Players Part VII: It Just Popped In There
From the golden age of SNL one man transcended the writing room, the stage, the silver screen, the recording studio, and the egos. One man was able to; for the most part not only avoid self-destruction but put his friendship and sanity on...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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1:29:30
Ready For Prime Time Players Part VI: Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger, Cheeseburger
By the Fall of 1977 New York City had emerged from the Summer of Sam, Studio 54 was opened wide, and Reggie Jackson was about to become Mr. October. Meanwhile at Studio 8H the die had been cast after a remarkable first two seasons of what...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:12:18
Ready For Prime Time Players Part V: We’re On A Mission From God
March 5, 2022, marked the 40th anniversary of the death of John Belushi. In many ways and for many people, especially those who loved him, his death served as a wakeup call to the dangers of a lifestyle where there were no holds barred, n...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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1:35:51
Ready For Prime Time Players Part IV: Feelin’ Alright
On May 17, 1976, in Los Angeles at the 28th Prime Time Emmy Awards hosted by John Denver and Mary Tyler Moore something amazing happened….NBC’s Saturday Night took home the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy / Variety or Music Series beating out the l...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:11:36
Ready For Prime Time Players Part III: It’s A Quest…A Quest For Fun
July 1976 was a busy month in New York City. The United States was in the midst of not only celebrating its highly marketed bi-centennial, but it was also in the middle of figuring out who was going to run the country in its 201st year. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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1:21:09
Ready For Prime Time Players Part II: Goodnight And Have A Pleasant Tomorrow
In October 1975 Muhammad Ali was finishing his trilogy of battles in the ring with Joe Frazier winning by TKO in the 14th round in the ‘Thrilla In Manila’…The Boston Red Sox were making World Series history in Game 6 with Carlton Fisk’s “Goo...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:04:25
Ready For Prime Time Players Part I: Home For The Holidays
Between Christmas 1983 and Christmas 1989 three movies would be released staring four of our original five “Ready For Prime Time” actors, all five of these actors came from the “Not Ready For Prime Time Players” lineup over the first five seaso...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:44:45
Breaking Bond Part XXIX: We Have All The Time In The World
With The Latch Key Kids 1st season in the books and the holidays upon us it’s time to sit back by the fire, enjoying perhaps a glass of Bollinger or a bottle of Heineken, checking our Omega or Rolex watches, while staring out at our BMW or Asto...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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1:14:12
Breaking Bond Part XXVIII: No Time To Die
1040 days….that was the amount of time between December 3, 2018, when the cameras started rolling at Pinewood Studios for EON Production’s 25th James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’, and October 8, 2021, when a COVID weary world was finally allowed ...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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1:53:48
Breaking Bond Part XXVII: SPECTRE
On October 26, 2015, an old friend was finally able to come home again. It had been 34 years since he had been dropped down a smokestack by Roger Moore and 44 years since he slinked away from Sean Connery in a midget submarine. Yet ...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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1:52:02
Breaking Bond Part XXVI: Skyfall
On February 24, 2013, after three tries over 50 years – the fourth time proved to be the charm as Adele took home the Academy Award for Best Song. In fact, ‘Skyfall’, EON Productions 23rd James Bond film, would take home two Oscars tha...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:39:50
Breaking Bond Part XXV: Quantum Of Solace
They say your sophomore year is always the hardest - you’re no longer the new kid in town and you’re now expected to know what to do - so after what many believe was the biggest Bond entrance of all time in 2006’s ‘Casino Royale’, all eyes w...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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1:41:15
Breaking Bond Part XXIV: Casino Royale
“Breaking Bond Part Twenty-Four: Casino Royale” They say you can do anything if you put your mind to it. For proof of this all one would have to do is look at Lieutenant Comma...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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1:59:02
Breaking Bond Part XXIII: Die Another Day
2002 marked the 40th anniversary of the release of Dr. No - the very first EON produced James Bond film. So, to mark that 40th anniversary the 20th EON produced Bond film ‘Die Another Day’ would be released. This would be the fir...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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1:53:24
Breaking Bond Part XXII: The World Is Not Enough
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was on three nights a week, Robbie Williams was singing about the Millennium, and everyone was preparing for Y2K it must have been 1999. Prince did warn us that this was going to be a pretty wild year! ...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:25:23
Breaking Bond Part XXI: Tomorrow Never Dies
1995’s ‘Goldeneye’ made Cubby Broccoli proud as it not only reintroduced James Bond to the world after a 6-year absence, but it also introduced Pierce Brosnan as the new 007…’Goldeneye’ was not only the biggest Bond debut ever it was the bigges...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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1:45:57
Breaking Bond Part XX: Goldeneye
Holly Gennaro once said to John McClane he needed to wake up and smell the 90’s. By June the 8th 1994 EON Productions was ready to tell the world they had in fact woken up and Bond was back. While Pierce Bronson was far from a surpr...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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2:01:51
Breaking Bond Part XIX: License To Kill
The summer of 1989 was a summer unlike any other in Hollywood history. Sequels from mega hits ‘Lethal Weapon’ and Ghostbusters’, and even Star Trek joined the summer of the Bat as Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson were about to change ...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:39:51