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Great, scope. We're talking back to the future. Hit it. It was 1985. Rainbow Bright Color Kids averaged$9.99. The border between Gibraltar and Spain was reopened. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North American markets, and Doc and Marty began a franchise of exploring the space-time continuum. I'm your host, Jerry D with another episode of Totally Rad Christmas, the podcast that talks all things Christmas in the 80s, toys, movies, specials, music, and fads. If it was gnarly during Christmas in the 80s, we got it covered. Now joining me is a Totally Rad Christmas All-Star and a brand new guest from the Now Watch This podcast and the Dark Dad podcast. It's Joe and Lucky. Guys, how's it going?
SPEAKER_02What's up, Jerry?
SPEAKER_03Jerry, glad we could finally get back, man.
SPEAKER_06We gotta get, you know, we gotta get in so we can get our ready awards.
SPEAKER_03It's been a long time coming. I know Lucky, I know we were trying to schedule something back in May, and the schedules just kept getting messed up. So I'm glad to have you all on. Yes, finally. Right, exactly.
SPEAKER_06Glad to be here. Well, we know your your busy season just got over, right? Or or are you getting ready to go in your little off season right now? At at the store, you mean, or for the podcast? Well, the podcast never sleeps, Jerry. I know I know that. I mean, I'm I'm sure right after this one, you got another podcast that you're scheduled to be on or something.
SPEAKER_03Could be, but no, nothing quite like that. Yeah, at the store, we we have about two and a half more months, and then we'll we'll go on our vacation, which is nice. Uh it's nice, you know, just six weeks of just me time, so it's awesome. I get to catch up on all my shows, all the podcasts I haven't listened to, like all the games I haven't played. I get to do it all, and that's really cool. The show I did take like a week or two break, and now I'm I'm coming back. And this is uh close to the end here of of season two. We only have like like one or two more episodes after this one here. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, still gotta still gotta get you on our show too. Yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh man, anything, anything 80s toys, I'm all down for if it's uh I mean, you know, any kind of tie-in because I know y'all do you know movies, uh Clash of the Titans, like Crowl, any of those man? I'm down for a sword and sandals or sword and sorcery episode.
SPEAKER_06Go for well, see me with your background, Jerry. I want to get you in on a music themed ep episode. So I'm saying if we do like I I don't know how long purple rain is, but if something like that, like, or you know, Jerry would be perfect for our first Batman episode because he's I mean a Prince fan, a Batman fan, uh, and a comic book fan, you know. There's no bail, right? No bail. Uh um, we recently found out that Luck doesn't like uh Christian Bale's Batman, so oh well the voice really throws it off.
SPEAKER_05Maybe that's what it is.
SPEAKER_03If he had just gone like a little deeper, he didn't have to growl. If he had just kind of gone a little deeper, I think it would have been fine. And the martial arts style that they used, I know is is a little bit off as well. But I mean, Christopher Nolan can't go wrong with his direction. The last one though, the last one's a bit rough for me. I I think I saw it like twice, and I'm good. I don't need to see that last up. No way, yeah, yeah. It's hard to it's hard to understand, bro.
SPEAKER_02I'm okay with the characters, it's just I don't know. Maybe just y'all heard y'all heard my feelings.
SPEAKER_03Well, well, I thought Christian Bale portrayed the the best Bruce Wayne, like he had that that Playboy Bruce Wayne down, you know. Uh but other than that, uh you know, I yeah, I cried the last one, Jerry.
SPEAKER_05Like, what are you talking about? Really?
SPEAKER_06Oh man, Batman was he was gonna risk his life for all of us, Jerry. He was taking that every day if you think about it. That's true, and then he goes, and then at the end, you know, where Michael Cain sees him sitting there and he's like, I wouldn't have to say anything, you wouldn't have to say anything, but I would know that you're there. Oh, come on, guys.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, I hear you. I'm a Michael Keaton fan, I'm sorry. Anthony Wright. There you go. Hashtag that's my Batman. But you know what? If I had a time machine, I would definitely go back and convince Michael Keaton to do to do a few more rather than wait this whole time. Did you hear about that?
SPEAKER_02There was a recent article saying why he didn't continue. Schumacher, he thought he was it wasn't dark enough.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I did I read that, yeah. It's like, you know what? I get it. Schumacher totally went like the Batman 66 route, which I love Batman 66, but after seeing Tim Burton's versions, it's like you can't go back to that, you know. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I'm glad that we got Keaton come back, so you know, that's something to look forward to. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm super, super jazzed about that. So that'll be cool. Speaking of time travel in alternate dimensions, we're here to talk about back to the future and the uh and the whole franchise, everything back to the future. But like, you know, before we dive into it, like what's your guys' history or experience with back to like what do you remember about back to the future?
SPEAKER_02You know, I don't remember watching it at the movies, but I know I've seen it dozens and dozens of times. Yeah it's it's classic 80s. I mean, there's I don't know how many shows and other TV TV shows and movies that reference back to the future. It's just an all-time cult classic. I mean, you can't go wrong with with Michael J. Fox.
SPEAKER_03Completely agree. Yeah, there's something uh he brought like some sort of energy to it that I don't know if you've ever seen that that Eric Stoltz footage that you know, just a little bit of it. It's it's it's wild, man. I mean, he's like taken it so seriously. And Michael J. Fox, I mean, he's still taking it seriously, but it's like a whole new tone. There's a lot more comedy and awkwardness about it that you know, I mean, you just it was perfect for it. So I completely hear you. Definitely classic.
SPEAKER_02Talk about a hit on your ego, though. I mean, you know, they actually filmed stuff with Eric Stoltz, and they said, you know what? Nah, we don't want you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, that's oh man. I'd hate to, I'd hate to be that because I don't think I could take it, right?
SPEAKER_06Like, I mean, we we did this movie with you, but I mean, we're gonna need to bring in another guy, it's gonna cost millions of dollars to us, but we're willing to take that hit, but you know what, yeah, because they made so much more off of it, yeah.
SPEAKER_02But you know what? He came back and uh Eric Stoltz came back and did the movie Mask, and that that movie's great.
SPEAKER_06Mask was great, yeah. Yeah, but that's it, bro. That's it, nothing after that because you didn't see his face. No, so you're telling me then the new star the i mean the new back to the future will go into multi-dimensions, and then Eric Stoltz comes back as Marty.
SPEAKER_03Multiverse, multiverse of Marty's it's happening, it's happening everywhere. Well, Rick and Morty pretty much already did it, so that's very back to the future-esque.
SPEAKER_06Yes, you know, I saw another thing too, where just to talk about a little bit Tom Holland, and they had Tom Holland and and as Spider-Man and Tony Stark as Doc and uh Marty. Oh, nice, yeah. So that was that was pretty awesome. But I think for me with back to the future, I I hate to say it, but like I loved part one. Of course, part one has the the emphasis, the infamous lot that all these movies go back to, right? We talked about it. I I want to say the town square, yeah. So, what was all in that town square? Monster Squad was filmed in that town square.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I forgot I had a list, but it's like Monster Squad, Gremlins, yeah, that's right. Dozens of other movies, lethal weapon.
SPEAKER_06I want to say had something in there, so but part three is my favorite, really. There, there's and there's a lot of people that think that way.
SPEAKER_02There's a lot of people that don't think that way.
SPEAKER_06Oh, there's a lot of people that think that way, man.
SPEAKER_03You know, it's funny. I think I think growing up, part three was my favorite also, uh like when it first came out, and and like the for the first I don't know, maybe 10 years afterwards. But now, I mean, I the first one's just such a classic, it's it's hard to top, it's really hard to top, although they did try to you know to top it in a cartoon that we're gonna be talking about. Did y'all ever see the cartoon?
SPEAKER_02Because I don't remember seeing this cartoon. I don't remember seeing it at all. I mean, I knew it existed, but yeah, I never watched it before.
SPEAKER_06Well, the the cartoon ran from 91 to 94, right? Right in in its initial run, and I mean, uh I think around that age, maybe that would have aged out for for us three because I think yeah, we're right, and and then at that time, you gotta think Batman the Animated was coming out, you know, Spider-Man the animated series. So maybe we were yeah, yeah. So I don't know if we were watching Back to the Future at that at that point or at that time, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And and I could have been one of those where it was on, I think it was on at the same time as like Saved by the Bell, and uh yeah, so you know, I mean Kelly Kapowski or Back to the Future. It's I love you, Marty, but I mean it doesn't compare, sorry.
SPEAKER_02Tiffany Thieeson over them any day.
SPEAKER_06That's that's right, and then and then I I want to say it ran again because I remember I think maybe late 90s, early 2000s, it ran again on Fox Kids in the morning segment. So it would come on in the morning, and I don't know why I remember it, but I remember it coming on at that time. And one of the things I read was that the producers got away with they they were able to get a grant or something, and it got on TV because I guess a certain percentage of your cartoons have to have an educational kick to it. So I don't know if you got to see any of the episodes beyond the one that we're gonna talk about, but at the end they had Bill Knight, the science guy. Yeah, yeah, he came on, he came on a bit. Yeah, so and that was the little bit of percentage that they were able to call educational TV and able to get get themselves on TV.
SPEAKER_03Well, one thing I and we'll get into the cartoon, like the actual plot of the cartoon a little bit. I want to dive into the movies first, but one thing I did think it was cool was that they they actually got some of the voice, you know, some of the original actors back to do the voices. So, you know, what's her name, Mary Steenbergen and Tom Wilson, and and you know, so Biff and and yeah, Clara came back to do the actual voices, and then even though he didn't do a voice, uh Christopher Lloyd came back in like those little segments that would kind of intro each each episode and you know and and outro it. So it's I mean that was kind of cool that they actually did that, and and I thought uh Dan Castellanetta, you know, Homer Simpson's voice, I thought he did a pretty good job of of capturing Christopher Lloyd's.
SPEAKER_06It was cool. I found out that it was it was him that Homer was the actual voice of Doc Brown, but the other part of it, like Luck was talking about like yeah, what got me.
SPEAKER_02I mean, I don't know how many other shows did this, but when I was saw this episode, kind of reminded me. I don't know if if you remember the Super Mario Brothers show what was his name, Lou Albino as Mario oh yeah, Captain Guys Luigi, yeah. You know, they would do this little intro part, then they'd play the cartoon, and then they'd have a little something at the end. That's that's kind of what it reminded me of when I saw Christopher Lloyd there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I used to love that Mario show too. In fact, I'm I'm doing a Mario episode pretty soon, so that's gonna be fun.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, they they did a couple, they had a couple Christmas episodes, they did, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So I'm excited to dive into that, but yeah, I don't again, I don't know how popular that was, but I remember Kid Video did it too. I don't know if if you remember Kid Video from like '85, '86, and it was about a like a little teen rock band that got pulled into like a cartoon universe. So the same thing, they would like have the videos at the end and a couple of clips here and there, and it was like the actual live action. So that was another one. And and I I guess it was fairly common because it seems to be, but at the same time, it's like uh you know, Thundercats, Dungeons and Dragons. They didn't quite do it, so you know.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, well, you gotta you had to have that little percentage of it that was somewhat educational, so you see it at the at the end. I mean, I mean, we're gonna talk about it at the end of this show, and knowing is half the battle, yeah. The G.I. Joe, right? Like at the end of that, they'd have that little you know, 10 10 or 15 second clip of something that you learned something, I guess.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. I remember I the one that I remember most of speaking of G.I. Joe was when like the guys were getting tired, and so to get some energy, they were like gonna get some chocolate bars, and uh, and he's like, No, no, eat an apple instead. You know, it's that the kind of energy that'll last longer, not a sugar high. Wow, but I didn't, I guess I didn't learn the lesson because I still go for the candy bar every time. Thanks, Hawkeye. Oh man, yeah. This was back to the future was like so classic, and I'm kind of in the same boat. I don't remember seeing it in the theater, but I also just remember it always being there, you know. Like I don't remember a time when there wasn't back to the future there. And of course, Michael J. Fox, he was like just just the cool guy that that did it. I mean, he played guitar, you know, he was like in a in a rock band, he didn't care what anybody thought, and so I remember thinking, man, this guy is awesome! I want to be just like Marty, you know, and then of course Christopher Lloyd, and I remembered him from Clue, the movie, so he was like Professor Plum to me, you know, it's like, oh yeah, yeah. And so I dug, I always dug Christopher Lloyd, and I think every every little boy had a crush on uh Leah Thompson. So yes, definitely.
SPEAKER_06Well, and and that was the awkward thing for us too, right? Because I'm sure I didn't notice it as a kid, or it didn't stand out to me as hey, this is kind of weird, but then as an adult, you watch it and it's like, wait a minute, is it is his mom hidden on him? Oh yeah, yeah, she totally is. And and and that totally became that became a thing, right? Yeah, but I mean, I liked it. The thing that that I liked more as an adult than I did as a kid was Huey Lewis, you know. Oh yeah, you know, he had what he had power of love, and then the song that I can't get out of my head is uh back in time, yeah, yeah. Which is the theme song to to the cartoon show, but I mean it's a little bit more cartooned up, of course, right? Yeah, yeah. I love that song.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, yeah, you remember that with the megaphone, doesn't he say it through the megaphone too?
SPEAKER_02Not not to get off topic, but uh Leah Thompson, I remember falling in love with her. Not only this, but Howard the Duck. Howard the Duck. I knew you were gonna say that. Yes, yes, yeah man, talk about sexy, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Agreed, and Howard the Duck was that one movie that like I don't which is a Marvel movie, and it looked like a kid's movie, but it it totally wasn't no, it's not, it's definitely it's proof that George Lucas did a lot of cocaine in the 80s or something, bro.
SPEAKER_02Uh if they go, that's one thing. If they go multiverse in Marvel, I want to see that version of Howard the Duck. Just a glimpse, just like a quick shot.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's all you need. Yeah, I I I love that James Gunn threw him in there in the first uh oh and guardians, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, he comes, doesn't he come out again in uh the second?
SPEAKER_06Oh, he's in end game, and also in end game, too, yeah.
SPEAKER_03In the background, yeah, yeah. Howard the duck.
SPEAKER_06Oh man, that's crazy. And and then you know, I mean, what's crazy is I mean, we come full circle because in game they reference back to the future a lot, they do, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Right about going back in time, yeah.
SPEAKER_06You mean back to the future lied to us?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, it is definitely an interesting theory of time travel that they have, but I think my my favorite part of the whole thing was the car. I mean, who would want you know, the DeLorean is like such such a classic look now, you know? It's like who wouldn't want to drive a DeLorean?
SPEAKER_02That's like the the car of the 80s, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's debatable. I mean, the Batmobile, of course.
SPEAKER_03Well, I mean kit, I guess, too. But oh yes, or Duke of Bazard, you know, that's true, but DeLorean in general, I think I agree. I think that's like when you think of 80s car, like you think of a DeLorean, you know, yeah, futuristic where the the doors go up instead of opening out, and yeah, that's so cool, even though it was a crappy car.
SPEAKER_00It's like that's so cool.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, did the windows roll down? I hope the windows rolled down at least because how else would you order takeout? You know, like you're in the fast food complaining.
SPEAKER_06And in the 80s, you can't go to the drive-in because you're you're messing with everybody. Hey man, close your door, right? Yeah, that was that was the the thing for me. Um, and then then that that classic line at the end of part one where he's like, where we're going, we don't need roads, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and then the car just like flies away, and you're like, What?
SPEAKER_06Yeah. And I mean, the I know Jerry, you're real into the the the score and everything. I mean, that that's one of those classic scores that you hear now, and and it takes you right there to it.
SPEAKER_03Oh, totally. Alan Silvestri did a fantastic job, and there's even little traces of it in his endgame score, which is kind of cool as well. Which makes sense.
SPEAKER_06It's like, yeah, you're going back in time, but they should have had Huey Lewis in Endgame.
SPEAKER_03What a waste. Yeah, they did, you're right. They referenced back to the future so much, they should it should have had cast cameos, you know. Back in time. No, I'm just saying that back in time songs had the DeLorean flying around. Well, and DeLorean flying around. Can you just imagine, like, you know, Iron Man flying by the DeLorean?
SPEAKER_02Marty saying on your left.
SPEAKER_03Hey Doc.
SPEAKER_06Gia That was everyone's go-to, like for Marty McFly. It's like, Gia Doc. This is heavy.
SPEAKER_02Hey, wait a minute, Doc. Hey, going back to part three, uh, that's that's one of my favorites. I think that's my favorite also. But maybe because it was the most recent, I guess, for all of us. Yeah, um, yeah, but are you familiar with the the scene at the very end when Doc shows up on the train with his kids? Know what scene I'm talking about?
SPEAKER_03Yes, yeah, after the Dolorean gets smashed.
SPEAKER_02Are you familiar with the scene with his kid though? No, why? What's that? So at the very end, it's kind of uh you have to look for it, but there's this at the very end, the kid that plays burned, the little blonde kid.
SPEAKER_04Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_02While they're filming, he has to go to the restroom. And you can look this clip up, but uh there's a right there, and I don't know why the editor didn't catch it, but like he's like mimicking with the Sam, like, come here, and then he points at his like he has to go pee.
SPEAKER_01It's like that's maybe they just thought it was funny, maybe, but it but it's in the movie. It's in the movie. You gotta you gotta look. I'm gonna have to search that out.
SPEAKER_02I had no idea, and I've seen that like dozens of times, and and I don't remember. I think it's because he's in the background, it's like he didn't really notice it, but yeah, he's like he's telling them, Come here, I gotta go.
SPEAKER_03Although that's like a total kid thing to do, right? I mean, like so it makes sense. They're like, Yeah, leave it in, he's a kid, it's okay.
SPEAKER_06That's funny. So, I mean, I even like that the premise of part three is is it it's almost leads in perfectly to the cartoon because the cartoon premise is now it's him with his wife and his kids, and they can go anywhere, you know. Um you know, so it picks up right after part three, and I mean, I like that it it put them in different historical situations, right? It let them go anywhere, not just in in uh what is it, twin valley? Twin valley, right?
SPEAKER_03Hill Valley Twin Pine Hill Valley, Hill Valley, Hill Valley. You're thinking of the Twin Pine, Twin Pines Mall, Lone Pine, or uh sorry, Lone Pine Mall. Lone Pine, which again is like a really clever thing, like this movie is really well done. Bob Zemekis and Bob Gale, they you know, they sat down and and hammered it out, and and they really thought out of a lot of cool stuff like that, just little things that you're like, Oh, yeah, how about that?
SPEAKER_06I mean, I like sports almanac theme in part two. Yeah, when when you think about it, when people start talking about like, oh, what would you do if you you can go back in time? Well, I mean you would do stuff like that, right? Like I I I would try to make myself I only have one beef with that. I mean, besides going back to Kill Hitler, of course, you do that first.
SPEAKER_02I only have one one beef with the almanac. What's that? Because it was like about a stand as a comic book. And you're telling me you had all those stats.
SPEAKER_03That's right, yeah. You know, maybe the writing was just like a six-point font or something.
SPEAKER_06That is true. How about that? Spider-Man number one, right? And just save that.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_06There's a lot of things.
SPEAKER_02Buy into Apple, buy into Google.
SPEAKER_03For real. Start it yourself, you know. Steal it from Steve Jobs. Hot tub sign machine. Oh, yeah, yeah. Lugal. It's Lugal. Lugal. I like when they're like thinking of all the things that they should invent and create first. And he's like uh Zach Efron.
SPEAKER_06I mean, but really, like, that's when when Back to the Future came out, that's what you talked about, right? Like, ooh, what would you do?
SPEAKER_02We can get in time. Do you know all these time machine hot of time machine? I mean, all these shows and TV and movies about time travel, all reference back to the future. Yeah. That's how classic it was. If there wasn't back to the future, I don't know if we would have had some of this stuff we have.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, we completely agree. And it all started because Bob Gale went back home while he was doing a promotional tour for his film Used Cars. And he just started looking through his dad's yearbook and was like, Hey, I wonder if my dad and I would be friends if I was in high school. And so that's kind of how it all turned out. And right? It's like, what are you talking about? That's but it's because of that that we got this. Uh, the originally, though, I I did think it's kind of interesting there it was going to be a time machine out of a refrigerator. Like, can you imagine like them carrying a refrigerator on like a furniture dolly everywhere everywhere they go just lugging around this fridge?
SPEAKER_06Or when when he first winds up in that barn and it's as a refrigerator instead of a car, he gets shot by that farmer.
SPEAKER_03Because like, would you have you'd have to be in the fridge, right? In order for it to work.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_06That that reminds me of uh Flight of the Navigator. Remember that movie? Oh the 80s where they build their own ship. Man, that's what guts back, right?
SPEAKER_03That one Mac and Me. There's all kinds. Oh, yeah, yeah. Mac and Me, yeah. That's another good. I was always partial to uh The Last Star Fighter.
SPEAKER_02That one that is one of my favorites. Yeah, I'm just sad we never got a sequel. Maybe we'll get a reboot. I don't know.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, or uh do a sequel now. They're they're still alive. Let's let's you know, the new new generation of star fighters. I don't know. I mean, you look, I mean, they brought back Baba Fett for his Boba Fett Cobra Kai. I mean, like it's all out there, yeah. Exactly. Everything's getting redone or or or continued. So let's let's hey, let's let's do this.
SPEAKER_01Do it.
SPEAKER_06Hey, where's the next back to the future? You know, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if that'll happen. I think some Micah said it, not in his lifetime.
SPEAKER_06No, yeah, probably not. Yeah, I don't think what Michael J.
SPEAKER_03Fox is in any condition to do it, I guess. No, he hasn't really been doing it. No, he I think I mean he still will randomly make appearances as Marty, especially with Christopher Lloyd, but it they're very few and far between.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. I last show I remember him on was probably like Scrubs. So yeah, it's been a it's been a minute.
SPEAKER_03Which I mean, I I get it. You know, deal with deal with what you gotta deal with, and and you know, don't worry about acting or anything like that. But I mean, he's still he's still in like in all the interviews I've seen with him, he's still around and kicking and and seems like he's doing pretty well. So I mean, good for him.
SPEAKER_06I did see that he came out him and Christopher Lloyd came out on Jimmy Kimmel on Kimmel, yeah. As Marty McFly and Christopher Lloyd, I mean, and Doc Brown, I think that was like for the anniversary or something, yeah, something like that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. So they'll still do random appearances. Christopher Lloyd seems like I think he was kind of upset that he was known for Doc Brown at first, but he's really come around to to like playing him, so now he'll play him, it seems like at the drop of a hat, which is uh it's kind of cool, which is weird because he did the cartoon, you know, and when no one no one came back and filmed live stuff for that, except for Bill Nye.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and it was funny, like in the in the clips, like he references Bill Nye as I mean, this is pre-Bil Nye the science guy. Yeah, yeah. This is early Bill Nye, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, I just wonder how that is to be known for this one thing when you've done so many other things. Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_06Well, no one's remembering Taxi, bro.
SPEAKER_02Come on, what about uh his role in who frame Roger Rabbit?
SPEAKER_06That's yeah, that's what I remembered him from. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03The judge, right? I mean that moment, I mean he was scary, yeah. Yeah, he was, yeah, especially at the end when his eyes popped out and he had those big old cartoon eyes that were red. Oh man, that that got me. That got me. He got up and he had that screechy voice.
SPEAKER_00You mean like this? Just like that, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, when he's there and he's like he he puts that glove on and he just dips the he dips the shoe into the dip.
SPEAKER_05Oh man, that yeah, this stuff as kids.
SPEAKER_03This was kids' movies for us. I think like like the death of Optimus Prime and the death of RTX, they like messed us up, man. RTX, oh my god. Bambi, yeah. Those are some sad, sad stuff.
SPEAKER_06Ode yeller, these were Disney movies, but Disney was making you cry, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Well, Pixar movies.
SPEAKER_03Pixar movies are awesome, yeah. Crying all those movies. So so we get uh the first one where in order to escape some what a Libyan terrorists that are trying to get uh their their plutonium back, Marty gets sent back in time, and he ends up accidentally uh taking the place of his dad for a bit as as like his mother's love interest, because they met when his dad fell out of a tree and his essentially nursed him back to health, and they kind of fell in love like that. And he's the one that actually accidentally falls out of the tree, or not falls out, but he gets hit by the car, and and so then she nurses him back to health, and so she starts to fall for him with that whole Florence Nightingale syndrome, and so then the rest of the movie literally is just Marty trying to you know put his parents back together so that he can be born, yeah. It's a crazy premise if you think about it.
SPEAKER_06Well, it it gives us that classic trope of the picture, right? That that keeps going, it keeps fading away the more the attraction from the mom switches from the dad to Marty, right? And then it gets stronger once they get back together and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_03He's able to see himself and his brother and sister in the picture, which I I always thought was a cool effect, the way that it just they kind of unframed it, you know, the it just fade away into nothing, and then when he's playing guitar and he holds up his hand and you know you start to see through his hand. Yeah, I always thought that was so cool.
SPEAKER_02I always thought though, if he was such a memorable part of their life, I would have thought they would have named their first child after him, but they waited to the third.
SPEAKER_03You know, we'll save it, we'll save it for for uh our favor. There you go. Yeah, it's a good point, but I like how he inadvertently creates rock and roll. Oh Chuck Barry. Yeah, it's your cookie, Marvin Barry. Chuck. So you there's like a lot of cool things like that. I like when he's talking about, oh, I've seen this one, you know, it's a classic.
SPEAKER_06He goes, What do you yeah, it's a rerun? He's like, What do you mean it's a rerun?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's brand new. Or he's wearing that like big puffy vest, and they're like, Hey, uh, what are you in the Coast Guard? Or you got the life preserver on.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that was classic. I like when he scares George McFly, yeah, as the alien. Oh, yeah, yeah. That was good. I always liked like Marty, but I liked his guitar playing at the end. Oh, yeah. When he just starts going off and he starts and he starts kicking everything around, and then it ends with him crawling on the floor on his back.
SPEAKER_01And they're like, What the hell?
SPEAKER_06The band just stops, yeah, and everyone's just looking at him. He's like, Well, your kids will love it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so of course, he ends up getting them back together, go back to the future, and all the changes that they've made where George actually stands up to Biff. Now he's you know, he's he's kind of changed the timeline essentially, yeah. And so you which, yeah, again, it's it's it's like, does he go back to his own future or does he go back to an alternate timeline? Like, is that a another parallel universe, or or there's another just like the corrected universe, you know? Because we do see a parallel universe later on in part two when Biff goes back in time and he changes things.
SPEAKER_06So I didn't like that part in part two. Like I didn't either the whole yeah, the the mom's with Biff now and and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_02That bothered I think what upset me the most is they went with the Elizabeth Shue instead of the original actress.
SPEAKER_03Oh, oh yeah, that that did bug me. I mean, Elizabeth Shoe was a fantastic actress, so I get why, but that kind of bugged me too. Yeah, I mean, it's like when they replaced Roadie, you know, you're like, yeah, come on.
SPEAKER_02I did hear, I mean, I don't I don't know the name of the original actress from part one, but I heard she was a replacement as well. She was some other actress that did film with Eric Stoltz.
SPEAKER_06Really? Yeah, I didn't I didn't catch that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, there was uh I don't remember her name either. There was someone else was cast, and I guess when they did the chemistry test, it was it was her and Eric Stoltz, but also because she was taller than Michael J. Fox. So uh so uh yeah, she just kind of towered over him, and so they that's when they got uh what's her name? The the the new Jennifer from part one.
SPEAKER_06Okay, tell me I wasn't the only one that got into kind of skateboarding off of this movie.
SPEAKER_02I think oh yeah, I think everybody wanted to hang on to the back of a car.
SPEAKER_06Back of a car, right?
SPEAKER_03How many kids died because of this movie? I wonder if there's an actual stat somewhere on that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, statistics, bro, because everyone that I knew wanted to hang on to the back of a Jeep or to the back of a car something and pull us on our skateboard, even though, yeah, no, that wasn't it.
SPEAKER_03Can you imagine if like they had to break suddenly and you just slam into the car?
SPEAKER_02I know I remember I don't know when it was, it had to have been after watching this movie. I would I mean I remember tying a rope to like one of my friends' bikes or a cousin's bike or something. Well, they were riding, I was hanging on the at the end of the rope with the skateboard.
SPEAKER_03Nice, nice. I was never good at skateboarding, like at all. I was I was terrible. I wasn't either. I wasn't either, I was just holding on. Oh, I guess my cousins were really good. They built like a half pipe in their backyard, and they would they'd skate like crazy, but I just I was terrible at it, so uh it would have been cool though, but you're right, like seeing Marty do that, and then in part two, when he does it, but on a hoverboard, yeah, I mean, those hoverboards were rad, like everybody wanted a hoverboard, right? Because that was the future to us, right? We're like, we're gonna have hoverboards. We do we do, I guess. They still got wheels, they still got wheels, they do, yeah. Although there are uh, you know, you think of like hovercrafts, and that kind of makes sense.
SPEAKER_02I do like how that particular scene in that town square where he's on the hoverboard, and then Biff runs into the manure, plays into all three movies, yeah, yeah, manure.
SPEAKER_06I hate manure, and and so that was the classic thing, too, like in the movies, and then it it translates to this cartoon, and it's a cartoon, yeah. Um, is that in every historical sense that they go into, there's a biff tannin somewhere, yeah. There's a tannin, there's some kind of tannin descendant that's there at the at the time they're going back to that is the villain, you know what I mean? I want to see his family tree.
SPEAKER_03I know, yeah. Same here, it's a little suspect. This dude's everywhere, you know. What if he secretly goes back in time as well? What if he has his own time machine?
SPEAKER_02Oh, well, I mean, he did for a little while writing his seed in every everywhere.
SPEAKER_03That's crazy. Paradoxical there. Tannen Hitler, and yeah. I mean, well, yeah, I mean, and you're right, they do have like adventures all over time, all over the world. So we go to the old west in part three, which is really cool. I did I did like part three a lot. I mean, and I did see part two and part three in the theater. I remember those for sure. I want to say I did see part one as well, but I I I don't have like a vivid memory of it. But part three I do remember sitting there and just seeing the effect and that big old train at the end. I remember building a train out of Legos like that, you know, that where you could fold the you know the wheels in just because I thought it was so cool. That is, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, I mean, we're from Texas, so I mean, not luck, not lucky. He's not he's from raised here, he's from California, so we can't we can't wait. Okay, but that's what people thought about us, right? In Texas, that we're a bunch of cow pokes, you know. Old West, yeah, we're in the old west and stuff like that, you know.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, always got that. Oh, you guys ride horses over there?
SPEAKER_06No, yeah, like horses. Why would we ride horses? He wear cowboy boots. My favorite part was though it was it, was it John? Was it John Wayne or Clint Clint East? Clint Elena, that's a dumb name.
SPEAKER_03Although he did borrow the uh the steel plate trick, you know, under his poncho. It's like, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I really liked uh the tie-end of the first movie where he's playing the uh arcade game, the shoot 'em up game where it plays in the part three where he's shooting the ducks.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Targets. Yeah. That's where he wins his gun, right?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, when he first when he first breaks in, and then it's all the Indians chasing him.
SPEAKER_02Oh yeah, yeah, it was just like a sign right in the the drive-in.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. And and you know, they they end up you know shooting arrows into the DeLorean and breaking it down. So you know that that leads to him finding the blacksmith, and then there's Doc.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, I do like how in every single era he goes to find Doc, you know. So in the first one, when he goes back to the 50s, he goes to to find Doc right away, and he's got that he's got that big old contraption to try to read people's minds on his head.
SPEAKER_06I don't even know what the science is on that, but and then I know there was some kind of controversy that the dad never returned, right? Like the actor that played the dad in part one, he didn't return for two or three, Crispin Glubber, and they had a look-alike actor, I think, for part two, and then part three, when they go back in time, then it's an it's Marty playing an older version of someone from his right of his ancestor.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I mean, I heard he, I heard he was a nightmare to work with, you know, that he just he didn't think his character would do certain things, even though the script needed him to do certain things. Oh, for Crispin Glover? For Crispin Glover, yeah.
SPEAKER_06He's a little off, yeah. Well, he had a thing that I think he came out like David Letterman and he did like one of those walking phoenix some weird things on there.
SPEAKER_02I I am I imagine him as his character in from Charlie's Angels, kind of that weird guy that was like smelling the hair. Oh no, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Remember, remember? He was kind of creepy, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, he did have a vibe, but uh yeah, apparently him and uh Bob Zemekas got into it quite a bit, and so much so that he'd like when they'd be filming, he kept leaving frame, you know, then coming back in. And so they had to like the crew actually had to like build like a little fence and be like, okay, you can walk around in this fence, and like that's all you get.
SPEAKER_06Imagine that, man.
SPEAKER_03Isn't that crazy?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah, well, it's no wonder they didn't bring him back.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I mean, I I definitely get it, and and I don't know if it was him or or Zemeckis's choice, but either way, I mean, I I completely understand when when it's someone's that hard to work with and you're on a schedule. I mean, you just you gotta do what you gotta do, you know. Yeah, so he definitely didn't come back for the cartoon, but which I mean, I guess we can get into the cartoon. This was from 1991, like you said. I and I kind of enjoyed this cartoon for what it were what it was, you know. I mean, it was nothing special, a lot of the character designs were interesting, I guess. Like one of those those crooks, the orphan guys kind of reminded me of like the wild thorn berries cartoon, yeah, like the big hair, you know.
SPEAKER_06Well, I I thought it was classic. I mean, I know 91 or whatever, but I thought it was classic 80s, as far as the the the kind of cartoon style that we go to. Luck talked about earlier the Super Mario Brothers kind of aspect of it, yeah. Um, but for me it was too, it was like almost inspector gadgety, the way that Doc Brown was portrayed and everything like that. And then the the drawing looked very Nickelodeon. I don't know, it just it gave me a Nickelodeon vibe.
SPEAKER_02Oh, definitely, yeah. One thing that got me, it looks like they were trying to steal a lot of different things, I guess, from London or English type of stuff. When they're in the bar with of thugs, uh one character that I immediately recognized, or at least what I thought of, was the Looney Tunes Jekyll and Hyde character. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about. I do know like the big jaw, yeah. And I was like, that looks like the Jekyll and Looney Tunes Jekyll and Hyde. It's like I don't know if that was their inspiration, but it looked like they brought in a lot of different things from other areas.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I well, it's I mean the whole thing was was a strange, strange combo, but I I kind of dug it. It's it's just like there was a whole lot of different subplots going on, and and I don't know if the all the subplots married very well, but I I still kind of like if I had watched this when I was 11, I think I I would have appreciated it just way more. I'm I'm kind of sad that I missed out on it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, well, I I think too, it's like I mean, I look at it, looked at it now, and I thought I appreciate it more now than than I would have back then. Oh, I gotcha because yeah, you know, 11, 12-year-old me, I would have been like, No, you know, I'm right, I'm I'm cool. I listen, I I watch Batman the Animated series now. It's like I don't watch that kiddie stuff, yeah. But I mean, the the history nerd in me, you know, makes me think that I should have gotten into that a little bit more with it.
SPEAKER_02One thing that got me is like when it first got into it, I was like, here we go, another Christmas carol uh story, but it's not your your typical Christmas story, no Christmas carol. It has certain elements, but it's it's got its own twist on it, which was kind of refreshing.
SPEAKER_03Well, it's funny because this is uh I think the second episode or second cartoon Christmas carol that that you've covered with me, Joe. The first one was Scooby-Doo, and both of them had like weird Christmas ghosts. So, like on the Scooby-Doo was a ghost of Christmas, never. And here it's he's just the ghost of Christmas, yeah.
SPEAKER_06And he he asked him too. He's like, Is it past person? He goes, Yes, yeah, like all of the above, yeah. But I mean, I I love that because Christmas Carol is one of my favorite stories. Luck and I got into it when we talked, um we talked to Roseanne, the Halloween episodes. Oh, yeah. I've messaged you about it before. Jerry's like, when are you gonna cover that? Because that's a Christmas carol, you know. She goes and she sees the ghost of Halloween past, past, present, and future, you know. I I love that. Love that aspect, love that story. I want to say if I had a favorite, it's probably the Muppet Christmas Carol.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, that's a good idea.
SPEAKER_06Um, but you know, I I I love that aspect of any Christmas story. So I thought it was cheesy the way they got into it when you know his his wife's character, Mary Steen Burgeon's like, it's hot as the Dickens, and he's like, Great Scott, let's go. Yeah, he's like, Hey, what a great idea. I think the the actual quote, and it's it's not exactly my gag me with the spoon, but he's like jumping jingle bells.
SPEAKER_03That's awesome. You don't get phrases like that anymore, that's for sure. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06And he had throughout the show, he had a bunch of them that were like that. I I I wanna I'm I'm looking through my notes, but I know I had I had a few of them written down because of it. Jumping jingle bells.
SPEAKER_02But I think what I like too about this this show is like all the cliches, like they just throw out all the yeah, like they're everywhere.
SPEAKER_06Oh, especially with the English accents. Once they get back into that time into 1845, oh man, the English accents were so stereotypical. Yeah, it was every bad English accent that you could think of as an American that you would make, you know what I mean? Um, just you know, slimy.
SPEAKER_02Surprised we didn't get a hello gubna.
SPEAKER_06Hello, Gubna. I wouldn't put it past him, honestly. Let's throw another shrimp on the Barbie.
SPEAKER_03Good day, but that's Australian, but yeah, yeah, it all goes together, you know, dummy, it all goes together. I thought you were quoting Dumb and Dumber when uh when he she says Austrian, and so he does that one. Oh man. So this is a a fun like Christmas in July type episode because it's like a hot July, you know, and so so we get that classic line, you know, and he's like, Hey, you've you've simultaneously stated the the cause and the answer, you know, or the cause and the solution to our problems. And so, yeah, like you said, they go to Christmas Eve in what is it, 1845, I believe.
SPEAKER_061845 London, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and so then they they get into shenanigans there, but it's like you kind of get, of course, the Christmas Carol, but you also kind of get like what is it, Oliver Twist as well, a little bit. Yes, yes. It's we have like like the the burglars kids just just stealing, you know, pickpocketing and and reporting to their their I'm not owner, I guess. I don't know, boss, whoever that guy is. I don't know what you want to call it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, his accent was great though, like he only stole watches, it was like a bunch of watches.
SPEAKER_02Like the only thing to steal, I guess.
SPEAKER_03That's it, yeah. That's all you have, just pickpockets. But it's funny because he's pickpockets the keys to the DeLorean, yes, because for some reason, this is when was it is it Jules? Yeah, Jules is like, hey, I want to prove that I'm a valued member of this family, and so he he asks to borrow the keys to the DeLorean so he can watch it. And Doc Brown's like, Oh, yeah, okay, I guess. I guess you're old enough. Like, that's how that whole subplot gets started, and you know, that's juxtaposed with Ebiffnezer. What a great name, Ebifnezer Tannin trying to close a toy store because they're you know an hour late on their their mortgage payment or or their rent or whatever it is, and so then Claire gets thrown in jail, so then that's a whole nother subplot where Doc has to like rescue them, and then we need we need Marty as well, with his whole you know, shtick of trying to make Scrooge feel better, yeah.
SPEAKER_06And then no, we and then he's trying to he's trying to convince Bifneezer Tannen, you know, that he's the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future, and he goes after him. But there's a scene too where I want to say Marty goes into a shop, and they're looking at Marty going to the shop and he talks to this girl where she she turns right around and slaps him, and I couldn't get it out of my head. Like, what what did Marty say to her? Like what kind of pervert did they make Marty into that he goes and he gets slapped by this woman?
SPEAKER_03I don't I don't know because wasn't he kind of a I mean it seemed like he was kind of a ladies' man, I guess. Yeah, although there is that uh you know where that scene where he's walking with Jennifer and those two girls walk by and he kind of looks at him, you know, in the first movie. Oh, yeah, so I mean it I guess it makes sense. He sees a pretty girl, he goes crazy for her. I don't know, but power of love playing in the background. But isn't he?
SPEAKER_02Shouldn't he be married at this time, though?
SPEAKER_06Could be, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Maybe they're just engaged.
SPEAKER_06Well, I think if you go to a different time zone, you're you're seeing all that happens. Yeah, it doesn't count. Get out of your area code. Another funny part to me, though, this is 1991, 92, whatever he comes out. Marty's driving. Oh, he's not driving, he's he's in his hoverboard, he's got the hoverboard, yeah. Watching a movie while he's driving or or watching, he's watching like a Godzilla movie, right? On his hoverboard, yeah. I mean, this is '91, Jerry. Like, isn't that that's like almost present day when someone's driving and trying to watch their watch their phone, right? And but this is in 1991, bro. Like, I mean, they're very they were ahead of us, yeah.
SPEAKER_03You know, they saw the future, right? Maybe they maybe their time travel does exist. They came to the future and said, Oh, people have their phones everywhere, they can watch anything, and they went back in time and wrote it in the episode.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you can drive across town and watch your favorite show at the same time, it's it's perfect, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And he just has it, I think it's just like taped onto his hoverboard, isn't it? It's it doesn't seem like it's attached very well.
SPEAKER_06It's yeah, it's like uh and it it shows like and it's it's it's a full-blown Godzilla movie that he's watching, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Which he later on uses to like scare Biff straight. Yeah, yeah. Well, I shouldn't say he uses it, I say it's an accident.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, he accidentally, and Biff's like, Oh, what what was that? And he's like, Well, that's what's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's uh so we get the subplot with with Jules and Vern, and they're like meet up with this this little street urchin trying to get the keys back, and essentially they're like pressed into service, like they gotta be with you know the dude. Uh, they gotta work for him, or else you know they're not gonna get the keys back. Well, yeah, that too, but I mean who knows what he was gonna do to him, you know.
SPEAKER_06I don't know, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, um, because like you said that that the wife gets arrested, right? Carol, what's her name is Clara. Clara gets arrested, but I mean Biff kind of takes her because he hits on her, she doesn't bite, and then he's like, All right, well, you can come in too.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06That she was very becoming, as he said, and I was just like, What the hell? Like, Biff just kidnapped her.
SPEAKER_03Uh, you know, it was it was the 19th century, you know. You know, he's the rich guy, he owns he owns the police, yeah.
SPEAKER_02They're real loose with that. They're like hundreds of people in the jail with them.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they had like a whole wing dedicated to Biff Tannen. I'm pretty sure I saw sneezer.
SPEAKER_06I I'm pretty sure I saw Count Chocula in there. Uh if you look hard enough, guys, he's there.
SPEAKER_03I wouldn't have put it past him, honestly, with some of these character designs.
SPEAKER_02Like that old man, he was like, Yeah, I've been in here since I was oh I was wrinkly and no teeth and drooling. Like I never been in, I never been out there.
SPEAKER_06He's like, I was the baby.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I was here, the baby.
SPEAKER_03But I love when Marty goes up to him and so he takes him to, you know, he takes him to like different areas to see what he's done, and he sees like the six-year-old kid suffering, and he he's like, or he sees that the children suffering, he's like, Oh, it reminds me of someone that you know owed me money. Like, he's just like this hard-hearted dude. He doesn't get like nothing affects him until he sees Godzilla.
SPEAKER_06He goes, he goes when he's like that that kid owed me six hundred dollars. Like, good lord, what did he do?
SPEAKER_03I may or may not be saying that later. But I love doctor alert, yeah, exactly. But doc tries to like rescue uh the kids, you know, he realizes what happened, and so he, you know, he tries to rescue the kids and he gets caught. And I like the way he's like strung up and he's like completely wrapped. Uh just uh you know, it's like classic cartoon tying up, yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Just wrap them around, just yeah, exactly. This will hold him. That was the the classic Scooby-Doo rap right there. That's right, yeah. Although, you know what? I've seen uh I've seen The Last Dragon, so I know I can just pop and lock my way out of those kind of raps.
SPEAKER_00So show enough. Who's the master?
SPEAKER_06Um guys, I mean, I don't want to give on get off on a tangent, but you know, as Jerry says, you know, it's not a podcast unless we do that. I'm ready for I'm ready for Bruce Leroy to walk on to Cobra High.
SPEAKER_03Do you think uh Hillary Swank is gonna come back?
SPEAKER_02Uh maybe. I think I know Ralph Macho said it's a possibility.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I guess she technically is in the same universe, but like they didn't interact, so yeah.
SPEAKER_02Oh, she only knows Mr. Miyagi and he's he's gone.
SPEAKER_03Right, yeah, exactly. Like I don't know, maybe they met at like a Miyagi party or something.
SPEAKER_06I I I don't want to give up my theme because they if they go and make it, I'm gonna sue them. But hear me out. At the end of uh well, when we start the next, you know, they go into we chose an and we go into Japan, and then you know, he finds this wizard that's there, and that wizard's gonna cast a spell to make Kobra Kai go away, and then this the scale gets messed up because he's like, No, no, Mr. Wizard is this. And then you know it sounded familiar here, and then you know, when when the spell, you know, when it ends up cracking, then you know, you see the smoke, and then you see uh Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith through Mr.
SPEAKER_02Han, Mr. Han, Mr. Han.
SPEAKER_06Cobra Kai, enter the multiverse, put on your jacket, take off your jacket. Hey, I'm just saying Will Smith is a producer, you know. Jaden Smith isn't that far away.
SPEAKER_03You know, I wouldn't put it past him. Oh man, so Jules and Vern end up having to pick, you know, pickpocket for uh Murdoch, and they do terrible jobs. Like they steal what the guy's underwear, don't they? Underwear in sockets and trousers, trousers or something, yeah. Like stink. So, of course, uh Murdoch's not too happy with him, and Reg is trying to defend him. But I like how they basically, when when at they're asleep at night, they're like, Hey, look, we can help you get out of here. They they basically convince Reg to like set him free. He's like, Yeah, okay, let's do it.
SPEAKER_06Uh to to to be a good kid, because I mean, God, Reg is living on the streets, man, picking pockets.
SPEAKER_03Pretty much, yeah. Yeah, pretty much. So Marty has to figure out a way to set Clara free, you know, and the Fedwicks, they're the the shop owners, of course, close to Fezziwick, you know. Yeah, anyway, so so he's gotta get him to set him free. So he visits Biff, he takes him to all these different places, and as we mentioned, it's not until his movie projector accidentally like falls off the hoverboard, hoverboard, yeah. That you know, and shows Godzilla, because you know, nothing says Christmas like Godzilla. Oh yeah. So that's that's what like actually scares Biff. And so he releases all the prisoners. And the next day on Christmas Day, when he goes to like apologize and and you know be nice, he notices Marty and he's like, wait a minute.
SPEAKER_06So then he he tries to go after Marty, right? And then is is that when we get the classic kind of almost manure type scene where he's chasing him, but because you know we're in 1845 Dickens time, you don't fall in manure, you fall in figgy pudding, right? Yeah, of course. Well, especially on Christmas Eve, yes, of course, or Christmas Day, I guess. Yeah, it's crazy. I didn't pick up on figgy pudding until I heard your episode where you talked about um making figgy pudding for Christmas. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I actually is it actually figs? It can be. It usually it's like like plums and raisins and things like that, but sometimes figs are yeah, are included too. I think you'll hear it also called plum pudding or just Christmas pudding as well, which is interesting. But I've never I never tried it, but I want to so bad. I want to try it just because I mean what the heck, you know.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I I forget who you had on that. Y'all were talking about it, but I mean, I want to say he mentioned a lot of alcohol being in it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was uh a Brian Earl from Christmas Past podcast. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah, he's saying that uh he I think he ended up putting way too much, but it was still tasty.
SPEAKER_06Well, yeah, you know, that's that's what you say about most liquor, right? You know, that's just a third or fourth shot. You're like, yeah, it was good.
SPEAKER_03But then well, so we get we get the wrap-up by Doc Brown, and he cuts to Bill Nye, and Bill Nye kind of shows him about potential energy and kinetic energy, yeah. You know, where he he does the classic pendulum, you know, bowling ball on a string trick and doesn't flinch because he knows it's never gonna hit him again.
SPEAKER_06So I and that that that took me back to of course Bill Nye, the science guy, but right going farther back in our time, you know, Mr. Wizard, Mr. Wizard, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then uh three, two, one contact. Y'all remember that one? I do. Yeah, I do remember that.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's the feeling.
SPEAKER_03Is that where they did the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I think that was Sesame Street. Oh, was it? I don't remember which one. Or no, that was the electric company. That was the electric company, yeah, with Morgan Freeman. Yeah, oh, we're old. This is for real. This is a pretty cool episode. I mean, I don't know if it's gonna be in my Christmas canon, but uh, just the fact that it was they kind of took the Christmas Carol and and twisted it a little bit. I kind of dug that, you know, just like you mentioned, like just something different, you know, with that classic story. So I like whenever they they take those stories and just change them up a bit.
SPEAKER_06Absolutely. I want to say that's one of the reasons why. I mean, I love all the Roseanne Halloween, but that twist on it, and and I think I told Luck at the time we covered it. I don't know why more I guess holidays don't go that Christmas Carol way. Jerry, I know you had a show on where it may have been the the Christmas past episode where they talked about all the incarnations of a Christmas carol that you see out there, but I mean, you know, Roseanne did it did it great with the Halloween episode, I thought.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, she she totally did, and I'll be covering those eventually, just haven't gotten to them yet. But I'll make sure to give you a call when I do.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, me too. You know, and then you know, seeing Bill Murray come back, spoiler alerts for the new Ghostbusters.
SPEAKER_02I mean, oh seeing him in that was hearing he's gonna be in some kind of Marvel character as well.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, that he's supposedly a villain in Quantumania and Ant Man and the Wasp 3.
SPEAKER_06But bro, the end of that Ghostbusters, man, you want to talk crying?
SPEAKER_03Oh boy, it was I was tearing up. Yeah, it was definitely uh quite an emotional send-off, I think. Dude, like, right? Like, oh my god, like I it was coming down.
SPEAKER_06I was just like, Oh god, it's more than allergies, guys. It's just I'm not crying, you're crying, and and I don't think I mean the kids like the movie for what it was, but I don't think they got that emotional aspect at the end, right? I mean, you know, where the girl's holding the gun and then he comes by her and then he he holds the gun with her. I almost start crying now.
unknownShoot.
SPEAKER_03So that's what happens when we become dads, right? Stuff like that just gets us.
SPEAKER_02Me, me. I was I was thinking of Star Wars, like it's a forced ghost.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he was secretly a Jedi. Yeah, this whole time it wasn't really the Proton packs, it was just him. They're lightsabers, kyber, yeah. They're crystals in there. Oh they're kybering. It all comes together. Oh man, yeah. So this is uh apparently this is officially in an alternate universe, so there is an actual multiverse in the back to the future canon. Yeah, that's that's official, and I think it's because there's a few contradictions here and there with the original trilogy. So instead, they just decided to go ahead and and make it like an alternate timeline. So it would be cool one of these days, like you mentioned, to go ahead and get like a crossover.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you gotta bring Eric Stolton. Come on, throw the guy a bone, bro.
SPEAKER_03The serious, the serious Marty.
SPEAKER_02I thought about that too, because Doc Brown in the movies, he was like, No, no, we can't we can't be doing this right in the TV show. Hey, let's just go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I know, yeah, he's completely different. But Marty, it's a cartoon, you gotta have some excuse to to have some sort of adventure. Again, too. I liked although at the end he did he did say, you know, I figured what the hell, you know. So I guess I guess he does change a bit.
SPEAKER_06I mean, I like that that they use the historical aspect of the, you know, yeah, to to be able to take you to different times, and you learn a little something about each of those times and these episodes that they go into. So I mean, you know, like I said, as a history nut, sad that I didn't get into it as a kid, right?
SPEAKER_03Although I do like how the choir can sing exposition. Oh just like, hey, what what happened? And then the choir just makes up in perfect harmony, yeah, right. Corral together, yeah.
SPEAKER_06It's like, what? Yeah, Jerry, Jerry, you're covering some of my ending part, bro. But yeah, I mean, yeah, that choir, man, they they gave you everything until Marty was like, Hey, hey, hey, cut the song out, just tell us what happened.
SPEAKER_02That's kind of that's kind of 80s, though, right? Where there's like usually someone narrating, but not really.
SPEAKER_06Oh, you gotta have exposition from somewhere, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, exactly. Yeah, oh man, but you know, it does make me wonder, guys, like what would you say would be like your hap, hap happiest memory or moment with Back to the Future?
SPEAKER_02You know, even though part two is probably my least favorite, just like the whole future aspect, hoverboards, especially Biff's hoverboard, like the the mad dog or whatever. That was a cool one. Yeah, I was like, Man, I want that. Um I think just as a kid thinking what the future would be like, and and that was cool, even though you know we know what our future is, but right.
SPEAKER_06Well, for me, Jerry, I would say back to the future. It was one of those movies that came out early 80s. That I remember my mom had eight sisters, and and they were all pretty close, and that's a lot of cousins you're gonna have, right? We're all my we have a lot of cousins, yeah. Oh, yeah, uh, a lot of pretty moles out there, but you know, we would get together, and of course, they'd probably be outside, you know, having their barbecue, drinking, whatever like that. And the kids would all get together and we'd all watch these big movies together. Like I I remember watching Karate Kid in that setting, and and then you know, and and this one too, you know, Back to the Future part one. We all watched it together, and it's maybe 20 20 of us cousins shoved into one living room, you know, everyone laying on top of each other or on the floor or whatever, right? And most likely we watched it on a rented VCR because none of us had a VCR. If you remember that time in the 80s when you could rent the VCR, I do remember that time, yeah, like big case, yeah. They were huge, you know. Yeah, it came in one of those secret service cases, and you know, I remember that was so that that was a happy memory for me, you know, going back, and and that was the first time that I watched Back to the Future that I remember.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. I think for me, and I agree that hoverboard part was just like awesome, yeah. But I think I my favorite part really is is as a musician, just him playing guitar with the band and like just blowing everybody away with that awesome guitar solo. I mean, he starts tapping, I mean it's just it's crazy, and one by one the band members just start like dropping out because they're like, What is going on?
SPEAKER_05It's your cousin, Marvin.
SPEAKER_03Mary, but as a kid, I think for sure it was like the old west, like all the gunfights. I thought that was pretty awesome. Because you know, who doesn't love a good gunfight when you're a kid, you know?
SPEAKER_06But that and at that point, the westerns for us weren't that great, right? Right, you know, they had bonanza and gunsmoke out there.
SPEAKER_02We weren't watching that, and then you know, keeping with that music theme, they kept it throughout all three movies, especially when they had Z Z Top. I thought it was so cool.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, they spin their guitars. Yeah, I was like, that's the coolest thing ever. Yeah, yeah, that was super awesome. And by the way, you mentioned earlier the the couple of songs from the soundtrack. There's another one called Time Bomb Town by Lindsay Buckingham. I'd never really paid attention to it before. I'd always kind of just skipped it like on the soundtrack. And about a couple of months ago, like I finally sat down and just like listened to this song. And man, it was like an awesome song. I was like, this song's ruled, it's weird. It's like 80s, but weird, but the the chord progression's just cool and the rhythms. And so I was just like, I'm all in on Lindsay Buckingham now.
SPEAKER_02That's on the original soundtrack.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's on it's on the the sound, it's like the second track or something, but I gotta look that one up. It's it's definitely 80s, I'll tell you that. Nice. Take it for what it's worth. Uh, but yeah, I think that would be mine. It would just be, you know, like him and then his hand, like holding up his hand and like disappearing. And I mean that that whole scene at the end with the the enchantment under the sea dance is just you know, like, yeah, yeah, and I like once it gets the kiss, like he pops right up, like oh like yeah, he's like magically. So blues riff and bee, follow me for the changes. It's like, yeah, this guy knows what it's at. Yes, sir. But but now we come to my favorite part of the show, which is a little segment I like to call gag me with the spoon. So this is where we do our best impressions of our least favorite part of the episodes. As a guest, I'll let you go ahead and go first, just kind of set up the scene for us, and we'll we'll go from there.
SPEAKER_02I don't know if it was one scene in particular, but I think every time they said Reggie or Reg with their with their greenish brown teeth. I don't even notice that. I guess some of the English people that you made them like uh at least the bad guys they had like bad teeth. They did, yeah, Reggie. Just every time they called Reggie.
SPEAKER_06I dig it. What about you, Joe? There was two of the bad guys, and they go okay, they'll deal with me here, guys. Blimey, Murdoch, and Wilkins wrapped up like Christmas gifts, they are yeah, that's that's a cheesy line there.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I picked something similar. So this is where uh when he's showing him like the people in the prison, Marty's showing uh Ebi Fnezer. So this Ebif, I I can't get over that name. Ebifnezer, he he kind of says, you know, or he you he sees him kind of tearing up a little bit, choking up, and Marty says something like, you know, hey, you know, it's finally getting to you, or do you understand? And he says, Ebifnezer says, No, I just remembered a little eight-year-old who owes me six pence.
SPEAKER_06It's like, ah, this guy. And then, yeah, it it's it was all those, like, and then like again, doc brown had had some some of the good ones too. Yeah, the jumping jingle bells got me. Jumping jingle bells. Oh jumping jingle bells. I gotta start saying that everywhere. It's you know, it fit for the Christmas Christmas episode.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Biff, Biff with the money thing on this episode. It reminded me of uh I imagine Biff is a kid from Better Off Dead. I want my two dollars. Which is technically a Christmas movie.
SPEAKER_03Uh yep, I I have someone has brought it up to me.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I'm sure Jerry's gonna get it in somehow.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'll I'll get to it eventually. You know, maybe closer to May or June. It'll be fun. Oh man, but you know, I I I do gotta know, like G.I. Joe taught us that no one is half the battle. What do you think the other half is?
SPEAKER_06Well, I think for me, if you want to know the other half, just ask the characters on the corner because they'll be able to tell you. What about you, Lucky? Yeah, I could go into a second one. I mean, knowing's half to battle, but another quarter part, it's maybe not the other half of it, but a quarter part for us, you know, watching, right?
SPEAKER_03There you go. Yeah, yeah. Well, for me, I thought if so, if knowing is half to battle, the other half was hiding more of your face if you're the ghost of Christmas future so that you won't be recognized later.
SPEAKER_00Yes, yes, that's a good one. Wait a minute. You're the same bloke again.
SPEAKER_02Going back, I guess that Scooby-Doo moment, like pull the mask.
SPEAKER_03Wait a minute. It's old man Marty. Oh man, guys, this has been a lot of fun talking back to the future and and this episode in particular with you. But uh, you know, tell me about your shows.
SPEAKER_02Well, our show, we want to tell them how we got started.
SPEAKER_06Well, yeah, well, Jerry, I want to say the you know, we kind of owe you a little bit of it because I want to say the first time Lucky heard me on a podcast was on your podcast. Oh we did the Scooby-Doo episode with uh with the great Anthony Crusoe, you know. I gotta give him a shout out. Lucky's here in San Antonio, Chuck and Adam from Just Another Friday night. I heard Lucky on their show, and then I got a hold of him, you know, as I do because I'm a fan. And you know, I I reached out to him and I told him I was like, you know, I really like your show. And and I want to say I brought up something to luck that he had forgot about it was so long ago in his uh show. Yeah, but I brought him, I brought up something, and we started so we started talking and and we thought about doing a show together, and and we kind of wanted to come from the aspect of you know, we do now watch this, but at the same time, I think you know, we could do listening, you know, like to music now hear this or or now read this or or something like that. But right, you know, it's really just two kind of dork dads coming at it and and and talking about you know, different movies, different shows. We don't always, you know, comedy it up or or you know, we're not always trying to be funny. You know, I want to say it was our second or third episode. We did filled with dreams, and you know, we're talking about it, and and we I mean, you know, Luck and I had knew each other for maybe two or three weeks at this time, and we're crying online together.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, basically, you know, I've only known Joe it's going barely on a year right now. Yeah, but we find out just we like a lot of the same things, we like a lot of movies, TV shows, and we're just like, hey, yeah, let's do this. So, our show basically we we talk about or we watch watch movies, and it's like our TV shows and commentary style. We kind of just talk while them while we're watching the movie. Sometimes we talk about the movie, sometimes we don't. We go off on tangents, we talk about our ourselves, our families being dads, and you know, we just make the most of it.
SPEAKER_06We have fun right on, right on a lot of times it's the movies, and then it's the movies and how they affected us or or how we react to them, you know, not necessarily you know, the theme of the movie, everything like that, and then you know, we kind of found it eerie that that we we we talk about like the most random movie that we thought we were the only ones that liked back in the day, and then he's like, Hey, do you ever watch this movie? And it's like, I love that movie. What are you talking about? Um so we you know, we're not always gonna hit up on what's coming out now. It's like right, we did Renaissance Man, and I looked, and we're probably the only podcast that did an episode on Renaissance Man. It's some random movie in the 90s, but I think it it hit us at a time that it it meant a lot to us when it came out, so you know that's what we covered on our show. Um just recently, he was telling me, Have you seen this stupid movie in the 80s? It's about a guy that that he he he becomes a ghost and then he comes back and helps helps this kid, his kid become cool in school. And I was like, You mean like the heavenly kid?
SPEAKER_05Like, yeah, he's like, Yeah, and I'm like, Oh, I love that. I love that.
SPEAKER_03I used to watch it all the time.
SPEAKER_02I was like, I can't believe he he knew what I was talking about. Must be Japanese, right?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, like I mean, it it's crazy that we became so similar, and you know, like I said, we owe you a lot of credit. We owe just another Friday night a lot of credit because you know, without me being a fan of your guys' show and talking to you guys, I wouldn't have met luck. And you know, I like I I joke around about it all the time. I got pretty lucky because you know, but be here all week, folks. Yes, try the bill. But you know, it's it's it's it's one that we've gotten along so well and and stuff like that, but it it's another that you know, kind of luck luck just asked me to come in, sit down and talk. And I mean, we all know I can do that.
SPEAKER_02So yeah, and that's what it what it's all about. I mean, part of it why it got emotional early on, it's like I don't know about for you, Jerry, but it's kind of um right now, right? It's a release, right? Uh oh yeah, oh yeah, definitely it's a break from our everyday lives where we can just talk about whatever and not not think about what else is going on, but uh definitely yeah, it it it helps me a lot personally.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, totally. Yeah, I'm right there with you. It's it's definitely uh a fun way to de stress, yeah. Yes, right, and uh so so where can they find you guys?
SPEAKER_02You can find us on social media at now watch this pod or out at now watch this, sorry on Instagram, TikTok. I think you you have the Twitter, right?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, there's Twitter going and uh you know we have our Facebook group, the Now Watch This Watchers, where we encourage people to come in, interact, you know.
SPEAKER_02Suggest stuff for us to watch.
SPEAKER_06People suggest stuff we put in our watch box, and and you know, that's where we've gotten some of the picks for the movies that we do, is something that's been suggested by a user. So you know it's fun.
SPEAKER_02And we also have merchandise. If you want a t-shirt that says now watch this or a hat or whatever, at my website, which is three legged rabbit.com. That's the number three legged rabbit.com.
SPEAKER_03Right on, yeah, definitely go check it out. Great show, it's a lot of fun, and get some merch, guys. Yeah, go sport some merch.
SPEAKER_06I never thought my face would be on a shirt, but there you go.
SPEAKER_03Go go wear Joe. Come on, yeah, it could be your ugly Christmas shirt. There you go. There you go. Oh man, guys, this has been a blast. Thanks again for coming on. I really, I really had a great time.
SPEAKER_02Yes, I had a great time, man.
SPEAKER_06And and Jerry, like, I mean, I'm telling you, I I give you a lot of credit, but your show, man, it's just great, you know. I you know I'm a fan because I think I message you after almost every show that you do.
SPEAKER_03Um you forgot to you forgot to say this.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, well, it's one thing like like Jerry's so professional and stuff like that, and and then the the podcasting community that that comes along with it, because I think through Jerry I started listening to the podcast, and then you have so many people on your show that leads to people listening to your show and then going on to listen to their show and stuff like that. So, I mean, I hope that translates that that does this for us, but if anything, it's just something to be on your show, man.
SPEAKER_03Because I don't know about that, but you oh come on, like, but thank you. I I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_02Obviously, you were an inspiration for Joe to want to get started, and yeah, you know, the same thing for me. I started listening to a podcast, and you know, I thought, you know, these guys are just regular dudes just talking. It's like, you know what? I I could do that, and that's how I get started, and then you know, meet other people from other shows and other podcasts, and and here I am with Joe, here we are with you.
SPEAKER_03So, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, I I love it, it's one big community, and especially in this time when yeah, you know, with all the the COVID stuff, I mean it's it's great to just be able to talk to people sometimes. So, yeah, yeah, it it's it it's everyone's so supportive of each other, yeah.
SPEAKER_06You know, like I won't get into certain particulars, but I know I've reached out to certain podcasters or certain podcasters reach out to me, like I'm talking about I'm having a bad day, something like that. You know, I get a message here or there, like, hey man, you know, you know what's going on, stuff like that, you know, talking to different people. So it's it's just it's like you said, Jerry, it's a community, yeah. And you know, we're all you know, pushing each other, helping each other, and stuff like that. That's why, you know, you know, so chucking Adam, I'll tell you the same thing. You ever need anybody to get on with you? You know, I'm I'm always down to get on and and jump on with you. Right on. I'll I'll remember that. Plus, I I want my ratty, Jerry.
SPEAKER_03I want my ratty this year. You guys are definitely gonna be nominated for uh best for Raddest Guest Duo. So there you go. Oh, there you go. Yeah, and um we have to beat Chuck and Adam. So uh uh. He's throwing the gauntlet down.
SPEAKER_06Raddest Duo in San Antonio.
SPEAKER_03Oh, head to head, oh man. On that note, I'll wrap it up by saying, I'm the ghost of Christmas, past, present, or future. All of the above. So check us out on our social media pages, Facebook and Instagram at Totally Rad Christmas and Twitter at RadChristmas. And if you're feeling like Ebifnezer on Christmas morning, leave us a review on iTunes. Not only does it help us reach more people, but you also get a free sticker. Now don't forget to check out our merch shop on tpublic.com and our brand new website, totallyradchristmas.com, courtesy of tis the podcast elf Tom Crow. Merry Christmas to all and to all a safe night. Later, dudes.
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